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`02.Jun.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	individual Computers: New products and new cooperations New product: Kickflash OS4 Kickflash was announced several years ago, but never released due to licensing problems. With the planning of the new PPC native OS4 for all Amiga computers with PPC CPU, Hyperion and individual Computers started a cooperation more than a year ago (May 2002). The result of this cooperation is "Kickflash OS4", a highly optimized flashrom card for the Zorro slot of classic Amigas. It reduces boot time of OS4 significantly, and comes at a very low price: 29,- EUR. Up-to-date flashrom chips allow up to 100.000 re-programming cycles. Kickflash OS4 will be available to betatesters this summer. Mass production will start in time for the release of OS4, so people will have the choice between tailormade solutions by all cooperation partners (also see ALGOR/ROMulus by E3B). New product: RR-Net Especially for the Retro Replay and the C-One there will a networking card for the C64 before the end of this summer. Together with Adam Dunkels, the author of the web-enabled Contiki operating system, the first drivers for this 10MBit-card have been made. Contiki even has web-server functions that can be seen on the Internet: The server http://www.tfe.c64.org is running on a stock C64 with a similar networking card! RR-Net will be available in August 2003 for 50,- EUR. Transparent C64 cartridge cases Due to the high demand, cases for the nearly sold-out Retro Replay will be available from June 24th, 2003 on. If there's enough demand, we might also produce other colours in addition to the transparent ones. To find out what colours that could be, the hacker-group Cyberpunx has setup a Voting-page. The price per case will be 4,- EUR, no matter what colour you choose. Lyra back in stock The Lyra keyboard adapter that allows using a PC keyboard on Amiga computers will be back in stock on June 24th. We apologize for the shipment delays - we were not prepared for the high demand of this product. A big thank-you goes out to our customers who were obviously so satisfied with their Lyra adapter that they recommended it to all their friends. (ps) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 14:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2003` Bill Panagouleas (ANF)	New AmiZilla Marketing Campaign Launched A new AmiZilla marketing campaign has been launched. Companies and websites that link to and promote the Dream of Netscape/Mozilla on Amiga get listed and promoted. Top Zilla Marketers are the ones that promoted AmiZilla first or come up with a very creative and interesting banner or animation for the project. What is AmiZilla? I think that long time Amiga user Twistin'Ghost summarizes the project best with the following press release he created. "In need of that killer app, Amiga developer and resident platform fanatic Bill Panagouleas, of DiscreetFX, is banding together the community in a bid to lure programmers to port Mozilla to the Amiga platform. Donations are flowing in, an FAQ is in place, and a devoted Message Board are all a part of this 'homegrown' project. Panagouleas has put his money where his mouth is by donating $2000 out of his own pocket, in addition to funding the site itself. "It's this very kind of grassroots community involvement that has helped to maintain the Amiga's status as a player in the Gen-IT realm," says Panagouleas, a former employee of Commodore Business Machines. "(Amiga users) have always been a tight-knit community that pulls together in times of need. Some very impressive development talent are already making inquiries and are showing great enthusiasm. I'm very excited." The presence of Mozilla on the Amiga would provide additional voltage to Amiga Inc.'s upcoming launch of its new Amiga OS 4.0. It will also help users the Keep the Dream Alive by running a standards compliant mainstream browser on MorphOS, Amiga Forever, WinUAE, Amithlon, and Classic Amiga's running Amiga OS 3.9 ." Please keep the donations coming in so programmers will be motivated to port Mozilla to Amiga/Amiga type systems. (ps) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 11:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	Dia-CD (Vacation pictures burned as VideoCD) Today Carsten Siegner finished his project "Dia-CD" (at his home page at "rexx"). With this program you can watch your pictures from the vacation easily utilizing a TV and a DVD player. The program creates automatically a slide show and compiles a VCD-Image by demand. Features: any picture archive convertable any picture format usable (utilizes the datatypes) adding a soundtrack Later navigation with the keys of the DVD rc Written in ARexx competly; so to use with all Amigas. Every picture or every picute sequence might have its own presentation time (10 s - 100 s) If demanded the source pictures are added to the VideoCD as well, so they won't be lost To every VideoCD a ReadMe file can be added There is a brief online help optional Requirements: RexxTricks_386.lha (from Siegner's home page) Tritonrexx (at the RexxTricks directory) triton.library (at the RexxTricks directory) dttoppm.lha (Aminet) sox.lzx (from Siegner's home page or Aminet) Multiviev execute AREXX vcd-ffmpeg.lzx (from Siegner's home page) min 1 GByte free hard disk space min 64 MByte free RAM Installation: Install RexxTricks with the installer. That will install all data for Tritonrexx and the triton.library also. Unpack dttoppm.lha and copy the program to C:. Unpack vcd-ffmpeg.lzx and move vcdimager and ffmpeg to C:. ARexx needs to be stated at boottime, Sox must be at C:. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 28. May. 2003, 01:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.May.2003` KDH News (ANF)	AmigaOne: German mailing list A German-speaking mailing list for AmigaOne-customers was built up today. This mailing list should help AmigaOne-customers to communicate with other customers in the German-speaking scope (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), also it should be a authority for tips and tricks because of the AmigaOne. This mailing list is supported by the Amiga dealer Point Design and KDH Datentechnik and is made as a completion to the official Amiga mailing list. You could announce at here. Source: Jürgen Schober - Point Design Günter Horbach - KDH Datatechnic (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 27. May. 2003, 20:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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