09.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Emulator-GUI: Nostalgia 2.2
"Nostalgia" is a graphical user-interface for 13 several emulators. The AmigaOS 3-application
works under MorphOS without problems, too. The new version supports now also the emulators
"Snes9x" (MorphOS) and "TGEmu" (MorphOS).
Direct Download: Nostalgia.lha (340 KB)
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09.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Petro Tyschtschenko visits Amiga-Party in Holland
The organizer of the Amiga-Party in Maarssen (April 17th, Holland) announces that
the former Amiga chairman named Petro Tyschtschenko will also visit the event.
Petro will arrive only at noon because he celebrates his birthday one day before.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Apr.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Translation Tool: New Version of Amifish
Amifish is a little help program that assists you in translating text through the use of Babelfish.
Because a few routines were changed at Babelfish there is again a new version of Amifish. Besides the program you need: amarquee.library V54, MUI 3.8, betterstring.mcc, nlist.mcc and busy.mcc.
Direct download: amifish.lha (44 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Apr.2004
Ingo Schmitz (ANF)
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Mailing List for Amiga Users in Vicinity of Osnabrück
Whoever wants to stay current on activities of Amiga users in the vicinity of Osnabrück (Rheine, Bielefeld, Germany) may click on the title link to subscribe to a mailing list.
The participants meet once a month to dine, and also schedule hardware get-togethers irregularly as well as coordinating car pools to these meals and get-togethers.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Apr.2004
Steffen Gutmann (ANF)
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MUIbase v1.8 Released
MUIbase-Version 1.8 is available immediately from http://www.muibase.de and it will also be on Aminet shortly.
New features in MUIbase since version 1.7 are:
- A new option in the "New Field/Field Modify" window allows changes in the field to be ignored so they are no longer counted as a change in the project.
- New option to sort alphabetically by trigger functions.
- New option, to sort tables and fields according to the sequence in the display list.
- The numbering of the commands GETVIRTUALLISTACTIVE and
SETVIRTUALLISTACTIVE have been changed to begin with 1, as opposed to 0. This is more consistent with the numbering of data statements and display lists, in which index 0 relates at the top of the list. Attention: this change functions under circumstantial incompatibilities with existing projects.
- Correction of false index lists in the user handbook.
- A few bug fixes.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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08.Apr.2004
Beta2-ML
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ProTracker II: Projected Completion Date Shifted
The completion of the soundtracker program ProTracker II, which had been announced for March (asamiga-news.de reported), has been delayed to December 2004 due to the higher priority of other of the author's projects.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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07.Apr.2004
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Instant Messaging: Jabberwocky 1.5 Preview
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch have released the "preview"-version 1.5 of
the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open
XML protocol for a direct message exchange.
more ...
(cg) (Translation: nba)
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07.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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Emulators: Published source codes of TrueReality and SOPE
Mathias 'AmiDog' Roslund released the source codes for his
AmigaPPC-ports of the emulators TrueReality and SOPE. TrueReality is an
emulator for the Nintendo 64, SOPE emulates the Sony Playstation. Both
applications are based on MiniGL and require a 3D-graphics-card to be
executed.
(snx) (Translation: nba)
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07.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Event: OS4-presentation at QAUG (New York)
The US-american user group QAUG (Queens Amiga User Group) continues its
presentation of the current development status of AmigaOS 4 during
its meeting on April 10th, 2004, in Ridgewood, New York.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: nba)
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07.Apr.2004
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: News review-scans and advanced forum
Kultpower.de, the fanpage about kult-magazines such as Powerplay, ASM and
Amiga Joker, today released some more review-scans and opened an
advanced discussion board for all classic-game-freaks.
more ...
(nba) (Translation: nba)
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05.Apr.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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AsteroidsTR: Update (Version 0.8)
Due to the encouriging comments by the public Thilo Köhler released another update for AsteroidsTR
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05.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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bplan: New firmware for the Pegasos II available
bplan GmbH has released a flash update for the Pegasos II firmware. Please read the installation instructions carefully.
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05.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: RunDOS V1.1 released
Version 1.1 of RunDOS is now available
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05.Apr.2004
Murakami (ANF)
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Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 26 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a magazine issued by the French association AFLE. Since its creation in 1998 the aMiGa=PoWeR became one of the leading French Amiga publications.
more ...
(snx)
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05.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Benchmark: AmigaOne vs. Pegasos
Findings of a benchmark between AmigaOne and Pegasos can be found at the title link. Rage was used for this benchmark wich is available for AmigaOS4 as well as for MorphOS.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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04.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Download manager: Wallget 0.7.1
"Wallget" is a download manager based on WGet, versions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 are available.
The 0.7.1 update fixes a bug that could crash the program when parsing the preferences file.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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MorphOS: snes9xstarter 2.0 released
snes9xstarter is an Open Source GUI (screenshot) for the MorphOS port of SNES9x by Fab. Version 2.0 was written from scratch and the main features are:
- uses Magic User Interface
- ROM image QuickSelector
- optimal settings are preconfigured
- supports all important SNES9x features / settings, also supports 'forwarding' of advanced SNES9x commandline settings, so practically all SNES9x features are supported
- it's small: just 20,000 bytes
- comes already with a nice PNG icon
- has an AmigaGuide documentation
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03.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Disk mag: Grapevine revived
The disk mag "Grapevine" of the scene group LSD, that had been closed in 1995, celebrates a comeback. Under the title link you can read the just released issue and download all old issues from 1991-1995.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenPictureSpace v2.1 released
"OpenPictureSpace" (homepage of the Linux version) shows all pictures of a directory as thumbnails. A double click on a thumbnail shows the image in its original size.
Version 2.1 comes with the following enhancements:
- a click with the right mouse button shows information about the current picture
- the keys 'x' and 'y' double the height respectively the width of the shown picture
- lift displayed on right of the screen, but only in read-only for now
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Apr.2004
Filip Dab-Mirowski (E-Mail)
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Prometheus: Beta testers needed for new drivers
In a message to the Prometheus mailing list, Filip Dab-Mirowski asks people interested in testing new drivers to contact him.
An upgraded Prometheus board with firmware revision 50/27 would be necessary. Preferably, the testers should provide the appropriate PCI cards (FM801, USB and RTL8139) themselves.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Programming language: AmigaPython 2.3.3 alpha 2
Tim Ocock has released another alpha build of his version 2.3.3 update of Irmen de Jong's AmigaPython. New in this version:
- XML (pyexpat) support working
- bzip2 and zlib (zip) support
- socket module for Internet access works
- uses ieee math libraries instead of FPU only ones
- more complete Amiga and Amigapath modules, fixing st_size bug amongst others
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Text editor: TurboText 2.0 released as Freeware
Martin Taillefer permitted the distribution of his text editor "Turbo-Text 2.0" as Freeware. The software can be downloaded from Tim Ocock's homepage for now, it will be available on Aminet soon.
Please note that "Amiga Forever" also contains a version of TurboText 2.0 which has been modified in several ways to fix various issues. This version has not been released as Freeware, it is still a commercial product.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Apr.2004
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Black Troll Technology: webshop for AROS complete systems opened
Black Troll Technology have opened their webshop. Next to other products like an AROS shirt they particularly offer the Black Troll Edge LE Basic, a x86 complete system with AROS beginning with a price of 325 US-Dollars.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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03.Apr.2004
Amclust (ANF)
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Event: First report about the AmCluSt hardware meeting (update)
From the Amiga-Club Steinfurt (AmCluSt) comes a first report about its event that's just happening:
more ...
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 03. Apr. 2004, 13:18] [Comments: 0]
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03.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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OpenOffice 1.1.1 for Linux-PPC released
OpenOffice is now available in the new version 1.1.1 for PowerPC-Linux, too. Required are the standard packages like glibc 2.3.1, XFree86 4.0, etc. Further information can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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03.Apr.2004
Wayne Hunt (email)
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Amiga.org: Domain name sale by Wayne Hunt an April-fool trick
As a new advertising banner on Amiga.org now reveals is the alleged sale of the domain from May, 1st to a Mexican Lesbian organization called Corazón de Amiga an April-fool trick.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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03.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Port of AROS demos (including screensaver and HTML Tidy)
Ali Akcaagac has compiled AROS demos for MorphOS and made these available for download (1.2 MB) including source codes and makefiles.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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03.Apr.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Event: Change of schedule for the live broadcasting from AmigGBG
The schedule for the live broadcasting by AmigaWorld Radio from the Swedish AmiGBG show today with music, interviews and round-ups has been changed.
more ...
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03.Apr.2004
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MorphOS: TGEmu 1.3 released
"TGEmu" emulates the classic NEC games console "TurboGrafx16" (aka "PC Engine"). Many commercial titles are running fast enough and with sound suppport.
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(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.Apr.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Database now online
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll containing websites of
Amiga users sorted by continents and countries. Right now, the GAUHPIL
is migrating to a MySQL based database solution.
more ...
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03.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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SMSPlus ported to MorphOS
Emerald Imaging, developer of the adventure "Aqua", has ported "SMSPlus",
an emulator for the Sega MasterSystem / Sega GameGear, to MorphOS. The emulator offers a high grade of compatibility and requires MUI as graphical users interface.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 03. Apr. 2004, 00:25] [Comments: 0]
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02.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOne: UDMA-IDE device for AmigaOS 4
A screenshot on amigaworld.net demonstrates "A1IDE.device" using UDMA100 running 3 "all night" md5sum scripts on a 50 MB file without any data corruption.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 02. Apr. 2004, 22:00] [Comments: 0]
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02.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4 Theme for Linux published
For the window-manager "IceWM" a theme has been published which tries to perform the
look of AmigaOS 4. Official screenshots have been the pattern and the used fonts
have been copied, too.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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IBM founded PowerPC Community
IBM tries to create a community around the POWER processor architecture. Everybody gets a
survey over the technical and economical possibilities of the technology and also the
right to take influence on the further development.
For this use IBM provides a lot of information, e.g. the "Power Architecture Pack"
which is used to develop components which are based on the POWER-technology with the
help of a graphical user interface.
Get further information under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Heise: Gateway closes branches
The former Amiga main company Gataway closes 188 branches in order to concentrate on
the direct distribution via telephone and Internet.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Apr.2004
Robin (ANF)
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MUIrdf - Viewer for RSS/RDF-News
Many news-sites offer its news in the form of so called RSS/RDF-Feeds
(e.g. amiga-news.de).
"MUIrdf" is a small ARexx script with which you can take the headlines of those
news sources to the desktop.
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(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Reminder: Amiga Party in the Netherlands on April 17th
At ANN Ron van Schaik reminds again of the upcoming Amiga Party at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, in Maarssen, Netherlands, from 10:00 till 16:00 on Saturday, April 17th (amiga-news.de reported).
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 02. Apr. 2004, 08:11] [Comments: 0]
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02.Apr.2004
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Update of the C64 emulator Frodo
The MorphOS port of the C64 emulator Frodo has been enhanced.
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(snx)
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02.Apr.2004
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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Game: BoxWorld Gold version
Ventzislav Tzvetkov has released the Gold version of BoxWorld, a Sokoban clone where you have to replace boxes in order to advance to the next level (screenshot).
