22.Oct.2003
Amiga Impact
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Event: Details about the Alchimie #3
Triple A, the organizers of the biggest French Amiga fair Alchimie,
gave some details about the show which will be held in Tain l'Hermitage (close to Valence) from November the 8th to the 10th.
From Amiga Inc. and their compagnon firms the following people announced their attending:
- Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group)
- Ben Hermans (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Fleecy Moss (Amiga Inc.)
AmigaOS 4 will be shown on several AmigaOne configurations.
The French reseller APS and Amont Informatique
will offer their products for sale on the show. Who wants to do some purchases at the show is advised to contact the reseller in advance to ensure the desired
items will be in stock at the fair. The Swiss reseller Relec will be present as well but due to the customs regulations
there will no sales be offered to private persons.
For all French organizations and magazines there will be the possibility to present themselves to the public at the show:
"Triple A" ("Boing Attack"), AFLE ("aMiGa=PoWeR"), AmigaZette83, ASUM, Amiga Impact...
The last year event "Alchimie #2" attracted more than 160 visitors from France, Belgium and Switzerland and the
organizers hope to top this number this year. The Alchimie #3 will last three days, tickets can be booked
here.
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22.Oct.2003
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Alan Redhouse comments AmigaOne review (Update)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) comments the AmigaOnereview by Philippe Ferrucci .
The full comment is available by the title link.
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22.Oct.2003
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Genesi: Website for the planned computer game "Gladiateur" online
The official website for Genesi's computer game project Gladiateur (amiga-news.de reported) is now online at http://Gladiateur.PegasosPPC.com.
Gladiateur - The game
The game takes its inspiration from the stage production by Elie Chouraqui and Maxime Le Forestier, which debuts in Paris in 2004. The game allows you to take the role of Spartacus the Thracian, and lead the slaves in their revolt against the powers of Rome.
Gladiateur is a game development that will not simply lead to the release of a single game. The first release will concentrate of the War of Spartacus, but the game will evolve into a massively multi-player online realm, in which thousands of players will be able to take a part in the adventures and ambitions of the Roman world. Set against the backdrop of the Spartacan revolt, each player will be able to take a side in the rebellion or make their own way, going wherever opportunity takes them. You will be able to become a soldier or a merchant, a pirate or a politician. Players will be able to join together to form their own factions, or work alone. You will be able to live the carefree life of a wandering adventurer, build a powerful trading corporation, or rise to power in the Senate and change the very history of Roman.
The initial release of Gladiateur will use the Northland game engine from Funatics. This is a very sophisticated RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game in its own right, but in Gladiateur it will be extended to provide a unique, genre-busting experience. In the world of Gladiateur, persuasion and popularity is as important as units and resources, and tactics means a lot more than having the biggest army. This is not just another game where you build a base, defend against a few attacks, mass forces and finally rush the enemy base - this is a game set in a dynamic living world of tyrants, peasants and slaves where fear or loyalty can turn the tide of battle, and building trading links can be as important as building armies.
Gladiateur - The musical
Gladiateur is a musical stage spectacular written and produced by Eli Chouraqui, accompanied by a musical score composed by Maxime Le Forestiere. It will debut on 1 October 2004 at the Palais de Sports in Paris, and go on tour in Spring 2005. The music from the show will be released by EC7/Universal Music in 2004.
Eli Chouraqui's previous stage production was Les Dix Commandemants (The Ten Commandments), which debuted in Paris in 2000 and toured France, Switzerland, Belgium and Montreal. An English language version is due to open in 2005. Over 4 million albums, singles and DVDs of the production have already been sold.
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22.Oct.2003
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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AmigaLand: Another five Microprose games
The AmigaLand has been updated again today: Five more
aircraft simulations by Microprose are available for download and
invite for gambling: F-15 Strike Eagle, F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-117A
Nighthawk, B17 Flying Fortress and The Ancient Art of War in the Sky.
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21.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Genesi new main sponsor of German online Linux magazine PPCNUX
The German Linux online magazine PPCNUX welcomes Genesi as their new main sponsor. In the corresponding news-item the company and the background of Genesi's founders are introduced to the readers of PPCNUX. (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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OASE 2003: E3B to offer special show prices
E3B is going to be again an exhibitor at OASE 2003, as we did already last year.
