01.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 30.06.2003
With WHDLoad yu can install floppy disk based games onto your HD.
The following packages are added/updated since the last time:
- 30.06.03 fixed: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) misc changes
- 29.06.03 new: Maria's XMas Box (Anco) done by Psygore
- 29.06.03 improved: Knights of the Sky (Microprose) supports another version
- 29.06.03 new: King's Quest 6 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 29.06.03 improved: Colonel's Bequest (Sierra) supports another version
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01.Jul.2003
Diverse
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Software-News in short (01.07.2003)
PhotoView
The picture viewer PhotoView is released in version 0.94 and can be downloaded for
free from the website of the developer Alessandro Braccini .
AWeb
After the new Build-GCC-Version 3.41 of the webbrowser AWeb was online and many bugfixes were sentin, the
developers had taken the file offline. If a stable version is available we will report
it to you.
NewsCoaster
A project for the Open-Source-based Newsgroups-Client
NewsCoaster is available at Sourceforge. There you will
find the latest Binary- and Source-Code-Releases.
ptplay3
ptplay3 is
relased in version 1.0. ptplay is a CLI based Protracker player not depending on the
custom chips and was written from the ground to emulate Protracker 2.3a software
sided. The mixing is managed internally and is send to a singla AHI output channel.
Block
Block, now
available in version 2.02, combines and splits files. The tool is available for 68k-AmigaOS and MorphOS.
findmos
Also findmos,
latest version 1.0, is coded by Christian Rosentreter: The very small shelltool
(only 200 Bytes) is used to detect MorphOS and is needful for Shell-/Install-scripts.
An example script is contained in the archive.
PowerD
The latest version 0.21 from 29.6.2003 of the programming environment PowerD is available at the
download area at the website.
PageStream for Linux
For Linux is a third beta version of the DTP software PageStream released. User buying a copy of
the Linux version getting full access to all versions (beta and final relases). Users
taking part in testing phase are getting TextFX for Linux for free.
VDisk.device
The VDisk.device is released in
version 3.7 and provides you a driver for a restorable RAM disk.
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01.Jul.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New IBrowse 2.3 documentation released
Dave Fisher has finished his works on a completely updated and
expanded IBrowse-documentation.
The new documentation breaks down into 25 chapters, that, from the
installation over the usage of the program, tips and tricks to basic
knowledge covers everything worth knowing about IBrowse and the
Internet.
The archive containing the documentation is 1.37 MB in size and is
freely available in the IOSPIRIT download section.
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01.Jul.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #030630
Under the title link you will find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update (Brad
Webb) for March 2003. In his newsletter Brad Webb gives a monthly summary of all
news around the Amiga.
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01.Jul.2003
Halvadjian Georges
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Perfect Paint v2.93 released
PerfectPaint from Halvadjian Georges is in version 2.93 available. In this
version are changed/fixed:
- Fix a bug with the tool: "Copy Stencil to Spare" when you are on the main picture
and not on Spare.
- Improve 'Chromatic correction": Blue saturation works well now.
- Improve: Fiber, Stone and liquid effects when range of color is used.
- New Item in MagicSpray menu: Fill Screen
- Full arexx command for MagicSpray tool
- Little bug fix with the "optimize palette" tool
- Improve Smooth border:
- Add Mask Preview
- Add "Round corner" Effect
- Improve MagicSpray:
- Add Follow axes (Brushes will follow mouse path)
- Add Priority (Each brushes will have priority)
- Improve for UAE/Amithlon/Picasso
- Mosaic effect and TVLace effect
- Twirl gui, TVLace gui, shadow gui
- The way the text go for one buffer to another (A lot of script are now ok)
- Edit Mask in 24bit mode (Much easier to edit stencil under picasso)
- 3 new templates (Photo)
- New MagicProject:Keys and Nuts and IceCream (available on PerfectPaint's page)
- Animation effect: CountDown
Download: PfPaint_V293.lha
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01.Jul.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Interview with Genesi
The Online-News-Magazine amiga.org has released an interview with Bill Buck and Raquel
Velasco of Genesi S.a.r.l. (title link).
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30.Jun.2003
apple (ANF)
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Mozilla v1.4 released
Today the final version 1.4 of the free Webbrowser Mozilla was
published. Under that title left versions are available for Windows,
Linux and Mac OS X for the download, postage run gene for Solaris,
OpenVMS and other operating systems in the next days will follow.
Further information you find on the product website under that title
left. A port for Amiga OS is from a free developer team in work.
