01.Oct.2001
amiga.org
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #51
Issue number 51 of the online-magazine Amiga Information Online (AIO) is now available.
AIO use their own viewer, available for AmigaOS.
Download: AIOV51.LHA
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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01.Oct.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech Statement on AmigaOne/OS4
On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse responds to requests regarding the AmigaOne / OS4.0 development
status and to reclamations regarding the long period of time without any new announcement.
>>The Eyetech timeline hasn't been updated for over a quarter (northern
hemisphere tm.) ;) and as I see it, we are, in a way, partners with
Eyetech and Amiga Inc. and so it would be courteous and helpful if they
could give us some kind of update on the situation. Delays if necessary
are fine (well, y'know what I mean) and I certainly don't want to add to
the pressures that Alan and Eyetech etc are already under, but I think it
would be reasonable to break the silence.
>Would giving you / anyone on this list / me more information affect how many
units they ship? Businesses aren't courteous because they're, well, because
they're businesses I guess.
It is about business, not about a lack of courteousness and, particularly,
the A1 project is not a reality TV show or soap opera.
This is a complex, specialist project that no large (sane?) company would
undertake for a small and diminishing market. The end result has to be
affordable, despite the small production runs so the whole development has
to be done under very tight cost control.
Of course in any complex project there are snags and solutions, holdups and
breakthroughs almost daily, many of which are outside our and our partners
control. However it is our collective jobs to sort them out professionally
and not to conduct our daily business lives as if we were on Big Brother,
Loft Story (or whatever its called in your country).
This is also made more difficult by us trying to be as open as possible
within the bounds of NDA's and the propensity of mailing lists to
rumourmonger. We have deliberately kept this list open, but the commercial
downside is that Bill Hoggett misses no opportunity to promote Amithlon and
knock the whole PPC concept, Paul Qureshi doesn't love Eyetech (for some
reason that I'm unclear about) and thinks Elbox's rumoured solution is best.
And we know Ralph Schmidt is in the list representing the interests of bplan
who are also intending to compete for the contents of Amigan's wallets. All
that means that we have to be even more aware of the misinterpretation of
any information that we put out.
Its also common and public knowledge (ie Bill said it in his St Louis
speech) that Amiga Inc are having difficulty raising their second round of
finance since the tech meltdown earlier this year. This has inevitably had
an effect on the level of resources that they have been able to put into the
A1/OS4.x project, and there has therefore had to be a reallocation of
financial and operational responsibilities within it across the other
partners. This all takes time (and money) to sort out and so, yes there have
been some delays. And it is obviously important to treat all the A1/OS4.0
work as a single project because it is clearly not feasible to sell the
hardware in advance of the OS being ready - all you get then is a very
expensive but not very functional paperweight.
However OS4.0 is now well under way and looks like it will make a November
release, but maybe not the 1st.
So why has there been silence?
- Everyone wants certainty in announcements, either to plan and be
reassured, or to snipe and start rumours. There is no point in making
announcements while negotiations are still proceeding and therefore some
aspects of the outcome are still uncertain.
- Amiga Inc has been on the verge (and still is) of obtaining a substantial
funding package for the past few months, which would clearly change the
resources available for the project substantially. We have all been hoping
to make a joint news announcement incorporating this and its effect on the
A1/OS4.x project.
- There are many individuals providing input to the project and they all
need to be consulted prior to making substantive announcements. In fact I'm
probably breaking my own code of conduct in this respect by posting this
note.
Ok thats not a lot, but its all this list is getting from me today. I hope
it helps.
