29.Oct.2003
RetroMan (ANF)
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Tool: NRG2ISO V0.2 released
The tool NRG2ISO has been released in version 0.2 for download. The software converts Nero image files into ISO images, which can be imported then into Amiga CD writing programs. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
Hippie2000 (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: Rat roasting
The back2roots.org server and the entire network cluster were offline two days caused by a rat
that had been looking for a warm place to stay inside a transformator hut. The rat found a VERY warm place and an
instant death as a kind of a barbecued rat.
For that server failure the BTTR team would like to apologize. The winuae.net and all other hosted sites were affected also.
Now everything is okay again, the rat is cold and the server warm again.
If some mails during these days seem to be lost, please send them again.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages till October the 28th 2003
With WHDLoad it becomes possible to install games intended for floppy disk use only to hard disk. The
following packages were added or updated since the last reporting.
- 28.10.03 new: Shaft 7 (Bomb)
- 27.10.03 improved: Lemmings (Psygnosis/DMA Design)
- 27.10.03 new: History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte)
- 27.10.03 fixed: Gods (Bitmap Brothers)
- 25.10.03 new: Fire Hawk (Codemasters)
- 25.10.03 fixed: Gods (Bitmap Brothers)
- 22.10.03 new: Street Gang (Time Warp/Rainbow Arts)
- 22.10.03 new: Crazy Sexy Cool (Essence)
- 21.10.03 new: Synthesis (Network)
- 21.10.03 new: Gold Rush (Sierra)
- 21.10.03 updated: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment)
- 21.10.03 updated: Pinball Illusions (Digital Illusions/21st Century)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
AudioLabs (Website)
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AudioLabs launches new website
AudioLabs, developer of the highly professional audio sequencing software
"ProStationAudio" has relaunched the company and producer website with a fresh
design and enhanced content. At the new site there is information about PSA and its plug-ins
but also background information about audio sequencing e.g. an interview with Markus Steblei: he and a a
colleague are presenting a multimedia show at Munichs's planetarium of the "Forum der Technik" utilizing PSA.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
Heise
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Heise: First Internet provider with P2P-licence
The British Internet provider Playlouder MSP announced a legal access of file-sharing services starting next year.
To achieve this, the company signed contracts with the respective corporations and some British Indie record companies - currently including the labels V2, PIAS and Ninja Tune, among others. With their planned service, Playlouder offers record companies a solution to profit from filesharing tools.
More information can be found in the corresponding German article at Heise Online under the title link. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
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MUI: HotkeyString class reimplemented
Since the HotkeyString class for MUI isn't continued by its author Allan Odgaard, it was reimplemented by Ilkka "Itix" Lehtoranta.
Added features are full support of PC keyboards and of wheelmice. The source code is available under LGPL.
The archive contains binaries for MorphOS and AmigaOS-68k (with courtesy of David Arbuthnot). The project's website can be found at Sourceforge under the title link.
The author thanks Allan Odgaard for the original class and for permission to include the existing resources (MUI tagbase, developer material) into the distribution. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
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MorphOS: ImageFX-Lite and Powerstation added to the SuperBundle
Nova Design, Inc. is pleased to announce that our award-winning package, ImageFX, is now available for Pegasos/MorphOS owners in a special lite-edition as part of the SuperBundle package from Genesi.
This version was especially created for MorphOS and includes full color icons and other special features for this release. It comes with PowerPC enabled effects and JPEG loader/savers. It also includes the first release of Lightning for PowerPC as well!
If you already own the complete version of ImageFX, the SuperBundle package also includes the PowerStation modules (including the new Lightning) for MorphOS as well.
Users who find themselves wanting the advanced morphing, animation and keyframing features (and more) of the full ImageFX 4.5 package can upgrade for only $99.95 plus shipping and handling! An amazing bargain.
To download visit The SuperBundle Download Page or to find out more information about Nova Design, Inc. products visit their website at www.novadesign.com.
The files are named ImageFX_Lite.lha and PowerStation.lha.
If you still do not have your SuperBundle account, you can still sign up at MorphOS.net. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: 3 new productions
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) has been extended with another three impressing poductions:
- Nano / Scarab (intro 4k, 1st at Mekka Symposium 2002)
- Datablade / Floppy and Madwizards (demo, 1st at Xenium 1999)
- Synthesis / Network (demo, 3rd at Assembly 1998).
Furthermore the original screen shots of "Planet Potion", which still holds the 1st position at the ADA charts,
were replaced with 28 high quality screen shots which were made directly with an Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #058
The scene group Liquid Skies has released the 58th music pack today. It contains the
track "Gwiezdny Taniec" of the Polish musician Maxus. The cover was created
by DaFreak.
Here some more information about the track
- title: Gwiezdny Taniec (Engl.: Stardance)
- artist: Maxus
- style: Trance
- length: 4:34
- format: mp3 (160kbps)
The zipped file (5.3 MB) is available for download.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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GoldED: C/C++ IDE Update-Archive
For the text and coding editor "GoldED Studio AIX" a new service pack for the C/C++ Add-On was released.
This new version solves problems on the installation of GCC/NDK parts and is available for all registered users.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Game: Amiga-Freespace Singleplayer-Pack 2 released
The Singleplayer-Pack 2 for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace" is released. It contains
ten new single player missions and can be downloaded from the Amiga-Freespace-website.
Just to mention the "Amiga Freespace Forum" with more than 3500 hits, 29 topics, and 125 issues.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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"OS4 on Tour" in Great Britain
The South West Amiga Group organizes a presentation of the OS4 on the AmigaOne on Saturday, December 13th in Bath.
Confirmed is that OS4 will run on an AmigaOne XE-G4 and a prototype of the MicroA1 board will be shown.
Maybe Timothy de Groote of Hyperion will be there, too.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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Retro-Gaming: Amiga games for four Joysticks
Christoph Gutjahr has released an overview about all the games with support of the 4-joystick-adapter he knows.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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Hardware-Hack: CD-writer in original A1200 case
Update (26.10.2012, cg): integrated entire article into news item during database migration
Amiga user Egon Kohlschütter has managed to fit both a CD-ROM and an IDE harddisk into the A1200's original case. The idea is to
move the harddrive to the right of the case (to the position normally occupied by the internal disk drive)
and put the CD-ROM to the left side of the case. The floppy drive had to be removed to gain the neccessary
space (Egon uses an external drive now) and the case had to be slightly modified. This is what the end
result looks like:
Fitting the CD-ROM drive
Get an internal CD-ROM drive (or even a CD-Writer!) targeted for Laptops - these are small enough
to fit into the original case. Some devices that should work are:
- TEAC CD-224E (CD-ROM)
- TEAC CD-W24E (CD-Writer)
These drives use a special IDE connector called "Mini-IDE", so you'll have to find a suitable adaptor. These adaptors
are usually called "Slimline adaptors" (Mini-IDE to IDE-40-pins). As these Laptop-CD-drives are usually jumpered
as "Master" and the internal HD should be "Master" aswell, you should also get one of the myriad of A1200 IDE devices that
enable you to connect up to four drives to your Amiga.
Obviously, you'll have to cut an opening into the case - a CD-ROM not accessible from the outside is not
exactly useful ;-) This image demonstrates the exact position of the drive:
Some hints for the actual case modification:
- open the case, remove the RF shielding and position the CD-ROM
- The drive rests partly on the bottom half of the case
- use a pen to mark the area that has to be cut out
- use a dremel or a similar tool to remove the plastic
- Powerstrip is used to fix the drive at its new position.
Moving the harddrive to its new position
The harddrive will be put where the internal disk drive used to be. Remove the disk drive and make sure
that the internal disk drive connector can not be shortened by accident (e.g. by putting an old IDE or
floppy connector onto it).
The RF shielding may cause short circuits too - make sure that you either remove enough of it to avoid that
or put some isolating material around the harddrive.
The floppy disk drive
When booting, the A1200 will spend a few seconds searching for the internal floppy disk drive. Additionally,
Workbench might complain about the missing disk drive. Both problems can be easily solved by connecting
pins #1 of the internal floppy disk drive connector with the pin below it. The boot process will be slightly
faster after this modification.
But with these pins connected, your A1200 will not recognise external disk drives. Therefore Egon connected
the pins using a switch: The switch is closed most of the time, but you can open it at any time (even if the
machine is already up and running) to access external disk drives and close it again afterwards.
More pictures
Here are some more pictures showing various details of Egon's hack:
Additional notes
The scsi.device included with AmigaOS 3.0/3.1 is not able to handle ATAPI drives (like CD-ROM or CD-RW
drives), so you'll have to use a replacement. AmigaOS 3.5+ comes with an updated scsi.device, another
option would be the shareware IDEFix.
Egon equipped his A1200 with the CD-RW drive mentioned above. BurnIt does not have specific support for this
particular drive, but the generic driver (No. 9) works fine.
If you did not connect the pins on the internal floppy disk drive connector as described above, Workbench may
complain about the missing disk drive - OS 3.5+ users should deactivate drive "DF0:" in the Workbench
preferences to avoid this.
Egon can be contacted at Egone@freenet.de. Please note that his English is (quoting Egon)
"pretty poor", so you may contact us aswell, we'll forward your feedback to Egon. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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27.Oct.2003
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SciTech Software renew partnership with ATI
SciTech Softwar, whose Multi-OS graphic accelerator driver system "SNAP" will be used with AmigaOS 4, announced today the renew of theire partnership with ATI.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: MicroATX version comes nevertheless
After the official announcement of the AmigaOne-Lite, also known as "Micro-A1", one could get the impression that this release will be the end of the "AmigaOne Micro-ATX".
Ben Hermans has now gotten straight in a comment on ANN that this is a misunderstanding for which he is to blame for, the AmigaOne Micro ATX is still planned.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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IRC: Changed server for the #Amigaworld channel
AmigaWorld.net announced that they moved their channel from Undernet to ExodusIRC due to lags, netsplits and missing services like nickserv.
