07.Aug.2003
Chris Perver (ANF)
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Textviewer: Update for EvenMore (exe and AG-Plug-in)
The EvenMore exe has been updated to allow you to follow links in a file
you are viewing, simply by clicking on them. To do this, EvenMore now
has new escape codes for the plugins, ESC*NODE, ESC*LINK, ESC*CEND.
The AmigaGuide plugin has been updated, and I will be working on the
HTML plugin in the next week or too to update it. Currently this
will only allow you to follow internal links, but external links
shouldn't be too difficult to program. Download now from
www.evenmore.co.uk (nba)
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07.Aug.2003
Thomas Raukamp (ICQ)
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heise: Submarines of the US Navy with Apple Xserve under Linux
The renowned print magazine "heise" has reported in their online edition about a new outfitting of the US Navy. Heise states that the Navy will put into their submarines 260 server systems prepared by defense contractor Lockheed Martin for realtime picture processing. These systems are based on a combination of Apple's XServe, and the Linux operating system Yellow Dog Linux whose producers are known in Amiga circles as Terra Soft. Read the comlete report (German language) at Heise Online under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Interview with Carl Sassenrath
A while back Carl Sassenrath agreed to answer some questions from the
Amiga.org community about his current project, REBOL and the current
Amiga situation. Your patience has been rewarded, because you can
finally read the interview under the titlelink. (nba)
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07.Aug.2003
ScummVM Amiga Webseite (ANF)
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ScummVM 0.5.0 R2 (68k and WarpOS) Appears
The second release of ScummVM 0.5.0 appeared today. In this version a few bugs with the game selector have been eliminated and a few corrections with the path entries within the program have been improved. With ScummVM 0.5.0 the following games may finally be played for the first time on the Amiga: "The Curse of Monkey Island", "The Dig", "Full Throttle", "Beneath a Steelsky" und "Simon The Sorcerer 1 + 2 (PC-Versionen)." (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Round About New Things at morphos.net
The comprehensive and optically reworked web presence for the PowerPC operating system MorphOS is reachable as of today. Next to details about the features of MorphOS you'll find there further information and screenshots of MOS-compatible software, the Super Bundle, the MOS community, future and past meetings and conventions, dealers, and a lot more. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
OSnews (Website)
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Interview with Two AROS Developers on OSnews
The online magazine OSNews has conducted an interview with Ola Jensen and Adam Chodorowski of the AROS development team. You may read the interview under the title link. According to them AROS is approaching the development condition of AmigaOS 3.1, of course collaborators are still needed to push forward development. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results from July/August 2003 (Update)
The results of the Amiga Games Hit Parade vote for the months of July and August 2003 have been released today:
- (12) Tales Of Tamar 116 pts
- (6) Knights And Merchants 93 pts
- (9) Earth 2140 86 pts
- (1) Napalm 85 pts
- (13) Quake 2 81 pts
- (2) Slam Tilt 78 pts
- (4) Quake 68 pts
- (3) Payback 65 pts
- (7) The Settlers 57 pts
- (5) Sensible World Of Soccer 57 pts
- (8) Crossfire 2 53 pts
- (11) Freespace 49 pts
- (14) Heretic 2 48 pts
- (10) Foundation 40 pts
- (19) WipEout 2097 37 pts
- (17) Fields Of Battle 32 pts
- (16) Moonstone 30 pts
- (15) Cannon Fodder 30 pts
- (29) Frontier Elite 2 28 pts
- (55) Speedball 2 26 pts
The next vote (Amiga Games Hit Parade in September/October 2003) begins in the middle of September. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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06.Aug.2003
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan at NBC Giga
The bplan GmbH, developer of the PowerPC-mainboard Pegasos, will attend
the TV-show NBC GIGA on August 7th,
2003, at 21:00 (CET). They will present their products Pegasos and
MorphOS and take part at a live-chat at 21:45 answering your questions.
NBC Europe can be received over cabel in Germany and is digitally
transmitted through the Eutelsat Hotbird 5 to be additionally received
by the Digitalreceiver (DVB-S):
Orbitposition: 13° East (Eutelsat)
Frequency: 11,054 GHz
Polarisation: horizontal
Norm: MPEG-2/DVB
Symbolrate: 27500
Coderate: 5/6
bplan would like to thank Andreas Streu, who made this attendance
possible. (nba)
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06.Aug.2003
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal (ANF)
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News from Coyote Flux
It has been a long while since the last update, but finally a list of
new screenshots and programs have been added to the website:
- Two more screenshots of J Miner, displaying the new render algorithms
- Eight screenshots of Manic Miner, a PPC plugin for AmigaAMP and PlaySID
- New PlaySID.library for CatWeasel Flipper cards, supporting channel enabling/disabling on both the hard- and software side
- Preview of PPC680x0 v2.0, displaying automatic file conversion
(nba)
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06.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 06.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
TView.lha comm/tcp 78K+List TV-programs in Europe.
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 176K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas
pngcheck.lha gfx/misc 75K+Checks and reports contents of PNG files
FroggerSP.lha gfx/show 18K+Frogger spanish documentation v2.07.0
aprg.lha hard/hack 35K+Programming ATMEL at89 series chips
MrCarlitoWb-00.jpg pix/wb 579K+Screenshot of my Workbench 3.9
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 245K+Complex dynamic buffer system, and other
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 30K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB
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05.Aug.2003
CAM (Website)
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Club Amiga Magazine #7 to be released on August 8th, 2003
Issue 7 of Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been delayed by the editorial
team for one week. The new issue will be released on August 8th, 2003. (nba)
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05.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 4th August 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk
that had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have
been added or updated since our last announcment:
- 04.08.03 improved: Subwar 2050 (Microprose) supports CD³² version too
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 5 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 improved: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) supports another version
- 04.08.03 new: Fightin' Spirit (Neo) done by Psygore
- 04.08.03 new: Conquests of Camelot (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 03.08.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix (Martech) supports another version
- 02.08.03 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils) another version supported, slave optimised
- 01.08.03 new: Pyramax (Arc) done by Psygore
(nba) (Translation: nba)
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05.Aug.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Event: "The Assembly 2003" - August 7th-10th, 2003
On the forthcoming long weekend of August 7th (Thursday) to August 10th
(Sunday) the big demoscene event "The Assembly" will be held in the
well known ice stadium "Hartwall Arena" in Helsinki, the capital of
Finland.
This event will take place for the twelvth time in a row and be the
meeting point of personalities from the demo and game scene. About
4500 visitors from all over Europe are expected. During the days several
competitions will be held, including demo competitions for the Amiga,
as well as many seminars and speeches will be made. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Primal" by Andrew Barnabas and Paul Arnold
Some of you may remember Nightshade/Crusaders from various Crusaders
Amiga demos in the past. He also wrote the music for a few Amiga games,
the best known amongst them being "SWIV". He has now started a
composing/production company together with his friend Paul Arnold. Their
first real release is the soundtrack to the game "PRIMAL". This is a
fully orchestral soundtrack recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic
orchestra and choir. It sounds great!
Track-Liste:
- Opening credits
- The Timekeeper
- Arella's Theme
- A Love Lost
- Jen Meets Arella
- Raum & Empusa
- The Demon Awakes
- Coliseum
- A Prince in Chains
- World of Water
- The Turbulent Depths
- A Kingdom Restored
- The Mad King
- Mountain of Suffering
- Devil's Waltz
- Dark Science
- The Helot
- Temple of Flame
- Hall of Gods
- Journey's End
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Sidologie" by Marcel Donne
Sidologie is an album of Commodore-64 remixes Marcel Donne, all done in
the style/sound of classic Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis albums. To put
it simple, Marcel Donne has taken the *melodies* from famous C64 music,
and mixed it with the *sound* of old-school Jean-Michel Jarre and
Vangelis.
It is a great album for nostalgics of all ages, and especially those who
enjoyed Jarre's and Vangelis' classic early albums, or those classic C64
melodies. The song name in [brackets] indicates which Jarre or Vangelis
album that production was particularly influenced by.
Track-Listing:
- Sidologie Intro - Marcel Donne [Revolutions]
- Rambo Loading Theme - Martin Galway [Equinoxe]
- Lightforce - Rob Hubbard [Revolutions]
- Bombo - Ben Daglish [Oxygene]
- Cobra - Sylvester Levay/Ben Daglish [Bladerunner]
- Yie-Ar Kung Fu II - Martin Galway [Chariots of Fire]
- Knucklebusters - Rob Hubbard [Zoolook]
- Wizball High Score - Martin Galway [Band in the Rain]
- Miami Vice - Martin Galway [Equinoxe/Oxygene]
- Nemesis the Warlock - Rob Hubbard
- Rambo High Score - Martin Galway [Oxygene]
(nba) (Translation: nba)
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04.Aug.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistent: DD2html Version 0.2 released
In line with the project 'Hardware Assistent' version 0.2 of the tool DD2html has been released.
DD2html creates a html file containing all driver discriptors in a directory. If the attribute 'DRIVERURL' is set a hyperlink will be added.
Further details are available at the titlelink.
Download: DD2html
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04.Aug.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Filemanager: DiskMaster Version 2.5.25
Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5.25 of the filemanager DiskMaster. Details about made changes and a download link are available at the titlelink.
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04.Aug.2003
ScummVM (Website)
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ScummVM 0.5.0 released (Update)
Version 0.5.0 of ScummVM is now available for Windows, MorphOS and other operating systems.
Because of some serious bugs in the current version (0.5.0) there will soon version 0.5.1 be available.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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04.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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YahooGroupsRipper v1.0 released
Because of the upcoming changes of the Yahoo! Group Services Diego Casorran released a tool called YahooGroupsRipper.
YahooGroupsRipper (YGRip) is an easy to use tool to download all messages of a Yahoo! Group mailinglist.
Download: YGRip (18 Kb)
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04.Aug.2003
Maik Schultheis (ANF)
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AmiGate: Search entries can be modified
AmiGate is a collection of web links concerning the Amiga. From now on every user or company can add entries in a special category and can administer them afterwards.
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04.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 03.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
XADOpus_Ger.lha biz/dopus 1K+German catalog for XADOpus 1.2
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 167K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
RenderDevBas.lha dev/basic 39K+Using Render library from HBasic
PluginDemo.lha dev/c 8K+V1.0 plugin demo using LoadSeg
sfdc.lha dev/gcc 73K+Compile SFD files into someting useful
Python201.lha dev/lang 365K+Amiga Python patched to fix the os.chdir
Detour.lha dev/misc 10K+Change pathes of C-include-files for Max
fd2sfd.lha dev/misc 86K+Convert FD files to SFD files
diskimage.lha disk/misc 80K+Mount any disk image file as a DOS devic
RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 5K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2003 (Itali
nocover113.lha docs/mags 1.5M+Great german diskmagazine
obligement39.lha docs/mags 1.8M+Obligement #39 - The Famous FRENCH fanzi
saku43.lha docs/mags 6.7M+Saku #43 (2/2003). Finnish e-zine.
Saga.lha game/board 323K+Saga 1.3: Conversion of TSR boardgame
CD_Illust.lha game/data 701K+AGA Fantsasy cardset for REKO Klondike
UFOquicksav.lha game/patch 15K+UFO CD32 quick HD Install
Trihex.lha game/wb 24K+Logical board game with easy rules (0-2
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
layerifx.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Scripts for layer cropping & offsetting
LCD-Test.lha hard/misc 20K+LCD Test: helps to find broken Pixels
Artworks030726.lha pix/wfm 31M+Artworks Issue, July 26, 2003, PDF & EPS
BareED_Alone.lha text/edit 85K+Simple text editor which supports propor
LaTeX-hlp.lha text/tex 145K+These files documents LaTeX (2.09 & 2e)
UnRAR.lha util/arc 261K+For 680x0 and PowerPC
Kill68k.lha util/boot 1K+Simple but powerful multiboot tool
sdiREKO-DT.lha util/dtype 42K+40.12 datatype for .REKO/.RKP cardsets
Menu.lha util/misc 182K+Another great program starter :P
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 320K+Report+ 5.7: Multipurpose utility
htmlaccents.lha util/rexx 1K+CygnusEd 4.2x ARexx script to convert ac
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04.Aug.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 16
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 16 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) CanGuy: I'm getting into wireless technology at the moment and see a lot of applications for it. Is it likely that AmigaOS will contain something like Zeroconf (aka Rendezvous in Apple-speak) in the next year or so?
