17.Oct.2003
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GoldED: Update and special price offer
The text editor called GoldED Studio AIX which is also a text based HTML editor and integrated
developing system for C/C++ was updated and is available for a limited time for a special
price.
According to the author this is the first official version of GoldED studio which is
completely compatible with MorphOS. Even with the permission of Genesi the developing
material with the documentation was integrated in the C/C++ modus. If you are interested
in the further changes Dietmar Eilert points out to the history-file.
You can find screenshots of GoldED on the official website.
Examples: C/C++-modus, standard-configuration.
There is also a free version for editing smaller documents to give you the opportunity of
testing GoldED. You can download it here.
The "GoldED Studio AIX"-CD costs 69,90 Euro, updates CD 19,90 (without postage and delivery).
Because of the publishment of the new version you can buy GoldED Studio AIX for only
49,90 Euro for only few days. The delivery is for free in the EU.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
Martin "Skippa" Knott (ANF)
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Curious: Amiga-Shop on Mallorca?!
Martin Knott who is a reader of amiga-news.de reports: "During my summer holiday on Mallorca
I found in Port Andratx an
Amiga-shop.
The character of the text seemed to be authentic. Unfortunately there were only average
clouthing to buy... How it is possible to be mistaken..." (snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
Galileo Computing (ANF)
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Books for free
Under the title link Galileo Computing offers some (non Amiga-specific) computer-books
to download for free. The books are ZIP-packed HTML-files.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Oct.2003
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Software: Some new game ports for MorphOS
The Hungarian programmer "LouiSe" has ported some further games for MorphOS which you can
download from his website.
The author points out that the download could last because the server is an A4000-030/25.
The following titles were added:
LLL-1.4.tgz - Linux Lunar Lander
LSL-1.2.tgz - Linux Shuttle Lander
atakks-1.0.tgz - Cool Attaxx/Thromulus like logical game
atris-1.0.6.tgz - Nice tetris game
crimson-0.3.7.tgz - Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
deathchase3d-0.9.tgz - Like on ZX Spectrum!
digger-20020314.tgz - Some small bugs fixed
eggchess-1.1.tgz - Egg Chess v1.1
foosball-0.92.tgz - Table soccer (buggy yet)
lopan-0.9.tgz - Logical game
lsdldoom-1.4.4.4.tgz - Doom II game (some bugs fixed)
matchball-0.33b.tgz - Logical Game
mindless-1.0.0.tgz - A simple "MasterMind" like game
pipenightdreams-0.10.0.tgz - VERY COOL Piper game!
powermanga-0.78.tgz - Fast arcade game
puzzle-1.0.0.tgz - Very simple puzzle game
toppler-1.0.3.tgz - Tower Toppler a Nebulus clone
trailblazer-0.9.tgz - THE ball game :)
vectoroids-1.1.0.tgz - Shot the rocks
wakkabox-1.1.0.tgz - Logical game
Besides this there is a MadBomber-port of Kelly Samel on his website.
The game is based on "Kaboom!" which was originally written for Atari 2600.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Oct.2003
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[Removed] Information about (Classic) Mac Emulation under AmigaOS
The text of the news item that was previously here has been removed because the website in question had not-legal software on it. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Thomas "Gojira" Nosutta (ANF)
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Pictures and Video of Amiga Meeting 2003
Under the title link Thomas Nosutta of BAU (Berliner Amiga User) has put online a few of his impressions of Amiga Meeting 2003, which was also a BAU meeting. A short quote from Thomas:
"It was once again an absolutely lively fun experience inc. Quake2-Marathon. For those who prefer pictures, here's a film clip from the Pegasos exhibition on 11th October, 2003." (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Powerplay Test Reports from 1989
Today kultpower.de presents 22 new test reports from the April 1989 issue of Powerplay, sent in by Skyscraper:
Bomber Raid (Sega Master System), Cosmic Pirate (Amiga), Cyborg Hunter
(Sega Master System), F-16 Combat Pilot (MS-DOS), Ghost'n Goblins (NES),
Gold Rush (MS-DOS), Great Football (Sega Master System), Hard'n Heavy (C
64), Hot Chase (Automat), ISS (C 64), Jet Fighter (MS-DOS), Last Duel
(Amiga), Life Force (Salamander) (NES), NARC (Automat), Rally Bike
(Automat), Sword of Sodan (Amiga), Tankattack (C 64), The Deep (Amiga),
The Last Survivor (Automat), The Pawn, War in Middle Earth (CPC), Wayne
Gretzky Hockey (Amiga).
With this update kultpower.de has passed the milestone of 1,500 test report scans. And it won't stop now! :) (nba) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
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AmigaOne: Review and Video of OS4 Booting
Under the title link, OS4 betatester and AmigaOne owner Philippe "Elwood" Ferruci has written about his experiences with the AmigaOne and Debian Linux.
Additionally there are three videos for your viewing. One of them shows the booting of Amiga OS4 on Philippe's AmigaOne. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Ordering for Pegasos II Begins on PegasosPPC.com (Update)
With the installment of a new ordering form at PegasosPPC.com Genesi has officially introduced the Pegasos II.
According to earlier announcements the price for the new boards are 299 Euros (G3/600MHz) up to 499 Euros (G4/1GHz).
For a limited time there's an upgrade option: an owner of the Pegasos I can trade in his or her board for a Pegasos II w. 1 GHz G4 processor for 200 Euros. The exchange will be handled in coordination with the local reseller who is offering the Pegasos II.
Also there is now the possibility to buy the SuperBundle on CD, instead of downloading it from Genesi's FTP server. The price is 19.95 Euros.
In the course of updating the website technical specifications of the new board were added, as well as a processor page that enables a comparison with X86 CPUs.
Update: According to a communication from Genesi, a Pegasos owner seeking to upgrade should not necessarily exchange his or her board where he or she bought it, but rather make sure to arrange this with a current Pegasos II reseller. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
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Interview: Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion Project)
The Amiga portal amiga.org has interviewed Oliver Hannaford-Day. Oliver is the leader of theColdfusion accelerator
project.
The aim of this project is the development of Coldfire-based turbocards for classic Amiga computers. The Coldfire processor is the
(progressively compatible) successor to the 68000 family of processors, used in the Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Presentation: Amiga Arena History Released
Amiga Arena has been active in the AMIGA freeware and
shareware market since 1998. Reason enough to look back on five years of hope, joy, disappointment and fun. Come along on a trip, which will show you what took place and how in this time.
The Amiga Arena History was put together with "Hollywood," the media presentation software from Airsoft.
System requirements:
- Processor 68020 or higher, OS 3.1 or better
- Processor PPC with MorphOS
- At least 8 MB RAM.
GFX:
- On graphic cards, w. CyberGFX or Picasso.
- 8, 16, 26, 36 Bit.
- VGA Amiga 8 Bit at 256 colors such as AGA. 16 million.
System:
- Amitlon
- UAE
- Amiga 68K
- Pegasos
A special thanks to T.Rosenberg, who has made this possible, as well as Gerd Frank.
Olaf Köbnik of Amiga Arena wishes you much fun in the reading, and good entertainment. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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16.Oct.2003
Ralf Himmel (E-Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: New Screenshots Released
On 14th October 2003 a few new screenshots from the upcoming operating system "AmigaOS 4" were put online at the website of Amiga Inc. These show AmiPDF, YAM, IBrowse and Colonization on the new Workbench, among other things. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Oct.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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fxPAINT 2.02 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 2.0 and
2.01 of fxPAINT to V2.02 is now available for download.
Changes include:
- added for MorphOS: Iconify button in each project window
- fxALBUM sorting is much faster now and shows a progress bar
- more intuitive delete function in fxALBUM
- .infos can now be displayed in ASL-requesters or be excluded from
fxALBUM import (Tooltype SUPPRESSINFOFILES)
- mousewheel-support now also in fxALBUM
- fixed a bug in startup of PPC-servertasks
- fixed IFF 24 saver (final fix this time)
A detailed list of changes can be found in the update archive. (nba)
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15.Oct.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Magazine: New issue of the pdf magazine "Lotek64"
During the summer break of amiga-news.de there has a new issue of the
retro magazine "Lotek64" been published. The magazine covers old and/or alternative computer systems - mostly the C64 but also other 8 bit systems
old consoles or Amiga are not excluded. The magazine is distributed as a freely available PDF file but interested ones might also order a printed copy.
The latest issue (#7) is unfortunately not available at the magazine's website but downloadable at
C64-Mags.de.
Download
Disclaimer: For viewing the magazine a current version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader is required. Compatibility of Amiga pdf viewers is not tested. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Robert Kühn (ANF)
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Magazine: New Amiga pdf magazine in preparation
Currently there is a new monthly pdf Amiga magazine under work. Helping hands are still wanted. Everyone who would like to contribute is invited to do so, may it be with a workshop, comments, tests, pictures or something else, and should contact amigaintern@everymail.net by mail. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Special Anniversary offers in cooperation with e.p.i.c. interactiv
In cooperation with e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh the Amiga Arena is able
to make a special 5-years anniverary offer until October, 22th 2003:
- Simon The Sorcerer II: Eur 20,00
- Earth 2140 Pack (Full game und Mission Pack): Eur 40,00
- The Feeble Files: Eur 30,00
- Software Tycoon: Eur 25,00
The offer is valid only for the versions for AmigaOS. Send your orders via
e-mail to Thomas Steiding with the subject "Amiga Arena Angebot".
More information about the games you will find at http://www.epic-interactive.com.
Special thanks to Thomas Steiding for his support.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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15.Oct.2003
Karl-Heinrich Veith, Jocelyne Pallu (Presseschreiben)
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GameArt: Exhibition at the world cultural heritage Völklinger Hütte
Computer games might be considered as the latest kind of art. During the last century jazz, film and contempory dance took long to be
accepted as a kind of art. Now the same is happening with computer games.
On November the 22nd 2003 at the world unique "Gebläsehalle" of the world cultural heritage "Völklinger Hütte" with its
gigantic machines there will high tech of the beginning of the 20th century meet computer worlds of the beginning of the 21st century.
Within this special surrounding there will be created an unique space where vistors obtain the possibility to discover,
unknown worlds, lead whole cities, or change identity how they like.
Read the full featured article by the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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W3C: New standard for forms for the Web
About ten years ago HTML forms were introduced to the Web. Now the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released with XForms 1.0
a new standard (W3C Recommendation) for forms at the Web. XForms should leave the recent limits of HTML forms behind and should be
usable with a lot of devices. Read the full article from Golem via the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Treveur 'Nowee' Bretaudiere (E-Mail)
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New Pegasos websites launched
Two more user websites regarding the Pegasos were set up within the last days: The
Finnish Pegasos Website and
the Pegasos Portugal
Website welcome you at their sites.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Dirk Stöcker
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Packer: XAD system v12.1, XFD system v39.15
The latest versions of the dearchiver system XAD and the unpacker system
XFD were released today. Among several detail improvements there are the following main topics to mention:
- Added new id-external made by Stuart replacing the idPAK external.
- Added PackDir client made by Stuart.
- Added Unreal client made by Stuart.
- Added new internal Crunch client. Thanks Ronald van Dijk for the
necessary files.
- The AMOS client replaces the AmosSampleBank external.
- New version of xadUnDisk.
- Updated nearly all clients from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added CD-i client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added CD-Image client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added MasterBootRecord client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added R.A.W. client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added RigidDiskBlock client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added Sout client from Ronald van Dijk.
- Added internal Arc CBM and Arc CBM SFX.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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15.Oct.2003
Diverse
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Software news briefly reported (15.10.2003)
Since the last software news update several applications were developed further. These advances will be listed below:
Beatblox v1.0
Beatblox by Model/Up Rough is a simulation of a drum machine in a kind of old style providing only a single channel. Problems with the 060 CPU
were fixt now.
Homepage
LAME (binary) v3.93.1 (MorphOS)
Christian Rosentreter has compiled version 3.93 of the powerful MP3 encoder LAME for MorphOS. With this software it becomes possible to convert, say, a wave file
an MP3 file.
Download
LzxRepacker v1.83
LzxRepacker, just released in version 1.83 for MorphOS, converts file archives to the LZX archiv format, checks the data for integrity
and offers several compression rates.
Download
mmsclientist v0.0
With mmsclientist ASF Internet streams can be loaded utilizing the MMS protocol. MMS://-URLs are within ASX files. The software is for
MorphOS only.
Download
Report+ v5.74
The freeware Report+ is available in version 5.73a . The tool uses ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten
different functions. For example by using Report+ Aminet readmes can be edited, the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool replaced or the
byte amount for every directory can be shown. In the latest version several improvements and bugfixes were done.
Homepage
Saga v1.33
Amigan Software have released version 1.33 of the freeware game Saga. This game is a digital equivalent to the board game "Saga:
Age of Heroes", published in 1981 by TSR.
Homepage
ZoneXplorer v1.1.1
ZoneXplorer is a fractal navigation and rendering program for 68k-Amiga and MorphOS and is just released in version 1.1.1.
Running MOS it is possible to save Mandelbrots and others in the ILBM format.
Homepage
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15.Oct.2003
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N°41
Issue 41 of the French digital magazine Obligement has been published.
Among other things get a read about the latest Amiga scene news, a report from the
BAS 2003 and the Hamster party,
interviews with Rose Humphrey (AmigaOne reseller) and Sebastien
Jeudy ("Annuaire Amiga Francophone"), reviews of MPlayer,
Tales of Tamar, Word me up, Duke Nukem and Hollywood und much more.
Download: Obligement41.zip
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Oct.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: OpenBSD for Pegasos finished
After statement from Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi OpenBSD
from Dale Rahn was successfully ported onto Pegasos. The OpenBSD distribution will be prepared for download
for all Pegasos owners in this month.
(Translation: gf)
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14.Oct.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Also "PegXLin" in IBMs Global Solutions Directory taken up
After the enrolment (German) of the Pegasos and
the operating system MorphOS into IBM's "Global Solutions Directory" you will find also
PegXLin there, the Linux distribution for Pegasos
based on Debian/Sarge.
The PegXLin-CD is bootable and allows a Linux installation onto the Pegasos in about 15 minutes.
You can download the CD-Image of PegXLin from the Genesi page Linux.PegasosPPC.com.
