11.Mai.2003
Ettensberger Martin (ANF)
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Bilder von den neuen Amiga G4 im AmigaClub Augsburg
Vor kurzem sind auch im AmigaClub Augsburg die ersten neuen AmigaOne
G4 Rechner eingetroffen. Auf der Homepage sind unter diesem
Link
Fotos vom gestrigen Treffen zu sehen.
Die Homepage wird in den nächsten Tagen überarbeitet und es werden
mehrere Bilder vom Auspacken über das Zusammenbauen und Funktionieren
der Rechner hochgeladen. Neue Hintergrundbilder finden Sie unter diesem
Link.
Der AmigaClub Augsburg wünscht noch einen schönen Sonntag :)
AmigaClubAugsburg.de
augusta.de/~ramses
(ps)
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11.Mai.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Morph-box Version 1.0
Heute ist die finale Version 1.0 von Carsten Siegners Programm
"Morph-box" für MorphOS erschienen. Diese ist voll
funktionstüchtig mit anklickbaren Buttons und beinhaltet auch
einen Prefs-Editor. Morph-box ist eine Toolbar für MorphOS, die
MorphOS-native- und 68k-Programme starten kann.
Dieses Programm ist MorphOS-nativ und läuft daher nur auf
dem Pegasos-Rechner. Außerdem benötigt es das PNG-Datatype im
System.
Installation: guigfx.library.elf (Achtung, das ist die MOS-Version, also
nicht die Version vom powerlibs.lzx-Verzeichnis nehmen!) in das
Verzeichnis "Sys:MorphOS/Libs kopieren. Außerdem wird noch das
powerlibs.lzx-Archiv von der Homepage von Carsten Siegner benötigt.
Dieses befindet sich im Unterverzeichnis "Videokonverter" (Archiv
entpacken und in das Sys:Libs-Verzeichnis kopieren).
Im Archiv befindet sich ein kleines ReadMe-File, das die wenigen
Funktionen erklärt. (nba)
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11.Mai.2003
x (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's mit Fleecy Moss - Runde 9
Das englischsprachige Online-Magazin AmigaWorld hat die Folge 9 der wöchentlichen Fragen und Antworten an und von Fleecy Moss, CTO bei AMIGA, Inc., veröffentlicht.
Von Interesse ist besonders Frage und Antwort 9, aus der sich schlussfolgern lässt, dass auf der AmiWest 2003
am 26. und 27. Juli (siehe http://sacc.org/amiwest/ ) AmigaOS
4 veröffentlicht werden könnte.
(Update, 17.03.2012, cg: Meldung um das eigentliche Interview ergänzt, da das ursprüngliche Dokument nicht mehr verfügbar ist):
1) ssolie: How does Amiga Inc. plan to limit and control the myriad hardware options. More specifically, if I purchase a "supported" graphics card for AmigaOS 4.0, what will that mean exactly? And what of "unsupported" hardware?
Fleecy: As has already started with the AmigaOne, we will select and certify hardware. This will allow us to drive the AmigaOS in certain directions whilst also ensuring that there are official solutions that dealers, integrators and customers can purchase safe in the knowledge that there will be official drivers for them. The problem with supporting hardware subsystems and peripherals is that the manufacturers only create control software
for the larger markets (Windows, Apple etc) and most are loath to even release their internal datasheets for fear of revealing and losing IP. We thus have to negotiate with these companies and prove to them a market exists (and then usually pay to create the control software).
A good workaround solution can be seen in the SciTech solution that has been licenced. A very broad set of graphics-cards will be usuable with OS 4.0 in 2D thanks to their SNAP technology (over 182 chipsets are now supported and the list keeps growing). 3D support however is quite a different matter. Currently we will support the Voodoo 3/4/5 and the Radeon 8500/9000. We believe this will change when we are able to demonstrate the AG2 3D system however as the OEMs will see that we are deadly serious in being a graphics platform of excellence.
The existing AmigaOne users have created various web resources where they are sharing their experiences of both setting up their machines and the results they are having with various components. I would urge anyone considering the purchase of a board to peruse these sites for the valuable information they contain.
In summary, I would advise customers either to buy from integrators to ensure certified components are used or else wait for the new Amiga Power Platform website to go live and consider the certified hardware list when it is made available. Be made the mistake of trying to support too many different solutions and ended up wasting valuable resources expanding the platform horizontally instead of vertically; we will not make the same mistake.
