23.Jan.2002
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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Amiga Inc.: Executive Update
Bill McEwen discusses the status of a new Set-top Box partner for the
Amiga DE.
Greetings one and all:
I have been receiving many e-mails reminding me of the need to announce the
STB OEM partner. We are well aware that it was scheduled for last week and
we were expecting the legal department of the partner to have released the
press release. Unfortunately, when you are dealing with multi-billion dollar companies, it can more often than not take longer than planned.
We did receive the OK to announce to our developers and this was accomplished last week. So all of the NDA developers do know about the deal and the details of the singed OEM deal, however we are going to have to wait a little while longer for the rest of the Amiga community to see the public release.
I am sorry, but it will be worth the wait. In fact we will probably have a
couple more that we can announce at the same time.
So the NDA developers were notified last week, and we should have the public announcement out by next week.
Bill McEwen
CEO Amiga Inc.
bill@amiga.com (ps)
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23.Jan.2002
Newsgroup de.comp.sys.amiga.unix + de.admin.news.group (ANF)
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Vote about deletion of de.comp.sys.amiga.unix running
The annual vote about the deletion of the newsgroup de.comp.sys.amiga.unix has started. Last year there were enough cons preventing it - what about this year?
If you want to participate please read the original article (see below) in the usenet-news and answer via email.
news:<cfv1-rmgroup-de.comp.sys.amiga.unix-23.01.2002@dana.de>
news:de.comp.sys.amiga.unix
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jan.2002
amiga-topcool.de / Daniel Orth (ANF)
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amiga-topcool: Interview with Hans Jörg Frieden
On amiga-topcool there is a topical interview with Hans Jörg Frieden from Hyperion. Topic: AmigaOS 4. Frieden answered the following questions: What put the idea in your head? Is it really better than MorphOS? What is new since OS 3.9? Which hardware will be required by the new OS?
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jan.2002
Amigaland
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Amigaland: New game and "Fußball Total" fixed
Amigaland offers games (legal, thanks to the software groups for their release) as well as demos, emu-tools and emulators for download. You can also find many information to AmigaOS. From today on you can download the cult game called "Doom". Doom has been the first 3d-shooter for the PC and has been later ported to the Amiga.
The game 'Fußball Total' has been fixed. The first archive was infected by a virus but the current one is clean!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jan.2002
Frederic Boisdron (E-Mail)
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Event: Invitation to SIIA 2002 in France
Hello from France,
The 2002 autumn will be the birth of the great SIIA (International
Alternative Computer Exposition in French) in the little town of Sainte
Marie de Redon (South of Britanny) near Nantes and Rennes. This expo would
like to be THE best expo in the world of alternative computing !
All the formats will be represented : AmigaOS, TOS, RiscOS, Linux, BeOS,
QNX, BSD, CPC and many, many more...
This expo will be implemented on one weekend in November 2002. Some hotels
services will be available near Sainte Marie with good prices. You can go to
the expo by car, train, boat (on the Vilaine river) and by plane (tourism
plane).
The cost to be represented at the expo with a stand will be very cheap
(maybe free).
This mail is done to invite you to join us to the party !
You can have some information with :
Mail:
webmaster@toutou-net.com or
frederic.boisdron@atosorigin.com
Phone:
+33 299 720 663 (after 5:00 PM)
+33 677 358 726 (portable)
Or by snail mail:
BOISDRON Frédéric
La Belle Etoile
F-35600 SAINTE MARIE
(ps)
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23.Jan.2002
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Motorola with deficit of a billion (Update)
In the fourth quarter in 2001 the chip- and handy-producer of Motorola had a deficit of 1.4 billion Euro. Thus the sale lowered from 10.1 billion US-Dollar to 7.32 billion dollar. Despite of this negative numbers the president Edward Breen is confident of the future and hopes to black from the second half year. In order to gain this goal the amount of the staff members will be reduced from 150,000 to 101,600 until the end of the year.
Have a look at the title link for the full Heise article.
