06.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (website)
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Screensaver: GlMatrix ported
Steen Lund Nielsen has ported "GlMatrix" from the XScreensaver package to the Amiga.
The archive (1 MB) contains a 68k and a WOS version for PowerUp accelerators. Required is a fast processor, a 3D graphics card, Warp3D v4 and AmigaOS 3.5.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Dec.2003
www.technoids.de (ANF)
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Magazine: Technoids issue #4 available
Now available is the issue #4 of the PDF magazine Technoids for BeOS fans.
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(snx) (Translation: wk)
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05.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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Pegasos: Linux-Kernel 2.4.23 available
Since December 2nd you can download the Linux-Kernel 2.4.23 for the Pegasos under the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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Golem: Genesis PPC-Board Pegasos II ready - 64-Bit-board will follow
Under the title link Golem reports about the completion of the Pegasos II and the
planned cooperation between Genesi and IBM concerning a 64-bit-work station:
"Genesi has announced that its new PowerPC mainboard "Pegasos II" is now available which
is supposed to have more performance in connection with G3 and G4 processors.
Furthermore Genesi works on a 64-bit-work station together with IBM which is based on
the new PowerPC-970 processor which the G5-Mac also contains."
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
whoosh (ANF)
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RPM-4.0-Port: Archive-Extraction of current RPM-files on the Amiga
Under the title link
you can find an Amiga port of RPM 4.0 which is based on ixemul.
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(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Eyetech: Possible extensions for the MicroA1
In a comment on AmigaWorld Eyetech delivers further details to the MicroA1.
According to it a three times PCI-Riser-card as well as an extension slot are planned
as extensions for the MicroA1.
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(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Merregnon (Website)
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Merregnon: Videos, Photos and special offers
Merregnon is more than an Audio CD of musicians from the demo and game scene but
also an unique soundtrack to an impressive fantasy saga. The second part of Merregnon
is still in progress.
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(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Updates
The amount of demo production of the Amiga Demoscene Archives (ADA) was highly increased
during the last weeks. The following demos and intros were added:
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05.Dec.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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USB: Thylacine-special price action in December
Thylacine is a USB-1.1-controller for the Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000
(AmigaOS 3.9 is recommended). In December 2003 the card is offered during
a special action of
Boing! International for
90 AUD$ (Australian Dollar) without postage and delivery.
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(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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DENIC: Germany is World Champion at the amount of websites
According to a report of the OECD in Germany 84.7 websites come on 1000 inhabitants
(end 2002). It follow Denmark with 71.7 and Norway with 66.4.
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05.Dec.2003
Diverse
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Software-News (05.12.2003)
In the last weeks several software updates have been published. We will inform you briefly.
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04.Dec.2003
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Genesi selects IBM PowerPC for Performance-intensive Pegasos Release
Genesi today announced a new, PowerPC®-based, modular MicroATX mainboard release that brings flexibility and efficient processing power to performance-intensive applications, including desktops, workstations, servers, and communications products.
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04.Dec.2003
Gunther Nikl (ANF)
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Aminet: New Versions of BMPdt and xpkGZIP
New versions of BMP-Datatypes (V40.16, 42 kB) and the XPK Module xpkGZIP (V1.2, 74 kB) have appeared on Aminet. Both are by Gunther Nikl.
XpkGZIP 1.2 makes use of zlib 1.1.4 and was ported with GCC 3.3. Through GCC 3.3 xpkGZIP got about 11% faster at compressing.
BMPdt now uses inline-assembler for little -> big endian adjusting.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Dec.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Update of Access Virus MIDI Commands for Tracks&Fields
The VirusOS from Krister "Kicko" Skrtic's Tracks&Fields Amiga Page has reached version 6.5 and is now available for download. According to the author Virus now sounds stronger like MiniMoog, and there is a deeper dimension to the tonality.
The changes include an update of Filt1 mode as well as the implementation of four new values. The update is being offered because Kicko still uses Tracks&Fields, until HDRec is ready. After that all commands will be utilized by HDRec.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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Merchant: Datakompaniet Creates a Webshop
The Norwegian Amiga merchant Datakompaniet has completely revised its homepage and implemented an online webshop.
