24.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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Amiga ports of avilib, bzlib and libxm12
At amiga.sf there are now Amiga ports of some libraries from the Unix world. Right now avilib, bzlib, and libxml2 have been ported. The Amiga implementations are shared libraries.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
Organizer: Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Hyperion and the MicroA1 at the AOS 4 event in Essen
The following employees from Hyperion Entertainment will be at the AmigaOS4 event on May, 15th in Essen: Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden (AmigaOS 4), Steffen Haeuser (AmigaInput and several OS 4 ports) and Timothy De Groote (sales manager).
Besides that, the MicroA1 with AmigaOS 4 will be shown for the first time in Germany. Further information can be found on the official AmigaOS4 event website.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MPEG player: RiVA 0.48
Stephen Fellner has released a new version of the MPEG player RiVA with AHI support and several bugfixes. Details as well as a demo version (restricted in displaying no colours) can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename 3.9.0
Constantinos Nicolakakis has released version 3.9.0 of the tool SRename. Using SRename, which requires AmigaOS 3.0+, you can rename files easily.
New features:
- Improved the benchmarking functionality of the STATS option. Added a more
meaningful "Renamed objects per second" statistic. This figure is displayed
only if the given rename operations take at least a second, and an
additional
message is displayed if this figure doesn't represent performance accurately
because of given options or other factors.
Also added the percentage of processed files that are or would be renamed.
- Added the FORCEPATH option to force the entire filepattern to be taken as a
path regardless if it ends with a slash or not. This was added to avoid
having
to add a slash at the end of a path every time a path has to be supplied.
- Display of warnings when the parser detects problematic command sequences
that
can still be executed.
- More speed in Indirect mode and less code size by streamlining the internal
workings of Indirect mode. Several storage buffers were unified into one
making the code that handles Indirect mode much less convoluted and much
more robust.
- Further reduced startup time when Indirect mode is used.
Bugfixes:
- Mishandling of separators under certain conditions.
- Sometimes error messages weren't displayed.
- The Main component failed to be created under certain conditions.
- Incorrect number placement when modifying the Basename using swapping,
shifting or unifying 2-component basenames since version 3.8.0.
- Incorrect operation of Indirect mode in some occasions.
Other changes:
- Added the script "RenumberNoBase" for renumbering batches of filenames that
don't share a common basename.
- Fixed the "HexToChr" script to process only byte hex values.
(snx)
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24.Apr.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga-User-List: Old GAUHPIL website deactivated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll, containing websites of
Amiga users, ordered by continents and countries. Meanwhile, the
GAUHPIL has been converted into a MySQL based database solution.
Today, the old website http://gauhpil.home-pages.de/ was completely
deactivated. From now on, the GAUHPIL can only be reached at http://gauhpil.dietmar-knoll.de. The moderator kindly asks all webmasters to check
their links and update them if necessary. (snx)
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23.Apr.2004
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Soon AmigaOne with AmigaOS-Prerelease available
As the management of Hyperion reports the AmigaOne computers will be sold with a prerelease
CD of AmigaOS 4 after its publishing.
Customers who buy an AmigaOne before the final version of AmigaOS 4 has published
will get the same support and the same access to the updates (which will be online available)
as "Earlybird"-owners. They will be delivered the full version of AmigaOS by their dealers
after it is available.
Prices for the combination of AmigaOne and the prerelease are still not known.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Heise (ANF)
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Forgent sues for licence fees for JPEG
As Heise and
Golem report that the company
Forgent Networks has sued 31 companies for patent violation.
It is the patent number 4,698,672 with which Forgent claims to the
JPEG-compression method.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Pictures of the Amiga-party in Maarssen, Holland
There are some pictures online of the Amiga party which took place on April 17th in Maarssen (Holland)
(Galery 1,
Galery 2
) and additionally an
article of a local
newspaper, too.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Strategy game "Stratagus"
Ali Akcaagac has ported the realtime strategy engine
Stratagus to MorphOS.
It is not a complete game: Stratagus is only an "engine" which works an external "dataset"
which contains the whole information of a game.
There are several datasets (in different levels of development) and it also works with
files of the commercial game "Warcraft".
You can find a survey about
the different compatible datasets on the official homepage of the program.
Screenshots of the MorphOS-version: 1,
2, 3,
4.
Direct Download: stratagus-mos.lzx (700 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Anonym (ANF)
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merregnon.de: Further mp3s for download
At merregnong.de a CD is being created which contains well-known composers of the game
industry (e.g. Chris Hülsbeck) with own tracks that tell a fantasy story.
You can find two excerpts of the CD under the title link: "Unintentional
Descention" and "Firelit Council" written by Fabian Del Priore and Markus
Holler.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Coyote Flux (ANF)
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KickFlash OS4: New firmware 1.3 available
A new version of Individual Computer's Kickflash OS4 firmware is available now, with several bugfixes and improvements over the last version. There is now one single version which should work on every machine and it now updates the Kickstart version correctly. The floppy disk save code has been temporarily removed.
Kickstart remapping is being worked on and will initially support the CyberStorm/Blizzard cards and the Commodore CPU cards.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Genesi announces CPU-cards with IBM 750GX
Genesi announces to use the new PowerPC-CPU 750GX of IBM for the future processor cards.
