23.Feb.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Info pages re. Amiga Arena Games Edition 2002 CD-ROM
If you want to know more about the Amiga Arena Games Edition 2002 CD-ROM, you
can now find some information on the new Web site.
Furthermore, some of the shareware games which had first been released for
free download by Amiga Arena are now online again. These contain shareware
classics such as Uropa2, Scorched Tanks, Breed96, Risiko or Action Cat.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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23.Feb.2003
Aminet
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #68
Issue #68 of the Amiga online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' has
been published.
This issue contains (a.o.) the following articles:
- Review IBrowse 2.3
- Review GetAllHTML
- Review DirSSCompare
- Review AmiGod
- Hollywood 1.5 status report
- Project Petunia Pages
- Dr. Strange, Web Wanderer
- A Closeup Of The Amiga Serial Port
- Hints & Tips
The complete table of contents can be gathered from the Readme accompanying
the archive. AIO uses a custom viewer and can be used from AmigaOS 3.0 onward.
Download: AIOV68.lha (369 KB) - Readme (nba) (Translation: cb)
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23.Feb.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 23.02.2003)
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games to the hard disk which were
intended for floppy use originally. The following packages were added or
updated:
- 23.02.03 new: Sumea (Virtual Dreams) done by Psygore
- 23.02.03 new: Dragon's Lair (Readysoft) done by CFOU!
- 23.02.03 fixed: Blade Warrior (Jason Kingsley/Imageworks) access fault fixed
- 23.02.03 improved: Night Shift (Lucasfilm Games) install script changed
- 23.02.03 new: Psyborg (Loriciel) done by Psygore
- 23.02.03 new: Harley Davidson (Mindscape) done by CFOU!
- 22.02.03 new: Battle For The Ashes (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
- 21.02.03 updated: WARP (Thalion) disk drive accesses removed
(ps)
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23.Feb.2003
Daniel Hartlehnert (ANF)
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3D graphic artists for Projekt Crashsite wanted
An Amiga graphics artist is wanted who is willing and has the time to create
rendered graphics for the role playing game "Projekt Crashsite" currently in
development.
The vacancy of the 3D graphics artist has to be filled. Also, the already existing data have to be adopted as far as possible.
If you are interested or have questions regarding technical details, please
send an email to dahart@gmx.de.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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23.Feb.2003
W3C
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W3C presents plans for SVG Print
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has drawn up and published a first working
paper about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), according to which in the WWW's
future the format is to lay emphasis on meeting the needs for printing. The
working paper describes possible applications, features, basic design
principles and demands for the print specific version of "SVG Print".
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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22.Feb.2003
Chris Beckefeld (email)
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Haage & Partner in print magazine c't
In the current issue of c't (German print magazine) 5/2003, coming next Monday,
is Haage & Partner mentioned in the applications notes (page 41).
It's about the localisation of the products of the graphics software developer XARA, in the beginning the font renderer Xara3D v5 for the German speaking people. But this shows obviously their turning to non Amiga products - facts follow their words... (ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
GFX-BASE
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Lorraine Design: new GlowIcon set 'Nelta'
Bojan Milovic of Lorrain Design has today released a new icons set in the GlowIcon style. It contains about 300 MacOS and Windows icons that he'd converted to AmigaOS and enhanced with the glow effect.
Download: Nelta-glow.lha (602 KB)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi statement about the Pegasos II changes
This is a letter we sent out today to the "inside" group...(sorry no images!)...
22 February 2003
Dear Friends of Genesi,
We wanted to provide some basic communication this weekend to all of you, because
frankly our focus this past week has been the Management meetings here in Paris.
We hope that this letter will assist you in understanding more clearly the
direction of the Company. Please feel free to respond directly to us at
bbrv@genesi.lu with your questions. If you understand and share our vision,
you can adjust your effort to become more relevant to our corporate framework
if you desire.
As we have said before, Genesi stands on the verge of enormous opportunity.
