05.Dec.2002
Sjoerd de Vries (ANF)
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Pictures from ArticiaS and April Chip
Pictures says more than thousand words...
(ps)
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05.Dec.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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AMHuhn: Update Available for Download (Update)
Under the title link you'll find in the downloads area a little update for AMHuhn. With this the crosshairs are color red and are seen more
easily. Many users had complained about this.
Offering AMHuhnXE
In a few day Abakus-Design's AMHuhn(X)mas(E)dition will be introduced. The game comes with completely different graphics and sounds.
But much more than the graphics and sounds have been changed.
Introduction of AMHuhnXE
As thanks to all who trusted us with the update, the download will made available early to registered users. This is our Christmas present to
these users. In the next few days accounts for the protected areas will be opened and sent to the users. For security reasons the entry will
be limited, in order to obstruct that the accounts are forwarded to others.
When Christmas time is over the archive will be offered to everybody.
Addition:
Notice:
We could only work through the entered registrations sequentially. As a result the new registrations first come to a close. Thanks for your
understanding. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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TV Card Software: AmithlonTV Beta 200
There's a new beta version (200) of AmithlonTV available for download from the AmithlonTV homepage.
AmithlonTV is a really, genuinely modularly built driver system for PCI TV cards. Only the necessary components and resources are loaded.
New cards unknown to AmithlonTV will be automatically detected and may be configured by the user. In order to do this the components of
the card are detected in a setup program.
The advantage of such a system is that a new driver for any specific component will function on any TV card that has the component. Special
modifications by me are generally unnecessary. We won't be involving ourselves with a bunch of supported cards that haven't been tested.
AmithlonTV will run on practically any card. When certain components haven't been added they just haven't been added, but the rest of the
card works.
A further advantage of AmithlonTV is that multiple cards are supported. Two, three, or more are possible. This is easily managed and may
be used in a security system. It is all the same if one wants a picture from each, or a channel list to switch between cards.
The entire system is built so modularly that USB and Firewire may be possible. At this time there is support for the powerpci.library (Amithlon).
The openpci.library support is currently implemented and functioning but is not yet officially available.
What's new:
As is already known through other channels, Amithlon TV has a VHI_Studio driver. Your computer will become a multimedia center, especially
with the new accelerated functions of VHI Studio version 6.0.
The channel seeker has also been greatly accelerated. In contrast to other options (such as Windows software) there is a real channel seeker
here that doesn't just check for channels, but also VCRs and satellite receivers that are found between channels.
There are other small improvements in the works.
Especially noteworthy are the new audio drivers. All MSP cards should work with these.
The new Hauppauge drivers achieve an automatic configuration, whereby the copying of special configuration data occurs.
You'll find a lot more information by clicking on the title link!
Guido Mersmann
Author of:
AmithlonTV, AView, AFind, BoulderDaesh, GuideCheck, GuideFormat, Execute64,
SiedlerBoot, R(equest), DVBControl, MCControl, Simplecat, AvailCPU,
VBRControl, TrackDisplayClock, SnoopRouter, Meridian, MMKeyboard,
ParKeyboard, WheelMouseSupport, ... (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Vesalia Computer (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Hyperion Will Be Guests at Vesalia Computer Stand (Update)
Steffen Häuser and Timothy de Groote of Hyperion will present the Amiga One and various Hyperion games at Vesalia Computer's ARC 2002
stand on Saturday the 7th of December, 2002.
Additionally, as already known, Elbox and Creative Development will also be Vesalia guests and introduce their own respective products.
Update:
Vesalia indicated that the two Hyperion personnel are not closely involved with OS4 and will not be able to speak on questions relating to OS4. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Matthias M. (ANF)
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TV Card Software: Visionary Version 0.15 (Update)
There's a new version of Visionary (v. 0.14) available for download on the Amiga G-Rex homepage. Mainly, a few bugs have been removed.
The Visionary program is a TV service with a modern graphical overlay that allows one to fully utilize the Visual Reality System and modern
TV/Video Cards.
Visionary was designed to be very modular, in order to support a broad range of cards with different chip sets and TV tuners. Support for
documented new cards may be easily implemented.
Update:
Version 0.15 was just made available for download.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Game: Crossfire II Released
The game Crossfire II was released today. At the moment it can only be ordered from APC&TCP. It'll be available from specialty stores in
three to four weeks. In a few days there will be a new demo version as well as more screen-shots. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview Pictures of SOMS and AF #39 (Update)
Screen-grabs of the game "Secret of My Soul" (SOMS) have been released on the Amiga Future website in the "Articles" section. SOMS
is projected to be published next year by APC&TCP.
Update:
Issue 39 of Amiga Future was released today. It was mailed to all subscribers and single issue orderers. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Dec.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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FREE Virus Help Team Maillist
When the Virus Help Denmark web was down due to the changing of Internet
providers, we had to close the VHT-Denmark maillist. Now we want to bring
it back to all of you (a lot of people have been asking for it). But Charlene of
the Canadian Virus Help Team, has a maillist, and we don't want to a have two
maillists that writes the same things. So the Virus Help Team maillist will be up
at Charlene's Canadian VHT maillist.
If you join this maillist, you will receive emails about new updates of all the great
Amiga antivirus programs (ect. VirusZ, VirusExecutor, Mill and xvs.library).
You will also receive an email when a new virus or trojan is found. Notices can
only come from list operators, which is Charlene of VHT-Canada or myself
Jan of VHT-Denmark.
You can also see the maillist on-line at this webaddress:
VHT at Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vht-can/
You can join the maillist at the two Virus Help Team's websites:
VHT Canada : http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/links.html#world-services
VHT Denmark : http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/maillist.htm
Or you can write an empty email to this email to subscribe to the maillist:
vht-can-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
(ps)
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04.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: Fun Time World / Amiga Arena presentation
Fun Time World / Amiga Arena setting "AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002" on fire!
The following products and news will be at the stand of Fun Time World
at the "AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002" in Aachen:
- "Aqua" German Version:
It's a "Myst" like adventure game.
You are looking for treasures of a sunk drilling platform.
The Atlantic Ocean is waiting for you!
- NEW Re-release "PuzzleBOBS"
"PuzzleBOBS" is a "bust a move" clone, which stands out from other puzzle games of this kind with it's many features and game modes
"PuzzleBOBS" is sold in a DVD package with all recent updates and a new set of levels.
"PuzzleBOBS" is now optimized for MorphOS also!
- NEW "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002"
As a thank you and tribute to all developers and users, who supported me recently, there will be at the "AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002" the "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002" be presented for the first time.
