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25.Feb.2002 Christoph Gutjahr (ANF) |
Statement by Alan Redhouse about AmigaOne Alan Redhouse wrote a detailed report about the upcoming AmigaOne for the AmigaOne mailinglist. This text can be found at the titlelink. These are the main points:
A complete copy of Alan Redhouse's mail (added since the Original has been moved elsewhere by Yahoogroups apparently): Message-ID: <012d01c1be23$5d895a60$2501a8c0@cix> An:(ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 25. Feb. 2002, 22:51] [Comments: 2 - 27. Feb. 2002, 21:05] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
25.Feb.2002 AMIGEN-ML |
Amiga Inc. guest of Microsoft Gary Peake announced at the AMIGEN mailinglist: "Yes, Microsoft has asked us to demo DE and some of the developer applications running on various devices in their booth." (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 25. Feb. 2002, 22:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
25.Feb.2002 Michael Asse (ANF) |
Shareware-Re-Release of Frontier Elite II The shareware Amiga version of Frontier Elite II is now available at www.eliteclub.co.uk (title link). It is available as a LHA-file. The registration fee will be 5 UKP. Further information is available in the archive.
Have fun an "Right on Commander ... "
(ps) (Translation: sk) |
25.Feb.2002 Synthetic Development (ANF) |
Turrican 4 (Codename TIV): Pixel artists wanted We are looking for some graphic designers/pixel artists and level designer for Turrican IV (not the official name). This is a non-profit project that means we will not request impossible things.
Everyone who is interested may send a message to shaman4711@bigfoot.com.
Regards,
Shaman
(ps) (Translation: sk) |
25.Feb.2002 Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail) |
File manager: DiskMaster 2.5RC2 Rudolph Riedel has published version 2.5RC2 of DM2 and DM2.guide version 1.99. Changes in short: 2.5RC2 (02-02-24) 72852 Bytes
Download site (ps) |
25.Feb.2002 Thomas Steiding (E-Mail) |
e.p.i.c.: The Feeble Files is shipping Cartoon adventure THE FEEBLE FILES for the Amiga is now shipping. All preorders have been sent out. Find out more on THE FEEBLE FILES in the projects section of our homepage. (ps) [News message: 25. Feb. 2002, 15:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
25.Feb.2002 Alexander Fritsch (ANF) |
Lightwave-utilities: new version of Lightwave Particle Animatior, PPC Support At last there is a new verison of Paul Firth's Lightwave Particle Animator LWPA available now. The new version includes some bugfixes and realy fast versions for WarpUp and MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 25. Feb. 2002, 14:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
25.Feb.2002 (ANF) |
MP3: mp3Play Version 2.02 Carl Svensson has published version 2.02 of his minimalistic GUI "mp3Play" for the MP3-Player "MPEGA". The GUI has been made with ARexx and the rexxreqtools.library. It calls up "MPEGA" in such a way that the player needs only 25 per cent of the CPU time on a 50 Mhz 68060 CPU, according to DashBoard. Compared to the last version a random play function has been added.
Download: mp3Play.lha (14K),
Readme
(ps) |
25.Feb.2002 Keep It Retro website (ANF) |
Beta testing for Quake2 (WarpOS) needed (Update) A beta of Quake 2 for WarpOS can be downloaded from the KeepitRetro.com website. Quake2 is GPL.
Update: |
24.Feb.2002 David Brunet (E-Mail) |
Game: Results of the "AGC Awards 2001" Here are the results of the "AGC Awards 2001" (Amiga Games Classifying). The best released games were:
[News message: 24. Feb. 2002, 22:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
24.Feb.2002 eisblock (ANF) |
Games: AmigaOnlineGames is back again The AmigaOnlineGames homepage is again online after a week's holiday. This homepage offers among other things of list of Amiga games which can be used via a network. (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 24. Feb. 2002, 20:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
24.Feb.2002 Andreas Neus (ANF) |
CD³²-Emulator: Project32 V2.0 On 24 February 2002 version 2.0 of the CD³²-emulator 'Project32' was released. This emulator is based on WinUAE but CD³² and features typical for CDTV have been added. Compared to version 1.1 the following modifications have been made.
