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25.Jan.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: HDRIview released
Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski has ported HDRIview to MorphOS, a viewer for High Dynamic Range images.
more ... (snx)

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24.Jan.2004
Michael Klein (ANF)


 CD32 alliance: website fully online again
With friendly support by the Emubase is the CD32 alliance now fully available again under cd32.emubase.de.
more ... (snx) (Translation: wk)

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24.Jan.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)


 Picture viewer: PicShow v1.30 beta
PicShow is thought to be used as a picture viewer within a directory tool like DirOpus or DosControl. It shows the chosen picture in a borderless window on the named public screen. The special thing about this program is that it reads the complete directory and you can choose other pictures from this directory via a menu or using keys. more ... (cg) (Translation: wk)

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24.Jan.2004
Ingo Schmitz (ANF)


 MorphOS: CImon 0.9.6
CImon 0.9.6 is a simple shell based client to access the ImonD of a FLI4L router. How to use the propgram can be read in the readme. Information about FLI4L can be found here.

Download: cimon096.lha (15 KB) (cg) (Translation: wk)

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24.Jan.2004
Elbox (e-mail)


 Elbox: New Year's offer extended
Due to numerous requests from our customers to make New Year's free shipping offer valid for a longer time, we have decided to extend it till 02 February 2004.
more ... (snx)

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24.Jan.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies records #065
The scene group Liquid Skies has released yesterday their 65th music pack. It contains the track "Magiczny Las" of the Polish musician Maxus (that is "Magic Forest"). The track is a mixture of Jungle and Trance. more ... (cg) (Translation: wk)

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23.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 Presentation: An Introduction to MorphOS (Update)
The MorphZone is hosting a presentation by Nicholas Blachford called An Introduction to MorphOS, which is an overview for anyone not already familiar with this operating system.
more ... (snx)

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23.Jan.2004
ANN (website)


 TeamAROS: Bounty program extended
The bounty program of TeamAROS has been extended by three projects. Added were the creation of a PCI driver, an ata.device and support for FAT32. (snx)

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23.Jan.2004
amigaharry (ANF)


 Search program: SearchStar 0.80
"SearchStar" is a multi talent which searches your hard drive for files which have a certain name or content.

more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Jan.2004
Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)


 Mai Logic: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 for Teron computers
Under the title link Mai Logic provides the ISO-files to install Yellow Dog Linux on computers of the Teron series.
more ... (snx)

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22.Jan.2004
Jörg Brenner (ANF)


 New Website of 1000er Magazine
The disk mag of IG A1000 is now online. At http://amiga.resource.cx/1000er you can find 28 issues of 1000er Magazine to download in DMS format, or just read any of 2000 articles individually.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dm)

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22.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)


 File Shrinker: MUI Unarc V45.13
Jocke Sjöblom's MUI-based clone of the UNARC tool that shipped with AmigaOS 3.9 has reached version 45.13 (14 KB).

MUI UNARC requires xadmaster.library and thereby is able to list and pack a range of archive formats. In the new versions XVS and XFD support has been added. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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21.Jan.2004
Amiga.org (forum)


 Nueron: Amiga-inspired computer project based on Coldfire
Stephen Smith of Austex Software has presented at Amiga.org his Amiga-inspired project Nueron/NuOS, a Coldfire computer with its own operating system:
more ... (snx)

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21.Jan.2004
Nintendo


 Nintendo: Portable system with double screen to be released in 2004
"Mystery" Product to Launch Later This Year

REDMOND, Wash., Jan 20, 2004 -- An unprecedented approach to video game play-- holding two separate game screens in the palm of your hand-- hits the scene later this year when Nintendo introduces a new portable game system, code-named Nintendo DS.

more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
Rainer Benda (ANF)


 C&ZV Rainer Benda: Webshop opened
As Rainer Benda told us he opened a webshop at www.rbenda.de. The offered goods do not only include Amiga and Commodore 8 bit products as well as other PC parts and also Gamepark-32, Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Gamecube and Sony Playstation products. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)


 Picture viewer: MiniShowPicture V1.5 released
The program MiniShowPicture by Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski has now been released in version 1.5 * for MorphOS and Amiga 68k.
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
Patric Klöter (ANF)


 Commodore/Amiga-Website redesigned completely
Patric Klöter wrties: Welcome to the new version of the Commodore/Amiga fan page. I decided to change the name to Commodore Amiga Information Source, or abreviated CAIS which should remind a bit to the old Commodore department CATS, Commodore Amiga Technical Support.
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
ANF


 Motorola: Saleswin nearly tripled
Within the last quarter of 2003 the American mobile and semiconductor producer Motorola has nearly tripled its saleswin. Compared to the 174 million dollars within the according time year before the company earned 489 million dollars (388 million Euros) within the fourth quarter 2003. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 MorphOS: Patch for WipeOut 2097 released
Mark Olsen has created a patch to make the game Wipeout 2097 run better on the Pegasos. The patch (2 KB) eliminates the chipmem access by WipeOut 2097, making it now possible to play all levels at full speed. (snx)

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21.Jan.2004
ANN (website)


 Update: YamHTMLyam 1.9b
YamHTMLyam is an ARexx script for displaying HTML e-mails and pictures received by YAM using a browser. Meanwhile version 1.9b (28 KB) of the script is available. (snx)

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21.Jan.2004
z5 (ANF)


 Amiga Demoscene Archive: Party lists added
A new feature was added on Amiga Demoscene Archive: party result lists (from the productions that are on A.D.A). Grouped by year and position and included are the votes received at party (where available). With every new production that we add, the party result lists will grow more complete. (snx)

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20.Jan.2004
Golem (Website)


 Golem: inofficial follow of the adventures of Zak McKracken
How Golem reported, there is an inofficial follow by fans on PC of the adventure classic Zak McKracken by Lucas Arts.
more ... (snx) (Translation: gf)

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20.Jan.2004
(ANF)


 Wired: Amiga still voted in Vaporware-Top 10
Now the Amiga gets a questionable honour, he placed in the top ten of Vaporware. They are voted by the Wired-readers and they vote for products which are pronounced for a very long time, but not published until today. AmigaOS4 defensed the 9th rank for the year 2003. more ... (snx) (Translation: gf)

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20.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 Genesi listed in the Motorola Alliance Directory
Genesi S.à.r.l. is now listed in the Motorola Alliance Directory.
more ... (snx)

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20.Jan.2004
AmigaWorld (ANF)


 Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 26
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 26 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):

1) rayt: Is it still planned to release the CyberstormPPC version of OS4 before the Aone version or will they be released at the same time now?

Fleecy: Whichever one is done first will be released first. The CSPPC version was a long way ahead of the AmigaOne version but in recent months that has ceased to be the case and the AmigaOne may even now be ahead of the CSPPC version. We still aren't ready to give a release date for either but once one is released, a majority of the spare resources will go into bringing the other to release.

2) Hondo_DK: Could you perhaps tell us about the changed plans with 4.1,4.2, etc. ??? and maybe give us a new timeline for these versions.

Fleecy: Such things are always going to be subject to change, as they have already. Just generating the final requirements set is hard enough but trying to add a timeline to it is virtually impossible. We hope to have AmigaOS4.1 out within 12 months of AmigaOS4.0 but that could change depending upon a number of things.

As we move forwards, the feature set for each successive release will obviously build upon the other but will be a combination of;
  1. fixes from the last version.
  2. enhancements to AG1 code that will remain.
  3. introduction of AG2 services, such as visual, audio, 3D and such.
  4. introduction of the digital living essentials services.
  5. Introduction of a formal development environment for developers.

The Digital Living Essentials project is dedicated to bringing core user activities to the AmigaOS, so that we can provide an acceptable alternative to other competitors. For example a world class browser, an email client, a media player etc.

3) MycoMedical: I was reading up on Intent, and they have recently comeout with a new version. If I buy the SDK now, am I entitled to the upgrade or should I wait untill the SDK is updated before I invest?

Fleecy: The recently released ADK from Tao is based upon Intent 1.4, the same version that we are using in the construction of the new SDK. If you buy the SDK now then yes, you will receive an upgrade - remind me if anyone causes you any trouble over it.

