20.Feb.2004
fiath (ANF)
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Big CAPS-Project Update
The website of the CAPS-project which wants to conserve old Amiga games for the next
generations has got the biggest update in its history. A very extensive "Knowledge Base"
(which replaces the FAQ), a new status report (work in progress) and several new games
have been added.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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Genesi: AMIGA, Inc. loose lawsuit against Genesi
Genesi announce on morphos-news.de that the company won the lawsuit against Amiga, Inc. (as reported earlier).
According to Genesi, the verdict grants "full relief to Genesi, including source code access to the licensed Amiga operating system and the full use of the Amiga trademarks".
Approached by amiga-news.de, Hyperion's management confirmed the result of the lawsuit, adding that "Hyperion have an exclusive trademark license for the desktop" and that "the verdict has no bearing on Hyperion or AmigaOS 4".
(cg)
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19.Feb.2004
Jan Andersen / VHT-DK (E-Mail)
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Anti-Virus-Software: New Version 1.00 of VirusZ III
After six years Georg Hoermann has had the development time to release the final version of VirusZ III and thereby throw off the designation of "beta status." You'll find the new version 1.00 of VirusZ III on the VHT website under the title link, and in a few days it will be on Aminet.
Program name: VirusZ III v1.00
Programmer: Georg Hoermann
Date: 19th February, 2004
Archiv name: VirusZ.lha
Archiv size: 102,556 Bytes
Requirements: AmigaOS 2.04 or higher, util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha,
util/virus/xvslibrary.lha, util/pack/xfdmaster.lha, util/arc/xadmaster.lha
(recommended), util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional)
News in VirusZ III v1.00:
- Improved 'Snapshot' function of the vectorcheck, it now saves the
information supplied by SegTracker. So please install SegTracker
before doing snapshots, it helps me a lot!
- Finally fixed VirusZ 100% for MorphOS/Pegasos systems:
- a) The vector check now handles function calls using EmulLibEntry
correctly and calculates "ROM" locations and sizes in the most
compatible way by scanning system romtags and afterwards calling
NewGetSystemAttrsA().
- The memory monitor has been fixed for fake chipmem on Pegasos
and supports MorphOS "ROM" areas too. There's just one problem
left with pre-50.58 exec.library: size of A-Box modules cannot be
calculated perfectly here and will simply be set to 0x700000. This
means that you might be able to access non-existing memory areas at
addresses near 0x10800000! This is on your own risk...
- The internal
doslist scanner (for sector check/bootblock lab) works without
MEMF_24BITDMA memory now which was never available on MorphOS systems.
The code for 64-bit access (>4GB) has been bug fixed and enhanced to
support TD_READ64/TD_WRITE64 too.
- Rewritten startup code to use
EasyRequestArgs() in case of an error instead of DisplayAlert() which
is not available in current MorphOS versions. Thanks to Harry Sintonen
for all his help with MorphOS topics and for beta-testing! And thanks
to Alexey Ivanov, Ilkka Lehtoranta and 'Vinny' for beta-testing too.
- Fixed problems in sector check concerning 4GB-border. Added some
recalculation routines for strange values in de_BlocksPerTrack.
Additionally de_MaxTransfer is supported now for older HDs.
- Removed the 'Use/Ignore External Xad-Slaves' selection from the
file check prefs. This was obsolete as xadmaster.library always
requires external clients to do a good job.
- Finally added support for disk archives and disk images to the
file check. Please note that xadmaster.library v8+ is required!
Now you can extract all types of archives that XAD supports, and
if they contain disk images with valid files inside, these files
will be checked too. Two new options therefore have been added to
the file check prefs: "Extract Disk Archives" and "Check Files
Inside Disk Images". Please read the docs for more information!
Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for beta-testing and his helping hand
concerning tricky XAD stuff.
- Added extra check for bootblock viruses to sector and file check
(for files larger than 2048 bytes, usually diskimages).
