26.Mar.2002
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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Tao Group Delivers Rich Java(TM) Media Content to Devices Powered by TI's OMAP
Enables premium services for mobile client devices
San Francisco (March 25, 2002) - To meet the demands for its technology from blue chip consumer electronics manufacturers and global telecommunication carriers, Tao Group has made its intent, best-in-class multimedia engine, available on TI's OMAP(TM) application processors.
intent is the core software for the Open Contents Platform Association (www.ocpa.jp), which was formed in 2001 to enable the mobile and home client device market to develop premium contents based around a single software platform. The association now has more than sixty member companies including corporations such as Toyota, Sony, Sharp, Kyocera, Samsung, Epson, JVC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Pioneer, Sanyo, Sega, Bandai, Taito and Capcom.
Please find the complete press release under the title link.
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26.Mar.2002
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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Sendo Announces Tao Java(TM) Technology for Smartphones
Sendo and Tao partner to bring Java to Smartphone 2002 platform
San Francisco, 26 March 2002. Sendo has licensed Tao Group's intent® multimedia Java platform to be available on the Z100 Multimedia Smartphone, which uses Microsoft® Windows® Powered Smartphone 2002 software. This agreement further expands the extensive range of possibilities for developers to offer wireless data services and solutions.
Network operators are looking at Java(TM) technology to differentiate their services and offer personalised applications to their customers, such as games. Now, Sendo can offer wireless developers the opportunity to write applications for the Z100 Smartphone. The application can be made available to consumers either by including it on the phone or by making it directly downloadable to their phones, depending on the security controls of their operator.
Please find the complete press release under the title link.
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26.Mar.2002
Krister S (ANF)
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Wanted assembler coder for tracks & fields miditracker
Krister S:
Wants someone who have time to get rid off some bugs
for tracks & fields miditracker and for further development.
I got the sourcecode so if anyone are interested contact me. (ps)
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26.Mar.2002
Vesalia
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Vesalia: Pegasos-Sonderseite updated
Vesalia has updated the pages about the Pegasos mainboard. New on this page is a list of all ports and the specifications are updated.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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26.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Amiga NG-Page reworked and new comments added
Jürgen lange:
The part about the Amiga NG of my internet page is reworked and a new comment is added. Also you can access old comments now.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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26.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interviews with Paul Heams and Michael Rybinski
Amiga Arena ? Interview with Paul Heams
Olaf Köbnik: ?Like many others of you I grew up with the C64 and when something has found its way into my memories it was the samples and soundtracks of games like "OutRun", "Rambo", "Declathon",
"Winter Games" or "Beach Head".
With ?Sid4Amiga? a comfortable player for these unforgettable C64-sounds is available! Paul Heams, the developer of "Sid4Amiga", talks about the further development of his programs and in really positive way about the AmigaDE; he is awaiting his pre-ordered AmigaOne SE. You will find the interview here.
Paul Heams is looking for beta testers for the new version of ?Sid4Amiga?, if you are interested, send an eMail to Paul.
Support the developers, and the developers are supporting you!
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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26.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Petunia maybe part of AmigaOS 4
µlmos Rajnai has developed a JIT-compiler named Project Petunia for PPC that shows really good performance. As the Author mentioned it could be part of AmigaOS 4. More details under the titlelink.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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26.Mar.2002
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Executive Update - Status
Executive Update - Amiga Status Announcement
Bill McEwen - March 25, 2002
Greetings once again - To One and All:
Fresh from a fantastic showing at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco,
where Amiga Anywhere wowed and amazed commentators, developers and potential
customers alike, I wanted to take the time to get the Amiga community caught
up on our flagship project, the AmigaOS.
Contrary to the nonsense that is being spread about by a few very noisy people,
the AmigaOS is more than alive and well and we have very exciting plans for
the future with more hardware designs and exciting new features. We have very
long term life and long term goals for this amazing product.
We look to the AmigaOS as the desktop solution and Amiga Anywhere as the embedded
solution for Cell Phones, PDA's, Set Top Boxes, Internet Appliances and some
other new products. When AmigaOS 5.0 hits the road then you will see these code
bases merging and the two worlds will allow the content to co-mingle and proliferate.