4) Santa: How does the AG2 services based approach relate to WebServices? Are they comparable technologically?

Fleecy: A service is simply a description of a set of logically related operations. A service provider implements a service for a particular resource. These exist within an abstract domain that allows for the resources and the services to be distributed and dynamically advertised, discovered and queried. As such they are a key part of the development architecture and environment for the future.

As for WebServices? Do you have anything particular in mind? Email me if you need a better answer.

5) mjohnson: How extensive has the beta-testing been for the filesystem/diskvalidator and the Partition Wizard? (If you don't mind, throw me all the gory details! I.e. how badly crashed disks have been successfully rescued, how thoroughly have your attempts at finding bugs been executed?)

Fleecy: These information comes from various members of the development and beta groups so may be a little bit disjointed, but you did ask for the gory details.

"OK, the gory details on the file system (maybe Jörg could comment on the data recovery practice) include in about two serious 'incidents' over a period of two years which required the use of a disk structure repair program (no, not Partition Wizard, which wasn't handy at the time the fix needed to be made). Apart from this the file system has run remarkably robust and stable for all the time. The 'period of two years' refers to the time the author of the file system would use it on the busiest partition of his Amiga, namely the one which holds the e-mail client and the web browsers. The author has been using the file system for almost as long on all his other partitions, including those which hold the Amiga operating system source code and private development projects. The new file system was written to be paranoid about the data it manages and it tries to minimize the impact of data structure changes on the disk: if, for whatever reason, the system should crash or hang before all the necessary data has been written, then the contents of the disk should still be in a consistent state. In many cases not even a revalidation is necessary."

"Partition Wizard has 2 data recovery functions:
  • 'Repair' checks all FastFileSystem meta-data blocks, and in case of OFS the data blocks as well, of the partition and removes all files/directories/links which have errors. The result is always a error free partition. It does not attempt to restore partial files/directories, that's where some of the other tools can fail and even destroy more as they repair. Repair makes sure not to modify any data which could help the 'Salvage' function.
  • 'Salvage' doesn't fix the errors on the partition itself but scans the whole partition, rebuilds the filesystem structures and copies the rescued files/directories to another partition. That way more data can be recovered, for example it's impossible in a fix-in-place repair to find out which file is the correct one for "block used twice" errors for all possible cases, when copying the files to another partitition instead both (or even more) files can be restored. Of course only one of them will be correct, but the correct one is always rescued which is not the case in a fix-in-place repair.

Additionally to FastFileSystem2 (all 8 modes) Salvage supports SmartFileSystem as well."

"You could add to the answer as well that you can recover lost partitions (due to a lost RDB). It worked very well for me :)

PW generates a list of found partitions the user can use with Media Toolbox to recreate the partitions. PW has undelete, unformat, etc. as well,"

6) koan: As this series continues, will you put together a work-in-progress List of AG2 "specifications" as you have described them on the AI homepage? Or does such a document exist and I have missed it?

Fleecy: Once AmigaOS4.0 is out the door, then I will put up more documentation relating to AG2. The first four AG2 projects that will commence will cover visual services, audio services, ROSE (Resources and Services Environment) and Persistence (Data storage and organisation). The Interactive Environment will start but obviously cannot be implemented until the visual services are complete. As a result there may be a project which builds a new or updated Workbench/Intuition as a fill in.

Be assured that as soon as we have something to show off we will but the last three years has seen the community make itself perfectly clear. Show us when its ready.

7) JCC: Would XML preferences be an example of an OS4 feature that is a stepping stone toward the final destination (the concept sounds great since it makes system configuration very accessible)?

Fleecy: For me it is clear that XML preferences are the way to go as
  • the programming interface is way more fail/crash-proof compared to the currently available binary accessed formats (true also for the current IFF/iffparse.library as the chunks themself do contain proprietary encoding, too).
  • the application developer doesn't need to reinvent the wheel for storing preferences over and over again.
  • one commonly used preferences format will help to wipe away all proprietary used .ini/.iff/.bin/.cfg etc. file formats.
  • the XML format is human-readable and even -editable (it is even very easy to write an editor for it like Apples PropertyListEditor, something that is planned.)
  • the textual representation of data within XML doesn't has any endianness-dependency [this makes it easier to exchange data between platforms (if it should be needed)].
  • the human-readability makes it easy to verify what (probably personal and confidential) information is stored within a references file (impossible in case of a binary encoded scrambled] prefs file).
  • the hype-factor should not be accepted. XML really is as important as people claim and is not another overhyped technology.

Perhaps these arguments don't convince some people but you just need to look at Mac OS X and see how successful the application of a common XML preferences format can be. The implementation within application.library is an attempt to bring some of these benefits to AmigaOS4.0.

8) VidarL: What's happening with the Safe-C programming language you talked about a long time ago?

Fleecy: It is still a key part of the AmigaOS5.0 plan but it has been absorbed into another project that has yet to be announced.

9) GregS: I heard that Alan demonstrated an MS box running as a client within Linux on an A1 (I could have misread this). Is such a facility (alond with Mac emulation, and linux within Amiga) planed for the future OS4-5?

Fleecy: I played with Windows running on MoL on the AmigaOne at the Micromart show and it was very impressive. We have no plans ourselves to provide other platform emulation or hosting within AmigaOS4.0 but I'm sure some third party will find interest in that area.

10) Toaks: What happened to the new games from "KALIKO" and "ZEONEO" , any news on them? will they appear on DE soon ? and whats the general info atm (why its been so slow this year)

Fleecy: These games are still in development or test due to the authors being busy with their day jobs. Kaliko's new Brainteaser is a very promising looking game which my wife adores and which is, as far as I can tell, almost finished.

Zeoneo I know have just completed beta testing their Crossword Evolution product for both PocketPC and Windows desktop. Their amazing new game, Invasion, has been in beta test for a few weeks now and is one of the best space invaders/galaxians/Zalaga games I have ever played.

It has been a slow year for many reasons - lack of resources, the time it has taken to get the latest Intent update, prospective customers umming and arring, Microsoft warning OEMs away from card based solutions until they fixed the problems we found, waiting for PocketPC2003 to become dominant and waiting for the Smartphone product to become more stable.

We do intend to have new products ready in the first quarter of 2004.

(Copyright © 2004 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=27
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: gf)

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19.Jan.2004
Raquel Velasco & Bill Buck (E-Mail)


 Thendic-France will be closed
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck announced today that Thendic-France would be closed in February.
more ... (snx)

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19.Jan.2004
#amigazeux


 MorphOS: dnetc v2.9007.488 (prerelease) available
The distributed.net client (short: dnetc) allows to take part in distributet.net projects. Current version is capable of working on 2 ongoing projects: The brute-force decryption of a RC5-72 message, and the search for Optimal Golomb Rulers (OGR). Both are long-term projects that will go on for some time. Because the RC5-72 contest has a finite number of keys to test, however, the OGR contest is selected as the default. more ... (cr)

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18.Jan.2004
Franciska Schulze (ANF)


 TEKlib: Krypton release and new website
The TEKlib developer team has announced that the modules Exec, HAL, Time and Util have finally reached v1.0 and are therefore regarded stable. The website has undergone some major changes, the documentation section has been enhanced. Currently maintainers for several platforms are wanted for AmigaOS and others. Contact the authors via the project's mailing list, if you are interested.
more ... (snx)

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18.Jan.2004
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX - Andreas Kleinert (ANF)


 PPaint 7 plugin: SView5 loader/saver
For SView5 from Andreas Kleinert (PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX) today a loader/saver module (personal IO library) for Personal Paint 7 has been released for free download (10 KB).
more ... (snx)

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17.Jan.2004
Murakami (ANF)


 Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 25 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a newspaper issued by the French association AFLE. Since its creation in 1998 the magazine became one of the leading French Amiga publications.
more ... (snx)

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17.Jan.2004
ANN (website)


