06.Jan.2004
Claudia Forsbach (E-Mail)
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Tales of Tamar: 250 Euros to win
At Tales of Tamar, a platform independent roundbased massiv-multiplayer-online-strategy
and partplay early "Kaiser" or "Civilisation", which was developed by Eternity, there is the chance to win 250 Euro.
Be a tester and win 250 Euro
"Tales of Tamar" a roundbased fantasy-, strategy- and partplaygame, is going to the next step of development.
In honour to our "Tales of Tamar" (short ToT) a Windows client, which is advanced in development, we are going to make
a competition to test our game in larger gamecircles.
The player who is first in our world and gets the title of an emperor, gets a prize of 250 Euro (twohundretandfifty).
Because of testing the game the game is for free for testers. But please work with us because of bugs. Play and Win!
We also search the best strategic, mathematic and diplomatic, the best trader or those who have many of this properties, we show you the
prize while you are testing.
Come in into the great and faszinating world of mysts and legends. Fight with elfs, dragons, gnomes and orks.
Enter your empire and be a part of this world. Fight with 350-2000 players for the crown of Tamar.
You don't only find friends in this community, it would be a new part of your life and it will change your life, sure!
These are the rules for the competition:
- The prize for the competition is 250 Euro!
- Members or exmembers of the development team are not allowed to take part
- The tester has to fill an application as a beta tester on www.tamar.net
- The empire has to be registered after the 31.12.2003
- Every player has just one empire, payed secondgames are not possible, payed singlegames are possible
- The team of "Tales of Tamar" doesn't take any responsibility for ay bugs and other faults of the programm also if they are the ground for losing the account
- Old Vasall contracts are not allowed to be transfered to the game
- Serve its purpose is the improvement of the game
- This offer is also for new Amiga users or compatibles with a serial key.
Lowest configuration:
PentiumPC 200 MHz, Windows 95, Gfx card with 4 MB and DirectX7
Amiga with AGA, 68030 & 8 MB Fastram, OS 3.1
You can get mor information to "Tales of Tamar" http://www.tamar.net. (snx) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Operating system patch: Stackattack 2
"StackAttack" is patching different operating system functions to cancel crashes because of too low stack memory. The new version of StackAttack was written completely new
to stop problems with the old version.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT prolongs special price promotion
IOSPIRIT press release:
"Due to the still high interest in our special price promotion just after the official end of it, IOSPIRIT has decided to prolong the special price promotion by a month until the 1st February 2004.
In the scope of the special price promotions, you can buy selected quality software at almost 40% reduced prices".
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Jan.2004
ann.lu (Website)
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Experimental UAE-Version: New Version, AmigaOS Binaries
Richard Drummond has published a new version of his experimental UAE-Port, which makes possible many improvements of the WINUAE-version.
Between many small changings and bugfixes (see Changelog)
there are now also binaries for AmigaOS and BeOS.
The AmigaOS-version with no sound at the moment has following system requests:
- OS2.0 or higher
- 68020 or better
- min. 40MB RAM
- a stack of 16384 bytes
The ixemul.library is not needed.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)
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Cloanto: Personal Paint for MorphOS announced
Genesi and Cloanto announced today that they entered into an agreement to develop a port of Cloanto's Personal Paint for MorphOS.
Under the new agreement, Cloanto is sharing the source code with Genesi, who will assist in the port to its PowerPC-based computing platform. Personal Paint will be bundled with MorphOS. (snx)
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06.Jan.2004
David Doyle (ANF)
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AmigaWorld.net: Second annual IRC-meeting next weekend
Over the past 5 years #Amigaworld on IRC has seen a lot of people come and go, if you were one of these people or a current member of the channel then please join us in this get-together this weekend, starting 20:00 GMT each Night, Friday 9 Jan to Sunday 11 Jan on irc.SuperHosts.Net.
PS. All Amigans welcomed, not just members.
To join the Channel (Chatroom) get an IRC Client such as AmIRC, mIRC or X-Chat and connect to /server irc.amigaworld.net and then /join #amigaworld, or you can use the IRC JAVA applet on the site.
For more information about the Channel and how to use IRC visit http://chat.amigaworld.net. (snx)
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05.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Forever RSS-Newsfeed from Cloanto
After a few weeks of testing Cloanto announced the public access URL for
its RSS news feed at amigaforever.com, covering Amiga and emulation news:
http://www.amigaforever.com/rss.xml
The feed already contains a few hints about the news which will follow
this month, and later during 2004 and beyond.
