28.Jan.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Team AROS with new website
The support group of the Amiga Research Operating System (AROS),
the "Team AROS", are presenting their new website.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Jan.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Pegasos II: Online sales reactivated
As MorphOS-News.de reports, the Pegasos II can be ordered online again at PegasosPPC.com since today. (snx)
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28.Jan.2004
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Magazine: Club Amiga Magazine #12 release on February the 7th 2004
The release of issue #12 of the Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) will be delayed as said by the editors.
The next issue will be released on February the 7th 2004. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.Jan.2004
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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AGHP: Vote for the Amiga game of the year 2003
The editors of "Amiga Games Hit Parade" are asking for a vote regarding the Amiga game 2003.
Participation on that vote is possible by following the title link. The results and a winner will be said
within the next days.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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IBM: Information about Genesi's Open Desktop Workstation (Update)
IBM did now also add Genesi's Pegasos-based Open Desktop Workstation to the Global Solutions Directory.
"The Open Desktop Workstation is available as a turnkey, built to order solution with a number of configuration packages available, including multiple distributions of open-source Linux, and OpenBSD. Other options are available on request.
The combined reference designs and open standards give the Open Desktop Workstation the flexibility to unleash PowerPC onto the desktops of the workplace and the server racks of the small business. The desktop version allows the workplace to have a level of conformity between servers and office equipment reducing the total technology overhead. Providing a natural path of progression from user to system administration the desktop version can minimize outside training requirements. Rack mount versions provide the small business and educators with servers that not only perform, but perform silently, consuming less power, and with the reliability expected from PowerPC.
Running several distributions of Linux out of the box along with OpenBSD, the Open Desktop Workstation will be capable of running future Linux distributions by virtue of the open standards adopted by its design. Being customizable to particular needs, the Open Desktop Workstation may be used with its own closed source Operating System for enterprises that require it.
The Open Desktop Workstation, whether using closed or open source systems, is available in both "do it yourself" and as a complete turnkey system built to the specifications of many enterprises both large and small."
Update: (28.01.04, 23:23, snx)
The Open Desktop Workstation is now also mentioned in the Design Alliance Member Directory from Motorola. (snx)
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28.Jan.2004
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Files: Interview with Petra Struck at amiga-news.de
The mp3 file of the interview with Petra Struck, founder of amiga-news.de, done by Faclon, supported by the "User der
Nordseeküste", from January the 25th 2003 will be only available at the server of amiga-news.de. We thank the
user group UDN for their free hosting during the last 12 months!
Download:
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.Jan.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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Anti virus program: New PatchBrain V1.55 for VirusExecutor 2.29
Jan Erik Olausen has released a new PatchBrain version 1.55 for his
virus scan program VirusExecutor version 2.29. At Virus
Help Team Canada the program is available for download. An update is also possible by the
Live Update option within VirusExecutor.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.Jan.2004
Jörg Brenner (ANF)
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Update of the Amiga Hardware World
The Amiga Hardware World (AHW) has been updated today.
This update mostly covers busboards and mainboards - mainboard photos of the
A3000T, A3000, A500+ as well as the CD32 were added and also pictures and descriptions of
several busboards from Micronik, Elbox and RBM. Furthermore there are twelve new manuals
and ten new installation disks.
An overview about the latest changes is available here:
http://amiga.resource.cx/about.html (English)
http://amiga.resource.cx/aboutde.html (German)
At AHW there are currently more than 740 expansions for the Amiga registered, all with description and most of them with
pictures.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.Jan.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet Uploads through 27th January, 2004
Here are the Aminet uploads since our last announcement:
YamHTMLyam.lha comm/mail 28K+(1.9b) Shows HTML e-mails with YAM mail
Telefon.lha comm/misc 35K+Telephone Dialer and SMS Sender Programm.
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 37K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
cimon096.lha comm/tcp 15K+Little FLI4L-ImonC-Client for MorphOS
Absurd-Miss.lha demo/euro 415K+"Miss" - By Absurd
APT-Epileptic.lha demo/euro 583K+Epileptic (Demo) By Apathy At KG 2000-1
FreedomArms.lha demo/euro 732K+"Freedom Arms" - By Void
hlm-virocop.lha demo/intro 46K+Virocop AGA cracktro from Hoodlum
up-csxiv.lha demo/intro 21K+UP ROUGH KIDS "Compusphere 14 Invitation
DemoStartUP.lha dev/asm 67K+AGA/P96/CGX Demo StartUP code. Use this
amiblitz_ful.lha dev/basic 4.0M+AmiBlitz 2.30 full distro
librarymaker.lha dev/c 73K+Create shared libraries with SAS-C
tks-amiga2.lha dev/lang 398K+C-like script engine. v0.6.0.2
Amiga1251.lha dev/misc 21K+Amiga-1251 Character Set Specification
WHDLoad_dev.lha dev/misc 1.2M+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
WHDLoad_usr.lha dev/misc 598K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
MCC_HotkeyStr.lha dev/mui 59K+HotkeyString custom class for MUI
blobzsrc.lha dev/src 47K+Blitz 2.1 source code to Blobz
h2sacsou.lha dev/src 380K+How 2 Skin A Cat complete sources & data
blobz.lha game/misc 170K+50-level game. Collect all the gems.
