09.Jul.2003
Mikey_C (ANF)
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Total Amiga Issue 15 starts arriving at doors worldwide
Total Amiga Magazine now has
subscribers in 20 countries around the globe!
We are also proud to welcome Fun Time World
(Germany), to the list
of Amiga retailers stocking Total Amiga Magazine worldwide.
To accompany this issue, we have added a number of supporting downloads
for you to try on the Current Issue page of our website, from Hollywood
tutorial scripts to classic Mac links.
All this plus of course our excellent, News, Guest Columnists, Features,
Reviews and Tutorials, packed into 52 bursting pages of Amiga devotion.
Total Amiga Magazine. Does what it says on the cover!
(ps)
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09.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Napster founder changes side towards music industries
»Shawn Fanning with a new technology to discover protected music
There are at least only a few people who are made as responsible for the sales breakdown of
the music industry as Shawn Fanning is - the young American practically had initiated the era
of file sharing in a mass market meaning by developing the Napster software.
Now he is back with a new development but this time he covers the interest of the music industry.
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Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Jul.2003
Benelux Amiga Show (Website)
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Date for Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show in Rotterdam is fix
This years Benelux Amiga and Pegasos Show will take place on 4th/5th October in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Exhibitors and interested can register and get more information here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web Server: New gW3S Site
The Open Source, ARexx-coded web server gW3S has gotten a new home and a redesigned homepage. The new URL is http://gonzo.1av10.nu/w3s/.
Check it out, and be sure to check back for the forthcoming release of gW3S v2.1! (ps)
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08.Jul.2003
Amiga Future (Website)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Alfred Faust (BarsnPipes)
"BarsnPipes" is not only the most famous Amiga-Midi-programm of glory days,
it is also still used from many users today because of the intuitive simple handling and professional features.
And the best: after the release of the source codes it is developed and improved constantly by Alfred Faust.
In the following interview he answered the questions from Anton Preinsack, especially about the MorphOS-version
of BarsnPipes. Please read the complete interview under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jul.2003
PerfectPaint (Website)
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Paint program: PerfectPaint Fix for version 2.93
A bug fix for version 2.93 of PerfectPaint from Halvadjian Georges is available. In this version a bug in the main archive has been fixed and the tool
"Border & Edge" has been updated. You had to install following version
2.93 for this fix.
Download: PfPaint_V293fix.lzx
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: Show report: AAA 2003, Commodore Billboard back online
This weekend, the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003
took place in Udine, Italy - another station of
Amiga OS4 on tour.
The show was organized by Cloanto,
well-known for a lot of Amiga programs and the emulator "Amiga Forever".
Jürgen Schober of Point Design
had to make two OS4 presentations, because the room was totally
overcrowded with more than 100 Amiga fans and journalists of daily
press and computer magazines. We also had the chance to show our
products in a 30-minute presentation. Best-seller of the present
retailers Soft 3 and
Virtual Works was the
Catweasel MK3,
that became the first choice accessory for many Amiga One owners
because of it's high degree of integration into the hard- and
software of the new Amiga.
A small Retro-computing museum right at the entrance of the showroom
brought back joyful memories in the visitors. Rare items like an SX-64
in best shape, a VIC-20 rev.1, and even a C65 prototype were shown.
One of the first multi-computer games (today's networking games) was
shown on two PET computers that were connected through the serial ports.
The home computer pioneer Altair 8800 from 1975 was the only none-Commodore
computer.
The "Video Microwave", a Pegasos-board that was built in the case
of a Sharp Microwave oven, was - at best - good for a laugh. The keyboard did
not work at all, and it only took a few mouseclicks to make the computer with
the MorphOS operating system crash. The reason for this could not be found in
the short time of the show.
Commodore Billboard back online
Our good news for the fans of Commodore nostalgia almost got lost in the
excitement surrounding Amiga OS4: The Commodore Billboard is back online!
The initiator of the project, Søren Ladegaard (Denmark) had to drop
the project due to lack of time in January 2003, and transferred the website
to individual Computers. We're now sponsoring the website that can cause a
lot of traffic with it's several hundred megabytes in size. During the past
half year, the new webmaster Stefan Zelazny has converted the audio and video
files to mpeg and mp3, so the website can be viewed on most platforms. For
example, the Realplayer is not necessary any more.
Currently, the website is available under the address
www.commodorebillboard.de.
The .com domain will be made available in the coming weeks.
