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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15.Mar.2002
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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15.Mar.2002
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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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14.Mar.2002
Elbox Computer (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mirage 4000 Pro Installation Guide
The Elbox Computer Website has been updated today.
The Mirage 4000 Pro Installation Guide (title link)
has been added in Support - Product Manuals.
The manual illustrates installation of the A4000D motherboard,
PCI and Zorro cards in the Mirage 4000 Pro system.
(ps)
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14.Mar.2002
Horst-Uwe Kroll (ANF)
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New Mailing List for NoCover Disk-magazine
Horst-Uwe Kroll started a new mailing list at Yahoo for the "NoCover" disk-magazine. The list is for discussion, and articles may also be submitted. If you are interested, just click on the title-link above.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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14.Mar.2002
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)
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Music: DBPro-Community is looking for your music links
Do you make music? Or do you know someone who produce exclusively
with the Amiga? After many questions we finally want to try it.
The DigiboosterPro-Community seeks to find your Web address to your
homepage where you can find music in the DBM or other formats.
With interest please write an e-mail to:
music@psyria.de
with a small description of the person and the songs.
(ps)
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14.Mar.2002
Carsten Schröder (E-Mail)
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Microsoft: Amiga Will Publish WindowsCE .NET-Software
+++ AMIGA-aktuell-Special +++
The worldwide software giant Microsoft has just made known that Amiga Inc. is to provide software for Windows CE .NET, beginning in April this year.
Simultaneously, the URL of the official website of "Amiga-Anywhere" (formerly Amiga DE) was announced: http://www.amiga.anywhere.com.
Following is the official Microsoft press statement, which may also be downloaded at this link.
»PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 12, 2002
For More Information, Contact: Bill McEwen, Amiga Inc.
425-396-5660 (x226 ) (voice) - 425-396-5671 (fax)
Amiga® To Provide Content For Next Generation Windows CE .NET-Based Devices
Amiga Games and Productivity Applications Will Target Windows CE .NET
San Francisco, CA - March 12, 2002 - Amiga, Inc. announced the release and
distribution of Amiga applications targeted at the Microsoft Windows CE
.NET operating system. The applications will run on any of the range of
Windows CE .NET-based devices including handhelds, smart phones, web pads,
and set-top boxes.
Amiga has a rich history of gaming and multimedia and has been delivering
rich, compelling applications since 1985. The new breed of Amiga
applications have been written to run on the entire range of Windows
Powered products including PDA's, Cell Phones, and Set Top Boxes. Amiga
provides a middleware portability layer, which allows Amiga applications
to be written once and run across a range of Windows Powered devices
without change. More than 100 applications will be made available
initially and many more are being created by Amiga developers worldwide.
"We are pleased to be able to deliver content that is optimized to run on
the Windows CE .NET Platform", said Bill McEwen President/CEO of Amiga
Inc. "Amiga developers are world renowned for their abilities to create
amazing multimedia content with a small footprint. This gives us the
ability to deliver a robust and exciting experience for even the smallest
devices."
"As the number and variety of small- footprint and mobile Windows Powered
devices continues to grow, ISVs want to ensure that their applications are
able to run on as many of these different devices as possible," said Keith
White, senior director of marketing for the Embedded and Appliance
Platforms Group at Microsoft Corp. "Amiga Anywhere enables application
developers to easily take advantage of the rich application and multimedia
support in Windows CE .NET to write gaming applications that will run on a
broad range of smart Windows Powered devices."
Amiga for Windows Powered Products is expected to ship in April this year.
More information can be found on the Amiga Anywhere web site at
http://www.amiga-anywhere.com/.
About Amiga
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of
multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the
way in multi-media by providing language independent technologies to
developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media
platform that is hardware agnostic. Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM)
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, Windows XP,
Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications can be
purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, and
has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit
Amiga on the web at www.amiga.com.
Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners.«
Amiga Inc. had reported
the Amiga DE => Amiga Anywhere name change a few hours earlier. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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13.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 35 online
Today the German print magazine Amiga Future has published on their website
a preview of the coming issue #35. (ps)
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13.Mar.2002
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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Pegasos-advertisement on a private car
Thorsten Schölzel writes:
Who does not know the impressive title page of the AMIGAplus with the PEGASUS designed by Alexander Scholz. This PEGASUS now decorate the rear window of my car (look at the title link) and thus I advertise a little bit for bPLans PEGASOS computer and MorphOS.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Mar.2002
Lee (E-Mail)
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Competition for Amiga websites
Only Amiga-user who maintain a website can take part on the competition. You can win 10 opinion-poll-accounts without advertisement at ragonvote.de. The competition will finish on 18.03.2002. You can get further information under the title link.
