06.Sep.2002
Dirk Baeyens (ANF)
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Nieuwe AmigaClub in Vlaanderen
Hallo Amigafans in Vlaanderen en Nederland,
op Woensdag 11 september starten we officieel met een nieuwe AmigaClub in
Vlaanderen. Onze Deuren gaan open vanaf 19.00 uur tot 23.30 uur en je kan
ons lokaal vinden op het volgende adres:
Bits & Bytes Computer Club
A. van Puymbroeklaan 33
9120 Melsele (nabij Antwerpen)
We hebben in ons lokaal een A3000 en een Amithlon staan. Jullie mogen
gerust ook je eigen Amiga meebrengen, er is plaats genoeg. Gelieve wel de
nodige verlengkabels mee te brengen als het kan.
De Inkom is gratis en het inschrijvingsgeld voor de AmigaClub bedraagt 30
Euro. In het Lokaal kan je een drankje en een versnapering nuttigen en
bij grote honger is er dichtbij ook nog een frietkot open. Er is
voldoende parkeerplaats.
We hebben ook een mailinglijst http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bbccamiga,
waar je alle vragen kunt stellen inverband met de Amiga en de Club.
Zo, hopelijk mogen we enkele nieuwe en 'oude' gezichten ontmoeten om eens
een leuk babbeltje mee te slaan of om wat te computeren, tot dan. :)
De groetjes, Dirk (ps)
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06.Sep.2002
Amiga Inc. (ANF)
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New screenshots of AmiDock in AmigaOS 4.0
In the executive-update of September of Bill McEwen there is also a link to new screenshots of AmiDock in AmigaOS 4.0 which we now want so seperately emphasize. It is impressing how consequently the developer Stefan Robl has developed further AmiDock for AmigaOS 4.0. You can find the screenshots under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2002
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ version 5.6
Users which have AmigaOS 3.9 can now download version 5.6 of Report+. You can create bug reports, Aminet readme-files, autodocs and similar reports with Report+ by Amigan Software. The program is Freeware and supports the GUI-systems ReAction and GadTools.
Download: ReportPlus.lha
Changes since 5.53a:
Path size report: optionally shows/hides subdirectories and/or files; you can pass a path as a CLI argument.
System files report: you can pass a path as a CLI argument.
Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2002
The Legacy
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Nostalgia: The Legacy - 350 new cover-scans
The Legacy which is the nostalgia museum has been equipped with 350 new cover-scans. This mega update could be only realized by the support of Classic Amiga Preservation Society.
On 'Nostalgic Game Museum' you can find screenshots, cover-scans and definitions of genres of a lot of games. Besides this 'TheLegacy' offers information about the developer of older games of C64, Amiga, Atari, PC and Schneider/Amstrad CPC.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2002
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga, Inc.: Bill McEwen's September 2002 Executive Update
Bill's latest update touches on a plethora of topics including the
Sacremento show, the Amiga club, the AmigaOne, PDA/Cellphones, Bernie
Meyer's product and the possibility of new product(s) from Amiga:
September 5, 2002 - From the desk of Bill McEwen
Greetings to one and all:
I would first like to thank all of those that I had the chance to meet
in Sacramento. While a short trip it was indeed great fun and real delight
meeting with all of you and hearing not only the encouraging words, but
also sharing in your concerns, desires, and dreams. We are looking forward
to deliver on what we discussed with you.
When we purchased Amiga from Gateway there were many out there who said
that we would fail. There were many out there who have worked against
our efforts, and others that have misrepresented fact and manipulated
privileged information in order to further their obviously self serving
goals. There have been those who have wronged us, and caused us damage.
But, guess what? We are still here! We are still delivering! We are going
to stay here! Amiga is about people, technology, excellence, we are a
most tenacious people, and we have the community to prove it. Has it always
gone according to plan? no. Have we made some adjustments to the plan?
yes. Are we delivering on the plan? yes. Will we allow others to dictate
our future? Absolutely not. Period..
