02.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #038
Since yesterday a new music package with a tune by Tripper is available on the homepage of the group.
Details:
- Title: Beograd
- Artist: Tripper
- Style: electro
- Duration: 3:48
- Format: mp3 192 kbps
A photo of the Trippers visit to Belgrad was used for the cover by DaFreak.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)
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C.A.P.S. Update
C.A.P.S. is dedecated to the rescue of classic Amiga games.
Current update:
- New work-in-progress report.
- New User Plugin with added support for Speedlock timing, and memory
mapped image files to allow loading of IPF images from within
compressed archives.
http://www.caps-project.org
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: New products and new cooperations
New product: Kickflash OS4
Kickflash was announced several years ago, but never released due to licensing problems. With the planning of the new PPC native OS4 for all Amiga computers with PPC CPU, Hyperion and individual Computers started a cooperation more than a year ago (May 2002). The result of this cooperation is "Kickflash OS4", a highly optimized flashrom card for the Zorro slot of classic Amigas. It reduces boot time of OS4 significantly, and comes at a very low price: 29,- EUR. Up-to-date flashrom chips allow up to 100.000 re-programming cycles. Kickflash OS4 will be available to betatesters this summer. Mass production will start in time for the release of OS4, so people will have the choice between tailormade solutions by all cooperation partners (also see ALGOR/ROMulus by E3B).
New product: RR-Net
Especially for the Retro Replay and the C-One there will a networking card for the C64 before the end of this summer. Together with Adam Dunkels, the author of the web-enabled Contiki operating system, the first drivers for this 10MBit-card have been made. Contiki even has web-server functions that can be seen on the Internet: The server http://www.tfe.c64.org is running on a stock C64 with a similar networking card! RR-Net will be available in August 2003 for 50,- EUR.
Transparent C64 cartridge cases
Due to the high demand, cases for the nearly sold-out Retro Replay will be available from June 24th, 2003 on. If there's enough demand, we might also produce other colours in addition to the transparent ones. To find out what colours that could be, the hacker-group Cyberpunx has setup a Voting-page. The price per case will be 4,- EUR, no matter what colour you choose.
Lyra back in stock
The Lyra keyboard adapter that allows using a PC keyboard on Amiga computers will be back in stock on June 24th. We apologize for the shipment delays - we were not prepared for the high demand of this product. A big thank-you goes out to our customers who were obviously so satisfied with their Lyra adapter that they recommended it to all their friends. (ps)
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02.Jun.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Online-Magazine: NoCover #111
Issue no. 111 of NoCover is now available and can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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New AmiZilla Marketing Campaign Launched
A new AmiZilla marketing campaign has been launched. Companies and websites
that link to and promote the Dream of Netscape/Mozilla on Amiga get listed
and promoted. Top Zilla Marketers are the ones that promoted AmiZilla first
or come up with a very creative and interesting banner or animation for the
project.
What is AmiZilla?
I think that long time Amiga user Twistin'Ghost summarizes the project best
with the following press release he created. "In need of that killer app,
Amiga developer and resident platform fanatic Bill Panagouleas, of DiscreetFX,
is banding together the community in a bid to lure programmers to port
Mozilla to the Amiga platform. Donations are flowing in, an FAQ is in place,
and a devoted Message Board are all a part of this 'homegrown' project.
Panagouleas has put his money where his mouth is by donating $2000 out of
his own pocket, in addition to funding the site itself.
"It's this very kind of grassroots community involvement that has helped
to maintain the Amiga's status as a player in the Gen-IT realm," says
Panagouleas, a former employee of Commodore Business Machines. "(Amiga
users) have always been a tight-knit community that pulls together in
times of need. Some very impressive development talent are already making
inquiries and are showing great enthusiasm. I'm very excited."
The presence of Mozilla on the Amiga would provide additional voltage to
Amiga Inc.'s upcoming launch of its new Amiga OS 4.0. It will also help
users the Keep the Dream Alive by running a standards compliant mainstream
browser on MorphOS, Amiga Forever, WinUAE, Amithlon, and Classic Amiga's
running Amiga OS 3.9 ." Please keep the donations coming in so programmers
will be motivated to port Mozilla to Amiga/Amiga type systems.
(ps)
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02.Jun.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Shipment of ALGOR will start on Monday
The distribution of the new Zorro II USB controller ALGOR by E3B to
the dealers begins on today's Monday.
Additional information about the product and possible bundles and goodies can be found at the title link.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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DiaCD Update
Carsten Siegner released an update for DiaCD. Details about changes an improvements is to be found at the title link.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Hakan Parting (E-Mail)
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AmiComSys 2.4 and HL-Plugin 1.2 released
Hakan Parting released updates for his programs AmiComSys and HL-Plugin. The following changes were made:
AmiComSys 2.4
- BUGFIX: The "Kill gui" menu item had an empty key
combination.
