02.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #038
Since yesterday a new music package with a tune by Tripper is available on the homepage of the group.
Details:
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02.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)
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C.A.P.S. Update
C.A.P.S. is dedecated to the rescue of classic Amiga games.
Current update:
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02.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: New products and new cooperations
New product: Kickflash OS4
Kickflash was announced several years ago, but never released due to licensing problems. With the planning of the new PPC native OS4 for all Amiga computers with PPC CPU, Hyperion and individual Computers started a cooperation more than a year ago (May 2002). The result of this cooperation is "Kickflash OS4", a highly optimized flashrom card for the Zorro slot of classic Amigas. It reduces boot time of OS4 significantly, and comes at a very low price: 29,- EUR. Up-to-date flashrom chips allow up to 100.000 re-programming cycles. Kickflash OS4 will be available to betatesters this summer. Mass production will start in time for the release of OS4, so people will have the choice between tailormade solutions by all cooperation partners (also see ALGOR/ROMulus by E3B).
New product: RR-Net
Especially for the Retro Replay and the C-One there will a networking card for the C64 before the end of this summer. Together with Adam Dunkels, the author of the web-enabled Contiki operating system, the first drivers for this 10MBit-card have been made. Contiki even has web-server functions that can be seen on the Internet: The server http://www.tfe.c64.org is running on a stock C64 with a similar networking card! RR-Net will be available in August 2003 for 50,- EUR.
Transparent C64 cartridge cases
Due to the high demand, cases for the nearly sold-out Retro Replay will be available from June 24th, 2003 on. If there's enough demand, we might also produce other colours in addition to the transparent ones. To find out what colours that could be, the hacker-group Cyberpunx has setup a Voting-page. The price per case will be 4,- EUR, no matter what colour you choose.
Lyra back in stock
The Lyra keyboard adapter that allows using a PC keyboard on Amiga computers will be back in stock on June 24th. We apologize for the shipment delays - we were not prepared for the high demand of this product. A big thank-you goes out to our customers who were obviously so satisfied with their Lyra adapter that they recommended it to all their friends.
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02.Jun.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Online-Magazine: NoCover #111
Issue no. 111 of NoCover is now available and can be found at the title link.
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02.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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New AmiZilla Marketing Campaign Launched
A new AmiZilla marketing campaign has been launched. Companies and websites
that link to and promote the Dream of Netscape/Mozilla on Amiga get listed
and promoted. Top Zilla Marketers are the ones that promoted AmiZilla first
or come up with a very creative and interesting banner or animation for the
project.
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02.Jun.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Shipment of ALGOR will start on Monday
The distribution of the new Zorro II USB controller ALGOR by E3B to
the dealers begins on today's Monday.
Additional information about the product and possible bundles and goodies can be found at the title link.
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02.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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DiaCD Update
Carsten Siegner released an update for DiaCD. Details about changes an improvements is to be found at the title link.
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02.Jun.2003
Hakan Parting (E-Mail)
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AmiComSys 2.4 and HL-Plugin 1.2 released
Hakan Parting released updates for his programs AmiComSys and HL-Plugin. The following changes were made:
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01.Jun.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030531
Brad Webb has published the Amiga Update for May 2003. Once a month Webb
summarises all important news on the theme of Amiga in his newsletter. Read the
current Amiga Update by way of E-Mail subscription or delayed under the title
link and therein the following themes:
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01.Jun.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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Issue 5 (June) of Amiga Inc.'s Club Amiga Magazine published
Issue 5 (June) of the monthly Amiga Club Magazine has been published today for
registered members. It contains a.o.t. a new status report on OS 4.0, an interview
with Zeoneo and much more.
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01.Jun.2003
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Obituary: Jay Glenn Miner (31st May 1932 - 20th June 1994)
This Saturday 71 years ago, on the 31st May 1932, Jay Glenn Miner was
born. Miner is regarded as one of the most prominent chip designers in the world
and as the father of the Amiga.
