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Archive 06/2002


15.Jun.2002
Christian Sahle (ANF)


Filesystem: SmartFileSystem version 1.195
Since 20th May 2002 version 1.195 of Smartfilesystem can be downloaded under the following link.

SFS.lha (ps) (Translation: cb)

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15.Jun.2002
Grimme Institut (ANF)


Grimme-Online-Award for Telepolis
The online magazine Telepolis has won the Grimme-Online-Award in the category media journalism. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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15.Jun.2002
Thomas Dellert (email)


DCE: new pictures of G3 CPU card production
In the gallery on the DCE website you can find new images showing the production of the G3 CPU card for Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Jun.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena: full version "Flamingo Tours ECS"
The travel manager "Flamingo Tours" by "Sayonara Software" is available for download. Special thanks go to Jo Seitz for the permission and to Kai W. for making the original version available. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Jun.2002
Amiga RC5 Team Effort


RC5-64: 80% of the possibilities calculated
This world wide competition is aiming at cracking a 64 bit key by calculating all 18,4 trillions possibilities. To achieve this an uncountable number of computers is working together all over the world by using a small program to make free computing time available for calculating purposes. Since August 1997 is the Amiga-RC5-Team-Effort participating in this competition to bring the Amiga back into the public's awareness.

For the time being have 80% of the possible combinations been calculated. It is expected that the key will be cracked at the latest in 188 days. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Jun.2002
OnyxSoft


OnyxSoft: updates of BackUp, DRemind, MultiRen and Detris
BackUp, a small data saving tool, has been released in version 1.31. DRemind version 1.61 can remember you of your important dates. MultiRen, the tool for files renaming, is now available in version 1.5.

In addition has OnyxSoft opened a special page for beta versions where you can find the latest beta versions of Detris and Graphica (Stefan Blixth). All programs but Graphica are written by Daniel Westerberg.

Download:
backup.lha
dremind.lha
multiren.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Jun.2002
Golem - IT News


Golem: new GeForce4 graphics cards by Asus, Gainward and Visiontek
»GeForce4 MX 420 graphics cards for PCI bus, too
Asus, Gainward and Visiontek have announced the delivery of new graphics boards with GeForce4 MX and GeForce4 4200 graphics processing units by NVidia. These cover also two GeForce4 MX graphics cards for the PCI bus for owners of older PCs without AGP bus.«
Full (German) article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Jun.2002
A.D.A.


A.D.A.: Demo archive updated - new sort functions and much more
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) has been updated. Here is the complete text containing all the changes:

Update with 6 new productions, including 5 party winners: Repugnance/Powerline (1st at Icing 97), Jesus was a demomaker/Ramses (1st at Euskal 6), Grid/Nature (1st at Mekka Symposium 1999), Real/Complex (1st at Saturne 2). Then we go way back in time with the first 1988 release on A.D.A.: Wild Copper demo/Wild Copper (aaahhh, the scroller on the workbench brings back some nice memories!). And then another party winner and a real classic in amiga demo history, Enigma/Phenomena (1st at Anarchy Eastern party 91)!!

Other news: it's now possible to sort the complete demo list by year (just select "view by release date" and press "refresh view"). Thanks to pVC on ANN for this idea. And we are working on a comment/vote system. It's not finished yet but it is already possible to register, vote and comment. So now it's in your hands to make this site much more interesting!!! More additions to the voting/comment will be added (like top demo charts,...).

What the future brings? More demos, demos and demos! Please think about voting/comments as it would really add something wonderful to this site! Enjoy! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Jun.2002
Ron van Schaik (Guestbook)


Event: Saturday 15 June: Commodore meeting
Saturday 15 Juni there's a great C= meeting at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen from 10:00 till 16:00. Look for map at: http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/route.htm. It will be a very busy and special meeting. This time we have an Amiga 1200 demonstration on the Internet. It will be a very international meeting because we expect visitors from Holland, Germany, Belgium, England and America. You can ask everything about Wheels and C64 SID music. There are new clubmagazines, the latest Zzap!64 and newsletters to take away. There are also people around that can repair your computer and supplies. Be there, it will be fun !!! (ps)

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15.Jun.2002
Jürgen Schober (E-Mail)


Event: O.A.S.E. postponed until September 2002
Jürgen Schober of point.design writes: Again this year I am going to organize the O.A.S.E. - Open Amiga Southeast Europe Show in Graz (Austria). Unfortunately we are not going to meet the original date of the 20th of June.