MazezaM.lha game/think 83K+Puzzle game, Sokoban Alike (Deluxe versi
GIFsplit.lha gfx/conv 24K+Splits GIF animations into individual GI
HollyRec.lha gfx/conv 381K+Converts "Hollywood" presentations into
Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 592K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 1/8
Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 157K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 2/7
Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 3a/7
Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 329K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 3b/7
Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 4/7
Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 147K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 5/7
Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 6/7 (opti
Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 7/7 (opti
Sv5-PPaint.lha gfx/misc 10K+SView5 - PPaint loader/saver V5.1 (17.1.
ddc_0.72.lha hard/drivr 61K+DriverDescriptorCreator (ddc)
Mentat-Scripts.lha misc/edu 8K+Arexx scripts for Mentat
AmithlonUpdate.lha misc/emu 1.6M+V1.28 Amithlon Update
imdbDiff040109.lha misc/imdb 2.6M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff040116.lha misc/imdb 5.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AfterBurner.lha mods/cust 386K+Custom module from "After Burner"
PowerPlay.lha mods/pro 97K+"Power Play", from Colonial Conquest II
aquarobe.lha mus/play 20K+A skin for Prayer2
EP_CustomMade.lha mus/play 10K+EaglePlayer "CustomMade" external replay
MUIUnArc.lha util/arc 13K+MUI UnArc
Bekuna2.lha util/boot 408K+Hello user program 2 (International)
IFF2rexx.lha util/conv 1K+Convert IFF data to rexx source
MIDI2asm.lha util/conv 4K+Convert MIDI data to assembler source +
Streamer2-PL.lha util/misc 1K+Polish locale for Streamer 2.06
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 91K+External Virus Scanner Library v33.41
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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27.Jan.2004
MorphZone
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Inofficial memory module index for Pegasos II started
Because of the reactions of a few members MorphZone
Liste a list of functional and
perhaps problematical memory modules could be started.
Please look, this is not an official arrangement of the firms bplan or Genesi, or the Pegasos trader.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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27.Jan.2004
Ehrlicher (ANF)
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UAE-0.8.23 published
Richard Drummond published his version of UAE-0.8.23 for downloading. There are many news and bugs are cancelled, too.
Especially a new version of the Picasso96-emulator, support for raw-key-mapping and GUI GTK+.
You can find the code under: title link.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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25.Jan.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: HDRIview released
Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski has ported HDRIview to MorphOS, a viewer for High Dynamic Range images.
Download (217 KB) (snx)
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24.Jan.2004
Michael Klein (ANF)
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CD32 alliance: website fully online again
With friendly support by the Emubase is the CD32 alliance now fully available again under cd32.emubase.de.
After the server of the CD32 alliance had been changed and more than 100 MB of data got lost is now the complete content available again thanks to the new supervisor Robert Konrad.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jan.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Picture viewer: PicShow v1.30 beta
PicShow is thought to be used as a picture viewer within a directory tool like DirOpus or DosControl. It shows the chosen picture in a borderless window on the named public screen. The special thing about this program is that it reads the complete directory and you can choose other pictures from this directory via a menu or using keys.
PicShow can also be used as a simple slideshow program. It shows the pictures either sorted or as a random series. When running on an own screen there are some nice fading effects.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jan.2004
Ingo Schmitz (ANF)
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MorphOS: CImon 0.9.6
CImon 0.9.6 is a simple shell based client to access the ImonD of a FLI4L router. How to use the propgram can be read in the readme. Information about FLI4L can be found here.
Download: cimon096.lha (15 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jan.2004
Elbox (e-mail)
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Elbox: New Year's offer extended
Due to numerous requests from our customers to make New Year's
free shipping offer valid for a longer time, we have decided
to extend it till 02 February 2004.
Until 02 February 2004, all items in our Online Store marked
"free shipping" will still be delivered without any shipping costs.
This offer is valid for orders from all countries of the world.
Best regards,
Elbox Computer Team (snx)
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24.Jan.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #065
The scene group Liquid Skies has released yesterday their 65th music pack. It contains the track "Magiczny Las" of the Polish musician Maxus (that is "Magic Forest"). The track is a mixture of Jungle and Trance.
