30.Jan.2005
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Aminet: Status Update
September last year wuarchive.wustl.edu, the server hosting the main Aminet archive us.aminet.net, went down due to a broken RAID controller. Since then, Aminet doesn't accept uploads.
Despite the original announcement that wuarchive.wustl.edu would only host "sponsered" archives once the server would be up and running again, us.aminet.net went back online November last year. Uploads are still not being processed though.
Approached by amiga-news.de, Mark Bober from Washington University (wuarchive.wustl.edu) explained that the backup that was used to re-establish us.aminet.net is incomplete - several scripts are broken or missing. This information has been forwarded to Aminet admin Urban Mueller, who will be cooperating with Mark Bober to repair the damage on Aminet's main server or help to establish a new main server.
Further news will be announced soon. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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29.Jan.2005
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Compiler: vbcc 0.8h released
The C compiler vbcc by Volker Barthelmann (compiler kernel) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptions) is available as version 0.8h. The compiler supports ISO-C following ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a part of the newer standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99).
The main changes:
- M68k code generator: Fixed -O2 optimizer bug with switch statements
- Any register can be selected to hold a function's return value
- Preprocessor (ucpp) supports the #warning directive
- Improved linker script for OS4: allows linking with CODE, DATA, BSS and unnamed sections (from 68k hunk objects). Fixed _LinkerDB definition
- M68k- and MorphOS-headers must not contain inline code for MUI_NewObject(), which confuses the preprocessor
- vclib: Improved precision for ASCII to floating point conversions in vfscanf()
- vclib: A set error indicator in the stream no longer blocks further read/write/seek operations
- vsend crashed when trying to break with ctrl-c
- vasm: Fixed problem with small data mode and 68k hunk objects
- vasm's new option -opt-fconst automatically optimizes float constants to a lower precision when possible. Enabled this in vbcc's 68k scripts
- vlink bug fixes: PHDR definition, 64k segment alignment for PPC/ELF, absolute symbols in hunk format, etc.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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29.Jan.2005
der_letzte_Amiganer (ANF)
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Computer- & Videobörse on March, 5th and 6th in Bremen
On March, 5th and 6th takes place the Computer- & Videobörse in Bremen
in the Bürgerzentrum in the Neuen Vahr once again.
Jörg Dittmar wrote about it: "We, the 'Users der Nordseeküste' will be there, too, and will showcase our computers. Next to the new AmigaOne of Ralf 'Mika' Tönjes, I - Jörg 'the_last_Amiganer' Dittmar - will be there with my Pegasos 2 again. Let's see whether it will work out all right with the new BurnIT 3.0?
Of course there will be our little Amiga but also PCs and numerous Macs. We hope for the appearance of Michael Garlich (Titan Computer) and some more faces known from the Amiga and Pegasos scene. In October, KDH-Datentechnik made a short visit.
The consumers area of the fair won't be neglectable, too. There are always some good things to get but also monitors, LCDs, hard discs, memory, and so on, new as well as used - the visit will be worth it in any case.
The entrance will cost 4 Euros respectively 3 Euros with special ticket. Parking possibilities are plenty in the multi-storey car-park." (snx) (Translation: wk)
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29.Jan.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Guru Meditation (Sweden) offers AmigaOne XE repairs
The Swedish Amiga retailer Guru Meditation offers a repair service for the USB and DMA/Ethernet faults of the AmigaOne XE. Please notice that the warranty will cease by doing the repair.
If you are interested in a repair you can contact Guru Meditation via e-mail. You then get a booking number sent. Please send your board only after receiving this booking number and package it with care, if possible by using the original packaging. Take also care to avoid damage caused by statical electrostatic charging. In addition should heavy heatsinks be particularly wrapped for the transport. An insured parcel is recommended.
If you bought your AmigaOne board at Guru Meditation you only pay the sending. Otherwise you have to pay an additional 30 Euros for the repair. The time for repairing and sending is an estimated two weeks from the day on you send the board.
