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`10.Mar.2003` Thomas Frieden, Senior Developer (E-Mail)	Hyperion: New AmigaOne Firmware FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leuven, Belgium - March 7, 2003. Hyperion is pleased to announce that it has completed an extensive rework of the AmigaOne firmware adding substantial functionality and flexibility for end-users, developers and technicians. The new firmware will be incorporated in the A1-XE boards which will be shipping shortly. Newly implemented functionality includes: Migration from PPCBoot 1.16 to U-Boot (PPCBoot 2.0) Support for PPC 750 FX, MPC 7440/41, MPC 7450/1 CPU's Comprehensive GUI for Articia S register configuration Comprehensive GUI for general firmware configuration Support of additional types of memory modules Integration of diagnostic code Support for POST card displays allowing for rapid detection of specific hardware faults New Articia S start-up code allowing for usage of two banks of unregistered SDRAM Booting from Symbios/LSI Logic 53c8xx based SCSI controllers (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 12:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Terra Soft: Teron-PPC-Board not longer available in the Online-Store Terra Soft ATX PowerPC Systems Terra Soft Current and Pending Customers, "Many of you have enthusiastically and patiently awaited the delivery of MAI Logic's Teron motherboards on which Terra Soft's Boxer ATX systems will be built. We have removed the Teron-based systems from our online Store until further notice in order to reduce further confusion and false expectations. We promise to bring this product to market as soon as possible." -- Terra Soft Team Background could be a diversity of opinion between Terra Soft and Mai Logic. According to rumors, which Mike Bouma in the Amiga World forum drew "from reliable sources", Terra Soft demands 20 US dollar per produced and sold Main board, including the AmigaOne boards, since these boards can implement Yellow Dog Linux. These rumors were so far not confirmed officially. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 11:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Mar.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Genesi: Further details on STB-strategy In two comments of Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (Genesi) on Amiga.org you can find further details on their Set-Top-Box-Strategy. It follows an extract from these comments: [After reflecting about the success of BSkyB in Great Britain:] "Now, do something inexpensive with a 403 PPC and a DTV tuner with MorphOS (in this case) and you could have something quite special that can handle anything as well as everything retailing for 400-500 Euros at less that 25% of the cost. Sounds like something another BSkyB-like company might take a risk with? Yes, you bet!" "Everything we learned before collectively (VisCorp, PhaseV, bplan, Thendic, etc.) is coming to play today in Genesi for a very large company that wants to do exactly that." "Speaking of which there is a good article about Murdoch here. [...] BTW, This article should also be read by others who may be underestimating this DTV STB market at the price point we are delivering hardware to it (contrast that for example with the super STB from Pace at 350 £!)." "Our customer [...] has a pricing strategy that tells us they understand the market and their customers." "As far as we can tell, the BSkyB boxes in the UK are completely non-standard. They use WAP which may sound off the wall given it's designed for mobile phones but being designed for low end systems with low bandwidth makes it perfect for STBs. There's a lot of technology available now that supports WAP development. We actually will have a WAP stack/Browser ready." "Remember, we will not integrate the uplink initially to reduce cost (we will have a WAP portal for people to use mobile phones as an unlink though and a handy little connector to support that process). We have a phased modular strategy that adds functionality akin to the base station of a radio/remote phone designed normally for home use. The receiver chip for the radio signal will have been already introduced in the STB (as is found in the home handset associated with the base station that anchors the system in the home with power and telephone line connection -- incidentally overcoming the no telephone connection near the TV problem)." "On the smart card side, we will use them to unscramble parts of the signal already there. This can be done on a subscriber or pre-paid basis (for anonymity or one game at a time). The signal itself can also be data driven to individually addressable STBs. Here smart cards can be further used as recording devices. In our case viewing data can be exchanged for movie credits... Of course, this flexibility can be promotion/advertising oriented too..." (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Mar. 2003, 10:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Mar.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Amiga Inc.: Amiga Absence at CeBIT 2003 in Hannover Amiga Absence at CeBIT Mar 6, 2003 - Late last year, Amiga announced its intention to launch AmigaOS4.0 at the CeBIT show in Germany. Since then, the project has advanced into its final stages but unfortunately not to the point where we are ready to ship. We have thus decided not to attend the Cebit Germany show. Instead we are looking at other shows and opportunities in the near future to provide a suitable platform for the launch of the new Amiga. We apologize to the commmunity for waiting until the last possible moment to make this announcement but despite heroic efforts by all concerned, even up to the last minute, circumstances have conspired to push completion beyond the deadline. We have regretfully decided that making CeBIT Germany the AmigaOS 4 launch platform is not a realistic option at present. AmigaOS4.0 is coming. Beta-testing has been going on since last September, the Club Amiga Magazine is previewing many of the new features and AmigaOne integration is proceeding well. Amiga, Hyperion and Eyetech are 100% committed to getting the new platform out into the world and reintroducing the world to the pleasures of home computing. -- The Amiga Team (ps) [News message: 07. Mar. 2003, 09:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2003` heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Microsoft Has Abandoned the OpenGL Consortium On account of the apparently insufficiently future-oriented development of the 3D interface, Microsoft has abandoned the OpenGL Consortium, and wants concentrate exclusively on their house Direct3D standard. You'll find the heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Mar. 2003, 14:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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