With more than 50 games from the commercial and shareware section there are the genres action, adventure, board/mind, manager, platform and strategie and number of classics, the offer is rounded up with several sceenshots, solutions and cheats.
The following games (extract) are by appointment with their developers on that CD:
commercial:
- Acid Software (Roadkill, Seak&Destroy, Kiros Quest, Woodys World and more)
- Applaud Software (Blockehaed I/II, Mobile Warfare and more)
- Austex Software (Uropa2 CD version)
- Blue Lemon Studio (Beambender exclusively)
- Black Legend (Embryo, Wheelspin, Fussball Total, Der Seelenturm, Der Trainer, Fatman and more)
- Mellon Design (Jimmys Fantasic J.)
- Revolution Soft (Lure of the Temptress, Beneath a Steel Sky CD32 Version with spoken language output)
- Sayonara Soft (Hollywood Manager, Flamigo Tours, Samba Partie Series, Samba Partie Worldcup - CD
version/spoken language output and more)
- Scorpius Soft (Burnout, Blade und Hilt II German version exclusively and more)
Shareware:
- Roketz, Sharks, BallMaster, Boulderdäsh, Doktor, HBMonopoly, myLocomotion, Mahjongg,
Tiles, Imperium Terranum II and more.
Bonus:
- Shareware "WHDload" installer special offer!
All games are available in German and English language. The CD is published in a DVD package and will be available firstly at the show.
- Distribution & sale:
Fun Time World c/o Sebastian Brylka - E-Mail - WWW
- Live on stage!!
The game "Aqua" and a "PuzzleBOBS" contest will possibly be shown and held at the stand! The Amiga Arena will be host at the stand of Fun Time World on Saturday.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Dec.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Announcement: Malibu-Plugin for Hollywood
Andreas Falkenhahn:
Airsoft Softwair will soon release the first plugin for Hollywood. The
Malibu plugin extends Hollywood to accept also Scala presentations and
display them. This makes a dream come true for those Amiga users who always
wanted to display their old Scala presentations on Workbench or on an own
Intuition screen in a system friendly way. The Malibu plugin is scheduled
for release in the middle of January 2003 and requires Hollywood 1.0.
Additionally I want to point out that I cannot attend the ARC show in Aachen
unfortunately. Therefore Hollywood is not available for sale there either.
(ps)
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04.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus
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Amiga Award 2002: Reminder
Don't forget: Until Friday the 6th of December, 3 o'clock pm you can vote for he Amiga Award 2002 and the Amiga Award 2002 Extra!
Honour with that together with the AMIGAplus two members of the Amiga community for special efforts during the last 12 months!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Dec.2002
zErec (ANF)
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Eyetech Reply to BBRV open post
Under the title link you can read the reaction of
Eytech (the developer of the
AmigaOne board) about the Thendic statement
"...April, Mai and teamwork...". Read the complete statement from Alan also
here:
I'm afraid Buck has exceeded even his usual level of bullshit and innuendo
on this one.
My take on this:
Our announcement of the G4 availability and pricing, and of the (solved)
Articia problem at the WoA SE was not what he expected. Since then we have
been innundated for dealership agreements from ex-Amiga dealers who have
(and their customers have) good memories of the Amiga OS and a growing
hatred of Windows. The polls, such as they, are show that the A1-XE G4 is by
far the most popular PPC platform for the Amiga community and this must also
have been a bit of a shock. (Is it also a coincidence that we've been the
recipients of an intense, targeted virus campaign since then, I wonder?)
Meanwhile Hyperions work on PPCBoot and linux has allowed the Teron
reference boards to get to a level where they can be usefully sold in the
Linux Market. As most on this list will know we have the rights to
distribute these boards in Europe and now Terrasoft do in the US. (We also
have distribution rights on the Teron based designs for the Amiga marker
worldwide). This has knackered Thendics plans for world domination of the
PPC Linux market.
Reading between the lines it seems that they are prepared to drop MorphOS
altogether if they can get their hands on OS4 to at least salvage something.
Buck plans to do this by suing Amiga Inc (for what?) and bribing us to
abandon the AmigaOne and Hyperion to port OS4 to the pegasos hardware .
Sorry, thats not on. You can only have sensible business arrangements with
people who are trustworthy and behave with integrity. There are plenty of
instances (which are inappropriate to reveal here) where these principles
have been completely abandoned on his side.
On their so-called relationship with MAI, we/hyperion have done more to help
MAI get the Teron design to the linux market than ever bplan have, alltough
I don't doubt that Gerald Carda made an important contribution to
identifying the Articia bug - I've every respect for him as a hardware
engineer.
As far as Thendic making their own boards is concerned thats a complete
joke. Its a matter of public record that Thendic-France incorporated as a
one-man company with the minimum 7500 euros of capital. Thendic, like us and
MAI do not actually make anything themselves, manufacture is all
subcontracted. In our case its to a Tiawanese specialist, in Thendic's its
to DCE. Based on our past experience of quality assurance and after sales
service from DCE I personally would never buy any DCE manufactured products
for resale again.
Well you did ask
Alan
(ps)
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04.Dec.2002
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (ANF)
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Statement from Thendic about April, Mai and teamwork in the Amiga market
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Thendic France sent us an email to gain the attention for an important comment they both posted at the comments of
amiga.org (see title link). For simplicity we repeat the statement which they gave about the collaboration opportunities within the Amiga market:
OK, last word before Aachen Show....
The is no Mai without April. The Articia does not work as promoted. There. We have said it.
Everything that has been promised for the AmigaOne and the Pegasos will not work without
April -- April is *mostly* a "patch." With April the Articia will work as advertised,
without April the Articia will not. Betatesters of the A1 and the "Betatester (Pegasos)"
know that there are difficulties.
In September and October bplan developed the "patch" with Mai. There is no other patch for
the Articia and there was no other assistance from anyone else in creating it. This is why
the Pegasos, A1 and Teron are not available in quantity and why they will not be until the
patch is mounted on the respective PCBs and shipped.
Check out the estimated shipping dates at the YDL site. Do you think they will get anywhere
else sooner? Where is the biggest market? Is it MorphOS and OS4, or is it LinuxPPC? Where
do you think Mai will focus? Not here (MorphOS/OS4)! Our sales commitments for the first
1000 Pegasos went 817 to Linux and the rest to this community (less two for OpenBSD and
two for OpenBeOS).
