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Archive 10/2001


25.Oct.2001



Survey: Which system do you want to use 2002?
In our forum some asked when we would start another survey along with a precise suggestion to query for: "What system would you like to use in 2002?". Possible answers:
  • "Classic" Amiga / AmigaOS 3.x
  • "Classic" Amiga / Linux
  • AmigaOne / AmigaOS 4.0
  • Pegasos / MorphOS
  • Pegasos / LinuxPPC
  • x86 / AmigaOS XL / Amithlon
  • x86 / UAE
  • x86 / Windows
  • x86 / Linux
  • Macintosh / UAE
  • Macintosh / MacOS
  • Macintosh / LinuxPPC
Unfortunately our script does not allow multiple entries. Suggestions for other surveys are welcome.

Update: (30.04.2011, cg)

For archiving reasons, the results of the survey are added to this news item:
System                          Votes

"Classic" Amiga / AmigaOS 3.x    327   (13.09%)
"Classic" Amiga / Linux           20    (0.80%)
AmigaOne / AmigaOS 4.0          1000   (40.02%)
Pegasos / LinuxPPC                15    (0.60%)
Pegasos / MorphOS                611   (24.45%)
x86 / AmigaOS XL / Amithlon      269   (10.76%)
x86 / UAE                         24    (0.96%)
x86 / Windows                     84    (3.36%)
x86 / Linux                       58    (2.32%)
Macintosh / UAE                    3    (0.12%)
Macintosh / MacOS                 55    (2.20%)
Macintosh / LinuxPPC               1    (0.04%)
Andere / Other                    32    (1.28%)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Oct.2001
Dreamoler-Caps


Tool: ReqAttack Version 1.93
The tool to embellish system requesters programmed by Georg Steger and further developed by Jaca/Dreamolers-Caps now is available for download in version 1.93 under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Oct.2001
Da SixK Port Page


Database: MySQL version 4.0.0 for 68040 CPU
In this archive you will find MySQL version 4.0.0 (alpha binary). Thus a corrected version of MySQL 4.0.0 alpha for the 68040 CPU has been released fixing the 'Create Database' error.

Download: mysqld-4_bin_create_db_fix.lzx (ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Oct.2001
Amiga Inc.


Amiga Inc.: Amiga announces first release of its AmigaDE Player
As already reported in August Amiga Inc. have released an AmigaDE player for Linux and Windows. You will find the official press release of Amiga Inc. under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Oct.2001
Michael Garlich (ANF)


Video editing: New effect movies by Motionstudio
Titan Computer released two new effect movies for download in the 'Shot/Movie' section, which give a good impression of the plasma and fireworks effects. The Quicktime movies can be displayed using any Amiga QT player. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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24.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Society Updates
There are some new updates on Amiga-Society again. There are many new entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware. There are also new pictures on the software site. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
AmigaRealm (E-Mail)


AmigaRealm: Call for support of Amiga.org
Certainly you have already read that the website of the American news service called Amiga.org was hacked and the database destroyed. Under the title link AmigaRealm calls up everybody to support Wayne Hunt who is the maintainer of Amiga.org by contributing money so that he can bring the website online again. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Jörn-Erik Burkert (E-Mail)


AMIGA-Magazine: Extracts from issue #11 online
As usually the print-magazine 'AMIGA-Magazin' makes some articles available for reading. This time the highlight is a basis article for XHTML 1.0. It shows how you can design HTML-documents future-safe. Additionally you can find an editorial and a preview to the next issue as well as a programmer-workshop to "Warp 3D V4". (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Paul Cardwell (ANF)


GetBoinged! an Amiga application listings website goes live!
GetBoinged! is a place where Amiga developers can list their applications on, be it for Amiga DE or Classic. It was developed by two Amiga fans, Paul Beel my friend and myself. We do not host the "actual" applications, we allow the developer to point to a location where the application resides (html links).

We invite you to check out GetBoinged.org at http://www.getboinged.org. If you cannot find the application you are looking for, feel free to sign up for an account and post the application.

We are currently in the process of gathering Amiga DE applications, Amiga Classic is basically done (both will be updated frequently). If you have a comment or suggestion, feel free to let us know, we want this site to be enjoyable!

We look forward to your visit and hope you enjoy GetBoinged.org.
Thank you,
Paul Cardwell
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


Software Update for Catweasel Floppy Controller
There is a new version of the multidisk.device in the support-area for download. The device works with all Amiga versions of the Catweasel Controller. On frequently request some new formats have been introduced which can also read and write hidden data on the disks. For the most common formats the track-line was extended and for PC-disks special formats with different sector sizes have been introduced.

