20.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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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).
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20.Nov.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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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
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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)
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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.
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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)
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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.
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20.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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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.
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20.Nov.2001
Frank Duessel (ANF)
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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.
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20.Nov.2001
Matthias Bethke (E-Mail)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
Costel Mincea (ANF)
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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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20.Nov.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)
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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
3sat (ANF)
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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)
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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.
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20.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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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
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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)
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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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19.Nov.2001
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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
(640 x 480) |
Elbox
03_Elbox1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox
04_Elbox2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox
05_Elbox3.jpg
(640 x 480) |
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
08_GRex2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
G-Rex
08a_GRex.jpg
(640 x 480) |
H&P
09_H&P.jpg
(640 x 480) |
amiga-news.de interview with Hyperion
10_Hyperion_Int1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
....
11_Hyperion_Int2.jpg
(480 x 640) |
...
12_Hyperion_Int3.jpg
(480 x 640) |
...
13_Hyperion_Int4.jpg
(480 x 640) |
... still the same interview
14_Hyperion_Int5.jpg
(640 x 480) |
...
15_Hyperion_Int6.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Pegasos
17_Pegasos1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Pegasos tower (Vesalia)
18_Pegasos2.jpg
(480 x 640) |
Pegasos
20_Pegasos4.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Pegasos
21_Pegasos5.jpg
(640 x 480) |
USB-Subway (Prototype,
pre series, series build)
22_USB-SUBWAY~1.JPG
(640 x 407) |
... final product
23_USB-SUBWAY~2.JPG
(640 x 497) |
VarIO
24_VarIO.jpg
(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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ANN
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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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18.Nov.2001
ANN
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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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 |
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Richard Small (GTI) |
"Orgasmatron" (GTI) |
Markus Nerding (H&P) |
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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)
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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)
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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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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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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16.Nov.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback: One New And Three Update Maps Available
One new map has been added to the
Extra Maps Page,
along with three updated ones. Don't forget that you can buy your own
copy of the game anywhere in the world using our
secure on-line shop.
Also, Amigalien has announced that he has added French and German
discussion lists (as well as a textures page) to
his Payback site.
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Cloanto
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 5.0 / Cloanto at AMIGA 2001
Amiga Forever 5.0 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM, CD-ROM
Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform Online Edition.
Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two major
needs of many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga software and data
on non-Amiga hardware, and to share data between Amiga and other systems.
Additionally, software, tutorial and reference files which are likely to
be of interest to any Amiga enthusiast are included.
Features include:
- Just-in-time (JIT) version of emulation software, carefully
configured and publicly
benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous
versions of Amiga Forever
- Software Manager, an advanced content delivery system developed by
Cloanto, for easy and privacy-conscious management of all
emulation-related components (updates, downloads, news, etc.)
- New and fully licensed Picasso96 software (not a shareware version)
- All software tested on Windows XP
- All Amiga ROMs up to version 3.1 (the last ROM that will ever be
available for the "Classic Amiga"!)
- CDTV and CD³² boot ROMs and extended ROMs (can be used to
play CDTV and CD³² games, even booting directly from CD-ROM)*
- MPEG-1 videos: The Deathbed Vigil (one hour and 58 minutes, i.e. the full version of this "must have" video) and Jay Miner Speech (49
minutes)*
- GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS "3.5", "3.9" and "XL", but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB)
- Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa
- Amiga Explorer 4.0 (includes revolutionary self-install over serial
cable, plus new Cut, Copy, Paste functions)
- Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware)
- TurboText (exclusive latest version with stack problem fix)
- Personal Paint 7.1b
- Built-in support for ADZ and DMS disk image files
- Print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows,
bypassing parallel port emulation)
- New MenuBox launcher
- New emulation and Workbench configuration results in even faster
emulation of the Amiga CPU
- Latest version of WinUAE and WinFellow tested by Cloanto
- Dozens of other enhancements and add-ons (drag-and-drop LhA,
ToolManager, etc.)
