20.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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ProStationAudio for MorphOS
A short while ago Bill Buck, CEO of Genesi S.a.r.l., made known in
comments
in several news forums and media viewpoints that the finished version of MorphOS would be bundled with a full
version of the professional Audio-Sequencer ProStationAudio. PSA's publisher AudioLabs has put a FAQ on their
website about this matter, which will confirm this and clarify further details. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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Death of a German ScummVM Programmer
Sebastian Beloch quotes the website of the software project ScummVM:
Last Friday, March 14th, our fellow ScummVM developer and friend,
Felix Jakschitsch (known to many under his nickname yot),
committed suicide at the young age of 19.
We are completely shocked by this, and do not know or understand
what drove him into this. It is a sorrowful world in which a
cheerful, intelligent and helpful man is put in a situation in
which he sees no other way to escape than taking his own life.
We are sad to lose our valued friend. He contributed important
work to ScummVM, including much of the Zak256 support. His loss
is felt deeply by all of us, and we extend our condolence to his
family and close friends, whose grief we share. If you want to
leave a message to his friends and family, there is a guestbook available.
Also here is a news paper article telling more details
(use babelfish if you don't speak German).
Felix, we miss you and will never forget you. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.2
295 midi commands specially made for access virus synthesizers
using tracks&fields miditracker.
This version has all the rest midi commands that Kicko didn't
publish in release 0.1. This is up to OS5. If new OS'es has
new commands the developer will fix it. Page A commands uses
only control messages instead of sysex. Page B & C is only
sysex. There is a backup of page A sysex if anyone needs it
in a subdir. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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20.Mar.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Golem: Linux for PowerPC - Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 is Ready
With Yellow Dog 3.0, Terra Soft has released a new version of their Linux distribution for PowerPC. The software, developed under the
codename "Sirius," marks a new generation of Linux for the PowerPC architecture, and is based on the GCC 3.2.1 compiler. Read the
complete column at Golem IT News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Schlafi (ANF)
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Net Newspaper: Al Gore in Apple's Advisory Board
The former US Vice-President Al Gore has been elected to the advisory board of the computer manufacturer Apple. Gore was
extremely narrowly overcome by George W. Bush in the presidential election of 2000. Read the complete Netzeitung.de report
under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Mar.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: AmiGBG in Gothenburg, Delfina in production
On March 29th, the Amiga-show AmiGBG
will take place. The event takes place for the third time this year,
and we'll attend for the first time as an exhibitor. We will present
new and known products from our palette together with our long-term
partner GGS-Data. The Scandinavian
Amiga-community is very active and most notably creative, therefore
we're especially looking forward to this event!
With a little luck, we'll have our latest product in our luggage: After
an extremely long wait, the sound card Delfina went into production.
Nearly one year ago, we announced the last technical changes, that
are already outdated today. The most important change is probably the
split of the product into two boards. The updated product description
on our website confirms what many people already assumed since the
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper is out: The new Delfina is a combined
Zorro/PCI card. The first stage of this high-end sound card will be
available in Germany starting April 7th, 2003. Pre-orders are taken
by our retail partners.
(ps)
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19.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: CeBIT report 2003
Genesi: CeBIT-Report 2003
From Ron van Herk und Martin Heine
The CeBIT is over, eight days of hard work are behind us. Genesi´s
first CeBIT attendance has been very successful. We were able to have many interesting talks,
we had a lot of interested visitors and started some very promising business deals.
We cannot got into detail of every single topic and of course there are some (indeed not too few) things which we cannot talk about in public.
But some things we can say right now:
_Kato Development_
Kato has developed sound card drivers for more then ten different audio chip sets. These include the AC97 codec, several Creative sound cards, but also some different Terratec models. We are to assist Kato in any possible kind to port their drivers to the Pegasos/MorphOS system, so Pegasos users will have a broad choice af additional sound cards.
_Mediapoint_
We hired the main programmer of Mediapoint. He started, done as a fulltime job, already to finish the next version of this package. It´s aimes to do a first release still this summer.
Our main focus is the professional market but also current users of the stand alone version will be an upgrade offered to benefit from the new features as well. Futhermore the same programmer will create a
MorphOS version of Inga the graphic adventure creator. With this it becomes possible for developers to create such graphic adventures or edutainment software for our settop box.
_Russia_
Genesi´s Russian distributor visited us at the fair. Currently the Russian localization of
MorphOS is under development.
