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23.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


AmigaOS- and SDK-Update
Apart from the AmigaOne there were some additional announcements by Bill McEwen. Czech Amiga News summed them up in a little article by Greg Thomas.

They say, that the PPC-Amiga-Device by Eyetech will be expandable with Mac acceleration boards. AmigaOS V3.9 will be shipped with Workbench V3.9 and a kickstart-chip V3.9. The new SDK-update will be released tomorrow and the next version in one month. Furthermore Amiga will make 10% of the firm available for investments by Amiga-users.

Attention: Whether Amiga Inc. nor any other person did check this article.

Supplement: 23.10.2000:
Sjoerd wrote on ANF that he asked H&P and they said that there will be no new Kickstart version for AmigaOS 3.9.

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23.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


akMPEG V4.50
The new verison 4.50 of akMPEG by Andreas Kleinert is available for download at the Aminet. The MPEG-player needs AmigaOS V3.0 and supports CyberGFX, Picasso 96, AGA, 68k, PPC and MorphOS.

Download: gfx/show/akMPEG4.lha, Readme

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23.Oct.2000
Amiga Inc.


New Executive Update by Bill McEwen
A new Executive Update by Bill Mc Ewen is online. The EU is about the exhibition in Melbourne and the new AmigaOS version 3.9 that will be released before christmas (take a look at the first Screenshot).

October 21, 2000 - Executive Update

Dear Amiga Family:

I am writing this as I fly back from a wonderful two days at the ACE 2000 Amiga show in Melbourne, Australia. It was indeed a great delight and pleasure to meet with all the wonderful members of the Amiga Family Down Under, and I already look forward to my next opportunity to visit Australia.

I especially want to thank all the dealers, developers and end users who attended the seminars and the hundreds of you who joined for the banquet dinner. Amiga truly is a global family, and too much of an unknown phenomena. It is the Amiga Family who has kept this amazing system alive and growing.

I would like to take a moment to recognize the efforts of two people who especially made my stay in Australia an enjoyable and educational experience. Jeff Rose, of Unitech, the d'Amiga distributor for Australia, and Basil Flinter the Secretary of the Amiga Down Under Group or ADUG. I want to thank them both for taking the extra time to help me truly understand what Australia and New Zealand mean to Amiga, and what Amiga can do to help our its Family Down Under. I can certainly say that on my next trip I will take the time to also visit New Zealand and say hello in person.

Upcoming Products

There are many exciting things happening with Amiga and I wanted to tell the entire Amiga community what the attendees of ACE 2000 learned at the show.

Amiga will release an upgrade for the Classic AmigaOS! Version 3.9 of the AmigaOS will be shipped and ready for the 2000 holiday season. AmigaOS 3.9 is being developed in concert with Haage and Partner GmbH. A new website devoted specifically to OS3.9 will be online shortly and it will include an OS feature list and other bits of useful information. OS 3.9 will be made available to classic Amiga users for the affordable price of under $40.00 US. Watch our main website, www.amiga.com, for more details of OS 3.9 and its new website.

Because Amiga is still a Benevolent Dictatorship-and not a democracy or even a republic-we listen closely to the feedback and input from the community. Based on this feedback we strive to create products that you want, need and enjoy.

We are pleased to announce to the community the first in a series of new hardware that has been designed by Amiga and soon manufactured by Amiga OEM partners. The first in our AmigaONE series of products are the AmigaONE PPC 1200, and the AmigaONE PPC 4000 cards from Eyetech. These products will become available to developers in December this year and are designed to meet the specific needs of the Amiga Community. We have also announced another partner, bPlan GmbH, who are creating a new AmigaONE PPC based desktop computer.

More details will emerge shortly about bPlan, Eyetech and the new AmigaONE products, so visit the AmigaONE web site at www.amiga.com/products/one/pr.php to stay informed.

I would also like to announce new versions of the Amiga SDK. AmigaSDK version 1.1 will begin shipping on October 24, 2000. In addition to an upgrade for the Linux version, we are please to release the Windows version of the Amiga SDK as well.

There was a mistake in the September 28 Executive Update. As erroneously printed in the update, the Amiga SDK 1.1 does not include the sound, UI, or 3D pieces. These will be found in version 1.2, which itself will be released shortly. I am sorry for the error, but take comfort in the fact that purchasers of an Amiga SDK receive free updates and upgrades for 12 months from the date of purchase.

Closing

It has been an amazing 10 months since we started Amiga Incorporated. The community has seen the delivery of the Amiga SDK, an upgrade to the SDK, an upgrade to the Classic AmigaOS, and now the announcement of three PPC based AmigaONE products. We still have a long way to go and many more battles to fight, but I am confident that with the community behind us, and the enhancements to the product line continuing, there is a long and exciting future for Amiga.

To the user group members around the world, it is time to start calling the members who have drifted away and let them know what is happening with the new Amiga. We want them to know they can again be part of continuing the legacy that is Amiga.

Again thanks to Greg, and Michael, and the thousands of other Amigans Down Under who made ACE 2000 such a great event.

Get Boinged!
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team

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23.Oct.2000
Frogger-Site


Frogger V1.6 beta for Linux/x86
Betaversion 1.6 of the MPEG-player "Frogger" for Linux/x86 is out now. The player supports the playing of MPEG-1 and -2, and Audio-Layers 1, 2 and 3.

Download: frogger_linux_x86.tgz (65K)

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23.Oct.2000
aphaso


NListtree V18.5
Version 18.5 of the NLosttree-class for MUI were released. The class presents listree entries in a tree structure and it supports drag&drop, and multi-selection of entries. The changes are:
  • Preparse-String-Pointer at MUIP_NListtree_DisplayMessage.
  • Drop-Types are now public. It uses the same values then NList-Drop-types.
  • When hiting return MUIA_NListtree_Doubleclick will be selected.
  • NULL-pointer were replaced by the text "*** NULL POINTER ***".
  • Multi-Test-Hook will be called in every case of multi-selection.
  • New: MUIM_NListtree_PrevSelected.
  • New: MUIV_NListtree_FindName_Flag_Selected - only finds selected entries in MUIM_NListtree_FindName.
  • Bugfix when DoubleClicking: there are no effects if DoubleClick were set to something else then ALL
  • New Doubleclick-value: MUIV_NListtree_DoubleClick_NoTrigger.

The class needs AmigaOS 2.x, MUI V3.8 and MCC_NList V0.89 (NList.mcc V19.97).

