12.Mar.2003
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Opening of the CeBIT 2003
Today, Wednesday the 12th of March 2003, the CeBIT opened its doors. The world's largest IT fair in Hannover will last until March the 19th 2003.
While there is a loss of exhibitors and exhibition space experts guess there will be, facing the stressed situation of the German economy, a decrease of visitors also.
But at least the IT trade keeps slightly optimistic. This year UMTS, the tablet PC and once more the competition between Windows and Linux will be in the focus.
Among the others there is Genesi, developer and distributor of the Pegasos, attending the show. AMIGA Inc. have canceled their attendence just some days before the start of the fair.
Reports of the CeBIT 2003 will be to read at
amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus soon.
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12.Mar.2003
Onlinekosten.de (Website)
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Onlinekosten.de: Fastpath application posible via Internet
From Monday on it will be possible to set up T-DSL with Fastpath. Here is a
link
for the application form at the Telekom pages. FastPath speeds up the
signal latency of T-DSL and so offers more fun for action, sport and online role play games.
Read the Onlinekosten.de article (German) by the title link.
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12.Mar.2003
Blackbird (Website)
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Paint program: German catalogue for PerfectPaint 2.92
By the title link there is a German catalogue for the paint program
PerfectPaint version 2.92 available.
Download: PFPV292.lzx
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12.Mar.2003
Golem - IT News (ANF)
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Golem: MainActor v5 video cut program released
»The next generation of video editing software
MainConcept has released the final version of the video cut software
MainActor v5 for the CeBIT. As successor of MainActor v3 the new MainConcept development MainActor v5 aims to the advanced user and professional market.
«
Read the full article by Golem (German) by the title link.
Maybe the to be soonly released Linux version will be useable with the
Pegasos and/or AmigaOne hardware. A PPC-Recompile should be possible for the
developer. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.Mar.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Translator wanted (Englisch - German)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
I am looking for someone who might translate the manual of Hollywood to German.
It should have been finished some time ago but due to some unfortunate circumstances including the loss of data of a nearly finished German manual we are now just back to the start again.
If there might be someone who would do this job the one will receive an extensive
Airsoft Softwair bundle incl. Hollywood full version. I will emphasize here that the translation really will be a big job. It is about a good 250 kilobytes of plain text which has to be translated. Something like this will surely take more than just two evenings. Interested ones might contact me to check the details.
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12.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: AmigaOne-XE status update
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) comments on the recent delays with the delivery of the AmigaOne-XE motherboards at the AmigaOne mailing list (title link). A brief summary of the most important topics:
The delivery of the motherboard is delayed because some testers reported smaller problems with the new hardware and UBoot. The new UBoot revision is finished now (see Hyperion
press release from Monday) and the production of the boards can be started now.
Eyetech guesses that they will receive the motherboards next week and they aim to start the delivery the week later.
Suse ran out of PPC Linux sets so the last XEs will be delivered with Debian.
Because there seem to be a great demand of a high end CPU module Eyetech will offer later this year a module with a faster G4 processor.
Actually the 7445 with 1.3 GHz is favoured but this might be changed due to the availability of different CPU types.
Finally Redhouse comments on the relationship between MAI, Eyetech and Terra Soft extensively.
Update: (26.07.2014, cg)
A complete copy of Alan Redhouse's mail (added since the Original has been moved elsewhere by Yahoogroups apparently):
Message-ID: <09dc01c2e820$37610d60$0201a8c0@dsl>
An:
Von: "Eyetech Group Ltd"
Datum: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:47:35 +0100
Betreff: Re: [amigaone] Re: latest AmigaOne delay
When I wrote to this list on 13 February I said I expected - if everything
went to plan - that if the A1-XE boards shipped to developers in early
February worked well we would order and receive the end user earlybird
systems by the end of February. But I did add :-
"These are of course target dates, and cannot possibly be taken as a promise
or guarantee. All I can say is that we are as keen to have your money as you
are to spend it, and do not, and never have had any intention of
deliberately holding back shipments just to be awkward (as some people seem
to think). However we will not as of policy ship any product before we are
satisfied that it is fully functional - including an installable and
working operating system - other than to developers for testing purposes."
Well in the event the developers did find a few problems with the newly
available hardware/firmware combination, and as a result UBoot had some
further updates - as posted this week by Hyperion - including board
diagnostics and better RAM support. In addition SuSE ran out of boxed PPC
Linux sets, so we have decided to ship Debian Linux with the Earlybird
systems instead. The developers, and particulrly Ross Vumbaca, have done
sterling work in putting together an end-user installation guide. Thanks
again guys.
