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09.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer's Homepage


SimpleClock (1.5) by Sebastian Bauer
Most recent version for the configurable analog clock (OS3.5) by S. Bauer. Special feature of SimpleClock: The transparent clock face (optional).

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09.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
Amiga-C-Aug00.lha    dev/c      117K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Augu
Aakt0900HTML.lha     docs/mags  276K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
WarpUp-Aug00.lha     docs/misc   86K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in A
DiamondBOX.lha       gfx/edit   356K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.04
chippendale.lha      mods/chip    7K+DBM 4ch mod by Tripper^Stx^Moods
years_ago.lha        pix/misc    71K+[ancor] Sandra and Sarah young V1.1


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09.Sep.2000
individual Computers


Take Part in the Developement of Lyra!
Lyra is the joungest child of individual Computers. This is an adapter to use Windows-Keyboards with the Amiga. Though some thing like this alreay exists, but none of the up to now introduced interfaces fulfilled our personel needs. Either some of the key were not used, or others had absolutely insane seizures, and again other had problems when more then one key were pressed at the same time. This interface for the "Bigbox" Amigas (2000, 3000, 4000 and tower-case) easy gets pluged between keyboard and computer. In the case of A1200 it gets impressed to the keyboard processor, which is to find on the A1200 main board.
We have spent as much effort as possible to get the seizures very similar to the original Amiga keyboards, and to give reasonable seizures to additional keys. Though, we want to hear the opinions about the seizures of as many users as possible befor we cannot change anything, any more. So, take your time to have close look at the key seizures, and mail us your opinion. The best suggestion will be honoured with some little surprise! Release is planned for the end of October.

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09.Sep.2000
Aminet Games


Aminet Games
Schatztruhe released "Aminet Games", a special-CD of the Aminet series. Within more than 1500 archives there are the best of Aminet games. Almost every game can be started from CD and do not need to be installed. Furthermore on "Aminet Games" there are more than 70 commercial games, e.g. "Gloom3", "Max Rally", "XTreme Racing" & "Gamer's Delight 2".

Information on other content to find at the titlelink.

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08.Sep.2000
APT Rolf Tingler


New Amiga Design for Nokia 3210 Mobile Phone
Rolf Tingler has already created designs with Amiga look in airbrush for several mobile phone models. Now there's also a shell available for the Nokia 3210. For the Nokia model 8210, a new Amiga design is in the works. The design is a bit complicated as this phone is really small and thus there's only very little space for the design.

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08.Sep.2000
B. van der Meer by eMail


New issue "AMIGA SCENE"
The September/October issue of the Dutch/Flemish print magazine "AMIGA SCENE" has a huge article on the Macintosh emulator "Fusion".

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08.Sep.2000
Fun Time World


AddOn-Programming for PageStream
Grasshopper LLC, the distributor of PageStream, published the documentation of IFF and links to the Application Library SDK on their pages. The release allows third parties to write plug-ins for PageStream. Interested developers can find more information here.

Supplement, 09-09-2000 by Ruediger Hanke:
There is a problem unfortunatly mentioned nowhere as it is. The SDK at the time beeing works solely with SAS/C! If one tries to compile the includes using StormC, he will get a lot of error messages and an endless loop in the compiler, if lucky.

The includes also are not the only wattle, the enclosed linker-libraries are too SAS/C specific, too. Fortunatly Deron is very helpful, he promised me to send me the sources of these linker-libraries, so that I can port them to StormC.

This is not mentioned on the website. At the end one might take the effort (quite a few) to adapt the includes, just to finde out at the end that the needed linker-library doesn't match. If Deron sends me the sources, and I would manage to get them running with StormC, I will make up a SDK version for StromC programmers.

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08.Sep.2000
SonicPulse


SoundFX 4.1 Preview at the BAUD Meeting
At the BAUD meeting in Bielefeld, Germany, an exclusive preview of SoundFX 4.1 will be presented. The new version contains many bugfixes and improvements in the user interface. Another new feature is the new batch processor.

For more information and a first test version, follow the title link (German).

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08.Sep.2000
Oliver Roberts


New Warp-Datatypes
Oliver Roberts released new versions of his WarpPNG and WarpJPEG datatypes. The WarpPNG.datatype is now available also for 68k Amigas and there's also a native MorphOS version, now.

The new version of WarpJPEG.datatype has some bugs fixed and a 4% speed-up for the 68k version. An extensive feature list can be found at the title link.

Download:
WarpPNG.dt.lha
WarpJPEGdt.lha

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08.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


REBOL/View pre-beta 5 Released
An experimental pre-beta of version 5 of REBOL/View was released. There are especially new features in the VID (visual user interface) and the network functions. Download here.