- Added sector checking for files! You can select 3 different modes
in the filecheck prefs, please read the docs carefully for further
information...
- Added 'Scan Files For Bootblocks' to the file check prefs. With
this option enabled, VirusZ scans for bootblock viruses inside
files. Useful to detect unknown bb-virus installers.
- Changed/enhanced functionality of the 'Job Monitor':
- 'Pause'/'Continue' gadgets have been replaced by a single cycle
gadget to stop/run the current job. b) 'Quit' gadget is always active
now (requested by many users).
- All running/waiting jobs will be
displayed in the report list now so you get a better overview. You can
select any of them and kill them with the 'Kill Job' gadget. Useful if
you accidentally have selected some wrong files/disks.
- Added 'Check
Files...' gadget. It obviously does the same as the equally named menu
item of VirusZ's main window, but you won't have to switch windows any
more.
- Added 'One/All' cycle gadget between 'Disinfect' and 'Delete'
as it determines the behaviour of both functions. If 'One' is selected,
everything works like in previous versions. By selecting 'All', the
delete function will delete all malicious files that have been found so
far. 'Disinfect' first determines the type of the selected item
(infected file or sector?) and will then start disinfecting either all
files or all sectors of the selected disk. Requested by 'Underground
God', hope you are happy now :)
- Bumped version of VirusZ III to 1.00 !!! After 6(!) years of often
little development and much more lack of time VirusZ III finally
has reached full functionality...
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio: Bjorn Lynne Announces "Statement" Music CD
Bjorn Lynne, who became known in Amiga circles as the composer of the music for the game Alien Breed among others, and as a musician of the demo-scene group Crusaders, has released details about his announced audio CD "Statement." One of the tracks, "Kikki," has been put online for listening on the Internet under the URL http://www.artistlaunch.com/bjornlynne. Comments and feedback are desired.
All of the music for the CD has been composed and produced. A few small changes are still being undertaken. The CD contains 12 or 13 tracks, four featuring the guest singer Eco-Mcz. The enterprise is achieved through ArtistLaunch, a page for independent musicians. The cover was done by Snjezana Suznjevic Vago of Croatia. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
disc4you.de (ANF)
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WMV Movies in Brazilian Movie Theaters
Microsoft wants to usher the age of digital theater with WMV (Windows Media Format). The initial and repeat units for WMV-composed films based on Microsoft's ".net" platform are to be installed in about 100 Brazilian movie houses. Most of all, the film producers from north of the continent in distant Hollywood may rejoice over the cost savings. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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SoftRAID for AmigaOS: URD 0.2 beta
"URD" is a SoftRAID for AmigaOS. A new version, v0.2 beta, has been released today. Changes since the last version:
ADD - added
REM - removed
IMP - improved
CHG - changed
FIX - fixed
BMP - bump
- ADD: Beside from the normal array operation, it's now possible to
directly mount into a level. This can be helpfull if a mirror
seems defect.
- ADD: Now each device in an array has a superblock. Will be used
for recovery-tools later.
- IMP: Functionality for handling possible errors improved.
- IMP: Logging-functions now faster and smaller.
- ADD: The logging- and errorfeedback-options can be modified on the
fly without the need of dismounting the array to make the new
options working.
- ADD: The URD-own command-set for reading, writing and updating the
array is now basicly implemented. More details on this API later.
- CHG: Of course many small changes and improvements done not listed
here.
- BMP: revision to 2
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Feb.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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ColdFusion (previously Amiga ColdFire): Poll about A3000/A4000 Version
There's a poll in progress for the Amiga 3000/4000 version of the ColdFusion Project (previously known as Amiga ColdFire), which is an attempt to build an Amiga accelerator card using Motorola's Coldfire processor family.
