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Archive 06/2003


09.Jun.2003



Aminet Uploads until 09.06.2003
Aminet Uploads which were added since our last report:
P61DevBas.lha        dev/basic   31K+Using Player61 library from HBasic
Feelin030513.lha     dev/gui    424K+20030513 New, Powerful and Impressive OO
WormWars.lha         game/misc  587K+Worm Wars 7.5: Advanced snake game
AmiChess.lha         game/think 2.0M+Chess based on GNUChess 5.05/06
PairsNG_Demo.lha     game/wb    2.0M+Great board game for CGFX/P96, AHI Sound
ImageConvert.lha     gfx/conv    35K+ImageConvert 2.1, batch converting with 
DIYrekoIII.lha       gfx/ifx     35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Reko2As.lha          gfx/ifx      2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
PoseidonMain.lha     hard/drivr 373K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.1b
PoseidonMOS.lha      hard/drivr 476K+Poseidon USB for Pegasos Update 2.1b
maguila.lha          misc/emu    23M+MAGUILA GUI for MorphOS MAME
Viejas-del-Sot.mpg   mods/mpg    10M+Dieziseven new song
won-zoo1.jpg         pix/fauna  148K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo2.jpg         pix/fauna  151K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo3.jpg         pix/fauna   83K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo4.jpg         pix/fauna  147K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
won-zoo5.jpg         pix/fauna  145K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo
Pixload-4.0.lha      util/rexx  792K+Pixload 4.0 (a tiny "dock" in RXMui)
VirusZ.lha           util/virus  92K+VirusZ III 0.9e - Antivirus Software
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09.Jun.2003
WHDLoad (Website)


Installer: WHDLoad - Additions since 08.06.2003
WHDLoad lets you install floppy based games onto your hard disk. The following additions were made since our last report:
  • 08.06.03 fixed: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) fixed French version crashing
  • 08.06.03 new: Lost Dutchman Mine (Magnetic Scrolls) done by JOTD
  • 08.06.03 new: Genesia (Microids) done by JOTD
  • 08.06.03 new: Chaos Strikes Back (FTL) done by JOTD
  • 08.06.03 improved: Return of the Jedi (Domark) slave optimised, added blitter waits
  • 08.06.03 fixed: G-LOC (U.S.Gold) crash when starting game fixed
  • 07.06.03 new: Insector Hecti in the Inter Change (PAL Developments/Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper! Congratulations! 1400 installs!
  • 07.06.03 new: Fatal Heritage (EGO/Delta Konzept) done by Wepl
  • 06.06.03 new: High Steel (Screen 7) done by DJ Mike
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09.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)


Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 12
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 12 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) Bodie: Considering that OS4 has yet to be released, have sales of the AmigaOne thus far largely fallen in line with expectations?

Fleecy: Since an AmigaOne is a combination of the certified Eyetech hardware solution and AmigaOS4, it is hard to make any comments about the sales of the hardware alone. People want to buy an AmigaOne so that they can experience the latest version of their favourite operating system running on new and powerful hardware. Eyetech has sold quite a few units of the hardware but as we have not yet completed the full product and pre launch promotion has only just started, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour events, we don't really have any sales expectations for this stage. From our standpoint, this final stage is all about raising the levels of excitement and exposure, building towards the launch stage.

2) Pods: Have you considered Envoy over SMB for network support? What were the pros and cons? What other tools have you considered.

Fleecy: SMB is technically quite a let-down in terms of robustness, reliability, performance and general architecture. But it's the only game in town when you want to do printer and file sharing across a heterogeneous network (that is, while it works; printer sharing is at best a black art of sorts). If you don't mind that it can take anything between 5 minutes and three days for changes in the network topology propagate through the SMB server/client chain, that it occasionally refuses to work without any apparent reason and that the Amiga SMB support is nowhere near as polished as it ought to be. Envoy is the best integrated peer to peer file, printer and resource sharing system for the Amiga. However, it is being owned by a third party and would need further polishing to integrate it into the operating system (the user interface needs a brush-up). The downside to Envoy is that it's Amiga-only.