 MorphOS: LAME v3.95.1 recompiled using libnix (Update)
The current version 3.95.1 of the MP3 encoder LAME (amiga-news.de reported) was recompiled (296 KB) by Christian Rosentreter using libnix - this makes the ixemul.library obsolete for LAME. The user has to take care for a big enough stack, though (see readme file).
more ... (snx) (Translation: wk)

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17.Jan.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)


 Amiga Magazin: preview of AmigaOS 4
On the website of the Amiga Magazin (German print magazine) has been a preview of the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 been released that has been written by Martin Steigerwald and was originally published in the issue 01/2004: more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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16.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


 Kray: Version 1.4 of raytracer now also available for MorphOS
The raytracer Kray is now also available in version 1.4 (1.4 MB) for MorphOS.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2004
Timo Kloss (ANF)


 New alpha version 0.3 of Horny Midi-Sequencer
Horny is going to be a midi-sequencer like "Logic" or "Cubase" which are easy to use. But Horny will stay a pure midi program without the possibility of recording audio traces. In this new version you can now configure it. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2004
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)


 XAD is Open Source
Since the beginning of the year the XAD system has become Open Source software. Yesterday the CVS directory was completed in the most important sections. Anybody who is interested in developing further XAD is very welcome and can contact Dirk Stöcker. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)


 Changes at VHT Online Help Forum
After massive problems with the Bravenet-Service the Virus Help Team has changed the VHT Online Help Forum. You can access the forum under http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/forum.html. You can find the VHT Amiga Help Forum under http://www.vht-dk.dk. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2004
AMIGAplus Redaktion


 AMIGAplus 01/2004 (#143) - Amiga hits MTV
She was the video-monster of a whole decade. It should increase the pride of the last Amiga men standing that even today many clips on MTV are created on Amigas and Dracos. "Amiga hits MTV" - AMIGAplus on tour at iMagic Films in London. Read this report and more articles in the new issue #143 (01/2004) of AMIGAplus: more ... (nba)

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16.Jan.2004



 AtariST-Emulator: Amiga-Port of "STonX"
Frank Wille has published an Amiga port of the AtariST-Emulator called "STonX". There are versions for AmigaOS3 (with WarpOS and PowerUp), AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. If you you want to run the program properly you need a ROM image which has been not added to the archive. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2004
ann.lu (Website)


 MorphOS: New version of "TranspoClock"
"TranspoClock" is a transparent clock for MorphOS. The new version 1.0 can now also remind you of a date. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2004



 Further changes at amiga.org
From tomorrow on the team of amiga.org will start switching the used "Content Managament Systems" to a newer version. Therefore there might be some restrictions.

Afterwards there should be a better compability with Amiga browsers, some new features and an individual look.

The email service will be closed because of technical (SPAM) and legal reasons. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2004
anonym (ANF)


 Beat'em up: Source code of "Beats of Rage" available
"Beats of Rage" is a tribute to the Beat'em Up games of the "Streets of Rage" series. Additional to a new version of the game which is available for MS-DOS the source code of the program is available, too. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jan.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)


 Anti-Virus Software: xvs.library Version 33.41
Georg Hörmann released an update to version 33.41 of the xvs.library. You may download the library from the website of the Virus Help Team and soon from Aminet as well.

Program Name: Xvs.library v33.41
Programmer: Georg Hörmann
Release Date: 15th of January, 2004
Archive Name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive Size: 93,522 Bytes

Change in v33.41:
  • Added AmigaE/libraries/xvs.m developer file. Thanks must go to Ronald van Dijk for this contribution.
  • Once again rewritten taskscanner in xvsSurveyMemory() to avoid Disable()s lasting longer than 250µs. Thanks to Christian again for reporting the problems with his FastEthernet card.
  • Fixed bootblock recognition of "GXTeam" bootvirus to avoid false alarms. Thanks to Ronald van Dijk for the example file.
  • Fixed problem in xvsCheckFile() that caused Enforcer hits under certain conditions with damaged executables. Thanks again for the example files to Ronald van Dijk.
  • Added "ASS Protector 1.0" bootvirus clone and its installer and modified recognition for the original virus. Fixed recognition of "Liberator 1.21" filevirus to avoid false alarms. Thanks once more to Ronald van Dijk for the report and example files.
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15.Jan.2004
Kultpower.de (ANF)


 Kultpower.de: New Starkiller Sequel Online
In the Starkiller section of the retro website "KultPower" the eleventh Starkiller sequel is online: "Starkiller: the Prisoners of Zelda," as always with exclusive commentary from Heinrich Lenhardt!

Beyond that there is also a cool Kult editorial with photos of the notorious ASM Crew and the prime ASM special editions, sent in by Dominik. And then something else quite special: Powerplay fan art! A Powerplay wallpaper from Martin. And then also issue one and two of the 1996 Sega magazine, scanned by Vitek. Many thanks to you all! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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15.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)


 IBM Holds PowerPC Seminar at AmiGBG 2004
The Amiga convention AmiGBG 2004 is to take place on the 3rd of April 2004 in the Swedish city of Göteborg. The show organizers are expecting Mikael Haglund, a technical expert from IBM Sweden, who will present a treatise on the future of the PowerPC platform. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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15.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)


 Announcement: Amiga Alpe Adria 2004
Cloanto announced today that Amiga Alpe Adria 2004 will take place on Saturday, July 3rd. The provisional event home page, which includes pictures from last year's event, is at 0xAA.org. more ... (nba)

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15.Jan.2004
David Brunet (E-Mail)


 Amiga Games Hit Parade: Vote in January and February 2004
The organizers of Amiga Games Hit Parade are calling for a vote of games for January and February 2004. You may take part in the vote by sending a list of up to 20 of your favorite games to David "Daff" Brunet or participate online at hitparade.amigames.com.

You may include any type of game you like (commercial, freeware, old, new etc.). The final results will be released at the start of February, 2004. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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15.Jan.2004
Amiga Arena (ANF)


 Amiga Arena Presents "HollyRecord"
In collaboration with Telemar Rosenberger, Amiga Arena presents "HollyRecord" for AmigaOS and MorphOS. With "HollyRecord" you can record the animations and presenations you have created with Hollywood.

To do this you also need the tool SGrab by Stephan Rupprecht. "HollyRecord" can save your presentation in PNG, JPG, or ILBM format pictures, which may then with a program of your choosing be processed and joined into an animation or an mPeg video. You'll find "HollyRecord" under the "free commercial - utilities" logo at Amiga Arena. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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14.Jan.2004
anonym (ANF)


 Strategy game: News about "Schlachtfeld"
The beta test of the strategy game "Schlachtfeld" has begun now. Currently documentation is under improvement, later on the game will be made available to a bigger user base. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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14.Jan.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Skinplayer: Professional skins for Frogger, AmigaAMP and others
Skinplayer is a GUI programm for Frogger, AmigaAMP, Mplayer and other audio tools which are capable of using professional skins. Those are available here in terms of freeware. Skinplayer supports the buttons only currently, sliders, state displays or fonts are not supported by now. More information is available within the readme. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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14.Jan.2004
karibu@gmx.net (ANF)


 Novell publishes correspondence with SCO according the Unix law suit
Novell, Inc. emphasize their copyright claim of Unix. In a chronologic, German summary the company published the correspondence between them and the SCO group since May 2003 as well as many Unix copyright registries, which should bring evidence that Novell are the holders of all Unix rights. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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14.Jan.2004
Golem IT-News (Website)


 Golem: SCO supplies evidences
SCO announces in a press release they delivered the evidences asked by IBM according the order by judge Brooke C. in time. SCO said the papers aren't complete and not public. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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14.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)


 LAME: Update of the MP3 encoder to version 3.95.1
The LGPL MP3 encoder LAME is now available at amiga.sourceforge.net in version 3.95.1 (702 KB).
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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13.Jan.2004
Thomas van Spitjoud (E-Mail)


 First screenshot of "Civilisation - Call to Power" for OS4
Thomas van Spitjoud is currently working on the port of the strategical "Civilisation - Call To Power" to be released for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0. On his webpage under the title link he pusblished the first public screenshot of the alpha-version ctp2 v0.1 so people can see it is real. For now the game only runs in window-mode, there is no sound yet and of course the overall stability is quite bad so a first beta version is expected to be released not earlier than in a few weeks. (nba) (Translation: nba)