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(snx)
[News message: 02. Apr. 2004, 07:23] [Comments: 0]
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02.Apr.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet Uploads until 01.04.2004
Here are the newest Aminet-uploads since our last message:
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(nba) (Translation: dr)
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02.Apr.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packets until April 1st, 2004
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which had been originally written
for use only with disks. The following packets have been added or improved since our
last message:
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(nba) (Translation: dr)
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01.Apr.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Issue 121 of the Online Magazine NoCover Appears
No fooling, on 1st April the beloved online magazine NoCover is punctual once again, with the release of issue 121, and has just been sent via email to all subscribers as well as posted on our homepage http://www.nc-mag.de and at http://www.apc-tcp.de. From here on out the magazine is available on Aminet and on Amiga Future CDROMs.
Have fun with the new NoCover, says
Wolf Zimmer
Cord Hagen
Andreas Magerl
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Apr.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Multi-ADC (Analog Digital Changer) for Amiga, Pegasos and Amithlon
Here is an electronic diagram and a small test program for my six channel multi analog digital changer (download, 87 KB).
Characteristics of the ADC chip:
- Six measuring channels
- Programmable for unipolar (from 0V to +5V) and bipolar (-5V to +5V) measurements per channel
- Programmable reversal of the measurement polarity (only with bipolar)
- 12 bits resolution per channel
- programmable stand-by mode of the ADC
The following must be installed:
- rexxtricks
- tritonrexx
- triton.library
- rexxserdev
The following ENV variables should be inserted in the "ENVARC:" designation:
- Analog-device = serial device
- Analog-unit = serial unit
- Analog-Volt = maximal voltage reachable at the measurement entrances (normally "5")
Important:
The hardware (MultiADC) is fixed to a data rate of 15000 baud. If this data rate is changed on the computer there won't be any correct transfer of information.
The passive building elements (condensers and resistors) must be built exactly in accordance with the instructions. Deviating values in Ohms or Farad lead to an incorrect function of the MultiADCs.
All building elements are in CMOS technology. So one must wear an anti-static armband so as not to disturb the connection pins. Through this one is able to make it reliable.
With one's own, self-provided program one must pay attention to the programming of the chip LTC1293, since this deviates with the available hardware something from the data in the PDF document from this chip.
Example:
For a logical 1 at the data entrance of the LTC1293 chip one programs in ARexx "call serwrite(ser,'11111111'B,1)" and for a logical 0 it would be "call serwrite(ser,'00000000'B,1)."
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Apr.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #040331
Under the tite link you'll find the complete newsletter Amiga Update for March, 2004. In this English language newsletter Brad Webb does a monthly summary of all important Amiga news.
Topics in this edition:
- AmigaWorld.net interviews Gary Hare
- AmigaOS 4 Event in Germany
- Amiwest 2004 is coming
- DawnVideoPoker latest rev
- Ghostprint v8.13 now available
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01.Apr.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Cost-Free DSL Volume Rate at GMX
Sounds like an April Fools joke but it's not: the Internet provider GMX just started offering a cost-free DSL rate with 1000 megabytes, volume-inclusive. The offer, which may also be used at your choice against an accounting of... [rest of article not translated, has limited utility to non-Germans].
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01.Apr.2004
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)
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Heise April Fools: MP3 with MOD Tracker Modification
In their first report of the day Heise.de offers Further MP3 Efficiency Leap. The article describes how, comparably to the idea that was earlier used in the "Tracker-Zeit," similar pattern inside an MP3 song may be re-used.
Quote (translated): "The idea for dMP3 is a quasi-reminiscence of the 16 Bit Era: because without good software instruments MIDI simply only produces sad beeps, the Tracker/MOD scene, which reached its high points in the 16 Bit Era, has reinvented itself."
Update: (1st April, 2004, 5:39 pm, snx)
Original title of the report recreated, after the April Fools joke was camouflaged this morning on account of readers' wishes.
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01.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Pegasos.org with New Design
Together with the Swedish Pegasos user group, PUGS now presents the portal Pegasos.org in a new design. Along with that, PUGS announces for sometime later this year a LAN-Party "PUSH 2004" in Göteborg. You'll find more information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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PowerPC Development Instructions from IBM
At their website, IBM has released instructions for those progressing with information about assembler programming of the PowerPC processor family.
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01.Apr.2004
Elbox (e-mail)
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Elbox: Free Shipping with Purchase of eFlash 4000
Elbox Computer, the manufacturer of hardware and software for
Amiga computers, announces free shipping for the eFlash 4000
Zorro III cards purchases from the Elbox Online Store between
31 March and 13 April 2004. This offer is valid for orders
from all countries of the world. For details, see the Special Offer page.
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31.Mar.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Emulator: MaxUAE 0.8.25 including tool bundle released
The Amiga emulator MaxUAE for Mac OS X has been put online in
version 0.8.25. Different to Richard
Drummond's announcement on his homepage there still is no SCSI
support within this version. But there will be a bugfix
release available soon. With the pre-version the SCSI
emulation works already.
At the MaxUAE website there is also version 1.0 of a bundle of
tools available.
These tools simplify the usage of
Drummond's UAE port and consist of the following parts:
UAE Config Creator (to create configurations using a GUI), UAE
Dropper, UAE Game Loader (easy assignment of ADFs and choice
of the system) and the UAE Virtual Disk Assistant (creation of
DD/HD Floppies and
hard disk images).
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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31.Mar.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Forever 6.0 to be launched at AmiGBG in Sweden
After more than two years of work, Amiga Forever 6.0 will premiere at AmiGBG in Gothenburg on April 3rd, 2004.
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31.Mar.2004
www.amigart.com (ANF)
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Amiga Python 2.2.3 Alpha 2 released
The new version includes the following improvements:
- XML- (pyexpat) support woks now
- bzip2- and zlib- (zip) support
- socket module for Internet access works now
- uses IEEE math libraries instead of FPU only
- improved Amiga and Amigapath modules, "st_size Bug" and
other bugs removed
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31.Mar.2004
Oliver Roberts (E-mail)
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Picture converter: SplitMultiImage 1.1
"SplitMultiImage" splits files that contain several pictures (e.g. multi-page TIFF fax files) into the individual pictures.
The new version fixes a bug which caused SplitMultiImage to save multiple copies of the same image for files containing only one image, when the datatype does not support PDTA_GetNumPictures.
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31.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: VIM 6.2.421 published
Ali Akcaagac has released VIM 6.2.421
for MorphOS. The update of that text editor which is known from the
Unix world includes several new patches by Bram
Moolenar, author and maintainer of VIM, and improvements of
the MorphOS patches by Ali Akcaagac.
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31.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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SoundFX 4.3 available
Stefan Kost reports at the Sonic Pulse
website that SoundFX version 4.3 is available now.
There are processor specific binaries
(68020-060) ready for download.
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31.Mar.2004
Sinan Gürkan (ANF)
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Video of the OS4 & MicroA1 demo at Technology Channel online again
Thanks to OS4 Beta-Tester NERP who kindly offered us to host the video, Divx video (with English & French subtitles) of the AmigaOS4 / MicroA1 demo at Turkish Technology Channel is now available for download again.
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31.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (website)
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Event: AmiWest 2004
In its seventh year, also in 2004 the AmiWest takes place in Sacramento, California (USA). The only Amiga show at the west coast of the United States is held at the "Inn at the Oaks" hotel on July 24th and 25th.
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31.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Videos showing the AmigaOS 4 installation
By the title link there are several videos from the OS4 event "The Big Bash" in
Peterborough (UK), among them one documenting the
installation process of AmigaOS 4.
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30.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Download manager: "Wallget" updated
"Wallget" is a download manager based on WGet, versions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 are available. Some screenshots are available on the author's homepage.
Most important changes in this version are:
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30.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Event: AmiGBG news
The AmiGBG-Team announces further details regarding the Amiga fair that will take place on the 3rd of April 2004 at Gothenburg, Sweden:
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29.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Web portal: aros-exec.org goes online
A new community portal, aros-exec.org, went online today:
"AROS-Exec is a portal for AROS community members. It's a virtual meeting place for users, developers and people interested in the Amiga Research Operating System. As most other fresh web sites more content will be added as time goes by."
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29.Mar.2004
Oliver Roberts (E-Mail)
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SplitMultiImage 1.0 released
The first version of a new tool called SplitMultiImage is now available.
Starting with AmigaOS 3.5, the picture.datatype documentation defined two
new tags (PDTA_GetNumPictures and PDTA_WhichPicture), which allowed
subclasses to return different images from the same file, where relevant.
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29.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MorphOS: New, unnamed picture viewer
Kiero programmed a new so far unnamed picture viewer (165 KB). As soon as it has a name it will be available on Aminet.
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29.Mar.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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autoconf, automake und libtool for AmigaOS 3
Henning Lund released autoconf-2.57, automake-1.7.8 und libtool-1.5.2 for AmigaOS 3.x. These ports require ixemul.library.
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27.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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Video: MicroA1/OS4 presentation in Turkish television
There's now a DivX video with English subtitles of the MicroA1/AmigaOS4 presentation on the Turkish "Technology Channel" (we reported) available.
Direct download: Video (11 MB)
Direct download: English subtitles
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27.Mar.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga C course for beginners advances
The "Amiga C course for beginners" progresses. Opening the first Intuition window is now done.
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27.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Archive-Tool: Free version of "xadmaster.library"
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom has recompiled the sources of the "xadmaster.library" for AmigaOS. This system enhancement makes a unique interface available so that external programs can unpack a great number of archive formats.
XAD had been available only as shareware or as part of AmigaOS 3.9 until recently but has been put under the GPL at the beginnning of this year (we reported).
XAD is for example supported by Directory Opus 4, MUI Unarc or Voodoo-X.
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27.Mar.2004
ANN (website)
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New YAM "developer" version for 060/MOS
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom has compiled the current sources of the open source email client YAM for MorphOS and 68060 processors. Both versions were created with GCC 2.95.3-4, Jocke points out that this is a "developers" version that can still contain bugs.
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27.Mar.2004
Andreas Weyrauch (organizer) (ANF)
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Event: AmigaOS4 event in Essen (Germany)
On May, 15th takes in the "Zukunft Zentrum Zollverein" in Essen the AmigaOS4
Event 2004 place. Among others Hyperion Entertainment will be there to show the current state of the AmigaOS4 development.
The visitors will get the chance to get an impression of AmigaOS4 themselves. For this there are 5 more AmigaOne computers. That'll be made available by the company Vesalia.
The event is free. All further information can be found on the AmigaOS4 Event website.
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27.Mar.2004
Elbox Computer (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New eFlasher available
Elbox Computer is happy to announce availability of the new
eFlasher program for the eFlash 4000 Zorro III card. Version 1.4 of the
eFlasher program and version 1.0 of the eFlashConfig script have been
released today for all registered users of the eFlash 4000 cards.
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27.Mar.2004
Patrick Henz (email)
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New freeCD: Made in Japan
Though this new freeCD titled "Made in Japan" is developed only for PCs had many work for it been done using an Amiga. The cover has been created with ArtEffect, Reflections, Lights over Mars and Amiga Fonts and the Japanese hymn had been mixed with DigiBooster. The price is 3,- Euro, the order can be placed directly at Faces of Mars.
