19.Feb.2003
Terry Fry (E-Mail)
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Techconnect: SciTech Software to Add Graphic Power to AmigaOS 4 and Beyond
The press release by Hyperion regarding the partnership with SciTech
(as reported) is recognized as well outside the Amiga world. You may read the English article by Techconnect following the title link.
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19.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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REBOL: Picture viewer ReViewer v1.3
On the 12th of February 2003 version 1.3 of ReViewer, a picture viewer for the open platform
REBOL, has been releasded. The software with its graphical interface is to call stable even with this early version and by the platform independence of REBOL useable with the Amiga too.
The free download is possible at the website linked by the title.
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19.Feb.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Interview with Ben Hermans
In the light of some rumours currently circulating (regarding the
status of AmigaOS 4) and the recent announcement of the partnership
with SciTech, we contacted Ben Hermans (Managing partner of
Hyperion Entertainment,
AmigaOS 4 project manager) and did a short interview.
Amiga-News: There's a rumor that OS4 is further delayed because Amiga Inc. are unable to contribute money to the project. Does your business plan rely on financial contributions from Amiga Inc.?
Ben Hermans: No, it doesn't. It has to be recognized however that software development costs money and that more money means more development resources and hence a shorter development cycle.
Amiga-News: You have to pay three senior developers, and the only known source of income for Hyperion during the last 15 months was the work on the Teron/AmigaOne BIOS (and Quake 2 of course, but that probably made just enough money to buy Steffen a Pizza). What/who pays the wages of your developers?
Ben Hermans: Contract work as you pointed out. Our work for Mai is ongoing and has been quite extensive.
There always will be new chipsets to support, new CPU's to support, Linux related work to be done etc.
We just delivered a substantially upgraded firmware for the AmigaOne/Teron hardware. More news on this will follow.
During the OS4 development cycle we also ported two Mac games (Nobody Lives Forever and Gorky 17), which brought in revenue.
Amiga-News: Still, the idea that you'll have to acquire additional funds if OS4 gets delayed some more makes sense. Your only option to acquire more funds would be to assign senior developers to other projects. In other words, if you don't match your current dead-line, OS4 will get even further delayed because the Friedens and/or Steffen Häuser would have to work on some Mac-Ports or contract work not related to OS4. right?
Ben Hermans: Absolutely. In fact, I dare say that if we had been in a position to concentrate solely on OS 4 during the past 15 months, OS 4 might already have been finished.
Amiga-News: Could you explain the legal status of AmigaOS4 to us? You said you "own" it,and Amiga Inc. are entitled to buy it back at a (quote) "very reasonable price". Is Amiga Inc.'s right to buy the OS back transferable, i.e. could they sell it to a third party? What happens if Amiga go bankrupt, would you still be able to sell the OS as *Amiga*OS? Would the party that acquires Amiga Inc.'s assets also acquire the right to buy AmigaOS4?
Ben Hermans: Our contract with Amiga does indeed contain an IP buy-back clause, which means that Amiga can acquire the work done by us on OS 4.
Once Amiga has acquired the rights to OS 4, theoretically a third party might buy it from them but certainly not with a view to burry it and halt development. If no new version of OS 4 is released within 6 months after release of OS 4, our right to develop the OS further and indefinitely relives.
If Amiga goes bankrupt, our license is commuted to an exclusive license to develop AmigaOS further, for any platform, not just PPC. This legally excludes a potential new owner from exploiting the source-code himself.
There is therefore nothing to be gained from buying Amiga's assets in the event of bankruptcy unless the new owner is willing to work with the OS 4 development team in good faith.
Amiga-News: Could you try to describe the current status of OS4 without using phrases like "everything's right on track" and "99% finished"? Is the integration of the 68k emulator finished? Are there external beta testers running ExecSG on their system?
Ben Hermans: We are now down to 8 outstanding items of the feature-list we released some time ago.
Only one of these issues is a show-stopper in the sense that it could introduce further delays (the emulation integration), the remaining issues are minor, several of which will be taken care of still this month.
By way of example: InstallerNG, one of those 8 items I mentioned. It is not finished yet. This won't hold up release of OS 4 as we can always switch back to the old Commodore installer. Another example: one Reaction class still needs to be taken care of. We are confident this will happen still this month. There are more of these minor issues, 8 in all like I said.
We are still working on the emulation integration. Unfortunately the external developer working on it had several pressing personal and professional issues to take care of which resulted in some delay. This is one of those instances where a bigger budget would certainly have helped. We nonetheless hope to wrap this up very soon as the work is now in such a state that full-time Hyperion developers can step in and take over.
Exec SG unsurprisingly sports all the functionality listed in the feature-list as already implemented. Several developers have access to it and are running it on their Cyberstorm PPC and AmigaOne hardware in order to develop device drivers. Meanwhile a team of 77 beta-testers and translators have been testing and localizing OS 4 components since many months now.
Amiga-News: The Alt-WOA scheduled for the 26th of April has been cancelled recently, because of the fact that "OS4 may not be ready by then". Were you involved in that decision? What does "not ready" mean in this context: "not ready for sale" or "not ready for demonstration"?
Ben Hermans: The organizers demanded ironclad guarantees that OS 4-A1 combo would be on sale at that time.
As a matter of principle, I informed them that the only way we could guarantee that now, would be for OS 4 to be ready NOW. It is not and I therefore declined to give them this guarantee as a matter of principle.
Huge corporations like Microsoft (Windows 95 released in 96 and Windows XP ring a bell?) and Intel (Merced/Itanium anyone?) with budgets larger than the gross product of most third world countries have missed their deadlines as a matter of course. It is simply unrealistic to expect a 100% guarantee. Life doesn't work that way. Not for Microsoft, not for Intel or Sun and certainly not for a small company like Hyperion. Do I expect that OS 4 will be ready by that time? I most certainly do, based on the information available to me at this point. But it would be intellectually dishonest to claim that I can guarantee that 100%, I have been in the business too long now.
Amiga-News: What kind of development tools can we expect for OS 4?
Ben Hermans: Development for OS 4 will initially need to take place with a barebones GCC. We already have Linux based cross-compilers as well as an OS 3.x based cross-compiler.
Moreover, Olaf Barthel has been working hard on a completely AmigaOS native GCC implementation which does not require ixemul and instead uses his own C runtime library.
We also hope to convince the VBCC maintainers to produce an AmigaOS 4.x version.
Amiga-News: Your partnership with SciTech was a positive surprise to most users. But supporting 180 different graphics chipsets definitely sounds like overkill if you would be only targeting desktop users. Is this partnership a first step to make AmigaOS more interesting for "embedded" appliances, like kiosk systems or Infochannel services?
Ben Hermans: The partnership with SciTech has several very important advantages.
First of all, we are assured that we will always have access to 2D drivers for the latest graphics cards. SciTech's expertise in this area is unrivalled and the manpower they can bring to bear is unmatched. SciTech has built up close relations with many graphics card manufacturers over the years. They can get hold of the required chipset documentation much easier than anyone else. This partnership essentially frees us from the job of ever having to write 2D drivers again and instead allows us to redirect resources elsewhere.