PegXLin contains:
- KDE 3.1.3(GUI)
- Gnome 2.2(GUI)
- XFree 4.3(X11)
- Cups 1.1.19(printmanager)
- MOL 0.9.69(Mac-on-Linux)
- Bochs 2.0.2(PC-Emulator)
- Kernel 2.4.21-benh2
- Video- and audioplayer
- CD-Burning-software incl. Video-CD-option
- Digital camera support (capture, edit, save)
- USB support
- TV-card support (BT878, C8xx)
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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13.Oct.2003
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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AmigaLand: Three new games and additional updates
As promised there are three more Microprose games available at AmigaLand. These are 'Pirates!', 'RailroadTycoon' and 'Red Storm Rising'. Furthermore a fixed version of '1869 AGA' is now available.
Moreover there are new versions of some emulators like WinUAE, Akiko and MaxUAE.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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13.Oct.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 21
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 21 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) Asemoon: Amiga Inc is somewhat blessed with the massive support from the Amiga community. However for some years now there have been rival groups actively trying to bring havoc to Amiga forums and spread around negative information or fantasy stories to harm Amiga efforts in any way they can. In what ways has all this (positive&negative) affected your business over the years?
Fleecy: The main problem with such activity is that it undermines confidence in the platform. The old saying that if you throw enough mud, it will stick is certainly true of the general approach by such groups and, whilst it is possible to counter rumour and allegation, the sheer weight and volume makes such an approach doomed to failure.
A general feeling of gloom, doom, suspicion or whatever else is desired eventually permeates to the core, like a damp autumn. Developers may decide to put projects on hold, users may delay a purchase and hope, dealers see their sales fall and hope for the future begins to evaporate; all going round and around in a depressing spiral whilst conveniently a 'sunny door' is left open to a brighter, but alternative future.
What is interesting is to trace the evolution of these attacks and notice how as each one is disproved, new rumours and different angles of attack appear. Amiga Inc has been bankrupt more times than a banana republic, we've had multiple CEOs, the AmigaOne would never work, AmigaOS4.0 would never see the light of day - on and on ad infinitum.
Despite efforts to the contrary however, most of this has stayed confined to the immediate community. Consequently our bigger partners, potential investors and the like have either never been affected or chose to ignore such activity, concentrating instead on actual talking to us. A pleasing trend is that private individuals are now coming directly to us to ask for information when rumours occur and we are more than happy to explain our position, rather than find ourselves the victims of elaborate stings and set ups in public forums.
Of course without a product in AmigaOS4.0, the real aim of these rumours has been to convince people to move to alternative platforms, convincing people that their wait for AmigaOS4.0 was ultimately going to be futile.
In the end, we just listened to the community who told us to shut up until we had something to show because in rising to the bait, we were just giving oxygen to the competitors. That is what we have done over the last twelve months, letting the community see for itself the progress of AmigaOS4.0. Running on CSPPC, running on AmigaOne - almost all PPC with just the graphics system left to upgrade and port. It has been a long and rocky road but the patience of the Amiga community and the passion and talent of the AmigaOS4 team has meant that as I write this, we are very very close to the end of AmigaOS4.0 as a project and the start of AmigaOS4.1, and a brighter future.
2) alx: I realise that since Amiga is a private company you may not be able to answer this in any detail, but do Amiga have any short-term plans to increase products on sale/cashflow, and could you share a generalised version of what you intend to do in this matter?
Fleecy: In the run up to Christmas we intend to realise new AmigaDE products whilst also creating a range of merchandise to tie in with the public launch of AmigaOS4.0.
Over the longer term, we are looking for sales in both OEM and direct to customer markets and the company will start changing shape and bringing in new people as we seek to exploit the potential of the AmigaOS in traditional and non traditional markets.
3) smithy: With Symbian, Microsoft and Palm pretty much having the PDA/mobile operating system software market sewn up, what is Amiga Inc's strategy to achieve some market sales? Bearing in mind, that all of the above three systems can run Java 2 Micro Edition, today's standard for cross-platform Java on small devices, and hence nulling AmigaDE's main selling point of write once, run anywhere. Furthermore, AmigaDE is based on PersonalJava - which only supports a very old version of Java.
Fleecy: The AmigaDE is a total content solution which runs on any host supported by the Tao-Group with their Intent product. If they do not support it and we see a positive business case, we ask them to support it - as is the case with AmigaOS4.0, to be the first PPC version of the AmigaDE. If they will not support it, then we move on. Our emphasis is on selling content - games and applications, interfaces and tools in as many deployment formats as possible - bundle, CD, Card, Download, OTA etc.
Our opportunity domain is any digital device, anything from Smartphone to Server, as long as the Tao-Group can provide the host binding layer. In that respect other OSs are not competitors, they are opportunities because our content runs on them. Customers don't care about the implementation details of a solution, they care about the solution itself. If our content solution is attractive to OEMs, device manufacturers, content brokers or end users, then it will be successful and our research and contacts over the past 18 months give us cause for great optimism. If we find that a particular market or product either is not supported by the Tao-Group or else has a poor or ill defined business potential then we will not support it.
Daily I am researching and testing content and competing solutions on such platforms as PocketPC, Symbian, Java, Morphun, FatHammer, Palm and the like and I am more than happy with both our solution and the features, quality and performance of the DE content.
4) Asemoon: Aminet is now the center of PD and shareware software for the classic Amiga. But aminet.net provides a mixture of various types of software from AmigaOS1.x programs to even WarpOS/MOS specific binaries. Are there any plans for a central files area for freely donwloadable AmigaOS4-compatible software?
Fleecy: The new Amiga Power Platform (APP) website will be launched just before the public launch of AmigaOS4.0 and will offer many such services to support, enhance and extend the community and platform.
5) Crumb: Have you planned to make the SDK interesting for different levels of coders? Have you included enough information and EXAMPLES in the autodocs? Will you include a decent reaction autodoc viewer that allows cut&paste? The editor of the sdk will at least show the parameters of each function (if it showed parameters of your own defined functions it would be even better) I mean... I want an IDE similar to RealBasic/Delphi/JBuilder...
Fleecy: We will be applying a lot of resources to the toolchain for AmigaOS4, finally implementing the Amiga Development Pipeline which provides a from concept to support description of the development process. As well as implementing various parts of it, the descriptive formats and interfaces will be open to allow for third parties to implement pieces themselves and to allow developers to build the pipeline using the components they wish. Thus a developer can chose between a complete IDE or the good old shell, giving them real choice and control over their development.
Key to AG2 and the whole Amiga philosophy is that the user is part of the environment and they can control and order it in anyway they want. This means anything from organisation of content through scripts, simple and complex all the way upto 'grown up' development languages for application developers. We intend to make this as simple to use as possible which means amongst other things, full, effective and most of all useful documentation.
6) Hybrid: Now there is an AmigaOne mainboard for Desktop, a Mini-itx one for small form factor AmigaOne computers. That's great but what about notebooks, handheld or tablet?
Fleecy: Stay tuned 8-)
7) AmigaMac: What will the future hold for PowerPC and Amiga? Will PowerPC remain in your long-term strategy?
Fleecy: PowerPC will be the only processor family we directly support for the AmigaOS4 release set. Once we reach AmigaOS5, we will support any processor family that provides us with business opportunity. PPC is certainly a processor family that offers that by the bucketload.
8) IonMane: In a previous Q&A it was stated tha the Gamepaks 1&2 were all sold out, and in a short timeframe I might add.How many gamepacks were sold and has AMiga Inc recieved the financial windfall from this deal as yet. Are there plans for another production of these (or similar)gamepaks for the near future (eg christmas)?
Fleecy: I can't divulge the financials but the purpose of the initial run was successful and we hope to have announcements soon about the consequences of that success. Sorry to be evasive but 'no announcements until we have something to announce' is what the community asked for and it is what we now feel comfortable in doing.
9) Zorro: There is a deal with Hyperion that if you (Ainc) were in serious trouble, you will give Hyperion rights to the name (or so...). If Amiga goes bust and someone buys them, they will have the license for the "Amiga" brand. But can US bankrupcy laws nullify any existing contracts (ie that with Hyperion) ?
Fleecy: I cannot go into the details but all that the community needs to know is that whatever could happen the future of the AmigaOS and the Amiga name has been safeguarded.
10) Crumb: Have you talked with Titan to make an OpenPCI library for OS4?
Fleecy: I am not entirely clear what has happened with OpenPCI and AmigaOS4.0 but the information I was able to collect suggests that some arrangement was made that effectively blocked this from occurring. If you want more details I suggest you contact Titan.
PCI is not a complicated implementation and AmigaOS4.0 already has a very good implementation which shows off the new library interface model.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=22
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: sk)
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13.Oct.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #056
Liquid Skies released issue no. 56 of their music pack collection. The included track was composed by Bit-X.
Details about the track:
Title: Cygnum Zero
Artist: Bit-X
Style: Schranz
Duration: 4:35
Format: mp3 @160kbps
The compressed file is to be found at the title link.
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13.Oct.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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Updates of NewGui and AntiSpam
The anti-spam-software 'AntiSpam' is now using the NewGui and can display detailed information during the scan process. The new version uses a new algorithm to identify spam and can give an acoustic hint.
Some font problems have been fixed within NewGUI and the transparency demo is now working under MOS.
Download AntiSpam
Download NewGui
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11.Oct.2003
Ekkehard Brüggemann (email)
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Video: arte reports about Breakpoint Party 2003
On October, 3rd broadcasted the TV station arte a report about the demo scene event "Breakpoint Party 2003". A 56.1 MB big file in the DivX-5.1 format can be downloaded on the website following the title link.
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11.Oct.2003
Ron van Schaik (email)
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Event: Commodore show October 18th in Maarssen (NL)
On October, 18th 2003 from 10 to 16 o'clock takes a Commodore show in the Dutch
Maarssen place with the Dutch HCC Commodore Users Group as organizers. This month will the event be held in two rooms to make a computer second hand market possible where you can buy Commodore products. The website of the HCC has been expanded with photos shot at the Benelux Amiga Show and the "new" Boulderdash game "Schaikdash 12".
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11.Oct.2003
Bjorn Lynne (email)
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New audio CD: "Project Galway" by Martin Galway
Martin Galway, composer of soundtracks for games highlights like Freelancer, Ultima VII,
Wing Commander 2 and 4 or Arkanoid, has released a new double audio CD. The two CDs contain 34 C64 music pieces that had been recorded directly from Martin's own Commodore 64. The double CD has been published at LynneMusic, following the title link you can find further information and some excerpts from the tracks.
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11.Oct.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Gladiateur: further details about the Genesi game
With quotes taken from a 55-pages Genesi internal document by Andrew Korn about the MorphOS game "Gladiateur" (amiga-news.de reported) have Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck given a more indepth view on Amiga.org into this ambitious project that is to be released in October 2004 at the same time as the stage production of the same name by Eli Chouraqui.
The story's about the Spartacus rebellion and shall offer an online multiplayer part as well as an offline single player mode. It is planned to release "Gladiateur" in several parts starting with the single player mode. The online mode will be offered to the buyers as a downloadable patch as soon as the server side is prepared.
As game engine will the one by Nordland come into use of which the MorphOS version by
Epic is just now in the beta stage. A Later transition from the 2D client to a client with 3D ego perspective is planned where both kinds of clients shall be able to operate with the same server software - with Genesi taking the unrestricted playability on platforms with restricted capacity, e.g. settop boxes or handhelds, into account.
For the next week is another kind of "developer connection" (using the "Phoenix definition" of the developers term) announced on the Genesis Pegasos site under
http://gladiateur.pegasosppc.com.
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11.Oct.2003
AmigaLand (website)
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AmigaLand: five new Microprose games online
The retro emulator website "AmigaLand" returns with an update. The collection now contains five more games by Microprose that may be downloaded for free: Gunship, Gunship 2000, Formula
One Grand Prix, Civilization and Colonization. Further Microprose games are said to follow in the next days.
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11.Oct.2003
Emerald Imaging (website)
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MorphOS: Aqua part of the SuperBundle
Aqua, an adventure game in the style of Myst by Emerald Imaging, will become part of the MorphOS Superbundle that already offers quite a number of games and applications for registered Pegasos owners. Further information regarding the game can be found following the title link on the website of the distributor.
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11.Oct.2003
A.D.A. (website)
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A.D.A.: jubilee and updates
In the last two weeks has the Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) got several updates and can also celebrate a small jubilee.
Six demos have been added: "Hätä" by Da Jormas (3. place in the
Oldskool competition at the Assembly 2003), "Humus 4" by Push
Entertainment (2. place in the 4K Intro Competition at the Assembly
2003), "FistPig" by Spaceballs and Ephidrena (5. place in the 4K Intro
Competition at the Assembly 2003), "Pulse" by Nerve Axis (1. place in
the Demo Competition at the Assembly 1997), "Sumea" by Virtual Dreams
(1. place in the Demo Competition at the Assembly 1996) and "Mental" by
Push Entertainment (5. place in the Demo Competition at the Assembly
2003).
With these six demos has A.D.A. reached the limit of 300 introduced productions. Since November, 11th 2001, when the project went online, have 40100 hits, 300 productions, 2963 screenshots, 119
groups, 66 parties, 115 users, 435 voting voices and 252 comments been registered (numbers from the end of September). The own voting voices can now be changed and the charts are now a top 30.
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10.Oct.2003
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ReqAttack 2.0 released
ReqAttack is a system requester patch for the Classic AmigaOS that offers many configuration possibilities like requester logos, animationen, buttons, AHI and CGX. Version 2.0 contains many bugfixes. RAPrefsMUI is now more stable, too. The port to GCC had been done by Marcin Kurek. (Download)
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10.Oct.2003
Diverse
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Software news (10.10.2003)
Since the last software news update have several applications been further developed. Below we report about the changes:
AmiDiction v2.6a
AmiDiction is an online dictionary that bases on the service of www.dictionary.com. The new version 2.6a can be downloaded from the website of the programmer Lorence Lombardo.
Homepage
delfina.library v416b48
With the new beta version of the delfina.library some errors have been fixed that already came up with Delfina cards that were not delivered by individual Computers. An error in the A1200 recognition in the previous beta version has been removed, too. The library can be used with individua's new cards but also with the A1200 clock port version by Petsoff. The beta version hasn't been tested with the Delfina Lite.
Download
LANClip v0.3
Peter Gordon has released version 0.3 of LANClip. LANClip, in version 0.1 named NetClip, is a small utility that allows the exchange of a global clipboard between different computers in a network. Next to an Amiga version exists a Windows version, too.
Homepage
MiniMen v1.2
MiniMen is a GUI menu program that has been developed for using script files. It supports up to 165 button functions defined by the user.