Cloanto at Amiga 2001 (Köln)
Seminars will be held at 12:45 on both Saturday, November 17 and Sunday,
November 18. You are most welcome to join the presentation of Amiga Forever
5.0, the demos, and the debates. (ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Dino Papararo (E-Mail)
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Fractal Graphic: FlashMandelWOS 1.5
Version 1.5 of FlashMandelWOS
has been uploaded on Aminet in gfx/fract
directory. With FlashMandel you can create fractal graphics.
This has changed in the new version:
- FlashMandel has a new Reaction-GUI. You need OS3.5 (or higher) for this feature. Now it's possible to use all features only by mouse.
- Added support for Localization for Italian and German languages, others are welcome ;-).
- A new installer-script makes it easy to install, update or delete FlashMandel.
- The ppc-routines are reworked, so the speed increases about 12%.
- Better print-routines for better output, now should be printed the whole A4 paper.
- Some minor internal changes and optimizations increasing compatibility with all future Amiga clones ;-).
- and much more...
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
David McMinn (ANF)
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Blitz2000 site updated
The Blitz-2000 site has finally had its design updated. It is an unofficial support site for all you Blitz Basic 2 coders :)
Feedback on the site would be welcome, especially how easy it is to read and understand the Programming section. Note: the mailing list archives and search engine are currently broken.
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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DigiBoosterPro update
An English version of the unofficial homepage for DigiBoosterPro, the
popular tracker, is now online. It was created with the help of
translation software.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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15.Nov.2001
Batman (ANF)
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Game: "Dynamite" needs more active beta testers
Help: Development of DYNAMITE currently is about to stop due to a lack of participants.
Who wants to drop in for at least one houre twice a week at #amigazeux (example server: irc.amigazeux.de), run Enforcer, Muforce or Muforce&Muguardian, and would like to
discuss possible changes, as well, can announce his interest on the same IRC channel.
Or can contact the programmers via e-mail:
dynamite@amisource.de.
Thank you very much in advance.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
AMIGAplus
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Event: Seminar-events at AMIGA 2001
At AMIGA 2001 the visitors may take part in several seminars and
conferences to be held on both days between 11 and 17 o'clock, for
example:
- Amiga Forever (Cloanto)
- Amiga OS 4.0 (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Amiga OS XL (Haage & Partner)
- DigiBoosterPro (DBP Community)
- Freespace (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Mediator PCI (ELBOX Computer)
- FunMedia (Atari, Patrick Eickhoff)
- MINT/N.AES (Atari, woller systeme)
Furthermore of course there will be additional presentations, e.g. of
Pegasos and G-REX. (ps)
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15.Nov.2001
AMIGAplus
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Event: More exhibitors at AMIGA 2001
Three new exhibitors will attend the AMIGA 2001: "16/32-Bit Systems"
from Great Britain will offer new and well-known Amiga-products.
"Newsell" will concentrate on the sale and presentation of the Mac-
Clones by Umax. Visitors may buy equipment for their printers,
especially refill-sets, from "Refill 24".
(ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Eternity Computer
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Eternity: The 51,111th visitor wins a bonus
Eternity: "Unfortunately we have forgotten to organize a prize project for
customer # 50,000 and would like to make this up now :-). The user with a screenshot
for the 51,111th hit will gain a bonus of 50DM for the next product purchased from
Eternity. Please, send your screenshot to our
webmaster."
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Dreamolers
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Dreamolers: MP3TagEditor Version 2.0
After a very long time a new version of MP3TagEditor by Rybcia/D-CAPS was
released! MP3Tag is an ID3 tag editor for Mp3 files. It offers many
features like creating tags from filename or filename from tags. Program
uses MUI and id3tag.library.
For all those have been waiting for a GlowIcon style button set for
VisualPrefs we've got a nice surprise.
SHORT: Coll mp3 tag editor
AUTHOR: Rybcia/Dreamolers-CAPS
REQUIREMENTS: MUI, OS3.0, id3tag.library
Invented and developed by Rybcia/D-CAPS.