Besides the opportunity to test the new ALGOR USB controller live on our computer, we will also offer a special show bundle for upgrades of our established USB controller HIGHWAY.
Also ALGOR-users who do already own FlashROM can be happy: our network module NORWAY will be separately available as well at a favorable OASE price.
Details of the bundles can be found at our website in the news section.
See you in Graz :) (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
DCE
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DCE: Photos of the Pegasos II production (Update)
Further photos of the new Pegasos II can be found at the DCE website.
Update: To reduce the traffic at DCE's server, PegasosPPC.com provides a mirror. (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Daniel Miller
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Report from Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC, USA
In his report from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration, which took place Oct. 18th in Washington DC, USA, Daniel Miller writes the following:
MorphOS, Linux, AmiNetRadio, FxPaint, MPlayer, Kaya, ImageFX, free Superbundles, fresh MOS1.4 CDs with IBM stamp, ProStationAudio, presentations, the "VCR" case, complete system pricings, Peg II picture, MOS1.5 timing, MadBomber, and more.
From start to finish this was a really classy affair. I am local to the area and was invited to bring and show my own Pegasos, but this didn't stop me from checking out the scene and watching the presentations. Genesi personnel were really on a mission, giving personal attention, and striving to show the technology at its mindblowing best.
The chief exhibitor was magneticsystemsnyc.com who drove down from Brooklyn with a squad of state-of-the-art Pegasoses, including one of the few G4 models we have on this side of the pond. Four of those systems were configured for MorphOS, the fifth did double duty as an MoL/Debian (Gnome) machine. In addition to my comparatively home-spun system, there was a nice array of Genesi paraphenalia such as a plexuscom concept case, spinning illuminated Peg motherboards, a mechanical butterfly, a sampling of shrinkwrapped games, a Catweasel flipper for display, posters, sellsheets, free Superbundle (v. 3) and MOS1.4 IBM stamp limited silk screen edition CDs. Jammin'!
Now the stuff was neat, and the people were neater, but I must say seeing the cutting edge MOS systems in action was even more neat than that. It was... neat-o! Where to start? well, one of the more striking things was AmiNetRadio. As much as anything else this really illustrated one aspect of the future as Genesi sees it. The live radio stations scroll down in a list, and you select your favorite genre. It very quickly picks up the stream and your music plays. Most streams were at 128, some at 64, so this is fairly high fidelity. You can record your streams to MP3 files on your hard-drive, and them play them in Kaya. This all occurs effortlessly. Why does this illustrate part of Genesi's vision? They see themselves providing media, audio, visual, audiovisual and games via similar tools. Customers are then able to access their favorite media whether they are on walking trails with the planned Eclipsis handheld device, in their homes at their home theater, or at their workplace, whatever. You don't carry around a CD or plunk a videotape in the VCR, you just select your media on whatever device you are nearest and play it. Genesi believes that all this media including high resolution movies will be deliverable as the Pegaos progresses and new Genesi products are introduced. So that's the concept, maybe you like it, maybe you love it.
Another concept, this one now reality, is the "VCR" Pegasos. This was introduced by magneticsystemsnyc.com. What is it? It's a Pegasos in a small case that looks sort of like a VCR. This is offered as a complete Pegasos II system. If you don't want to muck around with assembling your own, you can consider getting one of these. It's nice and uses a half height Radeon video card. I like this, because it is an early step in the shrink-down evolution of Pegasos from standard desktop to set-top box to the handheld computer which is conceptualized to have all the power of a Pegasos.
Bill and Raquel from Genesi were there, as always demonstrating their personal commitment to the platform and its development, and supporting the rest of the Genesi team working towards the goal of a advanced, mature, popular, modern, alternative computer system.
More software: MPlayer was all over the frickin' place. People who demonstrated this system have recognized a winner. On just a G3 600 Mhz Pegasos running MorphOS 1.4 Mplayer is the most quickloading, responsive, compatible videoplayer ever on any platform. I am not spinning you, everybody says this. We all need to send the Mplayer programmers five dollars right now or something. There are few sublime pleasures in life as the first time you starting moving an MPlayer window opaquely around the screen, and realize that there is zero stutter or distortion, no matter how fast you circle it around. Hi-res letterbox or whatever. Of course it goes full screen and has a bunch of control features too.
