31.Oct.2003
http://www.retrohq.de/shop (ANF)
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Printed reference-book: "Game machines"
In the shop of the retro specialist retrohq.de
there is a reference-book to the famous console and computer systems of the 80s.
You can find test sites under http://www.retrohq.de.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2003
heise online (Website)
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heise: Microsoft is going to take over Google
Today the New York Times reports that Microsoft is going to have a partnership or to
fully take over Google. You can only read the full article of the NYT under the title link
if you pay for it.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2003
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Pegasos website at OpenBSD.org online
By http://www.openbsd.org/pegasos.html, the Pegasos version of OpenBSD now also has its own page at the official OpenBSD website. Here you can find information about the current status of development, supported peripherals, the corresponding mailing list and the installation. (snx)
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31.Oct.2003
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: bchunk win32 - Official beta test
This is an official beta version of the Win32-port of binchunker which is also known as
bchunk. bchunk is an Unix-Shell command which allows you to extract ISO-images from
CUE/BIN-images. Besides this it is possible to extract audio tracks to the CD-audio-format
(.crd) or to the WAV-format (.wav).
The file is available under the title link (17kb). An Amiga version is still in work.
Please test this program with e.g. CD32-CDs which also contains audio tracks and test if
the WAV-files are correctly playable.
You can get the source code at inquiry.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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30.Oct.2003
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Icon Patch: PowerIcons 1.04
This new version of the icon patch "Power Icons" contains many bug fixes. The exact changes for version 1.04 are viewable in the Change Log.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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MAME: Version 0.72 for MorphOS Appears
The "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" (MAME) has progressively appeared in version 0.72 for MorphOS.
[see also starroms.com to purchase ROMs -DM]
Download (snx) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
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Titan is looking for translators for Papyrus Office
Titan Computer is looking for translators for their upcoming software Papyrus Office. A German, English and French localization does already exist. If you are interested to help, please send a short e-mail to Michael Garlich. (snx)
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30.Oct.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)
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Source Code Released of Civilization: Call to Power II
On 28th October 2003 Activision released for free the source code for the strategy game "Civilization: Call to Power II." It may be downloaded from the website of Apolyton . Because the hardware requirements are moderate, PC hardware with a speed of 166 MHz and memory of 64 megs, nothing should stand in the way technically of a port to Amiga OS or MorphOS. The 8 megs of source contain the main parts of the code necessary to do a port. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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Genesi adds four new patents to its intellectual property portfolio (Update)
Genesi announced today that four patents owned by Raquel Velasco will be included in the Genesi intellectual property portfolio.
Genesi will be free to both benefit from these patents in the development of products and license fees.
The patents are:
- US5561709: Apparatus and method for electronic device for information services (1996-10-01)
- US5561708: Method and apparatus for interactive television through use of menu windows (1996-10-01)
- US5504519: Method and apparatus for printing coupons and the like (1996-04-02)
- US5490208: Apparatus and method for voice mode and data mode television-to-television communication (1996-02-06)
You can see the abstracts in the fulltext database for US-patents.
Contact:
Genesi SARL
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
bbrv@genesi.lu
Update: In the official press-release at Genesi's website even seven patents are listed. In addition to those already mentioned above, there are, also owned by Raquel Velasco:
- US5461667: Apparatus and method for electronic device for information services (1995-10-04)
- US5404393: Method and apparatus for interactive television through use of menu windows (1995-04-04)
- US5396546: Apparatus and method for automatic and user configurable information appliance (1995-03-07)
(snx)
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30.Oct.2003
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AWeb: Status report
No, we're not dead. :-) People are busy doing other things and things are awfully quiet. However a few things have happened:
GCC conversion of AWeb APL Lite seems to be progressing, slowly but steadily. It was therefore decided that we still need another SAS/C version before finally moving to GCC as the wait has been too long already.
We are in need of a person who can compile the AWeb 3.4 APL sources in CVS with the patches that have been submitted by various people and help us go towards a 3.5 release. This needs to be done using SAS/C.
