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KOSH [Kommunity Orientated Software Hardware]

Weekly Summary

Week Commencing: 8th May 1999

Number: 020

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: The KOSH Application

Summary of debate: It will be helpful that KOSH can run as an application on
                   other operating systems (as well as native versions). This
                   will allow people to use it and see its benefits without
                   having to leave their used-to environments.


b)

Subject: x86, 68k and PPC Slim Binary generation

Summary of debate: Suggested KOSH could have a tool to uncompile binaries in
                   the above formats (and more) and spit out the slimbinaries.
                   Would this be feasible?


c)

Subject: API recording

Summary of debate: Suggested KOSH could have a tool that records each and every
                   API call under a current OS in order to provide a list of
                   what can at all be called. This would provide a basis to
                   offer the same API while being different underneath and thus
                   not breaking copyright.


d)

Subject: Information Landscapes

Summary of debate: http://www.newsmaps.com has some new idea of presenting
                   "Information Landscapes" instead of hierarchical trees as we
                   know them. Could this be used for KOSH?


e)

Subject: VMware

Summary of debate: A PC trick that allows you to hot-context-switch between PC
                   OSs may be VMware. See http://www.vmware.com

                   It was asked if we should make hot-context switching a
                   standard feature of KOSH?


f)

Subject: Mass market retail channels and KOSH availability

Summary of debate: It was suggested that there is no need for KOSH to show up
                   in any retail channels until there is a good chance at
                   impulse buying - this is only just starting to happen with
                   Linux.


g)

Subject: KOSH Clones

Summary of debate: Making it easy to clone KOSH machines (whether licenced or
                   reverse engineered) would help to greatly increase the
                   installed user base of KOSH.


h)

Subject: Plugin HALs

Summary of debate: Suggested we could have software processors and multiple
                   HALs as plugin objects relatively easily.

AE30-italiano.lha    biz/haage   17K+ArtEffect 3.0 - Italiano locale
AmBoS-Update.lha     comm/ambos 1.1M+AmBoS BBS Update 2.98a (05-05-99)
uuepro.lha           comm/fido   16K+Fastest & smartest 68k uuencode on Earth
dring.lha            comm/misc   31K+Distinctive ring for TrapDoor
AMarquee49.lha       comm/net   271K+V49.8 TCP Data Broadcast System (library
BackTest.lha         comm/www     3K+Test multiple WWW Backgrounds in a singl
HTTPResume.lha       comm/www   108K+Resume interrupted HTTP downloads
Cns2.lha             demo/mag   154K+CowsAndSnakefights diskmag #2
Cns_2.lha            demo/mag   154K+CowsAndSnakefights diskmag #2
PMManager.lha        dev/c      1.4M+Project-Make-Manager (PMM) for vbcc
OBEdit_src.lha       dev/e        4K+Source code for OBEdit - UFO/X-COM weapo