We can provide a completely integrated solution, including hardware, operating
system, and a number of (bundled and unbundled) applications. We can innovate
in ways that involve the complete integrated package, rather than being limited
to new developments within each level by third parties (HP and Microsoft are not
as self-reliant in this way). Genesi and our associates need to leverage this
advantage fully. We are smaller, faster and will be necessarily more adventurous
in our efforts. Do not hesitate to share your most creativity ideas with these
mailing lists. Together, we believe we can create a substantial and long
awaited change to the IT marketplace.
In the first BIG opportunity to our Company, we are required to develop using a
PPC and MorphOS, a terrestrial Digital Television receiver with interactive/computing
and smart card read and write functions (to be referred to as the DTV STB). This
product will not require the use of the Articia and we will be producing significant
quantities in the development phase and a special version of MorphOS (without hurting
the complete version). If we deliver the DTV STB in a satisfactory manner we will
be eligible to receive orders for over one million units. It is a once-in-a-lifetime
professional opportunity for all of us. We need to make the most of it.
Of course, none of this would be possible without the years of dedication required
to bring the Pegasos and MorphOS to where it is today. We are all proud to be
associated with the bplan guys. The difficulties over the last year have nothing
to do with them. It is the Articia from Mai Logic that has caused us months of
delays. It does not perform to the advertised specifications. Thankfully, Gerald
and Thomas tested and mounted the Aritica on the April2. That is right -- the April2.
The first patch that Gerald and Thomas developed works as we know, but there were
still bugs. The new Articia (and Teron) is still very likely to have trouble as
more problems were detected after the Aachen Show and well after the joint work
Gerald did with for the new Articia in October and November with Mai. The April2
brings the Articia fully to the performance levels it claims to achieve. We have
purchased the remaining worldwide supply of the old Articias and will make 400 more
Pegasos main boards with the G3 CPU. Our G3 Pegasos performs better than the G4
Teron with the Articia. This will be common knowledge soon (let the others understand
this on their own our word will stand as testimony to our knowledge and skill). Once
produced, we will stop (we may license production of this version of the Pegasos to
Plexuscom or others). These machines will easily satisfy the Amiga market and give
us the machines we need to seed our developer base while Gerald and Thomas switch out
the old Articia to a much more attractive alternative (details later). This could be
ready by the summer. The RAM speed of the Pegasos will be as high as any offered in the
market and this WILL attract considerable interest. The DTV STB revenue can carry us
until this point (remember this IS a business we hope you Developers begin to remember
this!).
To repeat a few words from an earlier communication?
If our strategic vision is compelling and our execution excellent, we will increasingly
attract skilled developers. What Ralph, Frank and the core MorphOS Development Team have
accomplished to date is exceptional, but now we need to establish a professional
development and management system for MorphOS, formally retain the services of all
key MorphOS developers, and recruit new talent to the project. We have struck on the
Phoenix association to develop a vehicle to do this. All registered Phoenix members
must use a special Phoenix logon and password to have access to the reduced Pegasos
pricing that will be available through www.pegasos-usa.com.
We need to be somewhat selective in insuring that these next boards go to people that
will advance in communion with our effort and our internal developers and Phoenix members
will have priority. We will also develop the User Group program next week and a system
for handling Pegasos sales so our Distributors also benefit.
Our targeted resource/sales markets from the near to medium term are:
1. Amiga/MorphOS
2. DTV STB
3. LinuxPPC and OtherPPC
We will continue to promote to the Amiga/MorphOS market, as we have. Our underlying focus
should be: broadening and stabilizing MorphOS, attracting applications and drivers
(ports/original programs), and establishing a Pegasos toolkit. At the same time,
www.pegasos-usa.com is working
and our online sales support and information site at
www.genesi-support.com
will continue to improve. If we are lucky we will awaken and attract the slumbering
ex-Commodore consumer market, but that will take some time and we are not quite ready
for mass-market attention. The sites will be there and ready. Until we are ready with
the Pegasos II we will not promote the sites as much as we could. Plus, we will
standardize the Pegasos distribution network over the next few months taking a
semi-franchise approach. When we are ready, everything will be in place.