MP3TagEditor features: reads/saves ID3Tags version 1.0 to 2.4, has a nice
MUI based GUI, supports drag&drop and more...
Future: multiple selection, cooler GUI
Download: MP3TagEditor.lha (ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis v1.0.5 / xlHtml v0.3.9.5
You will find an update of the e-mail sender Anubis version 1.0.5 and an update
of the convertion tool xHtml version 0.3.9.5, which converts Excel/Powerpoint files
to HTML, on Fr3dY's Amiga webpage. Both programs are also available as MorphOS
versions.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Event: Dreamworlds Development on the show, too
Some people of the Dreamworlds team will put their machines at the booth of ATC&TCP
and presentate the current status of Crossfire II to the interested. Who would like to even may
take his favourit joystick with him and test the game. And if someone has problems to
find us:
Just follow those never ending explosion sounds and you will stumble either upon us
or Descent: Freespace :-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: ProStationAudio Titanium demo 5.01 (Update)
ProStationAudio Titanium demo 5.01 available in
the download section.
- fixed Play Object and Play Region (were routed to the wrong busses resulting in noise)
- correctly loads older format projects, useful for tutorials
- variable bitrate DSP plugins now fully supported
- added "mouse-over" help text for new console buttons
As both the "project format" and "variable bitrate" modifications remove the
chances of possible system crashes, it's strongly recommended to replace the
older demo with the new 5.01 version.
Update 16.11.2001:
Download: psadm501.lha
(ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Event: Elbox on AMIGA 2001 in Cologne
ELBOX COMPUTER invites all the interested in the latest hardware for
Amiga to visit our stand in the AMIGA 2001 fair in Cologne.
Our products are available for purchase in the stands of our distributors:
Vesalia Computer and KDH Datentechnik.
(ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: MediatorUP 2.6 & Mediator MM CD UP 1.08
The MediatorUP 2.6 update for Mediator PCI users has been made available today.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- pci.library ver.4.4
- MediatorNET.device ver.2.3
- Voodoo.card ver.2.8
The MM CD 1.08 update for Mediator PCI users, who are registered owners
of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been made available by ELBOX Computer.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- sb128.audio ver.4.3
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.9
Changes:
MediatorNET.device - double buffering (pingpong) added
SB128.audio - preselection of audio frequency added (ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Event: e.p.i.c interactive on the Amiga 2001 in Cologne
e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will attend this year's Amiga show at the Mediapark in Cologne.
Our booth will be marked by our realtime strategy hit EARTH 2140. The EARTH 2140 mission pack
will be introduced and for the first time available to the customers on the show in Cologne (if UPS
will not let us down). The mission pack extends the Mac and Amiga version with 80 new
single player missions and the multi-player mode (LAN) long awaited for the Amiga.
Another innovation is the latest version of the movie player MooVID PRO which was optimized in
many parts. Of course there will be all of our product line, like Simon The Sorcerer II and Foundation Gold, at amazing show prices. Furthermore we will presentate some of our products on an Apple Mac,
which also will be available for Pegasos/MorphOS, soon.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Jools Smyth (E-Mail)
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ExoticA - Logo competition
The ExoticA website about the musical skills and history of the Amiga
started a logo competition. They are wanting a logo to decorate
the start page of the homepage.
Furthermore the website and many rubrics have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Hendrik Höner (E-Mail)
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Event: UGN IRC conferences on the AMIGA 2001
On occasion of this show UGN will organize an IRC conference, again, on
Sunday from 12:00 MET.
Those agreed to participate so far:
12:00 Michael Garlich (Titan Computer)
13:00 Darek Dulian (Elbox)
14:00 Markus Nerding (Haage & Partner)
On the show we will try to get more participants. The conference will be held at
the booth of the Amiga Club Deutschland. In IRC on the AmigaNet (example servers:
thule.no.amiganet.org, linux.us.amiganet.org, whiterose.us.amiganet.org,
port 6667).