The upshot is that the earlybird and remaining A1-XE/G4 and G3 boads are now
ready for final BIOS programming and shipping to us. We expect to receive
them next week and start shipping them out the following week.
Many people have also asked us to produce a high end cpu module for the
A1-XE and I am pleased to announce that we will be commissioning a high-end
G4 module for delivery later in the year. The current favourite is the
7445@1.3GHz - but we will of course monitor the available cpu options to
make sure that we can offer the best price/performance to upgraders. These
top-end cpu's are currently *very* expensive so will only appeal to users
who must have the fastest for business (or ego) reasons.
Finally we have received several emails about Terrasofts 'will we/won't we'
attitude to the Teron boards and our opinion as to what, if any, is the
conspiracy theory behind their (non) announcements.
First of all it is necessary to put right some of the popular misconceptions
that have been relentlessly been put about by certain individuals on ann and
elsewhere.
MAI - as has been said many times - are a fabless chip manufacturer who also
own the Teron design. They do not make boards. In the past MAI have
commissioned the building of boards in sample quantity boards from a third
party prototyping company (a sort of far eastern DCE on their good days) and
we have bought some of these boards from MAI to ship to developers. But for
any sort of producton volumes we have to contract directly with an
independant board manufacturer and clearly this involves a significant
volume and therefore upfront financial commitment.
This means that neither Terrasoft nor us are 'just a distributor' of MAI
boards. To have anything other than sample boards produced to the basic
Teron design, those boards have to be individually ordered, in very
significant quantities, by us, Terrasoft or whoever. If Terrasoft want
boards from our production they have to apply to us to be a dealer. If not
they have to stump up a rather large amount of money of their own to build
their own production. MAI of course get a royalty for their board design for
all boards manufactured. For the record we have placed by far the largest
order for boards based on the Teron design of anybody, including MAI (and of
course Terrasoft).
This PPC motherboard market is of course a new market for Terrasoft who,
despite the best wishes of those who would do anything to see genuine Amiga
supporting companies such as us and Hyperion fail, are really a very small
company that have historcally made their money selling Linux books and
merchandise, and providing paid some YDL support to companies. My guess is
that it is their uncertainties in this new (to them) board market coupled
with
the required volume/financial commitment which is now causing them to
reconsider their options. In fact Terrasoft have not even contributed to
porting YDL to the Teron board - this has been done by Bill Mueller of MAI
and others on the A1 dev list..They clearly also completely messed up their
TeronPx/G4 pricing calculations - hence the quick withrawal from their web
site.
Contrary to what has also been speculated, there is certainly no requirement
for us or end users to pay a licence fee to Terrasoft for any AmigaOne board
whether used for running OS4 or Linux.
I'm sure the ann orcs will try to make something sinister of all this, but
we, and Hyperion, really are doing our best under very difficult
circumstances to deliver the best, most cost effective, genuine, Amiga to
date.
Thankyou for your continued support
Alan
This email and the information it contains are a confidential and privileged
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12.Mar.2003
Remedy Systems (Website)
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DynDNS client: AmiDynDNS version 1.17
The DynDNS client AmiDynDNS for AmigaOS is released in version 1.17 and is ready for the free
download. Remedy Systems has set up a free of charge newsletter also, you can sign it at their
website.
Brief news:
- New CLI argument SETENVIP
- New tooltype SET_ENV_IP, to put the current IP Address to the environment variable IP
- CLI output corrected
- Small errors within the log routine fixed
- Sourc ecode fitted to Vbcc
Detailed information is to obtain from the included manual within the archive.
Download: AmiDynDNS117.lha
AmiDynDNS is an extensive and comfortable client for the
DynDNS.org services which was born of necessity that there was no working client for the Amiga except an ARexx script. DynDNS.org is a free of charge service which offers users with dynamic IP addresses one or several static hostnames to make e. g. Web server,
FTP server or other servers more easy accessable for other users. For more detailed information please visit the DynDNS.org Internet site directly.
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11.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packages until 10.03.2003
With WHDLoad you can install disk based games onto your hd. The following packages
are added or updated since last time:
- 10.03.03 new: Abra Cadabra (Coktel Vision) done by Agressor
- 10.03.03 new: Time Lock (Boeder Software) done by Psygore
- 10.03.03 improved: Harley Davidson (Mindscape) supports another version
- 10.03.03 fixed: Dragon's Lair (Readysoft)new imager, supports another version
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11.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-Card-Driver: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 311 (Update)
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 311 of AmithlonTV with some updates and
enhancements. More details about the changes you will find under the title link.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh
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10.Mar.2003
Etienne Vogt (Website)
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RAM Disk Driver: VDisk.device Version 3.6
Etienne Vogt published today version 3.6 of the VDisk.device. You can
find the changes made in the Readme.