As for the new AWeb, progress on KHTML is going too slow, because the developers have too little time to work on it. If you are willing to give a hand in helping a modern HTML-browser onto the AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS platforms, contact me.
If you are wondering about our plans, the document which describes this is here. Be aware that the document is not entirely complete and is based on discussion on our developer mailing list. (snx)
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30.Oct.2003
Martin Steigerwald
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Amithlon: Martin Steigerwald No Longer at Haage & Partner
Martin Steigerwald posted on the mailing lists for Amithlon, AmithlonOpen, and AmigaXL that he doesn't work for Haage & Partner anymore, and is thusly no longer doing email support for Amithlon users. (cs) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
st-computer (Website)
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GamePlan's Second Offering: Joysticks - Game Controllers from 1972 to 2003
After the success of "GamePlan: Consoles and Home Computers" a new book from the publishing house Gameplan is coming this November: "JOYSTICKS, an Illustrated History of the Game Controller." In cooperation with Take 2, Winnie Forster and Stephan Freundorfer wrote a reference book for all gamers: Joysticks shows the best and coolest, the humblest and the most daring controllers from 30 years of computer and videogame history. From the classic Atari stick to the handy pads of Sega, Sony and Nintendo all the way to the optical precision equipment of the ego shooter and onwards, Joysticks awes, stuns, and amuses gamers of every generation. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
Zeit (ANF)
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Zeit.de: Programmers from all Lands Unite!
"Programmers from all Lands..." is an overview of the mobilization of the open source movement, a comparison of different ideological perspectives of software development and a short exploration of the problems of software patents. An excerpt follows (with the friendly approval of Zeit.de) and the complete article is reachable under the title link:
For years only geeks got excited about it. They sat, strewn around the globe, at their computers and programmed, criticized, and discussed via the Internet. The rest of the world had no idea what was there in the 'Net: at first glance just some software. Actually the free thinking online community had created an antithesis to Microsoft, the most powerful and largest software house in the world. [...]
[other excerpts not translated, they're a bit longish. -dm]
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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29.Oct.2003
RetroMan (ANF)
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Tool: NRG2ISO V0.2 released
The tool NRG2ISO has been released in version 0.2 for download. The software converts Nero image files into ISO images, which can be imported then into Amiga CD writing programs. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
Hippie2000 (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: Rat roasting
The back2roots.org server and the entire network cluster were offline two days caused by a rat
that had been looking for a warm place to stay inside a transformator hut. The rat found a VERY warm place and an
instant death as a kind of a barbecued rat.
For that server failure the BTTR team would like to apologize. The winuae.net and all other hosted sites were affected also.
Now everything is okay again, the rat is cold and the server warm again.
If some mails during these days seem to be lost, please send them again.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages till October the 28th 2003
With WHDLoad it becomes possible to install games intended for floppy disk use only to hard disk. The
following packages were added or updated since the last reporting.
- 28.10.03 new: Shaft 7 (Bomb)
- 27.10.03 improved: Lemmings (Psygnosis/DMA Design)
- 27.10.03 new: History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte)
- 27.10.03 fixed: Gods (Bitmap Brothers)
- 25.10.03 new: Fire Hawk (Codemasters)
- 25.10.03 fixed: Gods (Bitmap Brothers)
- 22.10.03 new: Street Gang (Time Warp/Rainbow Arts)
- 22.10.03 new: Crazy Sexy Cool (Essence)
- 21.10.03 new: Synthesis (Network)
- 21.10.03 new: Gold Rush (Sierra)
- 21.10.03 updated: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment)
- 21.10.03 updated: Pinball Illusions (Digital Illusions/21st Century)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
AudioLabs (Website)
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AudioLabs launches new website
AudioLabs, developer of the highly professional audio sequencing software
"ProStationAudio" has relaunched the company and producer website with a fresh
design and enhanced content. At the new site there is information about PSA and its plug-ins
but also background information about audio sequencing e.g. an interview with Markus Steblei: he and a a
colleague are presenting a multimedia show at Munichs's planetarium of the "Forum der Technik" utilizing PSA.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
Heise
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Heise: First Internet provider with P2P-licence
The British Internet provider Playlouder MSP announced a legal access of file-sharing services starting next year.
