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18.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


 Videos of the last two AmigaOS4 deemonstrations
There are videos of the last OS4 demonstration by the "Amiga North Thames" group from February the 8th and of the demonstration by the "North Carolina / South Carolina Amiga User's Group" from February the 7th available now.

"Amiga North Thames", February the 8th 2004

"AmigaOne Productions" offers a video of about 30 minutes in different formats:

More formats might be contributed later.

"NC/SC Amiga User's Group", February the 7th 2004

"Herwegoagain" offers a video of that event at amigaworld.net:

direct link (DivX/WMA, 54 MB) (cg) (Translation: ub)

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18.Feb.2004
Heise (Website)


 Heise: Mini PC "FlipStart" introduced
Heise Online reports from the introduction of the mini PC FlipStart by Vulcan Inc. That company has been brought to life by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

The micro computer measures 148 mm × 101 mm × 26 mm only and has a 5.6 inch display as well as a 1 GHz processor. The operating system will be Windows XP.

The full (German) report is available by the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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18.Feb.2004
Heise (Website)


 Heise: New software for music discrimination
As Heise online reports that Karlheinz Brandenburg, a co-developer of the MP3 format, has developed a software which is capable to discriminate different music tracks by their temporal pattern, instrumantation, speed and dynamics.

That offers the ability to do an automatic sorting of a music collection and for new search engines but on the other hand new mechanisms for copy protection also.

Futher information regarding the program "Audio ID" is availabe by the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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18.Feb.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)


 ASoft: CManager V28.7 and RxMUI V40.6 released
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has released new versions of RxMUI and of the Contact Manager. The CManager is now available in version 28.7 (461 KB), RxMUI in version 40.6 (974 KB).

With RxMUI graphical user interfaces can be created for ARexx macros using MUI. CManager is a general bookmark manager. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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18.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker


 Intel announces AMD64 compatible processor
"Other way around now" seems to be the new agenda: While AMD's 32 bit x86 processors are compatible to the Intel standard the latter company has announced a 64 bit extension compatible to AMD's 64 bit technique now. Thus a good chance is given that the 64 bit desktop processors by both companies will be compatible to each other. Currently Intel keeps the 32 bit concept within this area and plans to implement the AMD extension initially to their workstation and server processor Xeon only. Read the full article by the title link. (cs) (Translation: ub)

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18.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker


 AOL with AmigaOS/MorphOS
Internet connections with the online provider AOL by ISDN and modem are possible now without a special dial in software. It is very likely that it is possible to access the net with AOL by using AmigaOS or MorphOS now. Read the full article by the title link. (cs) (Translation: ub)

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17.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


 BabeAnoid: Status report to Version 2.5
Richard "Dawnbringer" Fhager is now working at a new version of his breakout clone BabeAnoid. You can find the status report under the title link.

In a thread Richard answers questions of a few users. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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17.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


 Picture series: The "Acryl Show Case" of bplan
Under the title link bplan published a few pictures of a clear acryl case, which are used for presentation of Pegasos. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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17.Feb.2004
amiga.org (Website)


 Status report to the Commodore-One
Under the title link Jens Schönfeld published a status report to the Commodore-One, the reconfigurable Computer, who is often called because of his C64 compatibility as the legendary breadcase. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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17.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net


 New tower case for AmigaOne and Classic Amiga computer
The US-American Amiga trader Mr. Hardware shows under the title link a few tower cases. The cases are mainly for use of the AmigaOne but also for A1200 computer.

(cg) (Translation: gf)

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17.Feb.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)


 Amiga C course for beginners in German
The first lections are now online, more will come in next time. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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17.Feb.2004
Amiga.org (Website)


 CAPS project: User library ported to Linux (x86, PPC)
The Classic Amiga Preservation Society (CAPS) has ported their libary now to Linux (x86 and PPC).


The CAPS team archives old and copysaved Amiga-games and they convert them in their own CAPS-format, which can be read by new WinUAE-versions.

With the user libary the IPF images of third programs could be processed. The packet is bound to C.A.P.S Freeware License Agreement which is contained in the archive. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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17.Feb.2004
Jörg Karisch (ANF)


 Short report of the hardware meeting in Nürnberg of 14th February
The user group 'Interessengemeinschaft Mittelfränkischer Amiga-Enthusiasten' (IMAGE) has published a short report on their website of their hardware meeting in Nürnberg on February the 14th.
There where two Pegasos-II-, two A4000 with CyberstormPPC, an A1200 in a tower with BlizzardPPC, A4000 in a Micronik tower with 68060, x86-Mini-Tower with WinUAE and two x86 laptops. You can find more information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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17.Feb.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


 Meeting: AmCluSt Hardware Event 2.- 4. April 2004
This year there is again an AMClust Hardware event. It is from April the 2nd until April the 4th. The members meet each other on the hardware meeting in Dreierwalde in Rheine.

Not members are welcome, too, but please announce. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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17.Feb.2004
Matthias Kretzler (ANF)


 Amigaremix.com again online
Amigaremix.com is a website, where you can download remoxes of Amiga game soundtracks as a MP3 file. Now Amigaremix.com is again online after a long break because of problems. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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17.Feb.2004
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 Airsoft Softwair announce Hollywood Designer
Andreas Falkenhahn today announced the newest Amiga software product from Airsoft Softwair: Hollywood Designer. The program is a state of the art "what you see is what you get" editor to create presentations, games and applications for the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood and will be released soon.

Hollywood Designer offers a powerful GUI that has all functions you need to unleash your creativity. With the Hollywood Designer now everyone can create funky Hollywood presentations with just a few clicks and save them for all Amiga platforms, e.g. you can create presentations for MorphOS on AmigaOS or presentations for WarpOS/AmigaOS on MorphOS. Hollywood Designer blasts the borders of the different Amiga platforms!

And now here are some screenshots of Hollywood Designer in action: Hollywood Designer will be released in versions for AmigaOS3, WarpOS, MorphOS and - as soon as it's ready - AmigaOS4. Check back on the website of Airsoft Softwair soon as they will reveal new details about this new Amiga software. (nba)

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16.Feb.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


 IOSPIRIT: New functions in the customer account
IOSPIRIT writes:

"IOSPIRIT continues to further improve its customer service. The latest results of these efforts are two new functions now available to the customers in their account:

My updates

In a central spot, the customer now finds all update- and bonus-files relevant to the products ordered or registered online.

Forum subscriptions

IOSPIRIT now offers account-owners (whether customer or not) the possibility to read and take part in forum-based discussions via their email-client. At this time, there are only forums for the Medusa USB bundle, but a step-by-step expansion of these services for other products is planned." (cg) (Translation: cg)

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16.Feb.2004
Heinz Wrobel (ANF)


 MakeCD: makecdromfs.module 45.12
makecdromfs.module 45.12 with Joliet and HFS support is now available for MakeCD. Various problems of v45.11 are fixed in this version.

Direct download (48 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)

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16.Feb.2004
Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)


 Hyperion: BlizzardPPC & Cyberstorm PPC repairs
Hyperion Entertainment would like to remind classic Amiga users that they can still take advantage of their repair offer for these cards by emailing timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com as a first point of contact.

Cost for repairs is a flat 145 euro + parts and you may pay via paypal, wire transfer or by cash (at your own risk). Should your card not be repairable, it will be shipped back to you at no cost should you wish. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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15.Feb.2004
GoldEd Support (ANF)


 Text editing: "microgolded" released
microgolded is a simple yet powerful editor for AmigaOS, MorphOS and UAE.

It is a low cost variant of GoldED AIX, designed for basic editing tasks. The editor is released in form of a single executable, for placement in the system's c folder. microgolded is the ideal editor for the boot CD of your OS because it does not need to be installed: it does not need an assign, catalogs, custom libraries etc. It will run even if the AmigaOS startup-sequence is not functional.

microgolded is only available online for instant download (pay securely via paypal). The retail price is 10 EUR. On the launch day, the special retail price is only 5 EUR if you go to this page.

You can download a 30-day trial version here. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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15.Feb.2004
ANN (website)


 New download site for MUI classes
Under the title link has a new download site for MUI classes been set up. It is meant to replace the offer that had formerly been accessible under http://gilfanon.homeip.net/mui/. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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14.Feb.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)


 Public test of the GAUHPIL database
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll containing websites of Amiga users sorted by continents and countries. Right now, the GAUHPIL is migrating to a MySQL based database solution.

Under the title link, you can find a description of the current state of things and of course a link to the current draft. Meanwhile, the database functions are in a state that the database could be used. The latest additions are the New Links List and the Lost Links List.

The moderator invites you to thoroughly test all functions, especially the registration of new entries, and send him your feedback about all malfunctions and any strange behaviour.

Currently, the GAUHPIL contains 867 users in 38 countries. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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14.Feb.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)


 AmigaOS4: news about the beta version
Hans-Jörg Frieden of Hyperion gives in a forum contribution on amigaworld.net a short overview about the current stand of developing regarding the AmigaOS4 beta version. We have summarized the essentials for you.

After the beta version had been given to the testers there had of course some minor problems to be solved. More difficulties came only from to things: for one had CD-ROM drives not reliably been recognized by the appropriate device - this problem is said to be solved in the meantime.

The other problem that is still being worked on is occurs just on a little number of configurations and is described by the OS4 team as "hot air effect" - there's a slight display distortion when using a Radeon graphics card in certain display resolutions similar to movements of heated air above hot asphalt. Nevertheless does the Radeon driver work, there are hints to the reasons of this effect and they hope to solve this problem soon.

Right now there's support for a bunch of ATI cards respectively for cards with ATI chips, so does the Radeon 9800 now work with the drivers developed by Forefront Technologies.

In another contribution gives Hans-Jörg particular emphasis on the fact that the 3D support for Radeon cards is by now restricted to the 7xxx series. It wouldn't make sense to get a Radeon 8xxx or 9xxx because of the 3D performance, there's still a long way to go until the according drivers will be available. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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14.Feb.2004



 Eyetech: updates and announcements
The AmigaOne distributor Eyetech has started the rework of his web appearance and put some announcements and updates online:

"EarlyBird" offer discontinued

The "EarlyBird" offer, where the buyers of an AmigaOne don't have to pay for AmigaOS4 and get it delivered by the time of its release, ends on March, 31st 2004. The last amount of AmigaOne-XE computers that will be delivered as "EarlyBird" has already been manufactured. Delivery as long as stock lasts.

