27.Apr.2003
AWeb (Website)
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AWeb 3.4 GPL released in new archive and for MorphOS
AWeb, a cost free Open Source based Web browser, is available in
version 3.4 GPL in a new archive:
Apart from the executable main program, the package also contains the
plug-ins, transfer animations, icon sets and installer. Versions available
for 68020, 68030, 68040, 68060 and as from now also for MorphOS.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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27.Apr.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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File manager: DiskMaster Version 2.5RC10
Rudolph Riedel has released version 2.5RC10 of his file manager and provides it on his
home page for downloading. The following details have changed:
- Made fit for paths longer than 256 characters as will be supported in AmigaOS 4.0 and
(allegedly) are already supported in MorphOS
- Fixed various bugs
- New command line interpreter from RC3 release integrated again,
only this time a little better-adjusted...
- Configuration format changed slightly and expanded internal configuration to improve accessability for new users
- Details as usual in the DM2beta.readme...
Download
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Apr.2003
CD32-Allianz (ANF)
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Wanted urgently: Web designer for CD32-Allianz
The CD32-Allianz team is urgently looking for a Web designer,
who wants to help designing a new layout consisting of 4 frames.
Further information can be obtained from
Thorsten Schölzel.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Bill McEwen still Amiga CEO?
According to statements by Ray A. Akey
of Amiga Inc. and Fleecy Moss,
Bill McEwen is still CEO of Amiga Inc.
Yesterday Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have circulated in a news item at
MorphOS-News.de
that Gary Hare was CEO of Amiga Inc., with whom talks had already been held
(we reported).
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco stand by their statement, see the following comments at
morphos-news.de,
ANN and
again ANN.
Carsten Schröder paraphrases this nebulous situation to the point:
"The state of the news is becoming more and more nebulous: In the meantime Fleecy Moss
and Ray A. Akey, members of AMIGA, Inc.'s management, have denied a change at the top
management level. Bill McEwen, however, hasn't piped up yet, while Genesi again confirmed
the change and are currently trying to get in touch with Gary Hare.
Conclusion: There have been various bankruptcies and corporate acquisitions of the
AMIGA mother company in the past - but I personally can't remember a situation where there was
uncertainty about the current principal of the company.
At the moment I'm regarding two scenarios explaining this situation as the most probable ones:
Scenario 1: The shareholders of AMIGA, Inc. have decided to exchange the management but not informed
them (or some of them), while the designated CEO has already had talks with Genesi.
Scenario 2: Genesi have been had. I'm regarding a deliberate false report improbable as this would
do much damage to the company's reputation."
Here the statement of Amiga Inc's Ray A. Akey:
"Bill McEwen is currently the CEO of Amiga and the fact that there is no PR
to the contrary about this on our website means that there is no news.
Anyone describing the appointment of a new CEO as "old news" is obviously
posting information for their own motives and reasons since "old news"
requires it to be "new news" before it can be "old news" and since Amiga
Inc hasn't posted such "new news" then the motives of the person describing
it as "old news" while simultaneously putting this new news into the world
have to be questioned."
Here the statement of Fleecy Moss:
"Has Amiga Inc changed CEO?"
Fleecy Moss: As of this moment Bill McEwen is the CEO of Amiga and if a new CEO
was to be brought in, it would be because of Amiga expanding as a company
and Bill needing to concentrate on being Chairman and President - currently
he is CEO as well and three top jobs in a company that is attracting the
attention we are is at least one job too many.
Any CEO to be brought in would be as part of the team and would be totally
in sync with the current strategic direction of the company. If someone is
posting information to the contrary then it can only be for ulterior motives.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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26.Apr.2003
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Official release from YAM v2.4
DESCRIPTION
YAM (Yet Another Mailer) lets you send and receive electronic mail
over the Internet and maintain archives of messages in your computer.
The idea came to Marcel Beck in 1995 when he first tried using email:
the programmes available at the time were either powerful but
complicated to configure, or else used a too limiting graphical
interface. The goal, therefore, was to program a cross between
AdMail and AirMail, with a few ideas from Pegasus Mail.
YAM made its first public appearance in early 1996 under the
"mailware" concept. The unexpectedly enthusiastic response
from the public led to a steady development of YAM that reached
its finest hour in version 1.3.5, the last incarnation in the
"classic" series. By then, YAM had turned into one of the most
popular Amiga programmes ever, and won Marcel the appreciation
and several awards from the Amiga community thanks to its
simplicity and ease of use.
Unwilling to stop at that point, Marcel spent almost two years
developing YAM2. In the summer of 1999, a greatly improved YAM
set some of the standards that would be lately imitated by other
popular Internet applications. In November 2000, Marcel finally
gave up out of lack of time and motivation, but was yet kind enough
to release the "final" YAM 2.2 together with its sources under the
GNU General Public License. On this day and age, Marcel Beck is
still fondly remembered by many as one of a selected few who made
a difference on the Amiga.
Today, after YAM 2.3 and 2.3p1 fixed some of the most outstanding
problems in the original sources and almost 18 months of hard work
have been spent, the YAM Open Source team is proud to make the legend
continue with YAM 2.4, the most powerful Amiga mailer to date.
NEW FEATURES
- Hierarchical folder list - folders can now be arranged into
groups, and nested at the user's discretion
- SMTP & POP3 TLS1/SSL3 support for stunnel servers, using
AmiSSL.library
- Email address cache, making it possible to "remember" the last
N used recipients if they don't appear in the address book
- More powerful recipient string gadgets, resolving aliases,
real names and email addresses "on the fly" as they are found
in the address book or the email cache
- Optional pop-up menus in the folder & message lists
- Automatic codepage detection and translation, specially meant
for cyrillic users.
- Reworked status bar
- Automatically finds the suitable mailing list support settings
- Extended support for mailto: links
- Search function in the Write window
- Customizable size format and localized unit display
- Individual appicon stats for folders, with an user-definable label
- New hidden option "JumpToIncoming"
- Deleting a block of text with RAmiga-Del automatically inserts a "[...]" marker
- Built-in mouse wheel support
- New "marked" status
- "application/pdf" is now in the built-in list of MIME types
- Extended documentation
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
- AmigaOS V39+, MC68020+, MUI3.8+ and the latest BetterString,
NList, NListtree, TextEditor & Toolbar classes (included)
AVAILABILITY
DIRECTORY
- /pub/aminet/comm/mail (hopefully soon comm/yam :-)
FILE NAMES
- YAM24.lha - Main archive - basic 020 binary and English guide
- YAM24cpu.lha - Diffs for 040/060 processors and the GPatch utility
- YAM24loc.lha - Foreign language support files: catalogs & guides
- YAM24con.lha - Additional graphics, ARexx scripts, etc.
- YAM24mos.lha - MorphOS binary, includes starter
OTHER
DISTRIBUTABILITY
- Free software, distributed under the General Public License
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Kudos to Brian for bringing c.s.a.a. back to life!
(nba)
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26.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi wants to attend at AmiWest show
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco today announced that Genesi wants to attend at
the AmiWest show, held in Sacramento, CA on July 26th and 27th 2003. Genesi
wants to present the new G4 CPU card for the Pegasos1, the new software
bundle and maybe also a prototype of the Pegasos2 motherboard and of course
MorphOS.
Bill and Raquel also confirmed that they have spoken with Amiga Inc's
new CEO Garry Hare a couple of weeks ago.
(nba)
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26.Apr.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Pixload v3.5 in preparation
I'am preparing Pixload 3.5
- more options about drag and drop (TIFF, TARGA and DIR recognized)
- links with miamidx (RTC and/or Network) : miamidx control panel included
- optimized code
- another icons (mac os x)
- more interactivity
- etc...
I need beta tester: if you want to try: send an email to
pixelart@wanadoo.Fr
(English language) with object: Pixload 3.5 tester. If German amiga users want
translation, send me few words (English -> German) so that I include in this
version. If you have got any ideas, sent them too, I will try to include too... x
(nba)
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25.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 7
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 7 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) ikir: Are Elbox working with Amiga Inc/Hyperion for OS4? Or for their SharkPPC compatibility?
Fleecy: We have a 'gentlemens agreement' with Elbox that we will not make any announcements or discuss plans, projects and products until they are ready to make those plans, projects and products public. If you want them to share that information, I would suggest you contact them.
2) sgm: Is the corporate market a possible target (in the light of the surging WebServices fever)? If so, is a high-performance XML parser being considered for OS4.x?
Fleecy: All markets are obviously targets but there is no point in entering them until you have a product, a pitch and a story. The creation of such obviously requires an expenditure of resources and since we are, as with most companies 'watching the pennies', we have to decide which subset from the whole range of opportunities is to be targeted first. If by corporate you mean 'enterprise' then that is not a first stage target but if you mean OEM or embedded then the answer is very much yes.
As for the XML parser, XML has been introduced with AmigaOS4.0 and will continue to spread until it is a system wide service.
3) Jose: It's been said and known that if AmigaOS is to be a server OS it will lose it's hardly earned advantages, and stop being AmigaOS as we know it. Could in the future be various versions of the OS with one being the continuation of the Classic in PPC, like most amiga users that have supported the platform for the past years seem to want?
Fleecy: AG1 was created with a very specific set of configurations in mind - workstation and desktop. Consoles, STBs and servers didn't really exist during its key definition and the idea of Smartphones, PDAs and digital consumer devices were science fiction. Having said that, the CDTV and then the CD32 were moves in the right direction but as anyone familiar with those devices knows, there were really a computer repackaged with extra bits hacked on.
AG2 is designed to accept that hardware is a commodity and that it can be configured and deployed in many different markets. This is part of the reason for the move to a service based architecture, because multiple configurations can then be created from a core set of services with configuration specific services being added or replaced by ones more tuned to the target device profile.
This will allow Amiga to offer a 'toolkit' to OEMs and to create 'distributions' for shrink wrapped markets - a console product, an eFamily product, a SoHo product, a hacker's product etc. Such flexibility gives us a distinctive advantage over having to custom chop a single product for each potential customer.
Rob: 4) Books on programming the Amiga are out of date and very difficult to obtain these days. Have you any plans to get some books published covering modern Amiga programming for the beginner. It is important to get some fresh talent into scene and not just rely on existing developers. Topics covered should include Warp3D, AHI and other more recent developements to AmigaOS.
Fleecy: I couldn't agree more. We intend to expend considerable resources on a full development toolchain, with good documentation and tutorials covering all levels. These will be developed in parallel with the development of the AG2 domains.
5) ssolie: Does Amiga Inc. still plan to take back control of the AmigaOS 4.0 source code (i.e. purchase it back from Hyperion) and produce your own releases beyond AmigaOS 4.0?
Fleecy: Absolutely. The transfer of AmigaOS4 to Hyperion was done for a number of strategic reasons, one being to protect the AmigaOS for the community and prevent it being left in limbo if anything should happen to the parent company as was witnessed after Commodore and Escom went bankrupt. We will reassert ownership when both Hyperion and Amiga judge the time to be right, and there are certain less than obvious benefits to maintaing the current situation.
The location of ownership has nothing to do with the future plans. Amiga Inc is fully committed to the development and expansion of AmigaOS way beyond AmigaOS4.0. Detailed planning and design for AmigaOS4.1 is already underway alongside the parallel path of AG2. AG2 technology will be rolled into the AmigaOS4 release family as and when it is ready but the two will not be dependent on each other - in other words potential delays in one will not affect the other. Contrary to the occasional speculation that Amiga doesn't care or has no plans for the AmigaOS, that product line is and always has been vital to our future success. Back in 1999, it would have been impossible to gain interest and investment in a company offering a desktop competitor to Microsoft and so our public strategy had to be tailored to fit that reality.
It isn't 1999 anymore.
6) DaveP: With the advent of AOS4 and AmigaONE series board are you also investigating the more lucrative possibilities in the heavyweight commercial sector or is it still far too soon to start? ( example: solutions, services and bringing even lightweight transaction processing products onto the fast reliable messaging codebase of ExecSG ?)
Fleecy: The Amiga Development Pipeline (ADP) starts with the Opportunity Analysis stage. Each AG2 domain thus considers every possible opportunity and attempts to identify every potential customer for that domain, both internal and external. This is then feed into the next stage, the Solution Description stage. This ensures that we will design a solution that covers as wide a customer base as possible, even though the actual implementation versioning may chose to spread out that complete design over a set of releases.
So to answer your question, yes we are looking at a huge range of potential markets, open, embedded, horizontal, vertical and total but our ability to exploit them is determined by the short, medium and long term strategic implementation plan.
7) alx: Will there come a point when you stop supporting accelerated "classic" Amigas? If so, when?
Fleecy: Yes there will. As to when, that will be decided by the simple equation of when the cost and effort of developing a version for those accelerated Amigas is more than the revenue that that version brings in. We want people to upgrade to the new hardware and we do recognise that we have to support the existing investment made by Amigans in the short term but ultimately the platform can only advance if people advance with it.
It should be obvious to most people that AmigaOS4 is going to run far more impressively on a new, cleanly designed, higher specified AmigaOne than an accelerated classic Amiga. It should also be obvious that the cost of maintaining and extending an AmigaOne is going to be substantially less than that of maintaining and extending a classic Amiga.
8) donV: Do you know of any plan or project to produce a laptop that will run AmigaOS4?
Fleecy: There are lots of plans for many different product, both from ourselves and from third parties but I do not want to comment on specific products until we have prototypes in front of us since many plans and good intentions often come to nothing. We'd obviously love to have an AmigaOS4.0 powered laptop as well as an AmigaOS4.0 powered STB, games console, PDA and Smartphone.
9) Bodie: In a previous Q&A, you mentioned the development of a highly advanced calculator for AmigaDE. Could you provide any extra details in terms of its functionality?
Fleecy: The calculator was created by a prominent AmigaDE developer in response to a demand from a large customer and I'll see if he is willing to write an article about it, possibly for CAM. It is particularly impressive because of its modular design, essentially a framework for functional units so it can be as simple or as complex as the set of modules that are installed. This means it can be used for a variety of functions - standard maths, computing, physics, chemistry, stock taking and with the ability for third parties to write their own modules.
It also features a variety of graphic and interface modes - static and dynamic graphing (and I know we have a customer interested in volumetric modelling), standard single line, multi-line and plans for a shell like page set.
10) Jose: Can a service based architecture(future AmigaOS) be as much effective as the Classic AmigaOS, comparing the services both provide? I mean to how much extent does a service based architecture would compromise the efficiency and the character of AmigaOS, if it does at all ?
Fleecy: A service based model is very efficient and not that much different at its heart from what the existing Amiga does now, a testament to its advanced original design. Its main extension is that it adds abstraction and management capabilities that open up distributed computing, all the way from simple home networks to parallel matrices. For developers there will be some new things to learn but quite a bit of that has been added to the new library model. The existing user interaction model can stay the same on top of it but it also opens up the option of far more advanced user interaction models, in particular moving from an application centric system to a content centric system - for example bring a set of content together and then being presented with the set of services that can be applied to that content.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=8
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 v0.950 Pre-Final
Rupert Hausberger has published version 0.950 Pre-Final of his benchmark-tool for
AmigaOS and MorphOS. Please read the changes from version 0.930 to version 0.950:
- ADDED Database - now allows direct upload/download from the module-server.
Added new page in "module base". Changed all things to make new system working.
- ADDED TCPIP-support
- ADDED HTTP-support [for downloading]
- ADDED SMPT-support [for uploading]
- ADDED BYTEmark [tm] v2.0 benchmark [experimental - 68k version seemes to slow]
- ADDED NSD-64bit access-mode for device stuff [uncalibrated]
- ADDED "new-logo" system - via 24bit workbench datatype
- ADDED own requester window
- ADDED own popup window
- ADDED "loopsize" and "passes" output to mem-/drv-benchmark windows
- ADDED check whether 'amigamark.def' is valid with current build
- ADDED check whether 'amigamark.cfg' is valid with current build
- ADDED included all neccessary string.h functions - [no libc]
- ADDED new tooltype QUICKSTART [=TRUE/FALSE] [WB only]
- ADDED do "chip ram tests" in "make module"
- ADDED some missing MUIA_Help popups
- CHANGED AvailMem() function to own one
- CHANGED some small things in the GUI
- CHANGED regonization of valid installation [more fast & less memory need]
- CHANDED retuned maximal values
- FIXED some stuff in the GUI
- REMOVED "time-warnings" feature [useless]
- CLEANUP _many_ general optimizions
- UPDATED english-guide to v.950
- COMPILED with gcc 3.2.2 now
- BUMPED revision to .950 [pre-final]
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS-game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.17
Most important change of the new version (please download it from the title link)
is the screen mode on the Workbench which was desired of many users. Besides this still
several minor improvements have been made which above all concern the automatic
hardware recognition.
Boulderdäsh was tested on an A500, A1200, under Amithlon and on several MorphOS and OS4
computers. If you have questions, suggestions or problems please contact Guideo Mersmann
via email.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Event: BeGeistert - BeOS-meeting with Pegasos-performance
Fans and developers of the operating system BeOS will meet on the "BeGeistert" which will
take place in Düsseldorf tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France from Paris will demonstrate a Pegasos for which
an OpenBeOS port is in work.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: AlphaBase full version and source codes
In co-operation and with permission of Maik Schmidt Amiga Arena makes the release of the
database "AlphaBase" possible.
AlphaBase is a clear and easy to learn database program. It is possible to enter variously
arranged (e.g. German and American) addresses in one common database.
Adresses can be printed on envelopes and labels. Data which have nothing to do with addresses
can be linked with comments, pictures and sound files.
System requirements: AmigaOS 3.0 Workbench & Librarys as well as 1 MB ChipMem +
2 MB FastMem
Progression?
If there is anyone who is interested to dvelop AlphaBase (BlitzBasic) further please
contact Olaf Köbnik! (nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Blade online again
"Blade" is an action role play by Mark Sheeky in iso-3d-view.
Mark Sheeky is well-known as the developer of the games "Burnout" and "Hilt II".
In 2000 Amiga Arena published the German version for the first time and could offer
Blade as a HD version (AGA/ECS) with permission of Mark Sheeky.
Now "Blade" is online again and you can get further information on the Blade homepage.
