16.Apr.2001
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New amiga-news.de main page
You sure realized by coming here today, we implemented our English news page to the same
PHP-system already used for our German page, since some time.
Now you are able to chose your preferred and private settings for displaying the start page.
There are several possibilities you can chose from the buttons above. You can determine if the page
should be displayed showing complete news messages (standard button) or with a compact version of
each message on it (compact button). You can also determine the number of messages shown or if you
rather want a titles only version (titles only button), and all that for a certain number of days.
Just play around with the buttons and press 'Show' to find out what meets your needs, best. Default
setting is 'Per page 3 days - titles only'. Furthermore you can chose if you only want messages
regarding Amiga to be displayed or if you want to see other messages, too. Just tag/untag the
respective check-box.
Once you found your preferred settings you can update your bookmark to have this available all the time.
You can also use the cookies function to have a cookie saved with your settings (check-box).
If you prefer the prior display use
amiga-news.de/en/news/standard/ for
your bookmark.
One more feature is the possibility for you to comment news messages. To do so click on the "Comments:" link
below any news message or on the number below the comments item to the right of the respective message
in the title only version.
We hope you like the new possibilities. Have fun!
Supplement 03 June 2001
Sorry, the system doesn't work properly, by now. For example it is not possible to change settings.
Be sure, we are working on it.
And sorry for the wrong date of this message, too. We are also working on that problem. We ask you for
your understanding.
Supplement 03 June 2001
Everything seems to work now, incl. changing settings for the start page. There's just this date thing left, but
only for this message. I'm currently not able to post messages for the English page, only. This might change
in the future. If you encounter any problem using the new start page, please mail me or post
a comment to this message.
Update 01.05.2002:
Accepting cookies new and updated messages will be presented in bold stamp.
Update 04.01.2003:
Here you will find more changes.
Update 25.03.2004: voluntary registry in the comment area
More details see in the following messages: 09.03.2004,
19.03.2004 and
24.03.2004.
Please, tell us what do you think about the new features!
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16.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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New Reviews by GFX-GAMES-DATABASE
This time we examined the new Workbench-game MagicNumbers and we made MacOSX-like imageset available.
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16.Apr.2001
AROS-ML - Aaron Digulla
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AROS News
Since there has been some confusion, here are some reliable
infos about the relationship between AROS and MorphOS.
MorphOS wants to provide an Amiga clone and they need some
code to fill gaps in their emulation (for example, parts of
Intuition). They asked us if they could use our work and,
being an open source project, we "allowed" them to port
parts of AROS to MorphOS.
This is exactly the same what we did when Haage&Partner
approached us whether they can use our Colorwheel gadget
in OS 3.9 which we "allowed", too.
I say "allowed" because that is essentially what we want
them to do :-) AROS is meant as a test laboratory to develop
new technologies which might prove useful for the next
versions of the AmigaOS. We do this independently of
Amiga Inc, MorphOS and H&P but always with the goal to
provide them with something useful as well as providing
adventurous Amiga users with something that feels quite
familiar.
So AROS and MorphOS have not "joined forces" or become
one project. MorphOS just uses part of our work which
is what our work is meant for.
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16.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 96K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.6-full
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 412K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 19K+V1.5, YAM2-like Toolbars for TaskiSMS 2.
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 33K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
MWI-SDV31.lha demo/mag 1.1M+SAVE DA VINYL #31 - packmag by Madwizard
BlitzLstMar01.lha dev/basic 35K+Blitz mailing list archives for March 20
JMildred_ScrMd.lha dev/basic 140K+How to use Mildred+BBasic with GFXCards
d65.lha dev/cross 51K+A symbolic 65xx disassembler
Comal.v3.4.lha dev/lang 521K+Comal v3.40
m2latex.lha dev/m2 65K+LaTeX files from Modula-2 and Pascal sou
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 132K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
BlackIRC1.1PL.lha docs/help 11K+Polish Locale for BlackIRC1.1
Lupe1.9PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for Lupe1.9
saku36.lha docs/mags 1.7M+Saku #36 (2/2001). Finnish e-zine.
