15.Jun.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 - Rockford is back!
BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 has just been released on the Aminet (Download see title
link)! The most significant improvement since V4 is the direct support of
Picasso96 and CyberGraphics. With that all RTG related problems should once and
for all have been eliminated.
more ...
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15.Jun.2003
heise.de (ANF)
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heise: Warez-Gruppe Fairlight calls it quits
Fairlight, the warez group well-known in
the scene are announcing the immediate cease of their work in an NFO file.
Fairlight have been very active on Amiga and C64.
Read the German heise article under the title link.
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15.Jun.2003
.design/kdh (ANF)
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'OS4.0 on Tour': Thanks to AC Augsburg
We hereby want to express our thanks to the Amiga Club Augsburg and its many
helpers for the warm welcome in Augsburg on the occasion of the 'OS4.0 on Tour'
event. Everything was prepared excellently and with much idealism (e.g. the
Amiga museum) and also carried out with great commitment. It is good to see and
to know that there are still many friends of the computer legend 'Amiga' and many
users waiting for OS4.0 to hit the market to be used on an AmigaOne or a
Cyberstorm/Blizzard PPC board.
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15.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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First presentation of a UAE-JIT PPC
For the first time Bernie Meyer presented a modified UAE-JIT version for PPC
at a meeting of the Australian Amiga Users Group. Pictures of Bernies iMac and
his Pegasos can be found under the title link.
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15.Jun.2003
amiga.org (ANF)
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Event: AmiWest 2003 News Update
Computer Connection (Video Toaster)
will participate in the Amiga fair AmiWest 2003,
taking place on 26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento, California. Further news
about this event can be found in the extensive press release under the title link.
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15.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Movie: Second Animatrix filmlet online
The second Animatrix filmlet can be seen on the Internet resp. downloaded.
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15.Jun.2003
Walter Gehring (RAMses) (ANF)
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Amiga OS 4.0 on Tour in Augsburg: Pictures by Walter Gehring
Under the title link you can find further pictures by Walter Gehring (RAMses), taken
yesterday in Augsburg. All pictures can be downloaded as a ZIP file.
Download: os4.zip (1,7 MB)
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15.Jun.2003
AC Augsburg (Website)
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AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by AC Augsburg
Further pictures of the Augburg Roadshow are online on co-organisator Amigaclub
Augsburg's Website. Further information to follow!
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14.Jun.2003
AN-Forum
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AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by Stefan Hägele
Following the title link you'll find quite some photos made by Stefan Hägele with his Sony DSC S75 today in Augsburg. People who want to watch the pictures in a higher resolution may download them here:
Download: AOS4.0_on_Tour.zip (32 MB)
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14.Jun.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created
and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted
geographically according to continents and countries. Today the following areas have
been updated:
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14.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Big update of Dia-CD (slideshow on VideoCD)
This time is the update of Dia-CD very substantial, it contains the following innovations:
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14.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (email)
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StartMenu: Pixload 4 speaks German
As already reported has the final version 4 of the startmenu Pixload for AmigaOS and MorphOS been released at the beginning of June. In the meantime has the German localization been finished.
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14.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos: Phoenix offer now also for dealer
For the few Pegasos-I boards still on the shelves at the retailers Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck offer that these may be sold for the Phoenix price of 299 Euro if the buyer enters the Phoenix developers consortium. The price difference would then be payed directly at the particular retailer.
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14.Jun.2003
Boing Attitude (email)
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AmigaDE: Word Me up is finished
Glames wrote:
Boing Attitude team and myself are pleased to announce you that Word
Me Up, our first game on AmigaDE, is now finished. We'd like to thank
all these people that support and help us. Many thanks to you!
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14.Jun.2003
Morotola (ANF)
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Motorola: 68060 with 60 MHz and Amiga 68k compiler at Motorola
MC68060 : Superscalar 68K Microprocessor
(Including the LC060 and EC060)
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14.Jun.2003
SWAUG (ANF)
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SWAUG: Amiga OS 4.0 questions for Thomas Frieden
The users group SWAUG has asked Thomas Frieden some questions about AmigaOS 4. Following the title link you'll find the English questions and answers.
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14.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Official AmigaOS 4 screenshots
Following the title link you'll find five new official screenshots of AmigaOS 4.
