29.Jul.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistent: DD2AG Version 0.2 appeared
In setting of the projekt "Hardware-Assistent" the version 0.2 of the toll DD2AG has been appeared. In the new version bugs have been repaired.
DD2AG produces an Amiga-Guide file, which contains an index of tool appeared "Driver Descriptor" So you always have an actual index of the
supported hardware. Also it is possible that you can install drivers from the produced guide- if OpenURL is installed it is possible to download the
drives via internet.
Download: DD2AG_0.2.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Jul.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn
"Hollywood" is one of those programms, which earned the most attention in the small getting Amiga-Software-Landscape.
It is one of the "Killer-Applications" in the multimedia area, which we need at the Amiga urgently. In the interwiew with the
author Andreas Falenhahn it was possible to catch some more details of the latest "Hollywood"-version and the planed features.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Jul.2003
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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DTP: PageStream 4.1 Pro
The american Producer "Grasshopper" published his new prices for PageStream not long ago. It took a bit of time until we could
take over this offer, but so we can offer an other product of the PageStream familiy. The Pro-Version contains instead of the Standard-Version
of TextFX2, Gary`s Effects and Borders 1&2, which were else available as singlepackage, resp. Extensions-Bundle.
The new Pricearrangement (from 109,95 EUR) shows directly the attention to the large applicationbase
PageStream 4.1 and PageStream 4.1 Pro are available at the moment for: Windows,Amiga and Macintosh. The Linux version is tested
at the moment. All versions are available in English. The Windows- and the Amiga version is also available in German.
PageStream is there for all kinds of Publishing-Jobs, started at newspaper articles, going to colored advertisings to technical books.
Letters, studyworks, presentations, visitingcars, flyer and many more is produced quickly.
Thousands of advertiseres are using PageStream for years to do their jobs.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Jul.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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VCD-Ripper released
With the help of VCDSave one can copy VideoCD tracks onto your harddisk without the need to use AllegroCDFS.
A shell as well as a WB-GUI version is available.
A co-operation with Frogger, the lately released videoplayer, made this program possible.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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First Hardware Assistent Homepage
There is a new webside about 'Hardware Assistent' available at the titlelink.
Users of the Amiga-News Forum critized that there is no such thing like plug'n'play for the Amiga. This project is a first step towards a solution for this problem.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Hints for the download of MorphOS 1.4
MorphOS will be released, at the new MorphOS.net Website, on the first of August. The release date for the SuperBundle will be the 30. July, at PegasosPPC.
Further details about the download as well as the mentioned programs is available at the titlelink.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Videoplayer: Frogger Version 2.07
»Here it is, brand new 2.07 release. This update includes lot of bugs fixed,
some new codecs, extended REXX interface, improved A/V sync in AVIs, seeking
in ASF/WMV/WMA, new subtitle parser and display code and more. Detailed list
of changes can be found in CHANGELOG (there should be a copy in every Frogger
archive). Those who have previous version installed may download only main
Frogger binary and codecs update archive. All the rest should go for Frogger
+ all codecs archive.
Last, but not least, there is Toad 1.0 available in download section, Toad
is RxMUI Control Panel for Frogger, created by Dave Crawford.« (ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Sedat COLOGLU (ANF)
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APUC Amiga Professional User Club
The turkish Amiga Proffesional User Club (APUC) would like to call your attention to theire existing Yahoo mailinglist. If you would like to participade in the discussion feel free to register.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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AmiWest: MP3-Interview with Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco
There is the recording of an interview by Joël Ehret with Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi available for download (9MB) at the titlelink
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc.
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AmiWest: Ben Hermans AmiWest AmigaOS 4 Presentation
The AmigaOS 4 presentation by Ben Hermans at the AmiWest show is now available for download at the Amiga Inc. homepage. There are 3 different versions (PDF file, zip file, slideshow).
Update: (06.05.2014, cg)
Amiga-News is now hosting a local copy (PDF file) of the presentation. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
ANN
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AmiWest: Ben Hermans Q&A MP3 available
There is a recording of the interview with Ben Hermans by Jonl Ehret available for download (22MB) at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
ANN
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AmiWest: Alan Redhouse Q&A MP3 available
There is a recording of the interview with Alan Redhouse by Jonl Ehret available for download (7,2MB) at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Jul.2003
Evil (Kommentar)
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QUAG: More pictures from the AmiWest 2003 Show
Under the title link you'll find a number of new pictures from the AmiWest 2003
show which was held this weekend in Sacramento. The pictures are from the user
group QUAG and thankfully subtitled.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Evil (Kommentar)
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Polarboing: Interview with Fleecy Moss
In the interview Fleecy Moss answers some questions around the AmiWest 2003
show. Fleecy was interviewed by Polarboing.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: SUBWAY available again
E3B has resumed production of the Clockport USB controller SUBWAY
due to increased user demand. The first modules from the very limited-lot
production run are already available.
In the context of the ROMulus upgrade program we have so far been able
to fulfill the high expectations set by us as regards swift processing: every
single HIGHWAY sent to E3B for upgrading could be sent back to its
owner already on the next day.
Tests and user reviews of our USB products can be found in two current issues of
AmigaPlus (05/2003) and Total Amiga (Issue #15).
News in detail can be found on our Website
under the heading of "News". (ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Daniel Miller live from AmiWest 2003 (ANF)
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Daniel Miller's Amiwest 2003 Show Report Part II
Before I leave a necessarily critical report of the MorphOS and Pegasos presentation
on Saturday morning, I will do the single courtesy of stating that it was a
setup-type problem that caused things to go haywire. As the presentation started
there was an awkward several moments as the Pegasos which had just been hooked up
to the projector failed to cooperate, requiring multiple reboots and typing in the
open firmware command line. The presenters were unable to improvise effectively in
the absence of stuff on the screen to click on and the presentation limped painfully
on for about 15 minutes before ending rather prematurely.
A speaker came energetically up to begin the presentation at first but the problems
started when Voyager was clicked on but failed to load. There was a reboot, and then
another but the Pegasos wasn't finding the hard-drive or something. There was a lot
of feverish typing from different people at the command line but thins just weren't
going right. The speaker wasn't improvising very well. Other guys fom the Genesi
team were running back and forth to get CDs or check things or fleeing for their
lives or who knows what. In all it was less than professional and it's a good thing
they presented early in the day so there weren't more people present to witness all
the problems. After 10 or 12 minutes of pain the machine was booting MorphOS 1.4 off
the CD and Bill Buck himself got up to try to rescue the show. He demonstrated just
a couple things, Voyager running a very pretty Flash or Shockwave animation of
butterflies and a new "Zoom Feature" of MorphOS in which any little part of the screen
may be blown up in a dynamically updated resizable window. You can open a bunch of
zoom windows and they all display very quickly. If you set the focus of the zoom
window on a video, you see the blown up section of the video displayed in the window
just as fast as the video plays. You can magnify to 2 or 4 or 8 or 16 times or
whatever and open as many zoom windows as you want.
Bill stated that last week Genesi had obtained Marvell's approval to start
using the G-4 in the new Pegasos 2 boards. Stated that he realized that MorphOS
needed to be a bit farther along before being marketed to the average computer user.
In this case however I felt that MorphOS was working fine. The problems in the
presentation didn't have a whole heck of a lot to do with MorphOS. One of the
presenters had commented that MorphOS 1.4 wasn't officially released, it was beta,
and this was just the public introduction, but what little I saw looked fine to me.
I should mention that it was Nate Downes who appeared to be the one that finally got
things going off the boot-CD. This presentation didn't go well at all, we'll see how
they do on Sunday.
The OS4 demo on Saturday: this was a wonderfully executed presentation. Ray Zarling,
graybearded Doctor of Matematics and long time Amiga believer conducted it, showing
several Workbenchrelated features like window gradients, opaque window movement and
right mouse click menus. Dr. Zarling was clearly a big Amiga fan, stating that "I
waited 12 years to see the new OS. We can all see that it is real. I just can't wait
for it to be finished."
The window gradient feature had a lot of options and the user can also set the
thickness of the window title bars and so on. He showed the opaque window movement,
moving the windows very slowly to make the effect look good. If you move the windows
quickly I think you would see unsightly updates. As Dr. Zarling pointed out, that is
because this is on a 200 MHz PPC and might not be a problem on a 800 MHz processor.
Dr. Zarling stressed that configurability was a key part of OS4. He stated that there
much of the upper level stuff (like Workbench) which runs emulated now will be
rewritten for the shipping version of OS4. He stated that "OS4 is the official Amiga
PPC OS."
He stated that what we were seeing did not use the 68K processor at all, it was all on
the PPC. In question and answers after, I asked him to tell us about the machine running
the demo. He stated that it was an Amiga 4000, I think he said with Cyberstorm PPC card.
I asked about the use of the 68K processor and he said it was not being used at all except
during the boot process to load up OS4 PPC..He stated that a brave owner could physically
yank out the 68K processor after OS4 loaded and OS4 would continue to work, but he did
not demonstrate this capability.
This presentation was conducted toward the back of the convention hall at the stand of
Computer Connection where Amga Ones were for sale.
One of the best illustrations of te spirit of the Amiga community at Amiwest was the
"Mr. Zoil" booth, where Glenn Fuller demonstrated the Amiga work of his son Ben, who
died in 2002. Ben Fuller was known mainly for Project D, a disk coper, backup program
and multipurpose tool which had some success during the Amiga's heyday in the late
eightes and early nineties. Mr. Fuller stated that the last known version of Project
D was from 1994. He said that Ben went on to do work on other computer systems but
never gave up on what he considered "the Amiga vision."
Mr. Fuller explained that he and Ben attended Amiga conventions as a father and son
activity,and he came to enjoy them very much. He said that if this were to be the last
Amiwest owing to fading interest, he wanted to be here. But I told him what the event
organizers told me, that things were going better than last year and interest seemed
to be increasing, so it should not be a worry that ths is the last.
This will probably be my last report, because I am losing hotel Internet access at noon.
I should touch on a few things, here and there. First, Mr. Hardware came all the way from
New York City to sell Amiga wares. It was a brilliant move because they turned out to be
the only all-around vendor here, and they are doing a lot of business. Umm, it was great
of Jens Schönfeld and Ben Hermans and Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco to come all the way
from Europe to support the show. Although I was critical of Saturday's Pegasos presentation
I should point out that the Pegsasos stand is getting a lot of visitors, and people really
enjoy sitting down and using MorphOS and playing BirdieShoot and Quake and Software Tycoon.
The Super Bundle has been released and I got my free copy (thanks). Unfortunately I will have
to wait until I get home in 8 or 9 days to see what all is on this three CD set.
Everyone seems to get along very well at these conventions, in spite of the online flaming
that we see so much of. Bill Buck sat next to Ben Hermans at the panel last night and said
how coexistence was possible even when there was no cooperation, unfortunately the two men
didn't hug. ;)
The banquet was delicious and the Sacramento Amiga user group SACC really did a fine job of
everything. I would like to thank those who edited and translated my reports, I would do
this myself but the connection and software here at the hotel is not really suited for smooth
work. There is another Amiga Show next month, a minishow at Computerfest in Dayton Ohio next
month and we have something coming up in Washington DC area in October. These shows are a lot
of fun and I recommend interested people to come check them out. Tschüss! (ps)
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27.Jul.2003
Michael Christoph (ANF)
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amigaFoulEggs - a new Tetrislike game has been finished
In time for the summer break the game 'amigaFoulEggs' Version 1.0 has been
completed! amigaFoulEggs is a tetrislike game in which at least four tokens
of the same colour have to lie beside or on top one another in order for them
to get removed. The window size is freely customizable. The tokens size adjusts
to available space.
Extensive settings allow the customization to your own preferences: keyboard
mapping, speed, colours, patterns for tokens and background and more are
possible. The more tokens are removed in one go but also systematic putting down
of formations gain extra points.
There is also a
Highscore file
in the Internet.
amigaFoulEggs requires AmigaOS 3.0; Settings and highscore windows require
OS 3.5. A graphics card is recommended. An extensive guide desciption in German
is included.
There is an English catalog file for the program.
It has been tested with Classic Amiga, Amithlon and WinUAE.
The game also works flawlessly under to upcoming AmigaOS 4.0.
The game is freeware and is available at no cost on demand.
Simply fill out the application form
and shortly after the lha archive arrives in your e-mail inbox. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Hollywood Video released
At the request of many people who wanted to receive an impression
of the multimedia authoring system Hollywood before buying it, Andreas
Falkenhahn has released a MPEG video that shows the functionality of
Hollywood. You can download the 30 MB file here
HollywoodDemo.mpg
from Aminet. The video shows parts from example scripts that come
with Hollywood to give you an impression of what Hollywood is able to do.
(ps)
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27.Jul.2003
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Aminet uploads until 27.07.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
PrintMail1.3.lha comm/mail 14K+ARexx print YAM e-mail w /header & page
TView.lha comm/tcp 77K+List TV-programs in Europe.
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 166K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
znn_goo7.lha demo/sound 105K+Multitasking Chippack from zenon, CGFX/A
Brandy.lha dev/basic 529K+Basic V Interpreter (prerelease)
6581sid-sdk.lha dev/misc 2K+Unofficial 6581sid.library SDK, StormC s
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0.
SaltLakeCity_G.lha docs/hyper 14K+Results (and more) of 2002 olympic games
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 51K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
smoother.lha game/gag 9K+Small joke program to "smoothen" your mo
WormWars.lha game/misc 527K+Worm Wars 7.53: Advanced snake game
ColorBarr.lha game/wb 37K+Line-up coloured tiles!
Iamdagod.lha mods/blkha 22K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
Nummer1.lha mods/blkha 134K+Techno DBP mod by blakkhar
Ashlexiss.lha mods/essen 293K+Ashlexiss by Essential Sound www.essent
SongPlayer.lha mus/play 611K+Cool and powerful audio player V1.60 (68
HollywoodDemo.mpg pix/mpg 29M+MPEG showing Hollywood's functionality
WW4SE_7fin.lha text/edit 19K+Wordworth 4SE & 7 Finnish catalogs
froggui_en.lha util/misc 27K+GUI for FroggerNG
froggui_fr.lha util/misc 27K+GUI for FroggerNG
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27.Jul.2003
Daniel Miller live from AmiWest (ANF)
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Daniel Miller's AmiWest 2003 Show Report Part I
This is the Sacramento's 5th Amiwest, but my first. I used
frequent flyer miles to get a free flight to San Francisco, from there
I took trains through scenic northern California to Sacramento where I
took a taxi to the Holiday Inn. On Monday I rent a car and head to Reno,
later Yosemite, but for now the Amiga scene is on my mind. This is
supposed to be the biggest Amiga-oriented convention in the USA but we'll
see what Nova Design and Genesi pull off in Washington DC this October.
Right now it's Amiwest in Sacramento. I arrive late on Friday. In
front of me in the line at the hotel check-in desk is John Harris, the
author of the arcade classic Frogger. Looking around further I see that
two medium halls have been reserved for Amiwest. The halls open on each
other to make a larger. There is a smaller enclosed room also reserved,
maybe that is the banquet hall.
It's late on Friday and the show has not opened, but there are people
still setting up. There are four Pegasoses on a long table. Nate Downes,
one of Genesi's reps from Florida, works feverishly on a fifth. He says
he's tired but he's determined to get ImageFX successfully set up for
Kermit Woodall of Nova Design to demonstrate.
I see some other familiar faces. Someone points out Ben Hermans of
Hyperion Entertainment to me, which is a surprise. He hadn't announced
his appearance. Maybe we will finally see OS4 on the Amiga One as opposd
to an Amiga 4000. Or maybe not.. I hear that Jens Schönfeld, famed Amiga
hardware maker is here, and Jeri Elsorth, Commodore One engineer and geek
fantasy girl arrives in the morning.
There is an historical sequence of old Amiga models on tables throughout
the room. The event organizers want to illustrate the past, and the future.
There's a 3000 and a 600. The machines and their peripherals are yellowing
and stained from age. There might be a crack here and there. It has been a
long time since these rolled off the manufacturing lines.
At the hotel nightclub it's Big Band Night. Three couples gyrate
kinetically on the dance floor as a six piece brass and sax ensemble,
drummer, and bassist accompany a xylophonist. It's jazz and swing and
the singer joins in as the happy music rushes out the bar entrance into
the hotel lobby.
The next morning at break fast I run into John Harris again. Overnight
I remmbered that he wrote not only Frogger, but also Jawbreaker for the
Atari 8bit, one of the greatest games ever for that line of computers.
I tell him how great it was, with the toothbrush animation and all and he
tels me a bit of the history behind it. Jawbreaker! He explains that he
will give the first seminar this morning on his current focus: Amiga DE.
John Harris gave the first presentation. He talked about his work on Amiga
DE. He demonstrated his Gobbler game, his WordSearch game, his calculator
program and his Solitaire, spnding a particular amount of time showing the
versatility of his Solitaire, which runs in different resolutions depending
on the handheld unit. On DE itself he joked that the original concept of
"runs anywhere now means runs nowhere" owing to failed business deals and
runtime modules whch have not materialized for the various handheld devices.
But he still loves the technology of DE and thinks it will eventually be
successful it's "just taking a little longer than they thought."
His calculator program is advanced, and he talked about how valuable the
cooperation was between hm and the math professor who helped him write it.
Asked whether DE stuff would ever run on a Palm Pilot he said a Palm Pilot
version was unlikely since Tao stuff doesn't run on 68K processors.He said
it might happen on the new Palm Pilots running on ARM processors.
