23.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Amig@lien news report back
After some time of irregular news items the Amig@lien news page has been
updated and somewhat extended. A.o.t. a list with the ten most recent Amiga
interviews has been added. There is a survey where you can specify how many
Amigas you own. "Fahrschule 99" has been chosen as PD program and "Bahnstrecke"
as PD game of the month. Your news items will be gladly accepted, either via
a form on the Web site or via
e-Mail.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 06 for "Descent: Freespace" released
Again this weekend a MultiplayerPack for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace"
has been released. As usual it contains five new Multiplayer missions.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 2
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 2 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) BrianHoskins: I know it's a little soon to start drudging up time scales for a more commercialised OS, given that AOS4 isn't quite out yet, but when do you think the Amiga Platform is going to be in a position to release a new OS aimed at the wider audience? Im not talking about exact dates here, just approximately. A Year? 2? 3? More?
Fleecy: As I said in an answer to last week's questions, it is very important that we have a good market profile before we release a product into that market. By that I mean having a comprehensive list of the activities, requirements and roles within that market and, as important, a list of what our competitors offer and plan to offer.
This covers not just the operating system itself but also the hardware, the application base and the pre and post sales and support infrastructure.
You only tend to get one chance to launch into a market and so you have to make sure that you have all the bases covered otherwise it may fail, negative association may follow and this could affect not just any potential relaunch into that market but activities in other markets as well, both existing and planned.
By a wider audience, I assume you mean into the general desktop/home computer market. Based upon that, we need to attend to the following areas.
- reliable supply of good quality and competitive hardware
- a stable, localised, well documented and supported operating system
- a supply of good third party applications, both available and in progress
- an effective marketing campaign - reviews, advertisements, presence.
That said, to appeal to a wider audience, we need to provide a solution to their needs. The majority of people use a computer to
- surf the net
- email
- Instant Message
- compose letters
- manage their music collection
- play a few simple games
- manage their digital photograph and video collections
We thus need to make sure that we have a solution that provides for these seven basic activities, to at least an industry standard level. This means applications, either in house or third party and an operating system which supports those applications.
This itself will be influenced by the move from Amiga Generation 1 (AG1) to Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) technology. For example there is little point in expending lots of effort on a brand new HTML rendering engine or a new printer system until the AG2 graphics service is completed, since both of these will make heavy use of it.
As you say, prediction is not an exact science but assuming full access to the necessary resources I would say that 18 months after AmigaOS4.0 ships, we should have all the elements necessary to offer a compelling alternative in the wider market.
2) seldom: Is there some kind of estimation, when there will be a Java VM for AOS ? Obviously this would open up a whole bunch of apps and developers for AOS. Maybe there is some way to do something special (tight integration into OS, boosting GUI implementation) about this implementation, so it gets especially attractive to develop/use java-apps. for/on AOS ?
Fleecy: Personal Java and MIDP will be available once the AmigaDE runs on the AmigaOS. Once that is the case, we will then look at expanding it into a full java implementation. Such a project would be a lot of work though and would most likely not be resourced until deep into the AG2 project, both because AG2 is more important and because Java itself would be a customer of AG2.
3) DaveyD: Have you considered porting an open source browser such as mozilla to AOS and if so, will it be included with AOS?
Fleecy: We have been looking on with interest at the path followed by Apple with Safari, their new browser and will most likely follow a similar path. We need to consider this though against the wider picture of what goes in an OS and what is/should be provided by third parties
4) SlimJim: Will there be an official list of supported hardware for the AOne + AOS4 combo released before the launch of the actual OS? I know this has been asked before, but it would be nice for people with Earlybird systems to be able to start putting together the hardware (with Linux) now, safely knowing that the addons they buy will also be supported by the upcoming AOS4.
Fleecy: This already exists, built and maintained by those who already have AmigaOnes, and supported by Amiga, Eyetech, Hyperion and Mai. You can find it at
http://web.amigarulez.com/ahs/
The new Amiga Power Platform website is currently under development and will be launched in the near future and will provide lists of hardware, software and links to reviews.
