21.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Update of dvdrtools
The dvdrtools, enabling the writing of DVDs under AmigaOS, are updated.
Now three more devices (e.g. the SCSI host of Cyberstorm/CyberstormPPC)
are supported.
Also an English version is available on the homepage.
The coder provides you with another archive on his homepage: In this version
you can set the device to use by the environment variable DVDRTOOLS_DEVICE yourself.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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20.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #057
Liquid Skies released number 57 of the so called music pack. It contains a song called 'Kukka' by the Finnish musician 'Tripper'.
Some details about the track:
- Title: Kukka
- Artist: Tripper
- Style: Instrumental Trance
- Duration: 3:37
- Format: mp3 (192kbps)
The compressed file can be found at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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20.Oct.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Event: Photos of the EAPP 2003
From 10th to 31st August 2003 the "Extreme Amiga Programming Party" (EAPP) took place in Weinheim. The aim of this event was the common programming of software. Many interesting and also funny snapshots of the event can be found at the title link.
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20.Oct.2003
Ron van Herk / Genesi
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Cyberstorm: Report on DCE repairs / MorphOS version at the end of this year
CyberStorm Warranty Repairs
As mentioned on the thread at Amiga.org earlier, all CyberStorm boards sent in under warranty will be replaced by new ones. The production of these is partly done, the PCB's are there with all lower part components fitted. The problem currently is the lack of availability of the right 68K sockets. The ones that were originally used for the Phase5 and later DCE productions were specially made for Phase5 and are no longer being manufactured. However, there are several investigations ongoing at other manufacturers to adapt existing (and available) connectors to be fitted to the CyberStorm PCB's. Once this is solved, the production will be completed and all involved will receive new CyberStorm cards under warranty.
Non-Warranty Repairs
All non-warranty repair customers should have had a price quote from me. The repairs that could be done have been completed and all cards have been sent back or will be sent back in the next week. There are also repairs that are pending awaiting CPU sockets (see above).
Non-Repairable Items
Repairs that could not be done have also been sent back or will be next week. Several cards have been sent back by DCE already, others will be returned by me from Rotterdam next week.
Other Factors
During investigating the whole repairs issue, several disturbing things have come to my attention. There are cases of repairs not being done because they have been submitted through a reseller that has had outstanding invoices for three years, and also cases where repairs were done and sent back to a reseller, who then sold them as new products. I will not disclose specific information but just wanted to state this in DCE's defence, they're not always the one to blame...
Genesi Gesture
As a gesture from Genesi, there will be a new release of MorphOS for 'classic Amiga' PowerPC cards available for free. The planned release is at the end of this year.
DCE and Genesi
Several people have opted their concern in the Amiga.org thread about possible future repairs at DCE for Genesi products. First of all, please consider that the Amiga repairs are a special situation and it is not common for repairs to take this long, not even for DCE. Furthermore, anyone buying a PegasosII is dealing with Genesi, not with DCE. If there is a case where a Genesi product needs repair or replacement, Genesi will see to it that it happens the right way and in a decent timeframe. For reference see our history with the mainboard exchanges for April and April2 fixed boards. These were made at DCE too!
Preliminary Conclusion
Apart from the wait for the right 68K sockets, most issues are either done or will be in the next week. There are however still some unallocated cards at DCE. Anyone that also thinks they have an outstanding repair at DCE and has not been in contact with me yet, please do so NOW, as we are working towards concluding the whole operation and at some point soon we will not take on any more investigations. If you have sent in your repair to a reseller be sure to mention which one explicitely.
Contact: rvanherk@nl.genesi.lu
Regards,
Ron van Herk
Genesi
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20.Oct.2003
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GUI-Development: Merlin 2
A.P.Spijkerman released a new version of his GUI-tool 'Merlin'. 'Merlin' lets you develop GUI frontends for ARexx or batch scripts.
Detailed information as well as screenshots can be found at the title link.
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20.Oct.2003
Christian Geier (E-Mail)
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Report from LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany
At the first LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany, on Oct. 18th, the Image_Installer team presented the Pegasos. We did not expect such a big success and were surprised by the scores of visitors crowding our stand who were interested in the system. They represented several platforms, from Amiga users to people using x86 systems.
One could test the system, and some visitors made use of the opportunity to install Mandrake 9.1 themselves on the Pegasos using the Image_Installer. They were surprised in a positive way and amazed how quick and easy the installation was finished. Also MorphOS didn't get a raw deal. The visitors tested the SuperBundle and were impressed by the speed of the system, despite just having a 600 MHz CPU.
When we had a little bit of time, Michael Heider of course continued to work on Image_Installer and removing bugs. We can say with quiet conscience that with version 2 of the Image_Installer an easy installation of PegXLin and Gentoo is possible. To the question if this version would also be free or enclosed with the Pegasos we had to answer "no" for the time being, since we don't know this ourselves yet.
At the KDE team one could see a pre-release of the new KDE 3.2. New applications were added as well as graphical improvements. Daniel Molkentin demonstrated among other things an Outlook clone and a faster webbrowser.