Update 24.01.2002:
Heise: Motorola closed four factories of semiconductors
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jan.2002
News-area of the website of Metabox (not press) (ANF)
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Metabox sells Beta-Boxen, Metabox 1000 to developer
22.January 2002
Offering Beta- met@box1000 to developer and interested beta-tester
We want to proof that met@box 1000 is a usable device for private households. You are supposed to make sure of practical use of the several times introduced settop-boxes. You make sure of it, you are supposed to belong to the first people who have the possibility of enjoying this multimedial product in your own four rooms.
We emphasizes that your order is the basic for optmizing the forthcoming mass production. This special production is only possible with your support. For that we guarantee that we will treat this "circle of early orderer" in a very special way.
Because of that we specially address to shareholders, developer and interested beta-tester and we want to submit you the following offer of met@box 1000:
Equipment:
- Satellite box FTA
- Digital receiver
- DVD-drive
- Parallel Port
- Ethernet (for DSL / Lan) or modem (V90)
- Internet Html 4, JPEG, BMP, GIF, Macromedia Flash 3.0
- PiP (Picture in Picture)
- Simple Menu structure
- Ingenious keyboard
- Additional equipment (still in test phase, still not usable)
This offer has the following conditions:
Acceptance of order and start of production after receipt of 100 orders under prepayment.
Delivery of a usable beta-test settop-box.
Time of delivery ca. 12-16 weeks
Because of this offer you have the following chances:
- Beta-test with extensive support
- Possible offers on the part of market research institutes
- Possible first interactive TV-content in Germany
- Possible further participance of introducing projects in Germany (e.g. video on demand)
- Participance to opinion polls and experience reports
The possibilities of the met@box 1000 are various and contain the whole spectrum of digital television. You can receive all open digital channels like ARD digital and ZDF digital. Additionally you can receive more than 200 free digital broadcats. The met@box 1000 offers an outstanding browser-picture quality. Therefore you can optimally surf in the Internet via TV. Besides this the box offers simultaneous watching television and browsing through the Internet (picture in picture).
Additional fetatures:
- DVD's, video CD's, MP3- and music-CDs
- HTML based interactive television
- Webmail
During the 23.01.2002 you will find an ordering formular and the corresponding account number. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Financial software: Bugfix for Bonds V1.85
There is a first bugfix for Bonds v1.85 on the homepage (title link). It replaces
the old exe file with a new one.
Fixed:
- Umlauts now correct.
- Crash in the depot stock window, if stock = 0.
- Changing fonts caused crash.
- Some more little things.
Still not fixed is the problem with the object data list which may occur
if thre are two objects with the same first words (e.g. "SAP VZ" and "SAP ST").
Sven Dröge advices everybody who has MagicMenu installed
to enable NON-BLOCKING in its options. Otherwise it may come that the menu choice
could be overlooked.
Furthermore configuration files from elder versions of Bonds should not be used, since
in part internet regarding settings had to be adjusted. In any case settings should be
compared to the included configuration.
Bonds is a shareware financial software to maintain security papers of any kind.
But the main focus is on shares. This software was especially designed for the German
financial market place and handles best security papers dealt in Germany, since
it uses the numbering system for security papers of the German stock-market. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Jan.2002
morphos-news.de
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Logfile of the Chats with Salvador Fernandez Gomez of bplan
On Monday on the IRC channel #AmigaFun the chat with Salvador
Fernandez Gomez of bplan has taken place. You will find it under the title link.
You can also find the logfile on the homepage of the usergroup AUG99.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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22.Jan.2002
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: News about Feeble Files for Amiga 68k and PPC
The Feeble Files is currently in the final stages of betatesting for both 68k
and PPC Amigas. We expect the game to be finished and go into production
within the next week or so, which means the game should be shipping by
early/mid february 2002. The Feeble Files will require an Amiga equipped
with minimum a 68060, a 4 MByte GFX board and 32 MByte RAM but a PPC
equipped Amiga is recommended.
