03.Jul.2003
Grasshopper LLC (Website)
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Grasshopper LLC Lowers PageStream Prices
The American software company Grasshopper has lowered the price of their desktop publishing application "PageStream." The full
version is now available for 99 US dollars. Upgrades are now 40 US dollars. These prices are good for July, 2003 but may stay the
same thereafter, if possible.
New Low Pricing
Tuesday, July 1st - Grasshopper LLC announces today new low pricing
for PageStream on all platforms. "While the pricing is guaranteed only
through July, it is hoped that it will be warmly embraced by the
community and will be adopted then as our new permanent pricing",
said owner Marna Holt today. "Our move from a brick and mortar business
means lower costs and faster turn around times. We hope passing these
savings on to our customers will not only increase the already tremendous
value our customers get when buying PageStream, but hopefully increase
the number of customers and reach those who could previously not afford
PageStream." Near term plans include a revamped web site,
instant messaging with our sales staff, and a monthly online public chat
with Deron. PageStream now lists for $99 (from $299!!) and upgrades start
out at only $40.
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03.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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Adventure Rendezvous: Interview with Ken Williams
The adventure-game focused online magazine "Adventure-Treff" has published an interesting German-language interview with Ken
Williams by Jan Schneider.
In 1979 Ken Williams founded Sierra On-Line and after that he led the firm for almost 20 years. Ken and his wife Roberta originated
the game genre now referred to as graphic adventures, and they were responsible for many of the best and most loved adventures
of all time, like for instance the Leisure Suit Larry and King's Quest and Space Quest series. Today Ken runs a forum with
SierraGamers, in which one may comment about Sierra. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Mummert Consulting (E-Mail)
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Study: Online Shops Battle Trust Deficit
Around 50% of German websurfers avoid purchasing anything on the Internet. The main problem for most of them: they can't examine and test the products before buying. And very third person gets by without online purchases because they are satisfied with the goods of "real" stores.
The fear of someone stealing their personal data is another factor that stops surfers from buying. About 30% name this fear as a reason for why they have yet to purchase anything online. And every fifth person is worried that his bill will be incorrectly calculated and so he doesn't buy anything. These figures come from a current study "Internet Statistics of Consumers (IZV6)" done by the University of Karlsruhe and Mummert Consulting.
Online shops battle a trust deficit: Half of all German websurfers don't buy anything on the Internet. The principal reason for this, according to these surfers, is that they can't test the wares over the Internet. Every fourth purchase avoider doesn't trust the online stores because it might be hard to complain and return things. Almost every third fears for the protection of his data. The market share of online shoppers may rise if e-shops improve their service. About 28% don't buy online, because help and service aren't good enough.
It's easier for well known web-shops to win customers: about two thirds of online shoppers do most of their shopping by known merchants. Every fifth buys *exclusively* by known shops. And the general experience of Internet users with the Internet influences their purchasing attitude: the less experienced the surfer, the less he goes online shopping. Experienced users purchase 20% more stuff on the Internet than the unexperienced. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Explanation of G4 Card Difficulties
According to a statement
of the Genesi leadership on MorphOS-News.de there's a hardware problem which means that less G4 cards will be produced for the Pegasos I, and even these will only be offered with corresponding boards as "matched sets." With respect to the complete utilization of the Altivec functionality of the G4: some boards work flawlessly, some boards not so well, at least not well enough to be sold.
In other Genesi news, QNX and Pascal have joined the effort to be ported to Pegasos. The latter is still popular in Eastern Europe and the former is the #1 embedded system OS.
Additionally Genesi would like to sell Linux Pegasoses with the G3 for a price of 499 euros at MicroWarehouse
or other merchants (without monitor but with Linux as well as MorphOS). Up to 25,000 units monthly may be produced on the fabrication lines at DCE. This price per unit might fall with an inverse correlation to the quantity of units (as more are produced, price per unit drops). The same thing applies if IBM comes to view it as a good strategy to help Genesi by doing the same with respect to CPU price. These machines will be available in October of this year.
