21.May.2003
Dany Thinnes (ANF)
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TH-Verbindung v1.2 released
TH-Verbindung controls the costs during connections with the Internet.
Thus unexpected bills shoud be avoided. Miami, MUI and ARexx are required. The update to version 1.2
has some news:
- reworked design
- program icon
- reset function
- menus
Some functions for the traffic control were improved and some prepared for a flatrate support which will be added later.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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21.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-KontoArchiv version 1.11
SN-KontoArchiv has been released in version 1.11. This program is an e-mailware
which enables you to manage your accounts in Euro. The program offers many statistical and input functions.
The following has been changed:
- Statistics got a new colour scheme to be discriminated better (green, red).
- Subject of the statistics is changed a bit and an according button has been integrated within the main window.
- Other changes.
Download: SN-KontoArc.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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21.May.2003
Mac Life (Website)
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PowerPC 970 shipped already?
The rumors page LoopRumors claims to know that IBM shipped
20,000 1.4 GHz and 40,000 1.6 GHz processors of the type PowerPC970 to Apple already.
It is said that they were delivered directly to Foxconn in Taiwan, the manufacturer of the
Apple mainboards. The 1.8 GHz prozessors were on their way also.
Even these rumors can't be confirmed, the introduction of the first PowerPC Macs is expected for summer.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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20.May.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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New Soms3D screenshots online
On the website 'Anime Development for Amiga' are new screenshots of the Alpha 5
Engine of the horror game 'Secret Of My Soul' released. Also some HTML errors are
removed.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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20.May.2003
DXE (ANF)
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amiga.org: Interview with Ben Hermans
At amiga.org you will find an interview from nOMAAM with Ben Hermans of Hyperion
Entertainment.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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20.May.2003
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PowerPC solutions from Total Impact
The Californian company Total Impact has announced three PowerPC based computers,
that are like the AmigaOne and Pegasos.
The briQ is a network computer with a PowerPC 750FX or 7400 (G4) with up 800 MHz and
is updatable in speed and processor. The briQ ist compatible with all
PowerPC-compatible Linux-distributions and will be delivered with Yellow Dog Linux.
The briQ RenderEngine is a 4- or 8-Node-System-variant of the briQ and is focussed on
users wanting high performance rendering.
Total mPower is a PCI-based multiprocessor solution for Intel-compatible PCs and
Apple Power Macintoshs. Solutions using Total mPower have a range from a single
board up to a nearly unlimited number of parallel boards. Four PowerPC G3 (750) or
G4 (7400) CPUs operating with 366 to 500 MHz in every board.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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20.May.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Karate 68k v0.97 released
The French coder Krabob of m4nkind has now released the new version 0.97 of Karate,
now als working with MorphOS and runs on 68030-Amigas faster than the previous
version. Karate is a Demo-Script-Language for Amiga and Pegasos.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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19.May.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Hollywood v1.5 Announcement
Airsoft Softwair will soon release the major update Hollywood 1.5 which
features so many great new things that are totally unique on the Amiga and
which will make Hollywood once more the absolute number one in Amiga
multimedia. The beta testers are already totally excited about the power
of Hollywood 1.5. Here is a quick overview of what is new in Hollywood
1.5:
- Support for multiple graphics layers
- Layer transparency and layer light correction
- Over 50 new impressing transition effects (totalling in over 100 now!)
- Support for object rotation, mirroring, inverting, color replacing
- Support for Intellifonts
- All audio output is retargetable through AHI including full
channel mixing and 16-bit stereo audio
- Full control over master volume
- Possibility to limit maximum number of frames per second
- Windows can have a dynamic transparency
- Joystick support!
- Powerful object animation functions
- Off-screen rendering
- New GUI
- Over 80 other useful new functions!
Hollywood 1.5 will be released soon. The Malibu plugin which enables
Hollywood to show also Scala scripts will be released shortly after
Hollywood 1.5. There is also work going on to make a plugin for Hollywood
that displays Power Point presentations (code name: Pasadena).
The Airsoft Softwair homepage (titlel link) features some
impressing screenshots in the news section. (nba)
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19.May.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: get active!
Get active! Comments, votes and demo chart (top 20) at Amiga Demoscene Archive. Read the news page on A.D.A. for more info and some important changes.
Chart is currently (top 5):
- 1. Nexus 7 / Andromeda
- 2. Planet Potion / Potion
- 3. State of the art / Spaceballs
- 4. Desert Dream / Kefrens
- 5. Budbrain Megademo 1 / Budbrain
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #036
There is a new song in the "Productions" area of the Liqiud Skies Records homepage available. The song by Angeldust is called "Glowing Red Desert".
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 19.05.2003
Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
e_money_110.lha biz/misc 177K+A Personal Accounts Manager (V1.10).
trsi-mcheck16.lha comm/bbs 127K+Multi-Check V1.6 - Multi Archive Tester
miamidxCT.lha comm/net 37K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
newscoaster.lha comm/news 425K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.56) (MUI)
USE_PowerUp.lha demo/aga 2.7M+PowerUp by Universe: Winner WOS demo at
GCCGUI.lha dev/c 15K+GUI for GNU C Compiler (gcc), based on w
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0.
