11.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: Update of Schlachtfeld
Horst Diebel wrote:
At the Schlachtfeld area there are to see some units in 'TarnBlau' (masking blue)
by Edgar Leidig (under "Instruktionen"). This masking colour was already
determined for one party in Schlachtfeld Phase 2.
Moreover we would like to announce a graphics competition about the subject
Schlachtfeld. More to learn about after a few days.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
ANN
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BBS: DLG Pro BBS reminder site
Jeff Grimmett has put online on his DSL homepage a website DLG 'Memorial'
about the BBS system (mailbox) of same denominator. This site contains
the final DLG beta version including source code
from the time when development was stopped.
Before long additionally there will be available a commented source code as well as
- if there will be enough time - a postscript version of the manual.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
amiga.org
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AROS: IBM-PC/native on one disk from 10. Oct. 2001
On 10. October 2001 Matt Parsons has released a new version of AROS
for IBM compatible PCs. Interested people can download and test it and
report bugs and problems to
Matt Parsons.
This new version loads faster and contains many small demo programs
for testing and playing around with.
At the time there is no desktop, but is to come. Furthermore there will
be some utility disks with a bundle of Aminet programs for testing.
AROS is an open source project to implement a portable AmigaOS v3.1
compatible OS.
Download: AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip (800K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
Norman Thiel (ANF)
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Library: vapor_toolkit V15.11
On 7. October 2001 version 15.11 of the 'vapor_toolkit' library was released.
The vapor_toolkit.library is a library of support functions which
are used by most Vapor applications and thus can be shared to
reduce individual application code size. Changes since version 15.8:
- more error checking in the library initialization (Zapek)
- optimized memory usage for some functions (Zapek)
- added "html" as built-in file extension (Zapek)
- rewrote MIME handling functions. Much faster and more efficient (Zapek)
- fixed a potential crash from VAT's ARexx handler (Zapek)
- fixed the saving path of MIME entries not being always set :o) (Zapek)
- fixed the ARexx handler task crashing when the library was flushed then
reloaded again (Zapek)
- fixed MIME extensions list which would only add the first one of each
mimetype :o) (Zapek)
- fixed screwup in the class dir handling :o) (Zapek)
Download: vapor_toolkit_1511.lzx (54K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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Event: Amiga Inside News
Matthias Münch wrote:
The countdown was started for the three days 'Amiga Inside' party from 19th to
21st October in Hirsau (near Calw), Germany and some seats are still to take.
Thanks to the noble support by KDH Datentechnik we are now able to reduce the
admission charge to 5DM. Furthermore in all foresight VMC/Harald Frank will
attend the party and present the Amithlon project, which sure might be interesting
so many people. Unfortunately DCE did not agree with us firmly until now and thus
we don't expect current DCE products to be presented.
More information under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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Virus Alarm: CoolBall.lha
The file 'pix/back/CoolBall.lha' in Aminet was infected with the Bobek-2 virus in the
installer. This virus can be removed using
util/virus/VirusExecutor.lha.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
DCE (ANF)
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PCI: World premiere USB for GREX
DCE Computer Service and Vision Factory Development are proud to be able to
fulfil a long term wish of the Amiga users, at last.
Together with the GREX-PCI interface for the first time it is possible to
use USB devices with the Amiga.
On Saturday, 13th October for the first time we will present the functionality of the interface
in our demo machine to the visitors of the Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt (Germany),
which will be a world premiere.
On our website regular we will keep you informed about other news. Moreover we will establish
a special USB page within the next days. You will be able to find this page under
www.dcecom.de and
www.vgr.com/g-rex.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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10.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Database: XBaze V7
On 7th of October 2001 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7 of the database 'XBaze'. The English documentation, some bugfixes and some minor improvements have been added. You can read the changes at the download-site.
The program offers an easy to use editor for the arrays of the data record and of the layout (drag&drop).