Another way to view this is that AmigaOS is for the Amiga Community whereas
Amiga Anywhere introduces Amiga to the rest of the world. It is then that they can join
us and be part of the Amiga community. It is all about market share
and the opportunity to further expand and grow the Amiga market and user base.
As you know, we took the strategic decision to outsource development of the
next generation hardware and compatible AmigaOS version. This was done to allow
us to concentrate on AmigaOS5, our long term goal, whilst also providing a compelling
and high performance path from AmigaOS3. What this does is give the Amiga community
a product that they can be proud of in the short and medium term.
The hardware contract was awarded to Eyetech Limited, of Stokesley, England,
and the software contract was awarded to Hyperion Entertainment, of Belgium.
Both companies have an impressive reputation for quality products and a deep
commitment to the Amiga, having played a major part in keeping the platform
going through the last five years.
These two contracts underlie the first new combined Amiga hardware and software
product in over 8 years; the AmigaOne, a product whose features and functions
were set after looking at the thousands of mails, articles and comments generated
by the community. A PowerPC (PPC) CPU was asked for and it was selected. The
ability to take advantage of the latest video and audio technology was demanded
and it was successively built in. USB support was talked about and we obliged.
A better filesystem, integrated TCP/IP and 3D, an enhanced Workbench; all have
been designed into AmigaOS4.
The excitement is growing. The AmigaOne is already running PPC Linux, AmigaOS4
is progressing rapidly on 68K Amigas equipped with PPC accelerators and integration
is currently underway. Orders for developer boards are already being taken and
many developers are working closely with the AmigaOS4 team to ensure that their
applications are optimized for the future.
It has been a long haul and there have been many bumps on the road. With the
world economy starting to move out of recession, and the success of Amiga Anywhere,
Amiga Inc is moving from strength to strength. It could not have been done without
the support and commitment of the Amiga community and we want the community
to know that we share its support and commitment to the success of both our
product lines, Amiga Anywhere and the AmigaOS.
Hardware Update
Last month, Fleecy Moss, CTO of Amiga Inc visited the headquarters of Eyetech
and spent a few hours with Eyetech management, engineers and their newest addition,
a PPC mother board that will be the at the heart of the AmigaOne. Running a
version of PPC Linux specially designed for it to permit evaluation, the board
and its peripherals performed flawlessly with the system being very responsive,
boding well for an optimised and efficient AmigaOS in the future.
The original hardware plan for the AmigaOne was to create two products, a motherboard
with an integrated A1200 interface, allowing for the first version of AmigaOS4
(4.0) to be completed quickly by still having access to the AA chipset, and
a second product, a standalone board that would work with the second version
of AmigaOS4 (4.2), which would be independent of the AA chipset.
Over the past 6 months, advances in hardware have meant that the second product
is actually going to be available before the first. As a result, the hardware
strategy has been updated. The AmigaOne will be built around a revision 1.5
motherboard. This board will be completely independent of the AA chipset and
will not need a connected A1200 in order to run AmigaOS4. There will be no motherboard
with an integrated A1200 connector. Instead, Eyetech are planning on developing
a PCI to A1200 product for those who wish to run older Amiga software that requires
direct access to the AA chipset. In effect, the A1200 will be like just another
graphics card plugged into the PCI bus of the AmigaOne.
Using this approach it is also technically feasible to use the PCI-cable interface
to connect to an A3/4000 via the CPU slot connector - and even to an A2000 via
a CPU pin header. These interface variations may follow later, depending on
demand.
The current hardware specification for the AmigaOne is as follows;
- CPU - any G3/G4 to the currently available speeds
- Memory - 2 133 MHz SDRAM slots for upto 2GB
- Graphics support - (2x AGP plus 66MHz PCI)
- Card expansion - 4 PCI slots
- Legacy Support
- FDD
- Serial
- Parallel
- PS2 keyboard and mouse
- Integrated Systems support
- 2 USB connectors plus 2 headers
- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- AC97 (Audio)
- MC97 (Data/Fax/Modem)
- UDMA 100/ATAPI - 2 channels (4 devices)
Beginning on the 18th of March, developers and dealers can order developer
versions of the boards, allowing them to evaluate the product and to be prepared
for optimising their applications for AmigaOS4. To order a developer board,
please use Eyetech's
online shop.
