17.Jul.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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File Manager: DiskMaster Version 2.5.23
Rudolph Riedel has released version 2.5.23 of his file manager and put it up for download (title link) on his homepage.
This time there's a version compiled with GCC as well as a version compiled for Amithlon. Owing to the Amithlon license Rudolph Riedel could not test the latter.
The most important changes in brief:
2.5.23 (2003-07-17) 74096 Bytes
- New version numbering - the next full version will be 2.6.
- Many little changes have been made to DM2, in order to make it compliable with GCC, VBCC and GCC for Amithlon -> portability.
- IRQ Server has been replaced with timer.device code -> portability.
- Mistake correcting.
Rudolph Riedel: "I allowed myself to issue a call for
donations
on the Internet. I would love to support the AmigaOS in the future, but my A1200 is really not suited for this anymore and I really don't have the spare cash for a better Amiga. I guess I have more motivation than credit..."
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE Appears in Version 0.8.22R8
A new version of Toni Wilen's Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows has been released, version 0.8.22 Release 8. This version contains the following bugfixes and new milestones:
WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 8 (16.07.2003)
Bugs fixed:
- stuck joypad POV directional controller
- joystick keyboard layout B and C second firebutton
- workaround for buggy sound driver (ISA SB16, maybe others)
that report zero as minimum and maximum supported sample rate
- possible crash when copying to virtual filesystem's root
- CD32 media change detection
- extended ADF write protection check
- extended ADF HD floppy support
- fast copper works again + config file support
- JIT FPU fix (Descent Freespace -demo)
- 57600 serial bit rate was incorrectly rounded to 56000
- ~2.8GHz+ CPU clock rate calculation overflow
New features:
- all configuration file loading restrictions removed,
load new configuration file at any time!
- display width, height, depth, lores, doubling, correct aspect
can be changed on the fly
- bsdsocket.library updates
- Picasso96 emulation optimizations
- improved audio emulation
(Mortville Manor, Maupiti Island speech and Fighting Soccer)
- AHI driver update
- improved and more compatible CD32 pad emulation
- improved CD32 CD autodetection
- sound capture to wav-file
- Direct3D hardware filtering and scaling
- more configurable source tree, added very simple way
to disable features like AGA, JIT, bsdsocket, Picasso96,
harddisk, 68020+ etc..
- separate basic A500-only WinUAE executable included (winuae_mini.exe)
- quick state save (SHIFT/CTRL + END + numpad 0-9) and restore support (END + numpad 0-9)
As always, a German mirror is available at webwood.de!
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #046
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 46th music pack yesterday. This time there is a piece titled "Angel Sky" from the Polish musician Lcr and a fitting cover from guest artist Yenzi.
Further information about the track:
Titel: Angel Sky
Artist: Lcr
Style: Drum'n'Base
Song length: 3:58
Format: mp3 (128kbps)
The zipped file with a size of 3.6 megabytes may be downloaded free from the homepage under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
John Chandler/Suite101 (Website)
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John Chandler on Suite101: The AmigaOne XE G4
At Suite101.com John Chandler writes regular Amiga-themed articles. In
the newest column, which may be reached under the title link, Mr. Chandler concerns himself with the new Amiga hardware, the AmigaOne XE G4. Have fun reading the text of this English-language article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
ExoticA (Website)
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ExoticA: High Voltage SID Collection Version 5.3
The demoscene website ExoticA! has been updated in many of its sections. Especially pronounced is the update in the High Voltage SID Collection, which has been brought to version 5.3 and now contains about 20,660 different C64 tunes. Details about other updates may be found here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
The Legacy (Website)
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The Legacy: Game Museum News
The Legacy is a game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC,
Schneider/Amstrad CPC, in which the readers provide screenshots, cover scans
and information about the developers. On the news page, the Legacy team has announced the following:
Next we draw your attention to a new game titled "Eve Online - The Second Genesis."
Here
is a review in which you may get an idea of how in-depth the game is, and how it is played.
Further, DoM of Team Legacy explains: "In the meantime there are two sorts of updates. A master update, which has broadened into more than 600 games, and an incremental update. The latter is to accomodate everyday-type changes.
Our regular guests certainly have noticed by now that support has been slow new steps: Betatesters can already use all the new functions. All other visitors can use some of them. In the background I'm working under intense pressure on new functions which will move some functions into the live database, including email notifications when something is taken over." (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Vote July/August 2003
The publishers of Amiga Games Hit Parade call for your vote
of games this July/August 2003. You may take part in the voting
by sending a list of up to 20 of your favorite games in an email to
David "Daff" Brunet, or going to hitparade.amigames.com.
You can vote for any sort of game (commercial, freeware, old, new, etc.). The final results will be published in August.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus: Free Download of the Mini-Mag "SDL-Reference"
In light of many inquiries and the data cooperation with
libsdl.org the editors of
AMIGAplus are offering a free download of the German-language reference
volume for Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL).
The three part reference, which by the way is the first complete German-language reference of its kind, has been put together by
Robbie Schäfer, initially published in a minimag form in AMIGAplus editions from 04/2003 to 06/2003, and is now available as a PDF file for download under the title link, in the Download/SDL section.
Print out the first/second and third/fourth sides on a single page and then fold them as described in the documentation. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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16.Jul.2003
Sven Scheele und Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Event: Pegasos hardware meeting news
As reported before (for details see title link), the
Amiga-Club Hamburg e. V.
and the Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein
will do a hardware meeting on Friday the 1st of August 2003 covering specially the new
Pegasos computer. We arranged the beginning of that meeting to be set to 4:00 pm,
the room is rented until midnight. Everyone interested in the Pegasos is very welcome to show up.
The address is: Volkshaus Berne, Sasselheider Weg 6, 22159 Hamburg
(city district Berne), Entry: left back door, 1st floor. Who likes to bring an own Pegasos should contact
Thorsten Mampel by
email.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Volunteers for the demo scene web project "Scenia" wanted
The maintainers of Scenia, a web project for a platform independent demo scene, are looking
for some motivated and voluntary fellows for their team.
For a required reconstruction of the website there is an in PHP and SQL experienced programmer,
a gfx artworker and probably an online editor wanted to bring the due to lack of time little
bit stopped project back on track again.
Brief "applications" are welcome by email to
m.cloppenburg@gmx.net.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Gabriele Favrin (E-Mail)
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IRC-Channel #AWeb reopend
Gabriele Favrin has re-established the known chat channel regarding AWeb, an open source based web browser for
AmigaOS, at the IRC. Users and developers are welcome to discuss the issues of all versions of AWeb. The channel
is at the IRCnet to find under the name #AWeb.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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"Return to Witchwood" by Bjorn Lynne released
Bjorn Lynne has announced the release of his new CD, "Return to
Witchwood". The CD can, earlier than originally planned, be pruchased from now on at the online shop
of Lynne-Music by the title link as a single disk or bundled with other CDs.
Orders befor August the 10th will be signatured by the composer.
As the successor of "Witchwood" this fantasy music album offers the expected chilled tunes. The website
offers several extracts from different tracks.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Mac: Northland getting closer to release
The Apple Macintosh version of Northland is very close to completion now.
The game has been in betatesting for some time now. "Northland", which was
developed by Funatics Software for the PC is ported to the Apple Macintosh
and other platforms by e.p.i.c. interactive. The Mac version will require at
least a G3/350 with 128 MByte RAM and OSX. A OS 9.x version will also be
supplied on the CD but the memory requirements are not 100% known yet.
"Northland" for the Macintosh should start shipping from the middle of
August 2003 and preordering from our webstore will start next week, when the
demo version of Northland for the Mac will be launched.
More information on Northland can be found at:
www.northland-game.com or
under the title link.
The MorphOS version of Northland should go beta very soon. A demo version for
the Pegasos and MorphOS can be expected in August.
(ps)
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16.Jul.2003
Carsten Berger (E-Mail)
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Poll about the 3D map for Tales of Tamar started
Some days ago Eternity gave a
status update
of Tales of Tamar and pointed to the
planned 3D map (Snapshot).
Within the comments there were surprisingly little feedback about this map.
To give Eternity the possiblity to get an overview about the interest on such a map
we started a poll regarding that map.
Please vote only if you bought ToT already or if you will buy it definitely (maybe if there is such a
3D map). Thereforeso: Please don't hesitate to vote because for a programmer nothing is worse than
ignoring his work.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
MUI Classes (Website)
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Website for new or updated MUI classes
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom has owed his website to new MUI classes. Whenever there is an update or a new
version in area, the info regarding it will be to find at this website.
For example in July 2003 the MCC_TheBar class has been updated several times.
Currently the version 16.0 is available for download.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (Website)
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Amiga Inc.: AmigaOS Artist Competition and Community Exchange
Get your art published on the AmigaOS 4 CD and explore our new Community Exchange! Click here to read about the competition and here to browse or contribute to the Community Exchange. (ps)
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16.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages until 07-15-2003
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games onto the hard disk which were meant originally for
floppy disk use only.
The following packages were added or updated since the last announcement:
- 15.07.03 new: Jinxter (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
- 15.07.03 improved: Operation Stealth (Delphine Software) rewritten
- 15.07.03 improved: King's Quest 6 (Sierra) protection removed, new icon
- 15.07.03 improved: James Pond 2 - Robocod (Millennium) supports CD³² version too
- 15.07.03 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils) supports another version, slave optimised
- 15.07.03 improved: Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters (Tengen/Teque) supports another version
- 14.07.03 new: Typhoon (Kingsoft) done by Psygore
- 14.07.03 new: Space Hulk (Electronic Arts) done by Galahad
- 14.07.03 new: Eliminator (Hewson) done by CFOU!
- 14.07.03 new: Madness (Anarchy) done by Galahad
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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New Payback GBA Status Report
A new progress report on the GBA version of Payback has been posted
here.
This update talks about the performance and presentation improvements that
have been made to the game over the last month, in particular the addition
of a "bloom blur" effect and the dramatic optimisation of the audio mixer.
It includes four new screenshots and a video clip of the game's improved
pause mode.
(nba)
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16.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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G4: A few ammount of Pegasos I April 2 G4 available
The first processor card to upgrade the Pegasos is available now.
Thank to the flexible, upgradable and open architecture of the Pegasos Genesi
offers a G4 upgrade which will lead you to the next step of computer experience.
For the Pegasos are
processor cards
with a Motorola 7447 CPU which operates with 1 GHz and more available now.
The 7447 is the newest PowerPC processor of the fourth generation
(G4) by Motorola, which offers an increased performance compared to the recent
processor generation (G3). Additionally to a bigger cache the
7447 offers more pipelines, an improved front side bus (FSB) and, most important, an SIMD unit called Altivec.
Altivec offers a special on-chip vector engine, which is capable of operate more than one Gflops (one billion
floating point operations per second) but is still affordable for an average user.
