02.Jun.2004
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Free keyfiles for SView 5, SView 4 and akDatatypes
Free keyfiles for SView 5, SView IV and the "akDatatypes" have been uploaded to Aminet recently. Due to problems with the uploads, the keyfiles are available at http://www.ar-kleinert.de for now.
(cg)
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02.Jun.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet uploads until 2004-06-02
Here, the list of the latest Aminet uploads since our last report:
CygnusEd_4_DE.lha biz/misc 8K+New German catalog for CygnusEd V4
YahooGpScan1_5.lha comm/mail 6K+Strips YahooGroup adverts. V1.5
AmiMSN.lha comm/tcp 27K+(0.5) Major update. MSN Messenger client
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 38K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
streamer.lha comm/www 469K+Internet radio MPEG and RealAudio file p
GnS_Spo2Invita.lha demo/intro 367K+Spoletium2 Ivitation Intro by Genesis
ixemul-inc-bin.lha dev/gg 1.2M+Include files for ixemul or libnix. V48.
nano.lha dev/lang 206K+New virtual machine, assembler like lang
ReqChoice.pl.lha dev/lang 4K+Use Amiga Request Choice Gadget with per
adcvt.lha dev/misc 13K+AutoDocs to HTML converter v0.1
InstallBoot.lha disk/misc 11K+Install Boot GUI
DiskValid.lha disk/salv 11K+PFS DiskValid GUI
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 53K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
d3GNOP.lha game/misc 3.1M+D3GNOP - THE Pong clone in MiniGL v1.0 (
WormWars.lha game/misc 541K+Worm Wars 7.8: Advanced snake game
horrorhouseb4.lha game/shoot 2.9M+New shoot'emup (68000, Wapos, Morphos)
aGibbet.lha game/think 217K+Game like "Guess Word" with RUS dictiona
Permu.lha game/wb 36K+Try to match the displayed pattern!
Anim2gif.lha gfx/conv 177K+Converts and scales an amiga animation t
Gif2anim.lha gfx/conv 233K+Converts & scales GIF animations to amig
SmartScale.lha gfx/conv 30K+A CLI/WB program used for gfx conversion
dejong.lha gfx/fract 67K+De Jong Explorer
ImageFX45txtFR.lha gfx/ifx 67K+ImageFX 4.5 French interface Text
make_lnx.lha misc/emu 11K+.LYX to Atari Lynx .LNX file conversion
rotate.lha misc/emu 9K+Set the ROTATION flag of any Atari Lynx
vic-emu-tools.lha misc/emu 45K+Tools and helpful info for vic-emu 0.65
imdbDiff040514.lha misc/imdb 2.7M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff040521.lha misc/imdb 3.9M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Amoralplay.lha mus/play 144K+Plays SIDS,OctamedSS,mods,Digibooster et
Ami-Crystal.lha pix/icon 632K+Ami Crystal first no commercial PNG-Icon
AmiComSys_PNG.lha pix/icon 21K+PNG-Icon for AmiComSys
Descent2PNG.lha pix/icon 20K+PNG-Icon for Descent2
scummbubbles.lha pix/icon 426K+Scumm VM Bubbles in png format
UAEPNG.lha pix/icon 17K+Replacement PNG-Icon for UAE
Wolfenstein3DP.lha pix/icon 21K+PNG-Icon for Wolfenstein3D
makeguide2.lha text/hyper 25K+Create a guide from several small files
makeguide3.lha text/hyper 48K+Create a guide from several small files
HP_Deskjet400C.lha text/print 25K+Deskjet 400C/L Driver for WB 40.17
HP_Deskjet870C.lha text/print 27K+Deskjet 8x0C Driver for WB V40.23
HP_Deskjet900C.lha text/print 25K+Deskjet 9x0C Driver for WB V40.14
Tree177.lha util/cli 18K+Lists Directory content tree-like
SteBaseConv.lha util/conv 62K+Numeric base converter ITA-ENG + source
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 357K+Dynamic buffers, useful stuff, now FREEW
ACSE.lha util/misc 23K+ACSE test administration tool
RHzFileChecker.lha util/wb 119K+Program for identifying file types.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jun.2004
Vesalia Computer (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.0: Pre release shipping to customers
Today Vesalia starts with shipping the pre release of AmigaOS 4.0 to the customers who expect the delivery within the next few days.
AmigaOne customers with flash ROMs which are not reprogramable may get a new flash ROM for only EUR 10.- (not necessary to send back the old flash ROM). (snx) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jun.2004
MorphZone (website)
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Demo scene: Several Mad Wizard demos adapted for MorphOS
Kiero made some changes to several of the Mad Wizards' releases, so now you can enjoy these demos under MorphOS. You can find them in the MorphZone. Required is a video card with 3D supported drivers. (snx)
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02.Jun.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: C64 emulator Frodo now with Catweasel SID support
The MorphOS version of the C64 emulator Frodo has been updated and does now support the original soundchip of the C64, known as SID (Sound Interface Device).
