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03.Aug.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)


epic interactive: last status update for 'The Feeble Files' on Amiga
So far we have received 328 preorders for a possible port of the cartoon adventure 'The Feeble Files' to the Amiga. Required are 400 to make a port of this great adventure possible. The preorder campaign will run until 12.8.2001. If we have received 400 preorders for this game by then, we will port it to the Amiga and it should be available within 4-6 weeks.

In order to run The Feeble Files on your Amiga you will need either a 68060 or a PPC CPU, 32 MByte Ram and a 4 MByte gfx board.

You can place your preorder directly with us by sending an e-mail to order@epic-interactive.com or the following dealers who will accept preorders for it:

Germany: KDH Datentechnik

Italy: Virtual Works

England: Amiga Games and Eyetech

Netherlands: Computer City
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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03.Aug.2001
Bright Light Software (ANF)


Development and bugfixing suspended
Frank Fenn writes:
Because of a defect motherboard, the development and bugfixing is suspended for some time. If anybody should have a RAMSEY (A3000) in revision 4 and doesn't need it anymore, please contact me.

Affected from this is software as for example Audiomaster, WBStartup, TIDesigner, AmiMTI and many other small tools. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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02.Aug.2001
Matthias Gietzelt (ANF)


Programming language: Emperor V4.1
Emperor is an object oriented programming language enabling programming of applications both for the new AmigaOS 3.9 and for AmigaOS 2.0 in the easiest way. Standard GUI elements, windows, menus, requesters, ASL requesters, ReAction and GadTools gadgets are integrated just by mouse-clicks and can be programmed using macro functions and the integrated text editor.

The gadgets can communicate with each other by the so called interconnection maps implemented, without typing even one line of source code. Creating of locale catalogs and variables, implementing libraries, etc. is likewise easy.

Emperor has an easy to see though and user friendly ReAction interface and comes with an extended online manual in ".guide" format. Thus programming the new AmigaOS becomes child's play!

Emperor has the following features:
  • Direct visualising available for every element.
  • Generates C/C++- source code.
  • Integrated text editor
  • StormC connection via ARexx
  • Generates source code for AmigaOS 2.0, AmigaOS 3.9 or in mixed mode
  • Transparent layout
  • GIFTWARE
Characteristics of Emperor v4.1:
  • French catalog added (written by Olivier Martin - many thanks!).
  • Translation for prepared menus and gadgets added.
  • Attributes for text editor, speed-bar, and space-gadget added.
  • New and specialized type of requester (Reaction style).
  • ARexx script changed / problems while project transfer fixed.
  • Fix positions for attribute window removed.
  • Problem with preview window fixed.
  • Array for speed-bar buttons added.
  • Problems with arrays fixed.
  • Adjustment fields extended with GadTools gadgets.
  • Configurable path to includes and libs.
  • Main window layout changed (no overlapping gadgets, anymore).
  • Requester added, if menu item "New" was chosen.
  • Error fixed in menu item "New".
  • Error fixed in menu item "Delete".
  • Selectable generation of macro functions.
  • Generated source code is considerably smaller by omitting unused macro functions (about 40 %).
  • Initially opened window for own project can be chosen.
  • Error fixed in source code when generated with one gadget only.
  • Specific project directory configurable.
  • Error fixed while opening old projects containing a slider.
  • Creation of locale files selectable.
  • Creation of Storm projects selectable.
  • Text editor now operates changes made correctly.
  • Saving of character lines containing a linefeed ('\n') is no problem, anymore.
  • amigaguide.library opened due to starting problems.
Version 4.1 of the program is available from Aminet "dev/c".
Download: Emperor_v4.1.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Golem IT-News für Profis


Golem: Amithlon - PC emulates Amiga
The new Amiga emulator by Harald Frank and Bernd Meyer for x86 does not only attract Amiga specific media. Today Golem.de reports about it:

»Amiga Inc. announce Amiga emulator for PC users
On the American Amiga show "AmiWest", which took place in the end of July, again Bill McEwen presented some news and among those an emulation software by the code name of "Amithlon". Thanks to fast x86 processors applications shall run definite faster than on Amiga bolides with Motorola's 68060 processor.«
Complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


First official beta version of the X-Surf PPPoE driver
From now on the first public beta version of the xsurfadsl.device is available for download at the support section. Only experienced users should try the installation, since inconvenient patches are necessary because of limitation of the known TCP/IP stacks. An extended readme file informs you about the details.

