27.May.2003
KDH News (ANF)
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AmigaOne: German mailing list
A German-speaking mailing list for AmigaOne-customers was built up today. This mailing list should help AmigaOne-customers
to communicate with other customers in the German-speaking scope (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), also it should be a authority for tips and tricks
because of the AmigaOne.
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27.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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YAM Newsletter 12 - visits in the YAM future
The YAMOS team, developer of the e-mail client YAM (Yet Another Mailer), have been published the YAM newsletter No. 12 today.
There they related to the new features of YAM-Release 2.4p1 which explains
hidden options "AutoColumnResize" of this version and visited to the future of YAM. Read the complete English-speaking newsletter under the
title link.
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Call to Logo competition
The face of AROS in this way. So a logo competition is organized, that is open for designer and graphic artists.
After the delivery date there are public selections, at its end a winner is announced.
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Status Report May 2003
Another whole month has gone by, which means that it's definitely time for another status update. Doh, why do have all the status updates to begin like that? :) I'd like to thank all the people who showed interest in AROS in the last months, and there have been a lot! Anyway, let's not wait longer, here are the juicy bits, in this relatively uneventful month...
Hardware
Johan Grip received the Pegasos board at the end of April, installed Debian GNU/Linux on it, and started working on the hosted AROS port. However he was no longer able to continue for personal reasons, so he sent the board to Michal Schulz, another talented hardware hacker.
In the meantime, Michal, who already had a PPC PReP board, worked on the native PPC port. He merged his sources in the AROS CVS tree, creating the new 'arch/ppc' directory. To this day, he went as far as implementing task handling and scheduling. Congratulations Michal! Sources as well as a PReP boot image can be found at http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~misc/AROS.ppc.tar.bz2
Michal is also reworking exec.library to make it hardware/platform-independent, by moving dependent stuff in resources like kernel.resource, OpenFirmware.resource...
Build system
No fundamental changes to this sometimes hated system, but lots and lots of little bug fixes and improvements by almost every active AROS Team member in tools, config files, makefiles... So much activity caused quite a few broken nightly builds, but it seems now stabilized.
Also the newer gcc 3.3 that got installed on the build machine led to some problems, but nothing that couldn't be handled.
We now use bzip2 instead of gzip, and a custom, simpler package format than tar to create the AROS floppy and squeeze every possible byte. In the quest to more space, some less useful programs were removed from floppy. Thanks to Adam Chodorowski for the cleanup and optimizations!
i386-pc Installation
The installer for the i386 native port, install-i386-pc, is currently broken, but a graphical bootsector installer is in work, as well as a bootmenu editor, courtesy of Sebastian Heutling, who also still works on the HDToolBox partition editor.
User Interface
Adam Chodorowski began to work on the Zune custom class PreferencesWindow.mcc which implements the AROS standard prefs window buttons and look.
Paul Smith continued his huge work on the next iteration of Wanderer and the underlying desktop.library. It draws icons, and different views are possible (large icons, small icons, details).
Fabio Alemagna added horizontal and vertical color gradients to Zune images. Take a look at the obligatory screenshot!
By default, the Boot Shell is now closed after Wanderer is started. To open a new shell, use the Wanderer/Shell menu item, or use Amiga-W shortcut (Amiga key is the right Win key on pc105 keyboards)
Localizations
Thanks to Olivier Adam for his French translation of dos.library catalog, and to Paulo Silva for the Portuguese keyboard description (which Georg Steger implemented).
Miscellaneous
Some miscellaneous things that have happened:
- Staf Verhaegen continued to work on diskfont.library.
- Stefan Berger worked hard on ports of gtlayout.library and term 4.7, which can be found in contrib.
- Adam Chodorowski imported AHI 5.8 in AROS CVS, following Martin Blom's release of the AROS port.
- Georg Steger worked on the unix hosted kernel to allow nesting supervisor, so that signals occuring during a signal handler execution are not ignored. It should improve the stability of the serial device.
- and of course, lots of fixes here and there by many developers: for a rough idea, already more than 350 CVS commits this month (although we won't beat the record of 890 last month, according to the AROS-CVS mailing list archive).
