20.Nov.2001
Matthias Bethke (E-Mail)
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HSC (HTML-Pre-Prozessor) V0.921
HSC V0.921 was finished and can be downloaded along with the prefs update for
HTML 4.01 at the title link. For the present there are the source codes and documentation
only, again. But Amiga binaries for release are welcome.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
Petra Struck
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Update for our show report
Since I did not talked to Titan Computer on the show, I called Michael Garlich, today, to
be able to add the news from Titan Computer. The details described below have been added to
the show report (title link):
Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer
was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format.
The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by
bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do.
Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.
More applications under development:
The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to
the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS.
The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented.
Said to be finished until April 2002.
Games under development:
Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new
games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game
is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game
for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.
Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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MCP Version 1.35 released
Version 1.35 of MCP (MasterControlProgram) is released. Some bugs removed, the package updated.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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20.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)
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Installation manual for SUSE Linux 7.3 PPC for Amiga systems
Michael Heider published a German installation manual under the title link.
This manual does not deal with the new "Journaling Filesystems", so far.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
Costel Mincea (ANF)
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Mirror of the 3Sat report about the Amiga World 2001 (MPG-Video)
Stefan Robl captured the report about the Amiga World 2001 in Cologne and created
a MPEG video. Since he asked for a mirror I added the video to my short show report.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)
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Amiga 2001: Report and pictures by 'No Risc No Fun'
'No Risc No Fun' published a German show report and pictures of the show.
Additonally new Workbench screenshots and small ads have been published.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
3sat (ANF)
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3sat.online: AMIGA 2001 - broadcast of 19. November .2001
A written German version of the show report broadcast by "Neues... die Computershow" at 3SAT (German television station)
can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
William Bidgood (AmigaOpen-ML)
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AmigaDE: Coding GUI programs in VP - OpenWindow
William Bidgood has published the 'Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow', the first Tutorial of his 'Coding GUI programs in VP' series.
The text describes the opening of a window in VP-Assembler under Tao's Intent-Media-Environment.
At the Overview
of his GUI-Tutorials the sourcetexts of the forthcoming parts are available.
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20.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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AmigaPage: MP3 capture of the show report
There is a MP3 capture of the show report about the Amiga 2001 by "Neues... die Computershow"
ready for download.
Download: neues5.zip (3,4 MB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Nov.2001
Petra Struck
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AMIGA 2001: Gleanings by amiga-news.de (Update III)
The show AMIGA 2001,
which took place on 17th and 18th November 2001, was organized by
Falke Media
and was held at the Mediapark 6 in Cologne, Germany, on about 718 sq.yd.
exhibition space. By our count there were about 1,000 visitors on the show,
consuetudinary most of them came on Saturday.
bplan GmbH - Pegasos-System
Very much interesting was the first official presentation of the run capable Pegasos
machine by the bplan GmbH, utilizing
the operating system MorphOS.
Gerald Carda presented a test program to us which displayed plasma effects.
Unaccelerated (about the speed of 68050/50) this program generates 4 pictures per second (FPS).
The same program compiled for MorhpOS generates 192 FPS.
Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda told us about a number of between 100 and 200 developer
systems to be available from early January 2002. Interested developers might register using a
registration page at
bplan, before long. If there will be more registrations
than boards available, it will be selected by progam priority. The developers should send bug reports,
if there will occur problems.
Machines for end-users will follow about 8 - 12 weeks later. Those machines will cost about 1,000 Euro and
are planned to be delivered with the following equipment:
- 8 MB AGP graphic board
- 128 MB RAM
- DVD Drive
- 20 GB HD
- Mouse and Keyboard
The interesting point of MorhpOS for sure is, that existing PPC programs can be started
directly on this system. Companies like Titan-Computer and Epic interactive will extensively
adapt their programs to this system.
Haage&Partner - Amiga OS XL
Amiga OS XL,
the new super-fast Amiga emulators for x86 machines were presented on three
different computers at Haage&Partner.
The speed is impressing and faszinating at the same time.
Amiga OS XL consists of two emulator systems: AMIthlon and Amiga XL for QNX in a
bundle. The emulators are similar to each other in many parts, but there are basic
differences, too. With this prevalent Amiga 68k applications run 10 - 20 times faster on
current PC hardware than on a convetional 68060 systems. This tremendous speed is
achieved by a modified and accelerated emulator. With it one gets versions of PageStream,
ImageFX, ArtEffect, Cinema4D, Real3D, and any other program fast like turbo.
