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12.Dec.2000
Suite101


John Chandler: Making Way In The Universe
In his new article John Chandler gives an interesting overview of the work done by Amiga in the year 2000.

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12.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software


Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
Every year Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games, hardware, developer, and websites. Under the title link you will find a summary of the votes given in first week.

In category application at this time 'YAM' is ahead, 'Heretic 2' in games, 'Mediator' in hardware, 'MorphOS' and 'Hyperion' close up in development, and in websites 'Czech Amiga News' is ahead closely followed by 'amiga-news.de'.

Die you already vote? If not, would be happy about your vote for amiga-news.de.

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12.Dec.2000
AmigaGlobe


AmigaGlobe WoA 2000 Report
A WoA 2000 report by AmigaGlobe.

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12.Dec.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS: CGX Update
cgxsystem.library.elf version 42.5 was released. The library now contains SuperLayers for PPC, and some speed enhancements for MagicMenuPPC.

Download: cgxsysppc_20001210.lha - 156 KB)

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12.Dec.2000
AROS


AROS News
In December again a number of things happened at AROS. Stefan Berger did a complete rewrite of the layers.library, hence it is much faster, but easier than the old one. Georg Steger contributed further files for ReqTools, and Adam Chodorowski started working on the workbench.library. Johan Alfredsson has enhanced the ReqTools file requester, and the drive requester now works. A PS/2 Mouse.HIDD was added by Michael Schulz. More details are to find under the title link.

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12.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF


Merlancia with new specifications for hand-held?
Amiga.org reported about that Merlancia already put specifications for the Hurrican system (hand-held computer) as well as it's interface on their website.

Links for this:
http://www.merlancia.com/MISEL/
http://www.merlancia.com/MISEL/torroindex.html

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12.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Golem: IBM introduced progressive technology for chip production
«The first chips with CMOS 9S technology form early 2001
IBM for the first time unifies copper wiring, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transitors, and the enhanced "low-k delectric" insulation in circuits with 0.13 mikron by their new technology named CMOS 9S.»

Further messages about this subject:
The Register: IBM reveals 10GHz, .13µ PowerPC chip tech
3DNews: IBM unwraps world's most advanced chip-making technology
ZdNet: IBM, Intel chips: Smaller and faster
Slashdot: IBMs CMOS 9S


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12.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF


boeder - no salvation at sight
Some still remember this company from old Amiga days (disks, joysticks, a.m.m.). The "Computer Partner 43/00" wrote, that the company already in October made application for insolvency. Negotiations for takeover failed, so the company faces the off. At the time being the Vivanco AG only is interested in the name, but even this only if the price is right. Insolvency procedures are planned to be started between December, 15th and 20th.

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12.Dec.2000
BoingWorld


BoingWorld - WoA 2000 Report
BoingWorld has published a WoA 2000 Report.

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11.Dec.2000
Jens Larsson on ANF


Boingworld WoA 2000 Report
Boingworld.com published the WoA 2000 show report with some wonderful photos.

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11.Dec.2000
Ingo Musquinier on ANF


dynAMIte Server
We distributed a free preview of the game dynAMIte among the visitors of the WoA 2000. Normally you find the addresses of the game-servers on our support-side. Unfortunately the server is out of order at the moment.

You should use pulp.2y.net (port 6318) as the default server. This one is the official dynAMIte-server (TDSL-connection). Normally this server is available after 7 p.m. As soon as the web-server is back again you will be able to find the addresses of the other server on our support-page.

If there are any problems with the game you can discuss them with us at the IRC. We are daily available at the euIRCnet (irc.hes.de.euirc.net:6667 channel #AmigaZeux).

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11.Dec.2000
Frank Fenn on ANF


TIDesigner (Addon for TealInfo Developer Kit)
For everyone who wants to be able to increase the speed of the editing of TealInfo Folios for the Palm, TIDesigner is a good help. The program is shareware.

Download: tidesigner.lha

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11.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


Payback Preview-Update (Nightlevel)
There is a update for the Payback-Preview. This time Juergen A. Theiner put the focus on the Nightlevel.

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11.Dec.2000
Michael Burkhardt via eMail


WoA Pictures by IOM
IOM published some WoA pictures.

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11.Dec.2000
Yoris Benjamin via eMail


Realsoft 3D V4 - Press release
As mentioned in the exhibition-report, Hyperion will publish a AMIGA-version of there 'Realsoft 3D'. Here's the press release:

From: Yoris Benjamin
Subject: Realsoft 3D V4 press-release
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:32:54 +0100

Hello World !

Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment team up to bring Realsoft 3D to the
Amiga.

Cologne, December 9, 2000.

Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment have entered into an agreement to bring
Realsoft's critically acclaimed and highly advanced 3D modelling and
rendering package to the Amiga.

'Realsoft 3D' is a full featured modelling, rendering, animation and
simulation software tool. Its predecessor, Real 3D, originated on the Amiga
all these years ago and was renowned for its powerful and innovative tools.
Now the new, rewritten 'Realsoft 3D' provides even more power and introduces
dozens of exciting innovations, all accessible through a very carefully
designed, intelligent, and user-friendly interface. This new interface
adapts to the skills of the user and helps him/her to master advanced 3D
techniques with surprising ease. Realsoft 3D is designed to meet the
requirements of today's 3D artist who requires extreme performance through an
easy to use, productive user interface.

Commenting on the agreement, Realsoft's managing director Vesa Meskanen
remarked: "The success of our 3D product line started on the Amiga platform.
This opportunity to port our latest product generation back to Amiga is
therefore very welcome. The platform independent design of Realsoft 3D
together with Hyperion Entertainment's knowledge about the latest
developments of Amiga OS entails that after the initial porting work is done,
all our new software releases will include the Amiga platform without further
porting delays."

"We were extremely impressed by the feature-set of Realsoft 3D. This package
truly represents unbelievable value for money", said Ben Hermans, managing
partner of Hyperion Entertainment. "Through our activities in the field of
entertainment software, we have acquired enormous expertise in the field of
3D graphics. We were looking for a way to leverage this expertise and apply
it to other areas. Given Realsoft's Amiga background, it seemed natural to
approach them. We are very excited that we can play a role in bringing back
Real 3D's successor to the Amiga."

Realsoft 3D will be available for Amiga OS 3.x and Amiga DE in the course of
2001. Requirements and further details to be announced.

About Realsoft Graphics Oy

Realsoft Graphics Oy, a Finnish corporation founded in 1989 as Realsoft Ky,
has been pushing the cutting edge of 3D visualization for over a decade. For
more information about Realsoft Graphics and its products, visit the
company's website at www.realsoft3d.com

About Hyperion Entertainment VOF

Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German corporation
founded in April of 1999 with the stated aim of porting AAA entertainment
software to Amiga, Linux (x86/PPC) and Mac. The company has signed license
deals with industry leaders such as Activision (ATVI), Interplay (IPLY) and
Monolith.


Regards,

Ben Yoris

Hyperion Entertainment Software
PR Manager
Web: http://www.hyperion-software.com


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11.Dec.2000
Wolf Faust via eMail


ICS V2 released
After more than a year of work, the free scanner color correction ICS V2 was released. Following features have been added to V2 of ICS:
  • Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
  • ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
  • ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data.
  • ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial information
  • Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images (IFF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
  • Spanish localization added
  • ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion.
  • IRW does offer improved and localized error handling. Error requesters now offer detailed information, hints and often also a Retry function.
  • Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats. Also, memory requirement was reduced.
  • Many new small enhancements....

Download the new software from http://www.ics.coloraid.de

-- Wolf Faust
Tel: +49-69-5486556
e-mail
Fax: +49-69-95409598
homepage
Mobile: +49-179-6924769


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11.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail


Amiga Arena special offer
Together with Helmut Hoffmann, Amiga Arena offers a special Christmas price for PhotoAlbum/Cybershow inclusive all additional modules. The price will be 35,- DM. This offer will be valid until 12-31-2000.

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11.Dec.2000
Torsten Dudai


OS 3.9 - Presentation by Juergen Haage and Martin Steigerwald
Torsten Dudai did a report about the OS 3.9 presentation on the WoA:

Though there was "US-Amiga-News / Bill McEwen" an item of the agenda, neither Bill McEwen - who stayed in America - nor Fleecy Moss - who was at the show - were available at that time, so Juergen Haage had to stand in. In a direct dialogue with the users he tried to collect their worries and sorrows for Amiga Inc. to be able to estimate the current mood. But the discussion (due to the lack of facts on the subject AmigaDE) very soon resulted in the new OS 3.9, in which every attendant of the seminar was very interested. So, Juergen Haage was able to seamlessly led over to the following seminar.

