17.May.2003
Stefan Blixth (email)
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New and updated software by OnyxSoft
The Swedish shareware developers group OnyxSoft has released two new tools and updated some tools.
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17.May.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (email)
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Anti virus boot disks in updated versions
The anti virus boot disks created by the Virus Help Teams Canada for VirusZ-II, VirusZ-III,
VirusExecutor and VirusChecker-II, all needing the new xvs.library, have been updated and are available for free download.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Memory card reader for IDE / Standalone media player
At Hama I discovered today a memory card reader/writer for the IDE port. This one needs no additional software to run. It's just treated as a hard disk and it's much cheaper than the reader PCD47 for SCSI-II. The device costs 69,99 Euro.
more ...
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17.May.2003
morphos-news.de
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CeBIT Australia 2003: Show report and images
Following the title link you'll find an exhibition report about the CeBIT Australia 2003
by Kathryn Hunter and Scott Pringle from Boing! International 2003.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Diverse
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Software News (17.05.2003)
Network: Samba version 3.0alpha24
The Samba team has released version 3.0alpha24 on May, 14th 2003. The full list of changes can be read here.
more ...
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17.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Elena Novaretti (ZoneXplorer)
A few weeks ago released the 30 years old Italian Elena Novaretti
for the first time the tool "ZoneXplorer" for AmigaOS (68k) and MorphOS (PPC).
"ZoneXplorer" is a useful tool to create and search fractals that certainly is unique on the Amiga.
more ...
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17.May.2003
Alex-Zop (email)
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AtheneOS by Rocklyte: AthenYX
The alternative operating system Athene by Rocklyte Systems has been released as standalone OS. It's called AthenYX and it is related to AmigaOS among other things as it comes, if desired, with a graphical user interface (GUI) that bases on Amiga Workbench 3.0: the OmegaWorkbench.
Athene is an operating system that allows the user to create an own GUI where it is possible to emulate almost every existing GUI system. Athene supports draggable screens, assigns and there's an approach for a file manager in the way of Diskmaster/DOpus.
Athene itself is easy to port (embedded systems, games consoles, PCs), object oriented and comes among other things with several scripting languages.
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17.May.2003
Treveur BRETAUDIERE (E-Mail)
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Pegasos España website
Just a short notice to tell you about the Pegasos España website that's
out here. It's a
website towards Pegasos, Linux and MorphOS aimed at helping Spanish
users. It also has some English section. Forums will be online as soon
as possible.
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17.May.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)
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heise: Microsoft fights against Linux with special fund
To keep the shares of the market of the OS Windows against alternative operating systems upright Microsoft now offers big price reductions for big clients. The loss is compensated via an internal fund.
Further details can be read in the (German) heise article following the title link.
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17.May.2003
(ANF)
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PegasosPPC.com relaunch
The website on all aspects of the PowerPC 'Pegasos' has been completely redesigned and aquires now new splendour.
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16.May.2003
Cloanto (Website)
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Amiga Forever v5.2 is now shipping
Amiga Forever 5.2 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM,
CD-ROM Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform
Online Edition.
more ...
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16.May.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Voting May/June 2003
The maintainer of the Amiga Games Hit Parade asks you to vote for the Game of May/June
2003. You can take part in this voting by sending maximum 20 titles of your favourite
games to David "Daff" Brunet or by visiting
the website http://hitparade.amigames.com.
more ...
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16.May.2003
Boing! International (Website)
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USB: HCD-Update for Thylacine
Thylacine is a Zorro-2 based USB adapter for connecting USB devices to the Amiga.
On 14th May 2003 a new version of the HCD class for Thylacine was published.
You can inform yourself about the available USB controllers for the Amiga on the next
issue of the Amigaplus 05/2003.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.May.2003
Diverse
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Inventory of Amiga, Inc. for public sale - AI denies
On the webiste of the auctioneer James G. Murphy Co.
there are besides Amiga logo further information about the public sale of inventory
from old offices of Amiga, Inc. in Snoqualmie.
more ...