You can choose four characters from seven possible ones (warrior, thief, cleric, magician, dwarf,
elf, empath) and you have to defeat the evil! "CU Amiga" rated Blade with 86 percent.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS status-report 04/2003
The alternative operating system AROS is being activly developed further. On the website you
can find a detailed English status report to the project.
- Porting AROS to the Pegasos has been started.
- ide.device and cdrom.handler are now more stable than before, removable medium are supported.
- USB/UHCI-driver are available but still not useable.
- The soundcard driver system AHI was ported to AROS.
- The render.library and guigfx.library are supposed but are integrated in Zune.
- The jpeg.datatype is new and the png.datatype was updated.
- For futher changes please have a look at the AROS status report.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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point.design delivers AmigaOne XE
From now on the first AmigaOne XE boards are available at the Austrian Amiga dealer
point.design. The PowerPC/G4 as well as the G3 version have arrived and will be officially
delivered from April 28th.
Additional to the mainboard a bootable "Debian Linux Install CD" as well as "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 PPC Binary 1"
(basis installation incl. XFree4.0 and KDE) belong to the packet.
The system can be easily installed and extended via the Internet just as the customer wants.
Besides this the packet also contains UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator) incl. AmigaOS 3.1 Kickstart
ROM images and a completely installed AmigaOS 3.1 incl. "Magic Software Packet".
The price of the earlybird system also contains an update to the next generation of the AmigaOS 4
which will run nativly on the hardware and which will be sent to the customers for free.
Additional to the motherboard packet complete systems are also offered.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
heise online (Website)
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Opinion poll of developers concerning Open Source
In the research study "Economic Organization and Viability of Open Source Software"
scientists of the Stanford University ask for the motivation and expectations of Open Source
developers and which tools they use for programming.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
XBaze (Website)
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Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 8
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 Beta 8 of his database 'XBaze'.
The program offers an easy to use editor. It runs from AmigaOS 3.0 and from now on also
on MorphOS.
Bug reports and proposals can be sent to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl.
Download: XB-7.3B8.lzx
Addenda: The server is currently (25.4.2003, 12:30) not available.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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24.Apr.2003
Cales "Doraemon" Bernardez (ANF)
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Pegasos Presentation at CatCon Party 2003
According to the exhibitors a presentation of Pegasos with MorphOS is planned for the CatCon Party, which is to take place on the 3rd and 4th
of May in Calella near Barcelona. Also, a few Amiga companies should be introducing new products. The usual contests will be offered for the
demoscene. There is no charge for international visitors to CatCon, but we ask that you register in advance. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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24.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Editor: MorphED in Development
According to MorphOS-News.de Dietmar Eilert, the author of GoldED,
has been working on MorphED since the 18th of April, 2003. Up to this point no information has been released as to whether it's a fully new editor, or a MorphOS-native version of GoldED. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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24.Apr.2003
ots / teltarif.de
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Call by Call in Ortsnetz: Information Offering at teltarif.de
On this coming Friday, the 25th of April, the last monopoly in the German telephone market fell: the Ortsnetz. The consumer was not much
able to benefit from the popular Call-by-Call option. With the Call-by-Call option, the caller selects a number sequence, generally 5 characters,
and so directs the call over an alternative provider, instead of Deutsche Telekom.
It's already observable that the consumers will benefit from significant savings, from Friday on. "A short 30 second call to the barber or taxi
company costs just one cent using the sequence 01078 over the provider 3U, instead of the six cents charged by Deutsche Telekom up until
now" per Martin Müller, business leader of the fee-comparing www.teltarif.de. 3U offers local calls in about 1500 local networks, and accounts
for the one second pulse.
Arcor kicks off in about 36 hours, beginning with an offer for local and quasi-local calls. The prices are thereby over those of 3U, but are also
good for conversations to destinations maximally 20 kilometers from the originating point. These conversations are designated quasi-local.
Market experts are still expecting the offers of Tele2 and 01051 Telecom by Friday. Other enterprises have announced they will start in May. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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24.Apr.2003
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)
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The Kickstart Archives Version 2.1
Thomas Unger writes:
The two CD set is now at version 2.1. THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES is entirely HTML-based and thereby viewable on every hardware and
operating system. Many headings have been updated. The publicity and support areas have implemented thorough expansions since
version 2.0.2. Design and Navigation have been refined. On the start page of the Internet presence there are, near the tutorials, also the
icon notes, in which legal matters, notes of appreciation, as well as reviews and ordering possibilities are readable in the German and
English languages.
- updated: Amiga History Guide by Gareth Knight (22/03/2003)
- updated: LexSite by Alex Lupták (06/01/2003)
- updated: AMIGA Troubleshooting and Fixes
- updated: AMIGA Advertising Efforts
- Advertisings by Søren Ladegaard (Commodore Billboard)
- updated: Guides'n'Setups
- ED Sirius Genlock - Handbook (PDF)
- ED Sirius Genlock - Manual (PDF)
- ED Neptun Genlock - Handbook (PDF)
- ED Neptun Genlock - Manual (PDF)
- ED Pluto Genlock - Handbook (PDF)
- ED Pluto Genlock - Manual (PDF)
- Vortex ATonce A500 - Handbook (PDF)
- Commodore A3000 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A2300/01 - Handbook (PDF)
- Commodore A2301 - Circuit (PDF)
- Commodore A2232 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A2065 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A2060 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A1060 - Handbook (PDF)
- Commodore A600 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A500Plus - Service Manual (PDF)
- Commodore CDTV - Service Manual (PDF)
- A500/A2000 - Technical Reference Manual (PDF)
A really special thank you goes to Steffen Kramer of Electronic Design this time, for the documentation that was made available. (nba)
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24.Apr.2003
M. Lueck (ANF)
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Audio: AHI v5.5 (rc1)
Martin Blom, the developer of the soundcard driver system AHI, has released end-user version 5.5 (rc1) for m68k, MorphOS and AROS.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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24.Apr.2003
Diverse
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Media Reports on the C-One
Cross-regional media are directing attention to the C-One, a new reconfigurable home computer
(we reported). Following are two reports - the
list will be expanded in days to come.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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23.Apr.2003
Halvadjian Georges (Website)
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PerfectPaint V2.925
Version 2.925 of the paint program PerfectPaint by Halvadjian Georges is now available. In this version the following features were added or changed:
- Improve PPM and PBM format.
- Separate Brush, Picture, palette and anim path for each buffer.
- New color correction tool:
- "Adjust RGB level", "Auto RGB level" and pixel count.
- "Chromatic correction" (usefull for chromatic aberration)
- "Optimize palette" and the arexx command:
Will remove unused color from the palette to reduce
the depth of the picture without lost.
Can also sort the palette with unused color in the end.
- Fix somme little bug with CMAP palette, brush album
- Keyboard F10: Now remove not only toolbox window but all floating window.
- Improve text requester
- Number of font in listview are now unlimited.
- Improve turboprint communication (correct Inch are send, Menu and color works well)
- New arexx command: pp_GetDPI
- Improve template requester, with preview.
- Fix a bug (introduced in the last version) with processing tool
- New powerfull processing tool:
MagicSpray, will spray current brush or severall brushes (Magic Album)
with variation of size, color, rotation, shadow ... in real time.
Include some MagicProject. Other MagicProject are available on PerfectPaint's Page.
- Little bug fixed with keyboard shortcut
- Brush preview is showed with full transparency (album requester)
- Improve Undo
(nba)
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22.Apr.2003
Elbox Computer
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Elbox: MM CD UP 1.23
The MM CD 1.23 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator
PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000i, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI
3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI
ZIV busbords, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia
CD, has been released today.
The update includes new versions of:
- fm801.audio
- sb128.audio
- mixer.library
- FastEthernet.device
- tv.library
Changes:
- fm801.audio ver. 4.4
- digital/optical output (TOSLINK) support added
- quadro mode added
- sb128.audio ver. 4.10
- digital output (SPDIF) support added
- mixer.library ver. 1.7
- digital/analog output switch for SB4.1 added
- support for rear speakers added
- FastEthernet.device ver. 1.12
- detection of the MAC address corrected
- compatibility with the RoadShow DMA support added
- tv.library ver. 3.1
- Bt878 RESET commend corrected
- ReadGPIO function added
The current developer documentations for tv.library and mixer.library
are enclosed in the MM CD 1.23. (nba)
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22.Apr.2003
Elbox Computer
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Elbox: MediatorUP 3.7
The MediatorUP 3.7 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI
4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI
3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI
ZIV has been made available today.
The update includes new versions of:
- pci.library
- MediatorNET.device
Changes:
- pci.library ver. 5.10
PowerOff function (for controlling ATX PSU) added
- MediatorNET.device ver. 2.7
compatibility with the RoadShow stack added (nba)
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22.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad Version 15.2
Since yesterday you can download the new version 15.2 on the WHDLoad site. With WHDLoad you can install games, which were only produced for floppy using, on your hard disk.
Since the last update there were made just more little bugfixes and changes.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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22.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets until 20.04.2003
Since yesterday you can download the new version 15.2 on the WHDLoad site. With WHDLoad you can install games, which were only produced for floppy using, on your hard disk.
Since the last update there were made just more little bugfixes and changes.
- 20.04.03 new: Zero Gravity (EAS) done by Agressor
- 20.04.03 improved: Celtic Legends (UBI-Soft) miscellaneous improvements
- 18.04.03 fixed: Midwinter (Rainbird) bug fixed
- 18.04.03 improved: Magicland Dizzy (Codemasters) bad custom accesses fixed, trainer added
- 18.04.03 improved: Hollywood Poker (reLINE) supports another version
- 18.04.03 improved: Galdregons Domain (Pandora) some changes
- 18.04.03 new: Doman (World Software) done by JOTD
- 18.04.03 new: Castle Master 2 - The Crypt (Incentive/Domark) done by Galahad
- 18.04.03 improved: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) blitter waits added, new icons, docs added
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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22.Apr.2003
A.D.A.
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A.D.A.: two new intros of Nature
With "Grid 2" and "Zeon" two new intro-title of the Swedish Group Nature are added zo the demo-online-Collection "Amiga Demoscene Archive"
Grid 2: Nature is one of this group which ist always trying to get the end of the borders. The intro "Grid 2" had been published on the scene arrangement
and gets the first place in his competition. Enjoy the cool flight through large tunnels, which is combined with fantastic music. Recommendation.
Zeon: Zeon is another cool Intro of Nature which was puplished on the Mekka Symposium 2001 and gets the second place. Code from Pipe, Yomat and Pezac.
Graphics from Rex and Yomat. Music from pipe. On more time recommending.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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22.Apr.2003
AC-Eule / Spiegel Online (ANF)
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"The German Bill Gates": "unrowed "Kimbeln"
The stock boom is over, and the ruins are swept together. Much money of investors has been burned, but facts were really rare.
The results are between creating new conzerns and distribution (AOL-Time-Warner, Amazon, ebay) and total bankruptery with some
criminal numbers (Lets-Buy-it.com or Kim (Kimble) Schmitz). Under the title link you can read an article about Lars Windhorst, who was named
from some people as the new Bill Gates.
It is true he worked in the computer distribution, but in contrast to Bill Gates, he never published own products or programmed products.
His meaning for the German computer industry had to lie anywhere below Manfred Schmitt. The theme is not complete "Off Topic", because it
shows nicely methods, effects and succesions from a few impostor computer and new economy employers. Who still believes that Kim Schmitz
was really rich and succesful should read this story. But also people who played in another league than Kim Schmitz have now problems.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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22.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Events: C-One Release-Party at 4.5.2003
A computer legend is coming back: The C-One. The new edition of the most sold computer of the world
(Guinessbook of world records), will publish official at the 4. May 2003 at a release party
The new computer was developed by an American woman: Jeri Ellsworth, 28, started in autumn 2000 with the aim to build
the Commodore 64 new with modern equipment. What started as a hobby project, catched the attention of the still activ
user groups. Since April 2002 the Aachen firm "individual Computers" gives an activ share at this project. Main things had
been changed in narro working together with Jeri Ellsworth, for making the computer more flexible as any computer before.
At the complete new principle "reconfigurable computer" the borders of the austere separation of graphic card,sound card
and processor are coming together. The new computer is so flexible that it is able to adapt itself to the programms, which
should run on it. To the demonstration nearly all programms could be used, which were written for the legendary C-64,
the most sold computer of the world (Guinessbook of world records). The C-One is much more faster and contains about
standard interfaces for communication with the world. Modern equipment could be locked at the C-One, but also the peripherals,
of the lovely called "Breadbox" computer of the 80s is getting a use.
The firm "invidual Computers" and "Radwar Enterprises" are giving a party at the 04.05.2003 for the C-One. Press and specialists
are cordial invited to the cafe Bistro Campus, Markt 25, 52525 Heinsberg. Start is 19:41 o'clock. Entry is free.
Jeri Ellsworth was until 2000 owner of the shops "Computers made easy" on the westcoast of America. She sold the shops for dedicate
herself to new business field, the development of an own computer. Also a robbery of an earlier prototype, couldn`t stop her to get her aim.
2 1/2 years after the begin of the project so far as: The C-One is finished - made in Germany
The Aachen firm "invidual Computers" is known for special hardware, also as own development, as development for other firms. Mainly for
computer accessoir development, whose name we hadn`t heard for a long time: Amiga. But also for the C 64 an PC products are produced.
Jens Schönfeld owner of "invidual Computers" since nine years, sees the C-One as walk in the future and in the past. "With the new technic
we can build computers, whose calculating works could be made bigger when it is needed, for example for graphic or music possibilities.
"Radwar Enterprises" started in the middles of the 80s as so called Cracker-Group. Since 1988 parties were organised, which get scene status.
The crackers from the past become experts today, who see the C-One as legend from tomorrow. So they decided in honour of the C-One to organise
a C-One release party
Continous links:
Official Homepage of C-One
individual Computers
Radwar Enterprises
Cafe Bistro Campus
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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22.Apr.2003
Cloanto/AmigaForever (ANF)
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Bluetooth-Adapter on Amiga (RS232)
On a Bluetooth-enabled PC, Amiga Explorer also works with a Bluetooth serial adapter attached to the Amiga serial port. The PC side must support the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile, which makes it possible to select the Amiga side as a standard COM port in Amiga Explorer. Depending on the adapter, no configuration may be required (the adapter attached to the Amiga serial port automatically runs as a "slave"), or, in some cases, the adapter must first be connected to the PC serial port and configured via the included software. Some adapters have a built-in Web server which allows for remote configuration.
In either case, no Bluetooth software is required on the Amiga. A 9-pin to 25-pin adapter may be required to connect a 9-pin Bluetooth RS-232 adapter to the Amiga DB-25 serial port connector. Such Bluetooth devices can cost as much as $200.00, and include Blue2Space's blue2link, Sphinx Elektronik's PICO Plug, LinTech's Bluetooth RS232 Adapter, Inventel's BlueAirPlug, Laurde's Serial Port Adapter and SMART Modular Technologies' Blue Lapis Serial Port Adaptor (these devices are not endorsed and have not been tested by Cloanto). (ps)
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22.Apr.2003
Oliver Achten (ANF)
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Emulator: A/NES CGFX v1.32 with Picasso 96 support
A/NES CGFX, the fastest NES emulator for Amigas with graphic cards
is now published in the version 1.32. This time finally with Picasso 96 support.
Fetch the new version at http://hem.passagen.se/anescgfx
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Apr.2003
Das NetBSD-Team (ANF)
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NetBSD 1.6.1 released
The NetBSD project is pleased, to announce the availability of version 1.6.1
of the NetBSD operating system.
Further details about this release as well as about the NetBSD operating system can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Apr.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Descent: Freespace: MultiplayerPack 08 released
The the MultiplayerPack 08 for Decent: Freespace has been released.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 21.04.2003
Following the Aminet uploads which were added since our last message:
MicroBase503de.lha biz/dbase 841K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - GERMAN
MicroBase503en.lha biz/dbase 444K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - ENGLISH
Progr_Langs_v8.lha dev/misc 73K+Comparison of progr. langs
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 57K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (April
amigazette_13.lha docs/mags 1.0M+AMIGAzette 13th issue (09.11.2002) (ital
amigazette_14.lha docs/mags 507K+AMIGAzette 14th issue (20.01.2003) (ital
amigazette_15.lha docs/mags 243K+AMIGAzette 15th issue (13.04.2003) (ital
obligement38.lha docs/mags 1.1M+Obligement #38 - The Famous FRENCH fanzi
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 909K+V5.15, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.41: Advanced snake game
RebootStartV42.lha game/patch 59K+Degrader & run any game from Workbench
Kulce_HU.lha game/wb 1K+Hungarian catalog for Kulce game
BoingBall.lha gfx/3dobj 74K+LW3D boingball object
SmartScale.lha gfx/conv 32K+A CLI/WB program used for gfx conversion
ZoneXplorer.lha gfx/fract 2.8M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC
ImageFX45txtFR.lha gfx/ifx 62K+ImageFX 4.5 French interface Text
wipes.lha gfx/ifx 7K+Wipe/Transition Arexx Script v0.7 for IF
DCEKeyFix.lha hard/drivr 20K+Working RAMIGA for DCE-Keyboardadapters
imdbDiff030411.lha misc/imdb 9.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
l33t_is_sh1t.lha mods/chip 3K+Protracker 1.1 chip music module
rno-r084.mpg mods/mpg 4.8M+Rno-records release #84 by Xhaust(dNb)
AP21Covers.lha pix/misc 219K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 21 Covers Recto & Verso
obligement-38.jpg pix/misc 71K+Obligement's cover n 38
mathlibspatch.lha util/boot 9K+Mathffp, ieeesingtrans libs SpeedUp Patc
TxtToHTML.lha util/conv 92K+Converts txt files to HTML Docs (+GUI v1
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 84K+Identify hardware and more, OS3.9 (V37.1
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 123K+Identify hardware and more, OS3.9 (V37.1
HomerSampleFix.lha util/misc 2.6M+Works with the Latest NewHomer (v1.85)
Scout-src.lha util/moni 564K+V3.1, System monitor - GNU-GPL source co
Scout.lha util/moni 888K+V3.2, System monitor (MUI & AmiTCP optio
arxced41.lha util/rexx 21K+ArexxGuide online help macro for CED 3.5
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21.Apr.2003
Richard Körber (ANF)
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Tool: Identify 37.1- inoffical release
Richard Körber wrote:
The Identify LIBRARY can be used to identify Zorro boards and supply further
system specifications. I published the project under LGPL on
Sourceforge.
