26.Dec.2005
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ANN.lu celebrates 9th anniversary
ANN turns nine years old today! In internet years, that's close to an
eternity, and only few hobby sites seem to make it that long. Christian
Kemp, who's responsible for the ANN, would like to thank everyone who
contributed in one way or another to ANN since late 1996 and wishes
all the best for the year 2006.
Update: (10:06, 27.12.05, snx)
The news has been updated by Christian Kemp: The correct date
is December, 28th. (cg) (Translation: nba)
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25.Dec.2005
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TTEngine 7.2 final
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has made version 7.2 final of the TTEngine available under the title link. This library for AmigaOS and MorphOS attends the rendering of high-quality texts using TrueType fonts. The TTEngine is based on the FreeType2 project, but is not merely a port.
For MorphOS users, the TTEngine is additionally available via an index file for Rupert Hausberger's package manager MorphUp as well.
Changes:
- Final version of direct rendering callback for BGRA32 screenmode
- Added handling of fonts with MS Symbol names encoding (Marlett)
- Fixed possible hits in the database parser
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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25.Dec.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Kickstart tool: Remus 0.85 (beta version)
Remus is a tool to split and rebuild Kickstart ROM images for users of UAE and classic Amigas with Kickflash boards, allowing AmigaOS 3.5 and AmigaOS 3.9 to boot without the usual reboots (Screenshot).
Basically, it splits up a 3.1 Kickstart (A3000 currently unsupported) and lets you replace various residents with their updated versions from the 3.5/3.9 RomUpdate file, add in BlizKick modules and rebuild it into a new Kickstart image.
Download:
Remus_085.lha (82 KB)
RomSplit_082.lha (92 KB) (snx)
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25.Dec.2005
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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Examination on the number of PowerUP boards produced
Matthias Münch writes: Since it is not exactly known how many PowerUP Dual Processor and Graphic Boards were made I want to get more precise numbers and break it down in each models with a PowerUP registration based on the serial numbers. Please help and submit your PowerUP model and serial number at the title link. (snx)
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24.Dec.2005
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail 0.28
The program SimpleMail is now available in version 0.28 for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. The update of the MorphOS version will follow soon.
The changes:
- Problems with printing solved (bgol)
- The time remaining until the next (automatic) mails download is displayed in the window title (bgol)
- Some options for the behaviour of the read window added (bgol)
- Mails can be forwarded as attachments (optional)
- Externally saved mails can be displayed via the menu item "Project/open mail..."; the same function is available via the command line and the ARexx command "OPENMESSAGE"
- Bugs removed
The SimpleMail team wishes all a merry christmas and a happy new year!
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Dec.2005
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Games data base: 200 new games at Lemon Amiga
In Lemon Amiga, a comprehensive games data base with numerous screenshots and information, were 200 titles added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Dec.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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Demo scene: christmas intro "Dear Santa" by Up Rough
With "Dear Santa releases the demo group Up Rough a small christmas intro for the Amiga 500.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Dec.2005
Dennis (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Emperor - Object Oriented Programming Environment (beta)
Emperor is an object orientated programming environment to make the development of PPC native applikations with only a little number of mouse clicks possible. The current version is mainly thought for developers who want to create Reaction based graphical user interfaces.
Right now Emperor generates source code for screens, windows, Reaction layouts, ASL requesters, menus and installer scripts.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Dec.2005
Neo (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: TuneNet 0.70a (beta)
TuneNet is a MP3, AHX, AIFF and Protracker player for AmigaOS 4 that can alos play MP3 streams from the Internet (screenshot). New in version 0.70a:
- optional skinable Docky interface
- playlist editing facilities
- sorting/find abilities
- volume and tune seeking controls
- and more...
The archive contains new versions of all plugins as older plugins are not compatible with version 0.70a anymore.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Dec.2005
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AmigaOS enhancement: AFA OS 3.91 (final) released
AFA OS (AROS for AmigaOS) is a collection of AROS libraries that were ported back to AmigaOS 3 and because of this make new functions under this operating system available.
Thanks to a fast official fix by Georg Steger does "assign add" now work. Next to this was an error removed that froze the system when the FONTS: assign contained a directory whith no fonts in it.
Author Bernd Roesch wishes all readers a merry christmas.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Dec.2005
AN-Team
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Amiga-News wishes a merry christmas!
The whole team of Amiga-News wishes all readers, partners and Amiga fans a merry christmas and a happy new year!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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24.Dec.2005
Jan Zahurancik (ANF)
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WinUAE: Update package 1.03 for AmiKit
A new update for AmiKit, an all in one OS distribution for WinUAE users, is available. It requires the previous update.
New in this version:
- ADDED: AmiKit Polish documentation, translated by Tomek!
