27.Mar.2003
Matthew Kille (E-Mail)
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Crossword Evolution (12 level starter book) now available
Zeoneo are pleased to finally be able to announce that the first release of the game is now available to purchase from stores across the US. (For example CompUSA.)
This initial release is a special 12 puzzle early release version of the game (which will not be able to install additional puzzles) and will be sold on a SecureDigital SD card which includes other 'Amiga-Anywhere' games.
As soon as possible Zeoneo will be releasing the final standalone full version of the game, which will allow optional extra 'puzzle books' to be installed, for endless crossword supplies. (nba)
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27.Mar.2003
st-computer
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Magazine: Retrogaming Times #67
The online magazine Retrogaming Times has reached its 67th issue. The magazine concerns itself with games fo classic consoles and computer systems. The current issue contains several reviews of games for the Atari XL, relationally XE, and the Amiga too is mentioned in passing. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Ulrich Panzer (E-Mail)
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Game: Tales of Tamar Version 0.49R1
The new Amiga version (V0.49R1) of the Internet-based round-by-round game 'Tales of Tamar' has been released. This update offers the following changes since version 0.48R5:
New Features:
- Grain silos now also calculate the quantity of offices in the cities
- Report for failed piracy is built-in
- Report for succesful piracy is built-in
- News for the victims of piracy is built-in
- Dragons and Undead are built-in
- The coronation screen has been activated
- The third diplomacy screen has been activated
- The tenth requestor in the control screen has been activated
- Vassal contracts in diplomacy have been activated
- New samples for the coronation and dragons are built-in
- AnimFX V2 is built-in (completely reworked animation routines!)
Bugfixes:
- Settlers and spies could conquer cities in a state of rebellion - Bug fixed
- Shops may no longer be loaded on a ship's position
- Small fix in diplomacy (Thanks to the PC version)
- Bug fix in the requestor of the liege lords
- Loaded spies and settlers may no longer be terminated if they are standing in the city
on a ship
- Grain silos accept only a deposit of 500
- New card elements are built-in
- Figures on the water are now terminated, if they haven't been shipped
- ToT is independent of the animations again
ToT is the first game in the world to administer wideranging structures of liege lords,
vassals, and henchmen. Through these game options it is possible for the player to close
vassal treaties with other players and thereby to ascend through the hierarchy of titles.
There are 8 different titles in Tamar: Baron, Viscount, Count, Marquis, Duke, Archduke,
King, & Emperor. For each presently occurring coronation, one will see a little animation
of course.
Titles in Tamar are not just purely a status symbol, because here good players are
rewarded with free rounds each month! If one is able to progress into the highest ranks,
ToT makes it possible to play an almost costless game.
As to reports of piracy, the only thing we have to say is that we have added this because
the inquiries of players and testers. Pirates should now offer better game options.
Dragons have been observed! (Quote from the ToT forum).
The dragons are a very old breed of winged beings of immense size. They make their homes
in remote places. On Tamar there are different types of dragons, which are generally
differentiated by skin color and behavior. One thing they all have in common: they are
hatched, devour meat, use breath as a weapon, love gold and jewels and are very strong.
Many dragons live for hundreds or even thousands of years. Because of this long history
they are inclined to look down their noses at the younger types of beings - such as humans.
On Tamar there are different types of dragons. Some of them may even be called by the
races of Elves and Dwarf, when they find themselves in danger.
But the most powerful dragon is the gold one. His breath is of a fire and gas mixture
capable of incinerating entire cities. Thankfully he is not particularly aggressive and
is even honorable of disposition.
On the opposite angle is the red dragon. This absolutely chaotically evil dragon has
nothing else in mind but to annihilate all creatures in a fiery death. He is not quite
as strong as the gold, but his aggressiveness knows no limits. He sinks ships, leaves
cities in soot and ashes, and attacks great armies if it must be. We want to warn all
the players in the world about this dragon! Dragons typically run in small packs of one
to four.
Lastly, we wish to call your attention to the 'Offer of Tamar.' Amiga Future
publishes a page every two months with news, tips, tricks, and statistics about
the best players of Tamar at that time. We're especially happy about this cooperation. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets through 24th March, 2003
With WHDLoad you can install to your hard-drive games that were thought only to run from floppy disks. The following packets have
been released or updated since our last announcement:
- 24.03.03 improved: Explora / Chrono Quest (Infomedia/Psygnosis) supports German version too
- 24.03.03 new: Stop Fascism (Alcatraz & Interactive) done by Psygore
- 24.03.03 new: I've Got The Power (Alcatraz) done by Psygore
- 19.03.03 improved: Z-Out (Advantec/Rainbow Arts) Snoop accesses removed
- 19.03.03 improved: Space Crusade (Gremlin) breakpoint removed
- 18.03.03 improved: Guy Spy (Ready Soft) supports disk version too
- 18.03.03 improved: Secret of Monkey Island (Lucasfilm Games) protection better removed, restart support
- 18.03.03 improved: Dragon's Lair 3 - The Curse of Mordread (Ready Soft) imager fixed
- 17.03.03 fixed: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) install script corrected
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Font: TTEngine Homepage Has Moved
The project homepage for TTEngine has moved and is reachable under the following URL from now on:
http://teleinfo.pb.bialystok.pl/tte/.
Please update your bookmarks and links accordingly.
TTEngine is a TrueType-based font text-rendering environment for AmigaOS by Grzegorz Kraszewski.
The current version is 6.4.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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Heise: Retro Joystick Console in Germany, only at Karstadt and Amazon
The video game system in the shape of a classic Atari joystick, manufactured by Jakks Pacific and imported to Germany by the game
publisher THQ, will not be generally available in individual shops. Through exclusive deals the retro game console will instead be
exclusively offered at
Karstadt purchase centers
as well as Amazon for about 30 euros per unit. The initial sale began just previously, at Amazon the gizmo is offered for preorder under
another name, the Atari TV Game Stick.
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #030
The 30th music pack from LQS includes an MP3 tune named "Roboty" in the Trance style. Created by Maxus, our new member, it brings a new
diversity to the Liquid Skies collection. Listen to it and decide for yourself! :) (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: Big Videogames Special
The BIG videogames special for our 12th "birthday" is online! You can:
- Win and evaluate historical, unread videogames issues (for a few days only!).
- Investigate all videogames test data (!) ever published.
- Have a look at many cool insider factoids about the videogames...
- ...and more.
For Amiga freaks the earliest interesting report from videogames is this: CD32 report
from the October 1993 issue.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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26.Mar.2003
Telemar Rosenberger (E-Mail)
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Game: New compiles of AMHuhn and AMHuhnXE for the 68040 and the 68060
The author of the game AMHuhn Telemar Rosenberger has recompiled the current versions of AMHuhn and AMHuhnXE for the processors 68040 and 68060.
Telemar's debugger does not show any errors now it should run bugfree and clean now and he hopes that the game runs better now on some systems.
The new versions of AMHuhn and AmHuhnXE are included in the download archives in a German and English version. Please read the notes.
Download: AMHuhn.lha - 315 KB
Important notes:
1. The new compiled executables were tested under the precondition that the current beta version 4.5 of AHI is installed (we reported).
2. Who has not installed the games AmHuhn and AmHuhnXE before has to install the complete archive from the
AmHuhn website. Within the upper download archive there are only the new executables.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Matthew Kille (ZeoNeo)
Some days ago the company "ZeoNeo" said within a press release that "Candy Factory 2" will be published for AmigaOS 4.0. The company is known for several producs for the AmigaDE.
"Candy Factory" was originally distributed as shareware, later commercially developed further by the company "Motion Studio" and now developed again by the original developer Milan Pollé to version 2.0 for the coming AmigaOS.
With "Candy Factory 2" buttons, logos, banner etc. are to create in real time with a quality known else only from raytracing/rendering software.
Amiga Arena talked with Matthew Kille, the CEO of "ZeoNeo" how it came to the cooperation with Milan Pollé and why they will support AmigaOS 4.0 in future. The interview is available in German and
English.
Additionally there are screen shots of Candy Factory 2 for download available.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.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 were updated:
- Europe
- New links list
- Lost links list
- History 2003
(ps)
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26.Mar.2003
Carles Bernardez: CatCon Organiser (ANF)
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Event: CatCon 2K3 party, the 3rd edition
The 3rd edition of our Amiga party is here.
You can espect the typical Demoscene competitions, and the presence of some Amiga related companies.
The Party will be held on 3rd and 4th of May in Calella, a touristic town near Barcelona, in Spain.
If you are an Amiga scener, a multimedia artist, an Amiga user or a merly courious you will be welcome.
If you are an Amiga company you will be welcome to our party, and of course you will have a free stand
to demostrate/sold your products. If you can't assist to the party but you want colaborate, you can send
to us some prizes for the winners of the competitions, etc.
For questions, suggestions, etc. please contact catconparty@yahoo.es
or have a look at http://www.iespana.es/catcon/.
Carles Bernardez: CatCon organiser
(ps)
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26.Mar.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Speech control for Amiga in planning
Carsten Siegner writes:
From today on I will work on a speech control for the Amiga.
A speech control modul of "Conrad-Electronic" will be used for that. This one can control 65 different
channels which are addressable by freely programmable speech commands.
There are different speech recognition modes:
There is a single word recognition and a multiple word recognition. That modul might distinguish between
"Arteffect start" and "Arteffect end" if ran in multilpe word recognition mode. The aim is a speech controlled toolbar or a speech controlled Internet browser which might open a special page on a shout. Probably an ARexx or even a speech controlled computer start or shutdown script might be possible.
I could imagine that the Amiga itself might give some feedback, probably with an audio feedback. That might be of the kind that after a spoken command the computer comes to word and gives a confirmation of the received command. The computer voice could be any sample.
Ideas and suggestions are welcome.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
CCC (E-Mail)
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Blinkenlights Arcade: Documentation video for download
From September the 25th to October the 6th last year there has been the installation Arcade, the 2nd prank of the project Blinkenlights in Paris.
Like with the first project there is, by the title link, a documentation video available again. Within 14 minutes the project is introduced from sevaral viewpoints and interviews with the crew.
The files are available as MPEG-1 and MPEG-4.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
Nowee (E-Mail)
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Amiga-Workbench: OverShaker - Themes website updated
After a longer break the website will be updated reguarly again.
Nowee, the maintainer of the 'OverShaker' website has dedicated himself to the brightening of the
Amiga Workbench. There are themes for GUI tools like
VisualPrefs and icon samples available. At the area 'Work' there are tips for the handling with the colours (palette) of the Workbench. Selfly created themes and
icons are welcome by Nowee for providing them at the website.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
Jörn-Erik Burkert (E-Mail)
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AMIGA-Magazin: Issue 3 and 4/2003 online
The AMIGA-Magazin has published parts of the issues 3 and 4/2003 (German) online yesterday. Beside the editorial and index there are the following interesting articles provided.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)
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Interest on the print magazine 'Total Amiga'?
Fun Time World and Amiga Arena are discussing together with Robert
Williams the possibility to sell the English print magazine "Total
Amiga" in Germany. Before they like to know if there is a demand for that magazine. The retail price would be about 4.50 EUR + porto and package (about 1,50 EUR) per issue.
People interested on a subscription might please send an email to us.
For a positive decision there is a demand of 50 interested requested.
Further details are to obtain by email from us. With a subscription people are ment who will buy the magazine regulary i.e. they have to pay not in advance but issue per issue. Only on request there might be subscriptions for a fixed number of issues available.
The current issue is about 52 pages, 44 of these are without adds. An index of that issue is to obtain from here.
To get an impression of the quality you might have a view to a pdf version of the magazine. Following this link you will come to
issue 12.
The magazine is mostly done on Amiga and published every quarter year, a monthly rhythm is planed as soon as the Amiga market improves again.
The magazine is printed in black and white. Further information is to get from our
homepages: Fun Time World
or Amiga Arena during the next days.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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25.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.4
Kicko writes:
First i appologise for sending this info in the german part of
amiga-news.de. The problem is when using long dir/filenames t&f
wouldnt show the commands in commandslist. To solve this i have
renamed the VirusPageA-C dirs to VirusA-C. Then in t&f in config
window use an assign like V: to tf:commands and it will work.
But remember that you have to reload every commandn in list to use
the V: assign instead. There is other solutions too like renaming
the command names too. Many of them are numbered like
000.bankchange.cmd. You can rename it like bankchange.cmd. And
also you can copy the commands you like from the virus drawers to
the actually tf:commands and use them from there. Its upto you.
Im not good in assembler so i cant fix it. Maybe someone can do
it for me? (ps)
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25.Mar.2003
Dietmar Eilert (Website)
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Editor: SP11 for GoldED AIX
For the editor 'GoldED AIX' from Dietmar Eilert the service pack #11 is available
for dowload for registered user.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2003
Amiga.SF (Website)
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New dcr85020-Ports on amiga.sf.net: Lame v3.93.1 und SoX v12.17.4
Under the title link you will find some programs ported to the Amiga by Diego
Casorran. Not all programs are tested properly so if you encounter any problems get
in contact with dcr8520_at_amiga.org.
Lame v3.93.1
LAME ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME is an educational tool to be used for
learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the
open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and
speed of MP3. Download: lame-3.93.1.lha
SoX v12.17.4
SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of
computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various
effects to these sound files during the conversion.
Download: sox-12.17.4.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2003
RekoNet (Website)
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Game: New Klondike cardsets at RekoNet (23.03.2003)
At the RekoNet, the collection of cardsets, programs and links around the Reko
production are new cardsets added. Now there are 1100 cardsets available.
- added 3 new cardsets by Allan Rasmussen
- added 2 new cardsets by Joe Pineapples
- added 5 MogwaiMen cardsets
- added Imbruglia2 cardset
- added Boop and Charmed cardset Jennifer Warner
- added 5 converted cardsets from Andreas Sauer
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-Card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 332
Guido Mersmann has released the beta-version 332 of AmithlonTV with updates and
enhancements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh
a
- CHANGED: Did some cleanup on the PCI structures and sources.
- CHANGED: Added the missing DPI documentation for the PCI stuff.
- BUGFIX: Somehow I forgot to implement the auto config stuff into the "audio_tda9873h.lib".
- CHANGED: The bt8x8 driver is now setting PCI latency! It also shuts down the card on shut down.
- BUGFIX: Fixed crash bug within the "volume_AmiMixer.lib" which sometimes caused
crashes.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB driver: Poseidon version 2.0 available
Chris Hodges writes:
I've just uploaded the current work in progress version of Poseidon.
Although the version number has been bumped to V2.0, it contains mostly bug
fixes. Please don't be disappointed, if you would have expected more from
this release. I've had a lot of things to do (e.g. writing the driver for
the cool Algor board and the FlashRom tool for the Romulus/Algor) and then
again, I'm only coding on my spare time.
Nevertheless, this is a free update for all registered and licenced users
except for one. This "Rat" has to stick to the old version. Support is
something bilateral.
People who had problems with their digital cameras using the CB or CBI
transport protocol (remember, Class 8, Subclass x, Protocol 0 or 1) could
try again with the new mass storage class. It might work. I've spent some
days with the USB Floppy drive I've borrowed from a friend of mine and
works with it.
Also, AutoMounting has been improved, so the manual mounting process
required by a few devices/media should be worries of the past.
As usually, there are new binaries for MorphOS as well (and if somebody
missed the news, the Pegasos USB driver by VFD has been released into the
public a week ago). Anyway, stay tuned, there is more to come. Enjoy the
update.
(ps)
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25.Mar.2003
ELBOX COMPUTER (E-Mail)
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New list of PCI cards supported in Mediator
The list of PCI cards supported in the MEDIATOR busboards has been
updated.
The current list covers the following PCI cards:
- Graphic cards:
- Voodoo5 5500
- Voodoo4 4500
- Voodoo3 3000
- Voodoo3 2000
- Voodoo Banshee
- S3 ViRGE DX
- S3 ViRGE
- USB cards:
- Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed
- Sound cards:
- Terratec 512i Digital and many other sound cards based on the ForteMedia FM801-AU sound chipset
- Sound Blaster 4.1 Digital cards based on the CT5880-DEQ sound chipset
- Sound Blaster 128 cards based on the CT5880-DDQ, CT5880-DCQ, ES1373-DAQ, ES1373-B, ES1373-A, ES1371, ES1370 and EV1938 sound chipsets
- Fast Ethernet 100Mbps cards:
- Cards based on the Realtek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet chipset
- Ethernet 10Mbps cards:
- Cards based on the Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet chipset
- TV cards:
- TV tuner cards (over 100 models) based on the FUSION 879A, FUSION 878A, Bt878A, Bt849A and Bt848A chipsets
(nba) (Translation: nba)
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24.Mar.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 24.03.2003
New Uploads to Aminet:
Spanish-AmIRC.lha comm/irc 17K+Spanish catalog for AmIRC
SpanishAmIRC.lha comm/irc 17K+Spanish catalog for AmIRC
amiycoders.lha comm/mail 18K+V0.4 yEnc Encoder / Decoder for the Amig
tv-mod-wp.lha comm/misc 22K+(PL) Import module for TV programe [v9.3
MiamiDxCT.lha comm/net 9K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
MiamiDxSPA.lha comm/net 10K+Spanish catalog for Miami Deluxe
FTPMount.lha comm/tcp 247K+Handler to use FTP as real directory - w
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1b
OpenURL44.lha comm/www 148K+OpenURL - Get that URL!
OpenURLcat.lha comm/www 2K+Catalonian catalog for OpenURL 4.4 or hi
OpenURL_dt.lha comm/www 3K+German catalog for OpenURL v4.4
EquinoxeInvtro.lha demo/aga 689K+Invitation for the Equinoxe demoparty in
fit_miracle.lha demo/aga 293K+One day miracle by Fit ASM'02 64k intro
znn_theway.lha demo/aga 861K+Zenon The Way 3th at Lobotomia 2002 demo
GetCRC.lha dev/c 30K+V1.19 calculates different checksums
SegTracker_pch.lha dev/debug 15K+Patches SegTracker to V37.76
autoconf-253.lha dev/gg 1.5M+GNU automatic configuration generator. V
automake-163.lha dev/gg 1.3M+GNU automatic makefile generator. V1.6.3
libtool-142.lha dev/gg 1.9M+GNU Libtool V1.4.2
fd2pragma.lha dev/misc 212K+V2.164 create pragma, inline, ... files
reactionexampl.lha dev/src 33K+ReAction examples
EasyACDDA.lha disk/cdrom 335K+Play&Save CD tracks with Gui - EasyACDDA
MyFormat1.28.lha disk/misc 30K+Format replacement. OS2.04+ required
vdisk36.lha disk/misc 46K+Dynamic recoverable RAM disk (V3.6)
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 48K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
AIOV67.lha docs/mags 603K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 67 (Janu
saku42.lha docs/mags 2.2M+Saku #42 (1/2003). Finnish e-zine.
InterviewDBase.lha docs/misc 494K+Amiga Arena Interview database (English/
freeciv_mos.lha game/2play 761K+Freeciv for MorphOS. V1.2 (based on Amig
Saga.lha game/board 291K+Saga 1.24: Conversion of TSR boardgame
DC2Lvl-Expert.lha game/data 371K+81 levels for Diamond Caves II
DC2Lvl-Ghost.lha game/data 385K+81 levels for Diamond Caves II
Dragonworks.lha game/data 606K+Cardset for AS-Freecell and AS-Memory
heretic2_ger.lha game/data 23K+Heretic II German Translation (German) (
Mattonite.lha game/demo 672K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
AlexInTown.lha game/jump 78K+Guide Alex through the Town.
WormWars.lha game/misc 624K+Worm Wars 7.31: Advanced snake game
angband.lha game/role 922K+Angband 3.0.3 - Roguelike solo RPG
HDA.lha game/role 450K+German Multiple Choice Text Adventure
AS-Clock.lha game/think 200K+Find cards with the same rank
AS-FindIt.lha game/think 222K+Find cards among the others
AS-Montana.lha game/think 210K+Fill In The Gaps
AS-Remember.lha game/think 198K+Remember and find cards
Miliarderzy.lha game/think 1.2M+Mind game (Polish version) for AOS and M
Colorit.lha game/wb 42K+Try to match the displayed pattern
TriLights.lha game/wb 44K+Light-up this triangular-shaped board!
