24.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-KontoArchiv V1.12 and "Die Kleine Gilde" overview
SN-KontoArchiv v1.12 released
SN-KontoArchiv is an account management software with many input and statistics functions. The program is email ware. New in version 1.12 is a bug fixing related to reading the keyfile.
Game: Die Kleine Gilde
Soon will a new version (V0.2) of the economy simulation "Die
Kleine Gilde" be released. The game status changed from email ware to shareware. The price will probably be 5,- or 10,- Euro.
The author Steffen Nitz needs your help for the game: people who can give him appr. 30 names in medieval style for a pub and/or 10 names for houses gets the keyfile for free.
When forty names will have been found v0.2 will be released.
Besides that beta testers and a graphical artist are looked for. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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OS4.0 on Tour News
We have the pleasure to announce that the 'OS4.0 on Tour' event will expand
into two more countries:
- 21.06.2003 Schweiz / Basel
- 28.06.2003 Schweden / Goetheborg
On all these events we will have 'OS4.0 on Tour' merchandising products
available for sale. These products can also be bought from your
participating partners. For more information see title link.
(ps)
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24.May.2003
Diverse
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Software news (till 24.05.2003)
Here's a short sumary of software updates of the last few days:
Game: Worm Wars version 7.42a by Amigan Software
Download: WormWars.lha - 585 KB
Game: Saga version 1.26a by Amigan Software
Download: Saga.lha - 306 KB
Installer: WHDLoad - new packages till 23.05.2003
- 23.05.03 new: Battlehawks 1942 (Lucasfilm) done by Galahad
- 23.05.03 improved: Doman (World Software) fixed display problems
- 23.05.03 improved: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) supports 2 more versions, memory size fix
- 22.05.03 new: Powerdrome (Electronic Arts) done by Galahad
- 18.05.03 improved: Silent Service (Microprose) supports NTSC version
- 17.05.03 new: Zombi (UBI-Soft) done by Agressor
- 15.05.03 new: Spot (Virgin/Mastertronic) done by Codetapper
- 14.05.03 new: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) done by JOTD
CD burning software: MakeCD module - makecdromfs version 45.10
Download: makecdromfs_45_10.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
The Legacy
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The Legacy: The games museum with rating possibility
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad
CPC that provides the readers with screenshots, covers scans and information about the developers. Today they integrated the possibility to rate single games. Read now the original (German) announcement:
"Manche Sachen sind ganz einfach und dauern trotzdem ewig lange, bevor sie
realisiert sind. Dass es eine Bewertung der Spiele durch die Besucher geben
soll, das wird wohl schon fast seit einem Jahr versprochen. Heute war nun der
Tag, an dem ich es einfach einmal umgesetzt habe. War auch garnicht schlimm...
Auf jeden Fall habt ihr nun die Möglichkeit, pro Game genau einmal eure
Bewertung abzugeben. Achso, die Funktion der Bewertung steht nur
registrierten Mitgliedern offen."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Stiftung Warentest Online
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Stiftung Warentest: 0190 numbers - search engine shows netprovider
Stiftung Warentest reports in this article about a
search engine
in the Internet that is supposed to give information about which 0190 number belongs to which provider. This is an offer of the German "Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post". The search engine is active since Wednesday. Unfortunately it shows only the net provider of the calling number, therefore it's still complicated to search the people in the background behind the numbers. This search engine is a correct but only a first step in the fight against the unscrupulous dialer money makers.
Read the full (German) article following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MUI: new gradient feature for MorphOS v1.4
On MorphOS-News.de you can find an unofficial screenshot of the upcoming MorphOS version 1.4 showing a new MUI feature: gradient creation in realtime (these are no bitmaps).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
(ANF)
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New webpage for Amiga clone Access
Following the title link you will find a new launched homepage for the Amiga clone Access by Index Information LDT. As there are several Access boards circulating but without an official place to turn to have all available data been collected and a forum has been installed. This can be used to exchange experiences and possibly to remove problems or to answer questions.
As there's only a small number of boards spread throughout the world is the page been held in the international comprehensible English. In the forum itself you may of course write in other languages, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Pixel Art (email)
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StartMenu: Pixload final version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS 1.3
The Amiga Classic version 4 of the start menu Pixload is finished, only the German localization is still in the works. The version for MorphOS 1.3 is 99,99 % finished. Here is the final feature list:
- Drag & Drop of image directories loads a thumbnail tool
- New graphics formats: TIFF and TARGA via datatypes
- New sound formats: AIFF and WAVE (no datatypes needed)
- Control bar for MiamiDX integrated
- New program loading window
- clock with RTC functionality
- Help file in the context menu
- some bugs fixed
- Pixload is scalable
- Pixload can open directories instead of programs
- Shortkeys added
- Icon organization via Drag & Drop
- Choice for number of icon columns
- Special MorphOS 1.3 / Pegasos version
N.B : All functions linked to drag and drop, not work because of
MorphOS 1.3 version (ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo scene: Disk mag Generation now online available
Three issues of the legendary Amiga demo scene disk mag Generation
by Artwork, later Endzeit, are now for all interested visitors online available. The former main editor Henning
RokDaZone Brau had already months ago a HTML version of his ork prepared but never put it online. This has now been completed and released by the Diskmag.de team.
