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10.Apr.1999 AMIGA |
Der Amiga und das Jahr-2000-Problem Auf amiga.de wurde der Artikel über das Jahr 2000 Problem aktualisiert, leider steht nicht dabei, welcher Teil bzw. was aktualisiert wurde. Wenn jemand Infos darüber hat, was sich genau geändert, bitte ins News Forum posten. Nachtrag 11.04.1999: Olaf Barthel schreibt im Forum: Es hat fast sechs Monate gedauert, ein Update für den ursprünglichen Y2K-Artikel veröffentlicht zu bekommen. Die überarbeitete Version korrigiert sachliche Fehler im Originaltext, berücksichtigt Informationen, die nach der Veröffentlichung des Originalartikels eingegangen sind, versucht die Problematik etwas klarer darzustellen und gibt neue Hilfestellung. Die jetzt aktuelle Version des Artikels enthält leider noch nicht die ursprünglich vorgesehenen Verweise auf aktualisierte Versionen von SetClock und dem Version-Befehl. Ich hoffe, daß das demnächst folgen wird. Nachtrag 17.08.2017: Den Artikel, der unter amiga.de schon länger nicht mehr verfügbar ist, mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Olaf Barthel in die Meldung aufgenommen. Download-Links verweisen nun auf cloanto.com. The Year 2000 problem and the AmigaWritten by Olaf Barthel To make a long story short, the Amiga in general does not suffer from the Year 2000 problem in the context known to the PC world. Still, the Amiga faces three distinct date problems and a single, specific Year 2000 problem with limited scope which will be described in this paper. This document will show you how to find out if your Amiga might have a Year 2000 problem and will then go into detail, explaining the technical aspects of the problems and how they may be addressed. (This is a revised version of the document of the same name which appeared on September 20, 1998, on the Amiga, Inc. web site). 1. How to tell if an Amiga is Year 2000 compliant?The Amiga runs under control of an operating system called AmigaOS which, depending on the operating system version, is either fully Year 2000 compliant or may have a problem in the Year 2000. To tell which operating system an Amiga is running you can perform a simple test. The test works by invoking an operating system feature that is unavailable in the operating system versions that may have a problem in the Year 2000. For this test, hold down both the leftmost and the rightmost mouse buttons before you switch on the computer and keep holding down both buttons until a picture appears on your monitor. The picture to appear should look like one of the three illustrations shown below. Please see the description for each illustration to find out what the pictures mean. ![]() Figure 1: The Amiga 3000 Kickstart menu This is a picture of the Amiga 3000 computer prompting you to choose the operating system to use. Two principal choices are possible, you can either use the older Kickstart version 1.3 or the newer version 2.x. On this machine, either choice will pick an operating system version that is Year 2000 compliant (the Amiga 3000 is not vulnerable to the SetClock problem described in this paper since it uses a special version of that utility). If a picture like this appears, it means that your Amiga is Year 2000 compliant. Please note that the picture you will see on your screen need not be completely identical to Figure 1. ![]() Figure 2: The AmigaOS 2.0/2.1 boot menu This picture shows an Amiga prompting you to choose the device to bootstrap from. If a picture like this appears, it means that your Amiga is Year 2000 compliant. Please note that the picture you will see on your screen need not be completely identical to Figure 2.
![]() Figure 3: The AmigaOS 3.0/3.1 boot menu This picture shows an Amiga prompting you to choose an early startup option to change. If a picture like this appears, it means that your Amiga is Year 2000 compliant. Please note that the picture you will see on your screen need not be completely identical to Figure 3. If the picture to appear does not look like any of the three illustrations shown above, then your Amiga is probably not entirely Year 2000 compliant. To find out how to address the problems, see section 5 of this document. 1.1 Is the software written for the Amiga Year 2000 compliant?Software written for the Amiga computer is not automatically Year 2000 compliant. While the Amiga operating system provides time and date keeping services which are Year 2000 compliant, it was always left to the individual software developers to use them properly. Amiga, Inc. neither supports nor maintains 3rd party application software.