As before, Pegasos I owners can upgrade for the price of 200 euros, but you've got to send in the board as well as the CPU card. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Enterprise Market for Open Source Grows Quickly
»Yearly growth rates of 24% are in view
A study by the company Soreon analyzed and predicted the enterprise market for open source software in Germany up to the year 2007. For this study 150 German firms were surveyed. In that were 100 interviews with users who quantitatively evaluated, as well as 50 expert conversations which were qualitatively evaluated.«
Read the complete article by clicking on the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Samba (Website)
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Networking: Samba Version 3.0.0 Beta 2
The Samba team released version 3.0.0 Beta 2 on the 1st of July. You may read the list of changes
here.
Samba is a software that allows networking, for example networking of a PC and an Amiga. You'll find information about Samba for Amiga at
amigasamba.org.
Here's the original press release:
The second beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download. While significantly closer to the final release, it should still be considered a non-production release provided for testing purposes only. The source code and GnuPG signatures can be found on Samba mirrors. RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 are also available in the Binary_Packages download area. Packages for other platforms will follow shortly. The full release notes are available on-line as well.
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03.Jul.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Game: Saga Version 1.27
Version 1.27 of the freeware game Saga from Amigan Software has appeared. The game is a conversion of a TSR board game from 1981 called Saga: Age of Heroes and is playable by up to six players, which may be controlled by humans or the Amiga. It's all about battling monsters, finding treasure, and building your kingdom through valor and heroism.
The game is available in German and English at this time. It requires at least AmigaOS 3.0+ and AGA/RTG. The source code is in the archive. The author James R. Jacobs has made a few improvements and cleaned up a few errors since the last version.
Download: Saga.lha - 297 KB
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4.1c
Version 4.1c of "Pixload" has been released. Like AmiDock, this tool makes it possible to start programs and scripts from an icon through the use of MUI. Noteworthy additions to this version include the recognition of local HTML data, as well as a context menu. RxMUI 32.8 is required.
The program may be downloaded in Amiga and MorphOS versions.
Download: pixload-4.1c.lzx (ps) (Translation: dm)
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02.Jul.2003
PPCNux (ANF)
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PPCNux: Pegasos G4 upgrade not available seperately
»The for July 2003 scheduled
1+GHz G4 CPU card for the Pegasos Boards currently equipped with a 600 MHz G3 will not be available seperately. This has been said by
Genesi in their
status update
at Amiga.org.«
Read the full article by the title link (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Sourceforge-Projekt JAmiga (ANF)
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Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9
By the title link you can follow the state of the sourceforge project
Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9 (JAmiga) and get informed about the further details of that project.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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AmiZilla progress report
After DiscreetFX had announced that there is a money booty for porting the
web browser Mozilla to the Amiga (as reported) and Bill
Panagouleas set up an information site about the donation efforts, he sent us the following progress report:
- Current Booty: $4122.45
- New! SourceForge website setup to share/update codebase for
AmiZilla port.
- New! Offical URL for AmiZilla
- Mailinglist now has over 162 members and over 240 messages, most are about programming and porting Mozilla.
- AmiZilla website has gotten over 1 million hits since appearing on the famous unix geek website slashdot.
- AmiZilla continues to gather positive press for the Amiga and MorphOS by being covered on mainstream
websites like CNET's news.com,
mozillazine.org and
many others.
- Amiga Inc. representative Fleecy Moss has commented they like AmiZilla but will not contribute
to the Initiative because a port is also underway for MorphOS.
- New! AmiZilla poster "I Want You" by Eric Schwartz available in two sizes for webmasters that
want to promote AmiZilla on their site.
- New! AmiZilla Banner designed by Luca Ferraris.
- New! Female Russian artist hired to create mascot for MorphOS version of Mozilla port.
- New! Genesi and Phoenix Developer Consortium have been watching the project with great interest for
some time. and may contribute funds.
Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful. The booty is now over $4122,
which is a impressive amount of money for an Amiga project. If only one programmer was working on
the port this would be a nice reward. However several programmers are working together. Once the
money is split among coders the booty is not big enough. Please contribute if you can, every dollar
helps motivate programmers to make the AmiZilla Project a success. After the release of AmiZilla more
projects are being developed like Hot CoCo (JVM) and F Gordon (Flash). The development and launch of
these add-ons to AmiZilla depend on the success of that project. Paypal donations can be sent in via
this weblink.
About AmiZilla
The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the
first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga/Compatible systems that programmers will be
falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time.