Haage&Partner's highlight is a x86 machine built into a luxury computer case of noble
design and with Amiga OS XL installed. The body of the computer was made of aluminium,
the front side is of azure plastic.
While talking to H&P they appeared to be surprised by the allmost all-time positive
visitors' response and amazed at the still great demand for information, though there have
been many press releases before. Sales could have been better, but satisfied.
Hyperion - AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC
Without doubt the most interesting thing on the second day of the show was our talk to
Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden of
Hyperion Entertainment about
AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It was determined and safe by contract that Hyperion will develop
AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired term of completion of an initial distributing version is
February 2002. This distributing version still will have parts of 68k code, which will be
handed in later by BoingBag updates when finished.
Hyperion will work together with bplan to make the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC running
on the Pegasos machine. Hyperion additionally talked to many other hardware
and software developers to make their products compatible, too. This gave a very positive sign,
because after a long period of time a joint line and goal is being followed, again.
Titan Computer - Update 20. November.2001
Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer
was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format.
The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by
bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do.
Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.
More applications under development:
The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to
the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS.
The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented.
Said to be finished until April 2002.
Games under development:
Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new
games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game
is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game
for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.
Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible.
DCE - G-REX
Thomas Dellert and Michael Göken of DCE
presented the PCI busboard G-Rex working in an A4000 with Cyberstrom 604/68060 and AmigaOS 3.9
as well as WarpUP.
An USB card for mouse and keyboard, a Voodoo graphic board (3/3000), a WIN-TV card with
radio tuner, and a sound card (Terratec 512i) were working on the PCI board. There are many good
reasons for this solution: Graphic speed, wheel mouse and multimedia keyboard, support of the USB
card, 100 MBit network card can be connected; all in all it became possible to use cheap generic PC hardware
by the PCI busboard G-Rex. The board is being offerd for A4000D/T and A1200.
Elbox - Mediator
Elbox presented their Mediator system.
The following models were shown:
- Mediator PCI ZIV
- Mediator PCI 1200
- Mediator PCI 4000
- Shark PPC G3/G4
Again the reasons mentioned regarding DCE match here. With help of a PCI busboard it is possible
to use cheap PCI hardware for various purposes.
Other Hardware-Products
Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers
showed us a pre-run model of the interface card VarioIO, which will be available before
Christmas, already.
Basing on a Logitech 2 button mouse Schönfeld developed a real Amiga / Atari mouse.
Also this production will start next days.
Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development
showed us the prototype of the Melody successor. This card will have the functions of
the Melody card plus the following specialities:
- MP3 audio not only can be decoded in real-time, but also encoded.
- Analog mixer function.
- Digital in/out (optical / coaxial)
Michael Böhmer showed his
USB controller Subway with which you can connect prevalent USB devices to the clock port of the
A1200. Up to four devices can be use without an additional USB hub. VMC started to develop drivers, already.
Currently drivers for mouse and keyboard are available. Drivers for printers, digital cameras, and scanners
are scheduled.
Other Software-Products
Amiga Forever 5.0
Michael Battilana of Cloanto
presented the new
Amiga Forever 5.0.
Amiga Forever is about an official licensed Amiga emulator package for Windows and
other platforms. Just put the CD into the drive, click on the icon and it runs. Eight different
emulation programs, all of the required Kickstart ROMs, Workbenchs, licenses, as well
as an all-around package with useful Amiga sofware are included.
Due to the implemented JIT compiler (just-in-time) version 5.0 is about
30 time faster than
Amiga Forever 4. The emulator comes on a CD containing the famous video
"The Deathbed Vigil" (1 h, 59 min.) and the video
"Jay Miner Speech" (49 min.).
But Amiga Forever 5.0 is available for download as online version, too.
epic interactive - THE FEEBLE FILES
epic announce THE FEEBLE FILES
for the Amiga. This game is about a cartoon adventure. Beside of the MorphOS port
there also will be an AmigaOS verison. The Amiga version will be available as
entirely localized versions in Engish and German (voice output). An Amiga with 4 MB graphic
board, 68060 or PPC, and at least 32 MB RAM is required.
