26.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interviews with Paul Heams and Michael Rybinski
Amiga Arena ? Interview with Paul Heams
Olaf Köbnik: ?Like many others of you I grew up with the C64 and when something has found its way into my memories it was the samples and soundtracks of games like "OutRun", "Rambo", "Declathon",
"Winter Games" or "Beach Head".
With ?Sid4Amiga? a comfortable player for these unforgettable C64-sounds is available! Paul Heams, the developer of "Sid4Amiga", talks about the further development of his programs and in really positive way about the AmigaDE; he is awaiting his pre-ordered AmigaOne SE. You will find the interview here.
Paul Heams is looking for beta testers for the new version of ?Sid4Amiga?, if you are interested, send an eMail to Paul.
Support the developers, and the developers are supporting you!
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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26.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Petunia maybe part of AmigaOS 4
µlmos Rajnai has developed a JIT-compiler named Project Petunia for PPC that shows really good performance. As the Author mentioned it could be part of AmigaOS 4. More details under the titlelink.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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26.Mar.2002
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Executive Update - Status
Executive Update - Amiga Status Announcement
Bill McEwen - March 25, 2002
Greetings once again - To One and All:
Fresh from a fantastic showing at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco,
where Amiga Anywhere wowed and amazed commentators, developers and potential
customers alike, I wanted to take the time to get the Amiga community caught
up on our flagship project, the AmigaOS.
Contrary to the nonsense that is being spread about by a few very noisy people,
the AmigaOS is more than alive and well and we have very exciting plans for
the future with more hardware designs and exciting new features. We have very
long term life and long term goals for this amazing product.
We look to the AmigaOS as the desktop solution and Amiga Anywhere as the embedded
solution for Cell Phones, PDA's, Set Top Boxes, Internet Appliances and some
other new products. When AmigaOS 5.0 hits the road then you will see these code
bases merging and the two worlds will allow the content to co-mingle and proliferate.
Another way to view this is that AmigaOS is for the Amiga Community whereas
Amiga Anywhere introduces Amiga to the rest of the world. It is then that they can join
us and be part of the Amiga community. It is all about market share
and the opportunity to further expand and grow the Amiga market and user base.
As you know, we took the strategic decision to outsource development of the
next generation hardware and compatible AmigaOS version. This was done to allow
us to concentrate on AmigaOS5, our long term goal, whilst also providing a compelling
and high performance path from AmigaOS3. What this does is give the Amiga community
a product that they can be proud of in the short and medium term.
The hardware contract was awarded to Eyetech Limited, of Stokesley, England,
and the software contract was awarded to Hyperion Entertainment, of Belgium.
Both companies have an impressive reputation for quality products and a deep
commitment to the Amiga, having played a major part in keeping the platform
going through the last five years.
These two contracts underlie the first new combined Amiga hardware and software
product in over 8 years; the AmigaOne, a product whose features and functions
were set after looking at the thousands of mails, articles and comments generated
by the community. A PowerPC (PPC) CPU was asked for and it was selected. The
ability to take advantage of the latest video and audio technology was demanded
and it was successively built in. USB support was talked about and we obliged.
A better filesystem, integrated TCP/IP and 3D, an enhanced Workbench; all have
been designed into AmigaOS4.
The excitement is growing. The AmigaOne is already running PPC Linux, AmigaOS4
is progressing rapidly on 68K Amigas equipped with PPC accelerators and integration
is currently underway. Orders for developer boards are already being taken and
many developers are working closely with the AmigaOS4 team to ensure that their
applications are optimized for the future.
It has been a long haul and there have been many bumps on the road. With the
world economy starting to move out of recession, and the success of Amiga Anywhere,
Amiga Inc is moving from strength to strength. It could not have been done without
the support and commitment of the Amiga community and we want the community
to know that we share its support and commitment to the success of both our
product lines, Amiga Anywhere and the AmigaOS.
Hardware Update
Last month, Fleecy Moss, CTO of Amiga Inc visited the headquarters of Eyetech
and spent a few hours with Eyetech management, engineers and their newest addition,
a PPC mother board that will be the at the heart of the AmigaOne. Running a
version of PPC Linux specially designed for it to permit evaluation, the board
and its peripherals performed flawlessly with the system being very responsive,
boding well for an optimised and efficient AmigaOS in the future.
