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02.Nov.2002
Steffen Häuser (ANF)


"Magic Engine" port for AmigaOS?
Steffen Häuser wrote:
I had discussed with the author of "Magic Engine", the best PC Engine emulator, an Amiga version. He answered to me that he'd do one "if enough people would ask for one, right now only a dozen of people have done so". His email address is: dmichel@easynet.fr. People who write to him, please be kind. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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02.Nov.2002
Carsten Stand (ANF)


Review of Sendo Z100 in magazine "Mobilfunknews"
In issue #6 of the magazine "Mobilfunknews" is a review of the Sendo Z100. All features are introduced (and that are quite a number). The software platform Amiga Anywhere is also named. The result of the editors: "...We are convinced in any case that you can't buy a better Smartphone for the money in Germany (yet)...". (ps) (Translation: wk)

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02.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


Event: first reports and photos from the WoA-SE 2002
AmigaArt reports that Hyperion demonstrated ExecSG (the kernel of OS4) on an AmigaOne, a screenshot is available as well. The computer seems to boot into an "OS4 mini shell".

Ian Stedman has released on his homepage first pictures from the show. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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02.Nov.2002
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)


New demo by Surprise Productions!
The Dutch programmer Mirrorman by Surprise Productions has today released a new demo with the name "Eine kleine Nachtmusik". This production is in any case worth being tried even with the archive being very big in size with 10 MB. Comments regarding this demo can be placed at the following URL: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=7978.

Download: EineKleinenachtMusik.lha (ca. 10 MB) (ps) (Translation: wk)

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02.Nov.2002
Computer City


Computer City: Amiga keyboards - Cherry Cybo@rd Amiga Edition now available
The Dutch retailer Computer City announces that the Amiga keyboards with Amiga logo can now be delivered after some problems. The product line is called 'Chrerry Cybo@rd Amiga Edition'. Read the original message now.

The 'Cherry Cybo@rd Amiga Edition' keyboard from Computer City
Here is what happened so far:

-We approached Cherry to ask about the possibilities for their Cybo@rd series. They told us they assembled the keys to the keyboards and then 'lasered' the characters onto them. This means a huge qty to buy for each different country layout. The alternative would be for us to order single keycaps, so we (or any other dealer) could order localised versions of the keyboard and replace the keys. They told us that the left and right windows keys were equal (mark 1). The delivery time was to be 6 weeks.
-We ordered them, received them after about 12 weeks (!) and had them printed professionally, with special treatment so they keys wouldn't wear off.

-We received the keys. Remember mark 1? The left and right keys turned out to be different :-(
-We realised we had only left keys so we ordered the right (right) keys as well and had them printed etc. too. This took another 5 weeks or so.
-We got the keys in today and they are available NOW. We are in the proces of stocking the keyboards now, so all pre-orders will be sent out next week and dealers should be able to order and supply either the sets of keycaps or complete keyboards.

For the record; this is a fully official Amiga-licensed product. We have a trademark and logo license with Amiga, inc. and they have approved this design :-)

Cheers,
Ron

Computer City - Zebrastraat 7-9 - 3064 LR Rotterdam
info@compcity.nl - http://www.compcity.nl
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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02.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


Amiga Inc.: New Executive update
Following the title link you can find the latest Executive update by Bill McEwen. Some new products are announced, among others several "Game Packs" for Smartphones and PocketPCs. These products will be distributed obviously via big retailer groups in the USA and in England. Furthermore it is explained why the Amiga Inc. bureaus couldn't be reached (they moved to other rooms):

Bill McEwen - November 2, 2002
Greetings One and All:

What a great weekend is in store for Amiga and those attending the World of Amiga, and for those of you not attending I am sure that you will be pleased with the progress that we have made as a company towards shipping new products.

As you may remember from our last update we have broken up the company into two separate units. We have the desktop team focusing their attention on the AmigaOne and OS 4.0, and we have the Mobile Team who is focusing their attention on Amiga Anywhere and the content creation and distribution on the various products and platforms that we support.

These changes and the amazing hard work is now ready to be shown and announced to all of you. Not only are you going to see new products, but we have been able to sign up some pretty heavy hitters with regards to new distribution and new retail availability of these new products.

The Desktop team is focused on new products and services for the Amiga community, and the Mobile team is focused on products and services that are for the extended Amiga community, with our initial offerings targeted at the Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, and the SmartPhone. Our first customer for the SmartPhone was announced with Sendo as our partner for their Z100 phone, and now you will read about our next offering for PocketPC and PocketPC phone edition below.

Now we can begin the transformation from a development company to a company shipping products that you are able to go out and purchase for yourselves.