Alan
PS Several people have commented that they think we have a monopoly
supply position with the A1 board. Well we do have the only PPC product that
will run OS4.0 (although we are pressing for OS4.0 to be released for the
Cyberstorm PPC as well), but that is because OS4.0 needs an existing Classic
Amiga chipset to run. In theory there would be nothing to stop someone (eg
bplan) designing a pci card with the classic chipset on and using it as the
basis of the classic compatibility on a CHRP-compatible board. But the
economics of doing this just don't add up, particularly when A1200's are
readily and cheaply available (the type - PAL or NTSC - doesn't matter) and
there would be a significant amount of additional work in porting/testing
OS4.0 to work on this new card. Given the small market size there is really
only scope for one A1-type product. If someone else had been mad enough to
decide to build one we would almost certainly have decided to drop out - so
there would still have been only a single product to choose from.
(ps)
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01.Oct.2001
Jürgen Haage (E-Mail)
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H&P answers questions about AmigaOS XL FAQ
As reported H&P made a German online FAQ about the
emulator AmigaOS XL available. After reading the FAQ I asked Jürgen Haage some questions concerning the point 30.
Following you will find the answers.
FAQ:
30. What about AmigaOS 4.0?
The development is managed by Amiga Inc.
Question to H&P:
AmigaOS 4.0 should be exhibited with the AmigaOne in November this year. Does the follwing sentence mean that H&P is not
currently working on AmigaOS 4.0 for AmigaOne?
Jürgen Haage:
As you may know the discussion started early this year. The first prototypes were planned for March. We planned the
development of our part of AmigaOS4 according to this date. The first presentation was expected for the St. Louis Show
in April...
But up until know we still have no hardware to develop for.
FAQ:
It is mainly a porting of AmigaOS 3.9 to PPC. Only some few new components are planned for this release. They are also
available for 68k and could be easyly used with Amithlon/AmigaXL. But this is a decision of Amiga Inc.
Question to H&P:
This means that it is only some political decision made by Amiga Inc. if OS4 will be available for Classic-Amigas?
Jürgen Haage:
There are some important assumptions to be able to make a political decision. I do not think that these assumptions are
available at the moment.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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30.Sep.2001
Thomas Igracki (ANF)
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Audio: cddb.library
With this library every programmer can integrate CDDB support in his/her
programs without knowledge of cddb protokols or tcp/ip.
CDDB is about a database of audio CDs from which one can draw title, track title, etc. of any
desired audio CD.
Download: cddb-lib.lzx
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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30.Sep.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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Aminet: Initial beta version of the new amiNET.GUI
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
The amiNET.GUI is being reworked completely to be changed from a
static HTML site to a dynamic PHP script.
This will bring much advantages to the users.
Now I'm able to offer the dowload pages in several languages and can even add
more languages without any problem.
Moreover an automatic debriefing of the MOD (Message Of the Day) is
possible. So the user immediately will be informed about trojans or viruses,
if appear in the Aminet.
Before long it also will be possible to automatically let create a message on
the news page, if you upload using amiNET.GUI
Soon I will be able to offer an operative version of AULA.
An initial beta version of the new amiNET.GUI is online. This is far from
containing all of the functions, but already views the direction the
amiNET.GUI is going.
My ambition is to get the amiNET.GUI off beta status until the
Amiga meeting on 17. November 2001 in Bremen, Germany.
I would be very happy to learn about your opinion and/or suggestions,
cause the amiNET.GUI wasn't made for me only, but for you.
(sd)
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30.Sep.2001
AmigaArt
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Audio: Betas of AHI V5.17 and paula.audio V4.27
Martin Blom released beta version 5.17 of the 'ahi.device' for
PPC/68k, and beta version 4.27 of 'paula.audio'.
This release contains bugfixes for AmigaOS, MorphOS, and Amithlon.
Download shortcut: www.lysator.liu.se/~lcs/files/ahi/beta/
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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30.Sep.2001
Amiga-News.net (ANF)
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Ride agency to the show and other events
xandiy wrote:
Like all the other past years, again I offer a ride agency. This time
at Amiga-News.net (has nothing to do with amiga-news.de).
Me and other Amiga devotees would be happy about many offers and requests.
xandiy
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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30.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Amiga-Society: Software page extended, Schlachtfeld bugfix
The Amiga-Society website was updated.
