• Possibility to print
• Training diary
• Localisation
• Import of data from pulse watches of the Polar series (e.g S410) etc.

Here is some info about the archive:

Name: Safe v17.9
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 19.070 bytes
Date : 20 April 2002
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library

Changes in Safe v17.9:

• fixed too high 'suspicity' values in VECS caused by RAM placed functions of exec45 update (thanks for Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek)

• 3PMguiMI (2nd release) - reworked toolbar image for 3PMgui
• AmiComSysMI (2nd release) - reworked toolbar images for AmiComSys
• AmiMDCMI (3rd release) - reworked toolbar images for AmiMDC800
• AminetIdxMI (2nd release) - reworked toolbar images for AminetIDX
• ApacheMI (4th release) - 180 filetype images for Apache - available as ZIP and LHA archive
• CharonMI (4th release) - reworked toolbar images for Charon
• PicShowMI (1st release) - new GlowIcons navigationbar for PicShow
• ReqMI (2nd release) - new and reworked logos and animated logos for ReqAttack - new designed buttons - reworked toolbar for RAPrefs - redesigned icons
• Voodoo-XMI (1st release) - reworked toolbar images for VooDoo-X

All registered EZP@gerNG users will find in the download area an update archive for updating their registered software from version 2.1 to version 2.2.

• More than 40 new Powerplay reviews, among other things of Zak McKracken from the year 1988
• In addition some new reviews taken from the magazines ASM and Videogames
• New magazine covers (PC Joker, PcXtreme, Club Nintendo)
• New entries in the area "Kult-Games" (Day of the Tentacle, Magnetic Scrolls Collection, Super Mario Bros. 3)
• 6 new episodes of the Turkey comics of the series "Return to Modul" by Karl Bihlmeier

Alias URLs for Softcinema and Frogger
The mirrors of Softcinema and Frogger can be reached from Sunday, 21.04.2002, on using the following URLs:

http://frogger.highantdev.de/
http://softcinema.highantdev.de/

Although there were much rumour the development of AmiATLAS will be continued. But it takes a little bit of time to program new features and to fix old bugs.

Within the next two weeks there will be a new update with extended and bug fixed cards and with new and improved additional tools. All changes will be contained in new delivered pieces of AmiATLAS 6.

Christoph Gutjahr now manages the newsletter and the mailing list of AmiATLAS. If you want to subscribe then simply send an empty mail to AmiATLAS-subscribe@freelists.org.

If you have ideas of improvement or wishes you can directly send a mail to AmiATLAS@gmx.net.

• FastATA.driver ver. 6.0
• FastATAPrefs ver. 6.0
• AllegroCDFS ver. 3.3

• Compatibility with AmigaOS3.9 with BB2 added
• Support for HDDs up to 2199.0 GB in the SPLIT mode
• ATA3Prefs can be started when ATA3.driver is running
• The USE option added in ATA3Prefs
• Emulation of SEEK(6) and WRITE(6) SCSI commands added

It's 1982. Small computer games companies are springing up in the bedrooms around the world. A new business beckons, where everything is in your hands. You have total control, from creating the original concept, through hiring staff and packaging design, to the development of massive marketing campaigns.

Do you have the skills to create and use new technologies and become a Software Tycoon? Software Tycoon immerses the player through the implementation of different scenarios, tutorials and a truly satirical backround that simulates the software business.

But don't forget your opponents will stop at nothing to ruin your business!

FEATURES:

• Real-time gameplay.
• Two intelligent and unusual computer computer controlled opponents.
• Satiric simulation of the software business.
• Interact with real living and acting characters.
• Multiple missions and tutorial scenarios.
• Adventure-like inventory.
• Hi-Res graphics in 800x600 dpi.
• Employ the best staff and implement massive marketing campaigns for your products.
• Sabotage your ruthless opponents.
• Different buildings in horizontal scrolling Location.
• Easy development of original game concepts.

Jugendherberge Hann. Münden
Prof.-Oelkers-Str. 10
34346 Hann. Münden
Tel: (05541)8853

1. We want the Pegasos to be successful.
2. We are promoting the product to various markets that have demand for PowerPC-based hardware.
3. We want bPlan to miniaturize the Pegasos to make the eclipsis.
4. We think MorphOS is a unique and a well engineered OS.
5. We want the Pegasos to become the development machine for the eclipsis.

ViCaDo (Video-Can-Do) is in the betaphase. More information is available right here (German.)

AiCaDo (Audio-Can-Do) is in the alphaphase.

DiCaDo (Data-Can-Do) is in the alphaphase.

In the course of working on this program pack a couple of small, helpful tools were created, and I don't wish to keep them from Amiga users.

GetMpegInfo can provide information about mpeg streams.(Video-, Audio- und System-Streams). With shell- and Workbench-versions.