Download: MCC_NListtree.lha (169K), Readme

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23.Oct.2000



New Aminet Uploads
Videomanage.lha      biz/dbase  1.7M+A Videodatabase
LPx.lha              comm/net     3K+Print scripts for Samba, v1.0
MP-TelekomSI.lha     comm/tcp     2K+Settings for MiamiPhone v1.5
wpz-fun.lha          demo/aga     6K+4kb intro by Whelpz released on Astrosyn
wpz-info02.lha       demo/aga   100K+Whelpz info issue #o2 (january 1999)
MWI-Overview03.lha   demo/slide 2.1M+OVERVIEW #03 by MAWI. party slideshow an
fda-upd.lha          disk/cache  70K+Fixed:OS35 checksums ViNCEd faster compa
fda.lha              disk/cache 352K+Linux' buffer-cache v3.0
dblocate.lha         disk/misc   21K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
AnnuaireAmiga6.txt   docs/anno    4K+Announce for the new http://www.annuaire
WarpGIF-DT.txt       docs/anno    2K+Datatype for GIF-Images with WarpOS (40.
VWorksPricelis.lha   docs/hyper  23K+Virtual Works pricelist 
3DWorldArc0600.lha   docs/misc  104K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 06/00
3DWorldArc0700.lha   docs/misc   48K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 07/00
3DWorldArc0800.lha   docs/misc   36K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 08/00
3DWorldArc0900.lha   docs/misc   10K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 09/00
3DWorldArc1000.lha   docs/misc   20K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 10/00
FatePL.lha           game/role   14K+FatePL - Ultimate Dice Simulator for RPG
nam.lha              game/text  126K+Czech text adventure game
BStones.lha          game/think 183K+BubbleStones 1.4, Bust a Move like
WBsteroids.lha       game/wb    174K+Asteroids-clone in scaleable wb-window
akMPEG4.lha          gfx/show   196K+MPEG player (CGfx/P96/AGA) V4.50 (68k/PP
ASpEmu.lha           misc/emu   127K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha     misc/emu    65K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
stlist.lha           misc/emu    24K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
imdbDiff001013.lha   misc/imdb  2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
JochenHippelST.lha   mods/chip  197K+Atari ST Mods by famous musicians
ThunderBlade.lha     mods/misc  253K+Custom modules from "Thunder Blade"
rno-r049.mpg         mods/mpg   1.9M+Rno-records release no.49 by Tarmslyng/l
atdt.lha             mods/pro   291K+'ATDT' - a protracked MOD by  &.
g-nainenjatotu.lha   mods/pro   404K+'G-nainen ja Totuus' - a protracked MOD 
jehovantodista.lha   mods/pro   253K+'Jehovan Todistaja' - a protracked MOD b
mechno.lha           mods/pro   377K+'Mechno' - a protracked MOD by  &.
suurivalkoinen.lha   mods/pro   251K+'Suuri Valkoinen' - a protracked MOD by 
twinblade.lha        mods/pro   811K+'Twin Blade' - a protracked MOD by  &.
worthless.lha        mods/pro   265K+'Worthless' - a protracked MOD by  &.
EP_PaulSummers.lha   mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "Paul Summers" external repl
plone.lha            mus/play   450K+V1.6 - PlayList AddOn for PlayGui
AladdinBoot.lha      pix/boot   510K+Aladdin Bootup for Rainboot3
BaaackBoot.lha       pix/boot   455K+Baaack Bootup for Rainboot3
BeatboxBoot.lha      pix/boot   227K+Beatbox Bootup for Rainboot3
LionKingBoot.lha     pix/boot   142K+LionKing Bootup for Rainboot3
WSucksBoot.lha       pix/boot   865K+WindowsSucks Bootup for Rainboot3
fomsw22.jpg          pix/henz     9K+C-3PO and R2-D2 (Star Wars)
Rio91.jpg            pix/views   90K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD 
Rio96.jpg            pix/views  107K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD 
Rio98.jpg            pix/views  156K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD 
guidecheck.lha       text/edit   60K+V1.21 AmigaGuide syntax checker (and mor
ascii2jascii.lha     text/misc   35K+ASCII to Japanese ASCII (68k/ppc/wos)
r.lha                util/cli    49K+V1.56 Just in time GUIs for every DOS Co
delfina4.16bet.lha   util/libs   21K+Delfina.library version 4.16 (beta)
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   98K+V1.26 - Test and identify wb-program
XPKPatch18.lha       util/pack   22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
Scion2html.lha       util/rexx   33K+WWW browser HTML's from Scion Genealogy 


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23.Oct.2000
Thomas Nosutta on ANF


Picture Gallery of the ACBB
The ACBB installed a picture gallery that contains pictures showing the activities of the club.

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23.Oct.2000
Thomas Zahren on ANF


Headlines on Amiga Inc. Press Release
The following reactions on the press release by Amiga Inc. were published in non-amiga (online-)magazins.

Slashdot: Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of
The Register: Amiga unveils next-gen hardware spec
MaximumPC: Amiga Plunges Back into Hardware
CNet: Welcoming back an old Amiga


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23.Oct.2000
dEFToNE on ANF


SMSEngineer Update - v1.0.7
SMSEngineer version v1.0.7 released. Changes:
  • BugFix: The space-field now works
  • BugFix: The space-field now works with the gateway.dat-file.
  • Changing of the label of the remaining-space-field to "NochFrei/Möglich"
  • New list view for the upcoming address book
  • Some internal changes
  • New tooltype for the position of the signature
  • Signature fields will not be shown if you set SignPos=NOSIGN

The download is available at the title link.

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22.Oct.2000
Torsten Dudai


New Cartoon Online: Highway Patrol




Together with a new there's a new homepage.

The layout was completely revised and Pearl is used to give it a more interactive design.
You can now rate and comment on every cartoon.

Besides, there's now a service for Amiga clubs only. More about that here.

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22.Oct.2000
Bastian Moritz on ANF


New German Magazine - Triple-A
Bastian Moritz wrote:
Until some months ago I had created an Atari fanzine with some other people. But as I am also an Acorn user and some of my colleagues Amiga fans we thought that we could also put it all on a broader basis.

This resulted in Triple-A, a fanzine for Amiga, Acorn and Atari. The first issue comes out on 29.10. From today on you can at least surf to our homepage.

At www.triple-a-mag.de you get infos and a forum. In addition to this you can subscribe here or place free adverts.

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22.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino via email


AmigaOne Area at amiga.com
At the area products at amiga.com is now a section specially for the AmigaOne. There are news, information, FAQs and a discussion forum at your disposal.

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22.Oct.2000
David Connoly via email


CS&E: Software and Banner
CS&E will soon releae "Cosmo's Fun Class". This is a education software package for children at the age of 4-9 years. It fosters reading, calculating and the hand/eyes coordination and much more.. The software runs on an A1200. It was developed by the team of Electronics Dream Interactive. In conjunction with an Amiga Survivor subscription the package is available at a special price. To do a translation into German language CS&E needs 300 pre-orders. They expect 1000 pre-orders for the game "Carmageddon". All in all the people at CS&E hope to sell 5000 copies of "Carmageddon". "Back in Time 2" however has been finished as is the English version of "Cosmo's Fun Class", so they don't need any pre-orders for that. Details about pre-ordering are available via email: csande@csande.com and will be released soon in both, the print and online magazines of CS&E.

On the website of the Amiga Survivor magazine is free room for small banners. Everybody interested may place his/her banner there in exchange with banners by CS&E on their own websites.

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22.Oct.2000
Fun Time World


ppclibemu v0.8c
Frank Wille has released the version 0.8c of the ppclibemu on 21. October 2000. This software emulates the ppc.library by phase 5 under WarpOS and this way allows the direct use of PowerUp-programs with WarpOS. This version patches the Exec-functions FreeMem()/FreeVec() to avoid problems with bad coded programs which free PPC memory using theses Exec-functions. This affects for example TurboPrint.

Download:
The update contains solely the libraries. Everything else is included in the complete archive of the version 0.7.


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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


Amiga Super Expansion System
The new company Fastech announces an expansion on their website with the following features: 3 PCI slots, 3 Zorro-III compatible slots, 1 AGP slot, 1 SDRAM DIMM slot, 2 CPU expansion ports, 1 A1200 clock port, 2 x serial and 1 x EPP parallel ports. As CPU modules are a G4 module with 400 MHz and a Coldfire module with 333 MHz announced. The expansion shall be released first for A3000/T- and A4000/T computers and is in the alpha test stage at present.

While the G4 module is delayed to reach a higher performance via a rework of the design the Coldfire module is in the test stage. As the Coldfire is not 100% compatible with the 68k line OS patches and library patches are needed. They are working on these at the moment.

