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Archive 11/2002


09.Nov.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena: interview with Torsten Giebl (Turricane 4 Ever)
If there's any cult figure on the Amiga existing then it is "Turrican"! A game that had set new standards at its time and had an ongoing influence on a whole genre.

In 1993 the "Turrican" series had ceased on the Amiga with the release of the third part but Turricane lives! With the project "Turricane 4 Ever" exists the possibility of the hero of old times returning to the Amiga.

The Amiga Arena spoke to Torsten Giebl who's working with his team on an unofficial successor and asked for details about the game's progress and how this project came to live. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Nov.2002
Andreas Günther (ANF)


ScanQuix for USB scanners
The known scan software is now also available in a version for USB scanners. The software package "ScanQuix USB" is based on the proven software "ScanQuix 5" and works with the scanners "HP ScanJet 2200c" and "Epson Perfection 1250". Next to the drivers for these scanners is among other things software for saving, printing and post-processing of the scanned pictures as well as there is for easy creating photo copies.

"ScanQuix USB" needs an USB card with the Poseidon USB stack (e.g. HIGHWAY by E3B). Because of the teamwork with E3B and Chris Hodges (Poseidon) who have actively supported the project is a flawless use also via the USB connection guaranteed.

"ScanQuix USB" is available at Vesalia Computer. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


fxPAINT 2.0 in December
We are proud to announce the long awaited version 2.0 of fxPAINT today.

fxPAINT 2.0 includes many new features, that will open up new graphical horizons to you. Besides the generally improved working speed and many new effects, a lot has been done at the modules, too. The fxALBUM- and fxCONV(batch processing)-modules have been heavily extended, new modules like e.g. the "Navigation Builder" and the "Color variations"-wizard have been added.

One of the most important new features is the support for gradients that may consist of a theoretically unlimited number of colors and transparency-values. Together with the also brand-new gradient tool you can easily add gradients to pictures or use them as background.

Furthermore direct support for Truetype®-fonts, PNG-files (loading and saving, incl. all options like alpha-channel, etc.), the system clipboard and Turboprint has been added. The ARexx-port and its nearly 90 new commands as well as the numerous scripts contained offer additional functionality.

fxPAINT 2.0 will, besides the support for 68K-systems, also offer native support for MorphOS, Amithlon, PowerUP and WarpUP and thus, independant of which platform it runs on, allow you to work at full speed. An adaption for AmigaOS 4.0 is already being worked on and will be made available as a free download upon the time of completion.

An overview over all, including many more, new features as well as the possibility to purchase fxPAINT 2.0 at a time-limited special price can be found on the all-new fxPAINT 2.0 subpages. Delivery is scheduled for the first half of December 2002. (ps)

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09.Nov.2002
sylvio k. (ANF)


Avcodec.Library for 68k and PPC released on Aminet
On the Aminet have the Amiga ports of the ffmpeg libs appeared:

Short: Audio and Video codec library for 68+PPC CPUs
Author: chip@amiga.rulez.org (Csaba Simon)
Uploader: chip@amiga.rulez.org (Csaba Simon)
Version: 1.45
Type: gfx/misc
Downlaod: avcodeclib.lha

This shared library is an Amiga port of the opensource ffmpeg project's libavcodec static library. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg)

This archive contains:

avcodec.library - for 68020 and upper CPUs avcodecwos.library - for PPC603e and upper CPUs

Installation:

Copy them to your Libs: directory

Features:
Decoder for the following video codecs:
MPEG1VIDEO, H263, RealVideo1.0, Motion JPEG, MPEG4, OpenDivx, Divx3, Divx4, Dix5.xx, MP41, MP42, WMV1, SVQ1 Sorenson, DV Video

Decoder for the following audio codecs:
MP2, MP3, DV Audio, WMV, PCM, ADPCM

Todo:
Compile the encoders too.
Autodoc Documentation (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus


Winner of the Messages-Remix contest
AMIGAplus wrote:
Some weeks ago had Bjorn Lynne started a remix contest for the title sound "Messages" of the latest Lynne album "Colony" for which 29 people had sent in music pieces. Today the lucky winner was announced:

"PROJECT 2020" took part with a fantastic mix of Dub, Hip-hop, Club, Dance and Tribal and put with this the competitors in their places. This one and seven more tracks will be played in a special radio show on The Mixdown, a FM and Internet radio station on November, 9th between 3 and 5 o'clock (Central US. time). Besides, the winner gets 100 US-Dollars and a copy of "Colony".