The original hardware plan for the AmigaOne was to create two products, a motherboard
with an integrated A1200 interface, allowing for the first version of AmigaOS4
(4.0) to be completed quickly by still having access to the AA chipset, and
a second product, a standalone board that would work with the second version
of AmigaOS4 (4.2), which would be independent of the AA chipset.
Over the past 6 months, advances in hardware have meant that the second product
is actually going to be available before the first. As a result, the hardware
strategy has been updated. The AmigaOne will be built around a revision 1.5
motherboard. This board will be completely independent of the AA chipset and
will not need a connected A1200 in order to run AmigaOS4. There will be no motherboard
with an integrated A1200 connector. Instead, Eyetech are planning on developing
a PCI to A1200 product for those who wish to run older Amiga software that requires
direct access to the AA chipset. In effect, the A1200 will be like just another
graphics card plugged into the PCI bus of the AmigaOne.
Using this approach it is also technically feasible to use the PCI-cable interface
to connect to an A3/4000 via the CPU slot connector - and even to an A2000 via
a CPU pin header. These interface variations may follow later, depending on
demand.
The current hardware specification for the AmigaOne is as follows;
- CPU - any G3/G4 to the currently available speeds
- Memory - 2 133 MHz SDRAM slots for upto 2GB
- Graphics support - (2x AGP plus 66MHz PCI)
- Card expansion - 4 PCI slots
- Legacy Support
- FDD
- Serial
- Parallel
- PS2 keyboard and mouse
- Integrated Systems support
- 2 USB connectors plus 2 headers
- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- AC97 (Audio)
- MC97 (Data/Fax/Modem)
- UDMA 100/ATAPI - 2 channels (4 devices)
Beginning on the 18th of March, developers and dealers can order developer
versions of the boards, allowing them to evaluate the product and to be prepared
for optimising their applications for AmigaOS4. To order a developer board,
please use Eyetech's
online shop.
For more information on the AmigaOne hardware, please visit Eyetech's
AmigaOne pages.
Software Update
Hyperion Entertainment have assembled the cream of Amiga developers to work
on AmigaOS4.0, guaranteeing both high quality and high performance in the final
product and ensuring that AmigaOS4.0 and beyond will be a true Amiga product,
created with due care and attention to the philosophy and practices that have
always made Amiga solutions the envy of the world.
AmigaOS4.0 is currently being developed on Amiga 4000s equipped with CSPPC
accelerators, and integration is now underway on the AmigaOne 1:5 boards provided
by Eyetech.
The aim of AmigaOS4.0 is five fold;
- to provide a transition from the 68k based custom chipset Amiga hardware
to PPC based pluggable sub system hardware
- to provide as great a degree of backwards compatibility as is possible
- to optimise the AmigaOS for its new hardware foundation
- to move the AmigaOS forwards, offering new features and high performance
all wrapped up in the traditional easy to use Amiga architecture
- to prepare the way for AmigaOS5
Its feature set as currently defined is as follows;
Exec SG (Second Generation) - A rearchitectured and reimplemented Exec
core services manager that allows the deployment of AmigaOS4 to any suitable
PPC hardware including but not limited to the Amiga One, Blizzard PPC, Cyberstorm
PPC, Shark PPC from Elbox, Pegasos from bPlan etc.
The following features are being added;
- Hardware abstraction layer
- Virtual memory
- New library interface
- Resource tracking and management
- Optional memory protection
- WarpOS backwards compatibility
68K emulation - This is key to AmigaOS4.0 as many of the less performance
crucial OS elements, as well as the entire body of Amiga third party applications
will require it in order to work. The latest Just In Time (JIT) techniques are
being employed to ensure maximum performance, with hand tuning of many areas
to accelerate the Amiga architecture.