X_Lights.lha game/wb 43K+Light-up this X-shaped board!
kray.lha gfx/3d 641K+Freeware raytracer v1.3
BetaScan3_PL.lha hard/drivr 17K+Polish catalog for BetaScan_v3
imdbDiff030307.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff030314.lha misc/imdb 2.3M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha misc/misc 69K+MUI Biorythm tool. Now localised. v1.3
001_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
002_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.6M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
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JD-Candy.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Candy by JaDe
JD-Mindscapes.mpg mods/mpg 3.7M+Mindscapes by JaDe
NKN_cscoverHI.lha mods/nkn 3.4M+CD covers - 600 DPI - most powerful tech
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NKN_cs_cd_2.lha mods/nkn 7.2M+02 cal 6667 - Cooleour SYNTHESIS CD comp
NKN_cs_cd_3.lha mods/nkn 10M+03 Gotcha Cybe Houze - Cooleour SYNTHESI
NKN_cs_cd_5.lha mods/nkn 12M+05 Cyber Tribe [ABORIGINE] - Cooleour SY
NKN_cs_cd_6.lha mods/nkn 7.1M+06 Slaughter House - Cooleour SYNTHESIS
NKN_cs_cd_7.lha mods/nkn 6.9M+07 Psyche Killer - Cooleour SYNTHESIS CD
viruscommands.lha mus/midi 100K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields
JabberwockyESP.lha mus/misc 8K+Guide for Jabberwocky in spanish languag
SAPphire.lha mus/play 259K+Very nice GUI for SAP Player (player for
nICkONs-3.lha pix/gicon 114K+Game Glowicons
SaloraFellow.lha pix/illu 664K+Salora Fellow (Video Tech Laser 210)
Satire11-Nov02.jpg pix/misc 44K+"La satire du Jet d'Ail" in pictures on
Satire12-Jan03.jpg pix/misc 42K+"La satire du Jet d'Ail" in pictures on
SoundBolt.lha pix/wb 379K+SoundBolt Workbench theme by Nowee for V
guideml2.lha text/hyper 54K+Cool AmigaGuide -> HTML converter (V2.4)
CheckX.lha util/arc 40K+V1.94 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus
Decigel.lha util/boot 3K+68010+ priv. instr. use fix, VBR update
skick345.lha util/boot 91K+Soft-kicker under OS 2.0 - new release
ahisyssound.lha util/cdity 48K+Play sounds for asl/reqtool Requesters o
Cheetah.lha util/conv 34K+Allows you to cheat at your favorite gam
MakeWav.lha util/conv 23K+Converts ROM images for the Atari 2600 V
sapmaker.lha util/conv 102K+Making SAP files from Atari XL/XE's musi
AmIPS.lha util/misc 11K+IPS creating/patching (MUI)
Frogger-GUI.lha util/misc 22K+Reaction GUI for FroggerNG
FroggerNG_GUI.lha util/misc 32K+Control Panel for FroggerNG
NewHomer.lha util/misc 81K+V1.7 (upd./bugf. - Finally eyes behave c
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 312K+Report+ 5.66: Multipurpose utility
AmiGOD2.lha util/moni 82K+AmigaOS benchmark BETA 20.03.2003
Amithlon.lha util/moni 414K+SysSpeedMod
EBGuide.lha util/rexx 3K+(REACTION GUI) Australian TV Guide progr
MagicFlush.lha util/wb 16K+Flush memory every 2 seconds
ScaOPMCatUpFr.lha util/wb 9K+Update Cat.french(Scalos-OPM)
SGrabCAT.lha util/wb 1K+Catalonian catalog for SGrab
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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24.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.4
This is really no update to the actually commands but a description
how to solve the problem with using these commands in tracks&fields.
The problem is when using long dir/filenames t&f wouldnt show the
commands in commandslist. To solve this i have renamed the VirusPageA-C
dirs to VirusA-C. Then in t&f in config window use an assign like V:
to tf:commands and it will work. But remember that you have to reload
every commandn in list to use the V: assign instead. There is other
solutions too like renaming the command names too. Many of them are
numbered like 000.bankchange.cmd. You can rename it like bankchange.cmd.
And also you can copy the commands you like from the virus drawers to
the actually tf:commands and use them from there. Its upto you.
Im not good in assembler so i cant fix it. Maybe someone can do it for me? (ps) (Translation: sk)
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23.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Amig@lien news report back
After some time of irregular news items the Amig@lien news page has been
updated and somewhat extended. A.o.t. a list with the ten most recent Amiga
interviews has been added. There is a survey where you can specify how many
Amigas you own. "Fahrschule 99" has been chosen as PD program and "Bahnstrecke"
as PD game of the month. Your news items will be gladly accepted, either via
a form on the Web site or via
e-Mail.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 06 for "Descent: Freespace" released
Again this weekend a MultiplayerPack for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace"
has been released. As usual it contains five new Multiplayer missions.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 2
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 2 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) BrianHoskins: I know it's a little soon to start drudging up time scales for a more commercialised OS, given that AOS4 isn't quite out yet, but when do you think the Amiga Platform is going to be in a position to release a new OS aimed at the wider audience? Im not talking about exact dates here, just approximately. A Year? 2? 3? More?
Fleecy: As I said in an answer to last week's questions, it is very important that we have a good market profile before we release a product into that market. By that I mean having a comprehensive list of the activities, requirements and roles within that market and, as important, a list of what our competitors offer and plan to offer.
This covers not just the operating system itself but also the hardware, the application base and the pre and post sales and support infrastructure.
You only tend to get one chance to launch into a market and so you have to make sure that you have all the bases covered otherwise it may fail, negative association may follow and this could affect not just any potential relaunch into that market but activities in other markets as well, both existing and planned.
By a wider audience, I assume you mean into the general desktop/home computer market. Based upon that, we need to attend to the following areas.
- reliable supply of good quality and competitive hardware
- a stable, localised, well documented and supported operating system
- a supply of good third party applications, both available and in progress
- an effective marketing campaign - reviews, advertisements, presence.
That said, to appeal to a wider audience, we need to provide a solution to their needs. The majority of people use a computer to
- surf the net
- email
- Instant Message
- compose letters
- manage their music collection
- play a few simple games
- manage their digital photograph and video collections
We thus need to make sure that we have a solution that provides for these seven basic activities, to at least an industry standard level. This means applications, either in house or third party and an operating system which supports those applications.
This itself will be influenced by the move from Amiga Generation 1 (AG1) to Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) technology. For example there is little point in expending lots of effort on a brand new HTML rendering engine or a new printer system until the AG2 graphics service is completed, since both of these will make heavy use of it.
As you say, prediction is not an exact science but assuming full access to the necessary resources I would say that 18 months after AmigaOS4.0 ships, we should have all the elements necessary to offer a compelling alternative in the wider market.
2) seldom: Is there some kind of estimation, when there will be a Java VM for AOS ? Obviously this would open up a whole bunch of apps and developers for AOS. Maybe there is some way to do something special (tight integration into OS, boosting GUI implementation) about this implementation, so it gets especially attractive to develop/use java-apps. for/on AOS ?
Fleecy: Personal Java and MIDP will be available once the AmigaDE runs on the AmigaOS. Once that is the case, we will then look at expanding it into a full java implementation. Such a project would be a lot of work though and would most likely not be resourced until deep into the AG2 project, both because AG2 is more important and because Java itself would be a customer of AG2.
3) DaveyD: Have you considered porting an open source browser such as mozilla to AOS and if so, will it be included with AOS?
Fleecy: We have been looking on with interest at the path followed by Apple with Safari, their new browser and will most likely follow a similar path. We need to consider this though against the wider picture of what goes in an OS and what is/should be provided by third parties
4) SlimJim: Will there be an official list of supported hardware for the AOne + AOS4 combo released before the launch of the actual OS? I know this has been asked before, but it would be nice for people with Earlybird systems to be able to start putting together the hardware (with Linux) now, safely knowing that the addons they buy will also be supported by the upcoming AOS4.
Fleecy: This already exists, built and maintained by those who already have AmigaOnes, and supported by Amiga, Eyetech, Hyperion and Mai. You can find it at
http://web.amigarulez.com/ahs/
The new Amiga Power Platform website is currently under development and will be launched in the near future and will provide lists of hardware, software and links to reviews.
5) Rebel: Why has Amiga Inc not involved its community more? There are many talented graphics artists, webmasters, programmers that could be called upon to help. Also surveys on features etc that users want the most. AI's refusal to engage the users has helped to fragment that community further.
Fleecy: The issue with using the community comes down to the essential delineation between a business and its market. If a company takes work from external sources then there are legal questions of ownership and moral questions of remuneration. As an example, many games companies used to welcome idea submissions from the game playing community as a way of generating new product concepts but a few years ago, a few of them were sued by people who had made submissions and who claimed that their ideas had been used without reward. It is thus necessary to ensure that any flow into a company is legally secure.
Having said that, we do work with the community in several ways.
- We often use Amiga artists for graphics work. The new OS4 advert is a good example.
- We are working with several webmasters and artists for the new Amiga Power Platform website.
- The development team of AmigaOS4.0 consists of many of the best community based developers.
- We consult with a group of trusted community figures on issues, ideas and concepts.
- The Club Amiga Monthly eMag and the soon to be released DEv DE developer eMag receive extensive contributions from the community.
Of course there is always room for more and as AmigaOS4.0 moves towards release, we will be extending our efforts in that regard. There is a lot of contact and communication with the community but a lot of it goes on behind the scenes.
6) alx: What tools will be available to develop for OS4?
Fleecy: The OS4 team and in particular Olaf Barthel have put in a lot of work to create a GCC compatible compiler which is free of iexmul and older compiler dependencies. We are looking at developing a proper IDE around this to give Amiga developers a world class development environment, and integrating this with a new documentation toolchain. A developer CD will be forthcoming. This is of course subject to change as we move forwards.
Now that we have an eMag pipeline, proven with CAM, we are soon to introduce the DEv eMag for AmigaDE developers and we want to produce a similar product for AmigaOS developers.
7) alx: Do you know when the new SciTech graphics drivers will be integrated into the OS (ie as a Boing Bag, or in OS4.2 or whatever)?
Fleecy: The plan is to release it as part of AmigaOS4.0. It most likely won't be part of the CSPPC version but then that hardware doesn't have the luxury of many graphics cards.
8) Unclecurio: There was much talk of the Zico spec in the early days. Is Amiga Inc continuing the development of these blueprints and, if so, when can we expect to hear more?
Fleecy: The Zico spec was an indication of the type of functionality that we intended to provide with AmigaOS4.0. Our future plans for the AmigaOS will introduce new types of hardware across a range of device classes but we won't be releasing details until individual projects are much more advanced.
9) Kay: Have you given any thought to communication between Amiga desktops and AmigaDE capable PDAs? If so, what devices can we expect to be using together with our AmigaOne systems in the near future?
Fleecy: This is something that we intend to provide once the AmigaDE is on the AmigaOS. However, there are also opportunities for other device synchronisation as well - PocketPC and Palm PDAs, MS and Symbian powered smartphones and of course the digital music devices.
10) The_Editor: "The Matrox are supposed to be an A.Inc Partner... Have / are negotiations taken place to port/create NLE Editing solutions for A1?"
Fleecy: Our partnership with Matrox is currently limited to providing drivers for their product path. There have been initial contacts about their video application offerings and we have agreed to talk in more detail once we can provide them with AmigaOS4.0 on an AmigaOne for them to assess.
We have been contacted in the last week by a company which has expressed an interest in bringing video capture, editing and presentation software to AmigaOS4.0 but I cannot give any more details at this early stage.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=2
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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23.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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APC&TCP: Wanted: Beta testers for "Desert Racing"
APC&TCP are still looking for beta testers for the game "Desert Racing". An
Amiga with 060 processor, AGA, gfx card and CD-ROM drive is required. Moreover
you should have a good Amiga knowledge. Interested users please apply by mail
to info@apc-tcp.de. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #029
Our musician Tripper has written a new MP3 tune under the title "Mindscope",
which is to be classified something like Trance, Ambient or House style. But
have a listen yourself! ;)
As always freely available on our home page.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Felix Schwarz (ANF)
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Felix Schwarz: Sale of old AMIGA hardware
In order to create room for new hardware, Felix Schwarz privately sells AMIGA
hardware items which are no longer required. Among those there are AMIGA computers
as well as digitizers, interface cards and non-AMIGA hardware. Especially
interesting for some might be the Amiga 4000 on which the main part of the
development of fxPAINT, fxSCAN and VHI Studio had taken place (in the meantime
moved to an A4000T).
As this is private hardware there is no guarantee - the sale is NOT through
IOSPIRIT but is purely of a private nature.
This has no influence on the further development of the software titles by
IOSPIRIT - even after the sale there are still three AMIGAs and compatible
computers remaining. Have fun bidding!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: HIGHWAY-successor "ALGOR" from E3B goes into production
E3B is glad to be able to present the well known HIGHWAY Zorro USB controller's
successor ALGOR as the consequential result of its further development
over a period of several months. Now, after the successful conclusion of a long test
phase, ALGOR goes into production.
As with the successful predecessor, highest performance and optimal adaption to
the Amiga Classic's circumstances was the development target for ALGOR.
You can find the press announcement in full as well as technical specifications
on the E3B Web site.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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Virus warning: Virus in a demo file on JPV (FAG-MD03.LHA)
Subsequently you will find an announcement published in the ANF. Unfortunately I wasn't
able to find an e-mail address on JPV's Web site, so I can't inform the
maintainer.
The archive http://jpv.wmhost.com/releases/FAG-MD03.LHA has a
"Happy new year98" virus in it. There is a
link to this
site from amiga-news.de. Also don't run this even after the
virus is removed (VirusExecutor does the job) - it's an ugly
pictures of gay porn. UGLY. Must be erased from every Amiga
Hard Disk immediately.
Kind Regards
drHirudo
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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22.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.3
This version includes also polypressure commands so the package
is complete know. If i find bugs or faulty commands i will update
it. Feel free to contact me if something doesnt work.
Future commands in new OS'es i will ofcourse update if they come. (ps)
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22.Mar.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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New Mac-on-Linux version 0.9.68 released for PPC incl. AmigaOne
The new Mac-on-Linux version 0.9.68 has been released on March, 10th 2003.
An adapted version for the AmigaOne of Mac on Linux can be found under the URL http://members.optusnet.com.au/amigaone/.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Rudolph Riedel (email)
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FTPMount version 1.4 by Rudolph Riedel
Rudolph Riedel wrote:
As the Aminet unfortunately seems to be down, at least uploads aren't sorted anymore, I have uploaded right now a new version of FTPMount to my homepage.
Download: FTPMount.lha
A download link isn't available on the site but it should be direct accessable. Well, what has changed?
This can of course be read in the "FTPMount.readme".
The archive is very similar to the v1.31 by Martin R. Elsner on the Aminet, I had unpacked it and done my changes. The main thing is that I've done a new compile, made some changes, set the version to 1.4, added a 68040 version and the complete source code is now also included.
In case that anybody has a bug report - just send it to me!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Steffen Schiller (Fahrschule 99)
A few days ago was the once low cost program "Fahrschule 99"
released for free download by its developer Steffen Schiller.
Other than the name is suggesting it's not an old program but "Fahrschule 99" offers to all those who are doing their theoretical driving licence or who just want to update their knowledge the up-to-date data for the classes B and A.
Here it shows once again that the Amiga sector offers actual applications that are not only for free but also cover topics that are suitable for the daily use. the only drop of bitterness for todays Amiga users will be the fact that "Fahrschule 99" is made for an Amiga 500 and PAL screen mode.
As especially this kind of normal use software is so important for the future of the new Amiga generation to cover a wide area of themes spoke Olaf Köbnik to Steffen Schiller about the future of "Fahrschule 99".
The result is the 100th interview Olaf Köbnik (Amiga Arena) has done who already told us that the 101st interview with another interesting and actual company is in the works.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: many areas updated (19.03.2003)
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users HomePage 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.
Three days ago were the following areas updated:
- America
- Europe
- List of new links
- List of lost links
- History 2003
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (email)
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Cinemaware statement
As reported in the end of February here told clickBOOM in their S-File 22 that there are differences with Cinemaware. Today Cinemaware published the following statement:
Statement from Cinemaware
Hopefully you know who we are as Cinemaware, as we are well known for
our past Amiga games. We are of course doing new titles as well as you
can see on our web-site www.cinemaware.com.
We have also started a series of "Digitally Remastered" titles with
clickBoom for a while - but unfortunately that has gone badly. I was
wondering if you could report the information below on your website.
We understand that some of classic Amiga/Cinemaware fans have been
concerned about certain news spread around by clickBoom, the Canadian
developer which Cinemaware has employed to develop the "Digitally
Remastered" series of games. At this point Cinemaware would just like to
make a simple statement that clickBoom's allegations are false and
misleading, and that we will issue an official statement in the future
regarding this matter.
In reference to this, Cinemaware would appreciate if anyone involved in
the below cases come into contact with us as soon as possible, writing
to cinemaware@cinemaware.com:
As you can see history tends to repeat itself.
In the meantime, we appreciate your support and understand your
frustration at not being able to see more "Digital Remasters" coming out
soon. We are working hard to resolve this situation.
Please look out for exciting news regarding Robin Hood: Defender of the
Crown soon!
Sincerely,
Lars Fuhrken-Batista
Team Cinemaware
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
CD32-Allianz (ANF)
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CD32-Allianz website update and editorial
The CD32-Allianz continues. Again with new cover scans, new enhancements for the CD32 and matching the begin of the spring time a new editorial.
In the past time it became quite quiet around the other CD32 websites. To avoid a stand still here for us there's again a call for assistance. If anybody wants to write a games review or owns missing games: help!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 326
Today Guido Mersmann has published beta version 326 of the TV-card driver software
called AmithlonTV which contains several minor updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Change: Changed some routines within the library to ensure full Pegasos compatibility.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
AmiGOD (Website)
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Benchmark: AmiGOD 2 beta 20.03.2003
On 20th March 2003 Lukas Stehlik has published a new beta version of 'AmiGOD 2'.
This is a modularly built up AmigaOS benchmark. The following things have changed compared
with the last version:
- ADDED: Multitasking ON/OFF feature
- ADDED: Settings window (tests switching)
- CHANGED: Minor cosmetic changes
- REMOVED: Hdd/mem
- SOON:
support of external *.amg modules (95% completed)
- full screen intuition test, hdd/mem tests
Download: AmiGOD2.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Relaunch: Amiga History Guide
"Amiga Interactive Guide" which is a extensive collection of reports, interviews and
documents concerning the history of the Amiga has been updated.
The layout has been completely reworked and besides this the site now works as the
"Amiga History Guide".
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
Davy Wentzler (ANF)
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Audio Evolution Website Update
The website of the audio harddisk-recording program Audio Evolution has been updated with new information and screenshots on the upcoming Audio Evolution 4 for AmigaOS4. See audio-evolution.com
for more information. (ps)
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21.Mar.2003
Scenia
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Music scene: AMP updated
The demo scene project Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) is the most extensive collection
of original modules of the Amiga demo scene. The maintainer of this site Crown and
Curt Cool have now published a major update.
The database now has 21 CD-ROMs, 55266 downloadable modules, 9476 musicans and 535 interviews.
Additionally to the new interviews with Fowl, Karlos, Rick, Sire, Skuter, Sleipner,
Swampfox, Ted Burning, Trazer, Wes Craven and Zarch above all the server has been maintained.
Besides this they point out that Prowizard
is available in a new version.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: New version of Office-packet Papyrus awaited
»Papyrus X as Word-version and as Office-packet announced
At the beginning of April 2003 the Berlin software company R.O.M. logicware is going to publish a new version of the
word processing software and of the Office packet Papyrus. The word processing software
which originally comes from the Atari world (TOS) will be now offered for MacOS for the
first time additionally to versions for OS/2 and Windows.
The Amiga version which has been announced of Titan Computer 2000
is still not available. Michael Garlich said that because of the current market situation
the Mac version has the highest priority. The MorphOS version (and PPC) is already in
alpha stadium while the Amiga version can be only started after AmigaOS 4.0 will be published
(68k is too slow for Papyrus X). (ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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ProStationAudio for MorphOS
A short while ago Bill Buck, CEO of Genesi S.a.r.l., made known in
comments
in several news forums and media viewpoints that the finished version of MorphOS would be bundled with a full
version of the professional Audio-Sequencer ProStationAudio. PSA's publisher AudioLabs has put a FAQ on their
website about this matter, which will confirm this and clarify further details. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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Death of a German ScummVM Programmer
Sebastian Beloch quotes the website of the software project ScummVM:
Last Friday, March 14th, our fellow ScummVM developer and friend,
Felix Jakschitsch (known to many under his nickname yot),
committed suicide at the young age of 19.