Besides of individual problems (one elder man was especially "persistent") also much of the known subjects were addressed, as like as the condition of "50,000" sold copies of OS3.9 (Fleecy Moss), and the "license quarrel" around AmiTCP. In both cases Juergen Haage was able to quiet the devotees' minds: the number "50,000" would not be meaningful at all, because it even isn't combined with a date. Later one just would have to able to estimate if or if not OS 3.9 has been a success. For example only 40,000 (or less) sold copies already would be a big success. About the license quarrel Juergen Haage just said, "There is no license quarrel". Haage & Partner obtained the license for AmiTCP correctly and is allowed to distribute the TCP stack along with Genesis (no MUI, but Reaction GUI) on the CD-ROM.

Then together with Stefan Robl, the programmer of AmiDocks, the new OS3.9 tool-bar, (almost) all of the features of the new Amiga operating system were presented. During the presentation again ideas, criticism, and suggestions were given by the viewers. Juergen Haage put an implementation in parts into prospective for a coming "Boing-Pack 2". But the limits of what can be done are almost reached with this update. Without a change of the KickROMs not much further can be done, any more.

But about one subject he could not give any clear statement: Amiga DE. Haage & Partner still didn't decide whether or not they would port their own products to the new system. In parts this depends on the availability of a sophisticated GUI system, which isn't available at the time being.

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11.Dec.2000
Petra Struck


Show Report by Petra Struck

World of Amiga - Gleanings - 10.12.2000
Autor: Petra Struck (German version)

More amiga-news.de Links

Pictures by Petra Struck vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Torsten Dudai vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Petra Struck of the 2nd day
OS3.9 - Presentation by Torsten Dudai - in German

Exteral links to reports and pictures

Fun Time: Eyetech - AmigaONE/AmigaDE Timelines
(Pictures of the Eyetech diagramms)
Fun Time: World of Amiga 2000 - Die ersten Infos
IRC: Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc.
IRC: Elbox
Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (4,1 MB)
Marcus Neervoort: Fleecy Moss's lecture on Dec., 9th
Tom's WOA 2000 Pictures (Thomas Wenzel)
No Risc No Fun
Fun Time World
WoA 2000 pitctures by Salva
Amiga-Community.net
Videos from Elwood
Report from amiga.topcool.de
Pictures from Virtual Dimension
Pictures from Elbox
Pictures from BAUD
Report from Amiga Globe
Report from Boing World
Report from IOM

Show report by Petra Struck

The World of Amiga 2000 from December, 9th to 10th, which was organized by Haage & Partner, was branded by the vending start of the new AMIGA OS3.9, which according to the vendors sold brilliant on the fair.

The show took place inside the really imposing building of Cologne's Mediapark 7 on about 300 m˛ room. For this show were organized within shortest time this event was attended very well with an amount of about 1500 visitors (note: own estimation). Seminars were held in the opposite building Mediapark 6. The first day of the fair Saturday was stamped by active crowd, while on Sunday it was rather unhurried, cause of only half as full as on the day before.

Before I start describing the highlights of the show I want to put across to every reader that I personally again liked this fair very much. I'm always exited about the cheerful and personal atmosphere. As already in Neuss an amazing amount of international attendants had come to the show. I've met and spoken to people from England, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, France, and Spain. The visitors had visible fun and where impressed by the many different presentations. Everywhere crowds of interested viewers got together.

Disappointment only dispersed caused by the fact that Bill McEwen didn't attend the show; short- termed and insuspendable deadlines kept him from coming to Cologne. Fleecy Moss, Vice President and Chief of Development, but provided for incredulous astonishment by stating there must be at least 50,000 copies of AMIGA OS3.9 sold, to be able to do OS4.0. As for this time nobody thinks this to be possible his statement was taken for a clear No for OS4.0.

As already in Neuss amiga-news.de together with the Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet was present with an own booth. From our editorial staff were on the fair: Dirk Baeyens, Tomás J. Cantó, Torsten Dudai, Ruediger Engel, Guido Fehst, Eric Gillé, Martina Jacobs, Rolf Tingler, and me truly. Nico Barbat was also on the show, but of course was very busy at his own booth (Falke-Verlag). Rolf inspired the visitor with his airbrushing skills.

We enjoyed to get in close contact with the readers and numerous dialogues convinced us to have high acknowledgment for our work, and encouraged us to continue to spend our free time for this project. Especially intensive and interesting were the dialogues with editors of other news services, as like Andrea Vallinotto from diff.org (ItalY), Adrian Sweeney from amigaglobe.com (Irland), Ian Maack from amiga.dk (Denmark), Sebastian Brylka from Fun Time World (Germany), and Mark Hinton and Russell Trent from AmigActive (England). Along this I would like to say thank you very much for the many kind compliments regarding our news service.

