17.Jun.2003
Ron van Herk (ANF)
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Genesi/Phoenix Pegasos Summer Sale
Genesi/Phoenix Pegasos Summer Sale:
Pegasos I/G3 for 299,- upgrade to PegII/G4 for 200,-
Pegasos I/G4 for 499,-
Both for Phoenix members
Betatester Blowout:
Pegasos Betatester 199,-
Pegasos April1 249,-
All prices in EUR and are excluding VAT, the offers are available
from all participating Pegasos dealers such as APS, Computer City,
eFunzine, GGS-Data, Vesalia and others. More information on the
Pegasos can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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17.Jun.2003
Tobias Franke (ANF)
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Amiga OS 4 On Tour: report by Amiga Club Augsburg
A complete report with more pictures is online.
The Amiga Club Augsburg send thanks to all guests and partners for a succesful arrangement.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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17.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Interview with Matthew Kille - AmigaOS 4.0 GUI Design
Under the title link you can find an English interwiew with the AmigaOS 4.0 designer Matthew Kille, which was made by
Mike Bourma of Amiga World.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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17.Jun.2003
IBM / Linux Kernel Mailing List (ANF)
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Linux-compatible 64Bit-operating system K42 from IBM for PPC
K42 is a operating-system research project (available under LGPL) focused
in large part on scalability in the implementation of core OS services.
We will give a brief overview of the project, discuss some of the recent
performance results running 64-bit PPC Linux binaries and discuss the
major ways that our implementation of Linux services depart from the norm
(hopefully making sure to bring up all the truly offensive and contentious
ways).
K42 employs building-block technology to allow applications to customize
and thus optimize the OS services they require. This is particularly
important for applications, such as databases and web servers, where
given the ability to control physical resources, they can improve
performance. K42 is portable; it currently runs on PowerPC systems
(both native and using SimOS). K42's design allows implementors on a
particular architecture to choose what objects of the system should be
customized for that architecture, and as a result allows the implementors
to exploit any architecture specific features to improve performance.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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17.Jun.2003
ELBOX COMPUTER (E-Mail)
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Mediator-Spider-promotion-arrangement of Elbox Computer
Elbox Computer, a polish developer of hardware for amiga computers, had announced a promotion arrangement
for all users, who buy a Mediator PCI-Busboard in an Elbox Online Store between 17. and 30. of June 2003.
With every bought Mediator-Busboard, the buyer gets a Spider II USB 2.0 card for free.
You can get more information on the store website under the titlelink and also in the englishspeaking product
description.
About Mediator:
The Mediator PCI busboard line is designed to enable expansion
of Amiga computers with a wide range of PCI cards. The following
PCI cards are already supported in Mediator busboards: Voodoo5,
Voodoo4, Voodoo3, Voodoo Banshee, S3 VirgeDX and S3 Virge PCI
graphic cards; Spider USB 2.0 host controller cards; Fast Ethernet 100Mbps and Ethernet 10Mbps PCI network cards; Sound Blaster 4.1
digital, Sound Blaster 128 and ForteMedia FM801-based sound cards;
TV tuner cards. The Mediator busboard is a necessary expansion for
Amiga computers to employ the power of the latest PowerPC
G3/G4 processors, around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+ cards are
based. Mediator busboards are available for the following Amiga
models:
- Amiga 4000T (Mediator PCI 3/4000T)
- Amiga 4000D (Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator
PCI 3/4000T)
- Amiga 3000T (Mediator PCI 3/4000T)
- Amiga 3000D (Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 3/4000T)
- Amiga 1200 (Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI ZIV,
Mediator PCI 3/4000T).
About Spider:
The Spider II USB 2.0 card is a 5-port Hi-Speed USB 2.0 PCI
controller. Spider II is the most powerful USB host controller for
Amiga computers. The enclosed SpiderCD includes Mediator and
Amithlon EHCI (USB 2.0) and OHCI (USB 1.1) drivers for the Poseidon
stack.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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16.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Article of DatorMagazin about the AmiGBG 2003
In issue no. 06/2003 of the renowned Swedish computer magazine
DatorMagazin was published
an article about the Goeteborger meeting AmiGBG, which was now translated
by the on-line magazine 'AmigaWorld' into English
and made available at the title link.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #040
Liquid Skies released music pack no. 40. This time it contains a tune by Lcr called "Painted Shogun" which is a Drum'n'Base track. The cover was made by Kudaziw.