There is a few ammount of Pegasos-1/April-2 boards with this G4 card available for
EUR 499.- (excl. VAT). If you are interested in one of these boards please feel free to contact
bbrv@genesi.lu.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: Retro Replay sold out
Retro Replay is a clone of the popular Action Replay for the C64. The
cartridge was made in October 2001 at a very limited quantity, which is
sold out now.
The last cartridge from the mass-production and an early prototype from
March 2001 are now offered in an eBay-auction. Since the announcement of
RR-net, a networking card for the Retro Replay, we had strong demand for
the cartridge, and many people asked for a new production run.
Unfortunately, the cost, and therefore the risk, is very high, because
we'd have to produce several hundred cartridges in order to keep the
price of 50,- EUR. Therefore, the interest in the auction will determine
if a new production run will happen:
As announced in the product description, we're sponsoring the "Retro
Replay Party", it will take place in September this year. Details
will be published shortly, but we can already say that there will be
plenty of free beer. Nice detail of the party location: It's an air-raid
shelter from World War II, which has no windows. Neither 2000, nor XP ;-). (nba)
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14.Jul.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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T.o.T.: Amiga Version 0.50
Martin Wolf of Eternity announced in his current press release the availability of version 0.50 of 'Tales of Tamar' for Amiga computers. Details about changes and improvements are to be found at www.tamar.net.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New install packs until 11.07.2003
WHDLoad lets you easily install floppy based games onto your hard disk. The following changes and updates have been incorporated into the installer library since our last report.
- 11.07.03 improved: Super Space Invaders (Taito/Domark) various changes and improvements
- 11.07.03 new: Impact! (ASL) done by Psygore
- 11.07.03 updated: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts) reworked
- 11.07.03 new: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) done by JOTD
- 11.07.03 improved: Pinball Dreams (Digital Illusions) supports NTSC version too
- 11.07.03 improved: Another World / Out of this World (Delphine Software) support
for another version added, merged with 'Out of this World', new icons
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
SonicPulse (Website)
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10th anniversary of SoundFX!
SoundFX will celebrate its 10th anniversary this very month. Congratulations!
Stefan Kost is currently working on version 4.3. He hopes that the betatest phase will start soon.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 14.07.2003
The following additions were made since our last report:
lands057a.lha comm/cnet 108K+BattleLands C-Net Amiga P-File
YamHTMLyam.lha comm/mail 21K+(1.9) Shows HTML e-mails with YAM mail c
GummiSurf.lha comm/net 20K+Companion tool for Charon (Download mana
AMP2.lha demo/mag 2.4M+AMP#2 - polish discmag
AMP2_DBM.lha demo/mag 1.4M+Music for AMP#2 - polish discmag
AMP2_TrueColor.lha demo/mag 1.1M+24-bit graphics for AMP#2 - polish mag
ctags.lha dev/c 348K+Generate tag files of source code
FlashROM.lha disk/cdrom 18K+Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of Pl
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0.
fat95.lha disk/misc 133K+Win95/98 compatible file system
RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 4K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
Mb4levelsets.lha game/data 7K+2 level sets for Megaball 4
bouldercaves.lha game/jump 472K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 927K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
bouldergraph.lha game/jump 196K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Graphics Archive
bouldersound.lha game/jump 184K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Sound Archive
WormWars.lha game/misc 566K+Worm Wars 7.51a: Advanced snake game
Marryampic2.lha game/think 538K+CardSet game with sound-pairs (MorphOS)
vcdimager.lha gfx/conv 1.1M+VCD/SVCD tool v0.7.14
vcdimager_src.lha gfx/conv 868K+VCDImager v0.7.14 source code
A2630SpeedFix.lha hard/hack 13K+Speed up fixes and mods for CBM A2630 ac
scl.lha misc/emu 6K+Work with SCL-archives
Corruption.lha mods/misc 121K+Custom module from "Corruption"
DaleyThompsons.lha mods/misc 41K+Custom module from "Daley Thompson's"
Jinxter.lha mods/misc 48K+Custom module from "Jinxter"
ThePawn.lha mods/misc 63K+Custom module from "The Pawn"
UNSquadron.lha mods/misc 54K+Custom module from "U.N. Squadron"
WinterChalleng.lha mods/misc 70K+Custom modules from "Winter Challenge"
Zitrax.lha mods/misc 26K+Custom module from "Zitrax"
20030705aaa_1.mpg mods/mpg 4.5M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 1
20030705aaa_2.mpg mods/mpg 4.0M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 2
20030705aaa_3.mpg mods/mpg 9.3M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 3
20030705aaa_4.mpg mods/mpg 7.3M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 4
20030705aaa_5.mpg mods/mpg 6.1M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 5
20030705aaa_6.mpg mods/mpg 700K+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 6
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 320K+GUI 4 Lame,OggEnc,OggDec,BladeEnc,Pegase
EP_NoiseTrack.lha mus/play 28K+EaglePlayer "NoiseTracker" external repl
QuakerZone.lha pix/icon 198K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
QuickSketch.lha text/edit 20K+A simple WB-prg to sketch and write in.
PasTeX14src.lha text/tex 8.6M+PasTeX 1.4 sources
CardPatch.lha util/boot 3K+Patches bugs in PCMCIA system V1.2
NewWBPattern.lha util/cli 3K+Change your WB background pic on the fly
WarpBMPdt.lha util/dtype 56K+Windows BMP datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,M
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 150K+WarpDT preferences program V45.1
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 142K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,Mor
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 144K+PNG image datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,Mor
WarpPSDdt.lha util/dtype 54K+Adobe Photoshop datatype V45.3 (68k,War
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 290K+TIFF datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
PolishAccent.lha util/libs 8K+Polish accent for translator lib. V42+
ArgueGUIColl.lha util/misc 72K+Argue GUI for Frogger(NG), Moovid, Visag
MultiRen.lha util/misc 198K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (MUI)
idle1_5b.lha util/moni 20K+A (working) A68K cpu monitor
zlibexample.lha util/pack 42K+Example for zlib.library w/ WOS support
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4.1d
Version 4.1d of 'Pixload' released. By using 'Pixload' you can start programs or scripts by clicking on an icon. Therefor the program uses MUI. So RxMUI 32.8 is needed in order to use 'Pixload'.
'Pixload' is available for Amiga as well as for MorphOS.
Download: pixload-4.1d.lzx
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web server: gW3S v2.1 bug fix available
Some of you might have experienced trouble with gW3S version 2.1.
There was a bug in the fancy-files unescaping which affected the way XGI scripts was executed (resulted in a 404 or other error).
This is now fixed.
I would also like to announce the opening of the gW3S Discussion Forum where you can get in touch with other gW3S users, and the gW3S development team. Everything can be found here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
Lars Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Diskmag Saxonia#2
The second expenditure of the Amiga demo scene diskmags Saxonia
appeared recently. Concerning the articles a clear quality increase is
to be noticed. The diagrams and the liking engine are unfortunately
the same as with the first expenditure. Diskmag.de offers archives
under the title link for download! Comments on Saxonia#2 can be made here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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Soms3D news
The "Anime development for Amiga" team reports that a mailing list for
all prospective customers was established now. One can register oneself
over the main side and post questions and suggestions there.
Furthermore the Somspage was completely redesigned. The developers made an Engine-Testvideo (4.5 MB) available depicting the Dunkle-Engine.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jul.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Pegasos hardware meeting in Hamburg
On 1st August 2003 AmigaClub Hamburg
and AmigaClub Schleswig-Holstein
are holding a hardware meeting in Hamburg. The meeting targets Pegasos users
and those who are contemplating to maybe buy this computer. It is to serve the
exchange of information and experiences. Everyone is cordially invited to this event.
The meeting starts on Friday, 1st August at 8pm. The organisators are currently trying
for an earlier start time, which will announced here if need be.
The venue:
Volkshaus Berne
Sasselheider Weg 6
22159 Hamburg (city district of Berne)
Entrance: Left backside entrance, 1st floor.
If you want to bring your computer along, please register by eMail.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: Symphony Party Update
Symphony Party was held from 4-6 July 2003 in Poland. At A.D.A., 3 demos from that party were added:
- 1st place: By Night / Encore (PPC demo, also Pegasos/MorphOS)
- 2nd place: My definition in blue / Scarab (68k demo)
- 3rd place: Blind Visions / Appendix (68k slideshow)
On top of that, extra screenshots were added for Spellbound / Loveboat, Smokebomb / Ozone, Cybercinematastic / Loonies, Synergy / Sector 7 and My Kingdom/Scoopex and Haujobb.
A.D.A. now features 281 demos and 2725 screenshots.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Mercury News (ANF)
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Mercury News: Start-up's goal: run software on any chip
The article is about the company "Transitive" which apparently has developed
a very fast (70% native speed) and lightweight (600 KB)
"on-the-fly" binary code translator which shall make it possible to run software
on any processor architecture.
Recently an unknown "big partner" is claimed to have been found, who apparently
is pumping vast amounts of money into the company. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Thomas Zahren (ANF)
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PPJoy: Using digital joysticks on the parallel port under Windows
Owners of e.g. a 4-player adaptor for the Amiga's parallel port are now able to
use their favourite digital joystick on the PC with the freeware driver
"PPJoy" by Deon van der Westhuysen. For tinkerers there's an overview of
supported interfaces of various other joysticks on the Web page.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Updates for Amiga-Society
In preparation for Amiga Society's third birthday there are some updates in different areas.
Among others the Schlachtfeld area is online again.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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AntiSPAM2 update released
All AntiSPAM2 users are asked to download the newest version from the server under the title link.
Older AntiSPAM versions including the beta versions currently in circulation contain a bug which may cause a crash
when encountering incorrect form headers.
Apart from this bug fix the new version contains some small detail improvements.
Thus, beside some improvements in the query routines,
you can now set the position of the start window.
In order to curb the growing data flood there will be a conversion of the matching function
in the forseeable future.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Web browser: Atlantis will be ported to MorphOS
According to a comment
in MorphZone by Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck, Ali Akcaagac, author of the Web browser
Atlantis,
will shortly receive a Pegasos from Genesi in order to port his creation to MorphOS.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Alpe Adria 2003: Further pictures online
Under the title link you'll find a choice of futher pictures from the
Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 which took place last weekend in Undine, Italy.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Abakus-Design: Screen saver Amiquarium released
As from now the screen saver project Amiga Aquarium, short: Amiquarium, is available
for download on Abakus-Design's Website. The screen saver recreates an aquarium with
fishes. On startup you just choose one of five background pictures and you're up and running.
Currently the screen saver doesn't yet offer timer settings and doesn't automatically save the screenmode and the chosen picture.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Scalos: Port to MorphOS in the works
As announced on MorphOS-News.de,
the Workbench replacement Scalos is being ported to MorphOS.
Ambient stays the standard GUI of course - but, as Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco wrote in a corresponding
comment,
variety is the spice of life.
