17.Jan.2004
Murakami (ANF)
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Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 25 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a newspaper issued by the French association AFLE. Since its creation in 1998 the magazine became one of the leading French Amiga publications.
Among other reports you can find the following topics in the current issue number 25:
- AmigaOS4
- Pegasos II
- Gorky 17
- Bourriquet
- AmiTradeCenter v1.4
- fryingPan v0.3
- Arak Attack v0.93
- GoldEd Studio AIX SP14
(snx)
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17.Jan.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: LAME v3.95.1 recompiled using libnix (Update)
The current version 3.95.1 of the MP3 encoder LAME (amiga-news.de reported) was recompiled (296 KB) by Christian Rosentreter using libnix - this makes the ixemul.library obsolete for LAME. The user has to take care for a big enough stack, though (see readme file).
Update: (18.01.2004, 07:04, snx)
The archive has been updated on Jan. 17th, 22:43 - it should work now without manually setting the stack. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jan.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Amiga Magazin: preview of AmigaOS 4
On the website of the Amiga Magazin (German print magazine) has been a preview of the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 been released that has been written by Martin Steigerwald and was originally published in the issue 01/2004:
"In defiance of all claims AmigaOS 4 would never see the light of day: AmigaOS 4 runs on the AmigaOne as well as already before on Amigas with PPC turbo cards!" Read the complete article following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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16.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Kray: Version 1.4 of raytracer now also available for MorphOS
The raytracer Kray is now also available in
version 1.4
(1.4 MB) for MorphOS.
Additional to optimations and bug fixes the new version has got new features like
subsurface scattering and texture prefiltering based on ray-differentials.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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New alpha version 0.3 of Horny Midi-Sequencer
Horny is going to be a midi-sequencer like "Logic" or "Cubase"
which are easy to use. But Horny will stay a pure midi program without the
possibility of recording audio traces.
In this new version you can now configure it.
You can download and get further information on the product site under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)
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XAD is Open Source
Since the beginning of the year the XAD system has become Open Source software.
Yesterday the CVS directory was completed in the most important sections. Anybody
who is interested in developing further XAD is very welcome and can contact Dirk Stöcker.
Probably a version without keyfile will be published during the next days.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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Changes at VHT Online Help Forum
After massive problems with the Bravenet-Service the Virus Help Team
has changed the VHT Online Help Forum.
You can access the forum under http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/forum.html.
You can find the VHT Amiga Help Forum under http://www.vht-dk.dk.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
AMIGAplus Redaktion
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AMIGAplus 01/2004 (#143) - Amiga hits MTV
She was the video-monster of a whole decade. It should increase the pride
of the last Amiga men standing that even today many clips on MTV are
created on Amigas and Dracos. "Amiga hits MTV" - AMIGAplus on tour at
iMagic Films in London. Read this report and more articles in the new
issue #143 (01/2004) of AMIGAplus:
- A+ at iMagic Films
- Workshop: Compiling UAE
- Report: Amiga on Mac OS X
- Review: Burnit Evolution 3
- Review: papyrus Office
- TurboPrint: Printing through the network
- Review: eTeacher 6.2
- Amiga Status Report: Relations
- Web complete: Siteway
- Top 10 shareware-tools
- Quake 2 MOD: Nighthunters
- News: AmigaOS 4, software & hardware
- Prices: New and second-hand products
- Demoscene: Interview with Darkhawk (Eurochart)
- and much more
German monthly print magazine AMIGAplus (68 pages) may be ordered from
publisher falkemedia for 5 Euro
per issue including shipping costs or via subscription. (nba)
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16.Jan.2004
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AtariST-Emulator: Amiga-Port of "STonX"
Frank Wille has published an Amiga port of the AtariST-Emulator called "STonX".
There are versions for AmigaOS3 (with WarpOS and PowerUp), AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
If you you want to run the program properly you need a ROM image which has been not
added to the archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
ann.lu (Website)
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MorphOS: New version of "TranspoClock"
"TranspoClock" is a transparent clock for MorphOS. The new version 1.0 can now also
remind you of a date.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
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Further changes at amiga.org
From tomorrow on the team of amiga.org will start switching the used "Content Managament Systems"
to a newer version. Therefore there might be some restrictions.
Afterwards there should be a better compability with Amiga browsers, some new features
and an individual look.
The email service will be closed because of technical (SPAM) and legal reasons.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
anonym (ANF)
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Beat'em up: Source code of "Beats of Rage" available
"Beats of Rage" is a tribute to the Beat'em Up games of the "Streets of Rage" series.
Additional to a new version of the game which is available for MS-DOS the source code
of the program is available, too. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jan.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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Anti-Virus Software: xvs.library Version 33.41
Georg Hörmann released an update to version 33.41 of the xvs.library. You may download the library from the website of the Virus Help Team and soon from Aminet as well.
Program Name: Xvs.library v33.41
Programmer: Georg Hörmann
Release Date: 15th of January, 2004
Archive Name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive Size: 93,522 Bytes
Change in v33.41:
- Added AmigaE/libraries/xvs.m developer file. Thanks must go to
Ronald van Dijk for this contribution.
- Once again rewritten taskscanner in xvsSurveyMemory() to avoid
Disable()s lasting longer than 250µs. Thanks to Christian again
for reporting the problems with his FastEthernet card.
- Fixed bootblock recognition of "GXTeam" bootvirus to avoid false
alarms. Thanks to Ronald van Dijk for the example file.
- Fixed problem in xvsCheckFile() that caused Enforcer hits under
certain conditions with damaged executables. Thanks again for the
example files to Ronald van Dijk.
- Added "ASS Protector 1.0" bootvirus clone and its installer and
modified recognition for the original virus. Fixed recognition of
"Liberator 1.21" filevirus to avoid false alarms. Thanks once more to
Ronald van Dijk for the report and example files.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Starkiller Sequel Online
In the Starkiller section of the retro website "KultPower" the eleventh Starkiller sequel is online: "Starkiller: the Prisoners of Zelda," as always with exclusive commentary from Heinrich Lenhardt!
Beyond that there is also a cool Kult editorial with photos of the notorious ASM Crew and the prime ASM special editions, sent in by Dominik. And then something else quite special: Powerplay fan art! A Powerplay wallpaper from Martin. And then also issue one and two of the 1996 Sega magazine, scanned by Vitek. Many thanks to you all! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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IBM Holds PowerPC Seminar at AmiGBG 2004
The Amiga convention AmiGBG 2004 is to take place on the 3rd of April 2004 in the Swedish city of Göteborg. The show organizers are expecting Mikael Haglund, a technical expert from IBM Sweden, who will present a treatise on the future of the PowerPC platform. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Announcement: Amiga Alpe Adria 2004
Cloanto announced today that Amiga Alpe Adria 2004 will take place on
Saturday, July 3rd. The provisional event home page, which includes
pictures from last year's event, is at 0xAA.org.
Planned features include the latest Amiga news, a selection of items of
historical interest, a contest (with a C65 computer as the first prize),
an excursion by boat (on Monday), and of course Amiga friends from all
over the world. Other cultural events taking place in Udine at the same
time include the Sunsplash
music festival.
Cloanto would like to thank Amiga, Inc. for granting permission to use the
"Amiga" trademark in the name of the event. (nba)
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15.Jan.2004
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Vote in January and February 2004
The organizers of Amiga Games Hit Parade are calling for a vote of games for January and February 2004. You may take part in the vote by sending a list of up to 20 of your favorite games to David "Daff" Brunet
or participate online at hitparade.amigames.com.
You may include any type of game you like (commercial, freeware, old, new etc.). The final results will be released at the start of February, 2004. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena Presents "HollyRecord"
In collaboration with Telemar Rosenberger, Amiga Arena presents "HollyRecord" for AmigaOS and MorphOS. With "HollyRecord" you can record the animations and presenations you have created with Hollywood.
To do this you also need the tool SGrab by Stephan Rupprecht.
"HollyRecord" can save your presentation in PNG, JPG, or ILBM format pictures, which may then with a program of your choosing be processed and joined into an animation or an mPeg video. You'll find "HollyRecord" under the "free commercial - utilities" logo at Amiga Arena. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Jan.2004
anonym (ANF)
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Strategy game: News about "Schlachtfeld"
The beta test of the strategy game "Schlachtfeld" has begun now.
Currently documentation is under improvement, later on the game will be made available to a bigger user base.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Skinplayer: Professional skins for Frogger, AmigaAMP and others
Skinplayer is a GUI programm for Frogger, AmigaAMP, Mplayer and other
audio tools which are capable of using professional skins. Those are available
here in terms of freeware.
Skinplayer supports the buttons only currently, sliders, state displays or fonts are not supported by now.
More information is available within the readme.
Because of an error within Hollywood's brush refreshment the position of the
skinplayer has been fixed by the author, i.e. the window cannot be moved. It is possible to disable the fixed window within the tool types
but then the buttons will not be updated until they are clicked on.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
karibu@gmx.net (ANF)
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Novell publishes correspondence with SCO according the Unix law suit
Novell, Inc. emphasize their copyright claim of Unix.
In a chronologic, German summary the company published the correspondence between them and the
SCO group since May 2003 as well as many Unix copyright registries, which should bring evidence that Novell are the holders of
all Unix rights.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: SCO supplies evidences
SCO announces in a press release they delivered the evidences asked by IBM
according the order by judge Brooke C. in time. SCO said the papers aren't complete and not public.
Further news regarding this issue:
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14.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)
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LAME: Update of the MP3 encoder to version 3.95.1
The LGPL MP3 encoder LAME is now available at amiga.sourceforge.net in
version 3.95.1 (702 KB).
