08.Nov.2003
amiga.org (website)
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AmigaDE: interview with Jim Wingard from Omniscience
The American Amiga users club NCSCAUG has interviewed Jim Wingard, developer of the AmigaDE title "Lexical IQ" that is part of the first "GamePak" by Amiga Inc.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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08.Nov.2003
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Genesi: OpenBSD / participation in Infosecurity 2003
As Genesi announced in a press release the Pegasos OpenBSD version has now been integrated into the official OpenBSD source tree.
The company also stresses the significiance of OpenBSD, for the time being available in version 3.4, for installations that need a high security level and then pointed out the participation of Genesi at the booth of ShopIP Security Solutions at the InfoSecurity 2003 fair in New York from December, 8th to December, 11th. They'll show the Pegasos II running OpenBSD 3.4 there.
Soon would the Pegasos be available configured as a "Crunchbox Pegasos" that could be sold to distributed network clients as "super firewall".
Genesi's OpenBSD Pegasos site can be found under ODC.PegasosPPC.com.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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08.Nov.2003
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Magazine: Club Amiga Magazine #10 released, old article now free available
The issue #10 (November 2003) of the Club Amiga Magazine has been released today, the article "Roadshow" by Olaf Barthel of the previous issue has been released for non-members now.
Content of the current issue:
AmigaOS 4 Update, Bits of Heaven, Pagestream Past Present Professional Publishing, Game Frenzy, Backdrops R Us, My AmigaOne Adventure, The Australian Roadshow - Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, User Group Spotlight, Members' Corner, Letters
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08.Nov.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Video: Report from the C64-Party "VISION 2003"
In a new installment of their Live-series Virtual Dimension present a report about the C64-party VISION 2003. Newest C64 hard- and software, party-athmosphere and interviews with the wrights - all that and even more awaits you in this more-than-20-minute-long video.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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08.Nov.2003
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New Linux game ports by Epic Interactive and Hyperion Entertainment
Linux Game Publishing announced to publish three game ports by Epic Interactive and Hyperion Entertainment for Linux.
The games to be ported are Gorky 17 by Hyperion Entertainment as well as Knights & Merchants and Software Tycoon by Epic Interactive. (snx)
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07.Nov.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future 45 published
Today issue 45 (November/December 2003) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" has been
published.
Besides a test of the MPlayer and a preview of Realms of Power and Trilero you can find
in this issue reports about OASE 2003 or the Benelux Show.
On the current CD you can find much PD-software, the video of the Benelux Show as well as
the full version of Foundation - The Directors Cut.
You can find a detailed list of the contents on the homepage of the magazine.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2003
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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CD-Tools: First publishing of "3CaDo"
"3CaDo" is a collection of CD-tools which contains the following programs:
- ViCaDo supports you making
VideoCDs: With this program you can make (super-) VideoCD images.
- AiCaDo supports you making
AudioCDs: With this program you can make (MP3-) AudioCD images. This program is still
under development.
- DiCaDo supports you making
DataCDs: With this program you can make (ISO-) DataCDs. This program is still planned.
Christian Effenberger was not going to publish the sites. But because his Amiga has
currently some problems and Christian has not any access to the CD burner the development
of 3CaDo is highly questionable.
Because he do not know how long it takes until his computer works fine again he wants
to give the Amiga community that part which is already completed.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Sponsoring and price-reduced full versions at Alchimie 3
The Alchimie 3, taking place from the 8th to the 10th of November 2003 in Tain l'Hermitage, will be sponsored with prizes by IOSPIRIT. Furthermore, it will be possible to buy updates and price-reduced full versions through a cooperation with A.P.S..
IOSPIRIT wishes all visitors and for the whole event a lot of fun and success! (snx)
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07.Nov.2003
Anton Preinsack (ANF)
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OS4: News on the progress by Thomas Frieden
In the forum of amigaworld.net, Thomas Frieden ("EntilZha") delivered insight into the current version of OS4 or on its progress, respectively. At the same time, a newly integrated feature was announced which - if anything proceeds well - would be shown this weekend as a surprise in France.
The main statements at a glance:
Graphics system:
"We're still working on the graphics system. The originally anticipated 2-3 weeks where of course 2-3 weeks of full-time work, but as always, something else comes your way and you have to rest some work and give priority to other..."
Drivers/PPC-Modules:
"Things are slowly falling into place now. A lot of people are currently working on AmigaOne drivers (that's one of the biggest projects, anyway). And of course, everybody is still working on bits & pieces. Browsing through the recent upload notification mails on our beta list, I see some new PPC-native datatypes, several bugfixes to existing components (most of them are PPC now), some new PPC modules (not a lot... did I mention that most of them are PPC now, anyway ? I think I have only 4 68k modules remaining on my work installation, one of them graphics.library)."
Kernel:
"One of the new "kernel" related features is a new ramlib (that's the component that is used to bring libraries into memory from disk): You might know that this is a prime candidate for crashing to do flakey library initialisation code. The new ramlib is now multi-threaded, meaning that the opening of libraries will be done in sub-processes. If one of those crashes, it's just removed by the mother process, improving system stability a lot.
Additionally, the latest exec includes a new memory tracking facility: You can now find out for each memory location if it's been allocated at all, and who allocated it. Very useful if you're debugging a program, or want to throw away all memory allocated by a given task." (snx)
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06.Nov.2003
Sylvio K (ANF)
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Horror Game: New Soms3D Screenshots Online
New screenshots of the game "Secret of my Soul 3D" (Soms3D) have been released, a few of which demonstrate new characteristics of the game engine.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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06.Nov.2003
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MorphOS: Mencoder Version 0.91
Version 0.91 of the MorphOS port of the program
Mencoder is ready for download, thanks to Nicolas Det.
This program is a video encoder, which can also rip VCDs and DVDs.
Download (1.47MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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06.Nov.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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New Pegasos Web Portal Opens: Pegasos-ITALIA
Pegasos communities have been established in many countries around the globe, among them Sweden, the USA, France, Finland and Portugal, and now also one for Italian enthusiasts: At the URL http://www.pegasos-italia.com/ (title link) you'll reach "Pegasos-ITALIA", a new Italian Pegasos portal. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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06.Nov.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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Game: Tamar Needs a New Continent!
It is on us once more. In November 2003 the world of Tamar will contain a new continent. With 280 players the existing parts of Tamar have become full.
Every time this happens Tamar is expanded with further sections. This is an ideal time to jump in the game! Start with 20 to 50 other new testers, and struggle on the same terms in this part of Tamar.
The new territories will next be partitioned off from the other parts of Tamar, allowing the possibility of development independent of the old Lords. Who will be the victor? Who has the best strategy?
We're seeking free testers for Macintosh and PC.
By 15th November, a new version of the PC client that alleviates the slow start time will have appeared. The exact features may be read in the update text.
Tales of Tamar is a PBEM round-based online strategy game (PBEM =
Play By E-Mail) from Eternity, in which you take over the leadership of a people, in a manner similar to the games Kaiser and Civilization, and in which you compete in commerce, diplomacy, and battle to bring your land to riches and glory and honor. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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05.Nov.2003
Richard Ames
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Health: MouseBean Ergonomic Hand Rest
An independent study has shown that three
out of four computer mouse users suffering
from workrelated
upper limb disorders (WRULDs) and painful
hands and wrists, found their symptoms
alleviated after only two weeks of using
the MouseBean Ergonomic Hand Rest. This
is important
news for the increasing number of computer
users suffering from WRULDs and for businesses
losing millions of working days each year
when sufferers have to take time off work
to recover from
these disabling conditions.
The independent study was conducted by John Ridd,
a consultant ergonomist specialising in
workplace design and musculoskeletal disorders. A
mixed group of typical computer mouse users
with self-reported hand, wrist and upper limb
musculoskeletal disorders, tested the MouseBean
Hand Rest in an office environment.
After using the MouseBean Hand Rest for only two
weeks, three out of four users found it effective
at reducing the symptoms of WRULDs. At the end of
the test phase, 85% of subjects said that they
would choose to continue using the MouseBean Hand
Rest if they could. John Ridd concludes:
"The study would suggest that, for many mouse users
suffering with hand or wrist pains,
there is a very real likelihood of reducing those
symptoms within two weeks of using the
MouseBean Hand Rest."
The MouseBean Hand Rest is very different to regular
wrist rests - it uses two soft pads to support
the hand in comfort and the curved base lets you
glide on the mouse mat with a relaxed arm and
shoulder. The pads form a gap under the hand,
helping to reduce pressure in the wrist and
protect
the delicate median nerve from the dangers of
poor posture.
Commenting on the gel-filled wrist rests currently
on the market, John Crocker, managing director
of MouseBean Limited says: "Although they feel soft,
some gel-filled wrist rests may be doing
more harm than good! Research has shown that they
can actually increase pressure in the wrist and
lead to nerve damage! We believe that the MouseBean
Hand Rest is the first device of its kind to
have undergone a comprehensive evaluation and are
naturally delighted with the results of the
independent study. Whilst three out of four mouse
users suffering from WRULDs found their
symptoms alleviated, we have anecdotal evidence to
suggest that the device may be preventing the
onset of some symptoms as we have no reports of
customers developing new hand or wrist
conditions since fitting the device to their mouse.
In addition, the majority find it so comfortable to
use that they don't want to go back to using a mouse
without it."