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27.Mar.2004
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Poll regarding further development of "Schlachtfeld"
In the forum of "Schlachtfeld" are meanwhile some very positive entries there. Regarding the requirements do some points appear again and again, e.g. network play, speed, problems under AGA or UAE. Unfortunately there's only a small number of users registered and the feedback via the beta tester form equals zero.
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27.Mar.2004
Beta2-ML
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MorphOS: Native beta version of NewsCoaster released
Tomasz Kaczanowski has on his website a first public beta version (312 KB) of NewsCoaster for MorphOS made available. The MUI based open source program NewsCoaster (GPL) allows reading newsgroups online and offline.
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26.Mar.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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AmiATLAS: New information to the forthcoming updates
Manfred Rohde, who cares about the street maps
in the AmiATLAS development team informs about the current delay with the dispatch of
the update on his homepage.
Furthermore there is a private statement on the AmiATLAS - Forum.
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26.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS4: Two High-end audio cards supported
Davy Wentzler has added A1/OS4 support for the Terratec Aureon Sky 5.1 and the professional Terratec Phase88.
These cards have 24-bit/96KHz capabilities and are based around the Envy24 and Envy24HT chipsets, which can be found on a number of high-end audio cards. Similar cards like the Aureon 7.1 Space and EWS88MT should work too, although they are currently untested.
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26.Mar.2004
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design)
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Interview with Garry Hare (KMOS)
The amigaworld.net team has interviewed Garry Hare (CEO, KMOS Inc.). KMOS is the company which surprisingly announced the taking over of the AmigaOS rights from Amiga Inc. some weeks ago.
Part 1: Garry Hare - Personal and Company questions
Question 1.1: You have a number of university degrees; a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science and a Ph.D,. These are impressive credentials and very unusual in the business world where MBAs are commonplace, but little else, could you make a comment on your intellectual development and what led you first into the entertainment industry and then into digital media?
Garry Hare: I worked at The Walt Disney Company before stumbling into academia. My interest in media preceded these degrees. While at Disney I got my masters in the evening due to a side interest I'd developed. I wanted to get into the feature film side of the Company and several times a year I'd ask to be transferred, with the support of my boss and the head of the studio. Each time my request would be denied by the then president of Disney. I was in a four person division that generated more revenue than any division aside from theme parks. His reason was, I was "to valuable" to move. This was a little hard to believe as I wasn't particularly well paid. One day my boss, who was a great guy, took me to lunch and said, "look, I'm an Executive Vice President of this Company, and I do exactly the same thing you do. As long as you are successful, you'll never get moved to where you want to be". Shortly after, I resigned.
Due to some other things I was involved in, USC offered me a scholarship to pursue a doctorate. I studied with Neely Gardner. His expertise was Political and Corporate Strategy, his passion was ethics. I know it sounds like a strange mix in today's business world but Neely made sense of it. He is (was) the most remarkable person I've ever met. He had the greatest impact on my life. What I remember the most is he was totally honest, sometimes brutally so. No one ever asked for feedback from Neely. The one downside, there is no way I can live up to his legacy.
During my seven years in academia I had a hard time writing articles for academic journals. I didn't think anyone would read them and, to be honest, I didn't have much to say. Instead, to the dismay of my colleagues, I wrote and produced a couple films aimed at illustrating specific concepts. In a way, I never left media.
Question 1.2: Besides your formal degrees, you also held the posts of Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School in Nicaragua and Associate Professor at the University of Washington, then became advisor for Fortune 100 corporations on Latin American investments before returning to the entertainment industry, is there a connection or were you just bored?
Garry Hare: I was at the University of Washington during the "golden years" of being a professor. My full teaching load was four courses over three quarters. Two quarters a year I was responsible for one two-hour class per week. I think the balance of the time was meant for research and thinking great thoughts. I went skiing. Upon Spring thaw, I turned my attention to consulting. I liked it, it was extraordinarily lucrative and, in some cases, I was pretty good at it.
The lucrative part created a problem. My consulting income quickly exceeded my university salary. Some people didn't care for that and the Dean created a new policy where outside income couldn't exceed 20% of faculty compensation. I resigned, yet agreed to stay on for nine months. By this time I had my own program and graduate students. If I'd left sooner, there was no one to teach the courses they needed to complete a specialization.
I moved to Northern California where I live today. I didn't have a job or any particular idea of what I might like to do. Consulting income gave me some flexibility and ultimately I began to tell people I produced computer controlled movies. At the time no one had any idea what that meant. Including me. I'm not certain, but I probably printed some fake business cards.
The president of LucasFilm asked me, and my partner at the time, to come in to the games group and see if we could "produce" a couple titles. We probably were among the first games producers. I also have a design credit on "Ballblazer". That's a bit of an exaggeration. I can point to a couple features within the title that were my idea but the developer and programmer, David Levine, should rightly get credit. For "Rescue On Fractalis", Charlie Kelner (among the smartest software guys I've met) is responsible for just about everything you see on the screen. I was never an employee of the Lucas organization.
I liked interactive media and it provided a framework for some of the other stuff I've been involved in.
Question 1.3: More seriously, from games and entertainment enterprises you moved to Phillips Media Europe as CEO, then broadband media. A pattern is emerging where Amiga naturally finds a place. Can you comment on the connections this background may have had with an interest in Amiga's Operating System?
Garry Hare: To be honest, I hadn't thought to much about the importance of operating systems. I knew, at least in the mobile world, that many manufacturers were critical of the operating systems available. KMOS, before it had a name, was (and is) involved with a potential strategic partner interested in a very specific market. Part of the solution seemed to suggest an alternative to the operating systems currently used. Amiga's OS family of products looked like they could fit. I turned my attention, with the help of people much smarter than I, to a competitive analysis of the known OSes. I wasn't so interested in what they are but in what they could be. Amiga's OS looked good.
Question 1.4: What is a KMOS, where did the name come from, what does it mean?
Garry Hare: Good question. I asked it myself. Corporate documents needed to be filed while I was in Asia. I returned home to find that the Company, that I had agreed to build, was named KMOS. Like many of you, I asked what's a KMOS, what does it mean? I was told it is sort of like Xerox, it doesn't mean anything but with use will become a positive brand. I pointed out that Edsel (an old auto brand) also didn't mean anything and it went bankrupt. I hated the name. I lost.
I learned two things from this. Don't travel before the documents are filed and don't let financial guys name companies. (If any of them are reading this, I'm just kidding, really).
Given recent events the company probably should have been named KAOS, but that name is taken.
Question 1.5: To quote: "KMOS, Inc. acquired the Operating System from Amiga, Inc. to bring full cross-platform, multimedia functionality to wired and wireless devices." Is there anything you would like to add to this short description?
Garry Hare: Not much. The smart money is probably on the phrase, "cross-platform". But you already knew that.
Question 1.6: How long have you been CEO of KMOS Incorporated?
Garry Hare: Since its inception.
Question 1.7: Was there a previous CEO of KMOS?
Garry Hare: No.
Question 1.8: Is KMOS Incorporated a publicly listed company or privately funded one?
Garry Hare: KMOS is privately held.
Question 1.9: Do you have a significant stake in the company yourself, besides that of your position as CEO?
Garry Hare: I have a minority stake in KMOS, which is unrelated to any operating role. I'd like a raise.
Question 1.10: Are Bill McEwen, Fleecy Moss, or Amiga Inc. employees of, or shareholders in, KMOS?
Garry Hare: No.
Question 1.11: KMOS has kept a low profile since its inception; is there a specific reason for this, and why has it now made itself prominent?
Garry Hare: KMOS' strategy (which we hope makes sense) requires me to acquire or develop several pieces of a technical puzzle. Amiga's OS is an important part, but it is only one part. It is much easier to go about this quietly. If I told you I really, really wanted to buy your car, the price has a tendency to go up. I wanted to avoid that.
As an aside, part of my job is to develop and maintain strong relationships with appropriate writers and publications. I try and reserve this relationship for major announcements; product introductions, perhaps new strategic partners and very few other topics. As none of these things are ready for announcement, I had no intention of saying anything at this time. But the situation turned a little different.
In my view some wild and reckless claims were publicly being made regarding the ownership, control and right of use of our intellectual property. When it comes to protecting IP [Intellectual Property] you have two choices. If, for example, a company was selling a product based on IP without benefit of a signed distribution agreement, you can just sit back a while and let them sell it. A little later in the process you might want to contact them and say, "hey, I think you owe me a little money".
If threats concerning IP are causing a disturbance among commercial partners or, at least as importantly, among current and future application developers you have no choice but to publicly act. We saw Genesi's Motion to Amend as just such a threat. I issued a brief press release to publications of record. I understand it got very little play on public boards but that wasn't its intent. I was simply saying that KMOS is in this game and implying that we would broadly defend and protect our assets and intellectual property. In matters like web sites, developer support programs and the like, we were totally unprepared to make such an announcement. I apologize, I would have liked to be a little more together.
Question 1.12: Who is Itec and what is their relationship to Amiga, KMOS and you?
Garry Hare: Itec has been an investor in Amiga since the purchase of the assets from Gateway. It remains an investor today. Itec is also the Senior (first place) Secured Creditor of Amiga Inc. KMOS purchased the OS asset from Itec. There is no formal relationship between the companies (KMOS and Itec). I am not involved in Itec in any way.
Part 2: Garry Hare on KMOS, Amiga Inc., Past Problems and Rumours
Question 2.1: Does KMOS have any direct stake in Amiga Inc., besides the buying of rights over the Operating System and possibly some trademark agreements?
Garry Hare: KMOS's rights are to the OS and associated naming and trademarks. We can and will, for example, ship the operating system under the Amiga One Partner agreement as "Amiga OS 4.0". Amiga retains ownership to its name, trademarks and DE product.
Question 2.2: Last year a business card appeared with your name and giving your position as CEO of Amiga Inc. did this card originate from you or Amiga Inc.?
Garry Hare: I apologize in advance for the length of my reply. I now know this is an on-going soap opera and I may as well be through.
In November, 2002, I was asked by Itec (an Amiga investor) to give my opinion on Amiga's prospects for strategic partners. I was not asked to do anything in regard to securing investment or risk money. In February, 2003, Bill McEwen asked if I would consider joining Amiga as Chairman and CEO. Ultimately I agreed, contingent on Amiga securing a minimum investment and operating capital (I'm not stupid). As you remember, early 2003 was a particularly difficult environment for raising money. I thought Amiga's chances would improve if I could attract a strategic partner or two. Toward that end, I set up several meetings at the March CTIA conference. I printed 25 business cards with the Amiga logo and my personal contact information.
At CTIA, I met with four companies where I know the senior management quite well and one where I did not. I doubt that I gave each a card as two of the CEOs are close friends and I see or speak with them frequently. They know how to reach me. In every meeting I told people that I was considering joining the Company and proceeded with a business discussion. At this point in my life I don't need a company affiliation to get a meeting.
At this same conference I ran into David Traub (his full name was previously disclosed by Mr. Buck some time ago). I've known David casually for a number of years. In one of those, "so whet are you doing" conversations, I told David I was considering joining Amiga. As any good developer would, he pitched me on a title that would be "just perfect" for the Amiga market. If I remember correctly, it was a horoscope title but I could be wrong. David asked how to reach me, I gave him a card. At the end of this conversation David said he was associated with Bill Buck who had interests in Amiga. I told him I was aware of Mr. Buck's interests.
