21.Mar.2002
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Polish Department of amiga-news.de Celebrates 2nd Birthday
For two years now, Piotr Pawlowski has been making amiga-news.de available on his website for Polish readers in their native language.
Tireless, beyond-the-call-of-duty efforts are needed to translate the many daily articles, but this goes without saying. One must be involved often with various issues, and this certainly cuts into one's free time. So at this time we want to give a great "hurrah" and a big, heartfelt "thank you!"
And, not to forget, a "happy second birthday!" :) (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: "BallMasterAGA" Re-Release and Interview with Michal Rybinski
Amiga Arena - "BallMasterAGA" Re-Release
The puzzle/mindgame BallMasterAGA (registered on "Amiga Arena") from Damir Arh was first offered in the year 2000 and is now available again for download.
Amiga Arena - Interview with Michal Rybinski
With the software "MP3TagEditor" by Michal Rybinski it's possible to easily process the IDs of MP3 music files. Amiga Arena spoke with Michal (in English) about MP3TagEditor and its future.
"The young developer managed to answer each question with no more than a single sentence ;-)" commented Olaf Köbnik. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Elbox Computer
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Elbox: Mirage 4000 Pro Available
As reported on 11th March 2002, Elbox is offering a new A4000 tower-including Mediator 4000 PCI and 300W power supply. The tower is currently available and drivers may be preordered.
- U.K. - Power Computing
- Germany - Vesalia or KDH Datentechnik
- Sweden - GGS-Data
- Other countries: see Elbox-dealers
You can find detailed information about this system under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Patric Klöter (ANF)
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Commodore-Amiga.de: Petro Tyschtschenko Interview
Patric Klöter wrote in to say:
Petro Tsychtschenko was kind enough to respond to a few questions about his past with Commodore and Amiga. The time-frame of this interview covers his beginning at C= in 1982 all the way through his final days at Amiga Inc. in 2001. Petro also explains his view of Amiga Inc. and talks about his planned book.
The interview is on my homepage under the heading "User-Ecke." Here is a direct link:
Interview.
I'd like to use this opportunity to thank Petro for devoting his valuable time to answering my questions! Many thanks Petro, and best wishes!
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Translation of Crypt Interviews with Vulcan Software
Amiga Future translated the
Interview
of The Crypt Magazine
with Vulcan Software into German, and you can find it under the title link.
The original English interview is here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Darkage.it
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Italian Software-Concoction 'Darkage' Has a New Website
The Italian software-concoction 'Darkage," known for Amiga Classix 2 & 3, Supreme, Extreme and so on, now has a completely reworked website. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
ExoticA
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ExoticA: Demo Scene Reference Manual, Logo Contest, SID Collection
ExoticA, the website that concerns itself with music capabilities and the history of Amiga, has issued a new edition of the "Demo Scene Reference Manual," now at version 4.16.
The logo contest is closed. ExoticA evaluated all entries and posted the results in a
special gallery. First place went to ´Chief.´
ExoticAs Mirror, the 'High Voltage SID Collection' has been updated to version 4.5. The collection now includes 18,133 C64 pieces. These pieces are available individually through an HTML-Interface
and you can also download them in a large tar.gzip-Archive: HVSC.tar.gz. The changes to this archive can be viewed in this Update-Text. Detailed information on the changes are in the update-logs:here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
thomas raukamp communications (ANF)
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Atari ColdFire-Project Website is Online
The "Atari ColdFire Project" aka xTOS has the mission of creating an Atari ST compatible system based on Motorola's ColdFire processor. The ColdFire series is known for a high compatibility with the older 68K series of processors.
The official website of the project is online. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: Interview with Nikolaj Thygesen
You can read an English-language Interview with Nikolaj Thygesen. Nikolaj is the creator of a professional freeware image-authoring program, similar to Photogenics or ArtEffect. Right now he is busy with a new beta that not only has an improved layer/levels-system, countless paint-effects and the usual design-tools but it also has splines, an anti-aliasing font-engine, an improved GUI and much more.
GFX-base wanted to know more about this beta, and so they talked with Nikolaj about his beta, his future plans, his new website, and current Amiga happenings.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2002
amiga.org
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Amiga, Inc.: Clarification from Fleecy
Crispy Beef has posted an email conversation which he has carried on with Fleecy Moss because of the Microsoft announcements. Fleecy explained the reasons of the partnership with Microsoft and asks the users not to finish reading immidatialy and to see red if somebody says the word Microsoft but to understand that this partnership is necessary and good and will provide Amiga, Inc. with money to push forward the AmigaOS.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2002
Gernot Stühn (E-Mail)
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Update II to opinion poll of laser labelling
As we have already reported in February and at the beginning of March the company Lasertechnologie Winter offers the possibility to Amiga-groups of labelling things made of steel with logos and writing by laser. There have been some questions concerning this. Because of that Gernot Stühn has created a paket for download which contains a price list as well as examples.
Gernot wants to point out that this prices are net prices to which you have to add 16% value added tax.
This is short summary of the German article. If you want to get further information then please have a look at the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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OS 3.9 Boing Bag 2 available
Markus Nerding:
H&P is proud to announce the availability of Boing Bag 2 for AmigaOS
3.9. Boing Bag 3.9-2 contains many bug fixes, small enhancement and
new features in the areas multimedia (AMPlifier, PlayCD, sound
datatype), shell, Workbench (Find, AsyncWB, UnArc, XAD v10), ReAction
and harddisk support. The Boing Bag is delivered in three parts:
The main archive with all the files needed to update AmigaOS 3.9,
the translations into different languages and the contributions
(CDDB library, OpenURL, ClassAction). We want to thank all people
that made it possible. (ps)
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20.Mar.2002
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amiga-news.de: Short-dated mail problem
Because of a short-dated mail problem we presently cannot get any mail which has addressed to amiga-news.de addresses. Therefore please send your emails for amiga-news.de to petra.struck@online-club.de.
