27.Nov.2003
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Genesi: Taking Part in HCC-Dagen Show in the Netherlands
Genesi SARL announced their participation at the Dutch HCC-Dagen from 28th through 30th November. Reportedly this is the biggest show of its kind in the Benelux lands, with attendance in previous years reaching 100,000 by some accounts.
They'll be guests at the stand (D106, hall 9) of Tyra-Group.
Tyra-Group is going to introduce their CS-2 system ("Communication Station 2") at HCC-Dagen. This is a new system configuration that is small in size (A4), but with space for a standard 5.25" drive, a 5.25" slim bay, a 5.25" "quarterdrive bay," a 3.5" floppy drive, two hard-drives as well as expansion cards of normal height with additional room for high graphic cards. The TFT screen can be changed out as can the powerpack, both standard, off-the-shelf components.
The "CS-2 Deluxe" is a complete home multimedia system based on Genesi's Pegasos and running MorphOS as well as Tyra-Group's proprietary software.
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27.Nov.2003
The CAPS Team (ANF)
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CAPS Update
The CAPS team (who concern themselves with the archiving of old, copy-protected Amiga games, to include copy-protection written on the flags) has converted another bunch of games into CAPS format. This format may for example be read by new UAE versions.
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27.Nov.2003
Falcon (ANF)
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FinalWriter Helper: "PDF-Creator"
Falcon has written a little program that may be incorporated in FinalWriter. Using Ghostscript, it allows a comfortable conversion of current documents to PDF format.
Requirements:
- Final-Writer
- Ghostscript (preferable V8.00)
- rexxreqtools.library
- reqtools.library
Direct
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[News message: 27. Nov. 2003, 01:45] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2003
Martin Steigerwald (E-Mail)
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Amiga Magazin: "AROS - Amiga neu gemacht" by Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald has written an article for issue 9/2003 of the Amiga Magazin about AROS which is worth the read for all those interested in
that alternative system. The article is written in German and to get at the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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26.Nov.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Event: Report from the "Ottawa Amiga Show" by Kermit Woodall
Kermit Woodall by Nova Design has edited a report about the Canadian
Event "Ottawa Amiga Show 2003" and put it - coupled with some pictures - online by the title link. The show was held at the Canadian metropole Ottawa on November, the 22nd 2003.
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[News message: 26. Nov. 2003, 15:35] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2003
ANN (Website)
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Game: Memory clone "DonSimon"
The programmer "Anarkskt" has done a new memory game "DonSimon",
which is based on the classic "Simon". The game is available in native
versions for 68k-AmigaOS and MorphOS and is downloadable by the title link at the
website from the MorphZone.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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26.Nov.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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GoldED: Webworld-update and Espresso License
Registered GoldED-users can download a service pack for the HTML add-on
Webworld. The Nov/2003 version of Tidy has been integrated (Amiga port
courtesy of Edgar Schwan). Tidy is a code cleanup utility. The new version
supports XML and XHTML.
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25.Nov.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Internet browser IBrowse now also available on CD
At IOSPIRIT a CD-version of IBrowse 2.3 and IBrowse 2.3 Update is now also available. The CD contains the browser itself, the new documentation (in English) and other goodies.
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(snx)
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25.Nov.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packets until 25.11.2003
With WHDload you are able to install games to your hard disk, which are only made for your floppy disk. Following packets are added or actualized after our last news.
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25.Nov.2003
Richard "DawnBringer" Fhager (ANF)
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AMOS-game: FlagSweeper 1.0 published
Richard "DawnBringer" Fhager has with AMOS a Minesweeper clone called FlagSweeper
produced (Screenshots). The Archiv
has 180 kilobytes
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25.Nov.2003
Giancarlo Piscitello (ANF)
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Icons: first complete Freeware-Workbench-Packet with PNG-Icons
The first complete Freeware-PNG-replacement package for
Workbench icons
has Giancarlo Piscitello provided. You can find a screenshot of his work in
Album
of Amiga.org.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 25. Nov. 2003, 10:47] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2003
ANN (Website)
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AROS: Status Update
David Le Corfec reports at AROS.org about the latest changes of the AROS project.
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(snx) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 24. Nov. 2003, 20:03] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2003
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IDE: IDE for AmigaOS
Daniel Allsopp is currently developing a new IDE (integrated development environment) for AmigaOS. The project is based on a MUI gui and will use GCC and GNU make.