The independent study shows that the MouseBean Hand
Rest is one of the simplest and most
effective ergonomic aids for mouse users; it converts
a regular mouse into an ergonomic mouse.
Available in a wide variety of attractive colours, the
MouseBean Hand Rest can be attached (with
the simple plug and socket device supplied) to most
regular mice. It can also be customised with a
logo or made to match corporate colours. To order, visit
the website under the title link and click `How to
Buy'. Retail price from £6.99. (nba)
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05.Nov.2003
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MorphOS: MPlayer-Update
The media player MPlayer is now available in version 0.91 for MorphOS and can be obtained from the MorphZone (1.6 MB).
Among other issues the reading of DVD´s is sped up, an MP3-Decoder, an anti screen saver system and MP4A support is added.
Nicolas Det writes: "It's the time to release MPlayer 0.91 for MorphOS! I hope you will enjoy it. Look in the readme file for list of the changes.
I would like to thank:
- Andre Siegel for very good looking icons
- Emanuel Steen for the documentation
- Sigbjørn Skjæret for many improvements and bugs fixed
- Harry Sintonen for many improvements and bugs fixed
- and all MorphOS users (including developers :-))"
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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05.Nov.2003
Heise Newsticker
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Heise: Microsoft provides a bounty for worm authors
As reported by the Heise Newsticker the software and game console developer
Microsoft is going to fight against the authors of computer worms like the
wide spread W32.Blaster and Sobig with some kind of bounty.
Hints which lead to an arrestment should be honored with up to 250,000 US$. Read the full (German) article by the title link. (cs) (Translation: ub)
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05.Nov.2003
ANN
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Articia S: Genesi and Hyperion gave information about the supposed "Bug"
During a discussion at the thread "Pegasos Italia" at ANN Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck by Genesi as well as Ben Hermans by Hyperion gave detailed information about the supposed bug of the Articia S northbridge for the first time.
Genesi published during that discussion protocol with which the problem should be reproduceable:
The following problem is given with the current Articia S versions:
The CPU interface fails to make all needed PCI to Memory transactions transparent to the CPU. This leads to failed (missed) snoop responses from the CPU in case of a modified cache line. The result may be a data corruption. The problem can be verified by creating a huge DMA load to the system.
1) Create a Linux partition with reiserfs using the IDE channel
2) Create a Linux partition with reiserfs using a 1394 (firewire) drive
3) Create any Linux partition (any device possible)
4) Enable DMA for IDE using 'hdparm'
5) Copy some data ~1-2GB using 1) and 2)
6) unmount 1)+2)
7) run the 'reiserfsck' tool using an endless shell script for 1)+2)
8) Start a ftp of a huge file (>memory+swap) using 3) and calculate a checksum for that file using an endless shell script
Be sure that the L2 cache of the CPU is enabled during your tests. Watch the results.
Required Resources
1 - Red Hat Linux Distribution 7.x
2 - IDE Hard Drives
1 - PCI Firewire Card
1 - 1394 Firewire Drive
Notes:
Line 1) - One IDE Drive for the O/S
Line 2) - Needs PCI Firewire Card, 1394 Firewire Card and SW Drivers for same
Line 3) - Configure partition on additional IDE Drive
Requires 2 weeks minimum full time effort (probably 3 weeks) for someone with advanced Linux configuration setup and test expertise.
Hyperions answer to this is:
"This 'so called' problem is the direct result of the Articia S's ability to handle memory access by the CPU and PCI bus.
This behavior reduces latency but is unknown in the Wintel world which is why the Linux drivers don't cater for it.
In the Wintel world either the CPU or the PCI busmaster is allowed to write to memory, not both at the same time.
MAI has been reworking the Linux drivers to cope with this and Hyperion has been aware of this feature for quite some time and has taken it into account when doing DMA capable drivers for the AmigaOne hardware.
[...]"
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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05.Nov.2003
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Novell's going to buy SuSE / IBM invests into Novell
As reported by CNN Money,
Novell is going to buy the German SuSE Linux
GmbH for about 210 millions US$. Additionally IBM is said to buy Novell shares for about 50 millions US$. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.Nov.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Event: Photos of the AmigaOne presentation in Beijing (Update)
In the last September Alan Redhouse, owner of the AmigaOne distributor Eyetech has presented
the plans of the company about the AmigaOne PPC systems on a big computer meeting in the Chinese
Beijing.
He demonstrated the AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne inside the meeting hall.
You can see some photos of this event on the website
and read a by Babelfish translated version of a news of the newspaper Guangming Daily online here.
Update:
The presentation Alan Redhouse used on a first meeting in the Far East in February 2003 is also available on the net. The presentation is available as Powerpoint file
and can be downloaded here.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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04.Nov.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #059
Liquid Skies has released the music pack #59. It contains a track from the musician Lcr and the cover
from Kuadziw.
Information about the track:
- Title: Psycho Being
- Artist: Lcr
- Style: Drum'n'Base
- Length: 3:19
- Format: mp3 (128kbps)
The zipped file (size: 3.1 MB) is available for download under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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04.Nov.2003
Amiga.org
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IBM wins the CPU contract for the Microsoft's X-BOX 2
Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp.'s Technology Group announced today (Nov. 3) that the next-generation
Xbox electronic game console will use a yet-to-be-designated IBM processor.
IBM's chip will replace Intel Corp.'s Pentium III processor now in the current Xbox version.
IBM is producing the chip for Nintendo's Gamecube and is developing the CPU for the Playstation 3
in cooperation with Sony.
Further information: EE Times
and Heise (German). (snx) (Translation: gf)
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03.Nov.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Software-Updates by Amigan Software
The shareware developers Amigan Software released updates for three programs.
Version 7.61 of the snake clone 'Worm Wars' is now available for AmigaOS and Windows.
A new version (5.76) of the freeware program 'Report+' has been released. The tool is based on ReAction/GadTools and requires AmigaOS 3.9. With the help of 'Report+' one can create for example Aminet readmes, replace the Commodore bug reporting tool or check the size (in bytes) of a directory.
Of Saga, a conversion of the board game "Saga: Age of Heroes" released in 1981 by TSR, a new version (1.34a) is now available.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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03.Nov.2003
Thore Böckelmann (ANF)
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System-Monitor: Scout Version 3.3
Thore Böckelmann released version 3.3 of the system monitor 'Scout'. 'Scout' offers you a closer look on current system resources and lets you manipulate them if possible.
Due to the fact that the list of changes is quiet long we recommend to read the changelog. The source code is no longer available as a seperate archive. The sources are now accessible via sourceforge.net as a public CVS repository.
The binary archive is also available in the Aminet.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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03.Nov.2003
Chris Hodges (Website)
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Poseidon: Unknown person spreads crack-instructions
As the author of Poseidon, Chris Hodges, informs on his website, someone spread instructions how to crack his USB stack on three mailing-lists yesterday.
According to Chris Hodges, this happened under the fake name "Dan Gaines" and, as a smokescreen, by using a freemailer in London as well as an anonymous proxy located in the UK. But the high amount of grammar mistakes in the posting would make it unlikely that this person was a native speaker. "Dan Gaines" would have been registered only a week ago, by which this seems to be a thoughtfully planned assault.
As the author states, the effects on the development of Poseidon are still to be considered - but the effect on his motivation would have been already devastating.
The further speculation by Chris Hodges regarding the background of this incident can be found on his website in the message from November 3. (snx)
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03.Nov.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #031031
The complete newsletter of October 2003 by Amiga Update can be found at the title link.
Contents:
- Amiga Shows in Ottawa, Canada, and near Valence, France
- Amizilla widens scope for prize
- STFax 5 goes freeware
- fxPAINT 2.02 Update available
- StarAM Plan Spreadsheed Update
- DVD Tools for Amiga
- PowerIcons 1.04 Release
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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03.Nov.2003
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Aminet Uploads bis 03.11.2003
New Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
ix2xml.lha comm/misc 25K+Microdot-II index file to XML converter.
ReadAIMLogs.lha comm/misc 41K+AmigAIM logfile to text converter. Sour
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 531K+Powerful WWW Gallery/Catalog Creator (A+
MCC_HotkeyStr.lha dev/mui 45K+HotkeyString custom class for MUI
AmiWBOnPegasos.lha docs/help 4K+How to install and run AmigaOS 3.9 Workb
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 61K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (26 Oc
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.7M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 10/2003 (Itali
Saga.lha game/board 330K+Saga 1.34a: Conversion of TSR boardgame
DC2Lvl-EMine2.lha game/data 454K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II
WormWars.lha game/misc 538K+Worm Wars 7.61: Advanced snake game
AS-FlowerGarde.lha game/think 202K+Windmill Solitaire Game
AS-Scottish.lha game/think 199K+Scottish Solitaire Game
AS-Windmill.lha game/think 168K+Windmill Solitaire Game
trilero68kb2.lha game/think 878K+Second beta version of trilero simulator
ArakAttack.lha hard/drivr 166K+V0.92 USB Driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
X-Media.lha hard/drivr 276K+Clean Software hack to see modes >1024x7
ADC-WinUAE.lha hard/hack 10K+ADC For Amiga Forever 5, WinUAE, GPL.