Because of you, the Amiga dream lives, because of you, Amiga's are still
being used throughout the world performing amazing tasks and activities,
and because of you, we are still here and moving forward.
Amiga is a giant resting for the day of the fight, and gaining strength
quietly, for, as we embark on this mission together, nothing will tear
us apart.
Thank you once again for supporting us, and showing to the world that
what was begun in 1985 was truly only the beginning.
Bill McEwen, and the Amiga Team
Amiga Club Members:
I would also like to take a minute and say a special howdy to all of the
club members. It is really encouraging to see all of the activity and
input from you with regards to the shirt design and name for the club.
The "I am Amiga" name did not go over as well as I had thought,
but in the next couple of weeks (after we get the ok from those who already
have the name that was selected) we will all have the name and shirt design
with which an be happy and proud to wear. Each member will receive their
first newsletter in the next two weeks, and there will be all sorts of
great announcements and information e, so look forward to it in your inbox.
As a reminder we will be having a new drawing for an Amiga Enabled Cell
Phone in September, and we would encourage those of you who have not joined
yet, to get in here and do so. We have many plans and activities coming
up for the club, and once again for only $ 50.00 you will receive the
newsletter, Shirt and other special promotions. The lifetime membership
offer has ended, but we would encourage you to be a part of something
really exciting as the members will continue to receive special discounts
and exclusive programs directed at the membership. We will honor the "$50.00
off" certificate for the next members who join through the end of
September, at which point we will hold the draw for the new cell phone.
September 1st, 2002:
As mentioned in Sacramento at AmiWest, we had offered amnesty to those
people/companies/entities who have knowingly stolen our IP and used it
for their own gains, or who have shipped product knowing that they are
illegal had until the end of August in order for them to comply and to
get legal.
Now, I am not going to mention names nor am I going to get into a public
discourse on what is happening.. But legal action has begun. In the next
two weeks papers will be served. We will target one violator at a time
with the hope that we will send a very clear signal that this is very
serious, will not be permitted and will be stopped.
This is a private action between Amiga Inc, and those who wish to continue
in this practice. While we announced publicly our intentions, the actions
will be private. I am sure that everyone can understand this and I hope
will support this.
AmigaOne Update:
Well, the amazing team of Eyetech and Hyperion are doing a great job.
Many of you already have in your possession the AmigaOne boards, and many
more of you have seen the hardware in action. This is indeed another major
leap forward as we near the release of the new hardware and OS 4.0. Eyetech
and Alan Redhouse have been doing a great job of keeping everyone informed
of the progress, and we look forward to the products release.
AmigaOS 4.0:
Hyperion and the team are making amazing strides here. The screen shots
that we all see and the updates from Ben and the people working on it
shows great progress. I know that they are working hard with regard to
the integration into the AmigaOne, and I for one am looking forward to
seeing it all working together, and from what I hear we are not too far
off from making that happen. With this stated we have received some more
shots of the interface from the OS 4.0 team. You can see the new AmiDock screenshots here.
PDA/Cell Phone Update:
As mentioned in Sacramento the Amiga Anywhere Content Engine and associated
content will be shipping on the new Sendo™ SmartPhone™ when
it ships. Now, to answer the many e-mails that I have received about the
Sendo phone…. I do not know when the device will ship commercially;
it is out of our hands with regard to when they will have the phone available.
I will tell you that before the end of the year we will be making at least
two more Cell Phone announcements and at least two more PDA announcements.
We are really starting to move on getting these business deals done and
there will be many more opportunities for our developers to create new
products for these cutting edge devices.
A Possible New Product Offering - Let me know your thoughts:
In recent dealings with one of our hardware OEM's they offered an opportunity.
This opportunity is for excellent laptop hardware at excellent prices.
