12.Apr.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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12.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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AmigaDE PocketPC Paks at CompUSA
At CompUSA there are from now on both AmigaDE PocketPC packages available and can be found using the search function of the website with the term "Amiga". Among other things do they contain the games by ZeoNeo.
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12.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.12 - Rockford is back!
BoulderDäsh is an Amiga conversion of the good old BoulderDash on the C64. With now more than 10000
(ten thousand) levels in more than 400 game files should BoulderDäsh offer a long term gaming fun. If this is not enough for people they can create own levels and games with the level editor.
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12.Apr.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Liquid Skies releases audio CD
The demo scene label Liquid Skies has released a double audio CD that contains all songs of the Liquid Skies packs from #001 to #021 as audio tracks and as original packed data files.
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12.Apr.2003
Stefan Pietzonke (ANF)
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Hardware: C64 Ethernet adapter
With the Ethernet adapter you can connect a C64 to a network. The hardware bases on an embedded
Ethernet card that is universally usable. It should be possible to design a circuit to connect the card with the serial or parallel port of the Amiga. Then you could for example integrate the A500 into a network.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)
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Catweasel: New multidisk.device (Update)
The new multidisk.device for Amiga OS (version 2.0 and up) and
MorphOS now recognizes the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper in a PCI-slot
of an Amiga, Amithlon or Pegasos. With this, individual Computers
is the first to deliver a working floppy-driver for the Pegasos,
which brings the aspiring system one step closer to the big
role model "Amiga".
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11.Apr.2003
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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Amiga Inc.: AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS 4
»This description is meant as addition to our AmigaOS4 feature
list. For first impressions about the new functionalities, please
have a read in the mentioned document.
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11.Apr.2003
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Several software news (11.04.2003)
Amigan Software
Tool: Report+ version 5.66b - Download:
ReportPlus.lha
- 312 KB
RC5-72 Clients
AmigaOS
[PPC/WarpOS] v2.9005.483
[PPC/PowerUp] v2.9005.483
[m68k] v2.9005.483
InstallerNG
'InstallerNG' is an alternative to the installer tool by Commodore. Only 'InstallerNG'
supports e.g. MUI (via plugin) and offers a CPU recognition for the MC68060 as well as
PPC processor. 'InstallerNG' will be part of AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. On 8th April 2003
version 50 was sent to the developer teams of Amiga and MorphOS for beta tests.
Burning software: MakeCD
Under the title link you can download the new makecdfs.module v45.8 and MakeCD beta
v3.2d10.
MaxUAE - The Amiga emulator for MacOS X
There are the following new programs ready for dwonload for the emulator:
DMS2ADF - Tool for unarchiving of .dms-archives
ADFCreator - Tool for creating of Amiga Disk Files
LBreakout 2 for MorphOS
"The polished successor to LBreakout offers you a new challenge in more
than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive
balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus
magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks,
regenerative bricks, indestructible bricks, chaotic bricks). And if
you're through with all the levels you can create complete new
levelsets with the integrated easy-to-use level editor!"
Download: LBreakout2.lha - 2,5 MB
DTP: Pagestream for Linux
Second PageStream Linux beta released. Users who purchase a copy of the
Linux version now will receive access to the interim and final Linux
releases. Users who participate in the testing will also receive TextFX
for Linux at no charge as thanks!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads (11.04.2003)
Here are the new Aminet uploads:
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11.Apr.2003
Kuno Hutter (E-Mail)
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Pro-Linux.de: PowerPC with preinstalled Linux
»Probably from Friday 11th April the AmigaOne will be available and if wanted with
preinstalled Linux.«
Have a look at the title link for the complete article.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.6
Hopefully the commands are now complete. Instead like last version
using values lower than 127 i now made them to send only values
that are described in the manual. So now it wont confuse virus
and are more safe and compatible. But something says me....
there will be another more complete package later.
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(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
Mandrake Soft Website (ANF)
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Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC published
Mandrake has published version 9.1 of the Linux-distribution for PPC.
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10.Apr.2003
Joachim Thomas - Bitplane (ANF)
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Webb.it: Amiga-companies at the biggest IT-show in Italy
Virtual Works, Soft 3 and Bitplane Magazine will be present
together at the next edition of "Webb.it", one of the most
important IT-shows in Italy, attended by thousands of
visitors every year.