Added features of Frodo 4.1b R3 (645 KB):
- Supports Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper for SID
- Better sound quality in AHI modes
- Selectable 6581 and 8580 waveforms for AHI
- Better overlay and fullscreen support
(snx)
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01.Jun.2004
Dietmar Eilert (ANF)
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Updates for GoldED AIX and microgolded
A new version of GoldED AIX has just been released. Information about the new features and the latest files are available here.
GoldED Studio AIX is a text editor and integrated C/C++ development environment for AmigaOS and MorphOS. The latest upgrade implements many new interface customization options. GoldED includes a complete set of gcc-based development tools for AmigaOS and MorphOS in an easy-to-use package with mouseclick installation. Here's a sample screenshot (new-look example).
Microgolded is a simple, low-cost version of GoldED; this editor is designed for casual users, not for developers.
Trial versions (30-day trial version and demo) can be downloaded from the official support web site.
Direct download:
GoldED AIX with C/C++ IDE (77 MB)
GoldED AIX without C/C++ (6 MB)
microgolded (250 KB)
microgolded with CED keymap (250 KB)
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Online magazine: NoCover issue 123
On May, 1st issue #123 of the German online magazine NoCover has been released and it has already been sent to all subscribers via e-mail.
The magazine is also available from nc-mag.de as well as apc-tcp.de. It will be on Aminet soon and is distributed on Amiga Future CDROMs.
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: New skin "OneFive"
"OneFive" is another MorphOS skin from Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel (Screenshot).
The skin is designed for higher resolutions and large fonts and includes a skin installer.
Direct download: onefive.lha (440 KB)
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOne/AmigaOS4 tutorials updated (UBoot, OS installation)
At IntuitionBase.com the UBoot tutorial
has been updated and a pre-release installation FAQ
is available now.
The official OS4 installer guide has been updated aswell, please visit
www.os4.co.uk for more info.
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
whoosh (ANF)
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AFPL-Ghostscript 8.13 ported for i686-AROS
Ghostscript is for viewing + converting + printing PS & PDF files. This port is a recompile of my 68k port of AFPL Ghostscript 8.13 to a new host: i686-AROS.
Everything seems to function, except exactly 1 viewer functions which
is the truecolour WB PS + PDF viewer. The other 5 viewers don't function
currently, this could be an endianess problem: this being the first
port of my work to a little endian architecture. The non functioning
viewers just produce an empty window or the correct image but with
wrong colours.
Anyway you *can* view PS + PDF in truecolour on a WB window,
with correct image + correct colours, this is the most useful of the 6 possible viewers.
I will be attempting ports of the same program to other variants of
AmigaOS, I have already begun towards another well known variant of
AmigaOS.
If Turboprint gets ported to x86-AROS then the Turboprint devices of
this port may then become of use.
To get an idea of the speed, if I install this port entirely to RAM,
ie GS, GS813Data: GS813Fonts: GS813Resource: all in ram:, then
converting the standard example annots.pdf to jpeg takes 4 to 5 seconds,
i.e. "ram:gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=ram:annots%d.jpg ram:annots.pdf" (all on one line). RAM based is really unbelievably fast, faster than "dir ram:"!
However if installed on CD it takes much longer, not so impressive, modern PCs have so much memory that installing to RAM is quite a good idea.
I don't know if the port will run on i386, i486, i586 machines,
let me know either way and if necessary I will do other versions,
it should take 3.5 hours to build each of these on WinUAE.
The program was ported on WinUAE using my recent port to 68k host of
gcc-3.3.1 for x86-AROS. (snx)
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01.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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MPEG player: RiVA V0.50 released
Stephen Fellner released v0.50 of "RIVA", a shareware mpeg player for 68k based Amiga systems. New in this version:
- Added Window display mode to allow playback in a window on systems with no PIP/VLayer. Enter can be used to toggle between window and fullscreen during playback
- Added support for the BGRA32 colour format. PC graphics cards (like GeForce) use this mode, so UAE users can play videos on a truecolor screen (or in a window on a TrueColor Workbench) on those cards
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter von Brad Webb #040531
The May 2004 issue of Brad Webb's "Amiga Update" is available now. In his monthly newsletter Brad covers all important Amiga news.
Topics of this edition:
- The Latest News about AmiWest
- AmigaWorld.net launched
- AmigaAMP 2.12 released
- Persuasive Softworx at end
- Cocolino Mouse Interface - Elbox
- Homebank goes freeware
- 2 Riva MPEG Player versions in May
- WinUAE New version out, announced
- The Ultimate Pong Clone !?!?