5) Rebel: Why has Amiga Inc not involved its community more? There are many talented graphics artists, webmasters, programmers that could be called upon to help. Also surveys on features etc that users want the most. AI's refusal to engage the users has helped to fragment that community further.
Fleecy: The issue with using the community comes down to the essential delineation between a business and its market. If a company takes work from external sources then there are legal questions of ownership and moral questions of remuneration. As an example, many games companies used to welcome idea submissions from the game playing community as a way of generating new product concepts but a few years ago, a few of them were sued by people who had made submissions and who claimed that their ideas had been used without reward. It is thus necessary to ensure that any flow into a company is legally secure.
Having said that, we do work with the community in several ways.
- We often use Amiga artists for graphics work. The new OS4 advert is a good example.
- We are working with several webmasters and artists for the new Amiga Power Platform website.
- The development team of AmigaOS4.0 consists of many of the best community based developers.
- We consult with a group of trusted community figures on issues, ideas and concepts.
- The Club Amiga Monthly eMag and the soon to be released DEv DE developer eMag receive extensive contributions from the community.
Of course there is always room for more and as AmigaOS4.0 moves towards release, we will be extending our efforts in that regard. There is a lot of contact and communication with the community but a lot of it goes on behind the scenes.
6) alx: What tools will be available to develop for OS4?
Fleecy: The OS4 team and in particular Olaf Barthel have put in a lot of work to create a GCC compatible compiler which is free of iexmul and older compiler dependencies. We are looking at developing a proper IDE around this to give Amiga developers a world class development environment, and integrating this with a new documentation toolchain. A developer CD will be forthcoming. This is of course subject to change as we move forwards.
Now that we have an eMag pipeline, proven with CAM, we are soon to introduce the DEv eMag for AmigaDE developers and we want to produce a similar product for AmigaOS developers.
7) alx: Do you know when the new SciTech graphics drivers will be integrated into the OS (ie as a Boing Bag, or in OS4.2 or whatever)?
Fleecy: The plan is to release it as part of AmigaOS4.0. It most likely won't be part of the CSPPC version but then that hardware doesn't have the luxury of many graphics cards.
8) Unclecurio: There was much talk of the Zico spec in the early days. Is Amiga Inc continuing the development of these blueprints and, if so, when can we expect to hear more?
Fleecy: The Zico spec was an indication of the type of functionality that we intended to provide with AmigaOS4.0. Our future plans for the AmigaOS will introduce new types of hardware across a range of device classes but we won't be releasing details until individual projects are much more advanced.
9) Kay: Have you given any thought to communication between Amiga desktops and AmigaDE capable PDAs? If so, what devices can we expect to be using together with our AmigaOne systems in the near future?
Fleecy: This is something that we intend to provide once the AmigaDE is on the AmigaOS. However, there are also opportunities for other device synchronisation as well - PocketPC and Palm PDAs, MS and Symbian powered smartphones and of course the digital music devices.
10) The_Editor: "The Matrox are supposed to be an A.Inc Partner... Have / are negotiations taken place to port/create NLE Editing solutions for A1?"
Fleecy: Our partnership with Matrox is currently limited to providing drivers for their product path. There have been initial contacts about their video application offerings and we have agreed to talk in more detail once we can provide them with AmigaOS4.0 on an AmigaOne for them to assess.
We have been contacted in the last week by a company which has expressed an interest in bringing video capture, editing and presentation software to AmigaOS4.0 but I cannot give any more details at this early stage.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=2
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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APC&TCP: Wanted: Beta testers for "Desert Racing"
APC&TCP are still looking for beta testers for the game "Desert Racing". An
Amiga with 060 processor, AGA, gfx card and CD-ROM drive is required. Moreover
you should have a good Amiga knowledge. Interested users please apply by mail
to info@apc-tcp.de. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #029
Our musician Tripper has written a new MP3 tune under the title "Mindscope",
which is to be classified something like Trance, Ambient or House style. But
have a listen yourself! ;)
As always freely available on our home page.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Felix Schwarz (ANF)
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Felix Schwarz: Sale of old AMIGA hardware
In order to create room for new hardware, Felix Schwarz privately sells AMIGA
hardware items which are no longer required. Among those there are AMIGA computers
as well as digitizers, interface cards and non-AMIGA hardware. Especially
interesting for some might be the Amiga 4000 on which the main part of the
development of fxPAINT, fxSCAN and VHI Studio had taken place (in the meantime
moved to an A4000T).
