31.Dec.2003
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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Commodity: "MasterControlProgram" (MCP) v1.43
The infamous universal commodity "MCP" is available in a new version which is cleaned from several bugs.
The archive also contains a new version of the prefs program. The command "MCPAssigns"
offers two new options now: "Hold/Lock" and "Hold/Path"
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
MorphZone
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MorphZone: Update of the MWD (Morph Web Directory)
The Morph Web Directory (MWD) within the MorphZone has been updated.
Bifford also added some more "Webgrabs" - previews of the corresponding websites.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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Spontaneous Combustion: New Video Effects from DiscreetFX
Chicago, Illinois -- Dec 30, 2003 -- DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and MorphOS, releases the Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer/MorphOS version of Spontaneous Combustion.
DiscreetFX Releases Spontaneous Combustion; Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version. A New Real-Time Fire, Smoke & Explosion Effects Library and Digital Video Effects (DVE) collection.
Information about Spontaneous Combustion:
Spontaneous Combustion is selling for $129.95 but is available for the special price of $49.95 only till the end of 2003. Thats right we are still going to honor the PreOrder price even though it is now shipping but you have to hurry if your interested since this offer is only good until midnight December 31st 2003. We are even crazy enough to include Free Shipping. As many of you know Andy Panagouleas was hurt badly in August 2003. He has been stuck home these many months recovering and unable to go back to school. Andy asked to help with the development of this version of Spontaneous Combustion since he is a big Amiga and Video Toaster owner/fan. Andy's hard work helped get the product done in time for 2003 and he receives a % of all sales.
Spontaneous Combustion: The unofficial sequel to the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer version of Pyromania from Bill Panagouleas and Andy Panagouleas. In development for over two years Spontaneous Combustion gives you much more than just fire, explosion and smoke effects. Rendered on Silicon Graphics O2 and Octane systems @ 4000 X 4000 resolution and quadra down sampled to full overscan uncompressed D1 video (720 X 486), you won't have to sacrifice quality. More frames, more depth, more realism. Over 40 unique Real-time effects, many never before seen for any video editing system including Sexy Smoke, Ultimate Explosion, Big Shooting Star, Car Crash, Flame Columns, Streaking Comet, TNT, Detonate, Phlogiston and Apocalypse.
Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version includes.
- Forty Real-time Broadcast Quality Fire Effects in Amiga Video Toaster 4000 DVE format.
- Forty animated Video Toaster Flyer clip files that can be used for advanced Compositing with the Video Toaster Flyer, Lightwave ToasterPaint 4.0 or Aura.
- Forty animated Amiga Anim files that can be used as an overlay on video with any Amiga the has a Genlock. These Anim files can also be used under MorphOS or Amiga OS 3.1-4.0 with Amiga/ MorphOS animation software that supports the Anim standard like ImageFX 4.5 and others.
- Complete 24 bit IFF image sequences of all Real-time effects included. Can be used with any Amiga/ MorphOS software that supports IFF 24.
For more information please call toll-free at 1 (800) 852-0930 or send an e-mail to sales@discreetfx.com. Payments can also be sent via Paypal to sales@discreetfx.com.
If you wish to pay by check or none Paypal credit card you can, just contact us first toll-free at 1 (800) 852-0930 If you need our snail mail address it's at http://www.discreetfx.com/Contactinfo.htm.
Spontaneous Combustion includes a 100% Money Back Guarantee.
Please note Amiga/ Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version includes bonus features and unique content not found in the Windows version.
Spontaneous Combustion is the only new product released in 2003 for the Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer.
MorphOS is a new platform we are supporting, please let us know when ordering if you use MorphOS. If we get enough interest and support from MorphOS customers we will continue to support this new operating system.
More information and screenshots is also available at www.discreetfx.com/SpontCombustion.htm.
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates, NFL, Buffy the Vapire Slayer and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and many more!
Best regards
Bill Panagouleas
DiscreetFX
Founder/CEO
bill AT discreetfx DOT com
www.discreetfx.com (snx)
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31.Dec.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB stack: News from "Poseidon"
A new MorphOS-Version of Poseidon has been released and the documentation for the 68k-Version has been slightly updated. Chris Hodges writes:
"Good news everyone,
I just uploaded the binaries for the MorphOS version of Poseidon V2.2.
The archive is available as usually from my homepage.
This is an intermediate solution and laire doesn't like it, so if something
goes wrong, blame it on me and not the rest of the MorphOS team. Don't
hesitate to report any problems.