Documentation
AROS documentation, in source and HTML-rendered form, is now available on the download page.
Web
Randy Vice set up an AROS support site, TeamAROS, at http://thenostromo.com/teamaros/.
Be sure to check their bounty program if you want to sponsor AROS development.
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27.May.2003
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: Changes and votes
Forgot your password or username? Just click Log in on demo list page, enter your email address and the username and password will be send to you. Now there is no excuse anymore not to get active. By the way, about 120 votes were added in the last week. Thanks and keep them coming!
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26.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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AA: Interview with Bill Panagouleas / 'DNA - The Variety of Life'
Amiga Arena Interview with Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX)
Olaf Köbnik talked with Bill Panagoules about the Amiga port of Mozilla and about upcoming products for the Amiga.
The (English) interview.
Amiga Arena Fullversion: DNA - The Variety of Life
"DNA - The Variety OF Life", the first work by "Applaud
software" is now available for download. The game is a strategy
game. The story is somewhat similar to the one of "UFO - Enemy unknown". The earth is threatend by mutants.
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26.May.2003
Diverse
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Software Updates - 26.05.2003 (Update)
New Ports of Amiga.SF: abcm2ps and cURL
abcm2ps Version 3.5.3
abcm2ps is a program which converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript.
It was developed mainly to print barock organ scores which have independant
voices played on one or many keyboards and a pedal-board.
abcm2ps-3.5.3.lha
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26.May.2003
Amiga Society (Website)
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Amiga Society: Update of Little Book and Schlachtfeld News
There are some updates for the Little Book available - short entries about games like Dune II or Celtic Legends.
For the fans of Schlachtfeld there are the following news: There
is meanwhile an Alpha9-Version - this runs among other things also
under UAE. Some systems, as for instance the A4000 from Horst Diebel
want to get along however not so completely with it. On the computers,
on which the play runs, one can select, against an opponent advance
its team and supply oneself with the opponent of engagements. At
present there are however still problems with aiming accuracy and the
shots generally - Christian works however on these problems. It gave
already large progress and moves the end of the alpha phase within
easy reach.
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26.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 26.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
McA45a.lha biz/dbase 67K+*McAgenda* is a phonebook very easy to u
mca45CAT.lha biz/dbase 3K+Catalonian catalog for database McAgenda
mca45ESP.lha biz/dbase 5K+Spanish catalog for database McAgenda
SN-KontoArc.lha biz/dbase 94K+V1.11 Accout archives (Germany only)
XBaze-7.2.lha biz/dbase 533K+Very easy2use flexible and fast database
OpenURLDevBas.lha dev/basic 45K+Using OpenURL library from HBasic
OrpheusV1_0.lha dev/basic 40K+AGA copper creator for BlitzBasic2
FusionV1_0.lha dev/misc 217K+AGA palette manipulation & editing
nA_impulse_src.lha dev/src 2.2M+Music disk asm source
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 43K+A simple backup tool.. v1.4
nA_Cracker1_0b.lha disk/misc 65K+NDOS utility tools ;)
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 50K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42a: Advanced snake game
supertvCAT.lha gfx/board 3K+Catalonian catalog for SuperTV
AmiFig_Koch.lha gfx/edit 1K+Draws Koch's Snowflake using AmiFig's Ar
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
FroggerSP.lha gfx/show 17K+Frogger spanish documentation v2.06.0
nA_showLOGO02.lha gfx/show 6K+View mobilephone logos
038_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
039_mpfree.lha mods/moods 7.8M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
040_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.5M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
042_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
043_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
044_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
hum_m220.lha mods/moods 117K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m221.lha mods/moods 634K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m222.lha mods/moods 2.7M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m223.lha mods/moods 163K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m224.lha mods/moods 114K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m225.lha mods/moods 233K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m226.lha mods/moods 295K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m227.lha mods/moods 464K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m228.lha mods/moods 1.2M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m229.lha mods/moods 2.7M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m230.lha mods/moods 209K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m231.lha mods/moods 141K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m232.lha mods/moods 150K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m233.lha mods/moods 770K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m234.lha mods/moods 1.1M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m235.lha mods/moods 1.0M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m236.lha mods/moods 217K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
kof2kxIcons.lha pix/gicon 106K+King Of Fighters 2KX glow icons
Webbit2003_04.lha pix/misc 15M+Webb.it 2003 archive 04
Webbit2003_05.lha pix/misc 5.9M+Webb.it 2003 archive 04
nA_ConFile04b.lha text/misc 60K+Compare from 2 to 5 files
FileComp.lha util/cli 3K+CLI tool for comparing files.
