19.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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First Screenshot of 3vix Encoder for Amiga
The Amiga version of the 3ivx encoder will be available soon.
A screenshot of a Workbench on which 3ivx is already running can be found
here.
Supplement 20 Jan 2001:
Christoph Meier wrote:
The author of Frogger
has published a screenshot
of the OpenDivX encoder displaying a movie on his Workbench at 352x288 pixels and 14 frames/sec.
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19.Jan.2001
News agency owi by fax
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Amiga Becomes Handheld PC
On video text page 632 of German TV station RTL2 there's the following news today:
«On the CeBIT the "Smart-Boy®", a new miniature PC in handheld format,
will be presented which is equipped with a touch-screen display, chip- and
credit card reader. A consumer device is supposed to follow this autumn which
will be distributed under the label "Amiga(TM)". In the eighties, the Amiga
was the first fully multimedia capable computer for the mass market.»
Manufacturer is the company Thendic Electronic Components GmbH
from Aschaffenburg, Germany.
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19.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF
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Simon the Sorcerer 2 - Update 4 Available
As announced, Paul Burkey has released another update of Simon the Sorcerer 2.
Especially in the German version, many bugs have been fixed. French language
support and the F10 feature have been added.
Download: Simon2Upd4.lha
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19.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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NVidia Survey on Preferred Operating System
Amiga wins the NVidia survey on the preferred operating system with 58,4%.
The question was: "Which is your preferred operating system".
4788 people voted:
58.40% - Amiga OS
13.05% - Windows 2000
6.79% - OS2/ Warp
6.29% - Windows 98
4.91% - BeOS
4.47% - Windows Me
3.17% - Linux
0.90% - MacOS
0.40% - Other
0.38% - DOS
0.29% - S-TOS
0.29% - Solaris
0.23% - Windows 95
0.17% - IBMs ROM Basic
0.04% - Windows NT
0.04% - VMS
0.02% - Windows CE
The Amiga vote would be surprising if it were for the fact that almost 60%
of all the voters were referred to the poll from Amiga fan-sites anyway.
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19.Jan.2001
polarBoing
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Creative Amiga Box
'Fisherking' has built his Amiga, after installing the Mediator PCI board,
in a really creative wooden box. Have a look at some pictures of this
beautiful Amiga at the title link.
Supplement:
In the comments to this message on our German page, Dennis 'Hurrican' Pauler referred us to this
drawer computer
by Atroxis from Virtual Dimension.
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19.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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New Plugin for ProstationAudio Released
A new plug-in named 'Vinylizer' has been released for all versions of
ProStationAudio. The effects of a vinyl record can be applied to sounds.
Download: Vinylizer.lha
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18.Jan.2001
amigasdk.com on ANF
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Exploring MP-Like Solutions
Fleecy Moss (Vice President - Development - Amiga Inc.)
talks on the AMIOPEN mailing list about the subject Memory Protection (MP)
in the new Amiga. This discussion rose from the amiga-news.de
interview
with Francis Charig from TAO. Hereupon followed several discussions in the
MooBunny forum:
1. Thread Looks (to me) like AmigaDE will never have mp
2. Thread Tao's response to MP in AmigaDE
3. Thread Bill M's response to Tao's response to MP in DE
Also at ANN this subject has been discussed industrious
in a long Thread.
There were many comments at
amiga.org, too.
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18.Jan.2001
Frederic Laboureur via eMail
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PureBasic Version 2.00
Version 2.0 0f the compiler PureBasic has been released. It was completely re-written
and now is 4 to 7 times faster than before. For registered users there is an update
and a demo version for non-registered users available. The website has moved and now
is accessible under www.purebasic.com. Technical
details.
About the compiler:
- Completely rewritten !
- Now, it's 4 to 7 times faster to compile
- Faster procedure handling
- Multi-dimensioned arrays are now supported
- Residents are now saved/loaded in one file
- PowerPC code have been removed (nobody want it ?)
- Some bugs have been fixed
- The switch MC68020 have been added to the command line
About the PureLibraries:
- Rewritten the Sprite library (50% faster) and added several
commands: SaveSprites(), LoadSprites(), RemoveCookie(),
FlushSprite(), SpriteHandle(), CopySprite(), GrabSprite()
- Added 'DisableDebugger' and 'EnableDebugger' to disable the
debugger for some part within a program.