Installing it on MorphOS is a bit tricky, because some of the files are in
the "ROM" file, the bootimg. Therefore you have to add the following line
to the MOSSYS:S/Startup-Sequence file just, before the IPrefs command:
PoseidonROMUpdate
If you don't add this, the update will still work, but some components will
still remain as the old version, that was delivered with the MOS 1.4 ISO.
Also, avoid booting up with USB mass storage devices connected, because
this will inhibit the replacement of the class, as it will be in use by the
mounted partitions.
There is both an USB.mprefs update (available through the system prefs), as
well as the stand-alone Trident program, compiled for PPC. Use whatever you
prefer. Trident has more features though ;-}}}}
I've also updated the V2.2 archive a bit, there was some old information in
the registration forms (and I've also added the missing SWIFT and BIC codes
for international money transfer).
That's it for now. Have a nice time and happy new year. Thanks for your
support!"
(cg)
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30.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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IRCNews: show Amiga News in AmIRC
Dave "Targhan" Crawford has developed an ARexx-script, which can show the latest headlines of
amiga-news.de, amiga.org, morphzone.org and morphos-news.de in AmIRC. This script
needs the rxsocket.libary.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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30.Dec.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #063
The scene group Liquid Skies has published today their 63rd Musicpack. It contains the track "Catwalk" of the musician Tripper.
This track is a synthetic pop. The belonging cover comes from Angeldust.
- Title: Catwalk
- Musician: Tripper
- Style: Synthpop
- Runtime: 5:08
- Format: mp3 (@160kbps)
- Size: 5.9 MB
You can find the zipped file for downloading under the title link. Also the team is wishing a Happy New Year.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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30.Dec.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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AmigaClub SH: User-/Hardware meeting 1-2004
The Amigaclub Schleswig Holstein is publishing in teamwork with the promoter of the computer museum in Kiel e.V.
an Amiga (and Pegasos/Amithlon) hardware meeting.
The meeting is Saturday, the 17th January 2004 at 14 o'clock at the mediendom in the technical college in Kiel.
You can get more information at Informationen
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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30.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Pegasos II: Benchmark results for the 68k emulation (Update)
MorphOS-News.de has published the following benchmark results by Harry 'Piru' Sintonen. He tested the 68k emulation on a Pegasos II with 1GHz G4 processor, 512MB DDR-400 RAM and a Radeon 8500LE graphics card under MorphOS:
Voxelspace Demo (with and without JIT emulator):
320x240: ~500-540fps (with JIT)
320x240: ~85fps (without JIT)
640x480: ~150fps (with JIT)
pixelOmania (with JIT):
Time elapsed: 0.040433 seconds
Mandel (with JIT): 0.29 sec
julia_fpu (with JIT): 2.53 sec
c2ptest (with JIT): 0.35 sec
demoeffect (with JIT): 442.80 fps
You can download the Mandel, julia_fpu, c2ptest and demoeffect benchmarks at the Petunia website.
Update: (31.12.2003, 11:01, snx)
Meanwhile, MorphOS-News.de prepared further benchmarks done by Gunne Steen published them in the forum of MorphZone:
The tests were done using the RC5DES program and either the 68k-JIT of MorphOS or PPC-native software (PUP/WUP client) on a Pegasos II G4/1GHz.
68k results (with JIT):
OGR: Benchmark for core #4 (GARSP 5.13 68060): 2,740,713 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #1 (MH 2-pipe 68000/040/060): 2,447,018 keys/sec
PowerUP client (without Altivec support):
OGR: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 5.13 PPC-scalar): 12,475,677 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #3 (MH 2-pipe): 3,866,164 keys/sec
WarpUp client (without Altivec support):
OGR: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 5.13 PPC-scalar): 12,841,769 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #3 (MH 2-pipe): 3,866,640 keys/sec
You can find further information in the original thread at MorphZone.
Update 2: (31.12.2003, 17:17, snx)
As David Scheibler informed us, Harry 'Piru' Sintonen meanwhile also got the following RC5 results with Altivec support. He used a not yet released MorphOS-native client on a Pegasos II G4/1GHz.
MorphOS client (with Altivec support):
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #7 (KKS 7450): 10,678,428 keys/sec
For comparison he does, among others, also list an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (Palomino) with 2200 MHz - its result: 8,462,352 keys/sec. (snx)
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29.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Video/Audio-clips of a speech by Alan Redhouse' in Bath
There are some additional video and audio clips of the speech of Alan Redhouse of Eyetech held at the OS4-On-Tour-Exhibition in Bath available. These new audio clips have a higher quality than the ones published shortly after the speech.
