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| 09.Nov.2001 Jens Schönfeld (ANF) |
VarIO driver now also for Goldsurfer The drivers for VarIO and Silversurfer which have been released two days ago can now be used with the Hypercom3 module as well (also known as Goldsurfer). Drives for the parallel port and for ZIP drivers connected to this port will be available before the show in Cologne. Some expert knowledge is required for installation, however, since an entirely automatic recognition would require too much work. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 09. Nov. 2001, 20:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 09.Nov.2001 Christoph Gutjahr (ANF) |
Skins for the OS3.9 audio CD player A collection of new skins for the audio CD player of OS 3.9 can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 09. Nov. 2001, 20:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 09.Nov.2001 Wolf Faust (ANF) |
PageStream Universal Filter update V2.2 The free PageStream Universal Filter for loading many picture formats is now available as version 2.2. In addition to some smaller fixes the loading speed of TIFF images has been sped up and support for MacBinary files has been added. More information can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 09. Nov. 2001, 20:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 09.Nov.2001 AmigArt |
Linux: Debian 2.2r4 released Debian released the latest version of their linux distribution. PowerPC specific port information and also a port for Motorola 680x0 based machines is available. (ps) [News message: 09. Nov. 2001, 13:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 09.Nov.2001 Markus Nerding (e-mail) |
DTP: PageStream 4.1 After about two years it is done - there is a new version of PageStream. The most significant new feature is the integrated table editor. This was originally planned as an add-on but because of the many requests it was decided to make it an integral part of the package. Further functions are mail merge, control over compression in PDF files, text inset function, object transformation and a higher speed. The most important new functions:
At the moment only the Windows version of PageStream 4.1 is available. The Amiga and Macintosh versions will follow shortly. More information on this on the PageStream homepage at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 09. Nov. 2001, 12:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 09.Nov.2001 Gerd Frank (e-mail) |
Route planner: AmiATLAS 6 available Although the availability of AmiATLAS 6, the multimedia route planner, was planned for the 15th November 2001 (we reported), it is already finished. Users of version 5 receive a cheaper update. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 09. Nov. 2001, 12:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 09.Nov.2001 Czech Amiga News |
WHDLoad Website down Bert Jahn: "The website is currently down due problems with the internet service provider. I hope that will be solved in some days/weeks/months. If you know a provider with at least 100 MB space, 3GB traffic, ssh access, own cgi and below 40 eur/month let me know." WHDL is friendly Harddisk-Install package. (ps) [News message: 09. Nov. 2001, 12:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Scenet |
FREAX - The demoscene history book Ever wondered who wrote the first demos? Who was the first to crack a game, or who invented nowadays' beautiful effects seen in demos? When and how was the scene born, and who were the first pioneers to pave the road to nowadays' superproductions? Ever wanted to see a book about the history of the demoscene? I mean a printed book, not another website. Not another book about hackers, and surely not another try to explain the essence of the scene for the lame general public. A book about the scene for sceners, covering the story of all platforms: the C-64, the Amiga, the PC and also smaller scenes, like consoles, Sinclairs, the Apple and so on. From the beginning to present days, covering every single bit of the great adventure, a narrative history with interviews, memories, stories, colorful pictures... A book titled FREAX. After five years of intense researching, the product is starting to shape. Read more about it on this website; read a sample chapter and perhaps you can even find a way to help me. This is something special, something different: something no one ever tried in this depth. (ps) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 19:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Virus Help Denmark (ML) |
Virus Help Denmark: VirusWarning.guide V3.4a A bugfixed update of the "VirusWarning.guide" has been released today, I made some in the v3.4 release yesterday. Info about the new update here:
Remember to vote in the poll, for the programmer that has done the must for the Amiga antivirus scene in 2001. You can vote right here: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/poll.htm (ps) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 18:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Geoff Milnes (E-Mail) |
