22.Mar.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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MorphOS: TGEmu 1.2 released
"TGEmu" emulates the classic NEC games console "TurboGrafx16" (aka "PC Engine"). For now many comercial titles are running fast enough and with sound support.
The update to version 1.2 comes with the following enhancements:
- no more green trashed gfx on reversed endian gfx modes
- added auto saving of current settings
- play window can be resized larger
- restarting the emulation will resume from same point
- sound no longer skips when restarting emulation or changing ROMs
- while playing window size and position is remembered
- added window sizing presets on function keys
- added window sizing controls on + - keys
Direct download: tgemu.lha (385 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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22.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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AFPL Ghostscript 8.13 released
Version 8.13 of Ghostscript, a PDF and PS viewer, is now available for the AmigaOS. AmigaOS 3.0 as well as a 68020 CPU are required.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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22.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Magazine: "The Crypt" discontinued
The online magazine The Crypt will be discontinued. The already announced issue 35 will not be released.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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22.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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OpenSSH and OpenSSL updates
There are updtaes for OpenSSH and OpenSSL for Amiga-68k (68020+) available at http://amiga.sourceforge.net/.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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22.Mar.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Turkish PCWorld Magazine features the Pegasos and MorphOS
As Genesi announces in a press release, MorphOS, the Pegasos and Genesi are featured in the March issue of PCWorld Magazine in Turkey. A PDF version is available. Article reprinted by permission of the author. (snx)
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21.Mar.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: statline 0.7 released
statline is a small utility which can show different status information about your MorphOS system. The output format is highly configurable.
Originally it was planned as CLI-only tool, but it got also a nice MUI GUI to use it as compensation for the missing information in Ambient titlebar (screenshot).
Grab the archive from here.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Mar.2004
Ilkka Lehtoranta
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MorphOS: new version of CD Player
Ilkka Lehtoranta has updated the CD Player (screenshot) for MorphOS.
The following improvements have been added in version 1.1:
- new ARexx commands
- function for random play
- error fixes
Additionally, the archive contains some more tools:
CDDA ripper (screenshot)
Creates WAV files from audio tracks.
SetCDSpeed
Controls the speed of CD/DVD drives and thus their noise when in use.
Eject
Simple "eject" tool for CD/DVD drives.
The archive can be downloaded under the title link.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
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Law suit Thendic-Amiga: New petition by Amiga Inc.
In a new petition in the law suit with Thendic
(we reported)
demand the lawyers of Amiga a repeal of the verdict being enacted on
February, 20th and slightly mopdified on March, 16th.
With several comments by Bill Bucks taken from various English forums
and a screenshot of Genesi's website try the lawyers to proof that
the plaintiffs...
- had tried to deceive the court by using a faked email (of an uninvolved person) as form of evidence
- had got the proceedings underway out of inappropriate reasons, namely the destruction of Amiga and/or the control over the intellectual property and trademarks
- had presented several times a distorted account of the actions and decisions of the court
- had presented the rights granted through the contract in a wrong way, obviously not accpeted that these rights are to a large extent restricted by the contract and that the plaintiff had misused Amiga's trademarks
- had threatened to but in Amiga's business relationships and contracts (e.g. with Hyperion)
- has not made any technical papers about the Pegasos made available until now despite the demanding by Amiga making a port of AmigaDE impossible
Asked is a repeal of the verdict, at least a revision demanding the
plaintiffs to make the necessary papers available.
In a thread on
Morphzone.org
can a first reaction of Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco ("BBRV") be found.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-EuroArchiv v1.3 available
The SN-EuroArchiv is now available in version 1.3.
Next to the look (screenshot) the following changes have been made:
- It is now possible to set images of both sides of the coins. The images can be displayed directly by the SN-EuroArchiv. The render.library and the guigfx.library are needed for this.
- Pictures of all 15 countries have been added to the archive.
- In the windows is now the background pattern "Bilder/0Hintergrund.ilbm" displayed.
- When loading data of a predecessor version of the SN-EuroArchiv the images in the entries are set automatically, except for commemorative and special coins.
- The collectors' value statistics is now more precise. Before, the values had only been added in the month of the entry creation. Now the date of single coins and roles are taken into account.
- The entry list isn't being sorted by date of purchase anymore when calling the collection value statistics.
- Now the number of all coins together is being listed in the statistics (blue).
- The statistics have got some colours (red/green).
- A bug in the quality statistics has been fixed. (The coins had been counted wrong, a too high number was the result.)