calculus.lha misc/math 315K+Mathematics Calculator
acidtake.mpg mods/mpg 10M+AcidTakeOver. Techno (MP3) tune from Emu
amphetarmx.mpg mods/mpg 9.2M+AmphetamineRMX. Techno/Trance/House (MP3
nofuture_Music.lha mods/synth 147K+Music Demos from Games
nofuture_Phase.lha mods/synth 147K+Music Demos from Games
EasyPlayer.lha mus/play 109K+The GUI for *all* shell-based music play
MiniPlayer16.lha mus/play 104K+Simple module player
PNGicons128x12.lha pix/icon 1.4M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons16x16.lha pix/icon 741K+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons22x22.lha pix/icon 209K+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons32x32.lha pix/icon 1.9M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons48x48.lha pix/icon 3.4M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons64x64.lha pix/icon 4.7M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons96x96.lha pix/icon 335K+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
USBStickPowerI.lha pix/icon 6K+A cool PowerIcon for USB MemorySticks
WHD-Icons.lha pix/icon 391K+Games icons for WHDload installs
AP24Covers.lha pix/misc 340K+AMiGa=PoWeR n 24 Covers Recto & Verso
mv_gfx.lha pix/wb 254K+NewGfX for Mysticview
SinisrusOS3.9.jpg pix/wb 531K+Screen Grab of OS 3.9 Workbench
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 357K+Complex dynamic buffer system, and other
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 308K+Report+ 5.76: Multipurpose utility
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 95K+Italian version of StartBar
Gyrok_PowerIco.lha util/wb 321K+Gyrok_PowerIcons
PowerIcons.lha util/wb 393K+NEW! 32bit PNG icons on your Amiga !!! (
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03.Nov.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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OS4-demonstrations in England in the middle of November (Update)
South Essex Amiga Link are pleased to announce that they will be demonstrating AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne at its next group meeting. The meeting will be held on Friday Nov. 14th, between 7 pm to 11 pm, in Basildon, Essex.
On Sunday 16th November SEAL will once more demonstrate AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne machine, by travelling to the Amiga North Thames group meeting, being held in Enfield, NE London, between the hours of 1 pm to 5 pm.
Both events are no shows, there will be no dealers and no speakers, but everyone is welcome, admittance is free.
For Venue directions please see:
SEAL: http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk
ANT: http://www.amiganorththames.co.uk
Update: The meeting in Enfield has been re-scheduled and will take place already on Nov. 9th. (snx)
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02.Nov.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack - USB driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version is now available. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version.
What is ArakAttack?
ArakAttack is an USB driver paket that allows the usage of USB on any AmigaOS
compatible system with PCI slots. ArakAttack isn't an USB stack, it's a driver
paket for Chris Hodges great USB Stack Poseidon.
What are the features of ArakAttack?
- Amithlon optimised version.
- OpenPCI compatible version.
- UHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- OHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- Unlimited number of USB controllers supported at the same time.
- Unlimited number of parallel USB transfers garantees maximum performance.
- Only one device with multiple units makes installation very easy.
- Intelligent transfer descriptor caching mechanism.
- Several user options allow an optimisation of resource management to the users requirements.
- Full mem handler support. (Frees resources and caches if the system signals low system memory)
- No HUB depth limits.
- Separate time out handling for each USB request garantees the driver never freezes the USB stack or the system.
- External interrupt fallback for systems with interrupt trouble.
What is also required to use ArakAttack?
The latest version of Chris Hodges' Poseidon USB Stack.
In addition to that other components are required:
Amithlon: powerpci.library - version 2.13 or better.
Amiga PCI / Pegasos: openpci.library - version V1.20 or better.
Which USB Controller is required for ArakAttack?
Most of the current USB controllers are supported. Just take care it's UHCI, OHCI or EHCI compatible. Well, you will have difficulties to find any other within the stores now.
Amithlon user may be happy to hear that on board USB controllers are working, too!
How can I register?
Well, currently the registration makes no sense, because ArakAttack is
quite useless without a registered USB Stack.
If you own a Poseidon key feel free to register. Further information can be
found in the manual.
PLEASE: Don't bother Chris Hodges with questions about registering Poseidon. He
is very busy at the moment, so please keep quiet until the registration site
will be up again.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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01.Nov.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: special anniversary sale of "Inga"
Because of the 5th anniversary of the Amiga Arena offers Inutilis Software
the graphics adventure developers package Inga in a limited number from now on at a price of 19,- Euro plus 2,- p&p.
This special edition of Inga will be delivered on a CD-ROM without a printed manual, a documentation is on the CD-ROM in HTML. The CD contains in addition an up-to-date quite big demo of "Ermentrud".
The order can be done via the Amiga Arena following the title link. This offer is limited to five CDs and only valid until November, 8th 2003! Special thanks go to Timo Kloss who made this sale possible. (nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Nov.2003
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Wrong Planet: Amiga news in a completely different way
Wrong Planet is an (English) satirical "News" service for Amiga users that draws a bead on all and everyone. People who have followed the soap opera "Amiga Market" in the last months with attention will surely have had fun with the numerous side-swipes.
Update:
URL changed.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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01.Nov.2003
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MorphOS: picture viewer "MiniShowPicture"
"MiniShowPicture" is a picture viewer for MorphOS based on MUI.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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01.Nov.2003
Murakami (ANF)
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Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR n°24 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French news magazine that is distributed by the gathering AFLE and counts since its debut in 1998 as one of the most important French Amiga publications. In the current issue #24 you can read among others the following articles:
- News: AmigaOS 4, Pegasos II, fxPAINT v2.02, GoldED Studio AIX
- Reviews: AmigaOne G4-XE, Spider II USB 2.0, AmiNetRadio v2.0, WHDLoad
v16.0, ScummVM v0.5.0, Duke Nukem3D
- and many more.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Nov.2003
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Magazine: Club Amiga Magazine #10 release on November, 8th 2003
The release day of issue #10 of the Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been postponed by one week by the editorial staff. The new issue will therefore be released on November, 8th 2003. (nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.Oct.2003
http://www.retrohq.de/shop (ANF)
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Printed reference-book: "Game machines"
In the shop of the retro specialist retrohq.de
there is a reference-book to the famous console and computer systems of the 80s.
You can find test sites under http://www.retrohq.de.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2003
heise online (Website)
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heise: Microsoft is going to take over Google
Today the New York Times reports that Microsoft is going to have a partnership or to
fully take over Google. You can only read the full article of the NYT under the title link
if you pay for it.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2003
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Pegasos website at OpenBSD.org online
By http://www.openbsd.org/pegasos.html, the Pegasos version of OpenBSD now also has its own page at the official OpenBSD website. Here you can find information about the current status of development, supported peripherals, the corresponding mailing list and the installation. (snx)
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31.Oct.2003
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: bchunk win32 - Official beta test
This is an official beta version of the Win32-port of binchunker which is also known as
bchunk. bchunk is an Unix-Shell command which allows you to extract ISO-images from
CUE/BIN-images. Besides this it is possible to extract audio tracks to the CD-audio-format
(.crd) or to the WAV-format (.wav).
The file is available under the title link (17kb). An Amiga version is still in work.
Please test this program with e.g. CD32-CDs which also contains audio tracks and test if
the WAV-files are correctly playable.
You can get the source code at inquiry.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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30.Oct.2003
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Icon Patch: PowerIcons 1.04
This new version of the icon patch "Power Icons" contains many bug fixes. The exact changes for version 1.04 are viewable in the Change Log.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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MAME: Version 0.72 for MorphOS Appears
The "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" (MAME) has progressively appeared in version 0.72 for MorphOS.
[see also starroms.com to purchase ROMs -DM]
Download (snx) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
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Titan is looking for translators for Papyrus Office
Titan Computer is looking for translators for their upcoming software Papyrus Office. A German, English and French localization does already exist. If you are interested to help, please send a short e-mail to Michael Garlich. (snx)
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30.Oct.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)
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Source Code Released of Civilization: Call to Power II
On 28th October 2003 Activision released for free the source code for the strategy game "Civilization: Call to Power II." It may be downloaded from the website of Apolyton . Because the hardware requirements are moderate, PC hardware with a speed of 166 MHz and memory of 64 megs, nothing should stand in the way technically of a port to Amiga OS or MorphOS. The 8 megs of source contain the main parts of the code necessary to do a port. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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Genesi adds four new patents to its intellectual property portfolio (Update)
Genesi announced today that four patents owned by Raquel Velasco will be included in the Genesi intellectual property portfolio.
Genesi will be free to both benefit from these patents in the development of products and license fees.
The patents are:
- US5561709: Apparatus and method for electronic device for information services (1996-10-01)
- US5561708: Method and apparatus for interactive television through use of menu windows (1996-10-01)
- US5504519: Method and apparatus for printing coupons and the like (1996-04-02)
- US5490208: Apparatus and method for voice mode and data mode television-to-television communication (1996-02-06)
You can see the abstracts in the fulltext database for US-patents.
Contact:
Genesi SARL
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
bbrv@genesi.lu
Update: In the official press-release at Genesi's website even seven patents are listed. In addition to those already mentioned above, there are, also owned by Raquel Velasco:
- US5461667: Apparatus and method for electronic device for information services (1995-10-04)
- US5404393: Method and apparatus for interactive television through use of menu windows (1995-04-04)
- US5396546: Apparatus and method for automatic and user configurable information appliance (1995-03-07)
(snx)
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30.Oct.2003
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AWeb: Status report
No, we're not dead. :-) People are busy doing other things and things are awfully quiet. However a few things have happened:
GCC conversion of AWeb APL Lite seems to be progressing, slowly but steadily. It was therefore decided that we still need another SAS/C version before finally moving to GCC as the wait has been too long already.
