08.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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Epic News
After a long time, there's some news from Epic:
Virtual Ball Fighters, the action game for the Amiga is finally available.
VBF requires an Amiga with AGA or graphics card, a 030 CPU and 8 MByte RAM.
PPC and soundcards are supported.
The successor to MooVID Pro is coming soon: MooVID Pro 2 will be shipped from
September 18th on. Beside many optimizations, MooVID now supports the PPC
(WarpUP and Power Up). Owners of the previous version get a cheaper update
from epic.
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08.Sep.2000
Thomas Frieden on ANF
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Hyperion News
Follow the title link for a new progress report on Shogo, including
some screenshots of the OpenGL version.
Hyperion has from now on a support mailing list:
EMail subscription: hyperion-support-subscribe@egroups.com
or on the web at eGroups
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08.Sep.2000
Christian Busse
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Transcript of the Coyote Interview with Bill McEwen
Christian Busse has taken the efforts of creating a transcript from the 2.1 MB
MP3 file of the Coyote Flux interview
with Bill McEwen:
Bill McEwen: Here's Bill!
Coyote Flux: Well, good day Mr McEwen, you're speaking with Sharwin - I'm from Coyote Flux, an Amiga only software team and I would like to ask you a few public questions - is that possible?
Bill McEwen: Certainly.
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you - first of all: I heard a rumour from some magazines that the German office is about to close after the inventory sales of the Amiga 1200 - is this true?
Bill McEwen: No...?
Coyote Flux: No - OK, thank you. What could you tell me about the AmigaOne?
Bill McEwen: Well, nothing publicly at this time - other than this is a new desktop replacement machine.
Coyote Flux: OK. Then there was another question: Since half a year the Amiga market has started to shrink a little bit in comparison to what it was before, especially because there are a lot of companies and sceners that rather stay with the original Amigas - we spoke to you at the show in Neuss, the World of Alternatives, about porting the current Amiga OS to PPC, we will have to add the following question: You asked for the business proposal at the show...
Bill McEwen: Yes?
Coyote Flux: ... and we would like to know: We want to do the Amiga OS PPC port together with a few others at our own cost together, and we would like to know if that is possible as we think that the Amiga makes a bigger chance of surviving when the older machines get a chance as well.
Bill McEwen: Yeah, no, again, if you send me the information we're happy to take a look at it - we've been in conversations with Haage & Partner about this, we have received their timing, their proposal how long they think it will take...
Coyote Flux: Yes
Bill McEwen: ... we've been looking at market trends and designs, so I'm happy to take a look at what you have - we've not made a final decision on that
Coyote Flux: OK, so there hasn't been a final decision yet about if an Amiga OS PPC port can or will be made?
Bill McEwen: Correct.
Coyote Flux: OK, what do you think about the Boxer?
Bill McEwen: I don't think it will ever ship.
Coyote Flux: And if it WILL be shipped, would you be supporting it?
Bill McEwen: Oh, we already have, publicly!
Coyote Flux: OK, so it won't ever be a problem, the Classic Amiga range will proceed, and the Amiga will, like, go two seperate ways or something?
Bill McEwen: No, I don't see that, because you'll be able to run your Amiga Classic on the new system!
Coyote Flux: Aha, I see, but surely the speed will not be as fast as an original chipset...
Bill McEwen: Actually it will be FASTER with what we're doing - we're not doing it through emulation.
Coyote Flux: OK, cause now it's with the Virtual Processor I suppose?
Bill McEwen: U-huh
Coyote Flux: Cause I have a copy of the SDK at home, but, taking a look at modern CPUs, taking a look at all the parallel processing units and the caching and memory management, I have the feeling that the Virtual Processor will not be running at the speed it SHOULD be...
Bill McEwen: Actually since it's not... the Virtual Processor, since it translates it into native code...
Coyote Flux: Yes...
Bill McEwen: ... and the overhead is to a minimum, there is, what, a two percent performance hit
Coyote Flux: Yes, I understand, but by using a lot of registers that should be emulated or mapped in memory before they can be used, I suppose...
Bill McEwen: Exactly translated on the fly.
Coyote Flux: It's translated on the fly - but where are the registers taken from if I may ask?
Bill McEwen: I'm sorry I didn't hear you.
Coyote Flux: Where are the registers taken from if I may ask? Are they taken from memory, or are they taken from hardware registers?
Bill McEwen: It depends on the implementation...
Coyote Flux: Yes
Bill McEwen: ... if there is hardware available, we will utilize the hardware directly...
Coyote Flux: Yes
Bill McEwen: ... and if we can catch it that way, otherwise if it's not available we will do it in software.
Coyote Flux: OK, I see - but that will slow down, I suppose?
Bill McEwen: Depending on the application - in a desktop environment in most cases you'll have the proper hardware to utilize it, but in a handheld device you might not have the hardware, so we'll have to do it in software.
Coyote Flux: OK, I see, thank you - finally I had a question concerning the SDK: Is it a big success?