2. Scope of this documentThe following text refers to Amiga desktop computers built between 1986 and 1997. It covers only computer hardware configurations designed and built by Commodore-Amiga, Inc., Amiga Technologies GmbH and Amiga, Inc. This specifically excludes 3rd party hardware extensions, such as the Microbotics "StarBoard" which among other features offered a battery backed up clock. It should be noted that, as far as the ROM operating system and Amiga software is concerned, this document only covers the features and/or shortcomings of the Amiga operating system as designed and implemented by Commodore-Amiga, Inc. 3rd party application software designed to run under control of the Amiga operating system may not show the same behaviour as the operating system itself. It may show bugs which AmigaOS does not exhibit, and the other way round. 3. How the Amiga handles date and timeThe Amiga operating system has always followed the Unix model in measuring time as the number of seconds that have elapsed since a fixed point of time. Under AmigaOS that fixed point of time (also known as 'epoch') is 00:00:00 of January 1, 1978 (Unix uses 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970). The operating system manages time and date through a module known as timer.device. This module reads and stores date and time information using a data structure known as timeval which, in 'C' language notation, is shown below: struct timeval { ULONG tv_secs; ULONG tv_micro; }; In this context an ULONG refers to an unsigned 32 bit quantity. The tv_secs structure member holds the number of seconds that have elapsed since the AmigaOS epoch. The tv_micro member denotes the number of microseconds (the 10-6th part of a second) that have elapsed since the last second has passed. 3.1 The AmigaDOS date and time handling is special"AmigaDOS" and "AmigaOS" are not two names for the same thing. AmigaDOS is (in a nutshell) the name of the AmigaOS layer which implements filing systems and their actions, the command line interpreter, and the means to load and relocate executable binary files. AmigaDOS is more or less a port of the Cambridge University TRIPOS 32 bit kernel. It has its own peculiar data structures, including its own version of the timeval structure described above. The AmigaDOS variant is known as DateStamp, as shown below: struct DateStamp { LONG ds_Days; LONG ds_Minute; LONG ds_Tick; }; In this context a LONG refers to a signed 32 bit quantity. The ds_Days member contains the number of days (each day consists of exactly 24 hours) that have passed since the AmigaOS epoch. The ds_Minute member denotes the number of minutes that have passed since midnight (00:00:00) of the given day. The ds_Tick member contains the number of "ticks" that have passed since the last minute. A minute consist of 3,000 "ticks", i.e. there are exactly 50 ticks in a second. The term "tick" is often confused with the "tick" signals which the Amiga hardware can generate either through the power supply or the custom chip set. The frequency at which the hardware generates "tick" signals is controlled by the power supply frequency (50 Hz or 60 Hz) or the jumper settings on the main board (PAL = 50 Hz, NTSC = 60 Hz). There is no relation between the hardware "tick" signals and the "tick" quantities used in the context of the DateStamp data structure. For the DateStamp ds_Tick member, there are always 50 ticks in a second, regardless of the power supply frequency or the main board jumper settings. AmigaDOS uses DateStamps to describe file and volume creation dates. All shell commands follow the same model, i.e. if the system date is set through the shell Date command, it will calculate time and date in DateStamp format. 3.2 Local time vs GMTThe Amiga operating system never knew the concept of local and global time. While the AmigaOS 2.1 update (1992) introduced a locale preferences editor that allowed for the time zone to be selected, the operating system itself never put this feature to use or encouraged application software developers to use it. One might argue that with this background, the AmigaOS was always tuned to local time.
3.3 How the Amiga maintains its system timeThe early Amiga computer models did not support a battery backed up real time clock that would keep ticking and maintaining local time even until after the machine was switched off. For example, the first Amiga computer ever (later christened the Amiga 1000) did not offer a battery backed up clock. For the Amiga 500 the battery backed up clock was an extra hardware feature one could buy separately with a memory expansion. Amiga computer models without battery backed up clock hardware include:
Amiga computer models with battery backed up clock hardware include:
These two lists do not mention the CDTV and CD32 devices since these machine types do not really count as desktop computers. On machines without battery backed up clock hardware, the Amiga sets its system time according to the modification date of the boot volume. In other words, the point of time the last file was modified or created on a disk would determine the system time. As this was by no means accurate, the AmigaOS boot process would suggest and prompt you to adjust the system date once the system had booted (as pictured below). ![]() Figure 4: The shell window prompting you to adjust the date On machines equipped with battery backed up clock hardware the system time was read during the boot process. As of AmigaOS versions 1.2 and 1.3 a special program, called SetClock, was responsible for reading the current clock settings and setting the system time accordingly. Starting with AmigaOS version 2.0 that functionality was integrated into the ROM operating system, making the SetClock utility at least in part redundant. If the system starts up without being able to set its system time, it defaults to 00:00:00 January 1, 1978. 4. Setting and reading the timeThe Amiga offers both a command line interface and a graphical user interface. Both went through a number of changes over the years as will be described below. 4.1 The command line interfaceThere are two shell commands which deal with the system date, these being SetClock and Date. The Date command is for reading and setting the current system date whereas the SetClock command deals with the battery backed up clock: it reads and stores the current system time from/in it. The Date command is of particular interest due to the human readable date format it uses by default. Today you might invoke the Date command and receive the following output:
19-Sep-98 As one can see the year number is limited to two digits only. Even if a different locale is used (e.g. french), the year will always be displayed with its two last decimals only. Luckily, this numbering is consistent with the following rule:
To set the system time to any year beyond 1999, you reverse the rule, i.e. entering date 01-jan-01 will set the time to 1 January, 2001. All versions of the AmigaDOS Date command (version 1.1 through version 37.1) display and parse the data format in the same fashion. They behave consistently and predictably throughout all Amiga operating system revisions. The same holds true for the other two Shell commands that deal with dates, namely SetDate and List (the List command can list files and drawers created/modified since a specific date). 4.2 The graphical user interfaceThe system time is set through the preferences editor which in AmigaOS versions 1.0-1.3 used to be a single, monolithic program as pictured below: ![]() Figure 5: The Workbench 1.1 Preferences editor The controls for setting the system time are located in the top left corner of the window. They allow the last two digits of the year to be adjusted; the model follows the AmigaDOS Date command in that a year number less than 78 denotes a year in the range 2000..2077 and all other settings refer to a year in the range 1978..1999. With the introduction of AmigaOS 2.0, the time preferences editor was moved into a single program named Time, as pictured below: ![]() Figure 6: The Workbench 2.0 Time Preferences editor In this editor, the year can be entered as a four digit number. However, the range is limited to the years 1978..2113. When the AmigaOS 2.1 update was released, the time preferences editor was revised, as can be seen below: ![]() Figure 7: The Workbench 2.1 Time Preferences editor Just like with the previous version of the Time Preferences editor, the year can be entered as a four digit number. In this case, the range is limited to the years 1991..2099. 5. The problemsAs far as is known today, the Amiga faces four date problems. Two are design problems caused by numeric overflow, one is caused by hardware limitations and one is a real bug that will strike in the year 2000. 5.1 SetClock stops working in the year 2000The Amiga Workbench disk revisions 1.2 and 1.3 would ship with a program by the name of SetClock which was responsible for reading the battery backed up clock time upon system startup. The SetClock program suffers from a bug which causes it to miscalculate the battery backed up clock time starting with the year 2000. It is accurate only for the years 1978..1999. Once the year counter rolls over to 00, SetClock will believe that the year is 1978 until the year 2079 is reached; that's when it will believe that the year is 1979 -- which is not necessarily an improvement. Please note that only the SetClock program found on the AmigaOS 1.2 and 1.3 Workbench disks suffers from this problem. Several versions of this program were distributed, each between 4,000 and 7,000 bytes in size. To tell whether you have a version that works or not, check the file size; if it is less than 1,000 bytes in size you will probably have the properly working version (and not one of the older versions). If it is larger than 4,000 bytes, you probably have the faulty version. Size isn't everything, though. Some 3rd party hardware extensions would use their own versions of the SetClock program. They went by the same name, but read the system time from a different hardware location. Do not replace these custom versions. You will probably be using such a custom version if your real time clock is hooked up to a mouse port or the keyboard connector. A fix for this problem is provided in this archive. Download it and unpack it, then read the enclosed SetClock_ReadMe file! 5.2 Negative timeAs was outlined above, the Amiga measures time in seconds. As it turns out, the number of seconds to accumulate until 19 January, 2046, 03:14:07 will form the largest value a signed 32 bit integer number can hold. This is not a problem for the time keeping module (timer.device). However, application software and other operating system components which treat the number of seconds as a signed quantity will get into trouble one second later: the number of seconds will rise to 2,147,483,648 which in two's complement format represents the negative number -2,147,483,648. AmigaDOS, which always treats time as a signed quantity, will consider this date to be invalid because it is "negative". Worse, the ROM date conversion routines exhibit a bug which, once the date is later than 19 January, 2046, 03:14:07, causes all subsequent date operations to be inaccurate. The immediate effect this has is that calculations on dates can be off by more than two years. This behaviour is consistent through all AmigaOS versions. A fix is not available yet, but research is in progress to investigate whether this bug could be fixed by updating several AmigaOS modules (locale.library, dos.library). After all, this bug is "just" a side-effect of treating an unsigned quantity as signed. 