08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Internet browser: Mozilla for AmigaOS?
In a thread on Amiga.org
explains Dave "DaveP" Pitcher that he had already run a Mozilla port under AmigaOS 3.9 - more than one year ago.
Dave had looked for people who were willing to take over the following work. As nobody registered he had ceased the work. The state of the port is described by Dave like this: "It is slow, contains errors (it's based on an early Mozilla code base) and it needs a lot of finetuning before it will be something I could be proud of".
Dave says that he'll restart the work on the port as soon as his other projects (his part of work on OS4 and his website amigabooks.org) leave him enough time and if he gets enough feedback).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Sayonara Software page online again
Games like Hollywood Manager, Flamingo Tours and
the Samba Partie series may be taken as the most successful titles by "Sayonara Software".
Jo Seitz, the founder and developer of "Sayonara Software",
gave the Amiga Arena last year the permission to offer his games there for free downloading. These games are after the redesign now online again!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Alfonso Ranieri (ANF)
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FreeDB 7.3 and CManager 21.8 released
FreeDB 7.3
and CManager 21.8 are available for download. (ps)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New community portal: Amigaworld.net
Though the community portal Amigaworld.net already exits for several months it became a talking-point in the last days as an alternative to Amiga.org.
In contrary to Amiga.org MorphOS and Pegasos aren't accepted as topic on Amigaworld.net, the providers want to concentrate on topics all about AmigaOS and Amiga Inc. In conjunction with very strict moderating they want to avoid the typical warfares also Amiga.org had to suffer from.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga: We were just sleeping
The March issue of the Australian computer magazine "Australian Personal Computer" reports under the title "Amiga: We were just sleeping" about the upcoming launch of the "AmigaOne".
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Further AmigaOne/Pegasos benchmarks
On Pekka Nissinen's benchmark site are further benchmarks available: new added are the results of a Pegasos/G3 with 100 MHz FSB as well as of an AmigaOne-SE with 100 MHz FSB.
All benchmarks had been done with the same binary.
To people who speak English and are interested in the topic may be the according thread on ANN recommended. The issue is discussed there on a mainly objective basis. Right now there's the question why the Pegasos does much worse in two tests (assignment and LU decomposition) than the AmigaOne, maybe the L2-cache isn't activated on the Pegasos. (nba)
Update:
Update for Pegasos/AmigaOne benchmarks - In the meanwhile has the site been brought up-to-date. On the Pegasos was indeed the L2-cache deactivated, this error has been fixed and the benchmark results have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Mar.2003
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Speed tests with Monzoom
The raytracing program Monzoom tested:
Amiga version 4.3.78 -Pro
PC version 4.5.55 -Pro
Scene: Caribbic (coming with Monzoom Pro)
800x 600; Ray 4; Antial. 4; shadow -An
A1200 __040/25MHz ___________computing time __59 min 11 sec __(3551 sec)
A4000 __060/50MHz ___________computing time __20 min 01 sec __(1201 sec)
A1200 __PPC603e/150Mhz ______computing time __10 min 39 sec __( 639 sec)
A4000 --PPC604e/200MHz ______computing time __02 min 30 sec __( 150 sec)
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WinUAE AMD/2000+ ____________computing time __01 min 48 sec __( 108 sec)
Amithlon AMD/2000+ (1.6GHz) _computing time __01 min 09 sec __( 69 sec)
Athlon 1700+ ________________computing time __00 min 09 sec --( 09 sec)
Athlon 2000+ ________________computing time __00 min 08 sec __( 08 sec)
Tried updating with Pegasos values but (mk) hadn't got my mail (he posted) and he doesn't have time next week and I don't want to stress him. But to show speed facts this is enough to be posted now.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Mar.2003
Thorty! (ANF)
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Thorty-Online.de: New AMIGA sections opened
On Thorty-online.de two new Amiga sections has been opened.
- Amiga Workshops
- Handy Logos
Amiga Workshops:
You can find here some workshops about the use of WinUAE on the x86 platform. Other ones
will follow.
