12.Mar.2007
HTMLview.mcc Open Source Team (ANF)
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HTMLview.mcc released under LGPL
Press release The HTMLview.mcc MUI class authors are proud to announce that finally after 10 years of successful development on the AmigaOS platform, the full sources of the HTMLview.mcc MUI custom class are now released under the LGPL license.
In 2000 the sources were kind of lost, because the original author (Allan Odgaard) faced a harddisk crash. However, in early 2005 another try was started to recover the sources from that particular harddisk and luckily the full sources were salvaged from it. Therefore the sources are now released under the LGPL Open source license to a) attract more developers to it and b) to have "the internet" as the future backup server for it.
The sources are now hosted on a sourceforge.net SVN and every interested developer is invited to contribute to the development of the HTMLview.mcc class, especially for the upcoming efforts in AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS development. (snx)
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12.Mar.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CPUTemp.docky 52.9
CPUTemp.docky written by Jörg Strohmayer shows the current CPU-temperature in the AmigaOS 4-dock.
Direct download: CPUTemp_52.9.lha (29 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.03.2007
These are the latest uploads which have been added to the Aminet:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 27K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
LCR-I.lha comm/misc 82K OS3 LeastCostRouter German Internet Provider
LCR.lha comm/misc 204K OS3 LeastCostRouter Suite
aaedt.zip comm/tcp 3K GEN Archives AROS Exec Download Tool
A71Mail.lha comm/www 62K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
PurpleCow.lzh comm/www 263K OS3 PurpleCow HTTP Daemon
clockita.lha dev/basic 80K OS3 Italian clock+alarm+source code
Annotate.lha dev/cross 58K OS3 Comments/reformats DASMX 2650 cross-disa
make.i386-aros.zip dev/misc 75K ARO GNU/make for AROS
reggae-devel.lha dev/misc 243K MOS OO Multimedia processing framework
MCC_BetterString-11.9.lha dev/mui 147K VAR BetterString custom class for MUI
MCC_TextEditor-15.21.lha dev/mui 442K VAR Texteditor custom class for MUI
MCC_TheBar-21.3.lha dev/mui 788K VAR TheBar.mcc - The MUI Toolbar custom clas
wesnoth.lha game/strat 63M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth OS4 port
puzzle01mos.lha game/think 452K OS3 Puzzle Written in BlitzBasic
EVSkullflags.lha gfx/show 148K GEN Skullflags for Eye Viewer Velázquez/Goya
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 274K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emula
VICE-AmigaOS3-1.21.tar.gz misc/emu 4.5M OS3 Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-AmigaOS4-1.21.tar.gz misc/emu 7.5M OS4 Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-i686-AROS-1.21.tar.gz misc/emu 5.3M ARO Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-MorphOS-1.21.tar.gz misc/emu 5.9M MOS Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-powerpc-AROS-1.21.tar.gz misc/emu 6.9M Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
hivelytracker.lha mus/edit 1.4M OS4 Multichannel chiptune tracker, AHX based
HivelyTracker68k.lha mus/edit 1.1M OS3 Multichannel chiptune tracker, AHX based
RockBEAT2_1.lha mus/edit 1.6M OS4 Create drumming tracks and export as WAV
playOGG.lha mus/play 1.3M OS3 multi format sound player.
kgb_arch-m68kamigaos.lha util/arc 121K OS3 KGB Archiver
kgb_arch.zip util/arc 174K ARO KGB Archiver
reggae-user.lha util/libs 237K MOS OO multimedia processing framework
AmigaListLoader.lha util/misc 43K OS3 List Loader for Digital Satellite Receiv
Aminet-Readme-Creator.lha util/misc 43K OS3 Generates Aminet upload .readme file
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 33K OS3 Timer controled random WBPattern change
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 11.03.2007
These are the latest uploads which have been added to os4depot.net:
hivelytracker.lha aud/edi 1Mb Multichannel chiptune tracker, based on
mp3gain.lha aud/edi 208kb MP3Gain - changes the volume of mp3s
rockbeat.lha aud/tra 1Mb Create drumming tracks and export them a
wesnoth.lha gam/str 62Mb Battle for Wesnoth (stable version)
dmpeggui.lha gra/con 332kb Dump the frames of MPEG files, now with
pngiconscale.lha gra/ico 451kb Resize PNG Icons Quickly
amigo1_bp.lha gra/mis 328kb Comic style busy pointers
collage_blanker.lha gra/scr 3Mb A Collage Picture Blanker
httphandler.lha net/mis 86kb HTTP: device for accessing web-hosted fi
x11-src.lha net/mis 7Mb X11-R6.3 pre3 sources for Cygnix
stream.lha uti/ben 14kb STREAM is a Memory Bandwith Tester
cpuinfo_docky.lha uti/doc 5kb CPU usage meter for OS4 AmiDock
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12.Mar.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 11.03.2007
These are the latest uploads which have been added to the AROS-Archives:
make.i386-aros.zip dev/mis 74kb GNU/make for AROS
vice-i686-aros-1.21.tar.gz emu/com 5Mb Emulator of c64, c128, pet, plus4, cbm2
vice-powerpc-aros-1.21.tar.gz emu/com 6Mb Emulator of c64, c128, pet, plus4, cbm2
xrick.zip gam/pla 1Mb XRick (FOSS Rick Dangerous) - zipped fro
aaedt.zip net/mis 2kb Archives AROS Exec Download Tool
wgetgui.src.i386.tar.gz net/mis 36kb GUI for Wget
kgb_arch.zip uti/arc 174kb KGB Archiver
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Mar.2007
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS for AmigaOS: AfA 3.95
Version 3.95 of AROS for AmigaOS (AfA), a port of individual AROS components, now installs the Iconlib from AROS as well, to be able to display dual PNG icons in 32 bit from AmigaOS 4 on the Workbench and in Directory Opus Magellan.
