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10.May.2003
YAM (ANF) Virus spam mails sent from faked Amiga.com account
According to several messages are for the time mass spam emails being sent from a faked Amiga.com account containing a Windows virus. Should you receive an unexpected email from the sender gary@amiga.com or michael@amiga.com and use Windows as operating system please handle this email carefully. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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10.May.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF) GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted geographically according to continents and countries. Today the following areas have been updated: more ... (nba)

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10.May.2003
Patrick Henz (email) Digital album "Argentina" version 1.5
The digital album "Argentina" is a huge collection which shows the most interesting and beautiful places of Brasil. It can be used on all computer platforms and beside that on many DVD players which feature the Kodak PictureCD (JPG) format. more ... (nba)

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10.May.2003
Grasshopper LLC (email) PageStream price action until May, 16th 2003
Grasshopper LLC, developer of the DTP application PageStream, wrote:
We have been inundated with requests to continue to offer our discounted price for PageStream full copies and upgrades. Of course who can blame them! Paying less than 1/3 retail for a powerful desktop publishing program like PageStream, not to mention discounts across the board on upgrades sure does help the pocket book. For those new customers who have joined the PageStream crowd, welcome aboard! However, all good things must come to an end! After May 16th, PageStream's pricing returns to our normal great price! more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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10.May.2003 Aminet Uploads until 10.05.2003
Here are the new added Aminet uploads since our last message: more ... (ps) (Translation: wk)

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10.May.2003
Mikey C (ANF) Magazine: Total Amiga Magazine - The Professionals are back!
No we don't mean Bodie and Doyle, we mean Amiga Legends Richard Drummond, John Chandler & Andrew Korn! Total Amiga Magazine is proud to announce that as of issue 15 some of the finest Amiga Journalists to have ever graced the Amiga scene will be donating some of their spare time to write for us! more ... (ps)

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09.May.2003
Michael Battilana (E-Mail) Fair: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 on 5th July 2003
On July 5th 2003 the Amiga fair "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" (AAA 2003) will be take place in Italian Udine. Today Michael Battilana from Cloanto which is a software developer and fair organizer has announced this. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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09.May.2003 amiga-news.de Community-Polo-shirts
The amiga-news.de community-shirts are now also available in the following design: more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.May.2003
Kelvin Shirley (ANF) Webserver Gw3s v2 released
The gW3S Open Source Team is proud to announce the first release in the 2.x branch! gW3S is a small AREXX based webserver that can run simple and complex websites from your Amiga (and also works on Amithlon too). more ... (ps)

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09.May.2003
racesimcentral.com (ANF) Racer Source Code will be published as GPL
As you might know, there seem to be a bunch of people in the Linux community who have a problem with Racer not being GPL'ed.

This might be a good time to take a crossroads. I plan to release the Racer v0.5.0 source code under GPL. I don't think I'll host that version after that, since we don't have that much bandwidth and would take time that I'd rather put in other things. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.May.2003
Golem - IT News Golem: Toshiba saves 36 GByte on DVD-successor-medium
»Media are supposed to be produced with current production units
Now Toshiba has introduced a working prototyp of its rewritable optical medium which is based blue laser. Toshiba can save up to 36 GByte of data in two layers on one side of the medium - regularly 30 GByte are planned. In contrary to the product of Sony which is called Blue-Ray the media of Toshiba are supposed to be produced with existing production units.« (ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.May.2003
heise Newsticker heise: Gateway announces loss
The Wallstreet Journal announces that the PC producer Gateway expects loss again for 2003. In this article a third reorganization of the company is announced. PCs should not be the only thing to sell but Gateway chief Ted Waitt will create a product line of 15 different home electronic devices such as devices for digital television.
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09.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail) Start menu: Pixload version 3.5 Beta 3
In the current beta version 3 of the start menu called Pixload 3.5 some new features have been added. If you have proposals, ideas or wishes please write it Pixel Art via email (pixelart@wanadoo.fr) in English or French. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.May.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail) Event: Amiga Show - June 28th 2003 - Holland
We organize an Amiga Show at Saturday June 28th from 10:00 till 16:00 at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland. We wanna organize a few nice activities and demonstrations and we will keep you informed at our website: http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/. Come on Amigans and join us all at this Party! (ps)

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08.May.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail) User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #12
The edition 12 of the "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to the subscribers. This is a list of French speaking Amiga users all over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...), which is sent out monthly.

Via the title link you can find further information and you can add your name to the list. (ps)

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08.May.2003
Wolf Zimmer und Cord Hagen (E-Mail) Online Magazine "NoCover" Accessible on its Own Homepage
Many Amiga fans already know about it, the time-honored online magazine "NoCover" has finally found its earned place on the Internet. The complete homepage contains clearly over 200 megabytes and was completely newly and currently uploaded on 7th May, 2003. As always, near the current edition of the loved online magazine are the old editions as well, quickly and easily found under the menu option "NoCover Guide," and individual articles may also be quickly found through a comprehensive oversight structure. A visit in the current issue or the back issues is always rewarding.

This mighty big, but long overdue, Internet debut of "NoCover" was made possible through the sponsor www.ConnectWeb.de, who made available server resources and hosting on their servers, and also together with Wolf Zimmer, who is responsible for the complete editorial portion of "NoCover," handled around the updating.

We would also like to take this opportunity to remind you all that we absolutely need active helpers for "NoCover." So we always seek volunteer editors, who have the desire to look after and care for a single area in "NoCover" and to contribute regular articles. We also rejoice over individual articles on any familiar theme. Regular editors have the advantage of getting their own email address with a giant Pop3 email post box (200 megabytes in size), and self-evidently also a secure SMTP server with authentication of the webserver "AS2-Chicago" in order to dispatch their own emails. Besides there is also an individual subdomain that will be established, so that in addition to emails regular editors may also get their own free hom page. We are able to offer this package as a little reward to all volunteer editors who would like to regularly and actively help the magazine.

Of course the online magazine may also be gotten as usual, through an email subscription from Wolf Zimmer, as well as the website APC&TCP and on Aminet.

We ask for your understanding that the new homepage, despite an astounding start, is still not fully complete, and we sincerely invite you to the "NoCover" homepage. Further we would naturally be delighted to be linked from many Internet sites, in order for "NoCover" to become again the biggest Amiga meeting point, as it was in earlier times.

We wish everyone much fun at the homepage of NoCover and rejoice at your visit. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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08.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF) Toolbar for Pegasos (Test version)
Carsten Siegner writes:
"Today I've prepared my MOS-native toolbar for Pegasos in a test version. This puts PNG icons of whatever programs are used on the toolbar, where they may then be clicked.

Right now the gadgets are not yet activated, and the program thread is read from a Box.pref data. This toolbar supports only the new MorphOS icons in PNG format. The whole thing has the advantage that I can easily build FX effects into the gadgets, which look fantastic. To get this toolbar demo to run, you must download the usual libs from my homepage. This toolbar was written with "Hollywood for MorphOS." (nba) (Translation: dm)

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08.May.2003
WHDLoad (Website)

Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets through 7th May, 2003
With WHDLoad you are able to play games off your hard-drive, games which were previously thought to be floppy-only. The following packets have been introduced or updated since our last announcement:

07.05.03 fixed: Simon The Sorcerer (Adventure Soft) protection cleanup
07.05.03 new: Silent Service (Mircroprose) done by Galahad
04.05.03 improved: Licence to Kill (Domark) supports another version, new icons

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08.May.2003 amiga-news.de Survey Script Expanded
Philippe Bourdin has kindly expanded our survey script relating to two functions. For one the entered votes are now also displayed with a percentage near the quantity, and for the other there is now a grand total of the entered votes. Thanks a lot! (ps) (Translation: dm)

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08.May.2003

amiga-news.de Community T-Shirts (Update)
Since February 2003 we've been discussing in our forum the question of if and in what form we could offer t-shirts with the amiga-news.de logo. Rolf Tingler, our home-and-garden graphic artist, has the opportunity to stain some t-shirts. To those whom "staining" doesn't mean anything: the numbers of soccer t-shirts are usually used up per staining (whoever has had this done knows how expensive it can be).

In his shop Rolf Tingler now offers different T-Shirt-Designs in different colors with the amiga-news.de logo from 17 euros and up. The shirts consist of top quality ring-spun cotton (minimum 180g/qm) with double-seams at the arm and collar. The staining is washable up to 60 degree [Celsius, I think -dm] and the colors of the staining don't fade.

The amiga-news.de logo can be printed according to the wishes of the purchaser: large across the back, small at front right breast, or both. Take a look at the pictures in the online shop, and click, to blow them up.

If you like, a nickname may be placed under the amiga-news.de logo, at no charge. This should be no more than 12 letters if possible.

Update: (14.07.2011, 00:00, cg)

While moving old static content to the database, the following gallery with pictures of the community t-shirts has been added to this news item:

(ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)

New Genesi/Phoenix-Mailing list for demo coders
At MorphOS-News.de Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco announce the opening of a mailing list for demo scene coders:

The DemoScene@phinixi.com mailing list is open for business / Genesi sponsoring Demo Scene Online Party in Fall 2003.

The Peagsos I is out to about 600 avid users now and things are starting to get whipped up for the introduction of the Pegasos II in September 2003. We have always had respect for true Demo Teams because of the way technical and creative skills are intertwined to produce unique results with a computer. We decided that to truly be a success the Pegasos and MorphOS needed to do their best to support the Scene. The Scene can bring things to the Pegasos that no one else can.

To that end we have decided to lend ten fully configured and loaded Pegasos machines to Demo Teams that have demonstrated past success and a desire to produce a demo with the Pegasos for a Demo Scene online Party to be sponsored by Genesi in the Fall of 2003. The Online DemoScene Gathering will be open for voting by all Pegasos owners only -- one Pegasos, one vote. First prize for the best Demo is 1000 Euros (and keep the Pegasos), second prize 750 Euros (and keep the Pegasos) and third prize 500 Euros (and keep the Pegasos!!!). For all teams that successfully present their demo they can keep their Pegasos ( :-D ). If they agree to produce another demo they will be lent a new G4 card with the same terms (and keep the card if they deliver the demo).

To be selected for the DemoScene special offer each Team must be screened and selected by the Phoenix DemoScene Executive Committee that is being lead by Mikko Virtanen aka Hooligan of Dual Crew-Shining. We will ask "Kiero" of the MadWizards, the winner of the Equinoxe DemoScene Competiton and LoRD, of 4Mankind, the first Pegasos contest winner to also be on the committee.

We will develop a special section on the MorphZone to keep track of these special Demo Teams. All necessary documentation and support will be provided to the DemoSceneTeams.

Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill (ps) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
Haage & Partner Haage & Partner: New Amiga start page and discussion forum
Haage & Partner have fitted their start page of the Amiga area to the new web design of the company and opend a discussion board also. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF) Music: Liquid Skies Records #034
After a real short while there is a new music track from the Amiga music scene group Liquid Skies with the following features: more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
st-computer (Website) Infogrames renamed to Atari
Infogrames is dead - long live Atari! The French company Infogrames that bought all rights of the trademark Atari two years ago changed its name today officially and worldwide to that of the former game and computer giant. Until now Infogrames used the label Atari for publishing or licensing of some games only. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
Golem IT-News (Website) Golem: Driver sources by 3dfx found at the net
There has been a complete driver source code for the Voodoo gfx cards by 3dfx found at the Internet. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
Eule (ANF) Commodore ITX-64 with 933.000 MHz
Since some time there are some really small motherboards available within the PC world which almost have everything integrated which a usable PC needs. The company Mini-ITX offers some of these tiny all-in-one-boards. That ought to be nothing special but at their website they present some really weird "do it yourself PCs" which use this motherboard. Among these a PC compatible Commodore 64 with 933.000 MHz clock speed or a Commodore ITX-64. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
chip.de (ANF) Chip: Apple: Entry-level Macs faster and cheaper
»Apples educational computers eMac becomes faster and cheaper. The new product palette includes models with up to 1 GHz clocked G4-CPUs.«
Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail) Amiga Future: Interview with Jens Langner
By the title link there is an interview with Jens Langner which was done by Anton Preinsack for the Amiga Future. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
Golem - IT News (ANF) Golem: First details of the new PalmOS game handheld
Golem reports that the company Tapwave works on a game handheld which will be powered by PalmOS. The device works with an ARM 9 processor from Motorola and an ATI gfx chip. It will be intended more for the older gamers and could become a rival to the GameBoy and the Nokia nGage. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
SpawnPPC (ANF) WarpOS programmer needed for PD project
Dear Amiga users,

I'm Emanuele, from Italy.

I need help from a WarpOS programmer. I have the latest UAE source code version (V. 0.8.22) with all Amiga modifies. I need just to compile it but I'm not a WarpOS programmer. Please, any programmer who would partecipate with me, contact me via e-mail.

Thanx for all and excuse me for my bad english. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
ppcnux.de (ANF) ppcnux.de: A1 sales are good
At ppcnux.de the Pegasos and A1 is covered sometimes. »The A1 sales are well. Especially compared to the PegasosPPC. The A1 might be seen as a success in sales.«
Read the full article by the title link. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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07.May.2003
Tom Duin (ANF) CDDA_SwapMostLeast released and CLI2WB 1.1 update
CDDA_SwapMostLeast converts CDDA_MostSignificant (MOTOROLA) to CDDA_LeastSignificant (INTEL) CD audio format and reverse. It can convert more files, has an 'advanched' configurable save routine and can be started from Workbench. It's written in 68K machine code. Another program, CLI2WB, is updated to version 1.1 It launches easily Shell (CLI) commandline from Workbench. Configurable in its icons tooltypes. Give ASL requester own title, button, and filematching pattern and more. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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06.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail) StartMenu: Preview of Pixload Version 3.5
You will find a preview of the start menu Pixload version 3.5 on the Pixel-Art website. If you have any suggestions and/or improvements you can send a mail to pixelart@wanadoo.fr. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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06.May.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF) 'Super Tennis Champs' free for download
The former commercial game "Super Tennis Champs" is now with consent of the author Elton Bird free for download. A HD-Installer for "Super Tennis Champs" is available at the Aminet. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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06.May.2003
GFX-BASE GFX-BASE: Review of the Pegasos by Stefan Blixth
On GFX-BASE you will find a review of the Pegasos by Stephan Blixth published here. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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06.May.2003
ELBOX COMPUTER (E-Mail) Elbox: Free Shipping with Purchase of Mediator
Elbox Computer, manufacturer of hardware and software for Amiga computers, announces free shipping for all Mediator purchases from the Elbox Online Store between 05 - 20 May 2003. For details, see the Special Offer page under the titlelink. (nba)

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06.May.2003
A.D.A. A.D.A.: Breakpoint- and Gathering-Updates
Four new demos and intros from the Breakpoint Party 2003 and The Gathering 2003 were added to the demo-online-collection "Amiga Demoscene Archive": more ... (nba)

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05.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF) Music: Liquid Skies records #033
The music label "Liquid Skies record" of the Amiga scene published a new music file. This time the release #033 contains a MP3-Tune in the Trance style with the title "Free" by their newest member Ritzu. Made with the Amiga!

!NEWS!
- Ritzu (in the demo scene member of PicSaintLoup & appendix) joins as a musician -
!NEWS! (ps) (Translation: sk)

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05.May.2003
ScummVM Amiga Ports Seite (ANF) ScummVM 0.4.0 work in progress & new demo
ScummVM 0.4.0 will be published with in the next weeks. With ScummVM LucasArts Classic Adventures can be played on new systems. So it is now possible to play games like 'Day of the Tentacle' and 'Sam and Max on the road' on the Amiga and other systems, since there ports for many other systems. more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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05.May.2003
OpenBSD (Website) Unix: OpenBSD 3.3
On 1 May 2003 the version 3.3 of the Open Source Unix operating system "OpenBSD" was released. This release contains among other things the following components: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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05.May.2003 Aminet Uploads until 05.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message: more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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04.May.2003
Amig@lien (ANF) Descent: Freespace Server
This Sunday Amig@lien are putting a Freespace server on the Web. The IP address as well as possibly necessary information can be obtained in the Amiga Freespace Forum (see title link). Up to four players may connect to the server at any one time. The reason is that unfortunately only one ISDN line is available for this (should the offer prove successful, it might be possible to offer channel bundling on some Sundays). You can play with the patched PC version and of course also with the Amiga version (all versions except demo). (ps) (Translation: cb)

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04.May.2003
AmigaWorld.net (ANF) Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 8
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 8 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):

1) IonMane: Some software is now available for DE, yet I had difficulty finding out info on it, or even where to buy it. How do you plan on marketing it, do you plan to get in on shelves in supermarkets/department stores?

Fleecy: In discussions with potential partners, we have discovered that they are keen to rebadge and sell it themselves, for example the MS PocketPaks using Amiga Anywhere. They want to do this for several reasons, whether it be to use their existing marketing resources and branding or else to build up their own marketing brand, for example we are working with a company that has a rather unique expansion capability and they want to use Amiga Anyware products to show it off. Due to this, we are having to create a multi thread marketing strategy that promotes Amiga Anyware as a whole without damaging any of the particular marketing threads and opportunities.

The power of the underlying AmigaDE technology is that we can create multiple deployment models - cards, players, standalones etc and each one represents a separate marketing domain.

To answer your question, we already have one chain in the US (CompUSA) shipping the cards, Microsoft are pushing these cards to other chains and are investigating expansion opportunities. Other potential partners are at various stages but most seem to want to control the marketing. To bring it all together, we will be revising the Amiga Anyware website so that the different deployment types and different pieces of content will have their own separate resources so you will be able to search through the available content, find out in which products it ships and locate their availability.

2) Doobrey: Are there any plans( or even pipedreams) to have an AmigaOne or derivative as an "all on board" system (ie video, sound etc. all on the motherboard) for STB or embedded use?

Fleecy: We have several hardware vendors ranging from small to huge who are interested in the AmigaOS on a variety of devices that span the digital device market, all the way upto servers and workstations. Most of these devices already exist as either prototypes or reference designs and the companies involved are looking for an advanced multimedia capable operating system. We are keeping them closely informed as to the progress of AmigaOS4.0 and are already including requirements from them into the specification for AmigaOS4.1 and beyond.

3) ShadesOfGrey: For those of us who've already made that decision, and those of us considering this decision. How does Amiga Inc. plan to entice us back to AmigaOS 4 AND 'AmigaOS 5'? To be a bit more precise, once the die-hard community has been satisfied (or perhaps placated) by the release (or is the proper term is launch) of AmigaOnes and/with AmigaOS 4. Does Amiga Inc. have any formative plans for recapturing the dormant Amiga user and developer community?

Fleecy: Obviously we want to sell the AmigaOS into as many markets as possible and I have hinted at how we intend to do this in previous Q&A sessions. I do not want to go into too much detail since competitors are constantly on the lookout for any details of our plans so that they can adopt or stymie them as suits their agenda.

4) Treke: Don't you think that the success of 'mainstream' platforms (I think windoze) is also based on the ease of development (mass development) for them ? Has Amiga plans to make available some RAD tools for Amiga OS 4.x or AmigaOS 5.x ?

Fleecy: It is a fact that the success of a platform is down to the amount of content available for it. Whilst the AmigaOS does have a huge backlog of quality content, we need to create new content that takes advantage of the new features of AmigaOS4.0 (and beyond that of AG2). Having a friendly and easy to use development environment set which appeals to all levels of developer, from hobby to commercial is crucial to the growth of the content portfolio and we have plans to attend to this whilst also pushing the development envelope in terms of technologies.

5) IonMane: Could you tell us about SHEEP?What is it, and where does it fit into Amiga Incs. plan?

Fleecy: This follows on from Q4. We want a single, simple universal language that can be used to 'talk' to the environment, whether that be an extended shell, scripts, querying or shells. Such a language would sit at the heart of our future environment, making it a more social, more interactive experience that graphical manipulation and projection.

6) IonMane: Just how powerful is the DE player?Is it possible, for example, to write a Office suite with the capabilities of MS office/Open Office?

Fleecy: Firstly, the AmigaDE is a technology set for the creation of products. The DE Player was a prototype product that allowed for content portability. Amiga Anyware was our first proper commercial product, allowing for multiple deployment options against a content portfolio. As to how powerful is it? It is as powerful as its host in terms of performance and in terms of capabilities, we are expanding them all the time - enhanced 2D, 3D support, data storage and organisation options. It is more than capable of providing a productivity environment which in reality is a lot less demanding that many of the games being written or already available. We need to add a few more GUI gadgets to make it more productivity friendly but they are in the pipeline.

7) IonMane: If this is possible, is it possible to take this exact program and use it directly on say a Linux, Mac or AmigaOne? (providing the DE player is available for these platforms?

Fleecy: That is the point of the AmigaDE and we have already demonstrated this, with the same content runnning on both Linux, Embedded Linux, Symbian, Windows, PocketPC and across Arm, MIPS, SHn, and x86 processors. We just have to make sure that the DE environment is available for the particular deployment HW/SW.

8) horizone: The Commodore 64 got you right into a BASIC interpreter 2 seconds after powerup and the original Amiga included AmigaBasic. I think DOS included a basic too... WindowsXP at least have Paintbrush and a bunch of small games to start having fun with out of the box. How will the newbie AmigaOne owner get started with creative and fun stuff without spending more money on full games and apps right away?

Fleecy: What we are intending to do is offer a contributions drawer, where third parties can provide freeware, shareware and either full or limited versions of their commercial products. In this way the user has a good selection of powerful applications with which to experiment right out of the box and the third party developers gain maximum access to the potential customer base for their products. We had talked to developers and users about the very problem you describe and this is the solution that they suggested.

9) ssolie: How does Amiga Inc. influence and control the development path of AmigaOS when you do not have direct control over the source code? For example, Hyperion may add/remove/change features that would be counterproductive to your goals.

Fleecy: Far too much has been made of the fact that ownership of the AmigaOS rests with Hyperion at the moment, mostly by those with an interest in encouraging mischief. It was done as a protective measure to ensure that if anything happened to Amiga Inc then the community wouldn't have to put up with another x years of uncertainty. The actual development process itself is already well documented and agreed at the highest levels. I have also mentioned before that AmigaOS4.0 is unique in that it is mostly about moving from old hardware to a new abstract hardware definition whilst the Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) project is about advancing the capabilities of the product as a whole; as such Hyperion, with its expertise in classic hardware, porting and PPC architectures is far more qualified to make that transition than the staff at Amiga Inc.

