17.Mar.2004
David Brunet (ANF)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Election March/April 2004
Amiga Games Hit Parade's maintainers call for the election of the
game of March/April 2004. Participate at the election by
sending a mail to David "Daff" Brunet containing a maximum of your
20 favorite games or vote
online at hitparade.amigames.com.
Every kind of game (commercial, freeware, old, new etc.) is
welcome for the list. The final results wil be announced
beginning April 2004.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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17.Mar.2004
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The lawsuit between Thendic/Genesi and Amiga Inc.
After a court decision regarding the lawsuit between
Thendic/Genesi and Amiga Inc. (we reported) has been made
new applications
were placed which request a post modification of the
decision.
To make the mess of these proceedings a bit more sorted out we
summarized the history once again. If you are interested in the
latest events only, you might jump to the section
"What's next" and get
informed about the current events.
Prehistory
In November 2000 Amiga Inc. and "Thendic Electronic
Components GmbH" (in the following briefed as "Thendic") signed a
license agreement regarding the AmigaDE.
Thendic Electronic Components is a German subsidiary of
"Pretory USA", that holding which also includes the French
Pretory SA and their subsidiary Thendic France.
According to the contract Amiga is committed to port their
"AmigaDE" to several planned devices of Thendic.
Thendic will pay a licence fee of USD 4.50 for every device
delivered with AmigaDE. On the other hand Genesi will get the
right to use the Amiga Logos for their products.
The contract mentions the Cashboy, MobiCash,
Transponder, Cashboy@Home and Smartboy by name but those were
never produced in series.
After a while it came to light that regarding some core points of the
contract there was no agreement between the contractors.
Three issues cristallized as most controverse:
1st: Which devices have to be supported by Amiga
The contract mentions the devices to be supported but
also includes a clause which permits Thendic to add new
devices to the list by appointment of Amiga. Amiga obliges to
do not deny the appointment without well-founded reasons.
After market introduction of the Pegasos
Thendic brings in the appointment refering to that clause to
ask for an AmigaDE port for this PPC computer.
Amiga Inc. denies the port which lead Thendic to sue Amiga in
February 2003.
After both parties took in several written applications
Amiga's lawers asked for the permission to lay down their mandatory in September
2003 - reasons for their request are unknown to us.
The judge granted their request on September the 30th 2003,
Amiga loses the legal advice. According to the local American
law a company is in need of legal advice by a lawer, therefore
the judge announces a several times extended period to bring
on new lawers.
While Amiga fails on that the judge announces the court
decision on February the 20th 2004. Because Amiga's standpoint
must be presented by a lawer the judge has to use the
arguments of Thendic only ("In light of defendant's
failure to participate...") to find a decision. He agrees on
Thendic's point of view which does include the Pegasos to the
devices to be supported.
Amiga is sentenced to fullfill the contract ("specific
performance") and gets a period of 30 days to give the AmigaDE
to the plaintiff thus enabeling the plaintiff to integrate it
to the Pegasos.
2nd: Is Genesi contractor also?
The contract between Amiga and Thendic describes Thendic's
rights as "non transferable" but is valid for Thendic and all
subordinated or related companies or subsidiaries.
On February the 18th 2003 Thendic's lawers applied to accept
Genesi as an additional plaintiff because that company would
be a contractor according to the definition within the
contract. Further details of the relation between Genesi and
Thendic were not given.
In a statement according to Thendic's application Amiga says
they do not have sufficient knowledge of the relation between
Thendic and Genesi to assess that claim and thus do not see
Genesi as an appropriate contractor.
An answer by the judge regarding both applications is not to
find within the publicly accessable documents, but the court
decision mentions the plaintiffs (plural) - if this is a
confirmation of Genesi's standpoint is not known by us.
3rd: Which trademarks may be used by Thendic/Genesi?
Within the contract it is stipulated that Thendic might use
Amiga trademarks for promotion, website, products and
packaging without asking prior.
The "Amiga trademarks" are defined in appendix 3.1 as all
trademarks, logos or trade names Amiga owns and are somehow
related to the AmigaDE. Additionally there is a reference to
appendix D which will describe the handling in detail.
Appendix C (appendix D does not exist) there is at least a
section which covers the usage of the trademarks.
There the Amiga trademarks are defined as the 'Powered by Amiga' logo,
the 'Amiga' logo, the Amiga Boingball and all further Amiga
trademarks which are hold by Amiga.
Which one of the both contradictionary definitions is valid and which is void is not
known to us.
Also the use of the trademarks is classified here in detail
again and is identical to the classification within the main
text. But this section has an additional hand written record
which limits the usage of the trademarks to be only in
conjunction with AmigaDE products and only after approval by Amiga.
If this addition stays valid is also not known by us, the
extension within the version of the contract viewed by us is signed by Bill McEwen only.
That both parties interpret this aspect of the contract in a
different meaning is to infer by the recently announced use of
the Amiga trademarks by Genesi or the just released declaration by
Amiga they sold the AmigaOS - including the according
trademarks - to KMOS Inc. Because that issue was not covered
by the court yet the final decision has still to be found.
What's next
Amiga Inc. may - if they can get some legal advice again -
appeal against the court's decision within a period of 30 days,
according to our information they have not done so yet.
In the meanwhile Thendic/Genesi's lawers applied for a
modification of the decision. The judge should
grant not only for access to the AmigaDE but also to
all documentation, all source codes, all object codes, and
all derived code from that, all extensions and all
enhancements, updates and upgrades.
In that context Genesi seems to see the AmigaOS 4 as kind of
"Upgrade" of the AmigaDE. This point of view should be
supported by screen shots of several publications at Amiga's
website and an email which is said to origin from Fleecy Moss.
On March the 15th Amiga Inc. - who now do have lawers again -
commented that application detailed. They deny all claims for
accessing the source code by the plaintiff and refer to
according clauses within the contract.
With statements by Fleecy Moss, Bill McEwen, Ray A. Akey (Amiga Inc.), Garry Hare (KMOS Inc.)
and Francis Charig (TAO) Amiga tries to point to
other inconsistencies. So they claim Thendic and/or Bill Buck
would not have been reachable by the given address. And the refered
email by Fleecy Moss would be a fake which should be known by
the plaintiff also.
Further on some postings by Bill Buck within several discussion
boards are refered to bring evidence that he tries to gain
more than what the contract grants to him. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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17.Mar.2004
rc5-72 stats (ANF)
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dnetc: MorphOS overrounds AmigaOS PPC and AmigaOS 68k
At the rc5-72 statistics
MorphOS while crunching for two months only has overrounded the
taking fifteen months crunching efford of the distrbuted.net
client for AmigaOS 68k and AmigaOS PPC.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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17.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Emulators: Native ports for AmigaOS 4
Amigaworld.net reports this week the beta test of the OS4
native version of UAE 0.8.25 (screen shot)
will begin. Referencing a second post
the C64 emulator Frodo as well as the arcade emulator xMAME
(screen shots)
were successfully ported to AOS4 already.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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16.Mar.2004
IrseeSoft / ZEDOnet (ANF)
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Printer drive: TurboPrint-Version 7.60 available
The printerd rive software TurboPrint of IrseeSoft has been published in the version 7.60 with new printer drives:
- Canon i250*, i350*
- Canon i560, Canon i865, Canon i965*
- Epson Stylus C64, Stylus C84
- HP DeskJet 515x*, DeskJet 565x, DeskJet 585x*
- HP LaserJet 1100, 1200, 1300, 2xxx
*) USB Interface-card needed, f.e. Highway-USB
The update is for the user, who have a new supported printer or want to buy one.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
Coyote Flux (ANF)
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Coyote Flux: Major website update
The website has been updated with new information about CoyoteFlash and J Miner (EE). An optimized version of the website will be added soon for Amiga and mobile platform users.
In the meantime, many changes have been made to our photogrammetry package J Miner including the support for exporting 3D objects in common file formats such as LOW, C4D and DXF. J Miner now runs on a seperate screen in any resolution and supports several new 3D reconstruction features. Several screenshots have been added to the J Miner page, all created using the latest version of the program.