For all those who had been active in the mid 90s there's much to read. And much you still can and probably also will remember.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Thorsten Mampel, 1. Vorsitzender ACH e.V. (ANF)
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Amiga meeting North 2003 in Bad Bramstedt
From October, 10th to 12th 2003 takes in Bad Bramstedt (north of Hamburg) the 4th Amiga meeting North place. A full weekend party and fun all around the Amiga. The program:
- Demo and film shows via beamer
- free hardware and software market (Amigas and equipment)
- Workshops
- Creating a party CD by the participiants
- Network with connection to the Internet via DSL
- Webcam
- Guest book
- a. m. m.
Up to 40 computers can be setup and connected. You can register via a form on our homepage (VISITORS FOR A DAY, TOO) or directly via phone in the hotel Tanneneck (04192/500071, ask for Norbert!).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.May.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 11
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 11 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) Temal: Are there any plans on trying to get companies back to the platform, such as Newtek? Is there any chance that Avid (video-editing) could be a reality on Amiga? (AmigaOS 4.x and forward) =)
Fleecy: As I have said previously, big companies want to see commercial viability OR a wheelbarrow full of cash before they are going to go to the effort of porting to a new platform. A few non Amiga companies have contacted us to find out about progress and plans and we have an internal list of companies we will contact. However, you often only get one chance with these companies so we want to make sure we have something compelling to show them when we do get through the door.
With regards to video applications, we intend to make a big play in the video market but this requires the implementation of the AG2 foundation for this to be a success. We already have one company that has contacted us with an interest in video editing and we will hopefully have more following them. In the end, we have to make the platform attractive for video editing development in order to attract those developers.
2) Ramon: Since there seems to be hardly or no audio people left at Amiga's main staff, can you convince us that audio development is being done and that the Amiga's audio system/engine will (perhaps after 4.0?) be at a high standard and be used for professional audio computing? High quality, flexible, plug-in capable, etc.
Fleecy: The Amiga AG2 audio solution is being designed by people who have a long history in professional audio application development. Its design has been evolving over the past year and will form the foundation for a big assault on the audio market over the next 12-24 months. We have been keeping an eye on the new MacOS 10.2 audio system and we are more than happy that we have a solution which will give it a run for its money. It is unlikely to be in AmigaOS4.0 but elements of it will start to appear from AmigaOS4.1 onwards.
3) DaveP: Can you tell us if the Auction sale at your old offices of Amiga equipment is on behalf of Amiga Inc? Also, related, does this imply that Amiga Inc is in severe financial difficulties?
Fleecy: No it is not on behalf of Amiga Inc. We have had a situation with our landlord for quite some time now. We have been trying to resolve it but the landlord, within his rights under the lease agreement has opted for this course of action. We haven't been in the office for quite some time and all of our work machines were moved out months ago. To counter the rumours being spread, even if there was valuable data and/or IP there, we have the right to remove/delete it before any auction can take place. All that can be sold are office furniture, fixtures and hardware. This amounts to some three year old wall dividers, desks, chairs, lamps, one or two old printers, some filing cabinets etc. People who think there will be reams of records, prototypes, CDs full of source code and other such goodies will be sorely disappointed. There is still some personal and private stuff in there as well and that has to be returned to the owners; for example I have a car full worth of CDs, clothes and kids toys.
I am not in contact with the landlord so I do not know why he decided to take this course of action. It has no effect on our operations however.
As for our financial situation, we are a private company and such information is not for public distribution. Amiga Anywhere products are in the shops, AmigaOnes are in the hands of Amigans and AmigaOS4 is getting closer and closer to release, with a Roadshow in Europe starting next month. As with anyone else, you'll have to draw your own conclusions. Given the current interest in some quarters to all matters legal, if we were bankrupt (as has been claimed by several people with a vested interest in our demise over the past 12 months) then that data would be available in the public domain as a bankruptcy filing. It isn't and we aren't. Things have been difficult, no one will deny that but we are starting to put that behind us now.
4) hnl_dk: How much control does Amiga Inc. have over the Amiga Anywhere Content Engine? Do you have total control - may you change the code, or may you 'only' add extra features?
Fleecy: AACE is our product so we have total control over it. Yes, as with any AmigaDE derivative, it uses the Tao-Group's Intent product as a foundation but if there are features missing then we add them. We are not tied to using all of Intent. We just use the bits we want and if we require a different solution for something that already exists within Intent then we would replace what it provides with our own solution.
5) IonMane: Is Amiga Inc. willing to return to the negotiation table with Genesi in an attempt to help them provide their own AmigaOne solution that is equitable for all parties, and to try to heal the divide that has caused so much strife within the Amiga community?