Homepage
Report+ v5.73a
The freeware Report+ has been released in version 5.73a. The tool bases on ReAction/GadTools, needs AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten different functions: e.g. you can create Aminet readmes with Report+, replace the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool or show the bytes number for every directory. In the new version have several bugs in the bug report editor, the hardware ID viewer and the IFF viewer been fixed.
Homepage
StarAm Plan v2.22
Version 2.22 of the spreadsheet program "StarAm Plan" has been released for AmigaOS 3.x. The small but fine Excel clone offers 121 functions to edit in table cells and a big number of prefs settings.
Download
WGetGUI v0.6.5
The new version 0.6.5 of the Wget based download manager "WGetGui" has been released for MorphOS and now also for AmigaOS 3.x.
Homepage
Worm Wars v7.6
The Snake clone Worm Wars by Amigan Software has been released in version 7.6 for AmigaOS and Windows. Since version 7.55 has the new creature "Ant" been added as well as cherries and flowers.
Homepage
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10.Oct.2003
Genesi SARL
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Genesi: Pegasos II Available Starting 15th October 2003
Genesi SARL has announced that the new PowerPC mainboard "Pegasos" will be available from dealers beginning 15 October, 2003. The Pegasos II, to be orderable as a complete system from specialty shops, will be shipped with the operating systems MorphOS and Debian Linux, as well as the MorphOS "SuperBundle," which is a selection of games and utilities. The Pegasos II mainboard is being introduced with a G3 processor for 299 Euros [about 320 dollars -DM], or with a G4 for 499 Euros [about 540 dollars -DM]. Technical details may be found in today's report at Pegasos II in das "Global Solutions Directory" von IBM aufgenommen. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Oct.2003
morphos-news.de (Website)
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Genesi: Thomas Morris New Sales Director of Genesi USA
Genesi SARL announced their new USA Sales Director in early October: Thomas Morris, who was most recently the host of New York Pegasos User Group meetings.
Original press release from Genesi:
Genesi SARL today announced that Thomas Morris joins Genesi USA as
Director of Sales. Thomas recently hosted the NYC PUG inaugural meeting.
"Thomas will be based out of New York and travel as required. His
connection to the various creative communities and his years of experience
as an audio and video technician make him the right person for the tasks
we have at hand today. We like to bring people from the Community on board
who demonstrate effort and support for the Pegasos. We are very happy to
have Thomas join the team." said Raquel Velasco of Genesi.
Thomas will be making sales presentations in San Jose, CA this week. If
your are interested in attending a presentation Tuesday evening at the
Hyatt in San Jose please contact Thomas Morris directly. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Oct.2003
IOSPIRIT (Website)
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IOSPIRIT: Genesi Superbundle special offers
Right from the start, IOSPIRIT's fxPAINT Lite, fxSCAN Lite and VHI Studio Lite were part of the Superbundles by Genesi. With the launch of our new website, we now offer every owner of the Superbundle rebates on our contributed software when upgrading to the full version.
Learn on our new Superbundle pages, how you can get a total rebate of up to 25,- EUR, what features are missing in the Lite versions and why an upgrade is worth every cent of it. (nba)
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10.Oct.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New website and new support concept
IOSPIRIT, developer of well-known software titles such as fxPAINT, fxSCAN
and VHI Studio and distributor of among other titles the webbrowser
IBrowse, today presents itself with new website and new support-concept.
The new website, basing on the internal new development "Callisto II", is
clearly devided in the sections News, Products, Downloads, Service,
Company, Basket and protected customer login area (Login) and allows a
fast and targeted navigation within the IOSPIRIT-pages. Help texts
embedded into the new pages guide visitors through input masks and contain
additional, valuable information.
In the future, the customer's account is at the centre of all offers and
services:
Inside the account orders are placed and managed, product registrations
submitted and saved, support queries sent and if needed address changes
submitted.
But enhancements are not limited to the surface: internally a lot of
changes have been made as well. From now on, express orders can be placed,
skipping the one hour period for last-minute order changes before actual
order processing, orders can be automatically split depending on
availability, packaging and shipping costs are already calculated in the
basket and the total value of an order is automatically converted to other
currencies for orientation. By the introduction of a direct link between
IOSPIRIT and the creditcard-processor, the average time required for the
processing of payments via VISA, MASTERCARD and EUROCARD has been
shortened to only a few minutes.
Hand in hand with the introduction of the new website, the support-concept
received a major revision to allow an even more efficient and faster
processing. Therefore, online-forms especially designed to meet
support-requirements (so called support desks) are available to
IOSPIRIT-customers via the IOSPIRIT-website for each product. They presort
support queries, ask for all required information and archive the complete
correspondence for a supportquery, thus providing everything for a better
overview and processing. An account and the registration of all bought
IOSPIRIT products are now precondition for being able to send a
supportquery.
With the introduction of the new shopping system, accounts from the old
system can no longer be used. IOSPIRIT-customers should open a new account
in the now installed, new system. Once logged into the new account, the
function "Transfer account" is available, which will transfer registration
data and keyfiles from the old shop system in a few seconds and completly
hassle-free.
Answers to frequently asked questions regarding the new shop- and
support-system can be found in the "IOSPIRIT company and website FAQ",
general information on the shop can be found in the "Shop information". (nba)
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10.Oct.2003
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet: HD-Installers removed
Due to changes in copyright, harddisk installers of commercial programs no
longer seem to be legal in several countries. They have been removed from
the Amiga-software-archive Aminet by Urban Müller. (nba)
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10.Oct.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Games Classics: Sequel to The Bard's Tale Planned
A few weeks ago there was an unofficial fan sequel underway for followers of the classic "Bard's Tale" series of role playing games, now there's an official one announced for Windows. Behind this official effort is Brian Fargo - the man who was responsible as a producer for the original Bard's Tale game on the Apple II. Read the complete report (in German) at Golem
IT-News by clicking on the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Sep.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Marvell and IBM Announce Extension of Discovery System Controllers to PPC 970
Marvell and IBM today announced a relationship to accelerate the adoption
of IBM PowerPC 970 processors in next-generation networking, storage and
server systems. As part of the agreement, Marvell plans to extend its
market-leading family of Discovery™ chipsets with new system controllers
that include IBM's high-speed PowerPC 970 Elastic Interface technology.
The combination of IBM's PowerPC 970 microprocessor, with speeds up to 2
GHz, and Marvell's Discovery 970 system controller is intended to provide
embedded customers with a comprehensive and cost effective 64 bit
sub-system solution. In conjunction with Marvell's Gigabit PHY, Serial ATA
and high-speed switching products, Marvell and IBM now offer a complete
solution base for next generation embedded applications.
Marvell plans to make samples of its Discovery 970 chipsets available in
the first quarter of 2004. IBM plans to make its PowerPC 970 processor
available in the first quarter of 2004.
"Marvell's decision to team up with IBM and extend their support of
PowerPC is a tremendous piece of good news for the Embedded marketplace,"
said Lisa Su, director of PowerPC and emerging products, IBM
Microelectronics. "The combination of their Discovery 970 with our
PowerPC 970 should yield the most powerful, scalable and flexible solution
available in the Embedded system marketplace."
"We are very excited to team with IBM to provide our customers with what
we expect to be the most powerful PowerPC sub-system architectures ever
designed," said Balaji Baktha, General Manager of Storage and Consumer
Division, Marvell Semiconductor. "IBM and Marvell are committed to
working closely with leading OEMs to drive the development of next
generation networking, server and storage applications."
Marvell Discovery 970 System Controller:
The Marvell Discovery product family represents the most widely adopted
system and communication controllers in the industry. The Discovery 970
system controller integrates several I/O peripherals on-chip, including
Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-X bridges, storage functions and DDR memory
interface. The Discovery 970 is software compatible with the existing
Marvell system controllers helping to preserve customer software
investments while accelerating development cycles.
IBM PowerPC 970:
The IBM PowerPC 970 is derived from IBM's award-winning POWER4 server
processor to provide high performance and additional function for users.
As the first in a new family of high-end PowerPC processors, the chip is
designed to manipulate data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerate
compute-intensive workloads like multimedia and graphics through
specialized circuitry, known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD)
unit. IBM packs performance and new features into the chip using
ultra-thin 0.13-micron circuitry (nearly 800 times thinner than a human
hair), constructed of copper wiring and about 52 million transistors based
on IBM's efficient silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology.
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13.Sep.2003
GAUHPIL (website)
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GAUHPIL: nay areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga User HomePage Internet List) is a list created and commented by
Dietmar Knoll with of Amiga users that is sorted geographically by continents and countries. Two days ago had the following areas been updated:
- Asia
- Europe
- List new links
- Releated sites
- History 2000-2003
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13.Sep.2003
Grasshopper LLC (email)
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Grasshopper: Pagestream release for AmigaOS 4
Positive signs from the AmigaOS 4 frontier: Grasshopper LLC will release the
desktop publishing software PageStream for AmigaOS 4 as soon as the new operating system is available. Furthermore prices are cut for PageStream 4.1 to 99 US-Dollars, for PageStream Professional
4.1 to 149 US-Dollars. Read the complete note by Grasshopper LLC right below:
Grasshopper LLC today announced the addition of a fifth supported
platform in the stable of computers and operating systems that PageStream
already runs on. Amiga OS4 PPC is an exciting new operating system and
hardware from Amiga Inc, Eyetech and Hyperion Entertainment that follows
in the footsteps of the great hardware and software that is the Amiga.
"Deron Kazmaier, PageStream creator, has exceeded our expectations again!"
proclaimed Grasshopper LLC owner Marna Holt. "Deron has burned the
midnight oil on his old love, the Amiga, creating the foundation for the
next generation of PageStream on the Amiga."
While the full public release
of OS4 is beyond our control, the PageStream is not! As the Amiga OS4 PPC
is a natural progression from the older 68k, we are offering a limited
time discount for those who are moving up to the AmigaOS4 PPC version from
PageStream Amiga68k and likewise we are including the Amiga68k version to
those who purchase the PPC version before it is publicly released.
Crossgrade price from PageStream 4.1 Amiga68k to AmigaPPC is only $40 and
the price for a new copy of PageStream4.1 Amiga PPC (with Amiga68k) is
only $99. The special offers are set to expire upon the public release of
Amiga OS4, and will then revert to the same low pricing already in place
for the other platforms. Advance copies of PageStream 4.1 AmigaPPC are
available now, but we will continue to stay in step with improvements to
OS4.
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11.Sep.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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FotoFoto SE for MorphOS Appears
The special edition of the mistake-seeking game "FotoFoto" from Attention
Software may be downloaded right away from the Superbundle FTP site by all registered Pegasos owners. The SE version contains over 50 levels and a level editor whereby the player may insert his own pictures and categories. FotoFoto SE may also be played offline and does not require an Internet connection during the game. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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11.Sep.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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Important information for IOSPIRIT-customers regarding backup copies
In order to be able to offer you a further improved service and a better
structured website, we are soon re-launching our website.
As this goes hand in hand with switching to a new website-system, we want
to kindly ask our customers to check for safety copies (on safe media such
as CD-R, etc.) of the download versions they bought from us until the 18th
of September 2003. If no safety copies exist, these should be created now
and - if required - we'll reactivate expired downloads to support this
(also see end of the message).
After the 18th of September 2003 these files will no longer be
available - also not on request.
The only exception to this are purchases of the respectively latest
versions of our products (e.g. fxPAINT 2.0, fxSCAN 4.0, VHI Studio 6.0,
IBrowse 2.3, ..). For purchases of older versions as online-versions (e.g.
fxSCAN 3.0, fxPAINT 1.5, VHI Studio 5.x, ..), we strongly recommend to
make safety-copies until this date, since we won't be able to grant access
to these files after this 18th of September 2003.
If another unlocking of downloads should be required, please write an
email to "unlockdownloads AT iospirit DOT de".
We are already looking forward to soon welcome you to our new website. (nba)
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11.Sep.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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VCD Save Version 0.2 Appears
The graphic interface of "VCD Save" has been adapted to the new NewGUI System, this means that the GUI may now be adapted to the needs of the user without rewriting the program entirely. With the help of the automatic snapshot function of NewGUI all gadgets are positioned in the places they were when the program last ended. Gadgets may be expanded or shrunk when the user presses CTRL when he clicks on the border being changed. When the user presses on the left SHIFT key the gadget is moved. The save routine has been modified in order to allow the saving of captions on SVCDs. It is possible with VCD Save to copy VideoCD tracks directly to the hard-drive, something for which AllegroCDFS was required up until now. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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08.Sep.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #052
Liqiud Skies released theire 52nd music pack. The song was composed by the finnish muscician Tripper. The corresponding cover was made by Kuadziw.
Additional information:
Titel: Fairy Moon Goes Disco
Artist: Tripper
Style: Electro
Duration: 4:21
Format: mp3 (192kbps)
The packet file is available for download at the titlelink.
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08.Sep.2003
ANN (Website)
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Simple DirectMedia Layer v1.2.6 released
Gabriele Greco released an Amiga port of the Simple DirectMedia Layer version 1.2.6. The release contains the following:
- GCC 68k static library.
- GCC morphos static library.
- SAS/C static library
- The 68k SHARED SDL.library, works with any language or compiler able
to parse an .fd file.
- A few SDL examples with a GCC Makefile to build them.
- Inlines, pragmas and .fd files for the 68k shared library.
- Includes and HTML docs from the original SDL archive.
- All the examples are compiled for the shared version of SDL to save
space and bring users and developers to choose the shared library solution
but they all works (at least on my system) also with the static one.
SDL makes it possible to run applications and games, for example soccer game 'Eat the Whistle', on different operating systems such as AmigaOS, Windows, MacOS or Linux.
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08.Sep.2003
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Magazin: The Crypt #31
Issue no. 31 of the english online magazin 'The Crypt' has been published. The online version is available at the titlelink.
