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26.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


 Golem: Mitsumi: External floppy with integrated memory card reader
»7-in-1-drive for all usual memory cards
At the end of June 2003 Mitsumi Europe will introduce the 7-in-1 USB media drive FA 401 to the market which can read and write all usual memory cards and additionally normal 3,5-inches disks.«
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies records #042
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies has published its 42th music pack of its series. This time it contains a tune in Techno style called "Rush Hours" written by the Polish musician Rzs. By the way this is his first track for Liquid Skies Records! The cover was created by DaFreak.

Some additional information of the track:
Title: Rush Hours
Artist: Rzs
Style: Techno
Play time: 4:39
Format: mp3

The zip-packed file (4,4 MB) can be downloaded from the homepage. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jun.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


 ROMulus-extension for HIGHWAY is being delivered
From today on E3B delivers the FlashROM-Modules ROMulus for the known USB-controller HIGHWAY. Thus the most successful USB-controller of E3B can get further functions - without engaging a Zorro-slot. The network-modul NORWAY can be also used.

A cooperation with the company IOSPIRIT (Felix Schwarz) will make easy getting the upgrade for all interested users.

(ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


 Golem: Iomega with 4x-multi format-DVD-burner
»DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM in one device
Iomega has announced a new internal IDE-DVD-burner drive which DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM combines in one device and at least can burn on the first two mentioned formats with four times speed.«
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jun.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)


 Total Amiga Magazine: FTW Official Commerce Partner in Germany
After Fun Time World succeeded in putting out issue #14 of the English-language Amiga magazine "Total Amiga" they also made the decision to produce further issues in Germany, and have become the magazine's official German partner. The next edition, #15, is being completed and may already be pre-ordered.

Fun Time World: "We recommend that all interested parties order an issue. The price is unchanged."

In the latest issue of about 52 pages you can read:
  • AmigaOS 4 Update
  • Fleecy Moss (Amiga) and Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) Columns
  • Pegasos and MorphOS thoroughly explained and tested
  • IBrowse 2.3 Test
  • A few more exciting articles and reports
If you hurry, you can still get a copy of issue #14! (ps) (Translation: dm)

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26.Jun.2003
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)


 Report from AUGS Meeting / OS4 on Tour in Basel
The official report from AUGS Meeting 2003 in Basel is online, with pictures from Caspar Schlegel (AUGS). The meeting itself was enjoyable for the organizers (Claude Müller/AUGS and Jürgen Schober/point.design). The AUGS team was happily surprised that they actually had to bring in more chairs for the OS4 presentation, which they did with pleasure.

Locally, the way to the currently largest Commodore logo in the world was described: in "Aesch" not far from Basel one finds such a logo over 9 meters tall, where it has been for many years at the former headquarters of Commodore Switzerland.

Many thanks to all the visitors and have fun with the pictures. A special thanks to Jürgen Schober for his honorable efforts. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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25.Jun.2003
Erhard Bruse (ANF)


 Event: Pegasos board presentation in Leipzig
On June the 28th and 29th 2003 there will be a presentation of more tan 160 clubs and organizations from Leipzig held at the central railstation of Leipzig. At the booth of the Computerclub-Lützschena-Stahmeln where some fellows of the Amiga Club Leipzig are working, there will be a working Pegasos computer shown on both days. On Sunday Micha Heider will be there as well and will be testing and adjusting his Linux image installer CD for the Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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25.Jun.2003
yps aus dem heise Newsticker (ANF)


 heise: Critics regarding Apple's benchmark for the Power Mac G5
Like it can be obtained from the article by Heise which is linked by the title, Steve Jobs might have operated at the presentation of the Power Mac G5 at the WWDC with some dressed up speed values for the regarding to Apple world's fastest PC.
Read the full aricle (German) by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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25.Jun.2003
Michael Asse (ANF)


 Webmaster for Amiga Frontier page wanted
To all Frontier fans,
because I will have no more Internet access during the next time I am looking for somebody who wants to be webmastering my site www.amigafrontier.de.vu (title link).

The task is to check the page for dead links (and probably to correct them) and to answer user requests regarding Amiga and UAE (which happens around every two or three months)

As a further update there is the AtariST version of Frontier Elite II for a shareware download now on that site.

Right On Commander
Michael Asse (ps) (Translation: ub)

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25.Jun.2003
Amigan Software


 Tool: Report+ version 5.67
The freeware Report+ is now available in version 5.67. The tool bases on ReAction/GadTools needs AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten different functions: For example it's possible with Report+ to create Aminet readme files, the Commodore bug reporting tool can be replaced by it or the ammount of bytes for any directory can be shown. Within the new version some bugs have been removed, the IFF displayer is now capable of "IFF SPLT" forms and within the Aminet readme editor the directory tree has been updated.
Download: ReportPlus.lha - 314 KB (ps) (Translation: ub)

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25.Jun.2003
Terra Soft


 Terra Soft Offers Apple G5s Prepared for Yellow Dog Linux
Loveland, Colorado -- 24 June 2003 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions is today accepting pre-orders for Apple G5 Power Macs -- soon to be supported by Yellow Dog Linux. (ps)

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25.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)


 CAPS Poll Results Annouced
Results to the CAPS poll are now on the website, along with the decision, and the reasons behind it. (ps)

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25.Jun.2003
DENIC (Website)


 DENIC restricts access of Domain information data
Starting from July 2003 the DENIC will restrict the number of whois-requests with an automatic system to a limited time interval to avoid mass requests.

DENIC as registry for domains below .de provides several information systems, which can be used to find out whether a domain is already registered and if yes, to who. These services are heavily used. Since DENIC has recently increased its technical capacities about 6000 to 7000 requests are answered per minute. According to an analysis the registry more than 90% of these requests do not serve the purpose of determining the status of a domain or its owner once. Rather they are for checking continually in extremely short time intervals whether a certain domain is still registered, in order to register it immediately in the case of a deletion.

"We see less of a problem in overloading our systems, because we can handle the high number of requests technically without any difficulties. However, the excessive usage of the whois service by certain users causes costs, which at this point have to be shared between all domain owners", describes DENIC board member Andreas Bäß the background of these steps. "Another problem is the unlimited access to these directories in relation to the detection and prevention of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks. A limitation of the maximum number of requests from an address block solves both problems. Because then we can determine a threshold, upwards of which we assume an abuse of the services. However, we also want to motivate the intensive users to talk to us in order to mutually find an alternative way to satisfy their information needs."

Therefore, starting July 1st, DENIC will regulate the usage of whois requests more strongly. In addition to the above mentioned limitation of the number of requests, the owner data will in the future be only accessible by way of additional parameters. For those requests the number of requests per time unit will be reduced further in order to better protect the domain owners from an automatic utilisation of their address data. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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25.Jun.2003
Virtual Dimension (Website)


 Virtual Dimension: Photos from the "Back in Time Live" event
On the 21st of June 2003 there has been the first German Back in Time Live event in Wedel near Hamburg. A party regarding the C=64, at which amog other things there were a lot of remixes of popular SiDs. Virtual Dimension has been there and came back from that party with a bunch of photos. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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25.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


 Genesi: MPC 7447 for Pegasos G4 processorcard chosen
As announced on PegasosPPC.com their choice is made to use the Motorola MPC 7447 for the Pegasos G4 processor modules. Additionaly it is newly confirmed that these cards will be available from July on.

"This summer processor cards with Motorola's 7447, which work with 1 GHz and higher, will meet the Pegasos. The 7447 is the most recent PowerPC processor of the fourth generation (G4) by Motorola, which offers an improved performance compared to the predecessor generation (G3). Additional to an increased cache the 7447 offes 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 delivering more than one Gflops (one billion floating point operations per second) and still being affordable to an average user.

G4 upgrades will be available from July 2003." (ps) (Translation: ub)

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24.Jun.2003
Russ Norrby owner Mr. Hardware Computers (ANF)


 Mr. Hardware Computers will be at AmiWest 2003
Mr. Hardware Computers is happy to announce for the 1st time we will be at AmiWest July 26-27 2003. We will have AmigaOne G3XE & G4XE motherboards and systems for sale. Call in advance to reserve a system to your specs. We will have our popular PC-Amiga Multimedia Keyboard adapters MRHK-2D instock and also our newer Mouse adapters the MRH Mouse instock. Our SBase4Pro v1.36 (formerly SuperBase) will be on sale. Also many other programs and hardware. Let us know what you want before and we will try to have it. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jun.2003
Diverse


 Software Updates until 24.06.2003 in short
 
Worm Wars 7.51
The Snake clone "Worm Wars" of Amigan Software was released in version 7.51.
Download: WormWars.lha 565 KB

YAM2HTML Version 1.2
This little program enables the direct view of HTML files you received via email. You do not have to start an ARexx program nor to save it to RAM. A configuration file is included (in German) for "YAM". At this time Multiview, IBrowse, and AWeb are supported.
Download: yam2html.lha 17 KB

Blender Version 2.27: Port for MorphOS in progress
As reported on morphos-news.de, 'Yomgui' Amiga Impact says his Blender-Port for MorphOS makes good progress. Look a this screenshot. Yomguis port uses Jungl, the Mesa implement for MorphOS.
What is Blender? It is a 3D suite of the Dutch company Nan. With Blender you can create 3D objects, render as picture, or animate it. It also includes a 3D-Engine you can create for example interactive websites in 3D.
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jun.2003
WHDLoad (Website)


 Installer: WHDLoad - New Packages until 25.06.2003 (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games based on floppy to HD. Following packages are new/updated since last time:
  • 25.06.03 improved: Knights of the Sky (Microprose) supports another version
  • 25.06.03 new: Colonel's Bequest (Sierra) done by JOTD
  • 23.06.03 new: Xenex (Scorpius Software) done by Asman
  • 23.06.03 new: Ninja Mission (Mastertronic) done by Asman
  • 23.06.03 new: Myth (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
  • 23.06.03 new: Knights of the Sky (Microprose) done by JOTD
  • 23.06.03 improved: Genesia (Microids) protection removed, disk request removed
  • 23.06.03 new: A-Train (Maxis) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jun.2003
Audio Evolution (Website)


 Audio Evolution Version 4 nearly finished
Davy Wentzler has Version 4 for AmigaOS 4 / PPC nearly finished. The HardDisk-Recording Software for recording, rework, and play of audio tracks is distibuted by Computer City and was known under the old name 'PlayHD'. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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24.Jun.2003
DraGo International Trading & Consulting (ANF)


 Retro: CyberShell 16 Bit
For fans of Retro-Gaming now the game console 'CyberShell 16 Bit' is available. It is fully compatible with the SEGA-Megadrive (or Genesis). The console is working with a Motorola 68000 and could be available in Germany for ca. 30 EUR. Included are many teaching programs.
  • Style Design
  • Processor Motorola 68000 16 Bit
  • Processor Speed 8 MHz
  • Main Memory 128 KBit
  • Video Memory 64 KBit
  • Soundprocessor Yamaha
  • 512 Colours
  • 64 Colours on the Screen
  • Screen Resolution 72 KDots
  • Real Human Voice
  • SEGA Megadrive (Genesis) compatible (more than 500 games)
  • Cartridges
  • Max. Cartridges Volume 32 MBit
  • Data Save Ability
  • Including:
    • 1 Console
    • 2 Joysticks
    • 1 AC Adapter
    • 1 AV Cable
    • 1 User Manual
    • 1 Cartridge 33 in 1
    • 1 Mouse
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Jun.2003
Apple (ANF)


 Apple G5
Here they are the new G5 computers of Apple. And this is said about the new computers by Apple itself: "The Power Mac G5 is the worldwide fastest personal computer and the first computer with a 64bit processor. As the first personal computer the Power Mac G5 breaks through the 4 gigabyte border. It is able to use up to 8 gigabyte main memory. Additional to the speed of up to 2 times 2 GHz the new G5 processor has a new system architecture with high band width and AGP 8x and PCI-X-slot. Because of all these features the new Power Mac G5 has made the break through in the processing performance at the desktop computers." (ps) (Translation: dr)

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23.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)


 StartMenu: Pixload version 4.1
The version 4.1 of the start menu called Pixload is ready and contains some bug fixes in the German locale. There are versions for AmigaOS and MorphOS.

Download: Pixload-4.1.lzx (ps) (Translation: dr)

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23.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


 Golem: The end of the GIF-Patent
burnallgifs.org
20 June 2003: The LZW patent expires today in the United States. However, patents on LZW are still in force in other countries. Please continue to refrain from using GIFs. More importantly, do not allow your communications to be censored by the whims of patent holders. Things you can do:
  1. Oppose the expansion of software patents to your country, if such patents are not available there now.
  2. Insist that standards bodies in which you participate make an an "innovation compatible" (IC) license a requirement for any patents needed to implement a standard.
  3. Develop and support software that works with non-patented file formats and network protocols, instead of patent-encumbered ones.
Sign the petition against software patents in Europe.