A screenshot of the current version is already available. According to the developer this version is just a pompous autodoc viewer.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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24.Nov.2003
AmigaWorld.net
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Amigaworld.net: AmigaOne-Mainboard contest
According to a note by Amigaworld.net, the operators of the Amigaworld.net FreeCiv servers donate an AmigaOne-XE-Mainboard with 512 MB RAM for the winner of the upcoming FreeCiv tournament.
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(snx) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 24. Nov. 2003, 17:11] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2003
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet Uploads until 24.11.2003
New Aminet uploads since our last note:
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[News message: 24. Nov. 2003, 16:47] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2003
ANN (Website)
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Software: MiniShowPicture V1.35 released
Of the program MiniShowPicture by Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski version 1.35 for MorphOS and Amiga-68k is now available.
'MiniShowPicture' is a simple, MUI based picture viewer that uses datatypes. It includes functions like Drag&Drop, scaling and shortcuts.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 24. Nov. 2003, 14:38] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Analogue data capture for Amiga
For the recently by Carsten Siegner announced 3-wire bus interface to control different ICs (we reported) is now a circuit diagram as well as some pictures available as a PDF document.
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(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2003, 18:50] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2003
ANN (website)
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OpenPCI library 1.2 released
The OpenPCI library, a library offering a programming interface for different available PCI solutions (Amithlon,
G-Rex, Pegasos, Prometheus), has been released in version 1.2.
The changes since the last version:
- MorphOS: optimizations for faster processors (604e or better)
- Amithlon: support for powerpci.library 2.x added (v2.x is now required)
- Amithlon (bugfix): two register values had been exchanged
- G-Rex (bugfix): pci_outw/l() and pci_write_config_word/long() hadn't worked until now
- G-Rex (bugfix): error in the interrupt code removed
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(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2003, 16:55] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2003
CCC (email)
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CCC: central saving of biometrical data endangers constitutional rights
The approach of the "Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamten" (BDK) to save biometrical
characteristics of all European citizens in a central data base causes hardest reservations at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC);
the constitutional rights of informational self-determination would then be abolished in a fundamental area - while the use for the combating of crime isn't even proofed.
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(nba) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2003, 16:54] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2003
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PNG icons: KDEView makes change easier
Pietro Ghizzoni has thought about how to help users who want to change their Workbench from classic Amiga icons to PNG icons. As you have to replace numerous icons by hand he has written a small program that shows all PNG icons of a directory in a window and makes the "picture exchange" possible via drag'n drop.
Direct download (68 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2003, 02:15] [Comments: 0]
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21.Nov.2003
Genesi (E-Mail)
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MorphOS Developer Connection welcomes 400th developer
As Genesi S.à.r.l. reported the
MorphOS Developer Connection has now 400
officially registered MorphOS developer. The MDC members come from over 50 seperate
countries.
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[News message: 21. Nov. 2003, 17:19] [Comments: 0]
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21.Nov.2003
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Icon-Patch: Powericons 1.05 published
"Powericons" is an icon-patch which allows to use 24bit icons under AmigaOS and was
published in a new version. For the detailed changes please have a look at the
Readme.
Direct Download
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(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Nov. 2003, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
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21.Nov.2003
Amigart.com (Website)
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Experimental version of LinuxUAE
Because the development of WinUAE has been faster forced than the Linux version and because
the Linux version has been not updated for a long time Richard Drummond has ported
a lot of the changes of WinUAE to Linux. For more detailed information have a look at
the Changelog.
Under the title link you can find seperate versions LinuxUAE which he calls experimentally.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Nov. 2003, 13:38] [Comments: 0]
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21.Nov.2003
Amigaworld (ANF)
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Interview with Alan Redhouse from Eyetech (Update)
The Amiga-portal AmigaWorld has
interviewed Alan Redhouse who is the manager of the Eyetech Group.
Update: (cg, 21.11.2003, 14:25)
We have summarized the most important statements of Alan Redhouse in the following lines:
- Alan Redhouse thinks that more AmigaOnes have been sold than other "open" (that means
not Apple/IBM) PPC systems.
- since AmigaOS4 has been officially demonstrated on the AmigaOne the amount of sold
AmigaOnes has been increased
- currently it is tried to deliver all "Earlybird"-customers a beta version of OS4
if possible before Christmas
- the Onboard Graphic-chip of the Micro-A1 is still not certain but probably it will
become a low-cost Radeon Chip
- the "High-Tech" interfaces (RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, USB2, Firewire) will be implemented
at the Micro-A1 probably on a seperate, optional platine. Because of that the board will become
cheaper for customers.