10) JubalHarshaw: I was wondering what direction the AmigaDE side of things will move in... as far as what markets besides the current one. (forgive me if that's not clear, English isn't my strong point yet :) What I mean is, where is it moving into, and where do you see AmigaDE making the biggest impact?

Fleecy: AmigaDE will continue to flesh out its capabilities in response to the demands made on it by its derivative products and the customers of those products. For example, the enthusiastic response to the Gamecard technology, one of the Amiga Anyware deployments is causing us to extend the Quickstart, Autostart and PIPO (Pop In/Pop Out) feature sets. At its heart though, AmigaDE will always be a portable content solution whilst for dedicated products such as desktops and workstations which require a full environment, the AmigaOS will be enhanced and pushed.

As far as impact, AmigaDE derivatives will have most impact where a product domain has a heterogeneous profile. So, in a market where content solutions are more important than implementations, such as the embedded market, the ability of the DE to offer the same content across those many different product implementations will be valuable whereas in a product domain where one manufacturer and implementation dominates then it will have less of an impact (although even in this case, the high efficiency of the AmigaDE coupled with the quality of the content makes a compelling case all of its own.

Over time, the idea of a multi product matrix will become a very powerful driver for the AmigaDE. A digital home with a mix of devices that ranges from PDAs, Tablets, TVs, Consoles, Laptops, Smartphones, DVD players and even washing machines, air conditioning and automobiles will benefit immensely from something like the AmigaDE, which attempts to create a single, contiguous solution above the various devices.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=9
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb)

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03.May.2003
Klaus Arnold (ANF) Tournament: Kick Off 2 WC 2003 in Igersheim on June, 7th 2003
After the great success of the Kick Off 2 World Championship 2002 in Osnabrück, in which 32 contestants participated, it continues on June, 7th 2003. The incumbent world champion organizes the tournament this time in Igersheim, a small town near Würzburg (Germany). more ... (ps) (Translation: wk)

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03.May.2003
Rüdiger Engel (ANF) Photos of 4. VFCe in Munich
The Vintage Computer Festival Europe, taking place this year for the 4th time and also opening tomorrow, is a real pleasure for fans of old computers from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. I'd had a look at the show today and made some photos that can be found following the title link. more ... (ps) (Translation: wk)

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03.May.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF) Update of E3B website
The E3B website has been updated. Among other things has the USB list of supported devices been updated and the photos of ROMulus and ALGOR were replaced by those of the produced cards. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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03.May.2003
Amiforce (ANF) Amiforce: new Amiblitz2.32 distribution
Today was a new full distribution of Amiblitz2.32 uploaded. In the last distribution had unfortunately been some errors included. Besides, there had been no up-to-date German versions of Amiblitz2 (compiler) and PED (editor) in the archive. Because of these in conveniences was this archive completely removed. more ... (ps) (Translation: wk)

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03.May.2003 Aminet uploads till 03.05.2003
Here the new Aminet uploads since our last message: more ... (ps) (Translation: wk)

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03.May.2003
WHDLoad (website) Installer: WHDLoad - new packages till 02.05.2003
With WHDLoad you can now install games thought to be disk only on your hard drive. The following packages have been added/updated since our last message: more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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03.May.2003
APC&TCP (website) Disk-Magazine: NoCover 110 released
The NoCover #110 was released a few days ago. You can read the magazine online on the APC&TCP website and download it. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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03.May.2003
morphos-news.de Sequencer: port of Barsnpipes for MorphOS
According to a message on morphos-news.de is the MIDI sequencer Barsnpipes, once commercial software and nowadays developed as freeware by Alfred Faust, being ported to MorphOS. Read here his notes on the port: more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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03.May.2003 Magazine: The Crypt #29
Issue #29 of the English online magazine "The Crypt" with the title "Ghosts and Ghouls" was released. Read online following the title link or in the offline version (see below) among other things Amiga news, jokes and further reports. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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03.May.2003
#amigascene TV cards driver: SuperTV beta version 1.0 for Mediator
Today has Peter Gordon, former employee of Darkage Software, released the version 1.0 of SuperTV (an alternative to the TV software for the PCI busboard Mediator by Elbox). This version fixes some bugs and offers new features. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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02.May.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF) AmigaInput-article by Steffen Häuser at Amiga Inc.
On the page of Amiga Inc. there is an article which was formerly only meant for the club Amiga-section and which can be now read by everybody. This article was written by Steffen Häuser and is about the new AmigaInput which belongs to the new Amiga OS4. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2003
Henk Jonas (ANF) MetaView goes Freeware
MetaView which is a (not only in the Amiga world) unique convert program for converting cliparts/vector graphics/cad-drawings is now Freeware. On the website of Henk Jonas you can download the program. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2003
Amigalien (ANF) Amigalien News Update
Today on Amig@lien News a new opinion poll has been started. Additionally two programs and a CD-collection were voted as the best programs. A list with current interviews has been also updated. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail) Tool: SRename 3.7.0 final version
Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the final version 3.7.0 of the tool 'SRename'. With this tool which works from OS3.0 on you can comfortably rename files. In the new version the following features have been added and bugs fixed: more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2003
Merregnon (Website) Music: New website for Merregnon
Finally, Merregnon Studio proudly presents the new website to all of our visitors. Many thanks for the great work go to Roma Nesin, our senior web designer, as well as to Joanna Pilarczyk and Alberto Severeso for the drawings and textures. more ... (nba)

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02.May.2003
Dirk Stoecker (E-Mail) Game: New Klondike-card sets on RekoNet
On RekoNet which is a collection of card sets, programs and links for the Klondike game by Reko-Productions new card sets have been added. Thus currently 1127 card sets which are 700 MB in zip-format are available. The news in detail: more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2003
Daniela Lenz (ANF) Retro magazine with Amiga-section
For one year the "Retro Magazin" has been published for all fans of consoles of the 80s. Above all the magazine is about 8-bit and 16-bit consoles and about computer games. From issue 06/03 on there is also an Amiga and Atari-ST section. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2003 Opinion poll concerning the screen mode
Today we have started a new opinion poll asking you which screen mode you use on your monitor. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2003 Aminet Updates until 02.05.2003
There are new Aminet uploads: more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2003
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF) Online opinion poll for Amiga Demo-DVD (MindCandy 2)
After the first issue of the DVD "MindCandy" which contained two DVDs with historical PS-demos (the demo scene is meant here, not game demos) as pure videos currently the second issue is planned. This second issue is supposed to contain the best Amiga demos. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.May.2003
Thomas Nosutta (ANF) New Amithlon Libraries: powerpci.library and lowlevel.library
Harald Frank and Guido Mersemann have released new software for Amithlon computers. A new "powerpci.library" version 2.11 (urgently needed for the use of the Spider2 USB) and a new "lowlevel.library" version 41.17 (for the use of PC joypads/joysticks on the sound card gameport). (ps) (Translation: dm)

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01.May.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail) Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #030430
Under the title link you'll find the complete newslette of Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for April 2003. In his English language Newsletter, Brad Webb summarizes each month all the new developments on the theme Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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01.May.2003
Rafal Kaczmarczyk (E-Mail) Database: XBaze Website Moved
The website of the databank 'XBase' by Rafal Kaczmarczyk has moved and is now reachable at the URL http://www.xbaze.prv.pl.

The current version of 'XBaze' is the 7.3 Beta 8. The program offers an easy-to-use editor for the data-fields and layout (Drag&Drop). It runs on AmigaOS V3.0 and now also on MorphOS. more ... (ps) (Translation: dm)

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01.May.2003
Jochen Abitz (ANF)

Mac-TV Offers Retro Weekend

GRAND RETRO WEEKEND

This Saturday and Sunday on Mac-TV.de.
Great program on Sunday at 9 PM!
The boldly cool nerds with their flying cases:
Apple, Commodore, NeXT, Atari, Amiga, PCs!

(ps) (Translation: dm)

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01.May.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF) Issue 4 of Club Amiga Magazine from Amiga Inc. Appears
The monthly Club Amiga magazine has appeared in its issue #4 (May). There's an article from Olaf Barthel in there about the Amiga Fast File System, and a new status report of AmigaOS 4, and a few other interesting articles. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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01.May.2003

Aminet Updates through 1st May, 2003
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last report:

smoother.lha         game/gag     9K+Small joke program to "smoothen" your mo
ahiusr.lha           mus/misc   352K+Retargetable audio v5.5, User's Archive
SteBaseConv.lha      util/conv   36K+Numeric base converter ITA-ENG + source

(ps) (Translation: dm)

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30.Apr.2003
Amiga Future (E-Mail) Amiga Future: Interview with Samuel Rydh (Mac-on-Linux)
At the Amiga Future homepage there has been a German interview with Samuel Rydh published at the article area. "Mac-on-Linux" (short "MOL") is discussed hotly within the Amiga community since some months, does it enable the use of MacOS incl. MacOS X at the AmigaOne and the Pegasos. Anton Preinsack has talked to Samuel Rydh, the main developer of MOL. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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30.Apr.2003
Jabberwocky (Website) Instant messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch have released the version 1.4 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for a direct message exchange. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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30.Apr.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail) Audio track "Call to Ancestors" by Bjorn Lynne online
Bjorn Lynne writes:
"First of all, many many thanks to those of of you who already bought the new CD "Power Liquids", which I released about two weeks ago. This is an album of trance / electronica that I made toghether with my friends in Aural Planet, and it has been extremely well received so far. Thanks again to those of you who have given your support so far, by ordering the CD. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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30.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (E-Mail) Pegasos: Summary of all the things regarding the Articia
Within a comment at OSNews.com Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck sum up all the mess regarding the Articia chip and confirm the use of the Marvell-Northbridge for the Pegasos II. The support by Marvell and their interest for the Pegasos II is said to be very high. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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30.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website) Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 04-29-2003
With WHDLoad you can install games to the hard disk which were aimed for floppy disk use only. The following packages were added or improved since the last release: more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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30.Apr.2003
AND Software (Website) Context menu: ContextSAS V1.72 and ContextPrefs V1.34
The programm ContextSAS by Andre Dörffler provides the possibility to create and use context sensitive menus for AmigaOS3.5+. The DefIcons system is supported. With some additional tools it is possible to iconify Workbench windows and to create system links. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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30.Apr.2003 Bill McEwen, President/CEO of Amiga, Inc., to attend AmiWest 2003
Amiga, Inc. announces that Bill McEwen the CEO of Amiga, Inc. will once again attend AmiWest. more ... (nba)

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29.Apr.2003
Patrick Henz (E-Mail) Digital Album "Brasil" Version 2.6
The Digital Album "Brasil" is a huge collection which shows the most interesting and beautiful places of Brasil. It includes more than 530 photos. It can be used on all computer platforms and beside that on many DVD-Players, which feature the Kodak PictureCD-(JPG)-format. more ... (nba)

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29.Apr.2003
Chris Seward (ANF) Magazine: Amiga Information Online to close...
In what will be exactly six years in the making of the long running and popular magazine Amiga Information Online will see it finally cease publication. We would like to thank the Amiga community for their continued support. more ... (ps)

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29.Apr.2003
HSC (Website) HTML-Tool: HSC Version 0.930
The HTML preprocessor "HTML Sucks Completly" (HSC) (origin from Thomas Aglassinger) was released in version 0.930 from Matthias Bethke. The source code can be compiled onto all supported platforms; tested are Linux, HP/UX 10.20, and AmigaOS. A documentation in HTML is online available. The download file contains also the latest prefs- and macrofiles. The version 0.930 contains some minor bugfixes. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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29.Apr.2003 Aminet Uploads until 29.04.2003
Here are the latest uploads for the Aminet: more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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29.Apr.2003
OSNews.com Port of NewOS for Pegasos
As stated by Nicholas Blachford, member of Genesi and former BeOS developer, in the online magazine OSNews.com the BeOS based Open Source operating system NewOS will be available for Pegasos. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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28.Apr.2003
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail) Music: New amiga-news.de theme by Psyria
On the occasion of the MesseCD by Andreas Laaser of Elastic Images and because of an interview of Petra Struck Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr published a new amiga-news.de theme 2003. The excellent result can be downloaded now:

AmigaNewsTheme2003.mp3

Dennis, thanks a lot for this incredible Song! (ps) (Translation: sk)

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28.Apr.2003
CUCUG (Website) CUCUG: Status Register 04/2003
The CUCUG status register of April 2003 published. In the status register the club reports regularly about their own meetings and about Amiga, Linux, Macintosh and PC. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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28.Apr.2003
Ron van Schaik Report of the 19th April C= show
Hello C= fans!