Preproduction-MicroA1 in small numbers available, pictures of the new revision

A first number of MicroA1 motherboards (AmigaOne in Mini-ITX format) has been produced. These are identical with the planned specifications for the sales version besides the missing slot for "enhanced I/O interfaces" and the not existing onboard memory. The until now produced devices are exclusively for retailers and developers who want to demonstrate the computer to potential (bulk) buyers or who want already begin with the porting of specific software. The specifications of the now available MicroA1 computers are as follows:
  • Size: 17cm x 17cm x 3.5cm high (excluding PCI riser card)
  • CPU Module: 8cm x 8cm standard AmigaOne module - 750Fx @ 800MHz
  • Memory: Single socket SODIMM. 256MB PC133 CL3 supplied
  • Graphics: Radeon 7000 series, 32MB non-shared memory on board
  • BIOS: Uboot 1.0.0 socketed, with OS4 enabling code
  • Southbridge: VIA 82 2C686B
  • Ethernet: 10/100 with 3COM 920-ST06 controller
  • Sound: Cmedia CMI8738 6 ch controller
  • IDE: 44 way (2.5") and 40 way (3.5") connectors UDMA100
  • Legacy I/O: Parallel, 2 x PS/2, game/MIDI sockets
  • Video I/O: 15 pin SVGA, SVHS (miniDIN), composite video (RCA)
  • Sound: 3.5mm mike, aux and speaker jacks
  • Fast I/O: RJ45 10/100 ethernet, 2x USB1.0 ; 2 x USB1.0 headers
  • PCI: PCI-32 slot expandable to 3 x slots via a suitable riser

Pictures of the new motherboard revision are also available. A special case for the MicroA1 has been built in a small series, too, pictures of it can be found here and here.

Eyetech's website gets an overhaul

To do the change from an Amiga retailer to a PPC motherboard distributor justice, Eyetech's website will be reworked step by step. The webshop will continue to exist for now but Eyetech will only clear existing stocks and charge a fee on small orders. The delivery times for "Classic Amiga" products will become up to two weeks as the articles are now stocked external in a warehouse. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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14.Feb.2004
ANN (website)


 Back to the Roots: Emulators History Project
We want to announce a new service which we started at BTTR, the "Emulators History Project" located at emulators.back2roots.org.

At this location we start to collect source code and binaries of all Amiga emulators ever released. We start with the WinUAE emulator history, other emulators to come later.

All emulator versions online can both be downloaded or browsed, which may be helpful for coders working on any Amiga emulator or emulator supporting/addon projects.

It's a difficult task to find all versions ever released, especially when it comes to the source code (which never had a version in its filename - urghh), that is why we want to ask you for your help to get the collection complete! Please have a look at the current collection of WinUAE files and help us find all missing files (which are marked as red cells): http://emulators.back2roots.org/winuae.

Thanks in advance for your time and contribution. (snx)

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14.Feb.2004
morphzone.org (website)


 Interview with the developer of "Mattathias BASIC"
Michael Ness developes a new BASIC dialect that seems to be heavily inspired by AMOS. The compiler will be available (among others) for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and Windows. The first version will produce easily portable code and is therefore restricted to the creation of programs without a graphical users interface. Graphics, sound etc. will be supported later via extensions similar to the AMOS "Extensions". Under the title link you can find an interview with Michael Ness. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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14.Feb.2004
Dirk Stoecker (ANF)


 RekoNet offline
The "RekoNet" server that had offered a comprehensive collection of card sets for the Solitaire card game "Klondike" had to be taken from the net. Because of the high demand for storage and bandwidth and the partly erotic offering it's hard for the providers to find a replacement.

To make the card set collection further online available and also to continue the already started expansion of the offer on other card formats and Solitaire programs are the providers have to rely on small donations. An amount of almost 300 EUR would cover the costs for the next two years. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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14.Feb.2004
Ron van Herk (IRC)


 Computer City: open letter to the Amiga community
The Dutch Amiga retailer Comuter City (http://www.compcity.nl) announces in an open letter to the amiga community that the source code for the multimedia software MediaPoint will be made public to accelerate the developing process. For this, a community portal will be set up to coordinate the work on the project.

Furthermore, Computer City will open their new webshop on March, 1st with support in several languages. Additionally, there'll be some special actions in March.

And just in time for Valentine's Day they announce a USB2.0 PCI card as a present for all their Pegasos-II customers (who have paid their bill). (cr) (Translation: wk)

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13.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


 C64: User interface "GEOS" for free download
The graphic C64 user interface GEOS which originally belonged to Berkely Softworks has been now released for free download of the current owner of the rights cmdrkey. But currently the server is not available because of the "slashdot-effect". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2004
Coyote Flux (ANF)


 New KickFlash-OS4 Update
As Coyote Flux announce, there are new versions available of the KickFlash OS4 Firmware and the CoyoteFlash tool.

CoyoteFlash is a program that has been developed for the Individual Computers KickFlash OS4 Card. It allows full management of the flash card and can install AmigaOS ROM Updates and other modules on machine startup. This allows booting of an OS 3.5 or higher system without any resets involved. More information about this project is available on the Individual Computers website.

Changes of the new version:
  • Now works with any resident modules
  • Supports multiple modules in one file
  • Supports the OpenOXYPPort command for OxyPatcher 3.13, just add the file and it will be installed on bootup
  • Supports the last BoingBag 2 AmigaOS ROM Updates. Since our main developer machine broke down, it was hard to test the compatibility with other systems. Please give us some feedback!
  • New advantages are that you can install AmigaOS ROM updates with different modules. For example, you can install all the updates except scsi.device and use a different scsi.device as a seperate module.
  • Should work with some of the PrepareEmul like programs, but has not been tested intensively yet. Please let us know if it works...
  • The NOROMUPDATE command is no longer needed for Setpatch, it should detect the install automatically now.
Download (14 KB) (snx)

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13.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)


 New superbundle registrations for Pegasos-I-Boards without serial number end
On 14 March 2004 the new superbundle registrations for Pegasos-I-Boards without serial number will end. If you should have a Pegasos-I-Board without serial number und if you should not have ordered your superbundle then please do it as soon as possible.

Owners of a Pegasos II or of a Pegasos I with serial number are not concerned.

After expiration of the mentioned time as a owner of a Pegasos I without serial number you will still only have the possibility to get the superbundle by registering your Pegasos at an authorized Genesi agent. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker / Markus Bonet (ANF)


 Source codes of Windows on Internet
Today Microsoft confirmed the rumours: Source codes of Microsoft operating systems Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 are available on Internet. (cs) (Translation: dr)

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12.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)


 MorphOS: Adventure "Aqua" Now Part of the SuperBundle
The point-and-click adventure Aqua by Emerald Imaging appeared over the weekend as the latest component of the SuperBundle assortment of software free to all registered Pegasos owners. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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12.Feb.2004
Aminet (Website)


 Aminet Uploads Through 12th Feb. 2004
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last bulletin: 
DOpusRxTrash.lha     biz/dopus   29K+Global trashcan for DOpus Magellan II
SMRMag2Theme.lha     biz/dopus  686K+Collection of data for Magellan II
Envoy3_1Update.lha   biz/patch   87K+Public Patch for Envoy 3.0
AmiDiction.lha       comm/tcp    31K+Online Dictionary
Telser_Keyfile.lha   comm/tcp     2K+Free Telser.device keyfile for everyone 
MakeHTMLMap.lha      comm/www   600K+Powerful (Web,HTML) Gallery-, Catalog-, 
Kinderegg.lha        demo/euro   41K+Kinderegg - 64K intro from Kindergarden 
Strange-Wierd.lha    demo/euro  421K+"Wierd" - A demo by Strange in 1997
TheLostPuppy4.lha    demo/euro  158K+Demo by Specter - Lost Puppy 4 
asl.lha              dev/cross  1.6M+Cross-assembler for a wide range of proc
objectbrowser.lha    dev/e       11K+Object Browser / System Debugger 0.9
obligement41.lha     docs/mags  1.9M+Obligement #41 - Magazine AmigaOS and Mo
obligement42.lha     docs/mags  2.0M+Obligement #42 - Magazine AmigaOS and Mo
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  862K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
WormWars.lha         game/misc  539K+Worm Wars 7.72a: Advanced snake game
BH.lha               game/shoot 283K+Beach Head C64 style game
StefADV.lha          game/text   29K+Little italian text adventure
StefADV2.lha         game/text   71K+2nd little italian text adventure
Marryampic2.lha      game/think 526K+CardSet game with sound-pairs (MorphOS)
MazezaM.lha          game/think 294K+Puzzle game, Sokoban alike (DeLuxe versi
MiniAwari.lha        game/think  50K+Ancient board game (v2.0) 
A2Zee.lha            game/wb     32K+Put the letters in the right order!
Kaleido.lha          game/wb     35K+Try to match the kaleidoscopic patterns!
ffmpeg.lha           gfx/conv   1.5M+Fast video and audio encoder
GIFsplit.lha         gfx/conv    24K+Splits GIF animations into individual GI
GS8gui.lha           gfx/conv    32K+GUI for Ghostscript8 done with rxMUI
QLView.lha           gfx/show   221K+Sinclair QL Screen viewer and iff saver.
DD2AG_0.3.lha        hard/drivr  23K+Makes Amiga Guide out of DriverDescripto
SetClockI2C.lha      hard/hack   50K+SetClock clone using I2C real time clock
softPSUoff.lha       hard/hack    7K+Turn off an ATX-PSU from the shell + ATX
imdbDiff040123.lha   misc/imdb  4.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff040130.lha   misc/imdb  3.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
aquarobe.lha         mus/play    29K+A skin for Prayer2 [UPDATED]
Pixload-4.3.jpg      pix/misc   132K+Pixload 4.3 preview
PgsChinese.lha       text/dtp   437K+Rudimentary IME script for PageStream
guideml.lha          text/hyper  68K+V3.3 AmigaGuide -> HTML converter with G
selector91.lha       util/batch 564K+Unique script language / launching tool
selectorUPDATE.lha   util/batch 105K+Update from Selector 9.0 to 9.1
IFF2rexx.lha         util/conv    1K+Convert IFF data to rexx source
ExtraLib.lha         util/libs  358K+Complex dynamic buffer system, and other
StartBar-ITA.lha     util/misc   88K+Italian version of StartBar
AmiMSN.lha           util/rexx    7K+(0.2) MSN Messenger client
ADFMaker.lha         util/sys    12K+GUI f r Device.handler (DEV:)
PosTitmui.lha        util/wb     19K+Reminder note for your WB
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12.Feb.2004
WHDLoad (Website)