CoyoteFlash has been updated (1.2) with several bug fixes over the last version. (snx)
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16.Mar.2004
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Latest Amiga-news
The latest news from Amiga Inc. are considered too, by the non-amiga press
(cr) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
KRAY Homepage
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MorphOS: new version of KRAY
The commandline-programm of the raytracer KRAY has been extended with a preview window in the MorphOS-version. You can find the new version under
the title link
(cr) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Battlefield forum temporary available
Horst Diebel writes: Because of a rate changing on www.amiga-society.de the Battlefield forum was temporary not available.
Until finishing the new Internet representation there is the possibility for representing a discussion forum. There is now an standard forum.
When someone has problems, questions and tips for the Battlefield, is welcome.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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AutoDocReader published
"Maag" has published a programm for showing AutoDocs called AutoDocReader.
The program (34 KB), instructions and the website are only Polish, but you can find a screenshot
under the titlelink.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Amiga Inc. sells AmigaOS to KMOS Inc.
Amiga, Inc. Sells the Amiga Operating System, to focus on AmigaDE and the Mobile Market.
Ravensdale, WA - 3:00 pm Pacific Time, March 15, 2004 - Amiga, Inc. announced today that it has sold the Amiga Operating System to KMOS, Inc., allowing Amiga, Inc to focus on the growing mobile market.
On April 23, 2003 Amiga entered into an Agreement with Itec LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc. for the transfer and sale of all of Amiga's right, title, source code, and all versions, from the "Classic Amiga Operating System" through AmigaOS 4.0 and all subsequent versions to KMOS, Inc.
"The expanding mobile market offers Amiga over 200 million potential customers that we need to focus on," said Bill McEwen - President/CEO of Amiga, Inc. "We began looking for a company that could focus and provide proper resources for the AmigaOS and the associated markets and we found that with KMOS, Inc." McEwen Said.
"We welcome the acquisition of the AmigaOS intellectual property by KMOS. Together with KMOS, Hyperion looks forward to exploring new business opportunities for AmigaOS 4. I would like to reassure all our customers that the acquisition by KMOS will not have any adverse impact whatsoever on the release of the consumer version of AmigaOS 4.0 later this year." said Evert Carton, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment VOF.
KMOS, Inc. is acquiring and developing technology enabling the company to participate in the worldwide communications market. Garry Hare, KMOS' CEO, said "KMOS is very excited about the commercial potential of this innovative operating system. At Amiga's insistence to which we totally agreed, we will honor the terms of the November 2001, agreement with Amiga One Partners: Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd., an English Corporation, in their entirety. Mr. Hare continues, "I should point out, that except as they relate to the Amiga OS family of products, KMOS did not acquire the Amiga name, intellectual property or its DE line of products. These assets remain the property of Amiga Inc.".
About Amiga:
Amiga, Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multimedia technologies to the world. Its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, government agencies, and entertainment enthusiasts from around the world. Today Amiga continues to lead the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to a new hardware-agnostic, multimedia platform. AmigaDE and Amiga Anywhere powered with intent from the Tao Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K, and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, and XP. AmigaDE and Anywhere applications can be purchased online at www.shopamiga.com. Amiga is based in Ravensdale, Wash. For more information visit www.amiga.com.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs. Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
About KMOS, Inc.
KMOS, Inc. a State of Delaware licensed corporation develops and distributes enabling technology, software applications and specialty content to the wired and wireless communication market.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Mar.2004
Breed (ANF)
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FroGGui: Version 0.22 released
Version 0.22 (510 KB) of FroGGui, GUI for FroggerNG, is now available.
Changes:
- Autosave
- new features "no interleave" and "no sound"
- new skin
- automated closing of FroggerNG when closing FroGGui
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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15.Mar.2004
Cloanto
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Cloanto: Amiga Explorer 6.0 released
Cloanto have released version 6.0 of their Amiga Explorer. A trial version (1.9 MB) can be downloaded which is limited in a way that it can't transfer files with more than 1 KB in size.
The Amiga Explorer networking software makes it possible to access the resources of an Amiga computer from one or more Windows systems. Configuration is extremely simple and by default requires only a few mouse clicks on the Windows side.
The new version 6.0 of Amiga Explorer is compatible with AmigaOS 4.0 and MorphOS. The trial version can also be used for upgrading from the previous version.
Amiga Explorer is available stand-alone as well as a part of the emulator package Amiga Forever, which is to be released also in version 6.0 in a few days. (snx)
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13.Mar.2004
amiga.org (website)
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MorphOS: TGEmu emulates TurboGrafx16/PC Engine
"TGEmu" emulates the classic NEC games console "TurboGrafx16" (aka "PC Engine"). For now many comercial titles are running fast enough and with sound support.
The MorphOS version comes with a graphical users interface that supports skins.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
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Interview: Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion)
amigaworld.net has made an interview with Oliver Hannaford-Day. Oliver is the developer behind the Amiga turboboard "Coldfusion" that bases on a Coldfire CPU.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Workbench design with AmiChameleon
Everybody who has already tried to change the look of the Workbench completely knows how much the work that means. Searching for images, changing preferences, loading skins, etc. If you want to change the look again later on the same starts over again. Because of this I've developed AmiChameleon. It archives once created so called themes and installs them later again in the simpliest way. This way it is possible to change the design of your Workbench completely with only a small number of mouse click.
On a server are already several themes saved that can (directly from AmiChameleon) be viewed, downloaded and then installed. It will also be possible to create such themes with AmiChameleon (still beta and without manual).
Themes: With AmiChameleon you can change/install the following graphical elements:
System settings:
- WB-Pattern
- Fonts
- Palette
- Pointer
- Sound
- ReAction
Further settings:
Skins for the following programs:
- CoolCalc
- WBClock
- AmigaAMP
- AmiNetRadio
- PlayCD
Startbars:
Other supported programs:
- Birdie
- BenchTrash
- GarshneBlanker
All these parts together are called a theme and are supported by AmiChameleon.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
Genesi (email)
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MorphOS presentation at Motorola SNDF in Dallas and Frankfurt
As Genesi mailed will the Pegasos and MorphOS be presented at this year's Smart Developer Network Forum events of Motorola in Dallas (April, 26th to 29th) and Frankfurt (September, 28th - 30th).
Read the complete press release below:
MorphOS to be demonstrated at the 2004 Motorola Smart Developer Network Forums in Dallas and Frankfurt.
The Motorola SNDF brings together key engineers, architects and executives at the forefront of the embedded systems, networking and communications equipment fields. SNDF also offers the opportunity to connect with key analysts and members of the press. SNDF attracts leading trade press and analysts who cover semiconductor, software and system-level products for the embedded systems, networking and telecommunications industry. Genesi will feature the Open Desktop Workstation, the Pegasos, various versions of LinuxPPC running embedded development tools, and MorphOS.
Details and registration information can be obtained here.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
Christian Geier (email)
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Linux: Image Installer SE for Pegasos and Amiga-PPC released
The Image Installer that shortens the installation of various Linux distributions on the Pegasos I and II or the Amiga with PowerPC card to several minutes and eases it, is now available with an image file of SuSE 7.3 for download in a special edition.
The SE version is meant to demonstrate the functions of the Image Installer and to collect experiences in the use of Linux. The installation is done from an image that was created before from a correctly installed and configured Linux base installation.
To use further programs it is necessary to get the full distribution. The SuSE image file works exclusively with the SE version that is without any support by the SuSE Linux AG or the Image Installer team.
Hardware needed:
- Pegasos with at least 128 MB RAM or Amiga with PowerPC card
- CyberGraphX supported graphics card (recommended Pegasos: ATI Radeon)
- harddisk drive with 6 GB free space
- CD or DVD drive
- CD burner for the ISO files
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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12.Mar.2004
Ekkehard Brüggemann (E-Mail)
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Event: Invitation for Breakpoint 2004
From 9th till 12th April the European demo scene will meet in Bingen (Germany) again.
The official invitation for the Breakpoint which is the biggest German scene party and successor of
the Mekka symposium has been published today. Please have a look at it for further information.