You can send bug reports and proposals to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl
Download: 2b_XBaze-7.lha
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
ANN
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Magazine: Amiga Power #XV
Issue 15 of the French Amiga-magazine called 'Amiga Power' has been published. This issue contains tests of iFusion, Prometheus and ScanFx 3.0. Besides this it also contains hints to the configuration of Shogo and much more.
You can order the magazine over the title link. The magazine is published by the French Amiga-association 'AFLE'.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
William Bidgood (Open Amiga-ML)
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AmigaDE: Tutorial-Site of William Bidgood
William Bidgood has created a tutorial-site to the topic of AmigaDE. Presently it contains English tutorials to VP-assembler and Java. The VP-assembler tutorials give a basic introduction to the elements of the language. The Java tutorial contains hints to Java under AmigaDE.
All those who find mistakes or problems in the texts please contact William Bidgood.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
Aaron Digulla (AROS-Announce-ML)
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AROS: Status report (MorphOS, Amithlon, H&P, Amiga)
On the 9th of October 2001 Aaron Digulla, AROS, has published the following status report of AROS (which is an open source project for implementing of a portable, AmigaOS-compatible operating system) on the AROS-announce-mailinglist:
«Hello,
A long time since the last update but I can proudly reply that I keep the web
site uptodate, now :-)
Here is a short roundup what has happened since the last update:
Parts of AROS are used in the MorphOS product. MorphOS gets some shared
libraries which they need and we get patches to make Amiga software work :-)
Two members of the MorphOS team, namely Nicholai Benalal and Emmanuel Lesueur
have CVS write access and they have started to submit patches. All in all, a
very good deal on both sides :-)
Amithlon (Harald Frank) has also asked if they can use our sources and we gave
them the same deal that MorphOS got. Still, no patches on this side. As I see
it, Harald and Bernie are drowning in work :-) Good luck to them !
Neither H&P nor Amiga have asked to use our source in any of their products. I
expect them to know what they do. The times when I tried to "enlighten" others
are in the past :-) Good luck to them, also.
On the AROS side, I can say that we have achieved a lot ! At the time of
writing, the AROS CVS repository is 66MB and the contributed sources are 90MB.
Commits are very frequent (in the last few weeks, there was almost no day when
no one committed some of their work), so AROS is more healthy than ever.
And the range of software which we have is also quite impressive: We have
ported the version of DOpus which you can find on Aminet (yeah, that's old). We
have Radium (http://www.notam.uio.no/~kjetism/radium/),
a note editor which can
also play the songs you edit with it. We have a CDROM driver, the editor XDME
(which was written by me) was ported last Sunday in about 8h of work (mostly
fixing ghastly code which DICE did compile for reasons unbeknownst to me ;-)
and Python (http://www.python.org/),
the first programming language for AROS.
We also have a couple of prefs programs (Font, Locale, ReqTools, Serial) now.
While AROS still lacks a lot of things and a lot of code is, well, doing only a
fraction of what the original AmigaOS can do, it's still impressive to see how
far we did get and that gives me a very good feeling what I look into the
future. AROS Native/x86 is getting more and more stable and when a bug in the
trackdisk.device is fixed (it's *very* slow) and a feature is implemented (it
doesn't support the diskchange signal, yet, so you cannot run the demos on the
contrib floppy disks), you won't only be able to boot into an AmigaOS-like
system on your PC but you will at least be able to edit some prefs, save them
to disk and write some texts with XDME.
Our now home might lack fancy colors and designer chairs but it certainly
begins to feel like Amiga :-)
Have fun !» (sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
Lionel Thillot (ANF)
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Event: French website to AMIGA 2001
For people who speak the French language and who are going to attend the AMIGA 2001 which will take place on the 17th and 18th of November in 2001 a website has been created.
This site offers the possibility of contacting each other in order to meet at the fair.
You can get further information under http://www.woa.amedia-software.com/.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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amiNET.GUI also accessable under www.aminet-gui.net
From today on you can access amiNET.GUI under the url www.aminet-gui.net, too.