Spy3dgame.lha game/2play 133K+3D game beta for WB (Balrog Soft)
GS650-68k.lha gfx/conv 816K+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50r2 68k binary
GS650-Data.lha gfx/conv 1.9M+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 data archive
GS650-Fonts.lha gfx/conv 2.6M+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 fonts archive
GS650-PPC.lha gfx/conv 905K+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50r2 WarpOS binary
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 90K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 723K+V1.60 PSX MemoryCard Reader
Dictionar.lha misc/edu 207K+Vocabulary trainer for Your data
DIGIOchmann09.lha misc/edu 127K+Versatile and user friendly vocabulary d
HexCon.lha misc/math 16K+Simple Hex <-> Dec <-> Bin converter
sprawl.mpg mods/elbie 5.3M+Sprawl Pneumatique [electro] by ElbiE^t1
TheX0XPackage1.lha mus/edit 44K+A set of editors for the TR-X0X & TB303
mattaki.lha pix/misc 214K+[ancor] just a practise
BlazeWCP.lha util/boot 31K+Very fast Replacement for the OS chunky
fblit.lha util/boot 171K+V3.73a Use CPU in place of the blitter.
killAGA2.5.lha util/misc 4K Run old demos on A1200/4000 hard drives.
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 253K+VirusExecutor v2.10
freakbar.lha util/wb 2K+Toolbar. V1.2.
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16.Apr.2001
V³ Portal
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V³ Beta Image Decoder Version 18.1
Oliver Wagner released a new betaversion of the image-decoder for Voyager 3.3.
The decoder is available for
AmigaOS and
MorphOS.
Attention: This release is only works with Voyager 3.3 (not 3.2 or 3.2.13 !!!).
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16.Apr.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback Update 3 Released
Apex Designs released the third update for the game
Payback.
The update is available here.
The current demoversion can be found here.
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16.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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URL of PlayGUI Changed
The PlayGUI-support page is now available at http://playgui.tsx.org.
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15.Apr.2001
ANN
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Finnish Amiga Users Group has a New URL
The website of the 'Finnish Amiga Users Group', which is also known as online-magazine
'Saku', is now available under this more easy to remember URL
http://saku.amigafin.org/english/.
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15.Apr.2001
ANN
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Interview with Hans-Joerg Frieden
An interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion) has been released at Digital
Dream Arena. The interview contains information about several areas. At the beginning
Hans-Joerg Frieden describes how he started put with programming and then how he made his way
to learn 3D programming. The following paragraph talks about the creation of Hyperion and the
port of Heretic II and Shogo for the Amiga, which is close to finishing now.
At the end, the interview describes the motivation to develop Warp3D and MiniGL for the Amiga as
well as a statement about AmigaOS V4.x and AmigaDE.
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15.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VirusExecutor V2.12
On April 15th 2001, Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.12 of the virus killer
'VirusExecutor'. Compared to former versions, the following changes have been
made:
- The'Bastard'-Link virus can now be recognized and removed.
(Thanks to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for analysing this virus.)
- The 'TeamMOS TCP'-Trojan has been renamed to 'Zakahackandpatch'.
Furthermore a small error in the decrypting code has been removed.
Name : VirusExecutor v2.12
Archive name : VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 262.139 bytes
Release date : 15 April 2001
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
Requires : xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
Download: VirusExecutor.lha (256K),
Readme
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15.Apr.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail
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Graphic Adventure Engine 'INGA'
The graphic-adventure-engine 'INGA' now has got a homepage at
Inutilis which contains technical information as well
as the current development status.
'INGA' is an engine for graphic-adventures (Amiga) like Monkey Island 3, which has been
developed for graphic boards. There is already a game which is being developed using this system,
Ermentrud,
and more are planned.
The engine includes also a comfortable developer-package which is also presented at the homepage.
This will allow everyone to design their own adventures.