PNG-Tips for Cartoonists
Hackles writes:
In short, PNG combines (and improves upon) the best qualities of GIF and JPEG, and can effectively replace GIFs on the Web. So why don't people use it more often? Here are some tips on how to use it correctly.

I wrote this article to encourage cartoonists to start using PNG, and to share some tips on exploiting PNG's strengths. Used correctly, PNG can drastically reduce the file size and download time of one's comics. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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22.Jun.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 Multimedia Authoring System: Malibu Version 1.0
Malibu 1.0 - the Scala plugin for Hollywood - is out now. When Malibu is installed, Hollywood will suddenly be able to display your Scala presentations. The compatibility is very high. You can run almost every Scala script. In 24-bit of course and absolutely RTG friendly! You can even compile your Scala presentations to AmigaOS executables or native MorphOS executables! A truly unique feature! Malibu is available in a version for AmigaOS3 as well as in a native MorphOS PPC version. Malibu requires at least Hollywood 1.5 and can be ordered in a discounted bundle together with the Hollywood 1.5 update or the Hollywood 1.5 full version.

-Introduction-

Malibu is a plugin for Hollywood which contains an import filter for Scala presentations. As soon as Malibu is installed, Hollywood will suddenly be able to show Scala presentations or compile them.

With Malibu it is now possible for the first time to display Scala presentations on Workbench screen or on your own public screen. Because the whole emulation runs on top of Hollywood's multimedia application layer everything will be first converted to 24-bit and then displayed. In many cases the quality of the pictures that Malibu displays is much better than the original Scala quality because Scala often had to remap many pictures with very different colors to a 8-bit display which resulted in a massive loss of color information.

Malibu emulates nearly the whole Scala command set and supports all Scala versions up to Scala InfoChannel 500 which was the last Amiga version of Scala. Emulation is done by the elCapitan microkernel which tries to achieve the best performance possible on the used system. For example, the next page is already calculated while the current page is on the display. Complex transition effects can also be pre-calculated and then displayed smoothly.

Scala is a program which helped the Amiga to become a real Multimedia wonder. There were no products for a long long time that could beat an Amiga with Scala. Therefore Scala was widely used in all different production fields, from movies and television to big shows. Everyone who has worked with Scala knows what powers it has. But this power is only possible because Scala is very hard coded to the Amiga's custom chips which leads to the problem that it does not run on graphics boards and also has some other major problems with today's Amiga systems. For many years all sorts of users complained that there is no Scala that runs RTG compatible. This time is over now. Scala revives with the Malibu plugin: On the Workbench? Of course. In 24-bit? You can bet your life on that. Always RTG conform? Absolutely.

Don't miss out! Watching Scala presentations on Workbench is a complete new feeling which every Amiga user should experience.

-Features-

Graphics:
  • Impressive Scala transitions (e.g. Superimpose, Roll on, Flow, Push, Diagonal)
  • Support for Scala text styles outline, shadow, charspacing, underline
  • Scala forms: Ellipses, rectangles, lines & polygons
  • Emulation of backgrounds with raster type
  • Complete brush support (incl. crop & resize)
  • Animations are supported
  • Transition effects for all Scala objects
  • Support for styles like bevel & background
  • Runs completely in 24-bit mode
  • Color fonts are supported
  • Smooth scrolling for Scala fly-ons
  • Emulation of all graphics attributes
  • Brush transparency is fully supported
  • Objects can be removed from screen with transition effects
  • All palette settings are respected and correctly converted
Sound:
  • Support for sound modules and samples
  • Audio output through AHI incl. full mixing
  • Sound fades are supported
  • Sound implementation is retargetable for use on Pegasos, Amithlon...
Environment:
  • All Scala versions up to InfoChannel 500 are supported
  • Margin settings and tabulators are respected
  • Scala variables can be used
  • Buttons and events are emulated
  • Almost complete emulation of Scala command set
  • Scala presentations can be compiled
  • Emulation can be configured in detail
  • Complete independent from environment; does not matter if Cgfx, P96, AGA, ECS or OCS is active
  • Absolutely system friendly
-Requirements-
  • Hollywood 1.5 or better
  • Kickstart 3.0 or better
  • 68020 processor
  • Graphics board recommended
  • 16 megabyte memory recommended
Visit the Airsoft Softwair Homepage for screenshots, detailed info and ordering of Malibu. (ps)

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22.Jun.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


 MorphOS: Iconset "MAME Bubbles Vol.1" released
I've just uploaded "MAME Bubbles Vol.1" to my homepage. It's a set of icons in 32bit PNG format with attached shell scripts for easy launching MAME games from MorphOS Ambient Desktop.

Volume 1 features icons for: All Points Bulletin, Black Tiger, Bomber Man, Bosconian, Bubble Bobble, Donkey Kong, Dynasty Warriors, Far East of Eden - Kabuki Klash, Taisen-Mahjong Final Romance 2, Garou - Mark of the Wolves, Ghost'n Goblins, Golden Axe, Gunbarich, Hyper Sports, King of Fighters 2001, Metal Slug - Super Vehicle-001, Metal Slug 2 - Super Vehicle-001/II, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug X - Super Vehicle-001, Neo Bomber Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pocket Gal, Psychics 5, Puyo Puyo 2, Puzzle Bobble 2/ Bust-A-Move Again, Q*Bert, Sexy Parodius, Street Fighter II - The World Warrior, Super Locomotive, Track & Field.

Get them from the website or if you want you can also look at the screenshot.

The second volume is in the queue and will feature Icons for e.g. "Contra", "Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter", "'88 Games" or "Saru Kani Hamu Zou - Taisen Block Kuzushi". Requests are allways welcome, write to karibu@gmx.net. (ps)

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22.Jun.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with AmiS (eNote, Visual Guide)
More than a year ago Olaf Köbnik approached Russian developer "AmiS" to talk about his tools such as "eNote" and "Visual Guide". Now he could find the time and you can read about his future plans and whether we may count on updates for his programs so far in the interview. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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22.Jun.2003
Mikey_C (ANF)


 Total Amiga Magazine: The wait is Finally Over
The finest issue of Total Amiga Magazine, hits the Printers!

So what's in Issue 15?

News
  • AmigaOS 4 Update
  • Columns from Fleecy Moss and Alan Redhouse
Features
  • Selling the new Amiga
  • "It's not about the desktop"
  • AROS: the DIY AmigaOS
  • Mac: Reloaded - getting back into classic Mac emulation
  • Quake II Competition
  • Tales of Tamar Update
Reviews
  • Pegasos and MorphOS 1.3
  • Subway USB
  • IBrowse 2.3
  • FXPaint 2
  • Aqua
PD Paradise:
  • ANR and Home Bank
  • Support
Top Tips
  • Tutorial: Hollywood Tutorial - how to create a simple presentation with the new multimedia package.
Plus new contributors, John Chandler, Richard Drummond and Andrew Korn.

Total Amiga Magazine. Issue 15 Will be out soon. To subscribe, or buy a single issue, please visit our website totalamiga.org. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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22.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)


 Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 13
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 13 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) MetalJoe: Previous versions of the OS have had official support for C and Assembler developers. What languages (i.e. C, Assembler, C++, Objective-C) will be officially supported in the initial OS 4 SDK and which, if any, are planned for future 4.x releases?

Fleecy: C and C++ will be supported in the first instance. We are talking with third parties about other support (Basic, Forth, and some others). We are more interested in getting a comprehensive toolchain and documentation in place before we start considering other language support.

2) Rudei: Can you clarify that the Amiga trademarks are indeed safe and still licenced to Amiga Inc? There has been a lot of malicious talk recently and it would be helpful to have an official line so we can quash the rumours once and for all.

Fleecy: Our attorney tells us that everything is as it should be. You will never quash the rumours because the reason for them is mischief and as long as they are people out there wanting to cause mischief, then there will be rumours. We just keep quiet and get on with it.

3) Dandy: Will DRM (digital rights management) and/or TCPA have any impact on AmigaOs-platform and if so, of what kind will this impact be? (As I understood it, it will be forbidden to advertise or sell hardware within the USA which does not include/support TCPA)

Fleecy: DRM is something that many OEMs are asking for as well as many developers who are tied of losing sales via piracy.

However it is still a very fluid and unsure area in both legal and technical application and it is not at a point where we have to give it much general consideration, just on a per customer basis.

4) hnl_dk: What do you think of the outcome, of the "OS4.0 on tour 2003" until now?

Fleecy: I think it has been very good. The fact that dealers and user groups worked together to organise it is a testament to the power of the Amiga community, where everything doesn't have to be driven by the centre. Jurgen and the others have done a great job and it has started some lively debate about the new default interface and praise for many of the new graphical features. That alone has caused a huge increase in requests for information and registrations of interest from around the world. For those who have stood fast through all the rumours about how it will never happen, then it will never work, it must be giving them a good feeling to see that their trust was not misplaced. The power of Amiga is about getting through the bad times as well as the good times and the supporters, the AmigaOS4.0 team and the community in general has come into its own and from here on, things will accelerate towards launch and rebirth of the platform.

5) Wain: What does the current AmigaOS roadmap plan in regards to upgrade costs? Do we pay full retail cost for every OS version up to 5 and after? I realize none of this is set in stone.

Fleecy: For AmigaOS4, this is the most likely although we are considering some form of product subscription as well, wrapped up with extra services and support.

6) Turbo: Is the aim for Amiga OS4 to be exclusive to AmigaOne based hardware? If not, how will this manifest itself? Will it run on top of intent? Could it be ported to custom hardware like you would find in say... a PlayStation 3?

Fleecy: The AmigaOS4 product family will run on any PPC solution that is certified by Amiga. We have several customers in various stages of negotiation as to getting AmigaOS4 onto their products. AmigaOne is the only desktop. The Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) product represents the next stage of developing core Amiga technology that can then be used in various product lines, including the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE. The ultimate aim of AG2 is to have a core technology pool that is hardware agnostic and which implements advanced technologies that can be used anywhere we want and which, most importantly can span the different types of devices to create a single environment for OEMs, developers and users.

7) pods: I know of people who have expressed disapointment of the current workbench and icons libraries implementation. Has there been schedules, or has there been talk about replacing these implementation with something more up to date?

Fleecy: The development of AmigaOS4 had a very strict priority. Encapsulate hardware dependencies to create an abstraction, move and then enhance the core of the AmigaOS into this abstraction and then replace Amiga Generation 1 domains by Amiga Generation 2 technology. AmigaOS4.0 is dealing admirably with moving our platform from a 68k and custom chip based solution to a modern PPC, modular subsystem hardware model. In doing that, it is far more important for us to ensure that the foundations are made solid, efficient and then improved.

graphics.library, layers, intuition and Workbench are all very old services that have been hacked and patched beyond even the wildest dreams of Dr Frankenstein. The fact that it all still works and that it can be made to look even better is a testament not just to the far sightedness of the original designers but also the the immense skill and knowledge of the AmigaOS4.0 team.

However, one of the AG2 projects currently underway is for the entire visual domain, 2D, 3D, Video and User Environment and we are working hard to ensure that most if not all of that technology will be in AmigaOS4.1. You can be sure that we will keep the community apprised and show off some of the visual delights to come as soon as we can.

8) Sbaitso: Are you familiar with the Amizilla project? What are your feelings about it? Is there any chance Amiga, Inc. may contribute to the cause?

Fleecy: I think it is another great example of the Amiga community in action and putting its money where its mouth is to improve and extend the platform. We will not contribute to the cause because it is a third party effort and also because if the rules of the project are correct, then we would be supporting potential competitors as well.

However, the most important reason is because a brand new, world class HTML rendering solution is one of elements of AmigaOS4.1.

9) Asemoon: Are Amiga's PDA game packages selling well at CompUSA stores and will they become available at stores in Europe?

Fleecy: They appear to have sold out in most stores in the US and we are in negotiations with Microsoft both to extend the number of cards and the volume of cards. We are talking with other vendors who themselves want to sell the Gamecards and some of these are active in the European market. We'll post more details when we can.

10) Asemoon: Will there be any alternative themes included on the AmigaOS4 CD?

Fleecy: It is something that is being considered but we want to at least have one that is complete before considering adding others.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=24
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb)

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22.Jun.2003
Claude Müller (ANF)


 OS4 Tour Basle: Short report
Yesterday the Amiga OS4 Tour stopped by in the centre of Basle. Several times did Jürgen Schober of pointdesign hold a presentation with subsequent question time on the event organised by the Amiga User Group Switzerland (AUGS). One of the presentations was even translated live for the numerous French speaking Amiga fans by a member of the Club Annuaire Amiga Francophone.

