29.Oct.2003
RetroMan (ANF)
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Tool: NRG2ISO V0.2 released
The tool NRG2ISO has been released in version 0.2 for download. The software converts Nero image files into ISO images, which can be imported then into Amiga CD writing programs.
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29.Oct.2003
Hippie2000 (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: Rat roasting
The back2roots.org server and the entire network cluster were offline two days caused by a rat
that had been looking for a warm place to stay inside a transformator hut. The rat found a VERY warm place and an
instant death as a kind of a barbecued rat.
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(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages till October the 28th 2003
With WHDLoad it becomes possible to install games intended for floppy disk use only to hard disk. The
following packages were added or updated since the last reporting.
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(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
AudioLabs (Website)
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AudioLabs launches new website
AudioLabs, developer of the highly professional audio sequencing software
"ProStationAudio" has relaunched the company and producer website with a fresh
design and enhanced content. At the new site there is information about PSA and its plug-ins
but also background information about audio sequencing e.g. an interview with Markus Steblei: he and a a
colleague are presenting a multimedia show at Munichs's planetarium of the "Forum der Technik" utilizing PSA.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
Heise
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Heise: First Internet provider with P2P-licence
The British Internet provider Playlouder MSP announced a legal access of file-sharing services starting next year.
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29.Oct.2003
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MUI: HotkeyString class reimplemented
Since the HotkeyString class for MUI isn't continued by its author Allan Odgaard, it was reimplemented by Ilkka "Itix" Lehtoranta.
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29.Oct.2003
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MorphOS: ImageFX-Lite and Powerstation added to the SuperBundle
Nova Design, Inc. is pleased to announce that our award-winning package, ImageFX, is now available for Pegasos/MorphOS owners in a special lite-edition as part of the SuperBundle package from Genesi.
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(snx)
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29.Oct.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: 3 new productions
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) has been extended with another three impressing poductions:
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28.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #058
The scene group Liquid Skies has released the 58th music pack today. It contains the
track "Gwiezdny Taniec" of the Polish musician Maxus. The cover was created
by DaFreak.
Here some more information about the track
more ...
(cg) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 28. Oct. 2003, 21:32] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2003
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GoldED: C/C++ IDE Update-Archive
For the text and coding editor "GoldED Studio AIX" a new service pack for the C/C++ Add-On was released.
This new version solves problems on the installation of GCC/NDK parts and is available for all registered users.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 28. Oct. 2003, 17:30] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Game: Amiga-Freespace Singleplayer-Pack 2 released
The Singleplayer-Pack 2 for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace" is released. It contains
ten new single player missions and can be downloaded from the Amiga-Freespace-website.
more ...
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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"OS4 on Tour" in Great Britain
The South West Amiga Group organizes a presentation of the OS4 on the AmigaOne on Saturday, December 13th in Bath.
Confirmed is that OS4 will run on an AmigaOne XE-G4 and a prototype of the MicroA1 board will be shown.
Maybe Timothy de Groote of Hyperion will be there, too.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 28. Oct. 2003, 10:36] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2003
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Retro-Gaming: Amiga games for four Joysticks
Christoph Gutjahr has released an overview about all the games with support of the 4-joystick-adapter he knows.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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Hardware-Hack: CD-writer in original A1200 case
Update (26.10.2012, cg): integrated entire article into news item during database migration
Amiga user Egon Kohlschütter has managed to fit both a CD-ROM and an IDE harddisk into the A1200's original case. The idea is to
move the harddrive to the right of the case (to the position normally occupied by the internal disk drive)
and put the CD-ROM to the left side of the case. The floppy drive had to be removed to gain the neccessary
space (Egon uses an external drive now) and the case had to be slightly modified. This is what the end
result looks like:
Fitting the CD-ROM drive
Get an internal CD-ROM drive (or even a CD-Writer!) targeted for Laptops - these are small enough
to fit into the original case. Some devices that should work are:
- TEAC CD-224E (CD-ROM)
- TEAC CD-W24E (CD-Writer)
These drives use a special IDE connector called "Mini-IDE", so you'll have to find a suitable adaptor. These adaptors
are usually called "Slimline adaptors" (Mini-IDE to IDE-40-pins). As these Laptop-CD-drives are usually jumpered
as "Master" and the internal HD should be "Master" aswell, you should also get one of the myriad of A1200 IDE devices that
enable you to connect up to four drives to your Amiga.
Obviously, you'll have to cut an opening into the case - a CD-ROM not accessible from the outside is not
exactly useful ;-) This image demonstrates the exact position of the drive:
Some hints for the actual case modification:
- open the case, remove the RF shielding and position the CD-ROM
- The drive rests partly on the bottom half of the case
- use a pen to mark the area that has to be cut out
- use a dremel or a similar tool to remove the plastic
- Powerstrip is used to fix the drive at its new position.
