As always, doors will be open at 12 noon., However, like last year we anticipate a large queue at opening time. So if you want to waltz past everyone, why not get your tickets before the show?

Buy five tickets or more and you pay only 3.00 GBP each instead of the usual 3.50 GBP per ticket.

Tickets can be purchased in advance from the following Amiga dealers;

Forematt Home Computing: http://www.forematt.co.uk
(Visa, Mastercard and Cash)

Kicksoft: http://www.kicksoft.com
(Visa, Mastercard, Delta, JCB, Solo, Switch and Cash)

• 2002-09-25 22:49 - UAE 0.8.14 with CD32 joypad support: SixK has modified UAE 0.8.14 to use lowlevel.library. You will now be able to play UAE with a CD 32 pad and maybe in a near future with a PC Joypad connected to your sound blaster card... Download: uae_0.8.14.lzx
  
  
• 2002-09-25 00:13 - SDL Games: pachi_demo 0.1 available for 68k. You will find Pachi_Demo 0.1 jump&run game inspired from games like jetset willy. Run fine on Amithlon, too slow on 040. Download: pachi_demo.0.1.lzx.

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Speex v0.8.1
muhstik v3.14.2
nmap v3.0
Anubis v3.4.9
abcm2ps v3.1.8
Dicci v1.8
MRea v1.0
SubNewS v1.0 

• 1 x Virtual Karting 2
• 1 x Amiga Tools 2 CD & Tele-Info 2 CD
• 1 x Workbench Design CD & Steuer Profi 96 CD

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• 18/September/2002: Updated epic4 to v1.1.7
  (IRC-Client)
• 16/September/2002: Updated mpgtx to v1.3
  (MPG Manipulator)
• 16/September/2002: Updated xlHtml to v0.5.1
  (Convert Excel/PowerPoint files to HTML)
• 16/September/2002: Updated NcFTP to v3.1.4
  (FTP Client and Tools)
• 16/September/2002: Updated HTMLDOC to v1.8.22
  (HTML Processing Program)
• 16/September/2002: Updated pdfToHTML to v0.34
  (Convert PDF Documents to HTML)

• 25.09.02 improved: Numb (Movement) various improvements
• 25.09.02 updated: Sonic Attack (Dual-Crew Shining) new icons
• 25.09.02 updated: Chromagic (Dual-Crew Shining) new icons
• 25.09.02 updated: Thug Life (Essence) colour bit fixes
• 24.09.02 new: Incredible Shrinking Sphere (Electric Dreams) done by Psygore - congratulations! 100 installs!
• 23.09.02 new: Mesmerized (Pure Metal Coders) done by Galahad
• 23.09.02 improved: Impossible Mission 2025 (Microprose) now supports ECS version
• 22.09.02 new: Alien Legion (Pegasus) done by DJ Mike
• 21.09.02 new: Grid Start (Anco) done by Psygore
• 21.09.02 new: Turrican 3 Demo (Factor 5) done by Psygore
• 21.09.02 new: Sound Of Silents (Silents) done by Psygore
• 17.09.02 new: Pod (Shaun Southern) done by Codetapper
• 17.09.02 new: S.O.S. (Melon Dezign) done by Psygore
• 17.09.02 new: Man From The Council (Pumpkinsoft/Tynesoft) done by Codetapper
• 17.09.02 new: Giddy 2 (Phil Ruston) done by Codetapper
• 17.09.02 new: Game Of Harmony (Assembly Line/Accolade/US Gold) done by Codetapper
• 17.09.02 new: Duck (Gremlin) done by Codetapper

• Amigan.org: Messebericht by OnyxSoft
• AmigaRulez: Messebericht by Johan "Graak" Forsberg

• gfx/show/swfplayer.lha (138K), Readme
• gfx/show/swfplayersrc.lha (380K), Readme

• DestraCity.lha (38K)
• AlabastraCity.lha (9K)

• LjngWOS.lha
• LjngMOS.lha

• Netgear EA101 und EA101C
• Paracom Enet und Enet2
• 3Com 3C19250
• Linksys USB10T
• D-Link DSB-650 und DSB-650C
• AOX USB ETHERNET
• ADS USB-10BT
• Entrega E45
• SMC 2202USB
• Correga K.K.

• Action games
• Adventure games
• Simulation games
• Shooting games
• Board games
• Jump&run games
• Online games
• Role playing games
• Simulators
• I do never play computer games!

• IBrowseMI - new default images and a new transferanimation
• ScalOSMI - images and icons in GlowIcons design

• 12.00 h: Show-opening.
• 12.30 h: Kjell Breding/AmiGBG and Gunne Steen/GGS-Data will hold a short speech.
• 13.00 h: Ole-Egil from Norway and Justin from Denmark will present the AmigaOne and then answer questions.
• 13.45 h: Alan Redhouse of Eyetech will hold a speech and answer then questions.
• 14.30 h: Gunne Steen/GGS-Data will show parts of AmigaOS 4 on his Amiga 4000 CyberStormPPC, possibly additional seminars.
• 17.00 h: Show-End, discussions between visitors, exhibitors and speakers.
• 17.30 h: Clearance of meeting place.

• The Italian print magazine Bitplane will present Amiga Anywhere Content Engine (AACE).
• The following Italian Amiga user-groups will be present: AGI (Amiga Group Italia), Notizie Amiga, ATML (Amiga Transactor Mailing List) and ATO (Amiga Translators Organization).
• The Italian BeOS-Group will be present as exhibitor.
• Virtual Works will show the AmigaOne in Italy for the first time.

• requires OS 3.5+, MC68020 and some MB RAM
• nice and functional MUI interface.
• based on GNUChess 5.04 (newest version).
• changeable figure design using skins.
• figure control with drag&drop.
• load and save the games or configurations in PGN or EPD format (standard format).
• adjustment of the game strength by deepness of the search (measured by moves) or by time (seconds per move).
• huge library from start on (about 11 MB of data!). This library can manually be extended.
• Undo of a move.
• a commented list of best moves which can be disabled.

• Processor: 750CXe, 750FX or MPC7450
• FSB: 133 MHz
• RAM: 3 PC-133 SDRAM sockets for up to 1.5 GB
• Bandwidth: 582 MB/s

• Processor: 750CXe, 750FX or MPC7450
• FSB: 133 MHz
• RAM: 2 PC-133 SDRAM sockets for up to 2 GB
• Bandwidth: 582 MB/s
• 2x AGP-Slot
• 2-chanel UDMA-100 controller
• AC97 sound subsystem
• Optional:
     USB 2.0 controller

• Real-time gameplay.
• Two intelligent and unusual computer computer controlled opponents.
• Satiric simulation of the software business.
• Interact with real living and acting characters.
• Multiple missions and tutorial scenarios.
• Adventure-like inventory.
• Hi-Res graphics in 800x600 dpi.
• Employ the best staff and implement massive marketing campaigns for your products.
• Sabotage your ruthless opponents.
• Different buildings in horizontal scrolling Location.
• Easy development of original game concepts.

• fxSCAN Update 4.04
  This update fixes some smaller bugs concerning the co-operation with Turboprint and improves the OCR-engine considerably.