New here compared to the final beta version is that in AFA_Prefs, the transparency of default icons as well as the transparency of icons when dragging can be adjusted.
Other improvements:
The FAQ was expanded with troubleshooting for the new Iconlib and CyberGraphX, and a Readme file for the new Iconlib was written.
Problems with the Exe datatype as well as the MacSnd datatype and CopyIcons were solved.
Under Picasso 96 and CyberGraphX 2, dragging icons in 32 bit now works under Directory Opus Magellan and Workbench as well. However, under CyberGraphX 3 and 4, only the icon scaled down to four colors is displayed.
In the author's opinion, the latter two versions of CyberGraphX seem to have the problem which cannot be remedied by the Supergels patch. Namely, it is important that the old icon bitmap data was not modified by any patch, because otherwise, the icon recognition in BltMaskBitmap-Rastport does not work, so that no 32 bit alpha image can be blitted, reportedly. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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11.Mar.2007
AROS-Exec (Web page)
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Commodore Emulator: VICE 1.21 for all Amiga systems
Under the title link, the current version 1.21 of the Commodore emulator VICE for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (Intel/PPC) is available. VICE emulates practically all 8 bit computers from Commodore.
Changes in VICE 1.21:
- General
- Added sound recording support
- Added aiff, iff, mp3 and wav sound dump drivers
- C128 changes
- Added digimax support
- Fixed some minor VDC graphics bugs
- C64 changes
- Added MMC64 support
- Added digimax support
- Added Action Replay III support
- Improved compatibility of TFE emulation
- PET changes
- Added SID cartridge support
- Extended the PET REU emulation to include 512/1024/2048 KB
- PLUS4 changes
- Added SID cartridge support
- Fixed some minor TED graphics bug
- VIC20 changes
- Added SID cartridge support
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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10.Mar.2007
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CD-Writer software: MakeCD available for free
The CD-Writer software MakeCD, written by Patrick Ohly and Angela Schmidt, which has been shareware before, is now available for free.
The authors write: "MakeCD used to be shareware and some shops sold boxed versions with licenses. This worked well in the past and we are thankful to everyone who found MakeCD worth paying for. However, MakeCD sales have long ago stopped being a relevant source of income for us. At the same time it has become harder and harder for interested users to get hold of a MakeCD license as more and more Amiga shops ceased business.
Therefore we decided to draw a line and stop selling MakeCD altogether: now it is available for free. You still need a valid license key for the existing binaries, which can be obtained at the title link.
Thanks again to all users and distributors who paid for MakeCD licenses, your support has been priceless. I hope you understand that making MakeCD available for free is necessary to ensure that users who want to use it can do so. The status of MakeCD does not change because of it: it is considered stable. We will ensure that it keeps working on Amiga compatible systems." (snx)
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09.Mar.2007
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Babylon 5: Production observation of "The Lost Tales" (English)
On its website CGSociety.org the Society of Digital Artists observes the production of "Lost Tales" episodes of Babylon 5 which are to be published on DVD and which are about the characters John Sheridan, Elizabeth Lochley and Galen.
On page 2 the father of the serie called Joseph Michael Straczynski remembers the use of an Amiga at the beginning of the serie: "The initial render farm consisted of several Amiga?s linked together with wires that ran through the apartment of the guy who initially did the FX.
The wires also ran through his rabbit cages. Every so often, in the middle of a render, a rabbit would chew through a wire. They would call me to tell me they had a rabbit crash. And now here we are today."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Burning software: Frying Pan 1.2.2
Tomasz 'Error' Wiszkowski has published an update of his CD and DVD burning application Frying Pan. This update fixes few OS4 and Morphos issues:
- Icon launch on MorphOS is fixed
- AmigaOS 4 Final and older drives no longer suffer crashes when disc is ejected
- DOS device pickup has been fixed (AmigaOS 4 Final)
- Freezing when burning files without Read protection bit set
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 2.5 available / Announcement of Hollywood Designer 2.0
Press release Airsoft Softwair are proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 2.5. This is a major update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 2.0. Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 2.5:
- Hollywood has full ARexx support now
- Create your own ARexx applications with Hollywood!