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08.Sep.2000
playamiga.de


"Middle City" preview and interview
Juergen A. Theiner of Playamiga.de has talked with the Italian programmers of the new adventure "Middle City" and created a preview with many screenshots. Here a small excerpt:
"Middle City is a classical adventure in the vein of Monkey Island. The setting is a remote village. The goal is to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Linda Patton whose arm was found in the river. Main character is the (not really intelligent) FBI agent Cox who has to work closely with the good-looking Ellen Dow from the local police. All characters are very excentric and thus suspicious. The end will be a huge suprise."

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08.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail


Epic News
After a long time, there's some news from Epic:

Virtual Ball Fighters, the action game for the Amiga is finally available. VBF requires an Amiga with AGA or graphics card, a 030 CPU and 8 MByte RAM. PPC and soundcards are supported.

The successor to MooVID Pro is coming soon: MooVID Pro 2 will be shipped from September 18th on. Beside many optimizations, MooVID now supports the PPC (WarpUP and Power Up). Owners of the previous version get a cheaper update from epic.

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08.Sep.2000
Thomas Frieden on ANF


Hyperion News
Follow the title link for a new progress report on Shogo, including some screenshots of the OpenGL version.

Hyperion has from now on a support mailing list:
EMail subscription: hyperion-support-subscribe@egroups.com
or on the web at eGroups

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08.Sep.2000
Christian Busse


Transcript of the Coyote Interview with Bill McEwen
Christian Busse has taken the efforts of creating a transcript from the 2.1 MB MP3 file of the Coyote Flux interview with Bill McEwen:

Bill McEwen: Here's Bill!

Coyote Flux: Well, good day Mr McEwen, you're speaking with Sharwin - I'm from Coyote Flux, an Amiga only software team and I would like to ask you a few public questions - is that possible?

Bill McEwen: Certainly.

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you - first of all: I heard a rumour from some magazines that the German office is about to close after the inventory sales of the Amiga 1200 - is this true?

Bill McEwen: No...?

Coyote Flux: No - OK, thank you. What could you tell me about the AmigaOne?

Bill McEwen: Well, nothing publicly at this time - other than this is a new desktop replacement machine.

Coyote Flux: OK. Then there was another question: Since half a year the Amiga market has started to shrink a little bit in comparison to what it was before, especially because there are a lot of companies and sceners that rather stay with the original Amigas - we spoke to you at the show in Neuss, the World of Alternatives, about porting the current Amiga OS to PPC, we will have to add the following question: You asked for the business proposal at the show...

Bill McEwen: Yes?

Coyote Flux: ... and we would like to know: We want to do the Amiga OS PPC port together with a few others at our own cost together, and we would like to know if that is possible as we think that the Amiga makes a bigger chance of surviving when the older machines get a chance as well.

Bill McEwen: Yeah, no, again, if you send me the information we're happy to take a look at it - we've been in conversations with Haage & Partner about this, we have received their timing, their proposal how long they think it will take...

Coyote Flux: Yes

Bill McEwen: ... we've been looking at market trends and designs, so I'm happy to take a look at what you have - we've not made a final decision on that

Coyote Flux: OK, so there hasn't been a final decision yet about if an Amiga OS PPC port can or will be made?

Bill McEwen: Correct.

Coyote Flux: OK, what do you think about the Boxer?

Bill McEwen: I don't think it will ever ship.

Coyote Flux: And if it WILL be shipped, would you be supporting it?

Bill McEwen: Oh, we already have, publicly!

Coyote Flux: OK, so it won't ever be a problem, the Classic Amiga range will proceed, and the Amiga will, like, go two seperate ways or something?

Bill McEwen: No, I don't see that, because you'll be able to run your Amiga Classic on the new system!

Coyote Flux: Aha, I see, but surely the speed will not be as fast as an original chipset...

Bill McEwen: Actually it will be FASTER with what we're doing - we're not doing it through emulation.

Coyote Flux: OK, cause now it's with the Virtual Processor I suppose?

Bill McEwen: U-huh

Coyote Flux: Cause I have a copy of the SDK at home, but, taking a look at modern CPUs, taking a look at all the parallel processing units and the caching and memory management, I have the feeling that the Virtual Processor will not be running at the speed it SHOULD be...

Bill McEwen: Actually since it's not... the Virtual Processor, since it translates it into native code...

Coyote Flux: Yes...

Bill McEwen: ... and the overhead is to a minimum, there is, what, a two percent performance hit

Coyote Flux: Yes, I understand, but by using a lot of registers that should be emulated or mapped in memory before they can be used, I suppose...

Bill McEwen: Exactly translated on the fly.

Coyote Flux: It's translated on the fly - but where are the registers taken from if I may ask?

