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23.Nov.2001
DVD


 DVD Press Release on "Black List" Start
The German Vereinigung für Datanschutz e.V (consortium for data protection), short DVD, together with many experts from the fields of IT security and data protection found out that users of websites often got forced to use cookies, JavaScript or ActiveX, because there's no alternative version available.

That's why from now on the DVD publishes a black list as an official directory of such addresses.

"Offerors who cannot tolerate that users want to decide about their security settings on their machines indepentently, should ask themself if they realy are set up for the Internet future. Who thinks to have to punish users for their conscience of security by withholding his pages from those, did not understand what e-commerce and online services actually are about", said Karin Schuler, member of the DVD steering committee. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Nov.2001
GeoWorld®


 Geography Program: GeoWorld® - Update 13 finished soon
The geography program GeoWorld® allows to insight the upcoming update 13. This update, which is expected to be released in December 2001, will consist of two substantial parts:
  1. Update of the main program with some new functions and data update as well.
  2. Release of a "GeoWorld-DeveloperTool" allowing to change and extend existing information texts about countries, towns, an organisations.


Two screenshots showing two of the new features were published on this website. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Nov.2001
Fun Time World


 Image cataloging: PhotoFolio update to version 2.2
PhotoFolio by Steeple Software (Paul Huxham) is a program for managing, viewing and cataloging images which can also create thumbnails. The program can be registered either directly with the author or be ordered from Schatztruhe.

On 16.11.2001 an update to version 2.2 has been released. The patch updates version 2.0 from the CD. The update contains new libraries and modules. You'll find more information about the update here.

Download: PhotoFolio22.lha (476 KB) (ps) (Translation: rh)

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23.Nov.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page


 Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis v1.0.6 / xlHtml v0.3.9.6
You will find an update of the e-mail sender Anubis version 1.0.6 and an update of the convertion tool xHtml version 0.3.9.6, which converts Excel/Powerpoint files to HTML, on Fr3dY's Amiga webpage. Both programs are also available as MorphOS versions. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
ExoticA


 ExoticA: New additions with music
ExoticA and UnExoticA are occupied with the musical capabilities and the history of the Amiga. Yesterday UnExoticA was again updated. New additions include the music from Pac-Land, P.P.Hammer, Toki, Cannon Fodder, Mr. Nutz, Pegasus and many others. For full information about the changes you can read the UnExoticA - Updates Page. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Astronomy pogram: The Digital Universe v1.03
If you haven't yet purchased "The Digital Universe" for the Amiga, now is the perfect opportunity. As long as you are able to download a 11.6 Mb archive from our web site onto your computer, you can now obtain the full V1.03 for a shareware payment. The online distribution is in every way identical to the earlier CD-ROM distribution, other than the change of format and a reduction of price.

The entire user manual is integrated into the software as a context-sensitive help system.
For a full description of the Amiga version of "The Digital Universe", we invite you to our web site at http://www.syz.com/DU/amiga/. There, you will find a description of the features of the software, sample screen snapshots, and an online order form.
If you have moved on to a Macintosh or Windows environment, we are currently shipping a version of the software for the Mac and are at work developing a Windows port.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to write to support@syz.com, or phone us at 780-961-2213. Thanks for your continued support! (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
Starmag


 Online-Magazin: Starmag #29
The German online magazine Starmag has released issue #29. Read it online or download the complete zip-archive (1,9 MB). (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
MorphOS


 Editor: CED PPC 4.21b for MorphOS
This is the official MorphOS PPC port of CygnusEd Professional 4.21. You need a properly installed MorphOS release as well as the original CygnusED 4 CDROM to install the PowerPC port, the 68k version of the program won't be modified. After installation you can still use the 68k version of CygnusEd if you plan to install it on the same partition. The updated ed frontend automatically detects if it's run under MorphOS or AmigaOS and uses the proper CygnusEd main binary. Please note that you need the original CygnusEd4 CDROM to apply this patch/ppc update. It is available from various sources including Schatztruhe.

Fixes: Current directory is now correct if launched from WB, the -keepio and -sticky arguments now work properly & printing shouldn't crash anymore.

Download: ced_mos_ppc_upd421b.lha (202 KB) (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
VWP Newsletter


 3D Chat: Multimediabot MacGuyver Citizen Available for Free
The show- and multimediabot MacGuyver which was developed for the ActiveWorlds® 3DChat-system is now available for free in the version "Citizenbot". It can be downloaded at http://www.VirtualWorlds.de/3DChat/ordere.html. Additional information about the bot and the AW-3DChat itself can be found under the title link.

The ActiveWorlds® 3D chat is the next step to the future of the internet, it brings a virtual 3D-world to your home. Virtual Worlds Productions produces tools and special bot software which enhances these chat software. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
VWP Newsletter


 Audiosoftware: AudioCutter Cinema: English Documentation Available
An English translation of the AudioCutter Cinema's (available for Windows and Linux) documentation is now available as a first draft. It can be found under the title link and will be part of the coming soon version 1.1. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
Carsten Schröder (E-Mail)


 Online magazine: AMIGA-aktuell is looking for a German games editor
The online magazine AMIGA-aktuell is looking for a German editor for the games section.

Carsten Schröder wrote:
"After Malte Mende unfortunately was forced to quit his work on the AMIGA-aktuell games part due to lack of time, last month, and regettably his designated successor abandoned his promis because of the same reason, a few days ago, we are now urgently wanting a game knowing Amiga user willing to take over the unsalaried leadership of the game section, along with Jürgen Theiner, and mainly would care for the PD tests rubric and preface and closing words of the game part."

If you are interested or would like to ask questions, please contact Carsten Schröder. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Nov.2001
AmigaPage


 AmigaPage: Workbench-Competition "Amiga Passion"
"Amiga Passion" competiton was born to take you part of the AmigaPage (italian online magazine) life. The target of the competition are all the Amiga users and you'll attend with one or more of your WB Grab (max 3) that will be send to kanuka@ciaoweb.it with "Concorso" as subject.

The competiton goes on till the 31st December 2001. The first four positions will win a copy of the game 'Extreme' donated by DKGStore. In addition AmigaPage offer a mousepad, a brooch and a poster rispectively to 1st, 2nd and 3rd classifier.

The judges are Marco Lovera, Sandra Lovera and Claudio Marro Filosa. After 31/12/01 we'll have the time to take counsel for a unanimous vote. All grabs that you send will be show below and after "Amiga Passion" we'll move all in the "Computer Passion". In conclusion I remind you that all grabs sent since now can't attend to the competiton. After this I'll invite you to take part of the "Amiga Passion" competition. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


 Emulator: SDL extension for UAE
With the extension which is available at the title link the Amiga emulator UAE can now use the SDL library for graphics output under Linux.

SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. The SDL library is a cross platform library and offers functions for graphics and sound output as well as querying input devices.

The version modified for UAE currently only works under Linux, but there are some benefits from using SDL:

  • It's now possible to use UAE in fullscreen mode as a normal user.
  • The emulator can now be used directly on the console (with activated framebuffer), e.g. without X-Windows.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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22.Nov.2001
AmigaGames.com


 AmigaGames.com: Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia
The Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia, or in short GAGE, contains information from over 500 games, with compatibility information, cheats, docs, walkthrougs, screenshots, and more. Maintained by Dr. Zarkov since 1998, it is one of the most comprehensive information resources for Amiga Games. (ps)

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22.Nov.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)


 Tool: SRename Version 3.0.1
SRename is a program which has some more functions as the common 'rename'.