For more information on the AmigaOne hardware, please visit Eyetech's
AmigaOne pages.
Software Update
Hyperion Entertainment have assembled the cream of Amiga developers to work
on AmigaOS4.0, guaranteeing both high quality and high performance in the final
product and ensuring that AmigaOS4.0 and beyond will be a true Amiga product,
created with due care and attention to the philosophy and practices that have
always made Amiga solutions the envy of the world.
AmigaOS4.0 is currently being developed on Amiga 4000s equipped with CSPPC
accelerators, and integration is now underway on the AmigaOne 1:5 boards provided
by Eyetech.
The aim of AmigaOS4.0 is five fold;
- to provide a transition from the 68k based custom chipset Amiga hardware
to PPC based pluggable sub system hardware
- to provide as great a degree of backwards compatibility as is possible
- to optimise the AmigaOS for its new hardware foundation
- to move the AmigaOS forwards, offering new features and high performance
all wrapped up in the traditional easy to use Amiga architecture
- to prepare the way for AmigaOS5
Its feature set as currently defined is as follows;
Exec SG (Second Generation) - A rearchitectured and reimplemented Exec
core services manager that allows the deployment of AmigaOS4 to any suitable
PPC hardware including but not limited to the Amiga One, Blizzard PPC, Cyberstorm
PPC, Shark PPC from Elbox, Pegasos from bPlan etc.
The following features are being added;
- Hardware abstraction layer
- Virtual memory
- New library interface
- Resource tracking and management
- Optional memory protection
- WarpOS backwards compatibility
68K emulation - This is key to AmigaOS4.0 as many of the less performance
crucial OS elements, as well as the entire body of Amiga third party applications
will require it in order to work. The latest Just In Time (JIT) techniques are
being employed to ensure maximum performance, with hand tuning of many areas
to accelerate the Amiga architecture.
PPC native connectivity suite - this was the most requested feature
from the community, integrated connectivity, and given its importance, we trusted
its development to Olaf Barthel, one of the most respected Amiga developers
in the world. He has not disappointed, with benchmarks suggesting that the new
AmigaOS4 solution is faster than any other available solution. Its feature set
includes;
- implemented as a single shared library
- compatible with the Amiga standard "bsdsocket" API, as defined
by the AmiTCP product
- enhanced API for more control over the inner workings and configuration
- built-in DHCP client
- Internet Superserver (inetd)
- IP filtering and networking address translation
- drivers for asynchronous PPP (dial-up networking) and PPP over Ethernet
- SSLv2
PPC native reimplementation of the Amiga File System (FFS2) - FFS2
is a fully backwards compatible re-implementation in C of the Fast File System.
It supports media greater than 4 GBytes, and a new variant of the file/directory
name storage format which allows for long file names (up to 108 characters).
Salvage and recovery tools will also be included that support both FFS2 and
SFS.
PPC native CD file system - the feature set for this second most requested
feature of AmigaOS4 is as follows;
- Joiliet support
- RockRidge support
- CDDA support
- multi-session support
- Video CD support
We also intend to add support for mixed audio/data CD's and support for the
HFS and HFS+ filesystem as used by Apple.
PPC native RTG system - with the AmigaOne supporting both AGP and PCI
graphics cards, the ReTargetable Graphics system is crucial to high performance.
Redesigned and reimplemented for AmigaOS4 and the AmigaOne, a team lead by the
creators of the Picasso96 solution will ensure the hightest quality graphics
display for the consumer, whether gamer, artist or general user. In addition,
hand tuned drivers are being written to support the following graphics cards,
with more to be announced later.
