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Archive 03/2003

`10.Mar.2003` Etienne Vogt (Website)	RAM Disk Driver: VDisk.device Version 3.6 Etienne Vogt published today version 3.6 of the VDisk.device. You can find the changes made in the Readme. Download: vdisk36.lha - 46 KB (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 18:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)	Amiga Future: Interview with Computer City, Rotterdam On the website of Amiga Future you can find an interview with Ron van Herk, owner of the trading and software house of Computer City from the Netherlands. The Englisch version of the interview. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 17:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` Glames (E-Mail)	AmigaDE-Game: First Screenshots of 'Word Me Up' Under the title link you can find first screenshots of the Amiga-DE-game 'Word Me Up'. The game belonges to the category Arcade/Memory/Reflection. The side is also available in French. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 16:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	AmigaWorld: Ten questions per week at Fleecy Moss "We at AmigaWorld are proud to announce that Amiga's Chief Technology Officer Fleecy Moss has agreed on offering us weekly Questions and Answers sessions." (Update, 17.03.2012, cg: integrated the actual interview into the news item, since the original document is no longer available on the net): 1) Rebel: "Why SO silent? AInc has been quiet for months at a time, giving the naysayers, and rumour mongers a chance to do more damage, and divide the community even more.". Fleecy: As my mother used to, and still does say to me 'Don't say anything unless you have something to say.' Keith Blakemore Noble pointed out on ANN that this is what we said we would do when we bought the company in 2000 and then we went back on this pledge. The problem we have, although it is a good problem is that the Amiga has a community and the community wants to know what is going on, more so given the nightmare of the last eight years. Our initial policy was thus to say nothing until we had news to share. With all the requests we then got for news, it became very difficult for us to keep to our policy. We thus resurrected the Executive Updates but in these we made the mistake of sharing status and progress information and as anyone in business knows, business is a distillation process - 100 leads may lead to 20 contacts which lead to 5 contracts which may, if you are lucky lead to 1 deal. Even more unfortunate, the deals we were able to announce, the Sharp Zaurus, the Nokia MediaTerminal, the Sendo Z100 were pulled out from under us - the Zaurus for Sharp internal reasons, the MediaTerminal because of the collapse of ITV digital and another Germany company and the Sendo situation is well understood (although there is still hope there of a new deal based upon the unique advantages of the AmigaDE). So, in terms of news items we haven't done too well. To add to this (and many will shout and scream about this but it is true), Amiga Inc has been under attack from several groups who have other axes to grind, whether they want an x86 solution, AmigaOS open sourced, protection code and licencing removed from AmigaOS4.0 or want to encourage people to move to another platform whilst claiming it is an Amiga. Of course in a community there is disagreement but in a community that disagreement is either tolerated or the community splits apart. Everything we were saying in public was being taken apart and turned to support whatever was the position of the poster. In the end, we decided to revert back to our original policy since it became apparent that all anyone really cared about was the release of AmigaOS4.0. This then brought us full circle to the original situation, that when saying nothing, noisemakers will rush to fill the silence. If you don't counteract the rumours then its because they are true and if you do pop up to counteract them then that must be because they are true. The only way to win is to get AmigaOS4.0 out the door and so that is what we are concentrating on at the moment. Part of the reason for this Q&A; service is to rubbish the claim that we won't talk to the community. We just won't say anything if it isn't 110% guaranteed anymore and that is the way people seem to want it. 2) SlimJim: "It is well known that this first release of AOS4 is mainly aimed for the existing user-base and eventual old Amigans. What is Amiga Inc's (overall) marketing strategy with respect to AmigaOS4 + Aone (once they become available)?". Fleecy: Move the community to new hardware and operating system. Develop audio and 2d/3d productivity architectures with Amiga and non Amiga developers Create applications to take advantage of these architectures to carve out solution markets Support development of applications that round the appeal of the platform - browser, email client, word processor Integrate with the AmigaDE to open access to multiple platform markets, both open and solution based As we build the application base to where it can successfully provide for different roles, we will then push it out into those markets. In short, there is no point in pushing the Amiga into a market where it is not yet ready to provide an adequate solution or it will die before it takes its first step. To do that we need the hardware, the operating system, the application base and the support services in place. 