3) alx: Is there any more news on the BlizzardPPC version of OS4?

Fleecy: Our partner, Hyperion Entertainment has asked for feedback numbers in order to judge the demand for a BlizzardPPC version. The issue is that we have to move the the platform forwards and so we do not want people to think that a BlizzardPPC is a viable long term solution for the AmigaOS platform. In the short term we will support the CSPPC (even though its hardware implementation leaves a lot to be desired) and most likely the BlizzardPPC (even though it is a few orders of magnitude harder to support than the CSPPC) but this will only be in order to allow owners of these products to test out the new OS and see where we are going with it.
In addition, performance on these accelerator driven products will be a far cry for what can be experienced on the new Amiga certified hardware.

4) MetalJoe: What are the requirements/costs for Amiga certification of hardware i.e. to run AmigaOS 4 on a new PowerPC motherboard developed by a start-up?

Fleecy: The requirements are simple. Provide a piece of hardware on which AmigaOS4 can potentially run, arrange for it to run on the hardware so that it can pass our certification test suite and convince us that there is a viable commercial market for AmigaOS4 on that piece of hardware. We have been approached in the past by people requesting this information but they have only been interested in small numbers of boards, which makes no commercial sense (unless those third parties want to pay huge premiums per individual board).

5) ssolie: There are some rather vocal members of the Amiga online community who do not trust anything you say and consider you to be a liar. How do you feel about this kind of public criticism and how it may reflect on Amiga Inc. as a whole?

Fleecy: I have four kids, one of whom will be a proper teenager soon so I am used to being detested, insulted and called a liar by those with their own agendas, those who lack all the facts and those who just enjoy the pseudo celebrity status that goes with making lots of noise.

Public criticism comes with the role of having a public presence. Commercial activity is for adults and in the adult world, things don't always go according to plan, nor in the way that you want or even expect. We have had a very rough last three years and I certainly wouldn't say that we haven't made any mistakes. What is important is that we have held firm, worked with our partners and have kept going. AmigaOnes are now shipping, the AmigaOS4.0 is getting closer and closer to production release, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour programme now under way. That is the only way you can answer criticism, by delivering.

6) DaveP: I have been reading a lot of speculative and unsubstantive articles on Moobunny and ANN about the precense of the Articia S bug - or rather the one that the April 1 chip tried to fix. People posting checksums as evidence that it is the Articia S at fault. Can you give us a definitive, in depth explanation as of the situation right now with A1, Articia S and the relevance of these articles if any?

Fleecy: We have spent a lot of time looking at these claims, along with Eyetech, Hyperion, Mai and now Via as well. We have no evidence of the Articia S being responsible for any of the issues claimed. There are well known and documented issues with the Southbridge chip and where it has been used in other systems, those integrators have addressed those using hardware and/or software solutions. Indeed some of the reported issues seem to be because of incomplete implementations or failure to understand the capabilities of the hardware within the specific operating systems on which the problems have been reported.

The 200 MB chunk IDE DMA capability is well known and has not yet been addressed within the Linux PPC driver.
For AmigaOS, which is of course our chief concern, this is not a problem at all. When looking for a future hardware model, we were concerned about the coarse granularity of the PCI model and in particular the way a single process could take control of the bus. For a platform such as the Amiga, which prides itself on total system responsiveness, this is unacceptable and we had intended to implement these services in a chunk based solution anyway, in preparation for the consideration of other packet based bus architectures that would allow us to deliver our quality based solution for the future.

7) GregS: I had read that OS4 will have filesystem room for User and Group IDs, besides the filename is there another space that could be used for a Universal Unique File ID?

Fleecy: The user and group IDs have been in there for quite a while (1992?), it's just that besides Envoy hardly any software package would use them. As for universal unique file identifiers, there isn't an API to create or manage these with, and file system implementations, such as FFS, may not even have room for these in the first place. The 32 bit 'key' numbers associated with each directory entry are a poor substitute.