PPC native connectivity suite - this was the most requested feature
from the community, integrated connectivity, and given its importance, we trusted
its development to Olaf Barthel, one of the most respected Amiga developers
in the world. He has not disappointed, with benchmarks suggesting that the new
AmigaOS4 solution is faster than any other available solution. Its feature set
includes;
- implemented as a single shared library
- compatible with the Amiga standard "bsdsocket" API, as defined
by the AmiTCP product
- enhanced API for more control over the inner workings and configuration
- built-in DHCP client
- Internet Superserver (inetd)
- IP filtering and networking address translation
- drivers for asynchronous PPP (dial-up networking) and PPP over Ethernet
- SSLv2
PPC native reimplementation of the Amiga File System (FFS2) - FFS2
is a fully backwards compatible re-implementation in C of the Fast File System.
It supports media greater than 4 GBytes, and a new variant of the file/directory
name storage format which allows for long file names (up to 108 characters).
Salvage and recovery tools will also be included that support both FFS2 and
SFS.
PPC native CD file system - the feature set for this second most requested
feature of AmigaOS4 is as follows;
- Joiliet support
- RockRidge support
- CDDA support
- multi-session support
- Video CD support
We also intend to add support for mixed audio/data CD's and support for the
HFS and HFS+ filesystem as used by Apple.
PPC native RTG system - with the AmigaOne supporting both AGP and PCI
graphics cards, the ReTargetable Graphics system is crucial to high performance.
Redesigned and reimplemented for AmigaOS4 and the AmigaOne, a team lead by the
creators of the Picasso96 solution will ensure the hightest quality graphics
display for the consumer, whether gamer, artist or general user. In addition,
hand tuned drivers are being written to support the following graphics cards,
with more to be announced later.
- Permedia 2
- Permedia 3
- Voodoo 3
- Matrox G450/G550
- ATI Radeon
Amiga3D - developed from the pioneering Warp3D solution offered by Hyperion
and now available on both the AmigaOS and AmigaDE, this 3D solution offers the
power and simplicity of a low level 3D interface, allowing developers to create
blazingly fast 3D applications without the overhead of a fatter 3D solution
such as OpenGL. Hand tuned hardware drivers for the above mentioned graphics
cards will provide even higher performance. Whoever said games are irrelevant
on the Amiga is in for a surprise.
OpenGL 1.3 support (mesa 4.0) - whilst Ami3D allows the developer to
get down close to the metal, OpenGL is the standard for a full 3D solution.
AmigaOS4.0 will offer OpenGL1.3 support by implementing mesa 4.0 on top of Ami3D,
giving developers the 3D choice of performance and feature set.
PPC native RTA - With the introduction of PCI card support, the Amiga
community now has access to the latest in audio hardware. Given its excellent
collection of audio software, such as Audio Evolution, Samplitude and others,
this AHI compatible solution will allow the AmigaOne to become a major force
in audio creation. With support for most existing Amiga audio cards as well
as Soundblaster live and Soundblaster 128, the future has never sounded so good.
PPC native GUI system - the entire look and feel of AmigaOS is being
reworked;
Intuition is being rewritten and enhanced, to give a PPC native foundation
to the AmigaOS interactive environment.
Reaction, the BOOPSI based component GUI system has been reimplemented and
enhanced for seamless integration with the AmigaOS.
Many new classes are being developed whilst drag and drop will be supported
across the system.
Matt Chaput, designer of the famous GlowIcons is taking a leading role in the
look and feel, ensuring that AmigaOS4 will look both modern and unique.
A PPC version of AmiDock will also be included, ensuring that Workbench continues
to be the most usable environment of all the desktop platforms.
PPC native CLI - the tool of choice will be removed of annoying bugs
and enhanced to make it even more useful.
SCSI interface - SCSI will be supported, allowing the many devices already
owned by Amigans to be used, but with particular attention being paid to SCSI
devices that use the SCRIPTS controller, for the next generation of devices.
AmigaInput - A new framework for managing input devices is being designed
as a prelude to the requirements for AmigaOS5. This will appear in AmigaOS4
and become a crucial part of the developing Amiga solution.
USB - USB was to be introduced in AmigaOS4.2 but given the developemtent
of the 1:5 motherboard, parts of it will be introduced in AmigaOS4.0. Currently
this will allow USB mice and keyboards to be supported but, if all goes well,
new devices will be added as they become available, with scanner support next
in line.
