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19.Jan.2000
Transmeta


Secret of the Transmeta CPU unveiled
Yesterday, Transmeta unveiled the secret Crusoe CPU as promised. It is a CPU clocked up to 700 MHz while staying relatively cool. With this, it offers the performance needed for today's usual multimedia and Internet applications. Additionally, the CPU is completely x86-compatible.
Other links on the subject:
CNN: Transmeta unveils futuristic Crusoe chip
ZDNet: Transmeta takes wraps off Crusoe (Translation: mb)

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19.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de


IRC Log - Live Chat with TAO-Group and Fleecy Moss
As announced yesterday by John Porter, Amiga Oasis Online hosted a live chat with representatives of the TAO Group and Fleecy Moss. I participated in the Chat, and logged it:

IRC-Log - LiveChat with TAO-Group and Fleecy Moss - 19.01.2000

<[breed-away]> ok everyone be patient, we just waiting for the guys to rejing :)
<sNAK3^RP> i wonder how many ppl are not using there normal nicks???
<sNAK3^RP> lol...u can imagine how many arnt
<[breed-away]> I Would like to welcome Francis Charig and Fleecy Moss to the room
<[breed-away]> plus other members of Tao group watching :)
<[breed-away]> Are you ready to get started Francis?
<situation> Here we go...
<Senex> 1) One thing "Amiga Aurora" (my suggestion for the new OS's name) MUST have: Screens - so how about Screens, Datatypes, FFS-support? 2) Why not calling the product family just "Amiga", i.e. "Amiga Aurora", "Amiga XYZ", etc.? GA
<Charig> We will be working with Amiga, taking a close look at the existing features and making sure that the new system will have the same or greater functionality.
<Netsplit^> when can we expect to be reaching for our checkbooks, to buy something new from u guys & when might it be. GA
<Charig> Bill's in the room and Fleecy can't talk! :) Announcements on this will come when the product is ready to ship. No more hype!
<Urizen> Will you support hardware-accelerated OpenGL? GA
<Charig> intent(TM) supports hardware accelerated 2D and 3D graphics. As for the 3D APIs that sit on top, we encourage all 3D APIs to be ported across. Have you heard of Renderware? :)
<tOmAsH-BB> What is the real cooperation level of TAO and Motorola? I mean, does Motorola want to use your (Amiga?) software, and vice versa?
<Charig> It is publicly known that Motorola is releasing connected appliances utilising Tao's software (e.g. Timeport P1088 smart phone, see announcement 8.1.00)
<dreamstar> Q: will Elate be used as the next generation OS of future Amigas? GA
<Charig> Specifics on this will announced shortly. :)
<Firebird^> Hello Mr. Charig, my feeling about Gateway 2000's (Old Amiga Inc.) plans for using Linux as the OS of the new machines is that it would be a mistake. It wouldn't be an Amiga, just a Linux box with the Amiga name slapped on it. I hope this isn't going to be planned. ;)
<Charig> That was a statement!
<Elektro> fleecy: please describe the new amiga Computer(!) thnx :) GA
<Charig> "It's lovely and cuddly" says Fleecy
<sNAK3^RP> Q: well there be a Os4.0 chipset...GA
<Charig> If you mean, "a new chipset for a new Amiga" then the answer is that the new Amiga has been designed to be hardware independent, hence Tao.
<Charig> This is why we are partnering together.
<Charig> Also I want to add a couple of other points.
<sNAK3^RP> Q: will we still have Os as such...GA
<Charig> The main objective today is to correspond about intent(TM) rather than have extrapolations about the precise configurations of the new Amiga.
<TheB> What is the Amiga "history" that TAO has? It doesn't seem very comforting that you have to take a look at the Amiga to figure out what it's about. (As for Firebird's statement.. that's true of any new "Amiga".) And as for this 'hardware independent' Amiga.. is that like java? :) GA
<Charig> Have you looked at our website to see what technology we offer?
<amiga-news_de> 1st question: TAO: It was reported that you helped in the Amiga buyout. How much of this was "your idea", means, are you tech supplier, partner, or even more? 2nd question: Will there be free Tao and/or Amiga documentation, for the "just curious"?
<situation> In future, One question at a time, please, we have a lot of people wanting to ask questions
<fleecy> We talked to Tao when looking for partners and got so horny about each other that Tao dropped us some VC names and made introductions and recommendations about Amiga.
<fleecy> Tao is our foundation supplier. Amiga will be providing all the support. Anyone who signs up to develop will have access to full APIs.
<Swarfega> Apple's new OS X has a lot of it's GUI done with vectors, which allows easy scaling, rotating, etc. of pretty much anything on the screen. Will that sort of thing be possible with new Amigas (or is the OS extensible enough to allow people to write their own interfaces)? GA
<charig> We are not intending to have matrix style transformations embedded in the lowest layers of the graphics subsystem as this inherently slows down all other graphics functions.
<charig> Such vector type operations are available higher up.
<charig> ...where they should be.
<charig> Remember... elegance through simplicity and performance.
<dark4ces> would there be any performance benefit to writing code in VP assembler rather than higher-level languages? GA
<charig> There will be the same benefit that writing an assembler over high level languages offers in any other environment.
<charig> You trade off slightly higher development effort in order to gain tighter, faster code.
<charig> Remember that writing in VP gives you the advantages of assembler but no portability drawback.
<sNAK3^RP> monolog: rendering will be faster:))))
<AmigaDragon> (1) Will the new system (HDW or SW) have equivalent (or higher) filesystem support such as CrossDOS/CrossMAC including Windows longfilenames? (2) Fleecy, will we see, sometime in the not too distant future, AmigaOS (classic) Open source? GA
<fleecy> Me and 4 of the dev team have been VP for 2 days now and it's nothing like traditional assembler, more like C with the crap bits taken out. You'll find out soon.
<situation> People, One question at a time, please