The Amiga-Club provided the people not able to attend the show with actual pictures from the fair, and cared for trouble-free UGN IRC chats. Traditional the club members answered our questions, and helped solving one or the other user's problem.

Also this time Michael Schaefer and Dennis Pauler from Virtual Dimension were busy with their video camera to create informing show videos. They did many interviews, and over and over made the microphone sure to work, cause on the last fair the microphone failed completely, which sure was half a disaster.

Trade and the big ones of the branch were present with their own booths - as a matter of fairness this time in alphabetical order or vice versa:

In talks with the exhibitors it became clear that - almost unisonous - they all came with mixed feelings, but against what they expected the visitors were joyfully buying. Trade overall voiced positive about sales.

Almost at all of the above mentioned booths presentations of different software and hardware took place which I will describe without special order. So for example Peter Hoffmann, Stefan Sommerfeld, and Juergen Rebensdorf from Aliendesign introduced their new sound card 'Repulse', which can be used with every Amiga with Zorro-II expansion. The sound card offers sampling rates from 8 to 48 kHz, including 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz S/P-Diff, and supports 16, 18, 20, and 24 Bit (S/P-DIF) sampling frequence in mono or stereo.

New at individual computers was the ISDN-Surfer Zorro card which was to purchase either with or without OVP. The announced products 'Lyra' (adapter to use WindowsTM keyborads with Amiga), and 'Buddha Flash MK2' unfortunately were not finished, but probably will be available before Christmas.

Dirk Conrad introduced his MAS-Player which is distributed by Eternity. The MPEG-Player is a small piece of hardware looking like a serial plug. The player can play MP3 files already on a machine only equipped with a 68000 68k processor. HiFi quality is around 18 Bit / 44 kHz. Since the WoA 2000 AmigaAMP is supported.

At the booth of Hyperion the attendants were able to admire a prototype of the G-Rex PCI board by DCE with Voodoo3 graphics board on action. With this system Heretic II really looked smooth, it was fast and the lightning effects were wonderfully visible. Users can look forward to better speed and nice graphics. The boards are planned to be finished end of December 2000.

Of course we yet asked for the projects under construction at Hyperion, and summarized the answers as follows:
  • Shogo: Hans-Joerg and Thomas Frieden are working on the Amiga version which presumably will be finished end of January 2001.
  • Freespace: On the port of this space shooter Steffen Haeuser and Matthias Roslund are working. It is planned to finished 1Q/2001.
  • Majesty: Stephan Rusdorf and Thomas Frieden are busy porting this fantasy strategy game which includes roll game elements. It is expected to be finished 2Q/2001.
  • Die Voelker (Alien Nations): Harry Sintonen is working on the port of this popular build-up and strategy game, which is a big success similar to Siedler.
  • SIN: Steffen Haeuser and Peter Annuss are working on the port of the 3D shooter. The game will presumably be finished 1Q/2001.
  • Hyperion will also port the 3D software 'Realsoft 3D' by Realsoft to the Amiga! With this software comparable to 'Cinema3D' or 'Reflections' the Amiga users will get a 3D modelling tool more extended and modern than anything else released before.

Eyetech together with Martin Schueler from Escena introduce the plans for the AmigaOne machine. It was shown on diagrams how the system will look like. The 68k emulation is being developed by Haage & Partner.

At Eternity Tales of Tamar was presented - Martin Wolf's favourite project. In the meantime the world map and cities have been enabled. Still intense online tests are running and the beta testers are really sold on the game. Initial bigger beta test are planned for 2Q/2001.

Also at Eternity EASys! by Tom Neidhardt was presented. The current update offers improvements like e.g. a built-in start menu, OS3.9 menu support and alignment. Other changes: the archive manager now supports XPK; the menus are structured better, and extend of menus is scalable, and moreover the buggy installation of the previous version has been fixed, hence a trouble-less installation is possible,yet.

Eternity moreover presented a PC (Eternity 1) basing on 1 GHz (Tunderbird processor by AMD), equipped with gigabyte board, 128 MB DIMM -133, Ge-Force II graphics board 32 MB DD-RAM, Catweazel controller, 52x CD-ROM drive, 20 GB Quantum HD, two PC floppy drives (one of them connected to the Catweasel), as well as a sound card 128 Bit PCI. The gag of this PC is a perfectly pre-installed UAE under Windows. This way one gets a fast PC, and an AMIGA at the speed of 68040/60.