Development of the Amiga version already started and epic hopes to be able
to deliver the finished product already before Christmas 2001.
Descent:Freespace
Hyperion
showed the new game Descent-Freespace. This game is about a
space shooter. The Amiga port of Freespace was finished at 99% and
will be available as 68k (with 3D hardware only) and PPC version from
H&P, soon. Those who ordered the game on the show got a free
demo CD for testing at home, already.
Project Crashsite
Markus Pohlmann (program) and Denis Comtesse (music)
are busy developing the science fiction role game
Project Crashsite.
The place of action in this game is a colonialized second system consiting
of two moons. The player takes the part of the "Future Security Corps" which
is the system's police.
The game's goal is to stabilize the unstable situation of this system. This is not easy to achieve,
due to a big conspiracy defering the relation of potency. The player is sent into the game almost
without any background information about the conspiracy to make him choose "pal and enemy"
himself, because depending on his choice the game becomes easier or more difficult.
Currently four people are working on this game, thus it is not possible to
announce some date of comlpetion at the time being.
PuzzleBOBS
In cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni of Nexus Development
the Amiga Arena
and Fun Time World present the game in
partnership. PuzzleBOBS is about a "Bust´n Move"
clone. From now on a demo version is available on
http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html
or from the support page at the Amiga Arena.
Technical backgrounds:
- PuzzleBOBS is completely configurable.
- Screenmode (AGA / OCS / ECS / Picasso96 or CyberGraphX compatible graphic boards).
- Bitplanes: up to 16- and 24Bit screens.
- Playable in three languages (German, Italian, English)
- Playable from HD, full or partly installation (min. 14 MB)
- Written in 100% assembler
- Import of own levels and sounds.
Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style,
and masses of other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire.
The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics.
There are bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The
game runs in full multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench.
When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode,
which is a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode
even every audio channel and colour palette get's released.
Miscellaneous
GGS Data - Amiga Show
Gunne Steen of the Swedish vendor GGS Data
informed us about an Amiga show in Göteborg, Sweden, planned to take place on
2. March 2002 (maybe also on 3. March 2002). The respective
website will be online in about seven days. Comanies and
user groups are heartily invited to attend the show as exhibitors.
Psyria - Music
Dennis Lohr gave us a CD on the show on which he eternalized his trance song for amiga-news.de. This song
also is available for download:
Amiga News Theme
(ca. 7 MB). Again thank you very much to Dennis for taking the trouble to create this song. This realy is a privilege to us!
Annex - Music
Daniel Schulz of Annex
assured us that the music group, known by several Amiga songs, still is alive.
Meantime many new pices of music were recored, extracts can be downloaded
as MP3.
Still the vocals are missing, because the band still is searching for a female singer.
She should have been singing in a band before, come from the dance/trance field, and
live in the Rhein-Main area (Germany). Interessted singers might contact
Daniel Schulz (include a demo if possible).
Two maxi-singles with three songs on each and maybe a long-player with all songs are
planned.
Virtual Dimension
The crew of Virtual Dimension
did many interviews and took many pictures for their show video. The video
is estimated to be published before Christmas.
Furthermore Virtual Dimension introduced the round and text basing space game
StarEmpire II
by Christian Becker . Up to 32 players are possible.
Airbrush Paradise Tingler
Rolf Tingler prettified diverse things with
different motives. Of course mainly motives with BoingBalls were desired. Starting from cell phones
thru Swiss pocket knives everything got "boinged" with airbrush technic.
Upshot:
Interesting hard- and software solutions were presented. There was good mood on the show
and intensive discussing everywhere. However, it is to be said that in spite of all those
innovations and in spite of the positive signs some certain questions were left without an
answer, cause neither Amiga Inc. nor Eytech or Escena attended the show. Thats where descriptions
regarding the plans of Amiga Inc. for the AmigaOne are required.
Finally one discerning word regarding the organization. The corridors along the
"focal points" on the upper floor were way to narrow. Occasionally there were such
big crowd that it was hard to get to the booths.
Christoph Dietz, Petra Struck as well as Meike Hilke (photos) were on the show for
amiga-news.de.