_Merchandise_
Genesi thinks about the production of several MorphOS mechandise goodies and to offer it via local dealers.
We have some ideas for that ourself by now but welcome every suggestion for that as well.
_3sat_
As most will have heard and some have seen already there has been a short report about the Pegasos/MorphOS within the TV show "neues" of 3sat. Even it has not been to extensive it has been quite nice and we got some several positive feedback about it.
Okay, that´s all for the moment - more news will follow when we can put them to public. Our best greetings and regards from the CeBIT we are leaving from here now!
Ron, Martin, André und Ulrich
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Fax and mobile phone disabled
The Amiga Future disables from April the 1st 2003 their current mobile phone and fax account. New numbers will not be published. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
YAM (Website)
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Mailer: New YAM Developer version from 03-19-2003
Since today there is a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA available
from the mailer YAM which became open source recently.
This version is a pure developer version which might still include some bugs and for which the developer team gives no warranty and support of any kind. Requests via e-mail about developer versions will not be answered.
Usage on your own risk!
The recent changes can be obtained from this list.
Further information is to get from the
Yamos SourceForge page.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Article: The new generation of CDR/CDRW writers
With the start of the CeBIT the new generation of the 5x-times IDE
CDR/CDRW writer has been introduced to the market. Along with the higher writing speeds for CDRs and CDRWs all writers include technologies to avoid buffer underruns by standard now and are capable of the mount rainier standard, which should replace floppy disks as data carrier medium.
_Mitsumi_
The current top edge is the Mitsumi CR 485F TE (54x 32x 54x speed) drive. The best features of this ultraspeed rewriter include the integrated MITSUMI Aegis write
technology for best writing results. Aegis write controls and optimizes the laser strength, checks the writing speed and performs during the writing process a quality check for a safe burn. Availability: from April. Price: about 99 Euro.
_Plextor_
The new Plexwriter Premium (52x 32x 52x speed) works with an improved optical unit which offers a better signal sharpness between the pits and lands, so capacity of mediums can be increased up to 40%. So a 700 MB disk is capable of up to 1 GB. For a better compatibility Plextor says to extend the disk capacity only about 20%. To reduce the drive sounds the speed of the drive can be downgraded by the user individually.
Availability: from April. Price: about 199 Euro.
_LG Electronics_
For all who think about to get a new CDRW as well as a DVD-ROM LG presents the new combo drive GCC-4520B
(16x + 52x 24x 52x). Beside all common CD/CDRW formats the drive can read DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW media. The maximum read speed for these media is 16x which is about 21 MB/s. Availability: from April. Price: not published yet.
_Cyberdrive_
With the CW099D (52x 24x 52x) Cyberdrive offers a high sped writer now. The device works in the CAV mode and thus needs
less than 2.5 minutes for a complete CD-R and
for a CD-RW only about 3.5 minutes. The device can handle the raw DAO mode with 96 subchannel bytes and thus offers backup copies of protected CDs. Extra long CDRs with 90 or 99 minutes are supported also. Availability: from now on. Price: about
99 Euros.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Divine Divinity coming to the Mac and MorphOS
Larian Studios and e.p.i.c. interactive announced today that they have
signed a contract to bring Larian Studios' highly awarded role playing
sensation Divine Divinity to the Apple Macintosh and MorphOS.
Warrior, Wizard or Survivor? Which fate is yours?
It's your decision, one that will influence the gameplay of Divine Divinity
- playable as an action based RPG or a classical RPG!
According to prophecy, you are the chosen one. Only you have the strength,
the courage and the magic to save the legendary lands of Rivellon from
submission under the Lord of Chaos. Before you can take on the fight against
Evil, you must journey far through a fantastic world torn apart by
corruption, sinister plots and dark magic.
Caution is vital! Whatever happens, the evil magicians of the black ring
must not get hold of you!
With an involving storyline and plenty of sub quests for maximum
replayability, Divine Divinity is role-playing gaming at its best! As a
warrior, wizard or survivor, you will create your own destiny!
More information on Divine Divinity and all the accolades it has achieved,
can be found on e.p.i.c's or
Larian Studios website.
The Apple release will lead the way in QIII/03 followed shortly thereafter
by the MorphOS release.
The Mac version will be OSX only and will require a G3-333, 128 MByte RAM and
a 8 MByte 3D Gfxcard. The MorphOS version will need a Pegasos I or II.
