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10.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


Music: Liquid Skies records #039
The scene group Liquid Skies published their 39th music package of their series. For this time it contains a Goa/Acid-Stil Tune called "Goo:Astral" from the musician Ritzu. The cover was styled by Subass (an ex-member of the scenegroup Vortex) more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: SCO shows first proofs
The board of directors of the Linux-group e.V. has agreed to accept the leaving of the SCO-group until the 30th June 2003." We regret the deciding of the SCO-group to work against Linux and free software", so LIVE boss Thomas Uhl. So SCO showed first proofs to special analysts.«
Please read the complete article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
DCE Computer (Website)


DCE: producing of Pegasos 1 GHz G4 CPU-cards started
You can find a photo of the modul under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
amiga.org


Pegasos-Review of Magnetic Systems
Here you will find a review from 'magnetic' about the PPC computer Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
apple (not the company) (ANF)


Portable Amigapad ;-)
amiga-webpad. The webpad runs ca. 7 hours an is controlled by a pencil. UAE runs with sufficient speed. The way to the Internet is open with a Wireless LAN-Card. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
SAMBA (Website)


Net: Samba Version 3.0 Beta 1
You can read things that have been changed here. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
Egon Münch (E-Mail)


Mexikon: Cactus-encyclopedia in HTML-Format Version 3.1.19
It contains maps of Mexico and photos of over 650 arts of cactuses. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Jun.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)


PairsNG: New demo-version published
more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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09.Jun.2003



Aminet Uploads until 09.06.2003
Aminet Uploads which were added since our last report:
P61DevBas.lha        dev/basic   31K+Using Player61 library from HBasic
Feelin030513.lha     dev/gui    424K+20030513 New, Powerful and Impressive OO
WormWars.lha         game/misc  587K+Worm Wars 7.5: Advanced snake game
AmiChess.lha         game/think 2.0M+Chess based on GNUChess 5.05/06
PairsNG_Demo.lha     game/wb    2.0M+Great board game for CGFX/P96, AHI Sound
ImageConvert.lha     gfx/conv    35K+ImageConvert 2.1, batch converting with 
DIYrekoIII.lha       gfx/ifx     35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Reko2As.lha          gfx/ifx      2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
PoseidonMain.lha     hard/drivr 373K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.1b
PoseidonMOS.lha      hard/drivr 476K+Poseidon USB for Pegasos Update 2.1b
maguila.lha          misc/emu    23M+MAGUILA GUI for MorphOS MAME
Viejas-del-Sot.mpg   mods/mpg    10M+Dieziseven new song
won-zoo1.jpg         pix/fauna  148K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo2.jpg         pix/fauna  151K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo3.jpg         pix/fauna   83K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo4.jpg         pix/fauna  147K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo5.jpg         pix/fauna  145K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
Pixload-4.0.lha      util/rexx  792K+Pixload 4.0 (a tiny "dock" in RXMui)
VirusZ.lha           util/virus  92K+VirusZ III 0.9e - Antivirus Software
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
WHDLoad (Website)


Installer: WHDLoad - Additions since 08.06.2003
WHDLoad lets you install floppy based games onto your hard disk. The following additions were made since our last report: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)


Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 12
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 12 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) Bodie: Considering that OS4 has yet to be released, have sales of the AmigaOne thus far largely fallen in line with expectations?

Fleecy: Since an AmigaOne is a combination of the certified Eyetech hardware solution and AmigaOS4, it is hard to make any comments about the sales of the hardware alone. People want to buy an AmigaOne so that they can experience the latest version of their favourite operating system running on new and powerful hardware. Eyetech has sold quite a few units of the hardware but as we have not yet completed the full product and pre launch promotion has only just started, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour events, we don't really have any sales expectations for this stage. From our standpoint, this final stage is all about raising the levels of excitement and exposure, building towards the launch stage.

2) Pods: Have you considered Envoy over SMB for network support? What were the pros and cons? What other tools have you considered.