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15.May.2003
Thomas Würgler (E-Mail)
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Pagan Games Puts New AmigaAnywhere Game in Planning
Thomas Würgler of Pagan Games writes:
As some of you have probably noticed, the Amiga Game Pack #2 has now been
released into retail stores - name CompUSA. Obviously this is a big step
towards true financial viability of Amiga Anywhere projects, which again
helps fund AmigaOS projects.
more ...
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15.May.2003
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RIAA Withdraws Warning to amiga-scene.org
The RIAA had to withdraw their warnings to Internet sites.
In numerous instances the US-American music industry corporate group RIAA (Recording Industry Association of
America) had sent warnings against administrators of Web and FTP servers who offered MP3 data on their systems. Along with
that these administrators were notified through targetless RIAA scans of their servers who of their users made free music available.
The Demo Scene server amigascene.org was hit by this step, and was excused in a form letter that said they had offered "about 0
Music data for download." After this action became known, the RIAA now has withdrawn the warnings to falsely hit Internet sites.
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15.May.2003
Rage Hard (Website)
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Rage Hard Website with New Information
The official website of the 3D Ego Shooter Rage Hard, which is also offered for MorphOS, has been moved and expanded. In the download area
a few wallpapers are now to be found, in various resolutions. Likewise, new backgrounds as well as related new models have been placed in
the Home, Characters, and Concepts areas.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
CD32-Allianz (Website)
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CD32 Outside Shelved
After five issues the publication of the digital magazine CD32 Outside has been suspended. This decision was made in order to free up the resources of the team for more important stuff. Unfortunately there just wasn't enough time to create, publish, and do advertising and marketing for further issues.
[In the following long German text, chief editor Thorsten Schölzel offers thanks from the CD32 team to a lot of people. He talks about webdesign, some games, and Commodore politics which no-one understands. He invites readers to www.cd32-allianz.de, and says emails are welcome. -DM]
Das Team von CD32 Outside möchte sich bei allen Personen bedanken,
die ihm bei der Erstellung der CD³²Outside geholfen und mit
Material und Informationen versorgt haben. Besonders hervorheben
muss man sicherlich Werner Bittl und Henning Schlautmann.
Nun können Sie sich das geplante Editorial der 6. Ausgabe durchlesen:
"Endlich haben wir es geschafft, denn mit dieser Ausgabe der CD32Outside erscheinen wir in einem neuen Format und neuem Design. Bei uns ist Fortschritt angesagt, wir machen uns frei von Altlasten, leider auf Kosten der User von den Browsern; Aweb, IBrowse und Voyager, die allesamt nicht das im Internet weit verbreitete und für professionelles Design unabdingbaren "CSS" Cascading Style Sheets unterstützt.
Für diese User wird es in Zukunft heissen, bei den Herstellern der Browser um eine Unterstützung von CSS zu beten oder Browser wie; Internet Explorer, Netscape oder Opera über eine Emulation bzw. andere Betriebssysteme zu nutzen.
In dieser Ausgabe widmen wir uns einem Gedankenanstoss von Christian Effenberger zur Weiterentwicklung des damals von Commodore eingeführten CDXL-Format. Dabei erklärt er ausführlich was und wie geändert bzw. neu entwickelt werden muss. Seit 1996 ruft Herr Effenberger dazu auf, ihm bei der Entwicklung zu helfen, seither aber null Resonanz. Explizit wird nach einem Programmierer gesucht, der Erfahrung in C/C++ und ASM vorweisen kann und sich zusätzlich mit IO-Streams auskennt.
Bei Interesse kontaktiert uns, wir leiten dann alles an Herrn Effenberger weiter.
