02.Apr.2001
Matthias Muench on ANF
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AUG99: AmigaONE 1200
There are pictures of the AmigaONE 1200 Board by Eyetech available at the title link.
We did some notes to the pictures to show what will be available on-board.
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02.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark News
New VEPatchBrain for VirusExecutor:
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.27
Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 16.410 Bytes
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Release date: 31. März 2001
Virus Help Denmark started a survey that asks you if you would pay a shareware fee for anti-virus programs.
The poll is available at the polls-link.
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02.Apr.2001
Pawel Filipczak on ANF
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TaskiSMS Update
Version 2.52 of TaskiSMS were released. TaskiSMS lets you send short messages into 112 countries.
News in this release:
- fixed bug in editor window that caused problems with ghosted buttons
when correct number was entered
- fixed bug in editor window that causes program crashes
- new plugin ICQ for all countries (in unregistered version length of
SMS is limited to 60 chars for that plugin)
- removed plugin for Czech Republic & Slovakia (D1cz)
- added new country - Moldova
- added about 450 networks/operators to the support list
- added plugin display priority list (check settings window)
The demo version is available at
TaskiSMS Homepage or at the aminet
AmiNet.
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02.Apr.2001
Eyetech AmigaONE ML / Jorge Pino on ANF
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FAQ by Fleecy
The following link offers you a complete lists of all questions that were made and the answers of Fleecy.
FAQ
Thes faq-list was compiled by James Bridge.
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01.Apr.2001
Markus Nerding via E-Mail
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Gateway Show Amiga 2001 - Report by Markus Nerding
Markus Nerding promised us to send us a live report from the fair if he had the opportunity.
He kept his promise and sent us the following report:
As during the previous years, the hosts of the the fair, Bob and Diana Sharp have
created a magnificent ambient for the biggest of the US fairs.
In the celebration hall of the Sharaton hotel, all the famous retailers, manufacturers and
Amiga User Groups were present. There are not too many news from this side, so everybody was waiting
eagerly for the announcements Amiga Inc. had planned to make at the banquet on Saturday evening.
However there were some things to see, and most of all different softwares and hardwares to buy.
One novelty was the presentation of the VarIO-Borad by Jens Schönfeld - a multi-IO-card with serial,
parallel and PS/2 Port. Grasshopper showed version 4.0.9 of PageStream which is available since last week.
At Mr.Hardware there was a PC expansion card that allows full access for the Amiga. The by far biggest stand
was owned by Merlancia Industries who had planed to present a PPC-board, but there must have been some
obstacle to this. Not present, for the first time in years, was BoXer who had formerly always been
praised by AntiGravity, but who had even failed to present a prototype the previous years.
At noon on Saturday, Petro invited all Amiga-fans for a pizza. The hotel brought so many Pizza Hut
boxes that even hours after that there were still some available. In addition to this, beer was free too:
Budweiser and Bud Lite - it is weird that I must think only now about the fact that Dave Haynie was present too.
As well as Joe Torre who entertained us once again with uncountable stories. I think he is almost a better
entertainer than a hardware developer ;-)
Like the previous years, there were a lot of interesting seminars. Gary Peake and Rudi Chiarito talked
about the subject "Where we are today" and showed the actual status of the AmigaDE-Developer System.
Further seminars talked about ImageFX, PageStream, hardware design, Amiga Forever and some different subjects.
We held a seminar about StormC and of course AmigaOS 3.9, where there were of course many questions asked
about the future.
Saturday night - Petro's Farewell-banquet - first plank: "Petro's Roast". Here people were allowed
balance their accounts with Petro and some speakers really invested themselves in this ;-)
A very funny matter which ended with many presents give to and by Petro. Petro himself the summarized once
again the history of Commodore/Amiga - of course, after 20 years he had a lot to tell. He emphasised however
that he will not be definitively gone and that he will attend to one or the other event.
Then it was Bill McEwen's turn. By now it was late but he once more was able to wake up the people.
The AmigaONE by Eyetech, AmigaOS 4.0 and the use of AmigaDE on the new Zaurus PDAs from Sharp were announced.
These were of course the subject Amiga users had been waiting for.
The CEO of Eyetech, Allan Redhouse, could already show a fully featured card of the AmigaONE, which however
still had some electric defect. However first developer boards should be ready soon and the shipping to the
customers will start end of June (2001 of course ;-)).
Matched to this was the announcement of AMigaOS 4.0 which will now at last bring the long awaited PPC version
of the AmigaOS. The port will be done by Amiga Inc. in association with Haage&Partner and other developers.
Details about this will follow soon, however the project is on its way and a high priority to Amiga Inc.
The next climax was Bill's presentation of the Zaurus, the new PDA from Sharp, on which ran the famous
Boing-Ball-Demo of the AmigaDE. There is a deal with Sharp so in short, it will run on billions of devices.
