14.Jun.2003
SWAUG (ANF)
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SWAUG: Amiga OS 4.0 questions for Thomas Frieden
The users group SWAUG has asked Thomas Frieden some questions about AmigaOS 4. Following the title link you'll find the English questions and answers.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Official AmigaOS 4 screenshots
Following the title link you'll find five new official screenshots of AmigaOS 4.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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13.Jun.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: eFlash Memory for Amiga
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga
computers, is proud to announce two new products:
- eFlash 4000 Zorro III card
- eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card
eFlash 4000 is an autobooting Zorro III card with 1MB (one Megabyte)
of FlashROM memory with extremely fast 32-bit long words access.
The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs, which are run at
the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI
cards installed in Mediator-equipped A3000 and A4000 computers before
the AmigaOS system starts. As a result, computer may be booted from
mass storage devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g.
Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards. The users of the new Amiga
operating system--AmigaOS4.x--will have an additional benefit:
the eFlash 4000 card will give them a possibility of definite
shortening of the system's start time by executing the AmigaOS code
from the FlashROM memory.
FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 4000 cards allows 100,000
erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with
hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming
and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative
batch of programs stored in the eFlash 4000 memory.
eFlash 1200 is an autobooting PCMCIA card with 1MB (one Megabyte)
of FlashROM memory. The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs,
which are run at
the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI
cards installed in Mediator-equipped A1200 computers before the
AmigaOS system starts. As a result, the computer may be booted
from mass devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g.
Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards.
FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 1200 cards allows 100,000
erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with
hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming
and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative
batch of programs stored in the eFlash 1200 memory.
Pricing and availability
The eFlash 4000 Zorro III card will be on sale beginning
with 15 July 2003 at the suggested retail price of only
EUR 35.95 (VAT excl.). The eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card will be on
sale beginning with 15 August 2003 at the suggested retail price of
only EUR 29.95 (VAT excl.).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jun.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N° 39
Issue 39 of the AmigaOS/MorphOS magazine Obligement is now available. You
can read in this issue: report of the Huno Party 2003, Interview of David
Gerber and Nicolas Sallin (from Genesi), interview of Emmanuel Rey (from
Relec), review of VHI Studio 6, review of Birdie Shoot, review of Knights
and Merchants, article about MorphOS 1.3 (very complete!) and AmiNetRadio,
hardware with AmigaOne XE G4 and USB keys, and other interesting articles.
(ps)
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13.Jun.2003
MorphOS News (ANF)
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Demoscene selections done
Decisions have been made. The competition was so tight, the last two
remaining Pegasos-system winners were elected by asking several people
about their opinions. Sorry for the ones who were left out, there were many who would have deserved one, but we tried to make the best selections based on several things, past success and current activity being the most important ones.
The people who will get a loaned Pegasos and participate to the
democompetition are:
- Creative Minds
- DCS
- Floppy
- Ephidrena
- Haujobb
- Iris
- Loonies
- MFX
- Potion
- TBL
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jun.2003
KDH Datentechnik (ANF)
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Tomorrow: 'OS4.0 on Tour' in Augsburg
The 'OS4.0 on Tour' will be take place on Saturday 14th June 2003 from 10.00am to
8.00pm in Augsburg in the club rooms of Amiga Club Augsburg.
The newest pre-version will be presented by Jürgen Schober, Point-Design, Austria.
Some developers of Hyperion will be present such as Steffen Häuser, Hans-Jörg Frieden
and Thomas Frieden. The members of the Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik will
demonstrate some AmigaOne with Debian Linux. Michael Böhmer from E3B
will demonstrate the newest member of the USB-family, the USB-controller Algor.
Jens Schönfeld from individual Computers
will demonstrate the new C-One and will also
give advice you to all of his products.
AmigaOne boards and equipment as well as several 'OS4.0 On Tour' merchandise products
can be bought on the stand of KDH Datentechnik.
New screenshots of OS4.0 will be available here on Saturday:
On the AmigaOS-website, at
Amiga World and at
Virtual Dimension Multimedia Produktionen.
Pictures of this event will be published here:
At Amiga Club Augsburg and at
KDH Datentechnik.
The Amiga Club Augsburg will also produce a video about this event. We will inform you
about the corresponding link.