Fleecy: Part of the remit of AmigaOS4 is to ensure that devices that use it can work together with each other and as part of a hetergeneous network. We are already working on this with the tethered connection and this will be followed up relatively quickly with the untethered technologies, initially 802.11 and then Bluetooth.
2) ikir: OS4 supports multiprocessors so.... any idea when a double G4 AmigaOne will be realesed?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4 will support SMP first and then AMP second but it is more important for us to have a shipping product running on one processor first. I believe that a double G4 AmigaOne will be out in the next year - indeed a prototype dual processor module is already in our hands.
We have a lot to do already in developing AG2 - graphics, audio and a new user environment to name but a few. These are much more important than supporting SMP in the short term and as I have said before, I see AMP as being far more important in the long run.
3) Turbo: SoundBlaster Live! & SB512 support 128 instuments & 10 drums. Hercules/Guillemot have several high quality sound cards available, most of which have a Yamaha Synth with 676 instuments & 21 drums combined with a CS4624 or CMI-8738 DSP. Are there any future plans for Amiga OS4.x to support alternative sound cards when a higher Amiga user base is established?
Fleecy: Very much so. However, as always, until the AmigaOS4 market grows to the point where audio card companies will write the drivers themselves, we have to expend our own resources and thus will be limited in what can be supported. Our initial plans are to support one card each from the three natural groups. As an example (and only an example), AC-97 on-board audio for desktop, SB Live!, Audigy or Terratec for gaming and Echo for pro-audio.
4) Hondo_DK: Has Amiga Inc. at any point, contacted third party commercial/brand making companys, to develop a path for the future amiga platform? And can we expect amiga commercials in magazines, tv, internet, etc?
Fleecy: We have a very definite path already mapped out for the Amiga platform as both an overt and an embedded solution. In talking with OEMs, IHVs and the like, these plans have been developed further but many of them would involve Amiga technologies within their own branding/marketing strategies.
We do intend to make use of the full spectrum of marketing and advertising media, as well as visiting a few unorthodox efforts.
5) Darth_X: If we wanted to start a project, like AmiZilla, to port OS4 to the Pegasos, how much money would we need to raise? :D In other words, what is the minimum amount of $$$ needed to port OS4 to the Pegasos?
Fleecy: There are three possible routes in considering AmigaOS4.0
- We see an existing market in which AmigaOS4.0 makes commercial sense.
- We see a developing market that we believe will deliver commercial success.
- A third party approaches us with enough money to make the creation of a port a commercial success regardless of its sales.
Since the Pegasos is a deprecated product, its sales would be minimal and so the amount of money needed would be excessive to a community driven project. Of course if an eccentric user turns up with a few million Euros then we'd certainly chat with him or her.
6) Eric_Z: There has been a rather interesting discussion over at Aorg latly on the possibility of using an Elbox SharkPPC card in a PC/MAC as an inexpensive way to run OS4. Do you know if this is possible and do you think that such an product ("OS4 on PC") would be desirabe to have in the "Amiga hardware matrix"?
Fleecy: On a general level there is no reason why it shouldn't work, although you'd have to look at the effect of having the processor board on the PCI bus. In terms of is it desirable then you have to look at the usage equation. If you have a PC that can easily jump between the huge mass of PC applications and the smaller amount of Amiga pplications then would there be enough of an incentive for native Amiga development to take place if users could just as easily use Photoshop or Cubase or play UT2003?
7) Asemoon: I have read that parts of AmigaOS4 could be stored in ROM. Could future Amigas using such a ROM start multimedia software from CD/DVD/Disk without going through a fully running OS (like classic systems and consoles do)?
Fleecy: Yes.
Seeing AmigaOS4 as a solution for such products was part of the plan from the start.
8) Asemoon: I heard debugger software will come integrated into AmigaOS4. How would this work?
Fleecy: When a program crashes, you'll get the option of starting a debugger and attaching it to the crashed task. From there on, you can fully debug the program, probably including the possibility to re-start the crashed task.
9) Herewegoagain: I am familiar with the OS4 feature list, but I would like to know if there will be any driver support for Serial ATA controllers and drives for OS4? Possibly in a boing bag update?
Fleecy: Yes, although I can't give you a timescale at this point.
10) CanGuy: This new "Bowser services" mentioned at the AmigaWest Q/A sounds very interesting, probably more useful to programmers than "just another browser". Will these services include a JavaScript engine? and will it support web standards like DOM1, CSS, etc.
Fleecy: Precisely. The aim is to provide core services rather than a monolithic application. We already intend to use a few of these services for the new documentation, help and user guide system and of course they will be completely open to developers to use for their own projects, in both traditional and non traditional projects.
HTML/XML rendering and processing, Javascript and CSS will all be part of the initial service set and others will follow.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=17
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: sk)
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03.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Special price offer with PhotoAlbum/Cybershow
One of the few Shareware programs which has been further developed since the
first special price offer by Amiga Arena in 1998 up to today is the
PhotoAlbum/Cybershow package by Helmut Hoffmann. For this reason Amiga Arena operator Olaf
Köbnik is all the more glad that the package can be offered at the special
price of EUR 15.00 for the "Amiga Arena" jubilee. This offer is valid only up
to 31st August 2003.
Features of PhotoAlbum (excerpt):
- lightning fast load function for more than 20 picture formats.
- combinable picture subtitles (Name, Comment, Size, Type).
- high functionality.
- delete function for mucking out pictures.
- copy function for copying picture groups into other directories.
- ARexx load commands for ADPro, ArtEffect, PPaint, XiPaint 4, ImageFX and Photogenics.
- direct call of external viewers "CyberShow" and "CyberTVPlayer" possible.
- slideshow presentation function in collaboration with CyberShow Pro.
- configarable ARexx commandline, also usable for external viewers.
- Changable picture comment.
- save function for converting pictures into various 24bit formats.
- direct transfer function to various programs.
- preview file generation.
- generation of catalog files for large thumbnail collections.
- extensive special functions.
- HTML Web page generation from picture collections.
- picture rotation by 90 degrees (left/right) and 180 degrees (in the picture windows).
Future of PhotoAlbum/Cybershow
Several months have passed since the last update for "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow"
and you might think thet development has been discontinued. This is not so,
internally the program package has been further maintained. So why have there
been no more updates to date? Since the last update the number of registrations
have fallen towards zero and even feedback or suggestions for improvements and
wishes have failed to appear. It seems as if there was no interest anymore in
this brilliant program, or has the Amiga market been saturated? Due to this
situation Helmut Hoffman is not very motivated to publish any further updates.
Alas, even the last "Amiga Arena special price offer" with "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow"
was no success! Thus Amiga Arena hopes to rekindle the users' attention and the
interest in "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" by way of the "Amiga Arena Jubilee Ofer" and
hopes for a success of this offer, so "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" will still enrich
the Amiga software market in the future. It would be more than a pity if this
longtime high quality program would vanish, too.
Anyone who wants to take advantage of this offer please exclusively use the
Amiga Arena's designated registration form under the the title link. Further
information about "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" canbe found on Helmut Hoffmann's Web site.
Special thanks go to Helmut Hoffman who has mae this offer possible.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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03.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena celebrates 5th birthday
"Amiga Arena" celebrates its 5th birthday. For this reason there will be many
specials with new and old "acquaintances" who have accompanied "Amiga Arena"
until today. In addition there will be for the first time the "Amiga Arena"
history with screenshots from days gone by, a retrospect to five years of active
Amiga support with all its highs and lows.
Read about what became of then developers or programs. Personal comments as
well as a nearly complete compendium from the works of "Amiga Arena" are
rounding off the history. The start is of course the year 1998, here you will
learn a.o.t. how "Amiga Arena" was created and which were the first Shareware
special price offers.
Of course Amiga Arena operator Olaf Köbnik will be just as glad about feedback,
suggestions and congratulations. For this there is a guest book available to the
visitors.
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03.Aug.2003
Wolf Zimmer (E-Mail)
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Online magazine: NoCover #113 published
Punctual as usual issue 113 of the online magazine NoCover has been published
and already delivered via eMail to all subscribers.
The current issue can be read online on NoCover
and the homepage of the APC & TCP.
Furthermore the magazine is availbale on the Aminet and on the well known cover
CD-ROMs or may be ordered directly via the eMauil address nc113@nc-mag.de.
At last there are again many articles to be read in this issue. Regrettably the
Amiga themes are growing less and less, and the operators would wish for more
Amiga users writing about their computer system. Thus diligent writers supplying
the team with articles on a regular basis are wanted. Single articles are always
welcome, too. Regular authors are rewarded with a Web online package by
ConnectWeb.de which includes free eMail address, POP3 mailbox with up to 256MB,
SMTP-Auth server usage and sub domain. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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03.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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ImageMagick v5.5.7 released for AmigaOS.
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries offered under a usage
license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 87
major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and
As ImageMagick is one of the programs with the most downloads from Diego
Casorran's Web site, a special area has been set up for this software under the
title link.
With the new release 5.5.7 the complete distribution was split up into six
archives: Precompiled utilities for 68020 as well as 68040, a basic archive
with the docs and MGKs, a developers archive for GG users, the source code
tree and a contributions archive with some helpful components such as ARexx
scripts, MUI etc.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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03.Aug.2003
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New survey: Which region do you live in?
We have just started a new survey because we're interested in where most of our
readers come from. You can choose among the following possible answers:
- D - Postal area 0
- D - Postal area 1
- D - Postal area 2
- D - Postal area 3
- D - Postal area 4
- D - Postal area 5
- D - Postal area 6
- D - Postal area 7
- D - Postal area 8
- D - Postal area 9
- BeNeLux
- Other country
Have fun voting, and we are already very anxious for the result.
The results so far can be looked into here.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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02.Aug.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show: temporary list of exhibitors
On the first October weekend, 4th/5th 2003 takes the combined Benelux Amiga Show and Benelux Pegasos Show place in Rotterdam. The event takes place at the Engels near the mainstation. A temporary incomplete list of exhibitors:
- Genesi (with Pegasos II)
- Computer City
- Amiga Plus
- Amiga Scene
- Fun Time World
- Epic Marketing
- Vesalia
- Amiga.org (with webcam and chat sessions)
- Ebay.nl
- Oliver Hanaford-Day (Amiga Coldfire project)
- Point Design
- Attention Software (FotoFoto)
- HCC Commodore Amiga Club (biggest Netherland Amiga/Commodore-Club)
- MorphOS-Club Germany
- HellHound (among other things HellChess, Bruce Lee and robot projects programmed on the Amiga)
- Further companies and persons follow as soon as their participation is confirmed.
The following events had been announced:
- "OS4 on Tour" demonstration by Jürgen Schober
- Amiga museum with all "Classic" Amigas plus Walker, DCE A5000, Access and mnay more things
- draws
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Aug.2003
Yahoo! Groups (E-Mail)
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Yahoo! Groups Service Changes on August 7th, 2003
As part of the efforts to ensure that all Yahoo! Groups users
enjoy the same high-quality service, the Yahoo! Groups providers
will implement the following service changes on Aug. 7, 2003:
Message Attachments: Yahoo! Groups will continue to deliver all
attachments sent via email, however, the attachments will no longer be
archived within the Messages area. You may continue to upload files and
images to the Files and Photos areas of your groups. Please re-upload
any attachments you would like to preserve to the Photos or Files areas
of your group. On Aug. 7, all attachments in the Messages area will
be removed, and Yahoo! will be unable to retrieve such data.
Add Members: The "Add Members" feature will now allow you to add 10
new members per day (e.g., the ability to directly add your friends
and family to your group). You may still use the "Invite Members"
feature to invite others to join your group.
Files and Photos: Groups web membership will be required to access
a group's Files and Photos areas. (nba)
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01.Aug.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list
created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that
is sorted geographically according to continents and countries. Yesterday
the following areas have been updated:
- Europe
- New Links List
- Lost Links List
- History 2003
(nba)
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01.Aug.2003
Poseidon Website
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Poseidon: Registration process closed
As of 01-Aug-03, further support for Elbox hardware has been dropped for
all times. No keyfile can be obtained anymore that will work with the
Spider.