Secondly, Hyperion and SciTech will work together on 3D drivers. SciTech recognizes our expertise in this area and combined with their know-how, chipset documentation and development resources we can be similarly cut down on development time for 3D drivers.
Thirdly, your point about embedded systems is very valid. You don't need well over 170 chipsets to be supported for a desktop OS although choice is always a good thing. In the embedded space however choice may well be crucial when it comes to deciding which embedded OS to choose. There are a number of chipset producers competing in this space which won't win any prices for performance but certainly for cost-effectiveness and low power-consumption. When you are dealing with embedded devices, you are dealing with high volume productions. It's not hard to understand that saving say 10 USD per unit on the graphics chipset translates into massive savings when you are dealing with a production run of several thousand devices. Likewise, some devices may well demand low power-consumption for various reasons (cramped housing, hot environment or simply energy conservation). For such devices too a wide choice of chipsets may well tilt the balance in favor of a specific embedded OS. Let me give
one final example: kiosk and information systems. We know of well upwards of a thousand Amiga based systems still in use for this type of technology all over the world. These people are looking for a way to upgrade their aging systems but they are not satisfied with the TV Out quality produced by most current graphics cards except Matrox. By adopting SNAP, we are giving them that option.
Amiga-News: Some people were concerned about the way SciTech's SNAP technology gets integrated into AmigaOS. Will programmers have to deal with a completely new API, or even two independent APIs?
Ben Hermans: No, the idea is that SNAP operates solely as a display driver, a monitor driver for Picasso 96.
Amiga-News: Will SNAP display drivers be any slower than "native" AmigaOS drivers? SciTech seem to be using an OS independent binary format.
Ben Hermans: As some benchmarks on SciTech's site show, SNAP is fully accelerated and quite frequently outperforms the "official" drivers. We have no concerns whatsoever in this area.
Amiga-News: Given your tight resources, SNAP will certainly not be included with OS4.0, will it? When can we expect SciTech's technology to be available for AmigaOS4? What kind of display drivers will be included with AmigaOS4.0?
Ben Hermans: SNAP relies on the SciTech x86 Bios emulator. This is embedded in the AmigaOne firmware but not present in the Cyberstorm PPC for instance. We are still examining whether it makes sense to have the x86 Bios emulator present also for the BlizzardPPC or Cyberstorm PPC. This may well not be the case as it is very CPU intensive. Moreover, due to the very limited bandwidth on the Amiga classic, operating state of the art graphics cards (to the extent that they even exist in PCI form) can be considered overkill. Having said that, Forefront Technologies is still working on "native" P96 drivers for the Radeon range and they are making good progress.
We don't see any overriding reason why SNAP cannot be included with the AmigaOne version of AmigaOS 4.0. SciTech will migrate the codebase to Linux PPC (thus ridding us of any potential endian conflicts) and we will take it from there. This should be a fairly trivial job for a company which specializes in porting software from one architecture to another and from one CPU family to another.
Amiga-News: Is there anything you want to say in closing?
Ben Hermans: Yes, I want to thank everyone for their patience. I realize that it has been a long wait and that the wait is still not entirely over yet. On the other hand, I want to emphasize again the massive amount of work that was accomplished over these past 15 months. For the first time since the demise of Commodore, the entire AmigaOS source-code has been consolidated in one central CVS repository. A maintainer has been assigned for nearly every OS module. The old Commodore "bug and improvement suggestion" database is available to the OS developers. We have replacements for all still relevant Kickstart 3.1 modules and have implemented nearly all of the functionality outlined in the features document. No-one but Commodore has ever undertaken development on the AmigaOS on this scale. The result will be well worth the wait.
Amiga-News: Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions, Mr. Hermans.
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19.Feb.2003
GFX-BASE
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Lorraine Design: New Glow Icon set
Bojan Milovic by Lorrain Design has released a new icon set on February the 15th 2003. Included are 130 Windows pictograms which he converted to AmigaOS 3,5+ and extended with the glow effect. The original pictograms were made by Jim Tackett.
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19.Feb.2003
Amiga.SourceForge
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DCR8520 Amiga ports: Updates from 02-18-2003
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has on his website at SourceForge some of his ports made available for download. On the 18th February 2003 there were the following programs updated or added:
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19.Feb.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Preview to issue #41
From today on there is the preview and an extract of the March/April issue of the
Amiga Future online. Beside a detailed Pegasos/MorphOS test
(part 2) there are tests of Hollywood, IBrowse 2.3
and the Amiga Arena Games-CD, an interview with Bill Buck and more within the magazine.
At the CD there is the not limited version of
Virtual Karting 2 included. The magazine will be published on March the 5th 2003.
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19.Feb.2003
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Payback for GBA - status report #4
James Daniels has published another status report about the
GBA-version of Payback. Interesting aspect: The background-music
seems to be managed using music modules. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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19.Feb.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages (until 02-18-2003)
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games to the hard disk which were intended for floppy use originally. The following packages were added or updated:
- 02-18-03 new: Explora 2 / Chrono Quest 2 (Infomedia/Psygnosis)
- 02-18-03 fixed: Bagitman (Bignonia)
- 02-18-03 optimized: Ultimate Body Blows (Team 17)
- 02-18-03 optimized: Pinball Illusions (Digital Illusions/21st Century)
- 02-17-03 new: Graham Gooch Cricket: Test Match S.E. (Audiogenic)
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19.Feb.2003
Christiane Schorn (E-Mail)
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WACOM at the CeBIT
The WACOM Europe GmbH will attend at the CeBIT this year as a partner
at the stand of the adf (Arbeitskreis für digitale Fotografie e.V.)
at hall 1 stand 4D3. Fitting to the fair attendance of the
adf the leading manufacturer of graphic tablets shows solutions for digital picture processing for professional and hobby photographers.
The graphic tablet system Intuos2 will be shown as well as the
Interactive Pen Display Cintiq 18SX for professional users of
digital photography, graphics, audio/video. All input devices of WACOM work cableless and without batteries.
According to the WACOM principle the digital pens and airbrush react naturally by the pressure of hand. So the user can create variable lines, soft blendings and differently strong filter effects for masking.
With its innovative product lines WACOM offers all digital photographers simple and natural to use tools for the digital picture processing.
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19.Feb.2003
xdial (ANF)
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xdial: Ironical contribution to a forum becomes a reality satire
Who states within an online forum the opposite of his intention in an ironical manner must be prepared that the statement will be interpreted in a wordly meaning and to declare himself/herself at the court for that. Read the full article at the title link.
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19.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Study - MP3s do not affect the selling of CDs reasonable
Nearly weekly there are new studies made about the effects of MP3 exchange sites to the selling of CDs and the result is - often probably depending of the initiator - mostly a different one. The marked research institute TNS Emnid claims to have found out that most Internet surfers still buy CDs not reasonably changed by the free alternatives from the net.
Read the full article (German) at Golem IT-News by the title link.
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19.Feb.2003
Telepolis
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Good Old Adventures: Online revival of Larry and Guybrush
Who of the older gamers does not get a smile on the lips a dreamy, nostalgic disturbed view when thinking of the adventure heroes Larry and Guybrush. Now the past can get a game revival because the Dutch company Q42 revitalizes the old Sierra and LucasArts adventures. Read a brief (German) article about the "Good Old Adventures" at Telepolis.