- Permedia 2
- Permedia 3
- Voodoo 3
- Matrox G450/G550
- ATI Radeon
Amiga3D - developed from the pioneering Warp3D solution offered by Hyperion
and now available on both the AmigaOS and AmigaDE, this 3D solution offers the
power and simplicity of a low level 3D interface, allowing developers to create
blazingly fast 3D applications without the overhead of a fatter 3D solution
such as OpenGL. Hand tuned hardware drivers for the above mentioned graphics
cards will provide even higher performance. Whoever said games are irrelevant
on the Amiga is in for a surprise.
OpenGL 1.3 support (mesa 4.0) - whilst Ami3D allows the developer to
get down close to the metal, OpenGL is the standard for a full 3D solution.
AmigaOS4.0 will offer OpenGL1.3 support by implementing mesa 4.0 on top of Ami3D,
giving developers the 3D choice of performance and feature set.
PPC native RTA - With the introduction of PCI card support, the Amiga
community now has access to the latest in audio hardware. Given its excellent
collection of audio software, such as Audio Evolution, Samplitude and others,
this AHI compatible solution will allow the AmigaOne to become a major force
in audio creation. With support for most existing Amiga audio cards as well
as Soundblaster live and Soundblaster 128, the future has never sounded so good.
PPC native GUI system - the entire look and feel of AmigaOS is being
reworked;
Intuition is being rewritten and enhanced, to give a PPC native foundation
to the AmigaOS interactive environment.
Reaction, the BOOPSI based component GUI system has been reimplemented and
enhanced for seamless integration with the AmigaOS.
Many new classes are being developed whilst drag and drop will be supported
across the system.
Matt Chaput, designer of the famous GlowIcons is taking a leading role in the
look and feel, ensuring that AmigaOS4 will look both modern and unique.
A PPC version of AmiDock will also be included, ensuring that Workbench continues
to be the most usable environment of all the desktop platforms.
PPC native CLI - the tool of choice will be removed of annoying bugs
and enhanced to make it even more useful.
SCSI interface - SCSI will be supported, allowing the many devices already
owned by Amigans to be used, but with particular attention being paid to SCSI
devices that use the SCRIPTS controller, for the next generation of devices.
AmigaInput - A new framework for managing input devices is being designed
as a prelude to the requirements for AmigaOS5. This will appear in AmigaOS4
and become a crucial part of the developing Amiga solution.
USB - USB was to be introduced in AmigaOS4.2 but given the developemtent
of the 1:5 motherboard, parts of it will be introduced in AmigaOS4.0. Currently
this will allow USB mice and keyboards to be supported but, if all goes well,
new devices will be added as they become available, with scanner support next
in line.
PPC datatypes - the datatypes system has been implemented and extended
within the AmigaDE, demonstrating our commitment to superior Amiga technology.
With the move to PPC, the system and many of the datatypes will also be moved
across, increasing their performance dramatically.
PPC Storage Toolbox - a set of functions allowing for the management
of fixed and removable storage devices.
PPC font engine - surprisingly one of the most requested features for
AmigaOS4.0, a brand new font engine will be added to the AmigaOS, providing
support for both True Type and Open Type fonts. In addition, bullet.library
and diskfont.library will be reimplemented and enhanced and a contract with
Agfa for 12 truetype fonts has been negotiated.
In addition, many Amiga developers are coming forwards and demonstrating their
commitment to the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4; in particular
- 1. Special PPC native OEM version of Ibrowse 2.3
- PPC native version of MUI for applications that require it
- Special PPC native lite version of Audio Evolution
All in all, AmigaOS4.0 is shaping up to be a very compelling and exciting product
which in combination with the AmigaOne will provide the product that we have
been waiting so long to offer to the Amiga community.
Whilst the the changed schedule for the AmigaOne boards is very welcome, it
has added AmigaOS4.2 work to the schedule for AmigaOS4.0, namely the abstraction
of the AA chipset. Coupled with the need to reimplement certain features included
by Haage and Partner in AmigaOS3.5 and AmigaOS3.9, this may push out the final
consumer delivery date; an analysis is underway at the moment to determine this.
