10.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III Xmas update
Because of illness the release of the Xmas update for DA3 may be delayed some
days. Because of the same reason a preview of the new features was only possible
just now.
Under the title link you can find a summary of the new features including
screenshots.
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10.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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WOA: Eyetech - AmigaOne/AmigaDE-Roadmap
Together with the partners Escena
(Martin Schueler) and Hyperion Software
(further partners are Haage&Partner (68k-Emulation) and Michael Rock(PCI/AGP-Resource
Libraries and other things)) the company Eyetech has presented their plans
regarding their AmigaOne computer. Fun Time World has released
diagrams
of this presentation.
The AmigaOne 1200 from Eyetech is a PPC-PCI-system plus Amga hardware and
68k-emulation for use with Amiga Classic and AmigaDE software. The PPC system is
based on the project
Brainstormer by Escena.
Via the WestBridge
of the system the A1200, IDE, 1 AGP- and 4 PCI-slots are connected. Via the
NorthBridge the PPC-cpu, the SDRAM, USB and two more PCI-slots. The
PPC
can access the Amiga-system (custom chips, Chip RAM, Amiga I/O).
On starting the system the FlashROM is copied into the SDRAM, then the
68k-emulator respectively the AmigaDE is activated and the Amiga Classic'
booted. The Amiga Classic software now runs on top of the 68k-emulation on the
AmigaOne-board (PPC) and uses the Amiga specific hardware of the integrated
A1200-board.
The emulation only emulates the command set of the 68k-cpu-line but no Amiga
specific hardware like AGA which exists as real hardware. The emulation is
memory intensive and therefore needs a fast memory access. For a step-by-step
adaption of the software 'in-line'-PPC-code is supported.
The following planned schedule is given in the diagrams.
Amiga Classic
- 12/2000: developer system
- 01/2001: Classic OS-drivers
- 01/2001: 680x0-emulator
- 02/2001: system for betatesters
- 1. quarter 2001: finished version of the AmigaOne A1200 for use as extended
Amiga Classic (PPC, PCI/AGP-Slots)
AmigaDE
- 07/2001: AmigaDE for end-users
- 07/2001: AmigaDE graphics, drivers and so on
- 08/2001: AmigaDE port for (every) AmigaOne possible
- 1. quarter 2002: availability of ready-to-use applications especially for
AmigaDE
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10.Dec.2000
Alfred Faust on ANF
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Open source: Bars&Pipes Pro 2.0
Alfred Faust has released an email of Todor Fay, the former chief programmer of
Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc., on ANF that is dated 9. December 2000. In this
email Todor Fay announces the release of the source code of Bars&Pipes Pro
V2.0. Besides bugfixes this will make the continued development of the
sequencer possible.
For now Fay is collecting together the source code. For this he needs help from
one or more Amiga developers with an up and running Amiga developer environment.
«I think we can work towards a better solution:
I've gotten clearance to release the source code for
Bars&Pipes to the Amiga community. This means several
things:
1) Known bugs can be fixed.
2) Perhaps y'all can create special hooks for real time
services (timer, midi in and out) in the Amiga code so it
can connect more directly with the services in Windows. It's
pretty amazing that timing works at all, given that it is
running on an emulation of the audio interrupt (kudos to
Brian King!). 'Course that would require changes to WinUAE
to support this.
3) Port Bars&Pipes to Windows. If people want to collaborate
on such a project, I will very gladly provide advice and
assistance.
At this point, I'm collecting together the source code. I
need to work with one or more developers who have Amiga dev
environments up and running to help put this together. We
need to make sure everything is there and compiles
correctly.
Any volunteers?
Todor»
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10.Dec.2000
André Siegel on ANF
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BlueBlack Solution websites gets revamped
André Siegel wrote:
Our net presentation gets momentarily reworked, please have therefor some days
patience until we can give you again access to our complete web offer.
You like the new design of our website? You recognised deficiencies? Show
courage, write us an email
and help us to improve our offers furthermore.
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10.Dec.2000
Richard de Rivaz on ANF
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INET DIAL v3.833
The internet management system 'INET DIAL' now offers a German localisation and
is in general prepared for translations. Everybody who wants to do a translation
may apply to the developer.
