21.Oct.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS: BoardType V1.0
BoardType is a small tool which prints out the version of the BlizzardPPC board
in use. This information is needed to track bugs. The bug report
should mention the output of this tool.
Download: boardtype.lzh (1,6K)
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21.Oct.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS: CygnusEd Professional 4.21
An official PPC port of the text editor "CygnusEd Professional V4.21" has been
released for MorphOS. This port needs the original CygnusEd4-CD-ROM as a
basis. During the installation of the patch, the 68k version stays untouched
so that it can still be used in case one would like to install both versions
on the same partition. The updated frontend recognizes whether the editor has
been started under MorphOS or AmigaOS an then loads the corresponding binary.
This update can also be downloaded at Schatztruhe.
Download: ced_mos_ppc_upd.lha (211K)
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21.Oct.2000
Michael Heider on ANF
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Kernel Version 2.2.10 for Linux_m68k Available
Michael Heider wrote:
As announced, the Kernel-2.2.10 for Linux_m68k can be downloaded on my
homepage under the link mentioned above from today on. A comment how to
install this kernel is included in the archive.
I would also like to announce the following: After a call at SuSE I was told
that SuSE Linux 7.0 for PowerPC should be available from next week on.
Pre-orders are already accepted at this time.
In near future I will once again create an installation how-to and inform
about the innovations.
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21.Oct.2000
Thomas Nosutta nn ANF
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Nightlong problems due to bugs
Thomas Nosutta of ACBB writes:
Nightlong has been shipped and I received it today. Unfortunately the game
cannot be installed since there are no executable icons. As promised, Qu**e is
included but it can't be installed either, but there are nice videos on the CD.
Note from the editors office: Many users were able to run the game without any
problems. As we were told on the phone today, a wrong CD-filesystem might
cause this problem
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21.Oct.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF
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PlayGUI News
On the PlayGUI website there is a small update for PlayGUI (v3.a).
- PlayGUI now shows Playtime
- Playtime can be switched on and off
- Bugfix (no mod in memory caused problems)
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21.Oct.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF
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Amiga Inc. anounnces the AmigaOne
Press release: October 21, 2000, Melbourne, Australia - It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce the first new Amiga hardware in over 6 years. The AmigaOne, our first consumer product, will be targeted at the desktop and workstation market. Further products to follow will cover the markets from Personal Digital Assistants and upwards. All these products will run a single piece of software, the revolutionary Amiga Digital Environment (DE).
We completed the AmigaOne specification three months ago, and dubbed it the "Zico". It is a specification and not a product because Amiga is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer. The ability of the Amiga DE to host itself on multiple hardware and operating system platforms frees us from hardware dependency and gives our partners and our customers the freedom to chose the hardware that best suits their needs and tastes.
The Zico specification is as follows:
- One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
- 64MB+ memory
- Next Generation Matrox graphics card
- Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
- 10 GB+ HD
- CD/DVD
- USB 1.0
- Firewire
- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 56k modem
- Spare PCI slots for expandibility
With the completion of the specification stage of the Amiga One, we contacted several respected hardware companies with a view to selecting partners who would be interested in creating AmigaOne products.
The AmigaOne process involves close co-operation between Amiga and our partners' hardware groups, the running of the AmigaDE on the hardware, and a thorough quality certification of the final product. Only then can the product be called an AmigaOne.
Whilst still in detailed negotiation with several companies, we are delighted to announce the first partner company and its initial set of AmigaOne products.
The Eyetech Group Ltd, of Stokesley, U.K. already has an excellent reputation in the Amiga community. They have done much to keep the classic Amiga alive during the last five years, and we feel that in the creation of the first new Amiga machines and the transitioning >from the classic to the next wave, that experience will prove invaluable.
Bill McEwen President of Amiga Inc commented: "This arrangement builds on and extends our existing partnership agreement with Eyetech, first announced in April of this year. Our experience during this period has shown Eyetech to be a no-nonsense company capable of delivering what they promise on time and this consideration also weighed heavily in our choice of a hardware partner for the PPC based AmigaOne."
