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Archive 07/2003


04.Jul.2003
Yunis (ANF)


Tao announces multimedia-platform SDK intent 2
Today the Tao Group which is a British software developer and partner of Amiga, Inc. has officially announced the new generation of the multimedia platform SDK intent 2.

You can read the English message under the title link and documentations are available under the resources-site of Tao.

Tao about intent: "In fact intent is the only middleware platform available today that can provide a common, brandable, look&feel with consistent application behaviour and truly deliver compelling multimedia content to the full range of consumer devices - thus providing a strategy to enable all players in the value chain to thrive." (nba) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jul.2003
Niels Bache (ANF)


Pictures of the OS4 tour in Göteborg by Niels Bache
Niels Bache has uploaded his pictures of Göteborg.

Remark of Niels Bache:
I have heard of some people that the new free server (frac.dk) which I use is not as fast as desired. I ask for your patience and your insight because I can use this server as a guest for free. I myself could not find out these problems and therefore I suppose that the problem of speed happens only few times e.g. if much traffic is caused. Please have another attempt to a different time if this happens. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jul.2003
Rafal Kaczmarczyk (ANF)


Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 14
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 beta 14 of his database 'XBaze'. The program offers an easy to use editor for the fields of the data records and a layout editor with drag&drop function. It works from AmigaOS v3.0 and under MorphOS.

Please send bug reports and suggestions to the following address: xbaze@amiga.pl.

Download: XB-7.3B14.lha (nba) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jul.2003
Michele C. Battilana (E-Mail)


Tomorrow: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 in Udine, Italy
For the last time the website of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 which will take place tomorrow in Udine, Italy has been updated. The list of the presentations has been updated as well as the list of the hardware and software which can be seen.

This week the organizer got the offer to exhibit a Commodore PET 4016 which is connected with a PET 3008. Of course this offer was accepted. Besides this a Commodore 65 (a prototype which was never released) will be shown.

In Austria Jürgen Schober is busy with the last preparations for the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation while in Germany Jens Schönfeld prepares himself for the C-One presentation. Genesi has made a PowerPC Pegasos with MorphOS which was installed in a microwave available.

Many people from all over the world have booked for and are on the way. We hope we see us. You are welcome! (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jul.2003
Grasshopper LLC (Website)


Grasshopper LLC Lowers PageStream Prices
The American software company Grasshopper has lowered the price of their desktop publishing application "PageStream." The full version is now available for 99 US dollars. Upgrades are now 40 US dollars. These prices are good for July, 2003 but may stay the same thereafter, if possible.

New Low Pricing
Tuesday, July 1st - Grasshopper LLC announces today new low pricing for PageStream on all platforms. "While the pricing is guaranteed only through July, it is hoped that it will be warmly embraced by the community and will be adopted then as our new permanent pricing", said owner Marna Holt today. "Our move from a brick and mortar business means lower costs and faster turn around times. We hope passing these savings on to our customers will not only increase the already tremendous value our customers get when buying PageStream, but hopefully increase the number of customers and reach those who could previously not afford PageStream." Near term plans include a revamped web site, instant messaging with our sales staff, and a monthly online public chat with Deron. PageStream now lists for $99 (from $299!!) and upgrades start out at only $40. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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03.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus


Adventure Rendezvous: Interview with Ken Williams
The adventure-game focused online magazine "Adventure-Treff" has published an interesting German-language interview with Ken Williams by Jan Schneider. In 1979 Ken Williams founded Sierra On-Line and after that he led the firm for almost 20 years. Ken and his wife Roberta originated the game genre now referred to as graphic adventures, and they were responsible for many of the best and most loved adventures of all time, like for instance the Leisure Suit Larry and King's Quest and Space Quest series. Today Ken runs a forum with SierraGamers, in which one may comment about Sierra. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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03.Jul.2003
Mummert Consulting (E-Mail)


Study: Online Shops Battle Trust Deficit
Around 50% of German websurfers avoid purchasing anything on the Internet. The main problem for most of them: they can't examine and test the products before buying. And very third person gets by without online purchases because they are satisfied with the goods of "real" stores.

The fear of someone stealing their personal data is another factor that stops surfers from buying. About 30% name this fear as a reason for why they have yet to purchase anything online. And every fifth person is worried that his bill will be incorrectly calculated and so he doesn't buy anything. These figures come from a current study "Internet Statistics of Consumers (IZV6)" done by the University of Karlsruhe and Mummert Consulting.