Recently Thore Boeckelmann released an update of the Identify LIBRARY (V37.1)
in the AmiNet. This publication happened without my knowledge.
I do not exactly know either what was changed in the V37.1. According to
the mails of users, whom I received since then, however this release seems to
work incorrectly.
Up to further I recommend to install for safety's sake again the
version released by me last (see URL to the title). I have already contacted Thore and hope
that we can release an official update soon.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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Screenshots of AmigaOneXE and Linux/Mac
On the homepage of pointdesign one can find some screenshots depicting the AmigaONE G4 XE running LinuxPPC and MacOnLinux.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 6
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 6 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) realize: How do you intend to get people to develop native OS4 apps? ( This is what will make you sink or swim)
Fleecy: By offering direct support to them, a variety of incentives and most importantly, a succesful new platform that both allows them to do what they can't do on other platforms and which allows them to make money and enjoy themselves.
2) Desmon: Why hasn't Amiga.inc stepped into the Amithlon/Umilator argument and taken on the distribution themselves?
Fleecy: It is a very complicated situation in which multiple parties have taken positions that have made it difficult for any solution that is acceptable to all to develop. We are as interested in seeing a resolution as everyone else but a lot needs to happen to achieve this.
3) Dave_P: Why do you still bother? I am serious. With all the mud that is thrown day in day out, the small Amiga userbase, the innuendo and flack. Why exactly do you bother to get out of bed and not take an IT job in the mainstream industry but continue persist with the Amiga against such odds?
Fleecy: We have a firm view of the future that many people find exciting and, despite the volume of noise, most of it is from a relatively small group of people who have a varied set of reasons for making that noise. That is not to say we don't deserve it - we are the first to admit that mistakes have been made but there have also been other circumstances that have made our progress difficult. Luckily, the majority of Amigans have stayed Amigans because they are committed to having the best digital platform on the market and, as with us, we are in it for that target, not for the sight seeing on the way.
4) ssolie: Amiga Inc. has been accused of spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) do to its past announcements and delays in shipping product. Does Amiga Inc. have a policy regarding FUD and if so, what is that policy?
Fleecy: We have made mistakes in our PR and communications strategies. As I have said previously, we are caught between those who want lots of information and those who only want information about shipping products or what they call 'tangible news'. We have been rightly criticised for saying too much about some developments that have not worked and wrongly criticised for others, as in the case of the Nokia Media Terminal and Sendo, both signed deals that fell apart after announcement not because of us but because the products were then pulled by their parent companies.
Our current policy is to make PRs only about things that can be proved. In this way we hope to win back the trust of those who believe we have misled them, although it will annoy those who want more information.
5) Doobrey: With regards to all the FUD and mud slinging, what is your opinion of the legality of MorphOS ?
Fleecy: As an officer of the company, my opinion is that of Amiga Inc. As CTO I concentrate on technical issues and our legal department concentrates on issues of legality.
6) z5: how many people are working at Amiga Inc?
Fleecy: That is internal information and I don't have exact numbers but we operate with a small group of employees and a larger distributed number of contractors.
7) SlimJim: AInc often refer to "internal developers" when talking about what is being done behind the scenes. In contrast to the people working on AOS4, very little is known about AInc's "own" development muscle. Can you give some more information about these famed "internal developers"?
Fleecy: No. Last time we did that, a few of them got mail bombed.
8) Dandy: I can remember of an official AInc-Announcement of July 14th, 2001, stating that "StormC" of Haage & Partner had been chosen by AInc as official developing environment for the next generation Amiga platform. Is this statement still valid?
Fleecy: No. We haven't heard from H&P for over a year now and the last thing I heard was that they were threatening to give up on Amiga and move to other platforms. We are investigating doing our own development environment.
9) alx: In Week 3 Q4, you mentioned how ExecSG was now capable of running OS3.9. Can you confirm that integration of emulation (the main setback) is now finalised?
Fleecy: The test suites for OS3.9 and OS4.0 on the CSPPC are progressing rapidly and despite a few glitches caused by the CSPPC itself, we have found very few problems. The test suites are not complete yet so I can't say it is finalised but we have been very pleased with the performance, stability and compatability so far.
10) jumpship: Is AmigaINC planning on comissioning a standard case for the AmgiaONE? Maybe not for this release, but for the future?
Fleecy: We have discussed it in terms of a marketing identity but there are no firm plans yet.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=7
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Apr.2003
Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE Version 0.8.22R6
Yesterday version 0.8.22 Release 6 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE'
for Windows by Toni Wilen has been released.
Download:
WinUAE0822R6.exe
WinUAE0822R6.zip
Changes in WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 6 of 19th April 2003 compared to the previous version:
Bugs fixed:
- increased compatibility
- display emulation graphics corruption in some programs
(NOTE: some very old games, for example Eliminator, require OCS Agnus)
- sprites outside display window emulated partially
(Banshee AGA, Alien Breed 3D)
- audio emulation fixes (noise and random popping)
- input configuration fixes
- crash when creating new CD32 NVRAM-file
- compressed disk images can be write-enabled
- more compatible with newer CDTV extended ROMs
(still no CDROM controller emulation)
- disk emulation fixes (writing freeze, drive type, disk eject/insert,
more compatible disk change detection, writing to multiple drives simultaneously)
- stuck middle button when "Middle Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" was enabled
- don't crash if zlib.dll is missing
- lost mouse input events when using high refresh rate mouse
New features:
- compressed state files
- rewritten and more compatible serial port emulation,
serial link game support
- more compatible blitter speed in non cycle-exact mode
(Spindizzy Worlds, PP Hammer..)
- turbo-floppy speed enables fast writing
- disable screensaver when WinUAE is active
- improved configurable CPU idle-function
- screenshots saved to ScreenShots-directory
- input configuration joystick port swap and device
disable-button implemented.
A German mirror ist available under
http://www.webwood.de. (ps)
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19.Apr.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated
by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted geographically according to
continents and countries. Today the following areas have been updated:
- Europe
- New Links List
- Lost Links List
- History 2003
(ps)
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19.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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G4 Upgrade card to be released on July 1st, 2003
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have announced that the promised G4 CPU Upgrade
card for Pegasos1 owners will be available on July 1st, 2003 for 200Euro.
Pegasos1 owners can buy it at
www.pegasosppc.com when
pegasos-usa.com is integrated into the new site. There will also be a
new software bundle available then.
Bill and Raquel also confirmed that the CPU cards for the Pegasos II are
the same as the CPU cards for the Pegasos I. That way every Pegasos II user,
who already got a Pegasos I, can use his old Pegasos I CPU card and Pegasos
I users can buy Pegasos II CPU cards.
They also made clear that this offer has no impact on the Pegasos-I-trade-in
offer. You can still get a Pegasos II including a G4 processor card for your
old Pegasos I machine plus 200 Euro.
(ps)
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19.Apr.2003
Diverse
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Short Software News (19.04.2003)
Emulator: Mame for MorphOS Version 0.67
- Mame0.67 added (bug fixes and overlay support) see readme.txt for more information.
Tool: MCP Version 1.42
MCP ("MasterControlProgram") from Dieter Groppé version 1.42
Emulator: A/NES CGFX v1.31
The cool feature added here is the autoframerate option that makes miracles
(well close to) for your NSF's assuming you usually don't have a fast enough
computer to play them back at correct speed. Worth to check out anyway hopefully.
You'll find the latest archive in the download section. Be sure to run the
installer aswell if your earlier A/NES CGFX version is < v1.30 since the
installation procedure now installs more files than previous versions.
Anyway, enjoy the release and have a Happy Easter! :-)
Game: Worm Wars Version 7.41
Download: WormWars.lha
585 KB
Game: Payback GBA report Nr. 6
MorphOS.net: New xpkmaster
Update: Mr. Skjæret has released an updated
xpkmaster for MorphOS. It needs a previously installed xpkmaster setup:
xpkmaster_bin.lha
(ps)
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18.Apr.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF)
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IncaGold and Hyperion announce license agreement
IncaGold and Hyperion Entertainment enter into comprehensive license agreement
Leuven, Belgien, April 18, 2003
IncaGold GmbH and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that they
entered into a comprehensive license agreement which will see many of
IncaGold's current and future entertainment software titles converted
for the Amiga, Linux and Macintosh platforms.
Hyperion's first target for conversion is 'Midnight Racing' which offers
players the excitement of realistic night driving using a state of the
art 3D engine.
"We are understandably very pleased with this agreement as signing with
IncaGold will allow us to bring IncaGold's outstanding and ever-growing
portfolio of games to our target audiences", said Ben Hermans, managing
partner of Hyperion Entertainment.
Daniel Aurell, Director at IncaGold, added, "We are pleased to have found
such a competent partner in this field to take our PC entertainment products
to other home computing platforms. We are looking forward to together with
Hyperion bringing many of our titles to the Amiga, Linux and Mac systems in
the coming months."
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
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
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 INCAGOLD
IncaGold is a world-wide leader in the
development and publishing of casual gaming entertainment on PC CD-ROM. Founded
in 1996, the company operates sales and development offices in Brazil, Finland,
Japan, New Zealand, Slovakia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
(ps)
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18.Apr.2003
Ron van Herk (ANF)
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Genesi at CeBIT Australia
Genesi would like to invite all visitors to the CeBIT Australia 2003
event to visit our booth. We will be exhibiting in hall 5, booth 561.
The show is from May 6th - 8th in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition
Center, Darling Harbour, Sydney. For more information please check the
official CeBIT Australia 2003 website:
www.cebit.com.au.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Apr.2003
Christian Krenner (ANF)
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Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page: Amiga 600 with USB-ports!
There is another update of the "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page". The site documents
the upgrade of an Amiga 600. The current highlight: The Amiga 600 was equipped with
USB-ports and therefore should be the only A 600 with which you can use USB devices.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Apr.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: AmigaOneXE delivered since Wednesday
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) gave a statement on AmigaOne mailing list (title link) and explained
that the delivery of the AmigaOneXE has started on Wednesday.
First of all other dealers will be delivered, then "developers" which ordered an AmigaOneSE
12 months ago, then customers which ordered a motherboard from Eyetech and finally
the buyers of complete systems.
Alan supposes that all orders will be executed until the end of the month.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Apr.2003
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amiga-news.de Wishes You a Happy Easter!
© Rolf Tingler (ps)
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17.Apr.2003
Michael Lanser (ANF)
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Realms of Power - Internet Page Online
The Internet page for the game Realms of Power was placed online today. There you'll find information about and screenshots of
the game, and its state of development.
Realms of Power is a round-based strategy game. It has a powerful resemblance to the game Civilization, and has a few characteristics of
the game Colonization as well. The parameters of the game world are wideranging and generally adjustable. So it is left to you to decide
if you play a cold or a war planet, if you prefer vast oceans or almost entirely land surfaces.
16 peoples are ready, to be played by or against humans. These are, for example, the Germans, the English, the French, the Romans, the
Zulus, or also the Egyptians. The individual units (like airplanes, tanks, destroyers or battle vehicles) wait only to be built and sent against the
enemy. But perhaps you would rather negotiate a peace and send a diplomat?
In order to be able to build the individual units and the urban projects (such as churches, factories, barrracks, or harbors) the hard work of
the steadily growing numbers of city folk, who process the differentiated raw materials (such as wood, stone, coal, or oil as well). And
naturally it may also not be forgotten, to arrange the supply of food for the workers. In order to make adjustments to the quantities of raw
materials, it is also possible to conduct trade with friendly peoples. But only as long as they do not become your enemies - and that happens
sooner than maybe you would like, because the goal is to rule the world after all! Or do you prefer to conquer a neighboring planet with a
few colonists. If this world can't be yours, then perhaps the next?
System Requirements
Minimum configuration:
Amiga with OS3.1, 68020 @ 14 Mhz,
1 MB Chip, 16 MB FastRAM, graphic card, CD-ROM, hard-drive.
Recommended configuration:
Amiga with OS3.1, 68060 @ 50 Mhz, 2 MB Chip, 32 MB FastRAM,
graphic card, CD-ROM, hard-drive.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads 17th April, 2003
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last report:
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 906K+V5.13, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
RebootStartV42.lha game/patch 59K+Degrader & run any game from Workbench
ZoneXplorer.lha gfx/fract 2.8M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC
BoingPFX.lha pix/back 330K+Backgrounds for WBpatterns...
i5000.lha pix/gicon 1.2M+Big Misc GlowIcons Collection [by cYbo]
IceAge.lha pix/gicon 405K+Icons from Ice Age [by cYbo]
NewHomer.lha util/misc 110K+Talkin' Homer V1.85 (updated)
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Apr.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Spider II Sales Begin
We are glad to inform that the Spider II USB 2.0 High-Speed controller
with drivers for Mediator and Amithlon is on sale now.
The detailed specification of the Spider II USB 2.0 controller:
see the product page.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS Game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.14 - Rockford is Back!
With version 5.14, the shareware game BoulderDäsh RTX is almost final. Almost all program parts have been reworked and rewritten.
BoulderDäsh has become a bit faster and smaller through this, but also more compatible.
Through some partially fundamental changes, it became possible for me to equip the game and level editor with additional functions that
were missing for years and desired by many users.
I'd like to point out once more that although I removed the keyfile routines and the associated limitations, BoulderDäsh is still shareware.
Simultaneously, I'd like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to the many registered users. You've kept us going through the years! Version
5.14 is on the way to Aminet and should appear there by the next update.
Guido Mersmann (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Apr.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce Celebrates Its 2nd Birthday
For the second birthday of the site the following things have been prepared for you:
German Amiblitz 2.30 full distribution:
The distribution has been completely updated and once more contains Amiblitz2 and PED in their latest stable releases, in
the German and English languages. Besides the German Amiblitz2.guide, the installation scripts have also been translated,
with help in the chosen language, just as all necessary ASSIGNs and system components are installed. The guide
has been carefully reworked in the license section, to make clear and understandable the fact that software assembled
with Amiblitz doesn't have to be GPL! An update archive will be added in a short time.
German AmiblitzML archive:
A few days ago, the archive of the German Amiblitz2 mailing list was added to Aminet. Thanks to
Antidote for the great work.
Classic games:
In the Games Fun area there is a new designation covering never-released classic games. The games were developed in AMOS and
account of that they don't run on graphic cards. Except for that the programs have no special requirements and even run without
special arrangement on a '060. The developer Dietmar Graemer would be happy to hear some feedback. For this purpose every info
box has a contact form, with which one may easily and without problems directly contact the developers. Dietmar is interested in
further development and also in new games. This is dependent on your interest. Enrico Graemer is no longer interested in future
development, so there is no contact form for him.
Included are the following games:
- Digger95:
A really addictive game, which also has graphics that look great even today. A lot of people will remember
Digger. At one time this was a classic on the KC computer of then East Germany.
- Diamantus:
Diamantus is based on a play method similar to Digger95. There's also much fun to be experienced here. The game
makes a tidy impression, and with a lot of levels there is little chance of boredom.
- Wirtschworker:
With 500 levels this is the most wideranging game, and Wirtschworker is also a lot of fun. I can promise you right now that your gray
brain cells are going to get a workout. ;)
- Lotto Number Generator:
This is not a game, but it wouldn't make sense to make a separate category for it. This program doesn't need a whole lot
of explanation, and maybe it brings happiness to someone or other.
The programs come with instructions. Soon, the programs will be described on the website, but we haven't had time to do this
yet. The most important information is nevertheless contained on the pages for the games. Have fun!
Game announcement (3D shooter for OS4):
There's a new game project in development. The end result is to be a 3D-Shooter that appears for Windows and Amiga OS4.
At this time it's developed on Windows. As soon as the AmigaOne with OS4 is set to go, the porting of the completed parts
may begin.
The heart of the whole thing is an already much-progressed 3D engine: Cruiser3D.
After the outstanding development of the engine it will naturally be near to the development of a complete game.
The 3D-Shooter will probably be in the horror genre, but we are not committing ourselves.
A small excerpt of the characteristics of Cruiser3D:
- Conversion of models (characters) from well-known games such as Q1, Q2, HalfLife, Serious Sam, Unreal I + II etc. (to the extent that
the data formats are usable)
- Terrains of height maps for outdoor levels
- BSP for indoor levels
- Dynamic lighting and shadows (shadows are 25% ready)
- Mirrow effects (about 50%)
- Particle system
- Pathfinder (25% ready)
- Flocking (known from role playing and fantasy games)
- SkyBox
- Enormously high velocity
- Planned are formats such as C4D, Monzoom and so on
Through the following link you can see one of the
quickly put-together scenes. To be seen are known (textured) models and other elements, which are animated.
The free camera movement unfortunately can't be seen here, and the particle system can also not really be
appreciated.
The screenshot is unfortunately very quickly made. Everything was thrown together in a hurry. Soon, more information
will follow, and an area will be established at Amiforce to track the status.
Heartfelt wishes of happiness from amiga-news.de team for the second birthday of Amiforce! (ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.Apr.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename 3.7.0 beta
Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the beta version 3.7.0 of the tool 'SRename'. With this tool, working with AmigaOS 3.0 or better, it is possible to rename files comfortably. The latest version got the following features and bugfixes:
New features in this version:
- Automatic renaming when new filename already exists. "Noautoren" (nar)
option has been added to deactivate it.
- "Noautopsep" (nap), "Noautossep" (nas), "Autopsep" (aup), "Autossep"
(aus), options added to control the handling of prefix and suffix
separators when prefix and suffix is created or deleted.
- "Addonly" (ao) secondary argument added to "Prefix", "Main" and
"Suffix" selectors. When used it prevents existing components from
being modified, and components are added if they don't already exist.
Bugfixes:
- Redirection of filename and comment with "Tofilename" and "Tocomment"
can now work in Immediate and Reuse (cached) mode as required by the
user, instead of the previous fixed partially cached mode.
- 2 core bugs fixed that broke the renaming process with certain action
combinations.
- Parser bug fixed occasionally broke the parsing process if commands
with secondary arguments were used.
- Some memory misallocations fixed.
Other changes:
- Now the usage text is printed if no arguments are given.