There was some new image editing software from NovaDesign shown. They make well-established graphical prodcuts like ImageFX and Aladdin 4D. I was not clear on the details, but there is the intention to offer some form of this new software with future MorphOS versions, the Superbundle, or both. This is a clear potential asset to the Pegasos MorphOS product. The prospect of a revamped Aladdin4D ray tracing program for MOS was also talked about. ProStationAudio was shown. This is a really advanced sort of product with a detailed, intricate interface and all these channels and mixing controls and a lot of busy stuff going on all over the screen. It was shown mixing some tracks and certainly sounded good. It seems to me that this is a product for an audio professional, but maybe a casual home user can have fun with it too. Gotta go, I will have to write some more later, especially about... MadBomber!!!
PS: The BB half of BBRV stated MorphOS 1.5 would appear before the new year. Don't let them forget about that TCP-IP stack, thanks.
Photos of the event can be found at PegasosPPC.com. (snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Update of dvdrtools
The dvdrtools, enabling the writing of DVDs under AmigaOS, are updated.
Now three more devices (e.g. the SCSI host of Cyberstorm/CyberstormPPC)
are supported.
Also an English version is available on the homepage.
The coder provides you with another archive on his homepage: In this version
you can set the device to use by the environment variable DVDRTOOLS_DEVICE yourself.
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20.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #057
Liquid Skies released number 57 of the so called music pack. It contains a song called 'Kukka' by the Finnish musician 'Tripper'.
Some details about the track:
- Title: Kukka
- Artist: Tripper
- Style: Instrumental Trance
- Duration: 3:37
- Format: mp3 (192kbps)
The compressed file can be found at the title link.
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20.Oct.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Event: Photos of the EAPP 2003
From 10th to 31st August 2003 the "Extreme Amiga Programming Party" (EAPP) took place in Weinheim. The aim of this event was the common programming of software. Many interesting and also funny snapshots of the event can be found at the title link.
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20.Oct.2003
Ron van Herk / Genesi
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Cyberstorm: Report on DCE repairs / MorphOS version at the end of this year
CyberStorm Warranty Repairs
As mentioned on the thread at Amiga.org earlier, all CyberStorm boards sent in under warranty will be replaced by new ones. The production of these is partly done, the PCB's are there with all lower part components fitted. The problem currently is the lack of availability of the right 68K sockets. The ones that were originally used for the Phase5 and later DCE productions were specially made for Phase5 and are no longer being manufactured. However, there are several investigations ongoing at other manufacturers to adapt existing (and available) connectors to be fitted to the CyberStorm PCB's. Once this is solved, the production will be completed and all involved will receive new CyberStorm cards under warranty.
Non-Warranty Repairs
All non-warranty repair customers should have had a price quote from me. The repairs that could be done have been completed and all cards have been sent back or will be sent back in the next week. There are also repairs that are pending awaiting CPU sockets (see above).
Non-Repairable Items
Repairs that could not be done have also been sent back or will be next week. Several cards have been sent back by DCE already, others will be returned by me from Rotterdam next week.
Other Factors
During investigating the whole repairs issue, several disturbing things have come to my attention. There are cases of repairs not being done because they have been submitted through a reseller that has had outstanding invoices for three years, and also cases where repairs were done and sent back to a reseller, who then sold them as new products. I will not disclose specific information but just wanted to state this in DCE's defence, they're not always the one to blame...
Genesi Gesture
As a gesture from Genesi, there will be a new release of MorphOS for 'classic Amiga' PowerPC cards available for free. The planned release is at the end of this year.
DCE and Genesi
Several people have opted their concern in the Amiga.org thread about possible future repairs at DCE for Genesi products. First of all, please consider that the Amiga repairs are a special situation and it is not common for repairs to take this long, not even for DCE. Furthermore, anyone buying a PegasosII is dealing with Genesi, not with DCE. If there is a case where a Genesi product needs repair or replacement, Genesi will see to it that it happens the right way and in a decent timeframe. For reference see our history with the mainboard exchanges for April and April2 fixed boards. These were made at DCE too!