The question is what is preferred for the Amiga 3000/4000 version:
- a standard SD-RAM DIMM and no expansion slots
- an SO DIMM and three expansion slots
In order to participate in the poll, please visit the YahooGroups Website AmigaColdfire Project. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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Amiga Java: Jamiga Alpha 0.02
A new alpha version of the Amiga Java port "Jamiga" is available for download. Changes since the last version:
- Bugfix: JIT works now on "real" 68040/60 Amigas
- Bugfix: A problem with the UTF8 - UTF16 conversion that caused many memory errors has been resolved
- Network support works, also in connection with several threads ("UDP Sockets" and the "NetworkInterface" classes are not supported yet)
- There's a lot of work to do yet on AWT, but the "Testframe" classes may now change the size of opened windows
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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18.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Videos of the last two AmigaOS4 deemonstrations
There are videos of the last OS4 demonstration by the "Amiga North Thames" group from
February the 8th and of the demonstration by the "North Carolina / South Carolina Amiga
User's Group" from February the 7th available now.
"Amiga North Thames", February the 8th 2004
"AmigaOne Productions" offers a video of about 30 minutes in different formats:
More formats might be contributed later.
"NC/SC Amiga User's Group", February the 7th 2004
"Herwegoagain" offers a video of that event at amigaworld.net:
direct link
(DivX/WMA, 54 MB)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Heise (Website)
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Heise: Mini PC "FlipStart" introduced
Heise Online reports from the introduction
of the mini PC FlipStart by
Vulcan Inc. That company has been brought to life by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The micro computer measures 148 mm × 101 mm × 26 mm only and has a
5.6 inch display as well as a 1 GHz processor. The operating system will be Windows XP.
The full (German) report is available by the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Heise (Website)
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Heise: New software for music discrimination
As Heise online reports that
Karlheinz Brandenburg, a co-developer of the MP3 format, has developed a software
which is capable to discriminate different music tracks by their temporal pattern,
instrumantation, speed and dynamics.
That offers the ability to do an automatic
sorting of a music collection and for new search engines but on the other hand
new mechanisms for copy protection also.
Futher information regarding the program "Audio ID" is availabe by the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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ASoft: CManager V28.7 and RxMUI V40.6 released
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has released new
versions of RxMUI and of the Contact Manager. The CManager is now available in
version 28.7
(461 KB), RxMUI in
version 40.6 (974 KB).
With RxMUI graphical user interfaces can be created for ARexx macros using
MUI. CManager is a general bookmark manager.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Intel announces AMD64 compatible processor
"Other way around now" seems to be the new agenda: While AMD's 32 bit x86
processors are compatible to the Intel standard the latter company has announced a 64 bit extension
compatible to AMD's 64 bit technique now. Thus a good chance is given that the 64 bit desktop
processors by both companies will be compatible to each other. Currently Intel keeps the
32 bit concept within this area and plans to implement the AMD extension initially to
their workstation and server processor Xeon only.
Read the full article by the title link.
(cs) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker
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AOL with AmigaOS/MorphOS
Internet connections with the online provider AOL by ISDN and modem are possible now without a special dial in
software. It is very likely that it is possible to access the net with AOL by using
AmigaOS or MorphOS now. Read the full article by the title link.
(cs) (Translation: ub)
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17.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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BabeAnoid: Status report to Version 2.5
Richard "Dawnbringer" Fhager is now working at a new version of his breakout clone
BabeAnoid.
You can find the status report under the title link.
In a thread
Richard answers questions of a few users.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Picture series: The "Acryl Show Case" of bplan
Under the title link bplan published a few pictures of a clear acryl case, which are used for presentation of Pegasos.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Status report to the Commodore-One
Under the title link Jens Schönfeld published a status report to the Commodore-One, the reconfigurable Computer, who is often called because of his C64 compatibility as the legendary breadcase.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net
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New tower case for AmigaOne and Classic Amiga computer
The US-American Amiga trader Mr. Hardware shows under the title link a few tower cases.