Changes in this release:
  • Fixed bug that caused the "no objects would be renamed" message not to be displayed in some cases with the SIMULATE option.
  • Enabled the simultaneous display of messages related to SELECTED and SIMULATE options in a case that one canceled the other.
  • Internal restructuring and various changes.
Download: SRename3.lzx (ps)

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22.Nov.2001
Haage&Partner


 H&P News: AmigaOS XL: New FAQs and list / Show: AMIGA 2001
AmigaOS XL: New FAQs and list
The FAQ list now offers 6 new solutions to frequently asked questions and problems. Thanks to the help of some customers we could add some more items to our list: Aladdin 4D, Audio Evolution, CandyFactory, Diavolo Pro, Digibooster Pro, Magic Menu, MAME, MaxonTOOLS, MaxonTwist, Monzoom 3D, PageStream, Samplitude, Shapeshifter, Superbase 4, TurboCalc, TV Paint, Wordworth and may others. AmigaOS XL site.

Show: AMIGA 2001
This years Amiga show was again very crowded because everyone wanted to see AmigaOS XL working. On three workstations we presented Amithlon and AmigaXL for QNX and answered all questions of the astonished Amiga fans. The resonance was very positive and the people really liked our new design tower very much. There will be more offers around AmigaOS XL the next days. Pictures of the show (ps)

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22.Nov.2001
DeepSILENCE


 Game: New Demo-Engine for SOMS available
The new demo engine is better and faster, furthermore graphics have been enhanced and according to Silvio Kurze contains sound now, too.

SOMS is about an action adventure like never before released for the Amiga. Action devotees well be have fun with the about 100 different enemies, numerous screen filling final enemies and extended levels as well, especially if they get supported by 20 configurable weapons and the same amount of spells!

If the adventure devotee gets horrored by the above, it is to say that combats can be avoided by cleverness, if you deal with the numerous puzzles.

Also the role game devotees, disliking the minimal possiblities to equip the characters in action games, can knock down satisfyed! The variety starts with free naming of the 4 main characters, goes thru the continuous enhancement of features and capabilities of your own character, the detailed multiple-choice dialogs with about 100 persons, the sophisticated weapon system, thru the 10 characters with own tactics, views and goals of life joining the force one by one.

Download: deepsilence.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Nov.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: New Repulse driver for ProStationAudio
Alien Design has made available a new Repulse driver (analog and S/P-DIF board) for ProStationAudio. You will find the driver at the download area. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Nov.2001
Scalos


 Workbench Replacement: Scalos-Plugins, Moduls, Betaversion 40.15
Scalos added some moduls and plugins for the Workbench replacement Scalos to their download page. Furthermore a little problem was fixed in the WB3.9 plugin. The updated archive can be found at the download area, as well. The current beta version is v40.15. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Nov.2001
VaporWare


 Statement from Oliver Wagner about the "Security Issues in MUI Apps"
Under the title link you will find a detailed statement by Oliver Wagner Vaporware) on the "security issues in MUI applications" recently revieled. He describes and clarifies that not only MUI applications are affected. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Nov.2001
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)


 SuperView: ImageFX Saver Version 1.4
A potential memory leak in the ImageFX saver for SView was fixed in V1.4 (now on download page on my WWW site). (ps)

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22.Nov.2001
Telepolis


 Telepolis: Under the token of the Boing-Ball
Torsten Kleinz published a German article about the AMIGA 2001 at Telepolis containig a good sumarize of the past years. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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21.Nov.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)


 Sequencer: BarsnPipes version 1.07 published
Version 1.07 of the improved sequencer BarsnPipes has been just published. Many bugs have been fixed and a lot of new functions have been added which were wishes of users from all over the world. You can read on the History which new things have been added.

This super multimedia sequencer for the classic Amiga is a must-have for all midi-musicans. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
amiga-topcool / Daniel Orth (ANF)


 amiga-topcool: Interview with Markus Nerding
Markus Nerding the manager of Haage&Partner has been interviewed of amiga-topcool. He speaks about Amithlon, AmigaOS XL, Amiga.Inc, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3.9, iFusion, PageStream and the current situation of Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Graphic competition: Schlachtfeld
For one month there is the graphic competition to "Schlachtfeld". Today Horst Diebel gave some more details for the graphics to be made.

In contrary to the "old" Schlachtfeld units and background will stand in a relation 1 to 1 that means 64 pixels are ca. 20 m. The size of the pattern will be 64x64 pixels and you can use 256 colours or more. The developer would be very delighted if you took part. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)


 Pegasos-Boards will be produced on DCE SMD-line
Under the title link you can find some pictures of DCE which show how PEGASOS-boards are being placed on the SMD-line of DCE. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
CCC-ML


 Chaos Computer Club: Censorship is being done
A provider from Nordrhein-Westfalen (German county) starts to block Internet sites.

In some sort of hurrying obedience at least one Internet provider in Düsseldorf (Germany), the ISIS company, has constricted access to several Internet sites by changing the DNS entry on the ISIS name server. Yesterday, the Chaos Computer Club got aware of this censorship effort.

On a hearing of the county government of Düsseldorf with diverse Internet providers it was discussed by what means providers would be able to block access to diverse outlandish websites, [1].

This was in main about sites spreading radical right-wing content, but also rotten.com, specialized to collect more or less tastily picture material from the Internet, was condsidered to be dignified to be censored. Rotten.com quote thier extreme photo collection, among other of of casualties, as serious dealing with the manor of freedom of speech.

Philipp Schulte of CCC Düsseldorf in view of this faint-hearted censorship effort said: "It is to assume that the still very short list of objectionable websites will increase very much in the future and other providers will follow the example of censorship outrider ISIS".

To use a different name server appears to be a work-around for customers. eg. 194.246.96.49 (dns2.denic.de), 194.246.96.25 (dns3.denic.de), 194.25.2.131 (dns02.btx.dtag.de).

The Chaos Computer Club's considered opinion is that censorship by technical means is not a suitable way to handle content supposed to be problematic. "The massive restriction of the citizens in exercising their freedom of opinion is beyond the pale", added Jens Ohlig, CCC speaker.

Though the hearing of the county government in Düsseldorf on November 13 ended 'result open', according to numerous particitpants, customers of those providers, who are in hurrying obedience complyed with the governments suggestions, on access to several sites instead of the original notes receive an 'informer form' [2] to announce Internet sites thought to be problematic to the county government NRW.

The county government's approach to filter the Internet offers and by this to attempt to establish censorship is a critical step into the wrong direction in the opinion of the Chaos Computer Club .

"Instead of establishing technical filters, which reconcilableness with the constitutional law at least is questionable and which technical implementation is easy to avoid anyway, the government authorities rather should focus their efforts to sponsor the loom of media competences. More important than technical methods would it be to emerge a social immunity for content thought to be problematic", added Andy Müller-Maguhn, club speaker, to the club's statement. [3]

To what extent other companies in NRW followed the suggestions of the county government, without being legally bound to, is being reviewed. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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21.Nov.2001
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


 Newsletter: Amiga Update #011030 from Brad Webb
Brad Webb publishes monthly his newsletter 'Amiga Update', he informs you about the most important events around the Amiga. Read the latest newsletter under the title link. (ps)

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21.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


 EARTH 2140 Missionpack: The Final Conflict shipping now
Missionpack THE FINAL CONFLICT for real-time strategy hit EARTH 2140 is now shipping. The new missionpack brings 80 new single- and 30 new multiplayer missions to the game. In addition there are 6 new units, 2 new buildings and a new terrain. (ps)

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21.Nov.2001
AmigART


 Burner software: MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8
There is a new beta version (MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8) of the burner software 'MakeCD'. In order to use it you have to install version 3.2c first.

Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_8.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
Kees Witteveen on amiga.org


 Coding GUI programs in VP - Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow
This is the first in this series of tutorials concerned with writing programs for Tao's intent media environment. This series assumes that you have read the first series on VP coding at this site (even the tutorials I have not written yet!) or at least have a basic knowledge of VP coding.
(ps)

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21.Nov.2001
amiga.org


 Installer: WHDLoad - New URL and packets (until 20.11.2001)
From now on the website of the installers 'WHDLoad' has the new url http://www.whdload.de (title link). With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

  • 20.11.01 new: Atome (Skarla) done by Psygore
  • 20.11.01 new: Makaveli (Essence) done by Psygore
  • 20.11.01 new: Bio Challenge (Delphine) done by CFOU!
  • 19.11.01 new: Cosmic Bouncer (EuroLine/Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
  • 17.11.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) supports another version, minor other changes
  • 17.11.01 new: Rome AD 92 (Millennium) done by CFOU!
  • 17.11.01 new: Loom (LucasFilm Games) done by JOTD
  • 17.11.01 new: Killing Cloud (Vektor Grafix) done by John Girvin
  • 17.11.01 improved: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) uses less memory
  • 17.11.01 new: Future Bike (HiTec Software / PAL Developments) done by John Girvin
  • 17.11.01 new: Espana The Games '92 (Ocean/Creative Materials) done by Bored Seal
  • 17.11.01 new: Captain Blood (Ere Informatique) done by CFOU!
  • 06.11.01 improved: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) supports another version
  • 06.11.01 new: Mortville Manor (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
  • 06.11.01 improved: Barbarian 2/Axe of Rage (Palace SoftWare) supports more versions
  • 05.11.01 new: Skweek (Loriciels) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
Bernd Roesch (ANF)


 Programming language: Beta of Amiblitz2 (formerly Blitz2) version 2.21b1 publis
The site for the programming language 'Blitz' www.blitz-2000.co.uk (title link) now is also the homepage for AB2 (have a look also under Archives/Blitz2). There you can also find the source codes and beta versions and much more information about Blitz2. Currently there is beta version AB2.21b1 ready for download. This version will be not uploaded to Aminet.

Please do not send your bug reports to the uploader but to the Blitz mailinglist in order to avoid double bug reports.

In order to subscribe to the mailinglist please send a mail to blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. In order to unsubscribe please send a mail to blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
VGR Newsseite (ANF)


 SharkPPC is not a development of ELBOX?!
On Sunday 18th of November in 2001 on the VGR-sites (title link) a very interesting news message has been published: The SharkPPC which was introduced by ELBOX at the fair is supposed to be nothing more than a relabeled Sonnet PPC-card. If you will have a look at the Sonnet-product site it will confirm it.

Accordingly ELBOX has not developed "its" SharkPPC for itself. Therefore the introduction of the SharkPPC+ (which is supposed to have IDE-controller, AGP-slot and USB) can be doubted. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Individual Computers: VarIO Updates
The support-area of our website contains two updates for our interface board VarIO: The new driver archive contains a corrected version of the SetupVarIO command (Enforcer hits removed), and a french catalog. The new file Inside_VarIO.txt describes the final hardware for programmers of other operating systems (Linux and NetBSD for example). (ps)

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20.Nov.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF)


 Potos from the Amiga 2001 at Virtual Dimension
On weekend Virtual Dimensions was on the show for you and took pictures from the Amiga 2001 for their new show video. To create the video will take some time. To shorten your waiting time some pictures were put online, already.

Same pictures with English subtitles (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)


 Hyperion: Warp3D support for Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon
Hyperion Entertainment has entered into an agreement with third parties to ensure Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon support for Warp3D, effectively doubling the number of supported chipsets.

"We are thrilled to be able to open up ever more possibilities to users of Amiga PCI busboards", says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment. "The Permedia 3 is around 6 times faster than the Permedia 2 and offers a lot more functionality including full OpenGL compliance. The chipset is still frequently used in high-end 3D workstations. The ATI Radeon family is undeniably state of the art with well-rounded 2D performance and top-notch 3D performance that is on par with anything out there in the Wintel world. Support for the Radeon family will allow Amiga users to enjoy unrivalled performance and functionality."

More details will be disclosed in the upcoming weeks. (ps)

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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)


 Hyperion Entertainment brings 3D graphics to PDA's
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that it has finalised an initial version of its "Warp3D" technology, a mature, small foot-print, feature-rich yet very fast 3D solution for ElateTM/ Amiga DETM based devices.

Warp3D allows content-creators to effortlessly deploy 3D graphics on low-end devices such as PDA's, web-tablets and 3G phones and is the product of years of development in response to concrete performance challenges and 3D technology.

Hyperion intends to showcase the Warp3D technology by producing several PDA oriented games.

"A lot of the PDA content we are seeing now is a throw-back to the earlier days of entertainment software and whilst this is not necessarily a bad thing, we do believe that users would like to enjoy sophisticated 3D content on these devices as well. Our contract-work for LithTech Inc. also means we were able to incorporate extensive research and expertise in the field of software rendering which resulted in one of the fastest software renderers in the industry - the only viable solution on a non 3D-accelerated PDA. Add to that a highly optimised subset of OpenGL which is nonetheless capable of running industry-standard 3D engines like Quake IITM and LithTechTM and you have a piece of very compelling technology indeed."

Warp3D was already successfully field-tested on the SH3 powered version of Sharp's Zaurus PDA and is due for imminent release.

The technology will remain in continuous development and will be licensed to interested parties.
For the complete press release see title link. (ps)

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 e.p.i.c interactive entertainment announces THE FEEBLE FILES for Amiga
Our Mac cartoon adventure The Feeble Files will be ported to the Pegasos/MorphOS as well as the Amiga. The Amiga version comes in fully localised versions for english and german. Required is an Amiga with a 4 MByte gfx board (f.e. B/CVision), a 68060 or PPC and at least 32 MByte RAM. Work on both the Amiga- and the MorphOS is under way and we hope to ship the game before Xmas 2001. (ps)

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20.Nov.2001
Frank Duessel (ANF)


 Event: Exchange for classic video and computer games of the 70th and 80th
The first exchange for classic video and computer games for the following systems is being organized in Germany:
  • Konsolen: Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, Vectrex, Interton, Saba, Philips, Pong und vieles mehr.
  • Computer: C64, Atari, Amiga, SVC etc.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
Matthias Bethke (E-Mail)


 HSC (HTML-Pre-Prozessor) V0.921
HSC V0.921 was finished and can be downloaded along with the prefs update for HTML 4.01 at the title link. For the present there are the source codes and documentation only, again. But Amiga binaries for release are welcome. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
Petra Struck


 Update for our show report
Since I did not talked to Titan Computer on the show, I called Michael Garlich, today, to be able to add the news from Titan Computer. The details described below have been added to the show report (title link):

Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.

More applications under development:

The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002.

Games under development:

Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.

Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)


 MCP Version 1.35 released
Version 1.35 of MCP (MasterControlProgram) is released. Some bugs removed, the package updated. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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20.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)


 Installation manual for SUSE Linux 7.3 PPC for Amiga systems
Michael Heider published a German installation manual under the title link. This manual does not deal with the new "Journaling Filesystems", so far. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
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 Mirror of the 3Sat report about the Amiga World 2001 (MPG-Video)
Stefan Robl captured the report about the Amiga World 2001 in Cologne and created a MPEG video. Since he asked for a mirror I added the video to my short show report. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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 Amiga 2001: Report and pictures by 'No Risc No Fun'
'No Risc No Fun' published a German show report and pictures of the show. Additonally new Workbench screenshots and small ads have been published. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
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 3sat.online: AMIGA 2001 - broadcast of 19. November .2001
A written German version of the show report broadcast by "Neues... die Computershow" at 3SAT (German television station) can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
William Bidgood (AmigaOpen-ML)


 AmigaDE: Coding GUI programs in VP - OpenWindow
William Bidgood has published the 'Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow', the first Tutorial of his 'Coding GUI programs in VP' series.

The text describes the opening of a window in VP-Assembler under Tao's Intent-Media-Environment.

At the Overview of his GUI-Tutorials the sourcetexts of the forthcoming parts are available. (sd)

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20.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)


 AmigaPage: MP3 capture of the show report
There is a MP3 capture of the show report about the Amiga 2001 by "Neues... die Computershow" ready for download.

Download: neues5.zip (3,4 MB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Nov.2001
Petra Struck


 AMIGA 2001: Gleanings by amiga-news.de (Update III)
The show AMIGA 2001, which took place on 17th and 18th November 2001, was organized by Falke Media and was held at the Mediapark 6 in Cologne, Germany, on about 718 sq.yd. exhibition space. By our count there were about 1,000 visitors on the show, consuetudinary most of them came on Saturday.

bplan GmbH - Pegasos-System
Very much interesting was the first official presentation of the run capable Pegasos machine by the bplan GmbH, utilizing the operating system MorphOS. Gerald Carda presented a test program to us which displayed plasma effects. Unaccelerated (about the speed of 68050/50) this program generates 4 pictures per second (FPS). The same program compiled for MorhpOS generates 192 FPS.

Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda told us about a number of between 100 and 200 developer systems to be available from early January 2002. Interested developers might register using a registration page at bplan, before long. If there will be more registrations than boards available, it will be selected by progam priority. The developers should send bug reports, if there will occur problems.

Machines for end-users will follow about 8 - 12 weeks later. Those machines will cost about 1,000 Euro and are planned to be delivered with the following equipment:
  • 8 MB AGP graphic board
  • 128 MB RAM
  • DVD Drive
  • 20 GB HD
  • Mouse and Keyboard

The interesting point of MorhpOS for sure is, that existing PPC programs can be started directly on this system. Companies like Titan-Computer and Epic interactive will extensively adapt their programs to this system.

Haage&Partner - Amiga OS XL
Amiga OS XL, the new super-fast Amiga emulators for x86 machines were presented on three different computers at Haage&Partner. The speed is impressing and faszinating at the same time.

Amiga OS XL consists of two emulator systems: AMIthlon and Amiga XL for QNX in a bundle. The emulators are similar to each other in many parts, but there are basic differences, too. With this prevalent Amiga 68k applications run 10 - 20 times faster on current PC hardware than on a convetional 68060 systems. This tremendous speed is achieved by a modified and accelerated emulator. With it one gets versions of PageStream, ImageFX, ArtEffect, Cinema4D, Real3D, and any other program fast like turbo.

Haage&Partner's highlight is a x86 machine built into a luxury computer case of noble design and with Amiga OS XL installed. The body of the computer was made of aluminium, the front side is of azure plastic.

While talking to H&P they appeared to be surprised by the allmost all-time positive visitors' response and amazed at the still great demand for information, though there have been many press releases before. Sales could have been better, but satisfied.

Hyperion - AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC
Without doubt the most interesting thing on the second day of the show was our talk to Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It was determined and safe by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired term of completion of an initial distributing version is February 2002. This distributing version still will have parts of 68k code, which will be handed in later by BoingBag updates when finished.

Hyperion will work together with bplan to make the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC running on the Pegasos machine. Hyperion additionally talked to many other hardware and software developers to make their products compatible, too. This gave a very positive sign, because after a long period of time a joint line and goal is being followed, again.

Titan Computer - Update 20. November.2001

Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.

More applications under development:

The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002.

Games under development:

Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.

Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible.

DCE - G-REX
Thomas Dellert and Michael Göken of DCE presented the PCI busboard G-Rex working in an A4000 with Cyberstrom 604/68060 and AmigaOS 3.9 as well as WarpUP.

An USB card for mouse and keyboard, a Voodoo graphic board (3/3000), a WIN-TV card with radio tuner, and a sound card (Terratec 512i) were working on the PCI board. There are many good reasons for this solution: Graphic speed, wheel mouse and multimedia keyboard, support of the USB card, 100 MBit network card can be connected; all in all it became possible to use cheap generic PC hardware by the PCI busboard G-Rex. The board is being offerd for A4000D/T and A1200.

Elbox - Mediator
Elbox presented their Mediator system. The following models were shown:
  • Mediator PCI ZIV
  • Mediator PCI 1200
  • Mediator PCI 4000
  • Shark PPC G3/G4

Again the reasons mentioned regarding DCE match here. With help of a PCI busboard it is possible to use cheap PCI hardware for various purposes.

Other Hardware-Products

Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers showed us a pre-run model of the interface card VarioIO, which will be available before Christmas, already.

Basing on a Logitech 2 button mouse Schönfeld developed a real Amiga / Atari mouse. Also this production will start next days.

Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development showed us the prototype of the Melody successor. This card will have the functions of the Melody card plus the following specialities:
  • MP3 audio not only can be decoded in real-time, but also encoded.
  • Analog mixer function.
  • Digital in/out (optical / coaxial)

Michael Böhmer showed his USB controller Subway with which you can connect prevalent USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four devices can be use without an additional USB hub. VMC started to develop drivers, already. Currently drivers for mouse and keyboard are available. Drivers for printers, digital cameras, and scanners are scheduled.

Other Software-Products

Amiga Forever 5.0
Michael Battilana of Cloanto presented the new Amiga Forever 5.0. Amiga Forever is about an official licensed Amiga emulator package for Windows and other platforms. Just put the CD into the drive, click on the icon and it runs. Eight different emulation programs, all of the required Kickstart ROMs, Workbenchs, licenses, as well as an all-around package with useful Amiga sofware are included.
Due to the implemented JIT compiler (just-in-time) version 5.0 is about 30 time faster than Amiga Forever 4. The emulator comes on a CD containing the famous video "The Deathbed Vigil" (1 h, 59 min.) and the video "Jay Miner Speech" (49 min.).
But Amiga Forever 5.0 is available for download as online version, too.

epic interactive - THE FEEBLE FILES
epic announce THE FEEBLE FILES for the Amiga. This game is about a cartoon adventure. Beside of the MorphOS port there also will be an AmigaOS verison. The Amiga version will be available as entirely localized versions in Engish and German (voice output). An Amiga with 4 MB graphic board, 68060 or PPC, and at least 32 MB RAM is required.
Development of the Amiga version already started and epic hopes to be able to deliver the finished product already before Christmas 2001.

Descent:Freespace
Hyperion showed the new game Descent-Freespace. This game is about a space shooter. The Amiga port of Freespace was finished at 99% and will be available as 68k (with 3D hardware only) and PPC version from H&P, soon. Those who ordered the game on the show got a free demo CD for testing at home, already.

