24.Nov.2003
ANN (Website)
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Software: MiniShowPicture V1.35 released
Of the program MiniShowPicture by Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski version 1.35 for MorphOS and Amiga-68k is now available.
'MiniShowPicture' is a simple, MUI based picture viewer that uses datatypes. It includes functions like Drag&Drop, scaling and shortcuts. (snx) (Translation: sk)
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22.Nov.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Analogue data capture for Amiga
For the recently by Carsten Siegner announced 3-wire bus interface to control different ICs (we reported) is now a circuit diagram as well as some pictures available as a PDF document.
To be able to use the interface has Carsten written a short measuring program that outputs the given voltage as integer byte number and as floating point number.
Before using the program the following ENV variables have to be set:
- "Analog-device": (used serial device)
- "Analog-unit": (used serial unit)
- "Analog-volt": (maximum measured, permissible voltage and voltage to reach. Typical here are 5 V. Here you should measure again with a multimeter as you can get under circumstances values between 4.089 - 5.04 V.)
The program needs the following files:
- Rexxtricks
- tritonrexx
- rexxserdev
The program and the mentioned circuit diagram and photos are available as LHA archives.
Direct download (190 KB)
For the future Carsten plans the data capture with several channels. For this he has already got a chip LTC 1293. This can collect and convert six different analogue measure data and forward them sequentially to the computer.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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22.Nov.2003
ANN (website)
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OpenPCI library 1.2 released
The OpenPCI library, a library offering a programming interface for different available PCI solutions (Amithlon,
G-Rex, Pegasos, Prometheus), has been released in version 1.2.
The changes since the last version:
- MorphOS: optimizations for faster processors (604e or better)
- Amithlon: support for powerpci.library 2.x added (v2.x is now required)
- Amithlon (bugfix): two register values had been exchanged
- G-Rex (bugfix): pci_outw/l() and pci_write_config_word/long() hadn't worked until now
- G-Rex (bugfix): error in the interrupt code removed
Direct download (13 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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22.Nov.2003
CCC (email)
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CCC: central saving of biometrical data endangers constitutional rights
The approach of the "Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamten" (BDK) to save biometrical
characteristics of all European citizens in a central data base causes hardest reservations at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC);
the constitutional rights of informational self-determination would then be abolished in a fundamental area - while the use for the combating of crime isn't even proofed.
The CCC opposes especially against the idea of a central data saving as it has been last demanded by the speaker of the "Bund deutscher
Kriminalbeamten", Holger Bernsee. In the view of the CCC the potential misuse and possible desires in the context of a central data tracking is out of all proportion to the possible gain in the combating of crime that (the possible gain) can be realized with a technically clearly less democracy endangering system.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Nov.2003
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PNG icons: KDEView makes change easier
Pietro Ghizzoni has thought about how to help users who want to change their Workbench from classic Amiga icons to PNG icons. As you have to replace numerous icons by hand he has written a small program that shows all PNG icons of a directory in a window and makes the "picture exchange" possible via drag'n drop.
Direct download (68 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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21.Nov.2003
Genesi (E-Mail)
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MorphOS Developer Connection welcomes 400th developer
As Genesi S.à.r.l. reported the
MorphOS Developer Connection has now 400
officially registered MorphOS developer. The MDC members come from over 50 seperate
countries.
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck said: "Today the number of members has achieved
400. Congratulations to all of you. The Connection has been an useful tool for all
members because you work together and help to push forward this platform.
Special congratulations to the MorphOS developer team with Ralph Schmidt! :-D
We take off our hat!
Thank also you to Felix Schwarz who has created the website.
Felix works on the forthcoming MDC2 which will base on Callisto!
MorphOS is intended for running on a computer near to you!
Great work!"
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2003
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Icon-Patch: Powericons 1.05 published
"Powericons" is an icon-patch which allows to use 24bit icons under AmigaOS and was
published in a new version. For the detailed changes please have a look at the
Readme.
Direct Download
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(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2003
Amigart.com (Website)
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Experimental version of LinuxUAE
Because the development of WinUAE has been faster forced than the Linux version and because
the Linux version has been not updated for a long time Richard Drummond has ported
a lot of the changes of WinUAE to Linux. For more detailed information have a look at
the Changelog.
Under the title link you can find seperate versions LinuxUAE which he calls experimentally.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2003
Amigaworld (ANF)
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Interview with Alan Redhouse from Eyetech (Update)
The Amiga-portal AmigaWorld has
interviewed Alan Redhouse who is the manager of the Eyetech Group.
Update: (cg, 21.11.2003, 14:25)
We have summarized the most important statements of Alan Redhouse in the following lines:
- Alan Redhouse thinks that more AmigaOnes have been sold than other "open" (that means
not Apple/IBM) PPC systems.
- since AmigaOS4 has been officially demonstrated on the AmigaOne the amount of sold
AmigaOnes has been increased
- currently it is tried to deliver all "Earlybird"-customers a beta version of OS4
if possible before Christmas
- the Onboard Graphic-chip of the Micro-A1 is still not certain but probably it will
become a low-cost Radeon Chip
- the "High-Tech" interfaces (RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, USB2, Firewire) will be implemented
at the Micro-A1 probably on a seperate, optional platine. Because of that the board will become
cheaper for customers.
