05.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Announcement concerning the Genesi/Phoenix collaboration
In a joint statement, Raquel Velasco, Bill Buck, and David Greene (GreenBoy)
clarify some outstanding issues about the future of Genesi, the role of Phoenix,
and the DTV set-top-box.
- One to support the task oriented objectives focused on the delivery of the
DTV STB by the end of 2003.
During the month of March Genesi will transition existing consulting/ employment
agreements to the new structure. A list of well known developers in the
"Community" will be joining Genesi. These individuals will be almost exclusively
focused on the DTV STB project.
- The future of the Pegasos and MorphOS, including the release of the Pegasos
II using the Marvell northbridge.
The difficulties with the Articia have delayed the Pegasos long enough. The
Pegasos II development has begun and WILL be completed sooner than expected.
Genesi will operate from offices in
Luxembourg, France, and Germany with a branch office in Switzerland. "Virtual"
offices will also operate in the USA and the UK. An extensive Internet sales and
support infrastructure is being implemented.
Genesi and Phoenix are seeking collaborators in nearly every area. Here is a
full list of Phoenix mailing lists that are now devoted to Genesi development:
These are moderated by greenboy and open to all interested parties who meet Phoenix's expanded
definition of DEVELOPER: coders, web designers and publishers, financiers, beta testers,
translators, arts and media specialists, etc.
Then:
Lists we are considering:
- PhGames@phinixi.com - games for Pegasos on the desktop
- PhREBOL@phinixi.com - should Rebol be part of the platform?
- PhDigAudio@phinixi.com - to ramp up what Nicholas Blachford's MORloud started. Note: Genesi has licensed ProStation Audio for MorphOS from Maurizio Ciccione of AudioLabs. ProStation Audio will be bundled with the OS.
- PhVideo@phinixi.com - from here the videomicrowave will take off. It begins with MediaPoint, and scales into a special IOSPIRIT offering - along with many other goodies being planned and soon to come.
All requests to join Phoenix/Genesi mailing lists are welcome! - just send email with a brief bio/CV to
greenboy@phinixi.com.
(nba)
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05.Mar.2003
GMB (ANF)
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Hardware tuning: Modification of phase5 turboboards
By the title link the reader might get a brief manual to modify the phase5 turboboards
Blizzard 2040 to 2060 and Cyberstorm MK2 68040 to
68060 like the author of that website did it today.
The editors of amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus emphasize that they are not responsible in any kind for external links and damage caused by modifications explained in that manual, there is absolutely no warranty and all modifications are done on your own risk. The explained modification is a strong treatment to the hardware and has not been proved by us.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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05.Mar.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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ADA: Teampage update and new Soms3D screen shots
At the "Anime Development for Amiga Teampage" is a new update available.
There were anti PC pictures and Manga wallpapers added. Furthermore
two new screenshots of Soms3D (Secret of my soul) were put online.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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04.Mar.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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New Audio-Track from Bjorn Lynne
Bjorn Lynne has released his Audio-Track "Back in the Big Time" on mp3.com as free
MP3.
Lynne wrote:
I hope you'll like the track. I did everything myself on it, including the sexy "uh..."
voice :-), the "bap-bap-bap-baaah" singing, the funky wah-wah guitar, etc.
The keyboard solos were deliberately included exactly as they were played on the
first take, without any corrections or re-takes. I wanted to capture them exactly as
they just fell out the first time, with imperfections and everything. :-)
The bass guitar sound is taken from my own instrumental sample-CDROM "Top Production
Samples" ( www.lynnemusic.com/tps1.html ) which contains a lot of instruments and
loops for use in your own music.
I have also entered this track into a contest/review thing at the other
music site, MakeAStar.com. But it hasn't entered the "voting stage" yet. I will write
again if/when this track goes into voting at MakeAStar, and hope for your vote then.
:-)
This is the 6th or 7th track I have created in a kind of "jazzy" mood. I had quite a
good response earlier to the tracks "Lounge Living" and "Understatement". Maybe I'll
make a CD with all my jazzy tracks, just to do something different. :-)
My CD "Wolves of the Gods" is on a 14-days-only special offer during which the CD can be
purchased for $12.99 instead of the normal $18.99, and there is now only 2 days left
of this offer. Furthermore, you can download one track ("Kyrania") from the CD, for
free in full CD quality, also for only 2 more days. So if you want to get in on this
offer, please see http://www.lynnemusic.com/wolves.html today or tomorrow.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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03.Mar.2003
Up Rough (ANF)
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Music: 'Oh No! More Hits For Kids LP' released
Up Rough Soundsystem released a new music disk called: 'Oh No! More Hits
For Kids LP'. It holds 20 THX/AHX tracks from Varthall, Miaom, Slam &
Ini. Get your copy under the title link. (ps)
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03.Mar.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Alternative #Amigafun Webchat and more
Unfortunately some time nothing could happen, due to some hardware
problems. Now it is times again for an update.