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18.Feb.2003
Sylvio Kurze (ANF)
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Soms3D Website reworked and Open Archive online
The ADA-Team has decided to publish parts from the old SOMS2d development. The
decision of publising storyboard and source code will be done later.
The developer files are available on the main page under "Stuff". Also the Soms3D
corner will be updated to the new genre and the official prologue is now online.
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18.Feb.2003
Thomas Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion Entertainment Press Release
CHICO, CA, USA - February 11, 2003
SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to
announce they have entered into a strategic partnership which will
see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is
currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
SciTech SNAP, SciTech's leading edge graphics device support, allows
for the rapid development and deployment of embedded solutions across
multiple platforms and currently already supports well over 170
different graphics chipsets including all the latest offerings from
industry leaders ATI, nVidia and Matrox.
A full list of supported chipsets can be found
here.
"We are very excited about SNAP as it offers us out of the box support
for a huge and ever growing number of graphics cards and effectively
allows us to redirect resources away from device driver development
and cut down on time to market", said Ben Hermans, managing partner of
Hyperion. "We are convinced that prospective customers of AmigaOS 4.x
will appreciate the high-performance, low footprint graphics card
technology that SciTech has developed over many years."
"SciTech shares in the vision of the Amiga platform and is excited to
play a key roll in the further development of the original multi-media
OS." said Andrew Bloo, Director of Marketing, SciTech Software
Inc. "By adopting SciTech SNAP Graphics as the core graphics
architecture for the Amiga OS, Amiga can now offer a level of
performance and compatibility equal to that of any mainstream OS".
SciTech and Hyperion are set to broaden their cooperation to encompass
3D graphics support and support for other PPC based operating systems.
About SciTech Software Inc.
SciTech Software Inc. is a leading developer of next generation
multi-OS device driver development tools for embedded, industrial and
enterprise systems. SciTech Flagship product, SciTech SNAP Graphics,
is a robust display driver solution, with full 2D acceleration on more
than 170 graphic chipsets. SciTech SNAP Technology enables hardware
manufactures to cut costs, speed time to market and reduce long-term
support issues. Additionally SciTech SNAP provides hardware venders
with the ability to explore the emerging embedded markets through a
powerful, OS agnostic device driver abstraction layer. Enterprise
customers benefit from the SciTech SNAP technology through the unified
chip drivers, which allow IT managers to roll out a single display
driver across an entire enterprise, drastically reducing associated
test matrices and long-term support costs. SciTech also provides
leading edge development tools for the embedded and industrial
markets. These tools allow developers to quickly add support for new
and or emerging OS'es and with the SciTech SNAP architecture instantly
gain access to more than 170 supported graphic chip sets. Founded in
1994, SciTech Software Inc. is a privately held company, backed by the
original investment of its founders and the ongoing sales of its
leading edge solutions. SciTech Corporate offices are located in
Chico, California.
For more information please visit: http://www.scitechsoft.com.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company,
founded in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and
the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to
niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86, PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).
Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D
graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has
developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D
graphics to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's.
Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC
native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in
1985.
Update:
Here also the link to the press release from SciTech Software, Inc.
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18.Feb.2003
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM: S-Files 21 - No Winter Sleep
The Canadian software-developer clickBOOM writes in its new S-Files 21:
"Sorry about the lack of updates recently -- we have
been very, very busy. So, without further ado let me
debrief you on the latest developments here at
clickBOOMville.
Firstly, the interesting thing about our recent work is
that it's mostly not game-related! Interested?
Our first and most important project is for a new cell
phone web solution that will blow you away. We will be
showcasing it to the world by the end of March.
The second project is for a next-generation wireless
communications software for a major company, and it's part
of a suite of utilities which you might be using in near
future if you are going to be surfing the web wirelessly.
We are currently under NDA for this project, so there is
nothing more we can say until the project is finished and
on the market.
"Hey, but what about games?", I hear you asking. Well, as you
probably noticed over 3 months ago we had removed links to new
Cinemaware games which we were developing at the time. Sadly,
due to circumstances beyond our control, back then we had to
put on hold development of all Cinemaware games. Unfortunately,
as of today the development still hasn't resumed. I will have
all the info for you within 48h, I promise.
Development of all our other games is proceeding according to plan." (nba)
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18.Feb.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-Track from Bjorn Lynne for free
From February, 18th to March, 4th on the website of LynneMusic the audio track
"Kyrania" will be free for download (title link) because of the 2000th sold CD
"Wolves of the Gods". Also the CD is available for the special price of $12.99 within
the next fortnight.
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18.Feb.2003
morphos-news.de
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Photos of the Genesi Management Meeting
Under the title link you will see the first pictures from the Genesi
Management Meeting (17 February 2003 at Cercle de l'Union Interalliée in Paris,
France).
Taking part in this event have Gerald Carda, Ralph Schmidt,
Thomas Knaebel, Dona Dworak, Stephane Donders, Emmanuel Benoit, Bernard Hautbergue,
Thierry Velasco, Helmut Jost, Takis Tsiricos, Raquel Velasco, and Bill Buck.
(nba)
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18.Feb.2003
Perfect Paint Website
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GFX program: PerfectPaint V2.95
PerfectPaint of Halvadjian Georges is now available in version 2.95. Changes and adds:
- Improve TrueType text.
- New format: TVPaint Deep, Load and Save (option: compression, alphachanel and
preview), with the ARexx command: pp_SaveTvpDeep (picture) and pp_BsaveTvpDeep
(brush)
- Fix a bug with the pp_ScreentoFront command.
- New processing tool: Chalk
- Improve Bridge tool, TVPaint, TVPaint_Layer script.
- Improve Memory with liquid and glass effect.
- Two new spare tools can be found under the Spare menu: Merge in Front and Merge
in Back, these tools lets you compose the spare page with the current picture or
animation, using the current background color for transparency color.
- Fix a bug when you switch between buffer with not enough memory.
- Improve spare allocation with not enough memory.
- Improve Crop tool.
- New Tooltype:MAX_ANIM_FRAME, this tooltype lets you select at startup the maximum
number of frames in one animation. By default it's 1000.
- Improve History requester: New button.
Download: PfPaint_V2915.lha
It is only the update archive, you need the installed version 2.91.
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17.Feb.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Announcement: Voltmeter hardware for parallel port
Carsten Siegner is currently finishing the hardware test of his new
voltmeter hardware for the parallel port. This includes a
12-bit-ADC-Microchip, with which one can accomplish theoretically
250,000 voltage measurements per second.
This chip is propelled of a 4.19 MHz quartz. The product will soon contain
a universal voltmeter commodity and possibly, if I am able to program it, a storage oscilloscope commodity.
A test software for Siegners hardware is already available. This program
to display the amount of a voltage supply up to four places
exactly. The new hardware is meant for each original Amiga, which
possesses a 32Bit-Bus (A1200 and A4000). Unfortunately the software
exclusively runs on the original parallel port of the Amiga (no
interface map).