The Amiga community is owed a great debt by Amiga Inc and, with the success
of AmigaDE now allowing us to build revenues and increase resources, the long
layed plans for the future of both the AmigaDE and the AmigaOS can be put into
action. Thanks for all your support and here's to the future,
Signed on behalf of Amiga Inc, Eyetech, Hyperion and all those working together
for the future of the Amiga
Bill McEwen
CEO
Amiga Inc
Snoqualmie, WA
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26.Mar.2002
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: Winners of the DBPro-Compo
Today the competitors and their songs are announced:
1-4 Channel Compo
bLa - "Track Him !" 25 voices
Zenu - "Haavat & Arvet" 06 voices
Blakkhar - "my1.4chdbm" 05 voices
5-16 Channel Compo
breed - "Interferences" 21 Voices
Tripper - "Shooting Star" 08 Voices
pSYCHo - "Design Schranz" 04 Voices
Acid Head - "Trip256" 03 Voices
BlakKhar - "Commercial Pianopower" 02 Voices
Varthall - "The Digital Machine" 02 Voices
Zenu - "Hidious" 02 Voices
Acid Frog - "Digi Boosts" 01 Voices
Lord Kodomo - "Partikelstrom" 01 Voices
17-32 Channel Compo
bLa - "JazzyBeat" 19 Voices
Tripper - "Long Journey" 09 Voices
pSYCHo - "Death Vision" 06 Voices
Thanks to all competitors! (ps) (Translation: gf)
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26.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Pegasos Board will be delivered in week 20 (midth of May)
As stated in an eMail of Mr Oliver Does, Vesalia Computer, bplan GmbH has announced to deliver the Pegasos board in week 20.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2002
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Bonds-guidebook available
After a longer interception the guide for Bonds is now available. The pdf-file will be mailed to every registered user who included his email-address. A HTML and AmigaGuide version will soon be available.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.Mar.2002
Jim Steichen, author of AmigaTalk (ANF)
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AmigaTalk V2.0 uploaded to Aminet
V2.0 of AmigaTalk has been uploaded (and is now available) on Aminet.
AmigaTalk is a port of the Little Smalltalk interpreter that has been
greatly expanded (it's no longer "Little"!) & given an Amiga GUI.
More classes have been added & a bug in the Tags Class has been corrected.
You can also obtain the program from the
AmigaTalk Homepage.
Download: amigatalk.lha (ps)
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25.Mar.2002
Dino Papararo (ANF)
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New 2.0 update of FlashMandelWOS released on Aminet
A new version of FlashMandelWOS has been uploaded on Aminet
in gfx/fract directory. As soon as possible the
support site
will be updated too.
The following are the major features of FlashMandelWOS:
- Full functional program for rendering Mandelbrot & Julia fractals
with different exponents.
- Support for ECS/AGA/RTG and 68020+/PPC Amiga computers or
compatible systems.
- Uses new Reaction GUI, Arexx port, Localization, and has an
Installer script also to easy update or uninstall the program.
- C & Asm 68k/PPC sources included !
- It's really fast even on old Amigas and should be also
compatible with all new Amiga clones ;-)
- It's really cool and free ;-)
FlashMandelWOS is Giftware, if you like it send nice goodies to
author just like $ or gold medals ;-))
The major feature of the new 2.0 version is the ability to make
animations and save them in an easy way using the new arexx port,
some example scripts and a guide about all Arexx commands of
FlashMandelWOS was created.
What's changed in 2.0 update:
- Added an ARexx port. (Edgar Schwan)
- Created a new guide to explain all features of FlashMandelWOS
ARexx port. (Edgar Schwan)
- Created some example Arexx scripts. (Edgar Schwan)
- Compiled a special no 68k fpu version for owners of Blizzard
MC040LC/PPC603e, it runs also on other systems without an FPU.
(ps)
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25.Mar.2002
Jens Tietze (ANF)
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AmigaEmulation.de - A page about emulation
Jens Tietze:
The redesign of our homepage is now finished. We offer a closer look onto all classic computers and programs as well as downloads for Amiga and PC. Furthermore we have a forum, picturecollection, videodownloads, specs of the different Amiga models and a huge linkcollection for you.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.Mar.2002
jockl (ANF)
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SUN: platform-independend gaming
After all SUN now has a own "Play Anywhere" strategy. It is based on Java will offer a complete games engine.