You can find some pics of the last show at our website. On this page you see Thomas Margolf with his SIDsyn and Arndt Oevermann who's working at the demo show. On this page you can see the stereo C64 from Dirk Kledtke. This was a great success and the sound of this machine was unbelievable! more ... (ps)

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28.Apr.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF) IOSPIRIT: Server moves on 29th of April
Our server hardware moves on the 28th of April to another part of the same computer center. Also, we'll get new IP-addresses and thus our website and email may be temporarily unavailable, although we'll of course try to keep the downtime to a minimum. Thanks for your understanding! (nba)

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28.Apr.2003
Amiga XFR (Website) Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.3 available
Who does not know XFD and XAD by Dirk Stoecker and the Exoticripper or Eagleplayer. XFR is a similar system, which combines the best from all for the purpose of finding music pieces and pictures in demos. XFR offers a LIBRARY and many Clients for the individual sound formats. A genius for the Delitracker and the Eagleplayer and a few Shell/WB Tools, with which one knows whole listings and disks scanning in the hand turning, also participate. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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28.Apr.2003
Amifish (Website) Translation Tool for Babelfish: Amifish of 25.04.2003
Amifish is a small tool, which helps you to translate texts with Babelfish. Since the some routines of Babelfish were changed, there is a new version of Amifish available. Besides the program the following is needed: amarquee.library V54, MUI 3.8, betterstring.mcc, nlist.mcc and busy.mcc.

Download: amifish.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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28.Apr.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF) Demoscene: Jurassic Pack#12
Shortly after the end of the BREAKPOINT 2003 party issue no. 12 of the Amiga demoscene diskmags Jurassic Pack was released. You can find the mag as well as some pictures of the party under the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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28.Apr.2003 Aminet Uploads until 28.04.2003
Following the Aminet uploads which were added since our last message: more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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27.Apr.2003
AWeb (Website) AWeb 3.4 GPL released in new archive and for MorphOS
AWeb, a cost free Open Source based Web browser, is available in version 3.4 GPL in a new archive: Apart from the executable main program, the package also contains the plug-ins, transfer animations, icon sets and installer. Versions available for 68020, 68030, 68040, 68060 and as from now also for MorphOS. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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27.Apr.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail) File manager: DiskMaster Version 2.5RC10
Rudolph Riedel has released version 2.5RC10 of his file manager and provides it on his home page for downloading. The following details have changed: more ... (ps) (Translation: cb)

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27.Apr.2003
CD32-Allianz (ANF) Wanted urgently: Web designer for CD32-Allianz
The CD32-Allianz team is urgently looking for a Web designer, who wants to help designing a new layout consisting of 4 frames.

Further information can be obtained from Thorsten Schölzel. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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27.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF) Bill McEwen still Amiga CEO?
According to statements by Ray A. Akey of Amiga Inc. and Fleecy Moss, Bill McEwen is still CEO of Amiga Inc.
Yesterday Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have circulated in a news item at MorphOS-News.de that Gary Hare was CEO of Amiga Inc., with whom talks had already been held (we reported).

Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco stand by their statement, see the following comments at morphos-news.de, ANN and again ANN. more ... (ps) (Translation: cb)

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26.Apr.2003 Official release from YAM v2.4
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YAM (Yet Another Mailer) lets you send and receive electronic mail over the Internet and maintain archives of messages in your computer. The idea came to Marcel Beck in 1995 when he first tried using email: the programmes available at the time were either powerful but complicated to configure, or else used a too limiting graphical interface. The goal, therefore, was to program a cross between AdMail and AirMail, with a few ideas from Pegasus Mail. more ... (nba)

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26.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF) Genesi wants to attend at AmiWest show
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco today announced that Genesi wants to attend at the AmiWest show, held in Sacramento, CA on July 26th and 27th 2003. Genesi wants to present the new G4 CPU card for the Pegasos1, the new software bundle and maybe also a prototype of the Pegasos2 motherboard and of course MorphOS. more ... (nba)

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26.Apr.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)

Pixload v3.5 in preparation
I'am preparing Pixload 3.5

more options about drag and drop (TIFF, TARGA and DIR recognized)
links with miamidx (RTC and/or Network) : miamidx control panel included
optimized code
another icons (mac os x)
more interactivity
etc...

I need beta tester: if you want to try: send an email to pixelart@wanadoo.Fr (English language) with object: Pixload 3.5 tester. If German amiga users want translation, send me few words (English -> German) so that I include in this version. If you have got any ideas, sent them too, I will try to include too... x (nba)

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25.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF) Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 7
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 7 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):

1) ikir: Are Elbox working with Amiga Inc/Hyperion for OS4? Or for their SharkPPC compatibility?

Fleecy: We have a 'gentlemens agreement' with Elbox that we will not make any announcements or discuss plans, projects and products until they are ready to make those plans, projects and products public. If you want them to share that information, I would suggest you contact them.

2) sgm: Is the corporate market a possible target (in the light of the surging WebServices fever)? If so, is a high-performance XML parser being considered for OS4.x?

Fleecy: All markets are obviously targets but there is no point in entering them until you have a product, a pitch and a story. The creation of such obviously requires an expenditure of resources and since we are, as with most companies 'watching the pennies', we have to decide which subset from the whole range of opportunities is to be targeted first. If by corporate you mean 'enterprise' then that is not a first stage target but if you mean OEM or embedded then the answer is very much yes.

As for the XML parser, XML has been introduced with AmigaOS4.0 and will continue to spread until it is a system wide service.

3) Jose: It's been said and known that if AmigaOS is to be a server OS it will lose it's hardly earned advantages, and stop being AmigaOS as we know it. Could in the future be various versions of the OS with one being the continuation of the Classic in PPC, like most amiga users that have supported the platform for the past years seem to want?

Fleecy: AG1 was created with a very specific set of configurations in mind - workstation and desktop. Consoles, STBs and servers didn't really exist during its key definition and the idea of Smartphones, PDAs and digital consumer devices were science fiction. Having said that, the CDTV and then the CD32 were moves in the right direction but as anyone familiar with those devices knows, there were really a computer repackaged with extra bits hacked on.
AG2 is designed to accept that hardware is a commodity and that it can be configured and deployed in many different markets. This is part of the reason for the move to a service based architecture, because multiple configurations can then be created from a core set of services with configuration specific services being added or replaced by ones more tuned to the target device profile.

This will allow Amiga to offer a 'toolkit' to OEMs and to create 'distributions' for shrink wrapped markets - a console product, an eFamily product, a SoHo product, a hacker's product etc. Such flexibility gives us a distinctive advantage over having to custom chop a single product for each potential customer.

Rob: 4) Books on programming the Amiga are out of date and very difficult to obtain these days. Have you any plans to get some books published covering modern Amiga programming for the beginner. It is important to get some fresh talent into scene and not just rely on existing developers. Topics covered should include Warp3D, AHI and other more recent developements to AmigaOS.

Fleecy: I couldn't agree more. We intend to expend considerable resources on a full development toolchain, with good documentation and tutorials covering all levels. These will be developed in parallel with the development of the AG2 domains.

5) ssolie: Does Amiga Inc. still plan to take back control of the AmigaOS 4.0 source code (i.e. purchase it back from Hyperion) and produce your own releases beyond AmigaOS 4.0?

Fleecy: Absolutely. The transfer of AmigaOS4 to Hyperion was done for a number of strategic reasons, one being to protect the AmigaOS for the community and prevent it being left in limbo if anything should happen to the parent company as was witnessed after Commodore and Escom went bankrupt. We will reassert ownership when both Hyperion and Amiga judge the time to be right, and there are certain less than obvious benefits to maintaing the current situation.

The location of ownership has nothing to do with the future plans. Amiga Inc is fully committed to the development and expansion of AmigaOS way beyond AmigaOS4.0. Detailed planning and design for AmigaOS4.1 is already underway alongside the parallel path of AG2. AG2 technology will be rolled into the AmigaOS4 release family as and when it is ready but the two will not be dependent on each other - in other words potential delays in one will not affect the other. Contrary to the occasional speculation that Amiga doesn't care or has no plans for the AmigaOS, that product line is and always has been vital to our future success. Back in 1999, it would have been impossible to gain interest and investment in a company offering a desktop competitor to Microsoft and so our public strategy had to be tailored to fit that reality.

It isn't 1999 anymore.

6) DaveP: With the advent of AOS4 and AmigaONE series board are you also investigating the more lucrative possibilities in the heavyweight commercial sector or is it still far too soon to start? ( example: solutions, services and bringing even lightweight transaction processing products onto the fast reliable messaging codebase of ExecSG ?)

Fleecy: The Amiga Development Pipeline (ADP) starts with the Opportunity Analysis stage. Each AG2 domain thus considers every possible opportunity and attempts to identify every potential customer for that domain, both internal and external. This is then feed into the next stage, the Solution Description stage. This ensures that we will design a solution that covers as wide a customer base as possible, even though the actual implementation versioning may chose to spread out that complete design over a set of releases.

So to answer your question, yes we are looking at a huge range of potential markets, open, embedded, horizontal, vertical and total but our ability to exploit them is determined by the short, medium and long term strategic implementation plan.

7) alx: Will there come a point when you stop supporting accelerated "classic" Amigas? If so, when?

Fleecy: Yes there will. As to when, that will be decided by the simple equation of when the cost and effort of developing a version for those accelerated Amigas is more than the revenue that that version brings in. We want people to upgrade to the new hardware and we do recognise that we have to support the existing investment made by Amigans in the short term but ultimately the platform can only advance if people advance with it.

It should be obvious to most people that AmigaOS4 is going to run far more impressively on a new, cleanly designed, higher specified AmigaOne than an accelerated classic Amiga. It should also be obvious that the cost of maintaining and extending an AmigaOne is going to be substantially less than that of maintaining and extending a classic Amiga.