Download: SRename370beta.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Apr.2003
Raziel (ANF)
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Web filter tool: Privoxy version 3.0.2
Since the 25th of March there is an update of the free open source project Privoxy at the Sourceforge page available. The version 3.0.2 fixes smaller bugs and has an increased blocking system for unliked websites or pop ups.
There are several versions available, among these are AOS, MorphOS and ohters (e.g. Unix or even WinniesDOS).
With the daily use there were no hard erors reported, compared to the recent version 3.0.0 it even gained some stability.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Apr.2003
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Aminet uploads 04-16-2003
Here are the recent uploads since the last announcement:
cddbfreedb.lha comm/tcp 6K+Cddb.library dropin replacement using fr
ABML03-0502.lha dev/basic 52K+ABlitzML archiv only in german
lucyplayDevBas.lha dev/basic 82K+Using LucyPlay library from HBasic
amigazette_12.lha docs/mags 1.2M+AMIGAzette 12th issue (04.07.2002) (ital
EvenMore.lha text/show 670K+V0.61: Proportional font textviewer
AmberRAM.lha util/sys 58K+Replacement RAM disk
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Apr.2003
Patric Klöter (ANF)
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Petro Tyschtschenko has his 60th birthday!
Patric Klöter writes:
Today our good friend Petro Tyschtschenko celebrates his 60th birthday. In the name of all Amiga users I would like to congratulate him from heart and give him the best wishes for the future and for his health.
That he is still in a close contact to the Amiga even in his "post Amiga Inc. time" is to notify not at least with his attendance at various Amiga user meetings.
Amiga has been and still is his life, who after the ESCOM bankrupt in 1996 would have worked without any rest without being paid and would have looked for a new mother company for the "Computer that won't die" until he found one (1997, Gateway 2000 Inc.). Only one who had a lot of passion for the thing and believe in the success can do so.
Petro Tyschtschenko went through nearly 20 years of Commodore/Amiga history with two bankrupts (Commodore and ESCOM) and four different Amiga companies, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
(1984-1994), AMIGA Technologies GmbH (1995-1996), AMIGA International, Inc.
(1997-2001) and AMIGA, Inc. (since 1997 and after the purchase by AMINO, Inc.
since 2000).
During the hard times he got allways support from his family, who were queued back during his Amiga rescue actions from time to time.
I think we can be grateful to Petro, for that what he did during the last years for us and the Amiga. Without him the AmigaOS would most probably still lack at version 3.1.
Thank you, Petro!
The team of amiga-news.de also would like to gratulate honestly and warmly to the 60th birthday.
Who would like to know more about the work of Petro for the Amiga is invited to do so within our
glossar.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Apr.2003
David "Daff" Brunet
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Magazine: Obligement 38 is now out
Issue 38 of the French Amiga magazine Obligement is now available. You can read in
this issue latests Amiga news, a report of the Equinoxe Party, reviews of
Crossfire 2 and Amiga Arena Games Edition 2002, interviews with Jérome
Senay (coder of Word Me Up) and Stefan Burstroem (author of IBrowse), an
article about installation of LinuxPPC on Pegasos, and lots of others
interesting articles. Download it at the address:
http://obligement.free.fr.
(ps)
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15.Apr.2003
Scott Pistorino (ANF)
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AmigaSource finally reaches the 1400+ link mark
Hello everyone!
Due to my job I had been unable to update
AmigaSource.com daily, weekly
or even monthly. But now it looks like things are starting to slow
down and I can get back to at least weekly updates.
Drop in, look around and enjoy!
Thanks and help spread the word!
Scott Pistorino
(ps)
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15.Apr.2003
Eule (from the heise Newsticker) (ANF)
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New security concept at OpenBSD
OpenBSD is one of the UN!XE which is ported for the Amiga 68k, too.
In contrast to NetBSD or Linux, OpenBSD is pay attached to the safety for server tasks.
So there is practically only one distribution where introduction of new drivers, services or performance, is staying behind.
For it security concepts have precedence. The default setting of OpenBSD applies as very safe.
In contrast to other systems, OpenBSD has ran only one safety gap in the default setting and the distribution.
This operating system is now equipped with an extra safety against Buffer Overflows. The Buffer Overflow is an invader who is able to write data on
the stacks at services who don`t control insert data well enough.
By the return out of the subroutine the stack-contents are interpreted as the return jump address. So the invader could be able to perform a
code of his choice on the system.
A change in the C-compiler of OpenBSD see to it that the stack-contents out of the subroutines is controlled before return.
By a few architectures the MMU is used for extra controlling in the data area. So safety gaps from services, which were programmed wrong
of third suppliers (f.e. SAMBA), are avoided.
You can get OpenBSD via FTP, but there I only found the predecessor version for the Amiga.
cu (AC-)Eule
Please read the heise-article under the title link
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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15.Apr.2003
Advogato (ANF)
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Internet: World of Ends - What the Internet Is and...
In the English article "World of Ends" with the subtitle "What the Internet Is and How to
Stop Mistaking It for Something Else", Doc Searls and David Weinberger are describing basic features of the Internet and how you can use
the Internet also wrong as right.
- The Internet isn't complicated
- The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement.
- The Internet is stupid.
- Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.
- All the Internet's value grows on its edges.
- Money moves to the suburbs.
- The end of the world? Nah, the world of ends.
- The Internet's three virtues:
a. No one owns it
b. Everyone can use it
c. Anyone can improve it
- If the Internet is so simple, why have so many been so boneheaded
about it?
- Some mistakes we can stop making already
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Apr.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Forever and MaxUAE on Mac OS X
New step-by-step configuration instructions for using Amiga Forever (CD-ROM and cross-platform Online Edition) with MaxUAE on Mac OS X have been posted in the FAQ section at amigaforever.com. (ps)
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14.Apr.2003
Amiga Society (Website)
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Amiga Society: Software book update and "Schlachtfeld" news
Horst Diebel wrote:
"It took some long time, until
the new update could be released. It contains some games. Among other things Vikings
and Secret OF the Silver Blades are included.
I am transfering the new battleground alpha version 5 on my
A4000 - and hope that executability and stability have improved. So
far it was always like that the game could be played on certain computers - under
certain circumstances - with the next attempt however again broke off. We hope
that this has improved now! With the presented version the old diagram of
the original is used. The new stands however for rifle with foot!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Apr.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-board driver: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 342
Guido Mersmann released beta version 332 of his AmithlonTV today.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Geändert:
- FIXED:
Seems last archive had some corrupted data content from disk transfer. Please download this new one to be sure that all needed stuff is included.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Apr.2003
Amiga XFR (Website)
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Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.2 available
XFR Version 2.2 released. The following details were changed or added:
- implemented xfrERROR_OUTOFDATA: in conjunction with
xfrOBJECT_MINFILE client can now signal to the program that a
format is significantly identified but would need the whole
file to be sure (and/or to calc size).
- upgraded xfrlist, internal IFF format and Oktalyzer
(Armin Sander) client to work with xfrlist
Additional information is to be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Apr.2003
Amiga Future (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Felix Schwarz
The English version of the interview with Felix Schwarz is available here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Apr.2003
GFXZONE (Website)
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News from GFXZONE
Late last year the first edition of a new demoparty was held in France. This party was announced as being somewhere between the Wired and the LTP, which suggested what visitors could expect from the party. I am talking about State of the art 2002, and I have seen some seriously nice prods! Later this month another first edition party will take place, this time in Bingen, Germany. Lets see what that party will bring!
Until then you'll have to make do with our latest update, which is an online party gallery for last years' State of the Art. This new gallery shows the best entries from the graphics compos at that party, and there are many great graphics for you to look at! Spread over three competitions 35 images are available online - oldschool, raytrace and a regular gfx compo.
I found it an extremely pleasant surprise to see some new graphics by Tenshu again. But there are plenty images in this gallery, for example productions by Ak, Danube, Mikl, Splif and a very atmospherical scene by Nytrik just to name a few. Enter the State of the Art 2002 online gallery
A large archive with all SotA compo graphics is also available for download. (nba)
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13.Apr.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Descent: Freespace: MultiplayerPack 07 released
The MultiplayerPack 07 for the game Decent: Freespace has been released, containing 6 multi player missions. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Apr.2003
DJBase (Website)
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Help guide: Data transfer with AmIRC over Router
Some users may know the problem that data transfer with AmIRC is no longer possible when using a router. In a short workshop under the title link M. Münch and M. Lück describe a solution using a pre-programmed ARexx script.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 5
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 5 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: The webmaster at amiga.org recently proclaimed that your Q&A sessions are not news worthy and will no longer post them as news. Many others agree and also believe this to be so. What do you think about such criticism and how it reflects on the current state of the Amiga community.
Fleecy: There is an old saying that 'Editors make the news'. What this means is that those who control the channels which diseminate the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio stations and websites are the ones who 'decide' what is news by the content they chose to make available. They make this decision based upon their own philosophies, prejudices and agendas. One person's news is another person's propoganda is another person's free advertising.
I answer the questions because a news site, Amigaworld, choses to send them. I certainly don't insist that they are news.
The power of a community is that politics and philosophies reverberate through it to make it a living, breathing, arguing whole. That is what I see. Some are angry, some are annoyed, some are happy, some have hidden agendas. Events shape it. Editors try to shape it themselves by deciding what they report. If people decide that it is news and the editor doesn't then those people will move between sites. The power of the Internet is that there no longer has to be just one version of 'the truth'.
2) Jose: Dont' you think that the possibility of having Microsoft apps on AmigaOS would be a contradiction, technologywise, and from the users that still have fond memory of AmigaOS point of view, not to mention what we know of the commmunity.
Fleecy: Users want functionality and they indicate that by either buying or not buying the product. Ideological hatred of an entity is a juvenile approach to life and has probably caused, and continues to cause more suffering in this world than probably any other single issue.
3) pig : I bought both a Party Pack, and a club membership... Do I need to buy 2 Amigaone's to get my refunds, or can I get them both on the purchase of 1? ie: Can I combine these two offers into the same machine? What if I got 2 membership coupons, will I get full refund if I get one machine?
Fleecy: I am not the right person to answer that questions. I will see if I can get an answer and post it back as an addendum to a future Q&A.
Updated: If you bought x party packs and y club memberships then you can apply x+y rebates against one or more AmigaOnes. Basically you can mix and match the rebates as you like upto the value of the products that you purchase.
4) LaBodilsen: Is Amiga currently investigating into any wireless technology, be it Wifi (802.11b), bluetooth, IrDa etc. with regards to PDA integration for AmigaOS. And is there any plans of making a Syncronization suite with some well known PDA operating system, to syncronize information between the PDA and Amiga Aps. Or just simple file transfer.
Fleecy: As I said in an earlier question set, we intend to excel in the 90% of what users want to do with a computer and connectivity of any kind is pretty high on that list so yes, we are investigating and designing to take connectivity into account and hope to support at least WiFi in the near future. As for PDA connectivity, we will not look at it too close until the DE is brought into the OS but that is a third party opportunity in the meantime.
5) Derfs: are the party pack owners going to be given free upgrades to the latest SDK when 1.3/4 is released to the general developer public?
Fleecy: Another one I'll have to get back to you on. I don't decide sales and marketing policy.
Update: Anyone has has an officially registered copy of the SDK 1, which means an AD developer number and an appropriately mmarked AmiPASS will receive a few copy of SDK 2.0 to download or an at cost copy for a physical SKU (cost of product plus postage and packing).
6) Loki1: Will important AmigaOS4 information become exclusively available to Amiga Club members?
Fleecy: Why on earth would that be done? Surely it's in our interest to provide as much information as possible to as wide an audience as possible about our upcoming flagship product. Club Amiga is for those who want to be more involved and get more detailed information about the Amiga community and acts as a focus for bringing that community together, with features on user groups, dealers, Amigans, general technology topics that affect Amiga and with some more detailed articles on AmigaOS4.0 development. This is information of interest although I wouldn't say that it is important, not important as in terms of progress and release. We have started posting this articles of interest as we always said we would.
7) Treke: Does Amiga Inc have any plans for moving a desktop OS to machines based on IBM PPC 970 ?
Fleecy: We are always looking at new options for the AmigaOS and this is indeed an interesting one.
8) ikir: Will there be a bundled game with OS4, like SIN? Any bundled applications?
Fleecy: We do not bundle full applications because it can skew a market, favour one developer over another in a competitive market space, and fails to provide the developer with the full potential of that product. It is more often a cheap gimmick to fill out the lack of functionality in the core product. We have talked extensively with developers and they are happier to provide lite versions of their applications in a contributions drawer on the AmigaOS4.0 CD, allowing users to look at a variety of applications, get a good feel for them and then proceed to make a purchase based upon their experience.
9) Dan: Who has the IP and copyright of the orginal Amigas and their chipsets Amiga Inc or Gateway? And if some thirdparty company was intrested in building a AGA-compatibility card for the AmigaOne the sameway the Catweaselcard provides diskdrive-compatibility for AmigaOne would it be possible for them to license the AGAchipset design?
Fleecy: I would have to check the exact details but if someone is interested in such a product they can contact me as a first step.
10) Jose: Will the people that developed for Classic AmigaOS still be at ease with Amiga Generation2 technology?, Will there be things that will remain the same ?
Fleecy: It will be recognisable as an Amiga system to them. You should see the uproar on the OS4 team list when someone suggests adding something that is from Unixland. The screams are that 'this is an Amiga, not another Unix clone'.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=6
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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13.Apr.2003
A.D.A.
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A.D.A.: Logo gallery updated
A.D.A., the 'Amiga Demo Archive' have updated their Logo archive with 15 new logos. Among those are logos by Sec4, Eswat, Ra, Made, Tee Jay, Lazur, Leunam, Louie, Blizzart, R.W.O, Diesel, Drake and Cyclone.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Apr.2003
(ANF)
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Pictures of Mocca Party 8
Under the title link you will find the first pictures of the
Mocca Party 8 which took place
from 4th to 6th April 2003 in Hirsau near Pforzheim (Germany). (ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Apr.2003
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New Aminet uploads as per 13th April 2003
These are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last update:
AB2MLMae-Mai02.lha biz/cloan 52K+ABlitzML archiv only in german
cddbfreedb.lha comm/tcp 6K+Cddb.library dropin replacement using fr
ChestnutHill.lha docs/misc 110K+The Chestnut Hill Caper, by John Barnard
MaritimeAdv.lha docs/misc 109K+Maritime Adventure, by John Barnard
bouldercaves.lha game/jump 472K+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 856K+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
imdbDiff030404.lha misc/imdb 3.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
EDG-NapalmiRMX.mpg mods/mpg 4.6M+Remixed EDG-Napalmi Kuolema
viruscommands.lha mus/midi 108K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields
XG_EditIMG.lha mus/midi 24K+New Images for mus/midi/XG_Edit
Artworks030218.lha pix/wfm 14M+Artworks Issue from February 18, 2003
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13.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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NOMAD TEAM developing two new products
As reported by AmigaFlame, the programming team 'NOMAD' is developing two new programs for AmigaOS, intent and Windows. The first project will probably be an action game for AmigaOS and intent with the working title 'NomadGMS'. The only thing known of the second program is that it will be released for AmigaOS and Windows.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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12.Apr.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga
users that is sorted geographically according to continents
and countries. Today the following areas have been updated:
- Europe
- New Links List
- Lost Links List
- History 2003
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12.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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AmigaDE PocketPC Paks at CompUSA
At CompUSA there are from now on both AmigaDE PocketPC packages available and can be found using the search function of the website with the term "Amiga". Among other things do they contain the games by ZeoNeo.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.12 - Rockford is back!
BoulderDäsh is an Amiga conversion of the good old BoulderDash on the C64. With now more than 10000
(ten thousand) levels in more than 400 game files should BoulderDäsh offer a long term gaming fun. If this is not enough for people they can create own levels and games with the level editor.
Compared to the version v5.11 supports v5.12 now also both C64 #?.GAM formats. Next to some small improvements contains this version approximately 5000 additional levels. The new version of BoulderDäsh RTX has already been uploaded and should appear on Aminet in the next days.
Here once again the updated feature list:
BoulderDäsh V5.12
- 1:1 BoulderDäsh clone
- Full speed under MC68000 Amigas with AGA, ECS or OCS
- Full graphic board support! Up to 256 Colors (depends on graphic set)
- Full sound card support (AHI)!
- System friendly! Can be paused and resumed at any time.
- requires OS 2.04 or higher
- Commodore styleguide conform
- Locale
- Great GUI
- Online Help
- many preferences windows
- Up to six players
- New game elements
- Unique record and play feature to show others how you solved the caves.
- Internal music player with playlist
- Optional full screen mode when running in RTG mode.
- >10000 Levels
- 35 graphic sets
- 6 character sets
- 5 sample sets
- Several hiscorelists for each game (game, level and level time records)
- Level and game editor
- Supports C64 and Atari Construction Kit Level and game files.
- Levels up to 100 * 100 blocks
- Special gravitation modes
- Create your personal game graphics
- Create your personal sample sets
- Create your personal game music
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Apr.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Liquid Skies releases audio CD
The demo scene label Liquid Skies has released a double audio CD that contains all songs of the Liquid Skies packs from #001 to #021 as audio tracks and as original packed data files.
The price is 2,50 EURO for both CDs in a double CD box. The packaging costs have to be paid additionally and depend on the country where the receiver of the CDs is living in (within Germany 1,44 EURO). For further information please visit the homepage of the group under the title link in the section "CD order".
Liquid Skies is very proud to be able to offer this product and is eagerly awaiting any feedback.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Apr.2003
Stefan Pietzonke (ANF)
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Hardware: C64 Ethernet adapter
With the Ethernet adapter you can connect a C64 to a network. The hardware bases on an embedded
Ethernet card that is universally usable. It should be possible to design a circuit to connect the card with the serial or parallel port of the Amiga. Then you could for example integrate the A500 into a network.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)
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Catweasel: New multidisk.device (Update)
The new multidisk.device for Amiga OS (version 2.0 and up) and
MorphOS now recognizes the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper in a PCI-slot
of an Amiga, Amithlon or Pegasos. With this, individual Computers
is the first to deliver a working floppy-driver for the Pegasos,
which brings the aspiring system one step closer to the big
role model "Amiga".
Burning CDs to transfer small amounts of data is no longer
necessary, now you can use floppy disks of all common disk
formats like Amiga 880K, Amiga 1760K, PC720K, PC1440K and
many more.
