13.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Motorola is Working on a Linux Smartphone
Motorola wants to bring a smartphone with the Linux operating system to market this year, planned first
for Asia. The Motorola A760 will include a digital camera, a color display, an MP3 player, and Bluetooth
and Java functions. Read the complete report at Golem IT-News (under the title link). (nba) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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New Website on the Theme of Linux on the AmigaOne
A new website was started with amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net, a website which occupies
itself with the theme of Linux on the AmigaOne. On this website you'll find everything that could
interest you in the way of proper kernels, useful descriptions, and pictures. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
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HP Leads the Sales Charts for the Pocket PC Market Segment
Hewlett-Packard is at the top of Pocket PC sales charts, with 3 million IPAQs sold so far worldwide.
HP was also able to begin this great success in the PDA market in 2002. As the worldwide #1 in the Windows Pocket PC
market HP has reached a market share of 52 percent, according to previous statistics from Gartner Dataquest.
These numbers show a steady growth in market share by HP for all four quarters in the last year, thereby remaining the second largest
producer of PDAs worldwide. According to the figures from Gartner HP sold about 1.6 million units in the last year. From the third to
the fourth quarter HP clearly grew more quickly than the market in general, with sales growing from 292,850 in the third quarter
to 438,069 in the fourth.
From there HP was able to break the three million mark and show a thoroughly successful result of
their post-merger plans. The three million milestone was reached nine months after the two million milestone, which
came eight months after the merger with Compaq was finalized.
HP introduced an innovation in handhelds in November 2002 - the HP iPAQ Pocket PC H5450 was the first
to have biometric security functions, wireless LAN networking capabilities and Bluetooth functionality. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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13.Feb.2003
The Legacy
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The Legacy: 700 New Screenshots - 100 New Covers
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC,
Schneider/Amstrad CPC, that provides the viewer with screenshots,
cover scans and information about the developers. Today 700 new
screenshots, 100 new covers and a few goodies were added.
The Legacy: "A big thanks to everyone who has helped us.
I'd like to point out new information on the games page, as applicable:
should there be a new edition of a game, it's now appropriately notated; the
reference to an earlier original is provided in the new edition." (ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Feb.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Motorola introduces PowerPC-processors MPC7457/47
As to read in the heise article (German) the Motorola
G4 processors
MPC7457
and
MPC7447
with up to 1,3 GHz clock speed and reduced power consumption are officially available.
Motorola produces theses processors for computers, embedded and network applications with a
0,13-µm process with copper and silicon on insulator technique (SOI).
According to Motorola nine layers of copper are used.
heise-article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.Feb.2003
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Game: FlagSweeper v0.5b
Olaf Köbnik writes:
With FlagSweeper version 0.5b is a new tiny minesweeper game by
Richard "DawnBringer" Fhager at this homepage (title link) online.
This is an early version! Richard told me by the way, he still works on the Akanoid clone "BabeAnoid" but doing it slowly!
After Richard thought of abandon further development due to a lack of feedback I would like to ask you for letting the programmer know if you like the program.
This is also valid for "BabeAnoid",
just let the programmer know.
Richard Fhager is known for his freeware games like dawnVideoPoker,
Spaceball2000, Tittris or Fnurr2000.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.Feb.2003
GFX-ZONE
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Hidden Messages of the GFX-ZONE Gallery revealed
A little while ago GFX-ZONE posted the fifth edition of the
hidden message gallery. Now the team post a new gallery with
the same great 8bit images, but this time the hidden messages
have been revealed. Did you find all the messages? (nba) (Translation: nba)
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12.Feb.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 12.02.2003
Here are the Aminet-software-news which where uploaded since our last news post:
GetAllHTML.lha comm/tcp 15K+Auto download or link-check entire Web s
agsaku07.lha docs/mags 270K+AmigaGuide-Saku #7 (5/94). Finnish diskm
MameRomGI-02.lha pix/gicon 1.3M+MAME ROM GlowIcons Vol.2 for use with em
(ps)
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12.Feb.2003
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News from Paul Burkey's "Sneech"
Paul Burkey writes on his Sneech-homepage:
If you've been to this page before, you may have noticed the Sneech page has now been redesigned and brought into my current game development style. I've recently been working on various small scale game projects including two puzzle games called BoXiKoN and WordOMatic. These games marked a return to independent game development as well as a first entry to Windows and Pocket PC game development. I had hoped to be working on Sneech quite some time ago but the project has been pushed back so many times. I still don't have a clear timeline for Sneech development because I have so many other development commitments but I am able to clear up some details of a future for Sneech.
My first aim is to recreate the Classic Sneech game almost exactly as it was on the Amiga 10 years ago. There will of course be some obvious changes, the graphics will be redrawn in True Colour (16bit/32bit) and the resolution will be doubled to 640x480 (Modern Retro Size!). There will undoubtedly be other changes but I want to try and create a Sneech game that is as faithful to the original as possible. I will also be developing this game for Pocket PC and I expect mobile phone versions also, I'm particularly interested in SmartPhone and Symbian based phones. The aim of this project is to create the ultimate retro style Snake Game across many platforms. Sneech will be available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Pocket PC and Linux and any other platforms I can get my hands on!