2) rayt: Will the coupons be delivered before OS4/csppc is finished so that we can get $50 rebate immediately after it is released?
Fleecy: We have had a lot of issues with creating a valid solution for the 'vouchers', mainly in terms of validation and acceptance by dealers. Given that an AmigaOne is a certified piece of hardware that comes with an AmigaOS4.0 OEM CD bundle and that the CSPPC AmigaOS4.0 product is a shrinkwrap, AmigaOS4.0 is the common factor and so we are considering either placing the voucher within the AmigaOS product package itself (perhaps as part of the registration card) or using the unique serial number of each AmigaOS4.0 instance via a web interface. This would also work with those who have purchased multiple rebate products because they have to have an AmiPASS and so we can apply their multiple rebates against a single purchase. The entire scheme will be published before AmigaOS4.0 is released and we will validate the rebate database by emailing everyone to make sure all the details are correct. I urge anyone who believes they have a rebate to check out their AmiPASS account and ensure the details are correct.
3) jono: Do you know if there is any intention to provide/supply any SQL based server or SQL clients that can access existing SQL Servers such as MySQL, Oracle, (dare I say it) M$ SQL Server?
Fleecy: There is at least one third party company already working hard on a full network capable relational database for the AmigaOS4.0. A standard SQL client is a good idea and I will consider that either for AmigaOS4.0 or for a future release.
4) IonMane: From my research, many developers do not seem to understand the potential power of Amiga Anywhere\DE.How do you plan to raise awareness and educate this segment of the industry to DE's REAL potential?
Fleecy: Early on we heavily evangelised the potential of the AmigaDE, got a lot of interest going and had developers signing up in droves. However, the potential failed to turn into reality, largely because the market was not ready for the product. Our mistake was to fail to realise that the OEMs themselves were not ready to take advantage of what we had, either because they had not entered the appropriate markets yet or because the products were too expensive (as in the case of Smartphones) or too underpowered (as in the case of the Palm PDA). The market was still in the first stage of technology, where innovators co-exist with early adopters. It is only in the last six months that the market has become a second stage market, where maturation brings in the big OEMs whose economies of scale can bring the price down and performance up.
Microsoft, as one of the key drivers of these markets realised the potential of the AmigaDE over a year ago but even working with them and their huge marketing muscle, it has taken this long to get AmigaDE derivatives such as Amiga Anywhere to market. Thankfully, the momentum that has built up is now accelerating customer enquiries and we hope to finally be able to deliver to developers on the potental we evangelised. This in itself will raise awareness of both the product and the opportunity but we are also working with these customers to do cross and joint marketing in several arenas, in both trade and consumer channels.
5) ssolie: Since you are not keen on Samba, what kinds of Samba-like solutions (e.g. file & printer sharing) are you proposing?
Fleecy: It's not that I'm not keen on Samba as a concept, just as an implementation, especially as it is difficult to implement well within the Amiga system architecture. There is a SAMBA solution supported by such Amiga notables as Olaf Barthel and Chris Hertel (amongst others) and it will most likely be included in the AmigaOS4.0 contributions drawer.
What AmigaOS4 users obviously want is the ability to network their Amiga to a heterogenous network, most likely one heavily featuring Windows or Linux PCs and then be able to share resources, mostly files, peripherals such as printers and network connections. The more they can use their Amiga, the more it will be used - for example accessing an MP3 collection on their Windows PC; they obviously don't want to copy it to their Amiga and have two copies of it.
Be assured that this is a high priority and that despite our misgivings, we may integrate SAMBA. All I was stating was that it does not currently seem to be a solution that we are happy with.
6) ssolie: AmigaDE and AmigaOS seem completely different yet you say they will slowly be merged together into a hardware agnostic system. What does that mean for the user? Hypothetically, how will I be able to take my copy of PageStream and run it on my cell phone via Bluetooth?
Fleecy: The AmigaDE is a set of technologies for creating content centric derivative products. In particular it is focused on the individual piece of content, specifically in making that piece of content both high performance/low resource and portable across device classes. The AmigaOS is a complete computing platform. In merging them, the AmigaOS will immediately gain from access to that content which can scale to the desktop. However that is at a product level. There will also be a more profound development of the AmigaOS through the AG2 project that will see a conceptual merging of the ideas behind both. I can't say much more at this time.
7) GregS: I have heard mentioned the A2 project but have not seen any details would you be so kind to make a summary of the main differences between A1 and A2.