Download: bp04invi.zip
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
Tom Duin alias Amigaharry (ANF)
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SearchStar: Update of search program to version 0.86
The search program SeachStar written by Tom Duin can be
downloaded in version 0.86 (30 KB).
With SearchStar you can search for files and comments of files in several directories and drives as well as do
some further tasks. In version 0.86 a faster directory scan routine was implemented as well as a new option for
replacing single files.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Music: "Statement" by Bjorn Lynne
With 14 tracks the Norwegian musician Bjorn Lynne has filled his new
audio-CD "Statement" and there walks through diverse styles of music like
Chill-out, Pop-Synth, jazzy Groove and soundtracks of classic games.
The music reminds of the time when Bjorn Lynne as Dr. Awesome created the sounds
for Amiga diskmags and games like Alien Breed 3D or Worms D.C.
Track list:
- Kikki
- Simplicity
- The Giant
- Between Friends
- Please Me
- In Good Company
- Nitro Glycerine
- Lounge Living
- All You
- The Jungle Trail
- Still Motions
- Soundstreamz
- Understatement
- Bonus track: Soundstreamz Instrumental
Two tracks called "Kikki" and "Understatement" have been uploaded to the website of ArtistLaunch where you can download it for free. Besides this on the homepage of LynneMusic a medley has been prepared where you can listen to a "summary" of the album which lasts five minutes. There you can
also find further information, the cover artwork and all kinds of ordering. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet Uploads till March 12th, 2004
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last message:
microgolded.lha biz/demo 528K+Simple but powerful editor (30-day trial
ExecuteInShell.lha biz/dopus 19K+(1.1) ExecuteInShell Arexx script for DO
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 31K+Online Dictionary
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 37K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
idnpatch.0.1.lha comm/tcp 8K+Patches your stack to use IDN domainname
ANR_run.lha comm/www 13K+Allows you to start AminetRadio via AWeb
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 601K+Powerful (Web,HTML) Gallery-, Catalog-,
jrm-j10v.lha demo/sound 246K+DA JoRMaS: 10 Year Anniversary Party Inv
ferox_bar.lha dev/gui 3K+Ferox-like ScrollBar for MorphOS
nocover120.lha docs/mags 1.3M+Great german diskmagazine
TheCrypt31.lha docs/mags 4.4M+Issue 31 of "The Crypt" online magazine
TheCrypt32.lha docs/mags 8.3M+Issue 32 of "The Crypt" online magazine
TurboPrint_FR.lha docs/misc 5K+French catalogs for TurboPrint 7
Liga2003-04.lha game/data 29K+League update 2003-04 for SWOS game
TotalChaosAGA.lha game/misc 34M+640x512 256 colors 50fps Magic & Monster
BoxWorld.lha game/think 215K+Sokoban clone with many stages.
BF_MPEG2dec.lha gfx/conv 321K+MPEG2 stream decoder and savers with ful
BF_MPEG2decPRO.lha gfx/conv 336K+Very powerful MPEG2 video decoder with G
BF_MPEG2encPRO.lha gfx/conv 115K+Very powerful MPEG2 video encoder with G
BF_MPLEXPRO.lha gfx/conv 69K+Powerful MPEG2 stream multiplexer with G
BF_AnimMaker.lha gfx/edit 64K+Vector animation program with full sourc
FlashMandelWOS.lha gfx/fract 1.8M+The best Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ren
BF_KeyHook.lha gfx/ifx 123K+ImagesFX Hook with full source
Crystal_Lattic.lha gfx/misc 281K+Stereoscopic simulation of Bravais X-tal
StIco.lha gfx/misc 69K+Stereoscopic simulation of Bravais X-tal
FlashPlayer.lha gfx/show 453K+Flash (SWF) format file player v. 1.0
FlashPlayerSrc.lha gfx/show 180K+Source Code for FlashPlayer v. 1.0
swfplayer.lha gfx/show 348K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.3) 68k+W
ArakAttack.lha hard/drivr 286K+V0.98 USB Driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
mdisk363.lha hard/drivr 16K+Catweasel MK3 PCI driver using openpci.l
acvt.lha misc/emu 81K+Converts between XFD-SCP-ATR-DCM-DI form
AmithlonUpdate.lha misc/emu 1.6M+V1.29 Amithlon Update
imdbDiff040220.lha misc/imdb 3.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
summer-moods.lha mods/blkha 197K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
Limes_Napoleon.lha mods/cust 174K+Custom module from "Limes & Napoleon"
dajormas10year.lha mods/jorma 212K+DA JoRMaS 10 Years by dA JoRMaS (from 10
jay2004.lzh mods/misc 128K+Jay's Song Prog-Rock style (Sonix SMUS)
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 241K+MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
EP_DaglishSID.lha mus/play 7K+EaglePlayer 'Benn Daglish SID' external
SongPlayer-mor.lha mus/play 589K+Cool and powerful audio player V1.62 (68
VirgolaMIME.lha pix/icon 397K+MIME icons in glowicon style by Virgola
VirgolaWB.lha pix/icon 739K+WB settings inspireb by the upcoming OS4
selectorLooks.lha pix/illu 73K+Shows how different Selector9.2 can look
obligement-43.jpg pix/misc 44K+Obligement's cover n 43
Workbench3.9.jpg pix/wb 396K+Screenshot of emulated Amiga on PowerBoo
MakeGuide3.lha text/hyper 48K+Create a guide from several small files
selector92.lha util/batch 351K+Unique script language / launching tool
Loadertune.lha util/boot 69K+Nice boot song, for Algor/Romulus flashr
mcx256.lha util/cdity 36K+MultiCX Commodity v2.56 Shareware versio
SRename.lha util/cli 106K+Advanced rename utility. Version 3.8.1
HotFavBook.lzh util/conv 22K+Convert Windows favorites to IBrowse-hot
BF_RegEdit.lha util/misc 15K+A small toy for ENV/ENVARC editing with
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12.Mar.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Amithlon Update v1.29 published
A new update for the x86 based Amiga emulator called Amithlon has been published. The version 1.29 offers all
registered users e.g. a new version of the XCat utility.
Download: Amithlon Update v1.29 (1.6 MB)
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: Hundreds of Spammer in USA sued
AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo have sued together hundreds of senders of spam.
This indictment is based on the new US-Anti-Spam law "Controlling the Assault of
Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing" which is known as CAN-SPAM.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
disc4you (ANF)
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Hard time: 'Download'-Directive passed
Yesterday the EU parliament passed the new directions on the measures and proceedings
for the protection of the rights on mental property.
The lawyer Gwen Hinze estimates that if a person infringes the new directive the flat can be searched, the banking-account
can be freezed or immovables can be attached. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
Piotr Pawlowski / amiga-news.de-Team
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amiga-news.de: Polish News-Site active again
After a longer break amiga-news.de is translated now again to the Polish language. You can access the Polish version
which is done by Piotr Pawlowski under http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~ppawlo/an_polish.html.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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11.Mar.2004
amiga.org (Webseite)
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amiga.org: Opening of "SoapBox"
With the opening of "SoapBox," the web-portal amiga.org is giving readers and moderators the ability to publish columns, historical items, or other articles.
The Soapbox is divided into categories, at this time there is a category for "historical" documents (announcements and news reports of important companies or persons from the Amiga field) as well as categories in which members of the amiga.org team may release columns about diverse topics. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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11.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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AmiGBG: Retro-Room / AmigaOne-XE and A1200 Magic Pack as Prizes
In relation to the convention AmiGBG in Sweden on the 3rd of April, there's a cooperation between the convention's organizers and the newest Swedish Amiga merchant Guru Meditation to give away a complete AmigaOne XE system.
To do this they've established a Retro-Room, in which a look back may be taken at old acquaintances like Amiga 1000, CDTV, SuperCars, or Flip the Frog. The visitors may also test themselves at the game Rocketz - the winner gets an Amiga1200 Magic Pack.
You'll find more information at the AmiGBG website here. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.Mar.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: enqueueTorrent 1.0 released
enqueueTorrent is a commandline tool which helps to integrate MLdonkey support into your favourite Amiga browser.