 WHDLoad: New Packets Through 12th Feb. 2004
With WHDLoad you are able to play from your hard-drive games that were formerly thought of as being floppy-only. The following packets have been released or updated since our last announcement:
  • 12.02.04 updated: Strip Poker (Artworx)
  • 12.02.04 new: Skærmtrolden Hugo (SilverRock)
  • 10.02.04 new: Strip Poker (Artworx)
  • 10.02.04 new: Robinson's Requiem (Silmarils)
  • 10.02.04 improved: Ishar 3 (Silmarils)
  • 07.02.04 fixed: Cosmic Pirate (Palace)
  • 07.02.04 improved: Alien Storm (Sega/U.S.Gold)
  • 07.02.04 new: Strip Poker 3 (Artworx)
  • 07.02.04 new: Dizzy Dice (Smash 16)
  • 05.02.04 improved: Streetfighter 2 (Capcom/U.S.Gold)
  • 05.02.04 new: Lancelot (Level 9)
  • 04.02.04 new: Strip Poker 2 / Deluxe Strip Poker (Artworx)
  • 01.02.04 new: Gazza 2 (Empire)
  • 01.02.04 fixed: Sleepwalker (Ocean)
  • 29.01.04 improved: Alien Breed (Team 17)
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12.Feb.2004
Raquel Velasco & Bill Buck (E-Mail)


 MorphOS: First Music to Be Added to SuperBundle
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi said in an email that the first music album will be added to the SuperBundle. The music being considered is "TripperTunes" by Ville "Tripper" Sarell. Two of those songs were co-produced by Juho "i-oxo" Järvinen. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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12.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


 Microsoft: Windows Services for Unix 3.5 available for free
As Cloanto announces, the Windows Services for Unix 3.5 (SFU) from Microsoft are now available for free.

The SFU include an NFS server which can be used to give one or more Amiga clients access to files stored on a Windows PC in case SFU is running on it. Amiga NFS clients are part of packages such as AmiTCP/IP. (snx)

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12.Feb.2004
CHIP Xonio Online (E-Mail)


 Internet is the Central Medium for Purchasing Decisions
It's undisputable that the Internet is the main source of information for consumers. That's the conclusion of the online purchase advisor CHIP Online and Xonio. According to a current Nielsen//NetRatings study 94 percent of German households check the Internet before making an important buying decision.

[The long article continues with details, not translated -dm] (nba) (Translation: dm)

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12.Feb.2004
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)


 Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results for January/February 2004
The results of the Amiga Games Hit Parade Vote for best game for the months of January and February 2004 have been released. The list is newly topped by Quake2, followed by Tales of Tamar and Payback. The next vote (Amiga Games Hit Parade of March/April 2004) begins in mid-March 2004. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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12.Feb.2004
Christoph Kimna (ANF)


 Event: Hobbytronic Show at Dortmund-Westfalen Hall
The Hobbytronic Computer Show began yesterday in the Dortmund-Westfalen Hall. The show runs until the 15th of February, 2002.

The HobbyTronic show is good for PC fans, electronic enthusiast, amateur radio buffs, DX-ers, frequency and TV novices, video buffs, and electro-acoustic technicians. It is great for hobby computer users, work computer users, or computer users seeking training. [Remainder of article not translated. It went on to state that the Hobbytronic show was more of a sales show than CeBIT, and that visitors were unlikely to find Amigas there. -dm] (nba) (Translation: dm)

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11.Feb.2004
amiga.org (Website)


 amiga.org: Rework's 2nd phase starts on Friday
The team of amiga.org will start the 2nd phase of their announced rework process on Friday. During the following days the site might be unreachable from time to time (cg) (Translation: ub)

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11.Feb.2004
ann.lu (Website)


 "Momentum Computer" announces a PPC970 motherboard
"Momentum Computer" offers the "970 Evaluation Platform" by the title link. A motherboard for up to two PPC processors of the PPC970 series with the following specifications:
  • Full Size ATX Form-factor.
  • Dual IBM PowerPC 970 Processors.
  • PowerPC 970 NorthBridge.
    • Two point-to-point PowerPC interfaces, running at up to 1GHz.
    • AGP 8X Interface.
    • HyperTransport interface, running at up to 1.2GHz.
    • DDR SDRAM memory controller, dual channel (128-bits + ECC), up to 16GigaBytes of SDRAM supported. Special MUX feature uses only one pair of DIMMs at a time.
  • PLX HT7520 HyperTransport tunnel, with two PCI-X interfaces, each capable of running at 133MHz.
    • One PCI-X interface is hooked up to two 64-bit PCI connectors.
    • The other PCI-X interface is hooked directly to an Intel 82546ER Dual Gigabit Ethernet device.
  • AMD8111 SouthBridge.
    • ATA133 capable EIDE interfaces (Master/Slave).
    • USB interface with 2 ports presented.
    • 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet interface.
    • Standard Power Management.
    • PCI 32-bit @ 33MHz Interface.
  • SMSC LPC47M260 Super I/O Device.
    • Connects to SouthBridge through LPC bus.
    • Flash Interface.
    • Fan Controller Interface.
  • PowerPC 405EP Processor.
    • Acts as Service/Management Processor for 970 processor(s).
    • Flash Interface.
    • Independent memory sub-system (32-bit SDRAM).
    • 10/100 BASE-T Interface.
  • On-Board M-Systems Flash Disk (no moving parts, for diskless applications).
  • Service Processor manages 970's through I2C interface.

Currently two difrent versions are offered. The prices are 4500 and 6000 USD. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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11.Feb.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


 Amiga Games Award 2003 goes to "Knights and Merchants"
The Amiga Games Award 2003 goes to the MorphOS game "Knights and Merchants", a strategic economy simulation by epic interactive. The chart has been chosen by the readers of the "Hit-Parade-Newsletter".

The first ten ranks:
  1. Knights and Merchants
  2. Duke Nukem
  3. Babeanoid 2
  4. Birdieshoot
  5. Pairs NG
  6. Foto-Foto
  7. AmiChess 2
  8. Amhuhn
  9. Project StarFighter
  10. 2 Pairs 2 Furious
(snx) (Translation: ub)

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11.Feb.2004
Andreas Balke (ANF)


 Amiga 600 as MP3-Player in a car - Version 2.0
Hello Amiga friends,
because I got a lot of feedback to my crafty project I just want to announce a new version of my Amiga MP3 player in a car.

All about that is to read at the same URL as before:
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~utaba/A600/A600-e.html.

Greetings,
Andi (snx) (Translation: ub)

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11.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


 MorphOS: MLDonkey 2.5-10 released
The MorphOS version of MLDonkey is now available in version 2.5-10.

The new version of the filesharing program contains a new experimental plugin FileTP, which offers the ability to download files via HTTP, FTP and SSH. Information about the other improvements and bug fixes is available within the Archive's (2.5 MB) changeLog file. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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11.Feb.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)


 SN-EuroArchiv V1.2 available and new homepage online
The SN-EuroArchiv V1.2 is online at my new homepage which is reachable at http://www.sn-archive.privat.t-online.de or http://www.sn-archive.de.tf. The Aminet upload will follow later.

At the homepage there is also information and a picture available regarding the real time economy simulation "Die Kleine Gilde II" which is still under development. The game will see its first release in about a good four weeks.

SN-EuroArchiv is a coin manager, especially for Euro coins. It manages single coins, coin sets, special or commemorative coins, coin rolls and "starterkits" in a simple way. It is possible to view the collection in tables and statistics to help to complete the collection.

Changes since version 1.1:
  • Save and print of annual table added
  • Table with number and value of the coins sorted by country (country statistics)
  • Look up possibility for the auction value of the collection within the project window
  • Nominal value count statistic added
  • Accurate numbers within the collectors value statistics
  • Problems with buttons fixed
  • manual changed to Amigaguide format and addition of history
(snx) (Translation: ub)

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10.Feb.2004
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)


 Club Amiga Magazine: February edition published
The February edition of Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been published.

From the contents:
  • Editorial
  • AmigaOS 4 Update
  • The Boing Case
  • My AmigaOne Adventure by Carl Moppett
  • My AmigaOne Adventure by Steven Solie
  • Backdrops R Us
  • Member's Corner
  • Letters
(snx) (Translation: gf)

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10.Feb.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)


 ASoft: Updates of CManager and Calendar.mcc
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has provided new versions of the Contact Manager also of the MUI class Calendar.mcc. The CManager lays now in: Version 28.5 (450 KB) , Calendar.mcc in Version 15.2 (86 KB).

The CManager is a bookmark-office. Instead of the latest edition more bugs are cleaned.

Calender.mcc makes the input of the date and graphic user interfaces easier which are made by MUI. In the new version the dayname is written with backcolor (snx) (Translation: gf)

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09.Feb.2004
hawe (ANF)


 Envoy: Update-Patch
Heinz Wrobel released a patch (87 KB) for Envoy 3.0.
The patch fixes known problems of Envoy 3.0 and increases the compatibility with Amiga emulations. Further details are to be found in the file 'FixedBugs'.

Update patches for the Envoy development version are available, too. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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09.Feb.2004
Slashdot (Website)


 Videotoaster: New source code
Recently the source code of 'character generator' and 'toaster paints' was released. Now there are some more parts of the video editing software Video Toaster Flyer available at openvideotoaster.org.
  • ChromaFX: Realtime color processing like sepia effect, color negative, day-for-night, videochrome and some more.
  • Switcher: Cut, crossfading and wipes between four video and three internal sources.
  • Flyer and Edit: non-linear, tapeless video editing on the hard disk with drag'n'drop storyboard and switcher view for live production.
(snx) (Translation: sk)

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08.Feb.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 First version of Arjuna, new Windows drivers for Catweasel
Arjuna is a modular, expandable solution to access floppy disks from many different systems. It supports the Catweasel controller to read and write formats not compatible with the standard PC controller. Arjuna is written in C++ and uses Qt for its GUI. The project by Christoph 'Doc Bacardi' Thelen now has its own homepage and a mirror on our webspace. The first version 0.6beta is available for download there.