Saga.lha game/board 306K+Saga 1.26: Conversion of TSR boardgame
TVSB2k2team.lha game/data 6K+2002 Rosters for TVSBasketball
Mattonite.lha game/demo 1.2M+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42: Advanced snake game
supertvSP.lha gfx/board 1K+Spanish catalog for SuperTV
AmiCAD_2.10.lha gfx/edit 768K+Schematics vectorial electronics program
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 31K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
imdbDiff030509.lha misc/imdb 2.6M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Cybernoid_1.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+Cybernoid 1 - Music Remake of Sinclair Z
Tetris_2.mpg mods/mpg 3.7M+Tetris 2 - Music Remake of Sinclair ZX S
DelfMPEG.lha mus/play 163K+MPEG audio player for Delfina DSP
DelfSF.lha mus/play 27K+Sndfile player for Delfina DSP
dmdev.lha mus/play 136K+Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
ArgueGUIColl.lha util/misc 68K+Argue GUI for Frogger(NG), Moovid, Visag
NoLed_v1.1.lha util/misc 4K+Low-Pass Filter Killer v1.1
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 186K+Italian version of StartBar
idlewos.lha util/moni 13K+A cpu monitor with WarpOS Support
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 90K+External Virus Scanner Library v33.40
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos: Independent Review by OSNews.com
Eugenia Loli Queru of OSNews.com made an independent Pegasos-Review. As a not Amiga user her judgement precipitates naturally very
critically over the MorphOS which is still in an early development stage. However when talking about the possibility to
use the hardware with various Linux distributions and MacOS her judgement is more positively. Among other things
she guesses to Genesi, to mark out the Pegasos as the Linux platform, because nevertheless x86 boards belong in last consequence to
Microsoft.
In its associated comment Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi suggest that one can
regard the "M" standing in MorphOS calmly also as for "mobility", this
is the next step.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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New Zaurus PDA's by Sharp
As one can read in the article by LinuxDevices (title link) Sharp announced some new Zaurus PDA's for Japan. The new devices C750/C760 will have the following improvements compared with their predecessors.
- New XScale processor PXA255 (SL750/SL760)
- More RAM (+64MB) (SL750/SL760)
- More Flash Memory (128MB) (SL760)
- Improved battery performance (SL760)
- Improved software (SL750/SL760)
Nothing has been said about if and when this devices will be available in europe. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Video player: FroggerNG 2.06
It is been a while since last release, wasn't it? Well, problems with
working computer on which I could do some developing are gone, so here
it is, brand new 2.06 ready for download. What's new? There is now almost
100% acurate A/V sync (also after seeking/pause). There is bunch of new
codecs (including a holy graal of video codecs, Sorenson Video 3, thanks
to annonymous programmer and ffmpeg team). Also, tons of bugs was removed
(which doesn't means it bug free ;). For a complete list of changes
please refer to CHANGELOG, included in archives. Remember to get codecs
archive as well, most of them were updated, not to mention new ones.
Have fun.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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Event: OS4 on Tour 2003 - more dates
point.design presents the AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour roadshow accross Europe.
Several events will take place on:
- June, 7th, BOF Multimedia Store, Ljubljana, Slowenia
- June, 14th, Amiga Club Augsburg, Germany
- June, 28th, BOF, Shopping-Center West, Graz, Austria
- July, 5th, Amiga Alpe Adria, Udine, Italy
- July, 5th, Amont Informatique, Toulouse, France
The planning so far goes to have AmigaOS4.0 running on a CyberStorm PPC
(with a native PPC kernel), as well as having current modules like
Roadshow, AmigaInput, Mount-Rainer (CD/RW), etc. with the new AmigaOS4.0
design on display.
Also you will find various AmigaOne G3/G4 machines on the show.
More surprises are on schedule.
Please visit OS4 on Tour 2003
and our partner web sites for more information.
We are looking forward to see you at the show(s)!
Jürgen Schober
point.design
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18.May.2003
Philippe Bourdin (E-Mail)
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Event: OS4 on Tour 2003 - 14th June 2003 in Augsburg
The Amiga Club Augsburg (ACA) and KDH Datentechnik are proud to invite you on June 14th, 2003 into the computer club, the Augsburger Computer Forum. We will present some novelties for your Classic Amiga and we will be able to give you a preview of Amiga OS4.0.
Amiga OS4.0
The presentation of the AmigaOne and a preview of Amiga OS4.0 will be given by Juergen Schober / Point Design from Austria (come, see and be surprised !! ).