Fleecy: SMB is technically quite a let-down in terms of robustness, reliability, performance and general architecture. But it's the only game in town when you want to do printer and file sharing across a heterogeneous network (that is, while it works; printer sharing is at best a black art of sorts). If you don't mind that it can take anything between 5 minutes and three days for changes in the network topology propagate through the SMB server/client chain, that it occasionally refuses to work without any apparent reason and that the Amiga SMB support is nowhere near as polished as it ought to be. Envoy is the best integrated peer to peer file, printer and resource sharing system for the Amiga. However, it is being owned by a third party and would need further polishing to integrate it into the operating system (the user interface needs a brush-up). The downside to Envoy is that it's Amiga-only.

3) alx: Is there any more news on the BlizzardPPC version of OS4?

Fleecy: Our partner, Hyperion Entertainment has asked for feedback numbers in order to judge the demand for a BlizzardPPC version. The issue is that we have to move the the platform forwards and so we do not want people to think that a BlizzardPPC is a viable long term solution for the AmigaOS platform. In the short term we will support the CSPPC (even though its hardware implementation leaves a lot to be desired) and most likely the BlizzardPPC (even though it is a few orders of magnitude harder to support than the CSPPC) but this will only be in order to allow owners of these products to test out the new OS and see where we are going with it.
In addition, performance on these accelerator driven products will be a far cry for what can be experienced on the new Amiga certified hardware.

4) MetalJoe: What are the requirements/costs for Amiga certification of hardware i.e. to run AmigaOS 4 on a new PowerPC motherboard developed by a start-up?

Fleecy: The requirements are simple. Provide a piece of hardware on which AmigaOS4 can potentially run, arrange for it to run on the hardware so that it can pass our certification test suite and convince us that there is a viable commercial market for AmigaOS4 on that piece of hardware. We have been approached in the past by people requesting this information but they have only been interested in small numbers of boards, which makes no commercial sense (unless those third parties want to pay huge premiums per individual board).

5) ssolie: There are some rather vocal members of the Amiga online community who do not trust anything you say and consider you to be a liar. How do you feel about this kind of public criticism and how it may reflect on Amiga Inc. as a whole?

Fleecy: I have four kids, one of whom will be a proper teenager soon so I am used to being detested, insulted and called a liar by those with their own agendas, those who lack all the facts and those who just enjoy the pseudo celebrity status that goes with making lots of noise.

Public criticism comes with the role of having a public presence. Commercial activity is for adults and in the adult world, things don't always go according to plan, nor in the way that you want or even expect. We have had a very rough last three years and I certainly wouldn't say that we haven't made any mistakes. What is important is that we have held firm, worked with our partners and have kept going. AmigaOnes are now shipping, the AmigaOS4.0 is getting closer and closer to production release, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour programme now under way. That is the only way you can answer criticism, by delivering.

6) DaveP: I have been reading a lot of speculative and unsubstantive articles on Moobunny and ANN about the precense of the Articia S bug - or rather the one that the April 1 chip tried to fix. People posting checksums as evidence that it is the Articia S at fault. Can you give us a definitive, in depth explanation as of the situation right now with A1, Articia S and the relevance of these articles if any?

Fleecy: We have spent a lot of time looking at these claims, along with Eyetech, Hyperion, Mai and now Via as well. We have no evidence of the Articia S being responsible for any of the issues claimed. There are well known and documented issues with the Southbridge chip and where it has been used in other systems, those integrators have addressed those using hardware and/or software solutions. Indeed some of the reported issues seem to be because of incomplete implementations or failure to understand the capabilities of the hardware within the specific operating systems on which the problems have been reported.