Download: dsl-beta.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Andy Silva (ANF)


Tool: Amiga Filterium - extendable ripper and filetype tool
With the following message Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo introduces his new, flexible and extendable datatype processor and Ripper.

Short: flexible filetype processor and ripper
Uploader: silva@psi5.com
Author: silva@psi5.com (Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo)
Type: util/misc
Version: 1.1, 7/2001
Requires: - any amiga or uae
- filerequester library like asl, reqtools or arp
- optionally xfd/xpk/xad/xvs...
Distribution: NoCD

features overview:
  • knows, rips, converts a total value of about 400 game/demo scene related file types (about 100 self, others by accessing libraries)
  • find music, pictures, text and much more in memory, in files like demos/intros, packed files, etc
  • decrunch with XFD/XAD/XPK (all modes) recursively
  • convert mods back to Protracker (like Prowizard)
  • rip loaders and intros from boot loading games/demos
  • monitor files or memory as bitplane/hex/asc, mark ranges
  • decrypt data with eor
  • use your preferred file requester
  • check for viruses with XVS
  • highly configurable
  • interactive and automatically processing by script language


This introduces a _new_ standard of file type identification and ripper all in one. It works together with standard interfaces like shell (give arguments in command line), Workbench (set tooltypes), opus, arexx and appicon.

Highly configurable, for example: you can specify file type specific save directories and output filename extensions. Macros for custom processing methods can be defined.

It can invoke external programs, example: send the outputs to Multiview.

Amiga Filterium is based on plugins. Programmers can easily extend the power of this tool by writing more afilter-plugins. If you are interested:

The purpose of this release is to motivate YOU to try this out and maybe join to the development team as author of a plugin, beta tester or other. Its totally actual and maybe there was never something else like this. Lets get this chance! Lets make it top and standard!
(ps)

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02.Aug.2001
Scalos


Workbench replacement: Scalos 1.3 Beta (Version 40.7)
Beta version 40.7 of the extended Workbench replacement Scalos 1.3 was released. The changes made can be taken from the history. If you will happend to find bugs, please make an entry in the bug report.

Download: ScalosBeta.lha (140 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Suite101/John Chandler


John Chandler: What Are The Odds...?
Monthly John Chandler writes an article about the subject Amiga at Suite101.com. In the current one Chandler deals with the announcements Amiga Inc. did on the AmiWest, especially with the new Amiga emulator for x86 platforms 'Amithlon'. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
amiga.org


AmiWest: Pictures by Harv Laser
Harv Laser of AmigaZone released some pictures from the AmiWest show. The appendant readme file contains picture descriptions. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Aug.2001
Alexander Lohrmann (ANF)


Amiga Inc.: AmiWest Show Report
Amiga put online the announcements done on the AmiWest show in form of a report:

Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc., made a number of exciting announcements at the AmiWest show in Sacramento, California. The AmiWest show is organized by the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club and is one of the largest Amiga shows on the West Coast.

The following products were announced for release by Q4, 2001.  
  • AmigaOne PPC Computer
  • AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System
  • Amiga x86 (x86 Amiga emulator)
  • AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack

AmigaOne PPC Computer

The AmigaOne PPC computer, being built by Eyetech in the UK, is based on Zico specs published by Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc.'s flagship next generation desktop continues to advance towards the first real new hardware for the Amiga community in over 6 years. Excitement is mounting at both the Amiga office and around the world as Amigans realize that the long wait will soon be over. All partners in the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0 project have been working hard to meet deadlines as the project moves into its final stages.

Bill also announced that the two week slip in schedule for the Eyetech AmigaOne which had appeared in June had now been pulled back to just one week. The new Rev B boards are functioning well, with live PCI and AGP slots and work is now focused on bringing the board and the CPU cards together. The first week of August will see full system boards delivered to the AmigaOS4 team for preparations to move AmigaOS4.0 from the test bed machines.

For more details regarding the AmigaOne, see http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/ or http://www.amiga.com/products/one/.

AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System

The AmigaOS 4.0 project is being managed by Amiga Inc. in partnership with both Haage-Partner (H&P) who are porting the main portions of the new PPC OS and Hyperion Software who are doing 3D and Mesa for the new PPC Operating System.

AmigaOS 4.0, which will only run on the Eyetech AmigaOne, is moving forward nicely. With the help of Amiga partners such as Matay, much of the development work has used a combination of A3/4000s, Matay Prometheus PCI bridge boards, Cyberstorm PPC Accelerators and H&P's StormC v4.