The device is a public beta version, and it uses OpenPCI to
recognize and activate the board. Unfortunately, neither the
authors of OpenPCI, nor we could get hold of developer
information about the Mediator PCI board, so this will not
be supported until further notice.
Download: mdisk363.lha (16KBytes)
The homepage of the author of OpenPCI is located at
http://www.chez.com/titan/.
Update 12.04.2003 from Jens Schönfeld:
Our initial news item claimed that we're the first to deliver a working floppy driver for the Pegasos. There is one more solution by a third party, but that will only allow you to access 720K and 1440K disks. (nba)
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11.Apr.2003
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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Amiga Inc.: AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS 4
»This description is meant as addition to our AmigaOS4 feature
list. For first impressions about the new functionalities, please
have a read in the mentioned document.
OS4's AmiDock allows to be configured by the user in a very high
degree. Picture 1 shows 4 different examples of docks in icon mode.
The top-most has a drag bar, and fully transparent backgrounds. If
someone wants to see a border around a dock: no problem - this is
shown in the second example. Of course you also can create a fully
invisible dock which has neither a drag bar nor a border (third
example). Finally we see a dock which draws a background, has a border
but no drag bar. Of course it is possible to choose those styles for
each different dock.«
Have a look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
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Several software news (11.04.2003)
Amigan Software
Tool: Report+ version 5.66b - Download:
ReportPlus.lha
- 312 KB
RC5-72 Clients
AmigaOS
[PPC/WarpOS] v2.9005.483
[PPC/PowerUp] v2.9005.483
[m68k] v2.9005.483
InstallerNG
'InstallerNG' is an alternative to the installer tool by Commodore. Only 'InstallerNG'
supports e.g. MUI (via plugin) and offers a CPU recognition for the MC68060 as well as
PPC processor. 'InstallerNG' will be part of AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. On 8th April 2003
version 50 was sent to the developer teams of Amiga and MorphOS for beta tests.
Burning software: MakeCD
Under the title link you can download the new makecdfs.module v45.8 and MakeCD beta
v3.2d10.
MaxUAE - The Amiga emulator for MacOS X
There are the following new programs ready for dwonload for the emulator:
DMS2ADF - Tool for unarchiving of .dms-archives
ADFCreator - Tool for creating of Amiga Disk Files
LBreakout 2 for MorphOS
"The polished successor to LBreakout offers you a new challenge in more
than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive
balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus
magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks,
regenerative bricks, indestructible bricks, chaotic bricks). And if
you're through with all the levels you can create complete new
levelsets with the integrated easy-to-use level editor!"
Download: LBreakout2.lha - 2,5 MB
DTP: Pagestream for Linux
Second PageStream Linux beta released. Users who purchase a copy of the
Linux version now will receive access to the interim and final Linux
releases. Users who participate in the testing will also receive TextFX
for Linux at no charge as thanks!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads (11.04.2003)
Here are the new Aminet uploads:
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1c
tsl-mentro.lha demo/ecs 210K+The Silents FR presents Intro? Dentro? M
FlashROM.lha disk/cdrom 18K+Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of Pl
DMS2HD_PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish locale for DMS2HD 1.6
amigazette_10.lha docs/mags 883K+AMIGAzette 10th issue (10.02.2002) (ital
amigazette_11.lha docs/mags 185K+AMIGAzette 11th issue (25.03.2002) (ital
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 852K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderdaeshfu.lha game/jump 2.4M+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
Arkanos.lha game/misc 405K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.0 **
wipes.lha gfx/ifx 21K+Wipe/Transition Arexx Script v0.4 for IF
ambot.lha hard/drivr 35K+Cybot (Real Robots) programmer v1.3
DiabloMon.lha hard/hack 34K+Diavolo Backup monitor on i2c LED displa
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 86K+ZX-Spectrum 48/128k emulator v0.16b
ANR-kickass.lha mus/play 16K+Kickass Uproar skin for AmiNetRadio
ANR-Kickass_pr.jpg mus/play 34K+Preview of Kickass Uproar ; skin for Ami
NewHomer.lha util/misc 98K+Talkin' Homer V1.83 (yet some fixes, mor
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 91K+Italian version of StartBar
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
Kuno Hutter (E-Mail)
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Pro-Linux.de: PowerPC with preinstalled Linux
»Probably from Friday 11th April the AmigaOne will be available and if wanted with
preinstalled Linux.«
Have a look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.6
Hopefully the commands are now complete. Instead like last version
using values lower than 127 i now made them to send only values
that are described in the manual. So now it wont confuse virus
and are more safe and compatible. But something says me....
there will be another more complete package later.
I hope there is someone that has Virus and use this commands.
However if there is other midiprogram makers that wants me to do
versions for their midipackage. Sure i could do it. Just ask.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
Mandrake Soft Website (ANF)
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Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC published
Mandrake has published version 9.1 of the Linux-distribution for PPC.
The features are e. g.:
- Linux kernel 2.4.21
- XFree86 4.3.0
- KDE 3.1
- GNOME 2.2
- OpenOffice.org 1.0.2
- Mozilla 1.3
- Apache 2
- Samba 2.2.7
Mac-on-Linux is also integrated. The hardware support is there only for Macs. Furthermore
there is an alternative kernel which is called the "BenH". We do not know if Ben
Hermans is meant with this name!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Apr.2003
Joachim Thomas - Bitplane (ANF)
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Webb.it: Amiga-companies at the biggest IT-show in Italy
Virtual Works, Soft 3 and Bitplane Magazine will be present
together at the next edition of "Webb.it", one of the most
important IT-shows in Italy, attended by thousands of
visitors every year.
Virtual Works and Soft 3 will show the more recent development
on the Amiga-platform offering the possibility to see in action
the two new systems, the AmigaOne and the Pegasos, together with
some AmigaDE products. Bitplane, the only Italian printed magazine
with CD, will be present with its more recent issue.
This year the show will be held in Padova from 9th to 11th of may
at "PadovaFiere" (Padova Exibition Center). The team is pleased to
meet all the Amiga users at their stand to let the world know that
Amiga is finally coming back! (nba)
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10.Apr.2003
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InterVideo: Microsofts Multimedia Format for Linux-based devices
InterVideo, Inc. announced today that Microsoft has chosen the
company as a provider of its Windows Media Technology for
Linux-based consumer electronics. Under the agreement InterVideo
is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format,
port them over to Linux and provide them to manufacturers who are
interested in running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer
devices such as set-top boxes, personal video recorders and other
hybrid multimedia devices. (nba)
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10.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets through August 4th, 2003
With WHDLoad, it's possible to install to your hard-drive games which were previously considered floppy-only. The following packets
have been added or updated since our last announcement:
- 08.04.03 improved: Space Ace 2 (Ready Soft) supports another version, new icon
- 08.04.03 new: Galdregons Domain (Pandora) done by Galahad
- 06.04.03 new: Red Baron (Dynamix) done by JOTD
- 06.04.03 new: Kelly X (Virgin/Mastertronic) done by JOTD
- 06.04.03 improved: Hostages / Operation Jupiter (Infogrames) access fault fixed
- 06.04.03 improved: Eye of the Beholder (Westwood/SSI) supports kixx xl version
- 06.04.03 improved: Turbo Outrun (U.S.Gold) fixed keyboard and blitter routines
- 06.04.03 improved: Plotting (Ocean) fixed audio and colour bit routines
- 06.04.03 new: Elf (Ocean) done by Psygore
- 03.04.03 improved: International Ninja Rabbits / Ninja Rabbits (Microvalue/Flair) supports another version
- 03.04.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) supports AGA version, icon fixed
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
GoldED Website
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GoldED: C/C++ IDE and PayPal Payment
The cprefs program, which is utilized in the C/C++ mode of the GoldED text editor in order to carry out compiler option for gcc and
vbcc, has been updated and now contains online help for all options.
From here on out the secure online payment of the registration fee for GoldED Studio is immediately possible through the payment
service PayPal. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: New Copyright as Good as Succeeded
The new copyright regulation is almost completed:
After lengthy parliamentary consultation the Rights Division accepted the
government's legal draft for the regulation of copyrights in the information domain, in spite of the
objections of the FDP [a German political party -dm] element and in spite of proposed changes
offered by CDU/CSU [other German political parties -dm] and the FDP.
The new copyright is being criticized harshly from several quarters, among other things it's feared
that the new regulation will take away an individual's right to make private copies. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: Interview with Benjamin "Titan" Vernoux
The online magazine GFX-BASE spoke with Benjamin Vernoux about his OpenPCI Project. In this interesting interview Benjamin also speaks
to other interesting topics, and gives a preview of some planned projects. Read this interview led by SOL-Invictus (English language)
under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Amiga Joker Test Reports and More
There are a few new developments on Kultpower.de, a Web project to which the game magazines ASM, PowerPlay, Videogames and Amiga
Joker are dedicated.
- New Amiga Joker test reports from the September and October 1990 editions:
Back to the Future 2, Flood, Last Ninja 2, Loom, Neuromancer, Oops Up, Operation Stealth, Starblade, Wings.
- New Videogames test reports from the September and October 1993 editions:
Afterburner 3 (Mega CD), Batman Returns (Mega CD), Cobra Command (Mega CD), Ecco the Dolphin (Mega CD), Final Fight (Mega CD), Gunstar Heroes (Mega Drive), Jaguar XJ 220 (Mega CD), Night Trap (Mega CD), Sherlock Holmes (Mega CD), Shinobi 2 (Mega Drive), Silpheed (Mega CD), Thunderhawk (Mega CD), Time Gal (Mega CD).
- A new Powerplay article from the March, 1995 edition:
"From Pong to Pentium".
- New cover under "More Mags": 14 additional covers of the newspaper Next Level.
- New cover under "More Mags": the first 6 covers of the newspaper Telematch (very rare!).
The organizers thank all their helpers: Gerald, matze, Chronos and Ralph! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: C-One production started
After more than two years development time, the C-One production
has started. It'll start selling on May 5th in Germany and
the Netherlands. Our other European partners should have the
boards by May 9th, when the board will also be launched in North
America.
Many projects have dealt with re-configurable computers so far,
but none of them is as consistent and flexible as the C-One.
Other projects only kept parts of the hardware re-configurable,
but the C-One can change the behaviour of it's chipset even
during runtime. Therefore, the C-One is the world's first
re-configurable computer. Read more on the official homepage
of the C-One. (nba)
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10.Apr.2003
Terra Soft
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Terra Soft discontinues development of ATX PowerPC-systems
Terra Soft Solutions has determined that it is not, at this point
in time, prudent to carry the Teron mainboards nor offer
Teron-based Boxer systems. This is as great a disappointment for
the company as it is for many of you. Terra Soft Solutions were
truly excited to bring this particular ATX PowerPC Linux product
to market.
If you have read the rumor mills, there are a variety of
supposed reasons why the company has been delayed in shipping,
including unqualified statements and speculation at
best. It is their corporate policy to not address specific
issues regarding any strategic relationship within a
public forum, where fact and fiction are not easily
discernable, and their fiduciary responsibility to their
customers, shareholders, and industry associates may
be compromised.
Terra Soft Solutions regrets having launched a product
initiative and built
expectations prior to receiving first shipment. They have
clearly learned a powerful lesson and do extend their
apology to their customers, their existing and potential customers.
As the Teron mainboard and associated systems will be
made available through other resellers, Terra Soft Solutions will
encourage them to sign-on as official Yellow Dog Linux
resellers in order that they may continue to support
movement of what they hope to be a very popular product. (nba)
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09.Apr.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Collectors pieces: Amiga clones "Access" available
The Italian dealer Soft3
seems to have some units of the Amiga clone "Access" on stock (title link).
The exact number of pieces is unknown. Probably Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene the owner of Soft3 will tell more details within a thread at Amiga.org which covered this item firstly. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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09.Apr.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio CD "Power Liquids" by Bjorn Lynne and Aural Planet released
Bjorn Lynne by the CD label LynneMusic is proud to announce the release of the new audio CD "Power Liquids".
This is a CD which was made by a cooperation of the both electronic/trance acts DIVINORUM and AURAL PLANET during the last months.
"Power Liquids" includes elements from trance, elektronic, ambient and ethnic music to create a warm, living and positve elektronic album.
All CDs which will be sent during the first 14 days after release will be enumerated individually and signed by Bjorn Lynne.
The CD costs US$ 14.99 and might purchased alternativly within one of three bundles (Savings from $10 for all three
Divinorum CDs, of $18.99 for all for AuralPlanets CDs or of
$21.95 for all six Aural Planet and Divinorum CDs possible). Ordering and further details are to find at the website of LynneMusic by the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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09.Apr.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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"Journey to Northland" for MorphOS and Mac OS announced
Funatics Software GmbH and e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh announced today that Cultures 2 sequel "Northland" will be ported to the Apple Mac and MorphOS.
"We are very happy to be able to bring one of the most popular Godgame series to gamers on the Apple Mac and MorphOS" said Thomas Steiding, CEO of e.p.i.c. about the deal.
Thomas Friedman, CEO of Funatics added: "e.p.i.c. is the ideal partner for us to bring "Northland" to an even larger audience. Unfortunately users of systems like Macintosh or the new MorphOS are poorly supported when it comes to innovative new games. We intend to fill this gap with the release of "Northland" for these platforms.
The story of "Northland" begins where the plot of "Cultures 2 - The Gates of Asgard" ended. After perilous adventures our four heroes defeated the Midgard serpent and thus saved the world. But one day they were disturbed by a call for help from their friend Hatschi. Hatschi's homeland was plagued by mysterious monstrous serpent creatures, which spread chaos and destruction through the country. Without hesitation Byjami and Crya hurried to help him and stumbled right into a new adventure, in which the sly god Loki will play an important role...
Features Northland:
Stand-alone Adventure Strategy game.
- Single player campaign with 8 missions including several sub missions.
- The exciting plots tells the story of Viking God Loki who tried to take revenge on Godfather Odin for his banishment from Asgard to Earth. For that he abuses our four human heroes with his intrigues and traps.
- 8 additional free single player missions (non campaign).
- 3 difficulty levels to make the game fun for everybody from beginners to experts.
- Special effects like weather effects, fog, ghost units etc.
- Based on the enhanced technology of "Cultures 2 - The Gates of Asgard"; enhanced AI.
More information on "Northland" can be found at Northland or e.p.i.c interactive.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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09.Apr.2003
xfr autor himself (ANF)
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Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.1 available
Who does not kow XFD and XAD by Dirk Stöcker and the Exoticripper
or Eagleplayer. XFR is a similar system which combines the best of all them to extract music tracks and pictures out of demo files. XFR offers a library and several clients for each sound format. A genie for the delitracker and the Eagleplayer and some Shell/WB tools for scanning whole directories or floppy disks in the twinkling of an eye is included also.
The XFR system is like the other X systems easily expandable with additional clients and comes along with a bunch of example code and a developer guide. I still need some support for the C header files but the assembler includes are finished already. Useful development information is obtainable at the home page (looking at these strongly recommended).
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos: List of supported RAM modules
At MorphZone there is a list available of tested RAM modules which work with the Pegasos.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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08.Apr.2003
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Genesi: Offer 20 Pegasos I for Phoenix members
Genesi Sarl will offer up to 20 more Pegasos I machines with the April2
patch to Phoenix members for $299 through the Pegasos-USA website. This
offer includes:
- the Pegasos mainboard and G3 600MHZ CPU module
- an ATX backplate
- MorphOS 1.3 CD
- MorphOS Games: Birdie Shoot, Feeble Files, Tales of Tamar, Software Tycoon
- ProStationAudio Titanium
- DebianPPC for Pegasos with Mac-on-Linux
- a MorphOS "We have a Present for You" t-shirt
- two stickers for your case
- A4 connector guide
Other extras and updates will be distributed through the new Pegasos User
FTP. You will also to be subscribed to the very useful, supportive, and
positive Pegasos User Mailing List.
These are ALL new boards. Recycled Betatester boards are being used
internally in Genesi ONLY. If you are unable to use the Pegasos-USA website,
please contact Thierry to coordinate
a direct wire transfer to Genesi.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Apr.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #032
After a short break of five days here are now the latest music pack #032 of Liquid
Skies Records.
It contains a track from Maxus in Trance style, but it is not a typical Trance track
because it is only 2:48 min. It as always available for free download from the
website.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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08.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Sound card: New delfina.library online
The new version of the delfina.library now supports the sound card
on all clockports that are available on Zorro-cards by
individual Computers.
This includes X-Surf, X-Surf 2, VarIO,
Buddha Flash and ISDN-Surfer. The library can be used
on the new Delfina by individual Computers or on the old
clockport version by Petsoff.
Download: delflib416b43.lha (22 KB) (nba)
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08.Apr.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)
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VHT-Canada online again
After three days offline due to problems at the provider Shadow Creations is now the
website of `Virus Help Team Canada' available.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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08.Apr.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Spider II for Mediator- and Amithlon-user
Elbox Computer is proud to announce release of Spider II--the new
version of the ground-breaking Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed controller.
Spider II is based on the newest USB 2.0 PCI chipset, improving
data transmission by up to 20 percent of bandwidth as compared
with the previous USB 2.0 chipset.
The Spider II USB 2.0 PCI card is a simple and affordable way to
add five Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports to Mediator-equipped Amigas or
to computers running AmigaOS under the Amihlon emulation.
USB 2.0 is the fastest USB standard ever, supporting data speeds
up to 480Mbps. That is 40 times faster than USB 1.1, making USB
2.0 ideal for external storage devices, scanners, CD-RWs,
printers, cameras, and more.
The Spider II USB 2.0 PCI card gives your computer the highest USB
speeds available today.
The Spider II USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI controller is backward-compatible,
which means it works also with older USB 1.1 peripherals.
Features
- Five USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports: four external and one internal
32-bit 33MHz DMA host interface compiliant with the PCI 2.2
specification
- Compliant with the EHCI (USB 2.0) and OHCI (USB 1.1)
specifications
- Consists of three independent host controllers: two OHCI
(Open Host Controller Interface) and one EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller
Interface)
- All ports can handle high-speed (480Mbps), full-speed
(12Mbps) and low-speed (1.5Mbps) transactions
- Supports up to 127
downstream USB devices
- Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port
- Supports
the PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
- Includes drivers for AmigaOS for
all Mediator busboards and for Amithlon
- Amiga support works under the
Poseidon stack
Requirements
- One free PCI slot
- Mediator Multimedia CD (for Mediator based systems)
Package contents
- Spider II USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI card
- CD with Mediator and Amithlon EHCI (USB 2.0) drivers for Poseidon
Pricing and availability
The Spider II USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card will be on sale as of
15 April 2003, at the suggested retail price of EUR 49.95 (VAT excl.) To
locate an authorized distributor visit the
Elbox Computer website.