Due to the large number of visitors (from Switzerland, France, Germany and Holland), the interesting performances and the good mood AUGS as organisers are very satisfied with the course of the meeting and warmly thank all those involved.

Further reports and photos will be available on our homepage shortly and surely also from other sources. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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22.Jun.2003



 Aminet Uploads up to 22nd June 2003
Here are the Aminet uploads newly added since our last announcement: 
PPaint.lha           biz/cloan  3.0M+Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c Software
YamHTMLyam.lha       comm/mail   20K+Reads HTML pages with YAM(2.4 too) mail 
trsi-acidtop10.lha   comm/misc   72K+WeekTop Tool with 64Bit Support for FAME
MiamiDxCAT.lha       comm/net    49K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe 1.0c
NewsCoaster.lha      comm/news  468K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.57) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha   comm/news  229K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.57 - 16 Jun 
GL-pack1.lha         dev/c       18K+Examples to start programming with TinyG
jikes-diffs.lha      dev/lang    34K+IBM's fast Java compiler, v1.18 (diffs)
jikes.lha            dev/lang   831K+IBM's fast Java compiler, v1.18 (source)
jikes000.lha         dev/lang   623K+Fast Java compiler, v1.18 (68000 binary)
jikes020-060.lha     dev/lang   619K+Fast Java compiler,v1.18 (68020-060,FPU)
6581sid-sdk.lha      dev/misc     1K+Unofficial 6581sid.library SDK
TCS.lha              dev/misc   701K+320x256x8 50 FPS C2P on A1200/030 & more
TCS_demo.lha         dev/misc   494K+TCS & tcs.library interactive presentati
GL_BMP_Load_11.lha   dev/src    244K+OpenGL BMP texture loader routines
amigazette_16.lha    docs/mags  1.3M+AMIGAzette 16th issue (20.06.2003) (ital
PairsNG_Demo.lha     game/wb    2.0M+Great board game for CGFX/P96, AHI Sound
PairsNG_DemoUP.lha   game/wb     90K+Update of PairsNG Demo to V2.03
PairsNG_View.jpg     game/wb    128K+Great board game for CGFX/P96, AHI Sound
SmartScale.lha       gfx/conv    32K+A CLI/WB program used for gfx conversion
BorderColor.lha      gfx/ifx      1K+A Color Border script for IFX
Crystallize.lha      gfx/ifx      1K+Crystallize EOT script for IFX
EOT_PolarBlur.lha    gfx/ifx      2K+Polar Blur EOT script for IFX
RadialStar2.lha      gfx/ifx      3K+Radial Star EOT script for IFX
AMP2_RU.lha          gfx/show     8K+AMP2 russian documentation v2.04
iverilog-amiga.lha   hard/misc  736K+Icarus Verilog HDL Simulator
anescgfx.lha         misc/emu    93K+A/NES CGFX v1.32 - Nintendo emulator
P87.lha              misc/emu    26K+Abstract computer simulator.
051_mpfree.lha       mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
psy_vs_blk.lha       mods/moods  40M+Moods - Psycho vs. Blakkhar 2002
MAMEcons_03.lha      pix/icon   310K+MAMEcon icons for MorphOS MAME (set 3)
NewAge-Icons.lha     pix/icon    10M+Realistic, shaded OS3.5/3.9-Icons
Raouls-WB.lha        pix/wb     1.5M+3 Snapshots of Raoul Boger's WB feat. Ne
BareED_Alone.lha     text/edit   77K+Simple text editor which supports propor
AmiGOD2.lha          util/moni   84K+Benchmark Tool - 15.06.2003
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22.Jun.2003
Diverse


 Software Updates in short up to 22nd June 2003
 
SmartScale Version 2.0c
Lorence Lombardo has provided his CLI/WB program for picture converter scripts SmartScale in Version 2.0c for download on his homepage. SmartScale Readme

New Wordworth plugin for text viewer EvenMore
Chris Perver has rewritten the Wordworth plugin for his text viewer EvenMore. Here is the original anouncement:
"Rewrote WordWorth plugin. Will now pick up command packets, and will display any ANSI text formatting. Still to work on colour, but this seems more complicated. Colour support now added to the WordWorth plugin."

Emulator: UAE-X Version 0.8 - Amiga-Emulator for X-Box
You can emulate an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 on your X-Box with UAE-X. UAE-X has been released under General Public Licence. The Micorosft XBOX XDK is required for compiling. Besides the new version 0.8 you'll find extensive information and some screenshots under the title link.
New in version 0.8:
  • SnaX: added config selection. uae config files are now in /configs/ -SnaX & Zhevon: XBOX Keyboard support!
  • Schlauchi: better default config file (old savestates might be broken, you'll have to load "Default (from previous UAEX versions)" to have them work)
  • SnaX: Hardfile support working


ARexx-Script: YamHTMLyam
Download: YamHTMLyam.lha (177 KB)
It is used for reading HTML pages and embedded images (if there are) downloaded along with e-mails using YAM mail client for Amiga. It uses various Amiga browsers. The ARexx program has Italian doc. too.

Peter Hutchison's printer drivers
New EpsonStylusColorv40 beta driver out. Please download and test for me!

TTEngine ported to MorphOS
TTEngine is a TrueType Font based text rendering environment for AmigaOS. Author Grzegorz Kraszewski has ported the program to MorphOS. It has been tested on a standard Pegasos with a G3/600 MHz. "TTEngine achieves over 12000 cps in JAM1 mode and over 20000 cps in JAM2 mode on 24-bit screen and Voodoo3 PCI board, which is over 150% faster compared to emulated 68k version. NOTE: TTEngine MOS requires MorphOS 1.3 or newer."
(ps) (Translation: cb)

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21.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


 Pegasos/MorphOS review by Christophe Decanini
Christophe Decanini, co-founder of the French Amiga retailer APS and co-moderator at ANN, has (in English) created one of the most detailed reviews of the Pegasos and MorphOS 1.3. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies records #041
The scene group Liquid Skies has yesterday released the 41st music pack in their series. This time it contains a tune in the GoaTrance style called "Out Of Nowhere" by the German musician Angeldust. The cover was done by himself.

Here some more information about the track:
  • Title: Out Of Nowhere
  • Artist: Angeldust
  • Style: GoaTrance
  • Playing time: 5:28
  • Format: mp3
The zip packed file (5.1 MB in size) is available as always for free download on the homepage following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Jun.2003



 amiga-news.de moves today to a new server
To make amiga-news.de once again still faster we move today to a new server. As last time everything is prepared perfectly and we don't reckon with any problems. Should any disturbation arise we'll surely fix them in no time. In the worst case some comments or forums entries will get lost. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Jun.2003
Cyborg (ANF)


 Software: AntiSPAM 2 now with 70% hit rate (update)
AntiSPAM 2 is finished: the new version of the spam killer works on a new basis and reaches now a dramatically improved hit rate of measured 70%.

Features of AntiSPAM 2 (excerpt):
  1. It analyses spams by the frequency of words.
  2. It needs no remote filters.
  3. It is much easier to install.
  4. It works parallel with YAM and doesn't block it anymore.
  5. It also works offline or in conjunction with other clients.
  6. It has a white list to prevent unwanted deleting.
  7. A manual finetuning is possible.

Now a thankyou from the developer to all who participated in AntiSpam 1 as this is what AntiSpam 2 just made possible. Thanks for the 3500 spams! :) (nba)

Update:
The download link has been corrected in the meantime and should now work. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Jun.2003
Michael Battilana (E-Mail)


 Fair: News to the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 on 05.07.2003
As we have already reported the fair A3 (Amiga Alpe Adria 2003) will take place on 5th of July 2003 in Udine, Italy. On the website you will find all necessary information such as the program, overnight accomodations, music festivals and concerts. It is described very detailed.

Tomorrow will be the last day where you can book a so called cheap fly. You can find further information on the website.

Here is the orirginal message:
Tomorrow is the last day to take advantage of some great 14-day advance airline tickets. Have a look at the airline information, but also the concerts ("Cultural Events"), the sightseeing and the food. Then we are likely to have an unexpected meeting of demo coders with some new presentations, and lots of people from different countries (even two different registered guests who did not know of each other coming from... Australia!). (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jun.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)


 Event: Saturday, June 28: Amiga Show
The Dutch HCC Commodore User Group organizes an Amiga Show on Saturday June 28 from 10:00 till 16:00 at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland. ComputerCity, Genesi and Attention Software will attending our Amiga Show with their newest products like the AmigaOne, Pegasos, VideoMicroWave, a STB Prototype, MorphOS and a new game. There will be a lot of demonstrations and activities and for all Amigans: This is the opportunity to meet all famous national and international Amiga people!

Description:

  • AmigaOne - Amiga computer with G3 or G4 PowerPC microprocessor, works with LinuxPPC operating system or AmigaOS 4.0
  • Pegasos - PowerPC computer from Genesi, with a G3 or Dual G4 PowerPC processor. Operating system MorphOS or LinuxPPC. Some other operating systems will be developed like some Linux variants, BeOS, OpenBSD etc.
  • VideoMicroWave - Soft- and hardware bundle for video on a Pegasos or other Amiga compatible computers. For our demonstration we will show a Pegasos computer in a microwave.
  • STB prototype - Digital signaldecoder from Genesi, based on the Pegasos and MorphOS technology.
  • MorphOS - AmigaOS compatible operating system for PowerPC processors.
  • Attention Software will demonstrate their new FotoFoto game at some Amiga systems.


More activities and participants can still join our program next week, all other Commodore computers and lovers will also attending at this show. For more news and our new Forum (you can also add your own news) look at our website: http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/.

Other participants on June 28 are: www.amiga.nl - www.amigaclub.nl - www.amigascene.nl - www.attention-software.com - www.compcity.nl - www.genesi.lu.

For the next great Amiga Event look at: http://www.beneluxamigashow.com/. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


 Apple: Specifications of the new models with PPC970 CPU
Several news services (such as OSNews) reported that today the official online-shop of Apple has announced the exact specifications of the new computer models of Apple. This might have been a mistake because meanwhile the new models have been deleted from the website.

Here are the exact specifications:
  • 1.6 GHz, 1.8 GHz, or Dual-2 GHz PPC-G5 CPU
  • Upto 1 GHz CPU Bus
  • Maximal 8 GB DDR SDRAM
  • Fast Serial ATA
  • AGP 8x Pro (ATI/Nvidia)
  • 3 USB 2.0 Ports
  • 3 PCI or PCI-X slots
  • One FireWire 800 Port, two FireWire 400 Ports
  • Bluetooth & Airport Extreme ready
  • Optical and analog audio in and out


The new Macintosh-models will be probably introduced by Apple on a conference in San Francisco which will take place on Monday. At the same time this conference will be shown via satellite in Berlin for invited press members. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jun.2003
Felix Schwarz (ANF)


 MorphOS SDK 1.0 pre-release 1 published
The first release of the offcial MorphOS SDK is available for MDC-members (MorphOS Developer Connection) in the files section. It is called "pre-release" because many but not all OS-parts are considered.

This release of the MorphOS SDK contains:
  • MorphED 1.0
  • a complete PPC-native GCC/GG-compiler-environment
  • a complete set of MorphOS-includes
  • Documentation, example code and articles about the many features of MorphOS
  • the current release of Barfly PPC ASM (as contribution)
  • the current OpenPCI SDK (as contribution)
(nba) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jun.2003
Felix Schwarz, Martin Heine (ANF)


 MorphOS Developer Connection opens its doors
Today, the MorphOS Developer Connection (MDC) officially opens its doors.

Every developer working on MorphOS-related projects is welcome and encouraged to become a free member of the MorphOS Developer Connection.

What is the MDC?

The MorphOS Developer Connection (MDC) is mainly a communication and support platform that serves as a central interface between general third party developers and Genesi.

It aims at supporting third party projects and developers interested in development or actively developing for MorphOS with information and organizational infrastructure (if needed).

What are the benefits?

If you join the MDC, you have, among others, the following benefits:
  • access to the MorphOS SDK, including documentation, MorphED and a complete GCC-based compiler environment
  • discuss and exchange with other developers
  • establish new business contacts
  • organize your own project in dedicated forums, file groups and using our project tree (only on request)
  • get listed in the developer addressbook & link-directory
  • organize or participate in events
  • everything developer-related in ONE spot

Costs?

The MDC is a free service of Genesi to support the MorphOS developer community. Thus, there are no fees.

Join us!