Neben Microcosm das DAS Spiel auf dem CD32 ist, gibt es noch weitere Spitzengames auf unserer Daddelkiste, eines davon ist Rise of the Robots. Wer hätte damals geglaubt das es wirklich für unser CD32 erscheinen würde, bei der voll animierten Spitzengrafik. Heuzutage würde man diekt sagen, das sich sowas nicht umsetzen liesse. Rise of the Robots kann man mit dem vor einigen Jahren für AMIGA Computer erschienene Spiel Olofight vergleichen, allerdings würde Rise of the Robots im direkten Vergleich immer noch um längen die Nase vorn haben. Wir stellen Ihnen dieses geniale Spiel in einem MEGA-Review vor.
Für Tuningfreaks gibt es zwei ganz besondere Leckerbissen, wir stellen Ihnen das Commodore FMV-Modul und den Prototyp des Commodore Gamesystem030 vor. Leider liess die finanzielle Situation von Commodore keine grössere Produktion des FMV(FullMotionVideo)-Moduls zu uns so wurden nach den uns vorligenden Informationen nur 1000 Stück produziert, wer also eins besitzt, kann wahrlich stolz darauf sein. DCE Computer wollte vor Jahren das FMV-Modul neu auflegen, allerdings gab es Probleme mit dem FlashROM. Der Ton wurde nach einiger Zeit nicht mehr synchron mit dem Video abgespielt, somit blieb es bei Prototypen. Ich konnte mich damals selber von der Existenz dieser Prototypen überzeugen, ein selbiges sogar als Andenken mit nach Hause nehmen. Ein Bild von der Platine findet Ihr in dem Bericht zu dem FMV-Modul. Desweiteren wurden mir jede Menge unbestückte Spellbound(CD32)- und FMV-Modul Motherboards gezeigt. Zum Gamesystem030 bleibt zu sagen, warum Commodore nicht diekt auf diesen Prozessor oder gar auf den Motorola 68040 gesetzt hat, bleibt bis heute ungeklärt. Was uns bleibt sind mutmassungen, z.B. das Commodore durch den Bau des AMIGA1200 noch eine reichhaltige Anzahl von Motorola 68020 Prozessoren auf Lager hatte. Der 68040 Prozessor deshalb nicht genutzt worden ist, weil er zum einen zu teuer gewsesen wäre und man unbedingt bei dem CD32 auf einen günstigen Preis achten wollte, das könnte auch das fehlen wichtiger Teile wie dem RGB-Ausgang deuten und zum anderen weil Commodore nur wenige Prozessoren dieser Sorte besass, die man ausschliesslich für den AMIGA4000-T nutzen wollte. Unser eins wird die Commodore Politik wohl nie verstehen!
Als letztes möchten wir auf unsere neue Internetpräsenz unter www.cd32-allianz.de aufmerksam machen und danken Matthias Münch der dies erst ermöglicht hat. Ich möchte Ihnen nun viel Spass mit der neuen Ausgabe wünschen und würde mich freuen, hin und wieder mal ein paar Leserbriefe von Ihnen zu bekommen.
In diesem Sinne,
Thorsten Schölzel"
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15.May.2003
Arstechnica (ANF)
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Arstechnica: PPC 970 Part II
Under the title link you'll read a report about the PowerPC 970, which is being assembled by an especially Intel-centric CPU specialist. Despite
or because of its length of 11,000 words, this work is a mandatory lecture for PowerPC afficionados.
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15.May.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: SCO Now Wishes to Proceed Against Linux Users
"Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, or at least SCO charges that; in their view Linux infringes on their Unix copyrights. Accordingly
commercial Linux users are going to have to reckon with this, because their use of Linux may be made liable. As a consequence of this
legally unclear situation SCO has ceased their own selling of Linux."
Read the complete article at Golem IT-News under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: 'Layouter' full version
In cooperation and with the okay by Marius Schwarz the Amiga Arena offers a free release of the software "Layouter" for the first time.
With the program "Layouter" it is possible to layout and print your own books and fanzines.
more ...
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14.May.2003
Fabio Trotta (ANF)
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Apple compatible PPC computers by Core
Name CoreCrib and CoreBox the company Core offers
Apple compatible PPC computers. These offer the same technical specs like the current high end Macs but are less expensive.