To be continued ... (ps)
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26.Jul.2003
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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ACBB-Homepage not available
Markus Lunk wrote:
Because of technical problems with the hoster of our domain acbb.de we ask all to use
our mirror under http://www.acbb.de.ms/ until
the domain is available again. Thanks a lot.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web server: gW3S v2.2.8 released!
A new version of the ARexx web server for AmigaOS has been released.
The major new feature of this release is Webalizer-compatible log files (Apache-style). Now you can make pretty graphs and statistics from your gW3S access logs! The problem with Opera on PC (couldn't access gW3S sites) is also fixed and the HTTP support has been enhanced.
gW3S is open source and available for download at http://gonzo.1av10.nu/w3s/ (ps)
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26.Jul.2003
ANN
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First pictures from the AmiWest 2003
Under the title link you will find the first pictures by Douglas McLaughlin from the
AmiWest 2003 show. (ps)
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25.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (ANF)
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AmigaOS4.0 to be demonstrated at AmiWest
July 25, 2003 - Amiga Inc, in conjunction with Hyperion Entertainment and Computer Connection of California will be demonstrating the current state of AmigaOS 4.0 at the up-and-coming Amiga show in Sacramento, California.
Please read the complete PR here or under the title link.
AmigaOS4.0 to be demonstrated at AmiWest
July 25, 2003 - Amiga Inc, in conjunction with Hyperion Entertainment
and Computer Connection of California will be demonstrating the current state
of AmigaOS4.0 at the up-and-coming Amiga show in Sacramento, California.
Louie Dituri of Computer Connection, an Amiga dealer since 1988, will demonstrate
AmigaOS4.0 running natively on a Cyberstorm PPC A4000. A lot of progress has
been made in moving 68k modules to PPC-native since the end of the European
AmigaOS on Tour roadshow as well as the default look evolving still further.
Computer Connection have also donated an AmigaOne as a raffle prize and, additionally,
will be demonstrating AmigaOnes running Linux.
A representative of Hyperion Entertainment, the project manager for AmigaOS4.0,
will be on hand to answer questions on the product. In addition, John Harris,
a renowned AmigaDE developer (and the creator of the classic Frogger and Jawbreaker
games), will be present at the Computer Connection stand to show off a variety
of AmigaDE applications.
We urge all Amigans attending the show to flock to the Computer Connection stand
and see the future of the Amiga Platform. No rumours, no spin, no hype, just
the real deal!
About Amiga:
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media
technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media
by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and
porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic.
Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao Group, enables applications
to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel
X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted
on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x,
2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications
can be purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com.
About Hyperion:
Hyperion Entertainment
is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded
in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and the conversion
of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including
Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken
contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith
(www.lith.com)
and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics
to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's. Hyperion is currently
working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking
multimedia OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
About Computer Connection:
Computer Connection has been serving the needs of the Amiga, Toaster and Flyer
community in the US since 1988. For more information, visit
www.compamiga.com
or send an email to dituri@comp-connection.com.
(ps)
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25.Jul.2003
Kai Stegemann (ANF)
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Presentation about the history and the future of the Amiga
Read the overview
about a presentation of the history of the Amiga. The future and the past are described
with detailed texts. Additionally there are a Hollywood presentation (MOS-only) as well as
the corresponding script.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS call
Certainly many users have been worried that one of the maps of AmiATLAS did not
contain a desired destination, location or attraction or even had incorrect information?!
But this never has been a real problem! In AmiATLAS you can add or change your own
completions. Something like that you will not find at PC route planners.
But would it not be better if all users could use your changes and if you could use the changes
made by other users? Therefore here is a call to all new or old users of AmiATLAS:
Please report your wishes what you miss in the maps or what should be changed because
it is incorrect. Information to locations or attractions are also very welcome.
We are glad about all useful emails which you please send to
support@amiatlas.net.
For all useful and used information there will be a little surprise. Thanks to all
Amiga users for the help!
AmiATLAS Development Team
Gerd Frank, Maintainer
Manfred Rohde, Mapmaster
http://www.amiatlas.net
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2003
Daniel Trompetter (ANF)
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Game: Duke Nukem 3D for Amiga- and MorphOS
After at beginning of April 2003 the source code of Duke Nukem 3D has been released
there is a first official version of Duke Nukem 3D for Amiga- and MorphOS which you can
find under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jul.2003
Carsten Siegner bei MorphOS-News.de (ANF)
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Music: SongPlayer Version 1.60 for MorphOS and 68k w. OggVorbis Support
Version 1.60 of Stéphane Tavenard's music player 'SongPlayer' came out today, the main thing is that there's a native MorphOS version of the program and support for the Ogg Vorbis music compression format.
Mathias Parnaudeau and
Nicolas Det are busy with the current development, your comments and feedback may be sent to songplayer@free.fr.
Download MorphOS/AmigaOS: SongPlayer.lha
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jul.2003
(ANF)
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Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Ben Hermans speech
in Gothenburg with two interesting statements, listen for yourself. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jul.2003
BIAF (ANF)
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AmigaSearch
Just to let Amiga Internet users, webmasters and those who are interested know. A new search engine for Amiga content only, has arrived. Webmasters, please freely submit your Amiga related websites using the 'Add site' link on main page. AmigaSearch is at an early stage so the primary function of this service is useless to Amiga searchers unless webmasters submit their content.
NOTE: AmigaSearch will support IBrowse, Opera, IExplorer, Netscape and most other web browser packages. If you find AmigaSearch to be working on other browsers, please let us know. (ps)
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24.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Summer events with individual Computers
"No summer break this year!" While our office in Aachen is closed
from July 24th until August 18th, there are several Amiga- and classic
computing related events during the time.
It's startig with Amiwest
in Sacramento, California this weekend. This is a show of long tradition
that has been taking place for many years. This year we attend the show
as exhibitors for the first time. In the past years, we have only
exhibited at the Amiga show in St. Louis in the midwest of the USA.
On the same weekend, the computer-party
Little Computer People takes place
in Sweden. It's organized by C64-fans for C64-fans, and we're supporting
it with some prizes. The current state of development of the
C-One is shown, and our
netowrking card "RR-Net" is demonstrated to a larger audience
for the first time. It's also going to be for sale!
The height of the season is the
Classic Gaming Expo 2003 in Las Vegas
on August 9th and 10th. We're also exhibiting at this show for the first
time. At the expo for classic computer games and arcade machines, names
like Atari, Activision, Vectrex, Intellivision and of course Commodore are
revived. The guest list contains big names like
Paul Norman,
David Crane and
Garry Kitchen. (ps)
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23.Jul.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Lindows.com does an attempt with an Internet computer
As heise reports Lindows.com
will try to establish a web station starting at 169 US$ at the market, being a PC without a hard disk.
The operating system will be started from CD the data required for the work will be polled from a
network or the Internet.
Read the full heise article by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Martin Strojek bei Golem (ANF)
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Golem: Comes to age: The Amiga reaches 18
By the title link there is a brief, nostalgic article at Golem covering the birthady of
the Commodore Amiga.
Read the full article by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
amiga.org
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amiga.org: Wayne Hunt quits being webmaster
Wayne Hunt has maintained amiga.org during eight years as the webmaster. Today he announced
that he decided to quit this passion due to personal and professional reasons
During this long period Wayne Hunt sat parallel to his job several hours in front of the monitor
to do this web project and supporting the Amiga community a lot.
Now the day has come that he shifts his priorities in life more away from the Amiga further to other not
less important things in life. We wish him all the best from here!
Amiga.org will be continued by the other moderators and webmasters.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
ANN
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Emulator: A/NES website moved
The website of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES CGFX for
Amiga computers with gfx cards has moved. The site is now to reach by the
URL http://anescgfx.nylen.biz/.
Please update your bookmarks.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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Geizkragen community letter reports about Tales of Tamar
Here the according extract from the Geizkragen community letter:
»[..c..] Becoming tester and get an online strategy game for free...
A tip for fantasy fans, no doubt. Currently only for Amiga users in autumn
there will come a PC version of the online strategy game
"Tales of Tamar" to the shops. All important game options are included in
the PC version of the game already, but to get the game as bugfree as possible there are still
game testers required. As player you will get a small Middle Age country assigned which should be enlarged by
clever usage of strategy, diplomacy or even war. In one game there can be a maximum of 12000 players.
To download the game free of charge you have to register the form at the Tamar homepage.
Further information and registering
here.«
The Geizkragen community has more than 413000 users, among them
some will most likely check out the game in the next weeks. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
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The Amiga celebrates its 18th birthday
Today, after a lot of heights and downs, the Amiga celebrates its 18th birthday.
On July the 23rd 1985 in New York the premiere celebrations of the
Amiga 1000 was held with attendance of several stars like Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry.
The multimedia wonder by Commodore with its incredible graphic and sound capabilities for that time
was to set a milestone within the computer history.
Happy Birthday to you being to age, Amiga!
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Commodore Billboard double-CD available
Starting today, the double-CD with the contents of the Commodore
Billboard is available. The second CD contains a recent mirror of
the CBM-Funet archive, which is maintained by Marko Mäkelä.
It also contains files that were removed from the archive lately. Many thanks again to Marko who has mastered the second CD.
Nearly all files of the double-CD can be downloaded for free on the Internet under www.commodorebillboard.de and www.funet.fi/pub/cbm.
Running websites of this scale costs a lot of money. All profits of the CDs will be used to run the websites with their high volume traffic.
We encourage our customers to copy the CDs, and to make them available in sharing-services. All this will help us in reducing the cost of the websites. Those who want to donate to the websites can buy the double-CD for about 15,- EUR from our retail partners.
The Commodore Billboard is created from user contributions. Everyone who contributed so far gets the double-CD for the price of shipment. Distribution of the free CDs is done by Stefan "Galaktus" Zelazny, the new webmaster of the Commodore Billboard. Please contact him via eMail if you want such a free CD. New contributions are also rewarded with a free CD!
A picture of the final CDs is available online. (nba)
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23.Jul.2003
Falcon (ANF)
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New workshop about DSL at Elastic Images
With a new workshop at the Elastic Images website the configuration of the
TCP/IP stack Genesis connected with the hardware router RP-614 by Netgear for connecting two
Amigas via a router and for the Filesharing with NET-FS is documented.
Because the workshop owns a lot of screen shots the
download with analog connections may take some time. The graphics are totally about
750 KB.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jul.2003
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amiga-news.de: restricted news service from 31.07. - 13.09.2003
Like last year it's time to grudge the amiga-news-team a summerbreak. The break is between 31st July and 13th September.
Nico Barbat told us that he will upload important news and news summaries. Please send your news how usual to the ANF or send the news directly to
nico@amiga-news.de.
While the summerbreak, there are no translations and the comment function is deactivated. The
Forum stays in function, we will call there a moderator, who looks after the contents.
In this time we all good think about how we could celebrate our 5-years-anniversary.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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22.Jul.2003
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Website Update
The Elbox Website has been updated.
The eFlash 4000
page has been set up in the Products Section.
Check also the eFlash 4000 page
in the Adapters and Interfaces Section
of the Elbox Online Store.
(ps)
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22.Jul.2003
Sebastian Hensel (ANF)
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KuH-Mag and AmigaJoker.de: Interview with Michael Labiner
The team of the KUH-magazin and AmigaJoker.de was able to find the years missing Michael Labinier (Amiga- und PC-Joker), and they interwied him.
He answered to twenty questions, which you can read at:
KuH-Mag or directly under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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22.Jul.2003
(ANF)
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X68000 Emulator PPC 0.00b21, Carbonized for Mac OS X
The X68000 was an impressive Japanese home computer system that was released
in 1987. It featured a 68000 processor running at 10MHz, and supported up to
12 MB of main memory. It also had very impressive multimedia capabilities for
the time, with a 65536 color palette and an 8-voice stereo FM synthesizer.
X68000 Emulator PPC is currently the only X68000 emulator available for the
Macintosh. It is in very early stages of development, but it appears that it
can run Gradius and Fantasy Zone to some degree, which is certainly impressive.
An important thing to note is that the program and home page are entirely in
Japanese, which makes it difficult for English-speakers to enjoy it. Also note
that the application is compressed in LZH format, which is quite uncommon for
most Macintosh programs, but Stuffit Expander seems capable of handling it;
you may need to expand the files multiple times to get the program to work,
however.
(ps)
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22.Jul.2003
Andreas Loong (E-Mail)
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ACGGBG and ToAks presents: The Amiga PPC Demo Database
ACGGBG and ToAks from Push Entertainment proudly presents:
The Amiga PPC Demo Database!
For a long time now, we've collected demos and tested them. We felt that
this was something that the PPC users were lacking - ONE place to find
them all, including a text with requirements to make it work. Look no
further, this is the ultimate
P P C D E M O D A T A B A S E.
(ps)
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21.Jul.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Jubilee special offer for "Poseidon"
Amiga Arena is proud to announce the availability of a special offer for the USB-stack 'Poseidon'. We have to mention that this is not the official start of the upcoming 'Amiga Arena jubilee weeks'!
A co-operation between Chris Hodges and Amiga Arena made a special offer for 'Poseidon' possible. Until the 31st July 2003 you can order 'Poseidon' for only 14,00 EUR (only bank orders are accepted). In order to buy the program you have to use the registration form at Amiga Arena. Additional information about 'Poseidon' can be found at www.platon42.de. Special thanks go to Chris Hodges who made this offer possible.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Jul.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: Searching for PPC owners
Amiga Demoscene Archive was updated again with two demos: CNCD's classic Closer, winner at The Party 1995 and Spaceballs demo Dark Helmets from The Gathering 2003 and seven new logos were added in the Logo-gallery.
We are looking for people with high-end Amigas to help out with screenshots from PPC demos. (ps)
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21.Jul.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 21.07.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
newscoaster.lha comm/news 482K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.58) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news 229K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.58 - 11 Jul
TView.lha comm/tcp 77K+List TV-programs in Europe.
GuiGfxDevBas.lha dev/basic 31K+Using GuiGfx library from HBasic
ctags.lha dev/c 349K+Generate tag files of source code
CheckDisk.lha disk/misc 6K+A simple utility to check your disks
TheCrypt29.lha docs/mags 6.9M+Issue 29 of "The Crypt" online magazine
TheCrypt30.lha docs/mags 7.9M+Issue 30 of "The Crypt" online magazine
Saga.lha game/board 312K+Saga 1.28: Conversion of TSR boardgame
ToT_V0.50.lha game/demo 36M+Tales of Tamar Client V0.50
DM-Spells.png game/hint 9K+List of spells for Dungeon Master, CSB &
WormWars.lha game/misc 549K+Worm Wars 7.52: Advanced snake game
Marryampic2.lha game/think 525K+CardSet game with sound-pairs (MorphOS)
SmartScale.lha gfx/conv 31K+A CLI/WB program used for gfx conversion
PicShow.lha gfx/show 592K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to
WBVirus.lha misc/antiq 1K+Old bouncing balls display hack
Foundation3.mpg mods/mpg 21M+Third part of a three part suite
NI-SailorMoon.lha pix/icon 8K+Anime/Manga NewIcons: Sailor Moon
fryingpanshots.lha pix/illu 351K+FryingPan 0.022 (cd-burner program) scre
AAA2003_01.lha pix/misc 10M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 archive 01
Satire13-Apr03.jpg pix/misc 51K+"La satire du Jet d'Ail" in pictures on
CharMap.lha text/font 85K+Display the whole charset of a given fon
reqcollec2.lha util/cli 29K+Second collection of request tools
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 142K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,Mor
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Jul.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Poseidon licencing ceasing on 01-Aug-03
Chris Hodges (Poseidon author) writes:
»Due to reasons I will not explain here further (ask me in private),
Poseidon keyfiles cannot be bought after 01-Aug-03. People having just
bought an USB card, that does not come with an OEM Licence, have the
chance to register Poseidon until the end of this month.
Support for existing users is NOT affected and will continue as usually.
It is recommended that dealers stop selling USB cards without licence to
avoid angry customers buying an useless piece of hardware, until the
vendor delivers his own software solution or the situation is solved
somehow.«
Im Klartext heißt das, dass die Software Poseidon von Chris Hodges
natürlich weiterentwickelt wird, aber bis auf weiteres nur noch Karten
mit OEM-Lizenz unterstützt werden. (ps)
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20.Jul.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)
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FTW: Total Amiga Magazine #15 arrived
Sebastian Brylka of Funtime World writes:
We are glad to be able to announce that we have already received issue 15 of the
English Amiga magazine "Total Amiga".
As always some copies have been reserved for advance orders.
Interested parties who still want to receive a copy should therefore hurry up.
The magazine is still priced at EUR 6.50 incl. p&p (advance payment)!
From the contents:
- News
- AmigaOS 4 Update
- Columns from Fleecy Moss and Alan Redhouse Features
- Selling the new Amiga "it's not about the desktop"
- AROS: the DIY Amiga OS
- Mac: Reloaded - getting back into classic Mac emulation
- Quake II Competition
- Tales of Tamar Update
Reviews:
- Pegasos and MorphOS 1.3
- Subway USB
- IBrowse 2.3
- FXPaint 2
- Aqua
PD Paradise:
Support:
- Top Tips
- Hollywood Tutorial - how to create a simple presentation with the new multimedia
package
As always you can conveniently order the magazine from our online shop!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 15
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 15 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) amif1team: How about support for Russian and Ukrainian Amiga users? Do you support the Russian Amiga dealer 'Amiga Line' or do you have any other future plans to sell AmigaOne hardware in Russia and the Ukraine?
Fleecy: We have Russian and Ukranian language drivers in AmigaOS4.0 and although the Russian team seems to have disbanded, we have been told another is being formed.
The new Amiga Power Platform website will provide a forum for Amiga users and we will work with the ATO to make sure that it supports languages other than English. Our aim is to be able to work with local groups and dealers since they know their areas and markets far better than we do.