Sneech 2 is still planned and will include many changes to the original game including Network mode and (optional) 3D/OpenGL mode. Other changes will include: Variable size game arenas, New CPU players with advanced AI, Up to 16 Worms in each game, New objects such as bridges and tunnels, New bonus items and much more. Development of Sneech 2 will not start until the Sneech remake is completed so this is all way off at the moment. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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12.Feb.2003
ExoticA Website
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ExoticA: Updates at all levels
The demo scene website ExoticA! has been updated significantly early this month.
- The "High Voltage SID Collection" has been turned up to version
5.3 and includes now 20,325 music tracks of the Commodore 64.
Navigation is done now via an HTML interface and the tunes can be downloaded as one big archive.
- The area of UnExoticA game music has been improved as well: Here you might find an amount of totally 6495 files in 1272 archives - all in all 357 megabytes of music.
- The "Demo Scene Reference Manual" reaches version 4.43 with this update. Since version 4.33 more than 100 new entries have been made.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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12.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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Debian joines Desktop Linux Consortium
The Debian project is one of the founders of the Desktop
Linux Consortium (DLC), which has been founded recently and is registered as an organization for the benefit of the public.
A current poll at DesktopLinux.com shows that Debian is one of the favorite GNU/Linux distributions for the desktop. The internal project Debian Desktop is an example of our contineous efforts to empower Debian for the Desktop.
The Desktop Linux Consortium is a manufacturer neutral assossiation of comercial and organizations from the open source background which develops desktop technologies for GNU\Linux.
The assossiation will assist to improve the future of GNU/Linux at the desktop and focuses at users of firms, institutions and home users.
Debian Linux PPC
will work as well on the PowerPC systems Pegasos and AmigaOne.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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12.Feb.2003
st-computer.net
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New SAP player released
For the music archive ASMA new players for Amiga and Linux are available. The "Atari SAP Music Archive" is the largest collection of Atari 8 bit tunes.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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12.Feb.2003
Boing! International
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USB: New HCD for Thylacine
Thylacine is a Zorro 2 based USB adapter for connection of USB extensions to the Amiga. On Februar the 11th 2003 a new version of the HCD class for Thylacine has been releasded.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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12.Feb.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Ignaz Kellerer passed away
Ignaz Kellerer has died on the 3rd February 2003 after a short and hard disease. Kellerer has been known within the Amiga comminity as author and maintainer of the Amiga FAQ pages (title link). The funeral has been on Friday the 7th February 2003 at the Munich Westfriedhof with his family and friends being there. The editorial staff of amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus want to offer their condolences to the relatives.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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12.Feb.2003
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 11.02.2003)
With WHDLOad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 11.02.03 improved: Pinball Illusions (Digital Illusions/21st
Century) supports CD³² version too (Info)
- 11.02.03 new: Tangram (Thalion) done by Harry (Info)
- 11.02.03 improved: Blade Warrior (Jason Kingsley/Imageworks)
supports another version (Info)
- 10.02.03 new: Materialized (Cryptoburners) done by Codetapper (Info,Image)
- 10.02.03 new: Rody & Mastico 4 - Rody Noel (Lankhor)
done by CFOU! (Info)
- 10.02.03 new: Legend Of Kyrandia (Westwood Studios)
done by CFOU! (Info)
- 10.02.03 new: T-Bird (PAL Developments) done by Codetapper (Info)
- 10.02.03 improved: Switchblade (Core Design/Gremlin) added
infinite lives trainer (Info)
- 10.02.03 new: Ultimate Body Blows (Team 17) done by JOTD (Info)
- 09.02.03 updated: Archer Maclean Pool / Archer Maclean
Billard Americain (Virgin) supports French version,
miscellaneous improvements (Info)
(nba)
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12.Feb.2003
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Mai Logic Inc. earns "Ready for IBM Technology" Validation
FREMONT, CA. February 10, 2003. Mai Logic Incorporated, a
technology design house of integrated circuits/systems,
announced today that it has achieved "Ready For IBM Technology"
validation for its Articia S system controller and Teron CX
and Teron PX evaluation system boards for IBM's 750CXe and
750FX PowerPCTM processors based applications.
"MAI Logic has successfully developed optimized supporting
devices and reference designs for PowerPCTM microprocessor
application platforms which have passed a rigorous PowerPCTM compatibility validation testing process by IBM Microelectronics
labs," said Lisa Su, Director of PowerPCTM and emerging products,
IBM Microelectronics. "Solutions like MAI's 'Ready for IBM
Technology' chipset and evaluation systems give developers more
ways to enhance their applications, resulting in improved time
to market, more cost effective designs, and improved performance
products by our OEM customers."