(ps)
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19.Mar.2003
filosof (ANF)
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Event: Commodore Retro Party - Mail Madness Party #5
This year there will be a a computer party for retro freaks again in Saxonia/Germany. From April the 30th until May the 4th 2003 there will be a Mail
Madness! party in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, where from the C64 or Plus 4 to the ZX-Spectrum everything will be there. Several new and well known DiskMags will be shown to be up to date again. A possibility for sleeping and eating (breakfast, hamburger for in between or pizza (starting from 2 Euros) at night ...etc.) as well as beverages are available. A supermarket for the buying individual stuff is just near by.
For details just ring the +49 177 3376544 or of later than 6pm call the +49 3723 48729 ......come on !! don't hesitate !!!
See ya...!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Finnish Amiga User Group interviews Bill Buck & Raquel Velasco by Genesi
MorphOS-News.de reports about an
interview,
which was done by the Finnish Amiga User Group with Genesi. Within this interview Bill Buck and his wife Raquel Velasco do not only talk about the
-
Crossbee team hired by Genesi not only introduces their
experience of the management organisation but also their software to MorphOS.
- Additionalyt hey told that Ceolia now works for Genesi also,
- that prototypes of the PegasosII boards (6 Layers) are expected within the next three months.
- Representives of Plexuscom will come to Paris after the CeBIT to outline the further team work;
- that Genesi will sponsor the demo scene event "Assembly 2003"
- and that there will be a new MorphOS version for the existing PowerUp cards during the next month available free of charge for the Amiga community.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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18.Mar.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Font: TTEngine 6.4
TTEngine 6.4 is a bugfix release for three bugs unfortunately introduced in the previous one. The main bug was requesting mathieeesingtrans.library V38 while Workbench 3.0 and 3.1 has V37 of this library. This caused library initialization failure and revealed two bugs related to cleanup routine. Cleanup generated several Enforcer hits if called after failed initialization. All three bugs are fixed in TTEngine 6.4 release. Thanks to Halvadjian Georges, who reported the bug and hepled with debugging.
Download: ttengine-6.4.lha (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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CeBIT 2003: More pictures
MorphOS-News.de has posted some more CeBIT pictures (provided by Ron van Herk). (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Markus Holler (Website)
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Music: Markus Holler - Dance Mix aus Cold Zero
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga-Users for his music for the games Tales of
Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity, works on the music
Actiongame Cold Zero. For the soon vailable game you can find a dance mix of
the main themes on the download page.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
EvenMore
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Text viewer: Latest MSWord-Plugin for EvenMore
Chris Perver has released the MSWord-Plugin Version 1.38 for his text viewer
'EvenMore'. With this plugin you can convert in 'EvenMore' MSWord files into text.
Download: msword2text.plugin
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-Card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 321
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 321 of AmithlonTV with some updates and
enhancements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh
a
New in this version:
- CHANGED: Recompiled with the latest resource tracking and management code.
- BUGFIX: Thanks to the new resource management I found a very (very very) worst
memory boundary leak (4000 bytes!!!) in the main library core! If you had a few
crashes in the past, then there is a very (very very) good chance that they are gone!
- BUGFIX: Another 2 byte boundary leak within the virtual card driver fixed.
- CHANGED: Installer-Script now requests an actual installer version to ensure
proper operation.
- FEATURE: Added PowerPCI NG support.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
www.scene.org/news.php (ANF)
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OS Poll at scene.org
There is an OS poll running at scene.org right now. Lets help our favorite OS a little hand ;-) (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus Midicommands for tracks&fields
More then 250 commands to remote access virus synthesizers from
tracks & fields. There will be updates when Access makes new
OSupdates with new sysex midi commands.
Further updates will be made when for HDRec when there comes new
versions of it. As i dont find anyone that have time to continue
on tracks&field i will later use HDRec instead as its more pro.
Directpage (ps)
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17.Mar.2003
Amiga.SF (Website)
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Diego Casorran Ports: HyperMail V2.1.7 and Flac V1.1.0
- HyperMail to version 2.1.7, it is a program that takes a file of
mail messages in UNIX mailbox format and generates a set of
cross-referenced HTML documents. Each file that is created represents
a separate message in the mail archive and contains links to other
articles, so that the entire archive can be browsed in a number of
ways by following links. (I remember you that YAM export his emails
in UNIX format ;)
- Flac to version 1.1.0, it stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec.
Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The
FLAC project consists of: the stream format, reference encoders and
decoders in library form, flac: a command-line program to encode and
decode FLAC files, metaflac: a command-line metadata editor for FLAC
files. "Free" means that the specification of the stream format is
fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project
reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify
compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the
implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent.
It also means that all the source code is available under open-source
licenses.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Faces of Mars (ANF)
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Two new digital album: Galicia and Lisbon
After technical problems over the weekend the Faces OF Mars Website is
again fully functional. Immediately there are two new products: Photo
CDs about Lisbon and Galicia.
Beside many photos the CDs contains also a digital postcard
system, with which one can send motives simply over the Internet.
Price: 4 Euro per CD.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records with new module
Martin ' DaFreak ' Rebentisch writes:
Our musician Angeldust composed, influenced by the political
argument USA/Iraq, a MP3-Tune in the Schranz style
named "God Bless You". Sounds very interesting, just listen to it.
[LQS Homepage]!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Jabberwocky (Website)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 2. Preview
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch published Preview 2 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.4 for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.
Connections with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ,
MSN and Yahoo is possible via gateways.
Beta-version-vownload: Jabberwocky030316.lha
Changes:
- Fixed transperancy of icons in roster window (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
- Fixed long standing enforcer hit when removing contacts (also thanks to Jeff
Gilpin as a side effect of the transperancy fix)
- Fixed reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Fixed unicode conversion of reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Some support for displaying errors in the roster (but I haven't actually had
any errors that trigger it, so it either doesn't work, or I haven't
had any errors.
- Fixed enforcer hit on startup when autoconnect is on and there is no account
information (introduced in 1.3)
- Roster icon remains on the event icon until all unread messages have been read
- Fixed handling of messages from contacts that are not in the roster
(introduced in 1.4pre1)
As you can see 1.4pre1 had quite a lot of problems, remember you shouldn't be
using any prerelease unless you want problems.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 16.03.2003
With WHDLoad you install games, which were meant for the floppy discs usage
only, on your hard disk. The following packages were added and/or updated since our last message:
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 3 - The Curse of Mordread (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 2 - Time Warp (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 15.03.03 new: Dragon Lord (Alfaforce) done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 new: 3001 O'Conners Fight 2 () done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 improved: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) supports another version
- 15.03.03 improved: Drivin' Force (Digital Magic Software) supports another version
- 13.03.03 new: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Mar.2003
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Seven new demos online
A.D.A., the 'Amiga Demo Archive' has undergone an extensive update and offers
the following new demos:
- Dream or Reality/Faculty and Nah Kolor. Famous slideshow from Faculty
and Nah Kolor, featuring pictures by Unreal. Mostly fantasy inspired
(dragons), this slideshow features some nice pictures.
- Noname/Polka Brothers. Released at the South Sealand party in 1994
(ranking unknown). This is pure Polka Brothers style, meaning fast effects
and lots of energy. Some nice fullscreen pictures and a stunning tune by
Slide (as usual). A bit too short. Recommended!
- Nonstop/DCS. "Dcs brings you the first 40kb sing-along karaoke intro
ever featuring le ball du metaux, head objects, possibility to sing along,
effects, secret breakdance mode, oldschool atmosphere and no greetings part".
Need i say more? Released at The Party 1999 (1st place).
- Sketch/Venture. Technically not really impressive, this demo features
some amazing design, making it a very stylish little production. Released
in August 1998 at Intel Outside 5 (3rd place).
- Sumolysbryter/Ephidrena. Yes, the famous crew from Norway is back with a
new demo! Featuring Loaderror, Cheetah and Zixaq, this demo was released at
Kindergarden 2003 where it achieved first place. Very stylish design backed
up by a nice elektro tune. High quality, as can be expected from the masters
of design. More please!
- Alien 2/Scoopex. Released at The Party 1998 where it ranked 1st at the
demo competition. A 3D story demo with 2D effects in between. Cool music from
Muffler and Virgill. Recommended if you are interested in 3D story demos.
- Brain Overdrive/Software Failure. It's always easy to search for
credits from Software Failure intros: Code: Ham, Gfx: Ham, Music: Ham, 3D:
Ham (talk about multitalented). Originally released at Euskal 10 in July
2002, Ham released the final version some weeks ago. And a very fine intro
it is!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
ANN
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TV-card driver: SuperTV beta version 0.8 for Mediator
Today Peter Gordon has released the beta version 0.8 of SuperTV (an alternative
to the Mediator TV software by Elbox).
