27.Jul.2003
Daniel Miller live from AmiWest (ANF)
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Daniel Miller's AmiWest 2003 Show Report Part I
This is the Sacramento's 5th Amiwest, but my first. I used
frequent flyer miles to get a free flight to San Francisco, from there
I took trains through scenic northern California to Sacramento where I
took a taxi to the Holiday Inn. On Monday I rent a car and head to Reno,
later Yosemite, but for now the Amiga scene is on my mind. This is
supposed to be the biggest Amiga-oriented convention in the USA but we'll
see what Nova Design and Genesi pull off in Washington DC this October.
Right now it's Amiwest in Sacramento. I arrive late on Friday. In
front of me in the line at the hotel check-in desk is John Harris, the
author of the arcade classic Frogger. Looking around further I see that
two medium halls have been reserved for Amiwest. The halls open on each
other to make a larger. There is a smaller enclosed room also reserved,
maybe that is the banquet hall.
It's late on Friday and the show has not opened, but there are people
still setting up. There are four Pegasoses on a long table. Nate Downes,
one of Genesi's reps from Florida, works feverishly on a fifth. He says
he's tired but he's determined to get ImageFX successfully set up for
Kermit Woodall of Nova Design to demonstrate.
I see some other familiar faces. Someone points out Ben Hermans of
Hyperion Entertainment to me, which is a surprise. He hadn't announced
his appearance. Maybe we will finally see OS4 on the Amiga One as opposd
to an Amiga 4000. Or maybe not.. I hear that Jens Schönfeld, famed Amiga
hardware maker is here, and Jeri Elsorth, Commodore One engineer and geek
fantasy girl arrives in the morning.
There is an historical sequence of old Amiga models on tables throughout
the room. The event organizers want to illustrate the past, and the future.
There's a 3000 and a 600. The machines and their peripherals are yellowing
and stained from age. There might be a crack here and there. It has been a
long time since these rolled off the manufacturing lines.
At the hotel nightclub it's Big Band Night. Three couples gyrate
kinetically on the dance floor as a six piece brass and sax ensemble,
drummer, and bassist accompany a xylophonist. It's jazz and swing and
the singer joins in as the happy music rushes out the bar entrance into
the hotel lobby.
The next morning at break fast I run into John Harris again. Overnight
I remmbered that he wrote not only Frogger, but also Jawbreaker for the
Atari 8bit, one of the greatest games ever for that line of computers.
I tell him how great it was, with the toothbrush animation and all and he
tels me a bit of the history behind it. Jawbreaker! He explains that he
will give the first seminar this morning on his current focus: Amiga DE.
John Harris gave the first presentation. He talked about his work on Amiga
DE. He demonstrated his Gobbler game, his WordSearch game, his calculator
program and his Solitaire, spnding a particular amount of time showing the
versatility of his Solitaire, which runs in different resolutions depending
on the handheld unit. On DE itself he joked that the original concept of
"runs anywhere now means runs nowhere" owing to failed business deals and
runtime modules whch have not materialized for the various handheld devices.
But he still loves the technology of DE and thinks it will eventually be
successful it's "just taking a little longer than they thought."
His calculator program is advanced, and he talked about how valuable the
cooperation was between hm and the math professor who helped him write it.
Asked whether DE stuff would ever run on a Palm Pilot he said a Palm Pilot
version was unlikely since Tao stuff doesn't run on 68K processors.He said
it might happen on the new Palm Pilots running on ARM processors.
To be continued ... (ps)
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26.Jul.2003
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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ACBB-Homepage not available
Markus Lunk wrote:
Because of technical problems with the hoster of our domain acbb.de we ask all to use
our mirror under http://www.acbb.de.ms/ until
the domain is available again. Thanks a lot.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web server: gW3S v2.2.8 released!
A new version of the ARexx web server for AmigaOS has been released.
The major new feature of this release is Webalizer-compatible log files (Apache-style). Now you can make pretty graphs and statistics from your gW3S access logs! The problem with Opera on PC (couldn't access gW3S sites) is also fixed and the HTTP support has been enhanced.
gW3S is open source and available for download at http://gonzo.1av10.nu/w3s/ (ps)
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26.Jul.2003
ANN
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First pictures from the AmiWest 2003
Under the title link you will find the first pictures by Douglas McLaughlin from the
AmiWest 2003 show. (ps)
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25.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (ANF)
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AmigaOS4.0 to be demonstrated at AmiWest
July 25, 2003 - Amiga Inc, in conjunction with Hyperion Entertainment and Computer Connection of California will be demonstrating the current state of AmigaOS 4.0 at the up-and-coming Amiga show in Sacramento, California.
Please read the complete PR here or under the title link.