For purchase directly from Elbox go to the
Spider II page
in the Elbox Online Store.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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08.Apr.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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Workbench: Easys-Patch 4.8.5 available
The latest update of the system enhancer 'Easys' is available on the service pack
site. Please take a look at the Readme.
Support and registration: sonja_n@gmx.de.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Apr.2003
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 03/2003 - DraCoZilla
DraCo lives - and so does AMIGAplus. Read all those and more reports in the current issue 03/2003 (#134) to be ordered at http://www.amigaplus.de:
- DraCo lives: Workshop Videoediting
- Review: Knights and Merchants - Grande Strategicale
- Review: VHI Studio 6 - Take your pics to the studio
- Review: IBrowse 2.3 - Surfing with comfort
- Review: BoXiKoN - Tetris Deluxe
- MorphOS-Compatibility: How AmigaOS-strong is MOS?
- Amiga Status Report: SNAP! SNAP!
- Baseknowledge: CD-Burners
- News: What's up in the markets?
- Workshop: Games Development with SDL, part 3
- Up in the north: Kindergarden #%00001010
- Cover-CD #20: Crossfire II Big Demo, ARC 2002 Video etc.
- and much more
(nba)
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07.Apr.2003
AMIGAplus
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Address of the editorial office of AMIGAplus changed
The editorial staff of AMIGAplus moved office. Please note the new postal address:
AMIGAplus
Drachenfelsstr. 57
D-50939 Köln (Cologne)
Germany
Phone number (0221 / 430 82 933), fax number (0221 / 430 82 939),
eMail-address (info@amigaplus.de) and website-address http://www.amigaplus.de) stay the same. (nba)
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07.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 07.04.2004
Here the new Aminet Uploads since our last message:
MiamiDxCT.lha comm/net 37K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
bouldercaves.lha game/jump 272K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
bouldergames.lha game/jump 1.1M+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
bouldergraph.lha game/jump 196K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Graphics Archive
bouldersound.lha game/jump 184K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Sound Archive
jd800commands.lha mus/midi 12K+Roland JD-800 commands for tracks&fields
viruscommands.lha mus/midi 104K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Apr.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Event: Commodore show and SID music workshop
Ron van Schaik writes:
Hello C= fans,
At Saturday 19th April there will be a C= show at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21,
Maarssen, Holland from 10:00 to 16:00 o'clock. On this show we will organize a
SID music workshop in Hall 2. There will be a beamer with wide screen and
demonstrations from Marinus Kuivenhoven how to make a nice SID music MP3.
From Germany firestARTer will be present with his SIDsyn. It's not sure, if
he can show a 'running' SIDsyn but otherwise he will talk about some
theoreticals and about the SID. Further he will show a lot about the
music-scene and about the game/SID sounds for new releases (POP/electro).
Also there will be a stereo C64 (with a double build-in SID) from the
German guy Dirk Kledtke.
In the other hall will we organize our regular
show and the hall will be totally filled with all kinds of Commodore
computers. For example there will be a Commodore 3000H (from our Irish
visitor Jesper). This is a kind of Pong game for on television and was
built in 1975. Further we will have a Hyper VIC20 who was built by Ruud
Baltissen. The Hyper VIC20 is a Commodore VIC-20 with some extra features.
The two main ones are the 16-bits 6502 compatible 65816 processor and it
can be equipped with 8-bits PC ISA-cards. These cards only work well with a
processor that can address up to 1 MB and unfortunately the 6502 only
supports 64 KB. Look for more information at our homepage under the
title link.
Lots of greetings,
Ron
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Apr.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: Benchmarks zur ALGOR online
Due to many inquiries for the speed of the new ALGOR Zorro II
USB controller by E3B they completely revised the
benchmark page. Now you can find benchmarks for all USB controllers offered and tested on different system configurations.
The list of compatible USB devices has been revised too.
E3B thanks all users, which supported E3B with entries.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX - Rockford is back
Guido Mersmann wrote:
As already announced some days ago, I can intimate the publication of
BoulderDaesh RTX. BoulderDaesh RTX is a 1:1
conversion of the good old C64 and was here and there drilled out,
without reducing the game play. BoulderDaesh RTX runs on
Amiga-OS-COMPATIBLE systems starting with the A500 up to fast Amithlon
systems.
The Picasso96, Cybergraphics and AHI support permits 100% hardware independence. Beside the well-known additional
archives there is now also an archive called "boulderdaeshfull.lha" available, which
contains all currently in the Aminet available data. Included are many small archives available in the Aminet wich have been made available by their respective authors.
The most important game play innovations in comparisson to the original C64 version are an integrated game and level editor. A music player with playlist support as well as the possibility to easily integrate own music, samples, graphics and fonts into the game. When using your own levels they can even change from level to level. New play elements and the enormous level offer round off the
extension.
The new BoulderDaesh RTX V5.11 archives are already on their way to the Aminet
and will be available in the next few days. BoulderDaesh RTX - He will rock you! Finally a list of all features:
- 1:1 BoulderDäsh clone
- Full speed under MC680x0 Amigas with AGA, ECS or OCS
- Full graphic board support! Up to 256 Colors (depends on graphic set)
- Full sound card support (AHI)!
- System friendly! Can be paused and resumed at any time.
- requires OS 2.04 or higher
- Commodore styleguide conform
- Locale
- Great GUI
- Online Help
- many preferences windows
- Up to six players
- New game elements
- Unique record and play feature to show others how you solve the caves.
- Internal music player with playlist
- Full screen mode when running in RTG mode.
- >5700 Levels
- 35 graphic sets
- 6 character sets
- 5 sample sets
- Several hiscorelists for each game (game, level and level time records)
- Level and game editor
- Supports C64 and Atari Construction Kit Levels.
- Levels up to 100 * 100 blocks
- Special gravitation modes
- Create your personal game graphics
- Create your personal sample sets
- Create your personal game music
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Apr.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Worldcharts#15 published
The Amiga version of the Chartmags Worldcharts#15 by Scoopex & The
Silents & Hoodlum was published last week. At the title
link you can download the improved version, in which even
the second song is now playable. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Apr.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Announcement dentro for Jurassic Pack#12 released
The announcement dentro for the demoscene diskmag 'Jurassic Pack' no. 12 has recently been released on the Swedish Deadline 2003 party. Any further details are available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Apr.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Roland JD800 MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.1
Made system area and part area commands for JD800.
The rest of commands im going to make sometime in future when
i know more about coding or when i get help with it.
So look out maybe it will come sooner or later. I will try to make
my best.
This package is made as roland jd800 has some bugs in ROM so you can
save the sysex with tracks&fields and then put this commands in
the music you are creating. The part effects and values are the ones
that... at last on my computer arent saved for some reason.
I have the latest ROM. And ofcours you can use the commands to play with
the settings in the music. If i make more commands than it would be even
more fun as there would be controlling more buttons realtime. heh.
Later on.
As usual, if anyone finds this usefull please tell me and write a short
letter. It can be whatever. I like it, dislike it etc. (ps)
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06.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 4
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 4 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) AutumnSun: does AInc has any plans for a very low cost Amiga? i.e. erverything on board + TVout and possibly only some flash-memory (but optional external HD)
Fleecy: Amiga is actively promoting the benefits of AmigaOS4 and beyond to many companies who have great interest in seeing a resource frugal, high performance multimedia OS on the PPC and other architectures. We are talking with such companies about all manner of devices, not just desktops.
At least one of our AmigaOS partners tells us that they are working on a device similar to what you describe with the intention of seeing it run some form of AmigaOS4.
2) ssolie: How do you plan to support Amiga users groups with the launch of AmigaOS 4.0? Press kits? Free posters? Anything like that?
Fleecy: We have a staged public approach to this, although private contacts are going on all the time. The new Amiga Power Platform website needs to go live first and work is progressing on that. We will then use that to capture as much uptodate user group information as possible and then bring these together in a user group forum where we can share our strategies with them and get feedback from them.
What we want to do is create a single core marketing pack for any user group but which can then be tailored by that user group. Obviously there are a core set of requirements but each group also knows its domain better than we do and our role has to be one of support whilst allowing those groups to prosecute their own plans.
MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5
Fleecy: Before I answer these, I need to point out that AmigaOS5 is a work in progress, and a long term product goal. Many will criticise me for even agreeing to try to answer these questions since it breaks our policy of don't say anything until it is ready but I would point out that these are not official statements or press releases. They are me trying to give an insight into what is going on in an effort to satisfy the requests for information by the community. Whether people believe them or not is upto them. There is no intention here to mislead, only to inform but plans, timescales and focus will always change.
3) MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 - are you already working on it and what is going on currently?
Fleecy: Yes we are already working on it, but that comes with the rider that working on it can involve anything from concept, planning, design, blue skying, whiteboarding and prototyping. Code does exist for it and it runs but will it be in the final release? I cannot say at this point.
4) MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 - when will it be ready? (please more precise than "when it is done(tm)")
Fleecy: We aren't even ready to give a release date for AmigaOS4.0 yet so I certainly can't give even a vague date for AmigaOS5.0. We have at least 3 planned revisions to AmigaOS4 itself before we get to AmigaOS5.0
5) MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 - will OS5 be a completely new os from ground of or will it be based on some sources?
Fleecy: AmigaOS5.0 will mark the first time when there is no more Amiga Generation 1 technology in the AmigaOS. It will be 100% Amiga Generation 2. That said, Amiga Generation 2 will include many parts in its Opportunity Analysis, including a full review of the existing AG1 elements for each domain.
6) moood: Will there be any Amiga-Anywhere/AmigaDE-players for any Symbian-devices (like Nokia 7650/3650 and Sony Ericsson P800) anytime soon?
Fleecy: Amiga Anywhere already has a prototype running on Series 80 and we are working hard on a commercial release for series 60. We are working with partners to a timeframe of commercial release to coincide with new handset releases and so are dependent on their timesclaes.
7) sgm: Which markets are targeted by AmigaOS4 and AmigaDE?
Fleecy: The AmigaDE is marketed as a total content solution, which means content on a device, whether that be on a dedicated device, in a player on a device or host transparent to the device. It's targets are thus any device that needs content, Smartphones, PDAs, STBS, desktops. It isn't being marketed as a complete environment for those devices, although we have had interest in such a deployment.
The AmigaOS is marketed as a platform, which means it is a combination of HW requirements and Operating system and Application layer. This immediately points to the obvious desktop but the bigger markets are in other device classes, STBS, Information Consoles and solutions.
This will all come together as the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE slowly integrate.
8) alx : In the features PDF, there is planned support for the catweasel's joystick and keyboard ports. Will OS4 be able to use floppy drives connected to it, to read old-style Amiga disks?
Fleecy: There is no reason why this shouldn't work. It just requures an AmigaOS4.0 native driver.
9) MetalJoe: Will OS4 be bundled with a developer kit CD? If not, will the OS4 SDK be made available for free?
Fleecy: It will not be part of the user distribution but will be available as a free download or as an at cost CD. This is subject to change though as our developer support strategy evolves.
10) jurassiccamper: How does Amiga plan to get the platform up to date in terms of internet technologies so we can at least have a pleasurable and equal online experience? Eg: Real Audio / Real Video, Java, Plug and Play networking to other Amigas / Macs / PC's.
Fleecy: As I said before we are closely watching the Apple strategy with Safari. We have had contact with Real Networks and other providers of Internet technology but most provide the same answer. Show us a viable platform or show us a lot of money. Both are not available at the moment.
The solution is to improve what we have in stages until we have that equal, and then better online experience and that has to start from the ground up. AmigaOS4.0's network capabilities are an order of magnitude better than they have been in the past. Next we have to expand the media capabilities, followed by the user environment itself. As each one of these falls into place, the horizontal technologies can be implemented, which make use of these core vertical technologies.
We have made it known that we are looking at excelling in the 90% of desktop computer usage by the average person and Internet is obviously a major component of that usage. We hope to provide a major improvement in the area in AmigaOS4.1.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=5
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb)
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06.Apr.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.5
This update of tracks&fields uses much less characters in
filenames and uses hex for commandnumbers to make them
shorter.
Midicommands are updated to check if it gets higher parameter
value then 127. If so it does not send any data at all. It
should work better sending higher then 127 is onlyt taking
more miditraffic when the virus only accepts upto 127.
Soon i will release some commandsets for the Roland JD800
synthesizers. But not all as it's not easy to do commands
for JD800 as for Virus. However i will probably get some
help so maybe there will come updates too. It would be
nice if people that have this synthesizer tell me so i
know there are people using them. However as not many
people uses t&f i will later make commands for HDRec so
i think there will be some people interested. (nba)
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06.Apr.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030331
You can find the complete newsletter of Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for March 2002 under the title link. In his newsletter Brad Webb summarises all Amiga themed news on a monthly basis.
Topics of this issue:
- Amiga Club Slovenia is 5 years old
- Announcing AmiWest 2003
- Amiga bows out of CeBIT
- Weekly Q&A Sessions with Fleecy
- Zeoneo acquires Candy Factory
- DiscreetFX Logo-Contest-Prizes
- ALT-WoA 2003 postponed
- Cinemaware problem statement
- Music Files Free distribution
- Algor replaces HIGHWAY - E3B
- WinUAE 0.8.22 Rel. 5 announced
- Perfect Paint V2.92 is available
- Pixload Version 3 announced
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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06.Apr.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results of March/April 2003
Here the results of the Amiga Games Hit Parade - March/April 2003:
- ( 1) Payback - 118 pts
- ( 5) Slam Tilt - 116 pts
- ( 4) Napalm - 107 pts
- ( 2) Quake - 96 pts
- ( 6) The Settlers - 93 pts
- ( 3) Tales Of Tamar - 87 pts
- ( 8) Foundation - 80 pts
- ( 7) Sensible World Of Soccer - 76 pts
- ( 9) Earth 2140 - 73 pts
- (12) Quake 2 - 57 pts
- (18) Worms / Worms DC - 55 pts
- (25) Super Stardust - 52 pts
- (15) Fields Of Battle - 52 pts
- (45) Crossfire 2 - 52 pts
- (14) Exodus The Last War - 46 pts
- (19) Moonstone - 46 pts
- (11) WipeOut 2097 - 44 pts
- (26) Turrican 2 - 42 pts
- (13) Freespace - 40 pts
- (10) Heretic 2 - 38 pts
This Hit Parade and others rankings can be seen at the title link.
Next votes (Amiga Games Hit Parade of May/June 2003) will begin in
mid-may.
(ps)
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06.Apr.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)
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C.A.P.S. Update 06.04.2003
Here the most recent update of C.A.P.S.:
The Classic Amiga Preservation Society (C.A.P.S.) preserves
100% pure original Amiga games for the future. Update includes:
First German release - Fatal Heritage, New work-in-progress report,
Plugin updated to support "flakey bits" (see WIP) - to play Fatal
Heritage, you will need this updated library! New comprehensive
scanning guidelines for boxes, manuals etc. See the website for
more info:
www.caps-project.org.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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06.Apr.2003
Falcon (ANF)
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Elastic Images: Ordering page for Show CD-ROM set up
As from now the Show CD-ROM (we reported) can also be ordered through my home page.
This page also features the possibility to have the total cost calculated (depending on number of ordered items, type of shipping, etc.). This is also possible without giving an address. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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05.Apr.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Virtual Karting full version
In cooperation with and with permission by Fabio Bizzetti makes the
Amiga Arena for the first time the free release of the carts racing game "Virtual Karting
I and II" available.
"Virtual Karting I" is playable directly from the hard disc.
"Virtual Karting II" will be released at a later date at the Amiga Arena.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Apr.2003
Dirk Ohms (Oehmmes) (ANF)
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Own Internet radio for the IRC channel #AmigaFun
Dirk ´Oehmmes´ Ohms wrote:
I am pleased to be able to announce that our IRC channel #AmigaFun has now its own channel radio. You can listen to the radio via Live Stream and access it via the URL http://radiostream.de:15970.
If anybody has special song wishes he/she can tell them DJ Marc, who supports us in this way, here on the channel. Our channel is accessable via IRC client (server: irc.phat-net.de ; room #amigafun) or via the HTML chat made available by CJ-Stroker.
As player is Amplifier on the Amiga recommended.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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France-special with individual Computers and KDH
To increase the availability of products by
individual Computers in France,
there's a special in cooperation with
KDH Datentechnik, Germany.
Every parcel that contains a Catweasel, a Delfina or an X-Surf
2 will be shipped at discounted shipping cost. With an allowance
that is paid by KDH and individual Computers, shipping cost can
be as low as 11,- EUR in the best case.
The special is valid until April 30th, 2003. Just drop by at
KDH and compare prices!
International payments are conveniently handled with credit
cards or through PayPal.
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05.Apr.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #031
Liquid Skies releases music pack #031 in their series:
- Titel: Escape (To Wherever You Want)
- Composer: Angeldust
- Music style: Rave
- File format: MP3
- Length: 5:05
As always is the track together with the cover available as zip packed archive for download on the website.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Apr.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)
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VHT-Canada temporary offline
The website of the Virus Help Canada is currently not available.
The maintainor of the website asks for your understanding for possible complicatednesses.
Please use VHT-NL or
VHT-DK for the most current downloads and
news of anti virus software for the Amiga.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Apr.2003
Jens Langner in the YAM-Mailing-List / Michael Wohlers (ANF)
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Final-Release of YAM 2.4 promised
According to a corresponding statement of Jens Langner on the YAM mailing list the
final release of YAM 2.4 is soon to be published.
Quote: "...and as we are really near to a 2.4 release I
would suggest you wait until 2.4 is officially released
and then upgrade to it."
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Apr.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated (04.04.2003)
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga
users that is sorted geographically according to continents and
countries. Today the following areas were updated:
- Europe
- New links list
- Lost links list
- History 2003
(ps)
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04.Apr.2003
HomeBank (Website)
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HomeBank Version 2.1
With the shareware progam called HomeBank you can manage your money and for instance
calculate the costs of your car. There is the possibility of displaying the costs in
graphical statistics. The new final version 2.1 fixes some bugs.