If you're interested in a local copy of the website, you can support us in
paying for the high cost of the website by ordering the CD. It will be
available in August this year from all our retail partners for about 15,-
EUR. The double-CD package also contains some surprises for Commodore-fans! (ps)
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07.Jul.2003
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: First update after two-month break
After a two-month break the demo on-line collection "Amiga Demoscene
of Archives" was extended by four new productions: "Heaven is 2d" of
Whelpz, "Dark Rain" of The Loonies, "Outgrowing" of Potion and
"Xenophobia" of Subspace.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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07.Jul.2003
Amiga Impact (Website)
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Pictures of the Amiga OS presentation in Toulouse (Update)
Meanwhile the presentation documents are also available in Englisch.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Jul.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Demonstration videos of MorphOS/Pegasos published
The videos let you see the PowerPC computer Pegasos in action, in
order to be able to get an impression of the possibilities of the
platform.
The following videos are available for the download:
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Jul.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.7
I updated my virus OS to OS6.0. So there was time to fix this package
to support new commands or new values for the old ones. This don't mean
that the package is full now as I don't know every piece they changed.
It lacks also off controlling the new function called Pure tuning.
This one is only controllable from the virus menu.
The changes:
PageA: Bankselect updated. Support for more banks overwritten the demo.
PageB: Arpegiattor. More patterns to choose from.
PageC: Partbankselect and Partbankchange for the new banks.
That's all. Why do I update this package? Because of still using T&F
until HDRec is finished. Then I will make all commands for HDRec. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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06.Jul.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 14
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 14 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) ssolie: With the services based approach you are proposing, will an application be expected to query capabilities or will AmigaOS automatically adapt to the hardware itself or some hybrid of the two? Depending on the application, some may not appreciate having to query the OS every time they want to do something versus letting the OS adapt itself to the application and hardware environment.
Fleecy: In all multi component systems there will always be a per component capability and requirement set. Traditional static systems work on assumption which tends to give them superior performance as long as those assumptions are always true. In the world of today, we have a huge level of dynamism - smartphones, PDAs, consoles, tablets, desktops, servers, fat pipes, thin pipes, hardware acceleration, processor speed, screen size, input controls etc and you are faced with the problem of how to map these from the physical domain into the digital domain.
A service based architecture doesn't really affect this in implimentation since it is just a model. For example I could query the graphics service to find out if it supplies a vector service and if it does then I can chose to use it or not. This can be done dynamically by the application or can be done at install time, which is no different from the situation now where, if you assume that MUI is installed, and it isn't then your application won't work.
Thus you will still have different options as a developer - you can make use of services which themselves adapt on your behalf or you can do that yourselves. In either case, there is always going to be the same question, where does the responsibility lie? We want to offer choice so that the developer can make those decisions. A good example is the Ami2D scaling services of the AmigaDE. Some people use them and some people prefer to create resolution dependent graphic sets.
What is needed is a further level of abstraction, so that capabilities and requirements are managed transparently and that is coming on board now with such things as vectorisation and other descriptive formats that allow for interpretation based upon semantic information. That is something we are looking at but the more abstraction you have, the more resources are required to translate between the physical and digital domains.
Swings and roundabouts I'm afraid.
2) CodeSmith: Apple have made a big splash with their announcement of PPC970 "G5" systems. Is there going to be a "zico-2" spec for Amiga PPC970 systems, or are you giving vendors full control? any idea when we can expect PPC 970 Amigas (other than "after OS4.0")?
Fleecy: We do plan on having a 64 bit version of the AmigaOS but that is someway down the line. If a vendor approaches us with the necessary hardware then we will consider revising our timetable but we still have a lot of work to do for the 32 bit PPC AmigaOS4, such as actually releasing AmigaOS4.0. There are also a few interesting other 32 bit opportunities coming up that will have to weighed against a 64 bit desktop machine.
3) Quixote: Since AmigaOS4.0 will be on the CyberStormPPC first, I wonder whether it will include an update to the CyberStorm's FlashROM, that would permit booting from the CD? I understand that it was a feature intended for the CyberStorm, but it doesn't seem to work.
Fleecy: We do not intend to touch the CSPPC flashrom. Its internals are proprietary and besides, we are relying on it to bring the HW up first before AmigaOS4.0 takes over. Any changes we made might also damage the users ability to boot into AmigaOS3 as well.
If you have problems with the CSPPC Flashrom, perhaps an email to those who worked on it might reveal why it doesn't work or get them to add that functionality.