• Samba: MacOS X dances with Amiga
• Locked together: PGP and Amiga

I want to have it!
That's not possible right now, unfortunately. I explained the license problems in the statement. However I hope to have a new, improved, and completely licensed version available soon.

And when will that be for sale?
Hopefully very soon, after the unhappy stuff is cleared up.

Does Amiga Inc. want to publish it?
Yeah, they want to. Things have changed. Nobody is happy about it, least of all me. Amithlon was always meant to be a complete solution, with fully licensed ROMs and AmigaOS. Haage & Partner apparently didn't share this position, but I am personally not ready to compromise in this regard.

Observation of amiga-news.de:
Until now we have just heard one side of the story, so we asked H&P about this sticky wicket. Unfortunately it's not possible for H&P to speak because the signed contracts between Bernie Meyer, Harald Frank (VMC) und H&P clearly state these internal matters not be discussed publicly.

At first it has been planned to release the German version of Amiblitz for this reason. But due to lack of time this will likely not happen before next week. The editor PED has taken more time than initially thought. The planned bonus tracks will be a bit late on schedule as well. All that might be finished within the next days. That time also courses and tutorials will start.

The rest of Amiforce will be updated as well. For this the soft guide category will be opened. The start is with OpenAG. Later this client and AmiComSys + HL_Plugin too will be discribed in helpguide. Unfortunately this takes it´s time.

And here I want to thank all those people who supported me all that time.

• 16.04.02 new: Jupiter's Masterdrive (Ubi Soft) done by Psygore
• 15.04.02 improved: Treasure Island Dizzy (Code Masters) support for CD³² version added, minor other changes
• 15.04.02 improved: Qwak (Team 17) support for CD³² version added
• 15.04.02 updated: Minskie - The Abduction (Binary Emotions) reworked
• 15.04.02 new: Mean Streets (U.S.Gold) done by Bored Seal
• 15.04.02 new: Executioner (Codetapper) done by Codetapper
• 15.04.02 updated: Chuckie Egg 2 (Pick and Choose) image provided by Nigel Alderton
• 15.04.02 updated: Chuckie Egg (Pick and Choose) image provided by Nigel Alderton
• 15.04.02 new: Castles (Interplay) done by JOTD & Bored Seal
• 15.04.02 improved: Castle Vania (Konami) manual protection removed
• 15.04.02 improved: Cadaver Demo Level (Bitmap Brothers) support for Amiga Format 13 Demo added

As most people here will realise we have always declared that we want to use the official Amiga OS and for Hyperion and Amiga to have their just rewards for licencing the AmigaOne and OS4 products. We are not the only possible licencees, but I guess that we committed to these conditions before anyone else. As a result we have worked in very close cooperation with both Amiga Inc and Hyperion throughout the A1 development program to ensure that piracy of OS4 is kept to a minimum. Jointly we have worked out that the best way to do this is :..."

- To put ROM extensions (ie dongle code) in the boot ROM, in addition to the regular boot code.

- To put this in hard-coded, socketed ROM at a specific address in the PPC memory map, rather than in Flash ROM, which could easily be pirated/updated

- To ensure that OS4 calls this code from multiple points to make workround patches difficult to implement

- To ensure that a copy of OS4 is sold with all hardware capable of running it (ie with the dongle code in ROM)

- To use similar routines that already exist in the 3.1 Kickstart ROM as an alternative for the PPC accelerator implementations.

Although a dedicated pirate could no doubt copy the boot code and dupe the ROM's, unless this was to be done in bulk - which would be easy to spot and close down - the overheads involved versus buying the ROM would mean few people would be likely to do it. The situation is analagous to OS3.1/3.5/3.9 in that you had to have/buy 3.1 ROMs to run the OS, unless you go to extraordinary work-around lengths.

We are producing all the developer/dealer boards and at least the first run of user boards with this dongle code in place in the ROM - and therefore the obligation to purchase OS4 with them. (They can of course be used to run Linux, but you will still need to buy OS4 with these boards). If there is sufficient demand from the Linux comunity we will probably then produce some boards without the AmigaOne name (and without the dongle code needed for booting OS4). In this case we will also make available an OS4 + ROM upgrade pack (similar to the OS3.5/3.9 +3.1ROMs upgrade packs sold by most Amiga Dealers) to purchasers of the Linux-only boards wishing to upgrade to OS4.

As far as other licenced stand-alone ppc hardware is concerned, it would, in my view, need to support a similar protection format (ie socketed hard coded ROM, not Flash ROM) to embody the same level of anti-piracy protection as The A1G3-SE. Whether, in the specific cases of other hardware manufacturers, this socketed ROM has already been implemented, or remains an option, or requires a partial redesign of the hardware is not something that I have any knowledge of. It is between Amiga Inc and the potential licencees concerned.