The channel is now available at irc.amigaworld.net port 6667 or port 1024 for users behind a firewall.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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amiga-news.de: The new Team
Some time ago amiga-news.de reported that the founder of amiga-news.de, Petra Struck, will resign from the daily news creation due to private reasons. For this reason an extended editors team was established. The following persons are involed in amiga-news.de:
Nico Barbat (nba): editor in charge
Jens Begeschke (jb): forum moderation
Ulrich Beckers (ub): English translation
Christian Busse (cb): English translation
Stéphane Campan (sc): French translation
Christoph Dietz (cd): engineering/server
Sven Drieling (sd): engineering/PHP
Guido Fehst (gf): English translation
Dr. Eric Gillé (eg): English translation
Christoph Gutjahr (cg): news editor
Martin Heine (snx): news editor, forum moderation
Hendrik Höner (hh): forum moderation
Sven Kirmse (sk): English translation
Daniel Miller (dm): English translation
Jürgen Müller (jm): newsticker, lectorat
H. Ogino (ho): Japanese translation
Piotr Pawlowski (pp): Polish translation
Daniel Reimann (dr): English translation
Christian Rosentreter (cr): forum moderation, IRC admin
Gerhard Schmid (gs): forum moderation
Carsten Schröder (cs): news editor, forum moderation
Felix Schwarz (fs): engineering/ALD
Petra Struck (ps): idea, foundation, design and glossary
Alfred Sturm (as): Aminet uploads
Rolf Tingler (rt): design
Last but not least we would like to thank all the readers for the loyalty in the
last years!
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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Beyond Magazine: number 2
The Beyond Magazine, a gratis PDF magazine, that deals besides BeOS with other alternative operating systems like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOSX or FreeBSD.
The just published expenditure 2 contains among other things a
Darwin review, a report about Marble Madness in the "Emuzone", a
Rebol course and a report of the Pianeta Amiga 2003.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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New YAM-"Developer" version
There is a new developer version of the well known e-mail client YAM available at the title link.
Further details about this new release can be found in the ChangeLog.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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New USB driver for Amithlon and OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version will be available within the next few days at
http://www.vmc.de/Amithlon. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version.
What is ArakAttack?
ArakAttack is an USB driver packet that allows the usage of USB on any AmigaOS compatible system with PCI slots. ArakAttack isn't an USB stack, it's a driver packet for Chris Hodges great USB Stack Poseidon.
What are the features of ArakAttack?
- Amithlon optimised version.
- OpenPCI compatible version.
- UHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- OHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- Unlimited number of USB controllers supported at the same time.
- Unlimited number of parallel USB transfers garantees maximum performance.
- Only one device with multiple units makes installation very easy.
- Intelligent transfer descriptor caching mechanism.
- Several user options allow an optimisation of resource management to the users requirements.
- Full mem handler support. (Frees resources and caches if the system signals low system memory)
- No HUB depth limits.
- Separate time out handling for each USB request garantees the driver never freezes the USB stack or the system.
- External interrupt fallback for systems with interrupt trouble.
What is also required to use ArakAttack?
The latest version of Chris Hodges' Poseidon USB stack.
In addition to that other components are required:
Amithlon:
powerpci.library - version 2.13 or better.
Amiga PCI / Pegasos:
openpci.library - version V1.20 or better.
Which USB Controller is required for ArakAttack?
Most of the current USB controllers are supported. Just take care it's UHCI, OHCI or EHCI compatible. Well, I don't think you'll find any other within the stores now.
Amithlon user may be happy to hear that on board USB controllers are working, too!
How can I register?
Well, currently the registration makes no sense, because ArakAttack is
quite useless without a registered USB Stack.
If you own a Poseidon key feel free to register. Further information can be
found in the manual.
PLEASE: Don't bother Chris Hodges with questions about registering Poseidon. He is very busy at the moment, so please keep quiet until the registration site will be up again.
(snx)
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26.Oct.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 349
Guido Mersmann released the beta version 349 of the TV-card driver software
AmithlonTV, which includes several small updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Changes since the previous version:
- FIXED: Fixed a small MorphOS bug, that caused the bt8x8 picture
creation to fail! (Thanks to Axel Knabe)
- FIXED: Fixed interrupt server problem.
(nba) (Translation: snx)
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26.Oct.2003
Stefan Ruppert (E-Mail)
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Application Response Measurement 4.0 will be finalized shortly
The version 4.0 of the Application Response Measurement
(ARM)
standard developed within the OpenGroup will be finalized shortly.
This standard defines a C/C++ and Java API for instrumenting (distributed)
applications. Most notably, with this standard programming language,
process and host boundaries are not a restriction for transaction and
sub-transaction measurements any more - resulting in a real end-to-end
(business-) transaction measurement. For a detailed description of
the ARM standard please read the document available on the OpenGroup
site.
Together with IBM and HP, the tang-IT Consulting GmbH has led
the development of this version 4.0 of the ARM standard. They are going
to show their ARM 4.0-based product called "tang-IT ARM" at
the LinuxWorld 2003 exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany from Oct. 27 to 29.
The main developers of *tang-IT ARM* have been knowning the Amiga
platform from the beginning. Therefore they can imagine a port to
either AmigaOS 3.x/4.0 or MorphOS if there is sufficient demand (>10) for
such a product in this niche market. A port to AmigaOS or MorphOS could be
available within a month and a developer license is about 200 Euro. (nba)
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25.Oct.2003
Peer Richter (ANF)
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New download opportunity for Ghostscript 8.00
Because of the problems when downloading Ghostscript 8.00 has Peter Richer gathered the archive and created an additional download opportunity on a German server.
Download Ghostcript 8.00.lha (5.1MB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter
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amiga-news.de: official IRC channel
Since some time now does there exist an official amiga-news.de IRC channel. People who want to talk about contents of amiga-news.de or generally about the Amiga and related topics are VERY welcome to have a look. The channel is in general German but it is possible to discuss and chat in English, too.
Channel: #amiganews.de
Server: de3.arcnet.vapor.com
(additional server: http://arcnet.vapor.com)
Besides the fact that the channel is a meeting point for Amiga users of all kind (68k, PPC, AOS4, MorphOS, UAE, AROS,
Amithlon, etc.) we'll try to arrange interview chats with known VIPs in the Amiga market.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
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Fax software: STFax 4 released as freeware
Simone Tellini, developer of STFax, has released his product as freeware. Version 4.0 of the software is now available on the Aminet. In addition you should install the update to version 4.1, too.
Simone points out that he'll offer only very restricted support - requests by users will only be answered if time allows it.
Who never has bought the commercial version and wants to send Simone a small compensation for the work done could send him something from his wish list.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Website: "Mac on Amiga" update
Mac On Amiga - a website dedicated to the emulation of Macintosh computers under AmigaOS has now got an own forum. In addition, a Shapeshifter tutorial has been released.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Rudolph Riedel (ANF)
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DiskMaster 2.5.27 released
Following the title link you can find the latest version of DiskMaster2.
Changes:
- Bugfix: "%c" didn't work with Auto commands.
- File requester for 'PrintDir' added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
JTSG (ANF)
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Event: first pictures of the OASE in Graz
Members of the Bitplane team have already released first pictures of the OASE in the net (title link).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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"AmigaOne updates" (column by Alan Redhouse)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group) has a regular column in the British Amiga magazine Total Amiga. In co-operation with "Total Amiga" makes the Amiga portal Amigaworld.net the past issues of this column available for all Internet users.
Excerpts taken from the explanations by Alan Redhouse:
- The dual CPU cards will be produced from December on if there are enough requests. Because of the prices for fast G4 CPUs will a card with two 1.3 GHz G4 processors not be cheaper than appr. 600-700 British Pounds (ca. 860-1000 EUR, without taxes).
- To bundle the restricted resources of Eyetech withdraws the company from the Amiga trading and concentrates on other business areas (AmigaOne production, "industrial markets").
- Registered OS4 beta testers will receive a 10% price reduction when buying an AmigaOne.
- Developers of drivers for the AmigaOne-Lite (RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire) will receive the motherboard for free. Interested people please contact Eyetech.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Oct.2003
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Icon-Patch: PowerIcons 1.02
There is a new version of the "PowerIcons" which is a patch that allows the performance
of 24-bit icons on your Workbench.
Some bugs have been cleared but there are also a lot of improvements.
Download
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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New version (V44.50) of HSMathLibs for MC68881/82, MC68040 and MC68060
After v44.50 beta 2/8 has been tested of many users for over a year there is now the new
version of the HSMathLibs which is not a beta version.
Thanks a lot to all who have supported me developing and improving the HSMathLibs.
To all those who are always grumbling but do not send any comments I do not want to say something.
Many other programmers like me have tried it many times in vain.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
Anonym (ANF)
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Spam-protection: AntiSpam2 1.07
The anti-Spam software called "AntiSpam2" has got some new features e.g. a prefseditor and
a remote-filter and is now principally useable for each Amiga mail program which is still
supported. On the website you can now also find detailed explanations to the different
configuration options which can be changed by the prefseditor from now on.
Because AntiSpam and the support tools all use the NewGUI system NewGUI is being installed
automatically and maybe is being downloaded from the homepage during the installation.
Because of that the installation should be done while you are online or NewGUI should be
seperately installed before it.
The remote-filter allows you to delete mails still on the server (a hint for Web.de users:
the Freemail Timelimit could cause some problems with the remote-filter).
Deleting mails is being done during a second step. Of course this method is more unprecise
than downloading the full mail with YAM first because only the header can be tested!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
Heise Newsticker
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New version 10.3 of Mac OS X is coming
In this article
Heise Newsticker reports on the start of the sale of the MacOS-X-version 10.3 alias "Panther" and
informs about the most important improvements.
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
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Photos from the Sydney Amiga show
At the title link first photos from the Sydney Amiga show can be found - among others several shootings of the AmigaOne Lite. (snx)
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24.Oct.2003
Silke Woj (ANF)
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OASE Update: Premiere - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4!
See some premieres at the OASE - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4 on the AmigaOne!
A real world premiere is taking place at the O.A.S.E. (Open Amiga Southeast Europe) show having a working AmigaOne Lite, now renamed to MicroA1, on public display the first time ever.
The (preliminary) MicroA1 specs as follows:
# G4 7447 low power cpu up to 1.3 GHz (running 1.066 MHz at the show)
# Radeon 7000 graphics chip with 32 MB video RAM on board (2xAGP)
# 100MBit Ethernet
# 2x USB1.1
# Serial / Parallel ports
# UDMA 100 IDE Controller
# 1 PCI slot (incl. Riser for 90° adapter)
# mini-ITX form factor (170x170mm)
We will have Linux Debian running on the MicroA1 and we are pushing hard to get AmigaOS 4.0 running on the board until Saturday. Special thanks to Thomas Frieden for his ongoing work to make this possible.
The first time a Picasso96 Radeon driver will be shown on an AmigaOne under AmigaOS 4.0. Special thanks to Joshua B. Helm and Forefront Technologies.
AmigaOS 4.0 on the AmigaOne will also have working 3com ethernet drivers running thru the Roadshow TCP/IP stack and the Soundblaster Live! running a PowerPC native version of AHI.
AmigaOne XE G4/933MHz boards will be available at the show for a special OASE price of 849,- Euro (incl. 20% VAT). For current customers we will have live updates of their UBoot FlashROM chips.