Download: HomeBank.lha - 512 KB
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Apr.2003
Matthias Bethke (Website)
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HTML-Tool: HSC version 0.929
Yesterday version 0.929 of the HTML preprocessor called "HTML Sucks Completely" (HSC)
(originally written by Thomas Aglassinger) written by Matthias Bethke was published.
The delivered source code can be compiled on all supported platforms. It was tested
under Linux, HP/UX 10.20 and AmigaOS. There is also a HTML documentation available
online. The download archive additionally contains current preferences and macro files.
Version 0.929 contains several minor bugfixes.
You can get further information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Apr.2003
Alfred Faust (Website)
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Sequencer: BarsnPipes V1.20
Alfred Faust published version 1.20 of one of the best sequencer for the Amiga called
BarsnPipes on 1st April 2003.
New in version 1.20: Screenmode requester, GadTools interface, most of the requesters
are accessable with the keyboard, CAMD library, new 32 colour design, localisation and
much more. If you are interested in the changes please have a look at the
history which is available in the
BnP_Addenum.guide file.
Download: BnP1_20U.lha (454 KB)
This archive only contains the changed files if you are going to update previous version.
The source code of BarsnPipes was officially released on 25th May 2001 by Todor Fay.
Since Alfred Faust has developed further this pofessional program it is Freeware.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Apr.2003
Chris Beckefeld (ANF)
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IBM changes to SciTech SNAP Graphics
IBM uses SciTech SNAP-Graphics for OS/2.
On the sites of IBM you can exactly read which steps are necassary for installing it and
IBM offers the corresponding software packet for OS/2 for download. Very interesting are
the specifications which IBM/SciTech specifies on the site. Of course it is also
interesting that IBM could tie Big Blue to it which is a well-known name.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Apr.2003
Otto Dette (E-Mail)
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KSTA: Inventor of notebook died in India
»Inventor of the portable computer has died.
Adam Osborne
has died with 64 years because of an incurable sickness of the brain.
In 1981 Osborne introduced the first real computer which can be seen as portable on
a fair in USA.«
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Apr.2003
MorphZone (ANF)
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MorphZone with polyglot forum
Now open: International House of Chatter, the MorphZone multi-lingual forum.
Initially, two languages are supported, German and French. Welcome to
MorphZone! (Note: This is in addition to the default English forums.)
Maintenant ouvert: Un nouveau lieu incontournable pour discuter, le
forum multilingue de Morphzone.. Initialement 2 langues sont disponibles,
Français et Allemand. Bienvenue sur MorphZone!
MorphZone is a new web-portal
dedicated to MorphOS users, including those running MorphOS on their
PPC Amiga systems. MorphZone is also home to the
MWD, the Morph Web Directory.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Sound card: Delfina introduced successfully
The new soundcard Delfina by Individual Computers was introduced
successfully last weekend at
the AmiGBG show in Gothenburg, Sweden. Meanwhile, all important
European dealers have been supplied, so the anticipated delivery
date of April 7th can be kept without problems.
The module that is available now is ready to be used on nearly any Amiga.
The included 22-pin cable for the A1200 clockport can also be used
to connect to an X-Surf Ethernet card in a "bigbox" Amiga.
Probably the most important reason to buy this card is the DSP, the
digital signal processor. For example it allows playing back MP3
nearly without CPU load. MP3 is a popular audio format that is also
used by artists to put demos on the Internet. Free music samples and
full titles are available on sites like
Entertainment-Mafia.
With the Delfina, an Amiga can
playback MP3 even without an accelerator in the best possible quality.
(ps)
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03.Apr.2003
Ulrich Scholz (E-Mail)
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Convention: BeGeistert 010 - 26th and 27th April, 2003
What is BeGeistert? BeGeistert is an international gathering of Be users, developers, user groups, all about the operating system Be.
The next BeGeistert 010 takes places from Saturday the 26th to Sunday the 27th of April 2003 in the Düsseldorf youth hostel on 1
Düsseldorfer Street, under the slogan "beautiful new world."
Participation cost 20 euros (including lunch). To stay overnight in the youth hostel is 25 euros, including breakfast. The cost of dinner
and drinks are not included. Whoever wants to make a reservation should call: +49-211-557310.
Many different workshops and seminars will be offered at BeGeistert. As it has in previous conventions, the program will develop over
time. If someone would like to present, he or she should write to the team.
On the website, under the title link, you'll find more details about registering for, traveling to, and participating in the convention.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: New Mozilla Roadmap: Dismissal of the Web Suite
The development team has changed the planning. From here on the package will no longer be developed in its old form. As a browser
the Mozilla derivative Phoenix will be employed, in order to get slim, fast software on its feet. Something similar will likely happen to
the email client.
Read the complete article under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads through 4th April, 2003
Here are the new Aminet uploads, which have arrived since our previous announcement:
HomeBank.lha biz/misc 539K+V2.1 The personal account manager (MUI)
ifusion_update.lha biz/patch 384K+IFusion Patch 1.3.0
KuangEleven29.lha comm/irc 303K+3.0 Gamma(29) UPDATE Requires Gamma(17)
amithlon1_com.lha comm/misc 10K+Much better serial device driver for AMI
hipsstv10.lha comm/misc 295K+SharkTerm. A really fun Terminal program
JabberW_IMG.lha comm/tcp 23K+Extra images for JabberWocky
autoconf-254.lha dev/gg 1.8M+GNU automatic configuration generator. V
nocover109.lha docs/mags 2.1M+Great german diskmagazine
birds3.lha game/data 585K+Cardset in Iff-Format for AS-....... com
horses2.lha game/data 638K+Cardset in Iff-Format for AS-....... com
AS-Accordion.lha game/think 192K+Accordion Solitaire Card Game
AS-HighLow.lha game/think 185K+HighLow Card Game
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 86K+ZX-Spectrum 48/128k emulator v0.15b
8svxtoxxx.lha mus/misc 21K+IFF-8SVX to 8SVX, RAW, AIFF, WAV, VOC co
EasyHex.lha util/cli 4K+View the header on large files
FTPMount-PL.lha util/misc 2K+Polish locale for FTPMount 1.0
NewHomer.lha util/misc 90K+V1.8 (some updates, a couple of fixes).
DeStart.lha util/wb 17K+Provide control over WBStartup-drawer
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets up to 4th April, 2003
With WHDLoad, you are able to install to your hard-drive games which were formerly considered floppy-only. The following packets have been
created or updated since our last announcement:
- 02.04.03 new: Space Ace 2 (Ready Soft) done by CFOU! & Codetapper
- 02.04.03 improved: Cruncher Factory (Kingsoft) adjustable speed
- 01.04.03 improved: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) supports German version, uses fast memory
- 30.03.03 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) smash screen appearance
- 30.03.03 fixed: Vegas Gambler (California Dreams) protection removed
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
Diverse Websites
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Diverse Software News in Summary (Update)
DCR 8520 Ports:
30 Mar 2003 - WCGI v1.0
It is a simple, but powerful, database search engine, designed as
CGI to run from a HTTPd (tested on Apache). The features are:
Very configurable.., Search took result, Flood protection, Max.
# of results, etc. - Download: wcgi-1.0.lha
30 Mar 2003 - Help wanted!
Hi folks, I have compiled a nice unix program using the MiamiDX
librarys functions, but something doesn't work properly. Please,
if you have used these libs (mainly pcap) help me to finish it!.
This will be a great program for the community! :-)
Amigan Software:
Game: Worm Wars 7.4 - Download: WormWars.lha
Tool: Report+ 5.66a - Download: ReportPlus.lha
Game: Saga 1.24a - Downlaod: Saga.lha
Stephan Rupprecht
Tool: reaction.lib replacement - reactionlib.lha
TTEngine:
TTE Manager has been upgraded to version 1.1a with some locale translations:
Polish locale by me (Grzegorz Kraszewski)
French locale by Jerome Chesnot
Hungarian locale by Márton Dósa
German locale by Dieter Beck
Download: tte_manager-1.1a.lha
AmiDog's Movie Player:
030331: A new beta has been released. Read the included BETA.txt before using it!
Download: AMP2-BETA-030331.lha
dynAMIte:
Game: dynAMIte Version 2.3 with many bugfixes published
Download:
dynAMIte_update.lha (nur das Update)
dynAMIte.lha (das komplette Archiv)
DOpus4:
File: DOpus417pre20.lzx
Uploaded by: jrzeuski
Description: 4.17pre20 beta release
Download: DOpus417pre20.lzx
OnyxSoft - Daniel Westerberg:
Added a new version of 8SVXtoXXX (Version 1.31) - 8svxtoxxx.lha
Added a new version of DeStart (Version 2.0) - destart.lha
Added a new version of EasyHex (Version 1.01) - easyhex.lha
PowerD:
Uploaded the 0.20 full release - Download: powerd.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
Amiga Segodnya (E-Mail)
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Color backgrounds for mobile Amigans
djv/magway wrote:
I have updated my "Amiga Segodnya" wap-site. Now you can download color Amiga/MorphOS backgrounds to your mobile phone.
Visit English section at wml.amitoday.spb.ru
Note: you must use GPRS mode for download some pictures more than 4 Kb size. (ps)
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03.Apr.2003
Fabio Alemagna (E-Mail)
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New AROS Website at Sourceforge
Under the title link you'll find a newly established website at Sourceforge for AROS (Amiga Research Operating System). The AROS developer
team will inform you about news concerning the project.
AROS is an open source project for the implementation of a portable version of AmigaOS V3.1. On the newly established website you'll find
new and updated documentation, an expanded and improved download area, new screenshots and the new little mascot Kitty, which was
created by Eric W. Schwartz. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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02.Apr.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Disk-Magazine: NoCover 109 published
The NoCover #109 has been published some days ago. Since today you
might read or download that magazine at the APC&TCP website online. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Dirk 'Docki' Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Amiga Club-Magazine No.3 released
Dirk 'Docki' Dockbreyder writes:
I just got an email that the CAM#3 (like it's called now) is released now. But you have to be registered at Amiga to read it. It has been with intention to publish it on April the 2nd and not on the 1st. "...We chose to release CAM #3 on April 2nd instead of April 1st, for obvious reasons". :)
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Suite101
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John Chandler at Suite101: AmigaOne Latest
John Chandler writes at Suite101.com in regulary an English article about Amiga. With the latest article, reachable by the title link, he sums up all facts about the AmigaOne.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Golem.de: Source code of Duke Nukem 3D made freely available
»Download of 3.8 MBytes
The game developers Realms made the source code of the classic shooter Duke Nukem 3 D officially free available. Interested programmers might download the 3.8 MBytes sized code free of charge.«
Full Golem article see title link.
According to vgr.com there is a version for Amiga systems availabe/under development already: "...you can play
Duke Nukem 3D (that has just been released), Shogo and the latest Quake for
Amiga...". (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Florian Stadler (E-Mail)
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Music: Scooter CD with Turrican
The cult game for the Amiga 'Turrican' LIVES! Not in that kind of a new Amiga game but at the new Scooter CD "The Stadium Techno
Experience". Track no. 8 called "Level One" includes the "Freedom"
melody of Turrican 2. Who does not believe this might read within the CD:
Track 8 written by H.P. Baxxter, Rick J. Jordan, Jay Frog, J. Thele and
Chris Hülsbeck.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Jörg Karisch (amiga1303) (ANF)
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Event: AMIGA user meeting in Nuremberg on April the 5th 2003
The AMIGA user group IMAGE invites to a hardware meeting in Nuremberg again. This will take place on Saturday the 5th of April 2003 from 9.00 am till about 10:00 pm at the Mannertstraße 10 in 90429 Nuremberg.
We want to offer support for problems which might be solved with brought in hard and software. Additionally at least three of us will introduce devices like keyboards, mouse, card readers driven by a Highway/Subway.
Further information you can read under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.Apr.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: New WinUAE Version 0.8.22 R6 announced for first half of April 2003
WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 6 WIP (29.03.2003)
Expected release date: first half of April
Bugs fixed:
- increased compatibility/display corruption fixes, Future CAPS releases, TerrorPods, Eliminator, Double Dragon 2, Wild Streets, Liverpool, Banshee AGA, Alien Breed 3D, Skeleton Krew...
- audio emulation fixes (noise and random popping)
- input configuration saves autofire settings properly
- crash when creating new CD32 NVRAM-file
- compressed disk images can be write-enabled
- more compatible with newer CDTV extended ROMs
(still no CDROM controller emulation)
- disk emulation fixes (writing freeze, drive type, disk eject/insert, more compatible disk change detection, writing to multiple drives simultaneously)
- stuck middle button when "Middle Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" was enabled
- don't crash if zlib.dll is missing
- lost mouse input events when using high refresh rate mouse
New features:
- compressed state files
- rewritten and more compatible serial port emulation
- more compatible blitter speed in non cycle-exact mode (Spindizzy Worlds, PP Hammer..)
- turbo-floppy speed enables fast writing
- disable screensaver when WinUAE is active
- improved configurable CPU idle-function
- screenshots saved to ScreenShots-directory
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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01.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads till 01.04.2003
Here are the latest Aminet-Uploads since last time:
MiamiDxCT.lha comm/net 10K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
MiamiDxSPA.lha comm/net 10K+Spanish catalog for Miami Deluxe
MKD_OstylASM.lha dev/asm 91K+Sources code from OSTYL/MANKIND
adocart.lha dev/misc 289K+NEW AutoDoc viewer MUI
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 50K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.5M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 03/2003 (Itali
animals2.lha game/data 613K+Cardset in Iff-Format for AS-....... com
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(ps) (Translation: gf)
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01.Apr.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox announced Spider USB drivers for Amithlon
Elbox Computer is pleased to announce completion of the development
of the new Spider drivers. New drivers for the Spider USB 2.0 PCI
cards extend the range of supported hardware with computers running
AmigaOS under Amithlon.
'Amithlon users have overwhelmingly and repeatedly told us they
absolutely wanted the features of the USB 2.0 standard as soon
as the Spider USB 2.0 card entered the market,' said Darek Smietana,
support manager at Elbox. 'We are proud to deliver our sophisticated
and innovative USB hardware to Amithlon users. Now they can enjoy
all the benefits of the USB 2.0 Hi-Speed functionality in their
systems. Needless to say, we are again following our basic business
rule with this step: to give to users more than they could expect.'
The new USB driver is enclosed in the Spider CD bundled with the new
version of the Spider USB 2.0 card, whose availability will be
announced in the coming days.
For more info about Spider, see the
Spider USB 2.0 card website. (ps)
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01.Apr.2003
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AmiPR ImageLayer - Thumbnail-Image-Preview in a Workbench Window
AmiPR ImageLayer adds the feature of previewing images in the standard
Workbench directory lister to the Amiga (just as WinXP). The program
creates thumbnails of the picture for every image. Your old Workbench
icons will not be deleted. For files which are not images, the normal
icon will be displayed.
AmiPR ImageLayer needs OS 3.5/3.9 as the Preferences tool is based on
Reaction.
Please visit http://www.masonicons.de/AmiPRIndex.html
for download, detailed information and some preview images.
Dear Martin, you did it too good ;-)
Update 03.04.2003:
This was an April-fool. Have a look at the capitals in the program name
and you will read APRIL :)
(ps)
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01.Apr.2003
AmiWorld / SpawnPPC (ANF)
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AmigaONE SE Review in Italian by AmiWorld
Under the title link you will find the first AmigaONE SE G3 600 MHz
review in Italian. (ps)
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01.Apr.2003
vht-dk.dk (ANF)
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Virus program: New update of Mill (01.04.2003)
Zbigniew 'Zeeball' Trzcionkowski has made an new update of MILL, and
is now available for download at the VHT sites. Here is some info
about the update:
- name: mill
- short: New polish antivirus
- author: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski (zeeball@interia.pl
- uploader: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski (zeeball@interia.pl
- version: (01.04.2003)
- requires: OS37+, asl38+, locale, xvs, xfd, xad etc.
- type: util/virus
Fixes from previous public version:
- added catala locale by Carles 'Doraemon' Bernardez (thanx!)
- none, just refresh
Download from VHT Netherlands: http://welcome.to/vht-nl
Download from VHT Denmark: http://www.vht-dk.dk
Download from VHT Canada: http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org
Take care
The people behind Virus Help Team
Jan, Alex & Charlene
(ps)
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31.Mar.2003
(ANF)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 3. Preview
Tom Parker and
Matthias Münch released
Preview 3 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.4 for
the Amiga. Jabber is an open source XML-protocol for a direct message interchange.
A connection to other instant messaging services like AIM, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo can be established via gateways.
Beta-Version-Download: Jabberwocky030331.lha
Changes:
- Fixed enforcer hit when opening write window (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Roster icons may be loaded from disk (thanks to Jeff Gilpin).
- Roster icon set by Martin 'Mason' Merz and Matthias Muench
- Iconified icons by Jeff Gilpin.
- Fix for initial iconified icon (thanks to Jeff Gilpin).
- German Translation by Matthias Muench
- Nederlands Translation by Djordje Slocuk
- Polski Translation by Kamil Niescioruk and Mariusz Danilewicz
- Srpski Translation by Djordje Slocuk
- Spanish Translation by Roger Barranco
- Online help activated (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
- Example Arexx Script (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
- MOS native binary compiled by Nagy Lajos
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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31.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 3
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 3 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) Derfs : is there an ETA on the t-shirts ? and if there isnt can you tell us anything about the delay?
Fleecy: We don't as yet have a delivery date for the Club Amiga T-shirts but we are working hard on sorting the situation out. I can't go into the reasons why we have had such issues but the delay is as irritating for Amiga as it is for those who are waiting for them. Resolution of this situation is pretty close to the top of our agenda.
2) BrianHoskins : Is there a time scale on planned multi-processor support for AOS4?
Fleecy: When moving Exec forwards into ExecSG, great care was taken to provide a foundation for a lot of features. These will be implemented as the need for them arises both from the development of the operating system itself and the requirements from third party developers.
