24.Oct.2002
Apex Designs
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Game: Amiga Version of Payback Becomes a Better Value
The price of the game Payback has been reduced in time for Christmas. For those who already own the game
there are a few new and updated maps on the
maps page.
In Payback the player steps into the role of a young driver on the lam who is trying to become a
big gang kingpin.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
ANN
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Compatibility List for USB Card Thylacine Renovated
The compatibility list for the Thylacine Zorro 2 Amiga USB 1.1 Card has been completely redone. If you would like to know what works with this card (and what doesn't) click on the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
(ANF)
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Gathering: Photos from Amigafest 2002 (Dayton, Ohio)
Under the title link you'll find a selection of photos from AmigaFest 2002, which took place at Hara Arena in Dayton,
Ohio, USA on the 24th and 25th of August.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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23.Oct.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Airsoft Softwair Homepage with new design
In the last days the Airsoft Softwair homepage was generally reworked.
The old design was online now for over 3 years and therefore it had to be
replaced by a new one. Additionally the homepage is now more functional
and user-friendly. The Airsoft Softwair homepage is available in two
languages: The international version is online at
http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/.
The German version can be accessed at
http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de/.
(ps)
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23.Oct.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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SUBWAY production started
Michael Böhmer of E3B writes:
Not ignoring the difficulties within the Amiga market we at E3B decided
at least to start a small production run of the SUBWAY USB card also.
The open positive feedback by many Amiga users was not a small subject
to make this decision. Therfore we see the introduction of the SUBWAY
as a small gift to the users.
We hope to give a positive sign for the classic market and hop to fulfill all expectations of quality and innovation.
The smallness of this production run will cause some delays. The availability of this card will, as usually practised by E3B, be announced by the known dealers when the shipping really starts. Stay tuned.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Oct.2002
ANN
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Dave Haynie: DVD of the video "The Deathbed Vigil" in preparation
At the newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.hardware Dave Haynie announced that he
prepares a DVD of the famous video "The Deathbed Vigil", which he filmed
during the last days of Commodore. Additionally the DVD will be extended
with some extra material. Further information are to find via the title
link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Oct.2002
NetBSD (ANF)
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NetBSD 1.6 published in September 2002 already
On September the 14th 2002 version 1.6
of NetBSD/amiga has been published already.
Ports of NetBSD, a fully functional and
UNIX style operating system, which was developed at the University of California
Berkeley and is open source, is for nearly every system available.
NetBSD is a complete system. Additionally to an easy portable and high efficient kernel, NetBSD contains a full set of utilities, compiler for several languages the X window system, a firewall software and other different tools, which all come including the sources. NetBSD supports software of other authors (e.g. the desktop systems KDH and gnome) by using the packages collection.
Further information is to find at the official
announcement of
NetBSD 1.6.
Those who like to install NetBSD may have a look to the
installation manual.
Download by FTP
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Oct.2002
Amiga Community
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Data Base: MySql 4.0.4 für 68040
SixK has compiled MySQL 4.0.4 Beta for 68040. You will find a history on the official MySQL-page.
Download: MySqld-4.0.4.lzx
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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22.Oct.2002
Cloanto (ANF)
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Pictures from Amiga Mini Show in Slovenia
Pictures from last Saturday's
Amiga Mini Show in Skofja Loka,
Slovenia, are
online
in Michael's pages at cloanto.com. (ps)
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22.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Issue #11 of "Jurassic Pack" released!
Issue # 11 of the Amiga Demoscene Magazine "Jurassic Pack" has been released last night. Some topics are: "Irc - The Kindergarden of the Scene",
"Crimson Jihad - no rights for the Wilddemo on the Mekka?", "Spiv/Infect - Interview with a legend", "The Silents - They are not silent anymore" plus several
Interviews, topics, Reviews ...
Download: S_JP11.LHA (3,87 MB) (ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Oct.2002
Mikey C (ANF)
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Magazine: Total Amiga Magazine finished - Unlucky 13? No Way!
Issue 13 of Total Amiga Magazine is finished and will be with
subscribers just before the World of Amiga Southeast 2002 show.
But fear not, unlike Issue 12 we have printed additional copies for Sale at WOASE.
There is now no excuse for missing out on this blockbusting issue.
Issue 13 Features:
Digital Cameras: Includes information on choosing a camera,
connecting it to your Amiga and using the images.
Interactive Fiction: A look back at the history of IF, the current
state of the genre and how you can get involved
with your Amiga.
Interviews with:
Davy Wentzler (Audio Evolution) and
Matthew Kille (Zoeneo).
Flashback: A new retro column, this issue looking at the A4000.
Power Tower Conversion: How Matt Morris of BAC turned his Power Tower into a thing of beauty.
Plus Reviews of:
GoldED Studio AIX
Thylacine Zorro USB card
fxSCAN 4 with USB scanner support
Epson Perfection 1650 USB Scanner
Tales of Tamar
Earth 2140 Mission Pack
PD Paradise: Privoxy and MultiRename
Support: Photogenics 5 Layers Tutorial
Plus of course, our regular:
News
AmigaOS 4 Update
MorphOS and Pegasos Update
Columns from Fleecy Moss and Alan Redhouse
Buzz Word (Inside Agent)
New! for Issue 13: Reader Letters!