[News message: 24. Feb. 2002, 20:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
24.Feb.2002 Markus Lunk (E-Mail) |
Video: SoftCinema V0.17 On 24 February 2002 Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz released version 0.17 of the video player 'SoftCinema'. This version can be downloaded from http://amiga.pl/softcinema/ and http://highantdev.de/softcinema/. Here are the most important modifications:
Please note: Starting from this release, Jacek doesn't work on SoftCinema any longer, so Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has taken over the further development of SoftCinema. Any suggestions, bugreports etc. can be sent to softcinema@frogger.rules.pl. (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 24. Feb. 2002, 18:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
24.Feb.2002 Dennis Lohr (ANF) |
DBPro-Competition: Only 4 days left... Dennis Lohr writes: You can still send in your song(s) for the DigiboosterPro competition up to and including 28 February 2002. The competition will be carried out in 3 categories:
[News message: 24. Feb. 2002, 18:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
24.Feb.2002 (ANF) |
MP3: Registration for mp3Play possible Carl Svensson, author of mpega-GUI 'mp3Play', would like you to register for 'mp3Play' free of charge. «Since mp3Play has had quite a few downloads since I first put it online, I thought it would be nice to know where all you people live. Please support the further development of mp3Play by registering. Registering is free and your e-mail adress will not be visible on the web, neither will it be used in any kind of bulk mail activities or similar. It's just an identifier to keep the registrations unique.» (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 24. Feb. 2002, 18:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
24.Feb.2002 Czech Amiga News (ANF) |
AmigaOS: PPC native version of Picasso96 for AmigaOS 4.x Ben Hermans from Hyperion Entertainment confirms in the following quotation that a PPC native version of Picasso96, the graphic driver system of AmigaOS 4.0, will be part of AmigaOS 4.x. «Ben Hermans: "We hereby confirm the inclusion of a PPC native version of P96 in OS 4.x. The P96 team which consists of Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt are very valuable members of the OS 4 development team, in fact so valuable that Hyperion already entered into an 8 page OEM license agreement with them on October 10, 2001 (!). The agreement provides for:
It would be a welcomed change if anybody with doubts about the veracity of the announced feature-list of OS 4 would contact us rather than rely on untrustworthy individuals for information." Ben Hermans, Managing partner Hyperion Entertainment» (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 24. Feb. 2002, 17:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
24.Feb.2002 Ralf Steines (E-Mail) |
Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.21R1 As from now the Win32 Port of the Amiga Emulator 'UAE' won't be continued by Brian King any more. Toni Wilen, who has worked on WinUAE for some time, will be taking over. Last night Toni Wilen released his first version, WinUAE 0.8.21R1. The WinUAE homepage is available under http://www.winuae.net/ and it is hosted by back2roots.org.
Ralf Steines: "I think that Toni is full of energy and able to work very fast.
We're lucky that he takes over the work on Win32 Port. Something better
could not have happened (and I'm sure that also UAE will profit from this).
The new version is really excellent! |
24.Feb.2002 Elbox Computer (E-Mail) |
Elbox: MediatorUP 2.9 The MediatorUP 2.9 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users has been made available today.
The driver includes a new pci.library: From version 5.1 on, the pci.library enables simultaneous functioning of the THOR's MMULib package in both modes of pci.library operation (NO_MMU and MMU).
The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver: The new driver accelerates all the main blitter functions. Overlay support has been added.
The update includes the latest versions of the driver for Voodoo card family:
An incorrect border colour change has been eliminated in the Voodoo.card driver,
which could occur in ver. 2.11 driver when 8-bit screen was switched to any
other colour depth.
(ps) |
24.Feb.2002 Elbox Computer (E-Mail) |
Elbox: Mediator Multimedia UP 1.13 The MM CD 1.13 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has also been released by ELBOX Computer.
The update includes the a new version of the following drivers: Support for S3 ViRGE DX has been added. The list (http://www.elbox.com/mediator_driver_guide.html#TV_TUNER) of cards supported by the tv.library has been expanded. Now tv.library supports 93 TV card models.