That said, SMP support is planned for release in either 4.1 or 4.2; with the rider that plans can change. I would also caution against the desire for or claims made on behalf of Symmetric Multi-Processing or SMP. It has its uses but ultimately is limited, rather like sticking more and more engines onto a four wheel car. Proper parallel computing through a matrix of separate processor elements, all with their own schedulers and organisation models - authoritarian, pluralist, service,
anarchic etc offers a much better long term solution and is far more in the mould of 'Amiga, doing it first'.
3) Jose: Will there be various versions of AmigaOS, one for the continuation of the Classic OS on PPC hardware like the users/supporters wish, and the other the so called server, etc. OS that OS5 is to be?
Fleecy: AmigaOS will develop a service based architecture which will allow users to construct the environment that they wish. If a person doesn't want 'server' targeted services then they don't need to use them. For example if you just want a simple filing system with no security, then that could be selected. If you want a secure filing system, you can select that service.
In this way it will be possible to produce targeted builds, a family product, a developer product, a business product etc built using Amiga technology. The core and more importantly, the framework will be the same.
4) jumpship: Is there likely to be a public demostration of an OS4 beta in the near future? I understand that not everyone (ie the whole community) would be able to attend, but maybe at a mayjor user group meeting, similar to WoA, and get someone to video tape it. That way it would be hard for people to say "I could make that in XYZ program.
Fleecy: Having a publicly demonstratable build of AmigaOS4.0 that runs on CSPPC and the AmigaOne occupies our every waking breath. We are well aware that once that is shown, the rumours and untruths will then have nowhere from which to grow.
However, the nature of the project is that all the pieces are now being integrated and being an integrated whole, the public demonstration will actually come pretty close to the end of the project, when most things are actually working together. To demonstrate just a piece of it would actually take time away from the project because we would have to unwrap many of the dependencies that would be inherent in a less than whole demonstration, as well as again opening us up to the charges of 'see, told you they had only done a bit of it'.
Believe me, when we can finally demonstrate the product, the world will hear our screams of joy. I am not even going to give a time though because it is an imprecise art to predict when it will be ready for demonstration. I'd rather just tell you when it is and that moment is not now.
I can tell you that one of the current test suites being run is the process of booting a standard 68k OS3.9 on ExecSG through the 68K emulation service. That is OS3.9 being run via emulation on a PPC processor. This is just part of the validation of the AmigaOS4.0 product. Supporting the CSPPC product has cost us time and effort though because, to say the least, it is an imperfect piece of hardware. The AmigaOne is a much cleaner product and if we had had only to support it then the situation might be different.
5) z5: What are you [Amiga Inc] contributing to OS4?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4.0 is the product that begins the transition from Amiga Generation 1 to Amiga Generation 2. It has several tasks, the most important of which are to move the entire platform to a new processor and to create an abstract hardware interface which allows us to far more easily adapt to other potential hardware markets.
This skillset requires a very detailed knowledge of both the existing 68k AmigaOS as well as the PPC processor family. This is one of the reasons why we contracted this work out to Hyperion, who themselves have pulled many of the brightest and best from the Amiga developer community into the project.
Amiga Inc itself has been concentrating on the future of the AmigaOS, in particular the Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) project. The next release of the Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) carries an article about this but as AmigaOS4.0 ships, more and more of this plan will be revealed.
The future of the Amiga platform isn't just a question of technology, it is a question of application as well. It is a business, and a business requires income which requires sales. Whilst we are comfortable with slowly developing the desktop market for the Amiga, to be able to fund it properly needs other markets.
Technology and busines have to work together to bring success and Amiga is concentrating on that at the moment, allowing Hyperion and the AmigaOS4.0 team to make that first step because they are the ones best equiped to make that first step.
6) AmigaGuy: I'd like to know if there are plans (maybe it already does) to have AmigaAnywhere available through web browsers. Something sort of in the way Java or Flash work. It might be cool to write an entire web site in C++
Fleecy: Amiga Anywhere currently runs as a player, on ROM and RAM cards, as standalone host transparent applications and as a run time engine. We have blue skyed the concept of providing a browser integration solution but given those already in that space, and the fact that the player will develop into an self sufficient Internet environment of its own, we are not pursuing that path.
7) Spacemonkey: Will Amiga Inc be porting Samba 2.7 or 3.0 for AOS 4.0 or will it be relying on 3rd party/End User to provide this functionality.
Fleecy: Olaf Barthel, one of the chief AmigaOS4.0 developers is also a key member of the Amiga Samba project. His opinion mirrors my own, that Samba is a monster and that it really doesn't fit into the Amiga model.
We are looking at including the Samba project as a contribution to AmigaOS4.0 but given the large list of requirements already clogging our desks, I do not see it as a priority.
Most people will be happy to be able to network with other computers running other platforms so that they can share file and resource access. Of course,if the requirement changes then we will look again at this area.
8) Blomberg: What are the plans for the OS4 audio system beyond the current state of AHI?
Fleecy: The Audio services provided by the Amiga will be one of the first that are developed in AG2. Indeed the core audio architecture for this has been fermenting and prototyping over the past year, arising from AmigaDE audio work.
Our commitment is simple. The AmigaOS will strive to have the best audio services of any operating system. We fully intend to push ourselves forwards as a viable and attractive alternative to any offering out there, both at the hobby level and in the professional world.
9) z5: why didn't the microsoft deal come through?
Fleecy: We have a strategic relationship with Microsoft, which means that they believe our technology enhances their PocketPC and Smartphone product line. Actual deals arise out of this relationship, both directly with Microsoft and via them pushing us towards their partners who also use PocketPC and Smartphone. For example, at the CTIA show held in New Orleans last week, they provided a number of Gamecards as freebies to their partner Samsung who were launching a new PocketPC Phone Edition product. This has led to direct contact with Samsung following a successful reception, and also a number of other contacts with Samsung competitors who also expressed an interest in the Gamecard content and product.
As far as an actual deal goes, Microsoft have been selling rebadged Gamecards (2 of them at the moment) in select CompUSA stores for the past two weeks. We have not announced this both because they are not currently selling them on their website (CompUSA that is) and also because of the difficulty of synchronising a web press release with Microsoft.
We have been criticised in the past for such practices and we are trying to ensure that any press release is independently verifiable.
Microsoft are very pleased with this initial batch of Gamecards and want to move to bigger volumes, and increase the number of Gamecards (2 are in the initial launch, we have 2 more ready to go and can make another 3 quite quickly) by the summer. These were supposed to have debuted in November but technical difficulties with both the card sourcing and then with issues in PocketPC, discovered and reported by Amiga led to a 3-4 month delay.
Indeed, the first appearance of Amiga product in a mainstream computing channel has also witnessed our old friend, piracy, returning to the platform. Dean Brown, our hardware guru found three of the Gamecard packs in the Bellevue CompUSA and someone had cut one open with a scalpel and stolen the Gamecard!
10) Hooligan: How does AInc plan to ensure steady development of software?
Fleecy: Developers create software either because there is money in it for them or because they simply enjoy creating for a platform and community. Whilst we are looking at seeding some core application development, the proper solution is to create a market that is commercially viable.
This means enough users to buy enough of the product to make the cost of development of that product worthwhile. Our efforts are thus focused on increasing the size of that market, through successful launch and post launch activities in the sales and marketing domains, and in reducing the cost of development for the platform, primarily through ensuring that development can proceed as rapidly and trouble free as possible; in other words a developer toolchain, documentation and lots of support.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=3
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: sk)
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31.Mar.2003
(ANF)
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Amiga ColdFire Update
Again there are some news about "Amiga the
ColdFire Project" by Oliver Hannaford-Day. Beside a picture of the
new prototype, you will find a short german summary at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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31.Mar.2003
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Payback for GBA: status update
The work at the GBA version (GameBoy Advance) of Payback will soon be finished. Recently a multiplayer mode, new multiplayer maps ( Desert Deathmatch, Little
Chicago, Tank Warfare, The Killing Zone, Woods) were added and the replay memory system was reworked.
In Payback you slip into the role of a gangster. The aim of the game is to collect as many points as possible by accomplishing missions or trickery.
Versions for Amiga and Mac are allready available at the titlelink.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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30.Mar.2003
Egon Münch (comment)
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Mexikon: Cactus lexicon in HTML format
Under the title link you can find a.o.t. 'Mexikon', a lexicon on cactuses with
many tips and suggestions. It also contains maps of Mexico and photos of more
than 650 cactuses.
Since end of November 2002 version 3.1 of Mexikon has been available, and as we haven't covered it yet, we are herewith gladly catching up on this. Egon Münch
has completely revised the cactus lexicon, fixed various errors and added new
descriptions and photos.
Furthermore MEXIKON doesn't use AmigaGuide anymore, but has become more platform
independent by now supporting the HTML format, so every user can utilise the
lexicon with an Internet browser.
The only thing that hasn't changed is the fact that MEXIKON is and will stay
freeware.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Mar.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood Promo Pack released
There is now a Hollywood promo package available for download on the
Airsoft Softwair Web page. The promo pack contains over 60 high
quality screenshots which will give you an extensive impression
of the powerful features of Hollywood.
Download: Hollywood_PromoPack.lha - 9 MB
(ps)
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30.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Event: SlimJim's Not-so-short AmiGBG Fair Report
There is a circumstantial account by Slim Jim on the Amiga show
AmiGBG which took place yesterday in Gothenburg, Sweden.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Mar.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS game: BoulderDäsh RTX - Rockford is back!
Just in time for BoulderDäsh's 16th birthday, BoulderDäsh RTX will be released
soon! The most important improvement is direct support of Picasso96 and
CyberGraphics. With this all RTG problems should once and for all be a thing of
the past.
Thanks to the likewise new AHI support BoulderDäsh should run on all AmigaOS
compatible systems (A500, Ax000, Amithlon, MorphOS). It requires only OS 2.0 or
better. Rockford is back - He will rock you! BoulderDäsh RTX V5.10 - feature list:
- 1:1 Clone of the original
- Runs in Multitasking
- Online help
- Locale support
- Programmed according to Commodore Style Guide
- 2D Softscrolling and full speed even on an MC68000
(no judder in the animations or when scrolling)
- Full gfx card compatibility through Picasso96/CyberGraphics support, allowing for up to 256 colours in full screen scrolling
- Full sound card compatibility through AHI support
- More than 5700 levels included!
- 35 different game graphics
- 6 different fonts
- 5 different sample sets
- 6 different music tracks
- All settings adjustable via Gadtools GUI
- Enhanced by way of additional game elements (fake bricks, fake metal...)
Thus interesting new level possibilities come about.
- No level size limit (under NonRTG only dependent on ChipMem)
- Savable Highscore lists for each game
- Comfortable level editor
- Gravitation adjustable in four directions in each level
- Game editor to compile complete games
- Custom game gfx can be created with a paint program
- Custom sound effects can be integrated with a sampler
- Custom game music can be created with a Protracker compatible music editor
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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29.Mar.2003
Andre Sommer (ANF)
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Event: Mocca LAN 8 from April, 4th till April, 6th 2003 in Hirsau
It's time again, the next Mocca is near. In almost a week the doors will be opened for the Mocca 8, taking place from April, 4th till April, 6th in Hirsau (Germany).
The Mocca is an OpenOS party, all systems are welcome. The Mocca is not a pure gamers LAN but is furthermore thought to show users other systems and to give help on individual problems for the special computers.
Further information about the Mocca 8 can be found following the title link. There you can register for the party or contact the organizers.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: BabeAnoid 2.0 final version
In the past reported the Amiga Arena several times about "BabeAnoid", the Breakout clone by Richard Fhager.
The released demo version 1.10 seemed to be the one and only version for a long time as Richard Fhager
lost his interest in continued development because of a lack of feedback respectively he wants to cease all his Amiga activities.
In cooperation with Wolfgang Hosemann (issue #9/02), at that time responsible for the games part of the AmigaAktuell, a call was started to continue the game's development and to activate the users to give the developer feedback for his work. This all didn't seem to bring the wanted success. The more I am pleased to announce today's release of the version 2.0 final.
Further informationen you can find here.
Support developers, then developers will support you!
Download: babeanoid.lha - 3 MB
Features are among others more than 30 different boni, six different balls, different bricks (moving, multi hit, invisible...), foes plus weapons for fighting against them, two teleporters, background pictures, smoking balls, music and sound effects, speech output, buying and selling items and much more.
The game uses 32 colors (ECS) and needs at least an Amiga with 68020 and 2MB Fast RAM. If the settings in the preferences are reduced should the game also run with 1MB Chip RAM.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: US law drafts may mean the end of firewalls
In the view of Edward W. Felten, professor at the Princeton University,
could the new suggestions for a stronger 'Digital Millennium Copyright Act' made by some US states lead to the fact that the ownership, the selling und use of encryption software, firewalls and router software may be under penalty in the USA soon.
The (German) heise article can be found following the title link.
Another (German) article about this topic:
Golem - IT News: Firewalls soon illegal in the USA?
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: New youth protection law: no more Linux games in the future?
»USK logo becomes a problem
From the 1st of April on could the offer of games software for Linux users
in Germany be reduced in a drastic way from one day to the other. Because from this day on may only games be sold if they are marked with an age recommendation of the
USK and this is only the case for a small minority of Linux games.«
Read the full (German) article under the title link.
In the Amiga sector will the situation not be very different. Games that are new released won't get around the mark but because of financial reasons it is to be expected that only a little number of already released games will get this recommendation symbol. So we are very interested in the consequences of the new youth protection law for the Amiga market and of course for the games developers. Tell us your measures.
Will old games be removed from the shelves?
Will old games get an age recommendation?
What costs does this signing cause?
Is shareware in the same way concerned as commercial software is? (ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 28.03.2003
With WHDLoad you can now install games, that were thought to be floppy disk only, on your hard disk. The following packages have been added respectively updated since our last mention:
- 28.03.03 new: Mega Demo 2 - Scoopex (Scoopex) done by Psygore
- 28.03.03 new: Mini Golf Plus (Starbyte) done by JOTD
- 28.03.03 improved: Midwinter (Rainbird) supports German version and many other changes
- 28.03.03 improved: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) Italian version supported, fixed install script, access faults fixed
- 28.03.03 new: Franko (World Software) done by JOTD
- 28.03.03 new: Cruncher Factory (Kingsoft) done by Asman
- 28.03.03 new: More Than Music (Alcatraz) done by Psygore
- 28.03.03 new: Vegas Gambler (California Dreams) done by Agressor
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
morphos-news.de
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morphos-news.de: Pegasos boards available again
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have announced that the first 170 Pegasos mainboards have already been sent to the retailers. Some retailers already received the boards while others will get them today, tomorrow or in the beginning of next week. The rest of the approximately 400 produced Pegasos mainboards will be sent next week to the retailers.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
Glenn Fuller (ANF)
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Ben Fuller is dead - biography in the work
Benjamin G. Fuller, active Amiga developer since the early days, died on September, 11th 2002. The family, relatives and friends are putting a biography about Ben together and would welcome any contributions from the Amiga community.
1986 was the AAUG (Arizona Amiga Users Group) founded by Ben and some other users. Aged 17, Ben was probably one of the first and youngest developer of commercial Amiga software and visited among other things the 2nd Annual Amiga Developer's Conference in November 1986.
1988 he had worked in California at Silent Software and contributed to the creation of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" that had been distributed by Buena Vista Software and Disney. In 1992 he returned to Arizona to develop at Softwood, Inc. for example Final Copy II.
The next station was SunRize Industries, the makers of the hardware-software solution AD516/Studio16 Digital Audio Workstation. there he developed among other things the Automated Mixer of AD516/Studio16 v3.0 and its enhanced SMPTE Handling and the Amiga side including ARexx API of the software SoundSwitch that was also made compatible to the Video Toaster.
In June 2001 Fuller retired from SONICblue (ReplayTV) where he had worked since 1998 and concentrated on the photography with his Olympus E-10. His photos can be viewed on his website under the title link. Until the end Ben had used the Amiga emulator Amiga Forever running on a Dell-PC.
Please send contributions like publications, photos, reviews or comments that could help to complete the biography to ggfuller@yahoo.com or to benfuller@exreplaytv.com.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 29. Mar. 2003, 00:39] [Comments: 2 - 14. Feb. 2007, 16:09]
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28.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBS Glow Icons online
A Glow-Icon-Set for the game "PuzzleBOBS" is online.
The icons have been designed by Simone Battaglioni and are available for the AmigaOS
as well as for the MorphOS version.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Mar. 2003, 22:17] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Pixload Version 3.0 also published for MorphOS
Now there is also a MorphOS version of version 3.0 of Pixload which is an Amidock like
start menu. From now on icons in the start bar are modifyable by simply dragging and
droppping and there is no limitation concerning the number. Quite similar to the Dock
of Mac OS X active programs are marked in the Pixload start bar with a triangle.
The MorphOS version has already transparency for icons.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Mar. 2003, 22:14] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2003
AmiDog (ANF)
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AmiDog: AMP Movieplayer Beta Version 030326
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has published a new version of its movie player for PPC
called ´AMP´. With ´AMP´ currently you can play the following
multimedia files:
- MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
- MP2/MP3 audio streams
- AC3 streams
- (S)VCD, CD-i and DVD
Download: AMP2-BETA-030326.lha (Beta)
Please note: Please have a look at BETA.txt before using the program!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Mar. 2003, 18:29] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2003
Lynne Music (E-Mail)
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Power Liquids by Divinorum and Aural Planet soon available
The demo scene audio-CD "Power Liquids" which is created in cooperation with the
labels Divinorum and Aural Planet will be soon published. Currently the production
of the CD is started so probably the CD will be delivered in three weeks.
A seperate sub-website with audio clips has been created for the project under the
title link. Additionally to the CD-tracks buyer of Power Liquids are offered three
bonus tracks of a password protected website. Thus there will be a total time of
over 80 minutes.
The CD will cost 14.99 US-Dollar and can be ordered in cheap bundles together
with other products of Divinorum or Aural Planets.
Distributors are still searched.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Mar. 2003, 15:36] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2003
APC&TCP
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APC&TCP celebrates 11th anniversary
For eleven years APC&TCP is a publisher of Amiga software. Because of this event the
distributor of games like SeaSide, GunBee F-99 or Jaktar and applications like
Digi Booster Pro has reduced the prices of most of its products in its
online shop from 27th March 2003 until 30th April 2003. (nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Mar. 2003, 14:00] [Comments: 0]
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