With the above mentioned, here we go:
  1. The office is moving and we will have the new address, and contact information up in the next week. So there is no need to worry about what is happening with the office, the change has been good for us. We needed to move into an area that is closer to the services and to the companies that we are working with.
  2. AmigaOne is ready to fly, and I have attached the news from Eyetech here with this update. So congratulations to all and the community for your new Amiga hardware.
  3. OS 4.0 is almost complete, and the Hyperion team is working very hard to get everything ready. They were delayed by having to complete some low-level work on the AmigaOne, and with their work completed they are ready to crank out the last remaining bit of work to provide a stellar achievement and package.
  4. There will be some announcements coming in the next couple of weeks from third parties who are now creating versions of their software for OS 4.0 and I have agreed not to steal their thunder but will have them make their own announcements first and then we will carry them on our site after they have made them.
  5. Amiga Games Pocket Paks will be available around the Thanksgiving holidays through several resellers in the US and in England, including CompUSA and mmO2 in England. Yes, what you are reading is correct. Amiga Games Pocket Paks volumes one and two will be shipping and ready this year at 29.95 each from several authorized retailers in the US and through mmO2 retail locations in England. These Pocket Paks include 4 game titles each, and we have two more packs following. This is great news as thousands of new customers here and in England are going to be able to experience Amiga Content on their Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition devices.
  6. Amiga is also making available for release before Christmas Amiga SmartPhone Packs. These will be similar to the Pocket Paks, but targeted for the new SmartPhones coming out this year. As you know they will run on the new Sendo Z100, and they will be available for the new phones being offered by Orange also.
There are several more product announcements and partnerships coming in the next few weeks, but as mentioned before until it is real and ready, we will wait. So some very big news with the readiness of the AmigaOne and OS 4.0 within the last 10% of completion, and the availability of Amiga content being sold through National retailers in the US and England, I would have to say that we have been very busy indeed.

So again I thank you for your patience and support, and now the next steps in our development begins. The transformation from development of products to shipment of products, has begun. I am really looking forward to the next grouping of announcements, and product shipments.

Keeping the faith, and keeping it moving forward,

Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team (ps) (Translation: wk)

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02.Nov.2002



Event: small pictures report from AmCluSt hardware meeting
Following the title link you can find my small pictures report from this year's hardware meeting of the AmCluSt that I had visited yesterday.

The meeting is taking place right now in Dreierwalde near Rheine. Details about the meeting can be found here. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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01.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Workbench-gallery update
Today the Workbench-gallery on Amiga Future Homepage has been updated. This time more than 20 screenshots have been added. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


Eyetech: AmigaOneG3-SE and AmigaOne-XE Earlybird Systems now on sale!
Press release: We're there at last. Since the previous update to the AmigaOne section over 6 months ago the AmigaOne boards have been in the hands of our developers, and as a result of their feedback, the original firmware which we were to have shipped with the board (by Softex) has been replaced by specially adopted PPCBoot code. That, and identifying - and fixing a small problem with the Articia northbridge chip - have resulted in us holding back shipments of the consumer version of the AmigaOneG3-SE. That is until now!

During this period work has also continued with the AmigaOne-XE design (which has replaceable cpu modules). This design is now ready to go into production alongside the AmigaOneG3-SE. And perhaps the best news of all is that the G4 cpu is now available in moderate quantities, on acceptable delivery and price terms such that we are now able to offer a G4-based AmigaOne-XE at the same time as our public launch of the AmigaOneG3-SE.

The upshot is that we are taking orders for both the 600MHz G3-based AmigaOneG3-SE, and the 800MHz G4-based AmigaOne-XE, starting at the WoA-SE show on 2nd November 2002 - for delivery before Christmas (and, yes, for the cynics out there, we really do mean Christmas 2002!). A 700MHz G3 (750FX cpu) version of the AmigaOne-XE will be made available - at reduced cost - early in 2003.

But what about OS4 I hear you say - is that now ready? OS4 is now highly advanced, but no, is not currently ready for shipping, largely because Hyperion have had to divert a considerable amount of their time and effort in sorting out the AmigaOne's PPCBoot firmware. Our best estimate is that OS4 for the AmigaOne will ship early in 2003.

So why order an AmigaOne now? Well over the last six months we have had overwhelming demand from both dealers and individuals to ship the AmigaOne hardware - both boards and pre-built systems - now, together with LinuxPPC and UAE, in advance of OS4 being available. In addition this 'Earlybird' offer this also helps us spread the testing, assembly and despatch operations of the AmigaOne boards and systems over a number of weeks, which in turn helps us keep our own costs in check. So, in return, we are offering all users who wish to take up this 'Earlybird' offer a free, registered, copy of OS4 for the AmigaOne as soon as it becomes available. The Earlybird 'free OS4' offer represents a saving of around 12% on an AmigaOneG3-SE motherboard

This of course will not suit everybody, and if you want a switch-on-and-go AmigaOne system then this Earlybird offer is not for you. In this case we're afraid that you have a few more weeks to wait. However if it does suit you then don't delay - this offer is for boards and systems ordered up to and including 31st December 2002 or when OS4 becomes available, whichever comes first. Thereafter OS4 will become a separately chargeable item

As for prices, these have been revised to reflect currency movements since they were originally announced last March, particularly the weakness of the US dollar. Your local dealer will have the local currency prices for the AmigaOne outside the UK and the Eurozone. However the suggested prices in Europe - in UKP and Euro's - are as follows:

Board CPU UKP Euro
AmigaOneG3-SE G3 750CXe@600MHz 360.00 580.00
AmigaOne-XE G3 750FX@700MHz 450.00 725.00
AmigaOne-XE G4 7451@800MHz 500.00 800.00


These prices exclude local taxes, shipping and (apart from the Earlybird offer) OS4.

