27.Dec.2003
ANN (comments)
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Pegasos 2: First user report
Treveur "Nowee" Bretaudiere has released a short report about the Pegasos 2 he received:
My Pegasos 2 finally arrived this morning, in its nice protective box, along with its 1 GHz G4 CPU
module, the MorphOS installation CD, two booklets, and a backplane.
The two documentations are very clear. A VERY simple booklet, written in English, French and German,
explains how to install both MorphOS and the computer itself, whilst the other, in German, is a
fairly detailed technical documentation, with ports description and such.
The motherboard in itself is very well made, and once filled with a DDR 333 memory module and my radeonVE,
booted MorphOS 1.4.1 without any problem straight from my DVD burner.
I'm still astonished by the speed difference between my already fast Pegasos 1 and the Pegasos 2.
The G4 behaves very well, the stability so far seems okay, the computer sound is perfect. Ambient
opens a 300+ files folder in less than a second (!). I performed many MD5 sums test over 800 mb files
and no problem occured.
As for the installation process, it was especially simple for me that already had MorphOS 1.4. I simply
copied the boot.img from the supplied CD to my MorphOS partition, rebooted, and typed 'boot hd:0 boot.img' (Where 0 is the partition number of my hard disk).
For someone that would prefer a clean installation, though, there is a slight problem: the install
script checks for a bad MD5 sum. The solution here is to copy the installation script in ram, and remove
the MD5 check with ed. Another solution, even simpler, copy the whole CD to the freshly formatted HD.
The problem was already known and a fix should be available already.
Finally, it makes several hours the computer is turned on, I had no crash so far. Compatibility seems
to be perfect with the Pegasos 1, without the bugs of its predecessor.
My comment:
It's been so many years we've been expecting a G4 Amiga compatible system,
I think the product fulfills more than a necessity. It's a dream come true.
Nowee^SKT
(snx)
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27.Dec.2003
Vinnny (ANF)
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Anniversary: Russian AIC online for four years
The news and information resource for Russian Amiga users Amiga Information Center is online now for four years.
Since 1999 the site's two administrators - Efim Shuvikov (site developer and maintainer) and Vlad Vinogradov (news editor and content manager) - published more than 5200 news and have welcome more than 650 registered users. (snx)
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26.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Audio-Sequencer: HD-Rec Update (MOS fix)
On download site
of HD-Rec which is an audio- and MIDI-sequencer for
AmigaOS there is an update for the version 0.9beta. The update fixes some bugs
which occured under MorphOS - HD-Rec should now run perfectly on a Pegasos.
The author asks for other bug reports if you should find some ones.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion and Metropolis announce AmigaOS 4 version of Gorky 17
Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis announce an AmigaOS4 version of Gorky17:
"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003
Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis Software have extended their existing license agreement for "Gorky 17", Metropolis' critically acclaimed RPG/Strategy title, to cover not only Linux but also the upcoming AmigaOS 4.
Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game mixing elements of strategy and RPG gameplay. The player commands a small group of NATO soldiers who must reveal the mystery behind the sudden appearance of hybrid creatures in a small Polish city named Lubin. The city is being terrorized, the area is surrounded by NATO troops and media from all over the world, and the first group sent into the city disappears without a trace. The main hero of the story is the 40-year old soldier Cole Sullivan, a commando team member with extensive scientific knowledge. His team's task: to explain the hybrids' presence and to find the missing members of Group One. But that, of course, is just the beginning...
The AmigaOS 4.0 port is already well under way as can be seen on the
screenshots published with this press release.
The Amiga and Linux ports are being carried out by Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies who are recent "converts" to the Amiga platform after they recently joined the Hyperion Entertainment game development team.
Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies have an impressive track-record in the field of Linux (gaming) related development."
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion announce "AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release" CD for early 2004
Hyperion Entertainment announce the release of an AmigaOS 4.0 pre-release for all current AmigaOne owners for early 2004:
"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003
Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4.0 development team are pleased to announce that OS4 development has now sufficiently advanced for a comprehensive Developer Pre-release of Amiga OS 4.0 to be distributed to all current AmigaOne owners shortly after the New Year.
