01.Jun.2002
ANN
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ANN: More than 3 million visitors
The imprecise graphical counter of English language Amiga news service
Amiga Network News (ANN) by Christian Kemp
has exceeded the 3 million mark.
According to the ANN server logs, currently about 12,500 pages are accessed
every day. Thereby ANN is accessed from more than 40,000 different hosts.
Since ANN introduced dynamic web pages in 1998, more than 4,500 news items and
more than 58,000 comments have been published.
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01.Jun.2002
Patbest (ANF)
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Amithlon: Amigabest.com updated
The Amigabest.com website with much
information about Amiga emulator "Amithlon" has been updated. The site
now also works smoothly with IBrowse and AWeb.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Rudi (ANF)
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Emulators: New website - AMI.lator
Rudi writes:
In the meantime, I have completed my Amiga emulator page to the extent
that I feel I can present it to the broad Amiga public.
AmiLator.de is not yet finished by far!, e.g. my "News" system
has to be reworked completely...
Maybe someone from the Amiga community would like to write for
AmiLator.de: re.
-Emulators & Co...
Please take a look.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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Comic: Sabrina Online.de with strips 199-203
Already on 27th and 29th May 2002, strips 199-203 have been added to the German
language version of Eric W. Schwartz's comic strip series "Sabrina Online".
The added strips are:
- 199 - Kindermund tut Wahrheit kund
- 200 - Das sind dann etwa vierzig Strips pro Jahr (dieser Strip in Farbe)
- 201 - Kein allzu schlechtes Angebot
- 202 - Intuition
- 203 - Abschiedsgeschenk
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01.Jun.2002
Tristan "TriMa" Mangold (ANF)
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IRC: New #AmigaFun homepage
Tristan Mangold writes:
Today the new #AmigaFun homepage has gone online.
Despite some display errors with AWeb and some unsupported
HTML tags with IBrowse, the page is displayed nearly identical everywhere.
#AmigaFun is an IRC channel which is at home on the Phat Net servers.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Event: Extreme Computing Festival 2002 on 9th June
On 9th June 2002 the "Extreme Computing Festival 2002" will be held
in London. This event offers a wide variety of themes from self-constructed
robots over retro video games and Community Wireless Networking up to
Japanese junk food. The Amiga sector will be represented by
CAPS (The Classic Amiga Preservation Society).
CAPS is an organisation which has made it its objective to collect and
preserve Amiga originals, especially games.
CAPS will present itself and hand out a limited number of free copies of
"Abandoned Places 2". Furthermore there will be a couple of Amiga games
for playing on location.
Further information about this event and the list of exhibitors (a.o. also
from the C64 sector) are available through the title link.
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01.Jun.2002
Martin Blom (Amithlon-ML)
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Amithlon: Enforcer clone
Martin Blom (AHI) has developed an Enforcer clone for Amithlon.
The tool can generate 680x0 as well as x86 hits. Amongst its
features are:
- 680x0 and x86 hits.
- Reporting of read access to page 0 (with the natural exception of Exec Base address 4).
- Support for SegTracker.
Enforcer is a debugging tool for Amiga computers for recognising illegal or unwanted
memory access.
Download: run_elf-1.6.lha
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01.Jun.2002
Ruben Monteiro (Amiga Open-ML)
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AmigaDE: Ogg Vorbis decoder "jorbis" (Java)
According to Ruben Monteiro in the Amiga Open mailing list, the Ogg
Vorbis decoder "jorbis",
which has been programmed in Java, runs under AmigaDE.
This decoder decodes the Ogg Vorbis audio stream into a file. For
replay, an additional sound player is needed. Note: The player
on the Jorbis site needs JavaSound and doesn't run under AmigaDE
at the moment.
The Ogg Vorbis format is an
Open Source audio format which is an alternative to MP3.
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31.May.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Workshop: Building in Busboard Mediator PCI 3/4000T (shortened)
Author: Mirko Naumann
With the Mediator PCI 3/4000T busboard Elbox offers a very good solution for owners of a A4000-T or A3000-T who wants to extend their Amiga with modern PCI-interfaces. The technical equipment is more than sufficient - the only disadvantage is the lack of an AGP-slot but which has none of the up to now available PCI-extensions.
Building in the board is much more difficult than Elbox writes it in its documentation. First you have to fix the board on the mainboard. For that Elbox delivers ten brass-coloured bolts with thread of which you need five for fixing the board. Unfortunately the gradient of the screws in my A4000-T did not fit with the one of the bolts.
Well, what is to do? I could not find matching screws at the PC-dealers and I did not want to cut the threads. So you have to remove the screws and to fix the bolts with matching nuts on the main board. It is also annoying that the board hides the connection of the clock-battery and of the internal speakers. By bending the contacts it works but thats not a professional solution which you can expect.
Here there are some useful links to this topic:
Remark of the editing stuff:
In this connection please read the paragraph ´Exclusion of liability´ in our Legal Infos.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2002
InstallerNG Website
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InstallerNG possibly becomes part of AmigaOS 4 (update)
The installing-tool InstallerNG of Jens Tröger possibly becomes part of AmigaOS 4.
Update: The word "possibly" has been added.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2002
Chaos Computer Club
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CCC: EU-parliament said yes to data retention
Despite of many protests the EU-parliament has agreed to loosen the data protection in the EU.
»The passed order "about the processing of personal data and the protection of the private sphere in the electronic communication" enables the memebership states to loosen the regulation of protection for data of connections to "carry out penal persecution and to save the national and public safety. Thus the way is free for the so called data retention.
Data retention means that the data of connections of the participant of the telecommunication are not only individually saved and kept after an official order but for all participants in advance and without a starting suspicion. Because of that the authorities can use also data which are far away in the past. Up to now the data of connections had to be deleted after 80 days after making the calculation.
