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`06.May.2003` Pixel Art (E-Mail)	StartMenu: Preview of Pixload Version 3.5 You will find a preview of the start menu Pixload version 3.5 on the Pixel-Art website. If you have any suggestions and/or improvements you can send a mail to pixelart@wanadoo.fr. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 06. May. 2003, 19:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.May.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	'Super Tennis Champs' free for download The former commercial game "Super Tennis Champs" is now with consent of the author Elton Bird free for download. A HD-Installer for "Super Tennis Champs" is available at the Aminet. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 06. May. 2003, 19:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.May.2003` GFX-BASE	GFX-BASE: Review of the Pegasos by Stefan Blixth On GFX-BASE you will find a review of the Pegasos by Stephan Blixth published here. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 06. May. 2003, 15:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.May.2003` ELBOX COMPUTER (E-Mail)	Elbox: Free Shipping with Purchase of Mediator Elbox Computer, manufacturer of hardware and software for Amiga computers, announces free shipping for all Mediator purchases from the Elbox Online Store between 05 - 20 May 2003. For details, see the Special Offer page under the titlelink. (nba) [News message: 06. May. 2003, 14:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.May.2003` A.D.A.	A.D.A.: Breakpoint- and Gathering-Updates Four new demos and intros from the Breakpoint Party 2003 and The Gathering 2003 were added to the demo-online-collection "Amiga Demoscene Archive": Timur Lenk/Spaceballs and Ephidrena. Another corcker from the famous duo Slummy/Spaceballs and Loaderror/Ephidrena. 1st place at Breakpoint 4k intro competition. As always, stunning music, cool effects, good looking. Nothing more to add, just check it out! Highly recommended! Magia/The Black Lotus. Another TBL demo, another winner at Germany's Easter demo party. Check out the credits behind this demo and you know that it will be good. Notably a return from Desktop/CNCD with fab logos, and Blaizer/The Silents on the music. Recommended. Light 2/Iris. What a surprise this was. Iris seem to have decided to leave the oldskool style finally behind them and they surprise with this amazing demo. Utmost respect must go to Dr.Doom who not only coded the whole thing, but pixelled all the graphics work and did a very fine job on that. Music by Tricktrax is cool too. Again, higly recommended. Fake Electronik Lightshow/Ephidrena. 2nd place at The Gathering 2003 in a joined PC demo compo. Nothing much to say here. Download this and see what demomaking is all about. Phat tune, wicked visuals, synchro, energy, ... Extremely highly recommended ;). (nba) [News message: 06. May. 2003, 14:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.May.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #033 The music label "Liquid Skies record" of the Amiga scene published a new music file. This time the release #033 contains a MP3-Tune in the Trance style with the title "Free" by their newest member Ritzu. Made with the Amiga! !NEWS! - Ritzu (in the demo scene member of PicSaintLoup & appendix) joins as a musician - !NEWS! (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 05. May. 2003, 23:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.May.2003` ScummVM Amiga Ports Seite (ANF)	ScummVM 0.4.0 work in progress & new demo ScummVM 0.4.0 will be published with in the next weeks. With ScummVM LucasArts Classic Adventures can be played on new systems. So it is now possible to play games like 'Day of the Tentacle' and 'Sam and Max on the road' on the Amiga and other systems, since there ports for many other systems. The main programmers are currently working on the new version 0.4.0. The following new features are planned: BENEATH A STEEL SKY - Integration (although it does not belong to the LucasArts games, similarly as Simon The Sorcerer 1 & 2) Integration of the old EGA versions of Monkey Iceland, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Loom and Indy3 As soon as the 0.4.0-Port for the Amiga is available, by Adam Waldenberg (WarpScumm), the following will be possible: FULL THROTTLE - VOLLGAS (for the first time completely playable on the Amiga!!) THE DIG (also for the first time completely playable on the Amiga!!) THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND (..for the first time on the Amiga!!) The original Windows versions of the games are needed for ScummVM. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 05. May. 2003, 22:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.May.2003` OpenBSD (Website)	Unix: OpenBSD 3.3 On 1 May 2003 the version 3.3 of the Open Source Unix operating system "OpenBSD" was released. This release contains among other things the following components: XFree86 4.2.1 Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches) Perl 5.8.0 (+ patches) Apache 1.3.27, mod_ssl 2.8.12, DSO support (+ patches) OpenSSL 0.9.7beta3 (+ patches) Groff 1.15 Sendmail 8.12.9 Bind 9.2.2 (+ patches) Lynx 2.8.2rel.1 with HTTPS support added (+ patches) Sudo 1.6.7 Ncurses 5.2 Latest KAME IPv6 KTH Kerberos 1.1.1 Heimdal 0.4e (+ patches) OpenSSH 3.6 OpenBSD supports different systems, among them i386, Mac68k, the Pegasos and 68k-Amigas (in version 3.2). Further information is available at the title link. Information about the Amiga version (of wich the current release will be the last one) can be found at www.openbsd.org/amiga.html. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 05. May. 2003, 15:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.May.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 05.05.2003 Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message: AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 34K+Translate docs or strings from one langu ReCatItPro_SP.lha dev/misc 7K+ReCatIt Pro 1.0 spanish catalog v1.0.0 cfd.lha disk/misc 73K+Use CompactFlash cards in your PCMCIA sl fat95.lha disk/misc 132K+Win95/98 compatible file system SFS.lha disk/misc 210K+Smart Filesystem copyrighted by John Hen nocover110.lha docs/mags 2.1M+Great german diskmagazine PegasosReview.txt docs/rview 10K+A review of the Pegasos PPC computer sys ZoneXplorer.lha gfx/fract 2.9M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-..... imdbDiff030425.lha misc/imdb 2.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase FullMetalPlan.lha mods/misc 189K+Custom module from "Full Metal Planete" Lotus2.lha mods/misc 5K+Custom module from "Full Metal Planete" PurpleSatDay.lha mods/misc 122K+Custom module from "Purple Saturn Day" EP_Protracker.lha mus/play 16K+EaglePlayer "Protracker" external replay EP_PSA.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "Professional Sound Artists" fraphix_001.lha pix/anim 249K+Demo of FraphiX's power (27.01.1997) fraphix_002.lha pix/anim 307K+Demo of FraphiX's power (11.10.1995) fraphix_003.lha pix/anim 209K+Demo of FraphiX's power (23.01.1997) HTMLstrip.lha text/hyper 26K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 05. May. 2003, 14:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.May.2003` Amig@lien (ANF)	Descent: Freespace Server This Sunday Amig@lien are putting a Freespace server on the Web. The IP address as well as possibly necessary information can be obtained in the Amiga Freespace Forum (see title link). Up to four players may connect to the server at any one time. The reason is that unfortunately only one ISDN line is available for this (should the offer prove successful, it might be possible to offer channel bundling on some Sundays). You can play with the patched PC version and of course also with the Amiga version (all versions except demo). (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 04. May. 2003, 19:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.May.2003` AmigaWorld.net (ANF)	Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 8 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 8 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database): 1) IonMane: Some software is now available for DE, yet I had difficulty finding out info on it, or even where to buy it. How do you plan on marketing it, do you plan to get in on shelves in supermarkets/department stores? Fleecy: In discussions with potential partners, we have discovered that they are keen to rebadge and sell it themselves, for example the MS PocketPaks using Amiga Anywhere. They want to do this for several reasons, whether it be to use their existing marketing resources and branding or else to build up their own marketing brand, for example we are working with a company that has a rather unique expansion capability and they want to use Amiga Anyware products to show it off. Due to this, we are having to create a multi thread marketing strategy that promotes Amiga Anyware as a whole without damaging any of the particular marketing threads and opportunities. The power of the underlying AmigaDE technology is that we can create multiple deployment models - cards, players, standalones etc and each one represents a separate marketing domain. To answer your question, we already have one chain in the US (CompUSA) shipping the cards, Microsoft are pushing these cards to other chains and are investigating expansion opportunities. Other potential partners are at various stages but most seem to want to control the marketing. To bring it all together, we will be revising the Amiga Anyware website so that the different deployment types and different pieces of content will have their own separate resources so you will be able to search through the available content, find out in which products it ships and locate their availability. 2) Doobrey: Are there any plans( or even pipedreams) to have an AmigaOne or derivative as an "all on board" system (ie video, sound etc. all on the motherboard) for STB or embedded use? Fleecy: We have several hardware vendors ranging from small to huge who are interested in the AmigaOS on a variety of devices that span the digital device market, all the way upto servers and workstations. Most of these devices already exist as either prototypes or reference designs and the companies involved are looking for an advanced multimedia capable operating system. We are keeping them closely informed as to the progress of AmigaOS4.0 and are already including requirements from them into the specification for AmigaOS4.1 and beyond. 3) ShadesOfGrey: For those of us who've already made that decision, and those of us considering this decision. How does Amiga Inc. plan to entice us back to AmigaOS 4 AND 'AmigaOS 5'? To be a bit more precise, once the die-hard community has been satisfied (or perhaps placated) by the release (or is the proper term is launch) of AmigaOnes and/with AmigaOS 4. Does Amiga Inc. have any formative plans for recapturing the dormant Amiga user and developer community? Fleecy: Obviously we want to sell the AmigaOS into as many markets as possible and I have hinted at how we intend to do this in previous Q&A sessions. I do not want to go into too much detail since competitors are constantly on the lookout for any details of our plans so that they can adopt or stymie them as suits their agenda. 4) Treke: Don't you think that the success of 'mainstream' platforms (I think windoze) is also based on the ease of development (mass development) for them ? Has Amiga plans to make available some RAD tools for Amiga OS 4.x or AmigaOS 5.x ? Fleecy: It is a fact that the success of a platform is down to the amount of content available for it. Whilst the AmigaOS does have a huge backlog of quality content, we need to create new content that takes advantage of the new features of AmigaOS4.0 (and beyond that of AG2). Having a friendly and easy to use development environment set which appeals to all levels of developer, from hobby to commercial is crucial to the growth of the content portfolio and we have plans to attend to this whilst also pushing the development envelope in terms of technologies. 5) IonMane: Could you tell us about SHEEP?What is it, and where does it fit into Amiga Incs. plan? Fleecy: This follows on from Q4. We want a single, simple universal language that can be used to 'talk' to the environment, whether that be an extended shell, scripts, querying or shells. Such a language would sit at the heart of our future environment, making it a more social, more interactive experience that graphical manipulation and projection. 6) IonMane: Just how powerful is the DE player?Is it possible, for example, to write a Office suite with the capabilities of MS office/Open Office? Fleecy: Firstly, the AmigaDE is a technology set for the creation of products. The DE Player was a prototype product that allowed for content portability. Amiga Anyware was our first proper commercial product, allowing for multiple deployment options against a content portfolio. As to how powerful is it? It is as powerful as its host in terms of performance and in terms of capabilities, we are expanding them all the time - enhanced 2D, 3D support, data storage and organisation options. It is more than capable of providing a productivity environment which in reality is a lot less demanding that many of the games being written or already available. We need to add a few more GUI gadgets to make it more productivity friendly but they are in the pipeline. 7) IonMane: If this is possible, is it possible to take this exact program and use it directly on say a Linux, Mac or AmigaOne? (providing the DE player is available for these platforms? Fleecy: That is the point of the AmigaDE and we have already demonstrated this, with the same content runnning on both Linux, Embedded Linux, Symbian, Windows, PocketPC and across Arm, MIPS, SHn, and x86 processors. We just have to make sure that the DE environment is available for the particular deployment HW/SW. 8) horizone: The Commodore 64 got you right into a BASIC interpreter 2 seconds after powerup and the original Amiga included AmigaBasic. I think DOS included a basic too... WindowsXP at least have Paintbrush and a bunch of small games to start having fun with out of the box. How will the newbie AmigaOne owner get started with creative and fun stuff without spending more money on full games and apps right away? Fleecy: What we are intending to do is offer a contributions drawer, where third parties can provide freeware, shareware and either full or limited versions of their commercial products. In this way the user has a good selection of powerful applications with which to experiment right out of the box and the third party developers gain maximum access to the potential customer base for their products. We had talked to developers and users about the very problem you describe and this is the solution that they suggested. 9) ssolie: How does Amiga Inc. influence and control the development path of AmigaOS when you do not have direct control over the source code? For example, Hyperion may add/remove/change features that would be counterproductive to your goals. Fleecy: Far too much has been made of the fact that ownership of the AmigaOS rests with Hyperion at the moment, mostly by those with an interest in encouraging mischief. It was done as a protective measure to ensure that if anything happened to Amiga Inc then the community wouldn't have to put up with another x years of uncertainty. The actual development process itself is already well documented and agreed at the highest levels. I have also mentioned before that AmigaOS4.0 is unique in that it is mostly about moving from old hardware to a new abstract hardware definition whilst the Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) project is about advancing the capabilities of the product as a whole; as such Hyperion, with its expertise in classic hardware, porting and PPC architectures is far more qualified to make that transition than the staff at Amiga Inc. 10) JubalHarshaw: I was wondering what direction the AmigaDE side of things will move in... as far as what markets besides the current one. (forgive me if that's not clear, English isn't my strong point yet :) What I mean is, where is it moving into, and where do you see AmigaDE making the biggest impact? Fleecy: AmigaDE will continue to flesh out its capabilities in response to the demands made on it by its derivative products and the customers of those products. For example, the enthusiastic response to the Gamecard technology, one of the Amiga Anyware deployments is causing us to extend the Quickstart, Autostart and PIPO (Pop In/Pop Out) feature sets. At its heart though, AmigaDE will always be a portable content solution whilst for dedicated products such as desktops and workstations which require a full environment, the AmigaOS will be enhanced and pushed. As far as impact, AmigaDE derivatives will have most impact where a product domain has a heterogeneous profile. So, in a market where content solutions are more important than implementations, such as the embedded market, the ability of the DE to offer the same content across those many different product implementations will be valuable whereas in a product domain where one manufacturer and implementation dominates then it will have less of an impact (although even in this case, the high efficiency of the AmigaDE coupled with the quality of the content makes a compelling case all of its own. Over time, the idea of a multi product matrix will become a very powerful driver for the AmigaDE. A digital home with a mix of devices that ranges from PDAs, Tablets, TVs, Consoles, Laptops, Smartphones, DVD players and even washing machines, air conditioning and automobiles will benefit immensely from something like the AmigaDE, which attempts to create a single, contiguous solution above the various devices. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=9 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 04. May. 2003, 19:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003` Klaus Arnold (ANF)	Tournament: Kick Off 2 WC 2003 in Igersheim on June, 7th 2003 After the great success of the Kick Off 2 World Championship 2002 in Osnabrück, in which 32 contestants participated, it continues on June, 7th 2003. The incumbent world champion organizes the tournament this time in Igersheim, a small town near Würzburg (Germany). There's only a small number of places free and therefore everybody who wants to participate should hurry and register via an entry into the guestbook. P.S. Of course it will be played only with the Amiga version! (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 23:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003` Rüdiger Engel (ANF)	Photos of 4. VFCe in Munich The Vintage Computer Festival Europe, taking place this year for the 4th time and also opening tomorrow, is a real pleasure for fans of old computers from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. I'd had a look at the show today and made some photos that can be found following the title link. There were many computers to be seen and to be used by yourself in all since the early sixties of the last century, from pure calculating machines via the home computers of the eighties to workstations and mainframes by Control Data and Cray Research. The last mentioned ones can only be seen within an excursion about the Projekt Cray-Cyber which is very recommendable. To see a CDC 960 with NOS on it in action is an absoloute highlight! People living near Munich with at least a little interest for working old computers shouldn't miss the VCFe - tomorrow the festival is opened till 17.00 o'clock. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 22:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003` Michael Böhmer (ANF)	Update of E3B website The E3B website has been updated. Among other things has the USB list of supported devices been updated and the photos of ROMulus and ALGOR were replaced by those of the produced cards. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 17:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003` Amiforce (ANF)	Amiforce: new Amiblitz2.32 distribution Today was a new full distribution of Amiblitz2.32 uploaded. In the last distribution had unfortunately been some errors included. Besides, there had been no up-to-date German versions of Amiblitz2 (compiler) and PED (editor) in the archive. Because of these in conveniences was this archive completely removed. The new distribution now contains completely updated German versions, the guide has been enhanced und has been translated completely into German. Furtheron were some errors in the install script fixed. Amiblitz2.32 brings together with bugfixes the following improvements/enhancements: Fixed Gadtools.lib that i.e. removes the limitation to four colors in shape gadgets. MUI is now completely supported thanks to MUI2.res. AHI is now really supported. OpenGL is now via StormMesa possible. Regarding the last point it is important to consider the stack size in the Amiblitz2 icon of at least 300 KB. This must not be lowered in no case if OpenGL shall be used. A GL demo is included in the distribution. Archives Digger95 and Diamantus corrected: The game Digger95 seemed to be transferred incompletely during the upload. This has now been fixed. In the Diamantus archive had been two different versions. This has possibly irritated some users. The older version was removed and only the most up-to-date version remains in the archive. The archives were compressed with LHA level6 unfortunately causing some problems while decompressing with the XAD.library and older versions of LHA. In the future this shall not happen again. In the next days we'll place finally something in the music section again. Had been calm in this area a long time. ;-) (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 17:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003`	Aminet uploads till 03.05.2003 Here the new Aminet uploads since our last message: FlushHeaders.lha comm/news 35K+FlushHeaders for Yam2NN_087 V39.20 Labyzarre.lha game/wb 47K+Find your way to the exit! (Update) CycloScope1.1.lha gfx/misc 30K+Useless artistic math-graphic based prog Alecos-WB-12.jpg pix/wb 142K+Workbench Screenshot 800x600 16 Bit by A Alecos-WB-13.jpg pix/wb 180K+Workbench Screenshot 1024x768 16 Bit by Homer_DataFix3.lha util/misc 2.6M+Latest NewHomer (v1.87) Sample Set (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 16:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003` WHDLoad (website)	Installer: WHDLoad - new packages till 02.05.2003 With WHDLoad you can now install games thought to be disk only on your hard drive. The following packages have been added/updated since our last message: 02.05.03 new: Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge (Zeppelin) done by Bored Seal 02.05.03 improved: Another World (Delphine Software) (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 16:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003` APC&TCP (website)	Disk-Magazine: NoCover 110 released The NoCover #110 was released a few days ago. You can read the magazine online on the APC&TCP website and download it. (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 16:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003` morphos-news.de	Sequencer: port of Barsnpipes for MorphOS According to a message on morphos-news.de is the MIDI sequencer Barsnpipes, once commercial software and nowadays developed as freeware by Alfred Faust, being ported to MorphOS. Read here his notes on the port: "I've just started an attempt to port BarsnPipes to the MorphOS - Pegasos - system. It is near unbelievable how fast this system is. Compiling is done 20 - 30 times faster than on my 68040/40-AMIGA. The loading process of the 500 pics for BarsnPipes at startup is done in 1.5 seconds (!). Because porting to MorphOS is real a hard work, I must terminate the further development on the AMIGA-line for the moment. I don't know if I can port BarsnPipes completely to MorphOS ... but I try it." (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 16:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003`	Magazine: The Crypt #29 Issue #29 of the English online magazine "The Crypt" with the title "Ghosts and Ghouls" was released. Read online following the title link or in the offline version (see below) among other things Amiga news, jokes and further reports. Download: online29.zip (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 16:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2003` #amigascene	TV cards driver: SuperTV beta version 1.0 for Mediator Today has Peter Gordon, former employee of Darkage Software, released the version 1.0 of SuperTV (an alternative to the TV software for the PCI busboard Mediator by Elbox). This version fixes some bugs and offers new features. Features of SuperTV: MUI GUI Channel select gadgets in the TV window border Keyboard control ARexx port Fullscreen borderless mode Pop up menus Easily selectable channel presets Changes since version 0.8: Localisation. Italian and Suomi catalogs included. Double clicking in the TV window toggles fullscreen Optional custom picture settings for each channel Cancel button now actually reverts to the last saved or used settings (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. May. 2003, 16:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003` Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)	AmigaInput-article by Steffen Häuser at Amiga Inc. On the page of Amiga Inc. there is an article which was formerly only meant for the club Amiga-section and which can be now read by everybody. This article was written by Steffen Häuser and is about the new AmigaInput which belongs to the new Amiga OS4. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 19:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003` Henk Jonas (ANF)	MetaView goes Freeware MetaView which is a (not only in the Amiga world) unique convert program for converting cliparts/vector graphics/cad-drawings is now Freeware. On the website of Henk Jonas you can download the program. Additional to the keyfile the archive also contains the source code (in E) of MetaView and the AMFF-libraries. Therefore you may develop the program further. Henk Jonas explicitly allows you to use the source codes for Freeware programs as long as the program will be mentioned. If you want to use the source code commercially it can be given a licence. MetaView supports graphics of the following formats: WMF, HPGL, EPS, AI, DR2D, DSDR, WPG, GEM and CGM. Henk Jonas, Berlin (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 19:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003` Amigalien (ANF)	Amigalien News Update Today on Amig@lien News a new opinion poll has been started. Additionally two programs and a CD-collection were voted as the best programs. A list with current interviews has been also updated. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 19:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003` Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)	Tool: SRename 3.7.0 final version Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the final version 3.7.0 of the tool 'SRename'. With this tool which works from OS3.0 on you can comfortably rename files. In the new version the following features have been added and bugs fixed: New features in this version: Automatic renaming when new filename already exists. "Noautoren" (nar) option has been added to deactivate it. "Noautopsep" (nap), "Noautossep" (nas), "Autopsep" (aup), "Autossep" (aus) options added to control the handling of prefix and suffix separators when prefix and suffix is created or deleted. "Addonly" (ao) secondary argument added to "Prefix", "Main" and "Suffix" selectors. When used it prevents existing components from being modified, and components are added if they don't already exist. Bugfixes: Redirection of filename and comment with "Tofilename" and "Tocomment" can now work in Immediate and Reuse (cached) mode as required by the user, instead of the previous fixed partially cached mode. Several core bugs fixed that prevented proper renaming with certain action and immediate/reuse mode combinations. Parser bug fixed occasionally broke the parsing process if commands with secondary arguments were used. Some memory misallocations fixed. Other changes: Now the usage text is printed if no arguments are given. Download: SRename370.lha (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 19:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003` Merregnon (Website)	Music: New website for Merregnon Finally, Merregnon Studio proudly presents the new website to all of our visitors. Many thanks for the great work go to Roma Nesin, our senior web designer, as well as to Joanna Pilarczyk and Alberto Severeso for the drawings and textures. Merregnon - learn about the background of the development of such an immense product, or take a look at the universe section to read about the characters of our story. There is much to discover, and we hope you will enjoy your stay! Last but not least: always feel free to tell us what you think about our work by clicking on "keeping in touch". (nba) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 15:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003` Dirk Stoecker (E-Mail)	Game: New Klondike-card sets on RekoNet On RekoNet which is a collection of card sets, programs and links for the Klondike game by Reko-Productions new card sets have been added. Thus currently 1127 card sets which are 700 MB in zip-format are available. The news in detail: 4 Carrot-card sets by Allan Rasmussen Cardsets by Foxystoat Dizney- and Buffy-card set by Jennifer Warner 3 card sets by Vegard Krog Petersen further new card sets (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 13:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003` Daniela Lenz (ANF)	Retro magazine with Amiga-section For one year the "Retro Magazin" has been published for all fans of consoles of the 80s. Above all the magazine is about 8-bit and 16-bit consoles and about computer games. From issue 06/03 on there is also an Amiga and Atari-ST section. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 13:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003`	Opinion poll concerning the screen mode Today we have started a new opinion poll asking you which screen mode you use on your monitor. There are the following possibilities to answer: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1152 x 864 1280 x 768 1280 x 1024 1600 x 900 1600 x 1024 1600 x 1200 Other Because it is not possible to choose several answers please choose this screen mode which you use most times. Have fun! (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 10:59] [Comments: 2 - 04. May. 2003, 13:38] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003`	Aminet Updates until 02.05.2003 There are new Aminet uploads: BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 34K+Translate docs or strings from one langu NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.5M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 04/2003 (Itali (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 10:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2003` Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)	Online opinion poll for Amiga Demo-DVD (MindCandy 2) After the first issue of the DVD "MindCandy" which contained two DVDs with historical PS-demos (the demo scene is meant here, not game demos) as pure videos currently the second issue is planned. This second issue is supposed to contain the best Amiga demos. In order to guarantee the best choice an online opinion poll was started. Additional to details of the DVD production it also asked for the best Amiga demos. So if you want to have the demos on your big TV hopefully many people will take part in. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. May. 2003, 10:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2003` Thomas Nosutta (ANF)	New Amithlon Libraries: powerpci.library and lowlevel.library Harald Frank and Guido Mersemann have released new software for Amithlon computers. A new "powerpci.library" version 2.11 (urgently needed for the use of the Spider2 USB) and a new "lowlevel.library" version 41.17 (for the use of PC joypads/joysticks on the sound card gameport). (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. May. 2003, 21:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2003` Brad Webb (E-Mail)	Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #030430 Under the title link you'll find the complete newslette of Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for April 2003. In his English language Newsletter, Brad Webb summarizes each month all the new developments on the theme Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. May. 2003, 14:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2003` Rafal Kaczmarczyk (E-Mail)	Database: XBaze Website Moved The website of the databank 'XBase' by Rafal Kaczmarczyk has moved and is now reachable at the URL http://www.xbaze.prv.pl. The current version of 'XBaze' is the 7.3 Beta 8. The program offers an easy-to-use editor for the data-fields and layout (Drag&Drop). It runs on AmigaOS V3.0 and now also on MorphOS. Bugreports and suggestions may be sent to the following address: xbaze@amiga.pl. Download: XB-7.3B8.lzx (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. May. 2003, 14:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2003` Jochen Abitz (ANF)	Mac-TV Offers Retro Weekend GRAND RETRO WEEKEND This Saturday and Sunday on Mac-TV.de. Great program on Sunday at 9 PM! The boldly cool nerds with their flying cases: Apple, Commodore, NeXT, Atari, Amiga, PCs! (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. May. 2003, 11:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2003` Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)	Issue 4 of Club Amiga Magazine from Amiga Inc. Appears The monthly Club Amiga magazine has appeared in its issue #4 (May). There's an article from Olaf Barthel in there about the Amiga Fast File System, and a new status report of AmigaOS 4, and a few other interesting articles. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. May. 2003, 11:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2003`	Aminet Updates through 1st May, 2003 Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last report: smoother.lha game/gag 9K+Small joke program to "smoothen" your mo ahiusr.lha mus/misc 352K+Retargetable audio v5.5, User's Archive SteBaseConv.lha util/conv 36K+Numeric base converter ITA-ENG + source (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 01. May. 2003, 11:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Apr.2003` Amiga Future (E-Mail)	Amiga Future: Interview with Samuel Rydh (Mac-on-Linux) At the Amiga Future homepage there has been a German interview with Samuel Rydh published at the article area. "Mac-on-Linux" (short "MOL") is discussed hotly within the Amiga community since some months, does it enable the use of MacOS incl. MacOS X at the AmigaOne and the Pegasos. Anton Preinsack has talked to Samuel Rydh, the main developer of MOL. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 30. Apr. 2003, 14:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Apr.2003` Jabberwocky (Website)	Instant messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 Tom Parker and Matthias Münch have released the version 1.4 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for a direct message exchange. A connect with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is possible by using gateways. Download: Jabberwocky030429.lha Changes within this version: http.c - Added Content-Type and Filesize to Transfer Header and eliminated null character in the Header. File transfers using WEB Browser now work. Apr 5, 2003 transfer.c - Eliminated superflous gadgets from File Transfer window to reduce user confusion. Apr 6, 2003 userinfo.c - Added seperate update procedure for Transports to avoid double roster entries. Apr 15, 2003 (Bug ID 584725) roster.c - Replaced double contact removal with seperate removals for Users and Transports. Eliminated subscribing to Transports to avoid double roster entries. Transports are supposed to be registered and not subscribed anyway. Apr 16, 2003 agents.c - Added line to clear agents list when connecting. Eliminates multiple agents lists when disconnecting and reconnecting. Apr 20, 2003 (Bug ID 550881) presence.c - Eliminated duplicate subscription requests when disconnecting and reconnecting. Eliminated enforcer hit that occurred if the Subscription Window "Accept" or "Reject" buttons were clicked after the last subscription request was removed. Apr 21, 2003 (Bug ID 554328) roster.c - Added functions to close any open user windows before removing a contact. Also added error_pix to the roster dispose function. Apr 24, 2003 (Bug ID 549722) roster.c - Added functions to close all open user windows before disconnecting. Fixes enforcer hits that occur if you disconnect, reconnect and attempt to use windows that remained open. Apr 25, 2003 Note - The changes I made in roster.c and userinfo.c clear up the enforcer hits that are present in the current prerelease of v 1.4. It doesn't fix the source of the problem though. I think the hits are actually originating in the iksemel library when some unexpected or unusual XML is received. Something may have to be changed there eventually. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 30. Apr. 2003, 14:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Apr.2003` Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)	Audio track "Call to Ancestors" by Bjorn Lynne online Bjorn Lynne writes: "First of all, many many thanks to those of of you who already bought the new CD "Power Liquids", which I released about two weeks ago. This is an album of trance / electronica that I made toghether with my friends in Aural Planet, and it has been extremely well received so far. Thanks again to those of you who have given your support so far, by ordering the CD. Due to popular demand (!) I have now made one full-length track from the album available to hear online at http://www.mp3.com/bjornlynne. It's the first mp3 track there. This is in addition to the short mp3 clips from ALL the songs on the CD, which you can still hear at: http://www.lynnemusic.com/powerliquids.html While you are at my mp3 page, please give all my other tracks a play as well, as it may help them to get higher in the mp3.com charts and make more people "discover" my music through the mp3.com site. Thank you! And for those of you who have still not discovered the new album: "Power Liquids", you can read all about it (or even order it) here: http://www.lynnemusic.com/powerliquids.html. Your order (should you place one!) will be shipped out within 24 hours by me, personally." (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 30. Apr. 2003, 14:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Apr.2003` Martin Heine (E-Mail)	Pegasos: Summary of all the things regarding the Articia Within a comment at OSNews.com Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck sum up all the mess regarding the Articia chip and confirm the use of the Marvell-Northbridge for the Pegasos II. The support by Marvell and their interest for the Pegasos II is said to be very high. The Articia-S versions were specified. The northbridges used for the Pegasos I are said to be Articia S #A660BNGP, these were not produced any longer. For testing purpose some of the new Articia S #A660BNGE were purchased. The specs for the G4 cards (July) and the Pegasos II (September) were confirmed within the comment. Furthermore links to BeOS pages are listed which cover Genesi's attendance at the BeGeistert show: BeGroovy, BeForever and LeBuzz. Again the Pegasos II will be offered for a reduced price to the Phoenix members after the demand for the Pegasos I has not been feeded completely. Finally they tell that Eugenia Loli-Queru, chief editor of OSNews, received a Pegasos so that there will be a report by her soon. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 30. Apr. 2003, 14:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Apr.2003` WHDLoad (Website)	Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 04-29-2003 With WHDLoad you can install games to the hard disk which were aimed for floppy disk use only. The following packages were added or improved since the last release: 29.04.03 improved: Defender of the Crown (Cinemaware) memory config changed 29.04.03 improved: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) misc changes 29.04.03 improved: Body Blows Galactic (Team 17) complete rework 29.04.03 improved: Strip Poker 2+ (Anco) supports another version and data disk 29.04.03 new: Simon The Sorcerer (Adventure Soft) done by Psygore 25.04.03 new: Combo Racer (Gremlin) done by Psygore 22.04.03 new: Shock Wave (Lightsource Productions/Digital Magic) done by Galahad 21.04.03 New WHDLoad V15.2, minor fixes and changes (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 30. Apr. 2003, 13:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Apr.2003` AND Software (Website)	Context menu: ContextSAS V1.72 and ContextPrefs V1.34 The programm ContextSAS by Andre Dörffler provides the possibility to create and use context sensitive menus for AmigaOS3.5+. The DefIcons system is supported. With some additional tools it is possible to iconify Workbench windows and to create system links. Since yesterday the version 1.72 of ContextSAS and version 1.34 of ContextPrefs is provided for download. This time mostly bugs were wiped out and the look was polished. Some new features wee added: AutoSelect: Selects icons at the WBDesktop automatically. Title: Shows the object name as title. Prefeences: The internal menus can be configured now. Downloadbereich (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 30. Apr. 2003, 12:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Apr.2003`	Bill McEwen, President/CEO of Amiga, Inc., to attend AmiWest 2003 Amiga, Inc. announces that Bill McEwen the CEO of Amiga, Inc. will once again attend AmiWest. McEwen: "There is a great deal of activity going on at Amiga, and I am looking forward to sharing it all with you. We have kept ourselves focused and stayed the course toward success. I look forward to seeing all of you again in Sacramento." (nba) [News message: 30. Apr. 2003, 01:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Apr.2003` Patrick Henz (E-Mail)	Digital Album "Brasil" Version 2.6 The Digital Album "Brasil" is a huge collection which shows the most interesting and beautiful places of Brasil. It includes more than 530 photos. It can be used on all computer platforms and beside that on many DVD-Players, which feature the Kodak PictureCD-(JPG)-format. Content: Bahia / Bahia ... 009 Bahia / Salvaor ... 051 District Federal / Brasilia ... 057 Minas Gerais / Minas Gerais ... 006 Minas Gerais / Pirenopolis ... 002 Minas Gerais / Sao Joao del Rei ... 021 Minas Gerais / Tiradentes .... 015 Rio de Janeiro / Arraial do Cabo ... 019 Rio de Janeiro / Buzios ... 010 Rio de Janeiro / Cabo Frio ... 005 Rio de Janeiro / Niteroi ... 005 Rio de Janeiro / Petropolis ... 025 Rio de Janeiro / Rio de Janeiro ... 220 Rio de Janeiro / Saquarema ... 024 Rio Grande do Sul / Porto Alegre ... 066 Beside the photo archive the CD-ROM includes Brazilian background themes for Amiga and Windows (with sound), two audio tracks (Samba de Smurfet, Verao), the digital postcard system to send postcards over the Internet and a webpage with interesting links to the different places. Price: 8 Euro. (nba) [News message: 29. Apr. 2003, 21:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Apr.2003` Chris Seward (ANF)	Magazine: Amiga Information Online to close... In what will be exactly six years in the making of the long running and popular magazine Amiga Information Online will see it finally cease publication. We would like to thank the Amiga community for their continued support. Please feel free to email your goodbye commets to goodbye@aioworld.com or use the form on our website www.aioworld.com. The May 2003 due for release at the end of May will be our last. (ps) [News message: 29. Apr. 2003, 20:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Apr.2003` HSC (Website)	HTML-Tool: HSC Version 0.930 The HTML preprocessor "HTML Sucks Completly" (HSC) (origin from Thomas Aglassinger) was released in version 0.930 from Matthias Bethke. The source code can be compiled onto all supported platforms; tested are Linux, HP/UX 10.20, and AmigaOS. A documentation in HTML is online available. The download file contains also the latest prefs- and macrofiles. The version 0.930 contains some minor bugfixes. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 29. Apr. 2003, 16:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Apr.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 29.04.2003 Here are the latest uploads for the Aminet: TGest2DEMO.lha biz/demo 475K+V2.2.0 TurboGest (PACHETTO GESTIONALE IT Babelfish.lha comm/irc 3K+Use babelfish from AmIRC/Shell UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 554K+UnrealIRCd 3.1.5.1 ported to AmigaOS amifish.lha comm/tcp 27K+Quick And Easy interface for babelfish OpenURLDevBas.lha dev/basic 43K+Using OpenURL library from HBasic EasyACDDA.lha disk/cdrom 335K+Play&Save CD tracks with Gui - EasyACDDA CyberGFX4-ITA.lha gfx/board 10K+Italian Catalog for CyberGraphX 4 (4.3) imdbDiff030418.lha misc/imdb 2.6M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase Carta-Go.mpg mods/mpg 6.0M+Trance-MP3 (6:28 min) by BiT-X NewHomer.lha util/misc 112K+Talkin' Homer V1.87 (latest bugs fixed, EBGuide.lha util/rexx 3K+(REACTION GUI) Australian TV Guide progr Ghosty.lha util/wb 27K+NEW! Transparent default icons on hi/tru (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 29. Apr. 2003, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Apr.2003` OSNews.com	Port of NewOS for Pegasos As stated by Nicholas Blachford, member of Genesi and former BeOS developer, in the online magazine OSNews.com the BeOS based Open Source operating system NewOS will be available for Pegasos. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 29. Apr. 2003, 14:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2003` Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)	Music: New amiga-news.de theme by Psyria On the occasion of the MesseCD by Andreas Laaser of Elastic Images and because of an interview of Petra Struck Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr published a new amiga-news.de theme 2003. The excellent result can be downloaded now: AmigaNewsTheme2003.mp3 Dennis, thanks a lot for this incredible Song! (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 28. Apr. 2003, 21:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2003` CUCUG (Website)	CUCUG: Status Register 04/2003 The CUCUG status register of April 2003 published. In the status register the club reports regularly about their own meetings and about Amiga, Linux, Macintosh and PC. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 28. Apr. 2003, 18:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2003` Ron van Schaik	Report of the 19th April C= show Hello C= fans! You can find some pics of the last show at our website. On this page you see Thomas Margolf with his SIDsyn and Arndt Oevermann who's working at the demo show. On this page you can see the stereo C64 from Dirk Kledtke. This was a great success and the sound of this machine was unbelievable! Also there's an English report of the show. The next show we will organize is at June 28! This is a change of date because of some accomodation problems. As extra we organize than an Amiga Party! We want every Amiga freak to join us at this party! Look here for more information. Look here for latest news and new at our homepage is a boulderdash page and a Dutch software page where we wanna archive all Dutch C64 software. Both pages are under construction and will be soon 100% active. Greetings Ron van Schaik (ps) [News message: 28. Apr. 2003, 18:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2003` IOSPIRIT (ANF)	IOSPIRIT: Server moves on 29th of April Our server hardware moves on the 28th of April to another part of the same computer center. Also, we'll get new IP-addresses and thus our website and email may be temporarily unavailable, although we'll of course try to keep the downtime to a minimum. Thanks for your understanding! (nba) [News message: 28. Apr. 2003, 16:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2003` Amiga XFR (Website)	Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.3 available Who does not know XFD and XAD by Dirk Stoecker and the Exoticripper or Eagleplayer. XFR is a similar system, which combines the best from all for the purpose of finding music pieces and pictures in demos. XFR offers a LIBRARY and many Clients for the individual sound formats. A genius for the Delitracker and the Eagleplayer and a few Shell/WB Tools, with which one knows whole listings and disks scanning in the hand turning, also participate. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 28. Apr. 2003, 14:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2003` Amifish (Website)	Translation Tool for Babelfish: Amifish of 25.04.2003 Amifish is a small tool, which helps you to translate texts with Babelfish. Since the some routines of Babelfish were changed, there is a new version of Amifish available. Besides the program the following is needed: amarquee.library V54, MUI 3.8, betterstring.mcc, nlist.mcc and busy.mcc. Download: amifish.lha (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 28. Apr. 2003, 14:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2003` Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)	Demoscene: Jurassic Pack#12 Shortly after the end of the BREAKPOINT 2003 party issue no. 12 of the Amiga demoscene diskmags Jurassic Pack was released. You can find the mag as well as some pictures of the party under the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 28. Apr. 2003, 10:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 28.04.2003 Following the Aminet uploads which were added since our last message: dvbcontrol.lha comm/misc 187K+V1.33 D-Box/Mediamaster Settings Editor facts.lha comm/tcp 201K+NTP clock time synchroniser AutoDST/GUI YAM24.lha comm/yam 944K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (Main archive) YAM24con.lha comm/yam 648K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (Contributions) YAM24cpu.lha comm/yam 80K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (68040/68060) YAM24loc.lha comm/yam 957K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (Translations) YAM24mos.lha comm/yam 366K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (MorphOS) frsh_strptease.lha demo/aga 294K+Striptease by Fresh in 1997 tbl-magia.lha demo/aga 4.9M+"Magia" The winner demo from Break Point gen4asm.lha dev/asm 182K+Generation4 Sources Disk blitzgtfix.lha dev/basic 89K+Blitz2 fix for many Gadtools problems IdentifyDevBas.lha dev/basic 58K+Using Identify library from Basic insomnia.lha dev/e 89K+E Source Editor WHDLoad_dev.lha dev/misc 870K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer WHDLoad_usr.lha dev/misc 295K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer check4gb.lha disk/misc 16K+Check if your HD setup is 4GB-ready Scalos_PL.lha docs/help 22K+Polish locale for Scalos 40.27 AIOV70.lha docs/mags 410K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 70 (Apri bouldercaves.lha game/jump 472K+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 920K+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive bouldergraph.lha game/jump 196K+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Graphics Archive bouldersound.lha game/jump 184K+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Sound Archive WHDIDemos.lzh game/patch 3.4M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGames0-9.lzh game/patch 278K+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesA-B.lzh game/patch 5.4M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesC-D.lzh game/patch 5.1M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesE-F.lzh game/patch 2.8M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesG-I.lzh game/patch 3.7M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesJ-M.lzh game/patch 4.7M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesN-R.lzh game/patch 5.3M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesS-T.lzh game/patch 6.0M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesU-Z.lzh game/patch 2.9M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIMags.lzh game/patch 203K+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad wipes.lha gfx/ifx 9K+Wipe/Transition Arexx Script v0.8 for IF Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 557K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 1/8 Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 155K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 2/8 Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 3a/8 Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 326K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 3b/8 Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 4/8 Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 143K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 5/8 Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 6/8 (opt Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 7/8 (opt newkernel2.lha hard/drivr 1.0M+GNU/GPL updated kernel for AMIthlon Carta-Go.mpg mods/mpg 6.0M+Trance-MP3 (6:28 min) by BiT-X dream_of_art.lha pix/trace 976K+3rd in Raytrace compo at Equinoxe Party le_chien.lha pix/trace 515K+1st in Raytrace compo at Equinoxe Party the_blue_buggy.lha pix/trace 936K+2nd in Raytrace compo at Equinoxe Party petcom.lha text/misc 6K+ASCII <-> PETSCII converter RemTVModes.lha util/boot 6K+Remove 15KHz modes from display database zlib-library.lha util/libs 145K+Shared library for zlib-(de)compression afind.lha util/misc 175K+V1.63 Fast AminetCD search utility Frogger-GUI.lha util/misc 25K+Reaction GUI for FroggerNG FroggerNG_GUI.lha util/misc 34K+Control Panel for FroggerNG NewHomer.lha util/misc 106K+Talkin' Homer V1.86 (one bug fixed, + a WRip_26.lha util/misc 34K+Rips various pack-formats from Disk/File backclock.lha util/time 130K+Transparent clock. You must try this !!! backclock_src.lha util/time 15K+Source code from backclock (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 28. Apr. 2003, 00:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Apr.2003` AWeb (Website)	AWeb 3.4 GPL released in new archive and for MorphOS AWeb, a cost free Open Source based Web browser, is available in version 3.4 GPL in a new archive: Apart from the executable main program, the package also contains the plug-ins, transfer animations, icon sets and installer. Versions available for 68020, 68030, 68040, 68060 and as from now also for MorphOS. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 27. Apr. 2003, 21:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Apr.2003` Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)	File manager: DiskMaster Version 2.5RC10 Rudolph Riedel has released version 2.5RC10 of his file manager and provides it on his home page for downloading. The following details have changed: Made fit for paths longer than 256 characters as will be supported in AmigaOS 4.0 and (allegedly) are already supported in MorphOS Fixed various bugs New command line interpreter from RC3 release integrated again, only this time a little better-adjusted... Configuration format changed slightly and expanded internal configuration to improve accessability for new users Details as usual in the DM2beta.readme... Download (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 27. Apr. 2003, 21:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Apr.2003` CD32-Allianz (ANF)	Wanted urgently: Web designer for CD32-Allianz The CD32-Allianz team is urgently looking for a Web designer, who wants to help designing a new layout consisting of 4 frames. Further information can be obtained from Thorsten Schölzel. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 27. Apr. 2003, 19:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Apr.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Bill McEwen still Amiga CEO? According to statements by Ray A. Akey of Amiga Inc. and Fleecy Moss, Bill McEwen is still CEO of Amiga Inc. Yesterday Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have circulated in a news item at MorphOS-News.de that Gary Hare was CEO of Amiga Inc., with whom talks had already been held (we reported). Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco stand by their statement, see the following comments at morphos-news.de, ANN and again ANN. Carsten Schröder paraphrases this nebulous situation to the point: "The state of the news is becoming more and more nebulous: In the meantime Fleecy Moss and Ray A. Akey, members of AMIGA, Inc.'s management, have denied a change at the top management level. Bill McEwen, however, hasn't piped up yet, while Genesi again confirmed the change and are currently trying to get in touch with Gary Hare. Conclusion: There have been various bankruptcies and corporate acquisitions of the AMIGA mother company in the past - but I personally can't remember a situation where there was uncertainty about the current principal of the company. At the moment I'm regarding two scenarios explaining this situation as the most probable ones: Scenario 1: The shareholders of AMIGA, Inc. have decided to exchange the management but not informed them (or some of them), while the designated CEO has already had talks with Genesi. Scenario 2: Genesi have been had. I'm regarding a deliberate false report improbable as this would do much damage to the company's reputation." Here the statement of Amiga Inc's Ray A. Akey: "Bill McEwen is currently the CEO of Amiga and the fact that there is no PR to the contrary about this on our website means that there is no news. Anyone describing the appointment of a new CEO as "old news" is obviously posting information for their own motives and reasons since "old news" requires it to be "new news" before it can be "old news" and since Amiga Inc hasn't posted such "new news" then the motives of the person describing it as "old news" while simultaneously putting this new news into the world have to be questioned." Here the statement of Fleecy Moss: "Has Amiga Inc changed CEO?" Fleecy Moss: As of this moment Bill McEwen is the CEO of Amiga and if a new CEO was to be brought in, it would be because of Amiga expanding as a company and Bill needing to concentrate on being Chairman and President - currently he is CEO as well and three top jobs in a company that is attracting the attention we are is at least one job too many. Any CEO to be brought in would be as part of the team and would be totally in sync with the current strategic direction of the company. If someone is posting information to the contrary then it can only be for ulterior motives. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 27. Apr. 2003, 19:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2003`	Official release from YAM v2.4 DESCRIPTION YAM (Yet Another Mailer) lets you send and receive electronic mail over the Internet and maintain archives of messages in your computer. The idea came to Marcel Beck in 1995 when he first tried using email: the programmes available at the time were either powerful but complicated to configure, or else used a too limiting graphical interface. The goal, therefore, was to program a cross between AdMail and AirMail, with a few ideas from Pegasus Mail. YAM made its first public appearance in early 1996 under the "mailware" concept. The unexpectedly enthusiastic response from the public led to a steady development of YAM that reached its finest hour in version 1.3.5, the last incarnation in the "classic" series. By then, YAM had turned into one of the most popular Amiga programmes ever, and won Marcel the appreciation and several awards from the Amiga community thanks to its simplicity and ease of use. Unwilling to stop at that point, Marcel spent almost two years developing YAM2. In the summer of 1999, a greatly improved YAM set some of the standards that would be lately imitated by other popular Internet applications. In November 2000, Marcel finally gave up out of lack of time and motivation, but was yet kind enough to release the "final" YAM 2.2 together with its sources under the GNU General Public License. On this day and age, Marcel Beck is still fondly remembered by many as one of a selected few who made a difference on the Amiga. Today, after YAM 2.3 and 2.3p1 fixed some of the most outstanding problems in the original sources and almost 18 months of hard work have been spent, the YAM Open Source team is proud to make the legend continue with YAM 2.4, the most powerful Amiga mailer to date. NEW FEATURES Hierarchical folder list - folders can now be arranged into groups, and nested at the user's discretion SMTP & POP3 TLS1/SSL3 support for stunnel servers, using AmiSSL.library Email address cache, making it possible to "remember" the last N used recipients if they don't appear in the address book More powerful recipient string gadgets, resolving aliases, real names and email addresses "on the fly" as they are found in the address book or the email cache Optional pop-up menus in the folder & message lists Automatic codepage detection and translation, specially meant for cyrillic users. Reworked status bar Automatically finds the suitable mailing list support settings Extended support for mailto: links Search function in the Write window Customizable size format and localized unit display Individual appicon stats for folders, with an user-definable label New hidden option "JumpToIncoming" Deleting a block of text with RAmiga-Del automatically inserts a "[...]" marker Built-in mouse wheel support New "marked" status "application/pdf" is now in the built-in list of MIME types Extended documentation SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AmigaOS V39+, MC68020+, MUI3.8+ and the latest BetterString, NList, NListtree, TextEditor & Toolbar classes (included) AVAILABILITY YAM 2.4 is now available for download at the YAMOS homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/yamos/ DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/comm/mail (hopefully soon comm/yam :-) FILE NAMES YAM24.lha - Main archive - basic 020 binary and English guide YAM24cpu.lha - Diffs for 040/060 processors and the GPatch utility YAM24loc.lha - Foreign language support files: catalogs & guides YAM24con.lha - Additional graphics, ARexx scripts, etc. YAM24mos.lha - MorphOS binary, includes starter OTHER YAM homepage http://www.yam.ch/ Mailing list http://www.freelists.org/list/yam To subscribe: mailto:yam-request@freelists.org?Subject=SUBSCRIBE CVS repository http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13560 DISTRIBUTABILITY Free software, distributed under the General Public License ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Kudos to Brian for bringing c.s.a.a. back to life! (nba) [News message: 26. Apr. 2003, 17:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Genesi wants to attend at AmiWest show Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco today announced that Genesi wants to attend at the AmiWest show, held in Sacramento, CA on July 26th and 27th 2003. Genesi wants to present the new G4 CPU card for the Pegasos1, the new software bundle and maybe also a prototype of the Pegasos2 motherboard and of course MorphOS. Bill and Raquel also confirmed that they have spoken with Amiga Inc's new CEO Garry Hare a couple of weeks ago. (nba) [News message: 26. Apr. 2003, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2003` Pixel Art (E-Mail)	Pixload v3.5 in preparation I'am preparing Pixload 3.5 more options about drag and drop (TIFF, TARGA and DIR recognized) links with miamidx (RTC and/or Network) : miamidx control panel included optimized code another icons (mac os x) more interactivity etc... I need beta tester: if you want to try: send an email to pixelart@wanadoo.Fr (English language) with object: Pixload 3.5 tester. If German amiga users want translation, send me few words (English -> German) so that I include in this version. If you have got any ideas, sent them too, I will try to include too... x (nba) [News message: 26. Apr. 2003, 16:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 7 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 7 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database): 1) ikir: Are Elbox working with Amiga Inc/Hyperion for OS4? Or for their SharkPPC compatibility? Fleecy: We have a 'gentlemens agreement' with Elbox that we will not make any announcements or discuss plans, projects and products until they are ready to make those plans, projects and products public. If you want them to share that information, I would suggest you contact them. 2) sgm: Is the corporate market a possible target (in the light of the surging WebServices fever)? If so, is a high-performance XML parser being considered for OS4.x? Fleecy: All markets are obviously targets but there is no point in entering them until you have a product, a pitch and a story. The creation of such obviously requires an expenditure of resources and since we are, as with most companies 'watching the pennies', we have to decide which subset from the whole range of opportunities is to be targeted first. If by corporate you mean 'enterprise' then that is not a first stage target but if you mean OEM or embedded then the answer is very much yes. As for the XML parser, XML has been introduced with AmigaOS4.0 and will continue to spread until it is a system wide service. 3) Jose: It's been said and known that if AmigaOS is to be a server OS it will lose it's hardly earned advantages, and stop being AmigaOS as we know it. Could in the future be various versions of the OS with one being the continuation of the Classic in PPC, like most amiga users that have supported the platform for the past years seem to want? Fleecy: AG1 was created with a very specific set of configurations in mind - workstation and desktop. Consoles, STBs and servers didn't really exist during its key definition and the idea of Smartphones, PDAs and digital consumer devices were science fiction. Having said that, the CDTV and then the CD32 were moves in the right direction but as anyone familiar with those devices knows, there were really a computer repackaged with extra bits hacked on. AG2 is designed to accept that hardware is a commodity and that it can be configured and deployed in many different markets. This is part of the reason for the move to a service based architecture, because multiple configurations can then be created from a core set of services with configuration specific services being added or replaced by ones more tuned to the target device profile. This will allow Amiga to offer a 'toolkit' to OEMs and to create 'distributions' for shrink wrapped markets - a console product, an eFamily product, a SoHo product, a hacker's product etc. Such flexibility gives us a distinctive advantage over having to custom chop a single product for each potential customer. Rob: 4) Books on programming the Amiga are out of date and very difficult to obtain these days. Have you any plans to get some books published covering modern Amiga programming for the beginner. It is important to get some fresh talent into scene and not just rely on existing developers. Topics covered should include Warp3D, AHI and other more recent developements to AmigaOS. Fleecy: I couldn't agree more. We intend to expend considerable resources on a full development toolchain, with good documentation and tutorials covering all levels. These will be developed in parallel with the development of the AG2 domains. 5) ssolie: Does Amiga Inc. still plan to take back control of the AmigaOS 4.0 source code (i.e. purchase it back from Hyperion) and produce your own releases beyond AmigaOS 4.0? Fleecy: Absolutely. The transfer of AmigaOS4 to Hyperion was done for a number of strategic reasons, one being to protect the AmigaOS for the community and prevent it being left in limbo if anything should happen to the parent company as was witnessed after Commodore and Escom went bankrupt. We will reassert ownership when both Hyperion and Amiga judge the time to be right, and there are certain less than obvious benefits to maintaing the current situation. The location of ownership has nothing to do with the future plans. Amiga Inc is fully committed to the development and expansion of AmigaOS way beyond AmigaOS4.0. Detailed planning and design for AmigaOS4.1 is already underway alongside the parallel path of AG2. AG2 technology will be rolled into the AmigaOS4 release family as and when it is ready but the two will not be dependent on each other - in other words potential delays in one will not affect the other. Contrary to the occasional speculation that Amiga doesn't care or has no plans for the AmigaOS, that product line is and always has been vital to our future success. Back in 1999, it would have been impossible to gain interest and investment in a company offering a desktop competitor to Microsoft and so our public strategy had to be tailored to fit that reality. It isn't 1999 anymore. 6) DaveP: With the advent of AOS4 and AmigaONE series board are you also investigating the more lucrative possibilities in the heavyweight commercial sector or is it still far too soon to start? ( example: solutions, services and bringing even lightweight transaction processing products onto the fast reliable messaging codebase of ExecSG ?) Fleecy: The Amiga Development Pipeline (ADP) starts with the Opportunity Analysis stage. Each AG2 domain thus considers every possible opportunity and attempts to identify every potential customer for that domain, both internal and external. This is then feed into the next stage, the Solution Description stage. This ensures that we will design a solution that covers as wide a customer base as possible, even though the actual implementation versioning may chose to spread out that complete design over a set of releases. So to answer your question, yes we are looking at a huge range of potential markets, open, embedded, horizontal, vertical and total but our ability to exploit them is determined by the short, medium and long term strategic implementation plan. 7) alx: Will there come a point when you stop supporting accelerated "classic" Amigas? If so, when? Fleecy: Yes there will. As to when, that will be decided by the simple equation of when the cost and effort of developing a version for those accelerated Amigas is more than the revenue that that version brings in. We want people to upgrade to the new hardware and we do recognise that we have to support the existing investment made by Amigans in the short term but ultimately the platform can only advance if people advance with it. It should be obvious to most people that AmigaOS4 is going to run far more impressively on a new, cleanly designed, higher specified AmigaOne than an accelerated classic Amiga. It should also be obvious that the cost of maintaining and extending an AmigaOne is going to be substantially less than that of maintaining and extending a classic Amiga. 8) donV: Do you know of any plan or project to produce a laptop that will run AmigaOS4? Fleecy: There are lots of plans for many different product, both from ourselves and from third parties but I do not want to comment on specific products until we have prototypes in front of us since many plans and good intentions often come to nothing. We'd obviously love to have an AmigaOS4.0 powered laptop as well as an AmigaOS4.0 powered STB, games console, PDA and Smartphone. 