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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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15.Mar.2004
Breed (ANF)
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FroGGui: Version 0.22 released
Version 0.22 (510 KB) of FroGGui, GUI for FroggerNG, is now available.
Changes:
- Autosave
- new features "no interleave" and "no sound"
- new skin
- automated closing of FroggerNG when closing FroGGui
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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15.Mar.2004
Cloanto
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Cloanto: Amiga Explorer 6.0 released
Cloanto have released version 6.0 of their Amiga Explorer. A trial version (1.9 MB) can be downloaded which is limited in a way that it can't transfer files with more than 1 KB in size.
The Amiga Explorer networking software makes it possible to access the resources of an Amiga computer from one or more Windows systems. Configuration is extremely simple and by default requires only a few mouse clicks on the Windows side.
The new version 6.0 of Amiga Explorer is compatible with AmigaOS 4.0 and MorphOS. The trial version can also be used for upgrading from the previous version.
Amiga Explorer is available stand-alone as well as a part of the emulator package Amiga Forever, which is to be released also in version 6.0 in a few days. (snx)
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13.Mar.2004
amiga.org (website)
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MorphOS: TGEmu emulates TurboGrafx16/PC Engine
"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 MorphOS version comes with a graphical users interface that supports skins.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
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Interview: Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion)
amigaworld.net has made an interview with Oliver Hannaford-Day. Oliver is the developer behind the Amiga turboboard "Coldfusion" that bases on a Coldfire CPU.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Workbench design with AmiChameleon
Everybody who has already tried to change the look of the Workbench completely knows how much the work that means. Searching for images, changing preferences, loading skins, etc. If you want to change the look again later on the same starts over again. Because of this I've developed AmiChameleon. It archives once created so called themes and installs them later again in the simpliest way. This way it is possible to change the design of your Workbench completely with only a small number of mouse click.
On a server are already several themes saved that can (directly from AmiChameleon) be viewed, downloaded and then installed. It will also be possible to create such themes with AmiChameleon (still beta and without manual).
Themes: With AmiChameleon you can change/install the following graphical elements:
System settings:
- WB-Pattern
- Fonts
- Palette
- Pointer
- Sound
- ReAction
Further settings:
Skins for the following programs:
- CoolCalc
- WBClock
- AmigaAMP
- AmiNetRadio
- PlayCD
Startbars:
Other supported programs:
- Birdie
- BenchTrash
- GarshneBlanker
All these parts together are called a theme and are supported by AmiChameleon.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
Genesi (email)
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MorphOS presentation at Motorola SNDF in Dallas and Frankfurt
As Genesi mailed will the Pegasos and MorphOS be presented at this year's Smart Developer Network Forum events of Motorola in Dallas (April, 26th to 29th) and Frankfurt (September, 28th - 30th).
Read the complete press release below:
MorphOS to be demonstrated at the 2004 Motorola Smart Developer Network Forums in Dallas and Frankfurt.
The Motorola SNDF brings together key engineers, architects and executives at the forefront of the embedded systems, networking and communications equipment fields. SNDF also offers the opportunity to connect with key analysts and members of the press. SNDF attracts leading trade press and analysts who cover semiconductor, software and system-level products for the embedded systems, networking and telecommunications industry. Genesi will feature the Open Desktop Workstation, the Pegasos, various versions of LinuxPPC running embedded development tools, and MorphOS.
Details and registration information can be obtained here.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
Christian Geier (email)
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Linux: Image Installer SE for Pegasos and Amiga-PPC released
The Image Installer that shortens the installation of various Linux distributions on the Pegasos I and II or the Amiga with PowerPC card to several minutes and eases it, is now available with an image file of SuSE 7.3 for download in a special edition.
The SE version is meant to demonstrate the functions of the Image Installer and to collect experiences in the use of Linux. The installation is done from an image that was created before from a correctly installed and configured Linux base installation.
To use further programs it is necessary to get the full distribution. The SuSE image file works exclusively with the SE version that is without any support by the SuSE Linux AG or the Image Installer team.
Hardware needed:
- Pegasos with at least 128 MB RAM or Amiga with PowerPC card
- CyberGraphX supported graphics card (recommended Pegasos: ATI Radeon)
- harddisk drive with 6 GB free space
- CD or DVD drive
- CD burner for the ISO files
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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12.Mar.2004
Ekkehard Brüggemann (E-Mail)
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Event: Invitation for Breakpoint 2004
From 9th till 12th April the European demo scene will meet in Bingen (Germany) again.
The official invitation for the Breakpoint which is the biggest German scene party and successor of
the Mekka symposium has been published today. Please have a look at it for further information.
Download: bp04invi.zip
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
Tom Duin alias Amigaharry (ANF)
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SearchStar: Update of search program to version 0.86
The search program SeachStar written by Tom Duin can be
downloaded in version 0.86 (30 KB).
With SearchStar you can search for files and comments of files in several directories and drives as well as do
some further tasks. In version 0.86 a faster directory scan routine was implemented as well as a new option for
replacing single files.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Music: "Statement" by Bjorn Lynne
With 14 tracks the Norwegian musician Bjorn Lynne has filled his new
audio-CD "Statement" and there walks through diverse styles of music like
Chill-out, Pop-Synth, jazzy Groove and soundtracks of classic games.