(nba) (Translation: cg)
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31.May.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: Cross upgrade offer for PCI busboards
Until June 14th, Elbox do offer a cross upgrade for owners of PCI busboards by other manufacturers: in return for their current PCI busboard they can get the Mediator PCI at a special upgrade price.
The offer covers an upgrade to the following models of Mediator PCI: 4000D, 4000Di, 3/4000T, 3000D, 1200SX, 1200LT4 and 1200ZIV. If you are interested in offer details, contact the technical advisor of Elbox at upgradePCI@elbox.com. Details of the Mediator PCI busboards you can find under the title link. (snx)
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29.May.2004
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Strategy game: "Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe" updated
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe is an
open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", that
"enhances the game experience dramatically".
Frank W. has now updated his Amiga port of OpenTTD. Amongst other things,
the "FastRAM problem" of the 68k version has been fixed, the keyboard is
supported now and the language files have been updated.
To play OpenTTD in fullscreen mode, either press <Alt>-<Return>
while the game is running or change the "fullscreen" value in the file
"openttd.cfg" to "true".
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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29.May.2004
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Strategy game: LGeneral for AmigaOS
Frank W. has compiled the "Panzer General" clone LGeneral for AmigaOS (68k and WarpOS).
The Amiga version is available from the author's homepage, the required data files can be obtained from the official LGeneral homepage.
If you want to play LGeneral in fullscreen mode, change the "fullscreen" value in the file "lgeneral.conf" to 1.
(cg)
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29.May.2004
ANN (website)
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SystemPatch: version 2.3 released
Sante Nocciolino's SystemPatch that patches several system routines to gain some system performance on Amiga computers (68020+) is now available in version 2.3.
Improvements in version 2.3 (30 KB):
- Fixed bugs in AllocRaster(); some WB games like VChess, MineRunner, ... were saying there was not enough memory (reported by Luca "Hexaae" Longone)
- A lot of small enhancements, minor speedups to some gfx functions and bugfixes
- AllocRaster() patch causes probelms with games like Quake68k and BloodNet AGA, now fixed (reported by Luca "Hexaae" Longone)
- WritePixel() bug that causes system freezing with Octamed SoundStudio when using its Synthetic Sound Editor (reported by Luca "Hexaae" Longone)
- ENV:FAllocRasterExcludeList can contain a list of tasks to be excluded from AllocRaster() chip to fast memory promotion. I've to do a better implementation for the task exclusion of AllocRaster() patch
- Added patches for non FBlit systems: BltBitMap(), Draw(), BltClear(). Previous BltClear() required FBlit but was installed too when FBlit was not running
- Added: ClearScreen(), ClearEOL(), InitRastPort(), TextLength(), SetFont()
- Other improvements I don't remember
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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28.May.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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New versions of "Anti-Virus Boot Disks"
The Virus Help Team has published new versions of its "Anti-Virus Boot Disks".
These are bootable disks that can be used to search for virus on a PC.
The disks use the xadmaster- and xfdmaster-libraries written by Dirk Stöckers.
Because these libraries have been updated during the last time the Virus Help Team
has updated its boot disks, too. There are different versions of the disks with
different Anti-Virus-Programs.
The disks can be downloaded from the Canadian mirror of Virus Help Team:
http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/downloads.html#-amiga-boot-disks
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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28.May.2004
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Instant Messaging: AmigAIM Beta 0.9448 published
The new beta version 0.9448 of AmigaAIM which is an AOL Instant Messenger chat tool for
the Amiga has been published on May 27th, 2004.
A bug has been fixed and a new feature added where the chat partner sees that the other one
just writes a message.
Direct download (235 KB)
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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28.May.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: Version control system Subversion 1.0.4 (Clients) ported
Subversion is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files and directories (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like CVS, RCS or SCCS.
Actually Subversion is meant to be a better CVS, so it has most of CVS's features. Generally, Subversion's interface to a particular feature is similar to CVS's, except where there's a compelling reason to do otherwise.
Subversion keeps a single copy of the master sources. This copy is called the source "repository"; it contains all the information to permit extracting previous versions of those files at any time.
The current MorphOS release comes for now only with native ports of the Subversion clients: svn and svnversion. The archive also contains various documentation about Subversion in different formats including the Subversion-book (html, pdf, xml). Please note that only the documentation about the clients is relevant for now. For a next release it is planned to include the demon, apache modules and server administration tools too.
The current MorphOS release is only interesting for you if you have to deal with SVN repositories for your projects, else it might be actually quite useless - so better don't download the archive.
Note: the clients were ported by me, because I needed them for one of my projects. I use them daily for this project and they run very stable and they do the job very well (which I didn't expected after I got the 26 MB sources finally to compile). That means they are in parts untested and still could contain serious bugs or other (minor) problems could show up.