Event: Alt-WoA 2002 Website online The website for Alt-WoA 2002 UK is now up and running. Last year's site with photos is linked in here too so you see what a good time we had then - whet your appetite! http://www.alt-woa.org Make a note in your diary for the 23rd February 2002. Anyone wishing to book space, please do so as soon as possible - it's going fast with currently 13 trade exhibitors plus 5 User and Support Groups confirmed. (ps) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 18:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Golem - IT News für Profis |
Golem: In competition to LEO? Online English Dictionary by Linguatec »New and free online dictionary at Linguadict.de Who deals with Enlish texts every day the free online dictionaries like the LEO English/German Dictionary by the technical university Munich or other translation services of great help. The offeror of translation software Linguatec now offers an own online dictionary for free use.« Complete article see title link (German). The dictionarey contains 512,527 entries, more than 2 mio. words. linguadict.de (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 16:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Jumpgate |
Jumpgate: Interview with Eric W. Schwartz Jumpgate has published an interview with Sabrina Online's creator Eric W. Schwartz. (ps) (Translation: ps) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 14:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Stephan Rupprecht |
ilbm Datatype 44.26 and ilbm Datatype for WarpUP 45.7 Stephan Rupprecht has published on his website new versions of his ilbm Datatypes. Download: ilbm44.lha - ilbmdtPPC.lha (ps) (Translation: ps) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 14:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Golem - IT News für Profis |
Golem: Met@box will send data using the read-off-gap »Finacially stricken company signes contract with German Telekom In the progress of the planned restructure of the Met@box company from Hildesheim, Germany, they signed a contract with the Deutsche Telekom AG, as Met@box stated. This contract enables the company to further market sales bringing sub-technoligies.« Complete article see title link (German). (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 14:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Rüdiger Hanke (ANF) |
AMidi: New localisations The preferences of AMidi, the device to paly MIDI music, has got more languages by the help of ATO. All in all there are available English (built in), German, Czech, French, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Turkish. The installation script was updated respectively, but strongly requires the InstallerNG in the original installer due to a heavy bug. There is a licensed version inside of the archive, now. For those already have AMidi installed there is a small (7 kByte) archive available only containing the translations. Thank you very much for your work, ATO. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 12:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail) |
Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9436 New version of AmigAIM has been uploaded to the normal locations, as well as the bookmarks on the Mailing list have been changed. Extract of history of AmigAIM 0.9436 Beta (07 November 2001):
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| 08.Nov.2001 Amiga Future |
Amiga Future: Interview with Oliver Wagner Today Amiga Future published a interview with Oliver Wagner. (ps) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 12:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Nov.2001 Solar (ANF) |
ArsTechnika: Article on G4/AMD and G4e/P4 A posting on ann.lu called my attention to the following articles comparing processor architectures in a very understandingly and informing way: G4 and AMD K7 (Athlon) G4e and Intel Pentium IV The Pentium 4 and the G4e: an Architectural Comparison (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Nov. 2001, 12:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Jens Schönfeld (ANF) |
Update-MACH for Buddha Flash IDE Controller The update for the Buddha Flash Controller which has been announced already for the last year is now available: The controller works fine in a RBM Zorro-Daughterboard for the A1200 (OnBoard Ex). Besides this there are some changes concerning the timing that saves the functions of the Silversurfer on the extension ports. Unfortunately the update is not free because it is a failure which has been not caused by us. From now on new controllers will be sold without surcharge, old ones can be equipped with a new MACH for 19,- EUR. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 22:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Jens Schönfeld (ANF) |