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04.Dec.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Update Of DVDRTools
DVDRTools
has been reworked. The following changes were made:
- The text of the homepage was brought up to date
- All instructions for DVDRTools are now in HTML format
- DVDRTools has been recompiled with GCC3.3, something that should provide for cleaner code, and from there on shrink the size of the executable by about 70%, because of the reduction of debugging code
- The GUI ToastDVD has also been updated and now not only works with DVDRTools alone but also with the other programs of DVDRTools. With this DVDRTools becomes almost as easy to use as MakeCD or BurnIT, it's just that you can do the same stuff with DVDR support
Further, I am now working on a solution to overcome the 2 GB limit, but that's not quite ready yet.
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03.Dec.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #062
After the homepage of the scene group Liquid Skies is reachable again they published
their 62nd music package today.
It contains a trance tune by the musician Maxus and the fitting CD cover for this track.
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03.Dec.2003
Commodore Gebruikers Groep
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HCC days: Photos by the Commodore Gebruikers Groep
The Dutch user group Commodore Gebruikers Groep has pushed some photos of their attendace at the HCC days online. That event is the biggest of its kind within the Benelux countries.
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03.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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New version of the ASFS Linux dirver
The ASFS file system driver for Linux by Marek Szyprowski is now available as a public beta 1.0 beta 1. With this tool SmartFileSystem (sfs) partitons of the Amiga/MorphOS are accessable while running Linux. In the meantime it became possible not only to read these partitions but also to write to them, even this is still in an experimental stage.
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03.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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Music software: Protracker II under development
Ruben Monteiro currently works on ProTracker II, a successor to the original family of the Soundtracker (SoundTracker, NoiseTracker, ProTracker). The Portuguese programmer estimates a release date for March next year. There is support for MorphOS and Windows, versions for OS4 or AROS are not confirmed yet.
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03.Dec.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 24
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 24 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) BobC: Can you tell us what third party software companies or individuals are interested in writing or actually are writing software for OS4 on the A1? If you can't say who they are, perhaps, what types of third party software is being developed?
Fleecy: I can only tell you of those that have publicly committed to writing for AmigaOS4.0 since the others are either still looking into it or are developing but do not wish to make an announcement yet.
Those that are publicly committed are
Ibrowse
Pagestream
AudioEvolution
CandyFactory 2
Tales of Tamar
VBCC
WordMeUp
Hyperion have also committed to creating AmigaOS4.0 versions of their games and have a licence to develop DirectoryOpus for AmigaOS4.0.
Several other companies have said that when a more complete developer SDK is available and/or when the market size becomes clearer, then they will take another look.
There are likely to be quite a few surprise products turning up as well but as I said, for a number of reasons the companies involved are not willing to announce publicly at this time.
2) Uncharted: Will the new "AG2 services" change the way AmigaOS works from a user's perspective? Will things like devices, system structure (C: DEVS: LIBS: ENVARC: etc.), and UI paradigms be changed?
Fleecy: Initially no but with the introduction of a resources and services architecture, it will change. This architecture internalises the implementation and publicly presents a semantic abstraction. AmigaOS4.0 presents a half way house with its use of interfaces called against libraries. However, because the access is via a semantic abstraction, it will be possible for a user to create a relationship that makes it look like the old organisation model, if they so desire.
As for the interactive environment, we have looked at all that is good in the existing interface as well as all is bad. We are bringing a workflow analysis to this area and, whilst you will be able to recognise elements from previous implementations, there will be a lot that is new and (we hope) better. The whole solution will allow the user to eventually build their own interface so if you want to go back to AmigaOS3.9 Workbench, it should be possible.
3) Shep: A while ago on here I suggested that Amiga could use affiliate marketing, similar to amazon, for marketing the new Amiga. I would gladly join such a scheme when I have my new website sorted out (which will be appropriate because of its theme), what do you think Fleecy?
Fleecy: I think it is a very good idea. We have a lot of ideas ourselves which are partly a reaction to the situation we find ourselves in at the moment. Getting the good news about Amiga's rebirth out into the world is going to be top priority and, as we found at the Micromart show and, as has been proved over the past six months, our user groups are going to be crucial in that process.
4) DaveP: Hi there Fleecy, would you rather do this monthly? ;-)
Fleecy: At least it wouldn't be late all the time ;-)
5) GregS: Are there any plans with including in OS4-4.2 a XML Signature generator?