Project Crashsite
Markus Pohlmann (program) and Denis Comtesse (music) are busy developing the science fiction role game Project Crashsite. The place of action in this game is a colonialized second system consiting of two moons. The player takes the part of the "Future Security Corps" which is the system's police.

The game's goal is to stabilize the unstable situation of this system. This is not easy to achieve, due to a big conspiracy defering the relation of potency. The player is sent into the game almost without any background information about the conspiracy to make him choose "pal and enemy" himself, because depending on his choice the game becomes easier or more difficult.

Currently four people are working on this game, thus it is not possible to announce some date of comlpetion at the time being.

PuzzleBOBS
In cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni of Nexus Development the Amiga Arena and Fun Time World present the game in partnership. PuzzleBOBS is about a "Bust´n Move" clone. From now on a demo version is available on http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html or from the support page at the Amiga Arena.

Technical backgrounds:
  • PuzzleBOBS is completely configurable.
  • Screenmode (AGA / OCS / ECS / Picasso96 or CyberGraphX compatible graphic boards).
  • Bitplanes: up to 16- and 24Bit screens.
  • Playable in three languages (German, Italian, English)
  • Playable from HD, full or partly installation (min. 14 MB)
  • Written in 100% assembler
  • Import of own levels and sounds.

Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style, and masses of other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire.

The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics. There are bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The game runs in full multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench.

When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode, which is a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode even every audio channel and colour palette get's released.

Miscellaneous

GGS Data - Amiga Show
Gunne Steen of the Swedish vendor GGS Data informed us about an Amiga show in Göteborg, Sweden, planned to take place on 2. March 2002 (maybe also on 3. March 2002). The respective website will be online in about seven days. Comanies and user groups are heartily invited to attend the show as exhibitors.

Psyria - Music
Dennis Lohr gave us a CD on the show on which he eternalized his trance song for amiga-news.de. This song also is available for download: Amiga News Theme (ca. 7 MB). Again thank you very much to Dennis for taking the trouble to create this song. This realy is a privilege to us!

Annex - Music
Daniel Schulz of Annex assured us that the music group, known by several Amiga songs, still is alive. Meantime many new pices of music were recored, extracts can be downloaded as MP3.

Still the vocals are missing, because the band still is searching for a female singer. She should have been singing in a band before, come from the dance/trance field, and live in the Rhein-Main area (Germany). Interessted singers might contact Daniel Schulz (include a demo if possible). Two maxi-singles with three songs on each and maybe a long-player with all songs are planned.

Virtual Dimension
The crew of Virtual Dimension did many interviews and took many pictures for their show video. The video is estimated to be published before Christmas.
Furthermore Virtual Dimension introduced the round and text basing space game StarEmpire II by Christian Becker . Up to 32 players are possible.

Airbrush Paradise Tingler
Rolf Tingler prettified diverse things with different motives. Of course mainly motives with BoingBalls were desired. Starting from cell phones thru Swiss pocket knives everything got "boinged" with airbrush technic.

Upshot:

Interesting hard- and software solutions were presented. There was good mood on the show and intensive discussing everywhere. However, it is to be said that in spite of all those innovations and in spite of the positive signs some certain questions were left without an answer, cause neither Amiga Inc. nor Eytech or Escena attended the show. Thats where descriptions regarding the plans of Amiga Inc. for the AmigaOne are required.

Finally one discerning word regarding the organization. The corridors along the "focal points" on the upper floor were way to narrow. Occasionally there were such big crowd that it was hard to get to the booths.

Christoph Dietz, Petra Struck as well as Meike Hilke (photos) were on the show for amiga-news.de.

Update II: 20. November .2001
Link list for pictures and reports regarding the AMIGA 2001 show:

25.11.2001: Sebastien Jeudy Pictures
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (German subtitles)
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (English subtitles)
20.11.2001: Stefan Robl 3SatAmiga2001.mpg (German TV broadcast, 50 MB)
20.11.2001: Amiga Page neues5.zip (Voice record of the above broadcast, mp3 - 3,4 MB)
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Pictures
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Report (German)
20.11.2001: 3SAT Text report (German) about the German TV broadcast "Neues... die Computershow" (3Sat)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Show review
19.11.2001: Fun Time World: Pictures
19.11.2001: Costel Mincea Pictures and report (German and English)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 2. day
18.11.2001: amiga-topcool.de Report (German)
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 1
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 2
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pre-report - 2. Tag
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Markus Nerding
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Michael Garlich
18.11.2001: Elastic Image - Falcon Pictures
18.11.2001: Stefan Popp Report
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 1. Tages
18.11.2001: Marcus Neervoorts Amiga Page Pictures and report (German)
17.11.2001: amiga-info.net Pictures
17.11.2001: amiga-news.de First pre-report

Update III: 25. November .2001
Pictures from Sebastien Jeudy.(sd) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Nov.2001
Costel Mincea (ANF)


 Pictures of the Amiga 2001 by Costel Mincea
There are some photos of the exhibition made by Costel Mincea with some words about the depictured things. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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 AMIGA 2001: pictures of the second day
The second part contains mainly pictures of hardware-devices. A selection of the photos made by Christoph Dietz and Michael Böhmer:


Amithlon on an expensive PC
02_Amithlon.jpg
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Elbox
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Elbox
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(640 x 480)

Elbox
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Elbox
06_Elbox4.jpg
(640 x 480)
Elbox - Mediator
06a_Elbox5.jpg
(640 x 480)

G-Rex
07_GRex.jpg
(640 x 480)
G-Rex
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(640 x 480)
G-Rex
08a_GRex.jpg
(640 x 480)

H&P
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amiga-news.de interview with Hyperion
10_Hyperion_Int1.jpg
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....
11_Hyperion_Int2.jpg
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...
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(480 x 640)
...
13_Hyperion_Int4.jpg
(480 x 640)
... still the same interview
14_Hyperion_Int5.jpg
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...
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Pegasos
17_Pegasos1.jpg
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Pegasos tower (Vesalia)
18_Pegasos2.jpg
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Pegasos
20_Pegasos4.jpg
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Pegasos
21_Pegasos5.jpg
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USB-Subway (Prototype,
pre series, series build)
22_USB-SUBWAY~1.JPG
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... final product
23_USB-SUBWAY~2.JPG
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VarIO
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(640 x 480)
Petra congratulating Rüdiger,
who got elected president
of the AC-DE
25_AC-DE_Vorstand.jpg
(480 x 640)
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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18.Nov.2001
ANN


 Event: Report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show'
A short report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' can be found under the title link.

Randall Hughes, Amiga Inc., introduced the Sharp Zaurus PDA running with the AmigaDE and some games on the show. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)


 Route planner: Update for AmiATLAS 6
The first update for the route planner 'AmiATLAS 6' was released and is available for registered users from now.

For example the assign and path bugs were fixed and 'AmigaAUTO' was re-integrated and is run capable again.

The first extensive update with e.g. multi-lingual version of AmiATLAS will be released around the middle of December.

The updates are available for free thru 30. June 2002. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)


 AMIGA 2001: Pictures by AUG99
Matthias Münch wrote:
We've visited the Amiga Show 2001 in Cologne and put some pictures from it online.

Absolute highlights to us were the game Freespace and the presentation of the Pegasos system at the bplan booth.

Unfortunately we found the show to be a little desaster regarding organization and space utilisation. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)


 Datatypes: akPNG V44.130
Andreas Kleinert released version 44.130 of his PNG datatype 'akPNG' for 68k- and PPC CPUs.