We are in need of a person who can compile the AWeb 3.4 APL sources in CVS with the patches that have been submitted by various people and help us go towards a 3.5 release. This needs to be done using SAS/C.
As for the new AWeb, progress on KHTML is going too slow, because the developers have too little time to work on it. If you are willing to give a hand in helping a modern HTML-browser onto the AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS platforms, contact me.
If you are wondering about our plans, the document which describes this is here. Be aware that the document is not entirely complete and is based on discussion on our developer mailing list. (snx)
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30.Oct.2003
Martin Steigerwald
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Amithlon: Martin Steigerwald No Longer at Haage & Partner
Martin Steigerwald posted on the mailing lists for Amithlon, AmithlonOpen, and AmigaXL that he doesn't work for Haage & Partner anymore, and is thusly no longer doing email support for Amithlon users. (cs) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
st-computer (Website)
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GamePlan's Second Offering: Joysticks - Game Controllers from 1972 to 2003
After the success of "GamePlan: Consoles and Home Computers" a new book from the publishing house Gameplan is coming this November: "JOYSTICKS, an Illustrated History of the Game Controller." In cooperation with Take 2, Winnie Forster and Stephan Freundorfer wrote a reference book for all gamers: Joysticks shows the best and coolest, the humblest and the most daring controllers from 30 years of computer and videogame history. From the classic Atari stick to the handy pads of Sega, Sony and Nintendo all the way to the optical precision equipment of the ego shooter and onwards, Joysticks awes, stuns, and amuses gamers of every generation. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Oct.2003
Zeit (ANF)
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Zeit.de: Programmers from all Lands Unite!
"Programmers from all Lands..." is an overview of the mobilization of the open source movement, a comparison of different ideological perspectives of software development and a short exploration of the problems of software patents. An excerpt follows (with the friendly approval of Zeit.de) and the complete article is reachable under the title link:
For years only geeks got excited about it. They sat, strewn around the globe, at their computers and programmed, criticized, and discussed via the Internet. The rest of the world had no idea what was there in the 'Net: at first glance just some software. Actually the free thinking online community had created an antithesis to Microsoft, the most powerful and largest software house in the world. [...]
[other excerpts not translated, they're a bit longish. -dm]
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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29.Oct.2003
RetroMan (ANF)
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Tool: NRG2ISO V0.2 released
The tool NRG2ISO has been released in version 0.2 for download. The software converts Nero image files into ISO images, which can be imported then into Amiga CD writing programs. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
Hippie2000 (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: Rat roasting
The back2roots.org server and the entire network cluster were offline two days caused by a rat
that had been looking for a warm place to stay inside a transformator hut. The rat found a VERY warm place and an
instant death as a kind of a barbecued rat.
For that server failure the BTTR team would like to apologize. The winuae.net and all other hosted sites were affected also.
Now everything is okay again, the rat is cold and the server warm again.
If some mails during these days seem to be lost, please send them again.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages till October the 28th 2003
With WHDLoad it becomes possible to install games intended for floppy disk use only to hard disk. The
following packages were added or updated since the last reporting.
- 28.10.03 new: Shaft 7 (Bomb)
- 27.10.03 improved: Lemmings (Psygnosis/DMA Design)
- 27.10.03 new: History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte)
- 27.10.03 fixed: Gods (Bitmap Brothers)
- 25.10.03 new: Fire Hawk (Codemasters)
- 25.10.03 fixed: Gods (Bitmap Brothers)
- 22.10.03 new: Street Gang (Time Warp/Rainbow Arts)
- 22.10.03 new: Crazy Sexy Cool (Essence)
- 21.10.03 new: Synthesis (Network)
- 21.10.03 new: Gold Rush (Sierra)
- 21.10.03 updated: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment)
- 21.10.03 updated: Pinball Illusions (Digital Illusions/21st Century)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
AudioLabs (Website)
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AudioLabs launches new website
AudioLabs, developer of the highly professional audio sequencing software
"ProStationAudio" has relaunched the company and producer website with a fresh
design and enhanced content. At the new site there is information about PSA and its plug-ins
but also background information about audio sequencing e.g. an interview with Markus Steblei: he and a a
colleague are presenting a multimedia show at Munichs's planetarium of the "Forum der Technik" utilizing PSA.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2003
Heise
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Heise: First Internet provider with P2P-licence
The British Internet provider Playlouder MSP announced a legal access of file-sharing services starting next year.
To achieve this, the company signed contracts with the respective corporations and some British Indie record companies - currently including the labels V2, PIAS and Ninja Tune, among others. With their planned service, Playlouder offers record companies a solution to profit from filesharing tools.
More information can be found in the corresponding German article at Heise Online under the title link. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
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MUI: HotkeyString class reimplemented
Since the HotkeyString class for MUI isn't continued by its author Allan Odgaard, it was reimplemented by Ilkka "Itix" Lehtoranta.
Added features are full support of PC keyboards and of wheelmice. The source code is available under LGPL.
The archive contains binaries for MorphOS and AmigaOS-68k (with courtesy of David Arbuthnot). The project's website can be found at Sourceforge under the title link.
The author thanks Allan Odgaard for the original class and for permission to include the existing resources (MUI tagbase, developer material) into the distribution. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
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MorphOS: ImageFX-Lite and Powerstation added to the SuperBundle
Nova Design, Inc. is pleased to announce that our award-winning package, ImageFX, is now available for Pegasos/MorphOS owners in a special lite-edition as part of the SuperBundle package from Genesi.
This version was especially created for MorphOS and includes full color icons and other special features for this release. It comes with PowerPC enabled effects and JPEG loader/savers. It also includes the first release of Lightning for PowerPC as well!
If you already own the complete version of ImageFX, the SuperBundle package also includes the PowerStation modules (including the new Lightning) for MorphOS as well.
Users who find themselves wanting the advanced morphing, animation and keyframing features (and more) of the full ImageFX 4.5 package can upgrade for only $99.95 plus shipping and handling! An amazing bargain.
To download visit The SuperBundle Download Page or to find out more information about Nova Design, Inc. products visit their website at www.novadesign.com.
The files are named ImageFX_Lite.lha and PowerStation.lha.
If you still do not have your SuperBundle account, you can still sign up at MorphOS.net. (snx)
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29.Oct.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: 3 new productions
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) has been extended with another three impressing poductions:
- Nano / Scarab (intro 4k, 1st at Mekka Symposium 2002)
- Datablade / Floppy and Madwizards (demo, 1st at Xenium 1999)
- Synthesis / Network (demo, 3rd at Assembly 1998).
Furthermore the original screen shots of "Planet Potion", which still holds the 1st position at the ADA charts,
were replaced with 28 high quality screen shots which were made directly with an Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #058
The scene group Liquid Skies has released the 58th music pack today. It contains the
track "Gwiezdny Taniec" of the Polish musician Maxus. The cover was created
by DaFreak.
Here some more information about the track
- title: Gwiezdny Taniec (Engl.: Stardance)
- artist: Maxus
- style: Trance
- length: 4:34
- format: mp3 (160kbps)
The zipped file (5.3 MB) is available for download.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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GoldED: C/C++ IDE Update-Archive
For the text and coding editor "GoldED Studio AIX" a new service pack for the C/C++ Add-On was released.
This new version solves problems on the installation of GCC/NDK parts and is available for all registered users.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Game: Amiga-Freespace Singleplayer-Pack 2 released
The Singleplayer-Pack 2 for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace" is released. It contains
ten new single player missions and can be downloaded from the Amiga-Freespace-website.
Just to mention the "Amiga Freespace Forum" with more than 3500 hits, 29 topics, and 125 issues.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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"OS4 on Tour" in Great Britain
The South West Amiga Group organizes a presentation of the OS4 on the AmigaOne on Saturday, December 13th in Bath.
Confirmed is that OS4 will run on an AmigaOne XE-G4 and a prototype of the MicroA1 board will be shown.
Maybe Timothy de Groote of Hyperion will be there, too.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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Retro-Gaming: Amiga games for four Joysticks
Christoph Gutjahr has released an overview about all the games with support of the 4-joystick-adapter he knows.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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28.Oct.2003
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Hardware-Hack: CD-writer in original A1200 case
Update (26.10.2012, cg): integrated entire article into news item during database migration
Amiga user Egon Kohlschütter has managed to fit both a CD-ROM and an IDE harddisk into the A1200's original case. The idea is to
move the harddrive to the right of the case (to the position normally occupied by the internal disk drive)
and put the CD-ROM to the left side of the case. The floppy drive had to be removed to gain the neccessary
space (Egon uses an external drive now) and the case had to be slightly modified. This is what the end
result looks like:
Fitting the CD-ROM drive
Get an internal CD-ROM drive (or even a CD-Writer!) targeted for Laptops - these are small enough
to fit into the original case. Some devices that should work are:
- TEAC CD-224E (CD-ROM)
- TEAC CD-W24E (CD-Writer)
These drives use a special IDE connector called "Mini-IDE", so you'll have to find a suitable adaptor. These adaptors
are usually called "Slimline adaptors" (Mini-IDE to IDE-40-pins). As these Laptop-CD-drives are usually jumpered
as "Master" and the internal HD should be "Master" aswell, you should also get one of the myriad of A1200 IDE devices that
enable you to connect up to four drives to your Amiga.
