• Permedia 2, Voodoo 3/4/5 and Matrox G450/G550 drivers;
• cooperation in good faith with other OS 4 developers to produce a PPC native version of P96;
• development of the OS 4 version to be kept in line with other versions for other licensees.

Last night Toni Wilen released his first version, WinUAE 0.8.21R1.

The WinUAE homepage is available under http://www.winuae.net/ and it is hosted by back2roots.org.

The driver includes a new pci.library:
- pci.library ver.5.1

From version 5.1 on, the pci.library enables simultaneous functioning of the THOR's MMULib package in both modes of pci.library operation (NO_MMU and MMU).

The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver:
- Virge.card ver.1.5

The new driver accelerates all the main blitter functions. Overlay support has been added.

The update includes the latest versions of the driver for Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.12

The update includes the a new version of the following drivers:
- tv.library ver. 1.8

Support for S3 ViRGE DX has been added. The list (http://www.elbox.com/mediator_driver_guide.html#TV_TUNER) of cards supported by the tv.library has been expanded. Now tv.library supports 93 TV card models.

Some time ago I read an article about IDE for SCSI bridge adapters and I bought a couple of them instantly. It's the top model of 'ACARD Technology', the AEC-7720UW (title link) which transforms UDMA 33/66/100 drives in UW-SCSI models (40 MB/s). To make it worthwhile, I bought a 100 GB discdrive for each of my Amigas from Western Digital (Caviar WD1000BB).

The installation wasn't really difficult if you're good at English and if you know a little about Jumper and IDs. As to the drives you have to be careful not to overheat them. Therefore harddisc coolers are necessary in any case.

When everything has been connected properly, you can use the harddiscs for AmigaOS without any problems. They are recognised as if they were UW discs. Since Westen Digital calculates 1 KB with 1000 instead of 1024 bytes, it's no surprise that only 93,1 GB are available. This is to be expected. Formatted with PFS-3 V18.5, only 88,4 GB remain.

As to the speed: SysSpeed V2.6 calculated for CreateFile 25.93, WriteFile 32.74, ReadFile 20.91 and RawRead 25.40 MB/s. Compared to my Quantum Atlas 10K and Atlas V this is 2-3 times faster and the discs make hardly any noise.

Conclusion: I can recommend the adapter to anybody who wants capacity and speed. And it's hardly possible to find a SCSI disc for a better price. As to the price: The discs are available at 236,-EUR each, the adapters for 92,- EUR and the disc cooler for 15,-EUR. That comes to 343,- EUR for a 100 GB disc. In comparison: A 73,4 GB U160-SCSI disc costs 1089,- EUR and isn't much faster.

"I've just returned from Alt WOA in Huddersfield.

It might interest you that Alan Redhouse received a fully functional AmigaOne motherboard this morning, which he presented at the fair.

It seems that Escena had Linux run on this board (until OS4 is ready). The motherboard seems to be working fine although Alan only managed to get the booting process up-and-running up to the BIOS in the short period of time that was available to him.

The specifications have really been improved compared to earlier versions.

The production of the motherboard begins in six weeks.

The announced (estimated) price was really reasonable. I think that Alan will let you know the details very soon."

Further news from AmigaOne
Further statements of fair visitors include the following details: (the statements have not been confirmed officially)

• Ethernet, Parallel, Seriell, USB and Sound all on-board
• Vier PCI-Slots
• AGP2, 133MHz RAM Interface
• The connection to A1200 is now on an optional PCI card

But I have changed two issues about the MorphOS part:

• The "original" mouse pointer reappears when mouse is moved outside the window, so you don't have to click blindly somewhere to know where your mouse is ;-)
• Timing has been fixed a bit, so CPU load should decrease and the mouse pointer movements will be less abrupt. It's not perfect, but next version (see below) will have much improved timing handling.

Functions are the recognising and colored highlighting of: program blocks, brackets, special characters, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, JSP, ASP and HSC. The colors can each be set up in the GoldED preferences.

In addition have many bugs of the orginal version and the last version been fixed. The Aminet upload can take some days. On my homepage there's of course always the latest archive available for download.

The port folio contains the PC illustration program XaraX and the PC webgraphics programs Xara Webstyle and Xara3D.

• Moved a few login routines to a new order, may work better for the Search service being started at login. (No idea, really)

This version fixes some issues in WarpSCUMM. Chances in detail:

• Reworked some bits and split up the code into more functions.
• Fixed two OS related issues reported by PatchWorks.
• Fixed a tiny memory leak.
• Subtask signaling tweaked and modified to work better.
• Priorities are now set correctly for WarpOS mirror-subtasks also.

Additional information about ScummVM is available here.

Download: WarpSDL_0.3usr.lha

1. Our STB partner - Nokia, and their new Media Terminal. Yes, the same Nokia that you all know and love. Amiga will be pre-loaded on these products and we will begin shipping on them before summer this year. More information will be made available soon.
2. I often get messages asking when we are going to let the rest of the world know what is happening. Well for all of you who have asked - Amiga will be at the Embedded Systems Show in San Francisco, CA, March 12 through the 15th. We will be in booth #1602, located in the South Hall of Moscone Center. We will be showing the new Amiga technology, and some exciting new features never before seen in any other product. We will also be making at least one announcement there at the show.
3. We have two more new members added to the team and there are many more that will be announced soon. The first two are part of our sales team. Both are dynamic and excited to be part of the Amiga family. Liz Barnick and David Brott joined us in January, and are establishing themselves quickly with regards to new business, and great ideas. I have included information about them both in a separate document that is attached to this update.
4. AmigaOS 4.0 is moving ahead very nicely and I could not be more pleased with Hyperion and their ability to get things done. We will all be very proud of their efforts, and I know that many of you will be rewarded with what they have already accomplished, and with the product that they are building.