The new target date is the weekend of the 14th and 15th of September 2002, in the Hotel Europa. We plan to have Amiga demonstrations of USB, PCI, PowerPC solutions and (I hope) OS 4.0 on the Amiga One.

Updated information may be found after 1st July at www.oase.at Unfortunately I can't put this undertaking on my homepage anymore, because of time restrictions. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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14.Jun.2002
Vinnny (E-Mail)


Audio Player: AmigaAMP Final-Version 2.9
After Thomas Wenzel got his PPC running again, he compiled the final version (2.9) of AmigaAMP and offered it as freeware. Why? He doesn't have a lot of time to develop it more, and at any rate doesn't have time to support it. Bug reports und suggestions may be emailed but chances are they won't be answered..

Further Mr. Wenzel is making it known that the old mailing list (the one on MajorDomo) is being deactivated so no spam will be emailed through it. In the place of the mailing list a web-based forum will be opened, in a short while.

AmigaAMP is an audio player with a graphic user-interface. The mpega.library is used to decode on the 68K processors. The PPC version uses the AMP decoder. Furthermore the sndfile.library allows the playing of AIFF, WAV und 8SVX files. Sound is output successfully over the AHI Audio System.

Requirements:
  • AmigaOS 3.0 or higher
  • 68030-50MHz Processor or better
  • mpega.library (Aminet:util/libs/mpega_library.lha)
  • asyncio.library (Aminet:dev/c/AsyncIO.lha)
  • AHI audio system (Aminet:mus/misc/ahiusr.lha)

Download: AmigaAMP29.lha (545 KB) (ps) (Translation: dm)

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14.Jun.2002
David Brunet (E-Mail)


E-Zine: Obligement 33 is now out
Issue 33 of the famous French e-zine is now available. You can read in this issue: latest Amiga news, interviews of Paul Strejcek, Fleecy Moss and Stéphane Georget, a report of AmigaFun 2002, reviews of AMP 2.04 and Glow Icon Collection 2, articles about Emulation and AmigaDE, and a lot more! Download it from the website: http://obligement.free.fr. (ps)

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14.Jun.2002



amiga-news.de: IP-address has been changed
We have got a new IP-address. It may take 24 hours until all Domain Name Servers (DNS) will know the new address. Because of that this site may be temporarily not accessed. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jun.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


USB: HIGHWAY + DraCo
The HIGHWAY USB-controller has been successfully tested with a DraCo. Unfortunately it took much more time to find a test device in the area of Munich. The list of the supported USB-devices has been also updated because of the many reports of our users. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jun.2002
Maik Schultheis (ANF)


AmiGate with new design
Amigate now with improved design. Because of that the use is much more simple and flexible.

Now there is the opportunity to become member of the "Club Amigate" and thus to profit of diverse actions. Send a mail to: Club@amigate.de which contain your name and with the topic: "Member Club Amigate" if you want to be booked as a member. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jun.2002
Chaos Update (CCC-ML)


CCC: Establishment of the European Digital Rights (EDRI)
Chaos Computer Club Press release 13th June 2002

European Digital Rights:

An international civil organisation for the Internet

European Digital Rights (EDRi) which is an international civil organisation for the Internet has been etablished on 8th June 2002 in Berlin. Ten organisations from seven countries from the European Union have bundled their forces to defend the human rights in Europe in the digital era of the information and communication technology. The residence of EDRi will be Brussels.