3) Herewegoagain: "Will they [Amiga Inc.] be negotiating with Microsoft to bring Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Media Player to OS4?". Fleecy: It is something we have considered but again, as with all the other application developers out there on other platforms, until we can plonk a machine and operating system in front of them, there is little point. The perennial problem, of course is that these companies are busy with their main activities and seeing their product ported to another platform, particularly one as small as the Amiga is not something that they wish to consider. In the end, they will only 'get out of bed' if there is a large market or we provide them with financial incentive. 4) alx: "Assuming everything goes to plan, at what point in the future will Amiga start to advertise the A1/OS (not just to Amigans)?". Fleecy: I refer you back to question 2 - we will market and advertise when the full solution is ready for those markets. This doesn't mean that there won't be penetration. We have many journalists ready to review and write about the machines. Amiga is a big story to them because the Amiga was such a large part of people's lives in the past. We will have services in place to take advantage of and capture that interest, to make use of it when the conditions are right. 5) reflect: "Maybe I've missed this when I read the featurelist, but I couldn't see ARexx there. Will ARexx still be included, and if so, will it have gotten an overhaul internally or will it 'just' be ported or will it be emulated?" Fleecy: The ownership issues surround the original ARexx implementation are well known and we have been unable to gain access to the source. The existing 68k ARexx binary will thus be emulated. We are reviewing the entire scripting and application control for both AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 as mentioned later on. 6) unclecurio: "What are AInc doing to attract past developers to produce updated versions of their software? For example, Photogenics has ceased development for AmigaOS but would be a great product to bring back in an updated version.". Fleecy: We are working in the background but I don't want to go into too much detail as it has become apparent that competitors are approaching the same people and trying to tie them into exclusive deals that would keep their products from AmigaOS4.0. Providing them with a list of who we are approaching, both within the Amiga community and on other platforms would really be doing their work for them. Suffice it to say that we are being as open as we can with all the developers that we have been able to locate still developing for the AmigaOS and with one or two exceptions, they are very receptive to what we have been able to tell them. 7) Eric_Z: "Is A.inc. currently involved in porting over office apps to AACE or OS4?". Fleecy: For Amiga Anywhere, we are encouraging development of the applications that our customers are telling us they want, and this is almost always games. However, we do have customers who have requested education and productivity software and we have one of the best calculators ever created on a software platform and a digital picture application that is impressing lots of people. In the end, we encourage and work on whatever is being asked for. 8) mood: "Will there be any Amiga-Anywhere/AmigaDE-player for AmigaOS 4.x?". Fleecy: We have already stated that we are targeting an AACE player for AmigaOS4.2 9) DaveW: "Is SHEEP the scripting language that looked rather cool available or going to be available this year for Amiga based programmers to get their hands on?". Fleecy: We are currently reviewing SHEEP in the context of the AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 and looking at how it can be used to bring the two together as both are moved forwards and towards each other. 10) Pig: "Where do you see the company in 5 years, and where do you see AmigaOS at that time?". Fleecy: I hope that we are on many different types of device and providing a seamless digital enviroment for users irrespective of their hardware. We have a marketing slogan we use, the new WWW, which means Whatever, Wherever, Whenever. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=1 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 16:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` Markus Nerding (ANF)	H&P: StormC programmer needed For the porting of the loganalyzers Sawmill we are looking for an Amiga programmer, who is used to StormC and/or GCC. It concerns thereby not the adjustment of sources, but rather the adjustment of libraries, so that the source can be compiled on the Amiga. The payment is to be made in form of a participation in turnover at the sales of the Amiga version. If you are interested please contact Markus Nerding. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 13:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` Thomas Frieden, Senior Developer (E-Mail)	Hyperion: New AmigaOne Firmware FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leuven, Belgium - March 7, 2003. Hyperion is pleased to announce that it has completed an extensive rework of the AmigaOne firmware adding substantial functionality and flexibility for end-users, developers and technicians. The new firmware will be incorporated in the A1-XE boards which will be shipping shortly. Newly implemented functionality includes: Migration from PPCBoot 1.16 to U-Boot (PPCBoot 2.0) Support for PPC 750 FX, MPC 7440/41, MPC 7450/1 CPU's Comprehensive GUI for Articia S register configuration Comprehensive GUI for general firmware configuration Support of additional types of memory modules Integration of diagnostic code Support for POST card displays allowing for rapid detection of specific hardware faults New Articia S start-up code allowing for usage of two banks of unregistered SDRAM Booting from Symbios/LSI Logic 53c8xx based SCSI controllers (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 12:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` jim (ANF)	Mail program: New YAM development version There is a new development version (2.4-dev [020] BETA) of the mail program YAM available. As mentioned this is a development version wich may still contain bugs. Questions about this release will not be answered. Use it on your own risk! Made changes can be found here. Additional information can be found on the Yamos SourceForge-site. Download: YAM24Dev.lzx (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 11:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Terra Soft: Teron-PPC-Board not longer available in the Online-Store Terra Soft ATX PowerPC Systems Terra Soft Current and Pending Customers, "Many of you have enthusiastically and patiently awaited the delivery of MAI Logic's Teron motherboards on which Terra Soft's Boxer ATX systems will be built. We have removed the Teron-based systems from our online Store until further notice in order to reduce further confusion and false expectations. We promise to bring this product to market as soon as possible." -- Terra Soft Team Background could be a diversity of opinion between Terra Soft and Mai Logic. According to rumors, which Mike Bouma in the Amiga World forum drew "from reliable sources", Terra Soft demands 20 US dollar per produced and sold Main board, including the AmigaOne boards, since these boards can implement Yellow Dog Linux. These rumors were so far not confirmed officially. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 11:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` Halvadjian Georges (ANF)	PerfectPaint V2.92 Version 2.92 of the paint program PerfectPaint by Halvadjian Georges is now available. In this version the following features were added or changed: If you start PerfectPaint from shell, you can specify a filename like this: "PerfectPaint:PerfectPaint DH0:MonImage.iff" Add Horizontal and Vertical Rulers in Pixels, cm and Inches. New Effect: FastPaint New Arexx Command: pp_SetDPI, pp_linepattern Effect can now have his own Density mapping You can now load template (Some Template are available for CD, DVD...) Update Localisation file. Improve 'New' requester: You can select the resolution of the picture (pixels/cm or pixels/Inches). You can enter the size of the picture in Pixels, cm or Inches. Improve Preview effect: Stencil and density mapping are showed now during the preview. Improve Density mapping: New requester, New options, New file requester with thumbnail. Improve Text requester: Arrows key (Up/Down) can be used to select next or previous vectorial font. Improve Processing tool: Much faster, Better aspect. Improve All blending Algorithm (Ouch!!): Better aspect and much faster. Improve Crop, Scale window tool and Crop&Past script: The current mask is not anymore erased. Note 1: If you have some problems with brush refresh, enable the "Picasso96" tooltype. (the scalepixelarray command will not be used anymore) Note 2: If you can't save PNG with alphachannel, check that you have installed the PBM datatype. Because PfPaint save his mask in PBM format and PNGtool read this format with the help of the datatype. Download: PfPaint_V292.lha (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 11:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Mar.2003` Sebastian Bauer (ANF)	New NList and NListtree versions Sebastian Bauer writes: The new MUI classes NList and NListtree versions are now available for download on my homepage. The archives also contain the MorphOS versions (created by Jens Langner). Should there still be any problems with these versions, please tell me so I can fix them in time for the "stable" release. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Mar. 2003, 23:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Mar.2003` Thorsten 'Thorty' Schölzel (ANF)	Original Amiga logo for uploading to mobile phone released After the MorphOS logo has been received with cheers by the users, today the original Amiga logo has been released for mobile phones by the makers Nokia and Siemens. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Mar. 2003, 19:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Mar.2003`	Aminet Uploads up to 09th March 2003 Subsequently you'll find the newest Aminet uploads: SN-MuenzArch.lha biz/dbase 197K+V1.4 Coin-DataBase (Germany only) Opus6img.lha biz/dopus 1.1M+Toolbar Images For DOpus Magellan GummiSurf.lha comm/net 14K+Companion tool for Charon (Download mana ib2email.lha comm/www 2K+ARexx scripts to pass mailto: links from OpenURL44.lha comm/www 146K+OpenURL - Get that URL! pvt-cafe2002.lha demo/slide 2.8M+Demoparty Computer Art Festival 2002 Sli BlitzLstFeb03.lha dev/basic 1.3M+Blitz mailing list archives for February BlitzLstJan03.lha dev/basic 513K+Blitz mailing list archives for January CIT.lha dev/gui 165K+A C++ GUI dev system ASCIImui.lha dev/mui 21K+ASCII character converter (source code i MCC_Toolbar.lha dev/mui 123K+Toolbar custom class for MUI (v15.8) [OS muihook_mos.lha dev/mui 17K+Simple MUI source using hooks for GCC-Mo Apfelberge.lha dev/src 5K+3D fractal example WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 6K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0. SFS.lha disk/misc 187K+Smart Filesystem copyrighted by John Hen AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 93K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (Febru Poczet.lha docs/hyper 162K+Guide *POLISH ONLY* about polish mon NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.5M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 02/2003 (Itali amigazette_09.lha docs/mags 1.1M+AMIGAzette 9th issue (25.08.2001) (itali nocover108.lha docs/mags 1.6M+Great german diskmagazine obligement37.lha docs/mags 1.0M+Obligement #37 - The Famous FRENCH fanzi saku41.lha docs/mags 1.1M+Saku #41 (3/2002). Finnish e-zine. RXDraughts.lha game/board 6K+(REACTION GUI) WB Draughts game for Amig DC2Lvl-EMine1.lha game/data 475K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II FreeCivExpand.lha game/data 201K+GFX Expansion for the Nativ Amiga-Port o Mattonite.lha game/demo 672K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress StefACS.lha game/demo 88K+Adventures creator, working in progress whirlwind.lha game/demo 267K+Whirlwind demo,racing game inspired in W zdragonball.lha game/demo 251K+Beat'em up with Dragonball characters BlaggersAlley.lha game/hint 44K+Simcity 2000 Launch Arco scene - complet Sepulchre_Wood.lha game/text 327K+Fighting Fantasy-style game (Amigaguide) Follia_NBA_FE.lha game/think 1.4M+Extremely addictive puzzler; pure fun! Land_O_Mines.lha game/wb 46K+Try to get out of the mine field! Tri_Add.lha game/wb 43K+Try to find the correct total! Anim2gif.lha gfx/conv 150K+Converts and scales an amiga animation t Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 557K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 1/8 Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 155K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 2/8 Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 3a/8 Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 326K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 3b/8 Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 4/8 Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 143K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 5/8 Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 6/8 (opti Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 157K+SView5 V1.20 (8.3.2003) - Part 7/8 (opti swftools-0.4.2.lha gfx/misc 2.8M+Collection of tools for the manipulation BetaScanSrc.lha hard/drivr 184K+Complete Source for BetaScan.v3 (3.05) BetaScan_GER.lha hard/drivr 7K+German catalog for BetaScan_v3 BetaScan_v3.lha hard/drivr 128K+BetaScan v.3 with Raction based GUI cd32-expansion.txt hard/misc 6K+Full description of CD32 expansion slot psu-problems.txt hard/misc 6K+Diagnosing power supply problems imdbDiff030221.lha misc/imdb 3.9M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase hc-hexenjagt.lha mods/blkha 64K+Hardcore PT mod by blakkhar juhuuu.lha mods/blkha 577K+Techno DBP mod by blakkhar JD-Mindscapes.mpg mods/mpg 3.0M+Mindscapes by JaDe JD-Overload4.mpg mods/mpg 3.0M+Overloaded IV by JaDe JD-Soundstate.mpg mods/mpg 3.6M+Sound State by JaDe Cathedral.lha mus/misc 123K+Reverb. 16-bit,MUI,68k/PPC, non-realtime flac-1.0.4BETA.lha mus/misc 2.1M+FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec ringtonetools.lha mus/misc 61K+Mobile tones converter EP_SoundPlayer.