For our MorphOS fans we will have two Pegasos machines at the show.
Another part of the show handles Retro Computing where Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computer will talk about the C= One. An actual version of the C= One board can be seen at the show.
With some luck, a working (!) C65 can also been seen there.
More Infos (and pictures) see: http://www.oase.at
The O.A.S.E. takes place this weekend, Saturday, October 25th in Graz/Austria. (snx)
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24.Oct.2003
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Genesi joining exhibitors at OASE
At the upcoming OASE show in Graz, Austria, Genesi will be represented by their beta tester Herbert Klackl. According to the official website, two Pegasos I computers with MorphOS will be shown. (snx)
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24.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: AmigaOS 4 boots with ATI Radeon support
Forefront Technologies which are the developers of the ATI Radeon driver for AmigaOS 4.0
on "classic" Amiga systems have announced in a
press release
that AmigaOS 4.0 has been booted on an AmigaOne with an ATI Radeon graphic board for the
first time. Today Jürgen Schober of point.design
has succeeded in booting AmigaOS under use of a forefront technology driver on an
AmigaOne-XE G4 with ATI Radeon 7000.
Originally the driver should not have been ported to the AmigaOne (because SNAP driver
are supposed to be used here) but there have been the need of a quickly available
transition solution. The port worked without any problems.
The driver which have been successfully tested under AmigaOS 4.0 on Classic Amiga computers as well as
on the AmigaOne is now in beta stadium and is currently optimized for compatibility not on
speed - currently it is worked for a better blitter support.
Additionally a screenshot
of AmigaOS 4 (with seperate system programs) has been published on a Radeon 7000.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Anniversary Sale Price for PairsNG
In honor of Amiga Arena's five year anniversary, we and developer Christoph Kimna are offering the shareware game "PairsNG" at a sale price of five euros.
"PairsNG" is a mix of Memory, Shanghai and similar games. You'll find a demo version on the homepage of
PairsNG.
Additionally you'll find in the interview section a review of "PairsNG". This special offer is available until 2nd November, 2003. The registration form is to be found on the website of Amiga Arena (under the title link). A special thanks to Christoph Kimna, who made this special possible. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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23.Oct.2003
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First Screen-Shots of the New File-sharing Client for AmigaOS
The first screen-shots of "AmigaGift," a KaZaa client for AmigaOS, have been released (click on title link).
Update:
One of the beta testers corrected in an Amigaworld.net thread the misunderstanding that AmigaGift is a pure KaZaa client. AmiGift is said to be modularly organized and currently supports Edonkey, Gnutella and a few other protocols just starting to be offered, as well as KaZaa.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: Commodore is Active Once More in Germany
Commodore made computer history once, with home computers like the C64 and Amiga, and then they parted from the computer scene without a lot of noise or singing. Now the name comes back, of all things in a rather different, clearly unspectacular connection. Read the entire article at Golem IT News, under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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22.Oct.2003
Amiga Impact
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Event: Details about the Alchimie #3
Triple A, the organizers of the biggest French Amiga fair Alchimie,
gave some details about the show which will be held in Tain l'Hermitage (close to Valence) from November the 8th to the 10th.
From Amiga Inc. and their compagnon firms the following people announced their attending:
- Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group)
- Ben Hermans (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Fleecy Moss (Amiga Inc.)
AmigaOS 4 will be shown on several AmigaOne configurations.
The French reseller APS and Amont Informatique
will offer their products for sale on the show. Who wants to do some purchases at the show is advised to contact the reseller in advance to ensure the desired
items will be in stock at the fair. The Swiss reseller Relec will be present as well but due to the customs regulations
there will no sales be offered to private persons.
For all French organizations and magazines there will be the possibility to present themselves to the public at the show:
"Triple A" ("Boing Attack"), AFLE ("aMiGa=PoWeR"), AmigaZette83, ASUM, Amiga Impact...
The last year event "Alchimie #2" attracted more than 160 visitors from France, Belgium and Switzerland and the
organizers hope to top this number this year. The Alchimie #3 will last three days, tickets can be booked
here.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Oct.2003
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Alan Redhouse comments AmigaOne review (Update)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) comments the AmigaOnereview by Philippe Ferrucci .
The full comment is available by the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Oct.2003
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Genesi: Website for the planned computer game "Gladiateur" online
The official website for Genesi's computer game project Gladiateur (amiga-news.de reported) is now online at http://Gladiateur.PegasosPPC.com.
Gladiateur - The game
The game takes its inspiration from the stage production by Elie Chouraqui and Maxime Le Forestier, which debuts in Paris in 2004. The game allows you to take the role of Spartacus the Thracian, and lead the slaves in their revolt against the powers of Rome.
Gladiateur is a game development that will not simply lead to the release of a single game. The first release will concentrate of the War of Spartacus, but the game will evolve into a massively multi-player online realm, in which thousands of players will be able to take a part in the adventures and ambitions of the Roman world. Set against the backdrop of the Spartacan revolt, each player will be able to take a side in the rebellion or make their own way, going wherever opportunity takes them. You will be able to become a soldier or a merchant, a pirate or a politician. Players will be able to join together to form their own factions, or work alone. You will be able to live the carefree life of a wandering adventurer, build a powerful trading corporation, or rise to power in the Senate and change the very history of Roman.
The initial release of Gladiateur will use the Northland game engine from Funatics. This is a very sophisticated RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game in its own right, but in Gladiateur it will be extended to provide a unique, genre-busting experience. In the world of Gladiateur, persuasion and popularity is as important as units and resources, and tactics means a lot more than having the biggest army. This is not just another game where you build a base, defend against a few attacks, mass forces and finally rush the enemy base - this is a game set in a dynamic living world of tyrants, peasants and slaves where fear or loyalty can turn the tide of battle, and building trading links can be as important as building armies.
Gladiateur - The musical
Gladiateur is a musical stage spectacular written and produced by Eli Chouraqui, accompanied by a musical score composed by Maxime Le Forestiere. It will debut on 1 October 2004 at the Palais de Sports in Paris, and go on tour in Spring 2005. The music from the show will be released by EC7/Universal Music in 2004.
Eli Chouraqui's previous stage production was Les Dix Commandemants (The Ten Commandments), which debuted in Paris in 2000 and toured France, Switzerland, Belgium and Montreal. An English language version is due to open in 2005. Over 4 million albums, singles and DVDs of the production have already been sold.
(snx)
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22.Oct.2003
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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AmigaLand: Another five Microprose games
The AmigaLand has been updated again today: Five more
aircraft simulations by Microprose are available for download and
invite for gambling: F-15 Strike Eagle, F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-117A
Nighthawk, B17 Flying Fortress and The Ancient Art of War in the Sky.
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21.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Genesi new main sponsor of German online Linux magazine PPCNUX
The German Linux online magazine PPCNUX welcomes Genesi as their new main sponsor. In the corresponding news-item the company and the background of Genesi's founders are introduced to the readers of PPCNUX. (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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OASE 2003: E3B to offer special show prices
E3B is going to be again an exhibitor at OASE 2003, as we did already last year.
Besides the opportunity to test the new ALGOR USB controller live on our computer, we will also offer a special show bundle for upgrades of our established USB controller HIGHWAY.
Also ALGOR-users who do already own FlashROM can be happy: our network module NORWAY will be separately available as well at a favorable OASE price.
Details of the bundles can be found at our website in the news section.
See you in Graz :) (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
DCE
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DCE: Photos of the Pegasos II production (Update)
Further photos of the new Pegasos II can be found at the DCE website.
Update: To reduce the traffic at DCE's server, PegasosPPC.com provides a mirror. (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Daniel Miller
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Report from Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC, USA
In his report from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration, which took place Oct. 18th in Washington DC, USA, Daniel Miller writes the following:
MorphOS, Linux, AmiNetRadio, FxPaint, MPlayer, Kaya, ImageFX, free Superbundles, fresh MOS1.4 CDs with IBM stamp, ProStationAudio, presentations, the "VCR" case, complete system pricings, Peg II picture, MOS1.5 timing, MadBomber, and more.
From start to finish this was a really classy affair. I am local to the area and was invited to bring and show my own Pegasos, but this didn't stop me from checking out the scene and watching the presentations. Genesi personnel were really on a mission, giving personal attention, and striving to show the technology at its mindblowing best.
The chief exhibitor was magneticsystemsnyc.com who drove down from Brooklyn with a squad of state-of-the-art Pegasoses, including one of the few G4 models we have on this side of the pond. Four of those systems were configured for MorphOS, the fifth did double duty as an MoL/Debian (Gnome) machine. In addition to my comparatively home-spun system, there was a nice array of Genesi paraphenalia such as a plexuscom concept case, spinning illuminated Peg motherboards, a mechanical butterfly, a sampling of shrinkwrapped games, a Catweasel flipper for display, posters, sellsheets, free Superbundle (v. 3) and MOS1.4 IBM stamp limited silk screen edition CDs. Jammin'!
Now the stuff was neat, and the people were neater, but I must say seeing the cutting edge MOS systems in action was even more neat than that. It was... neat-o! Where to start? well, one of the more striking things was AmiNetRadio. As much as anything else this really illustrated one aspect of the future as Genesi sees it. The live radio stations scroll down in a list, and you select your favorite genre. It very quickly picks up the stream and your music plays. Most streams were at 128, some at 64, so this is fairly high fidelity. You can record your streams to MP3 files on your hard-drive, and them play them in Kaya. This all occurs effortlessly. Why does this illustrate part of Genesi's vision? They see themselves providing media, audio, visual, audiovisual and games via similar tools. Customers are then able to access their favorite media whether they are on walking trails with the planned Eclipsis handheld device, in their homes at their home theater, or at their workplace, whatever. You don't carry around a CD or plunk a videotape in the VCR, you just select your media on whatever device you are nearest and play it. Genesi believes that all this media including high resolution movies will be deliverable as the Pegaos progresses and new Genesi products are introduced. So that's the concept, maybe you like it, maybe you love it.
Another concept, this one now reality, is the "VCR" Pegasos. This was introduced by magneticsystemsnyc.com. What is it? It's a Pegasos in a small case that looks sort of like a VCR. This is offered as a complete Pegasos II system. If you don't want to muck around with assembling your own, you can consider getting one of these. It's nice and uses a half height Radeon video card. I like this, because it is an early step in the shrink-down evolution of Pegasos from standard desktop to set-top box to the handheld computer which is conceptualized to have all the power of a Pegasos.
Bill and Raquel from Genesi were there, as always demonstrating their personal commitment to the platform and its development, and supporting the rest of the Genesi team working towards the goal of a advanced, mature, popular, modern, alternative computer system.