- Title: Magiczny Las
- Musician: Maxus
- Style: Jungle
- Play time: 2:41
- Format: mp3
- Size: 2.5 MB
The zipped file can be downloaded for free via the title link.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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23.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Presentation: An Introduction to MorphOS (Update)
The MorphZone is hosting a presentation by Nicholas Blachford called An Introduction to MorphOS, which is an overview for anyone not already familiar with this operating system.
Update: (22.01.04, 14:45, snx)
The presentation is also available for download in the MorphZone (2 MB, LHA archive of the individual HTML pages). (snx)
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23.Jan.2004
ANN (website)
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TeamAROS: Bounty program extended
The bounty program of TeamAROS has been extended by three projects. Added were the creation of a PCI driver, an ata.device and support for FAT32. (snx)
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23.Jan.2004
amigaharry (ANF)
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Search program: SearchStar 0.80
"SearchStar" is a multi talent which searches your hard drive for files which have
a certain name or content.
Version 0.80 is a prerelease which can be only started from Shell. In the future it
is planned that you can search in file comments and over several partitions.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jan.2004
Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Mai Logic: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 for Teron computers
Under the title link Mai Logic provides the ISO-files to install Yellow Dog Linux on computers of the Teron series.
Download:
teron-ydl3-install-manual.pdf (826 KB)
ydl3boot.iso (4128 KB)
ydl3-d1.iso (639072 KB)
ydl3-d2.iso (653632 KB)
ydl3-d3.iso (542656 KB)
mai-app-install.iso (258112 KB)
inst-md5sums.txt (1 KB) (snx)
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22.Jan.2004
Jörg Brenner (ANF)
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New Website of 1000er Magazine
The disk mag of IG A1000 is now online. At http://amiga.resource.cx/1000er you can find 28 issues of 1000er Magazine to download in DMS format, or just read any of 2000 articles individually.
Also at this time we are calling out: if anyone has issues of 1000er Magazine that are not at the website, please send an email to thals@gmx.de. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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22.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)
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File Shrinker: MUI Unarc V45.13
Jocke Sjöblom's MUI-based clone of the UNARC tool that shipped with AmigaOS 3.9 has reached version 45.13 (14 KB).
MUI UNARC requires xadmaster.library and thereby is able to list and pack a range of archive formats. In the new versions XVS and XFD support has been added. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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21.Jan.2004
Amiga.org (forum)
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Nueron: Amiga-inspired computer project based on Coldfire
Stephen Smith of Austex Software has presented at Amiga.org his Amiga-inspired project Nueron/NuOS, a Coldfire computer with its own operating system:
I have been working on an alternative computer project for a few years now and would like to find people who may be interested in helping further the project.
The project involves hardware based on Motorola ColdFire processors (Nueron) and a new (free) operating system inspired by AmigaOS (NuOS).
I have developed a prototype (Nueron1200) which is what I wanted an Amiga-like tablet computer device to be (basically a large PDA). Details and pictures can be found at the Austex Software website: Nueron 1200 prototype.
I am currently finishing off a ColdFire accelerator module for the Nueron1200 (dual processors) and an updated graphics module (unlike most laptops, the graphics hardware can be upgraded).
The project is also known as the gecko computer project with a (currently very small) yahoo group here: geckocomputerproject.
I had chosen gecko because they are "small, efficient and crap all over windows..."
Work has been slow since this was originally a part-time project, however I am now doing board design, firmware and operating system full time (no matter what anybody says). I am looking at producing developer boards in either microATX or miniITX format (I need a vote on this) to be available in Q2 2004. Board cost is a sensitive issue which also needs to be dealt with (I'd need expressions of interest for build quantity etc...).
I have been developing free software tools, such as assembler, linker, maker and a beta C compiler for both AmigaOS and PC (yeeeww). I am still using my Amiga4000/CSPPC for development purposes (I also have an Amiga500, 2xAmiga1200, Amiga3000, another Amiga4000 with non-working CSPPC). I am a long time Amiga user/programmer and also co-wrote an Amiga game (Uropa2, published by Vulcan) which comes under the Austex Software banner.
Recently, I have been trying to finish documentation for such things as NuOS overview, API documents in html (devbook) and various technical manuals etc... However these things take time (especially if you are the only person doing them).
If you are interested or have any questions, then please let me know.
Regards,
Stephen Smith
Austex Software (snx)
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21.Jan.2004
Nintendo
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Nintendo: Portable system with double screen to be released in 2004
"Mystery" Product to Launch Later This Year
REDMOND, Wash., Jan 20, 2004 -- An unprecedented approach to video game play-- holding two separate game screens in the palm of your hand-- hits the scene later this year when Nintendo introduces a new portable game system, code-named Nintendo DS.