<fleecy> Answer to AmigaDragon - Q1 - You can mimic multiple file systems + they also have their own high performance native file system.
<fleecy> Amigadragon (2) - our lawyers are looking into it but it is a much more complicated web than anybody could guess.
<TheRiley> if someone wanted to build an "Amiga"-desktop based on, say, the POP-standard, and use your new OS , would you support it (and if, how)? could the new OS run on phase5 Amirage for example? (ok, that's 2 questions, but they overlap so much that they are basically one :))
<charig> 1. Yes. 2. Bill was talking to Gerald Carda yesterday. :)
<HaXoR^> Mr Charig / Fleecy, is it just a coincidence this conference happening immediately before the transmeta cpu lauch(5pmGMT)? GA
<charig> Yes. We are hardware independent.
<Cpt_Hbl^> How long has Amino/Amiga and Tao been co-operating ? We know all about Fleecy/Bill/Petro but how does Toa feel about Amiga community? GA
<[breed-away]> Yup, it was supposed to happen yesterday.....
<charig> We have a large amount of respect for the Amiga community which is why we have been working cooperatively with Bill and Fleecy for some months, determined to make this really happen.
<BJS> The Time of Homecomputers of the 80's r over, i mean, what does a CHRP board with an strange OS with Amiga in common, other than the name, it's just marketing. and the things done from 1994 till now r only done for the existing userbase and they shrunk, how will u encourage others to buy amiga?
<charig> By providing the best platform.
<Thy> Do you plan to do advertising ? Considering that it should be worldwide, can you afford that ? To have the best machine is not enough if nobody knows that. GA
<charig> Yes. We will be doing advertising (Tao and Amiga) with our partners.
<Senex> How many developers are working currently on "Amiga Aurora" (i.e. the new OS <g>), and how many of them are from Amiga, how many from Tao? GA
<charig> Amiga has a dozen engineers growing, Tao has 60 + plenty of blue chip partners.
<RUiNa> Q: Please take this all as one general question about marketing. With consoles and settop boxes allowing more ability and connectivity, and with super low pc prices, do you feel we'll compete with these pricewise or are you moving towards some other newer market? we all know marketing was the original amiga downfall. is the marketing planned and being taken care of by pro's? GA
<charig> Yes. We like to call them "hookers".
<FryG_away> Q:will there be any new updates for WB3.5 ? GA
<fleecy> We have a transitional plan for the Classic that we will announce with our partners.
<Nico_Barbat_amigaOS> Francis, Bill told on the press-conf. that you are an long-time Amiga-fan - in which effect could this be useful for the *developer* group? WHO is actually working on the new OS? GA
<charig> I'll take those in reverse order.
<charig> We already have the foundation layer. I'm not going to discuss o/s specifics today. The entire Tao engineering staff is working on software which will be utilised by the Amiga community.
<charig> Remember that it is not just that we are fans, we also have major Amiga engineering history at Tao.
<sNAK3^RP> Q: in what year will we see the Adverts or price lists.amiga has NEVER died..GA
<charig> This year.
<|MB|> Hello. I am a convinced amigaist, but in what this new repurchase is it different from the precedents? How long will last your new development? GA
<charig> What?
<Szczepan-BlaBla> Does new Amiga (or what is named) will have full support for "Classic" Amiga apps running just like normal one ? I mean that I can use any current program to edit/view/etc. any file from disk (not like it is in UAE). GA
<charig> Announcement soon.
<ioni> Will there be PCI, AGP, USB, etc. ports in the 'new Amiga' ? And support for them ? ga
<charig> We will support all significant hardware standards.
<Reticuli> fleecy stated earlier: "anyone who signs up to develop will have access to full APIs"... The API's WON'T be public domain? Is this wise? The Amiga excelled because of the back bedroom developers who just decided to have a quick dabble one night and has survived years in the wilderness because anyone could program it without having to become a formal developer. Or did I misinterpret that answer? GA
<charig> You are assuming that the development kit is going to be expensive... it won't be.
<CraiK> Q: I have got several commodore amiga computers including amiga 500, 1200, and CD-32, along with commodore 64. All i want to know is, what do you expect the future of the AMIGA world will be like (in general)? bright or dark? I just want you to make me feel comfortable about the AMIGA's future. I come from the middle east, btw just to let you know that we also DO care about the MIGGY ;) and thank you very much for your time, sirs. GA
<^PaulaCIA^> CraiK Commodore are dead, Amiga is owned by Gateway 2000 for more info go to www.amiga.de !
<[breed-away]> heh
<situation> oops, I think your bot needs updating, breed
<[breed-away]> eck, must update Paula!!!
<[breed-away]> slaps Gateway 2000 about a bit
<Erchin> lol
<DanDude2> hehehe
<GuardianBOB> heh heh yes you should.
<JoeSchmo> MUHAHAHAHA
<Gaijin^> lol.. yeah :P
<charig> Of course it is going to be bright. Tao's heavily in demand with so many global consumer electronics companies.
<jws72512a> Will new Amiga/Tao OS System run on IBM PC box? GA
<charig> We regard the Amiga as a fundamental part, not just of our strategy but the whole future of digital content.
<situation> Okay, I've not asked a question yet, so here goes... How confident are you at taking on the industry giants, Microsoft, Intel, et al... and winning?
<charig> Tao is already becoming very successful and we know that the co-operation will accelerate our success, Amiga's and the community.
<sNAK3^RP> well guys thx for <maybe> given us some hope...we look forward to new things......
<charig> Thank you and Goodnight from Reading England :)
<situation> Thanks very much for giving us your time
<situation> round of applause, please
<[breed-away]> I wish to thank Francis Charig, Fleecy Moss, Bill M and the other guys from Tao for turning out..
<Erchin> many many thanks to everyone
<[breed-away]> im sorry to those who didnt get there questions answered
<situation> Thanks everyone for being so patient... we ran this whole system by hand, 'cause we didn't have time to set up proper scripts (Translation: mb)

