05.Nov.2003
Richard Ames
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Health: MouseBean Ergonomic Hand Rest
An independent study has shown that three
out of four computer mouse users suffering
from workrelated
upper limb disorders (WRULDs) and painful
hands and wrists, found their symptoms
alleviated after only two weeks of using
the MouseBean Ergonomic Hand Rest. This
is important
news for the increasing number of computer
users suffering from WRULDs and for businesses
losing millions of working days each year
when sufferers have to take time off work
to recover from
these disabling conditions.
The independent study was conducted by John Ridd,
a consultant ergonomist specialising in
workplace design and musculoskeletal disorders. A
mixed group of typical computer mouse users
with self-reported hand, wrist and upper limb
musculoskeletal disorders, tested the MouseBean
Hand Rest in an office environment.
After using the MouseBean Hand Rest for only two
weeks, three out of four users found it effective
at reducing the symptoms of WRULDs. At the end of
the test phase, 85% of subjects said that they
would choose to continue using the MouseBean Hand
Rest if they could. John Ridd concludes:
"The study would suggest that, for many mouse users
suffering with hand or wrist pains,
there is a very real likelihood of reducing those
symptoms within two weeks of using the
MouseBean Hand Rest."
The MouseBean Hand Rest is very different to regular
wrist rests - it uses two soft pads to support
the hand in comfort and the curved base lets you
glide on the mouse mat with a relaxed arm and
shoulder. The pads form a gap under the hand,
helping to reduce pressure in the wrist and
protect
the delicate median nerve from the dangers of
poor posture.
Commenting on the gel-filled wrist rests currently
on the market, John Crocker, managing director
of MouseBean Limited says: "Although they feel soft,
some gel-filled wrist rests may be doing
more harm than good! Research has shown that they
can actually increase pressure in the wrist and
lead to nerve damage! We believe that the MouseBean
Hand Rest is the first device of its kind to
have undergone a comprehensive evaluation and are
naturally delighted with the results of the
independent study. Whilst three out of four mouse
users suffering from WRULDs found their
symptoms alleviated, we have anecdotal evidence to
suggest that the device may be preventing the
onset of some symptoms as we have no reports of
customers developing new hand or wrist
conditions since fitting the device to their mouse.
In addition, the majority find it so comfortable to
use that they don't want to go back to using a mouse
without it."
The independent study shows that the MouseBean Hand
Rest is one of the simplest and most
effective ergonomic aids for mouse users; it converts
a regular mouse into an ergonomic mouse.
Available in a wide variety of attractive colours, the
MouseBean Hand Rest can be attached (with
the simple plug and socket device supplied) to most
regular mice. It can also be customised with a
logo or made to match corporate colours. To order, visit
the website under the title link and click `How to
Buy'. Retail price from £6.99. (nba)
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05.Nov.2003
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MorphOS: MPlayer-Update
The media player MPlayer is now available in version 0.91 for MorphOS and can be obtained from the MorphZone (1.6 MB).
Among other issues the reading of DVD´s is sped up, an MP3-Decoder, an anti screen saver system and MP4A support is added.
Nicolas Det writes: "It's the time to release MPlayer 0.91 for MorphOS! I hope you will enjoy it. Look in the readme file for list of the changes.
I would like to thank:
- Andre Siegel for very good looking icons
- Emanuel Steen for the documentation
- Sigbjørn Skjæret for many improvements and bugs fixed
- Harry Sintonen for many improvements and bugs fixed
- and all MorphOS users (including developers :-))"
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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05.Nov.2003
Heise Newsticker
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Heise: Microsoft provides a bounty for worm authors
As reported by the Heise Newsticker the software and game console developer
Microsoft is going to fight against the authors of computer worms like the
wide spread W32.Blaster and Sobig with some kind of bounty.
