24.Feb.2002
Elbox Computer (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia UP 1.13
The MM CD 1.13 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV
who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has also been
released by ELBOX Computer.
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.
MM CD 1.13 includes the updated developer's documentation for tv.library. (ps)
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24.Feb.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Test: Bridge adapter IDE for SCSI + 100 GB harddisc in Amiga
Author: Mirko Naumann
Only some time ago Amiga users complained that it's not worthwhile to install
modern E-IDE harddiscs in Amiga since the existing controllers are not able
to keep up with the capacity. Once I was of the same opinion and therefore
I installed expensive UW-SCSI and U160-SCSI harddiscs in both my Amigas.
Compared to my former IDE harddiscs this was clearly a step ahead but
unfortunately the capacity was really ridiculous considering how much I
had paid for discs.
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.
Another tip: Don't take UDMA-133. Take UDMA-100. The adapter should be
available from any well-equipped Amiga dealer.
Have fun!
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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24.Feb.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Hardware: Internal CD-rewriter + DVD-Rom drive PlexCombo 20/10/40/-12A
Although the
PlexWriter 40/12/40A
was only released in Germany a little while ago, Plextor has topped this rewriter
by releasing the CD-ReWriter + DVD-Rom Drive PlexCombo 20/10/40/-12A (title link).
It is the first rewriter of the 10x RW generation which can be installed
as a DVD-Rom drive.
The new drive describes CD-R with 20x zone CLV, CD-RWs with 10x CLV,
it reads CDs with up to 40x CAV and DVD with 12x (16.2 MB/s).
It has a data buffer of 2 MB and is based on BurnProof technology.
The price hasn't been fixed yet.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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24.Feb.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Hardware: CD-rewriter Plextor: 40x rewriter for the ATAPI interface
As already reported on
2 February 2002, Plextor is now offering a 40x rewriter for the
ATAPI interface (E-IDE). Here just a brief update by Mirko Naumann:
The PlexWriter 40/12/40A is now also available in Germany. The price of
the bulk version (drive, instruction book, PlexTools, E-IDE (ATAPI) cable
and audio cable) is around 215,-EUR while the retail version with additional
5 CD-R, 1CD-RW, the PC-Sofware Nero + InCD and a few installation screws costs
around 230,-EUR. According to US advertisements you can write a CD-R
in about 3 minutes. In any case this is probably the fastest and best
equipped CD rewriter on the market. Other companies have only stocked
32x and 36x rewriters. In addition, the PlexWriter can easily create
security copies (1:1) of copy-protected CDDAs such as BravoHits 34.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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24.Feb.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Functional AmigaOne was presented on alt.WOA
According to a brief message from alt.WOA which Don Cox has posted on
the AmigaOne mailing list (English original available via the title
link) a fully functional AmigaOne was presented at the fair.
"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
A beginners version of the motherboard, including CPU, will be available
for about £350 (circa 500 EUR). A G3/600 or a G3/750 will be used as a CPU
(the statements are contradictory).
A more expensive CPU version is also available. Prices haven't been
announced yet.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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23.Feb.2002
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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Magic Menu v2.34
Today has Magic Menu version 2.34 been released that now has among other things
direct Amithlon support. Enjoy it.
Magic Menu is a commodity that strongly enhances Intuition menus of the Amiga in
many ways. On the first start one surely recognises immediately the new modern
and three-dimensional look of the menus. But that isn't all. Furthermore offers
Magic Menu the possibility of so called pop-up menus i.e. menus that are
activated at any given point on the screen appear at just this point. In
addition offers Magic Menu a very comfortable menu control via keyboard if
needed.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Feb.2002
Kultpower (ANF)
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Kultpower: Amiga Joker special, new reviews and cover scans
Taken from the PC Joker issue 11/2000 there's now the scanned 6-pages Amiga Joker
special. Here you can read a summary of the Amiga Joker history and the Amiga
history incl. interviews with Petro Tyschtschenko, Julian Eggebrecht (Factor 5)
and Benjamin Yoris (Hyperion).