Download: vdisk36.lha - 46 KB
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10.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Computer City, Rotterdam
On the website of Amiga Future you can find an interview with Ron van
Herk, owner of the trading and software house of Computer City
from the Netherlands.
The Englisch
version of the interview.
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10.Mar.2003
Glames (E-Mail)
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AmigaDE-Game: First Screenshots of 'Word Me Up'
Under the title link you can find first screenshots of the
Amiga-DE-game 'Word Me Up'. The game belonges to the
category Arcade/Memory/Reflection. The side is also available in
French. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Ten questions per week at Fleecy Moss
"We at AmigaWorld are proud to announce that Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss has agreed on offering us weekly Questions and
Answers sessions." (Update, 17.03.2012, cg: integrated the actual interview into the news item, since the original document is no longer available on the net):
1) Rebel: "Why SO silent? AInc has been quiet for months at a time, giving the naysayers, and rumour mongers a chance to do more damage, and divide the community even more.".
Fleecy: As my mother used to, and still does say to me 'Don't say anything unless you have something to say.' Keith Blakemore Noble pointed out on ANN that this is what we said we would do when we bought the company in 2000 and then we went back on this pledge. The problem we have, although it is a good problem is that the Amiga has a community and the community wants to know what is going on, more so given the nightmare of the last eight years.
Our initial policy was thus to say nothing until we had news to share. With all the requests we then got for news, it became very difficult for us to keep to our policy. We thus resurrected the Executive Updates but in these we made the mistake of sharing status and progress information and as anyone in business knows, business is a distillation process - 100 leads may lead to 20 contacts which lead to 5 contracts which may, if you are lucky lead to 1 deal.
Even more unfortunate, the deals we were able to announce, the Sharp Zaurus, the Nokia MediaTerminal, the Sendo Z100 were pulled out from under us - the Zaurus for Sharp internal reasons, the MediaTerminal because of the collapse of ITV digital and another Germany company and the Sendo situation is well understood (although there is still hope there of a new deal based upon the unique advantages of the AmigaDE).
So, in terms of news items we haven't done too well.
To add to this (and many will shout and scream about this but it is true), Amiga Inc has been under attack from several groups who have other axes to grind, whether they want an x86 solution, AmigaOS open sourced, protection code and licencing removed from AmigaOS4.0 or want to encourage people to move to another platform whilst claiming it is an Amiga. Of course in a community there is disagreement but in a community that disagreement is either tolerated or the community splits apart. Everything we were saying in public was being taken apart and turned to support whatever was the position of the poster.
In the end, we decided to revert back to our original policy since it became apparent that all anyone really cared about was the release of AmigaOS4.0. This then brought us full circle to the original situation, that when saying nothing, noisemakers will rush to fill the silence. If you don't counteract the rumours then its because they are true and if you do pop up to counteract them then that must be because they are true. The only way to win is to get AmigaOS4.0 out the door and so that is what we are concentrating on at the moment.
Part of the reason for this Q&A; service is to rubbish the claim that we won't talk to the community. We just won't say anything if it isn't 110% guaranteed anymore and that is the way people seem to want it.
2) SlimJim: "It is well known that this first release of AOS4 is mainly aimed for the existing user-base and eventual old Amigans. What is Amiga Inc's (overall) marketing strategy with respect to AmigaOS4 + Aone (once they become available)?".
Fleecy:
- Move the community to new hardware and operating system.
- Develop audio and 2d/3d productivity architectures with Amiga and non Amiga developers
- Create applications to take advantage of these architectures to carve out solution markets
- Support development of applications that round the appeal of the platform - browser, email client, word processor
- Integrate with the AmigaDE to open access to multiple platform markets, both open and solution based
- As we build the application base to where it can successfully provide for different roles, we will then push it out into those markets.
In short, there is no point in pushing the Amiga into a market where it is not yet ready to provide an adequate solution or it will die before it takes its first step. To do that we need the hardware, the operating system, the application base and the support services in place.
3) Herewegoagain: "Will they [Amiga Inc.] be negotiating with Microsoft to bring Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Media Player to OS4?".
Fleecy: It is something we have considered but again, as with all the other application developers out there on other platforms, until we can plonk a machine and operating system in front of them, there is little point. The perennial problem, of course is that these companies are busy with their main activities and seeing their product ported to another platform, particularly one as small as the Amiga is not something that they wish to consider. In the end, they will only 'get out of bed' if there is a large market or we provide them with financial incentive.