8) donV: Do you know of any plans for adding complete Java J2SE support for AmigaOS? What about complete Java J2ME support for AmigaDE?

Fleecy: Once the AmigaDE is added to the AmigaOS then J2ME functionality will be available. Further Java capabilities are on our 'to do' list but this is a large list and a lot of those items are likely to take precedence over Java.

9) defrisselle: Since you are located in the UK, will you be organizing a stop on the OS4 tour or have to talked to UK resellers/retailers about setting up a stop on the tour?

Fleecy: The 'AmigaOS4 on Tour' programme is not an Amiga Inc event, although it has our support. It has been organised by Jurgen Schober of Point Design and other dealers as a taster and promotional event for those dealers, using a demonstration of the new AmigaOS4.0 as a draw. Jurgen is the point man for this and will be driving to each dealership each weekend to demonstrate AmigaOS4.0 on a set of machines. I don't believe he was contacted by a UK dealer.

My time is taken up with finalising the pre launch, launch and post launch global marketing campaign for AmigaOS4.0.

10) ikir: OS4 contributions drawer will it contain an office suite (like Star Office, Open Office...)?

Fleecy: The AmigaOS4.0 contributions drawer is for third parties, both commercial and free/shareware who want to distribute versions of their applications to AmigaOS4.0 purchasers. Anyone wishing to take advantage of this can contact me directly. I am not aware of an currently being developed office suite existing for the Amiga, even in a 68K version so I don't believe there will be one.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=13
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact)
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09.Jun.2003
clickBOOM (Website)


clickBOOM: S-Files 23 - History auction
The Canadian game publisher clickBOOM is back. clickBOOM released a new edition of the S-files, a regularly published report about the current status of the company. clickBOOM has moved and has also new phone number. In the course of this move clickBOOM will auction an Amiga 4000/PPC wich was used for the creation of some of the most well known Amiga games ever. The device will be signed by the team members. The auction can be found here. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
Boing Attitude (Website)


Boing Attitude: Photos of AmigaOne XE G4/800
The French online magazine Boing Attitude published some photos of an AmigaOne XE G4/800 which they got in April. These photos depict the mainboard as well as parts of the tower and the running Linux boot systems. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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09.Jun.2003
Timo Kloss (ANF)


New Midi-Sequencer "Horny" by Inutilis Software
Horny will be a Midi Sequencer in the style of "Logic" or "Cubase", whose simple and uncomplicated operation is the center of attention. Differently than its models Horny is to remain however a pure Midi program and can not record audio traces.

More detailed information is to be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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08.Jun.2003
Achim Stegemann (Website)


Digital Almanac III v5.2 and AmiChess v2.0 released
Achim Stegemann has released new versions of his reference software titles: The shareware based astronomy application "Digital Almanac III" has managed the jump to version 5.2, the freeware, strong chess simulation AmiChess has been raised to version 2.0.

An update of Digital Almanac III is possible from version 5.0. AmiChess 2.0 doesn't have to be installed, simply unpacking the archive suffices. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


AmigAIM 0.9445 Beta released
Yesterday the new version 0.9445 of the Instant Messenger "AmigAIM" has been released by developer Richard H. Poser II. The update contains fixes of some shortcomings in the link handler routines which led to problems when the link wasn't initiated with the usual "http://". Therefore the HTML parser was improved. Besides the bookmarks on the mailing list were changed. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)


New maps for Payback
A new (Death Match) and an updated map (God's Island) for the GTA clone Payback have been released, which can be downloaded in the "Payback Extra Maps" area of developer Apex Designs' Web site. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)


Please vote in the CAPS community poll!
Due to the number of requests, the CAPS project's operators are thinking of separating the game disk images from the scans. This basically means that online lags due to the effort of scanning will be avoided. In order to advance the decision about a possible future separation, the community is to be included. As from now there are polls available on the CAPS Web site, participation in which is strongly requested. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2003