MM CD 1.13 includes the updated developer's documentation for tv.library. (ps) |
24.Feb.2002 Mirko Naumann (E-Mail) |
Test: Bridge adapter IDE for SCSI + 100 GB harddisc in Amiga Author: Mirko Naumann Only some time ago Amiga users complained that it's not worthwhile to install modern E-IDE harddiscs in Amiga since the existing controllers are not able to keep up with the capacity. Once I was of the same opinion and therefore I installed expensive UW-SCSI and U160-SCSI harddiscs in both my Amigas. Compared to my former IDE harddiscs this was clearly a step ahead but unfortunately the capacity was really ridiculous considering how much I had paid for discs.
Some time ago I read an article about IDE for SCSI bridge adapters and
I bought a couple of them instantly. It's the top model of 'ACARD Technology',
the AEC-7720UW (title link) which transforms UDMA 33/66/100 drives in
UW-SCSI models (40 MB/s). To make it worthwhile, I bought a 100 GB discdrive
for each of my Amigas from
Western Digital (Caviar WD1000BB).
When everything has been connected properly, you can use the harddiscs for AmigaOS without any problems. They are recognised as if they were UW discs. Since Westen Digital calculates 1 KB with 1000 instead of 1024 bytes, it's no surprise that only 93,1 GB are available. This is to be expected. Formatted with PFS-3 V18.5, only 88,4 GB remain. As to the speed: SysSpeed V2.6 calculated for CreateFile 25.93, WriteFile 32.74, ReadFile 20.91 and RawRead 25.40 MB/s. Compared to my Quantum Atlas 10K and Atlas V this is 2-3 times faster and the discs make hardly any noise. Conclusion: I can recommend the adapter to anybody who wants capacity and speed. And it's hardly possible to find a SCSI disc for a better price. As to the price: The discs are available at 236,-EUR each, the adapters for 92,- EUR and the disc cooler for 15,-EUR. That comes to 343,- EUR for a 100 GB disc. In comparison: A 73,4 GB U160-SCSI disc costs 1089,- EUR and isn't much faster.
Another tip: Don't take UDMA-133. Take UDMA-100. The adapter should be
available from any well-equipped Amiga dealer.
Have fun!
(ps) (Translation: sr) |
24.Feb.2002 Mirko Naumann (E-Mail) |
Hardware: Internal CD-rewriter + DVD-Rom drive PlexCombo 20/10/40/-12A Although the PlexWriter 40/12/40A was only released in Germany a little while ago, Plextor has topped this rewriter by releasing the CD-ReWriter + DVD-Rom Drive PlexCombo 20/10/40/-12A (title link). It is the first rewriter of the 10x RW generation which can be installed as a DVD-Rom drive.
The new drive describes CD-R with 20x zone CLV, CD-RWs with 10x CLV,
it reads CDs with up to 40x CAV and DVD with 12x (16.2 MB/s).
It has a data buffer of 2 MB and is based on BurnProof technology.
The price hasn't been fixed yet.
(ps) (Translation: sr) |
24.Feb.2002 Mirko Naumann (E-Mail) |
Hardware: CD-rewriter Plextor: 40x rewriter for the ATAPI interface As already reported on 2 February 2002, Plextor is now offering a 40x rewriter for the ATAPI interface (E-IDE). Here just a brief update by Mirko Naumann:
The PlexWriter 40/12/40A is now also available in Germany. The price of
the bulk version (drive, instruction book, PlexTools, E-IDE (ATAPI) cable
and audio cable) is around 215,-EUR while the retail version with additional
5 CD-R, 1CD-RW, the PC-Sofware Nero + InCD and a few installation screws costs
around 230,-EUR. According to US advertisements you can write a CD-R
in about 3 minutes. In any case this is probably the fastest and best
equipped CD rewriter on the market. Other companies have only stocked
32x and 36x rewriters. In addition, the PlexWriter can easily create
security copies (1:1) of copy-protected CDDAs such as BravoHits 34.