Fleecy: There is nothing to negotiate. Amiga Inc currently has two product lines, the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE. If a third party wishes to use or licence these then they should contact us and they will be given the same deal as anyone else. That third party will then have to meet the same criteria as every other third party in terms of sales, marketing and support in order to guarantee a quality Amiga certified product reaches the consumer.
AmigaOne is a brand name that is exclusively licenced to Eyetech Ltd so Genesi or any other third party cannot use it without either agreement from Eyetech or via building a system using the AmigaOne boards. If Genesi wishes to build systems using AmigaOne boards then they should email sales@eyetech.co.uk. I'm sure Eyetech would be delighted to add them to the AmigaOne IHV family.
From my limited understanding of the issue, and from an article on OSNews a few weeks ago, it appears that Genesi is trying to create its own platform and Mr Buck has stated that he has no interest in Amiga product, trademarks, or IP. If that is the case then your question makes no sense. The strife within the Amiga community has come about because of rumours being spread that there will be no new AmigaOS and the suggestions that people should move to another product. With AmigaOS4.0 nearing completion, AmigaOne computers on sale, and an AmigaOS4.0 roadshow, we are advancing the platform, which is what the community wants and demands. We are obviously distressed if people believed those rumours, purchased alternative product and now feel cheated but they should be contacting those who spread those rumours, asking them to explain themselves and investigating possible reparative actions. We announced AmigaOS4.0 a long time ago and whilst it has taken a lot longer than we expected or indeed wanted, we have never given any indication other than AmigaOS4.0 would be released.
6) IonMane: Follow up questions: BBRV has expressed that the licensing fee's are too high among other things.What compromises in this, or any other area would you be willing to make? What concessions would you expect in return for these compromises?
Fleecy: If Mr Buck wishes to make a business case for co-operation then he should do what any other professional business person would do; create a proposal and contact us to discuss it. If it makes financial and business sense then there is no reason why it should not proceed.
7) Treke: When the SDK 2.0 will be released. What hinders the release ?
Fleecy: We have been waiting for Intent 1.4 before releasing a new SDK. Obviously we can't release an SDK until the AmigaDE (and by implication the Intent foundation) is stable, which requires access to and testing of it. Once we get it, we have to move all of our code to it, test it, roll it out to the SDAs to get feedback and then we can build the SDK for public release.
8) Bob.C : Is there any updated news about applications that will be ready for A1/OS4? For example a word processor, paint or video application?
Fleecy: As I have said before, if the Amiga is to become the first use computer, it has to address 90% of the needs of the digital family. This includes a word processor amongst other things and we will taking internal action in regards to this. As for other applications, such as Paint and Video applications, we are in contact with both those who have such products already for the Amiga and those who have them on other platforms and who are considering a port. However I would draw your attention again to point 1 in this regard.
As for announcements, that is of course upto the third parties themselves and most are waiting until they have had a good play with AmigaOS4 on PPC since they want to get a good idea of what it will take to move over to the new platform. All I can really say is that we are of course working hard to get revised and new applications for the platform.
9) Gregs: My question: is whether there will be initial OS4 support for one or a number of Digital TV/Satellite etc., DVB (the US version is different) cards?
Fleecy: Not from Amiga itself, no. There is a lot to do and only so many resources with which to do it.
10) alx: Who will design the default theme(s) that OS4 comes with?
Fleecy: A well known and respected AmigaOS and AmigaDE developer. I am not giving his/her name out because they will then have to spend so many hours reading the emails of people who want to ask for this, that and the other that they will never get any work done.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=12
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba)
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23.May.2003
falkemedia (ANF)
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Special offer: 6 AMIGAplus, 3 A+ CDs and fxPAINT 1 full version
For a short period and in a limited amount falkemedia and IOSPIRIT are offering
a special subscription of the German paper magazine AMIGAplus for
just 39,- Euro which includes:
- 6 issues of AMIGAplus
- 3 A+ cover-CD-ROMs
- and the full, upgradable version 1 of the professional graphics
editor fxPAINT 1
Taking this offer you may for example receive the complete Draco
video workshop being published in six issues beginning in A+ 03/2003.
That is 36 pages of high-professional video knowledge. And beside that
you may create astonishing graphical artwork for your video production
with fxPAINT.
Orders may be sent in on the website of AMIGAplus. (nba)
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23.May.2003
amiga.org
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Descent Freespace got a new update
A new version of Descent Freespace is available from the Hyperion
website for 68k and PPC Amigas. It is still beta but it fixes
some annoying bugs. The size is about 1.3Mb and it is available
in the download area only for registered users on the website under
the title link. (nba)
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23.May.2003
amiga.org
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Woof3D: New Crossplatform-3D-API
Woof3D is a shared library for Amiga, Windows95 and Linux x86.
It offers a very SIMPLE way to create 3D program in C.
So Woof 3D is a graphic engine mainly a 3D engine for texturing
3D polygons much more like 3D cards. It evolved a lot from its
starting in May 2000 and now offers high level and low level
functions for 3D and 2D graphics.
Why an other 3D engine ?
- Cause Woof3D is very SIMPLE to program. You don't need to know
anything about the supported OS
- Cause Woof3D offer true cross platforming with Linux X86,
Windows95, AmigaOS 68K versions (one C source for all).