- Added the debugger support for Sprite, Joypad, Chunky and
Sound libraries.
- Added the following commands: Processor(), MMU(), FPU(),
RectsHit(), Hex(), Bin().
- Fixed some commands: ListIndex(), FontID(), DrawingFont()
About the editor:
- Added a keyboard shortcut to close the error window.
Misc (Full version only):
- SpriteGrabber (Allows to get sprites from a picture)
- OpenPureBasic (C/C++ -> PureBasic convertor)
The PureBasic web site has now moved to www.purebasic.com.
The Windows x86 version is available for free to any Amiga registered
users ! Just send us a mail to get it !/li
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18.Jan.2001
QNX
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New QNX Distribution
Today QNX Software Systems released an new QNX® distribution.
This one contains Version 6 of QNY RTOS with new Neutrino® 2.11 mikrokernel, as
well as Photon® 2.0 mircoGUI. Newly added was SCSI support, a packet manager allowing
to update the integrated browser VoyagerTM. The new distribution offers enhanced support for
audio streaming and video in the range of multimedia. More information is to find under
the title link.
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18.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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Planet IT: Interview with Bill McEwen
Dave Johnson from Planet IT did an interview
with Bill McEwen, President and CEO at Amiga Inc. on
January 8th, 2001.
Here a small extract from the six-pages interview:
Q: It sounds like you have plans to do a lot of things. Where are you concentrating your effort?
A: In the home. Homes need set-tops, desktop computers, handhelds and cell phones.
Motorola even has a cell phone running the Amiga OS, by the way. The home is our target,
and I think you'll see us first in set-top boxes. We also have some reference designs for
some amazing desktops that we think will blow people away. We won't build hardware ourselves,
but we have reference designs for others to build.
Q: So there could be new Amiga hardware coming out. Will there also be shrink-wrapped
Amiga OS packages to run on Windows?
A: Yes, there will be, but I'm not sure what the timing will be. We're still finishing
up some of the last components, like the 3D renderers. That will all be finished up in
the next new months. Already, we can run very cool 3D animation on a Cassiopeia, and it
is very smooth.
The entire interview is to find under the title link.
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18.Jan.2001
MeterNet
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MeterNet® Press Release
At the bottom of the following press release MeterNet announced the
SimpleBox 8600 series (powered by AmigaDE) to be released late February 2001.
MeterNet® Selects EnReach Technology's Easy Internet Access Platform
for SimpleBox wb7500 Series
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17,2001 PRNewswire --
EnReach Technology, Inc., a global
leader providing infrastructure software for enabling enhanced services on
television, announced today that MeterNet Corporation has selected the
EnReachTV2(TM) Internet access platform to power the new wb7500 series in
its expanding SimpleBox entry-level Internet appliance lineup.
The new SimpleBox wb7500 series will utilize a specially tailored version of
EnReachTV2 that integrates Webmail, TV Lists, and MeterNet's SimpleBox User
Interface. Each SimpleBox wb7500 will ship preconfigured with US Nationwide
access dial-up service for $19.95 per month. Multi-lingual English and
Spanish technical support will also be provided. Initial US shipments are scheduled
for March 2001.
"EnReach's interactive software solution and our new SimpleBox wb7500 series
is an easy to use, low-cost combination that targets 'Late Adopters' seeking a
simple preconfigured alternative to discover the Internet on their home
televisions," said Greg Wible, President of MeterNet.
The EnReachTV2 Internet access software offers companies like MeterNet the
opportunity to supply their customers with a low cost Internet access
solution optimized for television. Advanced smart-fit screen technology and an
embedded browser make this a strong contender in the device marketplace.
"We are pleased to be working with a solution provider like MeterNet, who
was identified as one of the six major stand-alone Internet on TV providers by
The Carmel Group," said Bo Wu, CEO for EnReach."
MeterNet's SimpleBox Program is dedicated to bringing best of breed
solutions to their embedded platforms that target vertical and export markets. Each
device incorporates a tailored SimpleBox User Interface (UI) on top of rugged
solid-state design hardware with no moving parts. Along with providing simple navigation
and operation, the SimpleBox UI offers optional integrated Web-based eMail and
TV Listings that are optimized for display on televisions. The new wb7500
series complements the wb6400 series that have been shipping worldwide for the last
18 months and the new broadband wb8600 series that will be released in
February.