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
AmiGOD Homepage
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Benchmark: AmiGOD 2 Beta 16.02.2003
On 16 February 2003 Lukas Stehlik published a new beta version of '
AmiGOD 2 '. Which is a modular Amiga OS bench mark. In
comparison to the previous version the following has changed:
- 2D graphics tests now FULL SCREEN!
- new HDD & MEM section (write - MB/s) - EARLY BETA!!
- new math 68k test (Mandelbrot)
- reworked system of Math 68k results (stable results on high-end Amigas)
- Amithlon test: new internal module Pentium IV 2.4GHz + GeForce2 MX
- UAE test: new internal module Athlon XP1800 + ATI Radeon 8500 VIVO
- new Make module window (Nick, Name, E-Mail, Computer, Gfx, etc.)
- recompiled in PowerD v0.20 aplha4
- new AmiGOD2 homepage -> http://amigod.zde.cz
- SOON: support of external *.amg modules (95% completed)
- abort 2D gfx, full screen intuition test, more hdd/mem tests
Download: AmiGOD2.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Interview with Sylvio Kurze
Anton Preinsack led an interview with Sylvio Kurze, the project
manager of SOMS3D for Amiga Future. At the title link you find the
German version, the English one is available
here.
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17.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV-board-software: AmithlonTV Beta 270
Guido Mersmann published the beta version 270 of the TV board
software AmithlonTV with minor updates and improvements.
What's new:
- BUGFIX: Fixed Hauppauge MSP3xxx audio chip support.
- BUGFIX: Fixed TVCardSetup Hauppauge card auto detect function.
- FEATURE: TVCardDump is now activating a "deep i2c scan" mode
if required. This new mode provides much more additional
hardware information for trouble shooting.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
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17.Feb.2003
A.D.A.
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A.D.A: Three new demos - Shaft 7, Efrara and ISO
The Amiga Demoscene Archives (A.D.A.) now includes the demos Shaft 7
by Bomb, Efrara by Artwork and ISO by Scoopex. Read the original messages:
Shaft 7/Bomb. This has always been a mystery demo. Ben, the coder,
released this demo for Bomb, won The Party 1996, and dissapeared after
that. Still, a nice demo, with cool music by Yolk and Legend, good gfx by
the talented Bomb members and nice effects and 3D (for that time).
Efrara/Artwork. Nice slideshow by Fiver, coded by Tron and music by
Virgill. Released sometime in 1996 for Artwork.
Iso/Scoopex. This famous demo came 3rd at Remedy 1995. Featuring
wonderful graphics by Made, good music by Oxbow, great code by Ninja and
raytrace by Fender, this demo is very good looking.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
GoldED Support
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GoldED: Programmer-Addon C/C++ IDE and Service-Pack 10
The C/C++ developer environment contained in the editor "GoldED AIX"
was updated and now containes clickable expenditures for GCC, vbcc and
other compilers see screenshot.
Furthermore Dietmar Eilert, the programmer of GoldED, made service pack 10
for "GoldED AIX" available for download.
Downlaod: envCPP31.lzx
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
WinUAE
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 5 work in progress
On 15th February it was admitted what will be changed in the upcoming 0.8.22 release 5 of "WinUAE" for Windows. It will be
available by the end of February.
Bugs fixed:
- CD32-mode media change detection
- SlowRAM detection fixes (Commando and more)
- more compatible CIA keyboard emulation (Back to the Future 2 and more)
- another bsdsocket.library emulation update
- another state restore fix
- fixed mouse problems in Space Crusade, Billy the Kid etc.
- writing to custom floppy images was unstable
- primary sound buffer-checkbox removed and disabled. It is useless and usually
only caused huge slowdown problems. NOTE: Users of R3 or R4: Make sure primary
sound buffer-checkbox is disabled.
- PC Competitor interface's second joystick works properly
- improved compatibility (USGold Murder, Crack Down, Liverpool, Pinball Hazard etc. works)
New features:
- configurable boot priority and device name for regular (non-RDB) hardfiles
and virtual directory filesystems
- FPU state file support
- more compatible Action Replay 1 support
- "Middle-Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" works now in fullscreen mode
- configurable keyboard LEDs (DF0,DF1,DF2,DF3,POWER,HD,CD)
- floppy write-protect state added to floppies-tab
- implemented write-support for images that don't support writing
natively (compressed images, CAPS-images)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
Alexander Weber
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WWW-Browser: Path Version 1.0.1
Path Amiga is the attempt of Alexander Weber to write an Internet
browser from scratch. He began the project in the second half of
the year 2001 (we reported) and slowly
the browser begins to take concrete shape. Version 1.0 supports HTML, that is also the reason for the version jump. The support is still
rudimentarily, so that a reasonable browsing is still
hardly possible. This situation will improve with each following
version.
In the new version 1.0.1 the following error was removed: The Browser
announcement should behave now many system-friendlier. Possibly this
update repairs a freezing of the system, which was reported.
Download: path.lha
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17.Feb.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 17th February 2003
Since our last message there were the following new uploads to the Aminet:
GGSearch.lha comm/irc 2K+Search GOOGLE with AmIRC or Shell
MiamiDXcat.lha comm/net 8K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
MiamiMonitorCT.lha comm/net 1K+Catalonian catalog for MiamiMonitor 1.2
MiamiMonitorSP.lha comm/net 1K+Spanish catalog for MiamiMonitor 1.2
CIT.lha dev/gui 120K+A C++ GUI dev system
BetaScanSrc.lha hard/drivr 123K+Complete Source for BetaScan.v3
BetaScan_v3.lha hard/drivr 127K+BetaScan v.3 with Raction based GUI
MLs.lha misc/edu 36K+PL/ENG stuff for MyLang by Zeeball
mamevg065.lha misc/emu 2.1M+MAME Visual Guide 0.65 Addendum - PDF In
imdbDiff030207.lha misc/imdb 2.9M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
JD-Sliders.mpg mods/mpg 2.3M+Sliders by JaDe
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 302K+GUI 4 Lame,OggEnc,BladeEnc,Pegase,Ncode,
obligement-37.jpg pix/misc 86K+Obligement's cover n 37
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 309K+Report+ 5.65: Multipurpose utility
MILL.lha util/virus 198K+New polish antivirus
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17.Feb.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 16th February 2003)
With WHDLOad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 16.02.03 new: Super Loopz (Audiogenic) [done by Codetapper]
- 16.02.03 new: Hole In One (Digitek) [done by Psygore]
- 15.02.03 new: Brian Lara's Cricket (Audiogenic) [done by Codetapper]
- 15.02.03 fixed: Bane of Cosmic Forge / Wizardry 6 (Sir-Tech)
[save game bug fixed, uses fast memory]
- 15.02.03 new: Allan Border's Cricket (Audiogenic) [done by Codetapper]
(nba)
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16.Feb.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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TV card software AmithlonTV Beta 268 and new Tech Section area
Guido Mersmann has released beta version 268 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV with minor updates and improvements.
These are the changes since the previous version:
- FEATURE:
TVCardDump can now started from within TVWatch's debug menu.
- BUGFIX:
Fixed the automatic include creating tool. Now the c includes should be correct.