They would be dual boot systems with Linux/UAE, and Bernie Meyers product
(formally known as Amithlon) pre-loaded on the device. Here is a sample
of some of the pricing that you could expect, all prices quoted are in
US$:
| Processor |
RAM |
Display |
Hard Drive |
Optical media |
Software |
Price |
| Intel® 1.2GHz Celeron™ |
256MB |
15.0" TFT |
20GB |
DVD |
Linux/UAE Ami* |
$999 |
| Intel® 1.6GHz Pentium® 4 |
256MB |
15.0" XGA TFT |
20GB |
DVD/CDRW Combo |
Linux/UAE Ami* |
$1579 |
| Intel® 1.6GHz Pentium® 4 |
256MB |
SXGA TFT |
30GB |
DVD/CDRW Combo |
Linux/UAE Ami* |
$1679 |
These examples are notebook computers. There are other options available, but
I am trying to find out how many of you would be interested in purchasing these
through your local Amiga dealer. Let us know by sending an e-mail to interested@amiga.com.
There are also desktops and other configurations but I think that a notebook
Amiga would be compelling. Let us know.
The Product Formally Know as Amithlo*:
As mentioned before Bernie Meyers has a wonderful product, and we expected
it to be out by now. However there have been a couple of delays, none
of these are engineering driven, that has delayed the release. I can tell
you that the new product will be out very soon, and will offer some new
requested features, and from what I understand is really going to knock
your socks off. We will have an update concerning the timing of this release
and the new name very shortly. So contrary to what you may have heard,
it will be available soon.
Developers:
This message is an update for you. You have created some of the greatest
content that the world has ever known. Your skill sets and your tenacity
have overwhelmed many, and everyday you become more and more important
to the future.
If you have been sitting on the sidelines I encourage you to jump in.
We are getting requests from many of our OEM partners with regard to content
that they are looking for on their devices.
While it has been a slow start (as is always the case in developing a
market), this next quarter is going to see major movement, and distribution.
We have many programs ready to take place for the Holiday season and we
want you to be a part of it. So I encourage you to jump in make contact
with us. Join us in creating the future.
In closing I wish to thank each and every member of the Amiga family
for their support and good wishes in this amazing journey that we have
embarked upon together. We are closer today than we were yesterday to
the dreams and goals of Amiga. Tomorrow we will be closer again, and soon
we can all share in the rewards.
Sincerely,
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team
(ps)
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06.Sep.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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New graphicboards from ATI
With the new Radeon-boards of the 9000 and 9700 series ATI replaces the former models with Radeon 7500 und 8500.
The ATI Radeon 9000 PRO is an eightfold AGP-board with DirectX 8.1 standard with 64 MB DDR RAM and has altogether 4 parallel render-pipelines. The core works with 275 MHz and the memory with 550 MHz. Currently it costs 149,- Euro.
Alternatively with the ATI Radeon 9000 a model is offered which is for 20,- Euro cheaper. The equipment is equal to the PRO but core only works with 200 MHz and the memory with 400 MHz.
The new first class model is the
ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
which is an eightfold AGP-board with the new DirectX 9.0 standard with 128 MB DDR SDRAM in 256 bit, has 8 parallel render-pipelines and additionally 4 parallel geometry-pipelines.
The core works with 325 MHz and the memory with 620 MHz. This board costs 399,- Euro.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2002
AmiLator.de (ANF)
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Some new emulators
Some new emulators have been uploaded to http://v2os.v2.nl/~amigaclub/:
- Nofrendo (WOS/MOS): A NES-emulator
- SMSPlus (WOS/MOS): A Mastersystem-emulator
- Atari800 (WOS/MOS): An Atari800-emulator
- Stella (WOS/MOS): An AtariVCS-emulator
- 'Little John NG' (WOS/MOS): A NES/SNES-emulator
- DGen (MOS): A SEGA-Megadrive-emulator
Furthermore GNUBoy has appeared which is a GameboyColor-emulator for MorphOS.