Scalos' feature list comprises
a.o.t. full Multitasking (every window has its own task), icons becoming transparent
when drawn over something they can be applied to with drag&drop, stretching, splitting
and centering of backgrounds, iconification of drawer icons as well as a plugin system
for replacing or adding new features.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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12.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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AmiWest: Bill Buck banquet-speaker / MorphOS 1.4 / Super bundle from the weekend
On the AmiWest which will take place on
26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento (USA) there will be several speakers at the
banquet. One of them will be Bill Buck of Genesi.
Furthermore Kermit Woodall of Nova Design,
Kurt Grach of Mr. Hardware and
Jens Schönfeld of individual Computers will be
present.
In a comment
on MorphOS-News.de Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck confirm that there will be a
new version 1.4 of MorphOS.
Together with it the "superbundle" of several software titles will be available for all
Pegasos owners (inclusive "Phreeboard" owners) on the Genesi FTP server.
On the AmiWest Genesi will be presented by Raquel Velasco, Bill Buck and the whole
Genesi USA-team. The Pegasos I with 1 GHz-G4-processor will be performed as well
as the plans for the Pegasos II and for the superbundle are supposed to be
explained.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2003
Rombald (ANF)
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Relaunch of Commodore by Tulip Computers N.V. and Ironstone Partners LIM
On 11th July 2003 Tulip Computers NV (Tulip) and Ironstone Partners Ltd. (Ironstone)
have signed an agreement which is supposed to be seen as an important step for the
worldwide relaunch of the name Commodore.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2003
Oliver Roberts (E-Mail)
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Warp Datatypes V45.3 published
Oliver Roberts has published version 45.3 of his WarpDT which contains updates of all
five Warp-datatype. Here the detailed changes:
- Fixed a problem reading the prefs file from disks using FFS.
- Fixed another bug which caused bogus evaluation period warnings.
- Tweaked installer so that it checks for picture.datatype in MOSSYS:
as well as SYS: when run under MorphOS.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Lightweight Busboard: Mediator PCI 1200 LT
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga
computers, the company that introduced the PCI standard to Amiga
computers, is proud to announce expansion of the MEDIATOR busboard
product line with the new Mediator model for Amiga 1200 computers:
the Mediator PCI 1200 LT.
This product is dedicated to all Amiga 1200 users, who have not
expanded their computers with a multi-slot PCI busboard as yet.
We know that many of you need only a fast, modern graphic card and
a good sound card. This new, 2-slot model of Mediator is
specifically dedicated to meet these needs.
Mediator PCI 1200 LT opens the possibility of using the best
available graphic cards for Amiga: the Voodoo series;
and the highest-quality Terratec 512i Digital sound card.
The second slot may obviously be used for other purposes. You
can install a Spider USB 2.0 controller, a 10Mbps Ethernet card,
a 100Mbps FastEthernet card or a TV tuner card in it. The choice
is yours.
Moreover:
If at any time you decide that you need additional PCI slots,
you can easily expand the number of active slots in this busboard
up to four. All you will need is acquiring a DIY set:
the LT4 Upgrade Pack.
Mediator is not only a well-designed, reliable hardware. Mediator
also means excellent drivers and professional support. Start
enjoying these benefits yourself.
Mediator PCI 1200 LT features:
- 2 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible)
- 66/33MHz PCI clock (transfer rate up to 264MB/s)
- 32-bit PCI datapatch
- 4GB PCI memory space
- Busmastering/DMA in all slots
- Compatible with 68030/040/060 and PPC turbo cards
- Ready for SharkPPC(+) G3/G4 cards
- Fits in any A1200 in E/BOX (Power, Winner), EZ-Z4 and Infinitiv tower
Included with the Mediator PCI 1200 LT is the Mediator Multimedia
CD with drivers for Sound, TV tuner, Ethernet 10Mbps, Fast Ethernet
100Mbps and Graphic PCI cards. For the list of currently supported
PCI cards see Mediator Driver Guide.
For more info, see the
Mediator PCI 1200 LT website.
Pricing and availability
The Mediator PCI 1200 LT will be on sale beginning with 11 July 2003
at the suggested retail price of EUR139.95 (VAT excl.) only.
To locate an authorized distributor in your area or to purchase the
product online visit the Elbox Computer website.
Why Mediator?
Do you need your Amiga to display crystal-clear image up
to 2048x1536x32@75? Do you want your favourite games to run in
accelerated graphics?
Get hold of a Voodoo-family PCI graphic card and enjoy its 2D and
3D performance!
Care for superb high-quality music?
Just install the highest quality Terratec 512i Digital sound card
and enjoy crystal clear sound all around.
Do you want to use a variety of devices connected via the USB port?
Simply install the Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card into the
Mediator slot and explore the world of the newest USB devices such
as mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams,
digicams, flash card readers, zip drives, floppy disk drives,
harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters and audio adapters,
GPS location devices or finger print readers!
Want fast network connections to surf the net?
Put a low-cost RTL8139 Fast Ethernet 100Mbps PCI card into the
Mediator slot and connect your computer to the network!
Do you want to watch and capture your favourite TV programmes?
With a TV tuner PCI card you can watch TV; you can also connect
a TV-SAT tuner, a camcorder or a digital camera. Although the
full TV image resolution runs at 30 fps in the PIP window on
your Workbench screen, it does not use the Amiga processor's
time at all!
MEDIATOR - The Best Way to Power-up Your Amiga.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com
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11.Jul.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Rumours about the return of Jim Collas denied
The latest issue of UK's print magazine Total Amiga claims that there
are rumours about a new CEO at Amiga Inc. The "Buzz Word" rumour column, where an anonymous insider
reveils that latest "industry" rumours, the following statement can be found (quoted with permission):
"Buzz Word has heard that Amiga are about to get a new CEO but it won't be Garry Hare; apparently the whole
Genesi/ Garry Hare story was a setup designed to produce confusion. The new CEO is a man who will bring many
millions of investment dollars back into the company. The Man's name? Jim Collas."
Asked if this is a joke, Robert Willaims, editor of Total Amiga, assured us that he "honestly
doesn't know whether the rumour about Jim Collas is true or not".
Thus we contacted Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga Inc. and asked for a short statement. Bill writes:
"It is just a joke, and I agree a good one. I found it to be pretty funny.
I also thought that it was funny that they stated that Garry Hare was
replaced by Jim, when I have not even been replaced yet ;-)
I am still CEO, and still enjoying the ride."
(ps)
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10.Jul.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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DiaCD - Transfer of ARexx to Hollywood 1.5
Carsten Siegner writes:
Today I have created the first alpha version of DiaCD with Hollywood 1.5. With this, I wanted to show just how powerful Hollywood has become.
During the entry of a picture listing in the upper requester
all pictures are at once graphically shown in a picture list. One may then use the slider beneath the
picture list to scroll through all the pictures in realtime. At the same time a larger version of the currently
selected picture is shown separately in a subwindow. When you press the left mouse button and move the
cursor on the picture list, you select the first picture that you're going to work on later. Similarly, you select the final
picture with the right mouse button. These pictures are expressly scrolled through in realtime, when you move the
mouse back and forth. The picture under the cursor then appears in the selection window.
This is just a demo of the further capabilities of the program. I will then compile it for 68k and MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jul.2003
Bill Buck und Raquel Velasco (E-Mail)
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Event: Pegasos on Linux Tag 2003
All concerned: There will be a Pegasos at the Linuxtag in Karlsruhe this weekend.
Linuxtag is Europe's largest GNU/Linux exhibition. The Linuxtag is at the
Karlsruhe Convention Center from 10-13 July.
Genesi will be represented by Nicholas Blachford, whose "Analysis: x86 Vs
PPC" was featured yesterday on OSNews and Slashdot here:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3997
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/07/09/1730206.shtml?tid=137
Nicolas will be joined by Genesi's newest team member Sven Luther. Sven is
a developer known to both the MorphOS and Linux development communities.
Sven Luther's LinuxPPC kernel was recently announced on MorphOS-News here:
http://www.morphos-news.de/index.php?lg=en&nid=371&si=1
At Linuxtag, the Genesi Team and the Pegasos will be found in the Debian Booth.
The following weekend (18-20 July 2003) Sven will also be attending the
Debian Developers Conference, Oslo, Norway with the Pegasos. Details about
that conference can be found here:
http://debconf.org/debconf3/
Sven has joined Genesi to manage the LinuxPPC development effort for the
Pegasos. Sven is a PhD candidate at the University of Strausbourg and an
Associate Professor in the Computer Sciences Department. The University of
Strasburg was founded in 1621, with a long tradition of academic excellence.
Louis Pasteur, John Calvin, Marc Bloch and four Nobel Prize winners have
studied or taught there. We can now add Sven to the list...;-) Welcome
Sven! Of course, Nicholas and Sven will be able to demo MorphOS too! (ps)
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10.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web server: gW3S v2.1 released
The easy-to-use web server gW3S has been updated to version 2.1. The new version includes bug fixes, more in-depth XGI documentation and a new version of the administration tool.
Download it for free at the gW3S web site!
The gW3S team members are proud to announce that the Technic Up site has been running gW3S since a few months back, in conjunction with MUIBase (www.muibase.de) which proves that it is indeed capable of hosting professional sites! (ps)
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10.Jul.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #045
The scene group Liquid Skies has released their 45th music pack today. This time a piece, "Moonlight," in the electro-pop style. The cover was provided by DaFreak.
More information about the track:
- Title: MoonLight
- Artist: Maxus
- Style: Pop
- Song-length: 4:09
- Format: mp3 (160 kbps)
The zipped data has a size of about 4.8 megabytes and is available on the homepage under the title link as a free download. Additionally, the group and their webpage have been chosen as a link tip of the month at
www.leipzig-info.net.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jul.2003
Gary7 bei Golem gefunden (ANF)
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Golem: Rambus, Toshiba and Elpida introduce XDR DRAM
»XDR DRAM runs next with 3.2 GHz, later with 6.4 GHz and higher.
Together with Toshiba and Elpida, Rambus has introduced a new generation of memory. XDR DRAM
uses the XDR memory interface (previously Yellowstone) from Rambus and runs at up to 3.2 GHz. Sony has just
licensed the new technology for use with "Cell", the basis for Sony's PlayStation 3, among others.«
Read the complete article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jul.2003
Davy Wentzler (ANF)
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Audio Evolution 4 demo released
After two years of hard work, today we present you the release of the 68k demo
of the audio harddisk recording and editing system, Audio Evolution 4! AE4 is
a major update to AE3 and will be released for OS4/PPC.
Some of the new features:
- Non-linear and non-destructive editing on the time line, including cut, copy,
paste, move, split, trim and crossfade actions
- Unlimited undo
- Many grid options to align regions
- Improved automation editing on the time line
- Record automation events during playback by mouse or MIDI remote
- Track height adjustment and higher quality waveform display
- Metronome with freely adjustable time signature
- Control the mixer and transport controls remotely with external MIDI hardware
- Native OS4 effect plug-ins with realtime parameter control, automation and metering
- New plug-ins, including a new compressor, chorus, ducking delay and sound replacer
- WAV import
- 'Repeat region' functionality with intervals
- Automatic regionize with export of timecode list to BurnIt
- ARexx interface
- Communicate and synchronize with other applications (like B&P) easily through the
Master Control Bus (OS4 only)
- Enhanced look and feel. All imagery can be changed by the user.
