13.Sep.2003
GAUHPIL (website)
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GAUHPIL: nay areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga User HomePage Internet List) is a list created and commented by
Dietmar Knoll with of Amiga users that is sorted geographically by continents and countries. Two days ago had the following areas been updated:
- Asia
- Europe
- List new links
- Releated sites
- History 2000-2003
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13.Sep.2003
Grasshopper LLC (email)
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Grasshopper: Pagestream release for AmigaOS 4
Positive signs from the AmigaOS 4 frontier: Grasshopper LLC will release the
desktop publishing software PageStream for AmigaOS 4 as soon as the new operating system is available. Furthermore prices are cut for PageStream 4.1 to 99 US-Dollars, for PageStream Professional
4.1 to 149 US-Dollars. Read the complete note by Grasshopper LLC right below:
Grasshopper LLC today announced the addition of a fifth supported
platform in the stable of computers and operating systems that PageStream
already runs on. Amiga OS4 PPC is an exciting new operating system and
hardware from Amiga Inc, Eyetech and Hyperion Entertainment that follows
in the footsteps of the great hardware and software that is the Amiga.
"Deron Kazmaier, PageStream creator, has exceeded our expectations again!"
proclaimed Grasshopper LLC owner Marna Holt. "Deron has burned the
midnight oil on his old love, the Amiga, creating the foundation for the
next generation of PageStream on the Amiga."
While the full public release
of OS4 is beyond our control, the PageStream is not! As the Amiga OS4 PPC
is a natural progression from the older 68k, we are offering a limited
time discount for those who are moving up to the AmigaOS4 PPC version from
PageStream Amiga68k and likewise we are including the Amiga68k version to
those who purchase the PPC version before it is publicly released.
Crossgrade price from PageStream 4.1 Amiga68k to AmigaPPC is only $40 and
the price for a new copy of PageStream4.1 Amiga PPC (with Amiga68k) is
only $99. The special offers are set to expire upon the public release of
Amiga OS4, and will then revert to the same low pricing already in place
for the other platforms. Advance copies of PageStream 4.1 AmigaPPC are
available now, but we will continue to stay in step with improvements to
OS4.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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11.Sep.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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FotoFoto SE for MorphOS Appears
The special edition of the mistake-seeking game "FotoFoto" from Attention
Software may be downloaded right away from the Superbundle FTP site by all registered Pegasos owners. The SE version contains over 50 levels and a level editor whereby the player may insert his own pictures and categories. FotoFoto SE may also be played offline and does not require an Internet connection during the game. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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11.Sep.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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Important information for IOSPIRIT-customers regarding backup copies
In order to be able to offer you a further improved service and a better
structured website, we are soon re-launching our website.
As this goes hand in hand with switching to a new website-system, we want
to kindly ask our customers to check for safety copies (on safe media such
as CD-R, etc.) of the download versions they bought from us until the 18th
of September 2003. If no safety copies exist, these should be created now
and - if required - we'll reactivate expired downloads to support this
(also see end of the message).
After the 18th of September 2003 these files will no longer be
available - also not on request.
The only exception to this are purchases of the respectively latest
versions of our products (e.g. fxPAINT 2.0, fxSCAN 4.0, VHI Studio 6.0,
IBrowse 2.3, ..). For purchases of older versions as online-versions (e.g.
fxSCAN 3.0, fxPAINT 1.5, VHI Studio 5.x, ..), we strongly recommend to
make safety-copies until this date, since we won't be able to grant access
to these files after this 18th of September 2003.
If another unlocking of downloads should be required, please write an
email to "unlockdownloads AT iospirit DOT de".
We are already looking forward to soon welcome you to our new website. (nba)
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11.Sep.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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VCD Save Version 0.2 Appears
The graphic interface of "VCD Save" has been adapted to the new NewGUI System, this means that the GUI may now be adapted to the needs of the user without rewriting the program entirely. With the help of the automatic snapshot function of NewGUI all gadgets are positioned in the places they were when the program last ended. Gadgets may be expanded or shrunk when the user presses CTRL when he clicks on the border being changed. When the user presses on the left SHIFT key the gadget is moved. The save routine has been modified in order to allow the saving of captions on SVCDs. It is possible with VCD Save to copy VideoCD tracks directly to the hard-drive, something for which AllegroCDFS was required up until now. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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08.Sep.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #052
Liqiud Skies released theire 52nd music pack. The song was composed by the finnish muscician Tripper. The corresponding cover was made by Kuadziw.
