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06.May.2000
AmigActive


AmigActive looking for international distributors
The english pront magazine AmigActive shall be made available worldwide, if possible. Due to this, the publisher wants to know where you would like to buy AmigActive. Vote.

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06.May.2000
A/NES


A/NES website with new design
The website of the A/NES emulator was completely reworked. Online registering is now possible. To make planning the future of A/NES easier, there is a vote going on.

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06.May.2000
AmiDog


New versions of SOPE and AmiGenerator
The new version of the Sony Playstation Emulator SOPE contains some bug fixes of several MiniGL issues. The update for the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis Emulator AmiGenerator fixes the Sonic 3D issue and others.

Download: sope0502.lha and AmiGenerator115.lha

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06.May.2000
Amiga.org


Interview with Thomas Frieden
Amiga Flame asked Thomas Frieden of Hyperion Software some questions on games currently under development, like SiN, Heretic2 and Shogo, as well as the cooperation with Amiga Inc.

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06.May.2000
PowerOS


PowerOS goes Open Source!
Claus Herrmann writes: Long time nothing new from the PowerOS team. With regret I have to admit that I am simply lacking the time and manpower, which finally brought the project to a halt. But to continue dreaming the dream of a PowerPC native OS, I decided to make the whole project OpenSource. The sources will presumably be available this week (May 8th - 14th). Thanks for your understanding... Claus.

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06.May.2000
Matthias Henze by e-mail


New beta version (v45.00 beta 2) of stormamiga.lib for AmigaOS/68k
Some functions have been rewritten, some fuctions optimized and many bugs removed.

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06.May.2000
individual computers


individual computers with new website
individual computers has reworked the whole website. The grafical layout is well done, without sacrificing usability. New are some Javascript gadgets, the company logo and more design space for products.

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06.May.2000
Harry Sintonen by e-mail


New MUI is comming!
Laire (Ralph Schmidt, coder of the now-gone phase5 and the founder of MorphOS project) said this on ircnet #amiga around Sat May 6 00:50 EEST 2000.

We were talking about AmigArt Morphos poll (saying that 41,5% won't buy Morphos unless WOS and WarpUP support is added):

Laire: these 41,5% people will fall down at once if they can use *real*
        ppc apps
Laire: 00.029| PowerUP:NewKernel/emulmodules/execppc> ls mui:libs/mui/*.elf
Laire: Directory "mui:libs/mui" on Freitag 05-Mai-00
Laire: Menudisplay.mui.elf        34835 ----rw-d Gestern    20:05:17
Laire: Framedisplay.mui.elf       30472 ----rw-d Gestern    20:07:32
Laire: Gauge.mui.elf              56374 ----rw-d Gestern    20:08:48
Laire: Pendisplay.mui.elf         57237 ----rw-d Gestern    20:09:57
Laire: Colorfield.mui.elf         30566 ----rw-d Gestern    20:00:56
Laire: Imageadjust.mui.elf        73443 ----rw-d Gestern    20:56:05
Laire: Virtgroup.mui.elf          47757 ----rw-d Gestern    20:02:50
Laire: Scrollgroup.mui.elf        32281 ----rw-d Gestern    20:04:02
Laire: Imagedisplay.mui.elf       33297 ----rw-d Gestern    20:06:30
Laire: Frameadjust.mui.elf        33708 ----rw-d Gestern    20:11:09
Laire: Popimage.mui.elf           31479 ----rw-d Gestern    20:14:10
Laire: Poppen.mui.elf             31333 ----rw-d Gestern    20:15:13
Laire: Popscreen.mui.elf          31703 ----rw-d Gestern    20:16:18
Laire: Dtpic.mui.elf              29741 ----rw-d Gestern    20:17:19
Laire: Popasl.mui.elf             62359 ----rw-d Gestern    20:18:35
Laire: Selectgroup.mui.elf        29840 ----rw-d Gestern    20:19:38
Laire: Aboutmui.mui.elf           44666 ----rw-d Gestern    20:21:42
Laire: like that for example ?:-)
Laire: mui ppc classes
Laire: for the current 3.9(4.0) beta..


