15.Jun.2003
AC Augsburg (Website)
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AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by AC Augsburg
Further pictures of the Augburg Roadshow are online on co-organisator Amigaclub
Augsburg's Website. Further information to follow!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jun.2003
AN-Forum
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AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by Stefan Hägele
Following the title link you'll find quite some photos made by Stefan Hägele with his Sony DSC S75 today in Augsburg. People who want to watch the pictures in a higher resolution may download them here:
Download: AOS4.0_on_Tour.zip (32 MB)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created
and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted
geographically according to continents and countries. Today the following areas have
been updated:
- Europe
- New Links List
- Lost Links List
- History 2003
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14.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Big update of Dia-CD (slideshow on VideoCD)
This time is the update of Dia-CD very substantial, it contains the following innovations:
- Title generator for still videos and slideshow.
- Smooth fade in and out of the sound in the still video or the slideshow;
therefore no sudden sound disruptions anymore. But you now need the Sox version sox-12.17.4.lha.
- Title preview (needs a PBM datatype in the system - contained in the archive).
- The collected source images the slideshow is made of are all archived with Lha and written to the
VideoCD image. This way they are preserved. The old function has been removed.
- New format supported. Next to Mpeg1 for the VideoCD creation is now the Internet suitable DIVX4 used.
Installation:
Copy sox, multiview, ppmlabel, ffmpeg 0.4.6, vcdimager, dttoppm, mogrify and lha into the c: directory. Unpack PBMdt44.lha and copy the files to the according directories. Install Tritonrexx, tritonlibrary and Rexxtricks.
Hint:
Many switches, listers and sliders are comprehensively explained in the online help. This counts expecially for the new Gui objects of the title generator.
Important!
The titles for the still video or the slideshow are taken from a text file.
You have especially to take care of the text formatting. This is taken over 1:1! This means that a line end or a tabulator are shown in the video the same way they are existing in the text file. This way you can easily put several lines of text into the video. Furthermore is unfortunately only 7bit ASCII code generated so that no German special characters e.g. ä, ö, ü or ß can be found. The title is inserted only in the first four seconds of a slideshow, even if this is running unlimited. This can be worked around as it is e.g. allowed to use as many Mpeg1 files for VideoCDs as VCD track source as you want.
Title generator:
This one comes with unusual many settings possibilities: font size, font colour, title rotation and title position. If you should be more ambitious you should better use Monument Designer.
Remark:
The script is now absolutly stable. Should something crash it's usually dttoppm or ffmpeg. These I have to a great extent under control so that normally nothing should happen. The only important thing is to use a separate temp directory for each slideshow as otherwise ffmpeg will without a doubt get problems and crash. Besides that you should use no more than 10 source images with each slideshow as otherwise dttoppm renders problems. If you want to put these on VideoCD this limit doesn't matter as you can create as many tracks as you want.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (email)
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StartMenu: Pixload 4 speaks German
As already reported has the final version 4 of the startmenu Pixload for AmigaOS and MorphOS been released at the beginning of June. In the meantime has the German localization been finished.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos: Phoenix offer now also for dealer
For the few Pegasos-I boards still on the shelves at the retailers Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck offer that these may be sold for the Phoenix price of 299 Euro if the buyer enters the Phoenix developers consortium. The price difference would then be payed directly at the particular retailer.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
Boing Attitude (email)
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AmigaDE: Word Me up is finished
Glames wrote:
Boing Attitude team and myself are pleased to announce you that Word
Me Up, our first game on AmigaDE, is now finished. We'd like to thank
all these people that support and help us. Many thanks to you!
More info on:
French version -
English version
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14.Jun.2003
Morotola (ANF)
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Motorola: 68060 with 60 MHz and Amiga 68k compiler at Motorola
MC68060 : Superscalar 68K Microprocessor
(Including the LC060 and EC060)
The superscalar MC68060 represents a new line of Motorola microprocessor
products. The M68060 product line consists of the MC68060, MC68LC060, and
MC68EC060.The MC68EC060 offers superscalar integer performance of over 110
MIPS at 75 MHz. The MC68060 comes fully equipped with both a floating-point
unit (FPU) and a memory management unit (MMU) for high-performance embedded
control applications. For cost-sensitive embedded control and desktop
applications where an MMU is required, but the additional cost of a FPU
is not justified, the MC68LC060 offers high performance at a low cost.