Arjuna is a project that reaches very far into the past, digging deep into almost forgotten knowledge about data storage. At the same time it focusses on the future as a universal tool for data restauration and conversion. Hoping to find a lot of developers to contribute floppy disk formats, Christoph is trying to make this a Sourceforge project.

The Windows version of Arjuna needs an updated driver for the Catweasel to work properly. Download this version here (87 KB, experimental). (snx)

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07.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (website)


 Swedish Web portal for Pegasos/MorphOS
The Swedish Amiga distributor GGS-Data has set up a Web portal for Scandinavian Pegasos users under www.pegasosworld.se. The established Swedish Pegasos forum pegasos.org is accessible again and has been integrated into pegasosworld.se. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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07.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (website)


 Pegasos: Official Gentoo and OpenBSD support
As OpenBSD says, will the Genesis PPC computers "Pegasos" and Pegasos-II" now be supported. Download links and a short installation instruction can be found on the OpenBSD website.

The Gentoo kernel "ppc-sources-dev-2.4.24" now supports the Pegasos-II, too. This kernel offers among other things "cryptoloop" (for encrypted file systems), GRSecurity 2.0-rc4, access control lists and some more things.

Under http://dev.gentoo.org/~dholm/ppc.html you can find kernels to adapt an existing Pegasos installation for a Pegasos-II. Kernels for a complete new installation on a Pegasos-II are also available. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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07.Feb.2004
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)


 Magazine: next CAM issue postponed
Because of a last minute extension will the next issue of the Amiga online magazin "Club Amiga Monthly" be released on February, 9th instead of February, 7th, as it was announced before. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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07.Feb.2004
OSNews (ANF)


 CNN: The silliest moments of the IT industries in 2003
CNN has collected the "silliest occurrences in the IT industry in 2003" and presents under the title link a collection of funny anecdotes - from CD copy protection that can be "removed" via the "shift" key to Microsoft's toilet PC "iLoo". (cg) (Translation: wk)

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07.Feb.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)


 ASoft: new MUI libraries and tools
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has released new updates of his programs: CManager v28.2 (global contact management), TheBar.mcc v16.2 (MUI button bar class), RxMUI v40.5 (ARexx MUI library), RexxMustHave v22.4 (Rexx functions) and Calendar.mcc v15.1 (Calendar MUI class for an easy date input). (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Feb.2004
Merregnon-Team (email)


 Merregnon: new work in progress file of Merregnon 2 and cooperation wih MUSA Ltd
Merregnon Studios, the makers of the highly anticipated music CD of the same name, and MUSA Ltd. bundle the powers to make a high quality of live orchestra recordings and post productions for the video gaming industry possible. There's a work in progress music piece of the second part of Merregnon in MP3 format with a length of 1:30 minutes online. The piece has been recorded by Andy Brick with members of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the New Yorker Philharmony. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Feb.2004
Tom Duin a.k.a. Amigaharry (ANF)


 Search program: SearchStar 0.84
The search program "SeachStar" is available in version 0.84. With this tool you can search files and file comments and do many more things. New in version 0.84 is the possibility to search in several directories and drives. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Feb.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)


 First draft of the GAUHPIL data base online
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll containing websites of Amiga users sorted by continents and countries. Right now is the GAUHPIL migrating to a MySQL based database solution. Under the title link you can find a description of the current state of things and of course a link to the first draft.

The start page is now localized into German/English. New are the lists for each single continent. The users can be found as before sorted in alphabetical order below their countries, in addition you can now query single countries or search for single terms.

Things to do are a form for entering new links, a form (with password request) for changing existing links, a dynamic list of new links and a dynamic list of lost links.

For now, the GAUHPIL contains 867 users in 38 countries. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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06.Feb.2004
morphzone.org (Website)


 Video of TV-presentation of Pegasos II available
The Pegasos II presentation which took place on the Hungarian TV station "FixTV" is now available on morphzone.org as an AVI-video. You can download it under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)


 Picture Viewer: MiniShowPicture 1.55
A new version of the picture viewer "MiniShowPicture" has been released, containing the following changes:
  • Special version for users without graphics cards (beta status)
  • new title picture
  • Shortcut "h" to change the display mode
  • shows picture on its own screen (shortcut "g")
  • filenames may be changed
  • more smaller changes...

Direct download: MiniShowPicture.lha (275 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)

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05.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)


 MorphOS: Poll for "Freeware of the Year"
On morphzone.org there's a poll to decide the best "Freeware of the Year." All registered users of the portal may vote.

The nominees must fulfill the following criteria:
  1. No Ports
  2. Either MorphOS native or at the least "thought of for MOS"
  3. Free (no shareware)

The license (closed source/open source) as well as the utilized programming language are not material to the poll.

The poll runs until noon on Friday the 29th of February. The nominees are:
  • 2Pair2Furious
  • AmigaMARK
  • AmiNetRadio
  • CDSpeedKiller
  • CyberLemmings
  • Euph0ria
  • Maguila
  • MiniShowPicture
  • PTP DigCam
  • TranspoClock
  • WallGet
  • ZoneXplorer
(cg) (Translation: dm)

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05.Feb.2004



 Convention: Date for AmiWest 2004 Set
The organizers of AmiWest have set and made public the date for this year's show: 24th and 25th July. This year the show will take place at a new location. Further details will follow. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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05.Feb.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


 SimpleMail: Version 0.23 Released
The email program SimpleMail has reached version 0.23.

Changes since the previous version:
  • AppIcon support (bgol)
  • mbox Data may be directly imported in a selected order (bgol)
  • APOP support
  • ported to MorphOS (henes)
  • various bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: dm)

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05.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)


 Video Toaster Flyer: Source Code Released
On www.openvideotoaster.org the source code for the Video Toaster Flyer by NewTek has been released as a gift to Amiga users. Previously Amiga Video Toaster Flyer Character Generator and Toaster Paint had been released.

Newtek was founded in 1991 by Tim Jenison and partners. Their Amiga Video Toaster enabled the production of video at drastically lower prices than the studio equipment that had been available until that time. In 1994 came the Newtek Video Toaster Flyer, tapeless processing hardware.

With this gesture by Newtek, opening the source code, the world doesn't just get the first video production system in a box. It gets the first open source realtime video processing system for the Amiga.

The Amiga Video Toaster Flyer Character Generator supports among other things Postscript, Real-time Scrolls, and professional-quality crawls and titling of live or pre-taped videos and static pictures.

ToasterPaint is a 24-Bit paint program with tools for drawing, coloring, tinting, blending, and warping of pictures. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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05.Feb.2004
Gunnar Bernhardt (Maintainer dt. Mirror) (ANF)


 WinUAE 0.8.24 Released
Toni Wilen has released a new version of his Windows port of UAE.

Removed Bugs:
  • Undesired keyboard input while using USB keyboards under Windows 9x/ME
  • Updates of the bsdsocket emulation (TCP:, Apache)
  • The saving of a compressed "state" data without zlib1.dll resulted in data distortion
  • crashing after saving "state" data a fourth time

Newly added:
  • Multi-monitor support improved
  • Slide-bar for the speaker volume as well as corresponding keyboard shortcuts ("END"+"Numpad -", "END"+"Numpad +" und "END"+"Numpad *", as well as Multimedia keypress "Volume +/-" und "Mute")
  • Configurable emulation of the floppy noises :)
  • Improved debugger (new breakpoints, memwatch points etc.)
  • Windows XP-compatible multi-mouse support, improved input support
  • FDI 2.0 disk image format

And a few smaller updates.

WinUAE may be downloaded under the title link. A German mirror that also offers older versions of the emulator is at http://www.webwood.de/winuae_1/index.html. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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04.Feb.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


 LinuxPPC: Debian supports Pegasos II from kernel version 2.4.22-6 on
The official Debian PowerPC kernel supports not only the Pegasos I but also the Pegasos II now. It is a V 2.4.22 kernel with back ported security fixes.

The version 2.4.22-8 works so far, but voodoo fbdev is not integrated yet, the radeonfb should work. There is also an image available for a network install. That one does not work with Voodoo gfx cards yet - Radeons should work without problems.

Further information is available at the Pegasos Linux forum. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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04.Feb.2004
AmiGBG (Website)


 AmiGBG: More exhibitors announced
At the AmiGBG held on April the 3rd in Swedish Goteborg there will be some more exhibitors among them Martin Blom, developer of the audio systems for AmigaOS Classic, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, AHI, as well as the company Guru Meditation and the online community AmigaWorld.net. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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04.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker (Website)


 Game consoles: X-Box 2 equipped with three PPC processors by IBM
The not yet for the public released specifications of the "X-Box 2" by Microsoft seem to have been given to an American newspaper. According to that the console will be equipped with three processors of the PPC 9xx family by IBM, like those known from Apple's G5 computers. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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03.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)


 Scalos: Version 1.4 Beta of Workbench replacement available
Available since Silvester 2003 is the version 12.4 beta of the Workbench replacement Scalos. The archive has a size of 744 KB and contains only the files updated or changed since Version 1.2 (432 KB).

Some new features of Scalos are for instance complete multitasking (every window has its own task), transparency of icons, if dragged above something where drag&drop is applicable, Stretching, Tiled, and centering of backdrops, iconify of drawer icons, and a plugin system for exchange and adding of new features.

Minimum system requirements are an Amiga with 68020, Kickstart 3.0, 1 MB free memory and MUI 3.6. Recommended are MUI 3.8, also the render.library, guigfx.library, popupmenu.library and the newicons.library. The mentionend libraries are also available on the Scalos-Download-page.
On the website a list of all changes/updates is available in the History. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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03.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)


 Operating Systems: Athene 3.3 published
With version 3.3 of Athene the OS has some more similarities towards the AmigaOS. For example the ASL based file requester was reworked and the file manager contains now DirOpus inspired functions like single click, multi choice and a ew fullscreen mode (Screenshot).