Fleecy: AG1 refers to all hardware and software upto the AmigaOS3 family (the last revision being AmigaOS3.9). Some of this will continue into AmigaOS4. AG1 is technology that has its roots in the excellent system architecture and implementation that can be traced all the way back to 1984. However that was written in the context of a specific set of requirements and within a wider domain of current technologies.
Twenty years on the world has changed dramatically in many areas whilst remaining the same in others. The AG2 project is about reviewing the AmigaOS in all its domains, both internally and in its external relationships. There are new customers, new roles, new technologies, new requirements, new scopes, new products, new opportunities and new restrictions. AG2 will see the development of a technology set that can be used in derivative products, whether AmigaOS for the desktop, AmigaOS for the server, AmigaOS for the STB or whatever. Don't expect to see AG2 technology in AmigaOS4.0 but from AmigaOS4.1 onwards, you will start to see the AmigaOS transformed into something that we hope will once again set the marker for all others.
8) IonMane: As I understand it OS5 will be 64 bit, Is Amiga Inc considering the IBM 970, with its 32bit and 64 bit support,for this role in current or future AmigaOne systems?
Fleecy: 64 bit is the natural development path and given its necessity for a decent implementation of orthogonal persistence, one of our targets, I would expect to see 64 bit implementations sooner rather than later.
9) DaveP: I have a question ( everyone groans ). How long after the release of AOS4 will we have to wait for a version of Intent that works with it?
Fleecy: We have always targeted it for AmigaOS4.2. Given that we want to have a release gap of between 6-12 months once AmigaOS4.0 has shipped, that should be around about Christmas 2004. However, we may move it forwards to AmigaOS4.1. It depends on quite a few issues that I can't go into right now.
10) IonMane: There has been a lot of questions around from those that have coupons and other Amiga Inc promoted discounts.Could you please tell these people how to claim these discounts and Coupons...and even if they need a coupon to claim the discount.
Fleecy: I have answered this in question 2
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=10
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba)
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11.Mai.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: Neue WinUAE Version 0.8.22 R 7 (WIP) angekündigt
Von dem Amiga-Emulator 'WinUAE' für Windows von Toni Wilen wird voraussichtlich Ende Mai 2003 eine
neue Version erscheinen. Derzeit ist WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 7 in Arbeit.
Diese Version wird folgende Änderungen und Verbesserungen enthalten:
Bugs fixed:
- printer didn't work if serial port emulation was enabled
- palette wasn't updated properly when entering and exiting
the GUI in fullscreen 8-bit Picasso96 mode
- button or key mapped to mouse horizontal or vertical axis
- right/middle button data register emulation update (Sound of Silents)
- random crash when horizontal centering was enabled
- bsdsocket emulation, AmTelnet connection freeze
- config save crash/non working keyboard when MS SideWinder
Virtual Keyboard is installed
New features:
- emulation compatibility improvements
Elfmania, Rainbow Island (broke accidentally in R6),
Mission Elevator (properly fixed this time...),
Old Timer, Sargon History, TBL demos etc.
- analog joystick (paddle) ports emulated
- improved hard/ZIP disk RDB detection
- Action Replay 2/3 state file support
- sound "power led" filter emulation
- freely selectable sound sample rate (8000 - 48000)
- "direct" serial port support, fixes PC to PC Lotus 2
serial link problems. (two player only, 3 or 4 players
require lower serial latency that is not possible under
Windows)
(ps)
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11.Mai.2003
x (ANF)
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SPIEGEL: Herr der Bilder
»Für die Fortsetzungen des Kultfilms "Matrix" entstanden
Spezialeffekte, wie sie die Welt noch nicht gesehen hat. Die Grenze
zwischen echter und virtueller Welt löst sich auf.«
- "... Über 120 Millionen Dollar konnte Gaeta für die Spezialeffekte ausgeben ..."
- "... Echt oder nicht - das zu entwirren ist kaum noch möglich in Gaetas neuem
Werk. Viele Gebäude, Fahrzeuge und Menschen wurden ganz am Computer erschaffen,
ebenso viele Kamerafahrten. ..."
- "... und zwar in bisher unerreichter Präzision: Selbst Hautporen und einzelne
Haare lassen sich darstellen.
Gaeta hat die Fähigkeit erlangt, Schauspieler am Computer wie Puppen nach
seinem Belieben tanzen zu lassen. Er kann sie sogar zu Bewegungen zwingen,
die sie nie wirklich getan haben. ..."
