06.Aug.2003
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan at NBC Giga
The bplan GmbH, developer of the PowerPC-mainboard Pegasos, will attend
the TV-show NBC GIGA on August 7th,
2003, at 21:00 (CET). They will present their products Pegasos and
MorphOS and take part at a live-chat at 21:45 answering your questions.
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06.Aug.2003
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal (ANF)
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News from Coyote Flux
It has been a long while since the last update, but finally a list of
new screenshots and programs have been added to the website:
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06.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 06.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
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05.Aug.2003
CAM (Website)
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Club Amiga Magazine #7 to be released on August 8th, 2003
Issue 7 of Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been delayed by the editorial
team for one week. The new issue will be released on August 8th, 2003.
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05.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 4th August 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk
that had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have
been added or updated since our last announcment:
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05.Aug.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Event: "The Assembly 2003" - August 7th-10th, 2003
On the forthcoming long weekend of August 7th (Thursday) to August 10th
(Sunday) the big demoscene event "The Assembly" will be held in the
well known ice stadium "Hartwall Arena" in Helsinki, the capital of
Finland.
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Primal" by Andrew Barnabas and Paul Arnold
Some of you may remember Nightshade/Crusaders from various Crusaders
Amiga demos in the past. He also wrote the music for a few Amiga games,
the best known amongst them being "SWIV". He has now started a
composing/production company together with his friend Paul Arnold. Their
first real release is the soundtrack to the game "PRIMAL". This is a
fully orchestral soundtrack recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic
orchestra and choir. It sounds great!
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Sidologie" by Marcel Donne
Sidologie is an album of Commodore-64 remixes Marcel Donne, all done in
the style/sound of classic Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis albums. To put
it simple, Marcel Donne has taken the *melodies* from famous C64 music,
and mixed it with the *sound* of old-school Jean-Michel Jarre and
Vangelis.
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04.Aug.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistent: DD2html Version 0.2 released
In line with the project 'Hardware Assistent' version 0.2 of the tool DD2html has been released.
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04.Aug.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Filemanager: DiskMaster Version 2.5.25
Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5.25 of the filemanager DiskMaster. Details about made changes and a download link are available at the titlelink.
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04.Aug.2003
ScummVM (Website)
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ScummVM 0.5.0 released (Update)
Version 0.5.0 of ScummVM is now available for Windows, MorphOS and other operating systems.
Because of some serious bugs in the current version (0.5.0) there will soon version 0.5.1 be available.
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04.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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YahooGroupsRipper v1.0 released
Because of the upcoming changes of the Yahoo! Group Services Diego Casorran released a tool called YahooGroupsRipper.
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04.Aug.2003
Maik Schultheis (ANF)
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AmiGate: Search entries can be modified
AmiGate is a collection of web links concerning the Amiga. From now on every user or company can add entries in a special category and can administer them afterwards.
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04.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 03.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
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04.Aug.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 16
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 16 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) CanGuy: I'm getting into wireless technology at the moment and see a lot of applications for it. Is it likely that AmigaOS will contain something like Zeroconf (aka Rendezvous in Apple-speak) in the next year or so?
Fleecy: Part of the remit of AmigaOS4 is to ensure that devices that use it can work together with each other and as part of a hetergeneous network. We are already working on this with the tethered connection and this will be followed up relatively quickly with the untethered technologies, initially 802.11 and then Bluetooth.
2) ikir: OS4 supports multiprocessors so.... any idea when a double G4 AmigaOne will be realesed?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4 will support SMP first and then AMP second but it is more important for us to have a shipping product running on one processor first. I believe that a double G4 AmigaOne will be out in the next year - indeed a prototype dual processor module is already in our hands.
We have a lot to do already in developing AG2 - graphics, audio and a new user environment to name but a few. These are much more important than supporting SMP in the short term and as I have said before, I see AMP as being far more important in the long run.
3) Turbo: SoundBlaster Live! & SB512 support 128 instuments & 10 drums. Hercules/Guillemot have several high quality sound cards available, most of which have a Yamaha Synth with 676 instuments & 21 drums combined with a CS4624 or CMI-8738 DSP. Are there any future plans for Amiga OS4.x to support alternative sound cards when a higher Amiga user base is established?
Fleecy: Very much so. However, as always, until the AmigaOS4 market grows to the point where audio card companies will write the drivers themselves, we have to expend our own resources and thus will be limited in what can be supported. Our initial plans are to support one card each from the three natural groups. As an example (and only an example), AC-97 on-board audio for desktop, SB Live!, Audigy or Terratec for gaming and Echo for pro-audio.
4) Hondo_DK: Has Amiga Inc. at any point, contacted third party commercial/brand making companys, to develop a path for the future amiga platform? And can we expect amiga commercials in magazines, tv, internet, etc?