The format for C64-disks has been extended on 40 tracks and a small bug has been fixed. Finally it should be now possible to write the disk-id in the sector-header correctly. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner


H&P: Upgrade: ImageFX 4.5 is now available
Nova Design has just announced that the current update to ImageFX 4.5 is available. This version adds some new functions to the most efficienty programm package for picture manipulation. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Golem - IT News für Profis


Golem: Slashdot interviewed: "Trying the impossible"
Slashdot-editor Timothy Lord reports about the work behind the site
Linux-boom to and fro: No open-source-website has such a big influence as the Slashdot-offer with its motto "News for nerds, stuff that matters". Ben Schwan talks about the work behind the site, the power of good communities and about the future of free software after the end of the Internet-Hypes with slashdot-editor Timothy Lord.
Have a look at the title link for the full interview. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
internet.com


internet.com: EU wants computer-programs under protection by patent this year
»The European Commission wants to set computer-programs under the protection by patent within the Union. This is reported by the 'Financial Times Deutschland' in its current issue. After disputing in the authority for months inland market commissar Frits Bolkestein pushed through his plan of patent regulation for software-programs. Still this year he wants to present a directive proposal to it. With it "an uniform protection by patent is supposed to be created to push innovations at developing software" says the Commission.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Eternity Hard- und Software


Eternity: AmigaOS XL-demonstrating system in shop
In order to introduce AmigaOS XL something more transparent from now on at Eternity hard- and software you can observe an Amithlon-demonstrating system in shop. At the same time some products will be set to an absolutely minimal price for three days.

Eternity Hard- und Software
Rosmarstraße 37
50226 Frechen

Telephon: 049 2234 / 272300
Telefax: 049 2234 / 271472

Mo. to Fr.: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 24. Oct. 2001, 14:20] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2001
Access Innovation Ltd.


Mick Tinker takes leave of Amiga market
Well time moves on, nothing stands still... The Amiga does not make me a living, it hasn't for a long, long time and it doesn't look like it ever will make me a dime. I have moved on in my life and its time that I left the Amiga behind.

It has been an interesting time. I still love the concepts and elegance of the Amiga, many of those concepts will move forward through the experiences of all those engineers that have had contact with it. Amiga R.I.P.

Note of the editors board:
The Anti Gravity website, which have bought the BoXer project from Mick Tinker, is not available any more. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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23.Oct.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)


Update of the project Crashsite website
The website www.projektcrashsite.de (title link) about the new role game of the same denominator has been updated. An initial test picture of the 16Bit Iso 3d engine, new music in MP3 format and the questions and answers so far are part of the new content.

Since the game's graphic artist Daniel Hartlehnert is searching for a new employer there are some examples for his work in the "Die Macher" section.

In the support section the programmers are asking for decision guidance regarding what should take priority - development for 68k od PPC. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 23. Oct. 2001, 22:17] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)


Emulation: New version of Amigenerator released
The SEGA MegaDrive (Genesis) emulator Amigenerator is released in version V0.34. The changes in V0.34:
  • [VDP] Error in VSTAM removed (Pengo)
  • [VDP] Unnecessary code in sources etc. removed
  • [SOUND] Sound code reworked
  • [SOUND] Support of On/Off of psg/fm/z80 and sound added
  • [CORE] Welcome ROM added
  • [CORE] Saving is added again
  • [CORE] The saving of sound was reworked completely
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


Digital Almanac III - Amithlon
Thanks to Harald Frank it was possible to present DA III running on "Amithlon" on the event which took place last Friday in Mutterstadt, Germany. There was greate positive responsiveness to that presentation. Calculation speed did not rank behind comparable PC programs. So, the only planetarium program left for the Amiga also runs under Amithlon without problems. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
Tales of Tamar


Game: Tales of Tamar - Amiga Version 0.38R3
The Amiga version v0.38R3 of the Internet and round based game Tales of Tamar contains speedups on the map screen, and OnScreen animations for the trade- and diplomacy screen. The game is only available for beta testers. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner


H&P: AmigaXL: Selling since October 18th
H&P wrote:
23. Oct. 2001: On Thursday, October 18th sale of AmigaOS XL started. Delivery of the preorders still will take a few days. We ask you for understanding. Last weekend the new version was presented and up for sale on the Pianeta 2001 in Empoli, Italy.
(ps)

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23.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Carl Svensson (mp3Play)
The GUI "mp3Play" comes from Sweden. The developer Carl Svensson answered the questions of the Amiga Arena.

Olaf Köbnik: "The Amiga Arena is supporting the freeware and shareware market and I just can appeal you again and again to support the developers with feedback." (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
m.w.VERLAG GmbH


amiga-news.de in the 'Book of the 6,000 Most Important Websites'
amiga-news.de has been recorded to the Internet guide "Das Web-Adressbuch für Deutschland - Die 6.000 wichtigsten deutschen Internet-Adressen" (The Web-Address-Book for Germany - The 6,000 most importandt German Internet Addresses). The editors board of the mv publishing company did a one year data-recall facility and tested about 250,000 web offers and read out the 6,000 best websites.