4) Miffy: I run AmigaDE on my desktop ( the one I am typing on now ) which has software on it that I have ported, that others have ported and the like. It runs the partypack update. What I want to know is how long before the next publically available ( non NDA ) update comes along from Amiga given I cannot get permission to enter into a new NDA with Amiga Inc right now ( because of company regulations and Im sure others are in this position too )?
Fleecy: We are reworking our NDA policy to make it consistent with industry practices for software licensing. In the meanwhile if special circumstances prevent you from agreeing to the licensing terms, you can contact us directly to determine how best we can meet your needs. Send an email to support@amiga.com.
5) Asemoon: I very much like the idea of being able to use animated GIFs as icons on the desktop with the introduction of Amiga OS3.9 and so will this feature stay available or maybe be enhanced/altered in any way for AmigaOS4? And will there be support for 24bit PNG format icons in the future?
Fleecy: The source code for that particular feature is in the hands of H&P and we do not have access to it.
The Amiga graphics architecture has reached the end of its useful life. Actually, it reached it about five years ago but has been brought back, jiggled, enhanced and hacked to stop the platform from dying. The screenshots you are seeing as part of the AmigaOS4.0 on Tour roadshow represent hopefully the last AmigaOS release that uses this architecture and their quality is a reflection of both the strength of the original architecture and the ingenuity and persistence of the developers since then who have worked on it.
As part of the Amiga Generation 2 project (AG2), we are currently working on a brand new visual domain replacement which we hope to deploy either in AmigaOS4.1 or AmigaOS4.2. This will build from the hardware upwards and be able to support high quality existing interface models as well as allow for brand new features, functionality and models. We are particularly eager to introduce the Reactive Presentation Agents (RPAs) that we developed for the AmigaDE which would provide the same functionality, and a lot more besides.
6) Asemoon: What languages will AmigaOS4 support out of the box?
Fleecy: We are supporting many languages, which are listed below, using a combination of the excellent ATO and private individuals, working in teams of two or more to produce each catalog. We do have a few offers where we just have one person (Icelandic and Malay) but we would like to have at least two people, since it is a lot of work. Anyone interested in helping out should send a mail to os4-betatest@hyperion-entertainment.com with the subject line of 'Localisation offer of help'.
Bosnian
Catalan
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
That's 20 languages for now.
The Russian ATO team disbanded but new people will soon be joining. I think we can count them as well.
This is a list of language drivers for which there are no catalogs currently in progress.
Albanian
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Esperanto
Estonian
Faroese
Icelandic
Irish
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Portuguese-brazil
Romanian
Slovak
Ukrainian
If you are missing a language that can be written from left to right in an ISO-8859-X charset just ask Detlef at TetiSoft@apg.lahn.de if he can create a language driver for it.
7) Asemoon: The support for non-Latin fonts like for instance Arabic/Persian and Chinese/Japanese characters were not well documented for previous AmigaOS releases. How will such characters and languages be handled by future AmigaOS and AmigaDE releases?
Fleecy: Not well documented is too optimistic :) It was documented that the Amiga character set is ECMA-94 Latin1 (thats ISO-8859-1), that the bullet.library API uses Unicode (16bit only), and it was defined a font attribute FPF_REVPATH for writing from right to left. There was no official statement from H&P how their special localizations for e.g. czech or russian would fit into this framework (in fact they did not). There was a statement that the Euro update is only an intermediate solution.
OS4 bullet API was improved and allows 32bit Unicode now, 16bit are not enough since Unicode 3.2 (current is 4.0).
OS4 diskfont.library now contains a character set database, it does know the MIME charset name of each font in the system, and the Unicode code point of each glyph. However the bitmap fonts handled by diskfont.library are still limited to 8bit charsets, so for Chinese/Japanese/Persian/Georgian etc you'll have to use bullet API. With the new diskfont API you can however ask for e.g. Times in ISO-8859-5 (cyrillic), -6 (arabic), -7 (greek), -8 (hebrew), -11 (thai) or -16 (eastern european latin with Euro) and it will create it on-the-fly from e.g. a truetype font.
With OS4 locale.library the user is able to change the current system default charset on-the-fly by selecting a different language driver. The charset of each catalog file in the system is known, there exist charset conversion functions that ensure that e.g. for polish with ISO-8859-2 system default charset any polish catalog file will be displayed correct, it does not matter if its in ISO-8859-2, -16 or in the special ATO charset used in OS3.9 polish localization. Its also possible to use catalog files in UTF-8.