We are completely shocked by this, and do not know or understand
what drove him into this. It is a sorrowful world in which a
cheerful, intelligent and helpful man is put in a situation in
which he sees no other way to escape than taking his own life.
We are sad to lose our valued friend. He contributed important
work to ScummVM, including much of the Zak256 support. His loss
is felt deeply by all of us, and we extend our condolence to his
family and close friends, whose grief we share. If you want to
leave a message to his friends and family, there is a guestbook available.
Also here is a news paper article telling more details
(use babelfish if you don't speak German).
Felix, we miss you and will never forget you. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.2
295 midi commands specially made for access virus synthesizers
using tracks&fields miditracker.
This version has all the rest midi commands that Kicko didn't
publish in release 0.1. This is up to OS5. If new OS'es has
new commands the developer will fix it. Page A commands uses
only control messages instead of sysex. Page B & C is only
sysex. There is a backup of page A sysex if anyone needs it
in a subdir. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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20.Mar.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Golem: Linux for PowerPC - Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 is Ready
With Yellow Dog 3.0, Terra Soft has released a new version of their Linux distribution for PowerPC. The software, developed under the
codename "Sirius," marks a new generation of Linux for the PowerPC architecture, and is based on the GCC 3.2.1 compiler. Read the
complete column at Golem IT News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Schlafi (ANF)
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Net Newspaper: Al Gore in Apple's Advisory Board
The former US Vice-President Al Gore has been elected to the advisory board of the computer manufacturer Apple. Gore was
extremely narrowly overcome by George W. Bush in the presidential election of 2000. Read the complete Netzeitung.de report
under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Mar.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: AmiGBG in Gothenburg, Delfina in production
On March 29th, the Amiga-show AmiGBG
will take place. The event takes place for the third time this year,
and we'll attend for the first time as an exhibitor. We will present
new and known products from our palette together with our long-term
partner GGS-Data. The Scandinavian
Amiga-community is very active and most notably creative, therefore
we're especially looking forward to this event!
With a little luck, we'll have our latest product in our luggage: After
an extremely long wait, the sound card Delfina went into production.
Nearly one year ago, we announced the last technical changes, that
are already outdated today. The most important change is probably the
split of the product into two boards. The updated product description
on our website confirms what many people already assumed since the
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper is out: The new Delfina is a combined
Zorro/PCI card. The first stage of this high-end sound card will be
available in Germany starting April 7th, 2003. Pre-orders are taken
by our retail partners.
(ps)
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19.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: CeBIT report 2003
Genesi: CeBIT-Report 2003
From Ron van Herk und Martin Heine
The CeBIT is over, eight days of hard work are behind us. Genesi´s
first CeBIT attendance has been very successful. We were able to have many interesting talks,
we had a lot of interested visitors and started some very promising business deals.
We cannot got into detail of every single topic and of course there are some (indeed not too few) things which we cannot talk about in public.
But some things we can say right now:
_Kato Development_
Kato has developed sound card drivers for more then ten different audio chip sets. These include the AC97 codec, several Creative sound cards, but also some different Terratec models. We are to assist Kato in any possible kind to port their drivers to the Pegasos/MorphOS system, so Pegasos users will have a broad choice af additional sound cards.
_Mediapoint_
We hired the main programmer of Mediapoint. He started, done as a fulltime job, already to finish the next version of this package. It´s aimes to do a first release still this summer.
Our main focus is the professional market but also current users of the stand alone version will be an upgrade offered to benefit from the new features as well. Futhermore the same programmer will create a
MorphOS version of Inga the graphic adventure creator. With this it becomes possible for developers to create such graphic adventures or edutainment software for our settop box.
_Russia_
Genesi´s Russian distributor visited us at the fair. Currently the Russian localization of
MorphOS is under development.
_Merchandise_
Genesi thinks about the production of several MorphOS mechandise goodies and to offer it via local dealers.
We have some ideas for that ourself by now but welcome every suggestion for that as well.
_3sat_
As most will have heard and some have seen already there has been a short report about the Pegasos/MorphOS within the TV show "neues" of 3sat. Even it has not been to extensive it has been quite nice and we got some several positive feedback about it.
Okay, that´s all for the moment - more news will follow when we can put them to public. Our best greetings and regards from the CeBIT we are leaving from here now!
Ron, Martin, André und Ulrich
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Fax and mobile phone disabled
The Amiga Future disables from April the 1st 2003 their current mobile phone and fax account. New numbers will not be published. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
YAM (Website)
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Mailer: New YAM Developer version from 03-19-2003
Since today there is a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA available
from the mailer YAM which became open source recently.
This version is a pure developer version which might still include some bugs and for which the developer team gives no warranty and support of any kind. Requests via e-mail about developer versions will not be answered.
Usage on your own risk!
The recent changes can be obtained from this list.
Further information is to get from the
Yamos SourceForge page.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Article: The new generation of CDR/CDRW writers
With the start of the CeBIT the new generation of the 5x-times IDE
CDR/CDRW writer has been introduced to the market. Along with the higher writing speeds for CDRs and CDRWs all writers include technologies to avoid buffer underruns by standard now and are capable of the mount rainier standard, which should replace floppy disks as data carrier medium.
_Mitsumi_
The current top edge is the Mitsumi CR 485F TE (54x 32x 54x speed) drive. The best features of this ultraspeed rewriter include the integrated MITSUMI Aegis write
technology for best writing results. Aegis write controls and optimizes the laser strength, checks the writing speed and performs during the writing process a quality check for a safe burn. Availability: from April. Price: about 99 Euro.
_Plextor_
The new Plexwriter Premium (52x 32x 52x speed) works with an improved optical unit which offers a better signal sharpness between the pits and lands, so capacity of mediums can be increased up to 40%. So a 700 MB disk is capable of up to 1 GB. For a better compatibility Plextor says to extend the disk capacity only about 20%. To reduce the drive sounds the speed of the drive can be downgraded by the user individually.
Availability: from April. Price: about 199 Euro.
_LG Electronics_
For all who think about to get a new CDRW as well as a DVD-ROM LG presents the new combo drive GCC-4520B
(16x + 52x 24x 52x). Beside all common CD/CDRW formats the drive can read DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW media. The maximum read speed for these media is 16x which is about 21 MB/s. Availability: from April. Price: not published yet.
_Cyberdrive_
With the CW099D (52x 24x 52x) Cyberdrive offers a high sped writer now. The device works in the CAV mode and thus needs
less than 2.5 minutes for a complete CD-R and
for a CD-RW only about 3.5 minutes. The device can handle the raw DAO mode with 96 subchannel bytes and thus offers backup copies of protected CDs. Extra long CDRs with 90 or 99 minutes are supported also. Availability: from now on. Price: about
99 Euros.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Divine Divinity coming to the Mac and MorphOS
Larian Studios and e.p.i.c. interactive announced today that they have
signed a contract to bring Larian Studios' highly awarded role playing
sensation Divine Divinity to the Apple Macintosh and MorphOS.
Warrior, Wizard or Survivor? Which fate is yours?
It's your decision, one that will influence the gameplay of Divine Divinity
- playable as an action based RPG or a classical RPG!
According to prophecy, you are the chosen one. Only you have the strength,
the courage and the magic to save the legendary lands of Rivellon from
submission under the Lord of Chaos. Before you can take on the fight against
Evil, you must journey far through a fantastic world torn apart by
corruption, sinister plots and dark magic.
Caution is vital! Whatever happens, the evil magicians of the black ring
must not get hold of you!
With an involving storyline and plenty of sub quests for maximum
replayability, Divine Divinity is role-playing gaming at its best! As a
warrior, wizard or survivor, you will create your own destiny!
More information on Divine Divinity and all the accolades it has achieved,
can be found on e.p.i.c's or
Larian Studios website.
The Apple release will lead the way in QIII/03 followed shortly thereafter
by the MorphOS release.
The Mac version will be OSX only and will require a G3-333, 128 MByte RAM and
a 8 MByte 3D Gfxcard. The MorphOS version will need a Pegasos I or II.
(ps)
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19.Mar.2003
filosof (ANF)
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Event: Commodore Retro Party - Mail Madness Party #5
This year there will be a a computer party for retro freaks again in Saxonia/Germany. From April the 30th until May the 4th 2003 there will be a Mail
Madness! party in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, where from the C64 or Plus 4 to the ZX-Spectrum everything will be there. Several new and well known DiskMags will be shown to be up to date again. A possibility for sleeping and eating (breakfast, hamburger for in between or pizza (starting from 2 Euros) at night ...etc.) as well as beverages are available. A supermarket for the buying individual stuff is just near by.
For details just ring the +49 177 3376544 or of later than 6pm call the +49 3723 48729 ......come on !! don't hesitate !!!
See ya...!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Finnish Amiga User Group interviews Bill Buck & Raquel Velasco by Genesi
MorphOS-News.de reports about an
interview,
which was done by the Finnish Amiga User Group with Genesi. Within this interview Bill Buck and his wife Raquel Velasco do not only talk about the
-
Crossbee team hired by Genesi not only introduces their
experience of the management organisation but also their software to MorphOS.
- Additionalyt hey told that Ceolia now works for Genesi also,
- that prototypes of the PegasosII boards (6 Layers) are expected within the next three months.
- Representives of Plexuscom will come to Paris after the CeBIT to outline the further team work;
- that Genesi will sponsor the demo scene event "Assembly 2003"
- and that there will be a new MorphOS version for the existing PowerUp cards during the next month available free of charge for the Amiga community.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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18.Mar.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Font: TTEngine 6.4
TTEngine 6.4 is a bugfix release for three bugs unfortunately introduced in the previous one. The main bug was requesting mathieeesingtrans.library V38 while Workbench 3.0 and 3.1 has V37 of this library. This caused library initialization failure and revealed two bugs related to cleanup routine. Cleanup generated several Enforcer hits if called after failed initialization. All three bugs are fixed in TTEngine 6.4 release. Thanks to Halvadjian Georges, who reported the bug and hepled with debugging.
Download: ttengine-6.4.lha (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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CeBIT 2003: More pictures
MorphOS-News.de has posted some more CeBIT pictures (provided by Ron van Herk). (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Markus Holler (Website)
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Music: Markus Holler - Dance Mix aus Cold Zero
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga-Users for his music for the games Tales of
Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity, works on the music
Actiongame Cold Zero. For the soon vailable game you can find a dance mix of
the main themes on the download page.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
EvenMore
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Text viewer: Latest MSWord-Plugin for EvenMore
Chris Perver has released the MSWord-Plugin Version 1.38 for his text viewer
'EvenMore'. With this plugin you can convert in 'EvenMore' MSWord files into text.
Download: msword2text.plugin
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-Card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 321
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 321 of AmithlonTV with some updates and
enhancements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh
a
New in this version:
- CHANGED: Recompiled with the latest resource tracking and management code.
- BUGFIX: Thanks to the new resource management I found a very (very very) worst
memory boundary leak (4000 bytes!!!) in the main library core! If you had a few
crashes in the past, then there is a very (very very) good chance that they are gone!
- BUGFIX: Another 2 byte boundary leak within the virtual card driver fixed.
- CHANGED: Installer-Script now requests an actual installer version to ensure
proper operation.
- FEATURE: Added PowerPCI NG support.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
www.scene.org/news.php (ANF)
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OS Poll at scene.org
There is an OS poll running at scene.org right now. Lets help our favorite OS a little hand ;-) (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus Midicommands for tracks&fields
More then 250 commands to remote access virus synthesizers from
tracks & fields. There will be updates when Access makes new
OSupdates with new sysex midi commands.
Further updates will be made when for HDRec when there comes new
versions of it. As i dont find anyone that have time to continue
on tracks&field i will later use HDRec instead as its more pro.
Directpage (ps)
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17.Mar.2003
Amiga.SF (Website)
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Diego Casorran Ports: HyperMail V2.1.7 and Flac V1.1.0
- HyperMail to version 2.1.7, it is a program that takes a file of
mail messages in UNIX mailbox format and generates a set of
cross-referenced HTML documents. Each file that is created represents
a separate message in the mail archive and contains links to other
articles, so that the entire archive can be browsed in a number of
ways by following links. (I remember you that YAM export his emails
in UNIX format ;)
- Flac to version 1.1.0, it stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec.
Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The
FLAC project consists of: the stream format, reference encoders and
decoders in library form, flac: a command-line program to encode and
decode FLAC files, metaflac: a command-line metadata editor for FLAC
files. "Free" means that the specification of the stream format is
fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project
reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify
compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the
implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent.
It also means that all the source code is available under open-source
licenses.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Faces of Mars (ANF)
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Two new digital album: Galicia and Lisbon
After technical problems over the weekend the Faces OF Mars Website is
again fully functional. Immediately there are two new products: Photo
CDs about Lisbon and Galicia.
Beside many photos the CDs contains also a digital postcard
system, with which one can send motives simply over the Internet.
Price: 4 Euro per CD.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records with new module
Martin ' DaFreak ' Rebentisch writes:
Our musician Angeldust composed, influenced by the political
argument USA/Iraq, a MP3-Tune in the Schranz style
named "God Bless You". Sounds very interesting, just listen to it.
[LQS Homepage]!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Jabberwocky (Website)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 2. Preview
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch published Preview 2 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.4 for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.
Connections with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ,
MSN and Yahoo is possible via gateways.
Beta-version-vownload: Jabberwocky030316.lha
Changes:
- Fixed transperancy of icons in roster window (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
- Fixed long standing enforcer hit when removing contacts (also thanks to Jeff
Gilpin as a side effect of the transperancy fix)
- Fixed reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Fixed unicode conversion of reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Some support for displaying errors in the roster (but I haven't actually had
any errors that trigger it, so it either doesn't work, or I haven't
had any errors.
- Fixed enforcer hit on startup when autoconnect is on and there is no account
information (introduced in 1.3)
- Roster icon remains on the event icon until all unread messages have been read
- Fixed handling of messages from contacts that are not in the roster
(introduced in 1.4pre1)
As you can see 1.4pre1 had quite a lot of problems, remember you shouldn't be
using any prerelease unless you want problems.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 16.03.2003
With WHDLoad you install games, which were meant for the floppy discs usage
only, on your hard disk. The following packages were added and/or updated since our last message:
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 3 - The Curse of Mordread (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 2 - Time Warp (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 15.03.03 new: Dragon Lord (Alfaforce) done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 new: 3001 O'Conners Fight 2 () done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 improved: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) supports another version
- 15.03.03 improved: Drivin' Force (Digital Magic Software) supports another version
- 13.03.03 new: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Mar.2003
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Seven new demos online
A.D.A., the 'Amiga Demo Archive' has undergone an extensive update and offers
the following new demos:
- Dream or Reality/Faculty and Nah Kolor. Famous slideshow from Faculty
and Nah Kolor, featuring pictures by Unreal. Mostly fantasy inspired
(dragons), this slideshow features some nice pictures.
- Noname/Polka Brothers. Released at the South Sealand party in 1994
(ranking unknown). This is pure Polka Brothers style, meaning fast effects
and lots of energy. Some nice fullscreen pictures and a stunning tune by
Slide (as usual). A bit too short. Recommended!
- Nonstop/DCS. "Dcs brings you the first 40kb sing-along karaoke intro
ever featuring le ball du metaux, head objects, possibility to sing along,
effects, secret breakdance mode, oldschool atmosphere and no greetings part".
Need i say more? Released at The Party 1999 (1st place).
- Sketch/Venture. Technically not really impressive, this demo features
some amazing design, making it a very stylish little production. Released
in August 1998 at Intel Outside 5 (3rd place).
- Sumolysbryter/Ephidrena. Yes, the famous crew from Norway is back with a
new demo! Featuring Loaderror, Cheetah and Zixaq, this demo was released at
Kindergarden 2003 where it achieved first place. Very stylish design backed
up by a nice elektro tune. High quality, as can be expected from the masters
of design. More please!
- Alien 2/Scoopex. Released at The Party 1998 where it ranked 1st at the
demo competition. A 3D story demo with 2D effects in between. Cool music from
Muffler and Virgill. Recommended if you are interested in 3D story demos.
- Brain Overdrive/Software Failure. It's always easy to search for
credits from Software Failure intros: Code: Ham, Gfx: Ham, Music: Ham, 3D:
Ham (talk about multitalented). Originally released at Euskal 10 in July
2002, Ham released the final version some weeks ago. And a very fine intro
it is!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
ANN
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TV-card driver: SuperTV beta version 0.8 for Mediator
Today Peter Gordon has released the beta version 0.8 of SuperTV (an alternative
to the Mediator TV software by Elbox).
This version fixes some bugs and offers new features.
Download: stv_beta_0-8.lha
Changes since the last version:
- "Hide pointer" now has 3 modes: Never, Fullscreen only, and Always. F2 now cycles between never and always.
- Added option to cycle through channels (ie hitting + at the last channel will cycle to channel 1).
- Two new arexx commands: TV_INCCHANNEL, TV_DECCHANNEL. These increment and decrement the channel, taking into account the cycle channels settings
- Added possibility to put in custom source number. This allows colour SVHS on some cards.
- I think i've zapped the enforcer hits now.
- You can now toggle fullscreen with F3
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Sebastian Brylka / Fun Time World (ANF)
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CeBIT 2003 - Photos and short report from Fun Time World
Sebastian Brylka of Fun Time World
set out and looked for innovations on the CeBIT 2003. Among others he also
visited the Plexuscom/Pegasos booth. The resulting photos and a short report can
be found under the title link. Interested people are welcome to stop by and have
a look. Maybe interesting for some: Amiga computers were also to be seen at the
CeBIT 2003!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 05 for Descent: Freespace released
Today the MultiPlayer Pack 05 with 5 multi player missions for the game
Descent: Freespace has been released.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Schlafi (ANF)
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Documentary 'Life after Microsoft' at 21.15 on 3Sat
Documentary about six programmers who once put their nose to the grindstone for
Bill Gates. Among others also with Walt Moore, who co-developed the operationg
system "Windows 1" for Microsoft until he wasn't fast enough anymore and was
sacked. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: March/April 2003 Vote
It's time to vote at the Hit Parade - March/April 2003.
We need the vote of your current prefered games. Send us
your classifying (20 games max) at our adress:
daff1@club-internet.fr
or vote at our website.
Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, freeware, old, new,...).
If your list has not changed since last time, simply reply this mail with
the subject "no change for me".
Final classifying will be published in early April.
(ps)
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16.Mar.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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New Soms3D shots, English translation and requests
A new update has been released on the 'Anime Development for Amiga' page. Two
new screen shots of Soms3D have been added, furthermore an English translation
is now available.
This translation is "beta", thus the ADA team is looking for someone to go and
correct all the errors.
Furthermore the ADA team is looking for people who know Milkshape3D or a
mesh animator which supports the MD2 format (used e.g. Quake2). Also
raytracers are still most welcome in the ranks of the ADA team.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo scene: Home page for current Amiga demos & ASCIIs
Completely undetected, Dutch demo scener Jpv of the group Rave Network Overscan
has been offering all demos and ASCII collections released since August 2001
for download on his homepage.
Former visitors of boards (mailboxes) which ran on Amiexpress or Fame will feel
immediately at home there. The home page gets updated immediately after the
release of new demos, intros, disk mags, slide shows, packs or ASCII
collections. Thus, e.g. all publications of the recently held Kindergarten
Party are available.
All in all a good source for providing yourselves with material from the demo
scence.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel (ANF)
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Programmer wanted for project 'Fli4l on Amiga'
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel writes:
Maybe some of you know the software router package fli4l (see title link). With
this software and a 486 it is possible, to create a fairly comfortable Linux
based hardware router.
The whole thing works quite good, and also the collaboration with the Amiga
works out excellently. The only downer so far: In order to create the required
boot diskette, up to now a Windows/Linux PC is still needed.
Now I have looked a bit closer into the DOS batch file and realised that only
two little programs are needed which as yet haven't been available on the Amiga.
One is mkfli4l, a progam which checks the config files of fli4l and generates
the file structure for the required Tar file, and Syslinux, a boot loader, which
can also be used from DOS and writes a boot block onto a diskette.
The program mkfli4l wasn't overly complicated, in any case I have succeeded in
porting the program after some time of trial and error (actually it was a simple
recompile with gcc). I have also adapted the script so it is in theory able to
create a boot diskette. In practice, however, the program Syslinux is missing!
Thus now my question: Is it at all possible to use this program on the Amiga (of
course one still would have to install an MS-DOS compatible file system on the
Amiga) and if so, is there somebody out there who would port it?