Base of this book is a concise structure, 19 chapters are partitioned into subject relating rubrics. It contains an extended headword index and e-mail register. The arrangement of sub-categories and the extended index enables the reader to quickliy find what he is searching for and the short comments simplify to decide the optimal address. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page


Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis and xlHtml Update
Fr3dY has updated two of his tools. First is version 1.0.3 of Anubis, an anonymous mailer with many features, available for download. Also xHTML is updated onto version 0.3.9.1. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
OSNews


OSNews: Interview with Carl Sassenrath about REBOL (Update)
You will find a complete interview with Carl Sassenrath about REBOL under the title link. It especially has an eye on the possibilities that REBOL/IOS will give X-Internet ('executable' Internet), and the chances of REBOL in the market against .NET and other systems.

The interview was held by Eugenia Loli-Queru.

REBOL is a platform overlapping sytem from Carl Sassenrath (Amiga-Exec), that was released first in November 1997. The REBOL language lets you use the Internet easily including coding of CGI-scripts and the easy design of GUIs. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
The Amiga Alternative Audio Page


MPEG-Audio-Player: MAD for 68040 and MorphOS
Today we have a brand new port-release for you .. madplay, the best mpeg-audio player out there .. this will make a nice complement to the LAME encoder... The archive comes with binaries for 68040 and MorphOS... Please read the included amiga.readme for special instructions on usage!

From the MAD README:

MAD has the following special features:

  • 24-bit PCM output
  • 100% fixed-point (integer) computation
  • completely new implementation based on the ISO/IEC standards
  • distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
Because MAD provides full 24-bit PCM output, applications using MAD are able to produce high quality audio. Even when the output device supports only 16-bit PCM, applications can use the extra resolution to increase the audible dynamic range through the use of dithering or noise shaping.

Because MAD uses integer computation rather than floating point, it is well suited for architectures without a floating point unit. All calculations are performed with a 32-bit fixed-point integer representation.

Because MAD is a new implementation of the ISO/IEC standards, it is unencumbered by the errors and copyrights of other implementations. MAD is NOT a derivation of the ISO reference source or any other code. Considerable effort has been expended to ensure a correct implementation, even in cases where the standards are ambiguous or misleading.

Download: madplay.lzx (220 KB) (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Pagan Games


Pagan Games: New game for AmigaDE - BLOBULA
Pagan Games proudly presents Blobula. The first next-generation platform independent game for desktop machines as well as personal digital assistants. Thanks to AmigaDE Blobula runs on most hardware but AmigaDE will at first be available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and the Sharp Zaurus PDA. (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 23. Oct. 2001, 14:24] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)


Image processing: SView ImageFX Loader Update
The ImageFX plugins (loader/Saver) for SView are updated and are available for download (title link). (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 23. Oct. 2001, 13:50] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2001
Ottawa Amiga Show Team


Event: Ottawa Amiga Show - Changes
Against other statements the Ottawa Amiga Show will not take place on two days, only on 17.11.2001. Also changed has the location. Now it is the Routhier Centre, 172 Guigues Street, Main floor, Ottawa, Canada. More informations under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Kermit Woodall (ANF)


Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Richmond, VA - Nova Design announced the immediate availability of the latest upgrade to ImageFX 4.5. This release adds even more features to one of the industries most powerful image editing and special effects package and the top package for the Amiga.

Nova Design has been a long-time supporter of the Amiga platform. Their software packages include ImageFX, Aladdin 4D - a 3D modeling, rendering and animation package, Millennium - the ultimate upgrade for Newtek's Toaster and Toaster/Flyer, and Cinematte - a blue-screening plugin for both Photoshop and Aura.

New Painting Features
The painting tools have been improved with the addition of several new Drawmodes. These Drawmodes allow a new range of compositing so you can composite brushes into your images will all the same tools that the composite tool offers you for full image compositing. When combined with the Drawstyles, which control where your pixels come from when using brushes, you have literally thousands of possible drawing options and combinations!

New Animation Features
ImageFX 4.0 introduced the concept of being able to load an animation and work on individual frames just like you would a layered still image document. ImageFX 4.5 takes this much further with the all-new Keyframe Manager.

The Keyframe Manager allows you to combine images, animations, or animbrushes onto any animation you have loaded. You can completely control the path of these images or animations by specifying precise positions at individual keyframes at any point in the animation. You can do this with single point keys, two point keys, or four point keys. You can scale during single point animations, use two points to make easy 'squash and stretch' cartoony effects, or use four points flip points around to make '3D' flying logos and other simulated perspective tricks. With a little artistic talent it's not hard to track something in an existing animation and add a new effect on it or replace it with something new.

The Keyframe Manager can also process simple scripts without bothering with compositing images or animations. You can track lightning into a scene or have a wizard cast a glowing light with a lens flare. The possibilities are enormous!

Ordering
Just call 1-800-IMAGE-69 or (804) 282-1157, fax (804) 282-3768 to order. (ps)

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