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14.May.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Event: Amiga Show - Maarssen, The Netherlands on June the 28th 2003
As reported earlier the Dutch Commodore Club HCC hosts an Amiga Show in Maarssen on June the 28th 2003.
more ...
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14.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 14.05.2003
Here the latest Aminet uploads which were added since our last message:
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14.May.2003
VWP Newsletter
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VWP: New Webboard online
After the old webboard was available in German only, now a new one
is online. It supports different languages and can be reached like
the old one: simply by using the "Webboard"-link on the left side
of the page at VirtualWorlds.de.
The only disadvantage of it: formerly registered user have to
register again because their data could not be transferred. But
writing as guest is possible in the new webboard too.
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14.May.2003
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Online Photos of the Mirage 1200-based Amiga
The Elbox Support Website has now photos presenting how the new
Mirage 1200 tower may be used to house a really well-expanded
Amiga 1200-based system (title link).
more ...
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14.May.2003
GetBoinged (ANF)
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GetBoinged Review: Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2
Please find the review about the Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2 under the
title link.
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13.May.2003
Newsletter von Cinemaware (ANF)
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Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown 2 on 3rd quarter 2003
According to the newsletter of Cinemaware DotC2 has nearly finished.
Because of this some new screenshots has put up online (a trailer and further information
are also available). It should first be published for PC and PS2.
Disk images of all older versions (C64, Amiga, Amstrad, PC...) are now
available again.
Here is the original newsletter:
Hey Cinemaware fans!
I know things have been quiet for a while from your ol' pal Amber over
at Cinemaware, but we've just been preparing to take the lid off some
really exciting news!
How exciting, you ask? Well, after months of patient waiting, I can
finally reveal to our fans who will be publishing Robin Hood: Defender
of the Crown. Cinemaware is proud to be partnering with Capcom
Entertainment to bring Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown to living
rooms across everywhere!
I can't tell you all how happy we all are to be working with one of
the premier publishers in the world to bring Defender of the Crown
back to the fans. And I want to give special thanks to you fans out
there who have been waiting for this day -- we couldn't have done
it without your support!
Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown will be launching in North America
in the third quarter of 2003! Head on over to the this news story to
get the full scoop! The exciting news is already starting to hit the
web, though. Check out this story over at GameSpot!
If any of you happen to make it to E3 (the Electronic Entertainment
Expo) this week in Los Angeles, drop by the Capcom booth and say hello!
We'll be showing the game at two kiosks, so come on by and give it a
whirl. If you can't make it to the show, keep an eye on online news,
as there's sure to be a lot of hands-on impressions from the show
floor.
But until then, we've put up a big batch of brand new screens from the
game. Go take a gander at the Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown Product
Page.
Lastly, to celebrate this exciting news, we've once again made disk
images of all version of the original Defender of the Crown available
for download! This includes all versions of the original classic from
Amiga to Amstrad! Head over to the Defender of the Crown vault to get
your hands on 'em!
That's it for this newsletter, but I'll be back soon to update you all
on the exact date for Robin Hood's release!
All the best,
Amber :D
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13.May.2003
Virus Hewlp Denmark (ANF)
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Virus Help: New update of xvs.library
A new update of the "xvs.library' (xvs.library - The eXternal Virus
Scanner Library) has been updated today, and can be found at the
"Virus Help Team's websites". Remember, if you use the antivirus
programs like ec. VirusZ, VirusExecuter, VirusChecker, Mill this
update of XVS is a MUST for you.
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13.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #035
The Amiga music scene group called 'Liquid Skies' has published a new music file again.
This time it consists of a mp3 tune by Psycho. It has a length of 6:07 and was created
with an Amiga.
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13.May.2003
Carles "Doraemon" Bernardez (ANF)
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CatCon 2k3 Photos
Carles Bernardez writes:
Under the title link you can see a small photo album of
the CatCon 2k3. The results and the releases of the
competitons will be released soon on Aminet.