Hints which lead to an arrestment should be honored with up to 250,000 US$. Read the full (German) article by the title link. (cs) (Translation: ub)
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05.Nov.2003
ANN
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Articia S: Genesi and Hyperion gave information about the supposed "Bug"
During a discussion at the thread "Pegasos Italia" at ANN Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck by Genesi as well as Ben Hermans by Hyperion gave detailed information about the supposed bug of the Articia S northbridge for the first time.
Genesi published during that discussion protocol with which the problem should be reproduceable:
The following problem is given with the current Articia S versions:
The CPU interface fails to make all needed PCI to Memory transactions transparent to the CPU. This leads to failed (missed) snoop responses from the CPU in case of a modified cache line. The result may be a data corruption. The problem can be verified by creating a huge DMA load to the system.
1) Create a Linux partition with reiserfs using the IDE channel
2) Create a Linux partition with reiserfs using a 1394 (firewire) drive
3) Create any Linux partition (any device possible)
4) Enable DMA for IDE using 'hdparm'
5) Copy some data ~1-2GB using 1) and 2)
6) unmount 1)+2)
7) run the 'reiserfsck' tool using an endless shell script for 1)+2)
8) Start a ftp of a huge file (>memory+swap) using 3) and calculate a checksum for that file using an endless shell script
Be sure that the L2 cache of the CPU is enabled during your tests. Watch the results.
Required Resources
1 - Red Hat Linux Distribution 7.x
2 - IDE Hard Drives
1 - PCI Firewire Card
1 - 1394 Firewire Drive
Notes:
Line 1) - One IDE Drive for the O/S
Line 2) - Needs PCI Firewire Card, 1394 Firewire Card and SW Drivers for same
Line 3) - Configure partition on additional IDE Drive
Requires 2 weeks minimum full time effort (probably 3 weeks) for someone with advanced Linux configuration setup and test expertise.
Hyperions answer to this is:
"This 'so called' problem is the direct result of the Articia S's ability to handle memory access by the CPU and PCI bus.
This behavior reduces latency but is unknown in the Wintel world which is why the Linux drivers don't cater for it.
In the Wintel world either the CPU or the PCI busmaster is allowed to write to memory, not both at the same time.
MAI has been reworking the Linux drivers to cope with this and Hyperion has been aware of this feature for quite some time and has taken it into account when doing DMA capable drivers for the AmigaOne hardware.
[...]"
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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05.Nov.2003
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Novell's going to buy SuSE / IBM invests into Novell
As reported by CNN Money,
Novell is going to buy the German SuSE Linux
GmbH for about 210 millions US$. Additionally IBM is said to buy Novell shares for about 50 millions US$. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.Nov.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Event: Photos of the AmigaOne presentation in Beijing (Update)
In the last September Alan Redhouse, owner of the AmigaOne distributor Eyetech has presented
the plans of the company about the AmigaOne PPC systems on a big computer meeting in the Chinese
Beijing.
He demonstrated the AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne inside the meeting hall.
You can see some photos of this event on the website
and read a by Babelfish translated version of a news of the newspaper Guangming Daily online here.
Update:
The presentation Alan Redhouse used on a first meeting in the Far East in February 2003 is also available on the net. The presentation is available as Powerpoint file
and can be downloaded here.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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04.Nov.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #059
Liquid Skies has released the music pack #59. It contains a track from the musician Lcr and the cover
from Kuadziw.
Information about the track:
- Title: Psycho Being
- Artist: Lcr
- Style: Drum'n'Base
- Length: 3:19
- Format: mp3 (128kbps)
The zipped file (size: 3.1 MB) is available for download under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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04.Nov.2003
Amiga.org
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IBM wins the CPU contract for the Microsoft's X-BOX 2
Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp.'s Technology Group announced today (Nov. 3) that the next-generation
Xbox electronic game console will use a yet-to-be-designated IBM processor.
IBM's chip will replace Intel Corp.'s Pentium III processor now in the current Xbox version.
IBM is producing the chip for Nintendo's Gamecube and is developing the CPU for the Playstation 3
in cooperation with Sony.