• IOUSB System Update (to 2.1)
  'Portleak'-bug of iousb.library, causing problems for example with Epson Perfection 1650 scanners, fixed.

• VHI Studio 5.71
  Improved handling of ftp-servers that do not acting according to the standard.

• Bugfix: 'Swap' did not initialise empty dirs. Thanks for reporting to: Richard Mattsson!
• Bugfix: 'Swap' did not update the gadgets properly.
• Added a trailing "/" to "%d" - at least LHA seem to need it. Thanks for reporting to Jean Marie Boucher!
• Bugfix: the arrow gadgets did not do anything. Thanks for reporting to: Richard Mattsson!

• The Citadel - 3D shooter
• Erben der Erde - CD32 adventure
• Fears - CD32 3D shooter
• Testament - A1200 3D shooter

• Power Play 9/93 - 3D0 introduction
• ASM 3/92 - Mega Drive CD-ROM introduction. Suitably a review of Sol-Feace for MD-CDROM.

• MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
• MP2/MP3 audio streams
• AC3 streams
• (S)VCD, CD-i and DVD

What:             Metroplex Commodore Computer
Clubs 16th annual show
and Flea Market
Where:            Brookside Convention Center,
Hurst, Texas
When:             Saturday, October 19, 2002
Time:             1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Admission:        Free
Club web address: www.AmigaMCCC.org
Contact person:   Ned Kelly,
email: nedkelly@ticnet.com

1. Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 - Barry Leitch 4:26
2. Lionheart - Matthias Steinwachs 5:08
3. Final Countdown - Torsten Gellrich 3:06
4. SWIV "Decimation" - Andrew Barnabas 5:41
5. Body Blows - Allister Brimble 3:59
6. Carcharodon - Torsten Gellrich 3:27
7. Jim Power - Chris Hülsbeck 4:36
8. Z-Out "Level One" - Rudolf Stember 4:22
9. Shadow of the Beast 3 - Tim Wright 5:54
10. James Pond 2 - Richard Joseph 3:58
11. X-Out - Chris Hülsbeck 4:07
12. Battle Squardron - Ron Klaren 8:28
13. Lethal Xcess - Jochen Hippel 7:05
14. Hero Quest "Ingame" - Barry Leitch 3:04
15. Bonus Track: Rain - Jan Zottmann 4:31

              Regarding so-called "AmithlonXL"
              ================================

* I have absolutely no knowledge of this "product" beyond that which is
  publicly available on Amiga news sites.

* I am not in any way involved with this "product".

* At the current time, it is unclear (to me at least) whether this is
  supposed to be an add-on for existing Amithlon users (akin to the
  Elbox "Multimedia CD", simply offering a collection of new drivers),
  or whether it is meant to be something including emulator executable
  and ROM files.

* If it is just a collection of drivers, I have no problem with it.
  About bloody time, I'd say.

* If, however, someone is planning to distribute my IP (as contained in the
  emulator executable), I'd strongly advise to reconsider, as neither
  Harald Frank nor Haage&Partner have any license to do so. Furthermore,
  to the best of my knowledge, neither of those parties have a license
  from Amiga Inc for the distribution of kickstart images. 

* The announcements on www.amiga-news.de and www.ann.lu also talked about
  the demo machine being equipped with a Dual Head Matrox card. I sincerely
  hope that this is not an indication that my multi-head capable
  gfx driver for Amithlon is considered or presented as part of
  "AmithlonXL", as the license attached to that driver quite clearly
  prohibits it.

* Let me also reiterate that of the contents of the amithlon_contrib*
  packages released by me, ONLY the parts under the GPL are available
  for inclusion with any Harald Frank or H&P product, and that inclusion
  of those parts would require the strict adherence to the licensing
  terms of the GPL.
  
* Obviously, I won't be supporting an "AmithlonXL" which violates my
  intellectual property rights in any way. This would certainly include making
  sure that the proprietary parts of any further contrib packages I release 
  for the users of the original Amithlon would not work with such an
  "AmithlonXL". Personally, I despise crap like that, but what can I do?

* I would finally like to ask everyone to recognize that at the current
  time, to the best of my knowledge "AmithlonXL" is purely a Harald
  Frank idea --- I have yet to see a single word about it from Haage&Partner.
  So please don't abuse H&P over something they, for all I know, might not 
  even know about.


       Bernd Meyer, 

       Main Amithlon programmer                                                  

• Four external and one internal USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports
• Compatible with both USB 2.0 (480 Mbps) and USB 1.1 (12 Mbps) devices
• Compliant with EHCI, OHCI and PCI 2.2 standards
• All ports can handle high-speed, full-speed and low-speed transaction
• Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices
• Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port
• Supports PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
• Hot Plug Capability

• One free PCI slot
• Mediator Multimedia CD

• Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card
• Mediator OHCI USB drivers for the Poseidon stack
• Unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack

• external programs, for example Apdf, can be started from Next
• improved support for wheel mouses
• text blocks are not limited by complete lines (a block can be less than one line)
• the copying of blocks in the clipboard works better
• a bug was removed, which previously led to a crash during the unpacking of archives

• hi-res graphics
• 3-D raytraced visuals
• animated scene transitions
• sampled sounds
• simple point and click control
• save and load at any point in the game
• a bunch of interaction
• first person perspective
• screen-mode requester
• multi-tasking
• AGA and RTG compatibility
• AHI-Sound
• UAE compatibility

• Gerald Carda (bPlan)
• Ralph Schmidt (bPlan)
• Rakesh Raghoebardayal (Thendic)
• Sharwin Raghoebardayal (Thendic)
• Teemu Suikki (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer)
• Harry Sintonen (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer)

• austria (these three will be joined to one "austria")
• austria_plus (map with highest capacity, choosable with)
• austria_special (the travelguide and a map of europe)
• belgium (included in the new BeNeLux)
• D_CH_A (old stuff...)
• germany (now only "germany_special" is supported,)
• germany_global (same conditions as austria and switzerland)
• germany_small (dito)
• netherlands (included in the new BeNeLux)
• switzerland (these three will be joined to one "switzerland")
• switzerland_special (map with highest capacity, choosable with)
• switzerland_standard (the travelguide and a map of europe)

• FastEthernet.device
• sb128.audio
• tv.library
• Voodoo.card

• pci.library
• MediatorNET.device
• Voodoo.card

• USB-support (digital cameras, webcams)
• new, integrated FTP-client for the webcam-functionality
• completly newly written .mov-animationexport
• automatic framerate-recognition
• an ARexx-port has been added
• heavily advanced webcam- and timelapse-functionality
• example-webcamfiles with elegant design in the archive
• extended PPC-support (e.g. JPEG-decoding)
• now uses fxWARP 9 technology
• native CPU-modules for PPC (PowerUP, WarpUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon)