Editorial note:
Hints strengthen that this website and so the report may be a fake. We can't neither confirm nor deny this at the moment, but we'll continue our investigations.

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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


StrICQ v0.1728 beta
After a long time a new beta version of the ICQ client "StrICQ" for the Amiga was released on 20. October 2000. This beta version 0.1728 is dated on 18. February 2000. According to Czech Amiga News this version is supposed to work better together with ICQ2000. Though it tends to crash the ICQ2000 client during the chat initialisation.

Download: STRICQ.lha

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22.Oct.2000
CyberGFX


Mediator Drivers
Already on 19. October 2000 the following information appeared on the CyberGFX website: Elbox has sent an updated driver archive to the registered Mediator users. This archive contains the Mediator system files, a SANA-II network driver supporting many network chip sets and the CGX Virge driver.Those belonging to the registered Mediator users may contact Elbox regarding the latest drivers. The latest CGX Mediator drivers can be found on the CyberGFX Mediator page.

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22.Oct.2000
ANN


English Amiga Board
AmigaMos and rck-power have joint and set up the English Amiga Board. This one aims to be as good as the German Amiga Emu Board.

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22.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame


Amiga Flame: Article concerning AmigaOne Games
Articles appeared regarding the games Europa Universalis, Echelon: The Storm, Jagged Alliance 2, and Battle for the Globe at Amiga Flame.

The strategy game "Europa Universalis" will be ported by Hyperion-Software for the Amiga. The games "Echelon: The Storm" and "Jagged Alliance 2" are listed on the AmigaDE Software list that was released by Amiga recently. "Battle for the Globe" is an action-strategy game that is being developed at the moment by Nordicsoft for PPC-Amigas and IBM compatible PCs.

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22.Oct.2000
Mirko Engelhard on ANF


AmigaLand: 2 New Games
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Since today there are two new adventures on our site. Beneath a steel Sky and Lure of the Temptress. Both games were made by the company Revolution Software Ltd. who gave us the permission yesterday to offer these games for free download.

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22.Oct.2000
Stefan Schulze via email


Screen Shots of Crossfire II
Stefan Schulze writes:
On our website are the latest screen shots of the action shooter Crossfire ready for admiration. They are completely taken from the campaign mode.

Besides that it looks as if Jan Morgenstern (www.jm-music.de) will be supporting us as a free lancer in the future. I'm really pleased that we don't have to rely on Techno now. :)

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22.Oct.2000
ANN


Nostalgia: Putty Squad Demo
On 20. October 2000 the demo of Putty Suqad was released in the Amiga Rediscovery section of AmiHoo. This demo was released as coverdisk. The game itself was never released by System 3 Software.

Amiga Rediscovery of AmiHoo has the conception to rediscover some of the greatest Amiga games by playing the demo versions which were released as cover disk years ago. So this site also calls to share your thoughts about the games with others and to ask for help at comp.sys.amiga.misc.

Besides the demos of the recent months there's, among other things, a help file on the page reachable on the page at the title link that explains how to unpack the DMS disk archive.

Download: PuttySquad.dms

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22.Oct.2000
Schatztruhe


Aminet Set 10
Schatztruhe announces the release of the 10. Aminet set by 2. November 2000. This set contains all files that have been added since the 9. set and full versions of Max Rally, Zombie Massacre, Personal Paint 7.1b, Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. The Aminet CDs 36 to 39 are included in unchanged. Altogether the set contains more than 3G of software in almost 4000 archives.

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22.Oct.2000
David Connolly via email


CS&E: Amiga Future and Games at the Shops
The english issue of Amiga Future will be available by February 2001 at the newspaper sellers in Great Britain and Ireland. The price will be £5,99. A six months subscription including coverdisk costs £29,99 and can be ordered at CS&E.

In Great Britain and Ireland CS&E now also offers Amiga games via retail chains like Dixons and Electronics Boutique. PC games will be ported to the Amiga (and vice versa) and released as dual-format-package by CS&E. So there are three possibilities for the Amiga user to buy games. 1) At the local Amiga retailer. 2) Via retail chains like Dixons. 3) As download liable for costs via the soon opened website http://www.pc-software.com/.

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22.Oct.2000
Jochen Abitz on ANF


Merlancia Comments on Criticism
Merlancia Industries announced some hardware for the AmigaDE some days ago covering computers from Palmtop over laptops to PC-towers. This announcement caused some doubts. In the above statement, dated 22. October 2000, Ryan E. A. Czerwinski from Merlancia comments on the criticism.

Among other things it can be read that the release of the TORRO website took place to give the Amiga community an idea now of what is in development. For the COMDEX, in Phoenix, Merlancia announced the introduction of a working Hurricane prototype and invited to an arrangement for a private talk at the exhibition. They are working on the Hurricane board for eight months now. As expected release date for the Hurricane and the eClips they named the second to third quarter 2001. This date also depends on the release of the AmigaDE.

The complete statement caters to further nine subjects.

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22.Oct.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanach III Demo Bugfix
Achim Stegemann wrote:
Everybody having difficulties with the demo of the planetarium program Digital Almanach III can download a bugfix from my homepage. Unfortunately there was an enforcer hit in the first demo version which caused problems on some few Amigas (020,030 ??).

Download: DA3Demo.lzx (2,5 MB)

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21.Oct.2000



Olliweb.de back online
olliweb.de provides information covering the Amiga - Linux subject. After the website was offline for quite some time, due to logistic and technical problems of the provider, olliweb.de is available again from now on.

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21.Oct.2000
Amidog


AMP 2
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has posted some important comments about his movieplayer "AMP 2" on his website. Among other things he points out that the prefs-format has changed. Therefore all the former AMP.cfg files must be deleted before you can use the new version. Some option were had, names of options were changed or options have been removed, and may not be used in the old way anymore. More informations can be found under the title link at the "AMP 2" section.

Download current version 1.33: AMP2pre6.lha

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21.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


EU-Commission starts Poll about Software Patents
"The European Commission has started a poll about patents on computer programs, so-called "computer-implemented inventions". Prior to this is the EU's fear that the lack of EU-standard provisions of law in this sector could slow down economic growth, competitive capacity and development of the internal market. The commission has asked concerned institutions, companies, the public, and the member-states to express themselves about a probe document from the commission's departements. The commission will state its final position concerning this subject around beginning of 2001."
Complete article under the title link. (German)

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21.Oct.2000
amiga.org


Merlancia Announces New Products Running on the AmigaDE
Merlancia announced a new product line that will run on the AmigaDE. From the Palmtop PC to tower and laptops everything is represented.

In this context, it might be interesting to point out Merlancia's Collection of Amiga and Commodore antiques and curios and prototypes and his 1974 AMX. There are lots of pictures of the prototypes.

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21.Oct.2000
Alfred Faust via eMail


BlueRibbon Soundworks Inc. Is Alive ...
Alfred Faust wrote:
Nearly 5 years after the take over of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc. by Microsoft, I received the official permission from Todor Fay (the former boss) to post all of Blue Ribbon Inc.'s products for download on my newly created homepage. Until now, the software could only be (officially and legally) acquired if you happened to be a member of Compuserve.com (USA).

I'm very grateful to Todor Fay (and surely every other musically interested AMIGA-user does so) for this permission, because in my opinion programs even though those have great functionality never have achieved this level of user-friendliness. They fit so nicely into the AMIGA system that they run on OS 3.1 and on graphic-boards (promote with NewMode) without any problem.

Bars&Pipes can be expanded by its tools and accessories to such an extend that it is in a certain way "updatable".

