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19.Nov.2003
Redaktion amiga-news.de Status Quo: Summary about the issues regarding Pretory SA
During the last months the French press, among them l'Humanité (1, 2), Les Echos (1) and L'Expansion (1) , reported several times about an insolvency of the American-French company Pretory which is specialized to security services and employed for example security services for the Air France at airports. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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19.Nov.2003
Sylvio.K (ANF) New videos of Soms3D published
At the webpage of the currently developed game "Soms3D" there were two new videos published which demonstrate the running Soms3D engine. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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19.Nov.2003 New version of TView released
A new version of "TView" has been released. This program offers the possibility to download the TV program to your computer and read it there. The programm is now developed by Daniel Widerström, the latest version is 1.3.14. (dr) (Translation: ub)

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19.Nov.2003
Genesi (E-Mail) Genesi USA going to move principal office into Cheyenne Technology Corridor
As Genesi S.à.r.l. announces, its American subsidiary Genesi USA is going to move its prinicipal office in January into the Northport building complex in Northern Las Vegas, which has been developed by the Jackson Shaw Company.
more ... (snx)

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19.Nov.2003
Michael Lanser (Forum) Realms of Power: looking for graphics artits
For Realms of Power, a Civilization/Colonization clone, we are looking urgently for some gfx artists. Michael Lanser writes: more ... (cg) (Translation: ub)

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19.Nov.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF) Golem.de: 3ivx D4 4.5 - New MPEG4 codec conform to ISO
The Australian company 3ivx Technologies has released its commercial MPEG4 codec as a reworked version D4 4.5 for Windows and MacOS. For BeOS the 3ivx codec is planned to be released soonly in version D4 4.5 as well while an announcement for Linux, Unix and AmigaOS is missing currently. The latest Amiga version still the version D3.

Read more (German) by the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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18.Nov.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF) New web- and e-mail-address for the stormamiga.lib
Up to now the stormamiga.lib is available under the address http://www.stormamiga-lib.HSMathLibs.de The new e-mail adresses are WebMaster@stormamiga-lib.HSMathLibs.deand Matthias.Henze@stormamiga-lib.HSMathLibs.de. At the moment the old adresses are still available, but they are deactivated shortly. Please change your bookmarks and your entries in your addressbook. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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18.Nov.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF) 3-Wire Bus-Interface for Amiga
Carsten Siegener tells that he finished the first hardware test for the "3-Wire Businterface" for the Amiga. With this interface the Amiga is allowed to read and control ICs with serial datatransfer. A very important group of ICs with this bus art are f.e. the 12bit analog-digitalchanger. more ... (cg) (Translation: gf)

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18.Nov.2003
WHDLoad (Website) WHDLoad: new packets until 16.11.2003
With WHDload you are able to install games to your hard disk, which are only made for your floppy disk. Following packets are added after our last news: more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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18.Nov.2003
Oliver Förster (ANF) Source code of BOINC published
Berkeley has published the new source code of Boinc today, the succesor of SETI@Home clients to support special plattforms and the safety of clients are tested. The source code could be downloaded at the website boinc.berkeley.edu/seti_source/. There is a work unit in the source code, for counting, because of testing the unit. A published BETA-test of BOINC will be come this week. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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18.Nov.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Website) Turkish Pegasos-Site online
How MorphOS-News.de told there is now an official Turkish Pegasos site online www.pegasos-tr.com.

The new Genesi-Turkey-Team will grow around Guvenc Kaplan and Yilmaz Yori. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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17.Nov.2003
MorphZone (Website) MorphZone: New event portal
A new event portal is available at MorphZone. The portal contains all events attended by Genesi or offering a demonstration of MorphOS. Link: http://events.morphzone.org.
more ... (snx) (Translation: sk)

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17.Nov.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF) New Unix ports from Diego Casorran
Once again, Diego Casorran (amiga.sourceforge.net) ported a collection of assorted Unix tools and utilities to AmigaOS: more ... (cg) (Translation: cg)

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17.Nov.2003
David Brunet (E-Mail) Amiga Games Hit Parade: November/December 2003 vote
The operators of 'Amiga Games Hit Parade' request your vote for the game of November/December 2003. You can participate by sending an email containing your 20 favorite games to David "Daff" Brunet or by using the online form at hitparade.amigames.com. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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16.Nov.2003
Genesi (E-Mail) Genesi Exhibitor at the Southern California Linux Expo
As the computer manufacturer Genesi S.à.r.l. announced, the company will take part as an exhibitor at the annual Southern California Linux Expo, which takes place on Nov. 22nd in Los Angeles, USA.
more ... (snx)

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15.Nov.2003
amigaworld.net Photos of the AmigaOS4 presentation by "SEAL"
The British users club SEAL organized another AmigaOS presentation yesterday. Today have all photos of the event been published. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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15.Nov.2003 AmigaOS4 video now also available as MPEG video (update)
The video of the AmigaOS4 presentation released on Wednesday by the British users group ANT (we reported) is now available in an MPEG version.

Direct download more ... (cg) (Translation: wk)

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15.Nov.2003
ANN (Website) Court records of the trial Genesi vs. Amiga Inc. chronologically adapted
In a still running trial at the court Washington-West in Seattle, USA, has the German Thendic Electronic Components GmbH - respectively Genesi S.à.r.l. as their legal successor they claim to be with reference to the trial about a licence agreement - brought an action on January, 2nd 2003 against Amiga Inc.

Sammy Nordström, known as "Samface", has now made for the first time the referring court records - as far as they are publicly available - freely available in chronological order.
more ... (snx) (Translation: wk)

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14.Nov.2003
ANN (Webseite) Pictures from Pegasos-meeting with RJ Mical
RJ Mical attended the Pegasos application and developer meeting presented by "Finnish Amiga Users Group". Under the title link you can find pictures from this event. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Nov.2003
ANN (Website) Hyperion: Evert Carton now sole Managing Partner
As displayed on the corporate site of Hyperion Entertainment, the co-founder Evert Carton is now the company's sole Managing Partner. Before he shared this function with Ben Hermans.
more ... (snx)

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14.Nov.2003
Michael Garlich (ANF) BurnIT: New forum online
As Michael Garlich (Titan Computer) informs, a new forum for support and discussion of the CD- and DVD-Writer BurnIT is online now at www.burnit.info. (snx)

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13.Nov.2003
amiga.org (Webseite) Petition for the Further Development of DeluxePaint
Under the title link you'll find a petition that will be presented to Electronic Arts in an effort to achieve further development of the well-known graphic software "DeluxePaint." (cg) (Translation: dm)

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13.Nov.2003
amigaworld.net (Webseite) Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 23
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 23 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) Amighista: Is Python to be included in the upcoming OS4.0 release? If yes, which version? Will it include a GUI binding (like wxPython, PyGTK or Python for QT)? Who's the person in charge for the porting?

Fleecy: Python is being considered as the cross platform scripting language for AmigaOS4. It is still too early to talk about the project as AmigaOS4.0 itself is the priority at the moment but progress is being made in determining how to create a version that will integrate well with and make use of all the new features of AmigaOS4. Important issues to consider include the GUI and how best to implement the concept of the "ARexx port".

2) Step: We are continuously seeing improvements on the OS4 front in shape of screenshots, progress reports, etc. but why dont we see this in regards of the DE/Anywhere?

Fleecy: As we have said on several occasions, the AmigaDE was always a technology set from which we were to develop product lines. The first product line we talked about was Amie, which was to be a Smartphone to Server operating environment. However, after 18 months of experience with Intent, it became apparent that it would not be able to span such a wide vision, being better suited to a content solution. This allowed us to restart AmigaOS development, with the aim of developing it over time into something approaching the original Amie concept, whilst implementing the Amiga Anywhere and AACE product lines from the AmigaDE technology set.

The current focus of AACE is content deployment, which means deploying one or more pieces of content in a closed or open mode onto software hosts - Windows, PocketPC, Smartphone, and then Linux and Symbian. We have been concentrating on card, download and on device deployments in standalone format. There have been no screenshots because all you see is the content itself running. Once we have this completed, we will finish the AACE player with the new interface, but again, this is just a content player. If you are looking for the Amie solution then you will be better off playing close attention to AmigaOS4, particular as the AG2 project starts to see technology becoming part of AmigaOS4 releases.

3) Troels: Have any work started in regard to porting DE to AOS4 and who is (or will be) doing the port?

