24.Dec.2003
Nico Barbat
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Christmas greetings from the AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de
The AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de editor teams as well as the publisher team of falkemedia wish all Amigans a merry blessed Christmas and a comfortable transition to 2004. We are thankful for your faith in us and are looking happily forward to the next twelve months which might see the long awaited revival for the Amiga market thanks to the PegasosII and MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.0.
Editorial team AMIGAplus:
Nico Barbat, Wolfgang Böhl, Sebastian Brylka, Marc Cloppenburg, Thomas
Franziskowski, Frode Hansen, Heiko Kuschel, Uwe Pannecke, Robbie Schäfer,
Alex Scholz, Carsten Schröder, Kilian Servais.
Editorial team amiga-news.de:
Nico Barbat, Ulrich Beckers, Jens Begeschke, Christian Busse, Stéphane
Campan, Christoph Dietz, Sven Drieling, Guido Fehst, Dr. Eric Gillé,
Christoph Gutjahr, Stefan Hägele, Martin Heine, Hendrik Höner, Sven
Kirmse, Daniel Miller, Jürgen Müller, H. Ogino, Piotr Pawlowski, Daniel
Reimann, Christian Rosentreter, Gerhard Schmid, Carsten Schröder, Felix
Schwarz, Petra Struck, Alfred Sturm, Rolf Tingler.
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24.Dec.2003
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Pictures from the Pegasos 2 - a slightly different Christmas story...
"Four against Murphy" or how the Pegasos 2 made it at least against all odds for Christmas:
At that time there was the order by Genesi that all already produced Pegasos 2 boards should be shipped until Christmas. And this Pegasos shipping 2 was the first at all.
So Gerald Carda and Thomas Knäbel from Oberursel went to Oberhausen, to DCE where the Pegasos 2 should be produced when the plain circuit boards should arrive there.
But there were no boards... TNT sent the boards to "DK" not to "DE" and now they had to be moved from Denmark to the right destination. Two worthful days went by...
But not enough, Murphy not satisfied yet - there was potential for more things going wrong. And seeesh!!! - a soldering machine went broke and needed a repair!
Holy evening approached and the question was not if something else might go wrong but what it will be this time. The answer came quicker than hoped: just on the first day of production one of the SMD machines left synchronity...
But Thomas and Gerald just kept the track and with the help of the whole DCE team the sailed through all these problems!
But: Worthful time was lost and the board production lasted till the afternoon of the 23rd...
Also the programmers were busy all day and night and worked coordinated by Ralph Schmidt on the new firmware and on fitting MorphOS 1.4.1 to the Pegasos 2. André Siegel had hands full of work with making the 61 page manual perfect and let it translate with two fellows to German and French.
The last day before Christmas Eve! How should the boards go on their journey just in time? Sure: His Pegasos 2 boards share Guido Does by Vesalia picked up just at the production site - but what shoud be done with the orders of the other customers?
Then Christian Kemp surprisingly came along offering his help - coming from his home in Luxembourg he offered to make a 600 km trip to bring the boards from DCE, Oberhausen to Ron van Herk, Rotterdam just that evening so that the boards could be sent to all the world an December the 24th.
So it came the day of Christmas Eve Christian and Ron supported by his wife Cindy packed Christmas packets with mainboards, CPU cards, slot panels, manuals and self burned and printed MorphOS CDs and brought them on their way.
At least Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco were able to announce the good news at morpos-news.de: UPS just got the boards intended for Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Luxembourg, the UK and the USA - including Hawaii.
The following pictures may be used as evidence that the Pegasos 2 boards are really produced and sent away:
Pictures of some Pegasos 2 boards
The Shipping: In the beginning there was chaos...
...but at least...
...and one by one...
...it was fullfilled by Christian and Ron:
The boards ready to go at ComputerCity in Rotterdam.
Merry Christmas!
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail v0.21 released & X-mas greetings from the developer team
The SimpleMail team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Additionally there is version 0.21 of SimpleMail available now.
Changes are:
- Import of mbox files
- Several memory leaks wiped out (bgol)
- The layout of important list elements is now saveable (bgol)
- Simple remote filter: Messages can be left on the server
- SimpleHTML support is now within a shared library
- Ported to OS4
- Documentation describes the spam identification
- Bug fixes and several other improvements
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24.Dec.2003
Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: Euph0ria 0.24 released
Using this announcement Christian Rosentreter wishes a Merry Cristmas and a Happy New Year and there is a new version (0.24) of Euph0ria!
Christian writes: Special greetings to all amiga-news.de members
all guests of the #amiga-news.de IRC channel, to
#amigazeux and to all others I forgot to mention now. :)
About Euph0ria:
Euph0ria is a visual plug-in with MUI-GUI for AmiNetRadio, Kaya
or AmigaAMP. It's been tested under MorphOS 1.4 only but should work with other versions flawlessly. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack USB driver update v0.94 released
The version 0.94 of the USB driver package for Amithlon and OpenPCI is available at the
Aminet and at VMC.de now.
Guido Mersmann wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Amiga users and developers and to the
amiga-news.de team.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)
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kickstart archives v3.1 - DVD release
kickstart archives is a collection of historic and current
websites, information, documents, patents, wireing diagrams, manuals, hardware libraries
and more all about the Amiga. The collection is html based and features a search engine to browse the archive.
kickstart archives runs with all common operating systems and can be installed to the hard disk just by copying it there.
The search engine does not operate with AmigaOS due to the lack of a browser capable of
complete JavaScript1.2.
kickstart archives costs EUR 10,- plus EUR 1,44 p&p.
Thomas Unger wishes a blessed Christmas and a successful new year 2004 to all readers and amiga-news.de members. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Christmas greetings from Coyote Flux and individual Computers
Merry Christmas from a new team in the Amiga market: Coyote Flux and
individual Computers are working together on a basis of a contract that
has been signed on October 1st, 2003.
The young programmer-team also has a new website under www.coyoteflux.nl.
The two brothers Sharwin and Rakesh Raghoebardayal became famous in the
Amiga community for various projects like PPC680x0 (a 68K to PowerPC
assembly translator), the sound editing system Coyotesound, photogrammetry
software J Miner and more high-quality software.
Individual Computers is known for many hardware products for Amiga
computers, specialized PC hardware and retro-computing projects. Serving
private customers and professionals like the US computer forensic
department of defense, individual Computers mass-produces own designs, and
does contract work for other parties.
With more than 50 years combined experience and detailled knowledge about
the target markets, the newly formed team is geared towards development of
new hard- and software applications. The sales and marketing contacts of
individual Computers will make the products available worldwide in more
than 40 countries.
The first project of this cooperation is Kickflash OS4. Coyote Flux
provided the firmware of the product that has been sent to the resellers
yesterday. We hope that all users of classic Amigas will enjoy a fast
cold-start time of their computers with this product, and are looking
forward to more projects in the near future.
In time for the Christmas days, the toplevel domain server problems in
Gabon have been resolved. Our domain http://ami.ga is working again. (nba)
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24.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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AmiDiction: Version 2.6c of the dictionary available
Lorence Lombardos AmiDiction is now available in version 2.6c (31 KB).
AmiDiction is an English online dictionary which utilizes the services from dictionary.com and can be launched from the Workbench or CLI.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
(ANF)
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Update: DriverDescriptorBox V5 for the HardwareAssistent
The DriverDescriptorBox has been published in version 5 today.
Since the last version several bugs have been removed.
The DriverDescriptorBox offers the user information about drivers being used by the HardwareAssistent.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Amiga fans.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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Mail program: New YAM 2.5 Development version (Update)
A new snapshot of the current development version of YAM can now be downloaded. Changes made are to be found in the ChangeLog.
Amendment 23.12.2003, (ps):
This version is realy a development version and may contain bugs that can cause lost of data. The development team does not offer any support or garanty for this version. Support requests will remain unanswered. Use it at your own risk!
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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22.Dec.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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Software News: News by amiga.sf.net
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran updated some of the many utilities ported from Linux. They are available at amiga.sf.net. Updates of the following programs are available:
- cURL
- NetPBM
- Wget
- OpenSSL
- UnRAR
- bzip2 (now contains a shared library)
All programs are native ports. That is you do not need the ixemul.library.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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22.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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GPSInfo: GPS-Navigation system for Amiga
Carsten Siegner developed a basic navigation system for AmigaOS based on common GPS hardware. 'GPSInfo' displays the current position (longitude and latitude), the altitude above the sea, current speed, date and time as well as some GPS details like the quality of connection, currently available GPS satellites and so on. Furthermore it displays the current position by listing nearby villages or geographical points.
Additional information can be found at the title link.
Direct Download (15 KB)
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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22.Dec.2003
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Update: DriverDescriptorBox V4
Version 4 of the DriverDescriptorBox released. It contains driver descriptors for the Hardware Assistant.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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22.Dec.2003
Felix Schwarz (E-Mail)
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IOSPIRIT wishes a Merry Christmas
IOSPIRIT wishes all friends, partners, customers and their families a
Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and successful new year 2004. (nba)
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22.Dec.2003
Kjell Breding (E-Mail)
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AmiGBG 2004 - Swedish Amiga Fair
For the third year in a row, the Swedish Amiga fair AmiGBG is arranged in
Gothenburg, Sweden. The date set for AmiGBG 2004 is the 17th of April next
year. The AmiGBG fair is an event which is focused on the Amiga computer
platform and is once a year gathering companies, user groups, users and
visitors who are all interested in or curious about the platform that
created the essence of multimedia - the Amiga.
This year's fair is held by three Amiga user groups all situated in
Sweden; AmiGBG from Gothenburg, ACGGBG (Amiga Computer Group) from
Gothenburg and Syntax Society from Landskrona in the south of Sweden.
