30.Apr.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packets until 30-Apr-2004
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were originally meant
only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated since
our last message:
- 23.04.04 new: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (Gametek)
- 21.04.04 new: Lombard RAC Rally (Red Rat/Mandarin Software)
- 21.04.04 fixed: Twylyte (Wicked)
- 21.04.04 new: Tornado (Digital Integration)
- 21.04.04 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog)
- 21.04.04 updated: Railroad Tycoon (Microprose)
- 11.04.04 new: Tip Off (ANCO)
- 11.04.04 new: Civilization (Microprose)
- 11.04.04 improved: Air Support (Psygnosis)
- 07.04.04 new: Twylyte (Wicked)
- 07.04.04 improved: Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
- 04.04.04 new: Tennis Cup 2 (Loriciel)
- 04.04.04 new: Space Racer (Loriciels)
- 04.04.04 new: Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
- 04.04.04 new: Black Shadow (CRL/Zen Room)
- 04.04.04 fixed: Shadow of the Beast 2 (Psygnosis)
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Interview with Susumu Hirasawa (Japanese Musician and Amiga User)
Ikir Sector, the Italian web-portal for alternative computer systems, has conducted an interview with the well-known Japanese musician Susumu Hirasawa (Group P-Model, Soundtracks of Animes Berserk and Millennium Actress) as well as a long-time Amiga user (Bars&Pipes). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)
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New FreeCD: "small world FONTS" and "1984"
Two more CD-ROMs have appeared in the FreeCD series. "Small world
FONTS," contains about 2000 fonts, mostly in the TrueType format, and
is directed primarily at graphic artists and desktop publishers. The CD "1984" is a collection of different remakes of classic games, among them "Turrican" and "Barbarian". Each CD costs three euros for handling and shipping. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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LAME: WarpOS Version 3.96 Appears
The current version 3.96 of the open source MP3 encoder LAME at amiga.sourceforge.net now also has a WarpOS version. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Emulator: GenesisPlus Ported to MorphOS
The Sega MegaDrive/Genesis emulator GenesisPlus has been ported to MorphOS, and may be used with MUI-based graphic "skins." (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Heiko Kuschel (E-Mail)
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In Memoriam: Commodore Business Machines
Ten years ago today, on the 29th of April 1994, the onetime USA computer giant Commodore Business Machines declared bankruptcy. Commodore UK and Commodore Germany persisted a few more months, until the Amiga rights were sold to the German concern Escom and later to Gateway 2000. Today, the Amiga OS rights belong to KMOS, the trademark belongs to Amiga Inc., and the Commodore rights and trademark to Tulip Computers. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 04/2004 (#146) - AmigaOS 4 & KMOS
AMIGAplus 04/2004 (#146) has been published including the following
reports:
- Preview of Amiga OS 4.0
- KMOS-Report
- ScummVM review and interview
- microgolded review
- reviews of Canon i865 and HP 5150
- Amiga Status Report
- Top 7 Shareware
- SVCD-workshop (part 3)
- demoscene-report (What happened to the demosceners?)
- and much more.
AMIGAplus Leser-CD 27 includes the PC-full versions of "Beneath a steel sky" and "Flight of the Amazon Queen (Talkie-version)" plus ScummVM, great icons for AmigaOS from Hemera and Ralf Himmel and the offline-version of amiga-news.de.
AMIGAplus may be subscribed or ordered directly from
falkemedia for 5 Euro including
shipping. (nba)
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29.Apr.2004
Ron van Herk (E-Mail)
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MediaPoint: 68k Source Code Again Online
The source code of the presentation program MediaPoint, originally released in mid-April (as amiga-news.de reported) and then removed from the Net apparently because of commercial software in the archive, has now been placed online again, thanks to the help of Gerd Frank. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Emulator: Aosolin 0.8.24 (AmigaOSoverLinux)
The aim of the Aosolin project
("AmigaOSoverLinux") is to offer a special suited slackware
Linux distribution which boots directly into an Amiga emulator.
