12.Sep.2002
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Sources of SN-Münz and Marken Archives Lost (w. Update)
Steffen Nitz reports: Unfortunately something awful has happened. I lost the source codes to SN-Münz Archive and SN-Marken Archive and everything related. It is also not possible to work with registrations anymore. I'm asking registered users to send me their keyfiles.
Update, 13th September, 2002:
Steffen Nitz found the source code from SN-Münz Archive version 1.0 (it had reached 1.4) including the keyfile editor, and registrations for SN-Münz Archive are possible once more.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Sep.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox ships Spider USB 2.0 PCI card for Mediator
Elbox Computer is proud to introduce the first USB 2.0 host controller
for the Amiga computers. The Spider USB 2.0 PCI card provides a simple
and affordable way to add five Hi-Speed USB ports to Mediator-equipped
Amigas.
The Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI controller is backward-compatible,
which means it works also with older USB 1.1 peripherals.
Features:
- Four external and one internal USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports
- Compatible with both USB 2.0 (480 Mbps) and USB 1.1 (12 Mbps) devices
- Compliant with EHCI, OHCI and PCI 2.2 standards
- All ports can handle high-speed, full-speed and low-speed transaction
- Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices
- Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port
- Supports PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
- Hot Plug Capability
Requirements:
- One free PCI slot
- Mediator Multimedia CD
The package contents:
- Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card
- Mediator OHCI USB drivers for the Poseidon stack
- Unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack
Mediator EHCI USB drivers for the Poseidon stack will be shipped to
registered Spider Card users as a free update (when completed).
Pricing and availability:
The Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card will be on sale as of 16 September 2002,
at the suggested retail price of EUR 39.95 (VAT excl.)
To locate an authorized distributor or purchase the product visit this
Elbox Computer website.
Mediator users are the first, as always...
(ps)
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12.Sep.2002
Jürgen Klawitter (ANF)
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Text Viewer: Next Version 3.4
The text viewer and offline-browser Next has reached version 3.4. The substantial new developments are:
- external programs, for example Apdf, can be started from Next
- improved support for wheel mouses
- text blocks are not limited by complete lines (a block can be less than one line)
- the copying of blocks in the clipboard works better
- a bug was removed, which previously led to a crash during the unpacking of archives
Download: Next3.4.lha
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12.Sep.2002
Jörg Karisch (amiga1303) (ANF)
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Meeting: Hardware Meeting of the User Group IMAGE in Nürnberg
After a long pause the user group IMAGE is again extending invitations to a hardware meeting. We will meet on Saturday the 28th of September 2002 from 9 AM to 10 PM. Address:
Mannertstraße 10
Nebeneingang
90429 Nürnberg
The purpose of this meeting is to take care of any hardware or software problems first-hand, and to talk about the latest developments of the Amiga technology. You'll find more information by clicking on the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Sep.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Game: "Aqua" - German Version Appears
Emerald Imaging, Fun Time World and Amiga Arena are pleased to present for the first time the completely German-localized version of the adventure game Aqua. Together with the developer and the help of Christian Busse we were able to fully translate the game, which resembles Myst. Aqua is available right away.
In comparison to the English version many known bugs were overcome. The game is delivered in a newly-assembled DVD package. You can get it at Fun Time World for about 17 Euros plus shipping.
Commerce and Sales
Fun Time World
c/o Sebastian Brylka
Wiehagen 78
45879 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Telephone: 0209-14 85 620 (after 5 PM), Fax: 0209-14 85 720
E-Mail: funtime@t-online.de - Fun Time World
Aqua - Info
System Requirements: AmigaOS with 68020 Processor, 8 MB RAM, AGA or graphic card, and CD-ROM drive.
Story: You've heard about the mysterious sinking of an offshore drilling platform and have decided that their misfortune may be turned to your gain. Now you stand on landing platform to the boat, ready to begin the treasure hunt. A secret, that you are about to undertake the journey of a lifetime. A journey to a world unknown to men. A world of magic, beauty, miracles, mystery and a great destructive power that rules all the kingdom.
Fame, fortune and a great reward await the one who is brave enough to answer this challenge. Have you got what it takes?
Features:
- hi-res graphics
- 3-D raytraced visuals
- animated scene transitions
- sampled sounds
- simple point and click control
- save and load at any point in the game
- a bunch of interaction
- first person perspective
- screen-mode requester
- multi-tasking
- AGA and RTG compatibility
- AHI-Sound
- UAE compatibility
You can find out more about the game, story, and view screen-shots at the homepages of:
Amiga Arena and
Emerald Imaging
A playable demo will be released shortly.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Sep.2002
Chaos Computer Club
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CCC: Conference on Freedom of Information
The Chaos Computer Club has scheduled a conference on the freedom of information, content control, and Internet censorship. This international, high stakes conference will take place on Monday the 16th of September, 2002 in the Finance Building in Düsseldorf, Germany.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Sep.2002
ANN
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Meeting: More Photos from Alchimie2 / A-Expo
Click on the title link to find a row of pictures from Alchimie2 / A-Expo, courtesy of Polymere. The show took place in France on the 7th and 8th of September, 2002.
More photos, these from AFLE, can be found here.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Sep.2002
Etienne Vogt
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Tool: CheckDisk Version 0.7 Beta
Etienne Vogt, author of SysMon and many other useful tools, has published a new program by the name of CheckDisk (beta 0.7). With this tool you can check your hard-drive for defective blocks. More information may be found in the documentation.
Download: CheckDisk07.lha
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Sep.2002
Amigan Software
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Game: Worm Wars Version 7.21
Worm Wars version 7.21 has appeared. The game requires a minimum of OS 2.04, a 68020 processor, and PAL/DblPAL screenmode capability.
Download: WormWars.lha (621 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Sep.2002
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Picture Editor: PPT Released Under Gnu Public License
Janne Jalkanen, the developer of the picture-editing software "PPT" hasn't been able to work on the program for a while, and so he is now releasing it under the GNU Public License (GPL). You'll find more information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Sep.2002
Guido Mersmann auf Amithlon-ML
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Tool: MMKeyboard 2.0 for Amiga and Amithlon
Guido Mersmann has just uploaded version 2.20 of MMKeyboard for Amiga and Amithlon
systems to Aminet. Normaly it will take a few days until the upload apears.
Please send questions, suggestions, bugreports and of course keyboard profiles
to Guido Mersmann.
Some details of MMKeyboard:
You like those Windows keyboards with many additional tool buttons for
EMail, WWW, music and so on? You want to use a wireless keyboard? You
don't want to buy expensive hardware that only supports the standard
keys and leaving the others unused? Then you found the right archive!
For a few bucks you'll get a selfmade hardware that uses everything!
MMKeyboard allows you to use a Windows keyboard as Amiga keyboard. In
addition to that it's possible to launch programs via the multimedia
buttons.
No driver problems like on the PC! One little commodity enables all
available non standard keys on any keyboard! Even future keyboards are
working!
Start your music player by pressing the play button on your keyboard.
Eject your CDROM by pressing the eject button, or open a Shell in the
same way! Now it's possible to execute any tool without qualifier,
because the keys are unknown to the system! Of course it's possible to
use qualifiers to be more flexible!
In addition to that there are additional features like a real hardware
password with optional Amiga GUI, full reset handler support and much
more!
(ps)
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11.Sep.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator PCI USB drivers for Poseidon stack
Elbox Computer is pleased to announce that its drivers to PCI USB
cards in the Mediator busboard operate under the Poseidon USB stack.
These drivers have been prepared by Elbox programmers as a result
of co-operation started a few weeks ago by Chris Hodges, author of
the Poseidon stack.
As the Poseidon stack is already supported by authors of third-party
commercial software, we have decided that releasing another, our own,
USB stack for Amiga under such circumstances would mean doubling
effort of Amiga programmers.
We are sure that high-quality software included in the Poseidon stack
package and our hardware-optimised drivers resulting in high performance
achieved by PCI USB cards in Mediator will satisfy even the most demanding
users.
The unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack will
be available in the Mediator Multimedia CD. Registration of the Poseidon
stack for Mediator users will be provided by Chris Hodges.
About Poseidon:
The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the
possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with
USB interface, ranging from mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks, printers,
scanners, webcams, digicams, flash card readers, zip drives, floppy disk
drives, harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters, scanners and audio
adapters to less common things like power supplies, GPS location devices
or finger print readers. It is intended to be a solution for all systems.
For more info about Poseidon stack please visit Chris Hodges' website.
About Mediator:
The Mediator PCI busboard line is designed so as to enable expanding the
Amiga computers with a wide range of standard PCI cards like Graphic cards,
Ethernet and Fast Ethernet network cards, Modem cards, ISDN cards, USB and
SCSI cards, Sound cards and Multimedia cards: TV tuner and MPEG-2 hardware
decoders. Expanding the Amiga with the Mediator PCI busboard opens the way
to employing the power of the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors in Amiga,
around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+ cards are based. For more info about
Mediator please visit Elbox website.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator UP 3.2 & Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.16
The MediatorUP 3.2 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV
and for the newest Mediator model--Mediator PCI 1200 SX has been
made available today.
The update includes new version of: · MediatorNET.device
Changes:
MediatorNET.device ver.2.6 - patching of MiamiDX ver.1.0c added
The MM CD 1.16 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200
and Mediator PCI ZIV busbords, who are registered owners of
the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released today.
The update includes new version of: · FastEthernet.device
Changes:
FastEthernet.device ver.1.6 - patching of MiamiDX ver.1.0c added
Info on the current versions is available in DOWNLOADS | Mediator section. (ps)
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11.Sep.2002
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Thendic France: Post A-Expo Notes
1. Pricing for the Pegasos and Betatester
The Pegasos mainboard with 600 Mhz G3 (which is upgradeable AND scalable)
will be sold to end-users for 560 Euros (no VAT) from Thendic-France or
our Distributors/Resellers. Our prices to Resellers and Distributors are
of course better and are based on volume. They are in business too. We
need to support them and we will.
The G4 upgrade (800Mhz) can be purchased for less than 200 Euros and you
will be able to do this well before the end of the year -- if you want
(see on an earlier thread here for a discussion about this).
You will see basic models of the Pegasos for less than 800 Euros
(including tax and taking all the different country VATs into consideration)
as GGS Data in Sweden is now offering and Vesalia will soon.
2. MorphOS
MorphOS gets better daily and we will delivered Betatester machines 127-133
this week. Betatester machines remain 1000 Euros because of the extras that
come with it - the smart card reader, the wireless camera, and the DataPlay
module - depending on what the individual Betatester is working on.
Betatesters also get successively upgraded (as required/desired) to each
version of the G4 and have FTP access to the latest ROM. The Betatester
becomes the development machine for the eclipsis. The first peripherals
will be distributed in Frankfurt at Betatester II on 12 October.
3. Linux
Further, every version of Linux for the PPC known has been installed and
works fine on the Pegasos. We have been especially amazed by Mac-on-Linux.
Sitting next to a G4 iMac you cannot tell the difference between the
machines while running the same applications.
4. Show/Demonstration Schedule and Updates
a. For the Finnish Amiga Users Group the following individuals will be
present:
- Gerald Carda (bPlan)
- Ralph Schmidt (bPlan)
- Rakesh Raghoebardayal (Thendic)
- Sharwin Raghoebardayal (Thendic)
- Teemu Suikki (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer)
- Harry Sintonen (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer)
We will also have other Finnish Betatesters/Pegasos owners
present.
b. Thendic/bplan will be out in force for the WOA Show in Brentwood,
Essex, UK on 2 November.
c. A Pegasos Show will be held in Lodz, Poland on 16 November. Please
refer to www.pegasos.pl for details as they become available.
d. A Pegasos Show also be held in Moscow. A date has not been set.
You will be able to see information on
www.amiga.org.ru.
If you want to hold a Pegasos show/demo please send us an email.
We will figure out a way to support you. There are Pegasos demos
being planned/scheduled in nearly every weekend until the big show
in Aachen in December.
5. Un grand MERCI!
The A-Expo was extremely well organized. We were very pleased to be
involved. Congratulations to the A-Expo Team! We will have our
pictures from the event posted to www.thendic-france.com shortly.
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill
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10.Sep.2002
Jochen Abitz (ANF)
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Event: Amiga-Events with Apple iCal
For all Amiga devotees working also on a Mac with MacOS X and iCal (now
available) I offer the subscribable iCal calendar. Only follow the title
link to "subscribe" and iCal gets all Amiga events.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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10.Sep.2002
Patric Klöter (ANF)
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Amiga - Mein Leben - Ask Petro...
Patric Klöter wrote:
For the memoirs of Petro Tyschtschenko is a chapter planned where Amiga fans can ask Petro questions and he will answer them.
I do not think, that there is anybody who does not know who Petro is. But for the ones who never heared of him here a short history of his Amiga curriculum vitae:
"Petro was working since October 1982 at the Commodore Büromaschinen GmbH and has seen the birth of the Amiga in 1985. After the bankruptcy of Commodore 1994 he was chief of Amiga Technologies, a branch of ESCOM, which bought all rights of Commodore and the Amiga in April 1995. As ESCOM also got into bankruptcy 1996 Petro tried everything from the survival of the Amiga and became chief of Amiga International, Inc. after Gateway 2000 bought the rights in 1997. He put himself in to the further development of the AmigaOS, then released in version 3.5. In April 2001 he retired officially from AMIGA Inc.. He has not left for all instances and is taking a boo on Amiga events to talk with Amiga fans who were customers and are now friends."
Now I call the Community to ask Petro interesting questions dealing with his life and the Amiga. Sure there are people who want to know some special things about Petro. Now here is the opportunity for that.
I will create a catalogue of questions for Petro he will answer and it will be a special chapter in the book. This will be unique in an autobiography.
I will administrate these questions I want to make sure you note this: Please send the question to me NOT personally to Petro. The address is mail@commodore-amiga.de.
I will forward the questions to Petro. Please for now only one question per person. I do not know how many question are taken up into the book, so maybe not all question are answered.
Petro has been informed about this event and so this is not a joke.
I thank you in advance for your interest and wait for your questions.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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10.Sep.2002
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)
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AmiATLAS 6 Update Info
Gerd Frank writes:
It really lasts a very long time, but now there are some updates to
AmiATLAS 6 available. Sorry for the really long delay, but we had some
strange personal and technical problems over the last months...
A few users already got several of the older update archives some
months ago, others obviously nothing. So now within several eMails
(spreaded over some days to avoid overfilled eMail accounts)
you will receive all the available updates again. But remember, only
for registered users and some selected beta testers with an NDA release!
The distribution will be done in several packed archives in LHA format.
There are normally no installation scripts included, it is enough to
unpack the archives and copy the directories directly into your installation
of AmiATLAS 6. If you are not sure with such procedures, just send an eMail!
You should receive the following updates:
- AmigaAUTO v1.06
- AmigaKONTO v1.06
- AmiATLAS v6.38 (ony an internal but stable release!!!)
- map denmark v6.50
- map benelux v6.50
- map germany_special v6.50
All these maps were done by Manfred Rohde in many many sacrifying hours
of absolutely hard work. Kind regards to him and thank you very much!!!
Possible a new enhanced map for Italy, done by Fabio Miscia, will follow
in the near future too! But again please be patient...
To the programs I can only say these are mainly bug fixed localized
versions,
the main changes and enhancements are done inside and by now are mostly not
visible to the user. This will follow with the updates in the future. So
please don't be disappointed or even expect miracles.
In future releases the following maps won't be supported or enhanced
anymore,
because it needs too much time to do all the work on nearly the same maps
for
one country. It's even possible some maps will only be renamed so don't
panic!
- austria (these three will be joined to one "austria")
- austria_plus (map with highest capacity, choosable with)
- austria_special (the travelguide and a map of europe)
- belgium (included in the new BeNeLux)
- D_CH_A (old stuff...)
- germany (now only "germany_special" is supported,)
- germany_global (same conditions as austria and switzerland)
- germany_small (dito)
- netherlands (included in the new BeNeLux)
- switzerland (these three will be joined to one "switzerland")
- switzerland_special (map with highest capacity, choosable with)
- switzerland_standard (the travelguide and a map of europe)
What we will do with the maps in "germany_prof" was still not decided
finally.
Within the travel guides and hotel guides are very extensive changes in
progress,
but because of the amount of data of course it needs some more time.
In the future you can use a database as known from similar products on other
systems. Btw AmigaGuide files wont be used so extensive in the future as it
is currently done, but you will get powerful possibilities e.g. for
searching.
By request you can get the actual beta release and have some fun...
The tools AmiAVON and AmigaPLZ should follow soon (I hope so!). The problem
is I have to recode these tools now already four times because of technical
problems with the old hardware.
And don't forget:
Anybody who had already done own enhancements on towns, streets or other
things, surely knows about the long time to wait for new updates. In most
cases this is really underestimated.
Last not least a request to all users:
The whole project AmiATLAS lives from the contributions of its users.
A short eMail with new ideas or bug reports would be really great and
of course very useful for future releases of this product! Thank you!!!
I would note this because from hundreds of users there are only about ten
enthusiastic guys with ideas and bug reports from time to time, what
I think is very a pity.
Best regards,
Gerd Frank
AmiATLAS Development Team
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10.Sep.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox releases MM CD UP 1.15
The MM CD 1.15 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI
4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX,
Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV busbords, who are registered
owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released today.
The update includes new versions of the following drivers:
- FastEthernet.device
- sb128.audio
- tv.library
- Voodoo.card
The changes were made as follows:
FastEthernet.device ver.1.5
- driver completely rebuilt,
- optimisation for MiamiDX
sb128.audio ver.4.6
- AHIsub_Update() procedure changed
tv.library ver.1.11
- I2C support for developers added
Voodoo.card ver.4.15
- clipping procedure improved
The current developer documentations for tv.library and mixer.library are
enclosed in the MM CD 1.15.
Current versions info is available in DOWNLOADS | Mediator section.
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10.Sep.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox releases MediatorUP 3.1
The MediatorUP 3.1 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV
and for the newest Mediator model--Mediator PCI 1200 SX has been made
available today.
The update includes new versions of the following drivers:
- pci.library
- MediatorNET.device
- Voodoo.card
The changes were made as follows:
pci.library ver.5.4
- changed support for multifunction PCI cards
- added emulation mode
MediatorNET.device ver.2.5
- driver completely rebuilt,
- optimisation for MiamiDX
Voodoo.card ver.2.15
- improved clipping procedure
Current versions info is available in DOWNLOADS | Mediator section.
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10.Sep.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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VHI Studio 5.7 and IOUSB DigiCam Package available
We're proud to announce you the availability of a new and expanded version of
VHI Studio today.
New features/improvements in VHI Studio 5.7:
- USB-support (digital cameras, webcams)
- new, integrated FTP-client for the webcam-functionality
- completly newly written .mov-animationexport
- automatic framerate-recognition
- an ARexx-port has been added
- heavily advanced webcam- and timelapse-functionality
- example-webcamfiles with elegant design in the archive
- extended PPC-support (e.g. JPEG-decoding)
- now uses fxWARP 9 technology
- native CPU-modules for PPC (PowerUP, WarpUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon)
Along with the availability of the new version we also have relaunched our
VHI Studio-pages.