(ps) (Translation: sr) |
24.Feb.2002 Christoph Gutjahr (ANF) |
Functional AmigaOne was presented on alt.WOA According to a brief message from alt.WOA which Don Cox has posted on the AmigaOne mailing list (English original available via the title link) a fully functional AmigaOne was presented at the fair. "I've just returned from Alt WOA in Huddersfield. It might interest you that Alan Redhouse received a fully functional AmigaOne motherboard this morning, which he presented at the fair. It seems that Escena had Linux run on this board (until OS4 is ready). The motherboard seems to be working fine although Alan only managed to get the booting process up-and-running up to the BIOS in the short period of time that was available to him. The specifications have really been improved compared to earlier versions. The production of the motherboard begins in six weeks.
The announced (estimated) price was really reasonable. I think that Alan
will let you know the details very soon."
A more expensive CPU version is also available. Prices haven't been
announced yet.
(ps) (Translation: sr) |
23.Feb.2002 Mario Cattaneo (ANF) |
Magic Menu v2.34 Today has Magic Menu version 2.34 been released that now has among other things direct Amithlon support. Enjoy it.
Magic Menu is a commodity that strongly enhances Intuition menus of the Amiga in
many ways. On the first start one surely recognises immediately the new modern
and three-dimensional look of the menus. But that isn't all. Furthermore offers
Magic Menu the possibility of so called pop-up menus i.e. menus that are
activated at any given point on the screen appear at just this point. In
addition offers Magic Menu a very comfortable menu control via keyboard if
needed.
(ps) (Translation: wk) |
23.Feb.2002 Kultpower (ANF) |
Kultpower: Amiga Joker special, new reviews and cover scans Taken from the PC Joker issue 11/2000 there's now the scanned 6-pages Amiga Joker special. Here you can read a summary of the Amiga Joker history and the Amiga history incl. interviews with Petro Tyschtschenko, Julian Eggebrecht (Factor 5) and Benjamin Yoris (Hyperion).
New added are also 21 new PowerPlay reviews, scanned by Scotty, 3 new covers of
Club Nintendo: issue 2/94 and special issues for N64 and for Mario World 2, 2
new Videogames reviews: Super Turrican (SuperNES) and Super Turrican 2 (Super
NES) and 6 new Videogames covers: issue 9/2000 and 5 specials.
(ps) (Translation: wk) |
23.Feb.2002 ScummVM Website (ANF) |
Game: New MorphOS-Version of ScummVM 0.1.0 Rüdiger Hanke: In the interpreter itself, not much has happened - 'cept first support for some older games (including the 256 color (sic) Zak McKracken). It's not even remotely enough, though, to even consider playing through a few rooms. But I have changed two issues about the MorphOS part:
Which leads me to a much nicer issue, that being the new MorphOS
driver which has been rewritten from the scratch (yet once more ;-))
and is now really really cute :-)) Also, it does contain music support
now (phew! that was quite some work ...). It'll need some horsepower,
though. Best get a G3 Pegasos to fully enjoy it ;-) |
23.Feb.2002 Philippe Bourdin (ANF) |
Editor: GoldED syntax parser for HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and more Phillippe Bourdin: With this I'd like to release a new version of the alternative GoldED syntax parser. This syntax parser bases on the orginal one developed by Dietmar Eilert and replaces it. Functions are the recognising and colored highlighting of: program blocks, brackets, special characters, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, JSP, ASP and HSC. The colors can each be set up in the GoldED preferences. In addition have many bugs of the orginal version and the last version been fixed. The Aminet upload can take some days. On my homepage there's of course always the latest archive available for download.
Download: html-php.lha (version 3.5)
(ps) (Translation: wk) |
23.Feb.2002 USENET (ANF) |
Magazine: Issue 107 (March 2002) of famous Commodore 64 magazine The new issue of Zzap!64 (aka the world's greatest C64 magazine) that has been lovingly created over the last 6 months by a band of dedicated fans is now finally available! Download it from http://www.zzap64.co.uk. (ps) [News message: 23. Feb. 2002, 14:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
23.Feb.2002 Haage & Partner |
PC: H&P takes on the distribution of Xara in Germany The English specialist for web graphics software XARA Ltd. makes HAAGE&PARTNER Computer exclusive distributor for the German language area. The port folio contains the PC illustration program XaraX and the PC webgraphics programs Xara Webstyle and Xara3D.