We are happy to sell AmigaOS and Amiga certified hardware such as the AmigaOne anywhere. The dealer you mention can send me a private email and I will try to get him/her set up.
2) Mojo-kun: AmigaOS needs modern applications. There is lots of very good free software which could be ported to AmigaOS if it had POSIX compatibility and some common GUI toolkits such as QT, GTK+ or GNU Step. What do you think of this and is an effort being made to support these technologies?
Fleecy: A great platform needs great applications. Our aim is to support and encourage the development of new applications on our platform so that we start to develop a unique and appealing software base that offers something over the other platforms.
Having said that, new applications take time and resources. AmigaOS4.0 will start off with a lot of older Amiga Generation 1 applications that are emulated, most of which are in serious need of updating. To increase the amount of AmigaOS4 specific software we have been looking closely at what is needed and what can be moved quickly from other platforms, such as Windows and Linux.
A strategy is underway to make such porting easier but, at the same time, we have to be careful not to turn AmigaOS4 into something else. POSIX, for example was created for very specific reasons, reasons that don't map one hundred percent onto the AmigaOS.
3) Turbo: According to the original Amiga One Zico Specification, several AmigaDE friendly processor types were to be supported. Are there still plans for a future Amiga OS to support x86? Is the future replacement for Amiga OS4.x coded on top of intent or is this going to be rehashed to run exclusively on a 64bit G5?
Fleecy: Our plan is still to make AmigaOS5 processor agnostic so eventually it will run on x86 but this is some time off, and would mark the completion of the Amiga Generation 2 project.
It will not be built on top of Intent. Intent will reside within the AmigaOS as a service, providing Amiga Anywhere and Java support.
The 64 bit AmigaOS implementation has always been a target, since we will be able to implement orthogonal persistence much more easily than on a 32 bit platform. There are still a lot of issues to sort out first however.
4) Yellow: I have Party Pack. I'm planning to buy AmigaOne with the latest AmigaOS perhaps after a year. Can I safely assume that I will get the $100 refund then? Does it matter what kind of AmigaOne model I buy; if there someday exists an AmigaOne model that uses 64-bit PPC processor, can one get the refund for buying that?
Fleecy: The voucher scheme is refundable against an AmigaOne (which is the Amiga certified Eyetech board and an OEM copy of AmigaOS that runs natively on it) so if you buy it a year after it comes out, then yes, you can claim the refund. The exact mechanism is still being discussed between ourselves and participating dealers but it will have to be in place before AmigaOS4.0 ships.
I don't see why it can't be used against a 64 bit Amiga but that is some time off.
5) alx: If you went back in time to before the A1/OS4 project began, what things would you have done differently and why?
Fleecy: I'd have put $1000 on the winner of the Grand National and I wouldn't have wasted $10 to see The Phantom Menace ;-)
With hindsight, we'd have started the AmigaOS4.0 project straight away, running it in parallel with the AmigaDE project. I also wouldn't have wasted 9 months trying to bring the various factions together for the sake of unity.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing though.
6) Samurai_Crow: What affect does Tao Group's release of Intent 2 have on the AmigaDE platform and the general plans for the future?
Fleecy: As with every revision of Intent, we assess it, move the AmigaDE code to it and then help the developers to move their content to it. We are both committed to creating a better and better product set and seeing both Intent and the AmigaDE and its content on more devices and in more markets.
7) Agafaster: Can we have a PPC Linux version of Amiga DE? Pretty please?
Fleecy: The first version of the AmigaDE on PPC will be for AmigaOS4. This has been stated publicly from the very beginning - AmigaOS first, then OS X and then any other opportunities that make business sense.
8) Asemoon: Some time ago Amiga's CEO demonstrated AmigaDE's 2D scaling abilities for TechTV. When available for AmigaOS will the users be able to open AmigaDE software in seperate user defined screenmodes? (Screens various resolutions, instead of just running on the desktop as demonstrated on Windows/Linux)
Fleecy: Yes.
9) Asemoon: The AmigaOne-lite is said to become an entry-level Amiga solution. Are there any plans for an A1200/A500-style or similar custom case for housing the AmigaOne-lite motherboard?
Fleecy: There are plans yes but plans aren't products until you can buy them. A few third parties have also contacted us about creating their own case designs so expect to see quite a bit of choice.
10) unclecurio: In a previous Q&A, you mentioned you were looking at the way Apple had used the audio units system in OSX. Can you tell us a little more about how the Amiga solution might operate?
Fleecy: The AG2 audio solution actually started life way back when the AmigaDE was going to replace AmigaOS, quite some time before the OS X audio system became public knowledge. Reading the Core Audio documentation made us smile quite a bit.
Once we decided that AmigaDE and AmigaOS would address different markets, this solution was retargeted at the AmigaOS.
The AG2 audio project uses elements called 'streamers' which are similar to Core Audio's 'audio units'. They can perform filter-like tasks like effect processing, format conversion, stream encoding/decoding, mixing or I/O related tasks like streaming a file from/to disk or network.
To make a distinction between streamers of different applications, streamers belong to a certain 'Audio Context'. Of course there can be communication and data flow between several contexts, so the audio output of one application (for example a software sampler) can be routed to the input of another application (for instance, a multi-track program).
There will be specific higher-level streamers to accomodate for games, to make use of DSP's for example, without the need for the programmer to program them directly. The goals of the architecture are to make use of multi-channel audio, DSP's, multiple CPU's, etc. when they are available and to make sure a lowest possible level of latency can be acquired by means of a Quality of Service system.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=16
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 20th July 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk that had
only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have been added or
updated since our last announcment:
- 20.07.03 new: X-It (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
- 20.07.03 new: Warm Up (GENIAS) done by CFOU!
- 20.07.03 improved: Plan 9 From Outer Space (Gremlin Graphics) new
imager and install script
- 20.07.03 new: MOT (Opera Soft) done by CFOU!
- 20.07.03 improved: Lemmings - Oh! No More (Psygnosis/DMA Design)
supports another version, better speed, new icons
- 20.07.03 improved: Impact! (ASL) better mouse support
- 20.07.03 improved: Harley Davidson (Mindscape) new imager
- 20.07.03 new: Cavitas (Nite Time Games) done by Psygore
- 20.07.03 improved: Cardiaxx (Electronic Zoo/Team 17) new imager
- 20.07.03 new: Bubble And Squeak (Audiogenic) done by JOTD
- 20.07.03 fixed: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) removed disk requester
- 20.07.03 improved: Ballistix (Psyclases/Reflexions) new imager
- 20.07.03 improved: Adrenalynn (Exponentia)
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20.Jul.2003
Diverse
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Software-News in a nutshell (20th July 2003)
Several applications have been enhanced since the last software news update.
We want to tell about the changes below:
NewsCoaster
The Newsgroup client NewsCoaster has been released in version 1.58.
A.o.t. MUI is required. Download
Jamiga
The pre alpha version 0.0.0.0.0.5 of the final version 1.3.1 of Jamiga, a Java
Runtime Environment (JRE) implementation for AmigaOS 3.9 and 4.0, has been
released on the Sourceforge Website. Download
SmartScale
SmartScale, a CLI/WB program for scripted graphics conversion, has been
released by Lorence Lombardo in version 2.0d. Download
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Amigan Software: Worm Wars 7.52 released
On 16th July 2003 the Snake clone "Worm Wars" by Amigan Software was released
in version 7.52 for AmigaOS and Windows. Several changes have been made since
the last version 7.51a:
- New object: super bomb.
- Improved sound effects.
- Miscellaneous rule changes and bug fixes.
Download: WormWars.lha (565 KB)
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV card driver: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 347
Today Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 347 of the TV card driver
software AmithlonTV with several minor updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Changes:
- FEATURE: Added the missing "external" hardware type. This type is
useful when creating non supported hardware or non hardware sources
like frogger.
- FEATURE: New tv card "PowerColor MTV878" supported. Thanks to Harald
Frank for sending me the card.
- FEATURE: Most of the card can use a second (!!) VHS (FBAS/Composite)
input just by updating AmithlonTV. If you ever wished to have a second
composite insteed of the SVHS (S-Video) input, then your dreams come
true. Now you get both! All you need is a special VHS->S-VHS input cable
to successfully connect your input signal. Most graphic boards with
TV-Out are providing such cable. Beside the fact the chinch is male (use
a chinch gender changer) this cable may not work. Mine has input/output
connected, so it works in both directions. Just give it a try before
wasting money.
NOTE: Giftware means sending me a gift not considering AmithlonTV as
a gift!
- FEATURE: Invented a remote control standard and wrote the first
driver for the "PowerColor MTV878". Using a remote is so cool! For the
next AmithlonTV presentation I need a remote control. (-8.
NOTE: If you are waiting for a version which supports your card, then
you may wait forever. Make a TVCardDump and sent it in. In the most cases
the card is running within minutes.
- CHANGED: I did many small changes to the drivers and the library core.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
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Samba 3.0.0beta3 released
The third (and possibly final) beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download.
While significantly closer to the final release, it should still be considered a
non-production release provided for testing purposes only. The source code and GnuPG signatures
can be found on Samba mirrors. RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 are also available in the
Binary_Packages download area.
Packages for other platforms will follow shortly.
The full release notes are available on-line as well.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
Thomas Rapp (ANF)
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PicShow Version 1.29 released
Thomas Rapp has released version 1.29 of the picture viewer PicShow.
This program is meant to be configured as a picture viewer in directory tools
like DirOpus or DosControl. It shows the doubleclicked picture in a
borderless window on the specified custom screen. The remarkable about this
program is that it reads the whole directory the picture is in and you can
then choose other pictures out of this directory from a menu or by pressing
the cursor keys.
Main features:
- can be started from Workbench or Shell
- runs on any public screen or opens its own screen
- directories can be recursively searched for pictures
- pictures are recognized by file name or file type
- pictures are preloaded and held in the buffer
- Slideshow with various transition effects
- picture printout
- picture editing: scale, mirror, rotate
- color editing: contrast, brightness, colour, gamma
- RGB colour filter, greyscale
- can display all pictures from multiple picture files, e.g. GIF (anim) or TIFF (fax).
- Copy & Paste - support
- Drag & Drop
- Iconify
- ARexx port
- freely configurable keyboard mapping
- freely configurable navigation bar
- all functions can be executed via keyboard, menu, navigation bar or ARexx
- includes versions for 68040, WarpOS and PowerUP.
PicShow can be downloaded from Aminet. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
Markus Lunk bei GFX-BASE
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Superfrog level on external wall
Markus Lunk writes:
This morning I found something amusing.
You all still know SuperFrog, the Jump'N'Run with the grinning little frog?
GFX-BASE have provided a couple of photos
on which the game's first level was painted onto an external wall. The wall is in
the Luna Park in Belgrade. You can go directly to the pictures through the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Statement on Pegasos II/III and company strategy
SuperBundle Sunday! :-D
Good work Targhan!
In honor of the eve of the first SuperBundle Sunday we will just post this message here!
Why the Dell not?!
1. We started with the Pegasos by attracting smart computer users. We have found that "Geeks" who are creative and innovative work miracles. Just have a look at the weekly releases and activities report here and on the other sites. Further, by promoting the Pegasos as a multiple OS machine we opened ourselves to even broader based attention. Many special computer people appreciate this and are developing a number of very interesting applications for the Pegasos. The Summer Promotion and the Betatester Blowout were part of that strategy. Of course, the SuperBundle is too. The idea is to build a "Community" of active, enthusiastic users who have an interest in advancing the platform. Now that we have Pegasos machines in 34 countries, well over 200 MorphOS developers registered at MDC, and a framework for third-party and alternate OS involvement through Phoenix, we can begin to consider the next steps.
2. As mentioned before, we will do our best to take advantage of the Linux wave. We are definitely poised to do that here in Europe. We are positioning the platform as a non-west-coast-USA product. That has a broad appeal here. Look at the recent success of SuSE in Munich. Things are changing. For example, by the end of 2005, the French Government has mandated that no Windows OS can be used by any local government. In Spain, there is an even broader Linux move afoot. There is definitely an opportunity coming. Outside of Europe, a couple of weeks ago at the Developing World Conference hosted by the World Bank and the UN, one of the key issues/conclusions was that building an IT infrastructure based on Linux was key toward the establishment of stable societies in Africa. Worldwide, the "education" market will also be big. Enough about that.
3. We hope to have QNX running fully on the Pegasos soon. It is partially working already. We expect to see a commercial package later this year and hope the good folks at QNX will fully support our developing relationship. This addresses the embedded market.
4. In the meanwhile, MorphOS continues to improve. Have you visited http://mdc.morphos.net lately? We are definitely creating a community there. :-) We also have a third party developer site picking up some steam at www.phinixi.com. The foundation for the future is being set.
5. This brings us to the whole Pegasos II/G4 discussion. To serve the markets mentioned above we need to have a dual approach. First, we need a basic system and second we need a "Geek" machine -- a SuperGeekTweak if you will. The Pegasos II G3 will sufficiently provide the gist for all the "basic" market capability we need. Can the G4 do the rest? Last week we decided it could not. The incremental difference in performance and efficiency did not warrant the investment we had intended to make. Frankly, the G4 works and we will make some, but the investment required does not correspond to the performance gained. This is why we let the information slip into the thread about the Pegasos III and the 970. With the 970 we can see the potential.
The information above highlights our ongoing, generally known intentions. As we do not have the overhead of a big company, it is not terribly difficult to do all that. Plus, our costs are further lower because we own or control everything internally (IP, production, etc.).
Now, what remains the ultimate objective? Why are we doing all of this?
Please remember, we have always said that first and foremost the Pegasos is a development platform. The ultimate target is the digital terrestrial/satellite television STB market. "Target" here means potential customers. Do not confuse what we want to offer them with what they have today. This is not a SetPal box (for those in the UK) -- it is MUCH more. We will offer two tiers -- basic (receiver plus a little extra functionality) and Super (bundled with a broadband ISP connection and ALOT of extra functionality). The market here in Europe is estimated by more than a few sources at over $2.5 billion in the next four to five years. MorphOS is "lite" and can lower our memory and comparative CPU costs against the competition. We do not pay royalties for its use either. Further, please notice that the PPC is the state of the art in this market space. We expect our first BIG customer to travel with us to IBM in Ny to help us negotiate CPU prices down for vo
lumes over 1 million units. This STB WILL BE a computer and in fact could also be at the higher end the home server that is connected 24/7 and uses WIFI to communicate with everything in the "digital home." We really are talking about something revolutionary. It is not just a STB; it is a whole new kind of computer that integrates many different sources of data into one focal point for distribution on demand and as required. It really is something new.
#1 Rule of Marketing: offer people what they have already, just give them something better, more convenient, improve their life, etc.
We hope the Community we are gathering here can understand the potential we are discussing. One day not too far away analogue television signals will cease. The transition to digital will be fast in commercial terms. Everyone will need a receiver. The DVB standard has been broadly accepted in Europe and like GSM was to mobile telephones vis-à-vis the rest of the world, DVB will provide the same opportunity to this market here in Europe first (Australia and NZ too ;-) ).
The Pegasos as a computer will continue to march ahead, but the business plan in Genesi's future is about a multi-functional device that uses the internet and digital television signals to open up a whole new world of possibilities.
Now having said all that, a word about Press Releases and "professional" business behavior. We are accused of not be "professional" and even being "childish" by some of our more stern tormenters. We think they miss the point. What we are doing here is trying to build a broad and interesting mix of people that despite their different languages and cultures they share a common interest in the future we are trying to create. We cannot build a comfortable participative environment if we are not involved ourselves. This is not a "business" yet. We do not make money on the Pegasos or MorphOS. There are no profits. We do not need to hide behind Press Releases. We are here mucking around just like everyone else! We are not a public company. We are trying to cultivate something different. All the effort so far is still about creating something, which is why we feel like we need to be present and involved in mailing lists and Forums, and w
hy we do our best to answer the emails we receive. This is also why we freely communicate our difficulties. We want to "share" the creative process with as many of you who want to be involved. We are not following a strict execution plan. We are following a light not a railroad track.
For example, here is the latest challenge -- as of today, Marvell will not even certify their own G4 development board. They are expected to. We have been expecting them to do so for a few months. They have not. What to do? Now if we are all in this together, you will consider the actions we are taking to be quite admirable. If on the other hand your intentions are not constructive (why are you reading this?), you might have another reaction...
Thomas and Gerald of bplan with the full knowledge and understanding of Marvell will remove the G3 from a Marvell development board and replace it with a G4. We will do the northbridge testing ourselves. We are pretty proud of their ability to do that...:-) That means we will still have the Pegasos II ready in September. Nevertheless, we will sell it in exactly the same manner we did the Betatester machines in September 2002. Our focus will be developers and interested users with a bigger focus on other Operating Systems. In the meanwhile, the STB project marches along. You can see the prototype at the new bplan offices in Oberursel if you call ahead.
The SuperBundle and the Pegasos I G4 will be our focus at AmiWest and we look forward to participating. We just thought we would share a few thoughts beforehand to make the whole thing a bit more interesting. And yes, we have made more than a few of the G4 Pegasos I. We will showing them at AmiWest and getting these out after the Show.
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill (ps) (Translation: cb)
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19.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Pegasos III with PPC 970 announced
In two comments on MorphOS-News.de Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi have announced
the PEGASOS III
for the beginning of the next year which is supposed to be equipped with a
PPC 970.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
ANN
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Magazine: The Crypt #30
Issue 30 of the English online magazine called "The Crypt" with the title "Pirates and Privateers"
has been published. You can read under the title link in this issue about Amiga news,
stories and other reports. If you want to read it offline you can donwload the magazine.