In view of the fact that quite a few of you reminded us that you do not have broadband internet access, the original idea to offer an initial version of OS 4.0 for download was abandoned in favor of an "easy to install", self-contained distribution on CD.
Whilst this will obviously entail more cost to Hyperion and require more time for duplication and distribution, the upside is that we will be able to provide developers with everything they need to start developing for OS 4.0.
The developer material will include sample source-code, an initial version of the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK as well as native OS 4.0 compilers (GCC 2.95.3, GCC 3.4 and VBCC) and cross-compilers for various platforms (Linux x86/PCC, Mac OS X etc.).
The Developer Pre-release will require an upgrade of the AmigaOne firmware which was bumped from U-Boot 0.1.1 to U-Boot 1.0 and which is currently undergoing final testing.
Further details will be announced shortly.
Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4 development team would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your continued support and patience.
The fact that you are still here, 10 years after the demise of Commodore, has been a tremendous encouragement to us during these 2 years of laborious development.
Make no mistake: your patience will finally be rewarded with the fastest and most powerful incarnation of AmigaOS ever.
Merry X-mas and a prosperous 2004 to all of you!"
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Dec.2003
McFly (ANF)
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Hollywood Presentations: the 100th PowerPoint Presentation Appears
Because of the positive vibrations as well as the high number of takers, Amiga user "McFly" released some more Hollywood presentations after converting them from PowerPoint. Altogether there are now more than 100 presentations for download that may be viewed on Amiga (or compatible) computers.
McFly thanks all the users for supplying feedback and wishes everyone a Happy New Year. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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RxMUI: Update to Version 40.1
RxMUI from Alfonso Ranieri has now reached version 40.1 and is available for download from his homepage.
Graphic user interfaces in MUI may be programmed in ARexx macros through the use of RxMUI. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Classic Amiga "Cracktros"
Because us upstanding Amiga users may naturally not utter such names as Skidrow, Paradox, Red Sector or Vision Factory, Melon gave us the opportunity to retroactively amuse ourselves with the sights and sounds of those intros from old cracked games, a nostalgia that will warm our hearts. Here is the conversion of the old Amiga "Cracktros" in Macromedia Flash format.
More Flash ports of C64 and Amiga Cracktros may be found at Doc Snyder and Nostalgia. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Comments)
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Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Amiga Classic "IK+"
Under the title-link may be found a Macromedia Flash port of the classic Karate game "IK+" - including a Kickstart-1.3 screen. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Update of PTPDigCam to Version 0.9
The program PTPDigCam by Christophe Genre has reached version 0.9.
PTPDigCam is a MUI-based program that makes it possible to load and erase pictures, videos, and sounds from PTP-compatible digital cameras (such as Kodak, Canon and Sony).
Currently the program has been tested with the following cameras: Kodak LS443, Kodak DX3500, Canon A70 and Sony DSC-P52.
The main new aspects:
- Camera serial number added
- Sounds management added (usefull for Canon camera)
- Canon A70 is supported
- Sony DSC-P52 is supported
- PTP protocol enhanced to take into account Sony and Canon
PTP limitations and specific capabilities
- Fixed bug: Status always display no video available
- Fixed bug: The 10 Mo input buffer was not released (oups!)
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website)
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Instructions for the Installation of PNG Icons
For users of MorphOS or users of PowerIcons under AmigaOS, Cecilia has written an (APDF-compatible) PDF document (137 KB) that explains the installation of PNG icons with alpha channel while utilizing ImageFX 4.5.