(included here with permission from Ralph)

So MUI4 *is* really coming, it seems. How come Ralph seems to be the only one that REALLY makes things happen. :-)

Oh yes, and this is really no news as Ralph pointed out. Just read the text at the title link.

There has been some internal discussion about this. I think it is important to check the results of the poll mentioned yourself, since there have been more than two options in it... (mb)

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06.May.2000
Darek Dulian by e-mail


New wheelsupport software for Mroocheck PC Mouse Interface
The new Mroocheck.driver ver.1.2 supports all the possible Amiga graphic modes. The previous version of the Mroocheck.driver supported only: PAL, NTSC, DbPAL, DbNTSC and all the modes in graphic cards.

The Mroocheck PC Mouse Interface sends information to Amiga on wheel movements in the form of analogue signals. The internal A/C converters built into Amiga are used to decode them.

The immense advantage of this solution is that wheel signal decoding does not hog the computer's processor.

The Amiga A/C internal converters are based on counters of lines of the image generated by Amiga's graphic chips. The current driver update allows calibrating these converters for any graphic modes.

Download: Mroocheck12f11b.lha - 65 kB

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05.May.2000
Rolf Roth in ANF


PlayGui News
From now on, the beta version 0.9 of the PlayGui add-on 'Skinner' is available on the website. 'Skinner' is a small tool that makes the selection of the installed skins easier.

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05.May.2000
Robin Hueskes in ANF


MUImp3 Alternative MUI for NCode
Meanwhile, MUImp3 is available in version 1.5 and I think I can now mention it in public ;). MUImp3 is a MUI for the MP3 encoder NCode. MUImp3 uses the command cdda for reading digital audio data (where supported by the drive) and can access the CDID files for generating tags.

Thanks to ARexx, downloads from the internet are possible with the program ACDB. This all is based on Arexx, MUIRexx and the rexxtricks.library. MUImp3 is available on Aminet and on my website under »Projects«.

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05.May.2000
Frank Mariak via eMail


News: CyberGraphX4 RainbowIII driver
The soon coming update of CyberGraphX4 will contain a RainbowIII driver in addition to corrections for Birdie and other fixes.

Should somebody own this card or use it actively, he can get in contact with me and maybe help me testing. -> frank@morphos.de

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05.May.2000
Blittersoft


ParaGlide Voodoo 3D module soon available
The Voodoo 3D module for the PicassoIV graphics card will be available soon. Preorders are being taken.

As there's no information about a shipping date on the Village Tronic homepage, we inquired via email. Birgit Neumeier of VT confirmed that the ParaGlide module will be going into production soon. "We are currently dealing with the many preorders and hope to finish this in the next two weeks."

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05.May.2000
twilight in ANF


Heise: Free Server for Color Calibration Profiles (ICM)
«At the address www.ProfileHelp.com , the Jetsoft Development Company offers a server for ICM profiles. Such profiles are used to improve the color output on specially equipped systems (e.g. current Apple Macintosh computers or Windows 98 and 2000 PCs). After a free registration, JetSoft transfers a password via email that entitles you to freely download the profile files.»

Wolf Faust, known to Amiga users as programmer of the Amiga printing driver program »Studio« writes about it in the Heise forum:

Besides www.ProfileHelp.com there's also http://www.coloraid.de. www.coloraid.de is still under construction, but you can already find there not only free profiles, but also free software for the creation of profiles and cheap IT 8.7 calibration images. The site is a portal for several programmers who work with color software in their "free time".

More profiles for monitors and printers, as well as free software for the creation of profiles, are in development (for years!) and should see the light of day one by one within the next months.