The 200 MB chunk IDE DMA capability is well known and has not yet been addressed within the Linux PPC driver.
For AmigaOS, which is of course our chief concern, this is not a problem at all. When looking for a future hardware model, we were concerned about the coarse granularity of the PCI model and in particular the way a single process could take control of the bus. For a platform such as the Amiga, which prides itself on total system responsiveness, this is unacceptable and we had intended to implement these services in a chunk based solution anyway, in preparation for the consideration of other packet based bus architectures that would allow us to deliver our quality based solution for the future.

7) GregS: I had read that OS4 will have filesystem room for User and Group IDs, besides the filename is there another space that could be used for a Universal Unique File ID?

Fleecy: The user and group IDs have been in there for quite a while (1992?), it's just that besides Envoy hardly any software package would use them. As for universal unique file identifiers, there isn't an API to create or manage these with, and file system implementations, such as FFS, may not even have room for these in the first place. The 32 bit 'key' numbers associated with each directory entry are a poor substitute.

8) donV: Do you know of any plans for adding complete Java J2SE support for AmigaOS? What about complete Java J2ME support for AmigaDE?

Fleecy: Once the AmigaDE is added to the AmigaOS then J2ME functionality will be available. Further Java capabilities are on our 'to do' list but this is a large list and a lot of those items are likely to take precedence over Java.

9) defrisselle: Since you are located in the UK, will you be organizing a stop on the OS4 tour or have to talked to UK resellers/retailers about setting up a stop on the tour?

Fleecy: The 'AmigaOS4 on Tour' programme is not an Amiga Inc event, although it has our support. It has been organised by Jurgen Schober of Point Design and other dealers as a taster and promotional event for those dealers, using a demonstration of the new AmigaOS4.0 as a draw. Jurgen is the point man for this and will be driving to each dealership each weekend to demonstrate AmigaOS4.0 on a set of machines. I don't believe he was contacted by a UK dealer.

My time is taken up with finalising the pre launch, launch and post launch global marketing campaign for AmigaOS4.0.

10) ikir: OS4 contributions drawer will it contain an office suite (like Star Office, Open Office...)?

Fleecy: The AmigaOS4.0 contributions drawer is for third parties, both commercial and free/shareware who want to distribute versions of their applications to AmigaOS4.0 purchasers. Anyone wishing to take advantage of this can contact me directly. I am not aware of an currently being developed office suite existing for the Amiga, even in a 68K version so I don't believe there will be one.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=13
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact)
(nba) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
clickBOOM (Website)


clickBOOM: S-Files 23 - History auction
The Canadian game publisher clickBOOM is back. clickBOOM released a new edition of the S-files, a regularly published report about the current status of the company. clickBOOM has moved and has also new phone number. In the course of this move clickBOOM will auction an Amiga 4000/PPC wich was used for the creation of some of the most well known Amiga games ever. The device will be signed by the team members. The auction can be found here. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
Boing Attitude (Website)


Boing Attitude: Photos of AmigaOne XE G4/800
The French online magazine Boing Attitude published some photos of an AmigaOne XE G4/800 which they got in April. These photos depict the mainboard as well as parts of the tower and the running Linux boot systems. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
Timo Kloss (ANF)


New Midi-Sequencer "Horny" by Inutilis Software
Horny will be a Midi Sequencer in the style of "Logic" or "Cubase", whose simple and uncomplicated operation is the center of attention. Differently than its models Horny is to remain however a pure Midi program and can not record audio traces. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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08.Jun.2003
Achim Stegemann (Website)


Digital Almanac III v5.2 and AmiChess v2.0 released
Achim Stegemann has released new versions of his reference software titles: The shareware based astronomy application "Digital Almanac III" has managed the jump to version 5.2, the freeware, strong chess simulation AmiChess has been raised to version 2.0. more ... (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


AmigAIM 0.9445 Beta released
Yesterday the new version 0.9445 of the Instant Messenger "AmigAIM" has been released by developer Richard H. Poser II. The update contains fixes of some shortcomings in the link handler routines which led to problems when the link wasn't initiated with the usual "http://". Therefore the HTML parser was improved. Besides the bookmarks on the mailing list were changed. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)