Athene is an OS running for itself or it can be hosted under Windows or Linux. The GUI is variable and can be configured to look like Windows or AmigaOS.
The versions for Windows and Linux can be downloaded for free. Requirements are min. Pentium-II-processor, Windows 98/Kernel-Version 2.4 of Linux. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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03.Feb.2004
AmigaWorld.net (ANF)


 New screenshots of AmigaOS 4 published
On AmigaWorld.net you can find new inofficial screenshots of AmigaOS4.

You will see a general Workbench screenshot with IBrowse, SoundPlayer and the new layers.library in action (shape and mask of windows) and some running 68k-programs: ArtEffect, WBAsteroid, ZoneXplorer and YAM.

Further more two screenshots show Descent 2 (1, 2). This is a port from d2x, the Linux/SDL-version of the game. Hyperion is working on an optimisation and on an OpenGL-Integration. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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02.Feb.2004
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)


 Commodore Gebruikers Groep: Amiga-Party on April 17th in Holland
The Dutch Commodore Gebruikers Groep will held an Amiga-Party in Maarssen on April 17th.

Two halls are available. The venue is to be found in the Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, The Netherlands. Visitors are welcome from 10 to 16.

Additional information can be found on the homepage of the 'Commodore Gebruikers Groep': http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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31.Jan.2004
Roger (ANF)


 Amiga intern: 2nd issue online
The January issue (7.4 MB) of the German PDF magazine Amiga intern is available for download.

Subjects of the 42 pages issue of the magazine are among others a big digicam report, part 2 of the Movieshop workshop, USB on the Amiga and Knoppix. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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31.Jan.2004
Tom Duin alias Amigaharry (ANF)


 Update: SearchStar v0.81 now also compatible with Directory Opus
The program SearchStar, which searches files on the hard disk which name or content match a certain search pattern and optionally also replaces this by another string, has now been updated to version 0.81 (26 KB).

The previous version didn't work with Directory Opus 5.82 Magellan II, since this program adds a slash mark to the end of each path. This is filtered now by SearchStar v0.81. Also memory is freed faster now. (snx)

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31.Jan.2004
ScummVM Amiga Ports website (ANF)


 ScummVM 0.5.1-R2 68k & WarpOS released
Uwe Ryssel has newly compiled the current version 0.5.1 of ScummVM for 68k (731 KB) and WarpOS (829 KB).

Using ScummVM, classic adventures from LucasArts - like for example Monkey Island 1-3, Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max, The Dig or Full Throttle - can be played on modern Amiga systems.

The new release has been compiled from the MorphOS source code and runs faster and more stable than the previous version. (snx)

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30.Jan.2004
WHDLoad (Website)


 WHDLoad: New packets until 30.01.2004
With WHDLoad you can install games which you can normally play only from disk on your hard drive. The following packets have been added or updated:
  • 27.01.04 improved: Sabre Team (Krisalis)
  • 27.01.04 improved: Hook (Ocean)
  • 27.01.04 improved: Tetris: The Soviet Challenge (Spectrum HoloByte)
  • 27.01.04 improved: Mind-Roll (Thalamus)
  • 24.01.04 new: Silicon Dreams (Rainbird/Level 9)
(nba) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2004
Elbox (E-Mail)


 MediatorUP 3.9
ELBOX COMPUTER
Krakow, 30 January 2004

MediatorUP 3.9

The MediatorUP 3.9 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200LT4, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI 1200LT and Mediator PCI ZIV has been made available today.

The MediatorUP 3.9 update includes new tools:
  • MedConfig ver. 1.0
  • PowerOff

MedConfig helps configuring all Mediator jumpers and all variables of Mediator drivers for the PCI cards.

PowerOff switches off the computer equipped with Mediator PCI 1200SX and ATX PSU.

The update includes new versions of:
  • pci.library
  • Voodoo.card
  • MediatorNET.device

Changes:
  • pci.library ver. 6.2
    • many internal changes
  • Voodoo.card ver. 2.20
    • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
  • MediatorNET.device ver. 2.8
    • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added

Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS | Mediator section of Elbox' homepage.

The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the Mediator Driver Guide. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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30.Jan.2004
Elbox (E-Mail)


 Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.25
ELBOX COMPUTER
Krakow, 30 January 2004

Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.25

The MM CD 1.25 update for users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200LT4, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI 1200LT and Mediator PCI ZIV busboards, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has been released today.

The Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.25 includes a new configuration tool:
  • MedConfig ver. 1.0

MedConfig helps configuring all Mediator jumpers and all variables of Mediator drivers for the PCI cards.

The update includes new versions of:
  • Voodoo.card
  • fm801.audio
  • sb128.audio
  • mixer.library
  • FastEthernet.device
  • tv.library
  • tv.vhi

Changes:
  • Voodoo.card ver. 4.23
    • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
    • Voodoo4/5 SDRAM initialisation changed
    • protection against second driver start added
    • switching between PPC and 68k accesses to the Voodoo card accelerated
  • fm801.audio ver. 4.5
    • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
  • sb128.audio ver. 4.11
    • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
  • mixer.library ver. 1.9
    • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
  • FastEthernet.device ver. 1.13
    • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
    • compatibility with ShapeShifter added
  • tv.library ver. 3.4
    • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
    • problem (from ver.3.0) with YAM solved
    • S-Video output initialisation procedure changed
  • tv.vhi ver.1.3
    • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added

The current developer documentations for tv.library and mixer.library are enclosed with the MM CD 1.25.

Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS | Mediator section of Elbox' homepage.

The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the Mediator Driver Guide. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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30.Jan.2004
Genesi (e-mail)


 MorphOS added to the Motorola Design Alliance Program
After the hardware platform Pegasos now also MorphOS has been added to the Motorola Design Alliance Program.

"MorphOS is designed around the concept of shared resources and the ability to build up applications using shared system components. MorphOS is not Unix based." (snx)

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30.Jan.2004
giga.de (ANF)


 Source code of "Enemy Territory" released
After releasing the source codes of "Alien versus Predator 2", "Unreal Tournament 2003" and "No One Lives Forever" "id Software" follows that and release the source code of the popular online shooter "Enemy Territory". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)


 ASoft: Updates to CManager and TheBar.mcc
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) updated his products CManager (422 KB) and TheBar.mcc (302 KB).

CManager is a centralized bookmark selector. TheBar.mcc is an MUI class, with which one uses simple tools in a manner similar to Windows programs. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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29.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)


 AmiGBG: Alan Redhouse to Appear / Tickets available by PayPal
On the 3rd of April in Gothenburg, Sweden, the convention AmiGBG is occurring and Alan Redhouse will be a guest. He'll discuss current developments about the AmigaOne and give an idea of what users can expect in the years ahead.

Additionally, PayPal has been implemented in the ticket-buying system. Whoever purchases a ticket this way is automatically entered in a drawing for a film DVD. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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29.Jan.2004
Rafal Kaczmarczyk (ANF)


 Databank: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 15a Available
The databank program XBaze has reached version 7.3 Beta 15a (480 KB). Requirements are at least AmigaOS 3.0, and the program also runs under MorphOS.

XBaze is "cardware" and makes use of dynamic memory management, whereby the size of the databank is only limited by the amount of available memory.

A Few Features of XBaze:
  • simple to use GUI, among other things it has font sensitivity, shortcuts, tooltypes, localization and popup menus
  • six types of configurable fields
  • URL handling through openurl.library
  • use of the system clipboard
  • layout editor with drag&drop
  • flexible sort and search options
  • configurable print option
  • save and load in ASCII format (CSV and TSV)
  • ARexx port (over 80 commands)
  • Statistic option
(snx) (Translation: dm)

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29.Jan.2004
teltarif.de


 Deutsche Telekom Plans DSL Speed Alterations
Deutsche Telekom [the German telephone service state monopoly -dm] has announced they will be increasing the speed of DSL connections.

[details clipped, not translated -dm]

Read more [in the German language] under the title link. (cs) (Translation: dm)

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28.Jan.2004
Amiga.org (Website)


 Team AROS with new website
The support group of the Amiga Research Operating System (AROS), the "Team AROS", are presenting their new website. (snx) (Translation: ub)

[News message: 28. Jan. 2004, 23:16] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jan.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Pegasos II: Online sales reactivated
As MorphOS-News.de reports, the Pegasos II can be ordered online again at PegasosPPC.com since today. (snx)

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28.Jan.2004
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)


 Magazine: Club Amiga Magazine #12 release on February the 7th 2004
The release of issue #12 of the Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) will be delayed as said by the editors. The next issue will be released on February the 7th 2004. (nba) (Translation: ub)

[News message: 28. Jan. 2004, 20:46] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jan.2004
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)


 AGHP: Vote for the Amiga game of the year 2003
The editors of "Amiga Games Hit Parade" are asking for a vote regarding the Amiga game 2003. Participation on that vote is possible by following the title link. The results and a winner will be said within the next days. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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28.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 IBM: Information about Genesi's Open Desktop Workstation (Update)
IBM did now also add Genesi's Pegasos-based Open Desktop Workstation to the Global Solutions Directory.

"The Open Desktop Workstation is available as a turnkey, built to order solution with a number of configuration packages available, including multiple distributions of open-source Linux, and OpenBSD. Other options are available on request.

The combined reference designs and open standards give the Open Desktop Workstation the flexibility to unleash PowerPC onto the desktops of the workplace and the server racks of the small business. The desktop version allows the workplace to have a level of conformity between servers and office equipment reducing the total technology overhead. Providing a natural path of progression from user to system administration the desktop version can minimize outside training requirements. Rack mount versions provide the small business and educators with servers that not only perform, but perform silently, consuming less power, and with the reliability expected from PowerPC.

Running several distributions of Linux out of the box along with OpenBSD, the Open Desktop Workstation will be capable of running future Linux distributions by virtue of the open standards adopted by its design. Being customizable to particular needs, the Open Desktop Workstation may be used with its own closed source Operating System for enterprises that require it.

The Open Desktop Workstation, whether using closed or open source systems, is available in both "do it yourself" and as a complete turnkey system built to the specifications of many enterprises both large and small."