More software: MPlayer was all over the frickin' place. People who demonstrated this system have recognized a winner. On just a G3 600 Mhz Pegasos running MorphOS 1.4 Mplayer is the most quickloading, responsive, compatible videoplayer ever on any platform. I am not spinning you, everybody says this. We all need to send the Mplayer programmers five dollars right now or something. There are few sublime pleasures in life as the first time you starting moving an MPlayer window opaquely around the screen, and realize that there is zero stutter or distortion, no matter how fast you circle it around. Hi-res letterbox or whatever. Of course it goes full screen and has a bunch of control features too.
There was some new image editing software from NovaDesign shown. They make well-established graphical prodcuts like ImageFX and Aladdin 4D. I was not clear on the details, but there is the intention to offer some form of this new software with future MorphOS versions, the Superbundle, or both. This is a clear potential asset to the Pegasos MorphOS product. The prospect of a revamped Aladdin4D ray tracing program for MOS was also talked about. ProStationAudio was shown. This is a really advanced sort of product with a detailed, intricate interface and all these channels and mixing controls and a lot of busy stuff going on all over the screen. It was shown mixing some tracks and certainly sounded good. It seems to me that this is a product for an audio professional, but maybe a casual home user can have fun with it too. Gotta go, I will have to write some more later, especially about... MadBomber!!!
PS: The BB half of BBRV stated MorphOS 1.5 would appear before the new year. Don't let them forget about that TCP-IP stack, thanks.
Photos of the event can be found at PegasosPPC.com. (snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Update of dvdrtools
The dvdrtools, enabling the writing of DVDs under AmigaOS, are updated.
Now three more devices (e.g. the SCSI host of Cyberstorm/CyberstormPPC)
are supported.
Also an English version is available on the homepage.
The coder provides you with another archive on his homepage: In this version
you can set the device to use by the environment variable DVDRTOOLS_DEVICE yourself.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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20.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #057
Liquid Skies released number 57 of the so called music pack. It contains a song called 'Kukka' by the Finnish musician 'Tripper'.
Some details about the track:
- Title: Kukka
- Artist: Tripper
- Style: Instrumental Trance
- Duration: 3:37
- Format: mp3 (192kbps)
The compressed file can be found at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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20.Oct.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Event: Photos of the EAPP 2003
From 10th to 31st August 2003 the "Extreme Amiga Programming Party" (EAPP) took place in Weinheim. The aim of this event was the common programming of software. Many interesting and also funny snapshots of the event can be found at the title link.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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20.Oct.2003
Ron van Herk / Genesi
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Cyberstorm: Report on DCE repairs / MorphOS version at the end of this year
CyberStorm Warranty Repairs
As mentioned on the thread at Amiga.org earlier, all CyberStorm boards sent in under warranty will be replaced by new ones. The production of these is partly done, the PCB's are there with all lower part components fitted. The problem currently is the lack of availability of the right 68K sockets. The ones that were originally used for the Phase5 and later DCE productions were specially made for Phase5 and are no longer being manufactured. However, there are several investigations ongoing at other manufacturers to adapt existing (and available) connectors to be fitted to the CyberStorm PCB's. Once this is solved, the production will be completed and all involved will receive new CyberStorm cards under warranty.
Non-Warranty Repairs
All non-warranty repair customers should have had a price quote from me. The repairs that could be done have been completed and all cards have been sent back or will be sent back in the next week. There are also repairs that are pending awaiting CPU sockets (see above).
Non-Repairable Items
Repairs that could not be done have also been sent back or will be next week. Several cards have been sent back by DCE already, others will be returned by me from Rotterdam next week.
Other Factors
During investigating the whole repairs issue, several disturbing things have come to my attention. There are cases of repairs not being done because they have been submitted through a reseller that has had outstanding invoices for three years, and also cases where repairs were done and sent back to a reseller, who then sold them as new products. I will not disclose specific information but just wanted to state this in DCE's defence, they're not always the one to blame...
Genesi Gesture
As a gesture from Genesi, there will be a new release of MorphOS for 'classic Amiga' PowerPC cards available for free. The planned release is at the end of this year.
DCE and Genesi
Several people have opted their concern in the Amiga.org thread about possible future repairs at DCE for Genesi products. First of all, please consider that the Amiga repairs are a special situation and it is not common for repairs to take this long, not even for DCE. Furthermore, anyone buying a PegasosII is dealing with Genesi, not with DCE. If there is a case where a Genesi product needs repair or replacement, Genesi will see to it that it happens the right way and in a decent timeframe. For reference see our history with the mainboard exchanges for April and April2 fixed boards. These were made at DCE too!
Preliminary Conclusion
Apart from the wait for the right 68K sockets, most issues are either done or will be in the next week. There are however still some unallocated cards at DCE. Anyone that also thinks they have an outstanding repair at DCE and has not been in contact with me yet, please do so NOW, as we are working towards concluding the whole operation and at some point soon we will not take on any more investigations. If you have sent in your repair to a reseller be sure to mention which one explicitely.
Contact: rvanherk@nl.genesi.lu
Regards,
Ron van Herk
Genesi
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20.Oct.2003
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GUI-Development: Merlin 2
A.P.Spijkerman released a new version of his GUI-tool 'Merlin'. 'Merlin' lets you develop GUI frontends for ARexx or batch scripts.
Detailed information as well as screenshots can be found at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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20.Oct.2003
Christian Geier (E-Mail)
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Report from LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany
At the first LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany, on Oct. 18th, the Image_Installer team presented the Pegasos. We did not expect such a big success and were surprised by the scores of visitors crowding our stand who were interested in the system. They represented several platforms, from Amiga users to people using x86 systems.
One could test the system, and some visitors made use of the opportunity to install Mandrake 9.1 themselves on the Pegasos using the Image_Installer. They were surprised in a positive way and amazed how quick and easy the installation was finished. Also MorphOS didn't get a raw deal. The visitors tested the SuperBundle and were impressed by the speed of the system, despite just having a 600 MHz CPU.
When we had a little bit of time, Michael Heider of course continued to work on Image_Installer and removing bugs. We can say with quiet conscience that with version 2 of the Image_Installer an easy installation of PegXLin and Gentoo is possible. To the question if this version would also be free or enclosed with the Pegasos we had to answer "no" for the time being, since we don't know this ourselves yet.
At the KDE team one could see a pre-release of the new KDE 3.2. New applications were added as well as graphical improvements. Daniel Molkentin demonstrated among other things an Outlook clone and a faster webbrowser.
Also some people from the Debian team were there. They showed Debian 3.0 for the x86 platform and provided help to questions regarding installation and adjustment of Debian to x86 systems.
Bert Radke of the Jabber team showed the latest version of Jabber. One could get information how a Jabber server is build up and which advantages Jabber provides.
At IBM students could get information about new notebooks. Computers from desktops for the office to servers were shown by AMD, who also provided the Internet connection for the show.
Further small projects were free games for Linux and the topic "Linux at school and university" by the university of Dresden.
Furthermore the visitors could take part at an Install-Party during the whole day to solve problems.
Final preparations |
Erhard Bruse (front), Christian Geier (back) |
Preparations |
Erhard Bruse explains the Pegasos |
Michael Heider (back) shows den Image_Installer Version 2 |
KDE booth |
Debian booth |
User testing Image_Installer Version 2 |
Michael Heider |
Student installing Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo using Image_Installer Version 2 |
Michael Heider shows the possibilities of Image_Installer |
Student testing Image_Installer |
Michael Heider installing Gentoo using Image_Installer Version 2 |
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20.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packs until 19.10.2003
WHDLoad enables you to install floppy based games to your hard disk. The following packs were added or updated since our last report:
- 19.10.03 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) slave for
A4000 rom provided, floppy LED removed
- 19.10.03 new: Coma (Rebels) done by Psygore
- 19.10.03 new: Twisted (Polka Brothers) done by Psygore
- 19.10.03 updated: Digital Concert 6 (Flash Production) supports
another version (Info)
- 19.10.03 updated: Digital Concert 4 (Flash Production) supports
another version
- 19.10.03 improved: Thug Life (Essence) runs on CyberStorm PPC without
nocache option
- 19.10.03 new: Beast Sonix (Scoopex) done by Galahad
- 15.10.03 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog) CD³² version supported, now
uses kickstart images
- 12.10.03 new: Top Gear 2 (Gremlin Interactive) done by Galahad
- 10.10.03 fixed: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) debug code removed, reduced memory requirements
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20.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Premiere: Software with DVD-R/-RW support for AmigaOS
The programmer 'Schlonz' ported the Linux program 'dvdrtools' to the Amiga. For the first time it is now possible to burn DVD-R and DVD-RW discs with AmigaOS. 'dvdrtools' is a collection of four programs wich can be used with the shell. An ARexx-GUI for the main program 'dvdrecord' is included.
Additional details are to be found at the title link.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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18.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: anniversary action - 2 vouchers for Hollywood
Because of the 5th anniversary of the Amiga Arena there's another draw: in co-operation with Airsoft Softwair the Amiga Arena raffles off two vouchers for the multimedia program "Hollywood" worth 10,- Euro.
To win one of the vouchers please answer the following question:
Which presentation had been released some days ago by the Amiga Arena?
Please send the correct answer until October, 19th 2003 via email to Olaf Köbnik
of the Amiga Arena.
Further information about "Hollywood" can be found under
http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
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Pegasos II production started (update)
In a short comment at ANN have Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco announced the beginning of the production of Pegasos II boards at DCE in Oberhausen.
Update: On the pages of the MorphZone is a photo of a preseries version of the new board. Compared to the final version this one still shows a static RAM drive and a debug connector instead of the ATX connector.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
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OS4 on Tour: reports from Brisbane
Two members of the Amiga-Portal Amigaworld.net write under the title link their impressions of the first "OS4 on Tour" event in Australia. We have summarized the most important points for you in short:
- About 50 visitors (twice the number at a comparable event last year)
- Several AmigaOne computers had been shown - some running AmigaOS4, some with Debian-Linux (and MacOS X under MacOnLinux)
- Doug Moir (AnythingAmiga) introduced the AmigaOne-Lite though not running. According to Doug are already several programmers busy with the drivers development for this Mini ITX motherboard.
- A comprehensive seminar on the AmigaOne and OS4 had been held, there had been an IRC session with Fleecy Moss (Amiga Inc), too.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
point.design (ANF)
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AmigaOne OASE Special
Because of the O.A.S.E. Amiga fair in Austria taking place next week offers the organizing Amiga retailer point.design AmigaOne computers at special conditions.
- AmigaOne G4/XE boards at 849,90 EUR
- AmigaOne G3/XE boards at 769,90 EUR
Reservations can be done from now on under amiga.sales@pointdesign.at
. All prices include 20% VAT.