Additional information:
Titel: Fairy Moon Goes Disco
Artist: Tripper
Style: Electro
Duration: 4:21
Format: mp3 (192kbps)
The packet file is available for download at the titlelink.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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08.Sep.2003
ANN (Website)
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Simple DirectMedia Layer v1.2.6 released
Gabriele Greco released an Amiga port of the Simple DirectMedia Layer version 1.2.6. The release contains the following:
- GCC 68k static library.
- GCC morphos static library.
- SAS/C static library
- The 68k SHARED SDL.library, works with any language or compiler able
to parse an .fd file.
- A few SDL examples with a GCC Makefile to build them.
- Inlines, pragmas and .fd files for the 68k shared library.
- Includes and HTML docs from the original SDL archive.
- All the examples are compiled for the shared version of SDL to save
space and bring users and developers to choose the shared library solution
but they all works (at least on my system) also with the static one.
SDL makes it possible to run applications and games, for example soccer game 'Eat the Whistle', on different operating systems such as AmigaOS, Windows, MacOS or Linux.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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08.Sep.2003
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Magazin: The Crypt #31
Issue no. 31 of the english online magazin 'The Crypt' has been published. The online version is available at the titlelink.
Downlaod: Offline version of 'The Crypt' #31
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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07.Sep.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 7th September 2003
These are the new Aminet uploads which have been added since our last report:
AmBoS-Keyfile.lha comm/ambos 5K+Public AmBoS-Keyfile Rel. 2.98
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 29K+Online Dictionary
umsspamc1_3.lha comm/ums 15K+SpamAssassin client for UMS
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 185K+Create fancy JavaScript driven Internet
streamer.lha comm/www 320K+Internet radio MPEG and RealAudio file p
mental-final.lha demo/aga 15M+Mental (final release, AGA/RTG versions)
abnormalia1HD.lha demo/mag 849K+Abnormalia 1 (HD friendly and more)
abnormalia5HD.lha demo/mag 852K+Abnormalia 5 (HD friendly and more)
amigatalk.lha dev/lang 1.2M+V2.4 Update of AmigaTalk (Smalltalk GUI)
Companion.lha docs/hyper 32K+AmigaGuide frontend for Amiga Developer
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.7M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 08/2003 (Itali
nocover114.lha docs/mags 3.6M+Great german diskmagazine
TurboPrint_FR.lha docs/misc 5K+French catalogs for TurboPrint 7
Saga.lha game/board 328K+Saga 1.32: Conversion of TSR boardgame
scummvm-tools.lha game/misc 131K+Collection of various ScummVM tools
WormWars.lha game/misc 541K+Worm Wars 7.55: Advanced snake game
BMH03.lha game/patch 418K+Update for Bundesliga Manager Hattrick (
4_skins_4_Kaya.lha gfx/misc 143K+4 skins for Kaya player
4_skins_Kaya.lha gfx/misc 143K+4 skins for Kaya player (MOS)
ChangeMyLove.lha mods/chryl 233K+Funk mod by Chrylian
Chrylian.lha mods/chryl 12K+Demo mod by Chrylian
June.lha mods/chryl 141K+Latin mod by Chrylian
JustToSayGoodb.lha mods/chryl 115K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
KillingParty.lha mods/chryl 461K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
Live2.lha mods/chryl 105K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
MakeADream.lha mods/chryl 214K+Ambient mod by Chrylian
NoisyjegOldies.lha mods/chryl 50K+Techno mod by Chrylian
NuitOldies.lha mods/chryl 136K+Techno mod by Chrylian
OnTheJazzWave.lha mods/chryl 193K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
Pipeline2.lha mods/chryl 10K+Techno mod by Chrylian
PointOfJazz.lha mods/chryl 125K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
ShesMySun.lha mods/chryl 141K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
Tune1.lha mods/chryl 54K+Techno mod by Chrylian
A-crowd.lha mods/hardc 219K+Quite a loud song
A-fog.lha mods/hardc 125K+Some Hardtrance
A-I-ask-you.lha mods/hardc 186K+Some oldschoopl type of song
A-mothahug.lha mods/hardc 270K+Fast(240bpm) hardcore song
A-oldgabba.lha mods/hardc 275K+Old style gabber song
A-paaarty.lha mods/hardc 286K+Hardcorejungle song
A-pathofdarkne.lha mods/hardc 367K+Hardcore remix of a song by Volley
A-stop.lha mods/hardc 107K+Hardcore type of song
A-dream.lha mods/jungl 175K+Jungle module with filtered break
stepdarkness.lha mods/jungl 242K+Old but great breakbeat track
052_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
053_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
054_mpfree.lha mods/moods 7.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
055_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
056_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.2M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
hum_m237.lha mods/moods 3.1M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
amegasGTR.mpg mods/mpg 4.1M+Amegas Game Tune. Aranged By Gigatron...