Downlaod: Crypt #30.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III version 5.3
There is an update to version 5.3 of the astronomical software Digital Almanac III.
Changes since version 5.2:
- Smaller executables because the program code was cleared.
- Smaller bugs in the MUI-notification fixed.
- Catalogs cleared.
- Bugs in drawing of the moon texture fixed. In version 5.2 the moon was only displayed
as a yellow unicoloured disk.
For this update you need version 5.0 or higher.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Bill McEwen will not attend AmiWest 2003
In a message on the website of Amiga Inc. Bill McEwen mentioned that he cannot come
to the AmiWest 2003 which will take place on 26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento (USA).
Please read the following full message:
AmigaWest Update - July 19, 2003
Welcome to AmiWest 2003! This is another opportunity for the the Amiga
community and the rest of the world to see AmigaOS 4.0 demonstrated for
the first time. That is correct, Amiga Operating System Version 4.0,
along with the AmigaOne hardware, is a giant step forward for Amiga users.
I look forward to hearing or reading your thoughts and opinions on these
products. We are very pleased with the progress and believe that you will
like the demonstration at AmiWest and further enjoy the AmigaOS 4
experience once the product is released.
Regrettably, my plans have changed and I will not be attending AmiWest
this year. I have informed the organizers of AmiWest and they were very
understanding. However, in my absence, Amiga will be well-represented at
the event.
I hope that you all enjoy AmiWest. I will miss being there, as AmiWest
holds a very special place in my heart in regard to my affiliation with
Amiga and the community. I wish you all a very enjoyable time in Sacramento.
God Bless,
Bill McEwen President/CEO Amiga, Inc.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
amiga.org
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AmiWest 2003 question-poll
At the AmiWest 2003 which will take place on
26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento (USA) there will be several conversations at
the banquet with some vips. In order to prepare best for these interviews Nicolas Mendoza
has created the opportunity of entering questions under the title link.
The questions should be short and clear and written in English.
Over the poll script the visitors of the website can vote which of the many entered
questions the moderator should ask in any case.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Jürgen Sachs (ANF)
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Imonc client for Fli4l on the Amiga
Jürgen Sachs wrote:
On my homepage the version 0.18 beta of AImonc is available.
AImonc is an Imonc client for the Amiga for using a remote control of a
Fli4l-Routers.
With AImonc you can control the most important functions like online, offline,
circuit choice, choice modus (auto/manual), reboot and system stop.
Additionally some information about the router are displayed.
The program is still beta but has now achieved a stable status.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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stormamiga.lib for SAS/C is Freeware
From now on Matthias Henze has released stormamiga.lib for SAS/C as Freeware.
If there will be further updates in future he still cannot say.
Informationen to the "stormamiga.lib"
- The "stormamiga.lib" is a linker library for StormC and SAS/C.
- The StormC version is a replacement for all 68k linker libraries of
StormC, the "amiga.lib" and the startupcode "startup.o". Besides this many other
functions and features are offered.
- The SAS/C version is only partly a replacement for the linker libraries
of SAS/C. For the first time there is a linker library for SAS/C for the
MC68060, too. But also the slow linker library "scm040.lib"
is partly replaced by a faster version for the MC68040.
- The "stormamiga.lib" is fully written in assembler to achieve the maximum
speed.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Athlon 64 will be introduced on 23th September
»Today AMD has officially announced that the Athlon 64 which is AMDs upcoming
64-bit processor for desktops and notebooks will be introduced on 23th September.«
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2003
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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New GhostScript version 8 for Amiga
Under the title link you can find the new GhostScript version 8 for 68k Amiga.
With GhostScript you can convert and print Postscript and PDF files.
It is especially interesting being able to convert Postscript files as they are created
by FinalWriter or Pagestream to PDF.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2003
Amiga Society (Website)
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Amiga Society celebrates third anniversary
Horst Diebel wrote:
"Yesterday three years ago Soci went online. During this time many things have happened
and the site has grown more and more but there were also some breaks. Some sections have
been added other ones have been deleted. We look forward what the future may bring...
Meanwhile it has become a good tradition to thank you all who have supported us. Therefore
we will do it in this year, too.
Thank you very much Andreas Magerl (Amiga Future) who has made his news available, Ian
Chapman with his Big Book of Amiga Hardware, Markus Schmidt with his ICQ-list and the
boys of the Schlachtfeld team. Furthermore we would like to say thank you to
Amiga-News and Amiga-Plus. Please keep on doing your good work. Of course thanks to all
who have supported us!
During the last days the following things have changed: There was an update of the
Big Book of Amiga Hardware and of the Little Book of Amiga Software. The section of
Schlachtfeld is online again and will be extended in the next days.
There is no special birthday update but we are intensively testing the last alpha of
Schlachtfeld to change as soon as possible to the beta status. We will give a current
status report in the next days."
amiga-news.de says Happy Birthday!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2003
Amiga Future (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Opinion poll concerning your computer system
Today Amiga Future has started a new opinion poll in which is asked what computer system
you use. You can take part in this opinion poll via the title link, the current results
you can find here.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: 5 Anniversary Preview
Amiga Arena - The fire still burns
5 Anniversary preview
In 1998 "Amiga Arena" has been founded in order to support the Amiga Freeware and
Shareware market.
Beginning with a link list at the end of 1998 Amiga Arena developed to a good place
for Shareware special actions.
By this concept several Shareware special actions could become possible.
During the time interviews (over 100 now) and the release of registered Shareware programs
were added as new features.
I could make possible all these things with the help of the developers and of all
active users of print and online magazines and news sites.
Thank you to all these people (have a look at the hall of fame) and all these ones
who I have not mentioned but who supported me, too.
Because of this event I will tell you the history of the last five years and will also
add screenshots.
But that is not all!
During the "Amiga Arena anniversary weeks" there will be several actions with many
developers and companies.
With the help of the list of participants you may imagine what things you can
expect.
The summer will be hot - the fire still burns!
Commercial participants:
- AmiAtlas Team
- Amiga Future
- amiga-news.de
- AMIGAplus
- Airsoftsoftwair
- Apex-Designs
- e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh
- Funtime World
- Hyperion Entertainment
- IOSPIRIT
- Inutilis Imperium
- KDH Datentechnik
Shareware participants:
- Gutmann, Steffen (MuiBase)
- Hodges, Chris (Poseidon USB)
- Dröge, Sven (Bonds)
- Hoffman, Helmut (PhotoAlbum/CyberShow)
- Jahn, Bert (WHDLoad)
- Kimna, Christoph (PairsNG)
- Kost, Stefan (SoundFX)
- Unger, Thomas (The Kickstart Archives)
I want to thank all participants! I hope you will take part in many of the actions
to show me that the last five years have been useful and to show the developers/companies
that their work is still wanted!
Your Olaf K. - Amiga Arena
amiga-news.de says Happy Birthday - five years are a very good performance!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2003
Maik Schultheis (ANF)
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AmiGate is there again
Maik Schultheis wrote:
After a long time we have decided to keep on running AmiGate.
We hope you will support as good as you can do!
Have you a commercial or private Amiga site?
You can register your website for free thus other people can also have a look at
your page! Please join us.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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File Manager: DiskMaster Version 2.5.23
Rudolph Riedel has released version 2.5.23 of his file manager and put it up for download (title link) on his homepage.
This time there's a version compiled with GCC as well as a version compiled for Amithlon. Owing to the Amithlon license Rudolph Riedel could not test the latter.
The most important changes in brief:
2.5.23 (2003-07-17) 74096 Bytes
- New version numbering - the next full version will be 2.6.
- Many little changes have been made to DM2, in order to make it compliable with GCC, VBCC and GCC for Amithlon -> portability.
- IRQ Server has been replaced with timer.device code -> portability.
- Mistake correcting.
Rudolph Riedel: "I allowed myself to issue a call for
donations
on the Internet. I would love to support the AmigaOS in the future, but my A1200 is really not suited for this anymore and I really don't have the spare cash for a better Amiga. I guess I have more motivation than credit..."
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE Appears in Version 0.8.22R8
A new version of Toni Wilen's Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows has been released, version 0.8.22 Release 8. This version contains the following bugfixes and new milestones:
WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 8 (16.07.2003)
Bugs fixed:
- stuck joypad POV directional controller
- joystick keyboard layout B and C second firebutton
- workaround for buggy sound driver (ISA SB16, maybe others)
that report zero as minimum and maximum supported sample rate
- possible crash when copying to virtual filesystem's root
- CD32 media change detection
- extended ADF write protection check
- extended ADF HD floppy support
- fast copper works again + config file support
- JIT FPU fix (Descent Freespace -demo)
- 57600 serial bit rate was incorrectly rounded to 56000
- ~2.8GHz+ CPU clock rate calculation overflow
New features:
- all configuration file loading restrictions removed,
load new configuration file at any time!
- display width, height, depth, lores, doubling, correct aspect
can be changed on the fly
- bsdsocket.library updates
- Picasso96 emulation optimizations
- improved audio emulation
(Mortville Manor, Maupiti Island speech and Fighting Soccer)
- AHI driver update
- improved and more compatible CD32 pad emulation
- improved CD32 CD autodetection
- sound capture to wav-file
- Direct3D hardware filtering and scaling
- more configurable source tree, added very simple way
to disable features like AGA, JIT, bsdsocket, Picasso96,
harddisk, 68020+ etc..
- separate basic A500-only WinUAE executable included (winuae_mini.exe)
- quick state save (SHIFT/CTRL + END + numpad 0-9) and restore support (END + numpad 0-9)
As always, a German mirror is available at webwood.de!
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #046
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 46th music pack yesterday. This time there is a piece titled "Angel Sky" from the Polish musician Lcr and a fitting cover from guest artist Yenzi.
Further information about the track:
Titel: Angel Sky
Artist: Lcr
Style: Drum'n'Base
Song length: 3:58
Format: mp3 (128kbps)
The zipped file with a size of 3.6 megabytes may be downloaded free from the homepage under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
John Chandler/Suite101 (Website)
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John Chandler on Suite101: The AmigaOne XE G4
At Suite101.com John Chandler writes regular Amiga-themed articles. In
the newest column, which may be reached under the title link, Mr. Chandler concerns himself with the new Amiga hardware, the AmigaOne XE G4. Have fun reading the text of this English-language article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
ExoticA (Website)
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ExoticA: High Voltage SID Collection Version 5.3
The demoscene website ExoticA! has been updated in many of its sections. Especially pronounced is the update in the High Voltage SID Collection, which has been brought to version 5.3 and now contains about 20,660 different C64 tunes. Details about other updates may be found here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
The Legacy (Website)
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The Legacy: Game Museum News
The Legacy is a game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC,
Schneider/Amstrad CPC, in which the readers provide screenshots, cover scans
and information about the developers. On the news page, the Legacy team has announced the following:
Next we draw your attention to a new game titled "Eve Online - The Second Genesis."
Here
is a review in which you may get an idea of how in-depth the game is, and how it is played.
Further, DoM of Team Legacy explains: "In the meantime there are two sorts of updates. A master update, which has broadened into more than 600 games, and an incremental update. The latter is to accomodate everyday-type changes.
Our regular guests certainly have noticed by now that support has been slow new steps: Betatesters can already use all the new functions. All other visitors can use some of them. In the background I'm working under intense pressure on new functions which will move some functions into the live database, including email notifications when something is taken over." (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Vote July/August 2003
The publishers of Amiga Games Hit Parade call for your vote
of games this July/August 2003. You may take part in the voting
by sending a list of up to 20 of your favorite games in an email to
David "Daff" Brunet, or going to hitparade.amigames.com.
You can vote for any sort of game (commercial, freeware, old, new, etc.). The final results will be published in August.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus: Free Download of the Mini-Mag "SDL-Reference"
In light of many inquiries and the data cooperation with
libsdl.org the editors of
AMIGAplus are offering a free download of the German-language reference
volume for Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL).
The three part reference, which by the way is the first complete German-language reference of its kind, has been put together by
Robbie Schäfer, initially published in a minimag form in AMIGAplus editions from 04/2003 to 06/2003, and is now available as a PDF file for download under the title link, in the Download/SDL section.
Print out the first/second and third/fourth sides on a single page and then fold them as described in the documentation. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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16.Jul.2003
Sven Scheele und Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Event: Pegasos hardware meeting news
As reported before (for details see title link), the
Amiga-Club Hamburg e. V.
and the Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein
will do a hardware meeting on Friday the 1st of August 2003 covering specially the new
Pegasos computer. We arranged the beginning of that meeting to be set to 4:00 pm,
the room is rented until midnight. Everyone interested in the Pegasos is very welcome to show up.
The address is: Volkshaus Berne, Sasselheider Weg 6, 22159 Hamburg
(city district Berne), Entry: left back door, 1st floor. Who likes to bring an own Pegasos should contact
Thorsten Mampel by
email.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Volunteers for the demo scene web project "Scenia" wanted
The maintainers of Scenia, a web project for a platform independent demo scene, are looking
for some motivated and voluntary fellows for their team.
For a required reconstruction of the website there is an in PHP and SQL experienced programmer,
a gfx artworker and probably an online editor wanted to bring the due to lack of time little
bit stopped project back on track again.
Brief "applications" are welcome by email to
m.cloppenburg@gmx.net.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Gabriele Favrin (E-Mail)
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IRC-Channel #AWeb reopend
Gabriele Favrin has re-established the known chat channel regarding AWeb, an open source based web browser for
AmigaOS, at the IRC. Users and developers are welcome to discuss the issues of all versions of AWeb. The channel
is at the IRCnet to find under the name #AWeb.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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"Return to Witchwood" by Bjorn Lynne released
Bjorn Lynne has announced the release of his new CD, "Return to
Witchwood". The CD can, earlier than originally planned, be pruchased from now on at the online shop
of Lynne-Music by the title link as a single disk or bundled with other CDs.
Orders befor August the 10th will be signatured by the composer.
As the successor of "Witchwood" this fantasy music album offers the expected chilled tunes. The website
offers several extracts from different tracks.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Mac: Northland getting closer to release
The Apple Macintosh version of Northland is very close to completion now.
The game has been in betatesting for some time now. "Northland", which was
developed by Funatics Software for the PC is ported to the Apple Macintosh
and other platforms by e.p.i.c. interactive. The Mac version will require at
least a G3/350 with 128 MByte RAM and OSX. A OS 9.x version will also be
supplied on the CD but the memory requirements are not 100% known yet.
"Northland" for the Macintosh should start shipping from the middle of
August 2003 and preordering from our webstore will start next week, when the
demo version of Northland for the Mac will be launched.
More information on Northland can be found at:
www.northland-game.com or
under the title link.
The MorphOS version of Northland should go beta very soon. A demo version for
the Pegasos and MorphOS can be expected in August.
(ps)
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16.Jul.2003
Carsten Berger (E-Mail)
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Poll about the 3D map for Tales of Tamar started
Some days ago Eternity gave a
status update
of Tales of Tamar and pointed to the
planned 3D map (Snapshot).
Within the comments there were surprisingly little feedback about this map.
To give Eternity the possiblity to get an overview about the interest on such a map
we started a poll regarding that map.
Please vote only if you bought ToT already or if you will buy it definitely (maybe if there is such a
3D map). Thereforeso: Please don't hesitate to vote because for a programmer nothing is worse than
ignoring his work.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
MUI Classes (Website)
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Website for new or updated MUI classes
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom has owed his website to new MUI classes. Whenever there is an update or a new
version in area, the info regarding it will be to find at this website.
For example in July 2003 the MCC_TheBar class has been updated several times.
Currently the version 16.0 is available for download.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (Website)
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Amiga Inc.: AmigaOS Artist Competition and Community Exchange
Get your art published on the AmigaOS 4 CD and explore our new Community Exchange! Click here to read about the competition and here to browse or contribute to the Community Exchange. (ps)
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16.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages until 07-15-2003
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games onto the hard disk which were meant originally for
floppy disk use only.
The following packages were added or updated since the last announcement:
- 15.07.03 new: Jinxter (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
- 15.07.03 improved: Operation Stealth (Delphine Software) rewritten
- 15.07.03 improved: King's Quest 6 (Sierra) protection removed, new icon
- 15.07.03 improved: James Pond 2 - Robocod (Millennium) supports CD³² version too
- 15.07.03 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils) supports another version, slave optimised
- 15.07.03 improved: Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters (Tengen/Teque) supports another version
- 14.07.03 new: Typhoon (Kingsoft) done by Psygore
- 14.07.03 new: Space Hulk (Electronic Arts) done by Galahad
- 14.07.03 new: Eliminator (Hewson) done by CFOU!
- 14.07.03 new: Madness (Anarchy) done by Galahad
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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New Payback GBA Status Report
A new progress report on the GBA version of Payback has been posted
here.
This update talks about the performance and presentation improvements that
have been made to the game over the last month, in particular the addition
of a "bloom blur" effect and the dramatic optimisation of the audio mixer.
It includes four new screenshots and a video clip of the game's improved
pause mode.
(nba)
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16.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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G4: A few ammount of Pegasos I April 2 G4 available
The first processor card to upgrade the Pegasos is available now.
Thank to the flexible, upgradable and open architecture of the Pegasos Genesi
offers a G4 upgrade which will lead you to the next step of computer experience.
For the Pegasos are
processor cards
with a Motorola 7447 CPU which operates with 1 GHz and more available now.
The 7447 is the newest PowerPC processor of the fourth generation
(G4) by Motorola, which offers an increased performance compared to the recent
processor generation (G3). Additionally to a bigger cache the
7447 offers more pipelines, an improved front side bus (FSB) and, most important, an SIMD unit called Altivec.