Fleecy: The long announced plan has always been to have AmigaDE technology running on AmigaOS4.2, the first PPC outing for the AmigaDE. This plan has not changed. As is normal, the Tao-Group will do the host port, since the AmigaDE can only run on hosts provided by the Tao-Group. The CII will be exclusively done by them but they have asked that we help them on the PII.

Work on it will start when AmigaOS4.1 has shipped.

4) drebben: Why will the JIT not be used for OS components and how will the system know what is an OS compnent and what is not?

Fleecy: Accelerating only applications eases the JIT design and integration a lot and gives a much cleaner result since there is a clear separation between legacy applications (and their translated code) and the rest of the system. It also gives us the possibility to add certain kinds of code optimisations and otehr JIT options like translation buffer size s.o. on a per application basis.

Another reason are code segments where response time is more important than execution speed, e.g. interrupts.

Of course one could argue that the speed impact resulting from the remaining 68k library parts could result in a bad trade off against the benefits of a cleaner code base but then one should also remember that there will be virtually no time critical 68k code left in the system and therefore also virtually no loss of speed. If push comes to shove we can add a dedicated JIT translation service that takes care of system code but it simply isn't worth the effort.

Regarding the howto: That's a technical detail I don't want to discuss in the public, what can be said is that we can easily track which loaded code segments belong to which task and the JIT makes use of that functionality.

5) HMK: How old versions of AmigaOS will Amiga Inc. support with Boing Bags, security updates (if such), when OS4 gets released?

Fleecy: We obviously want to encourage the community to move towards AmigaOS4.0 with all of its inherent advantages. We also want to encourage them to move to new hardware but recognise that the investment in classic machines and the PPC accelerators has been considerable, which is why we will support them if we can through AmigaOS4.0 and perhaps further.

As far as AmigaOS3 is concerned we have to look at the business arguments for continuing to support it. We are of course interested in the views of the community in this respect. In short, we will end support for AmigaOS3 but it is a question of when.

6) IonMane: Why would you want to develop on a cross-platform environment (= CPE) to draw people specifically to your own platform? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having AmigaOS 4 in the first place?

Fleecy: I'm afraid I don't understand this question, or at least have read it to mean at least two contradictory things. Can you send me a clearer version privately (fleecy@amiga.com) and I'll answer you and have Amigaworld update this Q&A.

7) kvinkunx: Did you already enter into talks with the authors of OpenOffice? This freeware office package already runs on several platforms defined as 'main' and would be really handy for Amiga users, an official approach of Amiga Inc. may convince the authors to do an A1 port I think.

Fleecy: I don't want to provide answers relating to specific third party applications or products but rest assured that we are well aware of the essential applications needed by Amiga users if the Amiga platform is to be a compelling choice for digital users and activity is progressing. I would point out as I have done before that it all boils down to size of market and amount of resources, two things we are working hard to improve.

8) Asemoon: AmigaOS4 is the main reason for me to get an AmigaOne. However I would also like to give Linux a try but I do not want to have to deal with bootloader menus all the time I boot the hardware. Wouldn't it be a good idea to create a bootloader for the AmigaOne which automaticly boots AmigaOS4 and only brings up the bootloader menu after pressing a certain key?

Fleecy: Yes it would 8-)

The situation is more complex than that. The booloader is designed to boot OS4 and Linux (or any other OS that is able to live on RDB partitions); however no actual code for Linux is ready. What we are planning as a temporary measure is yet-another-env-variable with an indicator on which kernel to load by default. The whole issue is only valid if you install OS4 and Linux on the same HD. If you install on different HDs, no problem: you set a default boot method and can change it by interrupting the autoboot.

9) TheJackal: Are there plans for the new graphics library (or Vega) to have the ability to use 32bits per channel, (128bits per pixel). This would allow floats to be used instead of u8's (0..255)?

Fleecy: I don't want to say too much about Vega since we are often accused of talking about things rather than doing. We recognise however that most people will judge AmigaOS4 by what they see and if Vega is to be the mechanism by which what they see is created, then it is going to have to have some pretty impressive and far sighted technology within it.

10) Angrybrit: I'd like to ask about the Media player that's gonna be included in AmigaOS4. Is there gonna be an official one or are we gonna have to adopt a third party like Mplayer/VideoLan?

Fleecy: MooVid is planned for AmigaOS4.0.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=24
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (cg) (Translation: dm)

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13.Nov.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena Anniversary Contest: Half a Year AMIGAplus Subscription
In cooperation with the AMIGAplus, speciality magazine for Amiga fans, Amiga Arena is raffling a half year subscription of AmigaPlus issues, to commemorate its anniversary!

To be eligible to win, just answer the following question:

"What is the name of the chief editor of AMIGAplus?"

Please send your answer by the 16th of November 2003 to Amiga Arena.

"Amiga Arena History" online: "Amiga Arena History" is now also viewable online in a text version. Have fun reading! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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13.Nov.2003
Christian Effenberger (ANF) CD Tools: More than 1000 ViCaDo Downloads since 7th November, 2003
After more than 1000 users downloaded the VideoCD software "ViCaDo" since 7th November 2003 (as amiga-news.de reported), the developer Christian Effenberger is hoping for a bit more feedback than he has received up until now. Of special interest is ViCaDo's performance on AmigaOS4 and MorphOS 1.4 (both under 68K emulation).

For a general test of whether AV1 programs can run on the platform, try the tool GetImageInfo, in the download area. In the event the program doesn't run on your system, please list your computer specifications and configuration in the Forum.

Requests, observations, and improvement suggestions are gladly accepted by Christian Effenberger, who is happy about any kind of feedback. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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13.Nov.2003
MorphOS-News.de Picture Report from this Year's Meeting of the Finnish Amiga User Group
The Finnish Amiga User Group had an annual meeting on 27th September in Riihimäki. Not even counting the officials points of order from the meeting agenda, demonstrations of OS4 beta version as well as Pegasos and MorphOS were shown. It was also possible to take a look at the Swedish Amiga magazine Azine and purchase it right there from the Amiga dealer Gentle Eye Ky.

A picture report of the event is available for download from Aminet, here (directory pix/misc, 2.4 MB). (snx) (Translation: dm)

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13.Nov.2003
MorphOS-News.de ZoneXplorer: Version 1.2 Released
The fractal generator ZoneXplorer by Elena Novaretti has reached version 1.2. The main thing is that JPEG support for saving images has been integrated (with the Navigator as well as the Renderer), a functionality advance for which the author extends thanks to Frank Wille, due to his support.

System Requirements:

PowerPC Version:
- MorphOS (Pegasos or PowerUP)
- ClassAct (Aminet) or ReAction (AmigaOS 3.5+)
- Hi-/True-Color-Desktop (8-Bit not supported)

68k Version:
- AmigaOS 3.5+
- Hi-/True-Color-Desktop on P96-/CGX-compatible graphic card (8bit not supported)
- png.datatype

The use of an emulator like Amithlon or UAE on a fast x86 computer is not strictly required for the 68k version, but is strongly recommended.

ZoneXplorer V1.2 (3.5 MB)
Update auf V1.2 (550 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)

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13.Nov.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF) SN-EuroArchiv Coin Collecting Program Available from Aminet
SN-EuroArchiv V1.0 is now available from Aminet (109 KB).

SN-EuroArchiv is a coin collection management program designed especially for European coins. It manages single coins, coin sets, memorative coins, coin rolls, and starter sets in a simple fashion and allows an overview of one's coin collection through tables and statistics.

For the next few days to two weeks the appearance of the version 1.1 on Aminet is already being announced. Two functions are included, one for the overview of the conditions and strike quality, along with counting of the Euro coins, and one which points out the expenditures involved with your collection in monthly steps, so that you receive an overview of how much you spent each month on Euro coins. Further, there is to then be a possibility to also calculate the expenses of associated materials like coin cases, albums and so on. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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13.Nov.2003
Heise Newsticker Rumor: T-Online Wants to Acquire AOL (Update)
The rumor appeared yesterday that T-Online (the Internet division of Deutsche Telekom) wanted to acquire the majority of AOL (TimeWarner's Internet division). Apparently, discussions are already underway between the two sides. You can read the related article from the Heise Online news-ticker by clicking on the title link.

Update (cs, 13.11.2003, 10:10):
amiga-news.de reader "Eule" let us know about a related article at Spiegel Online about this same situation.