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13.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Full version update "Pferderennen 1.1b"
There is a new beta-version of the game "Pferderennen" ready for download. Pferderennen as the name says is match where you can back one from six horses.
Pferderennen offers:
- Entertainment for up to eight players
- Detailed "horsepowers" ;)
- Up to 30 stables with respective up to 50 horses
- A horses editor
- Possibility of saving game scores
A special thank to Markus Pohlmann who is the developer of "Pferderennen" for making this update possible despite the lack of time. Please send your feedback, ideas and bugs to Markus Pohlmann.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Mar.2002
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)
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Update to Inga-developer packet version 1.0/6 beta
There is a new update of the Inga-developer packet. Inga is an engine for the classic graphic adventures like Monkey Island 3 which can be easily created with the help of this developer packet.
The update includes the following things:
- Inga-engine version 1.0/6 (beta)
- Audio-CDs can be played (via cdplay.library).
- New script commands: pre-loading, clearing, ilkabove, ilkdown, "LadeLaufkarte", "AusDieMaus", "Leistensperre", "LeistensperreAus" and menu.
- The two mouse colours were changed to be equal to the workbench-standard.
- Developer modus integrated. Thus it is possible to load old game scores with processed script versions. Besides this the inventar and the variables can be changed during the game.
ScriptShell version 1.1
In the new version the command list was put in an external file ("IngaCommands") from the program file. Thus you do not have to update the full program if there are new script commands.
There is also an English version of the "IngaCommand"-file so the script language can be also changed to English.
If you compile a log-file is created in the "Dats"-directory of the game ("ScriptShellLog") where all labels with their address pointers are listed. These will be required for the developer modus of the engine.
"OrtEditor" version 1.1
In a new menu you can select between German and English script-language. If you push the key <DEL> while positioning a graphic element the element will be invisible or visual again. This is very practical if you want to test if an element sits right on the background.
You can find the update as well as further information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Mar.2002
Timo Kloss
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Graphic artists wanted for the adventure 'Ermentrud'
A graphic artist is searched for the graphic adventure "Ermentrud" for animating the persons. You have to paint the animation phases for already existing fixed-images. The graphics will be created with a
constant palette of 64 colours.
You can find further information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Mar.2002
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Foundation Gold update now available
Users of "Foundation: Gold Edition" will find an update which solves all of
the currently known problems with this edition of the game in the download
section of our homepage as well as on the Foundation Support page.
Users of
the Mission Pack CD "The Undiscovered Land" will find an about 2 Mbyte large
fix on the Foundation support site.
(ps)
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13.Mar.2002
Tom Duin (ANF)
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Tool: RealPlayerInfo 1.6 update
RealPlayerInfo 1.6 update. RealPlayerInfo shows the Title, Author and
Copyright text stored in Realmedia files. Included DefIcon for DefIcons
support. (ps)
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13.Mar.2002
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Sharp: New portal-site for Sharp Zaurus
Sharp has opened a German portal-site (title link) for the new Sharp PDA SL5500G to the Cebit. But you can see that this site is still under construction because many information sites are still empty.
The German homepage of Sharp was also completely new designed. In the section products you can now also find information to SL5500G. In the section Sharp Place / Office /PDA you can find an animated demo of the PDA.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Now Amiga content is available - Anywhere and Everywhere
Amiga, Inc. announces the Amiga® Anywhere line of products
for PDAs, Cell Phones, Set Top Boxes, Internet Appliances, Desktops,
Digital TVs and more.
Now Amiga content is available - Anywhere and Everywhere
March 11th, 2002 - Snoqualmie, WA - Amiga, Inc. is pleased to introduce its new
line of products, a complete solution for the delivery of content to any type
of digital device with the express purpose of enriching the end user experience.
Amiga Anywhere, provides a revolutionary infrastructure for the production and
distribution of digital content emphasizing high performance, superb quality,
and minimal resource consumption.
With 3,000 developers already signed on, 67 titles available and hundreds more
in development, Amiga Anywhere brings developers and consumers together Anywhere
and everywhere on any and every digital device.