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "SoundPlayer" external repla FenrixGIcons.lha pix/gicon 511K+Some glowIcons, mostly drawers FenrixGIcons2.lha pix/gicon 147K+Some glowIcons, mostly drawers Nelta-glow.lha pix/gicon 588K+Over the 300 misc glow icons [by cYbo] SimsGameIcons.lha pix/gicon 32K+GlowIcons for 5 current amiga-games trodas_icons2.lha pix/gicon 592K+Glow icons made by trodas anl-strip_9.lha pix/misc 49K+[ancor] a normal life AP20Covers.lha pix/misc 193K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 20 Covers Recto & Verso sgf-strip_5.lha pix/misc 50K+[ancor] StarGround flashback sgf-strip_6.lha pix/misc 48K+[ancor] StarGround flashback ufstoryv2.lha pix/misc 307K+A Fantasy story with pics this is v2.0 moped18.jpg pix/trace 154K+Motorbike rendered with Cinema4D V4 ChineseIME.lha text/edit 214K+A Chinese IME solution to input Chinese hypermail2.1.5.lha text/misc 268K+Takes mail msgs and generates HTML docum ActivateWindow.lha util/cli 7K+CLI-tool to activate, move to front wind hd.lha util/cli 7K+HD, hexdumper MUIFind_mos.lha util/misc 46K+Freeware MUI Search tool -MorphOS- CPUSpd.lha util/moni 6K+68k speed, cycles/scanline, cycles/frame EBGuide.lha util/rexx 3K+(REACTION GUI) Australian TV Guide progr Pixload-3.0.lha util/rexx 668K+Pixload 3.0 (a "dock style" in RXMui) rxmuiguides.lha util/rexx 91K+RxMUI - RxMUI Docs in AmigaGuide format DRemind.lha util/time 292K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.64! AmiStart.lha util/wb 400K+A Windows like startmenu with drag&drop BaseConvert.lha util/wb 25K+ReAction GUI base convertor IconLink.lha util/wb 25K+Create links to icons Scalos13u_FR.lha util/wb 17K+French Catalogs for Scalos1.3u(40.21) ScaOPM-Cat_Up.lha util/wb 9K+Update Cat.french(Scalos-OPM) SortIcons.lha util/wb 12K+Sorts Icons on WB screen - like PC/Mac! (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Mar. 2003, 12:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Mar.2003` Rupert Hausberger (ANF)	ByteMARK Benchmark V2 for AmigaOS/MorphOS Rupert Hausberger has ported the current ByteMARK(tm) benchmark to AmigaOS/MorphOS. It contains the following builds: bytemark.020.aos - AmigaOS/68020/mathieee.library bytemark.020.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68020/mathieee.library/a4-relative bytemark.020.881.aos - AmigaOS/68020/FPU bytemark.020.881.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68020/FPU/a4-relative bytemark.040.aos - AmigaOS/68040/mathieee.library bytemark.040.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68040/mathieee.library/a4-relative bytemark.040.881.aos - AmigaOS/68040/FPU bytemark.040.881.a4.aos - AmigaOS/68040/FPU/a4-relative bytemark.060.aos - AmigaOS/68060/FPU bytemark.060.aos - AmigaOS/68060/FPU/a4-relative bytemark.603e.mos - MorphOS/603e/FPU bytemark.603e.r13.mos - MorphOS/603e/FPU/r13-relative bytemark.604e.mos - MorphOS/604e/FPU bytemark.604e.r13.mos - MorphOS/604e/FPU/r13-relative (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Mar. 2003, 12:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Mar.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	Voltmeter software completed I herewith announce that the software for my voltmeter hardware has been completed. This should be able to run on all A1200s and A4000s. However, it would have to be adapted for A500 and A600. This is because the software uses the 32bit width of the address data. Theoretically the software should run under AmigaOS V2.1 - 3.9, however it has not been tested under version 2.1. The program archive now also contains the circuit diagram for self-assembly. This has been integrated in a PDF file which furthermore contains descriptions of the ARexx programs. Only experienced hobby electronic technicians should deal with this (chips are susceptible against static electricity!). You can get all parts at Conrad Electronic or any well-assorted electronics shop. Software: The archive now contains several ARexx programs with which you can read out the data from the voltmeter. Among those are also an oscilloscope program and a program using the system's Pipe:. Unfortunately I can't write a program reading out the data from the pipe as fast as they are written into it. Furthermore there are a bus initialization and a zero correction program. The most important program is the main program, "Voltmeter". There you can mainly do voltage metering in realtime. The second important function is the sampling of voltage data. This means that in 1 second about 280 measurings are performed. These are displayed immediately afterwards in a lister. Thereby they are converted into volts with a precision of 3 decimal places. This list of voltage data can be saved, if you want, to be used in another program. The same can be done with the metered value of the single measurement. An important highlight are the four diagram functions in the voltmeter program. After the listing of the metered values in the lister you can view them again in one of the four diagram modes in individual windows. These are: dot diagram, line diagram, P-grid diagram, and L-grid diagram. The L-grid diagram is the most exact diagram of all as you can read out the voltage down to 0.1 volts and the time down to a few milliseconds. It has to be said that point diagram and P-grid diagram show time in samples whereas the two line grid diagrams show it in seconds. Incidentally there can be only 1000 samples taken as a maximum. This means about 3.5 - 4 seconds of measuring. Download: Voltmeter.lzx (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Mar. 2003, 02:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Mar.