Update (cs, 14.11.2003, 10:30):
In the meantime, Kai-Uwe Ricke, the chairman of the board at Deutsche Telekom, disclaimed the report of an AOL takeover by T-Online, and T-Online themselves rejected such speculation. (cs) (Translation: dm)

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13.Nov.2003
amiga.org (Webseite) Amithlon: the Amithlon Kernel Project
Because the development of the Amiga emulator Amithlon has ceased for a while, it's become considerably more difficult to get Amithlon to cooperate on modern PC hardware. On account of that Gary Colville decided to start the Amithlon Kernel Project.

In doing this, Gary has taken advantage of a characteristic of the Amithlon product: Amithlon consists of two components - the actual emulator as well as a tailored Linux kernel, on which the emulator runs. While the former has commercial status and thus may not be modified by outsiders, the latter is under an open source license and may therefore may be expanded by a third party. Through this, support for modern chipsets and graphic cards is made possible.

Because new hardware costs money, and Gary can really only focus on the hardware that he personally owns, he is calling (title link) for financial support from interested users.

Which hardware he can purchase, and thereby support in Amithlon, depends on demand on the part of the users. The most needed support at this time seems to be for the "NForce 2" chipset, used in the products "GeForce FX", "VIA KT600" and "GeForce 4MX." (cg) (Translation: dm)

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13.Nov.2003
karibu@gmx.net (ANF) MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5-4 released
MLdonkey is a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client. Originally, it was the first open-source client to access the eDonkey network. The protocol was 'reverse-engineered' using an efficient protocol sniffer, Pandora. more ... (cg) (Translation: cg)

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12.Nov.2003
CD32-Allianz/Thorty (ANF) CD32-Allianz with a new forum
The CD32-Allianz informes:

"Today our new forum (reachable by the title link) was launched. We would like to invite all users to come around and have a look. more ... (cg) (Translation: ub)

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12.Nov.2003
amigaworld.net (Webseite) AmigaOS4: Pictures and a video of the OS4 presentation
Last weekend the British user club ANT presented AmigaOS4 in the UK. Some photos from that event were published shortly afterwards.

Now there is a video from the OS4 demonstration available also: more ... (cg) (Translation: ub)

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12.Nov.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ) Game: Amiga Freespace Singleplayer-Pack 3 released
Last weekend the "Singleplayer-Pack 3" for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace" has beeen released. It is including 10 new missions for the single player mode and is at the Amiga Freespace website at the MOD area available for download by the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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12.Nov.2003
amiga.org (Webseite) Board game: New version of "Total Chaos" (Update)
A new version of "Total Chaos", a fantasy board game for up to eight human or computer players, has been published. The changes are listed within the Readme.

System requirements: more ... (cg) (Translation: ub)

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12.Nov.2003
Scenia (Website) Music: Liquid Skies records #060
The scene group Liquid Skies has released their 60th music pack today. It contains the Techno-track "Revolt" composed by the musician Maxus. The cover was created by Angeldust. more ... (nba) (Translation: nba)

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11.Nov.2003 New poll: Which icon-system do you use?
We currently started a new poll in which we ask our readers which icon-systems they most commonly use. There are the following possibilities to answer: more ... (nba)

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11.Nov.2003
Apex Designs (E-Mail) Game: New and updated extra-maps for Payback
Two new and one updated extra-maps for the action-game "Payback" have been released by Apex Designs: Rocket Car Heaven, Destra City (Night) and Alabastra City. In this game being the first clone of Grand Theft Auto for the Amiga you have to rise from a nobody to a gangster boss. (nba) (Translation: nba)

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11.Nov.2003
Amiga.org (Website) Linux: First Beta-version of Debian-Installer available
A first beta-version of the Debian-Installer have been published for downloading on the official Debian-website. more ... (snx) (Translation: nba)

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11.Nov.2003
ANN Alchimie 3: Photos from the event
At the title link you can find pictures taken at the Alchimie 3, which took place Nov. 8th in Tain l'Hermitage, France - among them are several photos of AmigaOS 4. (snx)

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11.Nov.2003
z5 (ANF) Amiga Demoscene Archive: Second anniversary
z5 from the Amiga Demoscene Archive writes: "Exactly 2 years ago, we put the first version of A.D.A. online, starting with 123 productions and about 900 screenshots. I hope you had as much fun visiting the site as it was for us maintaining it. Keep the votes and comments coming, because in the end, this is what makes it interesting and this is what will make it a true archive. Motivation is still as high as it was when we started, so here's to another year. Keep the Amiga spirit alive!" (snx)

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10.Nov.2003
Amigaworld.net OS4: Warp3D running natively on the AmigaOne
As Hans-Jörg Frieden informs in the forum of Amigaworld.net, Warp3D is running natively now under AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne.

Warp3D is a 3D API which currently supports Virge, Permedia 2 and Voodoo 3 chips. Radeon graphics cards are not yet supported due to lack of time. The first Warp3D game currently running under OS4 is "glSokoban".

Update (snx, 11.11.2003, 12:50):
With permission of Fleecy Moss you can find a screenshot from the CAM magazine #10 at Amigaworld.net which shows Warp3D on the AmigaOne. (snx)

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10.Nov.2003
Thorty! (ANF) CD-Burning-Software: Homepage of FryingPan moved
The homepage of the CD-burning software 'FryingPan' has moved and is now to be found at http://www.tbs-software.com/fp/. Futhermore the developer is looking for beta testers. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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10.Nov.2003
Tales of Tamar (Website)

Game: New Amiga- and PC-version of 'Tales of Tamar'
A new version of 'Tales of Tamar' for Amiga and PC has been released. Additional information about new features and changes can be found at the title link.

Tales of Tamar is a PBEM-Strategie-Onlinegame (PBEM = PlayByEMail) by Eternity in wich you are the leader of a country situtated in a world called 'Tamar'. The aim of the game is to extend the power and wealth of your people with the help of trading, war and diplomacy. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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10.Nov.2003
amiga.org (Webseite) PNG-Icons: First Amiga like icon set
Lorraine Design published the first Amiga-like PNG icon set called 'PowerTower Icons'.

A Preview-Screenshot is available too. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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10.Nov.2003 Amiga Inc.: New snail mail address
An updated WHOIS domain entry reveals a new snail mail address of Amiga Inc. more ... (cg) (Translation: sk)

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09.Nov.2003
MorphOS-News.de Genesi evaluates interest in REBOL for a Pegasos SDK
Genesi has begun discussions with REBOL Technologies to integrate portions of REBOL into a free developer package for the MorphOS Developer Connection - or maybe even a full REBOL package for a "Pegasos SDK" covering all supported operating systems on Genesi's hardware.

At MorphOS-News.de Genesi invites everyone to a brainstorming about interest in and advantages of REBOL's integration into MorphOS. (snx)

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09.Nov.2003
Elbox Press Dept. (ANF) 21st Birthday of Elbox Computer
This month Elbox Computer company celebrates its 21st birthday! For this special anniversary we have prepared a special offer for Amiga users. From 08 November to 07 December 2003 most of the items in their Online Store will be delivered without any shipping costs. This offer is valid for orders from all countries of the world. more ... (nba)

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08.Nov.2003
amiga.org (website) AmigaDE: interview with Jim Wingard from Omniscience
The American Amiga users club NCSCAUG has interviewed Jim Wingard, developer of the AmigaDE title "Lexical IQ" that is part of the first "GamePak" by Amiga Inc. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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08.Nov.2003 Genesi: OpenBSD / participation in Infosecurity 2003
As Genesi announced in a press release the Pegasos OpenBSD version has now been integrated into the official OpenBSD source tree.

The company also stresses the significiance of OpenBSD, for the time being available in version 3.4, for installations that need a high security level and then pointed out the participation of Genesi at the booth of ShopIP Security Solutions at the InfoSecurity 2003 fair in New York from December, 8th to December, 11th. They'll show the Pegasos II running OpenBSD 3.4 there.

Soon would the Pegasos be available configured as a "Crunchbox Pegasos" that could be sold to distributed network clients as "super firewall".

Genesi's OpenBSD Pegasos site can be found under ODC.PegasosPPC.com. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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08.Nov.2003
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF) Magazine: Club Amiga Magazine #10 released, old article now free available
The issue #10 (November 2003) of the Club Amiga Magazine has been released today, the article "Roadshow" by Olaf Barthel of the previous issue has been released for non-members now.