Further information: EE Times
and Heise (German). (snx) (Translation: gf)
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03.Nov.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Software-Updates by Amigan Software
The shareware developers Amigan Software released updates for three programs.
Version 7.61 of the snake clone 'Worm Wars' is now available for AmigaOS and Windows.
A new version (5.76) of the freeware program 'Report+' has been released. The tool is based on ReAction/GadTools and requires AmigaOS 3.9. With the help of 'Report+' one can create for example Aminet readmes, replace the Commodore bug reporting tool or check the size (in bytes) of a directory.
Of Saga, a conversion of the board game "Saga: Age of Heroes" released in 1981 by TSR, a new version (1.34a) is now available.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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03.Nov.2003
Thore Böckelmann (ANF)
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System-Monitor: Scout Version 3.3
Thore Böckelmann released version 3.3 of the system monitor 'Scout'. 'Scout' offers you a closer look on current system resources and lets you manipulate them if possible.
Due to the fact that the list of changes is quiet long we recommend to read the changelog. The source code is no longer available as a seperate archive. The sources are now accessible via sourceforge.net as a public CVS repository.
The binary archive is also available in the Aminet.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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03.Nov.2003
Chris Hodges (Website)
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Poseidon: Unknown person spreads crack-instructions
As the author of Poseidon, Chris Hodges, informs on his website, someone spread instructions how to crack his USB stack on three mailing-lists yesterday.
According to Chris Hodges, this happened under the fake name "Dan Gaines" and, as a smokescreen, by using a freemailer in London as well as an anonymous proxy located in the UK. But the high amount of grammar mistakes in the posting would make it unlikely that this person was a native speaker. "Dan Gaines" would have been registered only a week ago, by which this seems to be a thoughtfully planned assault.
As the author states, the effects on the development of Poseidon are still to be considered - but the effect on his motivation would have been already devastating.
The further speculation by Chris Hodges regarding the background of this incident can be found on his website in the message from November 3. (snx)
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03.Nov.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #031031
The complete newsletter of October 2003 by Amiga Update can be found at the title link.
Contents:
- Amiga Shows in Ottawa, Canada, and near Valence, France
- Amizilla widens scope for prize
- STFax 5 goes freeware
- fxPAINT 2.02 Update available
- StarAM Plan Spreadsheed Update
- DVD Tools for Amiga
- PowerIcons 1.04 Release
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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03.Nov.2003
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Aminet Uploads bis 03.11.2003
New Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
ix2xml.lha comm/misc 25K+Microdot-II index file to XML converter.
ReadAIMLogs.lha comm/misc 41K+AmigAIM logfile to text converter. Sour
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 531K+Powerful WWW Gallery/Catalog Creator (A+
MCC_HotkeyStr.lha dev/mui 45K+HotkeyString custom class for MUI
AmiWBOnPegasos.lha docs/help 4K+How to install and run AmigaOS 3.9 Workb
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 61K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (26 Oc
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.7M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 10/2003 (Itali
Saga.lha game/board 330K+Saga 1.34a: Conversion of TSR boardgame
DC2Lvl-EMine2.lha game/data 454K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II
WormWars.lha game/misc 538K+Worm Wars 7.61: Advanced snake game
AS-FlowerGarde.lha game/think 202K+Windmill Solitaire Game
AS-Scottish.lha game/think 199K+Scottish Solitaire Game
AS-Windmill.lha game/think 168K+Windmill Solitaire Game
trilero68kb2.lha game/think 878K+Second beta version of trilero simulator
ArakAttack.lha hard/drivr 166K+V0.92 USB Driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
X-Media.lha hard/drivr 276K+Clean Software hack to see modes >1024x7
ADC-WinUAE.lha hard/hack 10K+ADC For Amiga Forever 5, WinUAE, GPL.