'akPNG' now utilzes version 1.2.0 of the 'libpng'.

Download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 CD³²-/CDTV-Emulator: Screenshots of 'Akiko'
New screenshots of the Akiko emulator were just released on the Airsoft Softwair web site.

Akiko emulates CD32 and CDTV systems under the Windows operating system. Akiko is a Shareware emulator and can be ordered now. A public demo version will be made available in near future. If you order Akiko now, you'll get the latest beta version which already runs most of the CD32/CDTV games. The released screenshots show the now much more flexible GUI and the CD audio player of the CD32 and CDTV. (sd)

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18.Nov.2001
Petra Struck (ANF)


 AMIGA 2001: Pre-report 2. day by amiga-news.de
The most interesting of the second day of the show without doubt was our talk to Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Joerg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It is fixed by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired date for completion is February 2002.

Hyperion will cooperate with bplan, to let the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC run on the Pegasos machine, too. Additionally Hyperion talked to many other hardware and software developers to keep their product compatible, too. This set a very positive sign, cause after a long time a corporate line and goal is being followed, again. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
ANN


 Programming language PowerD V0.19
Today, Martin Kuchinka released alpha version 0.19 of the programming language 'PowerD'.

This early alpha version now supports creation of shared libraries.

Download: alpha.lzx (159K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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ANN


 AMIGA 2001: IRC conferences with Nerding and Garlich (Update)
English logfiles of the IRC conferences with Markus Nerding from Haage&Partner and Michael Garlich from Titan are available now. The log from Nerdings chat has been published on ANN, he answers questions about AmigaOS XL, AmigaOS V4.0, and H&P's work within those projects.

The log of Michael Garlich's chat has been provided to us by Jürgen 'Antibike' Lucas, Garlich answers questions about MorphOS, Pegasos, and the projects of Titan:

Amiga2001: Hello Michael

Titan: Hello Guys

Nico4k: Micheal, Could please describe your plans about MorphOS/Bplan ?

Nico4k: Plan = project if you prefer

Titan: Yes of course we have presented 4 new products for Morphos / Bplan e.g. Papyrus Office and

Nico4k: For example will Papyrus be ported on MorphOs ?

Nico4k: ok

Titan: and the new videosoft Motionstudio which support DV Video

Titan: and we have also presented Rage Hard a new multiplayer tactic shooter

Nico4k: Well, you said on MorphOS ML what there will something to connect an Amiga floppy drive on Bplan made by third part, Could you give more detail ?

Nico4k: Titan sound like great news

Titan: Yes, this connecter will be able to read write "old" Amiga DD and HD Floppydisc

Nico4k: to connect an "Amgia" drive or to use old disk with the Bplan one

Nico4k: Where it will connected on the motherboard ?

Titan: to connect an "old" Amiga drive may be later also PC-Floppy with modifications too

zacman: hi michael. do you plan to release your software together with the pegasos start or already before? and are there plans for bundeling your software with pegasos?

Titan: Nico4k there is a floppy connector for PC Floppys on the Bplan mainboard

Titan: zacman: Together with the sales start on Feb/March 2002

Burman: Titan Do you know anything about support for Newtek VideoToaster/Flyer HW. (PCI-card)...?

Titan: Burman: we have asked Newtek but nothing is clear atm it will take some further negotations ga

djnick: Hi Titan will there be newer / improved versions of Fantastic Dreams?

Titan: djnick: Yes this will be released later in 2002 ga

ID4: Titan Are you planign a game like QIII Arena?

Titan: ID4: We will release a pre-video of Rage Hard take a look and you will enjoy it :) ga

Bifford: hi there ;-) what sort of speeds can we expect from pegasos? in normal operation and in real-time with cpu hungry things like 3d graphics

Titan: Bifford: This really depends on the used CPU we think for DV Videoediting a 500 G4 is the minimum. ga

Nico4k: As you devellop for MorphOS/bPlan, I suppose you already use it on Bplan, So how does it work ? (sorry for all this MOS related question but I want to konw)

Titan: Nico4k It runs really good we are sadisfied with the support of the MOrphos Team. ga

AlphaFoX: hi Titan, two questions: 1. do you know if there will be an 'AGA-on-a-Card' for the Pegasos? 2. Will

Titan: port its software also to AmigaOS 4.x if available? GA

Titan: AlphaFoX: AGA card is atm not longer in development but if there is more demand we can think about such a solution

Titan: Regarding AmigaOS 4 we have nothing heard from Amiga no specs no hardware nothing simply. We cant say we will support it if we have no information at all. Ga

Bifford: do u have any other projects on the go atm (hard or software) or is it strictly MOS/pegasos ?

Titan: Bifford: we concentrate on what is available now this is Morphos and Pegasos ga

zacman: what graphics card do you recommend for games like Rage Hard? Do you know if it is correct that bplan has contacts to nvidia?

Titan: zacman: I cant commend this atm :) ga

Zarf: is RS on the show? ga :)

Titan: Zarf: No but Frank Mariak was here ga

TheFab: Titan hi, do you plan to develop new softare or buy license (like old software like lightwave...)

Titan: TheFab: new and licencing too. E.g. AlienNations and Majesty

ID4: Titan Will you software run on Elbox SharkPPC?

Titan: ID4: We are open to support everyone who wants Morphos. If Elbox support theMorphos team with hardware then there will be also a SharkPPC version ga

Zefram_: what is the maximum cpu speed we can expect on Pegasos, 1Ghz ?

Titan: Zefram_: its upto 2GHz atm but higher clockrate are also possible ga

zacman: isn't AlienNations and Majesty licensed by hyperion?

Titan: zacman: No Hyperion has not licenced AlienN or Majesty.

Titan: owns this licence ga

Zefram_: What will are the graphics cards drivers available for Pegasos, Matrox ?

Titan: Zefram_: In a few weeks there will be update on Morphos.de with all supported Gfx-boards. ga

Nico4k: Do you think Bplan will be able to release Pegasos in February/March 2001? Not a vapor this time ? (I have been so disppointed by previous project: AmigaNG, A1). Ps: A MOS/Bplan related question again ... But who do not believe that this time is the good one ...

Titan: Nico4k Bplan will make a pre-release before christmas 2001 and the main release is trageted for March 2002. ga

Titan: Zefram_: The morphos 3d api is NOT rave ga

Nico4k: Pre-release means Developper release ?

Titan: Nico4k Also for normal customers but there is only a limited stock of boards available. ga

AmiGR: Could you enlight us about which 3d api will be used?

Titan: AmiGR: Sorry atm not, please wait for the next official Morphos press release ga

JoeAFUA: Titan So will we be able to pre-order for the pre-release boards? If yes, when?

Titan: JoeAFUA: Take a look on the bplan website there will be an "order" form. ga

ID4: Titan nowdays.. What are your contacs with Amiga Inc?

Titan: ID4: we are in touch with Amiga but they follow different ways atm. We will see if we can cooparate in future or not. ga

Zefram_: Will it be possible to place a pre-order from local dealers ?

Titan: Zefram_: No, only direct from Bplan ga

darklite: will you only support morphos, or also os4? ga

Titan: darklite: We have no information about AmigaOS4 therefore i cant say yes or no . ga

ID4: Titan THANKS !!!! From me no more questions, I hope the best for your bussines ;)

Titan: ID4: Thanks. ga

Nico4k: Will Pegasos be shit with screen, keyboard, Hard drive, Or will it be possible to buy only the Motherboard ?