Preliminary Conclusion
Apart from the wait for the right 68K sockets, most issues are either done or will be in the next week. There are however still some unallocated cards at DCE. Anyone that also thinks they have an outstanding repair at DCE and has not been in contact with me yet, please do so NOW, as we are working towards concluding the whole operation and at some point soon we will not take on any more investigations. If you have sent in your repair to a reseller be sure to mention which one explicitely.
Contact: rvanherk@nl.genesi.lu
Regards,
Ron van Herk
Genesi
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20.Oct.2003
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GUI-Development: Merlin 2
A.P.Spijkerman released a new version of his GUI-tool 'Merlin'. 'Merlin' lets you develop GUI frontends for ARexx or batch scripts.
Detailed information as well as screenshots can be found at the title link.
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20.Oct.2003
Christian Geier (E-Mail)
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Report from LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany
At the first LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany, on Oct. 18th, the Image_Installer team presented the Pegasos. We did not expect such a big success and were surprised by the scores of visitors crowding our stand who were interested in the system. They represented several platforms, from Amiga users to people using x86 systems.
One could test the system, and some visitors made use of the opportunity to install Mandrake 9.1 themselves on the Pegasos using the Image_Installer. They were surprised in a positive way and amazed how quick and easy the installation was finished. Also MorphOS didn't get a raw deal. The visitors tested the SuperBundle and were impressed by the speed of the system, despite just having a 600 MHz CPU.
When we had a little bit of time, Michael Heider of course continued to work on Image_Installer and removing bugs. We can say with quiet conscience that with version 2 of the Image_Installer an easy installation of PegXLin and Gentoo is possible. To the question if this version would also be free or enclosed with the Pegasos we had to answer "no" for the time being, since we don't know this ourselves yet.
At the KDE team one could see a pre-release of the new KDE 3.2. New applications were added as well as graphical improvements. Daniel Molkentin demonstrated among other things an Outlook clone and a faster webbrowser.
Also some people from the Debian team were there. They showed Debian 3.0 for the x86 platform and provided help to questions regarding installation and adjustment of Debian to x86 systems.
Bert Radke of the Jabber team showed the latest version of Jabber. One could get information how a Jabber server is build up and which advantages Jabber provides.
At IBM students could get information about new notebooks. Computers from desktops for the office to servers were shown by AMD, who also provided the Internet connection for the show.
Further small projects were free games for Linux and the topic "Linux at school and university" by the university of Dresden.
Furthermore the visitors could take part at an Install-Party during the whole day to solve problems.
Final preparations |
Erhard Bruse (front), Christian Geier (back) |
Preparations |
Erhard Bruse explains the Pegasos |
Michael Heider (back) shows den Image_Installer Version 2 |
KDE booth |
Debian booth |
User testing Image_Installer Version 2 |
Michael Heider |
Student installing Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo using Image_Installer Version 2 |
Michael Heider shows the possibilities of Image_Installer |
Student testing Image_Installer |
Michael Heider installing Gentoo using Image_Installer Version 2 |
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20.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packs until 19.10.2003
WHDLoad enables you to install floppy based games to your hard disk. The following packs were added or updated since our last report:
- 19.10.03 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) slave for
A4000 rom provided, floppy LED removed
- 19.10.03 new: Coma (Rebels) done by Psygore
- 19.10.03 new: Twisted (Polka Brothers) done by Psygore
- 19.10.03 updated: Digital Concert 6 (Flash Production) supports
another version (Info)
- 19.10.03 updated: Digital Concert 4 (Flash Production) supports
another version
- 19.10.03 improved: Thug Life (Essence) runs on CyberStorm PPC without
nocache option
- 19.10.03 new: Beast Sonix (Scoopex) done by Galahad
- 15.10.03 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog) CD³² version supported, now
uses kickstart images
- 12.10.03 new: Top Gear 2 (Gremlin Interactive) done by Galahad
- 10.10.03 fixed: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) debug code removed, reduced memory requirements
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20.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Premiere: Software with DVD-R/-RW support for AmigaOS
The programmer 'Schlonz' ported the Linux program 'dvdrtools' to the Amiga. For the first time it is now possible to burn DVD-R and DVD-RW discs with AmigaOS. 'dvdrtools' is a collection of four programs wich can be used with the shell. An ARexx-GUI for the main program 'dvdrecord' is included.