This tight anti-piracy regime has obviously upset some individuals on the mailing lists who clearly did not expect to have to pay for OS4, or hoped to buy unapproved/unlicenced PPC Linux boards to save a few bucks. Well tough, we dont want your business under those circumstances and will do all in our power to make sure that if you buy one of our boards for Linux-only use you will not be able to use it for running OS4+ unless you are prepared to pay Hyperion and Amiga Inc their proper licence fees.

And I'm sure that all other potential serious licencees of endorsed Amiga hardware will see it this way too."

For a long time these have been available only as limited demo versions. From now on all these four games ar free for download without restrictions.

Except Defender all games are running multitasking, also with four players at the same time, which is possible with the 4 player adaptor for the parallel port.

• The Ascon Files: On the Ball, On the Ball - Worldcup Edition, The Patrician. Price: 3 Euro.
• The Amiga Demo Collection: More than 620mb of demos, alphabetic sorted. Price: 3 Euro.
• Monstro contains more than 500 mb of mods and other formats. Price: 3 Euro.
• The digital album "Brasil" 2.5 is an electronic journey thruogh that country, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasilia, Porto Alegre, ... Further there are backdrops for the Workbench and two audiotracks included. Price: 8 Euro.
• Eclipse Solar is FOM's the new music CD. Among other there are soundtracks of Amiga projects included, e.g. The Deathbird or Brave New World: Price: 8 Euro.

We stopped bplan from releasing the Pegasos sooner. We encouraged them to fine tune the board before and not after release. They could have shipped samples sooner. We have had ours for months. By 1 June this board will be rock-steady.

The Pegasos is a great product. We have already developed some incredible software for it. But, the future as we see it is the miniaturized version, the eclipsis. This will be something very special. The Pegasos will serve as our development machine and we will be offering special packages to developers that sign on and get to work helping us create a market leading solution for the future of mobile entertainment and communications.

-----

Bill McEwen was able to do something very noteworthy when he bought Amiga from Gateway. We admire him very much for this accomplishment. We have been in discussions with Bill over the years on many occasions since the demise of VisCorp. We offered a license to Gateway and specifically to Bill when he was there for the VisCorp patents. You will find that these patents/abandoned are dormant now, but you will find that Raquel Velasco is the owner of record of all seven. In September of 2000, King Lee, a former VisCorp board member and the Chairman of Amiga Inc. at the time, ask us to talk to Bill and try to assist him. We did. We told him to go after the "classic" OS. We told him to finish the upgrade to the PPC. In the meanwhile, we licensed AmigaDE and we made the "SmartBoy." When the prototype was built, AmigaDE was not ready. Finally, we abandoned the effort because in a world with the likes of Compaq, etc., a Windows CE device running AmigaDE is a bit like pouring alot of water in a good glass of wine. It just did not make good business sense and we could not achieve competitive pricing (even for the embedded market).

So here we are today with a working machine, but we want something that works with our hardware in a way that is necessary for our purposes. We still remain open to other possibilities. Software is made for hardware, not vis-a-versa.

We cannot overlook the fact that hardware nearly seven years old and developed by the same engineers as the Pegasos is being used today to complete other developments. We cannot wait for these efforts. We are in business and when the hardware is ready it will go on sale. The Pegasos and the eclipsis are the biggest chance for this market and will provide plenty of opportunity to grow into new markets..

We will sell the Pegasos. It is a cannon! Buyers will buy and load the ammunition...

We will still be here in business.

We would like very much to cooperate with Amiga Inc.«

You find the complete press release here.

The features includes recognition and color hilightning of functions, brackets, comments, special carrecters, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, JSP, ASP and HSC. The colors can be changed in the GoldED-preferences.

Furthermore the new version includes bugfixes and new features and can be found at the aminet.

• images for MUI 3.8 (based on VisualMI)
• colour bug is fixed now
• additional tapedeck images

• images and icons for AmiShutDown
• German version only

• GlowIcons toolbar and service images for EZPagerNG
• toolbar image based on AppMI
• new service image in GlowIcons design

• image set for strICQ ReAction GUI in the GlowIcons design

• Language editions of channel events and statements.
• DCC CHAT support (comes from me)
• LogWriter
• ElizaBOT
• Channelsecurity
• FileServer
• XDCC Server etc.

