29.May.2003
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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USB Stack: Poseidon Update V2.1
There's a new update of the Poseidon USB Stack. It consists mainly of improvements and bugfixes of the Mass Storage Class, for Highway as well as Subway drivers. Through this a whole lot more pieces of equipment should run, which had formerly balked.
Newly come is a program for USB-Radios from D-Link, respectively GemTek. One can purchase these very cheaply on eBay, because it was put together in a friendly manner it was just a few hours work to create the drivers.
A bit more was invested in the new program for the management of my MP3 Player (Valencia MPX), which was available for purchase at Lidl in December 2002. This (and many similarly built units) are unfortunately not MSD equipment. With the Uproar tool this MP3 player may nonetheless be conveniently used. In case anyone else has such a gadget, I'd be very appreciative to hear some feedback.
This time there are two separate archives, for classic Amiga as well as MorphOS systems -- this allows simple installation.
That's just an intro, further details may be found in the ReadMe. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
(ANF)
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Amiga Access Homepage Update
On the homepage of the Amiga-Clone 'Access' (title link) there are now some more benchmarks. The modules may be downloaded and tried on your own computer. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Roger Stamm (ANF)
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ahs-amiga.ch Is Moving
Roger Stamm of AHS-Amiga Handel Stamm writes:
"AHS-Amiga is moving. Because of this it may happen that the pages at
www.ahs.amiga.ch are not readily available. If you want to get in touch with us, use email: info@ahs-amiga.ch.
We will send a confirmation within two days for the receipt of the email. If you don't get confirmation, you can also reach us at
rstamm@gmx.de.
Many thanks for your understanding."
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Telemar Rosenberger (E-Mail)
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Amiforce: Snapshots of Aquarium and Port Royal
Telemar Rosenberger, known to many for his software "AmHuhn," has authored a screen saver
named "Aquarium" and a game named "Port Royal," with the help of the multimedia authoring system
Hollywood. Under the title link you'll find the first screenshots
for both of these programs. The programs will be published as soon as the
announced Hollywood
Version 1.5 is out.
The deal with Aquarium is that it's a screen saver with images of swimming fish, already known from other
platforms. Now AmigaOS too gets the enjoyment of this pleasing screen saver.
Port Royal is a new combat game, which is about ships firing cannons. With this one may, for example, calculate wind
direction in directing a strike, and naturally the enemy ships shoot back. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: New Audio Track
As of now there is a new MP3 (Trance) to be downloaded from Amiforce, for all interested.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.May.2003
Dennis Pauler (ANF)
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Star Empire II: Last possibility to join
Tomorrow, Thursday, a new round of the email based space strategy game
Star Empire II will start. The aim of the game is to become the leader of the universe
but there are 32 human beings trying to do this and several computer controled pirates.
Diplomaty, alliances, but also armed space crafts are strongly indicated to fulfill this.
Who wants to join has now the last possibility to do so
Btw.: The server program of Star Empire II is powered by AmigaOS... :-)
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
pcgames.de (ANF)
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PC Games: Munich decides for Linux
»The Munich city council has decided today that in future on all 14,00 PCs and notebooks of the city Linux software will
be used instead of Microsoft programs.
The council followed with this decission a claim of the 1st municipal
Christian Ude. The migration to the open source operating system should be done steadily during the next years. Initially the public offices
which use mostly office applications should be changed to the new software.
The costs of this change including teaching courses are guessed to nearly 30 million Euros«.
Read the full article (German) by the title link.
Further links regarding this topic:
Golem: München pro Linux: Stadtrat lässt Microsoft abblitzen
heise: IBM: Münchener Entscheidung ein "Ritterschlag für Linux"
heise: CSU kritisiert Münchener Entscheidung als "Software-Abenteuer"
SPIEGEL: MÜNCHEN WÄHLT LINUX SuSE beißt Bill
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Lorraine Design (Website)
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New YAM toolbar icons
At Lorraine-Design there are new icons for the YAM toolbar available for download.
Here is a preview.
Download: NewYam.LHA
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - lookong for further names
Steffen Nitz writes: "'Die Kleine Gilde' version 0.25 will be released within the next
4 - 5 days and I ask for the following: Actually I am binding the new profession smith to the game and need
20 to 30 house names regarding the smith profession. I am looking for names like "Heavy Hammer", "Hot Iron" etc. There is a keyfile to win for
'Die Kleine Gilde' or for `SN-Münzarchiv'".
Update:
Steffen Nitz has published this
screen shot from the game. Under the title link you will find some others.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Marc Albrecht (E-Mail)
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amiga-news.de: Comuter center maintenance
Tomorrow night (i.e. from Thursday to Friday) there will be some hardware compounds changed at that comuter center which hoste amiga-news.de
therefore between 23:00 and 03:00 that night it might be that the pages are unreachable.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Preview from PairsNG and an own domain
The one or other user might remember the game "Pairs" which was released in 1996 for the first time
in version 1.0 by Tobias Lenz. Seven years later Christoph Kimna is working with "PairsNG" on more than a
honorable successor. The preview reports about Olaf Köbniks first impressions of "PairsNG" and with the
screen shots you can see yourself that there will be a real classic one soon, which won't release you too easy.
Furthermore there is additional information given about the author
Christoph Kimna during the interview and one more surprise. The
interview, the preview and the screen shots are at the section "Interviews". The interview is currently available in
German.
Amiga Arena - Now with an own domain
it took long but with the friendly support of the Fun Time World the
Amiga Arena is reachable at
http://www.amiga-arena.de
from now on.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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Official release of YAM v2.4p1
The email client YAM (Yet Another Mailer) has been released by the YAM open source
team to be publicly downloadable. Read with the following the list of the new
features:
- Fixed: failed to quote messages containing attachments (damato)
- Fixed: the "Abbreviation" string gadget in the Glossary reset
itself to "- new -" every time the contents were deleted (damato)
- Fixed: it could happen that a temporary letter file was used for
several Write windows at once (damato)
- Fixed: would try to delete an inexistant ".autosave0" file if the
AutoSave option was set to 0 (damato)
- Fixed: couldn't exit if ConfirmOnQuit was enabled and YAM was
iconified (damato)
- Fixed: the HIDE option prevented the application from popping up
if MUI's own appicon or the commodity system were used (damato)
- Fixed: the FOLDERINFO ARexx command returned the wrong ID number
for folders containing "sent and received" mail (damato)
- Fixed: changing the folder type failed to refresh the message
list (damato)
- Fixed: forgot to pack messages when they were imported into
compressed folders, causing all sort of calamity (damato)
- Fixed: folders that "lost" their directory were
automatically recreated as folders of type "outgoing" (damato)
- Fixed: cancelling the password requester in the folder settings
window would create a folder protected with an empty password (damato)
- Fixed: the "Export..." item in the popup menu would export the
whole folder contents (damato)
- Fixed: the "Check PGP signature" menu item in the Read window
was sometimes disabled even if the message had a signature to
check (damato)
- Fixed: the "Save decrypted message" menu item in the Read
window didn't work as it should in compressed/encrypted folders
(damato)
- Changed: it is now actually compatible with the most common MBOX
formats, e.g. MBOXRD (damato)
- Changed: added support for the DST variable created by
Facts, rendering SummerTimeGuard emulation obsolete (damato)
- Changed: no longer disables the pattern field in the ASL
file requester opened to attach files (damato)
- Changed: no longer complains if it can't save ENVARC:mui/YAM.cfg
on exit (damato)
- Added: new hidden option "AutoColumnResize" for YAM to resize
the NList columns when switching folders if the option is enabled,
which it is by default (damato)
- Added: confirmation requester before cropping attachments (damato)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Dia-CD (Vacation pictures burned as VideoCD)
Today Carsten Siegner finished his project "Dia-CD"
(at his home page at "rexx"). With this program you can watch your pictures from the vacation easily utilizing a TV and a DVD player.
The program creates automatically a slide show and compiles a VCD-Image by demand.
Features:
- any picture archive convertable
- any picture format usable (utilizes the datatypes)
- adding a soundtrack
- Later navigation with the keys of the DVD rc
- Written in ARexx competly; so to use with all Amigas.
- Every picture or every picute sequence might have its own presentation time (10 s - 100 s)
- If demanded the source pictures are added to the VideoCD as well, so they won't be lost
- To every VideoCD a ReadMe file can be added
- There is a brief online help optional
Requirements:
- RexxTricks_386.lha (from Siegner's home page)
- Tritonrexx (at the RexxTricks directory)
- triton.library (at the RexxTricks directory)
- dttoppm.lha (Aminet)
- sox.lzx (from Siegner's home page or Aminet)
- Multiviev
- execute
- AREXX
- vcd-ffmpeg.lzx (from Siegner's home page)
- min 1 GByte free hard disk space
- min 64 MByte free RAM
Installation:
Install RexxTricks with the installer. That will install all data for
Tritonrexx and the
triton.library also. Unpack dttoppm.lha and copy the program to C:. Unpack vcd-ffmpeg.lzx and move
vcdimager and ffmpeg to C:. ARexx needs to be stated at boottime, Sox must be at C:.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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Game: Payback for GBA - Status report #7
On May the 27th 2003 James Daniels by Apex Designs released the seventh
status report about the port of the game 'Payback' to the Gameboy
Advance.
The update focuses to the new features and performance increase which were done during the last month.
The report includes four new screen shots and a video clip of the game in action.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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27.May.2003
KDH News (ANF)
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AmigaOne: German mailing list
A German-speaking mailing list for AmigaOne-customers was built up today. This mailing list should help AmigaOne-customers
to communicate with other customers in the German-speaking scope (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), also it should be a authority for tips and tricks
because of the AmigaOne.
This mailing list is supported by the Amiga dealer
Point Design and KDH Datentechnik
and is made as a completion to the official Amiga mailing list.
You could announce at here.
Source:
Jürgen Schober - Point Design
Günter Horbach - KDH Datatechnic
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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YAM Newsletter 12 - visits in the YAM future
The YAMOS team, developer of the e-mail client YAM (Yet Another Mailer), have been published the YAM newsletter No. 12 today.
There they related to the new features of YAM-Release 2.4p1 which explains
hidden options "AutoColumnResize" of this version and visited to the future of YAM. Read the complete English-speaking newsletter under the
title link.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Call to Logo competition
The face of AROS in this way. So a logo competition is organized, that is open for designer and graphic artists.
After the delivery date there are public selections, at its end a winner is announced.
All logos had to be delivered until the 30th June, and they are not allowed to contain copyrighted elements. They had to be in a vector or a bitmap format.
Following formats are supported: SVG, EPS, EPSF, PS, AI, PNG, GIF, TIFF, IFF-24 oder PSD.
The winner will be fame and honour.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Status Report May 2003
Another whole month has gone by, which means that it's definitely time for another status update. Doh, why do have all the status updates to begin like that? :) I'd like to thank all the people who showed interest in AROS in the last months, and there have been a lot! Anyway, let's not wait longer, here are the juicy bits, in this relatively uneventful month...
Hardware
Johan Grip received the Pegasos board at the end of April, installed Debian GNU/Linux on it, and started working on the hosted AROS port. However he was no longer able to continue for personal reasons, so he sent the board to Michal Schulz, another talented hardware hacker.
In the meantime, Michal, who already had a PPC PReP board, worked on the native PPC port. He merged his sources in the AROS CVS tree, creating the new 'arch/ppc' directory. To this day, he went as far as implementing task handling and scheduling. Congratulations Michal! Sources as well as a PReP boot image can be found at http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~misc/AROS.ppc.tar.bz2
Michal is also reworking exec.library to make it hardware/platform-independent, by moving dependent stuff in resources like kernel.resource, OpenFirmware.resource...
Build system
No fundamental changes to this sometimes hated system, but lots and lots of little bug fixes and improvements by almost every active AROS Team member in tools, config files, makefiles... So much activity caused quite a few broken nightly builds, but it seems now stabilized.
Also the newer gcc 3.3 that got installed on the build machine led to some problems, but nothing that couldn't be handled.
We now use bzip2 instead of gzip, and a custom, simpler package format than tar to create the AROS floppy and squeeze every possible byte. In the quest to more space, some less useful programs were removed from floppy. Thanks to Adam Chodorowski for the cleanup and optimizations!
i386-pc Installation
The installer for the i386 native port, install-i386-pc, is currently broken, but a graphical bootsector installer is in work, as well as a bootmenu editor, courtesy of Sebastian Heutling, who also still works on the HDToolBox partition editor.
User Interface
Adam Chodorowski began to work on the Zune custom class PreferencesWindow.mcc which implements the AROS standard prefs window buttons and look.
Paul Smith continued his huge work on the next iteration of Wanderer and the underlying desktop.library. It draws icons, and different views are possible (large icons, small icons, details).
Fabio Alemagna added horizontal and vertical color gradients to Zune images. Take a look at the obligatory screenshot!
By default, the Boot Shell is now closed after Wanderer is started. To open a new shell, use the Wanderer/Shell menu item, or use Amiga-W shortcut (Amiga key is the right Win key on pc105 keyboards)
Localizations
Thanks to Olivier Adam for his French translation of dos.library catalog, and to Paulo Silva for the Portuguese keyboard description (which Georg Steger implemented).
Miscellaneous
Some miscellaneous things that have happened:
- Staf Verhaegen continued to work on diskfont.library.
- Stefan Berger worked hard on ports of gtlayout.library and term 4.7, which can be found in contrib.
- Adam Chodorowski imported AHI 5.8 in AROS CVS, following Martin Blom's release of the AROS port.
- Georg Steger worked on the unix hosted kernel to allow nesting supervisor, so that signals occuring during a signal handler execution are not ignored. It should improve the stability of the serial device.
- and of course, lots of fixes here and there by many developers: for a rough idea, already more than 350 CVS commits this month (although we won't beat the record of 890 last month, according to the AROS-CVS mailing list archive).
Documentation
AROS documentation, in source and HTML-rendered form, is now available on the download page.
Web
Randy Vice set up an AROS support site, TeamAROS, at http://thenostromo.com/teamaros/.
Be sure to check their bounty program if you want to sponsor AROS development.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: Changes and votes
Forgot your password or username? Just click Log in on demo list page, enter your email address and the username and password will be send to you. Now there is no excuse anymore not to get active. By the way, about 120 votes were added in the last week. Thanks and keep them coming! (nba)
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26.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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AA: Interview with Bill Panagouleas / 'DNA - The Variety of Life'
Amiga Arena Interview with Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX)
Olaf Köbnik talked with Bill Panagoules about the Amiga port of Mozilla and about upcoming products for the Amiga.
The (English) interview.
Amiga Arena Fullversion: DNA - The Variety of Life
"DNA - The Variety OF Life", the first work by "Applaud
software" is now available for download. The game is a strategy
game. The story is somewhat similar to the one of "UFO - Enemy unknown". The earth is threatend by mutants.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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26.May.2003
Diverse
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Software Updates - 26.05.2003 (Update)
New Ports of Amiga.SF: abcm2ps and cURL
abcm2ps Version 3.5.3
abcm2ps is a program which converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript.