Update: (28.01.04, 23:23, snx)
The Open Desktop Workstation is now also mentioned in the Design Alliance Member Directory from Motorola. (snx)

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28.Jan.2004



 Files: Interview with Petra Struck at amiga-news.de
The mp3 file of the interview with Petra Struck, founder of amiga-news.de, done by Faclon, supported by the "User der Nordseeküste", from January the 25th 2003 will be only available at the server of amiga-news.de. We thank the user group UDN for their free hosting during the last 12 months!

Download: (nba) (Translation: ub)

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28.Jan.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)


 Anti virus program: New PatchBrain V1.55 for VirusExecutor 2.29
Jan Erik Olausen has released a new PatchBrain version 1.55 for his virus scan program VirusExecutor version 2.29. At Virus Help Team Canada the program is available for download. An update is also possible by the Live Update option within VirusExecutor. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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28.Jan.2004
Jörg Brenner (ANF)


 Update of the Amiga Hardware World
The Amiga Hardware World (AHW) has been updated today.

This update mostly covers busboards and mainboards - mainboard photos of the A3000T, A3000, A500+ as well as the CD32 were added and also pictures and descriptions of several busboards from Micronik, Elbox and RBM. Furthermore there are twelve new manuals and ten new installation disks.

An overview about the latest changes is available here:
http://amiga.resource.cx/about.html (English)
http://amiga.resource.cx/aboutde.html (German)

At AHW there are currently more than 740 expansions for the Amiga registered, all with description and most of them with pictures. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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27.Jan.2004
Aminet (Website)


 Aminet Uploads through 27th January, 2004
Here are the Aminet uploads since our last announcement: 
YamHTMLyam.lha       comm/mail   28K+(1.9b) Shows HTML e-mails with YAM mail 
Telefon.lha          comm/misc   35K+Telephone Dialer and SMS Sender Programm. 
BabelDoc.lha         comm/tcp    37K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
cimon096.lha         comm/tcp    15K+Little FLI4L-ImonC-Client for MorphOS
Absurd-Miss.lha      demo/euro  415K+"Miss" - By Absurd
APT-Epileptic.lha    demo/euro  583K+Epileptic (Demo) By Apathy At KG 2000-1
FreedomArms.lha      demo/euro  732K+"Freedom Arms" - By Void
hlm-virocop.lha      demo/intro  46K+Virocop AGA cracktro from Hoodlum
up-csxiv.lha         demo/intro  21K+UP ROUGH KIDS "Compusphere 14 Invitation
DemoStartUP.lha      dev/asm     67K+AGA/P96/CGX Demo StartUP code. Use this 
amiblitz_ful.lha     dev/basic  4.0M+AmiBlitz 2.30 full distro
librarymaker.lha     dev/c       73K+Create shared libraries with SAS-C
tks-amiga2.lha       dev/lang   398K+C-like script engine. v0.6.0.2
Amiga1251.lha        dev/misc    21K+Amiga-1251 Character Set Specification
WHDLoad_dev.lha      dev/misc   1.2M+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
WHDLoad_usr.lha      dev/misc   598K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
MCC_HotkeyStr.lha    dev/mui     59K+HotkeyString custom class for MUI
blobzsrc.lha         dev/src     47K+Blitz 2.1 source code to Blobz
h2sacsou.lha         dev/src    380K+How 2 Skin A Cat complete sources & data
blobz.lha            game/misc  170K+50-level game. Collect all the gems.
MazezaM.lha          game/think  83K+Puzzle game, Sokoban Alike (Deluxe versi
GIFsplit.lha         gfx/conv    24K+Splits GIF animations into individual GI
HollyRec.lha         gfx/conv   381K+Converts "Hollywood" presentations into 
Sv5-1.lha            gfx/misc   592K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 1/8
Sv5-2.lha            gfx/misc   157K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 2/7
Sv5-3a.lha           gfx/misc   127K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 3a/7
Sv5-3b.lha           gfx/misc   329K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 3b/7
Sv5-4.lha            gfx/misc    38K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 4/7
Sv5-5.lha            gfx/misc   147K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 5/7
Sv5-6.lha            gfx/misc   158K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 6/7 (opti
Sv5-7.lha            gfx/misc   158K+SView5 V1.41 (4.1.2004) - Part 7/7 (opti
Sv5-PPaint.lha       gfx/misc    10K+SView5 - PPaint loader/saver V5.1 (17.1.
ddc_0.72.lha         hard/drivr  61K+DriverDescriptorCreator (ddc)
Mentat-Scripts.lha   misc/edu     8K+Arexx scripts for Mentat
AmithlonUpdate.lha   misc/emu   1.6M+V1.28 Amithlon Update
imdbDiff040109.lha   misc/imdb  2.6M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff040116.lha   misc/imdb  5.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AfterBurner.lha      mods/cust  386K+Custom module from "After Burner"
PowerPlay.lha        mods/pro    97K+"Power Play", from Colonial Conquest II
aquarobe.lha         mus/play    20K+A skin for Prayer2
EP_CustomMade.lha    mus/play    10K+EaglePlayer "CustomMade" external replay
MUIUnArc.lha         util/arc    13K+MUI UnArc
Bekuna2.lha          util/boot  408K+Hello user program 2 (International)
IFF2rexx.lha         util/conv    1K+Convert IFF data to rexx source
MIDI2asm.lha         util/conv    4K+Convert MIDI data to assembler source + 
Streamer2-PL.lha     util/misc    1K+Polish locale for Streamer 2.06
xvslibrary.lha       util/virus  91K+External Virus Scanner Library v33.41
(nba) (Translation: dm)

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27.Jan.2004
MorphZone


 Inofficial memory module index for Pegasos II started
Because of the reactions of a few members MorphZone Liste a list of functional and perhaps problematical memory modules could be started.

Please look, this is not an official arrangement of the firms bplan or Genesi, or the Pegasos trader. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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27.Jan.2004
Ehrlicher (ANF)


 UAE-0.8.23 published
Richard Drummond published his version of UAE-0.8.23 for downloading. There are many news and bugs are cancelled, too. Especially a new version of the Picasso96-emulator, support for raw-key-mapping and GUI GTK+. You can find the code under: title link. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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25.Jan.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: HDRIview released
Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski has ported HDRIview to MorphOS, a viewer for High Dynamic Range images.

Download (217 KB) (snx)

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24.Jan.2004
Michael Klein (ANF)


 CD32 alliance: website fully online again
With friendly support by the Emubase is the CD32 alliance now fully available again under cd32.emubase.de.

After the server of the CD32 alliance had been changed and more than 100 MB of data got lost is now the complete content available again thanks to the new supervisor Robert Konrad. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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24.Jan.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)


 Picture viewer: PicShow v1.30 beta
PicShow is thought to be used as a picture viewer within a directory tool like DirOpus or DosControl. It shows the chosen picture in a borderless window on the named public screen. The special thing about this program is that it reads the complete directory and you can choose other pictures from this directory via a menu or using keys.

PicShow can also be used as a simple slideshow program. It shows the pictures either sorted or as a random series. When running on an own screen there are some nice fading effects. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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24.Jan.2004
Ingo Schmitz (ANF)


 MorphOS: CImon 0.9.6
CImon 0.9.6 is a simple shell based client to access the ImonD of a FLI4L router. How to use the propgram can be read in the readme. Information about FLI4L can be found here.

Download: cimon096.lha (15 KB) (cg) (Translation: wk)

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24.Jan.2004
Elbox (e-mail)


 Elbox: New Year's offer extended
Due to numerous requests from our customers to make New Year's free shipping offer valid for a longer time, we have decided to extend it till 02 February 2004.

Until 02 February 2004, all items in our Online Store marked "free shipping" will still be delivered without any shipping costs. This offer is valid for orders from all countries of the world.

Best regards,
Elbox Computer Team (snx)

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24.Jan.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies records #065
The scene group Liquid Skies has released yesterday their 65th music pack. It contains the track "Magiczny Las" of the Polish musician Maxus (that is "Magic Forest"). The track is a mixture of Jungle and Trance.
  • Title: Magiczny Las
  • Musician: Maxus
  • Style: Jungle
  • Play time: 2:41
  • Format: mp3
  • Size: 2.5 MB

The zipped file can be downloaded for free via the title link. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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23.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 Presentation: An Introduction to MorphOS (Update)
The MorphZone is hosting a presentation by Nicholas Blachford called An Introduction to MorphOS, which is an overview for anyone not already familiar with this operating system.

Update: (22.01.04, 14:45, snx)
The presentation is also available for download in the MorphZone (2 MB, LHA archive of the individual HTML pages). (snx)

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23.Jan.2004
ANN (website)


 TeamAROS: Bounty program extended
The bounty program of TeamAROS has been extended by three projects. Added were the creation of a PCI driver, an ata.device and support for FAT32. (snx)

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23.Jan.2004
amigaharry (ANF)


 Search program: SearchStar 0.80
"SearchStar" is a multi talent which searches your hard drive for files which have a certain name or content.

Version 0.80 is a prerelease which can be only started from Shell. In the future it is planned that you can search in file comments and over several partitions. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Jan.2004
Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)


 Mai Logic: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 for Teron computers
Under the title link Mai Logic provides the ISO-files to install Yellow Dog Linux on computers of the Teron series.

Download:
teron-ydl3-install-manual.pdf (826 KB)
ydl3boot.iso (4128 KB)
ydl3-d1.iso (639072 KB)
ydl3-d2.iso (653632 KB)
ydl3-d3.iso (542656 KB)
mai-app-install.iso (258112 KB)
inst-md5sums.txt (1 KB) (snx)

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22.Jan.2004
Jörg Brenner (ANF)


 New Website of 1000er Magazine
The disk mag of IG A1000 is now online. At http://amiga.resource.cx/1000er you can find 28 issues of 1000er Magazine to download in DMS format, or just read any of 2000 articles individually.

Also at this time we are calling out: if anyone has issues of 1000er Magazine that are not at the website, please send an email to thals@gmx.de. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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22.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)


 File Shrinker: MUI Unarc V45.13
Jocke Sjöblom's MUI-based clone of the UNARC tool that shipped with AmigaOS 3.9 has reached version 45.13 (14 KB).

MUI UNARC requires xadmaster.library and thereby is able to list and pack a range of archive formats. In the new versions XVS and XFD support has been added. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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21.Jan.2004
Amiga.org (forum)


 Nueron: Amiga-inspired computer project based on Coldfire
Stephen Smith of Austex Software has presented at Amiga.org his Amiga-inspired project Nueron/NuOS, a Coldfire computer with its own operating system:

I have been working on an alternative computer project for a few years now and would like to find people who may be interested in helping further the project.