As this is private hardware there is no guarantee - the sale is NOT through
IOSPIRIT but is purely of a private nature.
This has no influence on the further development of the software titles by
IOSPIRIT - even after the sale there are still three AMIGAs and compatible
computers remaining. Have fun bidding!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: HIGHWAY-successor "ALGOR" from E3B goes into production
E3B is glad to be able to present the well known HIGHWAY Zorro USB controller's
successor ALGOR as the consequential result of its further development
over a period of several months. Now, after the successful conclusion of a long test
phase, ALGOR goes into production.
As with the successful predecessor, highest performance and optimal adaption to
the Amiga Classic's circumstances was the development target for ALGOR.
You can find the press announcement in full as well as technical specifications
on the E3B Web site.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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Virus warning: Virus in a demo file on JPV (FAG-MD03.LHA)
Subsequently you will find an announcement published in the ANF. Unfortunately I wasn't
able to find an e-mail address on JPV's Web site, so I can't inform the
maintainer.
The archive http://jpv.wmhost.com/releases/FAG-MD03.LHA has a
"Happy new year98" virus in it. There is a
link to this
site from amiga-news.de. Also don't run this even after the
virus is removed (VirusExecutor does the job) - it's an ugly
pictures of gay porn. UGLY. Must be erased from every Amiga
Hard Disk immediately.
Kind Regards
drHirudo
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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22.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.3
This version includes also polypressure commands so the package
is complete know. If i find bugs or faulty commands i will update
it. Feel free to contact me if something doesnt work.
Future commands in new OS'es i will ofcourse update if they come. (ps)
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22.Mar.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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New Mac-on-Linux version 0.9.68 released for PPC incl. AmigaOne
The new Mac-on-Linux version 0.9.68 has been released on March, 10th 2003.
An adapted version for the AmigaOne of Mac on Linux can be found under the URL http://members.optusnet.com.au/amigaone/.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Rudolph Riedel (email)
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FTPMount version 1.4 by Rudolph Riedel
Rudolph Riedel wrote:
As the Aminet unfortunately seems to be down, at least uploads aren't sorted anymore, I have uploaded right now a new version of FTPMount to my homepage.
Download: FTPMount.lha
A download link isn't available on the site but it should be direct accessable. Well, what has changed?
This can of course be read in the "FTPMount.readme".
The archive is very similar to the v1.31 by Martin R. Elsner on the Aminet, I had unpacked it and done my changes. The main thing is that I've done a new compile, made some changes, set the version to 1.4, added a 68040 version and the complete source code is now also included.
In case that anybody has a bug report - just send it to me!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Steffen Schiller (Fahrschule 99)
A few days ago was the once low cost program "Fahrschule 99"
released for free download by its developer Steffen Schiller.
Other than the name is suggesting it's not an old program but "Fahrschule 99" offers to all those who are doing their theoretical driving licence or who just want to update their knowledge the up-to-date data for the classes B and A.
Here it shows once again that the Amiga sector offers actual applications that are not only for free but also cover topics that are suitable for the daily use. the only drop of bitterness for todays Amiga users will be the fact that "Fahrschule 99" is made for an Amiga 500 and PAL screen mode.
As especially this kind of normal use software is so important for the future of the new Amiga generation to cover a wide area of themes spoke Olaf Köbnik to Steffen Schiller about the future of "Fahrschule 99".
The result is the 100th interview Olaf Köbnik (Amiga Arena) has done who already told us that the 101st interview with another interesting and actual company is in the works.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: many areas updated (19.03.2003)
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users HomePage Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted geographically according to continents and countries.
Three days ago were the following areas updated:
- America
- Europe
- List of new links
- List of lost links
- History 2003
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (email)
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Cinemaware statement
As reported in the end of February here told clickBOOM in their S-File 22 that there are differences with Cinemaware. Today Cinemaware published the following statement:
Statement from Cinemaware
Hopefully you know who we are as Cinemaware, as we are well known for
our past Amiga games. We are of course doing new titles as well as you
can see on our web-site www.cinemaware.com.