Bill also talked about Psion, who want to use AmigaDE on the laptop-similar Netbook and also about the
possibility to use it on any Windows-CE device. All in all an interesting view of the big distribution of the
AmigaDE, which will be done in parallel with the AmigaOS 4.0 development and which should merge later on.
To sum up, one can say about the fair that there have been for once really interesting news whose
repercussions could be fundamental. Obviously, Amiga Inc. is concentrating more on its roots and kernel, which
they own, the AmigaOS. All this is looking good, however now it will show in which time these things will
become reality for the developers and users. We are very curious about it...
We thank Markus Nerding very heartily for this detailed insight and wish a nice Sunday to all of
the visitors.
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01.Apr.2001
Stéphane Campan via E-Mail
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Amiga Impact: Special Edition
Our French co-site Amiga Impact are currently rebuilding their
website completely. On occasion of the Amiga 2001 Show in St. Louis you can find a french-speaking special
about the show under the title link.
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01.Apr.2001
Martin Baute
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Audio Records by Martin Baute
Martin Baute has send us 2 audio records from the St. Louis-Show, which we gladly make available for download.
St_Louis.mp3 - 4,5 MB
010401_IRClog.txt - 118 kB
The St. Louis mp3-record has been recorded during the query and answer hour with Bill McEwen this morning between
8:00 and 9:40 o'clock.
The IRC-log was logged during the IRC query and answer hour with Bill McEwen on #developer.
The log is completely raw and not complete, since Martin wasn't present from the beginning.
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01.Apr.2001
Reader on ANF
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Fleecy Explains the Current Plans of AmigaInc
Under the title link you can find a posting by Fleecy Moss, which he posted on the AmigaONE mailing list.
In the message, Fleecy explains in detail the plans of Amiga Inc. and answers some questions.
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01.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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individual Computers Produces C-64 hardware
In association with members of the C-64 scene a clone of the popular Action Replay has been developed.
The new edition has a 128K Flash Rom instead of the 32K Eprom and a 32K Ram instead of a 8K Ram.
This makes it possible to use the known Rom versions of the Action Replay as well as the Roms of the
SuperSnapshot and the Nordic Power.
The Freeze-Logic has been significantly improved.
A and an accurate control of the main CPU increase the security while freezing the system.
The new Cartridges will be available from June 2001.
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01.Apr.2001
comp.sys.amiga.misc
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"Classic" Amiga OS 4.x PPC will come!
Harv Laser, the maintainer of AmigaZone draws an overview of the
announcements made on the Amiga 2001, in his posting at comp.sys.amiga.misc and confirms that the Classic Amiga OS
PPC will definitively come. Amiga OS 4.x and 5.0 will follow.
Petro celebrated his leaving with a banquet and freely gave autographs.
Alan Redhouse has shown his board on which the new AMiga-PPC-OS will run.
Of course the Sharp announcement is also mentioned.
Read the original message under the title link.
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01.Apr.2001
Quantum Leap on ANF
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Amiga Inc. Reveals Partner
Quantum Leap - the italian e-zine oriented toward new technologies - was officially authorised by Amiga Inc.
to publish information about their new partnerships.
The present announcement will be published at 10.00pm (PST)
on our website at Quantum Leap.
Quantum Leap has released
three pictures of a Sharp-Handheld (PDA) with AmigaDE.
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01.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun
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New PPC OS with AMIGA- and Windows Support
On our page there are first pictures of our new project AmiWin (working name), a PPC OS which can run AmigaOS as well
as Windows Software. The current version runs on Macintosh hardware and there is a screenshot on the page.
In our Workbench-Gallery there are 2 new WB-Shots.
Apparently the big domain-dying is on, since our site can't be reached either. I hope that this condition will
resolve soon. Otherwise you can always reach us under http://www.trotta.de/club/.
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01.Apr.2001
Thomas Wuergler on ANF
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Payback Review
The most comprehensive Payback review anywhere is now on Amigafire.com.
There have been other reviews, but none as in-depth as this one.
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31.Mar.2001
amiga.org
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St. Louis Images by amiga.org
amiga.org has a collection of pictures of the Gateway Computer Show taking place
in St. Louis put into the WWW.
There are also pictures by Christophe Decanini
of ANN online.
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31.Mar.2001
AMIGA Inc.
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Boing Bag #1 for OS 3.9
Just in time for the Gateway Computer Show Amiga 2001 Amiga Inc. and
Haage&Partner make the new Boing Bag #1 for Amiga OS 3.9 available for free download.
The most important innovation is surely AsyncWB that allows simultaneous
copying and deleting on the Workbench. Next to many improvements GenesisPrefs, HDToolBox, AMPlifier, ViNCEd, WBRun, UnArc,
RAWBInfo and BenchTrash have been revised. Further details can be taken from the
readmes.
Download: BoingBag39-1.lha - ca. 5 MB
- BoingBag-1.readme -
As there had been no further news from St. Louis besides this I have taken the
time and installed the new Boing Bag and naturally immediately tested it.