• Exec will be finished this week.
• Ramlib is done.
• DOS is done.
• Intuition is 95% done. The new sys-i class still needs to be added. Work scheduled for completion end of the month. The prefs program is done at 80%.
• Graphics is done.
• Layers is done.
• Utility is done.
• Iffparse is done.
• cia.ressource, audio.device and timer.device done at 99%.
• keyboard.device done at 99% (a few lines of ASM code left)
• input.device done.
• keymap.library done.
• lowlevel.library done.
• utility.library done.
• clip handler
  This is the very first release of the cliphandler, i.e. the CONCLIP: device, that provides clipboard support on the level of the dos stream I/O. It also provides a simple library for applications that cannot call the dos.library directly.
• Queue handler done.
• Shell, features added, bugs fixed.
• CDFS is done.
• FFS2 is done. Plugin feature added allowing (plugins can be added to some partitions for encryption, caching, mirroring....) i.e. you can write a plugin that allows you to encrypt automatically all files copied into a partition.
• AmiDock is done. One of the so many features are the Dockies. These are plugins that allow the user to add active content into the dock like a running clock or a lens that displays the area under the mouse pointer, or ... whatever you want ! Who will write a demo in a Docky ? :-)
• GhostScript is added. It allows to create/display PostScript or PDF. Also a port of xPDF will be added.
• USB stack (with Subway/Highway/Thyclacine support)
• Soundblaster Live drivers!
• MUI
• IBrowse 2.3
• PPC native datatypes
• Reaction (95% finished)
• MediaToolbox
• PartitionWizard
• ft2.manager, diskfont.library. You'll now be able to open all sort of font formats...

• SCSI driver
• Remaining Intuition/Reaction work (5%)
• Roadshow GUI completion
• 2D driver completion (5% remaining)
• 68K emulation integration
• AmigaInput (nearly done)

• 11.09.02 new: Static Chaos (Silents) done by Psygore
• 11.09.02 new: Garfield: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal (The Edge) done by Codetapper
• 09.09.02 new: Pro PowerBoat Simulator (Codemasters) done by Codetapper
• 09.09.02 new: Coala (Empire) done by JOTD
• 08.09.02 new: Giddy (Phil Ruston) done by Codetapper
• 08.09.02 new: Thug Life (Essence) done by Psygore
• 08.09.02 updated: Dogs of War (Elite Systems) loader optimised
• 07.09.02 improved: Chromagic (Dual-Crew Shining) interrupts fixed for 040/060 processors
• 07.09.02 improved: Sonic Attack (Dual-Crew Shining) interrupts fixed for 040/060 processors
• 05.09.02 updated: Axel's Magic Hammer (Core Design/Gremlin) supports another version
• 04.09.02 new: Axel's Magic Hammer (Core Design/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
• 04.09.02 improved: 4D Sports Boxing (Mindscape) various improvements
• 03.09.02 new: Drip (Art Skiles) done by DJ Mike
• 03.09.02 new: Steigar (Screen 7) done by DJ Mike
• 03.09.02 new: Multi Megamix 3 (Kefrens) done by Psygore

• OS1.3 (V34.5) named "KICK13.ROM" (A500/A1000/A2000)
• OS3.1 (V40.063) named "KICK31.ROM" (A500/A600/A2000)
• (You can generate this files with the "GRABKICK"-Tool from Aminet)
• Don't forget to rename the files!

• OS3.1 works with NonAutoConfigMemory
• OS1.3 includes a "Game-Mode", better PAL-Check, Virus-Checker and some bugfixes

• UAE 0.8.22 merge, bumped version number (but most changes were already included in R4)
• 68000 CHK-instruction fix (Days of Thunder) and exception 3 handling update
• real 68000 prefetch emulation ("100 most remembered C64 games" and more)
• some custom chipset fixes (sprite-playfield collisions, graphics corruption)
• keyboard fix (some key presses were missed when pressing multiple keys)
• A1000 emulation fixes
• AVIOutput update (Sane)
• input-tab updates
• vsync works properly in interlaced screen modes
• sound updates/changes (DirectSound, uses UAE timing in non-JIT/vsync modes and more...)
• filesystem bug fixes
• CD32 pad numeric keypad emulation works again
• fixed joystick bugs in compatibility mode
• fast RAM state save fix
• bsdsocket fix (Stephan Riedelbeck)
• disk emulation fixes

• full harddisk image support (hdtoolbox, RDB, custom filesystems, SFS and PFS3 confirmed working)
• uaescsi.device improvements, confirmed compatible with CacheCDFS, AmiCDFS and AsimCDFS (disk change support added and use of direct scsi-mode is not needed anymore)
• Action Replay 1 support (but breakpoints don't work)
• CPU idle (tries to detect use of STOP-instruction, may not be complatible with all Amiga software..)
• floppy speed slider is back
• new AHI code and driver (Bernd Roesch)
• Amiga <> Windows clipboard support (Bernd Roesch)
• on the fly switching between OpenGL and DirectDraw mode
• on the fly switching between vsync and non-vsync mode
• compressed Kickstart ROM image support
• build-in screenshot function, shortcut key: F11 (Sane)
• experimental (and much slower) cycle-exact cpu and blitter emulation mode.
  WARNING: requires at least 50%+ more cpu power than "regular" mode.
  Athlon XP/Pentium IV + DDR/RAMBUS RAM highly recommended!
  WARNING2: Frameskip must be set to 1.
  WARNING3: very experimental, timing is quite far from perfection.
• wkeykill.dll support (disables Windows-keys)
• OpenGL scanline brightness slider added
• and more..

• acs_lzx (310K), Readme
• acs_lha (380K)
• NList.mcc V20.106+

• a review of the new internet strategy game 'Tales of Tamar',
• a review of the likewise new economic simulation 'Software Tycoon',
• an extensive special on the game 'BabeAnoid',
• the fourth part of the workshop about using Ghostscript 6.50,
• an article about programming a monthly calendar in PHP,
• a summary of the newest announcements by Thendic-France,
• (alas) an explicit word or two about the lack of participation,

• Akt0902GUIDE.lha
• Aakt0902HTML.lha
• Aakt0902GFX.lha

• New: Now shows user@popserver in show single account submenu.
• New: Recipient's address may be entered later.
• New: Added search function.
• Changed: When closing the message composition window, the message is now not saved instead of deleted.

• Several files can by edited in different edit windows and/or edit views simultanuously.
• The edit windows can be opened on every public screen.
• Clipboard converter.
• Font sensitive.
• Undo and redo (only limited by available memory).
• Comprehensive block functions.
• ARexx interface with 77 commands and asynchronuous command shell.
• Printing as hex dump.
• `Grab memory` for showing and editing the memory content.
• AppWindow.

• Nofrendo (WOS/MOS): A NES-emulator
• SMSPlus (WOS/MOS): A Mastersystem-emulator
• Atari800 (WOS/MOS): An Atari800-emulator
• Stella (WOS/MOS): An AtariVCS-emulator
• 'Little John NG' (WOS/MOS): A NES/SNES-emulator
• DGen (MOS): A SEGA-Megadrive-emulator

• Can use wildcards.
• Total control over recursion, the user can set the level of recursion, starting level of recursion and can even specify a different pattern for entering directories.
• Can renumber filename sequences without the user having to care for the renumber order or filename clashes because these are taken care of automatically.
• Can perform numbering of filename sequences.
• Can modify the filename's comment and transfer the filename to the comment or the reverse.
• Allows the user to build his/her own functions by providing a command set of selectors and actions that can be combined in many ways.
• The number of actions that can be executed in one go is only limited by the command line length.
• It is interface compatible with the OS Rename command.
• Efficient memory usage.