Obviously, you'll have to cut an opening into the case - a CD-ROM not accessible from the outside is not
exactly useful ;-) This image demonstrates the exact position of the drive:
Some hints for the actual case modification:
- open the case, remove the RF shielding and position the CD-ROM
- The drive rests partly on the bottom half of the case
- use a pen to mark the area that has to be cut out
- use a dremel or a similar tool to remove the plastic
- Powerstrip is used to fix the drive at its new position.
Moving the harddrive to its new position
The harddrive will be put where the internal disk drive used to be. Remove the disk drive and make sure
that the internal disk drive connector can not be shortened by accident (e.g. by putting an old IDE or
floppy connector onto it).
The RF shielding may cause short circuits too - make sure that you either remove enough of it to avoid that
or put some isolating material around the harddrive.
The floppy disk drive
When booting, the A1200 will spend a few seconds searching for the internal floppy disk drive. Additionally,
Workbench might complain about the missing disk drive. Both problems can be easily solved by connecting
pins #1 of the internal floppy disk drive connector with the pin below it. The boot process will be slightly
faster after this modification.
But with these pins connected, your A1200 will not recognise external disk drives. Therefore Egon connected
the pins using a switch: The switch is closed most of the time, but you can open it at any time (even if the
machine is already up and running) to access external disk drives and close it again afterwards.
More pictures
Here are some more pictures showing various details of Egon's hack:
Additional notes
The scsi.device included with AmigaOS 3.0/3.1 is not able to handle ATAPI drives (like CD-ROM or CD-RW
drives), so you'll have to use a replacement. AmigaOS 3.5+ comes with an updated scsi.device, another
option would be the shareware IDEFix.
Egon equipped his A1200 with the CD-RW drive mentioned above. BurnIt does not have specific support for this
particular drive, but the generic driver (No. 9) works fine.
If you did not connect the pins on the internal floppy disk drive connector as described above, Workbench may
complain about the missing disk drive - OS 3.5+ users should deactivate drive "DF0:" in the Workbench
preferences to avoid this.
Egon can be contacted at Egone@freenet.de. Please note that his English is (quoting Egon)
"pretty poor", so you may contact us aswell, we'll forward your feedback to Egon. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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27.Oct.2003
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SciTech Software renew partnership with ATI
SciTech Softwar, whose Multi-OS graphic accelerator driver system "SNAP" will be used with AmigaOS 4, announced today the renew of theire partnership with ATI.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2003, 22:20] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: MicroATX version comes nevertheless
After the official announcement of the AmigaOne-Lite, also known as "Micro-A1", one could get the impression that this release will be the end of the "AmigaOne Micro-ATX".
Ben Hermans has now gotten straight in a comment on ANN that this is a misunderstanding for which he is to blame for, the AmigaOne Micro ATX is still planned.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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IRC: Changed server for the #Amigaworld channel
AmigaWorld.net announced that they moved their channel from Undernet to ExodusIRC due to lags, netsplits and missing services like nickserv.
The channel is now available at irc.amigaworld.net port 6667 or port 1024 for users behind a firewall.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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amiga-news.de: The new Team
Some time ago amiga-news.de reported that the founder of amiga-news.de, Petra Struck, will resign from the daily news creation due to private reasons. For this reason an extended editors team was established. The following persons are involed in amiga-news.de:
Nico Barbat (nba): editor in charge
Jens Begeschke (jb): forum moderation
Ulrich Beckers (ub): English translation
Christian Busse (cb): English translation
Stéphane Campan (sc): French translation
Christoph Dietz (cd): engineering/server
Sven Drieling (sd): engineering/PHP
Guido Fehst (gf): English translation
Dr. Eric Gillé (eg): English translation
Christoph Gutjahr (cg): news editor
Martin Heine (snx): news editor, forum moderation
Hendrik Höner (hh): forum moderation
Sven Kirmse (sk): English translation
Daniel Miller (dm): English translation
Jürgen Müller (jm): newsticker, lectorat
H. Ogino (ho): Japanese translation
Piotr Pawlowski (pp): Polish translation
Daniel Reimann (dr): English translation
Christian Rosentreter (cr): forum moderation, IRC admin
Gerhard Schmid (gs): forum moderation
Carsten Schröder (cs): news editor, forum moderation
Felix Schwarz (fs): engineering/ALD
Petra Struck (ps): idea, foundation, design and glossary
Alfred Sturm (as): Aminet uploads
Rolf Tingler (rt): design
Last but not least we would like to thank all the readers for the loyalty in the
last years!
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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Beyond Magazine: number 2
The Beyond Magazine, a gratis PDF magazine, that deals besides BeOS with other alternative operating systems like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOSX or FreeBSD.
The just published expenditure 2 contains among other things a
Darwin review, a report about Marble Madness in the "Emuzone", a
Rebol course and a report of the Pianeta Amiga 2003.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
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New YAM-"Developer" version
There is a new developer version of the well known e-mail client YAM available at the title link.
Further details about this new release can be found in the ChangeLog.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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27.Oct.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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New USB driver for Amithlon and OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version will be available within the next few days at
http://www.vmc.de/Amithlon. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version.
What is ArakAttack?
ArakAttack is an USB driver packet that allows the usage of USB on any AmigaOS compatible system with PCI slots. ArakAttack isn't an USB stack, it's a driver packet for Chris Hodges great USB Stack Poseidon.
What are the features of ArakAttack?
- Amithlon optimised version.
- OpenPCI compatible version.
- UHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- OHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
- Unlimited number of USB controllers supported at the same time.
- Unlimited number of parallel USB transfers garantees maximum performance.
- Only one device with multiple units makes installation very easy.
- Intelligent transfer descriptor caching mechanism.
- Several user options allow an optimisation of resource management to the users requirements.
- Full mem handler support. (Frees resources and caches if the system signals low system memory)
- No HUB depth limits.
- Separate time out handling for each USB request garantees the driver never freezes the USB stack or the system.
- External interrupt fallback for systems with interrupt trouble.
What is also required to use ArakAttack?
The latest version of Chris Hodges' Poseidon USB stack.
In addition to that other components are required:
Amithlon:
powerpci.library - version 2.13 or better.
Amiga PCI / Pegasos:
openpci.library - version V1.20 or better.
Which USB Controller is required for ArakAttack?
Most of the current USB controllers are supported. Just take care it's UHCI, OHCI or EHCI compatible. Well, I don't think you'll find any other within the stores now.
Amithlon user may be happy to hear that on board USB controllers are working, too!
How can I register?
Well, currently the registration makes no sense, because ArakAttack is
quite useless without a registered USB Stack.
If you own a Poseidon key feel free to register. Further information can be
found in the manual.
PLEASE: Don't bother Chris Hodges with questions about registering Poseidon. He is very busy at the moment, so please keep quiet until the registration site will be up again.
(snx)
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26.Oct.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 349
Guido Mersmann released the beta version 349 of the TV-card driver software
AmithlonTV, which includes several small updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Changes since the previous version:
- FIXED: Fixed a small MorphOS bug, that caused the bt8x8 picture
creation to fail! (Thanks to Axel Knabe)
- FIXED: Fixed interrupt server problem.
(nba) (Translation: snx)
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26.Oct.2003
Stefan Ruppert (E-Mail)
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Application Response Measurement 4.0 will be finalized shortly
The version 4.0 of the Application Response Measurement
(ARM)
standard developed within the OpenGroup will be finalized shortly.
This standard defines a C/C++ and Java API for instrumenting (distributed)
applications. Most notably, with this standard programming language,
process and host boundaries are not a restriction for transaction and
sub-transaction measurements any more - resulting in a real end-to-end
(business-) transaction measurement. For a detailed description of
the ARM standard please read the document available on the OpenGroup
site.
Together with IBM and HP, the tang-IT Consulting GmbH has led
the development of this version 4.0 of the ARM standard. They are going
to show their ARM 4.0-based product called "tang-IT ARM" at
the LinuxWorld 2003 exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany from Oct. 27 to 29.
The main developers of *tang-IT ARM* have been knowning the Amiga
platform from the beginning. Therefore they can imagine a port to
either AmigaOS 3.x/4.0 or MorphOS if there is sufficient demand (>10) for
such a product in this niche market. A port to AmigaOS or MorphOS could be
available within a month and a developer license is about 200 Euro. (nba)
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25.Oct.2003
Peer Richter (ANF)
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New download opportunity for Ghostscript 8.00
Because of the problems when downloading Ghostscript 8.00 has Peter Richer gathered the archive and created an additional download opportunity on a German server.
Download Ghostcript 8.00.lha (5.1MB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter
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amiga-news.de: official IRC channel
Since some time now does there exist an official amiga-news.de IRC channel. People who want to talk about contents of amiga-news.de or generally about the Amiga and related topics are VERY welcome to have a look. The channel is in general German but it is possible to discuss and chat in English, too.