companyGTR.mpg mods/mpg 1.4M+Company Crack Tune Aranged By Gigatron..
A-nameless.lha mods/techn 37K+Made for some mod compo in 1997
A-weird.lha mods/techn 56K+Experimental track
Amoralplay.lha mus/play 144K+Plays SIDS,OctamedSS,mods,Digibooster et
c64days.jpg pix/art 108K+C64Days logo
whd-icons.lha pix/icon 111K+Games icons for WHDload installs
alicejuggler.jpg pix/trace 142K+Alice in Jugglerland (1152 x 864 x 24b.
MrCarlitoWb-04.jpg pix/wb 219K+Screenshot of my Workbench 3.9
SKM30.lha text/edit 352K+Skriptmanager for AmigaGuide, HTML, Arex
guideml2.lha text/hyper 59K+Cool AmigaGuide -> HTML converter (V2.6)
SafeCopy.lha util/cli 14K+Overwrite protection, and autorenaming f
froggui.lha util/misc 32K+GUI for FroggerNG
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 325K+Report+ 5.72: Multipurpose utility
vht-vg35.lha util/virus 109K+VirusWarning.Guide v3.5 (VHT-DK)
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07.Sep.2003
Sebasttian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail Version 0.20 released
The developers of "SimpleMail" report the availablility of version 0.20
of this eMail client for AmigaOS. Changes compared to the previous version:
- Messages can in part (header only) be downloaded from an IMAP server
- Added statistical spam filter
- Many other small improvements and bug fixes (see Tracker on SourceForge)
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07.Sep.2003
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: History report 2000
The year 2000 was to become the hitherto most active year for Amiga Arena.
Beside numerous special price campaigns and interviews, the "Amiga Arena - Homepage CD-ROM"
was published for the first time and presented at the show in Neuss.
Moreover the German version of the game "Blade" was published for the first time and
a raffle with goodies from Amiga Inc. made possible. What else happened - read it yourself in
the third instalment of the Amiga Arena History!
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07.Sep.2003
Matthias Muench (ANF)
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pegasosforum.de goes online
Today a new "Pegasos Community Portal" for the German-speaking area went online. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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07.Sep.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: News about Pegasos II
The Pegasos II will soon be on sale. The first limited production run will be for
600 units. Details under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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06.Sep.2003
Jan Andersen (email)
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VirusWarning.guide version 3.5 released
After several years without almost no new virus or Trojan against the Amiga has VHT (Virus Help Team Canada, Denmark & Holland) released a small update of the VirusWarning.guide. Some members of VHT have changed their email addresses and all anti virus programs have been updated during this time. The new version of the VirusWarning.guide is available on the homepage of VHT and in a few days on Aminet, too.
Information about the new update:
Name: VirusWarning.guide v3.5
Archive name: vht-vg35.lha
Archive size: 111.275 bytes
Release date: September, 6th 2003
Programmer: Virus Help (nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Sep.2003
heise online (website)
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Settlement out of court between Microsoft and Be Inc.
A settlement out of court Microsoft and Be Inc. has ended the dispute between the two companies. Be Inc. had accused the Windows producer distortion of normal trading conditions. Microsoft pays the developers house of the alternative operating system BeOS the sum of 23,3 millions US-Dollars but claims that this shall not be understood as acknowledgement of indebtedness of any unfair business methods. Read (German) background information at heise online following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Sep.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Software news: amigift v1.0
Version 1.0 of amigift, an AmigaOS 3.x port of giFT, has been released on the Sourceforge page under the title link. The project is supervised by Diego Casorran.