8) donV: Do you know of any plan or project to produce a laptop that will run AmigaOS4?

Fleecy: There are lots of plans for many different product, both from ourselves and from third parties but I do not want to comment on specific products until we have prototypes in front of us since many plans and good intentions often come to nothing. We'd obviously love to have an AmigaOS4.0 powered laptop as well as an AmigaOS4.0 powered STB, games console, PDA and Smartphone.

9) Bodie: In a previous Q&A, you mentioned the development of a highly advanced calculator for AmigaDE. Could you provide any extra details in terms of its functionality?

Fleecy: The calculator was created by a prominent AmigaDE developer in response to a demand from a large customer and I'll see if he is willing to write an article about it, possibly for CAM. It is particularly impressive because of its modular design, essentially a framework for functional units so it can be as simple or as complex as the set of modules that are installed. This means it can be used for a variety of functions - standard maths, computing, physics, chemistry, stock taking and with the ability for third parties to write their own modules.

It also features a variety of graphic and interface modes - static and dynamic graphing (and I know we have a customer interested in volumetric modelling), standard single line, multi-line and plans for a shell like page set.

10) Jose: Can a service based architecture(future AmigaOS) be as much effective as the Classic AmigaOS, comparing the services both provide? I mean to how much extent does a service based architecture would compromise the efficiency and the character of AmigaOS, if it does at all ?

Fleecy: A service based model is very efficient and not that much different at its heart from what the existing Amiga does now, a testament to its advanced original design. Its main extension is that it adds abstraction and management capabilities that open up distributed computing, all the way from simple home networks to parallel matrices. For developers there will be some new things to learn but quite a bit of that has been added to the new library model. The existing user interaction model can stay the same on top of it but it also opens up the option of far more advanced user interaction models, in particular moving from an application centric system to a content centric system - for example bring a set of content together and then being presented with the set of services that can be applied to that content.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=8
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF) Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 v0.950 Pre-Final
Rupert Hausberger has published version 0.950 Pre-Final of his benchmark-tool for AmigaOS and MorphOS. Please read the changes from version 0.930 to version 0.950: more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF) AmigaOS-game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.17
Most important change of the new version (please download it from the title link) is the screen mode on the Workbench which was desired of many users. Besides this still several minor improvements have been made which above all concern the automatic hardware recognition. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2003
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail) Event: BeGeistert - BeOS-meeting with Pegasos-performance
Fans and developers of the operating system BeOS will meet on the "BeGeistert" which will take place in Düsseldorf tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France from Paris will demonstrate a Pegasos for which an OpenBeOS port is in work. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: AlphaBase full version and source codes
In co-operation and with permission of Maik Schmidt Amiga Arena makes the release of the database "AlphaBase" possible. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: Blade online again
"Blade" is an action role play by Mark Sheeky in iso-3d-view. Mark Sheeky is well-known as the developer of the games "Burnout" and "Hilt II". In 2000 Amiga Arena published the German version for the first time and could offer Blade as a HD version (AGA/ECS) with permission of Mark Sheeky. Now "Blade" is online again and you can get further information on the Blade homepage. You can choose four characters from seven possible ones (warrior, thief, cleric, magician, dwarf, elf, empath) and you have to defeat the evil! "CU Amiga" rated Blade with 86 percent. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2003
AROS (Website) AROS status-report 04/2003
The alternative operating system AROS is being activly developed further. On the website you can find a detailed English status report to the project. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF) point.design delivers AmigaOne XE
From now on the first AmigaOne XE boards are available at the Austrian Amiga dealer point.design. The PowerPC/G4 as well as the G3 version have arrived and will be officially delivered from April 28th. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2003
heise online (Website) Opinion poll of developers concerning Open Source
In the research study "Economic Organization and Viability of Open Source Software" scientists of the Stanford University ask for the motivation and expectations of Open Source developers and which tools they use for programming. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2003
XBaze (Website) Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 8
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 Beta 8 of his database 'XBaze'. The program offers an easy to use editor. It runs from AmigaOS 3.0 and from now on also on MorphOS. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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24.Apr.2003
Cales "Doraemon" Bernardez (ANF) Pegasos Presentation at CatCon Party 2003
According to the exhibitors a presentation of Pegasos with MorphOS is planned for the CatCon Party, which is to take place on the 3rd and 4th of May in Calella near Barcelona. Also, a few Amiga companies should be introducing new products. The usual contests will be offered for the demoscene. There is no charge for international visitors to CatCon, but we ask that you register in advance. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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24.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF) Editor: MorphED in Development
According to MorphOS-News.de Dietmar Eilert, the author of GoldED, has been working on MorphED since the 18th of April, 2003. Up to this point no information has been released as to whether it's a fully new editor, or a MorphOS-native version of GoldED. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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24.Apr.2003
ots / teltarif.de Call by Call in Ortsnetz: Information Offering at teltarif.de
On this coming Friday, the 25th of April, the last monopoly in the German telephone market fell: the Ortsnetz. The consumer was not much able to benefit from the popular Call-by-Call option. With the Call-by-Call option, the caller selects a number sequence, generally 5 characters, and so directs the call over an alternative provider, instead of Deutsche Telekom.

It's already observable that the consumers will benefit from significant savings, from Friday on. "A short 30 second call to the barber or taxi company costs just one cent using the sequence 01078 over the provider 3U, instead of the six cents charged by Deutsche Telekom up until now" per Martin Müller, business leader of the fee-comparing www.teltarif.de. 3U offers local calls in about 1500 local networks, and accounts for the one second pulse.

Arcor kicks off in about 36 hours, beginning with an offer for local and quasi-local calls. The prices are thereby over those of 3U, but are also good for conversations to destinations maximally 20 kilometers from the originating point. These conversations are designated quasi-local.

Market experts are still expecting the offers of Tele2 and 01051 Telecom by Friday. Other enterprises have announced they will start in May. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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24.Apr.2003
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)

The Kickstart Archives Version 2.1
Thomas Unger writes: The two CD set is now at version 2.1. THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES is entirely HTML-based and thereby viewable on every hardware and operating system. Many headings have been updated. The publicity and support areas have implemented thorough expansions since version 2.0.2. Design and Navigation have been refined. On the start page of the Internet presence there are, near the tutorials, also the icon notes, in which legal matters, notes of appreciation, as well as reviews and ordering possibilities are readable in the German and English languages.

updated: Amiga History Guide by Gareth Knight (22/03/2003)
updated: LexSite by Alex Lupták (06/01/2003)
updated: AMIGA Troubleshooting and Fixes
updated: AMIGA Advertising Efforts
- Advertisings by Søren Ladegaard (Commodore Billboard)
updated: Guides'n'Setups
- ED Sirius Genlock - Handbook (PDF)
- ED Sirius Genlock - Manual (PDF)
- ED Neptun Genlock - Handbook (PDF)
- ED Neptun Genlock - Manual (PDF)
- ED Pluto Genlock - Handbook (PDF)
- ED Pluto Genlock - Manual (PDF)
- Vortex ATonce A500 - Handbook (PDF)
- Commodore A3000 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A2300/01 - Handbook (PDF)
- Commodore A2301 - Circuit (PDF)
- Commodore A2232 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A2065 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A2060 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A1060 - Handbook (PDF)
- Commodore A600 - Schematics (PDF)
- Commodore A500Plus - Service Manual (PDF)
- Commodore CDTV - Service Manual (PDF)
- A500/A2000 - Technical Reference Manual (PDF)

A really special thank you goes to Steffen Kramer of Electronic Design this time, for the documentation that was made available. (nba)

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24.Apr.2003
M. Lueck (ANF)

Audio: AHI v5.5 (rc1)
Martin Blom, the developer of the soundcard driver system AHI, has released end-user version 5.5 (rc1) for m68k, MorphOS and AROS.

(nba) (Translation: dm)

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24.Apr.2003
Diverse Media Reports on the C-One
Cross-regional media are directing attention to the C-One, a new reconfigurable home computer (we reported). Following are two reports - the list will be expanded in days to come. more ... (nba) (Translation: dm)

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23.Apr.2003
Halvadjian Georges (Website) PerfectPaint V2.925
Version 2.925 of the paint program PerfectPaint by Halvadjian Georges is now available. In this version the following features were added or changed: more ... (nba)

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22.Apr.2003
Elbox Computer Elbox: MM CD UP 1.23
The MM CD 1.23 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000i, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV busbords, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has been released today. more ... (nba)

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22.Apr.2003
Elbox Computer Elbox: MediatorUP 3.7
The MediatorUP 3.7 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV has been made available today. more ... (nba)

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22.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website) Installer: WHDLoad Version 15.2
Since yesterday you can download the new version 15.2 on the WHDLoad site. With WHDLoad you can install games, which were only produced for floppy using, on your hard disk. Since the last update there were made just more little bugfixes and changes. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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22.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website) WHDLoad: New Packets until 20.04.2003
Since yesterday you can download the new version 15.2 on the WHDLoad site. With WHDLoad you can install games, which were only produced for floppy using, on your hard disk. Since the last update there were made just more little bugfixes and changes. more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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22.Apr.2003
A.D.A. A.D.A.: two new intros of Nature
With "Grid 2" and "Zeon" two new intro-title of the Swedish Group Nature are added zo the demo-online-Collection "Amiga Demoscene Archive" more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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22.Apr.2003
AC-Eule / Spiegel Online (ANF) "The German Bill Gates": "unrowed "Kimbeln"
The stock boom is over, and the ruins are swept together. Much money of investors has been burned, but facts were really rare. The results are between creating new conzerns and distribution (AOL-Time-Warner, Amazon, ebay) and total bankruptery with some criminal numbers (Lets-Buy-it.com or Kim (Kimble) Schmitz). Under the title link you can read an article about Lars Windhorst, who was named from some people as the new Bill Gates. more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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22.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF) Events: C-One Release-Party at 4.5.2003
A computer legend is coming back: The C-One. The new edition of the most sold computer of the world (Guinessbook of world records), will publish official at the 4. May 2003 at a release party more ... (nba) (Translation: gf)

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22.Apr.2003
Cloanto/AmigaForever (ANF) Bluetooth-Adapter on Amiga (RS232)
On a Bluetooth-enabled PC, Amiga Explorer also works with a Bluetooth serial adapter attached to the Amiga serial port. The PC side must support the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile, which makes it possible to select the Amiga side as a standard COM port in Amiga Explorer. Depending on the adapter, no configuration may be required (the adapter attached to the Amiga serial port automatically runs as a "slave"), or, in some cases, the adapter must first be connected to the PC serial port and configured via the included software. Some adapters have a built-in Web server which allows for remote configuration. more ... (ps)

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22.Apr.2003
Oliver Achten (ANF) Emulator: A/NES CGFX v1.32 with Picasso 96 support
A/NES CGFX, the fastest NES emulator for Amigas with graphic cards is now published in the version 1.32. This time finally with Picasso 96 support. Fetch the new version at http://hem.passagen.se/anescgfx (ps) (Translation: gf)

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21.Apr.2003
Das NetBSD-Team (ANF) NetBSD 1.6.1 released
The NetBSD project is pleased, to announce the availability of version 1.6.1 of the NetBSD operating system. more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Apr.2003
Amig@lien (ANF) Descent: Freespace: MultiplayerPack 08 released
The the MultiplayerPack 08 for Decent: Freespace has been released. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Apr.2003 Aminet Uploads until 21.04.2003
Following the Aminet uploads which were added since our last message: more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Apr.2003
Richard Körber (ANF) Tool: Identify 37.1- inoffical release
Richard Körber wrote:
The Identify LIBRARY can be used to identify Zorro boards and supply further system specifications. I published the project under LGPL on Sourceforge. more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF) Screenshots of AmigaOneXE and Linux/Mac
On the homepage of pointdesign one can find some screenshots depicting the AmigaONE G4 XE running LinuxPPC and MacOnLinux. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF) Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 6
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 6 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):

1) realize: How do you intend to get people to develop native OS4 apps? ( This is what will make you sink or swim)

Fleecy: By offering direct support to them, a variety of incentives and most importantly, a succesful new platform that both allows them to do what they can't do on other platforms and which allows them to make money and enjoy themselves.