Users, who have registered before this date are not (yet) affected.
Eventually, the free updates will cease at some point (but not this year).
I've said this before, but I think I have to say this again: Users of USB
solutions, that come with an OEM-Licence (this includes Subway, Highway,
Algor and Pegasos), are not affected at all and will have full support as
long as Poseidon is available as a product. (nba)
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01.Aug.2003
Oliver Roberts (email)
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Warp datatypes v45.4 released
Oliver Roberts has released version 45.4 of his datatype WarpTIFF that comes with the following features:
Added support for files using the old-style JPEG compression
scheme. Implemented preliminary support for Xerox image files (XIF),
which use a proprietary format, but is actually extended from standard
TIFF format PC scanner software, Pagis Pro, uses this file format.
The free download is available on the WarpDT website following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Aug.2003
McFly (ANF)
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Powerpoint presentations in the Amiga Hollywood format
Following the title link are several presentations in the Microsoft Powerpoint format available for free download that had been converted using Hollywood. The Amiga PPS are sorted by cathegories.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Aug.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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Update: VCD Save now saves audio tracks
Now VCD Save does also save CDDA tracks and creates a prefs file in which are among other things device and unit and, if wanted, the window position on quitting the program being saved. A support for Intel and Motorola data model CDRs is built in. For the time being not every CDR is reacting on the CDDA mode. But this problem is being worked on.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Aug.2003
Brad Webb (email)
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Amiga Update newsletter by Brad Webb #030731
Following the title link youcan find the complete newsletter of Amiga
Update for this year's July. In his english newsletter Brad Webb summarizes once in a month all news about the subject Amiga.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 07-08/2003 - Shopping-Time
Issue 07-08/2003 of the German 68 pages, 4c paper magazine AMIGAplus is
out now including eight hardware-reviews, workshops and much more.
Content of this issue:
- Reviews of X-Surf II and Catweasel MK3/PCI Flipper
- Reviews of ATI Radeon Pro 9000, Plextor Premium CD-RW 52x24x52,
LaCie Data Bank Pocket Drive, Konica Digital Revio C2, Canon BJC i850
and Creative Optical Mouse
- eMail-Special: Review of YAM 2.4 plus "Anti-Spam with YAM" workshop
- A+ in Augsburg: AmigaOS 4 on Tour
- Interview with Micky "Diavolo Backup" Wenngatz
- Listen: Audio-CD "Amiga Immortal 2"
- Workshop: NetBSD auf dem Amiga (part 2)
- Workshop Video & DraCo (part 5)
- Amiga Status Report: 64-Bit-Fever
- Demoscene: Underdogs
- Amiga market overview: prices, distributors a.s.o.
- and much more
AMIGAplus is available via subscription, direct order or through
your local Amiga dealer on demand for 5,- EUR. (nba)
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31.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 31st July 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk that
had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have been
added or updated since our last announcement:
- 31.07.03 updated: Xenon (Bitmap Brothers) rewritten for kickemu, no more slowdowns
- 31.07.03 improved: Lemmings (Psygnosis/DMA Design) supports another disk and CDTV version
- 30.07.03 fixed: Cavitas (Nite Time Games) access fault fixed
- 30.07.03 fixed: Cavitas (Nite Time Games) access fault fixed
- 28.07.03 improved: Subwar 2050 (Microprose) added support for CD32 version
- 28.07.03 new: Space Quest Enhanced (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 28.07.03 new: Space Quest 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 27.07.03 new: King's Quest Enhanced (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 27.07.03 new: Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (Master Designer Software/Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 27.07.03 new: Police Quest 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 25.07.03 new: Space Quest 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 25.07.03 new: Space Quest (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 25.07.03 new: Police Quest (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 25.07.03 fixed: Cannon Fodder 2 (Sensible Software) keyboard handling corrected
- 23.07.03 improved: Plan 9 From Outer Space (Gremlin Graphics) rawdic imager updated, new icons
- 23.07.03 improved: Jaguar XJ-220 (Ocean) loads and saves games and maps, new icons
- 23.07.03 fixed: Elfmania (Terramarque/Renegade) rawdic imager fixed, new install script
- 23.07.03 improved: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (Tynesoft) disk images optimised, requires reimaging
- 23.07.03 fixed: Black Sect (Lankhor) new install script
- 23.07.03 improved: Black Crypt (Raven Software) spell list added
- 23.07.03 improved: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) supports another version, uses kickemu
(nba) (Translation: nba)
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31.Jul.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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OpenAmiga On the Lookout for a Logo
The website for OpenAmiga has been thoroughly rebuilt and now offers forums and a new look. The authors are now looking for a logo for the OpenAmiga project. If you would like to furnish or help work on such a logo, click on the menu button Compliance Logos.
The initiators of OpenAmiga have made it their goal to establish a standard for the Amiga. This standard should then make it easier for a programmer to port between future Amiga platforms such as Amiga OS 4, AROS and MorphOS, at the same time offering the user a higher degree of flexibility in determining which system is for him or her. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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31.Jul.2003
Massimiliano Tretene
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Beta-WarpOS-Version of Duke Nukem 3D Released
Massimiliano Tretene has put a WarpOS port of the action game Duke Nukem 3D on his website. This versions is untested. unoptimized, and offers neither sound nor 3D acceleration.
To test it you must set the stack to 16384 and raise the partition buffer to 2000. For the installation please follow the instructions from the original 68K port from Dante/Oxyron, already
reported by amiga-news.de. Bug notifications with all relevant offerings may be emailed to the developer at
glquake@libero.it.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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31.Jul.2003
Troels Ersking
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AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour in Dänemark
9th August from 13:00 to 17:00 at Syvstjerneskolen in Værløse, Denmark.
We hereby welcome all Amiga fans to a couple of hours of Amiga OS 4
demonstration. Amiga OS 4 will be shown running on an A4000 fitted with a
CyberstormPPC accelerator, but it will also be possible to have a closer
look at an AmigaOne. Sodas and coffee will be on sale at the venue.
Please send us an e-mail if you intend to show up, so we are able to
estimate the total attendance. Mail: os4tour@amigadk.dk.
(nba)
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31.Jul.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (E-Mail)
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Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown Also for Xbox
"Robin Hood", the sequel to to the Amiga-Classic "Defender of the
Crown", will be offered by Capcom and Cinemaware for Microsoft Xbox along with versions Sony Playstation 2 and Windows PCs in September
In a talk with AMIGAplus Cinemaware did not categorically rule out a version for the upcoming Amiga platforms. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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31.Jul.2003
Russ Norrby (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.0: Präsentation in New York
Mr. Hardware Computers and A.M.U.S.E (New York City Amiga Users Group)
are happy to announce the showing of Amiga Operating system OS 4.0 next
Tuesday Aug 5th 2003 8:00pm-10:00pm Room 706, Meyers Hall New York
University Washington Place (Between Broadway and Washington Square East.)
The OS will be running on a Power Pc processor in a Amiga 4000. This is
Beta version and the first showing on the East Coast. We will also be
showing the AmigaOne G4XE based systems and we will have many Amiga
hardware and software items for sale, held over from the Sacramento
California show. All are invited. Amiga, Back for the future.
Further info call Russ Norrby 631-821-2364 (nba)
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31.Jul.2003
Kai Stegemann (ANF)
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Neue Hollywood Presentation Appears
Kai Stegemann has released a new Hollywood presentation and made it available for download under the title link. In the archive the executable data for MorphOS and AmigaOS may be found with the script. More presenations will follow in the future.
We're still looking for fellow warriors to help build a Hollywood portal, warriors who could design the website, create presenations, or come up with new ideas. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jul.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Wanted: Programmer or team for Digibooster Professional
APC&TCP together with Dennis "Psyria" Lohr are now the owners of all rights of
Digibooster Professional. "We are very interested to ensure that this program will get a continous further development inthe future. Because DBPro is the last commercial program of it´s kind for the Amiga it´s our aim that the program will be improved in future and to show that the Amiga still can be stand the competition now and in future!"
Planed extentions are in the first instance to ensure a working on MorphOS, AmigaOS 4, Amithlon and WinUAE. Further features and
details will better be discussed later and together.
Therefore a programmer or team is wanted who has:
- Knowledge of assembler (68k) and C(++) (original source is assembler)
- Some knowledge of special music programing ideally
- A lot of motivation
Very much appreciated would be if there would be enough time as well.
Interested programmer or programming teams might please contact:
digiboosterpro@apc-tcp.de.
All further details as e.g. the salary will be discussed then.
What´s Digibooster Professional?
DBPro is a so called tracker program. It´s possible o produce your own music by using samples.
So called pattern are prgrammed by typing in sequences of
programmiert. Put together the paterns lead to a whole music track.
Wht´s the features of the program?
With the current version of DBPro it is posible to manage up to:
- 128 tracks
- 256 samples (sound files with no size limitation)
- 1024 Patterns
- 1024 Pattern positions
within one song.
Track format loading:
- Digibooster 1.x (digi)
- Protracker (mod)
- Oktalyzer (okt)
- Octamed (mmd0-mmd3)
- OctamedSoundStudio (oss)
- FastTracker (xm)
- ScreamTracker (s3m)
There is the possibility to save the tracks not only as the Dbm format but also as Xm or Mod format.
Sample format loading:
- IFF 8SVX (mono - 8 Bit)
- IFF 16SV (mono - 16 Bit)
- RIFF WAV (mono/stereo - 8/16 Bit)
- AIFF (mono/stereo - 8/16 Bit)
- MP3 (CBR) import LayerI-III
With the following extras there are nearly no limits for the creativity:
- (B)eats (P)er (M)inute Pitcher
- DSP echo (Echo Delay, Feedback, Mix und Cross)
- volume envelopes
- balance envelopes
- Roland TB-303 "GrooveBox" emulation (not realtime)
- HD recording of Samples (utilizing HardDiskRecord from AHI)
- optional high quality 32 bit mixing with linear interpolation in realtime
- up to seven Octaves
- CyberGraphX & Picasso96 Gfx card support
- and and and ...
Thanks to AHI support every AHI soundcard can be used. Who likes to know more about Digibooster Professional is invited to visit the following addresses:
Furthermore there is an IRC channel regarding Digibooster Professional:
- Channel: #digiboosterpro
- Server: irc.phat-net.de
- Port: 6667
Every interested one is invited to come around. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jul.2003
Thomas Schulze (ANF)
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Crossfire II and a evaluation abonement of the Amiga Future as a special offer
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jul.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak / Elbox (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Free Terratec 512i Digital with Purchase of Mediator
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga computers,
announces promotion for all Mediator PCI busboards purchased in the Elbox
Online Store from 30 July to 18 August 2003.
With every Mediator busboard purchased in the promotion period, the
end-user will be eligible to receive a free Terratec 512i Digital
sound card enclosed in the Mediator shipment. For details, see the
Special Offer page.
About Mediator:
The Mediator PCI busboard line is designed to enable expansion of Amiga
computers with a wide range of PCI cards. The following PCI cards are
already supported in Mediator busboards: Voodoo5, Voodoo4, Voodoo3,
Voodoo Banshee, S3 VirgeDX and S3 Virge PCI graphic cards; Spider USB
2.0 host controller cards; Fast Ethernet 100Mbps and Ethernet 10Mbps
PCI network cards; Sound Blaster 4.1 digital, Sound Blaster 128 and
ForteMedia FM801-based sound cards; TV tuner cards. The Mediator busboard
is a necessary expansion for Amiga computers to employ the power of
the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors, around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+
cards are based. Mediator busboards are available for the following
Amiga models:
- - Amiga 4000T (Mediator PCI 3/4000T),
- - Amiga 4000D (Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 3/4000T),
- - Amiga 3000T (Mediator PCI 3/4000T),
- - Amiga 3000D (Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 3/4000T),
- - Amiga 1200 (Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI ZIV, Mediator PCI 1200 LT).
About Terratec 512i Digital:
The Terratec 512i Digital offers everything you need to achieve perfect
sound. With up to 4 channels for connecting 2 or 4 loudspeakers and
top-quality recording and playback at up to 48 kHz you can enjoy crystal
clear sound all around. TOS-Link digital output guarantees lossless
recordings via direct optical connection for DAT or MiniDisc recorders.