- WEBSITE:
Added new section with information about the various TV-channel frequencies that are used on different interfaces like TV-tuners
and TV-cable.
Download: AmithlonTV Beta 268. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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16.Feb.2003
CIE (E-Mail)
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The Deep Side EP 12" Vinyl
On 24th February 2003, the first 12" record by Cologne demo scene and techno musician "CIE" will be released on the Frankfurt label Deep and Dark Recordings.
The name of the record is "The Deep Side EP", and it contains three tracks, a preliminary version of which can be heard on CIE's Web site. There, interested people can also find further information and some reviews. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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16.Feb.2003
Jabberwocky
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 1st preview
Tom Parker and
Matthias Münch have released
Preview 1 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' Version 1.4 for Amiga
computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol
for the direct exchange of messages.
Connection to other instant messengers such as AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is
possible via gateways.
Beta version download: Jabberwocky030216.lha
Alongside this, the final version 1.3 has been released.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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16.Feb.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena - Utilities full version online again
In collaboration with the respective developers, Amiga Arena facilitates the
release of discontinued software. Software pearls like HippoPlayer, ArtPRO,
CDBoot or AmigaBase are thus exclusively available again.
This software is available for download without restrictions. At the same time
Olaf Köbnik of Amiga Arena is pointing out that these titles are not being
further developed anymore, and appeals to the users to support the active
software developers.
In detail, as from now the following software titles are online again:
AmigaBase, DITo, DBase with Source Code, Foreign Language Master, FileX, FBase,
HippoPlayer, MUIVideo, StopMenu, The BOSS and WBMenue.
Furthermore the revised Web site for the round based strategy game "Hilt 2",
which had been released by Amiga Arena end of 2002, has gone online.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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16.Feb.2003
Telemar Rosenberger (E-Mail)
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Game: AmHuhn V1.4 and AmHuhnXE 1.2
Telemar Rosenberger has recompiled the executables of AmHuhn and AmHuhnXE with
StormC, and in the course removed some bugs. The new versions AmHuhn 1.4 and
AmHuhnXE 1.2 are ready to be downloaded from amiga-news.de in a German and an
English version each:
Download: (attention, please read the following notes!)
AmHuhn 1.4 - German - AMHuhn_Deutsch_V1_4.lha
AmHuhn 1.4 - English - AMHuhn_English_V1_4.lha
AmHuhnXE 1.2 - German - AMHuhnXE_Deutsch_V1_2.lha
AmHuhnXE 1.2 - English - AMHuhnXE_English_V1_2.lha
Important notes:
1. The newly compiled executable programs have been tested under the premise that the current beta version 5.4 of AHI be installed (we reported).
2. If the games AmHuhn and AmHuhnXE aren't already installed, the full archives from the AmHuhn Web site have to be installed first. The download archives listed above only contain the respective program file.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Feb.2003
Neil Bothwick (E-Mail)
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Alt-WoA 2003 postponed
The Huddersfield Amiga User Group has postponed the Alt-WoA 2003. The Amiga
show had originally been scheduled for 26th April 2003 in Huddersfield, Great
Britain, and will now take place on an as yet undisclosed weekend on the
occasion of the release of AmigaOS 4.0. Further information about this has not
yet been announced.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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16.Feb.2003
Virus Help Team (E-Mail)
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Anti virus program: Mill update dated 15th Feb 2003
On 15th February 2003, Zbigniew Trzcionkowski has released a new version of his anti virus program "Mill".
Here is some information about the program:
Name: Mill
Version: 15.02.2003
Archive name: Mill.lha
Archive size: 202,726 Bytes (lha-packed)
Date: 15th February 2003
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski zeeball@interia.pl
Requires: OS37+, asl38+, locale, xvs, xfd, xad etc.
You can download the update from the Web site under the title link by searching for "Mill". (nba) (Translation: cb)
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15.Feb.2003
st-computer
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Report about Atari on 3sat
The (German) TV report about Atari in the series neues. computers and
more, that was broadcast on February, 10th, shows many original Atari machines (consoles, 8bitter, ST, Falcon) and also new developments like ARAnyM and a short interview with Oliver Kotschi of the Atari ColdFire project.
Even new top applications like the software synthesizer ACE were dealt. The TV team also visited the 8bit club ABBUC.
If you have missed the report you can download it as AVI video from the Internet. The file is almost 26 MBytes big, a fast connection is therefore recommendable. Next to that you can
read parts of the report online.
We wonder: Where's a report about the Amiga? :)
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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15.Feb.2003
st-computer
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TKR LAM200E: DSL direct with the Amiga?
The company TKR from Kiel offers with the LAM200E by LG Electronics a DSL modem that has the PPPoE driver already integrated.
So you can theoretically use DSL directly with operating systems like AmigaOS or MorphOS without having to go the detour via a router, the X-Surf or the not available MiamiDX - though an Ethernet interface must exist on the Amiga or compatible as the modem is connected via this. The configuration of the driver is done externally via a webbrowser.
In conjunction with an Amiga it isn't tested right now - so it's pure theory. The AMIGAplus will try to get a sample of the LAM200E and release a review in the AMIGAplus 03/2003.
The LAM200E owns additionally an integrated router. Connected to a network hub several computers can connect to the internet via the modem.
The LAM200E costs EUR 99,90. Bargains in conjunction with subscriptions are possible. TKR grants a money-back-warranty of 14 days.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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15.Feb.2003
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ version 5.65
The freeware tool Report+ has been released in version 5.65.
The tool bases on ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten different functions: e.g. you can create Aminet readmes with Report+, replace the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool or show the bytes for every directory. In the new version were changes in the tools menu, speed improvements within Path Size Report, improvements in the GUI and several bugfixes done.
Download: ReportPlus.lha - 308 KB
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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15.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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Pixload 3 announced
Version 3.0 of Pixload, an alternative startmenu for AmigaOS 3.x, was announced. Icons in the startbar can now be modified simply via drag n' drop and are not restricted to a certain number. Similar to the dock of Mac OS X are active programs marked through a triangle in the Pixload startbar. This and much more awaits you in Pixload 3.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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15.Feb.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Video about the ARC2002 from VD available
In the next installement of their "Live"-series Virtual Dimension presents
you a report about the Amiga + Retro-Computing 2002 in Aachen. This video,
which is more than 20 minutes long, features reports about new Amiga
hard- and software, a presentation of the alternative PPC-operating system
MorphOS, a small glance at the interiors of the old Amiga-prototype "Walker"
and an exclusive interview with Jeri Ellsworth, the developer of the
C64-successor CommodoreOne.
Additionally they report about the newest hard- and software for the C64,
which were presented at the Hobby+Elektronik-fair in Stuttgart in November
2002. This is the German version, an English translation is already in work.
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15.Feb.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scene party: Breakpoint News
The organizers of the scene party Breakpoint, taking place in Binden from April, 18th to April, 21st 2003, ask for a registration on their homepage in case there's interest for booking a hotel room. Sleeping halls as they were usual at the Mekka Symposium won't be offered here, unfortunately. But they say they try to find cheap alternatives for those who don't want to sleep under the tables.
The planned ride by train for visitors from all over Germany had unfortunately to be cancelled because of a lack of interest.