Update II: 20. November .2001
Link list for pictures and reports regarding the AMIGA 2001 show:
25.11.2001: Sebastien Jeudy Pictures
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (German subtitles)
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (English subtitles)
20.11.2001: Stefan Robl 3SatAmiga2001.mpg (German TV broadcast, 50 MB)
20.11.2001: Amiga Page neues5.zip (Voice record of the above broadcast, mp3 - 3,4 MB)
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Pictures
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Report (German)
20.11.2001: 3SAT Text report (German) about the German TV broadcast "Neues... die Computershow" (3Sat)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Show review
19.11.2001: Fun Time World: Pictures
19.11.2001: Costel Mincea Pictures and report (German and English)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 2. day
18.11.2001: amiga-topcool.de Report (German)
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 1
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 2
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pre-report - 2. Tag
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Markus Nerding
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Michael Garlich
18.11.2001: Elastic Image - Falcon Pictures
18.11.2001: Stefan Popp Report
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 1. Tages
18.11.2001: Marcus Neervoorts Amiga Page Pictures and report (German)
17.11.2001: amiga-info.net Pictures
17.11.2001: amiga-news.de First pre-report
Update III: 25. November .2001
Pictures from Sebastien Jeudy.(sd) (ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Nov.2001
Costel Mincea (ANF)
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Pictures of the Amiga 2001 by Costel Mincea
There are some photos of the exhibition made by Costel Mincea with some words about the depictured things.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.Nov.2001
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AMIGA 2001: pictures of the second day
The second part contains mainly pictures of hardware-devices. A selection of the photos made by Christoph Dietz and Michael Böhmer:
Amithlon on an expensive PC
02_Amithlon.jpg
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Elbox
03_Elbox1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox
04_Elbox2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox
05_Elbox3.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox
06_Elbox4.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox - Mediator
06a_Elbox5.jpg
(640 x 480) |
G-Rex
07_GRex.jpg
(640 x 480) |
G-Rex
08_GRex2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
G-Rex
08a_GRex.jpg
(640 x 480) |
H&P
09_H&P.jpg
(640 x 480) |
amiga-news.de interview with Hyperion
10_Hyperion_Int1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
....
11_Hyperion_Int2.jpg
(480 x 640) |
...
12_Hyperion_Int3.jpg
(480 x 640) |
...
13_Hyperion_Int4.jpg
(480 x 640) |
... still the same interview
14_Hyperion_Int5.jpg
(640 x 480) |
...
15_Hyperion_Int6.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Pegasos
17_Pegasos1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Pegasos tower (Vesalia)
18_Pegasos2.jpg
(480 x 640) |
Pegasos
20_Pegasos4.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Pegasos
21_Pegasos5.jpg
(640 x 480) |
USB-Subway (Prototype,
pre series, series build)
22_USB-SUBWAY~1.JPG
(640 x 407) |
... final product
23_USB-SUBWAY~2.JPG
(640 x 497) |
VarIO
24_VarIO.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Petra congratulating Rüdiger,
who got elected president
of the AC-DE
25_AC-DE_Vorstand.jpg
(480 x 640) |
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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ANN
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Event: Report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show'
A short report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' can be found under
the title link.
Randall Hughes, Amiga Inc., introduced the Sharp Zaurus PDA running with
the AmigaDE and some games on the show.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)
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Route planner: Update for AmiATLAS 6
The first update for the route planner 'AmiATLAS 6' was released and is
available for registered users from now.
For example the assign and path bugs were fixed and 'AmigaAUTO'
was re-integrated and is run capable again.
The first extensive update with e.g. multi-lingual version of AmiATLAS will be
released around the middle of December.
The updates are available for free thru 30. June 2002.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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AMIGA 2001: Pictures by AUG99
Matthias Münch wrote:
We've visited the Amiga Show 2001 in Cologne and put some
pictures
from it online.
Absolute highlights to us were the game Freespace and the presentation
of the Pegasos system at the bplan booth.
Unfortunately we found the show to be a little desaster regarding organization
and space utilisation.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Datatypes: akPNG V44.130
Andreas Kleinert released version 44.130 of his PNG datatype
'akPNG' for 68k- and PPC CPUs.
'akPNG' now utilzes version 1.2.0 of the 'libpng'.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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CD³²-/CDTV-Emulator: Screenshots of 'Akiko'
New screenshots of the Akiko emulator were just released
on the Airsoft Softwair web site.