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13.Jan.2004
ANF


 SystemPatch: Version 2.2 published
Sante Nocciolino's SystemPatch, which is patching many different system routines for getting a better performance on Amiga computers (68020 or better) ist published now in the version 2.2.
more ... (snx) (Translation: gf)

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13.Jan.2004
MaxWorld (ANF)


 HomeBank v3.0 beta for testing released
With the shareware programm HomeBank you are allowed to manage your finances, f.e. you can count the costs of your car. The new version, which is available now in the beta version will publish following new features: more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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13.Jan.2004
Christian Hviid (E-Mail)


 IRIS published Eurochart 47 and new 3D-Matrix-Screensaver
Better late than never. The demo scene group IRIS published the 47th edition of the legend Eurochart which you can download under the title link. This edition was processed by Darkhawk/IRIS, Dr. Doom/IRIS und Zerox/Gods. You can read an interwiev with Darkhawk in the new edition of AMIGAplus 01/2004. more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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13.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)


 Cloanto licenses MPEG-4- and HighMAT-technologies
Cloanto announced today that they entered into a licensing agreement with MPEG LA, LLC to use MPEG-4 Visual technology, and with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and Microsoft Corporation to use HighMAT technology in its products. more ... (nba) (Translation: nba)

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12.Jan.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


 ArakAttack USB Driver V0.95 Beta available for testing
Guido Mersmann just uploaded a new beta version of ArakAttack which is available for downloading (268 KB). This version contains many rewritten parts, so Mersmann deceided to upload a beta for testing. It's running as good as the prior version on the developer system. If less devices (of course also more) are working or you get other problems, then please send a message to the developer. This version needs half as much memory, less CPU time and should work a little faster. more ... (nba) (Translation: nba)

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10.Jan.2004
Henrik Mikael Kristensen (E-Mail)


 AWeb: Overview page of the features in development
Our new Work Overview page will help us getting more structure in future development of AWeb. It's Bugzilla with a friendlier face. :-)
more ... (snx)

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10.Jan.2004
T.o.T.-Forum


 T.o.T.: Update 0.51 r2
The update fixes the "Black Screen" error under MorphOS.

Download: ToT_Amiga_V0.51_R2.lha (864.2 KB)

Before installing the fixed version you have to update to the recently released version 0.51 r1 first. (cr) (Translation: wk)

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10.Jan.2004
Georges Halvadjian (ANF)


 PerfectPaint: Development halted for the time being
Georges Halvadjian, author of PerfectPaint, writes:

No news and update since a long time. Development of PerfectPaint is actually in stand by. I'm just waiting to see the future of Amiga.

Regards,
Georges (snx)

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09.Jan.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)


 HardwareAssistent: Update of "Driver Descriptor Creator"
Version 0.72 of "Driver Descriptor Creator" (ddc) is available under the title link.

Some bugs have been fixed which caused some failure.

Soon the CD to HardwareAssistent will be also available. Then it will be possible to install the drivers directly from the CD. Besides this some additional material will be there, e.g. many manuals in pdf-format. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2004
Anonym (ANF)


 Print magazine: Pegasos2-article in "WCM"
An article about Genesi and its Pegasos2-mainboard has been published in the Austrian PC-magazine called WCM (issue 2/04, page 17). Furthermore you can read there about the co-operation with IBM concerning the successor with G5-CPU. You can read the full article under the title link (in German). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


 IOSPIRIT: Medusa USB Bundle available
IOSPIRIT announces the immediate availability of Medusa USB, a driver package enabling the use of OnBoard- and PCI-USB-controllers under Amithlon and other supported PCI-solutions. more ... (nba)

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09.Jan.2004
Orbiter on Scenet (Website)


 Event: AmigaOS 4.0 at Compusphere 14
The ACGGbg will participate in the this year`s Compusphere 14 in Sweden and will present AmigaOS 4.0. At this event a presentation of the operating system with its news and several applications and of an AmigaOne will be shown. The Compusphere 14 will take place from 13th until 15th February 2004 in the Älvsjöstrandens restaurant in Göteborg. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2004
Scenia (Website)


 Grapevine-Team searches Amiga-developer
A community of developers, editors and readers of the legendary diskmag "Grapevine" is going to reanimate it. Therefore a developer is searched who can program a diskmag engine for AmigaOS. If you are interested in then please write a mail to Nico Barbat. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2004



 New opinion poll: Amiga "unword" of year 2003
We have gone through twelve exciting months. amiga-news.de wants you to participate in a new opinion poll: more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2004
A.D.A. (Website)


 A.D.A.: Crystal Symphonies 1 & 2 added
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) can present some new productions: The legendary sound disks "Crystal Symphonies" by Phenomena, Scoopex and Rebels from 1991 with music by Mantronix und Tip as well as "Crystal Symphonies 2" by Phenomena from 1992 have been added. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2004



 Amazon changes partner program
Amazon cancels the classic partnership program with 15%. According to that direct links can only achieve 7,5% instead of 15%. This effects several Amiga homepages as affiliate-partner and amiga-news.de, too. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)


 Amiga.org Soon To Go Temporarily Offline
Sometime between Friday, January 9th and Monday, January 12th, the Amiga portal amiga.org will be taken offline for an unspecified time to accomplish maintenance and upgrades. During this time, and for a while afterwards, e-mail forwarding will not work. They report they've been planning these actions for quite a while, but the changes are quite in-depth, and prone to error.

Contrary to circulating rumor, Amiga.org is not being retired at this time. They state they will be back ASAP. More information about the changes and new features will be made available after their return to service. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)


 AROS: Poll About Desired Hardware
Under the title link you'll find a survey that those responsible from Team AROS are trying to find out what potential AROS users want. Would you rather run AROS on high performance hardware, or the quietest hardware, or the cheapest hardware? (cg) (Translation: dm)

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08.Jan.2004
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies Records #064
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 64th music pack yesterday. It contains a trance track named "Beautiful Morning" from musician Maxus. The cover is by DaFreak.

Title: Beautiful Morning
Musician: Maxus
Style: Trance
Song lenth: 3:49
Format: mp3 (@160kbps)
Size: 4.5 MB

The zipped file is available under the title link as a free download. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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08.Jan.2004
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)


 BTTR: Previously missing HD-Games added
The BTTR-Team writes: Although already announced in our Christmas update we forgot to add 20 new HD-Games into our database. more ... (nba)

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08.Jan.2004
Ulrich Panzer (E-Mail)


 T.o.T.: Amiga Version 0.51 R1
A new version of Tales of Tamar appeared this year. There have been some more improvements since the last update.

[Extremely long list of itemized changes not translated from German. Click on the title link for the ToT homepage] (nba) (Translation: dm)

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07.Jan.2004
MorphZone (website)


 Spanish manual for the Pegasos II available
Thanks to Juan Carlos Marcos Rodríguez, now also a Spanish version of the Pegasos II manual is available. Furthermore he did not just translate the text but also he prepared an HTML document and reworked the figures. The archive (202 KB) can be downloaded from MorphZone. (snx)

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07.Jan.2004
exotiC (ANF)


 People: What happend to Sam Jordan?
Our reader exotiC found Sam Jordan's (WarpUP, Warp3D) home page. There he gives some views to his new life as well as something about his Amiga history.
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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07.Jan.2004
SixK (Website)


 Two new MorphOS games by SixK
The French developer SixK has released two new ports for MorphOS: Supertux (v0.0.5) is a Mario clone based on SDL, VirusKiller is a new shooter which is available in version 0.1. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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07.Jan.2004
Genesi (e-mail)


 Genesi: Internet sales suspended until 15-25 February
As Genesi announce on their website, the Internet sales are suspended until 15-25 February.
more ... (snx)

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07.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)


 Freeware game: "2 Pairs 2 Furious Deluxe"
A reworked version of the "Memory" clone "2 Pairs 2 Furious" is available now. The author promises new levels, additional skins and "some several more improvements". The game should work on every Amiga with gfx card. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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07.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)


 Pegasos 2 Reviews (Update)
By the title link there is a summary by amiga.org reader "Takemehomegrandma" of his experience with the "Pegasos 2" motherboard available.