As far as complete systems are concerned, your local dealer will be able to provide quotations for standard and custom built configurations. Sample prices and configurations for systems which we ourselves offer in the UK are here.

Below is a table listing the comparative features of the AmigaOneG3-SE and the G3 and G4 versions of the AmigaOne-XE.

Item AmigaOneG3-SE AmigaOne-XL (G3) AmigaOne-XL (G4)
CPU 750CXe 750FX 7451
CPU speed 600MHz 700MHz 800MHz
CPU upgradable No Yes Yes
CPU socket No Yes Yes
Max memory 2GB 2GB 2GB
Memory type DIMM Registered 133 DIMM Registered 133 DIMM Registered 133
Northbridge Articia 'S' with fix Articia 'S' with fix Articia 'S' with fix
Southbridge VIA 82C686B VIA 82C686B VIA 82C686B
PCI 33MHz 3 Slots 3 Slots 3 Slots
PCI 66MHz 1 Slot 1 Slot 1 Slot
AGP speed 2x 2x 2x
Ethernet chip 3COM 820C 3COM 820C 3COM 820C
USB ports 2 back plate+2headers 2 back plate+2headers 2 back plate+2headers
PS2 ports Keyboard + mouse Keyboard + mouse Keyboard + mouse
Serial ports 2 x 16650 equivalent 2 x 16650 equivalent 2 x 16650 equivalent
Parallel port 1 x EPP/ECP 1 x EPP/ECP 1 x EPP/ECP
IRDA port On header On header On header
Firmware PPCBoot + OS4 enabler PPCBoot+OS4 enabler PPCBoot+OS4 enabler
O/S capability LinuxPPC + OS4 LinuxPPC + OS4 LinuxPPC + OS4
(ps)

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01.Nov.2002
Christian Effenberger (ANF)


Event: WebCam of AmCluSt meeting
As we have already reported you can watch the AmCluSt hardware meeting of this year via webcam from today on. From 1st until 3rd November 2002 the following hardware is being shown:
  • Pegasos
  • Amithlon (version with newest drivers, AmithlonTV)
  • G-Rex (e.g. A4000T-Modell 1. serie-model)
  • Mediator 4000D
  • Prometheus
  • MMKeyboard
  • Keyboard-adapter
  • Mouse-adapter with Wheel-support
  • Amiga-museum of Dirk Hase from A1000 to A4000T
You can find the link to the webcam under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Nov.2002
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #021031
Below you will find the complete newsletter of Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for October, 2002.

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      W O R L D   O F   A M I G A   S O U T H E A S T   N E W S 

     M O R E   O N   O T T A W A   A M I G A   S H O W   2 0 0 2 

            A M I G A   U N I V E R S I T Y   U P D A T E

      T H E   ' D E A T H   B E D   V I G I L '   O N   D V D ! 

       P E R F E C T   P A I N T   2 . 8 3   A V A I L A B L E 

                M O O V I D   1 . 6   R E L E A S E D 

  C A T W E A S E L   M K 3   " F L I P P E R "   A V A I L A B L E

             N E W   " D Y N A M I T E "   I S   V 2 . 2 

         P O S E I D O N   U S B - S T A C K   O N - L I N E 

 Q U A K E 2   F R O M   H Y P E R I O N   E N T E R T A I N M E N T
 
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Happy Halloween to those who celebrate the holiday! It may be
appropriate that this issue of "Amiga Update" goes out tonight since
Halloween is the day for frightening "things" and in some ways we
might call this past month a frightening month. We didn't see much in
the way of Amiga news to send your way. A lot of what we did find
related to upcoming planned projects, beta releases and utilities
designed for specialized uses. There was no Executive Update from
Amiga either. I like it much more when the Amiga community makes a lot
of interesting noise. Silence is scary.
 However, as is usually the case, there are interesting things going
on in the Community. We have stories on many of them below.
 There's also some potentially interesting news from IBM. On the 15th
of the month, IBM announced the 1.8GHz Power PC 970 at the
Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California. This new chip has the
potential of bringing true 64 bit desktop computing to the Amiga
community down the road in the Amiga1 line. We'll have to see how
this develops. Right now, I'd just be happy for readily available,
complete Amiga1 machines ... haven't seen them yet.
 We hope you enjoy this issue, and we also hope for much more to
report to you next time around. Time will tell.

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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    W O R L D   O F   A M I G A   S O U T H E A S T   N E W S 

25 Oct 2002 

 Typical, you wait ages and then you get new games to buy all at once.
 