Akiko emulates CD32 and CDTV systems under the Windows operating
system. Akiko is a Shareware emulator and can be ordered
now. A public demo version will be made available in near
future. If you order Akiko now, you'll get the latest
beta version which already runs most of the CD32/CDTV games.
The released screenshots show the now much more flexible
GUI and the CD audio player of the CD32 and CDTV.
(sd)
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18.Nov.2001
Petra Struck (ANF)
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AMIGA 2001: Pre-report 2. day by amiga-news.de
The most interesting of the second day of the show without doubt was our talk to
Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Joerg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about
AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It is fixed by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0
for PPC. Aspired date for completion is February 2002.
Hyperion will cooperate with bplan, to let the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC run on the Pegasos
machine, too. Additionally Hyperion talked to many other hardware and software
developers to keep their product compatible, too. This set a very positive
sign, cause after a long time a corporate line and goal is being followed, again.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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ANN
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Programming language PowerD V0.19
Today, Martin Kuchinka released alpha version 0.19 of the programming language 'PowerD'.
This early alpha version now supports creation of shared libraries.
Download: alpha.lzx (159K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
ANN
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AMIGA 2001: IRC conferences with Nerding and Garlich (Update)
English logfiles of the IRC conferences with Markus Nerding from Haage&Partner and Michael Garlich from Titan are available now. The log from Nerdings chat has been published on ANN, he answers questions about AmigaOS XL, AmigaOS V4.0, and H&P's work within those projects.
The log of Michael Garlich's chat has been provided to us by Jürgen 'Antibike' Lucas, Garlich answers questions about MorphOS, Pegasos, and the projects of Titan:
Amiga2001: Hello Michael
Titan: Hello Guys
Nico4k: Micheal, Could please describe your plans about MorphOS/Bplan ?
Nico4k: Plan = project if you prefer
Titan: Yes of course we have presented 4 new products for Morphos / Bplan e.g. Papyrus Office and
Nico4k: For example will Papyrus be ported on MorphOs ?
Nico4k: ok
Titan: and the new videosoft Motionstudio which support DV Video
Titan: and we have also presented Rage Hard a new multiplayer tactic shooter
Nico4k: Well, you said on MorphOS ML what there will something to connect an Amiga floppy drive on Bplan made by third part, Could you give more detail ?
Nico4k: Titan sound like great news
Titan: Yes, this connecter will be able to read write "old" Amiga DD and HD Floppydisc
Nico4k: to connect an "Amgia" drive or to use old disk with the Bplan one
Nico4k: Where it will connected on the motherboard ?
Titan: to connect an "old" Amiga drive may be later also PC-Floppy with modifications too
zacman: hi michael. do you plan to release your software together with the pegasos start or already before? and are there plans for bundeling your software with pegasos?
Titan: Nico4k there is a floppy connector for PC Floppys on the Bplan mainboard
Titan: zacman: Together with the sales start on Feb/March 2002
Burman: Titan Do you know anything about support for Newtek VideoToaster/Flyer HW. (PCI-card)...?
Titan: Burman: we have asked Newtek but nothing is clear atm it will take some further negotations ga
djnick: Hi Titan will there be newer / improved versions of Fantastic Dreams?
Titan: djnick: Yes this will be released later in 2002 ga
ID4: Titan Are you planign a game like QIII Arena?
Titan: ID4: We will release a pre-video of Rage Hard take a look and you will enjoy it :) ga
Bifford: hi there ;-) what sort of speeds can we expect from pegasos? in normal operation and in real-time with cpu hungry things like 3d graphics
Titan: Bifford: This really depends on the used CPU we think for DV Videoediting a 500 G4 is the minimum. ga
Nico4k: As you devellop for MorphOS/bPlan, I suppose you already use it on Bplan, So how does it work ? (sorry for all this MOS related question but I want to konw)
Titan: Nico4k It runs really good we are sadisfied with the support of the MOrphos Team. ga
AlphaFoX: hi Titan, two questions: 1. do you know if there will be an 'AGA-on-a-Card' for the Pegasos? 2. Will
Titan: port its software also to AmigaOS 4.x if available? GA
Titan: AlphaFoX: AGA card is atm not longer in development but if there is more demand we can think about such a solution
Titan: Regarding AmigaOS 4 we have nothing heard from Amiga no specs no hardware nothing simply. We cant say we will support it if we have no information at all. Ga
Bifford: do u have any other projects on the go atm (hard or software) or is it strictly MOS/pegasos ?