Most text handling and output functions in OS4 are not able to write from right to left, so there still exist large problems with arabic/persian and hebrew, an application that reverses arabic and hebrew strings before output can at least display its GUI but for text input (cursor on the right after return) special applications would be needed.
Summary: OS3.x language support was limited to western european latin languages, OS4.0 language support is limited to latin, cyrillic and greek (thai would eventually work if someone could fit thai glyphs into topaz/8 and topaz/9 default ROM fonts). OS4.0 font support is limited to any 8bit MIME charset in diskfont API (besides the right-to-left problem) and not limited in bullet API.
8) _Steve_: Will there be support for the pre-existing PPC programs from both PUP/WOS in OS4?
Fleecy: We'll provide an application launcher that can launch WarpUp programs, maybe even PowerUp. However, we'll not include any hacks to make this work. Since there was only a small number of applications created that used these two systems, we are hopefully that their authors will upgrade their programs and release AmigaOS4.0 native versions.
9) Billsey: From past personal experience I know that there are dedicated Christians at Amiga, Inc. I have friends there, and I am not turning against them, but they are Christian, so I believe that the following question(s) must be asked. I would like to know what role that faith has played (a) in keeping the company alive; (b) in walking the path that has been walked; and (c) when specific confession and, more importantly, repentance of “mistakes made” will be observable.
Fleecy: Religion, like any other philosophy seller is an individual concern, not something that should ever be part of heterogenous system, whether a group, a company, a nation or a species. I always find it ironic that nature, the mother of us all preaches diversity and yet humans are obsessed with monotony, to the point of coercion, persecution, discrimination and destruction.
With that in mind, I cannot and will not answer your question, because such things should be on individual level interaction. In other words, if you want an answer, send the question to the individuals themselves.
10) drstrange: what form of support will OS4 take for a 250MB ZIP? Will it use harddrive-like formatting or a mountfile and if a mountfile could you show us it ahead of time to give a few of us time to prep our disks.
Fleecy: Same as OS3.9 (or 3.1): it's a removable media, 'Removable' and 'Rigid Disk Block' are mutually exclusive, you should use a mountfile.
To be able to use RDBs on removable media as well all file systems would have to support unmounting. The new FFS2 does support it, but there are file systems which don't, for example SFS.
Some 3rd party devices do allow RDBs to be used on removable media, but that's a hack, it's not possible to implement it in clean way and therefore it will not be added to AmigaOS4.0 devices.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=15
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: cb)
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06.Jul.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 6th July 2003
Here are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last announcement:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 21K+Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c RUSSIAN KIT
PAC.lha biz/dbase 1.9M+HTML Photoalbum Creator v1.0.
CManager25.lha comm/misc 403K+Contact Manager, a centralised system-wi
sa03.lha demo/aga 350K+Invitation intro for Syndeecate Apocalyp
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas
nqc.lha dev/lang 181K+Lego Mindstorms compiler and comm tool
amuidiff.lha dev/misc 117K+Displays differences of two text files i
MCC_TheBar.lha dev/mui 274K+Next generation buttons bar class
vdisk37.lha disk/misc 46K+Dynamic recoverable RAM disk (V3.7)
RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 4K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 06/2003 (Itali
AmigaFuture43.lha docs/mags 804K+Great german paper mag preview
nocover112.lha docs/mags 2.6M+Great german diskmagazine
Saga.lha game/board 298K+Saga 1.27: Conversion of TSR boardgame
DC2Lvl-EMine2.lha game/data 454K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 927K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
Arkanos.lha game/misc 416K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.03 **
MALevelEditor.lha game/misc 13K+Level Editor for Mini Arcanoid v2.9
WormWars.lha game/misc 566K+Worm Wars 7.51: Advanced snake game
Hexa_Q.lha game/wb 43K+Surprise!! A peg game... updated!
S_Tiles.lha game/wb 43K+Try to solve this sliding-tile puzzle!