All eight remixes can still be downloaded at JavaMusic (http://www.javamusic.com/bjornlynne. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Nov.2002
Amiga SourceForge


DCR8520 Amiga ports: updates done on 08.11.2002
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has made some ports available for download on his web site. Yesterday were the following programs updated: (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Nov.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)


Magazine: AMIGA aktuell 11/2002 released
The November issue of the free magazine AMIGA aktuell has just now been released and can be read online on the website of the distributors as well as it can be downloaded in the HTML respectively in the AmigaGuide format.

It contains among other things
  • a "small tools" special about the audio compression format "Ogg Vorbis",
  • the sixth and last part of an introduction in the ReAction programming,
  • a background article about data types and their recognition,
  • a workshop about programming a note book in PHP with mySQL,
  • a review of the German version of the graphics adventure "Aqua",
  • the most important news and press releases regarding Pegasos & MorphOS, AmigaOne & AmigaOS 4.0 and Amithlon,
  • a comment about the supposed quarrelsomeness of the Amiga community,
  • reports from the Amiga events in Graz and Grebenstein,
  • a note about the future proceeding with a lack of sent contributions,
  • and much more.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: translation of the AmigaSource interview with Ben Hermans
Following the title link you'll find the German translation of the interview with Ben Hermans that AmigaSource had made. The translation into German had been done by Markus Castro of Amiga Future. The original can be found here. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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08.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


Multimedia authoring system: New screen shots from Hollywood
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
Many people e-mailed me because they wanted more screenshots from Hollywood. Therefore I published 5 new screenshots from a game done with Hollywood and a demo done with Hollywood. More screenshots will be published over the next weeks. All applications whose screenshots are on the Airsoft Softwair homepage are of course included on the Hollywood CD-ROM. (ps)

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08.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus


HTML-Tool: HSC and HSC-RPM v0.927
On 06th November 2002 version 0.927 of the HTML-preprocessor "HTML Sucks Completely" (HSC) written by Matthias Bethke has been published. The delivered source code can be compiled on each supported platforms. It has been tested under SuSE Linux 7.3 and HP/UX 10.20. There is also a HTML-documentation available online. Besides this the download archive contains the current preferences and macro files, too. Version 0.927 contains several minor bugfixes. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Nov.2002
Amiga Society


Amiga Society: Update of Ian Chapmans BBoAH
From now on the last update of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware written by Ian Chapman is also available on Amiga Society. Additionally there are minor upadates of the Little Book of Amiga Society. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Nov.2002
MorphOS-News.de


Event: First pictures of Thendic of the ExpoProtection
Thendic France has published first pictures of its stand on the ExpoProtection (SecurityExpo). For the first time Thendic France has officially introduced its Eyecam together with Pegasos/MorphOS on this fair with the topic Safety. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Nov.2002
ScummVM at SourceForge.net


Hardware of the SourceForge.net-server will be changed
On the page of ScummVM at SourceForge.net has been announced that between the 14th and 17th December the hardware of the server will be changed. Therefore single offers will be temporarly not available. Please read the following original message:

Downtime notice
Greetings fellow Adventurers!

SourceForge, our host, is moving hardware on the 14th and 17th of November. During this time, there will be a number of outages:
  • 14th: ScummVM Downloads and Mailing Lists will be unavailable between approximatly 16:00 Pacific Time (GMT-8), till 19:00.
  • 17th: The main ScummVM site, and CVS tree, will be unavailable from 10:00 Pacific. This may last up to 12 hours, but hopefully less!
Thank you, and please shop at Snuckeys again!
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Nov.2002
Ottawa Amiga Show


Event: Ottawa Amiga Show with Randy Hughes of Amiga Inc.
As we have already reported the Ottawa Amiga Show 2002 in Ottawa will take place on 09th November 2002. The team of organization has announced that Randy Hughes of Amiga Inc. will take place on the dinner which will follow after the show and will answer questions. This will take place from 3:30 p.m. on in the Royal Oak. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Nov.2002
Haage&Partner


Haage&Partner: Offers
Additionally to the current version of the DTP program PageStream 4.1 (Amiga, Windows, Macintosh) H&P now also offers the professional graphic program ImageFX 4.5 containing the German documentation for a special price. There are also special prices for the OS 3.9 book (second edition), the bundle with OS 3.9 and ArtEffect4 together with the AE Collection. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Nov.2002
Cloanto (ANF)