Registered users of DrawStudio 2 or ArtEffect 4 will get a special offer for a
cross update. (ps) (Translation: wk) |
23.Feb.2002 AmigAIM |
Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9441 Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9441 of the AIM compatible messenger software AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client to connect with the America Online Instant Messenger (AIM service). Here's an excerpt taken from the history where you can find the changes made:
[News message: 23. Feb. 2002, 13:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
23.Feb.2002 Fr3dy's Amiga Web Page |
Fr3dY's Software Updates: RipMIME V2.15 - Normalize V0.7.2 RipMIME is a little tool that extract the MIME files attached to a file (an email file for example).
Normalize is a tool that allows you to modify the volume of sound files
(wav, mp3...). It's useful for CD compilations, with songs from different
sources, making it sound at same level.
(ps) |
23.Feb.2002 ScummVM Amiga Homepage (ANF) |
Game: WarpSDL Library v0.3 for WarpSCUMM Adam Waldenberg released version 0.3 of WarpSDL.library for AmigaOS 68k/PPC (WOS). This version fixes some issues in WarpSCUMM. Chances in detail:
Additional information about ScummVM is available here. Download: WarpSDL_0.3usr.lha
Additional information about
ScummVM - Amiga Ports.
(ps) |
23.Feb.2002 Jürgen Lange (ANF) |
Amiga Inc.: New Executive Update from Bill McEwen Bill McEwen just released a new Executive Update: Bill McEwen - February 22, 2002 Greetings to the Global Amiga family, Yes, I know that it has been more than a week, and yes the deal is still on, and yes we are moving very quickly as I will outline to you all below I want to personally thank our friends and families for sticking with us and with our dreams as they are coming to reality. As Amiga has matured over the last two years, and our plans only slightly changed I would like to say thank you to each and every one of you for your patience and excitement as we move forward. In 1999 Amiga, Inc. decided to take a very different road than the ones previously charted for the community. It was met, by some, with disbelief, most with excitement as a path was being laid towards a future where digital content would be accessed by any digital device. Amiga selected an unknown partner in the Tao-Group of Reading England, and I can assure you that this was the best decision we have made. Tao and Amiga have never been closer as a true partnership is in place. I want to thank Francis Charig my dear friend, and the rest of the Tao team as they been instrumental to the successes that will become public knowledge soon. However with all of the great plans that were in place and the product development that had started there was still the issue of having funds necessary to make it all happen, and the addition of Frank Wilde as our Chairman has been amazing help, and I can say we are moving forward in ways that are going to bring Amiga to new levels, and I could not be more happy with the results that we are seeing. Thank you to everyone of you who are keeping the faith and spreading the truth about Amiga. I have several announcements that are happening here, and you need to know that we are definitely going to have more Amiga enabled products ship in 2002 than in any year previous.
I can assure you that your patience will be met with great rewards, and there are many others who are now learning what you have known. That Amiga has the most robust, talented, dedicated community of any computing platform today or in the future. Thank you again for your continued prayers and support. You are about to be rewarded. Amiga to Deploy AmigaDE on Nokia Infotainment Device for the Home Liz Barnick Joins Amiga as Director, Business Development David Brott Joins Amiga as Director, Business Development With my best to everyone, Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team (cd) [News message: 23. Feb. 2002, 12:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
23.Feb.2002 c't 05/2002 |
c't 05/2002: test of emulation software Amithlon, Amiga XL und WinUAE In the popular German computer magazin "c't" the authors Torsten Kleinz and Murat Özkilic tested the three Amiga-emulators Amithlon, Amiga XL and WinUAE. Result: Amithlon is the fastes one of the emulators. (cd) [News message: 23. Feb. 2002, 11:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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