24.Dec.2003
Nico Barbat
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Christmas greetings from the AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de
The AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de editor teams as well as the publisher team of falkemedia wish all Amigans a merry blessed Christmas and a comfortable transition to 2004. We are thankful for your faith in us and are looking happily forward to the next twelve months which might see the long awaited revival for the Amiga market thanks to the PegasosII and MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.0.
Editorial team AMIGAplus:
Nico Barbat, Wolfgang Böhl, Sebastian Brylka, Marc Cloppenburg, Thomas
Franziskowski, Frode Hansen, Heiko Kuschel, Uwe Pannecke, Robbie Schäfer,
Alex Scholz, Carsten Schröder, Kilian Servais.
Editorial team amiga-news.de:
Nico Barbat, Ulrich Beckers, Jens Begeschke, Christian Busse, Stéphane
Campan, Christoph Dietz, Sven Drieling, Guido Fehst, Dr. Eric Gillé,
Christoph Gutjahr, Stefan Hägele, Martin Heine, Hendrik Höner, Sven
Kirmse, Daniel Miller, Jürgen Müller, H. Ogino, Piotr Pawlowski, Daniel
Reimann, Christian Rosentreter, Gerhard Schmid, Carsten Schröder, Felix
Schwarz, Petra Struck, Alfred Sturm, Rolf Tingler.
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24.Dec.2003
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Pictures from the Pegasos 2 - a slightly different Christmas story...
"Four against Murphy" or how the Pegasos 2 made it at least against all odds for Christmas:
At that time there was the order by Genesi that all already produced Pegasos 2 boards should be shipped until Christmas. And this Pegasos shipping 2 was the first at all.
So Gerald Carda and Thomas Knäbel from Oberursel went to Oberhausen, to DCE where the Pegasos 2 should be produced when the plain circuit boards should arrive there.
But there were no boards... TNT sent the boards to "DK" not to "DE" and now they had to be moved from Denmark to the right destination. Two worthful days went by...
But not enough, Murphy not satisfied yet - there was potential for more things going wrong. And seeesh!!! - a soldering machine went broke and needed a repair!
Holy evening approached and the question was not if something else might go wrong but what it will be this time. The answer came quicker than hoped: just on the first day of production one of the SMD machines left synchronity...
But Thomas and Gerald just kept the track and with the help of the whole DCE team the sailed through all these problems!
But: Worthful time was lost and the board production lasted till the afternoon of the 23rd...
Also the programmers were busy all day and night and worked coordinated by Ralph Schmidt on the new firmware and on fitting MorphOS 1.4.1 to the Pegasos 2. André Siegel had hands full of work with making the 61 page manual perfect and let it translate with two fellows to German and French.
The last day before Christmas Eve! How should the boards go on their journey just in time? Sure: His Pegasos 2 boards share Guido Does by Vesalia picked up just at the production site - but what shoud be done with the orders of the other customers?
Then Christian Kemp surprisingly came along offering his help - coming from his home in Luxembourg he offered to make a 600 km trip to bring the boards from DCE, Oberhausen to Ron van Herk, Rotterdam just that evening so that the boards could be sent to all the world an December the 24th.
So it came the day of Christmas Eve Christian and Ron supported by his wife Cindy packed Christmas packets with mainboards, CPU cards, slot panels, manuals and self burned and printed MorphOS CDs and brought them on their way.
At least Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco were able to announce the good news at morpos-news.de: UPS just got the boards intended for Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Luxembourg, the UK and the USA - including Hawaii.
The following pictures may be used as evidence that the Pegasos 2 boards are really produced and sent away:
Pictures of some Pegasos 2 boards
The Shipping: In the beginning there was chaos...
...but at least...
...and one by one...
...it was fullfilled by Christian and Ron:
The boards ready to go at ComputerCity in Rotterdam.
Merry Christmas!
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail v0.21 released & X-mas greetings from the developer team
The SimpleMail team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Additionally there is version 0.21 of SimpleMail available now.