The whole thing doesn't seem to be especially extensive, only somebody would
have to do it ;-) Btw, Syslinux can be found here:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/.
If this whetted somebody's appetite, please contact me via
e-Mail.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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15.Mar.2003
Superplongeur (email)
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News of AMIGAzette 83
AMIGAzette 83, a French Amiga organization, has given its web presence a strong revision during the last weeks.
AMIGAzette 83 is since 1994 distributor of the fanzine AMIGAZETTE. The issue #52 was released as part of the fanzine BOING ATTACK by Triple Association A, the coming issue #53 will be available with the release of #22 of BOING ATTACK. The current AMIGAzette CD is the issue #6 and contains a demo special. Though they mainly support the Classic Amiga right now they'll dedicate a part to the Pegasos.
Further information is gathered on the website of AMIGAzette 83 under the title link. Questions may also be sent in French or English to superplongeur@aol.com or grigri83@aol.com.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Video: English Version of 'Live: ARC 2002' from VD available
The English version of the report about the Amiga + Retro-Computing 2002
in Aachen from Virtual Dimension's "Live"-series is finally finished.
All moderations and comments have been translated and the interview
with Jeri Ellsworth, the developer of the CommodoreOne, isn't dubbed
with a German voice-over anymore. Reporting about the newest Amiga- and
C64-stuff, this video is more than 20 minutes long. There are versions
with different file-sizes for your convenience.
(ps)
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15.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview data base online
Since 2000 is the Amiga Arena regularly holding interviews
with developers of the freeware and shareware Amiga basis.
With this data base it is now for the first time possible to reread all interviews. You need the freeware data base XBaze by Rafal Kaczmarczk.
Features:
- You can start via the openurl.library browser and mail program directly fromout the data base.
- 99 interviews in German and English.
- The interviews can be read directly from the data base.
- With a clear list all held interviews of all developers can be directly compared this way with each other.
The archive is available for download in the rubric "Interviews".
Special thanks go to:
- Rafal Kaczmarczk for creating the data base.
- Christian Busse for the translations of the interviews.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
IG Metall (website)
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IG Metall: Do you earn what you deserve?
»Many people who hold their salary cheques in their hands ask this question themselves. In spring 2000 has the IG Metall (a German union) for the first time publicly presented a survey over the salaries in the IT industry and updated it on a yearly basis. This payment analysis has proven to be a big hit. Now there's a new - of course updated -
survey.« (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 1
As announced by the English Internet magazine AmigaWorld, the magazine will ask Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc., ten questions per week (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) Rebel: "Why SO silent? AInc has been quiet for months at a time, giving the naysayers, and rumour mongers a chance to do more damage, and divide the community even more.".
Fleecy: As my mother used to, and still does say to me 'Don't say anything unless you have something to say.' Keith Blakemore Noble pointed out on ANN that this is what we said we would do when we bought the company in 2000 and then we went back on this pledge. The problem we have, although it is a good problem is that the Amiga has a community and the community wants to know what is going on, more so given the nightmare of the last eight years.
Our initial policy was thus to say nothing until we had news to share. With all the requests we then got for news, it became very difficult for us to keep to our policy. We thus resurrected the Executive Updates but in these we made the mistake of sharing status and progress information and as anyone in business knows, business is a distillation process - 100 leads may lead to 20 contacts which lead to 5 contracts which may, if you are lucky lead to 1 deal.
Even more unfortunate, the deals we were able to announce, the Sharp Zaurus, the Nokia MediaTerminal, the Sendo Z100 were pulled out from under us - the Zaurus for Sharp internal reasons, the MediaTerminal because of the collapse of ITV digital and another Germany company and the Sendo situation is well understood (although there is still hope there of a new deal based upon the unique advantages of the AmigaDE).
So, in terms of news items we haven't done too well.
To add to this (and many will shout and scream about this but it is true), Amiga Inc has been under attack from several groups who have other axes to grind, whether they want an x86 solution, AmigaOS open sourced, protection code and licencing removed from AmigaOS4.0 or want to encourage people to move to another platform whilst claiming it is an Amiga. Of course in a community there is disagreement but in a community that disagreement is either tolerated or the community splits apart. Everything we were saying in public was being taken apart and turned to support whatever was the position of the poster.
In the end, we decided to revert back to our original policy since it became apparent that all anyone really cared about was the release of AmigaOS4.0. This then brought us full circle to the original situation, that when saying nothing, noisemakers will rush to fill the silence. If you don't counteract the rumours then its because they are true and if you do pop up to counteract them then that must be because they are true. The only way to win is to get AmigaOS4.0 out the door and so that is what we are concentrating on at the moment.
Part of the reason for this Q&A service is to rubbish the claim that we won't talk to the community. We just won't say anything if it isn't 110% guaranteed anymore and that is the way people seem to want it.
2) SlimJim: "It is well known that this first release of AOS4 is mainly aimed for the existing user-base and eventual old Amigans. What is Amiga Inc's (overall) marketing strategy with respect to AmigaOS4 + Aone (once they become available)?".
Fleecy:
1. Move the community to new hardware and operating system.
2. Develop audio and 2d/3d productivity architectures with Amiga and non Amiga developers
3. Create applications to take advantage of these architectures to carve out solution markets
4. Support development of applications that round the appeal of the platform - browser, email client, word processor
5. Integrate with the AmigaDE to open access to multiple platform markets, both open and solution based
6. As we build the application base to where it can successfully provide for different roles, we will then push it out into those markets.
In short, there is no point in pushing the Amiga into a market where it is not yet ready to provide an adequate solution or it will die before it takes its first step. To do that we need the hardware, the operating system, the application base and the support services in place.
3) Herewegoagain: "Will they [Amiga Inc.] be negotiating with Microsoft to bring Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Media Player to OS4?".
Fleecy: It is something we have considered but again, as with all the other application developers out there on other platforms, until we can plonk a machine and operating system in front of them, there is little point. The perennial problem, of course is that these companies are busy with their main activities and seeing their product ported to another platform, particularly one as small as the Amiga is not something that they wish to consider. In the end, they will only 'get out of bed' if there is a large market or we provide them with financial incentive.
4) alx: "Assuming everything goes to plan, at what point in the future will Amiga start to advertise the A1/OS (not just to Amigans)?".
Fleecy: I refer you back to question 2 - we will market and advertise when the full solution is ready for those markets. This doesn't mean that there won't be penetration. We have many journalists ready to review and write about the machines. Amiga is a big story to them because the Amiga was such a large part of people's lives in the past. We will have services in place to take advantage of and capture that interest, to make use of it when the conditions are right.
5) reflect: "Maybe I've missed this when I read the featurelist, but I couldn't see ARexx there. Will ARexx still be included, and if so, will it have gotten an overhaul internally or will it 'just' be ported or will it be emulated?"
Fleecy: The ownership issues surround the original ARexx implementation are well known and we have been unable to gain access to the source. The existing 68k ARexx binary will thus be emulated. We are reviewing the entire scripting and application control for both AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 as mentioned later on.
6) unclecurio: "What are AInc doing to attract past developers to produce updated versions of their software? For example, Photogenics has ceased development for AmigaOS but would be a great product to bring back in an updated version.".
Fleecy: We are working in the background but I don't want to go into too much detail as it has become apparent that competitors are approaching the same people and trying to tie them into exclusive deals that would keep their products from AmigaOS4.0. Providing them with a list of who we are approaching, both within the Amiga community and on other platforms would really be doing their work for them. Suffice it to say that we are being as open as we can with all the developers that we have been able to locate still developing for the AmigaOS and with one or two exceptions, they are very receptive to what we have been able to tell them.
7) Eric_Z: "Is A.inc. currently involved in porting over office apps to AACE or OS4?".
Fleecy: For Amiga Anywhere, we are encouraging development of the applications that our customers are telling us they want, and this is almost always games. However, we do have customers who have requested education and productivity software and we have one of the best calculators ever created on a software platform and a digital picture application that is impressing lots of people. In the end, we encourage and work on whatever is being asked for.
8) mood: "Will there be any Amiga-Anywhere/AmigaDE-player for AmigaOS 4.x?".
Fleecy: We have already stated that we are targeting an AACE player for AmigaOS4.2
9) DaveW: "Is SHEEP the scripting language that looked rather cool available or going to be available this year for Amiga based programmers to get their hands on?".
Fleecy: We are currently reviewing SHEEP in the context of the AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 and looking at how it can be used to bring the two together as both are moved forwards and towards each other.
10) Pig: "Where do you see the company in 5 years, and where do you see AmigaOS at that time?".
Fleecy: I hope that we are on many different types of device and providing a seamless digital enviroment for users irrespective of their hardware. We have a marketing slogan we use, the new WWW, which means Whatever, Wherever, Whenever.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=1
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
Steffen Schiller (ANF)
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Download Fahrschule_99 full version now
Fahrschule_99 reworked version 2003
With the update of the Internet site of the Amiga-Treffpunkt-Oberlausitz
has the full version of the program Fahrschule_99 been added.
Almost 400 questions with appr. 70 images test the beginner as well as the knowledge of the experienced driver.
The program runs on an Amiga 500 and needs a PAL screen. You can find Fahrschule_99 in the download area where you can also find two pictures showing how to implement Birdie to give the Workbench's windows the real look.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (email)
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CeBIT 2003: promised screenshots arrived
As Martin Heine promised in his last report
he has now real screenshots of Ambient, the settings (Prefs), Win95 and Word made available. You can find these screenshots following the title link.
Martin Heine, right now at the Genesi booth at the CeBIT 2003:
"Besides, I measured the time Win95 and Word needed here on our G3/600. I have to note that I don't know whether this setup here of the CeBIT computers can be optimized any further or not as I myself don't have any experiences with Bochs yet. Nevertheless I stopped the following times:
Initialisation until the first text output (what's displayed after switching on a PC: BIOS, units, "Windows is being loaded"): 45 seconds.
Launching Windows until it is loaded: 1 minute 20.
Launching Word until it is ready to use: 20 seconds."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 315
Guido Mersmann has yesterday released the beta version 315 of the TV-card driver software AmithlonTV with several smaller updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Changes in this version:
- BUGFIX: Fixed TVCardSetup and TVCard.library code part that
may have caused the random freezing on MorphOS.
- CHANGED: Many small optimisations.
- ADDED: Added two debug options. If AmithlonTV is still freezing, try
"SETENV TVCard_NoInterrupt 1". If this isn't helping try
"SETENV TVCard_NoDMA 1". Delete the variable to regain normal
operation. Please report any result. MorphOS support depends on it.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Mar.2003
Christian Krenner (ANF)
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Update: Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page
The English "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page" has got an extensive update last week.
All sections are now complete and many additional pictures document the Amiga 600 upgrade
project. Benchmark modules and other things for download complete the site.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Mar.2003
Ingo Schmitz (ANF)
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Mail programm: YAM developer version 2.4beta 060
Under the title link there is a 060-version of the YAM beta version 2.4 of 9.3.03.
This version is a pure developer version which possibly still contains bugs and the developer
team will not take any guarantee and support for this version. Each requests will be also
not answered. You will use it for your own risk!
You can read the changes which have been made in this list.
For any further information please have a look at the Yamos SourceForge-Seite.
Download: yam2.4dev060_20030310.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Mar.2003
Georgios (ANF)
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CeBIT 1993 - a milestone, legend 'Amiga'
Under the title link you can find a interesting article of N-TV on CeBIT 1993 which
also contains information about the Amiga (in German).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Mar.2003
BBRV (E-Mail)
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CeBIT 2003: Report and photos from Ron van Herk
A short summary of some of the things happening here at CeBIT from Ron van Herk
1. We have nearly finalized our agreement with our new Russian Distributor.
MorphOS will have a Russian localisation and will become successful in
Russia. Genesi's André Siegel will work as an 'interface' between the new
distributor and the developers that need to get this done. Russian
programmers interested in assisting this process can receive a fully
configured Pegasos in exchange for their work. In the bigger picture, once
the Russian localisation is done we will have a model to do the same in
other languages and localisations.
2. 3Sat visited Genesi today and shot footage of the Pegasos, the Psylent,
MorphOS, etc. We showed MorphOS working with several apps, games and the
Internet which they all filmed. The editor, Ralph Benz is a long-time Amiga
user and is very enthusiastic! We gave him a bunch of T-Shirts to give to
viewers (or to keep for themselves). Not a bad deal for free TV coverage I'd
say ;-)
Enclosed are two pics, 1 high-res foto of the desktop case and one of me and
Robert Han of Plexuscom with the Psylent.
That's all for now.
Sincerely,
Ron
(ps)
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14.Mar.2003
Zeoneo Limited (ANF)
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Zeoneo acquires Candy Factory
Zeoneo Limited is moving into the AmigaOS-market with the acquisition of the exclusive rights to the noted and highly respected graphics application Candy Factory. Zeoneo Ltd. is well-known to the Amiga-community since the release of its killer game "Planet Zed" for AmigaAnywhere (AmigaDE). (nba)
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13.Mar.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Compass Hardware for Amiga (Principle Circuit)
Carsten Siegner has built a principle circuit for a compass. This circuit is unusually sensitive and already detect the north pole
of the Earth's magnetic field.
For the operation here comes a very sensitive KMZ-51 magnetic field sensor. This includes a sensitivity of - 0.2
kA/m to + 0.2kA/m. Built into the chip are magnetic recessive resistances in the form of a Wheatstone bridge. The sensitivity
(uncompensated), relative to measurement setting, carries (16mV/V) /
(kA/m).
Attention: the sensor is circuit broken in an SMD housing and on that account may only be soldered with great
difficulty. The sensor can pick up the electrical field of the computer. So one must compensate for this. One may not
divert a magnetic field greater than 1 kA/m with the sensor, or else the Wheatstone bridge will always keep the exit value.
In order for this not to happen one must use the chip's internal reset coils. The chip ZN424 is unfortunately very difficult to
flush. Unfortunately it is so far the only operation enhancer that can energize the tension variables of the Earth-field
detector. Siegner tested other OPs, but none came close to the strengthening of the ZN424.
Unfortunately the software programming is not as simple a thing as the hardware. The measurement
value fluctuates constantly due to the diverting magnetic fields of the TV or the computer. On account of that one can't
directly recognize the Earth's magnetic field. Of course when one adjusts the circuit slowly then one recognizes that the
measurement value declines further, the more the sensor is turned from the north-south position. Because the sensor
is now polarized, this means that one can differentiate a magnetic field between north and south, and may now recognize
the Earth's magnetic field from the correction measurement value. Only the calculations of the whole thing are going to be
beautifully difficult. Every metallic resistance will cause disturbance to the setting of the measurement values. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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13.Mar.2003
The Legacy (ANF)
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The Legacy: Over 850 Updates
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad CPC, in which readers contribute screenshots, cover scans and information about the developers. Today 660 screenshots, 150 goodies and 60 cover scans were added.
The original report: The old museum keeper has the honor to arrange a few words from the common folk! We'll make it brief! New articles as far as the eyes can see! Statistics? 660 (!) screen shots, some in progressively displaying format, some enlargeable. 150 goodies and 60 cover scans. And if you think that's rewarding, oh yeah, there are also 4 Amiga soundtracks! You all are invited, my friends, to wander to your heart's content in our little museum! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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13.Mar.2003
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Instant-Messenger: AmigAIM V0.9444 Beta
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9443 of the AIM Messenger "AmigAIM." Compared to the previous version this one has the following changes:
- Changed a few items related to the Service and Search
sockets, as the Search servers seem to be rather iffy at the moment
and a few problems occured as a result
Further information regarding the changes may be viewed in this history document.
Download:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha
AmigAIM.lha (nba)
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13.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (E-Mail)
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CeBIT 2003 - Visit to Genesi (Update II)
Martin Heine describes his impressions of Genesi's convention stand at this year's CeBIT 2003 in Hannover. You'll find a few pictures
at the end of his report.
The first appearance of Genesi at the CeBIT in Hannover takes place at the stand of Plexus - on the other hand Plexus will
be Genesi's guest at this year's CeBIT Australia.
Pegasos computers with MorphOS installed are being shown, another board separately for demonstrational purposes, as
well as case prototypes for example for the Pegasos homeserver Psylent or high end "set top boxes" (as opposed to smaller, simpler
DTV STBs).
One of the Pegasos computers is to be found in a prototype case, which was also just displayed in Aachen: here
sits a micro ATX board directly behind an LCD display, and in the base you'll find for example the CD drive and the frontal
USB connections.
As a small new MorphOS development (in relation to the latest update on the FTP server) a transparent menu
option is there, as well as a graphical selector for setting Preferences.
In the way of programming, Internet and multimedia software were shown, as well as a range of emulators, for
example Bochs, through which Windows95 was run in an Ambient window on the G3/600 Pegasos.
There were no new press releases, at least not on the first day of the convention, but it was confirmed that the long
awaited Articia Northbridges from Mai arrived by Genesi in the meantime, so the last run of Pegasos boards may now go into
production.
Addtionally Arend-Paul Spijkerman, the developer of Mediapoint, was hired by Genesi. With this product, combined
with Pegasos and MorphOS, Genesi is able to open another market segment, and Ron van Herk hopes to be able to demonstrate
this at CeBIT Australia.
No official news was offered about the Pegasos II, however one may be confident that the development might be
concluded earlier than expected.
Finally, a TV crew paid Genesi a visit: Ralph Benz von "Neues..." (ZDF/3sat) was reported in
detail on Wednesday about current events related to Pegasos and MorphOS and he'll be back again with the camera crew to
film on the second day of the convention. (nba)
CeBIT_Interact_kl.jpg
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CeBIT_menuetransp.jpg
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CeBIT_PlexCases_kl.jpg
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CeBIT_Proto1_kl.jpg
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CeBIT_Proto2_kl.jpg
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Cebit_Psylent_kl.jpg
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CeBIT_StandSeite_kl.jpg
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CeBIT_StandVorne_kl.jpg
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Update:
Martin Heine has sent us an additional four pictures that he shot during
the visit of the 3sat camera team of "Neues..." with Ralph Benz (picture 2, 2. on the left). Pictures 3 and 4 show Bochs and
Prefs (these two pictures are not very sharp, we'll get better screenshots later).
CeBIT2_3sat1_kl.jpg
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CeBIT2_3sat2_kl.jpg
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CeBIT2_Bochs_kl.jpg
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CeBIT2_Prefs_kl.jpg
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13.Mar.2003
Jocke "Zerohero" Sjöblom (ANF)
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New URL for MUI Classes Website
The MUI Classes Website has been moved to a new URL following a server upgrade and is reachable immediately at http://gilfanon.homeip.net/mui/ (title link). (nba) (Translation: dm)
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13.Mar.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Font: TTEngine Version 6.3
TTEngine is a text-rendering environment for AmigaOS that is based on TrueType Font. Yesterday the author Grzegorz Kraszewski
released TTEngine Version 6.3. News and changes:
- Alphablending system redesigned completely based on ideas by
Fabio Alemagna, now TTEngine uses real gamma correction. Gamma
coefficent is adjustable by user.
- New tag TT_Gamma in TT_SetAttrs() call for gamma coefficent
adjust.
- FPU version is discontinued. New alphablending code does not
use FPU at all and is faster even than FPU 6.2 version. Using
FPU gives no further speedup.
Download: ttengine-6.3.lha (496 kb). (nba) (Translation: dm)
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13.Mar.2003
Diverse
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Photos and Reports from CeBIT 2003
The IT convention CeBIT 2003 is taking place in Hannover until the 19th of March. In the next few days we will gather together the
usual websites with photos and pictures of CeBIT 2003, in order to give an idea of the convention.
13.03.2003
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14.03.2003
15.03.2003
16.03.2003
18.03.2003
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13.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Pegasos Review by Emeric SH
"Emeric SH" from Hungary has put together an English language review (really more of a collection of his experiences with the computer
until now) on the Pegasos and MorphOS platform. (nba)
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12.Mar.2003
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Opening of the CeBIT 2003
Today, Wednesday the 12th of March 2003, the CeBIT opened its doors. The world's largest IT fair in Hannover will last until March the 19th 2003.
While there is a loss of exhibitors and exhibition space experts guess there will be, facing the stressed situation of the German economy, a decrease of visitors also.
But at least the IT trade keeps slightly optimistic. This year UMTS, the tablet PC and once more the competition between Windows and Linux will be in the focus.
Among the others there is Genesi, developer and distributor of the Pegasos, attending the show. AMIGA Inc. have canceled their attendence just some days before the start of the fair.