The boards are Early Bird systems and contain AmigaOS4 and LinuxPPC.
AmigaOS 4 will be delivered when released.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
Ingo Klotzsch (ANF)
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Amiga at the "Nexxt Generation" in Hannover...
At present is the information and sales fair "Infa" taking place in Hannover. Part of the special program of the "Infa" is the youth fair "Nexxt Generation" (17.10. - 19.10.2003) that offers among other things a big games LAN with expected 1300 participiants to come.
In a public area of the Nexxt Generation are old games arcades installed. amiga-news.de reader Ingo Klotzsch has
seen there the good old Amiga. Pictures of the event can be found following the title link.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
Stéphane Campan (email)
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MorphOS: software news
ADoom PPC
Nicolas Det has ported ADoomPPC to MorphOS. This version uses CybergraphX and AHI and can be downloaded from his website.
CDSpeedKiller
Also on his homepage you can find the tool "CDSpeedkiller" that slows down a CD/DVD drive and reduces its noise level this way.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Oct.2003
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GoldED: Update and special price offer
The text editor called GoldED Studio AIX which is also a text based HTML editor and integrated
developing system for C/C++ was updated and is available for a limited time for a special
price.
According to the author this is the first official version of GoldED studio which is
completely compatible with MorphOS. Even with the permission of Genesi the developing
material with the documentation was integrated in the C/C++ modus. If you are interested
in the further changes Dietmar Eilert points out to the history-file.
You can find screenshots of GoldED on the official website.
Examples: C/C++-modus, standard-configuration.
There is also a free version for editing smaller documents to give you the opportunity of
testing GoldED. You can download it here.
The "GoldED Studio AIX"-CD costs 69,90 Euro, updates CD 19,90 (without postage and delivery).
Because of the publishment of the new version you can buy GoldED Studio AIX for only
49,90 Euro for only few days. The delivery is for free in the EU.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
Martin "Skippa" Knott (ANF)
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Curious: Amiga-Shop on Mallorca?!
Martin Knott who is a reader of amiga-news.de reports: "During my summer holiday on Mallorca
I found in Port Andratx an
Amiga-shop.
The character of the text seemed to be authentic. Unfortunately there were only average
clouthing to buy... How it is possible to be mistaken..." (snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
Galileo Computing (ANF)
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Books for free
Under the title link Galileo Computing offers some (non Amiga-specific) computer-books
to download for free. The books are ZIP-packed HTML-files.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
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Software: Some new game ports for MorphOS
The Hungarian programmer "LouiSe" has ported some further games for MorphOS which you can
download from his website.
The author points out that the download could last because the server is an A4000-030/25.
The following titles were added:
LLL-1.4.tgz - Linux Lunar Lander
LSL-1.2.tgz - Linux Shuttle Lander
atakks-1.0.tgz - Cool Attaxx/Thromulus like logical game
atris-1.0.6.tgz - Nice tetris game
crimson-0.3.7.tgz - Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
deathchase3d-0.9.tgz - Like on ZX Spectrum!
digger-20020314.tgz - Some small bugs fixed
eggchess-1.1.tgz - Egg Chess v1.1
foosball-0.92.tgz - Table soccer (buggy yet)
lopan-0.9.tgz - Logical game
lsdldoom-1.4.4.4.tgz - Doom II game (some bugs fixed)
matchball-0.33b.tgz - Logical Game
mindless-1.0.0.tgz - A simple "MasterMind" like game
pipenightdreams-0.10.0.tgz - VERY COOL Piper game!
powermanga-0.78.tgz - Fast arcade game
puzzle-1.0.0.tgz - Very simple puzzle game
toppler-1.0.3.tgz - Tower Toppler a Nebulus clone
trailblazer-0.9.tgz - THE ball game :)
vectoroids-1.1.0.tgz - Shot the rocks
wakkabox-1.1.0.tgz - Logical game
Besides this there is a MadBomber-port of Kelly Samel on his website.
The game is based on "Kaboom!" which was originally written for Atari 2600.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Oct.2003
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[Removed] Information about (Classic) Mac Emulation under AmigaOS
The text of the news item that was previously here has been removed because the website in question had not-legal software on it. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Thomas "Gojira" Nosutta (ANF)
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Pictures and Video of Amiga Meeting 2003
Under the title link Thomas Nosutta of BAU (Berliner Amiga User) has put online a few of his impressions of Amiga Meeting 2003, which was also a BAU meeting. A short quote from Thomas:
"It was once again an absolutely lively fun experience inc. Quake2-Marathon. For those who prefer pictures, here's a film clip from the Pegasos exhibition on 11th October, 2003." (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Powerplay Test Reports from 1989
Today kultpower.de presents 22 new test reports from the April 1989 issue of Powerplay, sent in by Skyscraper:
Bomber Raid (Sega Master System), Cosmic Pirate (Amiga), Cyborg Hunter
(Sega Master System), F-16 Combat Pilot (MS-DOS), Ghost'n Goblins (NES),
Gold Rush (MS-DOS), Great Football (Sega Master System), Hard'n Heavy (C
64), Hot Chase (Automat), ISS (C 64), Jet Fighter (MS-DOS), Last Duel
(Amiga), Life Force (Salamander) (NES), NARC (Automat), Rally Bike
(Automat), Sword of Sodan (Amiga), Tankattack (C 64), The Deep (Amiga),
The Last Survivor (Automat), The Pawn, War in Middle Earth (CPC), Wayne
Gretzky Hockey (Amiga).
With this update kultpower.de has passed the milestone of 1,500 test report scans. And it won't stop now! :) (nba) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: Review and Video of OS4 Booting
Under the title link, OS4 betatester and AmigaOne owner Philippe "Elwood" Ferruci has written about his experiences with the AmigaOne and Debian Linux.
Additionally there are three videos for your viewing. One of them shows the booting of Amiga OS4 on Philippe's AmigaOne. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Ordering for Pegasos II Begins on PegasosPPC.com (Update)
With the installment of a new ordering form at PegasosPPC.com Genesi has officially introduced the Pegasos II.
According to earlier announcements the price for the new boards are 299 Euros (G3/600MHz) up to 499 Euros (G4/1GHz).
For a limited time there's an upgrade option: an owner of the Pegasos I can trade in his or her board for a Pegasos II w. 1 GHz G4 processor for 200 Euros. The exchange will be handled in coordination with the local reseller who is offering the Pegasos II.
Also there is now the possibility to buy the SuperBundle on CD, instead of downloading it from Genesi's FTP server. The price is 19.95 Euros.
In the course of updating the website technical specifications of the new board were added, as well as a processor page that enables a comparison with X86 CPUs.
Update: According to a communication from Genesi, a Pegasos owner seeking to upgrade should not necessarily exchange his or her board where he or she bought it, but rather make sure to arrange this with a current Pegasos II reseller. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
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Interview: Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion Project)
The Amiga portal amiga.org has interviewed Oliver Hannaford-Day. Oliver is the leader of theColdfusion accelerator
project.
The aim of this project is the development of Coldfire-based turbocards for classic Amiga computers. The Coldfire processor is the
(progressively compatible) successor to the 68000 family of processors, used in the Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Presentation: Amiga Arena History Released
Amiga Arena has been active in the AMIGA freeware and
shareware market since 1998. Reason enough to look back on five years of hope, joy, disappointment and fun. Come along on a trip, which will show you what took place and how in this time.
The Amiga Arena History was put together with "Hollywood," the media presentation software from Airsoft.
System requirements:
- Processor 68020 or higher, OS 3.1 or better
- Processor PPC with MorphOS
- At least 8 MB RAM.
GFX:
- On graphic cards, w. CyberGFX or Picasso.
- 8, 16, 26, 36 Bit.
- VGA Amiga 8 Bit at 256 colors such as AGA. 16 million.
System:
- Amitlon
- UAE
- Amiga 68K
- Pegasos
A special thanks to T.Rosenberg, who has made this possible, as well as Gerd Frank.
Olaf Köbnik of Amiga Arena wishes you much fun in the reading, and good entertainment. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Ralf Himmel (E-Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: New Screenshots Released
On 14th October 2003 a few new screenshots from the upcoming operating system "AmigaOS 4" were put online at the website of Amiga Inc. These show AmiPDF, YAM, IBrowse and Colonization on the new Workbench, among other things. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Oct.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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fxPAINT 2.02 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 2.0 and
2.01 of fxPAINT to V2.02 is now available for download.
Changes include:
- added for MorphOS: Iconify button in each project window
- fxALBUM sorting is much faster now and shows a progress bar
- more intuitive delete function in fxALBUM
- .infos can now be displayed in ASL-requesters or be excluded from
fxALBUM import (Tooltype SUPPRESSINFOFILES)
- mousewheel-support now also in fxALBUM
- fixed a bug in startup of PPC-servertasks
- fixed IFF 24 saver (final fix this time)
A detailed list of changes can be found in the update archive. (nba)
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15.Oct.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Magazine: New issue of the pdf magazine "Lotek64"
During the summer break of amiga-news.de there has a new issue of the
retro magazine "Lotek64" been published. The magazine covers old and/or alternative computer systems - mostly the C64 but also other 8 bit systems
old consoles or Amiga are not excluded. The magazine is distributed as a freely available PDF file but interested ones might also order a printed copy.
The latest issue (#7) is unfortunately not available at the magazine's website but downloadable at
C64-Mags.de.
Download
Disclaimer: For viewing the magazine a current version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader is required. Compatibility of Amiga pdf viewers is not tested. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Robert Kühn (ANF)
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Magazine: New Amiga pdf magazine in preparation
Currently there is a new monthly pdf Amiga magazine under work. Helping hands are still wanted. Everyone who would like to contribute is invited to do so, may it be with a workshop, comments, tests, pictures or something else, and should contact amigaintern@everymail.net by mail. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Special Anniversary offers in cooperation with e.p.i.c. interactiv
In cooperation with e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh the Amiga Arena is able
to make a special 5-years anniverary offer until October, 22th 2003:
- Simon The Sorcerer II: Eur 20,00
- Earth 2140 Pack (Full game und Mission Pack): Eur 40,00
- The Feeble Files: Eur 30,00
- Software Tycoon: Eur 25,00
The offer is valid only for the versions for AmigaOS. Send your orders via
e-mail to Thomas Steiding with the subject "Amiga Arena Angebot".
More information about the games you will find at http://www.epic-interactive.com.
Special thanks to Thomas Steiding for his support.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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15.Oct.2003
Karl-Heinrich Veith, Jocelyne Pallu (Presseschreiben)
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GameArt: Exhibition at the world cultural heritage Völklinger Hütte
Computer games might be considered as the latest kind of art. During the last century jazz, film and contempory dance took long to be
accepted as a kind of art. Now the same is happening with computer games.