If you have sent emails after 11:00 p.m yesterday we would be grateful if you would send your email to the above mentioned address again.
Probably the problem will be solved this evening.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2002
Dennis Gronewold (ANF)
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ReAction-GUI for Frogger published
Dennis Gronewald:
Under the title link there is a first version of my ReAction-GUI for Frogger ready for download. OS 3.9 is required.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2002
Bill Borsari (E-Mail)
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Event: UGN on Amiga Expo 2002
The Amiga User Group Network (UGN)
is extremely please to annouce the webcasting of the
Amiga Expo 2002 in Baltimore Maryland
on March 29th to March 31st.
This years show is shaping up to be one of the most exciting
Amiga events the community has seen in years! Amiga Expo will
host everything from battling Robots to new systems for running the Amiga
operating system. And YOU will be able to see and hear it all
from your home through the UGN's webcasting technologies.
The development team at the UGN has been working overtime to
improve the webcam system, increase the capacity of the Audio
streaming and improve the website. More inforamtion coming soon!
(ps)
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20.Mar.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.38
Georg Hoermann & Jan Erik Olausen has just released a new update of the
antivirus library "xvs.library", the update is now available for download
at our homepage.
The xvs.library contains all the virus recognition and removal code that was
formerly included in VirusZ. This step has been taken for one major reason:
VirusZ, Virus_Checker, Virus_Executor and all the other antivirus software
can be updated quickly without releasing the whole packages every time a new
virus appears.
So simply install the xvs.library from this archive to your LIBS: drawer to
get 100% protection against the latest viruses.
To be able to check if the library in this archive really came straight from
one of the authors, you can use the public key with the .sig files in the
archive. If you are not sure or do not trust the included key, then you can
always request the original straight from one of us (by email) or get it
from the VHT-Denmark homepage.
Here is some info about the update:
Name: Xvs.library v33.38
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 81.516 bytes
Date: 19 March 2002
Programmer: Georg Hoermann & Jan Erik Olausen
News in xvs.library v33.38 (size: 59.040 bytes):
Just had to fix two problems with the security code:
- a. Timing has been improved to avoid interference with some music
software. Thanks to Paracels/PCB for the report and testing.
- b. Expunge of library caused access to deallocated memory in some
rare cases. Thanks to Mikolaj Calusinski for the report and
the excessive beta-testing ;)
- Fixed (hopefully all) MuGuardianAngel hits in the SurveyMemory()
routine. If anyone detects some more, please send me the logs.
Thanks to Thomas Richter for his suggestions about mmu.library,
but I finally found an other solution. And thanks to Sensei for
reporting all his hits.
- Improved speed of SurveyMemory() drastically by skipping similar
recognition routines in just one step if their common requirements
are not available.
Download shortcut (ps)
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20.Mar.2002
T.o.T.
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Spiel: Tales of Tamar Amiga-Version 0.42 R1
The new Amiga-version 0.42 R1 for the Internet-based round game Tales of Tamar from Eternity has been published. Beta tester can download the update of the known place.
With version v0.42 the remaining city levels have been added. A city can now consist of up to 240 different buildings within four several levels: Village, town, city and metropolis.
At the same time Eternity dares to give a statement: "Now some things like settlers, cavalry, artillery and the statistics screen are missing and then the basis set for ToT has finally finished! But not to raise false hopes: Nevertheless ToT is tested for two years then we will add another two months of intensive tests in order to fix also the last bugs. Massive multiplayer games like ToT are very complexe programs and therefore have to be tested in this way.
What will happen afterwards? Already now we have carefully planned the future. ToT will be continued developing after the basis set, permanently improved and extended. ToT players can integrate with corresponding wishes in the project. All that which is meaningful and feasible we will add.
Already now there are plans:
- Building castles
- Online-knights competition like archery, lances pang a.s.o.
- Pedigree-management for the players
- Specialists (clerics, wizards)
- Royal secret service
- Spying, saboteurs
- Library with extensive documentations of ToT
- 3D-card in ToT-fashion
- Battlescreens
Certainly some people have noticed that some points have stood for some years on our list. The concept has progressed during the last years and it changes. Partly some things have been added which we have not planned even four years ago. The basis set has become so complex that we now have to draw a line."
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2002
AMIGAplus
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Partnership between Tao and ANT
The British Tao Group which is a partner of AMIGA, Inc. and the company ANT Limited which is the developer of communication software and of services for digital broad casting and consumer-electronics have announced a strategical partnership with which the native browser Fresco from ANT is integrated in Tao´s flagship intent®.
Fresco is a functional, platform independable browser which has been specially developed for digital-tv and consumer devices.
intent® is a platform for many multimedia products, e.g. Set Top Boxes (STB), interactive Digital TV (iDTV) and small computers like handhelds or personal digital assistant (PDA).
You can find the full press release under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2002
Amigabest / Patrick Jung (ANF)
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Amithlon TV card-software v0.9 beta-version
Under the title link (section: news) you can find the new beta version 0.9 of the tv-card driver for Amithlon of Michael Ulbrich which is meant for all tv- and radio-cards with BT8xx.
As always the software is in an early beta phase and the GUI is still provisional. At the moment it is interesting if the tv-card is recognized. Definitively the following ones should work:
- WinTV PCI/FM - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound, radio, ext.
Video/S-Video-In with sound.