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01.Jun.2003
ANN / San Francisco Business Times (Website)
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3DO face bankruptcy
According to reports of the San Francisco Business Times, American video game
and hardware developers 3DO have filed for insolvency.
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01.Jun.2003
Mark Tierno (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #71
The 71st and officially last issue of the Amiga online magazine 'Amiga
Information Online (AIO)' has been published. This issue contains a.o.t.
the following articles:
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01.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Start menu: Pixload Final Version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS released
Today the final Version 4 of the start menu Pixload has been released for AmigaOS
and MophOS. This is the final features list:
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01.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Interview with AmiStart developer Darius Brewka
The online magazine AmigaWorld has published an interview with Darius Brewka,
the programmer of AmiStart.
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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Event: Computer Art Festival 2003 in Russia
The Computer Art Festival 2003 (CAFe 2003) will take for the fourth time on 23rd
and 24th August 2003 in Kazan, Russia.
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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Spanish and Russian documentation for FroggerNG
Spanish and Russian documentation for the shareware video player FroggerNG
has been provided which is available for download under the title link.
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31.May.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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E3B and Hyperion: ALGOR / ROMulus flash ROM supported by AmigaOS 4
E3B and Hyperion are pleased to be able to announce the deep cooperation of both companies regarding the ALGOR and ROMulus. The for the time being by Hyperion developed AmigaOS 4.0 will be able to use the flash ROMs available on the ALGOR and ROMULUS without any problem.
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31.May.2003
AUGS - Amiga User Group Switzerland (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.0 tour in Basel with good PR
The announcement of the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation in Basel finds a wide spreading in Switzerland through the headline on PC-Tip and the portal of Sunrise.
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31.May.2003
The Legacy (website)
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The Legacy: Do you have self painted games sketchesor maps?
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad
CPC that provides the readers with screenshots, covers scans and information about the developers. Today the museum is looking for people who still have their with attention to detail painted maps for Dungeon Master and games like that lying around.
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31.May.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Temporary injunction against SCO
The Linux specialist univention from Bremen (Germany) has obtained a temporary injunction at the Landgericht
Bremen against the SCO Group GmbH. This injunction forbids SCO to claim "that Linux operating systems contain illegally gained intellectual property of SCO Unix and/or that end users who use Linux can be made liable for the involved violation of copyrights". If acting against this an infringement payment up to 250,000 Euro is possible. This injunction is only valid for the German SCO Group GmbH not world wide.
Read the full (German) Golem article following the title link.
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31.May.2003
A/NES (website)
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Emulator: A/NES CGFX version 1.33 in the works
Version 1.33 of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES CGFX for
Amiga computers with graphics cards is being worked on. Here the original message:
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31.May.2003
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Aminet uploads until 31.05.2003
Here are the Aminet uploads added since our last report:
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31.May.2003
edition W3C.de
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German translation of the XFrames Working Draft
Already in the middle of May had a German translation of the conceptual drafts for the new XFrames on the website of Michael Jendryschik been made available under the title link.
The English original of the Working Draft can be found on the website of the W3C. XFrames is an XML application with the aim to assemble several documents to replace in the long run the HTML frames. A future support through all available webbrowsers recommended by the W3C.
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31.May.2003
Amiga Rulez
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Website for MorphED set up
For MorphED, a free text editor and gcc developers environment by Dietmar Eilert for the operating system MorphOS, had an own website been set up under the title link. There you can find next to some information several provisional screenshots that show the optical relationship between MorphED and GoldED Studio AIX.
Under http://morphed.morphos.net/
exists a mirror of the website.
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31.May.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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BenderIRC 1.5 RC 1 available
BenderIRC, the free IRC client, is nearing the final version 1.5. In the last days has the client got several updates.
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31.May.2003
DOpus-ML (email)
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New DirOpus 4 beta version available
The new beta version 4.17 pre 21 of the file manager Directory Opus 4 is available under the title link. Direct download: DOpus417pre21.lzx.
