22.Feb.2003
Chris Beckefeld (email)
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Haage & Partner in print magazine c't
In the current issue of c't (German print magazine) 5/2003, coming next Monday,
is Haage & Partner mentioned in the applications notes (page 41).
It's about the localisation of the products of the graphics software developer XARA, in the beginning the font renderer Xara3D v5 for the German speaking people. But this shows obviously their turning to non Amiga products - facts follow their words... (ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
GFX-BASE
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Lorraine Design: new GlowIcon set 'Nelta'
Bojan Milovic of Lorrain Design has today released a new icons set in the GlowIcon style. It contains about 300 MacOS and Windows icons that he'd converted to AmigaOS and enhanced with the glow effect.
Download: Nelta-glow.lha (602 KB)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi statement about the Pegasos II changes
This is a letter we sent out today to the "inside" group...(sorry no images!)...
22 February 2003
Dear Friends of Genesi,
We wanted to provide some basic communication this weekend to all of you, because
frankly our focus this past week has been the Management meetings here in Paris.
We hope that this letter will assist you in understanding more clearly the
direction of the Company. Please feel free to respond directly to us at
bbrv@genesi.lu with your questions. If you understand and share our vision,
you can adjust your effort to become more relevant to our corporate framework
if you desire.
As we have said before, Genesi stands on the verge of enormous opportunity.
We can provide a completely integrated solution, including hardware, operating
system, and a number of (bundled and unbundled) applications. We can innovate
in ways that involve the complete integrated package, rather than being limited
to new developments within each level by third parties (HP and Microsoft are not
as self-reliant in this way). Genesi and our associates need to leverage this
advantage fully. We are smaller, faster and will be necessarily more adventurous
in our efforts. Do not hesitate to share your most creativity ideas with these
mailing lists. Together, we believe we can create a substantial and long
awaited change to the IT marketplace.
In the first BIG opportunity to our Company, we are required to develop using a
PPC and MorphOS, a terrestrial Digital Television receiver with interactive/computing
and smart card read and write functions (to be referred to as the DTV STB). This
product will not require the use of the Articia and we will be producing significant
quantities in the development phase and a special version of MorphOS (without hurting
the complete version). If we deliver the DTV STB in a satisfactory manner we will
be eligible to receive orders for over one million units. It is a once-in-a-lifetime
professional opportunity for all of us. We need to make the most of it.
Of course, none of this would be possible without the years of dedication required
to bring the Pegasos and MorphOS to where it is today. We are all proud to be
associated with the bplan guys. The difficulties over the last year have nothing
to do with them. It is the Articia from Mai Logic that has caused us months of
delays. It does not perform to the advertised specifications. Thankfully, Gerald
and Thomas tested and mounted the Aritica on the April2. That is right -- the April2.
The first patch that Gerald and Thomas developed works as we know, but there were
still bugs. The new Articia (and Teron) is still very likely to have trouble as
more problems were detected after the Aachen Show and well after the joint work
Gerald did with for the new Articia in October and November with Mai. The April2
brings the Articia fully to the performance levels it claims to achieve. We have
purchased the remaining worldwide supply of the old Articias and will make 400 more
Pegasos main boards with the G3 CPU. Our G3 Pegasos performs better than the G4
Teron with the Articia. This will be common knowledge soon (let the others understand
this on their own our word will stand as testimony to our knowledge and skill). Once
produced, we will stop (we may license production of this version of the Pegasos to
Plexuscom or others). These machines will easily satisfy the Amiga market and give
us the machines we need to seed our developer base while Gerald and Thomas switch out
the old Articia to a much more attractive alternative (details later). This could be
ready by the summer. The RAM speed of the Pegasos will be as high as any offered in the
market and this WILL attract considerable interest. The DTV STB revenue can carry us
until this point (remember this IS a business we hope you Developers begin to remember
this!).
To repeat a few words from an earlier communication?