4) alx: "Assuming everything goes to plan, at what point in the future will Amiga start to advertise the A1/OS (not just to Amigans)?".
Fleecy: I refer you back to question 2 - we will market and advertise when the full solution is ready for those markets. This doesn't mean that there won't be penetration. We have many journalists ready to review and write about the machines. Amiga is a big story to them because the Amiga was such a large part of people's lives in the past. We will have services in place to take advantage of and capture that interest, to make use of it when the conditions are right.
5) reflect: "Maybe I've missed this when I read the featurelist, but I couldn't see ARexx there. Will ARexx still be included, and if so, will it have gotten an overhaul internally or will it 'just' be ported or will it be emulated?"
Fleecy: The ownership issues surround the original ARexx implementation are well known and we have been unable to gain access to the source. The existing 68k ARexx binary will thus be emulated. We are reviewing the entire scripting and application control for both AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 as mentioned later on.
6) unclecurio: "What are AInc doing to attract past developers to produce updated versions of their software? For example, Photogenics has ceased development for AmigaOS but would be a great product to bring back in an updated version.".
Fleecy: We are working in the background but I don't want to go into too much detail as it has become apparent that competitors are approaching the same people and trying to tie them into exclusive deals that would keep their products from AmigaOS4.0. Providing them with a list of who we are approaching, both within the Amiga community and on other platforms would really be doing their work for them. Suffice it to say that we are being as open as we can with all the developers that we have been able to locate still developing for the AmigaOS and with one or two exceptions, they are very receptive to what we have been able to tell them.
7) Eric_Z: "Is A.inc. currently involved in porting over office apps to AACE or OS4?".
Fleecy: For Amiga Anywhere, we are encouraging development of the applications that our customers are telling us they want, and this is almost always games. However, we do have customers who have requested education and productivity software and we have one of the best calculators ever created on a software platform and a digital picture application that is impressing lots of people. In the end, we encourage and work on whatever is being asked for.
8) mood: "Will there be any Amiga-Anywhere/AmigaDE-player for AmigaOS 4.x?".
Fleecy: We have already stated that we are targeting an AACE player for AmigaOS4.2
9) DaveW: "Is SHEEP the scripting language that looked rather cool available or going to be available this year for Amiga based programmers to get their hands on?".
Fleecy: We are currently reviewing SHEEP in the context of the AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 and looking at how it can be used to bring the two together as both are moved forwards and towards each other.
10) Pig: "Where do you see the company in 5 years, and where do you see AmigaOS at that time?".
Fleecy: I hope that we are on many different types of device and providing a seamless digital enviroment for users irrespective of their hardware. We have a marketing slogan we use, the new WWW, which means Whatever, Wherever, Whenever.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=1
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact)
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10.Mar.2003
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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H&P: StormC programmer needed
For the porting of the loganalyzers Sawmill we are looking for an
Amiga programmer, who is used to StormC and/or GCC. It
concerns thereby not the adjustment of sources, but rather the
adjustment of libraries, so that the source can be compiled on the Amiga. The payment is to be made in form of a participation in
turnover at the sales of the Amiga version. If you are interested please contact Markus
Nerding. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2003
Thomas Frieden, Senior Developer (E-Mail)
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Hyperion: New AmigaOne Firmware
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Leuven, Belgium - March 7, 2003.
Hyperion is pleased to announce that it has completed an extensive rework of the AmigaOne firmware adding substantial functionality and flexibility for end-users, developers and technicians.
The new firmware will be incorporated in the A1-XE boards which will be shipping shortly.
Newly implemented functionality includes:
- Migration from PPCBoot 1.16 to U-Boot (PPCBoot 2.0)
- Support for PPC 750 FX, MPC 7440/41, MPC 7450/1 CPU's
- Comprehensive GUI for Articia S register configuration
- Comprehensive GUI for general firmware configuration
- Support of additional types of memory modules
- Integration of diagnostic code
- Support for POST card displays allowing for rapid detection of specific hardware faults
- New Articia S start-up code allowing for usage of two banks of unregistered SDRAM
- Booting from Symbios/LSI Logic 53c8xx based SCSI controllers
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10.Mar.2003
jim (ANF)
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Mail program: New YAM development version
There is a new development version (2.4-dev [020] BETA) of the mail program YAM available.
As mentioned this is a development version wich may still contain bugs. Questions about this release will not be answered. Use it on your own risk!
Made changes can be found here.