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10.Apr.2003
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InterVideo: Microsofts Multimedia Format for Linux-based devices
InterVideo, Inc. announced today that Microsoft has chosen the
company as a provider of its Windows Media Technology for
Linux-based consumer electronics. Under the agreement InterVideo
is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format,
port them over to Linux and provide them to manufacturers who are
interested in running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer
devices such as set-top boxes, personal video recorders and other
hybrid multimedia devices.
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10.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets through August 4th, 2003
With WHDLoad, it's possible to install to your hard-drive games which were previously considered floppy-only. The following packets
have been added or updated since our last announcement:
- 08.04.03 improved: Space Ace 2 (Ready Soft) supports another version, new icon
- 08.04.03 new: Galdregons Domain (Pandora) done by Galahad
- 06.04.03 new: Red Baron (Dynamix) done by JOTD
- 06.04.03 new: Kelly X (Virgin/Mastertronic) done by JOTD
- 06.04.03 improved: Hostages / Operation Jupiter (Infogrames) access fault fixed
- 06.04.03 improved: Eye of the Beholder (Westwood/SSI) supports kixx xl version
- 06.04.03 improved: Turbo Outrun (U.S.Gold) fixed keyboard and blitter routines
- 06.04.03 improved: Plotting (Ocean) fixed audio and colour bit routines
- 06.04.03 new: Elf (Ocean) done by Psygore
- 03.04.03 improved: International Ninja Rabbits / Ninja Rabbits (Microvalue/Flair) supports another version
- 03.04.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) supports AGA version, icon fixed
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10.Apr.2003
GoldED Website
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GoldED: C/C++ IDE and PayPal Payment
The cprefs program, which is utilized in the C/C++ mode of the GoldED text editor in order to carry out compiler option for gcc and
vbcc, has been updated and now contains online help for all options.
From here on out the secure online payment of the registration fee for GoldED Studio is immediately possible through the payment
service PayPal.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: New Copyright as Good as Succeeded
The new copyright regulation is almost completed:
After lengthy parliamentary consultation the Rights Division accepted the
government's legal draft for the regulation of copyrights in the information domain, in spite of the
objections of the FDP [a German political party -dm] element and in spite of proposed changes
offered by CDU/CSU [other German political parties -dm] and the FDP.
The new copyright is being criticized harshly from several quarters, among other things it's feared
that the new regulation will take away an individual's right to make private copies.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: Interview with Benjamin "Titan" Vernoux
The online magazine GFX-BASE spoke with Benjamin Vernoux about his OpenPCI Project. In this interesting interview Benjamin also speaks
to other interesting topics, and gives a preview of some planned projects. Read this interview led by SOL-Invictus (English language)
under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Amiga Joker Test Reports and More
There are a few new developments on Kultpower.de, a Web project to which the game magazines ASM, PowerPlay, Videogames and Amiga
Joker are dedicated.
- New Amiga Joker test reports from the September and October 1990 editions:
Back to the Future 2, Flood, Last Ninja 2, Loom, Neuromancer, Oops Up, Operation Stealth, Starblade, Wings.
- New Videogames test reports from the September and October 1993 editions:
Afterburner 3 (Mega CD), Batman Returns (Mega CD), Cobra Command (Mega CD), Ecco the Dolphin (Mega CD), Final Fight (Mega CD), Gunstar Heroes (Mega Drive), Jaguar XJ 220 (Mega CD), Night Trap (Mega CD), Sherlock Holmes (Mega CD), Shinobi 2 (Mega Drive), Silpheed (Mega CD), Thunderhawk (Mega CD), Time Gal (Mega CD).
- A new Powerplay article from the March, 1995 edition:
"From Pong to Pentium".
- New cover under "More Mags": 14 additional covers of the newspaper Next Level.
- New cover under "More Mags": the first 6 covers of the newspaper Telematch (very rare!).
The organizers thank all their helpers: Gerald, matze, Chronos and Ralph!
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: C-One production started
After more than two years development time, the C-One production
has started. It'll start selling on May 5th in Germany and
the Netherlands. Our other European partners should have the
boards by May 9th, when the board will also be launched in North
America.