MakeList.lha util/cli 6K+Create file listing from directories (68
NoLed_v1.2.lha util/misc 4K+Low-Pass Filter Killer v1.2
DRemind.lha util/time 292K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.65!
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26.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #037
There is another new track by 'Liquid Skies' available. The details of release no. 37:
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25.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Die Kleine Gilde v0.2
Die Kleine Gilde (The Little Guild) V0.2 is available as of now on Steffen Nitz' homepage.
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25.May.2003
amiga.org
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Tao: intent 2 raring to go
In a comment to the article "Amiga DE a Good Idea, Poor
Execution" in the forum of the American news service amiga.org, Francis Charig, CEO of Tao, announced intent2 and clarified a couple of points. Please read Charig's full comment below:
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25.May.2003
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Milestone 1 of Jazilla released
After the appeal incl. fund-raising campaign initiated by DiscreetFX for porting the Web browser Mozilla for the Amiga, the works on various porting projects are apparently picking up speed.
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25.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos-Chronicle by Martin Heine
Starting from his German translation of Bill Buck's and Raquel Velascos' Articia adventures, Martin Heine has compiled a (German) "Pegasos Chronicle".
Corrections or events to be added are of course welcome (Senex@gmx.de).
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24.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-KontoArchiv V1.12 and "Die Kleine Gilde" overview
SN-KontoArchiv v1.12 released
SN-KontoArchiv is an account management software with many input and statistics functions. The program is email ware. New in version 1.12 is a bug fixing related to reading the keyfile.
Game: Die Kleine Gilde
Soon will a new version (V0.2) of the economy simulation "Die
Kleine Gilde" be released. The game status changed from email ware to shareware. The price will probably be 5,- or 10,- Euro.
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24.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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OS4.0 on Tour News
We have the pleasure to announce that the 'OS4.0 on Tour' event will expand
into two more countries:
- 21.06.2003 Schweiz / Basel
- 28.06.2003 Schweden / Goetheborg
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24.May.2003
Diverse
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Software news (till 24.05.2003)
Here's a short sumary of software updates of the last few days:
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24.May.2003
The Legacy
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The Legacy: The games museum with rating possibility
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad
CPC that provides the readers with screenshots, covers scans and information about the developers. Today they integrated the possibility to rate single games. Read now the original (German) announcement:
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24.May.2003
Stiftung Warentest Online
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Stiftung Warentest: 0190 numbers - search engine shows netprovider
Stiftung Warentest reports in this article about a
search engine
in the Internet that is supposed to give information about which 0190 number belongs to which provider. This is an offer of the German "Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post". The search engine is active since Wednesday. Unfortunately it shows only the net provider of the calling number, therefore it's still complicated to search the people in the background behind the numbers. This search engine is a correct but only a first step in the fight against the unscrupulous dialer money makers.
Read the full (German) article following the title link.
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24.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MUI: new gradient feature for MorphOS v1.4
On MorphOS-News.de you can find an unofficial screenshot of the upcoming MorphOS version 1.4 showing a new MUI feature: gradient creation in realtime (these are no bitmaps).
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24.May.2003
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New webpage for Amiga clone Access
Following the title link you will find a new launched homepage for the Amiga clone Access by Index Information LDT. As there are several Access boards circulating but without an official place to turn to have all available data been collected and a forum has been installed. This can be used to exchange experiences and possibly to remove problems or to answer questions.