Event: WoASE 2002 - Pictures from Cloanto
More pictures, including panorama view, at http://cloanto.com/news/20021102woa.html. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Nov.2002
Fun Time World


Fun Time World: Situation of Frogger explained
Fun Time World which is the German distributor of the video player software Frogger announces that the development of Frogger has been ensured. Few days ago the author Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has got uncertain if he offend against GPL and he was going to publish the program as Open Source. Fun Time World wrote:

»Development of Frogger ensured
We are glad to inform you that the development of the unique video player called Frogger has been ensured. After an exact examination of the licences there is no reason for publishing the program as Open Source. Only two codecs will not be contained as components of Frogger. These ones will be freely available on Internet. If we are allowed to deliver these codecs on our CDs have to be cleread but we cannot see any problems there. All orders which we have got we will handle during the next days. You may be looking forward to your registered version of Frogger.
We would like to thank you for your confidence and the positive feedback we have got.« (ps) (Translation: dr)

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07.Nov.2002
Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)


Amiga Quake2 Page Online
In cooperation with Daniel Schultz: an Amiga Quake 2 webpage has been started, on which additional material regarding Quake 2 for AmigaOS will be published in the future - such as new mods and levels, whether created by users or downloaded from the server.

Originally there were 41 Quake 2 mods for AmigaOS. Since then there have been another 20 mods. These additional mods will be downloadable from the Quake2 page. So there will be 2 or 3 mods offered for download weekly, just check the page and don't miss them.

To start off, the following three mods are offered:
  • ChaosDM - one of the best Deathmatch mods for Quake 2
  • Star Trek - contains the entire Enterprise as a level (and new weapons)
  • Bots - "Battle of the Sexes" - a CTF Mod, based on classes, in which a male team and a female team go up against each other.
The requirements to be able to use these mods are that you must have Quake2 for Amiga installed. Quake2 is available from retailers now.

Hyperion Entertainment (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Full Version of WBMenu`97
In cooperation with Manfred L. and with the approval of H. Röhricht Amiga Arena is making possible a further classic full version of WBMenu`97. Here is a snip from the handbook:

WBMenu`97 is a multifunctional high speed data bank system with an intuitive user interface, with which you are placed in a position where you can have an overview and manage and start all of your programs. To this end WBMenu`97 offers functions, for which unless several programs must be inserted, and is an offer to all who wish to get the most from their computers.

Thereby it doesn't matter what particular use you make of your computer. WBMenu`97 is the first program of its type, that can take over full control of the system. Whether it is the binding of hardware drivers or the loading of the Workbench, it's "no problem" for WBMenu '97.


You'll find more information in the handbook for WBMenu`97! (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus


Audio: AHI/PPC 6 only for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4
Martin Blom, the developer of the soundcard driver system AHI, has reiterated that there will be neither PowerUp nor WarpUp versions. There is only the MorphOS version (available) and the AmigaOS 4 version (planned).

Here is his original announcement:

"Yes, indeed, today is November 7th, not July 11th. Anyway, I've been asked to clarify one thing regarding the PPC version of AHI. There will be no WarpUp version, nor will there be any PowerUp version. The reason is that neither of these two systems allow PPC code to be invoked from within an interrupt?, which is an absolute requirement for AHI. The current PPC version is for MorphOS only. In the future, I hope to have an AmigaOS 4 version as well.

1) While it should have been obvious by reading the PowerUp documentation, there is nothing in the WarpUp documentation or the actual design that suggests that it will not work; in WarpUp, it could be possible if the implementation had allowed it. In any case, the days when I could be bothered to write for a mixed CPU system are since long gone..." (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)


Quake2 Amiga Port Available
On the 2nd of November 2002 at the WOASE convention in London, Quake 2 for AmigaOS officially went on sale. The game was demonstrated in a "Death Match" between three Amigas. It ran a custom level which was specially created for the convention. The network server was a PC, in order to demonstrate that PC users and Amigans may play in the same TCP/IP multiplayer network, however naturally an Amiga could also be used as a server. The Quake2 packet for Amiga contains an easy-to-use installer script, a startup GUI, and documentation in AmigaGuide format, including the original version of Quake2 for Windows, which contains the data files.

Over 55 Quake2 mods are to be offered for Quake2 through different channels, including the Internet.

Quake2 for AmigaOS will become available from your local Amiga dealer sometime this week. The price may vary from dealer to dealer.