• Presentation of the commercial release of MorphOS
• Demonstration of new and old applications
• Release for testing of three new peripheral devices: the smart card and reader for security and loyalty/payment systems (the Trusted Community), the DataPlay disc drive, and a wireless mobile camera. Ten Developers will be selected for testing with the DataPlay and the camera based on performance as a Betatester and relevant development experience. All Betatesters will receive a personalized smart card and smart card reader.

• 'UnMount ALL' will now ignore ENV: as well as RAM: if mounted as a separate handler. This allows late shutdown code to access global environment variables in all cases and also avoids problems with Env-Handlers that have broken ACTION_DIE support.
• Added FRAGS option to the Sysmon monitor Show Memory command.

• The new Intuition
• Roadshow (the TCP/IP stack)
• MediaToolBox (the new HDToolBox)

• Now GUI is font sensitive
• New TooltypeUPDATE_IMMEDIATELY=YES|NO
• Minor bugs in GUI fixed

• DCE & Support (long version)
• DCE & Support (short Version)
• Pictures of the Amitopia Tour 2002

• Results of the logo-contest
• Results of the name-contest

• 03.09.02 new: Space Station (Paradox) done by DJ Mike
• 03.09.02 new: Allo 'Allo (Alternative) done by DJ Mike
• 03.09.02 updated: Sooty & Sweep (Alternative Software) install script updated
• 02.09.02 improved: Dogs of War (Elite Systems) supports another version
• 02.09.02 improved: Banshee (Core Design) access faults removed, CD³² version supported
• 01.09.02 new: Top Banana (Hex) done by Codetapper
• 31.08.02 new: Erik (Atlantis) done by Codetapper
• 31.08.02 updated: Switchblade (Core Design/Gremlin) supports kixx budget release
• 30.08.02 updated: Speedball 2 CD³² (Renegade) reworked install package
• 30.08.02 improved: Fire & Ice (Graftgold) various improvements
• 29.08.02 new: Batman Vuelve (Batman Group) done by Codetapper
• 29.08.02 new: Authentik (Skarla) done by Psygore
• 28.08.02 improved: Loopz (Audiogenic/Mindscape) supports another version, misc changes, new icons
• 23.08.02 new: Donkey Kong (Bignonia) done by JOTD
• 20.08.02 new: Frantic Freddie (Bignonia) done by Asman
• 20.08.02 new: Ultimate Gameboy Simulator (Symbiosis) done by Galahad
• 20.08.02 new: Sorceror's Apprentice (Art Computer Software) done by Codetapper
• 20.08.02 new: Marvins Marvellous Adventure CD³² (21st Century Entertainment) done by René Gennes
• 20.08.02 new: Leviathan (English Software) done by Codetapper
• 20.08.02 improved: Insects in Space (Hewson) blitter waits added
• 20.08.02 improved: Executioner (Codetapper) supports another version, new icon

• Complete StuffIt-support (XAD)
• Complete CAB-support (XAD)
• Polish translation (XAD)
• Detection of many tricks of hiding of viruses (XFD)

• Added function "search, count", which provides a means for counting coins belonging to a search result (e.g. a certain collection area). A.o. number of coins, total purchase value and total value are counted.
• Extended pre- and postfix in catalog no. by five and three characters respectively.
• Added sales project info, showing a.o. how many coins were sold at which total price.
• The list window can now also show the numbers of the item and sales list windows (e.g. 1999|PP:1 ST:5 SS:10|Motiv) (function had previously been imcomplete).
• Improved handling of the setup window (now double click on list settings and the settings can be in- or decreased).
• Other small changes.
• Fixed bug.

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A M I G A   O S   4 . 0   F R E A T U R E S   L I S T E D

A M I G A F E S T   # 4   F R O M   A M I T E C H - D A Y T O N

A O N E   G O T H E N B U R G   F A L L   E V E N T

P E G A S O S   A N D   M O R P H O S   U P D A T E

A M I G A   O N   M O R P H O S   L E G A L I T Y

E L B O X   M E D I A T O R   P C I   1 2 0 0   S X

S O U N D F X   V 4 . 2   I S   A V A I L A B L E

I O U S B   2 . 0   F R O M   I O S P I R I T

P O S E I D O N   U S B   S T A C K   1 . 2 6

I O S P R I T   S O F T W A R E   D I S T R I B U T I O N

W O R K S   N E E D E D   F O R   2 0 0 3   C A L E N D A R

P R I V O X Y   3 . 0 . 0   F O R   A M I G A

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

It's been a quiet month. Apparently, work continues on Amiga ONE and
OS 4.0 with quiet determination. At least I hope so, and there's
really no reason to think otherwise. However, it's now been a very
long wait. Fortunately, the Amiga community is used to long waits. I
believe the community as a whole still feels this one will turn out
differently from all the others. I know I still do. But it does feel
frighteningly familiar, doesn't it?
Quiet or not we have several interesting items for you to read this
time. Most interesting to me is the situation with Pegasos and Morph
OS. I am constantly amazed that supposed promoters of the Amiga do
things that, if successful, can only hurt the company. In this case,
damaging Amiga's ability to control its OS. The small companies that
continually do these things seem to have no concern that Amiga is
itself small, and damage to its intellectual property could cause
severe difficulties or even put them out of business. And the small
companies that do this seldom get anything genuinely useful on the
market.
My personal opinion is that both products have about as much chance
for real success as (to use an old American expression) "a snowball in
Hell". But they are causing already limited resources to be wasted by
Amiga Inc. in defending their property.
Ah well, bad judgement takes funny forms sometimes.
Most of our other stories show the good side of the Amiga community,
and I enjoyed some of the news very much.
We hope you enjoy this issue also.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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A M I G A   O S   4 . 0   F R E A T U R E S   L I S T E D

{Taken from the Amiga OS website, and apparently just posted there
despite the date. Thought you might like to see these. Brad}

07-Aug-2002 - AmigaOS Features

Listed below are the modules that make up the core of AmigaOS 4. Most
of the OS modules (including the kernel) are finished and being tested
internally by the OS 4 development team.

Current work centers around Intuition and Reaction, 2D/3D drivers, A1
Bios, additional kernel functionality (virtual addressing and
page-based memory handling) and the integration of the 68K emulation
into the system.

Here are the modules that make up AmigaOS 4:

Exec Second Generation (Exec SG)

Exec is the AmigaOS kernel and was written in 68K assembly
for AmigaOS 3.1. It has been rewritten in C, as ExecSG, for
AmigaOS 4.