Changes are:
- Import of mbox files
- Several memory leaks wiped out (bgol)
- The layout of important list elements is now saveable (bgol)
- Simple remote filter: Messages can be left on the server
- SimpleHTML support is now within a shared library
- Ported to OS4
- Documentation describes the spam identification
- Bug fixes and several other improvements
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24.Dec.2003
Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: Euph0ria 0.24 released
Using this announcement Christian Rosentreter wishes a Merry Cristmas and a Happy New Year and there is a new version (0.24) of Euph0ria!
Christian writes: Special greetings to all amiga-news.de members
all guests of the #amiga-news.de IRC channel, to
#amigazeux and to all others I forgot to mention now. :)
About Euph0ria:
Euph0ria is a visual plug-in with MUI-GUI for AmiNetRadio, Kaya
or AmigaAMP. It's been tested under MorphOS 1.4 only but should work with other versions flawlessly. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack USB driver update v0.94 released
The version 0.94 of the USB driver package for Amithlon and OpenPCI is available at the
Aminet and at VMC.de now.
Guido Mersmann wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Amiga users and developers and to the
amiga-news.de team.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)
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kickstart archives v3.1 - DVD release
kickstart archives is a collection of historic and current
websites, information, documents, patents, wireing diagrams, manuals, hardware libraries
and more all about the Amiga. The collection is html based and features a search engine to browse the archive.
kickstart archives runs with all common operating systems and can be installed to the hard disk just by copying it there.
The search engine does not operate with AmigaOS due to the lack of a browser capable of
complete JavaScript1.2.
kickstart archives costs EUR 10,- plus EUR 1,44 p&p.
Thomas Unger wishes a blessed Christmas and a successful new year 2004 to all readers and amiga-news.de members. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Christmas greetings from Coyote Flux and individual Computers
Merry Christmas from a new team in the Amiga market: Coyote Flux and
individual Computers are working together on a basis of a contract that
has been signed on October 1st, 2003.
The young programmer-team also has a new website under www.coyoteflux.nl.
The two brothers Sharwin and Rakesh Raghoebardayal became famous in the
Amiga community for various projects like PPC680x0 (a 68K to PowerPC
assembly translator), the sound editing system Coyotesound, photogrammetry
software J Miner and more high-quality software.
Individual Computers is known for many hardware products for Amiga
computers, specialized PC hardware and retro-computing projects. Serving
private customers and professionals like the US computer forensic
department of defense, individual Computers mass-produces own designs, and
does contract work for other parties.
With more than 50 years combined experience and detailled knowledge about
the target markets, the newly formed team is geared towards development of
new hard- and software applications. The sales and marketing contacts of
individual Computers will make the products available worldwide in more
than 40 countries.
The first project of this cooperation is Kickflash OS4. Coyote Flux
provided the firmware of the product that has been sent to the resellers
yesterday. We hope that all users of classic Amigas will enjoy a fast
cold-start time of their computers with this product, and are looking
forward to more projects in the near future.
In time for the Christmas days, the toplevel domain server problems in
Gabon have been resolved. Our domain http://ami.ga is working again. (nba)
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24.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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AmiDiction: Version 2.6c of the dictionary available
Lorence Lombardos AmiDiction is now available in version 2.6c (31 KB).
AmiDiction is an English online dictionary which utilizes the services from dictionary.com and can be launched from the Workbench or CLI.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Dec.2003
(ANF)
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Update: DriverDescriptorBox V5 for the HardwareAssistent
The DriverDescriptorBox has been published in version 5 today.
Since the last version several bugs have been removed.
The DriverDescriptorBox offers the user information about drivers being used by the HardwareAssistent.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Amiga fans.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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Mail program: New YAM 2.5 Development version (Update)
A new snapshot of the current development version of YAM can now be downloaded. Changes made are to be found in the ChangeLog.
Amendment 23.12.2003, (ps):
This version is realy a development version and may contain bugs that can cause lost of data. The development team does not offer any support or garanty for this version. Support requests will remain unanswered. Use it at your own risk!