Details:
Title: Painted Shogun
- Artist: Lcr
- Style: Drum'n'Base
- Duration: 3:42
- Format: mp3
The file (3.4MB) is available at the title link.
Furthermore Liquid Skies welcomes a new member - Rzs. He will release his first track in one of the upcoming music packs.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jun.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 16.06.2003
With WHDLoad you are able to install games which were meant for the floppy
usage only, on your non removable disk. The following
packages were added and/or updated since our last message:
- 15.06.03 new: Death Bringer (Spotlight) (Spotlight Software) done by Galahad
- 15.06.03 new: Psychedelic (Virtual Dreams) done by Psygore
- 15.06.03 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) various improvements
- 14.06.03 new: Gary Lineker's Hot-Shot! (Gremlin) done by Codetapper
- 14.06.03 new: King's Quest 5 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 14.06.03 improved: King's Quest 4 (Sierra) supports BTTR version
- 14.06.03 updated: Silent Service 2 (Microprose) another version supported, completely rewritten
- 14.06.03 improved: Abra Cadabra (Coktel Vision) supports another version, protection removed
- 13.06.03 fixed: Magicland Dizzy (Codemasters) memory usage fixed
- 13.06.03 fixed: Dizzy Collection (Code Masters) various fixes
- 13.06.03 fixed: Lords of the Rising Sun (Cinemaware) copy protection fixed
- 13.06.03 new: Hillsfar (SSI) done by Galahad
- 13.06.03 improved: World Class Leaderboard Golf (Access) fixed TOP crash, supports course disks
- 10.06.03 new: King's Quest 4 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 10.06.03 new: Hot Rod (Activision) done by DJ Mike
- 08.06.03 fixed: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) fixed French version crashing
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jun.2003
Diverse
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Software Updates until 16.06.2003
Scalos Beta 40.28
The Workbench alternative Scalos was published in the beta version
40.28. Archives can be downloaded of the website of the developers
at www.scalos.co.uk.
AmiGOD2 Beta 15.06.2003
The benchmark tool AmiGOD appeared on 15 June 2003 in a new beta
version, in which two new Pegasos tests were integrated as well as an early version of a hard disk and a memory test. The Download is
available at amigod.zde.cz.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jun.2003
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Presentation of 'Foto-Foto' at the Amiga Party in Maarssen
The programmers of Attention Software will present for the first time their new game 'Foto-Foto' at the Amiga party 2003, which takes place on 28 June in the Dutch Maarssen.
'Foto-Foto' is a game, in which from two nearly identical fig. five
differences must be found. The game runs locally, the photos however
will be downloaded from a website, on which also the highscores are stored.
'Foto-Foto' is developed for Amiga OS and MorphOS.
Genesi, which present the Pegasos at the meeting, will make a chat
session possible (# Amiga party - ch1.arcnet.vapor.com). (nba) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jun.2003
Brian Deneen
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AmiWest 2003: Participation of individual Computers
individual Computers, developer of hardware for Amiga systems, will
participate, according to data of the exhibitors, in the AmiWest exhibition,
taking place in the American Sacramento on the ends of July 2003.
They will present new and well-known products for the Classic Amiga, AmigaOne
and Pegasos. Further official information is to be expected shortly.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jun.2003
anonym (ANF)
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AmiWest 2003: Pegasos flies westwards
Yes! Pegasos is flying west, and for the first time at a
major
American Amiga show, the Pegasos will be available for users to get a first
hand look at what MorphOS on the Pegasos is all about. With at least
five Pegasos computers at the Genesi booth, everyone can be assured a
turn at taking a Pegasos out for a test flight.