Moving the harddrive to its new position
The harddrive will be put where the internal disk drive used to be. Remove the disk drive and make sure
that the internal disk drive connector can not be shortened by accident (e.g. by putting an old IDE or
floppy connector onto it).
The RF shielding may cause short circuits too - make sure that you either remove enough of it to avoid that
or put some isolating material around the harddrive.
The floppy disk drive
When booting, the A1200 will spend a few seconds searching for the internal floppy disk drive. Additionally,
Workbench might complain about the missing disk drive. Both problems can be easily solved by connecting
pins #1 of the internal floppy disk drive connector with the pin below it. The boot process will be slightly
faster after this modification.
But with these pins connected, your A1200 will not recognise external disk drives. Therefore Egon connected
the pins using a switch: The switch is closed most of the time, but you can open it at any time (even if the
machine is already up and running) to access external disk drives and close it again afterwards.
More pictures
Here are some more pictures showing various details of Egon's hack:
Additional notes
The scsi.device included with AmigaOS 3.0/3.1 is not able to handle ATAPI drives (like CD-ROM or CD-RW
drives), so you'll have to use a replacement. AmigaOS 3.5+ comes with an updated scsi.device, another
option would be the shareware IDEFix.
Egon equipped his A1200 with the CD-RW drive mentioned above. BurnIt does not have specific support for this
particular drive, but the generic driver (No. 9) works fine.
If you did not connect the pins on the internal floppy disk drive connector as described above, Workbench may
complain about the missing disk drive - OS 3.5+ users should deactivate drive "DF0:" in the Workbench
preferences to avoid this.
Egon can be contacted at Egone@freenet.de. Please note that his English is (quoting Egon)
"pretty poor", so you may contact us aswell, we'll forward your feedback to Egon.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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27.Oct.2003
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SciTech Software renew partnership with ATI
SciTech Softwar, whose Multi-OS graphic accelerator driver system "SNAP" will be used with AmigaOS 4, announced today the renew of theire partnership with ATI.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 22:20] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: MicroATX version comes nevertheless
After the official announcement of the AmigaOne-Lite, also known as "Micro-A1", one could get the impression that this release will be the end of the "AmigaOne Micro-ATX".
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(cg) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 22:12] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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IRC: Changed server for the #Amigaworld channel
AmigaWorld.net announced that they moved their channel from Undernet to ExodusIRC due to lags, netsplits and missing services like nickserv.
The channel is now available at irc.amigaworld.net port 6667 or port 1024 for users behind a firewall.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 19:23] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2003
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amiga-news.de: The new Team
Some time ago amiga-news.de reported that the founder of amiga-news.de, Petra Struck, will resign from the daily news creation due to private reasons. For this reason an extended editors team was established. The following persons are involed in amiga-news.de:
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(nba) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2003
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Beyond Magazine: number 2
The Beyond Magazine, a gratis PDF magazine, that deals besides BeOS with other alternative operating systems like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOSX or FreeBSD.
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(snx) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 11:52] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2003
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New YAM-"Developer" version
There is a new developer version of the well known e-mail client YAM available at the title link.
Further details about this new release can be found in the ChangeLog.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 02:06] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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New USB driver for Amithlon and OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version will be available within the next few days at
http://www.vmc.de/Amithlon. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version.
more ...
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26.Oct.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 349
Guido Mersmann released the beta version 349 of the TV-card driver software
AmithlonTV, which includes several small updates and improvements.
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26.Oct.2003
Stefan Ruppert (E-Mail)
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Application Response Measurement 4.0 will be finalized shortly
The version 4.0 of the Application Response Measurement
(ARM)
standard developed within the OpenGroup will be finalized shortly.
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25.Oct.2003
Peer Richter (ANF)
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New download opportunity for Ghostscript 8.00
Because of the problems when downloading Ghostscript 8.00 has Peter Richer gathered the archive and created an additional download opportunity on a German server.
Download Ghostcript 8.00.lha (5.1MB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2003, 22:20] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter
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amiga-news.de: official IRC channel
Since some time now does there exist an official amiga-news.de IRC channel. People who want to talk about contents of amiga-news.de or generally about the Amiga and related topics are VERY welcome to have a look. The channel is in general German but it is possible to discuss and chat in English, too.
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(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2003, 22:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2003
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Fax software: STFax 4 released as freeware
Simone Tellini, developer of STFax, has released his product as freeware. Version 4.0 of the software is now available on the Aminet. In addition you should install the update to version 4.1, too.