 With only one week to go to, we have the pleasure to announce that
there will be THREE new Amiga games releases for you to buy at the
World of Amiga Southeast Show 2002.
 
 (In alphabetical order)
 
 Quake II. - Hyperion-Entertainment/ID Software. A game that needs no
introduction. Yes! Not only will you be able to play QUAKE II at WOASE
on the Amiga Area, but thanks to some nifty work by the guys at
Hyperion, you will be able to buy it as well! Copies are being sent by
special courier from Germany to the UK, in time for the show! Be
amongst the first to own Quake II on the Amiga.
 
 Software Tycoon - Epic Interactive. It's 1982. Small computer games
companies are springing up in the bedrooms around the world. A new
business beckons, where everything is in your hands. You have total
control, from creating the original concept, through hiring staff and
packaging design, to the development of massive marketing campaigns.
Do you have the skills to create and use new technologies and become a
Software Tycoon?
 
 Tales of Tamar - Eternity Software. An internet based roundgame for
various computing platforms. You live in a world far away from our
civilization, comparable to the Middle Ages. In this world there
exists man, dwarves, dragons, and a lot of other races. There is
magic, there are druids and dungeons. You can fight, trade,
investigate, build cities, raise taxes and make peace contracts. Your
aim is to reign your empire and to survive against other opponents.

 Just one week (THAT'S FROM THE 25TH!) to go! - Get your credit cards
ready!

***

 World of Amiga Southeast 2002 is pleased to announce its final
Exhibitors line up for this year's Show:

100% Amiga Magazine
Amiga (OS4/Quake II Demo's)
Cloanto (Amiga Forever)
Eyetech (AmigaOne)
Fore-Matt Home Computing
Kicksoft
Mediator Support Team
The Crypt Magazine
Thendic France (PegasOS/MorphOS)
Total Amiga Magazine
Weird Science
ZeoNeo 

The Following Amiga User Groups will be in attendance:

Amiga North Thames
Amiga Support Association
Blackpool Amiga Club
Huddersfield Amiga User Group

 Please visit http://www.worldofamiga.com or
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/woase for more information, including an
exhibitor layout plan for your convenience. Advanced tickets, priced,
£3.50 each, are available from: Fore-Matt Home Computing or Kicksoft.
 
 World of Amiga Southeast 2002 takes place on Saturday 2nd of November
2002 at Poplars Hall, Shenfield, Brentwood, Essex, UK.
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     M O R E   O N   O T T A W A   A M I G A   S H O W   2 0 0 2 

30 Oct., 2002

 What's going on?
 
 The Ottawa Amiga Show will have Amiga retailers selling products and
developers showing off their latest programs.
 
 The retailers are Cinereal of Ottawa, Downtown Amiga from Montreal,
and Livewire Systems of Ottawa. Livewire systems has indicated they
will have 2 Amithlon systems, some Elbox hardware products, Quake two
and more! Cinereal will be demonstrating Matrox video editing
solutions as well as selling Amiga software and hardware.
 
 ACK Software Controls from Niagara Falls will be demonstrating the
AmigaOne, the first new Amiga hardware since 1993, and a modified
Amiga 4000T, the last classic Amiga model produced.
 
 Admission to the show is free.
 
 Technomages will be on hand demonstrating their latest AmigaDE/AA
titles including Eric Schwartz Puzzles, Memory and others.
 
 ZEE4 of Toronto will be on-hand demonstrating their brand new Amiga
DE offerings.
 
 There will be several systems running demonstrations of Amiga Digital
Environment content.
 
 After the show ends, there will be a post-show supper at the Royal
Oak, the regular meeting place of Amiga.info open to everyone who
wishes to attend. As usual, we will take over the basement.
 
 We will likely have a webcam for those of you who can not make it to
Ottawa. Once it is ready, we will post the address.

When is the show?

 The Ottawa Amiga Show is taking place on November 9, 2002. Doors open
to the public at 11:00am, and the show ends at 4:00pm. People should
arrive at the Royal Oak for around 5:30pm.

 Where is the show?

 The show is quite easy to get to from just about everywhere. The map
page will show you how to get to the show.

 Why have a show?
 
 There are two reasons - the first being that the Amiga computer and
operating system may have fallen from the mainstream, but to this day
there are dedicated users to use the Amiga for a wide range of uses,
including email, surfing the web, video editing, graphics work, and
many others.
 
 Amiga Inc's new Digital Environment (DE) is an excellent platform for
developing software that needs to run everywhere - on PCs, on PDAs, on
cellphone and a myriad of other devices. Programming for DE is written
once, in either Java, C, or VP Assember, and from there will run on
any AmigaDE enabled device.

Any questions about the Ottawa Amiga show can be directed to
amigashow@technomages.net.
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           A M I G A   U N I V E R S I T Y   U P D A T E

04-Oct-2002

 Some great stuff now online, and hopefully a few more cool new things
in the immediate future, too (stay tuned) :) http://www.amigau.com
 
 We've got some cool new stuff online for you:
 
 Site Mirrors: (http://www.amigau.com/sitearchives.htm)
 
 - Amiga Source is now mirrored on our site, thanks Scott!
 