In the year 2002 the first AmiGBG event was held. It was a huge success
with around 450 visitors. The year after, it was yet again time to open
the gates for another great AmiGBG fair at Lindholmen, Gothenburg.
AmiGBG is an event that partly looks back upon the history around the
Amiga personal computer, but the main focus lies on the promising future
that this platform now has - in terms of new hardware (the AmigaOne) which
is based on the PowerPC processor and a new version of AmigaOS (Amiga
Operating System) for this new hardware - AmigaOS 4.
At the fair, you will have a chance to see the new AmigaOne systems based
on the G3 and G4 processors and also have a look on the classic Amiga
computers that many people were brought up together with - these days
gathered under the concept Classic Amiga.
At AmiGBG 2004 we also hope to be able to present a complete version of
the AmigaOS 4 running on the AmigaOne. If so, that will be the highlight
of the fair and a starting shot for the comeback of Amiga!
Furthermore; Linux will be demonstrated on AmigaOne, user groups will have
a chance to present themselves - the fair is a gathering force for
everyone interested in the future of Amiga. The target group is of course
people interested in Amiga, but also people that are interested in
alternative computer platforms.
Among the exhibitors, you will find everything from Swedish and European
companies to Swedish user groups. Not only pure Amiga related companies
have been invited - but also other hardware retailers.
For some more information about the previous events held by AmiGBG, please
check these links:
For further information about AmiGBG 2004:
Web: www.amigbg.com
E-Mail: info@amigbg.com
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22.Dec.2003
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Magazine: The Crypt #33
Issue #33 of 'The Crypt', an English online magazine, published. The online version is to be found at the title link. If you want to have the download version feel free to use the following link:
Download: ZIP-Version of The Crypt #33
Content:
- The real story of Christmas
- Creation of desktop wallpaper and icons for PC
- New PC game: "Call of Duty"
- New News-Website about Amiga
- Alternative use of CDs and DVDs
- Using two computers with one monitor - Howto
- Reciptes
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22.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Audio: HD-Rec 09 Beta Demo
A new beta version of 'HD-Rec' is now available at the title link. 'HD-Rec' can be used to arrange audio and MIDI recordings within the same window and play them simultaneously.
Addtional information can be found at the title link.
Download:
http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/HD-Rec_09Beta.lha
Screenshots:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=screenshots
Demo Songs:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=download
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21.Dec.2003
Chris Perver (ANF)
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Textviewer: EvenMore updated
I have updated EvenMore exe and plugins to use the OpenURL library for the clickable links, both in the MSWord and HTML plugins, so now if you click on an email address or a Web address, the appropriate app will open.
I have also updated the MSWord plugin to find the correct start and end file positions from the FileInfoBlock (before I was just estimating, which sometimes didn't work). (snx)
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20.Dec.2003
Davy Wentzler (ANF)
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New Audio Evolution 4 screenshots on OS4 on the AmigaOne released
Now that Audio Evolution 4 is running natively on OS4 for some months, it is time to present you with some screenshots.
Please look at the screenshots section of Audio Evolution 4 at http://www.audio-evolution.com/AE4/Screenshots.html.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!
Davy Wentzler
Audio Evolution (snx)
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20.Dec.2003
ANN (comments)
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A look back at IBM's PowerPC activities in 2003 / Genesi mentioned
In the lead article of the December issue of the IBM PowerPC processor news, PPC Marketing Managers Kalpesh Gala and Jesse Stein look back at IBM's PowerPC activities in 2003. Mentioned in brief, although without further individual details, are also Genesi, Mai and Marvell. (snx)
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20.Dec.2003
AMIGAplus Redaktion
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AMIGAplus 12/2003 (#142): Weihnachtszeit
Am 19. Dezember 2003 erschien die Ausgabe 12/2003 (#142) der AMIGAplus
(Versand am 17.12.2003) mit folgenden Themen:
A1200 im Acryl-Glas-Tower
Fast jeder Amiga-Anwender mit einem Amiga 1200 in einem Towergehäuse kennt
das Problem, ganz besonders aber alle, die ihren Amiga in einem
Towersystem von MicroniK untergebracht haben: Wenn die Anzahl an
eingebauter Hardware zunimmt, geht die Stabilität des Towers verloren. Mit
etwas Geschick und Fleiß können auch Sie Ihrem Classic Amiga 1200 auf
seine alten Tage ein würdiges und vor allem ein stabiles Gehäuse selbst
bauen. Die Materialwahl fiel auf das dem Glas in der Konsistenz ähnliche
Material Acryl.
Tipps für Santa Claus
Nur noch wenige Tage, dann quetscht sich der weißbärtige Dicke mit dem
roten Mantel wieder durch die Schornsteine in allen Nationen. Damit der
gute Santa das Weihnachtsfest nicht durch das falsche Geschenk verdirbt,
sollten Sie noch eilig einen Wunschzettel ausfüllen und an der rechten
Stelle platzieren. Die schönsten Geschenke für Amiganer, Technik- und
Design-Liebhaber finden Sie in der AMIGAplus – auch für den kleinen
Geldbeutel fernab vom Kommerzialismus.
Digitalkameras im Aufschwung
In keinem Jahr zuvor hat sich das digitale Aufnahmemedium so schlagkräftig
durchsetzen können. Die Absatz kurve der Hersteller verläuft steil nach
oben und zeigt, dass Fotografen aller Themengebiete dem neuen Medium
vertrauen und es vermehrt einsetzen, den Schritt in die Fotografie wagen
oder den Wechsel von der Analog- zur Digitalfotografie vollziehen. Wir
präsentieren die Highlights des zurückliegenden, hervorragenden Jahrganges
2003 und geben den einen oder anderen Tipp für den Weihnachtsmann.
AMIGAplus CD #25
Schwerpunkte: PNG-Icons für das AmigaOS (Icons, Tools, Infos); Video und
Fotos von der VideoBörse 2003 in Bremen; Die 40 besten Scene-Demos 2003;
Updates zu aktuellen Spielen; alle Tools- und Games-Neuheiten wie AmigaAMP
2.10, SCouT, NewsCoaster, Virus Executor u.v.m.
Lesen Sie außerdem:
- Belesen: Literatur-Tipps
- Geisterbeschwörung: GhostScript-Workshop (Teil 3)
- Besser drucken: TurboPrint-Workshop (Teil 2)
- 1, 2, 3, Brutzelhexerei: 3CaDo
- TurboCalc-"Nachfolger": StarAm Plan
- Top 10: Die Shareware-Highlights
- Emulatoren: Neues von WinUAE und Amithlon
- Digitale Bolzerei: Eat The Whistle 3
- Lauscher aufgesperrt: Audio-CDs
- News: Aktuelles aus dem Amiga-Markt
- Amiga Status Report: Weihnachtszeit, Wartezeit
- Demoscene: Retrospektive 2003
- und vieles mehr
Sie können die AMIGAplus für
5,- Euro bei falkemedia bestellen
oder im
Abonnement beziehen. (nba)
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19.Dec.2003
ann.lu (Website)
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Turbo-Patch: New version of SystemPatch
A new version of "Systempatch" has been published which is a patch that patches
diverse system routines to get a better performance on classic Amiga computers.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Dec.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS port of "Njam" released
"Njam" is a full-featured cross-platform pacman-like game written in C++
using SDL library.
Features:
- Single and multiplayer mode (local or network)
- Duel games (players compete against each other to get more points)
- Cooperative games (players cooperate to finish as many levels as they can)
- Great music and sound effects
- Runs on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BeOS, MacOS X, MorphOS
- Customizable level skins
- Many different levels
- Integrated level editor
- Open Source (GPL Licence)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HardwareAssistent: New version 0.32 (Update)
Version 0.32 of "HardwareAssistent" has completed.
In the previous version 0.31 of the archive the directory Installed was unfortunately
not packed. Therefore the program HardwareAssistent could not remember which cards
have been already installed. This bug has been cleared.
The launcher was also updated. It now uses the assign HardwareAssistent: to start the
HardwareAssistent.
Please consider that there can be still bugs in this early version. If you find bugs
then please write a mail to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
DJBase will take care of the Driver Descriptors. The official support page where you
can download the current Driver Descriptors is http://hwa.amigaworld.de.
Download of HardwareAssistent v0.32 (228 KB).
If you have a card that the list
do not contain please use the program DriverDescriptor Creator
to create a DriverDescriptor for this hardware.
Then please send this file (with .info file) via email to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
Update: (19.12.03, 13:25, snx)
Norman Walter wrote the following lines:
I got the messages that the install script would not work. But this is only the case
if you unpack the archive with the bugy version of Unarc which AmigaOS 3.9 contains.
Unarc replaces blank characters by underscores.
Therefore please use a different program or unpack the archive via lha x..
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOne: "EasterEgg" in U-Boot
In a thread on amigaworld.net Thomas and
Hans-Jörg Frieden explained a first "Easteregg" which has been hidden in U-Boot.
Those ones who do not want to know something of PPC, multitasking and graphical user
surfaces can activate the second modus of its AmigaOne by entering the following
command lines in the U-Boot command line:
setenv easteregg 1
saveenv
reset
Deactivate:
setenv x86_mode
setenv vga_fg_color 'n'
setenv vga_bg_color 'n'
'n' stands for standard ANSI colour values where you have to enter e.g. "0" for black
or "7" for white.
The variables "vga_fg_color" and "vga_bg_color" can be used to modify the optical surface
of the BIOS screen.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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Emulation: "SheepShaver" Emulates a MacIntosh PPC on x86
"Sheepshaver" is the first Mac emulator for x86 PCs capable of emulating PPC-based Macintoshes. The software currently emulates a 604 CPU, requires a ROM image from a PCI-based "Old World" Macintosh, and works with MacOS up to version 8.6. Sheepshaver is Open Source, and right now only a Linux version is available.