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing & computer generated
graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing,
computer graphics market with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects
seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates and more! You can also
see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and
more! (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Messe Leipzig (ANF)
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First European games mucic concert in Leipzig
On August the 20th 2003 there will be the first "European games music concert" in Germany. This will happen at the "Gewandhaus" in Leipzig .
Start of the concert, which will be the opening of the "Games Convention" as well, is 8 pm.
Ticket sale has just begun, there are still plenty tickets available.
Among other tracks there will be a suite of the Amiga classic
"Apidya" (Chris Hülsbeck) played.
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02.Jul.2003
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Photos from the Amiga show in Maarssen
At the website of the Amiga Party which happend on the 28th of June 2003 in
Maarssen, the Netherlands, there were new photos published by the organizers. The event is planned to be repeated next year again.
On August the 16th 2003 there will be the Commodore Show 2003 also.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Online magazine: NoCover #112 published
Issue #112 of the NoCover is published and readable by following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Alpe Adria News and Updates
The website of the event "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" has been updated today.
There is now a list with hardware and software products which will be shown, exhibitors who are present
and new cultural events which will be occur in parallel
with the show. The A3 will be held on coming Saturday, July the 5th
kulturelle Ereignisse, die parallel zur Show stattfinden. Die A3 2003 in Undine, Italy.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Erhard Bruse (ANF)
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Report: Pegasos in Leipzig
Several interested persons have seen the presentation of the Pegasos in Leipzig at the booth of the "CCLS e.V." last weekend.
Erhard Bruse gives a brief overview about the presentation:
Even by chance met informatics students from India were interested in MorphOS and the Pegasos. The Sunday was owed to the Pegasos and Linux.
Micha Heider successfully did first tests with his image installer and a backup/recovery by using a hard disk image as well as an
installation of Mandrake Linux to the Pegasos. The recovery took with a 4 GB partition about 10 minutes.
During the next days there will be further information and some pictures and screen shots of Mandrake running on the Pegasos
put to the website of Micha Heider which is to reach by the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (Website)
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Club Amiga Magazine: Article about DOS library by C.J. Wenzel freely available
The article "A Short Story on the V50 DOS Library" by Colin J. Wenzel
from issue 5 of the Club Amiga Magazine has been made freely available by Amiga Inc. This English report
features the planning of V50 of the dos.library which will be used within AmigaOS 4.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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01.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 30.06.2003
With WHDLoad yu can install floppy disk based games onto your HD.
The following packages are added/updated since the last time:
- 30.06.03 fixed: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) misc changes
- 29.06.03 new: Maria's XMas Box (Anco) done by Psygore
- 29.06.03 improved: Knights of the Sky (Microprose) supports another version
- 29.06.03 new: King's Quest 6 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 29.06.03 improved: Colonel's Bequest (Sierra) supports another version
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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01.Jul.2003
Diverse
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Software-News in short (01.07.2003)
PhotoView
The picture viewer PhotoView is released in version 0.94 and can be downloaded for
free from the website of the developer Alessandro Braccini .
AWeb
After the new Build-GCC-Version 3.41 of the webbrowser AWeb was online and many bugfixes were sentin, the
developers had taken the file offline. If a stable version is available we will report
it to you.
NewsCoaster
A project for the Open-Source-based Newsgroups-Client
NewsCoaster is available at Sourceforge. There you will
find the latest Binary- and Source-Code-Releases.
ptplay3
ptplay3 is
relased in version 1.0. ptplay is a CLI based Protracker player not depending on the
custom chips and was written from the ground to emulate Protracker 2.3a software
sided. The mixing is managed internally and is send to a singla AHI output channel.
Block
Block, now
available in version 2.02, combines and splits files. The tool is available for 68k-AmigaOS and MorphOS.
findmos
Also findmos,
latest version 1.0, is coded by Christian Rosentreter: The very small shelltool
(only 200 Bytes) is used to detect MorphOS and is needful for Shell-/Install-scripts.
An example script is contained in the archive.
PowerD
The latest version 0.21 from 29.6.2003 of the programming environment PowerD is available at the
download area at the website.
PageStream for Linux
For Linux is a third beta version of the DTP software PageStream released. User buying a copy of
the Linux version getting full access to all versions (beta and final relases). Users
taking part in testing phase are getting TextFX for Linux for free.