ASyncWB, allowing you to copy and delete with the Workbench at the same time,
works terrific. This is especially good when copying or deleting big
directories.
It's brilliant that you can now give search paths for Find via drag'n drop. So
you don't have to search through a whole device but can reduce the search to
single directories. Very practical.
Also very good is the new function in RAWBInfo. When you press the Shift key in
the program information and double click on a tooltype, it gets toggled
(activated becomes inactive and vice versa).
When you view text files with Multiview it's now possible to search the text for
terms using the new "navigation menu". The function was indeed already there but
only accessible via keyboard input.
The WBClock has got many beautiful designs in the Presets to choose from.
Some of them I do really like very much.
That's all for the moment as I couldn't test more for now. Everybody who like to
may write about further useful "discoveries" in the comments :-).
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31.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
AROS News
On the website of AROS you can find a status
update in which the willing reader finds answers to the question which parts
have already been ported. Right now 138 registered developers are busy with AROS
and have already completed 75% of the original AmigaOS. The source codes cover 55
MB including all changes. Further 38,5 MB can already be filled with ported
software and there are some MB with several screenshots.
Pagestream V4.0.9
At Grasshopper LLC (formerly Softlogik)
has Pagestream version 4.0.9 for Amiga, Macintosh and Windows been released.
The new versions are ready for download for registered users in the password
secured area. Pagestream is a Desktop Publishing Program (DTP) that is used to
design publications of any kind.
Bochs for MorphOS
Nicholai Benalal has released Bochs
2000_0329b for MorphOS. Bochs is an
emulator for x86 hardware.
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31.Mar.2001
Stefan Martens on ANF
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SecondSpin v2.16 beta
A new version of SecondSpin has been released. SecondSpin is a tool to convert
audio CDs to MPEG audio 1, 2 or 3. Additionally further formats like AIFF and
WAV are supported. For MPEG encoding is a modified version of LAME V3.87+ needed.
The v2.16 beta solves the problem that SecondSpin had difficulties reading the
CD information from CDDB.com. But beware, on the homepage there is written that
the latest version is the 2.15 beta. This is not correct. Just ignore it and
download. You'll get the latest version ;-).
History:
v2.16 - Changed OS recognition code. It may have failed under some
VERY, VERY rare circumstances. Changed the www.cddb.com support to
freedb.freedb.org! This should fix the CDDB problems! (12/Mar/2001)
Download: SecondSpin_Install.lha -
Readme
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31.Mar.2001
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St. Louis Special
Because of the Gateway Computer Show in St. Louis we have set up a special
page on which we summarize all information we find on the WWW.
As soon as new reports or images are available the page gets updated.
For the lasting of the show there's a link in the title area pointing to the
special page.
In case you find further information on the net, images or reports regarding the
show not contained in the list, please send a short mail with URL to ps@amiga-news.de.
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31.Mar.2001
Juergen Theiner on ANF
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And the Winner is... Play!Amiga Comparing Review
There's a big review at Play!Amiga comparing Napalm, Earth and Exodus. Read
who gets the best rating. Besides you get the chance to vote for the charts;
would be nice if you'd use it.
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31.Mar.2001
Håkan Parting on ANF
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AmiComSys Looking For a New Server
Håkan Parting, the author of AmiComSys, is looking for a new server for
his Amiga buddy and chat program. The program works similar to the known ICQ but
exists only for Amiga computers for now. Up to now around 200 people use this program.
Wanted is an Amiga online 24h, so it could work as a server. Everybody who could
help may write to hakan@parting.nu.
Here's the original message:
AmiComSys is a shareware program to find Amiga buddies on the Internet, chat and send files.
It's rather similar to the famous ICQ but currently only for Amiga. AmiComSys was born April 1997.
My plan is to release version 2.0 of this software this year.
The reason for writing is that I need a new full time server, because the current server at
ACS.hostile.cx isn't up anymore.
The server software AmiComSys connects to is named AMarqueed, which is a part of the AMarquee-package.
You may find information about it at the following URL:
http://parting.nu/AMarquee/
AmiComSys have about 200 users, of about at this time ten is online at the same time. This means that the
server won't need very much bandwidth.
So if you have an Amiga that is connected to the Internet 24 hours a day, I would very much appreciate if
you could let me use it for the server.
The AmiComSys home page is located at http://parting.nu/AmiComSys/
Please contact me at the email address mentioned below for more information.
Best regards,
Håkan Parting, author of AmiComSys, AMarquee, JAMarquee, VersionWB and GlossTask.
e-mail: hakan@parting.nu
web: http://parting.nu
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31.Mar.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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New Review on the GFX -GAMES-DATABASE
You can find a review of the WB game WBSteroids following the title link.
Besides, the 'About' page has been reworked, games add-ons have entered the
database and much more has taken place.
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