MCC_Pkb14_4.lha      dev/mui    157K+Piano keyboard, MUI-Class
MCC_TransferAn.lha   dev/mui    147K+MUI Custom Class for displaying transfer
fbackng.lha          disk/bakup  26K+FBackNG - Daily backup/mirror program.
rusdevdocs.lha       docs/misc   60K+AmigaOS and MUI programming, in Russian
so2.lha              game/2play 304K+Shoot Out 2. 2 player cat-and-mouse mayh
waveditor171.lha     game/2play  33K+A simple wave editor -small, but cool.
FreeCell1.7.lha      game/board  96K+Logical patience-type card game
F1GP_1999.lha        game/data    8K+1999 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (16-May-
speedup.lha          game/gag     1K+Small gag for MS windows. Use it on your
ufosg.lha            game/hint   40K+UFO Strategy Guide. Hints and tips for U
apt2.lha             game/misc  296K+Alien Pong Trilogy v2. Pong clone (duh!)
OBEdit.lha           game/misc   13K+UFO/X-COM weapons editor 
PacEasy.lha          game/patch   1K+Set of "Easy" Levels for "PacoMix 2"
SwosEditor15.lha     game/patch 188K+Allows Editing of SWOS Save Games.
DC240_Tool.lha       gfx/misc    32K+Tool for control of Kodak DC240 digicam
rescale111.lha       mus/edit    13K+Anti-alias resampling for RAW 8SVX sound
fixaiff_jf.lha       mus/misc     8K+Fixaiff V1.0 fixes aiffs for DelFX
Amoralplay1.2.lha    mus/play   107K+-*AMOREL*- No fuss multiformat(OSS etc.!
modplayer.lha        mus/play    40K+MOD Player v2.0 (A simple MOD Player)
ACG_Ranma.lha        pix/anim   3.4M+A ranma anim.
amigifanims.lha      pix/anim   148K+Amiga Online anims for webpage. 
atextbball.lha       pix/anim   2.4M+Nice raytrace anim (ham8)
rot_goldami.lha      pix/anim   1.3M+Nice raytrace anim
WF7_MVS-Blur1.mpg    pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Blur 1 Anim 
WF7_MVS-Blur2.mpg    pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Blur 2 Anim 
WF7_MVS-Film1.mpg    pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Film 1 Anim 
WF7_MVS-Film2.mpg    pix/anim   507K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Film 2 Anim 
WF7_MVS-Film3.mpg    pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Film 3 Anim 
WF7_MVS-Twist5.mpg   pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Twist 5 Anim 
WF7_MVS-Twist6.mpg   pix/anim   505K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Twist 6 Anim 
GlenBOOTpics.lha     pix/boot   2.5M+11 assorted boot pictures.
GlenBOOTpicsP.jpg    pix/boot    60K+11 assorted boot pictures (PREVIEW)
JaysWB.jpg           pix/wb     670K+Pic of my CGX 1600*1200*16 workbench, ju
GatewayTools.lha     util/cli   840K+Various tools for use in CLI
SetInput.lha         util/cli     2K+Select the pointer's input.   Flexible  
VersCheck.lha        util/cli   277K+Check your libs,MUI,devs,dtypes,classes,
WoW.lha              util/conv   42K+Text converter (Html, Ww6, Rtf, Ascii, A
graphics3d.lha       util/libs  268K+3D graphics shared library V15.10
YAMM.lha             util/moni   23K+YAMM - Monitors mem levels, can give war
FWCalendar.lha       util/rexx   59K+THE calendar creator for FW & Pagestream
hdpp20.lha           util/wb     94K+HDPP v2.0 (A Hard Drive Password Protect
MultiSplit.lha       util/wb     39K+MultiSplit ger. GUI-FileSplitter
netdock.lha          util/wb     87K+NetDOCK (the original)

