08.Jan.2001
Trogladite Software
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Trogladite Software is Looking for Developers
Trogladite Software is looking for new software-developers and web-designers
for our website. If you are interested visit the title link for further informations.
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08.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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Safe V14.5 Released
Safe is a virus-detector that just looks for viruses but it will not delete them.
Name: Safe v14.5
Archivname: Safe14_5.lha
Archivgröße: 19.818 Bytes
Datum: 8. Januar 2001
Programmierer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Benötigt xvs.library v33.24
Download: Safe14_5.lha
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08.Jan.2001
David Connolly via eMail
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Amiga Survivor
CS&E took over the well known printed magazine
'Amiga Survivor', originaly published by Robert Iveson. They are looking for
advertisers to finance the future of this magazin. Visit the title link or contact the
below address for further information.
David Connolly
Managing Director
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum
Oxford Business Park
Oxford
OX4 2JZ
http://www.csande.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481421
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481482
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08.Jan.2001
DirOpus
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DirOpus 4.15e (Beta) Released
Changes of this beta release:
- Fixed various Enforcer Hits
- Moved the code back to SAS/C, sorry GCC fans ;-(
- Added support for bigints (64 bit math) and changed code as required
- Removed all '#include's proto's and converted="" them to pragmas
- Added a smakefile that has dependencies
Download: DOpus4beta.lzx - 455 KB
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08.Jan.2001
Joern Plewka, Support Katodev on ANF
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Audio Driver for New and Old Sound Cards
Katodev announce that the development-documentation for the X-Audio.device is still
available at the software page of their website. They would be glad if new cards would use it.
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08.Jan.2001
Freund on ANF
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Amiga Story at the ARIVA Stock Forum
The Amiga Story at the ARIVA Stock Forum.
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08.Jan.2001
HD Installer
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JST 4.4 Released
Version 4.4 of JST were released. If you want to use old games with new systems you will love JST.
Download: jst.lha
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08.Jan.2001
Eternity News
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Eternity News: MPG Video-card / USB for AMIGA
Eternity wrote:
We are looking for some developers for the realising of an MPEG-Video-card or a USB-card for
the Amiga in co-operation with Kato Development:
Programmers that develop drivers and host programs, based on Linux-sources, for the Amiga.
We consider the following suppositions:
- The intention to develop something 'New' for the Amiga.
- There has to be some time available.
- You have to know that you wont become a millionaire by developing for the Amiga.
- Will for co-operation.
- C and C++
- Know about the Amiga-hardware.
With the knowhow of Kato and some other persons we will try to develop one of the above mentioned products.
We make no promises!
Additionally we are looking for distributors that would like to support the investment and will get better conditions.
And last but not least we would like to come in
contact with other projects of this kind, cause if there are already projects like
this running, we will renounce ours.
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08.Jan.2001
Stéphane "SteaG" Campan
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New Graphic-Adventure
X-Team Software announce a new adventure game which they will develop together with
Hurricane Studios. You can find initial screenshots at the title link.
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08.Jan.2001
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CES: Interview with Grant Courville, QNX
At CES, Christoph Dietz has interviewed Grant Courville from QNX (English translation by Martina Jacobs):
QNX, also one of more than 1,500 exhibitors on CES in Las Vegas, is still in mind of the Amiga community
as a partner for the Amiga platform from the age of Jeff Schindler and later of Jim Collas. About that
time, development after that - and regarding this most of all about porting to PPC boards by phase5
taken in consideration - I talked to Grant Courville.
QNX presents Neutrino |
Neutrino not an a PC for once |
Darrin Fry, manager Photon development, proudly prensents how the Amiga operating system would have looked like, if there wasn't any change of direction. |
To Courville, former development manager and now manager of the "World Wide Sales Engineering",
after the end of development together with Amiga, QNX benefits from many users' and developers' feedback
QNX received. Those days QNX had placed "QNX on disk", their operating system with browser, TCP/IP
stack and some demos, on one single 1,44 MB disk. Also the neutrino's multimedia capabilities
made capital from the developments which - by the way - mainly were done by QNX. But also the
marketing effect would have been very fortunate for the company's further assignment.
The splitting of the Amiga community into QNX and Linux supporters, which rose Jim Collas' decision, he
regards to be the most negative effect imaginable. He will take a look at the AmigaSDK in any case,
cause "perhaps there might be another future for QNX and Amiga". He thinks porting to
QNX would not be a big problem.