The program's homepage
is currently just a clean building space, with a files section in which you can get the sources for the current version.
On emaculation.com there's a support forum for the emulator. Those interested will find there a few hints for the use of the software, and there are also ready-compiled binaries there for download. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
Heise Newsticker
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Linux Kernel 2.6.0 Officially Released
Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton have released the final version of the new Linux kernel 2.6.0. Under the title link, near sections on characteristics and improvements, may be viewed the article from the Heise news-ticker. (cs) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite)
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Amizilla Project: Prize Markedly Raised
As Bill Panagouleas shared on ANN, a previous high-ranking executive of Netscape who wishes to remain unnamed has contributed $2000 to the pot for the Amizilla project.
The executive is a longtime Amiga user, who still makes frequent use of WinUAE and the Video-Toaster-Flyer. Altogether there is now the sum of $6200 as a reward to the person or team who ports Mozilla or Firebird and thereby helps the Amiga with a modern browser. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: TranspoClock Released (Update)
Jacek Piszczek released as freeware a transparent digital clock for MorphOS .
Transpoclock (23 KB) makes use of the transparency function of MorphOS' intuition.library.
Update: (7:30 PM, 20th of December 19:30, snx)
Today Version 0.70 (67 KB) was released.
Changes since 0.30:
- Commodity support has been added
- WBStart support has been added
- MUI-Prefs have been added
- Gfxpath support for different graphics sets has been added
- Optimized transparency routine
- Icons and graphics sets from Jobbo have been added
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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MoJoMeter: Analog Indicator for Hard-Drive Activity
MoJoMeter from Joe Torre and Kermit Woodall may now be ordered from Retrosystem.com.
MoJoMeter is an illuminated analog indicator for computer cases which measures the amount of hard-drive activity.
Interested dealers may inquire directly of Kermit Woodall. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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Shareware Package SiteWay Released for Free
Christian Effenberger decided to release freely all his Siteway programs, in order to give the Amiga community a little present before Christmas.
All restrictions have been lifted and there is no longer any requirement that the programs ImageEditor and PicBase be installed in Siteway.
All keyfile resources have been removed from the programs and the opportunity has been taken to offer for download the latest versions of ImageEditor and PicBase.
Effenberger wishes all Amiga users a nice Christmas and a successful new year! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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Show Report: OS4/MorphOS Show in Saragossa (Spain)
There's a report on ann.lu about the OS4/MorphOS convention that took place last weekend in Saragossa.
Update, (ps): Corrected the title link thanks to a tip-off from the comments section.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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17.Dec.2003
djnick deetronic (ANF)
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New multimedia CD ROM by DJNick/deetronic
Nikola Tomic (DJNick/deetronic) known for example for his soundtrack for the
beat'em'up game "Capital Punishment" has published his first multimedia CD:
"Aural Respiration" includes masses of
music modules, videos, graphics and photos and is optimized for use with
Amiga webbrowser. The CD is purchaseable directly from the author
for EUR 22.22 (incl. pp) following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Richard Drummond (ANF)
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New Linux UAE version by Richard Drummond
Richard Drummond has released a new version of his experimental Linux-UAE
which should enable many of the improvements from the latest WinUAE version for
Linux user as well.
The version 0.8.22-20031215 suppoarts now hardfiles up to 2 GB.
Further there were many bugfixes, for the x86 useres the JIT problems were removed
and MacOS x user will be happy to use the mouse properly in full screen mode now.
The sources are available now, compiled versions for several platforms will follow soonly.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet uploads until the 17th of December 2003
Here is the list of all recent Aminet uploads since our last report:
StarAm_Plan.lha biz/misc 752K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, 68000 CPU
StarAm_Plan881.lha biz/misc 747K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, needs FPU
amiycoders.lha comm/mail 29K+V0.6 yEnc Encoder / Decoder for the Amig
DVBFontUpload.lha comm/misc 40K+Font upload for Nokia D-Box via SCSI. 68
gng_SP.lha comm/www 9K+GNetGrabber 1.x spanish catalogs v1.0.0
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 108K+POSIX compatibility library for vbcc
Amitekst_E.lha dev/e 6K+AREXX scripts for use with AmiTekst Pro
amiycoders_src.lha dev/e 20K+E Source Code to AmiyCoders! V0.6
objectbrowser.lha dev/e 11K+Object Browser / System Debugger 0.8
AmigaTalk.lha dev/lang 1.4M+V2.5 Update of AmigaTalk (Smalltalk GUI)
SFS.lha disk/misc 268K+Smart Filesystem copyrighted by John Hen
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 52K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
saku44.lha docs/mags 8.4M+Saku #44 (3/2003). Finnish e-zine.
Labyrinth2Chts.lha game/hint 12K+Cheats for the game Labyrinth 2.
WormWars.lha game/misc 539K+Worm Wars 7.72: Advanced snake game
MicroWorld.lha game/think 6.2M+Simple logical game (CGX Friendly)
kray.lha gfx/3d 830K+Freeware raytracer v1.4
ambot.lha hard/drivr 62K+Cybot/Real Robots programmer w/ C source
PoseidonMain.lha hard/drivr 420K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.2
TestGear-Extra.lha hard/hack 223K+A600, A1000, A500(+), A1200 & PC extras.
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 358K+GUI 4 Lame,Ogg,BladeEnc,Pegase,Ncode,Mus
MrCarlitoWb-06.jpg pix/icon 314K+First full FREWARE PNG-Icon replacement
Dale_font.lha text/bfont 14K+Fixed topaz rep. in sizes 5,6,8,10,11,12
AddLF.lha text/misc 2K+Add LineFeed to textfile at column ~80
OnyxPrelude.lha util/cdity 34K+Comprehensive mixer for Prelude. MUI.
DegasDT.lha util/dtype 30K+Datatype for Degas pictures
MathLibs881.lha util/libs 12K+Free 68881/2 math-libraries with source,
AObjView.lzh util/misc 31K+Displays the Hunk structure of Amiga Obj
DigiConverter.lha util/misc 13K+Handy dec/hex/bin/float/ASCII-converter
xPackBest.lha util/pack 18K+Pack using XPK, adaptive, recursive
ARxShellV1.2b.lha util/rexx 99K+A shell for ARexx V1.2b
parename.lha util/rexx 11K+AREXX script to rename images within Pho
popsearch.lha util/rexx 15K+Quick searching from IBrowse, AWeb and V
DRemind.lha util/time 308K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.67!
VE_SP.lha util/virus 11K+VirusExecutor 2.3x spanish catalog v2.33
windowbar.lha util/wb 272K+Window mimizer and program launcher
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)
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eTeacher 6.20 distributed by Fun Time World
Fun Time World is pleased to announce that they are doing the distribution of the multimedial course
eTeacher 6.20. This package is unique on for the Amiga. You can learn English or
German with the aid by pictures, little animations and perfect spoken 16 bit output.
With the help of the multimedial exercises and tests the learning will become a real pleasure.
The program fits the demand of both, adults and children. The usage is easy and partly customizeable.
There is support for gfx cards and sound cards.
The program offers the following features:
- More than 200 exercises
- 3 hours 16 bit spoken language output
- 1000 illustrations
- Context sensitive grammar help
- Customizeable
- Support for gfx and sound cards
Information about the program and screen shots is to get from
www.funtime-world.de/eteacher.shtml.
Introducing prices til/from 5th of January 2004:
- Englisch - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
- German - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
- Both versions - 50 Euro / 59.90 Euro
Order by email (mail@funtime-world.de),
fax (+49 209 - 95 717 865) or telephone (+49 209 - 95 717 884) or directly at the
online shop of Fun Time World.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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Amiga, Inc.: Calling All User Groups!
Community has always been the backbone of the Amiga platform; indeed,
without it, the platform would have folded long ago. With AmigaOS4.0
approaching release, the community has taken a lead once again, with
dedicated individuals and user groups throughout the world working to show
AmigaOS4.0 running on AmigaOnes.
We are now at a stage where we are looking to bring the user groups
together into a more formal forum, providing feedback to Amiga, Inc. on
how best it can support the user groups whilst also allowing the user
groups to be able to bind themselves together in a mutual organization for
self help and support.
This new organization will be a crucial element in the growth of the Amiga
platform as AmigaOS4.0 is released and the community begins to expand. We
are thus making a call to all user groups to submit their details via this
form
so that we can begin the construction of this organisation and get
the resources in place to service it. (nba)
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17.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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New website about hardware do it yourself projects for Amiga, Amithlon and Pegas
Carsten Siegner has opened a new website with the URL "www.Pegasossoft.de" which covers
information about his all of his hardware projects.
Now there is not only the known analog data capture system for the serial RS 232 port
but also a hardware for the same port for a multi purpose controler device. This hardware is called
"Multiprogrammer" and is a board with three decoded 8 pin
universal ports. These ports can be programmed independently.
Furthermore the board has a data in port which can read serial data directly.
Further information about this project as well as the circuit design is available from the website.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
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Season Greetings from Amiga, Inc.
Amiga, Inc. would like to, on behalf of our staff and associates,
wish the Amiga Commmunity and their families a safe and happy holiday. Be
safe, don't drink and drive! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! (nba)
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16.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HardwareAssistent-Update
The version 0.31 of the programm
HardwareAssistent, which reconizes and installes new hardware components by starting the system is now finished.
After the last version the install script was processed and the bugs in the DriverDescription were deleted, also the
documentation was extended.
