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04.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


Pegasos II: First information about the price scheme
At MorphOS-News.de there is a first information about the soon coming Pegasos II. Regarding to that the Pegasos II board with a G3 processor card starts at 299 Euro, the entry level wit a G4 module (minimun 1 Ghz) starts at 499 Euro (all prices excluding VAT abd/or other local taxes).

Owners of a I are invited, just as appointed, buy a G4 processor card for 200 Euro and keep their old board or get for the same amount of money exchange their Pegasos I with a Pegasos II including a G4 processor card. Further information about the processors etc. will be made available soon. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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04.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: Gentoo now with Live-CDs for PowerPC also
»Live-CDs with KDE 3.1.2 and GNOME 2.2.1 as desktop
By request of some users the Gentoo team has released the bootable Linux Live-CDs for Macintosh. The based on the free Linux distribution Gentoo Live-CDs offering either KDE3 or GNOME2 as Desktop and enable to run macOS X within a window utilizing "Mac on Linux" «
Read the full Golem article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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04.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: Cornice announces a new generation of mobile mini hard disks
»Cornice Storage Element - 1.5-GByte hard drive with a weight of 14.6 g.
The US start up company Cornice has developed with their "Cornice Storage Element" an extraordinary tiny and cheap hard disk for mobile consumer electronics like MP3 players. The Cornice SE weights 14.6 g only and offers a storage volume of about 1.5 GByte and is said to be produced with a very low price due to its slim design.«
Read the full Golem article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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04.Jun.2003
Cloanto (E-Mail)


Emulator: Amiga Forever 5.3 released / invitation to the A3
Cloanto released today version 5.3 of Amiga Forever, the official Amiga emulator for PCs. The update covers some new features and improved emulation compounds as well as a new version of the "Software-Manager". Version 7.1c of the paint programm Personal Paint is included also. The cross platform version of Amiga Forever 5.3 includes an improved support for Amiga emulations running on Mac OS X systems. Read in the following paragraphs the full press release including some information regarding the "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" show.

- June 4th, 2003 - For Immediate Release -

Cloanto released today version 5.3 of Amiga Forever, the official Amiga emulation and connectivity package for PCs. New features include improved emulation components and new versions of Software Manager and Personal Paint, Cloanto's award-winning paint software, now available in version 7.1c. The cross-platform version of Amiga Forever 5.3 includes better support for Amiga emulation configurations on Mac OS X. The Amiga Forever Home Page at amigaforever.com keeps being frequently updated, and the numerous articles in the FAQ section continue to attract a constantly growing number of Amiga emulation users.

Cloanto also released a new stand-alone version of Software Manager, available for free download from cloanto.com, which is able to detect installed versions of WinUAE, WinFellow, DirectX and other Windows components required by various emulation programs (e.g. OpenGL on Windows 95, etc.). This new version of Software Manager is independent of Amiga Forever, and can be used by all Amiga emulation users. The software is completely free and does neither include any type of "adware" or "spyware", nor send any information about installed applications.

Amiga Alpe Adria 2003, a show organized by Cloanto Italia srl and aiming to embody the spirit of friendship and diversity which the Amiga name and philosophy represent since the early 1980s, will be held in Udine, Italy, on July 5th. The event home page is at http://aaa2003.org, and includes low fare airline specials, sightseeing information and links to nearby music festivals and cultural events. Cloanto and the Amiga Alpe Adria support team would like to invite you to the show, and look forward to making you have a great time in Italy!

- Links - (ps) (Translation: ub)

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03.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


New Poll: Will you buy AmigaOS4 for your BlizzardPPC?
We started a new poll to get an impression of the real demand for a BlizzardPPC version of OS4. It can be accessed by following the title link. The poll is geared solely towards owners of a BlizzardPPC accellerator card.

Here you will find the current results of the voting. (ps)

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03.Jun.2003
Diverse


Software Updates until 03.06.2003
 
Amigan Software
Game: Worm Wars Version 7.42b - Download: WormWars.lha
Also a Windows version is available for download.

Installer: WHDLoad - new packets until 03.06.2003
  • 03.06.03 improved: Xenon2 (Bitmap Brothers) minor changes
  • 03.06.03 fixed: Shadow Lands (Domark) version check corrected
  • 03.06.03 updated: North & South (Infogrames) install script changed
  • 01.06.03 improved: Shadow Lands (Domark) install script fixed, manual added
  • 01.06.03 fixed: Zak Mc Kracken (Lucasfilm Games) protection fixed
  • 01.06.03 new: Red Lightning (S.S.I.) done by JOTD
  • 01.06.03 improved: Alien Breed (Team 17) various improvements
  • 01.06.03 new: Traders (Linel) done by Harry
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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03.Jun.2003
Michael Battilana (E-Mail)


Fair: News about Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 at 05.07.2003
As reported earlier, the fair A3 (Amiga Alpe Adria 2003) in Udine, Italy takes place on 5th July 2003. The website around the fair was now updated, now all information about program, travel, hotels, and sightseeing and cultural life in this time as a music festival and concerts are described here now.