2) Desmon: Why hasn't Amiga.inc stepped into the Amithlon/Umilator argument and taken on the distribution themselves?

Fleecy: It is a very complicated situation in which multiple parties have taken positions that have made it difficult for any solution that is acceptable to all to develop. We are as interested in seeing a resolution as everyone else but a lot needs to happen to achieve this.

3) Dave_P: Why do you still bother? I am serious. With all the mud that is thrown day in day out, the small Amiga userbase, the innuendo and flack. Why exactly do you bother to get out of bed and not take an IT job in the mainstream industry but continue persist with the Amiga against such odds?

Fleecy: We have a firm view of the future that many people find exciting and, despite the volume of noise, most of it is from a relatively small group of people who have a varied set of reasons for making that noise. That is not to say we don't deserve it - we are the first to admit that mistakes have been made but there have also been other circumstances that have made our progress difficult. Luckily, the majority of Amigans have stayed Amigans because they are committed to having the best digital platform on the market and, as with us, we are in it for that target, not for the sight seeing on the way.

4) ssolie: Amiga Inc. has been accused of spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) do to its past announcements and delays in shipping product. Does Amiga Inc. have a policy regarding FUD and if so, what is that policy?

Fleecy: We have made mistakes in our PR and communications strategies. As I have said previously, we are caught between those who want lots of information and those who only want information about shipping products or what they call 'tangible news'. We have been rightly criticised for saying too much about some developments that have not worked and wrongly criticised for others, as in the case of the Nokia Media Terminal and Sendo, both signed deals that fell apart after announcement not because of us but because the products were then pulled by their parent companies.

Our current policy is to make PRs only about things that can be proved. In this way we hope to win back the trust of those who believe we have misled them, although it will annoy those who want more information.

5) Doobrey: With regards to all the FUD and mud slinging, what is your opinion of the legality of MorphOS ?

Fleecy: As an officer of the company, my opinion is that of Amiga Inc. As CTO I concentrate on technical issues and our legal department concentrates on issues of legality.

6) z5: how many people are working at Amiga Inc?

Fleecy: That is internal information and I don't have exact numbers but we operate with a small group of employees and a larger distributed number of contractors.

7) SlimJim: AInc often refer to "internal developers" when talking about what is being done behind the scenes. In contrast to the people working on AOS4, very little is known about AInc's "own" development muscle. Can you give some more information about these famed "internal developers"?

Fleecy: No. Last time we did that, a few of them got mail bombed.

8) Dandy: I can remember of an official AInc-Announcement of July 14th, 2001, stating that "StormC" of Haage & Partner had been chosen by AInc as official developing environment for the next generation Amiga platform. Is this statement still valid?

Fleecy: No. We haven't heard from H&P for over a year now and the last thing I heard was that they were threatening to give up on Amiga and move to other platforms. We are investigating doing our own development environment.

9) alx: In Week 3 Q4, you mentioned how ExecSG was now capable of running OS3.9. Can you confirm that integration of emulation (the main setback) is now finalised?

Fleecy: The test suites for OS3.9 and OS4.0 on the CSPPC are progressing rapidly and despite a few glitches caused by the CSPPC itself, we have found very few problems. The test suites are not complete yet so I can't say it is finalised but we have been very pleased with the performance, stability and compatability so far.

10) jumpship: Is AmigaINC planning on comissioning a standard case for the AmgiaONE? Maybe not for this release, but for the future?

Fleecy: We have discussed it in terms of a marketing identity but there are no firm plans yet.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=7
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Apr.2003
Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF) Emulator: WinUAE Version 0.8.22R6
Yesterday version 0.8.22 Release 6 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows by Toni Wilen has been released. more ... (ps)

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19.Apr.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF) GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted geographically according to continents and countries. Today the following areas have been updated: more ... (ps)

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19.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF) G4 Upgrade card to be released on July 1st, 2003
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have announced that the promised G4 CPU Upgrade card for Pegasos1 owners will be available on July 1st, 2003 for 200Euro. Pegasos1 owners can buy it at www.pegasosppc.com when pegasos-usa.com is integrated into the new site. There will also be a new software bundle available then. more ... (ps)

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19.Apr.2003
Diverse Short Software News (19.04.2003)

Emulator: Mame for MorphOS Version 0.67
- Mame0.67 added (bug fixes and overlay support) see readme.txt for more information.

Tool: MCP Version 1.42
MCP ("MasterControlProgram") from Dieter Groppé version 1.42

Emulator: A/NES CGFX v1.31
The cool feature added here is the autoframerate option that makes miracles (well close to) for your NSF's assuming you usually don't have a fast enough computer to play them back at correct speed. Worth to check out anyway hopefully. You'll find the latest archive in the download section. Be sure to run the installer aswell if your earlier A/NES CGFX version is < v1.30 since the installation procedure now installs more files than previous versions. Anyway, enjoy the release and have a Happy Easter! :-)

Game: Worm Wars Version 7.41
Download: WormWars.lha 585 KB

Game: Payback GBA report Nr. 6

MorphOS.net: New xpkmaster
Update: Mr. Skjæret has released an updated xpkmaster for MorphOS. It needs a previously installed xpkmaster setup: xpkmaster_bin.lha

(ps)

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18.Apr.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF) IncaGold and Hyperion announce license agreement

IncaGold and Hyperion Entertainment enter into comprehensive license agreement

Leuven, Belgien, April 18, 2003

IncaGold GmbH and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that they entered into a comprehensive license agreement which will see many of IncaGold's current and future entertainment software titles converted for the Amiga, Linux and Macintosh platforms.

Hyperion's first target for conversion is 'Midnight Racing' which offers players the excitement of realistic night driving using a state of the art 3D engine.

"We are understandably very pleased with this agreement as signing with IncaGold will allow us to bring IncaGold's outstanding and ever-growing portfolio of games to our target audiences", said Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment.

Daniel Aurell, Director at IncaGold, added, "We are pleased to have found such a competent partner in this field to take our PC entertainment products to other home computing platforms. We are looking forward to together with Hyperion bringing many of our titles to the Amiga, Linux and Mac systems in the coming months."

About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's. Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking multimedia OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.

ABOUT INCAGOLD
IncaGold is a world-wide leader in the development and publishing of casual gaming entertainment on PC CD-ROM. Founded in 1996, the company operates sales and development offices in Brazil, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Slovakia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. (ps)

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18.Apr.2003
Ron van Herk (ANF) Genesi at CeBIT Australia
Genesi would like to invite all visitors to the CeBIT Australia 2003 event to visit our booth. We will be exhibiting in hall 5, booth 561. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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18.Apr.2003
Christian Krenner (ANF) Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page: Amiga 600 with USB-ports!
There is another update of the "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page". The site documents the upgrade of an Amiga 600. The current highlight: The Amiga 600 was equipped with USB-ports and therefore should be the only A 600 with which you can use USB devices. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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18.Apr.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF) Eyetech: AmigaOneXE delivered since Wednesday
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) gave a statement on AmigaOne mailing list (title link) and explained that the delivery of the AmigaOneXE has started on Wednesday. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Apr.2003 amiga-news.de Wishes You a Happy Easter!

© Rolf Tingler (ps)

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17.Apr.2003
Michael Lanser (ANF) Realms of Power - Internet Page Online
The Internet page for the game Realms of Power was placed online today. There you'll find information about and screenshots of the game, and its state of development.

Realms of Power is a round-based strategy game. It has a powerful resemblance to the game Civilization, and has a few characteristics of the game Colonization as well. The parameters of the game world are wideranging and generally adjustable. So it is left to you to decide if you play a cold or a war planet, if you prefer vast oceans or almost entirely land surfaces.

16 peoples are ready, to be played by or against humans. These are, for example, the Germans, the English, the French, the Romans, the Zulus, or also the Egyptians. The individual units (like airplanes, tanks, destroyers or battle vehicles) wait only to be built and sent against the enemy. But perhaps you would rather negotiate a peace and send a diplomat?

In order to be able to build the individual units and the urban projects (such as churches, factories, barrracks, or harbors) the hard work of the steadily growing numbers of city folk, who process the differentiated raw materials (such as wood, stone, coal, or oil as well). And naturally it may also not be forgotten, to arrange the supply of food for the workers. In order to make adjustments to the quantities of raw materials, it is also possible to conduct trade with friendly peoples. But only as long as they do not become your enemies - and that happens sooner than maybe you would like, because the goal is to rule the world after all! Or do you prefer to conquer a neighboring planet with a few colonists. If this world can't be yours, then perhaps the next?

System Requirements
Minimum configuration:
Amiga with OS3.1, 68020 @ 14 Mhz, 1 MB Chip, 16 MB FastRAM, graphic card, CD-ROM, hard-drive.
Recommended configuration:
Amiga with OS3.1, 68060 @ 50 Mhz, 2 MB Chip, 32 MB FastRAM, graphic card, CD-ROM, hard-drive.
(ps) (Translation: dm)

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17.Apr.2003 Aminet Uploads 17th April, 2003
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last report: more ... (ps) (Translation: dm)

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17.Apr.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail) Elbox: Spider II Sales Begin
We are glad to inform that the Spider II USB 2.0 High-Speed controller with drivers for Mediator and Amithlon is on sale now. The detailed specification of the Spider II USB 2.0 controller: see the product page. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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17.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF) AmigaOS Game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.14 - Rockford is Back!
With version 5.14, the shareware game BoulderDäsh RTX is almost final. Almost all program parts have been reworked and rewritten. BoulderDäsh has become a bit faster and smaller through this, but also more compatible. more ... (ps) (Translation: dm)

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17.Apr.2003
Amiforce (ANF)

Amiforce Celebrates Its 2nd Birthday
For the second birthday of the site the following things have been prepared for you:

German Amiblitz 2.30 full distribution:
The distribution has been completely updated and once more contains Amiblitz2 and PED in their latest stable releases, in the German and English languages. Besides the German Amiblitz2.guide, the installation scripts have also been translated, with help in the chosen language, just as all necessary ASSIGNs and system components are installed. The guide has been carefully reworked in the license section, to make clear and understandable the fact that software assembled with Amiblitz doesn't have to be GPL! An update archive will be added in a short time.

German AmiblitzML archive:
A few days ago, the archive of the German Amiblitz2 mailing list was added to Aminet. Thanks to Antidote for the great work.