Bill McEwen: I'm sorry I didn't hear you.

Coyote Flux: Where are the registers taken from if I may ask? Are they taken from memory, or are they taken from hardware registers?

Bill McEwen: It depends on the implementation...

Coyote Flux: Yes

Bill McEwen: ... if there is hardware available, we will utilize the hardware directly...

Coyote Flux: Yes

Bill McEwen: ... and if we can catch it that way, otherwise if it's not available we will do it in software.

Coyote Flux: OK, I see - but that will slow down, I suppose?

Bill McEwen: Depending on the application - in a desktop environment in most cases you'll have the proper hardware to utilize it, but in a handheld device you might not have the hardware, so we'll have to do it in software.

Coyote Flux: OK, I see, thank you - finally I had a question concerning the SDK: Is it a big success?

Bill McEwen: Yes, actually the sales are ahead of schedule and as of this week Red Hat will begin selling it also.

Coyote Flux: OK, and how many approximately sold in the time it has been on market?

Bill McEwen: Well, we shipped fifteen thousand so far.

Coyote Flux: Fifteen thousand.

Bill McEwen: Yep.

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much! That's actually all I wanted to know!

Bill McEwen: Great!

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you...

Bill McEwen: Yeah, I look forward - in fact I was speaking to someone about you in Sacramento...

Coyote Flux: Oh!

Bill McEwen: .. that it looked like you might be the team that might have the best opportunity for us, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much...

Bill McEwen: OK?

Coyote Flux: I will contact you then in the near future, supplying you with the information you might need about how we can port the Amiga OS to PPC, and...

Bill McEwen: OK.

Coyote Flux: ... yes, please keep up the good work then.

Bill McEwen: I thank you very much for your call.

Coyote Flux: OK, thank you as well - bye!

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07.Sep.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF


Public-Opinion Poll at www.zophar.net
At www.zophar.net, supposed to be the biggest emulators-site online, there is currently a public-opinion poll to find at the top of the right menue board, on what useres would wish to see on the page in future. Among other things there is also the possibility to vote for "Emulators for the Amiga". If you are interested in this, you should set your vote there, cause there are only about 10% of votes for Amiga at the moment.

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07.Sep.2000
Rudolph Riedel via eMail


New DiskMaster Beta Version 2.5b8 Available
For the known filer DiskMaster there is the next Beta Version 2.5b8 available, after some problems.
New with this version:
  • 2.5b8 (00-09-07) 68744 Bytes
  • "Parent" still did not work correctly with assigns
  • "LoadConfig" released it's buffer too early
  • Uppercase/lowercase is no longer discerned when Auto-Commands compare contents


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07.Sep.2000
Olaf Koebnik


Amiga Arena News
JST V4.0 at half price.
JST V4.0, the game installer by Jean-Francois Fabre is available at half price at the Arena. JST makes it possible to start almost every game from HD, and to save scores.

Amiga Arena Interview Project
New interviews with Damir Ahr (Ballmaster) and Felix Schwarz (fxPaint) online.

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07.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: The Mac inside the PC - for nothing
«Anybody who always wanted to check out if Mac OS indeed makes less problems than Windows now can test this directly on the PC: Emulators Inc. offers the Macintosh emulator Fusion PC for free download, from now on. Emulators too over this sofware, which only runs under DOS (Window's DOS-Box does not fit), last month. Next month they want to release the entire source-code, due to their own statements. This shall become content of a tutorial on emulator programming.»
For full article, see titlelink (German).

As already reported here on 05-24-00, Microcode Solutions gave Fusion PC license to Emulators, Inc. to have more free developer recources, and more fund available.

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07.Sep.2000
Amiga, Inc.


Wildfire at First - and now Taifun
As already reported, Taifun is the successor product to the award-winning video and animation special effects software Wildfire7\PPC. The new software product is currently being developed using the Amiga Software Development Kit (SDK) and is making great progress. Read the press release of Amiga, Inc. at the titlelink.



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07.Sep.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF


Linux Format Reports on AmigaSDK
In the new September issue of the 'Linux Format' magazine there is to find an article on both, the Amiga SDK and Elate. Among other things the multimedia platform 'intent', and functionality of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is suggested. Nick Veitch reminds his readers on the Amiga SDK even inside the editorial.

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07.Sep.2000
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF


Coyote Flux interviews Bill McEwen
At the titlelink you will find an interview with Bill McEwen done by Coyote Flux. This intervies is provided as a MP3-file at the size of 2.1MB to find for download at the download-area of the temporary website of CF.

Further on there is a new example for PPC680x0 available: The freeware program "The Guru" was ported to PPC using PPC680x0 within less than 30 minutes.

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