At the same time, the Amiga enthusiasts at Cloanto would like to take this
opportunity to wish a healthy, happy and prosperous continuation of 2004. (nba)
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03.Jan.2004
AmigaWorld.net (website)
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OS4: Screenshots of a "Wolfenstein" port
At AmigaWorld.net, Steven Fuller has released screenshots of the game "Castle Wolfenstein" ported to AmigaOS 4.0:
picture 1, picture 2, picture 3
Steven Fuller is a developer of the team which is porting Gorky 17 to Linux and AmigaOS4. (snx)
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03.Jan.2004
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: GUI for MLDonkey available
Attention Software have created a Graphical User Interface for the P2P filesharing program MLDonkey (amiga-news.de reported). An alpha version (12 KB) can be downloaded from their homepage. (snx)
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03.Jan.2004
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Some details about the OS4 SDK
At AmigaWorld.net, Hans-Jörg Frieden announced further details about the AmigaOS4 SDK which will be included on the Developer Pre-Release CD:
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GCC 2.95.3 and GCC 3.4 have been ported to OS 4 native (and as a cross compiler for Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, Windows/Cygwin, Darwin/PPC, AmigaOS 3.x/m68k) The SDK will also contain gdb, the Gnu Debugger.
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Then there's vbcc. vbcc is Frank Wille's contribution, I don't know if it will be contained in the SDK directly, but it will in any case be downloadable.
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The SDK also contains a number of additional utilities, among them "fdtrans", which is a program to convert old-style SFD files into next-gen XML files.
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XML files are used by the program "idltool", which is a program that converts these XML files into all sort of output files (much like fd2pragma or SFD before). idltool is primarily used to generate all required include files for an OS 4 style library, but it can also generate a skeleton source code for a library, so that a programmer only has to write an XML file, turn it into source code, and add the functions to it. This should make it easier to write libraries in OS 4.
(snx)
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03.Jan.2004
DENIC (website)
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DENIC: Ten years of domain administration
From 1.000 to seven millions in ten years: this number shows the successful work of the DENIC on the field of the domains. On the 1st of January in 1994 started the DENIC in an institutionalised form as a project financed from third-party funds at the University of Karlsruhe. Read more about the DENIC and their work on their website.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jan.2004
Andreas Kleinert (email)
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Graphics: SView5 v1.40 released
The graphics viewer and converter SView5 has been released in version 1.40
and can be downloaded as a demo version from the website of the developer
Andreas R. Kleinert under the title link. The package contains the eight distribution archives and the plug-in for ImageFX.
(New) Features:
- SView5: the powerful main program that allows to access all options
and settings, allows to load, save, process and convert images - not only
via the GUI but also using ARexx and so on. Includes a RTG-compliant
screen-grabber!
- BatchProcess: Batch conversion tool, for applying upto 4 image
processing operaters to a number of graphics by
wildcards and save them in a different file format, e.g.
load a bunch of JPEGs, then resize, dither and save them
as PNG files.
- SVProPics: Ulrich Falke's "SVProPics" batch-processing
ARexx script now is part of the SView5 archive
- PNG-Box5: dedicated tools for creation of graphics for JPEG-Box5
- JPEG-Box5: WWW usage (HTML pages) with progressive/interlacing
and transparency support
- WinSlide: for viewing images in a window on public screens,
using as few memory as possible - smooth scrolling
inclusive! Supports 8 through 24 bit displays.
- ScrollSlide: like WinSlide but using its own screen,
for best colors even on 8 bit displays
- CyberSlide: like viewing images from SView5 using a CyberGfx
SV5Driver with 16/24 bit capability, but implemented as
small standalone program
- SuperSlide: like CyberSlide but for AGA screens and screen modes,
additionally dithering is done when necessary
- SVPrefs: for changing settings of SView5-Library modules easily.
- also: JPEG2000 support, lots of new SVOperators, bugfixes, ...
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jan.2004
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New track on the Psyria homepage
A new year, new chances: With this in mind Psyria tries to go their way to the top. To be successfull with this Psyria's homepage got a new design due to the third anniversary of their Internet presence and this is not all: right at the beginning of the year the fans get something for their ears: "Until Dawn", a chill out track for quiet moments, is available from now on and exclusively in the download area.
Psyria wishes a Happy New Year all their fans and all the Amiga users!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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02.Jan.2004
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark celebrates 10th anniversary
The Virus Help Team Denmark (VHT-DK) celebrates its 10th anniversary during these days. The editorial staff says "Happy Birthday". Lars P. Kristensen who works for Virus Help Denmark has gathered some information about the history of this honorary organization:
Many people have asked us why and for what? We haven't really been able
to respond to this question other than "it's a hobby". Well then some
others says, "this must cost you a great deal of money". Actually not, I
don't think our lives - so fare - would have been without a computer
anyway. Our families have somehow accepted our interest. Then what have we
gained from all this. A lot of friends and many contacts. I think this in
general goes for most of us in VHT-DK.
