10.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad Version 16.0
Since the day before yesterday you can download the new version 16.0 of WHDLoad
in a user and developer package from the WHDLoad page. Using this software
you can now install games on your hard disk which have been made for floppy
disk only.
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10.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 09th August 2003
Using WHDLoad you can install games on your hard disk which have only been made
for floppy disk use. The following packages have been added or updated since our
last report:
- 09.08.03 improved: Soccer Kid (Krisalis) supports AGA and CD³² versions, miscellaneous improvements
- 09.08.03 improved: Arabian Nights (Krisalis) supports CD³² version, miscellaneous improvements
- 09.08.03 updated: Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (Master Designer Software/Cinemaware) reworked for WHDLoad 16
- 09.08.03 improved: Red Baron (Dynamix) supports another version, removed tapes check
- 09.08.03 fixed: Codename: Iceman (Sierra) sound now plays correctly
- 09.08.03 improved: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) manual protection removed
- 08.08.03 improved: Lotus 2 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) run with full caches on all CPUs
- 08.08.03 improved: Legend / The four crystals of Trazere (Mindscape) supports another version, docs and icon added
- 07.08.03 new: Knights of the Crystallion (US Gold/Bill Williams) done by Galahad
- 07.08.03 new: Codename: Iceman (Sierra) done by JOTD
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10.Aug.2003
PPCNUX (ANF)
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PPNUX: Interview with Pieter van den Abeele (Gentoo)
The Linux online magazine PPCNUX has held an interview with Pieter van den
Abeele, the project leader of Gentoo-PPC, in which they also ask about the
possibility of a port of the Gentoo Linux distribution for the AmigaOne and
Pegasos.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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10.Aug.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Major Update for ALGOR / ROMulus FlashROM Software
E3B, makers of the well known USB solutions for Amiga Classic, and Chris Hodges,
programmer of many well known software solutions, a.o.t. the USB stack Poseidon,
are glad to announce being able to make available an update for the FlashROM
solutions developed by E3B.
In this update existing functionality has been optimized and expanded as well as
some problems with some system configurations fixed.
Thus users of the USB controller ALGOR as well as the FlashROM module
ROMulus (HIGHWAY) have a mature and field-tested solution for the
integration of additional software modules already at cold boot time at their
disposal.
A short overview over the new functions:
- Special treatment for exec.library and romupdate.idtag. Thus there is for
the first time a full replacement for OS3.9's RomUpdate functionality.
- increased speed by way of switching on the processor cache.
- Workarounds for accelerator boards whose memory is not RomTag able. This
solves many problems with certain accelerator boards even in Amiga 1200 tower
rebuildings.
- Many internal changes and corrections, making the bootloader more stable and
safer. Special attention has been paid to highest compatibility with unusual
accelerator boards.
The basic functions of ALGOR and ROMulus are essentially
unchanged:
- comfortable user interface for programming the FlashROM (MUI).
- In case of an emergency the most important functions can be reached without
MUI via command line.
- Drag'n'Drop when configuring the FlashROM via MUI.
- transparent and reset fast integration of any ROM modules.
- use of USB stack Poseidon directly on cold boot time.
- abolition of the OS3.9 ROM-Patch-Reset by integrating the ROM updates and
thus faster boot tie of the computer.
- Booting the Amiga from USB mass storage directly after cold boot possible.
- full replacement of Amiga mouse and keyboard by respective USB devices via
new input.device (also in the boot menu if OS 3.9 BoingBag 2 present).
- easy switching off of the ROM modules during bootup possible.
- integrated transparent compression for efficient usage of the FlashROM.
The ALGOR resp. the FlashROM module ROMulus (upgrade for
HIGHWAY) each have 512kb (256kx16 resp. 4 MBit) FlashROM which can be
easily programmed via the user interface Luciferin. The FlashROM allows highest
possible speed when booting the computer by way of wordwise access and the
extremely early activation; use is possible in all Zorro II and Zorro III
systems (also A1200 tower with Zorro slots).
