09.Jan.2004
Anonym (ANF)
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Print magazine: Pegasos2-article in "WCM"
An article about Genesi and its Pegasos2-mainboard has been published in the Austrian
PC-magazine called WCM (issue 2/04, page 17). Furthermore you can read there about
the co-operation with IBM concerning the successor with G5-CPU. You can read the full
article under the title link (in German).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Medusa USB Bundle available
IOSPIRIT announces the immediate availability of Medusa USB, a driver
package enabling the use of OnBoard- and PCI-USB-controllers under
Amithlon and other supported PCI-solutions.
Medusa USB contains full versions of the USB-stack Poseidon, the
PCI-USB-driver ArakAttack and special full versions of the IOUSB DigiCam
and IOUSB Scanner packages.
Medusa USB enables users of Amithlon and other supported hardware, to
completly avoid the purchase and installation of additional USB-hardware
and instead make use of already existant OnBoard-controllers, thereby
saving precious PCI-slots.
About Poseidon
The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the
possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with USB
interface. It is intended to be a solution for all systems.
Poseidon has a modular design that fits into the AmigaOS environment very
neatly. It is no port of an existing system (like the Linux USB stack),
but has been created with the unique features of AmigaOS in mind that make
the operation system so efficient. Already in 2002 Poseidon received the
Amiga Award as best Amiga software.
About ArakAttack
ArakAttack is a USB driver-package for Poseidon, with which USB shall be
made possible on every PCI-capable AmigaOS. The supported standards
currently include UHCI and OHCI. Nearly every PCI-USB-board or
USB-OnBoard controller are compatible with one of these standards. A list
of already tested devices can be found in the respective subpages of the
Medusa USB product pages.
About IOUSB Scanner and DigiCam Package
As a bonus, the IOUSB packages, which for the first time allow the use of
USB-scanners and -digicams, are contained in special SE-versions (equal to
the full versions in functionality). However, since it's a free bonus and
testing with all possible hardware combinations was impossible, these
SE-versions come without support and functional guarantee.
Compatibility
ArakAttack usually should work with every OnBoard- and PCI-controller
supported by PowerPCI (Amithlon) and OpenPCI. Nonetheless, it is possible
that in certain constellations and especially with PCI-solutions not, not
fully or not error-free supported by OpenPCI (Mediator, Prometheus,
G-Rex), there can be compatibility problems. It is thus recommended
to download the demo versions of Poseidon and ArakAttack and to test it
for compatibility with the hardware in use prior to the purchase.
Availability
Medusa USB is immediately available as download version for 34.99 EUR and
as package version (with certificate) for 44.99 EUR. Dealer inquiries
desired. (nba)
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09.Jan.2004
Orbiter on Scenet (Website)
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Event: AmigaOS 4.0 at Compusphere 14
The ACGGbg will participate in the this year`s Compusphere 14 in Sweden and will present
AmigaOS 4.0. At this event a presentation of the operating system with its news and several
applications and of an AmigaOne will be shown.
The Compusphere 14 will take place from 13th until 15th February 2004 in the
Älvsjöstrandens restaurant in Göteborg.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
Scenia (Website)
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Grapevine-Team searches Amiga-developer
A community of developers, editors and readers of the legendary diskmag "Grapevine"
is going to reanimate it. Therefore a developer is searched who can program a
diskmag engine for AmigaOS. If you are interested in then please write a mail to
Nico Barbat.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
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New opinion poll: Amiga "unword" of year 2003
We have gone through twelve exciting months. amiga-news.de wants you to participate in
a new opinion poll:
Choose the Amiga "unword" of the year 2003!
You can choose between the following names:
- Articia-Bug
- Insolvency
- Platform-change
- Troll
- T-Shirt
- "Abzocke" (to rip sb off)
- When it's done
- FUD
Have fun! You can read the results here.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Crystal Symphonies 1 & 2 added
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) can present some new productions:
The legendary sound disks "Crystal Symphonies" by Phenomena, Scoopex and Rebels
from 1991 with music by Mantronix und Tip as well as "Crystal Symphonies 2" by
Phenomena from 1992 have been added. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
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Amazon changes partner program
Amazon cancels the classic partnership program with 15%. According to that
direct links can only achieve 7,5% instead of 15%. This effects several
Amiga homepages as affiliate-partner and amiga-news.de, too.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Amiga.org Soon To Go Temporarily Offline
Sometime between Friday, January 9th and Monday, January 12th, the Amiga portal amiga.org will be taken offline for an unspecified time to accomplish maintenance and upgrades. During this time, and for a while afterwards, e-mail forwarding will not work. They report they've been planning these actions for quite a while, but the changes are quite in-depth, and prone to error.
Contrary to circulating rumor, Amiga.org is not being retired at this time. They state they will be back ASAP. More information about the changes and new features will be made available after their return to service. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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AROS: Poll About Desired Hardware
Under the title link you'll find a survey that those responsible from Team
AROS are trying to find out what potential AROS users want. Would you rather run AROS on high performance hardware, or the quietest hardware, or the cheapest hardware? (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #064
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 64th music pack yesterday. It contains a trance track named "Beautiful Morning" from musician Maxus. The cover is by DaFreak.