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15.Apr.2001
CyberGFX
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Warp3D: Voodoo3 Status
Thomas Frieden(Warp3D, Hyperion) has posted information about the status of the Voodoo3-driver
for Warp3D to the
Amiga-Mediator-Mailinglist.
The driver is now stable - even after 3 hours of continuous graphics output it didn't crash.
The command-FIFO does not work yet, so the speed is still bad.
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15.Apr.2001
Fun Time World
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New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
On April 14th, 2001 the 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' has been
expanded.
Following new entries have been added:
- ISDN Surfer
- Amigo Ethernet
- Amigo Serial
- Shuffleboard
In addition to this there are different, smaller updates, new pictures and
correction of a link. The complete list of changes can be found
here
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15.Apr.2001
Fun Time World
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Spitfire²: YAMSync V1.0
Version 1.0 of the YAMSync-Plugin for the Palm-Desktop 'Spitfire²' by Ralph Torchia has
been released. This version is only available for registered users. Additionally, the
whole website has been reworked.
Spitfire² offers different possibilities to communicate with Palm-PDAs from 3Com, including
data-synchronisation with the Amiga.
Download:
YAMSync.lha (44K)
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15.Apr.2001
amiga.org
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Interview with Peter Molyneux (Populous, Black&White)
In MeriStation-Magazine an interview with Peter Molyneux has been released in Spanish.
Peter Molyneux is the game designer of Populous, Black&White and other successful games.
During the interview, Commodore and Amiga are named.
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15.Apr.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: Obligement #26
The current issue of the french Amiga-Online-Magazine 'Obligement' is available
for download.
Issue #26 contains amongst others a report about the fair in St. Louis, interviews
with Fleecy Moss, Oliver Roberts and Georges Halvadjian(Author of Perfect Paint), tests of
Earth 2140 as well as Payback and much more.
Download:
obligement26.lha (804K)
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15.Apr.2001
Martin McKenzie via E-Mail
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Imagine 3D Support-Website with New URL
The support-website of Imagine 3D will be available from now on under the following, newly
registered domain http://www.cadtechnologies.co.uk
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This is why the E-Mail adresses have changed too. Please use the following from now on:
sales@cadtechnologies.co.uk
support@cadtechnologies.co.uk
comments@cadtechnologies.co.uk
webmaster@cadtechnologies.co.uk
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15.Apr.2001
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Happy Easter Holidays!
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15.Apr.2001
#AmigaZeux in EuIRC on ANF
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dynAMIte CD-Edition Needs Pre-Orders
When we distributed 150 preview disks at the World of Amiga 2000 in Cologne,
we didn't know how the Amiga community would accept the then still very young
project of a TCP/IP-Dynablaster. During March 2001 we have made dynAMIte available
for free download after a long beta test stage. Our website recorded 8000 visitors
since December and there are 326 players recorded in the general database, which
have played several 10.000 games on different servers.
The success of dynAMIte has encouraged us to improve the game even more : A cd-version
with many special features, especially for fans of the explosive rods and a very
affordable price is in preparation.
However we have a small problem with the realisation at the moment:
dynAMIte is Freeware and it will remain freeware - however we can't offer the CD-Version
and its extras for free. Since the project includes a financial risk for us, we would be
very happy to receive binding pre-orders - the price will be approximately 30,- DM (15 Euro)
including shipping with prepayment. To be able to realize the project we need 100
pre-orders from private customers.
Those who are interested to give us their money in exchange of a fancy silver disk with even
more distinguished contents, can report this here.
You can however only report your general interest there.
Retailers can bindingly order the game exclusively at AMISOURCE and will obtain a discount,
there is no retail at GTI (as long as they don't order at our place themselves).
Retailers please use this form!
We thank all the persons that supported us
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14.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Golem: Apple brings Darwin to x86 CPUs, too
»Foundation of MacOS X now also as a x86 Version
With version 1.3.1 Apple now puts a new version of Darwin online,
the MacOS X core. With this for the first time an official ISO image
for x86 systems exists. The Darwin core bases on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0
technologies and offers "protected memory" and "pre-emptive multitasking".