As in July 1999 the porting of neutrino to the PowerUP boards by phase5 was announced
(see our message)
users started hoping, again. But there never was more to see than the press release. Unfortunately
phase5 never delivered any PPC board to enable QNX to use the Amiga computer available.
Contact to phase5 dropped away as time went by. Though there is the QNX operation system for
PPC processors in the meantime, but just not for PPC equipped Amiga computers, cause there is no
matching to the typically Amiga custom chips. Due to the minor number of existing boards chances
for porting are to estimate as very low, said Courville finally.
European Contact Addresses:
QNX Software Systems Ltd.
Voice: +44 (0) 1223 204800
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 204801
Email: qnx-uk@qnx.com
QNX Software Systems s.a.r.l.
Voice: +33 1 64 61 81 61
Fax: +33 1 64 61 81 62
Email: qnxfrance@qnx.com
QNX Software Systems GmbH
Voice: +49 (0) 511 94091 -0
Fax: +49 (0) 511 94091 -199
Email: info@qnx.de
(Translation: mj)
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08.Jan.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon: Low Tide
(td) (Translation: td)
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07.Jan.2001
CyberGFX
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CGX auf Voodoo5
On the 4. January 2001 there was a
screenshot
released on the CyberGFX site showing CGX running on a Voodoo5.
The driver can use the complete 64 MB of the Voodoo5 and is aware of the duel
VSA-100 chips on the Voodoo5 5500 PCI card.
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07.Jan.2001
Black_Amiga News on ANF
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Black_Amiga Gives In
Black_Amiga wrote:
After days of considering hither and thither I have decided to abandon the
Amiga. That means that ATP will be released in its momentarily development
state (version 0.9 beta) and also that I offer my Amiga for sale. More about
this on the homepage.
ATP is a address book/organizer software.
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07.Jan.2001
Infomedia Network
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CES: Infomedia Network
TVision recognized as Industry's first Open JavaTM Programmable Set-top Box
LAS VEGAS-Infomedia Network was recognized today at the International
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as being the first TV set-top box
manufacturer to provide an open JavaTM Programmable Set-top box.
Utilizing a true real time operating system and JavaTM Virtual Machine,
Infomedia's TVision set-top box provides features and functionality that
content developers and service providers have been looking for in
programmable consumer electronics devices.
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07.Jan.2001
BlitzEnginners ML
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SMSEngineer Update
The software SMSEngineer, that is used to send short mails to cell phones, has been
released in version 1.0.9 (SMS = Short Message Service).
New in this version:
- Window is now re-sizeable
- Fixed Bug! Little things on code
- Fixed Bug! About Requestor for Mroocheck and Serial Mouse
- Added one new German Gateway
- Added library check for Main and Register executable
Download: SMSEngineerMUI.lha
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07.Jan.2001
Martin Merz on ANF
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Update of OpusMI
The 7. release of OpusMI is now available on Aminet and on the
MasonIcons homepage. The complete OpusMI archive contains meanwhile more than
450 GlowIcons for use in DirectoryOpus Magellan.
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07.Jan.2001
Richard H. Poser via eMail
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AmigAIM Beta Version 0.9407 Released
The new beta version 0.9407 of AmigAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger compatible
messaging software for Amiga is now available and can be downloaded from the
usual places.
New in AmigAIM 0.9407 beta:
- Modified network connection routines slightly, increased socket connection
timeout. Seems to have fixed the problems I was having with "Socket Connection"
errors.
- IO Packet Window shows a couple errors if problems occur during initial Auth
connection.(Host not found, etc...)
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06.Jan.2001
Maxime Doyen on ANF
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HomeBank 1.8 Update
Version 1.8 of 'HomeBank', the MUI Account-Manager has been released.
The fresh new release of this MUI account manager !! :-)
New features are:
- multi accounts in a same file (now called a wallet)
- transfer between accounts
- automatic cheque numbering
- security password for locking a wallet (file)
- print for statistics (numeric only)
- every images is now external and user configurable
- progression gauge for loads & saves
- a logo for about and at launching
- and so on...
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06.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz
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CES: Interview with TAO's CEO Francis Charig
As already reported, Christoph Dietz flew to Las Vegas for amiga-news.de to
attend and report directly from the CES.