Download:
WMV (33 MB)
Real (27 MB)
MP3 (11 MB, only audio)
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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29.Dec.2003
Stavros (Forum)
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Homebanking: compatibility list for Amiga-Browser
Stavros, an amiga-news.de reader, is offering a list of homebanking sites which can be used with Amiga browsers. The new update takes IBrowse 2.3 into account, too.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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29.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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Mr. Hardware publishes photos of the Micro-A1
Under the title link, Mr. Hardware published some photos of the new Micro-A1 mainboard together with its specifications and a few questions and answers.
Users from the New York area can have a look at it themselves at the meetings of the LICA (Long Island Computing Amigans), each third Friday a month. (snx)
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29.Dec.2003
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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Server-move of Virus Help Team
Due to a server move the URL www.vht-dk.dk is currently not available. According to the carrier it will be back online within seven days. If you are looking for information about or of the Virus Help Team please use the alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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29.Dec.2003
bplan GmbH (E-Mail)
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Pegasos II: Urgent Firmware update necessary! (Update)
As bplan GmbH announces, the version of the Open Firmware shipped with the Pegasos II is faulty! Before you make any changes using setenv, you have to update your Open Firmware!
You can find the needed update at http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/update_e.html.
Update: (29.12.03, 18:29, snx)
Under the title link now you also can find a way how to make an affected system bootable again. (snx)
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29.Dec.2003
A/NES CGX homepage
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Emulator: Future of A/NES CGX uncertain
From the A/NES CGX website:
That's nice. If I get this bounch of e-mail each time I kill a project (amiga-news.de reported), I should start killing projects more often. :-)
So, what's up now, a few of you asked. To be honest, I am not quite sure really. Time will tell if I decide to start working on something new.
And can someone PLEASE hurry up those guys and make AmigaOS4 run on BlizzardPPC soon :) I'm pretty tired of talking to AmigaOS4 beta testers (have you noticed, they're obviously everywhere), I want to try the OS myself. :p (snx)
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29.Dec.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Source code of 2D-Adventures "Patrimonium" now freely available
The programmers of Chuck Team released their 2D adventure 'Patrimonium' for Windows based computers. For encouraging other developers the team also released the complete source code of the game at the 'Patrimonium' homepage.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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29.Dec.2003
Diverse
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Short software news (29.12.2003) (Update)
The following applications and updates were released over the last few weeks:
Update: (29.12.2003, 17:45,cg)
Amendment: There is now new version of vbcc (see below) available, but a new version of the PosixLib for vbcc.
AmigaMARK
Version 1.001 of AmigaMARK, a benchmark program, is now available for AmigaOS Classic and MorphOS.
Chromium
The French developer SixK released a port of the shoot'em'up Chromium (v0.9.12) for AmigaOS. The game is using OpenGL.
GameIcons 2003
The archive GameIcons 2003 contains 275 icons, 150 of them are new.
HSC
Matthias Bethke released version 0.930 of the HTML preprocessor 'HTML Sucks Completely' (HSC). The source code can be compiled on every supported OS, these are Linux, HP/UX 10.20 and AmigaOS. A HTML program documentation is available, too. Furthermore the archive contains current Prefs and macro files.
ilbmdtPPC
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.11 of 'ilbmdtPPC', an ILBM-PPC-Datatype for displaying IFF-ILBM-pictures on WarpUP.
Changes:
fixed decoding of truecolor images with alpha
Software by Diego Casorran
Diego "dcr85020" Casorran released ports of the following programs: OpenSSH v3.7.2p2, bzip2 v1.0.2, NetPBM v10.18.4, OpenSSL v0.9.7c, UnRAR v3.30b3, Wget v1.9.1 und cURL v7.11-BETA.
vbcc
A new version of PosixLib for 'vbcc', a portable ISO C compiler by Frank Willes, is now on hand. PosixLib emulates important POSIX functions not available in the vbcc C library.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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27.Dec.2003
ANN (comments)
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Pegasos 2: First user report
Treveur "Nowee" Bretaudiere has released a short report about the Pegasos 2 he received:
My Pegasos 2 finally arrived this morning, in its nice protective box, along with its 1 GHz G4 CPU
module, the MorphOS installation CD, two booklets, and a backplane.
The two documentations are very clear. A VERY simple booklet, written in English, French and German,
explains how to install both MorphOS and the computer itself, whilst the other, in German, is a
fairly detailed technical documentation, with ports description and such.
The motherboard in itself is very well made, and once filled with a DDR 333 memory module and my radeonVE,
booted MorphOS 1.4.1 without any problem straight from my DVD burner.