- Experimental Dolby Pro Logic encoder
- Brand new manual in HTML and PDF formats
- Many more smaller improvements and bug fixes
Please download and try out the demo from the title link.
Any suggestions, questions and bug reports are welcome.
Davy Wentzler
Audio Evolution (ps)
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10.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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OSNews: Analysis: x86 vs. PPC (English)
On OSNews.com,
Nicholas Blachford of Genesi has written an in-depth examination of the comparative advantages and
disadvantages of the X86 and PPC processor lines. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jul.2003
computerhilfen.de (ANF)
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New Help Forum for Amiga Users at Computerhilfen.de
Today the Amiga section has added a help forum as a complement to the Windows, Apple, and Linux help forums at Computerhilfen.de. As occurs in the already existing Computerhilfen.de forums, the new Amiga forum should prove to be a place for friendliness and competence.
amiga.computerhilfen.de (ps) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jul.2003
Mikey_C (ANF)
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Total Amiga Issue 15 starts arriving at doors worldwide
Total Amiga Magazine now has
subscribers in 20 countries around the globe!
We are also proud to welcome Fun Time World
(Germany), to the list
of Amiga retailers stocking Total Amiga Magazine worldwide.
To accompany this issue, we have added a number of supporting downloads
for you to try on the Current Issue page of our website, from Hollywood
tutorial scripts to classic Mac links.
All this plus of course our excellent, News, Guest Columnists, Features,
Reviews and Tutorials, packed into 52 bursting pages of Amiga devotion.
Total Amiga Magazine. Does what it says on the cover!
(ps)
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09.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Napster founder changes side towards music industries
»Shawn Fanning with a new technology to discover protected music
There are at least only a few people who are made as responsible for the sales breakdown of
the music industry as Shawn Fanning is - the young American practically had initiated the era
of file sharing in a mass market meaning by developing the Napster software.
Now he is back with a new development but this time he covers the interest of the music industry.
«
Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Jul.2003
Benelux Amiga Show (Website)
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Date for Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show in Rotterdam is fix
This years Benelux Amiga and Pegasos Show will take place on 4th/5th October in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Exhibitors and interested can register and get more information here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web Server: New gW3S Site
The Open Source, ARexx-coded web server gW3S has gotten a new home and a redesigned homepage. The new URL is http://gonzo.1av10.nu/w3s/.
Check it out, and be sure to check back for the forthcoming release of gW3S v2.1! (ps)
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08.Jul.2003
Amiga Future (Website)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Alfred Faust (BarsnPipes)
"BarsnPipes" is not only the most famous Amiga-Midi-programm of glory days,
it is also still used from many users today because of the intuitive simple handling and professional features.
And the best: after the release of the source codes it is developed and improved constantly by Alfred Faust.
In the following interview he answered the questions from Anton Preinsack, especially about the MorphOS-version
of BarsnPipes. Please read the complete interview under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jul.2003
PerfectPaint (Website)
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Paint program: PerfectPaint Fix for version 2.93
A bug fix for version 2.93 of PerfectPaint from Halvadjian Georges is available. In this version a bug in the main archive has been fixed and the tool
"Border & Edge" has been updated. You had to install following version
2.93 for this fix.
Download: PfPaint_V293fix.lzx
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: Show report: AAA 2003, Commodore Billboard back online
This weekend, the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003
took place in Udine, Italy - another station of
Amiga OS4 on tour.
The show was organized by Cloanto,
well-known for a lot of Amiga programs and the emulator "Amiga Forever".
Jürgen Schober of Point Design
had to make two OS4 presentations, because the room was totally
overcrowded with more than 100 Amiga fans and journalists of daily
press and computer magazines. We also had the chance to show our
products in a 30-minute presentation. Best-seller of the present
retailers Soft 3 and
Virtual Works was the
Catweasel MK3,
that became the first choice accessory for many Amiga One owners
because of it's high degree of integration into the hard- and
software of the new Amiga.
A small Retro-computing museum right at the entrance of the showroom
brought back joyful memories in the visitors. Rare items like an SX-64
in best shape, a VIC-20 rev.1, and even a C65 prototype were shown.
One of the first multi-computer games (today's networking games) was
shown on two PET computers that were connected through the serial ports.
The home computer pioneer Altair 8800 from 1975 was the only none-Commodore
computer.
The "Video Microwave", a Pegasos-board that was built in the case
of a Sharp Microwave oven, was - at best - good for a laugh. The keyboard did
not work at all, and it only took a few mouseclicks to make the computer with
the MorphOS operating system crash. The reason for this could not be found in
the short time of the show.
Commodore Billboard back online
Our good news for the fans of Commodore nostalgia almost got lost in the
excitement surrounding Amiga OS4: The Commodore Billboard is back online!
The initiator of the project, Søren Ladegaard (Denmark) had to drop
the project due to lack of time in January 2003, and transferred the website
to individual Computers. We're now sponsoring the website that can cause a
lot of traffic with it's several hundred megabytes in size. During the past
half year, the new webmaster Stefan Zelazny has converted the audio and video
files to mpeg and mp3, so the website can be viewed on most platforms. For
example, the Realplayer is not necessary any more.
Currently, the website is available under the address
www.commodorebillboard.de.
The .com domain will be made available in the coming weeks.
If you're interested in a local copy of the website, you can support us in
paying for the high cost of the website by ordering the CD. It will be
available in August this year from all our retail partners for about 15,-
EUR. The double-CD package also contains some surprises for Commodore-fans! (ps)
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07.Jul.2003
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: First update after two-month break
After a two-month break the demo on-line collection "Amiga Demoscene
of Archives" was extended by four new productions: "Heaven is 2d" of
Whelpz, "Dark Rain" of The Loonies, "Outgrowing" of Potion and
"Xenophobia" of Subspace.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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07.Jul.2003
Amiga Impact (Website)
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Pictures of the Amiga OS presentation in Toulouse (Update)
Meanwhile the presentation documents are also available in Englisch.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Jul.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Demonstration videos of MorphOS/Pegasos published
The videos let you see the PowerPC computer Pegasos in action, in
order to be able to get an impression of the possibilities of the
platform.
The following videos are available for the download:
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06.Jul.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.7
I updated my virus OS to OS6.0. So there was time to fix this package
to support new commands or new values for the old ones. This don't mean
that the package is full now as I don't know every piece they changed.
It lacks also off controlling the new function called Pure tuning.
This one is only controllable from the virus menu.
The changes:
PageA: Bankselect updated. Support for more banks overwritten the demo.
PageB: Arpegiattor. More patterns to choose from.
PageC: Partbankselect and Partbankchange for the new banks.
That's all. Why do I update this package? Because of still using T&F
until HDRec is finished. Then I will make all commands for HDRec. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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06.Jul.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 14
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 14 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) ssolie: With the services based approach you are proposing, will an application be expected to query capabilities or will AmigaOS automatically adapt to the hardware itself or some hybrid of the two? Depending on the application, some may not appreciate having to query the OS every time they want to do something versus letting the OS adapt itself to the application and hardware environment.
Fleecy: In all multi component systems there will always be a per component capability and requirement set. Traditional static systems work on assumption which tends to give them superior performance as long as those assumptions are always true. In the world of today, we have a huge level of dynamism - smartphones, PDAs, consoles, tablets, desktops, servers, fat pipes, thin pipes, hardware acceleration, processor speed, screen size, input controls etc and you are faced with the problem of how to map these from the physical domain into the digital domain.
A service based architecture doesn't really affect this in implimentation since it is just a model. For example I could query the graphics service to find out if it supplies a vector service and if it does then I can chose to use it or not. This can be done dynamically by the application or can be done at install time, which is no different from the situation now where, if you assume that MUI is installed, and it isn't then your application won't work.
Thus you will still have different options as a developer - you can make use of services which themselves adapt on your behalf or you can do that yourselves. In either case, there is always going to be the same question, where does the responsibility lie? We want to offer choice so that the developer can make those decisions. A good example is the Ami2D scaling services of the AmigaDE. Some people use them and some people prefer to create resolution dependent graphic sets.
What is needed is a further level of abstraction, so that capabilities and requirements are managed transparently and that is coming on board now with such things as vectorisation and other descriptive formats that allow for interpretation based upon semantic information. That is something we are looking at but the more abstraction you have, the more resources are required to translate between the physical and digital domains.
Swings and roundabouts I'm afraid.
2) CodeSmith: Apple have made a big splash with their announcement of PPC970 "G5" systems. Is there going to be a "zico-2" spec for Amiga PPC970 systems, or are you giving vendors full control? any idea when we can expect PPC 970 Amigas (other than "after OS4.0")?
Fleecy: We do plan on having a 64 bit version of the AmigaOS but that is someway down the line. If a vendor approaches us with the necessary hardware then we will consider revising our timetable but we still have a lot of work to do for the 32 bit PPC AmigaOS4, such as actually releasing AmigaOS4.0. There are also a few interesting other 32 bit opportunities coming up that will have to weighed against a 64 bit desktop machine.
3) Quixote: Since AmigaOS4.0 will be on the CyberStormPPC first, I wonder whether it will include an update to the CyberStorm's FlashROM, that would permit booting from the CD? I understand that it was a feature intended for the CyberStorm, but it doesn't seem to work.
Fleecy: We do not intend to touch the CSPPC flashrom. Its internals are proprietary and besides, we are relying on it to bring the HW up first before AmigaOS4.0 takes over. Any changes we made might also damage the users ability to boot into AmigaOS3 as well.
If you have problems with the CSPPC Flashrom, perhaps an email to those who worked on it might reveal why it doesn't work or get them to add that functionality.
4) Miffy: I run AmigaDE on my desktop ( the one I am typing on now ) which has software on it that I have ported, that others have ported and the like. It runs the partypack update. What I want to know is how long before the next publically available ( non NDA ) update comes along from Amiga given I cannot get permission to enter into a new NDA with Amiga Inc right now ( because of company regulations and Im sure others are in this position too )?
Fleecy: We are reworking our NDA policy to make it consistent with industry practices for software licensing. In the meanwhile if special circumstances prevent you from agreeing to the licensing terms, you can contact us directly to determine how best we can meet your needs. Send an email to support@amiga.com.
5) Asemoon: I very much like the idea of being able to use animated GIFs as icons on the desktop with the introduction of Amiga OS3.9 and so will this feature stay available or maybe be enhanced/altered in any way for AmigaOS4? And will there be support for 24bit PNG format icons in the future?
Fleecy: The source code for that particular feature is in the hands of H&P and we do not have access to it.