Changes include the wipe out of that bug crashing the program if used with vbr-new and the
ReplayGain reference level was set to 89 dB.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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13.Jan.2004
Thomas van Spitjoud (E-Mail)
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First screenshot of "Civilisation - Call to Power" for OS4
Thomas van Spitjoud is currently working on the port of the
strategical "Civilisation - Call To Power" to be released
for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0. On his webpage under the
title link he pusblished the first public screenshot of the
alpha-version ctp2 v0.1 so people can see it is real. For now
the game only runs in window-mode, there is no sound yet and
of course the overall stability is quite bad so a first
beta version is expected to be released not earlier than
in a few weeks. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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13.Jan.2004
ANF
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SystemPatch: Version 2.2 published
Sante Nocciolino's SystemPatch, which is patching many
different system routines for getting a better performance on Amiga computers (68020 or better) ist published now
in the version 2.2.
The RemIBob-Patch was cancelled, because he had bugs. Also an installation script is installed.
Download (27 KB).
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2004
MaxWorld (ANF)
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HomeBank v3.0 beta for testing released
With the shareware programm HomeBank you are allowed to manage your finances, f.e. you can count the costs of your car.
The new version, which is available now in the beta version will publish following new features:
- subroutines
- payment receiver
- budgets
- a few standard improvement
- a few news
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2004
Christian Hviid (E-Mail)
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IRIS published Eurochart 47 and new 3D-Matrix-Screensaver
Better late than never. The demo scene group IRIS published the 47th edition of the legend Eurochart
which you can download under the title link. This edition was processed by Darkhawk/IRIS,
Dr. Doom/IRIS und Zerox/Gods. You can read an interwiev with Darkhawk in the new edition of AMIGAplus 01/2004.
Also a new version of a screensaver "3D-Matrix" was released, which is now compatible to graphic cards with 3D-chip
and AmigaOS 3.9.
The IRIS homepage is getting a new design with new contents shortly. So please look there in the next few months!
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Cloanto licenses MPEG-4- and HighMAT-technologies
Cloanto announced today that they entered into a licensing agreement with
MPEG LA, LLC to use
MPEG-4 Visual
technology, and with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and
Microsoft Corporation to use
HighMAT technology in its products.
Cloanto plans to use MPEG-4 to produce high quality cross-platform
encodings of a new series of Amiga Forever videos, and HighMAT for quick
access and indexing of such video files on the next version of the Amiga
Forever CD-ROM.
The growing list of third-party items already licensed for use in Amiga
Forever includes the portfolio of Amiga patents, copyrights and
trademarks, technology such as GIF/LZW by Unisys Corporation (used in
Cloanto's Personal Paint) and hundreds of contributions such as Amiga
applications and other items of historical interest. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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12.Jan.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack USB Driver V0.95 Beta available for testing
Guido Mersmann just uploaded a new beta version of ArakAttack which is
available for downloading (268 KB). This version contains many rewritten parts, so Mersmann
deceided to upload a beta for testing. It's running as good as the prior
version on the developer system. If less devices (of course also more) are
working or you get other problems, then please send a message to the
developer. This version needs half as much memory, less CPU time and
should work a little faster.
Special Note for users of G-Rex/Pegasos:
The chance that ArakAttack is working on G-Rex increased a lot. On the
bad side openpci still does not contain a pci address calculation
function, with forced Mersmann to write a work around (again). This time
the work around is less compatible and may not work. If V0.95 is not
working on Pegasos anymore, then keep the 0.94 until there is an openpci
update. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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10.Jan.2004
Henrik Mikael Kristensen (E-Mail)
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AWeb: Overview page of the features in development
Our new Work Overview page will help us getting more structure in future
development of AWeb. It's Bugzilla with a friendlier face. :-)
http://hmk.naff.dk/overview.php (this link may change)
In other news, the GCC conversion of AWeb APL Lite is progressing very
well, as the first tests shows a fairly stable internal release of the
full program. All parts have been converted now, which means in theory,
it should be possible to create a native AmigaOS4 version. If anyone
wants to do that, contact us.
Hopefully we can get a beta out soon, and work towards a 3.5 release.
Regards,
AWeb Development Team (snx)
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10.Jan.2004
T.o.T.-Forum
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T.o.T.: Update 0.51 r2
The update fixes the "Black Screen" error under MorphOS.
Download: ToT_Amiga_V0.51_R2.lha (864.2 KB)
Before installing the fixed version you have to update to the recently released version 0.51 r1 first.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jan.2004
Georges Halvadjian (ANF)
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PerfectPaint: Development halted for the time being
Georges Halvadjian, author of PerfectPaint,
writes:
No news and update since a long time. Development of PerfectPaint is
actually in stand by. I'm just waiting to see the future of Amiga.
Regards,
Georges
(snx)
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09.Jan.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HardwareAssistent: Update of "Driver Descriptor Creator"
Version 0.72 of "Driver Descriptor Creator" (ddc) is available under the title link.
Some bugs have been fixed which caused some failure.
Soon the CD to HardwareAssistent will be also available.
Then it will be possible to install the drivers directly from the CD. Besides this
some additional material will be there, e.g. many manuals in pdf-format.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
Anonym (ANF)
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Print magazine: Pegasos2-article in "WCM"
An article about Genesi and its Pegasos2-mainboard has been published in the Austrian
PC-magazine called WCM (issue 2/04, page 17). Furthermore you can read there about
the co-operation with IBM concerning the successor with G5-CPU. You can read the full
article under the title link (in German).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Medusa USB Bundle available
IOSPIRIT announces the immediate availability of Medusa USB, a driver
package enabling the use of OnBoard- and PCI-USB-controllers under
Amithlon and other supported PCI-solutions.
Medusa USB contains full versions of the USB-stack Poseidon, the
PCI-USB-driver ArakAttack and special full versions of the IOUSB DigiCam
and IOUSB Scanner packages.
Medusa USB enables users of Amithlon and other supported hardware, to
completly avoid the purchase and installation of additional USB-hardware
and instead make use of already existant OnBoard-controllers, thereby
saving precious PCI-slots.
About Poseidon
The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the
possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with USB
interface. It is intended to be a solution for all systems.
Poseidon has a modular design that fits into the AmigaOS environment very
neatly. It is no port of an existing system (like the Linux USB stack),
but has been created with the unique features of AmigaOS in mind that make
the operation system so efficient. Already in 2002 Poseidon received the
Amiga Award as best Amiga software.
About ArakAttack
ArakAttack is a USB driver-package for Poseidon, with which USB shall be
made possible on every PCI-capable AmigaOS. The supported standards
currently include UHCI and OHCI. Nearly every PCI-USB-board or
USB-OnBoard controller are compatible with one of these standards. A list
of already tested devices can be found in the respective subpages of the
Medusa USB product pages.
About IOUSB Scanner and DigiCam Package
As a bonus, the IOUSB packages, which for the first time allow the use of
USB-scanners and -digicams, are contained in special SE-versions (equal to
the full versions in functionality). However, since it's a free bonus and
testing with all possible hardware combinations was impossible, these
SE-versions come without support and functional guarantee.
Compatibility
ArakAttack usually should work with every OnBoard- and PCI-controller
supported by PowerPCI (Amithlon) and OpenPCI. Nonetheless, it is possible
that in certain constellations and especially with PCI-solutions not, not
fully or not error-free supported by OpenPCI (Mediator, Prometheus,
G-Rex), there can be compatibility problems. It is thus recommended
to download the demo versions of Poseidon and ArakAttack and to test it
for compatibility with the hardware in use prior to the purchase.
Availability
Medusa USB is immediately available as download version for 34.99 EUR and
as package version (with certificate) for 44.99 EUR. Dealer inquiries
desired. (nba)
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09.Jan.2004
Orbiter on Scenet (Website)
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Event: AmigaOS 4.0 at Compusphere 14
The ACGGbg will participate in the this year`s Compusphere 14 in Sweden and will present
AmigaOS 4.0. At this event a presentation of the operating system with its news and several
applications and of an AmigaOne will be shown.
The Compusphere 14 will take place from 13th until 15th February 2004 in the
Älvsjöstrandens restaurant in Göteborg.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
Scenia (Website)
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Grapevine-Team searches Amiga-developer
A community of developers, editors and readers of the legendary diskmag "Grapevine"
is going to reanimate it. Therefore a developer is searched who can program a
diskmag engine for AmigaOS. If you are interested in then please write a mail to
Nico Barbat.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
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New opinion poll: Amiga "unword" of year 2003
We have gone through twelve exciting months. amiga-news.de wants you to participate in
a new opinion poll:
Choose the Amiga "unword" of the year 2003!
You can choose between the following names:
- Articia-Bug
- Insolvency
- Platform-change
- Troll
- T-Shirt
- "Abzocke" (to rip sb off)
- When it's done
- FUD
Have fun! You can read the results here.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Crystal Symphonies 1 & 2 added
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) can present some new productions:
The legendary sound disks "Crystal Symphonies" by Phenomena, Scoopex and Rebels
from 1991 with music by Mantronix und Tip as well as "Crystal Symphonies 2" by
Phenomena from 1992 have been added. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
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Amazon changes partner program
Amazon cancels the classic partnership program with 15%. According to that
direct links can only achieve 7,5% instead of 15%. This effects several
Amiga homepages as affiliate-partner and amiga-news.de, too.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Amiga.org Soon To Go Temporarily Offline
Sometime between Friday, January 9th and Monday, January 12th, the Amiga portal amiga.org will be taken offline for an unspecified time to accomplish maintenance and upgrades. During this time, and for a while afterwards, e-mail forwarding will not work. They report they've been planning these actions for quite a while, but the changes are quite in-depth, and prone to error.
Contrary to circulating rumor, Amiga.org is not being retired at this time. They state they will be back ASAP. More information about the changes and new features will be made available after their return to service. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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AROS: Poll About Desired Hardware
Under the title link you'll find a survey that those responsible from Team
AROS are trying to find out what potential AROS users want. Would you rather run AROS on high performance hardware, or the quietest hardware, or the cheapest hardware? (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #064
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 64th music pack yesterday. It contains a trance track named "Beautiful Morning" from musician Maxus. The cover is by DaFreak.
Title: Beautiful Morning
Musician: Maxus
Style: Trance
Song lenth: 3:49
Format: mp3 (@160kbps)
Size: 4.5 MB
The zipped file is available under the title link as a free download. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)
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BTTR: Previously missing HD-Games added
The BTTR-Team writes: Although already announced in our Christmas update
we forgot to add 20 new HD-Games into our database.