- Cause Woof3D offer high level functions like direct Vscape
or Caligari files handling.
- Cause Woof3D also offer basic 2D and 3D primitives that allow
to program lots of simple graphics softwares like OS-friendly games.
- Cause beginners in C language don't have to know about pointers
or dereferencing to use Woof3D
Supported platforms
- PC x86 with Windows95 and DirectDraw (2D hardware acceleration)
- Amiga 68k with AmigaOS 3.0-3.9 and Cybergraphics/Picasso96
(2D hardware acceleration ) or any computer emulating an
Amiga the same way (with WinUAE, DosUAE, etc.)
- Amiga 68k with AmigaOS 3.0-3.9 and a Warp3D 3D card (3D hardware
acceleration )
- PC x86 with Linux and Xwindow (2D hardware acceleration)
(nba) (Translation: nba)
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23.May.2003
DiscreetFX (Website)
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FAQ to Mozilla-support-action
After DiscreetFX announced last Tuesday that there is an amount of money for a port of
the web browser Mozilla for the Amiga the chairman Bill Panagouleas has created an
information site to the support action which you can access via the title link.
There you can read questions and answers concerning this topic.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2003
Joar Berntsen (ANF)
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2Decide: A 2D strategy game using themes
In case you are missing all the great recent uploads to Aminet;
Joar Berntsen would like to inform you of the freeware
game "2Decide" that has the ability to dress itself up with
various theme packages.
All units, all structures, and most gfx can be changed. In
addition, new campaigns can easily be created, with the
inline map editor, on any of the current 5 themes that
are available.
It is a game somewhat similar to Empire-'Wargame of the
century' but uses 256 colors and AGA effects, and all
ingame units are affected by cheerfull morale features.
Have a look at the readme file from the Aminet for slightly more info.
Don't be afraid to fool around with the theme features of
this game. It won't crash or anything from doing that.
I am not some distant being on another planet,
so please mail me if there is anything!
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Port of Kray for MorphOS and Linux PPC
The raytracer software Kray is available for new platforms: MorphOS and PowerPC-Linux.
We owe this to the developer Stefkos. Kray is also available for AmigaOS 68k, Linux x86,
SunOS/SPARC, AmigaOS PPC, Windows and Mac OS X. You can read more about this topic under
the title link. There are also download links.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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22.May.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: Exclusive Space-Rat-Special
Kultpower presents an exclusive preview of the soon available book about Space Rat made by Mathias Neumann.
A voting, in which users can tell about the extent of the book, is
currently runnin on the official Space-Rat-Website
"Space Rat" is a comic series which was made popular by the
publication in the 80ies and 90ies computer games magazine
"Aktueller Software Markt". The announced book will give you the
chance to wallow in nostalgy. (ps) (Translation: nba)
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22.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 22.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
xa.lha dev/cross 114K+A 6502 cross compiler for Amiga computer
Saga.lha game/board 306K+Saga 1.26a: Conversion of TSR boardgame
Mattonite.lha game/demo 1.2M+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 32K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
PegaThlon.lha gfx/show 92K+Mpeg Video player suitable for Amithlon
cheapestksw.lha hard/hack 6K+Cheapest and easy-to-build kickstart swi
Flamingo.lha misc/emu 171K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.53, 68k & PPC
mofucker.lha mods/hardc 294K Motherfucker - 2003 - war
slaughta.lha mods/hardc 235K Sheep 2 slaughter - 2003 - war
titearse.lha mods/hardc 64K Tight arse the fux - 2003 - war
Rambo_3.mpg mods/mpg 1.2M+Rambo III - Music Remake of ZX Spectrum
Webbit2003_01.lha pix/misc 7.9M+Webb.it 2003 archive 01
Webbit2003_02.lha pix/misc 2.4M+Webb.it 2003 archive 02
Webbit2003_03.lha pix/misc 1.6M+Webb.it 2003 archive 03
DirSize_IL.lha util/cli 7K+Calculate directory sizes (68k + MorphOS
ArgueGUIColl.lha util/misc 67K+Argue GUI for Frogger(NG), Moovid, Visag
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 170K+Italian version of StartBar
AmiMemos0.80.lha util/wb 44K+A memo utility for OS 3.x. V0.80
(ps) (Translation: nba)
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22.May.2003
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Survey: How old are the readers of amiga-news.de?
Searching for interesting surveys all the time, today it came to my
mind to find out the average age of the readers of amiga-news.de.
For this reason I opened a new according survey. These are the
possible answers:
How old are you?
- younger than 18
- 18 to 25
- 26 to 35
- 36 to 45
- 46 to 55
- 56 to 65
- older than 66
You can find the survey under the title link, and
here
you can find out about the present results. (ps) (Translation: nba)
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22.May.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Amiga Future is searching for authors
The Amiga-magazine 'Amiga Future' searches for users who are
street-smart with a program and might write a workshop for one
of the upcoming issues.