At about the same time I ran into an old friend who publishes a well known gaming magazine. I mentioned I was thinking of joining Amiga and he asked if he could announce it if I did. I gave him a card and promised to call and send him a press release if and when, I joined. There was no such announcement.
When I returned home David Traub called and asked if I would take a call from Bill Buck. I agreed and the next day Bill Buck called and immediately asked if I was Amiga's CEO and if I could make decisions on behalf of the company. I told him that I hoped to join Amiga but had yet to do so. And, if I did join, I would certainly be able to make decisions. He began to pitch me on a couple business ideas that he felt would be mutually beneficial. I quickly responded that as long as there was litigation between the companies he would have to communicate through legal counsel. It was a short and not unpleasant conversation. At the end he advised me, I thought jokingly, not to join Amiga. As it turns out I didn't but I can't say that was due to his specific advice.
David tells me that a week or so after the call, Mr. Buck contacted him and asked that he send the business card as he wanted to know how to reach me. As an side, David has apologized way to many times for sending the card and any difficulty it may have caused me. He swears he had no idea as to the intended use. David is a good guy and has no reason to apologize. I gave him a card. None of this is his fault.
A short while later I heard that Mr. Buck had posted the card to a public board, and discussed its impact on Amiga generally and several individuals particularly. I was surprised. Mr. Buck is among a very few people that I'd discussed my relationship, or lack thereof, with Amiga. He specifically knew that I had not taken the CEO position. A few people mentioned the discussion around the issue but I ignored the matter. I was busy. I've never posted to a public board and, until several weeks ago, seldom browsed any of them. Only recently did I discover what a moo bunny was.
Several weeks ago, when I turned my attention to the Genesi/Amiga legal dispute, I read and reread every relevant post from every board. While not part of the Motions before the Court and, probably because it was about me, I paid particular attention to the business card drama. The fact that it is still discussed today, often with childish venom, is just plain ridiculous.
About those remaining business cards. My daughter cut one up for an art project. She liked the ball. Under intense interrogation she refuses to confess to ripping off any more. And for some unknown reason I gave one to one of my closest friends. He became aware of this little drama and has threatened to expose me as a "fake" CEO if I don't pay for dinner. Worse, he threatens to expose me a "fake" Chairman if I don't pay for drinks. Last Saturday, I sent him copies of the Court filings and made it clear that I have no intention of paying for a meal again in the greater Los Angeles area. Including drinks.
I found the box. There are 16 business cards left (see special offer below). A few are unaccounted for. I may have used them to "paper" Silicon Valley. Maybe not.
The bottom line. I printed 25 business cards and distributed 9. I never misrepresented myself to anyone, at any time, in any way. Mr. Buck knew I wasn't Amiga's CEO. He discussed the matter directly with me. Yet he elected to publish the card to a public board and represent it as fact. He went on to misrepresent the impact of this non-event disparaging a number of people along the way. And, Mr. Buck put words in my mouth, which doesn't make me particularly happy. You make the call.
Question 2.3: Have you at any time been the CEO of Amiga Inc.?
Garry Hare: No.
Question 2.4: Have you ever been employed by Amiga Inc.?
Garry Hare: No.
Question 2.5: Did you before KMOS involvement act as an advisor for Amiga Inc. without being employed by them?
Garry Hare: Informally, and unfortunately unpaid. From time to time bill McEwen asks for my opinion on one thing or another. I tend to give it. Sometimes he agrees. Sometimes he doesn't.
Question 2.6: Where you or KMOS involved in Amiga's recent litigation?
Garry Hare: Initially I wasn't. I saw the original complaint as a dispute over DE. It wasn't my fight. I was aware of many of the reckless claims regarding the Amiga name, trademarks and control of our intellectual property. I knew that one day it would be my fight. But not that day. I simply asked that these public claims be tracked for future reference. To be honest, I didn't see DE on the Pegasos as the end of the world. DE running on Linux could open a broader market. It could be a good thing for Amiga and the DE developers.
I know the Amiga guys didn't necessarily agree. They argued this whole suit was bogus and they had a point.
Thendic GmgH filed the original complaint with Amiga on January 3, 2003. There was a slight problem. Thendic began bankruptcy proceedings on November 7, 2002 and was declared closed due to insufficient assets (bankrupt) on January 27, 2003. Somehow this little detail was kept secret from the Court. Both Thendic and their counsel have a legal obligation to report such a material change. They didn't. No problem, Genesi was added to the complaint on February 17, 2003 arguing they were somehow an "affiliate" of Thendic. It's a little difficult to be an affiliate of a non-existent company. Kind of like accusing a dead man of stealing your car. And Genesi didn't meet the only other definition of affiliate in the agreement, common ownership of 50% or more. Together, Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco's ownership in Pegasos fell just a bit short. No problem, said Genesi, we're really the OEM. Genesi no more manufactures the Pegasos than does Vendome Investment Inc. of the Cayman Islands. OK, that's a bad example. Nobody manufactures much of anything in the Caymans. It's generally just a nice place to safely park financial assets. But, I wouldn't know anything about that.
We'll never know what might have happened if Amiga made these arguments. They didn't mount a defence. Judge Lasnik, rightly, acted on the information before him. The result is once Pegasos gets an Intent license from Tao Group, DE will be available for Linux. I understand Amiga has already taken steps to comply with the order. As I understand it, developers will be free to make their own deals. I hope this "platform" is wildly successful and the developers make a lot of money.
On March 1, 2004. Genesi filed their Motion to Amend. KMOS saw this action as Genesi seeking cover for the claims they'd publicly made. While carefully worded to mislead the Court, it was a direct threat to KMOS' intellectual property. My Board directly me to take all deliberate measures to protect our assets. I have whatever resources I need. It became my fight.
Question 2.7: There has been some speculation on the meaning of your second declaration, would you care to elaborate?
Garry Hare: The final preparation for submitting documents to the Court is a little hectic. As many of you have seen, there is a lot of stuff to check and double check. I mistakenly sent the second to the last draft of my second Declaration to the Court. The final draft contained one additional phrase, "any product based in whole, or in part, on KMOS' intellectual property and distributed or sold into commercial markets without benefit of an executed distribution agreement...". I think the rest is pretty clear.
As an side, perhaps particularly for your non - US audience, I'd like to say a word or two about The United States District Court. This is not your local, county civil court. It is far more serious. It, sensibly, requires parties to a dispute to be represented by legal council. It has very specific rules of evidence. If for example (this is just an example) you had essentially been accused of perjury and responded something like, "I believe the email attributed to 'Fleecy Moss' was and still is from 'Fleecy Moss'." that is not evidence. It is a simple statement with no supporting documentation and absolutely no refutation of the material in the Motion before the Court. You might as well say, "I think beer cans have wings". Also, Courts are about application of existing law. It needs to be cited.
Judge Lasnik is a very capable and respected Judge. While he is probably sick of it, he understand this situation. He will look at two things and two things only; the agreement in question and the law. Everything else is just noise. Speaking for myself, I would not play games with a District Court Judge.
Question 2.8: Can you comment about the strategies that have been used in this current legal dispute?
Garry Hare: Within 24 hours of the Motion to Amend a number of things happened. KMOS' corporate attorneys are in Northern California and litigation firm is in New York. It would waste time and money for either to be involved. KMOS would not join as co-defendant. This would be all Amiga. All the time. Within ten minutes of the first conference call with the Cairncross attorneys, it was decided that two motions would be presented to the Court; Amiga's Response to the Motion to Amend and, a Motion for Relief. For those of you, like me, trying to understand the U.S. legal system, Amiga did not appeal the Courts ruling. Nor did it seek dismissal. A Motion for Relief asks a District Court Judge to set aside his ruling For Cause. The implications and potential damages are quite different.
Amiga's attorneys emphasized that we had a week to gather evidence. Toward that end we put together a small work group. Qualification for membership was you had to be highly motivated, keep quiet and go without sleep for 18 days. Application for membership was over subscribed. I put on a Paul Thorn CD and went to work.
While I had absolutely no authority to do so, a week or so prior to the initial Summary Judgement, I asked everyone associated with Amiga to go silent. fleecy taking a "vacation" from Ask Fleecy (sorry AW) and Ray delaying publication of CAM was the last straw. We hoped that people would conclude Amiga was done for and continue to post goofy claims, threats and the like. I never dreamed Mr. Buck would be so cooperative.
The attorneys asked how we would gather information. We said, Mr. Buck would provide quite a bit of it. They were sceptical and wanted an example. We'd captured quite a few public posts and I have to admit that arguments from both sides shaped our thinking. But a few people stood out. In response to "Tatu", Mr. Buck wrote his, "What will happen next?" post. I sent it to the attorneys and asked, how this? Have you ever seen lawyers dance?
Early the next morning we got going. The work group asked what I would like to see. Proving I had no idea what I was talking about, I asked for every post on every board from the November 2000 date of the original agreement. There was a very long pause. One of the guys finally asked if I had any idea how many posts that meant. I guessed, "probably a couple hundred".
We settled on a little different method. Every post from Mr. Buck from the January 3, 2003 original complaint in context. Meaning the post, if any, he was responding to and any relevant posts following. That turned out to be quite a few. The floor of my office was covered with folders within the first two days. We also wanted posts from five individuals.
"Tatu". We have all your stuff.
Greg Schofield. Greg's posts were always thoughtful, well written and useful. His, "Who is the OEM?" post became the foundation for an entire legal argument and a lot of research. In the end we didn't use it. The Court has a 12 page limit on any Motion and we ended up with way to much information. But we completely developed this line of inquiry. Who knows, we might need it in the future, although I certainly hope this ends some day. I was concerned by one of Greg's posts. He correctly guessed Amiga may have gone silent on purpose. We watched for a thread but no one picked up on it. No more wild guesses, Greg. It is bad for journalism.
Bill Evans and Don Cox. Both these guys carry through with their arguments. Very interesting and well reasoned. The responses they elicit are found throughout both Amiga's Motions.
Mike Bouma. During the initial phases of research I "reached out" to a few individuals asking for help. I know some were friends of Amiga's and others probably sought to limit any personal liability. One evening I received unbelievable documents. I was already convinced that what we were dealing with was little more than misusing the Courts to steal property. This document made me angry. Around 1 AM I pick up the folder labelled Mike Bouma and read it a couple times. He knew exactly what was going on and didn't mince words about the issue. I felt better. I like you style, Mike.
If any of you run into me at a conference I'll buy you a beer... OK ...I'll buy you two. You'll need some "ID" Tatu.
A while later we added a third category; anyone Mr. Buck had called an "idiot". In most cases these "idiots" were computer enthusiasts not industry professionals. They'd ask a simple questions or make a comment and were immediately attacked, threatened and called names, mostly "idiots". I thought the "idiots" might be on to something. As an aside, I suppose it's part of board culture, but I don't get all the name calling - whether directed at Mr. Buck, Bill McEwen, Ray Akey or anybody else. But that's just me.
I know a number of people have openly questioned why their posts are included in the attachments presented to the Court. Some argue that they aren't even friends of Amiga or that their posts had nothing to do with the argument. True. But we wanted to present everything to the Court in context. The Judge can quickly get a feel for the nature of these boards; full of rumour, gossip, silliness and occasionally information. Evidence without context is suspect. Taking a couple lines of text off a web site, for example, without the entire document and an indication of who wrote it is pretty worthless.