Official screenshots of AmigaOS 4 published
The online magazine AmigaWorld has published four official new screenshots of the future AmigaOS 4.0 which show the standard Intuition look of Workbench and at the same time GUI and MUI preferences, a Workbench magnifying glass, the Web browser IBrowse and the launch bar used. Also interesting is the effective font anti aliasing, e.g. the smoothing of the fonts on the user interface. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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07.Jun.2003
VHT-DK (email)


Virus Help Denmark: VirusZ v0.9e
Georg Hörmann has released version 0.9e of the anti virus software VirusZ that can be downloaded from the website of the Virus Help Team Denmark.

Information about the new update:

Name: VirusZ v0.9e
Archive name: VirusZ.lha
Archiv size: 94,117 bytes
Release date: June, 7th 2003
Programmer: Georg Hoermann

TODOs until the final release 1.00:
  • Implement file and sector scanning inside ALL types of disk- and filearchives that xadmaster.library supports.
  • Add useful commands to ARexx port.
Changes since version 0.9d:
  • Added new snapshots sent by Klaus-Peter Simon, Chris Elliott, DMX, Dario, Mikolaj Calusinski and Todd A. Oberly. Thanks guys!
  • Fixed CacheClearU() calls in the new self-test added in 0.9d to CacheClearE() for better performance on JIT 68k emulated systems. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the report.
  • Added new switch to 'Misc Prefs' to dis/enable the usage of the disassembler.library for bootblock lab and memory monitor. This library always opens mmu.library too which seems to be annoying for some users. Idea by Mikolaj Calusinski, thanks.
  • Fixed problem with OxyPatcher: It modified code inside VirusZ and thus caused alerts by its self-test. Thanks to DMX for the report.
  • Did some compatibility fixes for Pegasos systems. VirusZ will work perfectly with a faked ROM now. Thanks again to Harry Sintonen for the report and for beta-testing.
  • Fixed severe bug in the filecheck: hardlinks haven't been handled correctly and may have lead to crashes. Now any hardlinks will be fully tested (respectively the files/dirs they point at). Due to the inconsistent implementation of hardlinks to the filesystem, there nevertheless may appear some side-effects when you chose to delete/disinfect such files. Hardlinks then might be replaced by invalidated copies of the files they originally pointed at. This method at least avoids any virus execution and is the best I can offer. Thanks to Mikolaj Calusinski for the initial bug report, for beta-testing and further suggestions on this topic.
  • Added great installer script written by Dave 'Targhan' Crawford. Thanks a lot for this contribution.
(nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Lynne Music (website)


Bjorn Lynne: sneak preview for a new audio CD
A brand new Bjorn Lynne track has been released today as mp3: "Under The Bard's Tree". This is a fantasy / celtic / medieval / electronic / acoustic track from Bjorns next CD, "Return to Witchwood", due for release later this summer. Download "Under The Bard's Tree" now from mp3.com.

If you have any comments about the track or the coming CD, feel free to share them on the Guestbook / Messageboard.

There is also a General MIDI version of the new track, "Under The Bard's Tree". (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Debian (website)


Event: 2. LinuxWochen in Vienna from June, 5th to 7th 2003
The event "2. LinuxWochen", that is dealing with open Free Software and GNU/Linux, will be taking place until tomorrow in Vienna. The Debian project will be there with a booth that is loooked after by Gerfried Fuchs. He is additionally organizing a key signing party and will give a talk about the first steps with Debian after the installation. The Debian team invites all interested people to visit these events, to meet Debian developers and users, to exchange GnuPG finger prints, to discuss different topics regarding Debian and Free Software or to participate in another way in the community. Debian GNU/Linux is also running on the AmigaOne and Pegasos. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
AmFreak (ANF)


Photos of "AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour" in Slowenia
Damir Arh has uploaded on his website under the title link first photos of the todays event "AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour" in Slowenia. They show among other things the place where the show is happening, an AmigaOne mainboard in a towercase and the new design of the AmigaOS 4. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena: HD full version of Fatal Heritage
With the permisson by EGO Software makes the Amiga Arena in cooperation with Bernd Gmeineder from AMI Sector One and Bert Jahn from WHDLoad the release of the full version of "Fatal Heritage" available.