During an interview with Andreas Magerl and Georg Breitsprecher from Amiga Future and APC&TCP Mr. Magerl stated that financing of the now self-produced print magazine 'Amiga Future' finally is safe. Number of orders still isn't 100% satisfying, but a huge layout enhancement would attract more orders. I've seen the new layout and I can confirm it to be a difference like night and day. :-)

Andreas Kuessner from WK-Artworks presented 'Taifun', the successor of 'WildFire'. Taifun is being developed for the new operating system 'Amiga DE' using the Amiga Software Developer Kit (SDK). KDH-Datentechnik will be distributor of Taifun.

At epic interactive Paul Burkey introduce 'Simon The Sorcerer II'. The game will be at the vendors form the middle of next week. Also presented was 'Earth 2140', a real-time strategy game has been ported to the Amiga by Pagan Games on demand of epic interactive. The master volume is on its way to production.

Still under development is Dafel:Bloodline. Status: Thomas Wuergler continues to work on this game, but when it will be finished cannot be estimated at the time being. 'Converting games' currently has a higher priority.

The ATC team handed me a disk containing a preview of the reworked classic game Dynamite. This one will be to play via internet. I promise to have a look at it soon. :)


My quite personal summary: The AMIGA is anything but dead! There are innovative developments in hardware and software taking place. There is unfractured engagement and unrestricted attendance to continue. In many dialogues it got clear that we are facing a future which though is undetermined, it's not hopeless. Tenor from the exhibitors' commercial point of view was, "Though one is able to make enough money with the Amiga, one cannot 'line his pockets'". Already from just this solitary point of view I rate this fair as a success. I had a lot of fun, anyway, and to have been there really pushed on my motivation. :-)

In terms of this....
Petra Struck

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10.Dec.2000
Salva via email


WoA 2000 pictures by Salva
WoA 2000 pictures by Salva.

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10.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm


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10.Dec.2000
Petra Struck


Woa pictures
The first exhibiton day was gut visited and as could be read in the different announcements there were interesting presentations of hard- and software all over the place. As usual we'll supply you with comprehensive information about all details in our exhibition review.

You can get a first impression through our pictures. Besides the photos by Petra Struck under the title link Torsten Dudai has also captured his impressions.

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10.Dec.2000
Thomas Wenzel on ANF


New public beta of AmigaAmp
Just in time for the end of the WoA'2000 there's a new version of AmigaAmp. Originally Thomas Wenzel had planned to release the final version 2.8 these days. But there are two features he didn't want to psh back for later releases:

MAS-Player Support
The MAS-Player is an external MPEG-audio-decoder for the parallel port and can be used with EVERY Amiga. The support in AmigaAmp exists in the form of a new driver system developed by Paul Qureshi together with Dirk Conrad and Thomas Wenzel. With the combination AmigaAMP and MAS-Player it is possible to play MP3-files in full quality even on 68030 Amigas. Dirk himself offers a special highly optimised software which makes playback of MP3 even on a 68000. The MAS-Player is distributed by Eternity (Martin Wolf).

Shoutcast Streaming
Shoutcast is a protocol for live broadcastings of radio transmissions via the internet. >From the today released version on AmigaAMP doesn't need an external program for receiving such transmissions. The necessary protocol is directly integrated.

The two named features are still in development and don't run 100% stable. For a first impression it is enough though. The new version of AmigaAMP is downloadable from www.amigaamp.de.

Download: AmigaAMP28b9.lha (573K)

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10.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanac III Xmas update
Because of illness the release of the Xmas update for DA3 may be delayed some days. Because of the same reason a preview of the new features was only possible just now.

Under the title link you can find a summary of the new features including screenshots.

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10.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


WOA: Eyetech - AmigaOne/AmigaDE-Roadmap
Together with the partners Escena (Martin Schueler) and Hyperion Software (further partners are Haage&Partner (68k-Emulation) and Michael Rock(PCI/AGP-Resource Libraries and other things)) the company Eyetech has presented their plans regarding their AmigaOne computer. Fun Time World has released diagrams of this presentation.

The AmigaOne 1200 from Eyetech is a PPC-PCI-system plus Amga hardware and 68k-emulation for use with Amiga Classic and AmigaDE software. The PPC system is based on the project Brainstormer by Escena.

Via the WestBridge of the system the A1200, IDE, 1 AGP- and 4 PCI-slots are connected. Via the NorthBridge the PPC-cpu, the SDRAM, USB and two more PCI-slots. The PPC can access the Amiga-system (custom chips, Chip RAM, Amiga I/O).