Mai does not care about this market. They care about the Linux market. They want to sell
the Articia and their board. They make chips and want to sell them. LinuxPPC is a bigger
market for them. That will be their new focus. We are the poor stepchild now. Please
forget all the delusions about the new Amiga or the Pegasos that will re-conquer the world
when the hardware shows up. If we want success this is going to be hard work and a long
haul.
In the meanwhile, you won't have to worry about MorphOS or OS4 being pirated by someone
here now. There is a whole new world of potential users with an OpenSource/Freeware
mentality that is about to consume this market and make it more irrelevant. This is a
post-Napster world.... and Napster was only the beginning. Individual "freedom" has
replaced respect for others. Something is wrong with this picture and it needs to be
fixed, but it will not happen with dongles.
If this community wants a future it needs to start working together. We are spending
plenty of money to make the Pegasos successful, but it is not our final focus. We are
a niche market -- both OS4 and MorphOS. We need unity if we want to be more than a
lingering historical footnote.
The Mai story is not over yet. The first patch is not enough. We figured this out in
November when Mai was scurrying back to Tiawan to make what they thought would be the
final solution. It is not. There are more problems. We finally solved all this a week
and a half ago. Plus, we have added a couple of other features that are better
accomplished in hardware than software (and don't believe a few lines of code will make
the first patch work). If YDL sets off on their current course, they will "crash and
burn" in a month after they finally introduce the product. The Linux market is
unforgiving when it comes to hardware bugs. With all the success they will seem to
achieve their liability will grow correspondingly.
Before you think this is another marketing stunt, here is something new. We know what
Eyetech pays for the Teron/A1; we know what the A1 distributors pay. We would be
willing to match the prices all around less 5% and provide an immediate solution to
the community. We make the Pegasos. Eyetech does not. We have many of the same
distributors. We can compensate Allan Redhouse through his success (something he is
clearly about to loose with YDL Teron pricing). Hyperion too. Oh yes, you want to
buy a G4 A1? Wake up people! Read the disclaimers on the YDL site. Do you understand
what needs to happen before this will? There is a Pegasos G4 now. The question is not
how fast the processor *can* work, the issue is how fast the processor *does* work!
Let's get better organized. We are about to be crushed.
If we pulled eveyone together on this we might even honor those $50 coupons!
This market and community is in complete confusion. There is no leadership or vision
and we need both fast or we can forget it. This is a public statement in good faith
to Eyetech and Hyperion. Allan and Ben are formidible marketing opponents. We can
forget the past if you can. We need to get into the same boat. Amiga Inc. has lost
its leadership mantel. Selling coupons, promoting unachievable concepts and making
wild claims about the next deal have worn tired and false. Fortunately, all have not
blindly followed this route and Hyperion and Eyetech have a solid agreement in place
that protects them in the event of Amiga Inc bankruptcy. And, before you think this
is a "group hug" thing, we have paid our King County, Washigton legal counsel a
retainer. We will commence legal action against Amiga Inc. this month. This is not
some "get legal" BS. This is business and the Amiga Inc. management do not understand
what business is. They "blew it" and we have had enough of their interference in our
future.
The whole Mai/YDL collaboration has changed the situation dramatically. We hope this
statement helps you understand this better.
We will give Hyperion a board. We will support the A1 Betatesters as we have our own.
We don't have to trade sources or get Ralph having a beer with Ben, but we could all
move ahead this way. Eyetech can certify the Pegasos to meet Amiga specifications --
they are positioned to do this. Hyperion and Eyetech can promote OS4. Great. We might
even develop some collaborative efforts quickly. We should.
Things are moving very fast. We have alot to do. Thanks for reading this post and
please think about it carefully. See you in Aachen!
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill
(ps)
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04.Dec.2002
www.dreamworlds.de (ANF)
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Game: Crossfire II finished / Will be sold and introduced at the ARC 2002
Crossfire II is finished and will be shown at the show. The demo will be available in some days. Then the Dreamworlds home page will be updated again.
Crossfire II is a 2D shooter. It contains not only a single player mode with an atmosphereic story and complex missions, but also a freestyle mode for entertaining battles for one to four players.
Crossfire II runs on classic Amiga (min. 030, AGA
and 16 MB RAM), AmigaPPC (WarpOS) and Amithlon. Gfx cards
(HiColor), sound cards (AHI), 4 player adapters and much more is supported. A MorphOS support is currently under development.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Dec.2002
Russ Norrby (ANF)
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AmigaOne's available & Amiga Repair
Mr. Hardware Computers is happy to announce that we are selling AmigaOne
Systems and motherboards. We have packages on our site and can configure
any system to your liking. you should atleast order your AmigaOne
motherboard ASAP because there are a limited number of boards. We have a
huge listing of new and used Amiga parts. We even repair your Amiga
Classics. Based out of New York, USA we ship internationally.
Amiga since 1985
http://www.mrhardwarecomputers.com (ps)
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03.Dec.2002
OSNews / Anton Klotz (ANF)
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OSnews: Teron-Boards from Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Anton Klotz:
As OSNews reports will Terra Soft Solutions,
Inc. present an ATX board with PowerPC. It is a Teron board with a 600 MHz G3 PPC
with Articia Northbridge from Mai. The operating system will be Yellow Dog Linux.
As Nicolas Blachford states will MorphOS run on it.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Dec.2002
Steffen Häuser / Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)
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Two new Quake2 Mods downloadable
Steffen Häuser:
On the Quake2 Amiga page are the new mods
- Roughnecks - (if you have seen "Starship Troopers" you will maybe recognize
something)
- Napalm II (all weapons are replaced by fire effects)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Dec.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News from IOSPIRIT
As already stated previously, IOSPIRIT will attend the Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 fair with an own booth. This said, we want to give you further information and news here.
Just in time for the fair we have received the produced fxPAINT 2.0 CD-ROMs. Thus, you can buy updates and full versions of this graphics allrounder at our booth. More detailed information on the new features in the latest and brand-new fxPAINT-release can be found at our pages for fxPAINT 2.0.
Also in time for the fair, development on VHI Studio 6.0 has been finalized. Besides many small improvements, support for USB-cardreaders (Poseidon only for now) and PCI-TV-boards under Amithlon (via AmithlonTV) are the highlights of this new version.
fxSCAN 4.0, released just a few months ago, will of course be available as well as all other products we have in our product portfolio.
This will also include the possibility to directly purchase a Poseidon license and an updated version of AmiATLAS 6 with updated data.
Finally we want to point out, that we will only be accepting EURO-cash at our booth. If you want to pay via credit card or eurocheque, you will of course also have the possibility to place a postal order (under the special show prices!) at our booth.
We are looking forward to your visit!