VDisk.device
The VDisk.device is released in
version 3.7 and provides you a driver for a restorable RAM disk.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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01.Jul.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New IBrowse 2.3 documentation released
Dave Fisher has finished his works on a completely updated and
expanded IBrowse-documentation.
The new documentation breaks down into 25 chapters, that, from the
installation over the usage of the program, tips and tricks to basic
knowledge covers everything worth knowing about IBrowse and the
Internet.
The archive containing the documentation is 1.37 MB in size and is
freely available in the IOSPIRIT download section.
(ps)
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01.Jul.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #030630
Under the title link you will find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update (Brad
Webb) for March 2003. In his newsletter Brad Webb gives a monthly summary of all
news around the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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01.Jul.2003
Halvadjian Georges
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Perfect Paint v2.93 released
PerfectPaint from Halvadjian Georges is in version 2.93 available. In this
version are changed/fixed:
- Fix a bug with the tool: "Copy Stencil to Spare" when you are on the main picture
and not on Spare.
- Improve 'Chromatic correction": Blue saturation works well now.
- Improve: Fiber, Stone and liquid effects when range of color is used.
- New Item in MagicSpray menu: Fill Screen
- Full arexx command for MagicSpray tool
- Little bug fix with the "optimize palette" tool
- Improve Smooth border:
- Add Mask Preview
- Add "Round corner" Effect
- Improve MagicSpray:
- Add Follow axes (Brushes will follow mouse path)
- Add Priority (Each brushes will have priority)
- Improve for UAE/Amithlon/Picasso
- Mosaic effect and TVLace effect
- Twirl gui, TVLace gui, shadow gui
- The way the text go for one buffer to another (A lot of script are now ok)
- Edit Mask in 24bit mode (Much easier to edit stencil under picasso)
- 3 new templates (Photo)
- New MagicProject:Keys and Nuts and IceCream (available on PerfectPaint's page)
- Animation effect: CountDown
Download: PfPaint_V293.lha
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01.Jul.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Interview with Genesi
The Online-News-Magazine amiga.org has released an interview with Bill Buck and Raquel
Velasco of Genesi S.a.r.l. (title link).
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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30.Jun.2003
apple (ANF)
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Mozilla v1.4 released
Today the final version 1.4 of the free Webbrowser Mozilla was
published. Under that title left versions are available for Windows,
Linux and Mac OS X for the download, postage run gene for Solaris,
OpenVMS and other operating systems in the next days will follow.
Further information you find on the product website under that title
left. A port for Amiga OS is from a free developer team in work.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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30.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #043
The group Liquid Skies published today their 43rd music
pack. This time it contains a song named "rain journey" by
the German musician Bitshifter (also known as yelworC), who is not
member of the group, however he offers his track as a guest under the label
Liquid Skies. The cover for this is provided by an other guest:
Yenzi.
Details:
Title: Rain journey
Artist: Bitshifter
Style: Trance
Duration: 5:07
Format: mp3 (160kbps)
The file can be found at the homepage of Liquid Skies.
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30.Jun.2003
Klaus Brandis (E-Mail)
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AmiNetRadio v2.0 released
The Shoutcast streamer "AmiNetRadio" was published on weekend in
version 2.0 and is available at the title link for download. The
package contains the following components:
- AmiNetRadio v2.0
- mpega.player v2.40
- shoutcast.player v2.70
- Skin V1.1
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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30.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Development of SBase4Pro
Russ Norrby of Mr. Hardware Computers, the owners of the "SBase4Pro"-rights (formerly known as "SuperBase 4 Pro"), reports at Amiga.org:
"SBase4Pro can now be compiled with the GCC. This puts us into the position
to provide PPC versions - for example for the AmigaOne.
The current version is v1.36 from April 2000. SBase4Pro is
a very powerful and flexible multi-relational data base. Some of our own
products were made using SBase, for example Retail Escort and Video Escort.
At present we are working on many improvements, for example on HTML outputs or
the possibility to lock files.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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29.Jun.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 29th June 2003
These are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last report:
GetAllHTML.lha comm/tcp 16K+Auto download or link-check entire Web s
bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
Loarre_Castle.lha pix/back 170K+Backgrounds of Loarres Castle
jpv_wb.lha pix/wb 293K+1024x768x16bit WB snapshot
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29.Jun.2003
Diverse
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Pictures from 'AmigaOS on Tour' from Gothenburg
You can find a subtitled picture report of AmigaWorld under the title link.