- Waiting peroid when ordering an AmigaOne motherboard: ca. two weeks
(Complete system: Four weeks)
- Until now there have been two problems refered to the DMA at the AmigaOne: The first
is caused by VIA bug and has been fixed with the help of a software patch.
The second problem is that the ArticiaS enables the simultaneous access of CPU and a
of a PCI busmaster to the memory. In the x86-world this is not usual because of that the
(of Linux-x86 ported) Linux drivers may not manage this. This oddity of the ArticiaS is supposed
to be a included "turbo" which makes the computer "smarter". AmigaOS4 is not affected by
these two problems
- Exactly fitting boxes are not possible because of the costs but Eyetech works with
Naya Design on some modifications which change the standard boxes to Amiga boxes in a
cheap way.
- Single-CPU-modules with faster G3/G4-processors already exists and have been presented
officially, too. But there must be ca. 400 preorders to enable such a product.
Because of that only dual-cpu modules has planned.
- The AmigaOne in Micro-ATX format has planned only for the end of the next year.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Various price reductions
From the 20th November 2003 to the 31th December 2003, you can buy many products at IOSPIRIT at special prices - up to 37 percent below regular price. Detailed information available under the title link. After the 31th December 2003, regular prices will return.
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20.Nov.2003
VHT-DK (E-Mail)
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Antivirus Program: VirusExecutor Version 2.31
Jan Erik Olausen released a new update of the Antivirus software
VirusExecutor today:
Name: VirusExecutor v2.31
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size: 317,926 Bytes
Date: 20th of November 2003
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen - vht-dk
Requirements: xvs.library (inklusive), reqtools.library,
xfdmaster.library, xadmaster.library, 68020+
Changes since the last version:
- Removed requesters when checking from Shell...
Thanks to Matthias Scheler.
- Fixed bug when detecting custom chips...
Thanks to Charlene.
- Forgot to remove some debugging output...
Thanks to Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer.
- Fixed bug if you try to use an old PatchBrain file...
- You can now choose which volume to check on 'Check ALL valid volumes'
Thanks to Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer.
- New catalog: Dutch by Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer
- Updated catalogs: French by Herve and Polish by Wojciech
Pasiecznik
If you would like to contact the author, send him an email with the word "Amiga" in the subject line, because emails that do not contain this word are automatically deleted.
You'll find more information about VirusExecutor and you'll have the option to download it by clicking on the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Nov.2003
Spiegel (Website)
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Spiegel Online: MP3.com - The End of a Short Era
MP3.com seemed to be ushering in the beginning of a new era in the music business: artists and consumers were to have been "emancipated" from the industry. Then MP3.com was sued, and then it was sold. Now the website is changing hands agains - and being closed. Read the complete article at Spiegel Online under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2003, 23:15] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOne: Tips and Tricks for MacOnLinux
Under the title link an AmigaOne owner has collected and published some information about the AmigaOne and LinuxPPC. The majority of it concerns MOL (MacOnLinux): a short instruction guide, a few tips, as well as a list of compatible games, all there for your convenience.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2003, 21:40] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #061
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 61st music pack yesterday. It contains the track "Da-Vexa 17on" from the musician Spectra, who unfortunately has left the group. The track was put together using DigiBoosterPro.
Title: Da-Vexa 17on
Musician: Spectra
Style: Drum'n'Bass
Play length: 4:52
Format: dbm
Size: 0.8 MB
The ZIPped file is available for download at no charge under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2003, 21:14] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2003
Amiga Flame (Website)
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"Pirates!" Clone: Graphic Artists Sought for "Drake"
The ZeroVertex-team of Oliver
Gantert has been working for some time on a 3D clone of the strategy classic "Pirates!." Now that big steps with the game engine have been taken in the last few months, and Oliver says this is "about 98% ready," the thing urgently needed now is 3D graphic artists.
ZeroVertex is looking for 3D artists and animators who make use of 3dsmax, Milkshape3D, or some other software that offers "bone animation" support. Further, they need 3D artists who can produce static models like houses, plants, and they need texture artists as well, who can come up with textures for the existing models.
Whoever wants to help should send an email to Oliver Gantert.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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