- Completely new text engine with cool new features
- Support for on-the-fly text formatting like HTML
- Support for new text styles (bordered & shadowed text)
- Scheduler completely rewritten: Now about 15% faster!
- Graphics primitives support anti-aliasing now
- All graphics forms can be drawn with rotation
- New edge and shadow drawing styles
- Support for thick lines and thick shape outlines
- Hollywood can export graphics as PNG with alpha channel now
- Raw alpha channel data can be accessed now
- Support for new sound streaming formats
- Animations with multiple palettes are now supported
- New lightning speed gfx driver for AROS
- Ready for Hollywood Designer 2.0!
- Full control over DOS IO modes
- Cool new example programs
- Standard library set encompasses almost 400 functions now!
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood is Airsoft Softwair's ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for every Amiga user who wants to use the full power that is in his machine. Hollywood comes on a CD-ROM that contains versions for all Amiga compatible platforms: There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), WarpOS (ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS 4 (ppc) and even AROS (i386). A download version is also offered. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own Hollywood 1.x or Hollywood 2.0, you can buy a discounted upgrade version.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms! With Hollywood, you can save programs for all those platforms. You do not have to have AmigaOS 4 or AROS, you can save programs for these platforms also from your AmigaOS 3 installation! Only Hollywood makes it possible. If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the Hollywood product information which also contains a full feature list of Hollywood.
Finally, Hollywood 2.5 is ready for the brand-new Hollywood Designer 2.0, a massive update which will be released in a few days and will take presentation editing software on the Amiga platform to a whole new level. You can already order Hollywood Designer 2.0 now and it will be delivered to you as soon as it is released. In fact, you can save some money if you buy Hollywood 2.5 and Hollywood Designer 2.0 together; just have a look at the order page for available product bundles. Hollywood Designer 2.0 is also available in a download and CD-ROM version.
Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 2.5 now!
You can get further information on the Airsoft Softwair website under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CPUTemp.docky 52.8
CPUTemp.docky written by Jörg Strohmayer shows the current CPU temperature in the AmigaOS 4-Dock.
Direct download: CPUTemp_52.8.lha (26 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: SearchStar 0.77 supports Linux partitions
In version 0.77 the search program SearchStar written by Tom "amigaharry" Duin does not abort any longer if it finds Linux partitions. Additionally now it scans directories much faster.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Mar.2007
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers at CeBIT / Clone-A presentation on March 31st
Press release Individual Computers is present at the world's biggest computer fair CeBIT twice this year: Viprinet GmbH show the Multichannel VPN Router. Individual Computers was significantly involved in the development of the router, which lets you bundle up to six physical broadband lines into a single virtual dedicated line. This increases bandwidth, but also increases reliability of your internet connection up to 99.99% annual mean availability - better and cheaper than any regular dedicated line could offer. Viprinet has booth number E48 in hall 14.
We're especially happy to support the new company Commodore with rare units from our retro-computer collection. This includes a PET2001 which is 30 years old this year. Commodore International is at booth number B34 in hall 19.
Our project "Clone-A" will be demonstrated on saturday march 31st, 2007 in Aachen, Germany. We will show the prototype of our Amiga-chipset clone at Schloß Rahe Business Center from 12:00 to 4:00pm. Clone-A will ultimately be put into a single low-cost chip, which can be used in a laptop or desktop computer, but also in smaller mobile units and toys. The chip contains the processor, accelerated graphics and sound. To operate the chip, only a small amount of memory is needed. There's a huge number of free and commercial programs and about 5000 games for the Amiga platform. The games can compete with today's consoles in multimedia presentation and gaming fun.
After a demonstration that we have prepared (about 30 minutes), visitors will have the chance to put Clone-A to the test: We're inviting visitors to bring especially critical software, which will demonstrate the compatibility of Clone-A to a real Amiga. Should you bring a program (floppy disk) that works better on an Amiga 500 with 1MB of chipmem and a 68000 processor at 7 MHz, we will honour your efforts with a voucher for 100 Euro for products out of our portfolio.
There is no entrance fee for Schloß Rahe Business Center, and there's free parking for visitors. (snx)
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09.Mar.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PPC-Hardware: Memory-Benchmarks for SAM440EP (Update)
On the website of the Italian producer ACube benchmarks have been published which are supposed to demonstrate the memory-performance of the announced PPC-motherboard SAM440EP. Benchmarks of the reference designs which SAM440EP is based on are also available.