Downlaod: Offline version of 'The Crypt' #31
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07.Sep.2003
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Aminet Uploads up to 7th September 2003
These are the new Aminet uploads which have been added since our last report:
AmBoS-Keyfile.lha comm/ambos 5K+Public AmBoS-Keyfile Rel. 2.98
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 29K+Online Dictionary
umsspamc1_3.lha comm/ums 15K+SpamAssassin client for UMS
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 185K+Create fancy JavaScript driven Internet
streamer.lha comm/www 320K+Internet radio MPEG and RealAudio file p
mental-final.lha demo/aga 15M+Mental (final release, AGA/RTG versions)
abnormalia1HD.lha demo/mag 849K+Abnormalia 1 (HD friendly and more)
abnormalia5HD.lha demo/mag 852K+Abnormalia 5 (HD friendly and more)
amigatalk.lha dev/lang 1.2M+V2.4 Update of AmigaTalk (Smalltalk GUI)
Companion.lha docs/hyper 32K+AmigaGuide frontend for Amiga Developer
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.7M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 08/2003 (Itali
nocover114.lha docs/mags 3.6M+Great german diskmagazine
TurboPrint_FR.lha docs/misc 5K+French catalogs for TurboPrint 7
Saga.lha game/board 328K+Saga 1.32: Conversion of TSR boardgame
scummvm-tools.lha game/misc 131K+Collection of various ScummVM tools
WormWars.lha game/misc 541K+Worm Wars 7.55: Advanced snake game
BMH03.lha game/patch 418K+Update for Bundesliga Manager Hattrick (
4_skins_4_Kaya.lha gfx/misc 143K+4 skins for Kaya player
4_skins_Kaya.lha gfx/misc 143K+4 skins for Kaya player (MOS)
ChangeMyLove.lha mods/chryl 233K+Funk mod by Chrylian
Chrylian.lha mods/chryl 12K+Demo mod by Chrylian
June.lha mods/chryl 141K+Latin mod by Chrylian
JustToSayGoodb.lha mods/chryl 115K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
KillingParty.lha mods/chryl 461K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
Live2.lha mods/chryl 105K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
MakeADream.lha mods/chryl 214K+Ambient mod by Chrylian
NoisyjegOldies.lha mods/chryl 50K+Techno mod by Chrylian
NuitOldies.lha mods/chryl 136K+Techno mod by Chrylian
OnTheJazzWave.lha mods/chryl 193K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
Pipeline2.lha mods/chryl 10K+Techno mod by Chrylian
PointOfJazz.lha mods/chryl 125K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
ShesMySun.lha mods/chryl 141K+Jazz mod by Chrylian
Tune1.lha mods/chryl 54K+Techno mod by Chrylian
A-crowd.lha mods/hardc 219K+Quite a loud song
A-fog.lha mods/hardc 125K+Some Hardtrance
A-I-ask-you.lha mods/hardc 186K+Some oldschoopl type of song
A-mothahug.lha mods/hardc 270K+Fast(240bpm) hardcore song
A-oldgabba.lha mods/hardc 275K+Old style gabber song
A-paaarty.lha mods/hardc 286K+Hardcorejungle song
A-pathofdarkne.lha mods/hardc 367K+Hardcore remix of a song by Volley
A-stop.lha mods/hardc 107K+Hardcore type of song
A-dream.lha mods/jungl 175K+Jungle module with filtered break
stepdarkness.lha mods/jungl 242K+Old but great breakbeat track
052_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
053_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
054_mpfree.lha mods/moods 7.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
055_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
056_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.2M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
hum_m237.lha mods/moods 3.1M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
amegasGTR.mpg mods/mpg 4.1M+Amegas Game Tune. Aranged By Gigatron...
companyGTR.mpg mods/mpg 1.4M+Company Crack Tune Aranged By Gigatron..
A-nameless.lha mods/techn 37K+Made for some mod compo in 1997
A-weird.lha mods/techn 56K+Experimental track
Amoralplay.lha mus/play 144K+Plays SIDS,OctamedSS,mods,Digibooster et
c64days.jpg pix/art 108K+C64Days logo
whd-icons.lha pix/icon 111K+Games icons for WHDload installs
alicejuggler.jpg pix/trace 142K+Alice in Jugglerland (1152 x 864 x 24b.
MrCarlitoWb-04.jpg pix/wb 219K+Screenshot of my Workbench 3.9
SKM30.lha text/edit 352K+Skriptmanager for AmigaGuide, HTML, Arex
guideml2.lha text/hyper 59K+Cool AmigaGuide -> HTML converter (V2.6)
SafeCopy.lha util/cli 14K+Overwrite protection, and autorenaming f
froggui.lha util/misc 32K+GUI for FroggerNG
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 325K+Report+ 5.72: Multipurpose utility
vht-vg35.lha util/virus 109K+VirusWarning.Guide v3.5 (VHT-DK)
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07.Sep.2003
Sebasttian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail Version 0.20 released
The developers of "SimpleMail" report the availablility of version 0.20
of this eMail client for AmigaOS. Changes compared to the previous version:
- Messages can in part (header only) be downloaded from an IMAP server
- Added statistical spam filter
- Many other small improvements and bug fixes (see Tracker on SourceForge)
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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07.Sep.2003
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: History report 2000
The year 2000 was to become the hitherto most active year for Amiga Arena.
Beside numerous special price campaigns and interviews, the "Amiga Arena - Homepage CD-ROM"
was published for the first time and presented at the show in Neuss.
Moreover the German version of the game "Blade" was published for the first time and
a raffle with goodies from Amiga Inc. made possible. What else happened - read it yourself in
the third instalment of the Amiga Arena History!
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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07.Sep.2003
Matthias Muench (ANF)
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pegasosforum.de goes online
Today a new "Pegasos Community Portal" for the German-speaking area went online. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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07.Sep.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: News about Pegasos II
The Pegasos II will soon be on sale. The first limited production run will be for
600 units. Details under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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06.Sep.2003
Jan Andersen (email)
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VirusWarning.guide version 3.5 released
After several years without almost no new virus or Trojan against the Amiga has VHT (Virus Help Team Canada, Denmark & Holland) released a small update of the VirusWarning.guide. Some members of VHT have changed their email addresses and all anti virus programs have been updated during this time. The new version of the VirusWarning.guide is available on the homepage of VHT and in a few days on Aminet, too.
Information about the new update:
Name: VirusWarning.guide v3.5
Archive name: vht-vg35.lha
Archive size: 111.275 bytes
Release date: September, 6th 2003
Programmer: Virus Help (nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Sep.2003
heise online (website)
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Settlement out of court between Microsoft and Be Inc.
A settlement out of court Microsoft and Be Inc. has ended the dispute between the two companies. Be Inc. had accused the Windows producer distortion of normal trading conditions. Microsoft pays the developers house of the alternative operating system BeOS the sum of 23,3 millions US-Dollars but claims that this shall not be understood as acknowledgement of indebtedness of any unfair business methods. Read (German) background information at heise online following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Sep.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Software news: amigift v1.0
Version 1.0 of amigift, an AmigaOS 3.x port of giFT, has been released on the Sourceforge page under the title link. The project is supervised by Diego Casorran.
Program description: giFT is a modular daemon capable of abstracting the
communication between the end user and specific filesharing protocols
(peer-to-peer or otherwise). The giFT project differs from many other
similar projects in that it is a distribution of a standalone
platform-independent daemon, a library for client/frontend development,
and our own homegrown network, OpenFT.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2003
Ralf Schülke (ANF)
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Status Report from the BeOS Front
[note from translator: this is a very long article from Matthias Breiter about various good news related to BeOS. Rather than translating the whole darn thing, I will loosely cover certain points and provide link information]
BeOS, currently enjoying a small rise, runs on X86 PCs and on many old Macintosh computers.
There are two new news sources for BeOS information:
Technoids: http://www.technoids.tk
Beyond: http://beyond.itbug.org/eng/
You may also see what the future holds for BeOS by going to a current site of much development:
YellowTab: http://www.yellowtab.com. There is a lot of software there and they are also looking for developers.
There are also some BeOS events coming up:
What-Is-Art (Mannheim): http://www.what-is-art.de
Begeistert (Duesseldorf): http://www.begeistert.org
So be sure to check out BeOS! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2003
Merlancia Industries
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Merlancia: Reservations for the Merlancia Amiga MCC 1000 and 1200 Possible
Merlancia Industries is taking reservations immediately for the offered computer series Merlancia Amiga MCC 1000 (AMD x86) and Merlancia Amiga MCC 1200 (IBM PowerPC). Read the following for the whole press release:
Starting September 4th 2003: If you would like to be one of the first to purchase a Merlancia Amiga MCC 1000 or 1200 Series Computer upon their release in a few weeks, please send an email to misel@merlancia.com . The subject line should be "I wish to reserve an MCC."
In your email, please state which computer you would like to purchase, along with your real name, email address, and City and State location if you are a US resident, or your City and Country location if you reside outside of the US. Emails not containing the requested information will be ignored, and will not be acknowledged.
We will add your name to the list of those who will be the first to be able to purchase these new machines as soon as they are ready to ship. The first production run of machines will be a limited number of units, and they will be offered for purchase to those who have followed these instructions, in the order the emails were received.
Please do not send more than one email. Your email will be acknowledged with a reply that it was received.
Your email must come from a legitimate ISP address, not from a "throwaway" address such as Hotmail.com or Yahoo.com.
For specifics on these new computers, please refer to Merlancia Press Release #MIND27082003 at http://www.merlancia.com/newsandpr/MIND27082003.html. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2003
DIDI (ANF)
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Giga TV: The Amiga 500 Lives
The Amiga 500 is being covered one more time, in the computer-oriented television show Giga on NBC. Along with watching you may voice your support for Amiga in the Giga forum by clicking on and following the title link. (nba)
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04.Sep.2003
Matthias Muench (ANF)
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Meeting: Amiga Inside Part III - "Injected with Poison"
Once again it is upon us: from the 2nd to the 5th of October 2003 the legendary "Amiga-Inside" party will be held in Hirsau (Germany), this time together with our friends in the Mocca party. A few Pegasos systems will be shown, as well as a diverse assortment of Amiga models with varying specifications, which may be closely examined as one exchanges experiences with the owners.
Interested persons may register unbindingly at the website to help give the organizers a rough idea of attendance. Because we want to actively support feminine participation, women get in free (includes 1 computer).
Our team of organizers looks forward to meeting you at the Amiga-Inside meeting. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2003
Ein Liker (ANF)
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Petition: Halflife for Amiga und Linux
"This petition will be send to Sierra/Valve to ask them for the sources of the game Halflife for Amiga & Linux communities. If you want this great game (not free but ported!) sign up this petition with us! There's two way wished, a GPL version of Halflife or a license for Hyperion.
If we get sources we will soon need best Amiga scene and Linux scene coders to help in HalfLife to be ported. Any questions can be sent to webmaster@amigaland.com" (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Sep.2003
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Event: Website for the Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show 2003
The website for the Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show of 2003, which takes place from 4th to 5th October, has now been opened. There is where you will find current information, before long a list of exhibitors, and many more details about the event. Click on the title link for all this. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Sep.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 01.09.2003
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
newscoaster.lha comm/news 491K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.59) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news 244K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.59 - 26 Aug
gdbm.lha dev/misc 260K+GNU's set of database routines
nA_MALevEdSRC.lha dev/src 36K+Level Editor for Mini Arcanoid v2.9 ASM
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 65K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (30 Au
4_skins_4_Kaya.lha gfx/misc 266K+4 skins for Kaya player
Tristartetr.mpg mods/mpg 1.3M+Tristar Tetris Crack Tune Remaked ....
EP_NovoTrade.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "NovoTrade Packer" external
AP23aCovers.lha pix/misc 484K+AMiGa=PoWeR n 23 Covers Recto & Verso
CatConFast2D.lha pix/misc 1.5M+CATCON PARTY Fast 2D Compo
MrCarlitoWb-03.jpg pix/wb 178K+Screenshot of my Workbench 3.9
froggui.lha util/misc 33K+GUI for FroggerNG
CyberLemmings.lha util/wb 334K+Adds pets to your wb. (68K/MOS)
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01.Sep.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - round 18
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 18 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) Asemoon: A poll here at AmigaWorld shows that most people seem to prefer to have "A" keys for their "Amiga" keys on their keyboards. Are there any plans to create such alternative keycaps to stick on Logitech or other keyboards? (like Computer City's Boingball keycaps for their general PC keyboards?)
Fleecy: No. This is a third party opportunity. We do have companies and vendors coming to us to create such officially licenced products but there are no details to release as of yet.
2) Crumb: Do you plan to integrate a X-Windows system with the new 4.1 desktop to allow developers to port easily apps? I mean something like Apple does with OS-X... I think it's called rootless server, it wouldn't harm the platform, but would help a lot to bring us new apps.
Fleecy: It is something we are considering but as with most graphics issues, they will not be implemented unless there is a very good reason until we have implemented the new Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) visual services set. This is slated for AmigaOS4.1.
3) Crumb: When will we have an IDE like a basic Delphi/visual/C Builder? Creating GUIs for our apps takes too much time. I have to say that I like Reaction, but some official C++ classes would be welcome.
Fleecy: Having a proper IDE and more importantly a GUI builder is high up on our list. As with the above though, we really want to get the AG2 visual services done first, then we can implement the new interactive environment, which will have a visual object system and a designer/builder for it. We may do a reaction based tool in the meantime but it isn't something high up our agenda at the present time.
4) Crumb: Will you add more examples to the autodocs? The information is quite good but an example of each function would be wellcome, at least one example of each library showing the most important functions.
Fleecy: The entire documentation and help system will get an overhaul, making use of the AmigaOS4.1 html/xml rendering services to provide a fully integrated solution for users and developers. The AmigaOS4.0 documentation will then be updated to support this. I should say that at this moment in time, all the new and rewritten elements of AmigaOS4.0 are getting updated documentation. One way to ensure you have a say is to sign on as a beta tester and let the developers know what you want in those docs as they are developed. Ultimately, a full time documentation resource will be assigned, attached to Developer Support, thus taking the chore away from the developers themselves.
5) utri007: Will there be tcp/ip printing?
Fleecy: Support for TCP/IP printing via the LPR protocol was included with the 3.9 update. Since this is a bare-bones protocol, it proved more to be much more troublesome than helpful (it basically has no error reporting capabilities, which makes it next to impossible to figure out what went wrong if something went wrong). This needs more work.
Since printing is integrally bound up with the visual services, the foundation for pDP (Digital->Physical) emission of content, with the emission/output device being anything from a TV to a monitor to a projector to a printer to potentially anything else capable of manifesting a physical visual image is being built into the AG2 visual services. Once this is done then it will be relatively simple to make it network aware.
6) Asemoon: Within what timeframe do you expect the Amiga platform to move towards 64-bit technology?