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13.May.2003
Various websites
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Several Software Updates until 13.05.2003
Diverse ports
(incl. Descent2 test version) by Nagy Lajos
New software:
- libpng-1.2.5 (png developer lib)
- SDL_mixer and SDL_gfx (SDL extensions)
- sed-4.0.7 (gg tool)
- unace-1.2 (ace file decruncher)
- htdump (web page downloader)
- flite (text to speech engine)
- toppler (Nebulus alike game)
- 1st Descent2 port to test!
- Digger (port of old DOS game)
Amigan Software
Worm Wars version 7.42 and Saga version 1.25 have been published.
WHDLoad - New packets until 13.05.2003
- 13.05.03 improved: Silkworm (Sales Curve) some fixes
- 12.05.03 new: Microprose Golf (Microprose) done by JOTDx
- 12.05.03 fixed: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) install script corrected
- 10.05.03 new: Mission Elevator (Micropartner) done by Asman
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13.May.2003
Dany Thinnes (ANF)
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Cost control software for not DSL users: TH-Verbindung V1.1
TH-Verbindung version 1.1 is aimed for surfers who don't have a flatrate or do only a little surfing. It is possible to set up different charges for a main and rest time as well as for a log-in charge. Weekends and bank holidays will not be forgotten too.
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12.May.2003
GFX-BASE (Website)
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GFX-BASE: Quake 2 - Amiga version review
Alexandre Balaban describes his impressions of the Amiga version of
Quake 2 in the English-language Review. Starting with the installation
and the hardware requirements he walks through the history of Quake and
his first play, and his personal results finishes the article.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4 beta 1 Preview
In the current beta version 1 of the start menu Pixload 4 were
the following new features added.
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12.May.2003
BBOAH Website
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The Big Book Of Amiga Hardware - Update of 12.05.2003
The 'Big Book Of Amiga hardware' is probably the largest on-line
manual for Amiga hardware. Ian Chapman extended and updated the
documentation in many subranges.
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12.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 12.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
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12.May.2003
morphos-news.de
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CeBIT Australia 2003 Photos
At the title link and at Pegasos.com.au you
find pictures of the CeBIT Australia 2003, which took
place in the second May week in Sydney.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Quantum Leap: Report of the 'Webb.it' with OS4-Screenshots
At the title link an Italian language report of the Italian IT
fair "Webb.it" is to be found, which took place past weekend in
Padova. The Italian AmigaOne Distributor VirtualWorks presented there
an AmigaOne XE as well as OS4-Module (still as 68k Binaries).
more ...
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11.May.2003
Ettensberger Martin (ANF)
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Pictures of new Amiga G4 at AmigaClub Augsburg
Recently the first new AmigaOne G4 computers have arrived at the AmigaClub Augsburg. Photos of yesterday's meeting can be seen under this link
on the homepage.
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11.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Morph-box Version 1.0
Today the final version 1.0 of Carsten Siegner's program "Morph-box" for MorphOS has been released. This is fully functioning with clickable buttons and also includes a prefs editor. Morph-box is a toolbar for MorphOS which is able to launch MorphOS native and 68k programs.
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11.May.2003
x (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 9
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 9 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) ssolie: How does Amiga Inc. plan to limit and control the myriad hardware options. More specifically, if I purchase a "supported" graphics card for AmigaOS 4.0, what will that mean exactly? And what of "unsupported" hardware?
Fleecy: As has already started with the AmigaOne, we will select and certify hardware. This will allow us to drive the AmigaOS in certain directions whilst also ensuring that there are official solutions that dealers, integrators and customers can purchase safe in the knowledge that there will be official drivers for them. The problem with supporting hardware subsystems and peripherals is that the manufacturers only create control software
for the larger markets (Windows, Apple etc) and most are loath to even release their internal datasheets for fear of revealing and losing IP. We thus have to negotiate with these companies and prove to them a market exists (and then usually pay to create the control software).