With 8- and 16-bit mono and stereo playback and 16-bit stereo recording
plus user-selectable sampling rates from 5kHz to 48kHz, the Terratec 512i
Digital produces precise audio fidelity.
Order your Mediator Now and get the best sound card for your Amiga for FREE!
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jul.2003
Dietmar Eilert (Website)
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Editor: Servicepack 2 for MorphED released
Dietmar Eilert has released the Servicepack 2 for the Editor MorphED
today. MorphED is a free Text editor and
gcc development kit for the operating system MorphOS.
Download: sp2.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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29.Jul.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistent: DD2AG Version 0.2 appeared
In setting of the projekt "Hardware-Assistent" the version 0.2 of the toll DD2AG has been appeared. In the new version bugs have been repaired.
DD2AG produces an Amiga-Guide file, which contains an index of tool appeared "Driver Descriptor" So you always have an actual index of the
supported hardware. Also it is possible that you can install drivers from the produced guide- if OpenURL is installed it is possible to download the
drives via internet.
Download: DD2AG_0.2.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Jul.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn
"Hollywood" is one of those programms, which earned the most attention in the small getting Amiga-Software-Landscape.
It is one of the "Killer-Applications" in the multimedia area, which we need at the Amiga urgently. In the interwiew with the
author Andreas Falenhahn it was possible to catch some more details of the latest "Hollywood"-version and the planed features.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Jul.2003
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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DTP: PageStream 4.1 Pro
The american Producer "Grasshopper" published his new prices for PageStream not long ago. It took a bit of time until we could
take over this offer, but so we can offer an other product of the PageStream familiy. The Pro-Version contains instead of the Standard-Version
of TextFX2, Gary`s Effects and Borders 1&2, which were else available as singlepackage, resp. Extensions-Bundle.
The new Pricearrangement (from 109,95 EUR) shows directly the attention to the large applicationbase
PageStream 4.1 and PageStream 4.1 Pro are available at the moment for: Windows,Amiga and Macintosh. The Linux version is tested
at the moment. All versions are available in English. The Windows- and the Amiga version is also available in German.
PageStream is there for all kinds of Publishing-Jobs, started at newspaper articles, going to colored advertisings to technical books.
Letters, studyworks, presentations, visitingcars, flyer and many more is produced quickly.
Thousands of advertiseres are using PageStream for years to do their jobs.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Jul.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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VCD-Ripper released
With the help of VCDSave one can copy VideoCD tracks onto your harddisk without the need to use AllegroCDFS.
A shell as well as a WB-GUI version is available.
A co-operation with Frogger, the lately released videoplayer, made this program possible.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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First Hardware Assistent Homepage
There is a new webside about 'Hardware Assistent' available at the titlelink.
Users of the Amiga-News Forum critized that there is no such thing like plug'n'play for the Amiga. This project is a first step towards a solution for this problem.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Hints for the download of MorphOS 1.4
MorphOS will be released, at the new MorphOS.net Website, on the first of August. The release date for the SuperBundle will be the 30. July, at PegasosPPC.
Further details about the download as well as the mentioned programs is available at the titlelink.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Videoplayer: Frogger Version 2.07
»Here it is, brand new 2.07 release. This update includes lot of bugs fixed,
some new codecs, extended REXX interface, improved A/V sync in AVIs, seeking
in ASF/WMV/WMA, new subtitle parser and display code and more. Detailed list
of changes can be found in CHANGELOG (there should be a copy in every Frogger
archive). Those who have previous version installed may download only main
Frogger binary and codecs update archive. All the rest should go for Frogger
+ all codecs archive.
Last, but not least, there is Toad 1.0 available in download section, Toad
is RxMUI Control Panel for Frogger, created by Dave Crawford.« (ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Sedat COLOGLU (ANF)
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APUC Amiga Professional User Club
The turkish Amiga Proffesional User Club (APUC) would like to call your attention to theire existing Yahoo mailinglist. If you would like to participade in the discussion feel free to register.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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AmiWest: MP3-Interview with Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco
There is the recording of an interview by Joël Ehret with Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi available for download (9MB) at the titlelink
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc.
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AmiWest: Ben Hermans AmiWest AmigaOS 4 Presentation
The AmigaOS 4 presentation by Ben Hermans at the AmiWest show is now available for download at the Amiga Inc. homepage. There are 3 different versions (PDF file, zip file, slideshow).
Update: (06.05.2014, cg)
Amiga-News is now hosting a local copy (PDF file) of the presentation. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
ANN
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AmiWest: Ben Hermans Q&A MP3 available
There is a recording of the interview with Ben Hermans by Jonl Ehret available for download (22MB) at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
ANN
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AmiWest: Alan Redhouse Q&A MP3 available
There is a recording of the interview with Alan Redhouse by Jonl Ehret available for download (7,2MB) at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Jul.2003
Evil (Kommentar)
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QUAG: More pictures from the AmiWest 2003 Show
Under the title link you'll find a number of new pictures from the AmiWest 2003
show which was held this weekend in Sacramento. The pictures are from the user
group QUAG and thankfully subtitled.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Evil (Kommentar)
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Polarboing: Interview with Fleecy Moss
In the interview Fleecy Moss answers some questions around the AmiWest 2003
show. Fleecy was interviewed by Polarboing.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: SUBWAY available again
E3B has resumed production of the Clockport USB controller SUBWAY
due to increased user demand. The first modules from the very limited-lot
production run are already available.
In the context of the ROMulus upgrade program we have so far been able
to fulfill the high expectations set by us as regards swift processing: every
single HIGHWAY sent to E3B for upgrading could be sent back to its
owner already on the next day.
Tests and user reviews of our USB products can be found in two current issues of
AmigaPlus (05/2003) and Total Amiga (Issue #15).
News in detail can be found on our Website
under the heading of "News". (ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Daniel Miller live from AmiWest 2003 (ANF)
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Daniel Miller's Amiwest 2003 Show Report Part II
Before I leave a necessarily critical report of the MorphOS and Pegasos presentation
on Saturday morning, I will do the single courtesy of stating that it was a
setup-type problem that caused things to go haywire. As the presentation started
there was an awkward several moments as the Pegasos which had just been hooked up
to the projector failed to cooperate, requiring multiple reboots and typing in the
open firmware command line. The presenters were unable to improvise effectively in
the absence of stuff on the screen to click on and the presentation limped painfully
on for about 15 minutes before ending rather prematurely.
A speaker came energetically up to begin the presentation at first but the problems
started when Voyager was clicked on but failed to load. There was a reboot, and then
another but the Pegasos wasn't finding the hard-drive or something. There was a lot
of feverish typing from different people at the command line but thins just weren't
going right. The speaker wasn't improvising very well. Other guys fom the Genesi
team were running back and forth to get CDs or check things or fleeing for their
lives or who knows what. In all it was less than professional and it's a good thing
they presented early in the day so there weren't more people present to witness all
the problems. After 10 or 12 minutes of pain the machine was booting MorphOS 1.4 off
the CD and Bill Buck himself got up to try to rescue the show. He demonstrated just
a couple things, Voyager running a very pretty Flash or Shockwave animation of
butterflies and a new "Zoom Feature" of MorphOS in which any little part of the screen
may be blown up in a dynamically updated resizable window. You can open a bunch of
zoom windows and they all display very quickly. If you set the focus of the zoom
window on a video, you see the blown up section of the video displayed in the window
just as fast as the video plays. You can magnify to 2 or 4 or 8 or 16 times or
whatever and open as many zoom windows as you want.
Bill stated that last week Genesi had obtained Marvell's approval to start
using the G-4 in the new Pegasos 2 boards. Stated that he realized that MorphOS
needed to be a bit farther along before being marketed to the average computer user.
In this case however I felt that MorphOS was working fine. The problems in the
presentation didn't have a whole heck of a lot to do with MorphOS. One of the
presenters had commented that MorphOS 1.4 wasn't officially released, it was beta,
and this was just the public introduction, but what little I saw looked fine to me.
I should mention that it was Nate Downes who appeared to be the one that finally got
things going off the boot-CD. This presentation didn't go well at all, we'll see how
they do on Sunday.
The OS4 demo on Saturday: this was a wonderfully executed presentation. Ray Zarling,
graybearded Doctor of Matematics and long time Amiga believer conducted it, showing
several Workbenchrelated features like window gradients, opaque window movement and
right mouse click menus. Dr. Zarling was clearly a big Amiga fan, stating that "I
waited 12 years to see the new OS. We can all see that it is real. I just can't wait
for it to be finished."
The window gradient feature had a lot of options and the user can also set the
thickness of the window title bars and so on. He showed the opaque window movement,
moving the windows very slowly to make the effect look good. If you move the windows
quickly I think you would see unsightly updates. As Dr. Zarling pointed out, that is
because this is on a 200 MHz PPC and might not be a problem on a 800 MHz processor.
Dr. Zarling stressed that configurability was a key part of OS4. He stated that there
much of the upper level stuff (like Workbench) which runs emulated now will be
rewritten for the shipping version of OS4. He stated that "OS4 is the official Amiga
PPC OS."
He stated that what we were seeing did not use the 68K processor at all, it was all on
the PPC. In question and answers after, I asked him to tell us about the machine running
the demo. He stated that it was an Amiga 4000, I think he said with Cyberstorm PPC card.
I asked about the use of the 68K processor and he said it was not being used at all except
during the boot process to load up OS4 PPC..He stated that a brave owner could physically
yank out the 68K processor after OS4 loaded and OS4 would continue to work, but he did
not demonstrate this capability.
This presentation was conducted toward the back of the convention hall at the stand of
Computer Connection where Amga Ones were for sale.
One of the best illustrations of te spirit of the Amiga community at Amiwest was the
"Mr. Zoil" booth, where Glenn Fuller demonstrated the Amiga work of his son Ben, who
died in 2002. Ben Fuller was known mainly for Project D, a disk coper, backup program
and multipurpose tool which had some success during the Amiga's heyday in the late
eightes and early nineties. Mr. Fuller stated that the last known version of Project
D was from 1994. He said that Ben went on to do work on other computer systems but
never gave up on what he considered "the Amiga vision."
Mr. Fuller explained that he and Ben attended Amiga conventions as a father and son
activity,and he came to enjoy them very much. He said that if this were to be the last
Amiwest owing to fading interest, he wanted to be here. But I told him what the event
organizers told me, that things were going better than last year and interest seemed
to be increasing, so it should not be a worry that ths is the last.
This will probably be my last report, because I am losing hotel Internet access at noon.
I should touch on a few things, here and there. First, Mr. Hardware came all the way from
New York City to sell Amiga wares. It was a brilliant move because they turned out to be
the only all-around vendor here, and they are doing a lot of business. Umm, it was great
of Jens Schönfeld and Ben Hermans and Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco to come all the way
from Europe to support the show. Although I was critical of Saturday's Pegasos presentation
I should point out that the Pegsasos stand is getting a lot of visitors, and people really
enjoy sitting down and using MorphOS and playing BirdieShoot and Quake and Software Tycoon.
The Super Bundle has been released and I got my free copy (thanks). Unfortunately I will have
to wait until I get home in 8 or 9 days to see what all is on this three CD set.
Everyone seems to get along very well at these conventions, in spite of the online flaming
that we see so much of. Bill Buck sat next to Ben Hermans at the panel last night and said
how coexistence was possible even when there was no cooperation, unfortunately the two men
didn't hug. ;)
The banquet was delicious and the Sacramento Amiga user group SACC really did a fine job of
everything. I would like to thank those who edited and translated my reports, I would do
this myself but the connection and software here at the hotel is not really suited for smooth
work. There is another Amiga Show next month, a minishow at Computerfest in Dayton Ohio next
month and we have something coming up in Washington DC area in October. These shows are a lot
of fun and I recommend interested people to come check them out. Tschüss! (ps)
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27.Jul.2003
Michael Christoph (ANF)
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amigaFoulEggs - a new Tetrislike game has been finished
In time for the summer break the game 'amigaFoulEggs' Version 1.0 has been
completed! amigaFoulEggs is a tetrislike game in which at least four tokens
of the same colour have to lie beside or on top one another in order for them
to get removed. The window size is freely customizable. The tokens size adjusts
to available space.
