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`27.Apr.2003` AWeb (Website)	AWeb 3.4 GPL released in new archive and for MorphOS AWeb, a cost free Open Source based Web browser, is available in version 3.4 GPL in a new archive: Apart from the executable main program, the package also contains the plug-ins, transfer animations, icon sets and installer. Versions available for 68020, 68030, 68040, 68060 and as from now also for MorphOS. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 27. Apr. 2003, 21:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Apr.2003` Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)	File manager: DiskMaster Version 2.5RC10 Rudolph Riedel has released version 2.5RC10 of his file manager and provides it on his home page for downloading. The following details have changed: Made fit for paths longer than 256 characters as will be supported in AmigaOS 4.0 and (allegedly) are already supported in MorphOS Fixed various bugs New command line interpreter from RC3 release integrated again, only this time a little better-adjusted... Configuration format changed slightly and expanded internal configuration to improve accessability for new users Details as usual in the DM2beta.readme... Download (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 27. Apr. 2003, 21:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Apr.2003` CD32-Allianz (ANF)	Wanted urgently: Web designer for CD32-Allianz The CD32-Allianz team is urgently looking for a Web designer, who wants to help designing a new layout consisting of 4 frames. Further information can be obtained from Thorsten Schölzel. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 27. Apr. 2003, 19:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Apr.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Bill McEwen still Amiga CEO? According to statements by Ray A. Akey of Amiga Inc. and Fleecy Moss, Bill McEwen is still CEO of Amiga Inc. Yesterday Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have circulated in a news item at MorphOS-News.de that Gary Hare was CEO of Amiga Inc., with whom talks had already been held (we reported). Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco stand by their statement, see the following comments at morphos-news.de, ANN and again ANN. Carsten Schröder paraphrases this nebulous situation to the point: "The state of the news is becoming more and more nebulous: In the meantime Fleecy Moss and Ray A. Akey, members of AMIGA, Inc.'s management, have denied a change at the top management level. Bill McEwen, however, hasn't piped up yet, while Genesi again confirmed the change and are currently trying to get in touch with Gary Hare. Conclusion: There have been various bankruptcies and corporate acquisitions of the AMIGA mother company in the past - but I personally can't remember a situation where there was uncertainty about the current principal of the company. At the moment I'm regarding two scenarios explaining this situation as the most probable ones: Scenario 1: The shareholders of AMIGA, Inc. have decided to exchange the management but not informed them (or some of them), while the designated CEO has already had talks with Genesi. Scenario 2: Genesi have been had. I'm regarding a deliberate false report improbable as this would do much damage to the company's reputation." Here the statement of Amiga Inc's Ray A. Akey: "Bill McEwen is currently the CEO of Amiga and the fact that there is no PR to the contrary about this on our website means that there is no news. Anyone describing the appointment of a new CEO as "old news" is obviously posting information for their own motives and reasons since "old news" requires it to be "new news" before it can be "old news" and since Amiga Inc hasn't posted such "new news" then the motives of the person describing it as "old news" while simultaneously putting this new news into the world have to be questioned." Here the statement of Fleecy Moss: "Has Amiga Inc changed CEO?" Fleecy Moss: As of this moment Bill McEwen is the CEO of Amiga and if a new CEO was to be brought in, it would be because of Amiga expanding as a company and Bill needing to concentrate on being Chairman and President - currently he is CEO as well and three top jobs in a company that is attracting the attention we are is at least one job too many. Any CEO to be brought in would be as part of the team and would be totally in sync with the current strategic direction of the company. If someone is posting information to the contrary then it can only be for ulterior motives. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 27. Apr. 2003, 19:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2003`	Official release from YAM v2.4 DESCRIPTION YAM (Yet Another Mailer) lets you send and receive electronic mail over the Internet and maintain archives of messages in your computer. The idea came to Marcel Beck in 1995 when he first tried using email: the programmes available at the time were either powerful but complicated to configure, or else used a too limiting graphical interface. The goal, therefore, was to program a cross between AdMail and AirMail, with a few ideas from Pegasus Mail. YAM made its first public appearance in early 1996 under the "mailware" concept. The unexpectedly enthusiastic response from the public led to a steady development of YAM that reached its finest hour in version 1.3.5, the last incarnation in the "classic" series. By then, YAM had turned into one of the most popular Amiga programmes ever, and won Marcel the appreciation and several awards from the Amiga community thanks to its simplicity and ease of use. Unwilling to stop at that point, Marcel spent almost two years developing YAM2. In the summer of 1999, a greatly improved YAM set some of the standards that would be lately imitated by other popular Internet applications. In November 2000, Marcel finally gave up out of lack of time and motivation, but was yet kind enough to release the "final" YAM 2.2 together with its sources under the GNU General Public License. On this day and age, Marcel Beck is still fondly remembered by many as one of a selected few who made a difference on the Amiga. Today, after YAM 2.3 and 2.3p1 fixed some of the most outstanding problems in the original sources and almost 18 months of hard work have been spent, the YAM Open Source team is proud to make the legend continue with YAM 2.4, the most powerful Amiga mailer to date. NEW FEATURES Hierarchical folder list - folders can now be arranged into groups, and nested at the user's discretion SMTP & POP3 TLS1/SSL3 support for stunnel servers, using AmiSSL.library Email address cache, making it possible to "remember" the last N used recipients if they don't appear in the address book More powerful recipient string gadgets, resolving aliases, real names and email addresses "on the fly" as they are found in the address book or the email cache Optional pop-up menus in the folder & message lists Automatic codepage detection and translation, specially meant for cyrillic users. Reworked status bar Automatically finds the suitable mailing list support settings Extended support for mailto: links Search function in the Write window Customizable size format and localized unit display Individual appicon stats for folders, with an user-definable label New hidden option "JumpToIncoming" Deleting a block of text with RAmiga-Del automatically inserts a "[...]" marker Built-in mouse wheel support New "marked" status "application/pdf" is now in the built-in list of MIME types Extended documentation SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AmigaOS V39+, MC68020+, MUI3.8+ and the latest BetterString, NList, NListtree, TextEditor & Toolbar classes (included) AVAILABILITY YAM 2.4 is now available for download at the YAMOS homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/yamos/ DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/comm/mail (hopefully soon comm/yam :-) FILE NAMES YAM24.lha - Main archive - basic 020 binary and English guide YAM24cpu.lha - Diffs for 040/060 processors and the GPatch utility YAM24loc.lha - Foreign language support files: catalogs & guides YAM24con.lha - Additional graphics, ARexx scripts, etc. YAM24mos.lha - MorphOS binary, includes starter OTHER YAM homepage http://www.yam.ch/ Mailing list http://www.freelists.org/list/yam To subscribe: mailto:yam-request@freelists.org?Subject=SUBSCRIBE CVS repository http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13560 DISTRIBUTABILITY Free software, distributed under the General Public License ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Kudos to Brian for bringing c.s.a.a. back to life! (nba) [News message: 26. Apr. 2003, 17:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Genesi wants to attend at AmiWest show Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco today announced that Genesi wants to attend at the AmiWest show, held in Sacramento, CA on July 26th and 27th 2003. Genesi wants to present the new G4 CPU card for the Pegasos1, the new software bundle and maybe also a prototype of the Pegasos2 motherboard and of course MorphOS. Bill and Raquel also confirmed that they have spoken with Amiga Inc's new CEO Garry Hare a couple of weeks ago. (nba) [News message: 26. Apr. 2003, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2003` Pixel Art (E-Mail)	Pixload v3.5 in preparation I'am preparing Pixload 3.5 more options about drag and drop (TIFF, TARGA and DIR recognized) links with miamidx (RTC and/or Network) : miamidx control panel included optimized code another icons (mac os x) more interactivity etc... I need beta tester: if you want to try: send an email to pixelart@wanadoo.Fr (English language) with object: Pixload 3.5 tester. If German amiga users want translation, send me few words (English -> German) so that I include in this version. If you have got any ideas, sent them too, I will try to include too... x (nba) [News message: 26. Apr. 2003, 16:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 7 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 7 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database): 1) ikir: Are Elbox working with Amiga Inc/Hyperion for OS4? Or for their SharkPPC compatibility? Fleecy: We have a 'gentlemens agreement' with Elbox that we will not make any announcements or discuss plans, projects and products until they are ready to make those plans, projects and products public. If you want them to share that information, I would suggest you contact them. 2) sgm: Is the corporate market a possible target (in the light of the surging WebServices fever)? If so, is a high-performance XML parser being considered for OS4.x? Fleecy: All markets are obviously targets but there is no point in entering them until you have a product, a pitch and a story. The creation of such obviously requires an expenditure of resources and since we are, as with most companies 'watching the pennies', we have to decide which subset from the whole range of opportunities is to be targeted first. If by corporate you mean 'enterprise' then that is not a first stage target but if you mean OEM or embedded then the answer is very much yes. As for the XML parser, XML has been introduced with AmigaOS4.0 and will continue to spread until it is a system wide service. 