Specifically designed for low-cost embedded control applications, the
MC68EC060 eliminates both the FPU and MMU, permitting designers to leverage
MC68060 performance while avoiding the cost of unnecessary features.
- M68000AMPRT Amiga Port of Matthew Brandt's CC68K Compiler
- MC68060RC60 206 PGA (Pin Grid Array) PRODUCT STABLE
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14.Jun.2003
SWAUG (ANF)
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SWAUG: Amiga OS 4.0 questions for Thomas Frieden
The users group SWAUG has asked Thomas Frieden some questions about AmigaOS 4. Following the title link you'll find the English questions and answers.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Official AmigaOS 4 screenshots
Following the title link you'll find five new official screenshots of AmigaOS 4.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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13.Jun.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: eFlash Memory for Amiga
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga
computers, is proud to announce two new products:
- eFlash 4000 Zorro III card
- eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card
eFlash 4000 is an autobooting Zorro III card with 1MB (one Megabyte)
of FlashROM memory with extremely fast 32-bit long words access.
The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs, which are run at
the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI
cards installed in Mediator-equipped A3000 and A4000 computers before
the AmigaOS system starts. As a result, computer may be booted from
mass storage devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g.
Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards. The users of the new Amiga
operating system--AmigaOS4.x--will have an additional benefit:
the eFlash 4000 card will give them a possibility of definite
shortening of the system's start time by executing the AmigaOS code
from the FlashROM memory.
FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 4000 cards allows 100,000
erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with
hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming
and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative
batch of programs stored in the eFlash 4000 memory.
eFlash 1200 is an autobooting PCMCIA card with 1MB (one Megabyte)
of FlashROM memory. The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs,
which are run at
the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI
cards installed in Mediator-equipped A1200 computers before the
AmigaOS system starts. As a result, the computer may be booted
from mass devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g.
Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards.
FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 1200 cards allows 100,000
erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with
hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming
and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative
batch of programs stored in the eFlash 1200 memory.
Pricing and availability
The eFlash 4000 Zorro III card will be on sale beginning
with 15 July 2003 at the suggested retail price of only
EUR 35.95 (VAT excl.). The eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card will be on
sale beginning with 15 August 2003 at the suggested retail price of
only EUR 29.95 (VAT excl.).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jun.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N° 39
Issue 39 of the AmigaOS/MorphOS magazine Obligement is now available. You
can read in this issue: report of the Huno Party 2003, Interview of David
Gerber and Nicolas Sallin (from Genesi), interview of Emmanuel Rey (from
Relec), review of VHI Studio 6, review of Birdie Shoot, review of Knights
and Merchants, article about MorphOS 1.3 (very complete!) and AmiNetRadio,
hardware with AmigaOne XE G4 and USB keys, and other interesting articles.
(ps)
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13.Jun.2003
MorphOS News (ANF)
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Demoscene selections done
Decisions have been made. The competition was so tight, the last two
remaining Pegasos-system winners were elected by asking several people
about their opinions. Sorry for the ones who were left out, there were many who would have deserved one, but we tried to make the best selections based on several things, past success and current activity being the most important ones.
The people who will get a loaned Pegasos and participate to the
democompetition are:
- Creative Minds
- DCS
- Floppy
- Ephidrena
- Haujobb
- Iris
- Loonies
- MFX
- Potion
- TBL
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13.Jun.2003
KDH Datentechnik (ANF)
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Tomorrow: 'OS4.0 on Tour' in Augsburg
The 'OS4.0 on Tour' will be take place on Saturday 14th June 2003 from 10.00am to
8.00pm in Augsburg in the club rooms of Amiga Club Augsburg.
The newest pre-version will be presented by Jürgen Schober, Point-Design, Austria.
Some developers of Hyperion will be present such as Steffen Häuser, Hans-Jörg Frieden
and Thomas Frieden. The members of the Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik will
demonstrate some AmigaOne with Debian Linux. Michael Böhmer from E3B
will demonstrate the newest member of the USB-family, the USB-controller Algor.
Jens Schönfeld from individual Computers
will demonstrate the new C-One and will also
give advice you to all of his products.
AmigaOne boards and equipment as well as several 'OS4.0 On Tour' merchandise products
can be bought on the stand of KDH Datentechnik.