The music reminds of the time when Bjorn Lynne as Dr. Awesome created the sounds
for Amiga diskmags and games like Alien Breed 3D or Worms D.C.
Track list:
- Kikki
- Simplicity
- The Giant
- Between Friends
- Please Me
- In Good Company
- Nitro Glycerine
- Lounge Living
- All You
- The Jungle Trail
- Still Motions
- Soundstreamz
- Understatement
- Bonus track: Soundstreamz Instrumental
Two tracks called "Kikki" and "Understatement" have been uploaded to the website of ArtistLaunch where you can download it for free. Besides this on the homepage of LynneMusic a medley has been prepared where you can listen to a "summary" of the album which lasts five minutes. There you can
also find further information, the cover artwork and all kinds of ordering. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet Uploads till March 12th, 2004
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last message:
microgolded.lha biz/demo 528K+Simple but powerful editor (30-day trial
ExecuteInShell.lha biz/dopus 19K+(1.1) ExecuteInShell Arexx script for DO
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 31K+Online Dictionary
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 37K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
idnpatch.0.1.lha comm/tcp 8K+Patches your stack to use IDN domainname
ANR_run.lha comm/www 13K+Allows you to start AminetRadio via AWeb
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 601K+Powerful (Web,HTML) Gallery-, Catalog-,
jrm-j10v.lha demo/sound 246K+DA JoRMaS: 10 Year Anniversary Party Inv
ferox_bar.lha dev/gui 3K+Ferox-like ScrollBar for MorphOS
nocover120.lha docs/mags 1.3M+Great german diskmagazine
TheCrypt31.lha docs/mags 4.4M+Issue 31 of "The Crypt" online magazine
TheCrypt32.lha docs/mags 8.3M+Issue 32 of "The Crypt" online magazine
TurboPrint_FR.lha docs/misc 5K+French catalogs for TurboPrint 7
Liga2003-04.lha game/data 29K+League update 2003-04 for SWOS game
TotalChaosAGA.lha game/misc 34M+640x512 256 colors 50fps Magic & Monster
BoxWorld.lha game/think 215K+Sokoban clone with many stages.
BF_MPEG2dec.lha gfx/conv 321K+MPEG2 stream decoder and savers with ful
BF_MPEG2decPRO.lha gfx/conv 336K+Very powerful MPEG2 video decoder with G
BF_MPEG2encPRO.lha gfx/conv 115K+Very powerful MPEG2 video encoder with G
BF_MPLEXPRO.lha gfx/conv 69K+Powerful MPEG2 stream multiplexer with G
BF_AnimMaker.lha gfx/edit 64K+Vector animation program with full sourc
FlashMandelWOS.lha gfx/fract 1.8M+The best Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ren
BF_KeyHook.lha gfx/ifx 123K+ImagesFX Hook with full source
Crystal_Lattic.lha gfx/misc 281K+Stereoscopic simulation of Bravais X-tal
StIco.lha gfx/misc 69K+Stereoscopic simulation of Bravais X-tal
FlashPlayer.lha gfx/show 453K+Flash (SWF) format file player v. 1.0
FlashPlayerSrc.lha gfx/show 180K+Source Code for FlashPlayer v. 1.0
swfplayer.lha gfx/show 348K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.3) 68k+W
ArakAttack.lha hard/drivr 286K+V0.98 USB Driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
mdisk363.lha hard/drivr 16K+Catweasel MK3 PCI driver using openpci.l
acvt.lha misc/emu 81K+Converts between XFD-SCP-ATR-DCM-DI form
AmithlonUpdate.lha misc/emu 1.6M+V1.29 Amithlon Update
imdbDiff040220.lha misc/imdb 3.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
summer-moods.lha mods/blkha 197K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
Limes_Napoleon.lha mods/cust 174K+Custom module from "Limes & Napoleon"
dajormas10year.lha mods/jorma 212K+DA JoRMaS 10 Years by dA JoRMaS (from 10
jay2004.lzh mods/misc 128K+Jay's Song Prog-Rock style (Sonix SMUS)
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 241K+MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
EP_DaglishSID.lha mus/play 7K+EaglePlayer 'Benn Daglish SID' external
SongPlayer-mor.lha mus/play 589K+Cool and powerful audio player V1.62 (68
VirgolaMIME.lha pix/icon 397K+MIME icons in glowicon style by Virgola
VirgolaWB.lha pix/icon 739K+WB settings inspireb by the upcoming OS4
selectorLooks.lha pix/illu 73K+Shows how different Selector9.2 can look
obligement-43.jpg pix/misc 44K+Obligement's cover n 43
Workbench3.9.jpg pix/wb 396K+Screenshot of emulated Amiga on PowerBoo
MakeGuide3.lha text/hyper 48K+Create a guide from several small files
selector92.lha util/batch 351K+Unique script language / launching tool
Loadertune.lha util/boot 69K+Nice boot song, for Algor/Romulus flashr
mcx256.lha util/cdity 36K+MultiCX Commodity v2.56 Shareware versio
SRename.lha util/cli 106K+Advanced rename utility. Version 3.8.1
HotFavBook.lzh util/conv 22K+Convert Windows favorites to IBrowse-hot
BF_RegEdit.lha util/misc 15K+A small toy for ENV/ENVARC editing with
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12.Mar.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Amithlon Update v1.29 published
A new update for the x86 based Amiga emulator called Amithlon has been published. The version 1.29 offers all
registered users e.g. a new version of the XCat utility.