Additional details are to be found at the title link.
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18.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: anniversary action - 2 vouchers for Hollywood
Because of the 5th anniversary of the Amiga Arena there's another draw: in co-operation with Airsoft Softwair the Amiga Arena raffles off two vouchers for the multimedia program "Hollywood" worth 10,- Euro.
To win one of the vouchers please answer the following question:
Which presentation had been released some days ago by the Amiga Arena?
Please send the correct answer until October, 19th 2003 via email to Olaf Köbnik
of the Amiga Arena.
Further information about "Hollywood" can be found under
http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de.
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18.Oct.2003
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Pegasos II production started (update)
In a short comment at ANN have Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco announced the beginning of the production of Pegasos II boards at DCE in Oberhausen.
Update: On the pages of the MorphZone is a photo of a preseries version of the new board. Compared to the final version this one still shows a static RAM drive and a debug connector instead of the ATX connector.
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18.Oct.2003
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OS4 on Tour: reports from Brisbane
Two members of the Amiga-Portal Amigaworld.net write under the title link their impressions of the first "OS4 on Tour" event in Australia. We have summarized the most important points for you in short:
- About 50 visitors (twice the number at a comparable event last year)
- Several AmigaOne computers had been shown - some running AmigaOS4, some with Debian-Linux (and MacOS X under MacOnLinux)
- Doug Moir (AnythingAmiga) introduced the AmigaOne-Lite though not running. According to Doug are already several programmers busy with the drivers development for this Mini ITX motherboard.
- A comprehensive seminar on the AmigaOne and OS4 had been held, there had been an IRC session with Fleecy Moss (Amiga Inc), too.
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18.Oct.2003
point.design (ANF)
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AmigaOne OASE Special
Because of the O.A.S.E. Amiga fair in Austria taking place next week offers the organizing Amiga retailer point.design AmigaOne computers at special conditions.
- AmigaOne G4/XE boards at 849,90 EUR
- AmigaOne G3/XE boards at 769,90 EUR
Reservations can be done from now on under amiga.sales@pointdesign.at
. All prices include 20% VAT.
The boards are Early Bird systems and contain AmigaOS4 and LinuxPPC.
AmigaOS 4 will be delivered when released.
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18.Oct.2003
Ingo Klotzsch (ANF)
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Amiga at the "Nexxt Generation" in Hannover...
At present is the information and sales fair "Infa" taking place in Hannover. Part of the special program of the "Infa" is the youth fair "Nexxt Generation" (17.10. - 19.10.2003) that offers among other things a big games LAN with expected 1300 participiants to come.
In a public area of the Nexxt Generation are old games arcades installed. amiga-news.de reader Ingo Klotzsch has
seen there the good old Amiga. Pictures of the event can be found following the title link.
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18.Oct.2003
Stéphane Campan (email)
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MorphOS: software news
ADoom PPC
Nicolas Det has ported ADoomPPC to MorphOS. This version uses CybergraphX and AHI and can be downloaded from his website.
CDSpeedKiller
Also on his homepage you can find the tool "CDSpeedkiller" that slows down a CD/DVD drive and reduces its noise level this way.
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17.Oct.2003
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GoldED: Update and special price offer
The text editor called GoldED Studio AIX which is also a text based HTML editor and integrated
developing system for C/C++ was updated and is available for a limited time for a special
price.
According to the author this is the first official version of GoldED studio which is
completely compatible with MorphOS. Even with the permission of Genesi the developing
material with the documentation was integrated in the C/C++ modus. If you are interested
in the further changes Dietmar Eilert points out to the history-file.
You can find screenshots of GoldED on the official website.
Examples: C/C++-modus, standard-configuration.
There is also a free version for editing smaller documents to give you the opportunity of
testing GoldED. You can download it here.
The "GoldED Studio AIX"-CD costs 69,90 Euro, updates CD 19,90 (without postage and delivery).
Because of the publishment of the new version you can buy GoldED Studio AIX for only
49,90 Euro for only few days. The delivery is for free in the EU.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
Martin "Skippa" Knott (ANF)
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Curious: Amiga-Shop on Mallorca?!
Martin Knott who is a reader of amiga-news.de reports: "During my summer holiday on Mallorca
I found in Port Andratx an
Amiga-shop.