- BUGFIX: When a modal message requester was opened only
the main window was put to sleep. The entire application must
be put to sleep so the user cannot do anything else in the program.
In certain occasions this error would lead to a crash or an Enforcer
hit.
- NEW: Added requeststring function to the messagerequester class for use by plugins.
- NEW: The reply text field and replybutton are no longer shown
in reponse of a version and system info request.
- BUGFIX: If you opened the Client Info window and then iconified
the application and later deiconified it the main window and
the client window had the same dimensions and position.
- NEW: Changed the layout of the message requesters. It should
now get a better dimension so you don't need to scroll. The
sizegadget was also removed. If your requesters are snapshotable
it is still there.
- NEW: AmiComSys now asks if you want to display the file
you just received.
- NEW: If a plugin is inside the ACS main window its menu
is added the first time the plugin is active.
- BUGFIX: Enforcer hit when you opened the Client Info
of user without any comment and also when such a user connected.
- BUGFIX: It will now not go online when you uniconify after you
have killed the gui while your your status was set to offline.
- BUGFIX If the comment, homepage and some other items on the
personal info were set to an empty string they were not updated
in the contact list until you reconnected.
HL-Plugin
- NEW: Enhanced the error handling for the file transfer.
- BUGFIX: Fixed a race condition with the file transfer queue.
- BUGFIX: File resume implemented (working with hxd, not HL Server).
- NEW: Added "Kick selected user" and "bann selected user" to the
Action menu.
- NEW: Added "Delete"(file) and "MakeDir" to the Files window.
- BUGFIX: Upload didn't work with all servers and files.
- BUGFIX: The close button of a transfer window didn't work.
It just closed the user list connection.
- BUGFIX: Forgot to close the transfer window when you got a "file already exists" error.
- BUGFIX: Transfers the info written in the Bookmarks
section in the "HL Plugin Servers" window when the connect button is pressed or when the window is closed. Before the old info was sent
to the server when you had forgotten to press return in the text
boxes you had modified.
- BUGFIX: There was an error with the bookmark save routine
(possible enforcer hit).
- NEW: A connection to a server, tracker or file server
will now not block HL Plugin while it is connecting. It's
now possible to cancel a connection while it is connecting.
- NEW: After a file download has finished the program now
ask if you want to display it.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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01.Jun.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030531
Brad Webb has published the Amiga Update for May 2003. Once a month Webb
summarises all important news on the theme of Amiga in his newsletter. Read the
current Amiga Update by way of E-Mail subscription or delayed under the title
link and therein the following themes:
- AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour
- AmiWest News Update
- Amiga wins popularity contest
- RIAA apologizes to Amiga Web Site
- AmigaOS 4.0 to support E3B's ALGOR and ROMulus flashroms
- Hollywood 1.5 official announcement
- MetaView Freeware as of now
- WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 7 (30.05.2003)
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01.Jun.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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Issue 5 (June) of Amiga Inc.'s Club Amiga Magazine published
Issue 5 (June) of the monthly Amiga Club Magazine has been published today for
registered members. It contains a.o.t. a new status report on OS 4.0, an interview
with Zeoneo and much more. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
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Obituary: Jay Glenn Miner (31st May 1932 - 20th June 1994)
This Saturday 71 years ago, on the 31st May 1932, Jay Glenn Miner was
born. Miner is regarded as one of the most prominent chip designers in the world
and as the father of the Amiga.
In the middle of the seventies he developed the TIA chip, originally for medical
applications, later for use in the legendary Atari 2600. With the ANTIC and the
GTIA chipsets he laid the foundation for the Atari 8bit family.
After the founding of the company Hi-Toro which was later renamed into Amiga, Miner
worked on the joyboard, a revolutionary control device for the Atari 2600 and the
ColecoVision and on the work of his life, the Multimedia chipset for the 68000 based
games console Lorraine which was renamed into "Amiga 1000" after the purchase of
the company by Commodore and turned into a full-fledged computer.
Miner passed away on 20th June 1994 due to kidney failure.
He was regarded as a revolutionary computer designer and an extraordinary person.
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01.Jun.2003
ANN / San Francisco Business Times (Website)
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3DO face bankruptcy
According to reports of the San Francisco Business Times, American video game
and hardware developers 3DO have filed for insolvency.
3DO became well-known at the beginning of the nineties by way of the games
console of the same name, which, although being technically superior, wasn't
able to conquer the hoped-for market share. The Rewood City based company had
recently been able to reduce debts with the commercial success of console games
such as "High Heat Major League Baseball" or "Army Men", but apparently not able
to avert bankruptcy.
