10.Mar.2004
Thorty (ANF)
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Website: Logo contest at "Thorty-online.de"
The maintainer of www.Thorty-online.de holds a logo contest. All AmigaOS- & MorphOS graphic artists who would like to play with their creative ambitions and earn a little money are invited.
The winner will be awarded with EUR 50. Further information is available by the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 19:23] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
ANN (comments)
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Important news from the Amiga-History
During the Amiga.org team's investigation of historic announcements of important companies of the unsteady Amiga history (amiga-news.de reported) Gareth Knight reminded his archive of those companies, which he build during the last six years: http://amiga.emugaming.com/ammigahistory.html. (snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 14:08] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Big Bash: Live-MP3-Streaming from the OS4 demo
AmigaWorldRadio presents a live MP3 streaming from the OS4 demo and party "Big Bash" next Saturday from 18 - 22 o'clock GMT.
The DJ will be Mikey_C from Amigaworld.net. The URL you have to enter in your MP3 player is http://amigaworld.net:8000. (snx)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 10:47] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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Open Video Toaster: High number of downloads
Bill Panagouleas writes: Last months launch of Open Video Toaster was a great success. Visitors to the site downloaded over 57 Gigabytes of source code! When you consider that the code to the Amiga Video Toaster Flyer is only about 30MB that is a lot of unique downloads.
As we suspected there has been a very high demand for this code ever since it was first promised and we are now pleased to fulfill that demand.
Bandwith overage fees for last month were $387.01, Open Video Toaster is a victim of its own success. We have many exciting ideas that have yet to be implemented for this site but can't continue to pay such high monthly bandwith costs alone.
If you would like to help support Open Video Toaster, you can do so via Paypal. If you don't have Paypal please click on the Paypal link from http://www.discreetfx.com and join.
Best regards,
Bill Panagouleas
http://www.openvideotoaster.org (snx)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 07:17] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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amigaworld.net: End of "Fleecy Moss Q&A"
amigaworld.net told us that the "Fleecy Moss Q&A"-Sessions, where Fleecy Moss has answered questions from Amiga users, will be stopped.
The aim is the improvement of the communication between users and developers in the Amiga area. Because taking
part of OS4 developer in the discussions on amigaworld, there is not so much demand on Q&A with Fleecy Moss. (cg) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 19:58] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Amiga.org asks for help in arrangement of historical reports
The portal amiga.org asks for help in
for the arrangement of historical reports. Surched are URL`s or copies of no more existend earlier reports, which are telling the way, that Amiga and its users and the
main companies had gone in the last few years.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 19:02] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Benchmarks: "Amiga Speed"-Website updated
The website Amiga Speed, which contains of a speedranking of different games, graphics cards and processors, had been updated
Simon Neumann writes: There are new tests after a long break. For this time for Q***e2, which was tested for the first time with Voodoo 4 4500 I want to use this occassion for thanking all
speedtesters, who tested for AmigaOS 3.9. Next time this site will be changed in better webtechnics and looking. When AmigaOS 4.0 is published, there are tests for the programms and games of this
plattform. Thank you for your interest.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 13:42] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
amiga-news.de editorial office
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amiga-news.de: voluntary registry in the comment area
Up to now there is a voluntary registry in the comment area on amiga-news.de
You can now be logged in the comment area with the accessdata of Diskussionsforum.
For this please click inside a comment-threat on to the log in link under the grey main menu. For log out please click "Logout [username]"
Special thanks to Sven Drieling for putting in this function in the system. If there are bugs, discrepancies or improvements send them to: team@amiga-news.de.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 02:10] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Yahoo!-Group for HD-Rec opened
Thilo Köhler has opened a Yahoo!-Group for the MIDI/AudioSequencer HD-Rec. There the author answers questions for the HD-Rec and helps with problems because of the HD-Rec.
All bugreports and suggestions are welcome.
You can find the Yahoo-group under: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hd-rec.
For sending messages, you have to register yourself at the Yahoo-group.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 02:09] [Comments: 0]
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08.Mar.2004
Richard Drummond (ANF)
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UAE-0.8.25-20040302 released
Richard Drummond has released UAE-0.8.25-20040302.
This is a bug-fix release and corrects several problems with the SCSI emulation. It also enables support for SCSI emulation on Mac OS X and BeOS (although, due to restrictions inherent in OS X, this will currently only work with CD/DVD writers - not ordinary read-only devices).
Updated binaries for Linux (x86 and PPC), Mac OS X and BeOS will be available for download shortly. A new binary for AmigaOS has been delayed, but should be ready (with some Amiga-specific updates) by the middle of next week. (snx)
[News message: 08. Mar. 2004, 13:56] [Comments: 0]
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08.Mar.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5-16 released
MLdonkey 2.5-16 is the latest version of a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client which runs as a daemon. It supports several large networks, such as eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap. It can be controlled locally or remotely using several interfaces like telnet or http.
This release is mostly a bugfix update, but also contains new features. Please read the ChangeLog inside the archive for a full list of all changes.
Download the archive at the official MorphOS MLdonkey site. (snx)
[News message: 08. Mar. 2004, 13:48] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS 1.5 beta shown in Bremen
As MorphOS-News.de reports has a beta version of MorphOS 1.5 been shown on the "Video- und Computerbörse" in Bremen.
As Jakub Kassim reported you could see the new 3D hardware drivers for the Radeon 7000, 7500 as well as for the VE in Action and for example play Heretic II in a resolution of 1024 x 768. The drivers worked already good though they aren't completely finished respectively optimized yet.
