18.Mar.2004
Ray A. Akey (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Next CAM Delayed until the Beginning of April
HMetal alias Ray A. Akey of Amiga Inc. says here in this forum that the next issue of the magazine "Club Amiga Monthly" will possibly be a combined March-April issue released in the first week of April with the contents of both months in there. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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Emulator: Frodo Ported to MorphOS
The C64 Emulator Frodo is now in a MorphOS-native version available for download from here (512 KB) at Morphzone. This is a direct port of the Amiga version with AHI support. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ScummVM V0.6.0 Ported to AmigaOS 4.0
Version 0.6.0 of ScummVM has been ported through Hans-Jörg Frieden via the use of Hyperion's SDLport for AmigaOS 4.0. A screenshot shows "Flight of the Amazon Queen".
Adventure classics from LucasArts, like Monkey Island 1-3, Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max, The Dig and Vollgas, may be played on modern Amiga systems through the use of ScummVM. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
Relec Software & Hardware Amiga (ANF)
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Relec Announces "MicroA1-EZ"
The Swiss merchant Relec stated that there would be a MicroA1-EZ at the next meeting of the Amiga club AMF-Lausanne-Schweiz on Saturday the 3rd of April from 2 to 5 pm. If the prerelease version of AmigaOS 4.0 happens to be ready that will also be displayed. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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New Alpha Version 0.4 of MIDI Sequencer Horny
Horny is a MIDI sequencer in the style of, for example, Logic or Cubase whose foremost goal is simple and uncomplicated functionality. In contrast to its previews Horny will remain a pure MIDI program and will not support audio.
The current version has everything necessary for the creation of MIDI songs, wherefore the download is just the lite version.
The author asks all users who try Horny to send him a short email, so that he can gauge the interest. Thanks!
The download link as well as other information may be found at the product website under the title link.
Current characteristics:
- Control of up to 16 MIDI ports over CAMD (Lite: 1 Port)
- Up to 128 tones (Lite: 8 tones)
- Volume and tempo changes possible within a song
- Piano Editor: quantisize, compress velocity...
- Controller Editor: compress, reduce, smooth...
- SysEx management with many desired sorting groups
- Jumpable position markers in an arrangement window
- Sound selection of names (not only general MIDI, particularly for desired synthesizer expansions)
- Controller is likewise named for desired (expandable) synthesizer
- SMF import and export
- Horny data format is forward and backward compatible
- ReAction interface in window configuring
- On Workbench or its own window
- Arrangment window may be used as the background (backdrop)
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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17.Mar.2004
David Brunet (ANF)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Election March/April 2004
Amiga Games Hit Parade's maintainers call for the election of the
game of March/April 2004. Participate at the election by
sending a mail to David "Daff" Brunet containing a maximum of your
20 favorite games or vote
online at hitparade.amigames.com.
Every kind of game (commercial, freeware, old, new etc.) is
welcome for the list. The final results wil be announced
beginning April 2004.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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17.Mar.2004
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The lawsuit between Thendic/Genesi and Amiga Inc.
After a court decision regarding the lawsuit between
Thendic/Genesi and Amiga Inc. (we reported) has been made
new applications
were placed which request a post modification of the
decision.
To make the mess of these proceedings a bit more sorted out we
summarized the history once again. If you are interested in the
latest events only, you might jump to the section
"What's next" and get
informed about the current events.
Prehistory
In November 2000 Amiga Inc. and "Thendic Electronic
Components GmbH" (in the following briefed as "Thendic") signed a
license agreement regarding the AmigaDE.
Thendic Electronic Components is a German subsidiary of
"Pretory USA", that holding which also includes the French
Pretory SA and their subsidiary Thendic France.
According to the contract Amiga is committed to port their
"AmigaDE" to several planned devices of Thendic.
Thendic will pay a licence fee of USD 4.50 for every device
delivered with AmigaDE. On the other hand Genesi will get the
right to use the Amiga Logos for their products.
The contract mentions the Cashboy, MobiCash,
Transponder, Cashboy@Home and Smartboy by name but those were
never produced in series.
After a while it came to light that regarding some core points of the
contract there was no agreement between the contractors.
