24.Jun.2002
ANN
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Bernie Meyer announced Amithlon 2.0 for 1st July 2002 (Update)
Coming to this place on (or around :) July 1st:
A freely downloadable and distributable DEMO version of Amithlon 2.0,
which can be unlocked to full functionality via a personalized keyfile.
Please be patient for just a little while longer....
Monday 24 June 2002 04:30:43 ? Bernd Meyer
You can find the following detailed announcement at Moobunny:
Amiga, Inc. and Bernd Meyer announce licensing of Amithlon 2.0.
June 23, 2002 - Snoqualmie, WA and Melbourne, Australia - Amiga, Inc. today
announced the cross licensing of Amithlon 2.0. The agreement was made with
the author and the inspiration behind Amithlon, Bernd "Bernie" Meyer.
As part of the agreement, Amiga will license Kickstart 3.1 and portions of
Amiga OS 3.9 to be distributed as part of Amithlon 2.0. In turn, Amiga will
actively promote and license Amithlon 2.0 to OEM customers looking for an
Amiga emulator on x86 platforms.
Bill McEwen, Amiga President and CEO, said, "Bernie has been a good friend
and partner to Amiga. I first demonstrated a beta version of Amithlon almost
a year ago at the Sacramento show. Even then the quality of the product and
its potential were obvious to me. Since then it has become a more polished,
a clear reflection of the passion and skills that Bernie brings to the table."
I have also been impressed by the moral and ethical integrity that Bernie
has displayed as he has partnered with Amiga. Too often in the past we have
had to deal with companies who would like nothing better than to split the
Amiga community. Bernie has always had the best interests of the community
at heart and has created a product that we can all be truly proud of.?
"It is with great pleasure that I finally enter into a deal directly with
Amiga", said Bernie Meyer. "This new version, to be distributed with Amiga's
seal of approval, provides customers with a clear indication that Amithlon
is an actively developed product with great prospects. This partnership will
allow users of Classic AmigaOS to use their applications on modern, affordable
hardware."
A demo version of Amithlon 2.0 will be available shortly which can be
downloaded free of charge from the distribution site at
http://www.amithlon.net/demo.shtml.
The demo version may be upgraded to a fully functional version with a simple
keyfile, which can be purchased online.
About Amithlon 2.0
The goal of the Amithlon project was to make AmigaOS 3.9 run on commodity PC
hardware. Unlike other approaches to this problem (UAE, Fellow), Amithlon
provides AmigaOS with complete control over the hardware. Hosted on a
specially modified linux kernel, Amithlon's CPU emulation runs AmigaOS;
All access to graphics, sound, networking and interface hardware is provided
through standard AmigaOS drivers. Amithlon 2.0 is distributed as a
self-booting CD-ROM image.
About Amiga:
In 1985, Amiga introduced the world to Multimedia with the launch of the
incredible Amiga 1000, a revolution in hardware with dedicated audio and
graphics chips and a revolution in software with the first 32 bit, fully
pre-emptive, multitasking operating system. It then went on to dominate
the 1980s and early 1990s, pioneering video and animation and giving rise
to many of the top gaming companies of today. That tradition will continue
with the launch of the brand new AmigaOne desktop computer and its
companion, AmigaOS4.0, destined to set new standards and expectations in
the world of digital living. Amiga can be reached on the web at
http://www.amiga.com.
About Bernd Meyer:
Bernd Meyer is a freelance software designer with almost 20 years of
experience in professional software development. He has studied Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science in Germany and Australia, and is currently
completing a PhD on Image Modeling at Monash University in Melbourne,
Australia. In 2000, two of Bernd's hobby projects got out of hand. One
turned into Glicbawls, a category winner in the 2000 International
Obfuscated C Code Contest, the other into a Just-In-Time compiler for
the Amiga emulator UAE, providing it with much greater emulation speed.
In 2001, Bernd further refined the JIT Compiler for inclusion in Amithlon.
Addition:
Meanwhile, an official press release by Amiga Inc. was released.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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23.Jun.2002
Tamara Cetinjski (ANF)
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MP3-Player: Prayer2 now Open Source
The MP3 player "Prayer 2" for Amiga computers is now Open Source and is
available for download under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga Bastringue: Short report by Rose Humphrey (Update)
A first short report
about the French Amiga event "Amiga Bastringue"
taking place this weekend has been posted on Amiga.org.
Rose "anarchic_teapot" Humphrey writes:
"There was food, there was drink (mostly caffeinated), and there was a working
AmigaOne running SuSE Linux PPC v7.3
There was Naya Design with their rather fetching perspex ATX towers.
There was Alan Redhouse, who was prevailed upon to make a speech and actually
dared to do it in French.
There was a prototype AmigaOne XE motherboard.
We learned that AOS4 has been made to boot on an A1.
There were lots of photos taken, someone is supposed to have filmed the Speech
and the ensuing Q&A session, and all of this, I am reliably informed, will be
on a publicly-accessible website within 24 hours."
