18.Nov.2001
Falcon (ANF)
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AMIGA 2001: Pictures from the Cologne show
Falcon published photos
from his today's show visitation on his homepage.
But, the comments (German) are sometimes meant in good fun.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Marcel Rohles (ANF)
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Game: New adventure game under development, nostalgica all around Space Rat
Marcel Rohles wrote:
Who did not fell for the adventures of old tradition in the style of
Lucas Arts or Sierra?
Probably nobody can exculpate himself from this. Everyone of us once was
bound to this fever to free Guybrush from an embarrassing situation, just to
see him stumbling right into the next one.
But, what has happened to this? What about the adventure genre? Does it
have to be 3D all the time?
If you are able to unhesitant and in peace of conscience say no to the latter question,
I recommend the page about 'Space-Rat Tukult'
warmly to you.
Yes, it's true - Space Rat will come back. A mind-blowing combination of
classic adventure game and Ziggy, the Space Rat, which enriched the ASM until lastly.
By some kind words certainly the team would be willing to develop for the Amiga, too.
The news of November 17 already question that, for example.
Last but not least I would like to cite the Tukult team, for I even wasn't able to say
it better: 'So, if you also belong to those people grown up with rubber chicken with snap-hooks
underside and jerrycans on Mars, it is to say that you've discoverd the Holy Grail by comming to
this page.'
There's only one thing left for me to say in this sense: 'Ziggy to the (A)miggy!'
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)
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BTTR: Golf - Leaderboard und World Class Leaderboard
The Back to the Roots team wrote:
In a surprising move Microsoft allowed us to include the
golf simulations from Access Software, a company which
they acquired two years ago. Enjoy 'Leaderboard' and 'World
Class Leaderboard'. 'Links' will come online soon, too.
Please visit BTTR for a full list of all games which have
been added or you'll miss masterpieces like Realms,
Thexder, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Super Skidmarks CD32 and
many others.
As usual many scene-demos, music files and pictures have
been added to our archive.
(sd)
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18.Nov.2001
Stefan Popp (E-Mail)
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AMIGA 2001: Report by Stefan Popp
Stefan Popp wrote:
Here my small report about the 2001 Amiga show (absolute subjective and incomplete).
There were more booths than the last time (about 12). Unfortunately they took that good
advantage of the exhibition space, that the walks between the booths were quite narrow, which
lead to bothering tailbacks.
Bplan
Like known Bplan is creating a PPC machine. This was presented run capable.
I've seen MorphOS. Reportedly Linux was no problem, too.
A complete machine (20GB HD, 128MB RAM, ...) was said to cost about 1,000 Euro.
But the boards would be available solitary, too (from distributors, but not from BPlan
directly).
The problem about this whole thing: The system still is at beta test stage, and if
someone would order a certain amount of boards today, delivery would not be
expected before end of 1Q02. Major reason for this: It is hard to get low quantities of
the components.
To the question, how much of the specifications have been revealed, I was told, that the
computer meets the Motorola Open-Bios conception and to adapt it to
other operating systems would be no problem.
BPlan's documents consciously don't mention the Amiga, to not tie the machine
down to some special field of application.
Elbox
Showed their busboards. Again, the TV card and the TV picture was
presented as Workbench background.
Unfortunately the SharkPPC was shown inside a show-case.
Of course I asked, why this card wasn't performed. The employee illustrated,
that though development would have been finished, but it would be to wait
for AmigaOS4.0. Ermh, if I consider this, my questions actually wasn't answered by this
statement. Allegedly the card would run with WarpOS drivers, too (so please, why to
wait for 4.0). Well, doesn't make any difference, isn't that important, anyway. :).
Haage & Partner
Actually just showed Amithlon and AmigaXL on three computers.
Meal booth
Meat balls, noodle salad, coffee, and Snikers at cheap prices.
The lectures (at least those I attended)
1) Amithlon - Jürgen Haage
In advance: The room was to narrow and of bad equipment. Reportedly this also was due
to the fact, that some parts did not survive the transport to Cologne. But, after some
bricolage everything worked.
Mr. Haage explained the step to develop the Amiga emulator with the good availability of
and the cheap prices for PC hardware.
The price for the complete package is at 299DM (incl. Kick 3.1, OS 3.9, QNX,
Arteffects, AmiWriter, and StormC3.0 ).