Online shops battle a trust deficit: Half of all German websurfers don't buy anything on the Internet. The principal reason for this, according to these surfers, is that they can't test the wares over the Internet. Every fourth purchase avoider doesn't trust the online stores because it might be hard to complain and return things. Almost every third fears for the protection of his data. The market share of online shoppers may rise if e-shops improve their service. About 28% don't buy online, because help and service aren't good enough.

It's easier for well known web-shops to win customers: about two thirds of online shoppers do most of their shopping by known merchants. Every fifth buys *exclusively* by known shops. And the general experience of Internet users with the Internet influences their purchasing attitude: the less experienced the surfer, the less he goes online shopping. Experienced users purchase 20% more stuff on the Internet than the unexperienced. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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03.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


Genesi: Explanation of G4 Card Difficulties
According to a statement of the Genesi leadership on MorphOS-News.de there's a hardware problem which means that less G4 cards will be produced for the Pegasos I, and even these will only be offered with corresponding boards as "matched sets." With respect to the complete utilization of the Altivec functionality of the G4: some boards work flawlessly, some boards not so well, at least not well enough to be sold.

In other Genesi news, QNX and Pascal have joined the effort to be ported to Pegasos. The latter is still popular in Eastern Europe and the former is the #1 embedded system OS.

Additionally Genesi would like to sell Linux Pegasoses with the G3 for a price of 499 euros at MicroWarehouse or other merchants (without monitor but with Linux as well as MorphOS). Up to 25,000 units monthly may be produced on the fabrication lines at DCE. This price per unit might fall with an inverse correlation to the quantity of units (as more are produced, price per unit drops). The same thing applies if IBM comes to view it as a good strategy to help Genesi by doing the same with respect to CPU price. These machines will be available in October of this year.

As before, Pegasos I owners can upgrade for the price of 200 euros, but you've got to send in the board as well as the CPU card. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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03.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: Enterprise Market for Open Source Grows Quickly
»Yearly growth rates of 24% are in view
A study by the company Soreon analyzed and predicted the enterprise market for open source software in Germany up to the year 2007. For this study 150 German firms were surveyed. In that were 100 interviews with users who quantitatively evaluated, as well as 50 expert conversations which were qualitatively evaluated.«
Read the complete article by clicking on the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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03.Jul.2003
Samba (Website)


Networking: Samba Version 3.0.0 Beta 2
The Samba team released version 3.0.0 Beta 2 on the 1st of July. You may read the list of changes here.

Samba is a software that allows networking, for example networking of a PC and an Amiga. You'll find information about Samba for Amiga at amigasamba.org.

Here's the original press release:
The second beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download. While significantly closer to the final release, it should still be considered a non-production release provided for testing purposes only. The source code and GnuPG signatures can be found on Samba mirrors. RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 are also available in the Binary_Packages download area. Packages for other platforms will follow shortly. The full release notes are available on-line as well. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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03.Jul.2003
Amigan Software (Website)


Game: Saga Version 1.27
Version 1.27 of the freeware game Saga from Amigan Software has appeared. The game is a conversion of a TSR board game from 1981 called Saga: Age of Heroes and is playable by up to six players, which may be controlled by humans or the Amiga. It's all about battling monsters, finding treasure, and building your kingdom through valor and heroism.

The game is available in German and English at this time. It requires at least AmigaOS 3.0+ and AGA/RTG. The source code is in the archive. The author James R. Jacobs has made a few improvements and cleaned up a few errors since the last version.

Download: Saga.lha - 297 KB (ps) (Translation: dm)

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03.Jul.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)


StartMenu: Pixload Version 4.1c
Version 4.1c of "Pixload" has been released. Like AmiDock, this tool makes it possible to start programs and scripts from an icon through the use of MUI. Noteworthy additions to this version include the recognition of local HTML data, as well as a context menu. RxMUI 32.8 is required.

The program may be downloaded in Amiga and MorphOS versions.