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19.Jan.2000
EETimes


EETimes: Moto(rola) invests in virtual processor software house
GNN titles: Motorola investing in Amiga partner Tao

The CPU manufacturer Motorola, the other manufacturer of the PowerPC chip used by Apple besides IBM, recently purchased a minority of the Tao Group. Since 1994 Tao offers TaOS, an innovative operating system for the diverse CPU platforms, and already engaged in a strategic partnership with Amiga Incorporated in December 1999. (Translation: mb)

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19.Jan.2000
Steven Flowers by e-mail


Alive Mediasoft looking for programmers and game reviewers
We need your help more staff need to work from home we need programers to join hower in house devolement team and a game reviewer to work for The Pulse if your are intrasted in any of the persions please conted jenniealive@innotts.co.uk. (Translation: mb)

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19.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de


Software News
(Translation: mb)

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18.Jan.2000
ADX


ADX Datentechnik website with new layout
ADX has reworked their website completely and very neatly. An online shop has been implemented, where all articles can be ordered directly online. (Translation: mb)

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18.Jan.2000
Jan Andersen by e-mail


Virus Help Denmark reports link virus "Hitch Hiker v4.11"
Virus Help Denmark found a virus infected archive on Aminet on January 18th. The archive is infected with the link virus "Hitch Hiker v4.11". More information on the archive:

Name: Sniper
Virus name: HitchHiker v4.11
Archive name: Sniper.lzh
Archive size: 667,902 bytes
Infected file: Sniper
Infected size: 688,060 bytes (infected)

The game is playable, but please remember to remove the virus first with one of the common virus programs like VirusExecutor, VirusZ, VirusChecker II or VT. (Translation: mb)

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18.Jan.2000
clickBOOM


clickBOOM insane?
clickBOOM makes a weird offer: Those who mark themselves as complete clickBOOM and Amiga fan, having a tattoo with the words "clickBOOM" or "Amiga" or a logo made, get all clickBOOM games for free. Contact with clickBOOM should be made before getting the tattoo done.

I can only hope this is a joke, because such offers are very questionable in my eyes. (ps) (Translation: mb)

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18.Jan.2000
Amiga.org


Interview with Aaron "AROS" Digulla
Interview with Aaron "AROS" Digulla. (ps)

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18.Jan.2000
Amiga.org


Fleecy answers some questions by Gary Storm
AQUAFRESH - Fleecy answered some questions by Gary Storm (ps)

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18.Jan.2000
Amiga.org


AmigaGuide® to be reworked
AmigaGuide® to be reworked. (ps)

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18.Jan.2000
Andreas Magerl by e-mail


APC&TCP mostly unavailable due to illness
Due to illness, APC&TCP will be mostly unavailable starting January 17th to early, mid March 2000. During this time, only snail mail (APC&TCP-Computerclub, Postfach 83, D-83236 Übersee) will be answered with a small delay, if you enclose enough money for return stamps. The answering machine (phone +49-(0)8642/89995) will be checked regulary, but please understand not everybody can be called back. Fax, e-mails and storage media can be send, but will not be read and answered before early/mid March. (Translation: mb)

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18.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de


Software News
  • Alive Mediasoft announces "Frontier First Encounters" and "Elite 3 First Encounters" for Amiga.
  • Marko Seppänen told us by e-mail that he was unable to fix the dead link to the offer page due to technical problems of the provider. Here is the correct link: offer.

    The Image Engineer PlugIn "Visual Border" now has an option (in the registered version) to create / save the border effect with single or all pictures in a directory. Orders can be placed here.
  • Virus Help Denmark announces the new VirusExecutor version 1.83 of author Jan Erik Olausen being available. Download: virusexecutor.lha - 118,140 bytes
  • Epic Marketing released two new game compilation CDs. The CD "Adventures Lair" is a CD with ten complete graphics adventures. The CD requires an Amiga with hard drive and 2 MByte RAM. Among the games are "Mad House", "Legends of Lothian", "Federation", "Blood Fest", "Seven Realms" and others.

    Ten complete games can also be found on the compilation CD "Mutantology", including the commercial Mutation games "Castle Kingdoms" (action adventure), "Tommy Gun" (shoot-em-up) and "Tin Toy Adventure" (jump&run).
  • Stefan Werner told us in the ANF that Be offers BeOS R5 for free download. Download: BeOS download page.
  • dEViL told us in the ANF that SecondSpin is now available in version 1.97beta. Download: SecondSpin_Install.lha
  • AmiDog released DarcNES (multi-console-emulator) version 9a0115a. Download: dn9a0115a.lha.
  • Hans-Werner Schober offers a new beta version 4419.03 of FastIPrefs, adjusted to OS 3.5. Download: FastIPrefs4419_03b.lha - 118 Kb
  • You can find new screenshots of "The Last Seal" at Ancor as well as new informations on the game; e.g. a new sound program is being used, which sounds great, and new sounds have also been sampled already. Additionally, new rooms have been created, and the drawing of a new character has been begun.
(Translation: mb)

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18.Jan.2000
3SAT - Neues


3SAT Computermagazin Neues mentions Amiga
The computer magazine "NEUES" by 3SAT (German TV channel), known for really good investigations and matter-of-fact reports is becoming more and more liked by Amiga users, because, for a positive change, "NEUES" does not ignore the Amiga in their reports. On January 17th, there was a report about the sellout and the cooperation with the TAO Group. Citing:

"There are news to rell about Amiga, too. After Gateway sold its Amiga share in December, the company has entered a strategic partnership with the british TAO Group. They want to develop a new Amiga Operating System together. Currently Tao offers four operating systems, with the realtime OS Elate being especially interesting. Elate is platform independant, no matter if Windows or Linux, and offers multi processor support. One can be looking forward to how Amiga might profit from this cooperation." (Translation: mb)