Three issues cristallized as most controverse:
1st: Which devices have to be supported by Amiga
The contract mentions the devices to be supported but
also includes a clause which permits Thendic to add new
devices to the list by appointment of Amiga. Amiga obliges to
do not deny the appointment without well-founded reasons.
After market introduction of the Pegasos
Thendic brings in the appointment refering to that clause to
ask for an AmigaDE port for this PPC computer.
Amiga Inc. denies the port which lead Thendic to sue Amiga in
February 2003.
After both parties took in several written applications
Amiga's lawers asked for the permission to lay down their mandatory in September
2003 - reasons for their request are unknown to us.
The judge granted their request on September the 30th 2003,
Amiga loses the legal advice. According to the local American
law a company is in need of legal advice by a lawer, therefore
the judge announces a several times extended period to bring
on new lawers.
While Amiga fails on that the judge announces the court
decision on February the 20th 2004. Because Amiga's standpoint
must be presented by a lawer the judge has to use the
arguments of Thendic only ("In light of defendant's
failure to participate...") to find a decision. He agrees on
Thendic's point of view which does include the Pegasos to the
devices to be supported.
Amiga is sentenced to fullfill the contract ("specific
performance") and gets a period of 30 days to give the AmigaDE
to the plaintiff thus enabeling the plaintiff to integrate it
to the Pegasos.
2nd: Is Genesi contractor also?
The contract between Amiga and Thendic describes Thendic's
rights as "non transferable" but is valid for Thendic and all
subordinated or related companies or subsidiaries.
On February the 18th 2003 Thendic's lawers applied to accept
Genesi as an additional plaintiff because that company would
be a contractor according to the definition within the
contract. Further details of the relation between Genesi and
Thendic were not given.
In a statement according to Thendic's application Amiga says
they do not have sufficient knowledge of the relation between
Thendic and Genesi to assess that claim and thus do not see
Genesi as an appropriate contractor.
An answer by the judge regarding both applications is not to
find within the publicly accessable documents, but the court
decision mentions the plaintiffs (plural) - if this is a
confirmation of Genesi's standpoint is not known by us.
3rd: Which trademarks may be used by Thendic/Genesi?
Within the contract it is stipulated that Thendic might use
Amiga trademarks for promotion, website, products and
packaging without asking prior.
The "Amiga trademarks" are defined in appendix 3.1 as all
trademarks, logos or trade names Amiga owns and are somehow
related to the AmigaDE. Additionally there is a reference to
appendix D which will describe the handling in detail.
Appendix C (appendix D does not exist) there is at least a
section which covers the usage of the trademarks.
There the Amiga trademarks are defined as the 'Powered by Amiga' logo,
the 'Amiga' logo, the Amiga Boingball and all further Amiga
trademarks which are hold by Amiga.
Which one of the both contradictionary definitions is valid and which is void is not
known to us.
Also the use of the trademarks is classified here in detail
again and is identical to the classification within the main
text. But this section has an additional hand written record
which limits the usage of the trademarks to be only in
conjunction with AmigaDE products and only after approval by Amiga.
If this addition stays valid is also not known by us, the
extension within the version of the contract viewed by us is signed by Bill McEwen only.
That both parties interpret this aspect of the contract in a
different meaning is to infer by the recently announced use of
the Amiga trademarks by Genesi or the just released declaration by
Amiga they sold the AmigaOS - including the according
trademarks - to KMOS Inc. Because that issue was not covered
by the court yet the final decision has still to be found.
What's next
Amiga Inc. may - if they can get some legal advice again -
appeal against the court's decision within a period of 30 days,
according to our information they have not done so yet.
In the meanwhile Thendic/Genesi's lawers applied for a
modification of the decision. The judge should
grant not only for access to the AmigaDE but also to
all documentation, all source codes, all object codes, and
all derived code from that, all extensions and all
enhancements, updates and upgrades.
In that context Genesi seems to see the AmigaOS 4 as kind of
"Upgrade" of the AmigaDE. This point of view should be
supported by screen shots of several publications at Amiga's
website and an email which is said to origin from Fleecy Moss.
On March the 15th Amiga Inc. - who now do have lawers again -
commented that application detailed. They deny all claims for
accessing the source code by the plaintiff and refer to
according clauses within the contract.