Classic games:
In the Games Fun area there is a new designation covering never-released classic games. The games were developed in AMOS and account of that they don't run on graphic cards. Except for that the programs have no special requirements and even run without special arrangement on a '060. The developer Dietmar Graemer would be happy to hear some feedback. For this purpose every info box has a contact form, with which one may easily and without problems directly contact the developers. Dietmar is interested in further development and also in new games. This is dependent on your interest. Enrico Graemer is no longer interested in future development, so there is no contact form for him.

Included are the following games:

Digger95:
A really addictive game, which also has graphics that look great even today. A lot of people will remember Digger. At one time this was a classic on the KC computer of then East Germany.
Diamantus:
Diamantus is based on a play method similar to Digger95. There's also much fun to be experienced here. The game makes a tidy impression, and with a lot of levels there is little chance of boredom.
Wirtschworker:
With 500 levels this is the most wideranging game, and Wirtschworker is also a lot of fun. I can promise you right now that your gray brain cells are going to get a workout. ;)
Lotto Number Generator:
This is not a game, but it wouldn't make sense to make a separate category for it. This program doesn't need a whole lot of explanation, and maybe it brings happiness to someone or other.

The programs come with instructions. Soon, the programs will be described on the website, but we haven't had time to do this yet. The most important information is nevertheless contained on the pages for the games. Have fun!

Game announcement (3D shooter for OS4):
There's a new game project in development. The end result is to be a 3D-Shooter that appears for Windows and Amiga OS4. At this time it's developed on Windows. As soon as the AmigaOne with OS4 is set to go, the porting of the completed parts may begin.

The heart of the whole thing is an already much-progressed 3D engine: Cruiser3D. After the outstanding development of the engine it will naturally be near to the development of a complete game. The 3D-Shooter will probably be in the horror genre, but we are not committing ourselves.

A small excerpt of the characteristics of Cruiser3D:

Conversion of models (characters) from well-known games such as Q1, Q2, HalfLife, Serious Sam, Unreal I + II etc. (to the extent that the data formats are usable)
Terrains of height maps for outdoor levels
BSP for indoor levels
Dynamic lighting and shadows (shadows are 25% ready)
Mirrow effects (about 50%)
Particle system
Pathfinder (25% ready)
Flocking (known from role playing and fantasy games)
SkyBox
Enormously high velocity
Planned are formats such as C4D, Monzoom and so on

Through the following link you can see one of the quickly put-together scenes. To be seen are known (textured) models and other elements, which are animated. The free camera movement unfortunately can't be seen here, and the particle system can also not really be appreciated.

The screenshot is unfortunately very quickly made. Everything was thrown together in a hurry. Soon, more information will follow, and an area will be established at Amiforce to track the status.

Heartfelt wishes of happiness from amiga-news.de team for the second birthday of Amiforce! (ps) (Translation: dm)

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16.Apr.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail) Tool: SRename 3.7.0 beta
Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the beta version 3.7.0 of the tool 'SRename'. With this tool, working with AmigaOS 3.0 or better, it is possible to rename files comfortably. The latest version got the following features and bugfixes: more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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16.Apr.2003
Raziel (ANF) Web filter tool: Privoxy version 3.0.2
Since the 25th of March there is an update of the free open source project Privoxy at the Sourceforge page available. The version 3.0.2 fixes smaller bugs and has an increased blocking system for unliked websites or pop ups. There are several versions available, among these are AOS, MorphOS and ohters (e.g. Unix or even WinniesDOS). With the daily use there were no hard erors reported, compared to the recent version 3.0.0 it even gained some stability. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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16.Apr.2003 Aminet uploads 04-16-2003
Here are the recent uploads since the last announcement: more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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16.Apr.2003
Patric Klöter (ANF) Petro Tyschtschenko has his 60th birthday!
Patric Klöter writes:
Today our good friend Petro Tyschtschenko celebrates his 60th birthday. In the name of all Amiga users I would like to congratulate him from heart and give him the best wishes for the future and for his health. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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15.Apr.2003
David "Daff" Brunet Magazine: Obligement 38 is now out
Issue 38 of the French Amiga magazine Obligement is now available. You can read in this issue latests Amiga news, a report of the Equinoxe Party, reviews of Crossfire 2 and Amiga Arena Games Edition 2002, interviews with Jérome Senay (coder of Word Me Up) and Stefan Burstroem (author of IBrowse), an article about installation of LinuxPPC on Pegasos, and lots of others interesting articles. Download it at the address: http://obligement.free.fr. (ps)

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15.Apr.2003
Scott Pistorino (ANF) AmigaSource finally reaches the 1400+ link mark
Hello everyone!

Due to my job I had been unable to update AmigaSource.com daily, weekly or even monthly. But now it looks like things are starting to slow down and I can get back to at least weekly updates.

Drop in, look around and enjoy!
Thanks and help spread the word!
Scott Pistorino
(ps)

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15.Apr.2003
Eule (from the heise Newsticker) (ANF) New security concept at OpenBSD
OpenBSD is one of the UN!XE which is ported for the Amiga 68k, too. In contrast to NetBSD or Linux, OpenBSD is pay attached to the safety for server tasks. So there is practically only one distribution where introduction of new drivers, services or performance, is staying behind. For it security concepts have precedence. The default setting of OpenBSD applies as very safe. In contrast to other systems, OpenBSD has ran only one safety gap in the default setting and the distribution. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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15.Apr.2003
Advogato (ANF) Internet: World of Ends - What the Internet Is and...
In the English article "World of Ends" with the subtitle "What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else", Doc Searls and David Weinberger are describing basic features of the Internet and how you can use the Internet also wrong as right. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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14.Apr.2003
Cloanto (ANF) Amiga Forever and MaxUAE on Mac OS X
New step-by-step configuration instructions for using Amiga Forever (CD-ROM and cross-platform Online Edition) with MaxUAE on Mac OS X have been posted in the FAQ section at amigaforever.com. (ps)

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14.Apr.2003
Amiga Society (Website) Amiga Society: Software book update and "Schlachtfeld" news
Horst Diebel wrote:
"It took some long time, until the new update could be released. It contains some games. Among other things Vikings and Secret OF the Silver Blades are included. more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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14.Apr.2003
AmithlonTV (Website) TV-board driver: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 342
Guido Mersmann released beta version 332 of his AmithlonTV today.

Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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14.Apr.2003
Amiga XFR (Website)

Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.2 available
XFR Version 2.2 released. The following details were changed or added:

implemented xfrERROR_OUTOFDATA: in conjunction with xfrOBJECT_MINFILE client can now signal to the program that a format is significantly identified but would need the whole file to be sure (and/or to calc size).
upgraded xfrlist, internal IFF format and Oktalyzer (Armin Sander) client to work with xfrlist

more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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14.Apr.2003
Amiga Future (E-Mail) Amiga Future: Interview with Felix Schwarz
The English version of the interview with Felix Schwarz is available here. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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13.Apr.2003
GFXZONE (Website) News from GFXZONE
Late last year the first edition of a new demoparty was held in France. This party was announced as being somewhere between the Wired and the LTP, which suggested what visitors could expect from the party. I am talking about State of the art 2002, and I have seen some seriously nice prods! Later this month another first edition party will take place, this time in Bingen, Germany. Lets see what that party will bring! more ... (nba)

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13.Apr.2003
Amig@lien (ANF) Descent: Freespace: MultiplayerPack 07 released
The MultiplayerPack 07 for the game Decent: Freespace has been released, containing 6 multi player missions. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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13.Apr.2003
DJBase (Website) Help guide: Data transfer with AmIRC over Router
Some users may know the problem that data transfer with AmIRC is no longer possible when using a router. In a short workshop under the title link M. Münch and M. Lück describe a solution using a pre-programmed ARexx script. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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13.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF) Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 5
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 5 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):

1) ssolie: The webmaster at amiga.org recently proclaimed that your Q&A sessions are not news worthy and will no longer post them as news. Many others agree and also believe this to be so. What do you think about such criticism and how it reflects on the current state of the Amiga community.

Fleecy: There is an old saying that 'Editors make the news'. What this means is that those who control the channels which diseminate the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio stations and websites are the ones who 'decide' what is news by the content they chose to make available. They make this decision based upon their own philosophies, prejudices and agendas. One person's news is another person's propoganda is another person's free advertising.

I answer the questions because a news site, Amigaworld, choses to send them. I certainly don't insist that they are news.

The power of a community is that politics and philosophies reverberate through it to make it a living, breathing, arguing whole. That is what I see. Some are angry, some are annoyed, some are happy, some have hidden agendas. Events shape it. Editors try to shape it themselves by deciding what they report. If people decide that it is news and the editor doesn't then those people will move between sites. The power of the Internet is that there no longer has to be just one version of 'the truth'.

2) Jose: Dont' you think that the possibility of having Microsoft apps on AmigaOS would be a contradiction, technologywise, and from the users that still have fond memory of AmigaOS point of view, not to mention what we know of the commmunity.

Fleecy: Users want functionality and they indicate that by either buying or not buying the product. Ideological hatred of an entity is a juvenile approach to life and has probably caused, and continues to cause more suffering in this world than probably any other single issue.

3) pig : I bought both a Party Pack, and a club membership... Do I need to buy 2 Amigaone's to get my refunds, or can I get them both on the purchase of 1? ie: Can I combine these two offers into the same machine? What if I got 2 membership coupons, will I get full refund if I get one machine?

Fleecy: I am not the right person to answer that questions. I will see if I can get an answer and post it back as an addendum to a future Q&A.

Updated: If you bought x party packs and y club memberships then you can apply x+y rebates against one or more AmigaOnes. Basically you can mix and match the rebates as you like upto the value of the products that you purchase.

4) LaBodilsen: Is Amiga currently investigating into any wireless technology, be it Wifi (802.11b), bluetooth, IrDa etc. with regards to PDA integration for AmigaOS. And is there any plans of making a Syncronization suite with some well known PDA operating system, to syncronize information between the PDA and Amiga Aps. Or just simple file transfer.

Fleecy: As I said in an earlier question set, we intend to excel in the 90% of what users want to do with a computer and connectivity of any kind is pretty high on that list so yes, we are investigating and designing to take connectivity into account and hope to support at least WiFi in the near future. As for PDA connectivity, we will not look at it too close until the DE is brought into the OS but that is a third party opportunity in the meantime.

5) Derfs: are the party pack owners going to be given free upgrades to the latest SDK when 1.3/4 is released to the general developer public?

Fleecy: Another one I'll have to get back to you on. I don't decide sales and marketing policy.

Update: Anyone has has an officially registered copy of the SDK 1, which means an AD developer number and an appropriately mmarked AmiPASS will receive a few copy of SDK 2.0 to download or an at cost copy for a physical SKU (cost of product plus postage and packing).

6) Loki1: Will important AmigaOS4 information become exclusively available to Amiga Club members?

Fleecy: Why on earth would that be done? Surely it's in our interest to provide as much information as possible to as wide an audience as possible about our upcoming flagship product. Club Amiga is for those who want to be more involved and get more detailed information about the Amiga community and acts as a focus for bringing that community together, with features on user groups, dealers, Amigans, general technology topics that affect Amiga and with some more detailed articles on AmigaOS4.0 development. This is information of interest although I wouldn't say that it is important, not important as in terms of progress and release. We have started posting this articles of interest as we always said we would.