Title: Beautiful Morning
Musician: Maxus
Style: Trance
Song lenth: 3:49
Format: mp3 (@160kbps)
Size: 4.5 MB
The zipped file is available under the title link as a free download. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)
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BTTR: Previously missing HD-Games added
The BTTR-Team writes: Although already announced in our Christmas update
we forgot to add 20 new HD-Games into our database.
This mistake has been fixed today, so if you already
downloaded all files of the update then please check
the HD-Games link on the news page for the previously
missing files.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but imagine, we added
3890 entries and more than 25GB of new files with the
last update (that's about the size of entire Aminet),
so the error ratio isn't that bad. ;-) (nba)
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08.Jan.2004
Ulrich Panzer (E-Mail)
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T.o.T.: Amiga Version 0.51 R1
A new version of Tales of Tamar appeared this year. There have been some more improvements since the last update.
[Extremely long list of itemized changes not translated from German. Click on the title link for the ToT homepage]
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Jan.2004
MorphZone (website)
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Spanish manual for the Pegasos II available
Thanks to Juan Carlos Marcos Rodríguez, now also a Spanish version of the Pegasos II manual is available. Furthermore he did not just translate the text but also he prepared an HTML document and reworked the figures. The archive (202 KB) can be downloaded from MorphZone. (snx)
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07.Jan.2004
exotiC (ANF)
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People: What happend to Sam Jordan?
Our reader exotiC found Sam Jordan's (WarpUP, Warp3D) home page.
There he gives some views to his new life as well as something about his Amiga history.
In autumn 2001 Sam Jordan bought a Mac. The current Amiga situation he describes as follows:
"I didn't follow the development of the Amiga since the century change, but some brief research let me conclude that
the Amiga market is not existing any more and activities went down to a minimum."
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
SixK (Website)
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Two new MorphOS games by SixK
The French developer SixK has released two new ports for MorphOS:
Supertux
(v0.0.5) is a Mario clone based on SDL,
VirusKiller
is a new shooter which is available in version 0.1.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Internet sales suspended until 15-25 February
As Genesi announce on their website, the Internet sales are suspended until 15-25 February.
Pegasos I upgrades will be handled by any of the resellers listed on PegasosPPC.com as Pegasos II boards become available. Pegasos I boards will now be resold for 149 Euros for the Pegasos I April 2. If you purchased your Pegasos I from Genesi directly, the boards should be returned to the US office if you reside in North America and to a TBD (To Be Determined) location for all other customers.
The Phoenix Phreeboard Program will commence 25 February 2004 and feature the Pegasos I April 1 board. Please see details at the Phoenix Developer Consortium.
Resellers have until 25 February 2004 to place their next orders. Orders received at this time will be produced the first week of March and shipped by 15 March 2004. After this production the next Pegasos II production is scheduled for the last week of April 2004. (snx)
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07.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Freeware game: "2 Pairs 2 Furious Deluxe"
A reworked version of the "Memory" clone "2 Pairs 2 Furious" is
available now. The author promises new levels, additional skins
and "some several more improvements". The game should work on every Amiga
with gfx card.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Pegasos 2 Reviews (Update)
By the title link there is a summary by amiga.org reader "Takemehomegrandma" of his experience
with the "Pegasos 2" motherboard available.
Update: (07.01.2004, 17:45, cg)
A German report of his experience by
our reader Granada is available within the forum.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Assembler: ASM-One V1.48 Rev. 482 released
The assembler ASM-One is now a vailable as
V1.48 Rev. 482
(302 KB) which is a bugfixed new beta version. Kickstart 2.x, ReqTools
and ASL are required. Further information in English is available at the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: URL reachable again
After the hard disk failure and due to this the offline time of the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware"'s domain (we
reported
the page is now reachable again.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages until 7th January 2004
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games to hard disk which were initially intended for floppy disk usage. Since the last
report the following packages were added or updated:
- 06.01.04 new: Barbarian (Palace)
- 04.01.04 new: Life & Death (Software Toolworks/Mindscape)
- 04.01.04 fixed: Dune (Cryo)
- 04.01.04 improved: Bubble And Squeak (Audiogenic)
- 03.01.04 fixed: Knights of the Sky (Microprose)
- 03.01.04 improved: Alien Breed 2 (Team 17)
- 02.01.04 new: Road Blasters (US Gold)
- 02.01.04 new: Sword (Serio-Comic)
- 02.01.04 new: Que? (The Black Lotus)
- 01.01.04 new: California Games (Epyx/Westwood Associates)
- 30.12.03 new: World Games (Epyx/Westwood Associates)
- 30.12.03 fixed: Shaft 7 (Bomb)
- 30.12.03 new: 7 Colors (Infogrames)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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