Channel: #amiganews.de
Server: de3.arcnet.vapor.com
(additional server: http://arcnet.vapor.com)
Besides the fact that the channel is a meeting point for Amiga users of all kind (68k, PPC, AOS4, MorphOS, UAE, AROS,
Amithlon, etc.) we'll try to arrange interview chats with known VIPs in the Amiga market.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
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Fax software: STFax 4 released as freeware
Simone Tellini, developer of STFax, has released his product as freeware. Version 4.0 of the software is now available on the Aminet. In addition you should install the update to version 4.1, too.
Simone points out that he'll offer only very restricted support - requests by users will only be answered if time allows it.
Who never has bought the commercial version and wants to send Simone a small compensation for the work done could send him something from his wish list.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Website: "Mac on Amiga" update
Mac On Amiga - a website dedicated to the emulation of Macintosh computers under AmigaOS has now got an own forum. In addition, a Shapeshifter tutorial has been released.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
Rudolph Riedel (ANF)
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DiskMaster 2.5.27 released
Following the title link you can find the latest version of DiskMaster2.
Changes:
- Bugfix: "%c" didn't work with Auto commands.
- File requester for 'PrintDir' added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
JTSG (ANF)
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Event: first pictures of the OASE in Graz
Members of the Bitplane team have already released first pictures of the OASE in the net (title link).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Oct.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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"AmigaOne updates" (column by Alan Redhouse)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group) has a regular column in the British Amiga magazine Total Amiga. In co-operation with "Total Amiga" makes the Amiga portal Amigaworld.net the past issues of this column available for all Internet users.
Excerpts taken from the explanations by Alan Redhouse:
- The dual CPU cards will be produced from December on if there are enough requests. Because of the prices for fast G4 CPUs will a card with two 1.3 GHz G4 processors not be cheaper than appr. 600-700 British Pounds (ca. 860-1000 EUR, without taxes).
- To bundle the restricted resources of Eyetech withdraws the company from the Amiga trading and concentrates on other business areas (AmigaOne production, "industrial markets").
- Registered OS4 beta testers will receive a 10% price reduction when buying an AmigaOne.
- Developers of drivers for the AmigaOne-Lite (RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire) will receive the motherboard for free. Interested people please contact Eyetech.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Oct.2003
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Icon-Patch: PowerIcons 1.02
There is a new version of the "PowerIcons" which is a patch that allows the performance
of 24-bit icons on your Workbench.
Some bugs have been cleared but there are also a lot of improvements.
Download
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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New version (V44.50) of HSMathLibs for MC68881/82, MC68040 and MC68060
After v44.50 beta 2/8 has been tested of many users for over a year there is now the new
version of the HSMathLibs which is not a beta version.
Thanks a lot to all who have supported me developing and improving the HSMathLibs.
To all those who are always grumbling but do not send any comments I do not want to say something.
Many other programmers like me have tried it many times in vain.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
Anonym (ANF)
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Spam-protection: AntiSpam2 1.07
The anti-Spam software called "AntiSpam2" has got some new features e.g. a prefseditor and
a remote-filter and is now principally useable for each Amiga mail program which is still
supported. On the website you can now also find detailed explanations to the different
configuration options which can be changed by the prefseditor from now on.
Because AntiSpam and the support tools all use the NewGUI system NewGUI is being installed
automatically and maybe is being downloaded from the homepage during the installation.
Because of that the installation should be done while you are online or NewGUI should be
seperately installed before it.
The remote-filter allows you to delete mails still on the server (a hint for Web.de users:
the Freemail Timelimit could cause some problems with the remote-filter).
Deleting mails is being done during a second step. Of course this method is more unprecise
than downloading the full mail with YAM first because only the header can be tested!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
Heise Newsticker
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New version 10.3 of Mac OS X is coming
In this article
Heise Newsticker reports on the start of the sale of the MacOS-X-version 10.3 alias "Panther" and
informs about the most important improvements.
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2003
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Photos from the Sydney Amiga show
At the title link first photos from the Sydney Amiga show can be found - among others several shootings of the AmigaOne Lite. (snx)
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24.Oct.2003
Silke Woj (ANF)
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OASE Update: Premiere - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4!
See some premieres at the OASE - MicroA1 G4 in Action! ATI Radeon & AmigaOS4 on the AmigaOne!
A real world premiere is taking place at the O.A.S.E. (Open Amiga Southeast Europe) show having a working AmigaOne Lite, now renamed to MicroA1, on public display the first time ever.
The (preliminary) MicroA1 specs as follows:
# G4 7447 low power cpu up to 1.3 GHz (running 1.066 MHz at the show)
# Radeon 7000 graphics chip with 32 MB video RAM on board (2xAGP)
# 100MBit Ethernet
# 2x USB1.1
# Serial / Parallel ports
# UDMA 100 IDE Controller
# 1 PCI slot (incl. Riser for 90° adapter)
# mini-ITX form factor (170x170mm)
We will have Linux Debian running on the MicroA1 and we are pushing hard to get AmigaOS 4.0 running on the board until Saturday. Special thanks to Thomas Frieden for his ongoing work to make this possible.
The first time a Picasso96 Radeon driver will be shown on an AmigaOne under AmigaOS 4.0. Special thanks to Joshua B. Helm and Forefront Technologies.
AmigaOS 4.0 on the AmigaOne will also have working 3com ethernet drivers running thru the Roadshow TCP/IP stack and the Soundblaster Live! running a PowerPC native version of AHI.
AmigaOne XE G4/933MHz boards will be available at the show for a special OASE price of 849,- Euro (incl. 20% VAT). For current customers we will have live updates of their UBoot FlashROM chips.
For our MorphOS fans we will have two Pegasos machines at the show.
Another part of the show handles Retro Computing where Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computer will talk about the C= One. An actual version of the C= One board can be seen at the show.
With some luck, a working (!) C65 can also been seen there.
More Infos (and pictures) see: http://www.oase.at
The O.A.S.E. takes place this weekend, Saturday, October 25th in Graz/Austria. (snx)
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24.Oct.2003
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Genesi joining exhibitors at OASE
At the upcoming OASE show in Graz, Austria, Genesi will be represented by their beta tester Herbert Klackl. According to the official website, two Pegasos I computers with MorphOS will be shown. (snx)
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24.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: AmigaOS 4 boots with ATI Radeon support
Forefront Technologies which are the developers of the ATI Radeon driver for AmigaOS 4.0
on "classic" Amiga systems have announced in a
press release
that AmigaOS 4.0 has been booted on an AmigaOne with an ATI Radeon graphic board for the
first time. Today Jürgen Schober of point.design
has succeeded in booting AmigaOS under use of a forefront technology driver on an
AmigaOne-XE G4 with ATI Radeon 7000.
Originally the driver should not have been ported to the AmigaOne (because SNAP driver
are supposed to be used here) but there have been the need of a quickly available
transition solution. The port worked without any problems.
The driver which have been successfully tested under AmigaOS 4.0 on Classic Amiga computers as well as
on the AmigaOne is now in beta stadium and is currently optimized for compatibility not on
speed - currently it is worked for a better blitter support.
Additionally a screenshot
of AmigaOS 4 (with seperate system programs) has been published on a Radeon 7000.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Anniversary Sale Price for PairsNG
In honor of Amiga Arena's five year anniversary, we and developer Christoph Kimna are offering the shareware game "PairsNG" at a sale price of five euros.
"PairsNG" is a mix of Memory, Shanghai and similar games. You'll find a demo version on the homepage of
PairsNG.
Additionally you'll find in the interview section a review of "PairsNG". This special offer is available until 2nd November, 2003. The registration form is to be found on the website of Amiga Arena (under the title link). A special thanks to Christoph Kimna, who made this special possible. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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23.Oct.2003
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First Screen-Shots of the New File-sharing Client for AmigaOS
The first screen-shots of "AmigaGift," a KaZaa client for AmigaOS, have been released (click on title link).
Update:
One of the beta testers corrected in an Amigaworld.net thread the misunderstanding that AmigaGift is a pure KaZaa client. AmiGift is said to be modularly organized and currently supports Edonkey, Gnutella and a few other protocols just starting to be offered, as well as KaZaa.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: Commodore is Active Once More in Germany
Commodore made computer history once, with home computers like the C64 and Amiga, and then they parted from the computer scene without a lot of noise or singing. Now the name comes back, of all things in a rather different, clearly unspectacular connection. Read the entire article at Golem IT News, under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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22.Oct.2003
Amiga Impact
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Event: Details about the Alchimie #3
Triple A, the organizers of the biggest French Amiga fair Alchimie,
gave some details about the show which will be held in Tain l'Hermitage (close to Valence) from November the 8th to the 10th.
From Amiga Inc. and their compagnon firms the following people announced their attending:
- Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group)
- Ben Hermans (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Fleecy Moss (Amiga Inc.)
AmigaOS 4 will be shown on several AmigaOne configurations.
The French reseller APS and Amont Informatique
will offer their products for sale on the show. Who wants to do some purchases at the show is advised to contact the reseller in advance to ensure the desired
items will be in stock at the fair. The Swiss reseller Relec will be present as well but due to the customs regulations
there will no sales be offered to private persons.
For all French organizations and magazines there will be the possibility to present themselves to the public at the show:
"Triple A" ("Boing Attack"), AFLE ("aMiGa=PoWeR"), AmigaZette83, ASUM, Amiga Impact...
The last year event "Alchimie #2" attracted more than 160 visitors from France, Belgium and Switzerland and the
organizers hope to top this number this year. The Alchimie #3 will last three days, tickets can be booked
here.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Oct.2003
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Alan Redhouse comments AmigaOne review (Update)
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) comments the AmigaOnereview by Philippe Ferrucci .