But look in the old version there could be still bugs, if you find a bug please send an e-mail to:
walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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WHDLoad: Version 16.1 published
From WHDLoad, which makes the hard disk install of the not therefore floppy possible
the version 16.1 was published (Download, 1.17 MB).
New games which could now be installed or were updated:
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Hellfire Attack (Martech)
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Twintris (Digital Marketing)
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Waxworks (Accolade)
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History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte)
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Super Street Fighter 2 (US Gold)
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Jupiter's Masterdrive (Ubi Soft)
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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PDF-Magazine: Amiga Point of View, edition 1
The retro-gaming community of abime.net,
which operate the Amiga gaming database Hall of Light
has puplished the first edition of their retro-gaming.magazine "Amiga Point of View".
The magazine should reincarnate the old spirit of old gaming magazines with test reports, letter
to the editor corner, gaming tips and complete solutions. You can find the first edition (19.5 MB)
under the tiltle link.
Update: (16.12.2003, 15:30, cg)
The contacts of the homepage are not valid. You can find the APoV-Team under following e-mail addresses:
Editor: apov.editor@abime.net
Letter to the editor: apov.letters@abime.net
Competitions: apov.competitions@abime.net
Gaming tips: apov.wham@abime.net
Gaming tests: apov.pdgames@abime.net
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
Stefan Blixth (E-Mail)
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New and updated tools from OnyxSoft
The Swedish shareware-developer-group OnyxSoft released two new and
three updated tools:
AddLF (Version 1.0)
This is a very simple tool that makes text files that has no
linefeeds in them become readable in non-wrapping text-viewers/editors.
It tries to wrap after 80 characters but might go 10 chars longer if
it means not breaking a word. If a word is very long when AddLF wants
to wrap it will cut the word and insert a dash "-".
OnyxPrelude (Version 1.0)
This is a new fresh mixer for the Prelude sound cards! You can
test the mixer even w/o a prelude =) Everything concerning audio
can be controlled by ARexx! Everything concerning audio can be
controlled by userdefinable hotkeys! There are two different mixer
GUIs, pick the one you like! The mixer can popup on hotkey or
ARexx event! The mixer can close again after a userdefinable delay!
A very small, configurable and slick bevel can popup instead of the
mixer on hotkey or ARexx events! It also has all normal features of
a mixer, like the ability to change the display name of a channel,
hide channels you never use, reset the card on startup etc. And it
uses MUI...
DigiConverter (Version 1.1)
Now you can also convert from and to floats. Useful mainly for
handling floats where you only have access to for example hexadicimal
values.
DRemind (Version 1.66)
Now you can make your remind *Bold*, /Italic/, _Underlined_
and/or coloured in the remind list! Fixed a bug which caused Single
reminds to never pop up. (a 2<->4 digits year bug). --BAR--'s couldn't
be moved since they where excluded from the sorting routines in DRPrefs.
Which gadgets to be shown as default was not correct. See Main GUI
Settings/Show'n'Hide for other gadgets.
TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.31)
Now full CDDB-support is built-in into TheMPegEncGUI! You don't
need to use some other program to get those CD-IDs from the net and
then try to figure out what file it was and load that into The_GUI,
all is now automated. Insert a CD, add files (previously leached off
the CD, or directly from the CD if you have f.ex. AllegroCDFS), then
select Obtain CDDB from the ID3-Tag menu. When drag'n'dropping files
into the file list window some menu options were not enabled. You had
to add a file using the Add-button. There were some dublettes and inconsistencies of hotkeys for the menus. Switching between Lame/Mpega
in Lite didn't work from the menu. The bitrate was not correct in the
full and Lite-versions. (nba)
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16.Dec.2003
Matthes (ANF)
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Magazine: Latest edition 8 of the PDF-Magazine "Lotek64"
The 8th edition of the PDF-Magazine "Lotek64" is published. The magazine is dedicated to old and alternativ
computer systems. The center of gravity is the C64, but also reports of other 8-bit-computers. Old entertainment
systems and Amigas are considered, too. The magazine is published as a PDF-File for free. Interested persons
could also order a printed edition or subscription. The 8th edition contains following aspects:
- Lotek64-Special: Music
- Commodores last trick: Amiga CD32
- O.A.S.E. 03: News of the Amiga OS4 and the C-One-Board
- Hobby + electronics 2003
- Interviews
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
PIK (ANF)
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Smart Filesystem v1.214
SFS is an alternative Filesystem for the Classic AmigaOS, which is famous for the high writing-, reading-
and search speed defiance its Beta-status. After a few test updates the SFS.lha which you can find in a few days on Aminet
(1.214, 273,995 bytes size of the archive) makes no problems in defragmenting.
SFSdefrag was debugged. The old SFS.lha-archives are deleted with update automatically, especially the 1.213 distribution
You can get quick information under: http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find.
A tool which could configurate the number of files in .recycled will be available until week3/2004. The tests are running.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
CD32-Allianz/Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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New support of the CD32-Allianz-Homepage
From the 1st January Robert Konrad is supporting the online offer of the CD32. You can get more information under
the title link.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
Jim Steichen (ANF)
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Programming language: AmigaTalk V2.5 in Aminet
Jim Streichen has uploaded AmiTalk V2.5 to the Aminet under dev/lang.
The new variation of the version 2.5 of Little Smalltalk (V1.0 of Tim Budd) shows a better memory manager. Until now the memory of AmigaTalk wasn't released after ending.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
McFly (ANF)
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New PNG-Icon-Set
After Christmas (27.12.2003) new PNG-Icon-Set for 68k-Amigas will be published. Screenshots are available at Lorraine Design.
Screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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15.Dec.2003
Sebastian Brylka (YIM)
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Raytracing: New Kray binaries
Of Kray, a raytracing program with a text interface, there are new binary versions for AmigaOS, Linux and Windows available.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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15.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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CygnusED Professional 4.22 PPC released
Version 4.22 of the text editor CygnusED for MorphOS is now available at MorphOS.org.
Download (294 KB)
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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15.Dec.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB-Stack: Poseidon Update V2.2
Chris Hodges announced the release of version 2.2 of the USB stack 'Poseidon'. Read his announcement:
After my seven months break due to my diploma thesis, I have reworked
the HID class quite a bit. It now supports digital and analogue joypads
via the lowlevel.library. Moreover, the class now supports changing of
HID Output and Feature items (i.e. for keyboard LEDs or Force
Feedback/Rumble joypads). Input values for items can now be scaled and
clipped and flipped. There is support for local and global variables. The
value that is used for the action can now also be redirected to origin
from these variables, timers, click counts, etc, or randomly (e.g.
for auto fire). Actions can now be triggered upon definable condition
codes, making it even more powerful (you want to do a special action
on three clicks with the middle mouse button, or when shift is pressed?,
no problem!). The default keyboard mapping can now also be changed. All
this comes with a price -- the GUI is now a bit more complex. But no
worries -- you don't have to use these features, if you don't like
to. The English version of the manual has been updated a bit to
reflect the changes -- unfortunately, the German translation (done
by Michael Böhmer) has been lost in a crash. I will update the guide
accordingly, but this will take some more time.
Several classes have been updated, such as the massstorage.class. It
now has some new default settings and fall back options.
The poseidon main library now fixes the problems created by broken
Olympus cameras not being bound to the MSD class. It now also tries
to assign better names to devices that don't come with string descriptors.
Trident has been rewritten into subclasses for the MorphOS mprefs and
is now a bit more stable (I hope).
The installer script has been slightly updated and now contains
Spanish strings, kindly translated by Dámaso Domínguez.
The AddUSBHardware command now has an "ALL" option, allowing to take
the stack offline by just issuing an "AddUSBHardware REMOVE ALL" line --
handy for game starting scripts.
Finally, the device driver for the Algor has been optimized a bit, and
also a bug had been fixed.
Now for something completely different. In August, I stopped
taking registrations, because Elbox treated me badly (as a summary) and
I hoped, that they would change their mind. I should have known better.
They kept selling their cards, even though they knew that the users
wouldn't be able to use them. They didn't care at all about the users and
their fate.
As of today, the registration process is open again. Keyfiles can again
be obtained from me directly (cash or bank transfer, no credit cards!).
Please note that the licence fee has been increased a bit to reflect
the new features added. Of course, no new keyfile are required for
current users to use the V2.2 version.
IOSpirit will offer a bundle for ArakAttack users soon, details will
be announced by IOSpirit in a few days (please don't bugger them right
now). ArakAttack currently works on Amithlon and OpenPCI supported PCI
bridge boards for OHCI and UHCI PCI cards (and onboard USB). EHCI
(USB2.0) is being implemented and will be available later.
ArakAttack currently does not work on Mediator boards, but means are
being prepared to get it running on these machines to offer a
high-quality USB driver for any PCI card (including the Spider).
That's it for now. Hope you will enjoy the new Poseidon release and have
a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Who knows, maybe we will see many
nice things happing during 2004. Such as the AmigaOS4 release or the
Pegasos II.
Stay healthy! There's still much to come.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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13.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Announcement: new demo version 0.9beta of HD-Rec
There'll be a new beta demo version of HD-Rec available for download before Christmas.
"HD-Rec" is a MIDI and audio sequencer, i.e. audio and MIDI recordings can be arranged in the same window and replayed synchronously.
Particular improvements in V0.9beta:
- Audio mixer with 16+1+1 true stereo channels and 4 Aux ways
- realtime audio effects (reverb, delay, chorus, equalizer...)
- strongly improved softsynth "Sweeper" (resonance filter, samples)
The aim of HD-Rec is to be able to do a whole music production from the composing to the mastering within one application.
Using the softsynth and the audio effects of HD-Rec you'll need no external sound producer or effects devices. The music signal doesn't leave the computer at no time and can be exported directly as WAV or MP3 file. The quality is always excellent and independant from the sound card. Noise, buzzing or whimping are now part of the past.