Memory-Benchmarks for SAM440EP (PDF)
Memory-Benchmarks of reference-designs (PDF)
Update: (09.03.2006, 15:00, cg)
On amigans.net Jörg Strohmayer from the AmigaOS 4-team has published the corresponding benchmark results of his AmigaOne.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Mar.2007
Pegasos.org (website)
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Full Efika Systems are listed at Freescale
Full Efika systems in a steel housing can be ordered via the Freescale website now. You have the choice between an "EFIKA Open Client" (board, power supply, housing, graphics card) or the "EFIKA Open Client Plus" with an additional hard disk. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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08.Mar.2007
Amiga.org (website)
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Article of the Bitmap Brothers (English)
In view of the announced Speedball 2 remake for the PC as well as the death of Richard Joseph Chris Jensen is pointing to an article of the softare company Bitmap Brothers which he has released under the title link last month. Videos of some games are implemented into this English report. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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07.Mar.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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IRC client: Wookiechat 2.6 Beta 5
James Carroll provides a new beta version of his MUI based IRC client Wookiechat for AmigaOS 3/4. Changes in beta 5:
- BETA 1: Made sure all commands in "Connect Scripts" operate in the right tab when connecting to a few servers simultaneously
- BETA 1: Tab memory and objects used to be freed after closing WookieChat, but now I'm starting to clean up memory as soon as a tab is closed. Very handy on machines with small amounts of RAM (like my 6mb A1200!)
- BETA 1: If Wookie is unable to automatically obtain your own address for use in establishing DCC connections, you can now manually specify an address yourself in the prefs. (Main Settings > DCC)
- BETA 2: Slight modification: "Connect scripts" are executed in the root tab
- BETA 2: When you connect, the "001" server message is displayed in full and in the root tab. This message contains your hostname, or what the IRC server thinks is your hostname
- BETA 2: Added sanity checks to the gethostbyname() calls, so that if your address value is invalid for some reason, it wont crash
- BETA 2: Rejiggered the "close tab" code. It was crashing when closing multiple channels in a particular sequence
- BETA 3: Attempted to fix crashes when doing "cursor up/down" quickly in tabs
- BETA 4: New tab system. Optionally, you can display tab names in a listview under the nicklist, instead of using buttons along the bottom of the window. This system is ideal for users with lots of tabs open. Toggle this setting at "Main Settings > General"
- BETA 4: All info from /whois replies are displayed in the right colour and with «Whois» at the start now
- BETA 4: Wallop messages, usually from server admins talking to each other, are now displayed correctly
- BETA 4: You can comment out lines in your Connect Scripts with ; at the beginning of each line
- BETA 4: Bugfix: No longer crashes if you had more than 40 ignores in your list
- BETA 5: The button-style tabs/listview-style tabs toggling wasnt working properly I'm very sorry for this.. it seems to be working well now
Direct download: wookiechat2_6beta5_7thmarch2007.lha (767 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Mar.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Drum computer RockBEAT 2.1
James Carrolls has released an update of his software drum-computer RockBEAT (screen shot, example sound). Changes with version 2.1:
- Made adjustments to calculations for WAV file saving, so hopefully the larger WAV's will load better in HDREC, etc.
- Added a "Copy tracks" function. Copy some or all instrument tracks to a new/different bar. Just perfect when you want to keep the same hihat throughout your song, and you dont want to keep clicking it back up again and again!
- Made a number of improvements for adding new bars
- RockBEAT is now freeware! E-mail me if you want a free personalised keyfile with your name in it
Direct download: RockBEAT2_1.lha (1,6 MB) (read me) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Mar.2007
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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The AROS Show: AROS status update
Paul Beel briefs up the latest from the AROS world in his blog "The AROS show".
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Mar.2007
Janet Spacey PR
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Commodore announces new computers (update)
At theCeBIT 2007 Commodore Gaming announces a new dimension of gaming PCs "with the highest today available technical gaming specifications". This will initialize the come back of the legend brand Commodore to the world of hardware for computer and console games.
Bala Keilman, CEO at Commodore Gaming, says: "25 years ago
Commodore brought the C64 to the market, the world's most sold computer of teh late 20th century, and defined the fun of computr gaming for millions of people worldwide. Now we are proud and eager to bring back Commodore to the gaming community and to take another important step of history for that brand. We are sure to fullfill all demands to warranty an extraordinary gaming experience."
The new line of game optimized PCs will eb presented to the public at the CeBIT 2007 Hanover on march the 15th in Hannover.
Everyone there will have the opportunity to test the maschines with the latest games and get convinced by the famous features of these high performance maschines.
Commodore Gaming will accompany the market introduction with several more press releases March the 15 and promises the unveilling of some exciting details.
Visit Commodore Gaming at the CeBIT 2007 in Halle 21, booth D08. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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