It would be a nice idea to combine the visit of the fair with a holiday in this beautiful landscape around Udine.

Six weeks before the fair starts over 100 visitors from Austria, Germany Slovenia, Croatia, England, and Italy have announced their visit. Special guests are:
  • Jürgen Schober will present AmigaOS 4 on Tour
  • Jens Schönfeld will present the C-One
  • Ralf "Hippie 2000" Steines from Back to the Roots
  • Paolo "Mod3mski" D'Urso from Darkage fame
  • Sergio Ruocco, Paolo Canali and others from the Italian Amiga-Scene
More information you will find under exhibitors. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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03.Jun.2003
Cloanto (ANF)


Cloanto Releases Personal Paint 7.1c
Advances in emulation technology made it possible to push the Amiga 68K CPU and Blitter to speeds which were not considered possible a few years ago. In this context, a small bug in Personal Paint emerged whereby Blitter and CPU operations would not always be synchronized properly, e.g. causing some visual "trash" during certain alpha channel operations. Personal Paint 7.1c addresses this issue. This version was released today as a free upgrade to Amiga Forever users, accessible via Software Manager. Users of slower silicon-based Amiga systems are not affected by the issue. (ps)

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03.Jun.2003
Andreas 'A.W.Design' Weyrauch (ANF)


Club Amiga Magazine: Article about FFS from O. Barthel now free
In Issue #4 of the Club Amiga Magazine the article from Olaf Barthel about the FastFileSystem (FFS) of Amiga Inc. now free for release. This article deals with the past, the present, and the future of the FFS. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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03.Jun.2003
ANN


PC/DOS-Emulator: DOSBox Version 0.58 for MorphOS
"DOSBox is a DOS-emulator using SDL for easy portability to different platforms, DOSBox has already been ported to several different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X... DOSBox emulates a 286/386 realmode CPU, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, a SoundBlaster card for excellent sound compatibility with older games... You can "re-live" the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that don't run on your new computer!"

DOSBox is an emulator which is, unlike Bochs, aimed at games that's why it has good quality SoundBlaster emulation, joystick support,... and unlike Bochs, DOSBox does NOT require the DOS nor a BIOS to run. Please note that DOSBox still only emulate Real Mode: it basically means that you'll be able to run most games/programs released before 1993-1994 (this includes great RPGs and a lot of 256 colors adventure games which were never released on the Amiga). Almost every games released after 1994 are running in Protected Mode: these games won't work at all in current DOSBox. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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03.Jun.2003



Aminet Uploads until 03.06.2003
The latest Aminet Uploads:
ACS_HLPlugin.lha     comm/net   264K+V1.2 ACS HL Plugin -  Hotline Plugin for
AmiComSys.lha        comm/net   410K+V2.4 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MUI
umsspamc1_2.lha      comm/ums    15K+SpamAssassin client for UMS
streamer.lha         comm/www   318K+Internet radio MPEG and RealAudio file p
WebPics105.lha       comm/www     5K+WebPics 1.05 - Web Based Photo Gallery G
YAM24p1loc.lha       comm/yam   281K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4p1 (Translations
P61DevBas.lha        dev/basic   30K+Using Player61 library from HBasic
EasyACDDA_Bkg.lha    disk/cdrom 305K+Background images for EasyACDDA
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 05/2003 (Itali
AIOV71.lha           docs/mags  547K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 71 (May 
nocover111.lha       docs/mags  2.5M+Great german diskmagazine
WormWars.lha         game/misc  585K+Worm Wars 7.42b: Advanced snake game
gse.lha              game/patch  18K+Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
ZoneXplorer.lha      gfx/fract  3.1M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC
BetaScanSP.lha       hard/drivr  14K+BetaScan 3.02 spanish catalog v3.02.0
Flamingo.lha         misc/emu   171K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.53a, 68k & PPC
Amiga4Everyone.mpg   mods/mpg   1.4M+Dieziseven new song
Fiesta.mpg           mods/mpg   4.1M+Dieziseven new song
Webbit2003_06.lha    pix/misc   1.8M+Webb.it 2003 archive 06
BareED_Alone.lha     text/edit   71K+Simple text editor which supports propor
Transmitter.lha      util/cdity  59K+Reads text-clips and stores them as inpu
HowDif.lha           util/cli     9K+File comparison/examination utility
Catharsis.lha        util/libs   48K+Shared library to modify looks of fonts 
idle1_5.lha          util/moni   16K+A (working) A68K cpu monitor
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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03.Jun.2003
Mikey C (ANF)


Hyperion OS4 BPPC Survey
Hyperion-Entertainment BPPC Survey
As AmigaOS 4 for AmigaOne and CSPPC based machines nears completion, Hyperion is undertaking a survey to gauage demand for the BPPC version. Therefore if you are an Amiga1200 owner with a Dual Blizzard PPC card and would like to see OS4 ported to this machine, please send an email to: timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com.