Direct download: gnuboy103.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2002
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename Version 3.5.0 Beta 5
Constantinos Nicolakakis has released probably the last beta version
of SRename 3.5.0. SRename is a program which has some more functions
as the common 'rename'. Here are some features:
- Can use wildcards.
- Total control over recursion, the user can set the level of recursion, starting level of recursion and
can even specify a different pattern for entering directories.
- Can renumber filename sequences without the user having to care for the renumber order or filename
clashes because these are taken care of automatically.
- Can perform numbering of filename sequences.
- Can modify the filename's comment and transfer the filename to the comment or the reverse.
- Allows the user to build his/her own functions by providing a command set of selectors and actions
that can be combined in many ways.
- The number of actions that can be executed in one go is only limited by the command line length.
- It is interface compatible with the OS Rename command.
- Efficient memory usage.
Download: SRename3.5b5.lzx
(ps)
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05.Sep.2002
Amiga Freunde Pfalz (ANF)
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Meeting: AMIGA Friends of Pfalz - 2nd Party in 2002
In a few weeks (4th through 6th October, 2002) we'll have the beloved AMIGA
Friends of Pfalz autumn party in Mutterstadt, Germany. As
always this means three days with our friends and many chances
to talk to Amigans and trade stuff.
Also guests are definitely welcome, with or without a computer,
for all three days or just one. Related information may be found
on our homepage (click title link). You'll also find some
pictures from the last party there. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Poseidon & Norway Updates Version 1.28 available (Update)
There is a new version V1.28 of the Poseidon USB Stack available from my
website (title link), aswell as an updated driver for the Norway Ethernet
Addon which sits ontop of the Highway.
There's now a VHI driver for the Pencam and compatible webcams. However, to
work 100% correctly, you probably need version VHI Studio 5.7 which is
scheduled for release next Monday.
There are also MorphOS PPC native binaries, but I doubt anyone will use
them yet ;) (also there still seems to be a problem with the ELF version of
the main library).
Finally, I want you to encourage to send in an email, whenever you might
need help or just have a good idea of improvement (except nagging for the
HID class ;) ).
Update:
PS: Don't be worried about the registration form included starting with
this release and the "demo version" restrictions: The Highway and Subway
boards come with an OEM licence and you do NOT have to register Poseidon.
This is only for third party hardware drivers which do not have a licence.
In this case, the user has to buy a keyfile, if he wants to make use of
Poseidon. (ps)
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05.Sep.2002
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Thendic: Vesalia named 'Master Distributor' for Germany
Vesalia Computer has been named the
Master Distributor and Customer Service Manager for Germany. Pegasos
systems will be on sale in October.
Betatester systems will continue to be sold directly from Thendic-France.
Betatester systems and the Betatester program will continue to evolve
to include peripheral devices. The Betatester will become the development
platform for the eclipsis (see products at title link). (ps)
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05.Sep.2002
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Thendic: Betatester II scheduled for 14./15.12.2002, Hilton Hotel Frankfurt (Upd
Thendic-France and bplan will host Betatester II at the Hilton Hotel,
Hochstrasse 4, Frankfurt from 0900 to 1800, a buffet lunch will be
served. Highlights of the conference will be:
- Presentation of the commercial release of MorphOS
- Demonstration of new and old applications
- Release for testing of three new peripheral devices: the smart
card and reader for security and loyalty/payment systems (the
Trusted Community), the DataPlay disc drive, and a wireless mobile
camera. Ten Developers will be selected for testing with the
DataPlay and the camera based on performance as a Betatester and
relevant development experience. All Betatesters will receive a
personalized smart card and smart card reader.
All key individuals from the Thendic/bplan will be present.
All Betatesters and the MorphOS Development Team will be admitted free
of charge.
All others will be admitted for an afternoon demonstration from
1500-1800 for 10 Euros. All participants will receive a Thendic/bplan
T-Shirt and non-alcoholic drinks will be available.