Additional information can be found on the Yamos SourceForge-site.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx (nba) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Terra Soft: Teron-PPC-Board not longer available in the Online-Store
Terra Soft ATX PowerPC Systems
Terra Soft Current and Pending Customers,
"Many of you have enthusiastically and patiently awaited the delivery of MAI Logic's Teron motherboards on which Terra Soft's Boxer ATX systems will be built. We have removed the Teron-based systems from our online Store until further notice in order to reduce further confusion and false expectations. We promise to bring this product to market as soon as possible." -- Terra Soft Team
Background could be a diversity of opinion between Terra Soft and Mai
Logic. According to rumors, which Mike Bouma in the Amiga World forum
drew "from reliable sources", Terra Soft demands 20 US dollar per
produced and sold Main board, including the AmigaOne boards, since
these boards can implement Yellow Dog Linux. These rumors were so far
not confirmed officially.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2003
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)
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PerfectPaint V2.92
Version 2.92 of the paint program PerfectPaint by Halvadjian Georges is now available. In this version the following features were
added or changed:
- If you start PerfectPaint from shell, you can specify a filename like this: "PerfectPaint:PerfectPaint DH0:MonImage.iff"
- Add Horizontal and Vertical Rulers in Pixels, cm and Inches.
- New Effect: FastPaint
- New Arexx Command: pp_SetDPI, pp_linepattern
- Effect can now have his own Density mapping
- You can now load template (Some Template are available for CD, DVD...)
- Update Localisation file.
- Improve 'New' requester: You can select the resolution of the picture (pixels/cm or pixels/Inches). You can enter the size of the picture in Pixels, cm or Inches.
- Improve Preview effect: Stencil and density mapping are showed now during the preview.
- Improve Density mapping: New requester, New options, New file requester with thumbnail.
- Improve Text requester: Arrows key (Up/Down) can be used to select next or previous vectorial font.
- Improve Processing tool: Much faster, Better aspect.
- Improve All blending Algorithm (Ouch!!): Better aspect and much faster.
- Improve Crop, Scale window tool and Crop&Past script: The current mask is not anymore erased.
Note 1: If you have some problems with brush refresh, enable the "Picasso96" tooltype. (the scalepixelarray command will not be used anymore)
Note 2: If you can't save PNG with alphachannel, check that you have installed the PBM datatype. Because PfPaint save his mask in PBM format and PNGtool read this format with the help of the datatype.
Download: PfPaint_V292.lha (nba) (Translation: sk)
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09.Mar.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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New NList and NListtree versions
Sebastian Bauer writes:
The new MUI classes NList and NListtree versions are now available for download on my homepage. The archives also contain the MorphOS versions (created by Jens Langner). Should there still be any problems with these versions, please tell me so I can fix them in time for the "stable" release. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Mar.2003
Thorsten 'Thorty' Schölzel (ANF)
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Original Amiga logo for uploading to mobile phone released
After the MorphOS logo has been received with cheers by the users, today the original Amiga logo has been released for mobile phones by the makers Nokia and Siemens. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Mar.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 09th March 2003
Subsequently you'll find the newest Aminet uploads:
SN-MuenzArch.lha biz/dbase 197K+V1.4 Coin-DataBase (Germany only)
Opus6img.lha biz/dopus 1.1M+Toolbar Images For DOpus Magellan
GummiSurf.lha comm/net 14K+Companion tool for Charon (Download mana
ib2email.lha comm/www 2K+ARexx scripts to pass mailto: links from
OpenURL44.lha comm/www 146K+OpenURL - Get that URL!
pvt-cafe2002.lha demo/slide 2.8M+Demoparty Computer Art Festival 2002 Sli
BlitzLstFeb03.lha dev/basic 1.3M+Blitz mailing list archives for February
BlitzLstJan03.lha dev/basic 513K+Blitz mailing list archives for January
CIT.lha dev/gui 165K+A C++ GUI dev system
ASCIImui.lha dev/mui 21K+ASCII character converter (source code i
MCC_Toolbar.lha dev/mui 123K+Toolbar custom class for MUI (v15.8) [OS
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ScaOPM-Cat_Up.lha util/wb 9K+Update Cat.french(Scalos-OPM)
SortIcons.lha util/wb 12K+Sorts Icons on WB screen - like PC/Mac!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Mar.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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ByteMARK Benchmark V2 for AmigaOS/MorphOS
Rupert Hausberger has ported the current ByteMARK(tm) benchmark to
AmigaOS/MorphOS. It contains the following builds:
bytemark.020.aos - AmigaOS/68020/mathieee.library
bytemark.020.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68020/mathieee.library/a4-relative
bytemark.020.881.aos - AmigaOS/68020/FPU
bytemark.020.881.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68020/FPU/a4-relative
bytemark.040.aos - AmigaOS/68040/mathieee.library
bytemark.040.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68040/mathieee.library/a4-relative
bytemark.040.881.aos - AmigaOS/68040/FPU
bytemark.040.881.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68040/FPU/a4-relative
bytemark.060.aos - AmigaOS/68060/FPU
bytemark.060.aos - AmigaOS/68060/FPU/a4-relative
bytemark.603e.mos - MorphOS/603e/FPU
bytemark.603e.r13.mos - MorphOS/603e/FPU/r13-relative
bytemark.604e.mos - MorphOS/604e/FPU
bytemark.604e.r13.mos - MorphOS/604e/FPU/r13-relative
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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09.Mar.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Voltmeter software completed
I herewith announce that the software for my voltmeter hardware has been
completed. This should be able to run on all A1200s and A4000s. However, it
would have to be adapted for A500 and A600. This is because the software uses
the 32bit width of the address data.