3) Jose: It's been said and known that if AmigaOS is to be a server OS it will lose it's hardly earned advantages, and stop being AmigaOS as we know it. Could in the future be various versions of the OS with one being the continuation of the Classic in PPC, like most amiga users that have supported the platform for the past years seem to want? Fleecy: AG1 was created with a very specific set of configurations in mind - workstation and desktop. Consoles, STBs and servers didn't really exist during its key definition and the idea of Smartphones, PDAs and digital consumer devices were science fiction. Having said that, the CDTV and then the CD32 were moves in the right direction but as anyone familiar with those devices knows, there were really a computer repackaged with extra bits hacked on. AG2 is designed to accept that hardware is a commodity and that it can be configured and deployed in many different markets. This is part of the reason for the move to a service based architecture, because multiple configurations can then be created from a core set of services with configuration specific services being added or replaced by ones more tuned to the target device profile. This will allow Amiga to offer a 'toolkit' to OEMs and to create 'distributions' for shrink wrapped markets - a console product, an eFamily product, a SoHo product, a hacker's product etc. Such flexibility gives us a distinctive advantage over having to custom chop a single product for each potential customer. Rob: 4) Books on programming the Amiga are out of date and very difficult to obtain these days. Have you any plans to get some books published covering modern Amiga programming for the beginner. It is important to get some fresh talent into scene and not just rely on existing developers. Topics covered should include Warp3D, AHI and other more recent developements to AmigaOS. Fleecy: I couldn't agree more. We intend to expend considerable resources on a full development toolchain, with good documentation and tutorials covering all levels. These will be developed in parallel with the development of the AG2 domains. 5) ssolie: Does Amiga Inc. still plan to take back control of the AmigaOS 4.0 source code (i.e. purchase it back from Hyperion) and produce your own releases beyond AmigaOS 4.0? Fleecy: Absolutely. The transfer of AmigaOS4 to Hyperion was done for a number of strategic reasons, one being to protect the AmigaOS for the community and prevent it being left in limbo if anything should happen to the parent company as was witnessed after Commodore and Escom went bankrupt. We will reassert ownership when both Hyperion and Amiga judge the time to be right, and there are certain less than obvious benefits to maintaing the current situation. The location of ownership has nothing to do with the future plans. Amiga Inc is fully committed to the development and expansion of AmigaOS way beyond AmigaOS4.0. Detailed planning and design for AmigaOS4.1 is already underway alongside the parallel path of AG2. AG2 technology will be rolled into the AmigaOS4 release family as and when it is ready but the two will not be dependent on each other - in other words potential delays in one will not affect the other. Contrary to the occasional speculation that Amiga doesn't care or has no plans for the AmigaOS, that product line is and always has been vital to our future success. Back in 1999, it would have been impossible to gain interest and investment in a company offering a desktop competitor to Microsoft and so our public strategy had to be tailored to fit that reality. It isn't 1999 anymore. 6) DaveP: With the advent of AOS4 and AmigaONE series board are you also investigating the more lucrative possibilities in the heavyweight commercial sector or is it still far too soon to start? ( example: solutions, services and bringing even lightweight transaction processing products onto the fast reliable messaging codebase of ExecSG ?) Fleecy: The Amiga Development Pipeline (ADP) starts with the Opportunity Analysis stage. Each AG2 domain thus considers every possible opportunity and attempts to identify every potential customer for that domain, both internal and external. This is then feed into the next stage, the Solution Description stage. This ensures that we will design a solution that covers as wide a customer base as possible, even though the actual implementation versioning may chose to spread out that complete design over a set of releases. So to answer your question, yes we are looking at a huge range of potential markets, open, embedded, horizontal, vertical and total but our ability to exploit them is determined by the short, medium and long term strategic