First software for VarIO interface card On the support section of the website of individual Computers you can find a first archive with software for the new IO-board VarIO. The driver also recognizes the serial interface Silversurfer and thus replaces the old silversurfer.device. The installer script is easy to understand and in two languages. Before you install it you should delete the silversurfer.device but the hardware should keep to be installed. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 22:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Interviewer: Christoph Gutjahr |
Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion Interview with Ben Hermans - Managing Director, Hyperion Entertainment Done by Christoph Gutjahr - 07.11.2001 Amiga-News: First of all, thanks a lot for your efforts to bring us OS 4.0. Let's start with some technical questions. Are the OS 4.0/4.2 features outlined in the tech updates on www.amiga.com and various press releases from Alan Redhouse still valid? Will you have to put some stuff "on hold" to match the deadline (e.g. USB support)? Or may we even get some new (minor) goodies to play with? Ben Hermans: The feature list which can be found on Amiga.com is still essentially correct but can be considered a bare minimum. We intend to deliver more if we can. More details will follow. Amiga-News: Which of the following models is the better description of AmigaOS 4.0's concept:
Amiga-News: There are rumours that Harry "Piru" Sintonen is working on the OS4.0 exec.library? Ben Hermans: This is incorrect. Amiga-News: Could you describe the current state of the AmigaOS sources? Years ago, Jeff Schindler claimed that "it's a complete and ugly mess". I read a German Interview with Juergen Haage, where he stated that they cleaned up most of the Kickstart sources and they were able to recompile them in one go. What's your personal experience (or that of your programmers)? How much of the core parts are available in C and can actually be recompiled for PPC? Are there parts that must be rewritten from scratch (e.g. because they're only available as 68k ASM)? Are there any plans to use AROS code for OS4.0 (if neccessary)? Ben Hermans: Olaf Barthel and H&P did an outstanding job by cutting down the number of compilers required to compile the OS, cleaning up the OS 3.1 source-code and moving code from ASM to C. Whilst there still are some parts which are in ASM, this is a minority. Olaf also put the entire source-code in to a CVS repository which is a tremendous asset. We have talked to Aaron Digulla who was very helpful and is generally a nice guy and we have come to an agreement about using parts of AROS if need be. Amiga-News: Alan Redhouse announced that OS4.0 will also run on existing CyberstormPPC accelerator boards. What about the BlizzardPPC boards? I assume they won't be supported, is this due to performace issues or are there problems with the FlashROMs of those cards (as some people supposed)? Ben Hermans: We haven't ruled out the Blizzard PPC's completely but we must first be satisfied with the performance of OS 4 on these machines. There are indeed some technical issues that need to be solved before support of the Blizzard line of cards can be contemplated. Amiga-News: OS4 available for Classic PPC Amigas - that brings up another question: Which PCI solutions will be supported? I assume that Elbox and Matay will be supported, as they are "Amiga partners". What about DCE's GRex Boards? Are you (or Amiga Inc.) in contact with DCE? Ben Hermans: We intend to support the widest possible range of MODERN hardware including the available PCI busboards. It can't be ruled out that drivers for older hardware will break under emulation but generally we expect no problems. Amiga-News: What's your intended "information policy"? I suppose there's not much to demonstrate for now (i.e. only an A4000PPC running an OS that looks and feels exactly like AmigaOS 3.x), will you go quiet until the AmigaOne/OS4 combination can be demonstrated? Or will there be some kind of "progress meter" on your/Amiga's website or regular press releases? Ben Hermans: We intend to release regular progress reports. Amiga-News: Will developer documentation be available for free? Ben Hermans: We intend to encourage people to develop for OS 4. Developer documentation will therefore be available at production cost. Amiga-News: Does the agreement that was signed on the WOA-SE only deal with OS4.0 or did some/all of the parties involved commit to contribute to the further development of the OS? Ben Hermans: I cannot comment on the terms of the agreement but suffice it to say that OS 4.0 is just a step in a continuous process whereby the OS gradually gets moved from 68K to PPC with full backwards compatibility, whereby the OS is untied from the custom chipsets and whereby modern functionality is introduced along the way. Amiga-News: Hyperion are known for their strict "no AmigaOS for x86" Attitude. You are now a key developer of OS4, and you develop the 3D API. We don't know much of the proposed specs of OS5, but we know that it will be available for several platforms, including x86. Will your intellectual property (e.g. the Warp3D and