At the 2003 version of AmiWest, YOU can get YOUR hands on the Pegasos,
a tangable successor to our community's platform of choice. See
first
hand the MUI3.9 PPC integration into your OS experience, feel the power
of a PPC processor pushing both classic and new applications, and
experience the transformation in our community. You've seen the forums, read
the contriversies, and watched the flak fly. At AmiWest, however, there
will be no smokescreen thick enough to come between your curiosity and
the Pegasos running MorphOS. See the PEGASOS first hand at AmiWest.
Just in: MorphOS 1.4 with the Trance JIT for MorphOS will be released
in time for AmiWest!
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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15.Jun.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 - Rockford is back!
BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 has just been released on the Aminet (Download see title
link)! The most significant improvement since V4 is the direct support of
Picasso96 and CyberGraphics. With that all RTG related problems should once and
for all have been eliminated.
Thanks to the likewise new AHI support BoulderDäsh runs on all AmigaOS
compatible Systems (A500, Ax000, Amithlon, MorphOS, OS4, UAE).
Merely OS2.0 or better is required. Rockford is back - He will rock you!
BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 - Features list:
- 1:1 Clone of the original
- Runs in Multitasking
- Online help
- Locale support
- Programmed according to Commodore Style Guide
- 2D soft scrolling and full speed even on an MC68000 (no jerking of
animations or scrolling)
- Full gfx card compatibility through Picasso96/CyberGraphics support, thus up
to 256 colours with full screen scrolling
- Full sound card compatibility through AHI support
- More thans 10000 (!!) levels included!
- 36 different games gfx
- 6 different fonts
- 5 different sample sets
- 6 different in game songs in retro style
- All settings can be done via Gadtools GUI
- Extension by further game elements (fake bricks, fake metal...). Thus
interesting new level possibilities arise.
- Levels of any size possible (under NonRTG only depending on ChipMem)
- Automatically administered high score lists for each game
- Comfortable level editor
- Gravity is adjustable in four directions in every level
- Games editor to compile complete games
- Possibilty of creating custom in game gfx with a paint program
- Possibility of integrating custom sound fx with a sampler
- Possibilty of creating custom in game music with a Protracker compatible music editor
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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15.Jun.2003
heise.de (ANF)
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heise: Warez-Gruppe Fairlight calls it quits
Fairlight, the warez group well-known in
the scene are announcing the immediate cease of their work in an NFO file.
Fairlight have been very active on Amiga and C64.
Read the German heise article under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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15.Jun.2003
.design/kdh (ANF)
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'OS4.0 on Tour': Thanks to AC Augsburg
We hereby want to express our thanks to the Amiga Club Augsburg and its many
helpers for the warm welcome in Augsburg on the occasion of the 'OS4.0 on Tour'
event. Everything was prepared excellently and with much idealism (e.g. the
Amiga museum) and also carried out with great commitment. It is good to see and
to know that there are still many friends of the computer legend 'Amiga' and many
users waiting for OS4.0 to hit the market to be used on an AmigaOne or a
Cyberstorm/Blizzard PPC board.
Thanks also to our guests from Hyperion who despite the heat and a long journey
met all visitors' questions openly and willingly.
Warm thanks also to Michael Böhmer (E3B) who was able to present the Algor USB
card Chris Hodges (Poseidon) in action, and thanks also to Jens Schönfeld who
extensively illuminated the C-Ones history and mode of operation in the well
proven manner of a lecturer. Not to forget Christian Brenner with his 'Monster A600'.
Point-Design
KDH Datentechnik
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15.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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First presentation of a UAE-JIT PPC
For the first time Bernie Meyer presented a modified UAE-JIT version for PPC
at a meeting of the Australian Amiga Users Group. Pictures of Bernies iMac and
his Pegasos can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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15.Jun.2003
amiga.org (ANF)
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Event: AmiWest 2003 News Update
Computer Connection (Video Toaster)
will participate in the Amiga fair AmiWest 2003,
taking place on 26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento, California. Further news
about this event can be found in the extensive press release under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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15.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Movie: Second Animatrix filmlet online
The second Animatrix filmlet can be seen on the Internet resp. downloaded.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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15.Jun.2003
Walter Gehring (RAMses) (ANF)
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Amiga OS 4.0 on Tour in Augsburg: Pictures by Walter Gehring
Under the title link you can find further pictures by Walter Gehring (RAMses), taken
yesterday in Augsburg. All pictures can be downloaded as a ZIP file.