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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22.Dec.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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Software News: News by amiga.sf.net
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran updated some of the many utilities ported from Linux. They are available at amiga.sf.net. Updates of the following programs are available:
- cURL
- NetPBM
- Wget
- OpenSSL
- UnRAR
- bzip2 (now contains a shared library)
All programs are native ports. That is you do not need the ixemul.library.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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22.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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GPSInfo: GPS-Navigation system for Amiga
Carsten Siegner developed a basic navigation system for AmigaOS based on common GPS hardware. 'GPSInfo' displays the current position (longitude and latitude), the altitude above the sea, current speed, date and time as well as some GPS details like the quality of connection, currently available GPS satellites and so on. Furthermore it displays the current position by listing nearby villages or geographical points.
Additional information can be found at the title link.
Direct Download (15 KB)
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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22.Dec.2003
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Update: DriverDescriptorBox V4
Version 4 of the DriverDescriptorBox released. It contains driver descriptors for the Hardware Assistant.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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22.Dec.2003
Felix Schwarz (E-Mail)
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IOSPIRIT wishes a Merry Christmas
IOSPIRIT wishes all friends, partners, customers and their families a
Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and successful new year 2004. (nba)
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22.Dec.2003
Kjell Breding (E-Mail)
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AmiGBG 2004 - Swedish Amiga Fair
For the third year in a row, the Swedish Amiga fair AmiGBG is arranged in
Gothenburg, Sweden. The date set for AmiGBG 2004 is the 17th of April next
year. The AmiGBG fair is an event which is focused on the Amiga computer
platform and is once a year gathering companies, user groups, users and
visitors who are all interested in or curious about the platform that
created the essence of multimedia - the Amiga.
This year's fair is held by three Amiga user groups all situated in
Sweden; AmiGBG from Gothenburg, ACGGBG (Amiga Computer Group) from
Gothenburg and Syntax Society from Landskrona in the south of Sweden.
In the year 2002 the first AmiGBG event was held. It was a huge success
with around 450 visitors. The year after, it was yet again time to open
the gates for another great AmiGBG fair at Lindholmen, Gothenburg.
AmiGBG is an event that partly looks back upon the history around the
Amiga personal computer, but the main focus lies on the promising future
that this platform now has - in terms of new hardware (the AmigaOne) which
is based on the PowerPC processor and a new version of AmigaOS (Amiga
Operating System) for this new hardware - AmigaOS 4.
At the fair, you will have a chance to see the new AmigaOne systems based
on the G3 and G4 processors and also have a look on the classic Amiga
computers that many people were brought up together with - these days
gathered under the concept Classic Amiga.
At AmiGBG 2004 we also hope to be able to present a complete version of
the AmigaOS 4 running on the AmigaOne. If so, that will be the highlight
of the fair and a starting shot for the comeback of Amiga!
Furthermore; Linux will be demonstrated on AmigaOne, user groups will have
a chance to present themselves - the fair is a gathering force for
everyone interested in the future of Amiga. The target group is of course
people interested in Amiga, but also people that are interested in
alternative computer platforms.
Among the exhibitors, you will find everything from Swedish and European
companies to Swedish user groups. Not only pure Amiga related companies
have been invited - but also other hardware retailers.
For some more information about the previous events held by AmiGBG, please
check these links:
For further information about AmiGBG 2004:
Web: www.amigbg.com
E-Mail: info@amigbg.com
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22.Dec.2003
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Magazine: The Crypt #33
Issue #33 of 'The Crypt', an English online magazine, published. The online version is to be found at the title link. If you want to have the download version feel free to use the following link:
Download: ZIP-Version of The Crypt #33
Content:
- The real story of Christmas
- Creation of desktop wallpaper and icons for PC
- New PC game: "Call of Duty"
- New News-Website about Amiga
- Alternative use of CDs and DVDs
- Using two computers with one monitor - Howto
- Reciptes
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22.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Audio: HD-Rec 09 Beta Demo
A new beta version of 'HD-Rec' is now available at the title link. 'HD-Rec' can be used to arrange audio and MIDI recordings within the same window and play them simultaneously.
Addtional information can be found at the title link.
Download:
http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/HD-Rec_09Beta.lha
Screenshots:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=screenshots
Demo Songs:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=download
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21.Dec.2003
Chris Perver (ANF)
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Textviewer: EvenMore updated
I have updated EvenMore exe and plugins to use the OpenURL library for the clickable links, both in the MSWord and HTML plugins, so now if you click on an email address or a Web address, the appropriate app will open.