 - we still maintain site mirrors of the excellent Blitz Basic,
Samplitude Opus (with software downloads) and Amiga Interactive Guide
sites, too.
 
 Site Archives:
 
 We have added two GREAT Amiga site archives from the somewhat recent
past:
 
 - National Amiga tech pages: these are full of great tech
information, including pinouts, motherboard configs and lots of
accelerator information - These were originally done by Greg Scott and
used to be on National Amiga's website - thanks to Larry S. and Joe at
Archtech in London, Ontario!
 
 - Spock's Logical Amiga Pages: As many of you may remember, this was
a great site that has been offline for some time, unfortunately due to
its author, Eric Robertson, passing on last fall. Thanks to Donald
Sowell for providing this data as hopefully a little memorial to
Eric's fondness for the Amiga and his excellent site.
 
 - Amiga Realm archive mirrors (12 of them) - Thanks to Paul Andrews
for providing data to mirror their site archives!
 
 Additional stuff:

 303Tracker - this is a cool Roland TB303 emulator you can run on your
Amiga - software downloads included - thanks to Jeroen Schellekens for
his site archive and software (http://www.amigau.com/c-music/303t.htm)

 Events page:
 
 We have added an easy to find Events page for upcoming Amiga events &
shows, and we pledge to keep it current! :) If you have an event or
show coming up anywhere in the world, let us know so we can post it
immediately. (http://www.amigau.com/events.htm)
 
 Thanks, keep on coming back and if you have additional Amiga sites
for us to help you mirror or archive (to preserve them), just let us
know when/how. :)

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com
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      T H E   ' D E A T H   B E D   V I G I L '   O N   D V D ! 

22 Oct., 2002

 DVD edition of 'The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst' 

 Dave Haynie is in the final stages of the preparation of a DVD
edition of 'The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst'. For
those who've been living, well, in the normal mainstream of modern
life and don't know this, this is the film he made about the end of
Commodore.
 Says Dave: "As usual with DVDs, I've been trying to think of some
useful, interesting, or fun 'extra stuff' to put on the disc. I have
too much stuff, basically, but in my continual search for meaning and
all that crap, I came up with the idea of 'IMPACT '. Basically, with
the Amiga as we know it pretty much moved from the single most
revolutionary personal computer in history to more of a footnote in
history, just what WAS its impact. I can play with words, but the
question is too large, and too personal, for just one input. So I've
decided to solicit answer to this basic question: what was/is the
Amiga's impact. On you, on the industry, on life on earth. I know a
piece of it. Some of you may have more to add. So, here's the game.
Think of it as a contest, or whatever. Simply put, you write up a
paragraph; something succinct, or you'll get edited, even if I like
what you said. It needs to fit on one 4:3 TV frame at NTSC resolution,
in quasi-readable type.
 "Send whatever you like to me at dhaynie@jersey.net. Put "[DBV]" in
the subject, and your preferred name at the end. I'll put the best
ones on the DVD."


{Taken from the Czech Amiga News site. Pay them a visit at:
http://amiga.czex.com - Note the new URL! Brad}
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       P E R F E C T   P A I N T   2 . 8 3   A V A I L A B L E 

29 Oct 2002

PerfectPaint V2.83 is available

 * New Arexx command:
 
 o pp_Sharpen
 
 o pp_Glass
 
 o pp_Colorize
 
 o pp_Convert2CMAP
 
 o pp_bmsave
 
 o pp_invbrushstencil
 
 o pp_AddShadow
 
 * Fix a bug with the cloud and gradient palette
 
 * Fix a bug with Arexx
 
 * New Tools under the Boing Icon:
 
 o Borders & Edges (Include 16 script, edge and some picture found in
the Net)
 
 o KATalysator © by Saint & Antibike Lets you create Album for the
web.
 
 * New asynchron window: History (All loaded and saved picture are
stored with info and thumbnail)
 
 * New Arexx Box Script: Cloud II
 
 * For the Fun: New General Script: Snake (a game in arexx with
PfPaint)
 
 * Load and Save ClipBoard
 
 * Improve script: Funny border with Filled Rounded boxes
 
 * Improve Save PNG: PNGtool is used to save PNG picture Current mask
can be used to create the alpha chanel of the png picture. Alpha
Chanel of the brush can be used to create the alpha chanel of the png
picture.
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               M O O V I D   1 . 6   R E L E A S E D 

28 Oct., 2002

 MooVId AVI/MOV player with GUI, 3ivX, Divx, MPEG4, QT3-4-5-6, INDEO
and PPC  support for Amiga computers

                       Last version: 1.6 (30.09.2002)
Required hardware:

Kickstart 3.0 (3.1 Recommended)
MC68020 or better (68040 recommended for bigger AVI/MOVs)
ECS or AGA chipset (on ECS the playback is only 16 grayscale)
1 MB of free memory
PowerPC processor for PPC codecs

Required software:

Reqtools.library
z.library - for QuickTime streams
CyberGraphX or Picasso96 for GFX-Board playback
Installed WarpOS (PPC)
3ivxcodec.library for 3ivX playback (from www.3ivx.com)
avcodec.library/avcodecwos.library for divx, mpeg4, sorenson playback
(included)

Recommended hardware:

 MC68040/060 or PPC and ZorroIII graphicsboard (for bigger
animations), but MooVId can play 240x180 truecolor AVI/MOV at 15FPS
(without skipping) in perfect (!) colors on 030/50 AGA.