PPC datatypes - the datatypes system has been implemented and extended
within the AmigaDE, demonstrating our commitment to superior Amiga technology.
With the move to PPC, the system and many of the datatypes will also be moved
across, increasing their performance dramatically.
PPC Storage Toolbox - a set of functions allowing for the management
of fixed and removable storage devices.
PPC font engine - surprisingly one of the most requested features for
AmigaOS4.0, a brand new font engine will be added to the AmigaOS, providing
support for both True Type and Open Type fonts. In addition, bullet.library
and diskfont.library will be reimplemented and enhanced and a contract with
Agfa for 12 truetype fonts has been negotiated.
In addition, many Amiga developers are coming forwards and demonstrating their
commitment to the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4; in particular
- 1. Special PPC native OEM version of Ibrowse 2.3
- PPC native version of MUI for applications that require it
- Special PPC native lite version of Audio Evolution
All in all, AmigaOS4.0 is shaping up to be a very compelling and exciting product
which in combination with the AmigaOne will provide the product that we have
been waiting so long to offer to the Amiga community.
Whilst the the changed schedule for the AmigaOne boards is very welcome, it
has added AmigaOS4.2 work to the schedule for AmigaOS4.0, namely the abstraction
of the AA chipset. Coupled with the need to reimplement certain features included
by Haage and Partner in AmigaOS3.5 and AmigaOS3.9, this may push out the final
consumer delivery date; an analysis is underway at the moment to determine this.
The Amiga community is owed a great debt by Amiga Inc and, with the success
of AmigaDE now allowing us to build revenues and increase resources, the long
layed plans for the future of both the AmigaDE and the AmigaOS can be put into
action. Thanks for all your support and here's to the future,
Signed on behalf of Amiga Inc, Eyetech, Hyperion and all those working together
for the future of the Amiga
Bill McEwen
CEO
Amiga Inc
Snoqualmie, WA
(ps)
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26.Mar.2002
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: Winners of the DBPro-Compo
Today the competitors and their songs are announced:
1-4 Channel Compo
bLa - "Track Him !" 25 voices
Zenu - "Haavat & Arvet" 06 voices
Blakkhar - "my1.4chdbm" 05 voices
5-16 Channel Compo
breed - "Interferences" 21 Voices
Tripper - "Shooting Star" 08 Voices
pSYCHo - "Design Schranz" 04 Voices
Acid Head - "Trip256" 03 Voices
BlakKhar - "Commercial Pianopower" 02 Voices
Varthall - "The Digital Machine" 02 Voices
Zenu - "Hidious" 02 Voices
Acid Frog - "Digi Boosts" 01 Voices
Lord Kodomo - "Partikelstrom" 01 Voices
17-32 Channel Compo
bLa - "JazzyBeat" 19 Voices
Tripper - "Long Journey" 09 Voices
pSYCHo - "Death Vision" 06 Voices
Thanks to all competitors! (ps) (Translation: gf)
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26.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Pegasos Board will be delivered in week 20 (midth of May)
As stated in an eMail of Mr Oliver Does, Vesalia Computer, bplan GmbH has announced to deliver the Pegasos board in week 20.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2002
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Bonds-guidebook available
After a longer interception the guide for Bonds is now available. The pdf-file will be mailed to every registered user who included his email-address. A HTML and AmigaGuide version will soon be available.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.Mar.2002
Jim Steichen, author of AmigaTalk (ANF)
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AmigaTalk V2.0 uploaded to Aminet
V2.0 of AmigaTalk has been uploaded (and is now available) on Aminet.
AmigaTalk is a port of the Little Smalltalk interpreter that has been
greatly expanded (it's no longer "Little"!) & given an Amiga GUI.
More classes have been added & a bug in the Tags Class has been corrected.
You can also obtain the program from the
AmigaTalk Homepage.
Download: amigatalk.lha (ps)
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25.Mar.2002
Dino Papararo (ANF)
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New 2.0 update of FlashMandelWOS released on Aminet
A new version of FlashMandelWOS has been uploaded on Aminet
in gfx/fract directory. As soon as possible the
support site
will be updated too.
