19.Oct.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Sharp announces developer version of their SL5000 PDA for November
Sharp has announced the developer version of their SL5000 PDAs for November
In the article at the title link there is some concrete information about the
operating system of the PDA for the first time. The PDA will use besides the
already known Embedix Linux kernel by Lineo
Qt embedded and the QT Palmtop Environment
by Trolltech as well as the browser
Opera. Further, a Java VM is integrated.
The article does not mention who provides the JVM. Probably TAO's Java VM
won't be used but rather the Jeode Java VM by Insignia,
at least this is mentioned on the Sharp developer page for the PDA.
Then the Sharp PDA would use the system
of the partners Lineo - Trolltech - Insignia - Opera already announced on the Lineo page.
Original article at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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18.Oct.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: Initial impressions of the design case for AmigaOne
Eyetech has released first impressions of the design case for the AmigaOne, exclusively developed for Eyetech by the French industry designers Naya.
Some of Naya's employees are still active Amigans who seem to have contacted
Ben Yoris (Hyperion) who then arranged contact with Eyetech.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail)
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XTeam Software Solution: Geometry Studio Demo
In the section download
is present a preview of Geometry Studio (need a mpeg player).
(ps)
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18.Oct.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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Hyperion announce Haage & Partner to distribute "Freespace: The Great War"
18-October-2001: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that
Haage&Partner will act as Publisher of the Amiga conversion of "Freespace,
The Great War".
The eagerly awaited game which was originally developed by Volition and
published by Interplay, is arguably the best space-combat simulator ever to
grace the Amiga platform and offers an unparalleled mix of top-notch
graphics, plot and gameplay.
Freespace will run on any PPC equipped Amiga with at least 64 MB of memory
or a 68060 based Amiga with 3D accelerator (e.g. Voodoo 3, Permedia 2).
More information can be found at
freespace.haage-partner.de.
Freespace can already be pre-ordered from the H&P online store at
www.amiga-shop.de .
Users who pro-order their copy of Freespace will receive their copy before
anyone else. (ps)
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18.Oct.2001
Paul Qureshi (ANF)
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AmiMPC - Amiga in-car MP3 Player
The AmiMPC website is now available at:
http://amimpc.world3.net.
Check out the Amiga in-car MP3 player based on an A1200 and
MAS Player Pro!
(ps)
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18.Oct.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)
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DCE: GREX 4000D shipping from today
From today the GREX 4000D is in stock and available. Today the first boards have been
delivered to our distributor Vesalia Computer.
The boards also are being offered by Virtualworks on the
Pianeta 2001 in Empoli, Italy.
Moreover we have created a new driver pack for free use
(download: grexdriver2_2.lzh).
To make our board PCI compatible with the Pegasos board the CyberPCI library version 2.2 is
available now (download:
flash_20011012.lha).
This new flash for the first time enables Voodoo3 users to display the 15KHz start screen
directly on the Voodoo card after system start. For this new graphic boards drivers and new
68060 libraries are required and made available
(download: GREX68K_libraryV2_2.lha).
Also new is the graphic board driver for the SIS 6326 VGA card supporting both of the
RAM variants of this card. For sound support we are offering drivers for the approved
Terratec sound cards PCI 128 and PCI 512. Compatible cards with the chip sets
ESS SOLO ONE (PCI 128) as well as Fortem edia 801 (PCI 512) can be used, too.
Both of the drivers support use with AHI. All of the drivers will be available for download from
tomorrow.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - update announcement
A new update for the Amiga astronomy program "Digital Almanac III" version 4.2
can be expected bevore long. A certain release date was not determined, yet.
New features:
- Enhanced formula for the moon's brightness.
- The DA screen now is puclic (public screen).
- The Bayer/Flamsteed database has been enhanced.
- Online information of several hundreds of stars!
- Selection of different Internet sites for constellation descriptions via context menu in the star window.
Bugfixes:
- Small bug in the accuracy matrix fixed (but did not affect due to low values).
- URLs in the planet window called wrong Internet sites.
- When opening a project file on program start (CLI or WB) accidently a screen mode request
was done.
If Harald Frank will agree and there will be time enough DA III perhaps will be presented
running on the new Amithlon/AmigaXL on the Amiga meeting of the Amiga-Freunde-Pfalz
in Mutterstadt, Germany, on 19. Oktober to show the new emulator's performance by an
scientific program. But this cannot be guaranteed at this time and cannot be checked before
the meeting.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Oct.2001
T-Online Computer
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Virus warning for Windows users: New virus "Anthrax-Info" (update)
»According to the US software company Kaspersky Labs a new e-mail worm
"Anthrax-Info" appeared on Tuesday abusing the fact that Amerikan's are afraid of
anthrax infection these a days, but did not do any damage up to now. «
Complete article see title link (German).
(ps)
(Translation: mj)
Update 18. October 2001:
This link for our English speaking readers to find information about this new worm: www.kaspersky.com
(mj)
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18.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Rafal Kaczmarczyk (developer of XBaze)
Recently XBaze version 7 was released being a very flexible database with
an easy field and display editor. The Amiga Arena talked to the developer
Rafal Kaczmarczyk.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Oct.2001
Tao Group
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Tao Group establish subsidary in Japan
»Tokyo, Japan, 17th October 2001: UK-based Tao Group today announces
the establishment of its new subsidiary, Tao Japan K.K, headquartered in
Tokyo. It will be responsible for continuing the growth that Tao's Japanese
business has already enjoyed. It will also work closely with both Tao's
partners and the Open Contents Platform Association (OCPA) - the open
standards body using Tao's 'intent®' software platform as a core component
for home and mobile connected appliances.«
Complete article see title link. (ps)
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17.Oct.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Homepage is being updated again
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2001
XBaze
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Database: XBaze V7.01
On 14th of October 2001 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.01 of the database called 'XBaze'. In this version a bug of the popup-menu in the view-editor has been fixed.