Amiga2001: ship instead of shit ;-)

Titan: Nico4k shit ??? ;)) Yes it will be shipped as complete system too this will be a g3 350, 128MB ram, gfx-board,hD and DVD-drive ga

Zefram_: Will there be a Pegasos motherboard with more than 3 PCI slots ?

Titan: Nico4k and motherboard only is also available .ga

Titan: Zefram_: Yes there is a adaptor for 4 slots available.

Nico4k: Are all drivers ready (I mean for internal ethernet, audio, USB ???)

Titan: Nico4k a lot of drivers are already finished but some are still in development. ga

Amiga2001: more questions?

Nico4k: Will we show amazing think on Bplan at the show like Divx movie ?

Titan: Nico4k We have shown DV editing on the show. DIVX is also possible but was not presented. ga

Amiga2001: Ok Guys, Michael has to go

Amiga2001: thx Michael


Update: (17.06.2016, cg)

Integrated the logfile provided by Jürgen Lucas into the news item. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Wolf Faust (ANF)


 Update: V2.03 of the scanner colour correction software ICS
The free scanner colour correction software 'ICS' is available in version 2.03 on http://www.ics.coloraid.de.

This latest version will run until August 2002 and comes with some enhancements for the supported file formats. Some TIFF pictures are substantially faster loaded, now, and Mac binary files are recognized automatically. Some small bugs have been fixed. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Falcon (ANF)


 AMIGA 2001: Pictures from the Cologne show
Falcon published photos from his today's show visitation on his homepage. But, the comments (German) are sometimes meant in good fun. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Marcel Rohles (ANF)


 Game: New adventure game under development, nostalgica all around Space Rat
Marcel Rohles wrote:
Who did not fell for the adventures of old tradition in the style of Lucas Arts or Sierra?

Probably nobody can exculpate himself from this. Everyone of us once was bound to this fever to free Guybrush from an embarrassing situation, just to see him stumbling right into the next one.

But, what has happened to this? What about the adventure genre? Does it have to be 3D all the time?

If you are able to unhesitant and in peace of conscience say no to the latter question, I recommend the page about 'Space-Rat Tukult' warmly to you.

Yes, it's true - Space Rat will come back. A mind-blowing combination of classic adventure game and Ziggy, the Space Rat, which enriched the ASM until lastly.

By some kind words certainly the team would be willing to develop for the Amiga, too. The news of November 17 already question that, for example.

Last but not least I would like to cite the Tukult team, for I even wasn't able to say it better: 'So, if you also belong to those people grown up with rubber chicken with snap-hooks underside and jerrycans on Mars, it is to say that you've discoverd the Holy Grail by comming to this page.'

There's only one thing left for me to say in this sense: 'Ziggy to the (A)miggy!' (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)


 BTTR: Golf - Leaderboard und World Class Leaderboard
The Back to the Roots team wrote:
In a surprising move Microsoft allowed us to include the golf simulations from Access Software, a company which they acquired two years ago. Enjoy 'Leaderboard' and 'World Class Leaderboard'. 'Links' will come online soon, too.

Please visit BTTR for a full list of all games which have been added or you'll miss masterpieces like Realms, Thexder, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Super Skidmarks CD32 and many others.

As usual many scene-demos, music files and pictures have been added to our archive. (sd)

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18.Nov.2001
Stefan Popp (E-Mail)


 AMIGA 2001: Report by Stefan Popp
Stefan Popp wrote:
Here my small report about the 2001 Amiga show (absolute subjective and incomplete).

There were more booths than the last time (about 12). Unfortunately they took that good advantage of the exhibition space, that the walks between the booths were quite narrow, which lead to bothering tailbacks.

Bplan
Like known Bplan is creating a PPC machine. This was presented run capable. I've seen MorphOS. Reportedly Linux was no problem, too.

A complete machine (20GB HD, 128MB RAM, ...) was said to cost about 1,000 Euro. But the boards would be available solitary, too (from distributors, but not from BPlan directly).

The problem about this whole thing: The system still is at beta test stage, and if someone would order a certain amount of boards today, delivery would not be expected before end of 1Q02. Major reason for this: It is hard to get low quantities of the components.

To the question, how much of the specifications have been revealed, I was told, that the computer meets the Motorola Open-Bios conception and to adapt it to other operating systems would be no problem.

BPlan's documents consciously don't mention the Amiga, to not tie the machine down to some special field of application.

Elbox
Showed their busboards. Again, the TV card and the TV picture was presented as Workbench background.

Unfortunately the SharkPPC was shown inside a show-case.

Of course I asked, why this card wasn't performed. The employee illustrated, that though development would have been finished, but it would be to wait for AmigaOS4.0. Ermh, if I consider this, my questions actually wasn't answered by this statement. Allegedly the card would run with WarpOS drivers, too (so please, why to wait for 4.0). Well, doesn't make any difference, isn't that important, anyway. :).

Haage & Partner
Actually just showed Amithlon and AmigaXL on three computers.

Meal booth
Meat balls, noodle salad, coffee, and Snikers at cheap prices.

The lectures (at least those I attended)

1) Amithlon - Jürgen Haage
In advance: The room was to narrow and of bad equipment. Reportedly this also was due to the fact, that some parts did not survive the transport to Cologne. But, after some bricolage everything worked.

Mr. Haage explained the step to develop the Amiga emulator with the good availability of and the cheap prices for PC hardware.

The price for the complete package is at 299DM (incl. Kick 3.1, OS 3.9, QNX, Arteffects, AmiWriter, and StormC3.0 ).

According to Mr. Haage the development of the emulation bases on UAE. Amithlon utilizes a Linux kernel in addition, which was said to simplify the implementation of additional hardware. AmigaXL uses QNX as 'hosting' operating system.

2) Hyperion about the subject Amiga 4.0
Amiga Ltd. did not attend the show. And to say it honestly, nobody missed them. Some kind of announcement sure would have coused people to shake their heads, again.

The lecture was done by the CEO of Hyperion (I just forgot the name). The facts in short:

Hyperion and H&P obtaind a license for a PPC port. With the help of many developers (with H&P and Hyperion as the core team) the OS will be ported step by step. At first the TCP/IP stack, Exec and possibly DOS. Furthermore there is a new library concept.
  • In the beginning memory protection will be limited to prevent access to not allocated memory.
  • New Warp3D will be implemented (with Matrox-, Permedia3-, and Radon1/2 support).
  • WarpInput for input device management.
  • Generic PCI drivers to better integrate the different PCI boards (hardware drivers will have to be developed only once, at last).
  • USB support.
  • New TCP/IP stack ('Roadshow').
  • Picasso96 as standard in a PPC native version.
  • It's said to run on any PPC Amiga, while Blizzard cards might suffer from low performance.
  • 68k emulation (JIT version) will be integrated.
  • AmigaDE will be on it.
  • Java was sait to come, too (but not already in the initial version).
  • Price: In the range of AmigaOS V3.5 or V3.9.
  • Amiga ZorroII and ZorroIII would be supported (at least the most prevalent cards).
  • PPC datatypes.
  • AHI for Sound.
A version would be available from January, already.

I could not keep more in mind. Maby someone would publish the Scala presentation.

The CEO of Hyperion wasn't very optimistic in regard of AmigaOne, Shark, BPlan. One reason to decide to port 4.0 to existing hardware and to not let down the owners of PPC cards. The OS theoretically runs on any PPC hardware.

But nothing was performed. Explanation: Due to the still bad look one would get a bad impression, which just would cause people to review things from a wrong point of view.