MooVId features:

 o AVI (Video for windows) and MOV (Quicktime) player in one file
 
 o Support the video overlay (PIP) of the CV/BVPPC, CV64/3d, PIV,
Voodoo boards (+)
 
 o Support MPEG4 codecs (MP41, MP42, MP43, DIV1, MPG4)
 
 o Support ALL divx variants (Divx ;-), OpenDivx, Divx4, Divx5.x)
 
 o Support Sorenson Video (SVQ1)
 
 o Support 3ivX
 
 o Support QuickTime3+ streams, QuickTime 64bit fileformat till
QuickTime6
 
 o Support INTEL Indeo 3.1 & 3.2 (IV31 & IV32)
 
 o Amithlon compatible
 
 o 100% assembly coded PPC codecs (WarpOS supported)
 
 o 100% assembly coded (fast & short)
 
 o Buffered I/O handling (direct playback from CD-ROM or HDD)
 
 o Timer Based frame skipping method
 
 o FULL AGA support (256 color/gray or ham8) (+)
 
 o Bugfree "18bit" gfx on AGA Amigas
 
 o Special (fast & very good ham8) STORM dither on AGA Amigas (+)
 
 o ECS Support (16 grayscale)
 
 o 16 grayscale Window playback
 
 o Full support of the CD32 akiko chip
 
 o Synchronized audio playing
 
 o On-fly selectable frame rate
 
 o Fully system friendly
 
 o Direct p96 support (no CGFX "emulation")
 
 o Direct CGFX support
 
 o Accelerated decoders for ZorroII gfxboards
 
 o Full GUI (check the screenshoot)


Supported codecs:

Video for Windows (.avi)


Supported video encoders:

Codec Name FourCC code Depth
Cirrus Logic AccuPak CLJR 24 bit
DivX ;-)(+) DIV3 24 bit
DivX4/OpenDivx(+) DIVX 24 bit
DivX5.xx(+) DX50 24 bit
Intel Indeo IV31/IV32 24 bit
MPEG4/MPEG4 V1(+) MPG4/MP41/DIV1 24 bit
MPEG4 V2(+) MP42 24 bit
MPEG4 V3(+) MP43 24 bit
Microsoft RGB RGB 8/16 bit
Microsoft Video 1 CRAM/MSVC 8/16 bit
Motion JPEG(+) MJPG 24 bit
Radius Cinepak(+) CVID 16/24/32 bit
Run Length Encoded RLE 8 bit
Intel RAW YUV9 16/24/32 bit


Supported audio codecs:

Audio format Channels Bits
DVI-ADPCM MONO/STEREO 4 bit (16bit)
PCM MONO/STEREO 8/16 bit
MPEGI-Layer2(+) MONO/STEREO
MPEGI-Layer3(+) MONO/STEREO
MS-ADPCM MONO/STEREO 4 bit (16bit)


Quicktime (.mov, .qt)


Supported video encoders:

Codec Name FourCC code Depth
3ivX Delta 2(+) 3IV1 24 bit
Apple Animation(+) RLE 8 bit (color/gray)
Apple Graphics(+) SMC 8 bit (color/gray)
Apple Video RPZA 16 bit
Intel Indeo IV31/IV32 24 bit
Joint Picture Experts Group(+) JPEG 24 bit
Radius Cinepak(+) CVID 16/24/32 bit
Sorenson Video(+) SVQ1 24 bit


Supported audio encoders:

Audio format Channels Bits
RAW MONO/STEREO 8/16 bit
TWOS MONO/STEREO 8/16 bit
IMA-ADPCM MONO/STEREO 4 bit (16 bit)
MACE 3:1 MONO/STEREO 8 bit
MACE 6:1 MONO/STEREO 8 bit
MPEGI-Layer3(+) MONO/STEREO


(+)=PPC accelerated
MPEG1/2 and AC3 audio support is in progress...

MooVId status:


 MooVId is SHAREWARE. You can check it's limited version in the OS3.9
(called Action) to reference.
 
