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 :-)
----
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.
---
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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29.Sep.2001
Florian Rehnisch (ANF)
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Discussion about deleting of news:de.comp.sys.amiga.archive
On news:de.admin.news.groups they are discussing at the moment the deleting of
the newsgroup de.comp.sys.amiga.archive.
The newsgroup was used for releasing announcements and archive lists of
mailboxes and FTP sites, but is for some time now only used for daily upload
statistics of the Aminet. The proponent of the process (Simon Paqet) is thinking
that this can't be the meaning of a newsgroup that is distributed worldwide via
many news servers.
(Title link: 1.RfD via Google-Groups)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)
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Event: pictures of and report about the Amclust meeting
Michael 'MCP' Göken wrote:
The second Amclust meeting 2001 was again a full success.
The Amclust and the AC Osnabrück met last weekend.
On this occasion were many interesting views exchanged regarding the present situation of
the Amiga market and its loyal users.
As highlight Thomas Dellert presented his PCI-Board 'GREX'.
All were very impressed by the new hardware, only the price is set a little bit
too high in many users' opinion.
In addition has our Guido Mersmann introduced his keyboard adapter which
offers really many features, for example hardware password protection,
multimedia keys, computer on/off, etc..
For this exists a superb software that is also already available on Aminet. On
interest email to Geit@gmx.de.
Apart from that people had been working for three days with the Amigas.
We've taken some snapshots of this event (see title link).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - news
Good news for all users of and people interested in Digital Almanac III. After
the sales of the astronomy software had to be stopped because of defective
hardware it can go on again. There's hardware again, so the development and the sales of the CD-ROMs can restart.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Tao Group
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Tao Group: Tao Strengthens Wireless Java
Reading, England, September 27, 2001 -- Tao Group today announces it has acquired additional intellectual property software rights from ASCII Corporation in Japan to further strengthen its 'intent JavaTM Technology Edition' software suite.
The Tao Java product, compliant with industry standards and Sun Microsystems-branded, has been developed over five years and is already being installed into an array of products including digital cameras, phones, pda's, digital televisions, set top boxes, personal computers and web tablets. The various specifications supported by the intent JTE are compact and robust, and run real world content many times faster than any alternative.
Dr. Paddy Byers, Chief Technology Officer of Tao said: "Emphasis on the development of Tao's product has always been on enabling Java technology-based services that the operators and manufacturers must be able to deliver to the consumer to support their economic models. The agreement with ASCII makes our story stronger than ever."
Francis Charig, Tao's Chairman, commented: "This is an excellent acquisition for Tao as we consolidate the technology on the intent media stack for both wireless and wired devices. Our Java product is part of a comprehensive multimedia, language independent solution which is uniquely helping companies take compelling and differentiated products to market both quickly and at low cost."
The conclusion of the ASCII Agreement is the first of several key announcements by Tao in the wireless space over the coming months.
The complete press release can be found following the title link.
(ps)
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28.Sep.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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New role-playing game for Classic Amigas in the works
Project Crashsite - that'll be the name of the new role-playing game for
Classic Amigas which is currently still under development. The role-playing
game in the science fiction genre will require a CD-ROM, 68040 (minimum)
and a graphics card.
Here an excerpt from the description:
»Mankind has reached for the stars and colonized a planet system.
Far away from Sol, Future II develops into a self-sufficient economy system with
own government. Not only has this government plans for Future II but the
Sol government also. The third in the trio is McJevl, the space flight company
who made the settling and terraforming possible. McJevl has plans too, and
gets a big chance to make them reality.
Here enters the player as member of the Future Security Corps, the system-internal
police. With a team consisting of up to six characters, law and order must be
preserved in Future II. A difficult task which gets even harder as a meteor
hits one of the planets and an eye-witness of the event is being murdered before
the eyes of the Future Security Corps.
Investigations lead to the fact that this is not the only death ...«
Up-to-date information on the game development are now available at
projektcrashsite.de.
If you want to get a first impression of what the Classic Amiga is in for
you should surf by.
Comments, suggestions and critics are welcome. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
AudioLabs
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Audiosoftware: ProStationAudio compatible with G-Rex PCI bus boards
ProStationAudio is compatible with G-Rex PCI busboards by DCE and Terratec
PCI audio boards. Frank Mariak, DCE's software designer of drivers for
the G-Rex, confirms that drivers they just made for the 128i and 512i
Terratec models have passed preliminary tests for analog I/O with
ProStationAudio. Drivers for the 512i are being extended with S/P-DIF
support.
G-Rex makers and AudioLabs are actively cooperating to provide the best
compatibility between this new PCI busboard and ProStationAudio (a big
thank you to Frank for his continued and accurate work).
The G-Rex PCI busboard, available in two models for the A4000 and A1200
is a solution developed specifically for owners of P5/DCE CyberStorm and
Blizzard PPC and/or 68K CPU cards. The G-Rex 4000D replaces the stock
A4000 backplane, offering slots for PCI and Zorro cards. ProStationAudio
takes advantage as well of PCI graphic cards installed on the G-Rex.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
dynAMIteXXL
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Game: dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a
dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a, a Bomberman clone, is available for download.
dynAMIte requires from this version on the identify.library V13.
This update contains many changes which are listed in the
changes text.
Download: dynAMIte.lha -
dynAMIte.readme
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Software update for Prometheus
Matay has released small software upgrade for Prometheus - Zorro III to
PCI bridge. It consists of new version of SANA-II driver for Ethernet
cards based on RTL8029 chip, and small graphical network traffic monitor
called NetMeter. These can be downloaded from
Prometheus support page.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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