Update: (07.01.2004, 17:45, cg)

A German report of his experience by our reader Granada is available within the forum. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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07.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)


 Assembler: ASM-One V1.48 Rev. 482 released
The assembler ASM-One is now a vailable as V1.48 Rev. 482 (302 KB) which is a bugfixed new beta version. Kickstart 2.x, ReqTools and ASL are required. Further information in English is available at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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07.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)


 Big Book of Amiga Hardware: URL reachable again
After the hard disk failure and due to this the offline time of the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware"'s domain (we reported the page is now reachable again. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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07.Jan.2004
WHDLoad (Website)


 WHDLoad: New packages until 7th January 2004
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games to hard disk which were initially intended for floppy disk usage. Since the last report the following packages were added or updated: more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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07.Jan.2004
Aminet (Website)


 Aminet uploads until 7th January 2004
Since our last report the following Aminet-Uploads were added: more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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07.Jan.2004
Michael C. Battilana (E-Mail)


 Cloanto: Personal Paint 7.1 for AmigaOS 4.0
Seattle, WA - January 6, 2004 - Amiga Inc. and Cloanto are delighted to announce that Personal Paint 7.1 will be available on the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 operating system.

The Personal Paint series of 2D graphics and animations applications has been a mainstay of the application base for the Amiga platform ever since its introduction in 1992 and it is also a star attraction of the Cloanto Amiga Forever package. As Cloanto considers a new version of the product for AmigaOS 4.0, it has decided to show its commitment to the Amiga platform and community by making the source code of the current version available to Amiga Inc., allowing them to create a PowerPC native version for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 product. The created binaries will be owned by Cloanto but will be made available for free download from the Amiga and Cloanto web sites.

Cloanto and Amiga are also in talks concerning a new version of Amiga Forever, as well as a special version of Amiga Forever for AmigaOS 4.0, which aims to provide chipset-level Classic Amiga compatibility integrated with the new generation Amiga operating system and hardware.


About Amiga

Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic. Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications can be purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com. AmigaOS support and information is available at os.amiga.com.


About Cloanto

Cloanto started as an Amiga software house in 1987 and remains passionately committed to supporting its Amiga customers, the Amiga community, and those who have not yet had a chance to experience an Amiga. Cloanto's Amiga solutions are at www.amigaforever.com. For the nostalgically-minded, Cloanto's original Amiga site is online at www.cloanto.com/amiga/classic/.


Links

Announcement by Amiga:
http://os.amiga.com/corporate/010604-cloanto.shtml

Amiga Forever Home Page:
http://www.amigaforever.com

RSS Information

Amiga Forever RSS Feed:
http://www.amigaforever.com/rss.xml

Cloanto.com RSS Feed:
http://www.cloanto.com/news/rss.xml

Using RSS Feeds:
http://www.cloanto.com/kb/3-192.html

Important: Future Amiga and emulation news from Cloanto will be delivered preferentially via RSS. (snx)

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06.Jan.2004
Claudia Forsbach (E-Mail)


 Tales of Tamar: 250 Euros to win
At Tales of Tamar, a platform independent roundbased massiv-multiplayer-online-strategy and partplay early "Kaiser" or "Civilisation", which was developed by Eternity, there is the chance to win 250 Euro.
more ... (snx) (Translation: gf)

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06.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)


 Operating system patch: Stackattack 2
"StackAttack" is patching different operating system functions to cancel crashes because of too low stack memory. The new version of StackAttack was written completely new to stop problems with the old version. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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06.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


 IOSPIRIT prolongs special price promotion
IOSPIRIT press release:

"Due to the still high interest in our special price promotion just after the official end of it, IOSPIRIT has decided to prolong the special price promotion by a month until the 1st February 2004.

In the scope of the special price promotions, you can buy selected quality software at almost 40% reduced prices". (cg) (Translation: cg)

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06.Jan.2004
ann.lu (Website)


 Experimental UAE-Version: New Version, AmigaOS Binaries
Richard Drummond has published a new version of his experimental UAE-Port, which makes possible many improvements of the WINUAE-version. Between many small changings and bugfixes (see Changelog) there are now also binaries for AmigaOS and BeOS. more ... (cg) (Translation: gf)

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06.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)


 Cloanto: Personal Paint for MorphOS announced
Genesi and Cloanto announced today that they entered into an agreement to develop a port of Cloanto's Personal Paint for MorphOS.
more ... (snx)

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06.Jan.2004
David Doyle (ANF)


 AmigaWorld.net: Second annual IRC-meeting next weekend
Over the past 5 years #Amigaworld on IRC has seen a lot of people come and go, if you were one of these people or a current member of the channel then please join us in this get-together this weekend, starting 20:00 GMT each Night, Friday 9 Jan to Sunday 11 Jan on irc.SuperHosts.Net.
more ... (snx)

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05.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)


 Amiga Forever RSS-Newsfeed from Cloanto
After a few weeks of testing Cloanto announced the public access URL for its RSS news feed at amigaforever.com, covering Amiga and emulation news: more ... (nba)

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03.Jan.2004
AmigaWorld.net (website)


 OS4: Screenshots of a "Wolfenstein" port
At AmigaWorld.net, Steven Fuller has released screenshots of the game "Castle Wolfenstein" ported to AmigaOS 4.0:
more ... (snx)

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03.Jan.2004
MorphZone (forum)


 MorphOS: GUI for MLDonkey available
Attention Software have created a Graphical User Interface for the P2P filesharing program MLDonkey (amiga-news.de reported). An alpha version (12 KB) can be downloaded from their homepage. (snx)

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03.Jan.2004
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)


 Some details about the OS4 SDK
At AmigaWorld.net, Hans-Jörg Frieden announced further details about the AmigaOS4 SDK which will be included on the Developer Pre-Release CD:
more ... (snx)

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03.Jan.2004
DENIC (website)


 DENIC: Ten years of domain administration
From 1.000 to seven millions in ten years: this number shows the successful work of the DENIC on the field of the domains. On the 1st of January in 1994 started the DENIC in an institutionalised form as a project financed from third-party funds at the University of Karlsruhe. Read more about the DENIC and their work on their website. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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03.Jan.2004
Andreas Kleinert (email)


 Graphics: SView5 v1.40 released
The graphics viewer and converter SView5 has been released in version 1.40 and can be downloaded as a demo version from the website of the developer Andreas R. Kleinert under the title link. The package contains the eight distribution archives and the plug-in for ImageFX. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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03.Jan.2004
Dennis Lohr (ANF)


 Music: New track on the Psyria homepage
A new year, new chances: With this in mind Psyria tries to go their way to the top. To be successfull with this Psyria's homepage got a new design due to the third anniversary of their Internet presence and this is not all: right at the beginning of the year the fans get something for their ears: "Until Dawn", a chill out track for quiet moments, is available from now on and exclusively in the download area. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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02.Jan.2004
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


 Virus Help Denmark celebrates 10th anniversary
The Virus Help Team Denmark (VHT-DK) celebrates its 10th anniversary during these days. The editorial staff says "Happy Birthday". Lars P. Kristensen who works for Virus Help Denmark has gathered some information about the history of this honorary organization: more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
jockl (ANF)


 Found: A MP3-player made by "Commodore"
Our reader jockl has seen a MP3-Player made by "Commodore". He writes:
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Online magazine NoCover: Issue 118 published
Issue 118 of the popular online magazine NoCover has been published and sent to all subscribers via email.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


 VHT: Website accessable again
You can access the website of Virus Help Team Denmark under the known URL http://www.vht-dk.dk. The alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/ will be closed soon. Please change your bookmarks. The Virus Help Team wish you a Happy New Year. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
TerAtoM (ANF)


 GamePark32: Handheld with adapted ScummVM-version
The GamePark 32 combines the qualities of a mp3 and video player with a retro emulator and handheld games because there is still a GP32 optmized version of the popular "ScummVM" tool with which you can play Monkey Island, Indiana Jones or Day of the Tentacle.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


 Mailer: SimpleMail v0.22
The new version 0.22 of SimpleMail has been published. These are the changes: more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2004
ac-logic (ANF)


 Mai Logic: News regarding PPC 970 support
Mai Logic, Inc. Licenses IBM®'s Elastic Interface Technology For Its Articia Chipset Family and Teron Series Systems in Support of IBM®'s PowerPC™ 970 Microprocessor Family
more ... (snx)

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01.Jan.2004
David ´Daff´ Brunet (E-Mail)


 Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results 2003
The results for 2003's game polling have been released on Amiga Games Hit Parade. Read the following text for the first three places and check out the AGHP website under the title link for the complete results.