The cases are mainly for use of the AmigaOne but also for A1200 computer.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga C course for beginners in German
The first lections are now online, more will come in next time.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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CAPS project: User library ported to Linux (x86, PPC)
The Classic Amiga Preservation Society
(CAPS) has ported their libary now to Linux
(x86 and PPC).
The CAPS team archives old and copysaved Amiga-games and they convert them in
their own CAPS-format, which can be read by new WinUAE-versions.
With the user libary the IPF images of third programs could be processed.
The packet is bound to C.A.P.S Freeware License Agreement
which is contained in the archive.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Jörg Karisch (ANF)
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Short report of the hardware meeting in Nürnberg of 14th February
The user group 'Interessengemeinschaft Mittelfränkischer Amiga-Enthusiasten' (IMAGE)
has published a short report on their
website
of their hardware meeting in Nürnberg on February the 14th.
There where two Pegasos-II-, two A4000 with CyberstormPPC, an A1200 in a
tower with BlizzardPPC, A4000 in a Micronik tower with 68060, x86-Mini-Tower
with WinUAE and two x86 laptops. You can find more information under the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Meeting: AmCluSt Hardware Event 2.- 4. April 2004
This year there is again an AMClust Hardware event. It is from April
the 2nd until April the 4th. The members meet each other on
the hardware meeting in Dreierwalde in Rheine.
Not members are welcome, too, but please announce.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Matthias Kretzler (ANF)
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Amigaremix.com again online
Amigaremix.com is a website, where you can download remoxes of Amiga game soundtracks as a
MP3 file.
Now Amigaremix.com is again online after a long break because of problems.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Airsoft Softwair announce Hollywood Designer
Andreas Falkenhahn today announced the newest Amiga software product
from Airsoft Softwair: Hollywood Designer. The program is a state of the
art "what you see is what you get" editor to create presentations, games
and applications for the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood and will
be released soon.
Hollywood Designer offers a powerful GUI that has all
functions you need to unleash your creativity. With the Hollywood Designer
now everyone can create funky Hollywood presentations with just a few
clicks and save them for all Amiga platforms, e.g. you can create
presentations for MorphOS on AmigaOS or presentations for WarpOS/AmigaOS
on MorphOS. Hollywood Designer blasts the borders of the different Amiga
platforms!
And now here are some screenshots of Hollywood Designer in action:
Hollywood Designer will be released in versions for AmigaOS3, WarpOS,
MorphOS and - as soon as it's ready - AmigaOS4. Check back on the website
of Airsoft Softwair soon as they will reveal new details about this new
Amiga software. (nba)
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16.Feb.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New functions in the customer account
IOSPIRIT writes:
"IOSPIRIT continues to further improve its customer service. The latest
results of these efforts are two new functions now available to the
customers in their account:
My updates
In a central spot, the customer now finds all update- and bonus-files
relevant to the products ordered or registered online.
Forum subscriptions
IOSPIRIT now offers account-owners (whether customer or not) the
possibility to read and take part in forum-based discussions via their
email-client. At this time, there are only forums for the Medusa USB
bundle, but a step-by-step expansion of these services for other
products is planned."
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Feb.2004
Heinz Wrobel (ANF)
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MakeCD: makecdromfs.module 45.12
makecdromfs.module 45.12 with Joliet and HFS support is now available for MakeCD. Various problems of v45.11 are fixed in this version.
Direct download (48 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Feb.2004
Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)
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Hyperion: BlizzardPPC & Cyberstorm PPC repairs
Hyperion Entertainment would like to remind classic Amiga users that they can still take advantage of their repair offer for these cards by emailing timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com as a first point of contact.
Cost for repairs is a flat 145 euro + parts and you may pay via paypal, wire transfer or by cash (at your own risk). Should your card not be repairable, it will be shipped back to you at no cost should you wish. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Feb.2004
GoldEd Support (ANF)
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Text editing: "microgolded" released
microgolded is a simple yet powerful editor for AmigaOS, MorphOS and UAE.