- Waiting peroid when ordering an AmigaOne motherboard: ca. two weeks
(Complete system: Four weeks)
- Until now there have been two problems refered to the DMA at the AmigaOne: The first
is caused by VIA bug and has been fixed with the help of a software patch.
The second problem is that the ArticiaS enables the simultaneous access of CPU and a
of a PCI busmaster to the memory. In the x86-world this is not usual because of that the
(of Linux-x86 ported) Linux drivers may not manage this. This oddity of the ArticiaS is supposed
to be a included "turbo" which makes the computer "smarter". AmigaOS4 is not affected by
these two problems
- Exactly fitting boxes are not possible because of the costs but Eyetech works with
Naya Design on some modifications which change the standard boxes to Amiga boxes in a
cheap way.
- Single-CPU-modules with faster G3/G4-processors already exists and have been presented
officially, too. But there must be ca. 400 preorders to enable such a product.
Because of that only dual-cpu modules has planned.
- The AmigaOne in Micro-ATX format has planned only for the end of the next year.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Various price reductions
From the 20th November 2003 to the 31th December 2003, you can buy many products at IOSPIRIT at special prices - up to 37 percent below regular price. Detailed information available under the title link. After the 31th December 2003, regular prices will return.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Nov.2003
VHT-DK (E-Mail)
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Antivirus Program: VirusExecutor Version 2.31
Jan Erik Olausen released a new update of the Antivirus software
VirusExecutor today:
Name: VirusExecutor v2.31
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size: 317,926 Bytes
Date: 20th of November 2003
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen - vht-dk
Requirements: xvs.library (inklusive), reqtools.library,
xfdmaster.library, xadmaster.library, 68020+
Changes since the last version:
- Removed requesters when checking from Shell...
Thanks to Matthias Scheler.
- Fixed bug when detecting custom chips...
Thanks to Charlene.
- Forgot to remove some debugging output...
Thanks to Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer.
- Fixed bug if you try to use an old PatchBrain file...
- You can now choose which volume to check on 'Check ALL valid volumes'
Thanks to Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer.
- New catalog: Dutch by Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer
- Updated catalogs: French by Herve and Polish by Wojciech
Pasiecznik
If you would like to contact the author, send him an email with the word "Amiga" in the subject line, because emails that do not contain this word are automatically deleted.
You'll find more information about VirusExecutor and you'll have the option to download it by clicking on the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Nov.2003
Spiegel (Website)
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Spiegel Online: MP3.com - The End of a Short Era
MP3.com seemed to be ushering in the beginning of a new era in the music business: artists and consumers were to have been "emancipated" from the industry. Then MP3.com was sued, and then it was sold. Now the website is changing hands agains - and being closed. Read the complete article at Spiegel Online under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Nov.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOne: Tips and Tricks for MacOnLinux
Under the title link an AmigaOne owner has collected and published some information about the AmigaOne and LinuxPPC. The majority of it concerns MOL (MacOnLinux): a short instruction guide, a few tips, as well as a list of compatible games, all there for your convenience. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.Nov.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #061
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 61st music pack yesterday. It contains the track "Da-Vexa 17on" from the musician Spectra, who unfortunately has left the group. The track was put together using DigiBoosterPro.
Title: Da-Vexa 17on
Musician: Spectra
Style: Drum'n'Bass
Play length: 4:52
Format: dbm
Size: 0.8 MB
The ZIPped file is available for download at no charge under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Nov.2003
Amiga Flame (Website)
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"Pirates!" Clone: Graphic Artists Sought for "Drake"
The ZeroVertex-team of Oliver
Gantert has been working for some time on a 3D clone of the strategy classic "Pirates!." Now that big steps with the game engine have been taken in the last few months, and Oliver says this is "about 98% ready," the thing urgently needed now is 3D graphic artists.
ZeroVertex is looking for 3D artists and animators who make use of 3dsmax, Milkshape3D, or some other software that offers "bone animation" support. Further, they need 3D artists who can produce static models like houses, plants, and they need texture artists as well, who can come up with textures for the existing models.
Whoever wants to help should send an email to Oliver Gantert.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.Nov.2003
Redaktion amiga-news.de
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Status Quo: Summary about the issues regarding Pretory SA
During the last months the French press, among them l'Humanité (1, 2), Les Echos (1) and L'Expansion (1)
, reported several times about an insolvency of the American-French company
Pretory which is specialized to security services and employed for example security services for the Air France at airports.
The reports were claiming Pretory SA (France) was employing a stuff not sufficient trained or with too less proven reliability at the highly sensible area of security.
Inofficial sources are talking about wages not beeing paid since May 2003 for about 560 employees.
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco are shareholders
and managers of the US company Pretory USA, which subsidiaries
Thendic France S.à.r.l. and Thendic Deutschland GmbH are counted as precurors of the Pegasos distributor Genesi S.à.r.l..
Thendic is running a court suit against Aminga Inc. since some time (amiga-news.de reported).