Also some people from the Debian team were there. They showed Debian 3.0 for the x86 platform and provided help to questions regarding installation and adjustment of Debian to x86 systems.
Bert Radke of the Jabber team showed the latest version of Jabber. One could get information how a Jabber server is build up and which advantages Jabber provides.
At IBM students could get information about new notebooks. Computers from desktops for the office to servers were shown by AMD, who also provided the Internet connection for the show.
Further small projects were free games for Linux and the topic "Linux at school and university" by the university of Dresden.
Furthermore the visitors could take part at an Install-Party during the whole day to solve problems.
Final preparations |
Erhard Bruse (front), Christian Geier (back) |
Preparations |
Erhard Bruse explains the Pegasos |
Michael Heider (back) shows den Image_Installer Version 2 |
KDE booth |
Debian booth |
User testing Image_Installer Version 2 |
Michael Heider |
Student installing Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo using Image_Installer Version 2 |
Michael Heider shows the possibilities of Image_Installer |
Student testing Image_Installer |
Michael Heider installing Gentoo using Image_Installer Version 2 |
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20.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packs until 19.10.2003
WHDLoad enables you to install floppy based games to your hard disk. The following packs were added or updated since our last report:
- 19.10.03 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) slave for
A4000 rom provided, floppy LED removed
- 19.10.03 new: Coma (Rebels) done by Psygore
- 19.10.03 new: Twisted (Polka Brothers) done by Psygore
- 19.10.03 updated: Digital Concert 6 (Flash Production) supports
another version (Info)
- 19.10.03 updated: Digital Concert 4 (Flash Production) supports
another version
- 19.10.03 improved: Thug Life (Essence) runs on CyberStorm PPC without
nocache option
- 19.10.03 new: Beast Sonix (Scoopex) done by Galahad
- 15.10.03 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog) CD³² version supported, now
uses kickstart images
- 12.10.03 new: Top Gear 2 (Gremlin Interactive) done by Galahad
- 10.10.03 fixed: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) debug code removed, reduced memory requirements
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20.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Premiere: Software with DVD-R/-RW support for AmigaOS
The programmer 'Schlonz' ported the Linux program 'dvdrtools' to the Amiga. For the first time it is now possible to burn DVD-R and DVD-RW discs with AmigaOS. 'dvdrtools' is a collection of four programs wich can be used with the shell. An ARexx-GUI for the main program 'dvdrecord' is included.
Additional details are to be found at the title link.
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18.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: anniversary action - 2 vouchers for Hollywood
Because of the 5th anniversary of the Amiga Arena there's another draw: in co-operation with Airsoft Softwair the Amiga Arena raffles off two vouchers for the multimedia program "Hollywood" worth 10,- Euro.
To win one of the vouchers please answer the following question:
Which presentation had been released some days ago by the Amiga Arena?
Please send the correct answer until October, 19th 2003 via email to Olaf Köbnik
of the Amiga Arena.
Further information about "Hollywood" can be found under
http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
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Pegasos II production started (update)
In a short comment at ANN have Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco announced the beginning of the production of Pegasos II boards at DCE in Oberhausen.
Update: On the pages of the MorphZone is a photo of a preseries version of the new board. Compared to the final version this one still shows a static RAM drive and a debug connector instead of the ATX connector.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
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OS4 on Tour: reports from Brisbane
Two members of the Amiga-Portal Amigaworld.net write under the title link their impressions of the first "OS4 on Tour" event in Australia. We have summarized the most important points for you in short:
- About 50 visitors (twice the number at a comparable event last year)
- Several AmigaOne computers had been shown - some running AmigaOS4, some with Debian-Linux (and MacOS X under MacOnLinux)
- Doug Moir (AnythingAmiga) introduced the AmigaOne-Lite though not running. According to Doug are already several programmers busy with the drivers development for this Mini ITX motherboard.
- A comprehensive seminar on the AmigaOne and OS4 had been held, there had been an IRC session with Fleecy Moss (Amiga Inc), too.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
point.design (ANF)
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AmigaOne OASE Special
Because of the O.A.S.E. Amiga fair in Austria taking place next week offers the organizing Amiga retailer point.design AmigaOne computers at special conditions.
- AmigaOne G4/XE boards at 849,90 EUR
- AmigaOne G3/XE boards at 769,90 EUR
Reservations can be done from now on under amiga.sales@pointdesign.at
. All prices include 20% VAT.
The boards are Early Bird systems and contain AmigaOS4 and LinuxPPC.
AmigaOS 4 will be delivered when released.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
Ingo Klotzsch (ANF)
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Amiga at the "Nexxt Generation" in Hannover...
At present is the information and sales fair "Infa" taking place in Hannover. Part of the special program of the "Infa" is the youth fair "Nexxt Generation" (17.10. - 19.10.2003) that offers among other things a big games LAN with expected 1300 participiants to come.
