30.Sep.2004
ANN (Website)
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Pegasos: Yellow Dog Linux 4.0
Terra Soft have released version 4.0 of their Linux distribution "Yellow Dog Linux." The distribution is based on the Fedora core 2 and offers KDE 3.3 as well as GNOME 2.6.0 for a desktop interface. The installer and the desktop arrangement present themselves as a completely new appearance. The use of OpenOffice 1.1.1, Rhythmbox 0.8.3, Mozilla 1.7 as well as the development tools glibc 2.3.3 and gcc 3.3.3 are included. 2.6.8 is the version of the Linux kernel in use.
Alongside Macintosh computers with G3, G4, and G5 CPUs the Pegasos 2 is also supported, thanks to the "Freescale Board Support Package." (cg) (Translation: dm)
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30.Sep.2004
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Microsoft Loses FAT Patent
»Public Patent Foundation of US Patents and Trademarks successful: The US Patent and Trademark Office has denied Microsoft a patent on the FAT file system because of the efforts of the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT). PUBPAT initiated a review of the patent in April 2004.«
Read the complete Golem article [German language] under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Sep.2004
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Gathering: More pictures of "Alchimie 4"
Alchimie 4 took place last weekend in l'Hermitage (France). More photos have been released:
http://niffo.free.fr/alchimie_4/
http://www.amiga2.free.fr/
http://membres.lycos.fr/afle/
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Sep.2004
K. Mache - AZT e.V. (ANF)
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News about Fun of Computing 2004
This year's Fun of Computing 2004 begins in just a few days. So it's high time some interesting news was released about it.
In the first place we are pleased to officially announce that the firm yellowTAB is listed on the page of exhibitioners. At yellowTAB's stand there's naturally going to be a presentation of their operating system ZETA. ZETA, based on well-known BeOS, will be offered at a special price during the convention.
[MorphOS and Pegasos will be demonstrated by Axel Knabe. Titan Computing will also be there demonstrating their products like Burn-It Pro and Papyrus Office. -dm]
On the subject of AmigaOS 4 there's going to be a special presentation from Jens Langner in which he'll demonstrate the current stage of development of the OS, and talk a bit about the past and the future of the new Amiga OS. Notice is given that this is Jens' private initiative and not an official demo of the OS4 development team or Hyperion.
The team from Anime Development for Amiga (ADA) will be present on Saturday, presenting the latest version of its 3D engine for the game Secret Of My Soul (SOMS).
On Saturday even Matthias Goldisch of the advertisement agency "aktuell" will be there at Fun of Computing, and along with hardware and software for the themes of retro-computing, C64, Amiga and Pegasos, there'll also be computer-themed merchandise, and periodicals like Amiga Plus, Amiga Future and GO64.
For all those who want to keep playing Amiga games, even after a power failure, we have a workable solution. Thanks to the friendly support of Marcus Werum, the inventor of the original Amiga card game, there's now a limited amount of the cardsets available to be handed out on request, at no charge. Only while supplies last, of course!
From the editors of "Amiga Future" there's now also a limited number of examples of their Amiga newspaper, no charge.
You'll find more information about the convention, as well as important tips for getting there and returning, under the appropriate menu selections at the Internet site for Fun of Computing 2004. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.Sep.2004
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Tool: Report+ version 6.12a
The freeware Report+ is released in version 6.12a now. The tool is based on ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 with BB1 and offers ten different functions.
Download: ReportPlus.lha - 297 Kb (ps) (Translation: ub)
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29.Sep.2004
Christoph Kimna (E-Mail)
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Game: PairsNG version 2.6
At the PairsNG website there is a new demo version available. The current version is 2.6. PairsNG is a Shanghai similar board game for the Workbench. Required are 8 MB RAM, 68040 processor, a gfx card and AHI. The game is
shareware, registration fee is 10 Euro. Current version cleans up several bugs.
Changes:
- Display error at second level - fixed
- In version 2.5 the drawer "settings" was missing (required to save preferences) - now fixed
- Small calculation bug for bonus points - fixed
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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29.Sep.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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Linux distribution: CruxPPC 2.0 for Macintosh and Pegasos
Today version 2.0 of the LinuxPPC distribution "Crux" has been released. It supports Apples PowerPC computers as well as the Pegasos 2. The distribution uses the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Sep.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Intermediaware is looking for programmers for Amiga port
Intermediaware is looking for a talented Amiga programmer who may port the game "Psychoballs" (information by the title link) to AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and/or MorphOS. All source code from the original developers will be provided as well as all graphics and sound/music files.
The game is a clone of the Amiga classic Logical by Rainbow Arts. For details please contact amigedev@intermediaware.de, best with a brief summary of the regarding experience. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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27.Sep.2004
n/a (ANF)
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Mac emulation: MacOnAmiga is back to full functionality
MacOnAmiga is dedicated to be the one stop solution to Amiga users for classic Mac emulation. The site was suffering from amigaworld.net's server downtime, but is back to full functionality now.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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27.Sep.2004
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Events: AmigaOS 4 presentation from "Alchimie"
Stéphane Guillard has released the sheets used for the AmigaOS 4 presentation he did at Alchimie 4 last weekend.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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26.Sep.2004
Mario Misic (ANF)
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Aminet: Main server us.aminet.net goes offline.