Interestingly enough the 3DO console was designed with the help of the Amiga/CD32
by Commodore - former Amiga warhorses Dave Morse, RJ Mical and Dale Luck had a
significant share in the further development of 3DO.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Mark Tierno (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #71
The 71st and officially last issue of the Amiga online magazine 'Amiga
Information Online (AIO)' has been published. This issue contains a.o.t.
the following articles:
- Strange Opinion
- Dr. Strange, Web Wanderer
- Hints & Tips
- Final Credits
- AIO Secrets
- My Last Words
- History Of Amiga
- The Amiga that is and can...
The full table of contents can be obtained from the readme which is enclosed in
the archive. AIO uses a custom display program and can be used from AmigaOS 3.0
onwards.
Download: AIOV71.lha (547 KB) - Readme
The operators of AIO are pleading for a final retroactive donation for all the
editors involved. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Start menu: Pixload Final Version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS released
Today the final Version 4 of the start menu Pixload has been released for AmigaOS
and MophOS. This is the final features list:
- Drag & Drop of picture directories loads a thumbnail tool
- New formats: TIFF and TARGA via Datatypes
- New formats: AIFF and WAVE (no Datatypes required)
- Control bar for MiamiDX integrated
- New program load window
- Clock with RTC functionality
- Help file in the context menu
- Fixed some bugs
- Pixload is scalable
- Pixload can open drawers instead of programs
- Shortkeys added
- Icon organisation by way of Drag & Drop
- Choice of number of icon columns
- Special MorphOS 1.3 / Pegasos version
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Interview with AmiStart developer Darius Brewka
The online magazine AmigaWorld has published an interview with Darius Brewka,
the programmer of AmiStart.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Event: Computer Art Festival 2003 in Russia
The Computer Art Festival 2003 (CAFe 2003) will take for the fourth time on 23rd
and 24th August 2003 in Kazan, Russia.
CAFe'2003 is an event for programmers, musicians, graphic artists, Web designers
and other creative professions. The demo party will be conceived as a festival,
which will be organised in cooperation with the Ministry for Youth. The festival
is officially announced as a "Computers against Drugs" event. The main platforms
are the Amiga, the ZX Spectrum and the PC.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Spanish and Russian documentation for FroggerNG
Spanish and Russian documentation for the shareware video player FroggerNG
has been provided which is available for download under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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31.May.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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E3B and Hyperion: ALGOR / ROMulus flash ROM supported by AmigaOS 4
E3B and Hyperion are pleased to be able to announce the deep cooperation of both companies regarding the ALGOR and ROMulus. The for the time being by Hyperion developed AmigaOS 4.0 will be able to use the flash ROMs available on the ALGOR and ROMULUS without any problem.
Read the complete German press release on the E3B news site or
an also available English version.
The ALGOR is a Zorro II based USB controller that supports USB 1.1 and 2.0 (no highspeed mode) and has 512kB flash ROM integrated on the controller card.
The widely spread HIGHWAY USB controller can be upgraded via ROMulus with flash ROMs.
Users of the AmigaOS 4.x can keep a compressed Kickstart 4.0 in the flash ROM and significiantly shorten the boot time this way.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
AUGS - Amiga User Group Switzerland (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.0 tour in Basel with good PR
The announcement of the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation in Basel finds a wide spreading in Switzerland through the headline on PC-Tip and the portal of Sunrise.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
The Legacy (website)
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The Legacy: Do you have self painted games sketchesor maps?
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad
CPC that provides the readers with screenshots, covers scans and information about the developers. Today the museum is looking for people who still have their with attention to detail painted maps for Dungeon Master and games like that lying around.
Or is there on a still working floppy disk a course of Hard Drivin' 2: Drive Harderstill existing? Then please scan the maps, copy the data and send all to the museum. Please send all the pearls to
mishra@thelegacy.de.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Temporary injunction against SCO
The Linux specialist univention from Bremen (Germany) has obtained a temporary injunction at the Landgericht
Bremen against the SCO Group GmbH. This injunction forbids SCO to claim "that Linux operating systems contain illegally gained intellectual property of SCO Unix and/or that end users who use Linux can be made liable for the involved violation of copyrights". If acting against this an infringement payment up to 250,000 Euro is possible. This injunction is only valid for the German SCO Group GmbH not world wide.
Read the full (German) Golem article following the title link.
Further link regarding the subject:
heise (German): SCO: Ausschneiden und kleben?
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
A/NES (website)
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Emulator: A/NES CGFX version 1.33 in the works
Version 1.33 of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES CGFX for
Amiga computers with graphics cards is being worked on. Here the original message:
"Started to work on v1.33. Finally managed to get rid of the annoying
mousepointer on the screen while running the ROMs. For now, that's
really the major new feature of v1.33. :) I'll try to implement some
more nice stuff however.