Some users of the PPC version of EARTH 2140 MISSIONPACK:THE FINAL CONFLICT
experienced problems with the game. The new update provided by Pagan Games
is available from the download section of our website now and should
eliminate these problems. However, if you did NOT experience any problems
with THE FINAL CONFLICT please do NOT install this update.
(ps)
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22.Jan.2002
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Audio: New audioprocessing program "Samplemanager"
You can find version 0.10 of my audio reworking tools "Samplemanager" in the Aminet for download. It loads/saves AIFF, WAV, MAUD, 8SVX, CDDA and RAW samples and is in "Audiomaster" style for easy handling and usage.
The routines are written high optimized 68k Assembler and very fast.
Some features of the tool:
- "Aussteuern" to 0dB
- In-/Out fading
- Cut spaces on start and stop
- realtime effects like Compressor / Softclipper / Stereospreader/ Equalizer/ Enhancer/ Autotune
- sample rates / bit resolution / converting data formats
- complete Undo History
Some bugfixes since version 0.9 were done. The title link leads to the search requester of the Aminet.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Jan.2002
Cj-Stroker (ANF)
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Music: New song on Amiforce
Amiforce published a new song.
So feel free to download and listen to this Trance-song.
You will find it in the music-section of the homepage of Amiforce.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Jan.2002
Thomas Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion: Presse Release Amiga OS 4.0 development update
Amiga OS 4.0 development update
Leuven, Belgium, January 21, 2002.
Let me start off by wishing everybody in the Amiga community all the
best in 2002!
As you know, on November 1, 2001 Hyperion Entertainment entered into
a license agreement with Amiga Inc. to produce Amiga OS 4.0 for PPC
based systems.
Since my presentation in Cologne at the Amiga 2001 show on November
17-18, very substantial progress was made which I am now ready to
share with you.
Some of you have expressed some misgivings about the lack of progress
reports on OS 4.0 development but I hope I can count on your
understanding as all of us have been extremely busy, even through
the holiday season, to bring you what is unquestionably the most
ambitious OS upgrade since Amiga OS 3.0.
Now I know that many of you are sceptical because of the scope of
the project and because similar promises were made in the past.
To those people I would like to point out that Hyperion Entertainment
does not enter into contracts lightly and that we have a track-record
carrying out commercial development and contract-work for Windows,
Mac, Linux, Amiga and Amiga DE/Elate.
We have brought together a truly impressive development team of some 25
people building on the OS 3.5 and 3.9 development team whilst adding
several well-known and respected Amiga developers to the mix.
I'm very pleased to say that Dave Haynie has agreed to serve as a
technical consultant.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a more experienced team for the job!
The feature-set of OS 4.0 has now been finalised to a large extent.
We can't guarantee that every single feature listed here will make it
in the initial release of OS 4.0 but this is the feature-set that we
have contractually committed to delivering.
You will also note that for the first time in many, many years very
substantial work is being done on Intuition, one of the core elements
of the Amiga OS. Having a PPC native version of Intuition available
will make a very noticeable difference speed-wise.
We intend for OS 4.0 to be disk-based or at least partly disk-based and
partly flashrom based even for current Amiga's. More about that in a
later update.
We also intend for OS 4.0 to be installed effortlessly from CD and
from scratch without the need for an existing OS install.
As we have taken on more work (Intuition etc.) and folded some of the
functionality originally planned for OS 4.2 into OS 4.0, this inevitably
means the original February release-date might slip somewhat but all in
all we believe that the end-result will be technologically more satisfying.
Come end of January, I hope to have the biggest chunk of the legal work
for OS 4.0 behind me which will allow me to provide you with more regular
updates.
I know full well that your patience has been sorely tested over the last
years so I understand your impatience and even your scepticism but I can
assure you that the Amiga OS is in good hands and that we will deliver.
In closing, I would like to invite everybody out there who (out of an
understandable frustration with the neglect of the Amiga OS by its
respective past owners) decided to take matters in his own hands, to
work with us, rather than against us.