Program description: giFT is a modular daemon capable of abstracting the
communication between the end user and specific filesharing protocols
(peer-to-peer or otherwise). The giFT project differs from many other
similar projects in that it is a distribution of a standalone
platform-independent daemon, a library for client/frontend development,
and our own homegrown network, OpenFT.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2003
Ralf Schülke (ANF)
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Status Report from the BeOS Front
[note from translator: this is a very long article from Matthias Breiter about various good news related to BeOS. Rather than translating the whole darn thing, I will loosely cover certain points and provide link information]
BeOS, currently enjoying a small rise, runs on X86 PCs and on many old Macintosh computers.
There are two new news sources for BeOS information:
Technoids: http://www.technoids.tk
Beyond: http://beyond.itbug.org/eng/
You may also see what the future holds for BeOS by going to a current site of much development:
YellowTab: http://www.yellowtab.com. There is a lot of software there and they are also looking for developers.
There are also some BeOS events coming up:
What-Is-Art (Mannheim): http://www.what-is-art.de
Begeistert (Duesseldorf): http://www.begeistert.org
So be sure to check out BeOS! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2003
Merlancia Industries
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Merlancia: Reservations for the Merlancia Amiga MCC 1000 and 1200 Possible
Merlancia Industries is taking reservations immediately for the offered computer series Merlancia Amiga MCC 1000 (AMD x86) and Merlancia Amiga MCC 1200 (IBM PowerPC). Read the following for the whole press release:
Starting September 4th 2003: If you would like to be one of the first to purchase a Merlancia Amiga MCC 1000 or 1200 Series Computer upon their release in a few weeks, please send an email to misel@merlancia.com . The subject line should be "I wish to reserve an MCC."
In your email, please state which computer you would like to purchase, along with your real name, email address, and City and State location if you are a US resident, or your City and Country location if you reside outside of the US. Emails not containing the requested information will be ignored, and will not be acknowledged.
We will add your name to the list of those who will be the first to be able to purchase these new machines as soon as they are ready to ship. The first production run of machines will be a limited number of units, and they will be offered for purchase to those who have followed these instructions, in the order the emails were received.
Please do not send more than one email. Your email will be acknowledged with a reply that it was received.
Your email must come from a legitimate ISP address, not from a "throwaway" address such as Hotmail.com or Yahoo.com.
For specifics on these new computers, please refer to Merlancia Press Release #MIND27082003 at http://www.merlancia.com/newsandpr/MIND27082003.html. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2003
DIDI (ANF)
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Giga TV: The Amiga 500 Lives
The Amiga 500 is being covered one more time, in the computer-oriented television show Giga on NBC. Along with watching you may voice your support for Amiga in the Giga forum by clicking on and following the title link. (nba)
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04.Sep.2003
Matthias Muench (ANF)
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Meeting: Amiga Inside Part III - "Injected with Poison"
Once again it is upon us: from the 2nd to the 5th of October 2003 the legendary "Amiga-Inside" party will be held in Hirsau (Germany), this time together with our friends in the Mocca party. A few Pegasos systems will be shown, as well as a diverse assortment of Amiga models with varying specifications, which may be closely examined as one exchanges experiences with the owners.
Interested persons may register unbindingly at the website to help give the organizers a rough idea of attendance. Because we want to actively support feminine participation, women get in free (includes 1 computer).
Our team of organizers looks forward to meeting you at the Amiga-Inside meeting. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2003
Ein Liker (ANF)
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Petition: Halflife for Amiga und Linux
"This petition will be send to Sierra/Valve to ask them for the sources of the game Halflife for Amiga & Linux communities. If you want this great game (not free but ported!) sign up this petition with us! There's two way wished, a GPL version of Halflife or a license for Hyperion.