Altivec offers a special on-chip vector engine, which is capable of operate more than one Gflops (one billion
floating point operations per second) but is still affordable for an average user.
There is a few ammount of Pegasos-1/April-2 boards with this G4 card available for
EUR 499.- (excl. VAT). If you are interested in one of these boards please feel free to contact
bbrv@genesi.lu.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: Retro Replay sold out
Retro Replay is a clone of the popular Action Replay for the C64. The
cartridge was made in October 2001 at a very limited quantity, which is
sold out now.
The last cartridge from the mass-production and an early prototype from
March 2001 are now offered in an eBay-auction. Since the announcement of
RR-net, a networking card for the Retro Replay, we had strong demand for
the cartridge, and many people asked for a new production run.
Unfortunately, the cost, and therefore the risk, is very high, because
we'd have to produce several hundred cartridges in order to keep the
price of 50,- EUR. Therefore, the interest in the auction will determine
if a new production run will happen:
As announced in the product description, we're sponsoring the "Retro
Replay Party", it will take place in September this year. Details
will be published shortly, but we can already say that there will be
plenty of free beer. Nice detail of the party location: It's an air-raid
shelter from World War II, which has no windows. Neither 2000, nor XP ;-). (nba)
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14.Jul.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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T.o.T.: Amiga Version 0.50
Martin Wolf of Eternity announced in his current press release the availability of version 0.50 of 'Tales of Tamar' for Amiga computers. Details about changes and improvements are to be found at www.tamar.net.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New install packs until 11.07.2003
WHDLoad lets you easily install floppy based games onto your hard disk. The following changes and updates have been incorporated into the installer library since our last report.
- 11.07.03 improved: Super Space Invaders (Taito/Domark) various changes and improvements
- 11.07.03 new: Impact! (ASL) done by Psygore
- 11.07.03 updated: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts) reworked
- 11.07.03 new: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) done by JOTD
- 11.07.03 improved: Pinball Dreams (Digital Illusions) supports NTSC version too
- 11.07.03 improved: Another World / Out of this World (Delphine Software) support
for another version added, merged with 'Out of this World', new icons
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
SonicPulse (Website)
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10th anniversary of SoundFX!
SoundFX will celebrate its 10th anniversary this very month. Congratulations!
Stefan Kost is currently working on version 4.3. He hopes that the betatest phase will start soon.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 14.07.2003
The following additions were made since our last report:
lands057a.lha comm/cnet 108K+BattleLands C-Net Amiga P-File
YamHTMLyam.lha comm/mail 21K+(1.9) Shows HTML e-mails with YAM mail c
GummiSurf.lha comm/net 20K+Companion tool for Charon (Download mana
AMP2.lha demo/mag 2.4M+AMP#2 - polish discmag
AMP2_DBM.lha demo/mag 1.4M+Music for AMP#2 - polish discmag
AMP2_TrueColor.lha demo/mag 1.1M+24-bit graphics for AMP#2 - polish mag
ctags.lha dev/c 348K+Generate tag files of source code
FlashROM.lha disk/cdrom 18K+Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of Pl
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0.
fat95.lha disk/misc 133K+Win95/98 compatible file system
RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 4K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
Mb4levelsets.lha game/data 7K+2 level sets for Megaball 4
bouldercaves.lha game/jump 472K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 927K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
bouldergraph.lha game/jump 196K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Graphics Archive
bouldersound.lha game/jump 184K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Sound Archive
WormWars.lha game/misc 566K+Worm Wars 7.51a: Advanced snake game
Marryampic2.lha game/think 538K+CardSet game with sound-pairs (MorphOS)
vcdimager.lha gfx/conv 1.1M+VCD/SVCD tool v0.7.14
vcdimager_src.lha gfx/conv 868K+VCDImager v0.7.14 source code
A2630SpeedFix.lha hard/hack 13K+Speed up fixes and mods for CBM A2630 ac
scl.lha misc/emu 6K+Work with SCL-archives
Corruption.lha mods/misc 121K+Custom module from "Corruption"
DaleyThompsons.lha mods/misc 41K+Custom module from "Daley Thompson's"
Jinxter.lha mods/misc 48K+Custom module from "Jinxter"
ThePawn.lha mods/misc 63K+Custom module from "The Pawn"
UNSquadron.lha mods/misc 54K+Custom module from "U.N. Squadron"
WinterChalleng.lha mods/misc 70K+Custom modules from "Winter Challenge"
Zitrax.lha mods/misc 26K+Custom module from "Zitrax"
20030705aaa_1.mpg mods/mpg 4.5M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 1
20030705aaa_2.mpg mods/mpg 4.0M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 2
20030705aaa_3.mpg mods/mpg 9.3M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 3
20030705aaa_4.mpg mods/mpg 7.3M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 4
20030705aaa_5.mpg mods/mpg 6.1M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 5
20030705aaa_6.mpg mods/mpg 700K+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 MP3s - Track 6
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 320K+GUI 4 Lame,OggEnc,OggDec,BladeEnc,Pegase
EP_NoiseTrack.lha mus/play 28K+EaglePlayer "NoiseTracker" external repl
QuakerZone.lha pix/icon 198K+This is a conversion of MacOSX icons for
QuickSketch.lha text/edit 20K+A simple WB-prg to sketch and write in.
PasTeX14src.lha text/tex 8.6M+PasTeX 1.4 sources
CardPatch.lha util/boot 3K+Patches bugs in PCMCIA system V1.2
NewWBPattern.lha util/cli 3K+Change your WB background pic on the fly
WarpBMPdt.lha util/dtype 56K+Windows BMP datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,M
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 150K+WarpDT preferences program V45.1
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 142K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,Mor
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 144K+PNG image datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,Mor
WarpPSDdt.lha util/dtype 54K+Adobe Photoshop datatype V45.3 (68k,War
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 290K+TIFF datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
PolishAccent.lha util/libs 8K+Polish accent for translator lib. V42+
ArgueGUIColl.lha util/misc 72K+Argue GUI for Frogger(NG), Moovid, Visag
MultiRen.lha util/misc 198K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (MUI)
idle1_5b.lha util/moni 20K+A (working) A68K cpu monitor
zlibexample.lha util/pack 42K+Example for zlib.library w/ WOS support
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4.1d
Version 4.1d of 'Pixload' released. By using 'Pixload' you can start programs or scripts by clicking on an icon. Therefor the program uses MUI. So RxMUI 32.8 is needed in order to use 'Pixload'.
'Pixload' is available for Amiga as well as for MorphOS.
Download: pixload-4.1d.lzx
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web server: gW3S v2.1 bug fix available
Some of you might have experienced trouble with gW3S version 2.1.
There was a bug in the fancy-files unescaping which affected the way XGI scripts was executed (resulted in a 404 or other error).
This is now fixed.
I would also like to announce the opening of the gW3S Discussion Forum where you can get in touch with other gW3S users, and the gW3S development team. Everything can be found here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
Lars Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Diskmag Saxonia#2
The second expenditure of the Amiga demo scene diskmags Saxonia
appeared recently. Concerning the articles a clear quality increase is
to be noticed. The diagrams and the liking engine are unfortunately
the same as with the first expenditure. Diskmag.de offers archives
under the title link for download! Comments on Saxonia#2 can be made here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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Soms3D news
The "Anime development for Amiga" team reports that a mailing list for
all prospective customers was established now. One can register oneself
over the main side and post questions and suggestions there.
Furthermore the Somspage was completely redesigned. The developers made an Engine-Testvideo (4.5 MB) available depicting the Dunkle-Engine.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jul.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Pegasos hardware meeting in Hamburg
On 1st August 2003 AmigaClub Hamburg
and AmigaClub Schleswig-Holstein
are holding a hardware meeting in Hamburg. The meeting targets Pegasos users
and those who are contemplating to maybe buy this computer. It is to serve the
exchange of information and experiences. Everyone is cordially invited to this event.
The meeting starts on Friday, 1st August at 8pm. The organisators are currently trying
for an earlier start time, which will announced here if need be.
The venue:
Volkshaus Berne
Sasselheider Weg 6
22159 Hamburg (city district of Berne)
Entrance: Left backside entrance, 1st floor.
If you want to bring your computer along, please register by eMail.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: Symphony Party Update
Symphony Party was held from 4-6 July 2003 in Poland. At A.D.A., 3 demos from that party were added:
- 1st place: By Night / Encore (PPC demo, also Pegasos/MorphOS)
- 2nd place: My definition in blue / Scarab (68k demo)
- 3rd place: Blind Visions / Appendix (68k slideshow)
On top of that, extra screenshots were added for Spellbound / Loveboat, Smokebomb / Ozone, Cybercinematastic / Loonies, Synergy / Sector 7 and My Kingdom/Scoopex and Haujobb.
A.D.A. now features 281 demos and 2725 screenshots.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Mercury News (ANF)
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Mercury News: Start-up's goal: run software on any chip
The article is about the company "Transitive" which apparently has developed
a very fast (70% native speed) and lightweight (600 KB)
"on-the-fly" binary code translator which shall make it possible to run software
on any processor architecture.
Recently an unknown "big partner" is claimed to have been found, who apparently
is pumping vast amounts of money into the company. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Thomas Zahren (ANF)
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PPJoy: Using digital joysticks on the parallel port under Windows
Owners of e.g. a 4-player adaptor for the Amiga's parallel port are now able to
use their favourite digital joystick on the PC with the freeware driver
"PPJoy" by Deon van der Westhuysen. For tinkerers there's an overview of
supported interfaces of various other joysticks on the Web page.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Updates for Amiga-Society
In preparation for Amiga Society's third birthday there are some updates in different areas.
Among others the Schlachtfeld area is online again.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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AntiSPAM2 update released
All AntiSPAM2 users are asked to download the newest version from the server under the title link.
Older AntiSPAM versions including the beta versions currently in circulation contain a bug which may cause a crash
when encountering incorrect form headers.
Apart from this bug fix the new version contains some small detail improvements.
Thus, beside some improvements in the query routines,
you can now set the position of the start window.
In order to curb the growing data flood there will be a conversion of the matching function
in the forseeable future.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Web browser: Atlantis will be ported to MorphOS
According to a comment
in MorphZone by Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck, Ali Akcaagac, author of the Web browser
Atlantis,
will shortly receive a Pegasos from Genesi in order to port his creation to MorphOS.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Alpe Adria 2003: Further pictures online
Under the title link you'll find a choice of futher pictures from the
Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 which took place last weekend in Undine, Italy.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Abakus-Design: Screen saver Amiquarium released
As from now the screen saver project Amiga Aquarium, short: Amiquarium, is available
for download on Abakus-Design's Website. The screen saver recreates an aquarium with
fishes. On startup you just choose one of five background pictures and you're up and running.
Currently the screen saver doesn't yet offer timer settings and doesn't automatically save the screenmode and the chosen picture.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Scalos: Port to MorphOS in the works
As announced on MorphOS-News.de,
the Workbench replacement Scalos is being ported to MorphOS.
Ambient stays the standard GUI of course - but, as Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco wrote in a corresponding
comment,
variety is the spice of life.
Scalos' feature list comprises
a.o.t. full Multitasking (every window has its own task), icons becoming transparent
when drawn over something they can be applied to with drag&drop, stretching, splitting
and centering of backgrounds, iconification of drawer icons as well as a plugin system
for replacing or adding new features.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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12.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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AmiWest: Bill Buck banquet-speaker / MorphOS 1.4 / Super bundle from the weekend
On the AmiWest which will take place on
26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento (USA) there will be several speakers at the
banquet. One of them will be Bill Buck of Genesi.
Furthermore Kermit Woodall of Nova Design,
Kurt Grach of Mr. Hardware and
Jens Schönfeld of individual Computers will be
present.
In a comment
on MorphOS-News.de Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck confirm that there will be a
new version 1.4 of MorphOS.
Together with it the "superbundle" of several software titles will be available for all
Pegasos owners (inclusive "Phreeboard" owners) on the Genesi FTP server.
On the AmiWest Genesi will be presented by Raquel Velasco, Bill Buck and the whole
Genesi USA-team. The Pegasos I with 1 GHz-G4-processor will be performed as well
as the plans for the Pegasos II and for the superbundle are supposed to be
explained.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2003
Rombald (ANF)
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Relaunch of Commodore by Tulip Computers N.V. and Ironstone Partners LIM
On 11th July 2003 Tulip Computers NV (Tulip) and Ironstone Partners Ltd. (Ironstone)
have signed an agreement which is supposed to be seen as an important step for the
worldwide relaunch of the name Commodore.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2003
Oliver Roberts (E-Mail)
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Warp Datatypes V45.3 published
Oliver Roberts has published version 45.3 of his WarpDT which contains updates of all
five Warp-datatype. Here the detailed changes:
- Fixed a problem reading the prefs file from disks using FFS.
- Fixed another bug which caused bogus evaluation period warnings.
- Tweaked installer so that it checks for picture.datatype in MOSSYS:
as well as SYS: when run under MorphOS.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Lightweight Busboard: Mediator PCI 1200 LT
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga
computers, the company that introduced the PCI standard to Amiga
computers, is proud to announce expansion of the MEDIATOR busboard
product line with the new Mediator model for Amiga 1200 computers:
the Mediator PCI 1200 LT.
This product is dedicated to all Amiga 1200 users, who have not
expanded their computers with a multi-slot PCI busboard as yet.
We know that many of you need only a fast, modern graphic card and
a good sound card. This new, 2-slot model of Mediator is
specifically dedicated to meet these needs.
Mediator PCI 1200 LT opens the possibility of using the best
available graphic cards for Amiga: the Voodoo series;
and the highest-quality Terratec 512i Digital sound card.
The second slot may obviously be used for other purposes. You
can install a Spider USB 2.0 controller, a 10Mbps Ethernet card,
a 100Mbps FastEthernet card or a TV tuner card in it. The choice
is yours.
Moreover:
If at any time you decide that you need additional PCI slots,
you can easily expand the number of active slots in this busboard
up to four. All you will need is acquiring a DIY set:
the LT4 Upgrade Pack.
Mediator is not only a well-designed, reliable hardware. Mediator
also means excellent drivers and professional support. Start
enjoying these benefits yourself.
Mediator PCI 1200 LT features:
- 2 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible)
- 66/33MHz PCI clock (transfer rate up to 264MB/s)
- 32-bit PCI datapatch
- 4GB PCI memory space
- Busmastering/DMA in all slots
- Compatible with 68030/040/060 and PPC turbo cards
- Ready for SharkPPC(+) G3/G4 cards
- Fits in any A1200 in E/BOX (Power, Winner), EZ-Z4 and Infinitiv tower
Included with the Mediator PCI 1200 LT is the Mediator Multimedia
CD with drivers for Sound, TV tuner, Ethernet 10Mbps, Fast Ethernet
100Mbps and Graphic PCI cards. For the list of currently supported
PCI cards see Mediator Driver Guide.
For more info, see the
Mediator PCI 1200 LT website.
Pricing and availability
The Mediator PCI 1200 LT will be on sale beginning with 11 July 2003
at the suggested retail price of EUR139.95 (VAT excl.) only.
To locate an authorized distributor in your area or to purchase the
product online visit the Elbox Computer website.
Why Mediator?
Do you need your Amiga to display crystal-clear image up
to 2048x1536x32@75? Do you want your favourite games to run in
accelerated graphics?
Get hold of a Voodoo-family PCI graphic card and enjoy its 2D and
3D performance!
Care for superb high-quality music?
Just install the highest quality Terratec 512i Digital sound card
and enjoy crystal clear sound all around.
Do you want to use a variety of devices connected via the USB port?
Simply install the Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card into the
Mediator slot and explore the world of the newest USB devices such
as mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams,
digicams, flash card readers, zip drives, floppy disk drives,
harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters and audio adapters,
GPS location devices or finger print readers!
Want fast network connections to surf the net?
Put a low-cost RTL8139 Fast Ethernet 100Mbps PCI card into the
Mediator slot and connect your computer to the network!
Do you want to watch and capture your favourite TV programmes?
With a TV tuner PCI card you can watch TV; you can also connect
a TV-SAT tuner, a camcorder or a digital camera. Although the
full TV image resolution runs at 30 fps in the PIP window on
your Workbench screen, it does not use the Amiga processor's
time at all!
MEDIATOR - The Best Way to Power-up Your Amiga.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com
(ps)
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11.Jul.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Rumours about the return of Jim Collas denied
The latest issue of UK's print magazine Total Amiga claims that there
are rumours about a new CEO at Amiga Inc. The "Buzz Word" rumour column, where an anonymous insider
reveils that latest "industry" rumours, the following statement can be found (quoted with permission):
"Buzz Word has heard that Amiga are about to get a new CEO but it won't be Garry Hare; apparently the whole
Genesi/ Garry Hare story was a setup designed to produce confusion. The new CEO is a man who will bring many
millions of investment dollars back into the company. The Man's name? Jim Collas."
Asked if this is a joke, Robert Willaims, editor of Total Amiga, assured us that he "honestly
doesn't know whether the rumour about Jim Collas is true or not".
Thus we contacted Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga Inc. and asked for a short statement. Bill writes:
"It is just a joke, and I agree a good one. I found it to be pretty funny.
I also thought that it was funny that they stated that Garry Hare was
replaced by Jim, when I have not even been replaced yet ;-)
I am still CEO, and still enjoying the ride."
(ps)
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10.Jul.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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DiaCD - Transfer of ARexx to Hollywood 1.5
Carsten Siegner writes:
Today I have created the first alpha version of DiaCD with Hollywood 1.5. With this, I wanted to show just how powerful Hollywood has become.