According to Mr. Haage the development of the emulation bases on UAE. Amithlon
utilizes a Linux kernel in addition, which was said to simplify the implementation of
additional hardware. AmigaXL uses QNX as 'hosting' operating system.
2) Hyperion about the subject Amiga 4.0
Amiga Ltd. did not attend the show. And to say it honestly, nobody missed
them. Some kind of announcement sure would have coused people to shake their heads, again.
The lecture was done by the CEO of Hyperion (I just forgot the name). The facts in short:
Hyperion and H&P obtaind a license for a PPC port.
With the help of many developers (with H&P and Hyperion as the core team)
the OS will be ported step by step. At first the TCP/IP stack, Exec and possibly DOS.
Furthermore there is a new library concept.
- In the beginning memory protection will be limited to prevent access to not allocated memory.
- New Warp3D will be implemented (with Matrox-, Permedia3-, and Radon1/2 support).
- WarpInput for input device management.
- Generic PCI drivers to better integrate the different PCI boards
(hardware drivers will have to be developed only once, at last).
- USB support.
- New TCP/IP stack ('Roadshow').
- Picasso96 as standard in a PPC native version.
- It's said to run on any PPC Amiga, while Blizzard cards might suffer from low performance.
- 68k emulation (JIT version) will be integrated.
- AmigaDE will be on it.
- Java was sait to come, too (but not already in the initial version).
- Price: In the range of AmigaOS V3.5 or V3.9.
- Amiga ZorroII and ZorroIII would be supported (at least the most prevalent cards).
- PPC datatypes.
- AHI for Sound.
A version would be available from January, already.
I could not keep more in mind. Maby someone would publish the Scala presentation.
The CEO of Hyperion wasn't very optimistic in regard of AmigaOne, Shark, BPlan.
One reason to decide to port 4.0 to existing hardware and to not let down the owners of PPC cards.
The OS theoretically runs on any PPC hardware.
But nothing was performed. Explanation: Due to the still bad look one would get a bad
impression, which just would cause people to review things from a wrong point of view.
At the booth of Haage&Partner I was told, that a PPC native version of the AmigaOS
would have been possible already two years ago, but Gateway would have disliked that.
I think this is nothing new, but to celebrate the day I once more was happy about it . (sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: Chat-Room
«The Virus Help Teams around the World has opened a chat room,
where you can chat with members of any Virus Help Team (if we
are in the room), and other members that might have some virus
problems. To coincide with being a browser-friendly environment,
we have not left any chatters hanging, without a way to join up with
us to chit-chat, the easy way.
No JavaScript or IRC program is required. All you need to do is
register your handle, with a password, and come on in. :-)
The Handle registration link, is found on the login page.
Please bear in mind, this is a family type chat room, and all normal
courtesies and language is expected. Thank you
The chat time is set at Eastern Standard Time (EST), so if you would
like to check the EST zone against your own, you can check the time
zone at the log-in page.
You can join our chat-room at this address:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/vht-chat.htm.
(Thanks to Charlene VHT-Canada, for setting this chat-room up)»
(sd)
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18.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)
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Live Amiga 2001 webcam at amigaforever.info
Pictures from Cloanto's live webcam at the Amiga 2001 show are online at amigaforever.info.
(ps)
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18.Nov.2001
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AMIGA 2001: The first day's pictures
Here you will find a selection of pictures from the first day of the AMIGA 2001 in Cologne, taken for amiga-news.de by Meike Hilke:
Maciek Binek (Elbox) |
Elbox Computer |
Projekt Crashsite - Denis Comtesse / Markus Pohlmann |
Vesalia Computer |
DCE |
Guido Does (Vesalia) |
Titan Computer / DCE |
bPlan / Titan Computer |
Gerald Carda (Development bPlan) |
Fabio Trotta (No Risc No Fun) |
Titan Computer |
Dennis Lohr (Psyria Music) |
DCE (Michael Göken present G-REX ) |
Virtual Dimension (Messe-Video) |
Amiga Club Deutschland |
COOLbits / APC&TCP |
Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) / Thomas Dellert (DCE) |
Thomas Dellert (DCE) / ? / Toni Ianiri (Power Computing) / Petra Struck |
Benno Markert / Martin Strobl (COOLbits) |
APC&TCP Team |
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Richard Small (GTI) |
"Orgasmatron" (GTI) |
Markus Nerding (H&P) |
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Bill Buck / Raquel Velasco / Petro Tyschtschenko |
Jürgen Haage (H&P) |
Sebastian Brylka (Fun Time World) / Olaf Köbnik (Amiga Arena) |
PEGASOS |
Michael Battilana (Cloanto) presents Amiga Forever 5.0 |
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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OOP4A: Update of the ODK released
Beside of little useful tools, e.g. to display formatted source code, there are
new classes and features for the pre-processor, again.