On November the 22nd 2003 at the world unique "Gebläsehalle" of the world cultural heritage "Völklinger Hütte" with its
gigantic machines there will high tech of the beginning of the 20th century meet computer worlds of the beginning of the 21st century.
Within this special surrounding there will be created an unique space where vistors obtain the possibility to discover,
unknown worlds, lead whole cities, or change identity how they like.
Read the full featured article by the title link.
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15.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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W3C: New standard for forms for the Web
About ten years ago HTML forms were introduced to the Web. Now the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released with XForms 1.0
a new standard (W3C Recommendation) for forms at the Web. XForms should leave the recent limits of HTML forms behind and should be
usable with a lot of devices. Read the full article from Golem via the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Treveur 'Nowee' Bretaudiere (E-Mail)
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New Pegasos websites launched
Two more user websites regarding the Pegasos were set up within the last days: The
Finnish Pegasos Website and
the Pegasos Portugal
Website welcome you at their sites.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Dirk Stöcker
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Packer: XAD system v12.1, XFD system v39.15
The latest versions of the dearchiver system XAD and the unpacker system
XFD were released today. Among several detail improvements there are the following main topics to mention:
- Added new id-external made by Stuart replacing the idPAK external.
- Added PackDir client made by Stuart.
- Added Unreal client made by Stuart.
- Added new internal Crunch client. Thanks Ronald van Dijk for the
necessary files.
- The AMOS client replaces the AmosSampleBank external.
- New version of xadUnDisk.
- Updated nearly all clients from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added CD-i client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added CD-Image client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added MasterBootRecord client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added R.A.W. client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added RigidDiskBlock client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added Sout client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added internal Arc CBM and Arc CBM SFX.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Diverse
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Software news briefly reported (15.10.2003)
Since the last software news update several applications were developed further. These advances will be listed below:
Beatblox v1.0
Beatblox by Model/Up Rough is a simulation of a drum machine in a kind of old style providing only a single channel. Problems with the 060 CPU
were fixt now.
Homepage
LAME (binary) v3.93.1 (MorphOS)
Christian Rosentreter has compiled version 3.93 of the powerful MP3 encoder LAME for MorphOS. With this software it becomes possible to convert, say, a wave file
an MP3 file.
Download
LzxRepacker v1.83
LzxRepacker, just released in version 1.83 for MorphOS, converts file archives to the LZX archiv format, checks the data for integrity
and offers several compression rates.
Download
mmsclientist v0.0
With mmsclientist ASF Internet streams can be loaded utilizing the MMS protocol. MMS://-URLs are within ASX files. The software is for
MorphOS only.
Download
Report+ v5.74
The freeware Report+ is available in version 5.73a . The tool uses ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten
different functions. For example by using Report+ Aminet readmes can be edited, the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool replaced or the
byte amount for every directory can be shown. In the latest version several improvements and bugfixes were done.
Homepage
Saga v1.33
Amigan Software have released version 1.33 of the freeware game Saga. This game is a digital equivalent to the board game "Saga:
Age of Heroes", published in 1981 by TSR.
Homepage
ZoneXplorer v1.1.1
ZoneXplorer is a fractal navigation and rendering program for 68k-Amiga and MorphOS and is just released in version 1.1.1.
Running MOS it is possible to save Mandelbrots and others in the ILBM format.
Homepage
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15.Oct.2003
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N°41
Issue 41 of the French digital magazine Obligement has been published.
Among other things get a read about the latest Amiga scene news, a report from the
BAS 2003 and the Hamster party,
interviews with Rose Humphrey (AmigaOne reseller) and Sebastien
Jeudy ("Annuaire Amiga Francophone"), reviews of MPlayer,
Tales of Tamar, Word me up, Duke Nukem and Hollywood und much more.
Download: Obligement41.zip
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Oct.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: OpenBSD for Pegasos finished
After statement from Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi OpenBSD
from Dale Rahn was successfully ported onto Pegasos. The OpenBSD distribution will be prepared for download
for all Pegasos owners in this month.
(Translation: gf)
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14.Oct.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Also "PegXLin" in IBMs Global Solutions Directory taken up
After the enrolment (German) of the Pegasos and
the operating system MorphOS into IBM's "Global Solutions Directory" you will find also
PegXLin there, the Linux distribution for Pegasos
based on Debian/Sarge.
The PegXLin-CD is bootable and allows a Linux installation onto the Pegasos in about 15 minutes.
You can download the CD-Image of PegXLin from the Genesi page Linux.PegasosPPC.com.
PegXLin contains:
- KDE 3.1.3(GUI)
- Gnome 2.2(GUI)
- XFree 4.3(X11)
- Cups 1.1.19(printmanager)
- MOL 0.9.69(Mac-on-Linux)
- Bochs 2.0.2(PC-Emulator)
- Kernel 2.4.21-benh2
- Video- and audioplayer
- CD-Burning-software incl. Video-CD-option
- Digital camera support (capture, edit, save)
- USB support
- TV-card support (BT878, C8xx)
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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13.Oct.2003
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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AmigaLand: Three new games and additional updates
As promised there are three more Microprose games available at AmigaLand. These are 'Pirates!', 'RailroadTycoon' and 'Red Storm Rising'. Furthermore a fixed version of '1869 AGA' is now available.
Moreover there are new versions of some emulators like WinUAE, Akiko and MaxUAE.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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13.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 21
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 21 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) Asemoon: Amiga Inc is somewhat blessed with the massive support from the Amiga community. However for some years now there have been rival groups actively trying to bring havoc to Amiga forums and spread around negative information or fantasy stories to harm Amiga efforts in any way they can. In what ways has all this (positive&negative) affected your business over the years?
Fleecy: The main problem with such activity is that it undermines confidence in the platform. The old saying that if you throw enough mud, it will stick is certainly true of the general approach by such groups and, whilst it is possible to counter rumour and allegation, the sheer weight and volume makes such an approach doomed to failure.
A general feeling of gloom, doom, suspicion or whatever else is desired eventually permeates to the core, like a damp autumn. Developers may decide to put projects on hold, users may delay a purchase and hope, dealers see their sales fall and hope for the future begins to evaporate; all going round and around in a depressing spiral whilst conveniently a 'sunny door' is left open to a brighter, but alternative future.
What is interesting is to trace the evolution of these attacks and notice how as each one is disproved, new rumours and different angles of attack appear. Amiga Inc has been bankrupt more times than a banana republic, we've had multiple CEOs, the AmigaOne would never work, AmigaOS4.0 would never see the light of day - on and on ad infinitum.
Despite efforts to the contrary however, most of this has stayed confined to the immediate community. Consequently our bigger partners, potential investors and the like have either never been affected or chose to ignore such activity, concentrating instead on actual talking to us. A pleasing trend is that private individuals are now coming directly to us to ask for information when rumours occur and we are more than happy to explain our position, rather than find ourselves the victims of elaborate stings and set ups in public forums.
Of course without a product in AmigaOS4.0, the real aim of these rumours has been to convince people to move to alternative platforms, convincing people that their wait for AmigaOS4.0 was ultimately going to be futile.
In the end, we just listened to the community who told us to shut up until we had something to show because in rising to the bait, we were just giving oxygen to the competitors. That is what we have done over the last twelve months, letting the community see for itself the progress of AmigaOS4.0. Running on CSPPC, running on AmigaOne - almost all PPC with just the graphics system left to upgrade and port. It has been a long and rocky road but the patience of the Amiga community and the passion and talent of the AmigaOS4 team has meant that as I write this, we are very very close to the end of AmigaOS4.0 as a project and the start of AmigaOS4.1, and a brighter future.
2) alx: I realise that since Amiga is a private company you may not be able to answer this in any detail, but do Amiga have any short-term plans to increase products on sale/cashflow, and could you share a generalised version of what you intend to do in this matter?
Fleecy: In the run up to Christmas we intend to realise new AmigaDE products whilst also creating a range of merchandise to tie in with the public launch of AmigaOS4.0.
Over the longer term, we are looking for sales in both OEM and direct to customer markets and the company will start changing shape and bringing in new people as we seek to exploit the potential of the AmigaOS in traditional and non traditional markets.
3) smithy: With Symbian, Microsoft and Palm pretty much having the PDA/mobile operating system software market sewn up, what is Amiga Inc's strategy to achieve some market sales? Bearing in mind, that all of the above three systems can run Java 2 Micro Edition, today's standard for cross-platform Java on small devices, and hence nulling AmigaDE's main selling point of write once, run anywhere. Furthermore, AmigaDE is based on PersonalJava - which only supports a very old version of Java.
Fleecy: The AmigaDE is a total content solution which runs on any host supported by the Tao-Group with their Intent product. If they do not support it and we see a positive business case, we ask them to support it - as is the case with AmigaOS4.0, to be the first PPC version of the AmigaDE. If they will not support it, then we move on. Our emphasis is on selling content - games and applications, interfaces and tools in as many deployment formats as possible - bundle, CD, Card, Download, OTA etc.
Our opportunity domain is any digital device, anything from Smartphone to Server, as long as the Tao-Group can provide the host binding layer. In that respect other OSs are not competitors, they are opportunities because our content runs on them. Customers don't care about the implementation details of a solution, they care about the solution itself. If our content solution is attractive to OEMs, device manufacturers, content brokers or end users, then it will be successful and our research and contacts over the past 18 months give us cause for great optimism. If we find that a particular market or product either is not supported by the Tao-Group or else has a poor or ill defined business potential then we will not support it.
Daily I am researching and testing content and competing solutions on such platforms as PocketPC, Symbian, Java, Morphun, FatHammer, Palm and the like and I am more than happy with both our solution and the features, quality and performance of the DE content.
4) Asemoon: Aminet is now the center of PD and shareware software for the classic Amiga. But aminet.net provides a mixture of various types of software from AmigaOS1.x programs to even WarpOS/MOS specific binaries. Are there any plans for a central files area for freely donwloadable AmigaOS4-compatible software?
Fleecy: The new Amiga Power Platform (APP) website will be launched just before the public launch of AmigaOS4.0 and will offer many such services to support, enhance and extend the community and platform.
5) Crumb: Have you planned to make the SDK interesting for different levels of coders? Have you included enough information and EXAMPLES in the autodocs? Will you include a decent reaction autodoc viewer that allows cut&paste? The editor of the sdk will at least show the parameters of each function (if it showed parameters of your own defined functions it would be even better) I mean... I want an IDE similar to RealBasic/Delphi/JBuilder...