Instead of Copy'n'Paste an eDonkey or BitTorrent link manually from the browser into the MLdonkey console you can setup a "Send Link to MLdonkey..." or/and a "application/x-bittorrent" MIME type and let enqueueTorrent do the work for you.
enqueueTorrent works with locally and remotely installed MLnet (MLdonkey) servers, so you also can send an URL from IBrowse to your Linux box with just one mouse click.
You can find the download under the title link.
If someone is interested in an 68k port for Classic Amigas (indeed, only
useful for remotely installed MLnet server) then
write an email to the author. (snx)
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11.Mar.2004
MorphZone (comments)
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mDVD: MorphOS GUI for DVD Playing with MPlayer
J.-P. Jokela has prepared mDVD (9.3 MB), a GUI (graphic user-interface) for playing DVDs with mPlayer under MorphOS. Besides mPlayer you must also have RxMUI installed.
MDVD is a simple selection program for DVD titles, subtitles, and soundtracks, with a few options such as framedrop or full-screen. It does not include search functions or DVD menu support.
The author requests feedback as to desired features, and points out that that one should read the manual before trying out the configuration of the GUI, and set the path for mPlayer as well as the orientation of subtitles and soundtracks. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MorphOS Developer Connection Approaches 600 Members
MorphOS-News.de reported that the MorphOS Developer Connection will reach the membership total of 600 registered developers this week. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Prometheus: SDK 2.0 Available
Software-Development-Kit 2.0 for Matay's PCI busboard Prometheus has appeared. Included is the documentation for version 2.x of the Prometheus library, in which new functions for busmastering are covered, as well as includes. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.Mar.2004
Elbox (e-mail)
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Elbox: Mediator PCI 3/4000T Comeback
As Elbox Computer announces, the Mediator PCI bus board with five slots for the Amiga A3/4000T is available again.
The Mediator PCI 3/4000T consists of two boards, the Elbox 3/4000T bus board as well as the Mediator PCI 4000 core logic card, and can be used in the Amiga 3000T and 4000T as well as some Tower-versions of the corresponding A3000 and A4000 desktop models (e.g. Micronik tower with Micronik ZorroIII bus board, PowerTower). A photo can be found at the Elbox website.
Together with the bus board the Mediator Multimedia CD is supplied. Further information about the supported PCI cards as well as the complete press-release can be found under the title link.
In this context Elbox do also remember of their winter promotion which lasts until March 21. (snx)
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10.Mar.2004
drHirudo (ANF)
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Mind game: Sokoban clone "BoxWorld"
"drHirudo" has released the Sokoban clone "BoxWorld". The task with games of that kind is to move boxes through a laybrinth without going into a dead end or block yourself the way. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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10.Mar.2004
Crack (Forum)
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Amiga Access: Eventually another production run?
As reported by amiga-news.de reader "Crack" within the forum the manufacturer of the Amiga Access mother board is thinking to build some more boards. Those who are interested in getting such a board are asked to mention that within the forum area.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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10.Mar.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Die Kleine Gilde II: Training game for arbalest contest available
The next version of the game Die Kleine Gilde II will include a little arbalest shooting contest that will be held about all five years. There is a trainig mode game for that contest available now which is downloadable at my homepage.
Information about "Die Kleine Gilde II":
The game is a round based economy simulation of the late Middle Ages from around 1400 to 1600 but als a realtime strategy game with rol play and life simulation.
Interesting is the possibility to found a family dynasty if the game should be continued after the death of your first game charakter.
You start as a smith, joiner, alchimist, perfumer, publican, thief or sermonizer. After collecting some money you might change your occupation. Further on you can apply for official or clerical administratives to improve your career. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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10.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Project: "Become a programmer's sponsor"
Since a couple of days at amigaworld.net
an idea is being discussed to improve attraction to program for AmigaOS4 by starting a financial sponsorship.
The original idea has been to provide free AmigaOne systems but actually all possibilities of sponsoring are discussed.
Because the idea seems to be attractive to many readers (the initiator said there are considerable funds already) a mailing list
has been started which will cover all further discussion.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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10.Mar.2004
Thorty (ANF)
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Website: Logo contest at "Thorty-online.de"
The maintainer of www.Thorty-online.de holds a logo contest. All AmigaOS- & MorphOS graphic artists who would like to play with their creative ambitions and earn a little money are invited.
The winner will be awarded with EUR 50. Further information is available by the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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10.Mar.2004
ANN (comments)
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Important news from the Amiga-History
During the Amiga.org team's investigation of historic announcements of important companies of the unsteady Amiga history (amiga-news.de reported) Gareth Knight reminded his archive of those companies, which he build during the last six years: http://amiga.emugaming.com/ammigahistory.html. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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10.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Big Bash: Live-MP3-Streaming from the OS4 demo
AmigaWorldRadio presents a live MP3 streaming from the OS4 demo and party "Big Bash" next Saturday from 18 - 22 o'clock GMT.
The DJ will be Mikey_C from Amigaworld.net. The URL you have to enter in your MP3 player is http://amigaworld.net:8000. (snx)
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10.Mar.2004
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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Open Video Toaster: High number of downloads
Bill Panagouleas writes: Last months launch of Open Video Toaster was a great success. Visitors to the site downloaded over 57 Gigabytes of source code! When you consider that the code to the Amiga Video Toaster Flyer is only about 30MB that is a lot of unique downloads.
As we suspected there has been a very high demand for this code ever since it was first promised and we are now pleased to fulfill that demand.
Bandwith overage fees for last month were $387.01, Open Video Toaster is a victim of its own success. We have many exciting ideas that have yet to be implemented for this site but can't continue to pay such high monthly bandwith costs alone.
If you would like to help support Open Video Toaster, you can do so via Paypal. If you don't have Paypal please click on the Paypal link from http://www.discreetfx.com and join.
Best regards,
Bill Panagouleas
http://www.openvideotoaster.org (snx)
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09.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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amigaworld.net: End of "Fleecy Moss Q&A"
amigaworld.net told us that the "Fleecy Moss Q&A"-Sessions, where Fleecy Moss has answered questions from Amiga users, will be stopped.
The aim is the improvement of the communication between users and developers in the Amiga area. Because taking
part of OS4 developer in the discussions on amigaworld, there is not so much demand on Q&A with Fleecy Moss. (cg) (Translation: gf)
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09.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Amiga.org asks for help in arrangement of historical reports
The portal amiga.org asks for help in
for the arrangement of historical reports. Surched are URL`s or copies of no more existend earlier reports, which are telling the way, that Amiga and its users and the
main companies had gone in the last few years.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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09.Mar.2004
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Benchmarks: "Amiga Speed"-Website updated
The website Amiga Speed, which contains of a speedranking of different games, graphics cards and processors, had been updated
Simon Neumann writes: There are new tests after a long break. For this time for Q***e2, which was tested for the first time with Voodoo 4 4500 I want to use this occassion for thanking all
speedtesters, who tested for AmigaOS 3.9. Next time this site will be changed in better webtechnics and looking. When AmigaOS 4.0 is published, there are tests for the programms and games of this
plattform. Thank you for your interest.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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09.Mar.2004
amiga-news.de editorial office
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amiga-news.de: voluntary registry in the comment area
Up to now there is a voluntary registry in the comment area on amiga-news.de
You can now be logged in the comment area with the accessdata of Diskussionsforum.
For this please click inside a comment-threat on to the log in link under the grey main menu. For log out please click "Logout [username]"
Special thanks to Sven Drieling for putting in this function in the system. If there are bugs, discrepancies or improvements send them to: team@amiga-news.de.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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09.Mar.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Yahoo!-Group for HD-Rec opened
Thilo Köhler has opened a Yahoo!-Group for the MIDI/AudioSequencer HD-Rec. There the author answers questions for the HD-Rec and helps with problems because of the HD-Rec.
All bugreports and suggestions are welcome.
You can find the Yahoo-group under: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hd-rec.
For sending messages, you have to register yourself at the Yahoo-group.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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08.Mar.2004
Richard Drummond (ANF)
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UAE-0.8.25-20040302 released
Richard Drummond has released UAE-0.8.25-20040302.