Please note: Ensuring that OS4 will work on the BPPC is a momumental task which will require enormous effort in both Time and Money. Therefore only email us if you have every intention of purchasing OS4 for BPPC. Your support is very much appreciated in this matter.

Ben Hermans
Hyperion-Entertainment (ps)

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02.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


Music: Liquid Skies records #038
Since yesterday a new music package with a tune by Tripper is available on the homepage of the group. Details:
  • Title: Beograd
  • Artist: Tripper
  • Style: electro
  • Duration: 3:48
  • Format: mp3 192 kbps
A photo of the Trippers visit to Belgrad was used for the cover by DaFreak. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)


C.A.P.S. Update
C.A.P.S. is dedecated to the rescue of classic Amiga games. Current update:
  • New work-in-progress report.
  • New User Plugin with added support for Speedlock timing, and memory mapped image files to allow loading of IPF images from within compressed archives.
http://www.caps-project.org (ps) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


individual Computers: New products and new cooperations
New product: Kickflash OS4
Kickflash was announced several years ago, but never released due to licensing problems. With the planning of the new PPC native OS4 for all Amiga computers with PPC CPU, Hyperion and individual Computers started a cooperation more than a year ago (May 2002). The result of this cooperation is "Kickflash OS4", a highly optimized flashrom card for the Zorro slot of classic Amigas. It reduces boot time of OS4 significantly, and comes at a very low price: 29,- EUR. Up-to-date flashrom chips allow up to 100.000 re-programming cycles. Kickflash OS4 will be available to betatesters this summer. Mass production will start in time for the release of OS4, so people will have the choice between tailormade solutions by all cooperation partners (also see ALGOR/ROMulus by E3B).

New product: RR-Net
Especially for the Retro Replay and the C-One there will a networking card for the C64 before the end of this summer. Together with Adam Dunkels, the author of the web-enabled Contiki operating system, the first drivers for this 10MBit-card have been made. Contiki even has web-server functions that can be seen on the Internet: The server http://www.tfe.c64.org is running on a stock C64 with a similar networking card! RR-Net will be available in August 2003 for 50,- EUR.

Transparent C64 cartridge cases
Due to the high demand, cases for the nearly sold-out Retro Replay will be available from June 24th, 2003 on. If there's enough demand, we might also produce other colours in addition to the transparent ones. To find out what colours that could be, the hacker-group Cyberpunx has setup a Voting-page. The price per case will be 4,- EUR, no matter what colour you choose.

Lyra back in stock
The Lyra keyboard adapter that allows using a PC keyboard on Amiga computers will be back in stock on June 24th. We apologize for the shipment delays - we were not prepared for the high demand of this product. A big thank-you goes out to our customers who were obviously so satisfied with their Lyra adapter that they recommended it to all their friends. (ps)

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02.Jun.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Online-Magazine: NoCover #111
Issue no. 111 of NoCover is now available and can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)


New AmiZilla Marketing Campaign Launched
A new AmiZilla marketing campaign has been launched. Companies and websites that link to and promote the Dream of Netscape/Mozilla on Amiga get listed and promoted. Top Zilla Marketers are the ones that promoted AmiZilla first or come up with a very creative and interesting banner or animation for the project.

What is AmiZilla?
I think that long time Amiga user Twistin'Ghost summarizes the project best with the following press release he created. "In need of that killer app, Amiga developer and resident platform fanatic Bill Panagouleas, of DiscreetFX, is banding together the community in a bid to lure programmers to port Mozilla to the Amiga platform. Donations are flowing in, an FAQ is in place, and a devoted Message Board are all a part of this 'homegrown' project. Panagouleas has put his money where his mouth is by donating $2000 out of his own pocket, in addition to funding the site itself.

"It's this very kind of grassroots community involvement that has helped to maintain the Amiga's status as a player in the Gen-IT realm," says Panagouleas, a former employee of Commodore Business Machines. "(Amiga users) have always been a tight-knit community that pulls together in times of need. Some very impressive development talent are already making inquiries and are showing great enthusiasm. I'm very excited."