Download:
2b_XBaze-7.lha (539 KB) - Full archive
2b_XBaze-7.01-upd.lha (113 KB) - Update of V7
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: New packets for WHDLoad (until 16.10.2001)
Games which have been previously made for disks can be now installed to harddrive with the help of WHDLoad. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 16.10.01 new: Synthesis (Underground) done by Psygore
- 16.10.01 new: Torvak the Warrior (Core Design) done by CFOU!
- 16.10.01 new: Thunder Jaws (Tengen/Domark) done by CFOU!
- 16.10.01 new: Side Winder (Arcadia Software) done by CFOU!
- 16.10.01 new: Scramble Spirits (Grandslam/Teque) done by Bored Seal
- 16.10.01 improved: Project X (Team 17) automatic load/save highscores
- 16.10.01 new: Joyride (Phenomena) done by Psygore
- 16.10.01 new: Peter Beardsley's International Football (Teque/Grandslam) done by Codetapper
- 16.10.01 fixed: Navy Seals (Ocean) graphics problem fixed
- 16.10.01 fixed: Jumping Jack Son (Infrogrames) highscores and some gfx fixed
- 16.10.01 new: Barbarian 2 (Psygnosis/Pandemonium) done by CFOU!
- 16.10.01 new: Banshee (Core Design) done by JOTD
- 16.10.01 new: The Last Sun Demo (Ackerlight) done by Psygore
- 10.10.01 new: Vindicators (Tengen/Domark) done by CFOU!
- 10.10.01 new: Vigilante (US Gold/Emerald Software) done by CFOU!
- 09.10.01 improved: Zool (Gremlin) all disk versions supported too
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2001
SonicPulse
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Music: SoundFX News
Stefan Kost writes: "There have not been information for a long time so I want to make up for it. Currently I rewrite a lot of code and I fix bugs. Without it a version 5 would be impossible. There will also be some nice new features."
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2001
Golem
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Golem: IBM introduces 1 GHz PowerPC-processor
»Power consumption lowered at 50 percent, efficiency incresed at 30 percent
At the microprocessor forum in California IBM has introduced its previously fastest PowerPC-processor called PowerPC 750FX. It is supossed to have a clock rate up to 1 GHz and for the first time is supoosed to unify copper cable, Silicon-on-Insulator-(SoI-) and low-k-dialectric-technologies in one chip.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article.
Another link to this topic:
Heise: PowerPC G3 with 1 GHz
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2001
Jörg Brenner (ANF)
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Lexsite: New update of hardware-website
Today Lexsite hase been updated.
The following things have been added:
Description, photos and gallery-pictures of
- Commodore A1060 Sidecar (XT-emulator for A1000)
- Kupke Golem HD 3000 (ST-506-controller for Zorro II)
- Datel Action Replay III A2000 (Freezer)
Photos and gallery-pictures of
- GVP EGS 28/24 Spectrum (RTG-graphic adapter)
- Village Tronic Picasso II (RTG-graphic adapter)
- X-Pert Merlin (RTG-graphic adapter)
- HK-Computer Vector Connection (interface adapter)
- RBM IOBlix (interface adapter)
Description of
- ArMax oMniBus (RTG-graphic adapter)
In addition all extensions which are supported by Linux and/or NetBSD have got a corresponding comment. By the way we are still looking for Amiga magazines from 1987 to 1993 especially from England and USA - we would be pleased if some poeple could give support to us. Generally scans of the according magazines are sufficient. Please contact us before sending it.
Last but not least: Thanks a lot to all which have sent us pictures of extensions!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Dave Haynie's Garage Sale
According to Czech Amiga NewsDave Haynie,
Chief Technology Officer, Merlancia Industries (formerly working at Commodore), offers several Amiga hardware for sale under the title link. Different prototypes also belong to it:
PIOS One-Board, A3000+-Board and Amiga-Gemini (Multiprozessor-Amiga based on A3000).
(sd)
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17.Oct.2001
Amiga Inc.
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AmigaDE Shop: New products
In the AmigaDE shop two new products can be found called 'BoXiKoN' and 'Solitaire Pulsar'. 'BoXiKoN' is a Tetris-clone and 'Solitaire Pulsar' is a packet of ten different Solitaire-variants.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2001
H. Ogino (ANF)
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Japan Amiga User Group's (JAUG) homepage finished
JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP'S (JAUG) homepage has been finished today. Here you can
find everything about Amiga in Japan. "Amiga history in Japan", "Amiga softwares
in Japan", "Amiga games in Japan", "Amiga power users now in Japan" as well as
"Say it in Japanese", "Japanese culture", etc. On "Event" page JAUG is planning to
have event titled "simultanous interpret chat" between Japanese Amiga users and
non-Japanese Amiga users. This is the first time project worldwidely. Please visit
the homepage and enjoy Japan!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9433
Richard H. Poser has published beta version 0.9433 of the AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with the America Online Instant-Messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history from where you can get the changes which have been made:
- Fixed bug, I hope, having to do with some URLs containing the '&'
replacement for '&'
- Still working on new stuff in internal Alpha...
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2001
Jörn-Erik Burkert (E-Mail)
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Amiga magazine: Article of issues 9 and 10 online
On the website some readings of the issues 9/2001 and 10/2001 are online. Among other things you can read the full MySQL-course and a workshop for programming sound.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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