The rules for the demo contests are now set and can be read online. Just the hardware specifications of the computers used to run the demos may stil change slightly.
To decide whether the party is to take place in one, two or more halls the organizers ask for a rapid online registration. Visiting this party will also be worth it for "normal" Amiga users who have no knowledge of the scene as this is the successor of the legendary Mekka Symposium party series that has its origins back in 1993.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Feb.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 15th February 2003
Since our last message there were the following new uploads to the Aminet:
ibmht.lha comm/www 5K+Adds support for .mht files to IBrowse v
path.lha comm/www 84K+Experimental web browser v1.0
ThePolice.1.46.lha docs/hyper 48K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
saku01.lha docs/mags 180K+Saku #1 (1/93). Finnish diskmag.
saku02.lha docs/mags 303K+Saku #2 (2/93). Finnish diskmag.
AlyBox10.lha game/think 2.0M+3D-Puzzle game using MiniGL - v1.0 (68k&
AmiChess.lha game/think 1.9M+Chess based on GNUChess 5.05
In_And_Out.lha game/wb 44K+Try to find the exit!
Anim2gif.lha gfx/conv 150K+Converts and scales an amiga animation t
3c589.lha hard/drivr 54K+Driver for 3Com PCMCIA network cards
dragonswinterc.mpg mods/mpg 4.4M+Simon the Sorcerer Remix: Dragon's Winte
JD-Freejack.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+FreeJack by JaDe
JD-Funketrick.mpg mods/mpg 3.5M+Funketrick by JaDe
JD-Overloaded.mpg mods/mpg 2.7M+Overloaded by JaDe
JD-Revolution.mpg mods/mpg 2.4M+Revolution by JaDe
JD-Sliders.mpg mods/mpg 2.8M+Sliders by JaDe
SRename.lha util/cli 87K+Advanced rename/renumber CLI program. Ve
FFS4514p.lha util/misc 11K+Unofficial patch for the 45.13 FastFileS
Lottery2002.lha util/misc 21K+ReAction Lottery Number Generator
mufs4514p.lha util/misc 27K+MultiUser patch for OS3.5/OS3.9 FastFile
BBClock.lha util/wb 58K+A WB clock similar in look and feel to B
MagicFlush.lha util/wb 16K+Flush memory every 2 seconds
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15.Feb.2003
M. Mancini (ANF)
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USB card: UltraBUS - one step closer to production stage...
A few days ago the final prototype of the UltraBUS USB card
has been sent to us by individual Computers. As soon as this
prototype successfully passes all neccessary tests, producing
the first batch of production stage UltraBUS boards shouldn't
be delayed any further.
This prototype already has all basic features of the final product
- including the 512k FlashROM and the very promising 16bit mode
which should not only show remarkably reduced overhead on the
target system in certain cases, but also result in a noticable
improvement of performance on lower specced systems.
Due to the ISP (in system programmable) features of the whole
board, final optimisations of the autoconfig logic and the
featured TripleBus (zorro, clockport, expansion port) can be
applied at any time during the following testing and production
stage.
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15.Feb.2003
NEUES-Newsletter
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TV: new special - 75 years Hightech from Chicago
On Monday, February, 17th 2003 will the TV station 3sat at 21.30h broadcast a new 'special' (in German) of the series 'neues' with the topic:
75 years Hightech from Chicago.
Motorola celebrates its 75th anniversary. In the Amigas have the processors of the 68k series done a good job and do it still today. But this is only a small part of the technologies areas of Motorola. The TV special will be repeated on Tuesday, 18th February at 14:30h on 3sat.
(jm) (Translation: wk)
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15.Feb.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers acquires ami.ga
After many months and a lot of effort for a new domain name, we received
good news today: You can now reach our website under ami.ga.
The toplevel-domain server of the Republic of Gabon was not always online
in the past week, so the new name might not be available all over the
world immediately. This problem should be solved in a couple of hours,
after the caches of local name servers have been updated.
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14.Feb.2003
Soren Ladegaard, Denmark (ANF)
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Get www.CommodoreBillboard.com for FREE!
Soren Ladegaard writes:
Hi everyone,
as I don't have interest, time or money to run The Commodore Billboard
anymore, I'm looking for people to take over the site. You will get all
material, source code etc. You will also be able to get the
www.commodorebillboard.com domain. I also have some new material waiting
to be uploaded - including new commercials.
Please contact me ASAP. If you have a big and well-known C64/Amiga
website, maybe we can also arrange that you get all my material and
not the Commodore Billboard name.
Best regards,
Soren Ladegaard - Denmark
www.CommodoreBillboard.com
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14.Feb.2003
Michael Rellstab (E-Mail)
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Interview with Thomas Frieden on AmigaOne forum
Under the title link you can find an English email interview with Thomas Frieden which
was held by 'Dandy' and posted on AmigaOne forum on os.amiga.com. Thomas Frieden is one
of the main developer of AmigaOS 4.0.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Feb.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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TV card software AmithlonTV Beta 266 with PAL/NTSC/SECAM-Support
Guido Mersmann has published beta version 266 of the TV-card driver software AmithlonTV with support of new TV-cards.
New in this version:
- CHANGED: Modified PCI code, to avoid system trouble when the
powerpci.library is installed on a non Amithlon system.
- FEATURE: TVCardDump is now sorting the output. This makes the dump more useful
- FEATURE: Full NTSC, PAL and SECAM support within TVWatch, Smear
and the "video_bt8x8.lib". Currently only PAL and NTSC are tested.
For NTSC testings I used my Playstation2 (Rachet & Clank), so please report any test results (good and bad). Please note that TVWatch and Smear aren't checking the max resolution yet, so if the picture is
broken just resize the picture to a lower resolution
Download: AmithlonTV Beta 266. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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14.Feb.2003
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Genesi Announces New Pegasos Computer for CeBIT Release
Plexuscom and Genesi to Cooperate on PegasosPPC
Paris, France and Taipei Hsien, Taiwan February 14, 2003. Plexuscom a designer
and manufacture of broadband Internet access solutions and appliances has
reached an agreement with Genesi Sarl to produce and deliver limited quantities
of the PegasosPPC computer for release at CeBIT 2003. Genesi and Plexuscom will
share a booth at CeBIT, 12-19 March in Hannover, Germany.
"We are very pleased to work with Plexuscom on the Pegasos," said Gerald Carda,
Chief Technology Officer of Genesi. "Through this partnership, we look forward
to greater collaboration in development and marketing efforts. Plexuscom's
expertise in development and manufacturing technologies and Genesi's system
design and architecture will be combined to promote an exciting alternative
platform for the Micro-ATX marketplace."
"The two companies share a common vision. That is, to create products that are
designed to achieve exceptional performance while reducing per-unit costs and
time-to-market," commented John Tseng, President of Plexuscom. "Our first
priority at Plexuscom continues to be our customers, and we are confident that
by aligning with a partner like Genesi, we will rapidly expand our position
globally and customers will benefit from the performance, flexibility and
scalability of these new system capabilities."
