22.Mar.2002
Vesalia
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Vesalia: Pegasos board extra page
Vesalia has already put online an extra page about the Pegasos board by bplan GmbH,
on which preorders are taken. The features are listed as follows:
microATX mainboard, 133 MHz processor slot, 600 MHz G3 PowerPC
up to Dual G4 PowerPC, PC133 memory with two banks,
AGP slot, PCI subsystem with three slots, IEEE1394 (Firewire) with
100/200/400 MBit transmission rate, 10/100 MBit network, USB, AC97 sound
subsystem, IRDA, ATA100 and more.
More information at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Thomas Knäbel (e-mail)
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bplan GmbH: website update - Pegasos ART gallery
At the title link you'll find an art gallery with 12 views of our project
Pegasos. More news during the course of the next week.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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AmigaOSXL: Experiences with the H&P Big-Tower 1800+ (Update)
Dietmar Knoll:
In my report I describe the experiences I made with the Big-Tower.
These now reach from the delivery until the first experiences in
everyday usage.
The sixth update of my experiences report includes a test of
the network card and a hint to the BoingBag3.9-2.
As the most important news I can communicate the installation
of more software, about which I compiled a software list.
The next things I plan to do is install BoingBag2 and then have a
closer look at AmigaXL. (ps)
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22.Mar.2002
Elvis (untot) (ANF)
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Game: NetHack 3.4.0
The new version 3.4.0 of Nethack is available for download. Versions for
several platforms such as Linux, MS-DOS, Windows3.1, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP,
Macintosh and Amiga exist.
What is NetHack?
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide
variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text
interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons
& Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering
the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight
- in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly.
Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator
provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon
and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of
characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender. For
information on running the program see the README that comes with each
copy. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.14
The MM CD 1.14 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator
PCI ZIV users who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD,
has also been released by ELBOX Computer.
The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card
family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.14
The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent
graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs. (ps)
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22.Mar.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator UP 3.0
The MediatorUP 3.0 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator
PCI ZIV users has been made available today.
The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card
family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.14
The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent
graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs.
The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver:
- Virge.card ver. 1.6
The blitter function, which is responsible for displaying text, has been
slowed down to prevent lockups in some S3 ViRGE chipsets. (ps)
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22.Mar.2002
MobiliX
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Trademark Trouble: Asterix versus MobiliX
As already reported on 26.01.2002,
Werner Heuser, administrator of the open source project MobiliX - UniX
on Mobile Computers has received a request from the German legal representative of
"Lés Editions Albert René",
owners of the trademark of the name Obelix, in November 2001. Werner Heuser
sent the plaintiffs a 22 page response (PDF).
His arguments were rejected, though, by the legal representative of the trademark owner.
Werner Heuser: "Remarkable in the document are the insults at the end, which don't seem usual
for writings from lawyers. The legal trouble is documented since its beginning at the MobiliX
webpages and is discussed in many mailing lists and news groups. This seems to have impressed
the plaintiffs. They now accuse MobiliX of inventing "a new kind of electronical terror", and
are ready to sentence MobiliX. It will be interesting to know, which sentence the plaintiff will
invent against critical discussion in newsgroups."
Despite the announcements of the plaintiffs, the case goes on:
The court in Munich (Germany) has set the date for the first hearing to June 12th 2002.
At the title link you'll find more interesting details about this trademark trouble. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Microsoft put pressure on trading partners with contracts
The above German article deals with the anti trust process against Microsoft.
Peter Ashkin, ex Gateway manager, testified as witness of the charge that
Gateway was taken from Microsoft's "approved vendor" list after the development
of a Linux-based surf terminal.
German Heise article at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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21.Mar.2002
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Polish Department of amiga-news.de Celebrates 2nd Birthday
For two years now, Piotr Pawlowski has been making amiga-news.de available on his website for Polish readers in their native language.
Tireless, beyond-the-call-of-duty efforts are needed to translate the many daily articles, but this goes without saying. One must be involved often with various issues, and this certainly cuts into one's free time. So at this time we want to give a great "hurrah" and a big, heartfelt "thank you!"
And, not to forget, a "happy second birthday!" :) (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: "BallMasterAGA" Re-Release and Interview with Michal Rybinski
Amiga Arena - "BallMasterAGA" Re-Release
The puzzle/mindgame BallMasterAGA (registered on "Amiga Arena") from Damir Arh was first offered in the year 2000 and is now available again for download.
Amiga Arena - Interview with Michal Rybinski
With the software "MP3TagEditor" by Michal Rybinski it's possible to easily process the IDs of MP3 music files. Amiga Arena spoke with Michal (in English) about MP3TagEditor and its future.
"The young developer managed to answer each question with no more than a single sentence ;-)" commented Olaf Köbnik. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Elbox Computer
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Elbox: Mirage 4000 Pro Available
As reported on 11th March 2002, Elbox is offering a new A4000 tower-including Mediator 4000 PCI and 300W power supply. The tower is currently available and drivers may be preordered.