During the entry of a picture listing in the upper requester
all pictures are at once graphically shown in a picture list. One may then use the slider beneath the
picture list to scroll through all the pictures in realtime. At the same time a larger version of the currently
selected picture is shown separately in a subwindow. When you press the left mouse button and move the
cursor on the picture list, you select the first picture that you're going to work on later. Similarly, you select the final
picture with the right mouse button. These pictures are expressly scrolled through in realtime, when you move the
mouse back and forth. The picture under the cursor then appears in the selection window.
This is just a demo of the further capabilities of the program. I will then compile it for 68k and MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jul.2003
Bill Buck und Raquel Velasco (E-Mail)
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Event: Pegasos on Linux Tag 2003
All concerned: There will be a Pegasos at the Linuxtag in Karlsruhe this weekend.
Linuxtag is Europe's largest GNU/Linux exhibition. The Linuxtag is at the
Karlsruhe Convention Center from 10-13 July.
Genesi will be represented by Nicholas Blachford, whose "Analysis: x86 Vs
PPC" was featured yesterday on OSNews and Slashdot here:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3997
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/07/09/1730206.shtml?tid=137
Nicolas will be joined by Genesi's newest team member Sven Luther. Sven is
a developer known to both the MorphOS and Linux development communities.
Sven Luther's LinuxPPC kernel was recently announced on MorphOS-News here:
http://www.morphos-news.de/index.php?lg=en&nid=371&si=1
At Linuxtag, the Genesi Team and the Pegasos will be found in the Debian Booth.
The following weekend (18-20 July 2003) Sven will also be attending the
Debian Developers Conference, Oslo, Norway with the Pegasos. Details about
that conference can be found here:
http://debconf.org/debconf3/
Sven has joined Genesi to manage the LinuxPPC development effort for the
Pegasos. Sven is a PhD candidate at the University of Strausbourg and an
Associate Professor in the Computer Sciences Department. The University of
Strasburg was founded in 1621, with a long tradition of academic excellence.
Louis Pasteur, John Calvin, Marc Bloch and four Nobel Prize winners have
studied or taught there. We can now add Sven to the list...;-) Welcome
Sven! Of course, Nicholas and Sven will be able to demo MorphOS too! (ps)
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10.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web server: gW3S v2.1 released
The easy-to-use web server gW3S has been updated to version 2.1. The new version includes bug fixes, more in-depth XGI documentation and a new version of the administration tool.
Download it for free at the gW3S web site!
The gW3S team members are proud to announce that the Technic Up site has been running gW3S since a few months back, in conjunction with MUIBase (www.muibase.de) which proves that it is indeed capable of hosting professional sites! (ps)
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10.Jul.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #045
The scene group Liquid Skies has released their 45th music pack today. This time a piece, "Moonlight," in the electro-pop style. The cover was provided by DaFreak.
More information about the track:
- Title: MoonLight
- Artist: Maxus
- Style: Pop
- Song-length: 4:09
- Format: mp3 (160 kbps)
The zipped data has a size of about 4.8 megabytes and is available on the homepage under the title link as a free download. Additionally, the group and their webpage have been chosen as a link tip of the month at
www.leipzig-info.net.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jul.2003
Gary7 bei Golem gefunden (ANF)
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Golem: Rambus, Toshiba and Elpida introduce XDR DRAM
»XDR DRAM runs next with 3.2 GHz, later with 6.4 GHz and higher.
Together with Toshiba and Elpida, Rambus has introduced a new generation of memory. XDR DRAM
uses the XDR memory interface (previously Yellowstone) from Rambus and runs at up to 3.2 GHz. Sony has just
licensed the new technology for use with "Cell", the basis for Sony's PlayStation 3, among others.«
Read the complete article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jul.2003
Davy Wentzler (ANF)
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Audio Evolution 4 demo released
After two years of hard work, today we present you the release of the 68k demo
of the audio harddisk recording and editing system, Audio Evolution 4! AE4 is
a major update to AE3 and will be released for OS4/PPC.
Some of the new features:
- Non-linear and non-destructive editing on the time line, including cut, copy,
paste, move, split, trim and crossfade actions
- Unlimited undo
- Many grid options to align regions
- Improved automation editing on the time line
- Record automation events during playback by mouse or MIDI remote
- Track height adjustment and higher quality waveform display
- Metronome with freely adjustable time signature
- Control the mixer and transport controls remotely with external MIDI hardware
- Native OS4 effect plug-ins with realtime parameter control, automation and metering
- New plug-ins, including a new compressor, chorus, ducking delay and sound replacer
- WAV import
- 'Repeat region' functionality with intervals
- Automatic regionize with export of timecode list to BurnIt
- ARexx interface
- Communicate and synchronize with other applications (like B&P) easily through the
Master Control Bus (OS4 only)
- Enhanced look and feel. All imagery can be changed by the user.
- Experimental Dolby Pro Logic encoder
- Brand new manual in HTML and PDF formats
- Many more smaller improvements and bug fixes
Please download and try out the demo from the title link.
Any suggestions, questions and bug reports are welcome.
Davy Wentzler
Audio Evolution (ps)
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10.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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OSNews: Analysis: x86 vs. PPC (English)
On OSNews.com,
Nicholas Blachford of Genesi has written an in-depth examination of the comparative advantages and
disadvantages of the X86 and PPC processor lines. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jul.2003
computerhilfen.de (ANF)
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New Help Forum for Amiga Users at Computerhilfen.de
Today the Amiga section has added a help forum as a complement to the Windows, Apple, and Linux help forums at Computerhilfen.de. As occurs in the already existing Computerhilfen.de forums, the new Amiga forum should prove to be a place for friendliness and competence.
amiga.computerhilfen.de (ps) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jul.2003
Mikey_C (ANF)
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Total Amiga Issue 15 starts arriving at doors worldwide
Total Amiga Magazine now has
subscribers in 20 countries around the globe!
We are also proud to welcome Fun Time World
(Germany), to the list
of Amiga retailers stocking Total Amiga Magazine worldwide.
To accompany this issue, we have added a number of supporting downloads
for you to try on the Current Issue page of our website, from Hollywood
tutorial scripts to classic Mac links.
All this plus of course our excellent, News, Guest Columnists, Features,
Reviews and Tutorials, packed into 52 bursting pages of Amiga devotion.
Total Amiga Magazine. Does what it says on the cover!
(ps)
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09.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Napster founder changes side towards music industries
»Shawn Fanning with a new technology to discover protected music
There are at least only a few people who are made as responsible for the sales breakdown of
the music industry as Shawn Fanning is - the young American practically had initiated the era
of file sharing in a mass market meaning by developing the Napster software.
Now he is back with a new development but this time he covers the interest of the music industry.
«
Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Jul.2003
Benelux Amiga Show (Website)
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Date for Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show in Rotterdam is fix
This years Benelux Amiga and Pegasos Show will take place on 4th/5th October in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Exhibitors and interested can register and get more information here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web Server: New gW3S Site
The Open Source, ARexx-coded web server gW3S has gotten a new home and a redesigned homepage. The new URL is http://gonzo.1av10.nu/w3s/.
Check it out, and be sure to check back for the forthcoming release of gW3S v2.1! (ps)
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08.Jul.2003
Amiga Future (Website)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Alfred Faust (BarsnPipes)
"BarsnPipes" is not only the most famous Amiga-Midi-programm of glory days,
it is also still used from many users today because of the intuitive simple handling and professional features.
And the best: after the release of the source codes it is developed and improved constantly by Alfred Faust.
In the following interview he answered the questions from Anton Preinsack, especially about the MorphOS-version
of BarsnPipes. Please read the complete interview under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jul.2003
PerfectPaint (Website)
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Paint program: PerfectPaint Fix for version 2.93
A bug fix for version 2.93 of PerfectPaint from Halvadjian Georges is available. In this version a bug in the main archive has been fixed and the tool
"Border & Edge" has been updated. You had to install following version
2.93 for this fix.
Download: PfPaint_V293fix.lzx
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: Show report: AAA 2003, Commodore Billboard back online
This weekend, the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003
took place in Udine, Italy - another station of
Amiga OS4 on tour.
The show was organized by Cloanto,
well-known for a lot of Amiga programs and the emulator "Amiga Forever".
Jürgen Schober of Point Design
had to make two OS4 presentations, because the room was totally
overcrowded with more than 100 Amiga fans and journalists of daily
press and computer magazines. We also had the chance to show our
products in a 30-minute presentation. Best-seller of the present
retailers Soft 3 and
Virtual Works was the
Catweasel MK3,
that became the first choice accessory for many Amiga One owners
because of it's high degree of integration into the hard- and
software of the new Amiga.
A small Retro-computing museum right at the entrance of the showroom
brought back joyful memories in the visitors. Rare items like an SX-64
in best shape, a VIC-20 rev.1, and even a C65 prototype were shown.
One of the first multi-computer games (today's networking games) was
shown on two PET computers that were connected through the serial ports.
The home computer pioneer Altair 8800 from 1975 was the only none-Commodore
computer.
The "Video Microwave", a Pegasos-board that was built in the case
of a Sharp Microwave oven, was - at best - good for a laugh. The keyboard did
not work at all, and it only took a few mouseclicks to make the computer with
the MorphOS operating system crash. The reason for this could not be found in
the short time of the show.
Commodore Billboard back online
Our good news for the fans of Commodore nostalgia almost got lost in the
excitement surrounding Amiga OS4: The Commodore Billboard is back online!
The initiator of the project, Søren Ladegaard (Denmark) had to drop
the project due to lack of time in January 2003, and transferred the website
to individual Computers. We're now sponsoring the website that can cause a
lot of traffic with it's several hundred megabytes in size. During the past
half year, the new webmaster Stefan Zelazny has converted the audio and video
files to mpeg and mp3, so the website can be viewed on most platforms. For
example, the Realplayer is not necessary any more.
Currently, the website is available under the address
www.commodorebillboard.de.
The .com domain will be made available in the coming weeks.
If you're interested in a local copy of the website, you can support us in
paying for the high cost of the website by ordering the CD. It will be
available in August this year from all our retail partners for about 15,-
EUR. The double-CD package also contains some surprises for Commodore-fans! (ps)
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07.Jul.2003
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: First update after two-month break
After a two-month break the demo on-line collection "Amiga Demoscene
of Archives" was extended by four new productions: "Heaven is 2d" of
Whelpz, "Dark Rain" of The Loonies, "Outgrowing" of Potion and
"Xenophobia" of Subspace.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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07.Jul.2003
Amiga Impact (Website)
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Pictures of the Amiga OS presentation in Toulouse (Update)
Meanwhile the presentation documents are also available in Englisch.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Jul.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Demonstration videos of MorphOS/Pegasos published
The videos let you see the PowerPC computer Pegasos in action, in
order to be able to get an impression of the possibilities of the
platform.
The following videos are available for the download:
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Jul.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.7
I updated my virus OS to OS6.0. So there was time to fix this package
to support new commands or new values for the old ones. This don't mean
that the package is full now as I don't know every piece they changed.
It lacks also off controlling the new function called Pure tuning.
This one is only controllable from the virus menu.
The changes:
PageA: Bankselect updated. Support for more banks overwritten the demo.
PageB: Arpegiattor. More patterns to choose from.
PageC: Partbankselect and Partbankchange for the new banks.
That's all. Why do I update this package? Because of still using T&F
until HDRec is finished. Then I will make all commands for HDRec. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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06.Jul.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 14
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 14 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) ssolie: With the services based approach you are proposing, will an application be expected to query capabilities or will AmigaOS automatically adapt to the hardware itself or some hybrid of the two? Depending on the application, some may not appreciate having to query the OS every time they want to do something versus letting the OS adapt itself to the application and hardware environment.
Fleecy: In all multi component systems there will always be a per component capability and requirement set. Traditional static systems work on assumption which tends to give them superior performance as long as those assumptions are always true. In the world of today, we have a huge level of dynamism - smartphones, PDAs, consoles, tablets, desktops, servers, fat pipes, thin pipes, hardware acceleration, processor speed, screen size, input controls etc and you are faced with the problem of how to map these from the physical domain into the digital domain.
A service based architecture doesn't really affect this in implimentation since it is just a model. For example I could query the graphics service to find out if it supplies a vector service and if it does then I can chose to use it or not. This can be done dynamically by the application or can be done at install time, which is no different from the situation now where, if you assume that MUI is installed, and it isn't then your application won't work.
Thus you will still have different options as a developer - you can make use of services which themselves adapt on your behalf or you can do that yourselves. In either case, there is always going to be the same question, where does the responsibility lie? We want to offer choice so that the developer can make those decisions. A good example is the Ami2D scaling services of the AmigaDE. Some people use them and some people prefer to create resolution dependent graphic sets.
What is needed is a further level of abstraction, so that capabilities and requirements are managed transparently and that is coming on board now with such things as vectorisation and other descriptive formats that allow for interpretation based upon semantic information. That is something we are looking at but the more abstraction you have, the more resources are required to translate between the physical and digital domains.
Swings and roundabouts I'm afraid.
2) CodeSmith: Apple have made a big splash with their announcement of PPC970 "G5" systems. Is there going to be a "zico-2" spec for Amiga PPC970 systems, or are you giving vendors full control? any idea when we can expect PPC 970 Amigas (other than "after OS4.0")?
Fleecy: We do plan on having a 64 bit version of the AmigaOS but that is someway down the line. If a vendor approaches us with the necessary hardware then we will consider revising our timetable but we still have a lot of work to do for the 32 bit PPC AmigaOS4, such as actually releasing AmigaOS4.0. There are also a few interesting other 32 bit opportunities coming up that will have to weighed against a 64 bit desktop machine.
3) Quixote: Since AmigaOS4.0 will be on the CyberStormPPC first, I wonder whether it will include an update to the CyberStorm's FlashROM, that would permit booting from the CD? I understand that it was a feature intended for the CyberStorm, but it doesn't seem to work.
Fleecy: We do not intend to touch the CSPPC flashrom. Its internals are proprietary and besides, we are relying on it to bring the HW up first before AmigaOS4.0 takes over. Any changes we made might also damage the users ability to boot into AmigaOS3 as well.
If you have problems with the CSPPC Flashrom, perhaps an email to those who worked on it might reveal why it doesn't work or get them to add that functionality.
4) Miffy: I run AmigaDE on my desktop ( the one I am typing on now ) which has software on it that I have ported, that others have ported and the like. It runs the partypack update. What I want to know is how long before the next publically available ( non NDA ) update comes along from Amiga given I cannot get permission to enter into a new NDA with Amiga Inc right now ( because of company regulations and Im sure others are in this position too )?
Fleecy: We are reworking our NDA policy to make it consistent with industry practices for software licensing. In the meanwhile if special circumstances prevent you from agreeing to the licensing terms, you can contact us directly to determine how best we can meet your needs. Send an email to support@amiga.com.
5) Asemoon: I very much like the idea of being able to use animated GIFs as icons on the desktop with the introduction of Amiga OS3.9 and so will this feature stay available or maybe be enhanced/altered in any way for AmigaOS4? And will there be support for 24bit PNG format icons in the future?
Fleecy: The source code for that particular feature is in the hands of H&P and we do not have access to it.
The Amiga graphics architecture has reached the end of its useful life. Actually, it reached it about five years ago but has been brought back, jiggled, enhanced and hacked to stop the platform from dying. The screenshots you are seeing as part of the AmigaOS4.0 on Tour roadshow represent hopefully the last AmigaOS release that uses this architecture and their quality is a reflection of both the strength of the original architecture and the ingenuity and persistence of the developers since then who have worked on it.
As part of the Amiga Generation 2 project (AG2), we are currently working on a brand new visual domain replacement which we hope to deploy either in AmigaOS4.1 or AmigaOS4.2. This will build from the hardware upwards and be able to support high quality existing interface models as well as allow for brand new features, functionality and models. We are particularly eager to introduce the Reactive Presentation Agents (RPAs) that we developed for the AmigaDE which would provide the same functionality, and a lot more besides.
6) Asemoon: What languages will AmigaOS4 support out of the box?
Fleecy: We are supporting many languages, which are listed below, using a combination of the excellent ATO and private individuals, working in teams of two or more to produce each catalog. We do have a few offers where we just have one person (Icelandic and Malay) but we would like to have at least two people, since it is a lot of work. Anyone interested in helping out should send a mail to os4-betatest@hyperion-entertainment.com with the subject line of 'Localisation offer of help'.
Bosnian
Catalan
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
That's 20 languages for now.
The Russian ATO team disbanded but new people will soon be joining. I think we can count them as well.
This is a list of language drivers for which there are no catalogs currently in progress.
Albanian
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Esperanto
Estonian
Faroese
Icelandic
Irish
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Portuguese-brazil
Romanian
Slovak
Ukrainian
If you are missing a language that can be written from left to right in an ISO-8859-X charset just ask Detlef at TetiSoft@apg.lahn.de if he can create a language driver for it.
7) Asemoon: The support for non-Latin fonts like for instance Arabic/Persian and Chinese/Japanese characters were not well documented for previous AmigaOS releases. How will such characters and languages be handled by future AmigaOS and AmigaDE releases?
Fleecy: Not well documented is too optimistic :) It was documented that the Amiga character set is ECMA-94 Latin1 (thats ISO-8859-1), that the bullet.library API uses Unicode (16bit only), and it was defined a font attribute FPF_REVPATH for writing from right to left. There was no official statement from H&P how their special localizations for e.g. czech or russian would fit into this framework (in fact they did not). There was a statement that the Euro update is only an intermediate solution.
OS4 bullet API was improved and allows 32bit Unicode now, 16bit are not enough since Unicode 3.2 (current is 4.0).