Besides that has the preferences system been revised and does now contain among other things setting possibilities for screen savers and more mouse options.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 21:11] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
Cyborg (ANF)
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Patch: domains with special characters on Amiga
Cyborg wrote: Hi, on the FTP server of benderirc.de there's a TCP/IP patch (8 KB) for alle TCP/IP stacks for the Amiga. The patch has been tested with Miami on a 68040 Amiga under AmigaOS 3.1.
The patch allows all programs to use ISO strings, for example "sfbücher.de", without having to convert them into the IDN spelling "xn--sfbcher-p2a.de".
Example:
> ping sfbücher.de
PING xn--sfbcher-p2a.de (212.162.56.70): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.162.56.70: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=59.093 ms
64 bytes from 212.162.56.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=57.98 ms
64 bytes from 212.162.56.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=56.614 ms
--- xn--sfbcher-p2a.de ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 56.614/57.895/59.093 ms
As you can see does the miamiping even recognize the "xn--" spelling and shows it without the program ever get to know this at all! It is really unpatched!
Unfortunately this doesn't work with web browsers as it should but this is because of the browsers and not because of the patch (the reason is described in the readme file).
In short: AWeb for example does show the IDN spelling but uses the ISO way with the vhost. This does the Apache-WebServer not know and the page can't be found. For sfbücher.de I have made this possible.
Therefore here's a call to the IBrowse & AWeb teams to adapt their routines. The ping shows that it's possible (how is written again in the readme file).
YAM and SimpleMail have the same problem on another level but that could be solved the same way.
To make the thing with IDN easier in the future I'll soon make an IDN library available for converting.
The patch archive contains an IDNA converter ISO->PUNYCODE. This way you can provide the browser with the correct name in the meantime.
> netstat
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state)
tcp 0 12 amiga.1026 xn--sfbcher-p2a..ftp ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 amiga.1025 irc.phat-net.de.ircd ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 amiga.netbios- *.*
udp 0 0 amiga.netbios- *.* (snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
Beta2-ML
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MorphOS 1.4.2 available via beta2 FTP server
MorphOS 1.4.2 is now downloadable via the beta2 FTP server. Compared with the other v1.4 installations only the boot.img has been renewed so that for single users only the download of this file is needed.
The changes in MorphOS 1.4.2 against the previous version:
- The IDE lockup problem has been solved.
- The irritations of the RTC when loading/saving on the Pegasos II are now fixed.
- The system clock in general does now work normal on the Pegasos II.
- The "Exec MEMF_REVERSE" memory fragmentation bug has been fixed.
Further information regarding downloading and installation have been given on the beta2 mailing list.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 17:20] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
ANN (website)
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Picture viewer: MiniShowPicture 1.6
Version 1.6 of the picture viewer MiniShowPicture has been released today. This is a simple display program basing on MUI and using the datatypes. The functions contain drag&drop, scaling and keyboard support.
Direct download (309 KB) (cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 15:31] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
ANN (website) / Gerd Frank (email)
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OctaMED SoundStudio V2: OS4 version announced
After the appearing of a quoting from the mailing list for the program OctaMED SoundStudio V2 on ANN confirmed the author Gerd Frank that there will indeed come a PPC/AHI version for AmigaOS4.
Tests and support for a MorphOS version, though, aren't possible for him because of the lack of hardware because he didn't receive a Pegasos from Genesi despite an agreement with Genesi in summer last year.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 13:01] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT-Galerie back
The fxPAINT images gallery that had been removed with the move from the old shop system to Callisto is now online again.
Users of fxPAINT are warmly invited to send their creations via email to IOSPIRIT so that they can possibly be published there.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 11:28] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
ANF
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John C. Dvorak's article about MorphOS released in the "PC Magazine"
In the US-American PC Magazine wrote the columnist and TV presenter John C. Dvorak an article about MorphOS.
In his positive description of the operating system Dvorak talked about the developers having morphed the architectur of the AmigaOS - maybe the best code ever used on a desktop computer - in the truest sense to adapt it to the PowerPC. The Pegasos by Genesi also got a brief mention.
After a short paragraph about CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) and Apple's temporary license for clone manufacturer the author comes to the USB compatibility of MorphOS, mentions the micro kernel "Quark" and touches on the A and Q-Box of the operating system.
Regarding the chances of this newcomer Dvorak talks about the enthusiasm of the MorphOS community and points out the formerly by Nintendo and Sega dominated consoles market that did also change in a serious way.
He ends his article with a summary of the career of the "unbelievably hot computer" the Amiga once had been and his opinion that this time - here MorphOS is meant - may well go better. The URL for MorphOS.net finishes the article. (snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 11:16] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
ANN (website)
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AROS on DVD of an Italian PC magazine
As Fabio Alemagna informs on AROS.org is on the DVD of this month's issue of TGM, one of the leading Italian PC games magazine, thanks to Paolo Besser also AROS included together with a review and a comprehensive Italian manual.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 08:05] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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ASoft: CManager v29.1 released
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has released a new version of the ContactManager. The CManager is a central bookmark data base and is now available in version 29.1 (490 KB).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 07:48] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack: USB support for Prometheus may be possible
Thanks to the latest information on the Prometheus PCI interface it was possible to add native support to the ArakAttack USB driver.
It was possible to work around the missing memory conversion routine, so there is a good chance USB will be possible on Prometheus hardware.
At http://www.vmc.de/amithlon/swr you'll find a debug version with prometheus support. This version is checking the API only. No USB functions this time. Please read the included readme for further information on how you can help making USB and other drivers possible on your system.
Please install the latest prometheus.library and Poseidon V2.2. There is no need to insert an USB card, because it's only a function test.
(snx)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 07:37] [Comments: 0]
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