19.Jun.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Asyncio.library (68k+WarpOS) update
There's a new update for the asyncio.library with WarpOS support (V40.6).
Sadly the last version had the same problems in PPC writing mode than
before. This update fixes these problems so that there shouldn't be any
more lock-ups on writing with PPC.
If there shouldn't be any problems with it, this will be the last version
since there'll be no more optimizations by me that could make the
library more efficient.
Download: asyncioppc.lha
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19.Jun.2001
Amiga Future [News]
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Game: Aqua directly distributed by Emerald Imaging
Emerald Imaging is selling their new game 'Aqua' from now on through CCNow,
an online store that works with the Amiga and accepts all major credit cards.
Amiga dealers will be supplied directly by Emerald Imaging.
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19.Jun.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 19.06.2001
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 105K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.8
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary
AWebcolor2CED.lha comm/www 5K+Html color selecting from AWeb to CED
Dvn2-Prom.lha demo/aga 151K+Devotion 2 - Promotional Intro
wpz-frozen44.lha demo/aga 550K+Frozen#44 - Underscore Party Edition
Hjb-DVN2.lha demo/mag 1.3M+HJB - Devotion, issue two.
amiga13.lha dev/cross 73K+LUnix SDK (binary distribution)
FindChanges.lha disk/misc 96K+Finds changes made to disk
tsgui.lha disk/misc 31K+Create or write back image files from an
RDBrecov.lha disk/salv 24K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
starmagb1_ag.lha docs/mags 391K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AmigaGuide-
Mattonite.lha game/demo 475K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Warp3DDev-4.0.lha gfx/board 315K+Warp3D V4, Developer archive
ASIE.lha misc/emu 88K+ASIE (AMIGA Space Invaders Emulator)
p-interp.lha misc/emu 165K+P-Code interpreter (to run the apple pas
imdbDiff010608.lha misc/imdb 1.7M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Fire_Forget2.lha mods/misc 51K+Custom module from "Fire & Forget II"
dmdev.lha mus/play 136K+Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
EP_BeathovenSS.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "Beathoven Synthesizer" exte
EP_DaveLowe.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Dave Lowe" external replaye
EP_DaveLoweNew.lha mus/play 13K+EaglePlayer "Dave Lowe New" external rep
EP_Soundfactor.lha mus/play 7K+EaglePlayer "Soundfactory" external repl
RAPlay.lha mus/play 256K+Play/decode RealAudio v1&2 files. (w/src
HTMLstrip.lha text/misc 31K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
ltools21_demo.lha text/misc 46K+Dictionary and Document Translator
Move21.lha util/batch 7K+Moves Files, For Use With Shell (as)
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19.Jun.2001
AmiDog
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AmiDog: AMP movieplayer beta page online
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has created a download page for beta versions
of his PPC movie player 'AMP' and offers a current beta version for download.
As soon as there'll be changes to the beta version the more recent versions
will be available from the beta download page.
With 'AMP' you can currently play the following multimedia files:
- MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
- MP2/MP3 audio streams
- FLI/FLC
- AC3 streams
Download: AMP2-BETA-010618.lha
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19.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: Matrox Millennium G550 - Vertex Shader included
»After rumors had been around for months, Matrox Graphics Inc. has now
finally announced their long-awaited graphics card Millennium G550.
The graphics chip G550 working on it integrates as second - after the
much more expensive GeForce3 - a DirectX-8-compatible Vertex Shader.
Matrox nevertheless does not target the card at hardware for game freaks
but rather for online communication and web entertainment.«
Full article in German at the titlelink.
More news on the topic:
AnandTech: Matrox Millennium G550: Matrox's Next-Generation chip arrives
Toms Hardware: Matrox Launches The G550
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19.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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TecChannel: Metabox loses supporting banks
»The multimedia company which has been shaken by scandals has lost two
supporting banks. After the insolvency Merck Finck & Co as well as M.M.
Warburg quitted their cooperation with the company.
With these news a spokeswoman of Metabox confirmed a report of the online
edition of the Manager Magazine. Metabox had, however, found a new bank.
Required for the official quotation however are at least two banks. Metabox
produces settop boxes for using internet by television.«
Full German article at the titlelink. (ps)
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19.Jun.2001
GNU website
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GNU Compiler Collection version 3.0 finished
Version 3.0 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has been finished.