Content of the current issue: more ... (cg) (Translation: wk)

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08.Nov.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF) Video: Report from the C64-Party "VISION 2003"
In a new installment of their Live-series Virtual Dimension present a report about the C64-party VISION 2003. Newest C64 hard- and software, party-athmosphere and interviews with the wrights - all that and even more awaits you in this more-than-20-minute-long video. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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08.Nov.2003 New Linux game ports by Epic Interactive and Hyperion Entertainment
Linux Game Publishing announced to publish three game ports by Epic Interactive and Hyperion Entertainment for Linux.

The games to be ported are Gorky 17 by Hyperion Entertainment as well as Knights & Merchants and Software Tycoon by Epic Interactive. (snx)

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07.Nov.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF) Magazine: Amiga Future 45 published
Today issue 45 (November/December 2003) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" has been published. more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Nov.2003
Christian Effenberger (ANF) CD-Tools: First publishing of "3CaDo"
"3CaDo" is a collection of CD-tools which contains the following programs: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Nov.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)

IOSPIRIT: Sponsoring and price-reduced full versions at Alchimie 3
The Alchimie 3, taking place from the 8th to the 10th of November 2003 in Tain l'Hermitage, will be sponsored with prizes by IOSPIRIT. Furthermore, it will be possible to buy updates and price-reduced full versions through a cooperation with A.P.S..

IOSPIRIT wishes all visitors and for the whole event a lot of fun and success! (snx)

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07.Nov.2003
Anton Preinsack (ANF) OS4: News on the progress by Thomas Frieden
In the forum of amigaworld.net, Thomas Frieden ("EntilZha") delivered insight into the current version of OS4 or on its progress, respectively. At the same time, a newly integrated feature was announced which - if anything proceeds well - would be shown this weekend as a surprise in France.
more ... (snx)

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06.Nov.2003
Sylvio K (ANF) Horror Game: New Soms3D Screenshots Online
New screenshots of the game "Secret of my Soul 3D" (Soms3D) have been released, a few of which demonstrate new characteristics of the game engine. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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06.Nov.2003 MorphOS: Mencoder Version 0.91
Version 0.91 of the MorphOS port of the program Mencoder is ready for download, thanks to Nicolas Det.

This program is a video encoder, which can also rip VCDs and DVDs.

Download (1.47MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)

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06.Nov.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ) New Pegasos Web Portal Opens: Pegasos-ITALIA
Pegasos communities have been established in many countries around the globe, among them Sweden, the USA, France, Finland and Portugal, and now also one for Italian enthusiasts: At the URL http://www.pegasos-italia.com/ (title link) you'll reach "Pegasos-ITALIA", a new Italian Pegasos portal. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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06.Nov.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail) Game: Tamar Needs a New Continent!
It is on us once more. In November 2003 the world of Tamar will contain a new continent. With 280 players the existing parts of Tamar have become full.

Every time this happens Tamar is expanded with further sections. This is an ideal time to jump in the game! Start with 20 to 50 other new testers, and struggle on the same terms in this part of Tamar.

The new territories will next be partitioned off from the other parts of Tamar, allowing the possibility of development independent of the old Lords. Who will be the victor? Who has the best strategy?

We're seeking free testers for Macintosh and PC.

By 15th November, a new version of the PC client that alleviates the slow start time will have appeared. The exact features may be read in the update text.

Tales of Tamar is a PBEM round-based online strategy game (PBEM = Play By E-Mail) from Eternity, in which you take over the leadership of a people, in a manner similar to the games Kaiser and Civilization, and in which you compete in commerce, diplomacy, and battle to bring your land to riches and glory and honor. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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05.Nov.2003
Richard Ames Health: MouseBean Ergonomic Hand Rest
An independent study has shown that three out of four computer mouse users suffering from workrelated upper limb disorders (WRULDs) and painful hands and wrists, found their symptoms alleviated after only two weeks of using the MouseBean Ergonomic Hand Rest. This is important news for the increasing number of computer users suffering from WRULDs and for businesses losing millions of working days each year when sufferers have to take time off work to recover from these disabling conditions. more ... (nba)

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05.Nov.2003 MorphOS: MPlayer-Update
The media player MPlayer is now available in version 0.91 for MorphOS and can be obtained from the MorphZone (1.6 MB).
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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05.Nov.2003
Heise Newsticker Heise: Microsoft provides a bounty for worm authors
As reported by the Heise Newsticker the software and game console developer Microsoft is going to fight against the authors of computer worms like the wide spread W32.Blaster and Sobig with some kind of bounty. Hints which lead to an arrestment should be honored with up to 250,000 US$. Read the full (German) article by the title link. (cs) (Translation: ub)

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05.Nov.2003
ANN Articia S: Genesi and Hyperion gave information about the supposed "Bug"
During a discussion at the thread "Pegasos Italia" at ANN Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck by Genesi as well as Ben Hermans by Hyperion gave detailed information about the supposed bug of the Articia S northbridge for the first time.
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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05.Nov.2003 Novell's going to buy SuSE / IBM invests into Novell
As reported by CNN Money, Novell is going to buy the German SuSE Linux GmbH for about 210 millions US$. Additionally IBM is said to buy Novell shares for about 50 millions US$. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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04.Nov.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF) Event: Photos of the AmigaOne presentation in Beijing (Update)
In the last September Alan Redhouse, owner of the AmigaOne distributor Eyetech has presented the plans of the company about the AmigaOne PPC systems on a big computer meeting in the Chinese Beijing. more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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04.Nov.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF) Music: Liquid Skies records #059
Liquid Skies has released the music pack #59. It contains a track from the musician Lcr and the cover from Kuadziw.

Information about the track: more ... (cg) (Translation: gf)

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04.Nov.2003
Amiga.org IBM wins the CPU contract for the Microsoft's X-BOX 2
Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp.'s Technology Group announced today (Nov. 3) that the next-generation Xbox electronic game console will use a yet-to-be-designated IBM processor. IBM's chip will replace Intel Corp.'s Pentium III processor now in the current Xbox version. IBM is producing the chip for Nintendo's Gamecube and is developing the CPU for the Playstation 3 in cooperation with Sony.

Further information: EE Times and Heise (German). (snx) (Translation: gf)

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03.Nov.2003
Amigan Software (Website) Software-Updates by Amigan Software
The shareware developers Amigan Software released updates for three programs. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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03.Nov.2003
Thore Böckelmann (ANF) System-Monitor: Scout Version 3.3
Thore Böckelmann released version 3.3 of the system monitor 'Scout'. 'Scout' offers you a closer look on current system resources and lets you manipulate them if possible. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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03.Nov.2003
Chris Hodges (Website) Poseidon: Unknown person spreads crack-instructions
As the author of Poseidon, Chris Hodges, informs on his website, someone spread instructions how to crack his USB stack on three mailing-lists yesterday.
more ... (snx)

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03.Nov.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail) Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #031031
The complete newsletter of October 2003 by Amiga Update can be found at the title link. Contents: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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03.Nov.2003 Aminet Uploads bis 03.11.2003
New Aminet-Uploads since our last report: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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03.Nov.2003
Mikey C (ANF) OS4-demonstrations in England in the middle of November (Update)
South Essex Amiga Link are pleased to announce that they will be demonstrating AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne at its next group meeting. The meeting will be held on Friday Nov. 14th, between 7 pm to 11 pm, in Basildon, Essex.

On Sunday 16th November SEAL will once more demonstrate AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne machine, by travelling to the Amiga North Thames group meeting, being held in Enfield, NE London, between the hours of 1 pm to 5 pm.
more ... (snx)

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02.Nov.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF) ArakAttack - USB driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version is now available. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version. more ... (cg) (Translation: cg)

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01.Nov.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email) Amiga Arena: special anniversary sale of "Inga"
Because of the 5th anniversary of the Amiga Arena offers Inutilis Software the graphics adventure developers package Inga in a limited number from now on at a price of 19,- Euro plus 2,- p&p. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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01.Nov.2003 Wrong Planet: Amiga news in a completely different way
Wrong Planet is an (English) satirical "News" service for Amiga users that draws a bead on all and everyone. People who have followed the soap opera "Amiga Market" in the last months with attention will surely have had fun with the numerous side-swipes.