• You can replace (not only) powerd.lib functions just by defining them
• fixed length arg in RealStr() function
• fixed EStrCopy(), EStringF() functions
• improved support of OOP4A project
• You are allowed to use directly: var.func(args) instead of domethode(var,'func',args)
• added ppc functions: EStringF(), RealStr(), RealEStr()
• added/fixed all the quoted-expression functions: Eval(), MapList(), ForAll(), Exists(), SelectList() 68k only!!!, ppc knows currently only Eval()
• bugfixes reported by Marco Antoniazzi
  • IF (~x) compiled wrong
  • IF (a) AND ~(b) compiled wrong
  • NOR and NAND keywords do now work
  • added '#include' preprocessor keyword
  • fixed assembler error when EXCEPTDO without Raise() occured
• bugfixes reported by Kai Wolf
  • fixed a bug of too many args...
• bugfixes reported by Michel Bagmeijer
  • Rem() isn't supported anymore
  • DC can now compile also data only sources without any procedures
  • added syntax error when 'CASE something:' used. (if the colon is used)
• bugfixes reported by Nemeth Miklos
  • added a warning when assigning a value to an array (not item of array)

• Bugfix: bugs removed.
• New: new system for reading and writing news.
• New: RTF messages are now parsed and converted to plain text.
• Modification: all images converted to IFF-ILBM-format (No need for XPM datatype anymore).
• New: message history window (can not yet load history from disc).

All registered EZP@gerNG users will find an update archive in the download area that they can use for updating their registered software from version 2.0 to version 2.1.

The most important changes in this release:

• The ARexx command SENDOUTGOING has been built in. It makes the sending of all mails in the outgoing folder possible.
• The tooltype NOABOUT has been built in. When it is set the 'About' requester of the EZP will be suppressed on startup.
• The EZP appicon and the quick call gadgets on the Workbench support now OS3.5/3.9 functionality with transparency and improved analysis of 'palette mapped' OS3.5/3.9 icons as basis of images for quick call gadgets.
• The toolbar gadgets support now true transparency.
• When cloning the Workbench under OS3.5/3.9 it is now taken care whether 'No title bar' is selected or not in the Workbench preferences. (Showtitle).
• For further changes see ReadMe.

Connections can also be made by direct 'dial-in' or 'dial-out' to remote computers.

What makes BenderIRC now so special? Well, the complete GUI can be set up as the user wants it. Whether gadgets are there or not, it doesn't matter! Their size? That doesn't matter, too! Build your own IRC client!

And what completes this all? The client has a built in BOT function. Remote access to your computer, of course password secured ;-). Integrated translation engine for German <-> English that can be used within the channel!

And all those who need even more will love the plugin system of BenderIRC! Example: if the sentence "News on www.amiga-news.de - people, read it immediately" appears the website pops up in no matter of time :-).

As the client was earlier finished than the Denic creating the domain here's the direct link to the download site or you wait until the program is on Aminet.

Download: ftp://212.162.56.70

We have offered Grasshopper LLC to create a printed Pagestream manual, due to a lot of demand by users of this great DTP-package, and they have agreed.

• Information research
• Online gaming
• Chat
• Education
• Download of software and music
• Entertainment
• Online banking
• For one's job

• Eyetech's AmigaOne series of PPC motherboards
• Cyberstorm-PPC accelerators by phase 5/DCE
• Blizzard-PPC accelerators by phase5/DCE

• The Shark card by Elbox
• PPC accelerator cards for the Prometheus by Matay
• Merlancia Industries MMC Toro Series

• ApacheMI - over 150 filetype images for Apache Servers
• CutNPasteMI - small brush anims for CutNPaste (DOpus Magellan)
• muiMI - an image set for MUI 3.8 (based on VisualMI)

As promised there would be some details announced considering the "Supercomputer" system that we have said we are working on. In this case there has to be said that the system that has been referred to is the Pegasos from bplan. Our company Thendic-France has retained bplan to miniaturize the Pegasos to make a handheld "Supercomputer".

Rakesh & Sharwin

• Disappearing pointer error: fixed.
• Absence of cdplay library caused an error message, even when the audio-CD support was deactivated: fixed.

• Command "SpielEnde" (GameEnd) to exit the system.
• Messages (for example "Abbruch" (Quitting)) on the top window edge disappear, when entering a new area.

• The game logging data is saved quicker.

• The entry of the name data is saved in a more sensible way. For example when you load an ilbm-data then save it, the original name appears automatically.
• All the animation data is loaded with the corresponding picture.

• The small buffer caused a crash: fixed.

Amiga Inc. announces the Amiga® Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 for Pocket PC, Pocket PC 2002, Windows CE 3.0, and Windows CE .NET-based devices.

Rich multi-media applications designed for handheld systems to be released on April 15th, 2002

April 10, 2002 Snoqualmie, WA Amiga, Inc. announced the release schedule of the Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 for Windows Powered Devices. The Entertainment Pack will run on devices using Windows CE 3.0, Windows CE .NET, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC 2002 including handhelds, smart phones, web pads, and set-top boxes.

The Entertainment Pack #1 will contain four applications and the Amiga Anywhere Content Engine. These include the award winning Planet Zed and Convex games from ZeoNeo as well as Gobbler and Solitaire from Pulsar Interactive. The Amiga Anywhere Content Engine allows access to more Amiga Anywhere applications available now and in the future.