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30.May.2003
Gunnar 'GunaTM' Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22 R7 published
Version 0.8.22 release 7 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' written by Toni Wilen
for Windows has been published. This version contains the following bug fixes and new
features:
more ...
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30.May.2003
Amiga Club Augsburg (ANF)
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OS4.0 on Tour - News
Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik wrote:
"With an opinion poll we would like
to get an overview about the amount of people who might will come. If there are any
signs that more visitors will come than we expect now there is the possibility open
the event on Sunday, too. Therefore we would be very grateful if you could help us.
more ...
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30.May.2003
Debian (Website)
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Debian Weekly News: Debian for Pegasos
In its issue 21/2003 the Debian Weekly News which is a newsletter of the Debian
community reports about how Debian works on a Pegasos computer:
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30.May.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets until 31.05.2003 (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games which have been formerly meant only for use with
disks on your hard drive. The following packets have been added or updated:
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30.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (E-Mail)
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Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - further names wanted
Steffen Nitz wrotes:
I need your ideas again. This time I am looking for positive messages of the workers
like:
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30.May.2003
derstandard.at (ANF)
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Mention of Amizilla on Standard
During the last time good news have been a really rare thing. But the Austrian
newspaper "Der Standard" reports sometimes about our system.
The online article reports about the project "Amizilla" which tries to make possible
the porting of the Mozilla browser to the Amiga.
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29.May.2003
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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USB Stack: Poseidon Update V2.1
There's a new update of the Poseidon USB Stack. It consists mainly of improvements and bugfixes of the Mass Storage Class, for Highway as well as Subway drivers. Through this a whole lot more pieces of equipment should run, which had formerly balked.
Newly come is a program for USB-Radios from D-Link, respectively GemTek. One can purchase these very cheaply on eBay, because it was put together in a friendly manner it was just a few hours work to create the drivers.
A bit more was invested in the new program for the management of my MP3 Player (Valencia MPX), which was available for purchase at Lidl in December 2002. This (and many similarly built units) are unfortunately not MSD equipment. With the Uproar tool this MP3 player may nonetheless be conveniently used. In case anyone else has such a gadget, I'd be very appreciative to hear some feedback.
This time there are two separate archives, for classic Amiga as well as MorphOS systems -- this allows simple installation.
That's just an intro, further details may be found in the ReadMe.
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29.May.2003
(ANF)
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Amiga Access Homepage Update
On the homepage of the Amiga-Clone 'Access' (title link) there are now some more benchmarks. The modules may be downloaded and tried on your own computer.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Roger Stamm (ANF)
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ahs-amiga.ch Is Moving
Roger Stamm of AHS-Amiga Handel Stamm writes:
"AHS-Amiga is moving. Because of this it may happen that the pages at
www.ahs.amiga.ch are not readily available. If you want to get in touch with us, use email: info@ahs-amiga.ch.
We will send a confirmation within two days for the receipt of the email. If you don't get confirmation, you can also reach us at
rstamm@gmx.de.
Many thanks for your understanding."
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29.May.2003
Telemar Rosenberger (E-Mail)
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Amiforce: Snapshots of Aquarium and Port Royal
Telemar Rosenberger, known to many for his software "AmHuhn," has authored a screen saver
named "Aquarium" and a game named "Port Royal," with the help of the multimedia authoring system
Hollywood. Under the title link you'll find the first screenshots
for both of these programs. The programs will be published as soon as the
announced Hollywood
Version 1.5 is out.
The deal with Aquarium is that it's a screen saver with images of swimming fish, already known from other
platforms. Now AmigaOS too gets the enjoyment of this pleasing screen saver.
Port Royal is a new combat game, which is about ships firing cannons. With this one may, for example, calculate wind
direction in directing a strike, and naturally the enemy ships shoot back.
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29.May.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: New Audio Track
As of now there is a new MP3 (Trance) to be downloaded from Amiforce, for all interested.