Through a long term partnership with the Tao Group, Amiga content and services
are now available for the vast majority of software platforms including the
various flavors of Microsoft Windows, Linux, Embedded Linux, Symbian OS and
VxWorks. The software runs unchanged on almost all of the mainstream
microprocessor families.
Bill McEwen, Amiga's President and CEO, said, "The Amiga community is renowned
world-wide for creating exciting applications. It has a heritage as one of the
leaders in the video game industry and film animation. Today, those skills are
being used in creating content that can run on almost any digital device and
will offer new levels of excitement as we move forward."
"In the two years since Tao and Amiga first began working together, our
relationship has progressively tightened," said Francis Charig, Chairman of
Tao. "Operators are seeking content that consumers will actually pay for,
portable content that runs across a broad range of appliances. Amiga is the
first company that has actually got content that fulfills this important
objective."
Amiga Anywhere capable devices have instant access to a rapidly growing
world of quality applications, exciting content and valuable services. Many
existing devices can become Amiga Anywhere capable while several new devices,
such as the Nokia MediaTerminal come with that capability as standard, offering
a compelling reason for customer purchase.
(ps)
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13.Mar.2002
Manfred Rauer (ANF)
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Bill McEwen to appear on TechTV
Amiga Inc. reports on its website that on 13.03.2002 Bill McEwen will present Amiga products in the show "Screen Savers" of the station TechTV.
TechTV has announced that McEwen will present AmigaDE on WindowsCE, Linux and on the media-terminal of Nokia.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2002
Amiga Arena
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Mathias Roslund
Mathias Roslund is known to many users by his software "AMP". Besides "AMP", a multimedia player, he has ported many PPC emulators like FPSE, AmiGenerator, DarcNES and others.
Many thanks to Christian Busse for translation and follow the call of Mathias Roslund - send feedback, a feature request or simply a good joke!
You will find the interview here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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12.Mar.2002
Onlinekosten.de
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Onlinekosten.de: Creative buys 3Dlabs for own gfxchips
3Dlabs, known as producer of
powerful 3D-gfxboards, was taken over by
Creative. More details you will find in the press release of 3Dlabs. Creative plans to produce its own gfxchips. Due to this transaction Creative will be a direct competitor with NVIDIA (Quadro4-Series).
Onlinekosten.de article (German): title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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12.Mar.2002
StrICQ (ANF)
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Instant-Messenger: StrICQ v2 Beta6
Douglas F. McLaughlin released beta 6 of the Instant-Messenger 'STRICQ'
(version 2). Compared to the previous version the following changes have
been made:
- Fixed the '*** NULL POINTER ***' text some people reported showing up
in the contact list. It was caused by sending or receiving a message
to/from a UIN in the 'Not in List' group.
- Now that the above bug is fixed, sending or receiving a message
to/from a UIN will cause that UIN to remain in the contact list
even after restarting STRICQ. However, there will be no status
changes for those UINs.
- When a UIN shows up in the 'Not in List' group, STRICQ will now
request that UIN's short info and display the Nick in the contact
list.
- Fixed a long-standing bug in the contact list display that would
cause a crash if the existing nick was changed after the UIN was
already inserted into the contact list.
Download: STRICQ v2 Beta 6 STRICQv2.lha
Installation tips:
STRICQ V2 is incompatible with STRICQ and must for this
reason 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, which can be
send to Douglas F. McLaughlin in case of occurring bugs.
Run the program. It won't 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 should consider the following points:
- You cannot add contacts manually yet. If you have never used ICQ2001b,
don't bother using STRICQ V2 at this time.
- 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 to Douglas F. McLaughlin
on the message base. You should use <pre></pre> tags.
- You will need the latest versions of NList, NListtree and TextInput.
Links for download are available at
STRICQ-Homepage
(ps)
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11.Mar.2002
H&P
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H&P: 1,000,000 visitors
H&P welcomed the 1,000,000. visitor of theire homepage at the last weekend. H&P: "We are proud of the interest for our webside
and we will do everything to offer an interesting page for you."
Congratulations! (ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Mar.2002
Elbox (E-Mail)
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New Elbox-Tower: MIRAGE 4000
Elbox is offering a new Elbox A4000 tower that includes the Mediator 4000 PCI board and a 300w powersupply.