Extensive settings allow the customization to your own preferences: keyboard
mapping, speed, colours, patterns for tokens and background and more are
possible. The more tokens are removed in one go but also systematic putting down
of formations gain extra points.
There is also a
Highscore file
in the Internet.
amigaFoulEggs requires AmigaOS 3.0; Settings and highscore windows require
OS 3.5. A graphics card is recommended. An extensive guide desciption in German
is included.
There is an English catalog file for the program.
It has been tested with Classic Amiga, Amithlon and WinUAE.
The game also works flawlessly under to upcoming AmigaOS 4.0.
The game is freeware and is available at no cost on demand.
Simply fill out the application form
and shortly after the lha archive arrives in your e-mail inbox. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Hollywood Video released
At the request of many people who wanted to receive an impression
of the multimedia authoring system Hollywood before buying it, Andreas
Falkenhahn has released a MPEG video that shows the functionality of
Hollywood. You can download the 30 MB file here
HollywoodDemo.mpg
from Aminet. The video shows parts from example scripts that come
with Hollywood to give you an impression of what Hollywood is able to do.
(ps)
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Aminet uploads until 27.07.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
PrintMail1.3.lha comm/mail 14K+ARexx print YAM e-mail w /header & page
TView.lha comm/tcp 77K+List TV-programs in Europe.
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 166K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
znn_goo7.lha demo/sound 105K+Multitasking Chippack from zenon, CGFX/A
Brandy.lha dev/basic 529K+Basic V Interpreter (prerelease)
6581sid-sdk.lha dev/misc 2K+Unofficial 6581sid.library SDK, StormC s
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0.
SaltLakeCity_G.lha docs/hyper 14K+Results (and more) of 2002 olympic games
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 51K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
smoother.lha game/gag 9K+Small joke program to "smoothen" your mo
WormWars.lha game/misc 527K+Worm Wars 7.53: Advanced snake game
ColorBarr.lha game/wb 37K+Line-up coloured tiles!
Iamdagod.lha mods/blkha 22K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
Nummer1.lha mods/blkha 134K+Techno DBP mod by blakkhar
Ashlexiss.lha mods/essen 293K+Ashlexiss by Essential Sound www.essent
SongPlayer.lha mus/play 611K+Cool and powerful audio player V1.60 (68
HollywoodDemo.mpg pix/mpg 29M+MPEG showing Hollywood's functionality
WW4SE_7fin.lha text/edit 19K+Wordworth 4SE & 7 Finnish catalogs
froggui_en.lha util/misc 27K+GUI for FroggerNG
froggui_fr.lha util/misc 27K+GUI for FroggerNG
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27.Jul.2003
Daniel Miller live from AmiWest (ANF)
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Daniel Miller's AmiWest 2003 Show Report Part I
This is the Sacramento's 5th Amiwest, but my first. I used
frequent flyer miles to get a free flight to San Francisco, from there
I took trains through scenic northern California to Sacramento where I
took a taxi to the Holiday Inn. On Monday I rent a car and head to Reno,
later Yosemite, but for now the Amiga scene is on my mind. This is
supposed to be the biggest Amiga-oriented convention in the USA but we'll
see what Nova Design and Genesi pull off in Washington DC this October.
Right now it's Amiwest in Sacramento. I arrive late on Friday. In
front of me in the line at the hotel check-in desk is John Harris, the
author of the arcade classic Frogger. Looking around further I see that
two medium halls have been reserved for Amiwest. The halls open on each
other to make a larger. There is a smaller enclosed room also reserved,
maybe that is the banquet hall.
It's late on Friday and the show has not opened, but there are people
still setting up. There are four Pegasoses on a long table. Nate Downes,
one of Genesi's reps from Florida, works feverishly on a fifth. He says
he's tired but he's determined to get ImageFX successfully set up for
Kermit Woodall of Nova Design to demonstrate.
I see some other familiar faces. Someone points out Ben Hermans of
Hyperion Entertainment to me, which is a surprise. He hadn't announced
his appearance. Maybe we will finally see OS4 on the Amiga One as opposd
to an Amiga 4000. Or maybe not.. I hear that Jens Schönfeld, famed Amiga
hardware maker is here, and Jeri Elsorth, Commodore One engineer and geek
fantasy girl arrives in the morning.
There is an historical sequence of old Amiga models on tables throughout
the room. The event organizers want to illustrate the past, and the future.
There's a 3000 and a 600. The machines and their peripherals are yellowing
and stained from age. There might be a crack here and there. It has been a
long time since these rolled off the manufacturing lines.
At the hotel nightclub it's Big Band Night. Three couples gyrate
kinetically on the dance floor as a six piece brass and sax ensemble,
drummer, and bassist accompany a xylophonist. It's jazz and swing and
the singer joins in as the happy music rushes out the bar entrance into
the hotel lobby.
The next morning at break fast I run into John Harris again. Overnight
I remmbered that he wrote not only Frogger, but also Jawbreaker for the
Atari 8bit, one of the greatest games ever for that line of computers.
I tell him how great it was, with the toothbrush animation and all and he
tels me a bit of the history behind it. Jawbreaker! He explains that he
will give the first seminar this morning on his current focus: Amiga DE.
John Harris gave the first presentation. He talked about his work on Amiga
DE. He demonstrated his Gobbler game, his WordSearch game, his calculator
program and his Solitaire, spnding a particular amount of time showing the
versatility of his Solitaire, which runs in different resolutions depending
on the handheld unit. On DE itself he joked that the original concept of
"runs anywhere now means runs nowhere" owing to failed business deals and
runtime modules whch have not materialized for the various handheld devices.
But he still loves the technology of DE and thinks it will eventually be
successful it's "just taking a little longer than they thought."
His calculator program is advanced, and he talked about how valuable the
cooperation was between hm and the math professor who helped him write it.
Asked whether DE stuff would ever run on a Palm Pilot he said a Palm Pilot
version was unlikely since Tao stuff doesn't run on 68K processors.He said
it might happen on the new Palm Pilots running on ARM processors.
To be continued ... (ps)
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26.Jul.2003
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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ACBB-Homepage not available
Markus Lunk wrote:
Because of technical problems with the hoster of our domain acbb.de we ask all to use
our mirror under http://www.acbb.de.ms/ until
the domain is available again. Thanks a lot.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web server: gW3S v2.2.8 released!
A new version of the ARexx web server for AmigaOS has been released.
The major new feature of this release is Webalizer-compatible log files (Apache-style). Now you can make pretty graphs and statistics from your gW3S access logs! The problem with Opera on PC (couldn't access gW3S sites) is also fixed and the HTTP support has been enhanced.
gW3S is open source and available for download at http://gonzo.1av10.nu/w3s/ (ps)
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26.Jul.2003
ANN
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First pictures from the AmiWest 2003
Under the title link you will find the first pictures by Douglas McLaughlin from the
AmiWest 2003 show. (ps)
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25.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (ANF)
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AmigaOS4.0 to be demonstrated at AmiWest
July 25, 2003 - Amiga Inc, in conjunction with Hyperion Entertainment and Computer Connection of California will be demonstrating the current state of AmigaOS 4.0 at the up-and-coming Amiga show in Sacramento, California.
Please read the complete PR here or under the title link.
AmigaOS4.0 to be demonstrated at AmiWest
July 25, 2003 - Amiga Inc, in conjunction with Hyperion Entertainment
and Computer Connection of California will be demonstrating the current state
of AmigaOS4.0 at the up-and-coming Amiga show in Sacramento, California.
Louie Dituri of Computer Connection, an Amiga dealer since 1988, will demonstrate
AmigaOS4.0 running natively on a Cyberstorm PPC A4000. A lot of progress has
been made in moving 68k modules to PPC-native since the end of the European
AmigaOS on Tour roadshow as well as the default look evolving still further.
Computer Connection have also donated an AmigaOne as a raffle prize and, additionally,
will be demonstrating AmigaOnes running Linux.
A representative of Hyperion Entertainment, the project manager for AmigaOS4.0,
will be on hand to answer questions on the product. In addition, John Harris,
a renowned AmigaDE developer (and the creator of the classic Frogger and Jawbreaker
games), will be present at the Computer Connection stand to show off a variety
of AmigaDE applications.
We urge all Amigans attending the show to flock to the Computer Connection stand
and see the future of the Amiga Platform. No rumours, no spin, no hype, just
the real deal!
About Amiga:
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media
technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media
by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and
porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic.
Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao Group, enables applications
to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel
X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted
on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x,
2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications
can be purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com.
About Hyperion:
Hyperion Entertainment
is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded
in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and the conversion
of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including
Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken
contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith
(www.lith.com)
and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics
to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's. Hyperion is currently
working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking
multimedia OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
About Computer Connection:
Computer Connection has been serving the needs of the Amiga, Toaster and Flyer
community in the US since 1988. For more information, visit
www.compamiga.com
or send an email to dituri@comp-connection.com.
(ps)
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25.Jul.2003
Kai Stegemann (ANF)
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Presentation about the history and the future of the Amiga
Read the overview
about a presentation of the history of the Amiga. The future and the past are described
with detailed texts. Additionally there are a Hollywood presentation (MOS-only) as well as
the corresponding script.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS call
Certainly many users have been worried that one of the maps of AmiATLAS did not
contain a desired destination, location or attraction or even had incorrect information?!
But this never has been a real problem! In AmiATLAS you can add or change your own
completions. Something like that you will not find at PC route planners.
But would it not be better if all users could use your changes and if you could use the changes
made by other users? Therefore here is a call to all new or old users of AmiATLAS:
Please report your wishes what you miss in the maps or what should be changed because
it is incorrect. Information to locations or attractions are also very welcome.
We are glad about all useful emails which you please send to
support@amiatlas.net.
For all useful and used information there will be a little surprise. Thanks to all
Amiga users for the help!
AmiATLAS Development Team
Gerd Frank, Maintainer
Manfred Rohde, Mapmaster
http://www.amiatlas.net
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2003
Daniel Trompetter (ANF)
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Game: Duke Nukem 3D for Amiga- and MorphOS
After at beginning of April 2003 the source code of Duke Nukem 3D has been released
there is a first official version of Duke Nukem 3D for Amiga- and MorphOS which you can
find under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jul.2003
Carsten Siegner bei MorphOS-News.de (ANF)
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Music: SongPlayer Version 1.60 for MorphOS and 68k w. OggVorbis Support
Version 1.60 of Stéphane Tavenard's music player 'SongPlayer' came out today, the main thing is that there's a native MorphOS version of the program and support for the Ogg Vorbis music compression format.
Mathias Parnaudeau and
Nicolas Det are busy with the current development, your comments and feedback may be sent to songplayer@free.fr.
Download MorphOS/AmigaOS: SongPlayer.lha
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jul.2003
(ANF)
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Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Ben Hermans speech
in Gothenburg with two interesting statements, listen for yourself. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jul.2003
BIAF (ANF)
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AmigaSearch
Just to let Amiga Internet users, webmasters and those who are interested know. A new search engine for Amiga content only, has arrived. Webmasters, please freely submit your Amiga related websites using the 'Add site' link on main page. AmigaSearch is at an early stage so the primary function of this service is useless to Amiga searchers unless webmasters submit their content.
NOTE: AmigaSearch will support IBrowse, Opera, IExplorer, Netscape and most other web browser packages. If you find AmigaSearch to be working on other browsers, please let us know. (ps)
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24.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Summer events with individual Computers
"No summer break this year!" While our office in Aachen is closed
from July 24th until August 18th, there are several Amiga- and classic
computing related events during the time.
It's startig with Amiwest
in Sacramento, California this weekend. This is a show of long tradition
that has been taking place for many years. This year we attend the show
as exhibitors for the first time. In the past years, we have only
exhibited at the Amiga show in St. Louis in the midwest of the USA.
On the same weekend, the computer-party
Little Computer People takes place
in Sweden. It's organized by C64-fans for C64-fans, and we're supporting
it with some prizes. The current state of development of the
C-One is shown, and our
netowrking card "RR-Net" is demonstrated to a larger audience
for the first time. It's also going to be for sale!