On the hardware side we start where we are: the Pegasos. We have discussed the
features: upgradeable, scalable, modifiable (smaller eclipsis, subsets/modular
Psylent/STB), and open, as in Open Firmware (facilitates scheme for peripheral
association/development IAW the IE1275 standard). We will develop a solid plan
and feature set for each Pegasos envisioned and the corresponding software bundles.
The management review that took place this week was very successful. We have
defined and agreed to our objectives and are now preparing a solid plan for the
future.
NOTE: for 200 Euros and trade-in ALL Pegasos I Users (includes Betatesters) WILL
be able to upgrade to the Pegasos II (just to put an end to that FUD!).
About Linux and the other targets? OS4 too -- ;-)
Linux people usually want something great for nothing, but in the PPC market if
we can get a design win over the Teron the next price point is a Mac. As more
professionals and desktop consumers switch to Linux, the future of commercial
software on Linux is very bright and so is our hardware. Functionality will
become precedent over cost in this market. We need a bootable bundled distro
and Mac-on-Linux. Linux will be a major force in the future. Today, it is still
difficult to install software, drivers, set up firewalls, etc., but because of
the generous licensing environment and the massive corporate support Linux is
gaining (IBM, HP, etc.) as well as government mandates and funding in many
countries, it is set to become the "next big thing". We need to be
part of that trend.
Any PPC OS that is reasonable to port with external resources is interesting to
us. We need a Go/NoGo decision matrix. Again, we are looking for resources and
developer talent. For example, while Linux gets the glory, BSDs are running
some of the biggest sites. We have seen the first screenshots of OpenBSD running
on the Pegasos. Further, there is an increasing amount of interesting open source
projects we could find a way to adapt to our use.
Finally, we are interested in restoring the Demo Scene to the Pegasos. The
traditional and overt message in a demo was technical skill. The visual effects
pushed the supposed limits of the platform's capability and graphics were
skillfully executed. Good demos are the marriage of advanced technical, creative
and artistic abilities. For the future, we need a new generation of Sceners to be
pulling the most from the platform and the OS. This can generate plenty of
positive attention. Besides the nVidia butterfly lady has the wrong color wings!
This is why we decided to sponsor Equinoxe.
All these other things all ultimately bring us back to our key advantage: a
completely integrated solution, including hardware, operating system, and
applications. Management is working hard to turn this vision into a reality.
While the sale of the Pegasos and MorphOS alone could never sustain the Company
we are building, it may one day in the future. We use the Pegasos today to
begin our move to the future, while insuring the development and growth of the
MorphOS. Things could get pretty exciting if we can get that far. Let us not
forget that 30 million STBs sold last year and they were called video game
consoles.
Please feel free to provide any feedback to us.
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill
P.S. If you are still confused go here --
www.lagardere.com --
and select Lagardčre Media présente "Focus sur la Télé" on the left.
This should help explain everything (even if it is in French!) (ps)
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22.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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Debian project on Desktop Linux Summit
The Debian project has been invited to an exhibition and conference about free software and GNU/Linux that will take place soon.
The Debian project looks after a booth this weekend in San Diego in the exhibition area of the Desktop Linux Summit.
Next to that is Bdale Garbee participating in a discussionan about the future of GNU/Linux on the desktop.
The company invites all interested people near there to visit the conference, to meet Debian developers and users, to exchange GnuPG fingerprints, discuss different topics about Debian and free software and to participate in other ways.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
FOREMATT (ANF)
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100% AMIGA #33 with new design
The February issue (#33) of the British CD-ROM magazine 100%
AMIGA has been released today and comes along with a fresh new design.
The completely revamped main page contains now all new areas including user groups, mails, free small adverts and much more. Features this month cover reviews of Crossfire II and PureBasic. A look at the cover on the website tells more about the new issue.
