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Archive 06/2003


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.

Thanks to the likewise new AHI support BoulderDäsh runs on all AmigaOS compatible Systems (A500, Ax000, Amithlon, MorphOS, OS4, UAE). Merely OS2.0 or better is required. Rockford is back - He will rock you!

BoulderDäsh RTX V5.20 - Features list:
  • 1:1 Clone of the original
  • Runs in Multitasking
  • Online help
  • Locale support
  • Programmed according to Commodore Style Guide
  • 2D soft scrolling and full speed even on an MC68000 (no jerking of animations or scrolling)
  • Full gfx card compatibility through Picasso96/CyberGraphics support, thus up to 256 colours with full screen scrolling
  • Full sound card compatibility through AHI support
  • More thans 10000 (!!) levels included!
  • 36 different games gfx
  • 6 different fonts
  • 5 different sample sets
  • 6 different in game songs in retro style
  • All settings can be done via Gadtools GUI
  • Extension by further game elements (fake bricks, fake metal...). Thus interesting new level possibilities arise.
  • Levels of any size possible (under NonRTG only depending on ChipMem)
  • Automatically administered high score lists for each game
  • Comfortable level editor
  • Gravity is adjustable in four directions in every level
  • Games editor to compile complete games
  • Possibilty of creating custom in game gfx with a paint program
  • Possibility of integrating custom sound fx with a sampler
  • Possibilty of creating custom in game music with a Protracker compatible music editor
(ps) (Translation: cb)

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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)

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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.

Thanks also to our guests from Hyperion who despite the heat and a long journey met all visitors' questions openly and willingly. Warm thanks also to Michael Böhmer (E3B) who was able to present the Algor USB card Chris Hodges (Poseidon) in action, and thanks also to Jens Schönfeld who extensively illuminated the C-Ones history and mode of operation in the well proven manner of a lecturer. Not to forget Christian Brenner with his 'Monster A600'.

Point-Design
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: cb)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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:
  • Europe
  • New Links List
  • Lost Links List
  • History 2003
(ps)

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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:
  • Title generator for still videos and slideshow.
  • Smooth fade in and out of the sound in the still video or the slideshow; therefore no sudden sound disruptions anymore. But you now need the Sox version sox-12.17.4.lha.
  • Title preview (needs a PBM datatype in the system - contained in the archive).
  • The collected source images the slideshow is made of are all archived with Lha and written to the VideoCD image. This way they are preserved. The old function has been removed.
  • New format supported. Next to Mpeg1 for the VideoCD creation is now the Internet suitable DIVX4 used.


Installation:
Copy sox, multiview, ppmlabel, ffmpeg 0.4.6, vcdimager, dttoppm, mogrify and lha into the c: directory. Unpack PBMdt44.lha and copy the files to the according directories. Install Tritonrexx, tritonlibrary and Rexxtricks.

Hint:
Many switches, listers and sliders are comprehensively explained in the online help. This counts expecially for the new Gui objects of the title generator.

Important!
The titles for the still video or the slideshow are taken from a text file. You have especially to take care of the text formatting. This is taken over 1:1! This means that a line end or a tabulator are shown in the video the same way they are existing in the text file. This way you can easily put several lines of text into the video. Furthermore is unfortunately only 7bit ASCII code generated so that no German special characters e.g. ä, ö, ü or ß can be found. The title is inserted only in the first four seconds of a slideshow, even if this is running unlimited. This can be worked around as it is e.g. allowed to use as many Mpeg1 files for VideoCDs as VCD track source as you want.

Title generator:
This one comes with unusual many settings possibilities: font size, font colour, title rotation and title position. If you should be more ambitious you should better use Monument Designer.

Remark:
The script is now absolutly stable. Should something crash it's usually dttoppm or ffmpeg. These I have to a great extent under control so that normally nothing should happen. The only important thing is to use a separate temp directory for each slideshow as otherwise ffmpeg will without a doubt get problems and crash. Besides that you should use no more than 10 source images with each slideshow as otherwise dttoppm renders problems. If you want to put these on VideoCD this limit doesn't matter as you can create as many tracks as you want. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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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)

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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)

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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 info on:
French version - English version (ps)

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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)


The superscalar MC68060 represents a new line of Motorola microprocessor products. The M68060 product line consists of the MC68060, MC68LC060, and MC68EC060.The MC68EC060 offers superscalar integer performance of over 110 MIPS at 75 MHz. The MC68060 comes fully equipped with both a floating-point unit (FPU) and a memory management unit (MMU) for high-performance embedded control applications. For cost-sensitive embedded control and desktop applications where an MMU is required, but the additional cost of a FPU is not justified, the MC68LC060 offers high performance at a low cost. Specifically designed for low-cost embedded control applications, the MC68EC060 eliminates both the FPU and MMU, permitting designers to leverage MC68060 performance while avoiding the cost of unnecessary features.

- M68000AMPRT Amiga Port of Matthew Brandt's CC68K Compiler
- MC68060RC60 206 PGA (Pin Grid Array) PRODUCT STABLE (ps)

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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)

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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)

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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
eFlash 4000 is an autobooting Zorro III card with 1MB (one Megabyte) of FlashROM memory with extremely fast 32-bit long words access.

The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs, which are run at the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI cards installed in Mediator-equipped A3000 and A4000 computers before the AmigaOS system starts. As a result, computer may be booted from mass storage devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g. Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards. The users of the new Amiga operating system--AmigaOS4.x--will have an additional benefit: the eFlash 4000 card will give them a possibility of definite shortening of the system's start time by executing the AmigaOS code from the FlashROM memory.

FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 4000 cards allows 100,000 erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative batch of programs stored in the eFlash 4000 memory.

eFlash 1200 is an autobooting PCMCIA card with 1MB (one Megabyte) of FlashROM memory. The on-board FlashROM allows storage of programs, which are run at the computer's boot-up process. This allows initialisation of PCI cards installed in Mediator-equipped A1200 computers before the AmigaOS system starts. As a result, the computer may be booted from mass devices connected through various PCI controllers e.g. Spider or Spider II USB 2.0 cards.

FlashROM memory installed in eFlash 1200 cards allows 100,000 erase/programming cycles as a minimum. The card is provided with hardware protection against unwanted or accidental reprogramming and with a hardware switch for selecting start of an alternative batch of programs stored in the eFlash 1200 memory.

Pricing and availability The eFlash 4000 Zorro III card will be on sale beginning with 15 July 2003 at the suggested retail price of only EUR 35.95 (VAT excl.). The eFlash 1200 PCMCIA card will be on sale beginning with 15 August 2003 at the suggested retail price of only EUR 29.95 (VAT excl.). (ps) (Translation: dr)

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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)

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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)

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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.

Some developers of Hyperion will be present such as Steffen Häuser, Hans-Jörg Frieden and Thomas Frieden. The members of the Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik will demonstrate some AmigaOne with Debian Linux. Michael Böhmer from E3B will demonstrate the newest member of the USB-family, the USB-controller Algor. Jens Schönfeld from individual Computers will demonstrate the new C-One and will also give advice you to all of his products.

AmigaOne boards and equipment as well as several 'OS4.0 On Tour' merchandise products can be bought on the stand of KDH Datentechnik.

New screenshots of OS4.0 will be available here on Saturday: On the AmigaOS-website, at Amiga World and at Virtual Dimension Multimedia Produktionen.

Pictures of this event will be published here: At Amiga Club Augsburg and at KDH Datentechnik. The Amiga Club Augsburg will also produce a video about this event. We will inform you about the corresponding link.

Pictures via Livecam you can find here. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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