calculus.lha misc/math 315K+Mathematics Calculator
acidtake.mpg mods/mpg 10M+AcidTakeOver. Techno (MP3) tune from Emu
amphetarmx.mpg mods/mpg 9.2M+AmphetamineRMX. Techno/Trance/House (MP3
nofuture_Music.lha mods/synth 147K+Music Demos from Games
nofuture_Phase.lha mods/synth 147K+Music Demos from Games
EasyPlayer.lha mus/play 109K+The GUI for *all* shell-based music play
MiniPlayer16.lha mus/play 104K+Simple module player
PNGicons128x12.lha pix/icon 1.4M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons16x16.lha pix/icon 741K+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons22x22.lha pix/icon 209K+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons32x32.lha pix/icon 1.9M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons48x48.lha pix/icon 3.4M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons64x64.lha pix/icon 4.7M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons96x96.lha pix/icon 335K+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
USBStickPowerI.lha pix/icon 6K+A cool PowerIcon for USB MemorySticks
WHD-Icons.lha pix/icon 391K+Games icons for WHDload installs
AP24Covers.lha pix/misc 340K+AMiGa=PoWeR n 24 Covers Recto & Verso
mv_gfx.lha pix/wb 254K+NewGfX for Mysticview
SinisrusOS3.9.jpg pix/wb 531K+Screen Grab of OS 3.9 Workbench
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 357K+Complex dynamic buffer system, and other
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 308K+Report+ 5.76: Multipurpose utility
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 95K+Italian version of StartBar
Gyrok_PowerIco.lha util/wb 321K+Gyrok_PowerIcons
PowerIcons.lha util/wb 393K+NEW! 32bit PNG icons on your Amiga !!! (
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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03.Nov.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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OS4-demonstrations in England in the middle of November (Update)
South Essex Amiga Link are pleased to announce that they will be demonstrating AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne at its next group meeting. The meeting will be held on Friday Nov. 14th, between 7 pm to 11 pm, in Basildon, Essex.
On Sunday 16th November SEAL will once more demonstrate AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne machine, by travelling to the Amiga North Thames group meeting, being held in Enfield, NE London, between the hours of 1 pm to 5 pm.
Both events are no shows, there will be no dealers and no speakers, but everyone is welcome, admittance is free.
For Venue directions please see:
SEAL: http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk
ANT: http://www.amiganorththames.co.uk
Update: The meeting in Enfield has been re-scheduled and will take place already on Nov. 9th. (snx)
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02.Nov.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack - USB driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version is now available. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version.
What is ArakAttack?
ArakAttack is an USB driver paket that allows the usage of USB on any AmigaOS
compatible system with PCI slots. ArakAttack isn't an USB stack, it's a driver
paket for Chris Hodges great USB Stack Poseidon.
What are the features of ArakAttack?
- Amithlon optimised version.
- OpenPCI compatible version.
- UHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- OHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- Unlimited number of USB controllers supported at the same time.
- Unlimited number of parallel USB transfers garantees maximum performance.
- Only one device with multiple units makes installation very easy.
- Intelligent transfer descriptor caching mechanism.
- Several user options allow an optimisation of resource management to the users requirements.
- Full mem handler support. (Frees resources and caches if the system signals low system memory)
- No HUB depth limits.
- Separate time out handling for each USB request garantees the driver never freezes the USB stack or the system.
- External interrupt fallback for systems with interrupt trouble.
What is also required to use ArakAttack?
The latest version of Chris Hodges' Poseidon USB Stack.
In addition to that other components are required:
Amithlon: powerpci.library - version 2.13 or better.
Amiga PCI / Pegasos: openpci.library - version V1.20 or better.
Which USB Controller is required for ArakAttack?
Most of the current USB controllers are supported. Just take care it's UHCI, OHCI or EHCI compatible. Well, you will have difficulties to find any other within the stores now.
Amithlon user may be happy to hear that on board USB controllers are working, too!
How can I register?
Well, currently the registration makes no sense, because ArakAttack is
quite useless without a registered USB Stack.
If you own a Poseidon key feel free to register. Further information can be
found in the manual.