This version fixes some bugs and offers new features.
Download: stv_beta_0-8.lha
Changes since the last version:
- "Hide pointer" now has 3 modes: Never, Fullscreen only, and Always. F2 now cycles between never and always.
- Added option to cycle through channels (ie hitting + at the last channel will cycle to channel 1).
- Two new arexx commands: TV_INCCHANNEL, TV_DECCHANNEL. These increment and decrement the channel, taking into account the cycle channels settings
- Added possibility to put in custom source number. This allows colour SVHS on some cards.
- I think i've zapped the enforcer hits now.
- You can now toggle fullscreen with F3
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Sebastian Brylka / Fun Time World (ANF)
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CeBIT 2003 - Photos and short report from Fun Time World
Sebastian Brylka of Fun Time World
set out and looked for innovations on the CeBIT 2003. Among others he also
visited the Plexuscom/Pegasos booth. The resulting photos and a short report can
be found under the title link. Interested people are welcome to stop by and have
a look. Maybe interesting for some: Amiga computers were also to be seen at the
CeBIT 2003!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 05 for Descent: Freespace released
Today the MultiPlayer Pack 05 with 5 multi player missions for the game
Descent: Freespace has been released.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Schlafi (ANF)
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Documentary 'Life after Microsoft' at 21.15 on 3Sat
Documentary about six programmers who once put their nose to the grindstone for
Bill Gates. Among others also with Walt Moore, who co-developed the operationg
system "Windows 1" for Microsoft until he wasn't fast enough anymore and was
sacked. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: March/April 2003 Vote
It's time to vote at the Hit Parade - March/April 2003.
We need the vote of your current prefered games. Send us
your classifying (20 games max) at our adress:
daff1@club-internet.fr
or vote at our website.
Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, freeware, old, new,...).
If your list has not changed since last time, simply reply this mail with
the subject "no change for me".
Final classifying will be published in early April.
(ps)
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16.Mar.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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New Soms3D shots, English translation and requests
A new update has been released on the 'Anime Development for Amiga' page. Two
new screen shots of Soms3D have been added, furthermore an English translation
is now available.
This translation is "beta", thus the ADA team is looking for someone to go and
correct all the errors.
Furthermore the ADA team is looking for people who know Milkshape3D or a
mesh animator which supports the MD2 format (used e.g. Quake2). Also
raytracers are still most welcome in the ranks of the ADA team.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo scene: Home page for current Amiga demos & ASCIIs
Completely undetected, Dutch demo scener Jpv of the group Rave Network Overscan
has been offering all demos and ASCII collections released since August 2001
for download on his homepage.
Former visitors of boards (mailboxes) which ran on Amiexpress or Fame will feel
immediately at home there. The home page gets updated immediately after the
release of new demos, intros, disk mags, slide shows, packs or ASCII
collections. Thus, e.g. all publications of the recently held Kindergarten
Party are available.
All in all a good source for providing yourselves with material from the demo
scence.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel (ANF)
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Programmer wanted for project 'Fli4l on Amiga'
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel writes:
Maybe some of you know the software router package fli4l (see title link). With
this software and a 486 it is possible, to create a fairly comfortable Linux
based hardware router.
The whole thing works quite good, and also the collaboration with the Amiga
works out excellently. The only downer so far: In order to create the required
boot diskette, up to now a Windows/Linux PC is still needed.
Now I have looked a bit closer into the DOS batch file and realised that only
two little programs are needed which as yet haven't been available on the Amiga.
One is mkfli4l, a progam which checks the config files of fli4l and generates
the file structure for the required Tar file, and Syslinux, a boot loader, which
can also be used from DOS and writes a boot block onto a diskette.
The program mkfli4l wasn't overly complicated, in any case I have succeeded in
porting the program after some time of trial and error (actually it was a simple
recompile with gcc). I have also adapted the script so it is in theory able to
create a boot diskette. In practice, however, the program Syslinux is missing!
Thus now my question: Is it at all possible to use this program on the Amiga (of
course one still would have to install an MS-DOS compatible file system on the
Amiga) and if so, is there somebody out there who would port it?
The whole thing doesn't seem to be especially extensive, only somebody would
have to do it ;-) Btw, Syslinux can be found here:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/.