(ps)
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03.Dec.2002
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive at the Amiga+Retrocomputing 2002 in Aachen, Germany
We will be guests at the stand of falke media during the Amiga +
Retrocomputing show in Aachen this year. Naturally you will be able to buy
all our Amiga products such as Software Tycoon, The Feeble Files or the
Earth 2140 series games a.o. at very special prices directly at our stand.
For the first time we will present some of our products in native MorphOS
versions on the Pegasos, among these will be bussiness simulation Software
Tycoon and Simon The Sorcerer 2. In addition we will also present two brand
new games for MorphOS/Pegasos. The first is our carzy arcade fun shooter
Birdie Shoot which we originally developed for Windows and Macintosh. Fans
of real-time strategy fans will be treated to a demonstration of empire
builder Knights and Merchants, which will be released shortly for the
Pegasos.
More information on both Knights and Merchants and Birdie Shoot can
be found in the projects section of our homepage. The first 25 customers at
our stand will receive a free Earth 2140 mousepad. So, make sure you visit
us early.
(ps)
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03.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Spider USB 2.0 working in High-Speed mode
Elbox is pleased to inform that development of the USB EHCI High-Speed
driver for the Spider USB 2.0 card for Mediator busboards has been completed.
The new Spider EHCI driver provides all three USB speeds: High-Speed,
Full-Speed and Low-Speed.
Up to now the EHCI controller (the main part of the Spider USB 2.0
controller) was not activated. The Spider cards worked as two independent
OHCI (USB 1.1) controllers with 5 USB ports. Now you can take advantage
of the EHCI (USB 2.0) and two OHCI (USB 1.1) controllers included in
the Spider board.
The first public demonstration of the Spider USB 2.0 PCI card working
in the Mediator system in the High-Speed (USB 2.0) mode will have place
in the AMIGA+RETRO Computing 2002 show in Aachen on 07 December 2002.
During the show, Spider USB 2.0 PCI cards will be available for purchase,
exclusively at the Vesalia Computer stand. Contact Vesalia before the show
to make sure the Spider USB 2.0 cards will not run out of the show stock
before you have one for yourself.
Spider USB 2.0, the fastest and most advanced USB solution for Amiga
computers, will be presented with various USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices
like USB HDD, USB ZIP, USB CD, USB card reader/writer, USB keyboard
and USB mice. Spider USB 2.0 will be working in the PCI slot of
the Mediator PCI 1200 SX.
All the registered Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed card users will receive the
new Spider EHCI driver as a FREE software update just after the
AMIGA+RETRO Computing 2002 show.
(ps)
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03.Dec.2002
Raquel Velasco or Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Genesi Press Release about the April® Chip for PegasosPPC
bplan GmbH and Thendic-France SARL
Announce Completion of April® Chip for PegasosPPC
Paris, France - December 3rd, 2002. bplan GmbH and Thendic-France SARL,
both soon to be acquired by Genesi
S.à.r.l. of Luxembourg, are pleased to announce the
development and final certification of the April® chip. The April® chip
adds new functionality to the successful Articia® chipset developed by
Mai Logic Incorporated of Fremont, California. Mai Logic, an
innovative technology design house of integrated circuits/systems,
worked with bplan to develop the first prototype of the April® chip. The
April® chip enables Mai and Genesi licensees to offer PPC based computer
systems that can compete in today's quickly evolving IT environment.
The Pegasos will be the first platform to offer
the April® chip and will be commercially launched at the Amiga+Retro
Computing 2002 in Aachen, Germany 7-8 December.
"We were very pleased to have worked with Mai Logic on this
development," said Gerald Carda, Chief Technology Officer of bplan.
"Through our collaborative efforts, we were able to leverage Mai's
expertise in PowerPC-based chipset/system development and manufacturing
technologies and our own knowledge of system design, architecture and
software to bring the April® development to a successful conclusion.
The Articia® and April® can be used together to promote an exciting
alternative platform for the desktop, portable computer and
sub-notebook marketplace.
The Pegasos incorporates the Articia® and April® chip with either a
PowerPC 750FX processor or a G4 processor, operating at 800 MHz or
higher. A dual CPU module release is planned for 2003. In addition to
the standard enterprise applications and other state-of-the-art
functions to satisfy the most demanding users, the Pegasos platform
will offer many state of the art functions. For example, smart card and
bar code modules have been prepared to work with the platform. A
handheld version of the Pegasos is currently being developed with a
planned release in 2003.
Genesi, Innovation for the Future
MorphOS is also being launched at Amiga+Retro Computing 2002. MorphOS
is a new operating system for PowerPC RISC microprocessors and was
developed for the Pegasos. MorphOS runs on the Pegasos and on the Mai
Logic Teron CX and Teron PX evaluation boards. MorphOS functions on
603e, 604e, 750 and 7400 (Original G4) PowerPC processors. In the
future MorphOS will also run on other Open Firmware based PowerPC
machines. Genesi will also be release an internally developed
CD-bootable version of DebianPPC at Amiga+Retro Computing 2002 for
Linux users. Additionally, a first quarter 2003 Pegasos release of
OpenBSD is expected.
The Pegasos on sale NOW!
The Pegasos can now be purchased through any of the following vendors:
And coming soon to:
- USA http://www.aztekcomputers.com/
- Australia/NZ http://www.boinghosting.com.au/
Articia® is the registered trademarks or trademarks of Mai Logic
Incorporated. April® is the registered trademark of Genesi S.à.r.l.
For more information, please contact:
Raquel Velasco or Bill Buck
+33 1 43662800
bplan@thendic-france.com
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03.Dec.2002
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga announces partnership with Extreme Computing
Amiga announces partnership with Extreme Computing to provide Amiga licensed merchandise
AmigaMall will provide on-line solution for customers desiring AMIGA®
products.
(Snoqualmie, WA) December 2, 2002 - Amiga has announced the creation
of a partnership with Extreme Computing to provide customers with a source
to purchase Amiga licensed clothing and merchandise. The "AmigaMall"
e-commerce site will provide both Amiga branded clothing and merchandise
as well as Extreme computer systems. The AmigaMall can be accessed from
the Amiga Website or via
mall.amiga.com.
"We are very happy to be able to enter into this partnership with
Extreme Computing to provide these types of products" said Vince
Pfeifer, Vice President of Operations. "Having Extreme handle all
of our physical product fulfillment allows us to focus our resources on
delivering software solutions for our customers. The timing of this agreement
allows customers to purchase products in time for the holiday season."