This has allowed the project to move forwards without having to wait for an actual AmigaOne board to become available. Consequently, the new file system and the core of the TCP/IP stack were completed over two weeks ago. The PPC 68K emulator is being fine-tuned and the new Amiga PCI library is being profiled against the Eyetech AmigaOne live PCI slots. The RTG system is being enhanced, with a full PPC implementation of the extended and most used functions, to allow for stunning 2D and 3D performance. In addition, the Voodoo 3 drivers have been completed and the G450 drivers are under development, to be followed by drivers for the new Matrox G550.

While the porting of the 68K elements of the AmigaOS will continue through AmigaOS4.2 and AmigaOS4.5, the first set of libraries ported to PPC will ensure that AmigaOS offers impressive increases in stability, functionality and speed.

Once the test bed to AmigaOne migration has been completed, Amiga will provide screenshots and benchmarks of the new system. These reports are aimed at demonstrating the superiority of the AmigaOne and will give the community an early look at the features of the product. In addition, Eyetech has commissioned some very impressive case designs that will give the AmigaOne the looks to go along with its brains.

Amiga x86

Amiga was able to demonstrate a prototype of an x86 emulator for 68K for the AmigaOS3.x series. This product, codenamed Amithlon, provides only RTG compatibility and is being targeted at providing a first step from x86 towards the AmigaOne. Amithlon is self-booting from CD on almost any x86 laptop or PC desktop. It is able to run most RTG programs at speeds beyond that of a standard Amiga 060 chipset. Several developers at the AmiWest show tried their applications on Amithlon and commented that they had never seen such fast run times before on a 68060 Amiga computer. Amithlon is being written by Harald Frank and Bernie Meyer.

Many Amigans who left when Commodore went bankrupt have been looking for a way to run their favorite Amiga applications on newer hardware. The purpose of the emulator is to allow x86 PC owners to experience the benefits of running the AmigaOS and applications without having to make a potentially risky purchase of an entire machine. Marketing and community will then slowly draw these people towards the superiority of an AmigaOne with a full native OS running on it, along with the latest applications. Amithlon is not a port of the AmigaOS and there are currently no plans to see the AmigaOS ported to x86.

More details of the Amithlon including feature lists and release dates will be published shortly.

AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack

AmigaDE 1.0 (based on Elate/Intent by Tao Group) is being programmed by more than 30 programmers worldwide under the management of Amiga Inc. There are over 3000 developers currently signed up to produce content for various digital devices from cell phones, PDA’s, handhelds, and even desktop computers running AmigaDE 1.0. Amiga also announced the first set of games that is being released under the moniker “Series Zero” to Sharp for use on the Zaurus handheld devices. The 5 games that are being released as part of the Series Zero Game Pack are:

Batty by Titan Computers
Boxikon by e.p.i.c. interactive gmbh
Convex by Zeoneo
Linea by Titan Computers
Solitaire by John Harris (ps)

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02.Aug.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


Mail client: SimpleMail 0.8 Alpha
I just uploaded the new SimpleMail alpha version. The new features:
  • SSL support for POP3 servers. AmiSSL required!
  • POP3 servers can be deactivated individually.
  • Menu bar in main window.
  • A new setting for the reading window allows smilies to be replaced by pictures (pictures by Richard Kapp).
  • Now groups can be deleted, too.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)


Datatype: akPNG V44.100 published
Andreas R. Kleinert has published version 44.100 of his akPNG datatype. You can download several processor versions.

With the help of so called datatypes you can display different datatypes with different programs. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - new packets
WHDLoad can install games on the harddrive which were formerly meant to be used on disks. The following new packets have been added:

  • 31.07.01 improved: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
  • 30.07.01 new: Alien Syndrome (SEGA)
  • 29.07.01 new: Crystal Hammer (Hannover)
  • 29.07.01 new: Pipe Mania (Empire/The Assembly Line)
  • 29.07.01 new: Jaws (Screen 7 Ltd/Intelligent Design)
  • 29.07.01 new: Huckleberry Hound (Alternative)
  • 29.07.01 new: The Halley Project (Mindscape)
  • 29.07.01 updated: Pipe Dream (Lucasfilm)
  • 29.07.01 improved: Operation Stealth (Delphine)
  • 29.07.01 new: Morph (Millennium/Flair)
  • 27.07.01 new: Cruise for a Corpse (Delphine Software)
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
http://www.amiga-news.net (ANF)


Amiga-News.net online again
From today on Amiga-News.net is online again. Amiga-News.net is not a seperate site but rather a survey of several news-sites. Here you can daily read the headlines of several news-sites. Thus you have a quick overall view about the current news.

