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`08.Jul.2003` carls (ANF)	Web Server: New gW3S Site The Open Source, ARexx-coded web server gW3S has gotten a new home and a redesigned homepage. The new URL is http://gonzo.1av10.nu/w3s/. Check it out, and be sure to check back for the forthcoming release of gW3S v2.1! (ps) [News message: 08. Jul. 2003, 23:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2003` Amiga Future (Website)	Amiga Future: Interview with Alfred Faust (BarsnPipes) "BarsnPipes" is not only the most famous Amiga-Midi-programm of glory days, it is also still used from many users today because of the intuitive simple handling and professional features. And the best: after the release of the source codes it is developed and improved constantly by Alfred Faust. In the following interview he answered the questions from Anton Preinsack, especially about the MorphOS-version of BarsnPipes. Please read the complete interview under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 08. Jul. 2003, 14:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2003` PerfectPaint (Website)	Paint program: PerfectPaint Fix for version 2.93 A bug fix for version 2.93 of PerfectPaint from Halvadjian Georges is available. In this version a bug in the main archive has been fixed and the tool "Border & Edge" has been updated. You had to install following version 2.93 for this fix. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 08. Jul. 2003, 13:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	individual Computers: Show report: AAA 2003, Commodore Billboard back online This weekend, the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 took place in Udine, Italy - another station of Amiga OS4 on tour. The show was organized by Cloanto, well-known for a lot of Amiga programs and the emulator "Amiga Forever". Jürgen Schober of Point Design had to make two OS4 presentations, because the room was totally overcrowded with more than 100 Amiga fans and journalists of daily press and computer magazines. We also had the chance to show our products in a 30-minute presentation. Best-seller of the present retailers Soft 3 and Virtual Works was the Catweasel MK3, that became the first choice accessory for many Amiga One owners because of it's high degree of integration into the hard- and software of the new Amiga. more ... (ps) [News message: 07. Jul. 2003, 22:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2003` z5 (ANF)	A.D.A.: First update after two-month break After a two-month break the demo on-line collection "Amiga Demoscene of Archives" was extended by four new productions: "Heaven is 2d" of Whelpz, "Dark Rain" of The Loonies, "Outgrowing" of Potion and "Xenophobia" of Subspace. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2003, 19:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2003` Amiga Impact (Website)	Pictures of the Amiga OS presentation in Toulouse (Update) Meanwhile the presentation documents are also available in Englisch. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2003, 15:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2003` Christian Rosentreter (ANF)	Demonstration videos of MorphOS/Pegasos published The videos let you see the PowerPC computer Pegasos in action, in order to be able to get an impression of the possibilities of the platform. more ... (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2003, 11:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2003` Kicko (ANF)	Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.7 I updated my virus OS to OS6.0. So there was time to fix this package to support new commands or new values for the old ones. This don't mean that the package is full now as I don't know every piece they changed. It lacks also off controlling the new function called Pure tuning. This one is only controllable from the virus menu. more ... (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Jul. 2003, 18:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 14 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 14 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: With the services based approach you are proposing, will an application be expected to query capabilities or will AmigaOS automatically adapt to the hardware itself or some hybrid of the two? Depending on the application, some may not appreciate having to query the OS every time they want to do something versus letting the OS adapt itself to the application and hardware environment. Fleecy: In all multi component systems there will always be a per component capability and requirement set. Traditional static systems work on assumption which tends to give them superior performance as long as those assumptions are always true. In the world of today, we have a huge level of dynamism - smartphones, PDAs, consoles, tablets, desktops, servers, fat pipes, thin pipes, hardware acceleration, processor speed, screen size, input controls etc and you are faced with the problem of how to map these from the physical domain into the digital domain. A service based architecture doesn't really affect this in implimentation since it is just a model. For example I could query the graphics service to find out if it supplies a vector service and if it does then I can chose to use it or not. This can be done dynamically by the application or can be done at install time, which is no different from the situation now where, if you assume that MUI is installed, and it isn't then your application won't work. Thus you will still have different options as a developer - you can make use of services which themselves adapt on your behalf or you can do that yourselves. In either case, there is always going to be the same question, where does the responsibility lie? We want to offer choice so that the developer can make those decisions. A good example is the Ami2D scaling services of the AmigaDE. Some people use them and some people prefer to create resolution dependent graphic sets. What is needed is a further level of abstraction, so that capabilities and requirements are managed transparently and that is coming on board now with such things as vectorisation and other descriptive formats that allow for interpretation based upon semantic information. That is something we are looking at but the more abstraction you have, the more resources are required to translate between the physical and digital domains. Swings and roundabouts I'm afraid. 2) CodeSmith: Apple have made a big splash with their announcement of PPC970 "G5" systems. Is there going to be a "zico-2" spec for Amiga PPC970 systems, or are you giving vendors full control? any idea when we can expect PPC 970 Amigas (other than "after OS4.0")? Fleecy: We do plan on having a 64 bit version of the AmigaOS but that is someway down the line. If a vendor approaches us with the necessary hardware then we will consider revising our timetable but we still have a lot of work to do for the 32 bit PPC AmigaOS4, such as actually releasing AmigaOS4.0. There are also a few interesting other 32 bit opportunities coming up that will have to weighed against a 64 bit desktop machine. 3) Quixote: Since AmigaOS4.0 will be on the CyberStormPPC first, I wonder whether it will include an update to the CyberStorm's FlashROM, that would permit booting from the CD? I understand that it was a feature intended for the CyberStorm, but it doesn't seem to work. Fleecy: We do not intend to touch the CSPPC flashrom. Its internals are proprietary and besides, we are relying on it to bring the HW up first before AmigaOS4.0 takes over. Any changes we made might also damage the users ability to boot into AmigaOS3 as well. If you have problems with the CSPPC Flashrom, perhaps an email to those who worked on it might reveal why it doesn't work or get them to add that functionality. 4) Miffy: I run AmigaDE on my desktop ( the one I am typing on now ) which has software on it that I have ported, that others have ported and the like. It runs the partypack update. What I want to know is how long before the next publically available ( non NDA ) update comes along from Amiga given I cannot get permission to enter into a new NDA with Amiga Inc right now ( because of company regulations and Im sure others are in this position too )? Fleecy: We are reworking our NDA policy to make it consistent with industry practices for software licensing. In the meanwhile if special circumstances prevent you from agreeing to the licensing terms, you can contact us directly to determine how best we can meet your needs. Send an email to support@amiga.com. 5) Asemoon: I very much like the idea of being able to use animated GIFs as icons on the desktop with the introduction of Amiga OS3.9 and so will this feature stay available or maybe be enhanced/altered in any way for AmigaOS4? And will there be support for 24bit PNG format icons in the future? Fleecy: The source code for that particular feature is in the hands of H&P and we do not have access to it. The Amiga graphics architecture has reached the end of its useful life. Actually, it reached it about five years ago but has been brought back, jiggled, enhanced and hacked to stop the platform from dying. The screenshots you are seeing as part of the AmigaOS4.0 on Tour roadshow represent hopefully the last AmigaOS release that uses this architecture and their quality is a reflection of both the strength of the original architecture and the ingenuity and persistence of the developers since then who have worked on it. As part of the Amiga Generation 2 project (AG2), we are currently working on a brand new visual domain replacement which we hope to deploy either in AmigaOS4.1 or AmigaOS4.2. This will build from the hardware upwards and be able to support high quality existing interface models as well as allow for brand new features, functionality and models. We are particularly eager to introduce the Reactive Presentation Agents (RPAs) that we developed for the AmigaDE which would provide the same functionality, and a lot more besides. 6) Asemoon: What languages will AmigaOS4 support out of the box? Fleecy: We are supporting many languages, which are listed below, using a combination of the excellent ATO and private individuals, working in teams of two or more to produce each catalog. We do have a few offers where we just have one person (Icelandic and Malay) but we would like to have at least two people, since it is a lot of work. Anyone interested in helping out should send a mail to os4-betatest@hyperion-entertainment.com with the subject line of 'Localisation offer of help'. Bosnian Catalan Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French Galician German Greek Hungarian Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Serbian Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish That's 20 languages for now. The Russian ATO team disbanded but new people will soon be joining. I think we can count them as well. This is a list of language drivers for which there are no catalogs currently in progress. Albanian Belarusian Bulgarian Croatian Esperanto Estonian Faroese Icelandic Irish Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Portuguese-brazil Romanian Slovak Ukrainian If you are missing a language that can be written from left to right in an ISO-8859-X charset just ask Detlef at TetiSoft@apg.lahn.de if he can create a language driver for it. 7) Asemoon: The support for non-Latin fonts like for instance Arabic/Persian and Chinese/Japanese characters were not well documented for previous AmigaOS releases. How will such characters and languages be handled by future AmigaOS and AmigaDE releases? Fleecy: Not well documented is too optimistic :) It was documented that the Amiga character set is ECMA-94 Latin1 (thats ISO-8859-1), that the bullet.library API uses Unicode (16bit only), and it was defined a font attribute FPF_REVPATH for writing from right to left. There was no official statement from H&P how their special localizations for e.g. czech or russian would fit into this framework (in fact they did not). There was a statement that the Euro update is only an intermediate solution. OS4 bullet API was improved and allows 32bit Unicode now, 16bit are not enough since Unicode 3.2 (current is 4.0). OS4 diskfont.library now contains a character set database, it does know the MIME charset name of each font in the system, and the Unicode code point of each glyph. However the bitmap fonts handled by diskfont.library are still limited to 8bit charsets, so for Chinese/Japanese/Persian/Georgian etc you'll have to use bullet API. With the new diskfont API you can however ask for e.g. Times in ISO-8859-5 (cyrillic), -6 (arabic), -7 (greek), -8 (hebrew), -11 (thai) or -16 (eastern european latin with Euro) and it will create it on-the-fly from e.g. a truetype font. With OS4 locale.library the user is able to change the current system default charset on-the-fly by selecting a different language driver. The charset of each catalog file in the system is known, there exist charset conversion functions that ensure that e.g. for polish with ISO-8859-2 system default charset any polish catalog file will be displayed correct, it does not matter if its in ISO-8859-2, -16 or in the special ATO charset used in OS3.9 polish localization. Its also possible to use catalog files in UTF-8. Most text handling and output functions in OS4 are not able to write from right to left, so there still exist large problems with arabic/persian and hebrew, an application that reverses arabic and hebrew strings before output can at least display its GUI but for text input (cursor on the right after return) special applications would be needed. Summary: OS3.x language support was limited to western european latin languages, OS4.0 language support is limited to latin, cyrillic and greek (thai would eventually work if someone could fit thai glyphs into topaz/8 and topaz/9 default ROM fonts). OS4.0 font support is limited to any 8bit MIME charset in diskfont API (besides the right-to-left problem) and not limited in bullet API. 8) _Steve_: Will there be support for the pre-existing PPC programs from both PUP/WOS in OS4? Fleecy: We'll provide an application launcher that can launch WarpUp programs, maybe even PowerUp. However, we'll not include any hacks to make this work. Since there was only a small number of applications created that used these two systems, we are hopefully that their authors will upgrade their programs and release AmigaOS4.0 native versions. 9) Billsey: From past personal experience I know that there are dedicated Christians at Amiga, Inc. I have friends there, and I am not turning against them, but they are Christian, so I believe that the following question(s) must be asked. I would like to know what role that faith has played (a) in keeping the company alive; (b) in walking the path that has been walked; and (c) when specific confession and, more importantly, repentance of “mistakes made” will be observable. Fleecy: Religion, like any other philosophy seller is an individual concern, not something that should ever be part of heterogenous system, whether a group, a company, a nation or a species. I always find it ironic that nature, the mother of us all preaches diversity and yet humans are obsessed with monotony, to the point of coercion, persecution, discrimination and destruction. With that in mind, I cannot and will not answer your question, because such things should be on individual level interaction. In other words, if you want an answer, send the question to the individuals themselves. 