To achieve this, the company signed contracts with the respective corporations and some British Indie record companies - currently including the labels V2, PIAS and Ninja Tune, among others. With their planned service, Playlouder offers record companies a solution to profit from filesharing tools.
More information can be found in the corresponding German article at Heise Online under the title link. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
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MUI: HotkeyString class reimplemented
Since the HotkeyString class for MUI isn't continued by its author Allan Odgaard, it was reimplemented by Ilkka "Itix" Lehtoranta.
Added features are full support of PC keyboards and of wheelmice. The source code is available under LGPL.
The archive contains binaries for MorphOS and AmigaOS-68k (with courtesy of David Arbuthnot). The project's website can be found at Sourceforge under the title link.
The author thanks Allan Odgaard for the original class and for permission to include the existing resources (MUI tagbase, developer material) into the distribution. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
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MorphOS: ImageFX-Lite and Powerstation added to the SuperBundle
Nova Design, Inc. is pleased to announce that our award-winning package, ImageFX, is now available for Pegasos/MorphOS owners in a special lite-edition as part of the SuperBundle package from Genesi.
This version was especially created for MorphOS and includes full color icons and other special features for this release. It comes with PowerPC enabled effects and JPEG loader/savers. It also includes the first release of Lightning for PowerPC as well!
If you already own the complete version of ImageFX, the SuperBundle package also includes the PowerStation modules (including the new Lightning) for MorphOS as well.
Users who find themselves wanting the advanced morphing, animation and keyframing features (and more) of the full ImageFX 4.5 package can upgrade for only $99.95 plus shipping and handling! An amazing bargain.
To download visit The SuperBundle Download Page or to find out more information about Nova Design, Inc. products visit their website at www.novadesign.com.
The files are named ImageFX_Lite.lha and PowerStation.lha.
If you still do not have your SuperBundle account, you can still sign up at MorphOS.net. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: 3 new productions
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) has been extended with another three impressing poductions:
- Nano / Scarab (intro 4k, 1st at Mekka Symposium 2002)
- Datablade / Floppy and Madwizards (demo, 1st at Xenium 1999)
- Synthesis / Network (demo, 3rd at Assembly 1998).
Furthermore the original screen shots of "Planet Potion", which still holds the 1st position at the ADA charts,
were replaced with 28 high quality screen shots which were made directly with an Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #058
The scene group Liquid Skies has released the 58th music pack today. It contains the
track "Gwiezdny Taniec" of the Polish musician Maxus. The cover was created
by DaFreak.
Here some more information about the track
- title: Gwiezdny Taniec (Engl.: Stardance)
- artist: Maxus
- style: Trance
- length: 4:34
- format: mp3 (160kbps)
The zipped file (5.3 MB) is available for download.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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GoldED: C/C++ IDE Update-Archive
For the text and coding editor "GoldED Studio AIX" a new service pack for the C/C++ Add-On was released.
This new version solves problems on the installation of GCC/NDK parts and is available for all registered users.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Game: Amiga-Freespace Singleplayer-Pack 2 released
The Singleplayer-Pack 2 for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace" is released. It contains
ten new single player missions and can be downloaded from the Amiga-Freespace-website.
Just to mention the "Amiga Freespace Forum" with more than 3500 hits, 29 topics, and 125 issues.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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"OS4 on Tour" in Great Britain
The South West Amiga Group organizes a presentation of the OS4 on the AmigaOne on Saturday, December 13th in Bath.
Confirmed is that OS4 will run on an AmigaOne XE-G4 and a prototype of the MicroA1 board will be shown.