The Amiga graphics architecture has reached the end of its useful life. Actually, it reached it about five years ago but has been brought back, jiggled, enhanced and hacked to stop the platform from dying. The screenshots you are seeing as part of the AmigaOS4.0 on Tour roadshow represent hopefully the last AmigaOS release that uses this architecture and their quality is a reflection of both the strength of the original architecture and the ingenuity and persistence of the developers since then who have worked on it.
As part of the Amiga Generation 2 project (AG2), we are currently working on a brand new visual domain replacement which we hope to deploy either in AmigaOS4.1 or AmigaOS4.2. This will build from the hardware upwards and be able to support high quality existing interface models as well as allow for brand new features, functionality and models. We are particularly eager to introduce the Reactive Presentation Agents (RPAs) that we developed for the AmigaDE which would provide the same functionality, and a lot more besides.
6) Asemoon: What languages will AmigaOS4 support out of the box?
Fleecy: We are supporting many languages, which are listed below, using a combination of the excellent ATO and private individuals, working in teams of two or more to produce each catalog. We do have a few offers where we just have one person (Icelandic and Malay) but we would like to have at least two people, since it is a lot of work. Anyone interested in helping out should send a mail to os4-betatest@hyperion-entertainment.com with the subject line of 'Localisation offer of help'.
Bosnian
Catalan
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
That's 20 languages for now.
The Russian ATO team disbanded but new people will soon be joining. I think we can count them as well.
This is a list of language drivers for which there are no catalogs currently in progress.
Albanian
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Esperanto
Estonian
Faroese
Icelandic
Irish
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Portuguese-brazil
Romanian
Slovak
Ukrainian
If you are missing a language that can be written from left to right in an ISO-8859-X charset just ask Detlef at TetiSoft@apg.lahn.de if he can create a language driver for it.
7) Asemoon: The support for non-Latin fonts like for instance Arabic/Persian and Chinese/Japanese characters were not well documented for previous AmigaOS releases. How will such characters and languages be handled by future AmigaOS and AmigaDE releases?
Fleecy: Not well documented is too optimistic :) It was documented that the Amiga character set is ECMA-94 Latin1 (thats ISO-8859-1), that the bullet.library API uses Unicode (16bit only), and it was defined a font attribute FPF_REVPATH for writing from right to left. There was no official statement from H&P how their special localizations for e.g. czech or russian would fit into this framework (in fact they did not). There was a statement that the Euro update is only an intermediate solution.
OS4 bullet API was improved and allows 32bit Unicode now, 16bit are not enough since Unicode 3.2 (current is 4.0).
OS4 diskfont.library now contains a character set database, it does know the MIME charset name of each font in the system, and the Unicode code point of each glyph. However the bitmap fonts handled by diskfont.library are still limited to 8bit charsets, so for Chinese/Japanese/Persian/Georgian etc you'll have to use bullet API. With the new diskfont API you can however ask for e.g. Times in ISO-8859-5 (cyrillic), -6 (arabic), -7 (greek), -8 (hebrew), -11 (thai) or -16 (eastern european latin with Euro) and it will create it on-the-fly from e.g. a truetype font.
With OS4 locale.library the user is able to change the current system default charset on-the-fly by selecting a different language driver. The charset of each catalog file in the system is known, there exist charset conversion functions that ensure that e.g. for polish with ISO-8859-2 system default charset any polish catalog file will be displayed correct, it does not matter if its in ISO-8859-2, -16 or in the special ATO charset used in OS3.9 polish localization. Its also possible to use catalog files in UTF-8.
Most text handling and output functions in OS4 are not able to write from right to left, so there still exist large problems with arabic/persian and hebrew, an application that reverses arabic and hebrew strings before output can at least display its GUI but for text input (cursor on the right after return) special applications would be needed.
Summary: OS3.x language support was limited to western european latin languages, OS4.0 language support is limited to latin, cyrillic and greek (thai would eventually work if someone could fit thai glyphs into topaz/8 and topaz/9 default ROM fonts). OS4.0 font support is limited to any 8bit MIME charset in diskfont API (besides the right-to-left problem) and not limited in bullet API.
8) _Steve_: Will there be support for the pre-existing PPC programs from both PUP/WOS in OS4?
Fleecy: We'll provide an application launcher that can launch WarpUp programs, maybe even PowerUp. However, we'll not include any hacks to make this work. Since there was only a small number of applications created that used these two systems, we are hopefully that their authors will upgrade their programs and release AmigaOS4.0 native versions.
9) Billsey: From past personal experience I know that there are dedicated Christians at Amiga, Inc. I have friends there, and I am not turning against them, but they are Christian, so I believe that the following question(s) must be asked. I would like to know what role that faith has played (a) in keeping the company alive; (b) in walking the path that has been walked; and (c) when specific confession and, more importantly, repentance of “mistakes made” will be observable.
Fleecy: Religion, like any other philosophy seller is an individual concern, not something that should ever be part of heterogenous system, whether a group, a company, a nation or a species. I always find it ironic that nature, the mother of us all preaches diversity and yet humans are obsessed with monotony, to the point of coercion, persecution, discrimination and destruction.
With that in mind, I cannot and will not answer your question, because such things should be on individual level interaction. In other words, if you want an answer, send the question to the individuals themselves.
10) drstrange: what form of support will OS4 take for a 250MB ZIP? Will it use harddrive-like formatting or a mountfile and if a mountfile could you show us it ahead of time to give a few of us time to prep our disks.
Fleecy: Same as OS3.9 (or 3.1): it's a removable media, 'Removable' and 'Rigid Disk Block' are mutually exclusive, you should use a mountfile.
To be able to use RDBs on removable media as well all file systems would have to support unmounting. The new FFS2 does support it, but there are file systems which don't, for example SFS.
Some 3rd party devices do allow RDBs to be used on removable media, but that's a hack, it's not possible to implement it in clean way and therefore it will not be added to AmigaOS4.0 devices.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=15
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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Aminet Uploads up to 6th July 2003
Here are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last announcement:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 21K+Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c RUSSIAN KIT
PAC.lha biz/dbase 1.9M+HTML Photoalbum Creator v1.0.
CManager25.lha comm/misc 403K+Contact Manager, a centralised system-wi
sa03.lha demo/aga 350K+Invitation intro for Syndeecate Apocalyp
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas
nqc.lha dev/lang 181K+Lego Mindstorms compiler and comm tool
amuidiff.lha dev/misc 117K+Displays differences of two text files i
MCC_TheBar.lha dev/mui 274K+Next generation buttons bar class
vdisk37.lha disk/misc 46K+Dynamic recoverable RAM disk (V3.7)
RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 4K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 06/2003 (Itali
AmigaFuture43.lha docs/mags 804K+Great german paper mag preview
nocover112.lha docs/mags 2.6M+Great german diskmagazine
Saga.lha game/board 298K+Saga 1.27: Conversion of TSR boardgame
DC2Lvl-EMine2.lha game/data 454K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 927K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
Arkanos.lha game/misc 416K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.03 **
MALevelEditor.lha game/misc 13K+Level Editor for Mini Arcanoid v2.9
WormWars.lha game/misc 566K+Worm Wars 7.51: Advanced snake game
Hexa_Q.lha game/wb 43K+Surprise!! A peg game... updated!
S_Tiles.lha game/wb 43K+Try to solve this sliding-tile puzzle!
Tri_Q.lha game/wb 43K+A triangular shaped peg game... updated!
p-intFix.lha misc/emu 37K+Patch for P-Code interpreter
Foundation1.mpg mods/mpg 19M+First part of a three part suite
Foundation2.mpg mods/mpg 10M+Second part of a three part suite
Foundation3.mpg mods/mpg 287K+Third part of a three part suite
Prelude3.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Prelude3. MPEG of old tape of me on keys
SundaySuite.mpg mods/mpg 3.5M+Sunday Suite. 4 part piano suite
TheSpell.mpg mods/mpg 6.5M+The Spell MPEG of old tape of me on keys
BorderNames.lha text/dtp 2K+List Border Names Arexx Script PageStrea
nA_ConFile07.lha text/misc 100K+Compare from 2 to 5 files
Next3.6.lha text/show 150K+Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes
SRename.lha util/cli 93K+Advanced rename utility. Version 3.7.1
DirSSCompare.lha util/dir 14K+Compares two dirs (for differences)
FolderSync.lha util/dir 73K+Synchronise two folders automagically!
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 244K+Dynamic buffers, filesystem CRCs, colorf
CHARisma.lha util/misc 115K+Get easy access to all printable chars.
FakeCD32Joypad.lha util/misc 20K+Use the keyboard instead of CD32 Joypad
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 314K+Report+ 5.67: Multipurpose utility
VisualGuide.lha util/misc 39K+Make filelist in AmigaGuide format.
winlaunch.lha util/misc 46K+WinLaunch - Launch Windows Applications
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 30K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB
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06.Jul.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #044
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 44th music pack.
This time it contains a music piece called "Walking The Corridors" by the English
musician Darkus who, though not being a member of the group, still offers his
track as a guest under the label Liquid Skies.
It is a rather experimental piece of music and would probably fit best under the
category of Trance. This time the cover was created by DaFreak.
Next some more information about the track:
- Title: Walking The Corridors
- Artist: Darkus
- Style: Experimental Trance
- Playing time: 5:05
- Format: mp3 (128 kbps)
The zipped file with a size of about 4.8 MB is freely available for download on
the homepage under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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05.Jul.2003
IrseeSoft (website)
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Turboprint version 7.50 with new drivers
The new version 7.50 of the printing software TurboPrint is available from now on and contains new printer drivers:
- Canon i850
- Canon S200*,i320*,i950*
- HP DeskJet 5550
- HP PhotoSmart 71xx*,73xx*,75xx*
*) USB controller required
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05.Jul.2003
EvenMore (website)
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Text viewer: FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for EvenMore
Chris Perver has reworked the FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for his text viewer EvenMore. This plug-in supports now text styles and colours.
Download: finalwriter2text.plugin
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05.Jul.2003
Adam Chodorowski (email)
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AROS: voting about the AROS logo
Some weeks ago called the AROS (Amiga Research
Operating System) developers team to a logo contest (we reported). The entries are now published for an open vote, all Amiga users can participate once in the voting and thus have an influence in the future representation of AROS.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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First pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003
The first pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 - taking place today in Udine, Italy - can be found following the title link. The atmosphere seems to be fantastic: "We are in total overload, very crowded, lots of food (local gubana, cheese, etc. :-), wine (and local Castello beer :-)... Rushing back now..."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: HP to take back ink cartridge from private customers
»Recycling of ink cartridges shall help the environment
HP will expand their recycling program and take back empty ink cartridges for printers from private customers in Europe in the future. This will be started in 2003 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland while Great Britain, Ireland and other countries will follow from 2004 on.«
Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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Golem - IT News
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Golem: Golem.de: New job market with several hundreds IT jobs
»Co-operation with Jobware
In co-operation with Jobware is Golem.de starting a new completely overhauled jobs market. Under the URL jobs.golem.de you can find from now on several hundreds of job advertisements for the IT, telecommunications and related industries, listed in clearly sorted by categories and regions.«
Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
BTTR-Team (email)
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Back to the Roots celebrates birthday and draws many prices
Five years does the project "Back to the Roots" now exist. Truely a reason to celebrate! Next to new games highlights like Battle Squadron, Hybris, Arkanoid, Mega Typhoon or The Plague, we present to you the team of BTTR with the games Plix and Symbolrechnen, and the Populous editor really new releases for the Amiga. All three titles are exclusively available at BTTR and are released for the first time.