With statements by Fleecy Moss, Bill McEwen, Ray A. Akey (Amiga Inc.), Garry Hare (KMOS Inc.)
and Francis Charig (TAO) Amiga tries to point to
other inconsistencies. So they claim Thendic and/or Bill Buck
would not have been reachable by the given address. And the refered
email by Fleecy Moss would be a fake which should be known by
the plaintiff also.
Further on some postings by Bill Buck within several discussion
boards are refered to bring evidence that he tries to gain
more than what the contract grants to him. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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17.Mar.2004
rc5-72 stats (ANF)
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dnetc: MorphOS overrounds AmigaOS PPC and AmigaOS 68k
At the rc5-72 statistics
MorphOS while crunching for two months only has overrounded the
taking fifteen months crunching efford of the distrbuted.net
client for AmigaOS 68k and AmigaOS PPC.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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17.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Emulators: Native ports for AmigaOS 4
Amigaworld.net reports this week the beta test of the OS4
native version of UAE 0.8.25 (screen shot)
will begin. Referencing a second post
the C64 emulator Frodo as well as the arcade emulator xMAME
(screen shots)
were successfully ported to AOS4 already.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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16.Mar.2004
IrseeSoft / ZEDOnet (ANF)
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Printer drive: TurboPrint-Version 7.60 available
The printerd rive software TurboPrint of IrseeSoft has been published in the version 7.60 with new printer drives:
- Canon i250*, i350*
- Canon i560, Canon i865, Canon i965*
- Epson Stylus C64, Stylus C84
- HP DeskJet 515x*, DeskJet 565x, DeskJet 585x*
- HP LaserJet 1100, 1200, 1300, 2xxx
*) USB Interface-card needed, f.e. Highway-USB
The update is for the user, who have a new supported printer or want to buy one.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
Coyote Flux (ANF)
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Coyote Flux: Major website update
The website has been updated with new information about CoyoteFlash and J Miner (EE). An optimized version of the website will be added soon for Amiga and mobile platform users.
In the meantime, many changes have been made to our photogrammetry package J Miner including the support for exporting 3D objects in common file formats such as LOW, C4D and DXF. J Miner now runs on a seperate screen in any resolution and supports several new 3D reconstruction features. Several screenshots have been added to the J Miner page, all created using the latest version of the program.
CoyoteFlash has been updated (1.2) with several bug fixes over the last version. (snx)
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16.Mar.2004
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Latest Amiga-news
The latest news from Amiga Inc. are considered too, by the non-amiga press
(cr) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
KRAY Homepage
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MorphOS: new version of KRAY
The commandline-programm of the raytracer KRAY has been extended with a preview window in the MorphOS-version. You can find the new version under
the title link
(cr) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Battlefield forum temporary available
Horst Diebel writes: Because of a rate changing on www.amiga-society.de the Battlefield forum was temporary not available.
Until finishing the new Internet representation there is the possibility for representing a discussion forum. There is now an standard forum.
When someone has problems, questions and tips for the Battlefield, is welcome.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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AutoDocReader published
"Maag" has published a programm for showing AutoDocs called AutoDocReader.
The program (34 KB), instructions and the website are only Polish, but you can find a screenshot
under the titlelink.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Amiga Inc. sells AmigaOS to KMOS Inc.
Amiga, Inc. Sells the Amiga Operating System, to focus on AmigaDE and the Mobile Market.
Ravensdale, WA - 3:00 pm Pacific Time, March 15, 2004 - Amiga, Inc. announced today that it has sold the Amiga Operating System to KMOS, Inc., allowing Amiga, Inc to focus on the growing mobile market.
On April 23, 2003 Amiga entered into an Agreement with Itec LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc. for the transfer and sale of all of Amiga's right, title, source code, and all versions, from the "Classic Amiga Operating System" through AmigaOS 4.0 and all subsequent versions to KMOS, Inc.
"The expanding mobile market offers Amiga over 200 million potential customers that we need to focus on," said Bill McEwen - President/CEO of Amiga, Inc. "We began looking for a company that could focus and provide proper resources for the AmigaOS and the associated markets and we found that with KMOS, Inc." McEwen Said.