Unlucky 13? Only for those who don't get a copy of our highly rated magazine.
Total Amiga Magazine can be brought via our network of World Wide Amiga
retailers or via subscription. Visit
http://www.totalamiga.org
for more details.
Total Amiga Magazine. Total Commitment.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Oct.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Engl. Amhuhn.guide, index change and new toolbars
Index change: Today the startpage of Amiforce was extended by a
translation tool. Thus one can, from now on, view the side also in
English language. The selection can be found in the starting picture
of the index side.
AMHuhn: In the Download section is now an English version of the
AMHuhn.Guide available.
Browser toolbar: A browser toolbar for IBrowse was released lately. Now there are versions for AWeb and Voyager available at our download page.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Oct.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Thendic-France about AmigaOS4 on Pegasos (Update)
In the article MorphOS, the Pegasos, and other PPC Operating Systems and Platforms at MorphOS News.de Thendic France takes position to the possibility of Amiga OS on Pegasos. Therefore they are gladly ready to ship (or let ship by other distributors) theire Pegasos system with operating systems of other manufacturers if they can be run problem free. But there will be no kind of dongle version that will be supported by Thendic France. Further details can be found in the original article (see title link).
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Oct.2002
Thendic France
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Pegasos Website of Thendic France completely revised
The Pegasos Website of Thendic France was completely revised. In the columns hardware, Specs, CPU, OS, software, Events, Reseller, beta testers and Download you can find information concerning the system.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Oct.2002
OSnews
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Meeting: Report and pictures of the A-Expo by OSnews
Nicholas Blachford wrote an English language report for OSnews about the A-Expo, which took place on 7 and 8 September 2002 in France, with the title The A-Expo Review. Additionally five sides with pictures are available.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Oct.2002
PIK (ANF)
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Encryption software: PGP Version 2.6.3in
Under the title link you find a small download side by Andreas Schwarz. Among other things you find the current version (20010323) of the encryption software 'PGP 2.6.ín' there. However contrary to the Aminet version one needs the ixemul 48 library. Nevertheless the speed corresponds at least to that of the age-old asm version of the Aminet. The list of fixed bugs is rather long. It was compiled using the GCC 2.95.1.
The archives are also very well arranged. They contain nearly the complete English docs + en/es/fr/de language files. The execs are for 020+ and 060. Praise to the author.
Download: pgp263in010323.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Oct.2002
Petra Struck
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Event: Report from the Pegasos/MorphOS demonstration at the "BeGeistert"
To give you a first overview about who I met in Düsseldorf at the
BeGeistert, let's start with
Nicholas Blachford, known
through his audio software Aural-Illusion
and Aural Synthetica.
He did a detailed interview
in February 2002 for Amiga Arena. He is working as a software engineer for
Thendic France for about a month now.
Furthermore Bertrand Presles and Sébastien Lokhamkhouak were on board as well.
Bertrand is president of the ASUM
(Association of Sympathiques Utilisateurs de MorphOS), a union of MorphOS-fans,
which originated from the AFUA group (Association Française des Utilisateurs d'Amiga),
a union of Amiga-fans. Sébastien is currently founding a new French MorphOS print
magazine called 'Fly High'.
The Pegasos
"Betatester 1" computer system was being demonstrated with the
MorphOS operating system.
What hides behind the "Pegasos" and "MorphOS"? The Pegasos is a new PPC computer system,
or better said new hardware, which bases on an ATX motherboard offering dual G3/G4
processor support. This computer was developed by
bplan GmbH, Frankfurt, and is manufactured
by DCE, Oberhausen, and
Thendic France is the worldwide
distributor.
MorphOS is an excellent fit for this new computer.
Below we take a look at a part of an
interview done by amiga-topcool
with Ralph Schmidt (one of the MorphOS authors) to better understand why this
OS was developed:
amiga-topcool: Ralph, when did the idea for MorphOS strike you, and what
caused you to begin?
Ralph Schmidt: Let me go back a bit before that, because MorphOS is a stage
in a longer sequence of events. In September 1995 we (the former Phase 5)
decided to introduce the PowerPC as the new CPU in the Amiga market, because
there was no visible future for the old 68K series of processors. To that
end we worked not quite a year on emulations and plans for how the OS could
be ported.
All of that went out the window as we opted instead for the ppc.library
approach, for reasons of time and market conditions. Then in 1998 there was
again a bit of energy to the original approach after the Flash, ppc.library
and SCSI developments were winding down. We saw absolutely no sense in a
simple AmigaOS port or a 68K Workbench extension ala OS 3.5, so our goal was
the foundation of a new OS, an OS that would contain an "A-Box" for old
Amiga API programs. In March 1999 the microkernel for this new OS was
functional, in that such an AmigaOS box could be integrated and this would
then serve as the OS foundation.