Download: Amithlon Update v1.29 (1.6 MB)
(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 01:48] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: Hundreds of Spammer in USA sued
AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo have sued together hundreds of senders of spam.
This indictment is based on the new US-Anti-Spam law "Controlling the Assault of
Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing" which is known as CAN-SPAM.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 01:22] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
disc4you (ANF)
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Hard time: 'Download'-Directive passed
Yesterday the EU parliament passed the new directions on the measures and proceedings
for the protection of the rights on mental property.
The lawyer Gwen Hinze estimates that if a person infringes the new directive the flat can be searched, the banking-account
can be freezed or immovables can be attached. (nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 01:18] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
Piotr Pawlowski / amiga-news.de-Team
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amiga-news.de: Polish News-Site active again
After a longer break amiga-news.de is translated now again to the Polish language. You can access the Polish version
which is done by Piotr Pawlowski under http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~ppawlo/an_polish.html.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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11.Mar.2004
amiga.org (Webseite)
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amiga.org: Opening of "SoapBox"
With the opening of "SoapBox," the web-portal amiga.org is giving readers and moderators the ability to publish columns, historical items, or other articles.
The Soapbox is divided into categories, at this time there is a category for "historical" documents (announcements and news reports of important companies or persons from the Amiga field) as well as categories in which members of the amiga.org team may release columns about diverse topics. (cg) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 22:14] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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AmiGBG: Retro-Room / AmigaOne-XE and A1200 Magic Pack as Prizes
In relation to the convention AmiGBG in Sweden on the 3rd of April, there's a cooperation between the convention's organizers and the newest Swedish Amiga merchant Guru Meditation to give away a complete AmigaOne XE system.
To do this they've established a Retro-Room, in which a look back may be taken at old acquaintances like Amiga 1000, CDTV, SuperCars, or Flip the Frog. The visitors may also test themselves at the game Rocketz - the winner gets an Amiga1200 Magic Pack.
You'll find more information at the AmiGBG website here. (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 20:02] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: enqueueTorrent 1.0 released
enqueueTorrent is a commandline tool which helps to integrate MLdonkey support into your favourite Amiga browser.
Instead of Copy'n'Paste an eDonkey or BitTorrent link manually from the browser into the MLdonkey console you can setup a "Send Link to MLdonkey..." or/and a "application/x-bittorrent" MIME type and let enqueueTorrent do the work for you.
enqueueTorrent works with locally and remotely installed MLnet (MLdonkey) servers, so you also can send an URL from IBrowse to your Linux box with just one mouse click.
You can find the download under the title link.
If someone is interested in an 68k port for Classic Amigas (indeed, only
useful for remotely installed MLnet server) then
write an email to the author. (snx)
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11.Mar.2004
MorphZone (comments)
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mDVD: MorphOS GUI for DVD Playing with MPlayer
J.-P. Jokela has prepared mDVD (9.3 MB), a GUI (graphic user-interface) for playing DVDs with mPlayer under MorphOS. Besides mPlayer you must also have RxMUI installed.
MDVD is a simple selection program for DVD titles, subtitles, and soundtracks, with a few options such as framedrop or full-screen. It does not include search functions or DVD menu support.
The author requests feedback as to desired features, and points out that that one should read the manual before trying out the configuration of the GUI, and set the path for mPlayer as well as the orientation of subtitles and soundtracks. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MorphOS Developer Connection Approaches 600 Members
MorphOS-News.de reported that the MorphOS Developer Connection will reach the membership total of 600 registered developers this week. (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 16:35] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Prometheus: SDK 2.0 Available
Software-Development-Kit 2.0 for Matay's PCI busboard Prometheus has appeared. Included is the documentation for version 2.x of the Prometheus library, in which new functions for busmastering are covered, as well as includes. (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 16:10] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
Elbox (e-mail)
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Elbox: Mediator PCI 3/4000T Comeback
As Elbox Computer announces, the Mediator PCI bus board with five slots for the Amiga A3/4000T is available again.
The Mediator PCI 3/4000T consists of two boards, the Elbox 3/4000T bus board as well as the Mediator PCI 4000 core logic card, and can be used in the Amiga 3000T and 4000T as well as some Tower-versions of the corresponding A3000 and A4000 desktop models (e.g. Micronik tower with Micronik ZorroIII bus board, PowerTower). A photo can be found at the Elbox website.
Together with the bus board the Mediator Multimedia CD is supplied. Further information about the supported PCI cards as well as the complete press-release can be found under the title link.
In this context Elbox do also remember of their winter promotion which lasts until March 21. (snx)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 14:59] [Comments: 0]
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