New maps for Payback
A new (Death Match) and an updated map (God's Island) for the GTA clone Payback have been released, which can be downloaded in the "Payback Extra Maps" area of developer Apex Designs' Web site. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)


Please vote in the CAPS community poll!
Due to the number of requests, the CAPS project's operators are thinking of separating the game disk images from the scans. This basically means that online lags due to the effort of scanning will be avoided. In order to advance the decision about a possible future separation, the community is to be included. As from now there are polls available on the CAPS Web site, participation in which is strongly requested. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003



Official screenshots of AmigaOS 4 published
The online magazine AmigaWorld has published four official new screenshots of the future AmigaOS 4.0 which show the standard Intuition look of Workbench and at the same time GUI and MUI preferences, a Workbench magnifying glass, the Web browser IBrowse and the launch bar used. Also interesting is the effective font anti aliasing, e.g. the smoothing of the fonts on the user interface. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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07.Jun.2003
VHT-DK (email)


Virus Help Denmark: VirusZ v0.9e
Georg Hörmann has released version 0.9e of the anti virus software VirusZ that can be downloaded from the website of the Virus Help Team Denmark. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Lynne Music (website)


Bjorn Lynne: sneak preview for a new audio CD
A brand new Bjorn Lynne track has been released today as mp3: "Under The Bard's Tree". This is a fantasy / celtic / medieval / electronic / acoustic track from Bjorns next CD, "Return to Witchwood", due for release later this summer. Download "Under The Bard's Tree" now from mp3.com. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Debian (website)


Event: 2. LinuxWochen in Vienna from June, 5th to 7th 2003
The event "2. LinuxWochen", that is dealing with open Free Software and GNU/Linux, will be taking place until tomorrow in Vienna. The Debian project will be there with a booth that is loooked after by Gerfried Fuchs. He is additionally organizing a key signing party and will give a talk about the first steps with Debian after the installation. The Debian team invites all interested people to visit these events, to meet Debian developers and users, to exchange GnuPG finger prints, to discuss different topics regarding Debian and Free Software or to participate in another way in the community. Debian GNU/Linux is also running on the AmigaOne and Pegasos. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
AmFreak (ANF)


Photos of "AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour" in Slowenia
Damir Arh has uploaded on his website under the title link first photos of the todays event "AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour" in Slowenia. They show among other things the place where the show is happening, an AmigaOne mainboard in a towercase and the new design of the AmigaOS 4. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena: HD full version of Fatal Heritage
With the permisson by EGO Software makes the Amiga Arena in cooperation with Bernd Gmeineder from AMI Sector One and Bert Jahn from WHDLoad the release of the full version of "Fatal Heritage" available. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Gerd Frank und Manfred Rohde (email)


Development of AmiATLAS being continued
The development of AmiATLAS will be continued despite the bad market situation announced the main developers Gerd Frank and Manfred Rohde in a circular letter. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Martin Steigerwald (website)


ImageConvert 2.1 with ImageMagick support
Martin Steigerwald has released the version 2.1 of ImageConvert that comes with support for ImageMagick. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)


DiscreetFX hiring artists
Due to an accelerated release schedule and product deadlines for 2003 DiscreetFX is expanding its talent pool of contract Amiga Artists. Are you versed at Amiga 2D Paint & Animation software? Do you make wonderful artwork on your Amiga that many enjoy? Can you draw 2D animate Aliens, Dragons, Space Ships, Battle Axes, Medieval Warriors, Footballs and wondrous creatures and monsters? Then DiscreetFX needs you! more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)


Amiga OS 4.0 on Tour starts
The AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour is about to start. We have the machines ready to go and will reach Ljubljana on Sat. morning for for the first event. more ... (nba)

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07.Jun.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)


New Website: Annuaire Pegasos Francophone
"Annuaire Pegasos Francophone" is the new portal of "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" especially for the Pegasos users. more ... (nba)