Lesen Sie den SPIEGEL-Artikel unter dem Titellink. (ps)
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11.Mai.2003
VMC (Website)
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LowLevel Gameport Treiber v41.19 für Amithlon
Guido Mersmann hat eine neue Version seiner lowlevel.library
für Amithlon erstellt, in der noch Fehler gefixt
wurden. Ein kleines Tool erlaubt das Einschalten des
Sound Blaster Game Ports. Die neue Software können Sie
von der "Amithlon Software Updates"-Seite herunterladen. (nba)
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10.Mai.2003
YAM (ANF)
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Virus-Spam-Mails von gefälschtem Amiga.com-Account
Vermehrt aufkommenden Meldungen zufolge werden derzeit
Massen-Spam-E-Mails von einem gefälschten Amiga.com-Account
versendet, die einen Windows-Virus enthalten. Sollten Sie
eine unerwartete E-Mail von den Adressaten gary@amiga.com
oder michael@amiga.com erhalten und Windows als
Betriebssystem nutzen, gehen Sie bitte mit der nötigen
Vorsicht an diese E-Mail heran.
Nachtrag (11.05.2003, 1:35, nba): Wort "Gerüchte" durch
"Meldungen" ersetzt. (nba)
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10.Mai.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Viele Bereiche aktualisiert
Die GAUHPIL (Geographische Amiga User Home Page Internet Liste) ist
eine von Dietmar Knoll erstellte und moderierte Liste von Webseiten
von Amiga-Usern, die geografisch nach Kontinenten und Ländern
sortiert ist. Heute wurden folgende Bereiche aktualisiert:
- Europa
- Liste neuer Links
- Liste verlorener Links
- Historie 2003
(nba)
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10.Mai.2003
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)
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Digital Album "Argentina" Version 1.5
The Digital Album "Argentina" is a huge collection which shows the
most interesting and beautiful places of Brasil. It can be used on
all computer platforms and beside that on many DVD-Players, which
feature the Kodak PictureCD (JPG)-format.
- Buenos Aires / Buenos Aires ... 122
- Buenos Aires / San Isidro ... 002
- Buenos Aires / Tigre ... 006
- Cordoba / Cordoba ... 033
- Cordoba / Cosquin ... 006
- Cordoba / La Falda ... 011
- Cordoba / Sierra ... 025
- Cordoba / Villa Carlos Paz ... 013
Beside the photo archive the CD-ROM includes the digital postcard system
to send postcards over the Internet and a webpage with interesting links
to the different places. Price: 8 Euro. (nba)
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10.Mai.2003
Grasshopper LLC (E-Mail)
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PageStream-Preisaktion noch bis 16. Mai 2003
Grasshopper LLC, Entwickler der DTP-Applikation PageStream, schreibt:
We have been inundated with requests to continue to offer our discounted
price for PageStream full copies and upgrades. Of course who can blame
them! Paying less than 1/3 retail for a powerful desktop publishing
program like PageStream, not to mention discounts across the board on
upgrades sure does help the pocket book. For those new customers who have
joined the PageStream crowd, welcome aboard! However, all good things must
come to an end! After May 16th, PageStream's pricing returns to our normal
great price!
New Web Site In Development
We have decided to take it upon ourselves to make a radical redesign of
the GrasshopperLLC web site. Our basic design goals are to make it easy
for new customers to learn about PageStream's features, samples, how it
compares to others, and of course how to buy it. We hope to provide near
instant download access to new purchases. For existing PageStream users,
it should be easy to find answers to common questions, new scripts and
templates, and more. We have set up a survey on our web site asking for
input on what you would like to see on our website, and to tell us about
your favorite sites. The survey can be found at www.grasshopperllc.com.
Suggestions and any other help you can offer can also be directed at
sales@grasshopperllc.com. (nba)
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10.Mai.2003
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Aminet Uploads bis 10.05.2003
Hier die seit unserer letzten Meldung neu hinzugekommenen Aminet Uploads:
ABasiC_progs.lha dev/basic 382K+Collection of ABasiC games and programs
AS-Hemp.lha game/data 567K+Cardset for AS-..... compatible games
transplantanr.lha mus/play 42K+Transplant skin for AmiNetRadio
Haymigga_I.jpg pix/wb 257K+Haymigga`s Red & Blue Mania WB Screensho
japanese-wb2.jpg pix/wb 119K+Japanese support on amiga
_Dani_-WB-10.jpg pix/wb 202K+Amiga Workbench Screenshot 1024x768x24
SnoopDos_Src.lha util/moni 256K+SnoopDos 3.8 sources
mouseshell10.lha util/rexx 1K+Opens Shell window under mouse pointer
(ps)
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10.Mai.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Magazine: Total Amiga Magazine - The Professionals are back!