The Pegasos MicroATX features
The Pegasos MicroPPC is a small, low power PowerPC motherboard with the
following features:
- Takes Single or Dual PowerPC RISC CPU (G3 or G4)
- Supplied with 600 MHz IBM G3
- Mai Logic Articia with bplan April2 Northbridge
- VIA Southbridge
- AGP X2 slot
- 3 X PCI slots
- ATA100 with two channels with up to four ATA devices
- 3 X Firewire
- 10/100 MBit Ethernet
- Audio I/O
- SPDIF Out
- 4 X USB
- Parallel
- Serial
- PS2 Keyboard
- PS2 Mouse
- Riser connector
- OpenFirmware based BIOS
- Supplied with MorphOS, Debian Linux and Mac-on-Linux
- Other operating systems in development.
Genesi and the Pegasos, Innovation for the Future
Genesi is a technology development and system integration engineering company
located in Frankfurt, Germany, Paris, France and headquartered in Luxembourg.
Genesi also operates through wholly owned subsidiaries in the United Sates and
the United Kingdom, Genesi USA Inc. and Genesi UK Ltd. In addition to the
Pegasos, Genesi has also developed the new operating system, MorphOS, for
PowerPC microprocessors. Designed for the Pegasos, MorphOS is a highly
responsive, low overhead, desktop system, which runs hundreds of different
applications.
Plexuscom, A Technology Power House
Plexuscom designs, manufactures, markets and delivers broadband Internet access
solutions, Information appliance and USB peripherals.
Plexuscom's extraordinary commitment to customer needs is evidenced by its
devotion to the production of customized products for diverse regional markets.
Plexuscom is dedicated to the development of easy-to-use, reliable,
low-maintenance and affordable high-speed solution for worldwide markets.
Plexuscom's strategic objective is to remain a market leader the development,
implementation, supply and support of broadband Internet access, information
appliance solutions, and USB peripherals.
Contact Information:
Plexuscom Contact:
John Tseng
john.tseng@plexuscom.com.tw
http://www.plexuscom.com
Genesi Contact:
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
bbrv@genesi.lu
http://www.pegasosppc.com (ps)
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14.Feb.2003
Scenia
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planet scene - New CD-ROM for the demo scene
Michael Menz who is also well-known as "crest" offers a new CD-ROM from and for the
demo scene which is called "planet scene".
Besides 121 MP3 tracks which are about nine hours of music planet scene contains 600
DOS intros as well as 220 Windows intros, a choice of the best C64 demos in D64 format
as well as a few Playstation demos including the required emulators.
You can find a complete list of the music tracks which are available in MP3 format but
originally are Tracker moduls (MOD, S3M, XM, IT) under the title link.
planet scene costs 4,- Euro inclusive postage/delivery and can be ordered via email.
On the Breakpoint Party which will take place on Eastern in Bingen/Rhein the CD-ROM will
probably available for 2 Euro for advance orderers.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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14.Feb.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Partner-program
Since today on Amiga Future there is a partner program with which webmasters may earn
some money incidentally. You can get further information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Feb.2003
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Kaliko-website temporary not available
The website of Kaliko which is a Swedish developer firm of AmigaAnywhere games is currently
not available because of a change of the provider. Soon they will be back.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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14.Feb.2003
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Initial testing of PageStream for Linux
On Monday, February 17th, the initial testing of PageStream for
Linux will begin.
Users who purchase a copy of the Linux version now will receive
access to the interim and final Linux releases. Users who
participate in the testing will also receive TextFX for Linux
at no charge as thanks!
Anyone who tried to access the PageStream-website or email
the developers from approx 11am Central Time on Wednesday the
12th of February to about 5pm on Thursday the 13th of February
could not reach them. Any email from about 11am Wednesday till
about 11am Thursday is lost for sure. Because of propagation
delays for the Internet Domain Name Servers some folks email
and web access may be lost or blocked for a longer period.
Grasshopper LLC are sorry for any inconvienience (not that they
did this on purpose!) and hope that those who tried to email
them will try again now! (nba)
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14.Feb.2003
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OctaMED SoundStudio V2 Resurrected?
As most know, because we heard nothing from the katodev team for a
very, very long time and having made many, many attempts to get a
reply, we were forced to face the fact that, even with all their
failed deadlines and promises, they have let us, and you, down badly.
HOWEVER, Gerd Frank of AmiAtlas fame has decided to take over work on
V2, he is having to start from scratch, so give him plenty of time,
but he assures us that, (unlike katodev), he will do his utmost to
get a new Amiga V2 built and if it is possible, we won't have to
wait until human beings step on Mars :)
However, if things do go badly, you 'will' be told and not kept in
the dark as to the possible future of a new Amiga V2 release, so
check this page every couple of months from now on. (nba)
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13.Feb.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: Status Update Concerning AmigaOne-XE
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group Ltd.) talked about the status of the AmigaOne-XE
on the AmigaOne mailing list (see title link). Here's a summary of the most important information related to that, from
Christoph Gutjahr.
More AmigaOne-XE computers and G4 modules have been produced than the number of preorders. The motherboards are currently
in Taiwan. When they get the okay from the testers these boards will be equipped with AmigaOne-ROMs and sent to Europe. Redhouse
goes on to say that these boards will leave the factory in the direction of Europe on the 24th of this month.
It takes about 4 days for the computers to reach Eyetech from Taiwan.
Eyetech themselves can then test about 40 to 50 boards daily, assign a serial number, and "put them in the mail."
The G4 modules for the AmigaOne-XE machines include a PPC processor of type 7451 (G4) at 800 MHz, 32 KB +32 KB L1
Cache, 256 KB L2 Cache and 2 MB 64/72 Bit L3 Cache.
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: <009f01c2d38e$57a5dde0$2501a8c0@alan>
An:
Von: "Eyetech Group Ltd"
Datum: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:26:45 -0000
Betreff: Re: [amigaone] Re: Situation of XE boards? - a couple more answers
In the final pre-launch stages of a project like this there is an awful lot
of work to be done, and that means that none of us here can spend as much
time as we would like reading and commenting on mailing lists and making
website updates. And a lot of the time we have allocated for that
unfortunately has to be spent defusing unfounded false allegations of one
sort or another. Speaking of websites some of the developers have put up a
new A1-linux site at sourceforge which is well worth a checkout at
http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net
Status update (Get the fire extinguishers ready!)
Enough A1-XE's and G4 modules (800MHz 7451 with 32+32k L1; 256 L2 & 2M
64/72bit L3) to more than satisfy all earlybird orders have already been
built and are currently in Tiawan waiting to ship. All these boards are
fitted with the new Articia chipset (date code 0103).
We received a number (more than several, less than lots) of these boards
three weeks ago, but only received the cpu modules early last week, and the
modified UBoot code (to initialise the 7451) last Thursday. After going
through our own tests all these initial boards/cpu's have now been shipped
by us to those volunteer developers (and Hyperion) who have existing
experience of running the A1-SE under linux. This is so that they can spend
a week or so making sure that the various PPC Linux distributions run well
on with the G4 cpu and that no further modifications to the initialisation
code in UBoot are required.