Amiga One
The Amiga Club Augsburg will present the newest member of our Amiga family, the Amiga One. The Amiga One Systems are currently delivered with Debian Linux PPC installed. The presentaton machines have a G4 PPC processor with 800MHz. (We might have a surprise for you ;)
Algor (world premiere)
E3B will present its brandnew Zorro USB Controller Algor, as well as an update possibility to Highway by the name of Romulus. You will be able to talk face to face with Michael Boehmer, he is the hardware developer of the USB boards Algor, Highway, Subway and of the ethernet board Norway. If you need some advise, this is the right place and guy to ask ;). The scope of delivery of all USB boards from E3B contains a full version of Poseidon. Poseidon is developed by Chris Hodges in teamwork with E3B. The newest version of Poseidon will be presented together with Algor and Michael will be pleased to answer all your questions. If you want to test your USB devices together with an E3B USB controller, you are welcome to do so. At the show we will give you the possibility to purchase the E3B USB boards.
C-One (world premiere)
The C-One is a multiple faster than the C64 and has standard interfaces (PS/2-Mouseport, PS/2-Keyboard, Parallel-Port) to communicate with the outside world. PCI slots allow the use of todays PCI-cards, but also the periphery of the C64 is supported, as well as the clockport expansions modules of the Amiga 1200 will work in the C-One.
But the C-One is more: It is reconfigurable and thereby the first of its kind. The used techniques allows changing the hardware by means of simply exchanging a file. Jens Schönfeld will give an explicit, free of charge seminar on the C-One and will explain all the C-One functions. Jens will also answer all questions related to the other products from individual Computers. The products of individual Computers can be bought at the show.
Further information and details can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin (ANF)
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TaskSettler 1.1 released, change/remove task(s)
TaskSettler 1.1 a Shell/CLI utility written in 68K machine code. Change
taskpriority from task(s) and/or remove task(s). One example for use;
if you have no PCMCIA card attached to the Amiga1200, set in the
Startup-Sequence TaskSettler and remove the tasks card.resource and
card.device, speedsup the Amiga a little. But other purposes too.
Download:TaskSettler.lha
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18.May.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MMKeyboard sale of hardware discontinued
Due to rapidly decreasing hardware orders production of the MMKeyboard adapter is being discontinued. Support for MMKeyboard will of course continue. I just stop production of the hardware because it just isn't feasible to do in such small numbers. As the sale had always been done at cost I'd have to increase the price of the adapter quite drastically in order to get out of it without loss. Furthermore I just don't see myself in a position to produce the hardware within a desirable timeframe.
Everyone still has the choice to build the hardware themselves, which used to be done by quite a number of users. Maybe by way of this announcement someone can be found to produce adapters for technically less versed Amiga users. Instructions for this can be found under the title link.
Guido Mersmann
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 10
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 10 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) trgse: Something the Amiga has lacked since its early days is POSIX compliance or a good full POSIX emulation layer. (ixemul not being very amiga like and lacking fork, how does Amiga see this.... Will it be resolved under OS 4.x, if so how? does/will OS 5.x/DE have any POSIX compliance
Fleecy: There is already a project under way within the AmigaOS4 development team to increase POSIX compliance within the platform. Elements of this. most notably a threading solution will hopefully be in place for AmigaOS4.0.
2) ikir: What do you think of the Coldfire Accelerator Project? Could we have a Coldfire version of OS4.x in the future? With a 200+ MHz coldfire, many people would probably want OS4 for these machines. What is your stance on this?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4 for the desktop is a PPC product and that is what we will be supporting.
3) alx: What is the reasoning behind A inc not releasing the old 1.x ROM images? They would be useful for many people, would provide an indication of goodwill and wouldn't run any recent s/w like the "current" 3.x series.
Fleecy: We are investigating this and are looking at both providing a distinct product with these pieces on it as well as having them all on the AmigaOS4.0 CD.
4) Tigger: Where you unaware of what Bill McEwen was going to say in the Bolten Peck case about not being the CEO, or were you intentionally misleading the Amiga Community with your post that Bill McEwen was still the CEO??
Fleecy: Bill McEwen is still CEO. He was CEO before I posted that statement, he was the CEO when I posted that statement and is the CEO today as I type this answer to you. I have no comments to make about any on going lawsuits.
5) Hondo_DK: Does Amiga have any upcoming plans for their website. I mean if Amiga is to launch OS4 to an unexpecting amazed world, then you're website would probably be facing a run over by zillions of surfers from everywhere in the computer business. When seeing the present Amiga site, many would perhaps turn away because of the lack of a design roadmap. Do you have any plan to prepare yourself before the launch of OS4.
Fleecy: We are very aware that the Amiga web presence needs updating. This is being done one site at a time with the new Amiga Power Platform website under construction as we speak and due to be opened to the public before AmigaOS4.0 goes on sale.
6) KingTutt: If a clear and steady level of growth is reached, and a sizable userbase pushes sales akin to the first year of these next-gen consoles. Would Amiga Inc consider bringing into the fold some past Amiga game developers in an effort to resurrect some past game legends ala the great Turrican series? And if so, how do you see Amiga Inc playing an instrumental role in bringing back past hits.
Fleecy: We do intend to do this but usually you only get one shot at trying to convince people to come back to a platform and so we don't want to do this until the platform supports a market large enough to provide a substantial financial element to the overall decision. If the userbase does get to that size, we'd be very happy. As an aside I should mention that we have had such developers spontaneously contacting us to enquire about coming back to the platform and discussions are ongoing.