Features of the Mirage 4000 Pro:
- Mirage 4000 Tower-case with 300W powersupply
- Mirage A4000 Zorro III/PCI Busboard
- Mediator PCI 4000
- Mediator Multimedia CD
This case will be available from the 21. March 2002. Additional
information is available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Mar.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Easter-events with individual Computers
Several events that are supported by individual Computers take place
around
Easter this year. Compuquick Media Center
will represent us at the Amiga Expo 2002 in Baltimore, MD.
Cloanto will make a very
good offer for the ISA version of the Catweasel controller at that show.
The Scene-event The Gathering
takes place in Norway, where our retail partner
Data Kompaniet will
hand over our contribution to the competition prices.
As in the past seven years, the scene-party
Mekka & Symposium takes place around Easter this
year as well in Fallingbostel, located between Hamburg and Hannover, Germany.
Just like in the past years, our biggest financial engagement is dedicated to
this party. In addition to prices worth more than 1000,- EUR alltogether for
the winners of the different multimedia competitions, we have arranged an
opening of a near LPG (autogas) filling station outside the usual shop hours
for party visitors. This will enable the drivers of enviroment-friendly and
cheap LPG-powered cars to refill for about 0,50 EUR/liter. We hope to attract
visitors from Belgium, the Netherlands and France with this, as LPG cars are
much more popular in those countries than in Germany. Closer informations
about this via E-Mail. (ps)
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11.Mar.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - AmigaXL Problem
Bug reports showed that the current version of DA III (v4.7) may cause problems with AmigaXL. For fixing this problem the next release will contain a NOJOYSTICK-tooltype.
Furthermore the upcoming update will contain:
- Online-access of GSC-2 catalogue of stars
- Improved zoom-function
The next update will already be available this week.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Mar.2002
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Tool: CVS 1.11.1p1 Amiga Port Bugfixupdate
There is a new update of the Amiga-port of CVS 1.11.1p1 by Olaf Barthel and Jens Langer available.
This update contains some minor bugfixes of a bug that is not fixed in the original unix version.
Download:
http://amcvs.light-speed.de/
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Mar.2002
Urban Müller
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Aminet 47 problems
There were some problems during the production of the Aminet 47 CD's.
Unfortunately one CD was shipped. The new version of Aminet 47 will be
available in two weeks from now and will be shipped together with the
Aminet 48. Owner of the buggy version can execute the following command
to use the CD: "assign AMINET47: CD0:".
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2002
osOpinion
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osOpinion: Microsoft - Apple's Enemy or Savior?
«Microsoft and Apple have enjoyed five years of symbiotic relations and are looking to make their ties span a decade. In an exclusive interview,
Kevin Browne, general manager of Microsoft's Mac business unit, told NewsFactor: "We felt that making the strongest possible statement of support
was vital to customer acceptance of OS X, so Office v.X runs only on OS X.
We're out of business if OS X does not succeed."»
Please read the complete article under the title link. (sd)
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10.Mar.2002
CyberGFX
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Mediator: Vendors.txt with ca. 85 updates
The vendors.txt for
the Mediator PCI board from Elbox was updated on Sat, 16 Feb 2002.
There are about 85 new cards added,
updated or changed. You can find a link on the Mediator Software Page page.
(sd)
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10.Mar.2002
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)
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Games: playamiga.de as developer portal
Jürgen A. Theiner writes:
I have a dream: Soon there'll be as many cool fun games (Moorhuhn, Sven Bomwollen)
on Amiga as on the PC. And: I have an idee how we can accomplish this:
if some coders, graphicers and musicians get in touch with me, we can actually
found our own developer team
Get in touch.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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10.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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WWW: JunkBuster V2.9.11 Beta
On 4 March 2002 the beta version V2.9.11 of 'JunkBuster' was already
released. 'JunkBuster' is an open-source web proxy with filtering
capabilities to protect privacy, filter web page content, manage cookies,
control access and remove ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious
Internet junk.
This proxy can be used on your PC and in multi-user networks. It's
available for AmigaOS, MacOS X, OS/2, Unix and Windows.
Junkbuster was originally written by JunkBusters Corporation and was
released as free open-source software under the GPL. Stefan Waldherr made
many improvements and started the project
SourceForge to continue development.