- When opening a new window the main windows and the search list get blocked so the user knows that another window is active.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Thorty! (ANF)
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CD³²-Allianz accessible under cd32-allianz.de again
The CD³²-Allianz is again accessible under the URL www.cd32-allianz.de. Should the occasion arise please update changed links and bookmarks. The alliance is still accesssible under cd32.emubase.de as the CD³²-Allianz is hosted by the Emubase.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Mai Logic: PowerPoint presentation of Articia I (Chinese)
A Chinese PowerPoint presentation introduces the Teron I as well as the Northbridges Articia I (page 16) and Articia Is (page 17) by Mai Logic that are developed for systems based on the PowerPC processor 970 by IBM. On page 33 appears the term OS4.
Also under the title link you can find a photo indicating that the original specifications (PDF file) of the Northbridge Articia P have been reworked as the latter still mentioned 333 MHz DDR memory instead of 400 MHz. The Articia-P chip is according to the speech of Alan Redhouse in Bath to be used on a future mATX board called AmigaOne-XC.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Software RAID: URD 0.3 beta released
Rupert Hausberger has made the beta release 0.3 of URD, a software RAID solution for AmigaOS, available for download.
The following has been added/updated:
- "Blockencryption" implemented
- updated the help text in the "New" window
- many internal code fixing and updating
- old RAID image replaced by a new one
The software can be downloaded under the title link. (cr) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Dave Haynie
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The "Margaritas" closes
As the owner Derek informed has the pub been sold and will be opened on March, 28th for the last time. He wrote: "We are having a big closing party, with a band and $2.00 all drinks starting at 2pm till the booze runs out."
Some of our readers may wonder why we publish such a piece of news, as the "Margaritas" is unknown to us and only experts of the Amiga history will already have heard about it or even know it.
Dave Haynie, who forwarded this news to known Amiga mailing lists,
wrote:
"Hey All-
I'm putting this one up as a new item, more than an invite,
given the distances likely. But if you're in the area, we're working out a
C= get-together, probably either Friday or Sunday. If you've seen "The Deathbed
Vigil", or just followed C= lore (the Amiga 3000's first public debut, etc), this
is part of the whole history. I haven't been back there in a while (meaning some
months, not years)... Andy, Bob [Russell], and I were the last to "keep the faith"
on a regular basis, when at Fortele (Greg Berlin, Mike Rivers, and Carolyn
Scheppner were around, too). Anyway, that's the news. I'll have a box of DBVs
with me, when I'm there... Margarita's wasn't just "Part 2" in my film, it was
maybe the best view of us as people -- C= had become alien, but Margarita's was
still "home"." (cr) (Translation: wk)
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19.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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NVIDIA-driver for AROS
For AROS the first accellerated 2d-driver has
been completed. The NVIDIA-driver has been successfully tested with TNT2-, GeForce2/4- and
nForce-based cards but should also work with many other versions.
The driver is to be found on Nightly Build.
Using the NVIDIA-driver AROS currently opens a screen of the size 640 x 480 which cannot
be changed except by recompiling of AROS. This applies only for the standard size
of the Workbench while programs can open screens of various size.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Mar.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Game: New version of "Die Kleine Gilde II" also available for MorphOS
I have just published version 0.15 of Die Kleine Gilde II
on my homepage.
The cross-bow competition has been added which can be played nearly each fifth year.
Additionally a version for MorphOS has been added where the bug of the enter fields has been
avoided by using ReqTools. This does not look very good but so the MorphOS users
can also play this game.
The "Die Kleine Gilde II" is a round based economy simulation for the time of the
Middle Ages of 1400 until 1600 but it is also a realtime strategy game and a life
simulation. You have to found a whole family dynasty if you do not want to finish
the game after your death but want to continue playing with one of your children.
You are a trader who first works as a smith, joiner, stone-mason, alchemist, innkeeper,
thief or preacher. If you then have earned some money you can change your profession.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Mar.2004
amiga-news.de editorial office
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amiga-news.de: Voluntary registration in comment-area (Update)
At the beginning of March Sven Drieling has extended the comment-script for a voluntary
registration with access data.
But with some browsers this login did not work. The new script should now work with
all browsers but sometimes only if you accept cookies.
Changes:
- BUGFIX: If cookies are accepted the login could work with all browsers.