Supplement 25.06.2002:
Pictures from the event. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
ANN
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ANN: Discussion on 1 year of Amiga Party Pack
On the occasion of the release of
the Amiga Party Pack a year ago, there is a discussion for Amiga Party Pack
owners on ANN under the title link. Back then, the Pack was published to
celebrate 1 year of SDK. In addition, the release of AmigaOne, AmigaOS 4.0 as
well as AmigaDE for PDAs was announced.
From the ANN web site:
"If you purchased the Party Pack, tell us what you've been doing it with it for
the past 12 months. How did you spend your voucher? What kind of stuff was
included in the updates? Did you enjoy playing the DE games that have been
released over the last 12 months?"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
ANN
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Forum: Amiga support forum by SWAUG
The South Wales Amiga User Group (SWAUG)
has set up an English language support forum
for Amiga computers on groups.yahoo.com.
This is available for discussions on a wide palette of Amiga topics as well
as for posing questions and providing assistance.
Apart from the support purpose it is hoped that the forum will be utilised for
the coordination of trips from Wales to fairs like the World of Amiga taking
place in November.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
aweb.sunsite.dk
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WWW browser: aweb.sunsite.dk now official development team
Yvon Rozijn, the author of AWeb, has appointed the development team of
aweb.sunsite.dk the official
"AWeb Open Source Development Team".
He advises all developers, who want to participate in AWeb's further
development to join this project.
From the aweb.sunsite.dk web site:
'Yvon states: "Developers: you are strongly suggested to join this project
if you want to help further development of AWeb, instead of starting
something on your own."'
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
A.D.A.
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A.D.A.: Ray of hope 2, Extension, Full moon
On 23rd June 2002, three productions have been added to the Amiga Demoscene
Archive (A.D.A.). The additions are:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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Spektrum emulator: ASp V0.82b
On 22nd June 2002, version 0.82b of ZX Spectrum emulator "ASp" for Amiga
computers has been published. This version fixes an error with the port
addresses. This caused some 128K games (Fairlight etc.) to crash. 68030
users will also notice a speed increase of up to 10%.
ASp requires MuLib by Thomas Richter.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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Kultboy.com: A.o. Civilization and Mag!
On 22nd June 2002, the following reviews have been added to the web site
Kultboy.com:
ASM:
- Barbie - Action for the Game Boy
- The Game of Life
- Space Gun - Flop of the month
- Total Eclipse - 3DO review
- Wing Commander - Amiga
Amiga Games:
- Civilization - Game of the month
- Mag! - Haven't your always wanted to be a games editor?
Power Play:
- Wing Commander - 3DO review
Kult Mags:
6 new scans: Amiga Joker, Amiga-Magazin, ASM, Happy-Computer
Spielesonderteil (= games special), 64er, PowerPlay Special 3.
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23.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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Kultpower.de: PowerPlay reviews from 1991/92
On 23rd June 2002, Scans of PowerPlay reviews from the years 1991 and 1992
have been added to the web site Kultpower.de.
The new additions are:
SWIV (Amiga), Switchblade 2 (Amiga), Super Monaco GP (Amiga), Pegasus (Amiga), Logical (incl. advert) (Amiga), First Samurai (Amiga), Exile
(incl. advert) (Amiga), Bug Bomber (incl. advert) (Amiga), A 320 (incl. advert) (Amiga), Brat (Amiga).
All scans have been sent in by Fränki.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: "TimeKeepers" full version, "The Prophet" update
A full version of the puzzle game "TimeKeepers" by Vulcan Software and a bug
fix for the 3D role playing game "The Prophet" have been published on the
Amiga Arena web site.
"TimeKeepers" full version
The German HD version of the puzzle game "TimeKeepers I" is available for download with authorisation by Paul Carrington (Vulcan Software Ltd.) .
"TimeKeepers I" is an action/puzzle game in the style of "Lemmings" or
"Humans".
The goal of the game is to steer your 14 police units through the levels.
"The Prophet" update
Last year, the 3D role playing game "The Prophet" by Mark Ford had been
published exclusively through "Amiga Arena" for free download. Unfortunately
the final commercial version contained a bug.
This has been fixed with the update, and "The Prophet" can now be played till
the end.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
Michael Mann (ANF)
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WWW-Browser: AWeb-II download again on aweb.sunsite.dk
Michael Mann writes:
As of now, the browser AWeb-II can again be obtained from the original URL: http://aweb.sunsite.dk/.
Thanks for the nice replies, I had fun standing in for a short time.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Jun.2002
Michael Mann (ANF)
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Video: VCDGear V1.6d
Michael Mann writes:
Through the page of t-online I've just come across some interesting software
for video processing which is also available as a 68k/PPC version for Amiga.
The program is called "VCDGear" and, according to the makers, contains the following features:
"VCDGear lets you read out MPEG video streams from VideoCDs and convert
VCD files into MPEG movies.
Automatic error correction:
The unfortunately much too often occuring MPEG errors are fixed automatically
by the programm during extracting or converting. Furthermore, VCDGear offers
various ways for extracting, converting and correcting videos across several
system platforms."
