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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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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PDF-Version of AmigaWorld #4
Beside the Online-Version there is
now also the PDF version of the
AmigaWorld #4 by Amiga Inc. with information about the new system available.
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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RxMUI V3.95
Alfonso Ranieri released version 3.95 of RxMUI. This
ARexx-Library makes it possible to create GUIs using MUI in ARexx.
Download: rxmui.lha (362K)
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Price of the 'Martina' sound card
On December 5th, 2000 Czech Amiga News announced the approximate price of the
'Martina' sound card by Michal Kluczewski. The clockport version will cost
about 180,- DM(90,- EUR).
The MPEG decoder modul will be available seperately. Prices for this modul
and other card versions have not been fixed yet.
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08.Dec.2000
Christoph Dietz
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NSDi on AmiTCP/IP licensing and Genesis rights
Press release:
NSDi PRESS RELEASE 2000/12/08 22:45 EET, 21:45 CET, 20:45 UTC
The Issue About AmiTCP/IP Licensing and GENESiS Publishing Rights:
Since the World of Amiga (WOA) show begins tomorrow, Saturday, December 9th
2000 and Haage&Parther is expected to start selling their AmigaOS 3.9
and NSDi and Haage&Partner is not yet in agreement of the licensing
of the AmiTCP/IP software, NSDi is forced to publish this information:
Happened so far:
AmiTCP/IP was licensed to be part of Amiga GENESiS Networking System
with a license fee of $5 per AmiTCP/IP Copy. No later licensing
agreement has been done between NSDi (The AmiTCP/IP Copyright Holder)
and any AmiTCP/IP licensee.
The latest moment any license payments for NSDi has been made
January 1999, with amount of about EUR 4000.
1st quarter of year 2000 AmiTCP/IP source was provided for one of
the GENESiS developer so he could add some missing features. At this
time, however:
- NSDi or respective NSDi personnel has not given any immaterial
property rights of AmiTCP/IP software away.
- No right for further redistribution of AmiTCP/IP source to anybody.
(both of these has been violated, either by incompetence to follow the
copyright laws, or just unwillingity to obey it -- hopefully it is
the first case)
At fall 2000, without any prior notice to NSDi, publishing rights of
GENESiS has been transferred to Haage&Partner. I (Tomi Ollila) at NSDi
was informed this when the press release about 4 weeks after this has
happened, was sent to one of the vaporware mailinglists.
At that time, since such a radical change in GENESiS rights I asked our
current licensee when our payments are due. I basically got an answer
that there is no money since all has gone to publishing cost or lost when
the company that made the CD:s went bankcrupty. That is an answer I could
live with. I did not want our licensee to get into more trouble, as he
had done so hard work with it. I just thought I then ask Haage&Partner
that at a later time -- as publishing rights were transferred, all the
licensing issues should have come with it. But, I also have an ordinary
work -- with EUR 1000 one just cannot manage in modern western country
very long -- I have been pretty busy working so I forgot to ask that
just then.
Note that that does not lessen our immaterial property rights of the
software of ours: It is responsibility of the people who are going
to sell the software further the figure out under what copyright
the sofware is bound of.
But, at the end of November 2000, I heard that Haage&Partner is going to
include GENESiS in their forthcoming AmigaOS 3.9. The genesis package
included AmiTCP/IP, and NSDi has had the previously mentioned licensing
agreement effective with it. However, NSDi was never contacted of such an
arrangement.
I was forced to take a quick action: I sent an e-mail to Haage&Partner
explaining the situation using quite strong words just to get attention.
After a few e-mails sent back and forth, I was asked to make an offer
with a fixed sum for unlimited use of the AmiTCP/IP software. I come
first up with a market price of some TCP/IP stack I've heard, and
that was EUR 15000. That was way too much what the Haage&Partner
representative say they could handle. Since this was so close to
the beginning of WOA and we don't have much time to negotiate (even it
is not my fault that I did not know earlyer), I come up with much
lesser price in my next e-mail...
I sent that email yesterday morning, about 11 EET (10 CET, 9 UTC), and
I have got no answer to that e-mail up to now.
So, now we are in situation, where Haage&Partner does have publishing
rights to GENESiS software, but has no license to sell the included
AmiTCP/IP. It might be so, that Haage&Partner has been so busy that
they have had no time to answer my latest proposition -- that I don't
know. Anyway, If they start selling AmigaOS 3.9 with GENESiS and AmiTCP/IP
included, they are selling unlicensed software.
At the time being, we are still willing to come with AmiTCP/IP
licensing agreement with Haage&Partner and therefore we don't want
to forbid sales of AmigaOS 3.9 at WOA -- mainly since there is so
many Amiga users who don't want to wait any longer before getting
the new Amiga Operating System. Also, taking such a drastic move
don't help our efforts to come with a positive end result in
discussion with Haage&Partner. However, my unfortunate duty is
to declare unlawful to sell products that contains AmiTCP/IP without
valid licensing agreement with NSDi on other sales channels.
At the time being, we continue licensing discussions with
Haage&Partner to get the lisensing issue in order. We will
keep the media informed of the progress of the discussion.
If you have any supportive comments, critisim to throw, or
some more information what I should know, please send e-mail
to the address shown below.
If there is doubt of the authenticity of this information,
this text is also included in my homepage at
http://www.iki.fi/too/amitcp.txt
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila@tfi.net (*)
Network Solutions Development, Inc.
Helsinki, Finland
(*) @nsdi.fi -address no longer active due to poorness of the company.
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08.Dec.2000
GoldED
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GoldED - WoA 2000 special offer
Dietmar Eilert offers visitors of the WoA 2000 GoldED for half price.
To get the special price, please send your WoA ticket or a written
confirmation that proves your presence at the fair to the GoldED support.
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08.Dec.2000
bplan GmbH
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Specifications of the PowerPC mainboard
bplan GmbH releases the specification of the dual G3/G4 microATX mainboard
with codename PEGASOS.
With its PEGASOS development pblan GmbH of Germany brings the unleashed
PowerPC performance to the users.
By using a modular system design, the mainboard could be easily user upgraded
to the individual demands. With todays standard interfaces already designed
onto the PEGASOS mainboard, the users will be able to easily connect standard
components (like harddrives or CD Roms) and a wide range of high-end devices such
as digital video cameras to the system.
While PEGASOS itself is widely scaleable to the users needs, it's a easy task
for retailers or OEMs to configure the system for their demands. By hitting
the best price/performance point for the chosen configuration, systems
starting with one CPU (at entry level) up to multi PPC G4 based cluster computers
could be build using the same hardware.
For technical details follow the title link.
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08.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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WoA 2000
I was shortly at the fair this morning to take some things there and to
get a first impression. The Mediapark consists of several architectonically
imposing buildings. The fair is held in the building Mediapark 7 (1st floor),
while the seminars are held in the building Mediapark 6 (also 1st floor). The
fair exhibitors are work like beavers on their booths and there's a bustle as in a
beehive.
Supplement:
In a talk with Juergen Haage, I have learned that Fleecy Moss will attend
the fair, too.
If you come by car, here a little tip:
A57 to Cologne-Centre, then follow "Innenstadt" until (very small) signs directing
to the MediaPark appear. The entrance to the underground bypass is directly
after the railway bridge. You drive from there either directly to the building
or down into the underground car park MediaPark. At the "Cinedom", the entrance
to the car park forks to the car park entrance and tunnel bypass. You can also
park in the underground car park Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring. Have a good trip and until
tomorrow :-).
More driving tips.
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