VHI Studio is the award-winning software for video boards, digicams, webcams and
other video sources on the AMIGA with the broadest hardware-support. Functionality
includes recording and cutting of video clips, download of images from digital
cameras, still-picture-grabbing and their optimization, watching TV on the
Workbench, a full-blown webcam-software (besides, this feature also works with
video boards, digicams, etc!) and the easy creation of timelapse-animations.
(ps)
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10.Sep.2002
Matthias M. (ANF)
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Meeting: Amiga Inside Part II
Matthias M. reports: Amiga Inside - Part II is finished and we would like to thank all the visitors and our sponsors. It was once again a very successful party, even if the number of Amigas has declined. On all three days we tinkered, screwed, socketed and explained.
The use of projectors was a complete success. Many films were shown and so the nights passed without much sleep. Steffen Häuser of Hyperion came and showed us the current version of Quake 2, and it made a very good impression in terms of playability and stability, and the networking functions were able to be extensively tested. The weather also cooperated and we were able to have a barbecue on Sunday evening.
A few pictures have been uploaded to the homepage, and more will follow. I hope we all get to do it again next year! -greetings, Matthias
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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10.Sep.2002
Korodny (ANF)
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Interview with Thomas Frieden: OS4 questions and answers
Korodny writes: A few weeks ago, the amiga-news.de community collected a bunch of questions related to OS4 and forwarded them to Thomas Frieden, in the hope that he may answer some of them.
Guess what? Not only did he answer all of them, he even answered them in English, for you poor souls outside of Germany ;-). The interview in German.
1. ExecSG, 68k-Emulator, WarpUP
Amiga-News: Please describe the Memory-Protection implementation and how this works with pre-OS4 software?
Thomas Frieden: Free memory will always be protected against reading or
writing. Some critical memory areas, like the base page
(address 0) will also be protected, to allow software
to find NULL pointer bugs (which is an extremely common
form of bugs).
Old software (68k programs that are emulated, and old
PPC software) will run in a different MMU setup. This
will not protect anything else but the stuff mentioned
above, so even if the program behaves badly, it will be
allowed to do so.
New software, OTOH, will have to be written in such a
way that memory protection will work. Initially, the
protection will be minimal (see above), but with later
revisions, we're moving to completely isolated address
spaces.
Exec SG already provides for this possibility.
Amiga-News: How is Virtual Memory implemented? What has been changed in the implementation compared to your original
plans?
Thomas Frieden: The original concept was similar to VMM, i.e. a
partition mapped into memory, leaving the original
memory system untouched. However, the new plan is to
include a virtual addressing scheme at the core. This
will allow lots of additional features such a different
memory allocation schemes, automatic stack elargement
etc.
Amiga-News: I don't like Virtual Memory, can I disable it?
Thomas Frieden: You can turn of swapping of memory to disk, yes.
However, there's actually no need to do that. It seems
a lot of people are judging virtual memory by it's
implementation in Windows. Windows uses it's swapping
feature even though there's physical memory available.
OS4 will not do that. Even if you have swapping turned
on, you will not notice it if enough memory is
available. However, when you would normally get a
requester telling you that you ran out of memory, the
pager will kick in and free some memory. That's all. As
long as you do not use enormous amounts of memory, the
pager will not become active, and no swapping will
occur.
Amiga-News: Are there up-to-date Benchmarks from Petunia (68k emulator)?
Thomas Frieden: You will have to check that out on the authors website...
Amiga-News: Is Petunia completed now (all CPU commands, FPU, MMU emulation)?
Thomas Frieden: FPU emulation is being finalised right now. MMU
emulation is not planned and is really of quite limited
interest.
Amiga-News: Is Petunia already integrated with Exec SG?
Thomas Frieden: No, not yet. The integration of emulation into OS4 is
one of the reason why we are going for a virtual
addressing scheme.
The emulation integration concept is already designed
by an expert in the field and is about to be
implemented.
Amiga-News: When will there be a new scheduler (as already announced)?
Thomas Frieden: Hmm, I don't think this was announced.
ExecSG uses the same scheduling scheme as the old Exec,
that's a prioritized round-robin scheme. It's one of
the most efficient schedulers, and most of all, it
allows near-realtime behavior. This near-realtime
behavior is a critical point in the whole Amiga design:
it ensures the responsiveness that we all like about
the Amiga. Other schedulers have been available for the
Amiga in the past, but while for example 'nice' type
scheduling is suited for applications, it isn't suited
for drivers.
What we *will* add in future version is real threading:
Right now, the only possibility for threads is to use
multiple tasks, but this limits the usability
(especially since an application consisting of 30 tasks
will receive a lot more time compared to an application
consisting of just one task).
Amiga-News: When will the GCC cross compiler be available for 68k Amigas (as a Linux cross compiler already exists)?
Thomas Frieden: We're currently working on that, with low priority,
though. The compiler is also not available publically,
because we want to be able to change certain aspects of
the ABI on short notice yet.
Amiga-News: Will there be "Gurus" again?
Thomas Frieden: Probably.
Amiga-News: How much faster will existing PPC applications be under OS4?
Thomas Frieden: We don't have numbers yet but the PPC is already a lot
faster when the 68k CPU is turned off. Context-switches
will also be substantially faster.
Considering the fact that key components of the OS will
be PPC native, we can expect a nice performance gain.
Amiga-News: Will games like WipeOut 2097 or Heretic II run under OS4?
Thomas Frieden: We want to have full WarpUp compatibility, so
theoretically, they should work. It has to be tested,
though.
Hyperion will remaster all of its titles for OS 4 for
superior performance.
Amiga-News: In theory, it should be possible to catch direct access to custom chips registers and emulate
the custom chips using UAE code, right?
Thomas Frieden: In theory, yes. However, it's doubtful that this is
actually something that would be beneficial. UAE will
do a good job emulating old stuff, and with UAE, you'll
have full control over the environment, i.e. the CPU
used. As most programs that directly access the chipset
are unlikely to work reliably in an environment so
completely different from old Amigas, I'd say that UAE
is by far the better solution.
Amiga-News: Will there be something like "PuhDerBaer" für OS4?
Thomas Frieden: Uh, WTF is PuhDerBaer?
2. Boot process, File systems, AmigaOne BIOS
Amiga-News: Will the annoying "Disk not validated"-Problem be cured with the new implementation of FFS?
Thomas Frieden: No.
Amiga-News: Can I press both mouse buttons to enter the early startup menu?
Thomas Frieden: Yes.
Amiga-News: What will be in the early startup menu?
Thomas Frieden: It will remain the same for now, maybe some additional
options (for selecting the kernel configuration...)
Amiga-News: Early startup menu is in no way related to the motherboard BIOS, correct?
Thomas Frieden: Yes.
Amiga-News: What about filesystems? Can I connect my Classic Amiga HD to the A1 and access the contents? Will we
still have an RDB or will we get that "trendy" MBR?
Thomas Frieden: The disk format will not change. Definitely no MBR.
Amiga-News: Will it be possible to boot from external sources?
Thomas Frieden: This might be possible, but is not planned right now.
Amiga-News: What will be the boot time?
Thomas Frieden: Similar to what it is now, hopefully faster.
Amiga-News: What will be the floppy disk format? Will the AmigaOne be able to read my 880k Amiga disks?
Thomas Frieden: No, that's a limitation of the floppy controller used
in the A1. The Amiga has much more control over it's
floppy, which is not available in non-custom
controllers.
Amiga-News: Will OS4 automatically recognise if a floppy disk gets inserted?
Thomas Frieden: As this is not yet implemented, I can't really say.
However, floppy support is becoming more and more
unimportant right now, so I don't think too much energy
will be wasted on such a dead medium.
Amiga-News: How will a Classic Amiga boot OS4? A classic Amiga can't boot from a PPC filesystem,
how will that problem be solved?
Thomas Frieden: As there's still a 68k on the classic (which can't be
removed due to some signals that are still generated in
the 68k), the first boot wil always be done using the
68k. There's no reason why the file system structure
can't be used from 68k and PPC alike...
3. Supported Hardware, USB, Firewire
Amiga-News: What hardware will definately be supported by OS4 (Gfx,Sound,NICs,USB,etc. ...)?
Thomas Frieden: All of the above.
Amiga-News: What USB drivers will be available?
Thomas Frieden: Currently, the most important things to cover are
keyboards, mice, and HUBs. Other drivers will follow
later. Third parties like IoSpirit already have access
to our USB stack and will provide for support for
devices such as scanners.
Amiga-News: What will the USB stack look like? Will it have a GUI?
Thomas Frieden: With a limited GUI.
Amiga-News: Will OS4's USB stack be compatible with "Poseidon"?
Thomas Frieden: Doubtful.
Amiga-News: What about drivers for printers, scanner, CD-ROM etc.?
Thomas Frieden: This will remain in the hands of third parties for now
with the exception of the CD-ROM drivers.
Amiga-News: Are you working on a driver for PCI-Firewire?
Thomas Frieden: No. Firewire is low priority. It's scope is rather
limited, therefore it's not considered an essential
feature. Support will probably follow later, but it's
our firm believe that right now, other stuff is far
more important (USB, IDE, SCSI).
Amiga-News: Do you have access to documentation for the 'All In Wonder' Radeon 7500 and 8500 too?
Thomas Frieden: The chips on these cards are practically the same as on the other variants.
Amiga-News: If yes will there be drivers supporting the additional functionality of these cards?
Thomas Frieden: No, at least not initially.
Amiga-News: Would there be AHI support for the audio functionality of these cards?
Thomas Frieden: See above.
Amiga-News: Will 3D drivers for ATi Radeon 7500 be shipped with OS4.0?
Thomas Frieden: Not initially. The idea is to release OS 4 for the
Cyberstorm PPC first where there is no need for such a
driver (These boards are AGP only, AFAIK).
Amiga-News: Will 3D drivers for ATi Radeon 8500 ship with OS4.0?
Thomas Frieden: This will need to wait for the new version of Warp3D.
Amiga-News: Does OS4 run on the Pegasos?
Thomas Frieden: We don't have a Pegasos. Theoretically it would be very
easy to get OS 4 to run on the Pegasos considering the
very limited technical differences between the AmigaOne
and the Pegasos.
Amiga-News: What about hardware companies supporting OS4 (wrt scanners, printers)?
Thomas Frieden: None confirmed yet. However, we've been approached by
hardware manufactureres about support for OS4. I can't
tell any details yet, though.
Amiga-News: Will the BlizzardPPC be supported?
Thomas Frieden: Most likely.
Amiga-News: Will the BlizzardVision / CyberVisionPPC be supported?
Thomas Frieden: Yes.
4. Other OS4 modules
Amiga-News: What's the finalised feature list for OS4?
Thomas Frieden: See Amiga's web page.
Amiga-News: What new features will Intuition have?
Thomas Frieden: I'm sorry, but that question is too complex to answer
within the scope of this questionnaire.
Amiga-News: How much of the new features is finished already?
Thomas Frieden: The new intuition is about 95 % finished, last I
heard...
Amiga-News: What's IBrowse's status?
Thomas Frieden: Ibrowse 2.3 has been in beta-testing for a while now.
Amiga-News: What's the status of MUI 4.0?
Thomas Frieden: We have built a complete version of MUI using the
latest source-code.
Amiga-News: Will there be a new Ed?
Thomas Frieden: No, no new Ed. There are people that use vi, and there
are people that use emacs. I use GoldEd. Most people
have their favorite editor already. The system's editor
is meant for small changes, like changing
startup-sequence... most user will still want to go on
using their existing editor, though...
Amiga-News: How much is DOpus Magellan integrated? Will it be just an external Tool?
Thomas Frieden: That has not yet been decided.
Amiga-News: What new shell commands will be available?
Thomas Frieden: There will be a new shell, yes. This isn't really the
place to start listing individual shell commands.
Amiga-News: What's ARexx's future?
Thomas Frieden: Arexx will be preserved but we are looking at alternatives as a replacement down the line.
Amiga-News: Will there be multi-user support? Password protection?
Thomas Frieden: No, at least not in the initial version.
Amiga-News: Will Screen-Dragging be possible (again)?
Thomas Frieden: Such a feature is technically "challenging" on anything
but the classic hardware. If you run OS4 on a Amiga
native mode, it will be possible. But different
resolutions at the same time on a standard graphics
chip are impossible.
Amiga-News: Will OS4 stay video compatible? Will it still be possible to display the Workbench
on a TV (as long as the gfx card has TV-out)?
Thomas Frieden: If the driver supports it, yes. After all, this is just a matter of the driver.
Amiga-News: How secure is the TCP stack? What about Firewall software?
Thomas Frieden: I think a firewall is integrated. There's also the possibility for IP forwarding, which requires some firewall functionality...
Amiga-News: Will openening a Workbench window (and rendering the icons) still block the rest of the system?
Thomas Frieden: Sorry, don't know. AFAIK, this wasn't even the case on
the latest Workbench. but I could be mistaken...
5. Misc. Stuff
Amiga-News: Could you explain the various delays? What difficulties did you encounter? What unexpected
problems had to be solved?
Thomas Frieden: It would take us too far to discuss all the reasons for
the delays here. The main reason is that we decided to
fold most if not all of the functionality originally
planned for OS 4.2 into OS 4.0. Plus there's the fact
that we needed to develop the AmigaOne Bios after the
original development company (completely unrelated to
the Amiga market) failed to come up with the goods.
Amiga-News: What will we have to pay fo OS4? Will OS3.5/3.9 owners get a discount?
Thomas Frieden: Pricing has yet to be decided. No price-cuts are
planned for OS 3.5 and 3.9 buyers. OS 4.0 is the most
comprehensive OS update since 2.x to 3.0 and the
targetmarket is quite small. This leaves little room
for discounts.
Amiga-News: How can I become beta tester?
Thomas Frieden: Beta-testing will initially be carried out by selected
and trusted individuals who are known to the 30+ OS 4
developers.
Amiga-News: Will there be real manuals as PDF,HTML and AmigaGuide documents?
Thomas Frieden: Time permitting.
Amiga-News: Who will handle customer support (bug repots, requests)?
Thomas Frieden: This has yet to be finalised. Let's start with actually
releasing OS 4.
Amiga-News: What are the long term plans (AmigaOS5)? Will AmigaOS become CPU independant or run on multiple
CPUs (IA32, IA64, MIPS, SPARC...)?
Thomas Frieden: Sorry, you'll have to ask Amiga about this. Hyperion is
currently only interested in moving OS 4 forward and
ensuring its survival on a new and modern hardware
platform. Basically, the system has been "cleaned" a
bit of CPU dependencies.
However, I don't really see a good chance to run on
little endian CPUs... this doesn't only affect the
system, but all user code as well, and I would
definitely think that a lot of code will fail. Apart
from that, chances to run on IA64 are much smaller than
anything else (32 bit systems do no port well to 64 bit
systems, at least not when you want to use the extra 32
bits...)
Overall, all code working on a system wich also
includes little endian CPUs will have to take care
about the endian. This is not a problem in itself, but
I'm willing to predict that a lot of people will not
care about this. They will code for one specific CPU,
and this will lead to a real mess.
Amiga-News: What are the chances to get JAVA for AmigaOS?
Thomas Frieden: Better than before when AmigaDE can run hosted on OS 4.x.
Amiga-News: When will Quake2 be available for AmigaOS?
Thomas Frieden: Hopefully soon.
Amiga-News: Will there be Easter Eggs?
Thomas Frieden: If I'd tell you, I'd spoil the fun ;)
(ps)
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10.Sep.2002
Markus Heinemann (ANF)
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New website about the Amiga by 'Redhorse'
Dear Amigans!
I want to present my new website: http://www.amigatoday.de.tf. The site is extended regurlarly and new ideas are welcome, send an email to me.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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10.Sep.2002
(ANF)
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Music: New Up Rough Release Out
Super Sharp Shuriken EP feat. Samuel aka Substance & Nasley is out!
(This is a music disk!). Four jazzy d'n'b tracks. This one also includes
a brand new and STUNNING paperdoll by Royal.
Get your copy today here. (ps) (Translation: gf)
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09.Sep.2002
Amigan Software
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Game: Worm Wars version 7.2
Version 7.2 of Worm Wars has been released. The game requires OS2.04+ and
PAL/DblPAL as well as an MC68020+.
Download: WormWars.lha (625 KB)
(ps)
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09.Sep.2002
Elwood on ANN
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AmigaOS4 Status Update
As shown at the French Amiga show this week-end, here is the
status update of the AmigaOS4 project.
- Exec will be finished this week.
- Ramlib is done.
- DOS is done.
- Intuition is 95% done. The new sys-i class still needs to be added.
Work scheduled for completion end of the month. The prefs program
is done at 80%.
- Graphics is done.
- Layers is done.
- Utility is done.
- Iffparse is done.
- cia.ressource, audio.device and timer.device done at 99%.
- keyboard.device done at 99% (a few lines of ASM code left)
- input.device done.
- keymap.library done.
- lowlevel.library done.
- utility.library done.
- clip handler
This is the very first release of the cliphandler, i.e.
the CONCLIP: device, that provides clipboard support on
the level of the dos stream I/O. It also provides a
simple library for applications that cannot call the
dos.library directly.
- Queue handler done.
- Shell, features added, bugs fixed.
- CDFS is done.
- FFS2 is done. Plugin feature added allowing (plugins can be added
to some partitions for encryption, caching, mirroring....)
i.e. you can write a plugin that allows you to encrypt automatically all files copied into a partition.
- AmiDock is done. One of the so many features are the Dockies. These are plugins that allow the user to
add active content into the dock like a running clock or a lens that displays the area under the mouse
pointer, or ... whatever you want ! Who will write a demo in a Docky ? :-)
- GhostScript is added. It allows to create/display PostScript or PDF. Also a port of xPDF will be added.
- USB stack (with Subway/Highway/Thyclacine support)
- Soundblaster Live drivers!
- MUI
- IBrowse 2.3
- PPC native datatypes
- Reaction (95% finished)
- MediaToolbox
- PartitionWizard
- ft2.manager, diskfont.library. You'll now be able to open all sort of font formats...
Items still outstanding for OS 4:
- SCSI driver
- Remaining Intuition/Reaction work (5%)
- Roadshow GUI completion
- 2D driver completion (5% remaining)
- 68K emulation integration
- AmigaInput (nearly done)
Best regards,
Ben Hermans
Managing partner Hyperion Entertainment
(ps)
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09.Sep.2002
amos factory
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Programming language: Mattathias becomes Open Source
Mattathias BASIC, a programming language written in ANSI C, has become Open
Source under "GNU General Public License (GPL)". After six weeks of
planning and checking, there is already a first pre-alpha version. The official
project pages and further information can be found at
Sourceforge.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Sep.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 11.09.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games you only can play on disks on your
hard disk. The following games are added or updated:
- 11.09.02 new: Static Chaos (Silents) done by Psygore
- 11.09.02 new: Garfield: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal (The Edge) done by Codetapper
- 09.09.02 new: Pro PowerBoat Simulator (Codemasters) done by Codetapper
- 09.09.02 new: Coala (Empire) done by JOTD
- 08.09.02 new: Giddy (Phil Ruston) done by Codetapper
- 08.09.02 new: Thug Life (Essence) done by Psygore
- 08.09.02 updated: Dogs of War (Elite Systems) loader optimised
- 07.09.02 improved: Chromagic (Dual-Crew Shining) interrupts fixed for 040/060 processors
- 07.09.02 improved: Sonic Attack (Dual-Crew Shining) interrupts fixed for 040/060 processors
- 05.09.02 updated: Axel's Magic Hammer (Core Design/Gremlin) supports another version
- 04.09.02 new: Axel's Magic Hammer (Core Design/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
- 04.09.02 improved: 4D Sports Boxing (Mindscape) various improvements
- 03.09.02 new: Drip (Art Skiles) done by DJ Mike
- 03.09.02 new: Steigar (Screen 7) done by DJ Mike
- 03.09.02 new: Multi Megamix 3 (Kefrens) done by Psygore
(ps)
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09.Sep.2002
Jürgen Schober (E-Mail)
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Event: Pegasos and AmigaOne at O.A.S.E.