Hyperion Entertainment (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
Ralph Ewers (ANF)


Sendo Z100 Will Not Appear
Setback for Bill McEwen: The Sendo Z100 will not appear. Even in his Executive Update at the beginning of November, 2002, McEwen was announcing (under point 6) that the Sendo Z100 with the "SmartPhonePacks" would be produced.

In the article from Heise "Setback for Microsoft's Handy-Operating System" (see title link) it is made clear that presumably nothing will come of the market introduction of Amiga Anywhere on this Handy. Sendo released the following in a special announcement:

»Sendo hat das Entwicklungsprogramm für ihre Smartphones auf Basis von Microsoft Windows for Smartphone 2002 Software eingestellt. Als eine Folge davon wird das Sendo Z100 nicht auf den Markt kommen.

Wir bedauern das zutiefst. Es war eine sehr schwerige Entscheidung, insbesondere weil wir durch das Z100 die führende Position bei der Entwicklung von Smartphones erworben hatten. Wir sind sehr enttäuscht, dass wir das Z100 nicht auf den Markt bringen.

Gleichzeitg freuen wir uns aber, dass wir heute mitteilen können, das wir die Series 60 Plattform von Nokia für unsere Smartphones lizenziert haben. Wir sind davon überzeugt, dass wir damit unsere führende Position bei der Entwicklung von Smartphones in 2003 fortsetzen können.«
(ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus


Pegasos in the Microwave and Three More Bundles
After the successful appearance of Thendic-France and bPlan at the World of Amiga South-East 2002 last Saturday, some new Pegasos-related developments became known. The first four Pegasos-bundles have been determined:
  • The unusual "VideoMicrowave" is a remodeled steel microwave with an LCD display as the door and a Pegasos board on the inside. You'll find information at http://www.videomicrowave.net.
  • The "Development Suite" is a developer package for the Pegasos, Eclipsis, and Pegasos server stack.
  • The "Pega-shush" is a home-server for the long-endurance business of integrating with other entertainment electronics. The communications occur over a 802.11b network card.
  • The "Games Package" is an offer especially for friends of good game value. More details will be announced at http://www.pegasosppc.com.

On the 16th of November Thendic-France will spend some time in Poland at the Amiga Show 2002, and they are going to bring a bunch of Pegasos equipment to test on the basis of a new ISO installation [new MorphOS version - dm]. This will be the first showing of the Pegasos Wireless Camera with the display software to be seen on an iPAQ (this is just a temporary solution until the Eclipsis prototype is ready). (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus


ScummVM News: It's a SCUMMy job, but someone's...
ScummVM is an engine, an engine which enables you to play the old classics of LucasArts such as The Dig, Indiana Jones 1 & 2, and Sam & Max under AmigaOS and MorphOS.

After the license discussion with LucasArts the contact with the American operation was broken off. As long as LucasArts doesn't respond with a veto of the software, work will proceed energetically on ScummVM-Release 0.3.0, which will support the following games:
  • Zak McKracken (FmTowns 256 Color Version)
  • Monkey Island (VGA Floppy and Enhanced CD)
  • Monkey Island II
  • Loom (CD Talkie version)
  • Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
  • Day of the Tentacle
  • Sam and Max Hit the Road
  • The Dig
  • Simon The Sorcerer 1

The next big release, 0.4.0, will support the following games:
  • Simon The Sorcerer 2
  • Full Throttle
  • Indiana Jones and Last Crusade (256 color version)

How can you as a user help? You can test the supported titles and report the mistakes that make it impossible to complete the game. You should go over the details at Information on Release 0.3.0. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
GFX-Base


GFX-Base: Interview with Arkadiusz Wahlig
Under the title link you'll find an English-language interview by GFX-Base with Arkadiusz Wahlig, the author of the Workbench-extending DepthMenu. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus


Antivirus Program: VirusExecutor Version 2.28
Jan Erik Olausen has updated his antivirus software VirusExecutor:

Name: VirusExecutor v2.28
Archive Name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive Size: 306.337 Bytes
Date: 06. November 2002
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen - vht-dk
Requirements: AmigaOS 2.04, xvs.library (inkl.), reqtools.library, xfdmaster.library, xadmaster.library

Further information and the possibility to download VE may be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus


Merlancia Industries Has Moved
The US American Amiga hardware distributor and retailer Merlancia Industries announced a move of its office and warehouse. The new address:

Merlancia Industries
9034 N 23rd Ave, Ste 2
Phoenix, AZ 85021
United States of America

The telephone number and Internet contact addresses are unchanged. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus


AmigaOne Complete Systems
Eyetech has identified (under the title link) the configuartions for two AmigaOne complete systems, the AmigaOne starter systems:

Eyetech AmigaOne Starter:
  • available with the AmigaOneG3-SE (750CXe G3 cpu @600MHz) or AmigaOne-XE (7451 G4 cpu @800MHz) motherboard
  • 20 GB HD
  • 56x CD-ROM
  • 128 MB RAM
  • CPU Cooler
  • Floppy Drive
  • Soundblaster Live Soundcard
  • ATI or Similar low-end graphic card, AGP, Linux and OS4 compatible
  • PS/2-Keyboard and Mouse
  • 7-bay Midi ATX-Tower
  • SuSE Linux PPC Distribution inc. Instructions
  • LinuxPPC & UAE Preinstalled
  • OS4-specialized BIOS (& OS4-License with Earlybird-Systems that are ordered and paid for before 31st December, 2002)
  • Onboard-Ethernet and USB
  • Bundled, Tested, and Assembled

AmigaOne Power System:
  • available with AmigaOneG3-SE (750CXe G3 cpu @600MHz) or AmigaOne-XE (7451 G4 cpu @800MHz) motherboard
  • 80 GB HD
  • DVD-ROM
  • CDRewriter
  • 512 MB RAM
  • CPU Cooler
  • Floppy Drive
  • Soundblaster Live Soundcard
  • ATI Radeon 8500 Graphic Card
  • PS/2-Multimedia-Keyboard
  • Optical, Cable-less, Unencumbered Mouse
  • 7-bay Midi ATX Tower
  • SuSE Linux PPC Distribution inc. Instructions
  • LinuxPPC & UAE preinstalled
  • OS4-specialized BIOS (& OS4-License with Earlybird-Systems that are ordered and paid for before 31st December, 2002)
  • Onboard Ethernet and USB
  • Bundled, Tested, and Assembled
(ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
Amiga Inc.


Amiga to create games and other content for Microsoft Windows ...
Amiga to create games and other content for Microsoft Windows for Smartphone 2002 Software

Snoqualmie, WA, Nov 6, 2002 - Amiga, a leader in games and entertainment software, today announced the release of games targeting Windows Powered Smartphones. Using the Amiga Anywhere Content Engine and their new "App Pak" technology, applications written for Windows Powered Pocket PC handheld computers will now be available for Smartphones as well. In addition, Amiga intends to build specific games and productivity applications that take advantage of the unique characteristics of devices running Microsoft Windows for Smartphone.

"Amiga has partnered with Microsoft to create the best experience for games and entertainment on Smartphone devices", said Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga. "We have been an early adopter of Microsoft Windows for Smartphone because of our belief that it can revolutionize the mobile experience. With our new App Pak technology, users can access applications on their PDA or Smartphone without having to install them from their personal computer."

App Pak applications are distributed on memory cards. Users will be able to purchase the cards from their retail store and immediately use them. In less than 60 seconds, users can enjoy games and other applications with just by inserting their card. Just insert the card in the appropriate slot, click, and play. App Pak applications use little storage space on local systems making them more functional for PDA and Smartphone devices with limited resources.

"The Windows Powered Smartphone enables users to do what they want, when they want, from business productivity to entertainment," said Mary Rose Becker, group marketing manager for Mobile Devices at Microsoft Corp. "We're thrilled that Amiga is releasing it's games for the Smartphone platform, providing our mutual customers with compelling entertainment options."

Amiga will begin shipping games and other applications for Smartphone in time for the holiday season this year. To learn more about Amiga visit www.amiga.com or www.shopamiga.com. Developers who want to receive more information regarding developing content for Amiga Anywhere can sign up at www.amigadev.net

About Amiga
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media technologies in the world. Today, Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, and has offices worldwide.

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All trademarks, brand or product names are the property of their respective owners.

For more information, press only:
Bill McEwen, bill@amiga.com
Tel: 206-383-3576
Fax: 425-432-0608 (ps)

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07.Nov.2002
Christian Sahle (ANF)


Emulator: UAEx - Amiga-Emulator for the XBox
On sourceforge.net (under the title link) an Amiga emulator for the X-box is being worked on. The first appearing Beta v. 0.3 is available for download.

[download link removed, because apparently there is a KickROM there.] (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Nov.2002
Scott Pistorino (ANF)


AmigaSource: Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans
Scott Pistorino writes:
AmigaSource is proud to announce what hopes to be the first of many interviews with the big names in the Amiga Community. Drop on by and read the exclusive interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainment! (ps)

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