Alan Redhouse, Managing Director of UK-based Eyetech, said; "I am delighted that we have been able to build on our existing partnership with Amiga and continue our close working relationship with them on both a technical and manufacturing level. Our decade of Amiga experience, plus our hardware and software efforts to push the Amiga forwards means that we are able to work with Amiga to deliver a proven upgrade solution to Amiga users which gives their existing 'Classic' applications an immediate and substantial performance boost whilst providing full forward compatibility with the new Amiga DE. Our work on the Predator line of boards means that we can help Amiga to fulfill its requirement of maximising the investment of the current community as it moves forwards."
Fleecy Moss, Chief Technology Officer, Amiga Inc added: "After talks with the hardware development staff of several companies I am convinced that working with Eyetech will allow us to offer an elegant solution that gives both an excellent level of backward compatibility and a powerful basis for the new Amiga Digital Environment. Top of our requirements list was to ensure that those Amigans who have spent considerable money in staying with the Amiga would not be left out in the cold. Whilst you can't please all of the people all of the time, we think we have come up with a set of products and solutions that will put a smile on as many faces as possible."
Eyetech is focusing on an immediate need in the existing Amiga market. Many have already invested considerable resources in their classic Amigas, both in terms of hardware and in terms of software. Whilst keen to move forwards with the AmigaOne, they also want to maximise their investment in the classic platform.
The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 is a custom board which uses Eyetech Predator technology with the "zico" specification to provide a perfect synergy of classic and next generation. It provides all the functionality of the standalone AmigaOne PPC, but has been extended to mate with a classic Amiga A1200. This allows customers who have a serious investment in the classic Amiga to continue to use their machines whilst also having a brand new Amiga at their disposal. The 68k processor in the A1200 will be emulated at a substantially increased level via the PPC processor on the AmigaOne, whilst the classic operating system can take advantage of the AmigaOne's next generation hardware resources.
The AmigaOne PPC 4000 machine is similarly designed to allow customers who have a significant investment in their classic Amiga A4000 to be able to move that investment forwards whilst also benefiting from the next generation capabilities of the AmigaOne.
The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 will be available as an upgrade for owners of towered A1200 computers, the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 4000 as an upgrade for Amiga 4000 desktop computers in tower conversion cases. Options for producing AmigaOne PPC upgrade designs for other Classic Amiga designs (such as the A3000 and Amiga International A4000T) will be looked at (subject to demand) once the A1200 and A4000 products are released.
In order to implement all the features of the AmigaOne specification the, A1200 and A4000 upgrade versions will feature one AGP and six PCI slots, a user-upgradable G3/G4 (Macintosh-type) cpu slot, up to 512MB SDRAM and a high speed IDE/ATAPI interface. The system will be dual-bootable both into the Amiga DE and into Classic Amiga Workbench. This latter feature will allow purchasers to have the performance benefits of full G3/G4 cpu speeds and 512MB of SDRAM memory whilst running Classic Amiga software. Both these boards are scheduled to ship in 1Q01, with developer versions being available in December 2000.
Design of both the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC A1200 and A4000 products has been done with great sensitivity to the existing user and developer community.
"By releasing the classic compatible AmigaOne PPC products first," said Alan Redhouse. "We are providing a transitional path forwards for the existing community, enabling them to maximise their current investment whilst also leaping ahead with the new Amiga DE."
In order to facilitate this transition, the classic Amiga operating system will see its lifeline extended. OS3.9, to be launched before Christmas will add a raft of new features and functionality, and will be able to run on the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC classic products.
Eyetech are also keen to talk to existing hardware manufacturers about possibilities for licencing, manufacturer and other co-operation in order to ensure a smooth transition of the existing Amiga community from the present to the future.
Amiga is also very close to signing up partners for a standalone AmigaOne machine. The ATX form factor AmigaOne has been designed to run the full consumer version of the Amiga Digital Environment (DE) allowing the best of the Classic Amiga software which has been ported to run directly under the Amiga DE, and the use of a wide range of Amiga DE-based digital content - such as productivity software, content creation suites, development environments and 3-D games - to be used 'out of the box'.