Now integrated is a Java compiler that creates native and Java bytecode
and an interpreter for Java bytecode. More information and details at
the titlelink.
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19.Jun.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland: 17 new games for free download
Amigaland has 17 more games for free download on their website!
These are freeware games like Blade, Spectrum,
One On One, Xenox.
All these games are by Scorpius Software
(Information Software) and were kindly provided for Amigaland.
The Amigaland logo contest with a draw and prices is still running
until July 15th.
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19.Jun.2001
Slawomir Wilk (e-mail)
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Online magazine: Amiga Minus #2
The second issue of "Amiga Minus" - online magazine dedicated to polish
Amiga users has been released! Inside: an interview with Ralph Schmidt
and Eric Schwartz, what people think about war between polish PCI-interface
developers, what is the condition of polish Amiga companies, how did
Commodore
look like under Jack Tramiel's control, what are the plans of game
developers
like Hyperion or Epic Interactive, review of "Dzien, Dejection" - XTD's
music CD
and Amiga Meeting 2001 pre-invitation.
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18.Jun.2001
ANN
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EETimes: Startup says software translates binary code on the fly
The article, published in EETimes, deals with the announcement of an american startup. A short extract:
»LONDON - A spin-off from the University of Manchester, Transitive
Technologies Ltd., is planning to wow engineers at the Embedded Processor
Forum this week in San Jose, Calif., with its dynamic binary-translation
technology.
The San Diego company claims its Dynamite software can take binary code
ready to run on one type of processor and, on the fly, translate it into
the binary code required by another. Transitive also says that because
of optimizing routines within its software, the translated code usually
runs faster and more efficiently than the original native code.
If these claims are substantiated, Transitive could spark dramatic changes
in the way processor hardware is designed and deployed by ending the
architecture-loyalty and legacy-code issues that have dominated for the
last 20 years.«
The whole article is available at the titlelink. (ps)
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18.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Stefan Kost
There are a special offer of SoundFX and an interview with Stefan Kost, the developer of SoundFX, available at Amiga Arena
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18.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)
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Event: iBox at Benelux Amiga Show (update)
Beside the already reported VIP's and highlights the new IBOX will be presented.
The IBOX is some kind of special tower containing beside the normal PC-hardware an Amiga-mainboard, a modem, and some additional hardware. The PC is able to control and update Amiga-software like Scala/Mediapoint by using a special software. The IBOX is doing what the Amiga does best: loop playback. By using the PC-software everyone can use every possibility offered in the digitalmarket like webcams and digitalcameras.
This concept is currently used by many customers for example for sportbars and tourist information centers. The concept includes the possibility of updating hundrets of these boxes by pressing one button. Even a cellphone with wap-capabilities is able to start this process. A good example for the co-operation of Amiga and PC.
The concept and the IBOX were developed by www.oto-foto.nl and
www.digitalconsult.nl.
Error correction, 19 June 2001:
I misunderstood one item of Marvin's description of the iBox (Info-Box). Contrary to what is described there is no
PC hardware used in the box. It rather is fact that the customers create the info pages on common PC machines
and then those pages will be translated to Amiga language by a 'translator' which makes it possible to use
Amiga hardware in the box.
A text can be sent to the Amiga using a cell phone which then will be displayed as desired due to the background, logo,
and animation preset.
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18.Jun.2001
Aaron Digulla (AROS-ML)
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AROS News
During the weekend, the AROS server was down due to a hardware failure.
The machine will be replaced within the next few weeks :-) Until then,
you can expect the machine to fail again. We are aware of this and we're
working on it. No need to worry.
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18.Jun.2001
AmBoS-Team (Lars Maschmann, Uwe Rosenkranz) (ANF)
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AmBoS-Support discontinued
The support and development of AmBoS, a Amiga-Mailboxprogram, will be discontinued on the 01.07.2001. The service ExecBase will be discontinued at this day to.
Reasons for this decision: low user-interest, the success of the WWW and problems with the timeconsuming support and softwaredevelopment.
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17.Jun.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga: SCSI Driver for AmigaOS4
The AmigaOne specification contain an on-board IDE controller, but
much of the Amiga users use SCSI hardware (harddrives, CD drives, scanners).
That's why Amiga Inc.plans to develop a SCSI driver for the "NCR SCSI scripts chip"
for Amiga OS4.x (today, NCR is a subsidiary company of LSI Logic).