Furthermore BTTR start a draw with many prices to win. More information can be read in the news on www.back2roots.org.
The team of BTTR: "We thank for the loayalty during the last five years and wish all visitors much fun!"
Next to the birthday update and the draw there's another important news for www.back2roots.org:
For the first time ever there's an "interactive online mod radio"! On more than 50 different channels you can listen to music of all kind. More than 65.000 mods are available! You can listen with WinAmp or Deliplayer 2. There's no streaming. Every song gets completely loaded!
Jürgen Beck from BTTR: "We thank the numerous colectors, providers of mod pages and mod projects who support this project. Our thanks go especially to the Deliplayer team. The latest version of the best mod player finally contains the radio feature! Enjoy listening!"
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
MorphOS-News
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MorphOS/Pegasos: QUICKSTART Guide Version 2.5 Now in Three Languages
Jürgen Lucas' "QUICKSTART Guide" for installing MorphOS on a Pegasos with blank hard-drive has been released at version 2.5. Thanks to Andreas Zierl [and Daniel Miller -dm] and Fabrice Lehaut these instructions are also available in English and French. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jul.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #13
Issue #13 of "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to 312 subscribers. This is a list of French-speaking Amiga users all over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...) which has been sent monthly since July of 2000, in order to encourage French-speakers to communicate with each other.
Click on the title link for more information, and to get yourself added to the list. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jul.2003
Stefan Blixth (E-Mail)
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OnyxSoft: New and updated software
Here comes 1 new release and 4 updates, enjoy!
New:
- Program: NewWBPattern (Version 1.0)
Info: This is small tool to change the WB-background on-the-fly.
Updates:
- Program: GummiSurf (Version 1.2)
Info: Now supports the built-in download managers in all Amiga browsers (IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb)
Can export HTML and plain text-lists.
- Program: MultiRen (Version 1.54)
Info: * Added a function to the Adaptor tool so that is possible
to control what character the Adaptor should put the
lengthener character around when prolonging a filename.
* Now the filename length also displays the length of the
file comment (which cannot be more than 80 characters in
AmigaDOS).
The format is now <filename_length;comment_length> in the
window. Also, the file comment gets /italic/ in the main
lister if it exceeds 79 characters.
* Added the operator %t for use in the text export and file
comment generation tools. This stands for tab. Whenever a %t
is encountered a tab stop is set there which gets determind by
the longest string up to the %t. Many %t's can be used in an
export string. This way very nice columnized text files and
file comments can be produced!
* The memo list handling (in the RenPlacer, File Comment and
Text Export tools) now saves the memo lists immediately when
stored or removed if the checkmark in prefs is set. This makes
it easier to not forget to save then when quitting the proram
:)
* Updated the ID3-Tag plugin so that it always returns two
digits for the track number. F.ex. 01,02,03...10,11,etc
instead of 1,2,3...10,11 which makes it look nicer.
- Program: QuickSketch (Version 1.01)
Info: * The move draw area qualifiers Shift and Alt has now been
reduced to only work with RightShift and RightAlt.
* Because move has been restricted to Right Shift and Alt
it is now possible to use the LAlt+LAmiga+Cursor to draw
a straight line.
* + More fixes...
- Program: TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.3)
Info: * Now it's possible to import CDDB/ACDB-files automatically
into the ID3-tags on files in the file list! (Yes I know
it's not full automatic CDDB-support but it's one step in the
right direction anyway:)) This means that you have to use
CDDB or ACDB to download the descriptions for your CD's, then
you can import these text-files in TheMPegEncGUI.
* Now also includes OggDec and OggPlay (ogg123) support.
* + More fixes...
(nba)
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05.Jul.2003
Oliver Roberts (ANF)
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Warp Datatypes V45.2 Released (Update)
After a long delay, the promised updates to all the Warp picture datatypes for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS are finally here. To accompany the new release is the brand new WarpDT portal at http://www.warpdt.co.uk/ where you can keep up to date with the latest versions of the WarpDTs and download them all in one easy place.
Summary of changes since previous versions:
BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Minor optimizations and cleanups.
BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Bumped version to v45 since a stable release has
now been reached and to reflect the jump to shareware status
BMP: Fixed problems with decoding bitfield images
JPEG: Altered descriptor file to prevent it matching LhA or LZX
archives containing JPEG files (or anything else that might
contain a JFIF header, other than Photoshop files)
PNG: PNG files not containing enough data are no longer treated as a
fatal error. Now the part of the image that was successfully
decoded is returned.
PNG: Updated with libpng 1.2.5
PNG/TIFF: Updated with zlib 1.1.4
TIFF: Now correctly converts images using the YCbCr colourspace to RGB
TIFF: Added support for JPEG decompression
TIFF: Updated to libtiff 3.6.0-beta2, including a new version of the
LogLuv decoder, and numerous other bugfixes
Prefs: Various parts of code rewritten, in preparation for losing the
current reliance on resource.library
Prefs: Minor bugfixes
Prefs: Correct Polish and Portuguese documentation now included.
Update 06.07.2003:
Errornous timeouts bugfix (Version 45.2)
Unfortunately, due to last minute changes, I broke the timeout code
slightly - doh! This resulted in the datatypes producing timeout warnings
unnecessarily. Fixed versions of all 5 datatypes now in version 45.2
available. Apologies for any confusion caused.
(nba)
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05.Jul.2003
Michael Heider (ANF)
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Report: Pegasos in Leipzig
The illustrated report of the Leipzig Pegasos presentation is now online. Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC was shown on the Amiga-PowerUp-System (APUS) and Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Jul.2003
Yunis (ANF)
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Tao announces multimedia-platform SDK intent 2
Today the Tao Group which is a British software developer and partner of Amiga, Inc. has officially
announced the new generation of the multimedia platform SDK intent 2.
You can read the English message under the title link and documentations are available under the
resources-site of Tao.
Tao about intent: "In fact intent is the only middleware platform available
today that can provide a common, brandable, look&feel with consistent
application behaviour and truly deliver compelling multimedia content to
the full range of consumer devices - thus providing a strategy to enable
all players in the value chain to thrive." (nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Niels Bache (ANF)
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Pictures of the OS4 tour in Göteborg by Niels Bache
Niels Bache has uploaded his pictures of Göteborg.
Remark of Niels Bache:
I have heard of some people that the new free server (frac.dk) which I use is not as fast
as desired. I ask for your patience and your insight because I can use this server as a
guest for free. I myself could not find out these problems and therefore I suppose that
the problem of speed happens only few times e.g. if much traffic is caused.
Please have another attempt to a different time if this happens.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Rafal Kaczmarczyk (ANF)
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Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 14
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 beta 14 of his database 'XBaze'.
The program offers an easy to use editor for the fields of the data records and a layout
editor with drag&drop function. It works from AmigaOS v3.0 and under MorphOS.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to the following address:
xbaze@amiga.pl.
Download: XB-7.3B14.lha
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Michele C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Tomorrow: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 in Udine, Italy
For the last time the website of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 which will take place tomorrow
in Udine, Italy has been updated. The list of the presentations has been updated as well as
the list of the hardware and software which can be seen.
This week the organizer got the offer to exhibit a Commodore PET 4016 which is connected
with a PET 3008. Of course this offer was accepted. Besides this a Commodore 65 (a prototype
which was never released) will be shown.
In Austria Jürgen Schober is busy with the last preparations for the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation
while in Germany Jens Schönfeld prepares himself for the C-One presentation.
Genesi has made a PowerPC Pegasos with MorphOS which was installed in a microwave available.
Many people from all over the world have booked for and are on the way.
We hope we see us. You are welcome!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jul.2003
Grasshopper LLC (Website)
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Grasshopper LLC Lowers PageStream Prices
The American software company Grasshopper has lowered the price of their desktop publishing application "PageStream." The full
version is now available for 99 US dollars. Upgrades are now 40 US dollars. These prices are good for July, 2003 but may stay the
same thereafter, if possible.
New Low Pricing
Tuesday, July 1st - Grasshopper LLC announces today new low pricing
for PageStream on all platforms. "While the pricing is guaranteed only
through July, it is hoped that it will be warmly embraced by the
community and will be adopted then as our new permanent pricing",
said owner Marna Holt today. "Our move from a brick and mortar business
means lower costs and faster turn around times. We hope passing these
savings on to our customers will not only increase the already tremendous
value our customers get when buying PageStream, but hopefully increase
the number of customers and reach those who could previously not afford
PageStream." Near term plans include a revamped web site,
instant messaging with our sales staff, and a monthly online public chat
with Deron. PageStream now lists for $99 (from $299!!) and upgrades start
out at only $40.
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03.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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Adventure Rendezvous: Interview with Ken Williams
The adventure-game focused online magazine "Adventure-Treff" has published an interesting German-language interview with Ken
Williams by Jan Schneider.
In 1979 Ken Williams founded Sierra On-Line and after that he led the firm for almost 20 years. Ken and his wife Roberta originated
the game genre now referred to as graphic adventures, and they were responsible for many of the best and most loved adventures
of all time, like for instance the Leisure Suit Larry and King's Quest and Space Quest series. Today Ken runs a forum with
SierraGamers, in which one may comment about Sierra. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Mummert Consulting (E-Mail)
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Study: Online Shops Battle Trust Deficit
Around 50% of German websurfers avoid purchasing anything on the Internet. The main problem for most of them: they can't examine and test the products before buying. And very third person gets by without online purchases because they are satisfied with the goods of "real" stores.
The fear of someone stealing their personal data is another factor that stops surfers from buying. About 30% name this fear as a reason for why they have yet to purchase anything online. And every fifth person is worried that his bill will be incorrectly calculated and so he doesn't buy anything. These figures come from a current study "Internet Statistics of Consumers (IZV6)" done by the University of Karlsruhe and Mummert Consulting.
Online shops battle a trust deficit: Half of all German websurfers don't buy anything on the Internet. The principal reason for this, according to these surfers, is that they can't test the wares over the Internet. Every fourth purchase avoider doesn't trust the online stores because it might be hard to complain and return things. Almost every third fears for the protection of his data. The market share of online shoppers may rise if e-shops improve their service. About 28% don't buy online, because help and service aren't good enough.