If our strategic vision is compelling and our execution excellent, we will increasingly
attract skilled developers. What Ralph, Frank and the core MorphOS Development Team have
accomplished to date is exceptional, but now we need to establish a professional
development and management system for MorphOS, formally retain the services of all
key MorphOS developers, and recruit new talent to the project. We have struck on the
Phoenix association to develop a vehicle to do this. All registered Phoenix members
must use a special Phoenix logon and password to have access to the reduced Pegasos
pricing that will be available through www.pegasos-usa.com.
We need to be somewhat selective in insuring that these next boards go to people that
will advance in communion with our effort and our internal developers and Phoenix members
will have priority. We will also develop the User Group program next week and a system
for handling Pegasos sales so our Distributors also benefit.
Our targeted resource/sales markets from the near to medium term are:
1. Amiga/MorphOS
2. DTV STB
3. LinuxPPC and OtherPPC
We will continue to promote to the Amiga/MorphOS market, as we have. Our underlying focus
should be: broadening and stabilizing MorphOS, attracting applications and drivers
(ports/original programs), and establishing a Pegasos toolkit. At the same time,
www.pegasos-usa.com is working
and our online sales support and information site at
www.genesi-support.com
will continue to improve. If we are lucky we will awaken and attract the slumbering
ex-Commodore consumer market, but that will take some time and we are not quite ready
for mass-market attention. The sites will be there and ready. Until we are ready with
the Pegasos II we will not promote the sites as much as we could. Plus, we will
standardize the Pegasos distribution network over the next few months taking a
semi-franchise approach. When we are ready, everything will be in place.
On the hardware side we start where we are: the Pegasos. We have discussed the
features: upgradeable, scalable, modifiable (smaller eclipsis, subsets/modular
Psylent/STB), and open, as in Open Firmware (facilitates scheme for peripheral
association/development IAW the IE1275 standard). We will develop a solid plan
and feature set for each Pegasos envisioned and the corresponding software bundles.
The management review that took place this week was very successful. We have
defined and agreed to our objectives and are now preparing a solid plan for the
future.
NOTE: for 200 Euros and trade-in ALL Pegasos I Users (includes Betatesters) WILL
be able to upgrade to the Pegasos II (just to put an end to that FUD!).
About Linux and the other targets? OS4 too -- ;-)
Linux people usually want something great for nothing, but in the PPC market if
we can get a design win over the Teron the next price point is a Mac. As more
professionals and desktop consumers switch to Linux, the future of commercial
software on Linux is very bright and so is our hardware. Functionality will
become precedent over cost in this market. We need a bootable bundled distro
and Mac-on-Linux. Linux will be a major force in the future. Today, it is still
difficult to install software, drivers, set up firewalls, etc., but because of
the generous licensing environment and the massive corporate support Linux is
gaining (IBM, HP, etc.) as well as government mandates and funding in many
countries, it is set to become the "next big thing". We need to be
part of that trend.
Any PPC OS that is reasonable to port with external resources is interesting to
us. We need a Go/NoGo decision matrix. Again, we are looking for resources and
developer talent. For example, while Linux gets the glory, BSDs are running
some of the biggest sites. We have seen the first screenshots of OpenBSD running
on the Pegasos. Further, there is an increasing amount of interesting open source
projects we could find a way to adapt to our use.
Finally, we are interested in restoring the Demo Scene to the Pegasos. The
traditional and overt message in a demo was technical skill. The visual effects
pushed the supposed limits of the platform's capability and graphics were
skillfully executed. Good demos are the marriage of advanced technical, creative
and artistic abilities. For the future, we need a new generation of Sceners to be
pulling the most from the platform and the OS. This can generate plenty of
positive attention. Besides the nVidia butterfly lady has the wrong color wings!
This is why we decided to sponsor Equinoxe.
All these other things all ultimately bring us back to our key advantage: a
completely integrated solution, including hardware, operating system, and
applications. Management is working hard to turn this vision into a reality.