For the first time in Austria, Pegasos and AmigaOne G3SE will be shown at next weekend's O.A.S.E. in Graz.
The Pegasos will be demontrated by DYXS GmbH, a Thendic France partner.
The current AmigaOne G3SE Board has arrived at the organisers PointDesign
already in Rev. B, so at least they'll be able to show a current version of the
BIOS.
Besides MorphOS on the Pegasos, parts of AmigaOS 4 will be demonstrated.
Furthermore the USB cards Thylacine and Highway will be presented with USB
devices. You will also be able to see the Norway Ethernet module, Mirage 4000T,
and much more.
For the first time in Austria: Linux on Playstation 2, as well as 2 Gamecubes
with current games for the gamers.
The O.A.S.E. Open Amiga Southeast Europe Show will take place on 14th and 15th
September 2002 in the Hotel Europa in Graz, Austria. Further information about
this event can be found on the O.A.S.E. web site.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Sep.2002
Andre Pfeiffer (E-Mail)
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Tool: TWINKICK-GENERATOR / Amiga1000 Kickdisk with OS1.3 and OS3.1
This tool from Andre Pfeiffer generates a Kickstart-Disk for the
A1000-Amiga with OS1.3 and OS3.1 on 1 Disk.
Download: twinkick.lha
The tool requires a disk with two files:
- OS1.3 (V34.5) named "KICK13.ROM" (A500/A1000/A2000)
- OS3.1 (V40.063) named "KICK31.ROM" (A500/A600/A2000)
- (You can generate this files with the "GRABKICK"-Tool from Aminet)
- Don't forget to rename the files!
Execute the tool "TKG.EXE" and follow the instructions. That's all!
Turn on your A1000 and insert your new Kickstart, during the boot process
you will see a short instruction.
IMPORTANT:
This Kickstart requires an A1000 with 2MB or more FastMem
located at $200000 (works with AutoConfig and NonAutoConfig-Expansions).
(Does not work with more than one external MemoryExpansion!)
EXTRAS:
- OS3.1 works with NonAutoConfigMemory
- OS1.3 includes a "Game-Mode", better PAL-Check, Virus-Checker and
some bugfixes
(ps)
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09.Sep.2002
WinUAE.net (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 1 (08.09.2002)
Since yesterday, the Amiga emulator WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 1 by Toni
Wilen for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K and WinXP has been available in the
download area of the WinUAE home page. (Unfortunately, winuae.net currently
seems to be down, please write any known mirror addresses into the
comments!).
The following changes have been implemented:
- UAE 0.8.22 merge, bumped version number (but most changes were already included in R4)
- 68000 CHK-instruction fix (Days of Thunder) and exception 3 handling update
- real 68000 prefetch emulation ("100 most remembered C64 games" and more)
- some custom chipset fixes (sprite-playfield collisions, graphics corruption)
- keyboard fix (some key presses were missed when pressing multiple keys)
- A1000 emulation fixes
- AVIOutput update (Sane)
- input-tab updates
- vsync works properly in interlaced screen modes
- sound updates/changes (DirectSound, uses UAE timing in non-JIT/vsync modes and more...)
- filesystem bug fixes
- CD32 pad numeric keypad emulation works again
- fixed joystick bugs in compatibility mode
- fast RAM state save fix
- bsdsocket fix (Stephan Riedelbeck)
- disk emulation fixes
New features:
- full harddisk image support (hdtoolbox, RDB, custom filesystems, SFS and PFS3 confirmed working)
- uaescsi.device improvements, confirmed compatible with CacheCDFS, AmiCDFS and AsimCDFS
(disk change support added and use of direct scsi-mode is not needed anymore)
- Action Replay 1 support (but breakpoints don't work)
- CPU idle (tries to detect use of STOP-instruction, may not be complatible with all Amiga software..)
- floppy speed slider is back
- new AHI code and driver (Bernd Roesch)
- Amiga <> Windows clipboard support (Bernd Roesch)
- on the fly switching between OpenGL and DirectDraw mode
- on the fly switching between vsync and non-vsync mode
- compressed Kickstart ROM image support
- build-in screenshot function, shortcut key: F11 (Sane)
- experimental (and much slower) cycle-exact cpu and blitter emulation mode.
WARNING: requires at least 50%+ more cpu power than "regular" mode.
Athlon XP/Pentium IV + DDR/RAMBUS RAM highly recommended!
WARNING2: Frameskip must be set to 1.
WARNING3: very experimental, timing is quite far from perfection.
- wkeykill.dll support (disables Windows-keys)
- OpenGL scanline brightness slider added
- and more..
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Sep.2002
CD32-Allianz (ANF)
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CD32-Allianz web site temporarily inaccessible
As some might already have noticed, the home page of the CD32-Allianz is
currently inaccessible. The reason for this is not that we are giving up, but rather
that we have exceeded our server space, and have thus been shut down
(Arcor has halved the web space to 25 MB).
Some cover scans have now been deleted, and we hope to get activated again
soon. Of course there will be another announcement on amiga-news.de when that
happens! Regarding the increasing need for web space we will then think of a
solution.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Sep.2002
ANN
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Instant-Messenger: AmiComSys V2.3
On 8th September 2002, Håkan Parting has published version 2.3 of the
instant messenger 'AmiComSys'. This version contains a.o.t. various bug fixes
and introduces some new features (see readme).
The program works similar to the well known ICQ (Who is online? Private chat.
Public chat. Posting of files.).
AmiComSys needs AmigaOS 3.0+, CPU 68020+, amarquee.library V54+ (included) and
MUI.
In addition to the AmiComSys archive, the MUI custom class NList V20.106+ is
required.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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ComputerPartner: Amiga reports back
ComputerPartner Nr. 35 of 5th September 02 writes on page 16:
'Amiga reports back - namely in the form of a software platform for the
newest Smartphone by Sendo. The english mobile phone manufacturer will provide the "Z100" with "Amiga Anywhere". This will contain among others
Amiga games - new as well as well known ones. Furthermore the mobile phone will
offer business applications and messaging services.
www.sendo.com.'
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Event: Pictures of Alchimie 2 and Amiga Expo in France (Update)
Martin Heine writes:
According to first reports, Thendic demonstrated 10 Pegasos computers with the
current if not yet finished version of MorphOS.
On show were a.o. 'Ambient' (the MorphOS workbench), which sports a.o. 24bit
PNG icons and a lister a la Magellan 2. (sd)
Update 09.09.2002:
here you will find
other picture von this event.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)
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Magazine: AMIGA aktuell 09/2002 published
On 9th September 2002, Carsten Schröder has published the German language
September issue of the magazine 'AMIGA aktuell': This issue contains a.o.:
- a review of the new internet strategy game 'Tales of Tamar',
- a review of the likewise new economic simulation 'Software Tycoon',
- an extensive special on the game 'BabeAnoid',
- the fourth part of the workshop about using Ghostscript 6.50,
- an article about programming a monthly calendar in PHP,
- a summary of the newest announcements by Thendic-France,
- (alas) an explicit word or two about the lack of participation,
and much more
AMIGA aktuell 09/2002 can be read as well as downloaded in HTML or AmigaGuide format on the
web site.
The graphics are located in a separate file:
'Aakt0902GFX.lha' and belong in the same directory as the Guide version or in
the 'img' directory within the HTML version.
Download:
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08.Sep.2002
A.D.A.
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A.D.A.: Kheshkhash (PPC demo)
On 8th September 2002, the PPC demo 'Kheshkhash' has been added to the Amiga
Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.). This demo was created in cooperation of Encore and
Scenic and ranked 5th on the Mekka Symposium 2002. It is presented with 29
screen shots on its A.D.A. page.
System requirements: PPC, graphics card (8MB or more), WarpOS, CyberGraphX,
Warp3D, StormMESA, AHI.
Download: scenic_encore_-_kheshkhash.zip (8.3M)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
Amiga Future
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Mailer: SimpleMail V0.17
On 7th September 2002, version 0.17 of the eMail client 'SimpleMail' has been published. The following changes have been made as compared to the previous
version:
- New: Now shows user@popserver in show single account submenu.
- New: Recipient's address may be entered later.
- New: Added search function.
- Changed: When closing the message composition window, the message is now
not saved instead of deleted.
Download: simplemail.lha (390K)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
Amiga Community
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Mac-Emulator: Basilisk II for 68k Amigas
On 7th September, SixK published his port of Macintosh emulator 'Basilisk II'
for 68k Amigas.
According to SixK, this emulator is currently not as fast and compatible as
Shapeshifter.
It has been successfully tested with MacOS 7.0.1. On SixK's Amiga it didn't run
with MacOS 7.6.1.
This port has so far not been tested with MacOS 8.0.0.
Download: BasiliskII-1.0.lzx
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus
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Amiga-Emulator: UAE V0.8.21 for 68k Amigas
Already on 30th August 2002, SixK published his port of version 0.8.21 of the
Amiga emulator UAE for 68k Amigas.
This version is a bit slower than version 0.8.8 beta 1 by Sam Devulder, but it
runs games like Speedball 2, and, according to SixK, seems to have better
sound support.
Further information about this port is available through the title link.
Download: uae-0.8.21.lzx
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus
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Spiel: Space War 3 by Inutilis revised
On 6th September 2002, Inutilis have published a revised and AGA compatible
version of their own action game
'Space War 3' (of 1995).
Download: spacewar3.lha (399K)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
GFX-BASE
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GFX-BASE: Workbench competition
In the course of the workbench competition, three new screen shots have been
added to the WB-Gallery
on GFX-BASE. So now there have been 27
workbench screenshots received.
The competition is running for a further 5 days until 12th September 2002.
First prize will be 'Earth' or 'WipeOut', and second prize 'PuzzleBOBs' (all
games support graphics cards).
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Mac: Mac-On-Linux supports MacOS X
The newest version of Mac-On-Linux now also boots MacOS X (incl. v10.1 and 10.2).
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
amiga.org
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Amitopia: Test - MediatorPCI 3000D
Paul Rezendes has published a review of the MediatorPCI 3000D daughterboard for
the Amiga 3000 on Amitopia.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Sep.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: PacMan.style for dynAMIte now completed
As of now you can also find a new version of the PacMan.style for
dynAMIte in the download
section on Amiforce. Thus both dynAMIte.styles are now fit for the newest
version.
Note: The old styles don't work with the newest version of dynAMIte anymore.
They are now not a single graphics file anymore, but a whole directory. The
graphics have been split.
dynAMIte is a networkable Bomberman clone.
Download: PacMan.lha,
Screenshots
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Sep.2002
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: full version of "FileX"
With the permission by Klaas Hermanns the Amiga Arena makes the download of the full version
of the binary editor "FileX" available. FileX offers the following features:
- Several files can by edited in different edit windows and/or edit views simultanuously.
- The edit windows can be opened on every public screen.
- Clipboard converter.
- Font sensitive.
- Undo and redo (only limited by available memory).
- Comprehensive block functions.
- ARexx interface with 77 commands and asynchronuous command shell.
- Printing as hex dump.
- `Grab memory` for showing and editing the memory content.
- AppWindow.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Sep.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: SN-Börsenfreak_II and more
Seitenumbau:
Amiforce has been redesigned in many places and is using more and more Glowicons. A new news system has seen the light of day, too. At this place there'll be next to the site updates single software news regarding the Amiga published from time to time.
SN-Börsenfreak_II:
From now on is the real time broker game SN-Börsenfreak_II by Steffen Nitz available for download in the Aktionen area. Besides information is a register form available, too.
Alienoid style:
As the old styles don't work anymore with the introduction of the new Dynamite version there's a new version of the Alienoid style ready for download in the download section. The PacMan style will be available soon in a new version, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Sep.2002
Horst-Uwe Kroll (ANF)
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Aminetchess club
Horst-Uwe Kroll wrote:
Hello chess friends,
there's now a chess club for Amiga friends. Everybody who likes to play a game of chess on the net may contact my respectively register himself/herself via the title link. The game is Aminetchess via email, tournaments are also planned.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Sep.2002
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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Magazine: web designer for NoCover wanted
The AMIGA online magazine "NoCover" is looking for a web designer with interest to restructure the old fashioned layout.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Sep.2002
Martin Merz (ANF)
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VisualMI available
The VisualMI archive is available on the MasonIcons homepage.
VisualMI is a image collection for VisualPrefs and features three
different sets: VisualMI, BubbleMI and GlowMI.
Visit www.MasonIcons.de (title link) for further informations and a preview.
(ps)
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06.Sep.2002
Mikey C (ANF)
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Magazine: Total Amiga - Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Issue 12 of Total Amiga Magazine is almost sold out, if you are
wondering what all the fuss is about, here is what some Amiga
notables are saying about us.
"An excellent issue, well produced, full of good stuff. If you
don't subscribe yet, now would be a good time."
-Don Cox
"I particularly like the in-depth features, the quality of which
I haven't seen since the heyday of Amiga Shopper many years ago.
If you haven't got it already, what're you waiting for?"
-Bill Hoggett
"I have to say total Amiga is a brilliant brilliant read.
Amazing stuff.
Its like a pint on a Friday night - keeps your faith in the world.
- Dave P
"It is a great mag with reviews, tutorials and of course news."
- Technoid
Urgent! We are looking for additional writers/contributors,
if you have software or hardware that you wish to review, top
tips, tutorials or even a rant or rave that you want to share,
send it in to us and we will consider it for publication in
the next issue.
Visit http://www.totalamiga.org
for more information and while you at it why not join our discussion
forum, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/totalamiga/messages.
Total Amiga Magazine; we are, are you?
(ps)
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06.Sep.2002
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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AmigaOSXL: Experieces Report V1.36
Dietmar Knoll writes:
In my report, I describe the experiences I have made with the H&P
Big-Tower. There have been numerous updates since the latest news
message before the summer break of amiga-news.de.
The chapter "AmigaXL" has been extended by the "Commands and Programs"
for this emulator and the "Settings" section has been retouched again.
For Amithlon, several changes have been made in the chapter "Installation"
and new "Commands and Patches" from the latest Amithlon-Contrib3 archive
have been added in the chapter "Amithlon".
Today I have finished version 1.0 of the GoodyBox. Since the first version
5 icons and 3 mountlists for Amithlon and a script for AC97Mixer have been
added. Furthermore, I have reworked the "Readme" file nearly completely.
If someone else can offer suggestions or files for the GoodyBox, he or she
can write them to me. (ps)
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06.Sep.2002
Dirk Baeyens (ANF)
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Nieuwe AmigaClub in Vlaanderen
Hallo Amigafans in Vlaanderen en Nederland,
op Woensdag 11 september starten we officieel met een nieuwe AmigaClub in
Vlaanderen. Onze Deuren gaan open vanaf 19.00 uur tot 23.30 uur en je kan
ons lokaal vinden op het volgende adres:
Bits & Bytes Computer Club
A. van Puymbroeklaan 33
9120 Melsele (nabij Antwerpen)
We hebben in ons lokaal een A3000 en een Amithlon staan. Jullie mogen
gerust ook je eigen Amiga meebrengen, er is plaats genoeg. Gelieve wel de
nodige verlengkabels mee te brengen als het kan.
De Inkom is gratis en het inschrijvingsgeld voor de AmigaClub bedraagt 30
Euro. In het Lokaal kan je een drankje en een versnapering nuttigen en
bij grote honger is er dichtbij ook nog een frietkot open. Er is
voldoende parkeerplaats.
We hebben ook een mailinglijst http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bbccamiga,
waar je alle vragen kunt stellen inverband met de Amiga en de Club.
Zo, hopelijk mogen we enkele nieuwe en 'oude' gezichten ontmoeten om eens
een leuk babbeltje mee te slaan of om wat te computeren, tot dan. :)
De groetjes, Dirk (ps)
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06.Sep.2002
Amiga Inc. (ANF)
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New screenshots of AmiDock in AmigaOS 4.0
In the executive-update of September of Bill McEwen there is also a link to new screenshots of AmiDock in AmigaOS 4.0 which we now want so seperately emphasize. It is impressing how consequently the developer Stefan Robl has developed further AmiDock for AmigaOS 4.0. You can find the screenshots under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2002
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ version 5.6
Users which have AmigaOS 3.9 can now download version 5.6 of Report+. You can create bug reports, Aminet readme-files, autodocs and similar reports with Report+ by Amigan Software. The program is Freeware and supports the GUI-systems ReAction and GadTools.
Download: ReportPlus.lha
Changes since 5.53a:
Path size report: optionally shows/hides subdirectories and/or files; you can pass a path as a CLI argument.
System files report: you can pass a path as a CLI argument.
Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2002
The Legacy
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Nostalgia: The Legacy - 350 new cover-scans
The Legacy which is the nostalgia museum has been equipped with 350 new cover-scans. This mega update could be only realized by the support of Classic Amiga Preservation Society.
On 'Nostalgic Game Museum' you can find screenshots, cover-scans and definitions of genres of a lot of games. Besides this 'TheLegacy' offers information about the developer of older games of C64, Amiga, Atari, PC and Schneider/Amstrad CPC.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2002
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga, Inc.: Bill McEwen's September 2002 Executive Update
Bill's latest update touches on a plethora of topics including the
Sacremento show, the Amiga club, the AmigaOne, PDA/Cellphones, Bernie
Meyer's product and the possibility of new product(s) from Amiga:
September 5, 2002 - From the desk of Bill McEwen
Greetings to one and all:
I would first like to thank all of those that I had the chance to meet
in Sacramento. While a short trip it was indeed great fun and real delight
meeting with all of you and hearing not only the encouraging words, but
also sharing in your concerns, desires, and dreams. We are looking forward
to deliver on what we discussed with you.
When we purchased Amiga from Gateway there were many out there who said
that we would fail. There were many out there who have worked against
our efforts, and others that have misrepresented fact and manipulated
privileged information in order to further their obviously self serving
goals. There have been those who have wronged us, and caused us damage.
But, guess what? We are still here! We are still delivering! We are going
to stay here! Amiga is about people, technology, excellence, we are a
most tenacious people, and we have the community to prove it. Has it always
gone according to plan? no. Have we made some adjustments to the plan?
yes. Are we delivering on the plan? yes. Will we allow others to dictate
our future? Absolutely not. Period..
Because of you, the Amiga dream lives, because of you, Amiga's are still
being used throughout the world performing amazing tasks and activities,
and because of you, we are still here and moving forward.
Amiga is a giant resting for the day of the fight, and gaining strength
quietly, for, as we embark on this mission together, nothing will tear
us apart.