Theoretically the software should run under AmigaOS V2.1 - 3.9, however it has
not been tested under version 2.1. The program archive now also contains the
circuit diagram for self-assembly. This has been integrated in a PDF file which
furthermore contains descriptions of the ARexx programs. Only experienced hobby
electronic technicians should deal with this (chips are susceptible against
static electricity!). You can get all parts at Conrad Electronic or any
well-assorted electronics shop.
Software: The archive now contains several ARexx programs with which you can
read out the data from the voltmeter. Among those are also an oscilloscope
program and a program using the system's Pipe:. Unfortunately I can't write a
program reading out the data from the pipe as fast as they are written into it.
Furthermore there are a bus initialization and a zero correction program.
The most important program is the main program, "Voltmeter". There you can
mainly do voltage metering in realtime. The second important function is the
sampling of voltage data. This means that in 1 second about 280 measurings are
performed. These are displayed immediately afterwards in a lister. Thereby they
are converted into volts with a precision of 3 decimal places.
This list of voltage data can be saved, if you want, to be used in another
program. The same can be done with the metered value of the single measurement.
An important highlight are the four diagram functions in the voltmeter program.
After the listing of the metered values in the lister you can view them again
in one of the four diagram modes in individual windows. These are: dot diagram,
line diagram, P-grid diagram, and L-grid diagram. The L-grid diagram is the
most exact diagram of all as you can read out the voltage down to 0.1 volts and
the time down to a few milliseconds.
It has to be said that point diagram and P-grid diagram show time in samples
whereas the two line grid diagrams show it in seconds. Incidentally there can
be only 1000 samples taken as a maximum. This means about 3.5 - 4 seconds of
measuring.
Download: Voltmeter.lzx
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Internet browser: Mozilla for AmigaOS?
In a thread on Amiga.org
explains Dave "DaveP" Pitcher that he had already run a Mozilla port under AmigaOS 3.9 - more than one year ago.
Dave had looked for people who were willing to take over the following work. As nobody registered he had ceased the work. The state of the port is described by Dave like this: "It is slow, contains errors (it's based on an early Mozilla code base) and it needs a lot of finetuning before it will be something I could be proud of".
Dave says that he'll restart the work on the port as soon as his other projects (his part of work on OS4 and his website amigabooks.org) leave him enough time and if he gets enough feedback).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Sayonara Software page online again
Games like Hollywood Manager, Flamingo Tours and
the Samba Partie series may be taken as the most successful titles by "Sayonara Software".
Jo Seitz, the founder and developer of "Sayonara Software",
gave the Amiga Arena last year the permission to offer his games there for free downloading. These games are after the redesign now online again!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Alfonso Ranieri (ANF)
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FreeDB 7.3 and CManager 21.8 released
FreeDB 7.3
and CManager 21.8 are available for download. (ps)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New community portal: Amigaworld.net
Though the community portal Amigaworld.net already exits for several months it became a talking-point in the last days as an alternative to Amiga.org.
In contrary to Amiga.org MorphOS and Pegasos aren't accepted as topic on Amigaworld.net, the providers want to concentrate on topics all about AmigaOS and Amiga Inc. In conjunction with very strict moderating they want to avoid the typical warfares also Amiga.org had to suffer from.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga: We were just sleeping
The March issue of the Australian computer magazine "Australian Personal Computer" reports under the title "Amiga: We were just sleeping" about the upcoming launch of the "AmigaOne".
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Further AmigaOne/Pegasos benchmarks
On Pekka Nissinen's benchmark site are further benchmarks available: new added are the results of a Pegasos/G3 with 100 MHz FSB as well as of an AmigaOne-SE with 100 MHz FSB.
All benchmarks had been done with the same binary.