Additionally they offer the installation of a Swiftech heatsink free of charge if you buy it in conjunction with the board repair at Guru Meditation.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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29.Jan.2005
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Tales of Tamar: price for the first emperor of 2005
The round based fantasy strategy role playing game Tales of Tamar increases the price for the first new emperor of 2005. The player who manages it as first this year to earn the title of an emperor and whose empire was registered after January, 1st 2005 will be rewarded with a price of 500 Euros.
The rules of the competition are as follows:
- Members or former members of the developers team mustn't take part in the competition
- The player has to play the game in the registered mode
- Name, address and other data of the potential emperor have to be entered correctly
- The empire has to be registered after December, 31st 2004
- Every player is only allowed to own one empire. Payed second matches are not allowed. Payed single matches are possible
- The team from "Tales of Tamar" is not liable for any software bugs or other errors in the program, even if these should cause the loss of the account meaning that this does not give the right for earning the 'ToT Prize'
- Old vassal contracts may not be ported to new games
- Existing players may not form new and name an emperor only to share out the 'ToT Prize' among themselves
- Any way of 'manipulated try to win' is forbidden. The emperor ahould reach his aim by clever diplomacy, accomplished strategy and clever trading
- The purpose of the 'ToT Prize' is the enrichment of the game with new players
You can find further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jan.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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MorphOS: Help 0.91
The command Help written by Nicolas Ramz for MorphOS-Shell describes over
100 commands with all their arguments as well as application examples. Additionally
it is a little documentation to MorphOS-Shell itself.
Changes in version 0.91:
- Some orthography bugs fixed
- The command "Alias" has now completely documented
- Missing ARexx-commands added
Download: Help_v09.lha (120 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Jan.2005
Volker Mohr (e-mail)
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Self made: The worldwide first Pegasos-"Laptop"
Under the title link "Dr. Zarkov" presents his newest project: After making
a portable Amiga 1200 now Volker Mohr
has faced another challenge - the creation of portable Pegasos solution (photo).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Jan.2005
MorphZone (Forum)
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GGS-Data: Firmware-Update for Pegasos II
GGS-Data together with bplan make available an update for the version 1.2 of the
Open Firmware for Pegasos II.
If you have installed an older version of the Open Firmware and wish to have an update
so please contact the Swedish dealer GGS-Data and give your series number.
You can use a contact formular which you can find on the sites of GGS-Data.
You will get an update file as well as a documenation how you can update your
Open Firmware.
News:
- Starting via GBit-Ethernet possible
- USB-support (but not all keyboards)
- Bug fixes
GGS-Data recommend this update no matter if you use MorphOS or Linux.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Contents of dev.amiga.hu Available Again
"LouiSe" made the entire content of his recently closed MorphOS website dev.amiga.hu available in the form of a downloadable archive.
Download: dev_innoidea_hu.tgz (5.6 MB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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27.Jan.2005
Simon Goodwin (ANF)
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Spam Blocker: New Recognition Methods for "SpamFryer"
"SpamFryer" searches the headers of all the e-mails in your Pop3 account and deletes the unwanted ones right at the server. For users with broadband connections, who are not quite as concerned with the download volume, there's also a version that works on the e-mails in your local e-mail directories.
Under the title link the author of SpamFryer releases new recognition methods for SPAM, methods that the user himself may enter in the SpamFryer configuration.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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27.Jan.2005
(ANF)
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heise.de: Renewed Fervor in Lobbying Battle over Software Patents
Click on the title link for heise.de's summary on the latest developments on the legal events concerning software patents. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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27.Jan.2005
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: New AMOS Game Hare Chase Prepared
On Amiforce there's a new game written by the pen of Dietmar Grämer available in the Classic Games section. Like the previous titles this one, Hare Chase, is written in AMOS. The author would be very pleased if you'd write him a few lines using the contact form. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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27.Jan.2005
Markus Bedurke (ANF)
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Amiga 500 Report in the Video Game Magazine MAN!AC
Markus Bedurke notifies us that the new issue (3/05, released this morning) of the video game magazine "MAN!AC" contains a two page report on the Amiga 500. There's a few Amiga games on the attached magazine DVD as well. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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22.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: DarcNES/Amiga and Handy
Matthias 'AmiDog' Roslund has ported the emulators DarcNES/Amiga and Handy to AmigaOS 4.