The update for Luciferin is available exclusively for registered owners of ALGOR
and ROMulus - all registered users are mailed by E3B and receive the update by
eMail. Should you have not yet registered, please send in your filled in
registration card or contact E3B by eMail (mboehmer@e3b.de).
A warm thank you at this place to Hartmut Schulze for his support through
extensive bug reports and hints.
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09.Aug.2003
Amiga Inc. (website)
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Article: shared libraries in OS 4
The originally in the 6th issue of the Club Amiga magazine published
article "Shared libraries in OS 4" by Hans-Jörg Frieden is now available on the CAM website under the title link for non members, too.
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09.Aug.2003
amiga.org (website)
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Ironstone Partners Ltd. show temporar logo for new Commodore 64
On July, 11th Juli 2003 announced Tulip Computers NV (Tulip) and Ironstone Partners
Ltd. (Ironstone) an agreement about a partnership that was described as a first step for a worldwide relaunch of the trademark Commodore. Since then a logo for a possible rerelease of a home computer under the name "Commodore 64" has been presented that you can see following the title link.
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09.Aug.2003
Amiga Inc. (website)
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Magazin: Club Amiga Magazine #7 released
The 7th issue of the Club Amiga Monthly (CAM) ishas been released as announced with a one week delay. You have to be registered club member to gain access to the CAM (Club Amiga Magazine). Excerpts from the content:
- Editorial
- AmigaOS 4.0 Update
- AmigaOS 4.0 On Tour
- Report From the Inside
- Game Frenzy
- Backdrops R Us
- ExecSG in Detail: Memory
- Members' Corner
- Letters
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09.Aug.2003
Tom Duin alias Amigaharry (ANF)
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CLI2WB version 1.3 released
CLI2WB has been released in version 1.3. With this tool you can launch a shell comfortably via the Workbench. In the icon tooltypes you can set important preferences like ASL requester, stack or priority. CLI2WB has been developed in 68k assembler code by Tom Duin.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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09.Aug.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MorphOS: version 1.4 released
After finishing the internal beta test is MorphOS 1.4 in the version dated August, 9th from now on downloadable for all registered Pegasos owners in the usual way from the BT2 server. the new features contain among other things:
- optional automatic installation
- JIT compiler "Trance"
- Turboprint integrated
- USB integrated
- Radeon DVI & overlay (except Radeon 8500)
- 3D for Voodoo 3 and 4
- Warp3D emulation
- support for graphics tablet
- setting for icon scaling
- leave out of icons via drag&drop
- individual skins for each screen
- PNG buttons
- auto scroll
- blending
- sound datatypes
- Kaya (MP3/OGG player)
- calculator
- magnifying glass (zoom)
- task manager
- Ambient: panels, lasso function, shortcuts
- dock manager
- new skins and fonts
- skin exchange "on the fly"
- reboot via keyboard
- gradients
- more mprefs
- no connected PS/2 mouse needed on system boot
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09.Aug.2003
Jens Meier (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #048
the scene group Liquid Skies has released their 48th music pack with the title "Nuclear Cars". This time's composer of the 4.02 minutes trance track is Maxus.
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08.Aug.2003
AROS (website)
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AROS status report 08/2003
The developments on the operating system AROS go still as planned. In the last weeks had the following update been done:
- Hardware: Michal Schulz is still working on the PPC port, having
received the Pegasos board donated by Genesi, and more recently a Voodoo3
card donated by Randy Vice.
- Hardware: Johan Grip is implementing the OpenPCI specification, and
also reworking our buggy ide.device, which attempts to write too much
data at once instead of splitting the requests in smaller chunks. However
this is going to be more a rewrite than a bug fix. If someone just wants
to do the bug fix, there is an open bounty (currently 40 USD) for the
ide.device bug at TeamAROS.