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24.May.2003
Pixel Art (email)
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StartMenu: Pixload final version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS 1.3
The Amiga Classic version 4 of the start menu Pixload is finished, only the German localization is still in the works. The version for MorphOS 1.3 is 99,99 % finished. Here is the final feature list:
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24.May.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo scene: Disk mag Generation now online available
Three issues of the legendary Amiga demo scene disk mag Generation
by Artwork, later Endzeit, are now for all interested visitors online available. The former main editor Henning
RokDaZone Brau had already months ago a HTML version of his ork prepared but never put it online. This has now been completed and released by the Diskmag.de team.
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24.May.2003
Thorsten Mampel, 1. Vorsitzender ACH e.V. (ANF)
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Amiga meeting North 2003 in Bad Bramstedt
From October, 10th to 12th 2003 takes in Bad Bramstedt (north of Hamburg) the 4th Amiga meeting North place. A full weekend party and fun all around the Amiga. The program:
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23.May.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 11
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 11 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) Temal: Are there any plans on trying to get companies back to the platform, such as Newtek? Is there any chance that Avid (video-editing) could be a reality on Amiga? (AmigaOS 4.x and forward) =)
Fleecy: As I have said previously, big companies want to see commercial viability OR a wheelbarrow full of cash before they are going to go to the effort of porting to a new platform. A few non Amiga companies have contacted us to find out about progress and plans and we have an internal list of companies we will contact. However, you often only get one chance with these companies so we want to make sure we have something compelling to show them when we do get through the door.
With regards to video applications, we intend to make a big play in the video market but this requires the implementation of the AG2 foundation for this to be a success. We already have one company that has contacted us with an interest in video editing and we will hopefully have more following them. In the end, we have to make the platform attractive for video editing development in order to attract those developers.
2) Ramon: Since there seems to be hardly or no audio people left at Amiga's main staff, can you convince us that audio development is being done and that the Amiga's audio system/engine will (perhaps after 4.0?) be at a high standard and be used for professional audio computing? High quality, flexible, plug-in capable, etc.
Fleecy: The Amiga AG2 audio solution is being designed by people who have a long history in professional audio application development. Its design has been evolving over the past year and will form the foundation for a big assault on the audio market over the next 12-24 months. We have been keeping an eye on the new MacOS 10.2 audio system and we are more than happy that we have a solution which will give it a run for its money. It is unlikely to be in AmigaOS4.0 but elements of it will start to appear from AmigaOS4.1 onwards.
3) DaveP: Can you tell us if the Auction sale at your old offices of Amiga equipment is on behalf of Amiga Inc? Also, related, does this imply that Amiga Inc is in severe financial difficulties?
Fleecy: No it is not on behalf of Amiga Inc. We have had a situation with our landlord for quite some time now. We have been trying to resolve it but the landlord, within his rights under the lease agreement has opted for this course of action. We haven't been in the office for quite some time and all of our work machines were moved out months ago. To counter the rumours being spread, even if there was valuable data and/or IP there, we have the right to remove/delete it before any auction can take place. All that can be sold are office furniture, fixtures and hardware. This amounts to some three year old wall dividers, desks, chairs, lamps, one or two old printers, some filing cabinets etc. People who think there will be reams of records, prototypes, CDs full of source code and other such goodies will be sorely disappointed. There is still some personal and private stuff in there as well and that has to be returned to the owners; for example I have a car full worth of CDs, clothes and kids toys.
I am not in contact with the landlord so I do not know why he decided to take this course of action. It has no effect on our operations however.
As for our financial situation, we are a private company and such information is not for public distribution. Amiga Anywhere products are in the shops, AmigaOnes are in the hands of Amigans and AmigaOS4 is getting closer and closer to release, with a Roadshow in Europe starting next month. As with anyone else, you'll have to draw your own conclusions. Given the current interest in some quarters to all matters legal, if we were bankrupt (as has been claimed by several people with a vested interest in our demise over the past 12 months) then that data would be available in the public domain as a bankruptcy filing. It isn't and we aren't. Things have been difficult, no one will deny that but we are starting to put that behind us now.