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04.May.2000
amiga-news


amiga.topcool.de: interview with Petro Tyschtschenko
"I will stand up for the further development of our OS 3.5" promises Petro Tyschtschenko, vice president of Amiga, but also says that his influence on the business in the USA is not so big. He also means that it is possible that on christmas the new TAO/Amiga-OS is maybe available. Also an appearance on the CeBit-Home in Leipzig, Germany, is planned. Read the whole interview under the titlelink (german).

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04.May.2000
AROS-ML


AROS still alive
There is the rumour abroad that AROS is dead, that there is no further work on the project. Aaron Digulla tells his opinion and gives facts about that:

Date        Thu, 2000-05-04 17:40:39 +0200
Subject     [AROS-Announce] AROS is *NOT* dead !
Return-Path aros-announce-admin@lists.hepe.com

Someone posted a message to the AROS-User list mentioning that AROS
is dead and that Amiga doesn't do anything, etc (the usual "I'm unhappy
and I want everyone else to be unhappy, too").

Facts:

- AROS is not dead. We are currently working on forming a professional,
payed development team which will work at least part time on AROS.
This should allow us to finish the work much more quickly. I cannot
promise that this will really happen but that will be decided on
Thursday, the 11th of May (next week). I will post here ASA I know
something new.

- I'm in close contact with Amiga and we're bouncing ideas forth
and back how Amiga and AROS could work together or how AROS could
get into a stable legal state. Most of these ideas did turn out to
be unusable and therefore we're not discussing them in the public.
Otherwise, there would be a lot of havoc and disruption.

- I'm also in close contact with OAF. AROS and OAF have separated
again because our mutual goals were no longer compatible. Basically,
OAF wants a version of AROS under GPL which would allow them to
work with FSF and other open source organizations which require this.
His problem ATM is to find out which parts of AROS infringe copyrights,
trademarks and patents and to find out how he can work around these.

AROS itself will try to move closer to Amiga because then we can get
support from them, we can help Amiga companies to make their old
apps work on AROS, we will get legal protection from Amiga, etc.

I cannot say if either attempt has an advantage over the other. All I
can say is that both make sense and since it's not clear which is
better, both should be tried. May the better win :-)

--
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla                   Sowatec AG, Witzbergstr. 7
"(to) optimize: Make a program faster      8330 Pfäffikon, Switzerland
by improving the algorithms rather              http://www.sowatec.com
than by buying a faster machine."           mailto:digulla@sowatec.com
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AROS-Announce@lists.hepe.com
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04.May.2000
Oliver Esberger via email


Minor updates for PhotoFolio
PhotoFolio is the professional solution to catalogue, archive, and show pictures. The program has features like different methods of sorting, gamma-correction, any number of viewing-windows,and many more. It can be ordered via Schatztruhe. On the website of the author (titlelink) you will find minor updates of the different components.

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04.May.2000
Fun Time World


Great Nations 1.6.0 released
Download:gn160.lha

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04.May.2000
Lambda


Lambda status report
The development of the Space 3D game makes good progresses. The author Mikko Kallinen: "Today I have reached a milestone in the development of Lambda because the working version of the object framwork for the Lambda Virtual machine is done." Further information under the titlelink.

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04.May.2000
Foundation


Foundation Mission CD
Epic Marketing and Paul Burkey are proud to announce the release of the "Foundation Mission CD: The Undiscovered Land" for the end of May/begin of June. You need the original "Foundation-CD" or the "Foundation: Director's Cut-CD". The Mission CD contains 40 new missions with game enhancements and new features and will cost 25,05 Euro/DM49,-. You can preorder under order@epic-marketing.de. Further news will follow.

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04.May.2000
Norbert Roth via email


Small Gui for GhostScript
Due to a discussion on the Voyager-mailinglist about APDF and GhostScript (about the complicated usage of GS via Shell and command options or GS-commands) I decided to create a small GUI which solves this problem a bit.

At the moment only the showing and printing of EPS/PS/PDF-files is supported, but i will add the possibility to convert into bitmap-formats and small installing text (usage of GhostScript with webbrowsers - MIME-type support). Of course is this all GNU-GPL freeware.

Download: TGSM_eng.lha

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