"We welcome the acquisition of the AmigaOS intellectual property by KMOS. Together with KMOS, Hyperion looks forward to exploring new business opportunities for AmigaOS 4. I would like to reassure all our customers that the acquisition by KMOS will not have any adverse impact whatsoever on the release of the consumer version of AmigaOS 4.0 later this year." said Evert Carton, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment VOF.
KMOS, Inc. is acquiring and developing technology enabling the company to participate in the worldwide communications market. Garry Hare, KMOS' CEO, said "KMOS is very excited about the commercial potential of this innovative operating system. At Amiga's insistence to which we totally agreed, we will honor the terms of the November 2001, agreement with Amiga One Partners: Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd., an English Corporation, in their entirety. Mr. Hare continues, "I should point out, that except as they relate to the Amiga OS family of products, KMOS did not acquire the Amiga name, intellectual property or its DE line of products. These assets remain the property of Amiga Inc.".
About Amiga:
Amiga, Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multimedia technologies to the world. Its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, government agencies, and entertainment enthusiasts from around the world. Today Amiga continues to lead the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to a new hardware-agnostic, multimedia platform. AmigaDE and Amiga Anywhere powered with intent from the Tao Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K, and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, and XP. AmigaDE and Anywhere applications can be purchased online at www.shopamiga.com. Amiga is based in Ravensdale, Wash. For more information visit www.amiga.com.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs. Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
About KMOS, Inc.
KMOS, Inc. a State of Delaware licensed corporation develops and distributes enabling technology, software applications and specialty content to the wired and wireless communication market.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Mar.2004
Breed (ANF)
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FroGGui: Version 0.22 released
Version 0.22 (510 KB) of FroGGui, GUI for FroggerNG, is now available.
Changes:
- Autosave
- new features "no interleave" and "no sound"
- new skin
- automated closing of FroggerNG when closing FroGGui
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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15.Mar.2004
Cloanto
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Cloanto: Amiga Explorer 6.0 released
Cloanto have released version 6.0 of their Amiga Explorer. A trial version (1.9 MB) can be downloaded which is limited in a way that it can't transfer files with more than 1 KB in size.
The Amiga Explorer networking software makes it possible to access the resources of an Amiga computer from one or more Windows systems. Configuration is extremely simple and by default requires only a few mouse clicks on the Windows side.
The new version 6.0 of Amiga Explorer is compatible with AmigaOS 4.0 and MorphOS. The trial version can also be used for upgrading from the previous version.
Amiga Explorer is available stand-alone as well as a part of the emulator package Amiga Forever, which is to be released also in version 6.0 in a few days. (snx)
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13.Mar.2004
amiga.org (website)
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MorphOS: TGEmu emulates TurboGrafx16/PC Engine
"TGEmu" emulates the classic NEC games console "TurboGrafx16" (aka "PC Engine"). For now many comercial titles are running fast enough and with sound support.
The MorphOS version comes with a graphical users interface that supports skins.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
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Interview: Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion)
amigaworld.net has made an interview with Oliver Hannaford-Day. Oliver is the developer behind the Amiga turboboard "Coldfusion" that bases on a Coldfire CPU.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Workbench design with AmiChameleon
Everybody who has already tried to change the look of the Workbench completely knows how much the work that means. Searching for images, changing preferences, loading skins, etc. If you want to change the look again later on the same starts over again. Because of this I've developed AmiChameleon. It archives once created so called themes and installs them later again in the simpliest way. This way it is possible to change the design of your Workbench completely with only a small number of mouse click.
On a server are already several themes saved that can (directly from AmiChameleon) be viewed, downloaded and then installed. It will also be possible to create such themes with AmiChameleon (still beta and without manual).
Themes: With AmiChameleon you can change/install the following graphical elements:
System settings:
- WB-Pattern
- Fonts
- Palette
- Pointer
- Sound
- ReAction
Further settings:
Skins for the following programs:
- CoolCalc
- WBClock
- AmigaAMP
- AmiNetRadio
- PlayCD
Startbars:
Other supported programs:
- Birdie
- BenchTrash
- GarshneBlanker
All these parts together are called a theme and are supported by AmiChameleon.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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