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Archive 12/2001

`07.Dec.2001` Marius Schwarz (ANF)	The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses "The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses" "Stefan Robl, author of OS 3.9's AmiDock, has agreed to support the OOP4A project by providing his class system 'WizardClasses' which is extensively used in all of his programs. The class system also contains - among many other classes - a GUI class system. We hope to release a first package sometime in Q1, 2002 - this will enable programs using OOP4A to use GUI in a truly object oriented way as well. Martin Kuchinka, author of the PowerD programming language, agreed too to support the OOP4A-Project within PowerD. New features in this weekend's release of OOP4A are argument types and method overloading. These are the last basic oop functions which had to be implemented, so that the next releases will concentrate on building new classes." OOP4A stands for Object Oriented Programming for All and offers full oop support to nearly any programming language used on the Amiga. Project start was the around the 5.10.2001. German Pages see title link. English Pages Marius Schwarz (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 07. Dec. 2001, 19:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Dec.2001` Elbox Computer / Wojtek Kozlowski	Event: Amiga 2001 pictures by Elbox At the title link you'll find images from the Amiga 2001 fair by Elbox Computer. The images are subtitled in English. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 07. Dec. 2001, 16:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Dec.2001` Ralf Steines	Back2Roots.org: Friday, 7th december offline On Friday, 7th December 2001, at about 11:00 GMT Back to the Roots will temporarily go offline, since we upgrade the server's harddisks, memory and operating system. If all performs well it should be back online in less than one day, and should allow our future updates and services to be even more massive :) Sorry for the inconvenience. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 07. Dec. 2001, 16:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Dec.2001` Amiga Inc.	Amiga board elects Frank Wilde as Chairman of the Board (update) Update: Carsten Schröder of Amiga Aktuell explains in a special the following terms: "First of all for clarification: in American companies the "chairman" is the head of the "Board of Directors", some sort of administrative council which is elected by the company shareholders and decides on the basic company politics as well as announcing the "Executive Officers" who are responsible for daily business. Thus the chairman has - at least formally - a higher influence as for example the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a company." Wilde brings 18 years of experience in the personal computer industry to Amiga's Board of Directors (December 6, 2001) The Board of Directors for Amiga Inc. have elected Frank Wilde as its new Chairman of the Board. Mr. Wilde will bring his many years of experience and leadership to Amiga to help expand its business into new markets while releasing new products. Mr. Wilde joins Amiga from Ravisent Technologies where he was President and Chief Executive Officer. Frank was appointed Chief Executive Officer of RAVISENT Technologies Inc. in April of 1998, a year after joining the company as Director and President. Wilde brings over eighteen years of sales, marketing and business development experience in the computer industry holding key industry positions at IBM, Dell Computer Corporation and Memorex Telex Corporation. He has over 15 years P&L experience and is a veteran of six startup companies and has led or been a team member of companies that have raised over 300 million in venture funding. He strongly believes in developing highly competitive and fast growing organizations that enable individuals and teams to grow and develop their professional capabilities in such a way that shareholder value is maximized. Wilde was instrumental in the planning and execution of the company's transition from a hardware company to a software Intellectual Property licensing company. Under his leadership, RAVISENT was able to raise $18 million in private funding in June of 1998. Wilde also led the company through the IPO process, taking the company public in July of 1999, raising $61.4 million. RAVISENT's flagship product family, CinePlayer, offers consumers a single look-and-feel PC solution for interactive playback of a wide variety of multimedia formats - including CD Audio, MPEG audio, MPEG video, DVD, Dolby Digital audio, MP3 audio, LPCM audio, digital television (DTV), analog (traditional) television, high definition television (HDTV), and "time-shifted" television broadcasts (so-called digital video recorder files or DVR). “I had many choices on where I wanted to go next and where the best opportunity for the future was. Bill McEwen and I had been speaking for many months on business plans and other issues, and after meeting with the team, and viewing the technology and their partners, there was no better choice for me than joining Amiga" said Frank Wilde, Chairman of Amiga, Inc. "The Amiga has an amazing past and is well known at Ravisent, but seeing what I have seen of the technology, they have even a brighter future, and I am pleased to be here". "Frank brings a level of expertise and knowledge that is second to none. His level of excitement and dedication to Amiga, will be seen shortly as we continue to build and release new products" said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "I look forward to working with Frank, and the two of us working with the community and our partners on building a very solid future". Over the years, Wilde and RAVISENT received recognition from numerous business and technology organizations. Most recently, RAVISENT was recognized as the #7 in the 2000 Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Eastern Pennsylvania. He was also recognized as a Technology Pioneer, an award that is developed jointly by the World Economic Forum and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to recognize the world's fastest growing, most technologically innovative companies. In 1999, RAVISENT was named the #1 in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Eastern Pennsylvania. Also, RAVISENT was recognized