"We are very pleased to be able to work with Amiga Inc. on this
project" said Todd Gustafson, CEO of Extreme Computing. "We
feel it is important to keep the Amiga spirit alive, and the AmigaMall
is just one way to keep things going in the right direction. We plan to
continue offering unique and fun Amiga products, and we will update our
website with new products throughout the new year".
About Amiga:
Amiga, Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multimedia
technologies to the world. Its award-winning software has been a mainstay
for motion picture studios, government agencies, and entertainment enthusiasts
from around the world. Today Amiga continues to lead the way in multimedia
development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies
for writing and porting applications to a new hardware-agnostic, multimedia
platform. Amiga Anywhere powered with intent from the Tao Group, enables
applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including
ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K, and
Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including
Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, and XP. Amiga Anywhere applications
can be purchased online at www.shopamiga.com
Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, Wash. For more information, call 425-396-5660
or visit www.amiga.com (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: New hardware vendor "Creative Development"
The recently founded company Creative Development
will presumably show a
new USB card called Ultrabus for classic Amiga computers at the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002
show at the booth of Vesalia. "Ultrabus" has got four USB ports and can
be used in Zorro Amigas as well as on the clockport of an Amiga 1200. In
Zorro mode, a flash memory with 512k capacity can hold the complete USB
stack, so USB devices are available right after a cold boot. This enables
booting from USB storage devices.
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02.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator PCI 4000Di sales begins
The first batch of the Mediator PCI 4000Di busboards for Amiga 4000
in the standard desktop case is available from today.
To find the distributor near you or to order directly from our on-line
store please go to our Where To Buy section.
If you would like to buy Mediator PCI 4000Di in AMIGA+RETRO Computing 2002,
book it in Vesalia (order@vesalia.de) as soon as possible, as the number
of boards for sale on the show is limited. A special FREE Mediator T-shirt
is reserved for everyone who buys Mediator PCI 4000Di during the show.
The detailed specification of the Mediator PCI 4000Di: see the
product page. (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Workbench gallery Update
The Workbench gallery on the Amiga Future homepage was updated.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Dec.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark started new Amiga forum
Jan Andersen:
Today we have started a new service for you all, and that is the new
"Virus Help Team Forum". Here you can write and ask about Amiga viruses
or anti-virus programs, or you can even help other Amiga users with
problems, that might not be caused by virus, who knows, that is up to
all of you. We will check the forum as much as we can, to help you out
if you have any problems with viruses or anti-virus programs on your
Amiga. You can find a link to the "VHT Forum" here:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/news.htm.
(ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New driver for Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed card
The SpiderUP 1.11 update for the Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed card has been
made available today.
Changes in usb.device ver.1.11: - speed improvements
The usb.device 1.11 requires the Poseidon stack ver.1.31 as a minimum.
Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS |
Mediator section. (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: MediatorUP 3.6 & MM CD UP 1.20
The MediatorUP 3.6 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX,
Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV and for the newest Mediator
model--Mediator PCI 4000Di has been made available today.
The update includes the new version of: · Voodoo.card driver
Changes:
Voodoo.card driver ver. 2.19 - improved quality of the display
generated by VSA-100 (Voodoo 4/5)
The MM CD 1.19 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T,
Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D,
Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV
and Mediator PCI 4000Di busboards, who are registered owners of
the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released today.
The update includes the new version of: · Voodoo.card driver
Changes:
Voodoo.card driver ver. 4.19 - improved quality of the display
generated by VSA-100 (Voodoo 4/5)
Info on the current versions is available in DOWNLOADS |
Mediator
section. (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Lotto / BabeAnoid News / Aqua-Demo
BabeAnoid:
Many of you will still remember the demo version of the Breakout clone
"BabeAnoid" by Richard Fhager. After he stopped the development due
to disappointing feedback, I am pleased to be able to announce that the work was taken up again and even an other PD
game will be developed. Richard Fhager is among other things well-known as the author of games
like "Dawn video Poker", "Titris", "Spaceball2000". I can
appeal only again and again to you to send a short E-Mail to the
developers if you like one of the mentioned programs!
Aqua - Demoversion Light
A new demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is now available. This playable
demo (9MB) contains no animations and intros.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Dec.2002
Stefan Ruppert (ANF)
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Tool: UniView V40.9 Update, SDK dtwindow.class
Stefan Ruppert:
After some time of beeing away from the Amiga (due to time lacking and
defective hardware) I have found the time to release a small update for the MultiView replacement program UniView. This update does not add any additional functionality. The following modifications were
made:
- Some adjustments and smaller optimizations in dtwindow.class.
- Documentation adapted.
- UniView is Shareware without restrictions. Fee US 10$ or 10 EURO.
- Documentation of dtwindow.class created.
- SDK dtwindow.class
P.S.: The server is connected via DSL, thus please do not expect fast
downloads... Additionally I would like to publish my Amiga programs
and also source codes on my server. However this can take some time...
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Dec.2002
Andreas Kürzinger (ANF)
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Mail program: New developer version of YAM 2.4-dev [ 020 ] BETA
Since yesterday there is a new developer version 2.4 of the
mail program YAM available, which is now available as Open Source. This
version is a version in development, which possibly still contains
a lot of bugs. There will be no warranty or support by the
developer team. Inquiries to developer versions by E-Mail remain
likewise unanswered. Use it on own danger!
The changes made can be found in this document. Additional information can be found at the Yamos SourceForge-homepage.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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01.Dec.2002
Amiga Future
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Emulator: MAME V0.60 for MorphOS
Fabien Coeurjoly has released version V0.60 of his port of the Multi Arcade
Machine Emulator 'MAME' for MorphOS. The
following changes have been implemented, compared to the previous version:
- New: Publication of the MorphOS specific source code
- New: AHI sound support
- Change: Slightly accelerated gfx output
Beside version V0.60, MAME V0.37b16 with AHI support is available for download.
This also supports a colour depth of 8 bits, while MAME V0.60 works only with
a colour depth of 16 bits.
Further information on the emulator are accessible through the title link.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Oliver "Bladerunner" Hummel (ANF)
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Emulator: Bernd Meyer of Amithlon fame calls it quits
Visitors to www.amithlon.net will have
noticed that the site has been closed.
In his statement Bernd Meyer is giving the reason for taking this step, and
that he will stop working on Amithlon and its potential successor Amithlon V2
aka Berniethlon, aka Umilator. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
AmigaArt
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GoldED Studio AIX: GoldED barebone package, service pack #4
Already on November, 28th 2002 had the editor 'GoldED' been released in a special
barebone version as well as had been the service pack #4 for GoldED Studio AIX been released.