Fleecy: For the general AmigaOS4.n path, we need to enhance functionality, specifically through the AG2 programme and, for the moment that will concentrate on 32 bit technology but, as resources permit, we will create a transitionary version that can run on a 64 bit processor, albeit in 32 bit mode. In parallel, a separate project that is building the foundation for AmigaOS5.n will create a solution equally at home on both. I can't give a timeframe per se, just the steps towards it. It won't be in the next year though but as there is little advantage to it over 32 bit in the near and even medium term then it is not a high priority. It is what your computer can do that counts, not the size of its buses.
7) Asemoon: Can you tell us how you got introduced to Amiga computers and how you got involved in the Amiga community prior to Amiga Inc and Gateway?
Fleecy: I was just a user who worked on corporate systems during the day and on my Amiga 1200 at night. My first Amiga moment was walking past a Curry's in Crewe and seeing an amazing FMV of a space pilot getting into a fighter and launcing out from the belly of a giant star destroyer - a demo running on a CDTV. It blew me away. Then my wife's little brother got an A600 and we used to spend all day playing Captain Planet, Bart Simpson and a few others - Walker, Cool Spot etc. I had to wait a year or so more before I could afford my own A1200.
When first Commdore and then Escom went bankrupt, many users and developers got together online to try to work out what we could do. There were several attempts, some still on going. I was part of the ICOA (Industry Council Open Amiga) which formed just before Gateway bought Amiga. We sent off a proposal to Gateway on how we could help them and how Amiga could be developed and amazingly, they phoned us back and invited a few of us out there - Dean Brown, Andy Finkel, Alain Penders, Jesse McClusky and myself. We meet Jeff Schindler and the rest, as they say, is history.
8) alx: When do you see yourself showing AmigaOS/AmigaONE at a major mainstream computing show?
Fleecy: We intend to show at a major mainstream show early in the new year, hopefully after we have launched AmigaOS4.0 to the Amiga community.
9) reflect: Since many users now have been using Debian and its excellent package system, I was wondering if there are any plans to incorporate a framework for packages in AOS?
Fleecy: Yes. A content management service is being considered that provides similar services to both third parties and for the operating system itself.
10) Eric_Z: Considering the recent release of the OpenGl 1.5 and to a lesser extent the 2.0 specifications/suggestions, I'm wondering if AOS4s WARP-3D NOVA will use these new specifications. Or if the implementation of these are planned for future releases and if so which?
Fleecy: The OpenGL 2.0 specifications are all but finalized, and it will still take some time for the specifications to be adopted. OS 4 will have its own OpenGL support via Mesa, in whatever incarnation that is available at the time of release, and will see continous updates.
As far as I know (cannot verify since www.opengl.org seems to be down) at this point in time not even 1.5 is official, and 1.4 is still the most current version (1.5 being a draft). It's imminent, though.
Nova is something different. This is currently just an API specification/outline that has nothing to do with OpenGL 1.5 or 2.0 in the first place, except that we might opt to use their (OpenGL 2.0's) shader language specification. The idea behind NOVA is its independence from any committee or ARB that, by definition, has difficulties adapting itself to the speed at which graphics card hardware evolves, a fact that becomes quite apparent with recent OpenGL history where Vertex/Pixel shading is still an option supported through extensions. The trouble with these extensions is that they are sometimes burdened by licence or IP issues (NV_vertex_program being a prominent example) that makes it impossible to implement them in a general framework.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=19
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: sk)
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01.Sep.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030831
Bradd Webb published the August issue of his monthly newsletter Amiga Update at the titlelink.
Contents:
- McEwen Message on MOS Mess
- Amiga Show Benelux in October
- AmiWest OS 4 and AU - Correction
- Poseidon sinks Elbox Support
- Acid64 Player 1.1 and 1.1a
- Digital Almanac Update
- ImageMagick 5.5.7 available
- WarpDT - New Package Out
- WinUAE continues to improve
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01.Sep.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #051
Liqiud Skies released musicpack number 51. It contains a "Summer-Mix" called version of "High Sun" by Ritzu an a corresponding cover by DaFreak.
Details about the track:
Title: High Sun (Summer Mix)
Artist: Ritzu
Stile: Goa Trance
Duration: 4:39
Format: mp3 (160kbps)
The zipped file can be found at the titlelink.
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01.Sep.2003
Thore Böckelmann (ANF)
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Scout source code in public CVS Repository
The source code of Scout, a system monitor, is now available at sourceforge.net. This CVS repository makes the co-operation of interested programmers easier.
The availabilty through surceforge does not mean that the development of Scout has been stoped. It is only an invitation for other programmers to participade in the developemt of the program.
If you encounter any problem compiling the sources feel free to contact Thore Böckelmann by sending an E-Mail to him.
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28.Aug.2003
Nico Barbat
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amiga-news.de: Summer Break from 29th through 31st August 2003 (Update)
Amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus are taking a break from 29th through 31st August 2003 (Friday through Sunday) on account of an external appointment at the International Radio Exhibition in Berlin. We ask for your understanding and wish you a nice long weekend. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Software News: Movie Encoder "mencoder"
Today a MorphOS version appeared of the movie encoder "mencoder" (which exists in a Linux package together with MPlayer). This resembles ffmpeg and includes 49 audio and 123 video codecs. Unfortunately it is far from easy to configure mencoder. One must write a configuration file containing all the parameters for each codec. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software-News: YGRip v1.2
YahooGroupsRipper (YGRip), which just appeared in version 1.2, is a simple tool for the downloading of all news from a mailing list in a Yahoo! group.
Author: Diego Casorran
Systems: AmigaOS 3.x
Category: Communication
Link: Website, Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software-News: Worm Wars v7.54
The snake clone "Worm Wars" from Amigan Software has been released in version 7.54 for AmigaOS and Windows. Since the last version 7.53 new icons have been added and rule changes have been undertaken.
Author: James R. Jacobs
Systems: AmigaOS 3.x, Windows
Category: Game of skill
Link: Website,
Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: Apex Audio System v1.03
The new version 1.03 of Apex Audio Systems conatains improved support for C++ and Multiple Interrupt. An AAS-specific mailing list has been opened for user discussion and suggestions for small changes to AAS. The use of the sound system of Apex Designs is free for non-commercial products.
Author: James Daniels / Apex Designs
Systems: Windows/Gameboy
Category: Development
Link: Homepage,
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: CW-Keyboard v1.0
CW-Keyboard, a keyboard driver for the Catweasel MK3, has appeared at version 1.0.
Author: Chris Hodges
Systems: AmigaOS, MorphOS, Amithlon
Category: Keyboard driver
Link: Website,
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: CyberLemmings v1.1
With CyberLemmings your Workbench is visited by green-haired tiny beings with deathwishes. The little lemmings run around your windows, climb and fall and use their ropes and a teleporter to get from one window to another. This new version 1.1 has sound and introduces lemmings that shuttle from window to window.
Author: Adam Waldenberg
Systems: AmigaOS 3.x, MorphOS
Category: Workbench expansion
Link: Homepage, Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: Frying Pan v0.3
Frying Pan is CD burner software published as shareware. It already has Joliet support, MP3-to-audio conversion, ISO image support, on-fly-burning, Burnproof, TAO/DAO and a whole lot more.
Author: Tomasz Wiszkowski
Systems: AmigaOS 3.x
Category: CD burner software
Link: Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: Jabberwocky (030828)
Jabber (currently available in the preview version of 28th August, 2003) is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of news. A connection hub with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is possible over gateways.
Author: Tom Parker and Matthias Münch
System: AmigaOS 3.x
Category: Instant Messenger
Link: Website, Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: MorphOS Skin #1 v1.0b
MorphOS Skin #1 is a cute skin for MorphOS Intuition. It's very small and uses very little screen space.
Author: Christian Rosentreter
Systems: MorphOS
Category: GUI theme
Link: Website, Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: Report+ v5.71
Freeware Report+ version 5.71 has been released. The tool is based on ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9, and offers many different functions. For example the use of Report+ with Aminet ReadMe files may be set so that the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool is employed or so that the byte sum for each directory is shown. In the new version there have been a few bugfixes and improvements to the EOL/Tab-Converter and the IFF form viewer.
Author: James R. Jacobs
Systems: AmigaOS 3.x,
Category: System tool
Link: Website, Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: Saga v1.31
From Amigan Software comes version 1.31 of the freeware game Saga, now available. This game is a conversion of the TSR board game "Saga: Age of Heroes" from 1981.
Author: James R. Jacobs
System: AmigaOS 3.x
Category: Strategy Game
Link: Website, Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: SystemPatch v2.1c
SystemPatch serves to accelerate Amigas under OS 3.x and has an influence on exec and areas of the system.
Author: Sante Nocciolino
Systems: AmigaOS 3.x
Category: System expansion
Link: Website, Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus (Website)
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Software News: uptime.amirx v1.0
uptime.amirx is a funny script for an uptime contest. Requires AmIRC 3.x, Trigger-Plugin for AmIRC and 'uptime' command in the system path.
Author: Christian Rosentreter
Systems: AmigaOS 3.x
Category: Communications Script
Link: Website, Download (nba) (Translation: dm)
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28.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets through 28th August, 2003
With WHDLoad its possible to install games on your hard-drive which were formerly considered to be floppy-only. The following packets have been either introduced or updated since our last announcement.
- 25.08.03 fixed: Space Ball (Rainbow Arts) runs better on faster
machines, new install script
- 25.08.03 new: Leading Lap (Black Legend) done by CFOU!
- 25.08.03 new: Diggers (Millenium) done by CFOU!
- 25.08.03 improved: Capital Punishment (ClickBoom) supports another
version, fixes for '060
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25.Aug.2003
Diverse
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22R9 released
Version 0.8.22 Release 9 of WinUAE is now available for download at the titlelink.
Changes:
Bugs fixed
- compiler misoptimization of some rare instructions
(affected 0.8.22R8 only, usually caused GURUs)
- bsdsocket emulation (connection freeze, IRCD, AmyGate etc..)
- NTSC vsync sound
- Windows 2K/XP CD detection problems in non-ASPI mode
- more compatible audio emulation (TBL's Tint, some demos playing only
noise)
- ticking/unticking 68000 "more compatible" checkbox on the fly
does not crash the emulated Amiga anymore
- AVI capture sound sync
New features:
- software 2x filters (Scale2x, SuperEagle, 2xSaI and Super2xSaI)
and manual screen position adjustment.
- separate windowed and fullscreen mode width and height
- 100% exact blitter block mode cycle diagram (cycle-exact mode only)
- replaced "run at higher priority" with priority selection select box
- added CAPS support to mini-version
- automatic AVI splitting
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24.Aug.2003
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)
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freeCD "MEXIKON" released
MEXIKON, an extensive lexicon about cactuses with many tips and suggestions
by Egon Münch has been released in the freeCD series of Faces of Mars.
Currently MEXIKON contains information on 77 cactus varieties and far more
than 1200 cactuses. The data is available in HTML format in German language.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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24.Aug.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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Apex Audio System released
Apex Designs has released the Apex Audio System, originally developed for the
Gameboy-Advance version of Payback.
The system has been improved and documented so it can be adopted by other
developers in their software. Use is free of charge for non-commercial products.
Further information about AAS can be obtained on Apex Designs' Web site under the title link.
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24.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 23rd August 2003
Using WHDLoad you can now install games intended for diskette usage only
on your hard disk. The following packages have been added resp. updated
since our last report:
- 22.08.03 improved: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ultra Games)
supports original version
- 22.08.03 new: Super Street Fighter 2 (US Gold) done by Psygore
- 22.08.03 improved: Legends (Krisalis) supports AGA version
- 22.08.03 improved: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) rewritten using kickemu,
supports CD32 version
- 22.08.03 improved: Chuck Rock 2 (Core Design) complete rewrite of
slave
- 22.08.03 new: Booly (Loriciel) done by Psygore
- 22.08.03 new: Black Viper (Neo/LightShock) done by CFOU!
- 22.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry Enhanced (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 18.08.03 new: Sorcerer Lord (PSS) done by CFOU!
- 18.08.03 new: Shufflepuck Cafe (Brøderbund) done by Psygore
- 18.08.03 new: Quest For Glory 2 - Trial By Fire (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 18.08.03 improved: Leisure Suit Larry 2 (Sierra) supports another
version
- 18.08.03 new: Legends (Krisalis) done by CFOU!
- 18.08.03 improved: King's Quest 5 (Sierra) misc changes
- 18.08.03 new: Harpoon (Three Sixty) done by Galahad
- 18.08.03 new: Capital Punishment (ClickBoom) done by CFOU!
- 18.08.03 new: Bump'n Burn (Grandslam/Softeyes) done by CFOU!
- 18.08.03 improved: Benefactor (Digital Illusions) supports CD³²
version too
- 15.08.03 updated: Perihelion (Psygnosis) new imager, docs included
- 14.08.03 new: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ultra Games) done by
Psygore
- 14.08.03 new: Swooper (Diamond) done by Psygore
- 13.08.03 new: Strip Pot (Pixel-Blue) done by JOTD
- 12.08.03 fixed: Secret of Monkey Island (Lucasfilm Games) Spanish
version protection fixed
- 12.08.03 updated: Codename: Iceman (Sierra) yet another update, will
it ever work properly :-)
- 10.08.03 new: Time Race (Loriciel) done by Psygore
- 10.08.03 improved: Space Quest Enhanced (Sierra) enhanced music
- 10.08.03 fixed: Codename: Iceman (Sierra) sound driver fixed
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23.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: interview with the "SongPlayer" team
Vor wenigen Wochensome weeks ago have Nicolas Det and Mathias Parnaudeau
released a new and reworked version of the known music player
"SongPlayer". Originally developed since 1994 by Stéphane Tavenard had the last version been released in 1999. Olaf Köbnik talked to the two developers how it came to the rerelease and what the future holds for "SongPlayer". The interview is for the time being only in English available on the website of the Amiga Arena under the title link.
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23.Aug.2003
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac homepage moves
The homepage of the astrononomy software "Digital Almanac" has moved to a new server with an own domain. The new address is http://www.digitalalmanac.de.
One result of the move will be an update of the pages, especially the English ones, so that they match the new version DA3 v5.4. Furthermore should there be no more download cancellations.
The update o DA3 v5.4 will be released at the beginning of next week. The changes:
- BUGFIX: City list has been rewritten. The list contains all countries of the world with their flags (optional). The format of the list has changed, so the list is now independend from the Locale settings.
The moving of cities was very buggy before. Now it works without any problems.
- BUGFIX: In the calendar, meteor showers were shown at a wrong date.
- BUGFIX: In previous versions, when the program was started from a Shell, the DOS parameters were analyzes wrong. This bug is now fixed.