These are the foundation members: Bits of Freedom (Netherlands), Chaos Computer Club (CCC, Germany), Digital Rights (Denmark), Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFi, Finnland), Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR, United Kingdom), Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (FITUG, Germany), Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire (IRIS, France), Privacy International (United Kingdom), Quintessenz (Austria) und Verein für Internet- Benutzer (VIBE!AT, Austria).

European Digital Rights (EDRi) : http://www.edri.org (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jun.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


Bill Buck und Raquel Velasco Comment on Pegasos, MorphOS, AmigaOS4
A few days ago Thendic-France (the distributor of Pegasos) issued a press release on ANN. A wideranging discussion on the theme of Pegasos followed, in which Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (of Thendic) regularly took part. See also News message and comments on amiga-news.de from 6th June, 2002.

Martin Heine brought together the majority of the relevant comments from Bill und Raquel on morphos-news.de and we present them here in a minorly edited version.

Pegasos Production (Dates, Distribution), MorphOS

1) PRODUCTION RUN: "The next scheduled production run is for 50 boards. In July we will produce up to 500. This is what we have ordered/budgeted for components. The final amount will depend on demand and if all our component orders can be fulfilled. To date complete machines have been configured for the bplan/MorphOS/Thendic development team. We have also configured a small number of machines for a special shipment to an *outside* development group in the US. These computers were shipped prior to 1 June." "You can probably buy a Pegasos in August and maybe in July if you are lucky. In this case, you would have to contact TerraSoft Solutions (www.yellowdoglinux.com)."

"What we are selling *commercially* is the mainboard with the IBM G3 PPC indicated on our websites. This mainboard will be configured by resellers and packaged by them to meet the demands of their customers. At this point, neither Thendic nor bplan will configure complete machines for commercial release. For customers, the latest version of MorphOS will be available online as it is today and it will work on the machine. Of course, the MorphOS team will continue to enhance the features and flexibility of the OS and there will be new releases. We hope this will process will continue in the normal course of business for some time. Yellow Dog Linux can also be installed on the Pegasos, as well as other Linux PPC based operating systems -- they work too."

"for the record we want to repeat that MorphOS is and will be updated online. Ralph and the MorphOS team will release new versions and upgrades as they have. This will continue. There will be something there *on the net* when it is time for customers who purchase a desktop machine with "Pegasos inside"."

"The bplan team will use the production facilities of DCE and will produce the boards and operate the fabrication machines themselves." "We are working with DCE because we can do that there as if it was our own shop. Forget all the other BS. There is no conspiracy against anything...has anyone noticed that the official bplan/MorphOS team has been absent from all these discussions for months? That is because they are hard at work and they know what they have to do. They are working with a great deal of confidence and they should be! The Pegasos and MorphOS are both great products. Is DCE involved in those activities...no. When we are ready to make a board we go to DCE and bring everything we need with us. That is it..." "All the Pegasos machines we have shipped and the mainboards we will ship this week have Northbridges. I ask you how anyone would know this [that there were no northbridges available]? Did Mai tell him? I think not as we speak to them nearly three or four times a week."

2) PROCESSOR BOARDS: "We have the Motorola XPC7455RX1000SC and the XPC7445RX867LC now and are in the process of achieving PCB verification. Motorola is also assisting us in getting samples of the XPC7455RX867P. We have others and have tested them. We are working on it. Gerald and Thomas are very good, but there are many other things to do now too. Power consumption is our primary focus. All the machines are FAST." "Yes, those Motorola processors we referenced were G4s."

3) AmigaOS 4: "What we think of OS4 is irrelevant and has nothing to do with our business. We sell the Pegasos mainboard." "We do not need anything from Amiga Inc. The version of MorphOS that runs natively on a PPC does not need Amiga OS anything..." "It is true we have moved away from Amiga Inc. and we do not have the same level of interest in cooperating with them today as we did before. Time marches on and we simply don't want to waste any more effort." "We sell the Pegasos mainboard. Please speak to your preferred reseller about how you want this to be configured and then buy one from him. You want to load OS4 you are now free to figure out how to do this. That is up to you -- not us!" "The most important thing is this: we are not interested in doing anything to get OS4 running on the Pegasos. Someone else is welcome to and we will support them. The main reason is because we will not devote the resources or time to become "amiga" approved." "The Pegasos mainboard can be configured by resllers and if they are able to get Amiga "approval" then great!"

