05.Oct.2004
falkemedia
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AMIGAplus 10/2004 (#151) - Amiga anywhere
AMIGAplus 10/2004 (#151) has been published on October 1st, 2004,
including the following articles:
- "Amiga anywhere" (emulation-special with
WinUAE, MacUAE, PocketUAE)
- "Amiga games terminal"
- Micro-AmigaOne Report
- G3-CPUs in detail
- Retouching with PerfectPaint
- font effects with ArtEffect
- application.library in OS4 explained
- Games Convention 2004 report
- Vienna calling (AMIGAplus on tour)
- Amiga Status Report
- IDE-Reader reviewed
- Best of shareware in September 2004
- Demoscene party on
- Douglas Adams' h2g2
- Amiga-News
- and much more
You may order this issue for 5 Euro directly from falkemedia (as of Oct. 8th) or
subscribe to AMIGAplus. (nba)
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05.Oct.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Pegasos II Systems enable Internet Cafe at Freescale ECS
Press release Embedded Connectivity Summit, Austin, Texas - Genesi Open Desktop Workstations based on the Pegasos II are featured in the Internet Café (photo) of the Freescale Embedded Connectivity Summit (ECS). The PowerPC® architecture, with the AltiVec SIMD engine, is an excellent alternate architecture for Linux applications. The Genesi Pegasos II system comes equipped with the MPC7447 PowerPC processors from Freescale.
"As a member of our Smart Networks Alliance Program, Genesi is a key enabler of Linux development on the PowerPC architecture. We want to encourage developers and designers to leverage the PowerPC architecture for their Linux and other PowerPC-based operating systems and applications, as this architecture can provide both performance and cost benefits for system designs and designers", said Paul Grimme, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Transportation & Standard Products Group at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
The machines were provided with a choice of operating systems including Gentoo, Crux, Yellow Dog and Debian GNU/Linux. Also included was MorphOS, a lightweight fully featured non-UNIX based Amiga-compatible operating system.
The Embedded Connectivity Summit is being held at the Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas from 4-6 October. Genesi is a Gold Sponsor of ECS. (snx)
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04.Oct.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Scheduled server downtime
The IOSPIRIT server will temporarily be unavailable due to the move of the data center housing it. The timeframe for this is from 22h (October 4th, 2004) till 6h (October 5th, 2004), GMT+1. E-mails sent during that timeframe may get lost. (snx)
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02.Oct.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS theme for Linux
Under the title link has David Gavilan Ruiz made a MorphOS theme for the Linux windows manager Fluxbox made available (screenshot).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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02.Oct.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Genesi to be at Freescale Embedded Connectivity Summit and MySQL ComCon Europe
Genesi will be gold sponsor at the Freescale Embedded Connectivity Summit held from October 4-6, 2004 in Austin, Texas.
From November 8-10, 2004 Genesi will also be exhibitor at the MySQL ComCon Europe 2004. (snx)
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02.Oct.2004
Kristian Eklund (ANF)
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Genesi Scandinavia presents the CrabFire Multi-purpose Firewall
Göteborg, Sweden, 2004-10-01 - Newly formed Genesi Scandinavia presented the CrabFire firewall at Smart Networks Developer Forum (SNDF) in Frankfurt, Germany. The CrabFire is not only a firewall, but also a spam and virusfilter.
The firewall can be configured to filter spam and e-mail virus heading for your corporate mailserver. If your company has several office-locations one CrabFire can be placed in each office and a secure, encrypted tunnel can be opened between them. Your employers will be able to access all computers just as if they were on the same local network.
One other thing you can use your CrabFire for is Packet filtering. With this feature you can stop network users from using any Internet applications you do not want to be used -- such as peer-to-peer file sharing and instant messaging programs. Changing the service ports in these applications will not work - the CrabFire scans within the packets for signatures from these programs and will stop or log them, depending on your configuration.
The CrabFire runs on a 1GHz 7447 PowerPC processor and has 1 Gigabit Ethernet port (LAN) and 1 10/100 Mbit port (WAN). A dual-Gigabit version will be available shortly. The specifications are subject to small changes towards the final release.
Genesi Scandinavia received very positive feedback from both attendees and presenters at SNDF and we are confident that this product will be of great interest to companies all over the world. The CrabFire will be price-competitive towards competitive alternatives. We estimate this firewall will be finalized in three months.
About Genesi Scandinavia
Genesi Scandinavia is a newly formed company in Sweden. We will be producing and selling the CrabFire as well as other Genesi products. Genesi Scandinavia is privately held. The Marketing Director and Manager is Kristian Eklund.
CrabFire Product Information (PDF, 301 KB)
CrabFire Picture
Thank you for your time,
Kristian Eklund, Marketing Director
(kristian.eklund(at)genesi.se) (snx)
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01.Oct.2004
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CAPS Update: Another 24 games stored
The CAPS Team which stores old copy protected Amiga games with the copy protection has
converted another 24 ones into the CAPS format. This can be read by newer UAE versions.
You can find a list of the added games under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Oct.2004
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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Tutorial: How to make a bootable Amithlon CD
Lorence Lombardo wrote a tutorial that explains how to create a bootable Amithlon CD. The reason why you would want to update your existing Amithlon CD is that the original kernel may not support your current or future
hardware. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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01.Oct.2004
Kai 'GMKai' Stegemann (ANF)
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MorphOS Value Package V1.1: Package extension and German translation
The MorphOS Value Package which is a collection of Free- and Shareware products as well as
further information to this operating system (amiga-news.de reported)
is now available in version 1.1. Additionally to the German translation the MVP now contains
the full version of Jabberwocky and Showgirls.
You need version 1.0 (60 MB)
for the complete installation of the updates (867 KB).
Thank you to www.pegasos.org for providing it. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Oct.2004
Christian Geier (E-Mail)
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Linux-Info-Day: Image_Installer-Team participates again
As already done a year before the Image_Installer-Team
will take part in the Linux-Info-Day 2004 in Dresden on October 30th. With the Image_Installer
prepared Linux configuration can be easily installed on an Amiga with PowerUp-card, Pegasos or
AmigaOne.
On this day there will be lectures, workshops and on several places a lot of software and
its applications will be demonstrated, e.g. OpenOffice.org, KDE, GNOME, LaTeX and GnuPG.
There will be no entrance fee.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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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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