By the way, I even tried to assemble the old
A/NES AGA code some days ago, if you remember it? :) I can't get it to
run properly however, dunno if it's because I have a different computer
today compared to when I last compiled those sources. Time will tell if
I manage to get it running someday... :p
And as usual, feel free to report comments about A/NES CGFX (ideas,
bugreports etc) in the forum or by e-mail."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
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Aminet uploads until 31.05.2003
Here are the Aminet uploads added since our last report:
trsi-fnews12.lha comm/misc 51K+Free configurable News Display Tool for
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1d
WebPics104.lha comm/www 5K+WebPics 1.04 - Web Based Photo Gallery G
ADN_Support.lha comm/yam 23K+V1.3 AmigaDreamNetwork support for YAM.
YAM24p1.lha comm/yam 728K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4p1 (bugfix updat
NoSyncIzBack.lha demo/aga 1.7M+NoSyncIzBack! - WOS demo 3rd at IGDRP 2.
USE_NoSync.lha demo/aga 3.8M+NoSync by Universe - WOS demo 3rd at Equ
MCC_SpeedBarSP.lha dev/mui 7K+SpeedBar 19.1 spanish catalogs v19.1.0
AMIthlon_setup.lha disk/misc 1.0M+Easy automated AMIthlon setup disks usin
SpanienSSeng.lha docs/hyper 98K+SpanienSSeng history of some spanish
AmigaArenaBase.lha docs/misc 528K+Amiga Arena Interview Database (English/
Arkanos.lha game/misc 404K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.02 **
MLink.lha game/wb 44K+Try to solve this chainlink puzzle!
MySquare.lha game/wb 43K+Try to solve this mathematical puzzle!
TriLights.lha game/wb 44K+Light-up this triangular-shaped board!
X_Lights.lha game/wb 44K+Light-up this X-shaped board!
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Sv5Fix121.lha gfx/misc 6K+*Fix* for SView5 V1.21 (29.5.2003)
FroggerRU.lha gfx/show 11K+Frogger russian documentation v2.06
DC-KF500.lha hard/hack 983K+A500 based FlashROM kickstart board
LCD-Test.lha hard/misc 14K+LCD Test: helps to find broken Pixels
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 86K+ZX-Spectrum 48/128k emulator v0.17b
037_mpfree.lha mods/moods 8.9M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
041_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.3M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
Almacen-Chip.mpg mods/mpg 6.0M+Almac n Chip (Symphonie mod in mpeg form
Amiga_Roolez.mpg mods/mpg 6.9M+Amiga Roolez song (Symphonie mod in mpeg
ArrobaMix.mpg mods/mpg 2.9M+Arroba Mix (The final part of Arrebato m
BAR.mpg mods/mpg 4.0M+Bar (Rock mod converted to mpeg audio)
ModMix.mpg mods/mpg 1.2M+Remix of Cherry2.mod
QuantumExecBas.mpg mods/mpg 3.7M+Quantum for the Execbase (converted to m
opensource.lha mods/smg 53K+PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
pumpitup.lha mods/smg 58K+Oldie - PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
smoothia.lha mods/smg 154K+PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
spaceballs.lha mods/smg 205K+Oldie - PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
techrythm.lha mods/smg 16K+Oldie - PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
Cougar16V_01.jpg pix/vehic 127K+Pic of Ford Cougar in 1024x682
Cougar16V_02.jpg pix/vehic 118K+Pic of 2 Ford Cougars in 1024x682
Cougar16V_03.jpg pix/vehic 147K+Pic of 2 Ford Cougars in 1024x682
Cougar16V_04.jpg pix/vehic 1.2M+Pic of Ford Cougar in 2160x1440
Amitex_4.04.lha text/edit 428K+Text editor (French and english versions
trsi-mp3ext13.lha util/cli 12K+MP3 Info Viewer + FileID creator
frog_scripts.lha util/misc 26K+ToolBar Scripts and Buttons for FroggerN
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31.May.2003
edition W3C.de
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German translation of the XFrames Working Draft
Already in the middle of May had a German translation of the conceptual drafts for the new XFrames on the website of Michael Jendryschik been made available under the title link.
The English original of the Working Draft can be found on the website of the W3C. XFrames is an XML application with the aim to assemble several documents to replace in the long run the HTML frames. A future support through all available webbrowsers recommended by the W3C.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
Amiga Rulez
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Website for MorphED set up
For MorphED, a free text editor and gcc developers environment by Dietmar Eilert for the operating system MorphOS, had an own website been set up under the title link. There you can find next to some information several provisional screenshots that show the optical relationship between MorphED and GoldED Studio AIX.
Under http://morphed.morphos.net/
exists a mirror of the website.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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BenderIRC 1.5 RC 1 available
BenderIRC, the free IRC client, is nearing the final version 1.5. In the last days has the client got several updates.
As last missing feature has now the beta version of the graphical configuration tool been made available for download. Together with the changes in BenderIRC itself have many demands of the users been granted.