Reports of the CeBIT 2003 will be to read at
amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus soon.
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12.Mar.2003
Onlinekosten.de (Website)
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Onlinekosten.de: Fastpath application posible via Internet
From Monday on it will be possible to set up T-DSL with Fastpath. Here is a
link
for the application form at the Telekom pages. FastPath speeds up the
signal latency of T-DSL and so offers more fun for action, sport and online role play games.
Read the Onlinekosten.de article (German) by the title link.
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12.Mar.2003
Blackbird (Website)
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Paint program: German catalogue for PerfectPaint 2.92
By the title link there is a German catalogue for the paint program
PerfectPaint version 2.92 available.
Download: PFPV292.lzx
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12.Mar.2003
Golem - IT News (ANF)
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Golem: MainActor v5 video cut program released
»The next generation of video editing software
MainConcept has released the final version of the video cut software
MainActor v5 for the CeBIT. As successor of MainActor v3 the new MainConcept development MainActor v5 aims to the advanced user and professional market.
«
Read the full article by Golem (German) by the title link.
Maybe the to be soonly released Linux version will be useable with the
Pegasos and/or AmigaOne hardware. A PPC-Recompile should be possible for the
developer. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.Mar.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Translator wanted (Englisch - German)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
I am looking for someone who might translate the manual of Hollywood to German.
It should have been finished some time ago but due to some unfortunate circumstances including the loss of data of a nearly finished German manual we are now just back to the start again.
If there might be someone who would do this job the one will receive an extensive
Airsoft Softwair bundle incl. Hollywood full version. I will emphasize here that the translation really will be a big job. It is about a good 250 kilobytes of plain text which has to be translated. Something like this will surely take more than just two evenings. Interested ones might contact me to check the details.
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12.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: AmigaOne-XE status update
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) comments on the recent delays with the delivery of the AmigaOne-XE motherboards at the AmigaOne mailing list (title link). A brief summary of the most important topics:
The delivery of the motherboard is delayed because some testers reported smaller problems with the new hardware and UBoot. The new UBoot revision is finished now (see Hyperion
press release from Monday) and the production of the boards can be started now.
Eyetech guesses that they will receive the motherboards next week and they aim to start the delivery the week later.
Suse ran out of PPC Linux sets so the last XEs will be delivered with Debian.
Because there seem to be a great demand of a high end CPU module Eyetech will offer later this year a module with a faster G4 processor.
Actually the 7445 with 1.3 GHz is favoured but this might be changed due to the availability of different CPU types.
Finally Redhouse comments on the relationship between MAI, Eyetech and Terra Soft extensively.
Update: (26.07.2014, cg)
A complete copy of Alan Redhouse's mail (added since the Original has been moved elsewhere by Yahoogroups apparently):
Message-ID: <09dc01c2e820$37610d60$0201a8c0@dsl>
An:
Von: "Eyetech Group Ltd"
Datum: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:47:35 +0100
Betreff: Re: [amigaone] Re: latest AmigaOne delay
When I wrote to this list on 13 February I said I expected - if everything
went to plan - that if the A1-XE boards shipped to developers in early
February worked well we would order and receive the end user earlybird
systems by the end of February. But I did add :-
"These are of course target dates, and cannot possibly be taken as a promise
or guarantee. All I can say is that we are as keen to have your money as you
are to spend it, and do not, and never have had any intention of
deliberately holding back shipments just to be awkward (as some people seem
to think). However we will not as of policy ship any product before we are
satisfied that it is fully functional - including an installable and
working operating system - other than to developers for testing purposes."
Well in the event the developers did find a few problems with the newly
available hardware/firmware combination, and as a result UBoot had some
further updates - as posted this week by Hyperion - including board
diagnostics and better RAM support. In addition SuSE ran out of boxed PPC
Linux sets, so we have decided to ship Debian Linux with the Earlybird
systems instead. The developers, and particulrly Ross Vumbaca, have done
sterling work in putting together an end-user installation guide. Thanks
again guys.
The upshot is that the earlybird and remaining A1-XE/G4 and G3 boads are now
ready for final BIOS programming and shipping to us. We expect to receive
them next week and start shipping them out the following week.
Many people have also asked us to produce a high end cpu module for the
A1-XE and I am pleased to announce that we will be commissioning a high-end
G4 module for delivery later in the year. The current favourite is the
7445@1.3GHz - but we will of course monitor the available cpu options to
make sure that we can offer the best price/performance to upgraders. These
top-end cpu's are currently *very* expensive so will only appeal to users
who must have the fastest for business (or ego) reasons.
Finally we have received several emails about Terrasofts 'will we/won't we'
attitude to the Teron boards and our opinion as to what, if any, is the
conspiracy theory behind their (non) announcements.
First of all it is necessary to put right some of the popular misconceptions
that have been relentlessly been put about by certain individuals on ann and
elsewhere.
MAI - as has been said many times - are a fabless chip manufacturer who also
own the Teron design. They do not make boards. In the past MAI have
commissioned the building of boards in sample quantity boards from a third
party prototyping company (a sort of far eastern DCE on their good days) and
we have bought some of these boards from MAI to ship to developers. But for
any sort of producton volumes we have to contract directly with an
independant board manufacturer and clearly this involves a significant
volume and therefore upfront financial commitment.
This means that neither Terrasoft nor us are 'just a distributor' of MAI
boards. To have anything other than sample boards produced to the basic
Teron design, those boards have to be individually ordered, in very
significant quantities, by us, Terrasoft or whoever. If Terrasoft want
boards from our production they have to apply to us to be a dealer. If not
they have to stump up a rather large amount of money of their own to build
their own production. MAI of course get a royalty for their board design for
all boards manufactured. For the record we have placed by far the largest
order for boards based on the Teron design of anybody, including MAI (and of
course Terrasoft).
This PPC motherboard market is of course a new market for Terrasoft who,
despite the best wishes of those who would do anything to see genuine Amiga
supporting companies such as us and Hyperion fail, are really a very small
company that have historcally made their money selling Linux books and
merchandise, and providing paid some YDL support to companies. My guess is
that it is their uncertainties in this new (to them) board market coupled
with
the required volume/financial commitment which is now causing them to
reconsider their options. In fact Terrasoft have not even contributed to
porting YDL to the Teron board - this has been done by Bill Mueller of MAI
and others on the A1 dev list..They clearly also completely messed up their
TeronPx/G4 pricing calculations - hence the quick withrawal from their web
site.
Contrary to what has also been speculated, there is certainly no requirement
for us or end users to pay a licence fee to Terrasoft for any AmigaOne board
whether used for running OS4 or Linux.
I'm sure the ann orcs will try to make something sinister of all this, but
we, and Hyperion, really are doing our best under very difficult
circumstances to deliver the best, most cost effective, genuine, Amiga to
date.
Thankyou for your continued support
Alan
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unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you
have received this message and are not the intended recipient(s),
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12.Mar.2003
Remedy Systems (Website)
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DynDNS client: AmiDynDNS version 1.17
The DynDNS client AmiDynDNS for AmigaOS is released in version 1.17 and is ready for the free
download. Remedy Systems has set up a free of charge newsletter also, you can sign it at their
website.
Brief news:
- New CLI argument SETENVIP
- New tooltype SET_ENV_IP, to put the current IP Address to the environment variable IP
- CLI output corrected
- Small errors within the log routine fixed
- Sourc ecode fitted to Vbcc
Detailed information is to obtain from the included manual within the archive.
Download: AmiDynDNS117.lha
AmiDynDNS is an extensive and comfortable client for the
DynDNS.org services which was born of necessity that there was no working client for the Amiga except an ARexx script. DynDNS.org is a free of charge service which offers users with dynamic IP addresses one or several static hostnames to make e. g. Web server,
FTP server or other servers more easy accessable for other users. For more detailed information please visit the DynDNS.org Internet site directly.
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11.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packages until 10.03.2003
With WHDLoad you can install disk based games onto your hd. The following packages
are added or updated since last time:
- 10.03.03 new: Abra Cadabra (Coktel Vision) done by Agressor
- 10.03.03 new: Time Lock (Boeder Software) done by Psygore
- 10.03.03 improved: Harley Davidson (Mindscape) supports another version
- 10.03.03 fixed: Dragon's Lair (Readysoft)new imager, supports another version
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11.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-Card-Driver: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 311 (Update)
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 311 of AmithlonTV with some updates and
enhancements. More details about the changes you will find under the title link.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh
a
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10.Mar.2003
Etienne Vogt (Website)
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RAM Disk Driver: VDisk.device Version 3.6
Etienne Vogt published today version 3.6 of the VDisk.device. You can
find the changes made in the Readme.
Download: vdisk36.lha - 46 KB
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10.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Computer City, Rotterdam
On the website of Amiga Future you can find an interview with Ron van
Herk, owner of the trading and software house of Computer City
from the Netherlands.
The Englisch
version of the interview.
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10.Mar.2003
Glames (E-Mail)
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AmigaDE-Game: First Screenshots of 'Word Me Up'
Under the title link you can find first screenshots of the
Amiga-DE-game 'Word Me Up'. The game belonges to the
category Arcade/Memory/Reflection. The side is also available in
French. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Ten questions per week at Fleecy Moss
"We at AmigaWorld are proud to announce that Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss has agreed on offering us weekly Questions and
Answers sessions." (Update, 17.03.2012, cg: integrated the actual interview into the news item, since the original document is no longer available on the net):
1) Rebel: "Why SO silent? AInc has been quiet for months at a time, giving the naysayers, and rumour mongers a chance to do more damage, and divide the community even more.".
Fleecy: As my mother used to, and still does say to me 'Don't say anything unless you have something to say.' Keith Blakemore Noble pointed out on ANN that this is what we said we would do when we bought the company in 2000 and then we went back on this pledge. The problem we have, although it is a good problem is that the Amiga has a community and the community wants to know what is going on, more so given the nightmare of the last eight years.
Our initial policy was thus to say nothing until we had news to share. With all the requests we then got for news, it became very difficult for us to keep to our policy. We thus resurrected the Executive Updates but in these we made the mistake of sharing status and progress information and as anyone in business knows, business is a distillation process - 100 leads may lead to 20 contacts which lead to 5 contracts which may, if you are lucky lead to 1 deal.
Even more unfortunate, the deals we were able to announce, the Sharp Zaurus, the Nokia MediaTerminal, the Sendo Z100 were pulled out from under us - the Zaurus for Sharp internal reasons, the MediaTerminal because of the collapse of ITV digital and another Germany company and the Sendo situation is well understood (although there is still hope there of a new deal based upon the unique advantages of the AmigaDE).
So, in terms of news items we haven't done too well.
To add to this (and many will shout and scream about this but it is true), Amiga Inc has been under attack from several groups who have other axes to grind, whether they want an x86 solution, AmigaOS open sourced, protection code and licencing removed from AmigaOS4.0 or want to encourage people to move to another platform whilst claiming it is an Amiga. Of course in a community there is disagreement but in a community that disagreement is either tolerated or the community splits apart. Everything we were saying in public was being taken apart and turned to support whatever was the position of the poster.
In the end, we decided to revert back to our original policy since it became apparent that all anyone really cared about was the release of AmigaOS4.0. This then brought us full circle to the original situation, that when saying nothing, noisemakers will rush to fill the silence. If you don't counteract the rumours then its because they are true and if you do pop up to counteract them then that must be because they are true. The only way to win is to get AmigaOS4.0 out the door and so that is what we are concentrating on at the moment.
Part of the reason for this Q&A; service is to rubbish the claim that we won't talk to the community. We just won't say anything if it isn't 110% guaranteed anymore and that is the way people seem to want it.
2) SlimJim: "It is well known that this first release of AOS4 is mainly aimed for the existing user-base and eventual old Amigans. What is Amiga Inc's (overall) marketing strategy with respect to AmigaOS4 + Aone (once they become available)?".
Fleecy:
- Move the community to new hardware and operating system.
- Develop audio and 2d/3d productivity architectures with Amiga and non Amiga developers
- Create applications to take advantage of these architectures to carve out solution markets
- Support development of applications that round the appeal of the platform - browser, email client, word processor
- Integrate with the AmigaDE to open access to multiple platform markets, both open and solution based
- As we build the application base to where it can successfully provide for different roles, we will then push it out into those markets.
In short, there is no point in pushing the Amiga into a market where it is not yet ready to provide an adequate solution or it will die before it takes its first step. To do that we need the hardware, the operating system, the application base and the support services in place.
3) Herewegoagain: "Will they [Amiga Inc.] be negotiating with Microsoft to bring Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Media Player to OS4?".
Fleecy: It is something we have considered but again, as with all the other application developers out there on other platforms, until we can plonk a machine and operating system in front of them, there is little point. The perennial problem, of course is that these companies are busy with their main activities and seeing their product ported to another platform, particularly one as small as the Amiga is not something that they wish to consider. In the end, they will only 'get out of bed' if there is a large market or we provide them with financial incentive.
4) alx: "Assuming everything goes to plan, at what point in the future will Amiga start to advertise the A1/OS (not just to Amigans)?".
Fleecy: I refer you back to question 2 - we will market and advertise when the full solution is ready for those markets. This doesn't mean that there won't be penetration. We have many journalists ready to review and write about the machines. Amiga is a big story to them because the Amiga was such a large part of people's lives in the past. We will have services in place to take advantage of and capture that interest, to make use of it when the conditions are right.
5) reflect: "Maybe I've missed this when I read the featurelist, but I couldn't see ARexx there. Will ARexx still be included, and if so, will it have gotten an overhaul internally or will it 'just' be ported or will it be emulated?"
Fleecy: The ownership issues surround the original ARexx implementation are well known and we have been unable to gain access to the source. The existing 68k ARexx binary will thus be emulated. We are reviewing the entire scripting and application control for both AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 as mentioned later on.
6) unclecurio: "What are AInc doing to attract past developers to produce updated versions of their software? For example, Photogenics has ceased development for AmigaOS but would be a great product to bring back in an updated version.".
Fleecy: We are working in the background but I don't want to go into too much detail as it has become apparent that competitors are approaching the same people and trying to tie them into exclusive deals that would keep their products from AmigaOS4.0. Providing them with a list of who we are approaching, both within the Amiga community and on other platforms would really be doing their work for them. Suffice it to say that we are being as open as we can with all the developers that we have been able to locate still developing for the AmigaOS and with one or two exceptions, they are very receptive to what we have been able to tell them.
7) Eric_Z: "Is A.inc. currently involved in porting over office apps to AACE or OS4?".
Fleecy: For Amiga Anywhere, we are encouraging development of the applications that our customers are telling us they want, and this is almost always games. However, we do have customers who have requested education and productivity software and we have one of the best calculators ever created on a software platform and a digital picture application that is impressing lots of people. In the end, we encourage and work on whatever is being asked for.
8) mood: "Will there be any Amiga-Anywhere/AmigaDE-player for AmigaOS 4.x?".
Fleecy: We have already stated that we are targeting an AACE player for AmigaOS4.2
9) DaveW: "Is SHEEP the scripting language that looked rather cool available or going to be available this year for Amiga based programmers to get their hands on?".
Fleecy: We are currently reviewing SHEEP in the context of the AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 and looking at how it can be used to bring the two together as both are moved forwards and towards each other.
10) Pig: "Where do you see the company in 5 years, and where do you see AmigaOS at that time?".
Fleecy: I hope that we are on many different types of device and providing a seamless digital enviroment for users irrespective of their hardware. We have a marketing slogan we use, the new WWW, which means Whatever, Wherever, Whenever.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=1
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact)
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10.Mar.2003
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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H&P: StormC programmer needed
For the porting of the loganalyzers Sawmill we are looking for an
Amiga programmer, who is used to StormC and/or GCC. It
concerns thereby not the adjustment of sources, but rather the
adjustment of libraries, so that the source can be compiled on the Amiga. The payment is to be made in form of a participation in
turnover at the sales of the Amiga version. If you are interested please contact Markus
Nerding. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2003
Thomas Frieden, Senior Developer (E-Mail)
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Hyperion: New AmigaOne Firmware
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Leuven, Belgium - March 7, 2003.
Hyperion is pleased to announce that it has completed an extensive rework of the AmigaOne firmware adding substantial functionality and flexibility for end-users, developers and technicians.
The new firmware will be incorporated in the A1-XE boards which will be shipping shortly.
Newly implemented functionality includes:
- Migration from PPCBoot 1.16 to U-Boot (PPCBoot 2.0)
- Support for PPC 750 FX, MPC 7440/41, MPC 7450/1 CPU's
- Comprehensive GUI for Articia S register configuration
- Comprehensive GUI for general firmware configuration
- Support of additional types of memory modules
- Integration of diagnostic code
- Support for POST card displays allowing for rapid detection of specific hardware faults
- New Articia S start-up code allowing for usage of two banks of unregistered SDRAM
- Booting from Symbios/LSI Logic 53c8xx based SCSI controllers
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2003
jim (ANF)
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Mail program: New YAM development version
There is a new development version (2.4-dev [020] BETA) of the mail program YAM available.
As mentioned this is a development version wich may still contain bugs. Questions about this release will not be answered. Use it on your own risk!
Made changes can be found here.
Additional information can be found on the Yamos SourceForge-site.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx (nba) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Terra Soft: Teron-PPC-Board not longer available in the Online-Store
Terra Soft ATX PowerPC Systems
Terra Soft Current and Pending Customers,
"Many of you have enthusiastically and patiently awaited the delivery of MAI Logic's Teron motherboards on which Terra Soft's Boxer ATX systems will be built. We have removed the Teron-based systems from our online Store until further notice in order to reduce further confusion and false expectations. We promise to bring this product to market as soon as possible." -- Terra Soft Team
Background could be a diversity of opinion between Terra Soft and Mai
Logic. According to rumors, which Mike Bouma in the Amiga World forum
drew "from reliable sources", Terra Soft demands 20 US dollar per
produced and sold Main board, including the AmigaOne boards, since
these boards can implement Yellow Dog Linux. These rumors were so far
not confirmed officially.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2003
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)
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PerfectPaint V2.92
Version 2.92 of the paint program PerfectPaint by Halvadjian Georges is now available. In this version the following features were
added or changed:
- If you start PerfectPaint from shell, you can specify a filename like this: "PerfectPaint:PerfectPaint DH0:MonImage.iff"
- Add Horizontal and Vertical Rulers in Pixels, cm and Inches.
- New Effect: FastPaint
- New Arexx Command: pp_SetDPI, pp_linepattern
- Effect can now have his own Density mapping
- You can now load template (Some Template are available for CD, DVD...)
- Update Localisation file.
- Improve 'New' requester: You can select the resolution of the picture (pixels/cm or pixels/Inches). You can enter the size of the picture in Pixels, cm or Inches.
- Improve Preview effect: Stencil and density mapping are showed now during the preview.
- Improve Density mapping: New requester, New options, New file requester with thumbnail.
- Improve Text requester: Arrows key (Up/Down) can be used to select next or previous vectorial font.
- Improve Processing tool: Much faster, Better aspect.
- Improve All blending Algorithm (Ouch!!): Better aspect and much faster.
- Improve Crop, Scale window tool and Crop&Past script: The current mask is not anymore erased.
Note 1: If you have some problems with brush refresh, enable the "Picasso96" tooltype. (the scalepixelarray command will not be used anymore)
Note 2: If you can't save PNG with alphachannel, check that you have installed the PBM datatype. Because PfPaint save his mask in PBM format and PNGtool read this format with the help of the datatype.
Download: PfPaint_V292.lha (nba) (Translation: sk)
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09.Mar.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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New NList and NListtree versions
Sebastian Bauer writes:
The new MUI classes NList and NListtree versions are now available for download on my homepage. The archives also contain the MorphOS versions (created by Jens Langner). Should there still be any problems with these versions, please tell me so I can fix them in time for the "stable" release. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Mar.2003
Thorsten 'Thorty' Schölzel (ANF)
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Original Amiga logo for uploading to mobile phone released
After the MorphOS logo has been received with cheers by the users, today the original Amiga logo has been released for mobile phones by the makers Nokia and Siemens. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Mar.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 09th March 2003
Subsequently you'll find the newest Aminet uploads:
SN-MuenzArch.lha biz/dbase 197K+V1.4 Coin-DataBase (Germany only)
Opus6img.lha biz/dopus 1.1M+Toolbar Images For DOpus Magellan
GummiSurf.lha comm/net 14K+Companion tool for Charon (Download mana
ib2email.lha comm/www 2K+ARexx scripts to pass mailto: links from
OpenURL44.lha comm/www 146K+OpenURL - Get that URL!
pvt-cafe2002.lha demo/slide 2.8M+Demoparty Computer Art Festival 2002 Sli
BlitzLstFeb03.lha dev/basic 1.3M+Blitz mailing list archives for February
BlitzLstJan03.lha dev/basic 513K+Blitz mailing list archives for January
CIT.lha dev/gui 165K+A C++ GUI dev system
ASCIImui.lha dev/mui 21K+ASCII character converter (source code i
MCC_Toolbar.lha dev/mui 123K+Toolbar custom class for MUI (v15.8) [OS
muihook_mos.lha dev/mui 17K+Simple MUI source using hooks for GCC-Mo
Apfelberge.lha dev/src 5K+3D fractal example
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 6K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0.