Ben Hermans, LL.M
Managing partner Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Amiga OS 4.0 provisional feature list
Exec Second Generation (Exec SG)
Exec is the kernel of the AmigaOS and is currently written in 68K assembly.
Exec is being re-written in C and new functionality will be introduced to
allow the deployment of OS 4.x on any suitable PPC hardware.
The following features are planned:
- Hardware abstraction layer
- Virtual memory
- New library interface
- Resource tracking and management
- Optional memory protection
- WarpOS backwards compatibility
68K "Just in Time" emulation
PPC native TCP/IP stack
- implemented as a single shared library
- compatible with the Amiga standard "bsdsocket" API, as defined by the AmiTCP product
- enhanced API for more control over the inner workings and configuration
- built-in DHCP client (e.g. for cable modems)
- Internet Superserver (inetd)
- IP filtering and networking address translation
- drivers for asynchronous PPP (dial-up networking) and PPP over Ethernet (for ADSL and cable modems)
- AmiSSL V2.0
PPC native filesystem (FFS2)
FFS2 is a fully backwards compatible re-implementation in C of the Fast
File System. It supports media > 4 GByte, and a new variant of the
file/directory name storage format which allows for long file names
(up to 108 characters).
Recovery and Salvage tools
Comprehensive suite of salvage and recovery tools including Salvage,
Undelete, Unformat, Repair, RDBSalv, ReOrg/Defrag, Check Integrity etc.
PPC native RTG system
The PPC native RTG system (based on Picasso 96 V3) allows for the use
of modern graphics cards on the Amiga.
Drivers for all current Zorro II/III cards as well as drivers for the
Permedia 2/3, Voodoo 3, Matrox G450/G550 and ATI Radeon are planned.
An arithmetically optimised PPC native version of layers.library is
also planned.
Warp3D
New version of Warp3D, the powerful yet low-level 3D API which is both
available on the classic Amiga and intent/Amiga DE and which allows
developers to rapidly migrate 3D content between both platforms.
Drivers for Permedia 2/3, Voodoo 3, Matrox G450/G550 and ATI Radeon are
planned.
OpenGL 1.3 support (Mesa 4.0)
OpenGL is a cross-platform (Mac, Linux, Windows, AmigaDE etc.) high-level
3D API originally developed by Silicon Graphics.
Support for OpenGL 1.3 will be provided by porting the open source project
Mesa (which now passes all SGI compliance tests) which will sit on top of
Warp3D so that graphics-card functionality not currently offered by the
OpenGL API may be supported nonetheless.
PPC native RTA system (AHI)
A Retargetable Audio System allows the use of plug-in sound cards
(PCI or Zorro II).
AHI by Martin Blom is currently the de facto standard on the Amiga and
a PPC native version will be offered with support for a wide variety of
sound cards including but not limited to all current Amiga sound cards and
the Soundblaster 128 and Live (EMU10K1) cards.
PPC native Intuition and Reaction
Reaction is the BOOPSI based GUI system for the Amiga, introduced in
OS 3.5 and extended in OS 3.9.
Moreover a new preferences system will allow the user to change more
aspects of the GUI.
Other features:
- Drag and Drop support
- New "ghosted" look
Intuition will sport the following new features (more planned):
- New DrawInfo pens
- Enhanced window borders
- Resolution-adaptive system gadgets
- User-selectable styles for system glyphs and 3D frames with support for external plug-ins
- Configurable look for proportional gadgets
- New-style (3D recessed) "disabled" look for gadgets where applicable
- Gad-Tools enhancements (pop-up capability for cycle gadgets etc.)
- Full-user control of Workbench palette
SCSI drivers for SCRIPTS based SCSI controllers
WarpInput API (working title)
WarpInput is an API for multimedia controller devices (akin to DirectInput
on Windows) which allows a programmer to provide support through one API
for a wide variety of input-devices such as keyboard, mouse, joysticks
(analog and digital), track-ball, Playstation controller etc.