"No resellers have approached us with regard to the Amiga Inc. licensing issue, but all of the well know resellers have contacted us about getting product. The requirements are a ten board minimum purchase. For pricing you have to send us an email...:) "

4) PEGASOS MARKET / ECLIPSIS: "Again, the Pegasos is a DEVELOPMENT MACHINE for the eclipsis." "In the meanwhile, what is the market for the Pegasos (while the eclipsis is in development)? Probably: a) Linux users, b) embedded system developers, c) application developers that want to do rendering on stacked boards with dual processors or build something very special that has a huge amount of processing power... " "Will "Amiga" be a big market for us? We do not think so. First, because we are not an official Amiga piece of hardware, and secondly because we are using MorphOS. The two just don't go together."

"I did not mean to give you the impression we were not interested in the "Amiga market." I think you know our history with the (platform). We will be very happy -- all of us -- if you can buy the Pegasos as a "ready fitted desktop machine." [...] But, we all have to admit that the "Amiga market" has atrophied a bit. This will not be the *big* market for the Pegasos -- just realistically speaking. The Pegasos will create its own demand." "We never said the trademark [Amiga] was worthless! In Germany it is quite good. UK too. France, Italy, Spain, it is not quite as good, but it is still OK. But, it is not for us...maybe something else. The problem *for us* is what is it now? Is it something from before? Is it something for the future? What is it today? It is all to confusing. The biggest challenge the eclipsis will face is a marketing one. What is it? Its everything! That sounds way too positive. The marketing approach needs to be built around simple concepts. "It has to do what people do already just more easily and anywhere." This is a huge challenge. There is too much baggage in the "Amiga" name for this -- FOR US. The Pegasos is a piece of hardware and this we are convinced will stand on its own. It does not need the association. We build toward the eclipsis with the success of the Pegasos. That is phase one. MorphOS will ride the wave...:) These are our ambitions."

The key is to be unique as a package. Linux is what has created the big opportunity for the Pegasos. Hopefully, "amiga" can contribute to this success too. But, the next step is a combination of hardware and an OS that is dedicated and ready to do something new." "The Pegasos is a great desktop machine. We are going to sell plenty of them. But again, ultimately the idea is that you have something small and modular. This is the "mini-pegasos" or what we call today the eclipsis. The eclipsis is mobile and described on www.thendic-france.com. There is a docking station and here what is too cumbersome or power-demanding remains plugged into the wall (and connected by wire to the internet). Remember the duo dock from Apple? That is the basic idea. Of course, when the main board can be that small you could make a laptop, etc. All the features you referenced are planned."

"Well, we really do not feel like rebels, more like veterans. There are other similar products coming about the same time. The Oqo and Tiqit 83 are also mini-computers and have compatible interfaces for standard computer peripherals. Both are Windows platforms. Then, you have the Nokia 9290 and the Treo 270 which are more phones than computers, but clearly things are moving in that direction. The Nokia uses SymbianOS and supports JAVA. The Treo is kind of neat, but not as capable as the high end Nokia (PalmOS). The prices are high. The Oqo is targeted at $1000, the Tiqit at "laptop prices" and the Nokia and Treo at $599 and $699 *without* concessions from the mobile operator. There in the UK you can get one at Dixon's with a year long service agreement for significantly less. In any case, we think we can beat these prices without too much effort. The issue will be performance vs. power requirements and feature set.