Handy Logos:
This fresh section will be extended in irregular distances. MorphOS fans may be delighted
because they can download a suitable logo and/or picture message for a handy of Nokia and
Siemens.
The tutorial explains you how you will get the logo and/or the picture message to your
handy.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Total Amiga Magazine 14 with Quake-2-lottery
Total Amiga Magazine Issue 14 will be available from March 15. But that's not the end of the story, how does the chance of winning a copy of either Amiga QuakeII or Descent: Freespace sound?
To coincide with our comprehensive Amiga Quake II review and thanks to Hyperion-Entertainment, we have a copy of Amiga Quake II/Descent: Freespace* to give away to one lucky winner. To enter, subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine by 17/3/2003 (24:00hrs GMT) and your name will automatically be entered into the prize draw.
Plus! Alan Redhouse, The man who lays it straight, writes exclusively every month for Total Amiga Magazine. In this month Alan's updates include news on the AmigaOne XE and news on a new A1 SE lite...
Plus! We are pleased to announce that Issue 14 sees an increase in content, up from 48 pages to 52. Now there is even more to read and enjoy.
Plus! Fleecy Moss, Buzz Word, Hollywood review, Webdesign on an Amiga, Software Tycoon, Top Tips, Tutorials and more.
To subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine, please visit http://www.totalamiga.org/subscribe.html for more details.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Martin K. (ANF)
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GRex-homepage updated
After a short break the inofficial GRex homepage has been updated on 2nd March 2003.
Information concerning OpenPCI have been integrated as well as a little fan shop was opened.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Source code contractually protect
On the current issue 4/2003 iX advices its readers
to think about taking appropriate measures in case of insolvencies of software and other
IT offerers. It may be especially important to protect the source code contractually.
Have a look at the title link for the full article (in German).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Further details on STB-strategy
In two comments of Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (Genesi)
on Amiga.org
you can find further details on their Set-Top-Box-Strategy. It follows an extract from these comments:
[After reflecting about the success of BSkyB in Great Britain:] "Now, do something
inexpensive with a 403 PPC and a DTV tuner with MorphOS (in this case)
and you could have something quite special that can handle anything as
well as everything retailing for 400-500 Euros at less that 25% of the cost.
Sounds like something another BSkyB-like company might take a risk with?
Yes, you bet!"
"Everything we learned before collectively (VisCorp, PhaseV, bplan, Thendic,
etc.) is coming to play today in Genesi for a very large company that wants
to do *exactly* that."
"Speaking of which there is a good article about Murdoch
here.
[...] BTW, This article should also be read by others who may be
underestimating this DTV STB market at the price point we are delivering
hardware to it (contrast that for example with the super STB from Pace at
350 £!)."
"Our customer [...] has a pricing strategy that tells us they understand
the market and their customers."
"As far as we can tell, the BSkyB boxes in the UK are completely non-standard.
They use WAP which may sound off the wall given it's designed for mobile phones
but being designed for low end systems with low bandwidth makes it perfect
for STBs. There's a lot of technology available now that supports WAP
development. We actually will have a WAP stack/Browser ready."
"Remember, we will not integrate the uplink initially to reduce cost (we
will have a WAP portal for people to use mobile phones as an unlink though
and a handy little connector to support that process). We have a phased modular
strategy that adds functionality akin to the base station of a radio/remote
phone designed normally for home use. The receiver chip for the radio signal
will have been already introduced in the STB (as is found in the home handset
associated with the base station that anchors the system in the home with
power and telephone line connection -- incidentally overcoming the no
telephone connection near the TV problem)."
"On the smart card side, we will use them to unscramble parts of the signal
already there. This can be done on a subscriber or pre-paid basis (for
anonymity or one game at a time). The signal itself can *also* be data
driven to individually addressable STBs. Here smart cards can be further
used as recording devices. In our case viewing data can be exchanged for
movie credits... Of course, this flexibility can be promotion/advertising
oriented too..." (ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Amiga Absence at CeBIT 2003 in Hannover
Amiga Absence at CeBIT
Mar 6, 2003 - Late last year, Amiga announced its intention to launch
AmigaOS4.0 at the CeBIT show
in Germany. Since then, the project has
advanced into its final stages but unfortunately not to the point where
we are ready to ship. We have thus decided not to attend the Cebit
Germany show. Instead we are looking at other shows and opportunities
in the near future to provide a suitable platform for the launch of
the new Amiga.