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06.Jun.2003
Chris Hodges (Website)


USB-Stack: Poseidon Update V2.1b
Yesterday Chris Hodges published the new version 2.1b of the USB stack called "Poseidon". This allows you to use USB devices on the Amiga if you have an USB controller, too. Version 2.1b contains bug fixes of the subwayusb.device and massstorage.class. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003
morphos-news.de


Video about the Pegasos-TV-Report on Hungarian television
The online news magazine reports about the availability of a video of about 20 minutes about the Pegasos board and MorphOS on the Hungarian television "fix tv". The video which has a size of around 170 MB is available in MPEG and DivX format and can be downloaded under the title link. A version with English captions is in work. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003
AmiWest (Website)


AmiWest 2003: Participation of Nova Design Inc.
The Amiga show "AmiWest" will be take place this summer in Sacramento, too. On 26th and 27th July 2003 American Amiga users will have the possibility of informing about the newest developments. After Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga, Inc. already promised his appearing on April and Genesi also showed interest to participate the show now has another exhibitor: more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003
Amigan Software (Website)


Worm Wars 7.5 published
Today version 7.5 of the snake clon "Worm Wars" by Amigan Software has been published. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)


Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results of May/June 2003
Today the results of the voting to the game of the months May/June 2003 have been published: more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2003



Aminet Uploads until 06.06.2003
Here are the new uploads to the Aminet since our last message: more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Jun.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)


Gameport Driver v41.27 with Amiga/Catweasel PCI-Joystick Support
The gameport driver version 41.27 with Amiga/Catweasel PCI support is online! Guido Mersmann has put together a new version of his lowlevel.library gameport driver, which includes the following alterations and fixes:
  • BUGFIX:
    Fixed bug in the QueryKeys() function, unfortunately that was overlooked because it was the only function that wasn't used in the test program. Thanks to Chris S. Handley for the bug report.

  • FEATURE:
    GamePortEnable now supports "VT82C686 Audio Codec 97" game ports on non-PC/Amithlon systems.

  • FEATURE:
    Support for the Amiga game ports has been added as well as for the Catweasel PCI flipper controller with both of its Amiga-compatible joystick connectors. The selection of ports has been more comfortably arranged.
The new version may be downloaded directly from the Amithlon-Homepage. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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05.Jun.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)


Game: PairsNG Demo Available
As of today the PairsNG homepage and demo version are online. PairsNG is a Workbench-based computer board game similar to Shanghai. The game is shareware and may be registered for ten euros.

Features:
  • 3D-Look
  • Sound (over AHI)
  • Runs (exclusively) on graphic cards (CGFX/P96)
  • Three different game options/board sizes
  • Load function for additional stone sets
  • Item fields, behind which positive or negative actions are concealed
  • Also runs under UAE
(ps) (Translation: dm)

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05.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


Eyetech: AmigaOneXE-G3 now available / G4 slightly delayed
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) has announced on the A1 mailing list the availibility of AmigaOne-XE computers with G3 processor. A few days ago was stated the delivery of G4 Amigas will be slightly delayed because of a too small CPU fan. Customers ordered an AmigaOne-G4 who'd not want to wait any longer can change their order at their local dealer into a G3 (as long as the stock lasts). more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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05.Jun.2003
eBay (Website)


EBay Auctions to Get More Expensive after July 1st, 2003
A new European Union (EU) guideline relating to introduction of the value-added tax (VAT) on digital services has led to the fact that Ebay will start levying higher fees and commissions after July 1st, 2003. This VAT is going to apply to all eBay fees and provions, including listing fees, fees for additional options, provisions and fees for further services that are paid by eBay sellers who reside or conduct business in an EU country.
You'll find the complete eBay press release (in German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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05.Jun.2003
AudioLabs (Website)


AudioLabs: Preview Webpage for "ValveMaster" Established
AudioLabs is offering a new product by the name of "ValveMaster," and they've established a new website for it, which you may reach by clicking on the title link. The program is concerned with "audio-finalization/assets-management", and is based on the ProStation audio technology. Read further details in the following English-language original announcement.