At the booth of Haage&Partner I was told, that a PPC native version of the AmigaOS would have been possible already two years ago, but Gateway would have disliked that. I think this is nothing new, but to celebrate the day I once more was happy about it . (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)


 Virus Help Denmark: Chat-Room
«The Virus Help Teams around the World has opened a chat room, where you can chat with members of any Virus Help Team (if we are in the room), and other members that might have some virus problems. To coincide with being a browser-friendly environment, we have not left any chatters hanging, without a way to join up with us to chit-chat, the easy way.

No JavaScript or IRC program is required. All you need to do is register your handle, with a password, and come on in. :-) The Handle registration link, is found on the login page.

Please bear in mind, this is a family type chat room, and all normal courtesies and language is expected. Thank you

The chat time is set at Eastern Standard Time (EST), so if you would like to check the EST zone against your own, you can check the time zone at the log-in page.

You can join our chat-room at this address: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/vht-chat.htm.

(Thanks to Charlene VHT-Canada, for setting this chat-room up)» (sd)

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18.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Live Amiga 2001 webcam at amigaforever.info
Pictures from Cloanto's live webcam at the Amiga 2001 show are online at amigaforever.info. (ps)

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18.Nov.2001



 AMIGA 2001: The first day's pictures
Here you will find a selection of pictures from the first day of the AMIGA 2001 in Cologne, taken for amiga-news.de by Meike Hilke:


Maciek Binek (Elbox)
Elbox Computer
Projekt Crashsite - Denis Comtesse / Markus Pohlmann

Vesalia Computer
DCE
Guido Does (Vesalia)

Titan Computer / DCE
bPlan / Titan Computer
Gerald Carda (Development bPlan)

Fabio Trotta (No Risc No Fun)
Titan Computer
Dennis Lohr (Psyria Music)

DCE (Michael Göken present G-REX )
Virtual Dimension (Messe-Video)
Amiga Club Deutschland

COOLbits / APC&TCP
Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) / Thomas Dellert (DCE)
Thomas Dellert (DCE) / ? / Toni Ianiri (Power Computing) / Petra Struck

Benno Markert / Martin Strobl (COOLbits)
APC&TCP Team



Richard Small (GTI)

"Orgasmatron" (GTI)
Markus Nerding (H&P)


Bill Buck / Raquel Velasco / Petro Tyschtschenko
Jürgen Haage (H&P)

Sebastian Brylka (Fun Time World) / Olaf Köbnik (Amiga Arena)
PEGASOS
Michael Battilana (Cloanto) presents Amiga Forever 5.0
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


 OOP4A: Update of the ODK released
Beside of little useful tools, e.g. to display formatted source code, there are new classes and features for the pre-processor, again.

OOP4A is a system to bring the world of objects to not object oriented programming languages. OOP4A is able to unite different programming languaes and offers certain run-time protection machineries.
A continuously extended online documentation is all time available on the homepage. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Markus Neervoort (E-Mail)


 AMIGA 2001: Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (AmigaPage)
You will find pictures from the Amiga 2001 taken by Markus Neervoort, AmigaPage, under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Nov.2001



 AMIGA 2001: first report
To give you first impressions of the fair here's a beforehand report in which we concentrate on current hardware products.

Highly interesting is the first official presentation of the Pegasos computer on which the operating system MorphOS is running. Gerald Carda demonstrated us a test program that displays plasma effects. Not accelerated (68060 speed) the program displays 4 frames per second (FPS). The same program compiled for MorphOS shows 192 FPS.

In conversation with Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda we have got still more interesting information which we'll present comprehensive in our final report. This beforehand: Developer systems will be available in the beginning of January 2002, computers for end users will follow appr. 8 -12 weeks later.

The highlight of Haage&Partner is a x86 computer built into a luxury tower with stylish design and installed Amithlon. The corpus of the computer is of aluminium, the front side is made of azure blue plastic.

Of course, the developers of the PCI busboards didn't miss the show, either. Elbox presented their Mediator system and DCE the G-REX board.

Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development presented us the prototype of the Melody successor. In addition to the functions of the Melody has this card the following particularities:
  • MP3 audios can not only be decoded in real time but alos encoded.
  • Analogue mixer function
  • Digital input/output (optical/coaxial)


Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers presented us a preseries model of the interface card VarioIO that will be available before Christmas. The Delfina could unfortunately not be shown.

Based on a Logitech 2 buttons mouse Schönfeld has developed a real Amiga resp. Atari mouse. Here will the production begin in the next days, too.

Michael Böhmer presented his USB controller Subway with which you can connect common USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four external devices can be used without any additional hub. VMC has already started with the driver development. For now there are drivers for mouse and keyboard available. Planned are drivers for printers, digital cameras and scanners. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)


 MagicMenu 2.33 released
Mario Cattaneo wrote:
Version 2.33 of MagicMenu fixes (hopefully) the problems with the PPC support that was introduced in v2.32. (mj) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Nowee (E-Mail)


 Amiga-Workbench: OverShaker - Themes Website Updated
The makers of the 'OverShaker' website dedicate their efforts to prettify the Amiga-Workbench. There are themes for GUI tools like VisualPrefs and icon samples available for download. At the 'Work' area there are tips on how to deal with colours (palette) on the Workbench.

Somewhat few content on this site? Send your self-made themes and icons to Nowee, the webmaster, to get the site filled with content! (mj) (Translation: mj)

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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)


 Amiga-Info.net: pictures directly from the fair
On Saturday between 10.00 and 12.00 o'clock there'll be the first pictures from the Amiga 2001 at Amiga-Info.net. As we are at the fair the next update of our site will be at around 18.00 o'clock.
P.S.: Hopefully the equipment won't fail. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 V3.61 of ISAcatweasel.device
Just before the finishing of the fair preparations we have managed to release a new version of the ISAcatweasel.device. The driver is downloadable from the support area (title link).

Note by Jens Schönfeld:
The driver is "blindly" programmed, I therefore ask the users with a working Amithlon system to try the device. For the time being it is only possible to read from disks, the writing is locked yet (floppy disks appear as being write protected). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)


 amiga-topcool: interview with ACBB
Amiga-topcool has interviewed the PR director of the Amiga-Club-Berlin-Brandburg (see title link). He's talking about the club life and his expectation of the Amiga fair. Read also his sum up regarding the AmigaOS XL (he'd been one of the first being able to test it). Additionally he's talking about the club's future plans and what Thomas Nosutta is doing when he's not busy on his Amiga. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)


 SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC available
After a long waiting it is time again. SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC is now available at SuSE GmbH and at the retailers. 8 CDs contain more than 2000 software packages. To mention only a small selection of new software here are some examples:

KOffice, OpenOffice, Ogg/Vorbis (DivX), KDE 2.2.1, Gnome 1.4.1
But the distribution's highlight should be the availability of the filesystems Ext3, JFS and ReiserFS (all journaling filesystems).

As in the past I'll create an installation guide for Amiga systems. In any case I'll let you know when these are available on the net. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Club Deutschland


 Webcam and Shoutcast stream from the Amiga 2001
The Amiga-Club Germany offers some fair atmosphere to all interested people staying at home:
Under 195.185.110.189:8000 is a Shoutcast audio stream available, under http://www.a500.de/webcam/ a webcam recording at least the happenings on the lower floor.
And there's an "official" Amiga2001 IRC channel (linux.us.amiganet.org #amiga 2001) where you can always reach us during the fair. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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