- Build system: GCC 3.2 is now the minimum requirement to compile AROS,
which now compiles fine with GCC 3.3, thanks to Stefan Reinauer and
others who fixed the various deprecated bits in the tree.
- Build System: Staf Verhaegen continued to improve and simplify the
build system. Lately, he reorganized the kernel build to use only
objects, no more static or shared libraries.
- Build System: Iain Templeton, one of our South hemisphere developers,
did his fair share on the build system too, especially on the configure
scripts (which now require autoconf 2.53, hopefully a generated configure
is kept in CVS for those missing it) and to ensure that AROS compiles and
runs fine hosted on FreeBSD.
- Build System: Also mawk (which comes as default on Debian GNU/Linux)
will generate incorrect headers while building AROS, but GNU awk (gawk)
and FreeBSD awk work fine.
- i386-pc Installation: John Gustafsson and Adam Chodorowski earned the
first TeamAROS bounty for their "Automated Disk Prep and OS Installer".
It will install AROS on the first disk of the first IDE channel. Don't
try this on a disk with valuable data anywhere on it, you've been warned.
Unfortunately it isn't fully usable yet, due to the ide.device bug: some
files get corrupted during installation.
- i386-pc Installation: As part of this work, new Format and Partition
commands were implemented.
- User Interface: We now have a beautiful About dialog, thanks to Pixel
Art's logo and Adam for the code, as well as an in-progress Mesa port by
Nic Andrews. And before you ask, the beautiful Broken.miho wallpaper is
here.
- User Interface: Adam did major improvements to the workbench and icon
libraries (which handle much of the "under the hood" desktop work), and
also to Wanderer itself. The framework for Wanderer commands is in place,
and there is already the Delete tool implemented.
- User Interface: As a bonus, there is now an identification hook in
icon.library to display proper icons depending on the file type and take
appropriate action on double-click, for files without disk icons.
- User Interface: Sebastian Bauer added arbitrary angled gradients to
Zune images.
- User Interface: David Le Corfec, Adam and especially Fabio Alemagna,
who came up with a multitude of ideas and algorithms, brainstormed on
a "perfectly" MUI-compliant implementation of Zune layout algorithm.
Hopefully the new one seems to do the trick.
- User Interface: The Zune string gadget also got a rework and is now
slightly more usable, the prefs program got a few more pages, and many
Zune classes were put in their own loadable modules.
- User Interface: Georg Steger implemented the Cybergraphics'
WritePixelArrayAlpha() and BltTemplateAlpha(), so we can show even more
eye-candy, with alpha blending this time :) Adam used this to implement a
nice grayed-out disabled effect for Zune gadgets, instead of the usual
grid pattern.
- User Interface: Georg is also porting back the intuition.library from
MorphOS, and still does a lot of impressive bug finding and fixing
elsewhere, which for example led to find and report a longstanding bug
in stipple drawing to the XFree86 project. And when you're faced with a
strange memory corruption, try his invaluable trick : call a check
routine in the scheduler ! This allowed to fix bugs in several Prefs
programs.
- User Interface: But maybe the best for the end ... With
BltTemplateAlpha() to blend the anti-aliased glyphs, and the work from
Staf on freetype2, diskfont and bullet libraries, TrueType fonts now
work - and look - great! It also draws upon the work of many others,
including the MorphOS team (and especially Emmanuel Lesueur) and the
FreeType project. The Bitstream Vera font family is now included in AROS.
- User Interface: Use FTManager to install TrueType fonts in a few
mouse clicks, and enjoy the new Font Prefs program.
- Localizations: We got a Spanish keymap contributed by Albert Astals
Cid, several French catalogs by Olivier Adam and Hungarian catalogs,
language and country files by Mark "Bôregér" Balogh.
- Localizations: The applications localization system has been cleaned
up a bit, and as a side effect, much more applications are now localized.
So if your favorite application has been localized but misses a catalog
for your language, don't hesitate to send it to us!