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18.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts
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New WarpBMP.datatype Version 44.1
WarpBMP.datatype v44.1 by Oliver Roberts released. The BMP picture datatype
is freeware and available for download for the following processors:
68k, PPC/WarpOS und PPC/MorphOS.
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18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Linux Worm Obviously Spreading Rapidly
«An Internet worm named Ramen is attacking servers running under
the Linux distribution by Red Hat and apparently is spreading quite quickly.
It's activities stood out by augmented scans on Remote Procedure Call Services (RPC).
The worm utilizes two security gaps known long before inside of
FTP-Server wuftpd
and the program rpc.statd, which obviously still not have been remove from
many Linux machines. Already in September 2000 the Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) gave warning of
augmented attacks
of this kind.»
See title link for the complete article (German).
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18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: DivX Successor "OpenDivX" goes Open Source
«The MPEG4 video codec successor "DivX", which derived some stardom from being in
operation for spreading piracy copied movies via the Internet, may hope to be widely supported.
To gain more programmers to participate in the so called "Project Mayo"
the developers around Joe Bezdek, "Director of Product Definition" of Project Mayo decided
to release the current en-/decoder core of the video format as
Open Source.
OpenDivX is only one step on the way to realize greater goals: a versatile video codec -
named "DivX Deux" by the programmers - offering high quality and being free available at the same time
»
See title link for the complete article (German).
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17.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
F1db.lha biz/dbase 109K+Store and manage Formula 1 results
TAdesivi.lha biz/demo 50K+V1.0.5 Ticket editor for TurboGest (ITAL
TProspEd.lha biz/demo 84K+V2.0.1alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I
AW2.20-Patch.lha biz/haage 1.0M+AmigaWriter Patch 2.x -> 2.20
BitchX-BIN.lha comm/irc 1.2M+Amiga port of BitchX (console only)
ABS-MIS.lha demo/euro 415K+"Miss" - By Absurd
APT-DM26.lha demo/euro 534K+"Dreams#26", an intropack from Apathy *
APX-TB3AGA.lha demo/mag 2.3M+Taboo #3 AGA magazine by Appendix (polis
APX-TB3CGX.lha demo/mag 3.0M+Taboo #3 CGX magazine by Appendix (polis
PureBasic.lha dev/basic 557K+V2.00 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBas_Up2.00.lha dev/basic 537K+V2.00 - Update for registered users (fro
pmdev.lha dev/gui 339K+PopupMenu.library SDK V10.8.0
Edison.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Patches ISO-image headers from MakeCD/Bu
AmigaOS35.lha docs/help 11K+A guide on Workbench 3.5
saku35.lha docs/mags 1.8M+Saku #35 (1/2001). Finnish e-zine.