The character of the text seemed to be authentic. Unfortunately there were only average
clouthing to buy... How it is possible to be mistaken..." (snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
Galileo Computing (ANF)
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Books for free
Under the title link Galileo Computing offers some (non Amiga-specific) computer-books
to download for free. The books are ZIP-packed HTML-files.
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17.Oct.2003
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Software: Some new game ports for MorphOS
The Hungarian programmer "LouiSe" has ported some further games for MorphOS which you can
download from his website.
The author points out that the download could last because the server is an A4000-030/25.
The following titles were added:
LLL-1.4.tgz - Linux Lunar Lander
LSL-1.2.tgz - Linux Shuttle Lander
atakks-1.0.tgz - Cool Attaxx/Thromulus like logical game
atris-1.0.6.tgz - Nice tetris game
crimson-0.3.7.tgz - Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
deathchase3d-0.9.tgz - Like on ZX Spectrum!
digger-20020314.tgz - Some small bugs fixed
eggchess-1.1.tgz - Egg Chess v1.1
foosball-0.92.tgz - Table soccer (buggy yet)
lopan-0.9.tgz - Logical game
lsdldoom-1.4.4.4.tgz - Doom II game (some bugs fixed)
matchball-0.33b.tgz - Logical Game
mindless-1.0.0.tgz - A simple "MasterMind" like game
pipenightdreams-0.10.0.tgz - VERY COOL Piper game!
powermanga-0.78.tgz - Fast arcade game
puzzle-1.0.0.tgz - Very simple puzzle game
toppler-1.0.3.tgz - Tower Toppler a Nebulus clone
trailblazer-0.9.tgz - THE ball game :)
vectoroids-1.1.0.tgz - Shot the rocks
wakkabox-1.1.0.tgz - Logical game
Besides this there is a MadBomber-port of Kelly Samel on his website.
The game is based on "Kaboom!" which was originally written for Atari 2600.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Oct.2003
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[Removed] Information about (Classic) Mac Emulation under AmigaOS
The text of the news item that was previously here has been removed because the website in question had not-legal software on it. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Thomas "Gojira" Nosutta (ANF)
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Pictures and Video of Amiga Meeting 2003
Under the title link Thomas Nosutta of BAU (Berliner Amiga User) has put online a few of his impressions of Amiga Meeting 2003, which was also a BAU meeting. A short quote from Thomas:
"It was once again an absolutely lively fun experience inc. Quake2-Marathon. For those who prefer pictures, here's a film clip from the Pegasos exhibition on 11th October, 2003." (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Powerplay Test Reports from 1989
Today kultpower.de presents 22 new test reports from the April 1989 issue of Powerplay, sent in by Skyscraper:
Bomber Raid (Sega Master System), Cosmic Pirate (Amiga), Cyborg Hunter
(Sega Master System), F-16 Combat Pilot (MS-DOS), Ghost'n Goblins (NES),
Gold Rush (MS-DOS), Great Football (Sega Master System), Hard'n Heavy (C
64), Hot Chase (Automat), ISS (C 64), Jet Fighter (MS-DOS), Last Duel
(Amiga), Life Force (Salamander) (NES), NARC (Automat), Rally Bike
(Automat), Sword of Sodan (Amiga), Tankattack (C 64), The Deep (Amiga),
The Last Survivor (Automat), The Pawn, War in Middle Earth (CPC), Wayne
Gretzky Hockey (Amiga).
With this update kultpower.de has passed the milestone of 1,500 test report scans. And it won't stop now! :) (nba) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: Review and Video of OS4 Booting
Under the title link, OS4 betatester and AmigaOne owner Philippe "Elwood" Ferruci has written about his experiences with the AmigaOne and Debian Linux.
Additionally there are three videos for your viewing. One of them shows the booting of Amiga OS4 on Philippe's AmigaOne. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Ordering for Pegasos II Begins on PegasosPPC.com (Update)
With the installment of a new ordering form at PegasosPPC.com Genesi has officially introduced the Pegasos II.
According to earlier announcements the price for the new boards are 299 Euros (G3/600MHz) up to 499 Euros (G4/1GHz).
