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Archive 05/2003


16.May.2003
Cloanto (Website)


Amiga Forever v5.2 is now shipping
Amiga Forever 5.2 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM, CD-ROM Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform Online Edition.

Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two major needs of many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga software and data on non-Amiga hardware, and to share data between Amiga and other systems. Additionally, software, tutorial and reference files which are likely to be of interest to any Amiga enthusiast are included.

Features include:
  • Just-in-time version of emulation software (Bernd Meyer's JIT code), carefully configured and publicly benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous versions of Amiga Forever. The Amiga runs in a window or in full screen mode, makes full use of thousands of Windows (or other OS) drivers, can access PC files (even on NTFS partitions, in the Windows version) and does not require a reboot.
  • Software Manager, an advanced content delivery system developed by Cloanto, for easy and privacy-conscious management of all emulation-related components (updates, downloads, news, etc.)
  • Amiga Explorer software, which allows you to connect an Amiga to one or more PCs, and access Amiga files (including virtual ADF and ROM files), directories and volumes directly from the Windows Desktop. Amiga Explorer is easier to install and configure than other networking tools, and includes direct support for serial (null-modem) cable connections, as well as TCP/IP.
  • MenuBox launcher, to boot different Amiga configurations with one mouse click, either from CD-ROM (no installation or reboot required) or after installation
  • New and fully licensed Picasso96 software (not a shareware version), maps Amiga graphics requests directly to fast x86 calls and powerful low-level DirectX functions (Windows version of emulation)
  • Amiga Narrator and Translator speech synthesis components (made available for distribution with the Amiga OS for the first time since 1991)
  • All Amiga ROMs up to version 3.1 (the last ROM that will ever be available for the "Classic Amiga"!)*
  • CDTV and CD³² boot ROMs and extended ROMs (can be used to play CDTV and CD³² games, even booting directly from CD-ROM, requires free upgrade to emulation software)*
  • GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS "3.5", "3.9" and "XL", but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB)
  • Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa
  • Emulation includes: Amiga custom chips, RTG graphics, up to 512 MB of Zorro III RAM, virtual memory, TCP/IP, MIDI, native x86 code, built-in support for ADF, ADZ, DMS and FDI disk image files
  • Preinstalled software includes: Personal Paint 7.1b (paint, animation and image processing software, includes GIF/LZW license), DirDiff (file synchronization and replication software), AmiToRTF (to convert texts from Amiga to Windows formats), MailBX (to convert Amiga mail archives to Microsoft Mail, Outlook Express and Exchange Server), drag-and-drop LhA, print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows, bypassing parallel port emulation), Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware), TurboText (exclusive latest version with stack problem fix), KingCON, ToolManager, ReqTools, etc.
  • Latest version of WinUAE and WinFellow tested and supported by Cloanto Disk2FDI software to read Amiga floppy disks on PC (experimental version, requires two floppy drives)
  • Tutorials and FAQs on data sharing, emulation, floppy disks, serial links, TCP/IP, UAE, Fellow and much more.
  • All software tested on Windows XP
  • MPEG-1 videos: The Deathbed Vigil (one hour and 58 minutes, i.e. the full version of this "must have" video) and Jay Miner Speech (49 minutes)*
  • Dozens of other enhancements and add-ons
* = CD-ROM version only (both standard and upgrade). The Online Edition includes 1.3 and 3.1 ROMs (sufficient both for classic games and for the most recent software). CDTV and CD³² ROMs are also included in the downloadable Amiga Forever Plus Pack. The MPEG videos are only included on the CD-ROM (both standard and upgrade). The CD-ROM contains version 5.0, with free online upgrade to version 5.2 using Software Manager (included).

The Amiga emulation software on the Amiga Forever CD-ROM comes preinstalled and preconfigured for Windows. The Amiga ROM and OS files can be used by any implementation of the Amiga emulators, including for example Unix/Linux (UAE comes with source code), Be, PowerMac, etc. These emulators are constantly updated, and can be downloaded from the sites listed in the Home Pages section of the navigation bar.