Download the archive under the title link.
(snx)
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27.May.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Status Report for the Browser "Atlantis"
At MorphZone there's a status report on the progress of the MorphOS version of Atlantis, which is the Gnome Linux web-browser by Ali 'Galaxy' Akcaagac.
The author stresses that he is unwilling and unable to predict a completion date. He shows two screenshots (1, 2) and an accompanying status report to show that he is keeping his word and the promised port is proceeding slowly but steadily.
Currently the GUI is beginning to take rough shape and the character system is almost complete. The URL string particularly is missing, as is the expected HTML class. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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27.May.2004
Matthias Bertram
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A600 accellerator: Current number of preorders for the "Apollo 630"
Matthias Bertram informs us that he received 48 pre-orders for a potential new production run of the "Apollo 630" until now (we reported). 18 people contacted him but did not place a final order yet.
If Matthias is able to collect 100 or more pre-orders, the price might get reduced slightly (ca. 100 EUR instead of 120 EUR).
Matthias is on vacation from May 29 until June 12. He will not be able to answer incoming mail or give further updates regarding the number of pre-orders during this time.
(cg)
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26.May.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Report and Photos from the "Webbit 2004"
At Ikir
Sector there is an Italian report including some photos from the
"Webbit 2004", which happend from May the 6th to May the 8th in
Padova (Italy), available.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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26.May.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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"Pong" in 3D: d3GNOP
"d3GNOP" is a 3D "Pong" clone by Jukka Varsaluoma. The game requires Warp3D and AHI, some screenshots are available on the author's homepage
- Stunning 3D gfx (Warp3D/MiniGL)
- 16bit stereo sound with speech (AHI)
- Versions for 68k and WarpOS
- 1 or 2 player game
- 10 different bonuses (multiple balls, obstacles etc.)
- 100 levels
- 10 different 3D backgrounds
- Automatic savegame
- Selectable detail of gfx
- Joystick support
- Freeware
(cg)
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26.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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Game: Update of Horror House - Timing problems with MorphOS solved
Horror
House (2.9 MB) - a little Hollywood game where monsters
appearing at different windows have to shot with the mouse is
available in it's fourth release.
This archive contains versions for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS.
According to the author, the timing problems under MorphOS are solved now.
Additionally the game play has been improved and
some other bugs were removed also. Feedback may be send to the
author by email.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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26.May.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Instant Messaging: Further preview of version 1.5 of Jabberwocky
There is another preview of version 1.5 of the instant
messaging client Jabberwocky
available.
Jabber is an open XML protocol for a direct exchange of
messages. A connection to
other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is
possible by using gateways.
The new version got a "Save" and a "SendFile" gadget within the
chat window as well as a "Save" gadget within the console
window. Furthermore some ARexx scripts were added which are
using the new features of the first preview.
The archive (58 KB) contains the
executables only and requires an existing Jabberwocky installation.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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26.May.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: eFlasher v1.6 released
As Elbox Computer announce, version 1.6 of the eFlasher program and version 1.6 of the eFlashConfig script have been released today for registered users of eFlash 4000 cards.
Version 1.6 of the eFlasher program, the tool for programming eFlash 4000 Zorro III cards, installs AmigaOS ROM Updates and up to 24 other modules, which can be started from the eFlash 4000 FlashROM memory during Amiga boot process. eFlashConfig is an easy to use script to enable managing contents of FlashROM memory of the eFlash 4000 card.
The eFlash 4000 is an autobooting Zorro III card with a fast 32-bit design and 8 MBit of FlashROM memory.
eFlash 4000 features:
- 8 Mbit of Flash memory
- Extremely fast Zorro III interface
- 32-bit datapatch
- Boot ON/OFF switch
- Program selector
- Hardware write protection
- 100,000 erase/programming cycles
- 20-year data retention
Further informationen you can find under the title link and on the eFlash 4000 product page. (snx)
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26.May.2004
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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ACSH: Amiga meeting in Kiel on June the 5th
The Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein likes to remind their next
hardware meeting.
It will happen on Saturday the 5th of June at 2 pm at the
Fachhochschule at the Kiel east side.
Everyone is invited, a registration is not needed
(participants
with hardware are pleased to send an email before).
Further information is available by the
title link.
PS: Chances are good there will be a presentation of OS4!
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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26.May.2004
Christian Geier (E-Mail)
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Image_Installer-Team is looking for betatesters with an AmigaOne
The Image_Installer
team is looking for some betatesters for the
AmigaOne version of the Image_InstallerV2.
Interested AmigaOne owners may contact Christian Geier by
email. Please
give details about your configuration.
Linux beginners and experts both are welcome.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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