This mistake has been fixed today, so if you already
downloaded all files of the update then please check
the HD-Games link on the news page for the previously
missing files.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but imagine, we added
3890 entries and more than 25GB of new files with the
last update (that's about the size of entire Aminet),
so the error ratio isn't that bad. ;-) (nba)
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08.Jan.2004
Ulrich Panzer (E-Mail)
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T.o.T.: Amiga Version 0.51 R1
A new version of Tales of Tamar appeared this year. There have been some more improvements since the last update.
[Extremely long list of itemized changes not translated from German. Click on the title link for the ToT homepage]
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Jan.2004
MorphZone (website)
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Spanish manual for the Pegasos II available
Thanks to Juan Carlos Marcos Rodrķguez, now also a Spanish version of the Pegasos II manual is available. Furthermore he did not just translate the text but also he prepared an HTML document and reworked the figures. The archive (202 KB) can be downloaded from MorphZone. (snx)
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07.Jan.2004
exotiC (ANF)
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People: What happend to Sam Jordan?
Our reader exotiC found Sam Jordan's (WarpUP, Warp3D) home page.
There he gives some views to his new life as well as something about his Amiga history.
In autumn 2001 Sam Jordan bought a Mac. The current Amiga situation he describes as follows:
"I didn't follow the development of the Amiga since the century change, but some brief research let me conclude that
the Amiga market is not existing any more and activities went down to a minimum."
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
SixK (Website)
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Two new MorphOS games by SixK
The French developer SixK has released two new ports for MorphOS:
Supertux
(v0.0.5) is a Mario clone based on SDL,
VirusKiller
is a new shooter which is available in version 0.1.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Internet sales suspended until 15-25 February
As Genesi announce on their website, the Internet sales are suspended until 15-25 February.
Pegasos I upgrades will be handled by any of the resellers listed on PegasosPPC.com as Pegasos II boards become available. Pegasos I boards will now be resold for 149 Euros for the Pegasos I April 2. If you purchased your Pegasos I from Genesi directly, the boards should be returned to the US office if you reside in North America and to a TBD (To Be Determined) location for all other customers.
The Phoenix Phreeboard Program will commence 25 February 2004 and feature the Pegasos I April 1 board. Please see details at the Phoenix Developer Consortium.
Resellers have until 25 February 2004 to place their next orders. Orders received at this time will be produced the first week of March and shipped by 15 March 2004. After this production the next Pegasos II production is scheduled for the last week of April 2004. (snx)
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07.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Freeware game: "2 Pairs 2 Furious Deluxe"
A reworked version of the "Memory" clone "2 Pairs 2 Furious" is
available now. The author promises new levels, additional skins
and "some several more improvements". The game should work on every Amiga
with gfx card.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Pegasos 2 Reviews (Update)
By the title link there is a summary by amiga.org reader "Takemehomegrandma" of his experience
with the "Pegasos 2" motherboard available.
Update: (07.01.2004, 17:45, cg)
A German report of his experience by
our reader Granada is available within the forum.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Assembler: ASM-One V1.48 Rev. 482 released
The assembler ASM-One is now a vailable as
V1.48 Rev. 482
(302 KB) which is a bugfixed new beta version. Kickstart 2.x, ReqTools
and ASL are required. Further information in English is available at the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: URL reachable again
After the hard disk failure and due to this the offline time of the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware"'s domain (we
reported
the page is now reachable again.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages until 7th January 2004
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games to hard disk which were initially intended for floppy disk usage. Since the last
report the following packages were added or updated:
- 06.01.04 new: Barbarian (Palace)
- 04.01.04 new: Life & Death (Software Toolworks/Mindscape)
- 04.01.04 fixed: Dune (Cryo)
- 04.01.04 improved: Bubble And Squeak (Audiogenic)
- 03.01.04 fixed: Knights of the Sky (Microprose)
- 03.01.04 improved: Alien Breed 2 (Team 17)
- 02.01.04 new: Road Blasters (US Gold)
- 02.01.04 new: Sword (Serio-Comic)
- 02.01.04 new: Que? (The Black Lotus)
- 01.01.04 new: California Games (Epyx/Westwood Associates)
- 30.12.03 new: World Games (Epyx/Westwood Associates)
- 30.12.03 fixed: Shaft 7 (Bomb)
- 30.12.03 new: 7 Colors (Infogrames)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet uploads until 7th January 2004
Since our last report the following Aminet-Uploads were added:
SPA-AmIRC.lha comm/irc 16K+Update Spanish catalog for AmIRC 3.5.x
SPA-YGMail.lha comm/mail 1K+Spanish catalog for YGMail
SPA-CManager.lha comm/net 7K+Spanish catalog for ContactManager
SPA-JabberWock.lha comm/net 2K+Update spanish catalog for Jabberwocky
SPA-MiamiDx.lha comm/net 15K+Update spanish catalog for MiamiDX
SPA-OpenURL.lha comm/net 2K+Spanish catalog for OpenURL
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 31K+Online Dictionary
JabberwockyBIN.lha comm/tcp 209K+Jabber client
JabberwockySRC.lha comm/tcp 284K+Jabber client
SPA-AmiFish.lha comm/tcp 1K+Spanish catalog for AmiFish
StripHunk.lha dev/misc 25K+Tiny cli-command strips hunks/relocs
Image2Disk.lha disk/misc 13K+Read/write adf-images from/to disk
AmigaChannel.lha docs/anno 5K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 57K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (30 De
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.7M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 11/2003 (Itali
AmigaFuture45.lha docs/mags 800K+Great german paper mag preview
nocover118.lha docs/mags 3.0M+Great german diskmagazine
CC.lha game/patch 1.2M+Carrier Command and various tools for
FinalChapter.lha game/think 234K+1-6 Player strategy game
PairsNG_Demo.lha game/wb 2.3M+Great board game for CGFX/P96/AHI (V2.4)
Time-Waster.lha game/wb 34K+Useless Time Wasting Game.
GS8gui.lha gfx/conv 14K+GUI for Ghostscript8 done with rxMUI
Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 565K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 1/8
Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 156K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 2/8
Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 3a/8
Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 329K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 3b/8
Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 4/8
Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 147K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 5/8
Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 6/8 (opti
Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 7/8 (opti
Sv5-8.lha gfx/misc 154K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 8/8 (opti
Sv5Fix130.lha gfx/misc 7K+*Fix* for SView5 V1.30 (31.12.2003)
swfplayer.lha gfx/show 345K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.3) 68k+W
swfplayersrc.lha gfx/show 473K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.2e2) 68k
PoseidonMain.lha hard/drivr 423K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.2
PoseidonMOS.lha hard/drivr 579K+Poseidon USB for Pegasos Update 2.2
SPA-GhostMix.lha hard/drivr 1K+Spanish catalog for GhostMix
SPA-Mixer.lha hard/drivr 2K+Spanish catalog for Mixer
Flamingo.lha misc/emu 167K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.54, 68k & PPC
Wzonka-Lad.lha misc/emu 575K+Wzonka-Lad - Gameboy emulator v1.03 (Ful
AMoviedb.lha misc/imdb 1.4M+Moviedb with GUI
Power-icons.lha pix/icon 48K+Icons for Powericons
WHD-Icons2.lha pix/icon 385K+Games icons for WHDload installs (pack n
AP25Covers.lha pix/misc 277K+AMiGa=PoWeR n 25 Covers Recto & Verso
guideml.lha text/hyper 66K+V3.1 AmigaGuide -> HTML converter with G
SPA-ViewDiz.lha util/arc 1K+Spanish catalog for ViewDiz
Entries.lha util/cli 9K+List files matches by a given pattern
QSort.lha util/cli 11K+Quicksort cli-command
SetDTool.lha util/cli 8K+Change DefaultTool_Entrys
ChkIndex.lha util/misc 14K+Check aminet indexfile for equal entries
am1.001_aos.lha util/moni 233K+AmigaMARK LPA Benchmark Suite - AmigaOS
am1.001_base.lha util/moni 681K+AmigaMARK LPA Benchmark Suite - Base arc
am1.001_mos.lha util/moni 374K+AmigaMARK LPA Benchmark Suite - MorphOS
SPA-FullPalett.lha util/wb 1K+Spanish catalog for FullPalette
SPA-MagicMenu.lha util/wb 2K+Spanish catalog for MagicMenu
WindowBar.lha util/wb 223K+Window mimizer and program launcher
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Michael C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Cloanto: Personal Paint 7.1 for AmigaOS 4.0
Seattle, WA - January 6, 2004 - Amiga Inc. and Cloanto are
delighted to announce that Personal Paint 7.1 will be available
on the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 operating system.
The Personal Paint series of 2D graphics and animations
applications has been a mainstay of the application base for
the Amiga platform ever since its introduction in 1992 and it
is also a star attraction of the Cloanto Amiga Forever package.
As Cloanto considers a new version of the product for AmigaOS
4.0, it has decided to show its commitment to the Amiga
platform and community by making the source code of the current
version available to Amiga Inc., allowing them to create a
PowerPC native version for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 product.
The created binaries will be owned by Cloanto but will be made
available for free download from the Amiga and Cloanto web
sites.
Cloanto and Amiga are also in talks concerning a new version of
Amiga Forever, as well as a special version of Amiga Forever
for AmigaOS 4.0, which aims to provide chipset-level Classic
Amiga compatibility integrated with the new generation Amiga
operating system and hardware.
About Amiga
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider
of multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues
leading the way in multi-media by providing language
independent technologies to developers for writing and porting
applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware
agnostic. Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao
Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range
of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP,
MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted
on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE
.NET, Windows 9x, 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux.
AmigaDE Player and applications can be purchased at
www.amiga-anywhere.com. AmigaOS support and information is
available at os.amiga.com.