OpenGL implementations) be a available for OS5? Ben Hermans: It's true that we are no fans of the x86 architecture for reasons we have outlined before and which have to do with Windows smothering all competition. Recent developments such as the demise of BeOS, the sale by Corel of its Linux activities and the bankruptcy of Loki, the largest games-developer for Linux, have only reinforced our view. Talk about OS 5 is a bit premature at this point so we will reserve judgement until things are a bit more concrete. Amiga-News: I assume most of your staff is working on OS4 now. How does that affect your other products? E.g., what's the scheduled release date for "Descent Freespace"? Will other projects (Realsoft 3D, Worms Armageddon) be put on hold until OS 4.0 is finished? Ben Hermans: Our resources are obviously not unlimited and OS4 development will have an impact. It should however be realised that it isn't the case that work on OS 4 is only now starting or that Hyperion will be doing all the work. Most OS 3.5 and 3.9 developers are already onboard and we have a good working relationship with the AROS team which will help cut down on development time. Amiga-News: Looking at Hyperion's projects and reading statements from your employees about the sales of Linux and Amiga products, one could wonder that Hyperion still exists ;-) If I understood that correctly, you won't be paid in advance for OS4 (Alan Redhouse: "no upfront costs for Amiga Inc."). There must be a point were you can't stretch any further, even for Hyperion? Is a "success" of OS4 crucial to the future of the company Hyperion? Ben Hermans: No. The vast majority of Hyperion's revenue comes from paid contract-work for Mac OS 9/X. The Amiga market alone cannot sustain a company with several full-time developers. Obviously, the more successful the project is, the more time we can allocate for Amiga development, time which is now spent doing contract-work. Amiga-News: Thanks a lot for this interview and good luck for the future. Contact information Hyperion Entertainment: WWW: www.hyperion-entertainment.com E-Mail: Ben Hermans, Managing Director E-Mail: Ben Yoris, PR Manager (ps) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 20:50] [Comments: 1 - 08. Nov. 2001, 13:43] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 H&P |
H&P: AmigaOS XL: More FAQs H&P just added an extensive collection of answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs). Amongst others it is explaind how to partition a hard disk, how to install a boot manager and how to install Amithlon on a hard disk. (ps) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 20:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Virus Help Denmark (ML) |
Virus Help Denmark: New VirusWarning.guide Virus Help Denmark has published a new VirusWarning.guide. The facts follow:
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| 07.Nov.2001 Robert Williams (ANF) |
Goodbye Clubbed... Hello Total Amiga Magazine South Essex Amiga Link is happy to confirm the announcements about our future plans for Clubbed magazine made at the World of Amiga South East Show on the 3rd of November. In the next few months we plan to make two major improvements to the magazine: A New Name From issue 10 "Total Amiga" will be the new name for Clubbed magazine, we hope that this name better reflects the fact that we are a general Amiga magazine and will encourage new readers to give us a try. Along with the new name the magazine will have an extensive redesign but will retain the essential feature of Clubbed, honest down-to-earth writing by real Amiga users. Bimonthly Publication With the changes at Amiga Active, Total Amiga is the only regular UK print classic Amiga magazine (as far as we are aware). To help fill this role we want to publish the magazine more regularly, therefore we will be looking to move to bimonthly publication as soon as possible. The main barrier to this is the number of writers on the magazine so in the coming months we will be actively seeking more contributors and we hope to work with the French magazine Amiga Power to share content (translated both ways). Whatever happens issue 10 will still be three months after issue 9 (just published) because we have to transform Clubbed into Total Amiga as well as create the new issue. About Total Amiga So far we have published 9 issues of Clubbed and the magazine has been praised for its quality and production values. Each issue has 44 or more A4 pages, a colour cover and is professionally printed. At World of Amiga South East both Fleecy Moss of Amiga and Alan Redhouse of Eyetech endorsed Total Amiga and you can expect to see articles from them in future issues. The magazine is entirely produced on the Amiga, written by enthusiasts and operates on a not-for-profit basis. We are committed to covering all aspects of the Amiga market and all products aimed at Amiga users in a totally impartial manner. A 4 issue subscription to Total Amiga costs £14 including UK postage and single trial issues are available for £3.50 inclusive. Overseas subscriptions are available, please see our web site for rates. You can order direct from SEAL by cheque or postal order or via credit card through Forematt Home Computing (http://www.forematt.free-online.co.uk) or on-line at Kicksoft (http://www.kicksoft.co.uk). For more information including details of all back issues please visit: http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk and click on the Clubbed section. An all-new Total Amiga web site with its own domain name will be on-line before the first issue is published. (ps) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 19:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Golem - IT News / SOL-Invictus (ANF) |