Without cookies it does not work with all browsers:
(Robin, mk, Sprocki, Wizek, tokai,
Thilo Köhler, Gojira, TriMa, noch ein test, schluckebier)
Site-effect if you do not logout:
It can now happens that if you have not logged out during the next visit
the login-requester appears continously. In this case:
- Successfully login over the login-requester
- Or delete the cookie 'cookie_comLogin' manually with the help of the cookie-management of the browser.
- BUGFIX: Saving the preferences in the cookies should now work. (Chris Hodges, Holger and other)
- CHANGE: Whole Nick/Name is displayed in thick font. (AP)
- NEW: Login-Info is displayed in the survey. (Holger)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Mar.2004
Hammer (ANF)
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Heise: YaST is to fall under GPL
As Heise Online reports
Novell will release the Linux installation tool YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) of SuSE
under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) in order to increase its spread.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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GTK-Amiga: SourceForge-Project to GUI-Toolkit-port
Already in December of the last year at SourceForge.net a project for a port of the
GTK-GUI-Toolkit for AmigaOS was started. Currently further steps are planned and
files have not been published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: wget V1.9.1 ported
Christian Rosentreter
has compiled
version 1.9.1 of wget for MorphOS (358 KB).
The program wget which is also available for AmigaOS is a tool for downloading files
via HTTP or FTP. It is also possible to continue aborted downloads or to make updates.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Mar.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Liquid Skies Records #067
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 67th music pack today. This time it contains the track "Spacer W Chmurach" by the Polish musician Maxus. The English translation is something like "Stroll over the Clouds" and there's also a fitting cover.
- Title: Spacer W Chmurach
- Musician: Maxus
- Style: Rave
- Song Length: 3:05
- Format: mp3
- Size: 2.9 MB
You'll find the zipped file under the title link as a free download. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
Elbox (E-Mail)
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Elbox: MedConfig v1.3 available
The MedConfig ver. 1.3, a configuration tool for all Mediator PCI busboards, has been released today.
MedConfig helps configuring all Mediator jumpers and all variables of Mediator drivers for the PCI cards. Currently MedConfig has three language versions: English, Italian and Polish.
New version includes:
* enhanced reporting module,
* new TV.prefs files,
* Italian localisation by Arturo Franzin.
MedConfig 1.3 is available for download in the DOWNLOADS | Mediator section
of the Elbox website at http://www.elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html. (snx)
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18.Mar.2004
Genesi
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Genesi Gold Sponsor at Motorola's Smart Developer Network Forum
Motorola has named Genesi a Gold Sponsor for the Smart Developer Network Forum to be held in Dallas on 26-29 April.
Details can be found here.
In addition to having a full display eight Open Desktop Workstation (ODW) based on the Pegasos, Genesi will also provide complete support for the on site Internet Cafe available for Forum participants. The Internet Cafe will feature the ODW running various versions of Linux and demonstrating the flexibility and usability of the Linux Desktop. In the Genesi Booth the focus will be toward the embedded system development market featuring the latest Motorola development tools running on ODW.
Genesi will also be featured at SNDF Europe, 28–30 September 2004 in Frankfurt, Germany, and later in the year SNDF Asia. (snx)
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18.Mar.2004
Bill Buck in der MorphZone (ANF)
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Genesi being added to the ATI Developer early release schedule
As Bill Buck mentions in a comment in the MorphZone, Genesi are being added to the ATI Developer early release schedule. According to him, they will be getting PowerPC driver support and the latest compiled lib/binary for PPC. (snx)
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18.Mar.2004
Ray A. Akey (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Next CAM Delayed until the Beginning of April
HMetal alias Ray A. Akey of Amiga Inc. says here in this forum that the next issue of the magazine "Club Amiga Monthly" will possibly be a combined March-April issue released in the first week of April with the contents of both months in there. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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Emulator: Frodo Ported to MorphOS
The C64 Emulator Frodo is now in a MorphOS-native version available for download from here (512 KB) at Morphzone. This is a direct port of the Amiga version with AHI support. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ScummVM V0.6.0 Ported to AmigaOS 4.0
Version 0.6.0 of ScummVM has been ported through Hans-Jörg Frieden via the use of Hyperion's SDLport for AmigaOS 4.0. A screenshot shows "Flight of the Amazon Queen".