It was developed mainly to print barock organ scores which have independant
voices played on one or many keyboards and a pedal-board.
abcm2ps-3.5.3.lha
cURL Version 7.10.5
cURL is a client to get documents/files from or send documents to a server,
using any of the supported protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET,
LDAP or FILE). The command is designed to work without user interaction or
any kind of interactivity. cURL offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy
support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL (https:) connections,
cookies, file transfer resume and more.
curl-7.10.5.lha
IRC-Client: BenderIRC Version 1.5b14
Download: BenderIRC.lha
Tools: LCD-Test and Changer
Philippe Bourdin released two new programs:
- "LCD test" tests LCD screen on defective pixels, as certain
colors are faded in, which facilitate a finding.
Download: LCD-Test.lha
- "Changer" is a program for looking for and replacing in files (also
recursive by sublists). The program uses "Regularexpressions" and Perl-5
must be installed. The program has unfortunately no graphic user
interface, but is started from the Shell (see homepage for documentation).
Download: changer.pl
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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26.May.2003
Amiga Society (Website)
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Amiga Society: Update of Little Book and Schlachtfeld News
There are some updates for the Little Book available - short entries about games like Dune II or Celtic Legends.
For the fans of Schlachtfeld there are the following news: There
is meanwhile an Alpha9-Version - this runs among other things also
under UAE. Some systems, as for instance the A4000 from Horst Diebel
want to get along however not so completely with it. On the computers,
on which the play runs, one can select, against an opponent advance
its team and supply oneself with the opponent of engagements. At
present there are however still problems with aiming accuracy and the
shots generally - Christian works however on these problems. It gave
already large progress and moves the end of the alpha phase within
easy reach.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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26.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 26.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
McA45a.lha biz/dbase 67K+*McAgenda* is a phonebook very easy to u
mca45CAT.lha biz/dbase 3K+Catalonian catalog for database McAgenda
mca45ESP.lha biz/dbase 5K+Spanish catalog for database McAgenda
SN-KontoArc.lha biz/dbase 94K+V1.11 Accout archives (Germany only)
XBaze-7.2.lha biz/dbase 533K+Very easy2use flexible and fast database
OpenURLDevBas.lha dev/basic 45K+Using OpenURL library from HBasic
OrpheusV1_0.lha dev/basic 40K+AGA copper creator for BlitzBasic2
FusionV1_0.lha dev/misc 217K+AGA palette manipulation & editing
nA_impulse_src.lha dev/src 2.2M+Music disk asm source
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 43K+A simple backup tool.. v1.4
nA_Cracker1_0b.lha disk/misc 65K+NDOS utility tools ;)
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 50K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42a: Advanced snake game
supertvCAT.lha gfx/board 3K+Catalonian catalog for SuperTV
AmiFig_Koch.lha gfx/edit 1K+Draws Koch's Snowflake using AmiFig's Ar
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
FroggerSP.lha gfx/show 17K+Frogger spanish documentation v2.06.0
nA_showLOGO02.lha gfx/show 6K+View mobilephone logos
038_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
039_mpfree.lha mods/moods 7.8M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
040_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.5M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
042_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
043_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
044_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
hum_m220.lha mods/moods 117K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m221.lha mods/moods 634K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m222.lha mods/moods 2.7M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m223.lha mods/moods 163K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m224.lha mods/moods 114K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m225.lha mods/moods 233K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m226.lha mods/moods 295K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m227.lha mods/moods 464K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m228.lha mods/moods 1.2M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m229.lha mods/moods 2.7M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m230.lha mods/moods 209K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m231.lha mods/moods 141K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m232.lha mods/moods 150K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m233.lha mods/moods 770K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m234.lha mods/moods 1.1M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m235.lha mods/moods 1.0M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m236.lha mods/moods 217K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
kof2kxIcons.lha pix/gicon 106K+King Of Fighters 2KX glow icons
Webbit2003_04.lha pix/misc 15M+Webb.it 2003 archive 04
Webbit2003_05.lha pix/misc 5.9M+Webb.it 2003 archive 04
nA_ConFile04b.lha text/misc 60K+Compare from 2 to 5 files
FileComp.lha util/cli 3K+CLI tool for comparing files.
MakeList.lha util/cli 6K+Create file listing from directories (68
NoLed_v1.2.lha util/misc 4K+Low-Pass Filter Killer v1.2
DRemind.lha util/time 292K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.65!
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26.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #037
There is another new track by 'Liquid Skies' available. The details of release no. 37:
- Title: "Transarktyka"
- Musician: Maxus
- Duration: 5.10
- Style: Trance
- Format: MP3
The whole package, including the cover and some additional information (text files), has a size of 4.8MB.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Die Kleine Gilde v0.2
Die Kleine Gilde (The Little Guild) V0.2 is available as of now on Steffen Nitz' homepage.
Changes in version 0.2
- Added 8 computer players
- Fixed bugs
- Other changes I don't want to go into right now
- The game is now shareware (10 Euro), though the price may still change
The future gaming principle
The game is a round based economic simulation set in the Middle Ages from 1400 through 1600.
Furthermore it is also a realtime strategy game and a lifecycle simulation. The fascinating thing about "Die Kleine Gilde" is that you can and have to found a whole family dynasty if you don't want to stop playing after the death of your character but rather continue playing with one of your children.
You are a merchant who in the beginning takes on one of the starting trades, as there are: blacksmith, carpenter, stonemason, alchimist, perfumer, innkeeper, thief or preacher. When you have snatched up a little money you can also change trades, e.g. to become a money lender or choose one of the other starting trades. In addition you can run for office on country level, at the town council, the Church, as town civil servant, town myrmidon or informant.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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25.May.2003
amiga.org
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Tao: intent 2 raring to go
In a comment to the article "Amiga DE a Good Idea, Poor
Execution" in the forum of the American news service amiga.org, Francis Charig, CEO of Tao, announced intent2 and clarified a couple of points. Please read Charig's full comment below:
"We will be announcing the launch of 'intent 2' in June. I can't say too much about it here as this is a public forum so please forgive me and remain patient through the next few weeks.
A few comments....
intent is a software platform targeted at resolving fundamental commercial issues faced by network operators, OEMs, ODMs, applications developers and content creators. We have been building a series of technologies in areas such as AV, Java and various new components and tools that get announced during June. To be able to provide a solution that meets the market's expectations, we have been working on threading them together so that we have a true platform. You'll find that we've been extremely successful in achieving this. The previous ADK and SDKs weren't good enough to enhance our reputation but that should shortly change.
During the last year-and-a-half we have had strong support from the OCPA which ratified the intent core APIs as its standard last year. Membership includes Sega, Konami, Bandai, Capcom, Taito, Qualcomm, TI, Motorola, Intel, Hitachi, Sony, Fujitsu, Pioneer, Epson, Kyocera, JVC, Sharp and Toyota, and so forth. Products on the market or being developed by Philips, Sony, Kyocera and many others supporting devices (DVCs, remote controls, home servers, PVRs, phones, PDAs....) incorporating MIPS, X86, PowerPC, ARM, SH, Embedded Linux, Smartphone, Pocket PC, iTRON, Symbian, VxWorks, the native intent RTOS show the unique breadth of the product as we had promised. We're getting traction from all of the targeted markets of our business.
Comments in the thread about Java support relates to the desktop where memory constraints and other factors make those solutions inappropriate for the kind of devices we are focussed on. In our area, intent is massively outperforming the capabilities of any alternative. Consequently we have been rapidly gaining network operator support.
However, while the Java language is an important part of the platform (I cannot understand comments in this thread that indicate Java has failed or doesn't have momentum), Java cannot be the entire platform because of its many limitations and the ability to transmit to networked devices fun content written in any language including scripting languages is important if we are to talk about truly open platforms.
I don't remember having had a single cross word with Bill McEwen since we began our Amiga relationship. We still see Amiga as an important potential contributor of content and other areas of value-add and we have made introductions of Amiga to various blue chip partners or customers of ours including some in the last few weeks. However, remember that intent has not been developed to be a replacement o/s for the desktop but nor have we ever claimed that it was. We have been entirely consistent in our aims and Tao, and we're making strong progress.
All the best
Francis Charig" (nba) (Translation: cb)
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25.May.2003
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Milestone 1 of Jazilla released
After the appeal incl. fund-raising campaign initiated by DiscreetFX for porting the Web browser Mozilla for the Amiga, the works on various porting projects are apparently picking up speed.
Thus a first alpha version of Jazilla has been presented, requiring Java however, but which might in the mid-term be compatible with AmigaOS 4
and MorphOS, if these will fully support Java.
Significant features of Jazilla:
- chrome:// support
- JavaScript implemented for the GUI thanks to the Mozilla.org Rhino engine. HTML Scripting coming.
- GUI in part, uses XUL and W3C DOM
- Written in 100% Java
- Open Source
- Uses the NetBrowser renderer, which is actually based on Jazilla-classic work.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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25.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos-Chronicle by Martin Heine
Starting from his German translation of Bill Buck's and Raquel Velascos' Articia adventures, Martin Heine has compiled a (German) "Pegasos Chronicle".
Corrections or events to be added are of course welcome (Senex@gmx.de). (ps) (Translation: cb)
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24.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-KontoArchiv V1.12 and "Die Kleine Gilde" overview
SN-KontoArchiv v1.12 released
SN-KontoArchiv is an account management software with many input and statistics functions. The program is email ware. New in version 1.12 is a bug fixing related to reading the keyfile.
Game: Die Kleine Gilde
Soon will a new version (V0.2) of the economy simulation "Die
Kleine Gilde" be released. The game status changed from email ware to shareware. The price will probably be 5,- or 10,- Euro.
The author Steffen Nitz needs your help for the game: people who can give him appr. 30 names in medieval style for a pub and/or 10 names for houses gets the keyfile for free.
When forty names will have been found v0.2 will be released.
Besides that beta testers and a graphical artist are looked for. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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OS4.0 on Tour News
We have the pleasure to announce that the 'OS4.0 on Tour' event will expand
into two more countries:
- 21.06.2003 Schweiz / Basel
- 28.06.2003 Schweden / Goetheborg
On all these events we will have 'OS4.0 on Tour' merchandising products
available for sale. These products can also be bought from your
participating partners. For more information see title link.
(ps)
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24.May.2003
Diverse
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Software news (till 24.05.2003)
Here's a short sumary of software updates of the last few days:
Game: Worm Wars version 7.42a by Amigan Software
Download: WormWars.lha - 585 KB
Game: Saga version 1.26a by Amigan Software
Download: Saga.lha - 306 KB
Installer: WHDLoad - new packages till 23.05.2003
- 23.05.03 new: Battlehawks 1942 (Lucasfilm) done by Galahad
- 23.05.03 improved: Doman (World Software) fixed display problems
- 23.05.03 improved: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) supports 2 more versions, memory size fix
- 22.05.03 new: Powerdrome (Electronic Arts) done by Galahad
- 18.05.03 improved: Silent Service (Microprose) supports NTSC version
- 17.05.03 new: Zombi (UBI-Soft) done by Agressor
- 15.05.03 new: Spot (Virgin/Mastertronic) done by Codetapper
- 14.05.03 new: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) done by JOTD
CD burning software: MakeCD module - makecdromfs version 45.10
Download: makecdromfs_45_10.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
The Legacy
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The Legacy: The games museum with rating possibility
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad
CPC that provides the readers with screenshots, covers scans and information about the developers. Today they integrated the possibility to rate single games. Read now the original (German) announcement:
"Manche Sachen sind ganz einfach und dauern trotzdem ewig lange, bevor sie
realisiert sind. Dass es eine Bewertung der Spiele durch die Besucher geben
soll, das wird wohl schon fast seit einem Jahr versprochen. Heute war nun der
Tag, an dem ich es einfach einmal umgesetzt habe. War auch garnicht schlimm...
Auf jeden Fall habt ihr nun die Möglichkeit, pro Game genau einmal eure
Bewertung abzugeben. Achso, die Funktion der Bewertung steht nur
registrierten Mitgliedern offen."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Stiftung Warentest Online
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Stiftung Warentest: 0190 numbers - search engine shows netprovider
Stiftung Warentest reports in this article about a
search engine
in the Internet that is supposed to give information about which 0190 number belongs to which provider. This is an offer of the German "Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post". The search engine is active since Wednesday. Unfortunately it shows only the net provider of the calling number, therefore it's still complicated to search the people in the background behind the numbers. This search engine is a correct but only a first step in the fight against the unscrupulous dialer money makers.
Read the full (German) article following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MUI: new gradient feature for MorphOS v1.4
On MorphOS-News.de you can find an unofficial screenshot of the upcoming MorphOS version 1.4 showing a new MUI feature: gradient creation in realtime (these are no bitmaps).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
(ANF)
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New webpage for Amiga clone Access
Following the title link you will find a new launched homepage for the Amiga clone Access by Index Information LDT. As there are several Access boards circulating but without an official place to turn to have all available data been collected and a forum has been installed. This can be used to exchange experiences and possibly to remove problems or to answer questions.
As there's only a small number of boards spread throughout the world is the page been held in the international comprehensible English. In the forum itself you may of course write in other languages, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Pixel Art (email)
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StartMenu: Pixload final version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS 1.3
The Amiga Classic version 4 of the start menu Pixload is finished, only the German localization is still in the works. The version for MorphOS 1.3 is 99,99 % finished. Here is the final feature list:
- Drag & Drop of image directories loads a thumbnail tool
- New graphics formats: TIFF and TARGA via datatypes
- New sound formats: AIFF and WAVE (no datatypes needed)
- Control bar for MiamiDX integrated
- New program loading window
- clock with RTC functionality
- Help file in the context menu
- some bugs fixed
- Pixload is scalable
- Pixload can open directories instead of programs
- Shortkeys added
- Icon organization via Drag & Drop
- Choice for number of icon columns
- Special MorphOS 1.3 / Pegasos version
N.B : All functions linked to drag and drop, not work because of
MorphOS 1.3 version (ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo scene: Disk mag Generation now online available
Three issues of the legendary Amiga demo scene disk mag Generation
by Artwork, later Endzeit, are now for all interested visitors online available. The former main editor Henning
RokDaZone Brau had already months ago a HTML version of his ork prepared but never put it online. This has now been completed and released by the Diskmag.de team.
For all those who had been active in the mid 90s there's much to read. And much you still can and probably also will remember.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Thorsten Mampel, 1. Vorsitzender ACH e.V. (ANF)
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Amiga meeting North 2003 in Bad Bramstedt
From October, 10th to 12th 2003 takes in Bad Bramstedt (north of Hamburg) the 4th Amiga meeting North place. A full weekend party and fun all around the Amiga. The program:
- Demo and film shows via beamer
- free hardware and software market (Amigas and equipment)
- Workshops
- Creating a party CD by the participiants
- Network with connection to the Internet via DSL
- Webcam
- Guest book
- a. m. m.