Along with that she has created a few example icons (195 KB, from butterfly pictures). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Benchmark Program: Update of AmigaMARK to Version 1.001
Rupert Hausberger released an update to his benchmark suite AmigaMARK LPA for AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Alterations:
- ADDED checking whether gethostbyname() successes
- ADDED checking whether xen.font is avail
- CHANGED os-requirement from 3.1 to 2.x (untested)
- CHANGED layout of settings-window to a virtual-group so it opens
also on non gfx-card screenmodes like ecs, aga
- FIXED bug that forbids the use of chip-ram test in some situations
- FIXED little gui-bug in module-information at "mhz"
- CHANGED logo to a nicer one
- CHANGED splitted archives to base, aos, mos
- BUMPED revision to .001
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
ESA Garching/München (ANF)
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TV Tip: Mars Landing of the ESA
The touching down of the European Space Agency vehicle on Mars will be televised live and carried on WebTV on 25th December 2003 at about 2:25 MEZ. Early supporters of the European planet missions should not miss this important event! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New Track on the Psyria Homepage
After nearly an eight month pause, there was an update on 24th December 2003 to the Psyria homepage. Because it was musically very quiet around Psyra this year, there's just one new track exclusively for free download. "Overflow" is sort of an Ambient-style track. It was produced by Yel.C
vs. Psyria, and is available for download from the download area.
At this point we'd like to wish all our fans happy Christmas and a great New Year. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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24.Dec.2003
Nico Barbat
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Christmas greetings from the AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de
The AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de editor teams as well as the publisher team of falkemedia wish all Amigans a merry blessed Christmas and a comfortable transition to 2004. We are thankful for your faith in us and are looking happily forward to the next twelve months which might see the long awaited revival for the Amiga market thanks to the PegasosII and MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.0.
Editorial team AMIGAplus:
Nico Barbat, Wolfgang Böhl, Sebastian Brylka, Marc Cloppenburg, Thomas
Franziskowski, Frode Hansen, Heiko Kuschel, Uwe Pannecke, Robbie Schäfer,
Alex Scholz, Carsten Schröder, Kilian Servais.
Editorial team amiga-news.de:
Nico Barbat, Ulrich Beckers, Jens Begeschke, Christian Busse, Stéphane
Campan, Christoph Dietz, Sven Drieling, Guido Fehst, Dr. Eric Gillé,
Christoph Gutjahr, Stefan Hägele, Martin Heine, Hendrik Höner, Sven
Kirmse, Daniel Miller, Jürgen Müller, H. Ogino, Piotr Pawlowski, Daniel
Reimann, Christian Rosentreter, Gerhard Schmid, Carsten Schröder, Felix
Schwarz, Petra Struck, Alfred Sturm, Rolf Tingler.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
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Pictures from the Pegasos 2 - a slightly different Christmas story...
"Four against Murphy" or how the Pegasos 2 made it at least against all odds for Christmas:
At that time there was the order by Genesi that all already produced Pegasos 2 boards should be shipped until Christmas. And this Pegasos shipping 2 was the first at all.
So Gerald Carda and Thomas Knäbel from Oberursel went to Oberhausen, to DCE where the Pegasos 2 should be produced when the plain circuit boards should arrive there.
But there were no boards... TNT sent the boards to "DK" not to "DE" and now they had to be moved from Denmark to the right destination. Two worthful days went by...
But not enough, Murphy not satisfied yet - there was potential for more things going wrong. And seeesh!!! - a soldering machine went broke and needed a repair!
Holy evening approached and the question was not if something else might go wrong but what it will be this time. The answer came quicker than hoped: just on the first day of production one of the SMD machines left synchronity...
But Thomas and Gerald just kept the track and with the help of the whole DCE team the sailed through all these problems!
But: Worthful time was lost and the board production lasted till the afternoon of the 23rd...
Also the programmers were busy all day and night and worked coordinated by Ralph Schmidt on the new firmware and on fitting MorphOS 1.4.1 to the Pegasos 2. André Siegel had hands full of work with making the 61 page manual perfect and let it translate with two fellows to German and French.
The last day before Christmas Eve! How should the boards go on their journey just in time? Sure: His Pegasos 2 boards share Guido Does by Vesalia picked up just at the production site - but what shoud be done with the orders of the other customers?
Then Christian Kemp surprisingly came along offering his help - coming from his home in Luxembourg he offered to make a 600 km trip to bring the boards from DCE, Oberhausen to Ron van Herk, Rotterdam just that evening so that the boards could be sent to all the world an December the 24th.