Shortly after the appearance of the Amiga, the "evil viral" showed their
ugly faces. Most of us went from the old Commodore C64 to Amiga, with all
it's advanced graphic, audio and like, some of us didn't even thought of
the risks from the viruses before it was all too late, it was just a
"phenomenon" one could read had happened to somebody else. The
"phenomenon's" became known with names like "ByteBandit" and "BSG9", these
were among many others of the early boot block virus. The virus installed
itself right into the boot block and normally easy removed, by simply
installing a standard boot block, however as "piracy" also is a "thing" to
deal with, many software houses tried to protect their work by changing
the sync value or other tricks to prevent "disk swapping". To do that it
required a special boot block installed and when the virus infected the
boot block, the entire disk was destroyed. Well, we haven't seen a new
boot block virus for some time, because they are easily detected with the
programs available today. Later the file- and link virus appeared.
The programs Virus Help Denmark distribute is only share- and freeware -
Virus Help Denmark runs non-profit. It is a fact that all attempts to make
a commercial virus killer for the Amiga has failed. They were outrunned by
people who simply had their heart at the right place. Combined with the
fact that programming of such software isn't just a nine to five job - it
simply needs true dedication.
Who is Virus Help Denmark and what do they do - a simple presentation:
- Jan Andersen: Webmaster, keeps track off what's going on, supporting
Amiga users.
- Torben Danoe: PC-guy.
- Jan Nielsen: PC-guy, works with Torben and supports PC-users and the
PC-Disk.
- Henrik Lauridsen: Internet supporter.
- Lars P. Kristensen: Amiga user supporter, translator, and "PR"-guy.
- Jan Erik Olausen: Programmer of VirusExecutor and Amiga support.
This is a very short description, most off us are still having an Amiga,
but the time between the use of it, is getting longer and longer, we all
have daily jobs and families to support as well. I could fill pages, with
lots of stuff concerning what the five of us has overcome since the early
ninety's. I would rather prefer telling the history behind VHT DK, and
this started for me at the summertime 1991. The summer I got attacked by a
simple virus named ByteBandit. I found a coverdisk which contained a few
shareware programs - mainly from the "Fish Library" - every Amiga guy should know Fred Fish and the tremendous work he did to get programmers and users closer. However I found this disk and ZeroVirus, I quickly read the documentation and stumbled over a name - a Danish name: Erik Løvendal
Sørensen. Erik had had a similar situation to my own. But - differently -
he started to collect the viruses and mailed them to authors of antivirus
programs, which didn't yet, supported the virus he mailed. Then he put
"The New Superkiller" (TNS) together. By the time I got it, it was stuffed
with antivirus programs to the limit.
A day during Easter 1992 I was down to visit Erik. Then I met Jan Andersen
and Torben Danø. I have seen Jan shortly (he can't remember - he's just
getting older) talking to Erik about how he had shown the TNS to some
pupils at an evening school and taught them how to use it. A month or so
after Easter, the two guys forming RVC-DK wished to leave to pay a greater
attention to their study. I had had a wish to join the center from the day
I started in SHI - now that possibility was in reach. Erik thought it was
better if I stayed at "my post", however he hadn't any complaints when Jan
was pointed at as a new RVC leader. What the heck. I called Jan and
fortunately he lived just 25 km's from me. The next month Jan and I
redesigned the whole set of disks. Time demanded a Kick2.0 disk and we
first tried different versions of "softkick's" (Jan had a hard drive -
lucky him). Well, we equipped Jan's A500 with a Kick2.0 ROM and that gave
us a lot of new possibilities, one was to use the entire 880KB of a disk.
Shortly after Jan and I teamed up, Jan Nielsen (Jan-Jan), Torben Danø and
Henrik Lauridsen joined to be part of the action.
Soon Jan established SHI BBS. First he figured out the MAX BBS system but
soon he changed to - and learned to master - the STARNET BBS system (the
prior system to MEBBS net) under which the system performed to the end.
The system almost killed Jan, he wanted the system to be no less than 100
percent secure and he actually took a bet with another SHI guy, who
claimed he could hack the BBS. As fare as I know, Jan is still waiting to
collect the bet. However, Jan also did a heck off a job in keeping the BBS
up to date, he actually "haunted" every corner of all the great BBS-sites
and nets to seek new updates all the time. One more thing, Jan is also the
author of the "VirusWarning.guide", a news-guide about virus, what
archives they were spread in and where they were found - actually he is
still updating it today.