7) KingTutt: Do you believe its important for Amiga as a possible future gaming platform, to stand by its own creations & merits, distinguishable from the rest or should it rely on ported titles from other systems?
Fleecy: Porting of product has a definite place, especially for a small market where the cost of developing a new product from scratch is substantial. However we would very much like to see unique content on the Amiga and will be working towards that end. It has to be said that if someone wrote an amazing game on the Amiga, the developer would most likely want to look at porting it to other platforms anyway so perhaps the best we can hope for in the short term is ports, the medium term is content on our platform first and then ported followed by unique content only on our platform as the market size increases.
In the end the only way to guarantee unique content is to have features and capabilities on the platform that do not exist and more, cannot be replicated on another platform but with hardware commoditisation, that is increasingly difficult.
8) Deniil715: I was wondering if the TCP/IP-stack of OS4 will support IPv6?? And if it will not, will it atleast support DHCP IP-timeout and refresh so that it can be used on a network with a DHCP-server which put a timeout on the IP-address and hence withdraw it after the timeout if the TCP/IP-stack doesn't refresh it.
Fleecy: DHCP is in (the whole package, not just the fringe features), IPv6 is not. Given our current resources and feature lists for AmigaOS4, IPv6 is down near the bottom of the list but as the project advances, features above it will be crossed off and we will of course continually review the situation.
9) ssolie: Have you given any thought to utilizing open source development, either as a source baseline or as a development model, to speed delivery of various AmigaOS services?
Fleecy: We have considered it and may dabble in it on the fringes but as a commercial company we have a need to develop IP and to provide a return on it to our investors. If we were developing another UNIX wannabe, same old same old product then it would have more appeal but we are into developing something unique and in making money out of it.
10) catohagen: If i dont remember wrong, there was something called PREXX, what is it and is it still planned ?
Fleecy: I have asked a few people, most of whom returned a blank expression. One person believes it may have been something that Haage and Partner were talking about but there is certainly nothing of that name in AmigaOS4.0
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=11
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4 Beta 5
In addition to the current version of the start menu Pixload 4 Beta 5, Pixel Art have provided a bilingual guide file for download. If you can help to translate this documentation into German you are invited to mail them in English to
pixelart@wanadoo.fr.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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Amiga-Hardware to give away
Matthias Henze writes:
I'm giving away the following Amiga hardware resp. accessories:
- Oktagon 2008 SCSI 2 controller
- Emplant Macintosh Emulator
- Original Amiga mice (of A500+ and A4000)
- Original A4000 desktop case (Commodore)
- Original A4000 PSU for Commodore desktop case
- Original A4000 Shuttle Board for Commodore desktop case
- A PC desktop case rebuilt for the A500+ with Kickstart switch
(incl. ROM 1.3 and ROM 2.04 and mechanical adaption for turbo boards - used to accomodate a Stormbringer H530), small internal amplifier, internal floppy disk drive, complete internal and pluggable cabling, space for external hard disks or Action Replay etc.
- External keyboard for A500+
- Power PC Board (PC emulator by KCS) for A500+
Back when I dismantled the parts (a couple of years ago), everything was working perfectly. However, I can't guarantee that this is still the case. If you're interested you can contact me and collect the parts personally at my place or get them by mail. If you want to have them sent by mail you have to pay the postage up front however. Sorry, but I have made bad experiences already too often.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Extensive announcement re: Articia bugs (Update)
In the forum of Moobunny Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco describe, more extensive than so far publicly done, the sequence of events surrounding the bugs of the Articia Northbridge by Mai.
Update: (07:56, 24.07.22, snx)
Title link changed, leading to copy of Moobunny website at Archive.org now. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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17.May.2003
Stefan Blixth (email)
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New and updated software by OnyxSoft
The Swedish shareware developers group OnyxSoft has released two new tools and updated some tools.
FileComp (v1.0) is a small utility that allows a fast comparison of two files regarding their size, their content, their date and other criteria.
Snakee (v0.1) is the first attempt of OnyxSoft to lead two worlds to each other instead of divide them even further into good and evil. Snakee is a simple Snake clone that is thought to serve as a simple tutorial how you can support AmigaOS as well as MorphOS. The executable files for both systems are included as well as the source code.
BackUp is a simple tool to backup data. New in the version 1.4 are automatic backups, timing handling, simulated backups for test modi, new message handling and many more functions.
DRemind is a useful tool to remind one of dates and other information. The new version 1.65 comes among other things with improvements of the reminder function and the date display.
GummiSurf is an expansion for the download manager Charon. In version 1.1 has the tooltype support for own preferences been added and the URL handling has been optimized.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (email)
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Anti virus boot disks in updated versions
The anti virus boot disks created by the Virus Help Teams Canada for VirusZ-II, VirusZ-III,
VirusExecutor and VirusChecker-II, all needing the new xvs.library, have been updated and are available for free download.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Memory card reader for IDE / Standalone media player
At Hama I discovered today a memory card reader/writer for the IDE port. This one needs no additional software to run. It's just treated as a hard disk and it's much cheaper than the reader PCD47 for SCSI-II. The device costs 69,99 Euro.