I'm still astonished by the speed difference between my already fast Pegasos 1 and the Pegasos 2.
The G4 behaves very well, the stability so far seems okay, the computer sound is perfect. Ambient
opens a 300+ files folder in less than a second (!). I performed many MD5 sums test over 800 mb files
and no problem occured.
As for the installation process, it was especially simple for me that already had MorphOS 1.4. I simply
copied the boot.img from the supplied CD to my MorphOS partition, rebooted, and typed 'boot hd:0 boot.img' (Where 0 is the partition number of my hard disk).
For someone that would prefer a clean installation, though, there is a slight problem: the install
script checks for a bad MD5 sum. The solution here is to copy the installation script in ram, and remove
the MD5 check with ed. Another solution, even simpler, copy the whole CD to the freshly formatted HD.
The problem was already known and a fix should be available already.
Finally, it makes several hours the computer is turned on, I had no crash so far. Compatibility seems
to be perfect with the Pegasos 1, without the bugs of its predecessor.
My comment:
It's been so many years we've been expecting a G4 Amiga compatible system,
I think the product fulfills more than a necessity. It's a dream come true.
Nowee^SKT
(snx)
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27.Dec.2003
Vinnny (ANF)
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Anniversary: Russian AIC online for four years
The news and information resource for Russian Amiga users Amiga Information Center is online now for four years.
Since 1999 the site's two administrators - Efim Shuvikov (site developer and maintainer) and Vlad Vinogradov (news editor and content manager) - published more than 5200 news and have welcome more than 650 registered users. (snx)
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26.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Audio-Sequencer: HD-Rec Update (MOS fix)
On download site
of HD-Rec which is an audio- and MIDI-sequencer for
AmigaOS there is an update for the version 0.9beta. The update fixes some bugs
which occured under MorphOS - HD-Rec should now run perfectly on a Pegasos.
The author asks for other bug reports if you should find some ones.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion and Metropolis announce AmigaOS 4 version of Gorky 17
Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis announce an AmigaOS4 version of Gorky17:
"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003
Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis Software have extended their existing license agreement for "Gorky 17", Metropolis' critically acclaimed RPG/Strategy title, to cover not only Linux but also the upcoming AmigaOS 4.
Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game mixing elements of strategy and RPG gameplay. The player commands a small group of NATO soldiers who must reveal the mystery behind the sudden appearance of hybrid creatures in a small Polish city named Lubin. The city is being terrorized, the area is surrounded by NATO troops and media from all over the world, and the first group sent into the city disappears without a trace. The main hero of the story is the 40-year old soldier Cole Sullivan, a commando team member with extensive scientific knowledge. His team's task: to explain the hybrids' presence and to find the missing members of Group One. But that, of course, is just the beginning...
The AmigaOS 4.0 port is already well under way as can be seen on the
screenshots published with this press release.
The Amiga and Linux ports are being carried out by Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies who are recent "converts" to the Amiga platform after they recently joined the Hyperion Entertainment game development team.
Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies have an impressive track-record in the field of Linux (gaming) related development."
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion announce "AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release" CD for early 2004
Hyperion Entertainment announce the release of an AmigaOS 4.0 pre-release for all current AmigaOne owners for early 2004:
"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003
Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4.0 development team are pleased to announce that OS4 development has now sufficiently advanced for a comprehensive Developer Pre-release of Amiga OS 4.0 to be distributed to all current AmigaOne owners shortly after the New Year.
In view of the fact that quite a few of you reminded us that you do not have broadband internet access, the original idea to offer an initial version of OS 4.0 for download was abandoned in favor of an "easy to install", self-contained distribution on CD.
Whilst this will obviously entail more cost to Hyperion and require more time for duplication and distribution, the upside is that we will be able to provide developers with everything they need to start developing for OS 4.0.
The developer material will include sample source-code, an initial version of the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK as well as native OS 4.0 compilers (GCC 2.95.3, GCC 3.4 and VBCC) and cross-compilers for various platforms (Linux x86/PCC, Mac OS X etc.).
The Developer Pre-release will require an upgrade of the AmigaOne firmware which was bumped from U-Boot 0.1.1 to U-Boot 1.0 and which is currently undergoing final testing.
Further details will be announced shortly.
Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4 development team would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your continued support and patience.
The fact that you are still here, 10 years after the demise of Commodore, has been a tremendous encouragement to us during these 2 years of laborious development.
Make no mistake: your patience will finally be rewarded with the fastest and most powerful incarnation of AmigaOS ever.
Merry X-mas and a prosperous 2004 to all of you!"
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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