About Cloanto
Cloanto started as an Amiga software house in 1987 and remains
passionately committed to supporting its Amiga customers, the
Amiga community, and those who have not yet had a chance to
experience an Amiga. Cloanto's Amiga solutions are at
www.amigaforever.com. For the nostalgically-minded, Cloanto's
original Amiga site is online at
www.cloanto.com/amiga/classic/.
Links
Announcement by Amiga:
http://os.amiga.com/corporate/010604-cloanto.shtml
Amiga Forever Home Page:
http://www.amigaforever.com
RSS Information
Amiga Forever RSS Feed:
http://www.amigaforever.com/rss.xml
Cloanto.com RSS Feed:
http://www.cloanto.com/news/rss.xml
Using RSS Feeds:
http://www.cloanto.com/kb/3-192.html
Important: Future Amiga and emulation news from Cloanto will be
delivered preferentially via RSS. (snx)
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06.Jan.2004
Claudia Forsbach (E-Mail)
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Tales of Tamar: 250 Euros to win
At Tales of Tamar, a platform independent roundbased massiv-multiplayer-online-strategy
and partplay early "Kaiser" or "Civilisation", which was developed by Eternity, there is the chance to win 250 Euro.
Be a tester and win 250 Euro
"Tales of Tamar" a roundbased fantasy-, strategy- and partplaygame, is going to the next step of development.
In honour to our "Tales of Tamar" (short ToT) a Windows client, which is advanced in development, we are going to make
a competition to test our game in larger gamecircles.
The player who is first in our world and gets the title of an emperor, gets a prize of 250 Euro (twohundretandfifty).
Because of testing the game the game is for free for testers. But please work with us because of bugs. Play and Win!
We also search the best strategic, mathematic and diplomatic, the best trader or those who have many of this properties, we show you the
prize while you are testing.
Come in into the great and faszinating world of mysts and legends. Fight with elfs, dragons, gnomes and orks.
Enter your empire and be a part of this world. Fight with 350-2000 players for the crown of Tamar.
You don't only find friends in this community, it would be a new part of your life and it will change your life, sure!
These are the rules for the competition:
- The prize for the competition is 250 Euro!
- Members or exmembers of the development team are not allowed to take part
- The tester has to fill an application as a beta tester on www.tamar.net
- The empire has to be registered after the 31.12.2003
- Every player has just one empire, payed secondgames are not possible, payed singlegames are possible
- The team of "Tales of Tamar" doesn't take any responsibility for ay bugs and other faults of the programm also if they are the ground for losing the account
- Old Vasall contracts are not allowed to be transfered to the game
- Serve its purpose is the improvement of the game
- This offer is also for new Amiga users or compatibles with a serial key.
Lowest configuration:
PentiumPC 200 MHz, Windows 95, Gfx card with 4 MB and DirectX7
Amiga with AGA, 68030 & 8 MB Fastram, OS 3.1
You can get mor information to "Tales of Tamar" http://www.tamar.net. (snx) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Operating system patch: Stackattack 2
"StackAttack" is patching different operating system functions to cancel crashes because of too low stack memory. The new version of StackAttack was written completely new
to stop problems with the old version.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT prolongs special price promotion
IOSPIRIT press release:
"Due to the still high interest in our special price promotion just after the official end of it, IOSPIRIT has decided to prolong the special price promotion by a month until the 1st February 2004.
In the scope of the special price promotions, you can buy selected quality software at almost 40% reduced prices".
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Jan.2004
ann.lu (Website)
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Experimental UAE-Version: New Version, AmigaOS Binaries
Richard Drummond has published a new version of his experimental UAE-Port, which makes possible many improvements of the WINUAE-version.
Between many small changings and bugfixes (see Changelog)
there are now also binaries for AmigaOS and BeOS.
The AmigaOS-version with no sound at the moment has following system requests:
- OS2.0 or higher
- 68020 or better
- min. 40MB RAM
- a stack of 16384 bytes
The ixemul.library is not needed.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)
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Cloanto: Personal Paint for MorphOS announced
Genesi and Cloanto announced today that they entered into an agreement to develop a port of Cloanto's Personal Paint for MorphOS.
Under the new agreement, Cloanto is sharing the source code with Genesi, who will assist in the port to its PowerPC-based computing platform. Personal Paint will be bundled with MorphOS. (snx)
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06.Jan.2004
David Doyle (ANF)
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AmigaWorld.net: Second annual IRC-meeting next weekend
Over the past 5 years #Amigaworld on IRC has seen a lot of people come and go, if you were one of these people or a current member of the channel then please join us in this get-together this weekend, starting 20:00 GMT each Night, Friday 9 Jan to Sunday 11 Jan on irc.SuperHosts.Net.
PS. All Amigans welcomed, not just members.
To join the Channel (Chatroom) get an IRC Client such as AmIRC, mIRC or X-Chat and connect to /server irc.amigaworld.net and then /join #amigaworld, or you can use the IRC JAVA applet on the site.
For more information about the Channel and how to use IRC visit http://chat.amigaworld.net. (snx)
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05.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Forever RSS-Newsfeed from Cloanto
After a few weeks of testing Cloanto announced the public access URL for
its RSS news feed at amigaforever.com, covering Amiga and emulation news:
http://www.amigaforever.com/rss.xml
The feed already contains a few hints about the news which will follow
this month, and later during 2004 and beyond.
At the same time, the Amiga enthusiasts at Cloanto would like to take this
opportunity to wish a healthy, happy and prosperous continuation of 2004. (nba)
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03.Jan.2004
AmigaWorld.net (website)
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OS4: Screenshots of a "Wolfenstein" port
At AmigaWorld.net, Steven Fuller has released screenshots of the game "Castle Wolfenstein" ported to AmigaOS 4.0:
picture 1, picture 2, picture 3
Steven Fuller is a developer of the team which is porting Gorky 17 to Linux and AmigaOS4. (snx)
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03.Jan.2004
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: GUI for MLDonkey available
Attention Software have created a Graphical User Interface for the P2P filesharing program MLDonkey (amiga-news.de reported). An alpha version (12 KB) can be downloaded from their homepage. (snx)
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03.Jan.2004
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Some details about the OS4 SDK
At AmigaWorld.net, Hans-Jörg Frieden announced further details about the AmigaOS4 SDK which will be included on the Developer Pre-Release CD:
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GCC 2.95.3 and GCC 3.4 have been ported to OS 4 native (and as a cross compiler for Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, Windows/Cygwin, Darwin/PPC, AmigaOS 3.x/m68k) The SDK will also contain gdb, the Gnu Debugger.
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Then there's vbcc. vbcc is Frank Wille's contribution, I don't know if it will be contained in the SDK directly, but it will in any case be downloadable.
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The SDK also contains a number of additional utilities, among them "fdtrans", which is a program to convert old-style SFD files into next-gen XML files.
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XML files are used by the program "idltool", which is a program that converts these XML files into all sort of output files (much like fd2pragma or SFD before). idltool is primarily used to generate all required include files for an OS 4 style library, but it can also generate a skeleton source code for a library, so that a programmer only has to write an XML file, turn it into source code, and add the functions to it. This should make it easier to write libraries in OS 4.
(snx)
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03.Jan.2004
DENIC (website)
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DENIC: Ten years of domain administration
From 1.000 to seven millions in ten years: this number shows the successful work of the DENIC on the field of the domains. On the 1st of January in 1994 started the DENIC in an institutionalised form as a project financed from third-party funds at the University of Karlsruhe. Read more about the DENIC and their work on their website.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jan.2004
Andreas Kleinert (email)
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Graphics: SView5 v1.40 released
The graphics viewer and converter SView5 has been released in version 1.40
and can be downloaded as a demo version from the website of the developer
Andreas R. Kleinert under the title link. The package contains the eight distribution archives and the plug-in for ImageFX.
(New) Features:
- SView5: the powerful main program that allows to access all options
and settings, allows to load, save, process and convert images - not only
via the GUI but also using ARexx and so on. Includes a RTG-compliant
screen-grabber!
- BatchProcess: Batch conversion tool, for applying upto 4 image
processing operaters to a number of graphics by
wildcards and save them in a different file format, e.g.
load a bunch of JPEGs, then resize, dither and save them
as PNG files.
- SVProPics: Ulrich Falke's "SVProPics" batch-processing
ARexx script now is part of the SView5 archive
- PNG-Box5: dedicated tools for creation of graphics for JPEG-Box5
- JPEG-Box5: WWW usage (HTML pages) with progressive/interlacing
and transparency support
- WinSlide: for viewing images in a window on public screens,
using as few memory as possible - smooth scrolling
inclusive! Supports 8 through 24 bit displays.
- ScrollSlide: like WinSlide but using its own screen,
for best colors even on 8 bit displays
- CyberSlide: like viewing images from SView5 using a CyberGfx
SV5Driver with 16/24 bit capability, but implemented as
small standalone program
- SuperSlide: like CyberSlide but for AGA screens and screen modes,
additionally dithering is done when necessary
- SVPrefs: for changing settings of SView5-Library modules easily.
- also: JPEG2000 support, lots of new SVOperators, bugfixes, ...
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jan.2004
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New track on the Psyria homepage
A new year, new chances: With this in mind Psyria tries to go their way to the top. To be successfull with this Psyria's homepage got a new design due to the third anniversary of their Internet presence and this is not all: right at the beginning of the year the fans get something for their ears: "Until Dawn", a chill out track for quiet moments, is available from now on and exclusively in the download area.
Psyria wishes a Happy New Year all their fans and all the Amiga users!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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02.Jan.2004
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark celebrates 10th anniversary
The Virus Help Team Denmark (VHT-DK) celebrates its 10th anniversary during these days. The editorial staff says "Happy Birthday". Lars P. Kristensen who works for Virus Help Denmark has gathered some information about the history of this honorary organization:
Many people have asked us why and for what? We haven't really been able
to respond to this question other than "it's a hobby". Well then some
others says, "this must cost you a great deal of money". Actually not, I
don't think our lives - so fare - would have been without a computer
anyway. Our families have somehow accepted our interest. Then what have we
gained from all this. A lot of friends and many contacts. I think this in
general goes for most of us in VHT-DK.