The full comment is available by the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Oct.2003
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Genesi: Website for the planned computer game "Gladiateur" online
The official website for Genesi's computer game project Gladiateur (amiga-news.de reported) is now online at http://Gladiateur.PegasosPPC.com.
Gladiateur - The game
The game takes its inspiration from the stage production by Elie Chouraqui and Maxime Le Forestier, which debuts in Paris in 2004. The game allows you to take the role of Spartacus the Thracian, and lead the slaves in their revolt against the powers of Rome.
Gladiateur is a game development that will not simply lead to the release of a single game. The first release will concentrate of the War of Spartacus, but the game will evolve into a massively multi-player online realm, in which thousands of players will be able to take a part in the adventures and ambitions of the Roman world. Set against the backdrop of the Spartacan revolt, each player will be able to take a side in the rebellion or make their own way, going wherever opportunity takes them. You will be able to become a soldier or a merchant, a pirate or a politician. Players will be able to join together to form their own factions, or work alone. You will be able to live the carefree life of a wandering adventurer, build a powerful trading corporation, or rise to power in the Senate and change the very history of Roman.
The initial release of Gladiateur will use the Northland game engine from Funatics. This is a very sophisticated RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game in its own right, but in Gladiateur it will be extended to provide a unique, genre-busting experience. In the world of Gladiateur, persuasion and popularity is as important as units and resources, and tactics means a lot more than having the biggest army. This is not just another game where you build a base, defend against a few attacks, mass forces and finally rush the enemy base - this is a game set in a dynamic living world of tyrants, peasants and slaves where fear or loyalty can turn the tide of battle, and building trading links can be as important as building armies.
Gladiateur - The musical
Gladiateur is a musical stage spectacular written and produced by Eli Chouraqui, accompanied by a musical score composed by Maxime Le Forestiere. It will debut on 1 October 2004 at the Palais de Sports in Paris, and go on tour in Spring 2005. The music from the show will be released by EC7/Universal Music in 2004.
Eli Chouraqui's previous stage production was Les Dix Commandemants (The Ten Commandments), which debuted in Paris in 2000 and toured France, Switzerland, Belgium and Montreal. An English language version is due to open in 2005. Over 4 million albums, singles and DVDs of the production have already been sold.
(snx)
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22.Oct.2003
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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AmigaLand: Another five Microprose games
The AmigaLand has been updated again today: Five more
aircraft simulations by Microprose are available for download and
invite for gambling: F-15 Strike Eagle, F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-117A
Nighthawk, B17 Flying Fortress and The Ancient Art of War in the Sky.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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21.Oct.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Genesi new main sponsor of German online Linux magazine PPCNUX
The German Linux online magazine PPCNUX welcomes Genesi as their new main sponsor. In the corresponding news-item the company and the background of Genesi's founders are introduced to the readers of PPCNUX. (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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OASE 2003: E3B to offer special show prices
E3B is going to be again an exhibitor at OASE 2003, as we did already last year.
Besides the opportunity to test the new ALGOR USB controller live on our computer, we will also offer a special show bundle for upgrades of our established USB controller HIGHWAY.
Also ALGOR-users who do already own FlashROM can be happy: our network module NORWAY will be separately available as well at a favorable OASE price.
Details of the bundles can be found at our website in the news section.
See you in Graz :) (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
DCE
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DCE: Photos of the Pegasos II production (Update)
Further photos of the new Pegasos II can be found at the DCE website.
Update: To reduce the traffic at DCE's server, PegasosPPC.com provides a mirror. (snx) (Translation: snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Daniel Miller
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Report from Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC, USA
In his report from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration, which took place Oct. 18th in Washington DC, USA, Daniel Miller writes the following:
MorphOS, Linux, AmiNetRadio, FxPaint, MPlayer, Kaya, ImageFX, free Superbundles, fresh MOS1.4 CDs with IBM stamp, ProStationAudio, presentations, the "VCR" case, complete system pricings, Peg II picture, MOS1.5 timing, MadBomber, and more.
From start to finish this was a really classy affair. I am local to the area and was invited to bring and show my own Pegasos, but this didn't stop me from checking out the scene and watching the presentations. Genesi personnel were really on a mission, giving personal attention, and striving to show the technology at its mindblowing best.
The chief exhibitor was magneticsystemsnyc.com who drove down from Brooklyn with a squad of state-of-the-art Pegasoses, including one of the few G4 models we have on this side of the pond. Four of those systems were configured for MorphOS, the fifth did double duty as an MoL/Debian (Gnome) machine. In addition to my comparatively home-spun system, there was a nice array of Genesi paraphenalia such as a plexuscom concept case, spinning illuminated Peg motherboards, a mechanical butterfly, a sampling of shrinkwrapped games, a Catweasel flipper for display, posters, sellsheets, free Superbundle (v. 3) and MOS1.4 IBM stamp limited silk screen edition CDs. Jammin'!
Now the stuff was neat, and the people were neater, but I must say seeing the cutting edge MOS systems in action was even more neat than that. It was... neat-o! Where to start? well, one of the more striking things was AmiNetRadio. As much as anything else this really illustrated one aspect of the future as Genesi sees it. The live radio stations scroll down in a list, and you select your favorite genre. It very quickly picks up the stream and your music plays. Most streams were at 128, some at 64, so this is fairly high fidelity. You can record your streams to MP3 files on your hard-drive, and them play them in Kaya. This all occurs effortlessly. Why does this illustrate part of Genesi's vision? They see themselves providing media, audio, visual, audiovisual and games via similar tools. Customers are then able to access their favorite media whether they are on walking trails with the planned Eclipsis handheld device, in their homes at their home theater, or at their workplace, whatever. You don't carry around a CD or plunk a videotape in the VCR, you just select your media on whatever device you are nearest and play it. Genesi believes that all this media including high resolution movies will be deliverable as the Pegaos progresses and new Genesi products are introduced. So that's the concept, maybe you like it, maybe you love it.
Another concept, this one now reality, is the "VCR" Pegasos. This was introduced by magneticsystemsnyc.com. What is it? It's a Pegasos in a small case that looks sort of like a VCR. This is offered as a complete Pegasos II system. If you don't want to muck around with assembling your own, you can consider getting one of these. It's nice and uses a half height Radeon video card. I like this, because it is an early step in the shrink-down evolution of Pegasos from standard desktop to set-top box to the handheld computer which is conceptualized to have all the power of a Pegasos.
Bill and Raquel from Genesi were there, as always demonstrating their personal commitment to the platform and its development, and supporting the rest of the Genesi team working towards the goal of a advanced, mature, popular, modern, alternative computer system.
More software: MPlayer was all over the frickin' place. People who demonstrated this system have recognized a winner. On just a G3 600 Mhz Pegasos running MorphOS 1.4 Mplayer is the most quickloading, responsive, compatible videoplayer ever on any platform. I am not spinning you, everybody says this. We all need to send the Mplayer programmers five dollars right now or something. There are few sublime pleasures in life as the first time you starting moving an MPlayer window opaquely around the screen, and realize that there is zero stutter or distortion, no matter how fast you circle it around. Hi-res letterbox or whatever. Of course it goes full screen and has a bunch of control features too.
There was some new image editing software from NovaDesign shown. They make well-established graphical prodcuts like ImageFX and Aladdin 4D. I was not clear on the details, but there is the intention to offer some form of this new software with future MorphOS versions, the Superbundle, or both. This is a clear potential asset to the Pegasos MorphOS product. The prospect of a revamped Aladdin4D ray tracing program for MOS was also talked about. ProStationAudio was shown. This is a really advanced sort of product with a detailed, intricate interface and all these channels and mixing controls and a lot of busy stuff going on all over the screen. It was shown mixing some tracks and certainly sounded good. It seems to me that this is a product for an audio professional, but maybe a casual home user can have fun with it too. Gotta go, I will have to write some more later, especially about... MadBomber!!!
PS: The BB half of BBRV stated MorphOS 1.5 would appear before the new year. Don't let them forget about that TCP-IP stack, thanks.
Photos of the event can be found at PegasosPPC.com. (snx)
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21.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Update of dvdrtools
The dvdrtools, enabling the writing of DVDs under AmigaOS, are updated.
Now three more devices (e.g. the SCSI host of Cyberstorm/CyberstormPPC)
are supported.
Also an English version is available on the homepage.
The coder provides you with another archive on his homepage: In this version
you can set the device to use by the environment variable DVDRTOOLS_DEVICE yourself.
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20.Oct.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #057
Liquid Skies released number 57 of the so called music pack. It contains a song called 'Kukka' by the Finnish musician 'Tripper'.
Some details about the track:
- Title: Kukka
- Artist: Tripper
- Style: Instrumental Trance
- Duration: 3:37
- Format: mp3 (192kbps)
The compressed file can be found at the title link.
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20.Oct.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Event: Photos of the EAPP 2003
From 10th to 31st August 2003 the "Extreme Amiga Programming Party" (EAPP) took place in Weinheim. The aim of this event was the common programming of software. Many interesting and also funny snapshots of the event can be found at the title link.