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18.Jan.2000
John Porter by e-mail


Live chat with TAO Group
The Live Chat will take place today at 16:00 GMT. Sorry for posting this so late, but I didn't have a change to translate any sooner. (mb)

Reply-To:      "John Porter" johnp@cadlink.co.uk
From:          "John Porter" johnp@cadlink.co.uk
To:            team@amiga-news.de
Subject:       News
Date: Mon,     17 Jan 2000 17:05:13 -0000
Organization:  CADlink UK

Hi Everyone,

Just to let you know we have got a live chat with Tao Group and
hopefully fleecy to discuss the Amiga and what we feel should be done.

Tao dont have that much a roll in the development but they do have
some say and are very intrested to hear the views of the Amiga public
to help them take the correct road.

Francis Charig, Chairman and Chief Exec of Tao Group has confirmed
this with me and seems like a really down to earth guy and very sincere
in what he wants to do with the Amiga, he said he will ask Fleecy to
attend as well.

So got some ideas? questions? or just want to sit and watch? then
come to #AmigaGames on IRC Dalnet.  I will be confirming the live chat
with Francis a hour before we go ahead to make sure things are ok, if we
have to postpone it, there will be a new date given in the topic.

If you have a JAVA client you can come directly to

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/9376/irc/chat.html

If you are on a Amiga you will need to download Amirc from Aminet and
log onto a dalnet server.

amiirc.lha

The best server to use is irc.dal.net on port: 7000 group: 01

If you are on a PC you can get Mirc from http://www.mirc.com

The Live Chat will be on 19/01/00 at 16.00 GMT

The Chat will be moderated you need to msg a active op to be able to
ask a question No more than 2 questions per go

Usuall IRC rules apply, swearing, name calling, flooding will end in
a ban.

Hope to see you all there

Best Regards

John Porter
Amiga Oasis Online
http://bounce.to/amigaoasis
#AmigaGames IRC Dalnet
(Translation: mb)

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17.Jan.2000
Christoph Dietz


Meeting with Bill McEwen in Frankfurt
Bill McEwen, President and CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Amiga Incorporated, explained his vision for the future of the Amiga on January 17th.

At the first meeting after the Amiga takeover by Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss, mainly hard- and software developers were present as well as representatives of the two remaining German Amiga print magazines and of course myself for amiga-news.de.

The meeting was intended for getting to know each other. Bill McEwen is not a no-name, but so far he was rather behind the scenes at Amiga Inc.

However, he brought some goodies with him to Frankfurt. He explained the partnership with Tao, and that their OS will be part of the new Amiga generation. He assured that not only a developer box specification will be released in February, but also that the necessary software will be offered for free download at the same time.

For the late summer, the introduction of the first consumer system is scheduled. The exact specification of this model is not yet decided upon, and depends on the results of his numerous talks with developers during his trip to Europe.

All in all, a beginning for the next - and hopefully successful - attempt to revive the Amiga. At any case, Bill McEwen earned broad support on the Frankfurt meeting. (Translation: mb)

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17.Jan.2000
Andreas Mayer-Gürr by e-mail


CSC contest over
After 62 days and 98% keys done, the CSC key has been cracked. The correct key was found by a Sparcbox (with Solaris) in the USA. The Amiga team has done 4 million key blocks with 228 keys each, for a total of 1.11% of the keyspace.

Now all Amiga users who participated in the CSC contest should return to calculate RC5 blocks. Every block counts... ;-) (Translation: mb)

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17.Jan.2000
Petra Struck


MeKa pictures
Hosted by the Fachhochschule Karlsruhe (Technical College), the yearly "Meeting Karlsruhe" took place last weekend, for the seventh time and with about 150 participants. I was overwhelmed by the really phantastic organisation of this huge meeting. There were 5 rooms with 30-35 computers each completely networked. The Fachhochschule provided a free 10 MBit connection in addition to their rooms, which led to great download rates. Thanks to the ATM systems from HiLan, there even where 155 MBit available locally.

The hosts really had planned for everything. There was a seperate sleeping room where exhausted visitors could take a nap. A cinema was available for relaxing, and all the time fresh breadrolls, coffee, tea and other non-alcoholic beverages were offered; a really well working Internet Pizza service made the offer complete.