Thank you once again for supporting us, and showing to the world that
what was begun in 1985 was truly only the beginning.
Bill McEwen, and the Amiga Team
Amiga Club Members:
I would also like to take a minute and say a special howdy to all of the
club members. It is really encouraging to see all of the activity and
input from you with regards to the shirt design and name for the club.
The "I am Amiga" name did not go over as well as I had thought,
but in the next couple of weeks (after we get the ok from those who already
have the name that was selected) we will all have the name and shirt design
with which an be happy and proud to wear. Each member will receive their
first newsletter in the next two weeks, and there will be all sorts of
great announcements and information e, so look forward to it in your inbox.
As a reminder we will be having a new drawing for an Amiga Enabled Cell
Phone in September, and we would encourage those of you who have not joined
yet, to get in here and do so. We have many plans and activities coming
up for the club, and once again for only $ 50.00 you will receive the
newsletter, Shirt and other special promotions. The lifetime membership
offer has ended, but we would encourage you to be a part of something
really exciting as the members will continue to receive special discounts
and exclusive programs directed at the membership. We will honor the "$50.00
off" certificate for the next members who join through the end of
September, at which point we will hold the draw for the new cell phone.
September 1st, 2002:
As mentioned in Sacramento at AmiWest, we had offered amnesty to those
people/companies/entities who have knowingly stolen our IP and used it
for their own gains, or who have shipped product knowing that they are
illegal had until the end of August in order for them to comply and to
get legal.
Now, I am not going to mention names nor am I going to get into a public
discourse on what is happening.. But legal action has begun. In the next
two weeks papers will be served. We will target one violator at a time
with the hope that we will send a very clear signal that this is very
serious, will not be permitted and will be stopped.
This is a private action between Amiga Inc, and those who wish to continue
in this practice. While we announced publicly our intentions, the actions
will be private. I am sure that everyone can understand this and I hope
will support this.
AmigaOne Update:
Well, the amazing team of Eyetech and Hyperion are doing a great job.
Many of you already have in your possession the AmigaOne boards, and many
more of you have seen the hardware in action. This is indeed another major
leap forward as we near the release of the new hardware and OS 4.0. Eyetech
and Alan Redhouse have been doing a great job of keeping everyone informed
of the progress, and we look forward to the products release.
AmigaOS 4.0:
Hyperion and the team are making amazing strides here. The screen shots
that we all see and the updates from Ben and the people working on it
shows great progress. I know that they are working hard with regard to
the integration into the AmigaOne, and I for one am looking forward to
seeing it all working together, and from what I hear we are not too far
off from making that happen. With this stated we have received some more
shots of the interface from the OS 4.0 team. You can see the new AmiDock screenshots here.
PDA/Cell Phone Update:
As mentioned in Sacramento the Amiga Anywhere Content Engine and associated
content will be shipping on the new Sendo™ SmartPhone™ when
it ships. Now, to answer the many e-mails that I have received about the
Sendo phone…. I do not know when the device will ship commercially;
it is out of our hands with regard to when they will have the phone available.
I will tell you that before the end of the year we will be making at least
two more Cell Phone announcements and at least two more PDA announcements.
We are really starting to move on getting these business deals done and
there will be many more opportunities for our developers to create new
products for these cutting edge devices.
A Possible New Product Offering - Let me know your thoughts:
In recent dealings with one of our hardware OEM's they offered an opportunity.
This opportunity is for excellent laptop hardware at excellent prices.
They would be dual boot systems with Linux/UAE, and Bernie Meyers product
(formally known as Amithlon) pre-loaded on the device. Here is a sample
of some of the pricing that you could expect, all prices quoted are in
US$:
Processor |
RAM |
Display |
Hard Drive |
Optical media |
Software |
Price |
Intel® 1.2GHz Celeron™ |
256MB |
15.0" TFT |
20GB |
DVD |
Linux/UAE Ami* |
$999 |
Intel® 1.6GHz Pentium® 4 |
256MB |
15.0" XGA TFT |
20GB |
DVD/CDRW Combo |
Linux/UAE Ami* |
$1579 |
Intel® 1.6GHz Pentium® 4 |
256MB |
SXGA TFT |
30GB |
DVD/CDRW Combo |
Linux/UAE Ami* |
$1679 |
These examples are notebook computers. There are other options available, but
I am trying to find out how many of you would be interested in purchasing these
through your local Amiga dealer. Let us know by sending an e-mail to interested@amiga.com.
There are also desktops and other configurations but I think that a notebook
Amiga would be compelling. Let us know.
The Product Formally Know as Amithlo*:
As mentioned before Bernie Meyers has a wonderful product, and we expected
it to be out by now. However there have been a couple of delays, none
of these are engineering driven, that has delayed the release. I can tell
you that the new product will be out very soon, and will offer some new
requested features, and from what I understand is really going to knock
your socks off. We will have an update concerning the timing of this release
and the new name very shortly. So contrary to what you may have heard,
it will be available soon.
Developers:
This message is an update for you. You have created some of the greatest
content that the world has ever known. Your skill sets and your tenacity
have overwhelmed many, and everyday you become more and more important
to the future.
If you have been sitting on the sidelines I encourage you to jump in.
We are getting requests from many of our OEM partners with regard to content
that they are looking for on their devices.
While it has been a slow start (as is always the case in developing a
market), this next quarter is going to see major movement, and distribution.
We have many programs ready to take place for the Holiday season and we
want you to be a part of it. So I encourage you to jump in make contact
with us. Join us in creating the future.
In closing I wish to thank each and every member of the Amiga family
for their support and good wishes in this amazing journey that we have
embarked upon together. We are closer today than we were yesterday to
the dreams and goals of Amiga. Tomorrow we will be closer again, and soon
we can all share in the rewards.
Sincerely,
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team (ps)
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06.Sep.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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New graphicboards from ATI
With the new Radeon-boards of the 9000 and 9700 series ATI replaces the former models with Radeon 7500 und 8500.
The ATI Radeon 9000 PRO is an eightfold AGP-board with DirectX 8.1 standard with 64 MB DDR RAM and has altogether 4 parallel render-pipelines. The core works with 275 MHz and the memory with 550 MHz. Currently it costs 149,- Euro.
Alternatively with the ATI Radeon 9000 a model is offered which is for 20,- Euro cheaper. The equipment is equal to the PRO but core only works with 200 MHz and the memory with 400 MHz.
The new first class model is the
ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
which is an eightfold AGP-board with the new DirectX 9.0 standard with 128 MB DDR SDRAM in 256 bit, has 8 parallel render-pipelines and additionally 4 parallel geometry-pipelines.
The core works with 325 MHz and the memory with 620 MHz. This board costs 399,- Euro.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2002
AmiLator.de (ANF)
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Some new emulators
Some new emulators have been uploaded to http://v2os.v2.nl/~amigaclub/:
- Nofrendo (WOS/MOS): A NES-emulator
- SMSPlus (WOS/MOS): A Mastersystem-emulator
- Atari800 (WOS/MOS): An Atari800-emulator
- Stella (WOS/MOS): An AtariVCS-emulator
- 'Little John NG' (WOS/MOS): A NES/SNES-emulator
- DGen (MOS): A SEGA-Megadrive-emulator
Furthermore GNUBoy has appeared which is a GameboyColor-emulator for MorphOS.
Direct download: gnuboy103.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2002
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename Version 3.5.0 Beta 5
Constantinos Nicolakakis has released probably the last beta version
of SRename 3.5.0. SRename is a program which has some more functions
as the common 'rename'. Here are some features:
- Can use wildcards.
- Total control over recursion, the user can set the level of recursion, starting level of recursion and
can even specify a different pattern for entering directories.
- Can renumber filename sequences without the user having to care for the renumber order or filename
clashes because these are taken care of automatically.
- Can perform numbering of filename sequences.
- Can modify the filename's comment and transfer the filename to the comment or the reverse.
- Allows the user to build his/her own functions by providing a command set of selectors and actions
that can be combined in many ways.
- The number of actions that can be executed in one go is only limited by the command line length.
- It is interface compatible with the OS Rename command.
- Efficient memory usage.
Download: SRename3.5b5.lzx
(ps)
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05.Sep.2002
Amiga Freunde Pfalz (ANF)
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Meeting: AMIGA Friends of Pfalz - 2nd Party in 2002
In a few weeks (4th through 6th October, 2002) we'll have the beloved AMIGA
Friends of Pfalz autumn party in Mutterstadt, Germany. As
always this means three days with our friends and many chances
to talk to Amigans and trade stuff.
Also guests are definitely welcome, with or without a computer,
for all three days or just one. Related information may be found
on our homepage (click title link). You'll also find some
pictures from the last party there. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Poseidon & Norway Updates Version 1.28 available (Update)
There is a new version V1.28 of the Poseidon USB Stack available from my
website (title link), aswell as an updated driver for the Norway Ethernet
Addon which sits ontop of the Highway.
There's now a VHI driver for the Pencam and compatible webcams. However, to
work 100% correctly, you probably need version VHI Studio 5.7 which is
scheduled for release next Monday.
There are also MorphOS PPC native binaries, but I doubt anyone will use
them yet ;) (also there still seems to be a problem with the ELF version of
the main library).
Finally, I want you to encourage to send in an email, whenever you might
need help or just have a good idea of improvement (except nagging for the
HID class ;) ).
Update:
PS: Don't be worried about the registration form included starting with
this release and the "demo version" restrictions: The Highway and Subway
boards come with an OEM licence and you do NOT have to register Poseidon.
This is only for third party hardware drivers which do not have a licence.
In this case, the user has to buy a keyfile, if he wants to make use of
Poseidon. (ps)
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05.Sep.2002
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Thendic: Vesalia named 'Master Distributor' for Germany
Vesalia Computer has been named the
Master Distributor and Customer Service Manager for Germany. Pegasos
systems will be on sale in October.
Betatester systems will continue to be sold directly from Thendic-France.
Betatester systems and the Betatester program will continue to evolve
to include peripheral devices. The Betatester will become the development
platform for the eclipsis (see products at title link). (ps)
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05.Sep.2002
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Thendic: Betatester II scheduled for 14./15.12.2002, Hilton Hotel Frankfurt (Upd
Thendic-France and bplan will host Betatester II at the Hilton Hotel,
Hochstrasse 4, Frankfurt from 0900 to 1800, a buffet lunch will be
served. Highlights of the conference will be:
- Presentation of the commercial release of MorphOS
- Demonstration of new and old applications
- Release for testing of three new peripheral devices: the smart
card and reader for security and loyalty/payment systems (the
Trusted Community), the DataPlay disc drive, and a wireless mobile
camera. Ten Developers will be selected for testing with the
DataPlay and the camera based on performance as a Betatester and
relevant development experience. All Betatesters will receive a
personalized smart card and smart card reader.
All key individuals from the Thendic/bplan will be present.
All Betatesters and the MorphOS Development Team will be admitted free
of charge.
All others will be admitted for an afternoon demonstration from
1500-1800 for 10 Euros. All participants will receive a Thendic/bplan
T-Shirt and non-alcoholic drinks will be available.
Please contact info@thendic-france.com
for more details.
Update 07.10.2002:
The date of this event was moved to 14./15.12.2002. More details you will
find in this message. (ps)
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05.Sep.2002
Markus Holler
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Music for Friends of C=64 Remixes
Markus Holler writes on his website: "Since the beginning of the month there has been for friends of C=64 remixes a new streaming site, in which among others my remix of Whittaker's Glider Rider (opening track
of the soon to appear CD Remix 64 - The CD) may be played!
The site is a cooperative effort from Remix64,
C64Audio.com and
SouthPole Radio. Have fun listening!"
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Etienne Vogt
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System Monitor: Sysmon V1.20a
On the 2nd of September Etienne Vogt released Version 1.20a of his shell-based System Monitor. Check the ReadMe Text
for more information about the program. Since version 1.20 the following changes have been made:
- 'UnMount ALL' will now ignore ENV: as well as RAM: if mounted as a
separate handler. This allows late shutdown code to access global
environment variables in all cases and also avoids problems with
Env-Handlers that have broken ACTION_DIE support.
- Added FRAGS option to the Sysmon monitor Show Memory command.
Download: Sysmon120a.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Amiga Impact (E-Mail)
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The French reseller APS demonstrates the Pegasos with MorphOS
The French reseller APS, based in Marseille, can receive people
(appointment required) to demonstrate the Pegasos machine and
the MorphOS system. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Amiga Impact (E-Mail)
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Some components of AmigaOS 4 will be demonstrated on "A-Expo / Alchimie 2"
Next Saturday afternoon, at the French event "A-Expo / Alchimie 2", some
components of the AmigaOS 4 will be demonstrated on Amiga 4000 with
CyberStormPPC.
These components are:
- The new Intuition
- Roadshow (the TCP/IP stack)
- MediaToolBox (the new HDToolBox)
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Sep.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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AF: Test Report Nebulus
Increasing numbers of users send us test reports of games which we
may publish on the Amiga Future homepage. This time Patric Klöter
sent us a test of Nebulus, which we put in the article section.
We hope people send us more such reports! (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2002
Andre 'Andre89' Sommer (ANF)
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Event: Amiga Inside 2
From the 6th until the 8th of September 2002 the will be the Amiga-Party Amiga
Inside 2 helt in Hirsau, Germany.
Andre 'Andre89' Sommer writes: "I'm gonna dismantle my computers at Thursday evening and carry them to the party. If anyone has some urgent questions about the party and wants to write me a mail, the do so before Thursday afternoon, because the I will catch my mails the last time."
A description of how to get there and some other important informations are to find with the title link.
If anyone has some trouble to find the location Andre Sommer will still be reachable by his mobile under +49177/5551010.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Sep.2002
Stefan Robl (ANF)
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Relaunch of www.qdev.de
After nearly four years of online presence it has come to a great demand
to renew my homepage completely. The new pages are all bilingual (German/English) and most of the content has been improved. Originally I wanted to finish all this earlier, but the successful finish of my first university degree (informatics) as well as the work for the Amidock for OS4 were (reasonable) more important.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)
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AMIGAplus Soccer Special: Finals Prelude with Kick Off 2
Today begins the finals of the virtual soccer season on the occasion of the 40 years running German Soccer Common League. The AMIGAplus editition rummaged up another 17 soccer games for the editing case and put this digital bunch of bolts together in the next 17 days of brief tests. The finals begin with a real whizbang: we are reporting on the game "Kick Off 2" from Anco software.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2002
Zito (ANF)
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Amiga music group active again!
The international, amigabased szene music formation "mOOdS - Music For
Your Instinctz" is, as well after a short summer break, back not only with some new tracks, but also with a new designed homepage!
And there are still new composers of any genres welcome, so
do not hesitate to contact Zito, if you're an active musician using the Amiga!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Sep.2002
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: Little Psyria homepage update
Today there has been a little update at Psyria's homepage and the Amiga
Future track has been released there. That one was recently only
available at the homepage of the Amiga Future as exclusive download as
VBR or CBR MP3.
That by Yel.C. vs Psyria produced piece is hosted at the download area
as VBR MP3.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Sep.2002
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Tool: Pixload 2.0
"Pixload" has been released in version 2.0. That tool allows, similiar like Amidock does, to launch programs and scripts via an icon using MUI.
With this version "drag and drop" is implemented.
Download: Pixload-2.0.zip
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Sep.2002
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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Jim Sachs interviewed by GetBoinged!
He is an amazing artist! Remember Defender of the Crown? The now famous
AmigaWorld cover? Take a trip back in time and find out what Mr. Sachs
is doing now!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Sep.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Thendic: MorphOS runs on the "AmigaOne" already
Within a comment at ANN Bill
Buck and Raquel Velasco told, that MorphOS runs on the AmigaOne already.
Futher Ben Hermans (Hyperion) is told that he's welcome to buy a Pegasos from those actually produced 1000 pcs run without doing the betatesting.
At least Thendic offers the interested ones to send them a detailed report
about all the legal issues ("detail legal brief"). (ps) (Translation: ub)
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03.Sep.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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fxSCAN sidegrade-offers, more news
In a time-limited offer until the 1st of October 2002, we are giving you the
possibility to sidegrade fom your current scanner software (ScanQuix, ScanTek,
ArtecScan, other software on request) to fxSCAN 4.0.
Therefore please send in your old software (original disk/cd-rom with serial
number/key in resellable constitution) and a filled-out sidegradeform
(Download).
fxSCAN 4.0 offers, as the only scanner software on the AMIGA, OCR- and
PDF-export-capabilities. Besides this, you can also make copies (incl.
unique finetuning!), optimize your scanning results, print, convert or
send images to fxPAINT for further processing.
More information regarding fxSCAN and the sidegrade offer can be found on
the pages about fxSCAN 4.0. You can also find various other news that have
not made it to the amiga-news.de mainpage due to the summer break.
(ps)
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03.Sep.2002
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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Photos of Jedis visit at Thendic-France
Sébastien Jeudy has visited Thendic France in August 2002. You will find some pictures here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Sep.2002
Diskmag
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Event: XzentriX 2002
The XzentriX 2002 meeting is for 8-Bit-Computer friends who believe in a
life beyond standard software. 0815 is out, C64 is en vogue...
The XzentriX 2002 meeting takes part from 4th October 2002, about 15
o'clock till 6th October 2002 in the Mehrzweckhalle Seeshaupt, Oberbayern,
Germany. More details and informations under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Sep.2002
Remedy Systems
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DynDNS Client: AmiDynDNS Version 1.15
The DynDNS client AmiDynDns is released in the latest version 1.15:
New/changes:
- Now GUI is font sensitive
- New TooltypeUPDATE_IMMEDIATELY=YES|NO
- Minor bugs in GUI fixed
Download: AmiDynDNS115.lha
AmiDynDNS is a commando line based Freeware-Amiga-Client for DynDNS.org.
Beside complete support of the DynDNS-Protocol (DynDNS, StatDNS, CustomDNS, and all options) it offers some more useful functions.
More informations about AmiDynDNS and its functions you will get in the
Amiga section under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Sep.2002
Amitopia
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Magazine: Amitopia online again
The Norwegian magazine Amitopia is online again, after the return from his Europe journey of Michael Bergseth. On his journey he has met many Amiga users, he has visited DCE and COOLBits and met Nico Barbat from AMIGAplus in Cologne. His picture reports you will find here:
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Sep.2002
A.D.A.
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A.D.A. - Three new winner-demos added
A.D.A., the Amiga Demoscene Archive has added three new winner demos.
First the demo Tetsuo from Haujobb (1st Place Trsac20002, 64k
Intros), second Chineasthetik from Scrab (1st Place Trsac 2002,
AmigaDemos), and Another dream away from Madwizards (1st
Place Slash Party 4, AmigaDemos). Dowload links under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Sep.2002
ANN
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Big September-Update on Amiga Interactive Guide
Amiga Interactive Guide deals with the history of Amiga and is one of the
biggest site of its kind in English. In this September update about 15 MB
of material are added. For example scans of magazines, prototypes, and
the latest announcements of Amiga Inc. and Thendic France.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Sep.2002
YAM
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Mail program: YAM New developer version of 03-Sep-2002
Now the developer version 2.4 of the mail program YAM, now Open Source,
is available. It is a work-in-progress version, maybe containing bugs,
and the developer team gives no support and guarentee. Questions via
eMail will not be answered. Use on your own risk!