Join us! A membership is completly free. Click here to sign up. You'll receive an email once your account has been activated. (nba)

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20.Jun.2003
Robert Konrad (ANF)


 Emulator: QuarkTex - a Warp3D - OpenGL wrapper for WinUAE
Robert Konrad wrote:
I have devloped QuarkTex within the last two months with the help of Bernd Roeschs. I did it because of a discussion here on amiga-news.de. The program works quite good but please read the documentation. There are limitations.

download page (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jun.2003
(ANF)


 Current prototype of Amiga Coldfire-card
Under the title link you can find a current picture of the new platine layout of the Amiga Coldfire-card. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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19.Jun.2003
Creative Development (Website)


 Status Report on the Development of UltraBUS
Massimo Mancini, owner of Creative Development, has reported after a long period of radio silence on the status of the development of the UltraBUS.

Because of some hardware damage the Zorro-II-based USB controller received only limited development in the last three months. The development on the project has 100% recommenced after a successful repair of a defective Cyberstorm MK3 card, and it could with a bit of time show clear steps towards trial equipment, port adapters and stack optimizations. In the meantime the hardware itself stands shortly before the serial preparation and is newly improved in certain technical aspects. Related information and a complete update of the entire Creative Development homepage should follow shortly. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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19.Jun.2003



 Print Magazine Amitopia Ceases Publication
The Norwegian print magazine Amitopia has been discontinued after seven years on account of insufficient editorial support and successively poorer sales figures. This is according to the editor in charge, Michal Bergseth. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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19.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


 MorphOS: Possible New Game Project - a Trojan Horse for the Mac?
Genesi came up with an idea of developing a new game. This is considered in a possible cooperation with producer Elie Chouraqui. It might then be possible to use this game as a "Trojan Horse" for the Macintosh version of MorphOS.

Whoever is interested in cooperating in this should send an email to: Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco.

Following are both original statements from Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck on MorphZone:

1)

"Gladiateur"

If you have been in Paris the last few days you would have probably seen THIS! It is being produced and directed by Elie Chouraqui. His last film of international renown was Harrison's Flowers (2000).

Last night we had dinner with Elie (thanks to some very good friends of ours). We discussed his latest projects, including "Gladiateur", which is based on the Roman slave uprising lead by Spartacus.

When Raquel and I heard the story line we started to think we might had found our Morph-Apple "Trojan Horse" game.

We told Elie about MorphOS and the Pegasos, contrasting MorphOS and Genesi with Windows and Microsoft...could the Pegasos be the computer gladiator of the 21st Century?! Could the Pegasos inspire another Revolution?! We said OK, let's figure out whether or not we can do it...

Release date: 1 October 2004
MorphOS/Pegasos and Morph-Apple releases
We will invest for this Project! Here are some basic ideas:

1. Themes: Freedom, personal empowerment, responsibility, leadership, teamwork, good vs. evil, changing the world...

2. When a Gladiator (single player) overcomes the challenges of the arena (the CD itself), they qualify to step into the online world and join forces with others who have overcome the arena to fight on for the Revolution (online via the rebellion portal).

Online players hold roles and work together to overcome specific task oriented challenges. Imagine this... You play the CD or through the settings assume an old score...you connect. Online you meet those that are there... you "chat" and plan to overcome the various tasks and requirements.

For example:

Task: Mount Vesuvius
Requirements: Ten Gladiators
Objective: Overcome a Roman Centuria (100 men lead by a Centurion)

The team has to cooperate to be successful and have a strategy for success. Think of Knights and Merchants...

The game and story scale from there. The historical setting is accurate. The greatest success occurs when the most online players cooperate. Game sequences can be re-lived to analyze and improve group game performance. The game takes a quality of its own based on the teamwork and unique skills and resources of the players...

Post feedback here please! Pegasos! Raquel and Bill

2)

Just spoke with Thomas Steiding (thomas@epic-interactive.com), who would be the Project Manager for the effort if we can pull the right people and agreements together. As some know e.p.i.c. is soon to release Northland that could be tuned for the theme we are discussing. We would have to go from vikings to gladiators, but it is not too much of a stretch if the right engine is there and we can get Andre to do some new artwork...

If you are interested send us or Thomas an email.

This could be fun!

Raquel and Bill (nba) (Translation: dm)

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18.Jun.2003
Christoph Kimna (E-Mail)


 Game: PairsNG Version 2.03
Since today the version 2.03 of the game PairsNG is available. PairsNG is a game similar to Shanghai and running on the Workbench. The game is provided as shareware and might be registered for about 10,- Euro.

Changes since version 2.01:
  • Input errors at the highscore fixed
  • Errors within the catalogues removed
  • AHI-Guru fixed
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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18.Jun.2003
Heise (ANF)


 heise: European software patents coming closer
Yesterday a directive advice for patenting computer implemented inventions bas been accepted by the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (JURI) at the the Brussels' EU parliament.
Read the full heise article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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18.Jun.2003
Golem (ANF)


 Golem: Apple attempts to stop the Barebone Mac project
»US-retailer must not sell Apple compounds to computer manufacturers.
The small company evolved from the private "Mac Based Computer Project" CoreComputers, that has its activities at www.2khappyware.com, has lost its supplier due to some Apple investigations. The supplier must not - reasoned by some contract details, sell hardware compounds to a computer manufacturer. CoreComputers ambitioned goal is to offer valuable and good looking barebone sytems to Mac enthusiastics.«
Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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18.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Kickflash OS4: Final product specifications
Due to the high demand, Kickflash OS4, which has been announced on June 2nd, has been revised. The base version now has 1MB of flash memory, and can be expanded to 1GB on an expansion port. Transfer rates can be compared to normal hard drives, but the common access times of mechanical mass-storage media practically don't exist on flash memory: On random access, so-called solid-state memory is about tenthousand times faster than common hard drives.

Kickflash OS4 is a Zorro-card that's compatible with all Zorro-2 and Zorro-3 systems. The new base price for the board is 34,90 EUR. Prices for expansions are not yet available. (ps)

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18.Jun.2003



 Aminet Uploads until June the 18th 2003
Here are the added Aminet uploads since our last report: 
AmFTP175_ES.lha      comm/tcp    19K+AmFTP 1.75 Spanish locale, V2.1
AmFTP_CAT.lha        comm/tcp     7K+AmFTP 1.90 Catalonian locale 
PalmFTPAmiga.lha     comm/tcp   229K+Connect your Palm via FTP to your Amiga
ctags.lha            dev/c      347K+Generate tag files of source code
EasyACDDA.lha        disk/cdrom 344K+Play&Save CD tracks with Gui - EasyACDDA
AmigaPower.lha       docs/hyper  58K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (June 
bouldercaves.lha     game/jump  472K+V5.20, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
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AS-Accordion.lha     game/think 202K+Accordion Solitaire Card Game
AS-Calculation.lha   game/think 218K+Calculation Solitaire Card Game
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AS-Findit.lha        game/think 229K+Find cards among the others
AS-Freecell.lha      game/think 162K+The well known game
AS-HighLow.lha       game/think 192K+HighLow Card Game
AS-Memory.lha        game/think 216K+Finding Pairs in fewest moves possible
AS-Montana.lha       game/think 217K+Fill In The Gaps
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AS-Remember.lha      game/think 205K+Remember AND find cards
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DIYrekoIII.lha       gfx/ifx     35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
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swfplayer.lha        gfx/show   305K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.2e) 68k+
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AnimSeries.lha       pix/icon   520K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
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Bidochon.lha         pix/icon    91K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
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Chanteurs.lha        pix/icon   145K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
Charentaise.lha      pix/icon    81K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
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DossierFrench.lha    pix/icon    88K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
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ElastokSystemA.lha   pix/icon   687K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
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EuroCoins.lha        pix/icon   324K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
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Guignols.lha         pix/icon   134K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
LTF.lha              pix/icon   240K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
Mail01.lha           pix/icon   507K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
Maillol.lha          pix/icon    45K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
MAMEcons_01.lha      pix/icon   265K+MAMEcon icons for MorphOS MAME (set 1)
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Manu01.lha           pix/icon   518K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
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Nikopol.lha          pix/icon   523K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
Philemon.lha         pix/icon    40K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
QueteOiseauTem.lha   pix/icon   101K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
AP22Covers.lha       pix/misc   317K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 22 Covers Recto & Verso
ssnake_WB_01.lha     pix/wb     352K+Screen grab of my BVPPC WB
ReqCollect.lha       util/cli    53K+A collection of "request" CLI tools
FlipSide_v2.0.lha    util/misc   16K+Middle-Mouse Button Screen Flipper
TPrint_ITA.lha       util/misc   69K+TurboPrint 7.00 Italian catalogs
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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18.Jun.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)


 Music: Bjorn Lynne - Under The Bard's Tree
Bjorn Lynne by the CD label 'LynneMusic' is pleased to announce the release of the new audio CD "Under The Bard's Tree". Read with the following the original message:

A new track: "Under The Bard's Tree"
Dear friends...

I have a new music track, just finishexd this week and now available to download in mp3 format: "Under The Bard's Tree": http://www.mp3.com/bjornlynne.

The track is from my next CD, "Return to Witchwood", which is now 95% ready, and only a few minor adjustments remain. This CD will be my next "big" project and I really can't wait for it to be finished and released. It's been 1 year and 3 months since the release of my previous Bjorn Lynne CD, "Colony".

I made two different mixes of "Under The Bard's Tree", probably only one of them will be used on the CD album, "Return to Witchwood". I haven't fully decided which one. So I've made a kind of "voting" thing on my Message Board where I'd like you to come in and "vote" for the version of the song that you like best. I'm not saying I will definitely choose the most voted for version, but that may at least sway my decision.

So if you would like to listen to both versions of the track, from http://www.mp3.com/bjornlynne and then cast your vote for the version that you like best at http://www.lynnemusic.com/messageboard.html, that would be helpful. Thanks! (ps) (Translation: ub)

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18.Jun.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)


 heise: Patent for a dual boot PC to avoid viruses
That idea just has to come to mind... The 65 years aged hobby musician Claude M. Policard gets a patent for a system with two independent operating systems for surfing and working.
Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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17.Jun.2003
Ron van Herk (ANF)


 Genesi/Phoenix Pegasos Summer Sale
Genesi/Phoenix Pegasos Summer Sale:

Pegasos I/G3 for 299,- upgrade to PegII/G4 for 200,-
Pegasos I/G4 for 499,-
Both for Phoenix members

Betatester Blowout:
Pegasos Betatester 199,- Pegasos April1 249,-

All prices in EUR and are excluding VAT, the offers are available from all participating Pegasos dealers such as APS, Computer City, eFunzine, GGS-Data, Vesalia and others. More information on the Pegasos can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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17.Jun.2003
Tobias Franke (ANF)


 Amiga OS 4 On Tour: report by Amiga Club Augsburg
A complete report with more pictures is online.

The Amiga Club Augsburg send thanks to all guests and partners for a succesful arrangement. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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17.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)


 Interview with Matthew Kille - AmigaOS 4.0 GUI Design
Under the title link you can find an English interwiew with the AmigaOS 4.0 designer Matthew Kille, which was made by Mike Bourma of Amiga World. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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17.Jun.2003
IBM / Linux Kernel Mailing List (ANF)


 Linux-compatible 64Bit-operating system K42 from IBM for PPC
K42 is a operating-system research project (available under LGPL) focused in large part on scalability in the implementation of core OS services. We will give a brief overview of the project, discuss some of the recent performance results running 64-bit PPC Linux binaries and discuss the major ways that our implementation of Linux services depart from the norm (hopefully making sure to bring up all the truly offensive and contentious ways).

K42 employs building-block technology to allow applications to customize and thus optimize the OS services they require. This is particularly important for applications, such as databases and web servers, where given the ability to control physical resources, they can improve performance. K42 is portable; it currently runs on PowerPC systems (both native and using SimOS). K42's design allows implementors on a particular architecture to choose what objects of the system should be customized for that architecture, and as a result allows the implementors to exploit any architecture specific features to improve performance. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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17.Jun.2003
ELBOX COMPUTER (E-Mail)


 Mediator-Spider-promotion-arrangement of Elbox Computer
Elbox Computer, a polish developer of hardware for amiga computers, had announced a promotion arrangement for all users, who buy a Mediator PCI-Busboard in an Elbox Online Store between 17. and 30. of June 2003. With every bought Mediator-Busboard, the buyer gets a Spider II USB 2.0 card for free. You can get more information on the store website under the titlelink and also in the englishspeaking product description.