The presence of Mozilla on the Amiga would provide additional voltage to Amiga Inc.'s upcoming launch of its new Amiga OS 4.0. It will also help users the Keep the Dream Alive by running a standards compliant mainstream browser on MorphOS, Amiga Forever, WinUAE, Amithlon, and Classic Amiga's running Amiga OS 3.9 ." Please keep the donations coming in so programmers will be motivated to port Mozilla to Amiga/Amiga type systems. (ps)

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02.Jun.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


Shipment of ALGOR will start on Monday
The distribution of the new Zorro II USB controller ALGOR by E3B to the dealers begins on today's Monday. Additional information about the product and possible bundles and goodies can be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


DiaCD Update
Carsten Siegner released an update for DiaCD. Details about changes an improvements is to be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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02.Jun.2003
Hakan Parting (E-Mail)


AmiComSys 2.4 and HL-Plugin 1.2 released
Hakan Parting released updates for his programs AmiComSys and HL-Plugin. The following changes were made:

AmiComSys 2.4
  • BUGFIX: The "Kill gui" menu item had an empty key combination.
  • BUGFIX: When a modal message requester was opened only the main window was put to sleep. The entire application must be put to sleep so the user cannot do anything else in the program. In certain occasions this error would lead to a crash or an Enforcer hit.
  • NEW: Added requeststring function to the messagerequester class for use by plugins.
  • NEW: The reply text field and replybutton are no longer shown in reponse of a version and system info request.
  • BUGFIX: If you opened the Client Info window and then iconified the application and later deiconified it the main window and the client window had the same dimensions and position.
  • NEW: Changed the layout of the message requesters. It should now get a better dimension so you don't need to scroll. The sizegadget was also removed. If your requesters are snapshotable it is still there.
  • NEW: AmiComSys now asks if you want to display the file you just received.
  • NEW: If a plugin is inside the ACS main window its menu is added the first time the plugin is active.
  • BUGFIX: Enforcer hit when you opened the Client Info of user without any comment and also when such a user connected.
  • BUGFIX: It will now not go online when you uniconify after you have killed the gui while your your status was set to offline.
  • BUGFIX If the comment, homepage and some other items on the personal info were set to an empty string they were not updated in the contact list until you reconnected.
HL-Plugin
  • NEW: Enhanced the error handling for the file transfer.
  • BUGFIX: Fixed a race condition with the file transfer queue.
  • BUGFIX: File resume implemented (working with hxd, not HL Server).
  • NEW: Added "Kick selected user" and "bann selected user" to the Action menu.
  • NEW: Added "Delete"(file) and "MakeDir" to the Files window.
  • BUGFIX: Upload didn't work with all servers and files.
  • BUGFIX: The close button of a transfer window didn't work. It just closed the user list connection.
  • BUGFIX: Forgot to close the transfer window when you got a "file already exists" error.
  • BUGFIX: Transfers the info written in the Bookmarks section in the "HL Plugin Servers" window when the connect button is pressed or when the window is closed. Before the old info was sent to the server when you had forgotten to press return in the text boxes you had modified.
  • BUGFIX: There was an error with the bookmark save routine (possible enforcer hit).
  • NEW: A connection to a server, tracker or file server will now not block HL Plugin while it is connecting. It's now possible to cancel a connection while it is connecting.
  • NEW: After a file download has finished the program now ask if you want to display it.
(nba) (Translation: sk)

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01.Jun.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030531
Brad Webb has published the Amiga Update for May 2003. Once a month Webb summarises all important news on the theme of Amiga in his newsletter. Read the current Amiga Update by way of E-Mail subscription or delayed under the title link and therein the following themes:
  • AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour
  • AmiWest News Update
  • Amiga wins popularity contest
  • RIAA apologizes to Amiga Web Site
  • AmigaOS 4.0 to support E3B's ALGOR and ROMulus flashroms
  • Hollywood 1.5 official announcement
  • MetaView Freeware as of now
  • WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 7 (30.05.2003)
(nba) (Translation: cb)

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01.Jun.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)


Issue 5 (June) of Amiga Inc.'s Club Amiga Magazine published
Issue 5 (June) of the monthly Amiga Club Magazine has been published today for registered members. It contains a.o.t. a new status report on OS 4.0, an interview with Zeoneo and much more. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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01.Jun.2003



Obituary: Jay Glenn Miner (31st May 1932 - 20th June 1994)
This Saturday 71 years ago, on the 31st May 1932, Jay Glenn Miner was born. Miner is regarded as one of the most prominent chip designers in the world and as the father of the Amiga.

In the middle of the seventies he developed the TIA chip, originally for medical applications, later for use in the legendary Atari 2600. With the ANTIC and the GTIA chipsets he laid the foundation for the Atari 8bit family.