All users are called to report the still remaining bugs. The simpliest way is using the web form.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
DOpus-ML (email)
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New DirOpus 4 beta version available
The new beta version 4.17 pre 21 of the file manager Directory Opus 4 is available under the title link. Direct download: DOpus417pre21.lzx.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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30.May.2003
Gunnar 'GunaTM' Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22 R7 published
Version 0.8.22 release 7 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' written by Toni Wilen
for Windows has been published. This version contains the following bug fixes and new
features:
Bugs fixed:
- printer didn't work if serial port emulation was enabled
- palette wasn't updated properly when entering and exiting the GUI
in fullscreen 8-bit Picasso96 mode
- button or key mapped to mouse horizontal or vertical axis
- random crash when horizontal centering was enabled
- bsdsocket emulation, ping, traceroute, AmTelnet SSH connection freeze
- config save crash and non working keyboard
- ShapeShifter-support improved, all Kickstart 2.x/3.x versions supported
- lores-mode support for "sprites outside display window"-feature
- and more..
New features:
- emulation compatibility improvements
Elfmania, Rainbow Island (broke accidentally in R6),
Mission Elevator (properly fixed this time...), SWIV,
Old Timer, Inferior, Sub Rally, Sargon History, TBL demos,
Sound of Silents, Cardamom, Cardamon etc.
- analog joystick (paddle) ports emulated
- improved hard/ZIP disk RDB detection
- Action Replay 2/3 state file support
- sound "power led" filter emulation
- freely selectable sound sample rate (8000 - 48000)
- "direct" serial port support, fixes PC to PC Lotus 2 serial link
problems. (two player only, 3 or 4 players require lower serial
latency that is not possible under Windows)
- zipped CAPS-image support
- updated AHI driver included
A German mirror is available under
webwood.de.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
Amiga Club Augsburg (ANF)
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OS4.0 on Tour - News
Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik wrote:
"With an opinion poll we would like
to get an overview about the amount of people who might will come. If there are any
signs that more visitors will come than we expect now there is the possibility open
the event on Sunday, too. Therefore we would be very grateful if you could help us.
Especially we are very delighted to present some developers and members of Hyperion.
At this event the following persons will be present: Steffen Häuser, Hans-Jörg Frieden
and Thomas Frieden.
Christian Krenner will exhibit and present his
'Monster A600' (Motorola 68030/40 MHz, 34 MByte RAM, 10 GByte hard drive,
PCMCIA-Net work and USB-ports).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
Debian (Website)
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Debian Weekly News: Debian for Pegasos
In its issue 21/2003 the Debian Weekly News which is a newsletter of the Debian
community reports about how Debian works on a Pegasos computer:
"Debian on the Pegasos platform. Eugenia Loli-Queru has reported that Debian GNU/Linux
has been preinstalled on the Pegasos computers which are beased on PowerPC G3 and G4.
With the help of Mac-on-Linux you are able to run the Debian system, MacOS or OSX without
Apple hardware."
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets until 31.05.2003 (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games which have been formerly meant only for use with
disks on your hard drive. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 31.05.03 new: Psycho Santa (Bullfrog) done by Agressor
- 31.05.03 fixed: Zool (Gremlin) rawdic imager fixed for disk 2
- 31.05.03 fixed: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) install problems fixed
- 31.05.03 fixed: King's Quest (Sierra) install problems fixed
- 29.05.03 fixed: Simon The Sorcerer (Adventure Soft) access fault fixed
- 29.05.03 new: Lords of the Rising Sun (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 29.05.03 new: King's Quest 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 29.05.03 new: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 24.05.03 improved: Boston Bomb Club (Silmarils) supports another version
- 24.05.03 new: King's Quest (Sierra) done by JOTD
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (E-Mail)
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Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - further names wanted
Steffen Nitz wrotes:
I need your ideas again. This time I am looking for positive messages of the workers
like:
- Yes, Sir!
- As you like it!
- Finally good work!
- Will be done, Sir!
- Your wish is my order!
and I am looking for negative messages like:
- Not already again!
- Is there not somebody else who can do this?
- I am fed up with this!
- No, I will not do this!
This one who will send me the most good sentences will get a keyfile of the Gilde or
of SN-Münzarchiv as well as an entry in the credits.
The game principle
This game is a round based economy simulation which takes place in the Middle Ages
(1400 until 1600). Furthermore it is also a realtime strategy game with elements of
role games and it is a simulation of the life.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
derstandard.at (ANF)
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Mention of Amizilla on Standard
During the last time good news have been a really rare thing. But the Austrian
newspaper "Der Standard" reports sometimes about our system.
The online article reports about the project "Amizilla" which tries to make possible
the porting of the Mozilla browser to the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.May.2003
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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USB Stack: Poseidon Update V2.1
There's a new update of the Poseidon USB Stack. It consists mainly of improvements and bugfixes of the Mass Storage Class, for Highway as well as Subway drivers. Through this a whole lot more pieces of equipment should run, which had formerly balked.