Update:

URL changed. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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01.Nov.2003 MorphOS: picture viewer "MiniShowPicture"
"MiniShowPicture" is a picture viewer for MorphOS based on MUI. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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01.Nov.2003
Murakami (ANF) Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR n°24 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French news magazine that is distributed by the gathering AFLE and counts since its debut in 1998 as one of the most important French Amiga publications. In the current issue #24 you can read among others the following articles: more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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01.Nov.2003
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF) Magazine: Club Amiga Magazine #10 release on November, 8th 2003
The release day of issue #10 of the Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been postponed by one week by the editorial staff. The new issue will therefore be released on November, 8th 2003. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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31.Oct.2003
http://www.retrohq.de/shop (ANF) Printed reference-book: "Game machines"
In the shop of the retro specialist retrohq.de there is a reference-book to the famous console and computer systems of the 80s. You can find test sites under http://www.retrohq.de. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2003
heise online (Website) heise: Microsoft is going to take over Google
Today the New York Times reports that Microsoft is going to have a partnership or to fully take over Google. You can only read the full article of the NYT under the title link if you pay for it. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2003 Pegasos website at OpenBSD.org online
By http://www.openbsd.org/pegasos.html, the Pegasos version of OpenBSD now also has its own page at the official OpenBSD website. Here you can find information about the current status of development, supported peripherals, the corresponding mailing list and the installation. (snx)

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31.Oct.2003
Ralf Steines (E-Mail) Back to the Roots: bchunk win32 - Official beta test
This is an official beta version of the Win32-port of binchunker which is also known as bchunk. bchunk is an Unix-Shell command which allows you to extract ISO-images from CUE/BIN-images. Besides this it is possible to extract audio tracks to the CD-audio-format (.crd) or to the WAV-format (.wav). more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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30.Oct.2003 Icon Patch: PowerIcons 1.04
This new version of the icon patch "Power Icons" contains many bug fixes. The exact changes for version 1.04 are viewable in the Change Log. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de MAME: Version 0.72 for MorphOS Appears
The "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" (MAME) has progressively appeared in version 0.72 for MorphOS.

[see also starroms.com to purchase ROMs -DM]

Download (snx) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003 Titan is looking for translators for Papyrus Office
Titan Computer is looking for translators for their upcoming software Papyrus Office. A German, English and French localization does already exist. If you are interested to help, please send a short e-mail to Michael Garlich. (snx)

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30.Oct.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF) Source Code Released of Civilization: Call to Power II
On 28th October 2003 Activision released for free the source code for the strategy game "Civilization: Call to Power II." It may be downloaded from the website of Apolyton . Because the hardware requirements are moderate, PC hardware with a speed of 166 MHz and memory of 64 megs, nothing should stand in the way technically of a port to Amiga OS or MorphOS. The 8 megs of source contain the main parts of the code necessary to do a port. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de Genesi adds four new patents to its intellectual property portfolio (Update)
Genesi announced today that four patents owned by Raquel Velasco will be included in the Genesi intellectual property portfolio.
more ... (snx)

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30.Oct.2003 AWeb: Status report
No, we're not dead. :-) People are busy doing other things and things are awfully quiet. However a few things have happened:
more ... (snx)

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30.Oct.2003
Martin Steigerwald Amithlon: Martin Steigerwald No Longer at Haage & Partner
Martin Steigerwald posted on the mailing lists for Amithlon, AmithlonOpen, and AmigaXL that he doesn't work for Haage & Partner anymore, and is thusly no longer doing email support for Amithlon users. (cs) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003
st-computer (Website) GamePlan's Second Offering: Joysticks - Game Controllers from 1972 to 2003
After the success of "GamePlan: Consoles and Home Computers" a new book from the publishing house Gameplan is coming this November: "JOYSTICKS, an Illustrated History of the Game Controller." In cooperation with Take 2, Winnie Forster and Stephan Freundorfer wrote a reference book for all gamers: Joysticks shows the best and coolest, the humblest and the most daring controllers from 30 years of computer and videogame history. From the classic Atari stick to the handy pads of Sega, Sony and Nintendo all the way to the optical precision equipment of the ego shooter and onwards, Joysticks awes, stuns, and amuses gamers of every generation. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003
Zeit (ANF) Zeit.de: Programmers from all Lands Unite!
"Programmers from all Lands..." is an overview of the mobilization of the open source movement, a comparison of different ideological perspectives of software development and a short exploration of the problems of software patents. An excerpt follows (with the friendly approval of Zeit.de) and the complete article is reachable under the title link:

For years only geeks got excited about it. They sat, strewn around the globe, at their computers and programmed, criticized, and discussed via the Internet. The rest of the world had no idea what was there in the 'Net: at first glance just some software. Actually the free thinking online community had created an antithesis to Microsoft, the most powerful and largest software house in the world. [...]

[other excerpts not translated, they're a bit longish. -dm] (cg) (Translation: dm)

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29.Oct.2003
RetroMan (ANF) Tool: NRG2ISO V0.2 released
The tool NRG2ISO has been released in version 0.2 for download. The software converts Nero image files into ISO images, which can be imported then into Amiga CD writing programs. (snx)

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29.Oct.2003
Hippie2000 (E-Mail) Back to the Roots: Rat roasting
The back2roots.org server and the entire network cluster were offline two days caused by a rat that had been looking for a warm place to stay inside a transformator hut. The rat found a VERY warm place and an instant death as a kind of a barbecued rat. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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29.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website) WHDLoad: New packages till October the 28th 2003
With WHDLoad it becomes possible to install games intended for floppy disk use only to hard disk. The following packages were added or updated since the last reporting. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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29.Oct.2003
AudioLabs (Website) AudioLabs launches new website
AudioLabs, developer of the highly professional audio sequencing software "ProStationAudio" has relaunched the company and producer website with a fresh design and enhanced content. At the new site there is information about PSA and its plug-ins but also background information about audio sequencing e.g. an interview with Markus Steblei: he and a a colleague are presenting a multimedia show at Munichs's planetarium of the "Forum der Technik" utilizing PSA. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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29.Oct.2003
Heise Heise: First Internet provider with P2P-licence
The British Internet provider Playlouder MSP announced a legal access of file-sharing services starting next year.
more ... (snx)

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29.Oct.2003 MUI: HotkeyString class reimplemented
Since the HotkeyString class for MUI isn't continued by its author Allan Odgaard, it was reimplemented by Ilkka "Itix" Lehtoranta.
more ... (snx)

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29.Oct.2003 MorphOS: ImageFX-Lite and Powerstation added to the SuperBundle
Nova Design, Inc. is pleased to announce that our award-winning package, ImageFX, is now available for Pegasos/MorphOS owners in a special lite-edition as part of the SuperBundle package from Genesi.
more ... (snx)

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29.Oct.2003
z5 (ANF) Amiga Demoscene Archive: 3 new productions
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) has been extended with another three impressing poductions: more ... (cg) (Translation: ub)

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28.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF) Music: Liquid Skies records #058
The scene group Liquid Skies has released the 58th music pack today. It contains the track "Gwiezdny Taniec" of the Polish musician Maxus. The cover was created by DaFreak.

Here some more information about the track more ... (cg) (Translation: gf)

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28.Oct.2003 GoldED: C/C++ IDE Update-Archive
For the text and coding editor "GoldED Studio AIX" a new service pack for the C/C++ Add-On was released. This new version solves problems on the installation of GCC/NDK parts and is available for all registered users. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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28.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF) Game: Amiga-Freespace Singleplayer-Pack 2 released
The Singleplayer-Pack 2 for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace" is released. It contains ten new single player missions and can be downloaded from the Amiga-Freespace-website. more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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28.Oct.2003 "OS4 on Tour" in Great Britain
The South West Amiga Group organizes a presentation of the OS4 on the AmigaOne on Saturday, December 13th in Bath.

Confirmed is that OS4 will run on an AmigaOne XE-G4 and a prototype of the MicroA1 board will be shown. Maybe Timothy de Groote of Hyperion will be there, too. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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28.Oct.2003 Retro-Gaming: Amiga games for four Joysticks
Christoph Gutjahr has released an overview about all the games with support of the 4-joystick-adapter he knows. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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28.Oct.2003

Hardware-Hack: CD-writer in original A1200 case
Update (26.10.2012, cg): integrated entire article into news item during database migration

Amiga user Egon Kohlschütter has managed to fit both a CD-ROM and an IDE harddisk into the A1200's original case. The idea is to move the harddrive to the right of the case (to the position normally occupied by the internal disk drive) and put the CD-ROM to the left side of the case. The floppy drive had to be removed to gain the neccessary space (Egon uses an external drive now) and the case had to be slightly modified. This is what the end result looks like:

Fitting the CD-ROM drive

Get an internal CD-ROM drive (or even a CD-Writer!) targeted for Laptops - these are small enough to fit into the original case. Some devices that should work are:

TEAC CD-224E (CD-ROM)
TEAC CD-W24E (CD-Writer)

These drives use a special IDE connector called "Mini-IDE", so you'll have to find a suitable adaptor. These adaptors are usually called "Slimline adaptors" (Mini-IDE to IDE-40-pins). As these Laptop-CD-drives are usually jumpered as "Master" and the internal HD should be "Master" aswell, you should also get one of the myriad of A1200 IDE devices that enable you to connect up to four drives to your Amiga.