PLEASE: Don't bother Chris Hodges with questions about registering Poseidon. He
is very busy at the moment, so please keep quiet until the registration site
will be up again.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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01.Nov.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: special anniversary sale of "Inga"
Because of the 5th anniversary of the Amiga Arena offers Inutilis Software
the graphics adventure developers package Inga in a limited number from now on at a price of 19,- Euro plus 2,- p&p.
This special edition of Inga will be delivered on a CD-ROM without a printed manual, a documentation is on the CD-ROM in HTML. The CD contains in addition an up-to-date quite big demo of "Ermentrud".
The order can be done via the Amiga Arena following the title link. This offer is limited to five CDs and only valid until November, 8th 2003! Special thanks go to Timo Kloss who made this sale possible. (nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Nov.2003
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Wrong Planet: Amiga news in a completely different way
Wrong Planet is an (English) satirical "News" service for Amiga users that draws a bead on all and everyone. People who have followed the soap opera "Amiga Market" in the last months with attention will surely have had fun with the numerous side-swipes.
Update:
URL changed.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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01.Nov.2003
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MorphOS: picture viewer "MiniShowPicture"
"MiniShowPicture" is a picture viewer for MorphOS based on MUI.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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01.Nov.2003
Murakami (ANF)
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Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR n°24 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French news magazine that is distributed by the gathering AFLE and counts since its debut in 1998 as one of the most important French Amiga publications. In the current issue #24 you can read among others the following articles:
- News: AmigaOS 4, Pegasos II, fxPAINT v2.02, GoldED Studio AIX
- Reviews: AmigaOne G4-XE, Spider II USB 2.0, AmiNetRadio v2.0, WHDLoad
v16.0, ScummVM v0.5.0, Duke Nukem3D
- and many more.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Nov.2003
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Magazine: Club Amiga Magazine #10 release on November, 8th 2003
The release day of issue #10 of the Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been postponed by one week by the editorial staff. The new issue will therefore be released on November, 8th 2003. (nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.Oct.2003
http://www.retrohq.de/shop (ANF)
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Printed reference-book: "Game machines"
In the shop of the retro specialist retrohq.de
there is a reference-book to the famous console and computer systems of the 80s.
You can find test sites under http://www.retrohq.de.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2003
heise online (Website)
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heise: Microsoft is going to take over Google
Today the New York Times reports that Microsoft is going to have a partnership or to
fully take over Google. You can only read the full article of the NYT under the title link
if you pay for it.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2003
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Pegasos website at OpenBSD.org online
By http://www.openbsd.org/pegasos.html, the Pegasos version of OpenBSD now also has its own page at the official OpenBSD website. Here you can find information about the current status of development, supported peripherals, the corresponding mailing list and the installation. (snx)
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31.Oct.2003
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: bchunk win32 - Official beta test
This is an official beta version of the Win32-port of binchunker which is also known as
bchunk. bchunk is an Unix-Shell command which allows you to extract ISO-images from
CUE/BIN-images. Besides this it is possible to extract audio tracks to the CD-audio-format
(.crd) or to the WAV-format (.wav).
The file is available under the title link (17kb). An Amiga version is still in work.
Please test this program with e.g. CD32-CDs which also contains audio tracks and test if
the WAV-files are correctly playable.
You can get the source code at inquiry.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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30.Oct.2003
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Icon Patch: PowerIcons 1.04
This new version of the icon patch "Power Icons" contains many bug fixes. The exact changes for version 1.04 are viewable in the Change Log.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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MAME: Version 0.72 for MorphOS Appears
The "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" (MAME) has progressively appeared in version 0.72 for MorphOS.
[see also starroms.com to purchase ROMs -DM]
Download (snx) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
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Titan is looking for translators for Papyrus Office
Titan Computer is looking for translators for their upcoming software Papyrus Office. A German, English and French localization does already exist. If you are interested to help, please send a short e-mail to Michael Garlich. (snx)
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30.Oct.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)
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Source Code Released of Civilization: Call to Power II
On 28th October 2003 Activision released for free the source code for the strategy game "Civilization: Call to Power II." It may be downloaded from the website of Apolyton . Because the hardware requirements are moderate, PC hardware with a speed of 166 MHz and memory of 64 megs, nothing should stand in the way technically of a port to Amiga OS or MorphOS. The 8 megs of source contain the main parts of the code necessary to do a port. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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Genesi adds four new patents to its intellectual property portfolio (Update)
Genesi announced today that four patents owned by Raquel Velasco will be included in the Genesi intellectual property portfolio.