The following features are planned for ExecSG:

Hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
Virtual addressing (for automatic stack enlargement etc.)
Page-based memory handling (less fragmentation and more
efficient)
Virtual memory
New library interface
Resource tracking and management
Optional memory protection
WarpOS backwards compatibility

Just in Time (JIT) 68K emulation

PPC native TCP/IP stack & PPP drivers

fastest on the platform

Re-implementation of the Amiga file system (FFS2) for PPC

PPC native CD Filesystem

with limited Mount Rainier support (use your CDRW as a floppy)

Recovery and Salvage tools for FFS2 and SFS

PPC native CD back-up tool

OS 4 will include a simple tool which allows the user to back-up
files by burning them to an ISO 9660 CD which also allows for
exchanging data between systems)

PPC native RTG system

Picasso 96 V3

PPC native arithmetically optimised version of layers.library

Warp3D (3D driver system)

OpenGL 1.3 support (Mesa 4.0)

PPC native RTA system based on AHI

with Soundblaster Live! Drivers

PPC native GUI system (Intuition and Reaction)

PPC native shell

PPC native version of "Amidock"

PPC native utility for archiving and de-archiving

SCSI drivers for onboard (UW) SCSI controllers

AmigaInput API (for multimedia controller devices)

USB stack

already adapted for the Highway and Subway hardware

PPC native datatypes

New HDToolbox ("Media Toolbox")

Support for TrueType/OpenType fonts

Web-browser (Ibrowse 2.3)

MUI PPC (for legacy applications)

Reading/printing of PDF files

PPC native rewrite of DOS library

PPC native movieplayer

"Action" with DivX and MPEG4 support

PPC native devices

Generic PPC native PCI library

http://os.amiga.com/os4/OS4Features.php
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A M I G A F E S T   # 4   F R O M   A M I T E C H - D A Y T O N

AmigaFest 2002, The Show Within a Show at Computerfest®

12 August, 2002

For the fourth year in a row, AmiTech-Dayton, Amiga Computer Users
Group, is sponsoring AmigaFest, a show within a show at Computerfest®.
The purpose of AmigaFest is to provide a concentration of Amiga
oriented vendors and exhibitors in the show to provide improved
support for the Amiga Community. If you are a current or former Amiga
user, or are just curious about the platform, stop by AmigaFest 2002
and find out what is currently going on with Amiga. There are many new
developments on the horizon and we will have some available for
demonstration or sale at the show.

The AmigaFest 2002 area will include a Seminar/Presentation section,
that will be showing off the capabilities of the Amiga system,
including alternative operating systems that are currently in
development for the Amiga community. Presentations will be going on
continuously throughout the show. In addition there will be an Amiga
museum displaying nearly every model of the Amiga that was produced.

One of the advantages of the Amiga platform is its extremely
efficient operating system that has provided pre-emptive multi-tasking
since its introduction in 1985. The next version of the Amiga OS will
make full use of the PowerPC CPU line. A new generation of Amiga
hardware is on the horizon that will back up the efficiency of the
operating system with modern computing horsepower. Amiga OS Emulators
are also currently available, and will be demonstrated at AmigaFest
2002, bringing Amiga efficiency to X86-based systems bypassing
Windows. Drop by and find out about all the upcoming developments.

As in years past we will be holding several demos that should be of
interest to any present, past or future Amiga user. We will have demos
of MorphOS installed on a PPC equipped Amiga 1200, Amithlon and
AmigaXL installed on a PC, and using digital cameras on your Amiga.
Other demos are in the works. Stop by our booths for a complete
schedule of events.

We are expecting several exhibitors for this year's AmigaFest. They
include Extreme Computing, developers of a new line of X86-based
computers optimized to run new Amiga OS emulation systems; Compuquick
Multi Media Center; FWD Computing; Mr. Hardware; E. S. Productions; G
and G Publications, publishers of The New Amigans magazine; the Amiga
Cafe; AmiTech Dayton and Grasshopper LLC, developer of Pagestream, the
premier desk top publishing program for Amiga, now also available for
Macintosh and Windows.

Additionally, on Saturday night after the show, we have arranged to
have a gathering for a dinner and social get together for all Amigans.
Stop by the AmiTech-Dayton booth, pick up a flyer, and be sure to join
in the fun.


We think it's going to be an interesting and fun show. There are a
couple of definite advantages to having an Amiga Show in conjunction
with a show like Computerfest®. First of all it gives the Amiga user
access to a concentrated selection of Amiga gear, a lot of which will
be at special show prices. Secondly, it gives them unparalleled access
to a broad selection of general equipment that we all need and a
little shopping will find them at bargains beyond belief.

As always, we hope all Amigans will stop by and show their support.
Hope to see you there!


21 August, 2002

AmigaFest Update: Pegasos to be demonstrated in Dayton, Ohio


AmiTech-Dayton Amiga User Group is pleased to announce that they will
be privileged to have live demonstrations of the Pegasos computer
system during this years AmigaFest at the Dayton ComputerFest¨, August
24th-25th. We are quite excited that they have accepted our invitation
and hope to see many of our long time Amiga friends come by to see
this much-talked about platform.

Also, we would like to announce our other vendors participating in
AmigaFest 2002:

Compuquik Media Center - Amiga hardware and software vendor.

E.S. Productions - Artwork by Eric Schwartz and home of Amy the
Squirrel

Extreme Corporation/Computing - Home of ready configured
Amithlon/AmigaOS XL systems.

FWD Computing - Vendor of Amiga software and collectibles.

G&G Publishing Ent. - Publisher of The New Amigans magazine.

Grasshopper LLC - Your source for Pagestream for the Amiga, PC, and
Mac systems.

Amiga Cafe - Amiga IRC chat site.

And of course our club, AmiTech-Dayton will on hand! Along with our
table will be an Amiga Museum, a collection of nearly every model of
Amiga produced along with some of our members modified machines.

Plus, we will be having demos of the Pegasos, the Extreme machines,
Pagestream, Personal Paint, Photogenics, and Amicamedia that will be
going on constantly during the show. And as always, there is no charge
for these demos. Please check with the AmiTech table for a listing of
times and locations.

We will once again have a social gathering off site once the show
closes on Saturday. This year will will have door prizes for those
attending the gathering courtesy of our friends at Software Hut. Space
for this dinner is limited, so check with the AmiTech table for full
details.

Show hours are 9:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday and 10:00am to 4:00pm on
Sunday. Some vendors may not be able to stay for the full day on
Sunday, so come early! With over 30,000 attendees, the Dayton
ComputerFest¨ is one of the largest shows of its type in the United
States. And AmigaFest will be there for the fourth year in a row. Come
be a part of the excitement!

For further information contact Ron Schwartz at: schwartr@gemair.com
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A O N E   G O T H E N B U R G   F A L L   E V E N T

28 August, 2002

When & where

AONE Gothenburg 2002 Fall Event will take place on the 21st of
September, which is a Saturday. The event will last between 12 - 17
and the premises where we will hold the event is called Kajutan ("The
Cabin" in English).

For those who visited the AmiGBG 2002 fair earlier this year it will
be quite easy to find their way to Kajutan that is situated in Tolken,
that is the same building that we used when we arranged the fair. The
entrance to Kajutan is placed on the same side of the Tolken building
and we will set out direction signs so that it will be easy to find
your way.

Kajutan is often used for conferences and seminars and we think that
this is a suitable place to have this event since we will have a
number of lecturers present that will tell you all you want to know
about the Amiga One.