However, by the end of 1993 the five of us performing under SHI in the RVC
known as "SHI Team Denmark" discovered that SHI in general took a
different path, we decided to resign from SHI and keep on the path we had
followed so fare. There were many reasons that lead us to this conclusion
and it wasn't easy for any of us to leave. As fare as I know SHI doesn't
exist anymore, however, lots of friends met each other in SHI and lots of
new great ideas evolved from the endless brainstorms we had. From the
start of 1994 Virus Help Team Denmark took off - the name had slightly
changed as the words "Team Denmark" is copyrighted, today we function
under the name "Virus Help Denmark".
By that time the Internet hadn't evolved into this communicator it is
today, then there were nets like FIDONET, a local net in Denmark and
AMIGANET, a world wide net for the Amiga community. It could take up to a
fortnight to get a reply from fare places like Australia or South America
and it wasn't right to mail virus around those nets, as executables in
archives, attached to personal letters, could be opened and executed by
accident. Security on the Internet has been improved dramatically and
today virus can be mailed via the net instead of on disks in letters.
When the Internet started to spread among normal users, Jan could see from
the log file that users who earlier logged on to the BBS on regular basis,
became more and more rear. From my point of view he closed the BBS in the
right time, everybody who has a modem, can connect to the Internet and
get the updates from the VHT-DK homepage. The link is: www.vht-dk.dk
If you were a regular visitor on the former BBS, then pay this site a
visit and you'll find that everything is back, the homepage was actually
up and running some time before he closed down the BBS. I know that Jan
still keeps the old STARNET system - just in case.
Since the beginning of 1994 Virus Help Teams has been started in Norway,
Holland and Canada, some of the guys in those centers are also earlier
SHI-guys. In Canada, 'Charlene' has done so much for the VHT all over
the world (Thanx for everything Charlene).
Last but maybe the most important thing we want to say is a big 'Thank
You' to the antivirus programmers that have supported us in the last 10
years, and hopefully many years in the future:
- Georg Hoermann - VirusZ & xvs.library
- Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor & xvs.library
- Markus Schmall - VirusWorkshop
- Heiner Schneegold - VT-Schutz
- John Veldthuis - VirusChecker
- Alex Van Niel - VirusChecker & VHT Holland
- Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe & Mill
- Soenke Freitag - For great support
- Charlene - VHT Canada
- Virus Test Center Hamburg : Great support and help
- Dirk Stoecker - xfdaster.library & CheckX
- And anyone we might have forgotten......
Kind Regards
The team behind:
Virus Help Denmark
(Written by Lars P. Kristensen - Virus Help Denmark) (nba) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
jockl (ANF)
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Found: A MP3-player made by "Commodore"
Our reader jockl has seen a MP3-Player
made by "Commodore". He writes:
Actually we have nothing to do with Commodore no more and Commodore has nothing to do with
us and Commodore has also nothing to do with Commodore no more. Therefore actually it is
not interesting if someone has found a device made by "Commodore" which trade mark changes
from American to British and to German.
But what I found here, on the
Australian hardware site "DansData", is not only a review of a "Commodore" device (same
label, same logo).
Last but not least maybe it is interesting what can happen with the label "Commodore".
Above all when it seems to be a German company which uses the trade mark but offers
the products oversea.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Online magazine NoCover: Issue 118 published
Issue 118 of the popular online magazine NoCover has been published and sent to all
subscribers via email.
We wish all readers of the online magazine much fun and hope you will participate
much more because NoCover is a magazine from readers for readers. Without "Writers"
"Readers" have nothing to read. ;-)
On the homepage of NoCover and on the
homepage of APC & TCP you can read the current
issue online. Furthermore you can get the magazine on Aminet or on the CD-ROMs of
the Amiga Future.
Much fun wish you
Wolf Zimmer,
Cord Hagen and
Andreas Magerl. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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VHT: Website accessable again
You can access the website of Virus Help Team Denmark under the known URL
http://www.vht-dk.dk. The alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/ will be
closed soon. Please change your bookmarks. The Virus Help Team wish you a Happy
New Year.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
TerAtoM (ANF)
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GamePark32: Handheld with adapted ScummVM-version
The GamePark 32
combines the qualities of a mp3 and video player with a retro emulator and handheld
games because there is still a GP32 optmized version of the popular "ScummVM" tool with
which you can play Monkey Island, Indiana Jones or Day of the Tentacle.
There are also emulators for Atari 2600, Atari ST, C64, Neo Geo, NES and Master System.
But there is not an Amiga emulator (UAE?).