Furthermore I discovered a standalone media player at Hama that can read without a computer digital photos in the JPG format, Mpeg1 movies and Mp3 sound via the A/V output. For this it can read six different memory card types (CF I + II, SM, SD, MMC). With a remote control you can then display movies or display pictures of your holidays. Besides that you can play your Mp3 data.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
morphos-news.de
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CeBIT Australia 2003: Show report and images
Following the title link you'll find an exhibition report about the CeBIT Australia 2003
by Kathryn Hunter and Scott Pringle from Boing! International 2003.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Diverse
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Software News (17.05.2003)
Network: Samba version 3.0alpha24
The Samba team has released version 3.0alpha24 on May, 14th 2003. The full list of changes can be read here.
Samba is a software to offer the possibility to connect PC and Amiga via a network. Information about Samba for Amiga can be found at amigasamba.org.
LowLevel gameport driver v41.21 is online
Guido Mersmann has created a new version of his lowlevel.library gameport driver that contains the following changes and fixes:
- FEATURE: New graphical gamepad buttons in the GUI.
- BUGFIX: reworked timeout mechanism (works more stable at high CPU load).
- FEATURE: several gamepad controller profiles in the settings added leading to a much easier choosing and setting.
- FEATURE: From now on you can calibrate a gamepad in the settings. If you then fix the settings you can save them now so that you do not need to calibrate them later again.
- BUGFIX: Warning requester added when especially under Amithlon a gameport address is used that is non-standard. This should help to avoid crashes if one sets completely wrong addresses.
- FEATURE: The tool GamePortEnable now only shows the offset as the exact address for IO hardware can't be detected because of an API problem of the OpenPCI library. Please use with non-Amithlon systems the tool GamePortFind, on Amithlon systems you only ghave to add the address $00EE0xxx to the found offset (xxx stands for the returned offset value!).
- BUGFIX: Bug in the calibrating routine fixed. The function with 1-axis gamepads has additionally been improved.
- Download: download page
Amiga.sf ports - hotwayd v0.5.3
Ever wanted to access your hotmail[tm] emails
without having to battle with the web interface? This is now possible using hotwayd
in conjunction with your favourite POP-3 implementing mail reader. Hotwayd allows
you to do this by using the HTTPMail protocol, the same protocol that Outlook
Express[tm] uses, to access the hotmail servers. Hotwayd acts as a proxy between your
POP mail reader and the HTTPMail hotmail servers. Simply set it up as an Internet
service on your machine or another machine on your network and enjoy using your
favourite mail client via the POP-3 protocol to collect your hotmail emails.
Download: hotwayd-0.5.3.lha
Textviewer: EvenMore - several plugin updates
- 17/5/03 - Updated Troff plugin. Will now skip macro sequences.
Fixed bug where if some commands were in different cases, the
plugin might not have recognised them, .br and .BR, .IP and .Ip.
Now skips comments beginning with '''. Should now detect style
changes in strings using \, eg. \fI, \fR, \*(L", \*(R", etc.
- 16/5/03 - Fixed a bug in the RTF plugin where it could skip two
lines instead of one during wordwrap.
- 15/5/03 - Fixed bug in which RTF plugin could not handle colour
tables which didn't end in ";".
LouiSe's MorphOS-Ports
20030515 - New MorphOS ports uploaded:
apache-1.3.24 with php-4.3.1 (WEB server with PHP support)
php-4.3.1 (standalone PHP-CLI)
ncftp-3.1.5 (ftp client)
New MUI classes
- 16.05.03 · Bugfixed MCC_SpeedBar
MCC_SpeedBar updated, and now SpeedBarCfg.mcc is fixed. Only program I know
that it failed on is Voodoo-X, but there might have been others. Fixed, anyway :)
Thanks must go to Kev Harrison for mailing Alfie about it so quickly. He also
mailed me, but the fix was out before the info made it to the page. BTW,
CManager 24.1 on his site also...
Regards,
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom
- 15.05.03 · Even more MCC_SpeedBar & MCC_Urltext
MCC_SpeedBar bumped to v19.0, now, before you start to mail me that this
archive is broken, I know it is, but it's only some code examples, the
real classes are still ok. MCC_Urltext v18.9 archive is ok, though :)
On Alfie's site also MCC_BWin is supposed to be v20.5, but the archive
only includes v20.3. If you download Contact Manager 24.0 you'll get
MCC_BWin v20.5 included, and also get a great update of CManager :)
Oh, and Alfie, keep keeping me busy :)
Regards,
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom
- Download
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17.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Elena Novaretti (ZoneXplorer)
A few weeks ago released the 30 years old Italian Elena Novaretti
for the first time the tool "ZoneXplorer" for AmigaOS (68k) and MorphOS (PPC).
"ZoneXplorer" is a useful tool to create and search fractals that certainly is unique on the Amiga.