All this work - including extensive testing of hardware and software components - is scheduled to be complete in time for end user deliveries 3Q01. Amiga Inc is currently in negotiation with several potential partner companies for the development and manufacture of the stand-alone AmigaOne and its related digital content/software. Companies interested in producing this version, utilising the PPC processor family include Eyetech, and bplan GmbH of Germany. We hope to have announcements to make on this within the next few weeks. Other companies and other processors are also under negotiation.
A new website is being set up, specifically to provide a focal point for news, questions, comment and discussion on the AmigaOne, and we encourage people to visit it and participate.
Supplement:
More links on this subject:
Slashdot:
Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of (German)
Golem: AmigaOne - New Amiga comes in late summer 2001
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21.Oct.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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AminetGUI - Update
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
The AminetGUI is once again free from commercial banners and PopUp windows.
The AminetGUI has also found a new server. I would like to thank Ingo Bowe
once more for providing his server.
During the move, AminetGUI has been restructured. The new structure permits to
provide new language versions of AminetGUI in a simple way. A developer archive
with a matching template in the download area will be available soon. Spanish
will be the first language to be added. Many thanks in advance to Tomás J.
Cantóy Diez. More translators are always welcome.
I would also like to thank Buster who send me the German version of the
Aminet-Upload.docs some while ago. Those can be reached at the Docs area.
Due to the move I also drop the Link area. Links are handled by the
Amiga-Gateway from now on.
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21.Oct.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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Malice: The better Q***e?
To shorten the waiting until the release of Shogo and Sin a bit, I provide a
test about Malice, a Q***e conversion. Is it really more than a mission pack?
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21.Oct.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
MCC_Guigfx.lha dev/mui 172K+Guigfx MUI custom class V19.2
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 31K+A simple backup tool.. v1.2
dblocate.lha disk/misc 20K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
ges3b.lzh game/hint 7.9M+Packet of solutions, cheats cards to gam
WHDShdWarriors.lha game/patch 23K+HD Installer for Shadow Warriors V1.1
Detris.lha game/wb 45K+Tetris for WB by Deniil 715!
MPEG_S_LAMEppc.lha mus/misc 232K+MPEG_S_LAME the MP3 Encoder for SoundFX
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 81K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
DeliDecrunch.lha mus/play 9K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.1
MRQ.lha util/cdity 151K+The MUI requester improver, now OpenSour
Cmp.lha util/cli 4K+Nice and tiny binary file compare tool
HexShow.lha util/cli 5K+Shows files as Hex
SED.lha util/cli 13K+Amiga stream editor
MultiRen.lha util/misc 173K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with
DRemind.lha util/time 216K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.56!
CLICon.lha util/wb 161K+A versatile replacement for IconX
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21.Oct.2000
Ben Yoris via eMail
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Statusreport about Descent: Freespace 'The Great War'
Hyperion Entertainment Software is working on a port of "Descent: Freespace
'The Great War'". The game already runs in software-render-mode. The
engine still needs some optimization before work on the 3D acceleration can
begin. Furthermore Ben Yoris tolled us that there is still hope for a version
running on 060 or 040 CPUs with Warp3D.
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21.Oct.2000
Jens Schönfeld via eMail
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Kickflash under Production
After a long period of waiting a reworked version of Kickflash is finally under
production. First there will be a version for the absolute Amiga classics, the
A500 and A1000. Besides 1MB flash memory for Kickstart ROMs, there is also a
86 pin CPU-Slot for A2000 accelerator cards, and a Zorro slot. A version for the
A1200 will follow.
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20.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK.com homepage
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Results of the Top 10 SDK Wish List now made public
At the title link you'll find the results of the top 10 SDK wishes survey.
Among others, special wishes like an extended documentation on VP programming
(special tutorials and examples), USB and Firewire support, or even a
language translation routine were named.
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20.Oct.2000
Thomas Wuergler on ANF
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Earth 2140 Status Report Part 2
The second part
of the Earth 2140 status report is available at the "preview area" at Amigafire.