This is a bug-fix release and corrects several problems with the SCSI emulation. It also enables support for SCSI emulation on Mac OS X and BeOS (although, due to restrictions inherent in OS X, this will currently only work with CD/DVD writers - not ordinary read-only devices).
Updated binaries for Linux (x86 and PPC), Mac OS X and BeOS will be available for download shortly. A new binary for AmigaOS has been delayed, but should be ready (with some Amiga-specific updates) by the middle of next week. (snx)
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08.Mar.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5-16 released
MLdonkey 2.5-16 is the latest version of a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client which runs as a daemon. It supports several large networks, such as eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap. It can be controlled locally or remotely using several interfaces like telnet or http.
This release is mostly a bugfix update, but also contains new features. Please read the ChangeLog inside the archive for a full list of all changes.
Download the archive at the official MorphOS MLdonkey site. (snx)
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06.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS 1.5 beta shown in Bremen
As MorphOS-News.de reports has a beta version of MorphOS 1.5 been shown on the "Video- und Computerbörse" in Bremen.
As Jakub Kassim reported you could see the new 3D hardware drivers for the Radeon 7000, 7500 as well as for the VE in Action and for example play Heretic II in a resolution of 1024 x 768. The drivers worked already good though they aren't completely finished respectively optimized yet.
Besides that has the preferences system been revised and does now contain among other things setting possibilities for screen savers and more mouse options.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
Cyborg (ANF)
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Patch: domains with special characters on Amiga
Cyborg wrote: Hi, on the FTP server of benderirc.de there's a TCP/IP patch (8 KB) for alle TCP/IP stacks for the Amiga. The patch has been tested with Miami on a 68040 Amiga under AmigaOS 3.1.
The patch allows all programs to use ISO strings, for example "sfbücher.de", without having to convert them into the IDN spelling "xn--sfbcher-p2a.de".
Example:
> ping sfbücher.de
PING xn--sfbcher-p2a.de (212.162.56.70): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.162.56.70: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=59.093 ms
64 bytes from 212.162.56.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=57.98 ms
64 bytes from 212.162.56.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=56.614 ms
--- xn--sfbcher-p2a.de ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 56.614/57.895/59.093 ms
As you can see does the miamiping even recognize the "xn--" spelling and shows it without the program ever get to know this at all! It is really unpatched!
Unfortunately this doesn't work with web browsers as it should but this is because of the browsers and not because of the patch (the reason is described in the readme file).
In short: AWeb for example does show the IDN spelling but uses the ISO way with the vhost. This does the Apache-WebServer not know and the page can't be found. For sfbücher.de I have made this possible.
Therefore here's a call to the IBrowse & AWeb teams to adapt their routines. The ping shows that it's possible (how is written again in the readme file).
YAM and SimpleMail have the same problem on another level but that could be solved the same way.
To make the thing with IDN easier in the future I'll soon make an IDN library available for converting.
The patch archive contains an IDNA converter ISO->PUNYCODE. This way you can provide the browser with the correct name in the meantime.
> netstat
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state)
tcp 0 12 amiga.1026 xn--sfbcher-p2a..ftp ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 amiga.1025 irc.phat-net.de.ircd ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 amiga.netbios- *.*
udp 0 0 amiga.netbios- *.* (snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
Beta2-ML
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MorphOS 1.4.2 available via beta2 FTP server
MorphOS 1.4.2 is now downloadable via the beta2 FTP server. Compared with the other v1.4 installations only the boot.img has been renewed so that for single users only the download of this file is needed.
The changes in MorphOS 1.4.2 against the previous version:
- The IDE lockup problem has been solved.
- The irritations of the RTC when loading/saving on the Pegasos II are now fixed.
- The system clock in general does now work normal on the Pegasos II.
- The "Exec MEMF_REVERSE" memory fragmentation bug has been fixed.
Further information regarding downloading and installation have been given on the beta2 mailing list.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
ANN (website)
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Picture viewer: MiniShowPicture 1.6
Version 1.6 of the picture viewer MiniShowPicture has been released today. This is a simple display program basing on MUI and using the datatypes. The functions contain drag&drop, scaling and keyboard support.
Direct download (309 KB) (cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
ANN (website) / Gerd Frank (email)
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OctaMED SoundStudio V2: OS4 version announced
After the appearing of a quoting from the mailing list for the program OctaMED SoundStudio V2 on ANN confirmed the author Gerd Frank that there will indeed come a PPC/AHI version for AmigaOS4.
Tests and support for a MorphOS version, though, aren't possible for him because of the lack of hardware because he didn't receive a Pegasos from Genesi despite an agreement with Genesi in summer last year.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT-Galerie back
The fxPAINT images gallery that had been removed with the move from the old shop system to Callisto is now online again.
Users of fxPAINT are warmly invited to send their creations via email to IOSPIRIT so that they can possibly be published there.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
ANF
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John C. Dvorak's article about MorphOS released in the "PC Magazine"
In the US-American PC Magazine wrote the columnist and TV presenter John C. Dvorak an article about MorphOS.
In his positive description of the operating system Dvorak talked about the developers having morphed the architectur of the AmigaOS - maybe the best code ever used on a desktop computer - in the truest sense to adapt it to the PowerPC. The Pegasos by Genesi also got a brief mention.
After a short paragraph about CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) and Apple's temporary license for clone manufacturer the author comes to the USB compatibility of MorphOS, mentions the micro kernel "Quark" and touches on the A and Q-Box of the operating system.
Regarding the chances of this newcomer Dvorak talks about the enthusiasm of the MorphOS community and points out the formerly by Nintendo and Sega dominated consoles market that did also change in a serious way.
He ends his article with a summary of the career of the "unbelievably hot computer" the Amiga once had been and his opinion that this time - here MorphOS is meant - may well go better. The URL for MorphOS.net finishes the article. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
ANN (website)
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AROS on DVD of an Italian PC magazine
As Fabio Alemagna informs on AROS.org is on the DVD of this month's issue of TGM, one of the leading Italian PC games magazine, thanks to Paolo Besser also AROS included together with a review and a comprehensive Italian manual.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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ASoft: CManager v29.1 released
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has released a new version of the ContactManager. The CManager is a central bookmark data base and is now available in version 29.1 (490 KB).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Mar.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack: USB support for Prometheus may be possible
Thanks to the latest information on the Prometheus PCI interface it was possible to add native support to the ArakAttack USB driver.
It was possible to work around the missing memory conversion routine, so there is a good chance USB will be possible on Prometheus hardware.
At http://www.vmc.de/amithlon/swr you'll find a debug version with prometheus support. This version is checking the API only. No USB functions this time. Please read the included readme for further information on how you can help making USB and other drivers possible on your system.
Please install the latest prometheus.library and Poseidon V2.2. There is no need to insert an USB card, because it's only a function test.
(snx)
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05.Mar.2004
Vesalia
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Vesalia: Pegasos-II-Boards deliverable at once
As the Amiga distributor Vesalia Computer informed
the Pegasos-II-Systems have been delivered since 27th February.
According to a statement of the trader sufficient boards are available to accept
further orders which can be delivered quickly.
But the amount of the G4-systems is limited.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Matay: Update of "Prometheus" support-site
Matay has updated the support site for its PCI-busboard "Prometheus". All available
drivers and tools as well as the information for developer concerning the "prometheus.library"
can be downloaded there.
A short FAQ ("Frequently Asked Questions") has been added. We want to quote some points:
- Matay still always offer a free FlashROM-upgrade for the Prometheus
- AmigaOS4 as well as MorphOS already support the hardware
- The author of OpenPCI has obviously given up the project and now works on MorphOS.
The corresponding drivers are still in beta-status and do not work with the
Prometheus satisfactory.
- Grzegorz Kraszewski who is the designer of the Prometheus has nothing to do
with Matay and now works on MorphOS, too.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Mar.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New arrangement of discussing offers
IOSPIRIT closed all mailing lists except the press and newsletter mailing list.
Instead of the mailing lists a German and English forum for discussions about Amiga and
MorphOS products of the company.