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13.Jun.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: eFlash Memory for Amiga
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga
computers, is proud to announce two new products:
- eFlash 4000 Zorro III card
- eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card
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13.Jun.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N° 39
Issue 39 of the AmigaOS/MorphOS magazine Obligement is now available. You
can read in this issue: report of the Huno Party 2003, Interview of David
Gerber and Nicolas Sallin (from Genesi), interview of Emmanuel Rey (from
Relec), review of VHI Studio 6, review of Birdie Shoot, review of Knights
and Merchants, article about MorphOS 1.3 (very complete!) and AmiNetRadio,
hardware with AmigaOne XE G4 and USB keys, and other interesting articles.
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13.Jun.2003
MorphOS News (ANF)
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Demoscene selections done
Decisions have been made. The competition was so tight, the last two
remaining Pegasos-system winners were elected by asking several people
about their opinions. Sorry for the ones who were left out, there were many who would have deserved one, but we tried to make the best selections based on several things, past success and current activity being the most important ones.
The people who will get a loaned Pegasos and participate to the
democompetition are:
- Creative Minds
- DCS
- Floppy
- Ephidrena
- Haujobb
- Iris
- Loonies
- MFX
- Potion
- TBL
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13.Jun.2003
KDH Datentechnik (ANF)
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Tomorrow: 'OS4.0 on Tour' in Augsburg
The 'OS4.0 on Tour' will be take place on Saturday 14th June 2003 from 10.00am to
8.00pm in Augsburg in the club rooms of Amiga Club Augsburg.
The newest pre-version will be presented by Jürgen Schober, Point-Design, Austria.
more ...
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12.Jun.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)
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Update of the VirusZ III Antivirus Bootdisk
The VirusZ III bootdisk has been updated and is available for download as of 7th June, 2003.
Available at:
VHT Kanada
VHT Netherlands und
VHT at Yahoo
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12.Jun.2003
Motorola GmbH (E-Mail)
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Motorola: The Handy Turns 20
The mobile telephone has turned 20 years old. Since the 1983 introduction of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the cellphone has turned from the prestigious posession of executives to the constantly present tool for everyman. Few other inventions have changed life so much in the last two decades.
Note from translator: the article goes on into a long German language history of the cellphone. If desired, you may copy the address of the amiga-news.de German language article (http://www.amiganews.de/de/news/AN-2003-06-00096-DE.html) into an automatic translation service, such as that found at http://www.altavista.com by clicking on the "translate" link.
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12.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Java.net - Comprehensive Open Source Platform for Java
»James Gosling has announced begun a new development platform
With java.net Sun has started a new website, which groups together information, code and communications possibilities for Java developers, including Wikis and Blogs. This new Java-oriented open source community has been announced by James Gosling, the "father" of Java. Sun themselves have provided a few million lines of code to the new community.«
Read the complete article under the title link.
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12.Jun.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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Partners of 'AmigaOS4.0 on Tour' 2003 in Basel
For the first presentation of AmigaOS4.0 on Tour 2003 in Basel - 21th June,
the local AUGS club and the
B&S Digitronic reseller
are happy to confirm you already the participation of:
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12.Jun.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood 1.5 released
The long awaited, major update 1.5 for Hollywood was released today.
Because of the great new features and the long development time, there
is an update fee of $22 USD (only for users, who bought Hollywood before
April 1st 2003). Hollywood 1.5 is available in an AmigaOS 68k version as
well as in a native MorphOS PowerPC version. Many new features have
been added to Hollywood 1.5, here are some of the most important:
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12.Jun.2003
Maja (ANF)
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TweakPC: Microsoft Purchases RAV AntiVirus from GeCAD
Microsoft takes the virus protection of their own operating systems in hand. After this takeover, the developers will work on an integrated virus protection for Windows.
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11.Jun.2003
heise Newsticker / B. Lindner (ANF)
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heise: GIF soon free of patents?
The heise article features the fact that on the 20th June 2003 one of the moste hated
software patents (US patent 4,558,302), the "GIF patent"
by Unisys, will expire.
The complete article (German) is to read by the title link.
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11.Jun.2003
Golem IT-News (ANF)
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Golem: WLAN for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and fellows
»SMC introduces Ethernet to WLAN Box
SMC Networks have introduced a new device of their EZ Connect WLAN product family with that
ethernat capable devices are enhancable with WLAN features.