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28.May.2003
Dennis Pauler (ANF)
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Star Empire II: Last possibility to join
Tomorrow, Thursday, a new round of the email based space strategy game
Star Empire II will start. The aim of the game is to become the leader of the universe
but there are 32 human beings trying to do this and several computer controled pirates.
Diplomaty, alliances, but also armed space crafts are strongly indicated to fulfill this.
more ...
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28.May.2003
pcgames.de (ANF)
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PC Games: Munich decides for Linux
»The Munich city council has decided today that in future on all 14,00 PCs and notebooks of the city Linux software will
be used instead of Microsoft programs.
The council followed with this decission a claim of the 1st municipal
Christian Ude. The migration to the open source operating system should be done steadily during the next years. Initially the public offices
which use mostly office applications should be changed to the new software.
The costs of this change including teaching courses are guessed to nearly 30 million Euros«.
Read the full article (German) by the title link.
Further links regarding this topic:
Golem: München pro Linux: Stadtrat lässt Microsoft abblitzen
heise: IBM: Münchener Entscheidung ein "Ritterschlag für Linux"
heise: CSU kritisiert Münchener Entscheidung als "Software-Abenteuer"
SPIEGEL: MÜNCHEN WÄHLT LINUX SuSE beißt Bill
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28.May.2003
Lorraine Design (Website)
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New YAM toolbar icons
At Lorraine-Design there are new icons for the YAM toolbar available for download.
Here is a preview.
Download: NewYam.LHA
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28.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - lookong for further names
Steffen Nitz writes: "'Die Kleine Gilde' version 0.25 will be released within the next
4 - 5 days and I ask for the following: Actually I am binding the new profession smith to the game and need
20 to 30 house names regarding the smith profession. I am looking for names like "Heavy Hammer", "Hot Iron" etc. There is a keyfile to win for
'Die Kleine Gilde' or for `SN-Münzarchiv'".
Update:
Steffen Nitz has published this
screen shot from the game. Under the title link you will find some others.
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28.May.2003
Marc Albrecht (E-Mail)
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amiga-news.de: Comuter center maintenance
Tomorrow night (i.e. from Thursday to Friday) there will be some hardware compounds changed at that comuter center which hoste amiga-news.de
therefore between 23:00 and 03:00 that night it might be that the pages are unreachable.
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28.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Preview from PairsNG and an own domain
The one or other user might remember the game "Pairs" which was released in 1996 for the first time
in version 1.0 by Tobias Lenz. Seven years later Christoph Kimna is working with "PairsNG" on more than a
honorable successor. The preview reports about Olaf Köbniks first impressions of "PairsNG" and with the
screen shots you can see yourself that there will be a real classic one soon, which won't release you too easy.
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28.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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Official release of YAM v2.4p1
The email client YAM (Yet Another Mailer) has been released by the YAM open source
team to be publicly downloadable. Read with the following the list of the new
features:
more ...
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28.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Dia-CD (Vacation pictures burned as VideoCD)
Today Carsten Siegner finished his project "Dia-CD"
(at his home page at "rexx"). With this program you can watch your pictures from the vacation easily utilizing a TV and a DVD player.
The program creates automatically a slide show and compiles a VCD-Image by demand.
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28.May.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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Game: Payback for GBA - Status report #7
On May the 27th 2003 James Daniels by Apex Designs released the seventh
status report about the port of the game 'Payback' to the Gameboy
Advance.
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27.May.2003
KDH News (ANF)
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AmigaOne: German mailing list
A German-speaking mailing list for AmigaOne-customers was built up today. This mailing list should help AmigaOne-customers
to communicate with other customers in the German-speaking scope (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), also it should be a authority for tips and tricks
because of the AmigaOne.
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27.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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YAM Newsletter 12 - visits in the YAM future
The YAMOS team, developer of the e-mail client YAM (Yet Another Mailer), have been published the YAM newsletter No. 12 today.