- TCP/IP: Will be available next week. Nah, just kidding ;-) One of the
most requested features. A couple of people are working part-time on
this, so don't hold your breath. This is a huge task, spanning from
low-level drivers to interface libraries and support applications. It's
currently not the priority for most of the developers. Use another
network appliance in the meantime, or come join us :)
- Softwares in contribution: As usual, some new software or updated
versions were imported in contrib: UAE 0.8.22 (a Zune GUI is planned),
the free DeluxePaint clone 4P 0.09, TCC 0.9.19 (you can now directly
create AROS executables!), GNU tools (make 3.80, diffutils 2.8.1, patch
2.5.4, grep 2.5.1, m4 1.4), abcm2ps 3.7.1, sploiner 1.0
- Miscellaneous: After some benchmarking, BOOPSI method calls were
optimized using macros, and are now about 20% faster.
- Miscellaneous: Roughly 2000 CVS commits since the last status update,
with a record of 1063 in July. Check it there. So obviously this status
update is not exhaustive.
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08.Aug.2003
GIGA (ANF)
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Video of bplan appearance at NBC GIGA
On the PegasosPPC website of Genesi S.à.r.l. you can find a video recording of the appearance of bplan in the TV computer show NBC GIGA on August, 7th 2003. bplan introduced there the possibilities of their PowerPC hardware Pegasos. The 47 MB AVI video is available for download.
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08.Aug.2003
Jörg Lennhof - RetroGames e.V. (ANF)
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Event: 4. Retro stock exchange on 27.9.2003 in the GoTec - Karlsruhe
The first registered association for the preservation of classic video and computer games, RetroGames e.V., and 8bit-Games organize the 4th 8-Bit retro stock exchange this time in Karlsruhe (Germany).
On Saturday in September, 27th 2003 can collectors and interested people from 10 to 16 o'clock in the rooms of the GoTec Kulturhaus buy and sell classisc video games, home computers and collectors pieces.
Additionally, all guests and visitors can visit the arcade and video games exhibition of the RetroGames e.V. association which contains rare collectors pieces out of more than 30 years of video gaming history. The exhibition is unique in Germany. The admission charge is valid for the Retro stock exchange as well as for the exhibition of RetroGames e.V.
More information about the association and about the Retro stock exchange can be found at
http://retrogames.info. Emails can be sent to info@retrogames.info.
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07.Aug.2003
Chris Perver (ANF)
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Textviewer: Update for EvenMore (exe and AG-Plug-in)
The EvenMore exe has been updated to allow you to follow links in a file
you are viewing, simply by clicking on them. To do this, EvenMore now
has new escape codes for the plugins, ESC*NODE, ESC*LINK, ESC*CEND.
The AmigaGuide plugin has been updated, and I will be working on the
HTML plugin in the next week or too to update it. Currently this
will only allow you to follow internal links, but external links
shouldn't be too difficult to program. Download now from
www.evenmore.co.uk (nba)
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07.Aug.2003
Thomas Raukamp (ICQ)
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heise: Submarines of the US Navy with Apple Xserve under Linux
The renowned print magazine "heise" has reported in their online edition about a new outfitting of the US Navy. Heise states that the Navy will put into their submarines 260 server systems prepared by defense contractor Lockheed Martin for realtime picture processing. These systems are based on a combination of Apple's XServe, and the Linux operating system Yellow Dog Linux whose producers are known in Amiga circles as Terra Soft. Read the comlete report (German language) at Heise Online under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Interview with Carl Sassenrath
A while back Carl Sassenrath agreed to answer some questions from the
Amiga.org community about his current project, REBOL and the current