New or extended articles were added to the software page, primarily by the help
of Nico Barbat, Falke Verlag (AMIGAplus).
The current archives for the strategy game
Schlachtfeld were missing
the sound files 6_24 to 6_28. On 30. September those missing sounds were included and
released on the
download page.
Download: Schlachtfeld2_V2.15.lzx (1613K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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30.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Event: AMIGA World 2001 on 17./18. November 2001 (update)
Amiga Future magazine on their website
report about the 'Amiga WORLD 2001' to take place on 17th and 18th November
2001 in the 'Mediapark 6' in Cologne. About 400 m² of exhibition space is
available there. The Falke Verlag is organizer of this fair.
Amiga Future established a
thread
on this show in their forum with topical news and discussions.
According to AMIGAplus magazine the following exhibitors
would attend this show:
- Amiga Inc.
- AMIGAplus
- Amiga Active
- Amiga Future
- APC&TCP
- bplan
- Cloanto
- COOLbits
- DCE
- Eternity
- e.p.i.c. interactive
- Haage & Partner
- Hyperion
- individual Computer
- KDH Datentechnik
- Matay
- Merlancia or Vesalia
(sd)
Update 01. October 2001:
From today, on the website for this Amiga show it is
mentioned that this show is called 'AMIGA 2001' and will take place in the KOMED in Cologne, Germany. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Sep.2001
Oliver Förster (ANF)
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Music: Sid4 Amiga Beta V3.34
On 28. September 2001 Paul Heams has released a new beta version
of the SID-(C64-music-)player 'SID4Amiga'.
New is a 'Reverb' routine which makes it possible to add a bit atmosphere to
the good old pieces of C64-music.
Download: S4AB_334.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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30.Sep.2001
Olaf Koebnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with J. Jalkanen and full version of
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
Janne Jalkanen, developer of the image editing software "PPT" answered
the questions of the Amiga Arena and unveiled interesting stuff about
his future and the AmigaDE.
Amiga Arena - BladeHD
After many users weren't able to run the Amiga Arena version of the RPG game
"Blade" by Mark S., the final German version is available for exclusive donwload.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Sep.2001
Soren Ladegaard (ANF)
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More C= Commodore TV-commercials
A 16 second videoclip (mpeg) showing "Commodore Amiga präsentiert -
Seaquest DSV" recorded from German RTL television is now available for
download at
The Commodore Billboard
in the "Commercials -> Amiga" section. Audio preview available too. (ps)
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30.Sep.2001
Tom,s Hardware Guide
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Tom's Hardware Guide: ATi Radeon 7500: Class for the mass
»ATi a bit precipitated made inroads into the editorial offices with
prototypes
of the Radeon 7500 and 8500. Now the final silicon was finished for the cheaper variant Radeon 7500
and it now is shipping to the vendors. Innately this board comes with dual monitor support and a
TV out connector.«
Complete article (German) see title link.
More articles about this subject:
Tom's Hardware Guide: GeForce3 Under Attack: ATi's Radeon 8500 Previewed
Tom's Hardware Guide: SMARTSHADER - Up The Pixel Shader Ladder
Tom's Hardware Guide: Matrox Launches The G550
Tom's Hardware Guide: More articles from the graphics boards field.
(cm) (Translation: mj)
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30.Sep.2001
Hard Tecs 4U
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Hard Tecs 4U: Prices for the new Athlon XP turned up
»Initial information about prices for the new Athlon XP turned up
at The Register.«
Complete article see title link. (cm)
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30.Sep.2001
Tom's Hardware Guide
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Tom's Hardware Guide: TFT prices still in downtrend
»Market investigators continue to expect TFT screen prices to tend downwards.