From information made available today, players can look forward to being able to manage their game progress from two different perspectives, enhancing both the speed and strategy of the challenge. For example in a soccer game, users can view the whole game on one screen while simultaneously focusing on an individual soccer player's tackle or goal on the other screen.
Players will no longer be forced to interrupt game play to shift perspective, such as moving from a wide shot to a close up, or alternating between a character's ongoing battle and a map of the environment. Nintendo DS makes it possible to perform the tasks in real time by simply glancing from one screen to the other.
Today's announcement is but a glimpse of the additional features and benefits that will be shown in full at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles in May. Once fully revealed, players will see innovative advances in game interaction.
"We have developed Nintendo DS based upon a completely different concept from existing game devices in order to provide players with a unique entertainment experience for the 21st century," explains Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president.
Nintendo DS features two separate 3-inch TFT LCD display panels, separate processors, and semiconductor memory of up to 1 Gigabit. It's scheduled to launch worldwide before the end of 2004.
In addition to Nintendo-developed software, the company is in discussions with third-party game developers around the world.
Nintendo DS will be marketed separately from the company's existing Nintendo Game Boy Advance portable system and Nintendo GameCube home console.
Stay tuned to Nintendo.com for more details on the Nintendo DS system as they are announced. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jan.2004
Rainer Benda (ANF)
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C&ZV Rainer Benda: Webshop opened
As Rainer Benda told us he opened a webshop at
www.rbenda.de. The offered goods do not only include
Amiga and Commodore 8 bit products as well as other PC parts and also Gamepark-32,
Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Gamecube and Sony Playstation products. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)
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Picture viewer: MiniShowPicture V1.5 released
The program MiniShowPicture by Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski has now been released in
version 1.5 *
for MorphOS and Amiga 68k.
It's a simple picture viewer which is MUI based and uses
datatypes. The functions include Drag&Drop, Scaling and keyboard support.
New with V1.5 is a full screen mode. The picture calculating routines were sped up also.
The settings are saved now within the ENV directory.
(* = If a Polish message appears during a download attempt it tells that the server is
stressed with more than five users currently and more are not allowed at the same time.) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jan.2004
Patric Klöter (ANF)
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Commodore/Amiga-Website redesigned completely
Patric Klöter wrties: Welcome to the new version of the Commodore/Amiga fan page. I decided to change the name to
Commodore Amiga Information Source, or abreviated
CAIS which should remind a bit to the old Commodore department CATS, Commodore Amiga Technical
Support.
After nearly three years I lately did it and reworked the site completely including an abandonation of the unliked
turquoise. It's newly written from scratch.
New is the navigation window at the top, a chapter about "Non Commodore Computer" (has to follow),
a tutorial and a sitemap which allows to navigate to all subpages easily.
A forum and a guest book are available also. Some things are renamed and moved to other locations.
The focus of the page is still information and this will be improved in future
The page uses Javascript now intensively which might be a problem with several Amiga browsers but it's always
possible to navigate via the sitemap.
Credits: During creation of the page I met several nice people and I would like to use the opportunity
to thank them here for their support and help. Some of them I would like to mention by name:
My "AMIGA-Freunde Pfalz" friends, Rainer Benda, Dave Haynie,
Roland Löffler, Petro Tyschtschenko, Stefan Zelany and Bo Zimmerman.
Have fun with surfing at CAIS!
- Patric Klöter
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jan.2004
ANF
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Motorola: Saleswin nearly tripled
Within the last quarter of 2003 the American mobile and semiconductor producer Motorola has nearly tripled its
saleswin. Compared to the 174 million dollars within the according time year before the company earned
489 million dollars (388 million Euros) within the fourth quarter 2003.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS: Patch for WipeOut 2097 released
Mark Olsen has created a patch to make the game Wipeout 2097 run better on the Pegasos. The patch (2 KB) eliminates the chipmem access by WipeOut 2097, making it now possible to play all levels at full speed. (snx)
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21.Jan.2004
ANN (website)
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Update: YamHTMLyam 1.9b
YamHTMLyam is an ARexx script for displaying HTML e-mails and pictures received by YAM using a browser. Meanwhile version 1.9b (28 KB) of the script is available. (snx)
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21.Jan.2004
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: Party lists added
A new feature was added on Amiga Demoscene Archive: party result lists (from the productions that are on A.D.A). Grouped by year and position and included are the votes received at party (where available). With every new production that we add, the party result lists will grow more complete. (snx)
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