DarcNES emulates various game consoles, amongst them NES, SMS, SG1000 and the Coleco Vision. Handy emulates Atari's handheld device 'Lynx'.
Downloads:
DarcNES-20050122a.tar.gz (237 KB)
Handy-20050122a.tar.gz (924 KB) (cg)
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22.Jan.2005
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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R - The GUI generator for MorphOS and AmigaOS
The program R by Guido Mersmann has been updated to version 2.10 and is available in the MorphZone. R is a realtime-generator for graphical user interfaces for almost every DOS command.
Product description by the author: Did you ever feel boring when dealing with DOS commands and their arguments? Did you ever wait for a GUI because the CLI only tool is to complicated for your Shell/CLI skills? Did you ever understand all that cryptic argument names? Did you ever wish DOS arguments would be in your native language for better understanding?
Yes? Then here comes the solution for your problems. "R" - The only weapon to defeat templates! (Something like Airwolf! :) )
Since the early 90s "R" is the one and only weapon to defeat DOS templates and now it returns! Reenforced, upgraded, reworked and ready for the future.
Tons of new features also allow professional to enhance DOS and for all other it's as easy to use as ever:
Simple call "r list" to get a high quality localized gadget user interface for the DOS command list. Set up the options and push execute. Setup predefined options for stuff you need every time and never type it again!
No longer wait for an user interface made by others. Grab a project icon, insert "R" as default tool and there it is!
It's not a hack! It's "R"!
Download: r.lha (202 KB) (snx)
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22.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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amrss updated to version 3.6
The program amrss offers in version 3.6 now Favicons and some kind of raw cookies implementation to make sites like those of the Yahoogroups usable.
amrss shows so called RSS feeds, short news in text form offered e.g. by amiga-news.de.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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22.Jan.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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OnyxSoft: MPlayer GUI and program updates released
Onyxsoft released a graphical user interface for the video player MPlayer as well as updates for AllKeys, MultiRen, QuickSketch and Zapper.
- MPlayer-GUI 1.12 by Daniel Westerberg is a graphical user interface for MPlayer (MorphOS and AmigaOS4) and requires MUI. MPlayerGUI is compiled for AmigaOS-68k but restricted to Kickstart v50.
- AllKeys 1.0 by Daniel Westerberg makes it possible to use all mapped keyboard rawkeys including multimedia keys. The program is now available in a native AmigaOS4 version.
- MultiRen 1.61 by Daniel Westerberg is a tool with many functions to change several file names and comments. The program requires MUI and needs at least AmigaOS 2.04.
- QuickSketch 1.02 by Daniel Westerberg is a Post-It clone that allows you to make notes not only as text but also graphically. For AmigaOS 2.04 and higher.
- Zapper 0.10 by Adam Waldenberg allows it under MorphOS to use the zoom gadget of windows for maximizing to the full screen size instead of the Amiga typical change to an alternative size. It is also possible to do a smart resize that just uses the maximum free area until other windows are reached.
Download:
allkeys.lha (35 KB)
mplayergui.lha (15 KB)
multiren.lha (201 KB)
quicksketch.lha (21 KB)
zapper.lha (20 KB)
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22.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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Vaporware: mo more online registrations possible
As can be read on the Vaporware website has Silicon Circus stopped the possibility for online registration for Vaporware products from December, 25th 2004 on.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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22.Jan.2005
MorphOS-ML
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Ambient source code under GPL released
The source code of the current version 1.40 Workbench replacement Ambient by David 'Zapek' Gerber was released today under the GPL.