Amiga situation. Your patience has been rewarded, because you can
finally read the interview under the titlelink. (nba)
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07.Aug.2003
ScummVM Amiga Webseite (ANF)
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ScummVM 0.5.0 R2 (68k and WarpOS) Appears
The second release of ScummVM 0.5.0 appeared today. In this version a few bugs with the game selector have been eliminated and a few corrections with the path entries within the program have been improved. With ScummVM 0.5.0 the following games may finally be played for the first time on the Amiga: "The Curse of Monkey Island", "The Dig", "Full Throttle", "Beneath a Steelsky" und "Simon The Sorcerer 1 + 2 (PC-Versionen)." (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Round About New Things at morphos.net
The comprehensive and optically reworked web presence for the PowerPC operating system MorphOS is reachable as of today. Next to details about the features of MorphOS you'll find there further information and screenshots of MOS-compatible software, the Super Bundle, the MOS community, future and past meetings and conventions, dealers, and a lot more. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
OSnews (Website)
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Interview with Two AROS Developers on OSnews
The online magazine OSNews has conducted an interview with Ola Jensen and Adam Chodorowski of the AROS development team. You may read the interview under the title link. According to them AROS is approaching the development condition of AmigaOS 3.1, of course collaborators are still needed to push forward development. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results from July/August 2003 (Update)
The results of the Amiga Games Hit Parade vote for the months of July and August 2003 have been released today:
- (12) Tales Of Tamar 116 pts
- (6) Knights And Merchants 93 pts
- (9) Earth 2140 86 pts
- (1) Napalm 85 pts
- (13) Quake 2 81 pts
- (2) Slam Tilt 78 pts
- (4) Quake 68 pts
- (3) Payback 65 pts
- (7) The Settlers 57 pts
- (5) Sensible World Of Soccer 57 pts
- (8) Crossfire 2 53 pts
- (11) Freespace 49 pts
- (14) Heretic 2 48 pts
- (10) Foundation 40 pts
- (19) WipEout 2097 37 pts
- (17) Fields Of Battle 32 pts
- (16) Moonstone 30 pts
- (15) Cannon Fodder 30 pts
- (29) Frontier Elite 2 28 pts
- (55) Speedball 2 26 pts
The next vote (Amiga Games Hit Parade in September/October 2003) begins in the middle of September. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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06.Aug.2003
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan at NBC Giga
The bplan GmbH, developer of the PowerPC-mainboard Pegasos, will attend
the TV-show NBC GIGA on August 7th,
2003, at 21:00 (CET). They will present their products Pegasos and
MorphOS and take part at a live-chat at 21:45 answering your questions.
NBC Europe can be received over cabel in Germany and is digitally
transmitted through the Eutelsat Hotbird 5 to be additionally received
by the Digitalreceiver (DVB-S):
Orbitposition: 13° East (Eutelsat)
Frequency: 11,054 GHz
Polarisation: horizontal
Norm: MPEG-2/DVB
Symbolrate: 27500
Coderate: 5/6
bplan would like to thank Andreas Streu, who made this attendance
possible. (nba)
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06.Aug.2003
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal (ANF)
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News from Coyote Flux
It has been a long while since the last update, but finally a list of
new screenshots and programs have been added to the website:
- Two more screenshots of J Miner, displaying the new render algorithms
- Eight screenshots of Manic Miner, a PPC plugin for AmigaAMP and PlaySID
- New PlaySID.library for CatWeasel Flipper cards, supporting channel enabling/disabling on both the hard- and software side
- Preview of PPC680x0 v2.0, displaying automatic file conversion
(nba)
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06.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 06.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
TView.lha comm/tcp 78K+List TV-programs in Europe.