We apologize to the commmunity for waiting until the last possible
moment to make this announcement but despite heroic efforts by all
concerned, even up to the last minute, circumstances have conspired
to push completion beyond the deadline. We have regretfully decided
that making CeBIT Germany the AmigaOS 4 launch platform is not a
realistic option at present.
AmigaOS4.0 is coming. Beta-testing has been going on since last
September, the Club Amiga Magazine is previewing many of the new
features and AmigaOne integration is proceeding well. Amiga,
Hyperion
and Eyetech
are 100% committed to getting the new platform out into
the world and reintroducing the world to the pleasures of home
computing.
-- The Amiga Team
(ps)
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06.Mar.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Mailbox: jamiga-BBS offline
The Kiel-based Amiga-Mailbox "jamiga" is closed since today. Because this is a short term issue that occured without warning, we are making this announcement in hopes of reaching the remaining users and "connected" mailboxes this way.
On account of a few queries and current personal incidents we hesitatingly decided on this step. We hereby thank all (former) users and the mailboxes supporting us for the partially year long "faith!"
Sven Scheele and Marcel Wintrich (ps)
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06.Mar.2003
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Test of 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'
Under the title link you'll find a test of 'Indiana Jones and the FATE
OF ATLANTIS', by Stefan Juhas. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: German Language Web Presence of Mozilla Variant Phoenix
For the slender alternative browser Phoenix
the German language web presence of http://www.phoenix-browser.de has been opened. [I have used Phoenix, and find it to be slimmed down and modern. Netscape 4.8 is still a bit more responsive -DM]
Read the complete heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
Samba Website
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Networking: Samba Version 3.0alpha22
The Samba team released version 3.0alpha22 on the 5th of March, 2003. To see what exactly has been changed, have a look
here.
Samba is software that, for example, allows networking between a PC and an Amiga. Information about Samba for Amiga may be found at
amigasamba.org.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV Website
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TV Card Driver: AmithlonTV Beta 304
Guido Mersmann has released beta version 304 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV, with several little updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
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Warning: Nethands.de Warned About Missing Banner
As already
reported many times,
many homepage makers (it doesn't matter if they are private or commercial) are not aware that the new telecommunications service law (TDG) and/or the intermediate services state regulations (MDStV) include a provision requiring a banner. There are constantly resourceful (or better put, flighty) lawyers who want to earn their bread with warnings.
Flighty therefore, because it could be possible throughout to draw attention to a possible violation through email, and to offer to help out. If this remains unsuccessful first of all, our opinion about a warning is justified. The law is conclusively implemented to protect the surfer, and not to to enrich lawyers through warnings as well.
Read under the title link about how Nethands.de handles the warning, and help them if you have the opportunity. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Microsoft Has Abandoned the OpenGL Consortium
On account of the apparently insufficiently future-oriented development of the 3D interface, Microsoft has abandoned the OpenGL Consortium, and wants concentrate exclusively on their house Direct3D standard.
You'll find the heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Mar.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: New plugin for Hollywood
Malibu is a plugin for Hollywood which contains an import filter
for Scala presentations. As soon as Malibu is installed, Hollywood
will suddenly be able to show Scala presentations or compile them.
Many screenshots are now available from the Airsoft Softwair
homepage. The Malibu plugin will of course also be released for
MorphOS and - as soon as available - AmigaOS4.
With Malibu it is now possible for the first time to display Scala presentations on Workbench screen or on your own public screen. Because the whole emulation runs on top of Hollywood's multimedia application layer everything will be first converted to 24-bit and then displayed. In many cases the quality of the pictures that Malibu displays is much better than the original Scala quality because Scala often had to remap many pictures with very different colors to a 8-bit display which resulted in a massive loss of color information.