Newly come is a program for USB-Radios from D-Link, respectively GemTek. One can purchase these very cheaply on eBay, because it was put together in a friendly manner it was just a few hours work to create the drivers.
A bit more was invested in the new program for the management of my MP3 Player (Valencia MPX), which was available for purchase at Lidl in December 2002. This (and many similarly built units) are unfortunately not MSD equipment. With the Uproar tool this MP3 player may nonetheless be conveniently used. In case anyone else has such a gadget, I'd be very appreciative to hear some feedback.
This time there are two separate archives, for classic Amiga as well as MorphOS systems -- this allows simple installation.
That's just an intro, further details may be found in the ReadMe. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
(ANF)
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Amiga Access Homepage Update
On the homepage of the Amiga-Clone 'Access' (title link) there are now some more benchmarks. The modules may be downloaded and tried on your own computer. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Roger Stamm (ANF)
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ahs-amiga.ch Is Moving
Roger Stamm of AHS-Amiga Handel Stamm writes:
"AHS-Amiga is moving. Because of this it may happen that the pages at
www.ahs.amiga.ch are not readily available. If you want to get in touch with us, use email: info@ahs-amiga.ch.
We will send a confirmation within two days for the receipt of the email. If you don't get confirmation, you can also reach us at
rstamm@gmx.de.
Many thanks for your understanding."
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Telemar Rosenberger (E-Mail)
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Amiforce: Snapshots of Aquarium and Port Royal
Telemar Rosenberger, known to many for his software "AmHuhn," has authored a screen saver
named "Aquarium" and a game named "Port Royal," with the help of the multimedia authoring system
Hollywood. Under the title link you'll find the first screenshots
for both of these programs. The programs will be published as soon as the
announced Hollywood
Version 1.5 is out.
The deal with Aquarium is that it's a screen saver with images of swimming fish, already known from other
platforms. Now AmigaOS too gets the enjoyment of this pleasing screen saver.
Port Royal is a new combat game, which is about ships firing cannons. With this one may, for example, calculate wind
direction in directing a strike, and naturally the enemy ships shoot back. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: New Audio Track
As of now there is a new MP3 (Trance) to be downloaded from Amiforce, for all interested.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.May.2003
Dennis Pauler (ANF)
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Star Empire II: Last possibility to join
Tomorrow, Thursday, a new round of the email based space strategy game
Star Empire II will start. The aim of the game is to become the leader of the universe
but there are 32 human beings trying to do this and several computer controled pirates.
Diplomaty, alliances, but also armed space crafts are strongly indicated to fulfill this.
Who wants to join has now the last possibility to do so
Btw.: The server program of Star Empire II is powered by AmigaOS... :-)
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
pcgames.de (ANF)
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PC Games: Munich decides for Linux
»The Munich city council has decided today that in future on all 14,00 PCs and notebooks of the city Linux software will
be used instead of Microsoft programs.
The council followed with this decission a claim of the 1st municipal
Christian Ude. The migration to the open source operating system should be done steadily during the next years. Initially the public offices
which use mostly office applications should be changed to the new software.
The costs of this change including teaching courses are guessed to nearly 30 million Euros«.
Read the full article (German) by the title link.
Further links regarding this topic:
Golem: München pro Linux: Stadtrat lässt Microsoft abblitzen
heise: IBM: Münchener Entscheidung ein "Ritterschlag für Linux"
heise: CSU kritisiert Münchener Entscheidung als "Software-Abenteuer"
SPIEGEL: MÜNCHEN WÄHLT LINUX SuSE beißt Bill
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Lorraine Design (Website)
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New YAM toolbar icons
At Lorraine-Design there are new icons for the YAM toolbar available for download.
Here is a preview.
Download: NewYam.LHA
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - lookong for further names
Steffen Nitz writes: "'Die Kleine Gilde' version 0.25 will be released within the next
4 - 5 days and I ask for the following: Actually I am binding the new profession smith to the game and need
20 to 30 house names regarding the smith profession. I am looking for names like "Heavy Hammer", "Hot Iron" etc. There is a keyfile to win for
'Die Kleine Gilde' or for `SN-Münzarchiv'".
Update:
Steffen Nitz has published this
screen shot from the game. Under the title link you will find some others.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Marc Albrecht (E-Mail)
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amiga-news.de: Comuter center maintenance
Tomorrow night (i.e. from Thursday to Friday) there will be some hardware compounds changed at that comuter center which hoste amiga-news.de
therefore between 23:00 and 03:00 that night it might be that the pages are unreachable.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Preview from PairsNG and an own domain
The one or other user might remember the game "Pairs" which was released in 1996 for the first time
in version 1.0 by Tobias Lenz. Seven years later Christoph Kimna is working with "PairsNG" on more than a
honorable successor. The preview reports about Olaf Köbniks first impressions of "PairsNG" and with the
screen shots you can see yourself that there will be a real classic one soon, which won't release you too easy.