Download: os4.zip (1,7 MB)
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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15.Jun.2003
AC Augsburg (Website)
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AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by AC Augsburg
Further pictures of the Augburg Roadshow are online on co-organisator Amigaclub
Augsburg's Website. Further information to follow!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jun.2003
AN-Forum
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AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by Stefan Hägele
Following the title link you'll find quite some photos made by Stefan Hägele with his Sony DSC S75 today in Augsburg. People who want to watch the pictures in a higher resolution may download them here:
Download: AOS4.0_on_Tour.zip (32 MB)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.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
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14.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Big update of Dia-CD (slideshow on VideoCD)
This time is the update of Dia-CD very substantial, it contains the following innovations:
- Title generator for still videos and slideshow.
- Smooth fade in and out of the sound in the still video or the slideshow;
therefore no sudden sound disruptions anymore. But you now need the Sox version sox-12.17.4.lha.
- Title preview (needs a PBM datatype in the system - contained in the archive).
- The collected source images the slideshow is made of are all archived with Lha and written to the
VideoCD image. This way they are preserved. The old function has been removed.
- New format supported. Next to Mpeg1 for the VideoCD creation is now the Internet suitable DIVX4 used.
Installation:
Copy sox, multiview, ppmlabel, ffmpeg 0.4.6, vcdimager, dttoppm, mogrify and lha into the c: directory. Unpack PBMdt44.lha and copy the files to the according directories. Install Tritonrexx, tritonlibrary and Rexxtricks.
Hint:
Many switches, listers and sliders are comprehensively explained in the online help. This counts expecially for the new Gui objects of the title generator.
Important!
The titles for the still video or the slideshow are taken from a text file.
You have especially to take care of the text formatting. This is taken over 1:1! This means that a line end or a tabulator are shown in the video the same way they are existing in the text file. This way you can easily put several lines of text into the video. Furthermore is unfortunately only 7bit ASCII code generated so that no German special characters e.g. ä, ö, ü or ß can be found. The title is inserted only in the first four seconds of a slideshow, even if this is running unlimited. This can be worked around as it is e.g. allowed to use as many Mpeg1 files for VideoCDs as VCD track source as you want.
Title generator:
This one comes with unusual many settings possibilities: font size, font colour, title rotation and title position. If you should be more ambitious you should better use Monument Designer.
Remark:
The script is now absolutly stable. Should something crash it's usually dttoppm or ffmpeg. These I have to a great extent under control so that normally nothing should happen. The only important thing is to use a separate temp directory for each slideshow as otherwise ffmpeg will without a doubt get problems and crash. Besides that you should use no more than 10 source images with each slideshow as otherwise dttoppm renders problems. If you want to put these on VideoCD this limit doesn't matter as you can create as many tracks as you want.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (email)
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StartMenu: Pixload 4 speaks German
As already reported has the final version 4 of the startmenu Pixload for AmigaOS and MorphOS been released at the beginning of June. In the meantime has the German localization been finished.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos: Phoenix offer now also for dealer
For the few Pegasos-I boards still on the shelves at the retailers Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck offer that these may be sold for the Phoenix price of 299 Euro if the buyer enters the Phoenix developers consortium. The price difference would then be payed directly at the particular retailer.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
Boing Attitude (email)
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AmigaDE: Word Me up is finished
Glames wrote:
Boing Attitude team and myself are pleased to announce you that Word
Me Up, our first game on AmigaDE, is now finished. We'd like to thank
all these people that support and help us. Many thanks to you!
More info on:
French version -
English version
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14.Jun.2003
Morotola (ANF)
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Motorola: 68060 with 60 MHz and Amiga 68k compiler at Motorola
MC68060 : Superscalar 68K Microprocessor
(Including the LC060 and EC060)
The superscalar MC68060 represents a new line of Motorola microprocessor
products. The M68060 product line consists of the MC68060, MC68LC060, and
MC68EC060.The MC68EC060 offers superscalar integer performance of over 110
MIPS at 75 MHz. The MC68060 comes fully equipped with both a floating-point
unit (FPU) and a memory management unit (MMU) for high-performance embedded
control applications. For cost-sensitive embedded control and desktop
applications where an MMU is required, but the additional cost of a FPU
is not justified, the MC68LC060 offers high performance at a low cost.