If we get sources we will soon need best Amiga scene and Linux scene coders to help in HalfLife to be ported. Any questions can be sent to webmaster@amigaland.com" (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2003
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Event: Website for the Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show 2003
The website for the Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show of 2003, which takes place from 4th to 5th October, has now been opened. There is where you will find current information, before long a list of exhibitors, and many more details about the event. Click on the title link for all this. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Sep.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 01.09.2003
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
newscoaster.lha comm/news 491K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.59) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news 244K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.59 - 26 Aug
gdbm.lha dev/misc 260K+GNU's set of database routines
nA_MALevEdSRC.lha dev/src 36K+Level Editor for Mini Arcanoid v2.9 ASM
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 65K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (30 Au
4_skins_4_Kaya.lha gfx/misc 266K+4 skins for Kaya player
Tristartetr.mpg mods/mpg 1.3M+Tristar Tetris Crack Tune Remaked ....
EP_NovoTrade.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "NovoTrade Packer" external
AP23aCovers.lha pix/misc 484K+AMiGa=PoWeR n 23 Covers Recto & Verso
CatConFast2D.lha pix/misc 1.5M+CATCON PARTY Fast 2D Compo
MrCarlitoWb-03.jpg pix/wb 178K+Screenshot of my Workbench 3.9
froggui.lha util/misc 33K+GUI for FroggerNG
CyberLemmings.lha util/wb 334K+Adds pets to your wb. (68K/MOS)
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01.Sep.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - round 18
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 18 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) Asemoon: A poll here at AmigaWorld shows that most people seem to prefer to have "A" keys for their "Amiga" keys on their keyboards. Are there any plans to create such alternative keycaps to stick on Logitech or other keyboards? (like Computer City's Boingball keycaps for their general PC keyboards?)
Fleecy: No. This is a third party opportunity. We do have companies and vendors coming to us to create such officially licenced products but there are no details to release as of yet.
2) Crumb: Do you plan to integrate a X-Windows system with the new 4.1 desktop to allow developers to port easily apps? I mean something like Apple does with OS-X... I think it's called rootless server, it wouldn't harm the platform, but would help a lot to bring us new apps.
Fleecy: It is something we are considering but as with most graphics issues, they will not be implemented unless there is a very good reason until we have implemented the new Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) visual services set. This is slated for AmigaOS4.1.
3) Crumb: When will we have an IDE like a basic Delphi/visual/C Builder? Creating GUIs for our apps takes too much time. I have to say that I like Reaction, but some official C++ classes would be welcome.
Fleecy: Having a proper IDE and more importantly a GUI builder is high up on our list. As with the above though, we really want to get the AG2 visual services done first, then we can implement the new interactive environment, which will have a visual object system and a designer/builder for it. We may do a reaction based tool in the meantime but it isn't something high up our agenda at the present time.
4) Crumb: Will you add more examples to the autodocs? The information is quite good but an example of each function would be wellcome, at least one example of each library showing the most important functions.
Fleecy: The entire documentation and help system will get an overhaul, making use of the AmigaOS4.1 html/xml rendering services to provide a fully integrated solution for users and developers. The AmigaOS4.0 documentation will then be updated to support this. I should say that at this moment in time, all the new and rewritten elements of AmigaOS4.0 are getting updated documentation. One way to ensure you have a say is to sign on as a beta tester and let the developers know what you want in those docs as they are developed. Ultimately, a full time documentation resource will be assigned, attached to Developer Support, thus taking the chore away from the developers themselves.
5) utri007: Will there be tcp/ip printing?
Fleecy: Support for TCP/IP printing via the LPR protocol was included with the 3.9 update. Since this is a bare-bones protocol, it proved more to be much more troublesome than helpful (it basically has no error reporting capabilities, which makes it next to impossible to figure out what went wrong if something went wrong). This needs more work.
Since printing is integrally bound up with the visual services, the foundation for pDP (Digital->Physical) emission of content, with the emission/output device being anything from a TV to a monitor to a projector to a printer to potentially anything else capable of manifesting a physical visual image is being built into the AG2 visual services. Once this is done then it will be relatively simple to make it network aware.
6) Asemoon: Within what timeframe do you expect the Amiga platform to move towards 64-bit technology?
Fleecy: For the general AmigaOS4.n path, we need to enhance functionality, specifically through the AG2 programme and, for the moment that will concentrate on 32 bit technology but, as resources permit, we will create a transitionary version that can run on a 64 bit processor, albeit in 32 bit mode. In parallel, a separate project that is building the foundation for AmigaOS5.n will create a solution equally at home on both. I can't give a timeframe per se, just the steps towards it. It won't be in the next year though but as there is little advantage to it over 32 bit in the near and even medium term then it is not a high priority. It is what your computer can do that counts, not the size of its buses.