I have also updated the MSWord plugin to find the correct start and end file positions from the FileInfoBlock (before I was just estimating, which sometimes didn't work). (snx)
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20.Dec.2003
Davy Wentzler (ANF)
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New Audio Evolution 4 screenshots on OS4 on the AmigaOne released
Now that Audio Evolution 4 is running natively on OS4 for some months, it is time to present you with some screenshots.
Please look at the screenshots section of Audio Evolution 4 at http://www.audio-evolution.com/AE4/Screenshots.html.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!
Davy Wentzler
Audio Evolution (snx)
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20.Dec.2003
ANN (comments)
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A look back at IBM's PowerPC activities in 2003 / Genesi mentioned
In the lead article of the December issue of the IBM PowerPC processor news, PPC Marketing Managers Kalpesh Gala and Jesse Stein look back at IBM's PowerPC activities in 2003. Mentioned in brief, although without further individual details, are also Genesi, Mai and Marvell. (snx)
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20.Dec.2003
AMIGAplus Redaktion
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AMIGAplus 12/2003 (#142): Weihnachtszeit
Am 19. Dezember 2003 erschien die Ausgabe 12/2003 (#142) der AMIGAplus
(Versand am 17.12.2003) mit folgenden Themen:
A1200 im Acryl-Glas-Tower
Fast jeder Amiga-Anwender mit einem Amiga 1200 in einem Towergehäuse kennt
das Problem, ganz besonders aber alle, die ihren Amiga in einem
Towersystem von MicroniK untergebracht haben: Wenn die Anzahl an
eingebauter Hardware zunimmt, geht die Stabilität des Towers verloren. Mit
etwas Geschick und Fleiß können auch Sie Ihrem Classic Amiga 1200 auf
seine alten Tage ein würdiges und vor allem ein stabiles Gehäuse selbst
bauen. Die Materialwahl fiel auf das dem Glas in der Konsistenz ähnliche
Material Acryl.
Tipps für Santa Claus
Nur noch wenige Tage, dann quetscht sich der weißbärtige Dicke mit dem
roten Mantel wieder durch die Schornsteine in allen Nationen. Damit der
gute Santa das Weihnachtsfest nicht durch das falsche Geschenk verdirbt,
sollten Sie noch eilig einen Wunschzettel ausfüllen und an der rechten
Stelle platzieren. Die schönsten Geschenke für Amiganer, Technik- und
Design-Liebhaber finden Sie in der AMIGAplus – auch für den kleinen
Geldbeutel fernab vom Kommerzialismus.
Digitalkameras im Aufschwung
In keinem Jahr zuvor hat sich das digitale Aufnahmemedium so schlagkräftig
durchsetzen können. Die Absatz kurve der Hersteller verläuft steil nach
oben und zeigt, dass Fotografen aller Themengebiete dem neuen Medium
vertrauen und es vermehrt einsetzen, den Schritt in die Fotografie wagen
oder den Wechsel von der Analog- zur Digitalfotografie vollziehen. Wir
präsentieren die Highlights des zurückliegenden, hervorragenden Jahrganges
2003 und geben den einen oder anderen Tipp für den Weihnachtsmann.
AMIGAplus CD #25
Schwerpunkte: PNG-Icons für das AmigaOS (Icons, Tools, Infos); Video und
Fotos von der VideoBörse 2003 in Bremen; Die 40 besten Scene-Demos 2003;
Updates zu aktuellen Spielen; alle Tools- und Games-Neuheiten wie AmigaAMP
2.10, SCouT, NewsCoaster, Virus Executor u.v.m.
Lesen Sie außerdem:
- Belesen: Literatur-Tipps
- Geisterbeschwörung: GhostScript-Workshop (Teil 3)
- Besser drucken: TurboPrint-Workshop (Teil 2)
- 1, 2, 3, Brutzelhexerei: 3CaDo
- TurboCalc-"Nachfolger": StarAm Plan
- Top 10: Die Shareware-Highlights
- Emulatoren: Neues von WinUAE und Amithlon
- Digitale Bolzerei: Eat The Whistle 3
- Lauscher aufgesperrt: Audio-CDs
- News: Aktuelles aus dem Amiga-Markt
- Amiga Status Report: Weihnachtszeit, Wartezeit
- Demoscene: Retrospektive 2003
- und vieles mehr
Sie können die AMIGAplus für
5,- Euro bei falkemedia bestellen
oder im
Abonnement beziehen. (nba)
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19.Dec.2003
ann.lu (Website)
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Turbo-Patch: New version of SystemPatch
A new version of "Systempatch" has been published which is a patch that patches
diverse system routines to get a better performance on classic Amiga computers.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Dec.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS port of "Njam" released
"Njam" is a full-featured cross-platform pacman-like game written in C++
using SDL library.