The following are the major features of FlashMandelWOS:
- Full functional program for rendering Mandelbrot & Julia fractals
with different exponents.
- Support for ECS/AGA/RTG and 68020+/PPC Amiga computers or
compatible systems.
- Uses new Reaction GUI, Arexx port, Localization, and has an
Installer script also to easy update or uninstall the program.
- C & Asm 68k/PPC sources included !
- It's really fast even on old Amigas and should be also
compatible with all new Amiga clones ;-)
- It's really cool and free ;-)
FlashMandelWOS is Giftware, if you like it send nice goodies to
author just like $ or gold medals ;-))
The major feature of the new 2.0 version is the ability to make
animations and save them in an easy way using the new arexx port,
some example scripts and a guide about all Arexx commands of
FlashMandelWOS was created.
What's changed in 2.0 update:
- Added an ARexx port. (Edgar Schwan)
- Created a new guide to explain all features of FlashMandelWOS
ARexx port. (Edgar Schwan)
- Created some example Arexx scripts. (Edgar Schwan)
- Compiled a special no 68k fpu version for owners of Blizzard
MC040LC/PPC603e, it runs also on other systems without an FPU.
(ps)
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25.Mar.2002
Jens Tietze (ANF)
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AmigaEmulation.de - A page about emulation
Jens Tietze:
The redesign of our homepage is now finished. We offer a closer look onto all classic computers and programs as well as downloads for Amiga and PC. Furthermore we have a forum, picturecollection, videodownloads, specs of the different Amiga models and a huge linkcollection for you.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.Mar.2002
jockl (ANF)
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SUN: platform-independend gaming
After all SUN now has a own "Play Anywhere" strategy. It is based on Java will offer a complete games engine.
More details can be found at the titlelink.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.Mar.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Matay: Frühe Beta des Apus-PPC-Kernels für Prometheus
An early beta version of the Apus-PPC-kernel by Matay for the Prometheus-PCI-board is now available. There are some points that have to be taken into account when testing the kernel.
Download: vmlinuz.dat,
Instruktionen zur Installation
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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24.Mar.2002
Martin Steigerwald (E-Mail)
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Martin Steigerwald's new web site online
Martin Steigerwald has changed his web site completely so that it now
also offers an Amiga section. You can find WBTools, some configurations
and scripts.
Depending on the browser setting the web site comes up in German or English.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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A+ News 24.03.02 - AMIGAplus 03/2002
Because of some technical problems at the printer's the delivery of the
current AMIGAplus and st-computer has been delayed. The issue will be sent
to all subscribers on Monday, 25 March 2002 and should be with you by
Wednesday, 27 March 2002. The following issue 04/2002 has not been affected
by this delay. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please read
letters from Goukassian, the director of the
publishing house.
The AMIGAplus 03/2002 contains the following subjects among other things:
- AmigaOS 4: Interview with Ben Hermans
- Status Report: AmigaOS 4 decoded
- New: Pro Station Audio 5
- Who ist nun who: AMIGAplus-Redaktion
- Workshop: Web encoding with .htaccess
- Workshop: QNX for beginners
- Shareware Special: The best on 6 pages
- Scenish: Mad Wizards
- u. v. m.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Slashdot
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GameSpy: Sony Talks About Their R&D Efforts
In the above mentioned English article at GameSpy
Dave 'Fargo' Kosak talks about the presentation of Shin'ichi Okamoto, Senior
Vice President and CTO of Sony Computer Entertainment, at the
Game Developers Conference 2002.
Okamoto began his speech with a quotation from Arthur C. Clarke:
"The future is not to be forecast, but created."
Afterwards he talked about parallel computers, Internet, Linux and the operation of PS2
with gestures recorded by a USB camera. (sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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HTML tool: HSC V0.923
On 22 March 2002 Matthias Bethke released version 0.923 of the HTML preprocessor
'HSC' ('HTML Sucks Completely'). This update contains some fixes related to
XHTML:
- LOWERCASETAGS/XHTML now also applies to ENUM attribute strings
- XHTML now implies QUOTESTYLE=double
- removed some unused debug code
This version is only available as a source code release. It should be possible
to compile the source code on all systems, which have been supported so far
(tested with SuSE Linux V7.3 and HP/UX V10.20).