SwosGreece.lha game/data 8K+Greek datafile for SWOS 00/01
pmangband.lha game/role 393K+Pern mangband 3.0.9
skulpt_doc.lha gfx/3d 746K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
skulpt_src.lha gfx/3d 386K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
skulpt_wos.lha gfx/3d 1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (PPC (WarpOS) + Warp3D)
VHIStudio.lha gfx/misc 944K+V5.4: DigiCam & Videoboard-soft: Rec, Gr
Nostalgia.lha misc/emu 197K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8a)
imdbDiff010105.lha misc/imdb 2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Ankhrapt1.lha mods/med 441K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
AntiqueDream.lha mods/med 342K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
Test2long.lha mods/med 84K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
np_feub.lha mods/misc 684K+Noyz Phaktah '001 - Fuk 'Em Up, Buttercu
soo_line.mpg mods/mpg 2.8M+Soo Line Blues Rock Guitar Jam
vampirebride.mpg mods/mpg 4.4M+"Vampire Bride" by Zadoc...and the Night
EP_Swedish.lha mus/play 16K+Catalog files for Eagleplayer V2.01
astrons1.jpg pix/astro 232K+Onsala observatory telescope
astrons2.jpg pix/astro 238K+Another Onsala observatory telescope
OS39w800.lha pix/back 742K+800x600 OS3.9 Wallpapers (Backgrounds Pi
silverskin.lha pix/misc 23K+A smooth silver-skin for CoolCALC
DBrown.jpg pix/vehic 319K+A tractor (David Brown 995)
Fiat580.jpg pix/vehic 241K+A tractor (Fiat 580)
Monkey_Island.jpg pix/views 289K+A picture of Monkey Island
PanosWB.lha pix/wb 163K+Snapshots of my Workbench
VeloxWb.lha pix/wb 262K+My nice Wb with Blizzard Vision in 16bit
MyNotes.lha text/edit 28K+A simple MUI based QuickNote clone
Typeface124.lha text/misc 170K+Bitmap font editor
CDTVTools.lha util/cdity 446K+Original CDTV tools for your Amiga
GhostBuster.lha util/cdity 10K+Commodity useful for people playing audi
ModePro.lha util/cdity 248K+4.67 Screenmode Promotion & Public Scree
WarpJPEG.dt.lha util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 133K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
wavdt41.lha util/dtype 8K+Datatype for wave sounds (41.6)
pmlib.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68000 (.library on
pmlib020.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68020 (.library on
pmlib040.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68040 (.library on
pmlib060.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68060 (.library on
pmuser.lha util/libs 54K+PopupMenu.library V10.8.0
WriteKickDisk.lha util/misc 10K+Makes Kickstart disk from ROM image
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17.Jan.2001
ANN
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Amiga Samba Installation Script
A new installation script for Samba is being developed. Samba is a software which enables connecting
PC to Amiga. The new installation script is to help amateurs to install Samba in a simple way. Please,
have a look at the title link for further information.
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17.Jan.2001
AROS-ML
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AROS News
- Since child windows seem to be patented, Stefan Berger has removed
the support for them again. :-( If someone knows whether this
technology can be used freely, we'd like to know :-)
- Georg Steger has written an ASL Font Requester
- Johan Alfredsson has implemented and improved C:Run, C:NewShell,
C:List, C:Dir, DisplayBeep() and some more.
- Adam Chodorowski has improved our Workbench and began to port
a TCP/IP stack to AROS (ping compiles but there is no code
for the stack, yet).
- Michael Schulz has begun to work on a new AROS i386/Native core
which can load the large AROS kernel. AROS needs GRUB to boot,
now.
- Flavio Stanchina has improved lots of header and build files.
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17.Jan.2001
Benny Kjær Nielsen via eMail
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Allan Odgaard Needs Help
Allan Odgaard, who is known from several MUI-classes, has a serious problem with his hard drive. In order
to solve this problem he needs an identical hard drive. The following type is needed:
Seagate ST3660A with the following parameter: 1057CYL-16HEADS-63SECT-545.5MB
Those ones who can place this hard drive at Odgaard`s disposal please mail to Allan Odgaard.
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17.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF
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Vulcan Software Alive
After a long period of abstinence there are some news from Vulcan Software. We remember: An English producer
and developer of moderate Amiga games.
The "Valhalla" series, which was not very successful for the Amiga already, will be continued for the PC.
For the Amiga this game could at least convince by its few spoken sentences, but the first screenshots
of PC-Valhalla makes suspecting a product PC users might gladly leave un-converted.
(ps)
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17.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Linux 2.4 with File-System ReiserFS
«The Linux-kernel v2.4.0 has just been finished at last, and development already goes on. The biggest
change which will be integrated in the next kernel-version 2.4.1 would be including of the Journaling File System
ReiserFS. Already at the beginning of October Linus Torvalds explained in an interview with c`t that he
will not include ReiserFS in kernel 2.4.0, but as soon as possible in the 2.4. line. Obviously the time is right:
kernel 2.4.1-pre7 contains ReiserFS.»
Have a look at the title link for the full article (German).
According to Sourceforge
Apus test-kernels are also available for Amiga Linux.
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17.Jan.2001
Frogger
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Frogger Version 1.64b2 Released
There is a new beta-version 1.64b2 of the MPEG video player 'Frogger' by Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz which
you can download in several processor-versions as usual.
This program is shareware and you can register via the website online (via RegNet) or via transfer of money.
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