It is a low cost variant of GoldED AIX, designed for basic editing tasks. The editor is released in form of a single executable, for placement in the system's c folder. microgolded is the ideal editor for the boot CD of your OS because it does not need to be installed: it does not need an assign, catalogs, custom libraries etc. It will run even if the AmigaOS startup-sequence is not functional.
microgolded is only available online for instant download (pay securely via paypal). The retail price is 10 EUR. On the launch day, the special retail price is only 5 EUR if you go to this page.
You can download a 30-day trial version here.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Feb.2004
ANN (website)
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New download site for MUI classes
Under the title link has a new download site for MUI classes been set up. It is meant to replace the offer that had formerly been accessible under http://gilfanon.homeip.net/mui/.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Feb.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Public test of the GAUHPIL database
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list
created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll containing websites of Amiga users
sorted by continents and countries. Right now, the GAUHPIL is migrating to
a MySQL based database solution.
Under the title link, you can find a description of the current state of
things and of course a link to the current draft. Meanwhile, the database
functions are in a state that the database could be used. The latest
additions are the New Links List and the Lost Links List.
The moderator invites you to thoroughly test all functions, especially the
registration of new entries, and send him your feedback about all
malfunctions and any strange behaviour.
Currently, the GAUHPIL contains 867 users in 38 countries.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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14.Feb.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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AmigaOS4: news about the beta version
Hans-Jörg Frieden of Hyperion gives in a forum contribution on amigaworld.net a short overview about the current stand of developing regarding the AmigaOS4 beta version. We have summarized the essentials for you.
After the beta version had been given to the testers there had of course some minor problems to be solved. More difficulties came only from to things: for one had CD-ROM drives not reliably been recognized by the appropriate device - this problem is said to be solved in the meantime.
The other problem that is still being worked on is occurs just on a little number of configurations and is described by the OS4 team as "hot air effect" - there's a slight display distortion when using a Radeon graphics card in certain display resolutions similar to movements of heated air above hot asphalt. Nevertheless does the Radeon driver work, there are hints to the reasons of this effect and they hope to solve this problem soon.
Right now there's support for a bunch of ATI cards respectively for cards with ATI chips, so does the Radeon 9800 now work with the drivers developed by Forefront Technologies.
In another contribution gives Hans-Jörg particular emphasis on the fact that the 3D support for Radeon cards is by now restricted to the 7xxx series. It wouldn't make sense to get a Radeon 8xxx or 9xxx because of the 3D performance, there's still a long way to go until the according drivers will be available.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Feb.2004
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Eyetech: updates and announcements
The AmigaOne distributor Eyetech has started the rework of his web appearance and put some announcements and updates online:
"EarlyBird" offer discontinued
The "EarlyBird" offer, where the buyers of an AmigaOne don't have to pay for AmigaOS4 and get it delivered by the time of its release, ends on March, 31st 2004. The last amount of AmigaOne-XE computers that will be delivered as "EarlyBird" has already been manufactured. Delivery as long as stock lasts.