If you're interested please write an email to redaktion@amigafuture.de. (ps) (Translation: nba)
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22.May.2003
Sebastian Brylka (ANF)
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Fun Time World - New Online Shop reopen and lottery
We are a German distributer and we released games like "PuzzleBOBS"
from Nexus Development and "Aqua" from Emerald Imaging.
We distribute the movie player "FroggerNG" and new, the Amiga magazine "Total Amiga" in Germany!
Our current release is the "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002", a collection of classic commercially Amiga games.
So what's new?
Our shop supports all Amiga browsers and four
languages. (German, English, Italian, Polish)
Lottery
Yes,you can win some cool Amiga software!
All you must do is, write us a mail (mail@funtime-world.de)
till 20.06.2003 and then write us, how you like our new shop!
You can win:
1 * Amiga Forever version 4.0
1 * Aminet 40 with TurboCalc 4.0
2 * Easys
1 * Simon the Sorcerer II
2 * Aqua
3 * PuzzleBOBS
1 * AmigaWriter 2.0
2 * Amiga Arena - Games Edition (nba)
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22.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available
As of now a new Linux-kernel in its version 2.4.21
is available for the AmigaOne. One of the most important changes
is the direct support of Radeon 8500/9000 in the kernel fbdev.
More information about this update and a download link is available
on the website under the title link. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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21.May.2003
Dany Thinnes (ANF)
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TH-Verbindung v1.2 released
TH-Verbindung controls the costs during connections with the Internet.
Thus unexpected bills shoud be avoided. Miami, MUI and ARexx are required. The update to version 1.2
has some news:
- reworked design
- program icon
- reset function
- menus
Some functions for the traffic control were improved and some prepared for a flatrate support which will be added later.
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21.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-KontoArchiv version 1.11
SN-KontoArchiv has been released in version 1.11. This program is an e-mailware
which enables you to manage your accounts in Euro. The program offers many statistical and input functions.
The following has been changed:
- Statistics got a new colour scheme to be discriminated better (green, red).
- Subject of the statistics is changed a bit and an according button has been integrated within the main window.
- Other changes.
Download: SN-KontoArc.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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21.May.2003
Mac Life (Website)
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PowerPC 970 shipped already?
The rumors page LoopRumors claims to know that IBM shipped
20,000 1.4 GHz and 40,000 1.6 GHz processors of the type PowerPC970 to Apple already.
It is said that they were delivered directly to Foxconn in Taiwan, the manufacturer of the
Apple mainboards. The 1.8 GHz prozessors were on their way also.
Even these rumors can't be confirmed, the introduction of the first PowerPC Macs is expected for summer.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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20.May.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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New Soms3D screenshots online
On the website 'Anime Development for Amiga' are new screenshots of the Alpha 5
Engine of the horror game 'Secret Of My Soul' released. Also some HTML errors are
removed.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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20.May.2003
DXE (ANF)
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amiga.org: Interview with Ben Hermans
At amiga.org you will find an interview from nOMAAM with Ben Hermans of Hyperion
Entertainment.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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20.May.2003
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PowerPC solutions from Total Impact
The Californian company Total Impact has announced three PowerPC based computers,
that are like the AmigaOne and Pegasos.
The briQ is a network computer with a PowerPC 750FX or 7400 (G4) with up 800 MHz and
is updatable in speed and processor. The briQ ist compatible with all
PowerPC-compatible Linux-distributions and will be delivered with Yellow Dog Linux.
The briQ RenderEngine is a 4- or 8-Node-System-variant of the briQ and is focussed on
users wanting high performance rendering.
Total mPower is a PCI-based multiprocessor solution for Intel-compatible PCs and
Apple Power Macintoshs. Solutions using Total mPower have a range from a single
board up to a nearly unlimited number of parallel boards. Four PowerPC G3 (750) or
G4 (7400) CPUs operating with 366 to 500 MHz in every board.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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20.May.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Karate 68k v0.97 released
The French coder Krabob of m4nkind has now released the new version 0.97 of Karate,
now als working with MorphOS and runs on 68030-Amigas faster than the previous
version. Karate is a Demo-Script-Language for Amiga and Pegasos.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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19.May.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Hollywood v1.5 Announcement
Airsoft Softwair will soon release the major update Hollywood 1.5 which
features so many great new things that are totally unique on the Amiga and
which will make Hollywood once more the absolute number one in Amiga
multimedia. The beta testers are already totally excited about the power
of Hollywood 1.5. Here is a quick overview of what is new in Hollywood
1.5:
- Support for multiple graphics layers
- Layer transparency and layer light correction
- Over 50 new impressing transition effects (totalling in over 100 now!)
- Support for object rotation, mirroring, inverting, color replacing
- Support for Intellifonts
- All audio output is retargetable through AHI including full
channel mixing and 16-bit stereo audio
- Full control over master volume
- Possibility to limit maximum number of frames per second
- Windows can have a dynamic transparency
- Joystick support!
- Powerful object animation functions
- Off-screen rendering
- New GUI
- Over 80 other useful new functions!