SFS.lha disk/misc 187K+Smart Filesystem copyrighted by John Hen
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 93K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (Febru
Poczet.lha docs/hyper 162K+Guide ***POLISH ONLY*** about polish mon
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.5M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 02/2003 (Itali
amigazette_09.lha docs/mags 1.1M+AMIGAzette 9th issue (25.08.2001) (itali
nocover108.lha docs/mags 1.6M+Great german diskmagazine
obligement37.lha docs/mags 1.0M+Obligement #37 - The Famous FRENCH fanzi
saku41.lha docs/mags 1.1M+Saku #41 (3/2002). Finnish e-zine.
RXDraughts.lha game/board 6K+(REACTION GUI) WB Draughts game for Amig
DC2Lvl-EMine1.lha game/data 475K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II
FreeCivExpand.lha game/data 201K+GFX Expansion for the Nativ Amiga-Port o
Mattonite.lha game/demo 672K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
StefACS.lha game/demo 88K+Adventures creator, working in progress
whirlwind.lha game/demo 267K+Whirlwind demo,racing game inspired in W
zdragonball.lha game/demo 251K+Beat'em up with Dragonball characters
BlaggersAlley.lha game/hint 44K+Simcity 2000 Launch Arco scene - complet
Sepulchre_Wood.lha game/text 327K+Fighting Fantasy-style game (Amigaguide)
Follia_NBA_FE.lha game/think 1.4M+Extremely addictive puzzler; pure fun!
Land_O_Mines.lha game/wb 46K+Try to get out of the mine field!
Tri_Add.lha game/wb 43K+Try to find the correct total!
Anim2gif.lha gfx/conv 150K+Converts and scales an amiga animation t
Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 557K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 1/8
Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 155K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 2/8
Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 3a/8
Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 326K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 3b/8
Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 4/8
Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 143K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 5/8
Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 6/8 (opti
Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 157K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 7/8 (opti
swftools-0.4.2.lha gfx/misc 2.8M+Collection of tools for the manipulation
BetaScanSrc.lha hard/drivr 184K+Complete Source for BetaScan.v3 (3.05)
BetaScan_GER.lha hard/drivr 7K+German catalog for BetaScan_v3
BetaScan_v3.lha hard/drivr 128K+BetaScan v.3 with Raction based GUI
cd32-expansion.txt hard/misc 6K+Full description of CD32 expansion slot
psu-problems.txt hard/misc 6K+Diagnosing power supply problems
imdbDiff030221.lha misc/imdb 3.9M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
hc-hexenjagt.lha mods/blkha 64K+Hardcore PT mod by blakkhar
juhuuu.lha mods/blkha 577K+Techno DBP mod by blakkhar
JD-Mindscapes.mpg mods/mpg 3.0M+Mindscapes by JaDe
JD-Overload4.mpg mods/mpg 3.0M+Overloaded IV by JaDe
JD-Soundstate.mpg mods/mpg 3.6M+Sound State by JaDe
Cathedral.lha mus/misc 123K+Reverb. 16-bit,MUI,68k/PPC, non-realtime
flac-1.0.4BETA.lha mus/misc 2.1M+FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
ringtonetools.lha mus/misc 61K+Mobile tones converter
EP_SoundPlayer.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "SoundPlayer" external repla
FenrixGIcons.lha pix/gicon 511K+Some glowIcons, mostly drawers
FenrixGIcons2.lha pix/gicon 147K+Some glowIcons, mostly drawers
Nelta-glow.lha pix/gicon 588K+Over the 300 misc glow icons [by cYbo]
SimsGameIcons.lha pix/gicon 32K+GlowIcons for 5 current amiga-games
trodas_icons2.lha pix/gicon 592K+Glow icons made by trodas
anl-strip_9.lha pix/misc 49K+[ancor] a normal life
AP20Covers.lha pix/misc 193K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 20 Covers Recto & Verso
sgf-strip_5.lha pix/misc 50K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
sgf-strip_6.lha pix/misc 48K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
ufstoryv2.lha pix/misc 307K+A Fantasy story with pics this is v2.0
moped18.jpg pix/trace 154K+Motorbike rendered with Cinema4D V4
ChineseIME.lha text/edit 214K+A Chinese IME solution to input Chinese
hypermail2.1.5.lha text/misc 268K+Takes mail msgs and generates HTML docum
ActivateWindow.lha util/cli 7K+CLI-tool to activate, move to front wind
hd.lha util/cli 7K+HD, hexdumper
MUIFind_mos.lha util/misc 46K+Freeware MUI Search tool -MorphOS-
CPUSpd.lha util/moni 6K+68k speed, cycles/scanline, cycles/frame
EBGuide.lha util/rexx 3K+(REACTION GUI) Australian TV Guide progr
Pixload-3.0.lha util/rexx 668K+Pixload 3.0 (a "dock style" in RXMui)
rxmuiguides.lha util/rexx 91K+RxMUI - RxMUI Docs in AmigaGuide format
DRemind.lha util/time 292K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.64!
AmiStart.lha util/wb 400K+A Windows like startmenu with drag&drop
BaseConvert.lha util/wb 25K+ReAction GUI base convertor
IconLink.lha util/wb 25K+Create links to icons
Scalos13u_FR.lha util/wb 17K+French Catalogs for Scalos1.3u(40.21)
ScaOPM-Cat_Up.lha util/wb 9K+Update Cat.french(Scalos-OPM)
SortIcons.lha util/wb 12K+Sorts Icons on WB screen - like PC/Mac!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Mar.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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ByteMARK Benchmark V2 for AmigaOS/MorphOS
Rupert Hausberger has ported the current ByteMARK(tm) benchmark to
AmigaOS/MorphOS. It contains the following builds:
bytemark.020.aos - AmigaOS/68020/mathieee.library
bytemark.020.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68020/mathieee.library/a4-relative
bytemark.020.881.aos - AmigaOS/68020/FPU
bytemark.020.881.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68020/FPU/a4-relative
bytemark.040.aos - AmigaOS/68040/mathieee.library
bytemark.040.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68040/mathieee.library/a4-relative
bytemark.040.881.aos - AmigaOS/68040/FPU
bytemark.040.881.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68040/FPU/a4-relative
bytemark.060.aos - AmigaOS/68060/FPU
bytemark.060.aos - AmigaOS/68060/FPU/a4-relative
bytemark.603e.mos - MorphOS/603e/FPU
bytemark.603e.r13.mos - MorphOS/603e/FPU/r13-relative
bytemark.604e.mos - MorphOS/604e/FPU
bytemark.604e.r13.mos - MorphOS/604e/FPU/r13-relative
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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09.Mar.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Voltmeter software completed
I herewith announce that the software for my voltmeter hardware has been
completed. This should be able to run on all A1200s and A4000s. However, it
would have to be adapted for A500 and A600. This is because the software uses
the 32bit width of the address data.
Theoretically the software should run under AmigaOS V2.1 - 3.9, however it has
not been tested under version 2.1. The program archive now also contains the
circuit diagram for self-assembly. This has been integrated in a PDF file which
furthermore contains descriptions of the ARexx programs. Only experienced hobby
electronic technicians should deal with this (chips are susceptible against
static electricity!). You can get all parts at Conrad Electronic or any
well-assorted electronics shop.
Software: The archive now contains several ARexx programs with which you can
read out the data from the voltmeter. Among those are also an oscilloscope
program and a program using the system's Pipe:. Unfortunately I can't write a
program reading out the data from the pipe as fast as they are written into it.
Furthermore there are a bus initialization and a zero correction program.
The most important program is the main program, "Voltmeter". There you can
mainly do voltage metering in realtime. The second important function is the
sampling of voltage data. This means that in 1 second about 280 measurings are
performed. These are displayed immediately afterwards in a lister. Thereby they
are converted into volts with a precision of 3 decimal places.
This list of voltage data can be saved, if you want, to be used in another
program. The same can be done with the metered value of the single measurement.
An important highlight are the four diagram functions in the voltmeter program.
After the listing of the metered values in the lister you can view them again
in one of the four diagram modes in individual windows. These are: dot diagram,
line diagram, P-grid diagram, and L-grid diagram. The L-grid diagram is the
most exact diagram of all as you can read out the voltage down to 0.1 volts and
the time down to a few milliseconds.
It has to be said that point diagram and P-grid diagram show time in samples
whereas the two line grid diagrams show it in seconds. Incidentally there can
be only 1000 samples taken as a maximum. This means about 3.5 - 4 seconds of
measuring.
Download: Voltmeter.lzx
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Internet browser: Mozilla for AmigaOS?
In a thread on Amiga.org
explains Dave "DaveP" Pitcher that he had already run a Mozilla port under AmigaOS 3.9 - more than one year ago.
Dave had looked for people who were willing to take over the following work. As nobody registered he had ceased the work. The state of the port is described by Dave like this: "It is slow, contains errors (it's based on an early Mozilla code base) and it needs a lot of finetuning before it will be something I could be proud of".
Dave says that he'll restart the work on the port as soon as his other projects (his part of work on OS4 and his website amigabooks.org) leave him enough time and if he gets enough feedback).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Sayonara Software page online again
Games like Hollywood Manager, Flamingo Tours and
the Samba Partie series may be taken as the most successful titles by "Sayonara Software".
Jo Seitz, the founder and developer of "Sayonara Software",
gave the Amiga Arena last year the permission to offer his games there for free downloading. These games are after the redesign now online again!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Alfonso Ranieri (ANF)
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FreeDB 7.3 and CManager 21.8 released
FreeDB 7.3
and CManager 21.8 are available for download. (ps)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New community portal: Amigaworld.net
Though the community portal Amigaworld.net already exits for several months it became a talking-point in the last days as an alternative to Amiga.org.
In contrary to Amiga.org MorphOS and Pegasos aren't accepted as topic on Amigaworld.net, the providers want to concentrate on topics all about AmigaOS and Amiga Inc. In conjunction with very strict moderating they want to avoid the typical warfares also Amiga.org had to suffer from.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga: We were just sleeping
The March issue of the Australian computer magazine "Australian Personal Computer" reports under the title "Amiga: We were just sleeping" about the upcoming launch of the "AmigaOne".
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Further AmigaOne/Pegasos benchmarks
On Pekka Nissinen's benchmark site are further benchmarks available: new added are the results of a Pegasos/G3 with 100 MHz FSB as well as of an AmigaOne-SE with 100 MHz FSB.
All benchmarks had been done with the same binary.
To people who speak English and are interested in the topic may be the according thread on ANN recommended. The issue is discussed there on a mainly objective basis. Right now there's the question why the Pegasos does much worse in two tests (assignment and LU decomposition) than the AmigaOne, maybe the L2-cache isn't activated on the Pegasos. (nba)
Update:
Update for Pegasos/AmigaOne benchmarks - In the meanwhile has the site been brought up-to-date. On the Pegasos was indeed the L2-cache deactivated, this error has been fixed and the benchmark results have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Speed tests with Monzoom
The raytracing program Monzoom tested:
Amiga version 4.3.78 -Pro
PC version 4.5.55 -Pro
Scene: Caribbic (coming with Monzoom Pro)
800x 600; Ray 4; Antial. 4; shadow -An
A1200 __040/25MHz ___________computing time __59 min 11 sec __(3551 sec)
A4000 __060/50MHz ___________computing time __20 min 01 sec __(1201 sec)
A1200 __PPC603e/150Mhz ______computing time __10 min 39 sec __( 639 sec)
A4000 --PPC604e/200MHz ______computing time __02 min 30 sec __( 150 sec)
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WinUAE AMD/2000+ ____________computing time __01 min 48 sec __( 108 sec)
Amithlon AMD/2000+ (1.6GHz) _computing time __01 min 09 sec __( 69 sec)
Athlon 1700+ ________________computing time __00 min 09 sec --( 09 sec)
Athlon 2000+ ________________computing time __00 min 08 sec __( 08 sec)
Tried updating with Pegasos values but (mk) hadn't got my mail (he posted) and he doesn't have time next week and I don't want to stress him. But to show speed facts this is enough to be posted now.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Mar.2003
Thorty! (ANF)
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Thorty-Online.de: New AMIGA sections opened
On Thorty-online.de two new Amiga sections has been opened.
- Amiga Workshops
- Handy Logos
Amiga Workshops:
You can find here some workshops about the use of WinUAE on the x86 platform. Other ones
will follow.
Handy Logos:
This fresh section will be extended in irregular distances. MorphOS fans may be delighted
because they can download a suitable logo and/or picture message for a handy of Nokia and
Siemens.
The tutorial explains you how you will get the logo and/or the picture message to your
handy.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Total Amiga Magazine 14 with Quake-2-lottery
Total Amiga Magazine Issue 14 will be available from March 15. But that's not the end of the story, how does the chance of winning a copy of either Amiga QuakeII or Descent: Freespace sound?
To coincide with our comprehensive Amiga Quake II review and thanks to Hyperion-Entertainment, we have a copy of Amiga Quake II/Descent: Freespace* to give away to one lucky winner. To enter, subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine by 17/3/2003 (24:00hrs GMT) and your name will automatically be entered into the prize draw.
Plus! Alan Redhouse, The man who lays it straight, writes exclusively every month for Total Amiga Magazine. In this month Alan's updates include news on the AmigaOne XE and news on a new A1 SE lite...
Plus! We are pleased to announce that Issue 14 sees an increase in content, up from 48 pages to 52. Now there is even more to read and enjoy.
Plus! Fleecy Moss, Buzz Word, Hollywood review, Webdesign on an Amiga, Software Tycoon, Top Tips, Tutorials and more.
To subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine, please visit http://www.totalamiga.org/subscribe.html for more details.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Martin K. (ANF)
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GRex-homepage updated
After a short break the inofficial GRex homepage has been updated on 2nd March 2003.
Information concerning OpenPCI have been integrated as well as a little fan shop was opened.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Source code contractually protect
On the current issue 4/2003 iX advices its readers
to think about taking appropriate measures in case of insolvencies of software and other
IT offerers. It may be especially important to protect the source code contractually.
Have a look at the title link for the full article (in German).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Further details on STB-strategy
In two comments of Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (Genesi)
on Amiga.org
you can find further details on their Set-Top-Box-Strategy. It follows an extract from these comments:
[After reflecting about the success of BSkyB in Great Britain:] "Now, do something
inexpensive with a 403 PPC and a DTV tuner with MorphOS (in this case)
and you could have something quite special that can handle anything as
well as everything retailing for 400-500 Euros at less that 25% of the cost.
Sounds like something another BSkyB-like company might take a risk with?
Yes, you bet!"
"Everything we learned before collectively (VisCorp, PhaseV, bplan, Thendic,
etc.) is coming to play today in Genesi for a very large company that wants
to do *exactly* that."
"Speaking of which there is a good article about Murdoch
here.
[...] BTW, This article should also be read by others who may be
underestimating this DTV STB market at the price point we are delivering
hardware to it (contrast that for example with the super STB from Pace at
350 £!)."
"Our customer [...] has a pricing strategy that tells us they understand
the market and their customers."
"As far as we can tell, the BSkyB boxes in the UK are completely non-standard.
They use WAP which may sound off the wall given it's designed for mobile phones
but being designed for low end systems with low bandwidth makes it perfect
for STBs. There's a lot of technology available now that supports WAP
development. We actually will have a WAP stack/Browser ready."
"Remember, we will not integrate the uplink initially to reduce cost (we
will have a WAP portal for people to use mobile phones as an unlink though
and a handy little connector to support that process). We have a phased modular
strategy that adds functionality akin to the base station of a radio/remote
phone designed normally for home use. The receiver chip for the radio signal
will have been already introduced in the STB (as is found in the home handset
associated with the base station that anchors the system in the home with
power and telephone line connection -- incidentally overcoming the no
telephone connection near the TV problem)."
"On the smart card side, we will use them to unscramble parts of the signal
already there. This can be done on a subscriber or pre-paid basis (for
anonymity or one game at a time). The signal itself can *also* be data
driven to individually addressable STBs. Here smart cards can be further
used as recording devices. In our case viewing data can be exchanged for
movie credits... Of course, this flexibility can be promotion/advertising
oriented too..." (ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Amiga Absence at CeBIT 2003 in Hannover
Amiga Absence at CeBIT
Mar 6, 2003 - Late last year, Amiga announced its intention to launch
AmigaOS4.0 at the CeBIT show
in Germany. Since then, the project has
advanced into its final stages but unfortunately not to the point where
we are ready to ship. We have thus decided not to attend the Cebit
Germany show. Instead we are looking at other shows and opportunities
in the near future to provide a suitable platform for the launch of
the new Amiga.
We apologize to the commmunity for waiting until the last possible
moment to make this announcement but despite heroic efforts by all
concerned, even up to the last minute, circumstances have conspired
to push completion beyond the deadline. We have regretfully decided
that making CeBIT Germany the AmigaOS 4 launch platform is not a
realistic option at present.
AmigaOS4.0 is coming. Beta-testing has been going on since last
September, the Club Amiga Magazine is previewing many of the new
features and AmigaOne integration is proceeding well. Amiga,
Hyperion
and Eyetech
are 100% committed to getting the new platform out into
the world and reintroducing the world to the pleasures of home
computing.
-- The Amiga Team
(ps)
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06.Mar.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Mailbox: jamiga-BBS offline
The Kiel-based Amiga-Mailbox "jamiga" is closed since today. Because this is a short term issue that occured without warning, we are making this announcement in hopes of reaching the remaining users and "connected" mailboxes this way.
On account of a few queries and current personal incidents we hesitatingly decided on this step. We hereby thank all (former) users and the mailboxes supporting us for the partially year long "faith!"
Sven Scheele and Marcel Wintrich (ps)
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06.Mar.2003
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Test of 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'
Under the title link you'll find a test of 'Indiana Jones and the FATE
OF ATLANTIS', by Stefan Juhas. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: German Language Web Presence of Mozilla Variant Phoenix
For the slender alternative browser Phoenix
the German language web presence of http://www.phoenix-browser.de has been opened. [I have used Phoenix, and find it to be slimmed down and modern. Netscape 4.8 is still a bit more responsive -DM]
Read the complete heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
Samba Website
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Networking: Samba Version 3.0alpha22
The Samba team released version 3.0alpha22 on the 5th of March, 2003. To see what exactly has been changed, have a look
here.
Samba is software that, for example, allows networking between a PC and an Amiga. Information about Samba for Amiga may be found at
amigasamba.org.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV Website
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TV Card Driver: AmithlonTV Beta 304
Guido Mersmann has released beta version 304 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV, with several little updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
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Warning: Nethands.de Warned About Missing Banner
As already
reported many times,
many homepage makers (it doesn't matter if they are private or commercial) are not aware that the new telecommunications service law (TDG) and/or the intermediate services state regulations (MDStV) include a provision requiring a banner. There are constantly resourceful (or better put, flighty) lawyers who want to earn their bread with warnings.
Flighty therefore, because it could be possible throughout to draw attention to a possible violation through email, and to offer to help out. If this remains unsuccessful first of all, our opinion about a warning is justified. The law is conclusively implemented to protect the surfer, and not to to enrich lawyers through warnings as well.
Read under the title link about how Nethands.de handles the warning, and help them if you have the opportunity. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Microsoft Has Abandoned the OpenGL Consortium
On account of the apparently insufficiently future-oriented development of the 3D interface, Microsoft has abandoned the OpenGL Consortium, and wants concentrate exclusively on their house Direct3D standard.
You'll find the heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Mar.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: New plugin for Hollywood
Malibu is a plugin for Hollywood which contains an import filter
for Scala presentations. As soon as Malibu is installed, Hollywood
will suddenly be able to show Scala presentations or compile them.
Many screenshots are now available from the Airsoft Softwair
homepage. The Malibu plugin will of course also be released for
MorphOS and - as soon as available - AmigaOS4.