After the founding of the company Hi-Toro which was later renamed into Amiga, Miner worked on the joyboard, a revolutionary control device for the Atari 2600 and the ColecoVision and on the work of his life, the Multimedia chipset for the 68000 based games console Lorraine which was renamed into "Amiga 1000" after the purchase of the company by Commodore and turned into a full-fledged computer.

Miner passed away on 20th June 1994 due to kidney failure. He was regarded as a revolutionary computer designer and an extraordinary person. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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01.Jun.2003
ANN / San Francisco Business Times (Website)


3DO face bankruptcy
According to reports of the San Francisco Business Times, American video game and hardware developers 3DO have filed for insolvency.

3DO became well-known at the beginning of the nineties by way of the games console of the same name, which, although being technically superior, wasn't able to conquer the hoped-for market share. The Rewood City based company had recently been able to reduce debts with the commercial success of console games such as "High Heat Major League Baseball" or "Army Men", but apparently not able to avert bankruptcy.

Interestingly enough the 3DO console was designed with the help of the Amiga/CD32 by Commodore - former Amiga warhorses Dave Morse, RJ Mical and Dale Luck had a significant share in the further development of 3DO. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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01.Jun.2003
Mark Tierno (E-Mail)


Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #71
The 71st and officially last issue of the Amiga online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' has been published. This issue contains a.o.t. the following articles:
  • Strange Opinion
  • Dr. Strange, Web Wanderer
  • Hints & Tips
  • Final Credits
  • AIO Secrets
  • My Last Words
  • History Of Amiga
  • The Amiga that is and can...
The full table of contents can be obtained from the readme which is enclosed in the archive. AIO uses a custom display program and can be used from AmigaOS 3.0 onwards.

Download: AIOV71.lha (547 KB) - Readme

The operators of AIO are pleading for a final retroactive donation for all the editors involved. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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01.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)


Start menu: Pixload Final Version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS released
Today the final Version 4 of the start menu Pixload has been released for AmigaOS and MophOS. This is the final features list:
  • Drag & Drop of picture directories loads a thumbnail tool
  • New formats: TIFF and TARGA via Datatypes
  • New formats: AIFF and WAVE (no Datatypes required)
  • Control bar for MiamiDX integrated
  • New program load window
  • Clock with RTC functionality
  • Help file in the context menu
  • Fixed some bugs
  • Pixload is scalable
  • Pixload can open drawers instead of programs
  • Shortkeys added
  • Icon organisation by way of Drag & Drop
  • Choice of number of icon columns
  • Special MorphOS 1.3 / Pegasos version
(nba) (Translation: cb)

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01.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)


AmigaWorld: Interview with AmiStart developer Darius Brewka
The online magazine AmigaWorld has published an interview with Darius Brewka, the programmer of AmiStart. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)


Event: Computer Art Festival 2003 in Russia
The Computer Art Festival 2003 (CAFe 2003) will take for the fourth time on 23rd and 24th August 2003 in Kazan, Russia.

CAFe'2003 is an event for programmers, musicians, graphic artists, Web designers and other creative professions. The demo party will be conceived as a festival, which will be organised in cooperation with the Ministry for Youth. The festival is officially announced as a "Computers against Drugs" event. The main platforms are the Amiga, the ZX Spectrum and the PC. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)


Spanish and Russian documentation for FroggerNG
Spanish and Russian documentation for the shareware video player FroggerNG has been provided which is available for download under the title link. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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31.May.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


E3B and Hyperion: ALGOR / ROMulus flash ROM supported by AmigaOS 4
E3B and Hyperion are pleased to be able to announce the deep cooperation of both companies regarding the ALGOR and ROMulus. The for the time being by Hyperion developed AmigaOS 4.0 will be able to use the flash ROMs available on the ALGOR and ROMULUS without any problem.

Read the complete German press release on the E3B news site or an also available English version.

The ALGOR is a Zorro II based USB controller that supports USB 1.1 and 2.0 (no highspeed mode) and has 512kB flash ROM integrated on the controller card.
The widely spread HIGHWAY USB controller can be upgraded via ROMulus with flash ROMs.

Users of the AmigaOS 4.x can keep a compressed Kickstart 4.0 in the flash ROM and significiantly shorten the boot time this way. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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31.May.2003
AUGS - Amiga User Group Switzerland (ANF)


AmigaOS 4.0 tour in Basel with good PR
The announcement of the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation in Basel finds a wide spreading in Switzerland through the headline on PC-Tip and the portal of Sunrise. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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31.May.2003
The Legacy (website)


The Legacy: Do you have self painted games sketchesor maps?
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad CPC that provides the readers with screenshots, covers scans and information about the developers. Today the museum is looking for people who still have their with attention to detail painted maps for Dungeon Master and games like that lying around.