Tri_Q.lha game/wb 43K+A triangular shaped peg game... updated!
p-intFix.lha misc/emu 37K+Patch for P-Code interpreter
Foundation1.mpg mods/mpg 19M+First part of a three part suite
Foundation2.mpg mods/mpg 10M+Second part of a three part suite
Foundation3.mpg mods/mpg 287K+Third part of a three part suite
Prelude3.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Prelude3. MPEG of old tape of me on keys
SundaySuite.mpg mods/mpg 3.5M+Sunday Suite. 4 part piano suite
TheSpell.mpg mods/mpg 6.5M+The Spell MPEG of old tape of me on keys
BorderNames.lha text/dtp 2K+List Border Names Arexx Script PageStrea
nA_ConFile07.lha text/misc 100K+Compare from 2 to 5 files
Next3.6.lha text/show 150K+Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes
SRename.lha util/cli 93K+Advanced rename utility. Version 3.7.1
DirSSCompare.lha util/dir 14K+Compares two dirs (for differences)
FolderSync.lha util/dir 73K+Synchronise two folders automagically!
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 244K+Dynamic buffers, filesystem CRCs, colorf
CHARisma.lha util/misc 115K+Get easy access to all printable chars.
FakeCD32Joypad.lha util/misc 20K+Use the keyboard instead of CD32 Joypad
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 314K+Report+ 5.67: Multipurpose utility
VisualGuide.lha util/misc 39K+Make filelist in AmigaGuide format.
winlaunch.lha util/misc 46K+WinLaunch - Launch Windows Applications
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 30K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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06.Jul.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #044
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 44th music pack.
This time it contains a music piece called "Walking The Corridors" by the English
musician Darkus who, though not being a member of the group, still offers his
track as a guest under the label Liquid Skies.
It is a rather experimental piece of music and would probably fit best under the
category of Trance. This time the cover was created by DaFreak.
Next some more information about the track:
- Title: Walking The Corridors
- Artist: Darkus
- Style: Experimental Trance
- Playing time: 5:05
- Format: mp3 (128 kbps)
The zipped file with a size of about 4.8 MB is freely available for download on
the homepage under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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05.Jul.2003
IrseeSoft (website)
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Turboprint version 7.50 with new drivers
The new version 7.50 of the printing software TurboPrint is available from now on and contains new printer drivers:
- Canon i850
- Canon S200*,i320*,i950*
- HP DeskJet 5550
- HP PhotoSmart 71xx*,73xx*,75xx*
*) USB controller required
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
EvenMore (website)
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Text viewer: FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for EvenMore
Chris Perver has reworked the FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for his text viewer EvenMore. This plug-in supports now text styles and colours.
Download: finalwriter2text.plugin
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Adam Chodorowski (email)
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AROS: voting about the AROS logo
Some weeks ago called the AROS (Amiga Research
Operating System) developers team to a logo contest (we reported). The entries are now published for an open vote, all Amiga users can participate once in the voting and thus have an influence in the future representation of AROS.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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First pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003
The first pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 - taking place today in Udine, Italy - can be found following the title link. The atmosphere seems to be fantastic: "We are in total overload, very crowded, lots of food (local gubana, cheese, etc. :-), wine (and local Castello beer :-)... Rushing back now..."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: HP to take back ink cartridge from private customers
»Recycling of ink cartridges shall help the environment
HP will expand their recycling program and take back empty ink cartridges for printers from private customers in Europe in the future. This will be started in 2003 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland while Great Britain, Ireland and other countries will follow from 2004 on.«
Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Golem.de: New job market with several hundreds IT jobs
»Co-operation with Jobware
In co-operation with Jobware is Golem.de starting a new completely overhauled jobs market. Under the URL jobs.golem.de you can find from now on several hundreds of job advertisements for the IT, telecommunications and related industries, listed in clearly sorted by categories and regions.«
Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
BTTR-Team (email)
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Back to the Roots celebrates birthday and draws many prices
Five years does the project "Back to the Roots" now exist. Truely a reason to celebrate! Next to new games highlights like Battle Squadron, Hybris, Arkanoid, Mega Typhoon or The Plague, we present to you the team of BTTR with the games Plix and Symbolrechnen, and the Populous editor really new releases for the Amiga. All three titles are exclusively available at BTTR and are released for the first time.
Furthermore BTTR start a draw with many prices to win. More information can be read in the news on www.back2roots.org.
The team of BTTR: "We thank for the loayalty during the last five years and wish all visitors much fun!"
Next to the birthday update and the draw there's another important news for www.back2roots.org:
For the first time ever there's an "interactive online mod radio"! On more than 50 different channels you can listen to music of all kind. More than 65.000 mods are available! You can listen with WinAmp or Deliplayer 2. There's no streaming. Every song gets completely loaded!