You can get further information here:
http://www.pcgamesportal.de/index.php?site=gp32
http://www.gp32europe.com (in preparation)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mailer: SimpleMail v0.22
The new version 0.22 of SimpleMail has been published.
These are the changes:
- You can now set seperate signatures for each folder. (bgol)
- Index files of the aim folder are not loaded no more during the move operation.
The SimpleMail-team wish you a happy and healthy new year 2004!
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2004
ac-logic (ANF)
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Mai Logic: News regarding PPC 970 support
Mai Logic, Inc. Licenses IBM®'s Elastic Interface Technology For Its Articia Chipset Family and Teron Series Systems in Support of IBM®'s PowerPC™ 970 Microprocessor Family
FREMONT, CA. December 21, 2003. Mai Logic, Incorporated, a leading global semiconductor provider of bus-interface controller circuits, embedded platforms and total system solutions, announced today it is licensing IBM®'s ultra-high speed PowerPC™ 970 Elastic Interface technology. Mai Logic plans to incorporate IBM®'s Elastic Interface technology within its Articia I chipset and Teron I series system product offerings, working hand-in-hand with the PowerPC™ 970 microprocessors to help improve the performance of next generation embedded applications in consumer electronics, multimedia, storage, main-stream computing, servers and networking application for consumer, industrial and military implementations.
"IBM®'s latest licensing agreement with Mai Logic demonstrates the continuing momentum of the PowerPC™ 970 family in the market," said Mark Ireland, Manager of PowerPC™ Strategy and Business Development, IBM® Microelectronics. "Our relationship enables IBM® to provide Mai Logic with the latest, most innovative microprocessor core technology for their products while in turn, driving momentum for the PowerPC™ architecture in the embedded space."
"IBM®'s PowerPC™ 970 architecture provides us with tremendous flexibility," said Jason Hou, CEO of Mai Logic. "We plan to utilize the Elastic Interface technology with Articia I to expand our leading-edge Articia family roadmap for a variety of compelling products which span several of our target markets that require optimal performance, low-power consumption, low-cost 64-bit capabilities. The technology will be a significant asset in our portfolio as we move forward."
Mai Logic's Articia I System Controller and Teron I Series Systems
Mai Logic's feature-rich Articia I supports IBM® PowerPC™ 970 microprocessor, DDR 2 memory interface and other advanced peripheral interfaces such as PCI Express and PCI-X. The combination of IBM® PowerPC™ 970's performance speeds, the ultra high speed Elastic I/O technology and Mai Logic's AGP 8X compatible Articia I chipset represents a formidable solution in the embedded markets, particularly those requiring high resolution graphics such as multimedia, gaming, medical and aerospace industries. With built-in MPEG4 accelerator and TV decoder designed for developing integrated graphic and video subsystems, Articia I is well positioned to bridge the gap between the computer and the television as the worlds of entertainment and computing converge. Articia I is also equipped with self-repairing and self-testing functions to ensure performance stability.
The PowerPC™ 970 + Articia I based Teron I series solutions provide system developers scalability and synthesizability to meet the ever-increasing performance demands of future-generation devices, accelerate time-to-market, and minimize overall complexity. Samples of the Articia I chipsets, Teron I series systems, and PowerPC™ 970 processor are expected to be available in early second quarter of 2004.
IBM®'s PowerPC 970 Microprocessor
The PowerPC™ 970 is a high-performance 64-bit microprocessor for use in a variety of applications, including desktops, workstations, servers and communications products. The chip is derived from IBM®'s award-winning POWER4™ server processor to provide high performance and additional function for users. It is designed for manipulating data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerating compute-intensive workloads, like multimedia and graphics, through specialized circuitry known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit.
About Mai Logic, Incorporated
Mai Logic, Inc. is a leading global semiconductor provider of bus-interface controller circuits, embedded platforms and total system solutions. With more than 60 US and International invention patents granted and 100 more pending in the fields of IC, security, and systems design engineering, Mai Logic, through demonstrated cost-effective advanced technology offerings, has established itself as a proven technology powerhouse. Mai Logic's innovations include: Intelligent Memory (iMemory), which enables industry's first in-field DRAM fault detection and real-time fault recovery without the need of a system reboot; Control Pipeline allowing flexible timing on various system clocks and low power consumption; Genetic Computing for high-level security and privacy; and Floating Buffer to achieve a true concurrent system.
Mai Logic, incorporated in California, is part of the Atum Group in Taipei. The Group has design and development operations in Fremont Ca and Taipei and Beijing , with Marketing and Sales support world wide.