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10.Apr.2003
Terra Soft
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Terra Soft discontinues development of ATX PowerPC-systems
Terra Soft Solutions has determined that it is not, at this point
in time, prudent to carry the Teron mainboards nor offer
Teron-based Boxer systems. This is as great a disappointment for
the company as it is for many of you. Terra Soft Solutions were
truly excited to bring this particular ATX PowerPC Linux product
to market.
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09.Apr.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Collectors pieces: Amiga clones "Access" available
The Italian dealer Soft3
seems to have some units of the Amiga clone "Access" on stock (title link).
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09.Apr.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio CD "Power Liquids" by Bjorn Lynne and Aural Planet released
Bjorn Lynne by the CD label LynneMusic is proud to announce the release of the new audio CD "Power Liquids".
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09.Apr.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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"Journey to Northland" for MorphOS and Mac OS announced
Funatics Software GmbH and e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh announced today that Cultures 2 sequel "Northland" will be ported to the Apple Mac and MorphOS.
"We are very happy to be able to bring one of the most popular Godgame series to gamers on the Apple Mac and MorphOS" said Thomas Steiding, CEO of e.p.i.c. about the deal.
Thomas Friedman, CEO of Funatics added: "e.p.i.c. is the ideal partner for us to bring "Northland" to an even larger audience. Unfortunately users of systems like Macintosh or the new MorphOS are poorly supported when it comes to innovative new games. We intend to fill this gap with the release of "Northland" for these platforms.
The story of "Northland" begins where the plot of "Cultures 2 - The Gates of Asgard" ended. After perilous adventures our four heroes defeated the Midgard serpent and thus saved the world. But one day they were disturbed by a call for help from their friend Hatschi. Hatschi's homeland was plagued by mysterious monstrous serpent creatures, which spread chaos and destruction through the country. Without hesitation Byjami and Crya hurried to help him and stumbled right into a new adventure, in which the sly god Loki will play an important role...
Features Northland:
Stand-alone Adventure Strategy game.
- Single player campaign with 8 missions including several sub missions.
- The exciting plots tells the story of Viking God Loki who tried to take revenge on Godfather Odin for his banishment from Asgard to Earth. For that he abuses our four human heroes with his intrigues and traps.
- 8 additional free single player missions (non campaign).
- 3 difficulty levels to make the game fun for everybody from beginners to experts.
- Special effects like weather effects, fog, ghost units etc.
- Based on the enhanced technology of "Cultures 2 - The Gates of Asgard"; enhanced AI.
More information on "Northland" can be found at Northland or e.p.i.c interactive.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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09.Apr.2003
xfr autor himself (ANF)
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Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.1 available
Who does not kow XFD and XAD by Dirk Stöcker and the Exoticripper
or Eagleplayer. XFR is a similar system which combines the best of all them to extract music tracks and pictures out of demo files. XFR offers a library and several clients for each sound format. A genie for the delitracker and the Eagleplayer and some Shell/WB tools for scanning whole directories or floppy disks in the twinkling of an eye is included also.
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09.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos: List of supported RAM modules
At MorphZone there is a list available of tested RAM modules which work with the Pegasos.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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08.Apr.2003
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Genesi: Offer 20 Pegasos I for Phoenix members
Genesi Sarl will offer up to 20 more Pegasos I machines with the April2
patch to Phoenix members for $299 through the Pegasos-USA website. This
offer includes:
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08.Apr.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #032
After a short break of five days here are now the latest music pack #032 of Liquid
Skies Records.
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08.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Sound card: New delfina.library online
The new version of the delfina.library now supports the sound card
on all clockports that are available on Zorro-cards by
individual Computers.
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08.Apr.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)
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VHT-Canada online again
After three days offline due to problems at the provider Shadow Creations is now the
website of `Virus Help Team Canada' available.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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08.Apr.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Spider II for Mediator- and Amithlon-user
Elbox Computer is proud to announce release of Spider II--the new
version of the ground-breaking Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed controller.
Spider II is based on the newest USB 2.0 PCI chipset, improving
data transmission by up to 20 percent of bandwidth as compared
with the previous USB 2.0 chipset.