Features:
- Single and multiplayer mode (local or network)
- Duel games (players compete against each other to get more points)
- Cooperative games (players cooperate to finish as many levels as they can)
- Great music and sound effects
- Runs on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BeOS, MacOS X, MorphOS
- Customizable level skins
- Many different levels
- Integrated level editor
- Open Source (GPL Licence)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HardwareAssistent: New version 0.32 (Update)
Version 0.32 of "HardwareAssistent" has completed.
In the previous version 0.31 of the archive the directory Installed was unfortunately
not packed. Therefore the program HardwareAssistent could not remember which cards
have been already installed. This bug has been cleared.
The launcher was also updated. It now uses the assign HardwareAssistent: to start the
HardwareAssistent.
Please consider that there can be still bugs in this early version. If you find bugs
then please write a mail to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
DJBase will take care of the Driver Descriptors. The official support page where you
can download the current Driver Descriptors is http://hwa.amigaworld.de.
Download of HardwareAssistent v0.32 (228 KB).
If you have a card that the list
do not contain please use the program DriverDescriptor Creator
to create a DriverDescriptor for this hardware.
Then please send this file (with .info file) via email to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
Update: (19.12.03, 13:25, snx)
Norman Walter wrote the following lines:
I got the messages that the install script would not work. But this is only the case
if you unpack the archive with the bugy version of Unarc which AmigaOS 3.9 contains.
Unarc replaces blank characters by underscores.
Therefore please use a different program or unpack the archive via lha x..
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOne: "EasterEgg" in U-Boot
In a thread on amigaworld.net Thomas and
Hans-Jörg Frieden explained a first "Easteregg" which has been hidden in U-Boot.
Those ones who do not want to know something of PPC, multitasking and graphical user
surfaces can activate the second modus of its AmigaOne by entering the following
command lines in the U-Boot command line:
setenv easteregg 1
saveenv
reset
Deactivate:
setenv x86_mode
setenv vga_fg_color 'n'
setenv vga_bg_color 'n'
'n' stands for standard ANSI colour values where you have to enter e.g. "0" for black
or "7" for white.
The variables "vga_fg_color" and "vga_bg_color" can be used to modify the optical surface
of the BIOS screen.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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Emulation: "SheepShaver" Emulates a MacIntosh PPC on x86
"Sheepshaver" is the first Mac emulator for x86 PCs capable of emulating PPC-based Macintoshes. The software currently emulates a 604 CPU, requires a ROM image from a PCI-based "Old World" Macintosh, and works with MacOS up to version 8.6. Sheepshaver is Open Source, and right now only a Linux version is available.
The program's homepage
is currently just a clean building space, with a files section in which you can get the sources for the current version.
On emaculation.com there's a support forum for the emulator. Those interested will find there a few hints for the use of the software, and there are also ready-compiled binaries there for download. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
Heise Newsticker
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Linux Kernel 2.6.0 Officially Released
Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton have released the final version of the new Linux kernel 2.6.0. Under the title link, near sections on characteristics and improvements, may be viewed the article from the Heise news-ticker. (cs) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite)
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Amizilla Project: Prize Markedly Raised
As Bill Panagouleas shared on ANN, a previous high-ranking executive of Netscape who wishes to remain unnamed has contributed $2000 to the pot for the Amizilla project.
The executive is a longtime Amiga user, who still makes frequent use of WinUAE and the Video-Toaster-Flyer. Altogether there is now the sum of $6200 as a reward to the person or team who ports Mozilla or Firebird and thereby helps the Amiga with a modern browser. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: TranspoClock Released (Update)
Jacek Piszczek released as freeware a transparent digital clock for MorphOS .