Curently the author tries to join the sources of LinuxUAE
0.8.22, LinuxUAE 0.8.21/JIT and WinUAE 0.8.22 to improve UAE
to his demands. A first version of his emulator (Aosolin
0.8.24) is available at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
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Tulip presents the "C64 Mini Game Console"
Tulip presents the "C64 Mini Game Console" by the title link:
A console fitted into a joystick case with 30 preinstalled C64
games (Summer Games, Winter Games and California Games are
mentioned) which can be connected to a TV directly.
The device, which is a cooperation with Ironstone, is
announced to be released within the 2nd half of 2004 and will
be priced around EUR 30. It's said to be the first device of
an entire line.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
Holger Krefting (ANF)
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Map editor for Tales of Tamar
For the round based strategy game "Tales of Tamar" there is a
new map editor available which has been developed by a ToT gamer. Further information is
available at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
PPCNUX (ANF)
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Motorola/Freescale announces forthcoming PPC product line
"Freescale Semiconductor", Motorola's semiconductor division,
announces their
forthcoming
PPC product line.
An illustrated, detailed German article about Motorola's plans is to get
at
ppcnux.de.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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BabelDoc V2.9 released
Lorence Lombardo has released version 2.9 of
BabelDoc. This program uses the according service by
Altavista to translate text documents. The reqtools.library, a
TCP/IP-Stack as well as the KingCON handler are required to
run the program.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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New download link for PegXMac (for newly registered users only)
David Bentham offers a faster server access for his software package
PegXMac now. But it's
required to get a new registration to log on that server and
get the ISO
file.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
Thorsten Mampel, 1. Vorsitzender Amiga-Club Hamburg e.V. (ANF)
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"5. Amiga-Meeting Nord" in Bad Bramstedt
During Friday the 29th October till Sunday the 31st October
2004 there will be the 5. Amiga-Meeting Nord
held at Bad Bramstedt, a bit north from Hamburg, Germany. Up to 40
computers can be brought up and get connected.
Planned is:
- Beamer demo and film presentations
- Hard and Software market (Amigas and accessoires) free of charge
- Creation of a party CD by the participants
- Network with Internet access (DSL)
- Webcam
- Further more...
Of course the main focus will be set to the fun of it.
This year we want to offer the remaining hard and software
developers the possibility to introduce their products to a
broader audience. It is planned to record a movie from those
presentations and to put that to the Internet and cover disks.
Developers interested in this are welcome to contact
Thorsten
Mampel to check the details.
All Amiga users (AmigaOS 1 to 4, MorphOS and Emulator users)
are invited to register at our homepage or directly at the
Hotel "Tanneneck" speaking to Norbert Kapahnke on phone by +49 4192 500071.
The fees:
- For the full weekend from Fri to Sun including two
nights, twice a full dinner (warm) and
twice a (continental, buffet) breakfast the fee is EUR 75.-.
- For the half weekend from Fri to Sat or from Sat to Sun
including one night, one full diner (warm) and one breakfast
(continental, buffet) the fee is EUR 37.50.
- for a day only guest the fee is EUR 5.- (registration
not urgent, those day guests who plan to bring their own
computer must register also!).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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Pegasos: PegXMac available (Update)
The Live-CD PegXMac from the PegXLin developer David Bentham (amiga-news.de reported), which allows it to boot MacOS on a Pegasos using Mac-on-Linux without a hard disk-installation of Linux, is now available.
Main features:
- Live-CD (no hard disk-installation required)
- Mac-on-Linux (MOL) 0.70-3
- Automatic hardware-detection (specific for the Pegasos)
- One CDROM, DVD or CDRW drive required
- Easy to use interface for setting up MOL
Advantages of PegXMac:
- PegXMac is the first existing Live-CD which is specifically configured for the Pegasos I/II
- No installation required (except for the MacOS part), just boot from CD if you want to use MacOS only
- Everything is set up for installing the (not included) MacOS, therefore no need to burn the midnight candle for installing and configuring Linux before
- Fast booting
- Easy to use
Update: (27.04.2004, 23:44, cg)
The author's homepage has moved to http://pegxmac.zftp.com/. (snx)
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26.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net
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New IDE for AmigaOS
"Ecommerce Logic" announced a new IDE for AmigaOS. The package contains an interpreter, compiler and the IDE itself.