More details can be found at the titlelink.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.Mar.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Matay: Frühe Beta des Apus-PPC-Kernels für Prometheus
An early beta version of the Apus-PPC-kernel by Matay for the Prometheus-PCI-board is now available. There are some points that have to be taken into account when testing the kernel.
Download: vmlinuz.dat,
Instruktionen zur Installation
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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24.Mar.2002
Martin Steigerwald (E-Mail)
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Martin Steigerwald's new web site online
Martin Steigerwald has changed his web site completely so that it now
also offers an Amiga section. You can find WBTools, some configurations
and scripts.
Depending on the browser setting the web site comes up in German or English.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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A+ News 24.03.02 - AMIGAplus 03/2002
Because of some technical problems at the printer's the delivery of the
current AMIGAplus and st-computer has been delayed. The issue will be sent
to all subscribers on Monday, 25 March 2002 and should be with you by
Wednesday, 27 March 2002. The following issue 04/2002 has not been affected
by this delay. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please read
letters from Goukassian, the director of the
publishing house.
The AMIGAplus 03/2002 contains the following subjects among other things:
- AmigaOS 4: Interview with Ben Hermans
- Status Report: AmigaOS 4 decoded
- New: Pro Station Audio 5
- Who ist nun who: AMIGAplus-Redaktion
- Workshop: Web encoding with .htaccess
- Workshop: QNX for beginners
- Shareware Special: The best on 6 pages
- Scenish: Mad Wizards
- u. v. m.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Slashdot
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GameSpy: Sony Talks About Their R&D Efforts
In the above mentioned English article at GameSpy
Dave 'Fargo' Kosak talks about the presentation of Shin'ichi Okamoto, Senior
Vice President and CTO of Sony Computer Entertainment, at the
Game Developers Conference 2002.
Okamoto began his speech with a quotation from Arthur C. Clarke:
"The future is not to be forecast, but created."
Afterwards he talked about parallel computers, Internet, Linux and the operation of PS2
with gestures recorded by a USB camera. (sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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HTML tool: HSC V0.923
On 22 March 2002 Matthias Bethke released version 0.923 of the HTML preprocessor
'HSC' ('HTML Sucks Completely'). This update contains some fixes related to
XHTML:
- LOWERCASETAGS/XHTML now also applies to ENUM attribute strings
- XHTML now implies QUOTESTYLE=double
- removed some unused debug code
This version is only available as a source code release. It should be possible
to compile the source code on all systems, which have been supported so far
(tested with SuSE Linux V7.3 and HP/UX V10.20).
The archive also includes the latest prefs and macro files.
Download: hsc-0.923-src.tar.bz2 (377K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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Demos: ADA updated - D.O.S., Lethal Exit, Visison etc.
On 23 March 2002 the Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) was updated. The
following things were added:
Showbase Shape/C-lous,
D.O.S./Andromeda,
Lethal Exit/Digital,
a slide show by Lazur called
5977/Scoopex
and Vision/Oxygene.
Download links for the music by
Mayhem/Appendix, 3D-demo II/Anarchy, Seeing is believing/Anarchy, Sequential/Andromeda
and Mindriot/Andromeda were added.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
CyberGFX
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CyberGraphX: Help for disappearing screen modes for OS3.9 BoingBag2
After the installation of OS3.0 BoingBag2 it can happen that all screen
modes disappear. This is due to the same error that happened a few months
ago when a newer version of BlizKick was released. The problem is related to
a version check of exec. library. Newer exec versions (> v40) cause problems
when scanning the display database for cgxsystem.library less than
version 42.6. Any exec.library patch or hack with a version > v40 runs
into this problem.
By means of the cgxsystem.library from V42.7 this will get fixed.
This version is enclosed with
CGX from V4.2pre11
(for normal Amiga graphic boards) and
CGX from V4.3beta R3
(for G-Rex-PCI). (sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Amiga Flame
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Games: Paul Burkey about Amiga ports
In Usenet
Paul Burkey of Epic Interactive (Foundation, Feeble Files) discussed the
difficulties encountered when porting a game to the Amiga.