The archive also includes the latest prefs and macro files.
Download: hsc-0.923-src.tar.bz2 (377K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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Demos: ADA updated - D.O.S., Lethal Exit, Visison etc.
On 23 March 2002 the Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) was updated. The
following things were added:
Showbase Shape/C-lous,
D.O.S./Andromeda,
Lethal Exit/Digital,
a slide show by Lazur called
5977/Scoopex
and Vision/Oxygene.
Download links for the music by
Mayhem/Appendix, 3D-demo II/Anarchy, Seeing is believing/Anarchy, Sequential/Andromeda
and Mindriot/Andromeda were added.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
CyberGFX
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CyberGraphX: Help for disappearing screen modes for OS3.9 BoingBag2
After the installation of OS3.0 BoingBag2 it can happen that all screen
modes disappear. This is due to the same error that happened a few months
ago when a newer version of BlizKick was released. The problem is related to
a version check of exec. library. Newer exec versions (> v40) cause problems
when scanning the display database for cgxsystem.library less than
version 42.6. Any exec.library patch or hack with a version > v40 runs
into this problem.
By means of the cgxsystem.library from V42.7 this will get fixed.
This version is enclosed with
CGX from V4.2pre11
(for normal Amiga graphic boards) and
CGX from V4.3beta R3
(for G-Rex-PCI). (sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Amiga Flame
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Games: Paul Burkey about Amiga ports
In Usenet
Paul Burkey of Epic Interactive (Foundation, Feeble Files) discussed the
difficulties encountered when porting a game to the Amiga.
Porting Feebles Files to Amiga was possible because Epic had already ported
this game for MacOS so that the costs for licensing and development had
already been covered. This means that the Amiga version just needs to cover
the costs for duplication (and some additional time for development).
That's why ports exclusively for Amiga aren't possible since developers
need additional Mac (or Console) ports in order to survive.
Paul Burkey suggested that two new game ports to MacOS may be ported
to Amiga and he didn't rule out games for AmigaOne.»
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Fair: Amiga Expo and Lightwave
From 29-31 March 2002 the Amiga Expo is taking place in the Marriott Hunt
Valley Inn in Maryland. Also Tim Jenison, founder and Technical Manager
of NewTek, will be present in order to present the video keynote.
Besides the Keyframe Magazine, which deals with Lightwave, will be represented
at the fair.
Further information about this and other subjects are available via the
title link.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Matthias Acklow (ANF)
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Patch: BlizKick V1.24rc3
On 23 March 2002 Harry 'Piru' Sintonen released version V1.2rc3 of
BlizKick. This version offers improved romfixes for the OS3.9 BoingBag2.
- Fixed V45 exec.library of AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag2. It uses quite crude
hack to enable it, you'd better have true 32bit memory that doesn't go
away at reset for this to work. Works on my BlizzPPC, Wizor's & SMF^'s
Blizzard 1260, Cyber2th's CSMkII and Zerohero's Blizzard 2060 at
least. YMMV. Note that this hack automatically fixes some buggy programs
that peek $f80000 for version information. Thanks to my impatient
betatesters: Wizor, Jagge, Cyber2th, Zerohero, SMF^ and Lizard.
Special thanks to Lizard for bugging me about this. Also thanks to
everyone who mailed me about the problem.
- Improved romfixes module: No longer fails whole module if some
sub-patch fails. Now it should be possible to use romfixes as the last
module.
- Modified files since 1.24rc2:
BlizKick.readme
BlizKick/BlizKick
BlizKick/BlizKick.ASM
BlizKick/Modules/romfixes
BlizKick/Modules/romfixes.ASM
Download:
BlizKick-1.24rc3.lha (258K),
Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)
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23.Mar.2002
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Poll: What do you think about the AmigaOneG3-SE?
On request by 'Flash' we have started a new poll that you can find following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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