Shortly after the appearance of the Amiga, the "evil viral" showed their
ugly faces. Most of us went from the old Commodore C64 to Amiga, with all
it's advanced graphic, audio and like, some of us didn't even thought of
the risks from the viruses before it was all too late, it was just a
"phenomenon" one could read had happened to somebody else. The
"phenomenon's" became known with names like "ByteBandit" and "BSG9", these
were among many others of the early boot block virus. The virus installed
itself right into the boot block and normally easy removed, by simply
installing a standard boot block, however as "piracy" also is a "thing" to
deal with, many software houses tried to protect their work by changing
the sync value or other tricks to prevent "disk swapping". To do that it
required a special boot block installed and when the virus infected the
boot block, the entire disk was destroyed. Well, we haven't seen a new
boot block virus for some time, because they are easily detected with the
programs available today. Later the file- and link virus appeared.
The programs Virus Help Denmark distribute is only share- and freeware -
Virus Help Denmark runs non-profit. It is a fact that all attempts to make
a commercial virus killer for the Amiga has failed. They were outrunned by
people who simply had their heart at the right place. Combined with the
fact that programming of such software isn't just a nine to five job - it
simply needs true dedication.
Who is Virus Help Denmark and what do they do - a simple presentation:
- Jan Andersen: Webmaster, keeps track off what's going on, supporting
Amiga users.
- Torben Danoe: PC-guy.
- Jan Nielsen: PC-guy, works with Torben and supports PC-users and the
PC-Disk.
- Henrik Lauridsen: Internet supporter.
- Lars P. Kristensen: Amiga user supporter, translator, and "PR"-guy.
- Jan Erik Olausen: Programmer of VirusExecutor and Amiga support.
This is a very short description, most off us are still having an Amiga,
but the time between the use of it, is getting longer and longer, we all
have daily jobs and families to support as well. I could fill pages, with
lots of stuff concerning what the five of us has overcome since the early
ninety's. I would rather prefer telling the history behind VHT DK, and
this started for me at the summertime 1991. The summer I got attacked by a
simple virus named ByteBandit. I found a coverdisk which contained a few
shareware programs - mainly from the "Fish Library" - every Amiga guy should know Fred Fish and the tremendous work he did to get programmers and users closer. However I found this disk and ZeroVirus, I quickly read the documentation and stumbled over a name - a Danish name: Erik Lųvendal
Sųrensen. Erik had had a similar situation to my own. But - differently -
he started to collect the viruses and mailed them to authors of antivirus
programs, which didn't yet, supported the virus he mailed. Then he put
"The New Superkiller" (TNS) together. By the time I got it, it was stuffed
with antivirus programs to the limit.
A day during Easter 1992 I was down to visit Erik. Then I met Jan Andersen
and Torben Danų. I have seen Jan shortly (he can't remember - he's just
getting older) talking to Erik about how he had shown the TNS to some
pupils at an evening school and taught them how to use it. A month or so
after Easter, the two guys forming RVC-DK wished to leave to pay a greater
attention to their study. I had had a wish to join the center from the day
I started in SHI - now that possibility was in reach. Erik thought it was
better if I stayed at "my post", however he hadn't any complaints when Jan
was pointed at as a new RVC leader. What the heck. I called Jan and
fortunately he lived just 25 km's from me. The next month Jan and I
redesigned the whole set of disks. Time demanded a Kick2.0 disk and we
first tried different versions of "softkick's" (Jan had a hard drive -
lucky him). Well, we equipped Jan's A500 with a Kick2.0 ROM and that gave
us a lot of new possibilities, one was to use the entire 880KB of a disk.
Shortly after Jan and I teamed up, Jan Nielsen (Jan-Jan), Torben Danų and
Henrik Lauridsen joined to be part of the action.
Soon Jan established SHI BBS. First he figured out the MAX BBS system but
soon he changed to - and learned to master - the STARNET BBS system (the
prior system to MEBBS net) under which the system performed to the end.
The system almost killed Jan, he wanted the system to be no less than 100
percent secure and he actually took a bet with another SHI guy, who
claimed he could hack the BBS. As fare as I know, Jan is still waiting to
collect the bet. However, Jan also did a heck off a job in keeping the BBS
up to date, he actually "haunted" every corner of all the great BBS-sites
and nets to seek new updates all the time. One more thing, Jan is also the
author of the "VirusWarning.guide", a news-guide about virus, what
archives they were spread in and where they were found - actually he is
still updating it today.
However, by the end of 1993 the five of us performing under SHI in the RVC
known as "SHI Team Denmark" discovered that SHI in general took a
different path, we decided to resign from SHI and keep on the path we had
followed so fare. There were many reasons that lead us to this conclusion
and it wasn't easy for any of us to leave. As fare as I know SHI doesn't
exist anymore, however, lots of friends met each other in SHI and lots of
new great ideas evolved from the endless brainstorms we had. From the
start of 1994 Virus Help Team Denmark took off - the name had slightly
changed as the words "Team Denmark" is copyrighted, today we function
under the name "Virus Help Denmark".
By that time the Internet hadn't evolved into this communicator it is
today, then there were nets like FIDONET, a local net in Denmark and
AMIGANET, a world wide net for the Amiga community. It could take up to a
fortnight to get a reply from fare places like Australia or South America
and it wasn't right to mail virus around those nets, as executables in
archives, attached to personal letters, could be opened and executed by
accident. Security on the Internet has been improved dramatically and
today virus can be mailed via the net instead of on disks in letters.
When the Internet started to spread among normal users, Jan could see from
the log file that users who earlier logged on to the BBS on regular basis,
became more and more rear. From my point of view he closed the BBS in the
right time, everybody who has a modem, can connect to the Internet and
get the updates from the VHT-DK homepage. The link is: www.vht-dk.dk
If you were a regular visitor on the former BBS, then pay this site a
visit and you'll find that everything is back, the homepage was actually
up and running some time before he closed down the BBS. I know that Jan
still keeps the old STARNET system - just in case.
Since the beginning of 1994 Virus Help Teams has been started in Norway,
Holland and Canada, some of the guys in those centers are also earlier
SHI-guys. In Canada, 'Charlene' has done so much for the VHT all over
the world (Thanx for everything Charlene).
Last but maybe the most important thing we want to say is a big 'Thank
You' to the antivirus programmers that have supported us in the last 10
years, and hopefully many years in the future:
- Georg Hoermann - VirusZ & xvs.library
- Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor & xvs.library
- Markus Schmall - VirusWorkshop
- Heiner Schneegold - VT-Schutz
- John Veldthuis - VirusChecker
- Alex Van Niel - VirusChecker & VHT Holland
- Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe & Mill
- Soenke Freitag - For great support
- Charlene - VHT Canada
- Virus Test Center Hamburg : Great support and help
- Dirk Stoecker - xfdaster.library & CheckX
- And anyone we might have forgotten......
Kind Regards
The team behind:
Virus Help Denmark
(Written by Lars P. Kristensen - Virus Help Denmark) (nba) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
jockl (ANF)
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Found: A MP3-player made by "Commodore"
Our reader jockl has seen a MP3-Player
made by "Commodore". He writes:
Actually we have nothing to do with Commodore no more and Commodore has nothing to do with
us and Commodore has also nothing to do with Commodore no more. Therefore actually it is
not interesting if someone has found a device made by "Commodore" which trade mark changes
from American to British and to German.
But what I found here, on the
Australian hardware site "DansData", is not only a review of a "Commodore" device (same
label, same logo).
Last but not least maybe it is interesting what can happen with the label "Commodore".
Above all when it seems to be a German company which uses the trade mark but offers
the products oversea.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Online magazine NoCover: Issue 118 published
Issue 118 of the popular online magazine NoCover has been published and sent to all
subscribers via email.
We wish all readers of the online magazine much fun and hope you will participate
much more because NoCover is a magazine from readers for readers. Without "Writers"
"Readers" have nothing to read. ;-)
On the homepage of NoCover and on the
homepage of APC & TCP you can read the current
issue online. Furthermore you can get the magazine on Aminet or on the CD-ROMs of
the Amiga Future.
Much fun wish you
Wolf Zimmer,
Cord Hagen and
Andreas Magerl. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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VHT: Website accessable again
You can access the website of Virus Help Team Denmark under the known URL
http://www.vht-dk.dk. The alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/ will be
closed soon. Please change your bookmarks. The Virus Help Team wish you a Happy
New Year.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
TerAtoM (ANF)
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GamePark32: Handheld with adapted ScummVM-version
The GamePark 32
combines the qualities of a mp3 and video player with a retro emulator and handheld
games because there is still a GP32 optmized version of the popular "ScummVM" tool with
which you can play Monkey Island, Indiana Jones or Day of the Tentacle.
There are also emulators for Atari 2600, Atari ST, C64, Neo Geo, NES and Master System.
But there is not an Amiga emulator (UAE?).
You can get further information here:
http://www.pcgamesportal.de/index.php?site=gp32
http://www.gp32europe.com (in preparation)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mailer: SimpleMail v0.22
The new version 0.22 of SimpleMail has been published.
These are the changes:
- You can now set seperate signatures for each folder. (bgol)
- Index files of the aim folder are not loaded no more during the move operation.
The SimpleMail-team wish you a happy and healthy new year 2004!
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2004
ac-logic (ANF)
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Mai Logic: News regarding PPC 970 support
Mai Logic, Inc. Licenses IBM®'s Elastic Interface Technology For Its Articia Chipset Family and Teron Series Systems in Support of IBM®'s PowerPC™ 970 Microprocessor Family
FREMONT, CA. December 21, 2003. Mai Logic, Incorporated, a leading global semiconductor provider of bus-interface controller circuits, embedded platforms and total system solutions, announced today it is licensing IBM®'s ultra-high speed PowerPC™ 970 Elastic Interface technology. Mai Logic plans to incorporate IBM®'s Elastic Interface technology within its Articia I chipset and Teron I series system product offerings, working hand-in-hand with the PowerPC™ 970 microprocessors to help improve the performance of next generation embedded applications in consumer electronics, multimedia, storage, main-stream computing, servers and networking application for consumer, industrial and military implementations.