Porting Feebles Files to Amiga was possible because Epic had already ported
this game for MacOS so that the costs for licensing and development had
already been covered. This means that the Amiga version just needs to cover
the costs for duplication (and some additional time for development).
That's why ports exclusively for Amiga aren't possible since developers
need additional Mac (or Console) ports in order to survive.
Paul Burkey suggested that two new game ports to MacOS may be ported
to Amiga and he didn't rule out games for AmigaOne.»
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Fair: Amiga Expo and Lightwave
From 29-31 March 2002 the Amiga Expo is taking place in the Marriott Hunt
Valley Inn in Maryland. Also Tim Jenison, founder and Technical Manager
of NewTek, will be present in order to present the video keynote.
Besides the Keyframe Magazine, which deals with Lightwave, will be represented
at the fair.
Further information about this and other subjects are available via the
title link.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Matthias Acklow (ANF)
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Patch: BlizKick V1.24rc3
On 23 March 2002 Harry 'Piru' Sintonen released version V1.2rc3 of
BlizKick. This version offers improved romfixes for the OS3.9 BoingBag2.
- Fixed V45 exec.library of AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag2. It uses quite crude
hack to enable it, you'd better have true 32bit memory that doesn't go
away at reset for this to work. Works on my BlizzPPC, Wizor's & SMF^'s
Blizzard 1260, Cyber2th's CSMkII and Zerohero's Blizzard 2060 at
least. YMMV. Note that this hack automatically fixes some buggy programs
that peek $f80000 for version information. Thanks to my impatient
betatesters: Wizor, Jagge, Cyber2th, Zerohero, SMF^ and Lizard.
Special thanks to Lizard for bugging me about this. Also thanks to
everyone who mailed me about the problem.
- Improved romfixes module: No longer fails whole module if some
sub-patch fails. Now it should be possible to use romfixes as the last
module.
- Modified files since 1.24rc2:
BlizKick.readme
BlizKick/BlizKick
BlizKick/BlizKick.ASM
BlizKick/Modules/romfixes
BlizKick/Modules/romfixes.ASM
Download:
BlizKick-1.24rc3.lha (258K),
Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)
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23.Mar.2002
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Poll: What do you think about the AmigaOneG3-SE?
On request by 'Flash' we have started a new poll that you can find following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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Update: MagicMenu v2.35
After exactly one month there's another update for MagicMenu. The archive
contains this time additionally (next to the German) further updated catalog
files.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Spitfire²
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Palm Desktop for Amiga: Spitfire² version 1.9b
Spitfire² by Ralph Torchia is a Palm desktop for AmigaOS that has been released
in version 1.9b. Information about changes can be found in the history.
The shareware software enables a connection to a Palm computer by 3Com or
compatible devices. The program offers among other things HotSync functions
between Amiga and Palm.
All features of the program are listed on the homepage. Next to the main archive
there are for registered users additionally ClockSync plugin and YAMSync plugin
available for download.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Sid4Amiga
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Music: betatesters for SIDPlayer 'Sid4Amiga' wanted
Paul Heams
is looking for his Sid player 'Sid4Amiga' betatesters. Interested
are asked to contact him.
The announcement of the AmigaOne has motivated him to start again on the
development of his program. The next version of 'Sid4Amiga' will contain the
following enhancements:
- Reverb - 10 presets with variable return levels.
- A new PlaySid emulation library for use with Delitracker,
PlaySid etc..
- An updated GUI for the new reverb settings. (Mixing desk)
- Bug fixes and a reworked library.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Amiga Future: draw
As in every issue of the Amiga Future there's also a draw in issue #35 in that
you can also participate online. Deadline is March 31, 2002. Prices are two
full versions of Myst. Further information can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Manual for the stock exchange software Bonds finished
Sven Dröge:
There's finally a manual for the stock exchange software Bonds available. It
contains around 40 pages and will be available as PDF file. Before it will be
sent to all registered users of the software for free, I need someone to read it
as a check to remove possibly remaining bugs. People who are interested in doing
this task - fast - should contact me.