The whole scenery (mixer settings, effects, sounds, notes) are saved on the computer and are reproduced 1:1 when being reloaded.
The softsynth "Sweeper" offers independant from the computing power always exact sample timing and can be played in realtime via an external master keyboard if needed. Though, for this you need a fast computer with 500 MHz clock or more.
Sweeper has very different synthesis algorithms and supports multisamples. Because of this, a wide sound spectrum is possible, from the old C64 sound across Techno to a realistic piano or string ensemble.
HD-Rec is a system friendly 68K application and doesn't make any use of the custom chips - therefore it runs on the "classic" Amiga as well as under WinUAE and Amithlon. In addition, the program has already successfully been tested under MorphOS.
Screenshots:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=screenshots
Demo songs:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=download
(Neither have external effects or sound producers been used nor have any samples been included except the drums and the piano solo.)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Retailer: APS with reworked webshop and separate Pegasos URL
The French Amiga retailer APS has reworked his Webshop and added a PC area. You now can find here prices for complete Pegasos-2 systems, too.
In addition, an own address for Pegasos customers has been prepared under PegasosPPC.fr. There you can find detailed information about the computer and the operating systems that come with the computer.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Dec.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (email)
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Magazine: Obligement N°42
The issue #42 of the French digital magazine Obligement has been released. Read a report about the Alchimie 3, interviews with Kevin Picone (Underware Design) and with Yannick Bridier (president of the 4A Association), reviews of IBrowse 2.3 and dynAMIte, an article about the DOSBox, a review of the Spider 2 USB and the Mirage 1200 tower, an article about the installation of PegXLin and much more.
Download: Obligement 42
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Plug'nPlay: Hardware assistant v0.3 published
The version 0.3 of the Amiga Plug'nPlay system "HardwareAssistent" is now available
under the title link.
Short description of the features:
- Automatic hardware recognition
- Automac selection of the right driver
- Automatic installation of the driver
- Download of the driver from the Internet
- Support of 40 Zorro- and Turbo cards
(amount is increasing)
- Maximum transparency and flexibility
- User friendly
- Fast
Direct download
(209 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
Nova Design (ANF)
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3D-Software: Aladdin4D on CD
The very known 3d animation software "Aladdin 4D" is now available on CD. It contains
the last version of Aladdin (with all updates which have been published later) as well
as the full website of Nova Design, all available tutorials for Aladdin, examples and
the full content of the Nova Design FTP-server.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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New product: IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle Pro
As a special gift to its customers, software-developer
IOSPIRIT for the first time
offers a bundle with all inhouse graphics programs at an especially
attractive price of only 99 EUR (you save 40%, more than 60 EUR).
The "IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle Pro" contains the respectively latest,
full versions of fxPAINT 2.0, fxSCAN 4.0 and VHI Studio 6.0.
The bundle is only available as 3 CD-set and only as long as stock lasts. (nba)
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12.Dec.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Diskmag: Cows'n'Snakefights #5 published
The Swedish demoscene group has published its fifth issue of the in English written
Amiga Diskmag "Cows'n'Snakefights".
You can read there different party reports, interviews and other articles. You can download
the archive from the website under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
Apple Insider (ANF)
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CPU-News: PowerPC 750VX of IBM
According to a report of our colleague of the online magazine AppleInsider Big Blue IBM
has completed the new micro processor "PowerPC 750VX".
The chip is supposed to be used in the next generation of the iBooks of Apple. L3 cache
with up to 4 megabyte is to be possible. The Front Side Bus with up to 400 MHz DDR and
Altivec-implemantation like at the PowerPC 970 (G5) are further features.
The processor is supposed to work with 1.8 GHz while the successor of the 750VX, the
planned 750VXe, is supposed to work with 2 GHz. The processor will probably introduced
in the third/fourth quarter of the year 2004.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
Captain HIT (ANF)
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Emulator: A/NES CGX Final Version
Because of the low interest and the missing support today the final version v1.33 of
the NES-emulator A/NES CGX has been
published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
Kermit Woodall (ANF)
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ImageFX 4.5 Studio available (update)
As Nova Design reported ImageFX 4.5 Studio is now available for AmigaOS and MorphOS.
The MorphOS version contains native PowerStation-modules and 32-Bit-Icons made by
André Siegel.
According to a press release ImageFX 4.5 Studio contains ImageFX 4.0, 4.5, PowerStation
and additional extensions. The CD also contains the complete website and FTP site of
Nova Design. The upgrade price depends on the existing version and reach from 39.95
up to 79.95 US Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
Thomas Knäbel / bplan (E-Mail)
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Christmas greetings from bplan GmbH
The second production and delivery of the Pegasos II (KW51) is close to be done.
As a "little" apology for the delay bplan presents as a Christmas gift the following
outtakes of up to today never shown pictures on its website.
bplan: "We wish all visitors of our website Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2004."
The pictures are under the copyright of the bplan GmbH and are not allowed to be published
without permission.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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11.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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Pegasos Guardian: Pictures from Infosecurity 2003
Under the title link Genesi shows photos of the Infosecurity 2003 convention in New York on 9th December, where the Pegasos Guardian system was displayed (as amiga-news.de reported).
On this subject MorphOS-News.de, reports that in the meantime the Guardian was listed at the Open Market Corridor (OMC), which is a trade market of the US government. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.Dec.2003
Pixelart
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Startmenu: Pixload 4.2c Released
The new version, 4.2c, of "Pixload" has been released. PixLoad is a Startbar/Tool-Dock Clone for AmigaOS and MorphOS. German language instructions for the English and French localized software is in the program archive.
News:
- PowerIcon's "French touch"
- Add some features while known devices ejection, Miamidx control panel
loading, etc...
- News icons (Better rendering with PowerIcons)
- Removing German comments for files on FAT95 formatted devices (USB key)
- Changes in Pixload's Prefs (luminosity background included,
replacement icons by drag&drop)
- Bugs corrected again
Functions:
- Several Pixload bars at screen (fully independance between bars)
- Ejection of removable media closes ALL windows of THIS media
- Contextual menu under MENU button
- Help key loads this file
- Drag and drop a pictures folder will load a thumbnail program (Amiga)
- New formats : GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, IFF, Rexx, Text, Modules, TIFF,
TARGA via datatypes
- New formats : HTML (local file only)
- New formats : LZX, LHA, UNZIP identified for decompression
- Miamidx Control Panel included
- Programs loading window
- Clock included with RTC / DSL connection, time and date
- Pixload is scalable
- Help text can be displayed under icons
- Pixload can open folders / volume instead of program
- Shortkeys for all icons
- Pixload's icons "organisation" by a Drag & Drop (Amiga)
- Choice of number of icon's columns
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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11.Dec.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE Reaches Version 0.8.23
The new version 0.8.23 of the Windows-based Amiga Emulator WinUAE has been available since 10th December, 2003. This free software may be downloaded from the title linked website. An overview of the changes:
Bugfixes:
- mousebutton getting stuck randomly when WinUAE lost focus
- floppy drives' state was not restored fully
- fixed crash when switching from 68000 to JIT-mode
- bsdsocket browser freezes/slowdowns
- SPTI CDROM media change detection
- parallel port joystick adapter works properly again
- saving state in ce-mode with blitter active created broken state files
- serial port/MIDI randomly lost received characters
New Features:
- maprom emulation (BlizKick support)
- first CDROM is always uaescsi.device unit zero, second is zero etc.
and then other non-CDROM SCSI devices.
- improved priority settings
- improved filter options
- compatibility improvements
- bsdsocket emulation improved (Jabberwocky)
- faster Picasso96 solid window moves
- improved AHI emulation
- IRQ level 7 shortcut in input-tab
- percentage of CPU in use-meter added next to FPS-counter
- immediate state save (no need to exit the GUI anymore)
- dropped release numbers :)
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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11.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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Event: AmigaOne/OS4 and Pegasos/MorphOS Show in Spain
There's a Pegasos/MorphOS and AmigaOne/OS4 show in Zaragoza, Spain this Saturday, the 13th of December, 2003.
This event was equipped by the Amiga User Group of Zaragoza (CUAZ) and Amiga Group Asturias (aGas). There is no charge for admission. You'll find all the details on the show's website here. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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Game: "2 Pairs 2 Furious" Released
2 Pairs 2 Furious by Anarkskt of La Sekta is a memory game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (68k, RTG) that has themes that support additional graphics and music.
The current version has just one theme. You can view a screenshot under the title link. If you have some comments to make, you can send the author an email at this address. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Dec.2003
ann.lu (Website)
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Sources of the Amiga demo "I am Back" published
The demo group The Gang has published the assembler sources of their only two week old Demos "I am
Back". The demo reached the third place within the "old
school demo competition" at the scene party Dreamhack
The demo, the complete sources (100% 68k assembler) as well as all other needed data files are available by the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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10.Dec.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Advent at individual Computers
Special price for the X-Surf 2
The advent season has already begun at our trade partners, now we want to announce it officially again: Participating resellers have the X-Surf 2 networking card for 69.90 EUR. This price is also valid for direct orders. You're saving 20 EUR compared to the recommended retail price, but only until December 31st!
Kickflash in production
Kickflash OS4 which has been announced in June is now in production. It's going to be available starting December 22nd - if the parcel services work fast enough, this might be in time for Christmas Eve! Kickflash reduces the boot-time of classic Amigas dramatically, because it gets rid of all the reboots that today's Amigas have to do. Romupdates ("setpatch"), every resident-capable program, Blitzkick-modules and tools like Prepareemul (Macmem) can be stored in the 1M flash memory. They're executed without reboots on a cold start of the Amiga. Price: 34.90 EUR.