VCDGear is Freeware.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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22.Jun.2002
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Amiga Future: new WB screenshots
Today was the Workbench screenshot gallery of the Amiga Future homepage
updated. If someone wants to present her or his screenshots there she/he just
needs to send them to the Amiga Future editor.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Jun.2002
Amity
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Amity: Binar Disassembler V1.1 Released
Binar, the non-symbolic disassembler for 65xx/75xx/85xx processors, has
been updated to version 1.1.
The new version contains many internal improvements and new features,
which make Binar more flexible and powerful. New in the version 1.1:
- optional lower case output
- support for undocumented instructions can be turned off
- authentic TEDMON hex dump output
- enhanced program statistics
- support for non-CBM files
- an ARexx script called Souw for creating full source codes
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22.Jun.2002
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The counter shows 6.000.000 :)
Yesterday had our counter on the main page (bottom right) passed the 6 millions
meaning that the main page of amiga-news.de had been visited in almost four
months one million times as we had reached in February 2002 the 5 millions. It has to be said,
though, that without an mercy every click is counted ;-). But still a proud
number as we find.
People interested in the realistic access numbers (every visitor is only counted
once within a set time frame) of amiga-news.de can find the last twelve months
in our statistics. The statistics are created by using our
access logs with the program Webalizer V2.01.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Jun.2002
DCR8520 Amigaports
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DCR8520: updated Amiga ports
The Spanish Diego CR 'dcr8520' has updated his website at SourceForge with many
of his Amiga ports. You can find there a lot of small tools that ease the daily
work with many applications.
The following ports were updated:
- 17. June 2002 fags v0.2.2devel3
- 14. June 2002 muhstik v3.9.5
- 14. June 2002 Anubis v3.1.0
- 14. June 2002 cURL v7.9.8
- 14. June 2002 dsbl v0.9.4
- 14. June 2002 neoBOPM v1.1
- 14. June 2002 speex v0.3.0
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Jun.2002
HSMathLibs
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HSMathLibs version 44.50 beta 2 and 8
Matthias Henze has released new versions (V.44.50 beta 2 for MC68881/82
and V.44.50 beta 8 for MC68040 and MC68060) of the HSMathLibs.
These versions are for beta testers only.
The "HSMathLibs" replace the libraries "mathieeedoubbas.library",
"mathieeedoubtrans.library", "mathieeesingtrans.libray" and
"mathtrans.library" and patch or replace the libraries "mathffp.library" and
"mathieeesingbas.libray" by CPU/FPU optimised versions for MC68881/82, MC68040
or MC68060.
The "HSMathLibs" are written completely in assembler to reach a maximum of speed.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Jun.2002
Felix Schwarz (E-Mail)
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IOSPIRIT: fxSCAN 4.0 feature update and in production
We're proud to announce that fxSCAN 4.0 has been finished and the
master was sent out to the CD-ROM production site last Tuesday.
Though we have a very tight timetable for fxSCAN, we managed to finish
a MorphOS-native version of the fxSCAN PPC-servertask and the
OCR-engine which will ship with fxSCAN 4.0. A native version for
AmigaOS® 4.0 is planned, too, and will be available as patch from our
homepage at the time of completion.
Furthermore another two new GUI skins ("Burning Red" and "Laced Gray",
see fxSCAN-screenshots) and a time-unlimited version of the color
calibration software ICS (with printable manuals!) are coming with
fxSCAN now, too.
If everything goes fine in production, fxSCAN 4.0 ships on the 15th of
July 2002. The special preorder offer ends on the 7th of July. (ps)
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21.Jun.2002
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Amig@lien goes on holiday / new Freespace MODs released
The Amig@lien team will go on holiday from 21st June 2002 until probably
12th August 2002. During this time no mails can be answered and no homepage updates will happen. After this time will Amig@lien return with a completely redesigned homepage as well as with some (then hopefully finished) projects. At the same time changes the address to the following:
Ricco Clemens
Ysenburger Str. 2
D-63599 Biebergemünd
But for the meantime we have created many new missions and campaigns as well as pilot images for Freespace that you can find following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Jun.2002
AMIGAplus (ML)
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AMIGAplus 06/2002
The current AMIGAplus 06/2002 with the main subject "Amiga Anywhere" contains among other things the following articles:
- First review: Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1
- PDA special: Compaq iPAQ, Sharp SL-5000 and Palm IIIc
- Interview with clickBOOM: of knights and demons
- QNX dances Samba: monster workshop to link to
- Online auctions: we show you where the hammer hangs
- File sharing: AudioGalaxy client AmiSAT reviewed
- Movie special: Amiga at the Movies, part 2
- Scenish: the Who is Who of the demo makers
- Interactive: small adverts and readers forum
- a. m. m.
Attention: This issue contains as an exception 8 pages more, 76 fully coloured pages!
The at the same time released AMIGAplus readers CD #16 contains next to many further tools, games, videos and an audio track also the full version of the effects software Elastic Dreams by Titan Computer with special upgrade possibility to Fantastic Dreams.
The AMIGAplus is available at your Amiga dealer, via subscription or per single order for the price of 5.- EUR.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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