While the sale of the Pegasos and MorphOS alone could never sustain the Company
we are building, it may one day in the future. We use the Pegasos today to
begin our move to the future, while insuring the development and growth of the
MorphOS. Things could get pretty exciting if we can get that far. Let us not
forget that 30 million STBs sold last year and they were called video game
consoles.
Please feel free to provide any feedback to us.
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill
P.S. If you are still confused go here --
www.lagardere.com --
and select Lagardère Media présente "Focus sur la Télé" on the left.
This should help explain everything (even if it is in French!) (ps)
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22.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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Debian project on Desktop Linux Summit
The Debian project has been invited to an exhibition and conference about free software and GNU/Linux that will take place soon.
The Debian project looks after a booth this weekend in San Diego in the exhibition area of the Desktop Linux Summit.
Next to that is Bdale Garbee participating in a discussionan about the future of GNU/Linux on the desktop.
The company invites all interested people near there to visit the conference, to meet Debian developers and users, to exchange GnuPG fingerprints, discuss different topics about Debian and free software and to participate in other ways.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
FOREMATT (ANF)
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100% AMIGA #33 with new design
The February issue (#33) of the British CD-ROM magazine 100%
AMIGA has been released today and comes along with a fresh new design.
The completely revamped main page contains now all new areas including user groups, mails, free small adverts and much more. Features this month cover reviews of Crossfire II and PureBasic. A look at the cover on the website tells more about the new issue.
The website of the magazine has also been redesigned and enhanced with new offers. The Amiga Retro Classics area includes more games that are now priced in Euros and Dollars charges and that can be ordered via PayPal. They now also offer DVD videos and programs in the Region-2-format (Europe).
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
heise online
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heise: first details on Napster 2
Still this year shall Napster be restarted as commercial download service. Later on will owner Roxio upgrade peer-to-peer functions, too. Read the full (German) article at heise online following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
OSNews
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SciTech asks for comments regarding the SNAP-Graphics future
This week announced the AmigaOS 4 developer Hyperion Entertainment to use the SNAP technology by SciTech Software Inc. as graphics cards driver system for AmigaOS 4 (we reported).
Today asks SciTech on OSNews for commments regarding future versions of SNAP-Graphics.
SciTech SNAP Graphics supports now 180 different graphics chipsets. Feedback by users show that this number would be too high. The company wants to know from the users how many and especially which graphics cards should be supported in the next release. Furthermore they ask for the operating systems that shall be supported in the future.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
YAM Website
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Mail program: new YAM developers version dated February, 22nd 2003
Since today there's a new developers version 2.4-dev [020] BETA
of the mailing software YAM that is now Open Source. This is a pure developers version that may still contain bugs and for which the develpers give no support and warranty. Emails regarding the developers versions won't be answered, either. Usage at own risk!
The change done can be found in this list.
Further information can be found on the
Yamos SourceForge site.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV Website
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TV cards driver: AmithlonTV beta 285 (update)
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 285 of the TV cards driver software
AmithlonTV with several smaller updates and improvements.
New in version 285:
- BUGFIX: Fixed the sliders within the audio video setup to work correctly on Pegasos.
- BUGFIX: Fixed full screen support on CyberGraphics.
New in version 283:
- FEATURE: Added configuration data for MD/LT9415 and TVValue.
- FEATURE: Full Pegasos support (tested).
- FEATURE: Added several new tuner drivers.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Update 23-02-2003:
Message updated to version 285.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
heise online
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heise: 580 millions users worldwide online
Market research has shown that 63 percent of the German households are connected to the Internet. Read the full (German) article at heise online following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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Artwork from Visualice at GFXZONE
There are quite a few sceners that have been around for a long time,
but few have been as active as Visualice used to be. This guy has worked
on a staggering amount of demoscene productions.
Unfortunately for us Visualice recently left Haujobb to concentrate
on other forms of art. We have updated his personal gallery on the gfxzone
with plenty of high-quality graphics.
The updated gallery consists of 5 parts with 100 images in total,
most of which are now finally available in their full PNG quality for
the first time ever (thanks Timo!!). Older images are in the first parts
of the gallery, more recent images can be found nearer to the end.