Furthermore there is additional information given about the author
Christoph Kimna during the interview and one more surprise. The
interview, the preview and the screen shots are at the section "Interviews". The interview is currently available in
German.
Amiga Arena - Now with an own domain
it took long but with the friendly support of the Fun Time World the
Amiga Arena is reachable at
http://www.amiga-arena.de
from now on.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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Official release of YAM v2.4p1
The email client YAM (Yet Another Mailer) has been released by the YAM open source
team to be publicly downloadable. Read with the following the list of the new
features:
- Fixed: failed to quote messages containing attachments (damato)
- Fixed: the "Abbreviation" string gadget in the Glossary reset
itself to "- new -" every time the contents were deleted (damato)
- Fixed: it could happen that a temporary letter file was used for
several Write windows at once (damato)
- Fixed: would try to delete an inexistant ".autosave0" file if the
AutoSave option was set to 0 (damato)
- Fixed: couldn't exit if ConfirmOnQuit was enabled and YAM was
iconified (damato)
- Fixed: the HIDE option prevented the application from popping up
if MUI's own appicon or the commodity system were used (damato)
- Fixed: the FOLDERINFO ARexx command returned the wrong ID number
for folders containing "sent and received" mail (damato)
- Fixed: changing the folder type failed to refresh the message
list (damato)
- Fixed: forgot to pack messages when they were imported into
compressed folders, causing all sort of calamity (damato)
- Fixed: folders that "lost" their directory were
automatically recreated as folders of type "outgoing" (damato)
- Fixed: cancelling the password requester in the folder settings
window would create a folder protected with an empty password (damato)
- Fixed: the "Export..." item in the popup menu would export the
whole folder contents (damato)
- Fixed: the "Check PGP signature" menu item in the Read window
was sometimes disabled even if the message had a signature to
check (damato)
- Fixed: the "Save decrypted message" menu item in the Read
window didn't work as it should in compressed/encrypted folders
(damato)
- Changed: it is now actually compatible with the most common MBOX
formats, e.g. MBOXRD (damato)
- Changed: added support for the DST variable created by
Facts, rendering SummerTimeGuard emulation obsolete (damato)
- Changed: no longer disables the pattern field in the ASL
file requester opened to attach files (damato)
- Changed: no longer complains if it can't save ENVARC:mui/YAM.cfg
on exit (damato)
- Added: new hidden option "AutoColumnResize" for YAM to resize
the NList columns when switching folders if the option is enabled,
which it is by default (damato)
- Added: confirmation requester before cropping attachments (damato)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Dia-CD (Vacation pictures burned as VideoCD)
Today Carsten Siegner finished his project "Dia-CD"
(at his home page at "rexx"). With this program you can watch your pictures from the vacation easily utilizing a TV and a DVD player.
The program creates automatically a slide show and compiles a VCD-Image by demand.
Features:
- any picture archive convertable
- any picture format usable (utilizes the datatypes)
- adding a soundtrack
- Later navigation with the keys of the DVD rc
- Written in ARexx competly; so to use with all Amigas.
- Every picture or every picute sequence might have its own presentation time (10 s - 100 s)
- If demanded the source pictures are added to the VideoCD as well, so they won't be lost
- To every VideoCD a ReadMe file can be added
- There is a brief online help optional
Requirements:
- RexxTricks_386.lha (from Siegner's home page)
- Tritonrexx (at the RexxTricks directory)
- triton.library (at the RexxTricks directory)
- dttoppm.lha (Aminet)
- sox.lzx (from Siegner's home page or Aminet)
- Multiviev
- execute
- AREXX
- vcd-ffmpeg.lzx (from Siegner's home page)
- min 1 GByte free hard disk space
- min 64 MByte free RAM
Installation:
Install RexxTricks with the installer. That will install all data for
Tritonrexx and the
triton.library also. Unpack dttoppm.lha and copy the program to C:. Unpack vcd-ffmpeg.lzx and move
vcdimager and ffmpeg to C:. ARexx needs to be stated at boottime, Sox must be at C:.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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Game: Payback for GBA - Status report #7
On May the 27th 2003 James Daniels by Apex Designs released the seventh
status report about the port of the game 'Payback' to the Gameboy
Advance.
The update focuses to the new features and performance increase which were done during the last month.
The report includes four new screen shots and a video clip of the game in action.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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27.May.2003
KDH News (ANF)
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AmigaOne: German mailing list
A German-speaking mailing list for AmigaOne-customers was built up today. This mailing list should help AmigaOne-customers
to communicate with other customers in the German-speaking scope (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), also it should be a authority for tips and tricks
because of the AmigaOne.