5.3 Time rolling overAn unsigned 32 bit integer can hold a maximum value of 4,294,967,295. When the Amiga has accumulated that many seconds, it will be 7 February, 2114, 06:28:15. One second later the seconds counter will roll over and restart at 0. In other words, on 7 February, 2114, 06:28:16 the Amiga will believe that it is midnight on 1 January, 1978. No fix for this problem is available yet. 5.4 The battery backed up clock can count only to 99Amiga computers equipped with battery backed up real time clock hardware use one of two different hardware designs: either the Oki MSM6242RS (A500, A2000) or the Ricoh RP5C01 (A3000, A1200, A4000) chip. As is common with clock chips of that type, the year counter is implemented as a two digit BCD number. Once it reaches the year 99, the counter will roll over and start again at 00. Starting with Amiga operating system version 2.0, the boot process will read the battery backed up clock time and set the system time accordingly. This takes place every time the Amiga is reset. Because the year number covers only two digits, the same algorithm as used by the AmigaDOS Date command is employed. Consequently, the Amiga system date set at system startup time will always be in the range 1978..2077. While the system clock will keep ticking beyond 31 December, 2077 a system reset will set the clock back to 1 January, 1978. No fix for this problem is available yet. 6. Other hazardsThe following section covers topics which are related to time keeping, but not quite in the same context as was discussed in the previous sections. 6.1 In a version tag a year only has two digitsThe AmigaDOS Version command (which was introduced in AmigaOS 2.0) can extract the version and revision numbers and the creation time of any file which includes a string like this: $VER: version 40.1 (9.2.93) A string like this is called a "version tag". The date, as it appears in brackets, consist of a day, a month and a year number (exactly in that order), none of which may contain more than two digits. This was not such a big problem with versions 37 and 38 of the Version command, which extracted the string and printed it verbatim. However, starting with version 39 of the Version command, the date extracted was converted and printed using the default locale. The conversion process involved has a major flaw in that it always takes the year number, adds 1900 and prints the date. This is not consistent with how the Date command treats year numbers beyond 99. In fact, in order to print properly, the year 2000 would have to show up as the year 100 in a version tag (which is guaranteed to cause some confusion). The problem described above exists only in version 39.1 and 40.1 of the Version command. To find out which version of this command you have, open a Shell window and enter the following command: version c:version full A fix for the date parsing problem in the Version program is provided in this archive. Download it and unpack it, then read the enclosed Version_ReadMe file! 6.2 Leaking clock batteriesA battery provides the necessary power to keep the battery backed up clock hardware ticking while the Amiga computer is switched off. As time passes and the clock hardware keeps ticking, the batteries age: some must be more than ten years old by now. Old batteries can leak acid, causing great damage to the Amiga motherboard hardware. Often such leakages go unnoticed until critical parts of the Amiga hardware begin to fail. Of course, once you notice it, it is probably already too late... It has been recommended to replace the clock batteries on every Amiga main board that is more than three years old. The batteries are small, barrel-shaped objects about 18mm long and 15mm in diameter. They look as if they were being held between two clamps (they are not; the batteries are soldered) and have a blue or red plastic covering. The covering is often labeled with the name of the manufacturer (e.g. GP or Varta) and the battery properties (3.6V, 60mAh). Also, the anode ("plus pole") should be marked clearly. Where is that battery? Try looking for it: the battery may look like a capacitor on first glance, but it is unique in that it appears to be held between clamps. It is larger than any capacitor on the main board and the labeling should be unique. Here are some hints on finding the battery:
You should really start worrying if corrosive salts are covering the metal casing of the battery: it should be replaced as soon as possible. Do not attempt to replace the battery on your own. You should consult a specialist, such as your nearest Amiga technical support centre. (ps)[Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
10.Apr.1999 Digital Images |
Digital Images - News Space Station 3000: Demo wird in Kürze erscheinen. Wipeout 2097: Entwicklung geht prima voran. Zeewolf 3: Wer erinnert sich nicht an Zeewolf 1 und 2. DI ist mit Binary Asylum in Verhandlung, um evtl. Zeewolf 3 umzusetzen. Die Verhandlungen sehen gut aus :-). Weitere Verhandlungen: Wir wollen noch mehr brilliante Spiele umsetzen, z.B. Herectic2, Quake2, F22:Air Dominance Fighter. AmigaNG Spiele: Die Spiele werden eine Qualität haben, wie sie sie von den FMV's her kennen! Wir suchen: C-Coder für unsere Entwicklungsabteilung. Interessenten bitte eMail an: Stuart@digital-images.demon.co.uk. Kijitsu Warrios & Digital Soccer Updates. (ps) [Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
10.Apr.1999 ARTAS |
Website von ARTAS überarbeitet Die Website wurde überarbeitet. Im FAQ-Bereich gibt es nun die Möglichkeit, weitere Fragen zu stellen und eine Mailingliste wurde auch eingerichtet. (ps) [Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
10.Apr.1999 Prelude Supportpage |
Neue Version 3.2 des Prelude-check Tools Das Tool checkt nun auch die Funktion des Prelude Z-II Addons MPGit und Ruombler. Download: PrlCheck32.lha. (ps) [Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