Up to 40 computers can be setup and connected. You can register via a form on our homepage (VISITORS FOR A DAY, TOO) or directly via phone in the hotel Tanneneck (04192/500071, ask for Norbert!).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.May.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 11
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 11 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) Temal: Are there any plans on trying to get companies back to the platform, such as Newtek? Is there any chance that Avid (video-editing) could be a reality on Amiga? (AmigaOS 4.x and forward) =)
Fleecy: As I have said previously, big companies want to see commercial viability OR a wheelbarrow full of cash before they are going to go to the effort of porting to a new platform. A few non Amiga companies have contacted us to find out about progress and plans and we have an internal list of companies we will contact. However, you often only get one chance with these companies so we want to make sure we have something compelling to show them when we do get through the door.
With regards to video applications, we intend to make a big play in the video market but this requires the implementation of the AG2 foundation for this to be a success. We already have one company that has contacted us with an interest in video editing and we will hopefully have more following them. In the end, we have to make the platform attractive for video editing development in order to attract those developers.
2) Ramon: Since there seems to be hardly or no audio people left at Amiga's main staff, can you convince us that audio development is being done and that the Amiga's audio system/engine will (perhaps after 4.0?) be at a high standard and be used for professional audio computing? High quality, flexible, plug-in capable, etc.
Fleecy: The Amiga AG2 audio solution is being designed by people who have a long history in professional audio application development. Its design has been evolving over the past year and will form the foundation for a big assault on the audio market over the next 12-24 months. We have been keeping an eye on the new MacOS 10.2 audio system and we are more than happy that we have a solution which will give it a run for its money. It is unlikely to be in AmigaOS4.0 but elements of it will start to appear from AmigaOS4.1 onwards.
3) DaveP: Can you tell us if the Auction sale at your old offices of Amiga equipment is on behalf of Amiga Inc? Also, related, does this imply that Amiga Inc is in severe financial difficulties?
Fleecy: No it is not on behalf of Amiga Inc. We have had a situation with our landlord for quite some time now. We have been trying to resolve it but the landlord, within his rights under the lease agreement has opted for this course of action. We haven't been in the office for quite some time and all of our work machines were moved out months ago. To counter the rumours being spread, even if there was valuable data and/or IP there, we have the right to remove/delete it before any auction can take place. All that can be sold are office furniture, fixtures and hardware. This amounts to some three year old wall dividers, desks, chairs, lamps, one or two old printers, some filing cabinets etc. People who think there will be reams of records, prototypes, CDs full of source code and other such goodies will be sorely disappointed. There is still some personal and private stuff in there as well and that has to be returned to the owners; for example I have a car full worth of CDs, clothes and kids toys.
I am not in contact with the landlord so I do not know why he decided to take this course of action. It has no effect on our operations however.
As for our financial situation, we are a private company and such information is not for public distribution. Amiga Anywhere products are in the shops, AmigaOnes are in the hands of Amigans and AmigaOS4 is getting closer and closer to release, with a Roadshow in Europe starting next month. As with anyone else, you'll have to draw your own conclusions. Given the current interest in some quarters to all matters legal, if we were bankrupt (as has been claimed by several people with a vested interest in our demise over the past 12 months) then that data would be available in the public domain as a bankruptcy filing. It isn't and we aren't. Things have been difficult, no one will deny that but we are starting to put that behind us now.
4) hnl_dk: How much control does Amiga Inc. have over the Amiga Anywhere Content Engine? Do you have total control - may you change the code, or may you 'only' add extra features?
Fleecy: AACE is our product so we have total control over it. Yes, as with any AmigaDE derivative, it uses the Tao-Group's Intent product as a foundation but if there are features missing then we add them. We are not tied to using all of Intent. We just use the bits we want and if we require a different solution for something that already exists within Intent then we would replace what it provides with our own solution.
5) IonMane: Is Amiga Inc. willing to return to the negotiation table with Genesi in an attempt to help them provide their own AmigaOne solution that is equitable for all parties, and to try to heal the divide that has caused so much strife within the Amiga community?
Fleecy: There is nothing to negotiate. Amiga Inc currently has two product lines, the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE. If a third party wishes to use or licence these then they should contact us and they will be given the same deal as anyone else. That third party will then have to meet the same criteria as every other third party in terms of sales, marketing and support in order to guarantee a quality Amiga certified product reaches the consumer.
AmigaOne is a brand name that is exclusively licenced to Eyetech Ltd so Genesi or any other third party cannot use it without either agreement from Eyetech or via building a system using the AmigaOne boards. If Genesi wishes to build systems using AmigaOne boards then they should email sales@eyetech.co.uk. I'm sure Eyetech would be delighted to add them to the AmigaOne IHV family.
From my limited understanding of the issue, and from an article on OSNews a few weeks ago, it appears that Genesi is trying to create its own platform and Mr Buck has stated that he has no interest in Amiga product, trademarks, or IP. If that is the case then your question makes no sense. The strife within the Amiga community has come about because of rumours being spread that there will be no new AmigaOS and the suggestions that people should move to another product. With AmigaOS4.0 nearing completion, AmigaOne computers on sale, and an AmigaOS4.0 roadshow, we are advancing the platform, which is what the community wants and demands. We are obviously distressed if people believed those rumours, purchased alternative product and now feel cheated but they should be contacting those who spread those rumours, asking them to explain themselves and investigating possible reparative actions. We announced AmigaOS4.0 a long time ago and whilst it has taken a lot longer than we expected or indeed wanted, we have never given any indication other than AmigaOS4.0 would be released.
6) IonMane: Follow up questions: BBRV has expressed that the licensing fee's are too high among other things.What compromises in this, or any other area would you be willing to make? What concessions would you expect in return for these compromises?
Fleecy: If Mr Buck wishes to make a business case for co-operation then he should do what any other professional business person would do; create a proposal and contact us to discuss it. If it makes financial and business sense then there is no reason why it should not proceed.
7) Treke: When the SDK 2.0 will be released. What hinders the release ?
Fleecy: We have been waiting for Intent 1.4 before releasing a new SDK. Obviously we can't release an SDK until the AmigaDE (and by implication the Intent foundation) is stable, which requires access to and testing of it. Once we get it, we have to move all of our code to it, test it, roll it out to the SDAs to get feedback and then we can build the SDK for public release.
8) Bob.C : Is there any updated news about applications that will be ready for A1/OS4? For example a word processor, paint or video application?
Fleecy: As I have said before, if the Amiga is to become the first use computer, it has to address 90% of the needs of the digital family. This includes a word processor amongst other things and we will taking internal action in regards to this. As for other applications, such as Paint and Video applications, we are in contact with both those who have such products already for the Amiga and those who have them on other platforms and who are considering a port. However I would draw your attention again to point 1 in this regard.
As for announcements, that is of course upto the third parties themselves and most are waiting until they have had a good play with AmigaOS4 on PPC since they want to get a good idea of what it will take to move over to the new platform. All I can really say is that we are of course working hard to get revised and new applications for the platform.
9) Gregs: My question: is whether there will be initial OS4 support for one or a number of Digital TV/Satellite etc., DVB (the US version is different) cards?
Fleecy: Not from Amiga itself, no. There is a lot to do and only so many resources with which to do it.
10) alx: Who will design the default theme(s) that OS4 comes with?
Fleecy: A well known and respected AmigaOS and AmigaDE developer. I am not giving his/her name out because they will then have to spend so many hours reading the emails of people who want to ask for this, that and the other that they will never get any work done.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=12
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba)
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23.May.2003
falkemedia (ANF)
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Special offer: 6 AMIGAplus, 3 A+ CDs and fxPAINT 1 full version
For a short period and in a limited amount falkemedia and IOSPIRIT are offering
a special subscription of the German paper magazine AMIGAplus for
just 39,- Euro which includes:
- 6 issues of AMIGAplus
- 3 A+ cover-CD-ROMs
- and the full, upgradable version 1 of the professional graphics
editor fxPAINT 1
Taking this offer you may for example receive the complete Draco
video workshop being published in six issues beginning in A+ 03/2003.
That is 36 pages of high-professional video knowledge. And beside that
you may create astonishing graphical artwork for your video production
with fxPAINT.
Orders may be sent in on the website of AMIGAplus. (nba)
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23.May.2003
amiga.org
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Descent Freespace got a new update
A new version of Descent Freespace is available from the Hyperion
website for 68k and PPC Amigas. It is still beta but it fixes
some annoying bugs. The size is about 1.3Mb and it is available
in the download area only for registered users on the website under
the title link. (nba)
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23.May.2003
amiga.org
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Woof3D: New Crossplatform-3D-API
Woof3D is a shared library for Amiga, Windows95 and Linux x86.
It offers a very SIMPLE way to create 3D program in C.
So Woof 3D is a graphic engine mainly a 3D engine for texturing
3D polygons much more like 3D cards. It evolved a lot from its
starting in May 2000 and now offers high level and low level
functions for 3D and 2D graphics.
Why an other 3D engine ?
- Cause Woof3D is very SIMPLE to program. You don't need to know
anything about the supported OS
- Cause Woof3D offer true cross platforming with Linux X86,
Windows95, AmigaOS 68K versions (one C source for all).
- Cause Woof3D offer high level functions like direct Vscape
or Caligari files handling.
- Cause Woof3D also offer basic 2D and 3D primitives that allow
to program lots of simple graphics softwares like OS-friendly games.
- Cause beginners in C language don't have to know about pointers
or dereferencing to use Woof3D
Supported platforms
- PC x86 with Windows95 and DirectDraw (2D hardware acceleration)
- Amiga 68k with AmigaOS 3.0-3.9 and Cybergraphics/Picasso96
(2D hardware acceleration ) or any computer emulating an
Amiga the same way (with WinUAE, DosUAE, etc.)
- Amiga 68k with AmigaOS 3.0-3.9 and a Warp3D 3D card (3D hardware
acceleration )
- PC x86 with Linux and Xwindow (2D hardware acceleration)
(nba) (Translation: nba)
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23.May.2003
DiscreetFX (Website)
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FAQ to Mozilla-support-action
After DiscreetFX announced last Tuesday that there is an amount of money for a port of
the web browser Mozilla for the Amiga the chairman Bill Panagouleas has created an
information site to the support action which you can access via the title link.
There you can read questions and answers concerning this topic.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2003
Joar Berntsen (ANF)
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2Decide: A 2D strategy game using themes
In case you are missing all the great recent uploads to Aminet;
Joar Berntsen would like to inform you of the freeware
game "2Decide" that has the ability to dress itself up with
various theme packages.
All units, all structures, and most gfx can be changed. In
addition, new campaigns can easily be created, with the
inline map editor, on any of the current 5 themes that
are available.
It is a game somewhat similar to Empire-'Wargame of the
century' but uses 256 colors and AGA effects, and all
ingame units are affected by cheerfull morale features.
Have a look at the readme file from the Aminet for slightly more info.
Don't be afraid to fool around with the theme features of
this game. It won't crash or anything from doing that.
I am not some distant being on another planet,
so please mail me if there is anything!
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Port of Kray for MorphOS and Linux PPC
The raytracer software Kray is available for new platforms: MorphOS and PowerPC-Linux.
We owe this to the developer Stefkos. Kray is also available for AmigaOS 68k, Linux x86,
SunOS/SPARC, AmigaOS PPC, Windows and Mac OS X. You can read more about this topic under
the title link. There are also download links.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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22.May.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: Exclusive Space-Rat-Special
Kultpower presents an exclusive preview of the soon available book about Space Rat made by Mathias Neumann.
A voting, in which users can tell about the extent of the book, is
currently runnin on the official Space-Rat-Website
"Space Rat" is a comic series which was made popular by the
publication in the 80ies and 90ies computer games magazine
"Aktueller Software Markt". The announced book will give you the
chance to wallow in nostalgy. (ps) (Translation: nba)
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22.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 22.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
xa.lha dev/cross 114K+A 6502 cross compiler for Amiga computer
Saga.lha game/board 306K+Saga 1.26a: Conversion of TSR boardgame
Mattonite.lha game/demo 1.2M+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 32K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
PegaThlon.lha gfx/show 92K+Mpeg Video player suitable for Amithlon
cheapestksw.lha hard/hack 6K+Cheapest and easy-to-build kickstart swi
Flamingo.lha misc/emu 171K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.53, 68k & PPC
mofucker.lha mods/hardc 294K Motherfucker - 2003 - war
slaughta.lha mods/hardc 235K Sheep 2 slaughter - 2003 - war
titearse.lha mods/hardc 64K Tight arse the fux - 2003 - war
Rambo_3.mpg mods/mpg 1.2M+Rambo III - Music Remake of ZX Spectrum
Webbit2003_01.lha pix/misc 7.9M+Webb.it 2003 archive 01
Webbit2003_02.lha pix/misc 2.4M+Webb.it 2003 archive 02
Webbit2003_03.lha pix/misc 1.6M+Webb.it 2003 archive 03
DirSize_IL.lha util/cli 7K+Calculate directory sizes (68k + MorphOS
ArgueGUIColl.lha util/misc 67K+Argue GUI for Frogger(NG), Moovid, Visag
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 170K+Italian version of StartBar
AmiMemos0.80.lha util/wb 44K+A memo utility for OS 3.x. V0.80
(ps) (Translation: nba)
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22.May.2003
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Survey: How old are the readers of amiga-news.de?
Searching for interesting surveys all the time, today it came to my
mind to find out the average age of the readers of amiga-news.de.
For this reason I opened a new according survey. These are the
possible answers:
How old are you?
- younger than 18
- 18 to 25
- 26 to 35
- 36 to 45
- 46 to 55
- 56 to 65
- older than 66
You can find the survey under the title link, and
here
you can find out about the present results. (ps) (Translation: nba)
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22.May.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Amiga Future is searching for authors
The Amiga-magazine 'Amiga Future' searches for users who are
street-smart with a program and might write a workshop for one
of the upcoming issues.
If you're interested please write an email to redaktion@amigafuture.de. (ps) (Translation: nba)
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22.May.2003
Sebastian Brylka (ANF)
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Fun Time World - New Online Shop reopen and lottery
We are a German distributer and we released games like "PuzzleBOBS"
from Nexus Development and "Aqua" from Emerald Imaging.
We distribute the movie player "FroggerNG" and new, the Amiga magazine "Total Amiga" in Germany!
Our current release is the "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002", a collection of classic commercially Amiga games.
So what's new?
Our shop supports all Amiga browsers and four
languages. (German, English, Italian, Polish)
Lottery
Yes,you can win some cool Amiga software!
All you must do is, write us a mail (mail@funtime-world.de)
till 20.06.2003 and then write us, how you like our new shop!