Adventure classics from LucasArts, like Monkey Island 1-3, Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max, The Dig and Vollgas, may be played on modern Amiga systems through the use of ScummVM. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
Relec Software & Hardware Amiga (ANF)
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Relec Announces "MicroA1-EZ"
The Swiss merchant Relec stated that there would be a MicroA1-EZ at the next meeting of the Amiga club AMF-Lausanne-Schweiz on Saturday the 3rd of April from 2 to 5 pm. If the prerelease version of AmigaOS 4.0 happens to be ready that will also be displayed. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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New Alpha Version 0.4 of MIDI Sequencer Horny
Horny is a MIDI sequencer in the style of, for example, Logic or Cubase whose foremost goal is simple and uncomplicated functionality. In contrast to its previews Horny will remain a pure MIDI program and will not support audio.
The current version has everything necessary for the creation of MIDI songs, wherefore the download is just the lite version.
The author asks all users who try Horny to send him a short email, so that he can gauge the interest. Thanks!
The download link as well as other information may be found at the product website under the title link.
Current characteristics:
- Control of up to 16 MIDI ports over CAMD (Lite: 1 Port)
- Up to 128 tones (Lite: 8 tones)
- Volume and tempo changes possible within a song
- Piano Editor: quantisize, compress velocity...
- Controller Editor: compress, reduce, smooth...
- SysEx management with many desired sorting groups
- Jumpable position markers in an arrangement window
- Sound selection of names (not only general MIDI, particularly for desired synthesizer expansions)
- Controller is likewise named for desired (expandable) synthesizer
- SMF import and export
- Horny data format is forward and backward compatible
- ReAction interface in window configuring
- On Workbench or its own window
- Arrangment window may be used as the background (backdrop)
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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17.Mar.2004
David Brunet (ANF)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Election March/April 2004
Amiga Games Hit Parade's maintainers call for the election of the
game of March/April 2004. Participate at the election by
sending a mail to David "Daff" Brunet containing a maximum of your
20 favorite games or vote
online at hitparade.amigames.com.
Every kind of game (commercial, freeware, old, new etc.) is
welcome for the list. The final results wil be announced
beginning April 2004.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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17.Mar.2004
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The lawsuit between Thendic/Genesi and Amiga Inc.
After a court decision regarding the lawsuit between
Thendic/Genesi and Amiga Inc. (we reported) has been made
new applications
were placed which request a post modification of the
decision.
To make the mess of these proceedings a bit more sorted out we
summarized the history once again. If you are interested in the
latest events only, you might jump to the section
"What's next" and get
informed about the current events.
Prehistory
In November 2000 Amiga Inc. and "Thendic Electronic
Components GmbH" (in the following briefed as "Thendic") signed a
license agreement regarding the AmigaDE.
Thendic Electronic Components is a German subsidiary of
"Pretory USA", that holding which also includes the French
Pretory SA and their subsidiary Thendic France.
According to the contract Amiga is committed to port their
"AmigaDE" to several planned devices of Thendic.
Thendic will pay a licence fee of USD 4.50 for every device
delivered with AmigaDE. On the other hand Genesi will get the
right to use the Amiga Logos for their products.
The contract mentions the Cashboy, MobiCash,
Transponder, Cashboy@Home and Smartboy by name but those were
never produced in series.
After a while it came to light that regarding some core points of the
contract there was no agreement between the contractors.
Three issues cristallized as most controverse:
1st: Which devices have to be supported by Amiga
The contract mentions the devices to be supported but
also includes a clause which permits Thendic to add new
devices to the list by appointment of Amiga. Amiga obliges to
do not deny the appointment without well-founded reasons.
After market introduction of the Pegasos
Thendic brings in the appointment refering to that clause to
ask for an AmigaDE port for this PPC computer.
Amiga Inc. denies the port which lead Thendic to sue Amiga in
February 2003.
After both parties took in several written applications
Amiga's lawers asked for the permission to lay down their mandatory in September
2003 - reasons for their request are unknown to us.
The judge granted their request on September the 30th 2003,
Amiga loses the legal advice. According to the local American
law a company is in need of legal advice by a lawer, therefore
the judge announces a several times extended period to bring
on new lawers.
While Amiga fails on that the judge announces the court
decision on February the 20th 2004. Because Amiga's standpoint
must be presented by a lawer the judge has to use the
arguments of Thendic only ("In light of defendant's
failure to participate...") to find a decision. He agrees on
Thendic's point of view which does include the Pegasos to the
devices to be supported.
Amiga is sentenced to fullfill the contract ("specific
performance") and gets a period of 30 days to give the AmigaDE
to the plaintiff thus enabeling the plaintiff to integrate it
to the Pegasos.