Maybe Timothy de Groote of Hyperion will be there, too.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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Retro-Gaming: Amiga games for four Joysticks
Christoph Gutjahr has released an overview about all the games with support of the 4-joystick-adapter he knows.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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Hardware-Hack: CD-writer in original A1200 case
Update (26.10.2012, cg): integrated entire article into news item during database migration
Amiga user Egon Kohlschütter has managed to fit both a CD-ROM and an IDE harddisk into the A1200's original case. The idea is to
move the harddrive to the right of the case (to the position normally occupied by the internal disk drive)
and put the CD-ROM to the left side of the case. The floppy drive had to be removed to gain the neccessary
space (Egon uses an external drive now) and the case had to be slightly modified. This is what the end
result looks like:
Fitting the CD-ROM drive
Get an internal CD-ROM drive (or even a CD-Writer!) targeted for Laptops - these are small enough
to fit into the original case. Some devices that should work are:
- TEAC CD-224E (CD-ROM)
- TEAC CD-W24E (CD-Writer)
These drives use a special IDE connector called "Mini-IDE", so you'll have to find a suitable adaptor. These adaptors
are usually called "Slimline adaptors" (Mini-IDE to IDE-40-pins). As these Laptop-CD-drives are usually jumpered
as "Master" and the internal HD should be "Master" aswell, you should also get one of the myriad of A1200 IDE devices that
enable you to connect up to four drives to your Amiga.
Obviously, you'll have to cut an opening into the case - a CD-ROM not accessible from the outside is not
exactly useful ;-) This image demonstrates the exact position of the drive:
Some hints for the actual case modification:
- open the case, remove the RF shielding and position the CD-ROM
- The drive rests partly on the bottom half of the case
- use a pen to mark the area that has to be cut out
- use a dremel or a similar tool to remove the plastic
- Powerstrip is used to fix the drive at its new position.
Moving the harddrive to its new position
The harddrive will be put where the internal disk drive used to be. Remove the disk drive and make sure
that the internal disk drive connector can not be shortened by accident (e.g. by putting an old IDE or
floppy connector onto it).
The RF shielding may cause short circuits too - make sure that you either remove enough of it to avoid that
or put some isolating material around the harddrive.
The floppy disk drive
When booting, the A1200 will spend a few seconds searching for the internal floppy disk drive. Additionally,
Workbench might complain about the missing disk drive. Both problems can be easily solved by connecting
pins #1 of the internal floppy disk drive connector with the pin below it. The boot process will be slightly
faster after this modification.
But with these pins connected, your A1200 will not recognise external disk drives. Therefore Egon connected
the pins using a switch: The switch is closed most of the time, but you can open it at any time (even if the
machine is already up and running) to access external disk drives and close it again afterwards.
More pictures
Here are some more pictures showing various details of Egon's hack:
Additional notes
The scsi.device included with AmigaOS 3.0/3.1 is not able to handle ATAPI drives (like CD-ROM or CD-RW
drives), so you'll have to use a replacement. AmigaOS 3.5+ comes with an updated scsi.device, another
option would be the shareware IDEFix.
Egon equipped his A1200 with the CD-RW drive mentioned above. BurnIt does not have specific support for this
particular drive, but the generic driver (No. 9) works fine.
If you did not connect the pins on the internal floppy disk drive connector as described above, Workbench may
complain about the missing disk drive - OS 3.5+ users should deactivate drive "DF0:" in the Workbench
preferences to avoid this.
Egon can be contacted at Egone@freenet.de. Please note that his English is (quoting Egon)
"pretty poor", so you may contact us aswell, we'll forward your feedback to Egon. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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27.Oct.2003
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SciTech Software renew partnership with ATI
SciTech Softwar, whose Multi-OS graphic accelerator driver system "SNAP" will be used with AmigaOS 4, announced today the renew of theire partnership with ATI.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: MicroATX version comes nevertheless
After the official announcement of the AmigaOne-Lite, also known as "Micro-A1", one could get the impression that this release will be the end of the "AmigaOne Micro-ATX".
Ben Hermans has now gotten straight in a comment on ANN that this is a misunderstanding for which he is to blame for, the AmigaOne Micro ATX is still planned.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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IRC: Changed server for the #Amigaworld channel
AmigaWorld.net announced that they moved their channel from Undernet to ExodusIRC due to lags, netsplits and missing services like nickserv.