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20.Oct.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF
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PlayGUI Website News
Version 1.6 of the PlayGUI add-on PLone is finally ready and can be found on
the PlayGUI website. The following has changed since V1.5:
- New: PlayerControl
- New: DeliTracker support
- Fix: Saving now works correctly again
- Change: Small change made to the playlist format
- New: Support for the new PlayGUI functions (Midi/MPeg)
- New: Skin.txt support
- New: Internal (sample/midi) and mp3 suffix file check
- New: mp3 TAG support (currently no genre, though)
- New: Play16 support + prefs
- New: MPegA support + prefs
- New: GMPlay (midi) support + prefs
- Fix: Add Directory function fixed
- New: Images lv_pic and op_pic as default pictures.
That means that a skin can now be a single main image only.
- New: Starts Hip/DeliTracker by itself if required
- New: (Still) simple ASCII export function
- New: Samples can now have a comment
- New: There can be dividers inserted
- New installer script
- New skin
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20.Oct.2000
Thomas Dellert on ANF
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Press Photos of G-Rex Available
On our website you now can see a press photo of the G-Rex-PCI bridge.
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20.Oct.2000
Kamil Barczynski on ANF
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PSV Manager Available in English
Thanks to the help of 'Scanner' (webmaster of the Ami-Site),
our soccer management game 'PSV Manager' is now available for download in English on our new
website. There you'll also find further information on
'PSV Manager' and all other current and future projects.
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20.Oct.2000
AmiSpaTra
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A Coruna - Meeting of Spanish Internet Participants
About 600 internet participants from all over Spain will meet from
October 20th to October 26th in A Coruna at the Arroutada Party. This
year's Arroutada Party is held at the Coliseo of A Coruna, organized
by the "da Mocedade Informatica Galega de A Coruna (Amiga)" and
sponsored by the local town hall.
According to informations from the local town hall, this is the
eighth year of this party which was held until now at the Forum
Metropolitano, but was moved to the Coliseo due to the enormous
success.
At this multiuser event a network of 600 computers is formed
which are all connected to the internet. The technology is sponsored
by the R. Ademas company. A sound machine of 80,000 watt will be available
as well. Contests with prices of up to one million ptas will take place.
A huge projection screen will be installed as well on which animations,
roboter fights on Linux and other elements from the world of computer
science can be seen. Also, further activities will be organized which
are aimed at the entertainment of the participants.
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20.Oct.2000
CyberGFX Homepage
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Pictures of Phase5 PCI Board Prototype
A two year old picture was made available on the CyberGraphX homepage
which shows the prototype of a PCI bridge from Phase5.
The prototype served as a help for the development of graphics board drivers
for the Amiga based on Mac graphics boards. You can find the link to the
picture if you follow the title link in the second news bottom right
(Phase5 G-Rex PCI Bridge Prototype).
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20.Oct.2000
MorphOS Team
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MorphOS - Butterfly 1.1, Ghostscript 5.10 and SoX 12.17 Released
The MorphOS team announced the following product updates:
- Butterfly 1.1 is a graphical frontend for the MprphOS launch program.
The program can be started from anywhere, but the standard prefs file
assumes that Butterfly is in the user directory. Newly added was a
ResetLevel switch, as on some configurations the standard ResetLevel settings
did not work. Please read the Startup.doc file for more details. You'll
find the archive here:
Butterfly1.1.lha (38K).
- Ghostscript 5.10 was ported for MorphOS/PPC. The installation requires
the 68k mode as well as the IXEmul archive. The file is available for download
at: gs510.lha (690K).
- Sound eXchange 12.17 was ported to MorphOS. The program
converts 20 different sound formats. The download archive can be
found here: sox 12.17 morphos.lha (104K).
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20.Oct.2000
Mike Bouma on Slashdot.org
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Slashdot.org Reports on the Growing Success of Amiga
Mike Bouma wrote: «Already well over 15,000 developers have bought the Amiga SDK 1.0 and
soon there will be an update available (3D, Sound, GUI and performance improvements).
It will be downloadable freely for 1.0 buyers and a Windows equivalent will be available.
There is an enormous amount of activity going on within the Amiga community, ....»
Read the full article
at the title link.
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19.Oct.2000
C. Huebner on ANF
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CrossUpdate from LW Amiga to LW6 Intel/Mac
The well-known raytracer "LightWave" is available at favourable conditions as a cross-update.
Any Amiga version of LW can be changed at special conditions to a full version of LightWave6
Intel/Mac. Please, visit the title link for more informations.
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