Darwin runs on PowerPC based Macintosh machines as well as on x86 compatibles.
«
Complete article (German) under the title link.
Apparently Apple has recognized that almost everybody has an x86 at home and
offer their OS for them.
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14.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: IBM brings PowerPC for Internet Appliances
»The days of 'one-size-fits-all' for PC micro processor are gone", claimed
Scottie Ginn, Vize President of "Pervasive Technology" at IBM
Microelectronics. Reason for this wholehearted announcement: the presentation
of a system-on-a-chip solution for Internet appliances such as Web-Pads or
Surf-Terminals. The so called PowerPC Internet Appliance Platform (IAP) builds
on a PowerPC CPU and implements memory, LCD interfaces, as well as an Touch-Screen
interface together in that chip. According to IBM the chip is considered to cost
about 60USD as for OEM quantities.
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Complete article (German) see title link.
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14.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark Report Infected Archive
A new infected archive was found. The archive was infected by "Hitch-Hiker 4.11".
Here are the details:
Archive name: FlySwatter.lzx
Archive size: 219772 Bytes
Archive description: AmiTCP/IRC/War Client
Archive info: Flyswatter is an IRC assault program for AMITCP...
Be sure to read the program history
This is the Digital Corruption release of FlySwatter
This release has barely been tested.
Infected files: WarToolz/fakemailer (23.504 Bytes)
WarToolz/mflash ( 9.444 Bytes)
WarToolz/qmail_exploit (11.364 bytes)
All common anti-virus programs can detect the HitchHiker 4.11 link virus.
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14.Apr.2001
Achim Klopsch on ANF
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iFusion is Shipping
As a pre-orderer after 18 month of waiting I received the iFusion today, at last.
The longish longed for PPC version of the MAC emulator for my AMIGA.
A for now Cybergfx 3 and 4 are supported. There is no "direct" support for Picasso96, yet.
A "new world class" MAC OS version is needed. The OS included with the MACs was said not
to work. In contrast to that the version available from the vendors was said to work.
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13.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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New VEPatch.Brain for VirusExecutor Version 1.30
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.30
Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 22.057 Bytes
Release date: 13. April 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Changes since last version:
fastlayers.library v40.48
rtg.library 40.3945 + 40.3992
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13.Apr.2001
Pawel Filipczak on ANF
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TaskiSMS Version 2.53 Released
The new version 2.53 of TaskiSMS has been released.
New in this version:
- bugfixed ICQ plug-in and ICQ UIN/password preferences added
- reduced stack usage for "about" window
- some bugs in the program functions fixed
- updated Lycos plug-in
- HandyLand plug-in added
- "do not wait for server response" added so that the sending of SMS is speeded up
- 50 new countries added to the support list
- some missing bubble helps added
- Jumpy plug-in deleted
This program allows you to send SMS to mobile phones in 160 countries of the world. The program
can be downloaded either from the TaskiSMS-homepage or
from Aminet Aminet.
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13.Apr.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Executive Update by Bill McEwen
Bill McEwen - April 12, 2001
Greetings to one and all:
What a wonderful time it was for us in St. Louis. I must thank our hosts Bob and Diana Scharp
and all of the members of the Gateway Amiga Club. They once again outperformed and kept things rolling.
I want to make very clear what the announcements were and what it means for Amiga and the rest of the Amiga Family.
- Amiga has made NO change in strategy with AmigaDE. Things are going great, as expected, and
we have some impressive new customers; Sharp being the first.
- Amiga OS 4.0 and beyond was announced. This is a staged series of releases that will bring a native
port of the AmigaOS to the PPC. This is NOT about WarpOS, vs. anybody. It is an Amiga Inc. port
of the OS. You may infer nothing else from this.
- AmigaOne A1200 is the first new hardware, for the Amiga, and we are still planning a standalone ATX
board and other new pieces of hardware. AmigaOne for the A1200 will be out this summer. We are then
looking at releases later in the year, for the new standalone designs.