Obviously, you'll have to cut an opening into the case - a CD-ROM not accessible from the outside is not exactly useful ;-) This image demonstrates the exact position of the drive:

Some hints for the actual case modification:

open the case, remove the RF shielding and position the CD-ROM
The drive rests partly on the bottom half of the case
use a pen to mark the area that has to be cut out
use a dremel or a similar tool to remove the plastic
Powerstrip is used to fix the drive at its new position.

Moving the harddrive to its new position

The harddrive will be put where the internal disk drive used to be. Remove the disk drive and make sure that the internal disk drive connector can not be shortened by accident (e.g. by putting an old IDE or floppy connector onto it).

The RF shielding may cause short circuits too - make sure that you either remove enough of it to avoid that or put some isolating material around the harddrive.

The floppy disk drive

When booting, the A1200 will spend a few seconds searching for the internal floppy disk drive. Additionally, Workbench might complain about the missing disk drive. Both problems can be easily solved by connecting pins #1 of the internal floppy disk drive connector with the pin below it. The boot process will be slightly faster after this modification.

But with these pins connected, your A1200 will not recognise external disk drives. Therefore Egon connected the pins using a switch: The switch is closed most of the time, but you can open it at any time (even if the machine is already up and running) to access external disk drives and close it again afterwards.

More pictures

Here are some more pictures showing various details of Egon's hack:

Additional notes

The scsi.device included with AmigaOS 3.0/3.1 is not able to handle ATAPI drives (like CD-ROM or CD-RW drives), so you'll have to use a replacement. AmigaOS 3.5+ comes with an updated scsi.device, another option would be the shareware IDEFix.

Egon equipped his A1200 with the CD-RW drive mentioned above. BurnIt does not have specific support for this particular drive, but the generic driver (No. 9) works fine.

If you did not connect the pins on the internal floppy disk drive connector as described above, Workbench may complain about the missing disk drive - OS 3.5+ users should deactivate drive "DF0:" in the Workbench preferences to avoid this.

Egon can be contacted at Egone@freenet.de. Please note that his English is (quoting Egon) "pretty poor", so you may contact us aswell, we'll forward your feedback to Egon. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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27.Oct.2003 SciTech Software renew partnership with ATI
SciTech Softwar, whose Multi-OS graphic accelerator driver system "SNAP" will be used with AmigaOS 4, announced today the renew of theire partnership with ATI. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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27.Oct.2003 AmigaOne: MicroATX version comes nevertheless
After the official announcement of the AmigaOne-Lite, also known as "Micro-A1", one could get the impression that this release will be the end of the "AmigaOne Micro-ATX". more ... (cg) (Translation: sk)

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27.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF) IRC: Changed server for the #Amigaworld channel
AmigaWorld.net announced that they moved their channel from Undernet to ExodusIRC due to lags, netsplits and missing services like nickserv.

The channel is now available at irc.amigaworld.net port 6667 or port 1024 for users behind a firewall. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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27.Oct.2003 amiga-news.de: The new Team
Some time ago amiga-news.de reported that the founder of amiga-news.de, Petra Struck, will resign from the daily news creation due to private reasons. For this reason an extended editors team was established. The following persons are involed in amiga-news.de: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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27.Oct.2003 Beyond Magazine: number 2
The Beyond Magazine, a gratis PDF magazine, that deals besides BeOS with other alternative operating systems like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOSX or FreeBSD.
more ... (snx) (Translation: sk)

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27.Oct.2003 New YAM-"Developer" version
There is a new developer version of the well known e-mail client YAM available at the title link.

Further details about this new release can be found in the ChangeLog. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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27.Oct.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF) New USB driver for Amithlon and OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version will be available within the next few days at http://www.vmc.de/Amithlon. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version.
more ... (snx)

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26.Oct.2003
AmithlonTV (Website) TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 349
Guido Mersmann released the beta version 349 of the TV-card driver software AmithlonTV, which includes several small updates and improvements. more ... (nba) (Translation: snx)

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26.Oct.2003
Stefan Ruppert (E-Mail) Application Response Measurement 4.0 will be finalized shortly
The version 4.0 of the Application Response Measurement (ARM) standard developed within the OpenGroup will be finalized shortly. more ... (nba)

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25.Oct.2003
Peer Richter (ANF) New download opportunity for Ghostscript 8.00
Because of the problems when downloading Ghostscript 8.00 has Peter Richer gathered the archive and created an additional download opportunity on a German server.

Download Ghostcript 8.00.lha (5.1MB) (cg) (Translation: wk)

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25.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter amiga-news.de: official IRC channel
Since some time now does there exist an official amiga-news.de IRC channel. People who want to talk about contents of amiga-news.de or generally about the Amiga and related topics are VERY welcome to have a look. The channel is in general German but it is possible to discuss and chat in English, too.
more ... (snx) (Translation: wk)

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25.Oct.2003 Fax software: STFax 4 released as freeware
Simone Tellini, developer of STFax, has released his product as freeware. Version 4.0 of the software is now available on the Aminet. In addition you should install the update to version 4.1, too. more ... (cg) (Translation: wk)

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25.Oct.2003
Mikey C (ANF) Website: "Mac on Amiga" update
Mac On Amiga - a website dedicated to the emulation of Macintosh computers under AmigaOS has now got an own forum. In addition, a Shapeshifter tutorial has been released. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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25.Oct.2003
Rudolph Riedel (ANF)

DiskMaster 2.5.27 released
Following the title link you can find the latest version of DiskMaster2.

Changes:

Bugfix: "%c" didn't work with Auto commands.
File requester for 'PrintDir' added.

(cg) (Translation: wk)

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25.Oct.2003
JTSG (ANF) Event: first pictures of the OASE in Graz
Members of the Bitplane team have already released first pictures of the OASE in the net (title link). (cg) (Translation: wk)

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25.Oct.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF) "AmigaOne updates" (column by Alan Redhouse)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group) has a regular column in the British Amiga magazine Total Amiga. In co-operation with "Total Amiga" makes the Amiga portal Amigaworld.net the past issues of this column available for all Internet users.

Excerpts taken from the explanations by Alan Redhouse: more ... (cg) (Translation: wk)

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24.Oct.2003 Icon-Patch: PowerIcons 1.02
There is a new version of the "PowerIcons" which is a patch that allows the performance of 24-bit icons on your Workbench. Some bugs have been cleared but there are also a lot of improvements.

Download (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF) New version (V44.50) of HSMathLibs for MC68881/82, MC68040 and MC68060
After v44.50 beta 2/8 has been tested of many users for over a year there is now the new version of the HSMathLibs which is not a beta version.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2003
Anonym (ANF) Spam-protection: AntiSpam2 1.07
The anti-Spam software called "AntiSpam2" has got some new features e.g. a prefseditor and a remote-filter and is now principally useable for each Amiga mail program which is still supported. On the website you can now also find detailed explanations to the different configuration options which can be changed by the prefseditor from now on. more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2003
Heise Newsticker New version 10.3 of Mac OS X is coming
In this article Heise Newsticker reports on the start of the sale of the MacOS-X-version 10.3 alias "Panther" and informs about the most important improvements. (cs) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2003 Photos from the Sydney Amiga show
At the title link first photos from the Sydney Amiga show can be found - among others several shootings of the AmigaOne Lite. (snx)

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24.Oct.2003
Silke Woj (ANF) OASE Update: Premiere - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4!
See some premieres at the OASE - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4 on the AmigaOne!
more ... (snx)

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24.Oct.2003 Genesi joining exhibitors at OASE
At the upcoming OASE show in Graz, Austria, Genesi will be represented by their beta tester Herbert Klackl. According to the official website, two Pegasos I computers with MorphOS will be shown. (snx)

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24.Oct.2003 AmigaOne: AmigaOS 4 boots with ATI Radeon support
Forefront Technologies which are the developers of the ATI Radeon driver for AmigaOS 4.0 on "classic" Amiga systems have announced in a press release that AmigaOS 4.0 has been booted on an AmigaOne with an ATI Radeon graphic board for the first time. Today Jürgen Schober of point.design has succeeded in booting AmigaOS under use of a forefront technology driver on an AmigaOne-XE G4 with ATI Radeon 7000. more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: Anniversary Sale Price for PairsNG
In honor of Amiga Arena's five year anniversary, we and developer Christoph Kimna are offering the shareware game "PairsNG" at a sale price of five euros.