AmigaOS4.0 to be demonstrated at AmiWest
July 25, 2003 - Amiga Inc, in conjunction with Hyperion Entertainment
and Computer Connection of California will be demonstrating the current state
of AmigaOS4.0 at the up-and-coming Amiga show in Sacramento, California.
Louie Dituri of Computer Connection, an Amiga dealer since 1988, will demonstrate
AmigaOS4.0 running natively on a Cyberstorm PPC A4000. A lot of progress has
been made in moving 68k modules to PPC-native since the end of the European
AmigaOS on Tour roadshow as well as the default look evolving still further.
Computer Connection have also donated an AmigaOne as a raffle prize and, additionally,
will be demonstrating AmigaOnes running Linux.
A representative of Hyperion Entertainment, the project manager for AmigaOS4.0,
will be on hand to answer questions on the product. In addition, John Harris,
a renowned AmigaDE developer (and the creator of the classic Frogger and Jawbreaker
games), will be present at the Computer Connection stand to show off a variety
of AmigaDE applications.
We urge all Amigans attending the show to flock to the Computer Connection stand
and see the future of the Amiga Platform. No rumours, no spin, no hype, just
the real deal!
About Amiga:
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media
technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media
by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and
porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic.
Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) 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, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications
can be purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com.
About Hyperion:
Hyperion Entertainment
is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded
in March of 1999. The company specialises 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 PDA's and STB's. Hyperion is currently
working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking
multimedia OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
About Computer Connection:
Computer Connection has been serving the needs of the Amiga, Toaster and Flyer
community in the US since 1988. For more information, visit
www.compamiga.com
or send an email to dituri@comp-connection.com.
(ps)
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25.Jul.2003
Kai Stegemann (ANF)
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Presentation about the history and the future of the Amiga
Read the overview
about a presentation of the history of the Amiga. The future and the past are described
with detailed texts. Additionally there are a Hollywood presentation (MOS-only) as well as
the corresponding script.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS call
Certainly many users have been worried that one of the maps of AmiATLAS did not
contain a desired destination, location or attraction or even had incorrect information?!
But this never has been a real problem! In AmiATLAS you can add or change your own
completions. Something like that you will not find at PC route planners.
But would it not be better if all users could use your changes and if you could use the changes
made by other users? Therefore here is a call to all new or old users of AmiATLAS:
Please report your wishes what you miss in the maps or what should be changed because
it is incorrect. Information to locations or attractions are also very welcome.
We are glad about all useful emails which you please send to
support@amiatlas.net.
For all useful and used information there will be a little surprise. Thanks to all
Amiga users for the help!
AmiATLAS Development Team
Gerd Frank, Maintainer
Manfred Rohde, Mapmaster
http://www.amiatlas.net
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2003
Daniel Trompetter (ANF)
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Game: Duke Nukem 3D for Amiga- and MorphOS
After at beginning of April 2003 the source code of Duke Nukem 3D has been released
there is a first official version of Duke Nukem 3D for Amiga- and MorphOS which you can
find under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jul.2003
Carsten Siegner bei MorphOS-News.de (ANF)
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Music: SongPlayer Version 1.60 for MorphOS and 68k w. OggVorbis Support
Version 1.60 of Stéphane Tavenard's music player 'SongPlayer' came out today, the main thing is that there's a native MorphOS version of the program and support for the Ogg Vorbis music compression format.
Mathias Parnaudeau and
Nicolas Det are busy with the current development, your comments and feedback may be sent to songplayer@free.fr.
Download MorphOS/AmigaOS: SongPlayer.lha
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jul.2003
(ANF)
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Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Ben Hermans speech
in Gothenburg with two interesting statements, listen for yourself. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jul.2003
BIAF (ANF)
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AmigaSearch
Just to let Amiga Internet users, webmasters and those who are interested know. A new search engine for Amiga content only, has arrived. Webmasters, please freely submit your Amiga related websites using the 'Add site' link on main page. AmigaSearch is at an early stage so the primary function of this service is useless to Amiga searchers unless webmasters submit their content.
NOTE: AmigaSearch will support IBrowse, Opera, IExplorer, Netscape and most other web browser packages. If you find AmigaSearch to be working on other browsers, please let us know. (ps)
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24.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Summer events with individual Computers
"No summer break this year!" While our office in Aachen is closed
from July 24th until August 18th, there are several Amiga- and classic
computing related events during the time.
It's startig with Amiwest
in Sacramento, California this weekend. This is a show of long tradition
that has been taking place for many years. This year we attend the show
as exhibitors for the first time. In the past years, we have only
exhibited at the Amiga show in St. Louis in the midwest of the USA.
On the same weekend, the computer-party
Little Computer People takes place
in Sweden. It's organized by C64-fans for C64-fans, and we're supporting
it with some prizes. The current state of development of the
C-One is shown, and our
netowrking card "RR-Net" is demonstrated to a larger audience
for the first time. It's also going to be for sale!