4) hnl_dk: How much control does Amiga Inc. have over the Amiga Anywhere Content Engine? Do you have total control - may you change the code, or may you 'only' add extra features?
Fleecy: AACE is our product so we have total control over it. Yes, as with any AmigaDE derivative, it uses the Tao-Group's Intent product as a foundation but if there are features missing then we add them. We are not tied to using all of Intent. We just use the bits we want and if we require a different solution for something that already exists within Intent then we would replace what it provides with our own solution.
5) IonMane: Is Amiga Inc. willing to return to the negotiation table with Genesi in an attempt to help them provide their own AmigaOne solution that is equitable for all parties, and to try to heal the divide that has caused so much strife within the Amiga community?
Fleecy: There is nothing to negotiate. Amiga Inc currently has two product lines, the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE. If a third party wishes to use or licence these then they should contact us and they will be given the same deal as anyone else. That third party will then have to meet the same criteria as every other third party in terms of sales, marketing and support in order to guarantee a quality Amiga certified product reaches the consumer.
AmigaOne is a brand name that is exclusively licenced to Eyetech Ltd so Genesi or any other third party cannot use it without either agreement from Eyetech or via building a system using the AmigaOne boards. If Genesi wishes to build systems using AmigaOne boards then they should email sales@eyetech.co.uk. I'm sure Eyetech would be delighted to add them to the AmigaOne IHV family.
From my limited understanding of the issue, and from an article on OSNews a few weeks ago, it appears that Genesi is trying to create its own platform and Mr Buck has stated that he has no interest in Amiga product, trademarks, or IP. If that is the case then your question makes no sense. The strife within the Amiga community has come about because of rumours being spread that there will be no new AmigaOS and the suggestions that people should move to another product. With AmigaOS4.0 nearing completion, AmigaOne computers on sale, and an AmigaOS4.0 roadshow, we are advancing the platform, which is what the community wants and demands. We are obviously distressed if people believed those rumours, purchased alternative product and now feel cheated but they should be contacting those who spread those rumours, asking them to explain themselves and investigating possible reparative actions. We announced AmigaOS4.0 a long time ago and whilst it has taken a lot longer than we expected or indeed wanted, we have never given any indication other than AmigaOS4.0 would be released.
6) IonMane: Follow up questions: BBRV has expressed that the licensing fee's are too high among other things.What compromises in this, or any other area would you be willing to make? What concessions would you expect in return for these compromises?
Fleecy: If Mr Buck wishes to make a business case for co-operation then he should do what any other professional business person would do; create a proposal and contact us to discuss it. If it makes financial and business sense then there is no reason why it should not proceed.
7) Treke: When the SDK 2.0 will be released. What hinders the release ?
Fleecy: We have been waiting for Intent 1.4 before releasing a new SDK. Obviously we can't release an SDK until the AmigaDE (and by implication the Intent foundation) is stable, which requires access to and testing of it. Once we get it, we have to move all of our code to it, test it, roll it out to the SDAs to get feedback and then we can build the SDK for public release.
8) Bob.C : Is there any updated news about applications that will be ready for A1/OS4? For example a word processor, paint or video application?
Fleecy: As I have said before, if the Amiga is to become the first use computer, it has to address 90% of the needs of the digital family. This includes a word processor amongst other things and we will taking internal action in regards to this. As for other applications, such as Paint and Video applications, we are in contact with both those who have such products already for the Amiga and those who have them on other platforms and who are considering a port. However I would draw your attention again to point 1 in this regard.
As for announcements, that is of course upto the third parties themselves and most are waiting until they have had a good play with AmigaOS4 on PPC since they want to get a good idea of what it will take to move over to the new platform. All I can really say is that we are of course working hard to get revised and new applications for the platform.
9) Gregs: My question: is whether there will be initial OS4 support for one or a number of Digital TV/Satellite etc., DVB (the US version is different) cards?
Fleecy: Not from Amiga itself, no. There is a lot to do and only so many resources with which to do it.
10) alx: Who will design the default theme(s) that OS4 comes with?