9) Bodie: In a previous Q&A, you mentioned the development of a highly advanced calculator for AmigaDE. Could you provide any extra details in terms of its functionality? Fleecy: The calculator was created by a prominent AmigaDE developer in response to a demand from a large customer and I'll see if he is willing to write an article about it, possibly for CAM. It is particularly impressive because of its modular design, essentially a framework for functional units so it can be as simple or as complex as the set of modules that are installed. This means it can be used for a variety of functions - standard maths, computing, physics, chemistry, stock taking and with the ability for third parties to write their own modules. It also features a variety of graphic and interface modes - static and dynamic graphing (and I know we have a customer interested in volumetric modelling), standard single line, multi-line and plans for a shell like page set. 10) Jose: Can a service based architecture(future AmigaOS) be as much effective as the Classic AmigaOS, comparing the services both provide? I mean to how much extent does a service based architecture would compromise the efficiency and the character of AmigaOS, if it does at all ? Fleecy: A service based model is very efficient and not that much different at its heart from what the existing Amiga does now, a testament to its advanced original design. Its main extension is that it adds abstraction and management capabilities that open up distributed computing, all the way from simple home networks to parallel matrices. For developers there will be some new things to learn but quite a bit of that has been added to the new library model. The existing user interaction model can stay the same on top of it but it also opens up the option of far more advanced user interaction models, in particular moving from an application centric system to a content centric system - for example bring a set of content together and then being presented with the set of services that can be applied to that content. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=8 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. 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`25.Apr.2003` Rupert Hausberger (ANF)	Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 v0.950 Pre-Final Rupert Hausberger has published version 0.950 Pre-Final of his benchmark-tool for AmigaOS and MorphOS. Please read the changes from version 0.930 to version 0.950: ADDED Database - now allows direct upload/download from the module-server. Added new page in "module base". Changed all things to make new system working. ADDED TCPIP-support ADDED HTTP-support [for downloading] ADDED SMPT-support [for uploading] ADDED BYTEmark [tm] v2.0 benchmark [experimental - 68k version seemes to slow] ADDED NSD-64bit access-mode for device stuff [uncalibrated] ADDED "new-logo" system - via 24bit workbench datatype ADDED own requester window ADDED own popup window ADDED "loopsize" and "passes" output to mem-/drv-benchmark windows ADDED check whether 'amigamark.def' is valid with current build ADDED check whether 'amigamark.cfg' is valid with current build ADDED included all neccessary string.h functions - [no libc] ADDED new tooltype QUICKSTART [=TRUE/FALSE] [WB only] ADDED do "chip ram tests" in "make module" ADDED some missing MUIA_Help popups CHANGED AvailMem() function to own one CHANGED some small things in the GUI CHANGED regonization of valid installation [more fast & less memory need] CHANDED retuned maximal values FIXED some stuff in the GUI REMOVED "time-warnings" feature [useless] CLEANUP _many_ general optimizions UPDATED english-guide to v.950 COMPILED with gcc 3.2.2 now BUMPED revision to .950 [pre-final] (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 22:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Guido Mersmann (ANF)	AmigaOS-game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.17 Most important change of the new version (please download it from the title link) is the screen mode on the Workbench which was desired of many users. Besides this still several minor improvements have been made which above all concern the automatic hardware recognition. Boulderdäsh was tested on an A500, A1200, under Amithlon and on several MorphOS and OS4 computers. If you have questions, suggestions or problems please contact Guideo Mersmann via email. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 22:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)	Event: BeGeistert - BeOS-meeting with Pegasos-performance Fans and developers of the operating system BeOS will meet on the "BeGeistert" which will take place in Düsseldorf tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France from Paris will demonstrate a Pegasos for which an OpenBeOS port is in work. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 21:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: AlphaBase full version and source codes In co-operation and with permission of Maik Schmidt Amiga Arena makes the release of the database "AlphaBase" possible. AlphaBase is a clear and easy to learn database program. It is possible to enter variously arranged (e.g. German and American) addresses in one common database. Adresses can be printed on envelopes and labels. Data which have nothing to do with addresses can be linked with comments, pictures and sound files. System requirements: AmigaOS 3.0 Workbench & Librarys as well as 1 MB ChipMem + 2 MB FastMem Progression? If there is anyone who is interested to dvelop AlphaBase (BlitzBasic) further please contact Olaf Köbnik! (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 20:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: Blade online again "Blade" is an action role play by Mark Sheeky in iso-3d-view. Mark Sheeky is well-known as the developer of the games "Burnout" and "Hilt II". In 2000 Amiga Arena published the German version for the first time and could offer Blade as a HD version (AGA/ECS) with permission of Mark Sheeky. Now "Blade" is online again and you can get further information on the Blade homepage. You can choose four characters from seven possible ones (warrior, thief, cleric, magician, dwarf, elf, empath) and you have to defeat the evil! "CU Amiga" rated Blade with 86 percent. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 20:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` AROS (Website)	AROS status-report 04/2003 The alternative operating system AROS is being activly developed further. On the website you can find a detailed English status report to the project. Porting AROS to the Pegasos has been started. ide.device and cdrom.handler are now more stable than before, removable medium are supported. USB/UHCI-driver are available but still not useable. The soundcard driver system AHI was ported to AROS. The render.library and guigfx.library are supposed but are integrated in Zune. The jpeg.datatype is new and the png.datatype was updated. For futher changes please have a look at the AROS status report. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 20:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` Jürgen Schober (ANF)	point.design delivers AmigaOne XE From now on the first AmigaOne XE boards are available at the Austrian Amiga dealer point.design. The PowerPC/G4 as well as the G3 version have arrived and will be officially delivered from April 28th. Additional to the mainboard a bootable "Debian Linux Install CD" as well as "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 PPC Binary 1" (basis installation incl. XFree4.0 and KDE) belong to the packet. The system can be easily installed and extended via the Internet just as the customer wants. Besides this the packet also contains UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator) incl. AmigaOS 3.1 Kickstart ROM images and a completely installed AmigaOS 3.1 incl. "Magic Software Packet". The price of the earlybird system also contains an update to the next generation of the AmigaOS 4 which will run nativly on the hardware and which will be sent to the customers for free. Additional to the motherboard packet complete systems are also offered. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 20:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` heise online (Website)	Opinion poll of developers concerning Open Source In the research study "Economic Organization and Viability of Open Source Software" scientists of the Stanford University ask for the motivation and expectations of Open Source developers and which tools they use for programming. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 15:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2003` XBaze (Website)	Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 8 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 Beta 8 of his database 'XBaze'. The program offers an easy to use editor. It runs from AmigaOS 3.0 and from now on also on MorphOS. Bug reports and proposals can be sent to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl. Download: XB-7.3B8.lzx Addenda: The server is currently (25.4.2003, 12:30) not available. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2003, 12:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2003` Cales "Doraemon" Bernardez (ANF)	Pegasos Presentation at CatCon Party 2003 According to the exhibitors a presentation of Pegasos with MorphOS is planned for the CatCon Party, which is to take place on the 3rd and 4th of May in Calella near Barcelona. Also, a few Amiga companies should be introducing new products. The usual contests will be offered for the demoscene. There is no charge for international visitors to CatCon, but we ask that you register in advance. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Apr. 2003, 21:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Editor: MorphED in Development According to MorphOS-News.de Dietmar Eilert, the author of GoldED, has been working on MorphED since the 18th of April, 2003. Up to this point no information has been released as to whether it's a fully new editor, or a MorphOS-native version of GoldED. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Apr. 2003, 21:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2003` ots / teltarif.de	Call by Call in Ortsnetz: Information Offering at teltarif.de On this coming Friday, the 25th of April, the last monopoly in the German telephone market fell: the Ortsnetz. The consumer was not much able to benefit from the popular Call-by-Call option. With the Call-by-Call option, the caller selects a number sequence, generally 5 characters, and so directs the call over an alternative provider, instead of Deutsche Telekom. It's already observable that the consumers will benefit from significant savings, from Friday on. "A short 30 second call to the barber or taxi company costs just one cent using the sequence 01078 over the provider 3U, instead of the six cents charged by Deutsche Telekom up until now" per Martin Müller, business leader of the fee-comparing www.teltarif.de. 3U offers local calls in about 1500 local networks, and accounts for the one second pulse. Arcor kicks off in about 36 hours, beginning with an offer for local and quasi-local calls. The prices are thereby over those of 3U, but are also good for conversations to destinations maximally 20 kilometers from the originating point. These conversations are designated quasi-local. Market experts are still expecting the offers of Tele2 and 01051 Telecom by Friday. Other enterprises have announced they will start in May. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Apr. 2003, 18:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2003` Thomas Unger (E-Mail)	The Kickstart Archives Version 2.1 Thomas Unger writes: The two CD set is now at version 2.1. THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES is entirely HTML-based and thereby viewable on every hardware and operating system. Many headings have been updated. The publicity and support areas have implemented thorough expansions since version 2.0.2. Design and Navigation have been refined. On the start page of the Internet presence there are, near the tutorials, also the icon notes, in which legal matters, notes of appreciation, as well as reviews and ordering possibilities are readable in the German and English languages. updated: Amiga History Guide by Gareth Knight (22/03/2003) updated: LexSite by Alex Lupták (06/01/2003) updated: AMIGA Troubleshooting and Fixes updated: AMIGA Advertising Efforts Advertisings by Søren Ladegaard (Commodore Billboard) updated: Guides'n'Setups ED Sirius Genlock - Handbook (PDF) ED Sirius Genlock - Manual (PDF) ED Neptun Genlock - Handbook (PDF) ED Neptun Genlock - Manual (PDF) ED Pluto Genlock - Handbook (PDF) ED Pluto Genlock - Manual (PDF) Vortex ATonce A500 - Handbook (PDF) Commodore A3000 - Schematics (PDF) Commodore A2300/01 - Handbook (PDF) Commodore A2301 - Circuit (PDF) Commodore A2232 - Schematics (PDF) Commodore A2065 - Schematics (PDF) Commodore A2060 - Schematics (PDF) Commodore A1060 - Handbook (PDF) Commodore A600 - Schematics (PDF) Commodore A500Plus - Service Manual (PDF) Commodore CDTV - Service Manual (PDF) A500/A2000 - Technical Reference Manual (PDF) A really special thank you goes to Steffen Kramer of Electronic Design this time, for the documentation that was made available. (nba) [News message: 24. Apr. 2003, 17:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2003` M. Lueck (ANF)	Audio: AHI v5.5 (rc1) Martin Blom, the developer of the soundcard driver system AHI, has released end-user version 5.5 (rc1) for m68k, MorphOS and AROS. m68k-amigaos-ahiusr-5.5=6.0rc1.lha i386-linux-aros-ahiusr-5.8.lha ppc-morphos-ahiusr-5.5=6.0rc1.lha (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Apr. 2003, 17:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2003` Diverse	Media Reports on the C-One Cross-regional media are directing attention to the C-One, a new reconfigurable home computer (we reported). Following are two reports - the list will be expanded in days to come. Golem IT-News: C-One - C64 Successor with reconfigurable chips. RP-Online: Reawakening of Commodore's C-64 (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Apr. 2003, 01:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Apr.2003` Halvadjian Georges (Website)	PerfectPaint V2.925 Version 2.925 of the paint program PerfectPaint by Halvadjian Georges is now available. In this version the following features were added or changed: Improve PPM and PBM format. Separate Brush, Picture, palette and anim path for each buffer. New color correction tool: "Adjust RGB level", "Auto RGB level" and pixel count. "Chromatic correction" (usefull for chromatic aberration) "Optimize palette" and the arexx command: Will remove unused color from the palette to reduce the depth of the picture without lost. Can also sort the palette with unused color in the end. Fix somme little bug with CMAP palette, brush album Keyboard F10: Now remove not only toolbox window but all floating window. Improve text requester Number of font in listview are now unlimited. Improve turboprint communication (correct Inch are send, Menu and color works well) New arexx command: pp_GetDPI Improve template requester, with preview. Fix a bug (introduced in the last version) with processing tool New powerfull processing tool: MagicSpray, will spray current brush or severall brushes (Magic Album) with variation of size, color, rotation, shadow ... in real time. Include some MagicProject. Other MagicProject are available on PerfectPaint's Page. Little bug fixed with keyboard shortcut Brush preview is showed with full transparency (album requester) Improve Undo (nba) [News message: 23. Apr. 2003, 14:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2003` Elbox Computer	Elbox: MM CD UP 1.23 The MM CD 1.23 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000i, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV busbords, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has been released today. The update includes new versions of: fm801.audio sb128.audio mixer.library FastEthernet.device tv.library Changes: fm801.audio ver. 4.4 - digital/optical output (TOSLINK) support added - quadro mode added sb128.audio ver. 4.10 - digital output (SPDIF) support added mixer.library ver. 1.7 - digital/analog output switch for SB4.1 added - support for rear speakers added FastEthernet.device ver. 1.12 - detection of the MAC address corrected - compatibility with the RoadShow DMA support added tv.library ver. 3.1 - Bt878 RESET commend corrected - ReadGPIO function added The current developer documentations for tv.library and mixer.library are enclosed in the MM CD 1.23. (nba) [News message: 22. Apr. 2003, 17:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2003` Elbox Computer	Elbox: MediatorUP 3.7 The MediatorUP 3.7 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV has been made available today. The update includes new versions of: pci.library MediatorNET.device Changes: pci.library ver. 5.10 PowerOff function (for controlling ATX PSU) added MediatorNET.device ver. 2.7 compatibility with the RoadShow stack added (nba) [News message: 22. Apr. 2003, 17:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2003` WHDLoad (Website)	Installer: WHDLoad Version 15.2 Since yesterday you can download the new version 15.2 on the WHDLoad site. With WHDLoad you can install games, which were only produced for floppy using, on your hard disk. Since the last update there were made just more little bugfixes and changes. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 22. Apr. 2003, 17:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2003` WHDLoad (Website)	WHDLoad: New Packets until 20.04.2003 Since yesterday you can download the new version 15.2 on the WHDLoad site. With WHDLoad you can install games, which were only produced for floppy using, on your hard disk. Since the last update there were made just more little bugfixes and changes. 20.04.03 new: Zero Gravity (EAS) done by Agressor 20.04.03 improved: Celtic Legends (UBI-Soft) miscellaneous improvements 18.04.03 fixed: Midwinter (Rainbird) bug fixed 18.04.03 improved: Magicland Dizzy (Codemasters) bad custom accesses fixed, trainer added 18.04.03 improved: Hollywood Poker (reLINE) supports another version 18.04.03 improved: Galdregons Domain (Pandora) some changes 18.04.03 new: Doman (World Software) done by JOTD 18.04.03 new: Castle Master 2 - The Crypt (Incentive/Domark) done by Galahad 18.04.03 improved: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) blitter waits added, new icons, docs added (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 22. Apr. 2003, 17:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2003` A.D.A.	A.D.A.: two new intros of Nature With "Grid 2" and "Zeon" two new intro-title of the Swedish Group Nature are added zo the demo-online-Collection "Amiga Demoscene Archive" Grid 2: Nature is one of this group which ist always trying to get the end of the borders. The intro "Grid 2" had been published on the scene arrangement and gets the first place in his competition. Enjoy the cool flight through large tunnels, which is combined with fantastic music. Recommendation. Zeon: Zeon is another cool Intro of Nature which was puplished on the Mekka Symposium 2001 and gets the second place. Code from Pipe, Yomat and Pezac. Graphics from Rex and Yomat. Music from pipe. On more time recommending. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 22. Apr. 2003, 17:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2003` AC-Eule / Spiegel Online (ANF)	"The German Bill Gates": "unrowed "Kimbeln" The stock boom is over, and the ruins are swept together. Much money of investors has been burned, but facts were really rare. The results are between creating new conzerns and distribution (AOL-Time-Warner, Amazon, ebay) and total bankruptery with some criminal numbers (Lets-Buy-it.com or Kim (Kimble) Schmitz). Under the title link you can read an article about Lars Windhorst, who was named from some people as the new Bill Gates. It is true he worked in the computer distribution, but in contrast to Bill Gates, he never published own products or programmed products. His meaning for the German computer industry had to lie anywhere below Manfred Schmitt. The theme is not complete "Off Topic", because it shows nicely methods, effects and succesions from a few impostor computer and new economy employers. Who still believes that Kim Schmitz was really rich and succesful should read this story. But also people who played in another league than Kim Schmitz have now problems. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 22. Apr. 2003, 17:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	Events: C-One Release-Party at 4.5.2003 A computer legend is coming back: The C-One. The new edition of the most sold computer of the world (Guinessbook of world records), will publish official at the 4. May 2003 at a release party The new computer was developed by an American woman: Jeri Ellsworth, 28, started in autumn 2000 with the aim to build the Commodore 64 new with modern equipment. What started as a hobby project, catched the attention of the still activ user groups. Since April 2002 the Aachen firm "individual Computers" gives an activ share at this project. Main things had been changed in narro working together with Jeri Ellsworth, for making the computer more flexible as any computer before. At the complete new principle "reconfigurable computer" the borders of the austere separation of graphic card,sound card and processor are coming together. The new computer is so flexible that it is able to adapt itself to the programms, which should run on it. To the demonstration nearly all programms could be used, which were written for the legendary C-64, the most sold computer of the world (Guinessbook of world records). The C-One is much more faster and contains about standard interfaces for communication with the world. Modern equipment could be locked at the C-One, but also the peripherals, of the lovely called "Breadbox" computer of the 80s is getting a use. The firm "invidual Computers" and "Radwar Enterprises" are giving a party at the 04.05.2003 for the C-One. Press and specialists are cordial invited to the cafe Bistro Campus, Markt 25, 52525 Heinsberg. Start is 19:41 o'clock. Entry is free. Jeri Ellsworth was until 2000 owner of the shops "Computers made easy" on the westcoast of America. She sold the shops for dedicate herself to new business field, the development of an own computer. Also a robbery of an earlier prototype, couldn`t stop her to get her aim. 2 1/2 years after the begin of the project so far as: The C-One is finished - made in Germany The Aachen firm "invidual Computers" is known for special hardware, also as own development, as development for other firms. Mainly for computer accessoir development, whose name we hadn`t heard for a long time: Amiga. But also for the C 64 an PC products are produced. Jens Schönfeld owner of "invidual Computers" since nine years, sees the C-One as walk in the future and in the past. "With the new technic we can build computers, whose calculating works could be made bigger when it is needed, for example for graphic or music possibilities. "Radwar Enterprises" started in the middles of the 80s as so called Cracker-Group. Since 1988 parties were organised, which get scene status. The crackers from the past become experts today, who see the C-One as legend from tomorrow. So they decided in honour of the C-One to organise a C-One release party Continous links: Official Homepage of C-One individual Computers Radwar Enterprises Cafe Bistro Campus (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 22. Apr. 2003, 17:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2003` Cloanto/AmigaForever (ANF)	Bluetooth-Adapter on Amiga (RS232) On a Bluetooth-enabled PC, Amiga Explorer also works with a Bluetooth serial adapter attached to the Amiga serial port. The PC side must support the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile, which makes it possible to select the Amiga side as a standard COM port in Amiga Explorer. Depending on the adapter, no configuration may be required (the adapter attached to the Amiga serial port automatically runs as a "slave"), or, in some cases, the adapter must first be connected to the PC serial port and configured via the included software. Some adapters have a built-in Web server which allows for remote configuration. In either case, no Bluetooth software is required on the Amiga. A 9-pin to 25-pin adapter may be required to connect a 9-pin Bluetooth RS-232 adapter to the Amiga DB-25 serial port connector. Such Bluetooth devices can cost as much as $200.00, and include Blue2Space's blue2link, Sphinx Elektronik's PICO Plug, LinTech's Bluetooth RS232 Adapter, Inventel's BlueAirPlug, Laurde's Serial Port Adapter and SMART Modular Technologies' Blue Lapis Serial Port Adaptor (these devices are not endorsed and have not been tested by Cloanto). (ps) [News message: 22. Apr. 2003, 15:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2003` Oliver Achten (ANF)	Emulator: A/NES CGFX v1.32 with Picasso 96 support A/NES CGFX, the fastest NES emulator for Amigas with graphic cards is now published in the version 1.32. This time finally with Picasso 96 support. Fetch the new version at http://hem.passagen.se/anescgfx (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 22. Apr. 2003, 15:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Apr.2003` Das NetBSD-Team (ANF)	NetBSD 1.6.1 released The NetBSD project is pleased, to announce the availability of version 1.6.1 of the NetBSD operating system. Further details about this release as well as about the NetBSD operating system can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 21. Apr. 2003, 21:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Apr.2003` Amig@lien (ANF)	Descent: Freespace: MultiplayerPack 08 released The the MultiplayerPack 08 for Decent: Freespace has been released. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 21. Apr. 2003, 21:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Apr.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 21.04.2003 Following the Aminet uploads which were added since our last message: MicroBase503de.lha biz/dbase 841K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - GERMAN MicroBase503en.lha biz/dbase 444K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - ENGLISH Progr_Langs_v8.lha dev/misc 73K+Comparison of progr. langs AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 57K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (April amigazette_13.lha docs/mags 1.0M+AMIGAzette 13th issue (09.11.2002) (ital amigazette_14.lha docs/mags 507K+AMIGAzette 14th issue (20.01.2003) (ital amigazette_15.lha docs/mags 243K+AMIGAzette 15th issue (13.04.2003) (ital obligement38.lha docs/mags 1.1M+Obligement #38 - The Famous FRENCH fanzi boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 909K+V5.15, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.41: Advanced snake game RebootStartV42.lha game/patch 59K+Degrader & run any game from Workbench Kulce_HU.lha game/wb 1K+Hungarian catalog for Kulce game BoingBall.lha gfx/3dobj 74K+LW3D boingball object SmartScale.lha gfx/conv 32K+A CLI/WB program used for gfx conversion ZoneXplorer.lha gfx/fract 2.8M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC ImageFX45txtFR.lha gfx/ifx 62K+ImageFX 4.5 French interface Text wipes.lha gfx/ifx 7K+Wipe/Transition Arexx Script v0.7 for IF DCEKeyFix.lha hard/drivr 20K+Working RAMIGA for DCE-Keyboardadapters imdbDiff030411.lha misc/imdb 9.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase l33t_is_sh1t.lha mods/chip 3K+Protracker 1.1 chip music module rno-r084.mpg mods/mpg 4.8M+Rno-records release #84 by Xhaust(dNb) AP21Covers.lha pix/misc 219K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 21 Covers Recto & Verso obligement-38.jpg pix/misc 71K+Obligement's cover n 38 mathlibspatch.lha util/boot 9K+Mathffp, ieeesingtrans libs SpeedUp Patc TxtToHTML.lha util/conv 92K+Converts txt files to HTML Docs (+GUI v1 IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 84K+Identify hardware and more, OS3.9 (V37.1 IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 123K+Identify hardware and more, OS3.9 (V37.1 HomerSampleFix.lha util/misc 2.6M+Works with the Latest NewHomer (v1.85) Scout-src.lha util/moni 564K+V3.1, System monitor - GNU-GPL source co Scout.lha util/moni 888K+V3.2, System monitor (MUI & AmiTCP optio arxced41.lha util/rexx 21K+ArexxGuide online help macro for CED 3.5 (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 21. Apr. 2003, 17:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Apr.2003` Richard Körber (ANF)	Tool: Identify 37.1- inoffical release Richard Körber wrote: The Identify LIBRARY can be used to identify Zorro boards and supply further system specifications. I published the project under LGPL on Sourceforge. Recently Thore Boeckelmann released an update of the Identify LIBRARY (V37.1) in the AmiNet. This publication happened without my knowledge. I do not exactly know either what was changed in the V37.1. According to the mails of users, whom I received since then, however this release seems to work incorrectly. Up to further I recommend to install for safety's sake again the version released by me last (see URL to the title). I have already contacted Thore and hope that we can release an official update soon. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 21. Apr. 2003, 12:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Apr.2003` Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)	Screenshots of AmigaOneXE and Linux/Mac On the homepage of pointdesign one can find some screenshots depicting the AmigaONE G4 XE running LinuxPPC and MacOnLinux. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 21. Apr. 2003, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Apr.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 6 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 6 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database): 1) realize: How do you intend to get people to develop native OS4 apps? ( This is what will make you sink or swim) Fleecy: By offering direct support to them, a variety of incentives and most importantly, a succesful new platform that both allows them to do what they can't do on other platforms and which allows them to make money and enjoy themselves. 2) Desmon: Why hasn't Amiga.inc stepped into the Amithlon/Umilator argument and taken on the distribution themselves? Fleecy: It is a very complicated situation in which multiple parties have taken positions that have made it difficult for any solution that is acceptable to all to develop. We are as interested in seeing a resolution as everyone else but a lot needs to happen to achieve this. 3) Dave_P: Why do you still bother? I am serious. With all the mud that is thrown day in day out, the small Amiga userbase, the innuendo and flack. Why exactly do you bother to get out of bed and not take an IT job in the mainstream industry but continue persist with the Amiga against such odds? Fleecy: We have a firm view of the future that many people find exciting and, despite the volume of noise, most of it is from a relatively small group of people who have a varied set of reasons for making that noise. That is not to say we don't deserve it - we are the first to admit that mistakes have been made but there have also been other circumstances that have made our progress difficult. Luckily, the majority of Amigans have stayed Amigans because they are committed to having the best digital platform on the market and, as with us, we are in it for that target, not for the sight seeing on the way. 4) ssolie: Amiga Inc. has been accused of spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) do to its past announcements and delays in shipping product. Does Amiga Inc. have a policy regarding FUD and if so, what is that policy? Fleecy: We have made mistakes in our PR and communications strategies. As I have said previously, we are caught between those who want lots of information and those who only want information about shipping products or what they call 'tangible news'. We have been rightly criticised for saying too much about some developments that have not worked and wrongly criticised for others, as in the case of the Nokia Media Terminal and Sendo, both signed deals that fell apart after announcement not because of us but because the products were then pulled by their parent companies. Our current policy is to make PRs only about things that can be proved. In this way we hope to win back the trust of those who believe we have misled them, although it will annoy those who want more information. 5) Doobrey: With regards to all the FUD and mud slinging, what is your opinion of the legality of MorphOS ? Fleecy: As an officer of the company, my opinion is that of Amiga Inc. As CTO I concentrate on technical issues and our legal department concentrates on issues of legality. 6) z5: how many people are working at Amiga Inc? Fleecy: That is internal information and I don't have exact numbers but we operate with a small group of employees and a larger distributed number of contractors. 7) SlimJim: AInc often refer to "internal developers" when talking about what is being done behind the scenes. In contrast to the people working on AOS4, very little is known about AInc's "own" development muscle. Can you give some more information about these famed "internal developers"? Fleecy: No. Last time we did that, a few of them got mail bombed. 8) Dandy: I can remember of an official AInc-Announcement of July 14th, 2001, stating that "StormC" of Haage & Partner had been chosen by AInc as official developing environment for the next generation Amiga platform. Is this statement still valid? Fleecy: No. We haven't heard from H&P for over a year now and the last thing I heard was that they were threatening to give up on Amiga and move to other platforms. We are investigating doing our own development environment. 9) alx: In Week 3 Q4, you mentioned how ExecSG was now capable of running OS3.9. Can you confirm that integration of emulation (the main setback) is now finalised? Fleecy: The test suites for OS3.9 and OS4.0 on the CSPPC are progressing rapidly and despite a few glitches caused by the CSPPC itself, we have found very few problems. The test suites are not complete yet so I can't say it is finalised but we have been very pleased with the performance, stability and compatability so far. 10) jumpship: Is AmigaINC planning on comissioning a standard case for the AmgiaONE? Maybe not for this release, but for the future? Fleecy: We have discussed it in terms of a marketing identity but there are no firm plans yet. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=7 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 21. Apr. 2003, 01:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Apr.2003` Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF)	Emulator: WinUAE Version 0.8.22R6 Yesterday version 0.8.22 Release 6 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows by Toni Wilen has been released. Download: WinUAE0822R6.exe WinUAE0822R6.zip Changes in WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 6 of 19th April 2003 compared to the previous version: Bugs fixed: increased compatibility display emulation graphics corruption in some programs (NOTE: some very old games, for example Eliminator, require OCS Agnus) sprites outside display window emulated partially (Banshee AGA, Alien Breed 3D) audio emulation fixes (noise and random popping) input configuration fixes crash when creating new CD32 NVRAM-file compressed disk images can be write-enabled more compatible with newer CDTV extended ROMs (still no CDROM controller emulation) disk emulation fixes (writing freeze, drive type, disk eject/insert, more compatible disk change detection, writing to multiple drives simultaneously) stuck middle button when "Middle Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" was enabled don't crash if zlib.dll is missing lost mouse input events when using high refresh rate mouse New features: compressed state files rewritten and more compatible serial port emulation, serial link game support more compatible blitter speed in non cycle-exact mode (Spindizzy Worlds, PP Hammer..) turbo-floppy speed enables fast writing disable screensaver when WinUAE is active improved configurable CPU idle-function screenshots saved to ScreenShots-directory input configuration joystick port swap and device disable-button implemented. A German mirror ist available under http://www.webwood.de. (ps) [News message: 20. Apr. 2003, 10:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Apr.2003` Dietmar Knoll (ANF)	GAUHPIL: Many areas updated The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted geographically according to continents and countries. Today the following areas have been updated: Europe New Links List Lost Links List History 2003 (ps) [News message: 19. Apr. 2003, 22:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Apr.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	G4 Upgrade card to be released on July 1st, 2003 Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have announced that the promised G4 CPU Upgrade card for Pegasos1 owners will be available on July 1st, 2003 for 200Euro. Pegasos1 owners can buy it at www.pegasosppc.com when pegasos-usa.com is integrated into the new site. There will also be a new software bundle available then. Bill and Raquel also confirmed that the CPU cards for the Pegasos II are the same as the CPU cards for the Pegasos I. That way every Pegasos II user, who already got a Pegasos I, can use his old Pegasos I CPU card and Pegasos I users can buy Pegasos II CPU cards. They also made clear that this offer has no impact on the Pegasos-I-trade-in offer. You can still get a Pegasos II including a G4 processor card for your old Pegasos I machine plus 200 Euro. (ps) [News message: 19. Apr. 2003, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Apr.2003` Diverse	Short Software News (19.04.2003) Emulator: Mame for MorphOS Version 0.67 - Mame0.67 added (bug fixes and overlay support) see readme.txt for more information. Tool: MCP Version 1.42 MCP ("MasterControlProgram") from Dieter Groppé version 1.42 Emulator: A/NES CGFX v1.31 The cool feature added here is the autoframerate option that makes miracles (well close to) for your NSF's assuming you usually don't have a fast enough computer to play them back at correct speed. Worth to check out anyway hopefully. You'll find the latest archive in the download section. Be sure to run the installer aswell if your earlier A/NES CGFX version is < v1.30 since the installation procedure now installs more files than previous versions. Anyway, enjoy the release and have a Happy Easter! :-) Game: Worm Wars Version 7.41 Download: WormWars.lha 585 KB Game: Payback GBA report Nr. 6 MorphOS.net: New xpkmaster Update: Mr. Skjæret has released an updated xpkmaster for MorphOS. It needs a previously installed xpkmaster setup: xpkmaster_bin.lha (ps) [News message: 19. Apr. 2003, 14:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Apr.2003` Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF)	IncaGold and Hyperion announce license agreement IncaGold and Hyperion Entertainment enter into comprehensive license agreement Leuven, Belgien, April 18, 2003 IncaGold GmbH and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that they entered into a comprehensive license agreement which will see many of IncaGold's current and future entertainment software titles converted for the Amiga, Linux and Macintosh platforms. Hyperion's first target for conversion is 'Midnight Racing' which offers players the excitement of realistic night driving using a state of the art 3D engine. "We are understandably very pleased with this agreement as signing with IncaGold will allow us to bring IncaGold's outstanding and ever-growing portfolio of games to our target audiences", said Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment. Daniel Aurell, Director at IncaGold, added, "We are pleased to have found such a competent partner in this field to take our PC entertainment products to other home computing platforms. We are looking forward to together with Hyperion bringing many of our titles to the Amiga, Linux and Mac systems in the coming months." About Hyperion Entertainment VOF Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's. Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking multimedia OS introduced by Commodore in 1985. ABOUT INCAGOLD IncaGold is a world-wide leader in the development and publishing of casual gaming entertainment on PC CD-ROM. Founded in 1996, the company operates sales and development offices in Brazil, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Slovakia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. (ps) [News message: 18. Apr. 2003, 22:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Apr.2003` Ron van Herk (ANF)	Genesi at CeBIT Australia Genesi would like to invite all visitors to the CeBIT Australia 2003 event to visit our booth. We will be exhibiting in hall 5, booth 561. The show is from May 6th - 8th in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center, Darling Harbour, Sydney. For more information please check the official CeBIT Australia 2003 website: www.cebit.com.au. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Apr. 2003, 18:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Apr.2003` Christian Krenner (ANF)	Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page: Amiga 600 with USB-ports! There is another update of the "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page". The site documents the upgrade of an Amiga 600. The current highlight: The Amiga 600 was equipped with USB-ports and therefore should be the only A 600 with which you can use USB devices. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Apr. 2003, 18:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Apr.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Eyetech: AmigaOneXE delivered since Wednesday Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) gave a statement on AmigaOne mailing list (title link) and explained that the delivery of the AmigaOneXE has started on Wednesday. First of all other dealers will be delivered, then "developers" which ordered an AmigaOneSE 12 months ago, then customers which ordered a motherboard from Eyetech and finally the buyers of complete systems. Alan supposes that all orders will be executed until the end of the month. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Apr. 2003, 18:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Apr.2003`	amiga-news.de Wishes You a Happy Easter! © Rolf Tingler (ps) [News message: 17. Apr. 2003, 23:58] [Comments: 1 - 18. Apr. 2003, 17:41] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Apr.2003` Michael Lanser (ANF)	Realms of Power - Internet Page Online The Internet page for the game Realms of Power was placed online today. There you'll find information about and screenshots of the game, and its state of development. Realms of Power is a round-based strategy game. It has a powerful resemblance to the game Civilization, and has a few characteristics of the game Colonization as well. The parameters of the game world are wideranging and generally adjustable. So it is left to you to decide if you play a cold or a war planet, if you prefer vast oceans or almost entirely land surfaces. 16 peoples are ready, to be played by or against humans. These are, for example, the Germans, the English, the French, the Romans, the Zulus, or also the Egyptians. The individual units (like airplanes, tanks, destroyers or battle vehicles) wait only to be built and sent against the enemy. But perhaps you would rather negotiate a peace and send a diplomat? In order to be able to build the individual units and the urban projects (such as churches, factories, barrracks, or harbors) the hard work of the steadily growing numbers of city folk, who process the differentiated raw materials (such as wood, stone, coal, or oil as well). And naturally it may also not be forgotten, to arrange the supply of food for the workers. In order to make adjustments to the quantities of raw materials, it is also possible to conduct trade with friendly peoples. But only as long as they do not become your enemies - and that happens sooner than maybe you would like, because the goal is to rule the world after all! Or do you prefer to conquer a neighboring planet with a few colonists. If this world can't be yours, then perhaps the next? System Requirements Minimum configuration: Amiga with OS3.1, 68020 @ 14 Mhz, 1 MB Chip, 16 MB FastRAM, graphic card, CD-ROM, hard-drive. Recommended configuration: Amiga with OS3.1, 68060 @ 50 Mhz, 2 MB Chip, 32 MB FastRAM, graphic card, CD-ROM, hard-drive. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Apr. 2003, 22:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Apr.2003`	Aminet Uploads 17th April, 2003 Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last report: boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 906K+V5.13, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive RebootStartV42.lha game/patch 59K+Degrader & run any game from Workbench ZoneXplorer.lha gfx/fract 2.8M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC BoingPFX.lha pix/back 330K+Backgrounds for WBpatterns... i5000.lha pix/gicon 1.2M+Big Misc GlowIcons Collection [by cYbo] IceAge.lha pix/gicon 405K+Icons from Ice Age [by cYbo] NewHomer.lha util/misc 110K+Talkin' Homer V1.85 (updated) (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Apr. 2003, 19:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Apr.2003` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox: Spider II Sales Begin We are glad to inform that the Spider II USB 2.0 High-Speed controller with drivers for Mediator and Amithlon is on sale now. The detailed specification of the Spider II USB 2.0 controller: see the product page. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Apr. 2003, 15:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Apr.2003` Guido Mersmann (ANF)	AmigaOS Game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.14 - Rockford is Back! With version 5.14, the shareware game BoulderDäsh RTX is almost final. Almost all program parts have been reworked and rewritten. BoulderDäsh has become a bit faster and smaller through this, but also more compatible. Through some partially fundamental changes, it became possible for me to equip the game and level editor with additional functions that were missing for years and desired by many users. I'd like to point out once more that although I removed the keyfile routines and the associated limitations, BoulderDäsh is still shareware. Simultaneously, I'd like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to the many registered users. You've kept us going through the years! Version 5.14 is on the way to Aminet and should appear there by the next update. Guido Mersmann (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Apr. 2003, 15:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Apr.2003` Amiforce (ANF)	Amiforce Celebrates Its 2nd Birthday For the second birthday of the site the following things have been prepared for you: German Amiblitz 2.30 full distribution: The distribution has been completely updated and once more contains Amiblitz2 and PED in their latest stable releases, in the German and English languages. Besides the German Amiblitz2.guide, the installation scripts have also been translated, with help in the chosen language, just as all necessary ASSIGNs and system components are installed. The guide has been carefully reworked in the license section, to make clear and understandable the fact that software assembled with Amiblitz doesn't have to be GPL! An update archive will be added in a short time. German AmiblitzML archive: A few days ago, the archive of the German Amiblitz2 mailing list was added to Aminet. Thanks to Antidote for the great work. Classic games: In the Games Fun area there is a new designation covering never-released classic games. The games were developed in AMOS and account of that they don't run on graphic cards. Except for that the programs have no special requirements and even run without special arrangement on a '060. The developer Dietmar Graemer would be happy to hear some feedback. For this purpose every info box has a contact form, with which one may easily and without problems directly contact the developers. Dietmar is interested in further development and also in new games. This is dependent on your interest. Enrico Graemer is no longer interested in future development, so there is no contact form for him. Included are the following games: Digger95: A really addictive game, which also has graphics that look great even today. A lot of people will remember Digger. At one time this was a classic on the KC computer of then East Germany. Diamantus: Diamantus is based on a play method similar to Digger95. There's also much fun to be experienced here. The game makes a tidy impression, and with a lot of levels there is little chance of boredom. Wirtschworker: With 500 levels this is the most wideranging game, and Wirtschworker is also a lot of fun. I can promise you right now that your gray brain cells are going to get a workout. ;) Lotto Number Generator: This is not a game, but it wouldn't make sense to make a separate category for it. This program doesn't need a whole lot of explanation, and maybe it brings happiness to someone or other. The programs come with instructions. Soon, the programs will be described on the website, but we haven't had time to do this yet. The most important information is nevertheless contained on the pages for the games. Have fun! Game announcement (3D shooter for OS4): There's a new game project in development. The end result is to be a 3D-Shooter that appears for Windows and Amiga OS4. At this time it's developed on Windows. As soon as the AmigaOne with OS4 is set to go, the porting of the completed parts may begin. The heart of the whole thing is an already much-progressed 3D engine: Cruiser3D. After the outstanding development of the engine it will naturally be near to the development of a complete game. The 3D-Shooter will probably be in the horror genre, but we are not committing ourselves. A small excerpt of the characteristics of Cruiser3D: Conversion of models (characters) from well-known games such as Q1, Q2, HalfLife, Serious Sam, Unreal I + II etc. (to the extent that the data formats are usable) Terrains of height maps for outdoor levels BSP for indoor levels Dynamic lighting and shadows (shadows are 25% ready) Mirrow effects (about 50%) Particle system Pathfinder (25% ready) Flocking (known from role playing and fantasy games) SkyBox Enormously high velocity Planned are formats such as C4D, Monzoom and so on Through the following link you can see one of the quickly put-together scenes. To be seen are known (textured) models and other elements, which are animated. The free camera movement unfortunately can't be seen here, and the particle system can also not really be appreciated. The screenshot is unfortunately very quickly made. Everything was thrown together in a hurry. Soon, more information will follow, and an area will be established at Amiforce to track the status. Heartfelt wishes of happiness from amiga-news.de team for the second birthday of Amiforce! (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Apr. 2003, 07:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Apr.2003` Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)	Tool: SRename 3.7.0 beta Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the beta version 3.7.0 of the tool 'SRename'. With this tool, working with AmigaOS 3.0 or better, it is possible to rename files comfortably. The latest version got the following features and bugfixes: New features in this version: Automatic renaming when new filename already exists. "Noautoren" (nar) option has been added to deactivate it. "Noautopsep" (nap), "Noautossep" (nas), "Autopsep" (aup), "Autossep" (aus), options added to control the handling of prefix and suffix separators when prefix and suffix is created or deleted. "Addonly" (ao) secondary argument added to "Prefix", "Main" and "Suffix" selectors. When used it prevents existing components from being modified, and components are added if they don't already exist. Bugfixes: Redirection of filename and comment with "Tofilename" and "Tocomment" can now work in Immediate and Reuse (cached) mode as required by the user, instead of the previous fixed partially cached mode. 2 core bugs fixed that broke the renaming process with certain action combinations. Parser bug fixed occasionally broke the parsing process if commands with secondary arguments were used. Some memory misallocations fixed. Other changes: Now the usage text is printed if no arguments are given. Download: SRename370beta.lha (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 16. Apr. 2003, 22:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Apr.2003` Raziel (ANF)	Web filter tool: Privoxy version 3.0.2 Since the 25th of March there is an update of the free open source project Privoxy at the Sourceforge page available. The version 3.0.2 fixes smaller bugs and has an increased blocking system for unliked websites or pop ups. There are several versions available, among these are AOS, MorphOS and ohters (e.g. Unix or even WinniesDOS). With the daily use there were no hard erors reported, compared to the recent version 3.0.0 it even gained some stability. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 16. Apr. 2003, 22:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Apr.2003`	Aminet uploads 04-16-2003 Here are the recent uploads since the last announcement: cddbfreedb.lha comm/tcp 6K+Cddb.library dropin replacement using fr ABML03-0502.lha dev/basic 52K+ABlitzML archiv only in german lucyplayDevBas.lha dev/basic 82K+Using LucyPlay library from HBasic amigazette_12.lha docs/mags 1.2M+AMIGAzette 12th issue (04.07.2002) (ital EvenMore.lha text/show 670K+V0.61: Proportional font textviewer AmberRAM.lha util/sys 58K+Replacement RAM disk (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 16. Apr. 2003, 11:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Apr.2003` Patric Klöter (ANF)	Petro Tyschtschenko has his 60th birthday! Patric Klöter writes: Today our good friend Petro Tyschtschenko celebrates his 60th birthday. In the name of all Amiga users I would like to congratulate him from heart and give him the best wishes for the future and for his health. That he is still in a close contact to the Amiga even in his "post Amiga Inc. time" is to notify not at least with his attendance at various Amiga user meetings. Amiga has been and still is his life, who after the ESCOM bankrupt in 1996 would have worked without any rest without being paid and would have looked for a new mother company for the "Computer that won't die" until he found one (1997, Gateway 2000 Inc.). Only one who had a lot of passion for the thing and believe in the success can do so. Petro Tyschtschenko went through nearly 20 years of Commodore/Amiga history with two bankrupts (Commodore and ESCOM) and four different Amiga companies, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. (1984-1994), AMIGA Technologies GmbH (1995-1996), AMIGA International, Inc. (1997-2001) and AMIGA, Inc. (since 1997 and after the purchase by AMINO, Inc. since 2000). During the hard times he got allways support from his family, who were queued back during his Amiga rescue actions from time to time. I think we can be grateful to Petro, for that what he did during the last years for us and the Amiga. Without him the AmigaOS would most probably still lack at version 3.1. Thank you, Petro! The team of amiga-news.de also would like to gratulate honestly and warmly to the 60th birthday. Who would like to know more about the work of Petro for the Amiga is invited to do so within our glossar. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 16. Apr. 2003, 10:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Apr.2003` David "Daff" Brunet	Magazine: Obligement 38 is now out Issue 38 of the French Amiga magazine Obligement is now available. You can read in this issue latests Amiga news, a report of the Equinoxe Party, reviews of Crossfire 2 and Amiga Arena Games Edition 2002, interviews with Jérome Senay (coder of Word Me Up) and Stefan Burstroem (author of IBrowse), an article about installation of LinuxPPC on Pegasos, and lots of others interesting articles. Download it at the address: http://obligement.free.fr. (ps) [News message: 15. Apr. 2003, 12:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Apr.2003` Scott Pistorino (ANF)	AmigaSource finally reaches the 1400+ link mark Hello everyone! Due to my job I had been unable to update AmigaSource.com daily, weekly or even monthly. But now it looks like things are starting to slow down and I can get back to at least weekly updates. Drop in, look around and enjoy! Thanks and help spread the word! Scott Pistorino (ps) [News message: 15. Apr. 2003, 11:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Apr.2003` Eule (from the heise Newsticker) (ANF)	New security concept at OpenBSD OpenBSD is one of the UN!XE which is ported for the Amiga 68k, too. In contrast to NetBSD or Linux, OpenBSD is pay attached to the safety for server tasks. So there is practically only one distribution where introduction of new drivers, services or performance, is staying behind. For it security concepts have precedence. The default setting of OpenBSD applies as very safe. In contrast to other systems, OpenBSD has ran only one safety gap in the default setting and the distribution. This operating system is now equipped with an extra safety against Buffer Overflows. The Buffer Overflow is an invader who is able to write data on the stacks at services who don`t control insert data well enough. By the return out of the subroutine the stack-contents are interpreted as the return jump address. So the invader could be able to perform a code of his choice on the system. A change in the C-compiler of OpenBSD see to it that the stack-contents out of the subroutines is controlled before return. By a few architectures the MMU is used for extra controlling in the data area. So safety gaps from services, which were programmed wrong of third suppliers (f.e. SAMBA), are avoided. You can get OpenBSD via FTP, but there I only found the predecessor version for the Amiga. cu (AC-)Eule Please read the heise-article under the title link (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 15. Apr. 2003, 11:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Apr.2003` Advogato (ANF)	Internet: World of Ends - What the Internet Is and... In the English article "World of Ends" with the subtitle "What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else", Doc Searls and David Weinberger are describing basic features of the Internet and how you can use the Internet also wrong as right. The Internet isn't complicated The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement. The Internet is stupid. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value. All the Internet's value grows on its edges. Money moves to the suburbs. The end of the world? Nah, the world of ends. The Internet's three virtues: a. No one owns it b. Everyone can use it c. Anyone can improve it If the Internet is so simple, why have so many been so boneheaded about it? Some mistakes we can stop making already (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 15. Apr. 2003, 11:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Apr.2003` Cloanto (ANF)	Amiga Forever and MaxUAE on Mac OS X New step-by-step configuration instructions for using Amiga Forever (CD-ROM and cross-platform Online Edition) with MaxUAE on Mac OS X have been posted in the FAQ section at amigaforever.com. (ps) [News message: 14. Apr. 2003, 20:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Apr.2003` Amiga Society (Website)	Amiga Society: Software book update and "Schlachtfeld" news Horst Diebel wrote: "It took some long time, until the new update could be released. It contains some games. Among other things Vikings and Secret OF the Silver Blades are included. I am transfering the new battleground alpha version 5 on my A4000 - and hope that executability and stability have improved. So far it was always like that the game could be played on certain computers - under certain circumstances - with the next attempt however again broke off. We hope that this has improved now! With the presented version the old diagram of the original is used. The new stands however for rifle with foot! (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 14. Apr. 2003, 12:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Apr.2003` AmithlonTV (Website)	TV-board driver: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 342 Guido Mersmann released beta version 332 of his AmithlonTV today. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha Geändert: FIXED: Seems last archive had some corrupted data content from disk transfer. Please download this new one to be sure that all needed stuff is included. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 14. Apr. 2003, 12:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Apr.2003` Amiga XFR (Website)	Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.2 available XFR Version 2.2 released. The following details were changed or added: implemented xfrERROR_OUTOFDATA: in conjunction with xfrOBJECT_MINFILE client can now signal to the program that a format is significantly identified but would need the whole file to be sure (and/or to calc size). upgraded xfrlist, internal IFF format and Oktalyzer (Armin Sander) client to work with xfrlist Additional information is to be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 14. Apr. 2003, 11:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Apr.2003` Amiga Future (E-Mail)	Amiga Future: Interview with Felix Schwarz The English version of the interview with Felix Schwarz is available here. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 14. Apr. 2003, 11:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2003` GFXZONE (Website)	News from GFXZONE Late last year the first edition of a new demoparty was held in France. This party was announced as being somewhere between the Wired and the LTP, which suggested what visitors could expect from the party. I am talking about State of the art 2002, and I have seen some seriously nice prods! Later this month another first edition party will take place, this time in Bingen, Germany. Lets see what that party will bring! Until then you'll have to make do with our latest update, which is an online party gallery for last years' State of the Art. This new gallery shows the best entries from the graphics compos at that party, and there are many great graphics for you to look at! Spread over three competitions 35 images are available online - oldschool, raytrace and a regular gfx compo. I found it an extremely pleasant surprise to see some new graphics by Tenshu again. But there are plenty images in this gallery, for example productions by Ak, Danube, Mikl, Splif and a very atmospherical scene by Nytrik just to name a few. Enter the State of the Art 2002 online gallery A large archive with all SotA compo graphics is also available for download. (nba) [News message: 13. Apr. 2003, 23:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2003` Amig@lien (ANF)	Descent: Freespace: MultiplayerPack 07 released The MultiplayerPack 07 for the game Decent: Freespace has been released, containing 6 multi player missions. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 13. Apr. 2003, 22:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2003` DJBase (Website)	Help guide: Data transfer with AmIRC over Router Some users may know the problem that data transfer with AmIRC is no longer possible when using a router. In a short workshop under the title link M. Münch and M. Lück describe a solution using a pre-programmed ARexx script. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 13. Apr. 2003, 21:26] [Comments: 1 - 14. Apr. 2003, 10:33] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 5 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 5 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database): 1) ssolie: The webmaster at amiga.org recently proclaimed that your Q&A sessions are not news worthy and will no longer post them as news. Many others agree and also believe this to be so. What do you think about such criticism and how it reflects on the current state of the Amiga community. Fleecy: There is an old saying that 'Editors make the news'. What this means is that those who control the channels which diseminate the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio stations and websites are the ones who 'decide' what is news by the content they chose to make available. They make this decision based upon their own philosophies, prejudices and agendas. One person's news is another person's propoganda is another person's free advertising. I answer the questions because a news site, Amigaworld, choses to send them. I certainly don't insist that they are news. The power of a community is that politics and philosophies reverberate through it to make it a living, breathing, arguing whole. That is what I see. Some are angry, some are annoyed, some are happy, some have hidden agendas. Events shape it. Editors try to shape it themselves by deciding what they report. If people decide that it is news and the editor doesn't then those people will move between sites. The power of the Internet is that there no longer has to be just one version of 'the truth'. 2) Jose: Dont' you think that the possibility of having Microsoft apps on AmigaOS would be a contradiction, technologywise, and from the users that still have fond memory of AmigaOS point of view, not to mention what we know of the commmunity. Fleecy: Users want functionality and they indicate that by either buying or not buying the product. Ideological hatred of an entity is a juvenile approach to life and has probably caused, and continues to cause more suffering in this world than probably any other single issue. 3) pig : I bought both a Party Pack, and a club membership... Do I need to buy 2 Amigaone's to get my refunds, or can I get them both on the purchase of 1? ie: Can I combine these two offers into the same machine? What if I got 2 membership coupons, will I get full refund if I get one machine? Fleecy: I am not the right person to answer that questions. I will see if I can get an answer and post it back as an addendum to a future Q&A. Updated: If you bought x party packs and y club memberships then you can apply x+y rebates against one or more AmigaOnes. Basically you can mix and match the rebates as you like upto the value of the products that you purchase. 4) LaBodilsen: Is Amiga currently investigating into any wireless technology, be it Wifi (802.11b), bluetooth, IrDa etc. with regards to PDA integration for AmigaOS. And is there any plans of making a Syncronization suite with some well known PDA operating system, to syncronize information between the PDA and Amiga Aps. Or just simple file transfer. Fleecy: As I said in an earlier question set, we intend to excel in the 90% of what users want to do with a computer and connectivity of any kind is pretty high on that list so yes, we are investigating and designing to take connectivity into account and hope to support at least WiFi in the near future. As for PDA connectivity, we will not look at it too close until the DE is brought into the OS but that is a third party opportunity in the meantime. 5) Derfs: are the party pack owners going to be given free upgrades to the latest SDK when 1.3/4 is released to the general developer public? Fleecy: Another one I'll have to get back to you on. I don't decide sales and marketing policy. Update: Anyone has has an officially registered copy of the SDK 1, which means an AD developer number and an appropriately mmarked AmiPASS will receive a few copy of SDK 2.0 to download or an at cost copy for a physical SKU (cost of product plus postage and packing). 6) Loki1: Will important AmigaOS4 information become exclusively available to Amiga Club members? Fleecy: Why on earth would that be done? Surely it's in our interest to provide as much information as possible to as wide an audience as possible about our upcoming flagship product. Club Amiga is for those who want to be more involved and get more detailed information about the Amiga community and acts as a focus for bringing that community together, with features on user groups, dealers, Amigans, general technology topics that affect Amiga and with some more detailed articles on AmigaOS4.0 development. This is information of interest although I wouldn't say that it is important, not important as in terms of progress and release. We have started posting this articles of interest as we always said we would. 7) Treke: Does Amiga Inc have any plans for moving a desktop OS to machines based on IBM PPC 970 ? Fleecy: We are always looking at new options for the AmigaOS and this is indeed an interesting one. 8) ikir: Will there be a bundled game with OS4, like SIN? Any bundled applications? Fleecy: We do not bundle full applications because it can skew a market, favour one developer over another in a competitive market space, and fails to provide the developer with the full potential of that product. It is more often a cheap gimmick to fill out the lack of functionality in the core product. We have talked extensively with developers and they are happier to provide lite versions of their applications in a contributions drawer on the AmigaOS4.0 CD, allowing users to look at a variety of applications, get a good feel for them and then proceed to make a purchase based upon their experience. 9) Dan: Who has the IP and copyright of the orginal Amigas and their chipsets Amiga Inc or Gateway? And if some thirdparty company was intrested in building a AGA-compatibility card for the AmigaOne the sameway the Catweaselcard provides diskdrive-compatibility for AmigaOne would it be possible for them to license the AGAchipset design? Fleecy: I would have to check the exact details but if someone is interested in such a product they can contact me as a first step. 10) Jose: Will the people that developed for Classic AmigaOS still be at ease with Amiga Generation2 technology?, Will there be things that will remain the same ? Fleecy: It will be recognisable as an Amiga system to them. You should see the uproar on the OS4 team list when someone suggests adding something that is from Unixland. The screams are that 'this is an Amiga, not another Unix clone'. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=6 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 13. Apr. 2003, 21:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2003` A.D.A.	A.D.A.: Logo gallery updated A.D.A., the 'Amiga Demo Archive' have updated their Logo archive with 15 new logos. Among those are logos by Sec4, Eswat, Ra, Made, Tee Jay, Lazur, Leunam, Louie, Blizzart, R.W.O, Diesel, Drake and Cyclone. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 13. Apr. 2003, 13:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2003` (ANF)	Pictures of Mocca Party 8 Under the title link you will find the first pictures of the Mocca Party 8 which took place from 4th to 6th April 2003 in Hirsau near Pforzheim (Germany). (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 13. Apr. 2003, 13:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2003`	New Aminet uploads as per 13th April 2003 These are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last update: AB2MLMae-Mai02.lha biz/cloan 52K+ABlitzML archiv only in german cddbfreedb.lha comm/tcp 6K+Cddb.library dropin replacement using fr ChestnutHill.lha docs/misc 110K+The Chestnut Hill Caper, by John Barnard MaritimeAdv.lha docs/misc 109K+Maritime Adventure, by John Barnard bouldercaves.lha game/jump 472K+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 856K+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive imdbDiff030404.lha misc/imdb 3.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase EDG-NapalmiRMX.mpg mods/mpg 4.6M+Remixed EDG-Napalmi Kuolema viruscommands.lha mus/midi 108K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields XG_EditIMG.lha mus/midi 24K+New Images for mus/midi/XG_Edit Artworks030218.lha pix/wfm 14M+Artworks Issue from February 18, 2003 (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 13. Apr. 2003, 12:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2003` Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)	NOMAD TEAM developing two new products As reported by AmigaFlame, the programming team 'NOMAD' is developing two new programs for AmigaOS, intent and Windows. The first project will probably be an action game for AmigaOS and intent with the working title 'NomadGMS'. The only thing known of the second program is that it will be released for AmigaOS and Windows. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 13. Apr. 2003, 12:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Apr.2003` Dietmar Knoll (ANF)	GAUHPIL: Many areas updated The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted geographically according to continents and countries. Today the following areas have been updated: Europe New Links List Lost Links List History 2003 (nba) [News message: 12. Apr. 2003, 22:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Apr.2003` Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)	AmigaDE PocketPC Paks at CompUSA At CompUSA there are from now on both AmigaDE PocketPC packages available and can be found using the search function of the website with the term "Amiga". Among other things do they contain the games by ZeoNeo. (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 12. Apr. 2003, 19:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Apr.2003` Guido Mersmann (ANF)	AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.12 - Rockford is back! BoulderDäsh is an Amiga conversion of the good old BoulderDash on the C64. With now more than 10000 (ten thousand) levels in more than 400 game files should BoulderDäsh offer a long term gaming fun. If this is not enough for people they can create own levels and games with the level editor. Compared to the version v5.11 supports v5.12 now also both C64 #?.GAM formats. Next to some small improvements contains this version approximately 5000 additional levels. The new version of BoulderDäsh RTX has already been uploaded and should appear on Aminet in the next days. Here once again the updated feature list: BoulderDäsh V5.12 1:1 BoulderDäsh clone Full speed under MC68000 Amigas with AGA, ECS or OCS Full graphic board support! Up to 256 Colors (depends on graphic set) Full sound card support (AHI)! System friendly! Can be paused and resumed at any time. requires OS 2.04 or higher Commodore styleguide conform Locale Great GUI Online Help many preferences windows Up to six players New game elements Unique record and play feature to show others how you solved the caves. Internal music player with playlist Optional full screen mode when running in RTG mode. >10000 Levels 35 graphic sets 6 character sets 5 sample sets Several hiscorelists for each game (game, level and level time records) Level and game editor Supports C64 and Atari Construction Kit Level and game files. Levels up to 100 * 100 blocks Special gravitation modes Create your personal game graphics Create your personal sample sets Create your personal game music (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 12. Apr. 2003, 19:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Apr.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Liquid Skies releases audio CD The demo scene label Liquid Skies has released a double audio CD that contains all songs of the Liquid Skies packs from #001 to #021 as audio tracks and as original packed data files. The price is 2,50 EURO for both CDs in a double CD box. The packaging costs have to be paid additionally and depend on the country where the receiver of the CDs is living in (within Germany 1,44 EURO). For further information please visit the homepage of the group under the title link in the section "CD order". Liquid Skies is very proud to be able to offer this product and is eagerly awaiting any feedback. (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 12. Apr. 2003, 16:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Apr.2003` Stefan Pietzonke (ANF)	Hardware: C64 Ethernet adapter With the Ethernet adapter you can connect a C64 to a network. The hardware bases on an embedded Ethernet card that is universally usable. It should be possible to design a circuit to connect the card with the serial or parallel port of the Amiga. Then you could for example integrate the A500 into a network. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 12. Apr. 2003, 14:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Apr.2003` Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)	Catweasel: New multidisk.device (Update) The new multidisk.device for Amiga OS (version 2.0 and up) and MorphOS now recognizes the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper in a PCI-slot of an Amiga, Amithlon or Pegasos. With this, individual Computers is the first to deliver a working floppy-driver for the Pegasos, which brings the aspiring system one step closer to the big role model "Amiga". Burning CDs to transfer small amounts of data is no longer necessary, now you can use floppy disks of all common disk formats like Amiga 880K, Amiga 1760K, PC720K, PC1440K and many more. The device is a public beta version, and it uses OpenPCI to recognize and activate the board. Unfortunately, neither the authors of OpenPCI, nor we could get hold of developer information about the Mediator PCI board, so this will not be supported until further notice. Download: mdisk363.lha (16KBytes) The homepage of the author of OpenPCI is located at http://www.chez.com/titan/. Update 12.04.2003 from Jens Schönfeld: Our initial news item claimed that we're the first to deliver a working floppy driver for the Pegasos. There is one more solution by a third party, but that will only allow you to access 720K and 1440K disks. (nba) [News message: 11. Apr. 2003, 23:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Apr.2003` Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)	Amiga Inc.: AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS 4 »This description is meant as addition to our AmigaOS4 feature list. For first impressions about the new functionalities, please have a read in the mentioned document. OS4's AmiDock allows to be configured by the user in a very high degree. Picture 1 shows 4 different examples of docks in icon mode. The top-most has a drag bar, and fully transparent backgrounds. If someone wants to see a border around a dock: no problem - this is shown in the second example. Of course you also can create a fully invisible dock which has neither a drag bar nor a border (third example). Finally we see a dock which draws a background, has a border but no drag bar. Of course it is possible to choose those styles for each different dock.« Have a look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Apr. 2003, 22:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Apr.2003`	Several software news (11.04.2003) Amigan Software Tool: Report+ version 5.66b - Download: ReportPlus.lha - 312 KB RC5-72 Clients AmigaOS [PPC/WarpOS] v2.9005.483 [PPC/PowerUp] v2.9005.483 [m68k] v2.9005.483 InstallerNG 'InstallerNG' is an alternative to the installer tool by Commodore. Only 'InstallerNG' supports e.g. MUI (via plugin) and offers a CPU recognition for the MC68060 as well as PPC processor. 'InstallerNG' will be part of AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. On 8th April 2003 version 50 was sent to the developer teams of Amiga and MorphOS for beta tests. Burning software: MakeCD Under the title link you can download the new makecdfs.module v45.8 and MakeCD beta v3.2d10. MaxUAE - The Amiga emulator for MacOS X There are the following new programs ready for dwonload for the emulator: DMS2ADF - Tool for unarchiving of .dms-archives ADFCreator - Tool for creating of Amiga Disk Files LBreakout 2 for MorphOS "The polished successor to LBreakout offers you a new challenge in more than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks, regenerative bricks, indestructible bricks, chaotic bricks). And if you're through with all the levels you can create complete new levelsets with the integrated easy-to-use level editor!" Download: LBreakout2.lha - 2,5 MB DTP: Pagestream for Linux Second PageStream Linux beta released. Users who purchase a copy of the Linux version now will receive access to the interim and final Linux releases. Users who participate in the testing will also receive TextFX for Linux at no charge as thanks! (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Apr. 2003, 19:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Apr.2003`	Aminet Uploads (11.04.2003) Here are the new Aminet uploads: IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1c tsl-mentro.lha demo/ecs 210K+The Silents FR presents Intro? Dentro? M FlashROM.lha disk/cdrom 18K+Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of Pl DMS2HD_PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish locale for DMS2HD 1.6 amigazette_10.lha docs/mags 883K+AMIGAzette 10th issue (10.02.2002) (ital amigazette_11.lha docs/mags 185K+AMIGAzette 11th issue (25.03.2002) (ital boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 852K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive boulderdaeshfu.lha game/jump 2.4M+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive Arkanos.lha game/misc 405K+Break out game like ARKANOID V2.0 wipes.lha gfx/ifx 21K+Wipe/Transition Arexx Script v0.4 for IF ambot.lha hard/drivr 35K+Cybot (Real Robots) programmer v1.3 DiabloMon.lha hard/hack 34K+Diavolo Backup monitor on i2c LED displa ZXLive.lha misc/emu 86K+ZX-Spectrum 48/128k emulator v0.16b ANR-kickass.lha mus/play 16K+Kickass Uproar skin for AmiNetRadio ANR-Kickass_pr.jpg mus/play 34K+Preview of Kickass Uproar ; skin for Ami NewHomer.lha util/misc 98K+Talkin' Homer V1.83 (yet some fixes, mor StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 91K+Italian version of StartBar (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Apr. 2003, 17:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Apr.2003` Kuno Hutter (E-Mail)	Pro-Linux.de: PowerPC with preinstalled Linux »Probably from Friday 11th April the AmigaOne will be available and if wanted with preinstalled Linux.« Have a look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Apr. 2003, 17:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Apr.2003` Kicko (ANF)	Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.6 Hopefully the commands are now complete. Instead like last version using values lower than 127 i now made them to send only values that are described in the manual. So now it wont confuse virus and are more safe and compatible. But something says me.... there will be another more complete package later. I hope there is someone that has Virus and use this commands. However if there is other midiprogram makers that wants me to do versions for their midipackage. Sure i could do it. Just ask. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Apr. 2003, 12:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Apr.2003` Mandrake Soft Website (ANF)	Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC published Mandrake has published version 9.1 of the Linux-distribution for PPC. The features are e. g.: Linux kernel 2.4.21 XFree86 4.3.0 KDE 3.1 GNOME 2.2 OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 Mozilla 1.3 Apache 2 Samba 2.2.7 Mac-on-Linux is also integrated. The hardware support is there only for Macs. Furthermore there is an alternative kernel which is called the "BenH". We do not know if Ben Hermans is meant with this name! (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Apr. 2003, 11:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Apr.2003` Joachim Thomas - Bitplane (ANF)	Webb.it: Amiga-companies at the biggest IT-show in Italy Virtual Works, Soft 3 and Bitplane Magazine will be present together at the next edition of "Webb.it", one of the most important IT-shows in Italy, attended by thousands of visitors every year. Virtual Works and Soft 3 will show the more recent development on the Amiga-platform offering the possibility to see in action the two new systems, the AmigaOne and the Pegasos, together with some AmigaDE products. Bitplane, the only Italian printed magazine with CD, will be present with its more recent issue. This year the show will be held in Padova from 9th to 11th of may at "PadovaFiere" (Padova Exibition Center). The team is pleased to meet all the Amiga users at their stand to let the world know that Amiga is finally coming back! (nba) [News message: 10. Apr. 2003, 22:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Apr.2003`	InterVideo: Microsofts Multimedia Format for Linux-based devices InterVideo, Inc. announced today that Microsoft has chosen the company as a provider of its Windows Media Technology for Linux-based consumer electronics. Under the agreement InterVideo is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format, port them over to Linux and provide them to manufacturers who are interested in running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer devices such as set-top boxes, personal video recorders and other hybrid multimedia devices. (nba) [News message: 10. Apr. 2003, 22:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Apr.2003` WHDLoad (Website)	WHDLoad: New Packets through August 4th, 2003 With WHDLoad, it's possible to install to your hard-drive games which were previously considered floppy-only. The following packets have been added or updated since our last announcement: 08.04.03 improved: Space Ace 2 (Ready Soft) supports another version, new icon 08.04.03 new: Galdregons Domain (Pandora) done by Galahad 06.04.03 new: Red Baron (Dynamix) done by JOTD 06.04.03 new: Kelly X (Virgin/Mastertronic) done by JOTD 06.04.03 improved: Hostages / Operation Jupiter (Infogrames) access fault fixed 06.04.03 improved: Eye of the Beholder (Westwood/SSI) supports kixx xl version 06.04.03 improved: Turbo Outrun (U.S.Gold) fixed keyboard and blitter routines 06.04.03 improved: Plotting (Ocean) fixed audio and colour bit routines 06.04.03 new: Elf (Ocean) done by Psygore 03.04.03 improved: International Ninja Rabbits / Ninja Rabbits (Microvalue/Flair) supports another version 03.04.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) supports AGA version, icon fixed (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 10. Apr. 2003, 17:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Apr.2003` GoldED Website	GoldED: C/C++ IDE and PayPal Payment The cprefs program, which is utilized in the C/C++ mode of the GoldED text editor in order to carry out compiler option for gcc and vbcc, has been updated and now contains online help for all options. From here on out the secure online payment of the registration fee for GoldED Studio is immediately possible through the payment service PayPal. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 10. Apr. 2003, 17:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Apr.2003` Golem IT-News	Golem: New Copyright as Good as Succeeded The new copyright regulation is almost completed: After lengthy parliamentary consultation the Rights Division accepted the government's legal draft for the regulation of copyrights in the information domain, in spite of the objections of the FDP [a German political party -dm] element and in spite of proposed changes offered by CDU/CSU [other German political parties -dm] and the FDP. The new copyright is being criticized harshly from several quarters, among other things it's feared that the new regulation will take away an individual's right to make private copies. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 10. Apr. 2003, 15:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Apr.2003` Richard Kapp (ANF)	GFX-BASE: Interview with Benjamin "Titan" Vernoux The online magazine GFX-BASE spoke with Benjamin Vernoux about his OpenPCI Project. In this interesting interview Benjamin also speaks to other interesting topics, and gives a preview of some planned projects. Read this interview led by SOL-Invictus (English language) under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 10. Apr. 2003, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Apr.2003` Kultpower.de (ANF)	Kultpower.de: New Amiga Joker Test Reports and More There are a few new developments on Kultpower.de, a Web project to which the game magazines ASM, PowerPlay, Videogames and Amiga Joker are dedicated. New Amiga Joker test reports from the September and October 1990 editions: Back to the Future 2, Flood, Last Ninja 2, Loom, Neuromancer, Oops Up, Operation Stealth, Starblade, Wings. New Videogames test reports from the September and October 1993 editions: Afterburner 3 (Mega CD), Batman Returns (Mega CD), Cobra Command (Mega CD), Ecco the Dolphin (Mega CD), Final Fight (Mega CD), Gunstar Heroes (Mega Drive), Jaguar XJ 220 (Mega CD), Night Trap (Mega CD), Sherlock Holmes (Mega CD), Shinobi 2 (Mega Drive), Silpheed (Mega CD), Thunderhawk (Mega CD), Time Gal (Mega CD). A new Powerplay article from the March, 1995 edition: "From Pong to Pentium". New cover under "More Mags": 14 additional covers of the newspaper Next Level. New cover under "More Mags": the first 6 covers of the newspaper Telematch (very rare!). The organizers thank all their helpers: Gerald, matze, Chronos and Ralph! (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 10. Apr. 2003, 15:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Apr.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	individual Computers: C-One production started After more than two years development time, the C-One production has started. It'll start selling on May 5th in Germany and the Netherlands. Our other European partners should have the boards by May 9th, when the board will also be launched in North America. Many projects have dealt with re-configurable computers so far, but none of them is as consistent and flexible as the C-One. Other projects only kept parts of the hardware re-configurable, but the C-One can change the behaviour of it's chipset even during runtime. Therefore, the C-One is the world's first re-configurable computer. Read more on the official homepage of the C-One. (nba) [News message: 10. Apr. 2003, 15:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Apr.2003` Terra Soft	Terra Soft discontinues development of ATX PowerPC-systems Terra Soft Solutions has determined that it is not, at this point in time, prudent to carry the Teron mainboards nor offer Teron-based Boxer systems. This is as great a disappointment for the company as it is for many of you. Terra Soft Solutions were truly excited to bring this particular ATX PowerPC Linux product to market. If you have read the rumor mills, there are a variety of supposed reasons why the company has been delayed in shipping, including unqualified statements and speculation at best. It is their corporate policy to not address specific issues regarding any strategic relationship within a public forum, where fact and fiction are not easily discernable, and their fiduciary responsibility to their customers, shareholders, and industry associates may be compromised. Terra Soft Solutions regrets having launched a product initiative and built expectations prior to receiving first shipment. They have clearly learned a powerful lesson and do extend their apology to their customers, their existing and potential customers. As the Teron mainboard and associated systems will be made available through other resellers, Terra Soft Solutions will encourage them to sign-on as official Yellow Dog Linux resellers in order that they may continue to support movement of what they hope to be a very popular product. (nba) [News message: 10. Apr. 2003, 00:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Apr.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Collectors pieces: Amiga clones "Access" available The Italian dealer Soft3 seems to have some units of the Amiga clone "Access" on stock (title link). The exact number of pieces is unknown. Probably Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene the owner of Soft3 will tell more details within a thread at Amiga.org which covered this item firstly. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 09. Apr. 2003, 19:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Apr.2003` Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)	Audio CD "Power Liquids" by Bjorn Lynne and Aural Planet released Bjorn Lynne by the CD label LynneMusic is proud to announce the release of the new audio CD "Power Liquids". This is a CD which was made by a cooperation of the both electronic/trance acts DIVINORUM and AURAL PLANET during the last months. "Power Liquids" includes elements from trance, elektronic, ambient and ethnic music to create a warm, living and positve elektronic album. All CDs which will be sent during the first 14 days after release will be enumerated individually and signed by Bjorn Lynne. The CD costs US$ 14.99 and might purchased alternativly within one of three bundles (Savings from $10 for all three Divinorum CDs, of $18.99 for all for AuralPlanets CDs or of $21.95 for all six Aural Planet and Divinorum CDs possible). Ordering and further details are to find at the website of LynneMusic by the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 09. Apr. 2003, 15:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Apr.2003` Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)	"Journey to Northland" for MorphOS and Mac OS announced Funatics Software GmbH and e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh announced today that Cultures 2 sequel "Northland" will be ported to the Apple Mac and MorphOS. "We are very happy to be able to bring one of the most popular Godgame series to gamers on the Apple Mac and MorphOS" said Thomas Steiding, CEO of e.p.i.c. about the deal. Thomas Friedman, CEO of Funatics added: "e.p.i.c. is the ideal partner for us to bring "Northland" to an even larger audience. Unfortunately users of systems like Macintosh or the new MorphOS are poorly supported when it comes to innovative new games. We intend to fill this gap with the release of "Northland" for these platforms. The story of "Northland" begins where the plot of "Cultures 2 - The Gates of Asgard" ended. After perilous adventures our four heroes defeated the Midgard serpent and thus saved the world. But one day they were disturbed by a call for help from their friend Hatschi. Hatschi's homeland was plagued by mysterious monstrous serpent creatures, which spread chaos and destruction through the country. Without hesitation Byjami and Crya hurried to help him and stumbled right into a new adventure, in which the sly god Loki will play an important role... Features Northland: Stand-alone Adventure Strategy game. Single player campaign with 8 missions including several sub missions. The exciting plots tells the story of Viking God Loki who tried to take revenge on Godfather Odin for his banishment from Asgard to Earth. For that he abuses our four human heroes with his intrigues and traps. 8 additional free single player missions (non campaign). 3 difficulty levels to make the game fun for everybody from beginners to experts. Special effects like weather effects, fog, ghost units etc. Based on the enhanced technology of "Cultures 2 - The Gates of Asgard"; enhanced AI. More information on "Northland" can be found at Northland or e.p.i.c interactive. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 09. Apr. 2003, 15:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Apr.2003` xfr autor himself (ANF)	Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.1 available Who does not kow XFD and XAD by Dirk Stöcker and the Exoticripper or Eagleplayer. XFR is a similar system which combines the best of all them to extract music tracks and pictures out of demo files. XFR offers a library and several clients for each sound format. A genie for the delitracker and the Eagleplayer and some Shell/WB tools for scanning whole directories or floppy disks in the twinkling of an eye is included also. The XFR system is like the other X systems easily expandable with additional clients and comes along with a bunch of example code and a developer guide. I still need some support for the C header files but the assembler includes are finished already. Useful development information is obtainable at the home page (looking at these strongly recommended). (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 09. Apr. 2003, 10:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Apr.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Pegasos: List of supported RAM modules At MorphZone there is a list available of tested RAM modules which work with the Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 09. Apr. 2003, 10:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Apr.2003` Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)	Genesi: Offer 20 Pegasos I for Phoenix members Genesi Sarl will offer up to 20 more Pegasos I machines with the April2 patch to Phoenix members for $299 through the Pegasos-USA website. This offer includes: the Pegasos mainboard and G3 600MHZ CPU module an ATX backplate MorphOS 1.3 CD MorphOS Games: Birdie Shoot, Feeble Files, Tales of Tamar, Software Tycoon ProStationAudio Titanium DebianPPC for Pegasos with Mac-on-Linux a MorphOS "We have a Present for You" t-shirt two stickers for your case A4 connector guide Other extras and updates will be distributed through the new Pegasos User FTP. You will also to be subscribed to the very useful, supportive, and positive Pegasos User Mailing List. These are ALL new boards. Recycled Betatester boards are being used internally in Genesi ONLY. If you are unable to use the Pegasos-USA website, please contact Thierry to coordinate a direct wire transfer to Genesi. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 08. Apr. 2003, 21:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Apr.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies Records #032 After a short break of five days here are now the latest music pack #032 of Liquid Skies Records. It contains a track from Maxus in Trance style, but it is not a typical Trance track because it is only 2:48 min. It as always available for free download from the website. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 08. Apr. 2003, 20:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Apr.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	Sound card: New delfina.library online The new version of the delfina.library now supports the sound card on all clockports that are available on Zorro-cards by individual Computers. This includes X-Surf, X-Surf 2, VarIO, Buddha Flash and ISDN-Surfer. The library can be used on the new Delfina by individual Computers or on the old clockport version by Petsoff. Download: delflib416b43.lha (22 KB) (nba) [News message: 08. Apr. 2003, 20:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Apr.2003` Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)	VHT-Canada online again After three days offline due to problems at the provider Shadow Creations is now the website of `Virus Help Team Canada' available. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 08. Apr. 2003, 11:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Apr.2003` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox: Spider II for Mediator- and Amithlon-user Elbox Computer is proud to announce release of Spider II--the new version of the ground-breaking Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed controller. Spider II is based on the newest USB 2.0 PCI chipset, improving data transmission by up to 20 percent of bandwidth as compared with the previous USB 2.0 chipset. The Spider II USB 2.0 PCI card is a simple and affordable way to add five Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports to Mediator-equipped Amigas or to computers running AmigaOS under the Amihlon emulation. USB 2.0 is the fastest USB standard ever, supporting data speeds up to 480Mbps. That is 40 times faster than USB 1.1, making USB 2.0 ideal for external storage devices, scanners, CD-RWs, printers, cameras, and more. The Spider II USB 2.0 PCI card gives your computer the highest USB speeds available today. The Spider II USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI controller is backward-compatible, which means it works also with older USB 1.1 peripherals. Features Five USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports: four external and one internal 32-bit 33MHz DMA host interface compiliant with the PCI 2.2 specification Compliant with the EHCI (USB 2.0) and OHCI (USB 1.1) specifications Consists of three independent host controllers: two OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface) and one EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface) All ports can handle high-speed (480Mbps), full-speed (12Mbps) and low-speed (1.5Mbps) transactions Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port Supports the PCI-Bus Power Management Interface Includes drivers for AmigaOS for all Mediator busboards and for Amithlon Amiga support works under the Poseidon stack Requirements One free PCI slot Mediator Multimedia CD (for Mediator based systems) Package contents Spider II USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI card CD with Mediator and Amithlon EHCI (USB 2.0) drivers for Poseidon Pricing and availability The Spider II USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card will be on sale as of 15 April 2003, at the suggested retail price of EUR 49.95 (VAT excl.) To locate an authorized distributor visit the Elbox Computer website. For purchase directly from Elbox go to the Spider II page in the Elbox Online Store. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 08. Apr. 2003, 11:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Apr.2003` Martin Wolf (E-Mail)	Workbench: Easys-Patch 4.8.5 available The latest update of the system enhancer 'Easys' is available on the service pack site. Please take a look at the Readme. Support and registration: sonja_n@gmx.de. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 08. Apr. 2003, 11:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Apr.2003` AMIGAplus	AMIGAplus 03/2003 - DraCoZilla DraCo lives - and so does AMIGAplus. Read all those and more reports in the current issue 03/2003 (#134) to be ordered at http://www.amigaplus.de: DraCo lives: Workshop Videoediting Review: Knights and Merchants - Grande Strategicale Review: VHI Studio 6 - Take your pics to the studio Review: IBrowse 2.3 - Surfing with comfort Review: BoXiKoN - Tetris Deluxe MorphOS-Compatibility: How AmigaOS-strong is MOS? Amiga Status Report: SNAP! SNAP! Baseknowledge: CD-Burners News: What's up in the markets? Workshop: Games Development with SDL, part 3 Up in the north: Kindergarden #%00001010 Cover-CD #20: Crossfire II Big Demo, ARC 2002 Video etc. and much more (nba) [News message: 07. Apr. 2003, 21:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Apr.2003` AMIGAplus	Address of the editorial office of AMIGAplus changed The editorial staff of AMIGAplus moved office. Please note the new postal address: AMIGAplus Drachenfelsstr. 57 D-50939 Köln (Cologne) Germany Phone number (0221 / 430 82 933), fax number (0221 / 430 82 939), eMail-address (info@amigaplus.de) and website-address http://www.amigaplus.de) stay the same. (nba) [News message: 07. Apr. 2003, 21:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Apr.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 07.04.2004 Here the new Aminet Uploads since our last message: MiamiDxCT.lha comm/net 37K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe bouldercaves.lha game/jump 272K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive bouldergames.lha game/jump 1.1M+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive bouldergraph.lha game/jump 196K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Graphics Archive bouldersound.lha game/jump 184K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Sound Archive jd800commands.lha mus/midi 12K+Roland JD-800 commands for tracks&fields viruscommands.lha mus/midi 104K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Apr. 2003, 20:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Apr.2003` Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)	Event: Commodore show and SID music workshop Ron van Schaik writes: Hello C= fans, At Saturday 19th April there will be a C= show at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland from 10:00 to 16:00 o'clock. On this show we will organize a SID music workshop in Hall 2. There will be a beamer with wide screen and demonstrations from Marinus Kuivenhoven how to make a nice SID music MP3. From Germany firestARTer will be present with his SIDsyn. It's not sure, if he can show a 'running' SIDsyn but otherwise he will talk about some theoreticals and about the SID. Further he will show a lot about the music-scene and about the game/SID sounds for new releases (POP/electro). Also there will be a stereo C64 (with a double build-in SID) from the German guy Dirk Kledtke. In the other hall will we organize our regular show and the hall will be totally filled with all kinds of Commodore computers. For example there will be a Commodore 3000H (from our Irish visitor Jesper). This is a kind of Pong game for on television and was built in 1975. Further we will have a Hyper VIC20 who was built by Ruud Baltissen. The Hyper VIC20 is a Commodore VIC-20 with some extra features. The two main ones are the 16-bits 6502 compatible 65816 processor and it can be equipped with 8-bits PC ISA-cards. These cards only work well with a processor that can address up to 1 MB and unfortunately the 6502 only supports 64 KB. Look for more information at our homepage under the title link. Lots of greetings, Ron (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Apr. 2003, 20:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Apr.2003` Michael Böhmer (ANF)	USB: Benchmarks zur ALGOR online Due to many inquiries for the speed of the new ALGOR Zorro II USB controller by E3B they completely revised the benchmark page. Now you can find benchmarks for all USB controllers offered and tested on different system configurations. The list of compatible USB devices has been revised too. E3B thanks all users, which supported E3B with entries. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Apr. 2003, 20:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Apr.2003` Guido Mersmann (ANF)	AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX - Rockford is back Guido Mersmann wrote: As already announced some days ago, I can intimate the publication of BoulderDaesh RTX. BoulderDaesh RTX is a 1:1 conversion of the good old C64 and was here and there drilled out, without reducing the game play. BoulderDaesh RTX runs on Amiga-OS-COMPATIBLE systems starting with the A500 up to fast Amithlon systems. The Picasso96, Cybergraphics and AHI support permits 100% hardware independence. Beside the well-known additional archives there is now also an archive called "boulderdaeshfull.lha" available, which contains all currently in the Aminet available data. Included are many small archives available in the Aminet wich have been made available by their respective authors. The most important game play innovations in comparisson to the original C64 version are an integrated game and level editor. A music player with playlist support as well as the possibility to easily integrate own music, samples, graphics and fonts into the game. When using your own levels they can even change from level to level. New play elements and the enormous level offer round off the extension. The new BoulderDaesh RTX V5.11 archives are already on their way to the Aminet and will be available in the next few days. BoulderDaesh RTX - He will rock you! Finally a list of all features: 1:1 BoulderDäsh clone Full speed under MC680x0 Amigas with AGA, ECS or OCS Full graphic board support! Up to 256 Colors (depends on graphic set) Full sound card support (AHI)! System friendly! Can be paused and resumed at any time. requires OS 2.04 or higher Commodore styleguide conform Locale Great GUI Online Help many preferences windows Up to six players New game elements Unique record and play feature to show others how you solve the caves. Internal music player with playlist Full screen mode when running in RTG mode. >5700 Levels 35 graphic sets 6 character sets 5 sample sets Several hiscorelists for each game (game, level and level time records) Level and game editor Supports C64 and Atari Construction Kit Levels. Levels up to 100 * 100 blocks Special gravitation modes Create your personal game graphics Create your personal sample sets Create your personal game music (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Apr. 2003, 10:57] [Comments: 1 - 10. Apr. 2003, 02:44] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Apr.2003` Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)	Demoscene: Worldcharts#15 published The Amiga version of the Chartmags Worldcharts#15 by Scoopex & The Silents & Hoodlum was published last week. At the title link you can download the improved version, in which even the second song is now playable. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Apr. 2003, 10:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Apr.2003` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Demoscene: Announcement dentro for Jurassic Pack#12 released The announcement dentro for the demoscene diskmag 'Jurassic Pack' no. 12 has recently been released on the Swedish Deadline 2003 party. Any further details are available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Apr. 2003, 10:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Apr.2003` Kicko (ANF)	Music: Roland JD800 MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.1 Made system area and part area commands for JD800. The rest of commands im going to make sometime in future when i know more about coding or when i get help with it. So look out maybe it will come sooner or later. I will try to make my best. This package is made as roland jd800 has some bugs in ROM so you can save the sysex with tracks&fields and then put this commands in the music you are creating. The part effects and values are the ones that... at last on my computer arent saved for some reason. I have the latest ROM. And ofcours you can use the commands to play with the settings in the music. If i make more commands than it would be even more fun as there would be controlling more buttons realtime. heh. Later on. As usual, if anyone finds this usefull please tell me and write a short letter. It can be whatever. I like it, dislike it etc. (ps) [News message: 06. Apr. 2003, 21:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Apr.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 4 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 4 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database): 1) AutumnSun: does AInc has any plans for a very low cost Amiga? i.e. erverything on board + TVout and possibly only some flash-memory (but optional external HD) Fleecy: Amiga is actively promoting the benefits of AmigaOS4 and beyond to many companies who have great interest in seeing a resource frugal, high performance multimedia OS on the PPC and other architectures. We are talking with such companies about all manner of devices, not just desktops. At least one of our AmigaOS partners tells us that they are working on a device similar to what you describe with the intention of seeing it run some form of AmigaOS4. 2) ssolie: How do you plan to support Amiga users groups with the launch of AmigaOS 4.0? Press kits? Free posters? Anything like that? Fleecy: We have a staged public approach to this, although private contacts are going on all the time. The new Amiga Power Platform website needs to go live first and work is progressing on that. We will then use that to capture as much uptodate user group information as possible and then bring these together in a user group forum where we can share our strategies with them and get feedback from them. What we want to do is create a single core marketing pack for any user group but which can then be tailored by that user group. Obviously there are a core set of requirements but each group also knows its domain better than we do and our role has to be one of support whilst allowing those groups to prosecute their own plans. MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 Fleecy: Before I answer these, I need to point out that AmigaOS5 is a work in progress, and a long term product goal. Many will criticise me for even agreeing to try to answer these questions since it breaks our policy of don't say anything until it is ready but I would point out that these are not official statements or press releases. They are me trying to give an insight into what is going on in an effort to satisfy the requests for information by the community. Whether people believe them or not is upto them. There is no intention here to mislead, only to inform but plans, timescales and focus will always change. 3) MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 - are you already working on it and what is going on currently? Fleecy: Yes we are already working on it, but that comes with the rider that working on it can involve anything from concept, planning, design, blue skying, whiteboarding and prototyping. Code does exist for it and it runs but will it be in the final release? I cannot say at this point. 4) MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 - when will it be ready? (please more precise than "when it is done(tm)") Fleecy: We aren't even ready to give a release date for AmigaOS4.0 yet so I certainly can't give even a vague date for AmigaOS5.0. We have at least 3 planned revisions to AmigaOS4 itself before we get to AmigaOS5.0 5) MichaelMerkel: some questions concerning OS5 - will OS5 be a completely new os from ground of or will it be based on some sources? Fleecy: AmigaOS5.0 will mark the first time when there is no more Amiga Generation 1 technology in the AmigaOS. It will be 100% Amiga Generation 2. That said, Amiga Generation 2 will include many parts in its Opportunity Analysis, including a full review of the existing AG1 elements for each domain. 6) moood: Will there be any Amiga-Anywhere/AmigaDE-players for any Symbian-devices (like Nokia 7650/3650 and Sony Ericsson P800) anytime soon? Fleecy: Amiga Anywhere already has a prototype running on Series 80 and we are working hard on a commercial release for series 60. We are working with partners to a timeframe of commercial release to coincide with new handset releases and so are dependent on their timesclaes. 7) sgm: Which markets are targeted by AmigaOS4 and AmigaDE? Fleecy: The AmigaDE is marketed as a total content solution, which means content on a device, whether that be on a dedicated device, in a player on a device or host transparent to the device. It's targets are thus any device that needs content, Smartphones, PDAs, STBS, desktops. It isn't being marketed as a complete environment for those devices, although we have had interest in such a deployment. The AmigaOS is marketed as a platform, which means it is a combination of HW requirements and Operating system and Application layer. This immediately points to the obvious desktop but the bigger markets are in other device classes, STBS, Information Consoles and solutions. This will all come together as the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE slowly integrate. 8) alx : In the features PDF, there is planned support for the catweasel's joystick and keyboard ports. Will OS4 be able to use floppy drives connected to it, to read old-style Amiga disks? Fleecy: There is no reason why this shouldn't work. It just requures an AmigaOS4.0 native driver. 9) MetalJoe: Will OS4 be bundled with a developer kit CD? If not, will the OS4 SDK be made available for free? Fleecy: It will not be part of the user distribution but will be available as a free download or as an at cost CD. This is subject to change though as our developer support strategy evolves. 10) jurassiccamper: How does Amiga plan to get the platform up to date in terms of internet technologies so we can at least have a pleasurable and equal online experience? Eg: Real Audio / Real Video, Java, Plug and Play networking to other Amigas / Macs / PC's. Fleecy: As I said before we are closely watching the Apple strategy with Safari. We have had contact with Real Networks and other providers of Internet technology but most provide the same answer. Show us a viable platform or show us a lot of money. Both are not available at the moment. The solution is to improve what we have in stages until we have that equal, and then better online experience and that has to start from the ground up. AmigaOS4.0's network capabilities are an order of magnitude better than they have been in the past. Next we have to expand the media capabilities, followed by the user environment itself. As each one of these falls into place, the horizontal technologies can be implemented, which make use of these core vertical technologies. We have made it known that we are looking at excelling in the 90% of desktop computer usage by the average person and Internet is obviously a major component of that usage. We hope to provide a major improvement in the area in AmigaOS4.1. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=5 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Apr. 2003, 21:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Apr.2003` Kicko (ANF)	Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.5 This update of tracks&fields uses much less characters in filenames and uses hex for commandnumbers to make them shorter. Midicommands are updated to check if it gets higher parameter value then 127. If so it does not send any data at all. It should work better sending higher then 127 is onlyt taking more miditraffic when the virus only accepts upto 127. Soon i will release some commandsets for the Roland JD800 synthesizers. But not all as it's not easy to do commands for JD800 as for Virus. However i will probably get some help so maybe there will come updates too. It would be nice if people that have this synthesizer tell me so i know there are people using them. However as not many people uses t&f i will later make commands for HDRec so i think there will be some people interested. (nba) [News message: 06. Apr. 2003, 14:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Apr.2003` Brad Webb (E-Mail)	Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030331 You can find the complete newsletter of Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for March 2002 under the title link. In his newsletter Brad Webb summarises all Amiga themed news on a monthly basis. Topics of this issue: Amiga Club Slovenia is 5 years old Announcing AmiWest 2003 Amiga bows out of CeBIT Weekly Q&A Sessions with Fleecy Zeoneo acquires Candy Factory DiscreetFX Logo-Contest-Prizes ALT-WoA 2003 postponed Cinemaware problem statement Music Files Free distribution Algor replaces HIGHWAY - E3B WinUAE 0.8.22 Rel. 5 announced Perfect Paint V2.92 is available Pixload Version 3 announced (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Apr. 2003, 14:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Apr.2003` David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)	Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results of March/April 2003 Here the results of the Amiga Games Hit Parade - March/April 2003: ( 1) Payback - 118 pts ( 5) Slam Tilt - 116 pts ( 4) Napalm - 107 pts ( 2) Quake - 96 pts ( 6) The Settlers - 93 pts ( 3) Tales Of Tamar - 87 pts ( 8) Foundation - 80 pts ( 7) Sensible World Of Soccer - 76 pts ( 9) Earth 2140 - 73 pts (12) Quake 2 - 57 pts (18) Worms / Worms DC - 55 pts (25) Super Stardust - 52 pts (15) Fields Of Battle - 52 pts (45) Crossfire 2 - 52 pts (14) Exodus The Last War - 46 pts (19) Moonstone - 46 pts (11) WipeOut 2097 - 44 pts (26) Turrican 2 - 42 pts (13) Freespace - 40 pts (10) Heretic 2 - 38 pts This Hit Parade and others rankings can be seen at the title link. Next votes (Amiga Games Hit Parade of May/June 2003) will begin in mid-may. (ps) [News message: 06. Apr. 2003, 12:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Apr.2003` Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)	C.A.P.S. Update 06.04.2003 Here the most recent update of C.A.P.S.: The Classic Amiga Preservation Society (C.A.P.S.) preserves 100% pure original Amiga games for the future. Update includes: First German release - Fatal Heritage, New work-in-progress report, Plugin updated to support "flakey bits" (see WIP) - to play Fatal Heritage, you will need this updated library! New comprehensive scanning guidelines for boxes, manuals etc. See the website for more info: www.caps-project.org. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Apr. 2003, 12:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Apr.2003` Falcon (ANF)	Elastic Images: Ordering page for Show CD-ROM set up As from now the Show CD-ROM (we reported) can also be ordered through my home page. This page also features the possibility to have the total cost calculated (depending on number of ordered items, type of shipping, etc.). This is also possible without giving an address. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Apr. 2003, 12:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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