You can win:
1 * Amiga Forever version 4.0
1 * Aminet 40 with TurboCalc 4.0
2 * Easys
1 * Simon the Sorcerer II
2 * Aqua
3 * PuzzleBOBS
1 * AmigaWriter 2.0
2 * Amiga Arena - Games Edition (nba)
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22.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available
As of now a new Linux-kernel in its version 2.4.21
is available for the AmigaOne. One of the most important changes
is the direct support of Radeon 8500/9000 in the kernel fbdev.
More information about this update and a download link is available
on the website under the title link. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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21.May.2003
Dany Thinnes (ANF)
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TH-Verbindung v1.2 released
TH-Verbindung controls the costs during connections with the Internet.
Thus unexpected bills shoud be avoided. Miami, MUI and ARexx are required. The update to version 1.2
has some news:
- reworked design
- program icon
- reset function
- menus
Some functions for the traffic control were improved and some prepared for a flatrate support which will be added later.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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21.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-KontoArchiv version 1.11
SN-KontoArchiv has been released in version 1.11. This program is an e-mailware
which enables you to manage your accounts in Euro. The program offers many statistical and input functions.
The following has been changed:
- Statistics got a new colour scheme to be discriminated better (green, red).
- Subject of the statistics is changed a bit and an according button has been integrated within the main window.
- Other changes.
Download: SN-KontoArc.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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21.May.2003
Mac Life (Website)
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PowerPC 970 shipped already?
The rumors page LoopRumors claims to know that IBM shipped
20,000 1.4 GHz and 40,000 1.6 GHz processors of the type PowerPC970 to Apple already.
It is said that they were delivered directly to Foxconn in Taiwan, the manufacturer of the
Apple mainboards. The 1.8 GHz prozessors were on their way also.
Even these rumors can't be confirmed, the introduction of the first PowerPC Macs is expected for summer.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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20.May.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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New Soms3D screenshots online
On the website 'Anime Development for Amiga' are new screenshots of the Alpha 5
Engine of the horror game 'Secret Of My Soul' released. Also some HTML errors are
removed.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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20.May.2003
DXE (ANF)
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amiga.org: Interview with Ben Hermans
At amiga.org you will find an interview from nOMAAM with Ben Hermans of Hyperion
Entertainment.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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20.May.2003
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PowerPC solutions from Total Impact
The Californian company Total Impact has announced three PowerPC based computers,
that are like the AmigaOne and Pegasos.
The briQ is a network computer with a PowerPC 750FX or 7400 (G4) with up 800 MHz and
is updatable in speed and processor. The briQ ist compatible with all
PowerPC-compatible Linux-distributions and will be delivered with Yellow Dog Linux.
The briQ RenderEngine is a 4- or 8-Node-System-variant of the briQ and is focussed on
users wanting high performance rendering.
Total mPower is a PCI-based multiprocessor solution for Intel-compatible PCs and
Apple Power Macintoshs. Solutions using Total mPower have a range from a single
board up to a nearly unlimited number of parallel boards. Four PowerPC G3 (750) or
G4 (7400) CPUs operating with 366 to 500 MHz in every board.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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20.May.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Karate 68k v0.97 released
The French coder Krabob of m4nkind has now released the new version 0.97 of Karate,
now als working with MorphOS and runs on 68030-Amigas faster than the previous
version. Karate is a Demo-Script-Language for Amiga and Pegasos.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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19.May.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Hollywood v1.5 Announcement
Airsoft Softwair will soon release the major update Hollywood 1.5 which
features so many great new things that are totally unique on the Amiga and
which will make Hollywood once more the absolute number one in Amiga
multimedia. The beta testers are already totally excited about the power
of Hollywood 1.5. Here is a quick overview of what is new in Hollywood
1.5:
- Support for multiple graphics layers
- Layer transparency and layer light correction
- Over 50 new impressing transition effects (totalling in over 100 now!)
- Support for object rotation, mirroring, inverting, color replacing
- Support for Intellifonts
- All audio output is retargetable through AHI including full
channel mixing and 16-bit stereo audio
- Full control over master volume
- Possibility to limit maximum number of frames per second
- Windows can have a dynamic transparency
- Joystick support!
- Powerful object animation functions
- Off-screen rendering
- New GUI
- Over 80 other useful new functions!
Hollywood 1.5 will be released soon. The Malibu plugin which enables
Hollywood to show also Scala scripts will be released shortly after
Hollywood 1.5. There is also work going on to make a plugin for Hollywood
that displays Power Point presentations (code name: Pasadena).
The Airsoft Softwair homepage (titlel link) features some
impressing screenshots in the news section. (nba)
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19.May.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: get active!
Get active! Comments, votes and demo chart (top 20) at Amiga Demoscene Archive. Read the news page on A.D.A. for more info and some important changes.
Chart is currently (top 5):
- 1. Nexus 7 / Andromeda
- 2. Planet Potion / Potion
- 3. State of the art / Spaceballs
- 4. Desert Dream / Kefrens
- 5. Budbrain Megademo 1 / Budbrain
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #036
There is a new song in the "Productions" area of the Liqiud Skies Records homepage available. The song by Angeldust is called "Glowing Red Desert".
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 19.05.2003
Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
e_money_110.lha biz/misc 177K+A Personal Accounts Manager (V1.10).
trsi-mcheck16.lha comm/bbs 127K+Multi-Check V1.6 - Multi Archive Tester
miamidxCT.lha comm/net 37K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
newscoaster.lha comm/news 425K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.56) (MUI)
USE_PowerUp.lha demo/aga 2.7M+PowerUp by Universe: Winner WOS demo at
GCCGUI.lha dev/c 15K+GUI for GNU C Compiler (gcc), based on w
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0.
Saga.lha game/board 306K+Saga 1.26: Conversion of TSR boardgame
TVSB2k2team.lha game/data 6K+2002 Rosters for TVSBasketball
Mattonite.lha game/demo 1.2M+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42: Advanced snake game
supertvSP.lha gfx/board 1K+Spanish catalog for SuperTV
AmiCAD_2.10.lha gfx/edit 768K+Schematics vectorial electronics program
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 31K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
imdbDiff030509.lha misc/imdb 2.6M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Cybernoid_1.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+Cybernoid 1 - Music Remake of Sinclair Z
Tetris_2.mpg mods/mpg 3.7M+Tetris 2 - Music Remake of Sinclair ZX S
DelfMPEG.lha mus/play 163K+MPEG audio player for Delfina DSP
DelfSF.lha mus/play 27K+Sndfile player for Delfina DSP
dmdev.lha mus/play 136K+Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
ArgueGUIColl.lha util/misc 68K+Argue GUI for Frogger(NG), Moovid, Visag
NoLed_v1.1.lha util/misc 4K+Low-Pass Filter Killer v1.1
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 186K+Italian version of StartBar
idlewos.lha util/moni 13K+A cpu monitor with WarpOS Support
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 90K+External Virus Scanner Library v33.40
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos: Independent Review by OSNews.com
Eugenia Loli Queru of OSNews.com made an independent Pegasos-Review. As a not Amiga user her judgement precipitates naturally very
critically over the MorphOS which is still in an early development stage. However when talking about the possibility to
use the hardware with various Linux distributions and MacOS her judgement is more positively. Among other things
she guesses to Genesi, to mark out the Pegasos as the Linux platform, because nevertheless x86 boards belong in last consequence to
Microsoft.
In its associated comment Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi suggest that one can
regard the "M" standing in MorphOS calmly also as for "mobility", this
is the next step.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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New Zaurus PDA's by Sharp
As one can read in the article by LinuxDevices (title link) Sharp announced some new Zaurus PDA's for Japan. The new devices C750/C760 will have the following improvements compared with their predecessors.
- New XScale processor PXA255 (SL750/SL760)
- More RAM (+64MB) (SL750/SL760)
- More Flash Memory (128MB) (SL760)
- Improved battery performance (SL760)
- Improved software (SL750/SL760)
Nothing has been said about if and when this devices will be available in europe. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.May.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Video player: FroggerNG 2.06
It is been a while since last release, wasn't it? Well, problems with
working computer on which I could do some developing are gone, so here
it is, brand new 2.06 ready for download. What's new? There is now almost
100% acurate A/V sync (also after seeking/pause). There is bunch of new
codecs (including a holy graal of video codecs, Sorenson Video 3, thanks
to annonymous programmer and ffmpeg team). Also, tons of bugs was removed
(which doesn't means it bug free ;). For a complete list of changes
please refer to CHANGELOG, included in archives. Remember to get codecs
archive as well, most of them were updated, not to mention new ones.
Have fun.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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Event: OS4 on Tour 2003 - more dates
point.design presents the AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour roadshow accross Europe.
Several events will take place on:
- June, 7th, BOF Multimedia Store, Ljubljana, Slowenia
- June, 14th, Amiga Club Augsburg, Germany
- June, 28th, BOF, Shopping-Center West, Graz, Austria
- July, 5th, Amiga Alpe Adria, Udine, Italy
- July, 5th, Amont Informatique, Toulouse, France
The planning so far goes to have AmigaOS4.0 running on a CyberStorm PPC
(with a native PPC kernel), as well as having current modules like
Roadshow, AmigaInput, Mount-Rainer (CD/RW), etc. with the new AmigaOS4.0
design on display.
Also you will find various AmigaOne G3/G4 machines on the show.
More surprises are on schedule.
Please visit OS4 on Tour 2003
and our partner web sites for more information.
We are looking forward to see you at the show(s)!
Jürgen Schober
point.design
(ps)
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18.May.2003
Philippe Bourdin (E-Mail)
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Event: OS4 on Tour 2003 - 14th June 2003 in Augsburg
The Amiga Club Augsburg (ACA) and KDH Datentechnik are proud to invite you on June 14th, 2003 into the computer club, the Augsburger Computer Forum. We will present some novelties for your Classic Amiga and we will be able to give you a preview of Amiga OS4.0.
Amiga OS4.0
The presentation of the AmigaOne and a preview of Amiga OS4.0 will be given by Juergen Schober / Point Design from Austria (come, see and be surprised !! ).
Amiga One
The Amiga Club Augsburg will present the newest member of our Amiga family, the Amiga One. The Amiga One Systems are currently delivered with Debian Linux PPC installed. The presentaton machines have a G4 PPC processor with 800MHz. (We might have a surprise for you ;)
Algor (world premiere)
E3B will present its brandnew Zorro USB Controller Algor, as well as an update possibility to Highway by the name of Romulus. You will be able to talk face to face with Michael Boehmer, he is the hardware developer of the USB boards Algor, Highway, Subway and of the ethernet board Norway. If you need some advise, this is the right place and guy to ask ;). The scope of delivery of all USB boards from E3B contains a full version of Poseidon. Poseidon is developed by Chris Hodges in teamwork with E3B. The newest version of Poseidon will be presented together with Algor and Michael will be pleased to answer all your questions. If you want to test your USB devices together with an E3B USB controller, you are welcome to do so. At the show we will give you the possibility to purchase the E3B USB boards.
C-One (world premiere)
The C-One is a multiple faster than the C64 and has standard interfaces (PS/2-Mouseport, PS/2-Keyboard, Parallel-Port) to communicate with the outside world. PCI slots allow the use of todays PCI-cards, but also the periphery of the C64 is supported, as well as the clockport expansions modules of the Amiga 1200 will work in the C-One.
But the C-One is more: It is reconfigurable and thereby the first of its kind. The used techniques allows changing the hardware by means of simply exchanging a file. Jens Schönfeld will give an explicit, free of charge seminar on the C-One and will explain all the C-One functions. Jens will also answer all questions related to the other products from individual Computers. The products of individual Computers can be bought at the show.
Further information and details can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin (ANF)
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TaskSettler 1.1 released, change/remove task(s)
TaskSettler 1.1 a Shell/CLI utility written in 68K machine code. Change
taskpriority from task(s) and/or remove task(s). One example for use;
if you have no PCMCIA card attached to the Amiga1200, set in the
Startup-Sequence TaskSettler and remove the tasks card.resource and
card.device, speedsup the Amiga a little. But other purposes too.
Download:TaskSettler.lha
(ps)
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18.May.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MMKeyboard sale of hardware discontinued
Due to rapidly decreasing hardware orders production of the MMKeyboard adapter is being discontinued. Support for MMKeyboard will of course continue. I just stop production of the hardware because it just isn't feasible to do in such small numbers. As the sale had always been done at cost I'd have to increase the price of the adapter quite drastically in order to get out of it without loss. Furthermore I just don't see myself in a position to produce the hardware within a desirable timeframe.
Everyone still has the choice to build the hardware themselves, which used to be done by quite a number of users. Maybe by way of this announcement someone can be found to produce adapters for technically less versed Amiga users. Instructions for this can be found under the title link.
Guido Mersmann
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 10
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 10 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) trgse: Something the Amiga has lacked since its early days is POSIX compliance or a good full POSIX emulation layer. (ixemul not being very amiga like and lacking fork, how does Amiga see this.... Will it be resolved under OS 4.x, if so how? does/will OS 5.x/DE have any POSIX compliance
Fleecy: There is already a project under way within the AmigaOS4 development team to increase POSIX compliance within the platform. Elements of this. most notably a threading solution will hopefully be in place for AmigaOS4.0.
2) ikir: What do you think of the Coldfire Accelerator Project? Could we have a Coldfire version of OS4.x in the future? With a 200+ MHz coldfire, many people would probably want OS4 for these machines. What is your stance on this?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4 for the desktop is a PPC product and that is what we will be supporting.
3) alx: What is the reasoning behind A inc not releasing the old 1.x ROM images? They would be useful for many people, would provide an indication of goodwill and wouldn't run any recent s/w like the "current" 3.x series.
Fleecy: We are investigating this and are looking at both providing a distinct product with these pieces on it as well as having them all on the AmigaOS4.0 CD.
4) Tigger: Where you unaware of what Bill McEwen was going to say in the Bolten Peck case about not being the CEO, or were you intentionally misleading the Amiga Community with your post that Bill McEwen was still the CEO??
Fleecy: Bill McEwen is still CEO. He was CEO before I posted that statement, he was the CEO when I posted that statement and is the CEO today as I type this answer to you. I have no comments to make about any on going lawsuits.
5) Hondo_DK: Does Amiga have any upcoming plans for their website. I mean if Amiga is to launch OS4 to an unexpecting amazed world, then you're website would probably be facing a run over by zillions of surfers from everywhere in the computer business. When seeing the present Amiga site, many would perhaps turn away because of the lack of a design roadmap. Do you have any plan to prepare yourself before the launch of OS4.
Fleecy: We are very aware that the Amiga web presence needs updating. This is being done one site at a time with the new Amiga Power Platform website under construction as we speak and due to be opened to the public before AmigaOS4.0 goes on sale.
6) KingTutt: If a clear and steady level of growth is reached, and a sizable userbase pushes sales akin to the first year of these next-gen consoles. Would Amiga Inc consider bringing into the fold some past Amiga game developers in an effort to resurrect some past game legends ala the great Turrican series? And if so, how do you see Amiga Inc playing an instrumental role in bringing back past hits.