Preproduction-MicroA1 in small numbers available, pictures of the new revision
A first number of MicroA1 motherboards (AmigaOne in Mini-ITX format) has been produced. These are identical with the planned specifications for the sales version besides the missing slot for "enhanced I/O interfaces" and the not existing onboard memory. The until now produced devices are exclusively for retailers and developers who want to demonstrate the computer to potential (bulk) buyers or who want already begin with the porting of specific software. The specifications of the now available MicroA1 computers are as follows:
- Size: 17cm x 17cm x 3.5cm high (excluding PCI riser card)
- CPU Module: 8cm x 8cm standard AmigaOne module - 750Fx @ 800MHz
- Memory: Single socket SODIMM. 256MB PC133 CL3 supplied
- Graphics: Radeon 7000 series, 32MB non-shared memory on board
- BIOS: Uboot 1.0.0 socketed, with OS4 enabling code
- Southbridge: VIA 82 2C686B
- Ethernet: 10/100 with 3COM 920-ST06 controller
- Sound: Cmedia CMI8738 6 ch controller
- IDE: 44 way (2.5") and 40 way (3.5") connectors UDMA100
- Legacy I/O: Parallel, 2 x PS/2, game/MIDI sockets
- Video I/O: 15 pin SVGA, SVHS (miniDIN), composite video (RCA)
- Sound: 3.5mm mike, aux and speaker jacks
- Fast I/O: RJ45 10/100 ethernet, 2x USB1.0 ; 2 x USB1.0 headers
- PCI: PCI-32 slot expandable to 3 x slots via a suitable riser
Pictures of the new motherboard revision are also available. A special case for the MicroA1 has been built in a small series, too, pictures of it can be found here and here.
Eyetech's website gets an overhaul
To do the change from an Amiga retailer to a PPC motherboard distributor justice, Eyetech's website will be reworked step by step. The webshop will continue to exist for now but Eyetech will only clear existing stocks and charge a fee on small orders. The delivery times for "Classic Amiga" products will become up to two weeks as the articles are now stocked external in a warehouse.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Feb.2004
ANN (website)
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Back to the Roots: Emulators History Project
We want to announce a new service which we started at BTTR, the "Emulators History Project" located at emulators.back2roots.org.
At this location we start to collect source code and binaries of all Amiga emulators ever released. We start with the WinUAE emulator history, other emulators to come later.
All emulator versions online can both be downloaded or browsed, which may be helpful for coders working on any Amiga emulator or emulator supporting/addon projects.
It's a difficult task to find all versions ever released, especially when it comes to the source code (which never had a version in its filename - urghh), that is why we want to ask you for your help to get the collection complete! Please have a look at the current collection of WinUAE files and help us find all missing files (which are marked as red cells): http://emulators.back2roots.org/winuae.
Thanks in advance for your time and contribution. (snx)
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14.Feb.2004
morphzone.org (website)
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Interview with the developer of "Mattathias BASIC"
Michael Ness developes a new BASIC dialect that seems to be heavily inspired by
AMOS. The compiler will be available (among others) for AmigaOS3,
AmigaOS4, MorphOS and Windows. The first version will produce easily portable code and is therefore restricted to the creation of programs without a graphical users interface. Graphics, sound etc. will be supported later via extensions similar to the AMOS "Extensions". Under the title link you can find an interview with Michael Ness.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 14. Feb. 2004, 18:45] [Comments: 0]
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14.Feb.2004
Dirk Stoecker (ANF)
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RekoNet offline
The "RekoNet" server that had offered a comprehensive collection of card sets for the Solitaire card game "Klondike" had to be taken from the net. Because of the high demand for storage and bandwidth and the partly erotic offering it's hard for the providers to find a replacement.
To make the card set collection further online available and also to continue the already started expansion of the offer on other card formats and Solitaire programs are the providers have to rely on small donations. An amount of almost 300 EUR would cover the costs for the next two years.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 14. Feb. 2004, 17:27] [Comments: 0]
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14.Feb.2004
Ron van Herk (IRC)
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Computer City: open letter to the Amiga community
The Dutch Amiga retailer Comuter City (http://www.compcity.nl) announces in an open letter to the amiga community that the source code for the multimedia software MediaPoint will be made public to accelerate the developing process. For this, a community portal will be set up to coordinate the work on the project.
Furthermore, Computer City will open their new webshop on March, 1st with support in several languages. Additionally, there'll be some special actions in March.
And just in time for Valentine's Day they announce a USB2.0 PCI card as a present for all their Pegasos-II customers (who have paid their bill). (cr) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 14. Feb. 2004, 13:07] [Comments: 0]
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