Data protectors and people of the human rights warn before such a general data saving because thereby they say the fundamental rights for private sphere and freedom of opinion are endangered. Besides this such actions mean a turn away from the assumption of innocence because the data retention above all disadvantage the innocent poeple. Even the committee of the civil rights of the EU voted against it. The 16206 signers of a summons to the parliament refer to it.« (ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2002
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Version 1.25 of RunTime uploaded on Aminet
Steffen Nitz wrote:
I have just uploaded a new version of RunTime on Aminet. It could be take
some days until the version will be published.
RunTime is a Computer-runtime-monitor which saves all possible data and
shows them as beam-diagramms.
New in version 1.25:
- Daily calculation of the average runtime of the computer but also of
the annual and complete statistics.
Users who do not want to wait a day until the new version will be
published on Aminet can contact Steffen.Nitz@t-online.de
to get the version via email.
Download: RunTime.lha (can still take some days until the file is available on Aminet).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Felix Schwarz (IOSPIRIT)
After we have not heard much of the software publisher "Innovative" we
were surprised that on April the chief developer Felix Schwarz has come
back with his newly founded company "IOSPIRIT" and new software-products!
Should this be a first sign of a change at the weakened Amiga market?
In this interview Amiga Arena talks with Felix Schwarz about his reasons
to go on developing for the Amiga market, about his new software products
as well as further new developments.
Felix Schwarz explains how he has found a solution for himself to
simultaneously support AmigaOS, MorphOS and emulators and how he is
able to do something against not permitted copying.
I completely agree with Felix Schwarz when he says: "Negative signs, negative effect - postive thinking and good products, positive feedback. Let's tackle!"
Finally it is in the hands of the users if they want to set a sign by buying Amiga products and thus make further developments possible.
Direct link: Interview in German
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2002
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Thendic-France: First Pegasos Boards Shipped
Thendic-France has shipped within the planned time line the first
Pegasos
PPC computers with Yellow Dog Linux and MorphOS, and they announced a next
version of a Pegasos handheld. Please read the press release:
Thendic-France SARL, a subsidiary of Pretory USA Inc. (OTC: PTRU), an emerging
technology-based leader in security, detection equipment and medical devices,
today announced that is has shipped the first Pegasos PPC computer. The Pegasos
was developed by bplan GmbH of Frankfurt, Germany. Thendic-France SARL has
acquired the rights to organize and manage the worldwide distribution of the
Pegasos.
"We are very excited to be moving ahead with the Pegasos on schedule. We look
forward to both developing a reseller network and a development community for
the Pegasos. The next version of the Pegasos will be a handheld device and this
important step moves us closer to our ultimate objectives," commented Raquel
Velasco, Chairman of the Board.
Internet references can be found as follows:
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31.May.2002
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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AmigaOS XL: Experiences with the H&P Big-Tower 1800+ (Update)
Dietmar Knoll writes:
In my report, I describe the experiences I have made with the Big-Tower.
Version 1.18 of the report finally contains the promised chapters, in which I more closely describe "AmigaXL" and "QNX". Furthermore, I included some links to the "Software" chapter and added the latest "Patches for Amithlon".
Note: The last update was released one month ago. Since the webserver of Compuserve is frozen since the beginning of May, I uploaded this update to Fortunecity, although this server is a bit problematic. In QNX-Voyager popups are generated, in Amiga-Voyager only ads are displayed instead of the images. Therefore, I recommend to use AWeb or Amiga-Voyager (with background images switched off). (ps)
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31.May.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Second developer-snapshot for Digital Almanac III
You can download the new beta version DA III v4.9beta from the DA-homepage (title link).
All users who want to install the beta version are asked to make a statement to the author about possible problems.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2002
Volker Mohr (ANF)
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Event: Classic-Computing 2002
Though it unfortunately fell through last year, the Classic Computing Convention is a go this year. This is made possible through our new host Manfred Schwab (Alias "C64-Doc"), who's going to organize the event. Your comments and enthusiastic assistance are welcome.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.May.2002
kdh news (ANF)
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HIGHWAY USB card for Amiga is shipping now
The USB card HIGHWAY is available now.
KDH Datentechnik
has delivered the HIGHWAY board to customers and Amiga dealers who
did pre-order the HIGHWAY card.
The scope of delivery includes the USB Stack Poseidon. The
currently supported USB devices are listed
here.
KDH offers you at a special bundle price the Memorycard-writer/reader
device HexaMedia Drive
from Lacie. This allows you to read in all pictures from your digital cameras
into your Amiga and to change or print them with your favorite graphic program.
(ps)
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30.May.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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Instant-Messenger: StrICQ v2.8.2 Released
On the 29th of May, 2002 Douglas F. McLaughlin released version 2.8.2 of
his Instant-Messenger "StrICQ." A few mistakes were corrected in this version.
New: Offline messages now display properly
Download: STRICQv2.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.May.2002
Dirk Conrad (ANF)
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Amiga MAS-Player 1.3f Update
A software update for the MAS-Player is now available.
MAS-Player is a hardware solution for playing MP3s on less-powerful Amigas.
The MAS-Player Software contains a seldom encountered but serious bug! It happened to me as I was being the DJ at a party. Once or twice an evening the Amiga would bump into a skipping loop for a couple minutes, then come out of it. The problem appears to have been solved :-).
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.May.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Threat of Full Control over the Internet
»Data-Protector: "Strike against the right to have unmonitored communications."
Today the German Upper House of Parliament is debating a measure which would require Internet and telecommunications providers to collect and store data of their customers. According to the Independent National Center for Data Security at Schleswig-Holstein such a law would totally upset the protection of personal data.«
See the title link for the complete article (German). (ps) (Translation: dm)
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