If you want to participate in the forums you must have a free account. You can also
get the forums via email.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS4: AHI/PPC-driver for SB128 and mixer in beta test
As Amigaworld.net reported Ross Vumbaca has
published his SB128-AHI/PPC-driver for AmigaOS4. Additionally Davy Wentzler has created
a mixer utility which will be integrated in the new operating system.
The following sound cards as well as chips are supported for play and record with
16 bit, stereo sound and eight to 48 khz:
- AudioPCI97
- Sound Blaster Vibra
- Sound Blaster 128
- Sound Blaster 64(V)
- ES1371
- ES1373
- CT5880
- EV1938
The mixer which can be used as Workbench-commodity allows the independent control of
the input and output sources (CD, Video, Aux, Line-In and Mic-In as well as PCM and Master)
of all sound cards supported by OS4. Additionally you can save and load the preferences.
The support of two further cards is in work. One of them comes from the professional area.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MorphOS: RunDOS published
RunDOS (38 KB)
is a small program which makes the use of MS-DOS programs more easy in that way that you
can start them via double click on the icon. RunDOS delivers the necessary parameters
to the emulator DOSBox.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Review: DVD Burning on Amiga w. LiteOn 8x DVD-RW
The South Wales Amiga User Group (SWAUG) has a DVD burner LiteOn LDW-811S DVD+/-RW on Amiga with software DVDRecord test.
Among their other product reviews
SWAUG rates the product at 89%. Worth noting is that the software in question only supports the Minus format for DVDs. However the LiteOn burner can be inserted otherwise easily at the Amiga and is cooperative in its CDRW functioning, for example it also should work with MakeCD. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Mar.2004
Ron van Herk (E-Mail)
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AmigaWares: Amiga Apparel by Randomize at Computer City
On account of inquiries about "AmigaWares" the Canadian firm Randomize has notified the Dutch dealer Computer City that they may import Randomize's Amiga apparel for European fans.
In spite of the import fees and the Dutch value-added tax, and owing to the current exchange rate of the dollar, these goods may be offered for about the same price Randomize designated in U.S. dollars - the euro amount may be found by multiplying the dollar price times 1.1.
You'll find an overview in the Fanware section at the new webshop of Computer City. Please mind that this shop is still under construction and the orders and resulting delivery and handling costs must be manually calculated. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Mar.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Nostalgia: "Remembering the Amiga's Glory Days"
At Tech Report there's a show report from the year 1992, in which Scott Wasson describes his experiences at the "Future Entertainment Show 1992." This was one of the first events in which the AGA computers A1200 and A4000 were demonstrated. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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04.Mar.2004
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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CGG: Pictures of the Most Recent Meeting and Topic Announcements for...
The Dutch "Commodore Gebruikersgroep" has presented photos (1, 2, 3) on their website of a convention last 21st February, as well as a newspaper report about it.
Beyond that, they have a vacation challenge: whoever wants to participate should take a photo of himself or herself in an Amiga or Commodore shirt in a vacation setting. The location should be recognizable and the shirt logo readable in the photo.
The next two CGG shows will have a specific theme. On the 17th of April there will be an Amiga Party in which the Dutch computer merchant Computer City will be onhand with all kinds of Amiga accessories. Also for instance the operating system MorphOS will be shown as well as some Pegasos computers.
Then on the 19th of June 2004 CGG is organizing a Retro-Show for Games and Computers, in which the majority of the types of the games and computers sold in Holland will be shown. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Mar.2004
Gerd Frank (ANF)
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AmiATLAS Demo at Computer & Video Market on March 6th & 7th in Bremen
The Users of the North Sea Coast (UdN) are showing an exclusive demo of the new update of AmiATLAS this weekend 6th & 7th March at the Computer and Video Market in Bremen, with special attention to the updated Germany map. This demonstration has been thoughtfully arranged by Ralf Tönjes.
Update: (16:10, 04.03.04, snx)
Walter Kemmling notified us on ANF that Manfred Rohde of the AmiATLAS development team has put screenshots and information about the upcoming Germany update-map on his website. Judging from them the AutoBahn [German highway system -dm] diagram in the AmiATLAS update will be the most current in the route-planning market. The distribution of the update to all registered customers should begin in the weeks following the demonstration. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Mar.2004
ANF
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ACT: Possible Production of More Prelude1200 Sound Cards
Marc Albrecht (A.C.T.) stated in the amiga-news.de forum
that a small run of Prelude sound cards for the Amiga 1200 clockports might be made and offered at a reasonable price.
If you are interested in such a card - new and direct from the manufacturer - you should go to this
link and let it be known.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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03.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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New versions of CManager, RxMui and TheBar.mcc
Alfonso Ranieri has released new versions of "CManager" (a central data base for addresses and bookmarks), RxMui (a GUI library for ARexx programmers) and "TheBar" (a MUI class for button rows).
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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03.Mar.2004
Brightmail (E-Mail)
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Study: 62 Percent of all Internet emails are classified as spam already
With their new February statistic the anti spam company Brightmail
want to show that about 62 percent of all emails can be classified as spam actually. Most spam messages are adverts for products (24%) and financial services (18%). 14% of the spams are classified as "for adults only" and 15% are deceits, including
"phishing" i.e. the angling for confident customer information.
The statistics are created frequently by Brightmail's network of bait and switch postboxes.
The so called Logistics Operations
Centers (BLOCs) in Dublin and San Francisco process catched
spam messages all around the clock and create more than 30,000
new filter parameters daily for their anti spam software. Two years ago only 7 percent of all emails were spam. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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03.Mar.2004
Mario Misic (ANF)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: March update
The current update of the BBoAH is available at the German mirror at http://Amigahardware.mariomisic.de now.
Among lots of new pictures and descriptions there are two hardware products to be identified which are known only from photographs. Also we are always looking for assistance to translate the BBoAH to German and for moderators for the according forums. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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DawnVideoPoker: Update to version 3.5
With the first update since 2001 Richard 'DawnBringer' Fhagers brings the DawnVideoPoker now to version 3.5 (349 KB).
The changes include improved graphics and statistics. Like all the games by Richard Fhagers DawnVideoPoker is programmed in AMOS, therefore an original Amiga with ECS/AGA is needed to run the program. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Mar.2004
Jörg Brenner (ANF)
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Update of the Amiga Hardware World
The Amiga Hardware World (AHW) has been updated today.
Among uncounted revised and added hardware descriptions there were added 53 photos of 21 expansions within this update, for example the Magni 4005, Kimatek A2300YC or Visiona. Also 22 new PDF manuals and several installation disks were added.
An overview about the latest changes is to obtain from:
http://amiga.resource.cx/aboutde.html (German) and
http://amiga.resource.cx/about.html (English).
The AHW currently covers about 740 expansions for the Amiga, most of them with description and picture. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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JAmiga: Screen shots of the coming V0.0.3 with AWT windows
There are screen shots of the coming version 0.0.3 of the written from scratch Java Virtual Machine implemantation for AmigaOS and MorphOS JAmiga. Shown are AWT windows with graphics and text output. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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02.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaPython 2.3.3 Alpha
A first alpha version of AmigaPython 2.3.3 is available, a port of the latest
Python-Revision.
This version provides all the functions of the older Amiga port so it can be used as
complete replacement for ARexx. Required for use are a 66020 CPU, a FPU, OS 3.9, and
AmiTCP/Genesis.
A website is in work so the author asks you to post feedback into the thread
on amigaworld.net.
If you encounter on startup of the test programs the error message "extsep could not
be found" please insert in the file
lib/python2.1/amigapath.py
after the line
extsep = '.'
the following line:
os.extsep = extsep
Also you need the ASSIGN: Python onto the drawer Python is installed in.
Download (Executable) (3 MB)
Download (Source) (3.2 MB)
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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02.Mar.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Tao Group Chosen by Microsoft for Strategic Alliance
Tao Group, architect of the intent multimedia
platform, today
announced its participation in the Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC).
Tao is partner of Amiga Inc..