The supported programming language is developed by "Ecommerce Logic" and is similar to Java and C#. Examples are available at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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26.Apr.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Short-software-news: Updates at amiga.sourceforge.net
Updates of the following ports are available at amiga.sourceforge.net:
hotwayd v0.8 hotmail/msn email client
xpdftools v3.00 pdf files collection tools
cdrtools v2.01 CD burner collection tools
lame v3.96 mp3 encoder
cdrdao v1.1.7 Disk-At-Once burning collection tools
vcdimager v0.7.20 VCD and super VCD collection tools
mjpegtools v1.6.2 mpeg files collection tools
swftools v0.5.1 swf files collection tools
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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26.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Review: USB-Stick "Pendrive" with Amiga (English)
A review by the South Wales Amiga User Group (SWAUG) about the usability of the Pendrive with the Amiga is now available at the titel link.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 26. Apr. 2004, 16:44] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: CPU-Monitor (Update)
Ecologically friendly CPU Monitor for MorphOS
I'm very proud to annouce that we could finish today the first ever ecologically friendly CPU Monitor for the MorphOS operating system.
CPU Monitor 1.0 is completly based on old and recycled source code. It is also completly recyclable for further use and all non recyclable parts, like the falled out hairs of the development crew, are 100% biodegradable. It was for the first time ever possible to renounce animal experiments, therefore no coders were harmed during the several years lasting development of CPU Monitor.
We're very proud and excited about this success!
Please visit http://www.the-recyclable-cpumonitor-project.org for more information and corporate inquiries.
We opened the shop so you can order your 100% chloroform-free copy of CPU Monitor 1.1 for the MorphOS operating system (C.O.D.) NOW! Also a CPU Monitor Brochure for immediate download is available for free.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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24.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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Amiga ports of avilib, bzlib and libxm12
At amiga.sf there are now Amiga ports of some libraries from the Unix world. Right now avilib, bzlib, and libxml2 have been ported. The Amiga implementations are shared libraries.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
Organizer: Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Hyperion and the MicroA1 at the AOS 4 event in Essen
The following employees from Hyperion Entertainment will be at the AmigaOS4 event on May, 15th in Essen: Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden (AmigaOS 4), Steffen Haeuser (AmigaInput and several OS 4 ports) and Timothy De Groote (sales manager).
Besides that, the MicroA1 with AmigaOS 4 will be shown for the first time in Germany. Further information can be found on the official AmigaOS4 event website.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MPEG player: RiVA 0.48
Stephen Fellner has released a new version of the MPEG player RiVA with AHI support and several bugfixes. Details as well as a demo version (restricted in displaying no colours) can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename 3.9.0
Constantinos Nicolakakis has released version 3.9.0 of the tool SRename. Using SRename, which requires AmigaOS 3.0+, you can rename files easily.
New features:
- Improved the benchmarking functionality of the STATS option. Added a more
meaningful "Renamed objects per second" statistic. This figure is displayed
only if the given rename operations take at least a second, and an
additional
message is displayed if this figure doesn't represent performance accurately
because of given options or other factors.
Also added the percentage of processed files that are or would be renamed.
- Added the FORCEPATH option to force the entire filepattern to be taken as a
path regardless if it ends with a slash or not. This was added to avoid
having
to add a slash at the end of a path every time a path has to be supplied.
- Display of warnings when the parser detects problematic command sequences
that
can still be executed.
- More speed in Indirect mode and less code size by streamlining the internal
workings of Indirect mode. Several storage buffers were unified into one
making the code that handles Indirect mode much less convoluted and much
more robust.
- Further reduced startup time when Indirect mode is used.
Bugfixes:
- Mishandling of separators under certain conditions.
- Sometimes error messages weren't displayed.
- The Main component failed to be created under certain conditions.
- Incorrect number placement when modifying the Basename using swapping,
shifting or unifying 2-component basenames since version 3.8.0.
- Incorrect operation of Indirect mode in some occasions.