This url already refers to the new (beta-) version of amiNET.GUI.
Shortly the url www.aminet-gui.de will also refer to the new version.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2001
Martin Bertelsmann in dcsau (ANF)
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A600/A1200: PCMCIA - Compatibility list
Martin Bertelsmann guides an AmigaOS-/Linux-/NetBSD-compatibility list of the PCMCIA-cards in Amiga 600 / Amiga 1200 under the title link.
He asks for further test reports.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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09.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Game: Test of Payback (PPC) at Amiga Extreme
Amiga Extreme have already reviewed Payback, but they thought it was
appropriate to post a short review
for the PPC and Warp3D version of Payback.
(sd)
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09.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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AROS: Floppies (FAQ), XDME, Python, FPU-Bug
Aron Digulla extended the AROS-FAQ with entries about the use of
floppy drives
in UAE and AROS as well information about the
IRC channell for AROS.
Furthermore he has started to port the editor 'XDME' which was almost
finished. 'XDME' gets compiled and linked successfully - but crashes after
it was launched. This would be fixed soon.
Thanks to Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen Radium is now playing.
Adam Chodorowski corrected the installation of Python (programming language).
The runtime modules were not copied.
Georg Steger corrected the long existing FPU bug. The FPU wasn't initialized correctly
and task switching between FPU and non-FPU tasks could crash AROS. There also was a certain
error in the routine for removing a task. Steger added the missing character modes in graphics.hidd.
The private field 'initialfont' of the IntWindow structure was removed (that's what IFont in the Window
structure is for). Notification between slider and list-view gadget is more secure now.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD Update V1.05
Elbox Computer has made available
the MM CD 1.05 update for registered Mediator Multimedia CD users.
The update includes:
THE NEW DRIVER: FastEthernet.device
It is the first time when Amiga users may use the driver, which enables
using 100Mb/s network cards.
The FastEthernet driver enables using Fast Ethernet 100/10Mbps cards
based on RTL8139 chipsets in MEDIATOR PCI busboards.
Driver updates:
- TV tuner drivers ver.1.2
- Voodoo 4/5 drivers ver.4.8
- pci.library ver.4.2
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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09.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)
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Elbox: Mediator Update V2.5 und Warp3D
Elbox Computer is happy to announce
release of the long-awaited Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator PCI
busboards.
The Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator support both modes of
pci.library operation: MMU and NO_MMU.
In the NO_MMU mode, Warp3D supports the PPC and 68k processors.
In the MMU mode, Warp3D supports only the 68k processor.
The Warp3D drawer contains full release of the Warp3D
V4 for Mediator excluding the DEMO drawer. The DEMO
drawer is enclosed in the Mediator Multimedia CD and
at: http://www.elbox.com/download/Warp3D_V4_demo.lha
The following files, apart from the Warp3D, are included in
MediatorUP25.lha:
- pci.library ver.4.2 NEW
- Voodoo.card ver.2.7 NEW
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com
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09.Oct.2001
Amiga.org (ANF)
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OS-News.com: Tao-Interview
At OSNews.com an interesting interview about Amiga's role in their
partnership with Tao can be found.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS project update
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project Update
Users of AmiATLAS version 5 owning at least five additional maps will receive
version 6 at the special price of 79DM (+ shipping and handling), if they send in
the original disks and Key disk.
AmiATLAS6 is estimated to be shipping from 15. November 2001.
The preoder form can be found at the 'Aktionen' section.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Oct.2001
Zoltan Hunt (Amiga Open-ML)
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Amiga: Interview about rumours with Bill McEwen
On 8. October 2001 at 'Temple of Technology' an interview by Vidar with
Bill McEwen, Amiga Inc., was published. McEween talks about several rumours.
A short overview of what he said:
«We have more money today, than we had 6 months
ago, and we will have more money by the end of the month,
than we had since we started the company.»
The romours about and end of AmigaOS 4 are false.
The AmigaDE update is being tested and will be released soon.
The original interview is available under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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