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Archive 03/2003

`07.Mar.2003` Thorty! (ANF)	Thorty-Online.de: New AMIGA sections opened On Thorty-online.de two new Amiga sections has been opened. Amiga Workshops Handy Logos Amiga Workshops: You can find here some workshops about the use of WinUAE on the x86 platform. Other ones will follow. Handy Logos: This fresh section will be extended in irregular distances. MorphOS fans may be delighted because they can download a suitable logo and/or picture message for a handy of Nokia and Siemens. The tutorial explains you how you will get the logo and/or the picture message to your handy. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Mar. 2003, 22:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Mar.2003` Mikey C (ANF)	Total Amiga Magazine 14 with Quake-2-lottery Total Amiga Magazine Issue 14 will be available from March 15. But that's not the end of the story, how does the chance of winning a copy of either Amiga QuakeII or Descent: Freespace sound? To coincide with our comprehensive Amiga Quake II review and thanks to Hyperion-Entertainment, we have a copy of Amiga Quake II/Descent: Freespace* to give away to one lucky winner. To enter, subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine by 17/3/2003 (24:00hrs GMT) and your name will automatically be entered into the prize draw. Plus! Alan Redhouse, The man who lays it straight, writes exclusively every month for Total Amiga Magazine. In this month Alan's updates include news on the AmigaOne XE and news on a new A1 SE lite... Plus! We are pleased to announce that Issue 14 sees an increase in content, up from 48 pages to 52. Now there is even more to read and enjoy. Plus! Fleecy Moss, Buzz Word, Hollywood review, Webdesign on an Amiga, Software Tycoon, Top Tips, Tutorials and more. To subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine, please visit http://www.totalamiga.org/subscribe.html for more details. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Mar. 2003, 17:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Mar.2003` Martin K. (ANF)	GRex-homepage updated After a short break the inofficial GRex homepage has been updated on 2nd March 2003. Information concerning OpenPCI have been integrated as well as a little fan shop was opened. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Mar. 2003, 16:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Mar.2003` heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Source code contractually protect On the current issue 4/2003 iX advices its readers to think about taking appropriate measures in case of insolvencies of software and other IT offerers. It may be especially important to protect the source code contractually. Have a look at the title link for the full article (in German). (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Mar. 2003, 10:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Mar.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Genesi: Further details on STB-strategy In two comments of Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (Genesi) on Amiga.org you can find further details on their Set-Top-Box-Strategy. It follows an extract from these comments: [After reflecting about the success of BSkyB in Great Britain:] "Now, do something inexpensive with a 403 PPC and a DTV tuner with MorphOS (in this case) and you could have something quite special that can handle anything as well as everything retailing for 400-500 Euros at less that 25% of the cost. Sounds like something another BSkyB-like company might take a risk with? Yes, you bet!" "Everything we learned before collectively (VisCorp, PhaseV, bplan, Thendic, etc.) is coming to play today in Genesi for a very large company that wants to do exactly that." "Speaking of which there is a good article about Murdoch here. [...] BTW, This article should also be read by others who may be underestimating this DTV STB market at the price point we are delivering hardware to it (contrast that for example with the super STB from Pace at 350 £!)." "Our customer [...] has a pricing strategy that tells us they understand the market and their customers." "As far as we can tell, the BSkyB boxes in the UK are completely non-standard. They use WAP which may sound off the wall given it's designed for mobile phones but being designed for low end systems with low bandwidth makes it perfect for STBs. There's a lot of technology available now that supports WAP development. We actually will have a WAP stack/Browser ready." "Remember, we will not integrate the uplink initially to reduce cost (we will have a WAP portal for people to use mobile phones as an unlink though and a handy little connector to support that process). We have a phased modular strategy that adds functionality akin to the base station of a radio/remote phone designed normally for home use. The receiver chip for the radio signal will have been already introduced in the STB (as is found in the home handset associated with the base station that anchors the system in the home with power and telephone line connection -- incidentally overcoming the no telephone connection near the TV problem)." "On the smart card side, we will use them to unscramble parts of the signal already there. This can be done on a subscriber or pre-paid basis (for anonymity or one game at a time). The signal itself can also be data driven to individually addressable STBs. Here smart cards can be further used as recording devices. In our case viewing data can be exchanged for movie credits... Of course, this flexibility can be promotion/advertising oriented too..." (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Mar. 2003, 10:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Mar.