Transpoclock (23 KB) makes use of the transparency function of MorphOS' intuition.library.
Update: (7:30 PM, 20th of December 19:30, snx)
Today Version 0.70 (67 KB) was released.
Changes since 0.30:
- Commodity support has been added
- WBStart support has been added
- MUI-Prefs have been added
- Gfxpath support for different graphics sets has been added
- Optimized transparency routine
- Icons and graphics sets from Jobbo have been added
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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MoJoMeter: Analog Indicator for Hard-Drive Activity
MoJoMeter from Joe Torre and Kermit Woodall may now be ordered from Retrosystem.com.
MoJoMeter is an illuminated analog indicator for computer cases which measures the amount of hard-drive activity.
Interested dealers may inquire directly of Kermit Woodall. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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Shareware Package SiteWay Released for Free
Christian Effenberger decided to release freely all his Siteway programs, in order to give the Amiga community a little present before Christmas.
All restrictions have been lifted and there is no longer any requirement that the programs ImageEditor and PicBase be installed in Siteway.
All keyfile resources have been removed from the programs and the opportunity has been taken to offer for download the latest versions of ImageEditor and PicBase.
Effenberger wishes all Amiga users a nice Christmas and a successful new year! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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Show Report: OS4/MorphOS Show in Saragossa (Spain)
There's a report on ann.lu about the OS4/MorphOS convention that took place last weekend in Saragossa.
Update, (ps): Corrected the title link thanks to a tip-off from the comments section.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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17.Dec.2003
djnick deetronic (ANF)
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New multimedia CD ROM by DJNick/deetronic
Nikola Tomic (DJNick/deetronic) known for example for his soundtrack for the
beat'em'up game "Capital Punishment" has published his first multimedia CD:
"Aural Respiration" includes masses of
music modules, videos, graphics and photos and is optimized for use with
Amiga webbrowser. The CD is purchaseable directly from the author
for EUR 22.22 (incl. pp) following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Richard Drummond (ANF)
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New Linux UAE version by Richard Drummond
Richard Drummond has released a new version of his experimental Linux-UAE
which should enable many of the improvements from the latest WinUAE version for
Linux user as well.
The version 0.8.22-20031215 suppoarts now hardfiles up to 2 GB.
Further there were many bugfixes, for the x86 useres the JIT problems were removed
and MacOS x user will be happy to use the mouse properly in full screen mode now.
The sources are available now, compiled versions for several platforms will follow soonly.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet uploads until the 17th of December 2003
Here is the list of all recent Aminet uploads since our last report:
StarAm_Plan.lha biz/misc 752K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, 68000 CPU
StarAm_Plan881.lha biz/misc 747K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, needs FPU
amiycoders.lha comm/mail 29K+V0.6 yEnc Encoder / Decoder for the Amig
DVBFontUpload.lha comm/misc 40K+Font upload for Nokia D-Box via SCSI. 68
gng_SP.lha comm/www 9K+GNetGrabber 1.x spanish catalogs v1.0.0
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 108K+POSIX compatibility library for vbcc
Amitekst_E.lha dev/e 6K+AREXX scripts for use with AmiTekst Pro
amiycoders_src.lha dev/e 20K+E Source Code to AmiyCoders! V0.6
objectbrowser.lha dev/e 11K+Object Browser / System Debugger 0.8
AmigaTalk.lha dev/lang 1.4M+V2.5 Update of AmigaTalk (Smalltalk GUI)
SFS.lha disk/misc 268K+Smart Filesystem copyrighted by John Hen
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 52K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
saku44.lha docs/mags 8.4M+Saku #44 (3/2003). Finnish e-zine.
Labyrinth2Chts.lha game/hint 12K+Cheats for the game Labyrinth 2.
WormWars.lha game/misc 539K+Worm Wars 7.72: Advanced snake game
MicroWorld.lha game/think 6.2M+Simple logical game (CGX Friendly)
kray.lha gfx/3d 830K+Freeware raytracer v1.4
ambot.lha hard/drivr 62K+Cybot/Real Robots programmer w/ C source
PoseidonMain.lha hard/drivr 420K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.2
TestGear-Extra.lha hard/hack 223K+A600, A1000, A500(+), A1200 & PC extras.