Or is there on a still working floppy disk a course of Hard Drivin' 2: Drive Harderstill existing? Then please scan the maps, copy the data and send all to the museum. Please send all the pearls to mishra@thelegacy.de. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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31.May.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: Temporary injunction against SCO
The Linux specialist univention from Bremen (Germany) has obtained a temporary injunction at the Landgericht Bremen against the SCO Group GmbH. This injunction forbids SCO to claim "that Linux operating systems contain illegally gained intellectual property of SCO Unix and/or that end users who use Linux can be made liable for the involved violation of copyrights". If acting against this an infringement payment up to 250,000 Euro is possible. This injunction is only valid for the German SCO Group GmbH not world wide.
Read the full (German) Golem article following the title link.

Further link regarding the subject:
heise (German): SCO: Ausschneiden und kleben? (ps) (Translation: wk)

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31.May.2003
A/NES (website)


Emulator: A/NES CGFX version 1.33 in the works
Version 1.33 of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES CGFX for Amiga computers with graphics cards is being worked on. Here the original message:

"Started to work on v1.33. Finally managed to get rid of the annoying mousepointer on the screen while running the ROMs. For now, that's really the major new feature of v1.33. :) I'll try to implement some more nice stuff however.
By the way, I even tried to assemble the old A/NES AGA code some days ago, if you remember it? :) I can't get it to run properly however, dunno if it's because I have a different computer today compared to when I last compiled those sources. Time will tell if I manage to get it running someday... :p
And as usual, feel free to report comments about A/NES CGFX (ideas, bugreports etc) in the forum or by e-mail." (ps) (Translation: wk)

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31.May.2003



Aminet uploads until 31.05.2003
Here are the Aminet uploads added since our last report:
trsi-fnews12.lha     comm/misc   51K+Free configurable News Display Tool for 
IBrowseSP.lha        comm/www    17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1d
WebPics104.lha       comm/www     5K+WebPics 1.04 - Web Based Photo Gallery G
ADN_Support.lha      comm/yam    23K+V1.3 AmigaDreamNetwork support for YAM.
YAM24p1.lha          comm/yam   728K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4p1 (bugfix updat
NoSyncIzBack.lha     demo/aga   1.7M+NoSyncIzBack! - WOS demo 3rd at IGDRP 2.
USE_NoSync.lha       demo/aga   3.8M+NoSync by Universe - WOS demo 3rd at Equ
MCC_SpeedBarSP.lha   dev/mui      7K+SpeedBar 19.1 spanish catalogs v19.1.0
AMIthlon_setup.lha   disk/misc  1.0M+Easy automated AMIthlon setup disks usin
SpanienSSeng.lha     docs/hyper  98K+SpanienSSeng history of some spanish
AmigaArenaBase.lha   docs/misc  528K+Amiga Arena Interview Database (English/
Arkanos.lha          game/misc  404K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.02 **
MLink.lha            game/wb     44K+Try to solve this chainlink puzzle!
MySquare.lha         game/wb     43K+Try to solve this mathematical puzzle!
TriLights.lha        game/wb     44K+Light-up this triangular-shaped board!
X_Lights.lha         game/wb     44K+Light-up this X-shaped board!
DIYrekoIII.lha       gfx/ifx     34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Sv5Fix121.lha        gfx/misc     6K+*Fix* for SView5 V1.21 (29.5.2003)
FroggerRU.lha        gfx/show    11K+Frogger russian documentation v2.06
DC-KF500.lha         hard/hack  983K+A500 based FlashROM kickstart board
LCD-Test.lha         hard/misc   14K+LCD Test: helps to find broken Pixels
ZXLive.lha           misc/emu    86K+ZX-Spectrum 48/128k emulator v0.17b
037_mpfree.lha       mods/moods 8.9M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
041_mpfree.lha       mods/moods 4.3M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
Almacen-Chip.mpg     mods/mpg   6.0M+Almac n Chip (Symphonie mod in mpeg form
Amiga_Roolez.mpg     mods/mpg   6.9M+Amiga Roolez song (Symphonie mod in mpeg
ArrobaMix.mpg        mods/mpg   2.9M+Arroba Mix (The final part of Arrebato m
BAR.mpg              mods/mpg   4.0M+Bar (Rock mod converted to mpeg audio)
ModMix.mpg           mods/mpg   1.2M+Remix of Cherry2.mod
QuantumExecBas.mpg   mods/mpg   3.7M+Quantum for the Execbase (converted to m
opensource.lha       mods/smg    53K+PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
pumpitup.lha         mods/smg    58K+Oldie - PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
smoothia.lha         mods/smg   154K+PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
spaceballs.lha       mods/smg   205K+Oldie - PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
techrythm.lha        mods/smg    16K+Oldie - PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
Cougar16V_01.jpg     pix/vehic  127K+Pic of Ford Cougar in 1024x682
Cougar16V_02.jpg     pix/vehic  118K+Pic of 2 Ford Cougars in 1024x682
Cougar16V_03.jpg     pix/vehic  147K+Pic of 2 Ford Cougars in 1024x682
Cougar16V_04.jpg     pix/vehic  1.2M+Pic of Ford Cougar in 2160x1440
Amitex_4.04.lha      text/edit  428K+Text editor (French and english versions
trsi-mp3ext13.lha    util/cli    12K+MP3 Info Viewer + FileID creator
frog_scripts.lha     util/misc   26K+ToolBar Scripts and Buttons for FroggerN
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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31.May.2003
edition W3C.de