Hollywood 1.5 will be released soon. The Malibu plugin which enables
Hollywood to show also Scala scripts will be released shortly after
Hollywood 1.5. There is also work going on to make a plugin for Hollywood
that displays Power Point presentations (code name: Pasadena).
The Airsoft Softwair homepage (titlel link) features some
impressing screenshots in the news section. (nba)
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19.May.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: get active!
Get active! Comments, votes and demo chart (top 20) at Amiga Demoscene Archive. Read the news page on A.D.A. for more info and some important changes.
Chart is currently (top 5):
- 1. Nexus 7 / Andromeda
- 2. Planet Potion / Potion
- 3. State of the art / Spaceballs
- 4. Desert Dream / Kefrens
- 5. Budbrain Megademo 1 / Budbrain
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #036
There is a new song in the "Productions" area of the Liqiud Skies Records homepage available. The song by Angeldust is called "Glowing Red Desert".
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 19.05.2003
Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
e_money_110.lha biz/misc 177K+A Personal Accounts Manager (V1.10).
trsi-mcheck16.lha comm/bbs 127K+Multi-Check V1.6 - Multi Archive Tester
miamidxCT.lha comm/net 37K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
newscoaster.lha comm/news 425K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.56) (MUI)
USE_PowerUp.lha demo/aga 2.7M+PowerUp by Universe: Winner WOS demo at
GCCGUI.lha dev/c 15K+GUI for GNU C Compiler (gcc), based on w
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0.
Saga.lha game/board 306K+Saga 1.26: Conversion of TSR boardgame
TVSB2k2team.lha game/data 6K+2002 Rosters for TVSBasketball
Mattonite.lha game/demo 1.2M+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42: Advanced snake game
supertvSP.lha gfx/board 1K+Spanish catalog for SuperTV
AmiCAD_2.10.lha gfx/edit 768K+Schematics vectorial electronics program
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 31K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
imdbDiff030509.lha misc/imdb 2.6M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Cybernoid_1.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+Cybernoid 1 - Music Remake of Sinclair Z
Tetris_2.mpg mods/mpg 3.7M+Tetris 2 - Music Remake of Sinclair ZX S
DelfMPEG.lha mus/play 163K+MPEG audio player for Delfina DSP
DelfSF.lha mus/play 27K+Sndfile player for Delfina DSP
dmdev.lha mus/play 136K+Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
ArgueGUIColl.lha util/misc 68K+Argue GUI for Frogger(NG), Moovid, Visag
NoLed_v1.1.lha util/misc 4K+Low-Pass Filter Killer v1.1
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 186K+Italian version of StartBar
idlewos.lha util/moni 13K+A cpu monitor with WarpOS Support
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 90K+External Virus Scanner Library v33.40
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos: Independent Review by OSNews.com
Eugenia Loli Queru of OSNews.com made an independent Pegasos-Review. As a not Amiga user her judgement precipitates naturally very
critically over the MorphOS which is still in an early development stage. However when talking about the possibility to
use the hardware with various Linux distributions and MacOS her judgement is more positively. Among other things
she guesses to Genesi, to mark out the Pegasos as the Linux platform, because nevertheless x86 boards belong in last consequence to
Microsoft.
In its associated comment Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi suggest that one can
regard the "M" standing in MorphOS calmly also as for "mobility", this
is the next step.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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New Zaurus PDA's by Sharp
As one can read in the article by LinuxDevices (title link) Sharp announced some new Zaurus PDA's for Japan. The new devices C750/C760 will have the following improvements compared with their predecessors.
- New XScale processor PXA255 (SL750/SL760)
- More RAM (+64MB) (SL750/SL760)
- More Flash Memory (128MB) (SL760)
- Improved battery performance (SL760)
- Improved software (SL750/SL760)
Nothing has been said about if and when this devices will be available in europe. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Video player: FroggerNG 2.06
It is been a while since last release, wasn't it? Well, problems with
working computer on which I could do some developing are gone, so here
it is, brand new 2.06 ready for download. What's new? There is now almost
100% acurate A/V sync (also after seeking/pause). There is bunch of new
codecs (including a holy graal of video codecs, Sorenson Video 3, thanks
to annonymous programmer and ffmpeg team). Also, tons of bugs was removed
(which doesn't means it bug free ;). For a complete list of changes
please refer to CHANGELOG, included in archives. Remember to get codecs
archive as well, most of them were updated, not to mention new ones.
Have fun.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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Event: OS4 on Tour 2003 - more dates
point.design presents the AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour roadshow accross Europe.
Several events will take place on:
- June, 7th, BOF Multimedia Store, Ljubljana, Slowenia
- June, 14th, Amiga Club Augsburg, Germany
- June, 28th, BOF, Shopping-Center West, Graz, Austria
- July, 5th, Amiga Alpe Adria, Udine, Italy
- July, 5th, Amont Informatique, Toulouse, France
The planning so far goes to have AmigaOS4.0 running on a CyberStorm PPC
(with a native PPC kernel), as well as having current modules like
Roadshow, AmigaInput, Mount-Rainer (CD/RW), etc. with the new AmigaOS4.0
design on display.