Mai Logic is a total solution IC system design house devoted to customer satisfaction. (snx)
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01.Jan.2004
David ´Daff´ Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results 2003
The results for 2003's game polling have been released on Amiga Games Hit Parade. Read the following text for the first three places and check out the AGHP website under the title link for the complete results.
What game genre do you prefer?
- Adventure - 3.87
- Strategy - 3.83
- First Person Shooter - 3.79
What game would you like ported from another platform to play on AmigaOS/MorphOS?
- Unreal (series)
- Quake 3
- WarCraft (series)
What Amiga game classic would you like to play in a "remastered" version on Pegasos or Amiga One?
- Turrican (1-2-3)
- Alien Breed 3D 2
- Speedball (1-2)
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01.Jan.2004
Elbox (E-Mail)
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New Year's greetings from Elbox
Elbox Computer wishes all Amiga users a Very Happy New Year.
For a New Year Gift, Elbox re-offers the Free Shipping opportunity for
most of the items from the Elbox Online Store.
From 31 December 2003 to 21 January 2004 all items in our Online Store
marked FREE SHIPPING will be delivered without any shipping costs. This
offer is valid for orders from all countries of the world.
The offer applies to most of the products in the online offer, including
Mediator PCI busboards, FastATA/PowerFlyer controllers, eFlash memories,
Spider USB 2.0 cards, mouse and keyboard interfaces, and many other
accessories. For details, see the Special Offer page.
Order your desired product Now and get FREE Shipping!
May your dreams be fulfilled in this coming New Year,
Elbox Computer Team (snx)
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01.Jan.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #031231
Under the title link you'll find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update
for December, 2003. In this monthly newsletter Brad Webb gathers together all the important news about the Amiga scene.
Themes of this issue:
- Developer 4.0 to be distributed
- Amiga setting up new user group org
- Aladdin 4D available on CD
- Spontaneous combustion fired up
- fxSCAN upgrades for download
- ImageFX 4.5 Studio now available
- Poseidon 2.2 ready for download
- SimpleMail has been updated
- E-Teacher, for learning languages
- Gorky 17 licensed for Amiga OS 4
- Latest WinUAE is 9.8.23
- A/NES Development ended, but ...
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jan.2004
Computerwoche (ANF)
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Computerwoche: BIOS Successor EFI Advances
Within three months the longtime partners Microsoft and Intel wish to establish a forum to spread a new PC specification named EFI
(Extensible Firmware Interface). EFI attempts to replace BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) that has been used for 23 years. BIOS initializes a computer's hardware before the loading of the operating system. Read the complete, German language article at Computerwoche under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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AmigaMARK: Pegasos II Module Available
There's now a Pegasos II module for Rupert Hausberger's benchmark programm AmigaMARK.
Start up AmigaMARK and select your modules and database in order to load the module here under the user name "Nowee". (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jan.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Anachronism Industries: Previously Announced Firm Will Not Serve Amiga Market
Anachronism Industries, a planned firm of amiga.org moderator Jim Farley, better known as redrumloa, will not serve the Amiga market because of circumstances beyond their control, according to this surprising announcement
from today. In place of the company they've started a mass-sale of their remaining items on eBay. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jan.2004
Pär Boberg (ANF)
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Famous Amiga Uses updated
Pär Boberg has updated Famous Amiga Uses, a listing of diverse companies and institutions which use or have used the Amiga. The list is available as AmigaGuide or HTML file. (snx)
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31.Dec.2003
ppcnux - online linux magazin (ANF)
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PPCNUX: Summary of Alan Redhouse's Bath speech
The German online Linux magazine PPCNUX set a summary of Alan Redhouse's speech from Bath online by the
title link
(amiga-news.de reported).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
MIchael Merkel (ANF)
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GS8gui - GUI for Ghostscript8 published
GS8gui is a graphical user interface for GhostScript 8. Similiar to the old
Ghostscript-GUI GS8gui offers as a new feature the ability to use the internal
GS8 viewer. Printing with the internal TurboPrint drivers is supported also.
The developer wants to emphasize that the GUI is a draft put together so bugs are likely to be expected.
Please report discovered bugs to the developer via email.
Download will soon be possible from the Aminet, at the developer site it's available
already as GS8gui.lha .
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
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bplan interview from September available online now
By appointment of the bplan GmbH and Kees Witteveens the interview with the bplan GmbH from September which
has been pulished within the first issue of the Amiga.org Magazine as well as in issue 11/93 of the
Amiga plus is now available online .
The Pegasos chronics have been updated with
the entries of November and December also.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
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"Big Book of Amiga Hardware" temporally offline
The famous hardware register Big Book of Amiga Hardware is due to a hard disk failure temporally not reachable.