Specifically designed for low-cost embedded control applications, the
MC68EC060 eliminates both the FPU and MMU, permitting designers to leverage
MC68060 performance while avoiding the cost of unnecessary features.
- M68000AMPRT Amiga Port of Matthew Brandt's CC68K Compiler
- MC68060RC60 206 PGA (Pin Grid Array) PRODUCT STABLE
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14.Jun.2003
SWAUG (ANF)
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SWAUG: Amiga OS 4.0 questions for Thomas Frieden
The users group SWAUG has asked Thomas Frieden some questions about AmigaOS 4. Following the title link you'll find the English questions and answers.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Official AmigaOS 4 screenshots
Following the title link you'll find five new official screenshots of AmigaOS 4.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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13.Jun.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: eFlash Memory for Amiga
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga
computers, is proud to announce two new products:
- eFlash 4000 Zorro III card
- eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card
eFlash 4000 is an autobooting Zorro III card with 1MB (one Megabyte)
of FlashROM memory with extremely fast 32-bit long words access.
The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs, which are run at
the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI
cards installed in Mediator-equipped A3000 and A4000 computers before
the AmigaOS system starts. As a result, computer may be booted from
mass storage devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g.
Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards. The users of the new Amiga
operating system--AmigaOS4.x--will have an additional benefit:
the eFlash 4000 card will give them a possibility of definite
shortening of the system's start time by executing the AmigaOS code
from the FlashROM memory.
FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 4000 cards allows 100,000
erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with
hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming
and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative
batch of programs stored in the eFlash 4000 memory.
eFlash 1200 is an autobooting PCMCIA card with 1MB (one Megabyte)
of FlashROM memory. The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs,
which are run at
the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI
cards installed in Mediator-equipped A1200 computers before the
AmigaOS system starts. As a result, the computer may be booted
from mass devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g.
Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards.
FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 1200 cards allows 100,000
erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with
hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming
and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative
batch of programs stored in the eFlash 1200 memory.
Pricing and availability
The eFlash 4000 Zorro III card will be on sale beginning
with 15 July 2003 at the suggested retail price of only
EUR 35.95 (VAT excl.). The eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card will be on
sale beginning with 15 August 2003 at the suggested retail price of
only EUR 29.95 (VAT excl.).
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13.Jun.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N° 39
Issue 39 of the AmigaOS/MorphOS magazine Obligement is now available. You
can read in this issue: report of the Huno Party 2003, Interview of David
Gerber and Nicolas Sallin (from Genesi), interview of Emmanuel Rey (from
Relec), review of VHI Studio 6, review of Birdie Shoot, review of Knights
and Merchants, article about MorphOS 1.3 (very complete!) and AmiNetRadio,
hardware with AmigaOne XE G4 and USB keys, and other interesting articles.
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13.Jun.2003
MorphOS News (ANF)
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Demoscene selections done
Decisions have been made. The competition was so tight, the last two
remaining Pegasos-system winners were elected by asking several people
about their opinions. Sorry for the ones who were left out, there were many who would have deserved one, but we tried to make the best selections based on several things, past success and current activity being the most important ones.
The people who will get a loaned Pegasos and participate to the
democompetition are:
- Creative Minds
- DCS
- Floppy
- Ephidrena
- Haujobb
- Iris
- Loonies
- MFX
- Potion
- TBL
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13.Jun.2003
KDH Datentechnik (ANF)
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Tomorrow: 'OS4.0 on Tour' in Augsburg
The 'OS4.0 on Tour' will be take place on Saturday 14th June 2003 from 10.00am to
8.00pm in Augsburg in the club rooms of Amiga Club Augsburg.
The newest pre-version will be presented by Jürgen Schober, Point-Design, Austria.