ligamanager.lha      biz/dbase  377K+German database for sport leagues V3.3
FTPlocal.lha         biz/dopus    2K+Set up individual local paths for each F
RecoverDelDir.lha    biz/dopus   92K+AFS/PFS2/SFS undeletetool (english,germa
CompareInc.lha       biz/misc   117K+Track income & taxes from multiple jobs
PGSUniFilter16.lha   biz/patch  246K+V1.6 PageStream V3.x/V4.x Gfx Import Fil
AmBoS-Update.lha     comm/ambos 1.2M+AmBoS BBS Update 2.98 (26-04-99)
YamCheckNew.lha      comm/mail    1K+Uses Say to report new mail in Yam after
dring.lha            comm/misc   31K+Distinctive ring for TrapDoor
IBrowse_swe.lha      comm/www     9K+Swedish .catalog-file for IBrowse 1.22
PSB-Planeta.lha      demo/aga   1.9M+"planeta psb" by psb_dk. r/r meeting`99 
MWI-Excess03.lha     demo/mag   1.9M+Excess #03 by Madwizards - demoscene mag
e_select_gc.lha      dev/e        9K+Amiga E modules for select.gadget
Dkg-prices.lha       docs/anno    1K+Pricelist for Amiga products at DarkAge
RedDwarf-quote.lha   docs/hyper  21K+RedDwarf Quotes
TexWiller-Lyr.lha    docs/hyper   1K+Tex Willer Lyrics
VideoArcadeFAQ.lha   docs/hyper   8K+Video Arcade FAQ
Lapp-Faq.lha         docs/lists  10K+List of Arcade & Pinball ports
sharks.lha           game/actio 203K+Action-diving 
DDragon5-FAQ.lha     game/hint    3K+FAQ for Double Dragon 5 (SNES)
EOB2-spoilers.lha    game/hint    5K+Eye Of The Beholder 2 spoilers
FriDayThe13th.lha    game/hint    5K+FAQ for Friday The 13th (NES)
HiddenGame-FAQ.lha   game/hint    7K+Hidden Games FAQ
MrDo-FAQ.lha         game/hint    7K+Mr.Do FAQ
NorthStar-FAQ.lha    game/hint    1K+FAQ for Fist of NorthStar Ken (PSX)
OSS_Colonel.lha      game/hint    4K+Colonel`s Bequest Solve (German)
OSS_IronLord.lha     game/hint    2K+Iron Lord Solve (German)
OSS_Larry5f.lha      game/hint    6K+Larry 5 Solve final (German)
OSS_MH-NY.lha        game/hint    4K+Manhunter New York Solve (German)
OSS_Rise.lha         game/hint    3K+Rise of the Dragon Solve (German)
OSS_Rockstar.lha     game/hint    2K+Rock Star ate my hamster Solve (German)
SuperGFMiniMix.lha   game/hint   16K+Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix FAQ
SMC.lha              game/patch  30K+SWOS Money Cheat (tested with 95/96)
ifx_jpeg.lha         gfx/ifx     82K+JPEG ImageFX loader. PPC version (1.3)
PowerCrawlerFr.lha   gfx/misc    24K+French catalog for PowerCrawler 1.31
Show.lha             gfx/show   374K+Cybergfx only picture viewer (040+PPC) V
sJFIF1.4.52.lha      gfx/show    20K+JFIF viewer for AGA AmigOS
ICS.lha              hard/misc  1.3M+V1.02 ICS - professional color correctio
mame060.lha          misc/emu   2.2M+Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator 0.35.12
mameppc.lha          misc/emu   3.2M+Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator 0.35.12
mamesrc.lha          misc/emu   387K+Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator 0.35.12
imdbDiff990507.lha   misc/imdb  1.6M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
A2-MMulti_4.lha      mods/misc  2.4M+Astrosyn`2 - multichannel music compo en
salty_darkspac.mpg   mods/mpg   3.4M Mpeg file by Stu -Drum+Bass
salty_procras1.mpg   mods/mpg   3.4M Hiphop Mpeg by Salty.
salty_rapture.mpg    mods/mpg   7.6M Mpeg file by No Presets -Drum+Bass
salty_ReTroit.mpg    mods/mpg   4.1M Mpeg file by Salty, House
salty_ruder.mpg      mods/mpg   7.0M Mpeg file by Salty, Bigbeat
salty_shade.mpg      mods/mpg   5.4M Mpeg file by Salty, Drum+Bass
salty_waffler.mpg    mods/mpg   4.2M Mpeg file by Jorj, Drum+Bass
mvp_0041.lha         mods/mvp   887K+MoPlayaz - timez
WF7_MVS-Persp1.mpg   pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Perspect 1 An
WF7_MVS-Persp2.mpg   pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Perspec 2 Ani
WF7_MVS-Persp3.mpg   pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Perspect 3 An
WF7_MVS-Twist1.mpg   pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Twist 1 Anim 
WF7_MVS-Twist2.mpg   pix/anim   505K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Twist 2 Anim 
WF7_MVS-Twist3.mpg   pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Twist 3 Anim 
WF7_MVS-Twist4.mpg   pix/anim   506K+Wildfire 7 - MVS Example - Twist 4 Anim 
YureWB.jpg           pix/wb     104K+One of the best 800x600 WB. Yure's BVisi
CMQ030.lha           util/boot    3K+Patch CopyMem/Quick for 68030 v1.1
CMQ060.lha           util/boot   12K+Patch CopyMem/Quick for 68060(040) v1.4
PlayMidi.lha         util/dtype   3K+V1.0 Plays MIDI Files via GMPlay & cli.d
wavdt41.lha          util/dtype   8K+Datatype for wave sounds (41.4)
ppclibemu.lha        util/libs  101K+Ppc.library emulation under WarpOS
RudeTaper.lha        util/misc   37K+Records/Plays keyboard and mouse events 
Whatson.lha          util/misc   32K+Parse and view TV listings files v 1.1
2b_mv_os2.lha        util/sys    80K+OS 2.0+ MultiView replacement
ABeat.lha            util/time    2K+Simply Swatch-Beat clock.
PowerWBfr.lha        util/wb     14K+French catalog for PowerWB 0.5