Jürgen Beck from BTTR: "We thank the numerous colectors, providers of mod pages and mod projects who support this project. Our thanks go especially to the Deliplayer team. The latest version of the best mod player finally contains the radio feature! Enjoy listening!"
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
MorphOS-News
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MorphOS/Pegasos: QUICKSTART Guide Version 2.5 Now in Three Languages
Jürgen Lucas' "QUICKSTART Guide" for installing MorphOS on a Pegasos with blank hard-drive has been released at version 2.5. Thanks to Andreas Zierl [and Daniel Miller -dm] and Fabrice Lehaut these instructions are also available in English and French. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jul.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #13
Issue #13 of "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to 312 subscribers. This is a list of French-speaking Amiga users all over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...) which has been sent monthly since July of 2000, in order to encourage French-speakers to communicate with each other.
Click on the title link for more information, and to get yourself added to the list. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jul.2003
Stefan Blixth (E-Mail)
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OnyxSoft: New and updated software
Here comes 1 new release and 4 updates, enjoy!
New:
- Program: NewWBPattern (Version 1.0)
Info: This is small tool to change the WB-background on-the-fly.
Updates:
- Program: GummiSurf (Version 1.2)
Info: Now supports the built-in download managers in all Amiga browsers (IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb)
Can export HTML and plain text-lists.
- Program: MultiRen (Version 1.54)
Info: * Added a function to the Adaptor tool so that is possible
to control what character the Adaptor should put the
lengthener character around when prolonging a filename.
* Now the filename length also displays the length of the
file comment (which cannot be more than 80 characters in
AmigaDOS).
The format is now <filename_length;comment_length> in the
window. Also, the file comment gets /italic/ in the main
lister if it exceeds 79 characters.
* Added the operator %t for use in the text export and file
comment generation tools. This stands for tab. Whenever a %t
is encountered a tab stop is set there which gets determind by
the longest string up to the %t. Many %t's can be used in an
export string. This way very nice columnized text files and
file comments can be produced!
* The memo list handling (in the RenPlacer, File Comment and
Text Export tools) now saves the memo lists immediately when
stored or removed if the checkmark in prefs is set. This makes
it easier to not forget to save then when quitting the proram
:)
* Updated the ID3-Tag plugin so that it always returns two
digits for the track number. F.ex. 01,02,03...10,11,etc
instead of 1,2,3...10,11 which makes it look nicer.
- Program: QuickSketch (Version 1.01)
Info: * The move draw area qualifiers Shift and Alt has now been
reduced to only work with RightShift and RightAlt.
* Because move has been restricted to Right Shift and Alt
it is now possible to use the LAlt+LAmiga+Cursor to draw
a straight line.
* + More fixes...
- Program: TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.3)
Info: * Now it's possible to import CDDB/ACDB-files automatically
into the ID3-tags on files in the file list! (Yes I know
it's not full automatic CDDB-support but it's one step in the
right direction anyway:)) This means that you have to use
CDDB or ACDB to download the descriptions for your CD's, then
you can import these text-files in TheMPegEncGUI.
* Now also includes OggDec and OggPlay (ogg123) support.
* + More fixes...
(nba)
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05.Jul.2003
Oliver Roberts (ANF)
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Warp Datatypes V45.2 Released (Update)
After a long delay, the promised updates to all the Warp picture datatypes for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS are finally here. To accompany the new release is the brand new WarpDT portal at http://www.warpdt.co.uk/ where you can keep up to date with the latest versions of the WarpDTs and download them all in one easy place.
Summary of changes since previous versions:
BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Minor optimizations and cleanups.
BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Bumped version to v45 since a stable release has
now been reached and to reflect the jump to shareware status
BMP: Fixed problems with decoding bitfield images
JPEG: Altered descriptor file to prevent it matching LhA or LZX
archives containing JPEG files (or anything else that might
contain a JFIF header, other than Photoshop files)
PNG: PNG files not containing enough data are no longer treated as a
fatal error. Now the part of the image that was successfully
decoded is returned.
PNG: Updated with libpng 1.2.5
PNG/TIFF: Updated with zlib 1.1.4
TIFF: Now correctly converts images using the YCbCr colourspace to RGB
TIFF: Added support for JPEG decompression
TIFF: Updated to libtiff 3.6.0-beta2, including a new version of the
LogLuv decoder, and numerous other bugfixes
Prefs: Various parts of code rewritten, in preparation for losing the
current reliance on resource.library
Prefs: Minor bugfixes
Prefs: Correct Polish and Portuguese documentation now included.