Due to a broken RAID harddisk controller, the FTP archive wuarchive.wustl.edu is currently offline. Replacement hardware will not be available until the end of October. Amongst other things, wuarchive is hosting the main Aminet server us.aminet.net.
The Washington University, St. Louis, who is responsible for wuarchive, will use this opportunity to evaluate which archives they are going to host in the future. A small note on the front page explains that only sponsored projects might be supported from now on.
Some other Aminet mirrors are currently not available aswell. The following mirrors are still online:
de.aminet.net
it.aminet.net
no.aminet.net
de3.aminet.net
de5.aminet.net (Partial Mirror)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Sep.2004
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AmigaOS 4: New uploads at os4depot.net
These are the new uploads which have been added since our last mesage:
guidemlppc.lha (108kb) AmigaGuide -> HTML converter with GUI for OS4
atari800.lha (254kb) V2.1 of the Atari800 Emulator (OS4)
amishots.lha (78kb) AMIShots for Amiga. An Amiga clone of Webshots
snake.lha (34kb) Snake the desktop game for AmigaOS40,
m4-68k.tar.gz (61kb) m4 - Unix macro processor - 68k bin
m4-ppc.lha (165kb) m4 - Unix macro processor - OS4 bin
m4-src.tar.gz (326kb) m4 - Unix macro processor - src
loccounter.lha (91kb) Simple SLOC counter for C/C+
fpse.lha (889kb) Playstation emulator
os4icons.lha (89kb) Some os3.9 style icons with 256 colors for os4
os1.3likepointeros4.lha (406b) os1.3 style mouse pointer for OS4
pt-player-gui-1-2.lha (43kb) ProTracker GUI
sid4amigaos4.lha (371kb) Sid4Amiga (Sid Player)
nrg2iso.lha (41kb) Converts .nrg images to .iso images
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Sep.2004
Mikko Virtanen (#morphos)
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Event: First pictures of the Finnish Saku
Mikko 'Hooligan' Virtanen has published first pictures of the Finnish Saku under the
title link.
You can see pictures of MorphOS 1.5 and OS4-PreRelease.
(cr) (Translation: dr)
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25.Sep.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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E3B and individual Computers join forces
E3B and individual Computers have a long standing friendship reaching back to the year 2001 when E3B was founded.
When the USB-controller "SUBWAY" hit the market, the two companies worked together to ensure optimal cross-vendor functionality for a better customer experience.
Resources and materials were shared for the manufacturing process.
Over time the cooperation was extended. Due to the great demand, E3B started
another production run of the "SUBWAY". This production brings the two companies
even closer together when synergy effects of a joint PCB production are used to keep prices low while improving the quality.
It were the good direct contacts of individual Computers to the chip manufacturer Transdimension (USA) that made the continuation of the SUBWAY possible.
Both sides are looking forward to further cooperations and are currently evaluating possibilities for joint developments. (cg)
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24.Sep.2004
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CAPS Update: Another 50 games stored
Das CAPS Team which tries to store old, copy protected Amiga games inclusive of the
copy protection has converted a lot of games to its own CAPS format which can be read
by newer versions of UAE.
A list of the new stored games you can
look at the CAPS homepage. Meanwhile over 2250 games have been stored with such rare ones
like "Hacker" or the first games from Electronic Arts.
Some of the new added games use mechanism of copy protection which are not supported
by the IPF library so far. An update of the library will follow.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Sep.2004
Golem - IT News
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Golem: New wurm-epidemic caused by JPEG-error in Microsoft products?
»Construction Kit for utilizing of JPEG lack of protection found
On Internet the anti virus specialist by H+BEDV Datentechnik have found a
Construction Kit for creating JPEG pictures with integrated Exploit-Code
to utilize the hard lack of protection in many Microsoft products.
Only if you watch a JPEG file on a website or
in an e-mail this could allow to execute program code.«
You can read the complete Golem article in German under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Sep.2004
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.0 Update on Alchimie 4
This weekend Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci will perform the new update for the
AmigaOS 4-prerelease which will be available soon on the
Alchimie 4.
Besides this the current beta version of "Audio Evolution 4" and a new AmigaOne with
IDE-UDMA drivers will be performed. Perhaps the new version of Moovid, too.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Sep.2004
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XTeam Software: Diverse Amiga Games as Good as Done
XTeam has made it known that the Amiga versions of Virtual Ball Fighters SE (90% ready), Virtual Games Casino EX. (90%) and Digital Chess XAIBrain (80%) are mostly finished.
Before the products get their last polishing and the CDs go into production, XTeam would like to check the customer demand:
- Virtual Ball Fighters SE (14.95 euros, incl. DVD case and PC version)
- Virtual Games Casino EX. (9.95 euros, incl. DVD case and PC version)
- Digital Chess XAIBrain (19.95 euros)
All of these games require a graphics card (640x480, 16 Bit), a CD-ROM drive, AHI, RTGMaster, at least a 68040 CPU and 8 MB FastRAM.
Whoever's interested in one of the titles, please send an e-mail to shop@xteamsoftware.com.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Sep.2004
ANN (Website)
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Gathering: Finnish Saku Shows Beta-Versions of AmigaOS4 and MorphOS 1.5
New betas of Amiga OS4 as well as MorphOS 1.5 are going to be shown this Saturday at Saku, in order to give visitors an unfiltered comparison. Likewise will the Finnish Amiga dealer Gentle Eye Ky be there. You'll find more information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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