Deathbed Vigil DVD now in PAL
By the end of next week, we expect a shipment from Dave Haynie. The DVD of his film "Deathbed Vigil" is now available in PAL video norm, and is shipped on a DVD-R. This format can be played back on nearly all players in Europe, and should be a lot more compatible than the NTSC-DVD+R that were only available for a long time. The price per DVD is 39 EUR, and Dave has promised to sign each cover again.
Fresh 5.25 inch disks with 48TPI
We have produced disks in the USA for the European retro-computing fans. For a lot of years, disks of the 5.25 inch size were available in nearly every store, but since more than one year, all inventories are sold out. Trying to use 96TPI or 135TPI disks is not always successful, because the heads of Commodore and Apple drives are only made for 48TPI. Other disks have errors, or seem to lose data for no appearent reason.
We have found a company in California that has started the production machines for us. To get the disks to Germany at a reasonable price, we found a complicated but cheap way to transport them: First by train nearly 3000 miles to New York, then by ship to Antwerp, and the last part to Aachen by truck. Starting December 17th, we can offer 25 disks DS SD (48TPI) without envelopes, with stickers at a price of 9.90 EUR! (snx)
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10.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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Protovision: New C64 online shop
With Protovision a new C64 only online shop has opened its doors. The offers include for example a 4 player interface, a PS/2 adapter and a turbo board or an option to use IDE hard disks. (snx)
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10.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Review Journal (Las Vegas) reported about the new offices for Genesi USA
In the issue of November the 20th 2003 the Review Journal from Las Vegas, USA included a feature about the planned office for Genesi USA (amiga-news.de reported).
The complete English article is to obtain by the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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10.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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Web: VooDoo-Amiga-News with new address
The Croatian website VooDoo-Amiga-News is now reachable by a new URL: VooDoo-Amiga.com. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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10.Dec.2003
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Magazine: CAM (Club Amiga Magazine) Christmas edition published
Yesterday the Christmas edition of the "Club Amiga Magazine" has been published.
There are some interesting details regarding the OS4 status update. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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10.Dec.2003
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Aminet Uploads until December the 10th 2003
These are the latest Aminet uploads since our last report:
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1e
PluginDemo.lha dev/c 11K+V1.1 plugin demo using LoadSeg
Annotate.lha dev/cross 44K+Comments/reformats DASMX 2650 cross-disa
insomnia092.lha dev/e 307K+E Source Editor 0.92
insomnia093upd.lha dev/e 81K+E Source Editor 0.93 update from 0.92
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.7M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 11/2003 (Itali
nocover117.lha docs/mags 2.1M+Great german diskmagazine
RXDraughts.lha game/board 445K+(2.3) WB Draughts game for Amiga
DC2Lvl-XmasIII.lha game/data 398K+81 levels for Diamond Caves II
TotalChaosAGA.lha game/misc 39M+640x512 256 colors 50fps Magic & Monster
WormWars.lha game/misc 539K+Worm Wars 7.71: Advanced snake game
GIFsplit.lha gfx/conv 25K+Splits GIF animations into individual GI
ADC-WinUAE.lha hard/hack 11K+ADC For Amiga Forever 5, WinUAE, GPL.
TestGear6A.lha hard/hack 190K+Encoder for RF engineers.
TestGear6B.lha hard/hack 516K+WinUAE version of Encoder.
WinUAE-AFW.lha hard/hack 69K+AF Wattmeter, for use with WinUAE-ADC.
Paradox4.mpg mods/mpg 2.3M+Paradox Crack Tune Remaked ....
Paranoimia.mpg mods/mpg 804K+Paranoimia Crack Tune Remaked ....
Tristartetr.mpg mods/mpg 1.7M+Tristar Tetris Crack Tune Remaked ....
viruscommands.lha mus/midi 111K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields
MrCarlitoWb-06.jpg pix/wb 314K+First FREEWARE full PNG icons replaceman
xadmaster020.lha util/arc 264K+V12.1a Powerful unarchiving tool (68020)
xadmaster060.lha util/arc 264K+V12.1a Powerful unarchiving tool (68060)
IRS-GLMatrix.lha util/blank 979K+Port of glmatrix from xscreensaver
SRename.lha util/cli 105K+Advanced rename utility. Version 3.8.0
MathLibs881.lha util/libs 11K+Free 68881/2 math-libraries with source,
ARxShellEngDoc.lha util/rexx 152K+English help file (update) for ARexxShel
ARxShellV1.2a.lha util/rexx 99K+A shell for ARexx V1.2a
mmscripts.lha util/rexx 20K+Arexx Scripts for Logitech Keyboards
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Dec.2003
SPIEGEL Online (ANF)
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SPIEGEL: Motorola-Handy MPX200: Windows Inside
»As first manufacturer of cell phones Motorola has developed a cell phone
working with software from Microsoft. It is a cell phone that is nicer from
the outside than the inside.«
Read the complete article (German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)
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09.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistant: First screenshot published
This project should enable in future the installation of drivers with automatical
hardware recognition on the Amiga.
News
A first screenshot of the program "HardwareAssistent", that recognizes and installs
new hardware on system boot, can be admired here.
If possible a first version of this program will be available before Christmas 2003.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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09.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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Graphic program: ProChart published
Dan Ritchie has released two gfx programs on his website,
that are not really spread.
ProChart is a gfx application comparable with a Visio concept. It is coded completely in Assembler
and very system friendly - also UAE was a tested system.
A second program is an icon editor available for download. This one offers different export functions
and is able to take over bitmaps of screens into classic Amiga screenmodes.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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08.Dec.2003
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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Antivirus program: VirusExecutor V2.33 and PatchBrain V1.53
Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.33 of VirusExecutor and version 1.53 of PatchBrain.
Download
Changes since last version: 2.33
- This version wont upload new updates of the xadmaster.library when
there are changes in the XAD/ drawer and not the library itself.
- Version 2.32a would get uploaded from v2.32 cause the fix was made in
v2.32a... So I hope v2.33 will fix all those problems :)
PS! You have to run the update twice the first time for VE to remember.
- Also fixed bug after added catalogs to the update.. Some xad text was
was printed as xfd...
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Dec.2003
EMBYTE GbR (ANF)
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New AmiDynDNS version 1.19
The Amiga DynDNS client AmiDynDNS is released as the new version 1.19 and may be downloaded for free from our download area as usual.
Changes in v1.19:
- Web based IP detection works again. This error caused the up2date check of hosts to fail and to get some of these hosts blocked.
- EMail, snailmail and WWW addresses updated.
- Now the logfile gets also entries for skipped (because up2date) hosts.
- Tooltype MINUTES now accepts values between 2 and 3600 minutes (3600 minutes == 24 hours).
- Default of update interval changed to 30 minutes.
- Timer now shows remaining time as HH:MM:SS.
- If ADD is paused the status line now shows "Paused..." and if it's resumed again the status shows "Ready...".
Changes in v1.18:
- Rarely happened error in the authentification fixed.
- Internal IP detection for OS4 modified.
DynDNS.org is a service which provides one or more static hostnames to users with dynamic IP addresses for free to easily make webserver, FTP server, etc. available to other users. For further information visit the website of DynDNS.org directly please.
(snx)
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08.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Equality: unpublished game now available as ADF
An ADF file of the game 'Equality' is now available at the title link.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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07.Dec.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: VHI Studio 6.01 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 6.0 of
VHI Studio to V6.01 is now available for download.
Changes include:
- adaptions to MorphOS: support for the MorphOS skinsystem
- adaptions to MorphOS: speed-increase
- support for new drivers
- the VHIStudio assign is now longer needed
- Bugfixes
A detailed list of changes can be found in the update archive.
VHI Studio 6 is currently available at a special price of 29.99 EUR. (nba)
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06.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (website)
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Screensaver: GlMatrix ported
Steen Lund Nielsen has ported "GlMatrix" from the XScreensaver package to the Amiga.
The archive (1 MB) contains a 68k and a WOS version for PowerUp accelerators. Required is a fast processor, a 3D graphics card, Warp3D v4 and AmigaOS 3.5.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Dec.2003
www.technoids.de (ANF)
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Magazine: Technoids issue #4 available
Now available is the issue #4 of the PDF magazine Technoids for BeOS fans.
Despite the magazine's undeniable main focus is the term "Amiga" used several times and the topics this time contain in coincidence the second part of a BeUAE workshop and an introduction of the Pegasos forum.
Further contents of the 4th issue are among other things a review of Zeta, a report about how things are on the BeOS market and a report about the BeGeistert 011.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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05.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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Pegasos: Linux-Kernel 2.4.23 available
Since December 2nd you can download the Linux-Kernel 2.4.23 for the Pegasos under the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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Golem: Genesis PPC-Board Pegasos II ready - 64-Bit-board will follow
Under the title link Golem reports about the completion of the Pegasos II and the
planned cooperation between Genesi and IBM concerning a 64-bit-work station:
"Genesi has announced that its new PowerPC mainboard "Pegasos II" is now available which
is supposed to have more performance in connection with G3 and G4 processors.
Furthermore Genesi works on a 64-bit-work station together with IBM which is based on
the new PowerPC-970 processor which the G5-Mac also contains."
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
whoosh (ANF)
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RPM-4.0-Port: Archive-Extraction of current RPM-files on the Amiga
Under the title link
you can find an Amiga port of RPM 4.0 which is based on ixemul.
As against the existing RPM tool version 2.2.9 from the Aminet you can now extract
files out of more current RPM packets on the Amiga as you can find in the Linux world
above all. Only the database components are not supported. You need at least a 68020.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Eyetech: Possible extensions for the MicroA1
In a comment on AmigaWorld Eyetech delivers further details to the MicroA1.