With Malibu it is now possible for the first time to display Scala presentations on Workbench screen or on your own public screen. Because the whole emulation runs on top of Hollywood's multimedia application layer everything will be first converted to 24-bit and then displayed. In many cases the quality of the pictures that Malibu displays is much better than the original Scala quality because Scala often had to remap many pictures with very different colors to a 8-bit display which resulted in a massive loss of color information.
Malibu emulates nearly the whole Scala command set and supports all Scala versions up to Scala InfoChannel 500 which was the last Amiga version of Scala. Emulation is done by the elCapitan microkernel which tries to achieve the best performance possible on the used system. For example, the next page is already calculated while the current page is on the display. Complex transition effects can also be pre-calculated and then displayed smoothly.
Scala is a program which helped the Amiga to become a real Multimedia wonder. There were no products for a long long time that could beat an Amiga with Scala. Therefore Scala was widely used in all different production fields, from movies and television to big shows. Everyone who has worked with Scala knows what power it has. But this power is only possible because Scala is very hard coded to the Amiga's custom chips which leads to the problem that it does not run on graphics boards and also has some other major problems with today's Amiga systems. For many years all sorts of users complained that there is no Scala that runs RTG compatible. This time is over now. Scala revives with the Malibu plugin: On the Workbench? Of course. In 24-bit? You can bet your life on that. Always RTG conform? Absolutely.
Don't miss Malibu out! Watching Scala presentations on Workbench is a complete new feeling which every Amiga user should experience.
Order Hollywood now to make your system ready for Scala!
Features:
Graphics:
- Impressive Scala transitions (e.g. Superimpose, Roll on, Flow, Push, Diagonal)
- Support for Scala text styles outline, shadow & 3D
- Scala forms: Ellipses, rectangles, lines & polygons
- Emulation of backgrounds with raster type
- Complete brush support (incl. crop & resize)
- Animations are supported
- Transition effects for all Scala objects
- Support for styles like bevel & background
- Runs completely in 24-bit mode
- Color fonts are supported
- Smooth scrolling for Scala fly-ons
- Emulation of all graphics attributes
- Brush transparency is fully supported
- Objects can be removed from screen with transition effects
- All palette settings are respected and correctly converted
Sound:
- Support for sound modules and samples
- Audio output through AHI incl. full mixing
- Sound fades are supported
- Sound implementation is retargetable for use on Pegasos, Amithlon...
Environment:
- All Scala versions up to InfoChannel 500 are supported
- Margin settings and tabulators are respected
- Scala variables can be used
- Buttons and events are emulated
- Almost complete emulation of Scala command set
- Scala presentations can be compiled
- Emulation can be configured in detail
- Complete independent from environment; does not matter if Cgfx, P96, AGA, ECS or OCS is active
- Absolutely system friendly
Requirements:
- Kickstart 3.0 or better
- 68020 processor
- Graphics board recommended
- 16 megabyte memory recommended
(ps)
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05.Mar.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Update: Digital voltmeter for Amiga
Carsten Siegner currently developes a new voltmeter hardware for
the parallel port, which went through several improvements:
To the voltmeter hardware a 100 times highspeed amplifier has been added. Thus it is possible to measure voltages down to field of micro voltages. The amplifier is to chose by a toggle switch (normal resolution / high resolution area). The
voltmeter circuit includes an own power supply controller now to be not influenced by noise signals from the powernet which might distort the measurement.
Thus it becomes posile to use nearly every power supply (not stabilized ones also) which offers 6 to 12 Volt and a maximum of 1 Ampere.
There are several ARexx scripts available to control the voltmeter.
Further more Siegner works on a more complete version with a GUI currently. This will include the following features:
Single measurement (save function included), high speed measurement with an adjustable number of samples (save function included),
view as list for all measurements (high speed measurement), view as diagram (high speed measurement); therefore some similiarities with an oscilloscope.
Additional to the voltmeter program there will be, once it will be finished, the wiring diagram available to built the voltmeter yourself. To do so you should be some kind of an advanced electrician because e.g. the measurement chip is highly delicate regarding electro static charge. All parts might be purchased at Conrad Electronic.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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05.Mar.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scene: Issue #14 of D.I.S.C released
One more scene dinosaur has left our planet! Frode Zerox
Hansen has released some days ago at the Kindergarten Party the last issue of his diskmag D.I.S.C. This issue is a good advice for beginners because it features very intensively the currently active groups and their best demos.
The chances for a continueation of this diskmag seem unfortunately to be very bad. But he will not be lost for the community and continues his work at the
AMIGAplus magazine.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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05.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Announcement concerning the Genesi/Phoenix collaboration
In a joint statement, Raquel Velasco, Bill Buck, and David Greene (GreenBoy)
clarify some outstanding issues about the future of Genesi, the role of Phoenix,
and the DTV set-top-box.
- One to support the task oriented objectives focused on the delivery of the
DTV STB by the end of 2003.
During the month of March Genesi will transition existing consulting/ employment
agreements to the new structure. A list of well known developers in the
"Community" will be joining Genesi. These individuals will be almost exclusively
focused on the DTV STB project.
- The future of the Pegasos and MorphOS, including the release of the Pegasos
II using the Marvell northbridge.
The difficulties with the Articia have delayed the Pegasos long enough. The
Pegasos II development has begun and WILL be completed sooner than expected.
Genesi will operate from offices in
Luxembourg, France, and Germany with a branch office in Switzerland. "Virtual"
offices will also operate in the USA and the UK. An extensive Internet sales and
support infrastructure is being implemented.
Genesi and Phoenix are seeking collaborators in nearly every area. Here is a
full list of Phoenix mailing lists that are now devoted to Genesi development:
These are moderated by greenboy and open to all interested parties who meet Phoenix's expanded
definition of DEVELOPER: coders, web designers and publishers, financiers, beta testers,
translators, arts and media specialists, etc.
Then:
Lists we are considering:
- PhGames@phinixi.com - games for Pegasos on the desktop
- PhREBOL@phinixi.com - should Rebol be part of the platform?
- PhDigAudio@phinixi.com - to ramp up what Nicholas Blachford's MORloud started. Note: Genesi has licensed ProStation Audio for MorphOS from Maurizio Ciccione of AudioLabs. ProStation Audio will be bundled with the OS.
- PhVideo@phinixi.com - from here the videomicrowave will take off. It begins with MediaPoint, and scales into a special IOSPIRIT offering - along with many other goodies being planned and soon to come.
All requests to join Phoenix/Genesi mailing lists are welcome! - just send email with a brief bio/CV to
greenboy@phinixi.com.
(nba)
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05.Mar.2003
GMB (ANF)
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Hardware tuning: Modification of phase5 turboboards
By the title link the reader might get a brief manual to modify the phase5 turboboards
Blizzard 2040 to 2060 and Cyberstorm MK2 68040 to
68060 like the author of that website did it today.
The editors of amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus emphasize that they are not responsible in any kind for external links and damage caused by modifications explained in that manual, there is absolutely no warranty and all modifications are done on your own risk. The explained modification is a strong treatment to the hardware and has not been proved by us.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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05.Mar.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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ADA: Teampage update and new Soms3D screen shots
At the "Anime Development for Amiga Teampage" is a new update available.
There were anti PC pictures and Manga wallpapers added. Furthermore
two new screenshots of Soms3D (Secret of my soul) were put online.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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04.Mar.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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New Audio-Track from Bjorn Lynne
Bjorn Lynne has released his Audio-Track "Back in the Big Time" on mp3.com as free
MP3.
Lynne wrote:
I hope you'll like the track. I did everything myself on it, including the sexy "uh..."
voice :-), the "bap-bap-bap-baaah" singing, the funky wah-wah guitar, etc.
The keyboard solos were deliberately included exactly as they were played on the
first take, without any corrections or re-takes. I wanted to capture them exactly as
they just fell out the first time, with imperfections and everything. :-)
The bass guitar sound is taken from my own instrumental sample-CDROM "Top Production
Samples" ( www.lynnemusic.com/tps1.html ) which contains a lot of instruments and
loops for use in your own music.
I have also entered this track into a contest/review thing at the other
music site, MakeAStar.com. But it hasn't entered the "voting stage" yet. I will write
again if/when this track goes into voting at MakeAStar, and hope for your vote then.
:-)
This is the 6th or 7th track I have created in a kind of "jazzy" mood. I had quite a
good response earlier to the tracks "Lounge Living" and "Understatement". Maybe I'll
make a CD with all my jazzy tracks, just to do something different. :-)
My CD "Wolves of the Gods" is on a 14-days-only special offer during which the CD can be
purchased for $12.99 instead of the normal $18.99, and there is now only 2 days left
of this offer. Furthermore, you can download one track ("Kyrania") from the CD, for
free in full CD quality, also for only 2 more days. So if you want to get in on this
offer, please see http://www.lynnemusic.com/wolves.html today or tomorrow.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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03.Mar.2003
Up Rough (ANF)
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Music: 'Oh No! More Hits For Kids LP' released
Up Rough Soundsystem released a new music disk called: 'Oh No! More Hits
For Kids LP'. It holds 20 THX/AHX tracks from Varthall, Miaom, Slam &
Ini. Get your copy under the title link. (ps)
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03.Mar.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Alternative #Amigafun Webchat and more
Unfortunately some time nothing could happen, due to some hardware
problems. Now it is times again for an update.
Amigafun-Webchat:
Since Webchat for the well-known Amiga Channel in the IRC is currently not available, Amiforce offers now a HTML Chat. This Webchat
should be however only a temporary solution, which can be maintained
if necessary also additionally. The chat was integrated in the
Amiforce forum and is attainable over a button named "#IRC". The chat
is meant exclusively for Amiforce and may not be taken over on
other Web pages. In this way users, which have no IRC client, can now
visit the channel again. Everyone who would like to use the chat, should refer to the individual instructions, since
no graphic elements are used.
Classic-Games Area:
Freeware games will be made available here. They are based on Amos offering high quality and much fun. More games will be added in the future.
Java-Script Games:
A new area will be added with games that can be played directly on our page. A lot of games will be integrated. Since Ibrowse2.3 there are many games that now are realy useable.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages to 02.03.2003
WHDLoad lets you install your floppy based games on to your harddisk. The following packages were added since our last announcement:
- 02.03.03 new: Brian Lara's Cricket '96 (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
- 02.03.03 new: Graham Gooch World Class Cricket (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
- 27.02.03 new: Graham Gooch Second Innings (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Total Amiga
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Print magazine: Total Amiga - contents of issue 14
Issue no. 14 of the English print magazine "Total Amiga" will be published on 14th March 2003. A detailed content description can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Amiga Games Hitparade
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Amiga Games Hitparade: Different areas updated
On the English website of Amiga Games Hitparade three areas
were updated. Read in the connection the original message.
General update:
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
AmigaGames.com
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AmigaGames.com: New Website layout
The website of AmigaGames.com was revised completely and presents
themselves since yesterday in a new, clear design.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Amiga.Sourceforge
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Image Editing: ImageMagick Version 5.5.5
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools to read, write, and
manipulate an image in many image
formats
(over 87 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG,
PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images
dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications.
You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special
effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work
in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations
are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++,
Perl, or Java programming interfaces (it needs about 40 MB of free
disk, check the
.readme
file).
Download: ImageMagick-5.5.5.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Samba
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Networking: Samba Version 2.2.8pre2
The Samba Team released version 2.2.8pre2. A detailed changelog can be found here.
Samaba makes a connection between PC and Amiga possible. Detailed information about Samba and Amiga is available at
amigasamba.org.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Peter's Amia Home Page
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Peter Hutchisons Website moves
The website of Peter Hutchison, on wich you can find much information
about Amiga printer drivers as well as about the Amiga itself, moves. The
Website will be available under the URL http://www.pcguru.plus.com. His new e-mail address:
pjhutch@pcguru.plus.com. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Magazine: NoCover 108
Issue 108 of the NoCover is now available and can be read and loaded on
the APC&TCP homepage. This issue will soon be available on Aminet. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Stefan Burstroem (IBrowse) (Update)
Amiga Arena talked with Stefan Burstroem about the past and the future development of IBrowse. The interview is available
here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Game: Knights & Merchants Demo for MorphOS available
A 14 MB demo version of RTS Knights & Merchants for MorphOS is now
available from the download area of our homepage. The demo lets you play
around with the in-game tutorial that takes you through the building process
of your town. In addition you can command some troops around the map to see
who is there.
The full version, which comes in 4 different languages (English, German,
French and Spanish) is available now and requires a Pegasos and MorphOS
1.0.
(ps)
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03.Mar.2003
A.D.A.
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Logo gallery in Amiga Demoscene Archive
Do you remember all those lovely
logos that used to be in Amiga productions? A lot of them
were beautiful, showing great skill and talent from pixellers,
pushing so much in so little colors and space. Well, today,
we started something new on A.D.A., a logo gallery of the
best logos ever painted. Just click on "logos" in the menu
and be amazed at the first 18 logos appearing on A.D.A. This
little gallery will be updated a lot in future, together with
a lot of cool demos that we still have to add. If you have any
comments on the new gallery, please mail them or write it in
the guestbook. (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
C64doc (E-Mail)
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Event: Classic-Computing 2003 in September
The Classic-Computing takes place on 6th September in 74219 Möckmühl,
Germany. The opening times are from 8:00 to 18:00. The entrance fee
is 3.00 Euro per person, independently of whether exhibitors or guest.
The show organizers recommend you leave your x86 platforms at home.
Preferably bring something along that's more than ten years old.
Participating organizers have admission starting from 7:30 o'clock,
to make preparations. There are no reservations, thus be punctual.
Also there are limited tables available. To find out more visit the
title link.
(nba) (Translation: ps)
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02.Mar.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Online-Game: New round of Star Empire 2
A new round of the Internet-space-strategy-game "Star Empire 2"
will start on the 3rd of April.
The goal of the game (which is unfortunately German only)
is to become ruler of the universe - but there are up to 32 human
players and computer-controlled pirated to stop you.
Diplomacy, alliances, but also well-armed space-ships will be needed.
"Star Empire 2" is a server-based game, i.e. the game itself
runs on the computers of Virtual Dimension and every player
gets a weekly report about what's going on. Based upon this
information commands are sent back to the server. There's no
need for a client, because standard-html- and ascii-files are used.
The subscription to the new round will be possible until 2003/03/29,
the first reports will be sent out on Thursday, 2003/04/03. On that
day the old round - which had to be suspended due to technical
problems - will continue as well.
As a little goodie it is now possible to download the
"Star Empire 2"-Trailer from Virtual Dimension's anniversary
video seperately (sorry Timothy, it's still German only ;-).
P.S: The server program runs on AmigaOS, of course... :-) (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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DiscreetFX Logo For Dollars Cash Giveaway Challenge
DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and Video Toaster [2] announces a new challenge for Amiga/Video Toaster artists worldwide.
Deep in the labs of DiscreetFX we are looking for a new logo but we can't find one and we are too lazy too design it ourselves. Also, we know there are some damn talented artists in the Amiga & Video Toaster community and wanted to give everyone a stab at doing it for us with cash and product incentives of course.
So here is the deal on our logo challenge. We will allow you the Amiga & Video Toaster community to design our new logo for us. Also we will post all submissions on our website and allow you the community vote on which logo we will use. So fire up those paint packages, animation packages and Flash creation tools fellow artists. We would not dare limit your creativity so we have very few limitations or rules for the challenge. Artwork/animations can be submitted as still images (IFF, JPEG, TIFF etc.), Flash animations, AVI files or whatever you wish. We only ask that whatever you submit is your original work and that it does not suck. What you submit must have the words "DiscreetFX" in some type of fancy pose or flash animation. Be creative and use your mind, we don't care if it is "Psygnosis" style or "New Age" style or "Retro" style. We leave the talent to you, all we offer is an open wallet for the winners. Don't forget that it will be voted on and judged by your peers so do a good job! Create your masterpieces with FlashMX, ImageFX 4.5, Zbrush, Photogenics 5, or even Deluxe Paint version 1 on the Amiga 1000, we don't care as long as the artwork is fantastic.
The Winner takes home a prize of $100 via Paypal and one of the products of his or her choice from our development team http://www.discreetfx.com/Products.html. Or if the Winner is especially greedy they can opt for just $200 via Paypal and skip the free software. There will be prizes for runner up contestants as well. You will have to hurry though because this contest ends on April 3rd, 2003.
Please send your contest entries to amigaart@discreetfx.com. All submitted artwork/animations become the property of DiscreetFX but will never be used without compensation to the artist that created them.
Also please don't forget that we still have a limited supply of the two CD set Amiga/Video Toaster version of Pyromania and it will be available for a short time at the sale price of $24.95. ScaryFX for the Amiga & Video Toaster is also still available for $19.95. Visit www.discreetfx.com for more information and the latest tools for your Amiga & Video Toaster. (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
Martin Knott (ANF)
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Pegasos photos from Kieler Amiga Hardwaretreffen 2003
On Saturday, 1st March this year's hardware meeting of the
Amiga-Club Schleswig Holstein
took place in the new plenar hall of the UAS Kiel. Apart from the usual 68k and
PPC based Amigas and a small exhibition of the Kieler Computermuseum
this time also three Pegasos systems were to be marvelled at.
Apart from the power also the systems' three different optical outfits could impress. People who could not attend the event can get a first impression based on the pictures. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
heise online
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Legal action against games indexing
A private initiative wants to start legal action against indexing of computer
games. Furthermore, a new media protection of minors treaty might become
effective as of 1st April. Please read the complete article at heise online
under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 04 for Descent: Freespace released
The MultiPlayerPack 04 has been released. Once more it contains five new
Multiplayer maps for the game Descent: Freespace.
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02.Mar.2003
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SView V v1.10 released - expiration of special offer
Version 1.1 of graphics viewer and converter SView V has been released and its
demo version can be downloaded from the Aminet (title link).
SView V reads and writes more than 40 file formats and has command of
about 50 graphics operators. You can read a review in the current AMIGAplus
02/2003.
If you send in your SView5 registration until 5th March 2003 (before Ash
Wednesday), you may deduct 5 EUR from the total amount. Please write your
SViewIV registration number on the form as the rebate cannot be granted
otherwise. For meeting the deadline, the date on the postmark resp. receipt of
payment is relevant.
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02.Mar.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Pixload v3.0 released
Version 3.0 of the Amidock like start menu Pixload has been released.
Icons in the Startbar can now be modified by simple drag & drop and their number is not restricted. Similiar to the Mac OS X Dock, active programs
are marked with a triangle in the Pixload Startbar. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
CUCUG
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CUCUG Status Register 02/2003
The February 2003 CUCUG Status Register has been published. In the Status
Register the Club reports regularly about its own meetings and the areas Amiga,
Linux, Macintosh and PC.
This issue contains the following articles about PPC as well as Amiga:
- Aminet CDs Reach End of the Line
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02.Mar.2003
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Circumventing fees for T-Online SMTP relay server
From 1st March 2003, T-Online customers will have to pay for sending emails
with free sender address via T-Online's SMTP relay server. To circumvent these
fees you can use the STMP service of your secondary provider by reverting to
the SMTP Auth function for authentification of your data.
You can find support e.g. on the YAM
Web site under the title link.
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02.Mar.2003
Andreas Weyrauch / Dirk Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Second issue of Club Amiga Monthly published
The second issue of the "Club Amiga Monthly" magazine for registered members
has been published at AMIGA, Inc.
This issue features some articles on the AmigaOne as well as AmigaOS 4. The
magazine has a volume of 20 pages. It is only accessible for Club members after
logging into the Club Web site under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Website on Applaud Software online again
From 1996, Applaud Software Ltd. developed low-cost games for the Amiga which
used to be distributed through Isolona Entertainment and Epic Marketing. On the
Web site especially set up for Applaud Software, fans of puzzle games can find
"Blockead I / II" for legal download, and strategy fans are catered for with
"Mobile Warfare" as well as the space trading simulation "Cygnus 8".
Furthermore Amiga Arena is looking for the following software titles by Applaud
Software Ltd.: "Berties Animal Kingdom", "DNA: Variety of life" as well as
"Imperator: Master of Rome".
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01.Mar.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 version 0.924
Rupert Hausberger has released version 0.924 of his benchmark tool for
AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Download: am_lpa2003.924.lha - 1.3 MB
A benchmark program is determining your computer's performance. Depending on the software functionality it measures the speed (data transfer rate) of the different components of a computer. Measurable single components are among others the CPU (central processing unit),
the main memory, the GPU (graphical processing unit),
the graphics memory and data storage units like e.g. hard discs and CD-ROM drives.