Malibu emulates nearly the whole Scala command set and supports all Scala versions up to Scala InfoChannel 500 which was the last Amiga version of Scala. Emulation is done by the elCapitan microkernel which tries to achieve the best performance possible on the used system. For example, the next page is already calculated while the current page is on the display. Complex transition effects can also be pre-calculated and then displayed smoothly.
Scala is a program which helped the Amiga to become a real Multimedia wonder. There were no products for a long long time that could beat an Amiga with Scala. Therefore Scala was widely used in all different production fields, from movies and television to big shows. Everyone who has worked with Scala knows what power it has. But this power is only possible because Scala is very hard coded to the Amiga's custom chips which leads to the problem that it does not run on graphics boards and also has some other major problems with today's Amiga systems. For many years all sorts of users complained that there is no Scala that runs RTG compatible. This time is over now. Scala revives with the Malibu plugin: On the Workbench? Of course. In 24-bit? You can bet your life on that. Always RTG conform? Absolutely.
Don't miss Malibu out! Watching Scala presentations on Workbench is a complete new feeling which every Amiga user should experience.
Order Hollywood now to make your system ready for Scala!
Features:
Graphics:
- Impressive Scala transitions (e.g. Superimpose, Roll on, Flow, Push, Diagonal)
- Support for Scala text styles outline, shadow & 3D
- Scala forms: Ellipses, rectangles, lines & polygons
- Emulation of backgrounds with raster type
- Complete brush support (incl. crop & resize)
- Animations are supported
- Transition effects for all Scala objects
- Support for styles like bevel & background
- Runs completely in 24-bit mode
- Color fonts are supported
- Smooth scrolling for Scala fly-ons
- Emulation of all graphics attributes
- Brush transparency is fully supported
- Objects can be removed from screen with transition effects
- All palette settings are respected and correctly converted
Sound:
- Support for sound modules and samples
- Audio output through AHI incl. full mixing
- Sound fades are supported
- Sound implementation is retargetable for use on Pegasos, Amithlon...
Environment:
- All Scala versions up to InfoChannel 500 are supported
- Margin settings and tabulators are respected
- Scala variables can be used
- Buttons and events are emulated
- Almost complete emulation of Scala command set
- Scala presentations can be compiled
- Emulation can be configured in detail
- Complete independent from environment; does not matter if Cgfx, P96, AGA, ECS or OCS is active
- Absolutely system friendly
Requirements:
- Kickstart 3.0 or better
- 68020 processor
- Graphics board recommended
- 16 megabyte memory recommended
(ps)
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05.Mar.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Update: Digital voltmeter for Amiga
Carsten Siegner currently developes a new voltmeter hardware for
the parallel port, which went through several improvements:
To the voltmeter hardware a 100 times highspeed amplifier has been added. Thus it is possible to measure voltages down to field of micro voltages. The amplifier is to chose by a toggle switch (normal resolution / high resolution area). The
voltmeter circuit includes an own power supply controller now to be not influenced by noise signals from the powernet which might distort the measurement.
Thus it becomes posile to use nearly every power supply (not stabilized ones also) which offers 6 to 12 Volt and a maximum of 1 Ampere.
There are several ARexx scripts available to control the voltmeter.
Further more Siegner works on a more complete version with a GUI currently. This will include the following features:
Single measurement (save function included), high speed measurement with an adjustable number of samples (save function included),
view as list for all measurements (high speed measurement), view as diagram (high speed measurement); therefore some similiarities with an oscilloscope.
Additional to the voltmeter program there will be, once it will be finished, the wiring diagram available to built the voltmeter yourself. To do so you should be some kind of an advanced electrician because e.g. the measurement chip is highly delicate regarding electro static charge. All parts might be purchased at Conrad Electronic.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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05.Mar.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scene: Issue #14 of D.I.S.C released
One more scene dinosaur has left our planet! Frode Zerox
Hansen has released some days ago at the Kindergarten Party the last issue of his diskmag D.I.S.C. This issue is a good advice for beginners because it features very intensively the currently active groups and their best demos.