New added are also 21 new PowerPlay reviews, scanned by Scotty, 3 new covers of
Club Nintendo: issue 2/94 and special issues for N64 and for Mario World 2, 2
new Videogames reviews: Super Turrican (SuperNES) and Super Turrican 2 (Super
NES) and 6 new Videogames covers: issue 9/2000 and 5 specials.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Feb.2002
ScummVM Website (ANF)
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Game: New MorphOS-Version of ScummVM 0.1.0
Rüdiger Hanke:
In the interpreter itself, not much has happened - 'cept first
support for some older games (including the 256 color (sic) Zak
McKracken). It's not even remotely enough, though, to even consider
playing through a few rooms.
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.
These things have been taken from the new MorphOS driver and
not been extensively tested to work in the old one (although I don't
see a reason why they shouldn't), so I compiled it into the CVS snap. It's
difficult to put anything more into the old driver because the new
one is so much different.
Which leads me to a much nicer issue, that being the new MorphOS
driver which has been rewritten from the scratch (yet once more ;-))
and is now really really cute :-)) Also, it does contain music support
now (phew! that was quite some work ...). It'll need some horsepower,
though. Best get a G3 Pegasos to fully enjoy it ;-)
(ps)
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23.Feb.2002
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Editor: GoldED syntax parser for HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and more
Phillippe Bourdin:
With this I'd like to release a new version of the alternative GoldED syntax
parser. This syntax parser bases on the orginal one developed by
Dietmar Eilert and replaces it.
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.
Download: html-php.lha (version 3.5)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Feb.2002
USENET (ANF)
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Magazine: Issue 107 (March 2002) of famous Commodore 64 magazine
The new issue of Zzap!64 (aka the world's greatest C64 magazine) that
has been lovingly created over the last 6 months by a band of
dedicated fans is now finally available! Download it from
http://www.zzap64.co.uk. (ps)
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23.Feb.2002
Haage & Partner
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PC: H&P takes on the distribution of Xara in Germany
The English specialist for web graphics software XARA Ltd. makes
HAAGE&PARTNER Computer exclusive distributor for the German language area.
The port folio contains the PC illustration program XaraX and the PC webgraphics
programs Xara Webstyle and Xara3D.
Registered users of DrawStudio 2 or ArtEffect 4 will get a special offer for a
cross update. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Feb.2002
AmigAIM
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9441
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9441 of the AIM compatible
messenger software AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client to connect with the
America Online Instant Messenger (AIM service). Here's an excerpt taken
from the history where you can find the changes made:
- Moved a few login routines to a new order, may work better for the Search
service being started at login. (No idea, really)
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
(ps)
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23.Feb.2002
Fr3dy's Amiga Web Page
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Fr3dY's Software Updates: RipMIME V2.15 - Normalize V0.7.2
RipMIME is a little tool that extract the MIME files attached to a file
(an email file for example).
Normalize is a tool that allows you to modify the volume of sound files
(wav, mp3...). It's useful for CD compilations, with songs from different
sources, making it sound at same level.
(ps)
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23.Feb.2002
ScummVM Amiga Homepage (ANF)
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Game: WarpSDL Library v0.3 for WarpSCUMM
Adam Waldenberg released version 0.3 of WarpSDL.library for AmigaOS
68k/PPC (WOS).
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.
WarpSCUMM is an Amiga port of ScummVM. With ScumVM you can play
LucasArts-adventures like Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island. The
port uses the new WarpSDL.library with CyberGFX and AHI support.
Additional information about ScummVM
is available here.
Download: WarpSDL_0.3usr.lha
Additional information about
ScummVM - Amiga Ports.
(ps)
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23.Feb.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: New Executive Update from Bill McEwen
Bill McEwen just released a new Executive Update:
Bill McEwen - February 22, 2002
Greetings to the Global Amiga family,
Yes, I know that it has been more than a week, and yes the deal is still on, and yes we are moving very quickly as I will outline to you all below
I want to personally thank our friends and families for sticking with us and with our dreams as they are coming to reality.
As Amiga has matured over the last two years, and our plans only slightly changed I would like to say thank you to each and every one of you for your patience and excitement as we move forward.
In 1999 Amiga, Inc. decided to take a very different road than the ones previously charted for the community. It was met, by some, with disbelief, most with excitement as a path was being laid towards a future where digital content would be accessed by any digital device. Amiga selected an unknown partner in the Tao-Group of Reading England, and I can assure you that this was the best decision we have made.
Tao and Amiga have never been closer as a true partnership is in place. I want to thank Francis Charig my dear friend, and the rest of the Tao team as they been instrumental to the successes that will become public knowledge soon.