The maintainer Ian Chapman is curently working to restore the website with backups. In one or two weeks everything should run normal again.
Because this action is coupled with a server change problems with the mail delivery to
Ian Cahpman mail account are expected in the meantime.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
os.amiga.com (Website)
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Next "Club Amiga Magazine" in February
Amiga Inc. announces at the member area of os.amiga.com the next
issue of the "Club Amiga Monthly" will be published in February.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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Commodity: "MasterControlProgram" (MCP) v1.43
The infamous universal commodity "MCP" is available in a new version which is cleaned from several bugs.
The archive also contains a new version of the prefs program. The command "MCPAssigns"
offers two new options now: "Hold/Lock" and "Hold/Path"
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
MorphZone
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MorphZone: Update of the MWD (Morph Web Directory)
The Morph Web Directory (MWD) within the MorphZone has been updated.
Bifford also added some more "Webgrabs" - previews of the corresponding websites.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.Dec.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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Spontaneous Combustion: New Video Effects from DiscreetFX
Chicago, Illinois -- Dec 30, 2003 -- DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and MorphOS, releases the Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer/MorphOS version of Spontaneous Combustion.
DiscreetFX Releases Spontaneous Combustion; Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version. A New Real-Time Fire, Smoke & Explosion Effects Library and Digital Video Effects (DVE) collection.
Information about Spontaneous Combustion:
Spontaneous Combustion is selling for $129.95 but is available for the special price of $49.95 only till the end of 2003. Thats right we are still going to honor the PreOrder price even though it is now shipping but you have to hurry if your interested since this offer is only good until midnight December 31st 2003. We are even crazy enough to include Free Shipping. As many of you know Andy Panagouleas was hurt badly in August 2003. He has been stuck home these many months recovering and unable to go back to school. Andy asked to help with the development of this version of Spontaneous Combustion since he is a big Amiga and Video Toaster owner/fan. Andy's hard work helped get the product done in time for 2003 and he receives a % of all sales.
Spontaneous Combustion: The unofficial sequel to the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer version of Pyromania from Bill Panagouleas and Andy Panagouleas. In development for over two years Spontaneous Combustion gives you much more than just fire, explosion and smoke effects. Rendered on Silicon Graphics O2 and Octane systems @ 4000 X 4000 resolution and quadra down sampled to full overscan uncompressed D1 video (720 X 486), you won't have to sacrifice quality. More frames, more depth, more realism. Over 40 unique Real-time effects, many never before seen for any video editing system including Sexy Smoke, Ultimate Explosion, Big Shooting Star, Car Crash, Flame Columns, Streaking Comet, TNT, Detonate, Phlogiston and Apocalypse.
Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version includes.
- Forty Real-time Broadcast Quality Fire Effects in Amiga Video Toaster 4000 DVE format.
- Forty animated Video Toaster Flyer clip files that can be used for advanced Compositing with the Video Toaster Flyer, Lightwave ToasterPaint 4.0 or Aura.
- Forty animated Amiga Anim files that can be used as an overlay on video with any Amiga the has a Genlock. These Anim files can also be used under MorphOS or Amiga OS 3.1-4.0 with Amiga/ MorphOS animation software that supports the Anim standard like ImageFX 4.5 and others.
- Complete 24 bit IFF image sequences of all Real-time effects included. Can be used with any Amiga/ MorphOS software that supports IFF 24.
For more information please call toll-free at 1 (800) 852-0930 or send an e-mail to sales@discreetfx.com. Payments can also be sent via Paypal to sales@discreetfx.com.
If you wish to pay by check or none Paypal credit card you can, just contact us first toll-free at 1 (800) 852-0930 If you need our snail mail address it's at http://www.discreetfx.com/Contactinfo.htm.
Spontaneous Combustion includes a 100% Money Back Guarantee.
Please note Amiga/ Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version includes bonus features and unique content not found in the Windows version.
Spontaneous Combustion is the only new product released in 2003 for the Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer.
MorphOS is a new platform we are supporting, please let us know when ordering if you use MorphOS. If we get enough interest and support from MorphOS customers we will continue to support this new operating system.
More information and screenshots is also available at www.discreetfx.com/SpontCombustion.htm.
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates, NFL, Buffy the Vapire Slayer and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and many more!
Best regards
Bill Panagouleas
DiscreetFX
Founder/CEO
bill AT discreetfx DOT com
www.discreetfx.com (snx)
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31.Dec.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB stack: News from "Poseidon"
A new MorphOS-Version of Poseidon has been released and the documentation for the 68k-Version has been slightly updated. Chris Hodges writes:
"Good news everyone,
I just uploaded the binaries for the MorphOS version of Poseidon V2.2.