- WinTV Go - picture, tuning, tv-sound.
- Medion (ALDI) last version - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound,
Radio, ext. Video/S-Video with sound.
- miro PCITV picture, tuning, ext. Video, sound.
Further cards could partly work. They will be added if the information are available.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2002
Andreas Gietzelt (ANF)
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Musik: Amiga Speaking
"Amiga Speaking" is called the new title of the gruppe TbO&Vega from
09.01.2002. The title is available in three other remixes.
Andreas Gietzeit: While browsing through the net I found it and was fond of it. If you like trance/house you can download the songs under the title link."
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Mar.2002
SoftCinema
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Videoplayer: SoftCinema Version 0.18
Version 0.18 of the movie- and animationplayer SoftCinema of Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz
released. It is shareware and can be registered via RegNet.
The main changes in the latest version:
- Fixed avi palette handling. (bug introduced in 0.17)
- Optimizations in OpenDivx decoder.
- DivX 5.0 codec supported.
- Angel Potion codec supported.
- Added support for several different motion jpegs codecs.
- Few bugfixes in AVI parser.
- Introduced external plugins, only few converted to new API so far.
- Crash when NOVIDEO option was used. Fixed.
Suggestions and bugreports send to softcinema@frogger.rules
p .pl.
Download:
http://amiga.pl/softcinema/
http://highantdev.de/softcinema/
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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19.Mar.2002
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Update
Dietmar Knoll:
The Geographical Amiga User Home Page Internet List is the largest list with
homepages of Amiga users. If you like to be on the list write to me.
At the weekend I have checked the upper half of the Europe map and removed 48 invalid
links. Als some URLs are updated.
P.S.: Home.pages.de is obviously dead. Please use only http://GAUHPIL.amiga.tm/, especially if you link
on GAUPHIL. Thank You!
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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19.Mar.2002
Diverse Quellen
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AmigaOne.5 is mentioned in many publications (Update)
Some of these links are in german:
Gamestar: Amiga kehrt zurück
Toms Hardware Guide: AmigaOne wird an Entwickler ausgeliefert
Chip Online: AmigaOne.5: Neue G3/G4-Rechner kommt im Mai
Heise: AmigaOne für Entwickler erhältlich
Future Zone: Amiga geht in Produktion
Pro Linux: Amiga geht in Produktion - mit Linux
Kaliko: Kaliko have the fullest confidence in Amiga Inc
KDH: AmigaOne Vorbestellung
Slashdot: ATX PPC Motherboards from Eyetech
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2002
Eyetech Group Ltd.
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Eyetech: Pictures of AmigaOne.5
There are six different views of the new AmigaOne. 5 at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: "PuzzelBOBS" Demo-Update
A new demo version of "PuzelBOBS", a "Bust a Move"-Clone by Nexus
Development, is now available.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Mar.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: AmigaOne.5 - Production start of AmigaOne
Golem.de reports about the start of the production of the new AmigaOne.5.
Unfortunately this article is just available in German.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Mar.2002
Different Sources
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Software Updates
Report+ Version 5.31
Version 5.31 of Report+ is now (only for OS3.9) available for download. Report+, by Amigan Software, lets you create bugreports, readme-files, autodocs and similar documents with ease. The program is freeware and supports ReAction as well as GadTools. (There is also a an older version available for owners of OS2.1 - 3.5)
Download: ReportPlus.lha
BlitzKick Version 1.24rc1
The homepage of Harry ´Piru´ Sintonen
is now back online. Beside of Blitzkick there are some other updated programs (for example cnet.device) available.
New card sets for Klondike
Dirk Stöcker made some new card sets for the Klondike card game RekoNet available at his homepage. Further details can be found here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Mar.2002
Amiga Expo 2002
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Events: Amiga Expo 2002 News
The Amiga Expo 2002 will be held from 29th to 31st March 2002 in Baltimore (USA).
The two following press releases show that beside many companies there
will be some interesting people attending the show.
For example: Douan and Tonya Bingham of Team Secret Robots and Joe Torre.
See following press releases for more informations:
Amiga Expo is Gonna Kick 'Bot! and
Arcade-in-a-Box to be at Amiga Expo.
On the show will be presented the Arcade-In-A-Box.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Mar.2002
David McMinn (ANF)
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AmiBlitz2 / Blitz2000 news
The latest version of AmiBlitz has been uploaded to the Blitz2000
site, along with many other improvements to the information about this
BASIC (yet powerful :) language.
AmiBlitz2 is the name for the free version of Blitz Basic 2.
A full list of updates to the Blitz2000 site can be found at
http://news.blitz-2000.co.uk.
You can also find AmiBlitz2 on the site AmiForce
which also has an online manual and forum.
(ps)
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17.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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Evenmore: Updates for Word Perfect and RTF Plugin
With regard to 'Evenmore', updates for Word Perfect and RTF plugin have been
released.
The RTF plugin converts Rich Text Format documents to plain
ASCII text and now offers basic font style support.
The Word Perfect plugin converts WordPerfect documents to ANSI text
and will now load Window WP docs and supports special characters.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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17.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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Audio: Audiomaster2k V0.78
Version 0.78 of the sample editor 'Audiomaster2k', by Frank Fenn, has
now been released. It's now possible to save either the left or right-
hand channel. In addition there's MMC ATAPI support and DeVocalize.
The editor uses MUI as GUI and supports all AHI devices.
Download: audiomaster2k.lha
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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17.Mar.2002
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: Review of Feeble Files
Richard Kapp writes:
On the GFX-BASE you can once again read a detailed English
review.
This time it's about the 3D adventure 'The Feeble Files', which has
recently been released for Amiga.