OOP4A is a system to bring the world of objects to not object oriented programming
languages. OOP4A is able to unite different programming languaes and offers
certain run-time protection machineries.
A continuously extended online documentation is all time available on the homepage.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Markus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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AMIGA 2001: Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (AmigaPage)
You will find pictures from the Amiga 2001 taken by Markus Neervoort, AmigaPage,
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Nov.2001
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AMIGA 2001: first report
To give you first impressions of the fair here's a beforehand report in which
we concentrate on current hardware products.
Highly interesting is the first official presentation of the Pegasos computer on
which the operating system MorphOS is running. Gerald Carda demonstrated us a
test program that displays plasma effects. Not accelerated (68060 speed) the
program displays 4 frames per second (FPS). The same program compiled for
MorphOS shows 192 FPS.
In conversation with Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda we have got still more
interesting information which we'll present comprehensive in our final
report. This beforehand:
Developer systems will be available in the beginning of January 2002, computers
for end users will follow appr. 8 -12 weeks later.
The highlight of Haage&Partner is a x86 computer built into a luxury tower
with stylish design and installed Amithlon. The corpus of the computer is of
aluminium, the front side is made of azure blue plastic.
Of course, the developers of the PCI busboards didn't miss the show, either.
Elbox presented their Mediator system and DCE the G-REX board.
Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development presented us the prototype of the Melody
successor. In addition to the functions of the Melody has this card the
following particularities:
- MP3 audios can not only be decoded in real time but alos encoded.
- Analogue mixer function
- Digital input/output (optical/coaxial)
Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers presented us a preseries model of the
interface card VarioIO that will be available before Christmas. The Delfina
could unfortunately not be shown.
Based on a Logitech 2 buttons mouse Schönfeld has developed a real Amiga resp.
Atari mouse. Here will the production begin in the next days, too.
Michael Böhmer presented his USB controller Subway with which you can connect
common USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four external devices
can be used without any additional hub. VMC has already started with the driver development. For now there are drivers for mouse and keyboard available. Planned
are drivers for printers, digital cameras and scanners. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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MagicMenu 2.33 released
Mario Cattaneo wrote:
Version 2.33 of MagicMenu fixes (hopefully) the problems with the PPC support
that was introduced in v2.32.
(mj) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Nowee (E-Mail)
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Amiga-Workbench: OverShaker - Themes Website Updated
The makers of the 'OverShaker' website dedicate their efforts to prettify the Amiga-Workbench.
There are themes for GUI tools like VisualPrefs and icon samples available for download. At the
'Work' area there are tips on how to deal with colours (palette) on the Workbench.
Somewhat few content on this site? Send your self-made themes and icons to
Nowee, the webmaster, to get the site filled with
content!
(mj) (Translation: mj)
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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)
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Amiga-Info.net: pictures directly from the fair
On Saturday between 10.00 and 12.00 o'clock there'll be the first pictures from the
Amiga 2001 at Amiga-Info.net. As we are at the fair the next update of our site
will be at around 18.00 o'clock.
P.S.: Hopefully the equipment won't fail.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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V3.61 of ISAcatweasel.device
Just before the finishing of the fair preparations we have managed to
release a new version of the ISAcatweasel.device.
The driver is downloadable from the support area (title link).
Note by Jens Schönfeld:
The driver is "blindly" programmed, I therefore ask the users with a working
Amithlon system to try the device. For the time being it is only possible to
read from disks, the writing is locked yet (floppy disks appear as being write
protected).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)
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amiga-topcool: interview with ACBB
Amiga-topcool has interviewed the PR director of the Amiga-Club-Berlin-Brandburg
(see title link). He's talking about the club life and his expectation of the
Amiga fair. Read also his sum up regarding the AmigaOS XL (he'd been one of the
first being able to test it). Additionally he's talking about the club's future
plans and what Thomas Nosutta is doing when he's not busy on his Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)
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SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC available
After a long waiting it is time again. SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC
is now available at SuSE GmbH and at the retailers.