GoldED Barebones:
The new GoldED Barebones package is a GoldED AIX distribution reduced to the
bare essentials at an attractive price, with the added bonus of
CygnusED-inspired configuration.
GoldED Studio AIX:
Service pack 4 is now available for registered users. Major new feature is the
integration with gcc. This update is only available in form of a replacement CD
due to the enormous increase in size after adding gcc (67 MB were added since the
last version). Price: 10 EUR.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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01.Dec.2002
AmigaArt
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AmigaOne: screenshots from Istanbul with Linux
At AmigaArt have screenshots from Istanbul of an AmigaOne G3 SE (PPCBoot revision) running under Debian Linux PPC 3.0 been released.
The photos show: Debian 3.0 PPC with KDE2 and Gnome 1.4,
Sin by Activision (port done by Hyperion) as LinuxPPC demo version, Mozilla 1.0 and UAE LinuxPPC.
The release of further photos has been announced.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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01.Dec.2002
Amiga Future
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TV: AmithlonTV Beta 177
On 1st December 2002, the beta version 177 of 'AmithlonTV' has been released.
This is a driver package which allows the use of TV cards under Amithlon.
TVWatch is a small and easy to use example of a TV application which offers all
features needed for the setup of TV and radio. Compared to version 166, the
following changes have been made:
AmithlonTV Beta 177:
This is a special test version for users experiencing audio problems with TV
cards with the msp3xxx audio chip.
Test results about the function of all audio sources (SVHS, FBAS, Tuner) may be
sent to the AmithlonTV developers.
AmithlonTV Beta 170:
New VHI-Studio driver offering Multi-Channel support and also supporting all
other features of AmithlonTV and VHI-Studio.
Some small bug fixes.
New audio_msptest.lib which is automatically loaded for bug hunting. All users
with audio problems are kindly asked to establish and activate all external and
internal audio connections and carry out the following test.
- CD player/Audio source as input.
- Start TVWatch, open channel settings
- Switch Audio input to all available types.
- Report each working Audio output.
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta177.lha
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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USB: 'Thankyou' to all USB HIGHWAY owners
KDH Datentechnik writes:
"On the occasion of the Amiga und Retro Messe in Aachen, E3B and KDH
would like to thank the owners of the USB card HIGHWAY. With your
purchase you have been supporting an innovative product on the Amiga Classic.
As a small thankyou we are offering the owners of the HIGHWAY card the chance
to win a NORWAY Ethernet card. At the Amiga und Retro Messe on 07/08
December in Aachen we will draw a winner on both show days.
Prerequisite for the participation in the prize drawing is that the
registration card for the USB HIGWAY card has been filled out, sent in and has
been received by us. All registration cards received by us until 6th December
2002 are eligible.
All decisions are final. The draw will be carried out by KDH Datentechnik and E3B." (sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: KDH Datentechnik show news
KDH Datentechnik write:
"KDH Datentechnik will be present at this year's Amiga und Retro Messe
in Aachen with a sales and demo booth.
E3B will be presenting the USB cards SUBWAY and HIGHWAY, as well
as the Ethernet module NORWAY live at our booth, and give you a survey
over which USB devices you are able to use on your Classic Amiga. The newest
POSEIDON Software (THE Amiga USB software standard by Chris Hodges)
will naturally also be present, and will be included as a full version with the
products HIGHWAY and SUBWAY.
Experience how the USB cards SUBWAY and HIGHWAY connect your Classic Amiga with
the newest developments on the computer market. Furthermore we are offering you
to try out your USB devices directly on our USB boards and have all open
questions answered by the USB cards' developer, Michael Böhmer.
Of course we will be offering attractive bundles of all USB boards with other
USB products for purchase at our booth.
Further Demo and sales highlights at the KDH booth:
The Amiga One will be presented by our Austrian partner 'Point Design'
Jürgen Schober, who will also gladly answer all questions regarding the AmigaOne.
Pegasos boards will be available in sufficient quantities for sale (this
joyous piece of news was received from Bill Buck of Thendic France
just in time for the show). All Pegasos boards will be delivered and sold by
KDH with the SE version of the new game 'Tales of Tamar'. The full
version of 'Tales of Tamar' will also be offered at our sales booth, and can be
viewed in full action at Eternity's booth.
All products by individual Computers will be available from us.
Especially noteworthy are above all the new 'Catweasel Flipper' and the
new 'X-Surf-2' Ethernet card.
Apart from all that we are offering the complete Amiga product pallette at
attractive show prices, including an antiquarian department.
As we also have MAC products in our product line, we will also offer a
wide range of MAC software at fantastic show prices.
Come to Aachen for the meeting of all friends of the Amiga, show your support
for the Amiga. Get to know likeminded Amiga friends, or meet old acquaintances
and talk shop about your favourite hobby, the Amiga. We will do our best to
make the event a success for the Amiga. Please help with your visit.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Yours
Horbach family
KDH Datentechnik"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Vector tracer: GUI for autotrace completed
Carsten Siegner writes:
"Today I have completed the 'Final GUI' for autotracer.
Autotracer is a very fast vector tracer for 68k (faster than XTrace!!) and
knows lots of different input and output formats:"
Input formats (a.o.):
AVI Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
BMP Microsoft Windows bitmap image
EPDF Encapsulated Portable Document Format
EPI Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPS Adobe Encapsulated PostScript
GIF CompuServe graphics interchange format
HTTP Uniform Resource Locator (http://)
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
MPEG MPEG Video Stream
PCL Page Control Language
PDF Portable Document Format
PICT Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PNM Portable anymap
PPM Portable pixmap format (color)
PS3 Adobe Level III PostScript
RLA Alias/Wavefront image
SGI Irix RGB image
SHTML Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
SVG Scalable Vector Gaphics
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
YUV CCIR 601 4:1:1 or 4:2:2
Output formats (a.o.):
eps Encapsulated PostScript
ai Adobe Illustrator
svg Scalable Vector Graphics
fig XFIG 3.2
swf Shockwave Flash 3
mif FrameMaker MIF format
pdf PDF format
dr2d IFF DR2D format
"As autotrace can do pdf, ai or dr2d, it's excellently usable for Pagestream,
Drawstudio or Apdf.
However, you need a certain degree of understanding of tracing settings for the
use of 'Vectormaker', as there are loads of options.
I have made it available for download on my home page."