Fleecy: A well known and respected AmigaOS and AmigaDE developer. I am not giving his/her name out because they will then have to spend so many hours reading the emails of people who want to ask for this, that and the other that they will never get any work done.
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23.May.2003
falkemedia (ANF)
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Special offer: 6 AMIGAplus, 3 A+ CDs and fxPAINT 1 full version
For a short period and in a limited amount falkemedia and IOSPIRIT are offering
a special subscription of the German paper magazine AMIGAplus for
just 39,- Euro which includes:
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23.May.2003
amiga.org
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Descent Freespace got a new update
A new version of Descent Freespace is available from the Hyperion
website for 68k and PPC Amigas. It is still beta but it fixes
some annoying bugs. The size is about 1.3Mb and it is available
in the download area only for registered users on the website under
the title link.
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23.May.2003
amiga.org
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Woof3D: New Crossplatform-3D-API
Woof3D is a shared library for Amiga, Windows95 and Linux x86.
It offers a very SIMPLE way to create 3D program in C.
more ...
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23.May.2003
DiscreetFX (Website)
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FAQ to Mozilla-support-action
After DiscreetFX announced last Tuesday that there is an amount of money for a port of
the web browser Mozilla for the Amiga the chairman Bill Panagouleas has created an
information site to the support action which you can access via the title link.
There you can read questions and answers concerning this topic.
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23.May.2003
Joar Berntsen (ANF)
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2Decide: A 2D strategy game using themes
In case you are missing all the great recent uploads to Aminet;
Joar Berntsen would like to inform you of the freeware
game "2Decide" that has the ability to dress itself up with
various theme packages.
more ...
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23.May.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Port of Kray for MorphOS and Linux PPC
The raytracer software Kray is available for new platforms: MorphOS and PowerPC-Linux.
We owe this to the developer Stefkos. Kray is also available for AmigaOS 68k, Linux x86,
SunOS/SPARC, AmigaOS PPC, Windows and Mac OS X. You can read more about this topic under
the title link. There are also download links.
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22.May.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: Exclusive Space-Rat-Special
Kultpower presents an exclusive preview of the soon available book about Space Rat made by Mathias Neumann.
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22.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 22.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
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22.May.2003
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Survey: How old are the readers of amiga-news.de?
Searching for interesting surveys all the time, today it came to my
mind to find out the average age of the readers of amiga-news.de.
For this reason I opened a new according survey. These are the
possible answers:
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22.May.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Amiga Future is searching for authors
The Amiga-magazine 'Amiga Future' searches for users who are
street-smart with a program and might write a workshop for one
of the upcoming issues.
If you're interested please write an email to redaktion@amigafuture.de.
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22.May.2003
Sebastian Brylka (ANF)
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Fun Time World - New Online Shop reopen and lottery
We are a German distributer and we released games like "PuzzleBOBS"
from Nexus Development and "Aqua" from Emerald Imaging.
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22.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available
As of now a new Linux-kernel in its version 2.4.21
is available for the AmigaOne. One of the most important changes
is the direct support of Radeon 8500/9000 in the kernel fbdev.
More information about this update and a download link is available
on the website under the title link.
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21.May.2003
Dany Thinnes (ANF)
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TH-Verbindung v1.2 released
TH-Verbindung controls the costs during connections with the Internet.
Thus unexpected bills shoud be avoided. Miami, MUI and ARexx are required. The update to version 1.2
has some news:
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21.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-KontoArchiv version 1.11
SN-KontoArchiv has been released in version 1.11. This program is an e-mailware
which enables you to manage your accounts in Euro. The program offers many statistical and input functions.
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21.May.2003
Mac Life (Website)
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PowerPC 970 shipped already?
The rumors page LoopRumors claims to know that IBM shipped
20,000 1.4 GHz and 40,000 1.6 GHz processors of the type PowerPC970 to Apple already.
It is said that they were delivered directly to Foxconn in Taiwan, the manufacturer of the
Apple mainboards. The 1.8 GHz prozessors were on their way also.
Even these rumors can't be confirmed, the introduction of the first PowerPC Macs is expected for summer.
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