27.Oct.2003
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SciTech Software renew partnership with ATI
SciTech Softwar, whose Multi-OS graphic accelerator driver system "SNAP" will be used with AmigaOS 4, announced today the renew of theire partnership with ATI.
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27.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: MicroATX version comes nevertheless
After the official announcement of the AmigaOne-Lite, also known as "Micro-A1", one could get the impression that this release will be the end of the "AmigaOne Micro-ATX".
Ben Hermans has now gotten straight in a comment on ANN that this is a misunderstanding for which he is to blame for, the AmigaOne Micro ATX is still planned.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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IRC: Changed server for the #Amigaworld channel
AmigaWorld.net announced that they moved their channel from Undernet to ExodusIRC due to lags, netsplits and missing services like nickserv.
The channel is now available at irc.amigaworld.net port 6667 or port 1024 for users behind a firewall.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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amiga-news.de: The new Team
Some time ago amiga-news.de reported that the founder of amiga-news.de, Petra Struck, will resign from the daily news creation due to private reasons. For this reason an extended editors team was established. The following persons are involed in amiga-news.de:
Nico Barbat (nba): editor in charge
Jens Begeschke (jb): forum moderation
Ulrich Beckers (ub): English translation
Christian Busse (cb): English translation
Stéphane Campan (sc): French translation
Christoph Dietz (cd): engineering/server
Sven Drieling (sd): engineering/PHP
Guido Fehst (gf): English translation
Dr. Eric Gillé (eg): English translation
Christoph Gutjahr (cg): news editor
Martin Heine (snx): news editor, forum moderation
Hendrik Höner (hh): forum moderation
Sven Kirmse (sk): English translation
Daniel Miller (dm): English translation
Jürgen Müller (jm): newsticker, lectorat
H. Ogino (ho): Japanese translation
Piotr Pawlowski (pp): Polish translation
Daniel Reimann (dr): English translation
Christian Rosentreter (cr): forum moderation, IRC admin
Gerhard Schmid (gs): forum moderation
Carsten Schröder (cs): news editor, forum moderation
Felix Schwarz (fs): engineering/ALD
Petra Struck (ps): idea, foundation, design and glossary
Alfred Sturm (as): Aminet uploads
Rolf Tingler (rt): design
Last but not least we would like to thank all the readers for the loyalty in the
last years!
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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Beyond Magazine: number 2
The Beyond Magazine, a gratis PDF magazine, that deals besides BeOS with other alternative operating systems like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOSX or FreeBSD.
The just published expenditure 2 contains among other things a
Darwin review, a report about Marble Madness in the "Emuzone", a
Rebol course and a report of the Pianeta Amiga 2003.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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New YAM-"Developer" version
There is a new developer version of the well known e-mail client YAM available at the title link.
Further details about this new release can be found in the ChangeLog.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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New USB driver for Amithlon and OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version will be available within the next few days at
http://www.vmc.de/Amithlon. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version.
What is ArakAttack?
ArakAttack is an USB driver packet that allows the usage of USB on any AmigaOS compatible system with PCI slots. ArakAttack isn't an USB stack, it's a driver packet for Chris Hodges great USB Stack Poseidon.
What are the features of ArakAttack?
- Amithlon optimised version.
- OpenPCI compatible version.
- UHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- OHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- Unlimited number of USB controllers supported at the same time.
- Unlimited number of parallel USB transfers garantees maximum performance.
- Only one device with multiple units makes installation very easy.
- Intelligent transfer descriptor caching mechanism.
- Several user options allow an optimisation of resource management to the users requirements.
- Full mem handler support. (Frees resources and caches if the system signals low system memory)
- No HUB depth limits.
- Separate time out handling for each USB request garantees the driver never freezes the USB stack or the system.
- External interrupt fallback for systems with interrupt trouble.
What is also required to use ArakAttack?
The latest version of Chris Hodges' Poseidon USB stack.
In addition to that other components are required:
Amithlon:
powerpci.library - version 2.13 or better.
Amiga PCI / Pegasos:
openpci.library - version V1.20 or better.
Which USB Controller is required for ArakAttack?
Most of the current USB controllers are supported. Just take care it's UHCI, OHCI or EHCI compatible. Well, I don't think you'll find any other within the stores now.