The latest released version of Ambient together with MorphOS 1.4.2 was V1.29. Next to this the author has set up a Paypal link for users who want to give as a thank you for the release a small donation.
Some features of the current v1.40:
- MUI-based: The user interface toolkit is MUI (Magic User Interface). It is one of the most flexible and powerful out there. Every window is resizeable thanks to the built-in layout engine. Moreover, the user can change the look of the interface himself. No need to hardcode settings from the main program.
- Multi-threaded: The whole design of Ambient is asynchronous. One of the key point during the development was that Ambient must never look busy and keep reacting whatever happens. Each job that has a locking possibility (eg. I/O) or can take some time is scheduled to a thread that handles it separately. Conditions which usually upset other desktops, like a network device being unreachable, are not a problem for Ambient.
- Various icon formats: Ambient handles a numerous format of icons: the original Amiga format, the MagicWB variant with proper remapping, the 256 colors indexed Newicons, the 256 colors indexed Glowicons and its own true color format with alpha based on PNG. Creating an icon is easy, use your favorite paint package and save the icon as PNG.
- Truecolor rendering: There is no support for CLUT (paletted) modes. This simplifies the internal design greatly as Ambient does quite a lot of graphics processing. 8-bit screens are a thing of the past and not worth supporting with current hardware.
- 64 Bit arithmetic: 64-bit arithmetic is used for operations related to storage and file handling. Large disks and large files are handled properly.
- Localisation: Ambient uses a so-called catalog system which means all its strings can be fetched from some external source if the desired language is different than English.
- Fast I/O: Ambient is very efficient regarding I/O operations and is finetuned to common storage speeds. Its buffers automatically adapt themselves to the given situation.
- Built-in disk-formatting: Actual formatting of disk partitions can be done from Ambient. The various modes includes quick format, full format and a complex verification format.
- Different file views: Depending on the media content, a different view can be used. For example an icon view with thumbnails, a list view showing most attributes of files, a view showing pictures. Everything is possible and views are pluggable modules.
- File handling: Each media can be handled differently depending on its mimetype. Ambient allows to configure exactly what to do with a given media. For example you might want to run some player tool when double clicking on a sound file or use Ambient's built in replayer.
- Panels: Ambient offers a quick way of creating panels and populating them with programs or applets. There're various options to configure the look and the behaviour of each panel.
- Visual effects: Ambient has various visual effects to make things nifty and smooth. They are heavily optimized to avoid any impact on the general responsiveness. High quality resizing, alpha effects, blurring, .. they all take advantage of MorphOS' graphics subsystem: CyberGraphX.
- ARexx support: There's a built in ARexx port which offers scripting support. Ambient uses these commands itself and allows scripts to perform various tasks.
- Sound engine: Ambient features a built-in sound engine with drivers and API. It allows to play various sounds easily and offers asynchronous modes.
- Hardware support: Ambient uses Altivec optimized code and takes advantage of the streaming features offered by the Pegasos 2 MPX bus.
This release has been made possible also by Oliver Wagner and Stefan Stuntz, who gave David Gerber the permission for a few include files and parts of code. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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21.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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MorphOS: PolyOrganiser & Shorten 3.6.0
PolyOrganiser 0.68
PolyOrganiser written by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault is a so called "PIM-Tool" (Personal Information Management)
which you can use to manage dates, contacts and tasks (screenshot).
Features of PolyOrganiser:
- PPC-nativ
- MUI-based user interface
- Completely localizied
- Intuitive layout which is similar to a "real" organizer
- Objects can be linked to each other: A date can be linked with a contact address
- OpenURL is supported
Link: Homepage
Shorten 3.6.0
"Shorten" is an audio compressing program which can compress audio files to the
WAV-format. SHN-files are often used by minor bands which want to release their music
over the Internet (examples at archive.org).