For a limited time there's an upgrade option: an owner of the Pegasos I can trade in his or her board for a Pegasos II w. 1 GHz G4 processor for 200 Euros. The exchange will be handled in coordination with the local reseller who is offering the Pegasos II.
Also there is now the possibility to buy the SuperBundle on CD, instead of downloading it from Genesi's FTP server. The price is 19.95 Euros.
In the course of updating the website technical specifications of the new board were added, as well as a processor page that enables a comparison with X86 CPUs.
Update: According to a communication from Genesi, a Pegasos owner seeking to upgrade should not necessarily exchange his or her board where he or she bought it, but rather make sure to arrange this with a current Pegasos II reseller. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
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Interview: Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion Project)
The Amiga portal amiga.org has interviewed Oliver Hannaford-Day. Oliver is the leader of theColdfusion accelerator
project.
The aim of this project is the development of Coldfire-based turbocards for classic Amiga computers. The Coldfire processor is the
(progressively compatible) successor to the 68000 family of processors, used in the Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Presentation: Amiga Arena History Released
Amiga Arena has been active in the AMIGA freeware and
shareware market since 1998. Reason enough to look back on five years of hope, joy, disappointment and fun. Come along on a trip, which will show you what took place and how in this time.
The Amiga Arena History was put together with "Hollywood," the media presentation software from Airsoft.
System requirements:
- Processor 68020 or higher, OS 3.1 or better
- Processor PPC with MorphOS
- At least 8 MB RAM.
GFX:
- On graphic cards, w. CyberGFX or Picasso.
- 8, 16, 26, 36 Bit.
- VGA Amiga 8 Bit at 256 colors such as AGA. 16 million.
System:
- Amitlon
- UAE
- Amiga 68K
- Pegasos
A special thanks to T.Rosenberg, who has made this possible, as well as Gerd Frank.
Olaf Köbnik of Amiga Arena wishes you much fun in the reading, and good entertainment. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Ralf Himmel (E-Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: New Screenshots Released
On 14th October 2003 a few new screenshots from the upcoming operating system "AmigaOS 4" were put online at the website of Amiga Inc. These show AmiPDF, YAM, IBrowse and Colonization on the new Workbench, among other things. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Oct.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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fxPAINT 2.02 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 2.0 and
2.01 of fxPAINT to V2.02 is now available for download.
Changes include:
- added for MorphOS: Iconify button in each project window
- fxALBUM sorting is much faster now and shows a progress bar
- more intuitive delete function in fxALBUM
- .infos can now be displayed in ASL-requesters or be excluded from
fxALBUM import (Tooltype SUPPRESSINFOFILES)
- mousewheel-support now also in fxALBUM
- fixed a bug in startup of PPC-servertasks
- fixed IFF 24 saver (final fix this time)
A detailed list of changes can be found in the update archive. (nba)
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15.Oct.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Magazine: New issue of the pdf magazine "Lotek64"
During the summer break of amiga-news.de there has a new issue of the
retro magazine "Lotek64" been published. The magazine covers old and/or alternative computer systems - mostly the C64 but also other 8 bit systems
old consoles or Amiga are not excluded. The magazine is distributed as a freely available PDF file but interested ones might also order a printed copy.
The latest issue (#7) is unfortunately not available at the magazine's website but downloadable at
C64-Mags.de.
Download
Disclaimer: For viewing the magazine a current version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader is required. Compatibility of Amiga pdf viewers is not tested. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Robert Kühn (ANF)
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Magazine: New Amiga pdf magazine in preparation
Currently there is a new monthly pdf Amiga magazine under work. Helping hands are still wanted. Everyone who would like to contribute is invited to do so, may it be with a workshop, comments, tests, pictures or something else, and should contact amigaintern@everymail.net by mail. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Special Anniversary offers in cooperation with e.p.i.c. interactiv
In cooperation with e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh the Amiga Arena is able
to make a special 5-years anniverary offer until October, 22th 2003:
- Simon The Sorcerer II: Eur 20,00
- Earth 2140 Pack (Full game und Mission Pack): Eur 40,00
- The Feeble Files: Eur 30,00
- Software Tycoon: Eur 25,00
The offer is valid only for the versions for AmigaOS. Send your orders via
e-mail to Thomas Steiding with the subject "Amiga Arena Angebot".