The project involves hardware based on Motorola ColdFire processors (Nueron) and a new (free) operating system inspired by AmigaOS (NuOS).

I have developed a prototype (Nueron1200) which is what I wanted an Amiga-like tablet computer device to be (basically a large PDA). Details and pictures can be found at the Austex Software website: Nueron 1200 prototype.

I am currently finishing off a ColdFire accelerator module for the Nueron1200 (dual processors) and an updated graphics module (unlike most laptops, the graphics hardware can be upgraded).

The project is also known as the gecko computer project with a (currently very small) yahoo group here: geckocomputerproject.

I had chosen gecko because they are "small, efficient and crap all over windows..."

Work has been slow since this was originally a part-time project, however I am now doing board design, firmware and operating system full time (no matter what anybody says). I am looking at producing developer boards in either microATX or miniITX format (I need a vote on this) to be available in Q2 2004. Board cost is a sensitive issue which also needs to be dealt with (I'd need expressions of interest for build quantity etc...).

I have been developing free software tools, such as assembler, linker, maker and a beta C compiler for both AmigaOS and PC (yeeeww). I am still using my Amiga4000/CSPPC for development purposes (I also have an Amiga500, 2xAmiga1200, Amiga3000, another Amiga4000 with non-working CSPPC). I am a long time Amiga user/programmer and also co-wrote an Amiga game (Uropa2, published by Vulcan) which comes under the Austex Software banner.

Recently, I have been trying to finish documentation for such things as NuOS overview, API documents in html (devbook) and various technical manuals etc... However these things take time (especially if you are the only person doing them).

If you are interested or have any questions, then please let me know.

Regards,
Stephen Smith
Austex Software (snx)

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21.Jan.2004
Nintendo


 Nintendo: Portable system with double screen to be released in 2004
"Mystery" Product to Launch Later This Year

REDMOND, Wash., Jan 20, 2004 -- An unprecedented approach to video game play-- holding two separate game screens in the palm of your hand-- hits the scene later this year when Nintendo introduces a new portable game system, code-named Nintendo DS.

From information made available today, players can look forward to being able to manage their game progress from two different perspectives, enhancing both the speed and strategy of the challenge. For example in a soccer game, users can view the whole game on one screen while simultaneously focusing on an individual soccer player's tackle or goal on the other screen.

Players will no longer be forced to interrupt game play to shift perspective, such as moving from a wide shot to a close up, or alternating between a character's ongoing battle and a map of the environment. Nintendo DS makes it possible to perform the tasks in real time by simply glancing from one screen to the other.

Today's announcement is but a glimpse of the additional features and benefits that will be shown in full at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles in May. Once fully revealed, players will see innovative advances in game interaction.

"We have developed Nintendo DS based upon a completely different concept from existing game devices in order to provide players with a unique entertainment experience for the 21st century," explains Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president.

Nintendo DS features two separate 3-inch TFT LCD display panels, separate processors, and semiconductor memory of up to 1 Gigabit. It's scheduled to launch worldwide before the end of 2004.

In addition to Nintendo-developed software, the company is in discussions with third-party game developers around the world.

Nintendo DS will be marketed separately from the company's existing Nintendo Game Boy Advance portable system and Nintendo GameCube home console.

Stay tuned to Nintendo.com for more details on the Nintendo DS system as they are announced. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
Rainer Benda (ANF)


 C&ZV Rainer Benda: Webshop opened
As Rainer Benda told us he opened a webshop at www.rbenda.de. The offered goods do not only include Amiga and Commodore 8 bit products as well as other PC parts and also Gamepark-32, Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Gamecube and Sony Playstation products. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)


 Picture viewer: MiniShowPicture V1.5 released
The program MiniShowPicture by Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski has now been released in version 1.5 * for MorphOS and Amiga 68k.

It's a simple picture viewer which is MUI based and uses datatypes. The functions include Drag&Drop, Scaling and keyboard support.

New with V1.5 is a full screen mode. The picture calculating routines were sped up also. The settings are saved now within the ENV directory.

(* = If a Polish message appears during a download attempt it tells that the server is stressed with more than five users currently and more are not allowed at the same time.) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
Patric Klöter (ANF)


 Commodore/Amiga-Website redesigned completely
Patric Klöter wrties: Welcome to the new version of the Commodore/Amiga fan page. I decided to change the name to Commodore Amiga Information Source, or abreviated CAIS which should remind a bit to the old Commodore department CATS, Commodore Amiga Technical Support.

After nearly three years I lately did it and reworked the site completely including an abandonation of the unliked turquoise. It's newly written from scratch.

New is the navigation window at the top, a chapter about "Non Commodore Computer" (has to follow), a tutorial and a sitemap which allows to navigate to all subpages easily.

A forum and a guest book are available also. Some things are renamed and moved to other locations. The focus of the page is still information and this will be improved in future

The page uses Javascript now intensively which might be a problem with several Amiga browsers but it's always possible to navigate via the sitemap.

Credits: During creation of the page I met several nice people and I would like to use the opportunity to thank them here for their support and help. Some of them I would like to mention by name: My "AMIGA-Freunde Pfalz" friends, Rainer Benda, Dave Haynie, Roland Löffler, Petro Tyschtschenko, Stefan Zelany and Bo Zimmerman.

Have fun with surfing at CAIS!
- Patric Klöter (snx) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
ANF


 Motorola: Saleswin nearly tripled
Within the last quarter of 2003 the American mobile and semiconductor producer Motorola has nearly tripled its saleswin. Compared to the 174 million dollars within the according time year before the company earned 489 million dollars (388 million Euros) within the fourth quarter 2003. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 MorphOS: Patch for WipeOut 2097 released
Mark Olsen has created a patch to make the game Wipeout 2097 run better on the Pegasos. The patch (2 KB) eliminates the chipmem access by WipeOut 2097, making it now possible to play all levels at full speed. (snx)

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21.Jan.2004
ANN (website)


 Update: YamHTMLyam 1.9b
YamHTMLyam is an ARexx script for displaying HTML e-mails and pictures received by YAM using a browser. Meanwhile version 1.9b (28 KB) of the script is available. (snx)

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21.Jan.2004
z5 (ANF)


 Amiga Demoscene Archive: Party lists added
A new feature was added on Amiga Demoscene Archive: party result lists (from the productions that are on A.D.A). Grouped by year and position and included are the votes received at party (where available). With every new production that we add, the party result lists will grow more complete. (snx)

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20.Jan.2004
Golem (Website)


 Golem: inofficial follow of the adventures of Zak McKracken
How Golem reported, there is an inofficial follow by fans on PC of the adventure classic Zak McKracken by Lucas Arts.

Zak McKracken 2: Between Time and Space could be downloaded as a 23 MB demo for Windows computers. The game still hold the classical points and clicks, also the 2D graphic. But there should be some 3D graphics and partsequences integrated. The game plays in the year 2009 on two planets with different timezones.

The developers are searching for new workers especially for graphician. A day for publishing for the finished game wasn't told yet. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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20.Jan.2004
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 Wired: Amiga still voted in Vaporware-Top 10
Now the Amiga gets a questionable honour, he placed in the top ten of Vaporware. They are voted by the Wired-readers and they vote for products which are pronounced for a very long time, but not published until today. AmigaOS4 defensed the 9th rank for the year 2003.
9. Amiga OS 4.0 (Amiga)

Perhaps not accidential Amiga defensed the rank of 2002 Vaporware-awards because of the long promised Amiga machines of the next generation. The hardware was there but not the operating system. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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20.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 Genesi listed in the Motorola Alliance Directory
Genesi S.à.r.l. is now listed in the Motorola Alliance Directory.

As MorphOS-News.de reports, Motorola would have begun an investigation under the agreement reached late last week into the use of the Pegasos primarily focused on the server and consumer electronics market. Furthermore Motorola would have begun to develop a joint marketing plan to promote and sell the Pegasos with Genesi.

Being a member of the "Motorola Design Alliance" program gives companies a chance, among other, to do Co-branding with Motorola on new products, the ability to purchase development tools at a significant discount and the ability to participate with Motorola in key industry trade shows and conferences. (snx)

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20.Jan.2004
AmigaWorld (ANF)


 Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 26
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 26 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):

1) rayt: Is it still planned to release the CyberstormPPC version of OS4 before the Aone version or will they be released at the same time now?

Fleecy: Whichever one is done first will be released first. The CSPPC version was a long way ahead of the AmigaOne version but in recent months that has ceased to be the case and the AmigaOne may even now be ahead of the CSPPC version. We still aren't ready to give a release date for either but once one is released, a majority of the spare resources will go into bringing the other to release.

2) Hondo_DK: Could you perhaps tell us about the changed plans with 4.1,4.2, etc. ??? and maybe give us a new timeline for these versions.

Fleecy: Such things are always going to be subject to change, as they have already. Just generating the final requirements set is hard enough but trying to add a timeline to it is virtually impossible. We hope to have AmigaOS4.1 out within 12 months of AmigaOS4.0 but that could change depending upon a number of things.

As we move forwards, the feature set for each successive release will obviously build upon the other but will be a combination of;
  1. fixes from the last version.
  2. enhancements to AG1 code that will remain.
  3. introduction of AG2 services, such as visual, audio, 3D and such.
  4. introduction of the digital living essentials services.
  5. Introduction of a formal development environment for developers.

The Digital Living Essentials project is dedicated to bringing core user activities to the AmigaOS, so that we can provide an acceptable alternative to other competitors. For example a world class browser, an email client, a media player etc.

3) MycoMedical: I was reading up on Intent, and they have recently comeout with a new version. If I buy the SDK now, am I entitled to the upgrade or should I wait untill the SDK is updated before I invest?

Fleecy: The recently released ADK from Tao is based upon Intent 1.4, the same version that we are using in the construction of the new SDK. If you buy the SDK now then yes, you will receive an upgrade - remind me if anyone causes you any trouble over it.

4) Santa: How does the AG2 services based approach relate to WebServices? Are they comparable technologically?