At 6 PM on March 19 I turned off my computer and took my family to dinner. It hade been eighteen very long days and nights.
Question 2.9: Can anything good come out of what seems like an incredible waste of time and money?
Garry Hare: The process wasn't as expensive as you might think. All the research and document preparation was done internally. But it was a tremendous drain on time. From late March 1 until late March 19, four of us literally spent 12 - 18 hour days, every day, researching and drafting in support of Amiga's attorneys. One of the four lives in Europe. I don't know when he slept but he stayed up all night, every night, to help me and the attorneys. He knows how I feel about him.
Until all this broke, I'd planned to be in Germany and the UK meeting with partners and developers the week of March 15. And I was supposed to be in China the following week. Things changed.
But it turned out to be very interesting. Many of you have seen the Declarations. Obviously I talked, often frequently, with Ben, Alan and to a lesser degree Francis. We got to know one another over this process in a way that would have been impossible over a dinner or meeting. They offered their help. When I asked for specific information that wasn't readily available they got it to me - in 24 hours. In one instance, with translation from German to English. I like these guys and look forward to working with them and, I hope, they feel the same about me.
After Amiga's first filing, I received a call from the CEO of, as far as I could tell, a Company completely unrelated to the Amiga/Thendic dispute. He was very upset that he didn't get to file a Declaration. I explained that his Company wasn't involved in this dispute. He said, "so what", and offered to pay part of the legal costs. Interesting.
A fifth Company, that I had never heard of, contacted me late last week and asked how they could help. The amount of time and money it would have cost to fly around meeting five companies in different parts of the world is likely several times the legal and time costs. In a way it turned out to be very efficient, although I don't want to make a habit of this approach to business development.
We've all seen the movie. A bully rides into town and starts pushing the villagers around. One of the villagers finally stands up and says, ENOUGH! They look around and the other villagers are at their side. Amiga stood up and a lot of people and companies were at its' side. Including me.
Question 2.10: What do you think of Bill Buck?
Garry Hare: As I've mentioned I've only had one brief telephone conversation with Mr. Buck. I can't say that I know him. I try to focus on people's behaviour rather than speculate on their motivations. In this regard Mr. Buck has been very public. We can all make up our own minds.
In one regard I think Mr. Buck is quite amazing. Toward Amiga's first filing, four of us were literally working 15+ hour days researching and drafting materials on behalf of the attorneys. At the time Mr. Buck continued to post to public boards. The 48 hours preceding Amiga's "Response" filing, Mr. Buck literally wrote more than our efforts combined. And, while I seldom agree with the content, many of his posts were very well written. Quite impressive.
Question 2.11: KMOS owns and has owned for almost a year, the rights to Amiga's Operating Systems, Amiga Inc. retains rights over AmigaDE. Are there any other issues, such as competing trademarks, other intellectual property or other assets in general, that are outstanding between the two companies?
Garry Hare: I don't believe so.
Part 3: Garry Hare on: KMOS, Amiga Inc., Hyperion, Eyetech, Trademarks and etc.
Question 3.1: How would you describe the relationship between KMOS and Amiga Inc. at the present moment?
Garry Hare: The relationship has been friendly and, due to recent events, become very friendly.
Question 3.2: Again, based on the present relations between the two companies, is there a prospect of the companies working closely together in the future? And, if so, is there a current understanding of continued association in the long term by both parties?
Garry Hare: This comes down to customers. If a commercial customer specifies both KMOS and Amiga property as part of a solution, I'm pretty sure we can work something out.
Question 3.3: Hyperion has been doing an amazing job of re-inventing the Operating System, how would you describe the situation in terms of KMOS, Hyperion and the OS?
Garry Hare: We are partners. I look forward to working with Ben and the people at Hyperion.
Question 3.4: Eyetech has done a marvellous job in providing the A1 and microA1 boards, obviously they have a stake in the future of the OS. The community has long been assured that Eyetech, Hyperion and Amiga Inc. are working together in this venture, now that KMOS is involved has anything substantially changed?
Garry Hare: No. Nothing should change. Eyetech, Hyperion and KMOS have a common interest. We'd like to build an attractive market for current, and likely, future products. Alan and Ben know that, within limits, I will help in any way I can. As I didn't anticipate "going public" now, my schedule until about June, or so, is a bit of a mess. It will be difficult for me to participate in conferences and the like in the near term. I don't think that's important. Eyetech and Hyperion are doing just fine without my involvement.
Question 3.5: Would you like to make some comment on Hyperion and Eyetech's position in regard to KMOS, at least as you understand it?
Garry Hare: We are commercial partners.
Question 3.6: Given KMOS'es self-description as stated above, Amiga Inc's DE technology would seem to be a natural extension of cross-platform development, would you care to comment on this statement?
Garry Hare: I like Amiga's DE product and, particularly their distribution agreement with Microsoft and, I trust, others. Given my content background it is a natural interest. But I am focused on the requirements of a specific customer. This solution does not require DE.
Question 3.7: Amiga's OS website presumably still belongs to Amiga Inc, are there any plans to host this on a KMOS site or are relations between the two companies such that this does not matter?
Garry Hare: About the last thing I've thought about lately is web sites. If we were to put up a KMOS site today about all it would do is point you to Hyperion and Eyetech. My first site is likely a "restricted access" site in support of partners and developers. I've yet to do much on that front either.
Question 3.8: Without attempting to speak for Amiga Inc. would it be true to say that it now can concentrate on the DE/Tao developments and business opportunities and that from their point of view this separation has been of benefit? Or is it the case that KMOS simply bought up the OS asset which for whatever reason Amiga Inc. was eager to sell?
Garry Hare: One of the most difficult things for smaller companies to do is focus on a specific product or market. We all tend to jump around from one perceived opportunity to the next. I believe Amiga intends to focus on the DE market but I can't speak for them. KMOS' business relationships are concentrated in the broader telecommunication industry and we will focus there. I don't know that a single small entity can do both.
Question 3.9: Prior to the public announcement of your company's stake in Amiga technologies, Amiga Inc. drew some broad stroke objectives for the development and convergence of two technical innovations, the revived AmigaOS and DE type developments. Broadly speaking does KMOS share a similar outlook?
Garry Hare: It isn't really KMOS' view that matters. We are proceeding to meet the needs of specific customers. I guess you could say that is our "strategy". I've proven, several times, that I'm not smart enough to accurately anticipate markets. My partners might be, but I keep arguing they aren't either.
Part 4: Garry Hare: The Future
Question 4.1: Will we see OS 4.0 on the Pegasos computer?
Garry Hare: In business you never say never. To my knowledge, Hyperion, Eyetech, Amiga and, certainly KMOS, have never received a proposal from Pegasos regarding the OS.
In general, I look at potential business prospects from several angles. First, what are the financial consequences of a given deal? I tend to focus on the worst case rather than upside projections, which tend to be a little rosy. If you achieve nothing more than worst case, what are the costs and benefits? Then, how would a new business relationship affect current partners and customers? There are some deals you simply can't do. There are, of course, limits to this. Let's say for example Intel (no, we don't have a deal with Intel) wants to buy 10 million units of something that competes with a current partner selling 10,000 units. Generally something can be worked out. Finally, is there a business history with a potential partner? What is their reputation in the market? Are they managed by people that you would like doing business with? Given just this criteria, I can't envision anything that Genesi and KMOS have to talk about. Sometimes life is just too short.
Question 4.2: What about those coupons and T-shirts?
Garry Hare: I've been expecting this question. KMOS has no legal obligation to honour past promotional activities. But, I think we have an ethical one. I'm trying to work out the discount coupon situation and I believe I will. KMOS will certainly keep you posted. Given OS 4.0 isn't on the market yet, I have a little time, and if I paid $100 for something I'd certainly like to see the benefit. I have yet to see the accounting from Amiga. I don't know how many $50 and $100 discount coupons are out there. When I get this information, I will proceed. I hate it when anyone, including me, says, "trust me". It generally means they're trying to pick your pocket. So, I'm not asking any of you to trust me - let's just see if I can get this done. I'm aware of the problem and I'm trying to fix it.
Here's an answer without a question. KMOS will not be selling discount coupons!
The T-shirt situation is a little different. I don't know the details, but I'd like to stay out of the apparel business. It seems to me this should be Amiga's problem. I don't even know what the T-shirts were supposed to be. However, I'm willing to make a little side deal. If anyone would like to trade a T-shirt coupon for a "semi-collectable fake business card" (suitable for framing), we've got a deal. I only have 16 but as they are "fake" in the first place, I can probably print more. I think, although I may be wrong, this was through CAM. I'll speak to Ray. I'm serious about this. I've decided to carry real business cards. At least for now.
Question 4.3: Given your history in the broadband media industry, the need for flexible and reliable set-top boxes, console devices etc., combined with the nature of Amiga OS do you see a symbiosis between these devices and a desktop computer system? Is there a mutual benefit for catering for both, at least in the abstract speculative sense?
Garry Hare: I've worked with telecommunications companies, in Europe, the U.S. and increasingly Asia, for the last seven years. As wired and wireless bandwidth increases, which it certainly is, the operators simply can't meet their objectives with current OS suppliers. I'm reasonably aware of the problem.
One of the features that attracted us to the Amiga OS in the first place is that, by definition, it is cross-platform. Improvement in any one market should improve the others, including the desktop. If the same application played across all platforms and devices, so much the better.
Question 4.4: Again given your personal history, you seem to be in a very good position to "drum up business", your diverse background in the high flying circles mainstream technical development must be seen as an asset. Modesty aside, how do you asses yourself in regard to our favourite Operating System?
Garry Hare: Increasingly, I've come to know what I don't know. I try to surround myself with people that know far more than I do on a variety of business issues. That certainly includes technical issues, marketing, developer support and lately, legal. The first line in every job description is all employees are to try and keep me from looking stupid. Despite their best efforts I still manage to screw things up occasionally. A trait in my favour is, I read everything.
Question 4.5: Would you like to say something about the future of computing in general and allow our readers to imagine the place the Amiga OS might inhabit? Or indeed any other ideas which may bare ever so tenuously to the future of our OS?
Garry Hare: I'm afraid none of this is breakthrough thinking. The world's going mobile, from wireless laptops to PDAs, to SmartPhones and numerous stops in between. I don't think we're very far away from each home having the equivalent of a "content server", sending digital signals, probably wireless, to the TV, the stereo, the PC and many other devices. What is interesting is the implications for media. Except for one small example, I won't go into that here. A while back I was in China talking with one of the ministers concerned with economic development. He told me, outside the two major urban centres, the fastest road for increased income was becoming fluent in English. There is a tremendous demand for people in transportation, communication, hospitality and many other industries who are be bi-lingual. As computers are very expensive, he wondered if mobile phones could be used for English language learning (a company I'm very loosely associated with is now working on this application). He specifically used the example of training air traffic controllers in English, which I found a little scary - I took the train. I have no idea what the future of media will look like but I am sure I'll be surprised by it all.
Question 4.6: How long have you been using Amiga Computers and do you plan to participate in the Amiga Community?