Fleecy: We do intend to do this but usually you only get one shot at trying to convince people to come back to a platform and so we don't want to do this until the platform supports a market large enough to provide a substantial financial element to the overall decision. If the userbase does get to that size, we'd be very happy. As an aside I should mention that we have had such developers spontaneously contacting us to enquire about coming back to the platform and discussions are ongoing.
7) KingTutt: Do you believe its important for Amiga as a possible future gaming platform, to stand by its own creations & merits, distinguishable from the rest or should it rely on ported titles from other systems?
Fleecy: Porting of product has a definite place, especially for a small market where the cost of developing a new product from scratch is substantial. However we would very much like to see unique content on the Amiga and will be working towards that end. It has to be said that if someone wrote an amazing game on the Amiga, the developer would most likely want to look at porting it to other platforms anyway so perhaps the best we can hope for in the short term is ports, the medium term is content on our platform first and then ported followed by unique content only on our platform as the market size increases.
In the end the only way to guarantee unique content is to have features and capabilities on the platform that do not exist and more, cannot be replicated on another platform but with hardware commoditisation, that is increasingly difficult.
8) Deniil715: I was wondering if the TCP/IP-stack of OS4 will support IPv6?? And if it will not, will it atleast support DHCP IP-timeout and refresh so that it can be used on a network with a DHCP-server which put a timeout on the IP-address and hence withdraw it after the timeout if the TCP/IP-stack doesn't refresh it.
Fleecy: DHCP is in (the whole package, not just the fringe features), IPv6 is not. Given our current resources and feature lists for AmigaOS4, IPv6 is down near the bottom of the list but as the project advances, features above it will be crossed off and we will of course continually review the situation.
9) ssolie: Have you given any thought to utilizing open source development, either as a source baseline or as a development model, to speed delivery of various AmigaOS services?
Fleecy: We have considered it and may dabble in it on the fringes but as a commercial company we have a need to develop IP and to provide a return on it to our investors. If we were developing another UNIX wannabe, same old same old product then it would have more appeal but we are into developing something unique and in making money out of it.
10) catohagen: If i dont remember wrong, there was something called PREXX, what is it and is it still planned ?
Fleecy: I have asked a few people, most of whom returned a blank expression. One person believes it may have been something that Haage and Partner were talking about but there is certainly nothing of that name in AmigaOS4.0
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=11
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4 Beta 5
In addition to the current version of the start menu Pixload 4 Beta 5, Pixel Art have provided a bilingual guide file for download. If you can help to translate this documentation into German you are invited to mail them in English to
pixelart@wanadoo.fr.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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Amiga-Hardware to give away
Matthias Henze writes:
I'm giving away the following Amiga hardware resp. accessories:
- Oktagon 2008 SCSI 2 controller
- Emplant Macintosh Emulator
- Original Amiga mice (of A500+ and A4000)
- Original A4000 desktop case (Commodore)
- Original A4000 PSU for Commodore desktop case
- Original A4000 Shuttle Board for Commodore desktop case
- A PC desktop case rebuilt for the A500+ with Kickstart switch
(incl. ROM 1.3 and ROM 2.04 and mechanical adaption for turbo boards - used to accomodate a Stormbringer H530), small internal amplifier, internal floppy disk drive, complete internal and pluggable cabling, space for external hard disks or Action Replay etc.
- External keyboard for A500+
- Power PC Board (PC emulator by KCS) for A500+
Back when I dismantled the parts (a couple of years ago), everything was working perfectly. However, I can't guarantee that this is still the case. If you're interested you can contact me and collect the parts personally at my place or get them by mail. If you want to have them sent by mail you have to pay the postage up front however. Sorry, but I have made bad experiences already too often.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Extensive announcement re: Articia bugs (Update)
In the forum of Moobunny Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco describe, more extensive than so far publicly done, the sequence of events surrounding the bugs of the Articia Northbridge by Mai.
Update: (07:56, 24.07.22, snx)
Title link changed, leading to copy of Moobunny website at Archive.org now. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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17.May.2003
Stefan Blixth (email)
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New and updated software by OnyxSoft
The Swedish shareware developers group OnyxSoft has released two new tools and updated some tools.
FileComp (v1.0) is a small utility that allows a fast comparison of two files regarding their size, their content, their date and other criteria.
Snakee (v0.1) is the first attempt of OnyxSoft to lead two worlds to each other instead of divide them even further into good and evil. Snakee is a simple Snake clone that is thought to serve as a simple tutorial how you can support AmigaOS as well as MorphOS. The executable files for both systems are included as well as the source code.
BackUp is a simple tool to backup data. New in the version 1.4 are automatic backups, timing handling, simulated backups for test modi, new message handling and many more functions.
DRemind is a useful tool to remind one of dates and other information. The new version 1.65 comes among other things with improvements of the reminder function and the date display.
GummiSurf is an expansion for the download manager Charon. In version 1.1 has the tooltype support for own preferences been added and the URL handling has been optimized.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (email)
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Anti virus boot disks in updated versions
The anti virus boot disks created by the Virus Help Teams Canada for VirusZ-II, VirusZ-III,
VirusExecutor and VirusChecker-II, all needing the new xvs.library, have been updated and are available for free download.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Memory card reader for IDE / Standalone media player
At Hama I discovered today a memory card reader/writer for the IDE port. This one needs no additional software to run. It's just treated as a hard disk and it's much cheaper than the reader PCD47 for SCSI-II. The device costs 69,99 Euro.
Furthermore I discovered a standalone media player at Hama that can read without a computer digital photos in the JPG format, Mpeg1 movies and Mp3 sound via the A/V output. For this it can read six different memory card types (CF I + II, SM, SD, MMC). With a remote control you can then display movies or display pictures of your holidays. Besides that you can play your Mp3 data.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
morphos-news.de
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CeBIT Australia 2003: Show report and images
Following the title link you'll find an exhibition report about the CeBIT Australia 2003
by Kathryn Hunter and Scott Pringle from Boing! International 2003.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Diverse
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Software News (17.05.2003)
Network: Samba version 3.0alpha24
The Samba team has released version 3.0alpha24 on May, 14th 2003. The full list of changes can be read here.
Samba is a software to offer the possibility to connect PC and Amiga via a network. Information about Samba for Amiga can be found at amigasamba.org.
LowLevel gameport driver v41.21 is online
Guido Mersmann has created a new version of his lowlevel.library gameport driver that contains the following changes and fixes:
- FEATURE: New graphical gamepad buttons in the GUI.
- BUGFIX: reworked timeout mechanism (works more stable at high CPU load).
- FEATURE: several gamepad controller profiles in the settings added leading to a much easier choosing and setting.
- FEATURE: From now on you can calibrate a gamepad in the settings. If you then fix the settings you can save them now so that you do not need to calibrate them later again.
- BUGFIX: Warning requester added when especially under Amithlon a gameport address is used that is non-standard. This should help to avoid crashes if one sets completely wrong addresses.
- FEATURE: The tool GamePortEnable now only shows the offset as the exact address for IO hardware can't be detected because of an API problem of the OpenPCI library. Please use with non-Amithlon systems the tool GamePortFind, on Amithlon systems you only ghave to add the address $00EE0xxx to the found offset (xxx stands for the returned offset value!).
- BUGFIX: Bug in the calibrating routine fixed. The function with 1-axis gamepads has additionally been improved.
- Download: download page
Amiga.sf ports - hotwayd v0.5.3
Ever wanted to access your hotmail[tm] emails
without having to battle with the web interface? This is now possible using hotwayd
in conjunction with your favourite POP-3 implementing mail reader. Hotwayd allows
you to do this by using the HTTPMail protocol, the same protocol that Outlook
Express[tm] uses, to access the hotmail servers. Hotwayd acts as a proxy between your
POP mail reader and the HTTPMail hotmail servers. Simply set it up as an Internet
service on your machine or another machine on your network and enjoy using your
favourite mail client via the POP-3 protocol to collect your hotmail emails.
Download: hotwayd-0.5.3.lha
Textviewer: EvenMore - several plugin updates
- 17/5/03 - Updated Troff plugin. Will now skip macro sequences.
Fixed bug where if some commands were in different cases, the
plugin might not have recognised them, .br and .BR, .IP and .Ip.
Now skips comments beginning with '''. Should now detect style
changes in strings using \, eg. \fI, \fR, \*(L", \*(R", etc.
- 16/5/03 - Fixed a bug in the RTF plugin where it could skip two
lines instead of one during wordwrap.
- 15/5/03 - Fixed bug in which RTF plugin could not handle colour
tables which didn't end in ";".
LouiSe's MorphOS-Ports
20030515 - New MorphOS ports uploaded:
apache-1.3.24 with php-4.3.1 (WEB server with PHP support)
php-4.3.1 (standalone PHP-CLI)
ncftp-3.1.5 (ftp client)
New MUI classes
- 16.05.03 · Bugfixed MCC_SpeedBar
MCC_SpeedBar updated, and now SpeedBarCfg.mcc is fixed. Only program I know
that it failed on is Voodoo-X, but there might have been others. Fixed, anyway :)
Thanks must go to Kev Harrison for mailing Alfie about it so quickly. He also
mailed me, but the fix was out before the info made it to the page. BTW,
CManager 24.1 on his site also...
Regards,
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom
- 15.05.03 · Even more MCC_SpeedBar & MCC_Urltext
MCC_SpeedBar bumped to v19.0, now, before you start to mail me that this
archive is broken, I know it is, but it's only some code examples, the
real classes are still ok. MCC_Urltext v18.9 archive is ok, though :)
On Alfie's site also MCC_BWin is supposed to be v20.5, but the archive
only includes v20.3. If you download Contact Manager 24.0 you'll get
MCC_BWin v20.5 included, and also get a great update of CManager :)
Oh, and Alfie, keep keeping me busy :)
Regards,
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom
- Download
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Elena Novaretti (ZoneXplorer)
A few weeks ago released the 30 years old Italian Elena Novaretti
for the first time the tool "ZoneXplorer" for AmigaOS (68k) and MorphOS (PPC).
"ZoneXplorer" is a useful tool to create and search fractals that certainly is unique on the Amiga.
The possibilities to create unique fractal pictures in 24 bit speak for themselves. One or the other may know the images by Elena Novaretti as they were shown at the Amiga fair "Pianeta 2002". In the interview with the Amiga Arena Elena Novaretti talks about her career and of course about her program "ZoneXplorer" and about her view regarding the future of AmigaOS and MorphOS respectively where the differences lay.
Enjoy the comprehensive and interesting interview that is available in German and English.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Alex-Zop (email)
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AtheneOS by Rocklyte: AthenYX
The alternative operating system Athene by Rocklyte Systems has been released as standalone OS. It's called AthenYX and it is related to AmigaOS among other things as it comes, if desired, with a graphical user interface (GUI) that bases on Amiga Workbench 3.0: the OmegaWorkbench.
Athene is an operating system that allows the user to create an own GUI where it is possible to emulate almost every existing GUI system. Athene supports draggable screens, assigns and there's an approach for a file manager in the way of Diskmaster/DOpus.
Athene itself is easy to port (embedded systems, games consoles, PCs), object oriented and comes among other things with several scripting languages.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
Treveur BRETAUDIERE (E-Mail)
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Pegasos España website
Just a short notice to tell you about the Pegasos España website that's
out here. It's a
website towards Pegasos, Linux and MorphOS aimed at helping Spanish
users. It also has some English section. Forums will be online as soon
as possible.
(ps)
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17.May.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)
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heise: Microsoft fights against Linux with special fund
To keep the shares of the market of the OS Windows against alternative operating systems upright Microsoft now offers big price reductions for big clients. The loss is compensated via an internal fund.
Further details can be read in the (German) heise article following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2003
(ANF)
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PegasosPPC.com relaunch
The website on all aspects of the PowerPC 'Pegasos' has been completely redesigned and aquires now new splendour.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.May.2003
Cloanto (Website)
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Amiga Forever v5.2 is now shipping
Amiga Forever 5.2 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM,
CD-ROM Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform
Online Edition.
Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two
major needs of many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga
software and data on non-Amiga hardware, and to share data between
Amiga and other systems. Additionally, software, tutorial and
reference files which are likely to be of interest to any
Amiga enthusiast are included.
Features include:
- Just-in-time version of emulation software (Bernd Meyer's JIT code), carefully configured and publicly benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous versions of Amiga Forever. The Amiga runs in a window or in full screen mode, makes full use of thousands of Windows (or other OS) drivers, can access PC files (even on NTFS partitions, in the Windows version) and does not require a reboot.
- Software Manager, an advanced content delivery system developed by Cloanto, for easy and privacy-conscious management of all emulation-related components (updates, downloads, news, etc.)
- Amiga Explorer software, which allows you to connect an Amiga to one or more PCs, and access Amiga files (including virtual ADF and ROM files), directories and volumes directly from the Windows Desktop. Amiga Explorer is easier to install and configure than other networking tools, and includes direct support for serial (null-modem) cable connections, as well as TCP/IP.
- MenuBox launcher, to boot different Amiga configurations with one mouse click, either from CD-ROM (no installation or reboot required) or after installation
- New and fully licensed Picasso96 software (not a shareware version), maps Amiga graphics requests directly to fast x86 calls and powerful low-level DirectX functions (Windows version of emulation)
- Amiga Narrator and Translator speech synthesis components (made available for distribution with the Amiga OS for the first time since 1991)
- All Amiga ROMs up to version 3.1 (the last ROM that will ever be available for the "Classic Amiga"!)*
- CDTV and CD³² boot ROMs and extended ROMs (can be used to play CDTV and CD³² games, even booting directly from CD-ROM, requires free upgrade to emulation software)*
- GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS "3.5", "3.9" and "XL", but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB)
- Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa
- Emulation includes: Amiga custom chips, RTG graphics, up to 512 MB of Zorro III RAM, virtual memory, TCP/IP, MIDI, native x86 code, built-in support for ADF, ADZ, DMS and FDI disk image files
- Preinstalled software includes: Personal Paint 7.1b (paint, animation and image processing software, includes GIF/LZW license), DirDiff (file synchronization and replication software), AmiToRTF (to convert texts from Amiga to Windows formats), MailBX (to convert Amiga mail archives to Microsoft Mail, Outlook Express and Exchange Server), drag-and-drop LhA, print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows, bypassing parallel port emulation), Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware), TurboText (exclusive latest version with stack problem fix), KingCON, ToolManager, ReqTools, etc.
- Latest version of WinUAE and WinFellow tested and supported by Cloanto
Disk2FDI software to read Amiga floppy disks on PC (experimental version, requires two floppy drives)
- Tutorials and FAQs on data sharing, emulation, floppy disks, serial links, TCP/IP, UAE, Fellow and much more.