Pricing:
CD-ROM: 59.95 Euro
CD Upgrade: 34.95 Euro (nba)

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16.May.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)


Amiga Games Hit Parade: Voting May/June 2003
The maintainer of the Amiga Games Hit Parade asks you to vote for the Game of May/June 2003. You can take part in this voting by sending maximum 20 titles of your favourite games to David "Daff" Brunet or by visiting the website http://hitparade.amigames.com.

You can write each kind of game in this list (commercial, Freeware, old, new etc.). The final results will be published at the beginning of June. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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16.May.2003
Boing! International (Website)


USB: HCD-Update for Thylacine
Thylacine is a Zorro-2 based USB adapter for connecting USB devices to the Amiga. On 14th May 2003 a new version of the HCD class for Thylacine was published. You can inform yourself about the available USB controllers for the Amiga on the next issue of the Amigaplus 05/2003. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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16.May.2003
Diverse


Inventory of Amiga, Inc. for public sale - AI denies
On the webiste of the auctioneer James G. Murphy Co. there are besides Amiga logo further information about the public sale of inventory from old offices of Amiga, Inc. in Snoqualmie.

According to rumours these things have been attached by the former letter of Amiga, Inc. because of not payed rentals and should be now sold by auction. Some times ago Amiga, Inc. announced the move but has not given any new address since this time.

Today Gary Peake who works at Amiga, Inc. denied the romours about the liquidation of Amiga, Inc. and told that the things which are supposed to be sold by auction are "old stuff from the offices" which "are no longer needed".

Nevertheless for collectors of Amiga stuff the day of auction which is the 17th June 2003 might be an interesting date where you can buy equipment for the Amiga for few money. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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15.May.2003
Thomas Würgler (E-Mail)


Pagan Games Puts New AmigaAnywhere Game in Planning
Thomas Würgler of Pagan Games writes:
As some of you have probably noticed, the Amiga Game Pack #2 has now been released into retail stores - name CompUSA. Obviously this is a big step towards true financial viability of Amiga Anywhere projects, which again helps fund AmigaOS projects.

We are getting closer to finalizing another project for Amiga Anywhere, and look forward to getting it to a state where we can show it to you.

Besides that we are still working hard on our Dreamcast shoot 'em up project, and we can't wait to show you what we've got in the works. Hopefully we'll be able to show some of it off before summer.

This was just a quick update, which will be followed a more thorough one, when we have more to share - hopefully in the near future. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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15.May.2003



RIAA Withdraws Warning to amiga-scene.org
The RIAA had to withdraw their warnings to Internet sites. In numerous instances the US-American music industry corporate group RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) had sent warnings against administrators of Web and FTP servers who offered MP3 data on their systems. Along with that these administrators were notified through targetless RIAA scans of their servers who of their users made free music available. The Demo Scene server amigascene.org was hit by this step, and was excused in a form letter that said they had offered "about 0 Music data for download." After this action became known, the RIAA now has withdrawn the warnings to falsely hit Internet sites. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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15.May.2003
Rage Hard (Website)


Rage Hard Website with New Information
The official website of the 3D Ego Shooter Rage Hard, which is also offered for MorphOS, has been moved and expanded. In the download area a few wallpapers are now to be found, in various resolutions. Likewise, new backgrounds as well as related new models have been placed in the Home, Characters, and Concepts areas. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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15.May.2003
CD32-Allianz (Website)


CD32 Outside Shelved
After five issues the publication of the digital magazine CD32 Outside has been suspended. This decision was made in order to free up the resources of the team for more important stuff. Unfortunately there just wasn't enough time to create, publish, and do advertising and marketing for further issues.

[In the following long German text, chief editor Thorsten Schölzel offers thanks from the CD32 team to a lot of people. He talks about webdesign, some games, and Commodore politics which no-one understands. He invites readers to www.cd32-allianz.de, and says emails are welcome. -DM]

Das Team von CD32 Outside möchte sich bei allen Personen bedanken, die ihm bei der Erstellung der CD³²Outside geholfen und mit Material und Informationen versorgt haben. Besonders hervorheben muss man sicherlich Werner Bittl und Henning Schlautmann.