The archive is available as usually from my homepage.
This is an intermediate solution and laire doesn't like it, so if something
goes wrong, blame it on me and not the rest of the MorphOS team. Don't
hesitate to report any problems.
Installing it on MorphOS is a bit tricky, because some of the files are in
the "ROM" file, the bootimg. Therefore you have to add the following line
to the MOSSYS:S/Startup-Sequence file just, before the IPrefs command:
PoseidonROMUpdate
If you don't add this, the update will still work, but some components will
still remain as the old version, that was delivered with the MOS 1.4 ISO.
Also, avoid booting up with USB mass storage devices connected, because
this will inhibit the replacement of the class, as it will be in use by the
mounted partitions.
There is both an USB.mprefs update (available through the system prefs), as
well as the stand-alone Trident program, compiled for PPC. Use whatever you
prefer. Trident has more features though ;-}}}}
I've also updated the V2.2 archive a bit, there was some old information in
the registration forms (and I've also added the missing SWIFT and BIC codes
for international money transfer).
That's it for now. Have a nice time and happy new year. Thanks for your
support!"
(cg)
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30.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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IRCNews: show Amiga News in AmIRC
Dave "Targhan" Crawford has developed an ARexx-script, which can show the latest headlines of
amiga-news.de, amiga.org, morphzone.org and morphos-news.de in AmIRC. This script
needs the rxsocket.libary.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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30.Dec.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #063
The scene group Liquid Skies has published today their 63rd Musicpack. It contains the track "Catwalk" of the musician Tripper.
This track is a synthetic pop. The belonging cover comes from Angeldust.
- Title: Catwalk
- Musician: Tripper
- Style: Synthpop
- Runtime: 5:08
- Format: mp3 (@160kbps)
- Size: 5.9 MB
You can find the zipped file for downloading under the title link. Also the team is wishing a Happy New Year.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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30.Dec.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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AmigaClub SH: User-/Hardware meeting 1-2004
The Amigaclub Schleswig Holstein is publishing in teamwork with the promoter of the computer museum in Kiel e.V.
an Amiga (and Pegasos/Amithlon) hardware meeting.
The meeting is Saturday, the 17th January 2004 at 14 o'clock at the mediendom in the technical college in Kiel.
You can get more information at Informationen
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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30.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Pegasos II: Benchmark results for the 68k emulation (Update)
MorphOS-News.de has published the following benchmark results by Harry 'Piru' Sintonen. He tested the 68k emulation on a Pegasos II with 1GHz G4 processor, 512MB DDR-400 RAM and a Radeon 8500LE graphics card under MorphOS:
Voxelspace Demo (with and without JIT emulator):
320x240: ~500-540fps (with JIT)
320x240: ~85fps (without JIT)
640x480: ~150fps (with JIT)
pixelOmania (with JIT):
Time elapsed: 0.040433 seconds
Mandel (with JIT): 0.29 sec
julia_fpu (with JIT): 2.53 sec
c2ptest (with JIT): 0.35 sec
demoeffect (with JIT): 442.80 fps
You can download the Mandel, julia_fpu, c2ptest and demoeffect benchmarks at the Petunia website.
Update: (31.12.2003, 11:01, snx)
Meanwhile, MorphOS-News.de prepared further benchmarks done by Gunne Steen published them in the forum of MorphZone:
The tests were done using the RC5DES program and either the 68k-JIT of MorphOS or PPC-native software (PUP/WUP client) on a Pegasos II G4/1GHz.
68k results (with JIT):
OGR: Benchmark for core #4 (GARSP 5.13 68060): 2,740,713 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #1 (MH 2-pipe 68000/040/060): 2,447,018 keys/sec
PowerUP client (without Altivec support):
OGR: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 5.13 PPC-scalar): 12,475,677 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #3 (MH 2-pipe): 3,866,164 keys/sec
WarpUp client (without Altivec support):
OGR: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 5.13 PPC-scalar): 12,841,769 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #3 (MH 2-pipe): 3,866,640 keys/sec
You can find further information in the original thread at MorphZone.
Update 2: (31.12.2003, 17:17, snx)
As David Scheibler informed us, Harry 'Piru' Sintonen meanwhile also got the following RC5 results with Altivec support. He used a not yet released MorphOS-native client on a Pegasos II G4/1GHz.
MorphOS client (with Altivec support):
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #7 (KKS 7450): 10,678,428 keys/sec
For comparison he does, among others, also list an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (Palomino) with 2200 MHz - its result: 8,462,352 keys/sec. (snx)
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