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Archive 06/2004


23.Jun.2004
Andreas R. Kleinert


PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: More keyfiles
Andreas R. Kleinert has made some more keyfiles publicly available at his homepage. Those are intended for some of his programs which will appear at the Aminet soon.

The keyfiles are for the following products, the first four of them support the PPC (PowerUp):
  • PNG-Box
  • JPEG-Box
  • akMPEG
  • akMPEG4
  • DRAFU
(snx) (Translation: ub)

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23.Jun.2004
ANN (website)


Version 1.5 of the FlashROM software Luciferin for Algor / ROMulus
Dear E3B customers, E3B and Chris Hodges are proud to announce the availability of a new version of the Luciferin FlashROM software for the Algor and Highway/ROMulus expansion cards. It is a free update provided as service to all registered Algor/ROMulus users.

Although the last update is nearly a one year old, nearly all of the reports were positive and only a few requests have been made. The software was indeed ahead of its time. However, developers of other FlashROM solutions have planned some new features, which were missing in the old version of Luciferin. As usually, Algor and ROMulus users are the first to get these features working in their machines, preserving that the Algor/ROMulus continues to be to the best FlashROM solution on the market.

An absolutely new feature is the ability to now install a (possibly custom) Kickstart ROM image inside the FlashROM. It then can be enabled instantly at the first boot with the newly included AlgorKick module. AlgorKick uses the MapROM option of the various phase5 CPU cards, most of the users have in their machines. The 512KB Kickstart image easily fits into the FlashROM using compression, taking less than 300KB inside the FlashROM. There is still plenty room for lots of other modules! No need for BlizKick anymore!

The following boards are supported by AlgorKick:
  • Blizzard 1230-I/II/III/IV, 1230-T/ERC, 1260, 2040-ERC, 2060, and PPC
  • Cyberstorm MKI/MKII/MKIII and PPC
  • (Commodore A3640 / Blizzard A4030 -- please ask)
Also, a new tool "HatchSentinel" has been included to generate a password protection to the machine. Once installed in the FlashROM, it will present a password screen instantly after turning the machine on. The Sentinel module comes with various options, such as starting itself in the background, so that the booting process is not delayed.

The Bootloader has been improved to correctly determine the Kickstart version number with the BoingBag2 exec.library update. This was only cosmetic, but was added on user demand. The loader now also comes in a new "permanent" version, that will add ROMTags only once, making it even faster than before.

Several other new ROMTags have been added to the archive, such as modules to disabled the IDE controller to avoid unnecessary waiting (if you don't have any IDE devices connected). Or removing the bootmenu for secure and even faster booting. Or SpeedRamsey, a contribution by Christian Sauer.

Luciferin, the user friendly graphical tool for handling the FlashROM contents has become even better and will now warn you, if you try to include a program that shouldn't be installed into the FlashROM.

This is the list of most improvements. The update will be emailed free of charge to registered users the next days. Users of the Highway should be reminded that they still have the offer to update their card with a ROMulus module, check out the IOSpirit website for details.

E3B and Chris Hodges hope that you will enjoy this update. (snx)

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23.Jun.2004
Amiga.org (Forum)


RISC OS: "Are we so dissimilar?" - a comparison with AmigaOS
Whoever guesses the Amiga market situation - the split of development, different visions - would be some kind of unique might change his mind after reading the following English article RISC OS vs. AmigaOS by Chris Williams. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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23.Jun.2004
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)


AmigaOS4: New article about the boot configuration
Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci has released an article at the help section for AmigaOS4 of IntuitionBase.com explaining the boot configuration of AmigaOS4.

The article explains the differences between Classic Amigas and UBoot as well as the SLB (Second Level Bootloader) of AmigaOS4. There is also information how the Kickstart images work and how to build a backup configuration which will boot even the system was some kind of misconfigured. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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23.Jun.2004
MorphZone (Website)


MorphOS: Samba 3.0.4 ported (alpha version)
Michael Grunditz has ported Samba 3.0.4 to MorphOS. The alpha version (30 MB) is available from the MorphZone. Samba is used for file access and printing within heterogeneous networks. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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23.Jun.2004
Heise (Newsticker)


Motorola officially announces stock market flotation of Freescale
As reported by Heise, Motorola announced official the planned stock market flotation of Freescale semiconductor to the US stock exchange authorities. An actual date for that has not been announced yet.

Motorola will keep 92% of the votes at Freescale first and hopes to raise up to 2.5 billion US Dollar by selling the stocks. Further details are to obtain from Heise (German).

PowerPC processors by Motorola/Freescale are used with the AmigaOne by Eyetech as well as with the Pegasos by Genesi. The latter company just announced to have held a Pegasos trainig seminar for Freescale employees. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jun.2004
Cloanto (ANF)


Events: New website for Amiga Alpe Adria
A new web site for the Amiga Alpe Adria, which takes place July 3rd in Udine, Italy, was placed online at 0xAA.org over the week-end, and is now fully functional.

The site includes updated information about airlines, official hotel, time and place (availability of a new, larger facility has been confirmed), maps and other events in the region (e.g. concerts, museum exhibits, et cetera).

Please use the registration and contact forms at 0xAA.org if you are planning to attend Amiga Alpe Adria, or if you require additional information. (snx)

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21.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)


Web browser: AWeb 3.5 APL Lite Beta released
The AWeb open Source Project released a first beta version of 'AWeb 3.5 APL Lite' today.

An overview of the most important changes since AWeb 3.5 (complete ChangeLog):
  • HTML: Support for <INS> and <DEL> tags
  • Rendering: Double Buffered Rendering - Optional double buffering dramatically reduces the flickering during rendering of long table based pages.
  • Background Images no longer force a complete redraw off the document, resulting in a dramatic speed up of some pages.
  • Layout: Fixes and standardisation to the way tables are laid out, and to the way background images in tables are align mean that many more pages render "correctly".
  • Internal image decoder: Fix to the transparency bug in the internal gif decoder.
  • Gopher Support: Improved gopher support.
  • Character sets: Support for translating character sets enables pages using a different character set to be displayed.
  • Splash screen: New more attractive startup screen and about requester.
  • AWebplugins: Fixes to a major bug in the image decoder plugins where AWeb would crash with bad memory trashing on repeated iconificataion.
  • AWeblibs: The aweblib version numbering has been changed, all version start from 35 as of this release. This avoids some clashes that would other wise occur with previous version of AWeb. 'awebjs.aweblib' has been renamed 'javascript.aweblib' for the same reason.
  • Javascript: Fundamental support for Regular Expression objects has been introduced in this version. However, the string methods using regular expressions have not yet been implemented and as most real world sites uses these methods few new sites will work, rather this is the first step on the journey.
  • Developer compile: A compile of the developer version of AWeb (AWeb.developer) is included in the archive. It is not installed by the Install script. It allows developers and beta testers to generate extended debug info and should only be used for this purpose. It contains no extra browsing functionality.
(cg)

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21.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)


Tutorial: Samba on AmigaOS 4.0
Alan Buxey and Olaf Barthel compiled a short Tutorial explaining how to install and configure Samba on AmigaOS 4. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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