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 176K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas
pngcheck.lha gfx/misc 75K+Checks and reports contents of PNG files
FroggerSP.lha gfx/show 18K+Frogger spanish documentation v2.07.0
aprg.lha hard/hack 35K+Programming ATMEL at89 series chips
MrCarlitoWb-00.jpg pix/wb 579K+Screenshot of my Workbench 3.9
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 245K+Complex dynamic buffer system, and other
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 30K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB
(ps)
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05.Aug.2003
CAM (Website)
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Club Amiga Magazine #7 to be released on August 8th, 2003
Issue 7 of Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been delayed by the editorial
team for one week. The new issue will be released on August 8th, 2003. (nba)
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05.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 4th August 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk
that had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have
been added or updated since our last announcment:
- 04.08.03 improved: Subwar 2050 (Microprose) supports CD³² version too
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 5 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 improved: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) supports another version
- 04.08.03 new: Fightin' Spirit (Neo) done by Psygore
- 04.08.03 new: Conquests of Camelot (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 03.08.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix (Martech) supports another version
- 02.08.03 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils) another version supported, slave optimised
- 01.08.03 new: Pyramax (Arc) done by Psygore
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05.Aug.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Event: "The Assembly 2003" - August 7th-10th, 2003
On the forthcoming long weekend of August 7th (Thursday) to August 10th
(Sunday) the big demoscene event "The Assembly" will be held in the
well known ice stadium "Hartwall Arena" in Helsinki, the capital of
Finland.
This event will take place for the twelvth time in a row and be the
meeting point of personalities from the demo and game scene. About
4500 visitors from all over Europe are expected. During the days several
competitions will be held, including demo competitions for the Amiga,
as well as many seminars and speeches will be made. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Primal" by Andrew Barnabas and Paul Arnold
Some of you may remember Nightshade/Crusaders from various Crusaders
Amiga demos in the past. He also wrote the music for a few Amiga games,
the best known amongst them being "SWIV". He has now started a
composing/production company together with his friend Paul Arnold. Their
first real release is the soundtrack to the game "PRIMAL". This is a
fully orchestral soundtrack recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic
orchestra and choir. It sounds great!
Track-Liste:
- Opening credits
- The Timekeeper
- Arella's Theme
- A Love Lost
- Jen Meets Arella
- Raum & Empusa
- The Demon Awakes
- Coliseum
- A Prince in Chains
- World of Water
- The Turbulent Depths
- A Kingdom Restored
- The Mad King
- Mountain of Suffering
- Devil's Waltz
- Dark Science
- The Helot
- Temple of Flame
- Hall of Gods
- Journey's End
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Sidologie" by Marcel Donne
Sidologie is an album of Commodore-64 remixes Marcel Donne, all done in
the style/sound of classic Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis albums. To put
it simple, Marcel Donne has taken the *melodies* from famous C64 music,
and mixed it with the *sound* of old-school Jean-Michel Jarre and
Vangelis.
It is a great album for nostalgics of all ages, and especially those who
enjoyed Jarre's and Vangelis' classic early albums, or those classic C64
melodies. The song name in [brackets] indicates which Jarre or Vangelis
album that production was particularly influenced by.
Track-Listing:
- Sidologie Intro - Marcel Donne [Revolutions]
- Rambo Loading Theme - Martin Galway [Equinoxe]
- Lightforce - Rob Hubbard [Revolutions]
- Bombo - Ben Daglish [Oxygene]
- Cobra - Sylvester Levay/Ben Daglish [Bladerunner]
- Yie-Ar Kung Fu II - Martin Galway [Chariots of Fire]
- Knucklebusters - Rob Hubbard [Zoolook]
- Wizball High Score - Martin Galway [Band in the Rain]
- Miami Vice - Martin Galway [Equinoxe/Oxygene]
- Nemesis the Warlock - Rob Hubbard
- Rambo High Score - Martin Galway [Oxygene]
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04.Aug.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistent: DD2html Version 0.2 released
In line with the project 'Hardware Assistent' version 0.2 of the tool DD2html has been released.
DD2html creates a html file containing all driver discriptors in a directory. If the attribute 'DRIVERURL' is set a hyperlink will be added.
Further details are available at the titlelink.
Download: DD2html
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04.Aug.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Filemanager: DiskMaster Version 2.5.25
Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5.25 of the filemanager DiskMaster. Details about made changes and a download link are available at the titlelink.
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04.Aug.2003
ScummVM (Website)
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ScummVM 0.5.0 released (Update)
Version 0.5.0 of ScummVM is now available for Windows, MorphOS and other operating systems.