Update 06.07.2003:
Errornous timeouts bugfix (Version 45.2)
Unfortunately, due to last minute changes, I broke the timeout code
slightly - doh! This resulted in the datatypes producing timeout warnings
unnecessarily. Fixed versions of all 5 datatypes now in version 45.2
available. Apologies for any confusion caused.
(nba)
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05.Jul.2003
Michael Heider (ANF)
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Report: Pegasos in Leipzig
The illustrated report of the Leipzig Pegasos presentation is now online. Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC was shown on the Amiga-PowerUp-System (APUS) and Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Jul.2003
Yunis (ANF)
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Tao announces multimedia-platform SDK intent 2
Today the Tao Group which is a British software developer and partner of Amiga, Inc. has officially
announced the new generation of the multimedia platform SDK intent 2.
You can read the English message under the title link and documentations are available under the
resources-site of Tao.
Tao about intent: "In fact intent is the only middleware platform available
today that can provide a common, brandable, look&feel with consistent
application behaviour and truly deliver compelling multimedia content to
the full range of consumer devices - thus providing a strategy to enable
all players in the value chain to thrive." (nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Niels Bache (ANF)
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Pictures of the OS4 tour in Göteborg by Niels Bache
Niels Bache has uploaded his pictures of Göteborg.
Remark of Niels Bache:
I have heard of some people that the new free server (frac.dk) which I use is not as fast
as desired. I ask for your patience and your insight because I can use this server as a
guest for free. I myself could not find out these problems and therefore I suppose that
the problem of speed happens only few times e.g. if much traffic is caused.
Please have another attempt to a different time if this happens.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Rafal Kaczmarczyk (ANF)
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Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 14
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 beta 14 of his database 'XBaze'.
The program offers an easy to use editor for the fields of the data records and a layout
editor with drag&drop function. It works from AmigaOS v3.0 and under MorphOS.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to the following address:
xbaze@amiga.pl.
Download: XB-7.3B14.lha
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Michele C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Tomorrow: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 in Udine, Italy
For the last time the website of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 which will take place tomorrow
in Udine, Italy has been updated. The list of the presentations has been updated as well as
the list of the hardware and software which can be seen.
This week the organizer got the offer to exhibit a Commodore PET 4016 which is connected
with a PET 3008. Of course this offer was accepted. Besides this a Commodore 65 (a prototype
which was never released) will be shown.
In Austria Jürgen Schober is busy with the last preparations for the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation
while in Germany Jens Schönfeld prepares himself for the C-One presentation.
Genesi has made a PowerPC Pegasos with MorphOS which was installed in a microwave available.
Many people from all over the world have booked for and are on the way.
We hope we see us. You are welcome!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jul.2003
Grasshopper LLC (Website)
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Grasshopper LLC Lowers PageStream Prices
The American software company Grasshopper has lowered the price of their desktop publishing application "PageStream." The full
version is now available for 99 US dollars. Upgrades are now 40 US dollars. These prices are good for July, 2003 but may stay the
same thereafter, if possible.
New Low Pricing
Tuesday, July 1st - Grasshopper LLC announces today new low pricing
for PageStream on all platforms. "While the pricing is guaranteed only
through July, it is hoped that it will be warmly embraced by the
community and will be adopted then as our new permanent pricing",
said owner Marna Holt today. "Our move from a brick and mortar business
means lower costs and faster turn around times. We hope passing these
savings on to our customers will not only increase the already tremendous
value our customers get when buying PageStream, but hopefully increase
the number of customers and reach those who could previously not afford
PageStream." Near term plans include a revamped web site,
instant messaging with our sales staff, and a monthly online public chat
with Deron. PageStream now lists for $99 (from $299!!) and upgrades start
out at only $40.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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Adventure Rendezvous: Interview with Ken Williams
The adventure-game focused online magazine "Adventure-Treff" has published an interesting German-language interview with Ken
Williams by Jan Schneider.
In 1979 Ken Williams founded Sierra On-Line and after that he led the firm for almost 20 years. Ken and his wife Roberta originated
the game genre now referred to as graphic adventures, and they were responsible for many of the best and most loved adventures
of all time, like for instance the Leisure Suit Larry and King's Quest and Space Quest series. Today Ken runs a forum with
SierraGamers, in which one may comment about Sierra. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Mummert Consulting (E-Mail)
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Study: Online Shops Battle Trust Deficit
Around 50% of German websurfers avoid purchasing anything on the Internet. The main problem for most of them: they can't examine and test the products before buying. And very third person gets by without online purchases because they are satisfied with the goods of "real" stores.