"We at MAI are very excited about this latest achievement," said
Jason Hou, CEO of Mai Logic, Inc. "We will continue working
closely with IBM to better our product designs and development
following IBM's PowerPCTM processor roadmap. By leveraging the
strong ties we have with our manufacturing partners in Taiwan
and the close relationship with the leading developers worldwide,
MAI intends to deliver the most cost-effective, highest-quality
PowerPCTM offerings to the traditional PowerPCTM market place
and expanding it into new applications presently not in the
PowerPCTM application domain. This validation will further enable
IBM's and MAI's customers to accelerated time to market coupled
with significantly reduced resource deployment and management
costs."
Articia S
Articia S is the first in the Articia family of chipsets
designed with the revolutionary "Bus-Centric" methodology
to achieve a more balanced and efficient architecture serving
both CPU and peripheral bus requirements. Articia S can
support single- or dual-processors at 133MHz CPU bus speed.
It is also the first commercialized system controller to
provide AGP support for RISC processor based systems.
Next-generation Articia Sa and Articia P will soon be
available. For product details, please visit: http://www.mai.com.
Teron
Teron CX and Teron PX evaluation systems are generic ATX
motherboards built with PowerPCTM processors. The former is
the first PowerPCTM processor based board with enhanced AGP
option and the latter equipped with a 300-pin MegArray
connector, provides easy configuration to a range of
development platforms driven by single-processor and
dual-processor CPU module cards (including the latest
PowerPCTM 750FX processor).
The "Ready for IBM Technology" program is developed to help
OEMs identify hardware or software of IBM Business Partners
that have received validation with IBM's products. Eligible
participants must complete the validation process to obtain
the approval and use of the "Ready for IBM Technology emblem
as well as to further distinguish their product listings in
the IBM Global Solutions Directory. For more information,
please go to: http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/wired/alliances/rfit.html.
Mai Logic Incorporated, A Technology Power House
With 52 invention patents granted, 100 more pending in the
fields of IC design, security, and system engineering, Mai
Logic proves itself again and again to be a technology power
house. Mai Logic's innovations in chipset solutions include:
Intelligent Memory (iMemory), which enables the industry's
first to run in-field DRAM fault detection and real-time
fault recovery without the need of a system reboot; Control
Pipeline allowing flexible timing on various system clocks
and low power consumption; Genetic Computing for high-level
security and privacy; and Floating Buffer to achieve a true
concurrent system. Mai Logic's major products include system
ICs and modules for PowerPC compatible systems, system ICs for wireless applications, System-on-A-Package (SOP), and revolutionarily
re-configurable ICs with patented Genetic Computing technology. (nba)
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12.Feb.2003
Amiga.SourceForge
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DCR8520 Amiga Ports: Updates from 08.02.2003
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has put some programs up for download on his SourceForge website. On February 8th, 2003, the following programs were updated or added:
08 Feb 2003 Download gofish v0.27
08 Feb 2003 Download SHighlight v1.6.2
08 Feb 2003 Download stunnel v4.04 (nba)
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12.Feb.2003
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: User Workbench gallery extended
Along with some new screen shots the gallery of GFX-BASSE
has been integrated into Amiga Future's gallery so
170 different screen shots of user Workbenchs are included actually.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.Feb.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Puzzle game BoXiKoN finished for MorphOS
The addictive puzzle game BoXiKoN from e.p.i.c. interactive has been
finished for MorphOS. Originally developed for the Amiga computer this
game has become very popular on other desktop and handheld platforms
including Macintosh, PocketPC and Windows.
BoXiKoN is a fun and addictive new puzzle game of strategy and
logic. The game belongs to the family of shape games but BoXiKoN really is
quite different. There is a large emphasis on planning, organization and
selection and less on arcade style quick reactions. You can find out more
on BoXiKoN in the projects section of the e.p.i.c. homepage (see title
link).
(ps)
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12.Feb.2003
Alfred Faust
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Sequencer: BarsnPipes V1.19
Of BarsnPipes, one of the best sequencers for the Amiga, Alfred
Faust has released the version 1.19 on February the 10th 2003.
New within version 1.19: Screenmoderequester, GadTools UI, most
requesters are controlable with the keyboard, CAMD library, new 32
colour Design, localised, German catalog included and much more.
Read the
history for the changements and the included
BnP_Addenum.guide.
Download: BnP1_19.zip (822 KB)
The source code of BarsnPipes has been made freely available on May the 25th 2001 by Todor
Fay. Since Alfred Faust develops this professional program it has become freeware.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.Feb.2003
Charles Jacob (ANF)
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Get your Amiga "Boing" water tank!
Your Amiga is not complete if you don't have your own 'Boing' Water Tank!
By following the title link, you will see something that looks familiar.
They [American Models] call it an "Automatic water tank" but we Amigans
know better: It's really a 'Boing' water tank!
This is not intended to be an advertisement for American Models (a model
railroad supplier), but just in case you do like it and want to have one,
you'll know where you can buy one... (it's item #772). (ps)
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