Fleecy: We will be applying a lot of resources to the toolchain for AmigaOS4, finally implementing the Amiga Development Pipeline which provides a from concept to support description of the development process. As well as implementing various parts of it, the descriptive formats and interfaces will be open to allow for third parties to implement pieces themselves and to allow developers to build the pipeline using the components they wish. Thus a developer can chose between a complete IDE or the good old shell, giving them real choice and control over their development.
Key to AG2 and the whole Amiga philosophy is that the user is part of the environment and they can control and order it in anyway they want. This means anything from organisation of content through scripts, simple and complex all the way upto 'grown up' development languages for application developers. We intend to make this as simple to use as possible which means amongst other things, full, effective and most of all useful documentation.
6) Hybrid: Now there is an AmigaOne mainboard for Desktop, a Mini-itx one for small form factor AmigaOne computers. That's great but what about notebooks, handheld or tablet?
Fleecy: Stay tuned 8-)
7) AmigaMac: What will the future hold for PowerPC and Amiga? Will PowerPC remain in your long-term strategy?
Fleecy: PowerPC will be the only processor family we directly support for the AmigaOS4 release set. Once we reach AmigaOS5, we will support any processor family that provides us with business opportunity. PPC is certainly a processor family that offers that by the bucketload.
8) IonMane: In a previous Q&A it was stated tha the Gamepaks 1&2 were all sold out, and in a short timeframe I might add.How many gamepacks were sold and has AMiga Inc recieved the financial windfall from this deal as yet. Are there plans for another production of these (or similar)gamepaks for the near future (eg christmas)?
Fleecy: I can't divulge the financials but the purpose of the initial run was successful and we hope to have announcements soon about the consequences of that success. Sorry to be evasive but 'no announcements until we have something to announce' is what the community asked for and it is what we now feel comfortable in doing.
9) Zorro: There is a deal with Hyperion that if you (Ainc) were in serious trouble, you will give Hyperion rights to the name (or so...). If Amiga goes bust and someone buys them, they will have the license for the "Amiga" brand. But can US bankrupcy laws nullify any existing contracts (ie that with Hyperion) ?
Fleecy: I cannot go into the details but all that the community needs to know is that whatever could happen the future of the AmigaOS and the Amiga name has been safeguarded.
10) Crumb: Have you talked with Titan to make an OpenPCI library for OS4?
Fleecy: I am not entirely clear what has happened with OpenPCI and AmigaOS4.0 but the information I was able to collect suggests that some arrangement was made that effectively blocked this from occurring. If you want more details I suggest you contact Titan.
PCI is not a complicated implementation and AmigaOS4.0 already has a very good implementation which shows off the new library interface model.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=22
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
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13.Oct.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #056
Liquid Skies released issue no. 56 of their music pack collection. The included track was composed by Bit-X.
Details about the track:
Title: Cygnum Zero
Artist: Bit-X
Style: Schranz
Duration: 4:35
Format: mp3 @160kbps
The compressed file is to be found at the title link.
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13.Oct.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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Updates of NewGui and AntiSpam
The anti-spam-software 'AntiSpam' is now using the NewGui and can display detailed information during the scan process. The new version uses a new algorithm to identify spam and can give an acoustic hint.
Some font problems have been fixed within NewGUI and the transparency demo is now working under MOS.
Download AntiSpam
Download NewGui
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11.Oct.2003
Ekkehard Brüggemann (email)
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Video: arte reports about Breakpoint Party 2003
On October, 3rd broadcasted the TV station arte a report about the demo scene event "Breakpoint Party 2003". A 56.1 MB big file in the DivX-5.1 format can be downloaded on the website following the title link.
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11.Oct.2003
Ron van Schaik (email)
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Event: Commodore show October 18th in Maarssen (NL)
On October, 18th 2003 from 10 to 16 o'clock takes a Commodore show in the Dutch
Maarssen place with the Dutch HCC Commodore Users Group as organizers. This month will the event be held in two rooms to make a computer second hand market possible where you can buy Commodore products. The website of the HCC has been expanded with photos shot at the Benelux Amiga Show and the "new" Boulderdash game "Schaikdash 12".
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11.Oct.2003
Bjorn Lynne (email)
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New audio CD: "Project Galway" by Martin Galway
Martin Galway, composer of soundtracks for games highlights like Freelancer, Ultima VII,
Wing Commander 2 and 4 or Arkanoid, has released a new double audio CD. The two CDs contain 34 C64 music pieces that had been recorded directly from Martin's own Commodore 64. The double CD has been published at LynneMusic, following the title link you can find further information and some excerpts from the tracks.
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11.Oct.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Gladiateur: further details about the Genesi game
With quotes taken from a 55-pages Genesi internal document by Andrew Korn about the MorphOS game "Gladiateur" (amiga-news.de reported) have Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck given a more indepth view on Amiga.org into this ambitious project that is to be released in October 2004 at the same time as the stage production of the same name by Eli Chouraqui.
The story's about the Spartacus rebellion and shall offer an online multiplayer part as well as an offline single player mode. It is planned to release "Gladiateur" in several parts starting with the single player mode. The online mode will be offered to the buyers as a downloadable patch as soon as the server side is prepared.
As game engine will the one by Nordland come into use of which the MorphOS version by
Epic is just now in the beta stage. A Later transition from the 2D client to a client with 3D ego perspective is planned where both kinds of clients shall be able to operate with the same server software - with Genesi taking the unrestricted playability on platforms with restricted capacity, e.g. settop boxes or handhelds, into account.
For the next week is another kind of "developer connection" (using the "Phoenix definition" of the developers term) announced on the Genesis Pegasos site under
http://gladiateur.pegasosppc.com.
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11.Oct.2003
AmigaLand (website)
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AmigaLand: five new Microprose games online
The retro emulator website "AmigaLand" returns with an update. The collection now contains five more games by Microprose that may be downloaded for free: Gunship, Gunship 2000, Formula
One Grand Prix, Civilization and Colonization. Further Microprose games are said to follow in the next days.
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11.Oct.2003
Emerald Imaging (website)
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MorphOS: Aqua part of the SuperBundle
Aqua, an adventure game in the style of Myst by Emerald Imaging, will become part of the MorphOS Superbundle that already offers quite a number of games and applications for registered Pegasos owners. Further information regarding the game can be found following the title link on the website of the distributor.
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11.Oct.2003
A.D.A. (website)
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A.D.A.: jubilee and updates
In the last two weeks has the Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) got several updates and can also celebrate a small jubilee.
Six demos have been added: "Hätä" by Da Jormas (3. place in the
Oldskool competition at the Assembly 2003), "Humus 4" by Push
Entertainment (2. place in the 4K Intro Competition at the Assembly
2003), "FistPig" by Spaceballs and Ephidrena (5. place in the 4K Intro
Competition at the Assembly 2003), "Pulse" by Nerve Axis (1. place in
the Demo Competition at the Assembly 1997), "Sumea" by Virtual Dreams
(1. place in the Demo Competition at the Assembly 1996) and "Mental" by
Push Entertainment (5. place in the Demo Competition at the Assembly
2003).
With these six demos has A.D.A. reached the limit of 300 introduced productions. Since November, 11th 2001, when the project went online, have 40100 hits, 300 productions, 2963 screenshots, 119
groups, 66 parties, 115 users, 435 voting voices and 252 comments been registered (numbers from the end of September). The own voting voices can now be changed and the charts are now a top 30.
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10.Oct.2003
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ReqAttack 2.0 released
ReqAttack is a system requester patch for the Classic AmigaOS that offers many configuration possibilities like requester logos, animationen, buttons, AHI and CGX. Version 2.0 contains many bugfixes. RAPrefsMUI is now more stable, too. The port to GCC had been done by Marcin Kurek. (Download)
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10.Oct.2003
Diverse
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Software news (10.10.2003)
Since the last software news update have several applications been further developed. Below we report about the changes:
AmiDiction v2.6a
AmiDiction is an online dictionary that bases on the service of www.dictionary.com. The new version 2.6a can be downloaded from the website of the programmer Lorence Lombardo.
Homepage
delfina.library v416b48
With the new beta version of the delfina.library some errors have been fixed that already came up with Delfina cards that were not delivered by individual Computers. An error in the A1200 recognition in the previous beta version has been removed, too. The library can be used with individua's new cards but also with the A1200 clock port version by Petsoff. The beta version hasn't been tested with the Delfina Lite.
Download
LANClip v0.3
Peter Gordon has released version 0.3 of LANClip. LANClip, in version 0.1 named NetClip, is a small utility that allows the exchange of a global clipboard between different computers in a network. Next to an Amiga version exists a Windows version, too.
Homepage
MiniMen v1.2
MiniMen is a GUI menu program that has been developed for using script files. It supports up to 165 button functions defined by the user.
Homepage
Report+ v5.73a
The freeware Report+ has been released in version 5.73a. The tool bases on ReAction/GadTools, needs AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten different functions: e.g. you can create Aminet readmes with Report+, replace the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool or show the bytes number for every directory. In the new version have several bugs in the bug report editor, the hardware ID viewer and the IFF viewer been fixed.
Homepage
StarAm Plan v2.22
Version 2.22 of the spreadsheet program "StarAm Plan" has been released for AmigaOS 3.x. The small but fine Excel clone offers 121 functions to edit in table cells and a big number of prefs settings.
Download
WGetGUI v0.6.5
The new version 0.6.5 of the Wget based download manager "WGetGui" has been released for MorphOS and now also for AmigaOS 3.x.
Homepage
Worm Wars v7.6
The Snake clone Worm Wars by Amigan Software has been released in version 7.6 for AmigaOS and Windows. Since version 7.55 has the new creature "Ant" been added as well as cherries and flowers.
Homepage
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10.Oct.2003
Genesi SARL
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Genesi: Pegasos II Available Starting 15th October 2003
Genesi SARL has announced that the new PowerPC mainboard "Pegasos" will be available from dealers beginning 15 October, 2003. The Pegasos II, to be orderable as a complete system from specialty shops, will be shipped with the operating systems MorphOS and Debian Linux, as well as the MorphOS "SuperBundle," which is a selection of games and utilities. The Pegasos II mainboard is being introduced with a G3 processor for 299 Euros [about 320 dollars -DM], or with a G4 for 499 Euros [about 540 dollars -DM]. Technical details may be found in today's report at Pegasos II in das "Global Solutions Directory" von IBM aufgenommen. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Oct.2003
morphos-news.de (Website)
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Genesi: Thomas Morris New Sales Director of Genesi USA
Genesi SARL announced their new USA Sales Director in early October: Thomas Morris, who was most recently the host of New York Pegasos User Group meetings.