No we don't mean Bodie and Doyle, we mean Amiga Legends Richard
Drummond, John Chandler & Andrew Korn! Total Amiga Magazine is
proud to announce that as of issue 15 some of the finest Amiga
Journalists to have ever graced the Amiga scene will be donating
some of their spare time to write for us!
Richard Drummond: "Began writing for Amiga Format, before moving
on to Amiga Active Magazine, eventually moving on to Linux Format."
John Chandler: "Has written for several Amiga magazines,
including Amiga Active and has a regular column on Suite101."
Andrew Korn: "Was CU Amiga Magazine's Deputy Editor and went on
to become the launch Editor of Amiga Active Magazine."
All this and the regulars:
- News
- OS4 Update
- MorphOS News
- Features
- Reviews
- Tutorials
- Plus regular columnists, Fleecy Moss and Alan Redhouse
Congratulations to Louis Vidal of NYC, USA on winning our earlier
QUAKEII competition. Don't forget there is yet another chance to
win a copy of Quake II, courtesy of Hyperion and Forematt Home
Computing in issue 15.
For subscriptions, list of worldwide stockists and free Downloads
of previous issues visit Total Amiga Magazine.
Total Amiga Magazine, does what it says in the name. (ps)
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09.Mai.2003
Michael Battilana (E-Mail)
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Messe: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 am 5. Juli 2003
Am 5. Juli 2003 wird im italienischen Udine die Amiga Messe "Amiga
Alpe Adria 2003" (AAA 2003) stattfinden. Dies kündigte Michael
Battilana von Cloanto, Software-Hersteller und Messe-Veranstalter,
heute an.
Thema der Veranstaltung werden die aktuellen Hardware- und
Software-Entwicklungen aus dem Amiga-Markt sein, wobei der
Schwerpunkt auf AmigaOS 4.0 samt AmigaOne liegt, das von
Jürgen Schober präsentiert werden soll. Der Eintritt
zur Messe und die Ausstellungsfläche wird kostenlos sein. Um
vorherige Anmeldung per E-Mail wird gebeten.
Die Besucher der Messe können dieses Wochenende mit der
Unterstützung von Cloanto für einen Kurzurlaub in der
wunderschönen Region um Udine nutzen. Aktivitäten
wie Besuche des Strandes, der Berge und Hügel, von Venedig,
Trieste, Cividale und San Daniele sind für die Tage nach dem
Messesamstag geplant. (nba)
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09.Mai.2003
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amiga-news.de Community-Polo-Shirts
Die amiga-news.de Community-Shirts gibt es nun auf Wunsch auch in
folgender Ausführung:
Zip Polo Pique aus 100% Baumwolle (230g/qm), Kragen und Ärmelbündchen
in Rippstrick, Leiste mit verdecktem Metallreißverschluss, Doppelnaht
am Saum, Seitenschlitze und Nackenband. Die Polo-Shirts sind ab 27,-
Euro in mehreren Farbkombinationen erhältlich.
Achten Sie bei der Bestellung auf das Bild: kleines Farbfeld = Farbe an
Bündchen, großes Farbfeld = Polo Grundfarbe. Bei heller Grundfarbe ist
die Schrift des amiga-news.de-Logos schwarz.
Es kann auf Wunsch ein Username angebracht werden! Bitte diesen bei
Bestellung im Textfeld angeben (in diesem Fall wird allerdings
ausschließlich gegen Vorkasse ausgeliefert, da es sich um eine
kundenspezifische Anfertigung handelt).
(ps)
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09.Mai.2003
Kelvin Shirley (ANF)
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Webserver Gw3s v2 released
The gW3S Open Source Team is proud to announce the first release
in the 2.x branch! gW3S is a small AREXX based webserver that can
run simple and complex websites from your Amiga (and also works on
Amithlon too).
New in this version:
- GZIP Encoding (static and on-the-fly)
- Better HTTP compliance.
- Cleaner code.
- Browser cache handling.
- Minor bug fixes.
Website: http://carls.1av10.nu/w3s/
(ps)
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09.Mai.2003
racesimcentral.com (ANF)
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Racer Source Code wird als GPL veröffentlicht
As you might know, there seem to be a bunch of people in the Linux
community who have a problem with Racer not being GPL'ed.