According to it a three times PCI-Riser-card as well as an extension slot are planned
as extensions for the MicroA1.
This seperate extension slot is meant to offer a possibility for improved input and
output functions if PCI cannot be used.
Furthermore there would be the possibility of installing 256 MB RAM on the mainboard.
The graphic chip could be a cheap Radeon chip.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Merregnon (Website)
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Merregnon: Videos, Photos and special offers
Merregnon is more than an Audio CD of musicians from the demo and game scene but
also an unique soundtrack to an impressive fantasy saga. The second part of Merregnon
is still in progress.
There are three new MPEG video clips which show the preparation of the musicians, the
performance of the track "Enraged Phantoms" and details to the composition of "Sedulous Escape".
(Clip 1,
Clip 2,
Clip 3)
You can find several new photos of the sessions in the
download area
of the Merregnon website.
As a special surprise the Merregnon team and the distributor offer
Mondschatten
for the special price of 9.99 Euro.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Updates
The amount of demo production of the Amiga Demoscene Archives (ADA) was highly increased
during the last weeks. The following demos and intros were added:
- Planet Potion by Potion (1. place in Intro-competition
of Mekka Symposium 2002 and current leader in the A.D.A.-charts)
- Invitation None by Sonik Clique (4. place in Demo-competition
of Gathering 1998; Code by Spite and Devotion, music and
graphics by Fndr)
- Blur by Sonik Clique (3. place in Intro-competition of
Assembly 1995; Code by Deflector, music by Oxide, graphics by Murk)
- Option by Potion (1. place in Intro-competition of
Mekka-Symposium 2001)
- Phrase by Absurd (participant of Intro-competition of Satellite
1998; Code by Sante, graphics by Budgie and Cooper, music by Marc)
- Edit 0.5 by Haujobb (1. place in Intro-competition of Assembly
1998; Code by Speedo, music by Muffler, graphics by Bay Tremore)
- Deus Ex Machina by Limited Edition (3. place in Demo-competition
of Gathering 1997; Code by PG, music by Jazz and graphics by
Skize, Skutt and MRK)
- Psychedelic by Virtual Dreams and Fairlight (2. place in
Demo-competition of Party 1994; Code by Dr. Skull, graphics by
Ra and Alien, music by Probe and Julius)
- Visible World by Madwizards and Venus Art (slideshow, published
on the Rush Hours 1998)
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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USB: Thylacine-special price action in December
Thylacine is a USB-1.1-controller for the Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000
(AmigaOS 3.9 is recommended). In December 2003 the card is offered during
a special action of
Boing! International for
90 AUD$ (Australian Dollar) without postage and delivery.
Before buying this card it is recommended to find out if existing or planned hardware
is usable with it.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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DENIC: Germany is World Champion at the amount of websites
According to a report of the OECD in Germany 84.7 websites come on 1000 inhabitants
(end 2002). It follow Denmark with 71.7 and Norway with 66.4.
As a reason it is said that it is very cheap and simple to create a website in Germany.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2003
Diverse
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Software-News (05.12.2003)
In the last weeks several software updates have been published. We will inform you briefly.
Worm
Wars v7.71a
The Snake-clone Worm Wars from Amigan Software was published in version
7.71a for AmigaOS and Windows. Since the last version several improvements
have been made.
Smart
Filesystem v1.212
SFS is an alternative filesystem for the Classic AmigaOS which is known despite
its beta status for its high writing, reading searching speed.
The maximum size of files is 2 gigabyte, the maximum size of a partition is 1024 gigabyte.
CopyIcon v0.9
CopyIcon is a little MUI-tool for copying PNG-icons which has been published by its
developer Mariusz Barczyk in version 0.9 for MorphOS
as Freeware.
JabberWocky
Jabber is
an open XML-protocol for the direct exchange of messages over
the IM-services AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo. Roger Clark and Jeff Gilpin have
published a new ARexx-script that can switch between a visible and invisible ICQ status. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Dec.2003
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Genesi selects IBM PowerPC for Performance-intensive Pegasos Release
Genesi today announced a new, PowerPC®-based, modular MicroATX mainboard release that brings flexibility and efficient processing power to performance-intensive applications, including desktops, workstations, servers, and communications products.
This latest MicroATX board is the most powerful and cost-effective hardware foundation for Genesi's popular Pegasos platform, with over 1,000 users in 34 countries around the world.
The new motherboard features an IBM PowerPC 750CXe microprocessor and supports industry standards software such as Open Firmware, and multiple operating systems including distributions of Linux and BSD.
"Genesi's new PowerPC-based computer brings effective and flexible processing power to the desktop, low-end server, firewall and pervasive space at an affordable price", said Bill Buck, CEO of Genesi.
Looking forward, Mr. Buck also revealed that Genesi would be working closely with IBM to release a 64-bit Pegasos workstation in 2004, based on the new IBM PowerPC 970 microprocessor.
"Today's Pegasos release is a starting point that will enable all the operating systems developed for the PowerPC environment to begin to move in this direction with confidence and purpose", he explained.
The new Pegasos platform is also the core for Genesi's first commercial product designed to support the increasingly-important security infrastructure requirements of Fortune 1000 companies and large institutions.
The Pegasos Guardian provides: border protection of networks; proactive protection of network assets; and logging and auditing of suspicious network traffic.
"IT Managers must know exactly what is happening on their networks, and why", said Buck. "The Guardian gives you a very high level of control and the new MicroATX board provides the performance platform for them to achieve this."
Choice of the PowerPC environment enhances the security that Guardian offers: "Much of the office and network IT infrastructure in use today is x86-based", explained Buck. "The Guardian runs on a different processor platform and is not as susceptible to the common buffer overflows that are the main entry point for security breaches." Any element of security begins with people, procedure and enforcement, but with tools such as the Guardian IT Managers can audit and build their own code. Customers need a total security posture, and this is one component of a total security system.
Genesi developed the Guardian with partners ShopIP (www.shopip.com) and Diginexus (www.diginexus.com). The interface design and border-level protection is based on the acclaimed ShopIP Crunchbox.
Proactive protection is based on the security scanning features of Nessus (www.nessus.org) and the internal invisible IDS scanning features were developed and contributed by Diginexus.
Buck added, "this collaborative effort is an example of the partnerships we expect to develop in the months ahead and indicative of the many and varied potential uses for an open, powerful and efficient hardware platform."
"IBM has worked closely with Genesi and its partners to ensure that the Pegasos platform can be configured to cover the rich variety of applications over multiple operating systems that Genesi and its partners are developing", said Ray Bryant, Director PowerPC Products at IBM Microelectronics. "The integration of the IBM PowerPC 750CXe offers developers further opportunities to extend Pegasos' use into the evolutionary path we have chartered for the PowerPC."
Based on industry standards, such as Open Firmware, the Pegasos supports multiple operating systems including varieties of Linux and BSD. The Pegasos platform also comes with Genesi's own non-UNIX, Quark-based MorphOS. Recent releases supported on the Pegasos include OpenBSD 3.4 and Debian-Installer Beta 1.
Buck added, "in the meanwhile, the strategic value of moving to a Linux Desktop is becoming increasing clear and a migration to Linux has begun. Every major commercial or non-commercial version/distribution of Linux on the market today runs on the Pegasos, including SuSE and the Novell® Nterprise Linux Service package. Getting on the network with the Pegasos Guardian and on the desktop with the Pegasos, now and in the future with the PowerPC 970, places Genesi at the forefront of these major market developments."
Genesi has served the computer hobbyist since the first Beta release of the Pegasos in 2002. Trialed and tested by over 1000 users in 34 countries, enthusiasts have configured the Pegasos in variety of fashions with over a dozen different operating systems. The Pegasos was awarded the Amiga Award 2002 by Falke Media Verlag and recently, the Pegasos was acclaimed as the future home of the Linux desktop by German Linux site PPCNUX.
The Pegasos-Guardian will make its public debut with ShopIP and Diginexus at Infosecurity 2003, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, December 8-11, Booth 126 and be distributed by Pegasos Resellers worldwide through the IBM Global Solutions Directory.
Genesi's "Ready for IBM Technology"-validated Pegasos systems signal the advancement of the IBM 750CXe PowerPC microprocessor family into the broader global marketplace for embedded industrial controls, military, multimedia, consumer electronic appliances, blade servers, thin client systems, storage, networking, firewalls, and communication applications. With leading edge CPU bus speed capabilities and enhanced AGP, PCI-X, SDRAM and DDR support, the combination of the Marvell Discovery II chipset and IBM PowerPC 750CXe processors offers a most desirable solution to the performance-intensive applications marketplace.
Genesi is an IBM Business Partner and carries the Ready for IBM Technology mark on five of its products, the Pegasos Guardian, Pegasos, PegXLin, MorphOS, and OpenBSD for Pegasos. The basic Pegasos featuring the IBM PowerPC processor can be purchased online for 299 Euros at http://www.pegasosppc.com while the Pegasos-Guardian is priced between 5000 and 15000 Euros depending on the configuration and the associated service contract. Genesi is based in Luxembourg and can be found on the Web at http://www.genesi.lu. Details on the Pegasos Guardian are presented at http://www.pegasosppc.com/guardian.php.
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04.Dec.2003
Gunther Nikl (ANF)
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Aminet: New Versions of BMPdt and xpkGZIP
New versions of BMP-Datatypes (V40.16, 42 kB) and the XPK Module xpkGZIP (V1.2, 74 kB) have appeared on Aminet. Both are by Gunther Nikl.
XpkGZIP 1.2 makes use of zlib 1.1.4 and was ported with GCC 3.3. Through GCC 3.3 xpkGZIP got about 11% faster at compressing.