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20.Oct.2003
Ron van Herk / Genesi
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Cyberstorm: Report on DCE repairs / MorphOS version at the end of this year
CyberStorm Warranty Repairs
As mentioned on the thread at Amiga.org earlier, all CyberStorm boards sent in under warranty will be replaced by new ones. The production of these is partly done, the PCB's are there with all lower part components fitted. The problem currently is the lack of availability of the right 68K sockets. The ones that were originally used for the Phase5 and later DCE productions were specially made for Phase5 and are no longer being manufactured. However, there are several investigations ongoing at other manufacturers to adapt existing (and available) connectors to be fitted to the CyberStorm PCB's. Once this is solved, the production will be completed and all involved will receive new CyberStorm cards under warranty.
Non-Warranty Repairs
All non-warranty repair customers should have had a price quote from me. The repairs that could be done have been completed and all cards have been sent back or will be sent back in the next week. There are also repairs that are pending awaiting CPU sockets (see above).
Non-Repairable Items
Repairs that could not be done have also been sent back or will be next week. Several cards have been sent back by DCE already, others will be returned by me from Rotterdam next week.
Other Factors
During investigating the whole repairs issue, several disturbing things have come to my attention. There are cases of repairs not being done because they have been submitted through a reseller that has had outstanding invoices for three years, and also cases where repairs were done and sent back to a reseller, who then sold them as new products. I will not disclose specific information but just wanted to state this in DCE's defence, they're not always the one to blame...
Genesi Gesture
As a gesture from Genesi, there will be a new release of MorphOS for 'classic Amiga' PowerPC cards available for free. The planned release is at the end of this year.
DCE and Genesi
Several people have opted their concern in the Amiga.org thread about possible future repairs at DCE for Genesi products. First of all, please consider that the Amiga repairs are a special situation and it is not common for repairs to take this long, not even for DCE. Furthermore, anyone buying a PegasosII is dealing with Genesi, not with DCE. If there is a case where a Genesi product needs repair or replacement, Genesi will see to it that it happens the right way and in a decent timeframe. For reference see our history with the mainboard exchanges for April and April2 fixed boards. These were made at DCE too!
Preliminary Conclusion
Apart from the wait for the right 68K sockets, most issues are either done or will be in the next week. There are however still some unallocated cards at DCE. Anyone that also thinks they have an outstanding repair at DCE and has not been in contact with me yet, please do so NOW, as we are working towards concluding the whole operation and at some point soon we will not take on any more investigations. If you have sent in your repair to a reseller be sure to mention which one explicitely.
Contact: rvanherk@nl.genesi.lu
Regards,
Ron van Herk
Genesi
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20.Oct.2003
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GUI-Development: Merlin 2
A.P.Spijkerman released a new version of his GUI-tool 'Merlin'. 'Merlin' lets you develop GUI frontends for ARexx or batch scripts.
Detailed information as well as screenshots can be found at the title link.
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20.Oct.2003
Christian Geier (E-Mail)
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Report from LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany
At the first LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany, on Oct. 18th, the Image_Installer team presented the Pegasos. We did not expect such a big success and were surprised by the scores of visitors crowding our stand who were interested in the system. They represented several platforms, from Amiga users to people using x86 systems.
One could test the system, and some visitors made use of the opportunity to install Mandrake 9.1 themselves on the Pegasos using the Image_Installer. They were surprised in a positive way and amazed how quick and easy the installation was finished. Also MorphOS didn't get a raw deal. The visitors tested the SuperBundle and were impressed by the speed of the system, despite just having a 600 MHz CPU.
When we had a little bit of time, Michael Heider of course continued to work on Image_Installer and removing bugs. We can say with quiet conscience that with version 2 of the Image_Installer an easy installation of PegXLin and Gentoo is possible. To the question if this version would also be free or enclosed with the Pegasos we had to answer "no" for the time being, since we don't know this ourselves yet.
At the KDE team one could see a pre-release of the new KDE 3.2. New applications were added as well as graphical improvements. Daniel Molkentin demonstrated among other things an Outlook clone and a faster webbrowser.
Also some people from the Debian team were there. They showed Debian 3.0 for the x86 platform and provided help to questions regarding installation and adjustment of Debian to x86 systems.
Bert Radke of the Jabber team showed the latest version of Jabber. One could get information how a Jabber server is build up and which advantages Jabber provides.
At IBM students could get information about new notebooks. Computers from desktops for the office to servers were shown by AMD, who also provided the Internet connection for the show.
Further small projects were free games for Linux and the topic "Linux at school and university" by the university of Dresden.
Furthermore the visitors could take part at an Install-Party during the whole day to solve problems.
Final preparations |
Erhard Bruse (front), Christian Geier (back) |
Preparations |
Erhard Bruse explains the Pegasos |
Michael Heider (back) shows den Image_Installer Version 2 |
KDE booth |
Debian booth |
User testing Image_Installer Version 2 |
Michael Heider |
Student installing Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo using Image_Installer Version 2 |
Michael Heider shows the possibilities of Image_Installer |
Student testing Image_Installer |
Michael Heider installing Gentoo using Image_Installer Version 2 |
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20.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packs until 19.10.2003
WHDLoad enables you to install floppy based games to your hard disk. The following packs were added or updated since our last report:
- 19.10.03 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) slave for
A4000 rom provided, floppy LED removed
- 19.10.03 new: Coma (Rebels) done by Psygore
- 19.10.03 new: Twisted (Polka Brothers) done by Psygore
- 19.10.03 updated: Digital Concert 6 (Flash Production) supports
another version (Info)
- 19.10.03 updated: Digital Concert 4 (Flash Production) supports
another version
- 19.10.03 improved: Thug Life (Essence) runs on CyberStorm PPC without
nocache option
- 19.10.03 new: Beast Sonix (Scoopex) done by Galahad
- 15.10.03 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog) CD³² version supported, now
uses kickstart images
- 12.10.03 new: Top Gear 2 (Gremlin Interactive) done by Galahad
- 10.10.03 fixed: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) debug code removed, reduced memory requirements
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20.Oct.2003
Schlonz (ANF)
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Premiere: Software with DVD-R/-RW support for AmigaOS
The programmer 'Schlonz' ported the Linux program 'dvdrtools' to the Amiga. For the first time it is now possible to burn DVD-R and DVD-RW discs with AmigaOS. 'dvdrtools' is a collection of four programs wich can be used with the shell. An ARexx-GUI for the main program 'dvdrecord' is included.
Additional details are to be found at the title link.
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18.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: anniversary action - 2 vouchers for Hollywood
Because of the 5th anniversary of the Amiga Arena there's another draw: in co-operation with Airsoft Softwair the Amiga Arena raffles off two vouchers for the multimedia program "Hollywood" worth 10,- Euro.
To win one of the vouchers please answer the following question:
Which presentation had been released some days ago by the Amiga Arena?
Please send the correct answer until October, 19th 2003 via email to Olaf Köbnik
of the Amiga Arena.
Further information about "Hollywood" can be found under
http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de.
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18.Oct.2003
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Pegasos II production started (update)
In a short comment at ANN have Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco announced the beginning of the production of Pegasos II boards at DCE in Oberhausen.
Update: On the pages of the MorphZone is a photo of a preseries version of the new board. Compared to the final version this one still shows a static RAM drive and a debug connector instead of the ATX connector.
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18.Oct.2003
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OS4 on Tour: reports from Brisbane
Two members of the Amiga-Portal Amigaworld.net write under the title link their impressions of the first "OS4 on Tour" event in Australia. We have summarized the most important points for you in short:
- About 50 visitors (twice the number at a comparable event last year)
- Several AmigaOne computers had been shown - some running AmigaOS4, some with Debian-Linux (and MacOS X under MacOnLinux)
- Doug Moir (AnythingAmiga) introduced the AmigaOne-Lite though not running. According to Doug are already several programmers busy with the drivers development for this Mini ITX motherboard.
- A comprehensive seminar on the AmigaOne and OS4 had been held, there had been an IRC session with Fleecy Moss (Amiga Inc), too.
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18.Oct.2003
point.design (ANF)
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AmigaOne OASE Special
Because of the O.A.S.E. Amiga fair in Austria taking place next week offers the organizing Amiga retailer point.design AmigaOne computers at special conditions.
- AmigaOne G4/XE boards at 849,90 EUR
- AmigaOne G3/XE boards at 769,90 EUR
Reservations can be done from now on under amiga.sales@pointdesign.at
. All prices include 20% VAT.
The boards are Early Bird systems and contain AmigaOS4 and LinuxPPC.
AmigaOS 4 will be delivered when released.
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18.Oct.2003
Ingo Klotzsch (ANF)
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Amiga at the "Nexxt Generation" in Hannover...
At present is the information and sales fair "Infa" taking place in Hannover. Part of the special program of the "Infa" is the youth fair "Nexxt Generation" (17.10. - 19.10.2003) that offers among other things a big games LAN with expected 1300 participiants to come.
In a public area of the Nexxt Generation are old games arcades installed. amiga-news.de reader Ingo Klotzsch has
seen there the good old Amiga. Pictures of the event can be found following the title link.
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18.Oct.2003
Stéphane Campan (email)
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MorphOS: software news
ADoom PPC
Nicolas Det has ported ADoomPPC to MorphOS. This version uses CybergraphX and AHI and can be downloaded from his website.
CDSpeedKiller
Also on his homepage you can find the tool "CDSpeedkiller" that slows down a CD/DVD drive and reduces its noise level this way.
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