Original press release from Genesi:
Genesi SARL today announced that Thomas Morris joins Genesi USA as
Director of Sales. Thomas recently hosted the NYC PUG inaugural meeting.
"Thomas will be based out of New York and travel as required. His
connection to the various creative communities and his years of experience
as an audio and video technician make him the right person for the tasks
we have at hand today. We like to bring people from the Community on board
who demonstrate effort and support for the Pegasos. We are very happy to
have Thomas join the team." said Raquel Velasco of Genesi.
Thomas will be making sales presentations in San Jose, CA this week. If
your are interested in attending a presentation Tuesday evening at the
Hyatt in San Jose please contact Thomas Morris directly. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Oct.2003
IOSPIRIT (Website)
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IOSPIRIT: Genesi Superbundle special offers
Right from the start, IOSPIRIT's fxPAINT Lite, fxSCAN Lite and VHI Studio Lite were part of the Superbundles by Genesi. With the launch of our new website, we now offer every owner of the Superbundle rebates on our contributed software when upgrading to the full version.
Learn on our new Superbundle pages, how you can get a total rebate of up to 25,- EUR, what features are missing in the Lite versions and why an upgrade is worth every cent of it. (nba)
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10.Oct.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New website and new support concept
IOSPIRIT, developer of well-known software titles such as fxPAINT, fxSCAN
and VHI Studio and distributor of among other titles the webbrowser
IBrowse, today presents itself with new website and new support-concept.
The new website, basing on the internal new development "Callisto II", is
clearly devided in the sections News, Products, Downloads, Service,
Company, Basket and protected customer login area (Login) and allows a
fast and targeted navigation within the IOSPIRIT-pages. Help texts
embedded into the new pages guide visitors through input masks and contain
additional, valuable information.
In the future, the customer's account is at the centre of all offers and
services:
Inside the account orders are placed and managed, product registrations
submitted and saved, support queries sent and if needed address changes
submitted.
But enhancements are not limited to the surface: internally a lot of
changes have been made as well. From now on, express orders can be placed,
skipping the one hour period for last-minute order changes before actual
order processing, orders can be automatically split depending on
availability, packaging and shipping costs are already calculated in the
basket and the total value of an order is automatically converted to other
currencies for orientation. By the introduction of a direct link between
IOSPIRIT and the creditcard-processor, the average time required for the
processing of payments via VISA, MASTERCARD and EUROCARD has been
shortened to only a few minutes.
Hand in hand with the introduction of the new website, the support-concept
received a major revision to allow an even more efficient and faster
processing. Therefore, online-forms especially designed to meet
support-requirements (so called support desks) are available to
IOSPIRIT-customers via the IOSPIRIT-website for each product. They presort
support queries, ask for all required information and archive the complete
correspondence for a supportquery, thus providing everything for a better
overview and processing. An account and the registration of all bought
IOSPIRIT products are now precondition for being able to send a
supportquery.
With the introduction of the new shopping system, accounts from the old
system can no longer be used. IOSPIRIT-customers should open a new account
in the now installed, new system. Once logged into the new account, the
function "Transfer account" is available, which will transfer registration
data and keyfiles from the old shop system in a few seconds and completly
hassle-free.
Answers to frequently asked questions regarding the new shop- and
support-system can be found in the "IOSPIRIT company and website FAQ",
general information on the shop can be found in the "Shop information". (nba)
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10.Oct.2003
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet: HD-Installers removed
Due to changes in copyright, harddisk installers of commercial programs no
longer seem to be legal in several countries. They have been removed from
the Amiga-software-archive Aminet by Urban Müller. (nba)
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10.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Games Classics: Sequel to The Bard's Tale Planned
A few weeks ago there was an unofficial fan sequel underway for followers of the classic "Bard's Tale" series of role playing games, now there's an official one announced for Windows. Behind this official effort is Brian Fargo - the man who was responsible as a producer for the original Bard's Tale game on the Apple II. Read the complete report (in German) at Golem
IT-News by clicking on the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Sep.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Marvell and IBM Announce Extension of Discovery System Controllers to PPC 970
Marvell and IBM today announced a relationship to accelerate the adoption
of IBM PowerPC 970 processors in next-generation networking, storage and
server systems. As part of the agreement, Marvell plans to extend its
market-leading family of Discovery™ chipsets with new system controllers
that include IBM's high-speed PowerPC 970 Elastic Interface technology.
The combination of IBM's PowerPC 970 microprocessor, with speeds up to 2
GHz, and Marvell's Discovery 970 system controller is intended to provide
embedded customers with a comprehensive and cost effective 64 bit
sub-system solution. In conjunction with Marvell's Gigabit PHY, Serial ATA
and high-speed switching products, Marvell and IBM now offer a complete
solution base for next generation embedded applications.
Marvell plans to make samples of its Discovery 970 chipsets available in
the first quarter of 2004. IBM plans to make its PowerPC 970 processor
available in the first quarter of 2004.
"Marvell's decision to team up with IBM and extend their support of
PowerPC is a tremendous piece of good news for the Embedded marketplace,"
said Lisa Su, director of PowerPC and emerging products, IBM
Microelectronics. "The combination of their Discovery 970 with our
PowerPC 970 should yield the most powerful, scalable and flexible solution
available in the Embedded system marketplace."
"We are very excited to team with IBM to provide our customers with what
we expect to be the most powerful PowerPC sub-system architectures ever
designed," said Balaji Baktha, General Manager of Storage and Consumer
Division, Marvell Semiconductor. "IBM and Marvell are committed to
working closely with leading OEMs to drive the development of next
generation networking, server and storage applications."
Marvell Discovery 970 System Controller:
The Marvell Discovery product family represents the most widely adopted
system and communication controllers in the industry. The Discovery 970
system controller integrates several I/O peripherals on-chip, including
Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-X bridges, storage functions and DDR memory
interface. The Discovery 970 is software compatible with the existing
Marvell system controllers helping to preserve customer software
investments while accelerating development cycles.
IBM PowerPC 970:
The IBM PowerPC 970 is derived from IBM's award-winning POWER4 server
processor to provide high performance and additional function for users.
As the first in a new family of high-end PowerPC processors, the chip is
designed to manipulate data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerate
compute-intensive workloads like multimedia and graphics through
specialized circuitry, known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD)
unit. IBM packs performance and new features into the chip using
ultra-thin 0.13-micron circuitry (nearly 800 times thinner than a human
hair), constructed of copper wiring and about 52 million transistors based
on IBM's efficient silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology.
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13.Sep.2003
GAUHPIL (website)
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GAUHPIL: nay areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga User HomePage Internet List) is a list created and commented by
Dietmar Knoll with of Amiga users that is sorted geographically by continents and countries. Two days ago had the following areas been updated:
- Asia
- Europe
- List new links
- Releated sites
- History 2000-2003
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13.Sep.2003
Grasshopper LLC (email)
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Grasshopper: Pagestream release for AmigaOS 4
Positive signs from the AmigaOS 4 frontier: Grasshopper LLC will release the
desktop publishing software PageStream for AmigaOS 4 as soon as the new operating system is available. Furthermore prices are cut for PageStream 4.1 to 99 US-Dollars, for PageStream Professional
4.1 to 149 US-Dollars. Read the complete note by Grasshopper LLC right below:
Grasshopper LLC today announced the addition of a fifth supported
platform in the stable of computers and operating systems that PageStream
already runs on. Amiga OS4 PPC is an exciting new operating system and
hardware from Amiga Inc, Eyetech and Hyperion Entertainment that follows
in the footsteps of the great hardware and software that is the Amiga.
"Deron Kazmaier, PageStream creator, has exceeded our expectations again!"
proclaimed Grasshopper LLC owner Marna Holt. "Deron has burned the
midnight oil on his old love, the Amiga, creating the foundation for the
next generation of PageStream on the Amiga."
While the full public release
of OS4 is beyond our control, the PageStream is not! As the Amiga OS4 PPC
is a natural progression from the older 68k, we are offering a limited
time discount for those who are moving up to the AmigaOS4 PPC version from
PageStream Amiga68k and likewise we are including the Amiga68k version to
those who purchase the PPC version before it is publicly released.
Crossgrade price from PageStream 4.1 Amiga68k to AmigaPPC is only $40 and
the price for a new copy of PageStream4.1 Amiga PPC (with Amiga68k) is
only $99. The special offers are set to expire upon the public release of
Amiga OS4, and will then revert to the same low pricing already in place
for the other platforms. Advance copies of PageStream 4.1 AmigaPPC are
available now, but we will continue to stay in step with improvements to
OS4.
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11.Sep.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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FotoFoto SE for MorphOS Appears
The special edition of the mistake-seeking game "FotoFoto" from Attention
Software may be downloaded right away from the Superbundle FTP site by all registered Pegasos owners. The SE version contains over 50 levels and a level editor whereby the player may insert his own pictures and categories. FotoFoto SE may also be played offline and does not require an Internet connection during the game. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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11.Sep.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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Important information for IOSPIRIT-customers regarding backup copies
In order to be able to offer you a further improved service and a better
structured website, we are soon re-launching our website.
As this goes hand in hand with switching to a new website-system, we want
to kindly ask our customers to check for safety copies (on safe media such
as CD-R, etc.) of the download versions they bought from us until the 18th
of September 2003. If no safety copies exist, these should be created now
and - if required - we'll reactivate expired downloads to support this
(also see end of the message).
After the 18th of September 2003 these files will no longer be
available - also not on request.
The only exception to this are purchases of the respectively latest
versions of our products (e.g. fxPAINT 2.0, fxSCAN 4.0, VHI Studio 6.0,
IBrowse 2.3, ..). For purchases of older versions as online-versions (e.g.
fxSCAN 3.0, fxPAINT 1.5, VHI Studio 5.x, ..), we strongly recommend to
make safety-copies until this date, since we won't be able to grant access
to these files after this 18th of September 2003.
If another unlocking of downloads should be required, please write an
email to "unlockdownloads AT iospirit DOT de".
We are already looking forward to soon welcome you to our new website. (nba)
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11.Sep.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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VCD Save Version 0.2 Appears
The graphic interface of "VCD Save" has been adapted to the new NewGUI System, this means that the GUI may now be adapted to the needs of the user without rewriting the program entirely. With the help of the automatic snapshot function of NewGUI all gadgets are positioned in the places they were when the program last ended. Gadgets may be expanded or shrunk when the user presses CTRL when he clicks on the border being changed. When the user presses on the left SHIFT key the gadget is moved. The save routine has been modified in order to allow the saving of captions on SVCDs. It is possible with VCD Save to copy VideoCD tracks directly to the hard-drive, something for which AllegroCDFS was required up until now. (nba) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Sep. 2003, 09:50] [Comments: 0]
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