You can see the changes in this list.
More informations you will find on the Yamos SourgeForge-site.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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02.Sep.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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AF: Test WolfChild, tombola, poll, anniversary
At the homepage of the Amiga Future Homepage today there has been released a test of WolfChild within the article area.
We want to continue to contribute articles of older games. It's obvious that we need users who will write those. Users who are interested might contact the editoral staff.
Until the 5th of September 2002 there is still our
anniversary special.
There is a subscription of the Amiga Future including the CD for half a year for only 17,- Euro.
And there is a tombola at the Amiga Future homepage at the interactive area, there are the following give aways to catch: Feeble Files
und Exodus. You don't need to do more than to send us your cheats and you get the chance to win one of these prices.
Furthermore there is in the interactive area a poll regarding the fair in Aachen.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Sep.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Statement by Thendic regarding reproaches by Amiga Inc.
Thendic France, bPlan and the MorphOS team comment on the earlier allegations by Amiga Inc. regarding
the legality of MorphOS in a short statement at
morphos-news.de (title link), after the deadline set by AI, after which they would
start legal proceedings (1 Sep 2002), has passed without discernible action.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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02.Sep.2002
Bernward Hofmann (ANF)
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IBrowse - New Homepage
IBrowse has a new homepage. You still cannot find there the announced
update but you can download the two last ones as well as look at a
reference to OS4.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2002
Amiga Anywhere
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Amiga Club Contest finished
The choices of the logo and the name of the formerly called "I am Amiga"-club of Amiga Inc. have been finished. The name of the club will be "Team Amiga" and the chosen logo was designed by Mark Rickan und Simo Ami.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2002
Frank Fenn
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Sound: AC97Mixer V2.1 for SB 128 sound card (Amithlon)
On 1st September 2002 Frank Fenn has published version 2.1 of "AC97Mixer" for
Amithlon. In this version the support of ESS1968 (Maestro) has been
added. Thus "AC97Mixer" now supports the SB128 sound card, the SB Live
and the VIA onboard sound.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2002
dynAMIte
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Game: dynAMIte - Team up! with version 2.1
DynAMIte is a Freeware-Dynablaster- respective a Bomberman-clone. From version 2.1 a team modus has been added for a completely new feeling of the game. Version 2.1 does not work with the old styles.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2002
A/NES CGFX
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Emulator: A/NES CGFX version 1.27
On 1st September 2002 version 1.27 of the emulator of the Nintendo Entertainment System for AmigaOS has been published.
anescgfx.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 03.09.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games you only can play on disks on your
hard disk. The following games are added or updated:
- 03.09.02 new: Space Station (Paradox) done by DJ Mike
- 03.09.02 new: Allo 'Allo (Alternative) done by DJ Mike
- 03.09.02 updated: Sooty & Sweep (Alternative Software) install script updated
- 02.09.02 improved: Dogs of War (Elite Systems) supports another version
- 02.09.02 improved: Banshee (Core Design) access faults removed, CD³² version supported
- 01.09.02 new: Top Banana (Hex) done by Codetapper
- 31.08.02 new: Erik (Atlantis) done by Codetapper
- 31.08.02 updated: Switchblade (Core Design/Gremlin) supports kixx budget release
- 30.08.02 updated: Speedball 2 CD³² (Renegade) reworked install package
- 30.08.02 improved: Fire & Ice (Graftgold) various improvements
- 29.08.02 new: Batman Vuelve (Batman Group) done by Codetapper
- 29.08.02 new: Authentik (Skarla) done by Psygore
- 28.08.02 improved: Loopz (Audiogenic/Mindscape) supports another version, misc changes, new icons
- 23.08.02 new: Donkey Kong (Bignonia) done by JOTD
- 20.08.02 new: Frantic Freddie (Bignonia) done by Asman
- 20.08.02 new: Ultimate Gameboy Simulator (Symbiosis) done by Galahad
- 20.08.02 new: Sorceror's Apprentice (Art Computer Software) done by Codetapper
- 20.08.02 new: Marvins Marvellous Adventure CD³² (21st Century Entertainment) done by René Gennes
- 20.08.02 new: Leviathan (English Software) done by Codetapper
- 20.08.02 improved: Insects in Space (Hewson) blitter waits added
- 20.08.02 improved: Executioner (Codetapper) supports another version, new icon
(ps)
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02.Sep.2002
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)
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XAD System V12, XFD version 39.14
Although a few days have been gone. The newest versions of the extraction system XAD and of the unpacking system XFD have been published at the end of August. Additional to many detailed improvements the following points may be mentioned:
- Complete StuffIt-support (XAD)
- Complete CAB-support (XAD)
- Polish translation (XAD)
- Detection of many tricks of hiding of viruses (XFD)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2002
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register 08/2002
The Status Register is the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group's monthly
newletter. It deals with current and important information regarding Amiga,
Macintosh and PC as well as the computer industry.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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02.Sep.2002
Jens Langner (ANF)
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AmIDE goes Open-Source (GPL)
Not long ago the source codes of AmIDE which is an integrated developing
environment for the Amiga have been published by Jens Langner under GPL
(open-source) and thus is available to everybody under the title link.
Jens has published the source codes because he cannot develop further
AmIDE and thus hopes to encourage a team of developers for the
sourceforge project.
The source texts have been completely reworked for the GPL release and
have been uploaded to the CVS of the sourceforge server in this way that
they immediatly can be compiled with SAS/C.
Every interested developer who wants to directly take part in AmIDE is
supposed to contact Jens
Langner and will then get the writing access to the CVS sources.
The old homepage will be updated later and an explicit developer
mailing list will be also created then.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2002
Marc "Zito" Oberst (ANF)
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Scene-Diskmag: Jurassic Pack with own homepage
Just before the summer break the AmigaDemoScene diskmag called "Jurassic Pack" could celebrate its 10th issue. To this occasion an own website was finally created. Thus you can download all issues but as well as enjoy the music tracks and title pictures. Besides this there are lot of arcticles for reading online. There you can also find texts which have nothing to do with the scene but for example with Amiga Inc. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2002
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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On public demand: Download "Shanghai Dragon" AGA version
On public demand Christian Rosentreter
has published the AGA version of "Shanghai Dragon".
Download: tksd.lha
Please note that this version is not being further developed anymore, and is really
not comparable to the coming CGX version. The AGA version only shows the
framework, the CGX version will offer better graphics and a much enhanced
functional range.
Please also note that the AGA version cannot be redirected to gfx card screens
properly, and also that there is no documentation available.
There is a screen shot at the ZENZER-2dNOW-Forum.
Further details (about the future CGX version) can be gleaned from the
interview with
Christian Rosentreter in AMIGA ARENA. You can also find some information about
the planned game on the Amiga Future
page.
However, the CGX version will not be released "in a week" - this was a
little misunderstanding. A release in late autumn is more probable. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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01.Sep.2002
Ralf Gruner (ANF)
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GPatch Version 3 completed
The 68k version 3 of the patch system GPatch has finally been completed and put on Aminet.
There have been many improvements over the previous version:
New search algorithms, new coding methods, easier execution of the patch. And
for those who don't know it yet: GPatch is the only program of its kind with
the ability to combine any number of difference data in one patch file in order
to automatically update different older versions of a program to the newest one.
And - to demonstrate that the program is really worthy of a news item - the
readme contains a comparison of different update variants of a real program
(AWeb 3.2 and 3.3 to 3.4). Just briefly the result: The classic approach with
scompare takes 1:28 minutes to create 277258 bytes (compressed), GCompare 3
on the other hand takes 0:59 minutes to create 163593 bytes.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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01.Sep.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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SUBWAY - open letter to all interested parties
Apart from some updates (especially of the list of supported devices) there is
an open letter to all interested parties for the clock port USB card SUBWAY. If
you are interested in such a card you should absolutely read the announcement
under the title link!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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01.Sep.2002
David Röskamm (ANF)
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WHDLoad chat support page online
The homepage for WHDLoad Chat is online since yesterday and can be reached at
http://www.whdload-chat.de.vu.
For browsers that do not support frames, the page can be reached at
http://hot-server.de/maccrack/whdload/index.html.
The homepage contains various information about the program WHDLoad and the chat.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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01.Sep.2002
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-MünzArchiv V1.4 available
The new version of SN-MünzArchiv, a program for administering coin collections, is
available on Cj-Stroker's AmiForce home page.
The following items have been added/changed:
- Added function "search, count", which provides a means for
counting coins belonging to a search result (e.g. a certain collection area).
A.o. number of coins, total purchase value and total value are counted.
- Extended pre- and postfix in catalog no. by five and three characters respectively.
- Added sales project info, showing a.o. how many coins were sold at which
total price.
- The list window can now also show the numbers of the item and sales list
windows (e.g. 1999|PP:1 ST:5 SS:10|Motiv)
(function had previously been imcomplete).
- Improved handling of the setup window (now double click on list settings
and the settings can be in- or decreased).
- Other small changes.
- Fixed bug.
Download under: muenzarchiv.lha.
Please also note the survey about the collections databases on the home page (title link).
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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01.Sep.2002
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Amiga Speed with first Voodoo4 and new Voodoo5 reviews
The gfx board Voodoo4 has been tested regarding its speed by Amiga Speed and
surprises with its good performance. It even beats the Voodoo5 in most
cases, which can probably be attributed to the chip design and the
better drivers. However, the specifics have yet to be worked out.
Please inform yourself under 2D Gfx (Voodoo4) about the current 2D
performance and under Payback, Heretic2 and Q***e about the current
3D performance. The new Voodoo5 results can be found under 2D Gfx
(Voodoo5) and Heretic2.
Furthermore, a new survey has been started, this time with the topic AmigaOne.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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01.Sep.2002
GoldED Support
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GoldED Studio AIX one week offer at special price
After Dietmar Eilert's announcement in April of this year that he'd stop further
development of GoldED Studio for AmigaOS, he has still implemented some
improvements from the cancelled Version 7 - viz all that were finished at the
time. This version is now being offered under the name of GoldED Studio AIX
for a week at a special price. You can find particulars under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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01.Sep.2002
Brad Webb per E-Mail
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Amiga Update Newsletter #020831 by Brad Webb
Below you will find the complete newsletter of Amiga Update (Brad Webb)
for August, 2002.
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"SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW"
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A M I G A O S 4 . 0 F R E A T U R E S L I S T E D
A M I G A F E S T # 4 F R O M A M I T E C H - D A Y T O N
A O N E G O T H E N B U R G F A L L E V E N T
P E G A S O S A N D M O R P H O S U P D A T E
A M I G A O N M O R P H O S L E G A L I T Y
E L B O X M E D I A T O R P C I 1 2 0 0 S X
S O U N D F X V 4 . 2 I S A V A I L A B L E
I O U S B 2 . 0 F R O M I O S P I R I T
P O S E I D O N U S B S T A C K 1 . 2 6
I O S P R I T S O F T W A R E D I S T R I B U T I O N
W O R K S N E E D E D F O R 2 0 0 3 C A L E N D A R
P R I V O X Y 3 . 0 . 0 F O R A M I G A
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
It's been a quiet month. Apparently, work continues on Amiga ONE and
OS 4.0 with quiet determination. At least I hope so, and there's
really no reason to think otherwise. However, it's now been a very
long wait. Fortunately, the Amiga community is used to long waits. I
believe the community as a whole still feels this one will turn out
differently from all the others. I know I still do. But it does feel
frighteningly familiar, doesn't it?
Quiet or not we have several interesting items for you to read this
time. Most interesting to me is the situation with Pegasos and Morph
OS. I am constantly amazed that supposed promoters of the Amiga do
things that, if successful, can only hurt the company. In this case,
damaging Amiga's ability to control its OS. The small companies that
continually do these things seem to have no concern that Amiga is
itself small, and damage to its intellectual property could cause
severe difficulties or even put them out of business. And the small
companies that do this seldom get anything genuinely useful on the
market.
My personal opinion is that both products have about as much chance
for real success as (to use an old American expression) "a snowball in
Hell". But they are causing already limited resources to be wasted by
Amiga Inc. in defending their property.
Ah well, bad judgement takes funny forms sometimes.
Most of our other stories show the good side of the Amiga community,
and I enjoyed some of the news very much.
We hope you enjoy this issue also.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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A M I G A O S 4 . 0 F R E A T U R E S L I S T E D
{Taken from the Amiga OS website, and apparently just posted there
despite the date. Thought you might like to see these. Brad}
07-Aug-2002 - AmigaOS Features
Listed below are the modules that make up the core of AmigaOS 4. Most
of the OS modules (including the kernel) are finished and being tested
internally by the OS 4 development team.
Current work centers around Intuition and Reaction, 2D/3D drivers, A1
Bios, additional kernel functionality (virtual addressing and
page-based memory handling) and the integration of the 68K emulation
into the system.
Here are the modules that make up AmigaOS 4:
Exec Second Generation (Exec SG)
Exec is the AmigaOS kernel and was written in 68K assembly
for AmigaOS 3.1. It has been rewritten in C, as ExecSG, for
AmigaOS 4.
The following features are planned for ExecSG:
Hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
Virtual addressing (for automatic stack enlargement etc.)
Page-based memory handling (less fragmentation and more
efficient)
Virtual memory
New library interface
Resource tracking and management
Optional memory protection
WarpOS backwards compatibility
Just in Time (JIT) 68K emulation
PPC native TCP/IP stack & PPP drivers
fastest on the platform
Re-implementation of the Amiga file system (FFS2) for PPC
PPC native CD Filesystem
with limited Mount Rainier support (use your CDRW as a floppy)
Recovery and Salvage tools for FFS2 and SFS
PPC native CD back-up tool
OS 4 will include a simple tool which allows the user to back-up
files by burning them to an ISO 9660 CD which also allows for
exchanging data between systems)
PPC native RTG system
Picasso 96 V3
PPC native arithmetically optimised version of layers.library
Warp3D (3D driver system)
OpenGL 1.3 support (Mesa 4.0)
PPC native RTA system based on AHI
with Soundblaster Live! Drivers
PPC native GUI system (Intuition and Reaction)
PPC native shell
PPC native version of "Amidock"
PPC native utility for archiving and de-archiving
SCSI drivers for onboard (UW) SCSI controllers
AmigaInput API (for multimedia controller devices)
USB stack
already adapted for the Highway and Subway hardware
PPC native datatypes
New HDToolbox ("Media Toolbox")
Support for TrueType/OpenType fonts
Web-browser (Ibrowse 2.3)
MUI PPC (for legacy applications)
Reading/printing of PDF files
PPC native rewrite of DOS library
PPC native movieplayer
"Action" with DivX and MPEG4 support
PPC native devices
Generic PPC native PCI library
http://os.amiga.com/os4/OS4Features.php
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A M I G A F E S T # 4 F R O M A M I T E C H - D A Y T O N
AmigaFest 2002, The Show Within a Show at Computerfest®
12 August, 2002
For the fourth year in a row, AmiTech-Dayton, Amiga Computer Users
Group, is sponsoring AmigaFest, a show within a show at Computerfest®.
The purpose of AmigaFest is to provide a concentration of Amiga
oriented vendors and exhibitors in the show to provide improved
support for the Amiga Community. If you are a current or former Amiga
user, or are just curious about the platform, stop by AmigaFest 2002
and find out what is currently going on with Amiga. There are many new
developments on the horizon and we will have some available for
demonstration or sale at the show.
The AmigaFest 2002 area will include a Seminar/Presentation section,
that will be showing off the capabilities of the Amiga system,
including alternative operating systems that are currently in
development for the Amiga community. Presentations will be going on
continuously throughout the show. In addition there will be an Amiga
museum displaying nearly every model of the Amiga that was produced.
One of the advantages of the Amiga platform is its extremely
efficient operating system that has provided pre-emptive multi-tasking
since its introduction in 1985. The next version of the Amiga OS will
make full use of the PowerPC CPU line. A new generation of Amiga
hardware is on the horizon that will back up the efficiency of the
operating system with modern computing horsepower. Amiga OS Emulators
are also currently available, and will be demonstrated at AmigaFest
2002, bringing Amiga efficiency to X86-based systems bypassing
Windows. Drop by and find out about all the upcoming developments.
As in years past we will be holding several demos that should be of
interest to any present, past or future Amiga user. We will have demos
of MorphOS installed on a PPC equipped Amiga 1200, Amithlon and
AmigaXL installed on a PC, and using digital cameras on your Amiga.
Other demos are in the works. Stop by our booths for a complete
schedule of events.
We are expecting several exhibitors for this year's AmigaFest. They
include Extreme Computing, developers of a new line of X86-based
computers optimized to run new Amiga OS emulation systems; Compuquick
Multi Media Center; FWD Computing; Mr. Hardware; E. S. Productions; G
and G Publications, publishers of The New Amigans magazine; the Amiga
Cafe; AmiTech Dayton and Grasshopper LLC, developer of Pagestream, the
premier desk top publishing program for Amiga, now also available for
Macintosh and Windows.
Additionally, on Saturday night after the show, we have arranged to
have a gathering for a dinner and social get together for all Amigans.
Stop by the AmiTech-Dayton booth, pick up a flyer, and be sure to join
in the fun.
We think it's going to be an interesting and fun show. There are a
couple of definite advantages to having an Amiga Show in conjunction
with a show like Computerfest®. First of all it gives the Amiga user
access to a concentrated selection of Amiga gear, a lot of which will
be at special show prices. Secondly, it gives them unparalleled access
to a broad selection of general equipment that we all need and a
little shopping will find them at bargains beyond belief.
As always, we hope all Amigans will stop by and show their support.
Hope to see you there!
21 August, 2002
AmigaFest Update: Pegasos to be demonstrated in Dayton, Ohio
AmiTech-Dayton Amiga User Group is pleased to announce that they will
be privileged to have live demonstrations of the Pegasos computer
system during this years AmigaFest at the Dayton ComputerFest¨, August
24th-25th. We are quite excited that they have accepted our invitation
and hope to see many of our long time Amiga friends come by to see
this much-talked about platform.
Also, we would like to announce our other vendors participating in
AmigaFest 2002:
Compuquik Media Center - Amiga hardware and software vendor.
E.S. Productions - Artwork by Eric Schwartz and home of Amy the
Squirrel
Extreme Corporation/Computing - Home of ready configured
Amithlon/AmigaOS XL systems.
FWD Computing - Vendor of Amiga software and collectibles.
G&G Publishing Ent. - Publisher of The New Amigans magazine.
Grasshopper LLC - Your source for Pagestream for the Amiga, PC, and
Mac systems.
Amiga Cafe - Amiga IRC chat site.
And of course our club, AmiTech-Dayton will on hand! Along with our
table will be an Amiga Museum, a collection of nearly every model of
Amiga produced along with some of our members modified machines.
Plus, we will be having demos of the Pegasos, the Extreme machines,
Pagestream, Personal Paint, Photogenics, and Amicamedia that will be
going on constantly during the show. And as always, there is no charge
for these demos. Please check with the AmiTech table for a listing of
times and locations.
We will once again have a social gathering off site once the show
closes on Saturday. This year will will have door prizes for those
attending the gathering courtesy of our friends at Software Hut. Space
for this dinner is limited, so check with the AmiTech table for full
details.