Summary:
- AmigaDE doing great and on target with the goals that we set forth and we will continue development efforts.
- AmigaOS 4.0 out this summer with the first of the AmigaOne Zico specification machines.
- Sharp is a new partner of Amiga Incorporated. More will soon be released about our relationship.
- There will be more partners and more announcements soon.
- This is a great time to be part of the Amiga Family.
- For more in-depth information there is a new technical update to be posted later today.
I thank you all for your support and look forward to a very exciting year before us!
Sincerely,
Bill McEwen, and the rest of the team at Amiga, Inc.
Update:
As promised in McEwen's Executive Update, meanwhile technical details are available:
Technical Update Part 1
Technical Update Part 2
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12.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 15.2 Released
Version 15.2 of Safe was released. Viruses can be detected by Safe, but not removed from the system.
Here the details:
Name: Safe v15.2
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 28.873 Bytes
Release date: 12. April 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: needs xvs.library v33.24
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12.Apr.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
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WarpJPEG V44.20 & WarpPNG V44.15 Datatypes Available
On Oliver Robert's homepage new versions of his JPEG & PNG datatypes for 68k and WOS were
released.
Download at the title link.
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12.Apr.2001
Lars Decker on ANF
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Amiga under QNX
Here the Amiga is mentioned as multitasking system, shortly.
It is interesting that the Amiga used runs under QNX.
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12.Apr.2001
Elbox
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Elbox Website with New Design
The Elbox website has got a completely new look enabling easy navigation, now.
But the site seems to be under construction, yet. Most of the buttons still don't
contain any information. For example under 'Download' there isn't the driver software
expected for download.
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12.Apr.2001
Raymond Zachariasse via E-Mail
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The GUI Research (TGR)
At TGR at this time a survey on the new AmigaDE's graphical user interface (GUI)
is organized. Under 'Survey' you can find more details and the queries.
Bringing the next UI design and engineering into the new millennium
....your vote could change the future of Amiga's GUI...
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12.Apr.2001
AMIPRESS-ML
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Amiga Inc. and Elbox Announce Relationship
April 11, 2001, Snoqualmie, Washington, USA.
Amiga Inc and Elbox working together for Amiga OS 4.0 and beyond
Amiga Inc is pleased to announce a long term relationship with Elbox
Computer Ltd of Krakow, Poland. Amiga Inc announced the development
of AmigaOS4, the latest version of the high performance, user friendly
operating system that introduced multimedia to the world at the St Louis
trade and user show on the 31st March 2001. To support AmigaOS4, Amiga
Inc also released the Zico hardware specification targeted at PowerPC
processors. Elbox Computer Ltd are working closely with Amiga Inc to
ensure that their existing and future products will gain Zico
certification, and thus provide a perfect platform for AmigaOS4.
'St Louis marked the beginning of the future.' said Bill McEwen,
President and CEO of Amiga Inc. 'Key to that is the Amiga community
moving forwards in a single direction, united and determined. With
Elbox as a partner, another key Amiga company has joined the drive
forwards towards success.'
'Our long-term commitment to computer technology is now giving tangible
results in the Amiga market,' said Maciek Binek, CEO of Elbox. 'Now,
with the Amiga Inc. initiative, we can see a clear sign of future-oriented
thinking and strategy, a breakthrough for this computer. We hope Amiga will
soon again become the common word.'
'Elbox have taken a major role in not just supporting the existing Amiga
market with their many products but also in providing a path forwards.'
said Fleecy Moss, CTO of Amiga Inc. "Our relationship with them will
ensure that their existing customers can benefit from AmigaOS4 whilst
new users coming to the Amiga will have additional excellent choices in
the hardware that they can buy.'
AmigaOS4 is currently under development and will ship in Summer 2001.
Elbox products can already be purchased from all major Amiga dealers,
and their next new product, the SharkPPC+ will be available along with
the premiere of the AmigaOS4 system.
About Amiga:
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting
applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware
agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group
of Reading England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE (*¹) based
applications
can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000,
R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run
hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4.
Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has
offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga
on the web at http://www.amiga.com.
About Elbox:
Elbox Computer Ltd of Krakow, Poland is a privately held company that
has been in business since 1982, and has grown rapidly from its
industrial systems roots, now having a significant presence in
peripherals, multimedia systems, high performance motherboards,
enclosures, application software and general computer subsystems.
Its products are used throughout the world and set a new standard
in price, performance and customer satisfaction. For further
information, please send an email to
info@elbox.com or visit
Elbox website at http://www.elbox.com
*¹Was corrected from AmigaOS into AmigaDE by Amiga Inc..)
Translations: Spanisch von SAUG
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11.Apr.2001
Haage&Partner
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Update Patches for StormC4
There is a first update for StormC which solves several problems and improves
as well as completes the support of Mixed Binaries and Shared Libraries.
Download site.
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11.Apr.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak via E-Mail
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Elbox: S3 ViRGE Driver for Mediator
Elbox announces of having completed the official driver for S3 ViRGE PCI-cards
which can be used on the Mediator Busboard. According to Elbox the drivers are 100%
compatible to Picasso96 and support the complete 2D-hardware of the cards.
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11.Apr.2001
scenet.de
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Amiga Music Preservation - Major Update
Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) has got a new design and a lot of new information.
AMP which has been founded by Curt Cool and Crown is a powerful collection of modules of
demo scene musicians meanwhile on 16 (!) CDs in all which additionally offers information
to well-known scene musicians as well as over 200 interviews!
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11.Apr.2001
Martin Elsner via E-Mail
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FTPMount Version 1.3
In addition to ClassAction I have uploaded FTPMount on my homepage.
This is an improved version (1.3) of the program which was developed by Evan Scott and Thies Wellpott.
With FTPMount you can handle FTP-sites just like directories on a harddrive.
Download: ftpmount.lha -
137 kB
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11.Apr.2001
Andreas Kuerzinger via E-Mail
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AKTaskiSMS v1.5
On the homepage of Andreas Kürzinger you can download version 1.5 of AKTaskiSMS from now on.
It is a German catalog for TaskiSMS2.5 as well as two alternative toolbars in YAM2-style
(MWB- as well as RomIcons-colours) and an icon in 32-colourful AKIconGold-design.
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11.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF
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NRNF: Interview with Oliver Smiles (Abode of Golgotha)
At No Risc No Fun you can find an English interview with Olvier Smiles. He created the great
Abode of Golgotha Saga (H2 AddOn) which we have recently tested for you. The TaskiSMS 2.52
review at our site is also rather new. We have added 120st screenshot to our WB gallery. Come
and find out how you can design your system more beautiful.
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11.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Chip: First Details to Matrox G550 Graphic Chip
»On the English spoken hardware-website there are specifications and details
to the new graphic chip by Matrox for the first time. The next Matrox-graphic card is
to be called G550 and have the following features:
- Made in 0,18 micrometer-process
- 1x, 2x and 4x AGP
- 360 MHz RAMDAC
- 32 MByte DDR SDRAM
- OpenGL- and DirectX-API-Support
- 256-Bit DualBus-Architecture
- Matrox Extended Dual-Head-Function
- Vibrant Color Quality2 Rendering-Technique
- Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping (EMB)
- Matrox Skinning
- Displacement Mapping
- Ultra Sharp DAC
- Integrated TV-out DAC
- High-quality DVD-Playback
Reactor critical refers to an "unofficial" source, but which is supposed to be very reliable.«
See title link for full article.
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11.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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The Register: PowerPC G5 to hit 2GHz (Update)
»Motorola is pushing ahead with the design of the PowerPC 7500 -
aka G5 - company sources have claimed, according to a report over at
MacOS Rumors.
We're sure they are, but we're not so sure the report's claims are
entirely accurate except in a very broad sense. The report's information
is a little too close to the details displayed on Motorola's last publicly
released roadmap, dating back to September 1999.