Apart from this we've got new pictograms for our news reports on GFX-BASE,
our link list has been extended and for users of IE (and other browsers such
as Konqueror under Linux) we've created a so called 'Favicon', which appears
in the address list if you add our page to Favorites. Have fun!
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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17.Mar.2002
Slashdot
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Donald E. Knuth: All Questions Answered
On 5 October 2001 Donald E. Knuth gave a presentation at the 'Technische
Universität München' entitled 'All Questions Answered'. 350 people
were present and he just answered all the questions of the audience.
AMS published an English article of 7
pages about everything that was said including photos. In the article
you'll find answers to the following questions:
- Do you have thoughts on quantum computing?
- What importance do you give to the design of efficient algorithms,
and what emphasis do you suggest giving this area in the future?
- Can you give us an outline for computer science, some milestones
for the next ten or twenty years?
- What is the relationship between God and computers?
- What is your thinking about software patents?
Donald E. Knuth
is the author of
"The Art of Computer Programming" and the TeX settings system.
Since 1968 he's been working at Stanford University where he holds the
title of 'Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming'.
Download: fea-knuth.pdf (370K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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17.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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Tool: PNGTool V1.3
On 17 March 2002 Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.3 of PNGTool.
This tool converts pictures into PNG format. Compared to the previous
version the following modification has been made:
- Bugfix: The processing of HAM pictures didn't work.
Download: PNGTool.lha (104K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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17.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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Magazine: Amiga Future Homepage is moving
From the Amiga Future homepage:
The Amiga Future homepage is moving to a new server right now.
That's why there could be some disruptions for a few days. We apologize
for the inconvenience.
We're asking all users: Please inform us if you come across any bugs
on the Amiga Future homepage.
Many thanks.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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17.Mar.2002
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Instant Messenger: STRICQ 2.7
On 15 March 2002 Douglas F. McLaughlin released the beta version 2.7 of
the instant messenger 'STRICQ'. Compared to the previous version the
following features have been changed:
- New: Can now add numeric (only) UINs to the contact list.
- Modification: Online/offline status changes are now updated
for those contacts that are permanently in the 'Not in List' group.
To be permanent, a message must have been sent/received or the contact
was added manually.
- Modification: Some may have noticed that in the previous version
the system beep came up on incoming messages.
- Modification: The versioning system now works according to the normal
Amiga scheme: version.revision.
Installation instructions:
STRICQ V2 isn't compatible with the previous version STRICQ and must
therefore be installed in its own directory. At the moment STRICQ V2
can only be launched from a shell prompt.
There's a lot of debug output in the shell window so that you may need
to send a copy to Douglas F. McLaughlin in case of bug occurrences.
Run the program, it will not be able to get online right away. Enter
your nickname, your UIN and your password. Click 'Save'. Close the
program by using the close window button on the contact list window.
Your prefs are now saved. Restart the program and if all went well, you
should now be online. However, you have to consider the following
points:
- It's now possible to add UINs manually. Searching for Name/Nick/E-Mail
is not yet supported.
- If you have used ICQ2001b before, STRICQ V2 will import your contact
list from the server.
- If you get an enforcer hit, please forward it/them to Douglas F. McLaughlin.
Make sure you use <pre></pre> tags.
- You'll need the latest versions of NList, NListtree, and TextInput.
Links for download are available on the STRICQ homepage.
Download: STRICQv2.lha
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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17.Mar.2002
AROS
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AROS: Palm, Zune (MUI), Build-System, HDToolBox
At AROS the work on Palm port, Zune (MUI), the build system for
compilations of AROS and the HDToolBox for partitioning the hard disc
has progressed a lot since the beginning of March.
Stefan Berger and Georg Steger are working on the Palm port. It
already boots Xcopilot and POSE off a ROM image and displays some
windows at incredible speeds: The screen bar's title 'Workbench Screen'
is drawn at 5 seconds per char ;-). Obviously the graphics driver needs some
improvement. At the moment everything is done via PutPixel() and GetPixel().
Sebastian Bauer is permanently doing more work on Zune.
Henning Kiel has changed the build system so that you can have compile
targets in one tree. Also different host configurations in one tree
are now supported.
Sebastian Heutling has committed his new partition.library and a new
HDToolBox which uses the library to access/modify the partition table.
Iain Templeton fixed init() functions of the libraries to use proper
macros for arguments.
Stefan Berger implemented Clib's sig#?set() functions.
Adam Chodorowski merged in the latest Python 2.2
AROS is an open source project for implementing an OS which is
platform independent and compatible with AmigaOS V3.1.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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17.Mar.2002
Daniel Miller (ANF)
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Portal: amiga.com.pl and amiga.hu boycott Amiga Inc.
Because of Amiga Inc.'s plans to provide Microsoft Windows CE.NET with
software www.amiga.com.pl and
www.amiga.hu have decided to boycott
Amiga Inc.. All links to Amiga Inc. will be removed from the pages and
there'll be no more publications of news regarding the company, their
products and their employees. As far as Amiga Klassik, MorphOS etc. is
concerned everything will stay the same.
«"The latest Amiga Inc. policy shifts... give us no other option than to say
farewell to them for good..." That was the public statement of Grzegorz
Juraszek of Poland's Amiga news service amiga.com.pl.
Balogh Karoly of the Hungarian Amiga news service followed suit. "We the
editors of amiga.hu hereby join the Polish boycott." Karoly cited a public
opinion poll that showed users strongly disapproved of recent events at
Amiga Inc.
The developments are in response to announcements by both Amiga Inc. and
Microsoft that the two companies have formed an axis. Amiga Inc. intends to
provide software to Windows CE devices, and is appearing at the current
Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, USA.