Some developers of Hyperion will be present such as Steffen Häuser, Hans-Jörg Frieden
and Thomas Frieden. The members of the Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik will
demonstrate some AmigaOne with Debian Linux. Michael Böhmer from E3B
will demonstrate the newest member of the USB-family, the USB-controller Algor.
Jens Schönfeld from individual Computers
will demonstrate the new C-One and will also
give advice you to all of his products.
AmigaOne boards and equipment as well as several 'OS4.0 On Tour' merchandise products
can be bought on the stand of KDH Datentechnik.
New screenshots of OS4.0 will be available here on Saturday:
On the AmigaOS-website, at
Amiga World and at
Virtual Dimension Multimedia Produktionen.
Pictures of this event will be published here:
At Amiga Club Augsburg and at
KDH Datentechnik.
The Amiga Club Augsburg will also produce a video about this event. We will inform you
about the corresponding link.
Pictures via Livecam you can find here.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jun.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)
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Update of the VirusZ III Antivirus Bootdisk
The VirusZ III bootdisk has been updated and is available for download as of 7th June, 2003.
Available at:
VHT Kanada
VHT Netherlands und
VHT at Yahoo
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Jun.2003
Motorola GmbH (E-Mail)
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Motorola: The Handy Turns 20
The mobile telephone has turned 20 years old. Since the 1983 introduction of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the cellphone has turned from the prestigious posession of executives to the constantly present tool for everyman. Few other inventions have changed life so much in the last two decades.
Note from translator: the article goes on into a long German language history of the cellphone. If desired, you may copy the address of the amiga-news.de German language article (http://www.amiganews.de/de/news/AN-2003-06-00096-DE.html) into an automatic translation service, such as that found at http://www.altavista.com by clicking on the "translate" link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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12.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Java.net - Comprehensive Open Source Platform for Java
»James Gosling has announced begun a new development platform
With java.net Sun has started a new website, which groups together information, code and communications possibilities for Java developers, including Wikis and Blogs. This new Java-oriented open source community has been announced by James Gosling, the "father" of Java. Sun themselves have provided a few million lines of code to the new community.«
Read the complete article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Jun.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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Partners of 'AmigaOS4.0 on Tour' 2003 in Basel
For the first presentation of AmigaOS4.0 on Tour 2003 in Basel - 21th June,
the local AUGS club and the
B&S Digitronic reseller
are happy to confirm you already the participation of:
The German AmigaOS4/AmigaOne presentations will be translated in English and
in French.
More information: http://www.augs.ch/amigaone/
In French: http://www.augs.ch/amigaone/fr.html
(With online subscription. Very important for the restaurant reservation).
Don't miss this great event and come to Basel with us! :-)
Basel, the ideal swiss city at the German and French borders.
(ps)
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12.Jun.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood 1.5 released
The long awaited, major update 1.5 for Hollywood was released today.
Because of the great new features and the long development time, there
is an update fee of $22 USD (only for users, who bought Hollywood before
April 1st 2003). Hollywood 1.5 is available in an AmigaOS 68k version as
well as in a native MorphOS PowerPC version. Many new features have
been added to Hollywood 1.5, here are some of the most important:
- Support for multiple graphics layers
- Full control of layer position, size, transparency and light setting
- 68k version can also create MorphOS executables now and vice versa
- Over 50 new impressing transition effects (totalling in over 100 now!)
- Integrated image-processor that supports: Rotation, color inverting, gray scaling,
axis flipping, texturing, mixing, lighten, darken, scale, stretch and tinting
- 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! (totalling in over 240 now!)
- Many new impressing example programs
Malibu, the Scala plugin for Hollywood 1.5, will be released in a few days. You can
already order it in a bundle with Hollywood 1.5 and save some money. Malibu is also
available in an AmigaOS 68k version as well as in a MorphOS. Please have a look at
the product pages of Malibu and Hollywood to get the ultimate overview over both products.
(ps)
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12.Jun.2003
Maja (ANF)
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TweakPC: Microsoft Purchases RAV AntiVirus from GeCAD
Microsoft takes the virus protection of their own operating systems in hand. After this takeover, the developers will work on an integrated virus protection for Windows. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jun.2003
heise Newsticker / B. Lindner (ANF)
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heise: GIF soon free of patents?