Also you will find various AmigaOne G3/G4 machines on the show.
More surprises are on schedule.
Please visit OS4 on Tour 2003
and our partner web sites for more information.
We are looking forward to see you at the show(s)!
Jürgen Schober
point.design
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18.May.2003
Philippe Bourdin (E-Mail)
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Event: OS4 on Tour 2003 - 14th June 2003 in Augsburg
The Amiga Club Augsburg (ACA) and KDH Datentechnik are proud to invite you on June 14th, 2003 into the computer club, the Augsburger Computer Forum. We will present some novelties for your Classic Amiga and we will be able to give you a preview of Amiga OS4.0.
Amiga OS4.0
The presentation of the AmigaOne and a preview of Amiga OS4.0 will be given by Juergen Schober / Point Design from Austria (come, see and be surprised !! ).
Amiga One
The Amiga Club Augsburg will present the newest member of our Amiga family, the Amiga One. The Amiga One Systems are currently delivered with Debian Linux PPC installed. The presentaton machines have a G4 PPC processor with 800MHz. (We might have a surprise for you ;)
Algor (world premiere)
E3B will present its brandnew Zorro USB Controller Algor, as well as an update possibility to Highway by the name of Romulus. You will be able to talk face to face with Michael Boehmer, he is the hardware developer of the USB boards Algor, Highway, Subway and of the ethernet board Norway. If you need some advise, this is the right place and guy to ask ;). The scope of delivery of all USB boards from E3B contains a full version of Poseidon. Poseidon is developed by Chris Hodges in teamwork with E3B. The newest version of Poseidon will be presented together with Algor and Michael will be pleased to answer all your questions. If you want to test your USB devices together with an E3B USB controller, you are welcome to do so. At the show we will give you the possibility to purchase the E3B USB boards.
C-One (world premiere)
The C-One is a multiple faster than the C64 and has standard interfaces (PS/2-Mouseport, PS/2-Keyboard, Parallel-Port) to communicate with the outside world. PCI slots allow the use of todays PCI-cards, but also the periphery of the C64 is supported, as well as the clockport expansions modules of the Amiga 1200 will work in the C-One.
But the C-One is more: It is reconfigurable and thereby the first of its kind. The used techniques allows changing the hardware by means of simply exchanging a file. Jens Schönfeld will give an explicit, free of charge seminar on the C-One and will explain all the C-One functions. Jens will also answer all questions related to the other products from individual Computers. The products of individual Computers can be bought at the show.
Further information and details can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin (ANF)
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TaskSettler 1.1 released, change/remove task(s)
TaskSettler 1.1 a Shell/CLI utility written in 68K machine code. Change
taskpriority from task(s) and/or remove task(s). One example for use;
if you have no PCMCIA card attached to the Amiga1200, set in the
Startup-Sequence TaskSettler and remove the tasks card.resource and
card.device, speedsup the Amiga a little. But other purposes too.
Download:TaskSettler.lha
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18.May.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MMKeyboard sale of hardware discontinued
Due to rapidly decreasing hardware orders production of the MMKeyboard adapter is being discontinued. Support for MMKeyboard will of course continue. I just stop production of the hardware because it just isn't feasible to do in such small numbers. As the sale had always been done at cost I'd have to increase the price of the adapter quite drastically in order to get out of it without loss. Furthermore I just don't see myself in a position to produce the hardware within a desirable timeframe.
Everyone still has the choice to build the hardware themselves, which used to be done by quite a number of users. Maybe by way of this announcement someone can be found to produce adapters for technically less versed Amiga users. Instructions for this can be found under the title link.
Guido Mersmann
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 10
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 10 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) trgse: Something the Amiga has lacked since its early days is POSIX compliance or a good full POSIX emulation layer. (ixemul not being very amiga like and lacking fork, how does Amiga see this.... Will it be resolved under OS 4.x, if so how? does/will OS 5.x/DE have any POSIX compliance
Fleecy: There is already a project under way within the AmigaOS4 development team to increase POSIX compliance within the platform. Elements of this. most notably a threading solution will hopefully be in place for AmigaOS4.0.
2) ikir: What do you think of the Coldfire Accelerator Project? Could we have a Coldfire version of OS4.x in the future? With a 200+ MHz coldfire, many people would probably want OS4 for these machines. What is your stance on this?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4 for the desktop is a PPC product and that is what we will be supporting.
3) alx: What is the reasoning behind A inc not releasing the old 1.x ROM images? They would be useful for many people, would provide an indication of goodwill and wouldn't run any recent s/w like the "current" 3.x series.
Fleecy: We are investigating this and are looking at both providing a distinct product with these pieces on it as well as having them all on the AmigaOS4.0 CD.
4) Tigger: Where you unaware of what Bill McEwen was going to say in the Bolten Peck case about not being the CEO, or were you intentionally misleading the Amiga Community with your post that Bill McEwen was still the CEO??