10.Apr.1999 Andreas Kleinert |
Neue akDatatypes vom V44.31 vom 10.04.1999 akPNG-dt.lha und akTIFF-dt.lha sowie akJFIF-dt.lha (ps) [Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
10.Apr.1999 AmiWorld online |
NASA: Interview von AmiWorld mit Hal GreenLee (in deutsch) NASA: Interview von AmiWorld mit Hal GreenLee (in deutsch). (ps) [Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
10.Apr.1999 Aminet [New Uploads] |
Aminet Uploads vom 10.04.1999BurnIt_Drivers.lha biz/titan 159K+BurnItMasterdrivers V1.12 (26.03.99) EDoomMovie_07.lha biz/titan 2.4M+EvilsDoom Movie Part 7 of 18 ShadowGVP.lha biz/titan 71K+Shadow 3rd Moon GVP, SX32 fix AWBNetbt.lha comm/www 7K+Netscape4 Style buttons for AWebII 3.x dcs-neb.lha demo/aga 2.7M+Nebula by Dual Crew - Shining (2nd at TG dcs-phef.lha demo/aga 4.3M+Phenomenon(final) by Dual Crew - Shining GenderBender.lha demo/aga 6.2M+GenderBender - TotalVision (PPC & 68k & GenderBender_F.lha demo/aga 859K+GenderBender - Fixed PPC Version ltx-epilepsy.lha demo/aga 2.6M+Latex: Epilesy. Third place at CSX. ltx-rubber.lha demo/aga 837K+Rubber Mania. Latex first demo. wpz-frozen11.lha demo/aga 541K+Frozen Pack#11 - Mekka & Symposium Party wpz-frozen12.lha demo/aga 691K+Frozen Pack#12 - Mekka & Symposium Party dcs-2cb.lha demo/intro 60K+4-BROMO-2,5-DIMETHOXYPHENETHYLAMINE by D ltx-ascii.lha demo/intro 124K+Latex: Ascii Attack. First place at CSX ltx-jul.lha demo/intro 114K+Latex presents: Jul. (suprice compo) 2b_RDBArc18.lha disk/misc 61K+Simpliest way to backup your HD's RDB, v RecoverRDB_src.lha disk/salv 16K+Helps to recover deleted RDB - source F1GP_1999.lha game/data 8K+1999 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (7-Mar-9 fu_smht.lha game/misc 1.9M+German indoor championships (football ma ltx-stuntcar.lha game/patch 300K+Stuntcar Racer Fix TaskForce.lha game/think 303K+Tactical combat game & editor (V0.34; lo SvIIFix831.lha gfx/misc 6K+*Fix* for SViewII V8.30 (9.4.99) Spitfire.lha hard/drivr 185K+A Palm Desktop for the AmigaOS! imdbDiff990402.lha misc/imdb 1.3M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase ms99-sid.lha mods/chip 81K+MekkaSymp99 SIDs as PSID-files. smokebomb_mod.lha mods/demo 535K+Mod from SmokeBomb demo by Ozone lnsR6_water.lha mods/jungl 336K+Out in the water - jungle remix lnsR9_boy.lha mods/jungl 185K+The boy from bronx - triphop remix A2-M4chn_2.lha mods/misc 2.4M+Astrosyn`2 - 4 channel music compo entri lns31_technoEp.lha mods/techn 111K+Techno ep p2 - calling pilot lnsR10_ecua.lha mods/tranc 191K+Ecuador - acidtrance remix lnsR11_chil.lha mods/tranc 160K+Children - minimal trance remix lnsR12_Xfile.lha mods/tranc 169K+X-files - trance remix lnsR13_flo.lha mods/tranc 683K+Flotasion - trance remix lnsR7_dick1.lha mods/tranc 492K+Dick Turpin Crusade 1 - trance remix lnsR8_dick2.lha mods/tranc 384K+Dick Turpin Crusade 2 - dance trance rem FALCONER-Icons.lha pix/mwb 473K+Many Cool Icons & More 4 MWB glowiconsaddon.lha pix/nicon 93K+57 new icons in GlowIcons' style glowiconspack.lha pix/nicon 78K+48 more icons in GlowIcons' style ohnomoreglow.lha pix/nicon 74K+Even more icons in GlowIcons' style wordpadv1.lha text/edit 132K+MUI Based TextEditor v1 Esplit.lha text/misc 8K+Splits japanese EDICT into PN & normal EsplitX.lha text/misc 8K+Splits japanese EDICT into rude/normal JChar.lha text/misc 29K+Generates various japanese charsets JCode.lha text/misc 22K+Print japanese codes out of a text JConv.lha text/misc 25K+Converts japanese codes between texts KDFilt.lha text/misc 7K+Filter for KanjiDic dos2amiga.lha util/cli 20K+Converts DOS 8.3 filename to long Win95 2b_CAF.lha util/misc 19K+CAF - Collect Aminet Files (with source) Gurus99_15O4.lha util/wb 469K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)(ps) [Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
10.Apr.1999 Marc Albrecht per eMail |
Albrecht Computer Technik (ACT) - Umfrage Der Amiga befindet sich heute in einer Situation, in der die Entwicklung von neuen Produkten nicht mehr ausreichend durch Verkäufe finanziert werden kann. Um die Plattform dennoch zu unterstützen gehen immer mehr Firmen dazu über, die Investitionen durch Vorabbestellungen abzusichern. Eine große Zahl Projekte wartet in unseren Schubladen darauf realisiert zu werden. Die Entscheidung, welche Produkte verwirklicht werden, überlassen wir ab sofort unseren Kunden. Bitte stimmen Sie für die Projekte, die Sie gerne auf dem Markt sähen - und erwägen Sie eine Vorbestellung für solche, die Sie direkt unterstützen bzw. selber erwerben möchten. Je mehr Vorbestellungen wir für ein Projekte erhalten, um so wahrscheinlicher ist dessen Erscheinen. Klicken Sie hier für die deutsche Abstimmungsseite mit Beschreibungen der Software Projekte. Klicken Sie hier für die deutsche Abstimmungsseite mit Beschreibungen der Hardware Projekte. Nachtrag 11.04.1999: Marc Albrecht schreibt per eMail: Aufgrund einiger sehr fieser Flames habe ich eine FAQ begonnen, die bei der Interpretation der Umfrage helfen sollte: http://www.act-net.com/inq/faq.html. (ps) [Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
10.Apr.1999 ms.demo.org |
mekka & symposium 2k-1 Wer sich die in Fallingbostel gezeigten Scene-Demos anschauen möchte, sollte obigen Link anklicken. Eine weitere interessante Seite zum Thema ist Scene Book - On Line!. (ps) [Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
10.Apr.1999 AmiSITE |
Jikes Java Compiler Amiga Version 0.41 Jikes Java Compiler Amiga Version 0.41. (ps) [Meldung: 10. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
09.Apr.1999 Micronik |
Micronik News Die Support-Page wurde überarbeitet. Bei der Sonderaktion KW 15/16 gibt es diesmal KickROMs für alle Systeme zu Sonderpreisen. (ps) [Meldung: 09. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
09.Apr.1999 Ralph Torchia |