as the #9 in the 1999 in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the United States. In April of 1999, RAVISENT was ranked #8 in the Electronic Business list of Top 20 Small Electronics Companies. Frost & Sullivan granted RAVISENT the 1998 Marketing Engineering Competitive Strategy Award because the company was able to create and implement an effective competitive strategy. Wilde received a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Seton Hall University. He is a member of the American Management Association, American Electronics Association, USA Reserves Officers Association, Special Forces Decade Association and the Army Aviation Association of Aviators and Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. He has also been named to Who's Who in International Business and awarded the Republican National Committee "Businessman of the Year" award for 1999. About Amiga Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating system which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at http://de.amiga.com. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 07. Dec. 2001, 16:12] [Comments: 1 - 08. Dec. 2001, 02:06] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Dec.2001` Joachim Schmid (ANF)	Freespace demo update 4 released The fourth update to the demo version of the game Freespace has been released for download on the Hyperion homepage. It removes several smaller bugs (like the bug in the third statistics table) as well as a new option to allow switching voicestreaming on and off. Also included is a description how you have to connect an analog joystick. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 07. Dec. 2001, 15:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena/Fun Time World: Puzzle BOBS Website online After the game "Puzzle BOBS" was for the first time presented to the audience on the "Amiga 2001" show, an own website for the game was created at Fun Time World. Puzzle BOBS was successfully tested under "UAE" and "Amithlon". More and topical information on the game you can find at Nexus Development. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 21:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: Interview with the Scalos team und special price project Amiga Arena - Interview Project With the Workbench replacement "Scalos" a good alternative for the Amiga and your very own desktop. The acitve and steady further development or support makes "Scalos" getting more and more extensive and multifunctional. The Amiga Arena talked to the entire team of "Scalos" about past, present, and future. Amiga Arena - AmiATLAS 6 Update Special Price From now on all registered AmiATLAS 5 users can take the special price for AmiATLAS 6 (wihtout the term of the registered additional maps). The programs "X-Trace", "MicroPaint", and "MicroBase" are available at the respective special price thru 31. December 2001. Amiga Arena - The fire still burns After hardware problems and an internal rework of the hompage, now it should not be a problem to display the "Amiga Arena" with the "Voyager" browser, any more. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 21:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` A.S.Munde (ANF)	DocDatatypes Version 40.30 Released DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text. New for this version (40.30) is the support of reading and writing TEAL Docs and RichReader Docs. MS-Word XP (2002) is also supported. Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes. (ps) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 19:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update Just in time for Santa Clause day there is a tasty thing for all astronomy fans and DA III owners! From today a new version 4.6 was released on Aminet to be installed by every DA III user. This update fixes some more smaller bugs from the prior version and offers the possibility to move the star map with the joystick as a new feature (little marginal gimmick). This is to be the last update for Digital Almanac III for this year. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 19:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` Innovative (ANF)	Drawing- and imagemanipulation: fxPAINT Christmas-action from Innovative Just in time for christmas time we now offer fxPAINT 1.0 for an incredibly low price (see title link). We hope to allow many users a look at the power of fxPAINT at a low price and want to shorten the waiting time for those users that are waiting for Version 2.0 that is currently under development and will again set new standards. fxPAINT 1.0 is fully updatable to the current V1.5 and Version 2.0 at a low price. This special offer is valid until 31th December 2001 and only as long as enough fxPAINT 1.0 are in stock. You can place your order directly via our online-shop. (ps) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 19:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` Sven Dröge (ANF)	Financial software: Bonds Version 1.84 available Bonds is a financial software for bonds management of any kind, but mainly focuses on shares. This software is specialized for the financial center of Germany and best handles German bonds, since it uses the bond ident number system of the German stock exchange. The current version again fixes some of the bug, of which a lot still exist, and some innovations have been implemented. The following items are enjoyable: Enhanced installation script, which now asks in advance if the exsample charts shall be installed. The depot manager now got its final form, you can already buy and sale, more actions are planned (share splits, etc.). Slightly enhanced design, more detailed program messages. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 19:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` AROS-ML	AROS News: Success and reverse »I just got a mail from the kind guys who provide us with free web and ftp space. AROS finally seems to have made it. We had over 10GB of downloads last month and that means, I have to take the FTP space down... (What kind of smiley is suitable for this ???). So if you have lots of bandwidth to spare, call me :-) Until then, FTP is down. I'm in contact with Urban Mueller of Aminet but I guess he won't want to check in AROS images every night ;-) So maybe there will be an update just once per month or so. Thanks go to the tireless AROS developers who have made us so attractive and to all the fans who still hold on to their beloved system :-) The images will come back, promised. And you will see the V1.0 of AROS :-)« (ps) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 12:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` AudioLabs	AudioLabs: DSPSpeed Version 1.02 AudioLabs have released a benchmark tool for ProStationAudio. This tool named DSPSpeed is avialable as version 1.02 and measures the performance of ProStationAudio on 68k Amigas with AmigaOS and on emulated Amigas as well. More details under the title link. Download: dspspeed.lha (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 11:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` Amiga.org	Event: Amiga Inc. attends the 'University of Washington Career Fair' From the participants list of the 'University of Washington Career Fair' event one can learn that Sanjay Menon, VP of Engeneering, Amiga Inc., will attend the show, which will take place on 11. April 2002 for the students of the University of Washington. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 11:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)	amigaland.de: Server Problem fixed, Games available again Mirko Engelhardt wrote: Just two games are still missing. All demos, programs, and emulators will be available again within the next days. Special thank to Birdy, webmaster of amigahistory.de, who supported me with his webspace. (Translation: mj) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 11:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` GameIcons.info	Icons: New Game Icons by GameIcons.info The icon packets #09 and #11 by Dr. Zarkov have been restructured and put together and there are many new icons, too. More icon packets under the title link. Download: GameIcons-2001.lha (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 11:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2001` GFX-BASE	GFX-BASE: Report about the O.A.S.E. Event Last weekend most of the members of GFX-BASE have visited the O.A.S.E. (Open Amiga South East Europe) in Graz, Austria. Jürgen Schober, the organizer, has shown an official Scala presentation of the promised AmigaOS 4.0 features in his Amiga shop point.design. Furthermore other Amiga highend products were shown like G-Rex and Mediator PCI boards, the AmigaOS XL packet, some new games, and much more. You will find the report by GFX-BASE in form of a picture gallery with detailed subtitles. Click the thumbnails to read the subtitles. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 06. Dec. 2001, 10:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Dec.2001` SomS Newsletter (E-Mail)	Game: Deep Silence news to SomS The team of the action-adventures 'SOMS' has a new member. Her name is Rei from Japan. She is from the Manga-RPG-source at all. For SomS she will compose a part of the music and will synchronize voices. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Dec. 2001, 22:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Dec.2001` morphos-news.de	morphos-news.de: Interview with Ralph Schmidt The team of morphos-news.de interviewed Ralph Schmidt who is the head developer of MorphOS. Today a summary of the interview has been published. You can read it under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Dec. 2001, 22:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Dec.2001` Gary Peake (ML)	Amiga names Sanjay Menon as vice president of department engineering press release: Amiga names Sanjay Menon vice president of engineering Menon brings 10 years of experience in delivering software solutions to Amiga's hardware agnostic multimedia platform. Snoqualmie, WA - December 3, 2001 - Amiga Inc., a provider of multi-platform multimedia content solutions, today announced the hiring of Sanjay Menon as their Vice President of Engineering. As Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Menon will be responsible for delivering Amiga solutions on a multitude of platforms. “Sanjay has several years in the software industry and has a track record of successes with projects he has worked on or managed” said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc. “We look forward to having him deliver many different types of solutions both to consumers and developers alike”. “His leadership will help make our Amiga developers be more successful in their roles toward the completion of our vision for the digital world”. Menon brings more than 10 years of development and management experience to Amiga and is adept at planning and executing development strategies ensuring quality product releases in a timely fashion. His most recent accomplishments were at Microsoft Corporation where he spent 5 years in various management positions. His responsibilities there included shipping portions of the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine which was delivered in the Internet Explorer browser. Previous to his experience at Microsoft, Menon was a Lead Developer for Connectsoft Corporation where, among other things, he delivered advanced communication applications and protocols. “I am very excited to have this opportunity with Amiga” said Menon. “I believe that Amiga is poised to deliver quality solutions across a wide number of market segments that are in growth areas of communication and computing. I look forward to working with both our Amiga developers and the developers in the Amiga Community who are going to deliver leading edge solutions for numerous different devices”. About Amiga Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multimedia operating systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at http://de.amiga.com/. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com/. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Dec. 2001, 22:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Dec.2001` Heise News Ticker (ANF)	Heise: Programming competition for Linux-PDA Sharp is looking for some applications of the sectors games, entertainment, business-programms, utilities and communication for its LINUX PDA Zaurus SL 5000 and therefore has started a programming competition. You can gain attractive prizes. Have a look at the title link for the full Heise-article. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Dec. 2001, 10:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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