Fleecy: Bill McEwen is still CEO. He was CEO before I posted that statement, he was the CEO when I posted that statement and is the CEO today as I type this answer to you. I have no comments to make about any on going lawsuits.
5) Hondo_DK: Does Amiga have any upcoming plans for their website. I mean if Amiga is to launch OS4 to an unexpecting amazed world, then you're website would probably be facing a run over by zillions of surfers from everywhere in the computer business. When seeing the present Amiga site, many would perhaps turn away because of the lack of a design roadmap. Do you have any plan to prepare yourself before the launch of OS4.
Fleecy: We are very aware that the Amiga web presence needs updating. This is being done one site at a time with the new Amiga Power Platform website under construction as we speak and due to be opened to the public before AmigaOS4.0 goes on sale.
6) KingTutt: If a clear and steady level of growth is reached, and a sizable userbase pushes sales akin to the first year of these next-gen consoles. Would Amiga Inc consider bringing into the fold some past Amiga game developers in an effort to resurrect some past game legends ala the great Turrican series? And if so, how do you see Amiga Inc playing an instrumental role in bringing back past hits.
Fleecy: We do intend to do this but usually you only get one shot at trying to convince people to come back to a platform and so we don't want to do this until the platform supports a market large enough to provide a substantial financial element to the overall decision. If the userbase does get to that size, we'd be very happy. As an aside I should mention that we have had such developers spontaneously contacting us to enquire about coming back to the platform and discussions are ongoing.
7) KingTutt: Do you believe its important for Amiga as a possible future gaming platform, to stand by its own creations & merits, distinguishable from the rest or should it rely on ported titles from other systems?
Fleecy: Porting of product has a definite place, especially for a small market where the cost of developing a new product from scratch is substantial. However we would very much like to see unique content on the Amiga and will be working towards that end. It has to be said that if someone wrote an amazing game on the Amiga, the developer would most likely want to look at porting it to other platforms anyway so perhaps the best we can hope for in the short term is ports, the medium term is content on our platform first and then ported followed by unique content only on our platform as the market size increases.
In the end the only way to guarantee unique content is to have features and capabilities on the platform that do not exist and more, cannot be replicated on another platform but with hardware commoditisation, that is increasingly difficult.
8) Deniil715: I was wondering if the TCP/IP-stack of OS4 will support IPv6?? And if it will not, will it atleast support DHCP IP-timeout and refresh so that it can be used on a network with a DHCP-server which put a timeout on the IP-address and hence withdraw it after the timeout if the TCP/IP-stack doesn't refresh it.
Fleecy: DHCP is in (the whole package, not just the fringe features), IPv6 is not. Given our current resources and feature lists for AmigaOS4, IPv6 is down near the bottom of the list but as the project advances, features above it will be crossed off and we will of course continually review the situation.
9) ssolie: Have you given any thought to utilizing open source development, either as a source baseline or as a development model, to speed delivery of various AmigaOS services?
Fleecy: We have considered it and may dabble in it on the fringes but as a commercial company we have a need to develop IP and to provide a return on it to our investors. If we were developing another UNIX wannabe, same old same old product then it would have more appeal but we are into developing something unique and in making money out of it.
10) catohagen: If i dont remember wrong, there was something called PREXX, what is it and is it still planned ?
Fleecy: I have asked a few people, most of whom returned a blank expression. One person believes it may have been something that Haage and Partner were talking about but there is certainly nothing of that name in AmigaOS4.0
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=11
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4 Beta 5
In addition to the current version of the start menu Pixload 4 Beta 5, Pixel Art have provided a bilingual guide file for download. If you can help to translate this documentation into German you are invited to mail them in English to
pixelart@wanadoo.fr.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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Amiga-Hardware to give away
Matthias Henze writes:
I'm giving away the following Amiga hardware resp. accessories:
- Oktagon 2008 SCSI 2 controller
- Emplant Macintosh Emulator
- Original Amiga mice (of A500+ and A4000)
- Original A4000 desktop case (Commodore)
- Original A4000 PSU for Commodore desktop case
- Original A4000 Shuttle Board for Commodore desktop case
- A PC desktop case rebuilt for the A500+ with Kickstart switch
(incl. ROM 1.3 and ROM 2.04 and mechanical adaption for turbo boards - used to accomodate a Stormbringer H530), small internal amplifier, internal floppy disk drive, complete internal and pluggable cabling, space for external hard disks or Action Replay etc.
- External keyboard for A500+
- Power PC Board (PC emulator by KCS) for A500+
Back when I dismantled the parts (a couple of years ago), everything was working perfectly. However, I can't guarantee that this is still the case. If you're interested you can contact me and collect the parts personally at my place or get them by mail. If you want to have them sent by mail you have to pay the postage up front however. Sorry, but I have made bad experiences already too often.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Extensive announcement re: Articia bugs (Update)
In the forum of Moobunny Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco describe, more extensive than so far publicly done, the sequence of events surrounding the bugs of the Articia Northbridge by Mai.
Update: (07:56, 24.07.22, snx)
Title link changed, leading to copy of Moobunny website at Archive.org now. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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