The possibilities to create unique fractal pictures in 24 bit speak for themselves. One or the other may know the images by Elena Novaretti as they were shown at the Amiga fair "Pianeta 2002". In the interview with the Amiga Arena Elena Novaretti talks about her career and of course about her program "ZoneXplorer" and about her view regarding the future of AmigaOS and MorphOS respectively where the differences lay.
Enjoy the comprehensive and interesting interview that is available in German and English.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Alex-Zop (email)
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AtheneOS by Rocklyte: AthenYX
The alternative operating system Athene by Rocklyte Systems has been released as standalone OS. It's called AthenYX and it is related to AmigaOS among other things as it comes, if desired, with a graphical user interface (GUI) that bases on Amiga Workbench 3.0: the OmegaWorkbench.
Athene is an operating system that allows the user to create an own GUI where it is possible to emulate almost every existing GUI system. Athene supports draggable screens, assigns and there's an approach for a file manager in the way of Diskmaster/DOpus.
Athene itself is easy to port (embedded systems, games consoles, PCs), object oriented and comes among other things with several scripting languages.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Treveur BRETAUDIERE (E-Mail)
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Pegasos España website
Just a short notice to tell you about the Pegasos España website that's
out here. It's a
website towards Pegasos, Linux and MorphOS aimed at helping Spanish
users. It also has some English section. Forums will be online as soon
as possible.
(ps)
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17.May.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)
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heise: Microsoft fights against Linux with special fund
To keep the shares of the market of the OS Windows against alternative operating systems upright Microsoft now offers big price reductions for big clients. The loss is compensated via an internal fund.
Further details can be read in the (German) heise article following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
(ANF)
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PegasosPPC.com relaunch
The website on all aspects of the PowerPC 'Pegasos' has been completely redesigned and aquires now new splendour.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.May.2003
Cloanto (Website)
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Amiga Forever v5.2 is now shipping
Amiga Forever 5.2 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM,
CD-ROM Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform
Online Edition.
Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two
major needs of many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga
software and data on non-Amiga hardware, and to share data between
Amiga and other systems. Additionally, software, tutorial and
reference files which are likely to be of interest to any
Amiga enthusiast are included.
Features include:
- Just-in-time version of emulation software (Bernd Meyer's JIT code), carefully configured and publicly benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous versions of Amiga Forever. The Amiga runs in a window or in full screen mode, makes full use of thousands of Windows (or other OS) drivers, can access PC files (even on NTFS partitions, in the Windows version) and does not require a reboot.
- Software Manager, an advanced content delivery system developed by Cloanto, for easy and privacy-conscious management of all emulation-related components (updates, downloads, news, etc.)
- Amiga Explorer software, which allows you to connect an Amiga to one or more PCs, and access Amiga files (including virtual ADF and ROM files), directories and volumes directly from the Windows Desktop. Amiga Explorer is easier to install and configure than other networking tools, and includes direct support for serial (null-modem) cable connections, as well as TCP/IP.
- MenuBox launcher, to boot different Amiga configurations with one mouse click, either from CD-ROM (no installation or reboot required) or after installation
- New and fully licensed Picasso96 software (not a shareware version), maps Amiga graphics requests directly to fast x86 calls and powerful low-level DirectX functions (Windows version of emulation)
- Amiga Narrator and Translator speech synthesis components (made available for distribution with the Amiga OS for the first time since 1991)
- All Amiga ROMs up to version 3.1 (the last ROM that will ever be available for the "Classic Amiga"!)*
- CDTV and CD³² boot ROMs and extended ROMs (can be used to play CDTV and CD³² games, even booting directly from CD-ROM, requires free upgrade to emulation software)*
- GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS "3.5", "3.9" and "XL", but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB)
- Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa
- Emulation includes: Amiga custom chips, RTG graphics, up to 512 MB of Zorro III RAM, virtual memory, TCP/IP, MIDI, native x86 code, built-in support for ADF, ADZ, DMS and FDI disk image files
- Preinstalled software includes: Personal Paint 7.1b (paint, animation and image processing software, includes GIF/LZW license), DirDiff (file synchronization and replication software), AmiToRTF (to convert texts from Amiga to Windows formats), MailBX (to convert Amiga mail archives to Microsoft Mail, Outlook Express and Exchange Server), drag-and-drop LhA, print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows, bypassing parallel port emulation), Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware), TurboText (exclusive latest version with stack problem fix), KingCON, ToolManager, ReqTools, etc.
- Latest version of WinUAE and WinFellow tested and supported by Cloanto
Disk2FDI software to read Amiga floppy disks on PC (experimental version, requires two floppy drives)
- Tutorials and FAQs on data sharing, emulation, floppy disks, serial links, TCP/IP, UAE, Fellow and much more.