Other participants and the channel will be announced near term.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Amiga Forever now available from individual Computers
The Amiga emulation package Amiga Forever is now available as a bundle
with the Catweasel ISA controller. Amiga Forever turns your PC into an
Amiga. The package which is available since 1997, includes a license of
all Amiga-patents, trademarks and copyrights that are necessary for an
emulation. Therefore, an official Amiga Notebook "Powered by Amiga" is
available since 1997.
Amiga Forever makes all the hardware of the base system also available
on the Amiga side: Virtual memory, Fast- and GBit Ethernet, sound- and
graphics boards as well as DVD and USB.
Further information about Amiga Forever can be found on the publisher's
website http://www.cloanto.com/.
Individual Computers will continue to support both Amiga Forever and its
developers. There will be no support for the QNX version of Amiga OS XL
for the Catweasel ISA in the near future, whereas for Amithlon we will
provide a software that uses the ISA Catweasel just like a real Amiga
Catweasel.
Amiga Forever developers are even going a step further, they use the
Catweasel to emulate the internal Amiga diskdrive.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Sigbjørn Skjæret
Amiga Arena - Interview
After the mpega.library was not developed any more there is now clone of the library of Sigbjørn Skjæret. Amiga Arena spoke with Sigbjørn S. about how it came to it and about the future of his projects. Support the developer with your feedback!
After two years the guestbook of Amiga Arena was reactivated. Please sign in!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)
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Amiga-Info.net: Opinion poll / Car sharing
There is a small opinion poll to discover if Amiga-Info.net is useful for you. Amiga-Info.net would be delighted if you took part.
Car sharing to the Amiga 2001:
Here it is the last chance to find or offer a place on the car sharing action. We will see us on Amiga 2001!
(ps)
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14.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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Event: H&P on AMIGA 2001
On the AMIGA 2001 which will take place this weekend we will present and offer our newest developments and products. Amithlon/AmigaXL, Freespace, ImageFX 4.5, PageStream 4.1,
StormC 4, ArtEffect Plugins Collection and much more.
The new combination of Athlon-Hardware and AmigaOS XL are highly newsworthy. The top-system consists of a noble aluminium-tower and has the new Athlon XP 1800+ as its heart. We also offer a suitable 15 inch LCD-monitor. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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Great Freespace-presentation on the fair
There will be a great presentation of the final version of Descent:Freespace on the fair. You can watch the game on two computers around the clock. Additionally there will be a presentation of half an hour on Saturday and Sunday. At the same time the analog-joystick-interface will be together introduced with the game which supports it. The Amiga-port of Freespace has finished for 99.9% so the game will be available after the fair.
On the fair the demo-version of Freespace will be published. All those who order the game on the fair in advance will get a CD with the most current demos of Freespace, Heretic II and Shogo for free. Freespace as well as the new version of Heretic II which is on the CD will get graphic improvements for Warp3D v4.2.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Online-magazine: Currently Starmag with new url
Because Arcor has deleted the webspace without any premonition the online-magazine Starmag has not been accessable for some days. You can now access the magazine under http://www.Starmag.de.cx.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
AmiDog
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Emulation: Playstation emulator FPSE 0.09, Amiga Revision 2
Mathias Roslund has released a new version of the Playstation emulator FPSE. It is the second Amiga-version which is based on version 0.09. You need a Playstation Bios-rom to emulate. There are some screenshots to the Amiga-version.
It follows the original message:
A new release with some bugfixes and added features. Memory card support
is fixed, and compiler (dynarec) and PSX Port support has been added.
There is also a switch to use READ_CD for CD support. This was used by
some of the FPSE/Amiga 0.08 revisions and might work better than CMD_READ
with some CD-ROMs.
Download: FPSE009R2.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Mailbox: Stardate-bbs accessable again via Internet
After a month of hard problems with DSL in Muenster you can access again the Stardate-mailbox via Internet under (http://stardate.2y.net). The very popular Dynamite-server is also accessable under the same url.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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