Changes in detail:
- FIXED bogomips calculation on MorphOS/G3
- CHANGED scsi-regonization from ansi- to response-format
- CHANGED optimized timing routines
- ADDED own clock()-function
- FIXED some typo errors
- FIXED "system info" output in benchmark-report
- CHANGED multitasking is now enabled at datafiles-creation [requested]
- ADDING two blizzard boards [requested]
- BUMPED revision to .924
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01.Mar.2003
Scenia/Acumen
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Assembly demos at the Tampere Film Festival
The Wild demo "World War II Memoires" by Milan "Acumen" Kolarovic, shown at the Finnish demo scene party Assembly 2001, and the animation "Project Kerosene" of the Assembly 2002 will be presented at the international Tampere Film Festival on March, 8th 2003 in Tampere, Finland. The videos have been chosen for the Micromovies competition where the winner is rewarded with 10,000 US-Dollars. Last year came 25,000 visitors to the Tampere Film Festival.
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01.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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AmigaOne-G3 and AmigaOne-XE benchmarks
Following the title link you can find first benchmarks for AmigaOne-G3 and AmigaOne-XE computers.
The author ("ksk") points out in a
thread on Amiga.org that these benchmarks had in no way been done under "scientific" conditions, but are supposed to give an impression of the performance of the motherboards.
Benchmark results for Pegasos computers are said to be released soon.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
Matt Parsons
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New SVGA drivers for AROS
The developments on the alternative operating system project AROS had been driven hard in the last weeks by Matt Parsons.
The current beta release of AROS contains now new SVGA drivers. 16-bit and 32-bit screen resolutions (HiColor and TrueColor) are now possible. Problems are still caused by the graphics card family ATI-Radeon but these are said to be fixed soon.
Furthermore are a new CD-ROM and a new floppy version of AROS online that contain the new SVGA drivers. The usage of the CD-ROM version is explicitly recommended.
The developers point to the fact that the screenmode can be chosen at the beginning of the boot procedure. If in doubt you should choose 640*480*16. There's still an error occurring with the mouse pointer that is surrounded by a black box and that cannot reach all screen areas. The fixing of this error is also in the works.
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01.Mar.2003
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: German version of the BBoAH updated
Horst Diebel Seit has integrated the latest updates by Ian Chapman into the German version of the Big Book of
Amiga Hardware (BBoAH).
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01.Mar.2003
Brad Webb (email)
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Amiga Update newsletter by Brad Webb #030228
Following the title link you will find the complete newsletter by
Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for February 2003. In his English newsletter does Brad Webb a monthly summary of all news regarding the topic Amiga.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
amiga.org
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Magazin: The Crypt - issue #28 (vampires and vodoo) finished
The English online magazine "The Crypt" has released issue #28 under the slogan "vampire and vodoo".
Download: online28.zip
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)
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heise: Bill Gates cursed in Japan against Open Source
On a Japan visit Bill Gates did what he could to recommend Microsoft products for building up E-Government systems and to warn of the use of Open Source software.
Read the full (German) article at heise following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Feb.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.22r5 published
Today version 0.8.22 release 5 of the Amiga-Emulator 'WinUAE' has been published.
The following things have changed:
Bugs fixed:
- CD32-mode media change detection
- SlowRAM detection fixes (Commando and more)
- more compatible CIA keyboard emulation (Back to the Future 2 and more)
- bsdsocket.library emulation updates (Stephen Riedelbeck)
- state restore fixes
- fixed mouse problems in Space Crusade, Billy the Kid etc..
- writing to custom floppy images was unstable
- primary sound buffer-checkbox removed and disabled. It is useless and usually
only caused huge slowdown problems.
- PC Competitor interface's second joystick works properly
- improved compatibility (fixes USGold Murder, Crack Down, Liverpool,
Pinball Hazard, future CAPS-images etc..)
- SuperHires sprite fix (SkidMarks AGA)
- another Pentium 4 JIT-crash workaround
- improved Action Replay support (Mark Cox)
New features:
- configurable boot priority and device name for regular (non-RDB) hardfiles
and virtual directory filesystems
- configurable filesystem for regular hardfiles. (Automount/boot for example
SmartFileSystem formatted regular hardfiles)
- FPU state file support
- configurable keyboard leds (DF0, DF1, DF2, DF3, POWER, HD, CD)
- floppy write-protect state added to floppies-tab
- implemented write-support for images that don't support writing
natively (compressed images, CAPS-images)
- Amiga program p96refresh for selecting mousepointer refreshrates in
Picasso96 mode (Bernd Roesch)
- "Middle-Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" works now in fullscreen mode
- improved input-tab GUI, increased number of input mappings from 1 to 4
- CD32 pads are now enabled in non-cd32 mode if configured in input-tab
- state files are saved to SaveStates-directory (was Configurations..)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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28.Feb.2003
GFX-Base
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Text viewer: EvenMore version 0.61 from 27.02.2003
Chris Perver has published a new version of his text viewer called 'EvenMore'.
In this version now the tabulator again works as good as in the previous versions and you
can use fonts with fixed widths. The function of the word wrap has been improved.
Download: EvenMore.lha - 672 KB
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28.Feb.2003
GFX-Base
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Start menu: AmiStart version 0.64
Darius Brewka has published version 0.64 of AmiStart. AmiStart is a Windows-like start
menu with quick-launchbar, Drag&Drop-support and a configurable graphical interface
which allows transparency, rounded corners, background textures and much more.
Since version 0.63 AmiStart offers also the so called shape-layer that means configurable
and programmable skins for controlling external applications via ARexx. The shape-layer
for the Songplayer is an example.
Please have also a look at the screenshots
of the program.
Download:
AmiStart.lha - 399 KB
ASPlayerShape.lha - 137 KB
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28.Feb.2003
SixK
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eDonkey-client by SixK in development
The French programmer SixK has developed an eDonkey client for the AmigaOS for some weeks
which meanwhile works. For finishing this Peer-2-Peer software talented developer are wanted
who want to help creating the GUI and some parts of the codes. If you are interested in
then please contact SixK@ifrance.com via email.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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28.Feb.2003
Mandrake Linux
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The Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux
You requested it for a long time, now it's available: "The
Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux" is a comprehensive
new book that provides in-depth coverage of the latest version
of the highly regarded Mandrake Linux 9.0 distribution. Learn
more about this 646-page book here, and get your Mandrake
encyclopaedia now at MandrakeShop (Note: Club members get
15% off). (nba) (Translation: nba)
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28.Feb.2003
amiga.org
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Perl5-script: txt2pdf 6.4
txt2pdf is a flexible PERL5 script which is distributed under a Shareware license.
It allows you converting your old text files to the pdf-format. The script is flexible enough
to work on each platform which supports PERL. The script can be used for its own but also
in connection with other applications. You can find further details and information
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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28.Feb.2003
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Amiga.com-servers move
On Saturday 1st March 2003 all servers of Amiga Inc. will be not accessable for 8 - 12
hours because there will be a move of the servers.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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27.Feb.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: EA Defend Themselves Against the C&CG Decision
»Electronic Arts hopes for withdrawal of express decision
Electronic Arts are defending themselves against the danger arising from categorization of their current game "Command & Conquer: Generals." On the 25th of February the National Inspection Bureau For Youth-Endangering Publications (BPjS) categorized this game in an express decision. The result of this is that "Command & Conquer Generals" may not be advertised nor openly sold after the 28th of February.«
View the complete article (in German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Feb.2003
Otto Dette (E-Mail)
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Convention: Computer & Video Swap Meet Bremen - March 1st & 2nd, 2003
On the first and second of March 2003 the Computer and Video Swap Meet will take place in Bürgerzentrum Neue Vahr. On both days the hours of this convention are from 9 am until 5 pm. The gathering is a sales convention for end users; there will be hardware and software from many categories offered. The
Users of the North Sea Coast have two rooms this time. The Atari Computer Club of Bremen organizes the schedule with individual activities.
On the first level:
- Video-processing with the Amiga. DVD on the Amiga, Digital cameras on the Amiga, direct comparison between PPC and 060 (Earth 2140
and other games). The following software will be demonstrated: MediaPoint,
SCALA-MM-400, Digital-Almanac, AmiAtlas-6 and eventually iFusion and naturally TV on Amiga (PixelView in comparison to Picasso IV). Additionally a highly upgraded Amiga 4000D in an Elbox tower with PPC, USB and
PCI (TV, ethernet, sound und graphic cards) will be shown. The innards of this computer are visible through plexiglass casing under blue illumination, and it is just one of several Amigas to be seen
- Video-processing with Amiga, PC and Mac; here's where the newest programs line up to go for it. Old films may be digitally processed and placed on DVD through the use of internal or external expansions, and all this without using a PC or Mac.
- Linux KNOPPIX 3.1 (the CD is from the Federal Bureau for Security and Information Technology) will be demonstrated in an hard-drive installation.
On the second level:
- The Mac display area will be found here, and the following computers shown:
Pictures and Info.
- Many diverse hardware technologies of storage media clear through to viewable opened components will be shown. These systems will mostly be shown running, with explanations and demonstrations of the equipment. They'll be actively shown with the operating systems and software performing functions.
- During this time visitors themselves may do hands-on utilization of the equipment and/or play games.
- Additional some advertising spots from the 70s and 80s will be played.
The company Falkemedia will have free newspapers for Amiga and Mac available. A big thanks to A. Goukassian of Kiel.
Both days we're going to be running a webcam, reachable at the following URLs:
http://www.udnimweb.de/Webcam.html.
Addendum by Otto Dette by email:
We received news from Falcon that we'll be first receiving a preview CD of the video from the Aachen convention, in order to show it. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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Emulator: Status Quo of UAE for Mac OS X
Both the port of the Unix Amiga Emulator for Mac OS X by Marin Saric and the development of Max UAE by Alex Kasic have been on ice for
several weeks. AMIGAplus editor Wolfgang Böhl reports on the status of UAE for Mac OS X:
The current Mac-modified source code version 0.8.22 beta 1 of Max UAE emulator was placed online at the beginning of January. This means
that compilation attempts and continued development by third parties are theoretically possible.
From the assortment of alternatives Wolfgang Böhl took a look at the UNIX sources, compiled them for the Mac OS X kernel, and tried to get
them running with Apple's X11 offering. And look: it works! After the first problems with a high crash tendency the emulator port is fairly
stable. Nevertheless there are problems with mouse emulation and poor performance. Accordingly, a graphical configuration menu is being
prepared right now.
With wideranging programmer experience nothing should stand in the way of a successful port of UAE to Mac OS X. On that
basis we applaud the contributing coders!
Further Leading Links:
Max UAE
Mac UAE (nba) (Translation: dm)
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27.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: More Details about STBs, Pegasos I, and OS4
In two public comments on ANN
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco made known some more details on, among other things, their STB (set-top box) activities and AmigaOS 4 for the Pegasos.
The previously announced first major contract for DTV/STB has an initial quota of 150,000 units (with the previously mentioned option of over one million units).
Beyond that, in the meantime, there has been a further DTV-STB project, which, it is stated, will insure the company's financial stability. This is to allow them to solidify their contractual obligations with business partners, developers and associates, building a stable foundation for the future.
The Debian team alone encompasses 20 developers, Genesi reports.
Of about 400-450 new Pegasos 1s there are supposedly only around 85 remaining.
Additionally it was once again pointed out that a broad web-based sales and support strategy will be built up. To this end better documentation and more online resources are needed, and a full palette of applications must be programmed or ported. This will require time and talent. And so more people are currently being sought for this mission. Interested parties should make themselves known to bbrv@genesi.lu.
With respect to AmigaOS: BBRV finds it a foregone conclusion that when OS4 is ready, it will find its way to the Pegasos. Not that Genesi will do this nor that it will require Genesi's support, only that somebody is going to do it. In relation to this BBRV intended to contact Ben Hermans (Hyperion) today. It is seen as a likelihood that in the end Hyperion will posess the IP rights to the classic AmigaOS, and then surely they will want to sell OS4 to every user with a PPC computer, and so BBRV is convinced that the Pegasos family of products will be there as the largest target market. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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27.Feb.2003
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM: S-Files 22 - Cinemaware-Games
clickBOOM publishes details about Cinemaware-games in its latest S-Files 22: "Below you will be able to find more information on the current state of PC/Mac Digital Remasters (Wings, Lords of the Rising Sun, It Came from the Desert and Rocket Ranger) which we have been developing for over a year for Cinemaware, Inc.
Digital Remasters proved to be a very challenging, yet very satisfying undertaking, as it required disassembling a 10-15 year old code which was originally never meant to be used on anything other than the computers of that era (namely Amiga 500 and 8-bit consoles).
Late last year, however, regularly scheduled payments for development from Cinemaware suddenly stopped. Being a small team, it is imperative for clickBOOM that work we take makes financial sense. Therefore, our parent company, PXL, had to put development on hold or risk a financially difficult situation when working without payment.
We were willing to work towards a solution and were patiently waiting for payment from Cinemaware which would allow us to continue development. Unfortunately, lack of payment was also followed by 6 weeks of no communication from Cinemaware. It seemed as if they had gone out of business. Not even phone calls were being returned.
In the course of the past 3 months every effort was made on part of PXL to secure voluntary payment from Cinemaware, Inc. However, that has proved to be impossible, so PXL has no other alternative but to file a lawsuit against Cinemaware, Inc. for breach of contract and unpaid development cost.
Even after enduring all of this, it is still our hope that the situation can be resolved, so that we can finish these almost completed games. We believe it would be a shame for players around the world never to enjoy them.
To the many fans who have written and called, we want to say thank you. We will keep you posted." (nba)
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27.Feb.2003
Heise Newsticker
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heise: IBM PPC 970 Now up to 2.5 GHz
The IBM R&D group wants to show prototypes of the PowerPC "Blades" at the CeBIT convention. In a press release IBM relates that the PowerPC 970 operates "with speeds from 1.8 to 2.5 GHz" and is the "fastest PowerPC to date." A few months ago speeds of only 1.8 GHz were talked about. Read the complete story at heise online under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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26.Feb.2003
Emerald Imaging
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RPG game: eVe status update
In January 2003 Emerald Imaging, known for the adventure game 'Aqua', announced a new game called 'eVe'.
The game will include hand drawn scenes and selected good music might increase the fun factor, too. Today some first early stage screen shots were published.
For the screen shots at the website of the title link it is emphasized that these are from an early and not final version and that they just should demonstrate the progress of work on eVe. Actually the focus is on development of the main game play and core programming, later on the graphics will be finished. Most main characters are finished already. Further information will follow soon.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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26.Feb.2003
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AMIGAplus 02/2003 - a wolf in a sheep's robe
The Pegasos has arrived - even currently in small numbers. Within the new AMIGAplus 02/2003
(#133), which is currently on mail delivery, there are the following topics to read about:
Pegasos & MorphOS - the wolf in a sheep's robe
Walker, Boxer, Amirage, Hombre, pre\box, Puma, A5000
or MCC - all these have something unpleasant in common: Afther an announcement there was only deep silence.
Ten years after the CD32 as the last real Amiga innovation, this year the PowerPC based Pegasos brings some new winds to the poor sails of the Amiga market. Within our test we measure if this is more of a fresh storm or just a mild breeze.
indivision - Scandoubler & Flickerfixer
Scandoubler and flickerfixer which brought the world of the
PC monitors to the Amiga screen modes were there and are there from time to time. But individual computers are still good for a surprise with the introduction of their Scandoubler/Flickerfixer indivision:
For the first time there is a device available which can be used in conjunction with a genlock and so is usable for video post production.
Subway - Highspeed for the little
After the Zorro version Highway of the
USB controller family by E3B/Michael Böhmer gained big attention there is a version for the clockport available now:
The Subway. For us a reason to examine this card and to report about the progress made with the driver software Poseidon.
Crossfire II - Firepower party in space
During the last year there were not too much games for the Amiga community released. But this is no reason for desparation. There are numerous small teams all over the world that work on new Amiga games.
Mostly theses are new developments and no repeated ports.
One of these teams is called Dreamworlds Development. If the new action adventure "Crossfire II" can create coloured dream worlds shows our test.
Also read about:
- Quake II at the A+ focus
- Talk with Genesi
- SuperView 5 1.0 at a test
- Digital Almanac III 5.0 tested
- Interview with the Breakpoint organizers
- Programming workshop: Simple DirectMedia Layer, part 2
- Amiga Status Report: To be or not to be...
- and much more
The AMIGAplus is available by abonnement, via direct order and
at the Amiga dealers for EUR 5.-.
Please mind that the CD-ROM 20 will be delivered with the coming issue
03/2003.
Preview: In the coming issue #134 we will report about the following topics:
Tests of TKR LAM200E, IBrowse 2.3, VHI Studio 6 and Birdie Shoot,
compatibility report of MorphOS, launch of a
video workshop with Draco and much more. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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26.Feb.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers is the first sponsor of the Breakpoint Party
Since many years, individual Computers supports so-called scene-parties
that offer a forum for demo-programmers. A "demo" is a program that does
not require interaction with the user, as opposed to game demos. It's a
combination of graphics, music and special effects - a presentation of
the hardware capabilities, the programmer's and the artist's skills
(graphics and music).
The term "artist" is no exaggeration: The "Euro-style demo" has evolved
from a subculture of the 80s to a form of art that we already supported
with cash and hardware prizes on the legendary Mekka&Symposium parties.
Mekka&Symposium will not take place this year. The same experienced team
that was responsible for these parties organizes the Breakpoint Party on
Easter this year. It'll take place in Bingen, Germany. Many people still
confuse scene-parties with LAN-parties, but this is a big mistake:
A large-scale network is available, but gaming is frowned upon by the
scene's etiquette. (ps)
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26.Feb.2003
Satra Systems
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Data base: SatraDB for AmigaOS 4.x only
The data base management system for Amiga 'SatraDB' is under development for quite a while already. Because it is a hobby project progress was reported only rare. AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4 will arrive soon. Therefore the development team has decided to abandon the version for Classic-Amiga and develop SatraDB for the new system only.
The design of SatraDB is finished up to 90% and the development is up to
81%. Further technological details are to find by the title link at the "Product Information" area.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Feb.2003
Erik Johansson / AmiGBG (E-Mail)
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Event: AmiGBG, Gothenburg on 03-29-2003
On March the 29th 2003 the AmiGBG in Gothenburg, Sweden will open its doors for the 2nd time.
AmiGBG is an Amiga fair, organized by Amiga users, it is the only Swedish Amiga show. Read the full press release:
AmiGBG 2003 Press Release
For the second year in a row, the user group AmiGBG will organize an Amiga
fair at Lindholmen, Gothenburg, Sweden. AmiGBG 2002 was the first Amiga
fair in Sweden since 1998 and had over 450 visitors. At the fair you will
see both the Amiga system of tomorrow, based on G3/G4-processors, and Classic
Amiga (based on 68k). We hope to be able to present, among other things, a
complete version of the new AmigaOS - OS4 - running on the new PowerPC based
hardware - AmigaOne.
The fair is aimed at both Amiga enthusiasts as well as for people interested
in other alternative platforms. Amongst other things, Linux will most likely
be demonstrated on the new AmigaOne. The exhibitors will be everything from
abroad companies to Swedish usergroups. The invitation to participate at
AmiGBG 2003 has not only been sent to "pure" Amiga companies but also to other
hardware manufactures.
About AmiGBG
AmiGBG is a Swedish usergroup who's mainly goal is to organize fairs and
increase the interest for Amiga. The team AmiGBG has organized AmiGBG 2002
(see above) and AOne Gothenburg 2002 Fall Event, an event where the new
Amiga was shown in Scandinavia for the first time.
For more info regarding those events, please look at the links below:
...fairreport_uk.txt
...storyid=1062
...aone
For more info:
Internet: www.amigbg.com
Email: info@amigbg.com
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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25.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi is looking for games
Genesi needs immediately new and old games with small memory need that can be used in
a Set-Top-Box or a handheld device. It will be used the W@LK KEY. The W@LK Key can
be loaded with several games, traded between gamers, and used as a give-away for
publicity.
If you are interested and have access to old source codes or want to develop such
games or port them to MorphOS you should get in contact with bbrv@genesi.lu.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Feb.2003
GameIcons.info
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GameIcons: New Archive with more than 90 Games Icons
A new archive with more than 90 icons for games was released on January, 25th on
GameIcons.info.
Chris Vella has created this package.
Download: GameIcons-2001.lha
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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