I had many interesting conversations, met many, many really nice people, and left with the wish to return for all three days next year. I really enjoyed myself, but I did regret not having brought my computer. I want to say thanks for the invitation, and congratulate the hosts on their excellent work.

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(Translation: mb)

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17.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de


Software News
  • AHXRipper v4.41
    Christian Rosentreter told us by e-mail:
    Kåre Johansen recently released version 4.21 of his popular AHXRipper (formerly THXRipper). v4.21, v4.41, I really don't know - probably you do... (mb)
    Moreover, other tools of him (several ABBS v2 tools, LazyFiles 1.01, CheckDrive 1.01, ...) are available for download from his homepage.
  • Tumult releases the source code of the MUI class Xenbar. The archive can be very useful if you want to create alternative #?.image files. It is the original source code by Stefan Stuntz. Download: Xenbar.LHA
  • At Duffs Homepage you can find a new version of his HTMLview version 12.6. Download: MCC_HTMLview_Update.LZX - 64 Kb
  • For registered users of Photogenics there is a new update to version 4.4 beta 75. This update contains new modi like RubEmboss and BumpMap as well as an improved Emboss modus. Download: Update75.lha - 950 Kb
(Translation: mb)

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17.Jan.2000
Jorge Pino by e-mail


AOL for Amiga looking for support
Jorge Pino writes:
We are looking for:
- enthusiastic Amiga programmers and users
- web designer with experience in Java, CGI scripting, HTML
- if possible, programmers wanting to port an AOL software
- support of the project by translations to Spanish, French, English etc.

Those interested can contact Jorge Pino by e-mail. (Translation: mb)

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17.Jan.2000
Stefan Robl in ANF


FMdriver VHI v1.1 released
Stefan Robl has released version 1.1 of his VHI driver for the Framemachine on January 15th. Some VHI problems have been removed in this version, and all features recently added to VHI are supported.

The driver is giftware (like 10 USD, hardware etc.) and works on Amigas with 68k CPU.

Download: FMdriverVHI.lha, readme (Translation: mb)

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17.Jan.2000
Czech Amiga News


HTMLview.mcc v12.6 released
Allan Odgaard has released version 12.6 of his MUI class for viewing HTML documents on January 16th.

The class currently supports the major part of the HTML 4.0 standard as defined by the W3C. According to Allan Odgaard, the class is more precise than many browsers, and very well suited e.g. for e-mail programs wanting to display HTML - especially since the class is working really fast. You shouldn't forget, however, that it is a prototype undergoing many changes. E.g. it is being worked upon Style Sheets support. The release of a Style Sheet supporting version will take some time, however.

With the included demo program, the class can be used as "offline browser". Without written permission of the author, however, it must not be used on CD-ROMs etc.

The class offers the following features:
  • Incremental site buildup. The parsing is done by a seperate process, so the MUI program can still react to user input while a HTML document is parsed.
  • Progressive drawing of graphics. Currently GIF, GIFAnim, JPEG, and PNG are supported by modules.
  • Text can be marked and copied to Clipboard.
  • Full text search.
  • Comprehensive HTML support. Tables with background graphics, frames, forms etc.
  • Very fast.
  • and more...

Known bugs:
  • Text outside of ... is not displayed.
  • Entities (e.g. &) without trailing ; are not recognized.
  • The Floyd-Steinberg algorithm for dithering pictures tends to handle pictures differently towards the borders. This can lead to patterned backgrounds looking like there are lines between patterns.
  • The datatype wrapper for decoding pictures seems to work only with the P96 picture.datatype.

If you are interested in programming a Flash viewer, RealAudio plugin etc., contact Allan Odgaard.

Download:
MCC_HTMLview.LZX v12.5 (140.8 Kb, 7-Sep-1999)
MCC_HTMLview_Update.LZX v12.6 (63.5 Kb, 16-Jan-2000) (Translation: mb)

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Payback status report #7
James Daniels from Apex Designs has posted the 7th Payback status report on January 16th. Additionally, the link page has been updated. (Translation: mb)

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Additional Informations by Alive Mediasoft
Elite 3 will support PPC and Warp3D. It is being ported by the people doing the Descent 2 port, too.

The real-time strategy game Home Land is announced for first quarter 2000.

The Alive Mediasoft website should be online again by now and offer informations about the new releases planned for this year. (Translation: mb)

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