Nun können Sie sich das geplante Editorial der 6. Ausgabe durchlesen:

"Endlich haben wir es geschafft, denn mit dieser Ausgabe der CD32Outside erscheinen wir in einem neuen Format und neuem Design. Bei uns ist Fortschritt angesagt, wir machen uns frei von Altlasten, leider auf Kosten der User von den Browsern; Aweb, IBrowse und Voyager, die allesamt nicht das im Internet weit verbreitete und für professionelles Design unabdingbaren "CSS" Cascading Style Sheets unterstützt. Für diese User wird es in Zukunft heissen, bei den Herstellern der Browser um eine Unterstützung von CSS zu beten oder Browser wie; Internet Explorer, Netscape oder Opera über eine Emulation bzw. andere Betriebssysteme zu nutzen.

In dieser Ausgabe widmen wir uns einem Gedankenanstoss von Christian Effenberger zur Weiterentwicklung des damals von Commodore eingeführten CDXL-Format. Dabei erklärt er ausführlich was und wie geändert bzw. neu entwickelt werden muss. Seit 1996 ruft Herr Effenberger dazu auf, ihm bei der Entwicklung zu helfen, seither aber null Resonanz. Explizit wird nach einem Programmierer gesucht, der Erfahrung in C/C++ und ASM vorweisen kann und sich zusätzlich mit IO-Streams auskennt. Bei Interesse kontaktiert uns, wir leiten dann alles an Herrn Effenberger weiter.

Neben Microcosm das DAS Spiel auf dem CD32 ist, gibt es noch weitere Spitzengames auf unserer Daddelkiste, eines davon ist Rise of the Robots. Wer hätte damals geglaubt das es wirklich für unser CD32 erscheinen würde, bei der voll animierten Spitzengrafik. Heuzutage würde man diekt sagen, das sich sowas nicht umsetzen liesse. Rise of the Robots kann man mit dem vor einigen Jahren für AMIGA Computer erschienene Spiel Olofight vergleichen, allerdings würde Rise of the Robots im direkten Vergleich immer noch um längen die Nase vorn haben. Wir stellen Ihnen dieses geniale Spiel in einem MEGA-Review vor.

Für Tuningfreaks gibt es zwei ganz besondere Leckerbissen, wir stellen Ihnen das Commodore FMV-Modul und den Prototyp des Commodore Gamesystem030 vor. Leider liess die finanzielle Situation von Commodore keine grössere Produktion des FMV(FullMotionVideo)-Moduls zu uns so wurden nach den uns vorligenden Informationen nur 1000 Stück produziert, wer also eins besitzt, kann wahrlich stolz darauf sein. DCE Computer wollte vor Jahren das FMV-Modul neu auflegen, allerdings gab es Probleme mit dem FlashROM. Der Ton wurde nach einiger Zeit nicht mehr synchron mit dem Video abgespielt, somit blieb es bei Prototypen. Ich konnte mich damals selber von der Existenz dieser Prototypen überzeugen, ein selbiges sogar als Andenken mit nach Hause nehmen. Ein Bild von der Platine findet Ihr in dem Bericht zu dem FMV-Modul. Desweiteren wurden mir jede Menge unbestückte Spellbound(CD32)- und FMV-Modul Motherboards gezeigt. Zum Gamesystem030 bleibt zu sagen, warum Commodore nicht diekt auf diesen Prozessor oder gar auf den Motorola 68040 gesetzt hat, bleibt bis heute ungeklärt. Was uns bleibt sind mutmassungen, z.B. das Commodore durch den Bau des AMIGA1200 noch eine reichhaltige Anzahl von Motorola 68020 Prozessoren auf Lager hatte. Der 68040 Prozessor deshalb nicht genutzt worden ist, weil er zum einen zu teuer gewsesen wäre und man unbedingt bei dem CD32 auf einen günstigen Preis achten wollte, das könnte auch das fehlen wichtiger Teile wie dem RGB-Ausgang deuten und zum anderen weil Commodore nur wenige Prozessoren dieser Sorte besass, die man ausschliesslich für den AMIGA4000-T nutzen wollte. Unser eins wird die Commodore Politik wohl nie verstehen!