Amigafun-Webchat:
Since Webchat for the well-known Amiga Channel in the IRC is currently not available, Amiforce offers now a HTML Chat. This Webchat
should be however only a temporary solution, which can be maintained
if necessary also additionally. The chat was integrated in the
Amiforce forum and is attainable over a button named "#IRC". The chat
is meant exclusively for Amiforce and may not be taken over on
other Web pages. In this way users, which have no IRC client, can now
visit the channel again. Everyone who would like to use the chat, should refer to the individual instructions, since
no graphic elements are used.
Classic-Games Area:
Freeware games will be made available here. They are based on Amos offering high quality and much fun. More games will be added in the future.
Java-Script Games:
A new area will be added with games that can be played directly on our page. A lot of games will be integrated. Since Ibrowse2.3 there are many games that now are realy useable.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages to 02.03.2003
WHDLoad lets you install your floppy based games on to your harddisk. The following packages were added since our last announcement:
- 02.03.03 new: Brian Lara's Cricket '96 (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
- 02.03.03 new: Graham Gooch World Class Cricket (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
- 27.02.03 new: Graham Gooch Second Innings (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Total Amiga
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Print magazine: Total Amiga - contents of issue 14
Issue no. 14 of the English print magazine "Total Amiga" will be published on 14th March 2003. A detailed content description can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Amiga Games Hitparade
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Amiga Games Hitparade: Different areas updated
On the English website of Amiga Games Hitparade three areas
were updated. Read in the connection the original message.
General update:
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
AmigaGames.com
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AmigaGames.com: New Website layout
The website of AmigaGames.com was revised completely and presents
themselves since yesterday in a new, clear design.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Amiga.Sourceforge
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Image Editing: ImageMagick Version 5.5.5
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools to read, write, and
manipulate an image in many image
formats
(over 87 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG,
PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images
dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications.
You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special
effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work
in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations
are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++,
Perl, or Java programming interfaces (it needs about 40 MB of free
disk, check the
.readme
file).
Download: ImageMagick-5.5.5.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Samba
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Networking: Samba Version 2.2.8pre2
The Samba Team released version 2.2.8pre2. A detailed changelog can be found here.
Samaba makes a connection between PC and Amiga possible. Detailed information about Samba and Amiga is available at
amigasamba.org.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Peter's Amia Home Page
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Peter Hutchisons Website moves
The website of Peter Hutchison, on wich you can find much information
about Amiga printer drivers as well as about the Amiga itself, moves. The
Website will be available under the URL http://www.pcguru.plus.com. His new e-mail address:
pjhutch@pcguru.plus.com. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Magazine: NoCover 108
Issue 108 of the NoCover is now available and can be read and loaded on
the APC&TCP homepage. This issue will soon be available on Aminet. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Stefan Burstroem (IBrowse) (Update)
Amiga Arena talked with Stefan Burstroem about the past and the future development of IBrowse. The interview is available
here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Game: Knights & Merchants Demo for MorphOS available
A 14 MB demo version of RTS Knights & Merchants for MorphOS is now
available from the download area of our homepage. The demo lets you play
around with the in-game tutorial that takes you through the building process
of your town. In addition you can command some troops around the map to see
who is there.
The full version, which comes in 4 different languages (English, German,
French and Spanish) is available now and requires a Pegasos and MorphOS
1.0.
(ps)
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03.Mar.2003
A.D.A.
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Logo gallery in Amiga Demoscene Archive
Do you remember all those lovely
logos that used to be in Amiga productions? A lot of them
were beautiful, showing great skill and talent from pixellers,
pushing so much in so little colors and space. Well, today,
we started something new on A.D.A., a logo gallery of the
best logos ever painted. Just click on "logos" in the menu
and be amazed at the first 18 logos appearing on A.D.A. This
little gallery will be updated a lot in future, together with
a lot of cool demos that we still have to add. If you have any
comments on the new gallery, please mail them or write it in
the guestbook. (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
C64doc (E-Mail)
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Event: Classic-Computing 2003 in September
The Classic-Computing takes place on 6th September in 74219 Möckmühl,
Germany. The opening times are from 8:00 to 18:00. The entrance fee
is 3.00 Euro per person, independently of whether exhibitors or guest.