About Mediator:
The Mediator PCI busboard line is designed to enable expansion of Amiga computers with a wide range of PCI cards. The following PCI cards are already supported in Mediator busboards: Voodoo5, Voodoo4, Voodoo3, Voodoo Banshee, S3 VirgeDX and S3 Virge PCI graphic cards; Spider USB 2.0 host controller cards; Fast Ethernet 100Mbps and Ethernet 10Mbps PCI network cards; Sound Blaster 4.1 digital, Sound Blaster 128 and ForteMedia FM801-based sound cards; TV tuner cards. The Mediator busboard is a necessary expansion for Amiga computers to employ the power of the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors, around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+ cards are based. Mediator busboards are available for the following Amiga models:
  • Amiga 4000T (Mediator PCI 3/4000T)
  • Amiga 4000D (Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 3/4000T)
  • Amiga 3000T (Mediator PCI 3/4000T)
  • Amiga 3000D (Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 3/4000T)
  • Amiga 1200 (Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI ZIV, Mediator PCI 3/4000T).
About Spider:
The Spider II USB 2.0 card is a 5-port Hi-Speed USB 2.0 PCI controller. Spider II is the most powerful USB host controller for Amiga computers. The enclosed SpiderCD includes Mediator and Amithlon EHCI (USB 2.0) and OHCI (USB 1.1) drivers for the Poseidon stack. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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16.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)


 AmigaWorld: Article of DatorMagazin about the AmiGBG 2003
In issue no. 06/2003 of the renowned Swedish computer magazine DatorMagazin was published an article about the Goeteborger meeting AmiGBG, which was now translated by the on-line magazine 'AmigaWorld' into English and made available at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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16.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies records #040
Liquid Skies released music pack no. 40. This time it contains a tune by Lcr called "Painted Shogun" which is a Drum'n'Base track. The cover was made by Kudaziw.

Details:

Title: Painted Shogun
  • Artist: Lcr
  • Style: Drum'n'Base
  • Duration: 3:42
  • Format: mp3
The file (3.4MB) is available at the title link.

Furthermore Liquid Skies welcomes a new member - Rzs. He will release his first track in one of the upcoming music packs. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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16.Jun.2003
WHDLoad (Website)


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 16.06.2003
With WHDLoad you are able to install games which were meant for the floppy usage only, on your non removable disk. The following packages were added and/or updated since our last message:
  • 15.06.03 new: Death Bringer (Spotlight) (Spotlight Software) done by Galahad
  • 15.06.03 new: Psychedelic (Virtual Dreams) done by Psygore
  • 15.06.03 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) various improvements
  • 14.06.03 new: Gary Lineker's Hot-Shot! (Gremlin) done by Codetapper
  • 14.06.03 new: King's Quest 5 (Sierra) done by JOTD
  • 14.06.03 improved: King's Quest 4 (Sierra) supports BTTR version
  • 14.06.03 updated: Silent Service 2 (Microprose) another version supported, completely rewritten
  • 14.06.03 improved: Abra Cadabra (Coktel Vision) supports another version, protection removed
  • 13.06.03 fixed: Magicland Dizzy (Codemasters) memory usage fixed
  • 13.06.03 fixed: Dizzy Collection (Code Masters) various fixes
  • 13.06.03 fixed: Lords of the Rising Sun (Cinemaware) copy protection fixed
  • 13.06.03 new: Hillsfar (SSI) done by Galahad
  • 13.06.03 improved: World Class Leaderboard Golf (Access) fixed TOP crash, supports course disks
  • 10.06.03 new: King's Quest 4 (Sierra) done by JOTD
  • 10.06.03 new: Hot Rod (Activision) done by DJ Mike
  • 08.06.03 fixed: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) fixed French version crashing
(nba) (Translation: sk)

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16.Jun.2003
Diverse


 Software Updates until 16.06.2003
Scalos Beta 40.28
The Workbench alternative Scalos was published in the beta version 40.28. Archives can be downloaded of the website of the developers at www.scalos.co.uk.

AmiGOD2 Beta 15.06.2003
The benchmark tool AmiGOD appeared on 15 June 2003 in a new beta version, in which two new Pegasos tests were integrated as well as an early version of a hard disk and a memory test. The Download is available at amigod.zde.cz. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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16.Jun.2003



 Presentation of 'Foto-Foto' at the Amiga Party in Maarssen
The programmers of Attention Software will present for the first time their new game 'Foto-Foto' at the Amiga party 2003, which takes place on 28 June in the Dutch Maarssen.

'Foto-Foto' is a game, in which from two nearly identical fig. five differences must be found. The game runs locally, the photos however will be downloaded from a website, on which also the highscores are stored. 'Foto-Foto' is developed for Amiga OS and MorphOS.

Genesi, which present the Pegasos at the meeting, will make a chat session possible (# Amiga party - ch1.arcnet.vapor.com). (nba) (Translation: sk)

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16.Jun.2003
Brian Deneen


 AmiWest 2003: Participation of individual Computers
individual Computers, developer of hardware for Amiga systems, will participate, according to data of the exhibitors, in the AmiWest exhibition, taking place in the American Sacramento on the ends of July 2003. They will present new and well-known products for the Classic Amiga, AmigaOne and Pegasos. Further official information is to be expected shortly. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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16.Jun.2003
anonym (ANF)


 AmiWest 2003: Pegasos flies westwards
Yes! Pegasos is flying west, and for the first time at a major American Amiga show, the Pegasos will be available for users to get a first hand look at what MorphOS on the Pegasos is all about. With at least five Pegasos computers at the Genesi booth, everyone can be assured a turn at taking a Pegasos out for a test flight.

At the 2003 version of AmiWest, YOU can get YOUR hands on the Pegasos, a tangable successor to our community's platform of choice. See first hand the MUI3.9 PPC integration into your OS experience, feel the power of a PPC processor pushing both classic and new applications, and experience the transformation in our community. You've seen the forums, read the contriversies, and watched the flak fly. At AmiWest, however, there will be no smokescreen thick enough to come between your curiosity and the Pegasos running MorphOS. See the PEGASOS first hand at AmiWest.

Just in: MorphOS 1.4 with the Trance JIT for MorphOS will be released in time for AmiWest! (nba) (Translation: sk)

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15.Jun.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


 AmigaOS game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 - Rockford is back!
BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 has just been released on the Aminet (Download see title link)! The most significant improvement since V4 is the direct support of Picasso96 and CyberGraphics. With that all RTG related problems should once and for all have been eliminated.

Thanks to the likewise new AHI support BoulderDäsh runs on all AmigaOS compatible Systems (A500, Ax000, Amithlon, MorphOS, OS4, UAE). Merely OS2.0 or better is required. Rockford is back - He will rock you!

BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 - Features list:
  • 1:1 Clone of the original
  • Runs in Multitasking
  • Online help
  • Locale support
  • Programmed according to Commodore Style Guide
  • 2D soft scrolling and full speed even on an MC68000 (no jerking of animations or scrolling)
  • Full gfx card compatibility through Picasso96/CyberGraphics support, thus up to 256 colours with full screen scrolling
  • Full sound card compatibility through AHI support
  • More thans 10000 (!!) levels included!
  • 36 different games gfx
  • 6 different fonts
  • 5 different sample sets
  • 6 different in game songs in retro style
  • All settings can be done via Gadtools GUI
  • Extension by further game elements (fake bricks, fake metal...). Thus interesting new level possibilities arise.
  • Levels of any size possible (under NonRTG only depending on ChipMem)
  • Automatically administered high score lists for each game
  • Comfortable level editor
  • Gravity is adjustable in four directions in every level
  • Games editor to compile complete games
  • Possibilty of creating custom in game gfx with a paint program
  • Possibility of integrating custom sound fx with a sampler
  • Possibilty of creating custom in game music with a Protracker compatible music editor
(ps) (Translation: cb)

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15.Jun.2003
heise.de (ANF)


 heise: Warez-Gruppe Fairlight calls it quits
Fairlight, the warez group well-known in the scene are announcing the immediate cease of their work in an NFO file. Fairlight have been very active on Amiga and C64.
Read the German heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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15.Jun.2003
.design/kdh (ANF)


 'OS4.0 on Tour': Thanks to AC Augsburg
We hereby want to express our thanks to the Amiga Club Augsburg and its many helpers for the warm welcome in Augsburg on the occasion of the 'OS4.0 on Tour' event. Everything was prepared excellently and with much idealism (e.g. the Amiga museum) and also carried out with great commitment. It is good to see and to know that there are still many friends of the computer legend 'Amiga' and many users waiting for OS4.0 to hit the market to be used on an AmigaOne or a Cyberstorm/Blizzard PPC board.

Thanks also to our guests from Hyperion who despite the heat and a long journey met all visitors' questions openly and willingly. Warm thanks also to Michael Böhmer (E3B) who was able to present the Algor USB card Chris Hodges (Poseidon) in action, and thanks also to Jens Schönfeld who extensively illuminated the C-Ones history and mode of operation in the well proven manner of a lecturer. Not to forget Christian Brenner with his 'Monster A600'.

Point-Design
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: cb)

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15.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


 First presentation of a UAE-JIT PPC
For the first time Bernie Meyer presented a modified UAE-JIT version for PPC at a meeting of the Australian Amiga Users Group. Pictures of Bernies iMac and his Pegasos can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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15.Jun.2003
amiga.org (ANF)


 Event: AmiWest 2003 News Update
Computer Connection (Video Toaster) will participate in the Amiga fair AmiWest 2003, taking place on 26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento, California. Further news about this event can be found in the extensive press release under the title link. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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15.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Movie: Second Animatrix filmlet online
The second Animatrix filmlet can be seen on the Internet resp. downloaded. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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15.Jun.2003
Walter Gehring (RAMses) (ANF)


 Amiga OS 4.0 on Tour in Augsburg: Pictures by Walter Gehring
Under the title link you can find further pictures by Walter Gehring (RAMses), taken yesterday in Augsburg. All pictures can be downloaded as a ZIP file.

Download: os4.zip (1,7 MB) (ps) (Translation: cb)

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15.Jun.2003
AC Augsburg (Website)


 AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by AC Augsburg
Further pictures of the Augburg Roadshow are online on co-organisator Amigaclub Augsburg's Website. Further information to follow! (ps) (Translation: cb)

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14.Jun.2003
AN-Forum


 AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by Stefan Hägele
Following the title link you'll find quite some photos made by Stefan Hägele with his Sony DSC S75 today in Augsburg. People who want to watch the pictures in a higher resolution may download them here:

Download: AOS4.0_on_Tour.zip (32 MB) (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Jun.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)


 GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted geographically according to continents and countries. Today the following areas have been updated:
  • Europe
  • New Links List
  • Lost Links List
  • History 2003
(ps)

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14.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Big update of Dia-CD (slideshow on VideoCD)
This time is the update of Dia-CD very substantial, it contains the following innovations:
  • Title generator for still videos and slideshow.
  • Smooth fade in and out of the sound in the still video or the slideshow; therefore no sudden sound disruptions anymore. But you now need the Sox version sox-12.17.4.lha.
  • Title preview (needs a PBM datatype in the system - contained in the archive).
  • The collected source images the slideshow is made of are all archived with Lha and written to the VideoCD image. This way they are preserved. The old function has been removed.
  • New format supported. Next to Mpeg1 for the VideoCD creation is now the Internet suitable DIVX4 used.


Installation:
Copy sox, multiview, ppmlabel, ffmpeg 0.4.6, vcdimager, dttoppm, mogrify and lha into the c: directory. Unpack PBMdt44.lha and copy the files to the according directories. Install Tritonrexx, tritonlibrary and Rexxtricks.

Hint:
Many switches, listers and sliders are comprehensively explained in the online help. This counts expecially for the new Gui objects of the title generator.

Important!
The titles for the still video or the slideshow are taken from a text file. You have especially to take care of the text formatting. This is taken over 1:1! This means that a line end or a tabulator are shown in the video the same way they are existing in the text file. This way you can easily put several lines of text into the video. Furthermore is unfortunately only 7bit ASCII code generated so that no German special characters e.g. ä, ö, ü or ß can be found. The title is inserted only in the first four seconds of a slideshow, even if this is running unlimited. This can be worked around as it is e.g. allowed to use as many Mpeg1 files for VideoCDs as VCD track source as you want.

Title generator:
This one comes with unusual many settings possibilities: font size, font colour, title rotation and title position. If you should be more ambitious you should better use Monument Designer.

Remark:
The script is now absolutly stable. Should something crash it's usually dttoppm or ffmpeg. These I have to a great extent under control so that normally nothing should happen. The only important thing is to use a separate temp directory for each slideshow as otherwise ffmpeg will without a doubt get problems and crash. Besides that you should use no more than 10 source images with each slideshow as otherwise dttoppm renders problems. If you want to put these on VideoCD this limit doesn't matter as you can create as many tracks as you want. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (email)


 StartMenu: Pixload 4 speaks German
As already reported has the final version 4 of the startmenu Pixload for AmigaOS and MorphOS been released at the beginning of June. In the meantime has the German localization been finished. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


 Pegasos: Phoenix offer now also for dealer
For the few Pegasos-I boards still on the shelves at the retailers Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck offer that these may be sold for the Phoenix price of 299 Euro if the buyer enters the Phoenix developers consortium. The price difference would then be payed directly at the particular retailer. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Jun.2003
Boing Attitude (email)


 AmigaDE: Word Me up is finished
Glames wrote:
Boing Attitude team and myself are pleased to announce you that Word Me Up, our first game on AmigaDE, is now finished. We'd like to thank all these people that support and help us. Many thanks to you!

