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`27.Jan.2002` ANN	Boing Attitude: Interview with Ben Hermans about AmigaOS 4.0 On 26 January 2002 an interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0 was published on Boing Attitude. The interview is available in French and English. (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 27. Jan. 2002, 22:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2002` Guido Mersmann (ANF)	Incompatible Euro keymaps and fonts For the attention of everybody who produces fonts and keymaps: Because of the introduction of the Euro some people have unfortunately got on the wrong track. The Amiga uses the Latin-8858-1 code table that allocates the Euro sign to the ASCII code 164. This allocation is binding. All the keymaps and texts which have recently been checked in Aminet showed faults. Often the sign is allocated to code 128 as it is common in the PC world. This might be based on the assumption that a text transfer is easier in this way. Unfortunately this is not the case because special signs specific to a country must be converted anyway. Therefore it's up to the manufacturers of the conversion programs to implement the Euro sign. This false code leads to the unwanted effect that texts on other Amiga systems cannot be read correctly and that the Amiga becomes incompatible to itself. Besides such a text is not convertible automatically. Moreover the key combination "Alt E" should be agreed on. The symbol (@) is on the bottom right hand side of the keyboard and it is activated by pressing the "Alt" key. If you have a Win keyboard, which are the only Amiga keyboards with the Euro sign, the Euro sign is also on the bottom right hand side of the keyboard. The combination "Alt E" seems to be more logical than "Alt Shift E". Creating texts with the Euro sign in both code positions is not desirable due to the loss of a sign on the one hand and due to the loss of transparency on the other hand since the user will not know if the used sign is really compatible. Here are some correct programs, texts and keymaps from Aminet: EuroHack.lha: Patches the Euro sign in the topaz 8 font on 164! EuroConv.lha: Converts the Euro sign from the PC on the Amiga. According to the author the font set EuroFonts.lha has already been changed to 164 although the wrong Euro is still implemented. The new archive with approximately 900 Kb is supposed to be released over the next few days. The small archive (300 Kb) isn't compatible. Last but not least try the test which checks the compatibility of the created Euro sign: Open a shell and enter the following lines. "EEEE" stands for one or more Euro signs. Echo "EEEE" to t:Test type t:test hex As a result the value "A4" should appear for each of the Euro signs! The value "0A" should be ignored. 0000: A4A4A4A4 0A If another value other than "A4" comes up, the keymap is incompatible. Guido Mersmann (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 27. Jan. 2002, 15:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2002` Golem - IT News	Golem: news regarding the case between Obelix and MobiliX »Reply to suit released on the Internet On November 2001 had Werner Heuser, provider of the Open Source project MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Computers received a suit from "Lés Editions Albert René", owner of the trademark rights "Obelix". Heuser didn't want to simply abandon the mark and therefore went to court. The reply to the suit by the Berlin law firm Jaschinski Biere Brexl (JBB) was made available by him on his pages.« Full (German) article see title link. Interesting here is the release of the full reply to the suit, where among other things websites as well as subsites with similar names like for example Idefix are mentioned. Affected by this are among others the Aminet and Jens Schönfeld. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 26. Jan. 2002, 19:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2002` Amiga.org	Amiga.org tests Mambo Site Server After having made bad experiences with PHP-Nuke as web interface and suffering several hacker attacks Wayne Hunt has now installed partially Mambo Site Server as new web interface at amiga.org. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 26. Jan. 2002, 18:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2002` SPIEGEL	SPIEGEL: new IBM strategy - Linux for mainframes »IBM goes Linux: The American computer giant presents its first mainframe computers that are developed exlusively for the Open Source operating system.« Full (German) article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 26. Jan. 2002, 16:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2002` Amiga Arena	Amiga Arena: interview with Ralph Torchia (Spitfire²) With Spitfire² exists a very good shareware software for all Amiga and PalmOS users. Spitfire² allows a connection between a Palm computer and an Amiga computer. Amiga Arena talked to Ralph Torchia, the developer of Spitfire², about the past and the future of the program. The interview can be found following the title link while the English version is available here. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 26. Jan. 2002, 16:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2002` Amiga Future	Amiga Future: log file of the bplan chat translated to German On 21.01.2002 at 19.00 o'clock took on the IRC channel #AmigaFun a chat with Salvador Fernandez Gomez from bplan place. Via the title link you'll find the translation by Amiga Future of the original log file. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 26. Jan. 2002, 15:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2002` CUCUG	CUCUG: Status Register January 2002 The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. Dealt are current and important information regarding Amiga, Macintosh and PC as well as the computer industry. (ps) [News message: 26. Jan. 2002, 12:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jan.2002` Robert Williams (ANF)	New Total Amiga Website South Essex Amiga Link is proud to announce the launch of a website for Total Amiga Magazine: http://www.totalamiga.org Total Amiga is the new name for our established quarterly printed Amiga magazine, "Clubbed". On our new site you can find full details about the magazine, contents lists for past issues and our plans for the future. There is information on ordering trial copies of the magazine and subscriptions with links to ForeMatt Home Computing and Kicksoft who offer an online ordering service for us. We also have a behind the scenes section where you can find out how the magazine is produced (on the Amiga of course) and see a preview of the new design. The first issue of Total Amiga is going to press next week and will be available in February. (ps) [News message: 25. Jan. 2002, 22:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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