Show hours are 9:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday and 10:00am to 4:00pm on
Sunday. Some vendors may not be able to stay for the full day on
Sunday, so come early! With over 30,000 attendees, the Dayton
ComputerFest¨ is one of the largest shows of its type in the United
States. And AmigaFest will be there for the fourth year in a row. Come
be a part of the excitement!
For further information contact Ron Schwartz at: schwartr@gemair.com
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A O N E G O T H E N B U R G F A L L E V E N T
28 August, 2002
When & where
AONE Gothenburg 2002 Fall Event will take place on the 21st of
September, which is a Saturday. The event will last between 12 - 17
and the premises where we will hold the event is called Kajutan ("The
Cabin" in English).
For those who visited the AmiGBG 2002 fair earlier this year it will
be quite easy to find their way to Kajutan that is situated in Tolken,
that is the same building that we used when we arranged the fair. The
entrance to Kajutan is placed on the same side of the Tolken building
and we will set out direction signs so that it will be easy to find
your way.
Kajutan is often used for conferences and seminars and we think that
this is a suitable place to have this event since we will have a
number of lecturers present that will tell you all you want to know
about the Amiga One.
The new Amiga - AmigaOne
At this event, the first new Amiga computer in ten years will for the
first time be seen in Sweden.
We see this as a scandinavian kickoff for the new Amiga!
The name of this computer is AmigaOne (AONE). The first version has a
PowerPC G3 processor running at 600 MHz. This first board goes under
the name AmigaOneG3-SE and is at the moment shipped to a selected
group of developers/beta testers.
Two of these beta testers, Justin from Denmark and Ole-Egil from
Norway will visit us in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 21st of September to
demonstrate this new hardware that so many have waited so eagerly to
see. The computers that they bring to Gothenburg are their own
AmigaOne developer machines.
The AmigaOne machines that will be running during the day in
Gothenburg will have different versions of PowerPC Linux installed
(Debian and SuSe), as well as UAE Amiga Emulator (emulation of the
classic AmigaOS).
When the end user version of AmigaOne is ready for sale, it will be
bundled with the next generation AmigaOS, OS4. This Amiga operating
system is a modernized and rewritten OS for the PowerPC processor.
AmigaOS4 is still under development by Amiga Inc's partner Hyperion.
Whether we will have any news regarding OS4 at the event, we don't
know yet.
What will happen during the day?
During the day of the event, seminars around AmigaONE will be held.
Of course it will also be possible to ask questions about this new
Amiga and to see it in action!
We are very proud to announce that we will have Alan Redhouse from
english company Eyetech attending the showcase. Eyetech is the company
behind AmigaOne. We are also working on the possibility to have other
prominent guests with connections to AmigaOne and OS4 here at the
event, so stay tuned.
At this event we will also have a machine running Amiga DE. This is
because of the future development with DE being integrated into the
new AmigaOS. You'll get an opportunity to ask questions about DE and
to see how far the development process has proceeded.
More detailed information regarding seminars and lectures will be
available soon before the event, so hold on!
http://www.amigbg.com/
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P E G A S O S A N D M O R P H O S U P D A T E
06-Aug-2002
Getting the Pegasos Market Going!
This is a message for traditional ``Amiga Community'' Resellers...
Since our involvement and the earliest threats against MorphOS, we
have had German and European experts checking the applicable law. If
fact, in spite of the latest threats, we are looking forward to the
timely release of MorphOS.
A word about the past: the spirit of ``Amiga'' rose from the demise
of Commodore with what was an incredibly well designed and functional
operating system. It became one of the first examples of "forward
compatibility." A word about the present: MorphOS is ready to take the
first step to co-exist with this internationally appreciated example
of software engineering that has generated a distinctive Community of
Users, Developers and Resellers.
We would like to address our potential Resellers. What will be our
future relationship with you? Well, we tried one approach. It worked
for the Linux market, but not for your market. Nearly all of you
wanted the same thing - a Pegasos running MorphOS to test. You will
have that now. You can buy one this week or next month, or whenever
they want. There will be many available soon. You will find MorphOS
for the PPC is something new. Before, MorphOS was a kernel, which ran
on the PPC, but required AmigaOS files to be able to run Amiga
applications. Now it is different. MorphOS is the complete core of the
Pegasos and can function as a complete operating system. No additional
files are required to achieve this. To be completely clear, what
MorphOS is today is not what ``MorphOS'' was before (and what is still
available today online). MorphOS today is different. It is a great
accomplishment and a credit to Ralph Schmidt and his team to have
MorphOS where it is today, but that will not stop us from making it
better. You won't be wasting your time and effort when you begin to
sell these machines.
We have decided that while there was a Community suave enough to
handle the Pegasos and MorphOS as it was, the regular computer user
was not, and frankly initially, neither were the Resellers. Our
original concept did not work well. We had only one reseller in this
Community order ten boards until two weeks ago when we had three more
place orders (two of them for a very decent size), but this was slow
enough in coming that we understood we needed to take another
approach. We sent back their money or did not accept it. We had a bad
dream about an OS based website dedicated to The Best 100 Bug Fixes --
have you heard of that before? We woke up.
Ladies and Gentleman, we need to remember that the target is regular
computer users, who are ``new'' users and who represent new markets
for this Community. A little economic success could improve plenty of
things around here - for Developers, for Resellers, and ultimately for
Users themselves - so we decided MorphOS needed to be ready for
them.... and you. That is why there will be a few steps.
Step One: The ``Betatester'' with MorphOSv.90
Step Two: Pegasos with MorphOSv1.0
Step Three: The Pegasos Handheld with MorphOSv1.0+
But, in this post we will stick to our Resellers and our message to
them. We will come back to Developers and Team Betatester after this
weekend in Bordeaux at the SLACH PARTY. Later, we will describe in
detail our hardware plans here and all the peripherals we plan on
introducing. We have plenty of things to share and we will do it here
on www.morphos-news.de
The cost of the Pegasos will fall in the next production runs. We
will keep optimizing and as we do there will be more profit to carved
up. Right now, we are just spending money. Releasing a product with no
strings attached that is not ready for a ``regular computer user'' is
commercial suicide. We cannot afford to do that, but we need to begin
to cover our investment and we need to take a straight line to the
commercial /regular consumer release point. We need to get going!
So, here is our promise to our Resellers: we will have a product you
can release to ``regular computer users" in December. We intend to
fully support the computer show being planned in Aachen that month. We
will not only have an operating system to release, but a few
applications, including a game that will surprise even the normal
fans.
Just to make sure that is clear:
We will ship Pegasos boards to all Resellers by 2 December 2002, if
not before.
If you have comments or questions you can email us at
bbrv@thendic-france.com
We will also present our Pegasos Handheld Prototype in December!
Keep your eyes on the site for the latest updates!
Best regards,
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
Singleview
Thendic-France/bplan
http://www.morphos-news.de/
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A M I G A O N M O R P H O S L E G A L I T Y
{We don't often run stories on what are really non-Amiga items, but
we feel the Pegasos / Morph OS story should be covered because of the
potential impact on Amiga. Hence, we decided to use the preceding
story. However, it is very important to keep the legality of the
situation in mind. To that end, we run the following quotes from an
interview conducted by the Scandinavian Amiga magazine "Amitopia". You
can find the full interview at the "Amitopia" site, referenced below.
The interview actually consists of questions and answers from a
variety of dates. Brad}
29 July, 2002
I would start this interview, by asking if you see at MorphOS as a
illegal product?
Amiga INC. writes:
Our position is that the elements of MorphOS which allow it to
provide AmigaOS compatability have been illegally derived. These
either need to be removed or a licence obtained for them. I am afraid
I cannot say more than that due to advice from our lawyers.
Monday, April 29, 2002, 11:10:22 PM, I asked:
And finally...
But you should stop doing this.. Why cant Amiga go for the future,
show that you are strong? I know this is a marked {sic. perhaps he
meant to type "market". Brad} strategy to somewhat push MorphOS out.
Its like Lindows for the PC marked. Its a competitor to Windows, but
also RUN's Windows programs. You should start to think like an Amiga
user Bill. If you have full believe in your work, then drop the case
and go further. We all know you should have the right to use Amiga,
but MorphOS aint using Amigas name. I want both products on the
marked, it will be a colourfull marked and thats what we want, not
another Commodore keeping all secret and kinda forget what the
userbase want. Please clear things out for me?
Amiga INC. writes:
You do not understand the legal implications of what you say.
Whatever the merits or otherwise of MorphOS, they used illegally
obtained AmigaOS source code to develop their product. If Amiga Inc
does not defend that code, then we can lose all rights to it. We have
no choice BUT to prosecute anyone who dares to make use of Amiga code.
The MorphOS team knows this and has spent the last six months or so
trying to remove any code they have which was derived from AmigaOS.
However, our attorneys already have a copy of a MorphOS release where
via disassembly, you can prove that they did use the same source
routines as were in the AmigaOS source code that they had.
http://home.powertech.no/micbergs/Interviews/
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E L B O X M E D I A T O R P C I 1 2 0 0 S X
13 Aug 2002
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga
computers, the company that introduced the PCI standard to Amiga
computers, is proud to announce expanding the MEDIATOR busboard
product line with the new Mediator model for towerised Amiga 1200
computers: Mediator PCI 1200 SX.
With this product Elbox offers Amiga 1200 users the opportunity to
use up to 6 PCI cards significantly improving the computer
performance. Additionally the new Mediator model has the Power
Management Interface, which allows waking up the computer with
external events (e.g. with USB or LAN signals) and shutting it down
controlled by software.
Features
* 6 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible)
* Power Management Interface
* 66/33MHz PCI clock (transfer rate up to 264MB/s)
* 32-bit PCI datapatch
* 4GB PCI memory space
* Busmastering/DMA in all PCI slots
* Compatible with 68030/040/060 and PPC turbo cards
* AT and ATX PSU connectors with control IC
* Ready for SharkPPC(+) G3/G4 cards
* Fits in any A1200 in E/BOX (Power, Winner), EZ-Z4 and Infinitiv
tower
Included with the Mediator PCI 1200 SX is the Mediator Multimedia CD
with drivers for Sound, TV tuner, Ethernet 10Mbps, Fast Ethernet
100Mbps and Graphic PCI cards. For the list of currently supported PCI
cards see Mediator Driver Guide website at
http://www.elbox.com/mdg.html.
For more info, see Mediator PCI 1200 SX website at
http://www.elbox.com/products/mediator_pci_1200_sx.html.
Pricing and availability
The Mediator PCI SX will be on sale beginning with 1st September
2002, and its suggested retail price is EUR 239.95 (VAT excl.) To
locate an authorized distributor or purchase product visit the Elbox
Computer website at http://www.elbox.com/buy.html.
Why Mediator?
Do you need your Amiga to display crystal-clear image up to
2048x1536x32@75? Do you want your favourite games run in accelerated
graphics? Take a PCI graphic card from the Voodoo family and enjoy its
2D and 3D performance.
Care for superb high-quality music? Just install the inexpensive,
high-quality Sound Blaster sound PCI card and play your MP3 files in
the 16-bit resolution.
Want fast network connections to surf the net? Put a low-cost RTL8139
Fast Ethernet 100Mbps PCI card into the Mediator slot and connect your
computer to the network.
Do you want to watch and capture your favourite TV programmes? The TV
tuner PCI card allows you not only watching TV... you can also connect
a TV-SAT tuner, a camcorder or a digital camera. Although the full TV
image resolution runs at 30 fps in the PIP window on your Workbench
screen, it does not use the Amiga processor's time at all.
And all this is possible NOW, with the MEDIATOR.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com
http://www.elbox.com
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S O U N D F X V 4 . 2 I S A V A I L A B L E
20 August, 2002
After more than a year of development and testing, the final version
of SoundFX 4.2 has finally been released!. WinUAE/AmigaXL/Amithlon
users can try the 060 version. It should run without any problems on
their systems. The list of new features and bugfixes is here. SoundFX
is a powerful sound-processing package for AmigaOS, developed by
Stefan Kost. For a shareware price it offers professional features,
many of which are quite unique on the Amiga. It is a real must for
every Amiga sound designer or music
producer.
SoundFX V4.2
Changes since the previous version
- Stable as never before.
- Extensively tested also on emulated systems: WinUAE, AmigaXL and
Amithlon.
NEW FEATURES
- Significant internal changes made in order to allow advanced
features (like realtime processing) in the future.
- The ARexx port has been completely rewritten. It is now almost 100%
faster.
- New operator: a 3-band parametric equalizer.
- Apart from whole samples, sample ranges can now be saved as well.
- All sample-windows have two new gadgets in the title bar. One hides
the window, the other displays the Sample Options local menu (useful
for people who do not have a 3-button mouse). These features require
Massimo Tantignone's titlebar.image.
- Now there are altogether three ways to hide the sample-window: the
'Box' button in the toolbar, the Hide gadget in the window title bar,
and the local menu.
- SoundFX can display "Tips of the Day" at startup. OS3.5+ (or an
older system with ClassAct installed) is recommended for this feature.
- You can get to SoundFX's homepage at www.sonicpulse.de and e-mail
the author directly from within the program: see the Help menu. This
feature requires openurl.library installed and configured properly.
- New About-window gives extensive information about the program and
the system. This feature requires Richard Koerber's identify.library.
- The quality of the Hall operator has been improved.
- New Utility menu with functions for manipulation with sample data
(sign and byte-order switching, channel interleaving and
deinterleaving).
- New functions for preference handling (see Prefs menu).
- When calculating the maximum sample volume (Amplify operator) a
progress-bar is now used, as this operation can take a long time with
large samples (like CD tracks).
SUPPORT
- There is a new bugtracker suite at http://www.sonicpulse.de/phpbt/
for reporting bugs and submitting feature requests.
- The HTML documentation has been extended and updated.
- Documentation now available also in PDF and PostScript formats.
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I O U S B 2 . 0 F R O M I O S P I R I T
19 Aug 2002
IOUSB System 2.0 Update with OS 4 support
IOUSB, developed by IOSPIRIT, is a system for USB-device-drivers that
allows them to access USB stacks via a uniform API. Thus any driver
that builds upon it can theoretically be used with every USB-stack on
the AMIGA.
Apart from the already existing support for Poseidon (Highway/Subway,
MorphOS), support has been added for the Sirion-stack (Thylacine,
Highway/Subway) in cooperation with the AmigaOS 4.0 development team.
Thus it is now also possible to use devices covered by IOUSB with the
Thylacine USB-board and the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0.
The update to version 2.0 can be found on our download-page. It also
contains an update to version 1.1 of the iousbscanner.device fixing a
timing-problem with the Epson Perfection 1650.
EMail: info@iospirit.de
WWW: http://www.iospirit.de/
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P O S E I D O N U S B S T A C K 1 . 2 6
16-Aug-02
Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the
possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with
USB interface, ranging from mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks,
printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flash card readers, zip drives,
floppy disk drives, harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters,
scanners and audio adapters to less common things like power supplies,
GPS location devices or finger print readers. It is intended to be a
solution for all systems.
Requires: a compatible USB card
Big news
~~~~~~~~
V1.26:
- Mass storage fixed and extended.
- New USB Modem class.
- UPAR printer mountlist included.
V1.25:
- German manual and installer script
- Fixed the bugs in the installer script that would copy the UMSD
file to the wrong drawer (and without icon)
- New usb->serial converter class
- Mass storage now automounts
Changelog
~~~~~~~~~
poseidon.library 1.26
o On USB devices with multiple configurations, only the first one was
read due to me thinking that I would get all configurations
automatically. This is now fixed. Hey, it was the first time I came
across a device with multiple configs, so I couldn't test the code
before.
massstorage.class 1.11
o Added information messages on mounting (after three attempts :) ).
o Mounting now again uses lowcyl = 0. But therefore, detection of an
already mounted partition has been reduced to unit, device and
dostype. This means that no multiple partitions on a harddisk will be
mounted, but only the first one. I hope this is not a problem for most
of you. (thanks to Jens & Jean-François).
o After mounting, a diskchange signal was sent. This is now fixed
(thanks to Jens).
o Added NSD and TD64 support. This means you now can uses harddisks
>4GB.
serialpl2303.class 1.3
o Fixed buffer management. Added EOF mode.
cdcacm.class 1.2
o Initial. Should support state reporting and EOF mode.
pencamtool
o Added UPTO option.
highwayusb.device 2.8
o Optimized copyloop a bit.
subwayusb.device 2.2
o Initial
serialpl2303.class 1.2
o Initial
bootkeyboard.class 1.6
o Now calls reset handlers of the keyboard.device on reset. This is
done in a tricky, but system-friendly way. If any reset handler is
found, the reset is delayed by 10 seconds (no way to find out, if the
reset handlers have finished).
massstorage.class 1.9
o Added 200ms delay for some strange devices before first
interaction. I hope this is enough for most drives.
o Added automounting capability for FAT95. Took me ages to get this
working. Sorry.
o Added experimental untested support for CB and CBI transport
protocols.
o Added special init sequence for eUSCSI bridges.
o Disabled internal retry mechanism for HDCMD_SCSI commands. Maybe
this fixes the disk changing bugs when using "+s" on FAT95.
o Fixed broken disk change detection. Sorry, just forgot some
paranthesis.
hub.class 1.14
o Changed the init sequence to be more error tolerant, adding several
retries
o Added locking mechanism (oops! how could I forget) of address 0 to
avoid confusion on the bus with multiple hubs connected to a hub at
the same time.
o Lots of little changes.
poseidon.library 1.25
o If SET_CONFIGURATION fails, the enumeration will now still proceed.
This seems to be the case with a few USB2.0 devices.
o Changed psdSpawnSubTask() to launch a process if started with dos
available.
o Misc little changes.
Contact
~~~~~~~
Any mail, comments or donations welcome:
Chris Hodges
Kennedystr. 8
D-82178 Puchheim
Germany
WWW: http://www.platon42.de/
Email: hodges@in.tum.de
IRC: platon42 on EfNet
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I O S P R I T S O F T W A R E D I S T R I B U T I O N
14 August, 2002
Software distribution via IOSPIRIT
IOSPIRIT, known worldwide for its high product quality and its
well-accepted service, is expanding its distribution activities. Thus
we are looking for interesting programs and projects, that lack a
distribution partner or that want to open up new market segments.
Distribution activities include the wide-spread mail-order
distribution and popular, modern Electronic Software Delivery (ESD),
where everything is handled digitally - from the customer's payment to
the product delivery. Besides we also offer support aids like
mailinglists and a FAQ-system.
Advertising (both banners and print), flyers and our presence at
exhibitions allows us to introduce the products distributed through us
to a broad public. Furthermore we already have a strong customerbase
within and outside Germany.
More general information and information about the advantages of our
distribution services can be found on the page "Distribution services"
under "Information" Don't hesitate to contact us directly, if you are
interested and want to learn more.
EMail: info@iospirit.de
WWW: http://www.iospirit.de/
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W O R K S N E E D E D F O R 2 0 0 3 C A L E N D A R
9 August, 2002
DiscreetFX Announces The 2003 Amiga Art Calendar. Attention Amiga
Artists - now is the chance to get your best Amiga artwork seen by
thousands and share in the proceeds of the sale. You only have until
October 5th 2002 to send in your artwork for consideration for the
2003 Amiga Art Calendar. This Calander is being produced exclusively
on the Amiga and will go on sale in time for the 2002 Christmas
holidays. All submissions must be created on an Amiga and or Video
Toaster (Amiga version) and must include a list of what software/
hardware was used to create the artwork. A panel of 12 judges/Amiga
enthusiates will select the 13 pieces of artwork that will be included
in this years edition. Please send all submissions to
discreetfx@yahoo.com on or before October 5th 2002.