The SMC2671W adaptor works within the 2.4-GHz band with a maximum bandwidth.
of 11Mb/s.«
Read the full article (German) by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)
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Elektroniknet: QNX realtime platform to download free of charge
»QNX Software Systems are offering developers their QNX realtime platform for a download free of charge.
This offer is valid for all users who will not use the system commercially i. e it's intended for
prototyping, test issues or private use. With the download developers get a full working version of the QNX
realtime OS
including the complete suite with QNX OS moduls like the microkernel, data system, network manager etc. Included is
a GNU tool chain, a code generating
application builder, the Photon microGUI windowing system, Internet and
multimedia applications, hundreds of utilities and source code for many
applications, drivers and libraries.«
Complete article see title link.
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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)
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Elektroniknet: PCI architecture documentation
»Wanted: The optimum PCI interface
Additionally to the article set of electronics (starting with issue 11/98, see page 107)
about state machines and PLD programming of a PCI interface this document includes a full documentation
for the PCI architecture as a word.doc file.
(Freeware, German)«
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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)
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ELektroniknet: How costless is Linux?
»The experience of an independant software developer
A little bit costless? Or not free at all? During a Linux project there arrive many obstacles which are invisible in
the beginning.
This lesson an independent software developer had to experience personally.«
Here are some extracts from the article which is readable by the title link (German):
- "I just finished to install embedded Linux on a PowerPC system; That opend my eyes. [...]"
- "After some months our hardware was stable, our Linux port too and the application was more or less ready to use [...]"
- "Is embedded Linux the potential to grow? Sure at least. Is it really costless? No way. [...]"
- "Embedded Linux is real, it's capable to grow but it is not gratis.
It is easy to get attracted by embedded Linux but then you will soon find yourself within the operating system support
business rather than in the application development. Would I chose Linux again? Yes I would but this time with a seeing eye from the start.
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11.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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AmiZilla Website gets a major update
The Amizilla site has been updated.
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11.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Sound card: New delfina.library beta version
The new version of the delfina.library now supports the sound card on the clockport of the Highway USB card by E3B. Unfortunately, the clockport of the Highway card is not 100% identical with the clockport of the A1200 motherboard, so proper function is not ensured in all cases. Please report any problems.
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10.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #039
The scene group Liquid Skies published their 39th music package of their series. For this time it contains a Goa/Acid-Stil Tune called
"Goo:Astral" from the musician Ritzu. The cover was styled by Subass (an ex-member of the scenegroup Vortex)
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10.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: SCO shows first proofs
The board of directors of the Linux-group e.V. has agreed to accept the leaving of the SCO-group until the
30th June 2003." We regret the deciding of the SCO-group to work against Linux and free software", so LIVE boss Thomas
Uhl. So SCO showed first proofs to special analysts.«
Please read the complete article at the title link.
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10.Jun.2003
DCE Computer (Website)
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DCE: producing of Pegasos 1 GHz G4 CPU-cards started
You can find a photo of the modul under the title link.
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10.Jun.2003
amiga.org
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Pegasos-Review of Magnetic Systems
Here you will find a review from 'magnetic' about the PPC computer Pegasos.
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10.Jun.2003
apple (not the company) (ANF)
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Portable Amigapad ;-)
amiga-webpad. The webpad runs ca. 7 hours an is controlled by a pencil. UAE runs with sufficient
speed. The way to the Internet is open with a Wireless LAN-Card.
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10.Jun.2003
SAMBA (Website)
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Net: Samba Version 3.0 Beta 1
You can read things that have been changed
here.
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10.Jun.2003
Egon Münch (E-Mail)
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Mexikon: Cactus-encyclopedia in HTML-Format Version 3.1.19
It contains maps of Mexico and photos of over 650 arts of cactuses.