Update Spitfire auf Version 0.16 und Hurl auf Version 2.13 Spitfire.lha (PalmDesktop für AmigaOS), Hurl.lha. (ps) [Meldung: 09. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
09.Apr.1999 Aminet [New Uploads] |
Aminet Uploads vom 09.04.1999AE30-dansk.lha biz/haage 12K+ArtEffect 3.0 - Dansk locale Calendario1999.lha biz/misc 4K+Italian calendar made with TurboCalc gemsylk.lha biz/misc 163K+Business Chart.WB 1.3+. Version A.0 beta BurnIT_Eguide.lha biz/titan 30K+Burnit new english guide FDreamsFrench.lha biz/titan 313K+French Guide for FantasticDreams DLG1_27.lha comm/dlg 1.1M+DLG 1.27 Free Upgrade S5-Trans.lha comm/misc 116K+Copy files to and from Psion S5 (V0.1b) TTimeDeluxe.lha comm/misc 556K+Displays Phonecosts online (Germany only uprc.lha comm/misc 66K+Generates Aminet upload readme files jldyndns.lha comm/tcp 2K+ARexx script to update the justlinux.com PortalOpening2.lha comm/tcp 181K+Remote administration tool for Amiga autoindex2g.lha comm/www 63K+Generates html doc to view pictures with Eph-Flux.lha demo/aga 1.4M+Flux - 2nd in the demo compo at TG'99 NCE-VEND.lha demo/aga 1.8M+4th place at MS99 by NUANCE wpz-frozen10.lha demo/aga 476K+Frozen Pack#1o - The Gathering Party Ed DKG-2998z.lha demo/intro 30K+4th place at Mekka/Symposium'99 Amiga 40 jrm-sund.lha demo/sound 62K+DA JoRMaS: Sundance (2nd at The Gatherin GuiGFXLib.lha dev/misc 230K+Application layer for pixel graphics ukbbslis6.txt docs/lists 77K+List of UK BBSes - Version 6 - APRIL 99 saku28d1.lha docs/mags 451K+Saku #28 (2/99). Finnish diskmag. 1/2 saku28d2.lha docs/mags 499K+Saku #28 (2/99). Finnish diskmag. 2/2(ps) [Meldung: 09. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
09.Apr.1999 AC-Forum [Felix Schwarz] |
AGM und FTS jetzt Freeware Nachdem keine Nachfrage mehr nach AGM besteht, wurde es nun zur Freeware und kann downgeloadet werden. FTS, ein System zur Steuerung eines anderen AMIGAs via direkter Verbindung mit Modem oder Nullmodem-Kabel war ursprünglich als Shareware geplant, steht jetzt allerdings als Freeware kostenlos zum Download bereit, da die Entwicklung zu schleppend voran ging. Von AGM und FTS sind dies vorraussichtlich die letzten Versionen. Zum Download. (ps) [Meldung: 09. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
09.Apr.1999 AMIGA |
AmigaOS 3.5 - Bewerbung zum OS 3.5 Betatest Im Mai beginnt die Betatest-Phase für das neue AmigaOS 3.5. Um als Betatester in Frage zu kommen, müssen bestimmte Kriterien erfüllt sein. (ps) [Meldung: 09. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
09.Apr.1999 Ronny Moldenhauer per eMail |
Explorer2260 und Maim and Mangle Seiten aktualisiert Explorer2260 und Maim and Mangle Seiten aktualisiert. (ps) [Meldung: 09. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
09.Apr.1999 Amiga Nutta |
Amiga Nutta Website mit neuem Layout Auch die Seiten World Foundry und Seaside wurden bei Amiga Nutta aktualisiert. (ps) [Meldung: 09. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
08.Apr.1999 GoldED |
GoldED 5.0 News Zunächst gibt es neue HTML publishing extensions, Download: envWWW30.lha, weiter geht es mit GoldED Studio 5.1.6, Download: sp516.lha und zum Schluß gibt es noch eine neue Demoversion von GoldED Studio 5.1.6, Download: golded5.lha. (ps) [Meldung: 08. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
08.Apr.1999 AWD [New Links] |
Nachlese zur Amiga Show in St. Louis von Johnny C. Kitchens Auch dieser Bericht "AMIGA 99 A Trip for the Future" ist mit vielen Bildern von der Show untermalt. (ps) [Meldung: 08. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
08.Apr.1999 AC-Forum [Uwe] |
WinUAE 0.8.8 Release 1 ist fertig WinUAE 0.8.8 Release 1 ist fertig. (ps) [Meldung: 08. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
08.Apr.1999 Martin Wolf per eMail |
Siedler II Da Titan Siedler II nun doch nicht heraus bringt, bieten wir jetzt die Macintosh-Version für den Amiga an: Siedler II, beschreiben muß man das Spiel wohl nicht mehr. Systemvorraussetzung (Minimum): Amiga mit Mac-Emu/Mac, System 7.1, 68040/25 Mhz, Grafikkarte, 32 MB RAM Preis: 89,- DM. (ps) [Meldung: 08. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
08.Apr.1999 Carsten Schröder per eMail |
Rick LeFaivre, Ph.D. ist Chief Technology Officer von AMIGA +++ Amiga-aktuell-Special +++ Rick LeFaivre, Ph.D. ist Chief Technology Officer vom AMIGA QNX nimmt am Finale des EDN Innovator and Innovation of the Year teil Umfrage über den Namen des künftigen Newsletters von der Amiga-Usergroups Steffen Häuser zur Umfrageaktion "Tornado3D für WarpUp AMIGA ernennt Dr. Rick LeFaivre zum Chief Technology Officer (08.04.99) Der Internet-Homepage von AMIGA ist zu entnehmen, dass das Unternehmen Dr. Rick LeFaivre zum Chief Technology Officer ernannt hat. Dabei kann es sich wohl nur um "den" Dr. Rick LeFaivre handeln, der einst in leitender Position bei Apple und Borland taetig war. Kontaktinformationen: »Rick LeFaivre, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer Telephone: +1 (619) 799-2518 Fax +1 (619) 799-3425« (Quelle: AMIGA) Drei weitere Meldungen:
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08.Apr.1999 Aminet [New Uploads] |