I am visiting the manufacturers in Tiawan next week (2 days travel/recovery
each way) so don't expect much more from me until the week after. We should
have had the green light from the A1-XE/g4 board users by then which in turn
means that we can give the green light to the factory to blow the final
ROM's and ship the boards by 24th. Shipment to us will take around 4 working
days, and we should be able to test, serial number, order process and
despatch around 40-50 boards/day.
First boards will go to the original - March last year :-( - developers who
have opted to wait for the A1-XE/G4, then to dealers and customers in
chronological order.
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.
The AmigaOne and Teron series of motherboards are new technology in the
'unbundled' - ie non-mac/non-RS6000 - marketplace. That is why it has taken
some time - and a lot longer than any of the parties involved anticipated -
to get the A1 into your hands in a usable condition - albeit with Linux at
this stage.
I am sufficiently confident that the developers will be very impressed by
the new A1-XE/G4 that I'm sure that they will want to start posting their
findings here from early next week.
BTW I'm sure that many of you will have seen H-J Frieden's posting on
running SIN on a Duron 1200MHz vs an A1XE/G4@800MHz(no L3 cache), both under
Linux, both with software rendering. He got 2x the frame rate from the A1
than from the Duron, and that was without any use of the Altivec processor
in the A1. Imagine what it will be like with OS4.
Hope this helps
Alan
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Tiernan
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:13 PM
Subject: RE: [amigaone] Re: Situation of XE boards? - a couple of answers
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Steven Solie [mailto:ssolie@shaw.ca]
>
> >--- "Kevin Tiernan" wrote:
> >> Well I have heard that the XE have arrived and are
> >undergoing testing
> >> ATM. So I would suspect to see them being sent out to customers in
> >> a week or so.
> >
> >Please state your source when posting such info. It helps us
> >all determine whether we should take this info. with a large
> >or small grain of salt.
>
> I would if I could.
>
> >Thanks in advance!
>
> Wish I could be more helpful but I can't say anything other than I already
> have.
> (ps) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
Alexander Weber
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WWW-Browser: Path Version 1.0
Path-Amiga is an attempt to build a new Internet browser from the ground up. The project began in the second half of the
year 2001 (as amiga-news.de reported) and slowly it began to take
concrete form. With this version HTML support has been started, which accounts for the version leap to 1.0. The support is
still very primitive, so a reasonable websurfing experience is hardly possible. This situation will improve with each successive
release.
- Requirements:
Hardware:
An Amiga with a 68k processor or a computer which can emulate such.
Software:
Amiga OS 3.5 or higher
- Features:
- ReAction GUI
- Minimal HTML support
- Clipboard support
- Supports DOS data
- Supports HTTP 1.1
- Graphic buttons
- Selection windows for the changing of symbol text, colors, GUI.
- Graphic printing functions
- German and English localizations
- Protection against pipe security holes
- Known deficiencies:
- The HTML display still has some problems. Please be patient, it's the author's first try...
- When the author tested an earlier version of Path under Amithlon, it bogged down occasionally. But one Amithlon user
has reported that Path works correctly for him.
- When printing, instead of a background a very light gray tone appears. The author has no clue what is causing that.
Download: path.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Amiga Speed: Update
There's a new speed test of Quake 2 to marvel over. Additionally the speed of the BVision in 2-D has been tested again,
after a long time.
The website Amiga Speed stays busy with speed comparisons. You experience how quickly current Amiga
games run on different Amigas. Through this you'll discover what software and hardware you need to play the
games at their optimal speeds. But you can also merely keep informed about the speed of currently available Amiga
games, processors, and graphic cards.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
Nokia (press service)
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Nokia N-Gage: Mobile Game Revolution?
Nokia, once an official partner of AMIGA, Inc., has shown the new mobile game system "Nokia N-Gage " in past weeks at "Get Ready to
N-Gage" conventions in London and Sydney.
The game deck allows the execution of high value games, among other things, over Bluetooth networks, but also the use of
a variety of services, the playing of MP3 and radio music, and the use as a Triband GSM 900/1800/1900 mobile telephone. Participating
game companies reportedly include Activision, Eidos, Sega, Taito and THQ - thereby providing a bit of serious competition to Nintendo's GBA.
An overview of N-Gage features:
- Color picture with backlighting, 176 x 208 resolution at up to 4096 colors
- Series 60 platform and Symbian operating system
- Bluetooth wireless technology for games
- 8 way controller "Rocker"
- Multimedia-messaging (MMS)
- Triple-band GSM (900/1800/1900), GPRS mobile phone
- Digital music player (AAC/MP3) & Stereo FM radio
- Nokia Audio Manager PC SW for management of music data
- Broad selection of applications: e-mail and personal information management
- XHTML Browsing
- Java Application Support
- Connection possibilities: calendar synchronization with PC/Mac,
USB for music data and downloading of applications
- Use duration: games about 3 to 6 hours, speaking about 2-4 hours, standby up to 150-200 hours, MP3 music up to 8 hours,
radio up to 20 hours
- Dimensions: (L x W x H) 133,7 x 69,7 x 20,2 mm
- Weight: 137g
- Volume: 139cc
- Delivery: 4th Quarter 2003
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Motorola is Working on a Linux Smartphone
Motorola wants to bring a smartphone with the Linux operating system to market this year, planned first
for Asia. The Motorola A760 will include a digital camera, a color display, an MP3 player, and Bluetooth
and Java functions. Read the complete report at Golem IT-News (under the title link). (nba) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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New Website on the Theme of Linux on the AmigaOne
A new website was started with amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net, a website which occupies
itself with the theme of Linux on the AmigaOne. On this website you'll find everything that could
interest you in the way of proper kernels, useful descriptions, and pictures. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
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HP Leads the Sales Charts for the Pocket PC Market Segment
Hewlett-Packard is at the top of Pocket PC sales charts, with 3 million IPAQs sold so far worldwide.
HP was also able to begin this great success in the PDA market in 2002. As the worldwide #1 in the Windows Pocket PC
market HP has reached a market share of 52 percent, according to previous statistics from Gartner Dataquest.
These numbers show a steady growth in market share by HP for all four quarters in the last year, thereby remaining the second largest
producer of PDAs worldwide. According to the figures from Gartner HP sold about 1.6 million units in the last year. From the third to
the fourth quarter HP clearly grew more quickly than the market in general, with sales growing from 292,850 in the third quarter
to 438,069 in the fourth.
From there HP was able to break the three million mark and show a thoroughly successful result of
their post-merger plans. The three million milestone was reached nine months after the two million milestone, which
came eight months after the merger with Compaq was finalized.
HP introduced an innovation in handhelds in November 2002 - the HP iPAQ Pocket PC H5450 was the first
to have biometric security functions, wireless LAN networking capabilities and Bluetooth functionality. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
The Legacy
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The Legacy: 700 New Screenshots - 100 New Covers
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC,
Schneider/Amstrad CPC, that provides the viewer with screenshots,
cover scans and information about the developers. Today 700 new
screenshots, 100 new covers and a few goodies were added.
The Legacy: "A big thanks to everyone who has helped us.
I'd like to point out new information on the games page, as applicable:
should there be a new edition of a game, it's now appropriately notated; the
reference to an earlier original is provided in the new edition." (ps) (Translation: dm)
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