2nd: Is Genesi contractor also?
The contract between Amiga and Thendic describes Thendic's
rights as "non transferable" but is valid for Thendic and all
subordinated or related companies or subsidiaries.
On February the 18th 2003 Thendic's lawers applied to accept
Genesi as an additional plaintiff because that company would
be a contractor according to the definition within the
contract. Further details of the relation between Genesi and
Thendic were not given.
In a statement according to Thendic's application Amiga says
they do not have sufficient knowledge of the relation between
Thendic and Genesi to assess that claim and thus do not see
Genesi as an appropriate contractor.
An answer by the judge regarding both applications is not to
find within the publicly accessable documents, but the court
decision mentions the plaintiffs (plural) - if this is a
confirmation of Genesi's standpoint is not known by us.
3rd: Which trademarks may be used by Thendic/Genesi?
Within the contract it is stipulated that Thendic might use
Amiga trademarks for promotion, website, products and
packaging without asking prior.
The "Amiga trademarks" are defined in appendix 3.1 as all
trademarks, logos or trade names Amiga owns and are somehow
related to the AmigaDE. Additionally there is a reference to
appendix D which will describe the handling in detail.
Appendix C (appendix D does not exist) there is at least a
section which covers the usage of the trademarks.
There the Amiga trademarks are defined as the 'Powered by Amiga' logo,
the 'Amiga' logo, the Amiga Boingball and all further Amiga
trademarks which are hold by Amiga.
Which one of the both contradictionary definitions is valid and which is void is not
known to us.
Also the use of the trademarks is classified here in detail
again and is identical to the classification within the main
text. But this section has an additional hand written record
which limits the usage of the trademarks to be only in
conjunction with AmigaDE products and only after approval by Amiga.
If this addition stays valid is also not known by us, the
extension within the version of the contract viewed by us is signed by Bill McEwen only.
That both parties interpret this aspect of the contract in a
different meaning is to infer by the recently announced use of
the Amiga trademarks by Genesi or the just released declaration by
Amiga they sold the AmigaOS - including the according
trademarks - to KMOS Inc. Because that issue was not covered
by the court yet the final decision has still to be found.
What's next
Amiga Inc. may - if they can get some legal advice again -
appeal against the court's decision within a period of 30 days,
according to our information they have not done so yet.
In the meanwhile Thendic/Genesi's lawers applied for a
modification of the decision. The judge should
grant not only for access to the AmigaDE but also to
all documentation, all source codes, all object codes, and
all derived code from that, all extensions and all
enhancements, updates and upgrades.
In that context Genesi seems to see the AmigaOS 4 as kind of
"Upgrade" of the AmigaDE. This point of view should be
supported by screen shots of several publications at Amiga's
website and an email which is said to origin from Fleecy Moss.
On March the 15th Amiga Inc. - who now do have lawers again -
commented that application detailed. They deny all claims for
accessing the source code by the plaintiff and refer to
according clauses within the contract.
With statements by Fleecy Moss, Bill McEwen, Ray A. Akey (Amiga Inc.), Garry Hare (KMOS Inc.)
and Francis Charig (TAO) Amiga tries to point to
other inconsistencies. So they claim Thendic and/or Bill Buck
would not have been reachable by the given address. And the refered
email by Fleecy Moss would be a fake which should be known by
the plaintiff also.
Further on some postings by Bill Buck within several discussion
boards are refered to bring evidence that he tries to gain
more than what the contract grants to him. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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17.Mar.2004
rc5-72 stats (ANF)
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dnetc: MorphOS overrounds AmigaOS PPC and AmigaOS 68k
At the rc5-72 statistics
MorphOS while crunching for two months only has overrounded the
taking fifteen months crunching efford of the distrbuted.net
client for AmigaOS 68k and AmigaOS PPC.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 17. Mar. 2004, 10:21] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Emulators: Native ports for AmigaOS 4
Amigaworld.net reports this week the beta test of the OS4
native version of UAE 0.8.25 (screen shot)
will begin. Referencing a second post
the C64 emulator Frodo as well as the arcade emulator xMAME
(screen shots)
were successfully ported to AOS4 already.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 17. Mar. 2004, 08:01] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2004
IrseeSoft / ZEDOnet (ANF)
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Printer drive: TurboPrint-Version 7.60 available
The printerd rive software TurboPrint of IrseeSoft has been published in the version 7.60 with new printer drives:
- Canon i250*, i350*
- Canon i560, Canon i865, Canon i965*
- Epson Stylus C64, Stylus C84
- HP DeskJet 515x*, DeskJet 565x, DeskJet 585x*
- HP LaserJet 1100, 1200, 1300, 2xxx
*) USB Interface-card needed, f.e. Highway-USB
The update is for the user, who have a new supported printer or want to buy one.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 18:13] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2004
Coyote Flux (ANF)
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Coyote Flux: Major website update
The website has been updated with new information about CoyoteFlash and J Miner (EE). An optimized version of the website will be added soon for Amiga and mobile platform users.