Download: pixload-4.1c.lzx (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jul.2003
PPCNux (ANF)


PPCNux: Pegasos G4 upgrade not available seperately
»The for July 2003 scheduled 1+GHz G4 CPU card for the Pegasos Boards currently equipped with a 600 MHz G3 will not be available seperately. This has been said by Genesi in their status update at Amiga.org.«
Read the full article by the title link (ps) (Translation: ub)

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02.Jul.2003
Sourceforge-Projekt JAmiga (ANF)


Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9
By the title link you can follow the state of the sourceforge project Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9 (JAmiga) and get informed about the further details of that project. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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02.Jul.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)


AmiZilla progress report
After DiscreetFX had announced that there is a money booty for porting the web browser Mozilla to the Amiga (as reported) and Bill Panagouleas set up an information site about the donation efforts, he sent us the following progress report:
  • Current Booty: $4122.45
  • New! SourceForge website setup to share/update codebase for AmiZilla port.
  • New! Offical URL for AmiZilla
  • Mailinglist now has over 162 members and over 240 messages, most are about programming and porting Mozilla.
  • AmiZilla website has gotten over 1 million hits since appearing on the famous unix geek website slashdot.
  • AmiZilla continues to gather positive press for the Amiga and MorphOS by being covered on mainstream websites like CNET's news.com, mozillazine.org and many others.
  • Amiga Inc. representative Fleecy Moss has commented they like AmiZilla but will not contribute to the Initiative because a port is also underway for MorphOS.
  • New! AmiZilla poster "I Want You" by Eric Schwartz available in two sizes for webmasters that want to promote AmiZilla on their site.
  • New! AmiZilla Banner designed by Luca Ferraris.
  • New! Female Russian artist hired to create mascot for MorphOS version of Mozilla port.
  • New! Genesi and Phoenix Developer Consortium have been watching the project with great interest for some time. and may contribute funds.
Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful. The booty is now over $4122, which is a impressive amount of money for an Amiga project. If only one programmer was working on the port this would be a nice reward. However several programmers are working together. Once the money is split among coders the booty is not big enough. Please contribute if you can, every dollar helps motivate programmers to make the AmiZilla Project a success. After the release of AmiZilla more projects are being developed like Hot CoCo (JVM) and F Gordon (Flash). The development and launch of these add-ons to AmiZilla depend on the success of that project. Paypal donations can be sent in via this weblink.

About AmiZilla
The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga/Compatible systems that programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time.

About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing & computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing, computer graphics market with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and more! (ps) (Translation: ub)

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02.Jul.2003
Messe Leipzig (ANF)


First European games mucic concert in Leipzig
On August the 20th 2003 there will be the first "European games music concert" in Germany. This will happen at the "Gewandhaus" in Leipzig . Start of the concert, which will be the opening of the "Games Convention" as well, is 8 pm. Ticket sale has just begun, there are still plenty tickets available. Among other tracks there will be a suite of the Amiga classic "Apidya" (Chris Hülsbeck) played. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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02.Jul.2003
Ron van Schaik (ANF)


Photos from the Amiga show in Maarssen
At the website of the Amiga Party which happend on the 28th of June 2003 in Maarssen, the Netherlands, there were new photos published by the organizers. The event is planned to be repeated next year again. On August the 16th 2003 there will be the Commodore Show 2003 also. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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02.Jul.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Online magazine: NoCover #112 published
Issue #112 of the NoCover is published and readable by following the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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02.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)


Amiga Alpe Adria News and Updates
The website of the event "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" has been updated today. There is now a list with hardware and software products which will be shown, exhibitors who are present and new cultural events which will be occur in parallel with the show. The A3 will be held on coming Saturday, July the 5th kulturelle Ereignisse, die parallel zur Show stattfinden. Die A3 2003 in Undine, Italy. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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02.Jul.2003
Erhard Bruse (ANF)


Report: Pegasos in Leipzig
Several interested persons have seen the presentation of the Pegasos in Leipzig at the booth of the "CCLS e.V." last weekend. Erhard Bruse gives a brief overview about the presentation:

Even by chance met informatics students from India were interested in MorphOS and the Pegasos. The Sunday was owed to the Pegasos and Linux. Micha Heider successfully did first tests with his image installer and a backup/recovery by using a hard disk image as well as an installation of Mandrake Linux to the Pegasos. The recovery took with a 4 GB partition about 10 minutes.

During the next days there will be further information and some pictures and screen shots of Mandrake running on the Pegasos put to the website of Micha Heider which is to reach by the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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02.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (Website)


Club Amiga Magazine: Article about DOS library by C.J. Wenzel freely available
The article "A Short Story on the V50 DOS Library" by Colin J. Wenzel from issue 5 of the Club Amiga Magazine has been made freely available by Amiga Inc. This English report features the planning of V50 of the dos.library which will be used within AmigaOS 4. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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