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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:08:03 +0200
From: Gregor Franz <G.Franz@gmx.de>
To: Petra Struck <petra.struck@online-club.de>
Subject: AmZeiger Nr.8

Hallo Petra,

Dienstag, 23. März 1999, you wrote:

> wenn es geht, schicke mir eine Mail, wenn die nächste Ausgabe
> online ist, kann ich dann wieder in den News erwähnen.

Besser spät, als nie. Leider doch später (wie fast immer) als geplant
ist der AmZeiger #8 nun fertig. Mindestens auf AmZeiger2.home.pages.de
sollte er zu diesem Zeitpunkt liegen. Die weiteren Server folgen in
Bälde. Ebenso der Aminet-Upload.

Es handelt sich übrigens um die, vom reinen Text her, bisher
umfangreichste Ausgabe. Eine große PD-Rubrik ist hinzugekommen.

Weitere Neuigkeiten:

- Nun haben wir eine eigene Domain: http://www.AmZeiger.de/
  (Die alte Umleit-Adresse http://AmZeiger.home.pages.de/
  wird aber immer gültig bleiben und auf den aktuellen
  Hauptserver verweisen.)

- Wir haben eine neue Mailingliste eingerichtet, die Redakteure und
  Leser direkter verbinden soll, in der Fragen gestellt, Vorschläge
  gemacht oder Diskussionen zu Amiga- und Computer-Themen geführt
  werden können.

  Der Name: AmZeiger-Infonetz.

  Eintragemöglichkeit : http://home.ecore.net/amzeiger/infml.htm
  Nähere Informationen: http://home.ecore.net/amzeiger/infml2.htm

- Mit "A L F" - dem AmZeiger-LeserForum, gibt es auf dem Hauptserver
  eine neue Seite, die man auch zwischen den Ausgaben regelmäßig checken
  sollte. Ausgewählte, meist kommentierte Nachrichten, zu denen auch
  Leser ihre Meinung hinzusetzen können, Meckerecke und einiges mehr,
  gibt es hier zu lesen.

  http://home.ecore.net/amzeiger/alf.htm

Tschau,
        Gregor.
--
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      ----------------------------------------------------------
     /    Deutschsprachige Online-Zeitschrift für den Amiga.    \
     / Magazin: AmZeiger@gmx.de / http://AmZeiger.home.pages.de \
     / Privat :  G.Franz@gmx.de / http://Psyborg.home.pages.de  \

"Treffen sich zwei Jäger. Beide tot!"

KOSH [Kommunity Orientated Software Hardware]

Weekly Summary

Week Commencing: 3rd April 1999

Number: 015

Mailing List: kosh-general

In the mailing list this week, the following items were discussed. Please do
not email the scribe regarding any of these topics, it is not his job to answer
these questions but merely to report  the topics of conversation. If you have
any queries about this summary, please email ben@kosh.net, stating the Summary
Number, and Mailing List Name, and he will try to answer your queries.

a)

Subject: UML notation

Summary of debate: See: http://www.rational.com which details a notation called
                   UML (email to the ML was about the design diagrams that were
                   discussed).


b)

Subject: Closed KOSH?

Summary of debate: It was expressed that some may feel KOSH to be a closed
                   group, particularly with the website being down at the
                   moment.

                   Actions to remedy this situation include getting the web
                   site back up, issuing surveys asking what people want of
                   KOSH (and publishing the results) and promotion of the
                   surveying working group to do this.


c)

Subject: Standardised coding

Summary of debate: Without standards and things like Interface Control Drawings
                   could cause difficulties for programmers later on. Formal
                   specifications for any software created are a must.

                   It was mentioned that perhaps we should not start direct
                   coding for KOSH until standards, schematics, etc have been
                   designed and implemented. However there is no reason why
                   people should not try out their own ideas by coding them in
                   whatever language on whichever system they prefer with the
                   aim to be to port them to KOSH at some point in the future.

d)

Subject: Recursion

Summary of debate: A lot was said on how to implement and use recursion in KOSH
                   programming, including using it for sorting algorithms.
                   However it is not the quickest or most space-efficient
                   construct available.

                   It was mentioned that recursion could in fact be as fast as
                   the same function coded non-recursively. It depends on the
                   language and compiler.


e)

Subject: More on KOSH, Linux and Windows

Summary of debate: One argument against using Linux with KOSH-hosted is that it
                   is based on a 25-year old  OS technology. The same can be
                   said of Windows which is based on 15-year old OS technology.