The Russian Amiga Information Center www.amiga.org.ru had not yet taken a
public position as of press time.»
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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17.Mar.2002
Kindsoftware (ANF)
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AmigaDE: SmallEifel Compiler
For a long time
"SmallEiffel" has
been available as an Eiffel compiler for AmigaDE.
Contrary to its name, 'SmallEiffel' a fully fledged open source, GPL licensed
implementation of the Eiffel programming language. According to the
manufacturer the compiler generates high quality, high performance C and
Java bytecode. The package includes several reusable libraries, plenty of
documentation, many examples and more.
The porting for AmigaDE comes from
KindSoftware.
Java, Python, Rebol and SmallEiffel are 4 secure programming languages
available for AmigaDE.
Download: dev/lang/SmallEiffel-Elate.tgz (1,9 MB),
Readme
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16.Mar.2002
AMIGAplus
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TechTV interview as MPEG video
There's an MPEG video of Bill McEwen's TV interview at TechTV ready for
download. In the interview Bill McEwen is speaking about details regarding the new
product line ´Amiga Anywhere´ and gives information about the AA Game
Pack. The AA Game Pack is a package of memory card and software for playing the
Amiga Anywhere data on different platforms.
Download:
Mirror 1 -
Mirror 2 (85 MB)
Further mirrors
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Mar.2002
Amiga Arena / Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Georg Hörmann
Georg Hörmann, known to many as original author of the xfdmaster.library now
further developed by Dirk Stöcker, released after a long time a new version of
the virus killer "VirusZ".
Georg Hörmann talks in the interview with the Amiga Arena about the development
and how the idea for VirusZ came up.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Mar.2002
Cj-Stroker (ANF)
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Amiforce: Amiblitz version 2.25
As the latest version isn't available for download on the Blitz2000 site yet it
has been made available at Amiforce for now.
Amiforce cannot and does not want to replace the Blitz2000 site in any way or
compete with it. The focus lies here clearly on the beginners and German
users.
The distribution of Amiforce will follow as soon as the last remaining problems
have been fixed.
A German mailing list is planned as well. As addition there's already the forum
available.
All interested people are kindly invited.
Visit also the official Blitz2 site.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Mar.2002
Dirk Salzsieder (ANF)
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German solution for Feeble Files in HTML format
Dirk Salzsieder wrote:
I have converted the German solution for Feeble Files by Stephan Gururom
(AmigaWriter format) to the HTML format.
The HTML format can be viewed on all computer systems provided an Internet
browser is installed.
People who are interested in getting this game solution in the HTML format can
mail me with the subject Feeble
Files solution. I will as soon as possible send this email back with the solution
in the HTML format atttached.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2002
H&P
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Haage&Partner: AXL: New monster system
H&P now offers for power-hungry Amiga users two new top systems. Heart
of both is the AMD Athlon XP 2000+. For cooling, the CPU vent Coolermaster
Heat Pipe is used which was just recently declared the most powerful CPU
vent by a test report. So there is enough room for overclocking. The system
ships with a GeForce 2 graphics card, fast CD-RW writer, DVD drive, sound,
ethernet card, two 40 GB IBM harddisks and the remote system Logitech
Desktop iTouch. The blue Coolermaster aluminium case is used on request.
Amithlon and AmigaXL/QNX are preinstalled and can be selected in the
boot manager. On request, H&P also installs a Windows operating system. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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15.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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New information about Eyetech's AmigaOne
Press release:
The A1.5 is now ready!
The AmigaOnepoint5 is now production ready and orders for discounted
developer/dealer/OS4 beta-tester boards/systems are now being taken
(but only until by midnight on Sunday 24th March GMT 2002) for delivery
in April. This closing date is necessary so that we can assess the
volume required in this initial production run and place the order with
the manufacturers. Purchasers of these boards will also be able to obtain
a discount on the full user version of OS4.0 when it is released.
If you have previously applied for beta-tester or dealer status YOU MUST
REAPPLY as we no longer require beta testers for the A1 board itself,
only for OS4 and applications that run (or should run!) under it. Please
order via our website here.
If you are a dealer, please mention this on your order, and a dealer price
will be forwarded to you.
The main production run will be timed so that boards are ready at the
same time as the consumer release of OS4, probably in May 2002.
The developer/dealer boards and (at least) the first run of production
boards will be shipped with soldered-on G3 PPC CPU's running at 600 MHz
which will give a remarkable speed increase over any existing G2
(Blizzard/Cyberstorm) PPC accelerators for the Amiga. Soldering the CPU
in place - rather than using BGA sockets or chip carriers - allows us
to keep the reliability very high and the costs as low as possible.
(BGA sockets and/or carrier board options add a huge amount to the cost
of the board).
As OS4 versions (or applications software) are developed which make use
of the Altivec processor in the G4 we will make a G4 version available,
again with a soldered-on chip (probably the 7441 at 700 MHz). It is
possible that we could produce a socketed chip-carrier version, but
only if we can engineer the costs down so it adds no more than 15% to
the costs of a board with a soldered on CPU.
The A1.5? What happened to the original A1?
In October 2000 when we laid out the design for the A1, there was no
commercially available 'northbridge' chip (the interface between the
CPU, memory and PCI bus) in the relatively small quantities that we
needed, at an economic price. 'Southbridge' chips were available
(these handle the system timing, interrupts etc and, traditionally
also embed the lower speed peripheral functions such as IDE, USB etc),
but clearly these do not come with a built in A1200-PCI bridge - which
would have to be built in custom logic. It therefore made economic
sense to build a custom southbridge chip which incorporated the
A1200-PCI bridge - but without the integrated peripherals (which were
available on separate chips at low cost anyway). Things were going
nicely on the original A1 design until May/June . . . but not much -
and certainly not enough to allow us to even consider going into
production - was happening on OS4 at that stage. We therefore ramped
down hardware development work and concentrated on finding a workable
solution to make OS4 happen.