However with all of the great plans that were in place and the product development that had started there was still the issue of having funds necessary to make it all happen, and the addition of Frank Wilde as our Chairman has been amazing help, and I can say we are moving forward in ways that are going to bring Amiga to new levels, and I could not be more happy with the results that we are seeing.
Thank you to everyone of you who are keeping the faith and spreading the truth about Amiga.
I have several announcements that are happening here, and you need to know that we are definitely going to have more Amiga enabled products ship in 2002 than in any year previous.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
I can assure you that your patience will be met with great rewards, and there are many others who are now learning what you have known. That Amiga has the most robust, talented, dedicated community of any computing platform today or in the future.
Thank you again for your continued prayers and support. You are about to be rewarded.
Amiga to Deploy AmigaDE on Nokia Infotainment Device for the Home
Liz Barnick Joins Amiga as Director, Business Development
David Brott Joins Amiga as Director, Business Development
With my best to everyone,
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team (cd)
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23.Feb.2002
c't 05/2002
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c't 05/2002: test of emulation software Amithlon, Amiga XL und WinUAE
In the popular German computer magazin "c't" the authors Torsten Kleinz
and Murat Özkilic tested the three Amiga-emulators Amithlon, Amiga XL and
WinUAE. Result: Amithlon is the fastes one of the emulators. (cd)
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22.Feb.2002
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Genealogy: Initial demonstrative Dynastie version released
Some time ago I've announced a new genealogy program for the Amiga. But since Bonds has priority this new program progresses only very slowly. Anyhow, I decided to translate the existing source code and to give all interested people a first impression of the program. At this time it reads family trees of GEDCOM format and displays the personal data.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Feb.2002
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Finance software: Bonds Version 1.86 available
In the download section of the homepage you will find the new
version 1.86 of Bonds.
(ps)
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22.Feb.2002
CyberGraphX
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CyberGraphX 4.3Beta Release3 for G-Rex owners has been released
If you missed it, CyberGraphX 4.3Beta Release3 for G-Rex owners has been
released. New: Many updates, most all drivers have been updated...
SiS6326 update also. There is a new ENV called NOMOUSERATIO (also in
V4.2pre11). See the CGX ENV Page
for complete info on NOMOUSERATIO.
NOTE: This update is for G-Rex users.. none of the drivers will
work on Amiga based bus cards. As with all V4 updates you will need your
CX V4 CDROM to use this update. You can find CyberGraphX 4.3Beta Release3
for G-Rex and all the latest G-Rex software on the
G-Rex support page. (ps)
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22.Feb.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 21.02.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were formerly
meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or
updated:
- 21.02.02 new: Times Of Lore (Origin) done by CFOU!
- 21.02.02 new: Test Drive 2 - The Duel (Accolade) done by JOTD
- 21.02.02 improved: Last Action Hero (Psygnosis) misc improvements
- 21.02.02 new: Joe & Mac (Caveman Ninja) (Data East) done by CFOU!
- 21.02.02 improved: Into the Eagle's Nest (Pandora) supports another version
- 21.02.02 improved: Elvira - The Arcade Game (Flair Software) supports another version
- 20.02.02 new: Turrican 2 Demo (Rainbow Arts) done by Psygore
- 20.02.02 new: Misery Dentro 2 (TRSI) done by Psygore
- 20.02.02 new: Darius+ (The Edge/Taito) done by CFOU!
- 20.02.02 improved: Blastar (Core Design) misc changes
(ps)
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22.Feb.2002
Marius Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Warp3D for all A3000 & A4000 Mediator models
Elbox Computer is happy to inform that now the complete line of Mediator
PCI busboards is supported with Warp3D Voodoo drivers.
Warp3D Voodoo are being released today for the following Mediator models:
Mediator PCI 3000D,
Mediator PCI 4000,
Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 3/4000T
and Mediator PCI ZIII.
Warp3D drivers prepared by
Hyperion Entertainment
for Mediator PCI busboards work flawlessly on PPC & 68k processors with:
- Voodoo3 2000/3000,
- Voodoo4 4500, and
- Voodoo5 5500 graphic cards.
Warp3D Voodoo drivers are part of the software package bundled with
all models of the Mediator PCI busboard product line. Warp3D Voodoo drivers
are available free of charge for all registered users of Mediator PCI busboards
- directly and exclusively from Elbox Computer. (ps)
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