What game genre do you prefer?
  1. Adventure - 3.87
  2. Strategy - 3.83
  3. First Person Shooter - 3.79
What game would you like ported from another platform to play on AmigaOS/MorphOS?
  1. Unreal (series)
  2. Quake 3
  3. WarCraft (series)
What Amiga game classic would you like to play in a "remastered" version on Pegasos or Amiga One?
  1. Turrican (1-2-3)
  2. Alien Breed 3D 2
  3. Speedball (1-2)
(nba) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2004
Elbox (E-Mail)


 New Year's greetings from Elbox
Elbox Computer wishes all Amiga users a Very Happy New Year.

For a New Year Gift, Elbox re-offers the Free Shipping opportunity for most of the items from the Elbox Online Store.
more ... (snx)

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01.Jan.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


 Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #031231
Under the title link you'll find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update for December, 2003. In this monthly newsletter Brad Webb gathers together all the important news about the Amiga scene.

Themes of this issue:
  • Developer 4.0 to be distributed
  • Amiga setting up new user group org
  • Aladdin 4D available on CD
  • Spontaneous combustion fired up
  • fxSCAN upgrades for download
  • ImageFX 4.5 Studio now available
  • Poseidon 2.2 ready for download
  • SimpleMail has been updated
  • E-Teacher, for learning languages
  • Gorky 17 licensed for Amiga OS 4
  • Latest WinUAE is 9.8.23
  • A/NES Development ended, but ...
(nba) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2004
Computerwoche (ANF)


 Computerwoche: BIOS Successor EFI Advances
Within three months the longtime partners Microsoft and Intel wish to establish a forum to spread a new PC specification named EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface). EFI attempts to replace BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) that has been used for 23 years. BIOS initializes a computer's hardware before the loading of the operating system. Read the complete, German language article at Computerwoche under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


 AmigaMARK: Pegasos II Module Available
There's now a Pegasos II module for Rupert Hausberger's benchmark programm AmigaMARK.

Start up AmigaMARK and select your modules and database in order to load the module here under the user name "Nowee". (snx) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2004
Amiga.org (Website)


 Anachronism Industries: Previously Announced Firm Will Not Serve Amiga Market
Anachronism Industries, a planned firm of amiga.org moderator Jim Farley, better known as redrumloa, will not serve the Amiga market because of circumstances beyond their control, according to this surprising announcement from today. In place of the company they've started a mass-sale of their remaining items on eBay. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2004
Pär Boberg (ANF)


 Famous Amiga Uses updated
Pär Boberg has updated Famous Amiga Uses, a listing of diverse companies and institutions which use or have used the Amiga. The list is available as AmigaGuide or HTML file. (snx)

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31.Dec.2003
ppcnux - online linux magazin (ANF)


 PPCNUX: Summary of Alan Redhouse's Bath speech
The German online Linux magazine PPCNUX set a summary of Alan Redhouse's speech from Bath online by the title link (amiga-news.de reported).
(snx) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003
MIchael Merkel (ANF)


 GS8gui - GUI for Ghostscript8 published
GS8gui is a graphical user interface for GhostScript 8. Similiar to the old Ghostscript-GUI GS8gui offers as a new feature the ability to use the internal GS8 viewer. Printing with the internal TurboPrint drivers is supported also. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003



 bplan interview from September available online now
By appointment of the bplan GmbH and Kees Witteveens the interview with the bplan GmbH from September which has been pulished within the first issue of the Amiga.org Magazine as well as in issue 11/93 of the Amiga plus is now available online .

The Pegasos chronics have been updated with the entries of November and December also. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003



 "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" temporally offline
The famous hardware register Big Book of Amiga Hardware is due to a hard disk failure temporally not reachable. The maintainer Ian Chapman is curently working to restore the website with backups. In one or two weeks everything should run normal again.

Because this action is coupled with a server change problems with the mail delivery to Ian Cahpman mail account are expected in the meantime. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003
os.amiga.com (Website)


 Next "Club Amiga Magazine" in February
Amiga Inc. announces at the member area of os.amiga.com the next issue of the "Club Amiga Monthly" will be published in February. (cg) (Translation: ub)

[News message: 31. Dec. 2003, 15:47] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2003
Dieter Groppé (ANF)


 Commodity: "MasterControlProgram" (MCP) v1.43
The infamous universal commodity "MCP" is available in a new version which is cleaned from several bugs. The archive also contains a new version of the prefs program. The command "MCPAssigns" offers two new options now: "Hold/Lock" and "Hold/Path" (cg) (Translation: ub)

[News message: 31. Dec. 2003, 15:43] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2003
MorphZone


 MorphZone: Update of the MWD (Morph Web Directory)
The Morph Web Directory (MWD) within the MorphZone has been updated. Bifford also added some more "Webgrabs" - previews of the corresponding websites. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)


 Spontaneous Combustion: New Video Effects from DiscreetFX
Chicago, Illinois -- Dec 30, 2003 -- DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and MorphOS, releases the Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer/MorphOS version of Spontaneous Combustion.
more ... (snx)

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31.Dec.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)


 USB stack: News from "Poseidon"
A new MorphOS-Version of Poseidon has been released and the documentation for the 68k-Version has been slightly updated. Chris Hodges writes:

"Good news everyone,

I just uploaded the binaries for the MorphOS version of Poseidon V2.2. The archive is available as usually from my homepage. more ... (cg)

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30.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)


 IRCNews: show Amiga News in AmIRC
Dave "Targhan" Crawford has developed an ARexx-script, which can show the latest headlines of amiga-news.de, amiga.org, morphzone.org and morphos-news.de in AmIRC. This script needs the rxsocket.libary. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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30.Dec.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies records #063
The scene group Liquid Skies has published today their 63rd Musicpack. It contains the track "Catwalk" of the musician Tripper. This track is a synthetic pop. The belonging cover comes from Angeldust. more ... (cg) (Translation: gf)

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30.Dec.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF)


 AmigaClub SH: User-/Hardware meeting 1-2004
The Amigaclub Schleswig Holstein is publishing in teamwork with the promoter of the computer museum in Kiel e.V. an Amiga (and Pegasos/Amithlon) hardware meeting.
more ... (snx) (Translation: gf)

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30.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 Pegasos II: Benchmark results for the 68k emulation (Update)
MorphOS-News.de has published the following benchmark results by Harry 'Piru' Sintonen. He tested the 68k emulation on a Pegasos II with 1GHz G4 processor, 512MB DDR-400 RAM and a Radeon 8500LE graphics card under MorphOS:
more ... (snx)

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29.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)


 Video/Audio-clips of a speech by Alan Redhouse' in Bath
There are some additional video and audio clips of the speech of Alan Redhouse of Eyetech held at the OS4-On-Tour-Exhibition in Bath available. These new audio clips have a higher quality than the ones published shortly after the speech.