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08.Apr.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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Workbench: Easys-Patch 4.8.5 available
The latest update of the system enhancer 'Easys' is available on the service pack
site. Please take a look at the Readme.
Support and registration: sonja_n@gmx.de.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Apr.2003
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 03/2003 - DraCoZilla
DraCo lives - and so does AMIGAplus. Read all those and more reports in the current issue 03/2003 (#134) to be ordered at http://www.amigaplus.de:
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07.Apr.2003
AMIGAplus
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Address of the editorial office of AMIGAplus changed
The editorial staff of AMIGAplus moved office. Please note the new postal address:
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07.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 07.04.2004
Here the new Aminet Uploads since our last message:
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07.Apr.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Event: Commodore show and SID music workshop
Ron van Schaik writes:
Hello C= fans,
At Saturday 19th April there will be a C= show at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21,
Maarssen, Holland from 10:00 to 16:00 o'clock. On this show we will organize a
SID music workshop in Hall 2. There will be a beamer with wide screen and
demonstrations from Marinus Kuivenhoven how to make a nice SID music MP3.
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07.Apr.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: Benchmarks zur ALGOR online
Due to many inquiries for the speed of the new ALGOR Zorro II
USB controller by E3B they completely revised the
benchmark page. Now you can find benchmarks for all USB controllers offered and tested on different system configurations.
more ...
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07.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX - Rockford is back
Guido Mersmann wrote:
As already announced some days ago, I can intimate the publication of
BoulderDaesh RTX. BoulderDaesh RTX is a 1:1
conversion of the good old C64 and was here and there drilled out,
without reducing the game play. BoulderDaesh RTX runs on
Amiga-OS-COMPATIBLE systems starting with the A500 up to fast Amithlon
systems.
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07.Apr.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Worldcharts#15 published
The Amiga version of the Chartmags Worldcharts#15 by Scoopex & The
Silents & Hoodlum was published last week. At the title
link you can download the improved version, in which even
the second song is now playable.
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07.Apr.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Announcement dentro for Jurassic Pack#12 released
The announcement dentro for the demoscene diskmag 'Jurassic Pack' no. 12 has recently been released on the Swedish Deadline 2003 party. Any further details are available at the title link.
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06.Apr.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Roland JD800 MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.1
Made system area and part area commands for JD800.
The rest of commands im going to make sometime in future when
i know more about coding or when i get help with it.
So look out maybe it will come sooner or later. I will try to make
my best.
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06.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 4
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 4 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) AutumnSun: does AInc has any plans for a very low cost Amiga? i.e. erverything on board + TVout and possibly only some flash-memory (but optional external HD)
Fleecy: Amiga is actively promoting the benefits of AmigaOS4 and beyond to many companies who have great interest in seeing a resource frugal, high performance multimedia OS on the PPC and other architectures. We are talking with such companies about all manner of devices, not just desktops.
At least one of our AmigaOS partners tells us that they are working on a device similar to what you describe with the intention of seeing it run some form of AmigaOS4.
2) ssolie: How do you plan to support Amiga users groups with the launch of AmigaOS 4.0? Press kits? Free posters? Anything like that?
Fleecy: We have a staged public approach to this, although private contacts are going on all the time. The new Amiga Power Platform website needs to go live first and work is progressing on that. We will then use that to capture as much uptodate user group information as possible and then bring these together in a user group forum where we can share our strategies with them and get feedback from them.
What we want to do is create a single core marketing pack for any user group but which can then be tailored by that user group. Obviously there are a core set of requirements but each group also knows its domain better than we do and our role has to be one of support whilst allowing those groups to prosecute their own plans.
MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5
Fleecy: Before I answer these, I need to point out that AmigaOS5 is a work in progress, and a long term product goal. Many will criticise me for even agreeing to try to answer these questions since it breaks our policy of don't say anything until it is ready but I would point out that these are not official statements or press releases. They are me trying to give an insight into what is going on in an effort to satisfy the requests for information by the community. Whether people believe them or not is upto them. There is no intention here to mislead, only to inform but plans, timescales and focus will always change.
3) MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 - are you already working on it and what is going on currently?