10) drstrange: what form of support will OS4 take for a 250MB ZIP? Will it use harddrive-like formatting or a mountfile and if a mountfile could you show us it ahead of time to give a few of us time to prep our disks. Fleecy: Same as OS3.9 (or 3.1): it's a removable media, 'Removable' and 'Rigid Disk Block' are mutually exclusive, you should use a mountfile. To be able to use RDBs on removable media as well all file systems would have to support unmounting. The new FFS2 does support it, but there are file systems which don't, for example SFS. Some 3rd party devices do allow RDBs to be used on removable media, but that's a hack, it's not possible to implement it in clean way and therefore it will not be added to AmigaOS4.0 devices. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=15 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) [News message: 06. Jul. 2003, 18:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2003`	Aminet Uploads up to 6th July 2003 Here are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last announcement: more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Jul. 2003, 13:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #044 Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 44th music pack. This time it contains a music piece called "Walking The Corridors" by the English musician Darkus who, though not being a member of the group, still offers his track as a guest under the label Liquid Skies. It is a rather experimental piece of music and would probably fit best under the category of Trance. This time the cover was created by DaFreak. more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Jul. 2003, 13:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` IrseeSoft (website)	Turboprint version 7.50 with new drivers The new version 7.50 of the printing software TurboPrint is available from now on and contains new printer drivers: more ... (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 13:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` EvenMore (website)	Text viewer: FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for EvenMore Chris Perver has reworked the FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for his text viewer EvenMore. This plug-in supports now text styles and colours. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 13:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` Adam Chodorowski (email)	AROS: voting about the AROS logo Some weeks ago called the AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) developers team to a logo contest (we reported). The entries are now published for an open vote, all Amiga users can participate once in the voting and thus have an influence in the future representation of AROS. (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 13:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` Cloanto (ANF)	First pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 The first pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 - taking place today in Udine, Italy - can be found following the title link. The atmosphere seems to be fantastic: "We are in total overload, very crowded, lots of food (local gubana, cheese, etc. :-), wine (and local Castello beer :-)... Rushing back now..." (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 13:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: HP to take back ink cartridge from private customers »Recycling of ink cartridges shall help the environment HP will expand their recycling program and take back empty ink cartridges for printers from private customers in Europe in the future. This will be started in 2003 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland while Great Britain, Ireland and other countries will follow from 2004 on.« Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 11:32] [Comments: 1 - 24. May. 2008, 11:05] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Golem.de: New job market with several hundreds IT jobs »Co-operation with Jobware In co-operation with Jobware is Golem.de starting a new completely overhauled jobs market. Under the URL jobs.golem.de you can find from now on several hundreds of job advertisements for the IT, telecommunications and related industries, listed in clearly sorted by categories and regions.« Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 11:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` BTTR-Team (email)	Back to the Roots celebrates birthday and draws many prices Five years does the project "Back to the Roots" now exist. Truely a reason to celebrate! Next to new games highlights like Battle Squadron, Hybris, Arkanoid, Mega Typhoon or The Plague, we present to you the team of BTTR with the games Plix and Symbolrechnen, and the Populous editor really new releases for the Amiga. All three titles are exclusively available at BTTR and are released for the first time. more ... (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 11:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` MorphOS-News	MorphOS/Pegasos: QUICKSTART Guide Version 2.5 Now in Three Languages Jürgen Lucas' "QUICKSTART Guide" for installing MorphOS on a Pegasos with blank hard-drive has been released at version 2.5. Thanks to Andreas Zierl [and Daniel Miller -dm] and Fabrice Lehaut these instructions are also available in English and French. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 10:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)	User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #13 Issue #13 of "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to 312 subscribers. This is a list of French-speaking Amiga users all over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...) which has been sent monthly since July of 2000, in order to encourage French-speakers to communicate with each other. Click on the title link for more information, and to get yourself added to the list. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 09:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` Stefan Blixth (E-Mail)	OnyxSoft: New and updated software Here comes 1 new release and 4 updates, enjoy! more ... (nba) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 09:12] [Comments: 1 - 07. Jul. 2003, 01:58] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` Oliver Roberts (ANF)	Warp Datatypes V45.2 Released (Update) After a long delay, the promised updates to all the Warp picture datatypes for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS are finally here. To accompany the new release is the brand new WarpDT portal at http://www.warpdt.co.uk/ where you can keep up to date with the latest versions of the WarpDTs and download them all in one easy place. Summary of changes since previous versions: BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Minor optimizations and cleanups. BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Bumped version to v45 since a stable release has now been reached and to reflect the jump to shareware status BMP: Fixed problems with decoding bitfield images JPEG: Altered descriptor file to prevent it matching LhA or LZX archives containing JPEG files (or anything else that might contain a JFIF header, other than Photoshop files) PNG: PNG files not containing enough data are no longer treated as a fatal error. Now the part of the image that was successfully decoded is returned. PNG: Updated with libpng 1.2.5 PNG/TIFF: Updated with zlib 1.1.4 TIFF: Now correctly converts images using the YCbCr colourspace to RGB TIFF: Added support for JPEG decompression TIFF: Updated to libtiff 3.6.0-beta2, including a new version of the LogLuv decoder, and numerous other bugfixes Prefs: Various parts of code rewritten, in preparation for losing the current reliance on resource.library Prefs: Minor bugfixes Prefs: Correct Polish and Portuguese documentation now included. Update 06.07.2003: Errornous timeouts bugfix (Version 45.2) Unfortunately, due to last minute changes, I broke the timeout code slightly - doh! This resulted in the datatypes producing timeout warnings unnecessarily. Fixed versions of all 5 datatypes now in version 45.2 available. Apologies for any confusion caused. (nba) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 09:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2003` Michael Heider (ANF)	Report: Pegasos in Leipzig The illustrated report of the Leipzig Pegasos presentation is now online. Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC was shown on the Amiga-PowerUp-System (APUS) and Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 09:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2003` Yunis (ANF)	Tao announces multimedia-platform SDK intent 2 Today the Tao Group which is a British software developer and partner of Amiga, Inc. has officially announced the new generation of the multimedia platform SDK intent 2. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 04. Jul. 2003, 18:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2003` Niels Bache (ANF)	Pictures of the OS4 tour in Göteborg by Niels Bache Niels Bache has uploaded his pictures of Göteborg. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 04. Jul. 2003, 17:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2003` Rafal Kaczmarczyk (ANF)	Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 14 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 beta 14 of his database 'XBaze'. The program offers an easy to use editor for the fields of the data records and a layout editor with drag&drop function. It works from AmigaOS v3.0 and under MorphOS. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 04. Jul. 2003, 14:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2003` Michele C. Battilana (E-Mail)	Tomorrow: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 in Udine, Italy For the last time the website of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 which will take place tomorrow in Udine, Italy has been updated. The list of the presentations has been updated as well as the list of the hardware and software which can be seen. This week the organizer got the offer to exhibit a Commodore PET 4016 which is connected with a PET 3008. Of course this offer was accepted. Besides this a Commodore 65 (a prototype which was never released) will be shown. In Austria Jürgen Schober is busy with the last preparations for the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation while in Germany Jens Schönfeld prepares himself for the C-One presentation. Genesi has made a PowerPC Pegasos with MorphOS which was installed in a microwave available. Many people from all over the world have booked for and are on the way. We hope we see us. You are welcome! (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 04. Jul. 2003, 10:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2003` Grasshopper LLC (Website)	Grasshopper LLC Lowers PageStream Prices The American software company Grasshopper has lowered the price of their desktop publishing application "PageStream." The full version is now available for 99 US dollars. Upgrades are now 40 US dollars. These prices are good for July, 2003 but may stay the same thereafter, if possible. New Low Pricing Tuesday, July 1st - Grasshopper LLC announces today new low pricing for PageStream on all platforms. "While the pricing is guaranteed only through July, it is hoped that it will be warmly embraced by the community and will be adopted then as our new permanent pricing", said owner Marna Holt today. "Our move from a brick and mortar business means lower costs and faster turn around times. We hope passing these savings on to our customers will not only increase the already tremendous value our customers get when buying PageStream, but hopefully increase the number of customers and reach those who could previously not afford PageStream." Near term plans include a revamped web site, instant messaging with our sales staff, and a monthly online public chat with Deron. PageStream now lists for $99 (from $299!!) and upgrades start out at only $40. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 03. Jul. 2003, 16:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2003` AMIGAplus	Adventure Rendezvous: Interview with Ken Williams The adventure-game focused online magazine "Adventure-Treff" has published an interesting German-language interview with Ken Williams by Jan Schneider. more ... (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 03. Jul. 2003, 16:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2003` Mummert Consulting (E-Mail)	Study: Online Shops Battle Trust Deficit Around 50% of German websurfers avoid purchasing anything on the Internet. The main problem for most of them: they can't examine and test the products before buying. And very third person gets by without online purchases because they are satisfied with the goods of "real" stores. The fear of someone stealing their personal data is another factor that stops surfers from buying. About 30% name this fear as a reason for why they have yet to purchase anything online. And every fifth person is worried that his bill will be incorrectly calculated and so he doesn't buy anything. These figures come from a current study "Internet Statistics of Consumers (IZV6)" done by the University of Karlsruhe and Mummert Consulting. Online shops battle a trust deficit: Half of all German websurfers don't buy anything on the Internet. The principal reason for this, according to these surfers, is that they can't test the wares over the Internet. Every fourth purchase avoider doesn't trust the online stores because it might be hard to complain and return things. Almost every third fears for the protection of his data. The market share of online shoppers may rise if e-shops improve their service. About 28% don't buy online, because help and service aren't good enough. It's easier for well known web-shops to win customers: about two thirds of online shoppers do most of their shopping by known merchants. Every fifth buys exclusively by known shops. And the general experience of Internet users with the Internet influences their purchasing attitude: the less experienced the surfer, the less he goes online shopping. Experienced users purchase 20% more stuff on the Internet than the unexperienced. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 03. Jul. 2003, 16:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Genesi: Explanation of G4 Card Difficulties According to a statement of the Genesi leadership on MorphOS-News.de there's a hardware problem which means that less G4 cards will be produced for the Pegasos I, and even these will only be offered with corresponding boards as "matched sets." With respect to the complete utilization of the Altivec functionality of the G4: some boards work flawlessly, some boards not so well, at least not well enough to be sold. In other Genesi news, QNX and Pascal have joined the effort to be ported to Pegasos. The latter is still popular in Eastern Europe and the former is the #1 embedded system OS. Additionally Genesi would like to sell Linux Pegasoses with the G3 for a price of 499 euros at MicroWarehouse or other merchants (without monitor but with Linux as well as MorphOS). Up to 25,000 units monthly may be produced on the fabrication lines at DCE. This price per unit might fall with an inverse correlation to the quantity of units (as more are produced, price per unit drops). The same thing applies if IBM comes to view it as a good strategy to help Genesi by doing the same with respect to CPU price. These machines will be available in October of this year. As before, Pegasos I owners can upgrade for the price of 200 euros, but you've got to send in the board as well as the CPU card. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 03. Jul. 2003, 12:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Enterprise Market for Open Source Grows Quickly »Yearly growth rates of 24% are in view A study by the company Soreon analyzed and predicted the enterprise market for open source software in Germany up to the year 2007. For this study 150 German firms were surveyed. In that were 100 interviews with users who quantitatively evaluated, as well as 50 expert conversations which were qualitatively evaluated.« Read the complete article by clicking on the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 03. Jul. 2003, 09:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2003` Samba (Website)	Networking: Samba Version 3.0.0 Beta 2 The Samba team released version 3.0.0 Beta 2 on the 1st of July. You may read the list of changes here. Samba is a software that allows networking, for example networking of a PC and an Amiga. You'll find information about Samba for Amiga at amigasamba.org. Here's the original press release: The second beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download. While significantly closer to the final release, it should still be considered a non-production release provided for testing purposes only. The source code and GnuPG signatures can be found on Samba mirrors. RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 are also available in the Binary_Packages download area. Packages for other platforms will follow shortly. The full release notes are available on-line as well. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 03. Jul. 2003, 09:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2003` Amigan Software (Website)	Game: Saga Version 1.27 Version 1.27 of the freeware game Saga from Amigan Software has appeared. The game is a conversion of a TSR board game from 1981 called Saga: Age of Heroes and is playable by up to six players, which may be controlled by humans or the Amiga. It's all about battling monsters, finding treasure, and building your kingdom through valor and heroism. more ... (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 03. Jul. 2003, 09:07] [Comments: 1 - 05. Jul. 2003, 16:58] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jul.2003` Pixel Art (E-Mail)	StartMenu: Pixload Version 4.1c Version 4.1c of "Pixload" has been released. Like AmiDock, this tool makes it possible to start programs and scripts from an icon through the use of MUI. Noteworthy additions to this version include the recognition of local HTML data, as well as a context menu. RxMUI 32.8 is required. The program may be downloaded in Amiga and MorphOS versions. Download: pixload-4.1c.lzx (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 03. Jul. 2003, 08:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2003` PPCNux (ANF)	PPCNux: Pegasos G4 upgrade not available seperately »The for July 2003 scheduled 1+GHz G4 CPU card for the Pegasos Boards currently equipped with a 600 MHz G3 will not be available seperately. This has been said by Genesi in their status update at Amiga.org.« Read the full article by the title link (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 02. Jul. 2003, 23:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2003` Sourceforge-Projekt JAmiga (ANF)	Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9 By the title link you can follow the state of the sourceforge project Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9 (JAmiga) and get informed about the further details of that project. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 02. Jul. 2003, 23:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2003` Bill Panagouleas (ANF)	AmiZilla progress report After DiscreetFX had announced that there is a money booty for porting the web browser Mozilla to the Amiga (as reported) and Bill Panagouleas set up an information site about the donation efforts, he sent us the following progress report: more ... (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 02. Jul. 2003, 22:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2003` Messe Leipzig (ANF)	First European games mucic concert in Leipzig On August the 20th 2003 there will be the first "European games music concert" in Germany. This will happen at the "Gewandhaus" in Leipzig . Start of the concert, which will be the opening of the "Games Convention" as well, is 8 pm. Ticket sale has just begun, there are still plenty tickets available. Among other tracks there will be a suite of the Amiga classic "Apidya" (Chris Hülsbeck) played. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 02. Jul. 2003, 18:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2003` Ron van Schaik (ANF)	Photos from the Amiga show in Maarssen At the website of the Amiga Party which happend on the 28th of June 2003 in Maarssen, the Netherlands, there were new photos published by the organizers. The event is planned to be repeated next year again. On August the 16th 2003 there will be the Commodore Show 2003 also. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 02. Jul. 2003, 14:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2003` Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)	Online magazine: NoCover #112 published Issue #112 of the NoCover is published and readable by following the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 02. Jul. 2003, 14:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2003` Cloanto (ANF)	Amiga Alpe Adria News and Updates The website of the event "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" has been updated today. There is now a list with hardware and software products which will be shown, exhibitors who are present and new cultural events which will be occur in parallel with the show. The A3 will be held on coming Saturday, July the 5th kulturelle Ereignisse, die parallel zur Show stattfinden. Die A3 2003 in Undine, Italy. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 02. Jul. 2003, 14:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2003` Erhard Bruse (ANF)	Report: Pegasos in Leipzig Several interested persons have seen the presentation of the Pegasos in Leipzig at the booth of the "CCLS e.V." last weekend. Erhard Bruse gives a brief overview about the presentation: more ... (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 02. Jul. 2003, 14:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jul.2003` Amiga Inc. (Website)	Club Amiga Magazine: Article about DOS library by C.J. Wenzel freely available The article "A Short Story on the V50 DOS Library" by Colin J. Wenzel from issue 5 of the Club Amiga Magazine has been made freely available by Amiga Inc. This English report features the planning of V50 of the dos.library which will be used within AmigaOS 4. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 02. Jul. 2003, 14:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2003` WHDLoad (Website)	Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 30.06.2003 With WHDLoad yu can install floppy disk based games onto your HD. The following packages are added/updated since the last time: more ... (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 01. Jul. 2003, 13:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2003` Diverse	Software-News in short (01.07.2003) PhotoView The picture viewer PhotoView is released in version 0.94 and can be downloaded for free from the website of the developer Alessandro Braccini . AWeb After the new Build-GCC-Version 3.41 of the webbrowser AWeb was online and many bugfixes were sentin, the developers had taken the file offline. If a stable version is available we will report it to you. NewsCoaster A project for the Open-Source-based Newsgroups-Client NewsCoaster is available at Sourceforge. There you will find the latest Binary- and Source-Code-Releases. ptplay3 ptplay3 is relased in version 1.0. ptplay is a CLI based Protracker player not depending on the custom chips and was written from the ground to emulate Protracker 2.3a software sided. The mixing is managed internally and is send to a singla AHI output channel. Block Block, now available in version 2.02, combines and splits files. The tool is available for 68k-AmigaOS and MorphOS. findmos Also findmos, latest version 1.0, is coded by Christian Rosentreter: The very small shelltool (only 200 Bytes) is used to detect MorphOS and is needful for Shell-/Install-scripts. An example script is contained in the archive. PowerD The latest version 0.21 from 29.6.2003 of the programming environment PowerD is available at the download area at the website. PageStream for Linux For Linux is a third beta version of the DTP software PageStream released. User buying a copy of the Linux version getting full access to all versions (beta and final relases). Users taking part in testing phase are getting TextFX for Linux for free. VDisk.device The VDisk.device is released in version 3.7 and provides you a driver for a restorable RAM disk. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 01. Jul. 2003, 13:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2003` IOSPIRIT (ANF)	IOSPIRIT: New IBrowse 2.3 documentation released Dave Fisher has finished his works on a completely updated and expanded IBrowse-documentation. more ... (ps) [News message: 01. Jul. 2003, 11:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2003` Brad Webb (E-Mail)	Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #030630 Under the title link you will find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for March 2003. In his newsletter Brad Webb gives a monthly summary of all news around the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 01. Jul. 2003, 08:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2003` Halvadjian Georges	Perfect Paint v2.93 released PerfectPaint from Halvadjian Georges is in version 2.93 available. In this version are changed/fixed: more ... (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 01. Jul. 2003, 02:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2003` amiga.org (Website)	amiga.org: Interview with Genesi The Online-News-Magazine amiga.org has released an interview with Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco of Genesi S.a.r.l. (title link). (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 01. Jul. 2003, 02:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jun.2003` apple (ANF)	Mozilla v1.4 released Today the final version 1.4 of the free Webbrowser Mozilla was published. Under that title left versions are available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X for the download, postage run gene for Solaris, OpenVMS and other operating systems in the next days will follow. Further information you find on the product website under that title left. A port for Amiga OS is from a free developer team in work. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 30. Jun. 2003, 23:30] [Comments: 1 - 07. Apr. 2008, 03:15] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jun.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #043 The group Liquid Skies published today their 43rd music pack. This time it contains a song named "rain journey" by the German musician Bitshifter (also known as yelworC), who is not member of the group, however he offers his track as a guest under the label Liquid Skies. The cover for this is provided by an other guest: Yenzi. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 30. Jun. 2003, 23:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jun.2003` Klaus Brandis (E-Mail)	AmiNetRadio v2.0 released The Shoutcast streamer "AmiNetRadio" was published on weekend in version 2.0 and is available at the title link for download. The package contains the following components: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 30. Jun. 2003, 13:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jun.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Development of SBase4Pro Russ Norrby of Mr. Hardware Computers, the owners of the "SBase4Pro"-rights (formerly known as "SuperBase 4 Pro"), reports at Amiga.org: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 30. Jun. 2003, 13:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jun.2003`	Aminet Uploads up to 29th June 2003 These are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last report: GetAllHTML.lha comm/tcp 16K+Auto download or link-check entire Web s bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive Loarre_Castle.lha pix/back 170K+Backgrounds of Loarres Castle jpv_wb.lha pix/wb 293K+1024x768x16bit WB snapshot (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 29. Jun. 2003, 10:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jun.2003` Diverse	Pictures from 'AmigaOS on Tour' from Gothenburg You can find a subtitled picture report of AmigaWorld under the title link. The pictures were taken on the AmigaOS on Tour at yesterday's presentation in Gothenburg. more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 29. Jun. 2003, 10:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jun.2003` Martin Heine	Pictures from Amiga Show in Maarssen, NL Martin Heine was nice enough to provide us with some meaningful pictures from the Amiga Show which took place yesterday in Maarssen in Holland. The photos were taken by Ron van Herk. more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 29. Jun. 2003, 00:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jun.2003` Kultpower.de (ANF)	Kultpower: New reviews and cover scans Today Kultpower.de has received some updates: 74 (in words: seventyfour) new covers of the magazine PC Joker! A big thankyou to Evil who scanned and sent in the covers! Btw, all are featuring the editorial. more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 29. Jun. 2003, 00:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jun.2003` Uwe Ryssel (ANF)	Lego Mindstorms for Amiga Today I have released the Amiga port of NQC 2.5 r1 on my homepage. With this it is for the first time possible on the Amiga, among other things, to program the Lego Mindstorms RCX. This can be used to control robots built with Lego bricks. more ... (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 28. Jun. 2003, 23:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jun.2003` Olaf Köbnik (email)	Amiga Arena: "Samba World Cup" CD version online After "Samba Partie" and "Samba Partie Pro" is now the CD version of "Samba World Cup 98" available for free download. It's the third and last part of the "Samba Partie" series by Sayona Software. "Samba World Cup" is a football manager with "action" part! more ... (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 28. Jun. 2003, 15:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jun.2003` Moneyless (ANF)	Magazine: Last independant issue of the "ST-Computer" released The last independent issue of the German Atari magazine "ST-Computer" has been released. The magazine, available for seventeen years and for years now exlusively available as subscription, will in the future only be available as subscription supplement of the German magazine "PC-Welt". (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 28. Jun. 2003, 15:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jun.2003` Gary7 (ANF)	Emulator: New WinUAE version announced WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 8 WIP (26.06.2003) Expected release date: first half of July more ... (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 28. Jun. 2003, 12:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jun.2003` Markus Lunk	Browser: GCC version of AWeb 3.4 APL For users who like experiments there's a new alpha version of AWeb been released that you can download following the title link. Errors may lead to crashes. The user may be aware. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 28. Jun. 2003, 10:21] [Comments: 1 - 28. Jun. 2003, 21:52] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jun.2003` Jürgen Schober (ANF)	Today: AmigaOS 4.0 on tour Today takes for the fourth time the AmigaOS on Tour place in Sweden and Austria. At this time AmigaOS 4.0 is shown on CyberstormPPC and the AmigaOne: more ... (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 28. Jun. 2003, 10:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jun.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	AmigaWorld: Latest official AmigaOS 4 screenshots Following the title link you'll find further official screenshots of AmigaOS4 by Hyperion. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 28. Jun. 2003, 00:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jun.2003` Constantinos Nicolakakis	Tool: SRename Version 3.7.1 Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the final version 3.7.1 of the tool 'SRename'. With this tool which works from AmigaOS 3.0+ you can easily rename files. In the new version some new features have been added and bugs fixed: more ... (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Jun. 2003, 19:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jun.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	IR-chat of the Amiga-show in Maarssen, Netherlands For the Amiga-show in Maarsen, Netherlands which will take place on 28th June 2003 an IRC-channel has been created: #AmigaParty on ARCNet. Participants are Genesi, Computer City and Attention Software. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Jun. 2003, 17:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jun.2003` Niels Bache (ANF)	Pictures of Niels Bache of the Amiga fair moved Niels Bache wrote: Up to now my pictures of several Amiga fairs have been accessible under http://nbache.frip.dk/. Although the people have earned much praise for their efforts for this free service in my opinion there have been too many breaks in the last time. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Jun. 2003, 17:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jun.2003` REBOL (ANF)	REBOL/View desktop now Open-Source There is another aspect of pushing forward the open-source idea. The desktop project will be released by Carl Sassenrath as an attempt to integrate the community thus everybody can participate in. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Jun. 2003, 13:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Mitsumi: External floppy with integrated memory card reader »7-in-1-drive for all usual memory cards At the end of June 2003 Mitsumi Europe will introduce the 7-in-1 USB media drive FA 401 to the market which can read and write all usual memory cards and additionally normal 3,5-inches disks.« (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 23:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #042 Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies has published its 42th music pack of its series. This time it contains a tune in Techno style called "Rush Hours" written by the Polish musician Rzs. By the way this is his first track for Liquid Skies Records! The cover was created by DaFreak. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 20:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Michael Böhmer (ANF)	ROMulus-extension for HIGHWAY is being delivered From today on E3B delivers the FlashROM-Modules ROMulus for the known USB-controller HIGHWAY. Thus the most successful USB-controller of E3B can get further functions - without engaging a Zorro-slot. The network-modul NORWAY can be also used. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 16:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Iomega with 4x-multi format-DVD-burner »DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM in one device Iomega has announced a new internal IDE-DVD-burner drive which DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM combines in one device and at least can burn on the first two mentioned formats with four times speed.« (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 08:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)	Total Amiga Magazine: FTW Official Commerce Partner in Germany After Fun Time World succeeded in putting out issue #14 of the English-language Amiga magazine "Total Amiga" they also made the decision to produce further issues in Germany, and have become the magazine's official German partner. The next edition, #15, is being completed and may already be pre-ordered. Fun Time World: "We recommend that all interested parties order an issue. The price is unchanged." In the latest issue of about 52 pages you can read: AmigaOS 4 Update Fleecy Moss (Amiga) and Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) Columns Pegasos and MorphOS thoroughly explained and tested IBrowse 2.3 Test A few more exciting articles and reports If you hurry, you can still get a copy of issue #14! (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Philippe Bourdin (ANF)	Report from AUGS Meeting / OS4 on Tour in Basel The official report from AUGS Meeting 2003 in Basel is online, with pictures from Caspar Schlegel (AUGS). The meeting itself was enjoyable for the organizers (Claude Müller/AUGS and Jürgen Schober/point.design). The AUGS team was happily surprised that they actually had to bring in more chairs for the OS4 presentation, which they did with pleasure. Locally, the way to the currently largest Commodore logo in the world was described: in "Aesch" not far from Basel one finds such a logo over 9 meters tall, where it has been for many years at the former headquarters of Commodore Switzerland. Many thanks to all the visitors and have fun with the pictures. A special thanks to Jürgen Schober for his honorable efforts. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 08:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Erhard Bruse (ANF)	Event: Pegasos board presentation in Leipzig On June the 28th and 29th 2003 there will be a presentation of more tan 160 clubs and organizations from Leipzig held at the central railstation of Leipzig. At the booth of the Computerclub-Lützschena-Stahmeln where some fellows of the Amiga Club Leipzig are working, there will be a working Pegasos computer shown on both days. On Sunday Micha Heider will be there as well and will be testing and adjusting his Linux image installer CD for the Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 22:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` yps aus dem heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Critics regarding Apple's benchmark for the Power Mac G5 Like it can be obtained from the article by Heise which is linked by the title, Steve Jobs might have operated at the presentation of the Power Mac G5 at the WWDC with some dressed up speed values for the regarding to Apple world's fastest PC. Read the full aricle (German) by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 18:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Michael Asse (ANF)	Webmaster for Amiga Frontier page wanted To all Frontier fans, because I will have no more Internet access during the next time I am looking for somebody who wants to be webmastering my site www.amigafrontier.de.vu (title link). more ... (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 17:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Amigan Software	Tool: Report+ version 5.67 The freeware Report+ is now available in version 5.67. The tool bases on ReAction/GadTools needs AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten different functions: For example it's possible with Report+ to create Aminet readme files, the Commodore bug reporting tool can be replaced by it or the ammount of bytes for any directory can be shown. Within the new version some bugs have been removed, the IFF displayer is now capable of "IFF SPLT" forms and within the Aminet readme editor the directory tree has been updated. Download: ReportPlus.lha - 314 KB (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 14:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Terra Soft	Terra Soft Offers Apple G5s Prepared for Yellow Dog Linux Loveland, Colorado -- 24 June 2003 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions is today accepting pre-orders for Apple G5 Power Macs -- soon to be supported by Yellow Dog Linux. (ps) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 14:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)	CAPS Poll Results Annouced Results to the CAPS poll are now on the website, along with the decision, and the reasons behind it. (ps) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 14:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` DENIC (Website)	DENIC restricts access of Domain information data Starting from July 2003 the DENIC will restrict the number of whois-requests with an automatic system to a limited time interval to avoid mass requests. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 13:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Virtual Dimension (Website)	Virtual Dimension: Photos from the "Back in Time Live" event On the 21st of June 2003 there has been the first German Back in Time Live event in Wedel near Hamburg. A party regarding the C=64, at which amog other things there were a lot of remixes of popular SiDs. Virtual Dimension has been there and came back from that party with a bunch of photos. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 12:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Genesi: MPC 7447 for Pegasos G4 processorcard chosen As announced on PegasosPPC.com their choice is made to use the Motorola MPC 7447 for the Pegasos G4 processor modules. Additionaly it is newly confirmed that these cards will be available from July on. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 10:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2003` Russ Norrby owner Mr. Hardware Computers (ANF)	Mr. Hardware Computers will be at AmiWest 2003 Mr. Hardware Computers is happy to announce for the 1st time we will be at AmiWest July 26-27 2003. We will have AmigaOne G3XE & G4XE motherboards and systems for sale. Call in advance to reserve a system to your specs. We will have our popular PC-Amiga Multimedia Keyboard adapters MRHK-2D instock and also our newer Mouse adapters the MRH Mouse instock. Our SBase4Pro v1.36 (formerly SuperBase) will be on sale. Also many other programs and hardware. Let us know what you want before and we will try to have it. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 24. Jun. 2003, 22:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2003` Diverse	Software Updates until 24.06.2003 in short Worm Wars 7.51 The Snake clone "Worm Wars" of Amigan Software was released in version 7.51. Download: WormWars.lha 565 KB YAM2HTML Version 1.2 This little program enables the direct view of HTML files you received via email. You do not have to start an ARexx program nor to save it to RAM. A configuration file is included (in German) for "YAM". At this time Multiview, IBrowse, and AWeb are supported. Download: yam2html.lha 17 KB Blender Version 2.27: Port for MorphOS in progress As reported on morphos-news.de, 'Yomgui' Amiga Impact says his Blender-Port for MorphOS makes good progress. Look a this screenshot. Yomguis port uses Jungl, the Mesa implement for MorphOS. What is Blender? It is a 3D suite of the Dutch company Nan. With Blender you can create 3D objects, render as picture, or animate it. It also includes a 3D-Engine you can create for example interactive websites in 3D. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 24. Jun. 2003, 14:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2003` WHDLoad (Website)	Installer: WHDLoad - New Packages until 25.06.2003 (Update) With WHDLoad you can install games based on floppy to HD. Following packages are new/updated since last time: more ... (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 24. Jun. 2003, 12:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2003` Audio Evolution (Website)	Audio Evolution Version 4 nearly finished Davy Wentzler has Version 4 for AmigaOS 4 / PPC nearly finished. The HardDisk-Recording Software for recording, rework, and play of audio tracks is distibuted by Computer City and was known under the old name 'PlayHD'. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 24. Jun. 2003, 11:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2003` DraGo International Trading & Consulting (ANF)	Retro: CyberShell 16 Bit For fans of Retro-Gaming now the game console 'CyberShell 16 Bit' is available. It is fully compatible with the SEGA-Megadrive (or Genesis). The console is working with a Motorola 68000 and could be available in Germany for ca. 30 EUR. Included are many teaching programs. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 24. Jun. 2003, 11:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jun.2003` Apple (ANF)	Apple G5 Here they are the new G5 computers of Apple. And this is said about the new computers by Apple itself: "The Power Mac G5 is the worldwide fastest personal computer and the first computer with a 64bit processor. As the first personal computer the Power Mac G5 breaks through the 4 gigabyte border. It is able to use up to 8 gigabyte main memory. Additional to the speed of up to 2 times 2 GHz the new G5 processor has a new system architecture with high band width and AGP 8x and PCI-X-slot. Because of all these features the new Power Mac G5 has made the break through in the processing performance at the desktop computers." (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Jun. 2003, 22:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jun.2003` Pixel Art (E-Mail)	StartMenu: Pixload version 4.1 The version 4.1 of the start menu called Pixload is ready and contains some bug fixes in the German locale. There are versions for AmigaOS and MorphOS. Download: Pixload-4.1.lzx (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Jun. 2003, 17:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jun.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: The end of the GIF-Patent burnallgifs.org 20 June 2003: The LZW patent expires today in the United States. However, patents on LZW are still in force in other countries. Please continue to refrain from using GIFs. More importantly, do not allow your communications to be censored by the whims of patent holders. Things you can do: Oppose the expansion of software patents to your country, if such patents are not available there now. Insist that standards bodies in which you participate make an an "innovation compatible" (IC) license a requirement for any patents needed to implement a standard. Develop and support software that works with non-patented file formats and network protocols, instead of patent-encumbered ones. Sign the petition against software patents in Europe. PNG-Tips for Cartoonists Hackles writes: In short, PNG combines (and improves upon) the best qualities of GIF and JPEG, and can effectively replace GIFs on the Web. So why don't people use it more often? Here are some tips on how to use it correctly. I wrote this article to encourage cartoonists to start using PNG, and to share some tips on exploiting PNG's strengths. Used correctly, PNG can drastically reduce the file size and download time of one's comics. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Jun. 2003, 14:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2003` Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)	Multimedia Authoring System: Malibu Version 1.0 Malibu 1.0 - the Scala plugin for Hollywood - is out now. When Malibu is installed, Hollywood will suddenly be able to display your Scala presentations. The compatibility is very high. You can run almost every Scala script. In 24-bit of course and absolutely RTG friendly! You can even compile your Scala presentations to AmigaOS executables or native MorphOS executables! A truly unique feature! Malibu is available in a version for AmigaOS3 as well as in a native MorphOS PPC version. Malibu requires at least Hollywood 1.5 and can be ordered in a discounted bundle together with the Hollywood 1.5 update or the Hollywood 1.5 full version. more ... (ps) [News message: 22. Jun. 2003, 23:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2003` Christian Rosentreter (ANF)	MorphOS: Iconset "MAME Bubbles Vol.1" released I've just uploaded "MAME Bubbles Vol.1" to my homepage. It's a set of icons in 32bit PNG format with attached shell scripts for easy launching MAME games from MorphOS Ambient Desktop. more ... (ps) [News message: 22. Jun. 2003, 20:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2003` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: Interview with AmiS (eNote, Visual Guide) More than a year ago Olaf Köbnik approached Russian developer "AmiS" to talk about his tools such as "eNote" and "Visual Guide". Now he could find the time and you can read about his future plans and whether we may count on updates for his programs so far in the interview. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 22. Jun. 2003, 17:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2003` Mikey_C (ANF)	Total Amiga Magazine: The wait is Finally Over The finest issue of Total Amiga Magazine, hits the Printers! So what's in Issue 15? more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 22. Jun. 2003, 15:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 13 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 13 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) MetalJoe: Previous versions of the OS have had official support for C and Assembler developers. What languages (i.e. C, Assembler, C++, Objective-C) will be officially supported in the initial OS 4 SDK and which, if any, are planned for future 4.x releases? Fleecy: C and C++ will be supported in the first instance. We are talking with third parties about other support (Basic, Forth, and some others). We are more interested in getting a comprehensive toolchain and documentation in place before we start considering other language support. 2) Rudei: Can you clarify that the Amiga trademarks are indeed safe and still licenced to Amiga Inc? There has been a lot of malicious talk recently and it would be helpful to have an official line so we can quash the rumours once and for all. Fleecy: Our attorney tells us that everything is as it should be. You will never quash the rumours because the reason for them is mischief and as long as they are people out there wanting to cause mischief, then there will be rumours. We just keep quiet and get on with it. 3) Dandy: Will DRM (digital rights management) and/or TCPA have any impact on AmigaOs-platform and if so, of what kind will this impact be? (As I understood it, it will be forbidden to advertise or sell hardware within the USA which does not include/support TCPA) Fleecy: DRM is something that many OEMs are asking for as well as many developers who are tied of losing sales via piracy. However it is still a very fluid and unsure area in both legal and technical application and it is not at a point where we have to give it much general consideration, just on a per customer basis. 4) hnl_dk: What do you think of the outcome, of the "OS4.0 on tour 2003" until now? Fleecy: I think it has been very good. The fact that dealers and user groups worked together to organise it is a testament to the power of the Amiga community, where everything doesn't have to be driven by the centre. Jurgen and the others have done a great job and it has started some lively debate about the new default interface and praise for many of the new graphical features. That alone has caused a huge increase in requests for information and registrations of interest from around the world. For those who have stood fast through all the rumours about how it will never happen, then it will never work, it must be giving them a good feeling to see that their trust was not misplaced. The power of Amiga is about getting through the bad times as well as the good times and the supporters, the AmigaOS4.0 team and the community in general has come into its own and from here on, things will accelerate towards launch and rebirth of the platform. 5) Wain: What does the current AmigaOS roadmap plan in regards to upgrade costs? Do we pay full retail cost for every OS version up to 5 and after? I realize none of this is set in stone. Fleecy: For AmigaOS4, this is the most likely although we are considering some form of product subscription as well, wrapped up with extra services and support. 6) Turbo: Is the aim for Amiga OS4 to be exclusive to AmigaOne based hardware? If not, how will this manifest itself? Will it run on top of intent? Could it be ported to custom hardware like you would find in say... a PlayStation 3? Fleecy: The AmigaOS4 product family will run on any PPC solution that is certified by Amiga. We have several customers in various stages of negotiation as to getting AmigaOS4 onto their products. AmigaOne is the only desktop. The Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) product represents the next stage of developing core Amiga technology that can then be used in various product lines, including the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE. The ultimate aim of AG2 is to have a core technology pool that is hardware agnostic and which implements advanced technologies that can be used anywhere we want and which, most importantly can span the different types of devices to create a single environment for OEMs, developers and users. 7) pods: I know of people who have expressed disapointment of the current workbench and icons libraries implementation. Has there been schedules, or has there been talk about replacing these implementation with something more up to date? Fleecy: The development of AmigaOS4 had a very strict priority. Encapsulate hardware dependencies to create an abstraction, move and then enhance the core of the AmigaOS into this abstraction and then replace Amiga Generation 1 domains by Amiga Generation 2 technology. AmigaOS4.0 is dealing admirably with moving our platform from a 68k and custom chip based solution to a modern PPC, modular subsystem hardware model. In doing that, it is far more important for us to ensure that the foundations are made solid, efficient and then improved. graphics.library, layers, intuition and Workbench are all very old services that have been hacked and patched beyond even the wildest dreams of Dr Frankenstein. The fact that it all still works and that it can be made to look even better is a testament not just to the far sightedness of the original designers but also the the immense skill and knowledge of the AmigaOS4.0 team. However, one of the AG2 projects currently underway is for the entire visual domain, 2D, 3D, Video and User Environment and we are working hard to ensure that most if not all of that technology will be in AmigaOS4.1. You can be sure that we will keep the community apprised and show off some of the visual delights to come as soon as we can. 8) Sbaitso: Are you familiar with the Amizilla project? What are your feelings about it? Is there any chance Amiga, Inc. may contribute to the cause? Fleecy: I think it is another great example of the Amiga community in action and putting its money where its mouth is to improve and extend the platform. We will not contribute to the cause because it is a third party effort and also because if the rules of the project are correct, then we would be supporting potential competitors as well. However, the most important reason is because a brand new, world class HTML rendering solution is one of elements of AmigaOS4.1. 9) Asemoon: Are Amiga's PDA game packages selling well at CompUSA stores and will they become available at stores in Europe? Fleecy: They appear to have sold out in most stores in the US and we are in negotiations with Microsoft both to extend the number of cards and the volume of cards. We are talking with other vendors who themselves want to sell the Gamecards and some of these are active in the European market. We'll post more details when we can. 10) Asemoon: Will there be any alternative themes included on the AmigaOS4 CD? Fleecy: It is something that is being considered but we want to at least have one that is complete before considering adding others. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=24 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 22. Jun. 2003, 15:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2003` Claude Müller (ANF)	OS4 Tour Basle: Short report Yesterday the Amiga OS4 Tour stopped by in the centre of Basle. Several times did Jürgen Schober of pointdesign hold a presentation with subsequent question time on the event organised by the Amiga User Group Switzerland (AUGS). One of the presentations was even translated live for the numerous French speaking Amiga fans by a member of the Club Annuaire Amiga Francophone. more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 22. Jun. 2003, 15:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2003`	Aminet Uploads up to 22nd June 2003 Here are the Aminet uploads newly added since our last announcement: more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 22. Jun. 2003, 14:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2003` Diverse	Software Updates in short up to 22nd June 2003 SmartScale Version 2.0c Lorence Lombardo has provided his CLI/WB program for picture converter scripts SmartScale in Version 2.0c for download on his homepage. SmartScale Readme more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 22. Jun. 2003, 01:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jun.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Pegasos/MorphOS review by Christophe Decanini Christophe Decanini, co-founder of the French Amiga retailer APS and co-moderator at ANN, has (in English) created one of the most detailed reviews of the Pegasos and MorphOS 1.3. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 21. Jun. 2003, 23:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jun.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #041 The scene group Liquid Skies has yesterday released the 41st music pack in their series. This time it contains a tune in the GoaTrance style called "Out Of Nowhere" by the German musician Angeldust. The cover was done by himself. more ... (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 21. Jun. 2003, 23:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jun.2003`	amiga-news.de moves today to a new server To make amiga-news.de once again still faster we move today to a new server. As last time everything is prepared perfectly and we don't reckon with any problems. Should any disturbation arise we'll surely fix them in no time. In the worst case some comments or forums entries will get lost. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 21. Jun. 2003, 17:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jun.2003` Cyborg (ANF)	Software: AntiSPAM 2 now with 70% hit rate (update) AntiSPAM 2 is finished: the new version of the spam killer works on a new basis and reaches now a dramatically improved hit rate of measured 70%. more ... (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 21. Jun. 2003, 12:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jun.2003` Michael Battilana (E-Mail)	Fair: News to the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 on 05.07.2003 As we have already reported the fair A3 (Amiga Alpe Adria 2003) will take place on 5th of July 2003 in Udine, Italy. On the website you will find all necessary information such as the program, overnight accomodations, music festivals and concerts. It is described very detailed. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 20. Jun. 2003, 16:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jun.2003` Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)	Event: Saturday, June 28: Amiga Show The Dutch HCC Commodore User Group organizes an Amiga Show on Saturday June 28 from 10:00 till 16:00 at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland. ComputerCity, Genesi and Attention Software will attending our Amiga Show with their newest products like the AmigaOne, Pegasos, VideoMicroWave, a STB Prototype, MorphOS and a new game. There will be a lot of demonstrations and activities and for all Amigans: This is the opportunity to meet all famous national and international Amiga people! more ... (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 20. Jun. 2003, 16:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jun.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Apple: Specifications of the new models with PPC970 CPU Several news services (such as OSNews) reported that today the official online-shop of Apple has announced the exact specifications of the new computer models of Apple. This might have been a mistake because meanwhile the new models have been deleted from the website. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 20. Jun. 2003, 15:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jun.2003` Felix Schwarz (ANF)	MorphOS SDK 1.0 pre-release 1 published The first release of the offcial MorphOS SDK is available for MDC-members (MorphOS Developer Connection) in the files section. It is called "pre-release" because many but not all OS-parts are considered. more ... (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 20. Jun. 2003, 15:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jun.2003` Felix Schwarz, Martin Heine (ANF)	MorphOS Developer Connection opens its doors Today, the MorphOS Developer Connection (MDC) officially opens its doors. more ... (nba) [News message: 20. Jun. 2003, 15:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jun.2003` Robert Konrad (ANF)	Emulator: QuarkTex - a Warp3D - OpenGL wrapper for WinUAE Robert Konrad wrote: I have devloped QuarkTex within the last two months with the help of Bernd Roeschs. I did it because of a discussion here on amiga-news.de. The program works quite good but please read the documentation. There are limitations. download page (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 20. Jun. 2003, 12:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jun.2003` (ANF)	Current prototype of Amiga Coldfire-card Under the title link you can find a current picture of the new platine layout of the Amiga Coldfire-card. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 20. Jun. 2003, 12:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jun.2003` Creative Development (Website)	Status Report on the Development of UltraBUS Massimo Mancini, owner of Creative Development, has reported after a long period of radio silence on the status of the development of the UltraBUS. more ... (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 19. Jun. 2003, 23:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jun.2003`	Print Magazine Amitopia Ceases Publication The Norwegian print magazine Amitopia has been discontinued after seven years on account of insufficient editorial support and successively poorer sales figures. This is according to the editor in charge, Michal Bergseth. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 19. Jun. 2003, 23:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jun.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	MorphOS: Possible New Game Project - a Trojan Horse for the Mac? Genesi came up with an idea of developing a new game. This is considered in a possible cooperation with producer Elie Chouraqui. It might then be possible to use this game as a "Trojan Horse" for the Macintosh version of MorphOS. Whoever is interested in cooperating in this should send an email to: Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco. Following are both original statements from Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck on MorphZone: 1) "Gladiateur" If you have been in Paris the last few days you would have probably seen THIS! It is being produced and directed by Elie Chouraqui. His last film of international renown was Harrison's Flowers (2000). Last night we had dinner with Elie (thanks to some very good friends of ours). We discussed his latest projects, including "Gladiateur", which is based on the Roman slave uprising lead by Spartacus. When Raquel and I heard the story line we started to think we might had found our Morph-Apple "Trojan Horse" game. We told Elie about MorphOS and the Pegasos, contrasting MorphOS and Genesi with Windows and Microsoft...could the Pegasos be the computer gladiator of the 21st Century?! Could the Pegasos inspire another Revolution?! We said OK, let's figure out whether or not we can do it... Release date: 1 October 2004 MorphOS/Pegasos and Morph-Apple releases We will invest for this Project! Here are some basic ideas: 1. Themes: Freedom, personal empowerment, responsibility, leadership, teamwork, good vs. evil, changing the world... 2. When a Gladiator (single player) overcomes the challenges of the arena (the CD itself), they qualify to step into the online world and join forces with others who have overcome the arena to fight on for the Revolution (online via the rebellion portal). Online players hold roles and work together to overcome specific task oriented challenges. Imagine this... You play the CD or through the settings assume an old score...you connect. Online you meet those that are there... you "chat" and plan to overcome the various tasks and requirements. For example: Task: Mount Vesuvius Requirements: Ten Gladiators Objective: Overcome a Roman Centuria (100 men lead by a Centurion) The team has to cooperate to be successful and have a strategy for success. Think of Knights and Merchants... The game and story scale from there. The historical setting is accurate. The greatest success occurs when the most online players cooperate. Game sequences can be re-lived to analyze and improve group game performance. The game takes a quality of its own based on the teamwork and unique skills and resources of the players... Post feedback here please! Pegasos! Raquel and Bill 2) Just spoke with Thomas Steiding (thomas@epic-interactive.com), who would be the Project Manager for the effort if we can pull the right people and agreements together. As some know e.p.i.c. is soon to release Northland that could be tuned for the theme we are discussing. We would have to go from vikings to gladiators, but it is not too much of a stretch if the right engine is there and we can get Andre to do some new artwork... If you are interested send us or Thomas an email. This could be fun! Raquel and Bill (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 19. Jun. 2003, 22:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2003` Christoph Kimna (E-Mail)	Game: PairsNG Version 2.03 Since today the version 2.03 of the game PairsNG is available. PairsNG is a game similar to Shanghai and running on the Workbench. The game is provided as shareware and might be registered for about 10,- Euro. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 18. Jun. 2003, 23:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2003` Heise (ANF)	heise: European software patents coming closer Yesterday a directive advice for patenting computer implemented inventions bas been accepted by the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (JURI) at the the Brussels' EU parliament. Read the full heise article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 18. Jun. 2003, 17:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2003` Golem (ANF)	Golem: Apple attempts to stop the Barebone Mac project »US-retailer must not sell Apple compounds to computer manufacturers. The small company evolved from the private "Mac Based Computer Project" CoreComputers, that has its activities at www.2khappyware.com, has lost its supplier due to some Apple investigations. The supplier must not - reasoned by some contract details, sell hardware compounds to a computer manufacturer. CoreComputers ambitioned goal is to offer valuable and good looking barebone sytems to Mac enthusiastics.« Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 18. Jun. 2003, 13:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	Kickflash OS4: Final product specifications Due to the high demand, Kickflash OS4, which has been announced on June 2nd, has been revised. The base version now has 1MB of flash memory, and can be expanded to 1GB on an expansion port. Transfer rates can be compared to normal hard drives, but the common access times of mechanical mass-storage media practically don't exist on flash memory: On random access, so-called solid-state memory is about tenthousand times faster than common hard drives. more ... (ps) [News message: 18. Jun. 2003, 13:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2003`	Aminet Uploads until June the 18th 2003 Here are the added Aminet uploads since our last report: more ... (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 18. Jun. 2003, 01:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2003` Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)	Music: Bjorn Lynne - Under The Bard's Tree Bjorn Lynne by the CD label 'LynneMusic' is pleased to announce the release of the new audio CD "Under The Bard's Tree". Read with the following the original message: more ... (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 18. Jun. 2003, 00:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2003` heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Patent for a dual boot PC to avoid viruses That idea just has to come to mind... The 65 years aged hobby musician Claude M. Policard gets a patent for a system with two independent operating systems for surfing and working. Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 18. Jun. 2003, 00:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2003` Ron van Herk (ANF)	Genesi/Phoenix Pegasos Summer Sale Genesi/Phoenix Pegasos Summer Sale: Pegasos I/G3 for 299,- upgrade to PegII/G4 for 200,- Pegasos I/G4 for 499,- Both for Phoenix members Betatester Blowout: Pegasos Betatester 199,- Pegasos April1 249,- All prices in EUR and are excluding VAT, the offers are available from all participating Pegasos dealers such as APS, Computer City, eFunzine, GGS-Data, Vesalia and others. More information on the Pegasos can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 17. Jun. 2003, 23:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2003` Tobias Franke (ANF)	Amiga OS 4 On Tour: report by Amiga Club Augsburg A complete report with more pictures is online. The Amiga Club Augsburg send thanks to all guests and partners for a succesful arrangement. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 17. Jun. 2003, 23:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Interview with Matthew Kille - AmigaOS 4.0 GUI Design Under the title link you can find an English interwiew with the AmigaOS 4.0 designer Matthew Kille, which was made by Mike Bourma of Amiga World. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 17. Jun. 2003, 22:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2003` IBM / Linux Kernel Mailing List (ANF)	Linux-compatible 64Bit-operating system K42 from IBM for PPC K42 is a operating-system research project (available under LGPL) focused in large part on scalability in the implementation of core OS services. We will give a brief overview of the project, discuss some of the recent performance results running 64-bit PPC Linux binaries and discuss the major ways that our implementation of Linux services depart from the norm (hopefully making sure to bring up all the truly offensive and contentious ways). more ... (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 17. Jun. 2003, 16:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2003` ELBOX COMPUTER (E-Mail)	Mediator-Spider-promotion-arrangement of Elbox Computer Elbox Computer, a polish developer of hardware for amiga computers, had announced a promotion arrangement for all users, who buy a Mediator PCI-Busboard in an Elbox Online Store between 17. and 30. of June 2003. With every bought Mediator-Busboard, the buyer gets a Spider II USB 2.0 card for free. You can get more information on the store website under the titlelink and also in the englishspeaking product description. more ... (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 17. Jun. 2003, 10:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jun.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	AmigaWorld: Article of DatorMagazin about the AmiGBG 2003 In issue no. 06/2003 of the renowned Swedish computer magazine DatorMagazin was published an article about the Goeteborger meeting AmiGBG, which was now translated by the on-line magazine 'AmigaWorld' into English and made available at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jun. 2003, 23:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jun.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #040 Liquid Skies released music pack no. 40. This time it contains a tune by Lcr called "Painted Shogun" which is a Drum'n'Base track. The cover was made by Kudaziw. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jun. 2003, 23:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jun.2003` WHDLoad (Website)	Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 16.06.2003 With WHDLoad you are able to install games which were meant for the floppy usage only, on your non removable disk. The following packages were added and/or updated since our last message: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jun. 2003, 20:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jun.2003` Diverse	Software Updates until 16.06.2003 Scalos Beta 40.28 The Workbench alternative Scalos was published in the beta version 40.28. Archives can be downloaded of the website of the developers at www.scalos.co.uk. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jun. 2003, 18:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jun.2003`	Presentation of 'Foto-Foto' at the Amiga Party in Maarssen The programmers of Attention Software will present for the first time their new game 'Foto-Foto' at the Amiga party 2003, which takes place on 28 June in the Dutch Maarssen. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jun. 2003, 17:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jun.2003` Brian Deneen	AmiWest 2003: Participation of individual Computers individual Computers, developer of hardware for Amiga systems, will participate, according to data of the exhibitors, in the AmiWest exhibition, taking place in the American Sacramento on the ends of July 2003. They will present new and well-known products for the Classic Amiga, AmigaOne and Pegasos. Further official information is to be expected shortly. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jun. 2003, 17:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jun.2003` anonym (ANF)	AmiWest 2003: Pegasos flies westwards Yes! Pegasos is flying west, and for the first time at a major American Amiga show, the Pegasos will be available for users to get a first hand look at what MorphOS on the Pegasos is all about. With at least five Pegasos computers at the Genesi booth, everyone can be assured a turn at taking a Pegasos out for a test flight. At the 2003 version of AmiWest, YOU can get YOUR hands on the Pegasos, a tangable successor to our community's platform of choice. See first hand the MUI3.9 PPC integration into your OS experience, feel the power of a PPC processor pushing both classic and new applications, and experience the transformation in our community. You've seen the forums, read the contriversies, and watched the flak fly. At AmiWest, however, there will be no smokescreen thick enough to come between your curiosity and the Pegasos running MorphOS. See the PEGASOS first hand at AmiWest. Just in: MorphOS 1.4 with the Trance JIT for MorphOS will be released in time for AmiWest! (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 16. Jun. 2003, 17:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2003` Guido Mersmann (ANF)	AmigaOS game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 - Rockford is back! BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 has just been released on the Aminet (Download see title link)! The most significant improvement since V4 is the direct support of Picasso96 and CyberGraphics. With that all RTG related problems should once and for all have been eliminated. more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 15. Jun. 2003, 23:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2003` heise.de (ANF)	heise: Warez-Gruppe Fairlight calls it quits Fairlight, the warez group well-known in the scene are announcing the immediate cease of their work in an NFO file. Fairlight have been very active on Amiga and C64. Read the German heise article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 15. Jun. 2003, 23:09] [Comments: 2 - 19. Jun. 2003, 02:25] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2003` .design/kdh (ANF)	'OS4.0 on Tour': Thanks to AC Augsburg We hereby want to express our thanks to the Amiga Club Augsburg and its many helpers for the warm welcome in Augsburg on the occasion of the 'OS4.0 on Tour' event. Everything was prepared excellently and with much idealism (e.g. the Amiga museum) and also carried out with great commitment. It is good to see and to know that there are still many friends of the computer legend 'Amiga' and many users waiting for OS4.0 to hit the market to be used on an AmigaOne or a Cyberstorm/Blizzard PPC board. more ... (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 15. Jun. 2003, 23:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	First presentation of a UAE-JIT PPC For the first time Bernie Meyer presented a modified UAE-JIT version for PPC at a meeting of the Australian Amiga Users Group. Pictures of Bernies iMac and his Pegasos can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 15. Jun. 2003, 13:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2003` amiga.org (ANF)	Event: AmiWest 2003 News Update Computer Connection (Video Toaster) will participate in the Amiga fair AmiWest 2003, taking place on 26th and 27th July 2003 in Sacramento, California. Further news about this event can be found in the extensive press release under the title link. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 15. Jun. 2003, 13:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	Movie: Second Animatrix filmlet online The second Animatrix filmlet can be seen on the Internet resp. downloaded. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 15. Jun. 2003, 13:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2003` Walter Gehring (RAMses) (ANF)	Amiga OS 4.0 on Tour in Augsburg: Pictures by Walter Gehring Under the title link you can find further pictures by Walter Gehring (RAMses), taken yesterday in Augsburg. All pictures can be downloaded as a ZIP file. Download: os4.zip (1,7 MB) (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 15. Jun. 2003, 13:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2003` AC Augsburg (Website)	AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by AC Augsburg Further pictures of the Augburg Roadshow are online on co-organisator Amigaclub Augsburg's Website. Further information to follow! (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 15. Jun. 2003, 01:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2003` AN-Forum	AmigaOS 4 on Tour: Pictures by Stefan Hägele Following the title link you'll find quite some photos made by Stefan Hägele with his Sony DSC S75 today in Augsburg. People who want to watch the pictures in a higher resolution may download them here: Download: AOS4.0_on_Tour.zip (32 MB) (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jun. 2003, 23:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.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) [News message: 14. Jun. 2003, 22:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	Big update of Dia-CD (slideshow on VideoCD) This time is the update of Dia-CD very substantial, it contains the following innovations: more ... (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jun. 2003, 22:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2003` Pixel Art (email)	StartMenu: Pixload 4 speaks German As already reported has the final version 4 of the startmenu Pixload for AmigaOS and MorphOS been released at the beginning of June. In the meantime has the German localization been finished. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jun. 2003, 18:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Pegasos: Phoenix offer now also for dealer For the few Pegasos-I boards still on the shelves at the retailers Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck offer that these may be sold for the Phoenix price of 299 Euro if the buyer enters the Phoenix developers consortium. The price difference would then be payed directly at the particular retailer. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jun. 2003, 17:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2003` Boing Attitude (email)	AmigaDE: Word Me up is finished Glames wrote: Boing Attitude team and myself are pleased to announce you that Word Me Up, our first game on AmigaDE, is now finished. We'd like to thank all these people that support and help us. Many thanks to you! more ... (ps) [News message: 14. Jun. 2003, 17:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2003` Morotola (ANF)	Motorola: 68060 with 60 MHz and Amiga 68k compiler at Motorola MC68060 : Superscalar 68K Microprocessor (Including the LC060 and EC060) more ... (ps) [News message: 14. Jun. 2003, 17:00] [Comments: 1 - 18. Jun. 2003, 00:41] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2003` SWAUG (ANF)	SWAUG: Amiga OS 4.0 questions for Thomas Frieden The users group SWAUG has asked Thomas Frieden some questions about AmigaOS 4. Following the title link you'll find the English questions and answers. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jun. 2003, 02:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Official AmigaOS 4 screenshots Following the title link you'll find five new official screenshots of AmigaOS 4. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jun. 2003, 02:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2003` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox: eFlash Memory for Amiga Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga computers, is proud to announce two new products: eFlash 4000 Zorro III card eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card more ... (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 13. Jun. 2003, 22:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2003` David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)	Magazine: Obligement N° 39 Issue 39 of the AmigaOS/MorphOS magazine Obligement is now available. You can read in this issue: report of the Huno Party 2003, Interview of David Gerber and Nicolas Sallin (from Genesi), interview of Emmanuel Rey (from Relec), review of VHI Studio 6, review of Birdie Shoot, review of Knights and Merchants, article about MorphOS 1.3 (very complete!) and AmiNetRadio, hardware with AmigaOne XE G4 and USB keys, and other interesting articles. (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2003, 18:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2003` MorphOS News (ANF)	Demoscene selections done Decisions have been made. The competition was so tight, the last two remaining Pegasos-system winners were elected by asking several people about their opinions. Sorry for the ones who were left out, there were many who would have deserved one, but we tried to make the best selections based on several things, past success and current activity being the most important ones. The people who will get a loaned Pegasos and participate to the democompetition are: Creative Minds DCS Floppy Ephidrena Haujobb Iris Loonies MFX Potion TBL (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 13. Jun. 2003, 17:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2003` KDH Datentechnik (ANF)	Tomorrow: 'OS4.0 on Tour' in Augsburg The 'OS4.0 on Tour' will be take place on Saturday 14th June 2003 from 10.00am to 8.00pm in Augsburg in the club rooms of Amiga Club Augsburg. The newest pre-version will be presented by Jürgen Schober, Point-Design, Austria. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 13. Jun. 2003, 12:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2003` Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)	Update of the VirusZ III Antivirus Bootdisk The VirusZ III bootdisk has been updated and is available for download as of 7th June, 2003. Available at: VHT Kanada VHT Netherlands und VHT at Yahoo (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Jun. 2003, 20:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2003` Motorola GmbH (E-Mail)	Motorola: The Handy Turns 20 The mobile telephone has turned 20 years old. Since the 1983 introduction of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the cellphone has turned from the prestigious posession of executives to the constantly present tool for everyman. Few other inventions have changed life so much in the last two decades. Note from translator: the article goes on into a long German language history of the cellphone. If desired, you may copy the address of the amiga-news.de German language article (http://www.amiganews.de/de/news/AN-2003-06-00096-DE.html) into an automatic translation service, such as that found at http://www.altavista.com by clicking on the "translate" link. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Jun. 2003, 17:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Java.net - Comprehensive Open Source Platform for Java »James Gosling has announced begun a new development platform With java.net Sun has started a new website, which groups together information, code and communications possibilities for Java developers, including Wikis and Blogs. This new Java-oriented open source community has been announced by James Gosling, the "father" of Java. Sun themselves have provided a few million lines of code to the new community.« Read the complete article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Jun. 2003, 14:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2003` Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)	Partners of 'AmigaOS4.0 on Tour' 2003 in Basel For the first presentation of AmigaOS4.0 on Tour 2003 in Basel - 21th June, the local AUGS club and the B&S Digitronic reseller are happy to confirm you already the participation of: more ... (ps) [News message: 12. Jun. 2003, 12:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2003` Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)	Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood 1.5 released The long awaited, major update 1.5 for Hollywood was released today. Because of the great new features and the long development time, there is an update fee of $22 USD (only for users, who bought Hollywood before April 1st 2003). Hollywood 1.5 is available in an AmigaOS 68k version as well as in a native MorphOS PowerPC version. Many new features have been added to Hollywood 1.5, here are some of the most important: more ... (ps) [News message: 12. Jun. 2003, 12:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2003` Maja (ANF)	TweakPC: Microsoft Purchases RAV AntiVirus from GeCAD Microsoft takes the virus protection of their own operating systems in hand. After this takeover, the developers will work on an integrated virus protection for Windows. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Jun. 2003, 12:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2003` heise Newsticker / B. Lindner (ANF)	heise: GIF soon free of patents? The heise article features the fact that on the 20th June 2003 one of the moste hated software patents (US patent 4,558,302), the "GIF patent" by Unisys, will expire. The complete article (German) is to read by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 11. Jun. 2003, 23:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2003` Golem IT-News (ANF)	Golem: WLAN for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and fellows »SMC introduces Ethernet to WLAN Box SMC Networks have introduced a new device of their EZ Connect WLAN product family with that ethernat capable devices are enhancable with WLAN features. The SMC2671W adaptor works within the 2.4-GHz band with a maximum bandwidth. of 11Mb/s.« Read the full article (German) by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 11. Jun. 2003, 16:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2003` Elektroniknet (ANF)	Elektroniknet: QNX realtime platform to download free of charge »QNX Software Systems are offering developers their QNX realtime platform for a download free of charge. This offer is valid for all users who will not use the system commercially i. e it's intended for prototyping, test issues or private use. With the download developers get a full working version of the QNX realtime OS including the complete suite with QNX OS moduls like the microkernel, data system, network manager etc. Included is a GNU tool chain, a code generating application builder, the Photon microGUI windowing system, Internet and multimedia applications, hundreds of utilities and source code for many applications, drivers and libraries.« Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 11. Jun. 2003, 12:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2003` Elektroniknet (ANF)	Elektroniknet: PCI architecture documentation »Wanted: The optimum PCI interface Additionally to the article set of electronics (starting with issue 11/98, see page 107) about state machines and PLD programming of a PCI interface this document includes a full documentation for the PCI architecture as a word.doc file. (Freeware, German)« (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 11. Jun. 2003, 12:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2003` Elektroniknet (ANF)	ELektroniknet: How costless is Linux? »The experience of an independant software developer A little bit costless? Or not free at all? During a Linux project there arrive many obstacles which are invisible in the beginning. This lesson an independent software developer had to experience personally.« Here are some extracts from the article which is readable by the title link (German): "I just finished to install embedded Linux on a PowerPC system; That opend my eyes. [...]" "After some months our hardware was stable, our Linux port too and the application was more or less ready to use [...]" "Is embedded Linux the potential to grow? Sure at least. Is it really costless? No way. [...]" "Embedded Linux is real, it's capable to grow but it is not gratis. It is easy to get attracted by embedded Linux but then you will soon find yourself within the operating system support business rather than in the application development. Would I chose Linux again? Yes I would but this time with a seeing eye from the start. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 11. Jun. 2003, 12:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2003` Bill Panagouleas (ANF)	AmiZilla Website gets a major update The Amizilla site has been updated. more ... (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 11. Jun. 2003, 12:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	Sound card: New delfina.library beta version The new version of the delfina.library now supports the sound card on the clockport of the Highway USB card by E3B. Unfortunately, the clockport of the Highway card is not 100% identical with the clockport of the A1200 motherboard, so proper function is not ensured in all cases. Please report any problems. more ... (nba) [News message: 11. Jun. 2003, 01:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #039 The scene group Liquid Skies published their 39th music package of their series. For this time it contains a Goa/Acid-Stil Tune called "Goo:Astral" from the musician Ritzu. The cover was styled by Subass (an ex-member of the scenegroup Vortex) more ... (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jun. 2003, 22:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: SCO shows first proofs The board of directors of the Linux-group e.V. has agreed to accept the leaving of the SCO-group until the 30th June 2003." We regret the deciding of the SCO-group to work against Linux and free software", so LIVE boss Thomas Uhl. So SCO showed first proofs to special analysts.« Please read the complete article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jun. 2003, 20:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2003` DCE Computer (Website)	DCE: producing of Pegasos 1 GHz G4 CPU-cards started You can find a photo of the modul under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jun. 2003, 20:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2003` amiga.org	Pegasos-Review of Magnetic Systems Here you will find a review from 'magnetic' about the PPC computer Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jun. 2003, 17:49] [Comments: 1 - 12. Jun. 2003, 00:06] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2003` apple (not the company) (ANF)	Portable Amigapad ;-) amiga-webpad. The webpad runs ca. 7 hours an is controlled by a pencil. UAE runs with sufficient speed. The way to the Internet is open with a Wireless LAN-Card. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jun. 2003, 17:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2003` SAMBA (Website)	Net: Samba Version 3.0 Beta 1 You can read things that have been changed here. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jun. 2003, 15:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2003` Egon Münch (E-Mail)	Mexikon: Cactus-encyclopedia in HTML-Format Version 3.1.19 It contains maps of Mexico and photos of over 650 arts of cactuses. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jun. 2003, 13:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2003` Christoph Kimna (ANF)	PairsNG: New demo-version published more ... (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 10. Jun. 2003, 01:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 09.06.2003 Aminet Uploads which were added since our last report: P61DevBas.lha dev/basic 31K+Using Player61 library from HBasic Feelin030513.lha dev/gui 424K+20030513 New, Powerful and Impressive OO WormWars.lha game/misc 587K+Worm Wars 7.5: Advanced snake game AmiChess.lha game/think 2.0M+Chess based on GNUChess 5.05/06 PairsNG_Demo.lha game/wb 2.0M+Great board game for CGFX/P96, AHI Sound ImageConvert.lha gfx/conv 35K+ImageConvert 2.1, batch converting with DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-..... PoseidonMain.lha hard/drivr 373K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.1b PoseidonMOS.lha hard/drivr 476K+Poseidon USB for Pegasos Update 2.1b maguila.lha misc/emu 23M+MAGUILA GUI for MorphOS MAME Viejas-del-Sot.mpg mods/mpg 10M+Dieziseven new song won-zoo1.jpg pix/fauna 148K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo won-zoo2.jpg pix/fauna 151K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo won-zoo3.jpg pix/fauna 83K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo won-zoo4.jpg pix/fauna 147K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo won-zoo5.jpg pix/fauna 145K+Photos from Copenhagen Zoo Pixload-4.0.lha util/rexx 792K+Pixload 4.0 (a tiny "dock" in RXMui) VirusZ.lha util/virus 92K+VirusZ III 0.9e - Antivirus Software (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jun. 2003, 22:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2003` WHDLoad (Website)	Installer: WHDLoad - Additions since 08.06.2003 WHDLoad lets you install floppy based games onto your hard disk. The following additions were made since our last report: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jun. 2003, 15:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2003` AmigaWorld (Website)	Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 12 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 12 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) Bodie: Considering that OS4 has yet to be released, have sales of the AmigaOne thus far largely fallen in line with expectations? Fleecy: Since an AmigaOne is a combination of the certified Eyetech hardware solution and AmigaOS4, it is hard to make any comments about the sales of the hardware alone. People want to buy an AmigaOne so that they can experience the latest version of their favourite operating system running on new and powerful hardware. Eyetech has sold quite a few units of the hardware but as we have not yet completed the full product and pre launch promotion has only just started, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour events, we don't really have any sales expectations for this stage. From our standpoint, this final stage is all about raising the levels of excitement and exposure, building towards the launch stage. 2) Pods: Have you considered Envoy over SMB for network support? What were the pros and cons? What other tools have you considered. Fleecy: SMB is technically quite a let-down in terms of robustness, reliability, performance and general architecture. But it's the only game in town when you want to do printer and file sharing across a heterogeneous network (that is, while it works; printer sharing is at best a black art of sorts). If you don't mind that it can take anything between 5 minutes and three days for changes in the network topology propagate through the SMB server/client chain, that it occasionally refuses to work without any apparent reason and that the Amiga SMB support is nowhere near as polished as it ought to be. Envoy is the best integrated peer to peer file, printer and resource sharing system for the Amiga. However, it is being owned by a third party and would need further polishing to integrate it into the operating system (the user interface needs a brush-up). The downside to Envoy is that it's Amiga-only. 3) alx: Is there any more news on the BlizzardPPC version of OS4? Fleecy: Our partner, Hyperion Entertainment has asked for feedback numbers in order to judge the demand for a BlizzardPPC version. The issue is that we have to move the the platform forwards and so we do not want people to think that a BlizzardPPC is a viable long term solution for the AmigaOS platform. In the short term we will support the CSPPC (even though its hardware implementation leaves a lot to be desired) and most likely the BlizzardPPC (even though it is a few orders of magnitude harder to support than the CSPPC) but this will only be in order to allow owners of these products to test out the new OS and see where we are going with it. In addition, performance on these accelerator driven products will be a far cry for what can be experienced on the new Amiga certified hardware. 4) MetalJoe: What are the requirements/costs for Amiga certification of hardware i.e. to run AmigaOS 4 on a new PowerPC motherboard developed by a start-up? Fleecy: The requirements are simple. Provide a piece of hardware on which AmigaOS4 can potentially run, arrange for it to run on the hardware so that it can pass our certification test suite and convince us that there is a viable commercial market for AmigaOS4 on that piece of hardware. We have been approached in the past by people requesting this information but they have only been interested in small numbers of boards, which makes no commercial sense (unless those third parties want to pay huge premiums per individual board). 5) ssolie: There are some rather vocal members of the Amiga online community who do not trust anything you say and consider you to be a liar. How do you feel about this kind of public criticism and how it may reflect on Amiga Inc. as a whole? Fleecy: I have four kids, one of whom will be a proper teenager soon so I am used to being detested, insulted and called a liar by those with their own agendas, those who lack all the facts and those who just enjoy the pseudo celebrity status that goes with making lots of noise. Public criticism comes with the role of having a public presence. Commercial activity is for adults and in the adult world, things don't always go according to plan, nor in the way that you want or even expect. We have had a very rough last three years and I certainly wouldn't say that we haven't made any mistakes. What is important is that we have held firm, worked with our partners and have kept going. AmigaOnes are now shipping, the AmigaOS4.0 is getting closer and closer to production release, with the AmigaOS4 on Tour programme now under way. That is the only way you can answer criticism, by delivering. 6) DaveP: I have been reading a lot of speculative and unsubstantive articles on Moobunny and ANN about the precense of the Articia S bug - or rather the one that the April 1 chip tried to fix. People posting checksums as evidence that it is the Articia S at fault. Can you give us a definitive, in depth explanation as of the situation right now with A1, Articia S and the relevance of these articles if any? Fleecy: We have spent a lot of time looking at these claims, along with Eyetech, Hyperion, Mai and now Via as well. We have no evidence of the Articia S being responsible for any of the issues claimed. There are well known and documented issues with the Southbridge chip and where it has been used in other systems, those integrators have addressed those using hardware and/or software solutions. Indeed some of the reported issues seem to be because of incomplete implementations or failure to understand the capabilities of the hardware within the specific operating systems on which the problems have been reported. The 200 MB chunk IDE DMA capability is well known and has not yet been addressed within the Linux PPC driver. For AmigaOS, which is of course our chief concern, this is not a problem at all. When looking for a future hardware model, we were concerned about the coarse granularity of the PCI model and in particular the way a single process could take control of the bus. For a platform such as the Amiga, which prides itself on total system responsiveness, this is unacceptable and we had intended to implement these services in a chunk based solution anyway, in preparation for the consideration of other packet based bus architectures that would allow us to deliver our quality based solution for the future. 7) GregS: I had read that OS4 will have filesystem room for User and Group IDs, besides the filename is there another space that could be used for a Universal Unique File ID? Fleecy: The user and group IDs have been in there for quite a while (1992?), it's just that besides Envoy hardly any software package would use them. As for universal unique file identifiers, there isn't an API to create or manage these with, and file system implementations, such as FFS, may not even have room for these in the first place. The 32 bit 'key' numbers associated with each directory entry are a poor substitute. 8) donV: Do you know of any plans for adding complete Java J2SE support for AmigaOS? What about complete Java J2ME support for AmigaDE? Fleecy: Once the AmigaDE is added to the AmigaOS then J2ME functionality will be available. Further Java capabilities are on our 'to do' list but this is a large list and a lot of those items are likely to take precedence over Java. 9) defrisselle: Since you are located in the UK, will you be organizing a stop on the OS4 tour or have to talked to UK resellers/retailers about setting up a stop on the tour? Fleecy: The 'AmigaOS4 on Tour' programme is not an Amiga Inc event, although it has our support. It has been organised by Jurgen Schober of Point Design and other dealers as a taster and promotional event for those dealers, using a demonstration of the new AmigaOS4.0 as a draw. Jurgen is the point man for this and will be driving to each dealership each weekend to demonstrate AmigaOS4.0 on a set of machines. I don't believe he was contacted by a UK dealer. My time is taken up with finalising the pre launch, launch and post launch global marketing campaign for AmigaOS4.0. 10) ikir: OS4 contributions drawer will it contain an office suite (like Star Office, Open Office...)? Fleecy: The AmigaOS4.0 contributions drawer is for third parties, both commercial and free/shareware who want to distribute versions of their applications to AmigaOS4.0 purchasers. Anyone wishing to take advantage of this can contact me directly. I am not aware of an currently being developed office suite existing for the Amiga, even in a 68K version so I don't believe there will be one. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=13 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jun. 2003, 15:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2003` clickBOOM (Website)	clickBOOM: S-Files 23 - History auction The Canadian game publisher clickBOOM is back. clickBOOM released a new edition of the S-files, a regularly published report about the current status of the company. clickBOOM has moved and has also new phone number. In the course of this move clickBOOM will auction an Amiga 4000/PPC wich was used for the creation of some of the most well known Amiga games ever. The device will be signed by the team members. The auction can be found here. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jun. 2003, 15:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2003` Boing Attitude (Website)	Boing Attitude: Photos of AmigaOne XE G4/800 The French online magazine Boing Attitude published some photos of an AmigaOne XE G4/800 which they got in April. These photos depict the mainboard as well as parts of the tower and the running Linux boot systems. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jun. 2003, 15:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2003` Timo Kloss (ANF)	New Midi-Sequencer "Horny" by Inutilis Software Horny will be a Midi Sequencer in the style of "Logic" or "Cubase", whose simple and uncomplicated operation is the center of attention. Differently than its models Horny is to remain however a pure Midi program and can not record audio traces. more ... (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Jun. 2003, 14:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jun.2003` Achim Stegemann (Website)	Digital Almanac III v5.2 and AmiChess v2.0 released Achim Stegemann has released new versions of his reference software titles: The shareware based astronomy application "Digital Almanac III" has managed the jump to version 5.2, the freeware, strong chess simulation AmiChess has been raised to version 2.0. more ... (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 08. Jun. 2003, 22:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jun.2003` Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)	AmigAIM 0.9445 Beta released Yesterday the new version 0.9445 of the Instant Messenger "AmigAIM" has been released by developer Richard H. Poser II. The update contains fixes of some shortcomings in the link handler routines which led to problems when the link wasn't initiated with the usual "http://". Therefore the HTML parser was improved. Besides the bookmarks on the mailing list were changed. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 08. Jun. 2003, 22:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jun.2003` James Daniels (E-Mail)	New maps for Payback A new (Death Match) and an updated map (God's Island) for the GTA clone Payback have been released, which can be downloaded in the "Payback Extra Maps" area of developer Apex Designs' Web site. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 08. Jun. 2003, 14:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jun.2003` Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)	Please vote in the CAPS community poll! Due to the number of requests, the CAPS project's operators are thinking of separating the game disk images from the scans. This basically means that online lags due to the effort of scanning will be avoided. In order to advance the decision about a possible future separation, the community is to be included. As from now there are polls available on the CAPS Web site, participation in which is strongly requested. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 08. Jun. 2003, 14:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jun.2003`	Official screenshots of AmigaOS 4 published The online magazine AmigaWorld has published four official new screenshots of the future AmigaOS 4.0 which show the standard Intuition look of Workbench and at the same time GUI and MUI preferences, a Workbench magnifying glass, the Web browser IBrowse and the launch bar used. Also interesting is the effective font anti aliasing, e.g. the smoothing of the fonts on the user interface. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 08. Jun. 2003, 02:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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