If this whetted somebody's appetite, please contact me via
e-Mail.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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15.Mar.2003
Superplongeur (email)
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News of AMIGAzette 83
AMIGAzette 83, a French Amiga organization, has given its web presence a strong revision during the last weeks.
AMIGAzette 83 is since 1994 distributor of the fanzine AMIGAZETTE. The issue #52 was released as part of the fanzine BOING ATTACK by Triple Association A, the coming issue #53 will be available with the release of #22 of BOING ATTACK. The current AMIGAzette CD is the issue #6 and contains a demo special. Though they mainly support the Classic Amiga right now they'll dedicate a part to the Pegasos.
Further information is gathered on the website of AMIGAzette 83 under the title link. Questions may also be sent in French or English to superplongeur@aol.com or grigri83@aol.com.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Video: English Version of 'Live: ARC 2002' from VD available
The English version of the report about the Amiga + Retro-Computing 2002
in Aachen from Virtual Dimension's "Live"-series is finally finished.
All moderations and comments have been translated and the interview
with Jeri Ellsworth, the developer of the CommodoreOne, isn't dubbed
with a German voice-over anymore. Reporting about the newest Amiga- and
C64-stuff, this video is more than 20 minutes long. There are versions
with different file-sizes for your convenience.
(ps)
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15.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview data base online
Since 2000 is the Amiga Arena regularly holding interviews
with developers of the freeware and shareware Amiga basis.
With this data base it is now for the first time possible to reread all interviews. You need the freeware data base XBaze by Rafal Kaczmarczk.
Features:
- You can start via the openurl.library browser and mail program directly fromout the data base.
- 99 interviews in German and English.
- The interviews can be read directly from the data base.
- With a clear list all held interviews of all developers can be directly compared this way with each other.
The archive is available for download in the rubric "Interviews".
Special thanks go to:
- Rafal Kaczmarczk for creating the data base.
- Christian Busse for the translations of the interviews.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
IG Metall (website)
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IG Metall: Do you earn what you deserve?
»Many people who hold their salary cheques in their hands ask this question themselves. In spring 2000 has the IG Metall (a German union) for the first time publicly presented a survey over the salaries in the IT industry and updated it on a yearly basis. This payment analysis has proven to be a big hit. Now there's a new - of course updated -
survey.« (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 1
As announced by the English Internet magazine AmigaWorld, the magazine will ask Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc., ten questions per week (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) Rebel: "Why SO silent? AInc has been quiet for months at a time, giving the naysayers, and rumour mongers a chance to do more damage, and divide the community even more.".
Fleecy: As my mother used to, and still does say to me 'Don't say anything unless you have something to say.' Keith Blakemore Noble pointed out on ANN that this is what we said we would do when we bought the company in 2000 and then we went back on this pledge. The problem we have, although it is a good problem is that the Amiga has a community and the community wants to know what is going on, more so given the nightmare of the last eight years.
Our initial policy was thus to say nothing until we had news to share. With all the requests we then got for news, it became very difficult for us to keep to our policy. We thus resurrected the Executive Updates but in these we made the mistake of sharing status and progress information and as anyone in business knows, business is a distillation process - 100 leads may lead to 20 contacts which lead to 5 contracts which may, if you are lucky lead to 1 deal.
Even more unfortunate, the deals we were able to announce, the Sharp Zaurus, the Nokia MediaTerminal, the Sendo Z100 were pulled out from under us - the Zaurus for Sharp internal reasons, the MediaTerminal because of the collapse of ITV digital and another Germany company and the Sendo situation is well understood (although there is still hope there of a new deal based upon the unique advantages of the AmigaDE).
So, in terms of news items we haven't done too well.
To add to this (and many will shout and scream about this but it is true), Amiga Inc has been under attack from several groups who have other axes to grind, whether they want an x86 solution, AmigaOS open sourced, protection code and licencing removed from AmigaOS4.0 or want to encourage people to move to another platform whilst claiming it is an Amiga. Of course in a community there is disagreement but in a community that disagreement is either tolerated or the community splits apart. Everything we were saying in public was being taken apart and turned to support whatever was the position of the poster.
In the end, we decided to revert back to our original policy since it became apparent that all anyone really cared about was the release of AmigaOS4.0. This then brought us full circle to the original situation, that when saying nothing, noisemakers will rush to fill the silence. If you don't counteract the rumours then its because they are true and if you do pop up to counteract them then that must be because they are true. The only way to win is to get AmigaOS4.0 out the door and so that is what we are concentrating on at the moment.