OS4 diskfont.library now contains a character set database, it does know the MIME charset name of each font in the system, and the Unicode code point of each glyph. However the bitmap fonts handled by diskfont.library are still limited to 8bit charsets, so for Chinese/Japanese/Persian/Georgian etc you'll have to use bullet API. With the new diskfont API you can however ask for e.g. Times in ISO-8859-5 (cyrillic), -6 (arabic), -7 (greek), -8 (hebrew), -11 (thai) or -16 (eastern european latin with Euro) and it will create it on-the-fly from e.g. a truetype font.
With OS4 locale.library the user is able to change the current system default charset on-the-fly by selecting a different language driver. The charset of each catalog file in the system is known, there exist charset conversion functions that ensure that e.g. for polish with ISO-8859-2 system default charset any polish catalog file will be displayed correct, it does not matter if its in ISO-8859-2, -16 or in the special ATO charset used in OS3.9 polish localization. Its also possible to use catalog files in UTF-8.
Most text handling and output functions in OS4 are not able to write from right to left, so there still exist large problems with arabic/persian and hebrew, an application that reverses arabic and hebrew strings before output can at least display its GUI but for text input (cursor on the right after return) special applications would be needed.
Summary: OS3.x language support was limited to western european latin languages, OS4.0 language support is limited to latin, cyrillic and greek (thai would eventually work if someone could fit thai glyphs into topaz/8 and topaz/9 default ROM fonts). OS4.0 font support is limited to any 8bit MIME charset in diskfont API (besides the right-to-left problem) and not limited in bullet API.
8) _Steve_: Will there be support for the pre-existing PPC programs from both PUP/WOS in OS4?
Fleecy: We'll provide an application launcher that can launch WarpUp programs, maybe even PowerUp. However, we'll not include any hacks to make this work. Since there was only a small number of applications created that used these two systems, we are hopefully that their authors will upgrade their programs and release AmigaOS4.0 native versions.
9) Billsey: From past personal experience I know that there are dedicated Christians at Amiga, Inc. I have friends there, and I am not turning against them, but they are Christian, so I believe that the following question(s) must be asked. I would like to know what role that faith has played (a) in keeping the company alive; (b) in walking the path that has been walked; and (c) when specific confession and, more importantly, repentance of “mistakes made” will be observable.
Fleecy: Religion, like any other philosophy seller is an individual concern, not something that should ever be part of heterogenous system, whether a group, a company, a nation or a species. I always find it ironic that nature, the mother of us all preaches diversity and yet humans are obsessed with monotony, to the point of coercion, persecution, discrimination and destruction.
With that in mind, I cannot and will not answer your question, because such things should be on individual level interaction. In other words, if you want an answer, send the question to the individuals themselves.
10) drstrange: what form of support will OS4 take for a 250MB ZIP? Will it use harddrive-like formatting or a mountfile and if a mountfile could you show us it ahead of time to give a few of us time to prep our disks.
Fleecy: Same as OS3.9 (or 3.1): it's a removable media, 'Removable' and 'Rigid Disk Block' are mutually exclusive, you should use a mountfile.
To be able to use RDBs on removable media as well all file systems would have to support unmounting. The new FFS2 does support it, but there are file systems which don't, for example SFS.
Some 3rd party devices do allow RDBs to be used on removable media, but that's a hack, it's not possible to implement it in clean way and therefore it will not be added to AmigaOS4.0 devices.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=15
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: cb)
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06.Jul.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 6th July 2003
Here are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last announcement:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 21K+Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c RUSSIAN KIT
PAC.lha biz/dbase 1.9M+HTML Photoalbum Creator v1.0.
CManager25.lha comm/misc 403K+Contact Manager, a centralised system-wi
sa03.lha demo/aga 350K+Invitation intro for Syndeecate Apocalyp
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas
nqc.lha dev/lang 181K+Lego Mindstorms compiler and comm tool
amuidiff.lha dev/misc 117K+Displays differences of two text files i
MCC_TheBar.lha dev/mui 274K+Next generation buttons bar class
vdisk37.lha disk/misc 46K+Dynamic recoverable RAM disk (V3.7)
RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 4K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 06/2003 (Itali
AmigaFuture43.lha docs/mags 804K+Great german paper mag preview
nocover112.lha docs/mags 2.6M+Great german diskmagazine
Saga.lha game/board 298K+Saga 1.27: Conversion of TSR boardgame
DC2Lvl-EMine2.lha game/data 454K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 927K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
Arkanos.lha game/misc 416K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.03 **
MALevelEditor.lha game/misc 13K+Level Editor for Mini Arcanoid v2.9
WormWars.lha game/misc 566K+Worm Wars 7.51: Advanced snake game
Hexa_Q.lha game/wb 43K+Surprise!! A peg game... updated!
S_Tiles.lha game/wb 43K+Try to solve this sliding-tile puzzle!
Tri_Q.lha game/wb 43K+A triangular shaped peg game... updated!
p-intFix.lha misc/emu 37K+Patch for P-Code interpreter
Foundation1.mpg mods/mpg 19M+First part of a three part suite
Foundation2.mpg mods/mpg 10M+Second part of a three part suite
Foundation3.mpg mods/mpg 287K+Third part of a three part suite
Prelude3.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Prelude3. MPEG of old tape of me on keys
SundaySuite.mpg mods/mpg 3.5M+Sunday Suite. 4 part piano suite
TheSpell.mpg mods/mpg 6.5M+The Spell MPEG of old tape of me on keys
BorderNames.lha text/dtp 2K+List Border Names Arexx Script PageStrea
nA_ConFile07.lha text/misc 100K+Compare from 2 to 5 files
Next3.6.lha text/show 150K+Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes
SRename.lha util/cli 93K+Advanced rename utility. Version 3.7.1
DirSSCompare.lha util/dir 14K+Compares two dirs (for differences)
FolderSync.lha util/dir 73K+Synchronise two folders automagically!
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 244K+Dynamic buffers, filesystem CRCs, colorf
CHARisma.lha util/misc 115K+Get easy access to all printable chars.
FakeCD32Joypad.lha util/misc 20K+Use the keyboard instead of CD32 Joypad
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 314K+Report+ 5.67: Multipurpose utility
VisualGuide.lha util/misc 39K+Make filelist in AmigaGuide format.
winlaunch.lha util/misc 46K+WinLaunch - Launch Windows Applications
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 30K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB
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06.Jul.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #044
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 44th music pack.
This time it contains a music piece called "Walking The Corridors" by the English
musician Darkus who, though not being a member of the group, still offers his
track as a guest under the label Liquid Skies.
It is a rather experimental piece of music and would probably fit best under the
category of Trance. This time the cover was created by DaFreak.
Next some more information about the track:
- Title: Walking The Corridors
- Artist: Darkus
- Style: Experimental Trance
- Playing time: 5:05
- Format: mp3 (128 kbps)
The zipped file with a size of about 4.8 MB is freely available for download on
the homepage under the title link.
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05.Jul.2003
IrseeSoft (website)
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Turboprint version 7.50 with new drivers
The new version 7.50 of the printing software TurboPrint is available from now on and contains new printer drivers:
- Canon i850
- Canon S200*,i320*,i950*
- HP DeskJet 5550
- HP PhotoSmart 71xx*,73xx*,75xx*
*) USB controller required
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05.Jul.2003
EvenMore (website)
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Text viewer: FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for EvenMore
Chris Perver has reworked the FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for his text viewer EvenMore. This plug-in supports now text styles and colours.
Download: finalwriter2text.plugin
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05.Jul.2003
Adam Chodorowski (email)
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AROS: voting about the AROS logo
Some weeks ago called the AROS (Amiga Research
Operating System) developers team to a logo contest (we reported). The entries are now published for an open vote, all Amiga users can participate once in the voting and thus have an influence in the future representation of AROS.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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First pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003
The first pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 - taking place today in Udine, Italy - can be found following the title link. The atmosphere seems to be fantastic: "We are in total overload, very crowded, lots of food (local gubana, cheese, etc. :-), wine (and local Castello beer :-)... Rushing back now..."
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05.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: HP to take back ink cartridge from private customers
»Recycling of ink cartridges shall help the environment
HP will expand their recycling program and take back empty ink cartridges for printers from private customers in Europe in the future. This will be started in 2003 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland while Great Britain, Ireland and other countries will follow from 2004 on.«
Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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Golem - IT News
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Golem: Golem.de: New job market with several hundreds IT jobs
»Co-operation with Jobware
In co-operation with Jobware is Golem.de starting a new completely overhauled jobs market. Under the URL jobs.golem.de you can find from now on several hundreds of job advertisements for the IT, telecommunications and related industries, listed in clearly sorted by categories and regions.«
Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
BTTR-Team (email)
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Back to the Roots celebrates birthday and draws many prices
Five years does the project "Back to the Roots" now exist. Truely a reason to celebrate! Next to new games highlights like Battle Squadron, Hybris, Arkanoid, Mega Typhoon or The Plague, we present to you the team of BTTR with the games Plix and Symbolrechnen, and the Populous editor really new releases for the Amiga. All three titles are exclusively available at BTTR and are released for the first time.
Furthermore BTTR start a draw with many prices to win. More information can be read in the news on www.back2roots.org.
The team of BTTR: "We thank for the loayalty during the last five years and wish all visitors much fun!"
Next to the birthday update and the draw there's another important news for www.back2roots.org:
For the first time ever there's an "interactive online mod radio"! On more than 50 different channels you can listen to music of all kind. More than 65.000 mods are available! You can listen with WinAmp or Deliplayer 2. There's no streaming. Every song gets completely loaded!
Jürgen Beck from BTTR: "We thank the numerous colectors, providers of mod pages and mod projects who support this project. Our thanks go especially to the Deliplayer team. The latest version of the best mod player finally contains the radio feature! Enjoy listening!"
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MorphOS-News
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MorphOS/Pegasos: QUICKSTART Guide Version 2.5 Now in Three Languages
Jürgen Lucas' "QUICKSTART Guide" for installing MorphOS on a Pegasos with blank hard-drive has been released at version 2.5. Thanks to Andreas Zierl [and Daniel Miller -dm] and Fabrice Lehaut these instructions are also available in English and French. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jul.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #13
Issue #13 of "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to 312 subscribers. This is a list of French-speaking Amiga users all over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...) which has been sent monthly since July of 2000, in order to encourage French-speakers to communicate with each other.
Click on the title link for more information, and to get yourself added to the list. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jul.2003
Stefan Blixth (E-Mail)
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OnyxSoft: New and updated software
Here comes 1 new release and 4 updates, enjoy!
New:
- Program: NewWBPattern (Version 1.0)
Info: This is small tool to change the WB-background on-the-fly.
Updates:
- Program: GummiSurf (Version 1.2)
Info: Now supports the built-in download managers in all Amiga browsers (IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb)
Can export HTML and plain text-lists.
- Program: MultiRen (Version 1.54)
Info: * Added a function to the Adaptor tool so that is possible
to control what character the Adaptor should put the
lengthener character around when prolonging a filename.
* Now the filename length also displays the length of the
file comment (which cannot be more than 80 characters in
AmigaDOS).
The format is now <filename_length;comment_length> in the
window. Also, the file comment gets /italic/ in the main
lister if it exceeds 79 characters.
* Added the operator %t for use in the text export and file
comment generation tools. This stands for tab. Whenever a %t
is encountered a tab stop is set there which gets determind by
the longest string up to the %t. Many %t's can be used in an
export string. This way very nice columnized text files and
file comments can be produced!
* The memo list handling (in the RenPlacer, File Comment and
Text Export tools) now saves the memo lists immediately when
stored or removed if the checkmark in prefs is set. This makes
it easier to not forget to save then when quitting the proram
:)
* Updated the ID3-Tag plugin so that it always returns two
digits for the track number. F.ex. 01,02,03...10,11,etc
instead of 1,2,3...10,11 which makes it look nicer.
- Program: QuickSketch (Version 1.01)
Info: * The move draw area qualifiers Shift and Alt has now been
reduced to only work with RightShift and RightAlt.
* Because move has been restricted to Right Shift and Alt
it is now possible to use the LAlt+LAmiga+Cursor to draw
a straight line.
* + More fixes...
- Program: TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.3)
Info: * Now it's possible to import CDDB/ACDB-files automatically
into the ID3-tags on files in the file list! (Yes I know
it's not full automatic CDDB-support but it's one step in the
right direction anyway:)) This means that you have to use
CDDB or ACDB to download the descriptions for your CD's, then
you can import these text-files in TheMPegEncGUI.
* Now also includes OggDec and OggPlay (ogg123) support.
* + More fixes...
(nba)
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05.Jul.2003
Oliver Roberts (ANF)
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Warp Datatypes V45.2 Released (Update)
After a long delay, the promised updates to all the Warp picture datatypes for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS are finally here. To accompany the new release is the brand new WarpDT portal at http://www.warpdt.co.uk/ where you can keep up to date with the latest versions of the WarpDTs and download them all in one easy place.
Summary of changes since previous versions:
BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Minor optimizations and cleanups.
BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Bumped version to v45 since a stable release has
now been reached and to reflect the jump to shareware status
BMP: Fixed problems with decoding bitfield images
JPEG: Altered descriptor file to prevent it matching LhA or LZX
archives containing JPEG files (or anything else that might
contain a JFIF header, other than Photoshop files)
PNG: PNG files not containing enough data are no longer treated as a
fatal error. Now the part of the image that was successfully
decoded is returned.
PNG: Updated with libpng 1.2.5
PNG/TIFF: Updated with zlib 1.1.4
TIFF: Now correctly converts images using the YCbCr colourspace to RGB
TIFF: Added support for JPEG decompression
TIFF: Updated to libtiff 3.6.0-beta2, including a new version of the
LogLuv decoder, and numerous other bugfixes
Prefs: Various parts of code rewritten, in preparation for losing the
current reliance on resource.library
Prefs: Minor bugfixes
Prefs: Correct Polish and Portuguese documentation now included.
Update 06.07.2003:
Errornous timeouts bugfix (Version 45.2)
Unfortunately, due to last minute changes, I broke the timeout code
slightly - doh! This resulted in the datatypes producing timeout warnings
unnecessarily. Fixed versions of all 5 datatypes now in version 45.2
available. Apologies for any confusion caused.
(nba)
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05.Jul.2003
Michael Heider (ANF)
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Report: Pegasos in Leipzig
The illustrated report of the Leipzig Pegasos presentation is now online. Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC was shown on the Amiga-PowerUp-System (APUS) and Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Jul.2003
Yunis (ANF)
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Tao announces multimedia-platform SDK intent 2
Today the Tao Group which is a British software developer and partner of Amiga, Inc. has officially
announced the new generation of the multimedia platform SDK intent 2.
You can read the English message under the title link and documentations are available under the
resources-site of Tao.
Tao about intent: "In fact intent is the only middleware platform available
today that can provide a common, brandable, look&feel with consistent
application behaviour and truly deliver compelling multimedia content to
the full range of consumer devices - thus providing a strategy to enable
all players in the value chain to thrive." (nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Niels Bache (ANF)
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Pictures of the OS4 tour in Göteborg by Niels Bache
Niels Bache has uploaded his pictures of Göteborg.
Remark of Niels Bache:
I have heard of some people that the new free server (frac.dk) which I use is not as fast
as desired. I ask for your patience and your insight because I can use this server as a
guest for free. I myself could not find out these problems and therefore I suppose that
the problem of speed happens only few times e.g. if much traffic is caused.
Please have another attempt to a different time if this happens.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Rafal Kaczmarczyk (ANF)
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Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 14
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 beta 14 of his database 'XBaze'.
The program offers an easy to use editor for the fields of the data records and a layout
editor with drag&drop function. It works from AmigaOS v3.0 and under MorphOS.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to the following address:
xbaze@amiga.pl.
Download: XB-7.3B14.lha
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Michele C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Tomorrow: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 in Udine, Italy
For the last time the website of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 which will take place tomorrow
in Udine, Italy has been updated. The list of the presentations has been updated as well as
the list of the hardware and software which can be seen.
This week the organizer got the offer to exhibit a Commodore PET 4016 which is connected
with a PET 3008. Of course this offer was accepted. Besides this a Commodore 65 (a prototype
which was never released) will be shown.
In Austria Jürgen Schober is busy with the last preparations for the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation
while in Germany Jens Schönfeld prepares himself for the C-One presentation.
Genesi has made a PowerPC Pegasos with MorphOS which was installed in a microwave available.
Many people from all over the world have booked for and are on the way.
We hope we see us. You are welcome!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jul.2003
Grasshopper LLC (Website)
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Grasshopper LLC Lowers PageStream Prices
The American software company Grasshopper has lowered the price of their desktop publishing application "PageStream." The full
version is now available for 99 US dollars. Upgrades are now 40 US dollars. These prices are good for July, 2003 but may stay the
same thereafter, if possible.
New Low Pricing
Tuesday, July 1st - Grasshopper LLC announces today new low pricing
for PageStream on all platforms. "While the pricing is guaranteed only
through July, it is hoped that it will be warmly embraced by the
community and will be adopted then as our new permanent pricing",
said owner Marna Holt today. "Our move from a brick and mortar business
means lower costs and faster turn around times. We hope passing these
savings on to our customers will not only increase the already tremendous
value our customers get when buying PageStream, but hopefully increase
the number of customers and reach those who could previously not afford
PageStream." Near term plans include a revamped web site,
instant messaging with our sales staff, and a monthly online public chat
with Deron. PageStream now lists for $99 (from $299!!) and upgrades start
out at only $40.
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03.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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Adventure Rendezvous: Interview with Ken Williams
The adventure-game focused online magazine "Adventure-Treff" has published an interesting German-language interview with Ken
Williams by Jan Schneider.