Fleecy: We have a very definite path already mapped out for the Amiga platform as both an overt and an embedded solution. In talking with OEMs, IHVs and the like, these plans have been developed further but many of them would involve Amiga technologies within their own branding/marketing strategies.
We do intend to make use of the full spectrum of marketing and advertising media, as well as visiting a few unorthodox efforts.
5) Darth_X: If we wanted to start a project, like AmiZilla, to port OS4 to the Pegasos, how much money would we need to raise? :D In other words, what is the minimum amount of $$$ needed to port OS4 to the Pegasos?
Fleecy: There are three possible routes in considering AmigaOS4.0
- We see an existing market in which AmigaOS4.0 makes commercial sense.
- We see a developing market that we believe will deliver commercial success.
- A third party approaches us with enough money to make the creation of a port a commercial success regardless of its sales.
Since the Pegasos is a deprecated product, its sales would be minimal and so the amount of money needed would be excessive to a community driven project. Of course if an eccentric user turns up with a few million Euros then we'd certainly chat with him or her.
6) Eric_Z: There has been a rather interesting discussion over at Aorg latly on the possibility of using an Elbox SharkPPC card in a PC/MAC as an inexpensive way to run OS4. Do you know if this is possible and do you think that such an product ("OS4 on PC") would be desirabe to have in the "Amiga hardware matrix"?
Fleecy: On a general level there is no reason why it shouldn't work, although you'd have to look at the effect of having the processor board on the PCI bus. In terms of is it desirable then you have to look at the usage equation. If you have a PC that can easily jump between the huge mass of PC applications and the smaller amount of Amiga pplications then would there be enough of an incentive for native Amiga development to take place if users could just as easily use Photoshop or Cubase or play UT2003?
7) Asemoon: I have read that parts of AmigaOS4 could be stored in ROM. Could future Amigas using such a ROM start multimedia software from CD/DVD/Disk without going through a fully running OS (like classic systems and consoles do)?
Fleecy: Yes.
Seeing AmigaOS4 as a solution for such products was part of the plan from the start.
8) Asemoon: I heard debugger software will come integrated into AmigaOS4. How would this work?
Fleecy: When a program crashes, you'll get the option of starting a debugger and attaching it to the crashed task. From there on, you can fully debug the program, probably including the possibility to re-start the crashed task.
9) Herewegoagain: I am familiar with the OS4 feature list, but I would like to know if there will be any driver support for Serial ATA controllers and drives for OS4? Possibly in a boing bag update?
Fleecy: Yes, although I can't give you a timescale at this point.
10) CanGuy: This new "Bowser services" mentioned at the AmigaWest Q/A sounds very interesting, probably more useful to programmers than "just another browser". Will these services include a JavaScript engine? and will it support web standards like DOM1, CSS, etc.
Fleecy: Precisely. The aim is to provide core services rather than a monolithic application. We already intend to use a few of these services for the new documentation, help and user guide system and of course they will be completely open to developers to use for their own projects, in both traditional and non traditional projects.
HTML/XML rendering and processing, Javascript and CSS will all be part of the initial service set and others will follow.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=17
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact)
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03.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Special price offer with PhotoAlbum/Cybershow
One of the few Shareware programs which has been further developed since the
first special price offer by Amiga Arena in 1998 up to today is the
PhotoAlbum/Cybershow package by Helmut Hoffmann. For this reason Amiga Arena operator Olaf
Köbnik is all the more glad that the package can be offered at the special
price of EUR 15.00 for the "Amiga Arena" jubilee. This offer is valid only up
to 31st August 2003.
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03.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena celebrates 5th birthday
"Amiga Arena" celebrates its 5th birthday. For this reason there will be many
specials with new and old "acquaintances" who have accompanied "Amiga Arena"
until today. In addition there will be for the first time the "Amiga Arena"
history with screenshots from days gone by, a retrospect to five years of active
Amiga support with all its highs and lows.
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03.Aug.2003
Wolf Zimmer (E-Mail)
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Online magazine: NoCover #113 published
Punctual as usual issue 113 of the online magazine NoCover has been published
and already delivered via eMail to all subscribers.
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03.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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ImageMagick v5.5.7 released for AmigaOS.
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries offered under a usage
license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 87
major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and
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03.Aug.2003
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New survey: Which region do you live in?