Garry Hare: This is where I'm supposed to say, I've been using Amiga Computers since I was a child and love them more than my German Shepherd. But AmigaWorld keeps insisting that I be accurate and not evasive. How's this? I've never owned an Amiga Computer and, as far as I can remember, never touched an Amiga keyboard. A number of people I've worked with over the years certainly have. I believe Charlie Kelner programmed part of "Fractalis" on an Amiga and we used a bank of Classics to program the interleave logic in producing "Escape From CyberCity".
Over the past decade or so I've turned into a "suit", actually a faded Levi, sort of guy. My work life revolves around contracts, spreadsheets and research reports. I need a pretty full suite of business applications. I'm writing this on a fairly high end Toshiba laptop with a great screen. I also have a Powerbook G4. Mostly, I take it to meetings to look cool.
Everyone at KMOS wants an AmigaOne running 4.0. I'm trying for a "partners" discount through Alan. Negotiations continue.
Through my recent addition to public boards I've noticed that a few people demand that I explain myself. Others expect me to engage the rumour, speculation and childish behaviour in some of the discussions. I've never published to a public board and I don't have any plans to start now. Several people who work with me certainly read and post often. As long as they respect confidential information, I have absolutely no problem with that. Its a free country - at least mine was until a few years ago.
But, aside from the prospects for the future of the OS, we were attracted to Amiga for a few other reasons. The name is not as valuable as it used to be but it is a known brand and, unless I mess it up, could come back. We know there is a worldwide user base, perhaps 10,000 or so strong. And maybe 1,000 very supportive and vocal enthusiasts. We'd like to set up an early adopter program, initially between 100 and 500 users. Nokia does much the same thing with the entire population of Finland, with great success. As we bring new products to market these early adopters can purchase them at a reduced price in exchange for feedback on everything from ease of use to the quality of applications. We will have a restricted access site to make participation very easy. This should gives us a lot of flexibility. If we launched a product, say in Italy, we could draw upon our Italian early adopters, etc. We are already designing this program but there are two little problems. We don't have the web site up and we don't have a new product quite yet. We will. There could be t-shirts involved. Wait... I didn't say that.
More important, I've never felt developer support programs do a very good job of supporting developers. I'd like to change that. I am contracting with the best information management firm I know to help set a structure for information and retrieval over a restricted access site. Once we have a handle on what can be done, I'll invite more than a few developers to tell us what they would like to see. I have a few ideas but they will have many more. We have access to all the web design talent that anyone could ever ask for. I will ask our partners if they would like to be involved but, either way, it will be done. In fact, one of our customers requires it. And I certainly agree. I know many of you reading this might consider buying a computer due to the operating system installed. Most people don't know or care. They care about applications and nothing more.
It becomes simple. If the developers are successful, KMOS will be successful. If they can't survive, we won't either. One developer asked if he will have direct access to me. Of course, although anyone relying on me for technical information has completely lost their mind. Professionals will be involved. I will, however, be pretty active and open on market information and product strategy. All confidential, of course.
Since the emergency launch of information@kmos.com, we've received thousands of hits. Many seem to be from the same handful of people. They contain threats, name calling and such nonsense. I don't see any of them, they're simply deleted. We do track them as I don't want any of these people involved in the future of this Company. Except regarding children, I don't suffer childish behavior particularly well.
If the above is your idea of "community", I will be very involved. If its something else - count me out.
Question 4.7: Is there anything else you would like to add?
Garry Hare: Amiga went through two pretty thorough rounds of due diligence. Aside from the items you'd expect to find in any under capitalized company, we found that more than just Genesi concluded that Amiga couldn't defend itself and proceeded to help themselves to IP, trademarks and even distributed a commercial product without an agreement. Many of you have seen my "Declarations" and know what I'm talking about. Unfortunately before I can turn my full attention to building this Company I have to clean up these items. I prefer the company of developers to lawyers but legal issues have become part of my job.
My job description was simple, "Build this company", with two bullet points. Later they added, oh yeah, protect the intellectual property. If I would have known then what I know now, I would have insisted on a renegotiation and a new GT3 (that's a car not a PC) delivered to my door.
In one instance, due diligence issues regarding Amiga and KMOS overlap. I believe all employees should be paid for the work they do. Amiga has two well publicized labour judgements against them and I hope they are cleared soon. But a labour judgement, paid or not, does not pierce confidentiality and NDA. It appears that one former Amiga employee transferred intellectual property (now KMOS' intellectual property) to a third party for financial gain. That is a criminal act and should be treated as such. He went on to brag about it on public boards. That's not a criminal act, just not very smart. Other than that, with the possible exception of this guy in Australia, I'm not very interested in the actions of individuals.
I do think it is particularly reprehensible when an employer directs their employees to misuse others property. The employee is in a bind. Usually they need the income and can't simply walk out - although a couple did. Enough said. If you'd like to reach me on any of these matters, just drop a line to my attention at information@kmos.com. It will be confidential and it will get to me.
Question 4.8: Finally, Garry, why did you select AW for this interview?
Garry Hare: You asked. I do thank Amigaworld.net for this opportunity to answer a couple questions and I apologize for the length. It seemed necessary. I don't want anyone to conclude this is the start of an "ask Garry" column. It isn't. We will release information on matters that materially affect KMOS; certainly product releases, perhaps strategic partners and others matters that seem relevant. I'll be happy to answer questions, here on AmigaWorld if David would like, when any of these events occur. Anyone asking questions regarding business cards will be condemned to a Pegasos... ...running Windows.
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notice remain intact.
Copyright (c) 2004 Amigaworld.net and KMOS Inc. All rights reserved.
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OpenBSD-support for Pegasos cancelled
After a public statement
of the OpenBSD developer Theo de Raadt on Wednesday that next versions of the operating
system OpenBSD will not support the Pegasos any
longer Dale Rahn who is responsible person of the Pegasos port has given some
more detailed
information about this case.
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amiga-news.de: IRC-channel also available via webinterface
We want to point out still again that the official amiga-news.de-IRC-channel is now also
available via webinterface.
You only have to choose a nick name and to enter the channel "#amiganews.de" in the input
field.
Of course the channel can be also accessed with the help of an IRC-program - like AmIRC, XChat or mIRC -:
Server: de3.arcnet.vapor.com (or other servers)
Port: 6667
channel: #amiganews.de
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Thilo Köhler: Diverse software news
Thilo Köhler has updated some of his programs which you can download from the HD-Rec
homepage under Other Stuff.
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SoundFX 4.3 since March in beta test
As Stefan Kost of Sonic Pulse
reports the new version 4.3 of
SoundFX has been in beta test since March 16th and is supposed to be published soon.
Two screenshots have been added on the gallery.
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Genesi: Russian version of PegasosPPC.com online
Under http://www.pegasos.org.ru/ you can find
a Russian version of the official Pegasos website PegasosPPC.com.
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NovaDesign with new website
Nova Design which is the North American producer of the well known picture editing software
called ImageFX has a new website since today.
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AMIGAplus 03/2004 (#145) - On tour with USB
AMIGAplus 03/2004 (#145) has been published on March 19th including the
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AmiGBG: List of attendors expanded with Individual Computers
At the AmiGBG event
in Goteborg, Sweden on April the 3rd Individual Computers will
attend as exhibitor too to show their expansion cards like
the Catweasel, Delfina or X-Surf.
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24.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Anniversary: The programming language Rexx becomes 25 years
The programming language Rexx, which got some meaning for the
Amiga because of ARexx, celebrate its 25th anniversary this month.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: 352 demos online now
The Amiga Demoscene
Archive is improved nearly weekly and offers currently
352 high quality demos and 3537 screen shots.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Mar.2004
Heise Online (Website)
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"Amiga at the CeBIT" - Touring exhibition of historic computers
Heise online reports the Amiga is
at the Hanover CeBIT this year again - but
this guest performance is part of a touring exhibition of
historic computers only which our "mate" is part of as well as the
German Zuse Z25, the first mini computer classic PDP 8 by DEC
("three wall units") and other historic interesting pieces...
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Mar.2004
amiga-news.de editorial office
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amiga-news.de: optional registration at the comments (Update II)
As reported (news
from March the 9th and
March the 19th) Sven
Drieling has expanded the comment script with the possibility of an
optional and free registration using the account data from our
forum board system. Now a direct link to the profile of the
registered user has been added as a further feature.
more ...
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Mar.2004
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Webshrine: The Chaos Regime (Bitmap Brothers)
"The Chaos Regime" is a lovely created tribut to the legendary "Bitmap Brothers", who are
responsible for game classics like Xenon II, Speedball or The Chaos Engine.
The website offers reviews, screenshots, magazine scans, walkthroughs, and handbooks for
all titles of the famous software company, and interviews and further background information.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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23.Mar.2004
www.macnews.de (ANF)
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IBM looks for third party PowerPC mobo partners
A short news of the British IT news service The Inquirer reports
that G5 processor manufacturer IBM is looking for partners manufacturing PowerPC motherboards. Two manufacturers have
made a statement at the CeBIT.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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23.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Karate Fighter DemoScript: Version 0.99 now with 3D-Engine
With the Karate Fighter DemoScript you can create demos
running on an AGA-Amiga with 68020, on a 68060 with CyberGFX, or also under MorphOS.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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23.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Pegasos: Linux kernel 2.6.4 available
Sven Luther has created a version of the Linux kernel 2.6.4 which supports the Pegasos. He writes:
more ...
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22.Mar.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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MorphOS: TGEmu 1.2 released
"TGEmu" emulates the classic NEC games console "TurboGrafx16" (aka "PC Engine"). For now many comercial titles are running fast enough and with sound support.
The update to version 1.2 comes with the following enhancements:
more ...
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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22.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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AFPL Ghostscript 8.13 released
Version 8.13 of Ghostscript, a PDF and PS viewer, is now available for the AmigaOS. AmigaOS 3.0 as well as a 68020 CPU are required.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 22. Mar. 2004, 19:28] [Comments: 0]
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22.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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Magazine: "The Crypt" discontinued
The online magazine The Crypt will be discontinued. The already announced issue 35 will not be released.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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22.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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OpenSSH and OpenSSL updates
There are updtaes for OpenSSH and OpenSSL for Amiga-68k (68020+) available at http://amiga.sourceforge.net/.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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22.Mar.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Turkish PCWorld Magazine features the Pegasos and MorphOS
As Genesi announces in a press release, MorphOS, the Pegasos and Genesi are featured in the March issue of PCWorld Magazine in Turkey. A PDF version is available. Article reprinted by permission of the author.
(snx)
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21.Mar.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: statline 0.7 released
statline is a small utility which can show different status information about your MorphOS system. The output format is highly configurable.
more ...
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Mar.2004
Ilkka Lehtoranta
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MorphOS: new version of CD Player
Ilkka Lehtoranta has updated the CD Player (screenshot) for MorphOS.
The following improvements have been added in version 1.1:
- new ARexx commands
- function for random play
- error fixes
more ...
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
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Law suit Thendic-Amiga: New petition by Amiga Inc.
In a new petition in the law suit with Thendic
(we reported)
demand the lawyers of Amiga a repeal of the verdict being enacted on
February, 20th and slightly mopdified on March, 16th.
With several comments by Bill Bucks taken from various English forums
and a screenshot of Genesi's website try the lawyers to proof that
the plaintiffs...
more ...