In the meantime, many changes have been made to our photogrammetry package J Miner including the support for exporting 3D objects in common file formats such as LOW, C4D and DXF. J Miner now runs on a seperate screen in any resolution and supports several new 3D reconstruction features. Several screenshots have been added to the J Miner page, all created using the latest version of the program.
CoyoteFlash has been updated (1.2) with several bug fixes over the last version. (snx)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 16:52] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2004
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Latest Amiga-news
The latest news from Amiga Inc. are considered too, by the non-amiga press
(cr) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 15:28] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2004
KRAY Homepage
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MorphOS: new version of KRAY
The commandline-programm of the raytracer KRAY has been extended with a preview window in the MorphOS-version. You can find the new version under
the title link
(cr) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 13:21] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2004
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Battlefield forum temporary available
Horst Diebel writes: Because of a rate changing on www.amiga-society.de the Battlefield forum was temporary not available.
Until finishing the new Internet representation there is the possibility for representing a discussion forum. There is now an standard forum.
When someone has problems, questions and tips for the Battlefield, is welcome.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 12:38] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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AutoDocReader published
"Maag" has published a programm for showing AutoDocs called AutoDocReader.
The program (34 KB), instructions and the website are only Polish, but you can find a screenshot
under the titlelink.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 08:07] [Comments: 2 - 30. Mar. 2004, 14:38]
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16.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Amiga Inc. sells AmigaOS to KMOS Inc.
Amiga, Inc. Sells the Amiga Operating System, to focus on AmigaDE and the Mobile Market.
Ravensdale, WA - 3:00 pm Pacific Time, March 15, 2004 - Amiga, Inc. announced today that it has sold the Amiga Operating System to KMOS, Inc., allowing Amiga, Inc to focus on the growing mobile market.
On April 23, 2003 Amiga entered into an Agreement with Itec LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc. for the transfer and sale of all of Amiga's right, title, source code, and all versions, from the "Classic Amiga Operating System" through AmigaOS 4.0 and all subsequent versions to KMOS, Inc.
"The expanding mobile market offers Amiga over 200 million potential customers that we need to focus on," said Bill McEwen - President/CEO of Amiga, Inc. "We began looking for a company that could focus and provide proper resources for the AmigaOS and the associated markets and we found that with KMOS, Inc." McEwen Said.
"We welcome the acquisition of the AmigaOS intellectual property by KMOS. Together with KMOS, Hyperion looks forward to exploring new business opportunities for AmigaOS 4. I would like to reassure all our customers that the acquisition by KMOS will not have any adverse impact whatsoever on the release of the consumer version of AmigaOS 4.0 later this year." said Evert Carton, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment VOF.
KMOS, Inc. is acquiring and developing technology enabling the company to participate in the worldwide communications market. Garry Hare, KMOS' CEO, said "KMOS is very excited about the commercial potential of this innovative operating system. At Amiga's insistence to which we totally agreed, we will honor the terms of the November 2001, agreement with Amiga One Partners: Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd., an English Corporation, in their entirety. Mr. Hare continues, "I should point out, that except as they relate to the Amiga OS family of products, KMOS did not acquire the Amiga name, intellectual property or its DE line of products. These assets remain the property of Amiga Inc.".
About Amiga:
Amiga, Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multimedia technologies to the world. Its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, government agencies, and entertainment enthusiasts from around the world. Today Amiga continues to lead the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to a new hardware-agnostic, multimedia platform. AmigaDE and Amiga Anywhere powered with intent from the Tao Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K, and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, and XP. AmigaDE and Anywhere applications can be purchased online at www.shopamiga.com. Amiga is based in Ravensdale, Wash. For more information visit www.amiga.com.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs. Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
About KMOS, Inc.
KMOS, Inc. a State of Delaware licensed corporation develops and distributes enabling technology, software applications and specialty content to the wired and wireless communication market.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 02:54] [Comments: 0]
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