Download: junkbuster_2_9_11.lha (211K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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10.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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Demos: ADA updated - demos, music links
On 9 March 2002 the Amiga Demoszene Archive (ADA) was updated with
the following:
Q[r]cov/Industry,
Global Trash/Silents,
April in Paris/Up Rough
and The Gate/Artwork.
Download links for the music from Substance/Quartex, Impossible possibility/Mystic,
Napalm/Floppy and Technological Death/Mad Elks were added. There's also
a link for MPEG Video of Extralife/Abyss.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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10.Mar.2002
ANN
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C=history: photos and graphics of 'Lorraine'
On 'The Secret
Weapons of Commodore' web site there's a lot of information about
developments of Commodore, which have only reached prototype form, haven't
been very successful or which have been more special versions of well-known
hardware. One of these is the Amiga prototype
"Lorraine",
well-known photos and graphics of which can be found on the web site.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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10.Mar.2002
amiga.org
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Magazine: The Crypt #22
On 9 March 2002 issue 22 of the English online magazine 'The Crypt'
was published. This issue mainly deals with the news that
'Vulcan Software' have now ported the Valhalla series over to IBM
compatible PCs. In an exclusive interview Paul Carrington tells us
his views on why he left the Amiga games market to concentrate on the
PC games area. There's also further information about the company
and walkthroughs to the Valhalla games (Amiga versions).
You will find all the latest news about the AmigaOne, and pictures and
first-hand accounts from the Alt-WOA show in Huddersfield. The
Mediator A4000 and the game 'CrossfireII' (Dreamworld Developments)
are being tested amongst other things. Tutorials introduce you to
Pagestream and how to use IRC.
There're also a lot of PC-articles, jokes, cartoons, recipes, puzzles
with optical illusions and further contributions.
You can read the magazine online via the title link but it is also available
as an Amiga version for download. This version runs not with
graphic boards and needs the 'CrM.library' in addition.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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10.Mar.2002
stricq.com (ANF)
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Instant-Messenger: STRICQ V2 Beta5
On 9 March 2002 Douglas F. McLaughlin released beta 5 of the
Instant-Messenger 'STRICQ' (version 2). Compared to the previous
version the following changes have been made:
- Offline messages are now requested, displayed, and cleared from
the server.
- When a message window opens, it will no longer grab the current
window focus.
- Message history is now saved. No GUI support for this yet, soon,
of course.
- Login packets now match the latest ICQ2001b build 3659
release.
Installation tips:
STRICQ V2 is incompatible with STRICQ and must for this
reason 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, which can be
send to Douglas F. McLaughlin in case of occurring bugs.
Run the program. It won't 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 should consider the following points:
- You cannot add contacts manually yet. If you have never used ICQ2001b,
don't bother using STRICQ V2 at this time.
- 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 to Douglas F. McLaughlin
on the message base. You should use <pre></pre> tags.
- You will need the latest versions of NList, NListtree and TextInput.
Links for download are available at
STRICQ-Homepage
Download: STRICQv2.lha
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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09.Mar.2002
Volker Weber (E-Mail)
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Cartoon of the day from glasbergen.com :-)
Cartoon from
Saturday.
Without words :) (ps)
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09.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Amiga Future: Workbench gallery updated
The Workbench gallery on the Amiga Future homepage was updated.
The editorial department would be pleased about new sendings.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Mar.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: VirusZ III version 0.98
Georg Hoermann has made an update of VirusZ III, and the bugfixed update
is now available for download at our homepage. Here is some info about
the update:
Name: VirusZ III v0.98
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 54.288
Date : 9 March 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library
News in VirusZ III v0.98:
- Fixed bug in vector check kickmem brain that caused all patches to
be recognized as 'AmigaOS ROM Update'. Sorry for that!
- Designed a new display format for the vector check. This one looks
better and is more informative than the old one.
- Added brain for kicktags to the vector check. This one currently
only recognizes 'AmigaOS ROM Update' and 'ramdrive.device'.
- Added the 'Snapshot' function to the vector check (as I promised).
Now you can snapshot every unknown patch that causes alerts on
your Amiga and send me the results. This makes it possible for me
to even add patches that I cannot install on my computer.
Read the manual for detailed information!
- Added recognition for ppc.library v46.37 to the vector check.
Thanks to Jean-Michel Chapron for the handmade snapshots.
- Added disassembler mode to Memory Monitor. This should help
experienced users/programmers to analyse unknown vector patches.