The new Amiga - AmigaOne

At this event, the first new Amiga computer in ten years will for the
first time be seen in Sweden.

We see this as a scandinavian kickoff for the new Amiga!

The name of this computer is AmigaOne (AONE). The first version has a
PowerPC G3 processor running at 600 MHz. This first board goes under
the name AmigaOneG3-SE and is at the moment shipped to a selected
group of developers/beta testers.

Two of these beta testers, Justin from Denmark and Ole-Egil from
Norway will visit us in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 21st of September to
demonstrate this new hardware that so many have waited so eagerly to
see. The computers that they bring to Gothenburg are their own
AmigaOne developer machines.

The AmigaOne machines that will be running during the day in
Gothenburg will have different versions of PowerPC Linux installed
(Debian and SuSe), as well as UAE Amiga Emulator (emulation of the
classic AmigaOS).

When the end user version of AmigaOne is ready for sale, it will be
bundled with the next generation AmigaOS, OS4. This Amiga operating
system is a modernized and rewritten OS for the PowerPC processor.
AmigaOS4 is still under development by Amiga Inc's partner Hyperion.

Whether we will have any news regarding OS4 at the event, we don't
know yet.


What will happen during the day?

During the day of the event, seminars around AmigaONE will be held.
Of course it will also be possible to ask questions about this new
Amiga and to see it in action!

We are very proud to announce that we will have Alan Redhouse from
english company Eyetech attending the showcase. Eyetech is the company
behind AmigaOne. We are also working on the possibility to have other
prominent guests with connections to AmigaOne and OS4 here at the
event, so stay tuned.

At this event we will also have a machine running Amiga DE. This is
because of the future development with DE being integrated into the
new AmigaOS. You'll get an opportunity to ask questions about DE and
to see how far the development process has proceeded.

More detailed information regarding seminars and lectures will be
available soon before the event, so hold on!

http://www.amigbg.com/
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P E G A S O S   A N D   M O R P H O S   U P D A T E

06-Aug-2002

Getting the Pegasos Market Going!

This is a message for traditional ``Amiga Community'' Resellers...

Since our involvement and the earliest threats against MorphOS, we
have had German and European experts checking the applicable law. If
fact, in spite of the latest threats, we are looking forward to the
timely release of MorphOS.

A word about the past: the spirit of ``Amiga'' rose from the demise
of Commodore with what was an incredibly well designed and functional
operating system. It became one of the first examples of "forward
compatibility." A word about the present: MorphOS is ready to take the
first step to co-exist with this internationally appreciated example
of software engineering that has generated a distinctive Community of
Users, Developers and Resellers.

We would like to address our potential Resellers. What will be our
future relationship with you? Well, we tried one approach. It worked
for the Linux market, but not for your market. Nearly all of you
wanted the same thing - a Pegasos running MorphOS to test. You will
have that now. You can buy one this week or next month, or whenever
they want. There will be many available soon. You will find MorphOS
for the PPC is something new. Before, MorphOS was a kernel, which ran
on the PPC, but required AmigaOS files to be able to run Amiga
applications. Now it is different. MorphOS is the complete core of the
Pegasos and can function as a complete operating system. No additional
files are required to achieve this. To be completely clear, what
MorphOS is today is not what ``MorphOS'' was before (and what is still
available today online). MorphOS today is different. It is a great
accomplishment and a credit to Ralph Schmidt and his team to have
MorphOS where it is today, but that will not stop us from making it
better. You won't be wasting your time and effort when you begin to
sell these machines.

We have decided that while there was a Community suave enough to
handle the Pegasos and MorphOS as it was, the regular computer user
was not, and frankly initially, neither were the Resellers. Our
original concept did not work well. We had only one reseller in this
Community order ten boards until two weeks ago when we had three more
place orders (two of them for a very decent size), but this was slow
enough in coming that we understood we needed to take another
approach. We sent back their money or did not accept it. We had a bad
dream about an OS based website dedicated to The Best 100 Bug Fixes --
have you heard of that before? We woke up.

Ladies and Gentleman, we need to remember that the target is regular
computer users, who are ``new'' users and who represent new markets
for this Community. A little economic success could improve plenty of
things around here - for Developers, for Resellers, and ultimately for
Users themselves - so we decided MorphOS needed to be ready for
them.... and you. That is why there will be a few steps.

Step One: The ``Betatester'' with MorphOSv.90
Step Two: Pegasos with MorphOSv1.0
Step Three: The Pegasos Handheld with MorphOSv1.0+

But, in this post we will stick to our Resellers and our message to
them. We will come back to Developers and Team Betatester after this
weekend in Bordeaux at the SLACH PARTY. Later, we will describe in
detail our hardware plans here and all the peripherals we plan on
introducing. We have plenty of things to share and we will do it here
on www.morphos-news.de

The cost of the Pegasos will fall in the next production runs. We
will keep optimizing and as we do there will be more profit to carved
up. Right now, we are just spending money. Releasing a product with no
strings attached that is not ready for a ``regular computer user'' is
commercial suicide. We cannot afford to do that, but we need to begin
to cover our investment and we need to take a straight line to the
commercial /regular consumer release point. We need to get going!

So, here is our promise to our Resellers: we will have a product you
can release to ``regular computer users" in December. We intend to
fully support the computer show being planned in Aachen that month. We
will not only have an operating system to release, but a few
applications, including a game that will surprise even the normal
fans.

Just to make sure that is clear:

We will ship Pegasos boards to all Resellers by 2 December 2002, if
not before.

If you have comments or questions you can email us at
bbrv@thendic-france.com

We will also present our Pegasos Handheld Prototype in December!

Keep your eyes on the site for the latest updates!

Best regards,

Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck

Singleview
Thendic-France/bplan

http://www.morphos-news.de/
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A M I G A   O N   M O R P H O S   L E G A L I T Y

{We don't often run stories on what are really non-Amiga items, but
we feel the Pegasos / Morph OS story should be covered because of the
potential impact on Amiga. Hence, we decided to use the preceding
story. However, it is very important to keep the legality of the
situation in mind. To that end, we run the following quotes from an
interview conducted by the Scandinavian Amiga magazine "Amitopia". You
can find the full interview at the "Amitopia" site, referenced below.
The interview actually consists of questions and answers from a
variety of dates. Brad}

29 July, 2002

I would start this interview, by asking if you see at MorphOS as a
illegal product?

Amiga INC. writes:

Our position is that the elements of MorphOS which allow it to
provide AmigaOS compatability have been illegally derived. These
either need to be removed or a licence obtained for them. I am afraid
I cannot say more than that due to advice from our lawyers.


Monday, April 29, 2002, 11:10:22 PM, I asked:

And finally...

But you should stop doing this.. Why cant Amiga go for the future,
show that you are strong? I know this is a marked {sic. perhaps he
meant to type "market". Brad} strategy to somewhat push MorphOS out.
Its like Lindows for the PC marked. Its a competitor to Windows, but
also RUN's Windows programs. You should start to think like an Amiga
user Bill. If you have full believe in your work, then drop the case
and go further. We all know you should have the right to use Amiga,
but MorphOS aint using Amigas name. I want both products on the
marked, it will be a colourfull marked and thats what we want, not
another Commodore keeping all secret and kinda forget what the
userbase want. Please clear things out for me?