Remark: This site was not made by amiga-news.de.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
Oliver Roberts (ANF)


WarpTIFF-introduction - New TIFF-picture datatype
Oliver Roberts introduces his new WarpTIFF freeware-datatype with the following message. This new datatype can also read pictures which were made under TIFF specifications 5.0 and 6.0. The datatype was optimized for 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS and is of course very fast.

It follows the original message:

The first release of WarpTIFF is now available - a new freeware datatype capable of reading 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec images, available in optimized 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS versions. Needless to say, WarpTIFF is fast - very fast in fact :) Full feature list below. WarpDTPrefs has also been updated to support WarpTIFF.

  • Supports 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec, including Packbits, Thunderscan, CCITT (fax), Pixar, LogLuv (CIE and SGILog) and Deflate (zip) encodings, and uncompressed files. LZW and JPEG encodings are currently unsupported
  • Image types supported include RGB (24-bit and 48-bit), palette based and greyscale (1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit)
  • Supports image data organized as strips, tiles or separate components
  • Highly optimized datatype dispatch engine, and fast TIFF decoder, resulting in a very efficient, compact and quick TIFF datatype
  • Asynchronous file i/o and double buffering techniques (WarpOS only), which speeds up image decoding
  • Optimized versions for 68020, 030, 040 and 060
  • PowerPC support with native WarpOS and native MorphOS versions
  • Alter the pen allocation precision when images are remapped to an 8-bit display
  • Specific support for the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype, when available
  • The dithering feature of the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype can be configured to your liking (e.g. disabled for 15/16-bit displays)
  • Based on libtiff 3.5.6-beta and zlib 1.1.3


As some of you will know, WarpTIFF has been in development (on and off) for some time, but it's ready at last :) It already handles a more comprehensive coverage of various TIFF encodings than other TIFF datatypes, but if you should find some TIFF images that don't work properly with WarpTIFF, then please let me know and I'll try to add support for them. Likewise, if you need support for JPEG encoded TIFFs, let me know.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001



Aminet Uploads until 01.08.2001
gkartei.lha          biz/dbase  224K+Powerful and easy database.
Regist_II.lha        biz/dbase  133K+V0.2A user-administration for programmer
DOpusSpawn.lha       biz/dopus   13M+Opus Mangellan 2 - SPAWN - Themes
AmBoS-Demo.lha       comm/ambos 1.6M+AmBoS 2.98 - Full/demo archive
DalHelper.lha        comm/irc    44K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
YahooGpScan1_2.lha   comm/mail    5K+Strips YahooGroup adverts.         V1.2
cim_v3_update.lha    comm/misc  214K+CIM - Caller Id Manager V3.702 r42 - ONL
facts.lha            comm/tcp    94K+V4.6 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
netspeechd.lha       comm/tcp     7K+Outputs incomming packets to speak:
DKG-Neo2.lha         demo/aga   1.0M+Neo2 final version (30/07/01) by Darkage
Eurochart43b.lha     demo/mag   804K+The Official Eurochart #43 by DEPTH & IR
Emperor_v4.1.lha     dev/c      671K+Object-oriented programming language
fractal.lha          dev/c       69K+OpenGL C Source: Mandelbrot and Julia fr
freetype_S4.lha      dev/c      458K+Freetype link library for StormC 4
koch.lha             dev/c       18K+OpenGL Source: Koch's Snowflake
fd2pragma.lha        dev/misc   191K+V2.136 create pragma, inline, ... files
AmigaArena3.lha      docs/misc   44K+Amiga Arena News German/English
BraSwos2001.lha      game/data    6K+Brazilian league update for swos
ETWBrasil2001.lha    game/data    7K+Brazilian league update for Eat The Whis
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data   10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (29 July
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  91K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
LyraKeyMap_dk.lha    hard/drivr   9K+Danish Lyra PC keyboard layout v1.01
WhirlDisc.lha        misc/edu    77K+World Book encyclopaedia viewer. BETA
LC2.lha              misc/misc  274K+Aussie Lotto checker/database.
Squid.lha            misc/sci    95K+A squid's skin simulator
OldSchoolMania.lha   mods/hardc 168K+Old School hardcore MOD by REVOLVER DOG 
Budbrain1.lha        mods/pro   645K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 1
Budbrain2.lha        mods/pro   408K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 2
Amoralplay1.5.lha    mus/play   125K+A no fuss multiformat audio player.
EP_MMDC.lha          mus/play     9K+EaglePlayer "MMDC" external replayer
EP_MWalker.lha       mus/play     8K+EaglePlayer "Martin Walker" external rep
EP_RobHubbard.lha    mus/play     8K+EaglePlayer "Rob Hubbard" external repla
EP_TFMX.lha          mus/play    10K+EaglePlayer "TFMX" external replayer
QSID.lha             mus/play    10K+Small & Simple SID player
raycat.lha           pix/misc   186K+[ancor] a new picture
sg-strip_15.lha      pix/misc    45K+[ancor] StarGround strip 15
sg-strip_16.lha      pix/misc    46K+[ancor] StarGround strip 16
doomicon.lha         pix/mwb     66K+Neat MWB icon for Doom
(as) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9429
Richard H. Poser has published betaversion 0.9429 of AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with the America Online Instant-messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history of which you can recognize the changes which were made:

  • Custom interests can now be set and/or searched for by selecting <custom> and inputting into the resulting input box. (BTW: Setting AmigAIM would allow anybody using AmigAIM to search for others :-)
  • I think I fixed a problem that could occur if program is told to shutdown via the Close Gadget while a service/search is logging in.
  • Added an Online check capability, it can now check if a named interface is online and give an error if an attempt to go online is done and the interface is offline.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help Denmark: Installer of SMEG 2 Virus found
The installer of the new 'SMEG 2' linkvirus was found. It was found in the faked keyfiles of MiamiDLX but it is possibly included in other files. Now read the details:

»We have now found the installer of the new 'SMEG 2' linkvirus. If the info text from the archive is correct, the 'SMEG 2' virus has been around since February 2001.

The archive has only been on Elite BBS'es or Elite websites.

Jan Erik Olausen the programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library, has made a recog for the virus, but is having problems with removing the virus from memory. As soon as Jan has solved this virus, a new update of xvs.library will be released.

There is "NO" cure for this virus right now. But with the help of the program 'Safe v16.2', you can find infected files, but not remove the virus, you will have to replace the infected files with new clean files. This virus will infect everything that is executed. And on my test A1200 over 200 files, was infected in under 5 minutes.

The programmer of 'Safe' (Zbigniew Trzcionkowski) has written this about the new 'SMEG 2' virus:

Released probably by mistake. Non crypted version of the next one. Code is almost equal to old SMEG, but this time author invented NEW WAY of patching PRIVATE routine of device task. This routine handles receiving of dos packets.
Virus patch is stealing packets and sending them to the supervisor task called 'SMG'. I have never seen such advanced digging code that works properly. This means also that no visible changes are seen in the system beside one new task.
I have noticed that freezing of SMG task stops spreading of the virus, so at the moment Safe does only that. I will add removal of the 'magic' patches if I found it necessary.
File repair was as easy as Penetrator files - one move.l 4.w,a6 was replaced with jump to virus.

Hidden text (decoder was included, but not used by virus code):

Smeg! it's a Hostile TakeOver! (Again!)
And just when you thought it was safe..
Flake and Georg have left the building!
-= On Tour 1995-2001 =-

This is what we know of the virus:

Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus name.... : SMEG 2a & SMEG 2b
Virus size.... : SMEG 2a: 1556 bytes & SMEG 2b: 1604 bytes
Archive name.. : MIAMIDLX.LZX
Archive size.. : 3.427 bytes (lzx packed)

There might just be more installers of the 'SMEG 2' virus out there, so do not install these fake-keys.

Thank to the person that send the archive to Jan Erik Olausen, and to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for the first test of this virus.« (ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jul.2001
Bebits (Seite über BeOS) (ANF)


New hardware platform for AmigaOS & AmigaDE
Marcel Maurmann wrote:
Here I found a link with an interesting news from Merlancia about a hardware platform with 1 or 2 G4 PowerPC processors. It should run with: MorphOS, QNX, BeOS and -AmigaOS-/AmigaDE. The product series is called Merlancia Multimedia Computer - Torro Series (System name: Apocolyps (Desktop/ASTB)).

Another link: BeGroovy: BeOS on a G4?
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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31.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Rüdiger Hanke
A detailed and interesting interview with Rüdiger Hanke, developer of "Excult" and several filters, e.g. for PageStream etc., is online in english. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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31.Jul.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


Amiga Inc. with Sharp at IFA
Thomas Nosutta wrote:
Bill McEwen announces in a keynote from Saturday that Amiga, Inc. will be present together with Sharp on the IFA (Berlin from 25.08.-02.09.2001) (ps) (Translation: gf)

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