7) Treke: Does Amiga Inc have any plans for moving a desktop OS to machines based on IBM PPC 970 ?

Fleecy: We are always looking at new options for the AmigaOS and this is indeed an interesting one.

8) ikir: Will there be a bundled game with OS4, like SIN? Any bundled applications?

Fleecy: We do not bundle full applications because it can skew a market, favour one developer over another in a competitive market space, and fails to provide the developer with the full potential of that product. It is more often a cheap gimmick to fill out the lack of functionality in the core product. We have talked extensively with developers and they are happier to provide lite versions of their applications in a contributions drawer on the AmigaOS4.0 CD, allowing users to look at a variety of applications, get a good feel for them and then proceed to make a purchase based upon their experience.

9) Dan: Who has the IP and copyright of the orginal Amigas and their chipsets Amiga Inc or Gateway? And if some thirdparty company was intrested in building a AGA-compatibility card for the AmigaOne the sameway the Catweaselcard provides diskdrive-compatibility for AmigaOne would it be possible for them to license the AGAchipset design?

Fleecy: I would have to check the exact details but if someone is interested in such a product they can contact me as a first step.

10) Jose: Will the people that developed for Classic AmigaOS still be at ease with Amiga Generation2 technology?, Will there be things that will remain the same ?

Fleecy: It will be recognisable as an Amiga system to them. You should see the uproar on the OS4 team list when someone suggests adding something that is from Unixland. The screams are that 'this is an Amiga, not another Unix clone'.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=6
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: cb)

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13.Apr.2003
A.D.A. A.D.A.: Logo gallery updated
A.D.A., the 'Amiga Demo Archive' have updated their Logo archive with 15 new logos. Among those are logos by Sec4, Eswat, Ra, Made, Tee Jay, Lazur, Leunam, Louie, Blizzart, R.W.O, Diesel, Drake and Cyclone. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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13.Apr.2003
(ANF) Pictures of Mocca Party 8
Under the title link you will find the first pictures of the Mocca Party 8 which took place from 4th to 6th April 2003 in Hirsau near Pforzheim (Germany). (ps) (Translation: cb)

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13.Apr.2003 New Aminet uploads as per 13th April 2003
These are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last update: more ... (ps) (Translation: cb)

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13.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF) NOMAD TEAM developing two new products
As reported by AmigaFlame, the programming team 'NOMAD' is developing two new programs for AmigaOS, intent and Windows. The first project will probably be an action game for AmigaOS and intent with the working title 'NomadGMS'. The only thing known of the second program is that it will be released for AmigaOS and Windows. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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12.Apr.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF) GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted geographically according to continents and countries. Today the following areas have been updated: more ... (nba)

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12.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF) AmigaDE PocketPC Paks at CompUSA
At CompUSA there are from now on both AmigaDE PocketPC packages available and can be found using the search function of the website with the term "Amiga". Among other things do they contain the games by ZeoNeo. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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12.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF) AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.12 - Rockford is back!
BoulderDäsh is an Amiga conversion of the good old BoulderDash on the C64. With now more than 10000 (ten thousand) levels in more than 400 game files should BoulderDäsh offer a long term gaming fun. If this is not enough for people they can create own levels and games with the level editor. more ... (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Apr.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF) Liquid Skies releases audio CD
The demo scene label Liquid Skies has released a double audio CD that contains all songs of the Liquid Skies packs from #001 to #021 as audio tracks and as original packed data files. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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12.Apr.2003
Stefan Pietzonke (ANF) Hardware: C64 Ethernet adapter
With the Ethernet adapter you can connect a C64 to a network. The hardware bases on an embedded Ethernet card that is universally usable. It should be possible to design a circuit to connect the card with the serial or parallel port of the Amiga. Then you could for example integrate the A500 into a network. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail) Catweasel: New multidisk.device (Update)
The new multidisk.device for Amiga OS (version 2.0 and up) and MorphOS now recognizes the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper in a PCI-slot of an Amiga, Amithlon or Pegasos. With this, individual Computers is the first to deliver a working floppy-driver for the Pegasos, which brings the aspiring system one step closer to the big role model "Amiga". more ... (nba)

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11.Apr.2003
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail) Amiga Inc.: AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS 4
»This description is meant as addition to our AmigaOS4 feature list. For first impressions about the new functionalities, please have a read in the mentioned document. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2003 Several software news (11.04.2003)

Amigan Software
Tool: Report+ version 5.66b - Download: ReportPlus.lha - 312 KB

RC5-72 Clients
AmigaOS
[PPC/WarpOS] v2.9005.483
[PPC/PowerUp] v2.9005.483
[m68k] v2.9005.483

InstallerNG
'InstallerNG' is an alternative to the installer tool by Commodore. Only 'InstallerNG' supports e.g. MUI (via plugin) and offers a CPU recognition for the MC68060 as well as PPC processor. 'InstallerNG' will be part of AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. On 8th April 2003 version 50 was sent to the developer teams of Amiga and MorphOS for beta tests.

Burning software: MakeCD
Under the title link you can download the new makecdfs.module v45.8 and MakeCD beta v3.2d10.

MaxUAE - The Amiga emulator for MacOS X
There are the following new programs ready for dwonload for the emulator:
DMS2ADF - Tool for unarchiving of .dms-archives
ADFCreator - Tool for creating of Amiga Disk Files

LBreakout 2 for MorphOS
"The polished successor to LBreakout offers you a new challenge in more than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks, regenerative bricks, indestructible bricks, chaotic bricks). And if you're through with all the levels you can create complete new levelsets with the integrated easy-to-use level editor!"
Download: LBreakout2.lha - 2,5 MB

DTP: Pagestream for Linux
Second PageStream Linux beta released. Users who purchase a copy of the Linux version now will receive access to the interim and final Linux releases. Users who participate in the testing will also receive TextFX for Linux at no charge as thanks!

(ps) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2003 Aminet Uploads (11.04.2003)
Here are the new Aminet uploads: more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2003
Kuno Hutter (E-Mail) Pro-Linux.de: PowerPC with preinstalled Linux
»Probably from Friday 11th April the AmigaOne will be available and if wanted with preinstalled Linux.«
Have a look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2003
Kicko (ANF) Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.6
Hopefully the commands are now complete. Instead like last version using values lower than 127 i now made them to send only values that are described in the manual. So now it wont confuse virus and are more safe and compatible. But something says me.... there will be another more complete package later. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2003
Mandrake Soft Website (ANF) Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC published
Mandrake has published version 9.1 of the Linux-distribution for PPC. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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10.Apr.2003
Joachim Thomas - Bitplane (ANF) Webb.it: Amiga-companies at the biggest IT-show in Italy
Virtual Works, Soft 3 and Bitplane Magazine will be present together at the next edition of "Webb.it", one of the most important IT-shows in Italy, attended by thousands of visitors every year. more ... (nba)

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10.Apr.2003 InterVideo: Microsofts Multimedia Format for Linux-based devices
InterVideo, Inc. announced today that Microsoft has chosen the company as a provider of its Windows Media Technology for Linux-based consumer electronics. Under the agreement InterVideo is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format, port them over to Linux and provide them to manufacturers who are interested in running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer devices such as set-top boxes, personal video recorders and other hybrid multimedia devices. (nba)

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10.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)

WHDLoad: New Packets through August 4th, 2003
With WHDLoad, it's possible to install to your hard-drive games which were previously considered floppy-only. The following packets have been added or updated since our last announcement:

08.04.03 improved: Space Ace 2 (Ready Soft) supports another version, new icon
08.04.03 new: Galdregons Domain (Pandora) done by Galahad
06.04.03 new: Red Baron (Dynamix) done by JOTD
06.04.03 new: Kelly X (Virgin/Mastertronic) done by JOTD
06.04.03 improved: Hostages / Operation Jupiter (Infogrames) access fault fixed
06.04.03 improved: Eye of the Beholder (Westwood/SSI) supports kixx xl version
06.04.03 improved: Turbo Outrun (U.S.Gold) fixed keyboard and blitter routines
06.04.03 improved: Plotting (Ocean) fixed audio and colour bit routines
06.04.03 new: Elf (Ocean) done by Psygore
03.04.03 improved: International Ninja Rabbits / Ninja Rabbits (Microvalue/Flair) supports another version
03.04.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) supports AGA version, icon fixed

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10.Apr.2003
GoldED Website GoldED: C/C++ IDE and PayPal Payment
The cprefs program, which is utilized in the C/C++ mode of the GoldED text editor in order to carry out compiler option for gcc and vbcc, has been updated and now contains online help for all options.
From here on out the secure online payment of the registration fee for GoldED Studio is immediately possible through the payment service PayPal. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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10.Apr.2003
Golem IT-News Golem: New Copyright as Good as Succeeded
The new copyright regulation is almost completed: After lengthy parliamentary consultation the Rights Division accepted the government's legal draft for the regulation of copyrights in the information domain, in spite of the objections of the FDP [a German political party -dm] element and in spite of proposed changes offered by CDU/CSU [other German political parties -dm] and the FDP. The new copyright is being criticized harshly from several quarters, among other things it's feared that the new regulation will take away an individual's right to make private copies. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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10.Apr.2003
Richard Kapp (ANF) GFX-BASE: Interview with Benjamin "Titan" Vernoux
The online magazine GFX-BASE spoke with Benjamin Vernoux about his OpenPCI Project. In this interesting interview Benjamin also speaks to other interesting topics, and gives a preview of some planned projects. Read this interview led by SOL-Invictus (English language) under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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10.Apr.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)

Kultpower.de: New Amiga Joker Test Reports and More
There are a few new developments on Kultpower.de, a Web project to which the game magazines ASM, PowerPlay, Videogames and Amiga Joker are dedicated.

New Amiga Joker test reports from the September and October 1990 editions: Back to the Future 2, Flood, Last Ninja 2, Loom, Neuromancer, Oops Up, Operation Stealth, Starblade, Wings.
New Videogames test reports from the September and October 1993 editions: Afterburner 3 (Mega CD), Batman Returns (Mega CD), Cobra Command (Mega CD), Ecco the Dolphin (Mega CD), Final Fight (Mega CD), Gunstar Heroes (Mega Drive), Jaguar XJ 220 (Mega CD), Night Trap (Mega CD), Sherlock Holmes (Mega CD), Shinobi 2 (Mega Drive), Silpheed (Mega CD), Thunderhawk (Mega CD), Time Gal (Mega CD).
A new Powerplay article from the March, 1995 edition: "From Pong to Pentium".
New cover under "More Mags": 14 additional covers of the newspaper Next Level.
New cover under "More Mags": the first 6 covers of the newspaper Telematch (very rare!).

The organizers thank all their helpers: Gerald, matze, Chronos and Ralph! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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10.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF) individual Computers: C-One production started
After more than two years development time, the C-One production has started. It'll start selling on May 5th in Germany and the Netherlands. Our other European partners should have the boards by May 9th, when the board will also be launched in North America. more ... (nba)

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10.Apr.2003
Terra Soft Terra Soft discontinues development of ATX PowerPC-systems
Terra Soft Solutions has determined that it is not, at this point in time, prudent to carry the Teron mainboards nor offer Teron-based Boxer systems. This is as great a disappointment for the company as it is for many of you. Terra Soft Solutions were truly excited to bring this particular ATX PowerPC Linux product to market. more ... (nba)

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