"PairsNG" is a mix of Memory, Shanghai and similar games. You'll find a demo version on the homepage of PairsNG. Additionally you'll find in the interview section a review of "PairsNG". This special offer is available until 2nd November, 2003. The registration form is to be found on the website of Amiga Arena (under the title link). A special thanks to Christoph Kimna, who made this special possible. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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23.Oct.2003 First Screen-Shots of the New File-sharing Client for AmigaOS
The first screen-shots of "AmigaGift," a KaZaa client for AmigaOS, have been released (click on title link).

Update:

One of the beta testers corrected in an Amigaworld.net thread the misunderstanding that AmigaGift is a pure KaZaa client. AmiGift is said to be modularly organized and currently supports Edonkey, Gnutella and a few other protocols just starting to be offered, as well as KaZaa. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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23.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website) Golem: Commodore is Active Once More in Germany
Commodore made computer history once, with home computers like the C64 and Amiga, and then they parted from the computer scene without a lot of noise or singing. Now the name comes back, of all things in a rather different, clearly unspectacular connection. Read the entire article at Golem IT News, under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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22.Oct.2003
Amiga Impact Event: Details about the Alchimie #3
Triple A, the organizers of the biggest French Amiga fair Alchimie, gave some details about the show which will be held in Tain l'Hermitage (close to Valence) from November the 8th to the 10th. more ... (cg) (Translation: ub)

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22.Oct.2003 Alan Redhouse comments AmigaOne review (Update)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) comments the AmigaOnereview by Philippe Ferrucci . The full comment is available by the title link.

(cg) (Translation: ub)

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22.Oct.2003 Genesi: Website for the planned computer game "Gladiateur" online
The official website for Genesi's computer game project Gladiateur (amiga-news.de reported) is now online at http://Gladiateur.PegasosPPC.com.

Gladiateur - The game

The game takes its inspiration from the stage production by Elie Chouraqui and Maxime Le Forestier, which debuts in Paris in 2004. The game allows you to take the role of Spartacus the Thracian, and lead the slaves in their revolt against the powers of Rome.

Gladiateur is a game development that will not simply lead to the release of a single game. The first release will concentrate of the War of Spartacus, but the game will evolve into a massively multi-player online realm, in which thousands of players will be able to take a part in the adventures and ambitions of the Roman world. Set against the backdrop of the Spartacan revolt, each player will be able to take a side in the rebellion or make their own way, going wherever opportunity takes them. You will be able to become a soldier or a merchant, a pirate or a politician. Players will be able to join together to form their own factions, or work alone. You will be able to live the carefree life of a wandering adventurer, build a powerful trading corporation, or rise to power in the Senate and change the very history of Roman.

The initial release of Gladiateur will use the Northland game engine from Funatics. This is a very sophisticated RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game in its own right, but in Gladiateur it will be extended to provide a unique, genre-busting experience. In the world of Gladiateur, persuasion and popularity is as important as units and resources, and tactics means a lot more than having the biggest army. This is not just another game where you build a base, defend against a few attacks, mass forces and finally rush the enemy base - this is a game set in a dynamic living world of tyrants, peasants and slaves where fear or loyalty can turn the tide of battle, and building trading links can be as important as building armies.

Gladiateur - The musical

Gladiateur is a musical stage spectacular written and produced by Eli Chouraqui, accompanied by a musical score composed by Maxime Le Forestiere. It will debut on 1 October 2004 at the Palais de Sports in Paris, and go on tour in Spring 2005. The music from the show will be released by EC7/Universal Music in 2004.

Eli Chouraqui's previous stage production was Les Dix Commandemants (The Ten Commandments), which debuted in Paris in 2000 and toured France, Switzerland, Belgium and Montreal. An English language version is due to open in 2005. Over 4 million albums, singles and DVDs of the production have already been sold. (snx)

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22.Oct.2003
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF) AmigaLand: Another five Microprose games
The AmigaLand has been updated again today: Five more aircraft simulations by Microprose are available for download and invite for gambling: F-15 Strike Eagle, F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-117A Nighthawk, B17 Flying Fortress and The Ancient Art of War in the Sky. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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21.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF) Genesi new main sponsor of German online Linux magazine PPCNUX
The German Linux online magazine PPCNUX welcomes Genesi as their new main sponsor. In the corresponding news-item the company and the background of Genesi's founders are introduced to the readers of PPCNUX. (snx) (Translation: snx)

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21.Oct.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF) OASE 2003: E3B to offer special show prices
E3B is going to be again an exhibitor at OASE 2003, as we did already last year.

Besides the opportunity to test the new ALGOR USB controller live on our computer, we will also offer a special show bundle for upgrades of our established USB controller HIGHWAY.

Also ALGOR-users who do already own FlashROM can be happy: our network module NORWAY will be separately available as well at a favorable OASE price.

Details of the bundles can be found at our website in the news section.

See you in Graz :) (snx) (Translation: snx)

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21.Oct.2003
DCE DCE: Photos of the Pegasos II production (Update)
Further photos of the new Pegasos II can be found at the DCE website.

Update: To reduce the traffic at DCE's server, PegasosPPC.com provides a mirror. (snx) (Translation: snx)

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21.Oct.2003
Daniel Miller Report from Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC, USA
In his report from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration, which took place Oct. 18th in Washington DC, USA, Daniel Miller writes the following:

MorphOS, Linux, AmiNetRadio, FxPaint, MPlayer, Kaya, ImageFX, free Superbundles, fresh MOS1.4 CDs with IBM stamp, ProStationAudio, presentations, the "VCR" case, complete system pricings, Peg II picture, MOS1.5 timing, MadBomber, and more.

From start to finish this was a really classy affair. I am local to the area and was invited to bring and show my own Pegasos, but this didn't stop me from checking out the scene and watching the presentations. Genesi personnel were really on a mission, giving personal attention, and striving to show the technology at its mindblowing best.

The chief exhibitor was magneticsystemsnyc.com who drove down from Brooklyn with a squad of state-of-the-art Pegasoses, including one of the few G4 models we have on this side of the pond. Four of those systems were configured for MorphOS, the fifth did double duty as an MoL/Debian (Gnome) machine. In addition to my comparatively home-spun system, there was a nice array of Genesi paraphenalia such as a plexuscom concept case, spinning illuminated Peg motherboards, a mechanical butterfly, a sampling of shrinkwrapped games, a Catweasel flipper for display, posters, sellsheets, free Superbundle (v. 3) and MOS1.4 IBM stamp limited silk screen edition CDs. Jammin'!

Now the stuff was neat, and the people were neater, but I must say seeing the cutting edge MOS systems in action was even more neat than that. It was... neat-o! Where to start? well, one of the more striking things was AmiNetRadio. As much as anything else this really illustrated one aspect of the future as Genesi sees it. The live radio stations scroll down in a list, and you select your favorite genre. It very quickly picks up the stream and your music plays. Most streams were at 128, some at 64, so this is fairly high fidelity. You can record your streams to MP3 files on your hard-drive, and them play them in Kaya. This all occurs effortlessly. Why does this illustrate part of Genesi's vision? They see themselves providing media, audio, visual, audiovisual and games via similar tools. Customers are then able to access their favorite media whether they are on walking trails with the planned Eclipsis handheld device, in their homes at their home theater, or at their workplace, whatever. You don't carry around a CD or plunk a videotape in the VCR, you just select your media on whatever device you are nearest and play it. Genesi believes that all this media including high resolution movies will be deliverable as the Pegaos progresses and new Genesi products are introduced. So that's the concept, maybe you like it, maybe you love it.

Another concept, this one now reality, is the "VCR" Pegasos. This was introduced by magneticsystemsnyc.com. What is it? It's a Pegasos in a small case that looks sort of like a VCR. This is offered as a complete Pegasos II system. If you don't want to muck around with assembling your own, you can consider getting one of these. It's nice and uses a half height Radeon video card. I like this, because it is an early step in the shrink-down evolution of Pegasos from standard desktop to set-top box to the handheld computer which is conceptualized to have all the power of a Pegasos.