My new homepage concerns:
  • Bars&Pipes 2.5 (German online-manual which is also downloadable as AMIGA-Guide)
  • DB-50XG (my Hardware-Hack, online and downloadable)
  • TriplePlay3.1 (the same)

    also planned or in preparation:

  • SuperJAM! 1.1 (z.Zt. only program and styles downloadable)
  • Rules for Tools (Toolscoding for Bars&Pipes - only as download for now)
  • Inovatools1 (Intuition-expansion - used in Bars&Pipes, SuperJAM! and The PachtMeister , only as download for now)
  • My own music made with Bars&Pipes - SuperJAM! - DB-50XG
  • and more

As mentionned above the site has a huge download-area where you can _l e g a l l y_ download all of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc.'s products.

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21.Oct.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail


Five New Rainboot3 Configurations
On October 20th, 2000 Airsoft Softwair released 5 new Rainboot3-configurations. There are Aladdin Boot, Beatbox Boot, Baaack Boot, Lion King Boot and Windows Sucks Boot by Werner Henkel. You can find them at the download area of the Airsoft Softwair homepage.

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21.Oct.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS: BoardType V1.0
BoardType is a small tool which prints out the version of the BlizzardPPC board in use. This information is needed to track bugs. The bug report should mention the output of this tool.

Download: boardtype.lzh (1,6K)

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21.Oct.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS: CygnusEd Professional 4.21
An official PPC port of the text editor "CygnusEd Professional V4.21" has been released for MorphOS. This port needs the original CygnusEd4-CD-ROM as a basis. During the installation of the patch, the 68k version stays untouched so that it can still be used in case one would like to install both versions on the same partition. The updated frontend recognizes whether the editor has been started under MorphOS or AmigaOS an then loads the corresponding binary. This update can also be downloaded at Schatztruhe.

Download: ced_mos_ppc_upd.lha (211K)

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21.Oct.2000
Michael Heider on ANF


Kernel Version 2.2.10 for Linux_m68k Available
Michael Heider wrote:
As announced, the Kernel-2.2.10 for Linux_m68k can be downloaded on my homepage under the link mentioned above from today on. A comment how to install this kernel is included in the archive.

I would also like to announce the following: After a call at SuSE I was told that SuSE Linux 7.0 for PowerPC should be available from next week on. Pre-orders are already accepted at this time.

In near future I will once again create an installation how-to and inform about the innovations.

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21.Oct.2000
Thomas Nosutta nn ANF


Nightlong problems due to bugs
Thomas Nosutta of ACBB writes:
Nightlong has been shipped and I received it today. Unfortunately the game cannot be installed since there are no executable icons. As promised, Qu**e is included but it can't be installed either, but there are nice videos on the CD.

Note from the editors office: Many users were able to run the game without any problems. As we were told on the phone today, a wrong CD-filesystem might cause this problem

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21.Oct.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF


PlayGUI News
On the PlayGUI website there is a small update for PlayGUI (v3.a).
  • PlayGUI now shows Playtime
  • Playtime can be switched on and off
  • Bugfix (no mod in memory caused problems)


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21.Oct.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Amiga Inc. anounnces the AmigaOne
Press release: October 21, 2000, Melbourne, Australia - It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce the first new Amiga hardware in over 6 years. The AmigaOne, our first consumer product, will be targeted at the desktop and workstation market. Further products to follow will cover the markets from Personal Digital Assistants and upwards. All these products will run a single piece of software, the revolutionary Amiga Digital Environment (DE).

We completed the AmigaOne specification three months ago, and dubbed it the "Zico". It is a specification and not a product because Amiga is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer. The ability of the Amiga DE to host itself on multiple hardware and operating system platforms frees us from hardware dependency and gives our partners and our customers the freedom to chose the hardware that best suits their needs and tastes.

The Zico specification is as follows:
  • One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
  • 64MB+ memory
  • Next Generation Matrox graphics card
  • Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
  • 10 GB+ HD
  • CD/DVD
  • USB 1.0
  • Firewire
  • 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
  • 56k modem
  • Spare PCI slots for expandibility
With the completion of the specification stage of the Amiga One, we contacted several respected hardware companies with a view to selecting partners who would be interested in creating AmigaOne products.

The AmigaOne process involves close co-operation between Amiga and our partners' hardware groups, the running of the AmigaDE on the hardware, and a thorough quality certification of the final product. Only then can the product be called an AmigaOne.

Whilst still in detailed negotiation with several companies, we are delighted to announce the first partner company and its initial set of AmigaOne products.

The Eyetech Group Ltd, of Stokesley, U.K. already has an excellent reputation in the Amiga community. They have done much to keep the classic Amiga alive during the last five years, and we feel that in the creation of the first new Amiga machines and the transitioning >from the classic to the next wave, that experience will prove invaluable.

Bill McEwen President of Amiga Inc commented: "This arrangement builds on and extends our existing partnership agreement with Eyetech, first announced in April of this year. Our experience during this period has shown Eyetech to be a no-nonsense company capable of delivering what they promise on time and this consideration also weighed heavily in our choice of a hardware partner for the PPC based AmigaOne."

Alan Redhouse, Managing Director of UK-based Eyetech, said; "I am delighted that we have been able to build on our existing partnership with Amiga and continue our close working relationship with them on both a technical and manufacturing level. Our decade of Amiga experience, plus our hardware and software efforts to push the Amiga forwards means that we are able to work with Amiga to deliver a proven upgrade solution to Amiga users which gives their existing 'Classic' applications an immediate and substantial performance boost whilst providing full forward compatibility with the new Amiga DE. Our work on the Predator line of boards means that we can help Amiga to fulfill its requirement of maximising the investment of the current community as it moves forwards."

Fleecy Moss, Chief Technology Officer, Amiga Inc added: "After talks with the hardware development staff of several companies I am convinced that working with Eyetech will allow us to offer an elegant solution that gives both an excellent level of backward compatibility and a powerful basis for the new Amiga Digital Environment. Top of our requirements list was to ensure that those Amigans who have spent considerable money in staying with the Amiga would not be left out in the cold. Whilst you can't please all of the people all of the time, we think we have come up with a set of products and solutions that will put a smile on as many faces as possible."

Eyetech is focusing on an immediate need in the existing Amiga market. Many have already invested considerable resources in their classic Amigas, both in terms of hardware and in terms of software. Whilst keen to move forwards with the AmigaOne, they also want to maximise their investment in the classic platform.

The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 is a custom board which uses Eyetech Predator technology with the "zico" specification to provide a perfect synergy of classic and next generation. It provides all the functionality of the standalone AmigaOne PPC, but has been extended to mate with a classic Amiga A1200. This allows customers who have a serious investment in the classic Amiga to continue to use their machines whilst also having a brand new Amiga at their disposal. The 68k processor in the A1200 will be emulated at a substantially increased level via the PPC processor on the AmigaOne, whilst the classic operating system can take advantage of the AmigaOne's next generation hardware resources.

The AmigaOne PPC 4000 machine is similarly designed to allow customers who have a significant investment in their classic Amiga A4000 to be able to move that investment forwards whilst also benefiting from the next generation capabilities of the AmigaOne.

The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 will be available as an upgrade for owners of towered A1200 computers, the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 4000 as an upgrade for Amiga 4000 desktop computers in tower conversion cases. Options for producing AmigaOne PPC upgrade designs for other Classic Amiga designs (such as the A3000 and Amiga International A4000T) will be looked at (subject to demand) once the A1200 and A4000 products are released.