More info on:
French version - English version (ps)

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14.Jun.2003
Morotola (ANF)


 Motorola: 68060 with 60 MHz and Amiga 68k compiler at Motorola
MC68060 : Superscalar 68K Microprocessor
(Including the LC060 and EC060)

The superscalar MC68060 represents a new line of Motorola microprocessor products. The M68060 product line consists of the MC68060, MC68LC060, and MC68EC060.The MC68EC060 offers superscalar integer performance of over 110 MIPS at 75 MHz. The MC68060 comes fully equipped with both a floating-point unit (FPU) and a memory management unit (MMU) for high-performance embedded control applications. For cost-sensitive embedded control and desktop applications where an MMU is required, but the additional cost of a FPU is not justified, the MC68LC060 offers high performance at a low cost. Specifically designed for low-cost embedded control applications, the MC68EC060 eliminates both the FPU and MMU, permitting designers to leverage MC68060 performance while avoiding the cost of unnecessary features.

- M68000AMPRT Amiga Port of Matthew Brandt's CC68K Compiler
- MC68060RC60 206 PGA (Pin Grid Array) PRODUCT STABLE (ps)

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14.Jun.2003
SWAUG (ANF)


 SWAUG: Amiga OS 4.0 questions for Thomas Frieden
The users group SWAUG has asked Thomas Frieden some questions about AmigaOS 4. Following the title link you'll find the English questions and answers. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)


 Official AmigaOS 4 screenshots
Following the title link you'll find five new official screenshots of AmigaOS 4. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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13.Jun.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)


 Elbox: eFlash Memory for Amiga
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga computers, is proud to announce two new products:
  • eFlash 4000 Zorro III card
  • eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card
eFlash 4000 is an autobooting Zorro III card with 1MB (one Megabyte) of FlashROM memory with extremely fast 32-bit long words access.

The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs, which are run at the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI cards installed in Mediator-equipped A3000 and A4000 computers before the AmigaOS system starts. As a result, computer may be booted from mass storage devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g. Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards. The users of the new Amiga operating system--AmigaOS4.x--will have an additional benefit: the eFlash 4000 card will give them a possibility of definite shortening of the system's start time by executing the AmigaOS code from the FlashROM memory.

FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 4000 cards allows 100,000 erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative batch of programs stored in the eFlash 4000 memory.

eFlash 1200 is an autobooting PCMCIA card with 1MB (one Megabyte) of FlashROM memory. The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs, which are run at the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI cards installed in Mediator-equipped A1200 computers before the AmigaOS system starts. As a result, the computer may be booted from mass devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g. Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards.

FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 1200 cards allows 100,000 erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative batch of programs stored in the eFlash 1200 memory.

Pricing and availability The eFlash 4000 Zorro III card will be on sale beginning with 15 July 2003 at the suggested retail price of only EUR 35.95 (VAT excl.). The eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card will be on sale beginning with 15 August 2003 at the suggested retail price of only EUR 29.95 (VAT excl.). (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jun.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)


 Magazine: Obligement N° 39
Issue 39 of the AmigaOS/MorphOS magazine Obligement is now available. You can read in this issue: report of the Huno Party 2003, Interview of David Gerber and Nicolas Sallin (from Genesi), interview of Emmanuel Rey (from Relec), review of VHI Studio 6, review of Birdie Shoot, review of Knights and Merchants, article about MorphOS 1.3 (very complete!) and AmiNetRadio, hardware with AmigaOne XE G4 and USB keys, and other interesting articles. (ps)

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13.Jun.2003
MorphOS News (ANF)


 Demoscene selections done
Decisions have been made. The competition was so tight, the last two remaining Pegasos-system winners were elected by asking several people about their opinions. Sorry for the ones who were left out, there were many who would have deserved one, but we tried to make the best selections based on several things, past success and current activity being the most important ones.

The people who will get a loaned Pegasos and participate to the democompetition are:
  • Creative Minds
  • DCS
  • Floppy
  • Ephidrena
  • Haujobb
  • Iris
  • Loonies
  • MFX
  • Potion
  • TBL
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jun.2003
KDH Datentechnik (ANF)


 Tomorrow: 'OS4.0 on Tour' in Augsburg
The 'OS4.0 on Tour' will be take place on Saturday 14th June 2003 from 10.00am to 8.00pm in Augsburg in the club rooms of Amiga Club Augsburg. The newest pre-version will be presented by Jürgen Schober, Point-Design, Austria.

Some developers of Hyperion will be present such as Steffen Häuser, Hans-Jörg Frieden and Thomas Frieden. The members of the Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik will demonstrate some AmigaOne with Debian Linux. Michael Böhmer from E3B will demonstrate the newest member of the USB-family, the USB-controller Algor. Jens Schönfeld from individual Computers will demonstrate the new C-One and will also give advice you to all of his products.

AmigaOne boards and equipment as well as several 'OS4.0 On Tour' merchandise products can be bought on the stand of KDH Datentechnik.

New screenshots of OS4.0 will be available here on Saturday: On the AmigaOS-website, at Amiga World and at Virtual Dimension Multimedia Produktionen.

Pictures of this event will be published here: At Amiga Club Augsburg and at KDH Datentechnik. The Amiga Club Augsburg will also produce a video about this event. We will inform you about the corresponding link.

Pictures via Livecam you can find here. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jun.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)


 Update of the VirusZ III Antivirus Bootdisk
The VirusZ III bootdisk has been updated and is available for download as of 7th June, 2003.

Available at:
VHT Kanada
VHT Netherlands und
VHT at Yahoo (ps) (Translation: dm)

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12.Jun.2003
Motorola GmbH (E-Mail)


 Motorola: The Handy Turns 20
The mobile telephone has turned 20 years old. Since the 1983 introduction of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the cellphone has turned from the prestigious posession of executives to the constantly present tool for everyman. Few other inventions have changed life so much in the last two decades.

Note from translator: the article goes on into a long German language history of the cellphone. If desired, you may copy the address of the amiga-news.de German language article (http://www.amiganews.de/de/news/AN-2003-06-00096-DE.html) into an automatic translation service, such as that found at http://www.altavista.com by clicking on the "translate" link. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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12.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


 Golem: Java.net - Comprehensive Open Source Platform for Java
»James Gosling has announced begun a new development platform
With java.net Sun has started a new website, which groups together information, code and communications possibilities for Java developers, including Wikis and Blogs. This new Java-oriented open source community has been announced by James Gosling, the "father" of Java. Sun themselves have provided a few million lines of code to the new community.«
Read the complete article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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12.Jun.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)


 Partners of 'AmigaOS4.0 on Tour' 2003 in Basel
For the first presentation of AmigaOS4.0 on Tour 2003 in Basel - 21th June, the local AUGS club and the B&S Digitronic reseller are happy to confirm you already the participation of:



The German AmigaOS4/AmigaOne presentations will be translated in English and in French.

More information: http://www.augs.ch/amigaone/
In French: http://www.augs.ch/amigaone/fr.html
(With online subscription. Very important for the restaurant reservation).

Don't miss this great event and come to Basel with us! :-)
Basel, the ideal swiss city at the German and French borders. (ps)

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12.Jun.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood 1.5 released
The long awaited, major update 1.5 for Hollywood was released today. Because of the great new features and the long development time, there is an update fee of $22 USD (only for users, who bought Hollywood before April 1st 2003). Hollywood 1.5 is available in an AmigaOS 68k version as well as in a native MorphOS PowerPC version. Many new features have been added to Hollywood 1.5, here are some of the most important:

  • Support for multiple graphics layers
  • Full control of layer position, size, transparency and light setting
  • 68k version can also create MorphOS executables now and vice versa
  • Over 50 new impressing transition effects (totalling in over 100 now!)
  • Integrated image-processor that supports: Rotation, color inverting, gray scaling, axis flipping, texturing, mixing, lighten, darken, scale, stretch and tinting
  • Support for Intellifonts
  • All audio output is retargetable through AHI including full channel mixing and 16-bit stereo audio
  • Full control over master volume
  • Possibility to limit maximum number of frames per second
  • Windows can have a dynamic transparency
  • Joystick support!
  • Powerful object animation functions
  • Off-screen rendering
  • New GUI
  • Over 80 other useful new functions! (totalling in over 240 now!)
  • Many new impressing example programs
Malibu, the Scala plugin for Hollywood 1.5, will be released in a few days. You can already order it in a bundle with Hollywood 1.5 and save some money. Malibu is also available in an AmigaOS 68k version as well as in a MorphOS. Please have a look at the product pages of Malibu and Hollywood to get the ultimate overview over both products. (ps)

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12.Jun.2003
Maja (ANF)


 TweakPC: Microsoft Purchases RAV AntiVirus from GeCAD
Microsoft takes the virus protection of their own operating systems in hand. After this takeover, the developers will work on an integrated virus protection for Windows. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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11.Jun.2003
heise Newsticker / B. Lindner (ANF)


 heise: GIF soon free of patents?
The heise article features the fact that on the 20th June 2003 one of the moste hated software patents (US patent 4,558,302), the "GIF patent" by Unisys, will expire.
The complete article (German) is to read by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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11.Jun.2003
Golem IT-News (ANF)


 Golem: WLAN for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and fellows
»SMC introduces Ethernet to WLAN Box
SMC Networks have introduced a new device of their EZ Connect WLAN product family with that ethernat capable devices are enhancable with WLAN features. The SMC2671W adaptor works within the 2.4-GHz band with a maximum bandwidth. of 11Mb/s.«
Read the full article (German) by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)


 Elektroniknet: QNX realtime platform to download free of charge
»QNX Software Systems are offering developers their QNX realtime platform for a download free of charge. This offer is valid for all users who will not use the system commercially i. e it's intended for prototyping, test issues or private use. With the download developers get a full working version of the QNX realtime OS including the complete suite with QNX OS moduls like the microkernel, data system, network manager etc. Included is a GNU tool chain, a code generating application builder, the Photon microGUI windowing system, Internet and multimedia applications, hundreds of utilities and source code for many applications, drivers and libraries.«
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)


 Elektroniknet: PCI architecture documentation
»Wanted: The optimum PCI interface
Additionally to the article set of electronics (starting with issue 11/98, see page 107) about state machines and PLD programming of a PCI interface this document includes a full documentation for the PCI architecture as a word.doc file. (Freeware, German)« (ps) (Translation: ub)

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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)


 ELektroniknet: How costless is Linux?
»The experience of an independant software developer
A little bit costless? Or not free at all? During a Linux project there arrive many obstacles which are invisible in the beginning. This lesson an independent software developer had to experience personally.«

Here are some extracts from the article which is readable by the title link (German):
  • "I just finished to install embedded Linux on a PowerPC system; That opend my eyes. [...]"
  • "After some months our hardware was stable, our Linux port too and the application was more or less ready to use [...]"
  • "Is embedded Linux the potential to grow? Sure at least. Is it really costless? No way. [...]"
  • "Embedded Linux is real, it's capable to grow but it is not gratis. It is easy to get attracted by embedded Linux but then you will soon find yourself within the operating system support business rather than in the application development. Would I chose Linux again? Yes I would but this time with a seeing eye from the start.
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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11.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)


 AmiZilla Website gets a major update
The Amizilla site has been updated.
  • New! AmiZilla Mascot by Eric Schwartz now online. Thank you Eric for all the hard work and effort you put into designing her.
  • NEW! AmiZilla FAQ Update
  • NEW! Hot CoCo briefly announced. This project will kick off after AmiZilla is a success. Info about it is in the AmiZilla FAQ.
  • New! AmiZilla Guidelines, thank you Targhan for coming up with most of the AmiZilla guidelines.
  • New! Amiga Arena interview now on the AmiZilla website for easy reading.
  • New! AmiZilla Mailing List has over 119 members and over 120 messages. Messages are not about basket weaving they are about coding. Keep in mind this mailing list is less than 3 weeks old.
  • Booty now @ $3696.
    Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful. The booty is almost @ $4000 which is a nice amount of money. If only one programmer was working on the port this would be a nice reward. However several programmers are working together. Once 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.


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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11.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Sound card: New delfina.library beta version
The new version of the delfina.library now supports the sound card on the clockport of the Highway USB card by E3B. Unfortunately, the clockport of the Highway card is not 100% identical with the clockport of the A1200 motherboard, so proper function is not ensured in all cases. Please report any problems.