Please contact info@thendic-france.com
for more details.
Update 07.10.2002:
The date of this event was moved to 14./15.12.2002. More details you will
find in this message. (ps)
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05.Sep.2002
Markus Holler
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Music for Friends of C=64 Remixes
Markus Holler writes on his website: "Since the beginning of the month there has been for friends of C=64 remixes a new streaming site, in which among others my remix of Whittaker's Glider Rider (opening track
of the soon to appear CD Remix 64 - The CD) may be played!
The site is a cooperative effort from Remix64,
C64Audio.com and
SouthPole Radio. Have fun listening!"
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Etienne Vogt
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System Monitor: Sysmon V1.20a
On the 2nd of September Etienne Vogt released Version 1.20a of his shell-based System Monitor. Check the ReadMe Text
for more information about the program. Since version 1.20 the following changes have been made:
- 'UnMount ALL' will now ignore ENV: as well as RAM: if mounted as a
separate handler. This allows late shutdown code to access global
environment variables in all cases and also avoids problems with
Env-Handlers that have broken ACTION_DIE support.
- Added FRAGS option to the Sysmon monitor Show Memory command.
Download: Sysmon120a.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Amiga Impact (E-Mail)
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The French reseller APS demonstrates the Pegasos with MorphOS
The French reseller APS, based in Marseille, can receive people
(appointment required) to demonstrate the Pegasos machine and
the MorphOS system. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Amiga Impact (E-Mail)
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Some components of AmigaOS 4 will be demonstrated on "A-Expo / Alchimie 2"
Next Saturday afternoon, at the French event "A-Expo / Alchimie 2", some
components of the AmigaOS 4 will be demonstrated on Amiga 4000 with
CyberStormPPC.
These components are:
- The new Intuition
- Roadshow (the TCP/IP stack)
- MediaToolBox (the new HDToolBox)
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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AF: Test Report Nebulus
Increasing numbers of users send us test reports of games which we
may publish on the Amiga Future homepage. This time Patric Klöter
sent us a test of Nebulus, which we put in the article section.
We hope people send us more such reports! (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2002
Andre 'Andre89' Sommer (ANF)
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Event: Amiga Inside 2
From the 6th until the 8th of September 2002 the will be the Amiga-Party Amiga
Inside 2 helt in Hirsau, Germany.
Andre 'Andre89' Sommer writes: "I'm gonna dismantle my computers at Thursday evening and carry them to the party. If anyone has some urgent questions about the party and wants to write me a mail, the do so before Thursday afternoon, because the I will catch my mails the last time."
A description of how to get there and some other important informations are to find with the title link.
If anyone has some trouble to find the location Andre Sommer will still be reachable by his mobile under +49177/5551010.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Sep.2002
Stefan Robl (ANF)
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Relaunch of www.qdev.de
After nearly four years of online presence it has come to a great demand
to renew my homepage completely. The new pages are all bilingual (German/English) and most of the content has been improved. Originally I wanted to finish all this earlier, but the successful finish of my first university degree (informatics) as well as the work for the Amidock for OS4 were (reasonable) more important.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)
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AMIGAplus Soccer Special: Finals Prelude with Kick Off 2
Today begins the finals of the virtual soccer season on the occasion of the 40 years running German Soccer Common League. The AMIGAplus editition rummaged up another 17 soccer games for the editing case and put this digital bunch of bolts together in the next 17 days of brief tests. The finals begin with a real whizbang: we are reporting on the game "Kick Off 2" from Anco software.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2002
Zito (ANF)
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Amiga music group active again!
The international, amigabased szene music formation "mOOdS - Music For
Your Instinctz" is, as well after a short summer break, back not only with some new tracks, but also with a new designed homepage!
And there are still new composers of any genres welcome, so
do not hesitate to contact Zito, if you're an active musician using the Amiga!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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