Download:
WMV (33 MB)
Real (27 MB)
MP3 (11 MB, only audio)
(cg) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
Stavros (Forum)


 Homebanking: compatibility list for Amiga-Browser
Stavros, an amiga-news.de reader, is offering a list of homebanking sites which can be used with Amiga browsers. The new update takes IBrowse 2.3 into account, too. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)


 Mr. Hardware publishes photos of the Micro-A1
Under the title link, Mr. Hardware published some photos of the new Micro-A1 mainboard together with its specifications and a few questions and answers.
more ... (snx)

[News message: 29. Dec. 2003, 18:13] [Comments: 1 - 04. Jan. 2004, 01:52]
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29.Dec.2003
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)


 Server-move of Virus Help Team
Due to a server move the URL www.vht-dk.dk is currently not available. According to the carrier it will be back online within seven days. If you are looking for information about or of the Virus Help Team please use the alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
bplan GmbH (E-Mail)


 Pegasos II: Urgent Firmware update necessary! (Update)
As bplan GmbH announces, the version of the Open Firmware shipped with the Pegasos II is faulty! Before you make any changes using setenv, you have to update your Open Firmware!
more ... (snx)

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29.Dec.2003
A/NES CGX homepage


 Emulator: Future of A/NES CGX uncertain
From the A/NES CGX website:
That's nice. If I get this bounch of e-mail each time I kill a project (amiga-news.de reported), I should start killing projects more often. :-)
more ... (snx)

[News message: 29. Dec. 2003, 13:26] [Comments: 2 - 01. Jan. 2004, 07:29]
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29.Dec.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)


 Source code of 2D-Adventures "Patrimonium" now freely available
The programmers of Chuck Team released their 2D adventure 'Patrimonium' for Windows based computers. For encouraging other developers the team also released the complete source code of the game at the 'Patrimonium' homepage. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
Diverse


 Short software news (29.12.2003) (Update)
The following applications and updates were released over the last few weeks:
Update: (29.12.2003, 17:45,cg)
Amendment: There is now new version of vbcc (see below) available, but a new version of the PosixLib for vbcc.
AmigaMARK
Version 1.001 of AmigaMARK, a benchmark program, is now available for AmigaOS Classic and MorphOS.

Chromium
The French developer SixK released a port of the shoot'em'up Chromium (v0.9.12) for AmigaOS. The game is using OpenGL.

GameIcons 2003
The archive GameIcons 2003 contains 275 icons, 150 of them are new.

HSC
Matthias Bethke released version 0.930 of the HTML preprocessor 'HTML Sucks Completely' (HSC). The source code can be compiled on every supported OS, these are Linux, HP/UX 10.20 and AmigaOS. A HTML program documentation is available, too. Furthermore the archive contains current Prefs and macro files.

ilbmdtPPC
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.11 of 'ilbmdtPPC', an ILBM-PPC-Datatype for displaying IFF-ILBM-pictures on WarpUP.
Changes:
fixed decoding of truecolor images with alpha

Software by Diego Casorran
Diego "dcr85020" Casorran released ports of the following programs: OpenSSH v3.7.2p2, bzip2 v1.0.2, NetPBM v10.18.4, OpenSSL v0.9.7c, UnRAR v3.30b3, Wget v1.9.1 und cURL v7.11-BETA.

vbcc
A new version of PosixLib for 'vbcc', a portable ISO C compiler by Frank Willes, is now on hand. PosixLib emulates important POSIX functions not available in the vbcc C library. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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27.Dec.2003
ANN (comments)


 Pegasos 2: First user report
Treveur "Nowee" Bretaudiere has released a short report about the Pegasos 2 he received:
more ... (snx)

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27.Dec.2003
Vinnny (ANF)


 Anniversary: Russian AIC online for four years
The news and information resource for Russian Amiga users Amiga Information Center is online now for four years.

Since 1999 the site's two administrators - Efim Shuvikov (site developer and maintainer) and Vlad Vinogradov (news editor and content manager) - published more than 5200 news and have welcome more than 650 registered users. (snx)

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26.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)


 Audio-Sequencer: HD-Rec Update (MOS fix)
On download site of HD-Rec which is an audio- and MIDI-sequencer for AmigaOS there is an update for the version 0.9beta. The update fixes some bugs which occured under MorphOS - HD-Rec should now run perfectly on a Pegasos.

The author asks for other bug reports if you should find some ones. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)


 Hyperion and Metropolis announce AmigaOS 4 version of Gorky 17
Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis announce an AmigaOS4 version of Gorky17:

"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003

Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis Software have extended their existing license agreement for "Gorky 17", Metropolis' critically acclaimed RPG/Strategy title, to cover not only Linux but also the upcoming AmigaOS 4.

Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game mixing elements of strategy and RPG gameplay. The player commands a small group of NATO soldiers who must reveal the mystery behind the sudden appearance of hybrid creatures in a small Polish city named Lubin. The city is being terrorized, the area is surrounded by NATO troops and media from all over the world, and the first group sent into the city disappears without a trace. The main hero of the story is the 40-year old soldier Cole Sullivan, a commando team member with extensive scientific knowledge. His team's task: to explain the hybrids' presence and to find the missing members of Group One. But that, of course, is just the beginning...

The AmigaOS 4.0 port is already well under way as can be seen on the screenshots published with this press release.

The Amiga and Linux ports are being carried out by Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies who are recent "converts" to the Amiga platform after they recently joined the Hyperion Entertainment game development team.

Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies have an impressive track-record in the field of Linux (gaming) related development." (cg) (Translation: cg)

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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)


 Hyperion announce "AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release" CD for early 2004
Hyperion Entertainment announce the release of an AmigaOS 4.0 pre-release for all current AmigaOne owners for early 2004:

"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003

Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4.0 development team are pleased to announce that OS4 development has now sufficiently advanced for a comprehensive Developer Pre-release of Amiga OS 4.0 to be distributed to all current AmigaOne owners shortly after the New Year.

In view of the fact that quite a few of you reminded us that you do not have broadband internet access, the original idea to offer an initial version of OS 4.0 for download was abandoned in favor of an "easy to install", self-contained distribution on CD.

Whilst this will obviously entail more cost to Hyperion and require more time for duplication and distribution, the upside is that we will be able to provide developers with everything they need to start developing for OS 4.0.

The developer material will include sample source-code, an initial version of the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK as well as native OS 4.0 compilers (GCC 2.95.3, GCC 3.4 and VBCC) and cross-compilers for various platforms (Linux x86/PCC, Mac OS X etc.).

The Developer Pre-release will require an upgrade of the AmigaOne firmware which was bumped from U-Boot 0.1.1 to U-Boot 1.0 and which is currently undergoing final testing.

Further details will be announced shortly.

Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4 development team would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your continued support and patience.

The fact that you are still here, 10 years after the demise of Commodore, has been a tremendous encouragement to us during these 2 years of laborious development.

Make no mistake: your patience will finally be rewarded with the fastest and most powerful incarnation of AmigaOS ever.

Merry X-mas and a prosperous 2004 to all of you!" (cg) (Translation: cg)

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25.Dec.2003
McFly (ANF)


 Hollywood Presentations: the 100th PowerPoint Presentation Appears
Because of the positive vibrations as well as the high number of takers, Amiga user "McFly" released some more Hollywood presentations after converting them from PowerPoint. Altogether there are now more than 100 presentations for download that may be viewed on Amiga (or compatible) computers.

McFly thanks all the users for supplying feedback and wishes everyone a Happy New Year. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 RxMUI: Update to Version 40.1
RxMUI from Alfonso Ranieri has now reached version 40.1 and is available for download from his homepage.

Graphic user interfaces in MUI may be programmed in ARexx macros through the use of RxMUI. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Classic Amiga "Cracktros"
Because us upstanding Amiga users may naturally not utter such names as Skidrow, Paradox, Red Sector or Vision Factory, Melon gave us the opportunity to retroactively amuse ourselves with the sights and sounds of those intros from old cracked games, a nostalgia that will warm our hearts. Here is the conversion of the old Amiga "Cracktros" in Macromedia Flash format.

More Flash ports of C64 and Amiga Cracktros may be found at Doc Snyder and Nostalgia. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Comments)


 Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Amiga Classic "IK+"
Under the title-link may be found a Macromedia Flash port of the classic Karate game "IK+" - including a Kickstart-1.3 screen. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website)


 MorphOS: Update of PTPDigCam to Version 0.9
The program PTPDigCam by Christophe Genre has reached version 0.9.

PTPDigCam is a MUI-based program that makes it possible to load and erase pictures, videos, and sounds from PTP-compatible digital cameras (such as Kodak, Canon and Sony).