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30.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #043
The group Liquid Skies published today their 43rd music
pack. This time it contains a song named "rain journey" by
the German musician Bitshifter (also known as yelworC), who is not
member of the group, however he offers his track as a guest under the label
Liquid Skies. The cover for this is provided by an other guest:
Yenzi.
Details:
Title: Rain journey
Artist: Bitshifter
Style: Trance
Duration: 5:07
Format: mp3 (160kbps)
The file can be found at the homepage of Liquid Skies.
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30.Jun.2003
Klaus Brandis (E-Mail)
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AmiNetRadio v2.0 released
The Shoutcast streamer "AmiNetRadio" was published on weekend in
version 2.0 and is available at the title link for download. The
package contains the following components:
- AmiNetRadio v2.0
- mpega.player v2.40
- shoutcast.player v2.70
- Skin V1.1
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30.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Development of SBase4Pro
Russ Norrby of Mr. Hardware Computers, the owners of the "SBase4Pro"-rights (formerly known as "SuperBase 4 Pro"), reports at Amiga.org:
"SBase4Pro can now be compiled with the GCC. This puts us into the position
to provide PPC versions - for example for the AmigaOne.
The current version is v1.36 from April 2000. SBase4Pro is
a very powerful and flexible multi-relational data base. Some of our own
products were made using SBase, for example Retail Escort and Video Escort.
At present we are working on many improvements, for example on HTML outputs or
the possibility to lock files.
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29.Jun.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 29th June 2003
These are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last report:
GetAllHTML.lha comm/tcp 16K+Auto download or link-check entire Web s
bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
Loarre_Castle.lha pix/back 170K+Backgrounds of Loarres Castle
jpv_wb.lha pix/wb 293K+1024x768x16bit WB snapshot
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29.Jun.2003
Diverse
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Pictures from 'AmigaOS on Tour' from Gothenburg
You can find a subtitled picture report of AmigaWorld under the title link.
The pictures were taken on the
AmigaOS on Tour at
yesterday's presentation in Gothenburg.
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29.Jun.2003
Martin Heine
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Pictures from Amiga Show in Maarssen, NL
Martin Heine was nice enough to provide us with some meaningful
pictures from the
Amiga Show which took place
yesterday in Maarssen in Holland.
The photos were taken by Ron van Herk.
The event was well attended with more than 100 visitors. Genesi presented the
Video Microwave, the prototype of an STB case already known from the CeBIT and
of course the Pegasos with MorphOS in action. On four Pegasos computers as well
as an Debian equipped AmigaOne the visitors could form their own impression of
the current state of the two systems. Furthermore beta versions of Bars'n'Pipes
and FotoFoto for MorphOS were shown. The possibility to buy Pegasos boards at
the ComputerCity stall was also made use of. Furthermore the Access was shown
as well as Amiga merchandising goods such as the game "Amiopoly", Amiga antenna
balls for cars and mugs and T-Shirts from the OS4 tour.
MorphOS |
Access |
Amiopoly |
Antennenball |
BNP |
CGG |
Microwave STB |
A1 Debian |
Tower |
OS4 T-Shirt |
Pegasos |
Raum |
Raum 2 |
Raum 3 |
OS4 Tasse |
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29.Jun.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: New reviews and cover scans
Today Kultpower.de has received some updates:
74 (in words: seventyfour) new covers of the magazine PC Joker! A big thankyou
to Evil who scanned and sent in the covers! Btw, all are featuring the editorial.
New PowerPlay reviews from Powerplay 5/88, scanned by sys:
Ebonstar (Amiga), Io (C64), Ooze (Atari ST), Pandora (C64).
New ASM reviews from ASM 7/88, scanned by Ralf: Impossible Mission (Atari ST, C64),
IO (C64), Karnov (C64, Spektrum (reviewed), Schneider), Target (C64 (reviewed),
Spektrum, Schneider), Tube Runner (C16/116/Plus4).
Thanks to all helpers!
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28.Jun.2003
Uwe Ryssel (ANF)
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Lego Mindstorms for Amiga
Today I have released the Amiga port of NQC 2.5 r1 on my homepage.
With this it is for the first time possible on the Amiga, among other things, to program the Lego Mindstorms RCX. This can be used to control robots built with Lego bricks.
NQC (Not Quite C) is a language similar to C for the programming of these RCX stones. Furthermore is the communication via the serial interface and via USB (with Poseidon) supported.
Download: nqc.lha (181 KB)
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28.Jun.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: "Samba World Cup" CD version online
After "Samba Partie" and "Samba Partie Pro" is now the CD version
of "Samba World Cup 98" available for free download. It's the third and last part of the "Samba Partie" series by
Sayona Software. "Samba World Cup" is a football manager with "action" part!