To people who speak English and are interested in the topic may be the according thread on ANN recommended. The issue is discussed there on a mainly objective basis. Right now there's the question why the Pegasos does much worse in two tests (assignment and LU decomposition) than the AmigaOne, maybe the L2-cache isn't activated on the Pegasos. (nba)
Update:
Update for Pegasos/AmigaOne benchmarks - In the meanwhile has the site been brought up-to-date. On the Pegasos was indeed the L2-cache deactivated, this error has been fixed and the benchmark results have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Speed tests with Monzoom
The raytracing program Monzoom tested:
Amiga version 4.3.78 -Pro
PC version 4.5.55 -Pro
Scene: Caribbic (coming with Monzoom Pro)
800x 600; Ray 4; Antial. 4; shadow -An
A1200 __040/25MHz ___________computing time __59 min 11 sec __(3551 sec)
A4000 __060/50MHz ___________computing time __20 min 01 sec __(1201 sec)
A1200 __PPC603e/150Mhz ______computing time __10 min 39 sec __( 639 sec)
A4000 --PPC604e/200MHz ______computing time __02 min 30 sec __( 150 sec)
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WinUAE AMD/2000+ ____________computing time __01 min 48 sec __( 108 sec)
Amithlon AMD/2000+ (1.6GHz) _computing time __01 min 09 sec __( 69 sec)
Athlon 1700+ ________________computing time __00 min 09 sec --( 09 sec)
Athlon 2000+ ________________computing time __00 min 08 sec __( 08 sec)
Tried updating with Pegasos values but (mk) hadn't got my mail (he posted) and he doesn't have time next week and I don't want to stress him. But to show speed facts this is enough to be posted now.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Mar.2003
Thorty! (ANF)
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Thorty-Online.de: New AMIGA sections opened
On Thorty-online.de two new Amiga sections has been opened.
- Amiga Workshops
- Handy Logos
Amiga Workshops:
You can find here some workshops about the use of WinUAE on the x86 platform. Other ones
will follow.
Handy Logos:
This fresh section will be extended in irregular distances. MorphOS fans may be delighted
because they can download a suitable logo and/or picture message for a handy of Nokia and
Siemens.
The tutorial explains you how you will get the logo and/or the picture message to your
handy.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Total Amiga Magazine 14 with Quake-2-lottery
Total Amiga Magazine Issue 14 will be available from March 15. But that's not the end of the story, how does the chance of winning a copy of either Amiga QuakeII or Descent: Freespace sound?
To coincide with our comprehensive Amiga Quake II review and thanks to Hyperion-Entertainment, we have a copy of Amiga Quake II/Descent: Freespace* to give away to one lucky winner. To enter, subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine by 17/3/2003 (24:00hrs GMT) and your name will automatically be entered into the prize draw.
Plus! Alan Redhouse, The man who lays it straight, writes exclusively every month for Total Amiga Magazine. In this month Alan's updates include news on the AmigaOne XE and news on a new A1 SE lite...
Plus! We are pleased to announce that Issue 14 sees an increase in content, up from 48 pages to 52. Now there is even more to read and enjoy.
Plus! Fleecy Moss, Buzz Word, Hollywood review, Webdesign on an Amiga, Software Tycoon, Top Tips, Tutorials and more.
To subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine, please visit http://www.totalamiga.org/subscribe.html for more details.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Martin K. (ANF)
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GRex-homepage updated
After a short break the inofficial GRex homepage has been updated on 2nd March 2003.
Information concerning OpenPCI have been integrated as well as a little fan shop was opened.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Source code contractually protect
On the current issue 4/2003 iX advices its readers
to think about taking appropriate measures in case of insolvencies of software and other
IT offerers. It may be especially important to protect the source code contractually.
Have a look at the title link for the full article (in German).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Further details on STB-strategy
In two comments of Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (Genesi)
on Amiga.org
you can find further details on their Set-Top-Box-Strategy. It follows an extract from these comments:
[After reflecting about the success of BSkyB in Great Britain:] "Now, do something
inexpensive with a 403 PPC and a DTV tuner with MorphOS (in this case)
and you could have something quite special that can handle anything as
well as everything retailing for 400-500 Euros at less that 25% of the cost.
Sounds like something another BSkyB-like company might take a risk with?
Yes, you bet!"
"Everything we learned before collectively (VisCorp, PhaseV, bplan, Thendic,
etc.) is coming to play today in Genesi for a very large company that wants
to do *exactly* that."
"Speaking of which there is a good article about Murdoch
here.
[...] BTW, This article should also be read by others who may be
underestimating this DTV STB market at the price point we are delivering
hardware to it (contrast that for example with the super STB from Pace at
350 £!)."
"Our customer [...] has a pricing strategy that tells us they understand
the market and their customers."