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10.Jun.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)
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PairsNG: New demo-version published
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09.Jun.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 09.06.2003
Aminet Uploads which were added since our last report:
P61DevBas.lha dev/basic 31K+Using Player61 library from HBasic
Feelin030513.lha dev/gui 424K+20030513 New, Powerful and Impressive OO
WormWars.lha game/misc 587K+Worm Wars 7.5: Advanced snake game
AmiChess.lha game/think 2.0M+Chess based on GNUChess 5.05/06
PairsNG_Demo.lha game/wb 2.0M+Great board game for CGFX/P96, AHI Sound
ImageConvert.lha gfx/conv 35K+ImageConvert 2.1, batch converting with
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
PoseidonMain.lha hard/drivr 373K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.1b
PoseidonMOS.lha hard/drivr 476K+Poseidon USB for Pegasos Update 2.1b
maguila.lha misc/emu 23M+MAGUILA GUI for MorphOS MAME
Viejas-del-Sot.mpg mods/mpg 10M+Dieziseven new song
won-zoo1.jpg pix/fauna 148K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo2.jpg pix/fauna 151K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo3.jpg pix/fauna 83K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo4.jpg pix/fauna 147K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo5.jpg pix/fauna 145K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
Pixload-4.0.lha util/rexx 792K+Pixload 4.0 (a tiny "dock" in RXMui)
VirusZ.lha util/virus 92K+VirusZ III 0.9e - Antivirus Software
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09.Jun.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - Additions since 08.06.2003
WHDLoad lets you install floppy based games onto your hard disk. The following additions were made since our last report:
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09.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 12
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 12 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) Bodie: Considering that OS4 has yet to be released, have sales of the AmigaOne thus far largely fallen in line with expectations?
Fleecy: Since an AmigaOne is a combination of the certified Eyetech hardware solution and AmigaOS4, it is hard to make any comments about the sales of the hardware alone. People want to buy an AmigaOne so that they can experience the latest version of their favourite operating system running on new and powerful hardware. Eyetech has sold quite a few units of the hardware but as we have not yet completed the full product and pre launch promotion has only just started, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour events, we don't really have any sales expectations for this stage. From our standpoint, this final stage is all about raising the levels of excitement and exposure, building towards the launch stage.
2) Pods: Have you considered Envoy over SMB for network support? What were the pros and cons? What other tools have you considered.
Fleecy: SMB is technically quite a let-down in terms of robustness, reliability, performance and general architecture. But it's the only game in town when you want to do printer and file sharing across a heterogeneous network (that is, while it works; printer sharing is at best a black art of sorts). If you don't mind that it can take anything between 5 minutes and three days for changes in the network topology propagate through the SMB server/client chain, that it occasionally refuses to work without any apparent reason and that the Amiga SMB support is nowhere near as polished as it ought to be. Envoy is the best integrated peer to peer file, printer and resource sharing system for the Amiga. However, it is being owned by a third party and would need further polishing to integrate it into the operating system (the user interface needs a brush-up). The downside to Envoy is that it's Amiga-only.
3) alx: Is there any more news on the BlizzardPPC version of OS4?
Fleecy: Our partner, Hyperion Entertainment has asked for feedback numbers in order to judge the demand for a BlizzardPPC version. The issue is that we have to move the the platform forwards and so we do not want people to think that a BlizzardPPC is a viable long term solution for the AmigaOS platform. In the short term we will support the CSPPC (even though its hardware implementation leaves a lot to be desired) and most likely the BlizzardPPC (even though it is a few orders of magnitude harder to support than the CSPPC) but this will only be in order to allow owners of these products to test out the new OS and see where we are going with it.
In addition, performance on these accelerator driven products will be a far cry for what can be experienced on the new Amiga certified hardware.
4) MetalJoe: What are the requirements/costs for Amiga certification of hardware i.e. to run AmigaOS 4 on a new PowerPC motherboard developed by a start-up?
Fleecy: The requirements are simple. Provide a piece of hardware on which AmigaOS4 can potentially run, arrange for it to run on the hardware so that it can pass our certification test suite and convince us that there is a viable commercial market for AmigaOS4 on that piece of hardware. We have been approached in the past by people requesting this information but they have only been interested in small numbers of boards, which makes no commercial sense (unless those third parties want to pay huge premiums per individual board).
5) ssolie: There are some rather vocal members of the Amiga online community who do not trust anything you say and consider you to be a liar. How do you feel about this kind of public criticism and how it may reflect on Amiga Inc. as a whole?
Fleecy: I have four kids, one of whom will be a proper teenager soon so I am used to being detested, insulted and called a liar by those with their own agendas, those who lack all the facts and those who just enjoy the pseudo celebrity status that goes with making lots of noise.
Public criticism comes with the role of having a public presence. Commercial activity is for adults and in the adult world, things don't always go according to plan, nor in the way that you want or even expect. We have had a very rough last three years and I certainly wouldn't say that we haven't made any mistakes. What is important is that we have held firm, worked with our partners and have kept going. AmigaOnes are now shipping, the AmigaOS4.0 is getting closer and closer to production release, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour programme now under way. That is the only way you can answer criticism, by delivering.