German translation of the XFrames Working Draft
Already in the middle of May had a German translation of the conceptual drafts for the new XFrames on the website of Michael Jendryschik been made available under the title link. The English original of the Working Draft can be found on the website of the W3C. XFrames is an XML application with the aim to assemble several documents to replace in the long run the HTML frames. A future support through all available webbrowsers recommended by the W3C. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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31.May.2003
Amiga Rulez


Website for MorphED set up
For MorphED, a free text editor and gcc developers environment by Dietmar Eilert for the operating system MorphOS, had an own website been set up under the title link. There you can find next to some information several provisional screenshots that show the optical relationship between MorphED and GoldED Studio AIX.

Under http://morphed.morphos.net/ exists a mirror of the website. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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31.May.2003
Cyborg (ANF)


BenderIRC 1.5 RC 1 available
BenderIRC, the free IRC client, is nearing the final version 1.5. In the last days has the client got several updates.

As last missing feature has now the beta version of the graphical configuration tool been made available for download. Together with the changes in BenderIRC itself have many demands of the users been granted.

All users are called to report the still remaining bugs. The simpliest way is using the web form. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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31.May.2003
DOpus-ML (email)


New DirOpus 4 beta version available
The new beta version 4.17 pre 21 of the file manager Directory Opus 4 is available under the title link. Direct download: DOpus417pre21.lzx. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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30.May.2003
Gunnar 'GunaTM' Bernhardt (ANF)


Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22 R7 published
Version 0.8.22 release 7 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' written by Toni Wilen for Windows has been published. This version contains the following bug fixes and new features:

Bugs fixed:
  • printer didn't work if serial port emulation was enabled
  • palette wasn't updated properly when entering and exiting the GUI in fullscreen 8-bit Picasso96 mode
  • button or key mapped to mouse horizontal or vertical axis
  • random crash when horizontal centering was enabled
  • bsdsocket emulation, ping, traceroute, AmTelnet SSH connection freeze
  • config save crash and non working keyboard
  • ShapeShifter-support improved, all Kickstart 2.x/3.x versions supported
  • lores-mode support for "sprites outside display window"-feature
  • and more..
New features:
  • emulation compatibility improvements Elfmania, Rainbow Island (broke accidentally in R6), Mission Elevator (properly fixed this time...), SWIV, Old Timer, Inferior, Sub Rally, Sargon History, TBL demos, Sound of Silents, Cardamom, Cardamon etc.
  • analog joystick (paddle) ports emulated
  • improved hard/ZIP disk RDB detection
  • Action Replay 2/3 state file support
  • sound "power led" filter emulation
  • freely selectable sound sample rate (8000 - 48000)
  • "direct" serial port support, fixes PC to PC Lotus 2 serial link problems. (two player only, 3 or 4 players require lower serial latency that is not possible under Windows)
  • zipped CAPS-image support
  • updated AHI driver included
A German mirror is available under webwood.de. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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30.May.2003
Amiga Club Augsburg (ANF)


OS4.0 on Tour - News
Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik wrote:
"With an opinion poll we would like to get an overview about the amount of people who might will come. If there are any signs that more visitors will come than we expect now there is the possibility open the event on Sunday, too. Therefore we would be very grateful if you could help us.

Especially we are very delighted to present some developers and members of Hyperion. At this event the following persons will be present: Steffen Häuser, Hans-Jörg Frieden and Thomas Frieden.