Titan: Bifford: we concentrate on what is available now this is Morphos and Pegasos ga
zacman: what graphics card do you recommend for games like Rage Hard? Do you know if it is correct that bplan has contacts to nvidia?
Titan: zacman: I cant commend this atm :) ga
Zarf: is RS on the show? ga :)
Titan: Zarf: No but Frank Mariak was here ga
TheFab: Titan hi, do you plan to develop new softare or buy license (like old software like lightwave...)
Titan: TheFab: new and licencing too. E.g. AlienNations and Majesty
ID4: Titan Will you software run on Elbox SharkPPC?
Titan: ID4: We are open to support everyone who wants Morphos. If Elbox support theMorphos team with hardware then there will be also a SharkPPC version ga
Zefram_: what is the maximum cpu speed we can expect on Pegasos, 1Ghz ?
Titan: Zefram_: its upto 2GHz atm but higher clockrate are also possible ga
zacman: isn't AlienNations and Majesty licensed by hyperion?
Titan: zacman: No Hyperion has not licenced AlienN or Majesty.
Titan: owns this licence ga
Zefram_: What will are the graphics cards drivers available for Pegasos, Matrox ?
Titan: Zefram_: In a few weeks there will be update on Morphos.de with all supported Gfx-boards. ga
Nico4k: Do you think Bplan will be able to release Pegasos in February/March 2001? Not a vapor this time ? (I have been so disppointed by previous project: AmigaNG, A1). Ps: A MOS/Bplan related question again ... But who do not believe that this time is the good one ...
Titan: Nico4k Bplan will make a pre-release before christmas 2001 and the main release is trageted for March 2002. ga
Titan: Zefram_: The morphos 3d api is NOT rave ga
Nico4k: Pre-release means Developper release ?
Titan: Nico4k Also for normal customers but there is only a limited stock of boards available. ga
AmiGR: Could you enlight us about which 3d api will be used?
Titan: AmiGR: Sorry atm not, please wait for the next official Morphos press release ga
JoeAFUA: Titan So will we be able to pre-order for the pre-release boards? If yes, when?
Titan: JoeAFUA: Take a look on the bplan website there will be an "order" form. ga
ID4: Titan nowdays.. What are your contacs with Amiga Inc?
Titan: ID4: we are in touch with Amiga but they follow different ways atm. We will see if we can cooparate in future or not. ga
Zefram_: Will it be possible to place a pre-order from local dealers ?
Titan: Zefram_: No, only direct from Bplan ga
darklite: will you only support morphos, or also os4? ga
Titan: darklite: We have no information about AmigaOS4 therefore i cant say yes or no . ga
ID4: Titan THANKS !!!! From me no more questions, I hope the best for your bussines ;)
Titan: ID4: Thanks. ga
Nico4k: Will Pegasos be shit with screen, keyboard, Hard drive, Or will it be possible to buy only the Motherboard ?
Amiga2001: ship instead of shit ;-)
Titan: Nico4k shit ??? ;)) Yes it will be shipped as complete system too this will be a g3 350, 128MB ram, gfx-board,hD and DVD-drive ga
Zefram_: Will there be a Pegasos motherboard with more than 3 PCI slots ?
Titan: Nico4k and motherboard only is also available .ga
Titan: Zefram_: Yes there is a adaptor for 4 slots available.
Nico4k: Are all drivers ready (I mean for internal ethernet, audio, USB ???)
Titan: Nico4k a lot of drivers are already finished but some are still in development. ga
Amiga2001: more questions?
Nico4k: Will we show amazing think on Bplan at the show like Divx movie ?
Titan: Nico4k We have shown DV editing on the show. DIVX is also possible but was not presented. ga
Amiga2001: Ok Guys, Michael has to go
Amiga2001: thx Michael
Update: (17.06.2016, cg)
Integrated the logfile provided by Jürgen Lucas into the news item. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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Update: V2.03 of the scanner colour correction software ICS
The free scanner colour correction software 'ICS' is available
in version 2.03 on
http://www.ics.coloraid.de.
This latest version will run until August 2002 and comes with some
enhancements for the supported file formats. Some TIFF pictures are
substantially faster loaded, now, and Mac binary files are recognized
automatically. Some small bugs have been fixed.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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