We have also started a series of "Digitally Remastered" titles with
clickBoom for a while - but unfortunately that has gone badly. I was
wondering if you could report the information below on your website.
We understand that some of classic Amiga/Cinemaware fans have been
concerned about certain news spread around by clickBoom, the Canadian
developer which Cinemaware has employed to develop the "Digitally
Remastered" series of games. At this point Cinemaware would just like to
make a simple statement that clickBoom's allegations are false and
misleading, and that we will issue an official statement in the future
regarding this matter.
In reference to this, Cinemaware would appreciate if anyone involved in
the below cases come into contact with us as soon as possible, writing
to cinemaware@cinemaware.com:
As you can see history tends to repeat itself.
In the meantime, we appreciate your support and understand your
frustration at not being able to see more "Digital Remasters" coming out
soon. We are working hard to resolve this situation.
Please look out for exciting news regarding Robin Hood: Defender of the
Crown soon!
Sincerely,
Lars Fuhrken-Batista
Team Cinemaware
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
CD32-Allianz (ANF)
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CD32-Allianz website update and editorial
The CD32-Allianz continues. Again with new cover scans, new enhancements for the CD32 and matching the begin of the spring time a new editorial.
In the past time it became quite quiet around the other CD32 websites. To avoid a stand still here for us there's again a call for assistance. If anybody wants to write a games review or owns missing games: help!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 326
Today Guido Mersmann has published beta version 326 of the TV-card driver software
called AmithlonTV which contains several minor updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Change: Changed some routines within the library to ensure full Pegasos compatibility.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
AmiGOD (Website)
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Benchmark: AmiGOD 2 beta 20.03.2003
On 20th March 2003 Lukas Stehlik has published a new beta version of 'AmiGOD 2'.
This is a modularly built up AmigaOS benchmark. The following things have changed compared
with the last version:
- ADDED: Multitasking ON/OFF feature
- ADDED: Settings window (tests switching)
- CHANGED: Minor cosmetic changes
- REMOVED: Hdd/mem
- SOON:
support of external *.amg modules (95% completed)
- full screen intuition test, hdd/mem tests
Download: AmiGOD2.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Relaunch: Amiga History Guide
"Amiga Interactive Guide" which is a extensive collection of reports, interviews and
documents concerning the history of the Amiga has been updated.
The layout has been completely reworked and besides this the site now works as the
"Amiga History Guide".
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
Davy Wentzler (ANF)
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Audio Evolution Website Update
The website of the audio harddisk-recording program Audio Evolution has been updated with new information and screenshots on the upcoming Audio Evolution 4 for AmigaOS4. See audio-evolution.com
for more information. (ps)
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21.Mar.2003
Scenia
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Music scene: AMP updated
The demo scene project Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) is the most extensive collection
of original modules of the Amiga demo scene. The maintainer of this site Crown and
Curt Cool have now published a major update.
The database now has 21 CD-ROMs, 55266 downloadable modules, 9476 musicans and 535 interviews.
Additionally to the new interviews with Fowl, Karlos, Rick, Sire, Skuter, Sleipner,
Swampfox, Ted Burning, Trazer, Wes Craven and Zarch above all the server has been maintained.
Besides this they point out that Prowizard
is available in a new version.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: New version of Office-packet Papyrus awaited
»Papyrus X as Word-version and as Office-packet announced
At the beginning of April 2003 the Berlin software company R.O.M. logicware is going to publish a new version of the
word processing software and of the Office packet Papyrus. The word processing software
which originally comes from the Atari world (TOS) will be now offered for MacOS for the
first time additionally to versions for OS/2 and Windows.