The channel is now available at irc.amigaworld.net port 6667 or port 1024 for users behind a firewall.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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amiga-news.de: The new Team
Some time ago amiga-news.de reported that the founder of amiga-news.de, Petra Struck, will resign from the daily news creation due to private reasons. For this reason an extended editors team was established. The following persons are involed in amiga-news.de:
Nico Barbat (nba): editor in charge
Jens Begeschke (jb): forum moderation
Ulrich Beckers (ub): English translation
Christian Busse (cb): English translation
Stéphane Campan (sc): French translation
Christoph Dietz (cd): engineering/server
Sven Drieling (sd): engineering/PHP
Guido Fehst (gf): English translation
Dr. Eric Gillé (eg): English translation
Christoph Gutjahr (cg): news editor
Martin Heine (snx): news editor, forum moderation
Hendrik Höner (hh): forum moderation
Sven Kirmse (sk): English translation
Daniel Miller (dm): English translation
Jürgen Müller (jm): newsticker, lectorat
H. Ogino (ho): Japanese translation
Piotr Pawlowski (pp): Polish translation
Daniel Reimann (dr): English translation
Christian Rosentreter (cr): forum moderation, IRC admin
Gerhard Schmid (gs): forum moderation
Carsten Schröder (cs): news editor, forum moderation
Felix Schwarz (fs): engineering/ALD
Petra Struck (ps): idea, foundation, design and glossary
Alfred Sturm (as): Aminet uploads
Rolf Tingler (rt): design
Last but not least we would like to thank all the readers for the loyalty in the
last years!
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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Beyond Magazine: number 2
The Beyond Magazine, a gratis PDF magazine, that deals besides BeOS with other alternative operating systems like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOSX or FreeBSD.
The just published expenditure 2 contains among other things a
Darwin review, a report about Marble Madness in the "Emuzone", a
Rebol course and a report of the Pianeta Amiga 2003.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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New YAM-"Developer" version
There is a new developer version of the well known e-mail client YAM available at the title link.
Further details about this new release can be found in the ChangeLog.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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New USB driver for Amithlon and OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version will be available within the next few days at
http://www.vmc.de/Amithlon. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version.
What is ArakAttack?
ArakAttack is an USB driver packet that allows the usage of USB on any AmigaOS compatible system with PCI slots. ArakAttack isn't an USB stack, it's a driver packet for Chris Hodges great USB Stack Poseidon.
What are the features of ArakAttack?
- Amithlon optimised version.
- OpenPCI compatible version.
- UHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- OHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- Unlimited number of USB controllers supported at the same time.
- Unlimited number of parallel USB transfers garantees maximum performance.
- Only one device with multiple units makes installation very easy.
- Intelligent transfer descriptor caching mechanism.
- Several user options allow an optimisation of resource management to the users requirements.
- Full mem handler support. (Frees resources and caches if the system signals low system memory)
- No HUB depth limits.
- Separate time out handling for each USB request garantees the driver never freezes the USB stack or the system.
- External interrupt fallback for systems with interrupt trouble.
What is also required to use ArakAttack?
The latest version of Chris Hodges' Poseidon USB stack.
In addition to that other components are required:
Amithlon:
powerpci.library - version 2.13 or better.
Amiga PCI / Pegasos:
openpci.library - version V1.20 or better.
Which USB Controller is required for ArakAttack?
Most of the current USB controllers are supported. Just take care it's UHCI, OHCI or EHCI compatible. Well, I don't think you'll find any other within the stores now.
Amithlon user may be happy to hear that on board USB controllers are working, too!
How can I register?
Well, currently the registration makes no sense, because ArakAttack is
quite useless without a registered USB Stack.
If you own a Poseidon key feel free to register. Further information can be
found in the manual.
PLEASE: Don't bother Chris Hodges with questions about registering Poseidon. He is very busy at the moment, so please keep quiet until the registration site will be up again.
(snx)
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26.Oct.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 349
Guido Mersmann released the beta version 349 of the TV-card driver software
AmithlonTV, which includes several small updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Changes since the previous version:
- FIXED: Fixed a small MorphOS bug, that caused the bt8x8 picture
creation to fail! (Thanks to Axel Knabe)
- FIXED: Fixed interrupt server problem.