The website of the magazine has also been redesigned and enhanced with new offers. The Amiga Retro Classics area includes more games that are now priced in Euros and Dollars charges and that can be ordered via PayPal. They now also offer DVD videos and programs in the Region-2-format (Europe).
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
heise online
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heise: first details on Napster 2
Still this year shall Napster be restarted as commercial download service. Later on will owner Roxio upgrade peer-to-peer functions, too. Read the full (German) article at heise online following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
OSNews
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SciTech asks for comments regarding the SNAP-Graphics future
This week announced the AmigaOS 4 developer Hyperion Entertainment to use the SNAP technology by SciTech Software Inc. as graphics cards driver system for AmigaOS 4 (we reported).
Today asks SciTech on OSNews for commments regarding future versions of SNAP-Graphics.
SciTech SNAP Graphics supports now 180 different graphics chipsets. Feedback by users show that this number would be too high. The company wants to know from the users how many and especially which graphics cards should be supported in the next release. Furthermore they ask for the operating systems that shall be supported in the future.
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22.Feb.2003
YAM Website
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Mail program: new YAM developers version dated February, 22nd 2003
Since today there's a new developers version 2.4-dev [020] BETA
of the mailing software YAM that is now Open Source. This is a pure developers version that may still contain bugs and for which the develpers give no support and warranty. Emails regarding the developers versions won't be answered, either. Usage at own risk!
The change done can be found in this list.
Further information can be found on the
Yamos SourceForge site.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV Website
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TV cards driver: AmithlonTV beta 285 (update)
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 285 of the TV cards driver software
AmithlonTV with several smaller updates and improvements.
New in version 285:
- BUGFIX: Fixed the sliders within the audio video setup to work correctly on Pegasos.
- BUGFIX: Fixed full screen support on CyberGraphics.
New in version 283:
- FEATURE: Added configuration data for MD/LT9415 and TVValue.
- FEATURE: Full Pegasos support (tested).
- FEATURE: Added several new tuner drivers.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Update 23-02-2003:
Message updated to version 285.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
heise online
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heise: 580 millions users worldwide online
Market research has shown that 63 percent of the German households are connected to the Internet. Read the full (German) article at heise online following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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22.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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Artwork from Visualice at GFXZONE
There are quite a few sceners that have been around for a long time,
but few have been as active as Visualice used to be. This guy has worked
on a staggering amount of demoscene productions.
Unfortunately for us Visualice recently left Haujobb to concentrate
on other forms of art. We have updated his personal gallery on the gfxzone
with plenty of high-quality graphics.
The updated gallery consists of 5 parts with 100 images in total,
most of which are now finally available in their full PNG quality for
the first time ever (thanks Timo!!). Older images are in the first parts
of the gallery, more recent images can be found nearer to the end.
To show that Visualice is also graphically active in a non-digital way,
the fourth part of the gallery shows sketches. Some of the sketches that
Visualice provided for us to show in his gallery are also available for
purchase online, check it out if you are interested!
Enter the updated Visualice gallery and start enjoying.
(nba)
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21.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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300 Pegasos-I freely available from Monday on - Pegasos-II from September on
As Genesi reported on MorphOS-News.de
the last Pegasos mainboards of the first generation are available from Monday on.
300 pieces of the 400 are freely available and the rest will be delivered to developers
and the staff.
Genesi emphasizes that there will be no further production of the Pegasos-I-boards.
In August/September the Pegasos-II will follow which has double data rates, three 1-GB/s
Ethernet channels and Dual-G4 processors.
There will be no possibility of upgrading the Pegasos-I to G4 but a special possibility
for the Pegasos-I customer.
This Genesi wants to especially emphasizes before you buy a Pegasos-I.
All beta tester who have not been changed yet have the most important priority.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Feb.2003
Computer City (ANF)
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Computer City February News
FotoFoto
Work on FotoFoto is progressing, new pictures of the main
screen and prefs section can now be found at the FotoFoto website:
www.compcity.nl/fotofoto.