                   However as has been suggested on numerous occasions these
                   two systems provide probably the best opportunities for
                   hosted versions of KOSH, at least to start with.


f)

Subject: Commercial Open Source Software (COSS)

Summary of debate: Details of how to reconcile the advantages of Open Source
                   Software with being paid for ones efforts at:
                   http://www.treetop.demon.co.uk/coss.html

                   The Slashdot discussion is at
                   http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/04/04/1544211.shtml

                   These approaches could be useful to KOSH which in part at
                   least seeks to combine Open Source with an ultimately
                   commercial venture.

                   A subscription to KOSH could be one way to gather revenue
                   while at the same time providing easy access to source
                   information.


g)

Subject: Planar into "Pixel Land"

Summary of debate: A long debate was had on the merits and possibilities of
                   taking Planar display modes and getting PC Chunky Pixel
                   graphics cards to use them, thus allowing both bitplane and
                   chunky pixel on one device.

                   MCGA, a graphics mode that came after VGA but before(?) SVGA
                   was mentioned. This could in part provide something of a
                   cross over but it may be limited on resolution.

h)

Subject: Fractal packing

Summary of debate: See the following for an introduction to the above:
    http://www.rasip.fer.hr/research/compress/algorithms/adv/fraccomp/index.htm

                   Two further resources on this are:
                   http://inls.ucsd.edu/y/Fractals/ or
                   http://links.uwaterloo.ca/fractals.home.html


i)

Subject: KOSH Birthday cake

Summary of debate: Joel Newkirk has pledged an awful lot of cookies and a
                   birthday cake for the release party of KOSH v1.0


j)

Subject: New ML -> kosh-programming-o

Summary of debate: A new open mailing list with the above title has been
                   created by Jason Radford. Subscribe at
                   kosh-programming-o@kosh.net - It is intended to be used to
                   discuss the majority of programming and language issues that
                   have been generated on the general mailing list as well as
                   more besides.


k)

Subject: Abbreviation reference source

Summary of debate: Suggested that a list of all abbreviations in common usage
                   on the internet (such as AFAIK, OFC< IMHO, etc) as well as
                   all the smileys and terms such as OOP and BOOPSI could be
                   written and hosted on the KOSH site. It would help KOSH to
                   be more inclusive.

                   Ruward F. Leenstra mentioned the suggestion to have a
                   Terminology Working Group who could be responsible for this.


l)

Subject: Request for permanent help with summaries

Summary of debate: The scribe of the General Mailing List (mois - Bridge Deady)
                   has asked for offers of assistance with summarising the KOSH
                   General Mailing List, preferably on a permanent basis (and
                   has received some offers to help already - much
                   appreciated). If you can help please email the scribe at
                   csbdeady@mythicz.u-net.com




m)

Subject: Colour filters

Summary of debate: An inbuilt graphics filter that compares pixels side by side
                   could possibly help with some forms of colour blindness
                   and/or "colour fuzziness" (eg: red text on a green
                   background can often swim for a lot of people).


n)

Subject: Blinux and further Braille discussions

Summary of debate: While discussing the use of Braille terminals it was
                   mentioned that Blinux is at http://leb.net/blinux/

                   The mechanical complexity of a Braille terminal can mean
                   that they are prone to breaking down. It was suggested that
                   it could be replaced by heated spots - but they would have
                   to cool very quickly. A stereo speaker built into the device
                   would alert the user of a change in the device - this would
                   emulate the mechanical clicker. By being stereo it would
                   alert them as to whether the changes are to the left or the
                   right of the centre of the board.

Date: 12 Apr 99 19:50:21 +0100
Subject: Offener Brief
To: "Mag: Amiga News (Petra Struck)" petra.struck@online-club.de
From: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de (Andreas R. Kleinert)

Hallo Petra,

 zu dem offenen Brief bzgl. PPC/PCI erreichten mich
 bisher ueberwiegend Zuschriften bzw. Kommentare
 von Leuten, die offensichtlich ohnehin nichts
 von PPC-Karten halten.

 Da es mir nicht um die Diskussion des Fuer und Wider
 oder Sinn und Unsinn hiervon ging - worunter uebrigens
 auch Preisvergleiche mit PC-Hardware fallen - moechte
 ich gerne noch einmal oeffentlich und zusammenfassend
 auf Folgendes hinweisen.

 Meine Praemisse war:

  a) es gibt Leute, die einen neuen Rechner wollen
     (z.B. weil der alte A4000 irgendwann mal den Geist
      aufgibt oder "man" heute sowieso zusaetzlich auch
      einen PC braucht)

  b) dieselben Leute wollen auf diesem neuen Rechner
     alte Amiga 68k-Software ausfuehren lassen
     (wofuer sie auch UAE nehmen koennten)

  c) sie haben bereits eine PPC-Karte fuer ihren Amiga
     oder werden sich ohnehin noch eine kaufen

  d) sie moechten auch alte Amiga PPC-Software auf dem
     neuen Rechner ausfuehren koennen (was derzeit weder
     mit UAE noch irgendeiner anderen Software-Loesung
     moeglich ist oder Sinn machen wuerde), so dass
     ihnen b) nicht ausreicht

 Wer nicht wenigstens zu a, b und d zustimmt - und zur
 Haelfte auch zu c - der kann es sich eigentlich sparen,
 weiter zu diskutieren.