Since announcing a change from hardware to software Amiga has strived to create and distribute content that can run on numerous digital devices. "Amiga is now focused on the vision that all digital content should be available on all digital devices", said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc. To that end Amiga has announced distribution of dozens of applications that can run on a wide range of different types of devices with hundreds more currently in development.

The Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 will provide an exciting experience for owners of Windows Powered handheld devices without using the amount of resources consumed by other applications. Amiga developers are creating rich content using few resources. The average size of an Amiga Anywhere application is under 300KB and yet delivers a more robust experience than titles that are over 2 MB in size.

The Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 will provide an exciting experience for owners of Windows Powered handheld devices without using the amount of resources consumed by other applications. Amiga developers are creating rich content using few resources. The average size of an Amiga Anywhere application is under 300KB and yet delivers a more robust experience than titles that are over 2 MB in size.

"As mobile devices become smarter and more powerful, users are asking for rich entertainment and gaming experiences", said Scott Horn, director, Embedded and Appliance Platforms Group, Microsoft Corp. The combination of the Windows CE operating system's multimedia functionality and Amiga's software solution allows developers to deliver rich applications for a broad range of Windows Powered devices.

Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 will ship on April 15, 2002. More information can be found on the Amiga web site at http://www.amiga-anywhere.com/microsoft/.

About Amiga
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic. Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications can be purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at www.amiga.com.
Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

At the Amigashop of KDH Datentechnik a new business simulation for Amiga is promoted. This one is a port of Software Tycoon, which is at E.p.i.c. Interactive in work. The website of Software Tycoon is reachable via the title link.

Tao's intent® media platform delivers market-leading performance and reliability for the execution of compelling multimedia content, including Java(TM) applications, to the broadest range of handheld operating systems. Yospace has developed a suite of Java(TM) 2 Micro Edition technologies that dramatically compresses the development time of intelligent client mobility solutions.

YoCOA(TM) (Yospace Connection Oriented Architecture) enables rapid Enterprise Application Integration for mobile applications, quickly taking core data from systems such as SAP and Siebel and making this available to `intelligent clients.'

Bugreports and suggestions might be sent to following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl.

• Software development
  IOSPIRIT develops powerful graphics applications for the most different tasks and target audiences. In development special focus is put on the support of the latest technologies and easy usability while still offering maximum power, flexibility and expandibility. IOSPIRIT also develops new, innovative technologies whereof the user directly profits.
  
  
• Software distribution
  Thanks to a unique infrastructure IOSPIRIT has the possibility to distribute software online and offline.
  
  Online distribution is done via a self-developed online-application for "Electronic Software Delivery" (ESD). In a first step the customer puts the desired articles into the basket and then orders them. After an incoming payment via credit card or pre-payment the download of the product is unlocked for the customer - mostly at the same day the order was placed. As this type of order is automatically handled by the central IOSPIRIT server, cost savings can be passed on directly to the customer in the form of price reductions.
  
  Of course "hard stuff" (so called "package versions" like e.g. CD-ROMs) can also be ordered, which then, thanks to a well thought through and work step optimized infrastructure, can be delivered very quickly. The customer is kept up-to-date on the status of the order via e-mail and can get an overview over his orders (including their status) anytime via IOSPIRIT's website.

• 08.04.02 improved: Full Contact (Team 17) misc changes
• 05.04.02 new: Worms (Team 17) done by JOTD
• 05.04.02 new: Motor Massacre (Gray Matter/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
• 05.04.02 fixed: Lotus 3 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) correction
• 05.04.02 improved: Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers (Activision) supports another version, other changes
• 05.04.02 new: Arctic Fox (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD
• 05.04.02 new: Airborne Ranger (Microprose) done by Bored Seal

Server: irc.phat-net.de
Port: 6667
Channel: #digiboosterpro

In this article he describes in a general and simple way the advantages of the SIMD programming (Single Instruction Multiple Data) against the computing with single values. He also shows the AltiVec support of the gcc with short examples like vector addition with vec_add().

Press releases:

• Jörg Tauss - Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages
• Heise: Düsseldorfer Demonstration gegen Netzkultur

• http://www.hws.claranet.de/demo-duess/Thumbnails.html
• http://www.wichtig.de/zensur/

• http://www.ccc.de/censorship/
• http://www.netzzensur.de/
• http://www.odem.org/

1. The 2.3 release is "not far off at all".
2. The feature set is frozen and the remaining bugs are being fixed now.
3. The 2.3 upgrade will be a free release, available on Aminet.
4. It should work on a standard Amiga running OS 3.0/3.1/3.5/3.9.

For more information, please contact Ron van Herk at info@compcity.nl.

To give the users and developers an overview on the state of the software, please read these facts.