Download: Vectormaker.lzx
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002: DJK/VFL Giesenkirchen sponsored by Thendic&BPlan
Press announcement re ARC 2002:
"The DJK/VFL Giesenkirchen's football team, which is sponsored by Thendic
and BPlan, will attend the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING on Sunday, 8th December
2002. We are wishing the team the best of luck for the match against the TuS
Wickrath, which will take place on 7th December."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New prize draw
Andreas Magerl writes:
"As of today, a new prize draw is online on the Amiga Future home page.
In order to win the full version of EaSys, you only have to send in your charts
to the editors.
http://www.amigafuture.de/interactive/verlosung.php"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
freecd (E-Mail)
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freeCD: Almost Real, Digital Postcard System, Racer
With 'Almost Real - The Directors Cut' (Amiga), a new CD has been released in
the freeCD series. The 'Digital Postcard System' (WWW) allows deferred sending
of holiday cards, and the CD 'Racer' (Linux, Mac, Windows) is announced for
February 2003. In case of enough interest, a port of this car simulation to
Amiga systems is possible.
Almost Real - The Directors Cut (Amiga)
This CD contains flight simulations and further material on the theme of
flying. In this version, the flight simulation 'flightcontrol' has been added.
Additionally there are now paper models of various military aircraft as well as
photos of the Airbus A320 and the Ju52.
Digital Postcard System (WWW)
This system allows to write the holiday cards already before leaving and later
have them sent automatically by the computer.
Photos of Argentine, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Belgium, animals, general
places as well as greeting cards are included.
Furthermore, own photos may be uploaded.
Racer (Linux, Mac, Windows)
'Racer' is a simulation for cars, which very accurately simulates different
cars from the domains classics, race cars and street cars. The cars can be
tested on tracks like Indianapolis and Le Mans.
Expected release date for this CD is February 2003 for Linux, Mac and Windows.
AmigaOS and MorphOS developers interested in a conversion are welcome and may
contact freeCD.
Further information on the products as well as supply sources are accessible
through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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AmiATLAS Development Team (E-Mail)
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Route planner: AmiATLAS 6 - new version for ARC 2002
The AmiATLAS Development Team writes:
"A new version of AmiATLAS 6 will be released for the Aachen show!
Although over the last months most of the remaining Amiga users have been very
reserved in their purchase behaviour, probably not least of all hoping for new
hardware, work on AmiATLAS 6 has been going on continuously...
For the show, a new edition will be released with fully updated (as per 4th
quarter 2002) and expanded data stock. Now, among other things, with the most
current touristic information and some more, like infos about number plates of
all supported countries.
That's an increase of about 200%, compared to the old version!
Not forgetting the updated map material, e.g. Germany now with the complete
Autobahn network with all clearances until end of 2002!
In the program itself, lots of reported bugs have been fixed and some
optimisations implemented, and of course, as far as possible, some users'
wishes realised. Supported languages now are German, English, French and
Italian.
The new version of AmiATLAS 6 including new improved cover design has already
been shipped in sufficient quantities to KDH Datentechnik and IOSPIRIT for sale
at the show. APC & TCP will also have some copies.
Due to organisational reasons, updates can only be shipped shortly after the
show. And of course, as always, only to registered users of AmiATLAS 6.
Please mail requests or wishes to:
AmiATLAS@gmx.net"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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30.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark is finally back ...
Good news all. The VHT-DK website is ready and will be up in about 3 hours.
All the pages has been updated, and are ready to be used. Nice to be back and
do some antivirus work. Please all send me any new viruses or trojan that you
might fall over. Thanks for your great support in the last few months!!!!
And another great thing has happend to VHT. After almost 15 years of fighting and
hunting virus the Virus Help Team has finally been nominated for our work at the
"Amiga Award 2002 Extra - Nominees". Please all go and vote for VHT, it would
be nice if VHT could get this award.
The link is: amiga-award.org
Thanks all....
(ps)
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Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: Hollywood Screenshots - JP Credits & Senso
Today I have published screenshots that show a remake of the Jurassic Park
credits done with Hollywood and a game called Senso (a software version of the
popular board game Senso). The screenshots show again the extremely wide
ranged functionality of Hollywood: You can do everything from the simple
credits roll to the complete game. The only limit is your creativity. (ps)
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30.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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RiscPC: New computers for the Acorn fans
The one or the other perhaps remembers the RiscPCs based on ARM/StrongARM processors built by the Acorn company.
The manufacturer changed some years ago its name to Element 14 and abandonned the further develoment of its desktop computers. The rights for the operating system "RiscOS" now belong to the company
RiscOS Ltd.
RiscOS compatible computers are produced by smaller independant British manufacturers like Castle or MicroDigital.
As OSNews
report, is on the "Midlands RISC OS Show" the iyonix PC sold for the first time; priced at 1299,- UKP it offers the following features:
- Totally new motherboard design
- 80321 XScale 32-bit ARM processor. This processor runs at 600MHz and is a system-on-a-chip, containing all the necessary interface electronics for things like PCI under the hood.
- RISC OS 5 in FlashROM (Rewritten for 32 bit, equivalent to RISC OS 4.02 with added fun including updated font manager with unicode support and new icon set too)
- 128MB 64-bit DDR RAM for high speed access at 200MHz
- UDMA 80GB Hard Drive
- Support for industry standard interfaces:
- 2 64-bit PCI slots, 2 32-bit PCI slots
- 4 USB 1.1 sockets
- 2 RS232 serial ports
- 10/10/1000baseT networking port
- Dedicated high performance graphics card, nVidia GeForce2 MX400 (up to 2048x1536 in 16 million colours)
- CD quality 16-bit Soundblaster support
- CD-ReWriter (48x speed)
- 240 Watt PSU with two near-silent fans
- Wide range of bundled 32-bit software: Writer+ (word processor with enhanced Word import and export), Fireworkz (spreadsheet with Excel import and export), Oregano 2 (web browser), Messenger Lite (email client), PDF (for reading PDF files), Zool (game), CDBurn (CD writer). Also, USB printing support.
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30.Nov.2002
JTs Homepage
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Spiel: ADOM version 1.1.1 for Amiga and Windows
On the website of Jochen Terstiege you can find Amiga ports
of the game ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) for the different
68k processor types, for PPC and also for Windows (beta) in version 1.1.1.
The game has been developed by Thomas Biskup. Further information can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: Amiga Award 2002
Large acts must be celebrated on a grand scale. As of December 2002 the
German print magazin AMIGAplus and varyingly partners are assigning the
annual Amiga Award. With this price elected representatives of the
Amiga-community are awarded for special achievements during the last
12 months at a time.