Download: inet_dial.lha (528K)
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10.Dec.2000
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WOA: Pictures and reports
pictures
reports
IRC-conferences
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10.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Obligement #24
The 24. issue of the french e-magazine 'Obligement' for Amigas
is ready for downlaod. This issue contains among other things an interesting
article about the AmigaOne, an interview with the graphical artist Eric W.
Schwartz, reviews of Nightlong and MooVid 2 and much more.
Download: obligement24.lha (598K)
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10.Dec.2000
James Russell on Open Amiga-ML
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AmigaDE: James Russell manages Mozilla porting
James Russell is the leader
of the Mozilla-engine-porting for AmigaDE.
Mozilla is the open source browser project
emerged from the Netscape browser.
To begin with Russell has contacted mozdev.org
about the possibility of hosting the necessary infrastructure (webspace, CVS,
mailing list) for the project. It would then become accessible under
mozamiga.mozdev.org.
Everybody who wants to help in porting, give constructive ideas or feedback may
post on the Open Amiga-Mailingliste
or address directly to James Russell.
He is to find on the IRC-channels #mozamiga at irc.mozilla.org
and #developer at irc.whiterose.net.
He suggests to interested people to have a look at the NSPR-Video on
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/brownbag.htmlfor now,
which informs in a comprehensive way about the NSPR module. This module presents the
biggest hurdle for the Mozilla-port for AmigaDE.
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09.Dec.2000
Stéphane Campan via eMail
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BoXer Board Status
On the Anti-Gravity page there is a press release dated November, 29th 2000
concerning the BoXer mainboard.
Current BoXeR prototype main-boards feature the emulated AGA chip-set on three
single chips. The final revision will integrate the AGA into one single chip.
The redesign has been completed and it is ready for build up. It is planned
to make this board with one single AGA chip available for the AmigaActive
magazine for testing purpose end of December.
The distributor network is growing. According to the latest survey there are
currently more than 500 distributors of the BoXer.
Our employment survey also got great and worldwide response. Anit-Gravity is
hoping to be able to contact everyone who replied to talk about possibilities
to enable all of them to take part in developing this system.
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09.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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WOA: Fun Time World - information
Sebastian Brylka released first information about the fair.
Bill McEwen didn't attend the fair - his place was taken by an
unprepared Fleecy Moss. Heretic II has been presented as a Voodoo version.
The graphics board was plugged into a G-Rex PCI prototype in an A4000. The
G-Rex board for A1200's has also been presented. This version is ready and
in progress. It's said to be released early 2001.
More information are available in the Fun Time World announcement. Photos and more
information have been announced.
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09.Dec.2000
ANN
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Amiga in Berlin Scene Club
Under the title link at the upper left you can see an Amiga 1200 in a
Scene Club in Berlin.
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09.Dec.2000
ANN
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Open Source Campaign planning to create a Counsil
The 'Campaign to Open Source the AmigaOS' campaign created by Steve Crietzman
is making efforts to release the AmigaOS sources as open source. In recent times it has
been quiet around this campaign. This was due to the fact that Crietzman had
taken a longer break, because work had gotten to much to handle. Now he regrets
to have been absent for so long without any explanation.
The current plan involves the creation of a transition plan for the Open
Amiga Foundation. Therefore they are looking for participants. Persons
interested in this initiative might contact OpenAmiga@aol.com.
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09.Dec.2000
André Beer on ANF
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GeoWorld V1.12 - New demo version of the geographical software
We of Beer Productions are happy to announce the release of a new
demo version of our geographical software for the Amiga. This demo version is
based on the current GeoWorld Version 1.12 and contains a foretaste of the
extensive data and many features that make this software unique on the Amiga.
The demoversion can be downloaded on our homepage as well as on the Aminet
(misc/edu). Currently GeoWorld can still be ordered for a special price at
Amiga Arena.
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09.Dec.2000
ANN
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WOA: IRC with Elbox
Under the title link you will find a log-file of ab IRC conference with Elbox.