New screenshots of OS4.0 will be available here on Saturday:
On the AmigaOS-website, at
Amiga World and at
Virtual Dimension Multimedia Produktionen.
Pictures of this event will be published here:
At Amiga Club Augsburg and at
KDH Datentechnik.
The Amiga Club Augsburg will also produce a video about this event. We will inform you
about the corresponding link.
Pictures via Livecam you can find here.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jun.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)
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Update of the VirusZ III Antivirus Bootdisk
The VirusZ III bootdisk has been updated and is available for download as of 7th June, 2003.
Available at:
VHT Kanada
VHT Netherlands und
VHT at Yahoo
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Jun.2003
Motorola GmbH (E-Mail)
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Motorola: The Handy Turns 20
The mobile telephone has turned 20 years old. Since the 1983 introduction of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the cellphone has turned from the prestigious posession of executives to the constantly present tool for everyman. Few other inventions have changed life so much in the last two decades.
Note from translator: the article goes on into a long German language history of the cellphone. If desired, you may copy the address of the amiga-news.de German language article (http://www.amiganews.de/de/news/AN-2003-06-00096-DE.html) into an automatic translation service, such as that found at http://www.altavista.com by clicking on the "translate" link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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12.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Java.net - Comprehensive Open Source Platform for Java
»James Gosling has announced begun a new development platform
With java.net Sun has started a new website, which groups together information, code and communications possibilities for Java developers, including Wikis and Blogs. This new Java-oriented open source community has been announced by James Gosling, the "father" of Java. Sun themselves have provided a few million lines of code to the new community.«
Read the complete article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Jun.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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Partners of 'AmigaOS4.0 on Tour' 2003 in Basel
For the first presentation of AmigaOS4.0 on Tour 2003 in Basel - 21th June,
the local AUGS club and the
B&S Digitronic reseller
are happy to confirm you already the participation of:
The German AmigaOS4/AmigaOne presentations will be translated in English and
in French.
More information: http://www.augs.ch/amigaone/
In French: http://www.augs.ch/amigaone/fr.html
(With online subscription. Very important for the restaurant reservation).
Don't miss this great event and come to Basel with us! :-)
Basel, the ideal swiss city at the German and French borders.
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12.Jun.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood 1.5 released
The long awaited, major update 1.5 for Hollywood was released today.
Because of the great new features and the long development time, there
is an update fee of $22 USD (only for users, who bought Hollywood before
April 1st 2003). Hollywood 1.5 is available in an AmigaOS 68k version as
well as in a native MorphOS PowerPC version. Many new features have
been added to Hollywood 1.5, here are some of the most important:
- Support for multiple graphics layers
- Full control of layer position, size, transparency and light setting
- 68k version can also create MorphOS executables now and vice versa
- Over 50 new impressing transition effects (totalling in over 100 now!)
- Integrated image-processor that supports: Rotation, color inverting, gray scaling,
axis flipping, texturing, mixing, lighten, darken, scale, stretch and tinting
- Support for Intellifonts
- All audio output is retargetable through AHI including full channel mixing and 16-bit stereo audio
- Full control over master volume
- Possibility to limit maximum number of frames per second
- Windows can have a dynamic transparency
- Joystick support!
- Powerful object animation functions
- Off-screen rendering
- New GUI
- Over 80 other useful new functions! (totalling in over 240 now!)
- Many new impressing example programs
Malibu, the Scala plugin for Hollywood 1.5, will be released in a few days. You can
already order it in a bundle with Hollywood 1.5 and save some money. Malibu is also
available in an AmigaOS 68k version as well as in a MorphOS. Please have a look at
the product pages of Malibu and Hollywood to get the ultimate overview over both products.
(ps)
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12.Jun.2003
Maja (ANF)
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TweakPC: Microsoft Purchases RAV AntiVirus from GeCAD
Microsoft takes the virus protection of their own operating systems in hand. After this takeover, the developers will work on an integrated virus protection for Windows. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jun.2003
heise Newsticker / B. Lindner (ANF)
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heise: GIF soon free of patents?
The heise article features the fact that on the 20th June 2003 one of the moste hated
software patents (US patent 4,558,302), the "GIF patent"
by Unisys, will expire.
The complete article (German) is to read by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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