Christian Krenner will exhibit and present his 'Monster A600' (Motorola 68030/40 MHz, 34 MByte RAM, 10 GByte hard drive, PCMCIA-Net work and USB-ports). (ps) (Translation: dr)

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30.May.2003
Debian (Website)


Debian Weekly News: Debian for Pegasos
In its issue 21/2003 the Debian Weekly News which is a newsletter of the Debian community reports about how Debian works on a Pegasos computer:

"Debian on the Pegasos platform. Eugenia Loli-Queru has reported that Debian GNU/Linux has been preinstalled on the Pegasos computers which are beased on PowerPC G3 and G4. With the help of Mac-on-Linux you are able to run the Debian system, MacOS or OSX without Apple hardware." (nba) (Translation: dr)

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30.May.2003
WHDLoad (Website)


Installer: WHDLoad - New packets until 31.05.2003 (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games which have been formerly meant only for use with disks on your hard drive. The following packets have been added or updated:
  • 31.05.03 new: Psycho Santa (Bullfrog) done by Agressor
  • 31.05.03 fixed: Zool (Gremlin) rawdic imager fixed for disk 2
  • 31.05.03 fixed: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) install problems fixed
  • 31.05.03 fixed: King's Quest (Sierra) install problems fixed
  • 29.05.03 fixed: Simon The Sorcerer (Adventure Soft) access fault fixed
  • 29.05.03 new: Lords of the Rising Sun (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
  • 29.05.03 new: King's Quest 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
  • 29.05.03 new: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
  • 24.05.03 improved: Boston Bomb Club (Silmarils) supports another version
  • 24.05.03 new: King's Quest (Sierra) done by JOTD
(nba) (Translation: dr)

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30.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (E-Mail)


Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - further names wanted
Steffen Nitz wrotes:
I need your ideas again. This time I am looking for positive messages of the workers like:
  • Yes, Sir!
  • As you like it!
  • Finally good work!
  • Will be done, Sir!
  • Your wish is my order!
and I am looking for negative messages like:
  • Not already again!
  • Is there not somebody else who can do this?
  • I am fed up with this!
  • No, I will not do this!
This one who will send me the most good sentences will get a keyfile of the Gilde or of SN-Münzarchiv as well as an entry in the credits.

The game principle
This game is a round based economy simulation which takes place in the Middle Ages (1400 until 1600). Furthermore it is also a realtime strategy game with elements of role games and it is a simulation of the life. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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30.May.2003
derstandard.at (ANF)


Mention of Amizilla on Standard
During the last time good news have been a really rare thing. But the Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" reports sometimes about our system. The online article reports about the project "Amizilla" which tries to make possible the porting of the Mozilla browser to the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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29.May.2003
Chris Hodges (ANF)


USB Stack: Poseidon Update V2.1
There's a new update of the Poseidon USB Stack. It consists mainly of improvements and bugfixes of the Mass Storage Class, for Highway as well as Subway drivers. Through this a whole lot more pieces of equipment should run, which had formerly balked.

Newly come is a program for USB-Radios from D-Link, respectively GemTek. One can purchase these very cheaply on eBay, because it was put together in a friendly manner it was just a few hours work to create the drivers.

A bit more was invested in the new program for the management of my MP3 Player (Valencia MPX), which was available for purchase at Lidl in December 2002. This (and many similarly built units) are unfortunately not MSD equipment. With the Uproar tool this MP3 player may nonetheless be conveniently used. In case anyone else has such a gadget, I'd be very appreciative to hear some feedback.

This time there are two separate archives, for classic Amiga as well as MorphOS systems -- this allows simple installation.

That's just an intro, further details may be found in the ReadMe. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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29.May.2003
(ANF)


Amiga Access Homepage Update
On the homepage of the Amiga-Clone 'Access' (title link) there are now some more benchmarks. The modules may be downloaded and tried on your own computer. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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29.May.2003
Roger Stamm (ANF)


ahs-amiga.ch Is Moving
Roger Stamm of AHS-Amiga Handel Stamm writes:
"AHS-Amiga is moving. Because of this it may happen that the pages at www.ahs.amiga.ch are not readily available. If you want to get in touch with us, use email: info@ahs-amiga.ch. We will send a confirmation within two days for the receipt of the email. If you don't get confirmation, you can also reach us at rstamm@gmx.de. Many thanks for your understanding." (ps) (Translation: dm)

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29.May.2003
Telemar Rosenberger (E-Mail)


Amiforce: Snapshots of Aquarium and Port Royal
Telemar Rosenberger, known to many for his software "AmHuhn," has authored a screen saver named "Aquarium" and a game named "Port Royal," with the help of the multimedia authoring system Hollywood. Under the title link you'll find the first screenshots for both of these programs. The programs will be published as soon as the announced Hollywood Version 1.5 is out.

The deal with Aquarium is that it's a screen saver with images of swimming fish, already known from other platforms. Now AmigaOS too gets the enjoyment of this pleasing screen saver.

Port Royal is a new combat game, which is about ships firing cannons. With this one may, for example, calculate wind direction in directing a strike, and naturally the enemy ships shoot back. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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29.May.2003
Amiforce (ANF)


Amiforce: New Audio Track
As of now there is a new MP3 (Trance) to be downloaded from Amiforce, for all interested. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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