The chances for a continueation of this diskmag seem unfortunately to be very bad. But he will not be lost for the community and continues his work at the
AMIGAplus magazine.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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05.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Announcement concerning the Genesi/Phoenix collaboration
In a joint statement, Raquel Velasco, Bill Buck, and David Greene (GreenBoy)
clarify some outstanding issues about the future of Genesi, the role of Phoenix,
and the DTV set-top-box.
- One to support the task oriented objectives focused on the delivery of the
DTV STB by the end of 2003.
During the month of March Genesi will transition existing consulting/ employment
agreements to the new structure. A list of well known developers in the
"Community" will be joining Genesi. These individuals will be almost exclusively
focused on the DTV STB project.
- The future of the Pegasos and MorphOS, including the release of the Pegasos
II using the Marvell northbridge.
The difficulties with the Articia have delayed the Pegasos long enough. The
Pegasos II development has begun and WILL be completed sooner than expected.
Genesi will operate from offices in
Luxembourg, France, and Germany with a branch office in Switzerland. "Virtual"
offices will also operate in the USA and the UK. An extensive Internet sales and
support infrastructure is being implemented.
Genesi and Phoenix are seeking collaborators in nearly every area. Here is a
full list of Phoenix mailing lists that are now devoted to Genesi development:
These are moderated by greenboy and open to all interested parties who meet Phoenix's expanded
definition of DEVELOPER: coders, web designers and publishers, financiers, beta testers,
translators, arts and media specialists, etc.
Then:
Lists we are considering:
- PhGames@phinixi.com - games for Pegasos on the desktop
- PhREBOL@phinixi.com - should Rebol be part of the platform?
- PhDigAudio@phinixi.com - to ramp up what Nicholas Blachford's MORloud started. Note: Genesi has licensed ProStation Audio for MorphOS from Maurizio Ciccione of AudioLabs. ProStation Audio will be bundled with the OS.
- PhVideo@phinixi.com - from here the videomicrowave will take off. It begins with MediaPoint, and scales into a special IOSPIRIT offering - along with many other goodies being planned and soon to come.
All requests to join Phoenix/Genesi mailing lists are welcome! - just send email with a brief bio/CV to
greenboy@phinixi.com.
(nba)
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05.Mar.2003
GMB (ANF)
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Hardware tuning: Modification of phase5 turboboards
By the title link the reader might get a brief manual to modify the phase5 turboboards
Blizzard 2040 to 2060 and Cyberstorm MK2 68040 to
68060 like the author of that website did it today.
The editors of amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus emphasize that they are not responsible in any kind for external links and damage caused by modifications explained in that manual, there is absolutely no warranty and all modifications are done on your own risk. The explained modification is a strong treatment to the hardware and has not been proved by us.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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05.Mar.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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ADA: Teampage update and new Soms3D screen shots
At the "Anime Development for Amiga Teampage" is a new update available.
There were anti PC pictures and Manga wallpapers added. Furthermore
two new screenshots of Soms3D (Secret of my soul) were put online.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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04.Mar.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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New Audio-Track from Bjorn Lynne
Bjorn Lynne has released his Audio-Track "Back in the Big Time" on mp3.com as free
MP3.
Lynne wrote:
I hope you'll like the track. I did everything myself on it, including the sexy "uh..."
voice :-), the "bap-bap-bap-baaah" singing, the funky wah-wah guitar, etc.
The keyboard solos were deliberately included exactly as they were played on the
first take, without any corrections or re-takes. I wanted to capture them exactly as
they just fell out the first time, with imperfections and everything. :-)
The bass guitar sound is taken from my own instrumental sample-CDROM "Top Production
Samples" ( www.lynnemusic.com/tps1.html ) which contains a lot of instruments and
loops for use in your own music.
I have also entered this track into a contest/review thing at the other
music site, MakeAStar.com. But it hasn't entered the "voting stage" yet. I will write
again if/when this track goes into voting at MakeAStar, and hope for your vote then.