The laureates of the Amiga Award 2002 will be honored at the AMIGA +
Retro Computing in Aachen, Germany, on 7 December 2002.
Take part in the elections!
Express your Thanks with us to all Amiga developers out there once in a year!
The elections will be put together by one third of these parties: Firstly you as an active or inactive Amiga user, secondly selected representatives of the community and thirdly the editorial staff of AMIGAplus. So you have the opportunity to take part in the appointment of the Amiga Award 2002 laureates!
Among all participants of the election we draw prices in the value of over 1000 Euro, among them one Amiga 1200/060 sponsored by eXpreSystems as well as various games and applications. The winners among the users will be announced on December 20th, 2002.
Participation conclusion is December 6th, 2002, at 15:00 CET. The course of law is excluded as always.
Amiga Award 2002 - Nominees
Please specify a candidate, who (from your point of view) distinguished himself by an innovative product or another special achievement in the year 2002 and who pushed the Amiga one step forward by this action.
The award in this category is sponsored by falkemedia.
AudioLabs (ProStationAudio)
- bplan GmbH (Pegasos)
- Bernd Meyer & Harald Frank (Amithlon)
- E3B - Michael Böhmer (Highway)
- Eternity Computer (Tales of Tamar)
- Eyetech (AmigaOne)
- Grasshopper LLC (PageStream)
- Hyperion Entertainment (Freespace u.a.)
- IOSPIRIT (fxSCAN u.a.)
- ZeoNeo (Planet Zed)
Amiga Award 2002 Extra - Nominees
Additionally to the main category Amiga Award we are assigning the alternating Amiga Award Extra. This year a person or group representing the software developer community (shareware/freeware) shall be honored.
The award in this category is endowed by 250,- Euro and realized in this year by the financial support of Genesi, a fusion of Thendic-France S.A.R.L. and bPlan GmbH.
- AmiATLAS-Team (AmiATLAS)
- AWeb-Team (AWeb)
- Chris Hodges (Poseidon)
- Gabriele Greco (SDL)
- ScummVM-Team (ScummVM)
- SixK (diverse Portierungen)
- VHT-DK-Team (Anti-Viren-Software)
- WHDLoad-Team (WHDLoad)
- WinUAE-Team (WinUAE)
- YAM-Team (YAM)
Amiga Award 2002 - Free elections
- Best Amiga hardware 2002
- Best Amiga software 2002
- Best Amiga game 2002
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30.Nov.2002
ANN
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TTEngine 5.2 released
TTEngine is a text rendering environment basing on TrueType Font for
AmigaOS. The version 5.2 can be downloaded from the homepage of TTEngine. The new version has the following new features:
- Fixed UTF-16BE and UTF-32BE encodings, now byte order mark ($0000FEFF) is skipped properly.
- Added low endian (UTF-16LE and UTF-32LE) and auto detect (UTF-16 and UTF-32) Unicode encodings.
- Added UTF-8 encoding (conforming to RFC 2279).
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30.Nov.2002
Petra Struck
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ARC 2002 News: AmigaOne will be shown
After it was clear that neither Amiga Inc., nor Eyetech and Hyperion
Entertainment will present the new AmigaOne at the AMIGA + RETRO
COMPUTING 2002, we started thinking about how to get an AmigaOne to
the show anyway.
The solution is an offer from Computer City.
Owner Ron van Herk provides his own AmigaOne, and the members of the
Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet
will do the presentation.
The computer on display is an AmigaOneSE-G3 with 750CXe 600 MHz CPU,
equipped with 128 MB SDRAM PC133 and an ATI Radeion 7000 64 MB SDR
VGA graphics card with TV-Out, and of course the Cherry
Cybo@rd-keyboard that's being sold by Computer City. The operating
system installed is only a Suse LinuxPPC 7.3, but it'll give an
impression of the hardware. (ps)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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Unofficial G-REX PCI homepage
There is a new website to the topic "G-REX PCI" which you can access under the title link.
You will be informed about products and software and there is also a
discussion board and a mailing list.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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First picture of ColdFire V4 CPU-card for Amiga
There is a picture of a very early prototype of a ColdFire V4 turbo card for the Amiga 4000
in the news section of amiga-coldfire.de (title link).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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KDH Advent calendar 2002
This year there is the annual Advent calendar at "KDH Datentechnik" again. We will offer you each day
until 24th December 2002 a very special Advent offer. You can daily expect a special Amiga highlight.
All offers will be valid for three days.
We wish you a good Advent time and hope many visitors will come to the Amiga fair in Aachen to our
stand.
Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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Homepage for demofreaks
For those ones who like current demos, intros, diskmags, slideshows and packs there is a new homepage
where you can easily look for current releases. The site has been created in the Amiga BBS-software Fame
design but novices will also get on well with it after a short time.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT V2.0 demo galleries
Due to numerous requests, we have decided to put online two
demo galleries created with fxPAINT 2.0. The
first gallery
uses the dropshadow-skin and slideshow- and fxCARD-options were
activated. A second gallery
has been created without the use of skins. We hope you enjoy the two demos!
fxPAINT 2.0 can only be preordered until 9th of December 2002 at a reduced
price of only 79,00 EUR (89,99 EUR previously).
(ps)
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29.Nov.2002
Patrick Jung (ANF)
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Amigabest Updated
Amigabest, the website on which Patrick Jung kept busy with Amithlon, has
been updated and refurbished with new graphics and Amiga news. The
website is available in French and in English. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.Nov.2002
Björn Dehmel (ANF)
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PC-Magazin Reports on Amiga
PC-Magazin [refers to German edition -dm] reports in its January, 2003 issue on page 15 under the heading New AmigaOne Platform - OS4 Will be Delivered Afterwards about the new AmigaOne.
In this article (which will only appear in the print magazine) it is reported that Eyetech wants to bring the AmigaOne to market before the end of 2002. It is further reported that two mainboards, the AmigaOne GS-SE and the AmigaOne XE will operate under Linux because Amiga OS4 is not ready yet. Additionally it's explained that the boards are based on PPC G3 CPU, are fitted with PC133 SDRAM, work with the VIA-Southbridge 82C686B, but of all things only four USB-1.1 ports will be supported. It is thoroughly described that over two AGP, one 66-MHz-PCI and three 33-MHz-PCI cards may be inserted. Towards the end of the article the different CPUs and pricing are discussed, and in the article it is said to be unclear when Amiga OS4 will appear, at which point Eyetech suggests that the software could be delivered by the end of the year, or the beginning of 2003 at the latest.
A picture is shown in which part of a mainboard with a PowerPC CPU may be seen. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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