In order to implement all the features of the AmigaOne specification the, A1200 and A4000 upgrade versions will feature one AGP and six PCI slots, a user-upgradable G3/G4 (Macintosh-type) cpu slot, up to 512MB SDRAM and a high speed IDE/ATAPI interface. The system will be dual-bootable both into the Amiga DE and into Classic Amiga Workbench. This latter feature will allow purchasers to have the performance benefits of full G3/G4 cpu speeds and 512MB of SDRAM memory whilst running Classic Amiga software. Both these boards are scheduled to ship in 1Q01, with developer versions being available in December 2000.

Design of both the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC A1200 and A4000 products has been done with great sensitivity to the existing user and developer community.

"By releasing the classic compatible AmigaOne PPC products first," said Alan Redhouse. "We are providing a transitional path forwards for the existing community, enabling them to maximise their current investment whilst also leaping ahead with the new Amiga DE."

In order to facilitate this transition, the classic Amiga operating system will see its lifeline extended. OS3.9, to be launched before Christmas will add a raft of new features and functionality, and will be able to run on the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC classic products.

Eyetech are also keen to talk to existing hardware manufacturers about possibilities for licencing, manufacturer and other co-operation in order to ensure a smooth transition of the existing Amiga community from the present to the future.

Amiga is also very close to signing up partners for a standalone AmigaOne machine. The ATX form factor AmigaOne has been designed to run the full consumer version of the Amiga Digital Environment (DE) allowing the best of the Classic Amiga software which has been ported to run directly under the Amiga DE, and the use of a wide range of Amiga DE-based digital content - such as productivity software, content creation suites, development environments and 3-D games - to be used 'out of the box'.

All this work - including extensive testing of hardware and software components - is scheduled to be complete in time for end user deliveries 3Q01. Amiga Inc is currently in negotiation with several potential partner companies for the development and manufacture of the stand-alone AmigaOne and its related digital content/software. Companies interested in producing this version, utilising the PPC processor family include Eyetech, and bplan GmbH of Germany. We hope to have announcements to make on this within the next few weeks. Other companies and other processors are also under negotiation.

A new website is being set up, specifically to provide a focal point for news, questions, comment and discussion on the AmigaOne, and we encourage people to visit it and participate.

Supplement:
More links on this subject:
Slashdot: Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of (German)
Golem: AmigaOne - New Amiga comes in late summer 2001

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21.Oct.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF


AminetGUI - Update
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
The AminetGUI is once again free from commercial banners and PopUp windows. The AminetGUI has also found a new server. I would like to thank Ingo Bowe once more for providing his server.

During the move, AminetGUI has been restructured. The new structure permits to provide new language versions of AminetGUI in a simple way. A developer archive with a matching template in the download area will be available soon. Spanish will be the first language to be added. Many thanks in advance to Tomás J. Cantóy Diez. More translators are always welcome.

I would also like to thank Buster who send me the German version of the Aminet-Upload.docs some while ago. Those can be reached at the Docs area. Due to the move I also drop the Link area. Links are handled by the Amiga-Gateway from now on.

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21.Oct.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


Malice: The better Q***e?
To shorten the waiting until the release of Shogo and Sin a bit, I provide a test about Malice, a Q***e conversion. Is it really more than a mission pack?

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21.Oct.2000



New Aminet Uploads
MCC_Guigfx.lha       dev/mui    172K+Guigfx MUI custom class V19.2
BackUp.lha           disk/bakup  31K+A simple backup tool.. v1.2
dblocate.lha         disk/misc   20K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
ges3b.lzh            game/hint  7.9M+Packet of solutions, cheats cards to gam
WHDShdWarriors.lha   game/patch  23K+HD Installer for Shadow Warriors V1.1
Detris.lha           game/wb     45K+Tetris for WB by Deniil 715!
MPEG_S_LAMEppc.lha   mus/misc   232K+MPEG_S_LAME the MP3 Encoder for SoundFX 
TheMPegEncGUI.lha    mus/misc    81K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
DeliDecrunch.lha     mus/play     9K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.1
MRQ.lha              util/cdity 151K+The MUI requester improver, now OpenSour
Cmp.lha              util/cli     4K+Nice and tiny binary file compare tool
HexShow.lha          util/cli     5K+Shows files as Hex
SED.lha              util/cli    13K+Amiga stream editor
MultiRen.lha         util/misc  173K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with 
DRemind.lha          util/time  216K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.56!
CLICon.lha           util/wb    161K+A versatile replacement for IconX


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21.Oct.2000
Ben Yoris via eMail


Statusreport about Descent: Freespace 'The Great War'
Hyperion Entertainment Software is working on a port of "Descent: Freespace 'The Great War'". The game already runs in software-render-mode. The engine still needs some optimization before work on the 3D acceleration can begin. Furthermore Ben Yoris tolled us that there is still hope for a version running on 060 or 040 CPUs with Warp3D.

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21.Oct.2000
Jens Schönfeld via eMail


Kickflash under Production
After a long period of waiting a reworked version of Kickflash is finally under production. First there will be a version for the absolute Amiga classics, the A500 and A1000. Besides 1MB flash memory for Kickstart ROMs, there is also a 86 pin CPU-Slot for A2000 accelerator cards, and a Zorro slot. A version for the A1200 will follow.

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20.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK.com homepage


Results of the Top 10 SDK Wish List now made public
At the title link you'll find the results of the top 10 SDK wishes survey. Among others, special wishes like an extended documentation on VP programming (special tutorials and examples), USB and Firewire support, or even a language translation routine were named.

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20.Oct.2000
Thomas Wuergler on ANF


Earth 2140 Status Report Part 2
The second part of the Earth 2140 status report is available at the "preview area" at Amigafire.

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20.Oct.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF


PlayGUI Website News
Version 1.6 of the PlayGUI add-on PLone is finally ready and can be found on the PlayGUI website. The following has changed since V1.5:
  • New: PlayerControl
  • New: DeliTracker support
  • Fix: Saving now works correctly again
  • Change: Small change made to the playlist format
  • New: Support for the new PlayGUI functions (Midi/MPeg)
  • New: Skin.txt support
  • New: Internal (sample/midi) and mp3 suffix file check
  • New: mp3 TAG support (currently no genre, though)
  • New: Play16 support + prefs
  • New: MPegA support + prefs
  • New: GMPlay (midi) support + prefs
  • Fix: Add Directory function fixed
  • New: Images lv_pic and op_pic as default pictures. That means that a skin can now be a single main image only.
  • New: Starts Hip/DeliTracker by itself if required
  • New: (Still) simple ASCII export function
  • New: Samples can now have a comment
  • New: There can be dividers inserted
  • New installer script
  • New skin


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20.Oct.2000
Thomas Dellert on ANF


Press Photos of G-Rex Available
On our website you now can see a press photo of the G-Rex-PCI bridge.

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20.Oct.2000
Kamil Barczynski on ANF


PSV Manager Available in English
Thanks to the help of 'Scanner' (webmaster of the Ami-Site), our soccer management game 'PSV Manager' is now available for download in English on our new website. There you'll also find further information on 'PSV Manager' and all other current and future projects.

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20.Oct.2000
AmiSpaTra


A Coruna - Meeting of Spanish Internet Participants
About 600 internet participants from all over Spain will meet from October 20th to October 26th in A Coruna at the Arroutada Party. This year's Arroutada Party is held at the Coliseo of A Coruna, organized by the "da Mocedade Informatica Galega de A Coruna (Amiga)" and sponsored by the local town hall.

According to informations from the local town hall, this is the eighth year of this party which was held until now at the Forum Metropolitano, but was moved to the Coliseo due to the enormous success.