Features:
- Spoken in-game comments and names
- 6 different field conditions
- Original players and team names
- 6 Europe leagues incl. 1. and 2. Bundesliga
- Team editor
- Action part incl. video recorder
- Comprehensive transfer market, settings, statistics etc.
The archive has a size of 10 MB and can alternatively be found on the "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002 CD", available for 10,- Euro at Fun Time World.
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28.Jun.2003
Moneyless (ANF)
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Magazine: Last independant issue of the "ST-Computer" released
The last independent issue of the German Atari magazine "ST-Computer" has been released. The magazine, available for seventeen years and for years now exlusively available as subscription, will in the future only be available as subscription supplement of the German magazine "PC-Welt".
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28.Jun.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: New WinUAE version announced
WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 8 WIP (26.06.2003)
Expected release date: first half of July
Bugs fixed:
- stuck joypad POV directional controller
- workaround for buggy sound driver (ISA SB16, maybe others)
that report zero as minimum and maximum supported sample rate
- possible crash when copying to virtual filesystem's root
- CD32 media change detection
- extended ADF write protection check
- extended ADF HD floppy support
- fast copper works again
- JIT FPU fix (Descent Freespace -demo)
- 57600 serial bit rate was incorrectly rounded to 56000
New features:
- all configuration file loading restrictions removed,
load new configuration file at any time!
- display width, height, depth, lores, doubling, correct aspect
can be changed on the fly
- bsdsocket.library updates
- improved audio emulation
(Mortville Manor and Maupiti Island speech)
- improved and more compatible CD32 pad emulation
- improved CD32 CD autodetection
- sound capture to wav-file
- Direct3D hardware filtering and scaling
- more configurable source tree, added very simple way
to disable features like AGA, JIT, bsdsocket, Picasso96,
harddisk, 68020+ etc..
- separate basic A500-only WinUAE executable included
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28.Jun.2003
Markus Lunk
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Browser: GCC version of AWeb 3.4 APL
For users who like experiments there's a new alpha version of AWeb
been released that you can download following the title link. Errors may lead to crashes. The user may be aware.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jun.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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Today: AmigaOS 4.0 on tour
Today takes for the fourth time the AmigaOS on Tour place in Sweden and Austria.
At this time AmigaOS 4.0 is shown on CyberstormPPC and the AmigaOne:
Saturday, June, 28th 2003:
- 09:00 - 18:00 h BOF - Building of Fun, Weblinger Gürtel 25, 8054 Graz, Austria
- 11:00 - 17:00 h Lilla Bommen Konferens Center, Gothenborg, Sweden
We are eagerly awaiting your visits!
Further detailed information can be found here.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Latest official AmigaOS 4 screenshots
Following the title link you'll find further official screenshots of AmigaOS4 by Hyperion.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Jun.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis
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Tool: SRename Version 3.7.1
Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the final version 3.7.1 of the tool 'SRename'.
With this tool which works from AmigaOS 3.0+ you can easily rename files. In the new
version some new features have been added and bugs fixed:
New features:
Added "Filename" (fn) selector to specify filenames that should be
treated like filenames even if they contain wildcard characters.
Normally SRename can process such filenames in recursion mode but only
if they are present in the root directory, if they are not they are
treated as wildcard patterns.
"Filename" makes it possible to look for and rename such filenames in
recursion mode even if those filenames aren't present in the root
directory.
Added secondary arguments to "Dirpat":
"Androot" (ar) causes the filenames in the starting (root) directory to
also be renamed.
"Anddirname" (adn) causes the name of the directory that is entered with
Dirpat to also be renamed.
Removed "Persistentdp" that was used together with "Dirpat" because it's
behaviour is now the default for "Dirpat". Not having a persistent
pattern for entering directories didn't have much use.
Recursion can now be used with non-wildcards, for example giving an
ordinary filename to look for.
Bugfixes:
Corrected a bug in recursion where directories weren't always entered
with "Dirpat" if the names of those directories were also to be
modified.
To avoid this situation now directories are first entered and their
contents renamed, and the names of those directories are modified
afterwards.
Other changes:
The shell output has slightly changed in some instances.
The recursion bugfix has also caused slight changes to the shell output
in recursion, such as that the name of a directory has to be printed
again to avoid confusion if subdirectories in that directory were
entered and filenames in that same directory are also to be renamed.