»ValveMaster web section now open with early info on this new product here. The application is an audio-finalizer/assets-manager based on ProStationAudio technology. Fully realtime design, in the best tradition of AudioLabs products. Integrated audio-database allows to work on unlimited DSP varitions of audio masters without even opening a single file requester, waiting for rendering, nor taking disk-space. Designed for realtime handing of unlimited amounts of 32bit-deep / 2GB-sized audio files. Analog-feel overdrive, works above 0dB with no digital clipping for most flexible DSP processing ever.« (ps) (Translation: dm)

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05.Jun.2003
Markus Holler (Website)


Music: Track List for the Soon-to-Be-Released CD Remix64 Vol. 2
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga users for his music pieces in Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike and The Holy Trinity, is now working on the soon-to-be-released CD Remix64 Vol. 2. For this CD he has released a comprehensive track list with selections from the remixes (including mixes of Fist 2 and Parallax) and an introduction to the musician. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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05.Jun.2003
Diverse


Software Updates in Brief (5th June, 2003)

New pictograms by GameIcons.info
The game icon collection of GameIcons.info has been suplemented for the 2003 archive.
Download: GameIcons-2003.lha - 1,2 MB

WHDLoad Installer: New Packet
5th June, 2003 improvement: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) supports another version, install script updated.

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05.Jun.2003
VIM (Website)


Editor: Vim 6.2 - The Amiga memorial edition
VIM is an editor that is based on the Unix editor "vi" and is available for different systems such as AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS, MachTen, OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000). On 1st June 2003 version 6.2 was released. Read this excerpt from the original press release:

»[01 JUN 03] A complete new release of Vim is waiting to be downloaded! This is mostly a bugfix release, only a few new features are available: Arabic support, exception handling, GTK 2 support, PostScript printing for 8-bit encodings and a number of smaller things. Several hundreds of bugs have been fixed. For the full list of changes do ":help version-6.2" in the new Vim. (Bram Moolenaar)« (ps) (Translation: dm)

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04.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


Pegasos II: First information about the price scheme
At MorphOS-News.de there is a first information about the soon coming Pegasos II. Regarding to that the Pegasos II board with a G3 processor card starts at 299 Euro, the entry level wit a G4 module (minimun 1 Ghz) starts at 499 Euro (all prices excluding VAT abd/or other local taxes). more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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04.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: Gentoo now with Live-CDs for PowerPC also
»Live-CDs with KDE 3.1.2 and GNOME 2.2.1 as desktop
By request of some users the Gentoo team has released the bootable Linux Live-CDs for Macintosh. The based on the free Linux distribution Gentoo Live-CDs offering either KDE3 or GNOME2 as Desktop and enable to run macOS X within a window utilizing "Mac on Linux" «
Read the full Golem article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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04.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: Cornice announces a new generation of mobile mini hard disks
»Cornice Storage Element - 1.5-GByte hard drive with a weight of 14.6 g.
The US start up company Cornice has developed with their "Cornice Storage Element" an extraordinary tiny and cheap hard disk for mobile consumer electronics like MP3 players. The Cornice SE weights 14.6 g only and offers a storage volume of about 1.5 GByte and is said to be produced with a very low price due to its slim design.«
Read the full Golem article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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04.Jun.2003
Cloanto (E-Mail)


Emulator: Amiga Forever 5.3 released / invitation to the A3
Cloanto released today version 5.3 of Amiga Forever, the official Amiga emulator for PCs. The update covers some new features and improved emulation compounds as well as a new version of the "Software-Manager". Version 7.1c of the paint programm Personal Paint is included also. The cross platform version of Amiga Forever 5.3 includes an improved support for Amiga emulations running on Mac OS X systems. Read in the following paragraphs the full press release including some information regarding the "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" show. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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