So it came the day of Christmas Eve Christian and Ron supported by his wife Cindy packed Christmas packets with mainboards, CPU cards, slot panels, manuals and self burned and printed MorphOS CDs and brought them on their way.
At least Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco were able to announce the good news at morpos-news.de: UPS just got the boards intended for Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Luxembourg, the UK and the USA - including Hawaii.
The following pictures may be used as evidence that the Pegasos 2 boards are really produced and sent away:
Pictures of some Pegasos 2 boards
The Shipping: In the beginning there was chaos...
...but at least...
...and one by one...
...it was fullfilled by Christian and Ron:
The boards ready to go at ComputerCity in Rotterdam.
Merry Christmas!
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail v0.21 released & X-mas greetings from the developer team
The SimpleMail team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Additionally there is version 0.21 of SimpleMail available now.
Changes are:
- Import of mbox files
- Several memory leaks wiped out (bgol)
- The layout of important list elements is now saveable (bgol)
- Simple remote filter: Messages can be left on the server
- SimpleHTML support is now within a shared library
- Ported to OS4
- Documentation describes the spam identification
- Bug fixes and several other improvements
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: Euph0ria 0.24 released
Using this announcement Christian Rosentreter wishes a Merry Cristmas and a Happy New Year and there is a new version (0.24) of Euph0ria!
Christian writes: Special greetings to all amiga-news.de members
all guests of the #amiga-news.de IRC channel, to
#amigazeux and to all others I forgot to mention now. :)
About Euph0ria:
Euph0ria is a visual plug-in with MUI-GUI for AmiNetRadio, Kaya
or AmigaAMP. It's been tested under MorphOS 1.4 only but should work with other versions flawlessly. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack USB driver update v0.94 released
The version 0.94 of the USB driver package for Amithlon and OpenPCI is available at the
Aminet and at VMC.de now.
Guido Mersmann wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Amiga users and developers and to the
amiga-news.de team.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)
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kickstart archives v3.1 - DVD release
kickstart archives is a collection of historic and current
websites, information, documents, patents, wireing diagrams, manuals, hardware libraries
and more all about the Amiga. The collection is html based and features a search engine to browse the archive.
kickstart archives runs with all common operating systems and can be installed to the hard disk just by copying it there.
The search engine does not operate with AmigaOS due to the lack of a browser capable of
complete JavaScript1.2.
kickstart archives costs EUR 10,- plus EUR 1,44 p&p.
Thomas Unger wishes a blessed Christmas and a successful new year 2004 to all readers and amiga-news.de members. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Christmas greetings from Coyote Flux and individual Computers
Merry Christmas from a new team in the Amiga market: Coyote Flux and
individual Computers are working together on a basis of a contract that
has been signed on October 1st, 2003.
The young programmer-team also has a new website under www.coyoteflux.nl.
The two brothers Sharwin and Rakesh Raghoebardayal became famous in the
Amiga community for various projects like PPC680x0 (a 68K to PowerPC
assembly translator), the sound editing system Coyotesound, photogrammetry
software J Miner and more high-quality software.
Individual Computers is known for many hardware products for Amiga
computers, specialized PC hardware and retro-computing projects. Serving
private customers and professionals like the US computer forensic
department of defense, individual Computers mass-produces own designs, and
does contract work for other parties.
With more than 50 years combined experience and detailled knowledge about
the target markets, the newly formed team is geared towards development of
new hard- and software applications. The sales and marketing contacts of
individual Computers will make the products available worldwide in more
than 40 countries.
The first project of this cooperation is Kickflash OS4. Coyote Flux
provided the firmware of the product that has been sent to the resellers
yesterday. We hope that all users of classic Amigas will enjoy a fast
cold-start time of their computers with this product, and are looking
forward to more projects in the near future.
In time for the Christmas days, the toplevel domain server problems in
Gabon have been resolved. Our domain http://ami.ga is working again. (nba)
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