It's easier for well known web-shops to win customers: about two thirds of online shoppers do most of their shopping by known merchants. Every fifth buys *exclusively* by known shops. And the general experience of Internet users with the Internet influences their purchasing attitude: the less experienced the surfer, the less he goes online shopping. Experienced users purchase 20% more stuff on the Internet than the unexperienced. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Explanation of G4 Card Difficulties
According to a statement
of the Genesi leadership on MorphOS-News.de there's a hardware problem which means that less G4 cards will be produced for the Pegasos I, and even these will only be offered with corresponding boards as "matched sets." With respect to the complete utilization of the Altivec functionality of the G4: some boards work flawlessly, some boards not so well, at least not well enough to be sold.
In other Genesi news, QNX and Pascal have joined the effort to be ported to Pegasos. The latter is still popular in Eastern Europe and the former is the #1 embedded system OS.
Additionally Genesi would like to sell Linux Pegasoses with the G3 for a price of 499 euros at MicroWarehouse
or other merchants (without monitor but with Linux as well as MorphOS). Up to 25,000 units monthly may be produced on the fabrication lines at DCE. This price per unit might fall with an inverse correlation to the quantity of units (as more are produced, price per unit drops). The same thing applies if IBM comes to view it as a good strategy to help Genesi by doing the same with respect to CPU price. These machines will be available in October of this year.
As before, Pegasos I owners can upgrade for the price of 200 euros, but you've got to send in the board as well as the CPU card. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Enterprise Market for Open Source Grows Quickly
»Yearly growth rates of 24% are in view
A study by the company Soreon analyzed and predicted the enterprise market for open source software in Germany up to the year 2007. For this study 150 German firms were surveyed. In that were 100 interviews with users who quantitatively evaluated, as well as 50 expert conversations which were qualitatively evaluated.«
Read the complete article by clicking on the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Samba (Website)
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Networking: Samba Version 3.0.0 Beta 2
The Samba team released version 3.0.0 Beta 2 on the 1st of July. You may read the list of changes
here.
Samba is a software that allows networking, for example networking of a PC and an Amiga. You'll find information about Samba for Amiga at
amigasamba.org.
Here's the original press release:
The second 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.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Game: Saga Version 1.27
Version 1.27 of the freeware game Saga from Amigan Software has appeared. The game is a conversion of a TSR board game from 1981 called Saga: Age of Heroes and is playable by up to six players, which may be controlled by humans or the Amiga. It's all about battling monsters, finding treasure, and building your kingdom through valor and heroism.
The game is available in German and English at this time. It requires at least AmigaOS 3.0+ and AGA/RTG. The source code is in the archive. The author James R. Jacobs has made a few improvements and cleaned up a few errors since the last version.
Download: Saga.lha - 297 KB
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4.1c
Version 4.1c of "Pixload" has been released. Like AmiDock, this tool makes it possible to start programs and scripts from an icon through the use of MUI. Noteworthy additions to this version include the recognition of local HTML data, as well as a context menu. RxMUI 32.8 is required.
The program may be downloaded in Amiga and MorphOS versions.
Download: pixload-4.1c.lzx (ps) (Translation: dm)
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02.Jul.2003
PPCNux (ANF)
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PPCNux: Pegasos G4 upgrade not available seperately
»The for July 2003 scheduled
1+GHz G4 CPU card for the Pegasos Boards currently equipped with a 600 MHz G3 will not be available seperately. This has been said by
Genesi in their
status update
at Amiga.org.«
Read the full article by the title link (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Sourceforge-Projekt JAmiga (ANF)
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Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9
By the title link you can follow the state of the sourceforge project
Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9 (JAmiga) and get informed about the further details of that project.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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AmiZilla progress report
After DiscreetFX had announced that there is a money booty for porting the
web browser Mozilla to the Amiga (as reported) and Bill
Panagouleas set up an information site about the donation efforts, he sent us the following progress report:
- Current Booty: $4122.45
- New! SourceForge website setup to share/update codebase for
AmiZilla port.
- New! Offical URL for AmiZilla
- Mailinglist now has over 162 members and over 240 messages, most are about programming and porting Mozilla.
- AmiZilla website has gotten over 1 million hits since appearing on the famous unix geek website slashdot.
- AmiZilla continues to gather positive press for the Amiga and MorphOS by being covered on mainstream
websites like CNET's news.com,
mozillazine.org and
many others.
- Amiga Inc. representative Fleecy Moss has commented they like AmiZilla but will not contribute
to the Initiative because a port is also underway for MorphOS.
- New! AmiZilla poster "I Want You" by Eric Schwartz available in two sizes for webmasters that
want to promote AmiZilla on their site.
- New! AmiZilla Banner designed by Luca Ferraris.
- New! Female Russian artist hired to create mascot for MorphOS version of Mozilla port.
- New! Genesi and Phoenix Developer Consortium have been watching the project with great interest for
some time. and may contribute funds.
Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful. The booty is now over $4122,
which is a impressive amount of money for an Amiga project. If only one programmer was working on
the port this would be a nice reward. However several programmers are working together. Once the
money is split among coders the booty is not big enough. Please contribute if you can, every dollar
helps motivate programmers to make the AmiZilla Project a success. After the release of AmiZilla more
projects are being developed like Hot CoCo (JVM) and F Gordon (Flash). The development and launch of
these add-ons to AmiZilla depend on the success of that project. Paypal donations can be sent in via
this weblink.
About AmiZilla
The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the
first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga/Compatible systems that programmers will be
falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time.
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing & computer generated
graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing,
computer graphics market with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects
seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates and more! You can also
see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and
more! (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Messe Leipzig (ANF)
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First European games mucic concert in Leipzig
On August the 20th 2003 there will be the first "European games music concert" in Germany. This will happen at the "Gewandhaus" in Leipzig .
Start of the concert, which will be the opening of the "Games Convention" as well, is 8 pm.
Ticket sale has just begun, there are still plenty tickets available.
Among other tracks there will be a suite of the Amiga classic
"Apidya" (Chris Hülsbeck) played.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Photos from the Amiga show in Maarssen
At the website of the Amiga Party which happend on the 28th of June 2003 in
Maarssen, the Netherlands, there were new photos published by the organizers. The event is planned to be repeated next year again.
On August the 16th 2003 there will be the Commodore Show 2003 also.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Online magazine: NoCover #112 published
Issue #112 of the NoCover is published and readable by following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Alpe Adria News and Updates
The website of the event "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" has been updated today.
There is now a list with hardware and software products which will be shown, exhibitors who are present
and new cultural events which will be occur in parallel
with the show. The A3 will be held on coming Saturday, July the 5th
kulturelle Ereignisse, die parallel zur Show stattfinden. Die A3 2003 in Undine, Italy.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Erhard Bruse (ANF)
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Report: Pegasos in Leipzig
Several interested persons have seen the presentation of the Pegasos in Leipzig at the booth of the "CCLS e.V." last weekend.
Erhard Bruse gives a brief overview about the presentation:
Even by chance met informatics students from India were interested in MorphOS and the Pegasos. The Sunday was owed to the Pegasos and Linux.
Micha Heider successfully did first tests with his image installer and a backup/recovery by using a hard disk image as well as an
installation of Mandrake Linux to the Pegasos. The recovery took with a 4 GB partition about 10 minutes.
During the next days there will be further information and some pictures and screen shots of Mandrake running on the Pegasos
put to the website of Micha Heider which is to reach by the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (Website)
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Club Amiga Magazine: Article about DOS library by C.J. Wenzel freely available
The article "A Short Story on the V50 DOS Library" by Colin J. Wenzel
from issue 5 of the Club Amiga Magazine has been made freely available by Amiga Inc. This English report
features the planning of V50 of the dos.library which will be used within AmigaOS 4.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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01.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 30.06.2003
With WHDLoad yu can install floppy disk based games onto your HD.
The following packages are added/updated since the last time:
- 30.06.03 fixed: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) misc changes
- 29.06.03 new: Maria's XMas Box (Anco) done by Psygore
- 29.06.03 improved: Knights of the Sky (Microprose) supports another version
- 29.06.03 new: King's Quest 6 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 29.06.03 improved: Colonel's Bequest (Sierra) supports another version
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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01.Jul.2003
Diverse
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Software-News in short (01.07.2003)
PhotoView
The picture viewer PhotoView is released in version 0.94 and can be downloaded for
free from the website of the developer Alessandro Braccini .
AWeb
After the new Build-GCC-Version 3.41 of the webbrowser AWeb was online and many bugfixes were sentin, the
developers had taken the file offline. If a stable version is available we will report
it to you.
NewsCoaster
A project for the Open-Source-based Newsgroups-Client
NewsCoaster is available at Sourceforge. There you will
find the latest Binary- and Source-Code-Releases.
ptplay3
ptplay3 is
relased in version 1.0. ptplay is a CLI based Protracker player not depending on the
custom chips and was written from the ground to emulate Protracker 2.3a software
sided. The mixing is managed internally and is send to a singla AHI output channel.
Block
Block, now
available in version 2.02, combines and splits files. The tool is available for 68k-AmigaOS and MorphOS.
findmos
Also findmos,
latest version 1.0, is coded by Christian Rosentreter: The very small shelltool
(only 200 Bytes) is used to detect MorphOS and is needful for Shell-/Install-scripts.
An example script is contained in the archive.
PowerD
The latest version 0.21 from 29.6.2003 of the programming environment PowerD is available at the
download area at the website.
PageStream for Linux
For Linux is a third beta version of the DTP software PageStream released. User buying a copy of
the Linux version getting full access to all versions (beta and final relases). Users
taking part in testing phase are getting TextFX for Linux for free.
VDisk.device
The VDisk.device is released in
version 3.7 and provides you a driver for a restorable RAM disk.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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01.Jul.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New IBrowse 2.3 documentation released
Dave Fisher has finished his works on a completely updated and
expanded IBrowse-documentation.
The new documentation breaks down into 25 chapters, that, from the
installation over the usage of the program, tips and tricks to basic
knowledge covers everything worth knowing about IBrowse and the
Internet.
The archive containing the documentation is 1.37 MB in size and is
freely available in the IOSPIRIT download section.
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01.Jul.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #030630
Under the title link you will find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update (Brad
Webb) for March 2003. In his newsletter Brad Webb gives a monthly summary of all
news around the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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01.Jul.2003
Halvadjian Georges
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Perfect Paint v2.93 released
PerfectPaint from Halvadjian Georges is in version 2.93 available. In this
version are changed/fixed:
- Fix a bug with the tool: "Copy Stencil to Spare" when you are on the main picture
and not on Spare.
- Improve 'Chromatic correction": Blue saturation works well now.
- Improve: Fiber, Stone and liquid effects when range of color is used.
- New Item in MagicSpray menu: Fill Screen
- Full arexx command for MagicSpray tool
- Little bug fix with the "optimize palette" tool
- Improve Smooth border:
- Add Mask Preview
- Add "Round corner" Effect
- Improve MagicSpray:
- Add Follow axes (Brushes will follow mouse path)
- Add Priority (Each brushes will have priority)
- Improve for UAE/Amithlon/Picasso
- Mosaic effect and TVLace effect
- Twirl gui, TVLace gui, shadow gui
- The way the text go for one buffer to another (A lot of script are now ok)
- Edit Mask in 24bit mode (Much easier to edit stencil under picasso)
- 3 new templates (Photo)
- New MagicProject:Keys and Nuts and IceCream (available on PerfectPaint's page)
- Animation effect: CountDown
Download: PfPaint_V293.lha
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01.Jul.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Interview with Genesi
The Online-News-Magazine amiga.org has released an interview with Bill Buck and Raquel
Velasco of Genesi S.a.r.l. (title link).