By the time OS4 development had been signed off in early November the
world had moved on. Commercially available PPC northbridge chips were
available, and coupled with off-the-shelf southbridge chips, were able
to deliver better price performance than the original A1 custom chip
design, and (since the big boys had already been using them
successfully) without the risk of bugs intrinsically present in any
custom logic implementation. This meant that the only custom logic
function needed was for the PCI to A1200 bridge.
Alongside this many people had expressed a wish only to have a
stand-alone A1 board, without the need (or ability) to run
hardware-hitting applications. In addition Hyperion have been making
better than expected progress in decoupling the chipset dependencies
in the OS with a result that it will cease to be reliant on the Amiga
chipset at a very early stage of the OS 4 release cycle. (Of course
hardware hitting applications will, to a greater or lesser extent,
still need access to a genuine Amiga chipset). Given this, we thought
it would be sensible to try to provide Amiga chipset availability as
an a option, so that the main A1 board would not have to carry the
cost of providing this connection - in terms of PCB and component
real-estate, and in requiring a custom tower to mount it in. The
upshot is that Escena has come up with a solution which allows the
bridge to the A1200 chipset to be made from a PCI card, via ribbon
cable, to the A1200 edge connector. The use of a ribbon cable also
helps solve the 'will it work in an xyz tower' problem, as there is
(within limits) quite a wide range of A1 & A1200 relative board
positioning that can be used. This A1200/PCI bridge will be an
additional cost item for those who need it.
Revised specifications for the AmigaOnepoint5
Over the past year or so since the original AmigaOne specifications
were first published we have had a lot of private - and more than
enough public - feedback on what people would like to see in the
AmigaOne specifications over what had been published. Of course
several of these wishes were completely commercially unrealistic (eg
- I paraphrase - "Why don't you produce a Gameboy-sized and -priced
AmigaOne with the power of the top SG workstation that runs on one AA
cell for 6 months, and is user upgradable - and still runs my A500
WB1.3 games from floppy") - but there were also lots of sensible
comments as well.
The main useful feedback that has come out over the last year
concerning the original design - and the way the AmigaOnepoint5
addresses these can be summarised as follows:
CPU speed concerns:
The AmigaOnepoint5 will handle G3/G4 CPU's to their
current clocking limits (but, of course, subject to chip
availability at the higher end - Apple currently absorbs most of
these chips under contract).
Memory speed concerns
The AmigaOnepoint5 supports 133MHz FSB SDRAM. (According to our
engineers DDR memory doesn't gain anything in help PPC board design).
Provision of legacy peripherals
The AmigaOnepoint5 has on board FDD, serial, parallel, PS2 kb
& PS2 mouse ports.
Provision of integrated peripherals
The AmigaOnepoint5 provides 2x USB on the motherboard rear ATX
I/O panel) + 2 more on headers (for using a front bay outlet), 10/100
ethernet, AC97 audio and MC97 data/fax/modem, and UDMA 100 hard
disk/ATAPI interface (2 channels - 4 devices).
Graphics interface speed
The AmigaOnepoint5 supports a 2x AGP bus, and PCI graphics cards
at 66 MHz.
Will it run Linux?
Yes - in fact that's how the AmigaOnepoint5 hardware design was
debugged. The developer editions will be shipped with Linux PPC and
UAE PPC install CD's.
I don't need hardware-hitting application compatibility
The AmigaOnepoint5 will run in standalone mode as soon as OS4.0
has had all the legacy hardware dependency removed from it. As most
of this (according to Hyperion) was in the already-rewritten
exec.library this full hardware independence will be introduced
very soon after the first release of OS4, if not actually
incorporated into it. If your application itself still requires the
presence of the original Amiga chipset then you will need to use the
optional PCI/Amiga bridgeboard.
Will it fit in an EZTower Mk1-5 / Elbox tower / standard ATX tower?
The AmigaOnepoint5 has a full ATX form factor and will therefore
fit into any suitable ATX tower with a 250W or higher PSU. It will
fit directly into the EZTower Mk4 & 5 (these will need the AT PSU
replacing with an ATX unit) in the PC board position, and into the
EZTower Mk1-3 (which will need a minor amount of metalwork to
accommodate the back panel ATX I/O connectors & an ATX PSU). The
EZTower Mk1-5 also allow an A1200 motherboard to be mounted within
the same case as the AmigaOnepoint5 board.
The EZTower-Z4, the Power/Elbox Tower and any other Amiga-specific
tower design are not suitable for the AmigaOnepoint5 board without
substantial modification. However if you have purchased an Eyetech
EZTower-Z4 directly from us since 1st January 2001 please read the
special arrangements we have made for you in the FAQ's below.
In summary the AmigaOnepoint5 will come with:
- 4 x PCI slots + 1 x AGP slot on 2 buses
- 10/100Mbps ethernet
- 2 x USB connectors + 2 more on headers
- 2 x UDMA 100 channels (4 devices)
- Open firmware-compatible BIOS with OS4.0 extensions & NV memory
- PS2 mouse & keyboard connectors
- Sound, modem & gameport I/O via the AMR header
- Parallel, serial & floppy (PC FDD controller) connectors
- Real time clock
- 2 x SDRAM sockets for up to 2 GB of main memory
CPU options
As far as the CPU is concerned the first series of boards will
use a 600 MHz G3 CPU and will come with this soldered in place,
thereby keeping the costs as low as possible. As G4's fall in
price/become more available we may also offer a soldered in place
G4 CPU option as well. If we can engineer the costs of a
socketed/chip carrier version with CPU to be no more than 15% above
the price of a soldered-in CPU equivalent then we will consider
producing these versions.