- ADDED: AmigaAMP-External68k engine, set as default engine now.
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP 2.16
- UPDATED: IBrowse Preferences 23.3
- UPDATED: Jabberwocky 1.6
- UPDATED: MakeCD 3.2d beta 11
- UPDATED: WHDLoad 16.5 build 4021
- UPDATED: WookieChat 1.9.2
- UPDATED: YAM 2.4p1 + locale files
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Dec.2005
PPA (ANF)
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Mediator: TV-Tuner controller TvR 2.9
The program TvR written by Robert Krajcarz (screenshot)
is now available in version 2.9. With this software you can control TV-Tuner-PCI-cards
which are used with a Mediator board.
These are the most important changes:
- The major changes concern a new set of options activated with right mouse button.
- fixed bug in the procedure of hiding mouse pointer
- fixed bugs in ADD and DEL functions
- added PPM P6 and JPEG savers
- displayed TV images can be used as Workbench background
- selection of favourite channels
- minimizing the main window can be obtain from the GUI level
- minor change in the method of saving configuration files
A complete list of all changes is available in the archive.
Download: tvr29.lha (70 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2005
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: New track as MP3 written by Cj-Stroker
On Amiforce there is a preview of the music project: "Tempronic - Ultra violent trancemix" written by
Cj-Stroker in the music section.
Besides this all users and visitors of his website he wishes a Merry Christmas.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2005
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MorphOS: Software-News until 23.12.2005
MOSNet 0.15 (formerly ezTCP)
The PPC-native TCP/IP-Stack written by Pavel Fedin is available as alpha version 0.15.
Because of the existence of a product with the same name as well as some new
functions have been added this piece of software is now called MOSNet.
With version 0.15 the support of DHCP was finished. Nevertheless a part of this
source code will be rewritten for a forthcoming version.
Download site
AHIRNG
AHIRNG, the "AHI Random Number Generator", is used for creating random figures.
Rupert Hausbergers MUI-program (screenshot)
can do this with the help of the so called Rosa Rauschen
which was recorded with a receiver without aerial. The results can be used for
creating of One-Time-Pads.
Download: ahirng-morphos.lha (57 KB)
MrMazinga 0.8
The gag-program MrMazinga written by Alfonso Ranieri is available in version 0.8.
From now on there is also a version for AmigaOS/68k.
Download site
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Picture viewer Showgirls 0.8
ShowGirls" is a picture viewer written by Michal 'kiero' Wozniak which has some editing
functions and some features of the programs "MiniShowPicture" and "ShowPPC" (screenshots).
Changes in the new version:
- FIXED: When changing to/from fullscreen with other windows opened they are moved to front.
- FIXED: Various small bugs and invalid memory acceses.
- FIXED: Crashes when switching images with asynchronous refresh enabled.
- FIXED: Sometimes rightmost column on thumbnail had wrong color.
- FIXED: Memory leak when checking saved JPEG quality.
- NEW: Loading of CMYK JPEGs.
- NEW: Possibility to disable color subsampling in JPEG saver. Results in better color quality (not 'washed out') in some cases.
- NEW: Selective gaussian filter. Usefull for noise removal.
- NEW: Glow filter.
- NEW: Straighten tool. Helps to correct rotated scans or pictures.
- NEW: Manual marking of cropped area.
- NEW: Thumbnails view uses directory icons if possible.
- NEW: File management functions can be executed on multiple files at once (multiselection).
- NEW: More keyboard shortcuts added to menu items.
- NEW: Image rotation also possible using numeric keyboard (keys 7 and 9).
- NEW: When changing browser mode currently selected file is remembered.
- NEW: In thumbnails view, selected thumbs are highlighted.
- NEW: 'Delayed scanning' option. Starts thumbnails generation only after browser is enabled.
- NEW: Display of EXIF tags from JPEG images.
- NEW: Automatic rotation of pictures with vertical orientation (if camera supports it and writes needed info).
- NEW: 3D View (3DVIEW tooltype or command param). Just useless eyecandy for now :) (Screenshot)
- NEW: Background/Shadow color adjustment for display area.
- NEW: Save function (in addition to Save As).
- NEW: In thumbnailer module size of resulting thumbnail can be specified.
- NEW: Undo. For now just simple one level one. Was that or no release for xmess.
- NEW: ARexx interface
- Updated libz and libpng to current versions.
- Faster text inserting routine.
- Rotation routines much faster (up to 300%) for bigger images.
- String gadget with numeric values can be controlled using mouse wheel (MUI4).
- Speedup to various parts of the code.