Amithlon user may be happy to hear that on board USB controllers are working, too!
How can I register?
Well, currently the registration makes no sense, because ArakAttack is
quite useless without a registered USB Stack.
If you own a Poseidon key feel free to register. Further information can be
found in the manual.
PLEASE: Don't bother Chris Hodges with questions about registering Poseidon. He is very busy at the moment, so please keep quiet until the registration site will be up again.
(snx)
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26.Oct.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 349
Guido Mersmann released the beta version 349 of the TV-card driver software
AmithlonTV, which includes several small updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Changes since the previous version:
- FIXED: Fixed a small MorphOS bug, that caused the bt8x8 picture
creation to fail! (Thanks to Axel Knabe)
- FIXED: Fixed interrupt server problem.
(nba) (Translation: snx)
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26.Oct.2003
Stefan Ruppert (E-Mail)
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Application Response Measurement 4.0 will be finalized shortly
The version 4.0 of the Application Response Measurement
(ARM)
standard developed within the OpenGroup will be finalized shortly.
This standard defines a C/C++ and Java API for instrumenting (distributed)
applications. Most notably, with this standard programming language,
process and host boundaries are not a restriction for transaction and
sub-transaction measurements any more - resulting in a real end-to-end
(business-) transaction measurement. For a detailed description of
the ARM standard please read the document available on the OpenGroup
site.
Together with IBM and HP, the tang-IT Consulting GmbH has led
the development of this version 4.0 of the ARM standard. They are going
to show their ARM 4.0-based product called "tang-IT ARM" at
the LinuxWorld 2003 exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany from Oct. 27 to 29.
The main developers of *tang-IT ARM* have been knowning the Amiga
platform from the beginning. Therefore they can imagine a port to
either AmigaOS 3.x/4.0 or MorphOS if there is sufficient demand (>10) for
such a product in this niche market. A port to AmigaOS or MorphOS could be
available within a month and a developer license is about 200 Euro. (nba)
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25.Oct.2003
Peer Richter (ANF)
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New download opportunity for Ghostscript 8.00
Because of the problems when downloading Ghostscript 8.00 has Peter Richer gathered the archive and created an additional download opportunity on a German server.
Download Ghostcript 8.00.lha (5.1MB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter
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amiga-news.de: official IRC channel
Since some time now does there exist an official amiga-news.de IRC channel. People who want to talk about contents of amiga-news.de or generally about the Amiga and related topics are VERY welcome to have a look. The channel is in general German but it is possible to discuss and chat in English, too.
Channel: #amiganews.de
Server: de3.arcnet.vapor.com
(additional server: http://arcnet.vapor.com)
Besides the fact that the channel is a meeting point for Amiga users of all kind (68k, PPC, AOS4, MorphOS, UAE, AROS,
Amithlon, etc.) we'll try to arrange interview chats with known VIPs in the Amiga market.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
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Fax software: STFax 4 released as freeware
Simone Tellini, developer of STFax, has released his product as freeware. Version 4.0 of the software is now available on the Aminet. In addition you should install the update to version 4.1, too.
Simone points out that he'll offer only very restricted support - requests by users will only be answered if time allows it.
Who never has bought the commercial version and wants to send Simone a small compensation for the work done could send him something from his wish list.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Website: "Mac on Amiga" update
Mac On Amiga - a website dedicated to the emulation of Macintosh computers under AmigaOS has now got an own forum. In addition, a Shapeshifter tutorial has been released.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Rudolph Riedel (ANF)
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DiskMaster 2.5.27 released
Following the title link you can find the latest version of DiskMaster2.
Changes:
- Bugfix: "%c" didn't work with Auto commands.
- File requester for 'PrintDir' added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
JTSG (ANF)
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Event: first pictures of the OASE in Graz
Members of the Bitplane team have already released first pictures of the OASE in the net (title link).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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"AmigaOne updates" (column by Alan Redhouse)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group) has a regular column in the British Amiga magazine Total Amiga. In co-operation with "Total Amiga" makes the Amiga portal Amigaworld.net the past issues of this column available for all Internet users.