What happens if you buy an entry level board and want to upgrade
it in a year or so's time? Well exactly the same as when you
bought a similarly priced accelerator a couple of years back and
want to upgrade to a faster one (but this time you get a free
computer attached!). You either sell it privately or trade it in
to the dealer where you purchased it. In fact in the PC market,
despite all processors being socketed, hardly anyone ever changes
the CPU to improve the computer - they nearly always have to buy a
(at least) a new motherboard as well. We're just being upfront
about it!
AmigaOnepoint5 availability
To keep prices down and quality up we are having the boards
manufactured in the Far East. Delivery to us in the UK is around
4 weeks from our placement of the order with the manufacturer. The
developer/dealer boards will be ordered will be ordered on 25th
March and allocated to those that have placed their orders,
including payment details, by midnight on Sunday 24th March GMT.
Cards will not be charged until the boards are shipped.
The main production run order will be placed by us when Hyperion
have told us that they can commit to release OS4 as an end user
product. Hyperion's web site will give updated OS4 release
information on a regular basis. We will then invite Amiga dealers
to place firm volume orders with us for shipment on a
first-come-first served (FIFO) basis. There will be a minimum order
volume and technical support requirements to become an AmigaOnepoint5
dealer. The revised A1 dealer requirements will be published on the
mailing list at
www.yahoogroups.com/group/a1dealer.
Dealers (and end users) will be required to purchase one copy of OS4
with each AmigaOnepoint5 mainboard or system. Dealers will be able to
purchase OS4 direct from Hyperion.
AmigaOnepoint5 pricing
Dealers are free to set their own end user prices both for the
AmigaOnepoint5 boards and for complete systems to take account of
import duty, localisation of support, documentation etc. However
our recommended pricing for the AmigaOnepoint5 motherboard, inclusive
of a 750CXe 600 MHz G3 PPC processor but exclusive of local taxes and
shipping charges, is UKP350, USD500, EUR600.
OS4 pricing is determined by Hyperion but is likely to be UKP42.50,
USD62.50, EUR70.00 (excluding local taxes) when bought with an
AmigaOnepoint5 board or system. The standalone prices for OS4 (for use
with the CyberstormPPC etc) are likely to be UKP51.00, USD74.00
EUR84.00 (excluding local taxes & shipping).
Developer/OS4 beta tester systems
A limited number of developer/dealer AmigaOnepoint5 boards will
be available for delivery in April to those placing orders by
midnight on Sunday 24th March GMT. These will be fully functional
and tested boards identical to those produced in the first
production runs. These developer systems will be shipped with
Linux PPC and UAE PPC on CD (for you to install) and a beta
version of OS4.0 will be available for download from the Hyperion
website - to board purchasers - from the Hyperion website. Eyetech
will not be offering any direct support for the installation of
Linux PPC or UAE PPC except via our website pages. If you feel that
this task may be beyond your capabilities then please do not order
the developers board - it is not meant for you.
These developer boards will be offered at a 10% discount over
the regular price (ie at UKP315/USD450/EUR540 (excluding local
taxes and shipping). There will be a further 10% reduction on
the price of the end user version of OS4 when published, for
purchasers of the developer board. (Dealer terms for these
boards will be posted on
www.yahoogroups.com/group/a1dealer).
FAQ's
What versions of Linux does the AmigaOnepoint5 run?
The board currently operates with TurboLinux PPC and we are
currently sorting out an installation of SuSE Linux for PPC.
Can I buy a version of the board for running Linux PPC
only?
We are currently considering making this available. However
you should note that it will not be possible to run Amiga OS4
on such a board without purchasing a special copy of OS4 which
comes with a firmware update ROM. This is (obviously) to
prevent OS4 piracy which is essential if Hyperion/Amiga Inc.
are to continue to develop OS4.
Will MorphOS run on the board?
The AmigaOnepoint5 is designed to run Amiga OS4 & beyond, and
Linux for PPC. It is likely that MorphOS could be made to run on
the AmigaOnepoint5 by someone committed to port it but that
will not be endorsed or supported by either us or Hyperion.
Where can I buy it?
The AmigaOnepoint5 is being distributed on an 'Open Distribution'
model. That means that there will be no territorial or market
exclusives, and any bona fide incorporated body that can meet
the requirements in terms of technical support and minimum order
quantities can sell the AmigaOnepoint5 (and OS4). If you feel
you qualify (or know a dealer that ought to be interested)
please see the dealer
information page.
What sort of memory does it take?
The board has 2no 184 pin SDRAM sockets each capable of taking an
133MHz SDRAM DIMM of up to 1GB. DIMMs do nor have to be of the
same size, but should ideally be from the same mainstream
manufacturer and should be of the buffered variety.
Will I need the A1200/PCI bridge board?
We anticipate that a 'fully retargetable' version of OS4 -
that is one without any Amiga chip set dependencies - will
be available with, or very soon after, the first public
release of OS4. This means that any applications software
which does not rely on the availability of specific Amiga
hardware (or rely on specific drivers that hit these chipsets)
should work fine without the PCI-Amiga bridgeboard in place.
We are referring to these as 'Retargetable Applications', and
in general they are the applications which will run using
add-on graphics, sound, serial, parallel etc cards. Other
applications which need access to one or more specific Amiga
chips to run - such as scrolling games and programs like
Scala - will need the bridge card present.