There they related to the new features of YAM-Release 2.4p1 which explains
hidden options "AutoColumnResize" of this version and visited to the future of YAM. Read the complete English-speaking newsletter under the
title link.
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Call to Logo competition
The face of AROS in this way. So a logo competition is organized, that is open for designer and graphic artists.
After the delivery date there are public selections, at its end a winner is announced.
more ...
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Status Report May 2003
Another whole month has gone by, which means that it's definitely time for another status update. Doh, why do have all the status updates to begin like that? :) I'd like to thank all the people who showed interest in AROS in the last months, and there have been a lot! Anyway, let's not wait longer, here are the juicy bits, in this relatively uneventful month...
Hardware
Johan Grip received the Pegasos board at the end of April, installed Debian GNU/Linux on it, and started working on the hosted AROS port. However he was no longer able to continue for personal reasons, so he sent the board to Michal Schulz, another talented hardware hacker.
In the meantime, Michal, who already had a PPC PReP board, worked on the native PPC port. He merged his sources in the AROS CVS tree, creating the new 'arch/ppc' directory. To this day, he went as far as implementing task handling and scheduling. Congratulations Michal! Sources as well as a PReP boot image can be found at http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~misc/AROS.ppc.tar.bz2
Michal is also reworking exec.library to make it hardware/platform-independent, by moving dependent stuff in resources like kernel.resource, OpenFirmware.resource...
Build system
No fundamental changes to this sometimes hated system, but lots and lots of little bug fixes and improvements by almost every active AROS Team member in tools, config files, makefiles... So much activity caused quite a few broken nightly builds, but it seems now stabilized.
Also the newer gcc 3.3 that got installed on the build machine led to some problems, but nothing that couldn't be handled.
We now use bzip2 instead of gzip, and a custom, simpler package format than tar to create the AROS floppy and squeeze every possible byte. In the quest to more space, some less useful programs were removed from floppy. Thanks to Adam Chodorowski for the cleanup and optimizations!
i386-pc Installation
The installer for the i386 native port, install-i386-pc, is currently broken, but a graphical bootsector installer is in work, as well as a bootmenu editor, courtesy of Sebastian Heutling, who also still works on the HDToolBox partition editor.
User Interface
Adam Chodorowski began to work on the Zune custom class PreferencesWindow.mcc which implements the AROS standard prefs window buttons and look.
Paul Smith continued his huge work on the next iteration of Wanderer and the underlying desktop.library. It draws icons, and different views are possible (large icons, small icons, details).
Fabio Alemagna added horizontal and vertical color gradients to Zune images. Take a look at the obligatory screenshot!
By default, the Boot Shell is now closed after Wanderer is started. To open a new shell, use the Wanderer/Shell menu item, or use Amiga-W shortcut (Amiga key is the right Win key on pc105 keyboards)
Localizations
Thanks to Olivier Adam for his French translation of dos.library catalog, and to Paulo Silva for the Portuguese keyboard description (which Georg Steger implemented).
Miscellaneous
Some miscellaneous things that have happened:
- Staf Verhaegen continued to work on diskfont.library.
- Stefan Berger worked hard on ports of gtlayout.library and term 4.7, which can be found in contrib.
- Adam Chodorowski imported AHI 5.8 in AROS CVS, following Martin Blom's release of the AROS port.
- Georg Steger worked on the unix hosted kernel to allow nesting supervisor, so that signals occuring during a signal handler execution are not ignored. It should improve the stability of the serial device.
- and of course, lots of fixes here and there by many developers: for a rough idea, already more than 350 CVS commits this month (although we won't beat the record of 890 last month, according to the AROS-CVS mailing list archive).
Documentation
AROS documentation, in source and HTML-rendered form, is now available on the download page.
Web
Randy Vice set up an AROS support site, TeamAROS, at http://thenostromo.com/teamaros/.
Be sure to check their bounty program if you want to sponsor AROS development.
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