They will be used in the new "Pegasos II" computers and will be available for existing
computers as upgrade.
The 750GX is based on the 750FX series and contains some improvements for increasing the
performance and for lowering the current consumption. The CPU offers support for up to
1.1 GHz and 1 MB L2-cache.
You can get further information under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Mind game: NIM
"NIM" is a mind game where you and the Amiga have to take matches away from the game field -
and this one who has to take the last match loses.
The game was written with Hollywood and in the archive you can find versions for
AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Direct Download: nim.lha (382 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Matthias M. (ANF)
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Amiga-Coldfire.de updates
On amiga-coldfire.de which is a website
to the topic "Amiga and Coldfire" there have been some updates.
Besides some improvements on the homepage itself there are also some news of the
Atari ColdFire Projekt (ACP): It is worked on the second version of the Coldfire boards
which now is supposed to come in microATX format with PCI, SDRAM, Expansion Slot and
with onboard-graphic solution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2004
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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CD Tools: PhotoAlbum 1.0 Released as Freeware
Christian Effenberger has finalized version 1.0 of PhotoAlbum.
With that he writes: "I decided to make all 3CaDo programs available as freeware. Everyone who uses the program often has the opportunity to send a little money, thereby enabling 3CaDo to be further developed.
The next program I'm targeting is EpisodeAlbum!" (snx) (Translation: dm)
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22.Apr.2004
SongPlayer team (ANF)
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SongPlayer v1.62 now also available for AmigaOS
The Amiga version of SongPlayer 1.62 is available now.
The CDDA management will be improved but you will find a new tag editor for that. The CPU consumption comes back to a low level and a great improvement is the better mp3 support (still no vorbis at the moment).
Another version allows you to use SongPlayer without any hardware hit (full AHI and no filter access). It is well oriented to be used with Amithlon and OS4 under emulation. (snx)
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22.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Genesi named Hewlett-Packard Business Development Partner
According to a press release by Genesi, Hewlett-Packard has named the Luxembourgish computer manufacturer a Business Development Partner.
The press release continues: "Genesi will be offering HP products with
the Open Desktop Workstation and the associated server and thin client configurations based on
the PegasosPPC. HP Technology Solutions and Tool and Office Template Support will be offered in
conjunction with Genesi products." (snx)
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21.Apr.2004
Breakpoint Organizing (ANF)
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Demo scene: Where should the next Breakpoint party be held?
At the title link there is a poll about the demo scene party Breakpoint.
Because of differences about the future of Bingen's Bundeswehr depot, where the party was held this and last year, this poll should help the organizers by their descision if it will be worth to try to obtain a license for that depot for the next year again or if it will be better to switch to the event hall of the city.
Because of the direct effect the answers of that poll will take, the organizers ask to take the time to honest and really think about the answers before giving them.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Apr.2004
Gerd Frank & Manfred Rohde (E-Mail)
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AmiAtlas: Important note about your registration
Gerd Frank & Manfred Rohde write in an e-mail to AmiAtlas-users:
"A short time ago we have released some new updated and enhanced maps.
Please visit our website for further information at www.amiatlas.net.
To estimate the actual Amiga market situation or better to get
information about your use of an AmigaOS compatible system and of course
AmiATLAS itself, we have asked for another registration via our website.
This possibility was used by a lot of people!
So if you have done this registration but still received no updates via
e-mail or if you still want these updates but have not yet registered
again, please contact us immediately at support@amiatlas.net.
The best way to contact us is of course to use the registration form at
our website! Not only to keep our database up to date!
ATTENTION! This is your last possibility to get free updates of AmiATLAS!
All future releases, especially the forthcoming AmigaOS4 PPC version, will
be only available at some costs!
Dont forget: We also offer a nice user forum at our website...
We still wish you lots of fun with AmiATLAS 6!" (nba)
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21.Apr.2004
Martin Wollert (ANF)
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New screen shots and information regarding Papyrus Office (update)
By the title link there are some new screen shots of the MorphOS version of Papyrus Office available. They show the Word document import also. Additionally the information about the supported file formats and the feature list were added.
Update: (13:12, 21.04.04, snx)
Papyrus Office will be available as an Amiga-68k version also.
System requirements:
- AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9
- MUI 3.8
- 68040 processor
- 48 MB RAM
- Graphic adapter with CyberGFX support
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Apr.2004
Mike Preuß (E-Mail)
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Exhibition on tour: Century of the computers - understanding computers
For all those who misses the CeBIT 2004 exhibition "Century of the computers - understanding computers"
there are additional dates for that exhibition in the north of Germany:
- 19.04.2004 - 24.04.2004:
Hannover Industriemesse, Hannover
- 27.04.2004 - 09.05.2004
Karstadt im Holstentörn, Kiel
- 16.05.2004
Fachhochschule, Sokratesplatz 6, Kiel
- 31.08.2004 - 11.09.2004
Strela-Park, Grünhufer
Bogen 13-17, Stralsund
- 14.09.2004 - 25.09.2004
Citti-Park, Langberger Weg 4, Flensburg
- 28.09.2004 - 09.10.2004
Citti-Park, Herrenholz 14, Lübeck - 22.11.2004 - 10.01.2005
PHÄNOMENTA, Norderstr. 157, Flensburg
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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