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P R I V O X Y 3 . 0 . 0 F O R A M I G A
28 August, 2002
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies,
controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet Junkbuster.
o Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
o Environment: No Input/Output (Daemon), Web Environment, Win32 (MS
Windows)
o Intended Audience: End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
o License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
o Natural Language: English
o Operating System: MacOS X, Windows, Other OS {Including Amiga.
Brad}, HP-UX, Linux, SunOS/Solaris
o Programming Language: C
o Topic: WWW/HTTP, Firewalls
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/
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Amiga Update on the net:
All back issues available at:
http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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Copyright 2002 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified.
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01.Sep.2002
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List GAUHPIL: Now with own domain
As of now, the Geographical Amiga User Home Page Internet List (GAUHPIL) can be reached
under its own domain: gauhpil.dietmar-knoll.de.
Please amend your bookmarks and any links to this web site.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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01.Sep.2002
AmiBench
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AmiBench - Planned move to new server
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, maintainer of AmiBench, the web site for
international, free classifieds informs us that the web site will
probably move to another server around the 5th September.
"News Update for you all. AmiBench will be moving hosts next week. Dont
know when or what time yet but it will be around the 5'th of September.
I now have to pay for the hosting of AmiBench so please no nasty emails
about poor service or so on. (Yes I am paying for this out of my own
pocket!)."
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01.Sep.2002
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Event calendar updated
We have just now updated our event calendar. In September alone there
are six different Amiga events planned in Europe.
06./08.09.2002 - Amiga Inside 2 - Hirsau, Germany
07./08.09.2002 - A·Expo - Tain l'Hermitage, France
07./08.09.2002 - Guru Meditation - Bautzen/Sachsen, Germany
14./15.09.2002 - O.A.S.E. - Graz, Austria
21./22.09.2002 - Pianeta Amiga 2002 - Empoli, Italy - Pianeta Site by Virtual Works
28.09.2002 - Classic Computing 2002 - Buchen, Germany
04./06.10.2002 - AMIGA Freunde Pfalz Party Herbst 2002 - Mutterstadt, Germany
18./20.10.2002 - Amiga Meeting Nord - Bad Bramstedt, Germany
02.11.2002 - WOA SE 2002 - Shenfield, Essex, UK
07./08.12.2002 - AMIGA Messe 2002 - Aachen, Germany (Web site not yet online) (ps) (Translation: cb)
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01.Sep.2002
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Summer break is over
Our summer break is over, as of now news can be entered in the Amiga News Feed
(ANF) again, and the comments function has been reactivated, too.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)
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Magazine: AMIGA aktuell 07/2002 published
Carsten Schröder writes:
The July issue of AMIGA aktuell has just been published and can be read online
on our web site (please note: New domain!) as well as downloaded in HTML or
AmigaGuide format. It contains a.o.
- a hands-on experience report about the new USB controller "Highway",
- the third part of our "Ghostscript" workshop,
- a workshop about the usage of the Workbench addon "ToolsMenu",
- a report from the June party of Amiga-Freunde Pfalz,
- miscellaneous comments and assessments about the Amiga situation,
- a.m.m.
The graphics reside in the separate file "Aakt0702GFX.lha" and belong in the
same directory as the guide version resp. the "img" directory within the HTML
version.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Tool: Rainboot4 in development
Rainboot4 is currently in development.
In prior versions Rainboot was only a program to show stunning demos during the Amiga's boot process. But with Version 4 it made its step to become a complete multimedia authoring system, which means that it has now a programming script language, which allows the programmer to create applications in a very easy way.
The programmer
can use many of Rainboot4's functions which save him a lot of time. For example,
you do not have to care if your application runs on Picasso96, Cgfx, AGA or
ECS. That's Rainboot4's thing now! It does everything for you and it does it
system friendly. Here's a short overview what's currently possible:
- 100% system-friendly. Runs on all Amiga systems.
- Application can be displayed in window on Workbench or own screen.
- Transparent windows on Workbench (see screen shot).
- Transition effects.
- Functions to scroll graphics smoothly.
- Transparent Graphics.
- compiler and linker for creating executables.
- Easy monitoring of user input (keyboard, mouse).
- DOS functions.
- String functions.
- Math funktions.
- Variables and arrays.
- Applications run independent of the current screenmode.
- Compatible with older Rainboot versions.
- Different fonts can be used.
- Supports anim brushes.
- Supports sound modules and samples.
- Conditions (if, else, elseif, endif).
- Loops (for, next, while, wend).
- System functions.
- Can still be used during booting.
- MorphOS and AmigaOS4 versions planned.
- and much more.
The interesting thing is, that Rainboot4 does all the work for you. For
example, the following script opens a window with the file mypic.iff as the
background and writes "Hello World" centered in this window:
%BGPIC1=mypic.iff
%CODE
%Locate(CENTER,CENTER)
%PrintStr("Hello World")
%WaitLeftMouse
%Quit
This simplicity is used by all functions of Rainboot4. And it's fully system
friendly. All operations are executed through the operating system or the
RTG system respectively.
It was never easier to code intuitive programs with such little effort but
maximum effectivity and user friendlyness.
Screen shots of Rainboot4 are available on the Airsoft Softwair home page:
www.airsoftsoftwair.de.
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14.Jul.2002
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New track on Psyria home page
After nearly 3 months it's happened again. Today the Psyria home page has been
updated. This is also connected with the fact that the site was celebrating its
10,000th visitor recently.
Again, thanks to all for the support.
As of now "Take the Power" is available in the download section. The track has
been produced in collaboration with Yel.C..
Download: YelCvsPsyria-TakeThePower.zip (6,9M)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
Amiga Future
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freeCD: The Elite Experience
Patrick Henz has released the freeCD
"The Elite Experience".
This CD-ROM contains three original Elite games (Elite, Frontier, First
Encounters) as well as Elite - The New Kind.
In addition to these there are further Elite fan games, pictures, paper models
of the space ships, manuals, tools and stories.
The CD-ROM contains files and programs for Amiga, Amiga CD??,
Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Gameboy, Linux, Nintendo Entertainment
System, OS/2 and Windows.
It is available through the title link and from dealers.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
AROS
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AROS: aros.org accessible again (update)
The AROS web site is again accessible through
www.aros.org.
aros.org is accessible again because Peter Bortas and Aaron Digulla have
managed to transfer the rights to aros.org from Bortas to Digulla. Here the
original text from the AROS-Announce mailing list:
"After only five years of struggling with Network Solutions,
Peter Bortas and I finally managed to have the domain transferred
from him to me. Now ain't that something! :-)
That also means that www.aros.org is working again and that
it won't be down again because the nameservers are now under
my control!"
Addendum 14th July 2002:
Added information and original text about transfer of domain rights.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: Little Book - a.o. Dragons Lair, Flight Simulator II
From the Amiga Society web site:
The mail has arrived. Connected with that a whole bunch of "new" old games,
which will bei entered into the Little Book immediately. Present are a.o. RVF
Honda, Super Hang on, Dragons Lair and, not to be forgotten, the famous Flight
Simulator II.
With that the weekend is saved. The first part of Ians update has also arrived
and will presumably be uploaded tomorrow. Well, how shall we continue - the way
it looks like, you're mostly interested in new hard and software.
Thus we are set a bit out of place. As a rule I prefer the classics....
This is originates from the fact that we are working nearly exclusively as a
pair on this thing, and obtaining old, partially dead computers
*screwsolderrun* is much less expensive than purchasing new stuff.
Though I will - if it becomes available - have an AmigaOne standing here,
an adequate broadness isn't feasible on a shoestring budget."
All in all, the following information has been added to the "Little Book of
Amiga Software":
13th July 2002
- Extended: Amiga games list
- Extended: Body Blows
- New Entry: Super Hang On
- New Entry: RVF Honda
- New Entry: Shadow of the Beast
- New Entry: TV Sports Football
- New Entry: Dragons Lair
- New Entry: Goldrunner II
- New Entry: Atomino
- New Entry: LOOPZ
- New Entry: Flight Simulator II
- New Entry: Super Tennis Champs
13th July 2002
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14.Jul.2002
Gregory Donner-Homepage
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History: Workbench Nostalgia - Updates for WB 2.x
Gregory Donner updated his "Workbench Nostalgia" page on 12th July 2002. This
site contains information about the various Amiga Workbench versions. He
corrected or moved notes in the
Workbench 2.0,
Workbench 2.04
and the
ßeta 0.x pages.
These notes have been contributed by Rodney Hester.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
AWeb Open Source
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AWeb: List of persons involved
A list of the people involved
in the project was published on the AWeb Open Source web site on 8th July 2002.
This list was last updated today.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
Amiga Future
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A.D.A.: Demos - Muscles, Kah835GB, Dose, Fetish
On 26th May 2002, four demos and two videos were added to the Amiga Demoscene
Archive (A.D.A.). The additions are:
All demos are available for download for the Amiga and are presented with
pictures on their pages. There are also video versions of the first two demos
available.
Furthermore, videos for the following Mawi PPC demos have been published:
Within ca. 7 months, A.D.A. has had more than 10,000 hits (ca. 14,400 page views):
"And we reached more than 10000 hits (about 14400 page views) in about 7 months online.
Thanks a lot and keep checking back for more demos and to add comments and votes
on all the demos."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
Amiga Future
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ExoticA: Extensive update of many areas
On 14th July 2002 many areas of the
ExoticA web site were updated.
This site deals a.o. with the Amiga's musical abilities and history.
Among other things, the "Demo Scene Reference Manual", "Tracker History"
and "High Voltage SID Collection" have been updated.
Additionally, BuZz writes briefly about the "eXtreme Computing 2002" and the
"Back In Time Live 3" meeting in the news.
All changes in detail can be read in the
news text
on ExoticA.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
Amiga Future
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The Legacy.de: 600 Coverscans removed
From "The Legacy" web site:
"600 coverscans, mostly of Amiga games, have been removed. Now, it is a little
bit empty here- if you find replacements for them, scan 'em and mail 'em us!."
"The Legacy" web site offers, in the form of a museum, information about
computer games in German and English. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
Amiga Future
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MorphOS: ttflib V0.8.5
On 14th July 2002, Sigbjørn Skjæret released Version 0.8.5 of the ttf library for MorphOS for displaying TrueType fonts.
In this version the libcode has been improved which makes the library significantly faster than its predecessor.
Download: ttflib_mos.lha (sd)
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14.Jul.2002
Ruben Monteiro (Amiga Open-ML)
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AmigaDE: 3D - TinyGL V0.2
On 12th July 2002, version 0.2 of TinyGL for AmigaDE has been released. TinyGL
supplies a subset of the OpenGL API for developing 3D-Software for AmigaDE.
Compared to the previous version, the following changes have been incorporated:
- Bugfix: Some errors have been corrected.
- New: Some code examples have been added.
- New: Some GLUT/GLU functions have been added:
- GLUT: glutMouseFunc, glutMotionFunc, glutPassiveMotionFunc,
glutEntryFunc, glutShowWindow, glutHideWindow, glutPositionWindow,
glutReshapeWindow.
- GLU: gluCylinder, gluDisk, gluSphere.
- GL: glGetString
People who'd like to support this project may submit bug reports and feature
requests through the title link.
Download: tinygl.zip?download (113K),
Changelog
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14.Jul.2002
ANN
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Magazine: ARM #3
Spanish Amiga magazine ARM's third issue will be out in a couple of days.
The contents, images, news and further information about the magazine are
accessible through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Jul.2002
Amiga Info @ point.design
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Event: O.A.S.E. 2002 in Graz - 14th & 15th September
Amiga Info write:
The O.A.S.E. - The Open Amiga Southeast Europe Show will take place on
Sa. & Su., 14th & 15th September at the Hotel Europa in Graz,
near the main station.
A presentation of the AmigaOne is scheduled, and (!if possible!), also of AmigaOS4.
Furthermore we will be showing Amigas with PCI solutions and USB, as well as
Amithlon 2.0.
And we will have Designer cases for the new Amiga generation on show.
Admission is free. Arrival by car, train or plane (Ryanair from London (STN) - Graz @ ca. 35.-).
O.A.S.E. Open Amiga Southeast Show
14th & 15th September 2002
http://www.oase.at/
E-Mail: oase@pointdesign.at
VX/FX: +43-316-913-048
Mobil: +43-699-1209-0397 (sd) (Translation: cb)
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13.Jul.2002
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Benchmark tool: AmigaMARK LPA 2002
First beta screenshots of a new Amiga Benchmark tool.
With this program you can exactly analyse the performance of CPU, memory and drive. For the time being 16 CPU, 24 memory and 15 drive tests have been implemented. 2D and 3D Benchmarks will follow later in a separate tool. The first public beta will be released for 68k and MorphOS and needs the help of beta testers who may register at a given time...
Minimum system configuration:
- AmigaOS: > 3.1
- RAM: 6 MB FAST, 1 MB CHIP
- HDD: ~10 MB
Author/contact:
Rupert Hausberger (naTmeg)
Austria
EFNET/IRCNET: naTmeg / AmiComSys: naTmeg
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13.Jul.2002
Thorsten Mampel, 1. chairman ACH (ANF)
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15th birthday of the Amiga club Hamburg
The Amiga club Hamburg celebrates in August 2002 its 15th birthday. We want to celebrate this day accordingly. Therefore there'll be a party taking place on Saturday, August, 31th 2002 in the Volkshaus Berne/Hamburg where also our club room lies. For the celebration we have rent a big room in the Volkshaus.
The following events are planned for the party:
- Cold buffet
- Show program
- Music and dance
- Exhibition showing the club and Amiga history
- Video presentation
- Draw with interesting prices
You may enter for free but we have to take a price for the cold buffet and the drinks 10,- Euro all inclusive. For an exact planning is a registration needed.
Every Amiga fan and those who want to become one (or were ones) are very welcome.
As you can see above we are planning a draw. Details about the prices and the awaited guests as well as all further information will be published on our homepage (title link).
Please send registrations and questions to festauschuss@amigaclubhamburg.de.
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13.Jul.2002
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Several software updates (13.07.2002)
Andreas Kleinert has released version 45.3 of the akPNG datatype for 68k computers.
Download: akPNG-dt.lha
At SixK you can find the following new ports:
Little endian version of Mame 0.60
P96 colour problem resolved in few SDL binaries.
Amiga Online Games (AOG) has added some addons to the online games database that solve problems with several games.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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13.Jul.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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Webinterface for mailinglists on iospirit.de
We offer free mailinglists as part of our service. By subscribing to a
mailinglist you can discuss with other users, exchange the latest tips
or just receive the latest news.
Starting with today, we also provide you with a webinterface that allows
you to view all mails in a mailinglist that have been submitted until
now. You reach the webinterface by clicking on a list's name in the
mailinglist-overview (see "Service" on the left bar).
(ps)
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13.Jul.2002
Alexander Fritsch, selco (ANF)
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Sowjet speech encryption machine for telephone and radio
Right before the summer break a software premiere: the simulation of the Sowjet speech encryption machine "Elbrus". This is a military encryption device for telephone and radio that had been used at the USSR army and the NVA of the GDR. The signal is analogue encoded using a digital code i.e. you get an encrypted audio signal that can be broadcasted directly (without modem) analogue via telephone or radio. With the program you can en-/decode own audio files (or an audio stream of the AHI device). The program should be unique in the Web and is for now exclusively available for the Amiga (68k and PPC). A detailed description and a sound example can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jul.2002
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)
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AMIGAplus: New editing address
During the next days we will move to a new office. From 22nd July 2002 please still only use the following address:
AMIGAplus
Dürener Straße 387
50935 Köln
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2002
Olaf Winkler (E-Mail)
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VIVA-Text: Amigas classical games on Gameboy Advance
About ten years ago the successful story of "Pinball Fantasies" started on the Amiga. Now the flipper simulation is supposed to capture the Gameboy Advance. There are eight different tables to chose which have been originally taken from the games "Pinball Fantasies" and "Pinball Dreams". Diverse ramps, traps and hills are supposed to make a new highscore more difficult.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2002
AMIGAplus
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Elbox: New driver for Mroocheck version 2.0
ELBOX Computer has published version 2.0 of the driver "Mroocheck" (Punchinello MK II, Topolino MK II) for the PC-mouse-adapter.
The new driver enables you to calibrate the A/D-converter-parameter on the Amiga in a undependable way for each direction of movement of the mouse wheel.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2002
AMIGAplus
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Soundtracker: Crap Track version 1.1
The soundtracker "Crap Track" has been published in version 1.1 as the last update
inclusive sourcecode.
Download: craptrack_v1_1.lha -
craptrack_v1_1_src.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2002
Kilian Servais (ANF)
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Commemorative edition 100 of disk magazine NoCover published
Today commemorative edition 100 has been published of freeware disk magazine NoCover which of course also contains the current issue of the "Amiga Aktuell". With it NC might belong to one of the longest existing magazines at all. Currently writers are searched who activly participate in NC so the magazine may keep on existing. You can get the NC either via email, over APC&TCP or from the Aminet. Of course you can order a free email subscription at each time. Simply write an email to kilian@apc-tcp.de. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2002
ANN
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New photos of AmigaMania13 June French Meeting
Stephane Marrec wrote on ANN:
Here are more photos of the meeting ArtBastringue/AmigaMania in Toulouse
(FRANCE) June 22-23 2002.
- - Photos of an "AmigaOne SE" running LinuxPPC,
- - Photos of the new "AmigaOne XE" showed by Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) during the conférence
- - Photos of "cristO classic" high end tower case from Naya Design.
- - Various photos of well known French Amiga users (Professionals and normal users)
- - and more... :)
Gallery 1 AmigaMania13_1
Gallery 2 AmigaMania13_2
Unfortunely no comment for each photos is available.
You can find the other photos about that meeting, at the French Amiga
Association "AFLE" web site: AmigaMania13 AFLE.
Other infos about organization and program of that weekend:
AmigaMania13 info.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2002
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: New version of AmiStart published / Results of opinion poll
There is a new version of AmiStart of Darius Brewka. The new version offers an improved and extended GUI, antialiased Truetype-font support and much more. The new AmiStart version will be published on Aminet in some days. But GFX-Base offers already now the full archive for download and besides this you can look at some new screenshots and get information about further details of the program. Additionally you can read the interview with Darius Brewka and the question&answers of AmiStart.
Download: AmiStart.lha 342 KB
Furthermore the results of the GFX-Base opinion poll 'Should there be AmigaOS4.0 for
Pegasos or do you think MorphOS would be the right way?' are online and can be viewed in the vote-area. 426 users participated in it. (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2002
BruZard (ANF)
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BruZard: The end
BruZard wrote:
Because of professional reasons I give up all activities on the Amiga. This year I will still manage the AMIGAplus forum but I have been already looking for an user who will do it afterwards. Furthermore the projects "AmiBlitz" and "Stahl2003" are involved. The last mentioned one was a game project for AmigaPPC but it will be published only on Windows PCs because of the negative Amiga market.