:-)
This is the 6th or 7th track I have created in a kind of "jazzy" mood. I had quite a
good response earlier to the tracks "Lounge Living" and "Understatement". Maybe I'll
make a CD with all my jazzy tracks, just to do something different. :-)
My CD "Wolves of the Gods" is on a 14-days-only special offer during which the CD can be
purchased for $12.99 instead of the normal $18.99, and there is now only 2 days left
of this offer. Furthermore, you can download one track ("Kyrania") from the CD, for
free in full CD quality, also for only 2 more days. So if you want to get in on this
offer, please see http://www.lynnemusic.com/wolves.html today or tomorrow.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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03.Mar.2003
Up Rough (ANF)
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Music: 'Oh No! More Hits For Kids LP' released
Up Rough Soundsystem released a new music disk called: 'Oh No! More Hits
For Kids LP'. It holds 20 THX/AHX tracks from Varthall, Miaom, Slam &
Ini. Get your copy under the title link. (ps)
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03.Mar.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Alternative #Amigafun Webchat and more
Unfortunately some time nothing could happen, due to some hardware
problems. Now it is times again for an update.
Amigafun-Webchat:
Since Webchat for the well-known Amiga Channel in the IRC is currently not available, Amiforce offers now a HTML Chat. This Webchat
should be however only a temporary solution, which can be maintained
if necessary also additionally. The chat was integrated in the
Amiforce forum and is attainable over a button named "#IRC". The chat
is meant exclusively for Amiforce and may not be taken over on
other Web pages. In this way users, which have no IRC client, can now
visit the channel again. Everyone who would like to use the chat, should refer to the individual instructions, since
no graphic elements are used.
Classic-Games Area:
Freeware games will be made available here. They are based on Amos offering high quality and much fun. More games will be added in the future.
Java-Script Games:
A new area will be added with games that can be played directly on our page. A lot of games will be integrated. Since Ibrowse2.3 there are many games that now are realy useable.
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03.Mar.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages to 02.03.2003
WHDLoad lets you install your floppy based games on to your harddisk. The following packages were added since our last announcement:
- 02.03.03 new: Brian Lara's Cricket '96 (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
- 02.03.03 new: Graham Gooch World Class Cricket (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
- 27.02.03 new: Graham Gooch Second Innings (Audiogenic) done by Codetapper
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03.Mar.2003
Total Amiga
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Print magazine: Total Amiga - contents of issue 14
Issue no. 14 of the English print magazine "Total Amiga" will be published on 14th March 2003. A detailed content description can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Amiga Games Hitparade
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Amiga Games Hitparade: Different areas updated
On the English website of Amiga Games Hitparade three areas
were updated. Read in the connection the original message.
General update:
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
AmigaGames.com
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AmigaGames.com: New Website layout
The website of AmigaGames.com was revised completely and presents
themselves since yesterday in a new, clear design.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Amiga.Sourceforge
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Image Editing: ImageMagick Version 5.5.5
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools to read, write, and
manipulate an image in many image
formats
(over 87 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG,
PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images
dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications.
You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special
effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work
in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations
are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++,
Perl, or Java programming interfaces (it needs about 40 MB of free
disk, check the
.readme
file).
Download: ImageMagick-5.5.5.lha
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03.Mar.2003
Samba
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Networking: Samba Version 2.2.8pre2
The Samba Team released version 2.2.8pre2. A detailed changelog can be found here.
Samaba makes a connection between PC and Amiga possible. Detailed information about Samba and Amiga is available at
amigasamba.org.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Peter's Amia Home Page
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Peter Hutchisons Website moves
The website of Peter Hutchison, on wich you can find much information
about Amiga printer drivers as well as about the Amiga itself, moves. The
Website will be available under the URL http://www.pcguru.plus.com. His new e-mail address:
pjhutch@pcguru.plus.com. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Magazine: NoCover 108
Issue 108 of the NoCover is now available and can be read and loaded on
the APC&TCP homepage. This issue will soon be available on Aminet. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Stefan Burstroem (IBrowse) (Update)
Amiga Arena talked with Stefan Burstroem about the past and the future development of IBrowse. The interview is available
here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Mar.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Game: Knights & Merchants Demo for MorphOS available
A 14 MB demo version of RTS Knights & Merchants for MorphOS is now
available from the download area of our homepage. The demo lets you play
around with the in-game tutorial that takes you through the building process
of your town. In addition you can command some troops around the map to see
who is there.