Download: SRename371.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)
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27.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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IR-chat of the Amiga-show in Maarssen, Netherlands
For the Amiga-show
in
Maarsen, Netherlands which will take place on 28th June 2003 an IRC-channel has been
created: #AmigaParty on
ARCNet.
Participants are Genesi, Computer City
and Attention Software.
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27.Jun.2003
Niels Bache (ANF)
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Pictures of Niels Bache of the Amiga fair moved
Niels Bache wrote:
Up to now my pictures of several Amiga fairs have been accessible under
http://nbache.frip.dk/.
Although the people have earned much praise for their efforts for this free service
in my opinion there have been too many breaks in the last time.
Now I have found a new home for these sites where I have also more space.
Therefore I could add the pictures of the AmiGBG 2003 again and there will be the
possibility to upload the other pictures, too. In any case probably there will be
new pictures of the OS4 tour in Götheburg because I will go there today.
The new start page can be accessed under http://nbache.frac.dk/.
Please change your bookmarks.
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27.Jun.2003
REBOL (ANF)
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REBOL/View desktop now Open-Source
There is another aspect of pushing forward the open-source idea.
The desktop project will be released by Carl Sassenrath as an attempt to integrate the
community thus everybody can participate in.
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26.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Mitsumi: External floppy with integrated memory card reader
»7-in-1-drive for all usual memory cards
At the end of June 2003 Mitsumi Europe will introduce the 7-in-1 USB media drive FA 401
to the market which can read and write all usual memory cards and additionally normal
3,5-inches disks.«
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26.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #042
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies has published its 42th music pack of its series.
This time it contains a tune in Techno style called "Rush Hours" written by the Polish
musician Rzs. By the way this is his first track for Liquid Skies Records! The cover
was created by DaFreak.
Some additional information of the track:
Title: Rush Hours
Artist: Rzs
Style: Techno
Play time: 4:39
Format: mp3
The zip-packed file (4,4 MB) can be downloaded from the homepage.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jun.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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ROMulus-extension for HIGHWAY is being delivered
From today on E3B delivers the FlashROM-Modules
ROMulus for the known USB-controller HIGHWAY.
Thus the most successful USB-controller of E3B can get further functions - without
engaging a Zorro-slot. The network-modul NORWAY can be also used.
A cooperation with the company IOSPIRIT (Felix Schwarz)
will make easy getting the upgrade for all interested users.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Iomega with 4x-multi format-DVD-burner
»DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM in one device
Iomega has announced a new internal IDE-DVD-burner drive which DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM
combines in one device and at least can burn on the first two mentioned formats with
four times speed.«
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26.Jun.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)
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Total Amiga Magazine: FTW Official Commerce Partner in Germany
After Fun Time World succeeded in putting out issue #14 of the English-language Amiga magazine "Total Amiga" they also made the decision to produce further issues in Germany, and have become the magazine's official German partner. The next edition, #15, is being completed and may already be pre-ordered.
Fun Time World: "We recommend that all interested parties order an issue. The price is unchanged."
In the latest issue of about 52 pages you can read:
- AmigaOS 4 Update
- Fleecy Moss (Amiga) and Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) Columns
- Pegasos and MorphOS thoroughly explained and tested
- IBrowse 2.3 Test
- A few more exciting articles and reports
If you hurry, you can still get a copy of issue #14! (ps) (Translation: dm)
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26.Jun.2003
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Report from AUGS Meeting / OS4 on Tour in Basel
The official report from AUGS Meeting 2003 in Basel is online, with pictures from Caspar Schlegel (AUGS).
The meeting itself was enjoyable for the organizers (Claude Müller/AUGS
and Jürgen Schober/point.design).
The AUGS team was happily surprised that they actually had to bring in more chairs for the OS4 presentation, which they did with pleasure.
Locally, the way to the currently largest Commodore logo in the world was described: in "Aesch" not far from Basel one finds such a logo over 9 meters tall, where it has been for many years at the former headquarters of Commodore Switzerland.
Many thanks to all the visitors and have fun with the pictures. A special thanks to Jürgen Schober for his honorable efforts. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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25.Jun.2003
Erhard Bruse (ANF)
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Event: Pegasos board presentation in Leipzig
On June the 28th and 29th 2003 there will be a presentation of more tan 160 clubs and organizations from Leipzig
held at the central railstation of Leipzig.
At the booth of the Computerclub-Lützschena-Stahmeln where some fellows of the
Amiga Club Leipzig
are working, there will be a working Pegasos computer shown on both days.