Near the end of 3Q01 prices for these handy displays will be about 20% cheaper than
early this year. The analyzers all in all expect twice as much devices to be sold in
2001 compared to sales of the previous year.«
Complete article (German) see title link. (cm) (Translation: mj)
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29.Sep.2001
Jens Henschel (ANF)
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AMIGAplus forum online again
Today at 14:30 h has the AMIGAplus forum gone online again. The bugs were
removed and the design got a revision. Enjoy posting!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Tool: giFT V0.9.6
giFT V0.9.6 is a generic interface to FastTrack, the Peer-to-Peer
network that is used by Morpheus, KaZaA and Grokster for shared use of files.
Available for download are versions for 020, 040 and 060 CPUs as well as a
MorphOS version.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
programmed-excellence.de
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Genealogy program for Amiga in the works
Sven Dröge is working on a genealogy program for the Amiga.
The idea for this program came him when Sven looked at his father-in-law who
was doing some investigation about his family. That man entered personal data
into some software on the PC. The PC software owns an export function into the
GEDCOM format, the default data exchange format for family tree data. Sven
Dröge asked his father-in-law to open such a file for him, and he got
information about this format from the Internet.
As further investigation showed that such software doesn't exist for the Amiga,
the decision was made to program a genealogy program himself.
´Dynasty´ was born and the plan is to make Dynasty that
genealogy program for the AMIGA. You can read about already realized resp.
planned features under the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Volker Grabbe (email)
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Scanner calibration software ICS for AmigaOS 4?
Volker Grabbe has asked Wolf Faust, the programmer of the scanner calibration
software ICS, about the future development of this software.
With permission by Wolf Faust we release the questions and answers:
Volker Grabbe:
Good day, Mr. Faust, as I use on my A4K Scanquix 5, I'd like to ask you a
question. What about coming support of the AmigaOS 4.x from your side? May Amiga
Inc. possibly have approached you because of your product to be integrated into
the OS?
Wolf Faust:
No. AmigaOS 4 is at least for me rather far away. Neither was I asked about it.
And even if so, right now there's simply a lack of time for something like this.
And even if there would be time there had to be something happening financially
to view OS 4 as development platform. In the end the investments into OS 4
have to pay back sometime. Many of the developments here in the last time are
extremly expensive and would almost be not financeable even in the best of Amiga
times.
Volker Grabbe:
I didn't want to embarrass you with my questions yet I am curious about the
future.
Wolf Faust:
Quite clear: there'll be only developments that aren't Amiga specific. But Amiga
users make profit of the expensive developments for PC/Mac. It would be
inconceivable for example to realize the coming offer for transparency units only
for Amiga users. The investments alone for the machine/working time are
running into the hundreds of thousands.
But when I look at the little number of accesses by Amiga users to my website etc. I'm beginning to doubt that even this makes still sense in the long
run.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Stefan Blixth (email)
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OnyxSoft: Cathedral v1.1 and updates
New Program : Cathedral (version 1.1)
Information : - This is a program made to create
really *phat* reverb effects on
audio samples.
- Included engines :
* 68020 (w/o FPU)
* 68040 (FPU)
* PPC-WarpOS
* PPC-PowerUP
Use your PPC to create "phat"
echo-effects very quikcly :-)
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New version : DECH (version 1.4)
Information : - It can now be used for other
compilers than AmigaE!
- It's possible to save 5 different
pre-defined command-lines for
your five favourite compilers.
- Plus other useful changes.
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New version : TheMPegEncGUI (version 2.08)
Information : - Added a settable delay between
the encoding of files in the list
to let the filesystem save it's
directory structure to prevent
eventual loss of finished mp3's
in case of a crash.
- Added some modes for Lame.
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And if you have some minutes over, please fill
in our little survey at:
http://www.onyxsoft.nu/survey.html (ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Werner Lange (email)
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HCS Lange: no calls possible until 1.10.2001 (Update)
As the Amiga repair company HCS Lange has moved recently it cannot be contacted via
phone because of the switching of the telephone number. From 02.10.2001 on
should the line work again.
HCS Lange
AMIGA & COMMODORE SERVICE
32756 Detmold
Phone and Fax 05231 - 34530
Update 30.09.2001:
HCS Lange is available via email. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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