- All software tested on Windows XP
- MPEG-1 videos: The Deathbed Vigil (one hour and 58 minutes, i.e. the full version of this "must have" video) and Jay Miner Speech (49 minutes)*
- Dozens of other enhancements and add-ons
* = CD-ROM version only (both standard and upgrade). The Online Edition includes 1.3 and 3.1 ROMs (sufficient both for classic games and for the most recent software). CDTV and CD³² ROMs are also included in the downloadable Amiga Forever Plus Pack. The MPEG videos are only included on the CD-ROM (both standard and upgrade). The CD-ROM contains version 5.0, with free online upgrade to version 5.2 using Software Manager (included).
The Amiga emulation software on the Amiga Forever CD-ROM comes preinstalled and preconfigured for Windows. The Amiga ROM and OS files can be used by any implementation of the Amiga emulators, including for example Unix/Linux (UAE comes with source code), Be, PowerMac, etc. These emulators are constantly updated, and can be downloaded from the sites listed in the Home Pages section of the navigation bar.
Pricing:
CD-ROM: 59.95 Euro
CD Upgrade: 34.95 Euro (nba)
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16.May.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Voting May/June 2003
The maintainer of the Amiga Games Hit Parade asks you to vote for the Game of May/June
2003. You can take part in this voting by sending maximum 20 titles of your favourite
games to David "Daff" Brunet or by visiting
the website http://hitparade.amigames.com.
You can write each kind of game in this list (commercial, Freeware, old, new etc.).
The final results will be published at the beginning of June.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.May.2003
Boing! International (Website)
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USB: HCD-Update for Thylacine
Thylacine is a Zorro-2 based USB adapter for connecting USB devices to the Amiga.
On 14th May 2003 a new version of the HCD class for Thylacine was published.
You can inform yourself about the available USB controllers for the Amiga on the next
issue of the Amigaplus 05/2003.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.May.2003
Diverse
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Inventory of Amiga, Inc. for public sale - AI denies
On the webiste of the auctioneer James G. Murphy Co.
there are besides Amiga logo further information about the public sale of inventory
from old offices of Amiga, Inc. in Snoqualmie.
According to rumours these things have been attached by the former letter of Amiga, Inc.
because of not payed rentals and should be now sold by auction.
Some times ago Amiga, Inc. announced the move but has not given any new address since
this time.
Today Gary Peake who works at Amiga, Inc. denied the romours about the liquidation
of Amiga, Inc. and told that the things which are supposed to be sold by auction
are "old stuff from the offices" which "are no longer needed".
Nevertheless for collectors of Amiga stuff the day of auction which is the 17th June 2003 might be
an interesting date where you can buy equipment for the Amiga for few money.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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15.May.2003
Thomas Würgler (E-Mail)
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Pagan Games Puts New AmigaAnywhere Game in Planning
Thomas Würgler of Pagan Games writes:
As some of you have probably noticed, the Amiga Game Pack #2 has now been
released into retail stores - name CompUSA. Obviously this is a big step
towards true financial viability of Amiga Anywhere projects, which again
helps fund AmigaOS projects.
We are getting closer to finalizing another project for Amiga Anywhere,
and look forward to getting it to a state where we can show it to you.
Besides that we are still working hard on our Dreamcast shoot 'em up
project, and we can't wait to show you what we've got in the works.
Hopefully we'll be able to show some of it off before summer.
This was just a quick update, which will be followed a more thorough one,
when we have more to share - hopefully in the near future. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
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RIAA Withdraws Warning to amiga-scene.org
The RIAA had to withdraw their warnings to Internet sites.
In numerous instances the US-American music industry corporate group RIAA (Recording Industry Association of
America) had sent warnings against administrators of Web and FTP servers who offered MP3 data on their systems. Along with
that these administrators were notified through targetless RIAA scans of their servers who of their users made free music available.
The Demo Scene server amigascene.org was hit by this step, and was excused in a form letter that said they had offered "about 0
Music data for download." After this action became known, the RIAA now has withdrawn the warnings to falsely hit Internet sites. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
Rage Hard (Website)
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Rage Hard Website with New Information
The official website of the 3D Ego Shooter Rage Hard, which is also offered for MorphOS, has been moved and expanded. In the download area
a few wallpapers are now to be found, in various resolutions. Likewise, new backgrounds as well as related new models have been placed in
the Home, Characters, and Concepts areas. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
CD32-Allianz (Website)
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CD32 Outside Shelved
After five issues the publication of the digital magazine CD32 Outside has been suspended. This decision was made in order to free up the resources of the team for more important stuff. Unfortunately there just wasn't enough time to create, publish, and do advertising and marketing for further issues.
[In the following long German text, chief editor Thorsten Schölzel offers thanks from the CD32 team to a lot of people. He talks about webdesign, some games, and Commodore politics which no-one understands. He invites readers to www.cd32-allianz.de, and says emails are welcome. -DM]
Das Team von CD32 Outside möchte sich bei allen Personen bedanken,
die ihm bei der Erstellung der CD³²Outside geholfen und mit
Material und Informationen versorgt haben. Besonders hervorheben
muss man sicherlich Werner Bittl und Henning Schlautmann.