We think with the efficiencies of MorphOS (with the JVM Allan Havemose is developing) and all the money and research being poured into low-power PPC processors (by two very large companies who are interested in the Pegasos) that we will be in the right place at the right time. Our "development platform" is ready and it will be stable well before the first "mini-pegasos" is released. This creates some big advantages for us and will we need them. We do not have any illusions about what a challenge this will be. We will seek strategic partnerships. The wireless operators in Europe are the ultimate target." "We are managing the distribution process. bplan has more important things to do now!" (ps) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jun.2002
GFX-BASE


GFX-BASE: Interview with Emanuele Cesaroni in German
GFX-BASE has translated their April 2002 interview with Emanuele Cesaroni (originally in English) into German. You'll find this under the title link.

Emanuele Cesaroni of Nexus Development, the programmer of the game PuzzleBOBs, is now working on a new game called PDAng that should come out for AmigaOS and AmigaDE.

The game looks to be quite promising and a lot of fun. GFX-BASE was nosey, and asked Emanuele about PDAng and its features, hardware requirements, and future plans. They got an exclusive and new screenshots of the game. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jun.2002
Peter Hutchison


Printer: New Driver for HP Deskjet 600C/400C
Peter Hutchison has produced an updated version of his HP Deskjet 600C/400C printer driver. Changes: speed and compression.

Print systems like TurboPrint or Print Studio should not be combined with this driver. There are binaries for 68000, 68020 and 68040 in the archives. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jun.2002
Oliver Roberts


Modem: SoloControl Version 1.1
Oliver Roberts, who is know for his Warp-datatypes, has come up with a modem control program called ´SoloControl.´ It's for the Pace 56 Solo modem. The current version (1.1) requires an Amiga with a 68020 processor or better, and at least Kickstart 2.04.

Download: SoloControl.lha (21 KB)

Here are a few of the features:
  • Modify the Solo's clock
  • Turn call monitoring on/off
  • Switch answerphone on/off
  • Set number of rings before answerphone answers
  • Set number of rings before the Solo automatically switches the answerphone on (should it be switched off)
  • Toggle power saving mode on/off
  • Display detailed statistics on your last modem connection
  • Display all the calls in the CallerID log
  • Erase the calls in the CallerID log

Amongst other things, this makes it easily possible to keep logs of your connection statistics, and to keep your Solo's clock in synchronisation with your Amiga's system clock. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jun.2002
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)


AmigaOS XL: Experiences with the H&P Big Tower 1800+ (Version 1.23)
In my report, I describe the experiences I have made with the Big-Tower. Version 1.23 of the report contains several additions in the chapters "Introduction", "Harddisk", "Amithlon", "AmigaXL" and "QNX". Also, the chapters have been sorted again, so that the "Software" chapter is again at the end.

Note: Amiga-Voyager shows only ads instead of the pictures. Therefore, I still recommend to use AWeb or disable background images in Amiga-Voyager. A move to a better server is also planned. (ps)

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13.Jun.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)


AMIGA Aktuell 06/2002 has Appeared
The June edition of Amiga Aktuell is out and may also be read on our website in HTML or even downloaded in AmigaGuide format.

Attention: To ensure the future existence of the magazine, we *urgently* need more honorary contributors in every subject, but especially interviewers, authors of background articles with respect to current reports, and a "Newsmaster." Without this help we can't guarantee we'll be able to produce Amiga Aktuell for much longer. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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13.Jun.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)


Elbox: MIRAGE for A3000D Available after 21st June, 2002
If your current Amiga 3000D is left in the desktop case, Mirage 3000 is the must-have solution for you. Mirage 3000 is a modern, functional and spacious tower case. It is designed for those Amiga 3000D users who have upgraded or want to upgrade their computers with the Mediator PCI 3000D busboard.

Mirage 3000 equipped with a powerful 300W PSU is prepared for massive expandability of the A3000 hardware.

Be ready for the future!
Along with the new operational system, AmigaOS4, and SharkPPC G3/G4-series cards for the Mediator PCI 3000D busboard, your Amiga 3000D Mirage will be one of the most efficient Amiga computers of the new generation.

Mirage 3000 Tower SRP - Availability: from 21 June 2002

For more information and price see: Mirage 3000 webpage. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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