Bill and Raquel from Genesi were there, as always demonstrating their personal commitment to the platform and its development, and supporting the rest of the Genesi team working towards the goal of a advanced, mature, popular, modern, alternative computer system.

More software: MPlayer was all over the frickin' place. People who demonstrated this system have recognized a winner. On just a G3 600 Mhz Pegasos running MorphOS 1.4 Mplayer is the most quickloading, responsive, compatible videoplayer ever on any platform. I am not spinning you, everybody says this. We all need to send the Mplayer programmers five dollars right now or something. There are few sublime pleasures in life as the first time you starting moving an MPlayer window opaquely around the screen, and realize that there is zero stutter or distortion, no matter how fast you circle it around. Hi-res letterbox or whatever. Of course it goes full screen and has a bunch of control features too.

There was some new image editing software from NovaDesign shown. They make well-established graphical prodcuts like ImageFX and Aladdin 4D. I was not clear on the details, but there is the intention to offer some form of this new software with future MorphOS versions, the Superbundle, or both. This is a clear potential asset to the Pegasos MorphOS product. The prospect of a revamped Aladdin4D ray tracing program for MOS was also talked about. ProStationAudio was shown. This is a really advanced sort of product with a detailed, intricate interface and all these channels and mixing controls and a lot of busy stuff going on all over the screen. It was shown mixing some tracks and certainly sounded good. It seems to me that this is a product for an audio professional, but maybe a casual home user can have fun with it too. Gotta go, I will have to write some more later, especially about... MadBomber!!!

PS: The BB half of BBRV stated MorphOS 1.5 would appear before the new year. Don't let them forget about that TCP-IP stack, thanks.

Photos of the event can be found at PegasosPPC.com. (snx)

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21.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF) Update of dvdrtools
The dvdrtools, enabling the writing of DVDs under AmigaOS, are updated. Now three more devices (e.g. the SCSI host of Cyberstorm/CyberstormPPC) are supported.

Also an English version is available on the homepage.

The coder provides you with another archive on his homepage: In this version you can set the device to use by the environment variable DVDRTOOLS_DEVICE yourself. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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20.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF) Music: Liquid Skies records #057
Liquid Skies released number 57 of the so called music pack. It contains a song called 'Kukka' by the Finnish musician 'Tripper'.

Some details about the track: more ... (cg) (Translation: sk)

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20.Oct.2003
Amig@lien (ANF) Event: Photos of the EAPP 2003
From 10th to 31st August 2003 the "Extreme Amiga Programming Party" (EAPP) took place in Weinheim. The aim of this event was the common programming of software. Many interesting and also funny snapshots of the event can be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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20.Oct.2003
Ron van Herk / Genesi Cyberstorm: Report on DCE repairs / MorphOS version at the end of this year
CyberStorm Warranty Repairs

As mentioned on the thread at Amiga.org earlier, all CyberStorm boards sent in under warranty will be replaced by new ones. The production of these is partly done, the PCB's are there with all lower part components fitted. The problem currently is the lack of availability of the right 68K sockets. The ones that were originally used for the Phase5 and later DCE productions were specially made for Phase5 and are no longer being manufactured. However, there are several investigations ongoing at other manufacturers to adapt existing (and available) connectors to be fitted to the CyberStorm PCB's. Once this is solved, the production will be completed and all involved will receive new CyberStorm cards under warranty.

Non-Warranty Repairs

All non-warranty repair customers should have had a price quote from me. The repairs that could be done have been completed and all cards have been sent back or will be sent back in the next week. There are also repairs that are pending awaiting CPU sockets (see above).

Non-Repairable Items

Repairs that could not be done have also been sent back or will be next week. Several cards have been sent back by DCE already, others will be returned by me from Rotterdam next week.

Other Factors

During investigating the whole repairs issue, several disturbing things have come to my attention. There are cases of repairs not being done because they have been submitted through a reseller that has had outstanding invoices for three years, and also cases where repairs were done and sent back to a reseller, who then sold them as new products. I will not disclose specific information but just wanted to state this in DCE's defence, they're not always the one to blame...

Genesi Gesture

As a gesture from Genesi, there will be a new release of MorphOS for 'classic Amiga' PowerPC cards available for free. The planned release is at the end of this year.

DCE and Genesi

Several people have opted their concern in the Amiga.org thread about possible future repairs at DCE for Genesi products. First of all, please consider that the Amiga repairs are a special situation and it is not common for repairs to take this long, not even for DCE. Furthermore, anyone buying a PegasosII is dealing with Genesi, not with DCE. If there is a case where a Genesi product needs repair or replacement, Genesi will see to it that it happens the right way and in a decent timeframe. For reference see our history with the mainboard exchanges for April and April2 fixed boards. These were made at DCE too!

Preliminary Conclusion

Apart from the wait for the right 68K sockets, most issues are either done or will be in the next week. There are however still some unallocated cards at DCE. Anyone that also thinks they have an outstanding repair at DCE and has not been in contact with me yet, please do so NOW, as we are working towards concluding the whole operation and at some point soon we will not take on any more investigations. If you have sent in your repair to a reseller be sure to mention which one explicitely.

Contact: rvanherk@nl.genesi.lu

Regards,
Ron van Herk
Genesi (snx)

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20.Oct.2003 GUI-Development: Merlin 2
A.P.Spijkerman released a new version of his GUI-tool 'Merlin'. 'Merlin' lets you develop GUI frontends for ARexx or batch scripts.

Detailed information as well as screenshots can be found at the title link. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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20.Oct.2003
Christian Geier (E-Mail)

Report from LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany
At the first LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany, on Oct. 18th, the Image_Installer team presented the Pegasos. We did not expect such a big success and were surprised by the scores of visitors crowding our stand who were interested in the system. They represented several platforms, from Amiga users to people using x86 systems.

One could test the system, and some visitors made use of the opportunity to install Mandrake 9.1 themselves on the Pegasos using the Image_Installer. They were surprised in a positive way and amazed how quick and easy the installation was finished. Also MorphOS didn't get a raw deal. The visitors tested the SuperBundle and were impressed by the speed of the system, despite just having a 600 MHz CPU.

When we had a little bit of time, Michael Heider of course continued to work on Image_Installer and removing bugs. We can say with quiet conscience that with version 2 of the Image_Installer an easy installation of PegXLin and Gentoo is possible. To the question if this version would also be free or enclosed with the Pegasos we had to answer "no" for the time being, since we don't know this ourselves yet.

At the KDE team one could see a pre-release of the new KDE 3.2. New applications were added as well as graphical improvements. Daniel Molkentin demonstrated among other things an Outlook clone and a faster webbrowser.

Also some people from the Debian team were there. They showed Debian 3.0 for the x86 platform and provided help to questions regarding installation and adjustment of Debian to x86 systems.

Bert Radke of the Jabber team showed the latest version of Jabber. One could get information how a Jabber server is build up and which advantages Jabber provides.

At IBM students could get information about new notebooks. Computers from desktops for the office to servers were shown by AMD, who also provided the Internet connection for the show.

Further small projects were free games for Linux and the topic "Linux at school and university" by the university of Dresden.

Furthermore the visitors could take part at an Install-Party during the whole day to solve problems.

Final preparations	Erhard Bruse (front), Christian Geier (back)
Preparations	Erhard Bruse explains the Pegasos
Michael Heider (back) shows den Image_Installer Version 2	KDE booth
Debian booth	User testing Image_Installer Version 2
Michael Heider	Student installing Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo using Image_Installer Version 2
Michael Heider shows the possibilities of Image_Installer	Student testing Image_Installer
Michael Heider installing Gentoo using Image_Installer Version 2

(snx) (Translation: snx)

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20.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website) WHDLoad: New packs until 19.10.2003
WHDLoad enables you to install floppy based games to your hard disk. The following packs were added or updated since our last report: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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20.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF) Premiere: Software with DVD-R/-RW support for AmigaOS
The programmer 'Schlonz' ported the Linux program 'dvdrtools' to the Amiga. For the first time it is now possible to burn DVD-R and DVD-RW discs with AmigaOS. 'dvdrtools' is a collection of four programs wich can be used with the shell. An ARexx-GUI for the main program 'dvdrecord' is included. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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