Nun können Sie sich das geplante Editorial der 6. Ausgabe durchlesen:
"Endlich haben wir es geschafft, denn mit dieser Ausgabe der CD32Outside erscheinen wir in einem neuen Format und neuem Design. Bei uns ist Fortschritt angesagt, wir machen uns frei von Altlasten, leider auf Kosten der User von den Browsern; Aweb, IBrowse und Voyager, die allesamt nicht das im Internet weit verbreitete und für professionelles Design unabdingbaren "CSS" Cascading Style Sheets unterstützt.
Für diese User wird es in Zukunft heissen, bei den Herstellern der Browser um eine Unterstützung von CSS zu beten oder Browser wie; Internet Explorer, Netscape oder Opera über eine Emulation bzw. andere Betriebssysteme zu nutzen.
In dieser Ausgabe widmen wir uns einem Gedankenanstoss von Christian Effenberger zur Weiterentwicklung des damals von Commodore eingeführten CDXL-Format. Dabei erklärt er ausführlich was und wie geändert bzw. neu entwickelt werden muss. Seit 1996 ruft Herr Effenberger dazu auf, ihm bei der Entwicklung zu helfen, seither aber null Resonanz. Explizit wird nach einem Programmierer gesucht, der Erfahrung in C/C++ und ASM vorweisen kann und sich zusätzlich mit IO-Streams auskennt.
Bei Interesse kontaktiert uns, wir leiten dann alles an Herrn Effenberger weiter.
Neben Microcosm das DAS Spiel auf dem CD32 ist, gibt es noch weitere Spitzengames auf unserer Daddelkiste, eines davon ist Rise of the Robots. Wer hätte damals geglaubt das es wirklich für unser CD32 erscheinen würde, bei der voll animierten Spitzengrafik. Heuzutage würde man diekt sagen, das sich sowas nicht umsetzen liesse. Rise of the Robots kann man mit dem vor einigen Jahren für AMIGA Computer erschienene Spiel Olofight vergleichen, allerdings würde Rise of the Robots im direkten Vergleich immer noch um längen die Nase vorn haben. Wir stellen Ihnen dieses geniale Spiel in einem MEGA-Review vor.
Für Tuningfreaks gibt es zwei ganz besondere Leckerbissen, wir stellen Ihnen das Commodore FMV-Modul und den Prototyp des Commodore Gamesystem030 vor. Leider liess die finanzielle Situation von Commodore keine grössere Produktion des FMV(FullMotionVideo)-Moduls zu uns so wurden nach den uns vorligenden Informationen nur 1000 Stück produziert, wer also eins besitzt, kann wahrlich stolz darauf sein. DCE Computer wollte vor Jahren das FMV-Modul neu auflegen, allerdings gab es Probleme mit dem FlashROM. Der Ton wurde nach einiger Zeit nicht mehr synchron mit dem Video abgespielt, somit blieb es bei Prototypen. Ich konnte mich damals selber von der Existenz dieser Prototypen überzeugen, ein selbiges sogar als Andenken mit nach Hause nehmen. Ein Bild von der Platine findet Ihr in dem Bericht zu dem FMV-Modul. Desweiteren wurden mir jede Menge unbestückte Spellbound(CD32)- und FMV-Modul Motherboards gezeigt. Zum Gamesystem030 bleibt zu sagen, warum Commodore nicht diekt auf diesen Prozessor oder gar auf den Motorola 68040 gesetzt hat, bleibt bis heute ungeklärt. Was uns bleibt sind mutmassungen, z.B. das Commodore durch den Bau des AMIGA1200 noch eine reichhaltige Anzahl von Motorola 68020 Prozessoren auf Lager hatte. Der 68040 Prozessor deshalb nicht genutzt worden ist, weil er zum einen zu teuer gewsesen wäre und man unbedingt bei dem CD32 auf einen günstigen Preis achten wollte, das könnte auch das fehlen wichtiger Teile wie dem RGB-Ausgang deuten und zum anderen weil Commodore nur wenige Prozessoren dieser Sorte besass, die man ausschliesslich für den AMIGA4000-T nutzen wollte. Unser eins wird die Commodore Politik wohl nie verstehen!
Als letztes möchten wir auf unsere neue Internetpräsenz unter www.cd32-allianz.de aufmerksam machen und danken Matthias Münch der dies erst ermöglicht hat. Ich möchte Ihnen nun viel Spass mit der neuen Ausgabe wünschen und würde mich freuen, hin und wieder mal ein paar Leserbriefe von Ihnen zu bekommen.
In diesem Sinne,
Thorsten Schölzel" (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
Arstechnica (ANF)
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Arstechnica: PPC 970 Part II
Under the title link you'll read a report about the PowerPC 970, which is being assembled by an especially Intel-centric CPU specialist. Despite
or because of its length of 11,000 words, this work is a mandatory lecture for PowerPC afficionados. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: SCO Now Wishes to Proceed Against Linux Users
"Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, or at least SCO charges that; in their view Linux infringes on their Unix copyrights. Accordingly
commercial Linux users are going to have to reckon with this, because their use of Linux may be made liable. As a consequence of this
legally unclear situation SCO has ceased their own selling of Linux."
Read the complete article at Golem IT-News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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