In 1979 Ken Williams founded Sierra On-Line and after that he led the firm for almost 20 years. Ken and his wife Roberta originated
the game genre now referred to as graphic adventures, and they were responsible for many of the best and most loved adventures
of all time, like for instance the Leisure Suit Larry and King's Quest and Space Quest series. Today Ken runs a forum with
SierraGamers, in which one may comment about Sierra. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Mummert Consulting (E-Mail)
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Study: Online Shops Battle Trust Deficit
Around 50% of German websurfers avoid purchasing anything on the Internet. The main problem for most of them: they can't examine and test the products before buying. And very third person gets by without online purchases because they are satisfied with the goods of "real" stores.
The fear of someone stealing their personal data is another factor that stops surfers from buying. About 30% name this fear as a reason for why they have yet to purchase anything online. And every fifth person is worried that his bill will be incorrectly calculated and so he doesn't buy anything. These figures come from a current study "Internet Statistics of Consumers (IZV6)" done by the University of Karlsruhe and Mummert Consulting.
Online shops battle a trust deficit: Half of all German websurfers don't buy anything on the Internet. The principal reason for this, according to these surfers, is that they can't test the wares over the Internet. Every fourth purchase avoider doesn't trust the online stores because it might be hard to complain and return things. Almost every third fears for the protection of his data. The market share of online shoppers may rise if e-shops improve their service. About 28% don't buy online, because help and service aren't good enough.
It's easier for well known web-shops to win customers: about two thirds of online shoppers do most of their shopping by known merchants. Every fifth buys *exclusively* by known shops. And the general experience of Internet users with the Internet influences their purchasing attitude: the less experienced the surfer, the less he goes online shopping. Experienced users purchase 20% more stuff on the Internet than the unexperienced. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Explanation of G4 Card Difficulties
According to a statement
of the Genesi leadership on MorphOS-News.de there's a hardware problem which means that less G4 cards will be produced for the Pegasos I, and even these will only be offered with corresponding boards as "matched sets." With respect to the complete utilization of the Altivec functionality of the G4: some boards work flawlessly, some boards not so well, at least not well enough to be sold.
In other Genesi news, QNX and Pascal have joined the effort to be ported to Pegasos. The latter is still popular in Eastern Europe and the former is the #1 embedded system OS.
Additionally Genesi would like to sell Linux Pegasoses with the G3 for a price of 499 euros at MicroWarehouse
or other merchants (without monitor but with Linux as well as MorphOS). Up to 25,000 units monthly may be produced on the fabrication lines at DCE. This price per unit might fall with an inverse correlation to the quantity of units (as more are produced, price per unit drops). The same thing applies if IBM comes to view it as a good strategy to help Genesi by doing the same with respect to CPU price. These machines will be available in October of this year.
As before, Pegasos I owners can upgrade for the price of 200 euros, but you've got to send in the board as well as the CPU card. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Enterprise Market for Open Source Grows Quickly
»Yearly growth rates of 24% are in view
A study by the company Soreon analyzed and predicted the enterprise market for open source software in Germany up to the year 2007. For this study 150 German firms were surveyed. In that were 100 interviews with users who quantitatively evaluated, as well as 50 expert conversations which were qualitatively evaluated.«
Read the complete article by clicking on the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Samba (Website)
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Networking: Samba Version 3.0.0 Beta 2
The Samba team released version 3.0.0 Beta 2 on the 1st of July. You may read the list of changes
here.
Samba is a software that allows networking, for example networking of a PC and an Amiga. You'll find information about Samba for Amiga at
amigasamba.org.
Here's the original press release:
The second beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download. While significantly closer to the final release, it should still be considered a non-production release provided for testing purposes only. The source code and GnuPG signatures can be found on Samba mirrors. RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 are also available in the Binary_Packages download area. Packages for other platforms will follow shortly. The full release notes are available on-line as well.
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03.Jul.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Game: Saga Version 1.27
Version 1.27 of the freeware game Saga from Amigan Software has appeared. The game is a conversion of a TSR board game from 1981 called Saga: Age of Heroes and is playable by up to six players, which may be controlled by humans or the Amiga. It's all about battling monsters, finding treasure, and building your kingdom through valor and heroism.
The game is available in German and English at this time. It requires at least AmigaOS 3.0+ and AGA/RTG. The source code is in the archive. The author James R. Jacobs has made a few improvements and cleaned up a few errors since the last version.
Download: Saga.lha - 297 KB
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03.Jul.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4.1c
Version 4.1c of "Pixload" has been released. Like AmiDock, this tool makes it possible to start programs and scripts from an icon through the use of MUI. Noteworthy additions to this version include the recognition of local HTML data, as well as a context menu. RxMUI 32.8 is required.
The program may be downloaded in Amiga and MorphOS versions.
Download: pixload-4.1c.lzx (ps) (Translation: dm)
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02.Jul.2003
PPCNux (ANF)
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PPCNux: Pegasos G4 upgrade not available seperately
»The for July 2003 scheduled
1+GHz G4 CPU card for the Pegasos Boards currently equipped with a 600 MHz G3 will not be available seperately. This has been said by
Genesi in their
status update
at Amiga.org.«
Read the full article by the title link (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Sourceforge-Projekt JAmiga (ANF)
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Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9
By the title link you can follow the state of the sourceforge project
Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9 (JAmiga) and get informed about the further details of that project.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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AmiZilla progress report
After DiscreetFX had announced that there is a money booty for porting the
web browser Mozilla to the Amiga (as reported) and Bill
Panagouleas set up an information site about the donation efforts, he sent us the following progress report:
- Current Booty: $4122.45
- New! SourceForge website setup to share/update codebase for
AmiZilla port.
- New! Offical URL for AmiZilla
- Mailinglist now has over 162 members and over 240 messages, most are about programming and porting Mozilla.
- AmiZilla website has gotten over 1 million hits since appearing on the famous unix geek website slashdot.
- AmiZilla continues to gather positive press for the Amiga and MorphOS by being covered on mainstream
websites like CNET's news.com,
mozillazine.org and
many others.
- Amiga Inc. representative Fleecy Moss has commented they like AmiZilla but will not contribute
to the Initiative because a port is also underway for MorphOS.
- New! AmiZilla poster "I Want You" by Eric Schwartz available in two sizes for webmasters that
want to promote AmiZilla on their site.
- New! AmiZilla Banner designed by Luca Ferraris.
- New! Female Russian artist hired to create mascot for MorphOS version of Mozilla port.
- New! Genesi and Phoenix Developer Consortium have been watching the project with great interest for
some time. and may contribute funds.
Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful. The booty is now over $4122,
which is a impressive amount of money for an Amiga project. If only one programmer was working on
the port this would be a nice reward. However several programmers are working together. Once the
money is split among coders the booty is not big enough. Please contribute if you can, every dollar
helps motivate programmers to make the AmiZilla Project a success. After the release of AmiZilla more
projects are being developed like Hot CoCo (JVM) and F Gordon (Flash). The development and launch of
these add-ons to AmiZilla depend on the success of that project. Paypal donations can be sent in via
this weblink.
About AmiZilla
The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the
first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga/Compatible systems that programmers will be
falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time.
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing & computer generated
graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing,
computer graphics market with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects
seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates and more! You can also
see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and
more! (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Messe Leipzig (ANF)
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First European games mucic concert in Leipzig
On August the 20th 2003 there will be the first "European games music concert" in Germany. This will happen at the "Gewandhaus" in Leipzig .
Start of the concert, which will be the opening of the "Games Convention" as well, is 8 pm.
Ticket sale has just begun, there are still plenty tickets available.
Among other tracks there will be a suite of the Amiga classic
"Apidya" (Chris Hülsbeck) played.
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02.Jul.2003
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Photos from the Amiga show in Maarssen
At the website of the Amiga Party which happend on the 28th of June 2003 in
Maarssen, the Netherlands, there were new photos published by the organizers. The event is planned to be repeated next year again.
On August the 16th 2003 there will be the Commodore Show 2003 also.
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02.Jul.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Online magazine: NoCover #112 published
Issue #112 of the NoCover is published and readable by following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Alpe Adria News and Updates
The website of the event "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" has been updated today.
There is now a list with hardware and software products which will be shown, exhibitors who are present
and new cultural events which will be occur in parallel
with the show. The A3 will be held on coming Saturday, July the 5th
kulturelle Ereignisse, die parallel zur Show stattfinden. Die A3 2003 in Undine, Italy.
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02.Jul.2003
Erhard Bruse (ANF)
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Report: Pegasos in Leipzig
Several interested persons have seen the presentation of the Pegasos in Leipzig at the booth of the "CCLS e.V." last weekend.
Erhard Bruse gives a brief overview about the presentation:
Even by chance met informatics students from India were interested in MorphOS and the Pegasos. The Sunday was owed to the Pegasos and Linux.
Micha Heider successfully did first tests with his image installer and a backup/recovery by using a hard disk image as well as an
installation of Mandrake Linux to the Pegasos. The recovery took with a 4 GB partition about 10 minutes.
During the next days there will be further information and some pictures and screen shots of Mandrake running on the Pegasos
put to the website of Micha Heider which is to reach by the title link.
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02.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (Website)
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Club Amiga Magazine: Article about DOS library by C.J. Wenzel freely available
The article "A Short Story on the V50 DOS Library" by Colin J. Wenzel
from issue 5 of the Club Amiga Magazine has been made freely available by Amiga Inc. This English report
features the planning of V50 of the dos.library which will be used within AmigaOS 4.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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01.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 30.06.2003
With WHDLoad yu can install floppy disk based games onto your HD.
The following packages are added/updated since the last time:
- 30.06.03 fixed: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) misc changes
- 29.06.03 new: Maria's XMas Box (Anco) done by Psygore
- 29.06.03 improved: Knights of the Sky (Microprose) supports another version
- 29.06.03 new: King's Quest 6 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 29.06.03 improved: Colonel's Bequest (Sierra) supports another version
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01.Jul.2003
Diverse
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Software-News in short (01.07.2003)
PhotoView
The picture viewer PhotoView is released in version 0.94 and can be downloaded for
free from the website of the developer Alessandro Braccini .
AWeb
After the new Build-GCC-Version 3.41 of the webbrowser AWeb was online and many bugfixes were sentin, the
developers had taken the file offline. If a stable version is available we will report
it to you.
NewsCoaster
A project for the Open-Source-based Newsgroups-Client
NewsCoaster is available at Sourceforge. There you will
find the latest Binary- and Source-Code-Releases.
ptplay3
ptplay3 is
relased in version 1.0. ptplay is a CLI based Protracker player not depending on the
custom chips and was written from the ground to emulate Protracker 2.3a software
sided. The mixing is managed internally and is send to a singla AHI output channel.
Block
Block, now
available in version 2.02, combines and splits files. The tool is available for 68k-AmigaOS and MorphOS.
findmos
Also findmos,
latest version 1.0, is coded by Christian Rosentreter: The very small shelltool
(only 200 Bytes) is used to detect MorphOS and is needful for Shell-/Install-scripts.
An example script is contained in the archive.
PowerD
The latest version 0.21 from 29.6.2003 of the programming environment PowerD is available at the
download area at the website.
PageStream for Linux
For Linux is a third beta version of the DTP software PageStream released. User buying a copy of
the Linux version getting full access to all versions (beta and final relases). Users
taking part in testing phase are getting TextFX for Linux for free.
VDisk.device
The VDisk.device is released in
version 3.7 and provides you a driver for a restorable RAM disk.
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01.Jul.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New IBrowse 2.3 documentation released
Dave Fisher has finished his works on a completely updated and
expanded IBrowse-documentation.
The new documentation breaks down into 25 chapters, that, from the
installation over the usage of the program, tips and tricks to basic
knowledge covers everything worth knowing about IBrowse and the
Internet.
The archive containing the documentation is 1.37 MB in size and is
freely available in the IOSPIRIT download section.
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01.Jul.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #030630
Under the title link you will find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update (Brad
Webb) for March 2003. In his newsletter Brad Webb gives a monthly summary of all
news around the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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01.Jul.2003
Halvadjian Georges
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Perfect Paint v2.93 released
PerfectPaint from Halvadjian Georges is in version 2.93 available. In this
version are changed/fixed:
- Fix a bug with the tool: "Copy Stencil to Spare" when you are on the main picture
and not on Spare.
- Improve 'Chromatic correction": Blue saturation works well now.
- Improve: Fiber, Stone and liquid effects when range of color is used.
- New Item in MagicSpray menu: Fill Screen
- Full arexx command for MagicSpray tool
- Little bug fix with the "optimize palette" tool
- Improve Smooth border:
- Add Mask Preview
- Add "Round corner" Effect
- Improve MagicSpray:
- Add Follow axes (Brushes will follow mouse path)
- Add Priority (Each brushes will have priority)
- Improve for UAE/Amithlon/Picasso
- Mosaic effect and TVLace effect
- Twirl gui, TVLace gui, shadow gui
- The way the text go for one buffer to another (A lot of script are now ok)
- Edit Mask in 24bit mode (Much easier to edit stencil under picasso)
- 3 new templates (Photo)
- New MagicProject:Keys and Nuts and IceCream (available on PerfectPaint's page)
- Animation effect: CountDown
Download: PfPaint_V293.lha
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01.Jul.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Interview with Genesi
The Online-News-Magazine amiga.org has released an interview with Bill Buck and Raquel
Velasco of Genesi S.a.r.l. (title link).
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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30.Jun.2003
apple (ANF)
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Mozilla v1.4 released
Today the final version 1.4 of the free Webbrowser Mozilla was
published. Under that title left versions are available for Windows,
Linux and Mac OS X for the download, postage run gene for Solaris,
OpenVMS and other operating systems in the next days will follow.
Further information you find on the product website under that title
left. A port for Amiga OS is from a free developer team in work.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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30.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #043
The group Liquid Skies published today their 43rd music
pack. This time it contains a song named "rain journey" by
the German musician Bitshifter (also known as yelworC), who is not
member of the group, however he offers his track as a guest under the label
Liquid Skies. The cover for this is provided by an other guest:
Yenzi.
Details:
Title: Rain journey
Artist: Bitshifter
Style: Trance
Duration: 5:07
Format: mp3 (160kbps)
The file can be found at the homepage of Liquid Skies.
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30.Jun.2003
Klaus Brandis (E-Mail)
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AmiNetRadio v2.0 released
The Shoutcast streamer "AmiNetRadio" was published on weekend in
version 2.0 and is available at the title link for download. The
package contains the following components:
- AmiNetRadio v2.0
- mpega.player v2.40
- shoutcast.player v2.70
- Skin V1.1
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30.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Development of SBase4Pro
Russ Norrby of Mr. Hardware Computers, the owners of the "SBase4Pro"-rights (formerly known as "SuperBase 4 Pro"), reports at Amiga.org:
"SBase4Pro can now be compiled with the GCC. This puts us into the position
to provide PPC versions - for example for the AmigaOne.
The current version is v1.36 from April 2000. SBase4Pro is
a very powerful and flexible multi-relational data base. Some of our own
products were made using SBase, for example Retail Escort and Video Escort.
At present we are working on many improvements, for example on HTML outputs or
the possibility to lock files.
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29.Jun.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 29th June 2003
These are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last report:
GetAllHTML.lha comm/tcp 16K+Auto download or link-check entire Web s
bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
Loarre_Castle.lha pix/back 170K+Backgrounds of Loarres Castle
jpv_wb.lha pix/wb 293K+1024x768x16bit WB snapshot
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29.Jun.2003
Diverse
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Pictures from 'AmigaOS on Tour' from Gothenburg
You can find a subtitled picture report of AmigaWorld under the title link.
The pictures were taken on the
AmigaOS on Tour at
yesterday's presentation in Gothenburg.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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29.Jun.2003
Martin Heine
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Pictures from Amiga Show in Maarssen, NL
Martin Heine was nice enough to provide us with some meaningful
pictures from the
Amiga Show which took place
yesterday in Maarssen in Holland.
The photos were taken by Ron van Herk.
The event was well attended with more than 100 visitors. Genesi presented the
Video Microwave, the prototype of an STB case already known from the CeBIT and
of course the Pegasos with MorphOS in action. On four Pegasos computers as well
as an Debian equipped AmigaOne the visitors could form their own impression of
the current state of the two systems. Furthermore beta versions of Bars'n'Pipes
and FotoFoto for MorphOS were shown. The possibility to buy Pegasos boards at
the ComputerCity stall was also made use of. Furthermore the Access was shown
as well as Amiga merchandising goods such as the game "Amiopoly", Amiga antenna
balls for cars and mugs and T-Shirts from the OS4 tour.
MorphOS |
Access |
Amiopoly |
Antennenball |
BNP |
CGG |
Microwave STB |
A1 Debian |
Tower |
OS4 T-Shirt |
Pegasos |
Raum |
Raum 2 |
Raum 3 |
OS4 Tasse |
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29.Jun.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: New reviews and cover scans
Today Kultpower.de has received some updates:
74 (in words: seventyfour) new covers of the magazine PC Joker! A big thankyou
to Evil who scanned and sent in the covers! Btw, all are featuring the editorial.
New PowerPlay reviews from Powerplay 5/88, scanned by sys:
Ebonstar (Amiga), Io (C64), Ooze (Atari ST), Pandora (C64).
New ASM reviews from ASM 7/88, scanned by Ralf: Impossible Mission (Atari ST, C64),
IO (C64), Karnov (C64, Spektrum (reviewed), Schneider), Target (C64 (reviewed),
Spektrum, Schneider), Tube Runner (C16/116/Plus4).
Thanks to all helpers!
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