The pictures were taken on the
AmigaOS on Tour at
yesterday's presentation in Gothenburg.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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29.Jun.2003
Martin Heine
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Pictures from Amiga Show in Maarssen, NL
Martin Heine was nice enough to provide us with some meaningful
pictures from the
Amiga Show which took place
yesterday in Maarssen in Holland.
The photos were taken by Ron van Herk.
The event was well attended with more than 100 visitors. Genesi presented the
Video Microwave, the prototype of an STB case already known from the CeBIT and
of course the Pegasos with MorphOS in action. On four Pegasos computers as well
as an Debian equipped AmigaOne the visitors could form their own impression of
the current state of the two systems. Furthermore beta versions of Bars'n'Pipes
and FotoFoto for MorphOS were shown. The possibility to buy Pegasos boards at
the ComputerCity stall was also made use of. Furthermore the Access was shown
as well as Amiga merchandising goods such as the game "Amiopoly", Amiga antenna
balls for cars and mugs and T-Shirts from the OS4 tour.
MorphOS |
Access |
Amiopoly |
Antennenball |
BNP |
CGG |
Microwave STB |
A1 Debian |
Tower |
OS4 T-Shirt |
Pegasos |
Raum |
Raum 2 |
Raum 3 |
OS4 Tasse |
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29.Jun.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: New reviews and cover scans
Today Kultpower.de has received some updates:
74 (in words: seventyfour) new covers of the magazine PC Joker! A big thankyou
to Evil who scanned and sent in the covers! Btw, all are featuring the editorial.
New PowerPlay reviews from Powerplay 5/88, scanned by sys:
Ebonstar (Amiga), Io (C64), Ooze (Atari ST), Pandora (C64).
New ASM reviews from ASM 7/88, scanned by Ralf: Impossible Mission (Atari ST, C64),
IO (C64), Karnov (C64, Spektrum (reviewed), Schneider), Target (C64 (reviewed),
Spektrum, Schneider), Tube Runner (C16/116/Plus4).
Thanks to all helpers!
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28.Jun.2003
Uwe Ryssel (ANF)
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Lego Mindstorms for Amiga
Today I have released the Amiga port of NQC 2.5 r1 on my homepage.
With this it is for the first time possible on the Amiga, among other things, to program the Lego Mindstorms RCX. This can be used to control robots built with Lego bricks.
NQC (Not Quite C) is a language similar to C for the programming of these RCX stones. Furthermore is the communication via the serial interface and via USB (with Poseidon) supported.
Download: nqc.lha (181 KB)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jun.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: "Samba World Cup" CD version online
After "Samba Partie" and "Samba Partie Pro" is now the CD version
of "Samba World Cup 98" available for free download. It's the third and last part of the "Samba Partie" series by
Sayona Software. "Samba World Cup" is a football manager with "action" part!
Features:
- Spoken in-game comments and names
- 6 different field conditions
- Original players and team names
- 6 Europe leagues incl. 1. and 2. Bundesliga
- Team editor
- Action part incl. video recorder
- Comprehensive transfer market, settings, statistics etc.
The archive has a size of 10 MB and can alternatively be found on the "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002 CD", available for 10,- Euro at Fun Time World.
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28.Jun.2003
Moneyless (ANF)
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Magazine: Last independant issue of the "ST-Computer" released
The last independent issue of the German Atari magazine "ST-Computer" has been released. The magazine, available for seventeen years and for years now exlusively available as subscription, will in the future only be available as subscription supplement of the German magazine "PC-Welt".
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28.Jun.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: New WinUAE version announced
WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 8 WIP (26.06.2003)
Expected release date: first half of July
Bugs fixed:
- stuck joypad POV directional controller
- workaround for buggy sound driver (ISA SB16, maybe others)
that report zero as minimum and maximum supported sample rate
- possible crash when copying to virtual filesystem's root
- CD32 media change detection
- extended ADF write protection check
- extended ADF HD floppy support
- fast copper works again
- JIT FPU fix (Descent Freespace -demo)
- 57600 serial bit rate was incorrectly rounded to 56000
New features:
- all configuration file loading restrictions removed,
load new configuration file at any time!