According to the report, the G5 will boast speeds of 2GHz and up,
"full-performance backward-compatibility", 512KB of on-die L2 cache a new
memory architecture and a modular design allowing the company to offer
multi-core chips. It will be fabbed at 0.1 micron using silicon-on-insulator
construction.«
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11.Apr.2001
Benjamin Yoris via E-Mail
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Hyperion Entertainment welcomes Amiga`s OS4 Strategy
In the aftermath of the recent announcement by Amiga Inc. that the Classic
Amiga OS would be ported to PPC, many users have asked us to comment on the
technical merit of Amiga's OS 4 strategy and what it would mean for games
and 3D graphics.
Prior to Amiga's announcement, senior software engineers of Hyperion
Entertainment identified the key bottlenecks in the Amiga OS which hampered
the performance of our games: the slow 68K based filesystem, the 68K based
RTG system, the lack of virtual memory and the dual CPU architecture of the
current PPC boards which generates performance-crippling context switches.
Amiga OS 4 will address all these issues and do much more.
We can confidently predict that with Amiga OS 4, users can look forward to
performance levels never before seen on the Amiga.
Hyperion Entertainment has therefore signed on to develop the 3D API for
Amiga OS 4 and provide a fully featured OpenGL(tm) implementation through
Mesa 3.4.
All our current and future game-titles will take full advantage of
everything that OS 4 has to offer.
Unlike some who unashamedly claim that « games don't play an important role
anymore in the current Amiga market », we are committed to once more make
the name « Amiga » synonymous with top-quality entertainment software.
Senior staff-members of Hyperion Entertainment will continue to work with
Amiga Inc. to ensure that Amiga OS 4 will provide everything game-developers
need to accomplish the goal of putting Amiga back at the forefront of gaming
and 3D graphics.
Ben Yoris
Hyperion Entertainment Software
PR Manager
Web: http://www.hyperion-software.com
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10.Apr.2001
Fabian Zaengel on ANF
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New Infos about AmigaOne
You will find new pictures of the AmigaOne in an Amiga- and ATX-towercase and
the latest FAQ and information for dealers at the title link.
At http://www.egroups.com/messages/amigaone
you can find an interesting forum
where Fleecy (Amiga, Inc.), Eyetech, and Hyperion are answering questions about
the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.x. A homepage for the operating system is planned for
this week.
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10.Apr.2001
VirusHelpDenmark
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New Link Virus Found
A new linkvirus was found. Until now it is not known which archive installs the
virus, but "Safe V15.1" is able to find it. More details at the title link.
Download: Safe.lha
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10.Apr.2001
VirusHelpDenmark
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VirusExecutor v2.11 Released
Version 2.11 of VirusExecutor, the virus killer, is released. This update can
handle the TCP-trojan (we reported). Details:
name: VirusExecutor v2.11
archive: VirusExecutor.lha
archive size: 258.521 bytes
release date: 10. April 2001
coder: Jan Erik Olausen
needed: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
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10.Apr.2001
Thomas Steiding via E-Mail
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e.p.i.c. ports "The Feeble Files" to MAC and MorphOS
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh has signed a license agreement to port
Adventuresoft's cartoon adventure "The Feeble Files" to the MACINTOSH.
The game puts you to play an alien called Feeble who works for the crop circle
division of a dictatorial government but somehow get involved in a rebellion to
overthrow the system. But you will quickly learn that Rebellion really has never
looked so pAtHeTiC.
The MAC version will require a 180 Mhz PPC CPU, MacOS 8.6 or higher and 32 MByte
Ram. The game is scheduled for release in May 2001. You will find more detail on
the game in the projects section of our homepage.
A version for the alternative PPC OS MorphOS is also planned.
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10.Apr.2001
Thorsten Will via E-Mail
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"SECRETLY!"(DemoScene) Looking for GFX Artist
"SECRETLY!" is looking for some gfx artists for future projects (demos and so on).
If you are interested, send some examples of your work and a little bit about
yourself to twill@gmx.de or to
mr.vain@secretly.de.
Some information about the group you will find at the title link.
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