- All software tested on Windows XP
- MPEG-1 videos: The Deathbed Vigil (one hour and 58 minutes, i.e. the full version of this "must have" video) and Jay Miner Speech (49 minutes)*
- Dozens of other enhancements and add-ons
* = CD-ROM version only (both standard and upgrade). The Online Edition includes 1.3 and 3.1 ROMs (sufficient both for classic games and for the most recent software). CDTV and CD³² ROMs are also included in the downloadable Amiga Forever Plus Pack. The MPEG videos are only included on the CD-ROM (both standard and upgrade). The CD-ROM contains version 5.0, with free online upgrade to version 5.2 using Software Manager (included).
The Amiga emulation software on the Amiga Forever CD-ROM comes preinstalled and preconfigured for Windows. The Amiga ROM and OS files can be used by any implementation of the Amiga emulators, including for example Unix/Linux (UAE comes with source code), Be, PowerMac, etc. These emulators are constantly updated, and can be downloaded from the sites listed in the Home Pages section of the navigation bar.
Pricing:
CD-ROM: 59.95 Euro
CD Upgrade: 34.95 Euro (nba)
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16.May.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Voting May/June 2003
The maintainer of the Amiga Games Hit Parade asks you to vote for the Game of May/June
2003. You can take part in this voting by sending maximum 20 titles of your favourite
games to David "Daff" Brunet or by visiting
the website http://hitparade.amigames.com.
You can write each kind of game in this list (commercial, Freeware, old, new etc.).
The final results will be published at the beginning of June.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.May.2003
Boing! International (Website)
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USB: HCD-Update for Thylacine
Thylacine is a Zorro-2 based USB adapter for connecting USB devices to the Amiga.
On 14th May 2003 a new version of the HCD class for Thylacine was published.
You can inform yourself about the available USB controllers for the Amiga on the next
issue of the Amigaplus 05/2003.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.May.2003
Diverse
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Inventory of Amiga, Inc. for public sale - AI denies
On the webiste of the auctioneer James G. Murphy Co.
there are besides Amiga logo further information about the public sale of inventory
from old offices of Amiga, Inc. in Snoqualmie.
According to rumours these things have been attached by the former letter of Amiga, Inc.
because of not payed rentals and should be now sold by auction.
Some times ago Amiga, Inc. announced the move but has not given any new address since
this time.
Today Gary Peake who works at Amiga, Inc. denied the romours about the liquidation
of Amiga, Inc. and told that the things which are supposed to be sold by auction
are "old stuff from the offices" which "are no longer needed".
Nevertheless for collectors of Amiga stuff the day of auction which is the 17th June 2003 might be
an interesting date where you can buy equipment for the Amiga for few money.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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15.May.2003
Thomas Würgler (E-Mail)
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Pagan Games Puts New AmigaAnywhere Game in Planning
Thomas Würgler of Pagan Games writes:
As some of you have probably noticed, the Amiga Game Pack #2 has now been
released into retail stores - name CompUSA. Obviously this is a big step
towards true financial viability of Amiga Anywhere projects, which again
helps fund AmigaOS projects.
We are getting closer to finalizing another project for Amiga Anywhere,
and look forward to getting it to a state where we can show it to you.
Besides that we are still working hard on our Dreamcast shoot 'em up
project, and we can't wait to show you what we've got in the works.
Hopefully we'll be able to show some of it off before summer.
This was just a quick update, which will be followed a more thorough one,
when we have more to share - hopefully in the near future. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
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RIAA Withdraws Warning to amiga-scene.org
The RIAA had to withdraw their warnings to Internet sites.
In numerous instances the US-American music industry corporate group RIAA (Recording Industry Association of
America) had sent warnings against administrators of Web and FTP servers who offered MP3 data on their systems. Along with
that these administrators were notified through targetless RIAA scans of their servers who of their users made free music available.
The Demo Scene server amigascene.org was hit by this step, and was excused in a form letter that said they had offered "about 0
Music data for download." After this action became known, the RIAA now has withdrawn the warnings to falsely hit Internet sites. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
Rage Hard (Website)
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Rage Hard Website with New Information
The official website of the 3D Ego Shooter Rage Hard, which is also offered for MorphOS, has been moved and expanded. In the download area
a few wallpapers are now to be found, in various resolutions. Likewise, new backgrounds as well as related new models have been placed in
the Home, Characters, and Concepts areas. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
CD32-Allianz (Website)
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CD32 Outside Shelved
After five issues the publication of the digital magazine CD32 Outside has been suspended. This decision was made in order to free up the resources of the team for more important stuff. Unfortunately there just wasn't enough time to create, publish, and do advertising and marketing for further issues.
[In the following long German text, chief editor Thorsten Schölzel offers thanks from the CD32 team to a lot of people. He talks about webdesign, some games, and Commodore politics which no-one understands. He invites readers to www.cd32-allianz.de, and says emails are welcome. -DM]
Das Team von CD32 Outside möchte sich bei allen Personen bedanken,
die ihm bei der Erstellung der CD³²Outside geholfen und mit
Material und Informationen versorgt haben. Besonders hervorheben
muss man sicherlich Werner Bittl und Henning Schlautmann.
Nun können Sie sich das geplante Editorial der 6. Ausgabe durchlesen:
"Endlich haben wir es geschafft, denn mit dieser Ausgabe der CD32Outside erscheinen wir in einem neuen Format und neuem Design. Bei uns ist Fortschritt angesagt, wir machen uns frei von Altlasten, leider auf Kosten der User von den Browsern; Aweb, IBrowse und Voyager, die allesamt nicht das im Internet weit verbreitete und für professionelles Design unabdingbaren "CSS" Cascading Style Sheets unterstützt.
Für diese User wird es in Zukunft heissen, bei den Herstellern der Browser um eine Unterstützung von CSS zu beten oder Browser wie; Internet Explorer, Netscape oder Opera über eine Emulation bzw. andere Betriebssysteme zu nutzen.
In dieser Ausgabe widmen wir uns einem Gedankenanstoss von Christian Effenberger zur Weiterentwicklung des damals von Commodore eingeführten CDXL-Format. Dabei erklärt er ausführlich was und wie geändert bzw. neu entwickelt werden muss. Seit 1996 ruft Herr Effenberger dazu auf, ihm bei der Entwicklung zu helfen, seither aber null Resonanz. Explizit wird nach einem Programmierer gesucht, der Erfahrung in C/C++ und ASM vorweisen kann und sich zusätzlich mit IO-Streams auskennt.
Bei Interesse kontaktiert uns, wir leiten dann alles an Herrn Effenberger weiter.
Neben Microcosm das DAS Spiel auf dem CD32 ist, gibt es noch weitere Spitzengames auf unserer Daddelkiste, eines davon ist Rise of the Robots. Wer hätte damals geglaubt das es wirklich für unser CD32 erscheinen würde, bei der voll animierten Spitzengrafik. Heuzutage würde man diekt sagen, das sich sowas nicht umsetzen liesse. Rise of the Robots kann man mit dem vor einigen Jahren für AMIGA Computer erschienene Spiel Olofight vergleichen, allerdings würde Rise of the Robots im direkten Vergleich immer noch um längen die Nase vorn haben. Wir stellen Ihnen dieses geniale Spiel in einem MEGA-Review vor.
Für Tuningfreaks gibt es zwei ganz besondere Leckerbissen, wir stellen Ihnen das Commodore FMV-Modul und den Prototyp des Commodore Gamesystem030 vor. Leider liess die finanzielle Situation von Commodore keine grössere Produktion des FMV(FullMotionVideo)-Moduls zu uns so wurden nach den uns vorligenden Informationen nur 1000 Stück produziert, wer also eins besitzt, kann wahrlich stolz darauf sein. DCE Computer wollte vor Jahren das FMV-Modul neu auflegen, allerdings gab es Probleme mit dem FlashROM. Der Ton wurde nach einiger Zeit nicht mehr synchron mit dem Video abgespielt, somit blieb es bei Prototypen. Ich konnte mich damals selber von der Existenz dieser Prototypen überzeugen, ein selbiges sogar als Andenken mit nach Hause nehmen. Ein Bild von der Platine findet Ihr in dem Bericht zu dem FMV-Modul. Desweiteren wurden mir jede Menge unbestückte Spellbound(CD32)- und FMV-Modul Motherboards gezeigt. Zum Gamesystem030 bleibt zu sagen, warum Commodore nicht diekt auf diesen Prozessor oder gar auf den Motorola 68040 gesetzt hat, bleibt bis heute ungeklärt. Was uns bleibt sind mutmassungen, z.B. das Commodore durch den Bau des AMIGA1200 noch eine reichhaltige Anzahl von Motorola 68020 Prozessoren auf Lager hatte. Der 68040 Prozessor deshalb nicht genutzt worden ist, weil er zum einen zu teuer gewsesen wäre und man unbedingt bei dem CD32 auf einen günstigen Preis achten wollte, das könnte auch das fehlen wichtiger Teile wie dem RGB-Ausgang deuten und zum anderen weil Commodore nur wenige Prozessoren dieser Sorte besass, die man ausschliesslich für den AMIGA4000-T nutzen wollte. Unser eins wird die Commodore Politik wohl nie verstehen!
Als letztes möchten wir auf unsere neue Internetpräsenz unter www.cd32-allianz.de aufmerksam machen und danken Matthias Münch der dies erst ermöglicht hat. Ich möchte Ihnen nun viel Spass mit der neuen Ausgabe wünschen und würde mich freuen, hin und wieder mal ein paar Leserbriefe von Ihnen zu bekommen.
In diesem Sinne,
Thorsten Schölzel" (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
Arstechnica (ANF)
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Arstechnica: PPC 970 Part II
Under the title link you'll read a report about the PowerPC 970, which is being assembled by an especially Intel-centric CPU specialist. Despite
or because of its length of 11,000 words, this work is a mandatory lecture for PowerPC afficionados. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: SCO Now Wishes to Proceed Against Linux Users
"Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, or at least SCO charges that; in their view Linux infringes on their Unix copyrights. Accordingly
commercial Linux users are going to have to reckon with this, because their use of Linux may be made liable. As a consequence of this
legally unclear situation SCO has ceased their own selling of Linux."
Read the complete article at Golem IT-News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: 'Layouter' full version
In cooperation and with the okay by Marius Schwarz the Amiga Arena offers a free release of the software "Layouter" for the first time.
With the program "Layouter" it is possible to layout and print your own books and fanzines.
"Layouter" covers the part to process texts, creating paragraphs for pictures and titles to print a fanzine correctly for example.
Layouter does all the work a commo text processoer can't handle sufficient.
To say it in a simple manner: You bring in the text to print and the graphics and "Layouter" creates an impressing book or magazine from that.
Another big advantage of "Layouter" is its speed for printing a book.
A detailed manual and some example projects are included within the archive. For further assistance or suggestions the developer
Marius Schwarz might be contacted.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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14.May.2003
Fabio Trotta (ANF)
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Apple compatible PPC computers by Core
Name CoreCrib and CoreBox the company Core offers
Apple compatible PPC computers. These offer the same technical specs like the current high end Macs but are less expensive. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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14.May.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Event: Amiga Show - Maarssen, The Netherlands on June the 28th 2003
As reported earlier the Dutch Commodore Club HCC hosts an Amiga Show in Maarssen on June the 28th 2003.
Computer City will demonstrate the AmigaOne and sell soft- and hardware. Genesi
will demonstrate the PPC computer Pegasos with the operating system MorphOS and shows the VideoMicroWave as well as a prototype of a set top box. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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14.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 14.05.2003
Here the latest Aminet uploads which were added since our last message:
SpanienSS.lha docs/hyper 98K+SpanienSS guide history of some spanish
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 31K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Islife.jpg pix/art 19K+Amiga is live
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14.May.2003
VWP Newsletter
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VWP: New Webboard online
After the old webboard was available in German only, now a new one
is online. It supports different languages and can be reached like
the old one: simply by using the "Webboard"-link on the left side
of the page at VirtualWorlds.de.
The only disadvantage of it: formerly registered user have to
register again because their data could not be transferred. But
writing as guest is possible in the new webboard too.
(ps)
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14.May.2003
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Online Photos of the Mirage 1200-based Amiga
The Elbox Support Website has now photos presenting how the new
Mirage 1200 tower may be used to house a really well-expanded
Amiga 1200-based system (title link).
The Amiga in view is fitted with the Mediator PCI 1200 SX busboard and
Blizzard PPC 240/060/50, a Voodoo 3 graphic card, a PixelView TV Pro card,
a Terratec 512i digital sound card, a Spider II USB 2.0 5-port controller,
a FastEthernet 100Mb/s network card, a FastATA 1200 EIDE controller,
a Samsung 80GB HDD, a 52x CD-ROM, a 40x12x40x CD-RW, an LS-120 drive,
an All-in-One USB 2.0 Flash card reader, a Logitech USB mouse and
a A3000 keyboard.
(ps)
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14.May.2003
GetBoinged (ANF)
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GetBoinged Review: Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2
Please find the review about the Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2 under the
title link. (ps)
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13.May.2003
Newsletter von Cinemaware (ANF)
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Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown 2 on 3rd quarter 2003
According to the newsletter of Cinemaware DotC2 has nearly finished.
Because of this some new screenshots has put up online (a trailer and further information
are also available). It should first be published for PC and PS2.
Disk images of all older versions (C64, Amiga, Amstrad, PC...) are now
available again.
Here is the original newsletter:
Hey Cinemaware fans!
I know things have been quiet for a while from your ol' pal Amber over
at Cinemaware, but we've just been preparing to take the lid off some
really exciting news!
How exciting, you ask? Well, after months of patient waiting, I can
finally reveal to our fans who will be publishing Robin Hood: Defender
of the Crown. Cinemaware is proud to be partnering with Capcom
Entertainment to bring Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown to living
rooms across everywhere!
I can't tell you all how happy we all are to be working with one of
the premier publishers in the world to bring Defender of the Crown
back to the fans. And I want to give special thanks to you fans out
there who have been waiting for this day -- we couldn't have done
it without your support!
Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown will be launching in North America
in the third quarter of 2003! Head on over to the this news story to
get the full scoop! The exciting news is already starting to hit the
web, though. Check out this story over at GameSpot!
If any of you happen to make it to E3 (the Electronic Entertainment
Expo) this week in Los Angeles, drop by the Capcom booth and say hello!
We'll be showing the game at two kiosks, so come on by and give it a
whirl. If you can't make it to the show, keep an eye on online news,
as there's sure to be a lot of hands-on impressions from the show
floor.
But until then, we've put up a big batch of brand new screens from the
game. Go take a gander at the Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown Product
Page.
Lastly, to celebrate this exciting news, we've once again made disk
images of all version of the original Defender of the Crown available
for download! This includes all versions of the original classic from
Amiga to Amstrad! Head over to the Defender of the Crown vault to get
your hands on 'em!