Als letztes möchten wir auf unsere neue Internetpräsenz unter www.cd32-allianz.de aufmerksam machen und danken Matthias Münch der dies erst ermöglicht hat. Ich möchte Ihnen nun viel Spass mit der neuen Ausgabe wünschen und würde mich freuen, hin und wieder mal ein paar Leserbriefe von Ihnen zu bekommen.

In diesem Sinne, Thorsten Schölzel" (nba) (Translation: dm)

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15.May.2003
Arstechnica (ANF)


Arstechnica: PPC 970 Part II
Under the title link you'll read a report about the PowerPC 970, which is being assembled by an especially Intel-centric CPU specialist. Despite or because of its length of 11,000 words, this work is a mandatory lecture for PowerPC afficionados. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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15.May.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)


Golem: SCO Now Wishes to Proceed Against Linux Users
"Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, or at least SCO charges that; in their view Linux infringes on their Unix copyrights. Accordingly commercial Linux users are going to have to reckon with this, because their use of Linux may be made liable. As a consequence of this legally unclear situation SCO has ceased their own selling of Linux."
Read the complete article at Golem IT-News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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14.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: 'Layouter' full version
In cooperation and with the okay by Marius Schwarz the Amiga Arena offers a free release of the software "Layouter" for the first time. With the program "Layouter" it is possible to layout and print your own books and fanzines.

"Layouter" covers the part to process texts, creating paragraphs for pictures and titles to print a fanzine correctly for example. Layouter does all the work a commo text processoer can't handle sufficient.

To say it in a simple manner: You bring in the text to print and the graphics and "Layouter" creates an impressing book or magazine from that. Another big advantage of "Layouter" is its speed for printing a book. A detailed manual and some example projects are included within the archive. For further assistance or suggestions the developer Marius Schwarz might be contacted. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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14.May.2003
Fabio Trotta (ANF)


Apple compatible PPC computers by Core
Name CoreCrib and CoreBox the company Core offers Apple compatible PPC computers. These offer the same technical specs like the current high end Macs but are less expensive. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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14.May.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)


Event: Amiga Show - Maarssen, The Netherlands on June the 28th 2003
As reported earlier the Dutch Commodore Club HCC hosts an Amiga Show in Maarssen on June the 28th 2003.

Computer City will demonstrate the AmigaOne and sell soft- and hardware. Genesi will demonstrate the PPC computer Pegasos with the operating system MorphOS and shows the VideoMicroWave as well as a prototype of a set top box. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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14.May.2003



Aminet Uploads until 14.05.2003
Here the latest Aminet uploads which were added since our last message:
SpanienSS.lha        docs/hyper  98K+SpanienSS guide history of some spanish
DIYrekoIII.lha       gfx/ifx     31K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Islife.jpg           pix/art     19K+Amiga is live
(ps)

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14.May.2003
VWP Newsletter


VWP: New Webboard online
After the old webboard was available in German only, now a new one is online. It supports different languages and can be reached like the old one: simply by using the "Webboard"-link on the left side of the page at VirtualWorlds.de. The only disadvantage of it: formerly registered user have to register again because their data could not be transferred. But writing as guest is possible in the new webboard too. (ps)

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14.May.2003
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)


Elbox: Online Photos of the Mirage 1200-based Amiga
The Elbox Support Website has now photos presenting how the new Mirage 1200 tower may be used to house a really well-expanded Amiga 1200-based system (title link).

The Amiga in view is fitted with the Mediator PCI 1200 SX busboard and Blizzard PPC 240/060/50, a Voodoo 3 graphic card, a PixelView TV Pro card, a Terratec 512i digital sound card, a Spider II USB 2.0 5-port controller, a FastEthernet 100Mb/s network card, a FastATA 1200 EIDE controller, a Samsung 80GB HDD, a 52x CD-ROM, a 40x12x40x CD-RW, an LS-120 drive, an All-in-One USB 2.0 Flash card reader, a Logitech USB mouse and a A3000 keyboard. (ps)

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14.May.2003
GetBoinged (ANF)


GetBoinged Review: Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2
Please find the review about the Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2 under the title link. (ps)

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