We have just started a new survey because we're interested in where most of our
readers come from. You can choose among the following possible answers:
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02.Aug.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show: temporary list of exhibitors
On the first October weekend, 4th/5th 2003 takes the combined Benelux Amiga Show and Benelux Pegasos Show place in Rotterdam. The event takes place at the Engels near the mainstation. A temporary incomplete list of exhibitors:
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01.Aug.2003
Yahoo! Groups (E-Mail)
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Yahoo! Groups Service Changes on August 7th, 2003
As part of the efforts to ensure that all Yahoo! Groups users
enjoy the same high-quality service, the Yahoo! Groups providers
will implement the following service changes on Aug. 7, 2003:
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01.Aug.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. Yesterday
the following areas have been updated:
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01.Aug.2003
Poseidon Website
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Poseidon: Registration process closed
As of 01-Aug-03, further support for Elbox hardware has been dropped for
all times. No keyfile can be obtained anymore that will work with the
Spider.
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01.Aug.2003
Oliver Roberts (email)
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Warp datatypes v45.4 released
Oliver Roberts has released version 45.4 of his datatype WarpTIFF that comes with the following features:
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01.Aug.2003
McFly (ANF)
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Powerpoint presentations in the Amiga Hollywood format
Following the title link are several presentations in the Microsoft Powerpoint format available for free download that had been converted using Hollywood. The Amiga PPS are sorted by cathegories.
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01.Aug.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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Update: VCD Save now saves audio tracks
Now VCD Save does also save CDDA tracks and creates a prefs file in which are among other things device and unit and, if wanted, the window position on quitting the program being saved. A support for Intel and Motorola data model CDRs is built in. For the time being not every CDR is reacting on the CDDA mode. But this problem is being worked on.
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01.Aug.2003
Brad Webb (email)
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Amiga Update newsletter by Brad Webb #030731
Following the title link youcan find the complete newsletter of Amiga
Update for this year's July. In his english newsletter Brad Webb summarizes once in a month all news about the subject Amiga.
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31.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 07-08/2003 - Shopping-Time
Issue 07-08/2003 of the German 68 pages, 4c paper magazine AMIGAplus is
out now including eight hardware-reviews, workshops and much more.
Content of this issue:
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31.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 31st July 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk that
had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have been
added or updated since our last announcement:
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31.Jul.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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OpenAmiga On the Lookout for a Logo
The website for OpenAmiga has been thoroughly rebuilt and now offers forums and a new look. The authors are now looking for a logo for the OpenAmiga project. If you would like to furnish or help work on such a logo, click on the menu button Compliance Logos.
The initiators of OpenAmiga have made it their goal to establish a standard for the Amiga. This standard should then make it easier for a programmer to port between future Amiga platforms such as Amiga OS 4, AROS and MorphOS, at the same time offering the user a higher degree of flexibility in determining which system is for him or her.
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31.Jul.2003
Massimiliano Tretene
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Beta-WarpOS-Version of Duke Nukem 3D Released
Massimiliano Tretene has put a WarpOS port of the action game Duke Nukem 3D on his website. This versions is untested. unoptimized, and offers neither sound nor 3D acceleration.
To test it you must set the stack to 16384 and raise the partition buffer to 2000. For the installation please follow the instructions from the original 68K port from Dante/Oxyron, already
reported by amiga-news.de. Bug notifications with all relevant offerings may be emailed to the developer at
glquake@libero.it.
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31.Jul.2003
Troels Ersking
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AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour in Dänemark
9th August from 13:00 to 17:00 at Syvstjerneskolen in Værløse, Denmark.
We hereby welcome all Amiga fans to a couple of hours of Amiga OS 4
demonstration. Amiga OS 4 will be shown running on an A4000 fitted with a
CyberstormPPC accelerator, but it will also be possible to have a closer
look at an AmigaOne. Sodas and coffee will be on sale at the venue.
Please send us an e-mail if you intend to show up, so we are able to
estimate the total attendance. Mail: os4tour@amigadk.dk.
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31.Jul.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (E-Mail)
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Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown Also for Xbox
"Robin Hood", the sequel to to the Amiga-Classic "Defender of the
Crown", will be offered by Capcom and Cinemaware for Microsoft Xbox along with versions Sony Playstation 2 and Windows PCs in September
In a talk with AMIGAplus Cinemaware did not categorically rule out a version for the upcoming Amiga platforms.
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31.Jul.2003
Russ Norrby (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.0: Präsentation in New York
Mr. Hardware Computers and A.M.U.S.E (New York City Amiga Users Group)
are happy to announce the showing of Amiga Operating system OS 4.0 next
Tuesday Aug 5th 2003 8:00pm-10:00pm Room 706, Meyers Hall New York
University Washington Place (Between Broadway and Washington Square East.)
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31.Jul.2003
Kai Stegemann (ANF)
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Neue Hollywood Presentation Appears
Kai Stegemann has released a new Hollywood presentation and made it available for download under the title link. In the archive the executable data for MorphOS and AmigaOS may be found with the script. More presenations will follow in the future.
We're still looking for fellow warriors to help build a Hollywood portal, warriors who could design the website, create presenations, or come up with new ideas.
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