This mailing list is supported by the Amiga dealer
Point Design and KDH Datentechnik
and is made as a completion to the official Amiga mailing list.
You could announce at here.
Source:
Jürgen Schober - Point Design
Günter Horbach - KDH Datatechnic
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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YAM Newsletter 12 - visits in the YAM future
The YAMOS team, developer of the e-mail client YAM (Yet Another Mailer), have been published the YAM newsletter No. 12 today.
There they related to the new features of YAM-Release 2.4p1 which explains
hidden options "AutoColumnResize" of this version and visited to the future of YAM. Read the complete English-speaking newsletter under the
title link.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Call to Logo competition
The face of AROS in this way. So a logo competition is organized, that is open for designer and graphic artists.
After the delivery date there are public selections, at its end a winner is announced.
All logos had to be delivered until the 30th June, and they are not allowed to contain copyrighted elements. They had to be in a vector or a bitmap format.
Following formats are supported: SVG, EPS, EPSF, PS, AI, PNG, GIF, TIFF, IFF-24 oder PSD.
The winner will be fame and honour.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Status Report May 2003
Another whole month has gone by, which means that it's definitely time for another status update. Doh, why do have all the status updates to begin like that? :) I'd like to thank all the people who showed interest in AROS in the last months, and there have been a lot! Anyway, let's not wait longer, here are the juicy bits, in this relatively uneventful month...
Hardware
Johan Grip received the Pegasos board at the end of April, installed Debian GNU/Linux on it, and started working on the hosted AROS port. However he was no longer able to continue for personal reasons, so he sent the board to Michal Schulz, another talented hardware hacker.
In the meantime, Michal, who already had a PPC PReP board, worked on the native PPC port. He merged his sources in the AROS CVS tree, creating the new 'arch/ppc' directory. To this day, he went as far as implementing task handling and scheduling. Congratulations Michal! Sources as well as a PReP boot image can be found at http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~misc/AROS.ppc.tar.bz2
Michal is also reworking exec.library to make it hardware/platform-independent, by moving dependent stuff in resources like kernel.resource, OpenFirmware.resource...
Build system
No fundamental changes to this sometimes hated system, but lots and lots of little bug fixes and improvements by almost every active AROS Team member in tools, config files, makefiles... So much activity caused quite a few broken nightly builds, but it seems now stabilized.
Also the newer gcc 3.3 that got installed on the build machine led to some problems, but nothing that couldn't be handled.
We now use bzip2 instead of gzip, and a custom, simpler package format than tar to create the AROS floppy and squeeze every possible byte. In the quest to more space, some less useful programs were removed from floppy. Thanks to Adam Chodorowski for the cleanup and optimizations!
i386-pc Installation
The installer for the i386 native port, install-i386-pc, is currently broken, but a graphical bootsector installer is in work, as well as a bootmenu editor, courtesy of Sebastian Heutling, who also still works on the HDToolBox partition editor.
User Interface
Adam Chodorowski began to work on the Zune custom class PreferencesWindow.mcc which implements the AROS standard prefs window buttons and look.
Paul Smith continued his huge work on the next iteration of Wanderer and the underlying desktop.library. It draws icons, and different views are possible (large icons, small icons, details).
Fabio Alemagna added horizontal and vertical color gradients to Zune images. Take a look at the obligatory screenshot!
By default, the Boot Shell is now closed after Wanderer is started. To open a new shell, use the Wanderer/Shell menu item, or use Amiga-W shortcut (Amiga key is the right Win key on pc105 keyboards)
Localizations
Thanks to Olivier Adam for his French translation of dos.library catalog, and to Paulo Silva for the Portuguese keyboard description (which Georg Steger implemented).
Miscellaneous
Some miscellaneous things that have happened:
- Staf Verhaegen continued to work on diskfont.library.
- Stefan Berger worked hard on ports of gtlayout.library and term 4.7, which can be found in contrib.
- Adam Chodorowski imported AHI 5.8 in AROS CVS, following Martin Blom's release of the AROS port.
- Georg Steger worked on the unix hosted kernel to allow nesting supervisor, so that signals occuring during a signal handler execution are not ignored. It should improve the stability of the serial device.
- and of course, lots of fixes here and there by many developers: for a rough idea, already more than 350 CVS commits this month (although we won't beat the record of 890 last month, according to the AROS-CVS mailing list archive).
Documentation
AROS documentation, in source and HTML-rendered form, is now available on the download page.
Web
Randy Vice set up an AROS support site, TeamAROS, at http://thenostromo.com/teamaros/.
Be sure to check their bounty program if you want to sponsor AROS development.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: Changes and votes
Forgot your password or username? Just click Log in on demo list page, enter your email address and the username and password will be send to you. Now there is no excuse anymore not to get active. By the way, about 120 votes were added in the last week. Thanks and keep them coming! (nba)
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