Pictures via Livecam you can find here.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jun.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)
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Update of the VirusZ III Antivirus Bootdisk
The VirusZ III bootdisk has been updated and is available for download as of 7th June, 2003.
Available at:
VHT Kanada
VHT Netherlands und
VHT at Yahoo
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Jun.2003
Motorola GmbH (E-Mail)
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Motorola: The Handy Turns 20
The mobile telephone has turned 20 years old. Since the 1983 introduction of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the cellphone has turned from the prestigious posession of executives to the constantly present tool for everyman. Few other inventions have changed life so much in the last two decades.
Note from translator: the article goes on into a long German language history of the cellphone. If desired, you may copy the address of the amiga-news.de German language article (http://www.amiganews.de/de/news/AN-2003-06-00096-DE.html) into an automatic translation service, such as that found at http://www.altavista.com by clicking on the "translate" link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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12.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Java.net - Comprehensive Open Source Platform for Java
»James Gosling has announced begun a new development platform
With java.net Sun has started a new website, which groups together information, code and communications possibilities for Java developers, including Wikis and Blogs. This new Java-oriented open source community has been announced by James Gosling, the "father" of Java. Sun themselves have provided a few million lines of code to the new community.«
Read the complete article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Jun.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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Partners of 'AmigaOS4.0 on Tour' 2003 in Basel
For the first presentation of AmigaOS4.0 on Tour 2003 in Basel - 21th June,
the local AUGS club and the
B&S Digitronic reseller
are happy to confirm you already the participation of:
The German AmigaOS4/AmigaOne presentations will be translated in English and
in French.
More information: http://www.augs.ch/amigaone/
In French: http://www.augs.ch/amigaone/fr.html
(With online subscription. Very important for the restaurant reservation).
Don't miss this great event and come to Basel with us! :-)
Basel, the ideal swiss city at the German and French borders.
(ps)
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12.Jun.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood 1.5 released
The long awaited, major update 1.5 for Hollywood was released today.
Because of the great new features and the long development time, there
is an update fee of $22 USD (only for users, who bought Hollywood before
April 1st 2003). Hollywood 1.5 is available in an AmigaOS 68k version as
well as in a native MorphOS PowerPC version. Many new features have
been added to Hollywood 1.5, here are some of the most important:
- Support for multiple graphics layers
- Full control of layer position, size, transparency and light setting
- 68k version can also create MorphOS executables now and vice versa
- Over 50 new impressing transition effects (totalling in over 100 now!)
- Integrated image-processor that supports: Rotation, color inverting, gray scaling,
axis flipping, texturing, mixing, lighten, darken, scale, stretch and tinting
- Support for Intellifonts
- All audio output is retargetable through AHI including full channel mixing and 16-bit stereo audio
- Full control over master volume
- Possibility to limit maximum number of frames per second
- Windows can have a dynamic transparency
- Joystick support!
- Powerful object animation functions
- Off-screen rendering
- New GUI
- Over 80 other useful new functions! (totalling in over 240 now!)
- Many new impressing example programs
Malibu, the Scala plugin for Hollywood 1.5, will be released in a few days. You can
already order it in a bundle with Hollywood 1.5 and save some money. Malibu is also
available in an AmigaOS 68k version as well as in a MorphOS. Please have a look at
the product pages of Malibu and Hollywood to get the ultimate overview over both products.
(ps)
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12.Jun.2003
Maja (ANF)
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TweakPC: Microsoft Purchases RAV AntiVirus from GeCAD
Microsoft takes the virus protection of their own operating systems in hand. After this takeover, the developers will work on an integrated virus protection for Windows. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jun.2003
heise Newsticker / B. Lindner (ANF)
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heise: GIF soon free of patents?
The heise article features the fact that on the 20th June 2003 one of the moste hated
software patents (US patent 4,558,302), the "GIF patent"
by Unisys, will expire.
The complete article (German) is to read by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Golem IT-News (ANF)
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Golem: WLAN for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and fellows
»SMC introduces Ethernet to WLAN Box
SMC Networks have introduced a new device of their EZ Connect WLAN product family with that
ethernat capable devices are enhancable with WLAN features.