The full version, which comes in 4 different languages (English, German,
French and Spanish) is available now and requires a Pegasos and MorphOS
1.0.
(ps)
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03.Mar.2003
A.D.A.
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Logo gallery in Amiga Demoscene Archive
Do you remember all those lovely
logos that used to be in Amiga productions? A lot of them
were beautiful, showing great skill and talent from pixellers,
pushing so much in so little colors and space. Well, today,
we started something new on A.D.A., a logo gallery of the
best logos ever painted. Just click on "logos" in the menu
and be amazed at the first 18 logos appearing on A.D.A. This
little gallery will be updated a lot in future, together with
a lot of cool demos that we still have to add. If you have any
comments on the new gallery, please mail them or write it in
the guestbook. (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
C64doc (E-Mail)
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Event: Classic-Computing 2003 in September
The Classic-Computing takes place on 6th September in 74219 Möckmühl,
Germany. The opening times are from 8:00 to 18:00. The entrance fee
is 3.00 Euro per person, independently of whether exhibitors or guest.
The show organizers recommend you leave your x86 platforms at home.
Preferably bring something along that's more than ten years old.
Participating organizers have admission starting from 7:30 o'clock,
to make preparations. There are no reservations, thus be punctual.
Also there are limited tables available. To find out more visit the
title link.
(nba) (Translation: ps)
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02.Mar.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Online-Game: New round of Star Empire 2
A new round of the Internet-space-strategy-game "Star Empire 2"
will start on the 3rd of April.
The goal of the game (which is unfortunately German only)
is to become ruler of the universe - but there are up to 32 human
players and computer-controlled pirated to stop you.
Diplomacy, alliances, but also well-armed space-ships will be needed.
"Star Empire 2" is a server-based game, i.e. the game itself
runs on the computers of Virtual Dimension and every player
gets a weekly report about what's going on. Based upon this
information commands are sent back to the server. There's no
need for a client, because standard-html- and ascii-files are used.
The subscription to the new round will be possible until 2003/03/29,
the first reports will be sent out on Thursday, 2003/04/03. On that
day the old round - which had to be suspended due to technical
problems - will continue as well.
As a little goodie it is now possible to download the
"Star Empire 2"-Trailer from Virtual Dimension's anniversary
video seperately (sorry Timothy, it's still German only ;-).
P.S: The server program runs on AmigaOS, of course... :-) (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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DiscreetFX Logo For Dollars Cash Giveaway Challenge
DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and Video Toaster [2] announces a new challenge for Amiga/Video Toaster artists worldwide.
Deep in the labs of DiscreetFX we are looking for a new logo but we can't find one and we are too lazy too design it ourselves. Also, we know there are some damn talented artists in the Amiga & Video Toaster community and wanted to give everyone a stab at doing it for us with cash and product incentives of course.
So here is the deal on our logo challenge. We will allow you the Amiga & Video Toaster community to design our new logo for us. Also we will post all submissions on our website and allow you the community vote on which logo we will use. So fire up those paint packages, animation packages and Flash creation tools fellow artists. We would not dare limit your creativity so we have very few limitations or rules for the challenge. Artwork/animations can be submitted as still images (IFF, JPEG, TIFF etc.), Flash animations, AVI files or whatever you wish. We only ask that whatever you submit is your original work and that it does not suck. What you submit must have the words "DiscreetFX" in some type of fancy pose or flash animation. Be creative and use your mind, we don't care if it is "Psygnosis" style or "New Age" style or "Retro" style. We leave the talent to you, all we offer is an open wallet for the winners. Don't forget that it will be voted on and judged by your peers so do a good job! Create your masterpieces with FlashMX, ImageFX 4.5, Zbrush, Photogenics 5, or even Deluxe Paint version 1 on the Amiga 1000, we don't care as long as the artwork is fantastic.