This might be a good time to take a crossroads. I plan to release
the Racer v0.5.0 source code under GPL. I don't think I'll host that
version after that, since we don't have that much bandwidth and
would take time that I'd rather put in other things.
After the GPL release, I'll close the source for future versions.
This does not have any impact on the strategy of Racer, which means
a free executable version for the platforms (although I still have
the problem of DRI executables for Linux, since I don't have such
a set in my possession).
There are plans for commercial implementations using Racer, and you
may have noticed things like 'ecol' or 'ecue'. Those are proprietary
extensions. Probably RakNet (a quite cool networking library) will
enter the game as well. It becomes harder to get clean source code
out the door, free of rights. Also, since the multiplayer component
might take a bit of a boost with RakNet (at least take out the
2-player limit at once), it would be too easy for hackers to create
modified versions of Racer and find their way through the network
protocol.
Although I'm sorry for all those interested in the source code, it
seems like the right path. There's always the GPL spinoff that could
be maintained. I'm not sure how that's going to turn out; I'm getting
major support these days in putting realism and knowledge into Racer's
physics and that is interesting for anyone.
The 2 Racer version will drift apart, that's for sure, if only because
of the networking protocols, I'm afraid. I'm not convinced however that
a GPL spinoff (with which I will have little to do) will go to bigger
heights than a closed source one. Even though it potentially means
more developers, it still takes a lot of devotion to make stable
improved versions without hacking little bits in just for the day.
So with the GPL version you'd have OpenSource, but no license to commer
cially sell it. It just still seems a bit counterproductive almost to
split the project into two.
Comments will be read with interest, although with these things I can
imagine you'll have 2 groups; those that are for and those that are
against, and nothing much will bring the 2 together.
www.racer.nl.
(ps)
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09.Mai.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Toshiba speichert 36 GByte auf DVD-Nachfolger-Medium
»Medien sollen sich mit aktuellen Produktionsanlagen herstellen lassen
Toshiba hat jetzt einen funktionierenden Prototyp seiner auf blauem
Laser basierenden, wiederbeschreibbaren optischen Medien vorgestellt.
Toshiba bringt dabei bis zu 36 GByte in zwei Schichten auf einer Seite
des Mediums unter - regulär sind 30 GByte auf einem zweischichtigem
Medium geplant. Im Gegensatz zu Sonys Konkurrenzformat Blue-Ray sollen
sich Toshibas Medien mit bestehenden Produktionsanlagen herstellen lassen.« (ps)
[Meldung: 09. Mai. 2003, 16:59] [Kommentare: 5 - 10. Mai. 2003, 20:08]
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09.Mai.2003
heise Newsticker
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heise: Gateway kündigt Verlust an
Das Wallstreet Journal meldet, dass der PC-Hersteller Gateway für 2003
erneut mit Verlusten rechnet. In dem Artikel wird eine dritte Reorganisation des Unternehmens angekündigt. Demnach sollen in Zukunft
PCs nicht das einzige Standbein sein, sondern der Gateway-Chef Ted
Waitt will eine neue Produktlinie aus 15 unterschiedlichen Heimelektronikgeräten, z. B. Geräte für das digitale Fernsehen, unter eigenem Namen herausbringen.
Lesen Sie den heise-Artikel unter dem Titellink. (ps)
[Meldung: 09. Mai. 2003, 13:23] [Kommentare: 12 - 11. Mai. 2003, 11:13]
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09.Mai.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenü: Pixload Version 3.5 Beta 3
In der aktuellen Betaversion 3 des Startmenüs Pixload 3.5 wurden einige
neue Features eingebaut. Wenn Sie Vorschläge, Ideen oder Wünsche haben,
teilen Sie diese bitte Pixel Art per E-Mail (pixelart@wanadoo.fr)
in Englisch oder Französisch mit. (ps)
[Meldung: 09. Mai. 2003, 12:02] [Kommentare: 0]
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09.Mai.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Event: Amiga Show - June 28th 2003 - Holland
We organize an Amiga Show at Saturday June 28th from 10:00 till 16:00 at the
Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland. We wanna organize a few nice
activities and demonstrations and we will keep you informed at our website:
http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/.
Come on Amigans and join us all at this Party!
(ps)
[Meldung: 09. Mai. 2003, 11:46] [Kommentare: 11 - 10. Mai. 2003, 14:35]
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