"IBM®'s latest licensing agreement with Mai Logic demonstrates the continuing momentum of the PowerPC™ 970 family in the market," said Mark Ireland, Manager of PowerPC™ Strategy and Business Development, IBM® Microelectronics. "Our relationship enables IBM® to provide Mai Logic with the latest, most innovative microprocessor core technology for their products while in turn, driving momentum for the PowerPC™ architecture in the embedded space."
"IBM®'s PowerPC™ 970 architecture provides us with tremendous flexibility," said Jason Hou, CEO of Mai Logic. "We plan to utilize the Elastic Interface technology with Articia I to expand our leading-edge Articia family roadmap for a variety of compelling products which span several of our target markets that require optimal performance, low-power consumption, low-cost 64-bit capabilities. The technology will be a significant asset in our portfolio as we move forward."
Mai Logic's Articia I System Controller and Teron I Series Systems
Mai Logic's feature-rich Articia I supports IBM® PowerPC™ 970 microprocessor, DDR 2 memory interface and other advanced peripheral interfaces such as PCI Express and PCI-X. The combination of IBM® PowerPC™ 970's performance speeds, the ultra high speed Elastic I/O technology and Mai Logic's AGP 8X compatible Articia I chipset represents a formidable solution in the embedded markets, particularly those requiring high resolution graphics such as multimedia, gaming, medical and aerospace industries. With built-in MPEG4 accelerator and TV decoder designed for developing integrated graphic and video subsystems, Articia I is well positioned to bridge the gap between the computer and the television as the worlds of entertainment and computing converge. Articia I is also equipped with self-repairing and self-testing functions to ensure performance stability.
The PowerPC™ 970 + Articia I based Teron I series solutions provide system developers scalability and synthesizability to meet the ever-increasing performance demands of future-generation devices, accelerate time-to-market, and minimize overall complexity. Samples of the Articia I chipsets, Teron I series systems, and PowerPC™ 970 processor are expected to be available in early second quarter of 2004.
IBM®'s PowerPC 970 Microprocessor
The PowerPC™ 970 is a high-performance 64-bit microprocessor for use in a variety of applications, including desktops, workstations, servers and communications products. The chip is derived from IBM®'s award-winning POWER4™ server processor to provide high performance and additional function for users. It is designed for manipulating data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerating compute-intensive workloads, like multimedia and graphics, through specialized circuitry known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit.
About Mai Logic, Incorporated
Mai Logic, Inc. is a leading global semiconductor provider of bus-interface controller circuits, embedded platforms and total system solutions. With more than 60 US and International invention patents granted and 100 more pending in the fields of IC, security, and systems design engineering, Mai Logic, through demonstrated cost-effective advanced technology offerings, has established itself as a proven technology powerhouse. Mai Logic's innovations include: Intelligent Memory (iMemory), which enables industry's first in-field DRAM fault detection and real-time fault recovery without the need of a system reboot; Control Pipeline allowing flexible timing on various system clocks and low power consumption; Genetic Computing for high-level security and privacy; and Floating Buffer to achieve a true concurrent system.
Mai Logic, incorporated in California, is part of the Atum Group in Taipei. The Group has design and development operations in Fremont Ca and Taipei and Beijing , with Marketing and Sales support world wide.
Mai Logic is a total solution IC system design house devoted to customer satisfaction. (snx)
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01.Jan.2004
David ´Daff´ Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results 2003
The results for 2003's game polling have been released on Amiga Games Hit Parade. Read the following text for the first three places and check out the AGHP website under the title link for the complete results.
What game genre do you prefer?
- Adventure - 3.87
- Strategy - 3.83
- First Person Shooter - 3.79
What game would you like ported from another platform to play on AmigaOS/MorphOS?
- Unreal (series)
- Quake 3
- WarCraft (series)
What Amiga game classic would you like to play in a "remastered" version on Pegasos or Amiga One?
- Turrican (1-2-3)
- Alien Breed 3D 2
- Speedball (1-2)
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jan.2004
Elbox (E-Mail)
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New Year's greetings from Elbox
Elbox Computer wishes all Amiga users a Very Happy New Year.
For a New Year Gift, Elbox re-offers the Free Shipping opportunity for
most of the items from the Elbox Online Store.
From 31 December 2003 to 21 January 2004 all items in our Online Store
marked FREE SHIPPING will be delivered without any shipping costs. This
offer is valid for orders from all countries of the world.
The offer applies to most of the products in the online offer, including
Mediator PCI busboards, FastATA/PowerFlyer controllers, eFlash memories,
Spider USB 2.0 cards, mouse and keyboard interfaces, and many other
accessories. For details, see the Special Offer page.
Order your desired product Now and get FREE Shipping!
May your dreams be fulfilled in this coming New Year,
Elbox Computer Team (snx)
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01.Jan.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #031231
Under the title link you'll find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update
for December, 2003. In this monthly newsletter Brad Webb gathers together all the important news about the Amiga scene.
Themes of this issue:
- Developer 4.0 to be distributed
- Amiga setting up new user group org
- Aladdin 4D available on CD
- Spontaneous combustion fired up
- fxSCAN upgrades for download
- ImageFX 4.5 Studio now available
- Poseidon 2.2 ready for download
- SimpleMail has been updated
- E-Teacher, for learning languages
- Gorky 17 licensed for Amiga OS 4
- Latest WinUAE is 9.8.23
- A/NES Development ended, but ...
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jan.2004
Computerwoche (ANF)
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Computerwoche: BIOS Successor EFI Advances
Within three months the longtime partners Microsoft and Intel wish to establish a forum to spread a new PC specification named EFI
(Extensible Firmware Interface). EFI attempts to replace BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) that has been used for 23 years. BIOS initializes a computer's hardware before the loading of the operating system. Read the complete, German language article at Computerwoche under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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AmigaMARK: Pegasos II Module Available
There's now a Pegasos II module for Rupert Hausberger's benchmark programm AmigaMARK.
Start up AmigaMARK and select your modules and database in order to load the module here under the user name "Nowee". (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jan.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Anachronism Industries: Previously Announced Firm Will Not Serve Amiga Market
Anachronism Industries, a planned firm of amiga.org moderator Jim Farley, better known as redrumloa, will not serve the Amiga market because of circumstances beyond their control, according to this surprising announcement
from today. In place of the company they've started a mass-sale of their remaining items on eBay. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jan.2004
Pär Boberg (ANF)
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Famous Amiga Uses updated
Pär Boberg has updated Famous Amiga Uses, a listing of diverse companies and institutions which use or have used the Amiga. The list is available as AmigaGuide or HTML file. (snx)
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31.Dec.2003
ppcnux - online linux magazin (ANF)
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PPCNUX: Summary of Alan Redhouse's Bath speech
The German online Linux magazine PPCNUX set a summary of Alan Redhouse's speech from Bath online by the
title link
(amiga-news.de reported).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
MIchael Merkel (ANF)
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GS8gui - GUI for Ghostscript8 published
GS8gui is a graphical user interface for GhostScript 8. Similiar to the old
Ghostscript-GUI GS8gui offers as a new feature the ability to use the internal
GS8 viewer. Printing with the internal TurboPrint drivers is supported also.
The developer wants to emphasize that the GUI is a draft put together so bugs are likely to be expected.
Please report discovered bugs to the developer via email.
Download will soon be possible from the Aminet, at the developer site it's available
already as GS8gui.lha .
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
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bplan interview from September available online now
By appointment of the bplan GmbH and Kees Witteveens the interview with the bplan GmbH from September which
has been pulished within the first issue of the Amiga.org Magazine as well as in issue 11/93 of the
Amiga plus is now available online .
The Pegasos chronics have been updated with
the entries of November and December also.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
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"Big Book of Amiga Hardware" temporally offline
The famous hardware register Big Book of Amiga Hardware is due to a hard disk failure temporally not reachable.
The maintainer Ian Chapman is curently working to restore the website with backups. In one or two weeks everything should run normal again.
Because this action is coupled with a server change problems with the mail delivery to
Ian Cahpman mail account are expected in the meantime.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
os.amiga.com (Website)
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Next "Club Amiga Magazine" in February
Amiga Inc. announces at the member area of os.amiga.com the next
issue of the "Club Amiga Monthly" will be published in February.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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Commodity: "MasterControlProgram" (MCP) v1.43
The infamous universal commodity "MCP" is available in a new version which is cleaned from several bugs.
The archive also contains a new version of the prefs program. The command "MCPAssigns"
offers two new options now: "Hold/Lock" and "Hold/Path"
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
MorphZone
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MorphZone: Update of the MWD (Morph Web Directory)
The Morph Web Directory (MWD) within the MorphZone has been updated.
Bifford also added some more "Webgrabs" - previews of the corresponding websites.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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Spontaneous Combustion: New Video Effects from DiscreetFX
Chicago, Illinois -- Dec 30, 2003 -- DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and MorphOS, releases the Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer/MorphOS version of Spontaneous Combustion.
DiscreetFX Releases Spontaneous Combustion; Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version. A New Real-Time Fire, Smoke & Explosion Effects Library and Digital Video Effects (DVE) collection.
Information about Spontaneous Combustion:
Spontaneous Combustion is selling for $129.95 but is available for the special price of $49.95 only till the end of 2003. Thats right we are still going to honor the PreOrder price even though it is now shipping but you have to hurry if your interested since this offer is only good until midnight December 31st 2003. We are even crazy enough to include Free Shipping. As many of you know Andy Panagouleas was hurt badly in August 2003. He has been stuck home these many months recovering and unable to go back to school. Andy asked to help with the development of this version of Spontaneous Combustion since he is a big Amiga and Video Toaster owner/fan. Andy's hard work helped get the product done in time for 2003 and he receives a % of all sales.