To show that Visualice is also graphically active in a non-digital way,
the fourth part of the gallery shows sketches. Some of the sketches that
Visualice provided for us to show in his gallery are also available for
purchase online, check it out if you are interested!
Enter the updated Visualice gallery and start enjoying.
(nba)
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21.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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300 Pegasos-I freely available from Monday on - Pegasos-II from September on
As Genesi reported on MorphOS-News.de
the last Pegasos mainboards of the first generation are available from Monday on.
300 pieces of the 400 are freely available and the rest will be delivered to developers
and the staff.
Genesi emphasizes that there will be no further production of the Pegasos-I-boards.
In August/September the Pegasos-II will follow which has double data rates, three 1-GB/s
Ethernet channels and Dual-G4 processors.
There will be no possibility of upgrading the Pegasos-I to G4 but a special possibility
for the Pegasos-I customer.
This Genesi wants to especially emphasizes before you buy a Pegasos-I.
All beta tester who have not been changed yet have the most important priority.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Feb.2003
Computer City (ANF)
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Computer City February News
FotoFoto
Work on FotoFoto is progressing, new pictures of the main
screen and prefs section can now be found at the FotoFoto website:
www.compcity.nl/fotofoto.
Inga!
Most of the work on the Inga! conversion is done. New screenshots of
the Inga-based demo-game Ermentrud running on AmigaDE 1.3 can be found
at the personal site of our programmer, Arend-Paul Spijkerman
(ap@compcity.nl):
http://www.apsdev.com.
Added to our internal 'to do list' is a MorphOS/PowerPC version.
Webshop
Work has started on our new webshop, which will be available in Dutch,
English and German. For the German market we have arranged a bank account
for payments and a German postal address in the event of RMA's.
For more information, please contact Computer City at +31-10-4517722
or email info@compcity.nl.
(ps)
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21.Feb.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Knights & Merchants for MorphOS starts shipping
Today e.p.i.c. interactive started shipping the Empire Builder Knights &
Merchants, which is now the first commercially available game for MorphOS.
Knights&Merchants retails at EUR 49,95 and requires a Pegasos with 600 Mhz, 64
MByte RAM and MorphOS 1.0 or better. More information on this Real Time
Strategy game can be found in the projects section of our homepage (title
link).
Knights and Merchants can be described as a strategic economy simulation. In
the main, the economics play a major role in this real-time action game. The
player can manufacture different products, making use of numerous buildings
and producer goods of the Middle Ages period. He can use his serfs to
construct and maintain buildings and roads. The economical structuring is
very specific. You manufacture finished products using various raw materials
which go through your production processes. All these manufacturing systems
are highly detailed and visually understandable, enabling fast and
dependable control of your economy. One result of all your productive labors
is the manufacture of weapons and armor. But the logistics, too, are really
worth a mention. You decide where and how merchandise will be transported on
the network of streets which you yourself have planned and constructed.
Your
serfs transport all wares between buildings, so your town planning plays a
major role in production time per building, and, resulting from that, just
how efficient your economy as a whole is going to be. Transported goods are
displayed graphically. Each figure in the game has his/her own mission area
and carries out individual tasks independently. They don't depend on your
commands or actions. You, the player, only give indirect commands for the
construction of buildings, streets, corn fields, etc. However, you do have
complete control of the military units.
Dealers please contact GTI/Schatztruhe. (ps)
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21.Feb.2003
Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig
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Windows-arrangement: DepthMenu version 2.43
The Polish programmer Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig has published version 2.43 of his program
'DepthMenu'. With this program you can manage, minimize or maximize open windows on
your Workbench.
New in this version: A bug has been cleared which occured if Shapeshifter was simultaneously
used with the screen menu function and another one has cleared in the about window.
From this version on DepthMenu will be no longer compiled with SAS/C but with GCC.