Currently the program has been tested with the following cameras: Kodak LS443, Kodak DX3500, Canon A70 and Sony DSC-P52.

The main new aspects:
  • Camera serial number added
  • Sounds management added (usefull for Canon camera)
  • Canon A70 is supported
  • Sony DSC-P52 is supported
  • PTP protocol enhanced to take into account Sony and Canon PTP limitations and specific capabilities
  • Fixed bug: Status always display no video available
  • Fixed bug: The 10 Mo input buffer was not released (oups!)
(snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website)


 Instructions for the Installation of PNG Icons
For users of MorphOS or users of PowerIcons under AmigaOS, Cecilia has written an (APDF-compatible) PDF document (137 KB) that explains the installation of PNG icons with alpha channel while utilizing ImageFX 4.5.

Along with that she has created a few example icons (195 KB, from butterfly pictures). (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)


 Benchmark Program: Update of AmigaMARK to Version 1.001
Rupert Hausberger released an update to his benchmark suite AmigaMARK LPA for AmigaOS and MorphOS.

Alterations:
  • ADDED checking whether gethostbyname() successes
  • ADDED checking whether xen.font is avail
  • CHANGED os-requirement from 3.1 to 2.x (untested)
  • CHANGED layout of settings-window to a virtual-group so it opens also on non gfx-card screenmodes like ecs, aga
  • FIXED bug that forbids the use of chip-ram test in some situations
  • FIXED little gui-bug in module-information at "mhz"
  • CHANGED logo to a nicer one
  • CHANGED splitted archives to base, aos, mos
  • BUMPED revision to .001
(snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ESA Garching/München (ANF)


 TV Tip: Mars Landing of the ESA
The touching down of the European Space Agency vehicle on Mars will be televised live and carried on WebTV on 25th December 2003 at about 2:25 MEZ. Early supporters of the European planet missions should not miss this important event! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
Dennis Lohr (ANF)


 Music: New Track on the Psyria Homepage
After nearly an eight month pause, there was an update on 24th December 2003 to the Psyria homepage. Because it was musically very quiet around Psyra this year, there's just one new track exclusively for free download. "Overflow" is sort of an Ambient-style track. It was produced by Yel.C vs. Psyria, and is available for download from the download area.

At this point we'd like to wish all our fans happy Christmas and a great New Year. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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24.Dec.2003
Nico Barbat


 Christmas greetings from the AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de
The AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de editor teams as well as the publisher team of falkemedia wish all Amigans a merry blessed Christmas and a comfortable transition to 2004. We are thankful for your faith in us and are looking happily forward to the next twelve months which might see the long awaited revival for the Amiga market thanks to the PegasosII and MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.0. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003



 Pictures from the Pegasos 2 - a slightly different Christmas story...

"Four against Murphy" or how the Pegasos 2 made it at least against all odds for Christmas:
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


 SimpleMail v0.21 released & X-mas greetings from the developer team
The SimpleMail team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter (ANF)


 MorphOS: Euph0ria 0.24 released
Using this announcement Christian Rosentreter wishes a Merry Cristmas and a Happy New Year and there is a new version (0.24) of Euph0ria! more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


 ArakAttack USB driver update v0.94 released
The version 0.94 of the USB driver package for Amithlon and OpenPCI is available at the Aminet and at VMC.de now. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

[News message: 24. Dec. 2003, 14:54] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2003
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)


 kickstart archives v3.1 - DVD release
kickstart archives is a collection of historic and current websites, information, documents, patents, wireing diagrams, manuals, hardware libraries and more all about the Amiga. The collection is html based and features a search engine to browse the archive. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

[News message: 24. Dec. 2003, 11:40] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Christmas greetings from Coyote Flux and individual Computers
Merry Christmas from a new team in the Amiga market: Coyote Flux and individual Computers are working together on a basis of a contract that has been signed on October 1st, 2003. more ... (nba)

[News message: 24. Dec. 2003, 11:35] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 AmiDiction: Version 2.6c of the dictionary available
Lorence Lombardos AmiDiction is now available in version 2.6c (31 KB).
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
(ANF)


 Update: DriverDescriptorBox V5 for the HardwareAssistent
The DriverDescriptorBox has been published in version 5 today.
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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22.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)


 Mail program: New YAM 2.5 Development version (Update)
A new snapshot of the current development version of YAM can now be downloaded. Changes made are to be found in the ChangeLog. more ... (cg) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)


 Software News: News by amiga.sf.net
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran updated some of the many utilities ported from Linux. They are available at amiga.sf.net. Updates of the following programs are available:
  • cURL
  • NetPBM
  • Wget
  • OpenSSL
  • UnRAR
  • bzip2 (now contains a shared library)

All programs are native ports. That is you do not need the ixemul.library. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 GPSInfo: GPS-Navigation system for Amiga
Carsten Siegner developed a basic navigation system for AmigaOS based on common GPS hardware. 'GPSInfo' displays the current position (longitude and latitude), the altitude above the sea, current speed, date and time as well as some GPS details like the quality of connection, currently available GPS satellites and so on. Furthermore it displays the current position by listing nearby villages or geographical points.
Additional information can be found at the title link.

Direct Download (15 KB) (cg) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003



 Update: DriverDescriptorBox V4
Version 4 of the DriverDescriptorBox released. It contains driver descriptors for the Hardware Assistant. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
Felix Schwarz (E-Mail)


 IOSPIRIT wishes a Merry Christmas
IOSPIRIT wishes all friends, partners, customers and their families a Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and successful new year 2004. (nba)

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22.Dec.2003
Kjell Breding (E-Mail)


 AmiGBG 2004 - Swedish Amiga Fair
For the third year in a row, the Swedish Amiga fair AmiGBG is arranged in Gothenburg, Sweden. The date set for AmiGBG 2004 is the 17th of April next year. The AmiGBG fair is an event which is focused on the Amiga computer platform and is once a year gathering companies, user groups, users and visitors who are all interested in or curious about the platform that created the essence of multimedia - the Amiga.

This year's fair is held by three Amiga user groups all situated in Sweden; AmiGBG from Gothenburg, ACGGBG (Amiga Computer Group) from Gothenburg and Syntax Society from Landskrona in the south of Sweden.

In the year 2002 the first AmiGBG event was held. It was a huge success with around 450 visitors. The year after, it was yet again time to open the gates for another great AmiGBG fair at Lindholmen, Gothenburg.

AmiGBG is an event that partly looks back upon the history around the Amiga personal computer, but the main focus lies on the promising future that this platform now has - in terms of new hardware (the AmigaOne) which is based on the PowerPC processor and a new version of AmigaOS (Amiga Operating System) for this new hardware - AmigaOS 4.

At the fair, you will have a chance to see the new AmigaOne systems based on the G3 and G4 processors and also have a look on the classic Amiga computers that many people were brought up together with - these days gathered under the concept Classic Amiga.

At AmiGBG 2004 we also hope to be able to present a complete version of the AmigaOS 4 running on the AmigaOne. If so, that will be the highlight of the fair and a starting shot for the comeback of Amiga!

Furthermore; Linux will be demonstrated on AmigaOne, user groups will have a chance to present themselves - the fair is a gathering force for everyone interested in the future of Amiga. The target group is of course people interested in Amiga, but also people that are interested in alternative computer platforms.

Among the exhibitors, you will find everything from Swedish and European companies to Swedish user groups. Not only pure Amiga related companies have been invited - but also other hardware retailers.

For some more information about the previous events held by AmiGBG, please check these links:

For further information about AmiGBG 2004:

Web: www.amigbg.com
E-Mail: info@amigbg.com (nba) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003



 Magazine: The Crypt #33
Issue #33 of 'The Crypt', an English online magazine, published. The online version is to be found at the title link. If you want to have the download version feel free to use the following link: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)


 Audio: HD-Rec 09 Beta Demo
A new beta version of 'HD-Rec' is now available at the title link. 'HD-Rec' can be used to arrange audio and MIDI recordings within the same window and play them simultaneously. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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