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Archive 08/2001

`28.Aug.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Byte Magazin: He Who Controls the Bootloader You can find an article from Scot Hacker about the license policy of Microsoft in the American computer magazine Byte. Hacker tries to explain with the examples BeOS and Linux why it is so hard to establish an alternative operating system on the x86 market. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Aug. 2001, 17:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Aug.2001` Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (E-Mail)	Music: Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr produced song for amiga-news.de It is a great honour! The musician Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr has composed and produced a very nice song for amiga-news.de in his spare time. You can find the song at the download area (title link) at "Amiga-News Theme" (about 7 MB, saved in high quality) As I listened to the song I had the idea it would be nice if a demo coder could create an intro for this. Really would be if someone has an idea for lyrics for this song. If you are interested send an eMail to ps@amiga-news.de (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Aug. 2001, 12:38] [Comments: 1 - 30. Aug. 2001, 16:58] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Aug.2001` Darek Dulian (E-Mail)	Elbox: New Mediator Drivers 'MediatorUP 2.4' We are happy to announce the first release of the shared MMU & NO_MMU version of Mediator drivers. The new pci.library 4.1 can currently work in both modes. Along with the new pci.library we release new versions of all the drivers released so far. All the new drivers have been re-written to co-operate with our newest software: drivers for PCI Sound and PCI TV cards released in the Mediator Multimedia CD. More details: http://www.elbox.com/news_16-08-01.html The following files are included in MediatorUP2.4.lha: pci.library ver. 4.1 NEW The way how the pci.library and all the drivers are working (MMU / NO_MMU) can be switched over by the contents of the MMU file located in the Envarc:/Mediator drawer. Manuals: ReadMe UserManual VoodooGuide VirgeGuide MediatorNET Copyright Software: Mediator_Install PciInfo ver.1.2 Drivers: Voodoo.card ver.2.5 NEW Virge.card ver.1.3 NEW MediatorNET.device ver.2.1 NEW Prefs files: MMU VoodooMem VodooInt VirgeMem VirgeInt For the newest Vendors.txt file, see: http://www.yourvote.com/pci/vendors.txt Please copy appropriate files to drawers: pci.library to Libs: MediatorNET.device to Devs:Networks Vendors.txt to S: MMU to Envarc:Mediator VoodooMem to Envarc:Mediator VoodooInt to Envarc:Mediator VirgeMem to Envarc:Mediator VirgeInt to Envarc:Mediator Voodoo.card to Libs:Picasso96 Virge.card to Libs:Picasso96 Please read VoodooGuide before installing your Voodoo card. Please read VirgeGuide before installing your S3 Virge card. Please check CGX pages: http://www.vgr.com/mediator for the newest version of CGX drivers. Note: CyberGraphXV3 S3 ViRGE driver does not work with pci.library 4.1. If you want to use it still you should use pci.library 2.2 (enclosed in Archive drawer). More information about the latest drivers, see: http://www.elbox.com/news_arch.html (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Aug. 2001, 11:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Aug.2001` amiga.org	Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #50 Issue #50 of 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was released at August, 25th. This issue contains e.g. an exclusive interview with Hyperion Entertainment. AIO uses its own viewer that runs with AmigaOS. At the AIO website you will find an additional picture, that shows a two-paged article about the AmigaOne. This feature is taken from issue #660 (Aug, 23th 2001) of the british magazine 'MicroMart'. Download: docs/mags/AIOV50.lha, Readme (sd) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Aug. 2001, 11:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Aug.2001` Anu Seilonen (ANF)	Saku 2001 brochure available in PDF format The four-page brochure on the Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku 2001 event is now available for download in PDF format from the official web site at http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001/ (see title link). Visitors are also able to sell their second-hand Amiga goods at Saku 2001. The service is free of charge and available for all private persons, membership of the user group is not required. A couple of the latest Amiga games are also available for testing at the venue: both Payback and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division are demonstrated. Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00 and end at 18:00. Admission will be free of charge. For further information, visit Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at http://saku.amigafin.org or http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/. E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson (terho.henriksson@kopteri.net). (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Aug. 2001, 11:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Aug.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Realtime strategy "Voodoo Wars" announced Melina Softworks, well known for some freeware and shareware programs so far, announced the release of a new realtime strategy game for highend Amigas and the AmigaOne. The development just started and they are still on the hunt for new developers. Additional information is available at the "Projekte"-button at the homepage of Melina Softworks. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Aug. 2001, 19:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Aug.2001` Czech Amiga News	Game: Mahjongg Tiles v1.1 Release of version 1.1 of the MUI-based Solitaire-clone 'Mahjongg' by R.E.D. This release includes a graphic-bugfix. Further improvements are still under development. Download: MahjonggTiles_v1.1.lzx (425 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Aug. 2001, 09:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Aug.2001` Ignatios Souvatzis (E-Mail)	Repulse-driver for NetBSD/Amiga A driver for the "repulse" board by Aliendesign was added to the NetBSD-current yesterday. Repulse is a Zorro II interface to an AC97 compliant Audio CODEC and additional S/P-DIF circuitry. The NetBSD driver currently only supports 8-48 kHz mono or stereo 8 or 16 bit audio data from/to the analog part. The missing features will be added later. The driver was added to NetBSD-current, the development branch of NetBSD. The NetBSD projects invites volunteers to test this code. Problems should be reported on the NetBSD port-amiga mailing list or (preferred) through the NetBSD bug tracking system. The repulse driver is expected to be available in the NetBSD-1.6 formal release. Additional information: The NetBSD operating system NetBSD on classical Amiga and Macrosystem DraCo machines How to test NetBSD-current (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Aug. 2001, 09:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Aug.2001` Marc Gutzwiller (ANF)	New swiss onlineshop offering Amigaproducts Gutzwiller+Dozic Systems, a dealer from Switzerland, is proud to announce the opening of their onlineshop. The shop offers mobile phones, digital cameras, as well as hardware and software for the Playstation2, PC and Amiga. Later on there will be products for the Macintosh and for Audio and Video available, too. Marc 'Gutzi' Gutzwiller of Gutzwiller+Dozic Systems: "I would like to mention that the Amiga-area is still beta. We know that the Amiga market is very small and that it is not possible to earn money in this market. There are only some but really good Amiga-dealers. Due to this facts we will offer Amiga products as long as we do not loose any money by doing this. Because I am using Amigas since the good old Amiga 500 I hope that we can support Amiga as long as possible. Feel free to mail what you think about our shop. We are pleased about any reaction." (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Aug. 2001, 08:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Aug.2001` Amiga Future	Game-CD: Almost Real Patrick Henz released the game CD 'Almost Real'. The CD contains the following programs: Airbus A320 Vol.2, including english handbook (185 pages), NTSC- and PAL-versions, Europe-, US-North and US-West-sceneries, High Quality-Photos Approach Trainer, including a german handbook (98 pages) Aufschwung Ost, german version Aunt Artic Adventure Charon 5 Hannibal, german version Ju52 Ports of Call, german and english version SeaLance Space MAX, german version Tie Break Train Driver 1.6 Wreckage The cd can be ordered at the title link. (sd) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Aug. 2001, 00:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Aug.2001` Amiga Future	MPEG: AMP V2.03 Version 2.03 of 'AMP', an MPEG-Video-Player, was released on the 26. August. Changes in the new version: Added 24bit BGR/GRAY renderer, it's 27% faster than 32bit ARGB with the same quality! Added new CSS-key extraction code, made all DVDs I have work. Rewrote the motion compensation routines, made the MPEGV decoder 14% faster. Rewritten the audio.device routines, these are completely free from any context switches what so ever. Wrote generic requester routines, just as ugly as the DVD ones, but now also used for VCD and CD-i playback. Added OS9 (CD-i) and ISO9660 (VCD) filesystem parsers. Using the 56KHZAUDIO CGFX env-variable, one can now get 44100Hz playback through audio.device. Changed VCDDEVICE, VCDUNIT to DEVICE, UNIT. Removed VCDTRACK. Added pause (SPACE, ENTER to continue) and windowscreen switch (L-/RAmiga + ENTER). The window title now contain filename and video size. GUI: Updated to work with the new AMP executable. AMP currently supports the following multimedia types: MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional) and automatic frameskip. MP2/MP3 audio streams. AC3 streams, both standalone and embedded in MPEG2 streams. (S)VCD, CD-i and DVD. The features include: Fast AGA support with 8 HAM modes and optional triple buffering, CGFX support with optional triple buffering, fast audio playback using audio.device or AHI, CLI interface using ReadArgs or MUI GUI, window support on any depth CGFX and AGA screens, overlay support using cgxvideo.library. Download: AMP203.lha (sd) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Aug. 2001, 00:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	Digital Almanac III - Update V4.0 and V4.1 (Update) As already announced last weekend the update of Digital Almanac III is available for all registered customers, now. Unfortunately this update has to be delivered in two parts. The initial archive (v4.0, 4MB) still contained two bugs, but which have been fixed in the second part (v4.1, 1,4MB). The update to v4.1 strongly requires v4.0! The new and automatic update function of the program works with v4.1 only. The update archives should appear on Aminet during the following days. Extra hasty people may download the files from the mailing list. More information under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 23:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)	clickBOOM: Lawsuit against CD manufacturer On July 9, 2001, in the Ontario's Thornhill court, PXL computers Inc. filed a lawsuit against Duplium Corp.. clickBOOM's long term partner had failed to produce replacement CDs for the Nightlong video game over the past 9 month, therefore clickBOOM had no other option but to go to court. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 16:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` Volker Mohr (E-Mail)	Event: Classic-Computing 2001 deferred indefinitely Volker Mohr wrote: «As it turned out today unfortunately I have to defer indefinitely the Classic Computing 2001 show, which was announced to take place on 08. Sptember 2001. I ask you for your understanding. Kind regards, Volker Mohr» (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 15:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` Andreas Günther (ANF)	Scanner: French catalogs for ScanQuix From now on French catalog files for the scanning software 'ScanQuix 5' are available. The translations were done by Frédéric Nicolas. The archive can be downloaded from http://www.scanquix.de/. Download: ScanQuix5_FR.lha (20K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 15:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` Thomas Nosutta (ANF)	ACBB live report from the IFA (Update) A short report from the IFA (with the kind support of ifa-hammer.de) by the ACBB. In hall 3.2a you will find the Sharp SL5000 (Zaurus). After initial problems (nobody knew about Amiga at the PDA booth) A4k, Trion, and me, Gojira, found Mrs. Boxberg (Product Manager Sharp Germany). She found very much time to show us a Zaurus with miscellaneous Amiga applications. Later some guy with an Amiga logo on his shirt appeared. That was Sanjay Menon, Vice President Engineering Amiga Inc.. He had a prototype with more applications with him, too. Mrs. Boxberg mentioned that Sharp is wanting contact with German Amiga developers and there might be an announcement at amiga-news.de, soon. This was the report by the ACBB so far. More information and pictures are on our site. (sd) Update 27.08.2001: Here you can find some pictures: http://Nosutta.bei.t-online.de/IFA2001/PAGE001.HTML. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 15:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` Carsten Schroeder (E-Mail)	Met@box: Refloating loan from the shareholder community? On 22. August 2001 the 'Metabox AG' enquired a short-term refloating loan in the amount of 1 million Euro from the 'Aktionärsgemeinschaft Metabox' (shareholder community Metabox). This money is needed to maintain business operations until the general meeting. Without this money already within the next few days insolvency proceedings will be opened. Thereafter the shareholder community formed a delegation, which is inspecting the Metabox AG to estimate chances for sanitation, since last Friday. From the inspections was derived (quotation): «1) The company should be sustained. A sellout of the values created by the shareholder's fund should be prevented without fail. 2) We should appeal to make available the required short-term sum of one million Euro. The securities given let us estimate a low loan contingency risk.» Complete press release under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 15:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` Amiga Flame	Amiga Flame: PDA - Interviews with Moss (Amiga) and Steiding (epic) At Amiga Flame several texts were released for the subject PDA games and AmigaDE. Amiga's Role in the PDA Market Amiga Flame Interview with Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. Amiga Flame Interview with Thomas Steiding of Epic Interactive Edivision Announce Support for the Amiga DE Amiga PDA Games Fleecy Moss, Amiga Inc., emphases in the interview, that the main focus of AmigaDE is to provide an environment in which content can be used hardware independent. So the agreement with Sharp allows to use AmigaDE content on Sharp's devices, but Amiga also works together with other companies. AmigaDE already runs on different devices in the laboratory in Snoqualmie, including the currently most popular PDAs as well as those soon to be released, and additional on Linux and Windows desktops. From AmigaOS v4.2 AmigaDE also will be available for AmigaOne machines. To reduce language problems for the Japanese market in particular games are created to be used via icons only, as much as possible. But in the future there will be a localizing service offered, too. Epic Interactive announced early August to develop AmigaDE software. Amiga Flame asked Thomas Steiding about the reasons behind this PDA engagement. On reason for Epic Interactive to support the PDA market are the development times of 2 - 3 month for PDA games, which are definite shorter than for desktop games (18 - 24 month). That gives clear less risk. Since the PDAs don't match the currently popular 3D titles, these represent a completely different market with card games, puzzles, and shoot'em ups which sale well in the PDA market, but would not be accepted for desktops, these days. Due to the PDAs low performance compared to desktops Steiding thinks Amiga developers to well suit PDA games development, since those rather are used to handle more inefficient machines than e.g. Windows developers are. Finally he describes the titles Epic Interactive will release, soon. Those also are listed on Amiga PDA Games along with other titles. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 14:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)	Amiga: AmigaDE Shop online The AmigaDE Shop went online. The 'AmigaDE Player' for Linux and MS Windows is to be the first product available there. The price is 14,95 USD for advance sale and later 19,95 USD. This player makes it possible to use AmigaDE programs under Linux and Windows. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 14:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` amiga.org	A500: Viper 530 Relaunch Project The 'Viper 530 Relaunch Project' is an initiative to re-produce the 'Viper 530' for the Amiga 500, which is about a CPU socket extension for the A500 with the following features: CPU 68030 (50MHz), FPU 68882 (50MHz) slot, one SCSI-2 interface, 3 IDE ports (1x2,5", 2x3,5"), up to 128MB RAM (72 Pin SIMM), and Kickstart 2.04. This project was started by Pablo Esteban Castineria. He asked DCE via e-mail if they would re-produce this card and got in reply that DCE would do so, if enough people are interested in this card. Oliver Day then created the above website to inform about this card and the project. You can register for the list of interested via (e-mail). There is no obligation to buy. At first this is for learning how much people are interested in this card. The price is up to the number of units produced. The initiators expect 180£. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 14:11] [Comments: 1 - 20. May. 2002, 15:02] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Aug.2001` Fun Time World	Frogger: Audio decoder - ac3dec V0.9 Version 0.9 of the audio decoder 'ac3dec' was released. This version us up to 5 times faster on 68k and 10% faster on PPC compared to the prior version. The archive contains both 68k and PPC version. Download: ac3dec.lha (80K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 26. Aug. 2001, 14:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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