Amiga INC. writes:

You do not understand the legal implications of what you say.
Whatever the merits or otherwise of MorphOS, they used illegally
obtained AmigaOS source code to develop their product. If Amiga Inc
does not defend that code, then we can lose all rights to it. We have
no choice BUT to prosecute anyone who dares to make use of Amiga code.

The MorphOS team knows this and has spent the last six months or so
trying to remove any code they have which was derived from AmigaOS.
However, our attorneys already have a copy of a MorphOS release where
via disassembly, you can prove that they did use the same source
routines as were in the AmigaOS source code that they had.

http://home.powertech.no/micbergs/Interviews/
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E L B O X   M E D I A T O R   P C I   1 2 0 0   S X

13 Aug 2002

Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga
computers, the company that introduced the PCI standard to Amiga
computers, is proud to announce expanding the MEDIATOR busboard
product line with the new Mediator model for towerised Amiga 1200
computers: Mediator PCI 1200 SX.

With this product Elbox offers Amiga 1200 users the opportunity to
use up to 6 PCI cards significantly improving the computer
performance. Additionally the new Mediator model has the Power
Management Interface, which allows waking up the computer with
external events (e.g. with USB or LAN signals) and shutting it down
controlled by software.


Features

* 6 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible)

* Power Management Interface

* 66/33MHz PCI clock (transfer rate up to 264MB/s)

* 32-bit PCI datapatch

* 4GB PCI memory space

* Busmastering/DMA in all PCI slots

* Compatible with 68030/040/060 and PPC turbo cards

* AT and ATX PSU connectors with control IC

* Ready for SharkPPC(+) G3/G4 cards

* Fits in any A1200 in E/BOX (Power, Winner), EZ-Z4 and Infinitiv
tower

Included with the Mediator PCI 1200 SX is the Mediator Multimedia CD
with drivers for Sound, TV tuner, Ethernet 10Mbps, Fast Ethernet
100Mbps and Graphic PCI cards. For the list of currently supported PCI
cards see Mediator Driver Guide website at
http://www.elbox.com/mdg.html.

For more info, see Mediator PCI 1200 SX website at
http://www.elbox.com/products/mediator_pci_1200_sx.html.


Pricing and availability

The Mediator PCI SX will be on sale beginning with 1st September
2002, and its suggested retail price is EUR 239.95 (VAT excl.) To
locate an authorized distributor or purchase product visit the Elbox
Computer website at http://www.elbox.com/buy.html.


Why Mediator?

Do you need your Amiga to display crystal-clear image up to
2048x1536x32@75? Do you want your favourite games run in accelerated
graphics? Take a PCI graphic card from the Voodoo family and enjoy its
2D and 3D performance.

Care for superb high-quality music? Just install the inexpensive,
high-quality Sound Blaster sound PCI card and play your MP3 files in
the 16-bit resolution.

Want fast network connections to surf the net? Put a low-cost RTL8139
Fast Ethernet 100Mbps PCI card into the Mediator slot and connect your
computer to the network.

Do you want to watch and capture your favourite TV programmes? The TV
tuner PCI card allows you not only watching TV... you can also connect
a TV-SAT tuner, a camcorder or a digital camera. Although the full TV
image resolution runs at 30 fps in the PIP window on your Workbench
screen, it does not use the Amiga processor's time at all.

And all this is possible NOW, with the MEDIATOR.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com

http://www.elbox.com
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S O U N D F X   V 4 . 2   I S   A V A I L A B L E

20 August, 2002

After more than a year of development and testing, the final version
of SoundFX 4.2 has finally been released!. WinUAE/AmigaXL/Amithlon
users can try the 060 version. It should run without any problems on
their systems. The list of new features and bugfixes is here. SoundFX
is a powerful sound-processing package for AmigaOS, developed by
Stefan Kost. For a shareware price it offers professional features,
many of which are quite unique on the Amiga. It is a real must for
every Amiga sound designer or music
producer.


SoundFX V4.2
Changes since the previous version


- Stable as never before.

- Extensively tested also on emulated systems: WinUAE, AmigaXL and
Amithlon.


NEW FEATURES

- Significant internal changes made in order to allow advanced
features (like realtime processing) in the future.

- The ARexx port has been completely rewritten. It is now almost 100%
faster.

- New operator: a 3-band parametric equalizer.

- Apart from whole samples, sample ranges can now be saved as well.

- All sample-windows have two new gadgets in the title bar. One hides
the window, the other displays the Sample Options local menu (useful
for people who do not have a 3-button mouse). These features require
Massimo Tantignone's titlebar.image.

- Now there are altogether three ways to hide the sample-window: the
'Box' button in the toolbar, the Hide gadget in the window title bar,
and the local menu.

- SoundFX can display "Tips of the Day" at startup. OS3.5+ (or an
older system with ClassAct installed) is recommended for this feature.

- You can get to SoundFX's homepage at www.sonicpulse.de and e-mail
the author directly from within the program: see the Help menu. This
feature requires openurl.library installed and configured properly.

- New About-window gives extensive information about the program and
the system. This feature requires Richard Koerber's identify.library.

- The quality of the Hall operator has been improved.

- New Utility menu with functions for manipulation with sample data
(sign and byte-order switching, channel interleaving and
deinterleaving).

- New functions for preference handling (see Prefs menu).

- When calculating the maximum sample volume (Amplify operator) a
progress-bar is now used, as this operation can take a long time with
large samples (like CD tracks).


SUPPORT

- There is a new bugtracker suite at http://www.sonicpulse.de/phpbt/
for reporting bugs and submitting feature requests.

- The HTML documentation has been extended and updated.

- Documentation now available also in PDF and PostScript formats.
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I O U S B   2 . 0   F R O M   I O S P I R I T

19 Aug 2002

IOUSB System 2.0 Update with OS 4 support

IOUSB, developed by IOSPIRIT, is a system for USB-device-drivers that
allows them to access USB stacks via a uniform API. Thus any driver
that builds upon it can theoretically be used with every USB-stack on
the AMIGA.

Apart from the already existing support for Poseidon (Highway/Subway,
MorphOS), support has been added for the Sirion-stack (Thylacine,
Highway/Subway) in cooperation with the AmigaOS 4.0 development team.
Thus it is now also possible to use devices covered by IOUSB with the
Thylacine USB-board and the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0.

The update to version 2.0 can be found on our download-page. It also
contains an update to version 1.1 of the iousbscanner.device fixing a
timing-problem with the Epson Perfection 1650.

EMail: info@iospirit.de
WWW:   http://www.iospirit.de/
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P O S E I D O N   U S B   S T A C K   1 . 2 6

16-Aug-02

Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the
possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with
USB interface, ranging from mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks,
printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flash card readers, zip drives,
floppy disk drives, harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters,
scanners and audio adapters to less common things like power supplies,
GPS location devices or finger print readers. It is intended to be a
solution for all systems.