Spontaneous Combustion: The unofficial sequel to the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer version of Pyromania from Bill Panagouleas and Andy Panagouleas. In development for over two years Spontaneous Combustion gives you much more than just fire, explosion and smoke effects. Rendered on Silicon Graphics O2 and Octane systems @ 4000 X 4000 resolution and quadra down sampled to full overscan uncompressed D1 video (720 X 486), you won't have to sacrifice quality. More frames, more depth, more realism. Over 40 unique Real-time effects, many never before seen for any video editing system including Sexy Smoke, Ultimate Explosion, Big Shooting Star, Car Crash, Flame Columns, Streaking Comet, TNT, Detonate, Phlogiston and Apocalypse.
Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version includes.
- Forty Real-time Broadcast Quality Fire Effects in Amiga Video Toaster 4000 DVE format.
- Forty animated Video Toaster Flyer clip files that can be used for advanced Compositing with the Video Toaster Flyer, Lightwave ToasterPaint 4.0 or Aura.
- Forty animated Amiga Anim files that can be used as an overlay on video with any Amiga the has a Genlock. These Anim files can also be used under MorphOS or Amiga OS 3.1-4.0 with Amiga/ MorphOS animation software that supports the Anim standard like ImageFX 4.5 and others.
- Complete 24 bit IFF image sequences of all Real-time effects included. Can be used with any Amiga/ MorphOS software that supports IFF 24.
For more information please call toll-free at 1 (800) 852-0930 or send an e-mail to sales@discreetfx.com. Payments can also be sent via Paypal to sales@discreetfx.com.
If you wish to pay by check or none Paypal credit card you can, just contact us first toll-free at 1 (800) 852-0930 If you need our snail mail address it's at http://www.discreetfx.com/Contactinfo.htm.
Spontaneous Combustion includes a 100% Money Back Guarantee.
Please note Amiga/ Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version includes bonus features and unique content not found in the Windows version.
Spontaneous Combustion is the only new product released in 2003 for the Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer.
MorphOS is a new platform we are supporting, please let us know when ordering if you use MorphOS. If we get enough interest and support from MorphOS customers we will continue to support this new operating system.
More information and screenshots is also available at www.discreetfx.com/SpontCombustion.htm.
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates, NFL, Buffy the Vapire Slayer and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and many more!
Best regards
Bill Panagouleas
DiscreetFX
Founder/CEO
bill AT discreetfx DOT com
www.discreetfx.com (snx)
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31.Dec.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB stack: News from "Poseidon"
A new MorphOS-Version of Poseidon has been released and the documentation for the 68k-Version has been slightly updated. Chris Hodges writes:
"Good news everyone,
I just uploaded the binaries for the MorphOS version of Poseidon V2.2.
The archive is available as usually from my homepage.
This is an intermediate solution and laire doesn't like it, so if something
goes wrong, blame it on me and not the rest of the MorphOS team. Don't
hesitate to report any problems.
Installing it on MorphOS is a bit tricky, because some of the files are in
the "ROM" file, the bootimg. Therefore you have to add the following line
to the MOSSYS:S/Startup-Sequence file just, before the IPrefs command:
PoseidonROMUpdate
If you don't add this, the update will still work, but some components will
still remain as the old version, that was delivered with the MOS 1.4 ISO.
Also, avoid booting up with USB mass storage devices connected, because
this will inhibit the replacement of the class, as it will be in use by the
mounted partitions.
There is both an USB.mprefs update (available through the system prefs), as
well as the stand-alone Trident program, compiled for PPC. Use whatever you
prefer. Trident has more features though ;-}}}}
I've also updated the V2.2 archive a bit, there was some old information in
the registration forms (and I've also added the missing SWIFT and BIC codes
for international money transfer).
That's it for now. Have a nice time and happy new year. Thanks for your
support!"
(cg)
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30.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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IRCNews: show Amiga News in AmIRC
Dave "Targhan" Crawford has developed an ARexx-script, which can show the latest headlines of
amiga-news.de, amiga.org, morphzone.org and morphos-news.de in AmIRC. This script
needs the rxsocket.libary.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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30.Dec.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #063
The scene group Liquid Skies has published today their 63rd Musicpack. It contains the track "Catwalk" of the musician Tripper.
This track is a synthetic pop. The belonging cover comes from Angeldust.
- Title: Catwalk
- Musician: Tripper
- Style: Synthpop
- Runtime: 5:08
- Format: mp3 (@160kbps)
- Size: 5.9 MB
You can find the zipped file for downloading under the title link. Also the team is wishing a Happy New Year.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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30.Dec.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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AmigaClub SH: User-/Hardware meeting 1-2004
The Amigaclub Schleswig Holstein is publishing in teamwork with the promoter of the computer museum in Kiel e.V.
an Amiga (and Pegasos/Amithlon) hardware meeting.
The meeting is Saturday, the 17th January 2004 at 14 o'clock at the mediendom in the technical college in Kiel.
You can get more information at Informationen
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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30.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Pegasos II: Benchmark results for the 68k emulation (Update)
MorphOS-News.de has published the following benchmark results by Harry 'Piru' Sintonen. He tested the 68k emulation on a Pegasos II with 1GHz G4 processor, 512MB DDR-400 RAM and a Radeon 8500LE graphics card under MorphOS:
Voxelspace Demo (with and without JIT emulator):
320x240: ~500-540fps (with JIT)
320x240: ~85fps (without JIT)
640x480: ~150fps (with JIT)
pixelOmania (with JIT):
Time elapsed: 0.040433 seconds
Mandel (with JIT): 0.29 sec
julia_fpu (with JIT): 2.53 sec
c2ptest (with JIT): 0.35 sec
demoeffect (with JIT): 442.80 fps
You can download the Mandel, julia_fpu, c2ptest and demoeffect benchmarks at the Petunia website.
Update: (31.12.2003, 11:01, snx)
Meanwhile, MorphOS-News.de prepared further benchmarks done by Gunne Steen published them in the forum of MorphZone:
The tests were done using the RC5DES program and either the 68k-JIT of MorphOS or PPC-native software (PUP/WUP client) on a Pegasos II G4/1GHz.
68k results (with JIT):
OGR: Benchmark for core #4 (GARSP 5.13 68060): 2,740,713 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #1 (MH 2-pipe 68000/040/060): 2,447,018 keys/sec
PowerUP client (without Altivec support):
OGR: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 5.13 PPC-scalar): 12,475,677 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #3 (MH 2-pipe): 3,866,164 keys/sec
WarpUp client (without Altivec support):
OGR: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 5.13 PPC-scalar): 12,841,769 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #3 (MH 2-pipe): 3,866,640 keys/sec
You can find further information in the original thread at MorphZone.
Update 2: (31.12.2003, 17:17, snx)
As David Scheibler informed us, Harry 'Piru' Sintonen meanwhile also got the following RC5 results with Altivec support. He used a not yet released MorphOS-native client on a Pegasos II G4/1GHz.
MorphOS client (with Altivec support):
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #7 (KKS 7450): 10,678,428 keys/sec
For comparison he does, among others, also list an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (Palomino) with 2200 MHz - its result: 8,462,352 keys/sec. (snx)
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29.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Video/Audio-clips of a speech by Alan Redhouse' in Bath
There are some additional video and audio clips of the speech of Alan Redhouse of Eyetech held at the OS4-On-Tour-Exhibition in Bath available. These new audio clips have a higher quality than the ones published shortly after the speech.
Download:
WMV (33 MB)
Real (27 MB)
MP3 (11 MB, only audio)
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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29.Dec.2003
Stavros (Forum)
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Homebanking: compatibility list for Amiga-Browser
Stavros, an amiga-news.de reader, is offering a list of homebanking sites which can be used with Amiga browsers. The new update takes IBrowse 2.3 into account, too.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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29.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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Mr. Hardware publishes photos of the Micro-A1
Under the title link, Mr. Hardware published some photos of the new Micro-A1 mainboard together with its specifications and a few questions and answers.
Users from the New York area can have a look at it themselves at the meetings of the LICA (Long Island Computing Amigans), each third Friday a month. (snx)
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29.Dec.2003
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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Server-move of Virus Help Team
Due to a server move the URL www.vht-dk.dk is currently not available. According to the carrier it will be back online within seven days. If you are looking for information about or of the Virus Help Team please use the alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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29.Dec.2003
bplan GmbH (E-Mail)
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Pegasos II: Urgent Firmware update necessary! (Update)
As bplan GmbH announces, the version of the Open Firmware shipped with the Pegasos II is faulty! Before you make any changes using setenv, you have to update your Open Firmware!
You can find the needed update at http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/update_e.html.
Update: (29.12.03, 18:29, snx)
Under the title link now you also can find a way how to make an affected system bootable again. (snx)
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29.Dec.2003
A/NES CGX homepage
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Emulator: Future of A/NES CGX uncertain
From the A/NES CGX website:
That's nice. If I get this bounch of e-mail each time I kill a project (amiga-news.de reported), I should start killing projects more often. :-)
So, what's up now, a few of you asked. To be honest, I am not quite sure really. Time will tell if I decide to start working on something new.
And can someone PLEASE hurry up those guys and make AmigaOS4 run on BlizzardPPC soon :) I'm pretty tired of talking to AmigaOS4 beta testers (have you noticed, they're obviously everywhere), I want to try the OS myself. :p (snx)
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29.Dec.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Source code of 2D-Adventures "Patrimonium" now freely available
The programmers of Chuck Team released their 2D adventure 'Patrimonium' for Windows based computers. For encouraging other developers the team also released the complete source code of the game at the 'Patrimonium' homepage.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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29.Dec.2003
Diverse
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Short software news (29.12.2003) (Update)
The following applications and updates were released over the last few weeks:
Update: (29.12.2003, 17:45,cg)
Amendment: There is now new version of vbcc (see below) available, but a new version of the PosixLib for vbcc.
AmigaMARK
Version 1.001 of AmigaMARK, a benchmark program, is now available for AmigaOS Classic and MorphOS.
Chromium
The French developer SixK released a port of the shoot'em'up Chromium (v0.9.12) for AmigaOS. The game is using OpenGL.