In a hearing of the Tribunal of Commerce in Paris last Monday, November the 17th 2003, according to Buck and Velasco at ANN.lu a sentence has been made which declares Pretory S.A. as bancrupt and calls a liquidation manager.
Due to that there is now a transfer of Thendic-France S.à.r.l.'s assets to Genesi S.à.r.l. possible. The issues will not affect Genesi in any kind else, Buck told.
We will keep on track about all news about this issue and report it here at
amiga-news.de and the AMIGAplus. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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19.Nov.2003
Sylvio.K (ANF)
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New videos of Soms3D published
At the webpage of the currently developed game "Soms3D" there were two
new videos
published which demonstrate the running Soms3D engine.
The animations show a test room with a light source and a test fog (alpha shading).
All videos were recorded from an Amiga 1200 equipped with a BVision, 603e+@166 MHz and 96 MB fastram. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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19.Nov.2003
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New version of TView released
A new version of "TView" has been released. This program offers the possibility to
download the TV program to your computer and read it there.
The programm is now developed by Daniel Widerström, the latest version is 1.3.14. (dr) (Translation: ub)
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19.Nov.2003
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Genesi USA going to move principal office into Cheyenne Technology Corridor
As Genesi S.à.r.l. announces, its American subsidiary Genesi USA is going to move its prinicipal office in January into the Northport building complex in Northern Las Vegas, which has been developed by the Jackson Shaw Company.
Please find the original press release below:
Cheyenne Technology Corridor
Continues to add High Tech Firms
North Las Vegas - Today, the Cheyenne Technology Corridor welcomed another high tech tenant. Genesi USA, a computer systems company, has agreed to terms with Northport, a Jackson Shaw development in the CTC. The company will move into its facility in January.
Genesi SARL, a Luxembourg based company, introduced the Pegasos in October 2003. Culminating over five years of development, the Pegasos is a high-performance PowerPC based modular MicroATX mainboard for use in a variety of applications, including desktops, workstations, servers and communications products. Based on industry standards, such as Open Firmware, the Pegasos supports multiple operating systems including varieties of Linux and BSD. The Pegasos is the first new hardware and operating system platform brought to market in many years. Pegasos computers run multiple operating systems, including MorphOS, a new non-UNIX based operating system, OpenBSD, the standard for security in operating systems and various distributions of Linux for the PowerPC®. Genesi has been designated as an IBM Business Partner and carries the Ready for IBM Technology mark on four of its products, PegasosPPC, PegXLin, MorphOS, and OpenBSD for PegasosPPC. Product details are available at <www.genesi.lu>. Genesi USA will be the focus of US computer assembly operations for Genesi.
When asked why Genesi USA chose the CTC as its new home, Paul Adams said, "After evaluating Nevada, Maine, Alabama, Florida and Texas as possible locations, we determined that the best overall business climate was in Southern Nevada. The other states offered many things, including free land for our facility and a year's worth of free rent; but, in the end, the favorable tax structure, the assistance of the City of North Las Vegas and the Community College of Southern Nevada provided a business climate that was much more supportive than anything we had seen in other states."
Mike Carroll, Vice President of Development for Jackson-Shaw said, "We are very proud to welcome Genisi USA to Northport. The CTC continues to thrive and add new businesses to the North Las Vegas economy. We look forward to more successes for the CTC."
Mike Majewski, who is the Economic Development Director for the City of North Las Vegas said, "It took a community-wide effort to secure Genesi in North Las Vegas, but the potential economic impacts to the CTC and all of Southern Nevada is phenomenal. This partnership between the City, real estate developers, and education was recently honored as the recipient of the Excellence in Economic Development award sponsored by the International Economic Development Council."
Through a public/private alliance, the Cheyenne Technology Corridor is bringing more technology businesses to Southern Nevada. The partnership includes the City of North Las Vegas, the Brennan Brothers, Jackson Shaw, RDS/Insight, LLC, Stoltz Management and Harsch Investment Properties.
The Cheyenne Technology Corridor is an integrated, accessible and diversified technology district offering advanced systems and infrastructure, state-of-the-art transportation and communication alternatives, and a knowledgeable and experienced workforce. (snx)
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19.Nov.2003
Michael Lanser (Forum)
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Realms of Power: looking for graphics artits
For Realms of Power, a Civilization/Colonization clone,
we are looking urgently for some gfx artists. Michael Lanser writes:
"We are in a urgent need for some gfx artits for our project. Several units
(e.g. ships, tanks, infantery etc.), buildings
(e.g. church, factory, habour, etc.) of the different epoches still have to be designed. And also the GUI could get some improvement..."
A screen shot of the current alpha version is available by the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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19.Nov.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Golem.de: 3ivx D4 4.5 - New MPEG4 codec conform to ISO
The Australian company 3ivx Technologies has released its commercial MPEG4 codec as a reworked version D4 4.5 for Windows and MacOS. For BeOS the 3ivx codec is planned to be released soonly in version D4 4.5 as well while an announcement for Linux, Unix and AmigaOS is missing currently. The latest Amiga version still the version D3.
Read more (German) by the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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