6) DaveP: I have been reading a lot of speculative and unsubstantive articles on Moobunny and ANN about the precense of the Articia S bug - or rather the one that the April 1 chip tried to fix. People posting checksums as evidence that it is the Articia S at fault. Can you give us a definitive, in depth explanation as of the situation right now with A1, Articia S and the relevance of these articles if any?
Fleecy: We have spent a lot of time looking at these claims, along with Eyetech, Hyperion, Mai and now Via as well. We have no evidence of the Articia S being responsible for any of the issues claimed. There are well known and documented issues with the Southbridge chip and where it has been used in other systems, those integrators have addressed those using hardware and/or software solutions. Indeed some of the reported issues seem to be because of incomplete implementations or failure to understand the capabilities of the hardware within the specific operating systems on which the problems have been reported.
The 200 MB chunk IDE DMA capability is well known and has not yet been addressed within the Linux PPC driver.
For AmigaOS, which is of course our chief concern, this is not a problem at all. When looking for a future hardware model, we were concerned about the coarse granularity of the PCI model and in particular the way a single process could take control of the bus. For a platform such as the Amiga, which prides itself on total system responsiveness, this is unacceptable and we had intended to implement these services in a chunk based solution anyway, in preparation for the consideration of other packet based bus architectures that would allow us to deliver our quality based solution for the future.
7) GregS: I had read that OS4 will have filesystem room for User and Group IDs, besides the filename is there another space that could be used for a Universal Unique File ID?
Fleecy: The user and group IDs have been in there for quite a while (1992?), it's just that besides Envoy hardly any software package would use them. As for universal unique file identifiers, there isn't an API to create or manage these with, and file system implementations, such as FFS, may not even have room for these in the first place. The 32 bit 'key' numbers associated with each directory entry are a poor substitute.
8) donV: Do you know of any plans for adding complete Java J2SE support for AmigaOS? What about complete Java J2ME support for AmigaDE?
Fleecy: Once the AmigaDE is added to the AmigaOS then J2ME functionality will be available. Further Java capabilities are on our 'to do' list but this is a large list and a lot of those items are likely to take precedence over Java.
9) defrisselle: Since you are located in the UK, will you be organizing a stop on the OS4 tour or have to talked to UK resellers/retailers about setting up a stop on the tour?
Fleecy: The 'AmigaOS4 on Tour' programme is not an Amiga Inc event, although it has our support. It has been organised by Jurgen Schober of Point Design and other dealers as a taster and promotional event for those dealers, using a demonstration of the new AmigaOS4.0 as a draw. Jurgen is the point man for this and will be driving to each dealership each weekend to demonstrate AmigaOS4.0 on a set of machines. I don't believe he was contacted by a UK dealer.
My time is taken up with finalising the pre launch, launch and post launch global marketing campaign for AmigaOS4.0.
10) ikir: OS4 contributions drawer will it contain an office suite (like Star Office, Open Office...)?
Fleecy: The AmigaOS4.0 contributions drawer is for third parties, both commercial and free/shareware who want to distribute versions of their applications to AmigaOS4.0 purchasers. Anyone wishing to take advantage of this can contact me directly. I am not aware of an currently being developed office suite existing for the Amiga, even in a 68K version so I don't believe there will be one.
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09.Jun.2003
clickBOOM (Website)
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clickBOOM: S-Files 23 - History auction
The Canadian game publisher clickBOOM is back. clickBOOM released a new edition of the S-files, a regularly published report about the current status of the company. clickBOOM has moved and has also new phone number. In the course of this move clickBOOM will auction an Amiga 4000/PPC wich was used for the creation of some of the most well known Amiga games ever. The device will be signed by the team members. The auction can be found here.
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09.Jun.2003
Boing Attitude (Website)
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Boing Attitude: Photos of AmigaOne XE G4/800
The French online magazine Boing Attitude published some photos of an AmigaOne XE G4/800 which they got in April. These photos depict the mainboard as well as parts of the tower and the running Linux boot systems.
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09.Jun.2003
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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New Midi-Sequencer "Horny" by Inutilis Software
Horny will be a Midi Sequencer in the style of "Logic" or
"Cubase", whose simple and uncomplicated operation is the center of
attention. Differently than its models Horny is to remain however a
pure Midi program and can not record audio traces.
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