The hardware interface allows to use any USB controller hardware, if the drivers are written for it:

• As already reported a few days ago by Michael Böhmer, Poseidon will be the official USB stack included with the Highway and Subway products. It has been developed using these fine cards.
• A native PPC compile for MorphOS will be possible. Moreover, the MorphOS development team (cyfm) is working on a hardware driver (UHCI) for the Pegasos. By the time of writing, the keyboard and mouse classes already work with more coming soon.
• Benjamin Vernoux has started with a OHCI driver implementation.

• hub.class for the root hub and external hubs. Allows real plug-and-play and unplugging of USB devices at the user's will (tested with an external hub and a composite keyboard-hub).
• bootmouse.class for mice (lots of different mice tested).
• bootkeyboard.class for keyboards (several keyboards tested).
• printer.class delivering an usbparallel.device for printing (tested with Canon S400/S450/S500, Hewlett Packard printers)
• massstorage.class for flash card readers and other mass media.

More drivers are still to come. Remember that Poseidon is work-in-progress.

There is already a tool to read out pictures from Webcams using the STV680 chip. Other drivers (which will have much more features) will be provided by Felix Schwarz for VHI Studio. You can find the first Amiga USB Webcam at

webcam.jpg

Trident, a GUI for Poseidon, is already on the way, although the stack is so easy to handle, that advanced users will probably stick to the few CLI commands for loading Poseidon. The whole stack and its class drivers can be made ROM resident, so that the USB mouse and keyboard is already available in the boot menu. Even more, it is planned to add booting capabilities to the massstorage.class.

Developers, who want to contribute may apply for the SDK by sending an email to poseidon@platon42.de. Also have a look at http://www.e3b.de/usb for more detailed technical information.

A demo version should be available in the forseeable future. Check the Aseq site: www.aseq.de regularly for updates etc. The site is for the time being quite simple. I am open to any suggestions, wishes, donations etcetera =)

Versions are planned for the Amiga and a variety of other platforms, like linux, QNX, (dr)dos and Mac OSX.

Feature list:

• Easy to use and fast interface
• Intuitive sequencing method(x0x), no steep learning curve
• Fully integrated usage of both midi sounds and native audio (samples)
• Hardware indepedant OS friendly coding
• Does only need little resources
• No fixed pattern length
• Easy to use gui for many controller functions in midi
• Patch editor, programmable with your own midi and midi sysex messages
• Midi event editor, so you can edit every midi message/event yourself
• more ....

• BenHermans.mpg (356 MB)
• RobotFights.mpg (240 MB)
• ShowFloor.mpg (125 MB)

• Latest on the AmigaOne G3-SE
• Round-up on AmigaOS4.0
• The Total Amiga, ALT.WOA Show report.
• News on WOASE 2002
• All the latest developments in the Amiga world.

• Fleecy Moss - Amiga's CTO Writes exclusively for Total Amiga Magazine.
• Alan Redhouse of Eyetech. The Man behind the company, behind the AmigaOneG3-SE, writes exclusively for us.
• Special Report: Amiga - Who's the Moron? - Is the tie up with Microsoft good or bad?

• Amiga Emulation on X86. Amithlon, Amiga XL, Amiga Forever 5 are they any good?
• PageStream 4.1 - The latest update gets the Total Amiga Treatment.
• Amiga Writer 2.20 - Is it all it's cracked up to be?
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Detailed changes:

• The version string is back. [Hexaae]
• Fixed AGA screen depth and improved performance with FBlit. [Hexaae]
• Fixed P96 screen depth. [kakace]
• Should work without NoJoyCheck on systems where it was necessary before (A4000 with nothing plugged in joy port 1, for example).
• AntiBlanker feature: you can create a ENV:AntiBlanker.cfg file which contains a list of tasks that prevent blanking. [ChaoZer]

The new archive can be downloaded under the title link.

Now the details to the news

• New scaling engine with antialiasing. When playing the game you can switch between the scaling engines at any time.
• The program contains code for the MIDI-music. The MIDI-music starts playing as soon as AMidi will have been published for MorphOS.
• Support of the CD-ROM-audiotracks of Loom and Monkey Island. The MorphOS-version is the first one after the SDL-version which supports audiotracks. Because of that I have created a new CD-audio-library which is enclosed in the archive as a beta version and which can automaticly recognize CD-ROM-drives connected to the computer and if there is more than one CD-drive which can automaticly find the one with the "right" game-CD.
• Standard MorphOS command line (instead of the usual Unix like one).
• Start possible over pictprogram from the workbench or from the toolbar without having to write a script for this.
• Support for the video sequences of The Dig and Full Throttle.
• Manual with 26 pages in PDF-format and with detailed FAQ (requires Apdf).
• Archive contains colourful pictprograms for all supported games.
• Before publishing as usual all supported games have been tested that they are work like the Windows/Linux-versions.
• ... Many more minor improvements and bugfixes.