A good workaround solution can be seen in the SciTech solution that has been licenced. A very broad set of graphics-cards will be usuable with OS 4.0 in 2D thanks to their SNAP technology (over 182 chipsets are now supported and the list keeps growing). 3D support however is quite a different matter. Currently we will support the Voodoo 3/4/5 and the Radeon 8500/9000. We believe this will change when we are able to demonstrate the AG2 3D system however as the OEMs will see that we are deadly serious in being a graphics platform of excellence.
The existing AmigaOne users have created various web resources where they are sharing their experiences of both setting up their machines and the results they are having with various components. I would urge anyone considering the purchase of a board to peruse these sites for the valuable information they contain.
In summary, I would advise customers either to buy from integrators to ensure certified components are used or else wait for the new Amiga Power Platform website to go live and consider the certified hardware list when it is made available. Be made the mistake of trying to support too many different solutions and ended up wasting valuable resources expanding the platform horizontally instead of vertically; we will not make the same mistake.
2) rayt: Will the coupons be delivered before OS4/csppc is finished so that we can get $50 rebate immediately after it is released?
Fleecy: We have had a lot of issues with creating a valid solution for the 'vouchers', mainly in terms of validation and acceptance by dealers. Given that an AmigaOne is a certified piece of hardware that comes with an AmigaOS4.0 OEM CD bundle and that the CSPPC AmigaOS4.0 product is a shrinkwrap, AmigaOS4.0 is the common factor and so we are considering either placing the voucher within the AmigaOS product package itself (perhaps as part of the registration card) or using the unique serial number of each AmigaOS4.0 instance via a web interface. This would also work with those who have purchased multiple rebate products because they have to have an AmiPASS and so we can apply their multiple rebates against a single purchase. The entire scheme will be published before AmigaOS4.0 is released and we will validate the rebate database by emailing everyone to make sure all the details are correct. I urge anyone who believes they have a rebate to check out their AmiPASS account and ensure the details are correct.
3) jono: Do you know if there is any intention to provide/supply any SQL based server or SQL clients that can access existing SQL Servers such as MySQL, Oracle, (dare I say it) M$ SQL Server?
Fleecy: There is at least one third party company already working hard on a full network capable relational database for the AmigaOS4.0. A standard SQL client is a good idea and I will consider that either for AmigaOS4.0 or for a future release.
4) IonMane: From my research, many developers do not seem to understand the potential power of Amiga Anywhere\DE.How do you plan to raise awareness and educate this segment of the industry to DE's REAL potential?
Fleecy: Early on we heavily evangelised the potential of the AmigaDE, got a lot of interest going and had developers signing up in droves. However, the potential failed to turn into reality, largely because the market was not ready for the product. Our mistake was to fail to realise that the OEMs themselves were not ready to take advantage of what we had, either because they had not entered the appropriate markets yet or because the products were too expensive (as in the case of Smartphones) or too underpowered (as in the case of the Palm PDA). The market was still in the first stage of technology, where innovators co-exist with early adopters. It is only in the last six months that the market has become a second stage market, where maturation brings in the big OEMs whose economies of scale can bring the price down and performance up.
Microsoft, as one of the key drivers of these markets realised the potential of the AmigaDE over a year ago but even working with them and their huge marketing muscle, it has taken this long to get AmigaDE derivatives such as Amiga Anywhere to market. Thankfully, the momentum that has built up is now accelerating customer enquiries and we hope to finally be able to deliver to developers on the potental we evangelised. This in itself will raise awareness of both the product and the opportunity but we are also working with these customers to do cross and joint marketing in several arenas, in both trade and consumer channels.
5) ssolie: Since you are not keen on Samba, what kinds of Samba-like solutions (e.g. file & printer sharing) are you proposing?
Fleecy: It's not that I'm not keen on Samba as a concept, just as an implementation, especially as it is difficult to implement well within the Amiga system architecture. There is a SAMBA solution supported by such Amiga notables as Olaf Barthel and Chris Hertel (amongst others) and it will most likely be included in the AmigaOS4.0 contributions drawer.