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Internet browser: Mozilla for AmigaOS? In a thread on Amiga.org explains Dave "DaveP" Pitcher that he had already run a Mozilla port under AmigaOS 3.9 - more than one year ago. Dave had looked for people who were willing to take over the following work. As nobody registered he had ceased the work. The state of the port is described by Dave like this: "It is slow, contains errors (it's based on an early Mozilla code base) and it needs a lot of finetuning before it will be something I could be proud of". Dave says that he'll restart the work on the port as soon as his other projects (his part of work on OS4 and his website amigabooks.org) leave him enough time and if he gets enough feedback). (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Mar. 2003, 23:17] [Comments: 1 - 10. Mar. 2003, 17:14] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Mar.2003` Olaf Köbnik (email)	Amiga Arena: Sayonara Software page online again Games like Hollywood Manager, Flamingo Tours and the Samba Partie series may be taken as the most successful titles by "Sayonara Software". Jo Seitz, the founder and developer of "Sayonara Software", gave the Amiga Arena last year the permission to offer his games there for free downloading. These games are after the redesign now online again! (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Mar. 2003, 19:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Mar.2003` Alfonso Ranieri (ANF)	FreeDB 7.3 and CManager 21.8 released FreeDB 7.3 and CManager 21.8 are available for download. (ps) [News message: 08. Mar. 2003, 19:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Mar.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	New community portal: Amigaworld.net Though the community portal Amigaworld.net already exits for several months it became a talking-point in the last days as an alternative to Amiga.org. In contrary to Amiga.org MorphOS and Pegasos aren't accepted as topic on Amigaworld.net, the providers want to concentrate on topics all about AmigaOS and Amiga Inc. In conjunction with very strict moderating they want to avoid the typical warfares also Amiga.org had to suffer from. (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Mar. 2003, 18:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Mar.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Amiga: We were just sleeping The March issue of the Australian computer magazine "Australian Personal Computer" reports under the title "Amiga: We were just sleeping" about the upcoming launch of the "AmigaOne". (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Mar. 2003, 18:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Mar.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Further AmigaOne/Pegasos benchmarks On Pekka Nissinen's benchmark site are further benchmarks available: new added are the results of a Pegasos/G3 with 100 MHz FSB as well as of an AmigaOne-SE with 100 MHz FSB. All benchmarks had been done with the same binary. To people who speak English and are interested in the topic may be the according thread on ANN recommended. The issue is discussed there on a mainly objective basis. Right now there's the question why the Pegasos does much worse in two tests (assignment and LU decomposition) than the AmigaOne, maybe the L2-cache isn't activated on the Pegasos. (nba) Update: Update for Pegasos/AmigaOne benchmarks - In the meanwhile has the site been brought up-to-date. On the Pegasos was indeed the L2-cache deactivated, this error has been fixed and the benchmark results have been updated. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Mar. 2003, 18:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Mar.2003` Bernd Roesch (ANF)	Speed tests with Monzoom The raytracing program Monzoom tested: Amiga version 4.3.78 -Pro PC version 4.5.55 -Pro Scene: Caribbic (coming with Monzoom Pro) 800x 600; Ray 4; Antial. 4; shadow -An A1200 __040/25MHz ___________computing time __59 min 11 sec __(3551 sec) A4000 __060/50MHz ___________computing time __20 min 01 sec __(1201 sec) A1200 __PPC603e/150Mhz ______computing time __10 min 39 sec __( 639 sec) A4000 --PPC604e/200MHz ______computing time __02 min 30 sec __( 150 sec) ------------------------------------- WinUAE AMD/2000+ ____________computing time __01 min 48 sec __( 108 sec) Amithlon AMD/2000+ (1.6GHz) _computing time __01 min 09 sec __( 69 sec) Athlon 1700+ ________________computing time __00 min 09 sec --( 09 sec) Athlon 2000+ ________________computing time __00 min 08 sec __( 08 sec) Tried updating with Pegasos values but (mk) hadn't got my mail (he posted) and he doesn't have time next week and I don't want to stress him. But to show speed facts this is enough to be posted now. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Mar. 2003, 11:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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