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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02.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Preview-Screenshot of the new AmiNetRadio-GUI
Here you will find a
screenshot showing one of the GUI-Modules of the next AmiNetRadio-Version.
This special GUI-Modul will not run under AmigaOS 3
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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28.Feb.2004
small world (ANF)
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New PhotoCDs from the Digital-Album series
The CDROM series "Digital Albums" has been extended. Every CD contains many photos, scanned using the latest CANON technology or directly via Sony Cyber-shot digitally recorded. Because of the high resolution the pictures are of course ideal for DTP and websites design, too. The prices for a CD vary from 5,- to 8,- EUR.
Right now available are the following "Digital Albums":
Argentina, Brazil, Cars and Racing, Galicia, Lisbon, Majorca,
Mexico, Netherlands, Paris, Tenerife, Toscana and Valley of the Kings & The Nile.
All pictures come in the JPG format and the covers were created on Amiga using ArtEffect.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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28.Feb.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Pegasos: Turkish quickstart guide for MorphOS installation
With a Turkish version is Jürgen Lucas's quickstart guide for the MorphOS installation on the Pegasos now available in seven languages. Next to German, English and French these are Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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28.Feb.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP and Amiga Future move
Andreas Magerl wrote:
"APC&TCP and the Amiga Future have moved to a new address.
Our new address is:
Postfach 20
83234 Übersee
We can't be contacted via the address Postfach 82 and Dorfstraße 17 any more!
http://www.apc-tcp.de
http://www.amigafuture.de"
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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28.Feb.2004
Christian Krenner (ANF)
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"The Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page" in German
The Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page has been translated completely into German because of the requests of many readers and does now contain a discussion forum. The site documents an Amiga 600 upgrade project.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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28.Feb.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Starter GUI for Nintendo emulator Snes9x
Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski has released SNES9xStarter. With this tool you can start the MorphOS port of the SuperNintendo emulator Snes9x via a graphical user interface.
Download (44 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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28.Feb.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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SongPlayer 1.62 for MorphOS released (AmigaOS version to follow)
The SongPlayer for MorphOS is now available in version 1.62 (603 KB). The update of the Amiga version (current version v1.60) will follow soon.
The SongPlayer supports MP2/MP3, Ogg Vorbis, IFF, AIFF, WAVE, AU and CDDA. In the current version the Vorbis support has been added via a system library for MorphOS as well as a CDDA title editor. In addition to several bug fixes in the MorphOS version there are new icons and buttons by André Siegel and Treveur Bretaudiere.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Feb.2004
Steve Evans (E-Mail)
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Magazine: The Crypt #34
Issue 34 of the online magazine called "The Crypt" with the title "tribes" has been
published. You can read under the title link in the online issue about computer news, stories
and further reports. If you want to read it offline then download the following version.
Download: ZIP-version of The Crypt #34
The content of the current issue:
- Cleaning Your Computer
- Liteon DVD+R/+RW
- Gone to Lunch
- Amiga Tips and Tricks
- Pets Corner
- Jokes and more
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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27.Feb.2004
Computer City (e-mail)
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ImageInstaller V2: Distribution starting March 1st, AmigaOne version announced
On March 1st, the distribution of the ImageInstaller V2 will start. Initially, there will be versions for Pegasos I + II and classic Amiga computers with PPC card.
The DVD version contains the Gentoo, Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo, Yellow Dog and PegXLin distributions. For the CD version, the wanted distribution(s) can be choosen.
In April an AmigaOne version of the Image Installer V2 CD and DVD will follow.
More information can be found at http://www.amipeglin.de.vu. (snx)
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27.Feb.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packets until 26.02.2004
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which have been originally written
for disks. The following packets have been added or updated since our last message:
- 24.02.04 new: Prospector in the Mazes of Xor (Hidden
Treasures/Logotron)
- 23.02.04 new: Pinball Brain Damage (Mind's Eye)
- 21.02.04 improved: Starblade (Silmarils)
- 21.02.04 improved: Metal Mutant (Silmarils)
- 19.02.04 fixed: Toki (Ocean)
- 19.02.04 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century)
- 19.02.04 improved: Gunship 2000 (Microprose)
- 19.02.04 improved: Banshee (Core Design)
- 19.02.04 improved: Arctic Fox (Electronic Arts)
- 19.02.04 improved: Maya (Silmarils)
- 19.02.04 new: Les Portes Du Temps (Legend)
- 17.02.04 improved: Toki (Ocean)
- 17.02.04 improved: Boston Bomb Club (Silmarils)
- 17.02.04 new: Pinball Wizard (H.G.Berg/Kingsoft)
- 17.02.04 improved: Wind Surf Willy (Silmarils)
- 17.02.04 improved: Targhan (Silmarils)
- 17.02.04 improved: Colorado (Silmarils)
- 17.02.04 improved: Bunny Bricks (Silmarils)
- 17.02.04 fixed: Robinson's Requiem (Silmarils)
- 17.02.04 improved: Ishar 3 (Silmarils)
- 17.02.04 improved: Ishar 2 (Silmarils)
- 17.02.04 improved: Ishar (Silmarils)
- 14.02.04 new: Death Sword (Palace/Epyx)
- 14.02.04 improved: Ishar 2 (Silmarils)
- 14.02.04 new: Hugo (Silverrock/ITE)
- 13.02.04 new: The King Of Chicago (Cinemaware)
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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26.Feb.2004
Spiegel Online (Website)
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Spiegel Online: Troll you, Trolls!
In an online offer of the news magazine Spiegel, Frank Patalong authored a comment about the theme "Behavior on the Internet" that was very interesting for a few users: "the Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff didn't want to let it pass: an email writer called him an "arrogant, ignorant hysteric."" Ringstorff complained about the insult. Hopefully a school didn't do that - neither the one nor the other. Read the complete article at Spiegel Online under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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26.Feb.2004
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Audio CD Player for MorphOS
"CDPlayer" is a little program for the playing of audio CDs under MorphOS (screenshot).
Direct download (26
KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.Feb.2004
Henrik Mikael Kristensen (E-Mail)
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Status update from "AWeb Open Source Project"
The AWeb Open Source Project has released a new status update.
(cg)
[News message: 26. Feb. 2004, 18:19] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2004
Deutsche Telekom
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Deutsche Telekom Initiates Per Unit T-DSL Connection Fees
[article about increases in German Internet connection fees not translated, of little interest to non-Germans -dm] (cs) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 26. Feb. 2004, 14:34] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Crux Linux PPC for Pegasos II Available
As of version 1.3.1 Crux Linux PPC is now also available for the Pegasos II.
Crux is a lightweight, optimized Linux distro that is intended for experienced Linux users. The special attention here is on the one hand to keep everything simple and on the other hand to have modern Linux characteristics, current tools, and libraries. A ports system for the simplification of installations and updates is included. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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Amiga Insider: New German Language PDF Magazine
The first edition of AmigaInsider marks the launch of a new German language PDF magazine about the Amiga.
The first issue contains reports about AmigaOS 4.0 and Pegasos II as well as short, up-to-date news releases. There's an interview with Steffen Häuser, a Hollywood workshop, and columns on Amiga Arena and the game Schlachtfeld.
Here's the
download link for issue #1 (1.7 MB). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.Feb.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet Uploads through 26th February, 2004
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last announcement:
Babelfish.lha comm/irc 3K+Use babelfish from AmIRC/Shell
FamAmigaUses.lha docs/hyper 22K+A guide about famous Amiga uses!