The height of the season is the
Classic Gaming Expo 2003 in Las Vegas
on August 9th and 10th. We're also exhibiting at this show for the first
time. At the expo for classic computer games and arcade machines, names
like Atari, Activision, Vectrex, Intellivision and of course Commodore are
revived. The guest list contains big names like
Paul Norman,
David Crane and
Garry Kitchen. (ps)
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23.Jul.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Lindows.com does an attempt with an Internet computer
As heise reports Lindows.com
will try to establish a web station starting at 169 US$ at the market, being a PC without a hard disk.
The operating system will be started from CD the data required for the work will be polled from a
network or the Internet.
Read the full heise article by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Martin Strojek bei Golem (ANF)
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Golem: Comes to age: The Amiga reaches 18
By the title link there is a brief, nostalgic article at Golem covering the birthady of
the Commodore Amiga.
Read the full article by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
amiga.org
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amiga.org: Wayne Hunt quits being webmaster
Wayne Hunt has maintained amiga.org during eight years as the webmaster. Today he announced
that he decided to quit this passion due to personal and professional reasons
During this long period Wayne Hunt sat parallel to his job several hours in front of the monitor
to do this web project and supporting the Amiga community a lot.
Now the day has come that he shifts his priorities in life more away from the Amiga further to other not
less important things in life. We wish him all the best from here!
Amiga.org will be continued by the other moderators and webmasters.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
ANN
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Emulator: A/NES website moved
The website of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES CGFX for
Amiga computers with gfx cards has moved. The site is now to reach by the
URL http://anescgfx.nylen.biz/.
Please update your bookmarks.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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Geizkragen community letter reports about Tales of Tamar
Here the according extract from the Geizkragen community letter:
»[..c..] Becoming tester and get an online strategy game for free...
A tip for fantasy fans, no doubt. Currently only for Amiga users in autumn
there will come a PC version of the online strategy game
"Tales of Tamar" to the shops. All important game options are included in
the PC version of the game already, but to get the game as bugfree as possible there are still
game testers required. As player you will get a small Middle Age country assigned which should be enlarged by
clever usage of strategy, diplomacy or even war. In one game there can be a maximum of 12000 players.
To download the game free of charge you have to register the form at the Tamar homepage.
Further information and registering
here.«
The Geizkragen community has more than 413000 users, among them
some will most likely check out the game in the next weeks. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
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The Amiga celebrates its 18th birthday
Today, after a lot of heights and downs, the Amiga celebrates its 18th birthday.
On July the 23rd 1985 in New York the premiere celebrations of the
Amiga 1000 was held with attendance of several stars like Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry.
The multimedia wonder by Commodore with its incredible graphic and sound capabilities for that time
was to set a milestone within the computer history.
Happy Birthday to you being to age, Amiga!
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Commodore Billboard double-CD available
Starting today, the double-CD with the contents of the Commodore
Billboard is available. The second CD contains a recent mirror of
the CBM-Funet archive, which is maintained by Marko Mäkelä.
It also contains files that were removed from the archive lately. Many thanks again to Marko who has mastered the second CD.
Nearly all files of the double-CD can be downloaded for free on the Internet under www.commodorebillboard.de and www.funet.fi/pub/cbm.
Running websites of this scale costs a lot of money. All profits of the CDs will be used to run the websites with their high volume traffic.
We encourage our customers to copy the CDs, and to make them available in sharing-services. All this will help us in reducing the cost of the websites. Those who want to donate to the websites can buy the double-CD for about 15,- EUR from our retail partners.
The Commodore Billboard is created from user contributions. Everyone who contributed so far gets the double-CD for the price of shipment. Distribution of the free CDs is done by Stefan "Galaktus" Zelazny, the new webmaster of the Commodore Billboard. Please contact him via eMail if you want such a free CD. New contributions are also rewarded with a free CD!
A picture of the final CDs is available online. (nba)
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23.Jul.2003
Falcon (ANF)
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New workshop about DSL at Elastic Images
With a new workshop at the Elastic Images website the configuration of the
TCP/IP stack Genesis connected with the hardware router RP-614 by Netgear for connecting two
Amigas via a router and for the Filesharing with NET-FS is documented.
Because the workshop owns a lot of screen shots the
download with analog connections may take some time. The graphics are totally about
750 KB.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jul.2003
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amiga-news.de: restricted news service from 31.07. - 13.09.2003
Like last year it's time to grudge the amiga-news-team a summerbreak. The break is between 31st July and 13th September.
Nico Barbat told us that he will upload important news and news summaries. Please send your news how usual to the ANF or send the news directly to
nico@amiga-news.de.
While the summerbreak, there are no translations and the comment function is deactivated. The
Forum stays in function, we will call there a moderator, who looks after the contents.
In this time we all good think about how we could celebrate our 5-years-anniversary.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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22.Jul.2003
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Website Update
The Elbox Website has been updated.
The eFlash 4000
page has been set up in the Products Section.
Check also the eFlash 4000 page
in the Adapters and Interfaces Section
of the Elbox Online Store.
(ps)
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22.Jul.2003
Sebastian Hensel (ANF)
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KuH-Mag and AmigaJoker.de: Interview with Michael Labiner
The team of the KUH-magazin and AmigaJoker.de was able to find the years missing Michael Labinier (Amiga- und PC-Joker), and they interwied him.
He answered to twenty questions, which you can read at:
KuH-Mag or directly under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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22.Jul.2003
(ANF)
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X68000 Emulator PPC 0.00b21, Carbonized for Mac OS X
The X68000 was an impressive Japanese home computer system that was released
in 1987. It featured a 68000 processor running at 10MHz, and supported up to
12 MB of main memory. It also had very impressive multimedia capabilities for
the time, with a 65536 color palette and an 8-voice stereo FM synthesizer.
X68000 Emulator PPC is currently the only X68000 emulator available for the
Macintosh. It is in very early stages of development, but it appears that it
can run Gradius and Fantasy Zone to some degree, which is certainly impressive.
An important thing to note is that the program and home page are entirely in
Japanese, which makes it difficult for English-speakers to enjoy it. Also note
that the application is compressed in LZH format, which is quite uncommon for
most Macintosh programs, but Stuffit Expander seems capable of handling it;
you may need to expand the files multiple times to get the program to work,
however.
(ps)
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22.Jul.2003
Andreas Loong (E-Mail)
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ACGGBG and ToAks presents: The Amiga PPC Demo Database
ACGGBG and ToAks from Push Entertainment proudly presents:
The Amiga PPC Demo Database!
For a long time now, we've collected demos and tested them. We felt that
this was something that the PPC users were lacking - ONE place to find
them all, including a text with requirements to make it work. Look no
further, this is the ultimate
P P C D E M O D A T A B A S E.
(ps)
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21.Jul.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Jubilee special offer for "Poseidon"
Amiga Arena is proud to announce the availability of a special offer for the USB-stack 'Poseidon'. We have to mention that this is not the official start of the upcoming 'Amiga Arena jubilee weeks'!
A co-operation between Chris Hodges and Amiga Arena made a special offer for 'Poseidon' possible. Until the 31st July 2003 you can order 'Poseidon' for only 14,00 EUR (only bank orders are accepted). In order to buy the program you have to use the registration form at Amiga Arena. Additional information about 'Poseidon' can be found at www.platon42.de. Special thanks go to Chris Hodges who made this offer possible.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Jul.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: Searching for PPC owners
Amiga Demoscene Archive was updated again with two demos: CNCD's classic Closer, winner at The Party 1995 and Spaceballs demo Dark Helmets from The Gathering 2003 and seven new logos were added in the Logo-gallery.
We are looking for people with high-end Amigas to help out with screenshots from PPC demos. (ps)
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21.Jul.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 21.07.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
newscoaster.lha comm/news 482K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.58) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news 229K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.58 - 11 Jul
TView.lha comm/tcp 77K+List TV-programs in Europe.
GuiGfxDevBas.lha dev/basic 31K+Using GuiGfx library from HBasic
ctags.lha dev/c 349K+Generate tag files of source code
CheckDisk.lha disk/misc 6K+A simple utility to check your disks
TheCrypt29.lha docs/mags 6.9M+Issue 29 of "The Crypt" online magazine
TheCrypt30.lha docs/mags 7.9M+Issue 30 of "The Crypt" online magazine
Saga.lha game/board 312K+Saga 1.28: Conversion of TSR boardgame
ToT_V0.50.lha game/demo 36M+Tales of Tamar Client V0.50
DM-Spells.png game/hint 9K+List of spells for Dungeon Master, CSB &
WormWars.lha game/misc 549K+Worm Wars 7.52: Advanced snake game
Marryampic2.lha game/think 525K+CardSet game with sound-pairs (MorphOS)
SmartScale.lha gfx/conv 31K+A CLI/WB program used for gfx conversion
PicShow.lha gfx/show 592K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to
WBVirus.lha misc/antiq 1K+Old bouncing balls display hack
Foundation3.mpg mods/mpg 21M+Third part of a three part suite
NI-SailorMoon.lha pix/icon 8K+Anime/Manga NewIcons: Sailor Moon
fryingpanshots.lha pix/illu 351K+FryingPan 0.022 (cd-burner program) scre
AAA2003_01.lha pix/misc 10M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 archive 01
Satire13-Apr03.jpg pix/misc 51K+"La satire du Jet d'Ail" in pictures on
CharMap.lha text/font 85K+Display the whole charset of a given fon
reqcollec2.lha util/cli 29K+Second collection of request tools
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 142K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,Mor
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Jul.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Poseidon licencing ceasing on 01-Aug-03
Chris Hodges (Poseidon author) writes:
»Due to reasons I will not explain here further (ask me in private),
Poseidon keyfiles cannot be bought after 01-Aug-03. People having just
bought an USB card, that does not come with an OEM Licence, have the
chance to register Poseidon until the end of this month.
Support for existing users is NOT affected and will continue as usually.
It is recommended that dealers stop selling USB cards without licence to
avoid angry customers buying an useless piece of hardware, until the
vendor delivers his own software solution or the situation is solved
somehow.«
Im Klartext heißt das, dass die Software Poseidon von Chris Hodges
natürlich weiterentwickelt wird, aber bis auf weiteres nur noch Karten
mit OEM-Lizenz unterstützt werden. (ps)
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20.Jul.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)
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FTW: Total Amiga Magazine #15 arrived
Sebastian Brylka of Funtime World writes:
We are glad to be able to announce that we have already received issue 15 of the
English Amiga magazine "Total Amiga".
As always some copies have been reserved for advance orders.
Interested parties who still want to receive a copy should therefore hurry up.
The magazine is still priced at EUR 6.50 incl. p&p (advance payment)!
From the contents:
- News
- AmigaOS 4 Update
- Columns from Fleecy Moss and Alan Redhouse Features
- Selling the new Amiga "it's not about the desktop"
- AROS: the DIY Amiga OS
- Mac: Reloaded - getting back into classic Mac emulation
- Quake II Competition
- Tales of Tamar Update
Reviews:
- Pegasos and MorphOS 1.3
- Subway USB
- IBrowse 2.3
- FXPaint 2
- Aqua
PD Paradise:
Support:
- Top Tips
- Hollywood Tutorial - how to create a simple presentation with the new multimedia
package
As always you can conveniently order the magazine from our online shop!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 15
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 15 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) amif1team: How about support for Russian and Ukrainian Amiga users? Do you support the Russian Amiga dealer 'Amiga Line' or do you have any other future plans to sell AmigaOne hardware in Russia and the Ukraine?
Fleecy: We have Russian and Ukranian language drivers in AmigaOS4.0 and although the Russian team seems to have disbanded, we have been told another is being formed.
The new Amiga Power Platform website will provide a forum for Amiga users and we will work with the ATO to make sure that it supports languages other than English. Our aim is to be able to work with local groups and dealers since they know their areas and markets far better than we do.
We are happy to sell AmigaOS and Amiga certified hardware such as the AmigaOne anywhere. The dealer you mention can send me a private email and I will try to get him/her set up.
2) Mojo-kun: AmigaOS needs modern applications. There is lots of very good free software which could be ported to AmigaOS if it had POSIX compatibility and some common GUI toolkits such as QT, GTK+ or GNU Step. What do you think of this and is an effort being made to support these technologies?