On Sunday Micha Heider will be there as well and will be testing and adjusting his Linux
image installer CD for the Pegasos.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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25.Jun.2003
yps aus dem heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Critics regarding Apple's benchmark for the Power Mac G5
Like it can be obtained from the article by Heise which is linked by the title,
Steve Jobs might have operated at the presentation of the Power Mac G5 at the
WWDC with some dressed up speed values for the regarding to Apple world's fastest PC.
Read the full aricle (German) by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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25.Jun.2003
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Webmaster for Amiga Frontier page wanted
To all Frontier fans,
because I will have no more Internet access during the next time I am looking for somebody who
wants to be webmastering my site www.amigafrontier.de.vu (title link).
The task is to check the page for dead links (and probably to correct them) and to answer user requests
regarding Amiga and UAE (which happens around every two or three months)
As a further update there is the AtariST version of Frontier Elite II for a shareware download now on that site.
Right On Commander
Michael Asse
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25.Jun.2003
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ version 5.67
The freeware Report+ is now available in version 5.67. The tool
bases on ReAction/GadTools needs AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten different functions:
For example it's possible with Report+ to create Aminet readme files, the
Commodore bug reporting tool can be replaced by it or the ammount of bytes for any directory can be shown.
Within the new version some bugs have been removed, the IFF displayer is now capable of "IFF SPLT"
forms and within the Aminet readme editor the directory tree has been updated.
Download: ReportPlus.lha - 314 KB
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25.Jun.2003
Terra Soft
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Terra Soft Offers Apple G5s Prepared for Yellow Dog Linux
Loveland, Colorado -- 24 June 2003 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions is today accepting pre-orders for Apple G5 Power Macs -- soon to be supported by Yellow Dog Linux. (ps)
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25.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)
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CAPS Poll Results Annouced
Results to the CAPS poll are now on the website, along with the decision, and the reasons behind it. (ps)
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25.Jun.2003
DENIC (Website)
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DENIC restricts access of Domain information data
Starting from July 2003 the DENIC will restrict the number of whois-requests with an automatic system to a limited time interval to avoid mass requests.
DENIC as registry for domains below .de provides several information systems, which can be used to find out whether
a domain is already registered and if yes, to who. These services are heavily used. Since DENIC has recently
increased its technical capacities about 6000 to 7000 requests are answered per minute. According to an analysis
the registry more than 90% of these requests do not serve the purpose of determining the status of a domain or its
owner once. Rather they are for checking continually in extremely short time intervals whether a certain domain is still
registered, in order to register it immediately in the case of a deletion.
"We see less of a problem in overloading our systems, because we can handle the high number of requests technically
without any difficulties. However, the excessive usage of the whois service by certain users causes costs, which
at this point have to be shared between all domain owners", describes DENIC board member Andreas Bäß
the background of these steps. "Another problem is the unlimited access to these directories in relation to
the detection and prevention of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks. A limitation of the maximum number of requests
from an address block solves both problems. Because then we can determine a threshold, upwards of which we assume
an abuse of the services. However, we also want to motivate the intensive users to talk to us in order to mutually
find an alternative way to satisfy their information needs."
Therefore, starting July 1st, DENIC will regulate the usage of whois requests more strongly. In addition to the
above mentioned limitation of the number of requests, the owner data will in the future be only accessible by
way of additional parameters. For those requests the number of requests per time unit will be reduced further in
order to better protect the domain owners from an automatic utilisation of their address data. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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25.Jun.2003
Virtual Dimension (Website)
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Virtual Dimension: Photos from the "Back in Time Live" event
On the 21st of June 2003 there has been the first German
Back in Time Live
event in Wedel near Hamburg. A party regarding the C=64, at which amog other things there were a lot of remixes
of popular SiDs. Virtual Dimension has been there and came back from that party with a bunch of photos.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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25.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: MPC 7447 for Pegasos G4 processorcard chosen
As announced on PegasosPPC.com
their choice is made to use the Motorola MPC 7447 for the Pegasos G4 processor modules.
Additionaly it is newly confirmed that these cards will be available from July on.
"This summer processor cards with Motorola's 7447,
which work with 1 GHz and higher, will meet the Pegasos. The 7447 is the most recent
PowerPC processor of the fourth generation (G4) by Motorola, which offers an improved performance compared to the predecessor
generation (G3).
Additional to an increased cache the 7447 offes more pipelines, an improved Front-Side-Bus (FSB)
and most important an SIMD unit called Altivec. Altivec offers a
special on-chip vector engine which is capable of delivering more than one
Gflops (one billion floating point operations per second) and still being affordable to an average user.
G4 upgrades will be available from July 2003."
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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