Bill McEwen: Yes, actually the sales are ahead of schedule and as of this week Red Hat will begin selling it also.
Coyote Flux: OK, and how many approximately sold in the time it has been on market?
Bill McEwen: Well, we shipped fifteen thousand so far.
Coyote Flux: Fifteen thousand.
Bill McEwen: Yep.
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much! That's actually all I wanted to know!
Bill McEwen: Great!
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you...
Bill McEwen: Yeah, I look forward - in fact I was speaking to someone about you in Sacramento...
Coyote Flux: Oh!
Bill McEwen: .. that it looked like you might be the team that might have the best opportunity for us, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much...
Bill McEwen: OK?
Coyote Flux: I will contact you then in the near future, supplying you with the information you might need about how we can port the Amiga OS to PPC, and...
Bill McEwen: OK.
Coyote Flux: ... yes, please keep up the good work then.
Bill McEwen: I thank you very much for your call.
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you as well - bye!
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07.Sep.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF
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Public-Opinion Poll at www.zophar.net
At www.zophar.net, supposed to be the biggest emulators-site online, there is currently
a public-opinion poll to find at the top of the right menue board, on what useres would
wish to see on the page in future. Among other things there is also the possibility to
vote for "Emulators for the Amiga". If you are interested in this, you should set your
vote there, cause there are only about 10% of votes for Amiga at the moment.
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07.Sep.2000
Rudolph Riedel via eMail
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New DiskMaster Beta Version 2.5b8 Available
For the known filer DiskMaster there is the next Beta Version 2.5b8 available, after
some problems.
New with this version:
- 2.5b8 (00-09-07) 68744 Bytes
- "Parent" still did not work correctly with assigns
- "LoadConfig" released it's buffer too early
- Uppercase/lowercase is no longer discerned when Auto-Commands compare contents
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07.Sep.2000
Olaf Koebnik
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Amiga Arena News
JST V4.0 at half price.
JST V4.0, the game installer by Jean-Francois Fabre
is available at half price at the Arena. JST makes it possible to start almost every game from HD, and to
save scores.
Amiga Arena Interview Project
New interviews with Damir Ahr (Ballmaster) and Felix Schwarz (fxPaint) online.
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07.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: The Mac inside the PC - for nothing
«Anybody who always wanted to check out if Mac OS indeed makes less problems than
Windows now can test this directly on the PC: Emulators Inc. offers the Macintosh emulator
Fusion PC for free download,
from now on. Emulators too over this sofware, which only runs under DOS (Window's DOS-Box does not
fit), last month. Next month they want to release the entire source-code, due to their own statements.
This shall become content of a tutorial on emulator programming.»
For full article, see titlelink (German).
As already reported here on 05-24-00, Microcode Solutions
gave Fusion PC license to Emulators, Inc. to have more free developer recources,
and more fund available.
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07.Sep.2000
Amiga, Inc.
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Wildfire at First - and now Taifun
As already reported, Taifun is the successor product to the award-winning video and animation special effects software
Wildfire7\PPC. The new software product is currently being developed using the Amiga Software Development Kit (SDK)
and is making great progress. Read the press release of Amiga, Inc. at the titlelink.
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07.Sep.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF
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Linux Format Reports on AmigaSDK
In the new September issue of the 'Linux Format' magazine there is to find an article on both, the Amiga SDK and Elate.
Among other things the multimedia platform 'intent', and functionality of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine)
is suggested. Nick Veitch reminds his readers on the Amiga SDK even inside the editorial.
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07.Sep.2000
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF
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Coyote Flux interviews Bill McEwen
At the titlelink you will find an interview with Bill McEwen done by Coyote Flux. This intervies
is provided as a MP3-file at the size of 2.1MB to find for download at the download-area of the temporary website of CF.
Further on there is a new example for PPC680x0 available: The freeware program "The Guru" was
ported to PPC using PPC680x0 within less than 30 minutes.
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07.Sep.2000
Ingo Musquinier on ANF
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New AmiTradeCenter Beta Available
Once again it happend, a new beta version for the FTP-client AmiTradeCenter was released.
05.09.2000 public beta
- Added a "t" to one of the "direcory" strings which was missing.
[ExoBuZz]
- Fixed a bug when pressing the local "parent" button while connecting
which caused garbage in the local string gadget.
[ExoBuZz]
- After a transfer the transferred file, bytes, filelength and the cps are
now displayed in the ftplog.
[Roland "Ronni" Hopfer]
- Double entries in the .batchtmp are now filtered, so the list won't
replicate itself several times after several crashes.
[Roland "Ronni" Hopfer]
- Reselection of files when revisitting a directory is now done by
comparing the filenames with the list instead of just selecting the files
by numbers, which could have led to wrong selected entries, when a
directory was reloaded after an upload.
[Roland "Ronni" Hopfer]
- The trader now won't try to reconnect to a server, when the servermanager
is quitted and therefore also all traders (depends on "auto reconnect" and
"closemethod of servermanager" settings).