Download: ShowGirls-0.8.lha (470 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2005
Slashdot (Webseite)
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Fosfor Gadgets: The ten most crazy Case-Mods ever
The website Fosfor Gadgets has chosen the ten most crazy Case-Mods ever.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2005
Ronny (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: DvPlayer 0.51
Version 0.51 of DvPlayer, a video and DVD player for AmigaOS 4, has been released at the title link.
Changes since the previous release:
- Added subtitle support (.srt and .sub files) with automatic subtitle loading
- Added subtitle command line options and tooltypes (font name/size, position, colour) and a new subtitle menu to allow loading/closing of subtitles
- Added animated dithering algorithm to 16-bit modes to improve quality (apparent colour depth) and added NODITHER tooltype and command line option
- Volume slider could be updated by audioboost in fullscreen mode where it does not get put into the window leading to a crash
- Added possibility to use system fonts in DvPlayer Skins; updated the skin documentation to include information about this new feature
- Fixed a memory leak bug in the avi code
- AudioBoost now doubles the volume too, instead of just extending the volume range
- Fixed a bug causing wrong window size when skin was changed while a movie was stopped
(snx)
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23.Dec.2005
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #090
The scene groupe Liquid Skies has published its 90th music pack. This time
it contains a music track in Tribal style composed of the Polish duo Lcr feat. Kuadziw.
The cover was made by Kuadziw.
Some further information:
- Title: Fkrent Story
- Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
- Style: Tribal
- Play time: 7:50
- Format: mp3 (160 kbps)
The zip file has a size of 9 MB and can be downloaded under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS: AC3 S/PDIF playback on Pegasos
AC3Play is a small tool to test S/PDIF out with multichannel audio on Pegasos running MorphOS. It requires a digital amplifier which is capable of decoding AC3.
Analog out is muted while playing non-PCM data, only optical out is used.
Do not use it while playing back audio with AHI, it does not use AHI but
accesses the audio hardware directly.
Download: playac3.lha (1,4 MB) (snx)
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22.Dec.2005
morphos-news.de (website)
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MorphOS: Shoot'em Up Lightning Spirit
Lightning Spirit is a vertical scrolling shootem'up game(Screenshot) orientated on "Ikaruga". MorphOS-Port from Nicolas Sallin.
The morphos archiv contains the main executable only, but all necessary files are being downloaded during the installation procedure.
Download: lightningspirit.lha (290 KB) (cg) (Translation: ts)
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22.Dec.2005
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: Short break, webcam packet and new WBSuperGames screenshots
Press release:
Wehrheim, Germany, the 22th of December 2005 - We want to let you know that we will take a short break from the 22th to 29th of December. At this time you cannot contact us via email or telephone. Additionally, we will not be working on orders.
AmiWebView: Webcam package for Germany
As a little christmas present, we have created a webcam package for germany. All webcams are sorted by the german provinces. You can find the package at our download section.
WBSuperGames: New screenshots
At our WBSuperGames site you can find new screenshots. WBSuperGames is a Workbench-game-collection for AmigaOS 4. The WBSuperGames will be released in the beginning 2006.
A big thanks go to you, our customers for your support over the last year and we will be happy to welcome you into the year 2006 and hope you continue being a customer.
We wish all amiga users a merry chrismas and a happy new year.
Regards
Your Alinea Computer team (cg) (Translation: snx)
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22.Dec.2005
(ANF)
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PowerPC-Emulator: PearPC with Support for G4 CPU
The emulator PearPC emulates the PowerPC cpu architecture on Intel cpu's. The new version 0.4.0 also emulates the Altivec command sentences of a G4 cpu now. Furthermore cd drives now are supported directly, a dvd drive can be emulated with an image and the emulator is starting immediately in fullscreen mode. (cg) (Translation: ts)
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22.Dec.2005
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Updates of ascan and hserv
Alfonso Ranieri has relesad new versions of ascan and hserv. The former one is a multi-process-TCP-port-scanner for AmigaOS/68k and MorphOS.
The ARexx program hserv is a http/1.1 server which is able to act standalone or as an inetd service and handles GET, HEAD as well as POST. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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22.Dec.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: GNU m4-1.4.4
GNU m4, an implementation of the traditional UNIX macroprocessor, is also available for AmigaOS 4 now. It is extensively compatible to SVR4 but contains some extensions. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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22.Dec.2005
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MorphOS: OpenSSH 4.1p1
Marek Szyprowski's morphos port of OpenSSH was updated to version 4.1p1. In the new version the ssh-rand-helper was replaced with Christian Rosentreter's yarandom-handler.
OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH protocol suite and should offer the users of telnet, rlogin, ftp and similar clients more security on the internet by effectively coding all sent data including the password. The morphos version is mainly intended for the use with Jacek Piszczek's SSHCON. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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21.Dec.2005
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Amiga Bourne compatible shell 0.0.36
abc-shell ("Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell") is a shell compatible to POSIX/Bourne. It offers an environment known from Unix-/Linux and should make ports from Unix easier. the latest version is further bug freed and the default prompt shows the current directory.
Download: abc-shell-0.0.36.tar.bz2 (435 KB) (readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.Dec.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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Event: pictures from the Dutch "Commodore Show"
At the title link there are some pictures from the "Commodore Show", which was held Maarssen on December the 17th and was organized by the Dutch "Commodore Gebruikers Groep". (cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.Dec.2005
Neo (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Warp3D picture viewer WarpView 0.7
The picture viewer WarpView uses Warp3D for rendering. That allows fast scaling. On the draw back side the program requires more video ram tahn conventional viewers. To actually load teh pictures datatypesare used. Changes for version 0.7:
- Fixed a bug which caused crashes when trying to step between images at the same time as when the info line or mouse was blanked
- Selecting only a directory in the file requester didn't work
- Fixed problem with buffered events, which made the image zoom/rotation
slower and less responsive
Download: warpview.lha (34 KB) ( Readme)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.Dec.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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individual Computers: EU business continues / Common label with E3B
Press release - The best news at the beginning: E3B and individual Computers continue selling hardware in the EU. We want to thank everyone who sent us eMails with suggestions, mostly trying to circumvent the new law, but also with information on how to start a company in another country. Unfortunately, all this doesn't help, because the law also applies to companies outside Germany who want to sell their products in Germany.
To fully comply with the law, E3B and individual Computers founded the label "ConBridge" which is now registered with the Stiftung EAR, despite legal problems that are not fully resolved. Read more on the common webseite www.conbridge.de (German language only).
New advertising partner
We have supported the "Amiga plus" magazine for a long time
with our adverts. Since the Amiga plus is not available any more, we have been looking for a new magazine with the same high quality of articles. What we found is the Austrian magazine Lotek 64: It's made by enthousiastic hobbyists, and stands any comparison with high-standard professional journals. You can either read the magazine online for free, or you can make a donation and have the mag sent to you in printed form. The magazine is in German language only.
For the current december-issue we want to point out an article by Dr. Rainer Buchty, which deals with the technology of the C64-DTV2. The Commodore 64 in a joystick is also known as "PAL-DTV", and is derived from the C-One. However, individual Computers was not involved in the DTV project, so our high production standards were not applied. The article describes how you can correct the low (nearly unreadable) colour contrast with a little skill and a soldering iron. (snx)
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20.Dec.2005
OS4Depot (website)
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IRC client: WookieChat 1.9.2
Since today, WookieChat 1.9.2 is available. This minor release fixes an important bug in the OS3 version that prevented multiple tabs from working correctly. It was locking up when switching between tabs, or when one closed a tab. The authors thanks 'foody' for reporting this bug. The biggest change in the new release is alias support.
Changes in version 1.9.2:
- Incoming file transfers with spaces in the filename is accepted now
- Pause while selecting text fixed
- Tab switching works properly under OS3 now
- Outgoing /notice and /msg appear in the currently viewed tab again
- Split up the Incoming and Outgoing DCC File Transfers Window into two separate windows, to take up less space when not needed.
- No longer creates empty logs (0 bytes) when logging is disabled
- If you start a line with "//" it sends that text normally. It wont try to use it as a command anymore.
- /join no longer requires a '#' preceeding the channel name
- Added basic command alias support. e.g. /j can replace /join
- Added a /say command to speak in the current tab. Could be useful in conjunction with an alias
- Tabs now have a black square in them to show theres been no activity, and have been made more compact
- Tabs sit in a virtual group now, so that the window isnt forced to be as large as the amount of tabs you have open
Download: wookiechat.lha (375 KB) (snx)
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20.Dec.2005
Thomas Knäbel (e-mail)
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Let it snow: Christmas greetings from bplan GmbH
"Let it snow" - at the title link, bplan GmbH are sending christmas greetings to all their current and future customers.
bplan executive Thomas Knäbel comments the photos as follows:
"The first photo was taken in February 2002 after a Pegasos production run in Oberhausen (days apart from the outside world), where we got 'a little bit surprised' by snow: Thomas Dellert, Gerald & I and the nice, broad summer tyres, of course. :)
The lower pictures are from the current year, November 2005, taken in front of our office in Oberursel: Nicolas Det, Gerald & I." (snx)
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20.Dec.2005
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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Pegasos: AROS, Freevo, Mac-on-Linux
Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun wishes all Pegasos users a very nice Christmas and a Happy New Year with three new creations. The files are provided as torrents by Pegasos.org, so you need a Torrent client for downloading.
(snx)
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