"As far as we can tell, the BSkyB boxes in the UK are completely non-standard.
They use WAP which may sound off the wall given it's designed for mobile phones
but being designed for low end systems with low bandwidth makes it perfect
for STBs. There's a lot of technology available now that supports WAP
development. We actually will have a WAP stack/Browser ready."
"Remember, we will not integrate the uplink initially to reduce cost (we
will have a WAP portal for people to use mobile phones as an unlink though
and a handy little connector to support that process). We have a phased modular
strategy that adds functionality akin to the base station of a radio/remote
phone designed normally for home use. The receiver chip for the radio signal
will have been already introduced in the STB (as is found in the home handset
associated with the base station that anchors the system in the home with
power and telephone line connection -- incidentally overcoming the no
telephone connection near the TV problem)."
"On the smart card side, we will use them to unscramble parts of the signal
already there. This can be done on a subscriber or pre-paid basis (for
anonymity or one game at a time). The signal itself can *also* be data
driven to individually addressable STBs. Here smart cards can be further
used as recording devices. In our case viewing data can be exchanged for
movie credits... Of course, this flexibility can be promotion/advertising
oriented too..." (ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Amiga Absence at CeBIT 2003 in Hannover
Amiga Absence at CeBIT
Mar 6, 2003 - Late last year, Amiga announced its intention to launch
AmigaOS4.0 at the CeBIT show
in Germany. Since then, the project has
advanced into its final stages but unfortunately not to the point where
we are ready to ship. We have thus decided not to attend the Cebit
Germany show. Instead we are looking at other shows and opportunities
in the near future to provide a suitable platform for the launch of
the new Amiga.
We apologize to the commmunity for waiting until the last possible
moment to make this announcement but despite heroic efforts by all
concerned, even up to the last minute, circumstances have conspired
to push completion beyond the deadline. We have regretfully decided
that making CeBIT Germany the AmigaOS 4 launch platform is not a
realistic option at present.
AmigaOS4.0 is coming. Beta-testing has been going on since last
September, the Club Amiga Magazine is previewing many of the new
features and AmigaOne integration is proceeding well. Amiga,
Hyperion
and Eyetech
are 100% committed to getting the new platform out into
the world and reintroducing the world to the pleasures of home
computing.
-- The Amiga Team
(ps)
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06.Mar.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Mailbox: jamiga-BBS offline
The Kiel-based Amiga-Mailbox "jamiga" is closed since today. Because this is a short term issue that occured without warning, we are making this announcement in hopes of reaching the remaining users and "connected" mailboxes this way.
On account of a few queries and current personal incidents we hesitatingly decided on this step. We hereby thank all (former) users and the mailboxes supporting us for the partially year long "faith!"
Sven Scheele and Marcel Wintrich (ps)
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06.Mar.2003
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Test of 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'
Under the title link you'll find a test of 'Indiana Jones and the FATE
OF ATLANTIS', by Stefan Juhas. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: German Language Web Presence of Mozilla Variant Phoenix
For the slender alternative browser Phoenix
the German language web presence of http://www.phoenix-browser.de has been opened. [I have used Phoenix, and find it to be slimmed down and modern. Netscape 4.8 is still a bit more responsive -DM]
Read the complete heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
Samba Website
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Networking: Samba Version 3.0alpha22
The Samba team released version 3.0alpha22 on the 5th of March, 2003. To see what exactly has been changed, have a look
here.
Samba is software that, for example, allows networking between a PC and an Amiga. Information about Samba for Amiga may be found at
amigasamba.org.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV Website
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TV Card Driver: AmithlonTV Beta 304
Guido Mersmann has released beta version 304 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV, with several little updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
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Warning: Nethands.de Warned About Missing Banner
As already
reported many times,
many homepage makers (it doesn't matter if they are private or commercial) are not aware that the new telecommunications service law (TDG) and/or the intermediate services state regulations (MDStV) include a provision requiring a banner. There are constantly resourceful (or better put, flighty) lawyers who want to earn their bread with warnings.
Flighty therefore, because it could be possible throughout to draw attention to a possible violation through email, and to offer to help out. If this remains unsuccessful first of all, our opinion about a warning is justified. The law is conclusively implemented to protect the surfer, and not to to enrich lawyers through warnings as well.
Read under the title link about how Nethands.de handles the warning, and help them if you have the opportunity. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Microsoft Has Abandoned the OpenGL Consortium
On account of the apparently insufficiently future-oriented development of the 3D interface, Microsoft has abandoned the OpenGL Consortium, and wants concentrate exclusively on their house Direct3D standard.
You'll find the heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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