- display width, height, depth, lores, doubling, correct aspect
can be changed on the fly
- bsdsocket.library updates
- improved audio emulation
(Mortville Manor and Maupiti Island speech)
- improved and more compatible CD32 pad emulation
- improved CD32 CD autodetection
- sound capture to wav-file
- Direct3D hardware filtering and scaling
- more configurable source tree, added very simple way
to disable features like AGA, JIT, bsdsocket, Picasso96,
harddisk, 68020+ etc..
- separate basic A500-only WinUAE executable included
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28.Jun.2003
Markus Lunk
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Browser: GCC version of AWeb 3.4 APL
For users who like experiments there's a new alpha version of AWeb
been released that you can download following the title link. Errors may lead to crashes. The user may be aware.
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28.Jun.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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Today: AmigaOS 4.0 on tour
Today takes for the fourth time the AmigaOS on Tour place in Sweden and Austria.
At this time AmigaOS 4.0 is shown on CyberstormPPC and the AmigaOne:
Saturday, June, 28th 2003:
- 09:00 - 18:00 h BOF - Building of Fun, Weblinger Gürtel 25, 8054 Graz, Austria
- 11:00 - 17:00 h Lilla Bommen Konferens Center, Gothenborg, Sweden
We are eagerly awaiting your visits!
Further detailed information can be found here.
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28.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Latest official AmigaOS 4 screenshots
Following the title link you'll find further official screenshots of AmigaOS4 by Hyperion.
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27.Jun.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis
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Tool: SRename Version 3.7.1
Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the final version 3.7.1 of the tool 'SRename'.
With this tool which works from AmigaOS 3.0+ you can easily rename files. In the new
version some new features have been added and bugs fixed:
New features:
Added "Filename" (fn) selector to specify filenames that should be
treated like filenames even if they contain wildcard characters.
Normally SRename can process such filenames in recursion mode but only
if they are present in the root directory, if they are not they are
treated as wildcard patterns.
"Filename" makes it possible to look for and rename such filenames in
recursion mode even if those filenames aren't present in the root
directory.
Added secondary arguments to "Dirpat":
"Androot" (ar) causes the filenames in the starting (root) directory to
also be renamed.
"Anddirname" (adn) causes the name of the directory that is entered with
Dirpat to also be renamed.
Removed "Persistentdp" that was used together with "Dirpat" because it's
behaviour is now the default for "Dirpat". Not having a persistent
pattern for entering directories didn't have much use.
Recursion can now be used with non-wildcards, for example giving an
ordinary filename to look for.
Bugfixes:
Corrected a bug in recursion where directories weren't always entered
with "Dirpat" if the names of those directories were also to be
modified.
To avoid this situation now directories are first entered and their
contents renamed, and the names of those directories are modified
afterwards.
Other changes:
The shell output has slightly changed in some instances.
The recursion bugfix has also caused slight changes to the shell output
in recursion, such as that the name of a directory has to be printed
again to avoid confusion if subdirectories in that directory were
entered and filenames in that same directory are also to be renamed.
Download: SRename371.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)
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27.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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IR-chat of the Amiga-show in Maarssen, Netherlands
For the Amiga-show
in
Maarsen, Netherlands which will take place on 28th June 2003 an IRC-channel has been
created: #AmigaParty on
ARCNet.
Participants are Genesi, Computer City
and Attention Software.
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27.Jun.2003
Niels Bache (ANF)
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Pictures of Niels Bache of the Amiga fair moved
Niels Bache wrote:
Up to now my pictures of several Amiga fairs have been accessible under
http://nbache.frip.dk/.
Although the people have earned much praise for their efforts for this free service
in my opinion there have been too many breaks in the last time.
Now I have found a new home for these sites where I have also more space.
Therefore I could add the pictures of the AmiGBG 2003 again and there will be the
possibility to upload the other pictures, too. In any case probably there will be
new pictures of the OS4 tour in Götheburg because I will go there today.
The new start page can be accessed under http://nbache.frac.dk/.
Please change your bookmarks.
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27.Jun.2003
REBOL (ANF)
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REBOL/View desktop now Open-Source
There is another aspect of pushing forward the open-source idea.
The desktop project will be released by Carl Sassenrath as an attempt to integrate the
community thus everybody can participate in.
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