The show organizers recommend you leave your x86 platforms at home.
Preferably bring something along that's more than ten years old.
Participating organizers have admission starting from 7:30 o'clock,
to make preparations. There are no reservations, thus be punctual.
Also there are limited tables available. To find out more visit the
title link.
(nba) (Translation: ps)
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02.Mar.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Online-Game: New round of Star Empire 2
A new round of the Internet-space-strategy-game "Star Empire 2"
will start on the 3rd of April.
The goal of the game (which is unfortunately German only)
is to become ruler of the universe - but there are up to 32 human
players and computer-controlled pirated to stop you.
Diplomacy, alliances, but also well-armed space-ships will be needed.
"Star Empire 2" is a server-based game, i.e. the game itself
runs on the computers of Virtual Dimension and every player
gets a weekly report about what's going on. Based upon this
information commands are sent back to the server. There's no
need for a client, because standard-html- and ascii-files are used.
The subscription to the new round will be possible until 2003/03/29,
the first reports will be sent out on Thursday, 2003/04/03. On that
day the old round - which had to be suspended due to technical
problems - will continue as well.
As a little goodie it is now possible to download the
"Star Empire 2"-Trailer from Virtual Dimension's anniversary
video seperately (sorry Timothy, it's still German only ;-).
P.S: The server program runs on AmigaOS, of course... :-) (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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DiscreetFX Logo For Dollars Cash Giveaway Challenge
DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and Video Toaster [2] announces a new challenge for Amiga/Video Toaster artists worldwide.
Deep in the labs of DiscreetFX we are looking for a new logo but we can't find one and we are too lazy too design it ourselves. Also, we know there are some damn talented artists in the Amiga & Video Toaster community and wanted to give everyone a stab at doing it for us with cash and product incentives of course.
So here is the deal on our logo challenge. We will allow you the Amiga & Video Toaster community to design our new logo for us. Also we will post all submissions on our website and allow you the community vote on which logo we will use. So fire up those paint packages, animation packages and Flash creation tools fellow artists. We would not dare limit your creativity so we have very few limitations or rules for the challenge. Artwork/animations can be submitted as still images (IFF, JPEG, TIFF etc.), Flash animations, AVI files or whatever you wish. We only ask that whatever you submit is your original work and that it does not suck. What you submit must have the words "DiscreetFX" in some type of fancy pose or flash animation. Be creative and use your mind, we don't care if it is "Psygnosis" style or "New Age" style or "Retro" style. We leave the talent to you, all we offer is an open wallet for the winners. Don't forget that it will be voted on and judged by your peers so do a good job! Create your masterpieces with FlashMX, ImageFX 4.5, Zbrush, Photogenics 5, or even Deluxe Paint version 1 on the Amiga 1000, we don't care as long as the artwork is fantastic.
The Winner takes home a prize of $100 via Paypal and one of the products of his or her choice from our development team http://www.discreetfx.com/Products.html. Or if the Winner is especially greedy they can opt for just $200 via Paypal and skip the free software. There will be prizes for runner up contestants as well. You will have to hurry though because this contest ends on April 3rd, 2003.
Please send your contest entries to amigaart@discreetfx.com. All submitted artwork/animations become the property of DiscreetFX but will never be used without compensation to the artist that created them.
Also please don't forget that we still have a limited supply of the two CD set Amiga/Video Toaster version of Pyromania and it will be available for a short time at the sale price of $24.95. ScaryFX for the Amiga & Video Toaster is also still available for $19.95. Visit www.discreetfx.com for more information and the latest tools for your Amiga & Video Toaster. (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
Martin Knott (ANF)
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Pegasos photos from Kieler Amiga Hardwaretreffen 2003
On Saturday, 1st March this year's hardware meeting of the
Amiga-Club Schleswig Holstein
took place in the new plenar hall of the UAS Kiel. Apart from the usual 68k and
PPC based Amigas and a small exhibition of the Kieler Computermuseum
this time also three Pegasos systems were to be marvelled at.
Apart from the power also the systems' three different optical outfits could impress. People who could not attend the event can get a first impression based on the pictures. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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