- BUGFIX: Program could crash when drawing too many Deep-Sky objects (PPC only).
- NEW: Online information of the countries are available from the CIA World Factbook.
- NEW: Improved ephemeris of the Saturnian satellites Helene, Telesto and Calypso with the help of the HTC20 theory.
- NEW: Online informationen about the planets and satellites of the solar system can now additionally be accessed from the planet filter in the preferences window.
- NEW: IFF-ILBM savings are done via Datatypes. This saves about 10 kB code and is more system-friendly.
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23.Aug.2003
Dirk Martin (ANF)
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Amiga Zentrum Thüringen homepage with new MorphOS screenshot area
The Amiga Zentrum Thüringen e.V. has opened on its homepage a new area with MorphOS screenshots. If you want to get an impression of the Pegasos operating system you should visit this site.
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22.Aug.2003
Søren Ladegaard (ANF)
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Acid64 Player supports SID-chip on Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper
All Amiga/PC/Mac users that have the Catweasel MK3 card, can now enjoy
the genuine sound of the SID chip using the new Acid64 player, that
supports the SID on the Catweasel MK3 card. Get the player at www.acid64.com. (nba)
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21.Aug.2003
Amiga Inc. (Website)
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Amiga Inc.: Legal Settlement Not Reached with Genesi
In an official statement on the website of Amiga Inc. CEO Bill McEwen has taken a position on the recent speculation about a port of AmigaDE to the Pegasos and the legal battle between Genesi and Amiga Inc.
According to McEwen the legal proceedings between Amiga Inc. and
Genesi S.à.r.l. have not been ended, in contrast to other claims. According to his current stance, the proceedings go forward and Amiga Inc. has not lost the case. A port of AmigaDE for the Pegasos is not planned. The information spread by Genesi is supposedly false and misleading. According to the end user licence, Amiga OS may only be used on machines certified by Amiga Inc. Read the English language statement of Bill McEwen under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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21.Aug.2003
Christian Geier (ANF)
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Update of www.amiga-linux.de.vu
The website www.amiga-linux.de.vu has been updated. An image installer with Mandrake 9.1 PPC for the Pegasos has been added. The new site is still being worked on. The webmasters are open to suggestions about the layout. Right now a new image installer is being worked on. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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18.Aug.2003
IOSPIRIT (website)
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IOSPIRIT: Summer break
The software producer IOSPIRIT will have a summer break. Felix Schwarz won't be available from 18.08.2003 until the 27.8.2003 via phone, fax or email. Of course you'll still be able to order online. But the order handling maybe delayed until the 27.8.2003.
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18.Aug.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: Updates
Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) updated. There are now charts for Demo, Intro 4k, Intro64k Slideshow and Musicdisk. Futhermore there are now screenshots of the legendary discmag Grapevine by the british LSD group and of the demo "Chronic" by Passion, winner of the Sealand Party 1996.
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18.Aug.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive at Games Convention in Leipzig
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh will be presenting its portfolio
of games for niche platforms at the Games Convention in Leipzig from
21.8.-24.8.2003. The port of "Northland" will make its debut at Games
Convention for the Mac. With a little luck also a first version of
"Northland" will be shown for the Pegasos. You will find us at Leipzig
in exhibition centre 3 at the stand of our distribution partners in the
pc market bb Verlagsgesellschaft (Stand G31). (nba)
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18.Aug.2003
amiga.org (ANF)
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AmiWest 2003:Detailed show report by Daniel Miller
After Daniel Miller allready wrote two live reports from the AmiWest (Part 1
DE/EN
and Part 2 DE/EN)
he published a photo enriched review of the show at titlelink.
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18.Aug.2003
ANN (ANF)
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AmiWest 2003: Showreport by Lou Vidal
Lou Vidal, president of the Queens Amiga User Group, composed a report about the AmiWest 2003 show. This an some photos made there are available at the titlelink.
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18.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 18.08.2003
Aminet additions since the last report:
zip100-250_gi.lha pix/gicon 145K+By Raul Silva, the Best GlowIcons for Io
zip100-250_ni.lha pix/icon 173K+By Raul Silva, the Best NewIcons for Iom
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18.Aug.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Forever and Amiga Explorer now at www.amigaforever.com
In preparation of a major overhaul and given increasing bandwidth
consumption, the Amiga Forever and Amiga Explorer pages have been moved
from the cloanto.com web site to a new host at www.amigaforever.com. At
the same time, several new and updated articles and tutorials have been
published in the FAQ section at www.amigaforever.com. (nba)
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17.Aug.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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New GUI system in search of a name
A new GUI system is still in search of a fitting name. Under the title link
there are the first screenshorts of a GUI system currently available in the
first Alpha version. Currently it offers replacements for Slider, Button,
String, Integer, BevelBox, Text, Number and Gadgets.
Furthermore the new gadgets "Editor" (text editor functionality),
"Blue-Box" (Windows-BlueProgressbar in all colours) as well as "Roundbutton"
are offered.
Current features are a.o.:
- 24 AlphaChannel transparency, sliders can make their handle graphics transparent on the fly.
- Gadgets can be repositioned and resized without application support and will later have
save/load functionalities for internals.
- As gadgets work as objects they may also be separated from the GUI and added to another GUI
while keeping their contents and attributes.
Provided there is enough interest the project is to be released as an Open Source project.
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17.Aug.2003
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: Review of Hollywood
Today a new review has been released on GFX-BASE. This time Bojan Milovic has reviewed the
multimedia/presentation software Hollywood for GFX-BASE - exclusively on his TV station in
Serbia (RTV JedinsTVo, Novi Pazar), where Hollywood was tested for several weeks on the Amiga
used there. Therefore - besides some screenshots of the program - you will also see photos of RTV JedinsTVo.
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17.Aug.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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New AmigaOS4 screenshots published
Under the title link you can find new official screenshots of AmigaOS 4.0
which show the debugging functionality of the up and coming operating system
for PowerPC Amigas.
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17.Aug.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 17
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 17 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) alx: You have mentioned that OS5 should include "Orthogonal Persistence". I roughly understand that this means that you don't need to explicitly "save" a file, but can you give us a rough idea of what it is, how it would appear to the user, and how it would impact AmigaOS in particular?
Fleecy: First of all, here is a decent definition of Orthogonal Persistence (OP) which I googled.
"In geometry, orthogonal means "involving right angles" (from Greek ortho, meaning right, and gon meaning angled). The term has been extended to general use, meaning the characteristic of being independent (relative to something else). It also can mean: non-redundant, non-overlapping, or irrelevant. In computer terminology, something - such as a programming language or a data object - is orthogonal if it can be used without consideration as to how its use will affect something else. In itself, a programming language is orthogonal if its features can be used without thinking about how that usage will affect other features. Pascal is sometimes considered to be an orthogonal language, while C++ is considered to be a non-orthogonal language.
Features of a program that is compatible with its own earlier versions - this is called backward compatible - have an orthogonal relationship with the features of the earlier version, because they are mutually independent; you don't have to worry about how the use of one version's features will cause an unintended effect because of an interaction with those of the other version. Both the features and the programs can be said to be mutually orthogonal.
The length of time data is kept in storage in a computer system is known as its persistence. Orthogonal persistence is the quality of a programming system that allows a programmer to treat data similarly without regard to the length of time the data is kept in storage. Data is stored for varying lengths of time; some is stored very briefly and some is stored relatively permanently. Frequently, a programmer must use different approaches and separate coding to access data depending on whether it is stored for a long time or a short time. Using a programming system with orthogonal data persistence allows the programmer to treat data the same way regardless of its persistence characteristic, saving programming time and making it easier to enforce referential integrity (a type of constraint applied to ensure correct data validity)."
To a user, as you say, the biggest difference is that there is no distinction between objects being used at a specific time and those that are stored on a disk and which have to be loaded and saved. An object just 'is' and you access it directly using just one method. This affects the whole model of data usage, whether for a user or for a developer. You just access the object and it is there.
For AG2, this will mean that the user doesn't consider the individual data object 'as is', but will make use of semantic organisation - embedding the object itself into multiple relationships which can use any sort of paradigm, from explicit sets (a set in which the user puts an object because they want it there) to implicit sets (the set of all png files, for example). Such a system can simply build a hierarchical container relationship, which would manifest itself as the existing file system model, but to only use it for this would be a profound waste.
It sounds very different but it is actually a far more natural activity that the system existing computers use, which is very closely tied to hardware restrictions. In fact you are already using a similar system almost everyday - the Internet. An HTML page is a container for all sorts of data objects and you click on them to access them. It is a limited and controlled environment and uses a very simplistic space model but it provides a good example.
2) Crumb: When will we have an updated datatype/codec system? The level of optimization of Action/Moovid is quite good... but making a codec system we would see Premiere-like aplications developed more easily.
Fleecy: The entire datatypes system is up for an AG2 review for AmigaOS4.1. There is no point in implementing the new system until the new graphics and audio services are in place anyway since we'd have to reimplement all the codecs to take advantage of the new services.
3) Crumb: What about DVD Write support? There's no software for writting DVDs yet :-/
Fleecy: That's probably the only thing we won't be fitting into AmigaOS4.0 but it is pencilled in for AmigaOS4.1.
4) CanGuy: Apple is apparently replacing AppleTalk with Rendezvous. Has Amiga looked into using Apple's Rendezvous (or similar technologies like the IETF's in-development Zeroconf technolgy or jrendezvous, an open-souce implementation of the Rendezvous protocol) as an alternative to Envoy?
Fleecy: The "Rendezvous" protocol is a set of procedures for finding local services (printing, file sharing, etc.) offered in the local network and for assigning IP addresses to hosts. It's just that and does not imply any sort of file sharing or printing protocol. The Zeroconf protocol(s) are still in flux, but Apple took the plunge to deploy (and to publish MacOS X sample source code for the implementation) a solution. Hardly anybody else seems to be using it so far. And it may be wise to wait a little longer for information to trickle in how well it works and for other implementations to become available and to mature (the Apple supplied code is rather MacOS X specific).
For the time being, the TCP/IP stack to ship with AmigaOS4 will support automatic address assignment using one of the protocols of the Zeroconf specification. But that's it so far.
5) Asemoon: What do you consider the AmigaDE's most promising selling point or addition compared to standard Intent2 technology?
Fleecy: The content centric elements. Intent2 is a product that is focused heavily on the feedback the Tao-Group have received from their customers. These are chiefly OEMs and IHVS who are after embedded solutions to drive their hardware products. AmigaDE is focused on supplying content above that layer, and so we have not only a highly flexible packing, distribution and deployment solution but also services for content developers which free them from having to do common tasks - a good example being Astorage and AmiDB.
6) Jose: Do you sitll have the rights to the tick (or checkmark, as somepeople call it) logo? And the Amiga word in italic as it's stamped on the case of our Classic Amigas?
Fleecy: I believe so but I haven't checked. It's not within my domain.
7) Morka: Will be in OS4 something like Windows update or Symantec LiveUpdate?
Fleecy: There is a fundamental issue when considering an automatic maintenance system, and that is how do we have both a 100% knowable system and also allow power users to tinker? An AMS needs to assume that it has complete control of the maintenance domain (or at least that there is a formal way of identifying all changes that may have been made to its last knowable image) otherwise it will base its maintenance on knowledge that may just be completely wrong. A good example of this is the Windows architecture. Changes made through formal mechanisms are reflected in the registry but users can still move into the actual filing system itself and make changes which may/may not be reflected in the registry.
We are already looking at such a system but it will initially be for closed solutions - auto updates for Smartphones, STBS, Games consoles and the like. We have to look at whether power users would accept such control or else implement some sort of transaction logging/journaling and lock down all possible points of change.
8) mjohnson: Is Amiga reaching out to digital camera developers and producers of film scanners (Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Fuji, Kodak, Olympus), to enable the availability of drivers and custom viewer/raw-file software for these products for the A1/OS4? (or will it come for OS5) Also, will (digital image)-card readers be usable through OS4 without too much fuss?
Fleecy: The answer here is the same as for any third party hardware that requires drivers. We have approached and been approached by many of the big players but their answer is almost always the same - we'll support you when you have a market base that makes commercial sense for us.
Luckily there are many standards in play, and with the new datatypes system, there will be a good foundation for third parties to step in and offer solutions. Once we can get the market base to an attractive size then we will revisit these companies.
9) alx: A while ago, Amiga published a timeplan on their website for what features will be in OS4.x and 5. Will there be a new one released to reflect, for instance, the features of OS4.2 that are now in OS4.0?
Fleecy: As with any project plan, things change so yes, we will release a new snapshot of where we are going but it won't be until after AmigaOS4.0 is released. Given the complexity and number of threads in the AmigaOS4.0 development, it is always the case that some take a shorter time, some take a longer time, and with that, some of the developers decided that they'll start work on things pencilled in for AmigaOS4.1, except that they are very quick and are finished before AmigaOS4.0 is ready.
We may just release the overall feature plan from AmigaOS4.0 to AmigaOS5.0 rather than trying to release individual products that may constantly change.
10) alx: I understand that in one of the later 4.x OSes, the current implementation of workbench, icons etc will be replaced. Few other desktop operating systems that I can think of have had this chance for a fresh start in a long time - what features will you be able to introduce that will make the Amiga's implementation superior to other OSes?
Fleecy: The interactive environment obviously sits on top of a variety of foundation services - graphics, audio, events, composition etc and so there is little point in changing large parts of the AG1 system when they will have to be reimplemented when the AG2 foundations services are implemented.
You are correct though that we have a chance to start from scratch with the entire interactive environment and we are deep into that process at the moment, concentrating on developing a much better workflow model. To be honest, this is far more important that 32 bit icons and skinnable frames - these things are just eye candy and relatively simple to implement, although they rarely make an environment better to use. There are many examples of gorgeous looking interfaces and applications, particularly games where the project managers have completely missed the point - an interface is for doing things with, not staring at. Looks are important but secondary and as always with Amiga, we are seeking to advance the total experience, not a specific (and most obvious) part of it.
We are intending to really push the boundaries here, and some of the concepts and models need to go through IP assessment before they are made publicly so don't be surprised if you don't hear about it for some time, and then it is suddenly upon you. I'm not trying to dodge the question but interface design has been stuck for the last decade and we think we have some ideas that could break through that deadlock.We aren't about to give them away.