Because of some serious bugs in the current version (0.5.0) there will soon version 0.5.1 be available.
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04.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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YahooGroupsRipper v1.0 released
Because of the upcoming changes of the Yahoo! Group Services Diego Casorran released a tool called YahooGroupsRipper.
YahooGroupsRipper (YGRip) is an easy to use tool to download all messages of a Yahoo! Group mailinglist.
Download: YGRip (18 Kb)
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04.Aug.2003
Maik Schultheis (ANF)
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AmiGate: Search entries can be modified
AmiGate is a collection of web links concerning the Amiga. From now on every user or company can add entries in a special category and can administer them afterwards.
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04.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 03.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
XADOpus_Ger.lha biz/dopus 1K+German catalog for XADOpus 1.2
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 167K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
RenderDevBas.lha dev/basic 39K+Using Render library from HBasic
PluginDemo.lha dev/c 8K+V1.0 plugin demo using LoadSeg
sfdc.lha dev/gcc 73K+Compile SFD files into someting useful
Python201.lha dev/lang 365K+Amiga Python patched to fix the os.chdir
Detour.lha dev/misc 10K+Change pathes of C-include-files for Max
fd2sfd.lha dev/misc 86K+Convert FD files to SFD files
diskimage.lha disk/misc 80K+Mount any disk image file as a DOS devic
RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 5K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2003 (Itali
nocover113.lha docs/mags 1.5M+Great german diskmagazine
obligement39.lha docs/mags 1.8M+Obligement #39 - The Famous FRENCH fanzi
saku43.lha docs/mags 6.7M+Saku #43 (2/2003). Finnish e-zine.
Saga.lha game/board 323K+Saga 1.3: Conversion of TSR boardgame
CD_Illust.lha game/data 701K+AGA Fantsasy cardset for REKO Klondike
UFOquicksav.lha game/patch 15K+UFO CD32 quick HD Install
Trihex.lha game/wb 24K+Logical board game with easy rules (0-2
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
layerifx.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Scripts for layer cropping & offsetting
LCD-Test.lha hard/misc 20K+LCD Test: helps to find broken Pixels
Artworks030726.lha pix/wfm 31M+Artworks Issue, July 26, 2003, PDF & EPS
BareED_Alone.lha text/edit 85K+Simple text editor which supports propor
LaTeX-hlp.lha text/tex 145K+These files documents LaTeX (2.09 & 2e)
UnRAR.lha util/arc 261K+For 680x0 and PowerPC
Kill68k.lha util/boot 1K+Simple but powerful multiboot tool
sdiREKO-DT.lha util/dtype 42K+40.12 datatype for .REKO/.RKP cardsets
Menu.lha util/misc 182K+Another great program starter :P
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 320K+Report+ 5.7: Multipurpose utility
htmlaccents.lha util/rexx 1K+CygnusEd 4.2x ARexx script to convert ac
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04.Aug.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 16
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 16 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) CanGuy: I'm getting into wireless technology at the moment and see a lot of applications for it. Is it likely that AmigaOS will contain something like Zeroconf (aka Rendezvous in Apple-speak) in the next year or so?
Fleecy: Part of the remit of AmigaOS4 is to ensure that devices that use it can work together with each other and as part of a hetergeneous network. We are already working on this with the tethered connection and this will be followed up relatively quickly with the untethered technologies, initially 802.11 and then Bluetooth.
2) ikir: OS4 supports multiprocessors so.... any idea when a double G4 AmigaOne will be realesed?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4 will support SMP first and then AMP second but it is more important for us to have a shipping product running on one processor first. I believe that a double G4 AmigaOne will be out in the next year - indeed a prototype dual processor module is already in our hands.
We have a lot to do already in developing AG2 - graphics, audio and a new user environment to name but a few. These are much more important than supporting SMP in the short term and as I have said before, I see AMP as being far more important in the long run.