The Winner takes home a prize of $100 via Paypal and one of the products of his or her choice from our development team http://www.discreetfx.com/Products.html. Or if the Winner is especially greedy they can opt for just $200 via Paypal and skip the free software. There will be prizes for runner up contestants as well. You will have to hurry though because this contest ends on April 3rd, 2003.
Please send your contest entries to amigaart@discreetfx.com. All submitted artwork/animations become the property of DiscreetFX but will never be used without compensation to the artist that created them.
Also please don't forget that we still have a limited supply of the two CD set Amiga/Video Toaster version of Pyromania and it will be available for a short time at the sale price of $24.95. ScaryFX for the Amiga & Video Toaster is also still available for $19.95. Visit www.discreetfx.com for more information and the latest tools for your Amiga & Video Toaster. (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
Martin Knott (ANF)
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Pegasos photos from Kieler Amiga Hardwaretreffen 2003
On Saturday, 1st March this year's hardware meeting of the
Amiga-Club Schleswig Holstein
took place in the new plenar hall of the UAS Kiel. Apart from the usual 68k and
PPC based Amigas and a small exhibition of the Kieler Computermuseum
this time also three Pegasos systems were to be marvelled at.
Apart from the power also the systems' three different optical outfits could impress. People who could not attend the event can get a first impression based on the pictures. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
heise online
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Legal action against games indexing
A private initiative wants to start legal action against indexing of computer
games. Furthermore, a new media protection of minors treaty might become
effective as of 1st April. Please read the complete article at heise online
under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 04 for Descent: Freespace released
The MultiPlayerPack 04 has been released. Once more it contains five new
Multiplayer maps for the game Descent: Freespace.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
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SView V v1.10 released - expiration of special offer
Version 1.1 of graphics viewer and converter SView V has been released and its
demo version can be downloaded from the Aminet (title link).
SView V reads and writes more than 40 file formats and has command of
about 50 graphics operators. You can read a review in the current AMIGAplus
02/2003.
If you send in your SView5 registration until 5th March 2003 (before Ash
Wednesday), you may deduct 5 EUR from the total amount. Please write your
SViewIV registration number on the form as the rebate cannot be granted
otherwise. For meeting the deadline, the date on the postmark resp. receipt of
payment is relevant.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Pixload v3.0 released
Version 3.0 of the Amidock like start menu Pixload has been released.
Icons in the Startbar can now be modified by simple drag & drop and their number is not restricted. Similiar to the Mac OS X Dock, active programs
are marked with a triangle in the Pixload Startbar. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
CUCUG
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CUCUG Status Register 02/2003
The February 2003 CUCUG Status Register has been published. In the Status
Register the Club reports regularly about its own meetings and the areas Amiga,
Linux, Macintosh and PC.
This issue contains the following articles about PPC as well as Amiga:
- Aminet CDs Reach End of the Line
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02.Mar.2003
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Circumventing fees for T-Online SMTP relay server
From 1st March 2003, T-Online customers will have to pay for sending emails
with free sender address via T-Online's SMTP relay server. To circumvent these
fees you can use the STMP service of your secondary provider by reverting to
the SMTP Auth function for authentification of your data.
You can find support e.g. on the YAM
Web site under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Andreas Weyrauch / Dirk Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Second issue of Club Amiga Monthly published
The second issue of the "Club Amiga Monthly" magazine for registered members
has been published at AMIGA, Inc.
This issue features some articles on the AmigaOne as well as AmigaOS 4. The
magazine has a volume of 20 pages. It is only accessible for Club members after
logging into the Club Web site under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Website on Applaud Software online again
From 1996, Applaud Software Ltd. developed low-cost games for the Amiga which
used to be distributed through Isolona Entertainment and Epic Marketing. On the
Web site especially set up for Applaud Software, fans of puzzle games can find
"Blockead I / II" for legal download, and strategy fans are catered for with
"Mobile Warfare" as well as the space trading simulation "Cygnus 8".
Furthermore Amiga Arena is looking for the following software titles by Applaud
Software Ltd.: "Berties Animal Kingdom", "DNA: Variety of life" as well as
"Imperator: Master of Rome".
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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