The SMC2671W adaptor works within the 2.4-GHz band with a maximum bandwidth.
of 11Mb/s.«
Read the full article (German) by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)
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Elektroniknet: QNX realtime platform to download free of charge
»QNX Software Systems are offering developers their QNX realtime platform for a download free of charge.
This offer is valid for all users who will not use the system commercially i. e it's intended for
prototyping, test issues or private use. With the download developers get a full working version of the QNX
realtime OS
including the complete suite with QNX OS moduls like the microkernel, data system, network manager etc. Included is
a GNU tool chain, a code generating
application builder, the Photon microGUI windowing system, Internet and
multimedia applications, hundreds of utilities and source code for many
applications, drivers and libraries.«
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)
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Elektroniknet: PCI architecture documentation
»Wanted: The optimum PCI interface
Additionally to the article set of electronics (starting with issue 11/98, see page 107)
about state machines and PLD programming of a PCI interface this document includes a full documentation
for the PCI architecture as a word.doc file.
(Freeware, German)« (ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)
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ELektroniknet: How costless is Linux?
»The experience of an independant software developer
A little bit costless? Or not free at all? During a Linux project there arrive many obstacles which are invisible in
the beginning.
This lesson an independent software developer had to experience personally.«
Here are some extracts from the article which is readable by the title link (German):
- "I just finished to install embedded Linux on a PowerPC system; That opend my eyes. [...]"
- "After some months our hardware was stable, our Linux port too and the application was more or less ready to use [...]"
- "Is embedded Linux the potential to grow? Sure at least. Is it really costless? No way. [...]"
- "Embedded Linux is real, it's capable to grow but it is not gratis.
It is easy to get attracted by embedded Linux but then you will soon find yourself within the operating system support
business rather than in the application development. Would I chose Linux again? Yes I would but this time with a seeing eye from the start.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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AmiZilla Website gets a major update
The Amizilla site has been updated.
- New! AmiZilla Mascot by Eric Schwartz now online.
Thank you Eric for all the hard work and effort you put into
designing her.
- NEW! AmiZilla FAQ Update
- NEW! Hot CoCo briefly announced. This project will kick off after
AmiZilla is a success. Info about it is in the AmiZilla FAQ.
- New! AmiZilla Guidelines, thank you Targhan for coming up with most
of the AmiZilla guidelines.
- New! Amiga Arena interview now on the AmiZilla website for easy reading.
- New! AmiZilla Mailing List has over 119 members and over 120 messages.
Messages are not about basket weaving they are about coding. Keep in
mind this mailing list is less than 3 weeks old.
- Booty now @ $3696.
Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful.
The booty is almost @ $4000 which is a nice amount of money. If only
one programmer was working on the port this would be a nice reward.
However several programmers are working together. Once money is split
among coders the booty is not big enough. Please contribute if you can,
every dollar helps motivate programmers to make the AmiZilla Project
a success.
About AmiZilla
The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount
of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla
to Amiga/Compatible systems that programmers will be falling over themselves
getting this application coded in record time.
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing
& computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga
computer defined and created the video editing, computer graphics market
with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects
seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel,
Shipmates and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the
following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and more!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Sound card: New delfina.library beta version
The new version of the delfina.library now supports the sound card on the clockport of the Highway USB card by E3B. Unfortunately, the clockport of the Highway card is not 100% identical with the clockport of the A1200 motherboard, so proper function is not ensured in all cases. Please report any problems.
Download:
delflib416b44.lha (22KBytes) (nba)
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10.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #039
The scene group Liquid Skies published their 39th music package of their series. For this time it contains a Goa/Acid-Stil Tune called
"Goo:Astral" from the musician Ritzu. The cover was styled by Subass (an ex-member of the scenegroup Vortex)
- Title: Goo:Astral
- Artist: Ritzu
- Style: Goa
- Play length: 4:58
- Format: mp3 (160 kbps)
You can get the Zip-packed file (5.8MB) standing free on the homepage, that address you can get under the title link. It is ready for downloading.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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10.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: SCO shows first proofs
The board of directors of the Linux-group e.V. has agreed to accept the leaving of the SCO-group until the
30th June 2003." We regret the deciding of the SCO-group to work against Linux and free software", so LIVE boss Thomas
Uhl. So SCO showed first proofs to special analysts.«
Please read the complete article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)
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