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Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=18
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
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17.Aug.2003
AWeb Mailingliste
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AWeb: KHTML port for Amiga
Since yesterday the developers of AWeb, an open source based Web browser for the
Amiga, are cooperating with the developers of KDE and KHTML. The goal of the
concerted efforts is the porting of KHTML to the Amiga and its clone systems.
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16.Aug.2003
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Aminet ploads until August, 18th 2003
Here are the new added Aminet uploads since our last news:
bitlbee_amiga.lha comm/irc 620K+BitlBee: An IRC to other chat networks g
md_autocheck.lha comm/mail 13K+Fix for MD's missing mail autocheck.
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 37K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
antiSPAM.lha comm/thor 3K+AntiSPAM script/config/HOWTO for THOR
triangle.lha demo/aga 467K Shey-deed by try'n'gel. released at asm0
mwi-Excess09.lha demo/mag 2.4M+Polish scene magazine by Madwizards!
jrm-hata.lha demo/sound 328K+DA JoRMaS: H t (3rd at Assembly 2003 ol
SFSCheck.lha disk/misc 58K+Utility to check a SmartFileSystem devic
WipeDisk.lha disk/misc 7K+Quickly erase all data on a disk
Saga.lha game/board 326K+Saga 1.31: Conversion of TSR boardgame
FS_MultiPack02.lha game/data 46K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD
FS_MultiPack03.lha game/data 57K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD
FS_MultiPack04.lha game/data 54K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD
FS_MultiPack05.lha game/data 64K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD
FS_MultiPack06.lha game/data 45K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD
FS_MultiPack07.lha game/data 57K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD
FS_MultiPack08.lha game/data 109K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD
ExodusSGm.lha game/hint 503K+Exodus Moroi Saved Games 1-20
WormWars.lha game/misc 538K+Worm Wars 7.54: Advanced snake game
damage.lha game/shoot 676K+A little killing game... Download IT!
dmg.lha game/shoot 346K+A little killing game... Download IT!
trilero68k.lha game/think 679K+Trilero Simulator
trileromos.lha game/think 735K+Trilero Simulator
watchNplay.lha game/wb 433K+Effects, games, and utilities. -V2.4-
Ham32k.lha gfx/conv 12K+Display 32000 colours with OCS/ECS chips
MicroPaint209.lha gfx/edit 492K+Paint program with effects / BMP support
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
jhead.lha gfx/misc 76K+Jhead - Digicam Jpeg exif header manipul
Mentat.lha misc/edu 234K+Mentat 0.7 english2english Longman dicti
MentatData_a-d.lha misc/edu 1.9M+Mentat 0.7 english2english Longman dicti
MentatData_e-l.lha misc/edu 1.9M+Mentat 0.7 english2english Longman dicti
MentatData_m-r.lha misc/edu 1.8M+Mentat 0.7 english2english Longman dicti
MentatData_s-z.lha misc/edu 1.9M+Mentat 0.7 english2english Longman dicti
MaguilaB2.lha misc/emu 12M+MAGUILA GUI for MorphOS MAME
SIM4004.lha misc/emu 135K+Intel 4004 processor simulator (1.0)
djnick-han.lha mods/8voic 522K+RaveTheBrain 8ch MED by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-mad.lha mods/8voic 495K+RaveTheBrain 8ch MED by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-ary.lha mods/hardc 391K+Rave the Brain album djnick/d-tronic
djnick-cyz.lha mods/hardc 191K+Old hc module by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-dza.lha mods/hardc 452K+Rave the Brain album by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-fan.lha mods/hardc 289K+Old 4ch techno mod by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-voi.lha mods/hardc 293K+Old hc rave by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-wel.lha mods/hardc 218K+From Teknoactive album by djnick/d-troni
101_maszynista.lha mods/ijont 777K+10ch psychedelic ;) DBM by Ijon Tichy
djnick-sko.lha mods/instr 344K+Rap med for VaNaMa by djnick/d-tronic
raunio.lha mods/jorma 195K+Raunio by Vesuri (from H t )
djnick-dan.lha mods/melod 243K+Dance song by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-fal.lha mods/piano 271K+Ballad song by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-she.lha mods/piano 127K+Old ballad song by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-bro.lha mods/slow 439K+Ballad song by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-int.lha mods/slow 399K+Old breakbeat by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-lor.lha mods/slow 128K+Old electro ballad by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-nme.lha mods/slow 574K+Old trip-hop mod by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-boo.lha mods/techn 372K+Old competition song by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-cap.lha mods/techn 164K+Module for a game by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-cyb.lha mods/techn 430K+Module for competition by djnick/d-troni
djnick-don.lha mods/techn 267K+Taken from Teknoactive album by djnick/d
djnick-fuc.lha mods/techn 190K+Teknoactive album by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-mak.lha mods/techn 352K+Old breakbeat by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-mal.lha mods/techn 285K+Old breakbeat mod by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-mar.lha mods/techn 238K+Techno dance mod by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-par.lha mods/techn 346K+Rave the Brain mod by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-rav.lha mods/techn 332K+Rave the Brain breakbeat by djnick/d-tro
djnick-red.lha mods/techn 192K+Dance rave rmx mod by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-und.lha mods/techn 221K+Teknoactive mod by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-wha.lha mods/techn 88K+Old techno mod by djnick/d-tronic
djnick-you.lha mods/techn 453K+Rave the Brain album djnick/d-tronic
djnick-eru.lha mods/tranc 352K+Old acid trance mod by djnick/d-tronic
SF_icons.lha pix/gicon 523K+Icons from Super Frog [by cYbo]
ZIP100-250_GI.lha pix/gicon 149K+By Raul Silva, the Best GlowIcons for Io
MrCarlitoWb-01.jpg pix/wb 222K+Screenshot of my Workbench 3.9
Tree17.lha util/cli 15K+Lists Directory content tree-like
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 310K+TIFF datatype V45.4 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
froggui.lha util/misc 23K+GUI for FroggerNG
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 323K+Report+ 5.71: Multipurpose utility
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16.Aug.2003
amiga.org (website)
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Audio Evolution 4 debutes at Benelux Amiga Show 2003
At the Benelux Amiga Show/ Benelux Pegasos Show taking place in Rotterdam (Netherlands) from October, 4th to October, 5th will for the first time the audio sequencer "Audio Evolution" coming for AmigaOS 4 presented to the public. The introduction will be held by the developer Davy Wentzler.
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16.Aug.2003
MorphZone.org (ANF)
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AMOS goes Open Source
The sources of the programming environment AMOS have been released as Open Source to make a continuation of development or a port to other platforms by third party developers possible. The download of the sources is possible via the Aminet (download: AMOS 1.3 Sources, AMOS Compiler Sources)
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16.Aug.2003
Jürgen Sachs (ANF)
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Router remote control: AImonc v0.24 released
Jürgen Sachs has released version 0.24 of AIMonc on his homepage. Among other things were some bugs fixed that could have caused system crashes. AImonc is an Imonc client for the Amiga to remote control a Fli4l router.
With AImonc you can control the most important functions like online, offline,
cCircuit choice, choice mode (auto/manual), reboot and system halt. Additionally, some information about the router is shown.
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15.Aug.2003
Captain HIT (ANF)
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Wzonka-Lad sources released under GPL
Wzonka-Lad had been one of the best Gameboy emulators for the 68k AGA Amiga.
Since a long time, though, there haven't been neither any updates nor any news. Now has
the author released the sources of the emulator under GPL. So there's now hope that there may come some updates should there be a programmer to continue the development.
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15.Aug.2003
Golem IT-News (website)
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Golem: Games Convention speeches: How to become a games developer?
Quite many enthusiastic gamers dream of becoming a developer in the games industry. But only a small number has really an imagination of the qualifications needed for this and how a typical working day of a games developer looks like. The Berlin team SEK will do some educational work at the Games Convention 2003 in Leipzig (Germany) about this topic.
Read the full (German) article at Golem IT-News following the title link.
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15.Aug.2003
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga Society: News about BBoAH and Schlachtfeld
The Big Book of Amiga Hardware by Ian Chapman had been updated again and comes now with even more comprehensive information.
Furthermore does the work on Schlachtfeld continue. Right now are especially Christian and Michael preparing the beta tests. For this is a portal built up that will be used by the testers to report their results to the developers using a form. Additionally will some polls be held in the near future regarding this subject.
For the time being is the team looking for beta testers and, should the occasion arise, some programmers for MorphOS. The tests will probably start at the end of the month. People who want to take part in theses should just send an email to Horst Diebel.
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15.Aug.2003
Diverse
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Software news in short (15.08.2003)
Since the last software news update have some applications received further development. Below we write about the changes:
Octamed Sound Studio
In the short period of time he is collaborating on the project Gerd Frank has released a small update for the audio application Octamed Sound. Download
TrileroMOS
TrileroMOS is a version of the classic Hütchenspiels "Trilero" for MorphOS. A first public alpha version is available at morphzone.org (registartion necessary). A version for the classic Amiga is said to follow.
BabelDoc
BabelDoc is a progamm that allows the translation of texts or text excerpts from one language to another by accessing the translation service of AltaVista. You can download the new version 2.6 from the website of programmer Lorence Lombardo.
AmiDiction
AmiDiction is an online dictionary basing on the service of www.dictionary.com. You can download the new version 2.4 from the website of programmer Lorence Lombardo.
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15.Aug.2003
AMIGAplus
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News from Sweden: Amiga magazine "Azine"
For all Amigans knowing the wonderful Swedish language has the Amiga Computer Group (ACG) made the first three issues of the Swedish print magazine "Azine" available for download as PDF files. The current issue and the coming one can be ordered as print issue at the ACG following the title link.
Parts of the contents of the previous issues::
Azine #1: AmiGBG exhibition report, Elemental force - Amiga and TV, Midwinter
2002 report, Payback review.
Azine #2: AmigaOne in Göteborg, Prometheus PCI, Descent: Freespace review.
Azine #3: AmigaOS 4, AROS, C programming part 3, tower alteration workshop,
retro gaming part 2, Quake 2 review.
Azine #4 (out now, Summer 2003): AmiGBG 2003 report, Breakpoint report,
BlizzardPPC upgrade, Linux workshop part 1, Napalm review.
Azine #5 (coming autumn 2003): AmigaOS4 on tour, ACGGbg in Schonen,
Linux workshop part 2, Crossfire II review.
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14.Aug.2003
morphos-news.de (Website)
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Genesi: Thoughts About Future Development (Update)
In a posting on the online magazine morphos-news.de Raquel
Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi S.à.r.l. express a few thoughts and ideas having to do with Genesi, the Pegasos product series and the state of computing in general. Read the complete English language article at morphos-news.de under the title link.
Nachtrag (15.08.03, 20:27, nba): Martin Heine did a German language translation of this "executive updates." This may be read at pegasosppc.de: "Our View of Things." (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Full Version of "Teeny Weenys AGA"
Thanks to the efforts of Malcolm Lavery the platform game "Teeny
Weenys AGA" is available for free download at Amiga Arena. "Teeny
Weenys AGA" is a game in the style of "Lemmings". Other games from Malcolm Lavery will follow.
Additionally, the lucky winner of the "amiga-news.de" T-Shirts
have been named. A great big thanks to all who took part. More
raffles will follow. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Aug.2003
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Mai Logic: Information About Articia P Chipset
Mai Logic has made known some information about the Articia P chipset. This information may be read in the PDF document under the title link. Excerpts from the document:
Articia P's groundbreaking architecture enables five buses to run concurrently in one package. The five buses are CPU bus, memory bus, and three configurable peripheral buses-- 32-bit AGP4X for industry-strength multimedia performance, 64-bit 133/66MHz PCIX for high-bandwidth connectivity, and 32-bit 66/33MHz PCI for legacy, low-speed devices.
With its 166 MHz Front Side Bus, 333 MHz DDR memory controller, superb AGP4X core logic, dual 64-bit PCIXs, programmable Interrupt Controller, DMA controllers, integrated Clock Generator, and Global Timers, Articia P yields an unbeatable mix of power, performance, and value.
Articia P engineering samples are expected to be available in Q3, 2003.
For any inquiries, please email us at marketing@mai.com. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Aug.2003
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Mai Logic: Information about the Articia Sa Chipset
Mai Logic has made knoew some information about their Articia Sa chipset. This may be read in the PDF document under the title link. Excerpts from the document:
Articia Sa is a highly-integrated PowerPC companion chipset. Harnessing
the industry-leading CPU bus speed of 166 MHz, the cutting-edge 333 MHz
DDR SDRAM, the stunning graphic capability from AGP4X, and the extended
data throughput of 64-bit PCI, the multi-missioned Articia Sa brings down
system cost while offering phenomenal performance.
Articia Sa realizes a most powerful and yet affordable "toal solution" for the innovative pervasive computing markets by incorporating all critical functionality such as the programmable Interrupt Controller, the enhanced DMA engine, the integrated Clock Generator, and the Global Timers in one single package.
Articia Sa engineering samples are expected to be available in Q3, 2003.
For any inquiries, please email us at marketing@mai.com. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Aug.2003
Patrick Henz (ANF)
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Pictures for YAM with "My Virtual Model"
A little link tip: On the website My Virtual Model a three dimensional model may be generated free of charge, which is a neat gimmick for YAM users, who may use the face in their address books. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Aug.2003
McFly (ANF)
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Big Update of the Amiga-PPS-Homepage
After a few difficulties with the webspace there is a big update of the Amiga-PPS-Homepage. 15 new presenations have been added. The archive now includes 47.
All of the new presenations include a prefs-setter. With this one may now enjoy Amiga-PPS full-screen in a resolution of 800x600.
Additionall, a new category has been added, in which the user may introduce his own presentations. Manager McFly would be happy if you like it. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2003
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N°40
Issue 40 of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine is now available. You can
read is this issue : latests Amiga news, report of AmigaOS 4 On Tour,
report of the NASS 2 Show, interview of Thomas Steiding (Epic) and Alex
Dillenseger (Amiga Power), review of Immortal and Football-O-Rama,
hardware with USB scanners and The Pegasos-Arcade-machine, articles about
MorphOS 1.4, AROS, FPDF, PixLoad, and lots of other interesting things.
Download: Obligement40.zip (nba)
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12.Aug.2003
Up Rough (ANF)
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Music: New Releases from Up Rough
Amiga-demoscene-group Up Rough released three new modules and
a new Amiga-intro. News in detail:
- #058: No Clue [Amiga Mod]
Compomusic from Underscore 2003 (Chip) by Qwan.
- #057: Lost in Otaniemi [Amiga Intro]
An Intro released at MFX+Kewlers birthdayparty.