"Fatal Heritage" is a German "Point and Click" adventure, developed in 1990 by EGO Software.

Thanks to the original disk images by EGO Software and Bernd Gmeineder could with the help of Bert Jahn for the first time a HD version been created. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Gerd Frank und Manfred Rohde (email)


Development of AmiATLAS being continued
The development of AmiATLAS will be continued despite the bad market situation announced the main developers Gerd Frank and Manfred Rohde in a circular letter.

Just in time for the holidays season will a new top up-to-date version of the Germany map "germany_special" be released, as always with an updated motorway net and of course among other things with some places and some more things. Would it be a PC route planner it'd very probably contain the year 2004 in the title!

Besides that there's a new version of the Scandinavia map in the first bigger planning stage that shall contain Danmark, Sweden, Norway and new Finland, too!

Further enhancements of these and all the other maps will follow respectively are already being worked on.

As the website itself also needs a redesign this is being worked on, too, especially concerning the description of all existing updates. The new site is supposed to go online in the next two to three weeks with new URL. A special announcement will follow.

Not unmentioned should be the (unfortunately very complex) switch of the compiler to the GCC C compiler for PPC for AmiATLAS and the adaption mainly to AmigaOS4 (among other things ReAction) as well as to MorphOS later on.

At last we have to point out that because of new technical problems the updates can't be sent automatically and a new registration is needed, too. Please send a short email with full mail address as well as the serial number and optionally the buying date and the retailer's name to AmiATLAS@gmx.net, and as soon as they are available the wanted archives will be sent. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Martin Steigerwald (website)


ImageConvert 2.1 with ImageMagick support
Martin Steigerwald has released the version 2.1 of ImageConvert that comes with support for ImageMagick.

The GPL'd script converts graphics into a chosen resolution and colour depth and is compatible with ArtEffect 2-4, PPaint 6.4-7.x, Photogenics 2 and ImageMagick 5.5.5. Due to the program control via the Command Line Interface is the script best suited for the use with Directory Opus Magellan or a similar file manager.

Download: ImageConvert v2.1 (35 kb) (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)


DiscreetFX hiring artists
Due to an accelerated release schedule and product deadlines for 2003 DiscreetFX is expanding its talent pool of contract Amiga Artists. Are you versed at Amiga 2D Paint & Animation software? Do you make wonderful artwork on your Amiga that many enjoy? Can you draw 2D animate Aliens, Dragons, Space Ships, Battle Axes, Medieval Warriors, Footballs and wondrous creatures and monsters? Then DiscreetFX needs you!

We are hiring artists and expanding our team so that many of our new products can be released on time. You will be paid for your work; all artists get a generous royalty on all the products they work on for us. Also, artists will get heavy mention on released product, our website and sales literature. Please contact us today and send sample work to amigaart@discreetfx.com. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)


Amiga OS 4.0 on Tour starts
The AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour is about to start. We have the machines ready to go and will reach Ljubljana on Sat. morning for for the first event.

We will have AmigaOS 4.0 running the new default look with a big surprise for you. Also ExecSG will run its first native OS4 PowerPC Demo.

See you there! (nba)

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07.Jun.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)


New Website: Annuaire Pegasos Francophone
"Annuaire Pegasos Francophone" is the new portal of "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" especially for the Pegasos users.

This common "Annuaire" is The List of the French speaking Amiga & Pegasos Users around the World (France, Belgium, Swiss, Quebec,...). Join the hundreds of users since July 2000 and find contacts in your region! (nba)

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