 The registration fee is $10 or 10Euro for 68k only version, PPC+68k
version registration fee is $20 or 20Euro and after you will get free
updates too (when you have email address)
 
 Special registration fee for East European Amiga users (like Russia,
Poland, Hungary, Czech, the ex-communist countries): just 8Euro (68k
only version) and 15Euros (68k+PPC)!


http://www.dfmk.hu/~torokl/MooVId.html
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  C A T W E A S E L   M K 3   " F L I P P E R "   A V A I L A B L E

26 Oct., 202

Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper

four-in-one controller for
emulation support


 The third generation of Catweasel controllers shows again that
Catweasel has always been a bit more than just a floppy controller. If
you have started an emulator on a modern computer, you'll know that a
lot of things are different from the original machine. The new
computer can't read the original disks, the old joysticks don't fit,
and the keyboard has a lot of keys in a place that you're not used to.
Once you have adjusted to the new situation, bad sound effects or
music that just doesn't sound like what you've heard over and over
again more than ten years ago spoils the party.
 
 Catweasel MK3 solves all of these problems.
 
 As the name already tells, it's a PCI board for modern PCs, MACs and
the new computers AmigaOne and Pegasos. The surname "Flipper" suggests
that there's more to this interface. The new Catweasel is a so-called
flipcard, it can be plugged into the Zorro-slot of a classic-Amiga.
Even if you don't have one of these bus systems, there's another
connector for the clock-port of an Amiga 1200 - a small pin header on
the
 
 motherboard of the computer that's connected with a cable.
 
 The main purpose of the Catweasel has always been to allow access to
non-standard disks using normal PC-diskdrives, even if you usually
need a completely different computer for that. The capacity of the
drive does not matter in this case: A 5,25 inch drive with 1,2MByte
capacity will read and write a C-64 disk with 170KByte as well as a
3,5 inch drive with 1,44MByte can access a 1,76MByte Amiga disk.
Together with a company that has specialized in data recovery, we're
working on the implementation of more than 1100 different disk
formats, and it does not matter that this has been classified
impossible by others before. Even the 800KByte disks from older
Macintosh computers can be used in standard 1,44MB drives, although
the original drives have rotated their disks at variable speeds. You
can get a complete overview over the supported formats in the
technical data. Even if the format you desire is not yet supported, it
only requires a driver update to get new features out of the
controller.

 To bring the real feeling of the old games to new computers, the
Catweasel MK3 has two connectors for so-called digital joysticks. This
is the type of joystick that has been used by many computers of the
80s like C-64, VIC-20, Atari and Amiga. The connector was the same on
all these computers: A 9-pin Sub-D. Analog joysticks of that time
(so-called paddles) can also be used.
 
 Emulation does not necessarily mean to bring nostalgia to your
computer. AmigaOS XL and Amithlon bring an operating system to the
PC-world that is superior to the mainstream systems in many respects.
A lot of users of that software wanted to use real Amiga keyboards on
the PC, that's why the Catweasel MK3 has a mini-DIN connector for an
A4000 keyboard. If you want to use an A2000 or A3000 keyboard, this
can be done with a PS2 adapter that should be available in good
PC-shops.
 
 Last but not least, the Catweasel MK3 has an option to use the
original soundchip of the Commodore C-64, also known as SID (Sound
Interface Device). This part of the board has been carefully designed
in order to produce exactly the same sound that the C-64 produced.
There have been other attempts to bring this chip to the PC-world, but
none of them was really satisfying.
 
 Catweasel MK3 does not accept compromise in this matter. Even direct
comparative tests with a real C-64 reveal nearly no differencies. This
is also caused by a real Commodore-Chip that is being used to generate
the SID clock frequency. Luckily, we have a good quantity of these
chips in stock. An additional circuit that is contained on all
Catweasel MK3 can output a fourth voice even out of the later versions
of the SID (type 8580) that could be activated by a software trick on
the old version (type 6581). If you connect the Catweasel MK3 to the
internal CD-connector of your soundcard, you can hear the fourth voice
on a separate channel if you like.

Prices:

Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper: 84,90 EUR
special cable for Amiga 1200: 5,- EUR
Soundchip 6581 or 8580: 20,- EUR

 All prices include the German VAT of 16%. We'll start shipping on
november 25th, 2002.

individual Computers
Roermonder Str 228 | 52072 Aachen | Fax: +49 241 12088
www.jschoenfeld.de

http://www.jschoenfeld.com/products/cwmk3_e.htm
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            N E W   " D Y N A M I T E "   I S   V 2 . 2 

26 Oct., 2002

Requires: 

 Amiga with 68020 or better OS3.x, TCP/IP stack, CyberGraphx/P96 or
AGA with BlazeWCP, MUI3.8, AHI, identify.library 13.x, NList.mcc,
BetterBalance.mcc (optional), XPK V4.0 (optional)
 
 dynAMIte is a bomberman/dynablaster-clone that can be played (only)
over the internet (TCP/IP) by up to 8 players!
 