Inga!
Most of the work on the Inga! conversion is done. New screenshots of
the Inga-based demo-game Ermentrud running on AmigaDE 1.3 can be found
at the personal site of our programmer, Arend-Paul Spijkerman
(ap@compcity.nl):
http://www.apsdev.com.
Added to our internal 'to do list' is a MorphOS/PowerPC version.
Webshop
Work has started on our new webshop, which will be available in Dutch,
English and German. For the German market we have arranged a bank account
for payments and a German postal address in the event of RMA's.
For more information, please contact Computer City at +31-10-4517722
or email info@compcity.nl.
(ps)
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21.Feb.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Knights & Merchants for MorphOS starts shipping
Today e.p.i.c. interactive started shipping the Empire Builder Knights &
Merchants, which is now the first commercially available game for MorphOS.
Knights&Merchants retails at EUR 49,95 and requires a Pegasos with 600 Mhz, 64
MByte RAM and MorphOS 1.0 or better. More information on this Real Time
Strategy game can be found in the projects section of our homepage (title
link).
Knights and Merchants can be described as a strategic economy simulation. In
the main, the economics play a major role in this real-time action game. The
player can manufacture different products, making use of numerous buildings
and producer goods of the Middle Ages period. He can use his serfs to
construct and maintain buildings and roads. The economical structuring is
very specific. You manufacture finished products using various raw materials
which go through your production processes. All these manufacturing systems
are highly detailed and visually understandable, enabling fast and
dependable control of your economy. One result of all your productive labors
is the manufacture of weapons and armor. But the logistics, too, are really
worth a mention. You decide where and how merchandise will be transported on
the network of streets which you yourself have planned and constructed.
Your
serfs transport all wares between buildings, so your town planning plays a
major role in production time per building, and, resulting from that, just
how efficient your economy as a whole is going to be. Transported goods are
displayed graphically. Each figure in the game has his/her own mission area
and carries out individual tasks independently. They don't depend on your
commands or actions. You, the player, only give indirect commands for the
construction of buildings, streets, corn fields, etc. However, you do have
complete control of the military units.
Dealers please contact GTI/Schatztruhe. (ps)
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21.Feb.2003
Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig
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Windows-arrangement: DepthMenu version 2.43
The Polish programmer Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig has published version 2.43 of his program
'DepthMenu'. With this program you can manage, minimize or maximize open windows on
your Workbench.
New in this version: A bug has been cleared which occured if Shapeshifter was simultaneously
used with the screen menu function and another one has cleared in the about window.
From this version on DepthMenu will be no longer compiled with SAS/C but with GCC.
Download: DepthMenu.lha (53 kb)
Besides this the long expected new version 1.5 of the AmIRC.module has been published
where bugs have been cleared and the translation has been improved.
A new version of the Workbench.module and DOpus5.module with new functions has been announced.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV-card-driver: AmithlonTV beta 280 (Update)
Guido Mersmann has published beta version 280 of the TV card driver software called
AmithlonTV which has some minor updates and improvements.
Version 280
- BUGFIX:
The driver_hauppauge.lib is now detecting radio and the real card name if known.
- BUGFIX:
Again a small "video_bt8x8.lib" update! This should fix the last Pegasos problems.
Version 277
- FEATURE:
TVCardDump now allows to dump specific data items.
- FEATURE:
The video_bt8x8.lib driver now supports the pci interface structure.
This should fix (in theorie) the known problems with G-Rex/Pegasos
and other systems.
- CHANGED:
Modified the TVCardSetup window to be more intuitiv.
- BUGFIX:
Reworked some PCI routines.
- FEATURE:
Implemented CyberGraphics support. (currently TVWatch only)
- BUGFIX:
Fixed some card drivers.
- BUGFIX:
Fixed full screen support in combination with the pixel cut feature.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
(nba)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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