The height of the season is the
Classic Gaming Expo 2003 in Las Vegas
on August 9th and 10th. We're also exhibiting at this show for the first
time. At the expo for classic computer games and arcade machines, names
like Atari, Activision, Vectrex, Intellivision and of course Commodore are
revived. The guest list contains big names like
Paul Norman,
David Crane and
Garry Kitchen. (ps)
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23.Jul.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Lindows.com does an attempt with an Internet computer
As heise reports Lindows.com
will try to establish a web station starting at 169 US$ at the market, being a PC without a hard disk.
The operating system will be started from CD the data required for the work will be polled from a
network or the Internet.
Read the full heise article by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Martin Strojek bei Golem (ANF)
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Golem: Comes to age: The Amiga reaches 18
By the title link there is a brief, nostalgic article at Golem covering the birthady of
the Commodore Amiga.
Read the full article by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
amiga.org
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amiga.org: Wayne Hunt quits being webmaster
Wayne Hunt has maintained amiga.org during eight years as the webmaster. Today he announced
that he decided to quit this passion due to personal and professional reasons
During this long period Wayne Hunt sat parallel to his job several hours in front of the monitor
to do this web project and supporting the Amiga community a lot.
Now the day has come that he shifts his priorities in life more away from the Amiga further to other not
less important things in life. We wish him all the best from here!
Amiga.org will be continued by the other moderators and webmasters.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
ANN
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Emulator: A/NES website moved
The website of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES CGFX for
Amiga computers with gfx cards has moved. The site is now to reach by the
URL http://anescgfx.nylen.biz/.
Please update your bookmarks.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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Geizkragen community letter reports about Tales of Tamar
Here the according extract from the Geizkragen community letter:
»[..c..] Becoming tester and get an online strategy game for free...
A tip for fantasy fans, no doubt. Currently only for Amiga users in autumn
there will come a PC version of the online strategy game
"Tales of Tamar" to the shops. All important game options are included in
the PC version of the game already, but to get the game as bugfree as possible there are still
game testers required. As player you will get a small Middle Age country assigned which should be enlarged by
clever usage of strategy, diplomacy or even war. In one game there can be a maximum of 12000 players.
To download the game free of charge you have to register the form at the Tamar homepage.
Further information and registering
here.«
The Geizkragen community has more than 413000 users, among them
some will most likely check out the game in the next weeks. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
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The Amiga celebrates its 18th birthday
Today, after a lot of heights and downs, the Amiga celebrates its 18th birthday.
On July the 23rd 1985 in New York the premiere celebrations of the
Amiga 1000 was held with attendance of several stars like Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry.
The multimedia wonder by Commodore with its incredible graphic and sound capabilities for that time
was to set a milestone within the computer history.
Happy Birthday to you being to age, Amiga!
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Commodore Billboard double-CD available
Starting today, the double-CD with the contents of the Commodore
Billboard is available. The second CD contains a recent mirror of
the CBM-Funet archive, which is maintained by Marko Mäkelä.
It also contains files that were removed from the archive lately. Many thanks again to Marko who has mastered the second CD.
Nearly all files of the double-CD can be downloaded for free on the Internet under www.commodorebillboard.de and www.funet.fi/pub/cbm.
Running websites of this scale costs a lot of money. All profits of the CDs will be used to run the websites with their high volume traffic.
We encourage our customers to copy the CDs, and to make them available in sharing-services. All this will help us in reducing the cost of the websites. Those who want to donate to the websites can buy the double-CD for about 15,- EUR from our retail partners.
The Commodore Billboard is created from user contributions. Everyone who contributed so far gets the double-CD for the price of shipment. Distribution of the free CDs is done by Stefan "Galaktus" Zelazny, the new webmaster of the Commodore Billboard. Please contact him via eMail if you want such a free CD. New contributions are also rewarded with a free CD!
A picture of the final CDs is available online. (nba)
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23.Jul.2003
Falcon (ANF)
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New workshop about DSL at Elastic Images
With a new workshop at the Elastic Images website the configuration of the
TCP/IP stack Genesis connected with the hardware router RP-614 by Netgear for connecting two
Amigas via a router and for the Filesharing with NET-FS is documented.
Because the workshop owns a lot of screen shots the
download with analog connections may take some time. The graphics are totally about
750 KB.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jul.2003
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amiga-news.de: restricted news service from 31.07. - 13.09.2003
Like last year it's time to grudge the amiga-news-team a summerbreak. The break is between 31st July and 13th September.
Nico Barbat told us that he will upload important news and news summaries. Please send your news how usual to the ANF or send the news directly to
nico@amiga-news.de.
While the summerbreak, there are no translations and the comment function is deactivated. The
Forum stays in function, we will call there a moderator, who looks after the contents.
In this time we all good think about how we could celebrate our 5-years-anniversary.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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