implementation plan. 7) alx: Will there come a point when you stop supporting accelerated "classic" Amigas? If so, when? Fleecy: Yes there will. As to when, that will be decided by the simple equation of when the cost and effort of developing a version for those accelerated Amigas is more than the revenue that that version brings in. We want people to upgrade to the new hardware and we do recognise that we have to support the existing investment made by Amigans in the short term but ultimately the platform can only advance if people advance with it. It should be obvious to most people that AmigaOS4 is going to run far more impressively on a new, cleanly designed, higher specified AmigaOne than an accelerated classic Amiga. It should also be obvious that the cost of maintaining and extending an AmigaOne is going to be substantially less than that of maintaining and extending a classic Amiga. 8) donV: Do you know of any plan or project to produce a laptop that will run AmigaOS4? Fleecy: There are lots of plans for many different product, both from ourselves and from third parties but I do not want to comment on specific products until we have prototypes in front of us since many plans and good intentions often come to nothing. We'd obviously love to have an AmigaOS4.0 powered laptop as well as an AmigaOS4.0 powered STB, games console, PDA and Smartphone. 9) Bodie: In a previous Q&A, you mentioned the development of a highly advanced calculator for AmigaDE. Could you provide any extra details in terms of its functionality? Fleecy: The calculator was created by a prominent AmigaDE developer in response to a demand from a large customer and I'll see if he is willing to write an article about it, possibly for CAM. It is particularly impressive because of its modular design, essentially a framework for functional units so it can be as simple or as complex as the set of modules that are installed. This means it can be used for a variety of functions - standard maths, computing, physics, chemistry, stock taking and with the ability for third parties to write their own modules. It also features a variety of graphic and interface modes - static and dynamic graphing (and I know we have a customer interested in volumetric modelling), standard single line, multi-line and plans for a shell like page set. 10) Jose: Can a service based architecture(future AmigaOS) be as much effective as the Classic AmigaOS, comparing the services both provide? I mean to how much extent does a service based architecture would compromise the efficiency and the character of AmigaOS, if it does at all ? Fleecy: A service based model is very efficient and not that much different at its heart from what the existing Amiga does now, a testament to its advanced original design. Its main extension is that it adds abstraction and management capabilities that open up distributed computing, all the way from simple home networks to parallel matrices. For developers there will be some new things to learn but quite a bit of that has been added to the new library model. The existing user interaction model can stay the same on top of it but it also opens up the option of far more advanced user interaction models, in particular moving from an application centric system to a content centric system - for example bring a set of content together and then being presented with the set of services that can be applied to that content. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=8 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. 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`25.Apr.2003` Rupert Hausberger (ANF)	Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 v0.950 Pre-Final Rupert Hausberger has published version 0.950 Pre-Final of his benchmark-tool for AmigaOS and MorphOS. Please read the changes from version 0.930 to version 0.950: ADDED Database - now allows direct upload/download from the module-server. Added new page in "module base". Changed all things to make new system working. ADDED TCPIP-support ADDED HTTP-support [for downloading] ADDED SMPT-support [for uploading] ADDED BYTEmark [tm] v2.0 benchmark [experimental - 68k version seemes to slow] ADDED NSD-64bit access-mode for device stuff [uncalibrated] ADDED "new-logo" system - via 24bit workbench datatype ADDED own requester window ADDED own popup window ADDED "loopsize" and "passes" output to mem-/drv-benchmark windows ADDED check whether 'amigamark.def' is valid with current build ADDED check whether 'amigamark.cfg' is valid with current build ADDED included all neccessary string.h functions - [no libc] ADDED new tooltype QUICKSTART [=TRUE/FALSE] [WB only] ADDED do "chip ram tests" in "make module" ADDED some missing MUIA_Help popups CHANGED AvailMem() function to own one CHANGED some small things in the GUI CHANGED regonization of valid installation [more fast & less memory need] CHANDED retuned maximal values FIXED some stuff in the GUI REMOVED "time-warnings" feature [useless] CLEANUP _many_ general optimizions UPDATED english-guide to v.950 COMPILED with gcc 3.2.2 now BUMPED revision to .950 [pre-final] (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 22:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Guido Mersmann (ANF)	AmigaOS-game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.17 Most important change of the new version (please download it from the title link) is the screen mode on the Workbench which was desired of many users. Besides this still several minor improvements have been made which above all concern the automatic hardware recognition. Boulderdäsh was tested on an A500, A1200, under Amithlon and on several MorphOS and OS4 computers. If you have questions, suggestions or problems please contact Guideo Mersmann via email. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 22:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)	Event: BeGeistert - BeOS-meeting with Pegasos-performance Fans and developers of the operating system BeOS will meet on the "BeGeistert" which will take place in Düsseldorf tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France from Paris will demonstrate a Pegasos for which an OpenBeOS port is in work. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 21:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: AlphaBase full version and source codes In co-operation and with permission of Maik Schmidt Amiga Arena makes the release of the database "AlphaBase" possible. AlphaBase is a clear and easy to learn database program. It is possible to enter variously arranged (e.g. German and American) addresses in one common database. Adresses can be printed on envelopes and labels. Data which have nothing to do with addresses can be linked with comments, pictures and sound files. System requirements: AmigaOS 3.0 Workbench & Librarys as well as 1 MB ChipMem + 2 MB FastMem Progression? If there is anyone who is interested to dvelop AlphaBase (BlitzBasic) further please contact Olaf Köbnik! (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 20:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: Blade online again "Blade" is an action role play by Mark Sheeky in iso-3d-view. Mark Sheeky is well-known as the developer of the games "Burnout" and "Hilt II". In 2000 Amiga Arena published the German version for the first time and could offer Blade as a HD version (AGA/ECS) with permission of Mark Sheeky. Now "Blade" is online again and you can get further information on the Blade homepage. You can choose four characters from seven possible ones (warrior, thief, cleric, magician, dwarf, elf, empath) and you have to defeat the evil! "CU Amiga" rated Blade with 86 percent. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 20:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` AROS (Website)	AROS status-report 04/2003 The alternative operating system AROS is being activly developed further. On the website you can find a detailed English status report to the project. Porting AROS to the Pegasos has been started. ide.device and cdrom.handler are now more stable than before, removable medium are supported. USB/UHCI-driver are available but still not useable. The soundcard driver system AHI was ported to AROS. The render.library and guigfx.library are supposed but are integrated in Zune. The jpeg.datatype is new and the png.datatype was updated. For futher changes please have a look at the AROS status report. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 20:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Jürgen Schober (ANF)	point.design delivers AmigaOne XE From now on the first AmigaOne XE boards are available at the Austrian Amiga dealer point.design. The PowerPC/G4 as well as the G3 version have arrived and will be officially delivered from April 28th. Additional to the mainboard a bootable "Debian Linux Install CD" as well as "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 PPC Binary 1" (basis installation incl. XFree4.0 and KDE) belong to the packet. The system can be easily installed and extended via the Internet just as the customer wants. Besides this the packet also contains UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator) incl. AmigaOS 3.1 Kickstart ROM images and a completely installed AmigaOS 3.1 incl. "Magic Software Packet". The price of the earlybird system also contains an update to the next generation of the AmigaOS 4 which will run nativly on the hardware and which will be sent to the customers for free. Additional to the motherboard packet complete systems are also offered. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 20:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` heise online (Website)	Opinion poll of developers concerning Open Source In the research study "Economic Organization and Viability of Open Source Software" scientists of the Stanford University ask for the motivation and expectations of Open Source developers and which tools they use for programming. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 15:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` XBaze (Website)	Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 8 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 Beta 8 of his database 'XBaze'. The program offers an easy to use editor. It runs from AmigaOS 3.0 and from now on also on MorphOS. Bug reports and proposals can be sent to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl. Download: XB-7.3B8.lzx Addenda: The server is currently (25.4.2003, 12:30) not available. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 12:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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