That's it for this newsletter, but I'll be back soon to update you all
on the exact date for Robin Hood's release!
All the best,
Amber :D
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2003
Virus Hewlp Denmark (ANF)
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Virus Help: New update of xvs.library
A new update of the "xvs.library' (xvs.library - The eXternal Virus
Scanner Library) has been updated today, and can be found at the
"Virus Help Team's websites". Remember, if you use the antivirus
programs like ec. VirusZ, VirusExecuter, VirusChecker, Mill this
update of XVS is a MUST for you.
Info about the new update:
Name: xvs.library v33.40
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 93,637 bytes
Release date: 13 May 2003
Programmer: Georg Hoermann
News is v33.40: (Size: 61,912 bytes)
- Added file recognition for some very old installer programs of the
following bootblock viruses: Blizzard, CLI-Manager, SystemZ 5.0
and SystemZ 6.4. Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for sending the files.
- Added special recognition for "Zeeball AV-Testfile" from Zeeball's
antivirus test archive.
- Changed several often-used CacheClearU() calls to CacheClearE()
for better performance on JIT 68k emulated systems (file analysis
and repair code for polymorphic linkviruses have not been changed,
as these only get called if some patterns match first). Thanks to
Harry Sintonen for the hint.
- Fixed bug in xvsCheckFile() that accessed two bytes following the
actual file buffer under certain circumstances. Thanks must go to
Mikolaj Calusinski for the report and for beta-testing.
- Did some compatibility fixes for Pegasos/MorphOS systems. Thanks
again to Harry Sintonen for the report and for beta-testing.
- Replaced old installer script with an updated version written once
again by Dave 'Targhan' Crawford. Thanks!
BTW: Georg Hoerman will change his email in the near future, his new email
is ghoermann@gmx.de.
Kind regards...
Virus Help Team DK, NL & CAN
Jan, Denmark
Alex, Holland
Charlene, Canada
(ps)
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13.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #035
The Amiga music scene group called 'Liquid Skies' has published a new music file again.
This time it consists of a mp3 tune by Psycho. It has a length of 6:07 and was created
with an Amiga.
The cover to the title "When The Beast Found His Angle" was created by Angeldust.
As usually you can download the tune from the Liquid Skies homepage.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2003
Carles "Doraemon" Bernardez (ANF)
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CatCon 2k3 Photos
Carles Bernardez writes:
Under the title link you can see a small photo album of
the CatCon 2k3. The results and the releases of the
competitons will be released soon on Aminet.
You can see some Pegasos, AmigaOne, and AmigaOne XE on
the photos, and of course a lot of Amigans. Thx to all
that makes the dream possible another year, specially to
bbrv, Eyetech, Amiga Superbit, Amiga Rulez Magazine, and
all the Amigans that all the years come to our event.
For more information contact
catconparty@yahoo.es. (ps)
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13.May.2003
Various websites
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Several Software Updates until 13.05.2003
Diverse ports
(incl. Descent2 test version) by Nagy Lajos
New software:
- libpng-1.2.5 (png developer lib)
- SDL_mixer and SDL_gfx (SDL extensions)
- sed-4.0.7 (gg tool)
- unace-1.2 (ace file decruncher)
- htdump (web page downloader)
- flite (text to speech engine)
- toppler (Nebulus alike game)
- 1st Descent2 port to test!
- Digger (port of old DOS game)
Amigan Software
Worm Wars version 7.42 and Saga version 1.25 have been published.
WHDLoad - New packets until 13.05.2003
- 13.05.03 improved: Silkworm (Sales Curve) some fixes
- 12.05.03 new: Microprose Golf (Microprose) done by JOTDx
- 12.05.03 fixed: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) install script corrected
- 10.05.03 new: Mission Elevator (Micropartner) done by Asman
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2003
Dany Thinnes (ANF)
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Cost control software for not DSL users: TH-Verbindung V1.1
TH-Verbindung version 1.1 is aimed for surfers who don't have a flatrate or do only a little surfing. It is possible to set up different charges for a main and rest time as well as for a log-in charge. Weekends and bank holidays will not be forgotten too.
From the program itself Miami can be launched, the connection be established and aborted. The costs ammounted so far will be shown in Euro. The sum of the surfed minutes so far is listed as well as the current state of the connection and the connection speed.
The program has been written and tested with a DraCo 060 running AmigaOS 3.9.
Autor: Dany Thinnes - Dany@TH-Home.de
Download: home-thverbindung.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.May.2003
GFX-BASE (Website)
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GFX-BASE: Quake 2 - Amiga version review
Alexandre Balaban describes his impressions of the Amiga version of
Quake 2 in the English-language Review. Starting with the installation
and the hardware requirements he walks through the history of Quake and
his first play, and his personal results finishes the article.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4 beta 1 Preview
In the current beta version 1 of the start menu Pixload 4 were
the following new features added.
- Drag & Drop of picture dirs opens a thumbnail tool
- New formats: TIFF and TARGA via datatypes
- Control border for MiamiDX integrated
- New program startup splashscreen
- Clock with RTC functionality
- Help file in the context menu
- Some bugfixes
- Pixload is now scalable
- Pixload is able to open drawers instead of programs
- Shortkeys added
- Icon organisation per Drag & Drop
- Number of rows of icons can be changed
If you have suggestions, ideas or desires, please feel free to send them to Pixel Art by E-Mail (pixelart@wanadoo.fr) in English
or French. (nba) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
BBOAH Website
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The Big Book Of Amiga Hardware - Update of 12.05.2003
The 'Big Book Of Amiga hardware' is probably the largest on-line
manual for Amiga hardware. Ian Chapman extended and updated the
documentation in many subranges.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 12.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
HollywoodPromo.lha biz/demo 8.7M 0 High quality Hollywood screenshots
newscoaster.lha comm/news 425K 0 NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.56) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news 188K 0 NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.56 - 10 May 2003)
YAM-Logo.lha comm/yam 49K 0 YAM 2.4 Logo by Chris, The Highlander
JulietCaseCCCP.lha demo/aga 539K 0 CCCP, by Juliet and Case - file version
IRS-EC46.lha demo/mag 2.0M 0 The Official Eurochart #46 by IRIS
ABasiC_patch.lha dev/basic 17K 0 Patch Metacomco's ABasiC to work on OS 2.0+
ABasiC_progs.lha dev/basic 382K 0 Collection of ABasiC games and programs
pmDevBas.lha dev/basic 132K 0 Using PopUpMenu library from HBasic
Window.lha dev/src 7K 0 Attach CON: to existing window on Kickstart 1.x
diskimage.lha disk/misc 79K 0 Mount any disk image file as a DOS device
dynAMIte.lha game/2play 2.0M 0 Internet (only) Bomberman/Dynablaster-Clone
DroidWars4.lha game/actio 163K 0 Droids fighting in an arena.
AS-Hemp.lha game/data 567K 0 Cardset for AS-..... compatible games
digger-68k.lha game/misc 258K 0 Digger - the SDL version of old DOS game!
2Decide.lha game/think 453K 0 2D strategy game supporting themes.
stv_1-0.lha gfx/board 50K 0 TV card software for Mediator systems
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 31K 0 Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
imdbDiff030502.lha misc/imdb 2.9M 0 Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
1st16.lha mods/blkha 2.7M 0 First 16bit DBM by blakkhar
bengbum.lha mods/blkha 41K 0 Techno PT mod by blakkhar
bengbum2.lha mods/blkha 160K 0 Techno PT mod by blakkhar
fs.lha mods/blkha 137K 0 Hardcore DBP mod by blakkhar
GM_Rip_Edition.lha mods/blkha 221K 0 Techno DBM by blakkhar
RutgerH.lha mods/blkha 389K 0 Rutger H.dedicated DBM by blakkhar
schranzibelrmx.lha mods/blkha 1.1M 0 Remix DBM by blakkhar
transplantanr.lha mus/play 42K 0 Transplant skin for AmiNetRadio
Haymigga_I.jpg pix/wb 257K 0 Haymigga`s Red & Blue Mania WB Screenshot
japanese-wb2.jpg pix/wb 119K 0 Japanese support on amiga
_Dani_-WB-10.jpg pix/wb 202K 0 Amiga Workbench Screenshot 1024x768x24
Asciiconverter.lha util/conv 44K 0 Change ASCII code in files.
NewHomer.lha util/misc 113K 0 Talkin' Homer V1.87b (guide fixed, better iconific
NoLed.lha util/misc 2K 0 Low-Pass Filter Killer
WRip_26.lha util/misc 45K 0 Rips various pack-formats from Disk/File
SnoopDos.lha util/moni 136K 0 SnoopDos 3.8, the well known system monitor
SnoopDos_Src.lha util/moni 256K 0 SnoopDos 3.8 sources
mouseshell10.lha util/rexx 1K 0 Opens Shell window under mouse pointer
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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morphos-news.de
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CeBIT Australia 2003 Photos
At the title link and at Pegasos.com.au you
find pictures of the CeBIT Australia 2003, which took
place in the second May week in Sydney.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Quantum Leap: Report of the 'Webb.it' with OS4-Screenshots
At the title link an Italian language report of the Italian IT
fair "Webb.it" is to be found, which took place past weekend in
Padova. The Italian AmigaOne Distributor VirtualWorks presented there
an AmigaOne XE as well as OS4-Module (still as 68k Binaries).
On the OS4-Screenshots both already well-known OS4 parts
(MediaToolbox, new system menus) in newer versions is to be seen as well as modules that have not been shown yet. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.May.2003
Ettensberger Martin (ANF)
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Pictures of new Amiga G4 at AmigaClub Augsburg
Recently the first new AmigaOne G4 computers have arrived at the AmigaClub Augsburg. Photos of yesterday's meeting can be seen under this link
on the homepage.
The homepage will be overhauled in the next couple of days and several pictures from unpacking through assembling and running of the computer will be uploaded. You can find new background pictures under this
link.
AmigaClub Augsburg wishes you a nice Sunday :)
AmigaClubAugsburg.de
augusta.de/~ramses
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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11.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Morph-box Version 1.0
Today the final version 1.0 of Carsten Siegner's program "Morph-box" for MorphOS has been released. This is fully functioning with clickable buttons and also includes a prefs editor. Morph-box is a toolbar for MorphOS which is able to launch MorphOS native and 68k programs.
This program is MorphOS native and thus only runs on the Pegasos computer. Furthermore it requires the PNG datatype.
Installation: Copy guigfx.library.elf (N.B.: this is the MOS version, so
don't take the version from the powerlibs.lzx directory!) to the directory "Sys:MorphOS/Libs". Furthermore the powerlibs.lzx archive from Carsten Siegner's homepage is required. This is located in the "Videokonverter" subdirectory (unpack the archive and copy to Sys:Libs directory).
The archive contains a small readme file explaining the few functions. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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11.May.2003
x (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 9
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 9 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) ssolie: How does Amiga Inc. plan to limit and control the myriad hardware options. More specifically, if I purchase a "supported" graphics card for AmigaOS 4.0, what will that mean exactly? And what of "unsupported" hardware?
Fleecy: As has already started with the AmigaOne, we will select and certify hardware. This will allow us to drive the AmigaOS in certain directions whilst also ensuring that there are official solutions that dealers, integrators and customers can purchase safe in the knowledge that there will be official drivers for them. The problem with supporting hardware subsystems and peripherals is that the manufacturers only create control software
for the larger markets (Windows, Apple etc) and most are loath to even release their internal datasheets for fear of revealing and losing IP. We thus have to negotiate with these companies and prove to them a market exists (and then usually pay to create the control software).
A good workaround solution can be seen in the SciTech solution that has been licenced. A very broad set of graphics-cards will be usuable with OS 4.0 in 2D thanks to their SNAP technology (over 182 chipsets are now supported and the list keeps growing). 3D support however is quite a different matter. Currently we will support the Voodoo 3/4/5 and the Radeon 8500/9000. We believe this will change when we are able to demonstrate the AG2 3D system however as the OEMs will see that we are deadly serious in being a graphics platform of excellence.
The existing AmigaOne users have created various web resources where they are sharing their experiences of both setting up their machines and the results they are having with various components. I would urge anyone considering the purchase of a board to peruse these sites for the valuable information they contain.
In summary, I would advise customers either to buy from integrators to ensure certified components are used or else wait for the new Amiga Power Platform website to go live and consider the certified hardware list when it is made available. Be made the mistake of trying to support too many different solutions and ended up wasting valuable resources expanding the platform horizontally instead of vertically; we will not make the same mistake.
2) rayt: Will the coupons be delivered before OS4/csppc is finished so that we can get $50 rebate immediately after it is released?
Fleecy: We have had a lot of issues with creating a valid solution for the 'vouchers', mainly in terms of validation and acceptance by dealers. Given that an AmigaOne is a certified piece of hardware that comes with an AmigaOS4.0 OEM CD bundle and that the CSPPC AmigaOS4.0 product is a shrinkwrap, AmigaOS4.0 is the common factor and so we are considering either placing the voucher within the AmigaOS product package itself (perhaps as part of the registration card) or using the unique serial number of each AmigaOS4.0 instance via a web interface. This would also work with those who have purchased multiple rebate products because they have to have an AmiPASS and so we can apply their multiple rebates against a single purchase. The entire scheme will be published before AmigaOS4.0 is released and we will validate the rebate database by emailing everyone to make sure all the details are correct. I urge anyone who believes they have a rebate to check out their AmiPASS account and ensure the details are correct.
3) jono: Do you know if there is any intention to provide/supply any SQL based server or SQL clients that can access existing SQL Servers such as MySQL, Oracle, (dare I say it) M$ SQL Server?
Fleecy: There is at least one third party company already working hard on a full network capable relational database for the AmigaOS4.0. A standard SQL client is a good idea and I will consider that either for AmigaOS4.0 or for a future release.
4) IonMane: From my research, many developers do not seem to understand the potential power of Amiga Anywhere\DE.How do you plan to raise awareness and educate this segment of the industry to DE's REAL potential?
Fleecy: Early on we heavily evangelised the potential of the AmigaDE, got a lot of interest going and had developers signing up in droves. However, the potential failed to turn into reality, largely because the market was not ready for the product. Our mistake was to fail to realise that the OEMs themselves were not ready to take advantage of what we had, either because they had not entered the appropriate markets yet or because the products were too expensive (as in the case of Smartphones) or too underpowered (as in the case of the Palm PDA). The market was still in the first stage of technology, where innovators co-exist with early adopters. It is only in the last six months that the market has become a second stage market, where maturation brings in the big OEMs whose economies of scale can bring the price down and performance up.
Microsoft, as one of the key drivers of these markets realised the potential of the AmigaDE over a year ago but even working with them and their huge marketing muscle, it has taken this long to get AmigaDE derivatives such as Amiga Anywhere to market. Thankfully, the momentum that has built up is now accelerating customer enquiries and we hope to finally be able to deliver to developers on the potental we evangelised. This in itself will raise awareness of both the product and the opportunity but we are also working with these customers to do cross and joint marketing in several arenas, in both trade and consumer channels.