 This game runs on your WB and thus multitasks happily with all your
other programs, so just try it and become addicted! =)

---------------

 o Fixed a silly bug where a player could have had more than one
remotebomb resulting in hit-galore and serious other problems.
 
 o Active powerups are now displayed in an additional window. See Menu
-> Windows -> Active Power-Ups.
 
 o dynAMIte did not load a newly selected sampleset. Fixed.
 
 o DServer now resets teammode and brings in initial amount of bots
after the last player left the server.
 
 o DServer now also does highscores for teams.
 
 o Added another ARexx command to stop a running game called STOPGAME.
 
 o Added a new ARexx command called DOCHATLINE to DServer. DOCHATLINE
handles the passed string as if it was typed into the chat string
gadget.
 
 o DServer now uses MUI's built in ARexx interface instead of an own
implementation. Because of this I had to change the MUI-Application
base-name to match the old Arexxport name. You have to snapshot some
windows of DServer again.
 
 o Added an option to skip drawing of explosionanimation for blown up
powerups. See "graphics"-menu.
 
 o Added an option to skip redrawing of powerups every 3 frames. See
"graphics"-menu
 
 o Readded SKIPANIMS (skips drawing of bomb explosions) which is now
available from "graphics"-menu.
 
 o dynAMIte crashed on custompuppets if xpkNUKE.library was missing.
Fixed.
 
 o Did some cosmetical changes to DServer prefs.
 
 o Added a button to DServer to log in bots.
 
 o Dead players can't switch slots anymore to get resurrected.
 
 o From now on, dynAMIte uses its own network code
(dynAMIteNET.library) in favour of amarquee.library.
 
 o It's now possible to deactivate any powerup from within DServer.
 
 o If a player used a custompuppet in teammode, the puppetgfx was used
for the whole team the player was in (only in loginscreen). Fixed.
 
 o Removed timestatistics from the bottom of the gamewindow because of
its general usefulness.
 
 o It's now possible to disable smokeeffect used for laser and
kickbombs.
 
 o I've finally rewritten keyboard handling code and removed
dependency on lowlevel.library/GetKey(), so that it's now possible to
control the game from a keyboard connected to a Pegasos. This may also
fix some problems with some keyboard adapters for wintel keyboards.
 
 o Games with one human and n bots caused the gamecounter to be always
decreased by one for every game. Fixed.
 
 o Applied the same changes for timerstuff also to dynAMIte.
 
 o DServer will now save the highscores in a fixed timeinterval
instead of after every game.
 
 o Bots in DServer are now handled by an external client (detonator),
taking load off of DServer.
 
 o When a player logged off during a game, the bombs of this player
left some gfx on the playfield. Fixed.
 
 o Fixed a silly bug in DServer that caused enforcerhits when a user
tried to log into a full/offline server.
 
 o Rewritten timer stuff for DServer to get back some sigs for other
things.
 
 o Shield and other things never ran out for bots. Fixed.
 
 o Observers got games/wins accounted for highscore. Fixed.
 
 o dynAMIte crashed when one of the needed libraries wasn't found.
Fixed.
 
http://amisource.de/dynamite/
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        P O S E I D O N   U S B - S T A C K   O N - L I N E 


5 Oct., 2002 

 Poseidon USB-Stack now available as onlineversion from IOSPIRIT

 Chris Hodges and IOSPIRIT have signed a contract on the
online-distribution of the Poseidon USB stack. Thanks to the extensive
distribution infrastructure of IOSPIRIT, the worldwide availability of
Poseidon and various payment options are now guaranteed.
 
 The Poseidon USB stack unleashes the power and possibilities of the
Universal Serial Bus (USB) to you. With Poseidon you can now use
modern and low-priced USB-devices such as mice, keyboards, tablets,
joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flashcard-readers,
ZIP- and floppy-drives, harddisks and many more!

http://www.iospirit.de/
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 Q U A K E 2   F R O M   H Y P E R I O N   E N T E R T A I N M E N T


9 Oct., 2002

 Hyperion Entertainment completes Quake 2 Amiga port 

 Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the completion of its
highly optimised Quake 2 port for the Amiga.
 
 A bundle containing the full PC version and a separate CD with the
Amiga executable, the Quake 2 installer, GUI and over 600 MB of
(compressed) extras such as (nearly 40!) Quake 2 mods, levels and
models, will be available shortly from your lo cal dealer. Pricing may
vary.
 
 The game complies with all the usual quality standards for which
Hyperion has become known in the Amiga market. Users can register
their copy of Quake 2 on the Hyperion website to obtain support and
download further mods and updates as they be come available.

System requirements are as follows:
- PPC equipped Amiga (WarpOS)
- 64 MB of memory (more recommended for certain mods)
- graphics-card (3D acceleration supported but not required)

 Dealers interested in distributing this product may contact
Timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com.
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RC-FTPd offer at WOASE
For the duration of WOASE, I'll be offering rc-ftpd registration for the reduced price of £10, instead of the usual $20 (£13 + commision).

As I'm feeling nice, and am completely broke (petrol and entrance money only), while I'm at WOASE people will be able to register rc-ftpd in cash, in pounds, and in person. I'll take their details and give them a receipt, they'll get the personal keyfile when I get home and email them out :-)

See my website (above) for how to recognise me. (ps)

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