The fear of someone stealing their personal data is another factor that stops surfers from buying. About 30% name this fear as a reason for why they have yet to purchase anything online. And every fifth person is worried that his bill will be incorrectly calculated and so he doesn't buy anything. These figures come from a current study "Internet Statistics of Consumers (IZV6)" done by the University of Karlsruhe and Mummert Consulting.
Online shops battle a trust deficit: Half of all German websurfers don't buy anything on the Internet. The principal reason for this, according to these surfers, is that they can't test the wares over the Internet. Every fourth purchase avoider doesn't trust the online stores because it might be hard to complain and return things. Almost every third fears for the protection of his data. The market share of online shoppers may rise if e-shops improve their service. About 28% don't buy online, because help and service aren't good enough.
It's easier for well known web-shops to win customers: about two thirds of online shoppers do most of their shopping by known merchants. Every fifth buys *exclusively* by known shops. And the general experience of Internet users with the Internet influences their purchasing attitude: the less experienced the surfer, the less he goes online shopping. Experienced users purchase 20% more stuff on the Internet than the unexperienced. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Explanation of G4 Card Difficulties
According to a statement
of the Genesi leadership on MorphOS-News.de there's a hardware problem which means that less G4 cards will be produced for the Pegasos I, and even these will only be offered with corresponding boards as "matched sets." With respect to the complete utilization of the Altivec functionality of the G4: some boards work flawlessly, some boards not so well, at least not well enough to be sold.
In other Genesi news, QNX and Pascal have joined the effort to be ported to Pegasos. The latter is still popular in Eastern Europe and the former is the #1 embedded system OS.
Additionally Genesi would like to sell Linux Pegasoses with the G3 for a price of 499 euros at MicroWarehouse
or other merchants (without monitor but with Linux as well as MorphOS). Up to 25,000 units monthly may be produced on the fabrication lines at DCE. This price per unit might fall with an inverse correlation to the quantity of units (as more are produced, price per unit drops). The same thing applies if IBM comes to view it as a good strategy to help Genesi by doing the same with respect to CPU price. These machines will be available in October of this year.
As before, Pegasos I owners can upgrade for the price of 200 euros, but you've got to send in the board as well as the CPU card. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Enterprise Market for Open Source Grows Quickly
»Yearly growth rates of 24% are in view
A study by the company Soreon analyzed and predicted the enterprise market for open source software in Germany up to the year 2007. For this study 150 German firms were surveyed. In that were 100 interviews with users who quantitatively evaluated, as well as 50 expert conversations which were qualitatively evaluated.«
Read the complete article by clicking on the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Samba (Website)
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Networking: Samba Version 3.0.0 Beta 2
The Samba team released version 3.0.0 Beta 2 on the 1st of July. You may read the list of changes
here.
Samba is a software that allows networking, for example networking of a PC and an Amiga. You'll find information about Samba for Amiga at
amigasamba.org.
Here's the original press release:
The second beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download. While significantly closer to the final release, it should still be considered a non-production release provided for testing purposes only. The source code and GnuPG signatures can be found on Samba mirrors. RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 are also available in the Binary_Packages download area. Packages for other platforms will follow shortly. The full release notes are available on-line as well.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Game: Saga Version 1.27
Version 1.27 of the freeware game Saga from Amigan Software has appeared. The game is a conversion of a TSR board game from 1981 called Saga: Age of Heroes and is playable by up to six players, which may be controlled by humans or the Amiga. It's all about battling monsters, finding treasure, and building your kingdom through valor and heroism.
The game is available in German and English at this time. It requires at least AmigaOS 3.0+ and AGA/RTG. The source code is in the archive. The author James R. Jacobs has made a few improvements and cleaned up a few errors since the last version.
Download: Saga.lha - 297 KB
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4.1c
Version 4.1c of "Pixload" has been released. Like AmiDock, this tool makes it possible to start programs and scripts from an icon through the use of MUI. Noteworthy additions to this version include the recognition of local HTML data, as well as a context menu. RxMUI 32.8 is required.
The program may be downloaded in Amiga and MorphOS versions.
Download: pixload-4.1c.lzx (ps) (Translation: dm)
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