Minimal USB stack
PPC native datatypes
New HDToolbox replacement
Support for TrueType/OpenType fonts
(ps)
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21.Jan.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 20.01.2002)
WHDLoad helps you to install your old game to your harddisc. The following packages were added or updated:
- 20.01.02 new: Magicland Dizzy (Codemasters) done by Abaddon
- 20.01.02 new: Harlequin (Gremlin) done by Abaddon
- 20.01.02 improved: D/Generation (Mindscape) supports CD³² version too
- 20.01.02 fixed: Car Vup (Core Design) misc changes
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Jan.2002
BusinessWeek
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BusinessWeek: Apple Special
There is a new article about Apple at the BusinessWeek-homepage.
A subpage of this article is dealing with GUI and easier computers.
»Instead of starting out with hardware and software as
the first design step, I said what we are going to need if we
want to reach millions of people is to start with the question
of what do people do with a computer, and how do they do it.
What is the interface like? And then design the hardware and
software to support that. This is why the Macintosh was unlike
any commercial product that came before it. (Jef Raskin)« (ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Jan.2002
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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Screenshots of Quake 2 for Amiga
Quake2 for Amiga is not finished yet but now there are some screenshots available. These pics were took from different "Quake2 Mods" that will be available with the release of the game.
You can find the screenshots here:
Steffen Häuser (ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2002
VWP News (E-Mail)
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Audio: WaveTracer DS now Freeware
Virtual Worlds Productions writes:
The WaveTracer DS, a substantial soundtool, that supports surround sound
and editing apart from a lot of known standard functions, is now
available as freeware. It can be downloaded free of charge from
http://www.VirtualWorlds.de/WT/downloads.html
All copyright references which refer to shareware or any commercial sale
are not valid any longer. The complete package can now be freely circulated
as long as the data files have not been modified.
VWP keeps the copyright. For further information about installation and
software check out
http://www.VirtualWorlds.de/WT/downloads.html
Amiga: We need your help!
We have reason to believe that the former distributor of WaveTracer DS
sold more units than he actually registered with us. In order to prove
this presumed miscalculation we need the help of all those who have bought
the WaveTracer DS in recent years.
Under http://www.VirtualWorlds.de/form.html
a form is available where you can fill in your data anonymously.
Alternatively, you can send an e-mail stating when you bought your
WaveTracer DS and at what price.
Virtual Worlds Productions would like to thank you for your efforts in
advance.
We also regret that the further development of the WaveTracer DS was
amongst other things also stopped due to a lack of interest. That
this assumtion turned out to be wrong has unfortunately become apparent
too late.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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20.Jan.2002
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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AUG99: Present your Computers
Matthias Münch writes:
We've started a new project and we would like to create a small
gallery of your Amiga computers.
Since there's already a very nice gallery of your Workbench available
NoRiscNoFun-Team, we would like
to see the matching computers.
So just take a few pictures of your amiga and send us the nicest one
either directly via email or
just use the
form.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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20.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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dynAMIte: New Style - Enlightenment, Update of Polish Catalogue
On 20 January 2002 the style
"Enlightenment"
was released for the Bomberman-/Dynablaster-Clone "dynAMIte".
This is a graphic set inspired by Druid II and created by Jupp3.
Besides an update of the Polish catalogue was published.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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20.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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AmigaOS: Kickstart-Guide
On 19 January 2002 an English guide was published on
"Peter's Amiga Home Page"
about the Amiga-Kickstart-ROMs. The guide has been split into the
following categories:
- What is a Kickstart ROM?
- What Kickstarts are there?
- What is in the Kickstart ROM?
- Installing a new Kickstart?
- The Early Startup Screen.
- Questions about Kickstart ROMs.
- Tools and Utilities for Kickstart
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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20.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Games: New Design of "Amiga Online Games"-Website
Via the title link you can see the new design of the
"Amiga Online Games" website.
The website gives you information about Amiga games that can
be played via nullmodem, modem or TCP/IP.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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