In a public area of the Nexxt Generation are old games arcades installed. amiga-news.de reader Ingo Klotzsch has
seen there the good old Amiga. Pictures of the event can be found following the title link.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2003
Stéphane Campan (email)
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MorphOS: software news
ADoom PPC
Nicolas Det has ported ADoomPPC to MorphOS. This version uses CybergraphX and AHI and can be downloaded from his website.
CDSpeedKiller
Also on his homepage you can find the tool "CDSpeedkiller" that slows down a CD/DVD drive and reduces its noise level this way.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Oct.2003
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GoldED: Update and special price offer
The text editor called GoldED Studio AIX which is also a text based HTML editor and integrated
developing system for C/C++ was updated and is available for a limited time for a special
price.
According to the author this is the first official version of GoldED studio which is
completely compatible with MorphOS. Even with the permission of Genesi the developing
material with the documentation was integrated in the C/C++ modus. If you are interested
in the further changes Dietmar Eilert points out to the history-file.
You can find screenshots of GoldED on the official website.
Examples: C/C++-modus, standard-configuration.
There is also a free version for editing smaller documents to give you the opportunity of
testing GoldED. You can download it here.
The "GoldED Studio AIX"-CD costs 69,90 Euro, updates CD 19,90 (without postage and delivery).
Because of the publishment of the new version you can buy GoldED Studio AIX for only
49,90 Euro for only few days. The delivery is for free in the EU.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
Martin "Skippa" Knott (ANF)
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Curious: Amiga-Shop on Mallorca?!
Martin Knott who is a reader of amiga-news.de reports: "During my summer holiday on Mallorca
I found in Port Andratx an
Amiga-shop.
The character of the text seemed to be authentic. Unfortunately there were only average
clouthing to buy... How it is possible to be mistaken..." (snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
Galileo Computing (ANF)
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Books for free
Under the title link Galileo Computing offers some (non Amiga-specific) computer-books
to download for free. The books are ZIP-packed HTML-files.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
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Software: Some new game ports for MorphOS
The Hungarian programmer "LouiSe" has ported some further games for MorphOS which you can
download from his website.
The author points out that the download could last because the server is an A4000-030/25.
The following titles were added:
LLL-1.4.tgz - Linux Lunar Lander
LSL-1.2.tgz - Linux Shuttle Lander
atakks-1.0.tgz - Cool Attaxx/Thromulus like logical game
atris-1.0.6.tgz - Nice tetris game
crimson-0.3.7.tgz - Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
deathchase3d-0.9.tgz - Like on ZX Spectrum!
digger-20020314.tgz - Some small bugs fixed
eggchess-1.1.tgz - Egg Chess v1.1
foosball-0.92.tgz - Table soccer (buggy yet)
lopan-0.9.tgz - Logical game
lsdldoom-1.4.4.4.tgz - Doom II game (some bugs fixed)
matchball-0.33b.tgz - Logical Game
mindless-1.0.0.tgz - A simple "MasterMind" like game
pipenightdreams-0.10.0.tgz - VERY COOL Piper game!
powermanga-0.78.tgz - Fast arcade game
puzzle-1.0.0.tgz - Very simple puzzle game
toppler-1.0.3.tgz - Tower Toppler a Nebulus clone
trailblazer-0.9.tgz - THE ball game :)
vectoroids-1.1.0.tgz - Shot the rocks
wakkabox-1.1.0.tgz - Logical game
Besides this there is a MadBomber-port of Kelly Samel on his website.
The game is based on "Kaboom!" which was originally written for Atari 2600.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Oct.2003
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[Removed] Information about (Classic) Mac Emulation under AmigaOS
The text of the news item that was previously here has been removed because the website in question had not-legal software on it. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Thomas "Gojira" Nosutta (ANF)
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Pictures and Video of Amiga Meeting 2003
Under the title link Thomas Nosutta of BAU (Berliner Amiga User) has put online a few of his impressions of Amiga Meeting 2003, which was also a BAU meeting. A short quote from Thomas:
"It was once again an absolutely lively fun experience inc. Quake2-Marathon. For those who prefer pictures, here's a film clip from the Pegasos exhibition on 11th October, 2003." (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Powerplay Test Reports from 1989
Today kultpower.de presents 22 new test reports from the April 1989 issue of Powerplay, sent in by Skyscraper:
Bomber Raid (Sega Master System), Cosmic Pirate (Amiga), Cyborg Hunter
(Sega Master System), F-16 Combat Pilot (MS-DOS), Ghost'n Goblins (NES),
Gold Rush (MS-DOS), Great Football (Sega Master System), Hard'n Heavy (C
64), Hot Chase (Automat), ISS (C 64), Jet Fighter (MS-DOS), Last Duel
(Amiga), Life Force (Salamander) (NES), NARC (Automat), Rally Bike
(Automat), Sword of Sodan (Amiga), Tankattack (C 64), The Deep (Amiga),
The Last Survivor (Automat), The Pawn, War in Middle Earth (CPC), Wayne
Gretzky Hockey (Amiga).
With this update kultpower.de has passed the milestone of 1,500 test report scans. And it won't stop now! :) (nba) (Translation: dm)
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