The heise article features the fact that on the 20th June 2003 one of the moste hated
software patents (US patent 4,558,302), the "GIF patent"
by Unisys, will expire.
The complete article (German) is to read by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Golem IT-News (ANF)
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Golem: WLAN for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and fellows
»SMC introduces Ethernet to WLAN Box
SMC Networks have introduced a new device of their EZ Connect WLAN product family with that
ethernat capable devices are enhancable with WLAN features.
The SMC2671W adaptor works within the 2.4-GHz band with a maximum bandwidth.
of 11Mb/s.«
Read the full article (German) by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)
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Elektroniknet: QNX realtime platform to download free of charge
»QNX Software Systems are offering developers their QNX realtime platform for a download free of charge.
This offer is valid for all users who will not use the system commercially i. e it's intended for
prototyping, test issues or private use. With the download developers get a full working version of the QNX
realtime OS
including the complete suite with QNX OS moduls like the microkernel, data system, network manager etc. Included is
a GNU tool chain, a code generating
application builder, the Photon microGUI windowing system, Internet and
multimedia applications, hundreds of utilities and source code for many
applications, drivers and libraries.«
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)
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Elektroniknet: PCI architecture documentation
»Wanted: The optimum PCI interface
Additionally to the article set of electronics (starting with issue 11/98, see page 107)
about state machines and PLD programming of a PCI interface this document includes a full documentation
for the PCI architecture as a word.doc file.
(Freeware, German)« (ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Elektroniknet (ANF)
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ELektroniknet: How costless is Linux?
»The experience of an independant software developer
A little bit costless? Or not free at all? During a Linux project there arrive many obstacles which are invisible in
the beginning.
This lesson an independent software developer had to experience personally.«
Here are some extracts from the article which is readable by the title link (German):
- "I just finished to install embedded Linux on a PowerPC system; That opend my eyes. [...]"
- "After some months our hardware was stable, our Linux port too and the application was more or less ready to use [...]"
- "Is embedded Linux the potential to grow? Sure at least. Is it really costless? No way. [...]"
- "Embedded Linux is real, it's capable to grow but it is not gratis.
It is easy to get attracted by embedded Linux but then you will soon find yourself within the operating system support
business rather than in the application development. Would I chose Linux again? Yes I would but this time with a seeing eye from the start.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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AmiZilla Website gets a major update
The Amizilla site has been updated.
- New! AmiZilla Mascot by Eric Schwartz now online.
Thank you Eric for all the hard work and effort you put into
designing her.
- NEW! AmiZilla FAQ Update
- NEW! Hot CoCo briefly announced. This project will kick off after
AmiZilla is a success. Info about it is in the AmiZilla FAQ.
- New! AmiZilla Guidelines, thank you Targhan for coming up with most
of the AmiZilla guidelines.
- New! Amiga Arena interview now on the AmiZilla website for easy reading.
- New! AmiZilla Mailing List has over 119 members and over 120 messages.
Messages are not about basket weaving they are about coding. Keep in
mind this mailing list is less than 3 weeks old.
- Booty now @ $3696.
Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful.
The booty is almost @ $4000 which is a nice amount of money. If only
one programmer was working on the port this would be a nice reward.
However several programmers are working together. Once money is split
among coders the booty is not big enough. Please contribute if you can,
every dollar helps motivate programmers to make the AmiZilla Project
a success.
About AmiZilla
The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount
of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla
to Amiga/Compatible systems that programmers will be falling over themselves
getting this application coded in record time.
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing
& computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga
computer defined and created the video editing, computer graphics market
with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects
seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel,
Shipmates and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the
following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and more!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Sound card: New delfina.library beta version
The new version of the delfina.library now supports the sound card on the clockport of the Highway USB card by E3B. Unfortunately, the clockport of the Highway card is not 100% identical with the clockport of the A1200 motherboard, so proper function is not ensured in all cases. Please report any problems.
Download:
delflib416b44.lha (22KBytes) (nba)
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