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Amiga Inc.: Amiga Absence at CeBIT 2003 in Hannover Amiga Absence at CeBIT Mar 6, 2003 - Late last year, Amiga announced its intention to launch AmigaOS4.0 at the CeBIT show in Germany. Since then, the project has advanced into its final stages but unfortunately not to the point where we are ready to ship. We have thus decided not to attend the Cebit Germany show. Instead we are looking at other shows and opportunities in the near future to provide a suitable platform for the launch of the new Amiga. We apologize to the commmunity for waiting until the last possible moment to make this announcement but despite heroic efforts by all concerned, even up to the last minute, circumstances have conspired to push completion beyond the deadline. We have regretfully decided that making CeBIT Germany the AmigaOS 4 launch platform is not a realistic option at present. AmigaOS4.0 is coming. Beta-testing has been going on since last September, the Club Amiga Magazine is previewing many of the new features and AmigaOne integration is proceeding well. Amiga, Hyperion and Eyetech are 100% committed to getting the new platform out into the world and reintroducing the world to the pleasures of home computing. -- The Amiga Team (ps) [News message: 07. Mar. 2003, 09:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2003` Sven Scheele (ANF)	Mailbox: jamiga-BBS offline The Kiel-based Amiga-Mailbox "jamiga" is closed since today. Because this is a short term issue that occured without warning, we are making this announcement in hopes of reaching the remaining users and "connected" mailboxes this way. On account of a few queries and current personal incidents we hesitatingly decided on this step. We hereby thank all (former) users and the mailboxes supporting us for the partially year long "faith!" Sven Scheele and Marcel Wintrich (ps) [News message: 06. Mar. 2003, 23:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2003` Amiga Future	Amiga Future: Test of 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis' Under the title link you'll find a test of 'Indiana Jones and the FATE OF ATLANTIS', by Stefan Juhas. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Mar. 2003, 20:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2003` heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: German Language Web Presence of Mozilla Variant Phoenix For the slender alternative browser Phoenix the German language web presence of http://www.phoenix-browser.de has been opened. [I have used Phoenix, and find it to be slimmed down and modern. Netscape 4.8 is still a bit more responsive -DM] Read the complete heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Mar. 2003, 19:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2003` Samba Website	Networking: Samba Version 3.0alpha22 The Samba team released version 3.0alpha22 on the 5th of March, 2003. To see what exactly has been changed, have a look here. Samba is software that, for example, allows networking between a PC and an Amiga. Information about Samba for Amiga may be found at amigasamba.org. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Mar. 2003, 16:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2003` AmithlonTV Website	TV Card Driver: AmithlonTV Beta 304 Guido Mersmann has released beta version 304 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV, with several little updates and improvements. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Mar. 2003, 16:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2003`	Warning: Nethands.de Warned About Missing Banner As already reported many times, many homepage makers (it doesn't matter if they are private or commercial) are not aware that the new telecommunications service law (TDG) and/or the intermediate services state regulations (MDStV) include a provision requiring a banner. There are constantly resourceful (or better put, flighty) lawyers who want to earn their bread with warnings. Flighty therefore, because it could be possible throughout to draw attention to a possible violation through email, and to offer to help out. If this remains unsuccessful first of all, our opinion about a warning is justified. The law is conclusively implemented to protect the surfer, and not to to enrich lawyers through warnings as well. Read under the title link about how Nethands.de handles the warning, and help them if you have the opportunity. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Mar. 2003, 15:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2003` heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Microsoft Has Abandoned the OpenGL Consortium On account of the apparently insufficiently future-oriented development of the 3D interface, Microsoft has abandoned the OpenGL Consortium, and wants concentrate exclusively on their house Direct3D standard. You'll find the heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Mar. 2003, 14:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2003` Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)	Multimedia authoring system: New plugin for Hollywood Malibu is a plugin for Hollywood which contains an import filter for Scala presentations. As soon as Malibu is installed, Hollywood will suddenly be able to show Scala presentations or compile them. Many screenshots are now available from the Airsoft Softwair homepage. The Malibu plugin will of course also be released for MorphOS and - as soon as available - AmigaOS4. With Malibu it is now possible for the first time to display Scala presentations on Workbench screen or on your own public screen. Because the whole emulation runs on top of Hollywood's multimedia application layer everything will be first converted to 24-bit and then displayed. In many cases the quality of the pictures that Malibu displays is much better than the original Scala quality because Scala often had to remap many pictures with very different colors to a 8-bit display which resulted in a massive loss of color information. Malibu emulates nearly the whole Scala command set and supports all Scala versions up to Scala InfoChannel 500 which was the last Amiga version of Scala. Emulation is done by the elCapitan microkernel which tries to achieve the best performance possible on the used system. For example, the next page is already calculated while the current page is on the display. Complex transition effects can also be pre-calculated and then displayed smoothly. Scala is a program which helped the Amiga to become a real Multimedia wonder. There were no products for a long long time that could beat an Amiga with Scala. Therefore Scala was widely used in all different production fields, from movies and television to big shows. Everyone who has worked with Scala knows what power it has. But this power is only possible because Scala is very hard coded to the Amiga's custom chips which leads to the problem that it does not run on graphics boards and also has some other major problems with today's Amiga systems. For many years all sorts of users complained that there is no Scala that runs RTG compatible. This time is over now. Scala revives with the Malibu plugin: On the Workbench? Of course. In 24-bit? You can bet your life on that. Always RTG conform? Absolutely. Don't miss Malibu out! Watching Scala presentations on Workbench is a complete new feeling which every Amiga user should experience. Order Hollywood now to make your system ready for Scala! Features: Graphics: Impressive Scala transitions (e.g. Superimpose, Roll on, Flow, Push, Diagonal) Support for Scala text styles outline, shadow & 3D Scala forms: Ellipses, rectangles, lines & polygons Emulation of backgrounds with raster type Complete brush support (incl. crop & resize) Animations are supported Transition effects for all Scala objects Support for styles like bevel & background Runs completely in 24-bit mode Color fonts are supported Smooth scrolling for Scala fly-ons Emulation of all graphics attributes Brush transparency is fully supported Objects can be removed from screen with transition effects All palette settings are respected and correctly converted Sound: Support for sound modules and samples Audio output through AHI incl. full mixing Sound fades are supported Sound implementation is retargetable for use on Pegasos, Amithlon... Environment: All Scala versions up to InfoChannel 500 are supported Margin settings and tabulators are respected Scala variables can be used Buttons and events are emulated Almost complete emulation of Scala command set Scala presentations can be compiled Emulation can be configured in detail Complete independent from environment; does not matter if Cgfx, P96, AGA, ECS or OCS is active Absolutely system friendly Requirements: Kickstart 3.0 or better 68020 processor Graphics board recommended 16 megabyte memory recommended (ps) [News message: 05. Mar. 2003, 23:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	Update: Digital voltmeter for Amiga Carsten Siegner currently developes a new voltmeter hardware for the parallel port, which went through several improvements: To the voltmeter hardware a 100 times highspeed amplifier has been added. Thus it is possible to measure voltages down to field of micro voltages. The amplifier is to chose by a toggle switch (normal resolution / high resolution area). The voltmeter circuit includes an own power supply controller now to be not influenced by noise signals from the powernet which might distort the measurement. Thus it becomes posile to use nearly every power supply (not stabilized ones also) which offers 6 to 12 Volt and a maximum of 1 Ampere. There are several ARexx scripts available to control the voltmeter. Further more Siegner works on a more complete version with a GUI currently. This will include the following features: Single measurement (save function included), high speed measurement with an adjustable number of samples (save function included), view as list for all measurements (high speed measurement), view as diagram (high speed measurement); therefore some similiarities with an oscilloscope. Additional to the voltmeter program there will be, once it will be finished, the wiring diagram available to built the voltmeter yourself. To do so you should be some kind of an advanced electrician because e.g. the measurement chip is highly delicate regarding electro static charge. All parts might be purchased at Conrad Electronic. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Mar. 2003, 21:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2003` Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)	Scene: Issue #14 of D.I.S.C released One more scene dinosaur has left our planet! Frode Zerox Hansen has released some days ago at the Kindergarten Party the last issue of his diskmag D.I.S.C. This issue is a good advice for beginners because it features very intensively the currently active groups and their best demos. The chances for a continueation of this diskmag seem unfortunately to be very bad. But he will not be lost for the community and continues his work at the AMIGAplus magazine. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Mar. 2003, 20:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Genesi: Announcement concerning the Genesi/Phoenix collaboration In a joint statement, Raquel Velasco, Bill Buck, and David Greene (GreenBoy) clarify some outstanding issues about the future of Genesi, the role of Phoenix, and the DTV set-top-box. One to support the task oriented objectives focused on the delivery of the DTV STB by the end of 2003. During the month of March Genesi will transition existing consulting/ employment agreements to the new structure. A list of well known developers in the "Community" will be joining Genesi. These individuals will be almost exclusively focused on the DTV STB project. The future of the Pegasos and MorphOS, including the release of the Pegasos II using the Marvell northbridge. The difficulties with the Articia have delayed the Pegasos long enough. The Pegasos II development has begun and WILL be completed sooner than expected. Genesi will operate from offices in Luxembourg, France, and Germany with a branch office in Switzerland. "Virtual" offices will also operate in the USA and the UK. An extensive Internet sales and support infrastructure is being implemented. Genesi and Phoenix are seeking collaborators in nearly every area. Here is a full list of Phoenix mailing lists that are now devoted to Genesi development: Phoenix@phinixi.com - general discussion and internal announcements PhAnn@phinixi.com - newsfeed to broadcast announcements to outside news sites and forums PhrojectOS@phinixi.com - Open Source community with an emphasis on porting and supporting Open Source work. These are moderated by greenboy and open to all interested parties who meet Phoenix's expanded definition of DEVELOPER: coders, web designers and publishers, financiers, beta testers, translators, arts and media specialists, etc. Then: PhAppTeam@phinixi.com - applications (Chairman: Felix Schwarz) PhDemoScene@phinixi.com - demo scene (Chairman: Mikko Virtanen) PhGameTeam@phinixi.com - games for DTV STB (Chairman: Thomas Steiding) PhReseller@phinixi.com - distributors/resellers (Chairman: Adam Carrano, Christophe Decanini) PhWeb@phinixi.com - Phoenix website design and maintenance (Webmaster: Gary Cunningham-Lee, Admin: greenboy, with support from Genesi WebDev Team Leader Damien McKenna) Lists we are considering: PhGames@phinixi.com - games for Pegasos on the desktop PhREBOL@phinixi.com - should Rebol be part of the platform? PhDigAudio@phinixi.com - to ramp up what Nicholas Blachford's MORloud started. Note: Genesi has licensed ProStation Audio for MorphOS from Maurizio Ciccione of AudioLabs. ProStation Audio will be bundled with the OS. PhVideo@phinixi.com - from here the videomicrowave will take off. It begins with MediaPoint, and scales into a special IOSPIRIT offering - along with many other goodies being planned and soon to come. All requests to join Phoenix/Genesi mailing lists are welcome! - just send email with a brief bio/CV to greenboy@phinixi.com. (nba) [News message: 05. Mar. 2003, 12:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2003` GMB (ANF)	Hardware tuning: Modification of phase5 turboboards By the title link the reader might get a brief manual to modify the phase5 turboboards Blizzard 2040 to 2060 and Cyberstorm MK2 68040 to 68060 like the author of that website did it today. The editors of amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus emphasize that they are not responsible in any kind for external links and damage caused by modifications explained in that manual, there is absolutely no warranty and all modifications are done on your own risk. The explained modification is a strong treatment to the hardware and has not been proved by us. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Mar. 2003, 01:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2003` sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)	ADA: Teampage update and new Soms3D screen shots At the "Anime Development for Amiga Teampage" is a new update available. There were anti PC pictures and Manga wallpapers added. Furthermore two new screenshots of Soms3D (Secret of my soul) were put online. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Mar. 2003, 01:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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