- U.K. - Power Computing
- Germany - Vesalia or KDH Datentechnik
- Sweden - GGS-Data
- Other countries: see Elbox-dealers
You can find detailed information about this system under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Patric Klöter (ANF)
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Commodore-Amiga.de: Petro Tyschtschenko Interview
Patric Klöter wrote in to say:
Petro Tsychtschenko was kind enough to respond to a few questions about his past with Commodore and Amiga. The time-frame of this interview covers his beginning at C= in 1982 all the way through his final days at Amiga Inc. in 2001. Petro also explains his view of Amiga Inc. and talks about his planned book.
The interview is on my homepage under the heading "User-Ecke." Here is a direct link:
Interview.
I'd like to use this opportunity to thank Petro for devoting his valuable time to answering my questions! Many thanks Petro, and best wishes!
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Translation of Crypt Interviews with Vulcan Software
Amiga Future translated the
Interview
of The Crypt Magazine
with Vulcan Software into German, and you can find it under the title link.
The original English interview is here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Darkage.it
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Italian Software-Concoction 'Darkage' Has a New Website
The Italian software-concoction 'Darkage," known for Amiga Classix 2 & 3, Supreme, Extreme and so on, now has a completely reworked website. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
ExoticA
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ExoticA: Demo Scene Reference Manual, Logo Contest, SID Collection
ExoticA, the website that concerns itself with music capabilities and the history of Amiga, has issued a new edition of the "Demo Scene Reference Manual," now at version 4.16.
The logo contest is closed. ExoticA evaluated all entries and posted the results in a
special gallery. First place went to ´Chief.´
ExoticAs Mirror, the 'High Voltage SID Collection' has been updated to version 4.5. The collection now includes 18,133 C64 pieces. These pieces are available individually through an HTML-Interface
and you can also download them in a large tar.gzip-Archive: HVSC.tar.gz. The changes to this archive can be viewed in this Update-Text. Detailed information on the changes are in the update-logs:here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
thomas raukamp communications (ANF)
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Atari ColdFire-Project Website is Online
The "Atari ColdFire Project" aka xTOS has the mission of creating an Atari ST compatible system based on Motorola's ColdFire processor. The ColdFire series is known for a high compatibility with the older 68K series of processors.
The official website of the project is online. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Mar.2002
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: Interview with Nikolaj Thygesen
You can read an English-language Interview with Nikolaj Thygesen. Nikolaj is the creator of a professional freeware image-authoring program, similar to Photogenics or ArtEffect. Right now he is busy with a new beta that not only has an improved layer/levels-system, countless paint-effects and the usual design-tools but it also has splines, an anti-aliasing font-engine, an improved GUI and much more.
GFX-base wanted to know more about this beta, and so they talked with Nikolaj about his beta, his future plans, his new website, and current Amiga happenings.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2002
amiga.org
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Amiga, Inc.: Clarification from Fleecy
Crispy Beef has posted an email conversation which he has carried on with Fleecy Moss because of the Microsoft announcements. Fleecy explained the reasons of the partnership with Microsoft and asks the users not to finish reading immidatialy and to see red if somebody says the word Microsoft but to understand that this partnership is necessary and good and will provide Amiga, Inc. with money to push forward the AmigaOS.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2002
Gernot Stühn (E-Mail)
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Update II to opinion poll of laser labelling
As we have already reported in February and at the beginning of March the company Lasertechnologie Winter offers the possibility to Amiga-groups of labelling things made of steel with logos and writing by laser. There have been some questions concerning this. Because of that Gernot Stühn has created a paket for download which contains a price list as well as examples.
Gernot wants to point out that this prices are net prices to which you have to add 16% value added tax.
This is short summary of the German article. If you want to get further information then please have a look at the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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OS 3.9 Boing Bag 2 available
Markus Nerding:
H&P is proud to announce the availability of Boing Bag 2 for AmigaOS
3.9. Boing Bag 3.9-2 contains many bug fixes, small enhancement and
new features in the areas multimedia (AMPlifier, PlayCD, sound
datatype), shell, Workbench (Find, AsyncWB, UnArc, XAD v10), ReAction
and harddisk support. The Boing Bag is delivered in three parts:
The main archive with all the files needed to update AmigaOS 3.9,
the translations into different languages and the contributions
(CDDB library, OpenURL, ClassAction). We want to thank all people
that made it possible. (ps)
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20.Mar.2002
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amiga-news.de: Short-dated mail problem
Because of a short-dated mail problem we presently cannot get any mail which has addressed to amiga-news.de addresses. Therefore please send your emails for amiga-news.de to petra.struck@online-club.de.
If you have sent emails after 11:00 p.m yesterday we would be grateful if you would send your email to the above mentioned address again.
Probably the problem will be solved this evening.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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