Fleecy: A great platform needs great applications. Our aim is to support and encourage the development of new applications on our platform so that we start to develop a unique and appealing software base that offers something over the other platforms.
Having said that, new applications take time and resources. AmigaOS4.0 will start off with a lot of older Amiga Generation 1 applications that are emulated, most of which are in serious need of updating. To increase the amount of AmigaOS4 specific software we have been looking closely at what is needed and what can be moved quickly from other platforms, such as Windows and Linux.
A strategy is underway to make such porting easier but, at the same time, we have to be careful not to turn AmigaOS4 into something else. POSIX, for example was created for very specific reasons, reasons that don't map one hundred percent onto the AmigaOS.
3) Turbo: According to the original Amiga One Zico Specification, several AmigaDE friendly processor types were to be supported. Are there still plans for a future Amiga OS to support x86? Is the future replacement for Amiga OS4.x coded on top of intent or is this going to be rehashed to run exclusively on a 64bit G5?
Fleecy: Our plan is still to make AmigaOS5 processor agnostic so eventually it will run on x86 but this is some time off, and would mark the completion of the Amiga Generation 2 project.
It will not be built on top of Intent. Intent will reside within the AmigaOS as a service, providing Amiga Anywhere and Java support.
The 64 bit AmigaOS implementation has always been a target, since we will be able to implement orthogonal persistence much more easily than on a 32 bit platform. There are still a lot of issues to sort out first however.
4) Yellow: I have Party Pack. I'm planning to buy AmigaOne with the latest AmigaOS perhaps after a year. Can I safely assume that I will get the $100 refund then? Does it matter what kind of AmigaOne model I buy; if there someday exists an AmigaOne model that uses 64-bit PPC processor, can one get the refund for buying that?
Fleecy: The voucher scheme is refundable against an AmigaOne (which is the Amiga certified Eyetech board and an OEM copy of AmigaOS that runs natively on it) so if you buy it a year after it comes out, then yes, you can claim the refund. The exact mechanism is still being discussed between ourselves and participating dealers but it will have to be in place before AmigaOS4.0 ships.
I don't see why it can't be used against a 64 bit Amiga but that is some time off.
5) alx: If you went back in time to before the A1/OS4 project began, what things would you have done differently and why?
Fleecy: I'd have put $1000 on the winner of the Grand National and I wouldn't have wasted $10 to see The Phantom Menace ;-)
With hindsight, we'd have started the AmigaOS4.0 project straight away, running it in parallel with the AmigaDE project. I also wouldn't have wasted 9 months trying to bring the various factions together for the sake of unity.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing though.
6) Samurai_Crow: What affect does Tao Group's release of Intent 2 have on the AmigaDE platform and the general plans for the future?
Fleecy: As with every revision of Intent, we assess it, move the AmigaDE code to it and then help the developers to move their content to it. We are both committed to creating a better and better product set and seeing both Intent and the AmigaDE and its content on more devices and in more markets.
7) Agafaster: Can we have a PPC Linux version of Amiga DE? Pretty please?
Fleecy: The first version of the AmigaDE on PPC will be for AmigaOS4. This has been stated publicly from the very beginning - AmigaOS first, then OS X and then any other opportunities that make business sense.
8) Asemoon: Some time ago Amiga's CEO demonstrated AmigaDE's 2D scaling abilities for TechTV. When available for AmigaOS will the users be able to open AmigaDE software in seperate user defined screenmodes? (Screens various resolutions, instead of just running on the desktop as demonstrated on Windows/Linux)
Fleecy: Yes.
9) Asemoon: The AmigaOne-lite is said to become an entry-level Amiga solution. Are there any plans for an A1200/A500-style or similar custom case for housing the AmigaOne-lite motherboard?
Fleecy: There are plans yes but plans aren't products until you can buy them. A few third parties have also contacted us about creating their own case designs so expect to see quite a bit of choice.
10) unclecurio: In a previous Q&A, you mentioned you were looking at the way Apple had used the audio units system in OSX. Can you tell us a little more about how the Amiga solution might operate?
Fleecy: The AG2 audio solution actually started life way back when the AmigaDE was going to replace AmigaOS, quite some time before the OS X audio system became public knowledge. Reading the Core Audio documentation made us smile quite a bit.
Once we decided that AmigaDE and AmigaOS would address different markets, this solution was retargeted at the AmigaOS.
The AG2 audio project uses elements called 'streamers' which are similar to Core Audio's 'audio units'. They can perform filter-like tasks like effect processing, format conversion, stream encoding/decoding, mixing or I/O related tasks like streaming a file from/to disk or network.
To make a distinction between streamers of different applications, streamers belong to a certain 'Audio Context'. Of course there can be communication and data flow between several contexts, so the audio output of one application (for example a software sampler) can be routed to the input of another application (for instance, a multi-track program).
There will be specific higher-level streamers to accomodate for games, to make use of DSP's for example, without the need for the programmer to program them directly. The goals of the architecture are to make use of multi-channel audio, DSP's, multiple CPU's, etc. when they are available and to make sure a lowest possible level of latency can be acquired by means of a Quality of Service system.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=16
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 20th July 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk that had
only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have been added or
updated since our last announcment:
- 20.07.03 new: X-It (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
- 20.07.03 new: Warm Up (GENIAS) done by CFOU!
- 20.07.03 improved: Plan 9 From Outer Space (Gremlin Graphics) new
imager and install script
- 20.07.03 new: MOT (Opera Soft) done by CFOU!
- 20.07.03 improved: Lemmings - Oh! No More (Psygnosis/DMA Design)
supports another version, better speed, new icons
- 20.07.03 improved: Impact! (ASL) better mouse support
- 20.07.03 improved: Harley Davidson (Mindscape) new imager
- 20.07.03 new: Cavitas (Nite Time Games) done by Psygore
- 20.07.03 improved: Cardiaxx (Electronic Zoo/Team 17) new imager
- 20.07.03 new: Bubble And Squeak (Audiogenic) done by JOTD
- 20.07.03 fixed: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) removed disk requester
- 20.07.03 improved: Ballistix (Psyclases/Reflexions) new imager
- 20.07.03 improved: Adrenalynn (Exponentia)
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
Diverse
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Software-News in a nutshell (20th July 2003)
Several applications have been enhanced since the last software news update.
We want to tell about the changes below:
NewsCoaster
The Newsgroup client NewsCoaster has been released in version 1.58.
A.o.t. MUI is required. Download
Jamiga
The pre alpha version 0.0.0.0.0.5 of the final version 1.3.1 of Jamiga, a Java
Runtime Environment (JRE) implementation for AmigaOS 3.9 and 4.0, has been
released on the Sourceforge Website. Download
SmartScale
SmartScale, a CLI/WB program for scripted graphics conversion, has been
released by Lorence Lombardo in version 2.0d. Download
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Amigan Software: Worm Wars 7.52 released
On 16th July 2003 the Snake clone "Worm Wars" by Amigan Software was released
in version 7.52 for AmigaOS and Windows. Several changes have been made since
the last version 7.51a:
- New object: super bomb.
- Improved sound effects.
- Miscellaneous rule changes and bug fixes.
Download: WormWars.lha (565 KB)
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV card driver: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 347
Today Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 347 of the TV card driver
software AmithlonTV with several minor updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Changes:
- FEATURE: Added the missing "external" hardware type. This type is
useful when creating non supported hardware or non hardware sources
like frogger.
- FEATURE: New tv card "PowerColor MTV878" supported. Thanks to Harald
Frank for sending me the card.
- FEATURE: Most of the card can use a second (!!) VHS (FBAS/Composite)
input just by updating AmithlonTV. If you ever wished to have a second
composite insteed of the SVHS (S-Video) input, then your dreams come
true. Now you get both! All you need is a special VHS->S-VHS input cable
to successfully connect your input signal. Most graphic boards with
TV-Out are providing such cable. Beside the fact the chinch is male (use
a chinch gender changer) this cable may not work. Mine has input/output
connected, so it works in both directions. Just give it a try before
wasting money.
NOTE: Giftware means sending me a gift not considering AmithlonTV as
a gift!
- FEATURE: Invented a remote control standard and wrote the first
driver for the "PowerColor MTV878". Using a remote is so cool! For the
next AmithlonTV presentation I need a remote control. (-8.
NOTE: If you are waiting for a version which supports your card, then
you may wait forever. Make a TVCardDump and sent it in. In the most cases
the card is running within minutes.
- CHANGED: I did many small changes to the drivers and the library core.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
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Samba 3.0.0beta3 released
The third (and possibly final) beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download.
While significantly closer to the final release, it should still be considered a
non-production release provided for testing purposes only. The source code and GnuPG signatures
can be found on Samba mirrors. RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 are also available in the
Binary_Packages download area.
Packages for other platforms will follow shortly.
The full release notes are available on-line as well.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
Thomas Rapp (ANF)
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PicShow Version 1.29 released
Thomas Rapp has released version 1.29 of the picture viewer PicShow.
This program is meant to be configured as a picture viewer in directory tools
like DirOpus or DosControl. It shows the doubleclicked picture in a
borderless window on the specified custom screen. The remarkable about this
program is that it reads the whole directory the picture is in and you can
then choose other pictures out of this directory from a menu or by pressing
the cursor keys.
Main features:
- can be started from Workbench or Shell
- runs on any public screen or opens its own screen
- directories can be recursively searched for pictures
- pictures are recognized by file name or file type
- pictures are preloaded and held in the buffer
- Slideshow with various transition effects
- picture printout
- picture editing: scale, mirror, rotate
- color editing: contrast, brightness, colour, gamma
- RGB colour filter, greyscale
- can display all pictures from multiple picture files, e.g. GIF (anim) or TIFF (fax).
- Copy & Paste - support
- Drag & Drop
- Iconify
- ARexx port
- freely configurable keyboard mapping
- freely configurable navigation bar
- all functions can be executed via keyboard, menu, navigation bar or ARexx
- includes versions for 68040, WarpOS and PowerUP.
PicShow can be downloaded from Aminet. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
Markus Lunk bei GFX-BASE
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Superfrog level on external wall
Markus Lunk writes:
This morning I found something amusing.
You all still know SuperFrog, the Jump'N'Run with the grinning little frog?
GFX-BASE have provided a couple of photos
on which the game's first level was painted onto an external wall. The wall is in
the Luna Park in Belgrade. You can go directly to the pictures through the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Statement on Pegasos II/III and company strategy
SuperBundle Sunday! :-D
Good work Targhan!
In honor of the eve of the first SuperBundle Sunday we will just post this message here!
Why the Dell not?!
1. We started with the Pegasos by attracting smart computer users. We have found that "Geeks" who are creative and innovative work miracles. Just have a look at the weekly releases and activities report here and on the other sites. Further, by promoting the Pegasos as a multiple OS machine we opened ourselves to even broader based attention. Many special computer people appreciate this and are developing a number of very interesting applications for the Pegasos. The Summer Promotion and the Betatester Blowout were part of that strategy. Of course, the SuperBundle is too. The idea is to build a "Community" of active, enthusiastic users who have an interest in advancing the platform. Now that we have Pegasos machines in 34 countries, well over 200 MorphOS developers registered at MDC, and a framework for third-party and alternate OS involvement through Phoenix, we can begin to consider the next steps.
2. As mentioned before, we will do our best to take advantage of the Linux wave. We are definitely poised to do that here in Europe. We are positioning the platform as a non-west-coast-USA product. That has a broad appeal here. Look at the recent success of SuSE in Munich. Things are changing. For example, by the end of 2005, the French Government has mandated that no Windows OS can be used by any local government. In Spain, there is an even broader Linux move afoot. There is definitely an opportunity coming. Outside of Europe, a couple of weeks ago at the Developing World Conference hosted by the World Bank and the UN, one of the key issues/conclusions was that building an IT infrastructure based on Linux was key toward the establishment of stable societies in Africa. Worldwide, the "education" market will also be big. Enough about that.
3. We hope to have QNX running fully on the Pegasos soon. It is partially working already. We expect to see a commercial package later this year and hope the good folks at QNX will fully support our developing relationship. This addresses the embedded market.