Link: Download site. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jan.2005
ANN (website)
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Linux: GTK-Theme in AmigaOS 4 style
Under the title link you can find a GTK-Theme in AmigaOS 4 style
(screenshot).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jan.2005
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: TCP/IP-Stack transfered to CVS
The Amiga Research Operating System which is an Open-Source-imitation of AmigaOS 3.1
has transfered a functional TCP/IP-stack to CVS abd therefore has made another
great achievement.
AROSTCP written by Neil C. is a Port of AmiTCP 3.0b2.
The reward which was
given by Team AROS for creating a TCP/IP-stack with support of IP4, TCP, UDP and ICMP
as well as a bsdsocket.library-API is 600 US-Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Jan.2005
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Software News through 20th January 2005
WarpJPEG Datatype 45.4
Oliver Roberts has released a new version of his JPEG datatype "WarpJPEG." The archive contains versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and WarpOS. WarpJPEG is shareware.
- Added native AmigaOS 4 version
- Updated with the latest WarpDT engine build
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.8g
- Added Polish installer translation
- Updated Spanish and French installers
Link: Homepage
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (187 KB)
Shorten 2.3a
"Shorten" is an audio-compression program with which WAV audio can be compressed without loss. SHN data is often used by smaller bands who make their music available for free on the Internet. (samples at archive.org).
Link: homepage
Download: shorten-2.3a.lha (195 KB)
AmiMSN 1.0 WIP (Update)
AmiMSN is a console-based IM client for the MSN network. Written in ARexx.
Download: AmiMSN1.0-WIP.lha (52 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: 2004 Game of the Year?
The makers of "Amiga Games Hit Parade" are calling for a vote on the best games of 2004. A corresponding form for the notation of last year's releases may be found under the title link.
From here on the polling is active for the best Amiga games. You can take part in the vote, just send an e-mail with maximum 20 of your favorite games to David "Daff" Brunet. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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ProTracker 5.0: Status Update
The new version (5.0) of ProTracker should appear this spring (current screenshot). A short English-language report about the current status of the Windows version may be found under the title link.
Concerning the MorphOS and Amiga OS4 versions the author notes the following: the MorphOS version has undergone in-depth testing over the last year, and the Amiga version was successfully compiled by Hans-Joerg Frieden, but there were still some problems with the affair as a whole. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
MorphOS-ML
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MorphOS: New Beta-Version Python 2.4
Guillaume Roguez's MorphOS port of the scripting language Python 2.4 is now in new beta-version 0.4beta2.
Python is an object-oriented programming language that was invented by Guido van Rossum in the early 90s at the Center for Science and Information in Amsterdam. The text of a Python program in all implementations is transparently translated into an intermediate code that is executed by an interpreter.
Download: python-2.4-mos_0.4beta2_bin_src.lha (12 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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AmigaOpenOffice.org Website Opened
Click on the title link to see that the AmigaOpenOffice.org website has opened its gates. It's the official project website for an Amiga OS4 port of that office software suite. The publishers want to provide news and a discussion forum among other things. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
(ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Co-Worker Information Removed from the Website
There's no longer any information to be found on amiga.com about co-workers of the organization. On the corresponding page there are now just two e-mail addresses: developer@amiga.com and information@amiga.com. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.Jan.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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Position Taken on MUI Version 4 for MorphOS
Under the title link you'll find that MUI's developer Stefan Stuntz has articulated his viewpoint of the situation between his user interface and the MorphOS operating system.
In this communication Ralph Schmidt's statement (amiga-news.de reported) is confirmed, that there was an offer to make the new and future versions of MUI available to Genesi at no charge and also to offer them in shareware form to users of AmigaOS 3.X and OS4.
Further, MUI V4 is nearly completed and there is nothing legally binding that prohibits uniform versions being released for all three of the cited operating systems. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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