Part of the reason for this Q&A service is to rubbish the claim that we won't talk to the community. We just won't say anything if it isn't 110% guaranteed anymore and that is the way people seem to want it.
2) SlimJim: "It is well known that this first release of AOS4 is mainly aimed for the existing user-base and eventual old Amigans. What is Amiga Inc's (overall) marketing strategy with respect to AmigaOS4 + Aone (once they become available)?".
Fleecy:
1. Move the community to new hardware and operating system.
2. Develop audio and 2d/3d productivity architectures with Amiga and non Amiga developers
3. Create applications to take advantage of these architectures to carve out solution markets
4. Support development of applications that round the appeal of the platform - browser, email client, word processor
5. Integrate with the AmigaDE to open access to multiple platform markets, both open and solution based
6. As we build the application base to where it can successfully provide for different roles, we will then push it out into those markets.
In short, there is no point in pushing the Amiga into a market where it is not yet ready to provide an adequate solution or it will die before it takes its first step. To do that we need the hardware, the operating system, the application base and the support services in place.
3) Herewegoagain: "Will they [Amiga Inc.] be negotiating with Microsoft to bring Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Media Player to OS4?".
Fleecy: It is something we have considered but again, as with all the other application developers out there on other platforms, until we can plonk a machine and operating system in front of them, there is little point. The perennial problem, of course is that these companies are busy with their main activities and seeing their product ported to another platform, particularly one as small as the Amiga is not something that they wish to consider. In the end, they will only 'get out of bed' if there is a large market or we provide them with financial incentive.
4) alx: "Assuming everything goes to plan, at what point in the future will Amiga start to advertise the A1/OS (not just to Amigans)?".
Fleecy: I refer you back to question 2 - we will market and advertise when the full solution is ready for those markets. This doesn't mean that there won't be penetration. We have many journalists ready to review and write about the machines. Amiga is a big story to them because the Amiga was such a large part of people's lives in the past. We will have services in place to take advantage of and capture that interest, to make use of it when the conditions are right.
5) reflect: "Maybe I've missed this when I read the featurelist, but I couldn't see ARexx there. Will ARexx still be included, and if so, will it have gotten an overhaul internally or will it 'just' be ported or will it be emulated?"
Fleecy: The ownership issues surround the original ARexx implementation are well known and we have been unable to gain access to the source. The existing 68k ARexx binary will thus be emulated. We are reviewing the entire scripting and application control for both AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 as mentioned later on.
6) unclecurio: "What are AInc doing to attract past developers to produce updated versions of their software? For example, Photogenics has ceased development for AmigaOS but would be a great product to bring back in an updated version.".
Fleecy: We are working in the background but I don't want to go into too much detail as it has become apparent that competitors are approaching the same people and trying to tie them into exclusive deals that would keep their products from AmigaOS4.0. Providing them with a list of who we are approaching, both within the Amiga community and on other platforms would really be doing their work for them. Suffice it to say that we are being as open as we can with all the developers that we have been able to locate still developing for the AmigaOS and with one or two exceptions, they are very receptive to what we have been able to tell them.
7) Eric_Z: "Is A.inc. currently involved in porting over office apps to AACE or OS4?".
Fleecy: For Amiga Anywhere, we are encouraging development of the applications that our customers are telling us they want, and this is almost always games. However, we do have customers who have requested education and productivity software and we have one of the best calculators ever created on a software platform and a digital picture application that is impressing lots of people. In the end, we encourage and work on whatever is being asked for.
8) mood: "Will there be any Amiga-Anywhere/AmigaDE-player for AmigaOS 4.x?".
Fleecy: We have already stated that we are targeting an AACE player for AmigaOS4.2
9) DaveW: "Is SHEEP the scripting language that looked rather cool available or going to be available this year for Amiga based programmers to get their hands on?".
Fleecy: We are currently reviewing SHEEP in the context of the AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 and looking at how it can be used to bring the two together as both are moved forwards and towards each other.
10) Pig: "Where do you see the company in 5 years, and where do you see AmigaOS at that time?".