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 358K+GUI 4 Lame,Ogg,BladeEnc,Pegase,Ncode,Mus
MrCarlitoWb-06.jpg pix/icon 314K+First full FREWARE PNG-Icon replacement
Dale_font.lha text/bfont 14K+Fixed topaz rep. in sizes 5,6,8,10,11,12
AddLF.lha text/misc 2K+Add LineFeed to textfile at column ~80
OnyxPrelude.lha util/cdity 34K+Comprehensive mixer for Prelude. MUI.
DegasDT.lha util/dtype 30K+Datatype for Degas pictures
MathLibs881.lha util/libs 12K+Free 68881/2 math-libraries with source,
AObjView.lzh util/misc 31K+Displays the Hunk structure of Amiga Obj
DigiConverter.lha util/misc 13K+Handy dec/hex/bin/float/ASCII-converter
xPackBest.lha util/pack 18K+Pack using XPK, adaptive, recursive
ARxShellV1.2b.lha util/rexx 99K+A shell for ARexx V1.2b
parename.lha util/rexx 11K+AREXX script to rename images within Pho
popsearch.lha util/rexx 15K+Quick searching from IBrowse, AWeb and V
DRemind.lha util/time 308K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.67!
VE_SP.lha util/virus 11K+VirusExecutor 2.3x spanish catalog v2.33
windowbar.lha util/wb 272K+Window mimizer and program launcher
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)
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eTeacher 6.20 distributed by Fun Time World
Fun Time World is pleased to announce that they are doing the distribution of the multimedial course
eTeacher 6.20. This package is unique on for the Amiga. You can learn English or
German with the aid by pictures, little animations and perfect spoken 16 bit output.
With the help of the multimedial exercises and tests the learning will become a real pleasure.
The program fits the demand of both, adults and children. The usage is easy and partly customizeable.
There is support for gfx cards and sound cards.
The program offers the following features:
- More than 200 exercises
- 3 hours 16 bit spoken language output
- 1000 illustrations
- Context sensitive grammar help
- Customizeable
- Support for gfx and sound cards
Information about the program and screen shots is to get from
www.funtime-world.de/eteacher.shtml.
Introducing prices til/from 5th of January 2004:
- Englisch - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
- German - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
- Both versions - 50 Euro / 59.90 Euro
Order by email (mail@funtime-world.de),
fax (+49 209 - 95 717 865) or telephone (+49 209 - 95 717 884) or directly at the
online shop of Fun Time World.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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Amiga, Inc.: Calling All User Groups!
Community has always been the backbone of the Amiga platform; indeed,
without it, the platform would have folded long ago. With AmigaOS4.0
approaching release, the community has taken a lead once again, with
dedicated individuals and user groups throughout the world working to show
AmigaOS4.0 running on AmigaOnes.
We are now at a stage where we are looking to bring the user groups
together into a more formal forum, providing feedback to Amiga, Inc. on
how best it can support the user groups whilst also allowing the user
groups to be able to bind themselves together in a mutual organization for
self help and support.
This new organization will be a crucial element in the growth of the Amiga
platform as AmigaOS4.0 is released and the community begins to expand. We
are thus making a call to all user groups to submit their details via this
form
so that we can begin the construction of this organisation and get
the resources in place to service it. (nba)
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17.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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New website about hardware do it yourself projects for Amiga, Amithlon and Pegas
Carsten Siegner has opened a new website with the URL "www.Pegasossoft.de" which covers
information about his all of his hardware projects.
Now there is not only the known analog data capture system for the serial RS 232 port
but also a hardware for the same port for a multi purpose controler device. This hardware is called
"Multiprogrammer" and is a board with three decoded 8 pin
universal ports. These ports can be programmed independently.
Furthermore the board has a data in port which can read serial data directly.
Further information about this project as well as the circuit design is available from the website.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
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Season Greetings from Amiga, Inc.
Amiga, Inc. would like to, on behalf of our staff and associates,
wish the Amiga Commmunity and their families a safe and happy holiday. Be
safe, don't drink and drive! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! (nba)
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