Intellectual property rights related to GoldED Studio, including source codes, documentation, distribution rights, the web site etc., are available for sale.

There are no plans to release the source code under the GPL or in a similar form or to make the software or its source code available free of charge.

What will happen to the BASIC interpreter?
Expect the source code to be made available under the GPL in the near future (in a nutshell, a GPL is a public domain license).

If you have a look at their Easter nest you'll find games like Rings of Medusa, Super Cars 1+2, Genetic Species Heimdall 2, Larry 1 Remake, Sherman M4, Pinball Magic and many others. Besides that many scene demos from the fantastic Mekka+Symposium 2002 demo party have been added, more music from the demoscene came online and the picture galleries are now containing some extremely colorful little eggs.

• HIGHWAY Production is on a roll
• Software Developer Kit is available
• VHI Studio is a solution for DigiCams
• TurboPrint printer driver
• Network module NORWAY (10MBit) is an option

The new board will be distributed in Europe by individual Computers, so it will be available from all our trade partners mentioned on the contact page.

From the Readme is to gather that those new versions should not be installed over the old 3.2 versions, because some subsystems are not compatible. Please read the readme files observant.

For which hardware will you go?

Possible answers:

• A1G3SE with AmigaOS 4.x
• A1G3SE with MorphOS
• Pegasos with MorphOS
• Pegasos with AmigaOS 4.x
• I´ll make my decision after sales start
• I am waiting for faster CPUs (>=G4) with AOS4
• I am waiting for faster CPUs (>=G4) with MOS
• I will change to an emulator
• I will still use my old hardware
• I wil change to another system

There was to ascertain that the Amiga-demos do not need to hide in any way for the superior PC-demos. At least they seemed more dynamic and more interesting. The most impressive was the 64k-demo "Planet Potion" of group "potion", this one was confirmed inside the hall with huge applause.

Furthermore there were beside the PC-demos some C64- and (sadly) any very few some Atari-demos. Shown were as well some demos for the Gameboy and for the TI83 calculator, which was very impressive.

Dale had injured a leg muscle in a skiing adventure, and he sat and took it easy while the others did most of the talking. Andy and Dave spoke about the early years, and about the Commodore bankruptcy. They spoke about their common work at PIOS on the Metabox set-top box. I can't recall who, but one of the three spoke about the 3DO system as the reinvention of Amiga OS, and another about the AmiJoe PPC-accelerator card. When asked about Amiga Inc.'s DE product, Dave said that it was "a good idea" and that someone named Gary had sent him two of the latest DE programs, but then accidentally let slip that the programs crashed on his Zaurus.

Overall the men seemed happy talking about their time at Amiga, and a bit wistful. Andy and Dave agreed that the single biggest mistake was wasted time and a failure to seize the moment when technological advances had been within the company's reach.

Upstairs in the large exhibit hall, a vendor with a mild speaking impediment ushered people over to try his Arcade in a Box. It is a sturdy joystick, button and trackball cabinet, which interfaces with MAME to play hundreds of arcade games with the feel of the real thing.

The people who produce the X1200 (which is an emulator-running PC in a compact A1200ish case) were there demonstrating that unusual product, which is rather spiffy in appearance. The X1200 is a pretty good idea. It runs Amithlon, which seemed to be selling very well at the show. Amithlon was getting positive comments all around. Amiga Inc.'s DE was a non-issue. Nobody is into that, from what I saw. There was a lot of anti-Microsoft sentiment. People resent having to use products by that company, because the Windows monopoly is such a fact of life and the consumer does not have much of a choice.

An example of the vendors present at the show was Compuquick who were very knowledgeable and had a good variety of stuff including A1200s and the oldish Phase5 PPC accelerators which can run MorphOS.

MorphOS felt a bit like a taboo subject. The MorphOS/4.0 question is the most politicized issue ever for followers of this platform. Some of the vendors were taking preorders for AmigaOne/4.0. Ben Hermans from Hyperion was reached on cellphone and was interviewed for at least 15 or 20 minutes. Ben must be given credit for putting himself out there and being a salesman.

I liked the fact that this convention doubled as an "alternative computers" convention, however this good idea has not been realized. There wasn't much representation from alternative computing systems. No Linux people, and I don't think anyone from QNX appeared either. And of course it would have great to see a MorphOS stand.

In Eric Schwartz Puzzles, the object of the game is to piece together beautiful images in as few moves as possible. This addictive game features never before seen images from Eric, free style and challenge play modes, 7 difficulty modes, unlock pictures, saved scores, help, and much more.

The good news is that I have uploaded an updated kernel image (based on linux 2.4.19pre4) and a bunch of patches; You can grab that stuff from http://www.amithlon.net/en/amithlon_updates.shtml.

I hope it comes in useful for someone.