Excerpts taken from the explanations by Alan Redhouse:
- The dual CPU cards will be produced from December on if there are enough requests. Because of the prices for fast G4 CPUs will a card with two 1.3 GHz G4 processors not be cheaper than appr. 600-700 British Pounds (ca. 860-1000 EUR, without taxes).
- To bundle the restricted resources of Eyetech withdraws the company from the Amiga trading and concentrates on other business areas (AmigaOne production, "industrial markets").
- Registered OS4 beta testers will receive a 10% price reduction when buying an AmigaOne.
- Developers of drivers for the AmigaOne-Lite (RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire) will receive the motherboard for free. Interested people please contact Eyetech.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Oct.2003
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Icon-Patch: PowerIcons 1.02
There is a new version of the "PowerIcons" which is a patch that allows the performance
of 24-bit icons on your Workbench.
Some bugs have been cleared but there are also a lot of improvements.
Download
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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New version (V44.50) of HSMathLibs for MC68881/82, MC68040 and MC68060
After v44.50 beta 2/8 has been tested of many users for over a year there is now the new
version of the HSMathLibs which is not a beta version.
Thanks a lot to all who have supported me developing and improving the HSMathLibs.
To all those who are always grumbling but do not send any comments I do not want to say something.
Many other programmers like me have tried it many times in vain.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
Anonym (ANF)
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Spam-protection: AntiSpam2 1.07
The anti-Spam software called "AntiSpam2" has got some new features e.g. a prefseditor and
a remote-filter and is now principally useable for each Amiga mail program which is still
supported. On the website you can now also find detailed explanations to the different
configuration options which can be changed by the prefseditor from now on.
Because AntiSpam and the support tools all use the NewGUI system NewGUI is being installed
automatically and maybe is being downloaded from the homepage during the installation.
Because of that the installation should be done while you are online or NewGUI should be
seperately installed before it.
The remote-filter allows you to delete mails still on the server (a hint for Web.de users:
the Freemail Timelimit could cause some problems with the remote-filter).
Deleting mails is being done during a second step. Of course this method is more unprecise
than downloading the full mail with YAM first because only the header can be tested!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
Heise Newsticker
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New version 10.3 of Mac OS X is coming
In this article
Heise Newsticker reports on the start of the sale of the MacOS-X-version 10.3 alias "Panther" and
informs about the most important improvements.
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
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Photos from the Sydney Amiga show
At the title link first photos from the Sydney Amiga show can be found - among others several shootings of the AmigaOne Lite. (snx)
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24.Oct.2003
Silke Woj (ANF)
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OASE Update: Premiere - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4!
See some premieres at the OASE - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4 on the AmigaOne!
A real world premiere is taking place at the O.A.S.E. (Open Amiga Southeast Europe) show having a working AmigaOne Lite, now renamed to MicroA1, on public display the first time ever.
The (preliminary) MicroA1 specs as follows:
# G4 7447 low power cpu up to 1.3 GHz (running 1.066 MHz at the show)
# Radeon 7000 graphics chip with 32 MB video RAM on board (2xAGP)
# 100MBit Ethernet
# 2x USB1.1
# Serial / Parallel ports
# UDMA 100 IDE Controller
# 1 PCI slot (incl. Riser for 90° adapter)
# mini-ITX form factor (170x170mm)
We will have Linux Debian running on the MicroA1 and we are pushing hard to get AmigaOS 4.0 running on the board until Saturday. Special thanks to Thomas Frieden for his ongoing work to make this possible.
The first time a Picasso96 Radeon driver will be shown on an AmigaOne under AmigaOS 4.0. Special thanks to Joshua B. Helm and Forefront Technologies.
AmigaOS 4.0 on the AmigaOne will also have working 3com ethernet drivers running thru the Roadshow TCP/IP stack and the Soundblaster Live! running a PowerPC native version of AHI.
AmigaOne XE G4/933MHz boards will be available at the show for a special OASE price of 849,- Euro (incl. 20% VAT). For current customers we will have live updates of their UBoot FlashROM chips.
For our MorphOS fans we will have two Pegasos machines at the show.
Another part of the show handles Retro Computing where Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computer will talk about the C= One. An actual version of the C= One board can be seen at the show.