7) Asemoon: Can you tell us how you got introduced to Amiga computers and how you got involved in the Amiga community prior to Amiga Inc and Gateway?
Fleecy: I was just a user who worked on corporate systems during the day and on my Amiga 1200 at night. My first Amiga moment was walking past a Curry's in Crewe and seeing an amazing FMV of a space pilot getting into a fighter and launcing out from the belly of a giant star destroyer - a demo running on a CDTV. It blew me away. Then my wife's little brother got an A600 and we used to spend all day playing Captain Planet, Bart Simpson and a few others - Walker, Cool Spot etc. I had to wait a year or so more before I could afford my own A1200.
When first Commdore and then Escom went bankrupt, many users and developers got together online to try to work out what we could do. There were several attempts, some still on going. I was part of the ICOA (Industry Council Open Amiga) which formed just before Gateway bought Amiga. We sent off a proposal to Gateway on how we could help them and how Amiga could be developed and amazingly, they phoned us back and invited a few of us out there - Dean Brown, Andy Finkel, Alain Penders, Jesse McClusky and myself. We meet Jeff Schindler and the rest, as they say, is history.
8) alx: When do you see yourself showing AmigaOS/AmigaONE at a major mainstream computing show?
Fleecy: We intend to show at a major mainstream show early in the new year, hopefully after we have launched AmigaOS4.0 to the Amiga community.
9) reflect: Since many users now have been using Debian and its excellent package system, I was wondering if there are any plans to incorporate a framework for packages in AOS?
Fleecy: Yes. A content management service is being considered that provides similar services to both third parties and for the operating system itself.
10) Eric_Z: Considering the recent release of the OpenGl 1.5 and to a lesser extent the 2.0 specifications/suggestions, I'm wondering if AOS4s WARP-3D NOVA will use these new specifications. Or if the implementation of these are planned for future releases and if so which?
Fleecy: The OpenGL 2.0 specifications are all but finalized, and it will still take some time for the specifications to be adopted. OS 4 will have its own OpenGL support via Mesa, in whatever incarnation that is available at the time of release, and will see continous updates.
As far as I know (cannot verify since www.opengl.org seems to be down) at this point in time not even 1.5 is official, and 1.4 is still the most current version (1.5 being a draft). It's imminent, though.
Nova is something different. This is currently just an API specification/outline that has nothing to do with OpenGL 1.5 or 2.0 in the first place, except that we might opt to use their (OpenGL 2.0's) shader language specification. The idea behind NOVA is its independence from any committee or ARB that, by definition, has difficulties adapting itself to the speed at which graphics card hardware evolves, a fact that becomes quite apparent with recent OpenGL history where Vertex/Pixel shading is still an option supported through extensions. The trouble with these extensions is that they are sometimes burdened by licence or IP issues (NV_vertex_program being a prominent example) that makes it impossible to implement them in a general framework.
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01.Sep.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030831
Bradd Webb published the August issue of his monthly newsletter Amiga Update at the titlelink.
Contents:
- McEwen Message on MOS Mess
- Amiga Show Benelux in October
- AmiWest OS 4 and AU - Correction
- Poseidon sinks Elbox Support
- Acid64 Player 1.1 and 1.1a
- Digital Almanac Update
- ImageMagick 5.5.7 available
- WarpDT - New Package Out
- WinUAE continues to improve
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01.Sep.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #051
Liqiud Skies released musicpack number 51. It contains a "Summer-Mix" called version of "High Sun" by Ritzu an a corresponding cover by DaFreak.
Details about the track:
Title: High Sun (Summer Mix)
Artist: Ritzu
Stile: Goa Trance
Duration: 4:39
Format: mp3 (160kbps)
The zipped file can be found at the titlelink.
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01.Sep.2003
Thore Böckelmann (ANF)
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Scout source code in public CVS Repository
The source code of Scout, a system monitor, is now available at sourceforge.net. This CVS repository makes the co-operation of interested programmers easier.
The availabilty through surceforge does not mean that the development of Scout has been stoped. It is only an invitation for other programmers to participade in the developemt of the program.
If you encounter any problem compiling the sources feel free to contact Thore Böckelmann by sending an E-Mail to him.
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