So the operating system MorphOS (boots in 2.5 seconds) is a microkernel based OS,
upon which sits an A/box, which would then allow the execution of Amiga programs
(which don't access hardware), but faster as compared to Amiga hardware.
The operating system MorphOS has today matured to a good operational status,
Ambient (the Workbench clone) is based on MUI and can be adapted to individual
design wishes.
During the performance I have asked whether it is possible to use
hard disks from the Amiga to be used without problems. Bertrand attached his
Amiga hard disk as slave and booted his computer, after this we could
use all the programs stored on his Amiga hard disk.
However, if I say that the OS has arrived at a good operational point, I mean
that it currently runs faultlessly in the main areas, but there also are somethings
left to do. Herefor I would like you to remember that the individual stages of development of
our AmigaOS. AmigaOS wasn´t perfect at the beginning, and it isn't today. MorphOS is
nevertheless promising because there are already
many programs, that are converted natively to MorphOS, further software will follow,
just think about those many programs which are in work by
Titan-Computer and
e.p.i.c. interactive.
Around 15 programmers are intensively engaged in making MorphOS
a better solution in the meantime.
Users who think themselves to be capable of coping with a system which still
raises smaller problems, can purchase this Pegasos/MorphOS computer as a
so-called "Betatester1" (with NDA). Later, users of the Betatester1
still have the possibility to test additional hardware, such as a smart card readers.
The "Betatester2" will be sold at the beginning of the coming week, no NDA (obligation
to be silent about certain things) needs to be signed anymore. A date for the
official customer release isn't finalized yet. The German Distributor is
Vesalia, and on their website you can find
all the technical details.
Finally, some answers to the questions asked by amiga-news.de readers:
Which DVD- and CD-ROM-drives are utilizable? Are there any limitations?
Yes and no. Most devices run, there will be a detailed list on Thendic France´s website shortly.
When will the support for 512 MB RAM-modules be ready?
These already can be used, when it's registered RAM. There will also be a list
of all useable RAM-modules.
Will there also be support for Firewire and SCSI-adaptors?
SCSI now, Firewire later, there will be a commercial solution for this
interface not after the release of the video editing software
'Motionstudio' from Titan-Computer.
Is there planned TV out and dual monitoring support?
This does not run yet, but will be implemented. When isn't clear at this
point. It has definately no high priority.
What is the current state of Eclipsis and the JAVA-VM?
In development and there are first prototypes.
My personal impression after this demonstration: Not yet finished, but very very promising!
Author: Petra Struck -
Pictures of this event
Translation by Michael and Gary7
Proofread by Asemoon Abi
(ps)
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20.Oct.2002
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)
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Magazine: AMIGAplus looking for emulator freaks
The AMIGAplus team is looking at short notice for a freelance editor on
royalties basis, who has knowledge of emulation of classic or exotic home
computers or consoles on the Amiga. Interested parties please send a short
example of style and information about the systems employed including
emulation software to Marc Cloppenburg
(marc@amigaplus.de).
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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20.Oct.2002
Amiga Future
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T.o.T.: New LARP-Videos and Aminet-Demo
From the Tales of Tamar Newspage:
"Dear customers and testers,
it is our pleasure to provide your with two news items
today.
First of all, we finally got the video for the second LARP
based on Tales of Tamar. This con was again organized by
the proven team around Daniel Stein and everybody had a lot of
fun.
Our thanks go to the great people at Virtual Dimension,
who professionally cut and produced the video. You can find it
under Downloads.
If all goes well, we will have an ambiente con in winter 2002/03
on a castle. It will also be the release party for the Tales of Tamar
base set. Every player is cordially invited. You will soon find
detailled information in the LARP section of our homepage.
Last but not least, today we have prepared a tech demo for Tales of Tamar
to be released on Aminet. This demo will help you find out if Tales
of Tamar works properly on your system and also gives you some
background information. It is the same demo as two years ago, but
based on new routines and now also works on Amithlon. Unfortuneately,
we're not able to test it on MorphOS yet, but if some MorphOS
betatesters download this demo, we would like to hear about possible
problems.
Wolfen
Eternity"
(sd)
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20.Oct.2002
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: Little Book of Amiga Software expanded (Might and Magic III ...)
From the Amiga Society Web site:
"The Little Book of Amiga Software is slowly growing - page by page and chapter
by chapter. This weekend about ten new entries will be added, and quite a number
will be extended.
Joining in are among others Might and Magic III and Oh no! More Lemmings.
The weekend will also bring extensions for Schlachtfeld.
Here, the team page (among others) will be expanded, but there'll also be the odd
information elsewhere.
Also, the translations of the various areas into German or English respectively should make some progress - o dear, and this with my rusted English. I'm already glad if my German babble is understood. Till then....
Yours, Horst"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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20.Oct.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Printers: Canon BJC6000 driver V1.0 for WB 3.5/3.9
On 18th October 2002, Peter Hutchison has released version 1.0 of his Canon
BJC6000 printer driver for Workbench 3.5/3.9.
Download: CanonBJC6000.lha" (sd) (Translation: cb)
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