Other changes:
- Added the script "RenumberNoBase" for renumbering batches of filenames that
don't share a common basename.
- Fixed the "HexToChr" script to process only byte hex values.
(snx)
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24.Apr.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga-User-List: Old GAUHPIL website deactivated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll, containing websites of
Amiga users, ordered by continents and countries. Meanwhile, the
GAUHPIL has been converted into a MySQL based database solution.
Today, the old website http://gauhpil.home-pages.de/ was completely
deactivated. From now on, the GAUHPIL can only be reached at http://gauhpil.dietmar-knoll.de. The moderator kindly asks all webmasters to check
their links and update them if necessary. (snx)
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23.Apr.2004
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Soon AmigaOne with AmigaOS-Prerelease available
As the management of Hyperion reports the AmigaOne computers will be sold with a prerelease
CD of AmigaOS 4 after its publishing.
Customers who buy an AmigaOne before the final version of AmigaOS 4 has published
will get the same support and the same access to the updates (which will be online available)
as "Earlybird"-owners. They will be delivered the full version of AmigaOS by their dealers
after it is available.
Prices for the combination of AmigaOne and the prerelease are still not known.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Heise (ANF)
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Forgent sues for licence fees for JPEG
As Heise and
Golem report that the company
Forgent Networks has sued 31 companies for patent violation.
It is the patent number 4,698,672 with which Forgent claims to the
JPEG-compression method.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Pictures of the Amiga-party in Maarssen, Holland
There are some pictures online of the Amiga party which took place on April 17th in Maarssen (Holland)
(Galery 1,
Galery 2
) and additionally an
article of a local
newspaper, too.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Strategy game "Stratagus"
Ali Akcaagac has ported the realtime strategy engine
Stratagus to MorphOS.
It is not a complete game: Stratagus is only an "engine" which works an external "dataset"
which contains the whole information of a game.
There are several datasets (in different levels of development) and it also works with
files of the commercial game "Warcraft".
You can find a survey about
the different compatible datasets on the official homepage of the program.
Screenshots of the MorphOS-version: 1,
2, 3,
4.
Direct Download: stratagus-mos.lzx (700 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Anonym (ANF)
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merregnon.de: Further mp3s for download
At merregnong.de a CD is being created which contains well-known composers of the game
industry (e.g. Chris Hülsbeck) with own tracks that tell a fantasy story.
You can find two excerpts of the CD under the title link: "Unintentional
Descention" and "Firelit Council" written by Fabian Del Priore and Markus
Holler.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Apr. 2004, 16:30] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2004
Coyote Flux (ANF)
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KickFlash OS4: New firmware 1.3 available
A new version of Individual Computer's Kickflash OS4 firmware is available now, with several bugfixes and improvements over the last version. There is now one single version which should work on every machine and it now updates the Kickstart version correctly. The floppy disk save code has been temporarily removed.
Kickstart remapping is being worked on and will initially support the CyberStorm/Blizzard cards and the Commodore CPU cards.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Genesi announces CPU-cards with IBM 750GX
Genesi announces to use the new PowerPC-CPU 750GX of IBM for the future processor cards.
They will be used in the new "Pegasos II" computers and will be available for existing
computers as upgrade.
The 750GX is based on the 750FX series and contains some improvements for increasing the
performance and for lowering the current consumption. The CPU offers support for up to
1.1 GHz and 1 MB L2-cache.
You can get further information under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Mind game: NIM
"NIM" is a mind game where you and the Amiga have to take matches away from the game field -
and this one who has to take the last match loses.
The game was written with Hollywood and in the archive you can find versions for
AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Direct Download: nim.lha (382 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Apr. 2004, 00:08] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2004
Matthias M. (ANF)
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Amiga-Coldfire.de updates
On amiga-coldfire.de which is a website
to the topic "Amiga and Coldfire" there have been some updates.
Besides some improvements on the homepage itself there are also some news of the
Atari ColdFire Projekt (ACP): It is worked on the second version of the Coldfire boards
which now is supposed to come in microATX format with PCI, SDRAM, Expansion Slot and
with onboard-graphic solution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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