With some luck, a working (!) C65 can also been seen there.
More Infos (and pictures) see: http://www.oase.at
The O.A.S.E. takes place this weekend, Saturday, October 25th in Graz/Austria. (snx)
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24.Oct.2003
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Genesi joining exhibitors at OASE
At the upcoming OASE show in Graz, Austria, Genesi will be represented by their beta tester Herbert Klackl. According to the official website, two Pegasos I computers with MorphOS will be shown. (snx)
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24.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: AmigaOS 4 boots with ATI Radeon support
Forefront Technologies which are the developers of the ATI Radeon driver for AmigaOS 4.0
on "classic" Amiga systems have announced in a
press release
that AmigaOS 4.0 has been booted on an AmigaOne with an ATI Radeon graphic board for the
first time. Today Jürgen Schober of point.design
has succeeded in booting AmigaOS under use of a forefront technology driver on an
AmigaOne-XE G4 with ATI Radeon 7000.
Originally the driver should not have been ported to the AmigaOne (because SNAP driver
are supposed to be used here) but there have been the need of a quickly available
transition solution. The port worked without any problems.
The driver which have been successfully tested under AmigaOS 4.0 on Classic Amiga computers as well as
on the AmigaOne is now in beta stadium and is currently optimized for compatibility not on
speed - currently it is worked for a better blitter support.
Additionally a screenshot
of AmigaOS 4 (with seperate system programs) has been published on a Radeon 7000.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Anniversary Sale Price for PairsNG
In honor of Amiga Arena's five year anniversary, we and developer Christoph Kimna are offering the shareware game "PairsNG" at a sale price of five euros.
"PairsNG" is a mix of Memory, Shanghai and similar games. You'll find a demo version on the homepage of
PairsNG.
Additionally you'll find in the interview section a review of "PairsNG". This special offer is available until 2nd November, 2003. The registration form is to be found on the website of Amiga Arena (under the title link). A special thanks to Christoph Kimna, who made this special possible. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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23.Oct.2003
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First Screen-Shots of the New File-sharing Client for AmigaOS
The first screen-shots of "AmigaGift," a KaZaa client for AmigaOS, have been released (click on title link).
Update:
One of the beta testers corrected in an Amigaworld.net thread the misunderstanding that AmigaGift is a pure KaZaa client. AmiGift is said to be modularly organized and currently supports Edonkey, Gnutella and a few other protocols just starting to be offered, as well as KaZaa.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: Commodore is Active Once More in Germany
Commodore made computer history once, with home computers like the C64 and Amiga, and then they parted from the computer scene without a lot of noise or singing. Now the name comes back, of all things in a rather different, clearly unspectacular connection. Read the entire article at Golem IT News, under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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22.Oct.2003
Amiga Impact
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Event: Details about the Alchimie #3
Triple A, the organizers of the biggest French Amiga fair Alchimie,
gave some details about the show which will be held in Tain l'Hermitage (close to Valence) from November the 8th to the 10th.
From Amiga Inc. and their compagnon firms the following people announced their attending:
- Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group)
- Ben Hermans (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Fleecy Moss (Amiga Inc.)
AmigaOS 4 will be shown on several AmigaOne configurations.
The French reseller APS and Amont Informatique
will offer their products for sale on the show. Who wants to do some purchases at the show is advised to contact the reseller in advance to ensure the desired
items will be in stock at the fair. The Swiss reseller Relec will be present as well but due to the customs regulations
there will no sales be offered to private persons.
For all French organizations and magazines there will be the possibility to present themselves to the public at the show:
"Triple A" ("Boing Attack"), AFLE ("aMiGa=PoWeR"), AmigaZette83, ASUM, Amiga Impact...
The last year event "Alchimie #2" attracted more than 160 visitors from France, Belgium and Switzerland and the
organizers hope to top this number this year. The Alchimie #3 will last three days, tickets can be booked
here.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Oct.2003
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Alan Redhouse comments AmigaOne review (Update)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) comments the AmigaOnereview by Philippe Ferrucci .
The full comment is available by the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Oct.2003
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Genesi: Website for the planned computer game "Gladiateur" online
The official website for Genesi's computer game project Gladiateur (amiga-news.de reported) is now online at http://Gladiateur.PegasosPPC.com.