More information about the games you will find at http://www.epic-interactive.com.
Special thanks to Thomas Steiding for his support.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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15.Oct.2003
Karl-Heinrich Veith, Jocelyne Pallu (Presseschreiben)
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GameArt: Exhibition at the world cultural heritage Völklinger Hütte
Computer games might be considered as the latest kind of art. During the last century jazz, film and contempory dance took long to be
accepted as a kind of art. Now the same is happening with computer games.
On November the 22nd 2003 at the world unique "Gebläsehalle" of the world cultural heritage "Völklinger Hütte" with its
gigantic machines there will high tech of the beginning of the 20th century meet computer worlds of the beginning of the 21st century.
Within this special surrounding there will be created an unique space where vistors obtain the possibility to discover,
unknown worlds, lead whole cities, or change identity how they like.
Read the full featured article by the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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W3C: New standard for forms for the Web
About ten years ago HTML forms were introduced to the Web. Now the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released with XForms 1.0
a new standard (W3C Recommendation) for forms at the Web. XForms should leave the recent limits of HTML forms behind and should be
usable with a lot of devices. Read the full article from Golem via the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Treveur 'Nowee' Bretaudiere (E-Mail)
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New Pegasos websites launched
Two more user websites regarding the Pegasos were set up within the last days: The
Finnish Pegasos Website and
the Pegasos Portugal
Website welcome you at their sites.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Dirk Stöcker
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Packer: XAD system v12.1, XFD system v39.15
The latest versions of the dearchiver system XAD and the unpacker system
XFD were released today. Among several detail improvements there are the following main topics to mention:
- Added new id-external made by Stuart replacing the idPAK external.
- Added PackDir client made by Stuart.
- Added Unreal client made by Stuart.
- Added new internal Crunch client. Thanks Ronald van Dijk for the
necessary files.
- The AMOS client replaces the AmosSampleBank external.
- New version of xadUnDisk.
- Updated nearly all clients from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added CD-i client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added CD-Image client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added MasterBootRecord client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added R.A.W. client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added RigidDiskBlock client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added Sout client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added internal Arc CBM and Arc CBM SFX.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Diverse
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Software news briefly reported (15.10.2003)
Since the last software news update several applications were developed further. These advances will be listed below:
Beatblox v1.0
Beatblox by Model/Up Rough is a simulation of a drum machine in a kind of old style providing only a single channel. Problems with the 060 CPU
were fixt now.
Homepage
LAME (binary) v3.93.1 (MorphOS)
Christian Rosentreter has compiled version 3.93 of the powerful MP3 encoder LAME for MorphOS. With this software it becomes possible to convert, say, a wave file
an MP3 file.
Download
LzxRepacker v1.83
LzxRepacker, just released in version 1.83 for MorphOS, converts file archives to the LZX archiv format, checks the data for integrity
and offers several compression rates.
Download
mmsclientist v0.0
With mmsclientist ASF Internet streams can be loaded utilizing the MMS protocol. MMS://-URLs are within ASX files. The software is for
MorphOS only.
Download
Report+ v5.74
The freeware Report+ is available in version 5.73a . The tool uses ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten
different functions. For example by using Report+ Aminet readmes can be edited, the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool replaced or the
byte amount for every directory can be shown. In the latest version several improvements and bugfixes were done.
Homepage
Saga v1.33
Amigan Software have released version 1.33 of the freeware game Saga. This game is a digital equivalent to the board game "Saga:
Age of Heroes", published in 1981 by TSR.
Homepage
ZoneXplorer v1.1.1
ZoneXplorer is a fractal navigation and rendering program for 68k-Amiga and MorphOS and is just released in version 1.1.1.
Running MOS it is possible to save Mandelbrots and others in the ILBM format.
Homepage
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N°41
Issue 41 of the French digital magazine Obligement has been published.
Among other things get a read about the latest Amiga scene news, a report from the
BAS 2003 and the Hamster party,
interviews with Rose Humphrey (AmigaOne reseller) and Sebastien
Jeudy ("Annuaire Amiga Francophone"), reviews of MPlayer,
Tales of Tamar, Word me up, Duke Nukem and Hollywood und much more.
Download: Obligement41.zip
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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