 Es geht naemlich einerseits um einen Brueckschlag zwischen
 "Amiga OS 3.5 mit PPC-Support" und AmigaNG bzw. andererseits
 um eine sinnvolle Alternative fuer ppc-interessierte Leute,
 die sich fuer AmigaNG nicht interessieren und stattdessen
 eher einen PC kaufen werden.

 Das Fazit der ganzen Emotionen und der ganzen Irrationalitaet,
 die bei der Diskussion herausgekommen sind, lautet fuer
 mich, dass es offensichtlich Leute gibt, die mit ihrem
 Amiga 68k voll und ganz zufrieden sind (oder doch nicht ?),
 sich statt einer PPC-Karte lieber gleich einen PC oder
 Mac kaufen wuerden (oder doch nicht ?), aber es den Leuten,
 die bereits eine solche Karte besitzen nicht zugestehen
 wollen (warum eigentlich ?) dass sie nicht nur 68k-Programme
 mit UAE & Co. sondern auch PPC-Programme - die in der Regel
 einiges gekostet haben - auf andere Rechner "mitnehmen" wollen ?

 Die ultimative Loesung waere natuerlich, wenn AInc sich
 fuer den PPC als neue AmigaNG-CPU entscheiden wuerden,
 und eine solche PCI-Karte, d.h. der Ausloeser dieser
 Diskussion, komplett ueberfluessig waere...

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AmiPoint News

AUGDD und Panorama Computerclub User-Meeting

Am Sonntag, den 13.06.99, findet im Ladenlokal des AmiPoint von 11:00
bis 18:00 Uhr ein Amiga-User-Meeting statt.

Es soll gezeigt werden, daß der Amiga trotz PC-Dominanz noch nicht zum
alten Eisen gehört. Es werden mehrere Amigas zur Verfügung stehen, auf
denen die verschiedenen Einsatzmöglichkeiten aufgezeigt werden.

Dazu zählen:

- Audiobearbeitung
- Grafik- un Videobearbeitung
- Lokale und ferne Netzwerke (Ethernet-LAN und Internet)
- Raytracing (Andreas Weyrauch bekannt aus der A+ Bildergallerie)
- Büroanwendungen
- Web-Cam um das Meeting im Internet verfolgen zu können
- Ausserdem wird, mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Amiga Int. sowie
  Haage & Partner,ein Preview des neuen AmigaOS 3.5 gezeigt!!

Eingeladen sind alle die sich für das Thema Computer (und speziell
Amiga) interessieren.

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Wir bemühten uns speziell um ein Shopsystem das auf allen Amiga-Browsern
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Ab sofort gehört eine spezielle Amiga-Lösung im Bereich LAN zu unserem
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Wir sind stolz damit die günstigste! Amiga-Lösung anbieten zu können.
Unsere Fiberline PCMCIA-Ethernetlösung beinhaltet einen speziellen
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Anschluß.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

April 9, 1999

NCAUG Cookout at Software Hut

Contacts:
Bill Borsari - tekmage@amiga.org
Mike Skov - skov@moon.jic.com
Software Hut - softhut@erols.com

The National Capital Amiga Users Group http://www.ncaug.org is happy to
announce in conjunction with Software Hut http://www.softhut.com a cookout
for their May meeting. The festivities begin at 12 noon on Saturday May 1st
at Software Hut's West Chester location. Come early, the fun ends at 3 p.m.
Aside from special deals for those who attend, there will be food, fun, and
a surprise or two.

Members of NCAUG will meet at predetermined locations to arrange car pools
to Software Hut. Please consult the NCAUG Web Page and newsletter, Amiga
Intuition, for more information. Amigans from New York, New Jersey, and
surrounding areas are also encouraged to attend, you do not need to be a
member.  It is asked that you either call (800-932-6442) or e-mail Trish at
Software Hut if you plan to attend.  A map of Software Hut's location is on
their web page.

The National Capital Amiga Users Group has been serving the DC Metro Amiga
user since 1985.  Home of the famous Blimp Cam, our group is world reknown
as one of the most active Amiga User Groups there is.  We offer the latest
in Amiga developments and informations.  SIGS supporting the Internet,
programming, and video production available to all members.  Please come by
for an afternoon of fun.

Fabian Jimenez

fabian@cais.com

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       Editor, Amiga Intuition Newsletter
National Capital Amiga Users Group, www.ncaug.org