Download: delflib416b44.lha (22KBytes) (nba)

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10.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies records #039
The scene group Liquid Skies published their 39th music package of their series. For this time it contains a Goa/Acid-Stil Tune called "Goo:Astral" from the musician Ritzu. The cover was styled by Subass (an ex-member of the scenegroup Vortex)

  • Title: Goo:Astral
  • Artist: Ritzu
  • Style: Goa
  • Play length: 4:58
  • Format: mp3 (160 kbps)
You can get the Zip-packed file (5.8MB) standing free on the homepage, that address you can get under the title link. It is ready for downloading. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


 Golem: SCO shows first proofs
The board of directors of the Linux-group e.V. has agreed to accept the leaving of the SCO-group until the 30th June 2003." We regret the deciding of the SCO-group to work against Linux and free software", so LIVE boss Thomas Uhl. So SCO showed first proofs to special analysts.«
Please read the complete article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
DCE Computer (Website)


 DCE: producing of Pegasos 1 GHz G4 CPU-cards started
You can find a photo of the modul under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
amiga.org


 Pegasos-Review of Magnetic Systems
Here you will find a review from 'magnetic' about the PPC computer Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
apple (not the company) (ANF)


 Portable Amigapad ;-)
amiga-webpad. The webpad runs ca. 7 hours an is controlled by a pencil. UAE runs with sufficient speed. The way to the Internet is open with a Wireless LAN-Card. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
SAMBA (Website)


 Net: Samba Version 3.0 Beta 1
You can read things that have been changed here.

Samba is a software, which makes connectings possible between PC and Amiga. You can get more information to Samba for Amiga under amigasamba.org. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
Egon Münch (E-Mail)


 Mexikon: Cactus-encyclopedia in HTML-Format Version 3.1.19
It contains maps of Mexico and photos of over 650 arts of cactuses.

Egon Münch has killed all known bugs and built in a few new texts and pictures. More improvement things are working. F.e. the writer will built in better texts for a few arts of cactuses. Also there are a photos added, that are just made shortly.

The download is written in two main parts

Mexikon.lha - 2.78 MB
Pics.lha - 45 MB
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)


 PairsNG: New demo-version published
  • Bugfix: crash by datatype-faults
  • Bugfix: faults at time items
  • Bugfix: many little faults
  • Bugfix: level times are adjusted, beginner + profi + 1 minute

PairsNG is a game like Shanghai for the Workbench. The game is shareware and could be registred for 10 Euro. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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09.Jun.2003



 Aminet Uploads until 09.06.2003
Aminet Uploads which were added since our last report: 
P61DevBas.lha        dev/basic   31K+Using Player61 library from HBasic
Feelin030513.lha     dev/gui    424K+20030513 New, Powerful and Impressive OO
WormWars.lha         game/misc  587K+Worm Wars 7.5: Advanced snake game
AmiChess.lha         game/think 2.0M+Chess based on GNUChess 5.05/06
PairsNG_Demo.lha     game/wb    2.0M+Great board game for CGFX/P96, AHI Sound
ImageConvert.lha     gfx/conv    35K+ImageConvert 2.1, batch converting with 
DIYrekoIII.lha       gfx/ifx     35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Reko2As.lha          gfx/ifx      2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
PoseidonMain.lha     hard/drivr 373K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.1b
PoseidonMOS.lha      hard/drivr 476K+Poseidon USB for Pegasos Update 2.1b
maguila.lha          misc/emu    23M+MAGUILA GUI for MorphOS MAME
Viejas-del-Sot.mpg   mods/mpg    10M+Dieziseven new song
won-zoo1.jpg         pix/fauna  148K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo2.jpg         pix/fauna  151K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo3.jpg         pix/fauna   83K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo4.jpg         pix/fauna  147K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo5.jpg         pix/fauna  145K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
Pixload-4.0.lha      util/rexx  792K+Pixload 4.0 (a tiny "dock" in RXMui)
VirusZ.lha           util/virus  92K+VirusZ III 0.9e - Antivirus Software
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
WHDLoad (Website)


 Installer: WHDLoad - Additions since 08.06.2003
WHDLoad lets you install floppy based games onto your hard disk. The following additions were made since our last report:
  • 08.06.03 fixed: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) fixed French version crashing
  • 08.06.03 new: Lost Dutchman Mine (Magnetic Scrolls) done by JOTD
  • 08.06.03 new: Genesia (Microids) done by JOTD
  • 08.06.03 new: Chaos Strikes Back (FTL) done by JOTD
  • 08.06.03 improved: Return of the Jedi (Domark) slave optimised, added blitter waits
  • 08.06.03 fixed: G-LOC (U.S.Gold) crash when starting game fixed
  • 07.06.03 new: Insector Hecti in the Inter Change (PAL Developments/Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper! Congratulations! 1400 installs!
  • 07.06.03 new: Fatal Heritage (EGO/Delta Konzept) done by Wepl
  • 06.06.03 new: High Steel (Screen 7) done by DJ Mike
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09.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)


 Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 12
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 12 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) Bodie: Considering that OS4 has yet to be released, have sales of the AmigaOne thus far largely fallen in line with expectations?

Fleecy: Since an AmigaOne is a combination of the certified Eyetech hardware solution and AmigaOS4, it is hard to make any comments about the sales of the hardware alone. People want to buy an AmigaOne so that they can experience the latest version of their favourite operating system running on new and powerful hardware. Eyetech has sold quite a few units of the hardware but as we have not yet completed the full product and pre launch promotion has only just started, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour events, we don't really have any sales expectations for this stage. From our standpoint, this final stage is all about raising the levels of excitement and exposure, building towards the launch stage.

2) Pods: Have you considered Envoy over SMB for network support? What were the pros and cons? What other tools have you considered.

Fleecy: SMB is technically quite a let-down in terms of robustness, reliability, performance and general architecture. But it's the only game in town when you want to do printer and file sharing across a heterogeneous network (that is, while it works; printer sharing is at best a black art of sorts). If you don't mind that it can take anything between 5 minutes and three days for changes in the network topology propagate through the SMB server/client chain, that it occasionally refuses to work without any apparent reason and that the Amiga SMB support is nowhere near as polished as it ought to be. Envoy is the best integrated peer to peer file, printer and resource sharing system for the Amiga. However, it is being owned by a third party and would need further polishing to integrate it into the operating system (the user interface needs a brush-up). The downside to Envoy is that it's Amiga-only.

3) alx: Is there any more news on the BlizzardPPC version of OS4?

Fleecy: Our partner, Hyperion Entertainment has asked for feedback numbers in order to judge the demand for a BlizzardPPC version. The issue is that we have to move the the platform forwards and so we do not want people to think that a BlizzardPPC is a viable long term solution for the AmigaOS platform. In the short term we will support the CSPPC (even though its hardware implementation leaves a lot to be desired) and most likely the BlizzardPPC (even though it is a few orders of magnitude harder to support than the CSPPC) but this will only be in order to allow owners of these products to test out the new OS and see where we are going with it.
In addition, performance on these accelerator driven products will be a far cry for what can be experienced on the new Amiga certified hardware.

4) MetalJoe: What are the requirements/costs for Amiga certification of hardware i.e. to run AmigaOS 4 on a new PowerPC motherboard developed by a start-up?

Fleecy: The requirements are simple. Provide a piece of hardware on which AmigaOS4 can potentially run, arrange for it to run on the hardware so that it can pass our certification test suite and convince us that there is a viable commercial market for AmigaOS4 on that piece of hardware. We have been approached in the past by people requesting this information but they have only been interested in small numbers of boards, which makes no commercial sense (unless those third parties want to pay huge premiums per individual board).

5) ssolie: There are some rather vocal members of the Amiga online community who do not trust anything you say and consider you to be a liar. How do you feel about this kind of public criticism and how it may reflect on Amiga Inc. as a whole?

Fleecy: I have four kids, one of whom will be a proper teenager soon so I am used to being detested, insulted and called a liar by those with their own agendas, those who lack all the facts and those who just enjoy the pseudo celebrity status that goes with making lots of noise.

Public criticism comes with the role of having a public presence. Commercial activity is for adults and in the adult world, things don't always go according to plan, nor in the way that you want or even expect. We have had a very rough last three years and I certainly wouldn't say that we haven't made any mistakes. What is important is that we have held firm, worked with our partners and have kept going. AmigaOnes are now shipping, the AmigaOS4.0 is getting closer and closer to production release, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour programme now under way. That is the only way you can answer criticism, by delivering.

6) DaveP: I have been reading a lot of speculative and unsubstantive articles on Moobunny and ANN about the precense of the Articia S bug - or rather the one that the April 1 chip tried to fix. People posting checksums as evidence that it is the Articia S at fault. Can you give us a definitive, in depth explanation as of the situation right now with A1, Articia S and the relevance of these articles if any?

Fleecy: We have spent a lot of time looking at these claims, along with Eyetech, Hyperion, Mai and now Via as well. We have no evidence of the Articia S being responsible for any of the issues claimed. There are well known and documented issues with the Southbridge chip and where it has been used in other systems, those integrators have addressed those using hardware and/or software solutions. Indeed some of the reported issues seem to be because of incomplete implementations or failure to understand the capabilities of the hardware within the specific operating systems on which the problems have been reported.

The 200 MB chunk IDE DMA capability is well known and has not yet been addressed within the Linux PPC driver.
For AmigaOS, which is of course our chief concern, this is not a problem at all. When looking for a future hardware model, we were concerned about the coarse granularity of the PCI model and in particular the way a single process could take control of the bus. For a platform such as the Amiga, which prides itself on total system responsiveness, this is unacceptable and we had intended to implement these services in a chunk based solution anyway, in preparation for the consideration of other packet based bus architectures that would allow us to deliver our quality based solution for the future.

7) GregS: I had read that OS4 will have filesystem room for User and Group IDs, besides the filename is there another space that could be used for a Universal Unique File ID?

Fleecy: The user and group IDs have been in there for quite a while (1992?), it's just that besides Envoy hardly any software package would use them. As for universal unique file identifiers, there isn't an API to create or manage these with, and file system implementations, such as FFS, may not even have room for these in the first place. The 32 bit 'key' numbers associated with each directory entry are a poor substitute.

8) donV: Do you know of any plans for adding complete Java J2SE support for AmigaOS? What about complete Java J2ME support for AmigaDE?

Fleecy: Once the AmigaDE is added to the AmigaOS then J2ME functionality will be available. Further Java capabilities are on our 'to do' list but this is a large list and a lot of those items are likely to take precedence over Java.

9) defrisselle: Since you are located in the UK, will you be organizing a stop on the OS4 tour or have to talked to UK resellers/retailers about setting up a stop on the tour?

Fleecy: The 'AmigaOS4 on Tour' programme is not an Amiga Inc event, although it has our support. It has been organised by Jurgen Schober of Point Design and other dealers as a taster and promotional event for those dealers, using a demonstration of the new AmigaOS4.0 as a draw. Jurgen is the point man for this and will be driving to each dealership each weekend to demonstrate AmigaOS4.0 on a set of machines. I don't believe he was contacted by a UK dealer.

My time is taken up with finalising the pre launch, launch and post launch global marketing campaign for AmigaOS4.0.

10) ikir: OS4 contributions drawer will it contain an office suite (like Star Office, Open Office...)?

Fleecy: The AmigaOS4.0 contributions drawer is for third parties, both commercial and free/shareware who want to distribute versions of their applications to AmigaOS4.0 purchasers. Anyone wishing to take advantage of this can contact me directly. I am not aware of an currently being developed office suite existing for the Amiga, even in a 68K version so I don't believe there will be one.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=13
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
clickBOOM (Website)


 clickBOOM: S-Files 23 - History auction
The Canadian game publisher clickBOOM is back. clickBOOM released a new edition of the S-files, a regularly published report about the current status of the company. clickBOOM has moved and has also new phone number. In the course of this move clickBOOM will auction an Amiga 4000/PPC wich was used for the creation of some of the most well known Amiga games ever. The device will be signed by the team members. The auction can be found here. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
Boing Attitude (Website)


 Boing Attitude: Photos of AmigaOne XE G4/800
The French online magazine Boing Attitude published some photos of an AmigaOne XE G4/800 which they got in April. These photos depict the mainboard as well as parts of the tower and the running Linux boot systems. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
Timo Kloss (ANF)


 New Midi-Sequencer "Horny" by Inutilis Software
Horny will be a Midi Sequencer in the style of "Logic" or "Cubase", whose simple and uncomplicated operation is the center of attention. Differently than its models Horny is to remain however a pure Midi program and can not record audio traces.