At this multiuser event a network of 600 computers is formed which are all connected to the internet. The technology is sponsored by the R. Ademas company. A sound machine of 80,000 watt will be available as well. Contests with prices of up to one million ptas will take place.

A huge projection screen will be installed as well on which animations, roboter fights on Linux and other elements from the world of computer science can be seen. Also, further activities will be organized which are aimed at the entertainment of the participants.

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20.Oct.2000
CyberGFX Homepage


Pictures of Phase5 PCI Board Prototype
A two year old picture was made available on the CyberGraphX homepage which shows the prototype of a PCI bridge from Phase5. The prototype served as a help for the development of graphics board drivers for the Amiga based on Mac graphics boards. You can find the link to the picture if you follow the title link in the second news bottom right (Phase5 G-Rex PCI Bridge Prototype).

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20.Oct.2000
MorphOS Team


MorphOS - Butterfly 1.1, Ghostscript 5.10 and SoX 12.17 Released
The MorphOS team announced the following product updates:

  • Butterfly 1.1 is a graphical frontend for the MprphOS launch program. The program can be started from anywhere, but the standard prefs file assumes that Butterfly is in the user directory. Newly added was a ResetLevel switch, as on some configurations the standard ResetLevel settings did not work. Please read the Startup.doc file for more details. You'll find the archive here: Butterfly1.1.lha (38K).
  • Ghostscript 5.10 was ported for MorphOS/PPC. The installation requires the 68k mode as well as the IXEmul archive. The file is available for download at: gs510.lha (690K).
  • Sound eXchange 12.17 was ported to MorphOS. The program converts 20 different sound formats. The download archive can be found here: sox 12.17 morphos.lha (104K).


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20.Oct.2000
Mike Bouma on Slashdot.org


Slashdot.org Reports on the Growing Success of Amiga
Mike Bouma wrote: «Already well over 15,000 developers have bought the Amiga SDK 1.0 and soon there will be an update available (3D, Sound, GUI and performance improvements). It will be downloadable freely for 1.0 buyers and a Windows equivalent will be available. There is an enormous amount of activity going on within the Amiga community, ....»
Read the full article at the title link.

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19.Oct.2000
C. Huebner on ANF


CrossUpdate from LW Amiga to LW6 Intel/Mac
The well-known raytracer "LightWave" is available at favourable conditions as a cross-update. Any Amiga version of LW can be changed at special conditions to a full version of LightWave6 Intel/Mac. Please, visit the title link for more informations.

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19.Oct.2000
BGUI site


BGUI v41.11 Final
On October, 17th 2000 the archives of BGUI v41.11 were released. BGUI is a GUI system offering options similar to MUI. Further development of this system was surrendered to the AROS-project. Who would like to participate in development can obtain access to the source codes by AROS. for this can get the sources via AROS.

Download:
Beside the listed archives many informations, the E-Developer- and the AREXX-Interface archives are available for download on the BGUI site


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18.Oct.2000
Stefan Schulze via eMail


Dreamworlds Development is Looking for One More Musician
Because Audun Evensen (our musician up to now) does not have enough time anymore we have decided to engage another musician. She/He should get along with each possible kind of music, work on time, be well up in editing samples and of course should be interested in games. Having a sampler, good hardware (PPC) and knowledge in English are advantageous but not necessary. Of course you are participated in proceeds from the sales. First (and urgent) music for Crossfire II is needed. Here is Techno or something like that sufficient. It`s all right if different kinds of music are used provided that it fits to hard action. :) I prefer stirring classical music but it is hard to handle with the computer. Furthermore some intermediate progression have to set to music (own format). After finishing CF2 (if a further co-operation is desired) we need right music (medieval, atmospheric, classical, sometimes rock music) instead of Techno for our next game called "Between The Lines", a role-playing in real time. Those ones who are interested in (or have any questions) please mail to stefan@dreamworlds.de with a demo work or state an internetaddress where I can find such a sample. A few information about yourself and your hardware configuration would be useful.

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18.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


ttf.library V0.8.3b
Richard Griffith has published version V0.8.3b of ttf.library in Aminet (util/libs). This library makes the use of Truetype-fonts on the Amiga possible. It is compatible to the bullet.library by Commodore and is based on the work of FreeType project. This pre-release has been hardly tested. In this version there are the following changes: Bugfix: Enforcer-Hit/Crash in ttfmanager. The library works on AmigaOS 3.0 upwards. There are optimised versions for each processor of the 68k-family. You can find corresponding links, links on sources with Truetype-fonts and information to the ttflib mailing list at the Hompage. Download: util/libs/ttflib68000.lha, Readme ttfsrc.htm

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18.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
On the next weekend from the 21st to the 22nd of October 2000 the Alternative Computer Expo takes place in Melbourne, Australia. This fair is concerned with all alternative operating systems like Amiga, Mac, Unix, OS/2, BeOS, RiscOS, QNX and some more. Already on Friday the 20th of October there is a Geek-festival. A keynote will be held by Amiga CEO. On the fair you can expect seeing the second version of AmigaSDK as well as getting information about AmigaOne. For the first time in Australia you can look at the PCI-Mediator-Board. Besides this the Mac OS X will be presented. An IRC-Channel (for further information please mail to Paul Demark)) and a webcam, organized by CAUS, is planned for the internet. Seminars, conferences, meetings and workshops will take place during the fair. Last but not least there is a museum of computers.

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18.Oct.2000
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Spo³ Demoparty put off until 25.11.2000
The demo party which should take place in early November has been put off until the 25th of November 2000 but will take place in Spoleto, Italy as planned.

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18.Oct.2000
amiga.org


New Compuquick Website
At the end of June Amiga Inc. announced a strategic agreement of sales with Compuquick Media Center (Columbus, Ohio). Compuquick Media has completely new designed its website and created an own area for Amiga.

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18.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK


Amiga SDK Wish List
Patrick Roberts is going to create a list of wishes for the Amiga SDK. If your wishes should be took down in the list please mail your favourite ten wishes to Top10. The results will be published on Friday.

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18.Oct.2000
Amibench


Amibench Quiz Canceled
Because of legal problems the quiz by Amibench was canceled.

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18.Oct.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail


Aminet CD 39
The Aminet CD 39 - October 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (decrunched) of software in thousands of archives. Since Aminet CD 38 over 790 MB of new software has appeared. All programs have described in German; many ones contain a German documentation. The great highlight the Aminet 39 contains the full version of Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions.

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18.Oct.2000
Thorsten Schoelzel via eMail


Move of AmigaNG-Program-Overview
The "AmigaNG-Program-Overview" can be accessed under http://www.Thorty.online.de/AmigaNG-Liste.html. Please change your Bookmarks. As Thorsten Schoelzel said, there is the possibility of porting Macromedia's Shockwave "Flash4" to the Amiga, and therefore he asks for your support for this project.

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18.Oct.2000
Fun Time World


Shogo-Demo for Mac
While Amiga users still have to wait PowerMac users already can have a first look at the 3D-Action-Shooter "Shogo: MAD". Since a couple of days the 41 MB demo version is free for download.

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18.Oct.2000



Interview with Frank Mariak

Author: Team amiga-news.de
Interviewpartner: Frank Mariak from Vision Factory Developments
Translator: Martina Jacobs (Interview in German)

amiga-news.de: If we understood right, there are two different kinds of drivers under development: CGX VIRGE V3 driver, and CGX Voodoo driver. What is the technical difference between those, and which driver is meant for which product.