Download: DepthMenu.lha (53 kb)
Besides this the long expected new version 1.5 of the AmIRC.module has been published
where bugs have been cleared and the translation has been improved.
A new version of the Workbench.module and DOpus5.module with new functions has been announced.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV-card-driver: AmithlonTV beta 280 (Update)
Guido Mersmann has published beta version 280 of the TV card driver software called
AmithlonTV which has some minor updates and improvements.
Version 280
- BUGFIX:
The driver_hauppauge.lib is now detecting radio and the real card name if known.
- BUGFIX:
Again a small "video_bt8x8.lib" update! This should fix the last Pegasos problems.
Version 277
- FEATURE:
TVCardDump now allows to dump specific data items.
- FEATURE:
The video_bt8x8.lib driver now supports the pci interface structure.
This should fix (in theorie) the known problems with G-Rex/Pegasos
and other systems.
- CHANGED:
Modified the TVCardSetup window to be more intuitiv.
- BUGFIX:
Reworked some PCI routines.
- FEATURE:
Implemented CyberGraphics support. (currently TVWatch only)
- BUGFIX:
Fixed some card drivers.
- BUGFIX:
Fixed full screen support in combination with the pixel cut feature.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
(nba)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Feb.2003
Kaliko
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Kaliko online again
The website of the Swedish software development company Kaliko is now online again.
If you have sent an email to an @kaliko.net address during the last three weeks
you are asked to send it again. Kaliko continues placing confidence in AMIGA, Inc.
Most of the users in the world use a version of Windows and therefore it is right to
integrate these users to the Amiga world.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Feb.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (E-Mail)
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Release of Wings for Game Boy Advance
Cinemaware announces the release of Wings GBA, which should be
hitting retail in the next few days! Wings GBA is a completely
new adaptation of the action-based flight-simulator Wings on Amiga,
with a new storyline, new missions and even the ability to fly on
the German side! There's nothing like it on GBA. (nba)
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20.Feb.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: EBay Warns Buyers Who Warn Other Bidders of Deception
It's known there are recurring instances of deception with eBay auctions. A bidder from Niedersachsen
wanted to warn fellow bidders about an alleged con artist and so he used the contact function on the
eBay website. EBay reacted to this negatively and warned the warner against "spamming."
Click on the title link for the complete article.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
(ANF)
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New open source archive format: 7-Zip
7z Format - 7z is the new archive format, providing high compression
ratio. The main features of 7z format:
- Open architecture.
- High compression ratio.
- Strong AES-256 encryption.
- Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method.
- Supporting files with sizes up to 16000000000 GB.
- Unicode file names.
- Solid compressing.
- Archive headers compressing.
7z has open architecture, so it can support any new compression methods.
For more information please visit the title link.
(ps)
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20.Feb.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)
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Napster's Inheritance: Rights Lawsuit Against Bertelsmann
Two composers and two music publishers accused the Bertelsmann business group
of knowingly assisting in the illegal copyright violations of Internet users, in that
Bertelsmann kept Napster going through financial infusion. Read the complete article
under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: ROMulus Module for HIGHWAY
After our poll about the new ROMulus module (FlashROM expansion for the HIGHWAY Zorro II USB controller)
the necessary prework and test on the prototype have finally been completed.
Next, the ROMulus module goes into production.
Expansive information about this particular expansion, among many long-awaited expansions, may be found under the
title link, respectively the English language information may be found
on the E3B pages.
E3B thanks all those who participated in our active poll, and hopes through this module to be able to offer another useful innovation for the
Amiga classic market. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
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Poll about AmigaOS 4.0 Started
There are as many opinions as there are people. Others don't ask, but amiga-news.de wants your opinion!
In response to the query from ´eliotmc´ in our
AN Discussion Forum we started a poll about Amiga OS 4.0. We are interested in finding out which hardware you would like to buy OS4 for. For possible answers (multiple answers are unfortunately not available with this script) you have the following selection possibilities:
- Classic Amiga with PPC
- Classic Amiga with Shark
- AmigaOne
- Pegasos (assuming OS4 runs on Pegasos)
- I will not buy OS4
You can read the current results here.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Darius Brewka im AN-Forum
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AmiStart Start Menu: Is There Still Interest in Further Development?