Download shortcut to VirusZ III:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/vz/vz.htm
(ps)
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09.Mar.2002
Cj-Stroker (ANF)
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Amiforce: German catalog for eNote
There's now a German localization available for the electronic notebook eNote.
Interested people can download it from the download section of Amiforce (title link).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Mar.2002
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Surf tip: Abmahnungswelle.de
While searching for comprehensive information about the topic "warnings" I came
today across the website "Abmahnungswelle.de". The website offers many details
about the topic and gives many useful and up-to-date hints for homepage provider.
For all who run a homepage, no matter whether private or for business, is this
website a treasure house for important information.
Many private homepage owners may possibly not be aware of the fact that the new
laws TelediensteGesetz (TDG) and/or Mediendienste-Staatsvertrags (MDStV) provide for
example that everyone running a website that is publicly open has to
fulfil his/her information duties about "purpose and identity".
That means among other things that it is one's duty to make the name and address
of the responsible person available. In the (German) article
Information duty
for purpose and identity by Abmahnungswelle.de you can find comprehensive
tips for this.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Mar.2002
Amiga.org
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Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden withdraw from public discussions
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden from Hyperion have decided to not take part anymore
in public discussions on mailing lists, newsgroups and forums and have
unsubscribed from all lists. This counts from now on.
For questions and discussions on personal basis, though, they are still at your
disposal.
Here's the complete message in English in which they explain their move:
Recent events have given me the impression that it has become impossible
in the Amiga community to speak up in self-defence without someone taking
offence in it. Thomas and me have therefore decided (in in fact already
did so) to unsubscribe from all amiga-related public mailing lists,
newsgroups and web forums, and we have deleted all our Amiga bookmarks.
Work on our projects will not be affected by this. OS 4 will still be
developed in the same way it used to be. We're just pulling out of the
public.
I'm sorry we have to take such drastic measures, but it simply doesn't
work otherwise anymore. You can still contact us personally, we're open
for discussion, but no longer in public. Fact is that everything we say
will end up on some web page or forum, being dissected to death and
commented with all sort of nice wording, so the best solution is
obviously to say nothing at all.
Thanks for reading this.
Best regards,
--
Hans-Joerg Frieden
Senior Software Developer, Hyperion Entertainment
Mail: Hans-JoergF@hyperion-software.de
Web: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Mar.2002
AGC (Amiga Games Classifying)
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AGC: poll form for March/April 2002 games hit list online
AGC (Amiga Games Classifying) ascertains every two months the most popular games.
Since 07.03.2002 is the form for the participation in the election for the hit
list March/April 2002 online.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Mar.2002
Apex Designs
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Game: Payback wins AGC Award 2001 - new maps
As already reported has the game
Payback by Apex Designs won the AGC Award 2001. On the website were yesterday
new maps for the game released. You can find these maps in the area Extra Maps.
In Payback you are taking on the role of a young driver being on the run.
The goal is to become a big gangster boss.
Besides the finished Amiga version are versions for Intent/AmigaDE
and Apple Mac in development.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Mar.2002
AMIGAplus
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Domain quarrels: AMIGAplus 03/2002 with delay
Nico Barbat wrote:
As reported have the editorial department and the publisher of the AMIGAplus
been warned by a lawyer in the case Cyberdyne-Systems. To avoid further
conflicts we have decided yesterday to remove a planned article
covering this case in the news rubric of the coming issue. Further legality
steps in the way of a collective suit and complaints at the lawyers association
against the sueing side are in discussion right now.
The AMIGAplus 03/2002 that was to be released on March 13th will be delivered
because of this printing delay about three days later than planned. We ask for
you to excuse this.
Furtheron we ask all readers who have got a similar warning writing to contact
the AMIGAplus editorial department (info@amigaplus.de) or directly Stefan Kost
(ensonic@sonicpulse.de). Please do not rushly sign an omission statement that
is not lawful this way!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Mar.2002
Eyetech
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Eyetech: Recent website and email problems
Eyetech write:
For those trying to reach us recently, you may have noticed that our
email and website services were down from Thursday 28th February until
Tuesday 5th March. We apologise for this inconvenience, and our main
website and email services should be back to normal now. Our
www.eye-play.com site should be back within 3-4 days.
If you sent us an email between these dates, please re-send it, as is
unlikely to have reached us. Many thanks for your understanding. (ps)
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