Frank Mariak: Those drivers are designed for two PCI boards completely different from each other. On the one side for the VIRGE/DX chip set, which was already utilized on the CyberVision64/3D, but in the meanwhile became somehow anterior. This still appears to be a good and cheap compromise for Amiga considering 2D performance. The Voodoo driver of course is meant for the Voodoo3 chip set by 3dfx. This one offers remarkable enhanced 3D performance in comparison to the CVisionPPC/BVisionPPC boards (if used along with a PPC processor), and even more 2D performance, than the CyberStorm/Blizzard graphics accelerators with Permedia2 chip set.

amiga-news.de: What will support of 3D capabilities be like?

Frank Mariak: There will be no special support from CyberGraphX. At all events for MorphOS there will be a modulated 3D extension basing on Rave for the Voodoo boards. The Warp3D team has said to be interested in modulating the 3D hardware, but unfortunately I don't know very much about the 3D development state.

amiga-news.de: Please, illustrate in some more detail the (alleged?) technical problems with developing Voodoo drivers for the Mediator board.

Frank Mariak: I have to admit that initially I programmed the Voodoo driver on the PCI interface extension for my CyberStorm PPC board and then just tried to make it running on the Mediator board. Originally I used that PCI extension for developing Permedia2 CVision/BVisionPPC drivers more than two years ago, since the prototype board of these boards was a PCI card for Apple PowerMac. Due to this the current Voodoo driver worked with this PCI extension port at first, the modulation for the Mediator board then was done supplementary. The announced G-REX extension rather is just a reworked 4 slot variant of this 1 slot test board. Since I don't have that extended development system on the ELBOX case as I have on my A4000T, I always only tested functionality of the driver with the Mediator board. The technical problems in the meantime have been discussed extensive on miscellaneous nets. Basically one may say that the mystified "bank-switching problem" doesn't cause any trouble, as long as only one CPU (e.g. 68k) is concerned. Also a PowerPC-only operating system (which emulates 68k-code) should cause no problems.

amiga-news.de: Does the cooperation agreement with Elbox still exist, and if not, due to what reason and by whom was it canceled?

Frank Mariak: I definite did not cancel the agreement. After all one may not forget that ELBOX products are covering a much bigger target group than extensions like G-REX do, which are designed only for the special LocalBus on the Blizzard/CyberStrom accelerator boards. But I agree that the timing of the G-REX announcement was quite disadvantageous. I'm already in contact with DCE since more than one year, and since then to bring a successor graphics board for the current Permedia2 products was looked ahead. DCE and me, we set the seal on developing Voodoo3 driver signing a contract now, so Thomas Dellert has planning reliability, and also I would not come out of with with empty hands. There never has been such a contract with Elbox, there has just been some kind of declaration of intent on cooperation with an option of a possible Voodoo driver, since in these days it was not to foresee if such a driver really would work. This was meant to be that I would create free limited CGX3 drivers which then would be delivered along with the Mediator board. I then should be responsible of "bringing in" my input myself by selling the CGX4 CDs. In the meanwhile I ask myself, how I could agree with this. In the view of stagnating software sells (CGX 4 CD), software pirates, and continuous requests from ELBOX when at last a somehow working Voodoo driver for the Mediator board would be available, I felt extremely pressurized. In the end and moreover one should not forget that at this time Mediator boards are alowed to be delivered along with a free CGX3 VIRGE driver, and will be in the future. Even after DCE's release there was an update for this driver, so there should not be any talking about canceled cooperation.

amiga-news.de: Why did you decide an exclusive agreement?

Frank Mariak: Only this way a really satisfying solution for customers can be gained. Only licensing makes it possible to support a product in an optimal way. In my notion that was never eligible with ELBOX.

amiga-news.de: Does the exclusiveness of the Voodoo driver concern GGX3 or CGX4 or even both of these?

Frank Mariak: I don't understand that panic about the current Voodoo driver, at all. Is the Mediator board a slot for a Voodoo graphics board or a 4x PCI slot adapter? People might better ask themselves where are the announced drivers for the Yamaha sound card, the 100MBit network card or the MPG decoder card. In place of focusing on completion of this driver a PCI PPC G3/G4 extension was announced wholehearted which virtually automatically converts the Mediator board to a data-thruput-"high-achiever". The Amiga world has seen themselves how long it took come to some state of being error free on 603/604e processors with PowerUP or the subsequent competitor WarpOS. A G3/G4 software solution shall suddenly appear for Amiga within two months? I don't want to further comment this, but I entertain some doubt.... I just can wish the ELBOX company much success with that. They at least developed a 68030 accelerator board or have this under their present offer.

amiga-news.de: Does this agreement also mean that there will be no Voodoo CGX drivers for Predator by Eyetech? (Which seems to be quite similar to the G-REX.)

Frank Mariak: No, as a matter of principle nothing avoids respective license for the drivers.

amiga-news.de: Can the drivers be used with every standard board or only with tested boards (compatibility list provided)?

Frank Mariak: In the case of e.g. Voodoo3 the boards available are substantially of the same assembly. But basically it is recommended to use only tested boards since else function of the drivers cannot be guaranteed. This is what I feel to be a significant problem with the at this time available/released PCI port extensions. When I purchase a PCI card for a PC, I will get a driver adapted to this card along with this card. An Amiga user doesn't have such opportunity if he purchases a PCI card in some shop. Many people simply underestimate the software problem. Even on a WindowsPC this is often solved dissatisfying and you get put off with half done drivers. When I purchased for a ZorroII/III extension I was able to call the manufacturer to account, if hardware/software did not run as it should do, and the manufacturer was able to respond if necessary. Thus also now only tested products should be used or the respective board should be ordered from an Amiga stockist right away to at least reasonably play safe.

amiga-news.de: Does CGX v5 for MophOS represent a complete rewrite of version 4 with enhanced routines or is this a 1:1 port?

Frank Mariak: The drawing routines as well as the drivers where almost entirely newly developed, since CGX4 still uses assemlber optimesed 68k routines which of course can be used emulated only with a PPC.

amiga-news.de: Can CGX be further adopted to WarpOS or PowerUp or can it be further optimised for those? And if, is there hope for this to happen?

Frank Mariak: No, there will be no further adoption to or optimisation for PowerUp or WarpOS.

amiga-news.de: Will there be a 68k version of CGX v5?

Frank Mariak: No, the advantages/enhancements of version 5 only make sense along with a PPC OS e.g. like MorphOS. The 68k variant will stay to be version 4, and independent from V5 will be further developed/enhanced. CGX v5 in conjunction with the current MorphOS test version will be developed and enhanced continuously.

amiga-news.de: Frank, thank you very much for this interview and for your extended answers.

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17.Oct.2000
Stephane Campan via Email


Bartman Software with new project "Fubar"
The english-american Bartman Software Team currently works on completing the commercial action / strategy game Fubar. Almost 4 years of development have already gone into this project. A new beta version is already available from the Bartman Website (here) in exchange for a user registration. Minimum requirements are an Amiga with MC68020 CPU, 12 MB RAM, AGA and a CD-ROM. More information and details of technical features can be found at the title link.

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17.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News & Amiga-Club Forum


Thomas Dellert of DCE talks about G-Rex PCI
AmigArt has a statement of Thomas Dellert about the G-Rex board.

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17.Oct.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak by e-mail


Elbox Insider Report
A summary of the ongoings around the CGX driver for Voodoo3 from Elbox' point of view:

Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:16:48 +0200
From: ELBOX press@elbox.com
To:   amiga-news.de ps@amiga-news.de
Subject: INSIDER REPORT

INSIDER REPORT
ELBOX COMPUTER
http://www.elbox.com
Krakow, 17 Oct 2000

In brief

In July 2000, ELBOX Computer and Frank Mariak (VFD) negotiated and
agreed upon writing drivers for MEDIATOR PCI busboard.

