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Hardware: Serial ATA (SATA) - The new port for hard drives (11. Jun. 2002)
On the website of Acard, the manufacturer of the IDE-to-SCSI adaptor, you can see that these people are still busy and have released new adaptors. Now they support transfer rates up to 160 MB/sec (LVD-SCSI). The new port is one of the climaxes of the C...

AmiBlitz V2.26 new distribution with extended documentation (Update) (10. Jun. 2002)
A new distribution of AmiBlitz 2.26 is now available. This new distribution includes an extended documentation, many libs are now described in the online guide and the different syntaxmodes are now described. editors note: We are not able to say some...

amiga.org: Interview with Olaf Barthel by Pods (10. Jun. 2002)
Amiga.org (title link) released a substantial interview with Olaf Barthel. The interview was made by Pods. Olaf Barthel is involved in the development of AmigaOS since 1995 and gives his view on the new AmigaOS 4. At the end of the interview Olaf Barth...

TrueType Font Rendering: ttrender.library V3.1 (09. Jun. 2002)
On 9th June 2002, Grzegorz Kraszewski has published version 3.1 of TrueType font render engine "ttrender.library" for AmigaOS. According to the author, this version entails a noticable increase in speed. This was obtained by improving memory allocation...

Digital Almanac III and Amithlon (09. Jun. 2002)
At the "Amiga Freunde Pfalz"'s Amiga Party, Achim Stegemann had the opportunity to test DA III under Amithlon on a Pentium 4 (1.6GHz) and GeForce 3 equipped PC. An animation of the star chart at a resolution of 1024x768 and a colour depth of 16bit resul...

Little Book of Amiga Software: Games list updated, 14 new entries (09. Jun. 2002)
The games list in the "Little Book of Amiga Software" by Amiga Society has been updated. Furthermore, the following titles have been added to the software directory: Goal! Dizzy Dice Beam Police Quest 2 Starball Night Dawn Streetgang Khalaan ...

Amiga Future: Raffle to new FAQ (09. Jun. 2002)
On Saturday, a FAQ section with tips and suggested solutions for problems of all sorts has gone online in the interactive area of Amiga Future. It was created by Thomas Rapp. The section is subdivided into more than 15 subcategories, amongst them: Ami...

Amiga.org: Download area (09. Jun. 2002)
Wayne Hunt of Amiga.org has taken the publication of the AWeb source code as an opportunity to open a download area on Amiga.org. People are still being searched for the expansion and administration of this area. The download area is accessible after ...

Amiga Future: Review of the game 'Chips' (09. Jun. 2002)
Today a review by Matthias Jakisch of the puzzle game Chips has been published on the Amiga Future homepage. The player has to adopt the role of a professor at a laboratory to assemble a computer from parts scattered around the laboratory. The game ...

AmigaOne in the PC Magazin (German print magazine) (08. Jun. 2002)
In the current issue (07/2002) of the German "PC Magazin" there's a short article about the AmigaOne on page 26. It's given the title "AMIGAOS 4.0 - The ball bounces again". The article contains the already known stuff about the AmigaOne hardware and the ...

The Amiga demo scene lives! (08. Jun. 2002)
Since six months do Ghandy & Zito out of the Amiga demo scene release a regular disc mag again. The name is "Jurassic Pack". The latest issue #10 is an anniversary issue - one reason more to party - and can easily be downloaded under www.jurassicpack....

Computer City: New Amiga keyboards - Cherry Amiga Cybo@rd (07. Jun. 2002)
Computer City announces that they have keyboards with Amiga-logo. For further information in English, German or Dutch please have a look at the title link. ...

PageStream news to version 4.1 (07. Jun. 2002)
For owners of version 4.1 of Amiga and Windows there is a corrected German localisation. At the Amiga version the 4.1-functions have translated and at the Windows version the faults of the graphics of the editing palette have been debugged and the help ...

Collecting data for the FastFileSystem V46 (07. Jun. 2002)
Mario Cattaneo writes: Olaf Barthel developes the new FFS (FastFileSystem) of AmigaOS 4. Doing that in an as optimal as possible way he needs data. Data about the conditions of as many as possible Amiga partitions. Thus he is able to collect them he has ...

Who Will Port BMP2WBMP? (06. Jun. 2002)
Thorsten Schölzel writes: "While browsing the Workshop in AMIGAPlus about the display of WAP-pages I came across the conversion program "BMP2WBMP," which is a program that allows BMP images to be quickly and easily displayed as WBMPs, and thereby embedded...

Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBS Review (06. Jun. 2002)
With the friendly approval of the newspaper AMIGAplus Amiga Arena is making available a test report of the issue 01/2002 to "PuzzleBOBS." Another test report (in Italian) is on AmiWorld online. ...

Website www.benderirc.de Offline (06. Jun. 2002)
Cyborg writes: www.benderirc.de is unreachable due to problems of our Internet host, but should be online again tomorrow. Updates may be obtained this evening via xdcc in the IRC channel #amigafun. By the way the service is longer term :-). Whoever would ...

AmigaOne in the Computer Newspaper "Chip" (06. Jun. 2002)
In issue 06/2002 of the computer newspaper Chip you'll find on site 47 a short report on the Amiga One....

A.D.A. - Demo Archive with Commenting and Voting (06. Jun. 2002)
From today on, new programs have been integrated into ADA. All visitors can vote on each demo and write a comment. Through these new functions it will be possible in a short time to tell which demos are most loved and the best, and other users will be tip...

Nostalgia: The Legacy - Museum Again Online (06. Jun. 2002)
The Legacy, the nostalgia museum, is reachable again. As reported there was always some problem with the provider. MishRa says: "The abstinence is over! The old museum keeper mishRa hobbles - on account of his troublesome knees - to the entrance and thr...