Darius Brewka released version 0.63 of AmiStart in September 2002, as we (reported).
AmiStart is a start menu similar to that found in Microsoft Windows, with a quick launchbar, drag&drop support and a reconfigurable
graphic overlay which allows transparency, rounded corners, background textures, a shape layer (with reconfigurable and programmable
skins controllable by external applications via ARexx). One example is the shape layer of Songplayer.
Because the author has some time, he is interested in knowing if there is interest in further development of AmiStart and, if so, how strong
this interest is. Would anyone like to make some suggestions or report some bugs? Give Darius some feedback, write him to say what could
be improved. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Execution of Many Programs Burns Out the iPAQ 5450
In a document from the Hewlett-Packard (HP) support databank the manufacturer of the iPAQ 5450 warns against running too many
programs at the same time. When many programs run in parallel, the speed of the gadget can be massively degraded. Also, Amiga
Anywhere runs on the iPAQ 5450. Read the complete report at Golem IT-News (click on the title link). (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Grasshopper LLC
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DTP: PageStream V4.1.5.6 for AmigaOS and Windows
On the 3rd of February 2003, Grasshopper LLC released version 4.1.5.6 of the DTP Program "PageStream" for Amiga and Windows
computers. This update is available to registered users at the Grasshopper LLC Website (title link), and includes new help data. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Interview with Ben Hermans in German and English
In light of a few currently circulating rumors about the status of AmigaOS 4, and the announcement of the partnership with
SciTech, we contacted Ben Hermans (AmigaOS 4 project leader and managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment) and conducted a
short interview with him.
The English language version may be read here and the
German language version may be read here.
We thank Ben Hermans for taking the time to answer our questions. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scene: First Edition of Saxonia Disk-Mag Appears
Yesterday the demo scene group Void released the first edition of their completely new disk-mag "Saxonia #1."
Because neither the group nor the mag has a homepage, the online portal Diskmag.de is offering the download (click on title link). Saxonia functions on all classic Amigas, according to the chief editor; it can even run on an A500 with expanded RAM. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
C64 News (ANF)
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Music: SIDBoost your Amiga!
There is a new SID player for Amiga made by Glover/Samar called
SidBooster.
Forget about older players like PlaySid or Sid4Amiga.
This is the best SID emulation on Amiga and it can be compared
only with original C64! Recommended is at least 68040/40 and
full installed MUI (most plugins). Works perfectly on my
A4000/060/56Mhz, all BoingBags installed and Kick 3.9 (3.1
with ROM Patch from OS 3.9). "imagepool.library" was needed
for my miggy (can be found on AmiNet).
(ps)
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20.Feb.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 20th February 2003
Since our last message there were the following new uploads to the Aminet:
JabberwockySRC.lha comm/tcp 182K+Jabber client
MiamiSDK211.lha comm/tcp 134K+Miami SDK 2.11
libpng-bin.lha dev/gg 124K+AmigaOS GeekGadgets port of libpng-1.2.5
BetaScan_GER.lha hard/drivr 2K+German catalog for BetaScan (free!)
UFStory.lha pix/anim 269K+UltimateForce Story
trodas_icons2.lha pix/gicon 244K+Glow icons made by trodas
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20.Feb.2003
Atroxis.de
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Music: Markus Holler's MP3 Download Site
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga users for his musical pieces for Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike and The Holy Trinity, is now working on his own music download site. Currently there are already a few previously unheard songs to be found there, which in part come from the latest VD* Convention Video! Have fun!
*Virtual Dimension [ ;) -DM]
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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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.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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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.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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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.
(ps)
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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.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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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.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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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)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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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.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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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.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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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.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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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.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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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.
(ps)
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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.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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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.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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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.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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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
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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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
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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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
(ps)
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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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