5) ssolie: Since you are not keen on Samba, what kinds of Samba-like solutions (e.g. file & printer sharing) are you proposing?
Fleecy: It's not that I'm not keen on Samba as a concept, just as an implementation, especially as it is difficult to implement well within the Amiga system architecture. There is a SAMBA solution supported by such Amiga notables as Olaf Barthel and Chris Hertel (amongst others) and it will most likely be included in the AmigaOS4.0 contributions drawer.
What AmigaOS4 users obviously want is the ability to network their Amiga to a heterogenous network, most likely one heavily featuring Windows or Linux PCs and then be able to share resources, mostly files, peripherals such as printers and network connections. The more they can use their Amiga, the more it will be used - for example accessing an MP3 collection on their Windows PC; they obviously don't want to copy it to their Amiga and have two copies of it.
Be assured that this is a high priority and that despite our misgivings, we may integrate SAMBA. All I was stating was that it does not currently seem to be a solution that we are happy with.
6) ssolie: AmigaDE and AmigaOS seem completely different yet you say they will slowly be merged together into a hardware agnostic system. What does that mean for the user? Hypothetically, how will I be able to take my copy of PageStream and run it on my cell phone via Bluetooth?
Fleecy: The AmigaDE is a set of technologies for creating content centric derivative products. In particular it is focused on the individual piece of content, specifically in making that piece of content both high performance/low resource and portable across device classes. The AmigaOS is a complete computing platform. In merging them, the AmigaOS will immediately gain from access to that content which can scale to the desktop. However that is at a product level. There will also be a more profound development of the AmigaOS through the AG2 project that will see a conceptual merging of the ideas behind both. I can't say much more at this time.
7) GregS: I have heard mentioned the A2 project but have not seen any details would you be so kind to make a summary of the main differences between A1 and A2.
Fleecy: AG1 refers to all hardware and software upto the AmigaOS3 family (the last revision being AmigaOS3.9). Some of this will continue into AmigaOS4. AG1 is technology that has its roots in the excellent system architecture and implementation that can be traced all the way back to 1984. However that was written in the context of a specific set of requirements and within a wider domain of current technologies.
Twenty years on the world has changed dramatically in many areas whilst remaining the same in others. The AG2 project is about reviewing the AmigaOS in all its domains, both internally and in its external relationships. There are new customers, new roles, new technologies, new requirements, new scopes, new products, new opportunities and new restrictions. AG2 will see the development of a technology set that can be used in derivative products, whether AmigaOS for the desktop, AmigaOS for the server, AmigaOS for the STB or whatever. Don't expect to see AG2 technology in AmigaOS4.0 but from AmigaOS4.1 onwards, you will start to see the AmigaOS transformed into something that we hope will once again set the marker for all others.
8) IonMane: As I understand it OS5 will be 64 bit, Is Amiga Inc considering the IBM 970, with its 32bit and 64 bit support,for this role in current or future AmigaOne systems?
Fleecy: 64 bit is the natural development path and given its necessity for a decent implementation of orthogonal persistence, one of our targets, I would expect to see 64 bit implementations sooner rather than later.
9) DaveP: I have a question ( everyone groans ). How long after the release of AOS4 will we have to wait for a version of Intent that works with it?
Fleecy: We have always targeted it for AmigaOS4.2. Given that we want to have a release gap of between 6-12 months once AmigaOS4.0 has shipped, that should be around about Christmas 2004. However, we may move it forwards to AmigaOS4.1. It depends on quite a few issues that I can't go into right now.
10) IonMane: There has been a lot of questions around from those that have coupons and other Amiga Inc promoted discounts.Could you please tell these people how to claim these discounts and Coupons...and even if they need a coupon to claim the discount.
Fleecy: I have answered this in question 2
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Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=10
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba)
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11.May.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: New WinUAE Version 0.8.22 R 7 (WIP) announced
Probably end of May 2003 a new version of Toni Wilen's Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows will be released. Currently WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 7 is in the works.
This version will contain the following changes and improvements:
Bugs fixed:
- printer didn't work if serial port emulation was enabled
- palette wasn't updated properly when entering and exiting
the GUI in fullscreen 8-bit Picasso96 mode
- button or key mapped to mouse horizontal or vertical axis
- right/middle button data register emulation update (Sound of Silents)
- random crash when horizontal centering was enabled
- bsdsocket emulation, AmTelnet connection freeze
- config save crash/non working keyboard when MS SideWinder
Virtual Keyboard is installed
New features:
- emulation compatibility improvements
Elfmania, Rainbow Island (broke accidentally in R6),
Mission Elevator (properly fixed this time...),
Old Timer, Sargon History, TBL demos etc.
- analog joystick (paddle) ports emulated
- improved hard/ZIP disk RDB detection
- Action Replay 2/3 state file support
- sound "power led" filter emulation
- freely selectable sound sample rate (8000 - 48000)
- "direct" serial port support, fixes PC to PC Lotus 2
serial link problems. (two player only, 3 or 4 players
require lower serial latency that is not possible under
Windows)
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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11.May.2003
VMC (Website)
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LowLevel Gameport Driver v41.19 for Amithlon
Guido Mersmann has created a new version of his lowlevel.library
for Amithlon, in which some more bugs have been fixed. A small tool enables the activation of the Sound Blaster Game Port. The new software can be downloaded from the "Amithlon Software Updates" page. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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10.May.2003
YAM (ANF)
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Virus spam mails sent from faked Amiga.com account
According to several messages are for the time mass spam emails being sent from a faked Amiga.com account containing a Windows virus. Should you receive an unexpected email from the sender gary@amiga.com or michael@amiga.com and use Windows as operating system please handle this email carefully.
Supplement (11.05.2003, 1:35, nba): Word "rumors" replaced by "messages".
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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10.May.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga
users that is sorted geographically according to continents and
countries. Today the following areas have been updated:
- Europe
- New Links List
- Lost Links List
- History 2003
(nba)
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10.May.2003
Patrick Henz (email)
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Digital album "Argentina" version 1.5
The digital album "Argentina" is a huge collection which shows the
most interesting and beautiful places of Brasil. It can be used on
all computer platforms and beside that on many DVD players which
feature the Kodak PictureCD (JPG) format.
- Buenos Aires / Buenos Aires ... 122
- Buenos Aires / San Isidro ... 002
- Buenos Aires / Tigre ... 006
- Cordoba / Cordoba ... 033
- Cordoba / Cosquin ... 006
- Cordoba / La Falda ... 011
- Cordoba / Sierra ... 025
- Cordoba / Villa Carlos Paz ... 013
Beside the photo archive the CD-ROM includes the digital postcard system
to send postcards over the Internet and a webpage with interesting links
to the different places. Price: 8 Euro.
(nba)
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10.May.2003
Grasshopper LLC (email)
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PageStream price action until May, 16th 2003
Grasshopper LLC, developer of the DTP application PageStream, wrote:
We have been inundated with requests to continue to offer our discounted
price for PageStream full copies and upgrades. Of course who can blame
them! Paying less than 1/3 retail for a powerful desktop publishing
program like PageStream, not to mention discounts across the board on
upgrades sure does help the pocket book. For those new customers who have
joined the PageStream crowd, welcome aboard! However, all good things must
come to an end! After May 16th, PageStream's pricing returns to our normal
great price!
New Web Site In Development
We have decided to take it upon ourselves to make a radical redesign of
the GrasshopperLLC web site. Our basic design goals are to make it easy
for new customers to learn about PageStream's features, samples, how it
compares to others, and of course how to buy it. We hope to provide near
instant download access to new purchases. For existing PageStream users,
it should be easy to find answers to common questions, new scripts and
templates, and more. We have set up a survey on our web site asking for
input on what you would like to see on our website, and to tell us about
your favorite sites. The survey can be found at www.grasshopperllc.com.
Suggestions and any other help you can offer can also be directed at
sales@grasshopperllc.com.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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10.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 10.05.2003
Here are the new added Aminet uploads since our last message:
ABasiC_progs.lha dev/basic 382K+Collection of ABasiC games and programs
AS-Hemp.lha game/data 567K+Cardset for AS-..... compatible games
transplantanr.lha mus/play 42K+Transplant skin for AmiNetRadio
Haymigga_I.jpg pix/wb 257K+Haymigga`s Red & Blue Mania WB Screensho
japanese-wb2.jpg pix/wb 119K+Japanese support on amiga
_Dani_-WB-10.jpg pix/wb 202K+Amiga Workbench Screenshot 1024x768x24
SnoopDos_Src.lha util/moni 256K+SnoopDos 3.8 sources
mouseshell10.lha util/rexx 1K+Opens Shell window under mouse pointer
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.May.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Magazine: Total Amiga Magazine - The Professionals are back!
No we don't mean Bodie and Doyle, we mean Amiga Legends Richard
Drummond, John Chandler & Andrew Korn! Total Amiga Magazine is
proud to announce that as of issue 15 some of the finest Amiga
Journalists to have ever graced the Amiga scene will be donating
some of their spare time to write for us!
Richard Drummond: "Began writing for Amiga Format, before moving
on to Amiga Active Magazine, eventually moving on to Linux Format."
John Chandler: "Has written for several Amiga magazines,
including Amiga Active and has a regular column on Suite101."
Andrew Korn: "Was CU Amiga Magazine's Deputy Editor and went on
to become the launch Editor of Amiga Active Magazine."
All this and the regulars:
- News
- OS4 Update
- MorphOS News
- Features
- Reviews
- Tutorials
- Plus regular columnists, Fleecy Moss and Alan Redhouse
Congratulations to Louis Vidal of NYC, USA on winning our earlier
QUAKEII competition. Don't forget there is yet another chance to
win a copy of Quake II, courtesy of Hyperion and Forematt Home
Computing in issue 15.
For subscriptions, list of worldwide stockists and free Downloads
of previous issues visit Total Amiga Magazine.
Total Amiga Magazine, does what it says in the name. (ps)
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09.May.2003
Michael Battilana (E-Mail)
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Fair: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 on 5th July 2003
On July 5th 2003 the Amiga fair "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" (AAA 2003) will be take place in
Italian Udine. Today Michael Battilana from Cloanto which is a software developer and
fair organizer has announced this.
The topic of the event will be the current hardware and software developments of the
Amiga market where Amiga OS 4.0 and AmigaOne which is supposed to be presented by
Jürgen Schober will stand in the spotlight. The admission to the fair and to the
exhibition location will be free. But you are asked to book for the fair via mail.
The visitors of the fair can use this weekend for a holiday weekend in the area around
Udine with the help of Cloanto. Visits of the beach, the hills, of Venedig, Trieste,
Cividale and San Daniele are planned for the days after the Saturday.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
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amiga-news.de Community-Polo-shirts
The amiga-news.de community-shirts are now also available in the following design:
Zip Polo Pique made from 100% cotton (230g/qm), collar, strip with hidden metal
zip fastener, double seam, site slashs and neck band. The polo shirts are available
from 27 Euro on in different colours.
If you are going to order then please have a look at the picture: small colour field =
colour on the band, big colour field = polo basic colour. If the basic colour light then
the colour of the letters of the amiga-news.de logos is black.
If you want your user name can be also printed on the shirt. Please write it down when
you order.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
Kelvin Shirley (ANF)
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Webserver Gw3s v2 released
The gW3S Open Source Team is proud to announce the first release
in the 2.x branch! gW3S is a small AREXX based webserver that can
run simple and complex websites from your Amiga (and also works on
Amithlon too).
New in this version:
- GZIP Encoding (static and on-the-fly)
- Better HTTP compliance.
- Cleaner code.
- Browser cache handling.
- Minor bug fixes.
Website: http://carls.1av10.nu/w3s/
(ps)
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09.May.2003
racesimcentral.com (ANF)
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Racer Source Code will be published as GPL
As you might know, there seem to be a bunch of people in the Linux
community who have a problem with Racer not being GPL'ed.
This might be a good time to take a crossroads. I plan to release
the Racer v0.5.0 source code under GPL. I don't think I'll host that
version after that, since we don't have that much bandwidth and
would take time that I'd rather put in other things.
After the GPL release, I'll close the source for future versions.
This does not have any impact on the strategy of Racer, which means
a free executable version for the platforms (although I still have
the problem of DRI executables for Linux, since I don't have such
a set in my possession).
There are plans for commercial implementations using Racer, and you
may have noticed things like 'ecol' or 'ecue'. Those are proprietary
extensions. Probably RakNet (a quite cool networking library) will
enter the game as well. It becomes harder to get clean source code
out the door, free of rights. Also, since the multiplayer component
might take a bit of a boost with RakNet (at least take out the
2-player limit at once), it would be too easy for hackers to create
modified versions of Racer and find their way through the network
protocol.
Although I'm sorry for all those interested in the source code, it
seems like the right path. There's always the GPL spinoff that could
be maintained. I'm not sure how that's going to turn out; I'm getting
major support these days in putting realism and knowledge into Racer's
physics and that is interesting for anyone.
The 2 Racer version will drift apart, that's for sure, if only because
of the networking protocols, I'm afraid. I'm not convinced however that
a GPL spinoff (with which I will have little to do) will go to bigger
heights than a closed source one. Even though it potentially means
more developers, it still takes a lot of devotion to make stable
improved versions without hacking little bits in just for the day.
So with the GPL version you'd have OpenSource, but no license to commer
cially sell it. It just still seems a bit counterproductive almost to
split the project into two.
Comments will be read with interest, although with these things I can
imagine you'll have 2 groups; those that are for and those that are
against, and nothing much will bring the 2 together.
www.racer.nl.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Toshiba saves 36 GByte on DVD-successor-medium
»Media are supposed to be produced with current production units
Now Toshiba has introduced a working prototyp of its rewritable optical medium which is
based blue laser. Toshiba can save up to 36 GByte of data in two layers on one side of
the medium - regularly 30 GByte are planned. In contrary to the product of Sony which
is called Blue-Ray the media of Toshiba are supposed to be produced with existing
production units.« (ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
heise Newsticker
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heise: Gateway announces loss
The Wallstreet Journal announces that the PC producer Gateway expects loss again for
2003. In this article a third reorganization of the company is announced. PCs should not
be the only thing to sell but Gateway chief Ted Waitt will create a product line of
15 different home electronic devices such as devices for digital television.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Start menu: Pixload version 3.5 Beta 3
In the current beta version 3 of the start menu called Pixload 3.5 some new features
have been added. If you have proposals, ideas or wishes please write it Pixel Art via
email (pixelart@wanadoo.fr) in English or French.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Event: Amiga Show - June 28th 2003 - Holland
We organize an Amiga Show at Saturday June 28th from 10:00 till 16:00 at the
Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland. We wanna organize a few nice
activities and demonstrations and we will keep you informed at our website:
http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/.
Come on Amigans and join us all at this Party!
(ps)
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