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-EuroArchiv v1.3 available
The SN-EuroArchiv is now available in version 1.3.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Thorty! (ANF)
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CD³²-Allianz accessible under cd32-allianz.de again
The CD³²-Allianz is again accessible under the URL www.cd32-allianz.de. Should the occasion arise please update changed links and bookmarks. The alliance is still accesssible under cd32.emubase.de as the CD³²-Allianz is hosted by the Emubase.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Mai Logic: PowerPoint presentation of Articia I (Chinese)
A Chinese PowerPoint presentation introduces the Teron I as well as the Northbridges Articia I (page 16) and Articia Is (page 17) by Mai Logic that are developed for systems based on the PowerPC processor 970 by IBM. On page 33 appears the term OS4.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Software RAID: URD 0.3 beta released
Rupert Hausberger has made the beta release 0.3 of URD, a software RAID solution for AmigaOS, available for download.
more ...
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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20.Mar.2004
Dave Haynie
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The "Margaritas" closes
As the owner Derek informed has the pub been sold and will be opened on March, 28th for the last time. He wrote: "We are having a big closing party, with a band and $2.00 all drinks starting at 2pm till the booze runs out."
more ...
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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19.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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NVIDIA-driver for AROS
For AROS the first accellerated 2d-driver has
been completed. The NVIDIA-driver has been successfully tested with TNT2-, GeForce2/4- and
nForce-based cards but should also work with many other versions.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Mar. 2004, 18:58] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Game: New version of "Die Kleine Gilde II" also available for MorphOS
I have just published version 0.15 of Die Kleine Gilde II
on my homepage.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Mar. 2004, 18:36] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2004
amiga-news.de editorial office
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amiga-news.de: Voluntary registration in comment-area (Update)
At the beginning of March Sven Drieling has extended the comment-script for a voluntary
registration with access data.
But with some browsers this login did not work. The new script should now work with
all browsers but sometimes only if you accept cookies.
more ...
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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19.Mar.2004
Hammer (ANF)
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Heise: YaST is to fall under GPL
As Heise Online reports
Novell will release the Linux installation tool YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) of SuSE
under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) in order to increase its spread.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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GTK-Amiga: SourceForge-Project to GUI-Toolkit-port
Already in December of the last year at SourceForge.net a project for a port of the
GTK-GUI-Toolkit for AmigaOS was started. Currently further steps are planned and
files have not been published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Mar. 2004, 11:49] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: wget V1.9.1 ported
Christian Rosentreter
has compiled
version 1.9.1 of wget for MorphOS (358 KB).
more ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Mar.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Liquid Skies Records #067
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 67th music pack today. This time it contains the track "Spacer W Chmurach" by the Polish musician Maxus. The English translation is something like "Stroll over the Clouds" and there's also a fitting cover.
- Title: Spacer W Chmurach
- Musician: Maxus
- Style: Rave
- Song Length: 3:05
- Format: mp3
- Size: 2.9 MB
You'll find the zipped file under the title link as a free download.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
Elbox (E-Mail)
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Elbox: MedConfig v1.3 available
The MedConfig ver. 1.3, a configuration tool for all Mediator PCI busboards, has been released today.
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 18. Mar. 2004, 16:26] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2004
Genesi
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Genesi Gold Sponsor at Motorola's Smart Developer Network Forum
Motorola has named Genesi a Gold Sponsor for the Smart Developer Network Forum to be held in Dallas on 26-29 April.
more ...
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2004, 16:12] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2004
Bill Buck in der MorphZone (ANF)
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Genesi being added to the ATI Developer early release schedule
As Bill Buck mentions in a comment in the MorphZone, Genesi are being added to the ATI Developer early release schedule. According to him, they will be getting PowerPC driver support and the latest compiled lib/binary for PPC.
(snx)
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18.Mar.2004
Ray A. Akey (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Next CAM Delayed until the Beginning of April
HMetal alias Ray A. Akey of Amiga Inc. says here in this forum that the next issue of the magazine "Club Amiga Monthly" will possibly be a combined March-April issue released in the first week of April with the contents of both months in there.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 18. Mar. 2004, 14:26] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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Emulator: Frodo Ported to MorphOS
The C64 Emulator Frodo is now in a MorphOS-native version available for download from here (512 KB) at Morphzone. This is a direct port of the Amiga version with AHI support.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 18. Mar. 2004, 10:27] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ScummVM V0.6.0 Ported to AmigaOS 4.0
Version 0.6.0 of ScummVM has been ported through Hans-Jörg Frieden via the use of Hyperion's SDLport for AmigaOS 4.0. A screenshot shows "Flight of the Amazon Queen".
Adventure classics from LucasArts, like Monkey Island 1-3, Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max, The Dig and Vollgas, may be played on modern Amiga systems through the use of ScummVM.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 18. Mar. 2004, 10:22] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2004
Relec Software & Hardware Amiga (ANF)
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Relec Announces "MicroA1-EZ"
The Swiss merchant Relec stated that there would be a MicroA1-EZ at the next meeting of the Amiga club AMF-Lausanne-Schweiz on Saturday the 3rd of April from 2 to 5 pm. If the prerelease version of AmigaOS 4.0 happens to be ready that will also be displayed.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Mar.2004
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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New Alpha Version 0.4 of MIDI Sequencer Horny
Horny is a MIDI sequencer in the style of, for example, Logic or Cubase whose foremost goal is simple and uncomplicated functionality. In contrast to its previews Horny will remain a pure MIDI program and will not support audio.
The current version has everything necessary for the creation of MIDI songs, wherefore the download is just the lite version.
The author asks all users who try Horny to send him a short email, so that he can gauge the interest. Thanks!
The download link as well as other information may be found at the product website under the title link.
Current characteristics:
- Control of up to 16 MIDI ports over CAMD (Lite: 1 Port)
- Up to 128 tones (Lite: 8 tones)
- Volume and tempo changes possible within a song
- Piano Editor: quantisize, compress velocity...
- Controller Editor: compress, reduce, smooth...
- SysEx management with many desired sorting groups
- Jumpable position markers in an arrangement window
- Sound selection of names (not only general MIDI, particularly for desired synthesizer expansions)
- Controller is likewise named for desired (expandable) synthesizer
- SMF import and export
- Horny data format is forward and backward compatible
- ReAction interface in window configuring
- On Workbench or its own window
- Arrangment window may be used as the background (backdrop)
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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17.Mar.2004
David Brunet (ANF)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Election March/April 2004
Amiga Games Hit Parade's maintainers call for the election of the
game of March/April 2004. Participate at the election by
sending a mail to David "Daff" Brunet containing a maximum of your
20 favorite games or vote
online at hitparade.amigames.com.
Every kind of game (commercial, freeware, old, new etc.) is
welcome for the list. The final results wil be announced
beginning April 2004.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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17.Mar.2004
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The lawsuit between Thendic/Genesi and Amiga Inc.
After a court decision regarding the lawsuit between
Thendic/Genesi and Amiga Inc. (we reported) has been made
new applications
were placed which request a post modification of the
decision.
more ...
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 17. Mar. 2004, 20:33] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2004
rc5-72 stats (ANF)
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dnetc: MorphOS overrounds AmigaOS PPC and AmigaOS 68k
At the rc5-72 statistics
MorphOS while crunching for two months only has overrounded the
taking fifteen months crunching efford of the distrbuted.net
client for AmigaOS 68k and AmigaOS PPC.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 17. Mar. 2004, 10:21] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Emulators: Native ports for AmigaOS 4
Amigaworld.net reports this week the beta test of the OS4
native version of UAE 0.8.25 (screen shot)
will begin. Referencing a second post
the C64 emulator Frodo as well as the arcade emulator xMAME
(screen shots)
were successfully ported to AOS4 already.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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16.Mar.2004
IrseeSoft / ZEDOnet (ANF)
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Printer drive: TurboPrint-Version 7.60 available
The printerd rive software TurboPrint of IrseeSoft has been published in the version 7.60 with new printer drives:
more ...
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
Coyote Flux (ANF)
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Coyote Flux: Major website update
The website has been updated with new information about CoyoteFlash and J Miner (EE). An optimized version of the website will be added soon for Amiga and mobile platform users.
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 16:52] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2004
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Latest Amiga-news
The latest news from Amiga Inc. are considered too, by the non-amiga press
(cr) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
KRAY Homepage
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MorphOS: new version of KRAY
The commandline-programm of the raytracer KRAY has been extended with a preview window in the MorphOS-version. You can find the new version under
the title link
(cr) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 13:21] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2004
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Battlefield forum temporary available
Horst Diebel writes: Because of a rate changing on www.amiga-society.de the Battlefield forum was temporary not available.
Until finishing the new Internet representation there is the possibility for representing a discussion forum. There is now an standard forum.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 16. Mar. 2004, 12:38] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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AutoDocReader published
"Maag" has published a programm for showing AutoDocs called AutoDocReader.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Amiga Inc. sells AmigaOS to KMOS Inc.
Amiga, Inc. Sells the Amiga Operating System, to focus on AmigaDE and the Mobile Market.
Ravensdale, WA - 3:00 pm Pacific Time, March 15, 2004 - Amiga, Inc. announced today that it has sold the Amiga Operating System to KMOS, Inc., allowing Amiga, Inc to focus on the growing mobile market.
more ...
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Mar.2004
Breed (ANF)
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FroGGui: Version 0.22 released
Version 0.22 (510 KB) of FroGGui, GUI for FroggerNG, is now available.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 15. Mar. 2004, 20:38] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2004
Cloanto
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Cloanto: Amiga Explorer 6.0 released
Cloanto have released version 6.0 of their Amiga Explorer. A trial version (1.9 MB) can be downloaded which is limited in a way that it can't transfer files with more than 1 KB in size.
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 15. Mar. 2004, 19:14] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2004
amiga.org (website)
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MorphOS: TGEmu emulates TurboGrafx16/PC Engine
"TGEmu" emulates the classic NEC games console "TurboGrafx16" (aka "PC Engine"). For now many comercial titles are running fast enough and with sound support.
The MorphOS version comes with a graphical users interface that supports skins.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.Mar.2004
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Interview: Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion)
amigaworld.net has made an interview with Oliver Hannaford-Day. Oliver is the developer behind the Amiga turboboard "Coldfusion" that bases on a Coldfire CPU.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 13. Mar. 2004, 20:40] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Workbench design with AmiChameleon
Everybody who has already tried to change the look of the Workbench completely knows how much the work that means. Searching for images, changing preferences, loading skins, etc. If you want to change the look again later on the same starts over again. Because of this I've developed AmiChameleon. It archives once created so called themes and installs them later again in the simpliest way. This way it is possible to change the design of your Workbench completely with only a small number of mouse click.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 13. Mar. 2004, 18:15] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2004
Genesi (email)
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MorphOS presentation at Motorola SNDF in Dallas and Frankfurt
As Genesi mailed will the Pegasos and MorphOS be presented at this year's Smart Developer Network Forum events of Motorola in Dallas (April, 26th to 29th) and Frankfurt (September, 28th - 30th).
more ...
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 13. Mar. 2004, 10:31] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2004
Christian Geier (email)
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Linux: Image Installer SE for Pegasos and Amiga-PPC released
The Image Installer that shortens the installation of various Linux distributions on the Pegasos I and II or the Amiga with PowerPC card to several minutes and eases it, is now available with an image file of SuSE 7.3 for download in a special edition.
more ...