I know this is going to cause a great deal of discussion and speculation. I would like to ask everyone to please be reasonable, and stick to the known facts, as well as to polite forms of discourse. The situation is bad enough as it is, nothing at all can be gained from aggravating anyone involved.

It's TEMPORARY home is at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~yttrium/amiga/ Please note that the current layout is very much not going to be the final look of the page. I've got it how it is so that I can easily and quickly add pages and information without the need to work on the nitty-gritty of looks - I'm no website designer but please don't send ideas for how you think I can make it look better, I'll come to that when I've got enough information to warrant having a page in the first place. What I'd like to request is that anyone who feels they can contribute, please do so by emailling me information and pages to include. This is not intended as a news site so I don't want information about upcoming events and that sort of thing, just straight info. I'd appreciate it if you send me whole pages to just slot in where appropriate that you design them with no javascript, frames, or scripting of any kind - just straight and plain HTML with links - also if you could keep images to an absolute minimum as I only have 10MB webspace with my ISP and don't intend on moving it to a real server until it's complete enough to be the kind of place I'd be happy to point people for more information. My 10MB should be plenty if we can keep it to being pure text and key images only. If you take a look at what I've got there at the moment, you'll see the general kind of things I want. My AmigaOne page is probably about the most complete at the moment, but I could very much do with more technical information linked off the AmigaOne specs (most of those links I've written about one or two lines only at present).

The general idea is that anyone of any level can look at the site. People click on the AmigaOne link and see basic information. Techie types say, I want to know more about xxx, and click on that link for more tech info. Any information that is implied or suggested but not directly stated anywhere by someone "official" should be marked as such. I know you might mean well, but unsubstantiated rumors are NOT the intended goal of the site. I'm going to be putting a lot of my personal time and effort into maintaining the information and keeping it all as up to date as possible and I'd appreciate not having to wade through mountains of rumor and misinformation. Information regarding anything to do with Amiga is welcomed, but no "this is better than that" without hard fact to back it up. Presently I'm mostly interested in information on AmigaOne, AmigaOS4, Classic Amiga (history), Amithlon and AmigaDE (Anywhere), however if someone wants to write something about MorphOS, UAE, Pegasos, Merlancia, pOS, Classic Amiga expansions, software issues or anything else relevant, I won't reject it (if it's factual, unbiased and contains useful information of course).

Also, obviously, if anyone sees anything on the page that they think is incorrect, let me know and I'll investigate it further.

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You can download it from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html. Maybe some1 on this list can try to port the server program to the AmigaDE??

About 80% of all participants have shown their interests in the AmigaOne and Pegasos board. But most of them want to wait how the market will develop before they decide to buy one of the boards.

AmiDynDNS is now a CLI/Commodity hybrid program. So you can use it as before from the CLI and from the workbench with a little GUI.

The Commodity mode is interesting for server users who must know the latest host. AmiDynDNS is running in the background after startup and checks in free chooseable intervall the stated host and updates if necessary.

Also two options are added, you can choose paths for log- and configfile.

Name: VirusZ III v0.99
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 57.211
Date : 1 April 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires: AmigaOS 2.04 or better
util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha
util/virus/xvslibrary.lha
util/pack/xfdmaster.lha
util/arc/xadmaster.lha (recommended)
util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional)

News in VirusZ III v0.99:

• Improved window calculation code to avoid rendering bugs when you have installed sysihack-like programs. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the bug report and screenshot.
• Splitted the single 'About' request in a 'Technical Info' request and a new 'About' request and added some more information to them.
• Fixed bug: 72 bytes of memory disappeared during every program startup, this seems to be a problem with special CreateNewProc() tags. After two nights of debugging I still couldn't locate the bug exactly, so I did some workaround instead, now there are at least no more memory losses.
• Added the first vector snapshots sent by David Oakes, Ian Chapman, Fulvio Peruggi and Harry Sintonen. Thanks guys!
• Fixed minor rendering problem with VirusZ's main window. This one only appeared if you have modified the top_border size with tools like MCP. Thanks to Luca Longone for the report/screenshot and sorry for my angry email :-)
• Added full support for NSD-64-bit devices. Now the bootblocks of partitions located higher than the old 4GB-border will finally be accessed correctly.
• Improved disassembler output in the bootblock lab. The first three longwords now always get displayed as 'dc.l' lines and disassembly starts at offset $000c, the real entry point of a bootblock. This avoids strange interpretations of the bootblock's checksum and the two other fields.
• Added some more vector snapshots sent by Dariusz Krzempek. Thanks!

The most important new features in this release are:
The argument NOQUIT has been added to tell YGM not to quit an already running instance of YGM if it is started again. Modified the places where YGM looks for different files to better support running YGM from the WBStartup drawer. Mailbox login now supports APOP for transmitting username and password more safely. REPEAT values may now be specified in seconds too.