Fleecy: I hope that we are on many different types of device and providing a seamless digital enviroment for users irrespective of their hardware. We have a marketing slogan we use, the new WWW, which means Whatever, Wherever, Whenever.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=1
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
Steffen Schiller (ANF)
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Download Fahrschule_99 full version now
Fahrschule_99 reworked version 2003
With the update of the Internet site of the Amiga-Treffpunkt-Oberlausitz
has the full version of the program Fahrschule_99 been added.
Almost 400 questions with appr. 70 images test the beginner as well as the knowledge of the experienced driver.
The program runs on an Amiga 500 and needs a PAL screen. You can find Fahrschule_99 in the download area where you can also find two pictures showing how to implement Birdie to give the Workbench's windows the real look.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (email)
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CeBIT 2003: promised screenshots arrived
As Martin Heine promised in his last report
he has now real screenshots of Ambient, the settings (Prefs), Win95 and Word made available. You can find these screenshots following the title link.
Martin Heine, right now at the Genesi booth at the CeBIT 2003:
"Besides, I measured the time Win95 and Word needed here on our G3/600. I have to note that I don't know whether this setup here of the CeBIT computers can be optimized any further or not as I myself don't have any experiences with Bochs yet. Nevertheless I stopped the following times:
Initialisation until the first text output (what's displayed after switching on a PC: BIOS, units, "Windows is being loaded"): 45 seconds.
Launching Windows until it is loaded: 1 minute 20.
Launching Word until it is ready to use: 20 seconds."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 315
Guido Mersmann has yesterday released the beta version 315 of the TV-card driver software AmithlonTV with several smaller updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Changes in this version:
- BUGFIX: Fixed TVCardSetup and TVCard.library code part that
may have caused the random freezing on MorphOS.
- CHANGED: Many small optimisations.
- ADDED: Added two debug options. If AmithlonTV is still freezing, try
"SETENV TVCard_NoInterrupt 1". If this isn't helping try
"SETENV TVCard_NoDMA 1". Delete the variable to regain normal
operation. Please report any result. MorphOS support depends on it.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Mar.2003
Christian Krenner (ANF)
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Update: Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page
The English "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page" has got an extensive update last week.
All sections are now complete and many additional pictures document the Amiga 600 upgrade
project. Benchmark modules and other things for download complete the site.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Mar.2003
Ingo Schmitz (ANF)
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Mail programm: YAM developer version 2.4beta 060
Under the title link there is a 060-version of the YAM beta version 2.4 of 9.3.03.
This version is a pure developer version which possibly still contains bugs and the developer
team will not take any guarantee and support for this version. Each requests will be also
not answered. You will use it for your own risk!
You can read the changes which have been made in this list.
For any further information please have a look at the Yamos SourceForge-Seite.
Download: yam2.4dev060_20030310.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Mar.2003
Georgios (ANF)
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CeBIT 1993 - a milestone, legend 'Amiga'
Under the title link you can find a interesting article of N-TV on CeBIT 1993 which
also contains information about the Amiga (in German).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Mar.2003
BBRV (E-Mail)
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CeBIT 2003: Report and photos from Ron van Herk
A short summary of some of the things happening here at CeBIT from Ron van Herk
1. We have nearly finalized our agreement with our new Russian Distributor.
MorphOS will have a Russian localisation and will become successful in
Russia. Genesi's André Siegel will work as an 'interface' between the new
distributor and the developers that need to get this done. Russian
programmers interested in assisting this process can receive a fully
configured Pegasos in exchange for their work. In the bigger picture, once
the Russian localisation is done we will have a model to do the same in
other languages and localisations.
2. 3Sat visited Genesi today and shot footage of the Pegasos, the Psylent,
MorphOS, etc. We showed MorphOS working with several apps, games and the
Internet which they all filmed. The editor, Ralph Benz is a long-time Amiga
user and is very enthusiastic! We gave him a bunch of T-Shirts to give to
viewers (or to keep for themselves). Not a bad deal for free TV coverage I'd
say ;-)
Enclosed are two pics, 1 high-res foto of the desktop case and one of me and
Robert Han of Plexuscom with the Psylent.
That's all for now.
Sincerely,
Ron
(ps)
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14.Mar.2003
Zeoneo Limited (ANF)
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Zeoneo acquires Candy Factory
Zeoneo Limited is moving into the AmigaOS-market with the acquisition of the exclusive rights to the noted and highly respected graphics application Candy Factory. Zeoneo Ltd. is well-known to the Amiga-community since the release of its killer game "Planet Zed" for AmigaAnywhere (AmigaDE). (nba)
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