(nba) (Translation: snx)
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26.Oct.2003
Stefan Ruppert (E-Mail)
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Application Response Measurement 4.0 will be finalized shortly
The version 4.0 of the Application Response Measurement
(ARM)
standard developed within the OpenGroup will be finalized shortly.
This standard defines a C/C++ and Java API for instrumenting (distributed)
applications. Most notably, with this standard programming language,
process and host boundaries are not a restriction for transaction and
sub-transaction measurements any more - resulting in a real end-to-end
(business-) transaction measurement. For a detailed description of
the ARM standard please read the document available on the OpenGroup
site.
Together with IBM and HP, the tang-IT Consulting GmbH has led
the development of this version 4.0 of the ARM standard. They are going
to show their ARM 4.0-based product called "tang-IT ARM" at
the LinuxWorld 2003 exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany from Oct. 27 to 29.
The main developers of *tang-IT ARM* have been knowning the Amiga
platform from the beginning. Therefore they can imagine a port to
either AmigaOS 3.x/4.0 or MorphOS if there is sufficient demand (>10) for
such a product in this niche market. A port to AmigaOS or MorphOS could be
available within a month and a developer license is about 200 Euro. (nba)
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25.Oct.2003
Peer Richter (ANF)
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New download opportunity for Ghostscript 8.00
Because of the problems when downloading Ghostscript 8.00 has Peter Richer gathered the archive and created an additional download opportunity on a German server.
Download Ghostcript 8.00.lha (5.1MB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter
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amiga-news.de: official IRC channel
Since some time now does there exist an official amiga-news.de IRC channel. People who want to talk about contents of amiga-news.de or generally about the Amiga and related topics are VERY welcome to have a look. The channel is in general German but it is possible to discuss and chat in English, too.
Channel: #amiganews.de
Server: de3.arcnet.vapor.com
(additional server: http://arcnet.vapor.com)
Besides the fact that the channel is a meeting point for Amiga users of all kind (68k, PPC, AOS4, MorphOS, UAE, AROS,
Amithlon, etc.) we'll try to arrange interview chats with known VIPs in the Amiga market.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
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Fax software: STFax 4 released as freeware
Simone Tellini, developer of STFax, has released his product as freeware. Version 4.0 of the software is now available on the Aminet. In addition you should install the update to version 4.1, too.
Simone points out that he'll offer only very restricted support - requests by users will only be answered if time allows it.
Who never has bought the commercial version and wants to send Simone a small compensation for the work done could send him something from his wish list.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Website: "Mac on Amiga" update
Mac On Amiga - a website dedicated to the emulation of Macintosh computers under AmigaOS has now got an own forum. In addition, a Shapeshifter tutorial has been released.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Rudolph Riedel (ANF)
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DiskMaster 2.5.27 released
Following the title link you can find the latest version of DiskMaster2.
Changes:
- Bugfix: "%c" didn't work with Auto commands.
- File requester for 'PrintDir' added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
JTSG (ANF)
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Event: first pictures of the OASE in Graz
Members of the Bitplane team have already released first pictures of the OASE in the net (title link).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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"AmigaOne updates" (column by Alan Redhouse)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group) has a regular column in the British Amiga magazine Total Amiga. In co-operation with "Total Amiga" makes the Amiga portal Amigaworld.net the past issues of this column available for all Internet users.
Excerpts taken from the explanations by Alan Redhouse:
- The dual CPU cards will be produced from December on if there are enough requests. Because of the prices for fast G4 CPUs will a card with two 1.3 GHz G4 processors not be cheaper than appr. 600-700 British Pounds (ca. 860-1000 EUR, without taxes).
- To bundle the restricted resources of Eyetech withdraws the company from the Amiga trading and concentrates on other business areas (AmigaOne production, "industrial markets").
- Registered OS4 beta testers will receive a 10% price reduction when buying an AmigaOne.
- Developers of drivers for the AmigaOne-Lite (RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire) will receive the motherboard for free. Interested people please contact Eyetech.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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