Frank Mariak agreed to write the software with hardware and technical
documentation provided to him by ELBOX Computer as requested by him.
He had never asked for cash reimbursement and never asked for making
cash-based contract.

Frank Mariak was to write drivers dedicated for ELBOX hardware,
to the order of ELBOX, based on an agreement between ELBOX
and himself.

Frank Mariak's long-term benefit was spreading and popularising
his commercial product: CGX4.

Ultimately, Frank Mariak sold rights to these drivers in exclusive
form to a third party, who are not affiliated with ELBOX Computer
in any way. This transaction, with the following use of confidential
ELBOX documentation within third-party agreements is clear-cut
breach of commercial law in any country in the world.

This step was thought to block developing highly-demanded software
for Amiga computers.

ELBOX Computer decided to clear this situation up in the following
report.

The last part of the report announces software solutions to make
good the damage caused by Frank Mariak's decisions.


On Saturday, 14 Oct 2000

community of Amiga users were informed that an agreement was signed
by virtue of which Mr. Frank Mariak (Vision Factory Development)
transferred exclusive rights to Voodoo PCI drivers written by
himself to a third party.

We, ELBOX Computer, feel obliged to make the entire situation clear
to Amiga users world-wide, as the circumstances around this event
are twisted again and again and give false image of the situation
to public opinion.

Please find the below report as the clarification of what has been
transpiring in the recent weeks behind the scenes.


Background

On 24 July 2000, Elbox Computer and Vision Factory Development
jointly released an announcement on concluding an agreement,
by virtue of which VFD undertook to develop support for PCI graphic
cards installed in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
(See http://www.vgr.com/mediator/pressrelease1.txt )

Before this agreement was concluded, both parties negotiated
and finally decided on some specific terms and conditions of
co-operation as follows:

  The key point of the agreement was that support for PCI graphic
  cards in CGX3 was to be devoid of hardware acceleration, which
  was to be fully developed in the CGX4 commercial version.

The parties decided to make the following commitments:

1. ELBOX Computer shall make the developer's documentation for
   the MEDIATOR PCI busboard available in order to complete the
   agreed work.

      The developer's documentation was transferred to
      Mr. Frank Mariak on 14 July 2000.

2. ELBOX Computer will provide Vision Factor Development with
   computer hardware for preparing drivers for PCI graphic cards
   installed in the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, which Mr. Mariak
   needed at that time.

      ELBOX Computer sent the hardware: Amiga 1200 in E/BOX tower
      with the developer's MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, 1240 turbo
      card, FastATA 1200 controller, a hard disk and other necessary
      add-ons as well as S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 PCI cards to
      Mr. Frank Mariak on 07 Aug 2000. Another computer hardware
      set was delivered to VFD team last week.

3. Vision Factory Development shall develop support for graphic
   cards operating in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard. Support for
   S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 chipsets was agreed upon as the minimum.

      S3 Virge:
      ELBOX Computer received a test version of an S3 ViRGE card
      driver (enabling starting Workbench in the S3 ViRGE PCI card)
      from Vision Factory Development on 18 July 2000;
      S3 ViRGE drivers are currently available.

      Voodoo3:
      ELBOX Computer received a test version of Voodoo3 drivers
      for MEDIATOR PCI for presentation purposes (allowing for
      operation with Workbench) on 29 Sep 2000.

4. ELBOX Computer, after starting the production of the MEDIATOR PCI
   busboard shall deliver a bundled free package of CyberGraphX v.3
   along with drivers for all the currently supported PCI graphic
   cards.

      ELBOX Computer is now selling the MEDIATOR PCI busboard
      through the network of its distributors world-wide.
      CGX3 is bundled with MEDIATOR PCI. This is an excellent
      advertising move for the commercial CGX4.


Before the agreement

ELBOX offered Mr. Frank Mariak that our programmers would prepare
drivers for various graphic chipsets, including Voodoo3 PCI, for
working with CyberGraphX. Such drivers would then be transferred in
the form of source codes written in assembler for Mr. Frank Mariak's
authorisation and distribution. We expected only making available
some developer's information related to CGX in return.

   However, Mr. Mariak decided he would himself write the drivers
   if we supported him with hardware and documentation. Which we did.


False information

in the announcement on selling rights to Voodoo drivers included
alleged expected technical problems related to implementation
of 3D drivers with our MEDIATOR PCI busboard.

   Please note that none such problems exist. On our request,
   Mr. Mariak was to report to us any possible problems related
   to his development work… and he remained silent all the time.


Using Developer's Documentation

for MEDIATOR PCI and computer hardware (including Voodoo3 PCI card)
provided free of charge by ELBOX Computer as requested by Mr. Frank
Mariak for writing Voodoo3 drivers, as it turned out, for another
company is the clearest form of breaching rules of social life
and business honesty and integrity.


New business vision

On 13 Oct 2000, Mr. Frank Mariak signed an agreement on selling
the Voodoo3 drivers for benefit of another company. In contacts
with our company, Mr. Frank Mariak never mentioned any intention
of this kind on his part, never suggested such a possibility
and never asked for or negotiated any payment for his software
writing work. He never contacted us in this issue.

Then, out of the blue, he surprised us and all Amiga users with
making a "simple BUSINESS DECISION" (original quotation from
Mr. Mariak's response to our inquiry for explanation of the
VFD & DCE's announcement) on making an alliance with a third
party for selling the above rights.


We hope this explanation clarifies the situation.

Please make sure that we refrain from any comments of ethical
or whatever nature. The above are simple facts to make you all
aware of the plot behind the scenes.


ELBOX MOVES FORWARD

In the view of the circumstances described above, ELBOX Computer
hereby announces that our programmers shall prepare software
for supporting Voodoo3 cards in the MEDIATOR PCI busboards.
These drivers will be included in the software package for the
MEDIATOR PCI busboard. We expect completing work on the first
version of this software within two weeks.


ELBOX Computer
Mariusz Wloczysiak, Press Department


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17.Oct.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS Release #2
The second release of the Amiga PowerPC OS "MorphOS" has been released today. If you want to participate in the public beta test, you can download the archive from the download page stating your name, e-mail address and your system.

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17.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


Europa Universalis for Amiga
The Canadian company TribSoft Inc. has purchased the licence for porting the game Europa Universalis from Paradox Entertainment. TribSoft already ported games to Linux - the current project is Jagged Alliance 2.

The game spans 300 years - from Columbus to Napoleon. 60 countries controlled by artificial opponents react to your actions and the ongoings in the world. The player has the job to skillfully manage religion, trade, conquest, discovery and diplomacy.

Note: Stéphane Campan of AmigaImpact told us that the port will not be done by Tribsoft Inc., but by Hyperion.

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17.Oct.2000
AmigaImpact


New UAE-JIT Version for Linux
On October 14th, Bernie Meyer has released a new version of his JIT compiler for UAE running on Linux. While the stock UAE only interprets the 68k Amiga software, the JIT compiler converts the programs to x86 code at runtime, making them run significantly faster. This version, code-named "Everton", contains the following changes:
  • FPU support.
  • SIGSEGV handler for direct memory access. This option offers the best performance and is highly recommended.
  • Optimisations and according speed increase
  • better timing
  • many improvements in the source code

The title link leads to several archives for Linux to download, including source code.

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17.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm


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