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 13. Mar. 2004, 10:17] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
Ekkehard Brüggemann (E-Mail)
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Event: Invitation for Breakpoint 2004
From 9th till 12th April the European demo scene will meet in Bingen (Germany) again.
The official invitation for the Breakpoint which is the biggest German scene party and successor of
the Mekka symposium has been published today. Please have a look at it for further information.
more ...
(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 12:28] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
Tom Duin alias Amigaharry (ANF)
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SearchStar: Update of search program to version 0.86
The search program SeachStar written by Tom Duin can be
downloaded in version 0.86 (30 KB).
more ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2004
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Music: "Statement" by Bjorn Lynne
With 14 tracks the Norwegian musician Bjorn Lynne has filled his new
audio-CD "Statement" and there walks through diverse styles of music like
Chill-out, Pop-Synth, jazzy Groove and soundtracks of classic games.
The music reminds of the time when Bjorn Lynne as Dr. Awesome created the sounds
for Amiga diskmags and games like Alien Breed 3D or Worms D.C.
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(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 04:32] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet Uploads till March 12th, 2004
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last message:
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(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 01:56] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Amithlon Update v1.29 published
A new update for the x86 based Amiga emulator called Amithlon has been published. The version 1.29 offers all
registered users e.g. a new version of the XCat utility.
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(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 01:48] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: Hundreds of Spammer in USA sued
AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo have sued together hundreds of senders of spam.
This indictment is based on the new US-Anti-Spam law "Controlling the Assault of
Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing" which is known as CAN-SPAM.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 01:22] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
disc4you (ANF)
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Hard time: 'Download'-Directive passed
Yesterday the EU parliament passed the new directions on the measures and proceedings
for the protection of the rights on mental property.
The lawyer Gwen Hinze estimates that if a person infringes the new directive the flat can be searched, the banking-account
can be freezed or immovables can be attached.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 01:18] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2004
Piotr Pawlowski / amiga-news.de-Team
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amiga-news.de: Polish News-Site active again
After a longer break amiga-news.de is translated now again to the Polish language. You can access the Polish version
which is done by Piotr Pawlowski under http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~ppawlo/an_polish.html.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Mar. 2004, 01:17] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
amiga.org (Webseite)
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amiga.org: Opening of "SoapBox"
With the opening of "SoapBox," the web-portal amiga.org is giving readers and moderators the ability to publish columns, historical items, or other articles.
The Soapbox is divided into categories, at this time there is a category for "historical" documents (announcements and news reports of important companies or persons from the Amiga field) as well as categories in which members of the amiga.org team may release columns about diverse topics.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 22:14] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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AmiGBG: Retro-Room / AmigaOne-XE and A1200 Magic Pack as Prizes
In relation to the convention AmiGBG in Sweden on the 3rd of April, there's a cooperation between the convention's organizers and the newest Swedish Amiga merchant Guru Meditation to give away a complete AmigaOne XE system.
To do this they've established a Retro-Room, in which a look back may be taken at old acquaintances like Amiga 1000, CDTV, SuperCars, or Flip the Frog. The visitors may also test themselves at the game Rocketz - the winner gets an Amiga1200 Magic Pack.
You'll find more information at the AmiGBG website here.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 20:02] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: enqueueTorrent 1.0 released
enqueueTorrent is a commandline tool which helps to integrate MLdonkey support into your favourite Amiga browser.
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(snx)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 17:27] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
MorphZone (comments)
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mDVD: MorphOS GUI for DVD Playing with MPlayer
J.-P. Jokela has prepared mDVD (9.3 MB), a GUI (graphic user-interface) for playing DVDs with mPlayer under MorphOS. Besides mPlayer you must also have RxMUI installed.
MDVD is a simple selection program for DVD titles, subtitles, and soundtracks, with a few options such as framedrop or full-screen. It does not include search functions or DVD menu support.
The author requests feedback as to desired features, and points out that that one should read the manual before trying out the configuration of the GUI, and set the path for mPlayer as well as the orientation of subtitles and soundtracks.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 17:00] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MorphOS Developer Connection Approaches 600 Members
MorphOS-News.de reported that the MorphOS Developer Connection will reach the membership total of 600 registered developers this week.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 16:35] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Prometheus: SDK 2.0 Available
Software-Development-Kit 2.0 for Matay's PCI busboard Prometheus has appeared. Included is the documentation for version 2.x of the Prometheus library, in which new functions for busmastering are covered, as well as includes.
(snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 16:10] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2004
Elbox (e-mail)
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Elbox: Mediator PCI 3/4000T Comeback
As Elbox Computer announces, the Mediator PCI bus board with five slots for the Amiga A3/4000T is available again.
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(snx)
[News message: 11. Mar. 2004, 14:59] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
drHirudo (ANF)
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Mind game: Sokoban clone "BoxWorld"
"drHirudo" has released the Sokoban clone "BoxWorld". The task with games of that kind is to move boxes through a laybrinth without going into a dead end or block yourself the way.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 22:07] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
Crack (Forum)
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Amiga Access: Eventually another production run?
As reported by amiga-news.de reader "Crack" within the forum the manufacturer of the Amiga Access mother board is thinking to build some more boards. Those who are interested in getting such a board are asked to mention that within the forum area.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 21:58] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Die Kleine Gilde II: Training game for arbalest contest available
The next version of the game Die Kleine Gilde II will include a little arbalest shooting contest that will be held about all five years. There is a trainig mode game for that contest available now which is downloadable at my homepage.
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(snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 21:23] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Project: "Become a programmer's sponsor"
Since a couple of days at amigaworld.net
an idea is being discussed to improve attraction to program for AmigaOS4 by starting a financial sponsorship.
The original idea has been to provide free AmigaOne systems but actually all possibilities of sponsoring are discussed.
Because the idea seems to be attractive to many readers (the initiator said there are considerable funds already) a mailing list
has been started which will cover all further discussion.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 20:18] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
Thorty (ANF)
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Website: Logo contest at "Thorty-online.de"
The maintainer of www.Thorty-online.de holds a logo contest. All AmigaOS- & MorphOS graphic artists who would like to play with their creative ambitions and earn a little money are invited.
The winner will be awarded with EUR 50. Further information is available by the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 19:23] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
ANN (comments)
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Important news from the Amiga-History
During the Amiga.org team's investigation of historic announcements of important companies of the unsteady Amiga history (amiga-news.de reported) Gareth Knight reminded his archive of those companies, which he build during the last six years: http://amiga.emugaming.com/ammigahistory.html.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 14:08] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Big Bash: Live-MP3-Streaming from the OS4 demo
AmigaWorldRadio presents a live MP3 streaming from the OS4 demo and party "Big Bash" next Saturday from 18 - 22 o'clock GMT.
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(snx)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 10:47] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2004
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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Open Video Toaster: High number of downloads
Bill Panagouleas writes: Last months launch of Open Video Toaster was a great success. Visitors to the site downloaded over 57 Gigabytes of source code! When you consider that the code to the Amiga Video Toaster Flyer is only about 30MB that is a lot of unique downloads.
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(snx)
[News message: 10. Mar. 2004, 07:17] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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amigaworld.net: End of "Fleecy Moss Q&A"
amigaworld.net told us that the "Fleecy Moss Q&A"-Sessions, where Fleecy Moss has answered questions from Amiga users, will be stopped.
The aim is the improvement of the communication between users and developers in the Amiga area. Because taking
part of OS4 developer in the discussions on amigaworld, there is not so much demand on Q&A with Fleecy Moss.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 19:58] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Amiga.org asks for help in arrangement of historical reports
The portal amiga.org asks for help in
for the arrangement of historical reports. Surched are URL`s or copies of no more existend earlier reports, which are telling the way, that Amiga and its users and the
main companies had gone in the last few years.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 19:02] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Benchmarks: "Amiga Speed"-Website updated
The website Amiga Speed, which contains of a speedranking of different games, graphics cards and processors, had been updated
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(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 13:42] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
amiga-news.de editorial office
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amiga-news.de: voluntary registry in the comment area
Up to now there is a voluntary registry in the comment area on amiga-news.de
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(nba) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 02:10] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Yahoo!-Group for HD-Rec opened
Thilo Köhler has opened a Yahoo!-Group for the MIDI/AudioSequencer HD-Rec. There the author answers questions for the HD-Rec and helps with problems because of the HD-Rec.
All bugreports and suggestions are welcome.
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(nba) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 09. Mar. 2004, 02:09] [Comments: 0]
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08.Mar.2004
Richard Drummond (ANF)
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UAE-0.8.25-20040302 released
Richard Drummond has released UAE-0.8.25-20040302.
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(snx)
[News message: 08. Mar. 2004, 13:56] [Comments: 0]
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08.Mar.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5-16 released
MLdonkey 2.5-16 is the latest version of a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client which runs as a daemon. It supports several large networks, such as eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap. It can be controlled locally or remotely using several interfaces like telnet or http.
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(snx)
[News message: 08. Mar. 2004, 13:48] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS 1.5 beta shown in Bremen
As MorphOS-News.de reports has a beta version of MorphOS 1.5 been shown on the "Video- und Computerbörse" in Bremen.
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(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 21:11] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
Cyborg (ANF)
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Patch: domains with special characters on Amiga
Cyborg wrote: Hi, on the FTP server of benderirc.de there's a TCP/IP patch (8 KB) for alle TCP/IP stacks for the Amiga. The patch has been tested with Miami on a 68040 Amiga under AmigaOS 3.1.
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(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 21:00] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
Beta2-ML
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MorphOS 1.4.2 available via beta2 FTP server
MorphOS 1.4.2 is now downloadable via the beta2 FTP server. Compared with the other v1.4 installations only the boot.img has been renewed so that for single users only the download of this file is needed.
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(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 17:20] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
ANN (website)
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Picture viewer: MiniShowPicture 1.6
Version 1.6 of the picture viewer MiniShowPicture has been released today. This is a simple display program basing on MUI and using the datatypes. The functions contain drag&drop, scaling and keyboard support.
Direct download (309 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 15:31] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
ANN (website) / Gerd Frank (email)
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OctaMED SoundStudio V2: OS4 version announced
After the appearing of a quoting from the mailing list for the program OctaMED SoundStudio V2 on ANN confirmed the author Gerd Frank that there will indeed come a PPC/AHI version for AmigaOS4.
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(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 13:01] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT-Galerie back
The fxPAINT images gallery that had been removed with the move from the old shop system to Callisto is now online again.
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(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 11:28] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
ANF
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John C. Dvorak's article about MorphOS released in the "PC Magazine"
In the US-American PC Magazine wrote the columnist and TV presenter John C. Dvorak an article about MorphOS.
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(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 11:16] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
ANN (website)
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AROS on DVD of an Italian PC magazine
As Fabio Alemagna informs on AROS.org is on the DVD of this month's issue of TGM, one of the leading Italian PC games magazine, thanks to Paolo Besser also AROS included together with a review and a comprehensive Italian manual.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 08:05] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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ASoft: CManager v29.1 released
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has released a new version of the ContactManager. The CManager is a central bookmark data base and is now available in version 29.1 (490 KB).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 07:48] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack: USB support for Prometheus may be possible
Thanks to the latest information on the Prometheus PCI interface it was possible to add native support to the ArakAttack USB driver.
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[News message: 06. Mar. 2004, 07:37] [Comments: 0]
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