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09.Dec.2000
Patrick Roberts in Open Amiga-ML
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AmigaDE: Etick V0.86 Beta and Ewinease V0.63 Alpha
On December 9th, 2000 Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.86
of the ticker 'ETick' and alphav ersion 0.63 of the GUI-Kit 'Ewinease'
Etick is a graphical ticker with plug-in support that can display
miscellaneous information like headlines of news services. The archive contains the
files that are necessary to develop plug-ins. Currently the following sources
are supported:
- Amiga.org: Headlines
- Amiga.com: First page headlines
- Amigadev.net: Headlines of the news, Top 10 Downloads, the last 10
uploads
- Time and date
- Weather forecast (needs 'forecast.tgz')
- Stats of the web-servers 'zAMilo'
The program further needs Clip and Artix_Nexttext by Richard Collier. These
packages have to be installed before 'Etick'.
There is a small update for 'Ewinease'. This kit simplifies the programming of
AVE-GUIs in C. This update is an alpha version. The product is not completed and
may contain bugs. More detailed information are in TODO_HISTORY.doc.
Download:
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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AmigaOS 4.0 PPC theoretically possible
In the IRC of the WOA 2000 Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. stated that AmigaOS 4.0
PPC is possible to be. Condition for this is that enough copies of
AmigaOS V3.9 will be sold to show that there is a valuable market for this product.
The required number of sold copies is 50,000.
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09.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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KICKSTART ARCHIVES
The homepage of KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM has moved and can be reached under
http://home.nexgo.de/kickstart/.
This page contains among others a wide collection of texts about the history of
the Amiga.
Release date of the CD-ROM is 12-31-2000.
You can find all the necessary information at the homepage.
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09.Dec.2000
xandiy on ANF
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Pictures from WOA 2000
At Amiga-Community.net there are first
pictures of the WOA.
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09.Dec.2000
Bernd on ANF
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Fireball Issue #3
Issue #3 of Fireball is ready for download under the title link.
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09.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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ASM-One V1.45 R454c
As announced on December 5th, 2000, version 1.45 revision 454c of the assembler
'ASM-One' has been released. In this version many bugs have been removed and
some functions added. The RTG version (for gfx boards) only made it to a beta
version since there has not been enough time to remove bigger bugs.
The normal version needs at least AmigaOS 2.x. The RTG version AmigaOS 3.x.
Both require reqtools.library and asl.library.
In the first archive there is also the ASM-One Guide, which contains ASM-One
source rescuer and the history
Download:
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09.Dec.2000
CyberGFX
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Mediator, G-Rex and P96
Several news have been released on the CyberGFX pages in the last few days.
In the channel #amiga(irc.whiterose.net), a collaborator of Hyperion, voiced
positively about the design of the Mediator board. To keep costs low the
people from Elbox only use one logic chip which is used as many times as
required. This way they have managed among otheres to create their PCI bus
without having to use expensive Glue- chipsets from third party companies.
«On #amiga (irc.whiterose.net) one of the guys from Hyperion was chatting about the design of
the Mediator: "They've shown some really clever ways to keep their costs down in design, certainly....
All of their hardware consists of ONE logic chip which they use repeatedly, as many as necessary.",
"They design all their own components, so no need to buy expensive external glue logic.",
"Their PCI bus, for instance, is entirely their own implementation, no glue chip-sets from a
3rd party manufacturer.", "For instance there was a bug in the FastATA 4000 hardware, and
they had to send out replacement chips to fix it. FPGA could just be reprogrammed.", FastATA 4000
is "EIDE controller for Z3. The ONLY one." "Umm it implements the fast ATA modes. like PIO-4, etc.
So I get better performance out of IDE drives.", "Again, like all their other products, their
IDE implementation is their own, using the same chip they use on all their products. :-) Pretty cool."
"Well it also does PIO-5 but Z3 has trouble with it."»
The vendors.txt has been
updated on November, 25th 2000 updated. 18 new boards have been added
respectively updated. There have been no particular changes related to the
Mediator itself.
Pictures about the G-Rex with 5 PCI slots, and about CyberGraphX running on a
VooDoo4 4500 have been released..
About Picasso96 concerning Elbox there has been a new article released
from the P96-Mailinglist.
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