A Spaceballs/Up Rough co-op. Ranked 1st.
- #056: Gnomedance [Amiga Mod]
Compomusic from Underscore 2003 (Small) by Qwan.
- #055: Pulsewidth Poem [Amiga Mod]
Compomusic from Underscore 2003 (4ch) by Qwan. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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11.Aug.2003
exotiC (ANF)
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PTPlay Version 1.1 released
Version 1.1 of ptplay is now available. ptplay is shell program for playing protracker files. Additional information is to be found at the titlelink.
Download: ptplay (52 KB)
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11.Aug.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter Special: AmiWest 2003 Report
Brad Webb, publisher of the monthly 'Amiga Update Newsletter' released a special edition about the AmiWest 2003. A report by Joanne Calhoun is available at the titlelink.
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10.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad Version 16.0
Since the day before yesterday you can download the new version 16.0 of WHDLoad
in a user and developer package from the WHDLoad page. Using this software
you can now install games on your hard disk which have been made for floppy
disk only.
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10.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 09th August 2003
Using WHDLoad you can install games on your hard disk which have only been made
for floppy disk use. The following packages have been added or updated since our
last report:
- 09.08.03 improved: Soccer Kid (Krisalis) supports AGA and CD³² versions, miscellaneous improvements
- 09.08.03 improved: Arabian Nights (Krisalis) supports CD³² version, miscellaneous improvements
- 09.08.03 updated: Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (Master Designer Software/Cinemaware) reworked for WHDLoad 16
- 09.08.03 improved: Red Baron (Dynamix) supports another version, removed tapes check
- 09.08.03 fixed: Codename: Iceman (Sierra) sound now plays correctly
- 09.08.03 improved: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) manual protection removed
- 08.08.03 improved: Lotus 2 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) run with full caches on all CPUs
- 08.08.03 improved: Legend / The four crystals of Trazere (Mindscape) supports another version, docs and icon added
- 07.08.03 new: Knights of the Crystallion (US Gold/Bill Williams) done by Galahad
- 07.08.03 new: Codename: Iceman (Sierra) done by JOTD
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10.Aug.2003
PPCNUX (ANF)
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PPNUX: Interview with Pieter van den Abeele (Gentoo)
The Linux online magazine PPCNUX has held an interview with Pieter van den
Abeele, the project leader of Gentoo-PPC, in which they also ask about the
possibility of a port of the Gentoo Linux distribution for the AmigaOne and
Pegasos.
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10.Aug.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Major Update for ALGOR / ROMulus FlashROM Software
E3B, makers of the well known USB solutions for Amiga Classic, and Chris Hodges,
programmer of many well known software solutions, a.o.t. the USB stack Poseidon,
are glad to announce being able to make available an update for the FlashROM
solutions developed by E3B.
In this update existing functionality has been optimized and expanded as well as
some problems with some system configurations fixed.
Thus users of the USB controller ALGOR as well as the FlashROM module
ROMulus (HIGHWAY) have a mature and field-tested solution for the
integration of additional software modules already at cold boot time at their
disposal.
A short overview over the new functions:
- Special treatment for exec.library and romupdate.idtag. Thus there is for
the first time a full replacement for OS3.9's RomUpdate functionality.
- increased speed by way of switching on the processor cache.
- Workarounds for accelerator boards whose memory is not RomTag able. This
solves many problems with certain accelerator boards even in Amiga 1200 tower
rebuildings.
- Many internal changes and corrections, making the bootloader more stable and
safer. Special attention has been paid to highest compatibility with unusual
accelerator boards.
The basic functions of ALGOR and ROMulus are essentially
unchanged:
- comfortable user interface for programming the FlashROM (MUI).
- In case of an emergency the most important functions can be reached without
MUI via command line.
- Drag'n'Drop when configuring the FlashROM via MUI.
- transparent and reset fast integration of any ROM modules.
- use of USB stack Poseidon directly on cold boot time.
- abolition of the OS3.9 ROM-Patch-Reset by integrating the ROM updates and
thus faster boot tie of the computer.
- Booting the Amiga from USB mass storage directly after cold boot possible.
- full replacement of Amiga mouse and keyboard by respective USB devices via
new input.device (also in the boot menu if OS 3.9 BoingBag 2 present).
- easy switching off of the ROM modules during bootup possible.
- integrated transparent compression for efficient usage of the FlashROM.
The ALGOR resp. the FlashROM module ROMulus (upgrade for
HIGHWAY) each have 512kb (256kx16 resp. 4 MBit) FlashROM which can be
easily programmed via the user interface Luciferin. The FlashROM allows highest
possible speed when booting the computer by way of wordwise access and the
extremely early activation; use is possible in all Zorro II and Zorro III
systems (also A1200 tower with Zorro slots).
The update for Luciferin is available exclusively for registered owners of ALGOR
and ROMulus - all registered users are mailed by E3B and receive the update by
eMail. Should you have not yet registered, please send in your filled in
registration card or contact E3B by eMail (mboehmer@e3b.de).
A warm thank you at this place to Hartmut Schulze for his support through
extensive bug reports and hints.
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09.Aug.2003
Amiga Inc. (website)
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Article: shared libraries in OS 4
The originally in the 6th issue of the Club Amiga magazine published
article "Shared libraries in OS 4" by Hans-Jörg Frieden is now available on the CAM website under the title link for non members, too.
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09.Aug.2003
amiga.org (website)
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Ironstone Partners Ltd. show temporar logo for new Commodore 64
On July, 11th Juli 2003 announced Tulip Computers NV (Tulip) and Ironstone Partners
Ltd. (Ironstone) an agreement about a partnership that was described as a first step for a worldwide relaunch of the trademark Commodore. Since then a logo for a possible rerelease of a home computer under the name "Commodore 64" has been presented that you can see following the title link.
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09.Aug.2003
Amiga Inc. (website)
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Magazin: Club Amiga Magazine #7 released
The 7th issue of the Club Amiga Monthly (CAM) ishas been released as announced with a one week delay. You have to be registered club member to gain access to the CAM (Club Amiga Magazine). Excerpts from the content:
- Editorial
- AmigaOS 4.0 Update
- AmigaOS 4.0 On Tour
- Report From the Inside
- Game Frenzy
- Backdrops R Us
- ExecSG in Detail: Memory
- Members' Corner
- Letters
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09.Aug.2003
Tom Duin alias Amigaharry (ANF)
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CLI2WB version 1.3 released
CLI2WB has been released in version 1.3. With this tool you can launch a shell comfortably via the Workbench. In the icon tooltypes you can set important preferences like ASL requester, stack or priority. CLI2WB has been developed in 68k assembler code by Tom Duin.
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09.Aug.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MorphOS: version 1.4 released
After finishing the internal beta test is MorphOS 1.4 in the version dated August, 9th from now on downloadable for all registered Pegasos owners in the usual way from the BT2 server. the new features contain among other things:
- optional automatic installation
- JIT compiler "Trance"
- Turboprint integrated
- USB integrated
- Radeon DVI & overlay (except Radeon 8500)
- 3D for Voodoo 3 and 4
- Warp3D emulation
- support for graphics tablet
- setting for icon scaling
- leave out of icons via drag&drop
- individual skins for each screen
- PNG buttons
- auto scroll
- blending
- sound datatypes
- Kaya (MP3/OGG player)
- calculator
- magnifying glass (zoom)
- task manager
- Ambient: panels, lasso function, shortcuts
- dock manager
- new skins and fonts
- skin exchange "on the fly"
- reboot via keyboard
- gradients
- more mprefs
- no connected PS/2 mouse needed on system boot
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09.Aug.2003
Jens Meier (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #048
the scene group Liquid Skies has released their 48th music pack with the title "Nuclear Cars". This time's composer of the 4.02 minutes trance track is Maxus.
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08.Aug.2003
AROS (website)
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AROS status report 08/2003
The developments on the operating system AROS go still as planned. In the last weeks had the following update been done:
- Hardware: Michal Schulz is still working on the PPC port, having
received the Pegasos board donated by Genesi, and more recently a Voodoo3
card donated by Randy Vice.
- Hardware: Johan Grip is implementing the OpenPCI specification, and
also reworking our buggy ide.device, which attempts to write too much
data at once instead of splitting the requests in smaller chunks. However
this is going to be more a rewrite than a bug fix. If someone just wants
to do the bug fix, there is an open bounty (currently 40 USD) for the
ide.device bug at TeamAROS.
- Build system: GCC 3.2 is now the minimum requirement to compile AROS,
which now compiles fine with GCC 3.3, thanks to Stefan Reinauer and
others who fixed the various deprecated bits in the tree.
- Build System: Staf Verhaegen continued to improve and simplify the
build system. Lately, he reorganized the kernel build to use only
objects, no more static or shared libraries.
- Build System: Iain Templeton, one of our South hemisphere developers,
did his fair share on the build system too, especially on the configure
scripts (which now require autoconf 2.53, hopefully a generated configure
is kept in CVS for those missing it) and to ensure that AROS compiles and
runs fine hosted on FreeBSD.
- Build System: Also mawk (which comes as default on Debian GNU/Linux)
will generate incorrect headers while building AROS, but GNU awk (gawk)
and FreeBSD awk work fine.
- i386-pc Installation: John Gustafsson and Adam Chodorowski earned the
first TeamAROS bounty for their "Automated Disk Prep and OS Installer".
It will install AROS on the first disk of the first IDE channel. Don't
try this on a disk with valuable data anywhere on it, you've been warned.
Unfortunately it isn't fully usable yet, due to the ide.device bug: some
files get corrupted during installation.
- i386-pc Installation: As part of this work, new Format and Partition
commands were implemented.
- User Interface: We now have a beautiful About dialog, thanks to Pixel
Art's logo and Adam for the code, as well as an in-progress Mesa port by
Nic Andrews. And before you ask, the beautiful Broken.miho wallpaper is
here.
- User Interface: Adam did major improvements to the workbench and icon
libraries (which handle much of the "under the hood" desktop work), and
also to Wanderer itself. The framework for Wanderer commands is in place,
and there is already the Delete tool implemented.
- User Interface: As a bonus, there is now an identification hook in
icon.library to display proper icons depending on the file type and take
appropriate action on double-click, for files without disk icons.
- User Interface: Sebastian Bauer added arbitrary angled gradients to
Zune images.
- User Interface: David Le Corfec, Adam and especially Fabio Alemagna,
who came up with a multitude of ideas and algorithms, brainstormed on
a "perfectly" MUI-compliant implementation of Zune layout algorithm.
Hopefully the new one seems to do the trick.
- User Interface: The Zune string gadget also got a rework and is now
slightly more usable, the prefs program got a few more pages, and many
Zune classes were put in their own loadable modules.
- User Interface: Georg Steger implemented the Cybergraphics'
WritePixelArrayAlpha() and BltTemplateAlpha(), so we can show even more
eye-candy, with alpha blending this time :) Adam used this to implement a
nice grayed-out disabled effect for Zune gadgets, instead of the usual
grid pattern.
- User Interface: Georg is also porting back the intuition.library from
MorphOS, and still does a lot of impressive bug finding and fixing
elsewhere, which for example led to find and report a longstanding bug
in stipple drawing to the XFree86 project. And when you're faced with a
strange memory corruption, try his invaluable trick : call a check
routine in the scheduler ! This allowed to fix bugs in several Prefs
programs.
- User Interface: But maybe the best for the end ... With
BltTemplateAlpha() to blend the anti-aliased glyphs, and the work from
Staf on freetype2, diskfont and bullet libraries, TrueType fonts now
work - and look - great! It also draws upon the work of many others,
including the MorphOS team (and especially Emmanuel Lesueur) and the
FreeType project. The Bitstream Vera font family is now included in AROS.
- User Interface: Use FTManager to install TrueType fonts in a few
mouse clicks, and enjoy the new Font Prefs program.
- Localizations: We got a Spanish keymap contributed by Albert Astals
Cid, several French catalogs by Olivier Adam and Hungarian catalogs,
language and country files by Mark "Bôregér" Balogh.
- Localizations: The applications localization system has been cleaned
up a bit, and as a side effect, much more applications are now localized.
So if your favorite application has been localized but misses a catalog
for your language, don't hesitate to send it to us!
- TCP/IP: Will be available next week. Nah, just kidding ;-) One of the
most requested features. A couple of people are working part-time on
this, so don't hold your breath. This is a huge task, spanning from
low-level drivers to interface libraries and support applications. It's
currently not the priority for most of the developers. Use another
network appliance in the meantime, or come join us :)
- Softwares in contribution: As usual, some new software or updated
versions were imported in contrib: UAE 0.8.22 (a Zune GUI is planned),
the free DeluxePaint clone 4P 0.09, TCC 0.9.19 (you can now directly
create AROS executables!), GNU tools (make 3.80, diffutils 2.8.1, patch
2.5.4, grep 2.5.1, m4 1.4), abcm2ps 3.7.1, sploiner 1.0
- Miscellaneous: After some benchmarking, BOOPSI method calls were
optimized using macros, and are now about 20% faster.
- Miscellaneous: Roughly 2000 CVS commits since the last status update,
with a record of 1063 in July. Check it there. So obviously this status
update is not exhaustive.
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08.Aug.2003
GIGA (ANF)
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Video of bplan appearance at NBC GIGA
On the PegasosPPC website of Genesi S.à.r.l. you can find a video recording of the appearance of bplan in the TV computer show NBC GIGA on August, 7th 2003. bplan introduced there the possibilities of their PowerPC hardware Pegasos. The 47 MB AVI video is available for download.
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08.Aug.2003
Jörg Lennhof - RetroGames e.V. (ANF)
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Event: 4. Retro stock exchange on 27.9.2003 in the GoTec - Karlsruhe
The first registered association for the preservation of classic video and computer games, RetroGames e.V., and 8bit-Games organize the 4th 8-Bit retro stock exchange this time in Karlsruhe (Germany).
On Saturday in September, 27th 2003 can collectors and interested people from 10 to 16 o'clock in the rooms of the GoTec Kulturhaus buy and sell classisc video games, home computers and collectors pieces.
Additionally, all guests and visitors can visit the arcade and video games exhibition of the RetroGames e.V. association which contains rare collectors pieces out of more than 30 years of video gaming history. The exhibition is unique in Germany. The admission charge is valid for the Retro stock exchange as well as for the exhibition of RetroGames e.V.
More information about the association and about the Retro stock exchange can be found at
http://retrogames.info. Emails can be sent to info@retrogames.info.
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