GameIcons 2003
The archive GameIcons 2003 contains 275 icons, 150 of them are new.
HSC
Matthias Bethke released version 0.930 of the HTML preprocessor 'HTML Sucks Completely' (HSC). The source code can be compiled on every supported OS, these are Linux, HP/UX 10.20 and AmigaOS. A HTML program documentation is available, too. Furthermore the archive contains current Prefs and macro files.
ilbmdtPPC
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.11 of 'ilbmdtPPC', an ILBM-PPC-Datatype for displaying IFF-ILBM-pictures on WarpUP.
Changes:
fixed decoding of truecolor images with alpha
Software by Diego Casorran
Diego "dcr85020" Casorran released ports of the following programs: OpenSSH v3.7.2p2, bzip2 v1.0.2, NetPBM v10.18.4, OpenSSL v0.9.7c, UnRAR v3.30b3, Wget v1.9.1 und cURL v7.11-BETA.
vbcc
A new version of PosixLib for 'vbcc', a portable ISO C compiler by Frank Willes, is now on hand. PosixLib emulates important POSIX functions not available in the vbcc C library.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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27.Dec.2003
ANN (comments)
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Pegasos 2: First user report
Treveur "Nowee" Bretaudiere has released a short report about the Pegasos 2 he received:
My Pegasos 2 finally arrived this morning, in its nice protective box, along with its 1 GHz G4 CPU
module, the MorphOS installation CD, two booklets, and a backplane.
The two documentations are very clear. A VERY simple booklet, written in English, French and German,
explains how to install both MorphOS and the computer itself, whilst the other, in German, is a
fairly detailed technical documentation, with ports description and such.
The motherboard in itself is very well made, and once filled with a DDR 333 memory module and my radeonVE,
booted MorphOS 1.4.1 without any problem straight from my DVD burner.
I'm still astonished by the speed difference between my already fast Pegasos 1 and the Pegasos 2.
The G4 behaves very well, the stability so far seems okay, the computer sound is perfect. Ambient
opens a 300+ files folder in less than a second (!). I performed many MD5 sums test over 800 mb files
and no problem occured.
As for the installation process, it was especially simple for me that already had MorphOS 1.4. I simply
copied the boot.img from the supplied CD to my MorphOS partition, rebooted, and typed 'boot hd:0 boot.img' (Where 0 is the partition number of my hard disk).
For someone that would prefer a clean installation, though, there is a slight problem: the install
script checks for a bad MD5 sum. The solution here is to copy the installation script in ram, and remove
the MD5 check with ed. Another solution, even simpler, copy the whole CD to the freshly formatted HD.
The problem was already known and a fix should be available already.
Finally, it makes several hours the computer is turned on, I had no crash so far. Compatibility seems
to be perfect with the Pegasos 1, without the bugs of its predecessor.
My comment:
It's been so many years we've been expecting a G4 Amiga compatible system,
I think the product fulfills more than a necessity. It's a dream come true.
Nowee^SKT
(snx)
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27.Dec.2003
Vinnny (ANF)
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Anniversary: Russian AIC online for four years
The news and information resource for Russian Amiga users Amiga Information Center is online now for four years.
Since 1999 the site's two administrators - Efim Shuvikov (site developer and maintainer) and Vlad Vinogradov (news editor and content manager) - published more than 5200 news and have welcome more than 650 registered users. (snx)
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26.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Audio-Sequencer: HD-Rec Update (MOS fix)
On download site
of HD-Rec which is an audio- and MIDI-sequencer for
AmigaOS there is an update for the version 0.9beta. The update fixes some bugs
which occured under MorphOS - HD-Rec should now run perfectly on a Pegasos.
The author asks for other bug reports if you should find some ones.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion and Metropolis announce AmigaOS 4 version of Gorky 17
Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis announce an AmigaOS4 version of Gorky17:
"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003
Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis Software have extended their existing license agreement for "Gorky 17", Metropolis' critically acclaimed RPG/Strategy title, to cover not only Linux but also the upcoming AmigaOS 4.
Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game mixing elements of strategy and RPG gameplay. The player commands a small group of NATO soldiers who must reveal the mystery behind the sudden appearance of hybrid creatures in a small Polish city named Lubin. The city is being terrorized, the area is surrounded by NATO troops and media from all over the world, and the first group sent into the city disappears without a trace. The main hero of the story is the 40-year old soldier Cole Sullivan, a commando team member with extensive scientific knowledge. His team's task: to explain the hybrids' presence and to find the missing members of Group One. But that, of course, is just the beginning...
The AmigaOS 4.0 port is already well under way as can be seen on the
screenshots published with this press release.
The Amiga and Linux ports are being carried out by Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies who are recent "converts" to the Amiga platform after they recently joined the Hyperion Entertainment game development team.
Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies have an impressive track-record in the field of Linux (gaming) related development."
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion announce "AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release" CD for early 2004
Hyperion Entertainment announce the release of an AmigaOS 4.0 pre-release for all current AmigaOne owners for early 2004:
"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003
Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4.0 development team are pleased to announce that OS4 development has now sufficiently advanced for a comprehensive Developer Pre-release of Amiga OS 4.0 to be distributed to all current AmigaOne owners shortly after the New Year.
In view of the fact that quite a few of you reminded us that you do not have broadband internet access, the original idea to offer an initial version of OS 4.0 for download was abandoned in favor of an "easy to install", self-contained distribution on CD.
Whilst this will obviously entail more cost to Hyperion and require more time for duplication and distribution, the upside is that we will be able to provide developers with everything they need to start developing for OS 4.0.
The developer material will include sample source-code, an initial version of the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK as well as native OS 4.0 compilers (GCC 2.95.3, GCC 3.4 and VBCC) and cross-compilers for various platforms (Linux x86/PCC, Mac OS X etc.).
The Developer Pre-release will require an upgrade of the AmigaOne firmware which was bumped from U-Boot 0.1.1 to U-Boot 1.0 and which is currently undergoing final testing.
Further details will be announced shortly.
Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4 development team would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your continued support and patience.
The fact that you are still here, 10 years after the demise of Commodore, has been a tremendous encouragement to us during these 2 years of laborious development.
Make no mistake: your patience will finally be rewarded with the fastest and most powerful incarnation of AmigaOS ever.
Merry X-mas and a prosperous 2004 to all of you!"
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Dec.2003
McFly (ANF)
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Hollywood Presentations: the 100th PowerPoint Presentation Appears
Because of the positive vibrations as well as the high number of takers, Amiga user "McFly" released some more Hollywood presentations after converting them from PowerPoint. Altogether there are now more than 100 presentations for download that may be viewed on Amiga (or compatible) computers.
McFly thanks all the users for supplying feedback and wishes everyone a Happy New Year. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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RxMUI: Update to Version 40.1
RxMUI from Alfonso Ranieri has now reached version 40.1 and is available for download from his homepage.
Graphic user interfaces in MUI may be programmed in ARexx macros through the use of RxMUI. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Classic Amiga "Cracktros"
Because us upstanding Amiga users may naturally not utter such names as Skidrow, Paradox, Red Sector or Vision Factory, Melon gave us the opportunity to retroactively amuse ourselves with the sights and sounds of those intros from old cracked games, a nostalgia that will warm our hearts. Here is the conversion of the old Amiga "Cracktros" in Macromedia Flash format.
More Flash ports of C64 and Amiga Cracktros may be found at Doc Snyder and Nostalgia. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Comments)
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Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Amiga Classic "IK+"
Under the title-link may be found a Macromedia Flash port of the classic Karate game "IK+" - including a Kickstart-1.3 screen. (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2003, 10:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Update of PTPDigCam to Version 0.9
The program PTPDigCam by Christophe Genre has reached version 0.9.
PTPDigCam is a MUI-based program that makes it possible to load and erase pictures, videos, and sounds from PTP-compatible digital cameras (such as Kodak, Canon and Sony).
Currently the program has been tested with the following cameras: Kodak LS443, Kodak DX3500, Canon A70 and Sony DSC-P52.
The main new aspects:
- Camera serial number added
- Sounds management added (usefull for Canon camera)
- Canon A70 is supported
- Sony DSC-P52 is supported
- PTP protocol enhanced to take into account Sony and Canon
PTP limitations and specific capabilities
- Fixed bug: Status always display no video available
- Fixed bug: The 10 Mo input buffer was not released (oups!)
(snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2003, 10:09] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website)
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Instructions for the Installation of PNG Icons
For users of MorphOS or users of PowerIcons under AmigaOS, Cecilia has written an (APDF-compatible) PDF document (137 KB) that explains the installation of PNG icons with alpha channel while utilizing ImageFX 4.5.
Along with that she has created a few example icons (195 KB, from butterfly pictures). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Benchmark Program: Update of AmigaMARK to Version 1.001
Rupert Hausberger released an update to his benchmark suite AmigaMARK LPA for AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Alterations:
- ADDED checking whether gethostbyname() successes
- ADDED checking whether xen.font is avail
- CHANGED os-requirement from 3.1 to 2.x (untested)
- CHANGED layout of settings-window to a virtual-group so it opens
also on non gfx-card screenmodes like ecs, aga
- FIXED bug that forbids the use of chip-ram test in some situations
- FIXED little gui-bug in module-information at "mhz"
- CHANGED logo to a nicer one
- CHANGED splitted archives to base, aos, mos
- BUMPED revision to .001
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
ESA Garching/München (ANF)
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TV Tip: Mars Landing of the ESA
The touching down of the European Space Agency vehicle on Mars will be televised live and carried on WebTV on 25th December 2003 at about 2:25 MEZ. Early supporters of the European planet missions should not miss this important event! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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25.Dec.2003
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New Track on the Psyria Homepage
After nearly an eight month pause, there was an update on 24th December 2003 to the Psyria homepage. Because it was musically very quiet around Psyra this year, there's just one new track exclusively for free download. "Overflow" is sort of an Ambient-style track. It was produced by Yel.C
vs. Psyria, and is available for download from the download area.
At this point we'd like to wish all our fans happy Christmas and a great New Year. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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