On starting the system the FlashROM is copied into the SDRAM, then the 68k-emulator respectively the AmigaDE is activated and the Amiga Classic' booted. The Amiga Classic software now runs on top of the 68k-emulation on the AmigaOne-board (PPC) and uses the Amiga specific hardware of the integrated A1200-board.

The emulation only emulates the command set of the 68k-cpu-line but no Amiga specific hardware like AGA which exists as real hardware. The emulation is memory intensive and therefore needs a fast memory access. For a step-by-step adaption of the software 'in-line'-PPC-code is supported.

The following planned schedule is given in the diagrams.

Amiga Classic
  • 12/2000: developer system
  • 01/2001: Classic OS-drivers
  • 01/2001: 680x0-emulator
  • 02/2001: system for betatesters
  • 1. quarter 2001: finished version of the AmigaOne A1200 for use as extended Amiga Classic (PPC, PCI/AGP-Slots)

AmigaDE
  • 07/2001: AmigaDE for end-users
  • 07/2001: AmigaDE graphics, drivers and so on
  • 08/2001: AmigaDE port for (every) AmigaOne possible
  • 1. quarter 2002: availability of ready-to-use applications especially for AmigaDE


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10.Dec.2000
Alfred Faust on ANF


Open source: Bars&Pipes Pro 2.0
Alfred Faust has released an email of Todor Fay, the former chief programmer of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc., on ANF that is dated 9. December 2000. In this email Todor Fay announces the release of the source code of Bars&Pipes Pro V2.0. Besides bugfixes this will make the continued development of the sequencer possible.

For now Fay is collecting together the source code. For this he needs help from one or more Amiga developers with an up and running Amiga developer environment.

«I think we can work towards a better solution:

I've gotten clearance to release the source code for Bars&Pipes to the Amiga community. This means several things:

1) Known bugs can be fixed.

2) Perhaps y'all can create special hooks for real time services (timer, midi in and out) in the Amiga code so it can connect more directly with the services in Windows. It's pretty amazing that timing works at all, given that it is running on an emulation of the audio interrupt (kudos to Brian King!). 'Course that would require changes to WinUAE to support this.

3) Port Bars&Pipes to Windows. If people want to collaborate on such a project, I will very gladly provide advice and assistance.

At this point, I'm collecting together the source code. I need to work with one or more developers who have Amiga dev environments up and running to help put this together. We need to make sure everything is there and compiles correctly.

Any volunteers?

Todor»

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10.Dec.2000
André Siegel on ANF


BlueBlack Solution websites gets revamped
André Siegel wrote:
Our net presentation gets momentarily reworked, please have therefor some days patience until we can give you again access to our complete web offer.

You like the new design of our website? You recognised deficiencies? Show courage, write us an email and help us to improve our offers furthermore.

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10.Dec.2000
Richard de Rivaz on ANF


INET DIAL v3.833
The internet management system 'INET DIAL' now offers a German localisation and is in general prepared for translations. Everybody who wants to do a translation may apply to the developer.

Download: inet_dial.lha (528K)

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10.Dec.2000



WOA: Pictures and reports
pictures

reports

IRC-conferences


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10.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


Obligement #24
The 24. issue of the french e-magazine 'Obligement' for Amigas is ready for downlaod. This issue contains among other things an interesting article about the AmigaOne, an interview with the graphical artist Eric W. Schwartz, reviews of Nightlong and MooVid 2 and much more.

Download: obligement24.lha (598K)

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10.Dec.2000
James Russell on Open Amiga-ML


AmigaDE: James Russell manages Mozilla porting
James Russell is the leader of the Mozilla-engine-porting for AmigaDE. Mozilla is the open source browser project emerged from the Netscape browser.

To begin with Russell has contacted mozdev.org about the possibility of hosting the necessary infrastructure (webspace, CVS, mailing list) for the project. It would then become accessible under mozamiga.mozdev.org.

Everybody who wants to help in porting, give constructive ideas or feedback may post on the Open Amiga-Mailingliste or address directly to James Russell. He is to find on the IRC-channels #mozamiga at irc.mozilla.org and #developer at irc.whiterose.net.

He suggests to interested people to have a look at the NSPR-Video on http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/brownbag.htmlfor now, which informs in a comprehensive way about the NSPR module. This module presents the biggest hurdle for the Mozilla-port for AmigaDE.

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