- Loginwindow which is opened if neither the username or the password is
given didn't work. Fixed.
[Ingo Musquinier]
Download: ATC_beta_05092000.lha
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07.Sep.2000
Sven Dröge on ANF
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BondsV1.78 on Aminet, at last
After some upload problems now the most recent archive with the stock-market software is available for
downlaod at Aminet, at last.
New with this version:
- Group editor for creating object lists after your fancy
- New conception of the depot manager
- Extension of the default objects, many new shares, subscription
warrants, as well as European indizes (thanks to Wolfgang Bauer, too!)
- Complete adaptation to the "GlowIcons" style (thanks to Martin Merz!)
- Many bug-fixes
Known bugs:
- The DEPOTMANAGER is not ready yet, but one can already "play around" with it a little bit.
- The group editor was newly implemented; there still might occure errors while using it.
Download: BondsV178.lha
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07.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Safe Version 14.0 Released
Name: Safe v14.0
Archivname: Safe.lha
Archivgröße: 20.665 Bytes
Releasedatum: 7. September 2000
Programmierer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Braucht xvs.library v33.23
New with v14.0 :
v13.4 - 7000, RENRAM parameter renames Ram disk: to Ram: now (requested by Oscar Hdez)
NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER!
IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY
IF POSSIBLE!
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07.Sep.2000
Andreas R. Kleinert via eMail
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TWinIFF Version 1.03 Released
TWinIFF 1.03 for AmigaOS, Win9x/NT/2k and Linux/x86 is available, now.
Download: twiff103.zip
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07.Sep.2000
Markus Nerding via eMail
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Haage & Partner News
H&P increases personnel
In October of the past year, we already hired a new programmer, namely
Markus Poellmann. He mainly cares for StormC, and also works on
AmigaWriter. At the beginning of 2000, a new co-worker was found, Ute
Gottschalk, who takes care of accounting and datatyping. Stefan Robel has
just finished a practical period for his computer studies, in which he
created a new and portable version of StormRexx. At the beginning of
September, Alexander Bramm and Simon Neumann brought two new co-workers.
Their main concern is support, and managing of new projects.
Further co-workers wanted.
For proof-reading of our website texts, press releases and manuals we are
looking for an additional English native speaker. A good knowledge of
English grammer etc. is essential.
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07.Sep.2000
Andreas R. Kleinert
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Computer-Zeitung: Politicians supporting Linux in the fight against patents
The German Computerzeitung issue 36 from 09-07-00 is carrying the subject of software patents:
They are titeling (small): "Software Inventions"
(big) "Politicians are supporting Linux with the fight against patents"
This all is to find big and not ot overlook pivotal on the front page citing Joerg Tauss, MdB (member of the
Bundestag) contra, and Dai Rees pro SWPAT.
Additional a big picture along with the subtitle "The [EPA] in Munich denys any private financial interest [...]"
At the left another contra SWPAT
comment (German) of
an editor, and at the lower right the Intel/Broadcom quarrel is suggested. So, about half of the front page
today only on the subject of patents.
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07.Sep.2000
Stefan Robl via eMail
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AmigaMPEG-Player 1.02 and writepixel 1.05
For all SDK users:
AmigaMPEGPlayer is now up to 25% faster (!) than the initial version, and has got a file-requestor in addition, too.
writepixel was completely overworked, is now definite faster than previeous versions, and has got a scalable window.
Furthermore the colour fade now changes corresponding to mouse position and time.
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06.Sep.2000
Dirk Baeyens on ANF
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clickBOOM: Nightlong
Nightlong has been enabled by Trecision, which means the betatests have passed positively. Now only the CDs, and
packings are to be produced, and then the game will be available soon.
Nightlong is a graphically costly point-and-click game which at first was published by Team 17 for the PC,
and became a big success. The background of the game is a conspiracy anno 2099 which the player has
to clear up.
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06.Sep.2000
Markus Holler
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Markus Holler: MP3-account Opened
From today Markus Holler, who is well-known by his songs for Amiga games, has offically opened his account at
MP3.com. At http://www.mp3.com/atroxis you can download not only
the known files, but some new songs, too. Enjoy the music! :)
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06.Sep.2000
The World Foundry
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TWF no longer Responsible for Expolrer2260, and Main and Mangle
On the website of "The World Foundry" there is a short statement saying that TWF is not longer
responsible for production of the games "Explorer2260" and "Main and Mangle". For more details of
development and the team there soon will be an official statement.
The same statement you can read at CEG-site (Collins Encyclopedia Galactica).
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06.Sep.2000
GamesZone
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Test Report of Matrox G405 at hartware.net
hartware.net has examined the new graphics board Matrox Millennium G450. This one was not made for the
home user but for business user and customers of companies. Nevertheless we have had a look at the
Millenium G450 with regard to the use for games. Maybe this card is a reasonably alternative for the
private user? See titlelink for full article (German).
At amiga.org we have found a link to a review of AnandTech as well:
Matrox Millennium G450. And this one is
in English. -)
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