3) Turbo: SoundBlaster Live! & SB512 support 128 instuments & 10 drums. Hercules/Guillemot have several high quality sound cards available, most of which have a Yamaha Synth with 676 instuments & 21 drums combined with a CS4624 or CMI-8738 DSP. Are there any future plans for Amiga OS4.x to support alternative sound cards when a higher Amiga user base is established?
Fleecy: Very much so. However, as always, until the AmigaOS4 market grows to the point where audio card companies will write the drivers themselves, we have to expend our own resources and thus will be limited in what can be supported. Our initial plans are to support one card each from the three natural groups. As an example (and only an example), AC-97 on-board audio for desktop, SB Live!, Audigy or Terratec for gaming and Echo for pro-audio.
4) Hondo_DK: Has Amiga Inc. at any point, contacted third party commercial/brand making companys, to develop a path for the future amiga platform? And can we expect amiga commercials in magazines, tv, internet, etc?
Fleecy: We have a very definite path already mapped out for the Amiga platform as both an overt and an embedded solution. In talking with OEMs, IHVs and the like, these plans have been developed further but many of them would involve Amiga technologies within their own branding/marketing strategies.
We do intend to make use of the full spectrum of marketing and advertising media, as well as visiting a few unorthodox efforts.
5) Darth_X: If we wanted to start a project, like AmiZilla, to port OS4 to the Pegasos, how much money would we need to raise? :D In other words, what is the minimum amount of $$$ needed to port OS4 to the Pegasos?
Fleecy: There are three possible routes in considering AmigaOS4.0
- We see an existing market in which AmigaOS4.0 makes commercial sense.
- We see a developing market that we believe will deliver commercial success.
- A third party approaches us with enough money to make the creation of a port a commercial success regardless of its sales.
Since the Pegasos is a deprecated product, its sales would be minimal and so the amount of money needed would be excessive to a community driven project. Of course if an eccentric user turns up with a few million Euros then we'd certainly chat with him or her.
6) Eric_Z: There has been a rather interesting discussion over at Aorg latly on the possibility of using an Elbox SharkPPC card in a PC/MAC as an inexpensive way to run OS4. Do you know if this is possible and do you think that such an product ("OS4 on PC") would be desirabe to have in the "Amiga hardware matrix"?
Fleecy: On a general level there is no reason why it shouldn't work, although you'd have to look at the effect of having the processor board on the PCI bus. In terms of is it desirable then you have to look at the usage equation. If you have a PC that can easily jump between the huge mass of PC applications and the smaller amount of Amiga pplications then would there be enough of an incentive for native Amiga development to take place if users could just as easily use Photoshop or Cubase or play UT2003?
7) Asemoon: I have read that parts of AmigaOS4 could be stored in ROM. Could future Amigas using such a ROM start multimedia software from CD/DVD/Disk without going through a fully running OS (like classic systems and consoles do)?
Fleecy: Yes.
Seeing AmigaOS4 as a solution for such products was part of the plan from the start.
8) Asemoon: I heard debugger software will come integrated into AmigaOS4. How would this work?
Fleecy: When a program crashes, you'll get the option of starting a debugger and attaching it to the crashed task. From there on, you can fully debug the program, probably including the possibility to re-start the crashed task.
9) Herewegoagain: I am familiar with the OS4 feature list, but I would like to know if there will be any driver support for Serial ATA controllers and drives for OS4? Possibly in a boing bag update?
Fleecy: Yes, although I can't give you a timescale at this point.
10) CanGuy: This new "Bowser services" mentioned at the AmigaWest Q/A sounds very interesting, probably more useful to programmers than "just another browser". Will these services include a JavaScript engine? and will it support web standards like DOM1, CSS, etc.
Fleecy: Precisely. The aim is to provide core services rather than a monolithic application. We already intend to use a few of these services for the new documentation, help and user guide system and of course they will be completely open to developers to use for their own projects, in both traditional and non traditional projects.
HTML/XML rendering and processing, Javascript and CSS will all be part of the initial service set and others will follow.
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