BMPdt now uses inline-assembler for little -> big endian adjusting. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Dec.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Update of Access Virus MIDI Commands for Tracks&Fields
The VirusOS from Krister "Kicko" Skrtic's Tracks&Fields Amiga Page has reached version 6.5 and is now available for download. According to the author Virus now sounds stronger like MiniMoog, and there is a deeper dimension to the tonality.
The changes include an update of Filt1 mode as well as the implementation of four new values. The update is being offered because Kicko still uses Tracks&Fields, until HDRec is ready. After that all commands will be utilized by HDRec. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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Merchant: Datakompaniet Creates a Webshop
The Norwegian Amiga merchant Datakompaniet has completely revised its homepage and implemented an online webshop. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Dec.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Update Of DVDRTools
DVDRTools
has been reworked. The following changes were made:
- The text of the homepage was brought up to date
- All instructions for DVDRTools are now in HTML format
- DVDRTools has been recompiled with GCC3.3, something that should provide for cleaner code, and from there on shrink the size of the executable by about 70%, because of the reduction of debugging code
- The GUI ToastDVD has also been updated and now not only works with DVDRTools alone but also with the other programs of DVDRTools. With this DVDRTools becomes almost as easy to use as MakeCD or BurnIT, it's just that you can do the same stuff with DVDR support
Further, I am now working on a solution to overcome the 2 GB limit, but that's not quite ready yet. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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03.Dec.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #062
After the homepage of the scene group Liquid Skies is reachable again they published
their 62nd music package today.
It contains a trance tune by the musician Maxus and the fitting CD cover for this track.
Title: Dream World
Musician: Maxus
Style: Trance
Playing time: 3:31
Format: mp3 @128kbps
Size: 3.3 MB
The zipped file is available for download by the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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03.Dec.2003
Commodore Gebruikers Groep
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HCC days: Photos by the Commodore Gebruikers Groep
The Dutch user group Commodore Gebruikers Groep has pushed some photos of their attendace at the HCC days online. That event is the biggest of its kind within the Benelux countries. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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New version of the ASFS Linux dirver
The ASFS file system driver for Linux by Marek Szyprowski is now available as a public beta 1.0 beta 1. With this tool SmartFileSystem (sfs) partitons of the Amiga/MorphOS are accessable while running Linux. In the meantime it became possible not only to read these partitions but also to write to them, even this is still in an experimental stage.
The patch for the kernel source code of Linux is to obtain from the ASFS homepage:
asfs-1.0b1_patch_2.4.21.diff.gz
The author emphasizes that this is a beta version and there is no warranty that this driver works correctly. There is the possibility of system crashes or loss of data. The use of this tool is on your own risk, Marek Szyprowski is not responsible for any kind of damage.
He adds that he successful copied several gigabyte of data using this driver. Feedback of any kind is welcome by him.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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Music software: Protracker II under development
Ruben Monteiro currently works on ProTracker II, a successor to the original family of the Soundtracker (SoundTracker, NoiseTracker, ProTracker). The Portuguese programmer estimates a release date for March next year. There is support for MorphOS and Windows, versions for OS4 or AROS are not confirmed yet.
According to the author these will be the features:
User interface
- 16 bit screen or window mode
- Attractiv OS independent GUI (screen shot)
- Shortcuts and layout in the known classical style
- Skinable
- (MorphOS) AHI support
Music processor
- Internal mixing in 32 Bit
- 8-tap-FIR-resampling (close to perfect quality)
- Loads: MOD, MOD2, DBM, XM, IT, S3M, MED, MT2
- Saves: MOD, MOD2, XM
- Direct hard disk recording up to a quality of 32bit, 44kHz, stereo
- 64 tracks
- 256 patterns / positions
- 8/16 bit mono/stereo samples of unlimited size
- Separate volume / panning / effect parameter for each track
Miscellaneous
- (MorphOS) full native PowerPC program
- Freeware (no adverts or upgrades to "professional" versions)
- It's ProTracker ;)
Ideas and constructive critics are welcome by the author, he is to reach by mailing to
ruben@amiga.org.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Dec.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 24
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 24 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) BobC: Can you tell us what third party software companies or individuals are interested in writing or actually are writing software for OS4 on the A1? If you can't say who they are, perhaps, what types of third party software is being developed?
Fleecy: I can only tell you of those that have publicly committed to writing for AmigaOS4.0 since the others are either still looking into it or are developing but do not wish to make an announcement yet.
Those that are publicly committed are
Ibrowse
Pagestream
AudioEvolution
CandyFactory 2
Tales of Tamar
VBCC
WordMeUp
Hyperion have also committed to creating AmigaOS4.0 versions of their games and have a licence to develop DirectoryOpus for AmigaOS4.0.
Several other companies have said that when a more complete developer SDK is available and/or when the market size becomes clearer, then they will take another look.
There are likely to be quite a few surprise products turning up as well but as I said, for a number of reasons the companies involved are not willing to announce publicly at this time.
2) Uncharted: Will the new "AG2 services" change the way AmigaOS works from a user's perspective? Will things like devices, system structure (C: DEVS: LIBS: ENVARC: etc.), and UI paradigms be changed?
Fleecy: Initially no but with the introduction of a resources and services architecture, it will change. This architecture internalises the implementation and publicly presents a semantic abstraction. AmigaOS4.0 presents a half way house with its use of interfaces called against libraries. However, because the access is via a semantic abstraction, it will be possible for a user to create a relationship that makes it look like the old organisation model, if they so desire.
As for the interactive environment, we have looked at all that is good in the existing interface as well as all is bad. We are bringing a workflow analysis to this area and, whilst you will be able to recognise elements from previous implementations, there will be a lot that is new and (we hope) better. The whole solution will allow the user to eventually build their own interface so if you want to go back to AmigaOS3.9 Workbench, it should be possible.
3) Shep: A while ago on here I suggested that Amiga could use affiliate marketing, similar to amazon, for marketing the new Amiga. I would gladly join such a scheme when I have my new website sorted out (which will be appropriate because of its theme), what do you think Fleecy?
Fleecy: I think it is a very good idea. We have a lot of ideas ourselves which are partly a reaction to the situation we find ourselves in at the moment. Getting the good news about Amiga's rebirth out into the world is going to be top priority and, as we found at the Micromart show and, as has been proved over the past six months, our user groups are going to be crucial in that process.
4) DaveP: Hi there Fleecy, would you rather do this monthly? ;-)
Fleecy: At least it wouldn't be late all the time ;-)
5) GregS: Are there any plans with including in OS4-4.2 a XML Signature generator?
Fleecy: XML will play a big part in AG2, so yes.
6) Asemoon: There is much concern within the industry about monopoly OS companies abusing their position to make it hard or near impossible to replace components with alternatives. This has never been the case with AmigaOS' design. Will this modularity and freedom continue with future releases?
Fleecy: Very much so. With a resource and services architecture it would be hard to do otherwise.
7) prmetime: 1. When the A1/zico spec was first announced, a partnership with Matrox was announced fairly soon thereafter. I have yet to see any Matrox drivers or chips on hardware to this point. Is Matrox still a partner and will their graphics chipsets be supported?
Fleecy: Matrox are still a partner and, with SNAP coming on board, we will have an excellent set of drivers for Matrox boards. Given that 3D is not currently the forte of Matrox, then we will be concentrating on other, more appropriate products.
8) GregS: Are there any plans (beyond OS4.0) to add to the Amiga some simple and easy to maintain and control Multi-User-Profile system for the AmigaOS?
Fleecy: Yes but it will require the foundations to change first for the data storage and organisation services. That is something that will appear early in AG2.
9) The_Editor: We recently had, what seemed to be a high profile visitor to AW.net expressing his frustration at not being able to find anyone "high enough" to talk to about developing for DE. Due to a lack of information, he is taking his idea elsewhere. Who do we direct such enquiries to in future and what steps would Amiga Inc take to see this calamity is not repeated ?
Fleecy: This is clearly very worrying. I did not receive any information about him and there is supposed to be a requests process on the Amiga Anywhere website. I shall look into this as a matter of urgency.
10) jurassiccamper: Alan has mentioned that earlybird owners may get an installable OS4 beta by christmas. How will this be distributed?
Fleecy: It won't be a beta per se but a pre-release that will not be supported directly. Amigaworld have already expressed an interest in becoming a forum for support and feedback of information generated from the pre-release. As for the format for distribution I believe we are currently considering a downloadable ISO image to be burnt to a CD via Debian.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=25
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: ub)
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02.Dec.2003
Maja (ANF)
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Safety hole in Linux-Kernel makes Debian attackable
At the end of November there are hacker attacks on the open source project Debian Linux.
Those attacks were possible because of holes in the Linux centre. You can get more information
because of this theme on the TweakPC-website under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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02.Dec.2003
Golem (Website)
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Golem: PNG Second Edition becomes W3C-Specification
The World Wide Web consortium has decided the Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Second Edition for the W3C-recommendation as standard. Please read the complete
text at the online news-service Golem under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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02.Dec.2003
Felix Schwarz (E-Mail)
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IOSPIRIT: fxSCAN 4.05 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 4.0,
4.01, 4.02, 4.03 and 4.04 of fxSCAN to V4.05 is now available for
download.
Changes include:
- PNG-support (loading and saving)
- the saving format last used is reused
- MorphOS-adaptions: support for the MorphOS-skinsystem
- MorphOS-adaptions: WarpUP-warning does no longer appear
- multiple starts will switch to the already running application
- bugfixes
A detailed list of changes can be found in the update archive.
fxSCAN 4 is currently available at a special price of 29,00 EUR. (nba)
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