Fleecy: Yes we are already working on it, but that comes with the rider that working on it can involve anything from concept, planning, design, blue skying, whiteboarding and prototyping. Code does exist for it and it runs but will it be in the final release? I cannot say at this point.
4) MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 - when will it be ready? (please more precise than "when it is done(tm)")
Fleecy: We aren't even ready to give a release date for AmigaOS4.0 yet so I certainly can't give even a vague date for AmigaOS5.0. We have at least 3 planned revisions to AmigaOS4 itself before we get to AmigaOS5.0
5) MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 - will OS5 be a completely new os from ground of or will it be based on some sources?
Fleecy: AmigaOS5.0 will mark the first time when there is no more Amiga Generation 1 technology in the AmigaOS. It will be 100% Amiga Generation 2. That said, Amiga Generation 2 will include many parts in its Opportunity Analysis, including a full review of the existing AG1 elements for each domain.
6) moood: Will there be any Amiga-Anywhere/AmigaDE-players for any Symbian-devices (like Nokia 7650/3650 and Sony Ericsson P800) anytime soon?
Fleecy: Amiga Anywhere already has a prototype running on Series 80 and we are working hard on a commercial release for series 60. We are working with partners to a timeframe of commercial release to coincide with new handset releases and so are dependent on their timesclaes.
7) sgm: Which markets are targeted by AmigaOS4 and AmigaDE?
Fleecy: The AmigaDE is marketed as a total content solution, which means content on a device, whether that be on a dedicated device, in a player on a device or host transparent to the device. It's targets are thus any device that needs content, Smartphones, PDAs, STBS, desktops. It isn't being marketed as a complete environment for those devices, although we have had interest in such a deployment.
The AmigaOS is marketed as a platform, which means it is a combination of HW requirements and Operating system and Application layer. This immediately points to the obvious desktop but the bigger markets are in other device classes, STBS, Information Consoles and solutions.
This will all come together as the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE slowly integrate.
8) alx : In the features PDF, there is planned support for the catweasel's joystick and keyboard ports. Will OS4 be able to use floppy drives connected to it, to read old-style Amiga disks?
Fleecy: There is no reason why this shouldn't work. It just requures an AmigaOS4.0 native driver.
9) MetalJoe: Will OS4 be bundled with a developer kit CD? If not, will the OS4 SDK be made available for free?
Fleecy: It will not be part of the user distribution but will be available as a free download or as an at cost CD. This is subject to change though as our developer support strategy evolves.
10) jurassiccamper: How does Amiga plan to get the platform up to date in terms of internet technologies so we can at least have a pleasurable and equal online experience? Eg: Real Audio / Real Video, Java, Plug and Play networking to other Amigas / Macs / PC's.
Fleecy: As I said before we are closely watching the Apple strategy with Safari. We have had contact with Real Networks and other providers of Internet technology but most provide the same answer. Show us a viable platform or show us a lot of money. Both are not available at the moment.
The solution is to improve what we have in stages until we have that equal, and then better online experience and that has to start from the ground up. AmigaOS4.0's network capabilities are an order of magnitude better than they have been in the past. Next we have to expand the media capabilities, followed by the user environment itself. As each one of these falls into place, the horizontal technologies can be implemented, which make use of these core vertical technologies.
We have made it known that we are looking at excelling in the 90% of desktop computer usage by the average person and Internet is obviously a major component of that usage. We hope to provide a major improvement in the area in AmigaOS4.1.
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06.Apr.2003
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.5
This update of tracks&fields uses much less characters in
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06.Apr.2003
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030331
You can find the complete newsletter of Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for March 2002 under the title link. In his newsletter Brad Webb summarises all Amiga themed news on a monthly basis.
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06.Apr.2003
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results of March/April 2003
Here the results of the Amiga Games Hit Parade - March/April 2003:
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06.Apr.2003
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C.A.P.S. Update 06.04.2003
Here the most recent update of C.A.P.S.:
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06.Apr.2003
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Elastic Images: Ordering page for Show CD-ROM set up
As from now the Show CD-ROM (we reported) can also be ordered through my home page.
This page also features the possibility to have the total cost calculated (depending on number of ordered items, type of shipping, etc.). This is also possible without giving an address.
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