AmigaFuture47.lha docs/mags 674K+Great german paper mag preview
Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 592K+SView5 V1.45 (23.2.2004) - Part 1/7
Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 157K+SView5 V1.45 (23.2.2004) - Part 2/7
Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K+SView5 V1.45 (23.2.2004) - Part 3a/7
Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 329K+SView5 V1.45 (23.2.2004) - Part 3b/7
Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K+SView5 V1.45 (23.2.2004) - Part 4/7
Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 147K+SView5 V1.45 (23.2.2004) - Part 5/7
Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.45 (23.2.2004) - Part 6/7 (opt
Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.45 (23.2.2004) - Part 7/7 (opt
Sv5-IFX.lha gfx/misc 14K+SView5 - ImageFX loader/saver V1.3 (23.2
Sv5-PPaint.lha gfx/misc 10K+SView5 - PPaint loader/saver V5.2 (23.2.
imdbDiff040213.lha misc/imdb 3.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
PuK-Lottery.lha misc/misc 16K+PuK-Lottery (portacall uk lottery with n
AmiZipRecover.lha util/arc 95K+Amiziprecover beta v1(Amiga zip recover)
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 87K+Italian version of StartBar
pfc.lha util/pack 62K+PFC beta v1(PersonalFileCompresser)
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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26.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Video from the OS4 Demonstration in Newcastle
There's a 70 minute video for download of the OS4 event in Newcastle (England) that took place last Saturday. In it is a "Q&A Session" with Alan Redhouse. The formats WMV and REAL are available, an MPEG version will be prepared over the weekend.
Direct download: WMV (49.5 MB)
Direct download: REAL (23 MB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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25.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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C64 still used commercially
As it obviously looks like there are C64s still used commercially in Brisbane (Australia): Following the title link there are several pictures proving that at one C64 is still used for an info display at the "MYER Centre main bus station".
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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25.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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MorphOS: MS-DOS emulator "DOSBox" v0.61
The emulator DOSBox emulates a DOS environment following the aim to bring old PC games to new computers. There is a new version of that emulator for MorphOS available now.
Direct download (561 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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25.Feb.2004
Steven Weiser (ANF)
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Localization for the latest WinUAE version
With the latest version of WinUAE Toni Wilen has reactivated the old "WinUAE_language.dll" system which has not been used since almost three years but allows to localize the GUI of WinUAE.
Steven Weiser, a WinUAE beta tester, just started to build a German translation right after he got the SDK. The translation is available at this
homepage.
If there are any issues with that file, Steven is reachable at Borg_no.one@gmx.net. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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25.Feb.2004
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Genesi selects Motorola 7447A CPU for upcoming Pegasos G4 line
Genesi announced today that the Pegasos II G4 using the recently announced 7447A will be shipped as soon as the CPU is commercially released by Motorola. Until then the 7447 will be shipped with the Pegasos II G4.
Motorola has validated the 7447A as a "Supported Motorola Product" for MorphOS, the Pegasos, and the Open Desktop Workstation.
Both, the PegasosPPC and the Open Desktop Workstation have been validated as "Evaluation/Development Boards and Systems" for the 7447 and 7447A G4 CPUs.
(cg)
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24.Feb.2004
3sat/neues (German TV magazine)
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Zeta: BeOS successor preinstalled on Via computers
As 3Sat reported in today's programme of the TV computer magazine neues will the BeOS successor Zeta come in the near future preinstalled on a new multimedia slim PC on the market. This mini PC is said to get a new users interface making diverse multimedia functions easy to use for the user without the need to get to know more of the operating system
The PC basing on a board with a 1GHz processor by Via is among other things meant to running Internet applications as well as playing music and working as a digital video recorder. The prices will be appr. 690 Euro. Further information can be found on the website of the TV magazine "neues".
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Events: AmiGBG presents the "Amiga Developer's Pavilon"
AmiGBG in cooperation with UniversalSpace.NET are proud to present the Amiga Developers' Pavilion. A.D.P. will be a meeting place for developers, ranging from beginners to professional game and application designers. The list of participants in the A.D.P. is growing continuously. (cg)
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24.Feb.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Liquid Skies records #066
The scene group Liquid Skies has released its 66th music pack. It contains a nearly 10 min long track of the
Finnish musicians Tripper and I-Oxo. The track is a mix of different styles but mainly Trance.
- Title: Nutmeg
- Musicians: Tripper feat. I-Oxo
- Style: Trance
- Lenght: 9:43
- Format: mp3
- Size: 8.5 MB
The zipped file is available for free download.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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24.Feb.2004
falkemedia
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AMIGAplus 02/2004 (#144) - peggy's on the fly again...
Issue 144 of AMIGAplus was released on February 20th, 2004, including a
review of Pegasos II, the new series "New jobs for old Amigas" (part 1:
Amiga as a faxmachine), the full version of Epic Multimedia Lexikon
(German version) on the A+ CD 26 and much more articles. Details:
- Reviewed: Pegasos II
- A+ CD 26: Epic Multimedia Lexikon
- New jobs for old Amigas, part 1: Faxmachine
- SVCD-Workshop, part 1
- What works: MorphOS-Compatibility
- Preview: Gorky 17
- Amiga Status Report: When it's done...
- Top 10 Shareware-Tools
- Review: Homebank 3
- Consumer protection: Buying via Internet
- UAE 0.8.22 Configuration for Compiler-freaks
- Workshop: AmigaOS 3.9 under WinUAE
- Demoscene: Behind the scene
- and much more
German monthly print magazine AMIGAplus (68 pages) may be ordered from
publisher falkemedia for 5 Euro
per issue including shipping costs or via
subscription. (nba)
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24.Feb.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Amiga-Team for SETI@Home founded
Now an Amiga-Team takes part at the
SETI@Home, the project "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence".
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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23.Feb.2004
Sylvio Kurze (E-Mail)
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ADA-Team: New homepage, new tool
The Anime Development for Amiga Team has just uploaded a new design
of their homepage (title link). They also relased a new tool for the Amiga
names "unzens", which uncensors Matrix-censored pictures. (nba)
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23.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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MorphOS: New version of the distributed.net client available
There is a new MorphOS prerelease client available (489), it contains a bugfix for the upcoming MorphOS 1.4.2 release.
Direct download (291 KB)
(cg)
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23.Feb.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: AMIGA special promotion prolonged and new account functions
IOSPIRIT - on numerous requests - prolongs the special price
promotion, within which many products are available at significantly
reduced prices, until the end of March.
Furthermore, there's now functionality in the customer account that
allows order tracking for many different sending types.
(cg)
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23.Feb.2004
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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Game publisher: "DiscreetFX GameShop"
Software developers "DiscreetFX", known for recently initiating the "Amizilla" campaign, are going to support game developers in the future:
"DiscreetFX GameShop allows Amiga/AmigaOS 4.0/MorphOS & AROS game developers to focus on what their good at, developing a great game. Game Shop takes care of everything else, free web hosting, marketing, promotion, packaging and shipping. Free toll free number for sales and support, free downloads of demo versions of the game and works in progress from the GameShop web site.
In these sometimes troubled economic times GameShop fulfills a much needed requirement in this small but regrowing community. It gives new, small, resource hungry game developers a place to publish and host their games. Not all games that are submitted will make the cut but the ones that make it will have a lot less to worry about and can focus on making the best game possible. In the past the Amiga launched the careers of many great game developers. Bullfrog, Core Design & EA just to name a few. With GameShop we hope to spark some new careers for new game developers.
Today's game industry is rift with old worn out ideas that have be rehashed time and time again, have you played to many FPS or RTS games? With GameShop we are hoping to nurture new game developers with fresh ideas for the gaming industry. Now being broke does not mean your great game idea will not be published.
2004 should be a banner year for Amiga & Amiga compatible systems. All those new customers will need relaxing and entertaining games on their systems. And new game authors need free web hosting and low cost no nonsense publishing terms to get their titles available to that user base.
Would you like your game published through the Game Shop? Here are the steps you need to take.
- Contact us at gameshop AT discreetfx DOT com
- Be ready to provided details about your game including screen shots, demo versions, development track record and or story boards
- Sign the easy to read, legalize free DiscreetFX contract
- Submit all graphics, HTML, demos Etc. that you want published on GameShop to DiscreetFX
- Get back to what counts the most, finishing the development of your new game
Please contact me if you have any further questions.
Best regards
Bill Panagouleas
DiscreetFX
Founder/CEO
bill@discreetfx.com
www.discreetfx.com
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing, computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing, computer graphics market when it went on sale in 1985." (cg) (Translation: cg)
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22.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Hyperion: Official statement regarding the recent Genesi Amiga litigation
Hyperion released an official statement regarding the recent Genesi-Amiga litigation on amigaworld.net.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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