Golem: Developer units of Linux-PDAs of Sharp can be ordered »More details to the software-packet published From now on Sharp offers to the developers the opportunity to order the Linux-PDA SL-5000D as a developer device which is planned at the end of the year. Sharp presents a former prototype at the IFA in Berlin.« (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 19:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 |
amiga-news.de: Move did not work Unfortunataly the move of our server did not work. Murphy catched us. The contractor who should transport the servers from A to B this night defered the move to next week because of reasons which are still not known. Because of the changed and again changed back domain-name-server-entries there can be some impairments. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 15:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Czech Amiga News |
Linda Godwin astronaut speaker at Amiga99 going into space & info on show Bob Scharp wrote: All of you who attended the Amiga99© Computer show, hosted by Amigan-St. Louis's Bob and Diana Scharp in St. Louis, MO a few years back, will certainly remember the banquet. Dr. Linda Godwin, a current astronaut and her husband, Col. Steve Nagel (retired USAF), a former astronaut and current NASA employee, were two unforgettable speakers. Linda not only spoke of her exploits in the space program, she brought a video that blew our (Amiga) socks off. Well, it's Linda's turn to go into space again. I have heard that she is scheduled to launch November 29. The mission calls for her and several other astronauts to go to the new space station, and return several days later. I know I speak for all of you when I say that Diana and I wish her the very best flight and a soft touchdown back on earth. Read more under the title link. (ps) (Translation: ps) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 14:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Richard Kapp (E-Mail) |
GFX-BASE: Interview and new voting GFX-BASE has interviewed John Mason who is the programmer of some nice tools like Taskbar, Wibby, DReminder or NewStuff. Besides this there is a new opinion poll. It is asked if you use a WB-replacement like Opus Magallan 2 or Scalos or if you are satisfied with the WB as it is. Those ones who improved the Workbench with the help of tools and patches may list them on the vote-commentars thus other ones will get to know it. Have fun! (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 14:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Andreas Magerl (E-Mail) |
Magazine: Amiga Future 33 published Today Amiga Future 33 has been published. This means all magazines have been sent to the subscribers, single orderers and dealers. The editing stuff have to be completed. We are looking for an editor who has got a well equipped Amiga with Internet access, longer Amiga-experiences, at least can speak and write a little bit English, a good spelling and who wants to work at Amiga Future actively. You can get further information at the editing staff of the Amiga Future. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 14:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Opera |
Sharp wants to use Opera-browser for PDA (Zaurus) On the press release of Opera which you can find under the title link Opera informs that Sharp will convert the browser called Opera 5 for their PDAs. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 14:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Nov.2001 Anton Preinsack (ANF) |
First test runs of PowerPC G5 gain 2.4 GHz According to an unconfirmed report on "The Register" two prototypes of the PowerPC 8500 (G5) of Motorola have gained the level of 2,4 GHz of clock rate. All other processors of this line work with a clock rate of 1, 1.2 and 1.4 GHz. According to this anonymous source up to one thousend G5-systems of Apple are supposed to be sold to important developers. Because PowerPC-processors of Motorola are supposed to work in "Pegasos" as well as in "AmigaOne" this statement is interesting for future "Pegasos"/AmigaOne"-succession models which might come. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Nov. 2001, 14:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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