Genesi will be free to both benefit from these patents in the development of products and license fees.
The patents are:
- US5561709: Apparatus and method for electronic device for information services (1996-10-01)
- US5561708: Method and apparatus for interactive television through use of menu windows (1996-10-01)
- US5504519: Method and apparatus for printing coupons and the like (1996-04-02)
- US5490208: Apparatus and method for voice mode and data mode television-to-television communication (1996-02-06)
You can see the abstracts in the fulltext database for US-patents.
Contact:
Genesi SARL
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
bbrv@genesi.lu
Update: In the official press-release at Genesi's website even seven patents are listed. In addition to those already mentioned above, there are, also owned by Raquel Velasco:
- US5461667: Apparatus and method for electronic device for information services (1995-10-04)
- US5404393: Method and apparatus for interactive television through use of menu windows (1995-04-04)
- US5396546: Apparatus and method for automatic and user configurable information appliance (1995-03-07)
(snx)
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30.Oct.2003
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AWeb: Status report
No, we're not dead. :-) People are busy doing other things and things are awfully quiet. However a few things have happened:
GCC conversion of AWeb APL Lite seems to be progressing, slowly but steadily. It was therefore decided that we still need another SAS/C version before finally moving to GCC as the wait has been too long already.
We are in need of a person who can compile the AWeb 3.4 APL sources in CVS with the patches that have been submitted by various people and help us go towards a 3.5 release. This needs to be done using SAS/C.
As for the new AWeb, progress on KHTML is going too slow, because the developers have too little time to work on it. If you are willing to give a hand in helping a modern HTML-browser onto the AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS platforms, contact me.
If you are wondering about our plans, the document which describes this is here. Be aware that the document is not entirely complete and is based on discussion on our developer mailing list. (snx)
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30.Oct.2003
Martin Steigerwald
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Amithlon: Martin Steigerwald No Longer at Haage & Partner
Martin Steigerwald posted on the mailing lists for Amithlon, AmithlonOpen, and AmigaXL that he doesn't work for Haage & Partner anymore, and is thusly no longer doing email support for Amithlon users. (cs) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
st-computer (Website)
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GamePlan's Second Offering: Joysticks - Game Controllers from 1972 to 2003
After the success of "GamePlan: Consoles and Home Computers" a new book from the publishing house Gameplan is coming this November: "JOYSTICKS, an Illustrated History of the Game Controller." In cooperation with Take 2, Winnie Forster and Stephan Freundorfer wrote a reference book for all gamers: Joysticks shows the best and coolest, the humblest and the most daring controllers from 30 years of computer and videogame history. From the classic Atari stick to the handy pads of Sega, Sony and Nintendo all the way to the optical precision equipment of the ego shooter and onwards, Joysticks awes, stuns, and amuses gamers of every generation. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
Zeit (ANF)
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Zeit.de: Programmers from all Lands Unite!
"Programmers from all Lands..." is an overview of the mobilization of the open source movement, a comparison of different ideological perspectives of software development and a short exploration of the problems of software patents. An excerpt follows (with the friendly approval of Zeit.de) and the complete article is reachable under the title link:
For years only geeks got excited about it. They sat, strewn around the globe, at their computers and programmed, criticized, and discussed via the Internet. The rest of the world had no idea what was there in the 'Net: at first glance just some software. Actually the free thinking online community had created an antithesis to Microsoft, the most powerful and largest software house in the world. [...]
[other excerpts not translated, they're a bit longish. -dm]
(cg) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 30. Oct. 2003, 11:03] [Comments: 0]
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