Here's the interview he had with the CEO of TAO, the software partner
of Amiga Inc.:
Francis Charig (Chairman TAO)
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Francis Charig (Chairman TAO)
Patrice Haftmann (Chairman/CEO Infomedia)
J.D. Ray (Präsident/COO Infomedia)
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Amiga-News: Good morning Francis and thank you for the opportunity of this interview.
Francis Charig: It's a pleasure for me either!
Amiga-News: Let's start with some basic questions. How old are you and where are you born?
Francis Charig: Unfortunately I'm 40 years old. I was born in Oxted by London.
Amiga-News: Sure you are married and have children?
Francis Charig: Yes, my wife is Japanese and we have two boys. One is six and the other will be three in February.
Amiga-News: When and where was TAO (pronounced: DAO) founded?
Francis Charig: TAO was founded in 1992 in Bracknell nearby Reading, England. Until 1995 it was a virtual company, located in a bedroom.
Amiga-News: How many people are working for TAO?
Francis Charig: About 70 people. More then 50 of them are in the software department. They are coming from three major groups: the Video games industry, the Blue Chip Industry and we selected the best directly from the universities, Stanford for example.
Amiga-News: What's your position at TAO?
Francis Charig: I'm the chairman of TAO. TAO is not a public company. Sony and Motorola together own 30% of TAO. If TAO would be a public company, its market value would be about $100.000.000. Nowadays Amiga Inc. is our most important partner.
Amiga-News: Do you remember your greatest success?
Francis Charig: Of course, it was to bring this exiting engineering team together. These people are incredible. We only had a fluctuation of two people in the last 2 1/2 years.
Amiga-News: What was the worst day in TAO's history?
Francis Charig: [Thinks long] it was to loose business with our investor from the blue chip industry in 1995 while we had no customers.
Amiga-News: When did you had "First contact" with Bill McEwen?
Francis Charig: It was in October 1999. We introduced him to investors after he decided to use our software for the new Amiga. In fact: TAO saved Amiga.
Amiga-News: Are you familiar with Amiga's history?
Francis Charig: Yes, I know about it all. I know about Commodore, Escom, VisCorp, Gateway and all these things. I still have my Amiga, but unfortunately it's standing in the attic. Also my nephew used the Amiga. I loved gaming on it, e.g. BrakeOut.
Amiga-News: Can you describe the new OS with only three words?
Francis Charig: Consumer Multimedia Stack
Amiga-News: When will the new Amiga-OS be ready, in Q3/2001?
Francis Charig: Of course not! Someone in the next half year!
Amiga-News: We are just a few days in the New Year. Do you have a wish for this year?
Francis Charig: *Joking* Retirement. No, I wish that TAO would be successful in all of the key markets.
Amiga-News: Is the existing Amiga community important for you?
Francis Charig: Yes. The Amiga community provides ones of the best engineers and artist. There is more multimedia skill in the Amiga community than in the PC-World. But there is a discussion if memory protection is needed or not. I want to explain TAO's point of view. For what is memory protection needed? To prevent bad programmed software from crashing the computer. That means that it leads into bad programming. But the software for AmigaDE will run on your desktop but also on your mobile or in your car. Mobiles for example don't have memory protection. Are they crashing? No, the software for them is well programmed. If we add memory protection we have to have a very, very good reason. Because it slows down the operating system. Our goal is to deliver the best multimedia-operating stack. This also means speed!
Amiga-News: Some words to the community?
Francis Charig: We can make Amiga great together. To be great we have to lead the world. Amiga is delivering the best content to the mass market. If we always remember that, we can achieve.
Amiga-News: Thank you for this interview and have a successful stay at the CES.
Francis Charig: It was a pleasure to me. Thank you!
Contact Information TAO Group
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06.Jan.2001
Dirk Baeyens via eMail
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amiga-news.de now also at amiga.nl
The dutch-flemish translation of amiga-news.de by
Dirk Baeyens has now been
intergrated to one more dutch Amiga-Site.
We are very delighted and heartily great our new readers :-).
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06.Jan.2001
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Election of the Top 10 Amiga-games 2000
The poll to elect the 10 best Amiga-games of 2000 at Amiga Flame is still
active. If you haven't voted yet, you can do it by following the title link.
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