P.S. Of course only a registered user is acceptable for this!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Halvadjian Georges
Amiga Arena made an interview with Halvadjian Georges, the programer
of the paint program PerfectPaint.
Here you will find the English
version of the interview.
(ps)
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22.Mar.2002
Vesalia
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Vesalia: Pegasos board extra page
Vesalia has already put online an extra page about the Pegasos board by bplan GmbH,
on which preorders are taken. The features are listed as follows:
microATX mainboard, 133 MHz processor slot, 600 MHz G3 PowerPC
up to Dual G4 PowerPC, PC133 memory with two banks,
AGP slot, PCI subsystem with three slots, IEEE1394 (Firewire) with
100/200/400 MBit transmission rate, 10/100 MBit network, USB, AC97 sound
subsystem, IRDA, ATA100 and more.
More information at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Thomas Knäbel (e-mail)
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bplan GmbH: website update - Pegasos ART gallery
At the title link you'll find an art gallery with 12 views of our project
Pegasos. More news during the course of the next week.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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AmigaOSXL: Experiences with the H&P Big-Tower 1800+ (Update)
Dietmar Knoll:
In my report I describe the experiences I made with the Big-Tower.
These now reach from the delivery until the first experiences in
everyday usage.
The sixth update of my experiences report includes a test of
the network card and a hint to the BoingBag3.9-2.
As the most important news I can communicate the installation
of more software, about which I compiled a software list.
The next things I plan to do is install BoingBag2 and then have a
closer look at AmigaXL. (ps)
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22.Mar.2002
Elvis (untot) (ANF)
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Game: NetHack 3.4.0
The new version 3.4.0 of Nethack is available for download. Versions for
several platforms such as Linux, MS-DOS, Windows3.1, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP,
Macintosh and Amiga exist.
What is NetHack?
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide
variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text
interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons
& Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering
the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight
- in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly.
Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator
provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon
and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of
characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender. For
information on running the program see the README that comes with each
copy. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.14
The MM CD 1.14 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator
PCI ZIV users who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD,
has also been released by ELBOX Computer.
The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card
family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.14
The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent
graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs. (ps)
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22.Mar.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator UP 3.0
The MediatorUP 3.0 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator
PCI ZIV users has been made available today.
The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card
family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.14
The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent
graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs.
The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver:
- Virge.card ver. 1.6
The blitter function, which is responsible for displaying text, has been
slowed down to prevent lockups in some S3 ViRGE chipsets. (ps)
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22.Mar.2002
MobiliX
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Trademark Trouble: Asterix versus MobiliX
As already reported on 26.01.2002,
Werner Heuser, administrator of the open source project MobiliX - UniX
on Mobile Computers has received a request from the German legal representative of
"Lés Editions Albert René",
owners of the trademark of the name Obelix, in November 2001. Werner Heuser
sent the plaintiffs a 22 page response (PDF).
His arguments were rejected, though, by the legal representative of the trademark owner.
Werner Heuser: "Remarkable in the document are the insults at the end, which don't seem usual
for writings from lawyers. The legal trouble is documented since its beginning at the MobiliX
webpages and is discussed in many mailing lists and news groups. This seems to have impressed
the plaintiffs. They now accuse MobiliX of inventing "a new kind of electronical terror", and
are ready to sentence MobiliX. It will be interesting to know, which sentence the plaintiff will
invent against critical discussion in newsgroups."
Despite the announcements of the plaintiffs, the case goes on:
The court in Munich (Germany) has set the date for the first hearing to June 12th 2002.
At the title link you'll find more interesting details about this trademark trouble. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Microsoft put pressure on trading partners with contracts
The above German article deals with the anti trust process against Microsoft.
Peter Ashkin, ex Gateway manager, testified as witness of the charge that
Gateway was taken from Microsoft's "approved vendor" list after the development
of a Linux-based surf terminal.
German Heise article at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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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."
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