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(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2003, 20:08] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Website: "Mac on Amiga" update
Mac On Amiga - a website dedicated to the emulation of Macintosh computers under AmigaOS has now got an own forum. In addition, a Shapeshifter tutorial has been released.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2003, 18:01] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2003
Rudolph Riedel (ANF)
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DiskMaster 2.5.27 released
Following the title link you can find the latest version of DiskMaster2.
Changes:
- Bugfix: "%c" didn't work with Auto commands.
- File requester for 'PrintDir' added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2003, 16:06] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2003
JTSG (ANF)
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Event: first pictures of the OASE in Graz
Members of the Bitplane team have already released first pictures of the OASE in the net (title link).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2003, 16:05] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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"AmigaOne updates" (column by Alan Redhouse)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group) has a regular column in the British Amiga magazine Total Amiga. In co-operation with "Total Amiga" makes the Amiga portal Amigaworld.net the past issues of this column available for all Internet users.
Excerpts taken from the explanations by Alan Redhouse:
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(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Oct.2003
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Icon-Patch: PowerIcons 1.02
There is a new version of the "PowerIcons" which is a patch that allows the performance
of 24-bit icons on your Workbench.
Some bugs have been cleared but there are also a lot of improvements.
Download
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2003, 15:08] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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New version (V44.50) of HSMathLibs for MC68881/82, MC68040 and MC68060
After v44.50 beta 2/8 has been tested of many users for over a year there is now the new
version of the HSMathLibs which is not a beta version.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2003, 14:59] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2003
Anonym (ANF)
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Spam-protection: AntiSpam2 1.07
The anti-Spam software called "AntiSpam2" has got some new features e.g. a prefseditor and
a remote-filter and is now principally useable for each Amiga mail program which is still
supported. On the website you can now also find detailed explanations to the different
configuration options which can be changed by the prefseditor from now on.
more ...
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2003, 14:45] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2003
Heise Newsticker
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New version 10.3 of Mac OS X is coming
In this article
Heise Newsticker reports on the start of the sale of the MacOS-X-version 10.3 alias "Panther" and
informs about the most important improvements.
(cs) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2003, 11:22] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2003
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Photos from the Sydney Amiga show
At the title link first photos from the Sydney Amiga show can be found - among others several shootings of the AmigaOne Lite.
(snx)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2003, 11:11] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2003
Silke Woj (ANF)
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OASE Update: Premiere - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4!
See some premieres at the OASE - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4 on the AmigaOne!
more ...
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[News message: 24. Oct. 2003, 10:56] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2003
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Genesi joining exhibitors at OASE
At the upcoming OASE show in Graz, Austria, Genesi will be represented by their beta tester Herbert Klackl. According to the official website, two Pegasos I computers with MorphOS will be shown.
(snx)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2003, 09:10] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: AmigaOS 4 boots with ATI Radeon support
Forefront Technologies which are the developers of the ATI Radeon driver for AmigaOS 4.0
on "classic" Amiga systems have announced in a
press release
that AmigaOS 4.0 has been booted on an AmigaOne with an ATI Radeon graphic board for the
first time. Today Jürgen Schober of point.design
has succeeded in booting AmigaOS under use of a forefront technology driver on an
AmigaOne-XE G4 with ATI Radeon 7000.
more ...
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2003, 04:25] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Anniversary Sale Price for PairsNG
In honor of Amiga Arena's five year anniversary, we and developer Christoph Kimna are offering the shareware game "PairsNG" at a sale price of five euros.
"PairsNG" is a mix of Memory, Shanghai and similar games. You'll find a demo version on the homepage of
PairsNG.
Additionally you'll find in the interview section a review of "PairsNG". This special offer is available until 2nd November, 2003. The registration form is to be found on the website of Amiga Arena (under the title link). A special thanks to Christoph Kimna, who made this special possible.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2003, 19:10] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2003
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First Screen-Shots of the New File-sharing Client for AmigaOS
The first screen-shots of "AmigaGift," a KaZaa client for AmigaOS, have been released (click on title link).
Update:
One of the beta testers corrected in an Amigaworld.net thread the misunderstanding that AmigaGift is a pure KaZaa client. AmiGift is said to be modularly organized and currently supports Edonkey, Gnutella and a few other protocols just starting to be offered, as well as KaZaa.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: Commodore is Active Once More in Germany
Commodore made computer history once, with home computers like the C64 and Amiga, and then they parted from the computer scene without a lot of noise or singing. Now the name comes back, of all things in a rather different, clearly unspectacular connection. Read the entire article at Golem IT News, under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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