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| 28.Oct.2003 Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF) |
Music: Liquid Skies records #058 The scene group Liquid Skies has released the 58th music pack today. It contains the track "Gwiezdny Taniec" of the Polish musician Maxus. The cover was created by DaFreak. Here some more information about the track
The zipped file (5.3 MB) is available for download. (cg) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Oct. 2003, 21:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 28.Oct.2003 |
GoldED: C/C++ IDE Update-Archive For the text and coding editor "GoldED Studio AIX" a new service pack for the C/C++ Add-On was released. This new version solves problems on the installation of GCC/NDK parts and is available for all registered users. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Oct. 2003, 17:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 28.Oct.2003 Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF) |
Game: Amiga-Freespace Singleplayer-Pack 2 released The Singleplayer-Pack 2 for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace" is released. It contains ten new single player missions and can be downloaded from the Amiga-Freespace-website. Just to mention the "Amiga Freespace Forum" with more than 3500 hits, 29 topics, and 125 issues. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Oct. 2003, 16:37] [Comments: 1 - 30. Oct. 2003, 22:27] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 28.Oct.2003 |
"OS4 on Tour" in Great Britain The South West Amiga Group organizes a presentation of the OS4 on the AmigaOne on Saturday, December 13th in Bath. Confirmed is that OS4 will run on an AmigaOne XE-G4 and a prototype of the MicroA1 board will be shown. Maybe Timothy de Groote of Hyperion will be there, too. (snx) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Oct. 2003, 10:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 28.Oct.2003 |
Retro-Gaming: Amiga games for four Joysticks Christoph Gutjahr has released an overview about all the games with support of the 4-joystick-adapter he knows. (cg) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Oct. 2003, 00:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 28.Oct.2003 |
Hardware-Hack: CD-writer in original A1200 case Update (26.10.2012, cg): integrated entire article into news item during database migration Amiga user Egon Kohlschütter has managed to fit both a CD-ROM and an IDE harddisk into the A1200's original case. The idea is to move the harddrive to the right of the case (to the position normally occupied by the internal disk drive) and put the CD-ROM to the left side of the case. The floppy drive had to be removed to gain the neccessary space (Egon uses an external drive now) and the case had to be slightly modified. This is what the end result looks like:  Fitting the CD-ROM drive Get an internal CD-ROM drive (or even a CD-Writer!) targeted for Laptops - these are small enough to fit into the original case. Some devices that should work are:
These drives use a special IDE connector called "Mini-IDE", so you'll have to find a suitable adaptor. These adaptors are usually called "Slimline adaptors" (Mini-IDE to IDE-40-pins). As these Laptop-CD-drives are usually jumpered as "Master" and the internal HD should be "Master" aswell, you should also get one of the myriad of A1200 IDE devices that enable you to connect up to four drives to your Amiga. Obviously, you'll have to cut an opening into the case - a CD-ROM not accessible from the outside is not exactly useful ;-) This image demonstrates the exact position of the drive:  Some hints for the actual case modification:
Moving the harddrive to its new position The harddrive will be put where the internal disk drive used to be. Remove the disk drive and make sure that the internal disk drive connector can not be shortened by accident (e.g. by putting an old IDE or floppy connector onto it). The RF shielding may cause short circuits too - make sure that you either remove enough of it to avoid that or put some isolating material around the harddrive.  The floppy disk drive When booting, the A1200 will spend a few seconds searching for the internal floppy disk drive. Additionally, Workbench might complain about the missing disk drive. Both problems can be easily solved by connecting pins #1 of the internal floppy disk drive connector with the pin below it. The boot process will be slightly faster after this modification. But with these pins connected, your A1200 will not recognise external disk drives. Therefore Egon connected the pins using a switch: The switch is closed most of the time, but you can open it at any time (even if the machine is already up and running) to access external disk drives and close it again afterwards.  More pictures Here are some more pictures showing various details of Egon's hack:
Additional notes The scsi.device included with AmigaOS 3.0/3.1 is not able to handle ATAPI drives (like CD-ROM or CD-RW drives), so you'll have to use a replacement. AmigaOS 3.5+ comes with an updated scsi.device, another option would be the shareware IDEFix. Egon equipped his A1200 with the CD-RW drive mentioned above. BurnIt does not have specific support for this particular drive, but the generic driver (No. 9) works fine. If you did not connect the pins on the internal floppy disk drive connector as described above, Workbench may complain about the missing disk drive - OS 3.5+ users should deactivate drive "DF0:" in the Workbench preferences to avoid this. Egon can be contacted at Egone@freenet.de. Please note that his English is (quoting Egon) "pretty poor", so you may contact us aswell, we'll forward your feedback to Egon. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 28. Oct. 2003, 00:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 27.Oct.2003 |
SciTech Software renew partnership with ATI SciTech Softwar, whose Multi-OS graphic accelerator driver system "SNAP" will be used with AmigaOS 4, announced today the renew of theire partnership with ATI. (cg) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 22:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 27.Oct.2003 |
AmigaOne: MicroATX version comes nevertheless After the official announcement of the AmigaOne-Lite, also known as "Micro-A1", one could get the impression that this release will be the end of the "AmigaOne Micro-ATX". Ben Hermans has now gotten straight in a comment on ANN that this is a misunderstanding for which he is to blame for, the AmigaOne Micro ATX is still planned. (cg) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 22:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 27.Oct.2003 Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF) |