An internal document describing the reasons why these chips have been chosen was
published on the AmigaOne mailing list (title link). The same chip was utilized
in diverse Amiga products (e.g. in newer Phase5 acceleration cards).
These chips are to be of first class at Amiga Inc. at this time, but this decision
might change if a better solution would turn out.
Fleecy Moss
wrote:
".... - don't assume a PCI card is supported until we release the driver for it."
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17.Jun.2001
AWeb PPC JPEG Plugin
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Browser: AWeb PowerPC JPEG Plugin V0.7
On 17 June 2001 Tom Parker has released version 0.7 of the PPC-JPEG plug-in
'AWeb PowerPC JPEG Plugin' for the WWW-browser 'AWeb'.
In this version notedly reduction of context switches increase the performance.
To install this version the 68k version of the JPEG plug-in is required, too,
which is to find on the
AWeb homepage.
The PPC version then will be copied to the Plugin directory and related settings
will be done.
Download:
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17.Jun.2001
Ghandy (E-Mail)
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Game: Land of Genesis Fix
A bugfix for the Turrican oriented action game 'Land of Genesis Fix'
was released. The following has changes since the prior version:
- fixed Intro bug on A4000's
- the intro runs more slow now
- skill level was re-adjusted
- 'Easy' mode is even more easy now
- rockets now clash with walls
- 2-buttons joysticks are supported now
- screen memory option.
- sound effects were softened
- the end picture was changed
The game runs on A1200 with 2 MB FastRAM and better; faster Amigas are supported.
Download:
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17.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: Amiga Power #XIV
Issue #14 of the French magazine 'Amiga Power' has been released.
This issue contains previews of iFusion and the GREX 1200, a test of
Payback, and more.
This magazine is issued by the French Amiga assosiation
'AFLE' whom you can draw it from.
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17.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News
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MP3: MAS-Player V1.3e
as an update of the MAS CLI commands.
This software works with both version of the MAS-Player and supports the MAS chip versions G10
and G12. The CLI commands archive contains the source codes of the CLI commands in addition.
'MAS-Player' is a hardware based MP3 player to be plugged to the Amiga's parallel port ('printer port').
Download:
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17.Jun.2001
Amiga Extreme
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Warp3D: Voodoo Driver Status
Amiga Extreme has published an e-mail by Thomas Frieden (Hyperion) in which he
reports the current status of the Voodoo driver for Warp3D.
The Warp3D team converted almost everything relating the use of the FIFO command.
As the team was suggested the frame-rate now majorly is independent from the resolution.
The speed at 800x600 is exactly the same as at 320x200.
Heretic 2 is still playable at 1024x768, but the Voodoo card starts to slow down from
this resolution.
Moreover the Voodoo version looks much better than the Permedia version.
(Screenshots (left: Permedia2, right: Voodoo)).
At this time it seems like the Prometheus version of the driver would be finished first.
This might happen next week already. The G-REX and hopefully the Mediator version, too,
will follow soon after.
The Prometheus driver will be the first because of the G-REX prototype had a little
problem preventing FIFO from working. So, development was done on the Prometheus board.
Development of Warp3D now is done using the new gcc basing StormC 4 which creates fine code, already.
Additionally it enables the use of Inline assembler. By some PPC assembler optimizations the Warp3D
team now can almost fill up the bus with data to almost reach the maximum performance.
Supplement 17 June 2001:
Ben Yoris (Hyperion) wrote on
ANN that
Hyperion will do a presentation of their own games on the Prometheus PCI board with
a Voodoo3 plugged in on the Benelux Amiga Show, which will take place on June 23rd, 2001.
(sd)
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17.Jun.2001
Carsten Scholling (ANF)
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MUI: NList.mcc V19.99 and V19.100
Under the title link you will find the long awaited bugfix for NList.mcc
fixing the wordwrap problem.
There are also new betas with noticeable higher speed to find there.
Especially inserting/removing of a lot of entries at once takes much time
in the list-view of NList.
That's why save and management routines were optimized. With some of the
operations NList now is up to 3.5 times faster than the old version.
Even the origin must surrender for some items (factor 1.2 - 1.3). But to
compare directly is not quite fair, since NList offers a lot of features more
and therefore has to calculate more, sometimes.
Furthermore NListtree of course benefits from the new performance.
Download:
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