Aminet Uploads vom 08.04.1999fwml9903.lha biz/swood 20K+Messages about FW during March 1999 Hurl.lha comm/mail 26K+The Ultimate URL integrator for TCP Clie PalmBackup.lha comm/misc 176K+1.3 - Backup/Restore/Install for PalmPil RScript_online.lha comm/misc 4K+Online/offline support with Miami sshnote.txt comm/net 0K+Note regarding comm/net/SSH.lha. jldyndns.lha comm/tcp 2K+ARexx script to update the justlinux.com smokebomb.lha demo/aga 3.1M+Smoke bomb by ozone. 3th place at ms99! StatsFuncs.lha dev/basic 47K+MORE statements and functions for Blitz! ubbinstall.lha dev/basic 3K+Fixed install script for Blitz 2 (from U gtlayout.lha dev/gui 376K+Gtlayout.library V45.1 SCSIFormat.lha disk/misc 18K+Lowlevel format SCSI drives SCSISnoop.lha disk/moni 6K+Snoops accesses to SCSI devices and othe SCL_DreamCars.lha game/2play 41K+SCL! - 32k game at Symposium'99 -exe- sol_dt.lha game/board 62K+*Inofficial* German exe for Solitaire v1 VideoEasel.lha gfx/misc 630K+THE flexible Cellular Automata (LIFE...) FastFibo.lha misc/math 5K+Calculates Fibonacci numbers SCL_Infinity.lha mods/atmos 778K+SCL! - Mod.DCC_Infinity -pt- SCL_Mermaids2.lha mods/atmos 543K+SCL! - Mod.TRN_Mermaids-2000 -pt- SCL_InABox.lha mods/demo 92K+SCL! - Mod.MRV_InABox -pt- Landing.mpg pix/anim 2.0M+The Landing Animation by Tobias Richter SCL_LandOfMagx.lha pix/illu 79K+SCL! - Handpixeled pic at Symposium'99 3emars.jpg pix/trace 303K+3eFighters in the orbit of Mars mad-MysticMira.lha pix/trace 701K+MysticMiracle by Madbart/Appendix SCL_QuakerFace.lha pix/trace 41K+SCL! - Raytraced pic at Symposium'99 - sliner.jpg pix/trace 311K+A Space Liner at Mars WarpUpSettings.lha util/misc 10K+Set WarpUp-Env-Vars with GUI FWCalendar.lha util/rexx 44K+THE calendar creator for FW & Pagestream vht-vg27.lha util/virus 78K+VirusWarning.Guide v2.7 (VHT-DK)(ps) [Meldung: 08. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
08.Apr.1999 amiga.org |
S5-trans Amiga <-> Psion S5 Filetransfer Utility Download: s5-trans.lha. (ps) [Meldung: 08. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
08.Apr.1999 Robert Niessner per eMail |
AmigaScene 0x0E Ausgabe April 99 online Weiter schreibt Robert: Wir suchen freiwillige Übersetzer und Autoren für unsere geplante englische Version der AmigaScene. Andere Sprachen sind auch geplant, auch hier benötigen wir Leute. We need your HELP I'm working together with 5 other people on an Amiga online magazine in Austria, called "AmigaScene". http://www.amigascene.com. After one very successful year (magazine is only in German for now), we are planning to go multilingual :-) Our first goal is to produce parallel to the German issue an English one, other languages might follow. The magazine is non-profit of course, we do it because we like the Amiga and want to share knowledge with the community. My task is to find people who are willing and able to translate articles from German to English, or write articles of their own in English or German. Also if you want to support any other languages, we would be interested. So please, if you are interested in joining us, or know someone who might help us, please contact me privatly: robert.niessner@vexcel.co.at subject: Translator or subject: Writer. Thank you in advance, Robert (ps) [Meldung: 08. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
08.Apr.1999 C.S. Bridge Deady per eMail |
KOSH summary Nr. 14KOSH [Kommunity Orientated Software Hardware] Weekly Summary Week Commencing: 27th March 1999 Number: 014 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: Cymraeg, Gaelic, Cornish and other local languages Summary of debate: It would be inclusive and a positive step for the Kommunity of Koshans to include support for languages that are normally missed out in mainstream systems. This could be done via the KOSH localisation system. Suggested that we contact relevant local organisations sometime soon about this. There was (and still is??) an Amiga Translator's organisation. Perhaps we could contact them to see if they would do KOSH work too? - Does anyone have the contact details? Suggested contact is Gary Peake who was apparently in contact with them sometime earlier on this mailing list. b) Subject: Colour clash and dithering Summary of debate: It was noted that certain colours on certain coloured backgrounds (eg: red on blue, black on red) can be difficult to view by a large number of people. Further, dithering and patterns such as checks with text on top can also present difficulties. Therefore in KOSH documentation we should avoid such designs. It was also suggested that where possible we so not use dithering in KOSH as a whole, particularly as we are looking at supporting new fast 24bit+ graphics cards (admittedly AGA 256 colour dithering will be needed). All of this obviously only applies to full colour KOSH systems. c) Subject: KOSH documentation formats Summary of debate: It was asked what sort of documentation KOSHans would like. A printed manual or manuals would be liked as online documentation is often difficult to use at the same time as the software it refers to - both being on the same system. As well as this, online (HTML?) documentation that configures itself to represent the settings that the user has setup (as mentioned in a previous summary). d) Subject: Functional languages Summary of debate: It was suggested on the subject of what computer languages to use with KOSH that a functional language that includes complex computations could be used. However functional languages are not very straightforward as they often have bizarre syntax. e) Subject: Application generators Summary of debate: Traditionally application generators are always tailored for a specific type of application. However, as the UI in KOSH will have personalities the applications for it will not have to be constant. We could have a KOSH-Script builder with another layer on top that changes with the personality. An applications generator that produced KOSH scripts could come in different versions, each specialized for one type of work. f) Subject: More COMAL Summary of debate: See: http://www.macharsoft.demon.co.uk/unicomal/aboutcml.html Macharsoft produces unicomal, a current COMAL implementation which they claim incorporates OO concepts. NB: the whole site is dedicated to COMAL. g) Subject: Structured summaries Summary of debate: Marcus Peterson has gone through the summaries and restructured them according to categories instead of summary dates. Having both date and subject-based summary formats available will make locating particular information easier. h) Subject: Wider world survey Summary of debate: Greg