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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30.Jun.2003
apple (ANF)
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Mozilla v1.4 released
Today the final version 1.4 of the free Webbrowser Mozilla was
published. Under that title left versions are available for Windows,
Linux and Mac OS X for the download, postage run gene for Solaris,
OpenVMS and other operating systems in the next days will follow.
Further information you find on the product website under that title
left. A port for Amiga OS is from a free developer team in work.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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30.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #043
The group Liquid Skies published today their 43rd music
pack. This time it contains a song named "rain journey" by
the German musician Bitshifter (also known as yelworC), who is not
member of the group, however he offers his track as a guest under the label
Liquid Skies. The cover for this is provided by an other guest:
Yenzi.
Details:
Title: Rain journey
Artist: Bitshifter
Style: Trance
Duration: 5:07
Format: mp3 (160kbps)
The file can be found at the homepage of Liquid Skies.
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30.Jun.2003
Klaus Brandis (E-Mail)
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AmiNetRadio v2.0 released
The Shoutcast streamer "AmiNetRadio" was published on weekend in
version 2.0 and is available at the title link for download. The
package contains the following components:
- AmiNetRadio v2.0
- mpega.player v2.40
- shoutcast.player v2.70
- Skin V1.1
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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30.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Development of SBase4Pro
Russ Norrby of Mr. Hardware Computers, the owners of the "SBase4Pro"-rights (formerly known as "SuperBase 4 Pro"), reports at Amiga.org:
"SBase4Pro can now be compiled with the GCC. This puts us into the position
to provide PPC versions - for example for the AmigaOne.
The current version is v1.36 from April 2000. SBase4Pro is
a very powerful and flexible multi-relational data base. Some of our own
products were made using SBase, for example Retail Escort and Video Escort.
At present we are working on many improvements, for example on HTML outputs or
the possibility to lock files.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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29.Jun.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 29th June 2003
These are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last report:
GetAllHTML.lha comm/tcp 16K+Auto download or link-check entire Web s
bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
Loarre_Castle.lha pix/back 170K+Backgrounds of Loarres Castle
jpv_wb.lha pix/wb 293K+1024x768x16bit WB snapshot
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29.Jun.2003
Diverse
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Pictures from 'AmigaOS on Tour' from Gothenburg
You can find a subtitled picture report of AmigaWorld under the title link.
The pictures were taken on the
AmigaOS on Tour at
yesterday's presentation in Gothenburg.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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29.Jun.2003
Martin Heine
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Pictures from Amiga Show in Maarssen, NL
Martin Heine was nice enough to provide us with some meaningful
pictures from the
Amiga Show which took place
yesterday in Maarssen in Holland.
The photos were taken by Ron van Herk.
The event was well attended with more than 100 visitors. Genesi presented the
Video Microwave, the prototype of an STB case already known from the CeBIT and
of course the Pegasos with MorphOS in action. On four Pegasos computers as well
as an Debian equipped AmigaOne the visitors could form their own impression of
the current state of the two systems. Furthermore beta versions of Bars'n'Pipes
and FotoFoto for MorphOS were shown. The possibility to buy Pegasos boards at
the ComputerCity stall was also made use of. Furthermore the Access was shown
as well as Amiga merchandising goods such as the game "Amiopoly", Amiga antenna
balls for cars and mugs and T-Shirts from the OS4 tour.
MorphOS |
Access |
Amiopoly |
Antennenball |
BNP |
CGG |
Microwave STB |
A1 Debian |
Tower |
OS4 T-Shirt |
Pegasos |
Raum |
Raum 2 |
Raum 3 |
OS4 Tasse |
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29.Jun.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: New reviews and cover scans
Today Kultpower.de has received some updates:
74 (in words: seventyfour) new covers of the magazine PC Joker! A big thankyou
to Evil who scanned and sent in the covers! Btw, all are featuring the editorial.
New PowerPlay reviews from Powerplay 5/88, scanned by sys:
Ebonstar (Amiga), Io (C64), Ooze (Atari ST), Pandora (C64).
New ASM reviews from ASM 7/88, scanned by Ralf: Impossible Mission (Atari ST, C64),
IO (C64), Karnov (C64, Spektrum (reviewed), Schneider), Target (C64 (reviewed),
Spektrum, Schneider), Tube Runner (C16/116/Plus4).
Thanks to all helpers!
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28.Jun.2003
Uwe Ryssel (ANF)
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Lego Mindstorms for Amiga
Today I have released the Amiga port of NQC 2.5 r1 on my homepage.
With this it is for the first time possible on the Amiga, among other things, to program the Lego Mindstorms RCX. This can be used to control robots built with Lego bricks.
NQC (Not Quite C) is a language similar to C for the programming of these RCX stones. Furthermore is the communication via the serial interface and via USB (with Poseidon) supported.
Download: nqc.lha (181 KB)
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28.Jun.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: "Samba World Cup" CD version online
After "Samba Partie" and "Samba Partie Pro" is now the CD version
of "Samba World Cup 98" available for free download. It's the third and last part of the "Samba Partie" series by
Sayona Software. "Samba World Cup" is a football manager with "action" part!
Features:
- Spoken in-game comments and names
- 6 different field conditions
- Original players and team names
- 6 Europe leagues incl. 1. and 2. Bundesliga
- Team editor
- Action part incl. video recorder
- Comprehensive transfer market, settings, statistics etc.
The archive has a size of 10 MB and can alternatively be found on the "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002 CD", available for 10,- Euro at Fun Time World.
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28.Jun.2003
Moneyless (ANF)
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Magazine: Last independant issue of the "ST-Computer" released
The last independent issue of the German Atari magazine "ST-Computer" has been released. The magazine, available for seventeen years and for years now exlusively available as subscription, will in the future only be available as subscription supplement of the German magazine "PC-Welt".
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28.Jun.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: New WinUAE version announced
WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 8 WIP (26.06.2003)
Expected release date: first half of July
Bugs fixed:
- stuck joypad POV directional controller
- workaround for buggy sound driver (ISA SB16, maybe others)
that report zero as minimum and maximum supported sample rate
- possible crash when copying to virtual filesystem's root
- CD32 media change detection
- extended ADF write protection check
- extended ADF HD floppy support
- fast copper works again
- JIT FPU fix (Descent Freespace -demo)
- 57600 serial bit rate was incorrectly rounded to 56000
New features:
- all configuration file loading restrictions removed,
load new configuration file at any time!
- display width, height, depth, lores, doubling, correct aspect
can be changed on the fly
- bsdsocket.library updates
- improved audio emulation
(Mortville Manor and Maupiti Island speech)
- improved and more compatible CD32 pad emulation
- improved CD32 CD autodetection
- sound capture to wav-file
- Direct3D hardware filtering and scaling
- more configurable source tree, added very simple way
to disable features like AGA, JIT, bsdsocket, Picasso96,
harddisk, 68020+ etc..
- separate basic A500-only WinUAE executable included
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28.Jun.2003
Markus Lunk
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Browser: GCC version of AWeb 3.4 APL
For users who like experiments there's a new alpha version of AWeb
been released that you can download following the title link. Errors may lead to crashes. The user may be aware.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jun.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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Today: AmigaOS 4.0 on tour
Today takes for the fourth time the AmigaOS on Tour place in Sweden and Austria.
At this time AmigaOS 4.0 is shown on CyberstormPPC and the AmigaOne:
Saturday, June, 28th 2003:
- 09:00 - 18:00 h BOF - Building of Fun, Weblinger Gürtel 25, 8054 Graz, Austria
- 11:00 - 17:00 h Lilla Bommen Konferens Center, Gothenborg, Sweden
We are eagerly awaiting your visits!
Further detailed information can be found here.
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28.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Latest official AmigaOS 4 screenshots
Following the title link you'll find further official screenshots of AmigaOS4 by Hyperion.
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27.Jun.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis
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Tool: SRename Version 3.7.1
Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the final version 3.7.1 of the tool 'SRename'.
With this tool which works from AmigaOS 3.0+ you can easily rename files. In the new
version some new features have been added and bugs fixed:
New features:
Added "Filename" (fn) selector to specify filenames that should be
treated like filenames even if they contain wildcard characters.
Normally SRename can process such filenames in recursion mode but only
if they are present in the root directory, if they are not they are
treated as wildcard patterns.
"Filename" makes it possible to look for and rename such filenames in
recursion mode even if those filenames aren't present in the root
directory.
Added secondary arguments to "Dirpat":
"Androot" (ar) causes the filenames in the starting (root) directory to
also be renamed.
"Anddirname" (adn) causes the name of the directory that is entered with
Dirpat to also be renamed.
Removed "Persistentdp" that was used together with "Dirpat" because it's
behaviour is now the default for "Dirpat". Not having a persistent
pattern for entering directories didn't have much use.
Recursion can now be used with non-wildcards, for example giving an
ordinary filename to look for.
Bugfixes:
Corrected a bug in recursion where directories weren't always entered
with "Dirpat" if the names of those directories were also to be
modified.
To avoid this situation now directories are first entered and their
contents renamed, and the names of those directories are modified
afterwards.
Other changes:
The shell output has slightly changed in some instances.
The recursion bugfix has also caused slight changes to the shell output
in recursion, such as that the name of a directory has to be printed
again to avoid confusion if subdirectories in that directory were
entered and filenames in that same directory are also to be renamed.
Download: SRename371.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)
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27.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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IR-chat of the Amiga-show in Maarssen, Netherlands
For the Amiga-show
in
Maarsen, Netherlands which will take place on 28th June 2003 an IRC-channel has been
created: #AmigaParty on
ARCNet.
Participants are Genesi, Computer City
and Attention Software.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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27.Jun.2003
Niels Bache (ANF)
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Pictures of Niels Bache of the Amiga fair moved
Niels Bache wrote:
Up to now my pictures of several Amiga fairs have been accessible under
http://nbache.frip.dk/.
Although the people have earned much praise for their efforts for this free service
in my opinion there have been too many breaks in the last time.
Now I have found a new home for these sites where I have also more space.
Therefore I could add the pictures of the AmiGBG 2003 again and there will be the
possibility to upload the other pictures, too. In any case probably there will be
new pictures of the OS4 tour in Götheburg because I will go there today.
The new start page can be accessed under http://nbache.frac.dk/.
Please change your bookmarks.
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27.Jun.2003
REBOL (ANF)
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REBOL/View desktop now Open-Source
There is another aspect of pushing forward the open-source idea.
The desktop project will be released by Carl Sassenrath as an attempt to integrate the
community thus everybody can participate in.
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