8 CDs contain more than 2000 software packages. To mention only a small
selection of new software here are some examples:
KOffice, OpenOffice, Ogg/Vorbis (DivX), KDE 2.2.1, Gnome 1.4.1
But the distribution's highlight should be the availability of the filesystems
Ext3, JFS and ReiserFS (all journaling filesystems).
As in the past I'll create an installation guide for Amiga systems. In any case
I'll let you know when these are available on the net.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Club Deutschland
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Webcam and Shoutcast stream from the Amiga 2001
The Amiga-Club Germany offers some fair atmosphere to all interested people
staying at home:
Under 195.185.110.189:8000 is a Shoutcast audio stream available, under
http://www.a500.de/webcam/ a webcam recording at least the happenings on the
lower floor.
And there's an "official" Amiga2001 IRC channel (linux.us.amiganet.org #amiga
2001) where you can always reach us during the fair.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Nov.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback: One New And Three Update Maps Available
One new map has been added to the
Extra Maps Page,
along with three updated ones. Don't forget that you can buy your own
copy of the game anywhere in the world using our
secure on-line shop.
Also, Amigalien has announced that he has added French and German
discussion lists (as well as a textures page) to
his Payback site.
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Cloanto
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 5.0 / Cloanto at AMIGA 2001
Amiga Forever 5.0 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM, CD-ROM
Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform Online Edition.
Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two major
needs of many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga software and data
on non-Amiga hardware, and to share data between Amiga and other systems.
Additionally, software, tutorial and reference files which are likely to
be of interest to any Amiga enthusiast are included.
Features include:
- Just-in-time (JIT) version of emulation software, carefully
configured and publicly
benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous
versions of Amiga Forever
- Software Manager, an advanced content delivery system developed by
Cloanto, for easy and privacy-conscious management of all
emulation-related components (updates, downloads, news, etc.)
- New and fully licensed Picasso96 software (not a shareware version)
- All software tested on Windows XP
- All Amiga ROMs up to version 3.1 (the last ROM that will ever be
available for the "Classic Amiga"!)
- CDTV and CD³² boot ROMs and extended ROMs (can be used to
play CDTV and CD³² games, even booting directly from CD-ROM)*
- MPEG-1 videos: The Deathbed Vigil (one hour and 58 minutes, i.e. the full version of this "must have" video) and Jay Miner Speech (49
minutes)*
- GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS "3.5", "3.9" and "XL", but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB)
- Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa
- Amiga Explorer 4.0 (includes revolutionary self-install over serial
cable, plus new Cut, Copy, Paste functions)
- Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware)
- TurboText (exclusive latest version with stack problem fix)
- Personal Paint 7.1b
- Built-in support for ADZ and DMS disk image files
- Print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows,
bypassing parallel port emulation)
- New MenuBox launcher
- New emulation and Workbench configuration results in even faster
emulation of the Amiga CPU
- Latest version of WinUAE and WinFellow tested by Cloanto
- Dozens of other enhancements and add-ons (drag-and-drop LhA,
ToolManager, etc.)
Cloanto at Amiga 2001 (Köln)
Seminars will be held at 12:45 on both Saturday, November 17 and Sunday,
November 18. You are most welcome to join the presentation of Amiga Forever
5.0, the demos, and the debates. (ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Dino Papararo (E-Mail)
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Fractal Graphic: FlashMandelWOS 1.5
Version 1.5 of FlashMandelWOS
has been uploaded on Aminet in gfx/fract
directory. With FlashMandel you can create fractal graphics.
This has changed in the new version:
- FlashMandel has a new Reaction-GUI. You need OS3.5 (or higher) for this feature. Now it's possible to use all features only by mouse.
- Added support for Localization for Italian and German languages, others are welcome ;-).
- A new installer-script makes it easy to install, update or delete FlashMandel.
- The ppc-routines are reworked, so the speed increases about 12%.
- Better print-routines for better output, now should be printed the whole A4 paper.
- Some minor internal changes and optimizations increasing compatibility with all future Amiga clones ;-).
- and much more...
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
David McMinn (ANF)
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Blitz2000 site updated
The Blitz-2000 site has finally had its design updated. It is an unofficial support site for all you Blitz Basic 2 coders :)
Feedback on the site would be welcome, especially how easy it is to read and understand the Programming section. Note: the mailing list archives and search engine are currently broken.
(ps)
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