4. In the meanwhile, MorphOS continues to improve. Have you visited http://mdc.morphos.net lately? We are definitely creating a community there. :-) We also have a third party developer site picking up some steam at www.phinixi.com. The foundation for the future is being set.
5. This brings us to the whole Pegasos II/G4 discussion. To serve the markets mentioned above we need to have a dual approach. First, we need a basic system and second we need a "Geek" machine -- a SuperGeekTweak if you will. The Pegasos II G3 will sufficiently provide the gist for all the "basic" market capability we need. Can the G4 do the rest? Last week we decided it could not. The incremental difference in performance and efficiency did not warrant the investment we had intended to make. Frankly, the G4 works and we will make some, but the investment required does not correspond to the performance gained. This is why we let the information slip into the thread about the Pegasos III and the 970. With the 970 we can see the potential.
The information above highlights our ongoing, generally known intentions. As we do not have the overhead of a big company, it is not terribly difficult to do all that. Plus, our costs are further lower because we own or control everything internally (IP, production, etc.).
Now, what remains the ultimate objective? Why are we doing all of this?
Please remember, we have always said that first and foremost the Pegasos is a development platform. The ultimate target is the digital terrestrial/satellite television STB market. "Target" here means potential customers. Do not confuse what we want to offer them with what they have today. This is not a SetPal box (for those in the UK) -- it is MUCH more. We will offer two tiers -- basic (receiver plus a little extra functionality) and Super (bundled with a broadband ISP connection and ALOT of extra functionality). The market here in Europe is estimated by more than a few sources at over $2.5 billion in the next four to five years. MorphOS is "lite" and can lower our memory and comparative CPU costs against the competition. We do not pay royalties for its use either. Further, please notice that the PPC is the state of the art in this market space. We expect our first BIG customer to travel with us to IBM in Ny to help us negotiate CPU prices down for vo
lumes over 1 million units. This STB WILL BE a computer and in fact could also be at the higher end the home server that is connected 24/7 and uses WIFI to communicate with everything in the "digital home." We really are talking about something revolutionary. It is not just a STB; it is a whole new kind of computer that integrates many different sources of data into one focal point for distribution on demand and as required. It really is something new.
#1 Rule of Marketing: offer people what they have already, just give them something better, more convenient, improve their life, etc.
We hope the Community we are gathering here can understand the potential we are discussing. One day not too far away analogue television signals will cease. The transition to digital will be fast in commercial terms. Everyone will need a receiver. The DVB standard has been broadly accepted in Europe and like GSM was to mobile telephones vis-à-vis the rest of the world, DVB will provide the same opportunity to this market here in Europe first (Australia and NZ too ;-) ).
The Pegasos as a computer will continue to march ahead, but the business plan in Genesi's future is about a multi-functional device that uses the internet and digital television signals to open up a whole new world of possibilities.
Now having said all that, a word about Press Releases and "professional" business behavior. We are accused of not be "professional" and even being "childish" by some of our more stern tormenters. We think they miss the point. What we are doing here is trying to build a broad and interesting mix of people that despite their different languages and cultures they share a common interest in the future we are trying to create. We cannot build a comfortable participative environment if we are not involved ourselves. This is not a "business" yet. We do not make money on the Pegasos or MorphOS. There are no profits. We do not need to hide behind Press Releases. We are here mucking around just like everyone else! We are not a public company. We are trying to cultivate something different. All the effort so far is still about creating something, which is why we feel like we need to be present and involved in mailing lists and Forums, and w
hy we do our best to answer the emails we receive. This is also why we freely communicate our difficulties. We want to "share" the creative process with as many of you who want to be involved. We are not following a strict execution plan. We are following a light not a railroad track.
For example, here is the latest challenge -- as of today, Marvell will not even certify their own G4 development board. They are expected to. We have been expecting them to do so for a few months. They have not. What to do? Now if we are all in this together, you will consider the actions we are taking to be quite admirable. If on the other hand your intentions are not constructive (why are you reading this?), you might have another reaction...
Thomas and Gerald of bplan with the full knowledge and understanding of Marvell will remove the G3 from a Marvell development board and replace it with a G4. We will do the northbridge testing ourselves. We are pretty proud of their ability to do that...:-) That means we will still have the Pegasos II ready in September. Nevertheless, we will sell it in exactly the same manner we did the Betatester machines in September 2002. Our focus will be developers and interested users with a bigger focus on other Operating Systems. In the meanwhile, the STB project marches along. You can see the prototype at the new bplan offices in Oberursel if you call ahead.
The SuperBundle and the Pegasos I G4 will be our focus at AmiWest and we look forward to participating. We just thought we would share a few thoughts beforehand to make the whole thing a bit more interesting. And yes, we have made more than a few of the G4 Pegasos I. We will showing them at AmiWest and getting these out after the Show.
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill (ps) (Translation: cb)
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19.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Pegasos III with PPC 970 announced
In two comments on MorphOS-News.de Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi have announced
the PEGASOS III
for the beginning of the next year which is supposed to be equipped with a
PPC 970.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
ANN
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Magazine: The Crypt #30
Issue 30 of the English online magazine called "The Crypt" with the title "Pirates and Privateers"
has been published. You can read under the title link in this issue about Amiga news,
stories and other reports. If you want to read it offline you can donwload the magazine.
Downlaod: Crypt #30.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III version 5.3
There is an update to version 5.3 of the astronomical software Digital Almanac III.
Changes since version 5.2:
- Smaller executables because the program code was cleared.
- Smaller bugs in the MUI-notification fixed.
- Catalogs cleared.
- Bugs in drawing of the moon texture fixed. In version 5.2 the moon was only displayed
as a yellow unicoloured disk.
For this update you need version 5.0 or higher.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Bill McEwen will not attend AmiWest 2003
In a message on the website of Amiga Inc. Bill McEwen mentioned that he cannot come
to the AmiWest 2003 which will take place on 26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento (USA).
Please read the following full message:
AmigaWest Update - July 19, 2003
Welcome to AmiWest 2003! This is another opportunity for the the Amiga
community and the rest of the world to see AmigaOS 4.0 demonstrated for
the first time. That is correct, Amiga Operating System Version 4.0,
along with the AmigaOne hardware, is a giant step forward for Amiga users.
I look forward to hearing or reading your thoughts and opinions on these
products. We are very pleased with the progress and believe that you will
like the demonstration at AmiWest and further enjoy the AmigaOS 4
experience once the product is released.
Regrettably, my plans have changed and I will not be attending AmiWest
this year. I have informed the organizers of AmiWest and they were very
understanding. However, in my absence, Amiga will be well-represented at
the event.
I hope that you all enjoy AmiWest. I will miss being there, as AmiWest
holds a very special place in my heart in regard to my affiliation with
Amiga and the community. I wish you all a very enjoyable time in Sacramento.
God Bless,
Bill McEwen President/CEO Amiga, Inc.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
amiga.org
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AmiWest 2003 question-poll
At the AmiWest 2003 which will take place on
26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento (USA) there will be several conversations at
the banquet with some vips. In order to prepare best for these interviews Nicolas Mendoza
has created the opportunity of entering questions under the title link.
The questions should be short and clear and written in English.
Over the poll script the visitors of the website can vote which of the many entered
questions the moderator should ask in any case.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Jürgen Sachs (ANF)
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Imonc client for Fli4l on the Amiga
Jürgen Sachs wrote:
On my homepage the version 0.18 beta of AImonc is available.
AImonc is an Imonc client for the Amiga for using a remote control of a
Fli4l-Routers.
With AImonc you can control the most important functions like online, offline,
circuit choice, choice modus (auto/manual), reboot and system stop.
Additionally some information about the router are displayed.
The program is still beta but has now achieved a stable status.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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stormamiga.lib for SAS/C is Freeware
From now on Matthias Henze has released stormamiga.lib for SAS/C as Freeware.
If there will be further updates in future he still cannot say.
Informationen to the "stormamiga.lib"
- The "stormamiga.lib" is a linker library for StormC and SAS/C.
- The StormC version is a replacement for all 68k linker libraries of
StormC, the "amiga.lib" and the startupcode "startup.o". Besides this many other
functions and features are offered.
- The SAS/C version is only partly a replacement for the linker libraries
of SAS/C. For the first time there is a linker library for SAS/C for the
MC68060, too. But also the slow linker library "scm040.lib"
is partly replaced by a faster version for the MC68040.
- The "stormamiga.lib" is fully written in assembler to achieve the maximum
speed.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Athlon 64 will be introduced on 23th September
»Today AMD has officially announced that the Athlon 64 which is AMDs upcoming
64-bit processor for desktops and notebooks will be introduced on 23th September.«
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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New GhostScript version 8 for Amiga
Under the title link you can find the new GhostScript version 8 for 68k Amiga.
With GhostScript you can convert and print Postscript and PDF files.
It is especially interesting being able to convert Postscript files as they are created
by FinalWriter or Pagestream to PDF.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2003
Amiga Society (Website)
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Amiga Society celebrates third anniversary
Horst Diebel wrote:
"Yesterday three years ago Soci went online. During this time many things have happened
and the site has grown more and more but there were also some breaks. Some sections have
been added other ones have been deleted. We look forward what the future may bring...
Meanwhile it has become a good tradition to thank you all who have supported us. Therefore
we will do it in this year, too.
Thank you very much Andreas Magerl (Amiga Future) who has made his news available, Ian
Chapman with his Big Book of Amiga Hardware, Markus Schmidt with his ICQ-list and the
boys of the Schlachtfeld team. Furthermore we would like to say thank you to
Amiga-News and Amiga-Plus. Please keep on doing your good work. Of course thanks to all
who have supported us!
During the last days the following things have changed: There was an update of the
Big Book of Amiga Hardware and of the Little Book of Amiga Software. The section of
Schlachtfeld is online again and will be extended in the next days.
There is no special birthday update but we are intensively testing the last alpha of
Schlachtfeld to change as soon as possible to the beta status. We will give a current
status report in the next days."
amiga-news.de says Happy Birthday!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2003
Amiga Future (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Opinion poll concerning your computer system
Today Amiga Future has started a new opinion poll in which is asked what computer system
you use. You can take part in this opinion poll via the title link, the current results
you can find here.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: 5 Anniversary Preview
Amiga Arena - The fire still burns
5 Anniversary preview
In 1998 "Amiga Arena" has been founded in order to support the Amiga Freeware and
Shareware market.
Beginning with a link list at the end of 1998 Amiga Arena developed to a good place
for Shareware special actions.
By this concept several Shareware special actions could become possible.
During the time interviews (over 100 now) and the release of registered Shareware programs
were added as new features.
I could make possible all these things with the help of the developers and of all
active users of print and online magazines and news sites.
Thank you to all these people (have a look at the hall of fame) and all these ones
who I have not mentioned but who supported me, too.
Because of this event I will tell you the history of the last five years and will also
add screenshots.
But that is not all!
During the "Amiga Arena anniversary weeks" there will be several actions with many
developers and companies.
With the help of the list of participants you may imagine what things you can
expect.
The summer will be hot - the fire still burns!
Commercial participants:
- AmiAtlas Team
- Amiga Future
- amiga-news.de
- AMIGAplus
- Airsoftsoftwair
- Apex-Designs
- e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh
- Funtime World
- Hyperion Entertainment
- IOSPIRIT
- Inutilis Imperium
- KDH Datentechnik
Shareware participants:
- Gutmann, Steffen (MuiBase)
- Hodges, Chris (Poseidon USB)
- Dröge, Sven (Bonds)
- Hoffman, Helmut (PhotoAlbum/CyberShow)
- Jahn, Bert (WHDLoad)
- Kimna, Christoph (PairsNG)
- Kost, Stefan (SoundFX)
- Unger, Thomas (The Kickstart Archives)
I want to thank all participants! I hope you will take part in many of the actions
to show me that the last five years have been useful and to show the developers/companies
that their work is still wanted!
Your Olaf K. - Amiga Arena
amiga-news.de says Happy Birthday - five years are a very good performance!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2003
Maik Schultheis (ANF)
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AmiGate is there again
Maik Schultheis wrote:
After a long time we have decided to keep on running AmiGate.
We hope you will support as good as you can do!
Have you a commercial or private Amiga site?
You can register your website for free thus other people can also have a look at
your page! Please join us.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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