Requires: a compatible USB card

Big news

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V1.26:

- Mass storage fixed and extended.

- New USB Modem class.

- UPAR printer mountlist included.

V1.25:

- German manual and installer script

- Fixed the bugs in the installer script that would copy the UMSD
file to  the wrong drawer (and without icon)

- New usb->serial converter class

- Mass storage now automounts

Changelog
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poseidon.library 1.26

o On USB devices with multiple configurations, only the first one was
read due to me thinking that I would get all configurations
automatically. This is now fixed. Hey, it was the first time I came
across a device with multiple configs, so I couldn't test the code
before.

massstorage.class 1.11

o Added information messages on mounting (after three attempts :) ).

o Mounting now again uses lowcyl = 0. But therefore, detection of an
already mounted partition has been reduced to unit, device and
dostype. This means that no multiple partitions on a harddisk will be
mounted, but only the first one. I hope this is not a problem for most
of you.    (thanks to Jens & Jean-François).

o After mounting, a diskchange signal was sent. This is now fixed
(thanks to Jens).

o Added NSD and TD64 support. This means you now can uses harddisks
>4GB.

serialpl2303.class 1.3

o Fixed buffer management. Added EOF mode.

cdcacm.class 1.2

o Initial. Should support state reporting and EOF mode.

pencamtool

o Added UPTO option.

highwayusb.device 2.8

o Optimized copyloop a bit.

subwayusb.device 2.2

o Initial

serialpl2303.class 1.2

o Initial

bootkeyboard.class 1.6

o Now calls reset handlers of the keyboard.device on reset. This is
done in a tricky, but system-friendly way. If any reset handler is
found, the reset is delayed by 10 seconds (no way to find out, if the
reset handlers have finished).

massstorage.class 1.9

o Added 200ms delay for some strange devices before first
interaction. I hope this is enough for most drives.

o Added automounting capability for FAT95. Took me ages to get this
working. Sorry.

o Added experimental untested support for CB and CBI transport
protocols.

o Added special init sequence for eUSCSI bridges.

o Disabled internal retry mechanism for HDCMD_SCSI commands. Maybe
this fixes the disk changing bugs when using "+s" on FAT95.

o Fixed broken disk change detection. Sorry, just forgot some
paranthesis.

hub.class 1.14

o Changed the init sequence to be more error tolerant, adding several
retries

o Added locking mechanism (oops! how could I forget) of address 0 to
avoid confusion on the bus with multiple hubs connected to a hub at
the same time.

o Lots of little changes.

poseidon.library 1.25

o If SET_CONFIGURATION fails, the enumeration will now still proceed.
This seems to be the case with a few USB2.0 devices.

o Changed psdSpawnSubTask() to launch a process if started with dos
available.

o Misc little changes.

Contact
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Any mail, comments or donations welcome:

Chris Hodges
Kennedystr. 8
D-82178 Puchheim
Germany

WWW: http://www.platon42.de/
Email: hodges@in.tum.de
IRC: platon42 on EfNet
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I O S P R I T   S O F T W A R E   D I S T R I B U T I O N

14 August, 2002

Software distribution via IOSPIRIT

IOSPIRIT, known worldwide for its high product quality and its
well-accepted service, is expanding its distribution activities. Thus
we are looking for interesting programs and projects, that lack a
distribution partner or that want to open up new market segments.

Distribution activities include the wide-spread mail-order
distribution and popular, modern Electronic Software Delivery (ESD),
where everything is handled digitally - from the customer's payment to
the product delivery. Besides we also offer support aids like
mailinglists and a FAQ-system.

Advertising (both banners and print), flyers and our presence at
exhibitions allows us to introduce the products distributed through us
to a broad public. Furthermore we already have a strong customerbase
within and outside Germany.

More general information and information about the advantages of our
distribution services can be found on the page "Distribution services"
under "Information" Don't hesitate to contact us directly, if you are
interested and want to learn more.

EMail: info@iospirit.de
WWW:   http://www.iospirit.de/
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W O R K S   N E E D E D   F O R   2 0 0 3   C A L E N D A R

9 August, 2002

DiscreetFX Announces The 2003 Amiga Art Calendar. Attention Amiga
Artists - now is the chance to get your best Amiga artwork seen by
thousands and share in the proceeds of the sale. You only have until
October 5th 2002 to send in your artwork for consideration for the
2003 Amiga Art Calendar. This Calander is being produced exclusively
on the Amiga and will go on sale in time for the 2002 Christmas
holidays. All submissions must be created on an Amiga and or Video
Toaster (Amiga version) and must include a list of what software/
hardware was used to create the artwork. A panel of 12 judges/Amiga
enthusiates will select the 13 pieces of artwork that will be included
in this years edition. Please send all submissions to
discreetfx@yahoo.com on or before October 5th 2002.
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P R I V O X Y   3 . 0 . 0   F O R   A M I G A

28 August, 2002

Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies,
controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet Junkbuster.

o Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable

o Environment: No Input/Output (Daemon), Web Environment, Win32 (MS
Windows)

o Intended Audience: End Users/Desktop, System Administrators

o License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

o Natural Language: English

o Operating System: MacOS X, Windows, Other OS {Including Amiga.
Brad}, HP-UX, Linux, SunOS/Solaris

o Programming Language: C

o Topic: WWW/HTTP, Firewalls

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/
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• a hands-on experience report about the new USB controller "Highway",
• the third part of our "Ghostscript" workshop,
• a workshop about the usage of the Workbench addon "ToolsMenu",
• a report from the June party of Amiga-Freunde Pfalz,
• miscellaneous comments and assessments about the Amiga situation,
• a.m.m.

• Aakt0702GUIDE.lha
• Aakt0702HTML.lha
• Aakt0702GFX.lha

• 100% system-friendly. Runs on all Amiga systems.
• Application can be displayed in window on Workbench or own screen.
• Transparent windows on Workbench (see screen shot).
• Transition effects.
• Functions to scroll graphics smoothly.
• Transparent Graphics.
• compiler and linker for creating executables.
• Easy monitoring of user input (keyboard, mouse).
• DOS functions.
• String functions.
• Math funktions.
• Variables and arrays.
• Applications run independent of the current screenmode.
• Compatible with older Rainboot versions.
• Different fonts can be used.
• Supports anim brushes.
• Supports sound modules and samples.
• Conditions (if, else, elseif, endif).
• Loops (for, next, while, wend).
• System functions.
• Can still be used during booting.
• MorphOS and AmigaOS4 versions planned.
• and much more.

%BGPIC1=mypic.iff

%CODE
%Locate(CENTER,CENTER)
%PrintStr("Hello World")
%WaitLeftMouse
%Quit

• Extended: Amiga games list
• Extended: Body Blows
• New Entry: Super Hang On
• New Entry: RVF Honda
• New Entry: Shadow of the Beast
• New Entry: TV Sports Football
• New Entry: Dragons Lair
• New Entry: Goldrunner II
• New Entry: Atomino
• New Entry: LOOPZ
• New Entry: Flight Simulator II
• New Entry: Super Tennis Champs

• Extended: Desert Strike