Gladiateur - The game
The game takes its inspiration from the stage production by Elie Chouraqui and Maxime Le Forestier, which debuts in Paris in 2004. The game allows you to take the role of Spartacus the Thracian, and lead the slaves in their revolt against the powers of Rome.
Gladiateur is a game development that will not simply lead to the release of a single game. The first release will concentrate of the War of Spartacus, but the game will evolve into a massively multi-player online realm, in which thousands of players will be able to take a part in the adventures and ambitions of the Roman world. Set against the backdrop of the Spartacan revolt, each player will be able to take a side in the rebellion or make their own way, going wherever opportunity takes them. You will be able to become a soldier or a merchant, a pirate or a politician. Players will be able to join together to form their own factions, or work alone. You will be able to live the carefree life of a wandering adventurer, build a powerful trading corporation, or rise to power in the Senate and change the very history of Roman.
The initial release of Gladiateur will use the Northland game engine from Funatics. This is a very sophisticated RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game in its own right, but in Gladiateur it will be extended to provide a unique, genre-busting experience. In the world of Gladiateur, persuasion and popularity is as important as units and resources, and tactics means a lot more than having the biggest army. This is not just another game where you build a base, defend against a few attacks, mass forces and finally rush the enemy base - this is a game set in a dynamic living world of tyrants, peasants and slaves where fear or loyalty can turn the tide of battle, and building trading links can be as important as building armies.
Gladiateur - The musical
Gladiateur is a musical stage spectacular written and produced by Eli Chouraqui, accompanied by a musical score composed by Maxime Le Forestiere. It will debut on 1 October 2004 at the Palais de Sports in Paris, and go on tour in Spring 2005. The music from the show will be released by EC7/Universal Music in 2004.
Eli Chouraqui's previous stage production was Les Dix Commandemants (The Ten Commandments), which debuted in Paris in 2000 and toured France, Switzerland, Belgium and Montreal. An English language version is due to open in 2005. Over 4 million albums, singles and DVDs of the production have already been sold.
(snx)
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22.Oct.2003
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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AmigaLand: Another five Microprose games
The AmigaLand has been updated again today: Five more
aircraft simulations by Microprose are available for download and
invite for gambling: F-15 Strike Eagle, F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-117A
Nighthawk, B17 Flying Fortress and The Ancient Art of War in the Sky.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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21.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Genesi new main sponsor of German online Linux magazine PPCNUX
The German Linux online magazine PPCNUX welcomes Genesi as their new main sponsor. In the corresponding news-item the company and the background of Genesi's founders are introduced to the readers of PPCNUX. (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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OASE 2003: E3B to offer special show prices
E3B is going to be again an exhibitor at OASE 2003, as we did already last year.
Besides the opportunity to test the new ALGOR USB controller live on our computer, we will also offer a special show bundle for upgrades of our established USB controller HIGHWAY.
Also ALGOR-users who do already own FlashROM can be happy: our network module NORWAY will be separately available as well at a favorable OASE price.
Details of the bundles can be found at our website in the news section.
See you in Graz :) (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
DCE
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DCE: Photos of the Pegasos II production (Update)
Further photos of the new Pegasos II can be found at the DCE website.
Update: To reduce the traffic at DCE's server, PegasosPPC.com provides a mirror. (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Daniel Miller
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Report from Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC, USA
In his report from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration, which took place Oct. 18th in Washington DC, USA, Daniel Miller writes the following:
MorphOS, Linux, AmiNetRadio, FxPaint, MPlayer, Kaya, ImageFX, free Superbundles, fresh MOS1.4 CDs with IBM stamp, ProStationAudio, presentations, the "VCR" case, complete system pricings, Peg II picture, MOS1.5 timing, MadBomber, and more.
From start to finish this was a really classy affair. I am local to the area and was invited to bring and show my own Pegasos, but this didn't stop me from checking out the scene and watching the presentations. Genesi personnel were really on a mission, giving personal attention, and striving to show the technology at its mindblowing best.