Thank you for having 12 years fun with the Amiga and I wish all Amiga users a good prospect in which I cannot believe no more. I regret the farewell but I do not want to waste my time with an antiquated system which has no future. Cya Folks, may the Force be with you!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2002
Amiforce
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Amiforce: Amiblitz and Developer Support
Amiforce is immediately offering developer support for Amiblitz programmers. If you have written something in Amiblitz, you can make a connection with Cj-Stroker. If it is shareware, he can create an online registration form, and introduce the program.
The goal is to create a platform that both builds the excitement and raises the motivation. Amiga programmers have become a scarce commodity. There must be more new ones and the existing ones must be kept.
If you have your own homepage, Cj-Stroker can help you to market your program on Amiforce. That goes for everybody.
Steffen Nitz provided the first ones. His programs SN-Münzarchiv and SN-Markenarchiv may now be ordered, and may be directly registered online.
The entirety of all this is yet to be attained over the startpage. Before long the Amiblitz section will be newly displayed and correspondingly a new headline will be entered.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jul.2002
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ Version 5.52
For Amiga OS 3.9 users version 5.52 of Report+ is available for download. With Report+ from Amigan Software you can easily generate bug reports, Aminet *.readme files, autodocs, and similar reports. The program is freeware and uses ReAction/GadTools. Since version 5.51a the program has been 90% converted to Reaction, the speed has increased, and a few bugs were eliminated.
Download: ReportPlus.lha (352 KB) (ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jul.2002
GoldED Support
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Editor: GoldED Studio 6 Final-Update in work
In a few days a final update for GoldED Studio will be released which
combines the existing editor (release 6) with material from the aborted
development of version 7: all-new graphics, an improved UI library and
various updated add-ons. The package will include the Distributed BASIC
interpreter with GPL'ed source code.
User Interface Preview
(ps)
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11.Jul.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Issue 37 (July-August 2002) Appears
Today issue #37 of Amiga Future (July-August 2002) has appeared.
All the subscriptions and individual issues were sent off today. Naturally the edition is also available by backorder from here on.
Contents:
- Test Highway USB Card
- Test Ascon Files
- Test Monstro
- Test Demo Collection
- Test Theme Park
- Test Chaos Engine 2
- Test Wasted Dreams
- Test Dynamite CD Collectors Edition
- Test Aminet 48
- Test EmuCD
- Preview AmigaOS 4.0
- Preview Earth 2150
- and a whole lot more
Full version on the Reader's CD:
- Chaos
- StarDefender
- Zerberk
- Microbes
- Gnome
- Digibooster 1.7
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jul.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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H&P: Special Offer of Freespace - The Great War
For a limited time (until August 16th 2002) H&P is offering the full version of the excellent outer space battle simulator from Hyperion for the extra low price of just 24 euros [about $24 -DM]. Order now or read more about it
here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jul.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New DirOpus4 Betaversion Available
A new betaversion of Directory Opus IV is available under the title-link. Changes since the previous version may be found in the history.
Direct download: http://dopus.amiga.pl/files/DOpus417pre13.lzx
Please be aware that the catalog data has not been brought up to date, and may also be that you'll bump into text that hasn't been translated. But that that doesn't affect the fact that everything works. Whoever cares to do so may go over the German catalog and work with the built-in English strings. New catalog data is the next goal. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jul.2002
Tamio Honma (ANF)
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Vulnerabilities in Zaurus SL-5000D and SL-5500 PDA
Under the title-link you'll find an article which describes the vulnerabilities and security holes of the Sharp Zaurus.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jul.2002
Michael Heider (ANF)
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Now Available: Image Installer CD with Mandrake 8.2 PPC for Amiga
Under the title-link you'll find the Image Installer-CD for Amiga with PPC card. The CD contains the image installer with German and English user guidance, an image file of Mandrake 8.2 Linux PPC, and additionally the installation instructions in German and English. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jul.2002
Michael Boehmer (ANF)
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Mailing List for HIGHWAY/SUBWAY Users
For the users of HIGHWAY/SUBWAY boards (and not only these) as well as anyone interested there is a mailing list to exchange knowledge about USB cards on Amiga and experience with everyday problems, to serve as a mutual assistance center. Developers are similarly invited to actively take part. Just click on the title-link to get started.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Jul.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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CD32/CDTV-Emulator for Windows: Akiko Version 1.6
Akiko 1.6, the CD32 & CDTV emulator for Windows was just released on the
Airsoft Softwair homepage (title link). This version can run more games
and the compatibility was increased. Additionally this version contains
now a cover archive with more than 160 covers for CD32 and CDTV games
(of course they've been prepared to be displayed in the Akiko GUI).
Therefore there are now two different versions of Akiko for download:
One version that contains all the covers (8 MB) and one version
that comes without covers (1.5 MB). Akiko 1.6 can now be downloaded
from the Airsoft Softwair web page.
Please have also a look into the documentation because the author need
to buy some CD32 games and he still need some CDTV games for Akiko. (ps)
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10.Jul.2002
AmigArt
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AmigArt: Interview with Elbox
Following the title link you can discover an English Interview with Elbox,
which has been made by 'Aracnet' of AmigArt.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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10.Jul.2002
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)
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Inutilis Website new layouted
The netsite from Inutilis Software has been new layouted. There has been added the freeware program "PalettenTool",
which might be interesting for Inga developers.
With that and another additional graphic program (e. g. PPaint) there is the possibility given to calculate 24 bit graphics down to 8 bit including the option to define a part of the colour pallette by yourself (e.g. for a inventary bar).
Furthermore the online shop has been relaunched. Until now there are no new products but there are plans...
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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10.Jul.2002
Miscellaneous sources
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Miscellaneous software news
At SourceForge are the followimg new versions of some ports to find:
The window manager DepthMenu by Arkadiusz 'Yak' Wahlig is released in
version 2.36. With this tool you can manage, minimize or maximize opened windows at your workbench.
The new version includes some bug fixes, new modules for DOpus 4 and 5 and new locales.
Download: DepthMenu.lha
Andreas Kleinert
has released version 5.06 of his akMPEG4 players, optimized for 68k and x86.
Download: akMPEG4.lha
The game Payback by Apex Designs
will be released in about two month for Windows and Linux. A first short
status report
has gone online already.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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10.Jul.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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MAI Logic Press release: Partnership with Eyetech
By the title link there is a press release of MAI Logic to find, in which
Eyetech is announced as the European distributor of the Teron CX/PX systems.
The "Teron CX/PX based systems" (AmigaOne-SE/XE) are mentioned too.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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10.Jul.2002
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Poll: Should the next Amiga fair be held in Cologne again?
By demand of Ingo Schmitz we have started today this poll.
Possible answers:
- Yes, I liked Cologne every time
- Yes, but another location would be okay as well
- No, more to the north would be better
- No, more to the south would be better
- No, more to the east would be better
- No, more to the west would be better
- Doesn´t matter I won´t attend it anyway
The poll is to reach by the title link, the current result is to get here.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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10.Jul.2002
The High Mind (ANF)
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Offer for free hosting of Amiga related (not commercial) sites
We are running our servers on a true T3 now, so we have plenty of
bandwidth and space available. If anyone has Amiga content related
sites that they need hosted, I would be willing to offer free hosting
on one of our machines to them. There really are some nice sites out
there that are endangered of going away due to cost issues..
For such a small, dedicated community, this shouldn't ever have to be
an issue.
Our servers have PHP4, Perl5, Rebol View/Core and MySQL installed, so
all of the above are available to you.
So if anyone needs a content site (e.g. non-commercial site) hosted, we
can arrange this with you at no cost to you. This applies to Morph, AROS,
Rebol, and Be related sites too.
If interested, e-mail LotR@merlancial.com.
This is my way of giving some back to the Amiga community..
I've personally almost given up hope of anything real out of A.I. now,
as they are even in debt to me for a large sum of money...but as far as
the Amiga community is concerned, I have better hopes. You truly are a
bunch of wonderful colourful individuals who I have always loved working
with. It's a shame we haven't made as great a comeback as I would have
hoped...
(ps)
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09.Jul.2002
A.D.A. Demo Archive
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A.D.A.: New Demos - New Dawn Fades / Heavy Traffic
A.D.A., the Amiga Demo Archive with search function has provided the PPC-Demos 'New Dawn Fades' and 'Heavy Traffic' for download.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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09.Jul.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 11.07.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games you only can play on disks on your
hard disk. The following games are added or updated:
- 11.07.02 new: Analogia (Analog) done by Psygore
- 09.07.02 fixed: Eye of the Beholder (Westwood/SSI) supplied diskimage corrected
- 08.07.02 new: Vectorball (Mastertronic) done by Codetapper
- 08.07.02 improved: Brutal Paws of Fury (GameTek) supports CD³² version
- 08.07.02 improved: Mig-29 Soviet Fighter (Code Masters/Rapier Design) supports another version
- 08.07.02 improved: Future BasketBall (Hewson) keyboard fixed, new install script
- 08.07.02 new: Yogi's Great Escape (Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
- 08.07.02 fixed: The Real Popeye (Bignonia) works on faster machines too
- 08.07.02 new: Pong (Claudio Buraglio) done by JOTD
- 08.07.02 new: KGB (Cryo) done by JOTD
- 08.07.02 improved: Insanity Fight (Microdeal) supports another version
- 08.07.02 new: Fright Night (Microdeal) done by Psygore
- 08.07.02 new: European Football Champ (Domark) done by Codetapper
- 08.07.02 improved: Black Sect (Lankhor) access faults removed, docs/solution added
- 08.07.02 improved: American Gladiators (GameTek/Imagitec Design) blitter waits added, SMC fixed
(ps)
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08.Jul.2002
Marco Frischkorn (ANF)
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highantdev.de: Servermoving causes HTML-chat inavailability
Due to some serious security problems of the SuSE-Linux system, the homepage of HighAnt Development (titlelink) will be moved to a new server. This moving will cause some downtime of the server (including the HTML-chat).
The chat will be back as soon as possible!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Jul.2002
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)
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Virus protection: VirusZ III v0.9b
Georg Hoermann has made an new update of VirusZ III, and the new update
is now available for download
at all the Virus Help Team's homepages. Here is some info about the update:
Name: VirusZ III v0.9b
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 61.352 bytes
Date : 8 July 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires:
AmigaOS 2.04 or better
util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha
util/virus/xvslibrary.lha
util/pack/xfdmaster.lha
util/arc/xadmaster.lha (recommended)
util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional)
(ps)
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08.Jul.2002
Amiga Community
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SixK-Port: Reaction MySQL Client RMC 0.4
SixK wrote:
I've just added RMC 0.4, the Reaction MySql Client.
This release has far less bugs than the latest.
Download: RMC0.4.lzx
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Jul.2002
Amiga Community
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SixK SDL-Spieleport: Freecraft 1.17.2
SixK released his SDL-port of Freecraft 1.17.2 (a Warcraft-clone). The SDL-library makes the programming of games and other multimedia-program for different operating systems possible.
Download: freecraft-020630.lzx
Release notes:
- Multiplayer is tested and works on Amiga.
- Few bugs fixed.
- Sound still disabled for Amiga.
- For all SDL games, you can have the good colors with P96
when you play SDL games in window mode with a 16 bits
(not 16 Bits PC) Workbench.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Jul.2002
Amiga-Society
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Amiga-Society: English version of web site
Parts of Amiga-Society's web site are now also available in English. This web site
contains amongst others the "Little Book of Amiga Software" with information
about Amiga software titles.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Jul.2002
MorphOS-News.de
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Pegasos: Pictures from the Thendic France presentation in Bordeaux
This weekend saw the Pegasos computer's
and MorphOS' first public presentation by
Thendic France in Bordeaux.
Pictures by Bertrand "Frodon" Presles
and a video of this demonstration can be found under the title link.
In addition a report will be published soon.
As some Amiga browsers have a problem with the JavaScript code on above page, two mirrors have been set up:
www.iki.fi/sintonen/pegasostmp/
www-users.rwth-aachen.de/holger.jeromin/pegasos/
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Jul.2002
Matthias M. (ANF)
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Amiga Club Guide: Offline version
For all who would like to read the Amiga Club Guide offline, there is now a special version available for download.
This version is for private use only, and requires a written permission for media publication.
Download: AmigaClubGuide_v1_0.lha
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Jul.2002
Cyborg (E-Mail)
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IRC: BenderIRC Update V1.b12 with smiley icons
The IRC client "BenderIRC" now comes with a new graphical feature. It replaces
the smileys commonly used in chats like :-) with little icons. The character
sequences to be replaced can be defined freely, as can the corresponding
graphics. Thus other texts can be replaced with graphics, too, so one is not
limited to smileys.
The first set of icons is already contained in the BenderIRC archive, but can
also be viewed on the newly designed web site.
Download: BenderIRC.lha,
History - Read first!
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Jul.2002
GFX-BASE
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3D: MiniGL from Hyperion Entertainment
'MiniGL' for developers has been published on Aminet. This is a subset of the
3D API 'OpenGL', which has been developed by Hyperion Entertainment
(Hans-Jörg Frieden, Thomas Frieden und Christian Michael) with the emphasis on speed.
The archive contains the MiniGL ANSI-C source code, source code of demo
programs, the documentation and make files for gcc and vbcc.
Warp3D is required.
Download: /dev/c/minigl.lha (607K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Jul.2002
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Software for AmigaOne and AmigaDE (Kick Off 2)
Philip Cosby has published two articles on Amiga Flame.
After last week's AmigaOne-Guide, in 'AmigaOne
Software Line-Up' he particularly goes into software titles for the AmigaOne.
In 'Kick Off 2002 -
The Legend is back' he reports shortly about Virtual Programming having
come to an agreement with Anco which entitles Virtual Programming to port
Kick Off 2 to Intent/AmigaDE.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Jul.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview Alfred Faust (BarsnPipes), PuzzleBOBS GFX manual
An interview with Alfred Faust (further development of BarsnPipes) and a
German manual for creating graphics for PuzzleBOBS have been published on
Amiga Arena.
Interview with "Alfred Faust" (BarsnPipes)
Thanks to "Alfred Faust", "BarsnPipes" users are pleased about the steady
further development of the multimedia MIDI sequencer "BarsnPipes" Amiga
since 2001.
In the very detailed interview with "Amiga Arena", "Alfred Faust" not only
talks about the future of "BarsnPipes" but rather more goes into detail
about the advantages and possibilities of the program and tells how the
release of the sources came about.
The interview is available in German.
PuzzleBOBS GFX manual
The German manual for the creation of custom graphics for the game "PuzzleBOBS" is online.
Thus you have the possibility of making your own backgrounds and game characters.
Unfortunately not all sections of the manual have been translated yet, so please
contact Olaf Köbnik if you
would like to take on that task.
It would also be nice if some users have fun in creating new level designs.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Jul.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Update of Workbench gallery
On 6th July 2002, the Workbench gallery on the Amiga Future home page was
updated.
In the future, the editors of Amiga Future would also like to publish the
corresponding system information besides the actual screen shots. Therefore
the editors are asking all users who send in new screen shots as well as all
users whose pictures have already been published to include or send in now the
following information:
- OS used, e.g. OS 3.1, 3.9, XL etc.
- Tools used to give Workbench this look.
- Programs visible on the screen shot.
- If so wished by the user, also eMail address and further information.
(Please always indicate that these my be published!)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Jul.2002
ANN
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AROS: Zune screen shots - Locale, test apps
Two new screen shots
of Zune have been publisehd by AROS. Picture 1 shows the Locale preference
program's GUI and picture 2 some test programs, a barebone version of the Zune
prefs editor and a small program for testing the layout engine.
Zune is a MUI compatible GUI system.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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07.Jul.2002
ANN
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Themes: OverShaker web site online again
After three months offline status because of problems with the web hoster, the
web site 'OverShaker' is online again.
This site provides icons and in particular a number of themes for Amiga
computers for download.
Three new themes have been added.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Jul.2002
Matthias M. (ANF)
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Amiga Inside: new date - 06th/08th September 2002
The date for the next Amiga Inside Party had unfortunately been delayed by one week because of organizational reasons. It will now take place from September, 6th till September, 8th 2002. The place (Hirsau) didn't change, though.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jul.2002
Amigan Software
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Game: Worm Wars v7.02
Worm Wars has been released in version 7.02. The game needs at least OS2.04+ and
PAL/DblPAL as well as a MC68020+.
Download: WormWars.lha (621 KB)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jul.2002
ANN
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Magazin: The Crypt #24
Today has the issue #24 of the English online magazine
"The Crypt" been released. Here the original message:
This issue explores the concept of whether we`re alone in the Universe.
All the facts are placed before you to make up your own mind, and we have
some very tangible facts as well from sources all around the world. This
issue is nearly 10 MB in size, and we have plenty to keep you interested
on these hot summer days (Yeh!). So come inside and have your own Alien
Encounter.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jul.2002
ANN
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CD-Magazin: 100%AMIGA - July issue #26
Of the English Amiga CD magazine '100%AMIGA' has the issue #26 been released. The magazine is distributed by Forematt Home Computing exclusively on CDROM. The CDROM has a GUI especially developed for this need that guides the reader through the magazine. Read now the original message:
The July issue of 100%AMIGA, the World's only monthly interactive Amiga
CD magazine is now available. This month we go behind the scenes...
In The Making of 100%AMIGA, we take a look at M.R.E. and we see if the
only remaining Amiga Word Processor, AMIGA WRITER 2.2, can do the
business! Plus all the latest headlines read to you TV style by our very
own newsreader. Click on the title link to see our new summer look and
a glimpse at what we are covering.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jul.2002
amiga.org / Kai Stegemann (ANF)
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Amithlon petition
The petition (title link) was created by
Kelvin Shirley.
Kelvin Shirley asks in the petition the community to show their support
for Bernie and that they are waiting for
Amithlon 2.
Here is the original text:
Please sign to show your support for Bernie, author of
Amithlon, while he
sorts out the problems with its release. He has gone through such hard
times trying to get his excellent software out, and it would be nice to
show him how much support he has from the Amiga Community! So please sign
today and feel free to leave any comments you would like to give Bernie.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jul.2002
Andreas Kleinert (email)
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Andreas Kleinert: free key for ak datatypes pre-45.x
Anyone who wants to use the pre-45.x versions of the ak datatypes with
a PPC card now can do so, with these free keyfiles.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jul.2002
Andreas Kleinert (email)
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Andreas Kleinert: download pages online again - akMPEG4 V5.03
Andreas Kleinert has put his download pages online again. They can be accessed (containing some new versions) following these URLs:
Download page German -
Download page English
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jul.2002
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Amiga Future: review of Superballz
On the Amiga Future homepage has today a review of Superballz
(see title link) been released. Superballz is a game in the kind of Marble Madness where a little ball has to be guided through scrolling levels where switches have to be activated.
Having all switches activated somewhere in this level opens the exit to the next level.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jul.2002
Patrick Henz (ANF)
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freeCD: The Elite Experience
The works on the freeCD "The Elite Experience" make good progress and maybe the CD will be finished already this month. Amiga users will find on it among other things the completely playable versions of Elite and Frontier (Elite 2), the latter being now shareware. Furtheron the CD contains Frontier for the CD32 as ISO file. Owners of emulators will find on the CD pearls like Elite for C64, NES, Apple or the Gameboy.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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