More detailed information is to be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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08.Jun.2003
Achim Stegemann (Website)


 Digital Almanac III v5.2 and AmiChess v2.0 released
Achim Stegemann has released new versions of his reference software titles: The shareware based astronomy application "Digital Almanac III" has managed the jump to version 5.2, the freeware, strong chess simulation AmiChess has been raised to version 2.0.

An update of Digital Almanac III is possible from version 5.0. AmiChess 2.0 doesn't have to be installed, simply unpacking the archive suffices. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


 AmigAIM 0.9445 Beta released
Yesterday the new version 0.9445 of the Instant Messenger "AmigAIM" has been released by developer Richard H. Poser II. The update contains fixes of some shortcomings in the link handler routines which led to problems when the link wasn't initiated with the usual "http://". Therefore the HTML parser was improved. Besides the bookmarks on the mailing list were changed. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)


 New maps for Payback
A new (Death Match) and an updated map (God's Island) for the GTA clone Payback have been released, which can be downloaded in the "Payback Extra Maps" area of developer Apex Designs' Web site. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)


 Please vote in the CAPS community poll!
Due to the number of requests, the CAPS project's operators are thinking of separating the game disk images from the scans. This basically means that online lags due to the effort of scanning will be avoided. In order to advance the decision about a possible future separation, the community is to be included. As from now there are polls available on the CAPS Web site, participation in which is strongly requested. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003



 Official screenshots of AmigaOS 4 published
The online magazine AmigaWorld has published four official new screenshots of the future AmigaOS 4.0 which show the standard Intuition look of Workbench and at the same time GUI and MUI preferences, a Workbench magnifying glass, the Web browser IBrowse and the launch bar used. Also interesting is the effective font anti aliasing, e.g. the smoothing of the fonts on the user interface. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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07.Jun.2003
VHT-DK (email)


 Virus Help Denmark: VirusZ v0.9e
Georg Hörmann has released version 0.9e of the anti virus software VirusZ that can be downloaded from the website of the Virus Help Team Denmark.

Information about the new update:

Name: VirusZ v0.9e
Archive name: VirusZ.lha
Archiv size: 94,117 bytes
Release date: June, 7th 2003
Programmer: Georg Hoermann

TODOs until the final release 1.00:
  • Implement file and sector scanning inside ALL types of disk- and filearchives that xadmaster.library supports.
  • Add useful commands to ARexx port.
Changes since version 0.9d:
  • Added new snapshots sent by Klaus-Peter Simon, Chris Elliott, DMX, Dario, Mikolaj Calusinski and Todd A. Oberly. Thanks guys!
  • Fixed CacheClearU() calls in the new self-test added in 0.9d to CacheClearE() for better performance on JIT 68k emulated systems. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the report.
  • Added new switch to 'Misc Prefs' to dis/enable the usage of the disassembler.library for bootblock lab and memory monitor. This library always opens mmu.library too which seems to be annoying for some users. Idea by Mikolaj Calusinski, thanks.
  • Fixed problem with OxyPatcher: It modified code inside VirusZ and thus caused alerts by its self-test. Thanks to DMX for the report.
  • Did some compatibility fixes for Pegasos systems. VirusZ will work perfectly with a faked ROM now. Thanks again to Harry Sintonen for the report and for beta-testing.
  • Fixed severe bug in the filecheck: hardlinks haven't been handled correctly and may have lead to crashes. Now any hardlinks will be fully tested (respectively the files/dirs they point at). Due to the inconsistent implementation of hardlinks to the filesystem, there nevertheless may appear some side-effects when you chose to delete/disinfect such files. Hardlinks then might be replaced by invalidated copies of the files they originally pointed at. This method at least avoids any virus execution and is the best I can offer. Thanks to Mikolaj Calusinski for the initial bug report, for beta-testing and further suggestions on this topic.
  • Added great installer script written by Dave 'Targhan' Crawford. Thanks a lot for this contribution.
(nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Lynne Music (website)


 Bjorn Lynne: sneak preview for a new audio CD
A brand new Bjorn Lynne track has been released today as mp3: "Under The Bard's Tree". This is a fantasy / celtic / medieval / electronic / acoustic track from Bjorns next CD, "Return to Witchwood", due for release later this summer. Download "Under The Bard's Tree" now from mp3.com.

If you have any comments about the track or the coming CD, feel free to share them on the Guestbook / Messageboard.

There is also a General MIDI version of the new track, "Under The Bard's Tree". (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Debian (website)


 Event: 2. LinuxWochen in Vienna from June, 5th to 7th 2003
The event "2. LinuxWochen", that is dealing with open Free Software and GNU/Linux, will be taking place until tomorrow in Vienna. The Debian project will be there with a booth that is loooked after by Gerfried Fuchs. He is additionally organizing a key signing party and will give a talk about the first steps with Debian after the installation. The Debian team invites all interested people to visit these events, to meet Debian developers and users, to exchange GnuPG finger prints, to discuss different topics regarding Debian and Free Software or to participate in another way in the community. Debian GNU/Linux is also running on the AmigaOne and Pegasos. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
AmFreak (ANF)


 Photos of "AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour" in Slowenia
Damir Arh has uploaded on his website under the title link first photos of the todays event "AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour" in Slowenia. They show among other things the place where the show is happening, an AmigaOne mainboard in a towercase and the new design of the AmigaOS 4. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)


 Amiga Arena: HD full version of Fatal Heritage
With the permisson by EGO Software makes the Amiga Arena in cooperation with Bernd Gmeineder from AMI Sector One and Bert Jahn from WHDLoad the release of the full version of "Fatal Heritage" available.

"Fatal Heritage" is a German "Point and Click" adventure, developed in 1990 by EGO Software.

Thanks to the original disk images by EGO Software and Bernd Gmeineder could with the help of Bert Jahn for the first time a HD version been created. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Gerd Frank und Manfred Rohde (email)


 Development of AmiATLAS being continued
The development of AmiATLAS will be continued despite the bad market situation announced the main developers Gerd Frank and Manfred Rohde in a circular letter.

Just in time for the holidays season will a new top up-to-date version of the Germany map "germany_special" be released, as always with an updated motorway net and of course among other things with some places and some more things. Would it be a PC route planner it'd very probably contain the year 2004 in the title!

Besides that there's a new version of the Scandinavia map in the first bigger planning stage that shall contain Danmark, Sweden, Norway and new Finland, too!

Further enhancements of these and all the other maps will follow respectively are already being worked on.

As the website itself also needs a redesign this is being worked on, too, especially concerning the description of all existing updates. The new site is supposed to go online in the next two to three weeks with new URL. A special announcement will follow.

Not unmentioned should be the (unfortunately very complex) switch of the compiler to the GCC C compiler for PPC for AmiATLAS and the adaption mainly to AmigaOS4 (among other things ReAction) as well as to MorphOS later on.

At last we have to point out that because of new technical problems the updates can't be sent automatically and a new registration is needed, too. Please send a short email with full mail address as well as the serial number and optionally the buying date and the retailer's name to AmiATLAS@gmx.net, and as soon as they are available the wanted archives will be sent. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Martin Steigerwald (website)


 ImageConvert 2.1 with ImageMagick support
Martin Steigerwald has released the version 2.1 of ImageConvert that comes with support for ImageMagick.

The GPL'd script converts graphics into a chosen resolution and colour depth and is compatible with ArtEffect 2-4, PPaint 6.4-7.x, Photogenics 2 and ImageMagick 5.5.5. Due to the program control via the Command Line Interface is the script best suited for the use with Directory Opus Magellan or a similar file manager.

Download: ImageConvert v2.1 (35 kb) (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)


 DiscreetFX hiring artists
Due to an accelerated release schedule and product deadlines for 2003 DiscreetFX is expanding its talent pool of contract Amiga Artists. Are you versed at Amiga 2D Paint & Animation software? Do you make wonderful artwork on your Amiga that many enjoy? Can you draw 2D animate Aliens, Dragons, Space Ships, Battle Axes, Medieval Warriors, Footballs and wondrous creatures and monsters? Then DiscreetFX needs you!

We are hiring artists and expanding our team so that many of our new products can be released on time. You will be paid for your work; all artists get a generous royalty on all the products they work on for us. Also, artists will get heavy mention on released product, our website and sales literature. Please contact us today and send sample work to amigaart@discreetfx.com. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)


 Amiga OS 4.0 on Tour starts
The AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour is about to start. We have the machines ready to go and will reach Ljubljana on Sat. morning for for the first event.

We will have AmigaOS 4.0 running the new default look with a big surprise for you. Also ExecSG will run its first native OS4 PowerPC Demo.

See you there! (nba)

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07.Jun.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)


 New Website: Annuaire Pegasos Francophone
"Annuaire Pegasos Francophone" is the new portal of "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" especially for the Pegasos users.

This common "Annuaire" is The List of the French speaking Amiga & Pegasos Users around the World (France, Belgium, Swiss, Quebec,...). Join the hundreds of users since July 2000 and find contacts in your region! (nba)

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06.Jun.2003
Chris Hodges (Website)


 USB-Stack: Poseidon Update V2.1b
Yesterday Chris Hodges published the new version 2.1b of the USB stack called "Poseidon". This allows you to use USB devices on the Amiga if you have an USB controller, too. Version 2.1b contains bug fixes of the subwayusb.device and massstorage.class. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003
morphos-news.de


 Video about the Pegasos-TV-Report on Hungarian television
The online news magazine reports about the availability of a video of about 20 minutes about the Pegasos board and MorphOS on the Hungarian television "fix tv". The video which has a size of around 170 MB is available in MPEG and DivX format and can be downloaded under the title link. A version with English captions is in work. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003
AmiWest (Website)


 AmiWest 2003: Participation of Nova Design Inc.
The Amiga show "AmiWest" will be take place this summer in Sacramento, too. On 26th and 27th July 2003 American Amiga users will have the possibility of informing about the newest developments. After Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga, Inc. already promised his appearing on April and Genesi also showed interest to participate the show now has another exhibitor:

Kermit Woodall from Nova Design will be present as exhibitor. Nova Design was well known on the Amiga market with products like ImageFX or Aladdin 4D and is probably developing another product.

According to information of the organizer there are more advance orders than in the last five years. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003
Amigan Software (Website)


 Worm Wars 7.5 published
Today version 7.5 of the snake clon "Worm Wars" by Amigan Software has been published.

Changes since the last version:
  • New creature: Ape.
  • Screenmode-sensitive
(nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)


 Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results of May/June 2003
Today the results of the voting to the game of the months May/June 2003 have been published:

1. (3) Napalm - 121 pts
2. (2) Slam Tilt - 103 pts
3. (1) Payback - 101 pts
4. (4) Quake - 85 pts
5. (8) SWOS - 83 pts
6. (108) Knights And Merchants - 79 pts
7. (5) The Settlers - 71 pts
8. (12) Crossfire 2 - 70 pts
9. (9) Earth 2140 - 67 pts
10. (7) Foundation - 66 pts
11. (19) Freespace - 55 pts
12. (6) Tales Of Tamar - 53 pts
13. (10) Quake 2 - 48 pts
14. (20) Heretic 2 - 46 pts
15. (33) Cannon Fodder - 45 pts
16. (16) Moonstone - 44 pts
17. (13) Fields Of Battle - 41 pts
18. (14) Stardust / Super Stardust - 36 pts
19. (17) WipEout 2097 - 35 pts
20. (37) Another World - 35 pts

The next voting (Amiga Games Hit Parade in July/August 2003) will start in the middle of July. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003



 Aminet Uploads until 06.06.2003
Here are the new uploads to the Aminet since our last message: 
YamHTMLyam.lha       comm/mail   18K+Reads HTML pages with YAM(2.4 too) mail 
AmFTP175_ES.lha      comm/tcp    13K+AmFTP 1.75 Spanish locale, V2.1
MiamiSmbPw.lha       comm/tcp     7K+Prepares Samba for encrypted passwords
Apfelberge.lha       dev/src      6K+3D fractal example, joystick support
boulderdaesh.lha     game/jump  921K+V5.19, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
DIYrekoIII.lha       gfx/ifx     34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
EOT_Liquid.lha       gfx/ifx      3K+EOT_LIQUID Script for IFX
Reko2As.lha          gfx/ifx      2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
NewLowLevel.lha      hard/drivr  30K+V41.26, LowLevel.library replacement for
EP_DigitSonix.lha    mus/play     7K+EaglePlayer "Digital Sonix & Chrome" ext
EP_MFP.lha           mus/play    16K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext
EP_Protracker.lha    mus/play    18K+EaglePlayer "Protracker" external replay
Haymigga_2.jpg       pix/wb     272K+Haymigga`s Light Armour WB Screenshot 
AsciiCreator_s.lha   text/edit   88K+Ascii Creator 0.1 to 0.6 asm sources
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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