IRC: Changed server for the #Amigaworld channel AmigaWorld.net announced that they moved their channel from Undernet to ExodusIRC due to lags, netsplits and missing services like nickserv. The channel is now available at irc.amigaworld.net port 6667 or port 1024 for users behind a firewall. (snx) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 19:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 27.Oct.2003 |
amiga-news.de: The new Team Some time ago amiga-news.de reported that the founder of amiga-news.de, Petra Struck, will resign from the daily news creation due to private reasons. For this reason an extended editors team was established. The following persons are involed in amiga-news.de: Nico Barbat (nba): editor in charge Jens Begeschke (jb): forum moderation Ulrich Beckers (ub): English translation Christian Busse (cb): English translation Stéphane Campan (sc): French translation Christoph Dietz (cd): engineering/server Sven Drieling (sd): engineering/PHP Guido Fehst (gf): English translation Dr. Eric Gillé (eg): English translation Christoph Gutjahr (cg): news editor Martin Heine (snx): news editor, forum moderation Hendrik Höner (hh): forum moderation Sven Kirmse (sk): English translation Daniel Miller (dm): English translation Jürgen Müller (jm): newsticker, lectorat H. Ogino (ho): Japanese translation Piotr Pawlowski (pp): Polish translation Daniel Reimann (dr): English translation Christian Rosentreter (cr): forum moderation, IRC admin Gerhard Schmid (gs): forum moderation Carsten Schröder (cs): news editor, forum moderation Felix Schwarz (fs): engineering/ALD Petra Struck (ps): idea, foundation, design and glossary Alfred Sturm (as): Aminet uploads Rolf Tingler (rt): design Last but not least we would like to thank all the readers for the loyalty in the last years! (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 16:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 27.Oct.2003 |
Beyond Magazine: number 2 The Beyond Magazine, a gratis PDF magazine, that deals besides BeOS with other alternative operating systems like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOSX or FreeBSD. The just published expenditure 2 contains among other things a Darwin review, a report about Marble Madness in the "Emuzone", a Rebol course and a report of the Pianeta Amiga 2003. (snx) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 11:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 27.Oct.2003 |
New YAM-"Developer" version There is a new developer version of the well known e-mail client YAM available at the title link. Further details about this new release can be found in the ChangeLog. (cg) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 02:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 27.Oct.2003 Guido Mersmann (ANF) |
New USB driver for Amithlon and OpenPCI The ArakAttack demo version will be available within the next few days at http://www.vmc.de/Amithlon. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version. What is ArakAttack? ArakAttack is an USB driver packet that allows the usage of USB on any AmigaOS compatible system with PCI slots. ArakAttack isn't an USB stack, it's a driver packet for Chris Hodges great USB Stack Poseidon. What are the features of ArakAttack?
What is also required to use ArakAttack? The latest version of Chris Hodges' Poseidon USB stack. In addition to that other components are required: Amithlon: powerpci.library - version 2.13 or better. Amiga PCI / Pegasos: openpci.library - version V1.20 or better. Which USB Controller is required for ArakAttack? Most of the current USB controllers are supported. Just take care it's UHCI, OHCI or EHCI compatible. Well, I don't think you'll find any other within the stores now. Amithlon user may be happy to hear that on board USB controllers are working, too! How can I register? Well, currently the registration makes no sense, because ArakAttack is quite useless without a registered USB Stack. If you own a Poseidon key feel free to register. Further information can be found in the manual. PLEASE: Don't bother Chris Hodges with questions about registering Poseidon. He is very busy at the moment, so please keep quiet until the registration site will be up again. (snx) [News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 01:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 26.Oct.2003 AmithlonTV (Website) |
TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 349 Guido Mersmann released the beta version 349 of the TV-card driver software AmithlonTV, which includes several small updates and improvements. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha Changes since the previous version:
[News message: 26. Oct. 2003, 02:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||
| 26.Oct.2003 Stefan Ruppert (E-Mail) |
Application Response Measurement 4.0 will be finalized shortly The version 4.0 of the Application Response Measurement (ARM) standard developed within the OpenGroup will be finalized shortly. This standard defines a C/C++ and Java API for instrumenting (distributed) applications. Most notably, with this standard programming language, process and host boundaries are not a restriction for transaction and sub-transaction measurements any more - resulting in a real end-to-end (business-) transaction measurement. For a detailed description of the ARM standard please read the document available on the OpenGroup site. Together with IBM and HP, the tang-IT Consulting GmbH has led the development of this version 4.0 of the ARM standard. They are going to show their ARM 4.0-based product called "tang-IT ARM" at the LinuxWorld 2003 exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany from Oct. 27 to 29. The main developers of *tang-IT ARM* have been knowning the Amiga platform from the beginning. Therefore they can imagine a port to either AmigaOS 3.x/4.0 or MorphOS if there is sufficient demand (>10) for such a product in this niche market. A port to AmigaOS or MorphOS could be available within a month and a developer license is about 200 Euro. (nba) [News message: 26. Oct. 2003, 01:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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