Webb, greg@gpwebb.freeserve.co.uk would like help with conducting a survey of the wider world beyond us Koshans to see what the computer world at large would like in something like KOSH. If you can help (particularly but not exclusively if you have experience with statistical analysis) then please email Greg directly. i) Subject: KOSH programming and semicolons Summary of debate: It was pointed out that C brings up an error when it is missing a semicolon but then pinpoints the exact location that the semicolon should have been placed at. Therefore it was implied that KOSH should be able to automatically insert such characters. j) Subject: One KOSH programming language for all / A KOSHan beginners language Summary of debate: It was suggested that one global KOSH programming language could be designed (possibly based on existing languages) that was suitable for beginners to programming all the way up to experts in OOP and structured programming. An opinion was expressed against BASIC for something like this in that it can make structured programming difficult. However it was noted by another scribe-e that this may only apply to some versions of BASIC. Such a language could ship with KOSH and be used to encourage people to program. However this may only teach them how to program in the cosy well thought out world of KOSH which could limit their ability to program with other systems. Was suggested that the critical features and design decisions that must be made for a beginners language are: 1) Garbage collection - this may be too complex for a beginner. The language must support garbage collection. 2) No traditional C-style pointers thereby eliminating a possible memory leak, and making implementing garbage collection easier. 3) Run-time array bounds checking or unbounded arrays to protect against inaccurate writes to memory. It was mentioned that eliminating pointers eliminates a lot of power and convenience. It was noted that Java almost fits these criteria except that it doesn't actually support run-time bounds checking but uses a theorem prover instead. Suggested goals for a programming language for beginners are that the system should be protected from accidental damage, the language should be immediately effective with something visible after only a short amount of work and the language should help teach better habits, possibly by requiring the syntax to be commented although this latter suggestion may make the language wordy. A language for KOSH should aim to reduce the gap between having ideas and being able to implement them in a computer language. k) Subject: ISO Modula-2 compiler Summary of debate: Suggested that in the fullness of time we could look at created a ISO Modula-2 compiler for KOSH. l) Subject: Installing KOSH Summary of debate: Proposed that the KOSH v1 installation (on CD?) should include a setup routine to install a base version of Linux as well, with options available for a number of platforms. This would allow those who own platforms on which a hosted version of KOSH has yet to be written to use it, via the Linux hosted version. The complete install could be available as an FTP directory located somewhere. m) Subject: Terminology WG Summary of debate: Could anyone interested in joining the above named Working Group for KOSH please email Ruward F. Leenstra at uart@xs4all.nl n) Subject: Loading and coping with older versions of objects Summary of debate: The following questions were posed: what happens if you have have software which has a number of objects that contain data and when the next version is released, these objects have changed? How should this be handled? How would older versions of objects be loaded? Old versions should be loadable. It should be possible to just plug the old objects into the new handles or use an adaptor for this. o) Subject: Sharing computer experiences Summary of debate: A way to share experiences of the various computer systems that we all use (including Mac, BeOS, Amiga, Linux, Unix, BSD, NeXTStep, Windows, OS/2 and many others) could be useful. This could take the form of a large section on the web site available (to members only it was suggested) for downloading in parts that would contain emulators, trial versions and other relevant software to allow people to try other systems. The same area could also contain languages like COMAL and Delphi that people could try out. Jason Radford the administrator for the server that the KOSH web site is on agreed that some of the 4gig of drive space available for KOSH could be used for this purpose. He suggested that if enough interest and ideas came forward that ftp.kosh.net could be created. p) Subject: Case-insensitive KOSH Summary of debate: Suggested that throughout KOSH an Amiga-style system where case is stored but operations are case-insensitive is used. q) Subject: Standardized diagram construction package Summary of debate: It was suggested that we try to find a standardized package to construct diagrams for KOSH. A set of brushes that could be used would be useful. r) Subject: Executive Scheduler Summary of debate: KOSH could implement a scheduler similar to the Amiga's scheduler. Further suggested that this should be a separate object. The basic system could ship with a scheduler that does the basic round-robin scheduling.(ps) [Meldung: 08. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
08.Apr.1999 Michael Garlich per eMail |
EvilsDoomSE - Demo Es kann jetzt eine Demo (2.3 MB) in AGA-Version geladen werden. Titan weist darauf hin, daß die Demoversion eine Menge ChipRAM benötigt und empfiehlt daher ohne startup-sequence zu booten und alle nicht benötigten Partitionen abzuschalten. Download: evildemo.lha. (ps) [Meldung: 08. Apr. 1999, 08:00] [Kommentare: 0] [Per E-Mail versenden] [Druck-Version] [ASCII-Version] |
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