Fleecy: A service is simply a description of a set of logically related operations. A service provider implements a service for a particular resource. These exist within an abstract domain that allows for the resources and the services to be distributed and dynamically advertised, discovered and queried. As such they are a key part of the development architecture and environment for the future.

As for WebServices? Do you have anything particular in mind? Email me if you need a better answer.

5) mjohnson: How extensive has the beta-testing been for the filesystem/diskvalidator and the Partition Wizard? (If you don't mind, throw me all the gory details! I.e. how badly crashed disks have been successfully rescued, how thoroughly have your attempts at finding bugs been executed?)

Fleecy: These information comes from various members of the development and beta groups so may be a little bit disjointed, but you did ask for the gory details.

"OK, the gory details on the file system (maybe Jörg could comment on the data recovery practice) include in about two serious 'incidents' over a period of two years which required the use of a disk structure repair program (no, not Partition Wizard, which wasn't handy at the time the fix needed to be made). Apart from this the file system has run remarkably robust and stable for all the time. The 'period of two years' refers to the time the author of the file system would use it on the busiest partition of his Amiga, namely the one which holds the e-mail client and the web browsers. The author has been using the file system for almost as long on all his other partitions, including those which hold the Amiga operating system source code and private development projects. The new file system was written to be paranoid about the data it manages and it tries to minimize the impact of data structure changes on the disk: if, for whatever reason, the system should crash or hang before all the necessary data has been written, then the contents of the disk should still be in a consistent state. In many cases not even a revalidation is necessary."

"Partition Wizard has 2 data recovery functions:
  • 'Repair' checks all FastFileSystem meta-data blocks, and in case of OFS the data blocks as well, of the partition and removes all files/directories/links which have errors. The result is always a error free partition. It does not attempt to restore partial files/directories, that's where some of the other tools can fail and even destroy more as they repair. Repair makes sure not to modify any data which could help the 'Salvage' function.
  • 'Salvage' doesn't fix the errors on the partition itself but scans the whole partition, rebuilds the filesystem structures and copies the rescued files/directories to another partition. That way more data can be recovered, for example it's impossible in a fix-in-place repair to find out which file is the correct one for "block used twice" errors for all possible cases, when copying the files to another partitition instead both (or even more) files can be restored. Of course only one of them will be correct, but the correct one is always rescued which is not the case in a fix-in-place repair.

Additionally to FastFileSystem2 (all 8 modes) Salvage supports SmartFileSystem as well."

"You could add to the answer as well that you can recover lost partitions (due to a lost RDB). It worked very well for me :)

PW generates a list of found partitions the user can use with Media Toolbox to recreate the partitions. PW has undelete, unformat, etc. as well,"

6) koan: As this series continues, will you put together a work-in-progress List of AG2 "specifications" as you have described them on the AI homepage? Or does such a document exist and I have missed it?

Fleecy: Once AmigaOS4.0 is out the door, then I will put up more documentation relating to AG2. The first four AG2 projects that will commence will cover visual services, audio services, ROSE (Resources and Services Environment) and Persistence (Data storage and organisation). The Interactive Environment will start but obviously cannot be implemented until the visual services are complete. As a result there may be a project which builds a new or updated Workbench/Intuition as a fill in.

Be assured that as soon as we have something to show off we will but the last three years has seen the community make itself perfectly clear. Show us when its ready.

7) JCC: Would XML preferences be an example of an OS4 feature that is a stepping stone toward the final destination (the concept sounds great since it makes system configuration very accessible)?

Fleecy: For me it is clear that XML preferences are the way to go as
  • the programming interface is way more fail/crash-proof compared to the currently available binary accessed formats (true also for the current IFF/iffparse.library as the chunks themself do contain proprietary encoding, too).
  • the application developer doesn't need to reinvent the wheel for storing preferences over and over again.
  • one commonly used preferences format will help to wipe away all proprietary used .ini/.iff/.bin/.cfg etc. file formats.
  • the XML format is human-readable and even -editable (it is even very easy to write an editor for it like Apples PropertyListEditor, something that is planned.)
  • the textual representation of data within XML doesn't has any endianness-dependency [this makes it easier to exchange data between platforms (if it should be needed)].
  • the human-readability makes it easy to verify what (probably personal and confidential) information is stored within a references file (impossible in case of a binary encoded scrambled] prefs file).
  • the hype-factor should not be accepted. XML really is as important as people claim and is not another overhyped technology.

Perhaps these arguments don't convince some people but you just need to look at Mac OS X and see how successful the application of a common XML preferences format can be. The implementation within application.library is an attempt to bring some of these benefits to AmigaOS4.0.

8) VidarL: What's happening with the Safe-C programming language you talked about a long time ago?

Fleecy: It is still a key part of the AmigaOS5.0 plan but it has been absorbed into another project that has yet to be announced.

9) GregS: I heard that Alan demonstrated an MS box running as a client within Linux on an A1 (I could have misread this). Is such a facility (alond with Mac emulation, and linux within Amiga) planed for the future OS4-5?

Fleecy: I played with Windows running on MoL on the AmigaOne at the Micromart show and it was very impressive. We have no plans ourselves to provide other platform emulation or hosting within AmigaOS4.0 but I'm sure some third party will find interest in that area.

10) Toaks: What happened to the new games from "KALIKO" and "ZEONEO" , any news on them? will they appear on DE soon ? and whats the general info atm (why its been so slow this year)

Fleecy: These games are still in development or test due to the authors being busy with their day jobs. Kaliko's new Brainteaser is a very promising looking game which my wife adores and which is, as far as I can tell, almost finished.

Zeoneo I know have just completed beta testing their Crossword Evolution product for both PocketPC and Windows desktop. Their amazing new game, Invasion, has been in beta test for a few weeks now and is one of the best space invaders/galaxians/Zalaga games I have ever played.

It has been a slow year for many reasons - lack of resources, the time it has taken to get the latest Intent update, prospective customers umming and arring, Microsoft warning OEMs away from card based solutions until they fixed the problems we found, waiting for PocketPC2003 to become dominant and waiting for the Smartphone product to become more stable.

We do intend to have new products ready in the first quarter of 2004.

(Copyright © 2004 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=27
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: gf)

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19.Jan.2004
Raquel Velasco & Bill Buck (E-Mail)


 Thendic-France will be closed
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck announced today that Thendic-France would be closed in February.

Due to the difficulties associated with the bankruptcy of Pretory SA, Thendic-France will be closed. The original intention was to convey Thendic-France and/or it assets directly to Genesi to allow for an uninterrupted transition of services and coordination. This did not happen and will no longer be possible.

Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck will seek to arrive at an agreement with the proper authorities to close out the Thendic-France in a manner that reflects the original intent of the shareholders of Pretory and the Board of Directors/Management of Pretory as well as all valid legal obligations.

Thendic-France will continue to operate until the closing and will do whatever possible to properly conclude the operation. (snx)

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19.Jan.2004
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 MorphOS: dnetc v2.9007.488 (prerelease) available
The distributed.net client (short: dnetc) allows to take part in distributet.net projects. Current version is capable of working on 2 ongoing projects: The brute-force decryption of a RC5-72 message, and the search for Optimal Golomb Rulers (OGR). Both are long-term projects that will go on for some time. Because the RC5-72 contest has a finite number of keys to test, however, the OGR contest is selected as the default.

The MorphOS release comes with a nice MUI GUI (screenshot) and with AltiVec support (cores only activate under MorphOS 1.5). The archive can be downloaded under the title link.

Please note, it's a Prerelease, but this version is not time restricted and will generally become release-worthy in at minimum 4 days if no significant bugs will be found. (cr)

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18.Jan.2004
Franciska Schulze (ANF)


 TEKlib: Krypton release and new website
The TEKlib developer team has announced that the modules Exec, HAL, Time and Util have finally reached v1.0 and are therefore regarded stable. The website has undergone some major changes, the documentation section has been enhanced. Currently maintainers for several platforms are wanted for AmigaOS and others. Contact the authors via the project's mailing list, if you are interested.

TEKlib is a cross-platform multimedia library distributed under the terms of a free software license. It is a collection of shared modules that can serve as a virtual operating system for regular applications. TEKlib very much resembles a modern, task-based incarnation of the AmigaOS.

Features:
  • displays supporting windowed, fullscreen and offscreen rendering
  • audio device driver
  • virtual filesystem including a unified namespace
  • plugin support for png, jpeg, bmp, fli, ogg vorbis, mod
  • LUA scripting interface
Supported platforms:
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • FreeBSD
  • MacOS X
  • AmigaOS
  • MorphOS
  • TAO Intent
(snx)

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18.Jan.2004
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX - Andreas Kleinert (ANF)


 PPaint 7 plugin: SView5 loader/saver
For SView5 from Andreas Kleinert (PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX) today a loader/saver module (personal IO library) for Personal Paint 7 has been released for free download (10 KB).

The plugin utilizes SView5 loader/saver objects for importing/exporting images to/from Personal Paint and requires an SView5 keyfile. (snx)

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17.Jan.2004
Murakami (ANF)


 Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 25 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a newspaper issued by the French association AFLE. Since its creation in 1998 the magazine became one of the leading French Amiga publications.

Among other reports you can find the following topics in the current issue number 25:
  • AmigaOS4
  • Pegasos II
  • Gorky 17
  • Bourriquet
  • AmiTradeCenter v1.4
  • fryingPan v0.3
  • Arak Attack v0.93
  • GoldEd Studio AIX SP14
(snx)

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17.Jan.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: LAME v3.95.1 recompiled using libnix (Update)
The current version 3.95.1 of the MP3 encoder LAME (amiga-news.de reported) was recompiled (296 KB) by Christian Rosentreter using libnix - this makes the ixemul.library obsolete for LAME. The user has to take care for a big enough stack, though (see readme file).

Update: (18.01.2004, 07:04, snx)
The archive has been updated on Jan. 17th, 22:43 - it should work now without manually setting the stack. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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17.Jan.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)


 Amiga Magazin: preview of AmigaOS 4
On the website of the Amiga Magazin (German print magazine) has been a preview of the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 been released that has been written by Martin Steigerwald and was originally published in the issue 01/2004: "In defiance of all claims AmigaOS 4 would never see the light of day: AmigaOS 4 runs on the AmigaOne as well as already before on Amigas with PPC turbo cards!" Read the complete article following the title link. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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