The chief exhibitor was magneticsystemsnyc.com who drove down from Brooklyn with a squad of state-of-the-art Pegasoses, including one of the few G4 models we have on this side of the pond. Four of those systems were configured for MorphOS, the fifth did double duty as an MoL/Debian (Gnome) machine. In addition to my comparatively home-spun system, there was a nice array of Genesi paraphenalia such as a plexuscom concept case, spinning illuminated Peg motherboards, a mechanical butterfly, a sampling of shrinkwrapped games, a Catweasel flipper for display, posters, sellsheets, free Superbundle (v. 3) and MOS1.4 IBM stamp limited silk screen edition CDs. Jammin'!
Now the stuff was neat, and the people were neater, but I must say seeing the cutting edge MOS systems in action was even more neat than that. It was... neat-o! Where to start? well, one of the more striking things was AmiNetRadio. As much as anything else this really illustrated one aspect of the future as Genesi sees it. The live radio stations scroll down in a list, and you select your favorite genre. It very quickly picks up the stream and your music plays. Most streams were at 128, some at 64, so this is fairly high fidelity. You can record your streams to MP3 files on your hard-drive, and them play them in Kaya. This all occurs effortlessly. Why does this illustrate part of Genesi's vision? They see themselves providing media, audio, visual, audiovisual and games via similar tools. Customers are then able to access their favorite media whether they are on walking trails with the planned Eclipsis handheld device, in their homes at their home theater, or at their workplace, whatever. You don't carry around a CD or plunk a videotape in the VCR, you just select your media on whatever device you are nearest and play it. Genesi believes that all this media including high resolution movies will be deliverable as the Pegaos progresses and new Genesi products are introduced. So that's the concept, maybe you like it, maybe you love it.
Another concept, this one now reality, is the "VCR" Pegasos. This was introduced by magneticsystemsnyc.com. What is it? It's a Pegasos in a small case that looks sort of like a VCR. This is offered as a complete Pegasos II system. If you don't want to muck around with assembling your own, you can consider getting one of these. It's nice and uses a half height Radeon video card. I like this, because it is an early step in the shrink-down evolution of Pegasos from standard desktop to set-top box to the handheld computer which is conceptualized to have all the power of a Pegasos.
Bill and Raquel from Genesi were there, as always demonstrating their personal commitment to the platform and its development, and supporting the rest of the Genesi team working towards the goal of a advanced, mature, popular, modern, alternative computer system.
More software: MPlayer was all over the frickin' place. People who demonstrated this system have recognized a winner. On just a G3 600 Mhz Pegasos running MorphOS 1.4 Mplayer is the most quickloading, responsive, compatible videoplayer ever on any platform. I am not spinning you, everybody says this. We all need to send the Mplayer programmers five dollars right now or something. There are few sublime pleasures in life as the first time you starting moving an MPlayer window opaquely around the screen, and realize that there is zero stutter or distortion, no matter how fast you circle it around. Hi-res letterbox or whatever. Of course it goes full screen and has a bunch of control features too.
There was some new image editing software from NovaDesign shown. They make well-established graphical prodcuts like ImageFX and Aladdin 4D. I was not clear on the details, but there is the intention to offer some form of this new software with future MorphOS versions, the Superbundle, or both. This is a clear potential asset to the Pegasos MorphOS product. The prospect of a revamped Aladdin4D ray tracing program for MOS was also talked about. ProStationAudio was shown. This is a really advanced sort of product with a detailed, intricate interface and all these channels and mixing controls and a lot of busy stuff going on all over the screen. It was shown mixing some tracks and certainly sounded good. It seems to me that this is a product for an audio professional, but maybe a casual home user can have fun with it too. Gotta go, I will have to write some more later, especially about... MadBomber!!!
PS: The BB half of BBRV stated MorphOS 1.5 would appear before the new year. Don't let them forget about that TCP-IP stack, thanks.
Photos of the event can be found at PegasosPPC.com. (snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Update of dvdrtools
The dvdrtools, enabling the writing of DVDs under AmigaOS, are updated.
Now three more devices (e.g. the SCSI host of Cyberstorm/CyberstormPPC)
are supported.
Also an English version is available on the homepage.
The coder provides you with another archive on his homepage: In this version
you can set the device to use by the environment variable DVDRTOOLS_DEVICE yourself.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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