Fleecy: XML will play a big part in AG2, so yes.
6) Asemoon: There is much concern within the industry about monopoly OS companies abusing their position to make it hard or near impossible to replace components with alternatives. This has never been the case with AmigaOS' design. Will this modularity and freedom continue with future releases?
Fleecy: Very much so. With a resource and services architecture it would be hard to do otherwise.
7) prmetime: 1. When the A1/zico spec was first announced, a partnership with Matrox was announced fairly soon thereafter. I have yet to see any Matrox drivers or chips on hardware to this point. Is Matrox still a partner and will their graphics chipsets be supported?
Fleecy: Matrox are still a partner and, with SNAP coming on board, we will have an excellent set of drivers for Matrox boards. Given that 3D is not currently the forte of Matrox, then we will be concentrating on other, more appropriate products.
8) GregS: Are there any plans (beyond OS4.0) to add to the Amiga some simple and easy to maintain and control Multi-User-Profile system for the AmigaOS?
Fleecy: Yes but it will require the foundations to change first for the data storage and organisation services. That is something that will appear early in AG2.
9) The_Editor: We recently had, what seemed to be a high profile visitor to AW.net expressing his frustration at not being able to find anyone "high enough" to talk to about developing for DE. Due to a lack of information, he is taking his idea elsewhere. Who do we direct such enquiries to in future and what steps would Amiga Inc take to see this calamity is not repeated ?
Fleecy: This is clearly very worrying. I did not receive any information about him and there is supposed to be a requests process on the Amiga Anywhere website. I shall look into this as a matter of urgency.
10) jurassiccamper: Alan has mentioned that earlybird owners may get an installable OS4 beta by christmas. How will this be distributed?
Fleecy: It won't be a beta per se but a pre-release that will not be supported directly. Amigaworld have already expressed an interest in becoming a forum for support and feedback of information generated from the pre-release. As for the format for distribution I believe we are currently considering a downloadable ISO image to be burnt to a CD via Debian.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=25
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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02.Dec.2003
Maja (ANF)
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Safety hole in Linux-Kernel makes Debian attackable
At the end of November there are hacker attacks on the open source project Debian Linux.
Those attacks were possible because of holes in the Linux centre. You can get more information
because of this theme on the TweakPC-website under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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02.Dec.2003
Golem (Website)
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Golem: PNG Second Edition becomes W3C-Specification
The World Wide Web consortium has decided the Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Second Edition for the W3C-recommendation as standard. Please read the complete
text at the online news-service Golem under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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02.Dec.2003
Felix Schwarz (E-Mail)
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IOSPIRIT: fxSCAN 4.05 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 4.0,
4.01, 4.02, 4.03 and 4.04 of fxSCAN to V4.05 is now available for
download.
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01.Dec.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Bonds v2.00 Alpha
Amiga Arena will publish, in co-operation with Sven Dröge of Programmed Excellence, an alpha version of the new personal finance program 'Bonds' 2.0.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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01.Dec.2003
Alexander Fritsch, selco (ANF)
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SelcoCast: First Shoutcast-Server for Amiga
'SelcoCast' by Alexander 'selco' Fritsch is the first ShoutCast server for Amiga. Additional infromation can be found at the title link.
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01.Dec.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 30.11.2003
New Aminet-Uploads:
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01.Dec.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter von Brad Webb #031130
The November issue of Amiga Update by Brad Webb is now available at the title link.
Content:
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29.Nov.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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New versions of OpenSSH and OpenSSL released
Diego Casorran has released new versions of OpenSSL and OpenSSH for the Amiga on his website under the title link. OpenSSL is now available in version v0.9.6 L, OpenSSH in v3.7.1p2.
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29.Nov.2003
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Genesi news in short
- After their products Pegasos, MorphOS and PegXLin and their Pegasos port of OpenBSD has the company Genesi S.à.r.l. itself now been registered on the "Ready for IBM-Technology" list.
- Felix Schwarz leaves Genesi and is concentrating completely on his company IOSPIRIT again as Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck posted in a comment on MorphOS-News.de. The company owe among other things the creation, support and moderation of many of their websites to him.
- The official Japanese site of the Pegasos network is now online: www.Pegasos-JP.com.
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