What AmigaOS4 users obviously want is the ability to network their Amiga to a heterogenous network, most likely one heavily featuring Windows or Linux PCs and then be able to share resources, mostly files, peripherals such as printers and network connections. The more they can use their Amiga, the more it will be used - for example accessing an MP3 collection on their Windows PC; they obviously don't want to copy it to their Amiga and have two copies of it.
Be assured that this is a high priority and that despite our misgivings, we may integrate SAMBA. All I was stating was that it does not currently seem to be a solution that we are happy with.
6) ssolie: AmigaDE and AmigaOS seem completely different yet you say they will slowly be merged together into a hardware agnostic system. What does that mean for the user? Hypothetically, how will I be able to take my copy of PageStream and run it on my cell phone via Bluetooth?
Fleecy: The AmigaDE is a set of technologies for creating content centric derivative products. In particular it is focused on the individual piece of content, specifically in making that piece of content both high performance/low resource and portable across device classes. The AmigaOS is a complete computing platform. In merging them, the AmigaOS will immediately gain from access to that content which can scale to the desktop. However that is at a product level. There will also be a more profound development of the AmigaOS through the AG2 project that will see a conceptual merging of the ideas behind both. I can't say much more at this time.
7) GregS: I have heard mentioned the A2 project but have not seen any details would you be so kind to make a summary of the main differences between A1 and A2.
Fleecy: AG1 refers to all hardware and software upto the AmigaOS3 family (the last revision being AmigaOS3.9). Some of this will continue into AmigaOS4. AG1 is technology that has its roots in the excellent system architecture and implementation that can be traced all the way back to 1984. However that was written in the context of a specific set of requirements and within a wider domain of current technologies.
Twenty years on the world has changed dramatically in many areas whilst remaining the same in others. The AG2 project is about reviewing the AmigaOS in all its domains, both internally and in its external relationships. There are new customers, new roles, new technologies, new requirements, new scopes, new products, new opportunities and new restrictions. AG2 will see the development of a technology set that can be used in derivative products, whether AmigaOS for the desktop, AmigaOS for the server, AmigaOS for the STB or whatever. Don't expect to see AG2 technology in AmigaOS4.0 but from AmigaOS4.1 onwards, you will start to see the AmigaOS transformed into something that we hope will once again set the marker for all others.
8) IonMane: As I understand it OS5 will be 64 bit, Is Amiga Inc considering the IBM 970, with its 32bit and 64 bit support,for this role in current or future AmigaOne systems?
Fleecy: 64 bit is the natural development path and given its necessity for a decent implementation of orthogonal persistence, one of our targets, I would expect to see 64 bit implementations sooner rather than later.
9) DaveP: I have a question ( everyone groans ). How long after the release of AOS4 will we have to wait for a version of Intent that works with it?
Fleecy: We have always targeted it for AmigaOS4.2. Given that we want to have a release gap of between 6-12 months once AmigaOS4.0 has shipped, that should be around about Christmas 2004. However, we may move it forwards to AmigaOS4.1. It depends on quite a few issues that I can't go into right now.
10) IonMane: There has been a lot of questions around from those that have coupons and other Amiga Inc promoted discounts.Could you please tell these people how to claim these discounts and Coupons...and even if they need a coupon to claim the discount.
Fleecy: I have answered this in question 2
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11.May.2003
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Emulator: New WinUAE Version 0.8.22 R 7 (WIP) announced
Probably end of May 2003 a new version of Toni Wilen's Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows will be released. Currently WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 7 is in the works.
This version will contain the following changes and improvements:
Bugs fixed:
more ...
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11.May.2003
VMC (Website)
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LowLevel Gameport Driver v41.19 for Amithlon
Guido Mersmann has created a new version of his lowlevel.library
for Amithlon, in which some more bugs have been fixed. A small tool enables the activation of the Sound Blaster Game Port. The new software can be downloaded from the "Amithlon Software Updates" page.
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