How does the Amiga/PCI bridge card work? Can you make
one for my Amiga x000?
All Amigas (with a few minor exceptions) use a common memory
map where the specific chip register addresses, chip memory,
Kickstart ROM etc are located. These are all in the bottom 16 MB
of the Amiga's memory map so they can be accessed via the 24 bit
address bus 680x0 CPUs used in early and low end Amigas. The
bridgeboard maps 16 MB of its address space to this 16 MB address
space of the A1200, providing address, data & control lines to
read and write to the chipset and I/O (eg parallel, serial, FDD,
HDD, PCMCIA, etc) registers. The PPC MMU maps the 16 MB of the
PCI card's address space to the lower 16 MB of address space in
the emulator's memory map, so that any application programs
wanting to read or write to addresses in this region will read
and write to the actual Amiga chip set registers (ie as the
application programmer intended) via the PCI bridge. The interface
between the PCI card and A1200 edge connector will use special
chips - similar to those used in some microprocessor emulator
boards - which ensure the integrity of the data.
In theory we could also use the same PCI card with an A3000/A4000
CPU connector (or possibly even an A2000 CPU socket header) to
access the chipsets in these machines. Whether these actually
get built will depend on the commercial case for doing so once
volume boards are shipping.
What sort of tower case does the board need?
The AmigaOnepoint5 board is a full size ATX board and needs a
250W or greater ATX PSU. We recommend you purchase the board
first before selecting your tower, or buy it from an official
AmigaOnepoint5 dealer, either in component form or as a ready
built system. We recommend that a 'super-midi' sized tower
(such as the T05AC model which we
sell) is used
to give plenty of expansion space. Naya Design are also producing some
very stylish designs specifically for the AmigaOnepoint5 which
will be available via us or you local dealer. Full details
will be posted after Easter.
I've already bought an A1200 tower in anticipation - what
are you going to do for me?
The main reason behind the new design is to deliver much better
performance at a much lower price than was possible with the
AmigaOne-1200 design. Although no price was actually released,
our pricing indications were that 'the AmigaOne-1200 would be
comparable with the price a top end PPC accelerator from phase5'
- ie around UKP550/USD800/EUR900 ex VAT & shipping. One of the
means of delivering this better price performance is to allow
the AmigaOnepoint5 to use a standard ATX form factor case, not
the custom-modified, more expensive EZTower-Z4 / Elbox Tower /
Power Tower etc. Obviously, even if you buy a new tower now for
the AmigaOnepoint5 and put your custom Amiga tower out to grass,
you have still made substantial savings and performance gains
over what the AmigaOne-1200 would have cost.
However for those customers who have purchased an A1200 tower
direct from us between 1st January 2001 and 15th March 2002 and
who order an AmigaOnepoint5 board direct from us we will give
you a brand new T05AC tower (without PSU and clip on plastic
panels which you can swap over from you existing EZTower-Z4)
free of charge.
Is the AmigaOnepoint5 the same as the MAI Teron Cx?
No. During the period leading up to the OS4 development agreement
being signed we evaluated the Articia S northbridge chip for
possible use in a redesigned AmigaOne. We concluded that it
was the most cost-effective chip for the design and proceeded
to draw up some new specifications for an uprated, more
cost-effectively engineered AmigaOne, the AmigaOnepoint5.
Clearly using the Articia S instead of Escena's custom
northbridge design meant that both the schematic design and
the PCB layout would be entirely new. MAI logic are a chipset
manufacturer, not a PPC motherboard manufacturer, but they had
commissioned a low volume, high cost evaluation board, the
Teron Cx, to help sell their chipsets. The Teron Cx was never
designed to, or intended to, go into volume production. We
therefore asked them if they could recommend a design company
who was familiar with using the Articia S in PPC motherboard
design. They recommended the same (Far Eastern) company that
designed their Teron Cx evaluation board.
The new Eyetech AmigaOne design obviously shares a lot of
commonality with the Teron Cx board, but more than a cursory
glance at the specifications (ATA speed, integrated ethernet,
custom firmware, number of active PCI/AGP slots etc) - and the
price - of both boards should be enough to convince most people
that they really are different designs.
However if you remain unconvinced you are of course perfectly
welcome to purchase the Teron Cx evaluation board. It costs $3900,
misses many features of the AmigaOnepoint5, and won't run OS4.
I bought a Party Pack and claim my $100!
The Amiga DE SDK Party Pack is an Amiga Inc. promotional program
and has nothing directly to do with Eyetech, Hyperion or any of
the AmigaOnepoint5 dealers. Amiga Inc. will be handling the
administration of this program directly and will announce the
procedures to be followed when the AmigaOnepoint5 goes on sale
in volume. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Simon The Sorcerer 2 update for Amiga
In the download section of the e.p.i.c. homepage users of Simon The Sorcerer 2 for
the Amiga will find a new update archive that includes new versions for 68k
users with graphics boards and a PPC/gfx board version of Simon The Sorcerer
2.
(ps)
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amiga-news.de: Privacy Policy
Under the title link you will find our statement about the privacy policy
on amiga-news.de.
(ps)
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15.Mar.2002
Carsten Schröder (e-mail)
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Amiga Aktuell: E-mail problems
Carsten Schröder:
There are technical problems with my e-mail account at surfeu.de since
yesterday. Since I don't know whether mails that were sent to me will
still be delivered I ask you to resend important mails you may possibly
have sent me yesterday (Thursday) after 8 p.m. (Meanwhile I forward
mails which are sent to aakt@aakt.de to another account.)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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