The Amiga version which has been announced of Titan Computer 2000
is still not available. Michael Garlich said that because of the current market situation
the Mac version has the highest priority. The MorphOS version (and PPC) is already in
alpha stadium while the Amiga version can be only started after AmigaOS 4.0 will be published
(68k is too slow for Papyrus X). (ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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ProStationAudio for MorphOS
A short while ago Bill Buck, CEO of Genesi S.a.r.l., made known in
comments
in several news forums and media viewpoints that the finished version of MorphOS would be bundled with a full
version of the professional Audio-Sequencer ProStationAudio. PSA's publisher AudioLabs has put a FAQ on their
website about this matter, which will confirm this and clarify further details. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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Death of a German ScummVM Programmer
Sebastian Beloch quotes the website of the software project ScummVM:
Last Friday, March 14th, our fellow ScummVM developer and friend,
Felix Jakschitsch (known to many under his nickname yot),
committed suicide at the young age of 19.
We are completely shocked by this, and do not know or understand
what drove him into this. It is a sorrowful world in which a
cheerful, intelligent and helpful man is put in a situation in
which he sees no other way to escape than taking his own life.
We are sad to lose our valued friend. He contributed important
work to ScummVM, including much of the Zak256 support. His loss
is felt deeply by all of us, and we extend our condolence to his
family and close friends, whose grief we share. If you want to
leave a message to his friends and family, there is a guestbook available.
Also here is a news paper article telling more details
(use babelfish if you don't speak German).
Felix, we miss you and will never forget you. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.2
295 midi commands specially made for access virus synthesizers
using tracks&fields miditracker.
This version has all the rest midi commands that Kicko didn't
publish in release 0.1. This is up to OS5. If new OS'es has
new commands the developer will fix it. Page A commands uses
only control messages instead of sysex. Page B & C is only
sysex. There is a backup of page A sysex if anyone needs it
in a subdir. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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20.Mar.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Golem: Linux for PowerPC - Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 is Ready
With Yellow Dog 3.0, Terra Soft has released a new version of their Linux distribution for PowerPC. The software, developed under the
codename "Sirius," marks a new generation of Linux for the PowerPC architecture, and is based on the GCC 3.2.1 compiler. Read the
complete column at Golem IT News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Schlafi (ANF)
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Net Newspaper: Al Gore in Apple's Advisory Board
The former US Vice-President Al Gore has been elected to the advisory board of the computer manufacturer Apple. Gore was
extremely narrowly overcome by George W. Bush in the presidential election of 2000. Read the complete Netzeitung.de report
under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Mar.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: AmiGBG in Gothenburg, Delfina in production
On March 29th, the Amiga-show AmiGBG
will take place. The event takes place for the third time this year,
and we'll attend for the first time as an exhibitor. We will present
new and known products from our palette together with our long-term
partner GGS-Data. The Scandinavian
Amiga-community is very active and most notably creative, therefore
we're especially looking forward to this event!
With a little luck, we'll have our latest product in our luggage: After
an extremely long wait, the sound card Delfina went into production.
Nearly one year ago, we announced the last technical changes, that
are already outdated today. The most important change is probably the
split of the product into two boards. The updated product description
on our website confirms what many people already assumed since the
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper is out: The new Delfina is a combined
Zorro/PCI card. The first stage of this high-end sound card will be
available in Germany starting April 7th, 2003. Pre-orders are taken
by our retail partners.
(ps)
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19.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: CeBIT report 2003
Genesi: CeBIT-Report 2003
From Ron van Herk und Martin Heine
The CeBIT is over, eight days of hard work are behind us. Genesi´s
first CeBIT attendance has been very successful. We were able to have many interesting talks,
we had a lot of interested visitors and started some very promising business deals.
We cannot got into detail of every single topic and of course there are some (indeed not too few) things which we cannot talk about in public.
But some things we can say right now:
_Kato Development_
Kato has developed sound card drivers for more then ten different audio chip sets. These include the AC97 codec, several Creative sound cards, but also some different Terratec models. We are to assist Kato in any possible kind to port their drivers to the Pegasos/MorphOS system, so Pegasos users will have a broad choice af additional sound cards.
_Mediapoint_
We hired the main programmer of Mediapoint. He started, done as a fulltime job, already to finish the next version of this package. It´s aimes to do a first release still this summer.
Our main focus is the professional market but also current users of the stand alone version will be an upgrade offered to benefit from the new features as well. Futhermore the same programmer will create a
MorphOS version of Inga the graphic adventure creator. With this it becomes possible for developers to create such graphic adventures or edutainment software for our settop box.
_Russia_
Genesi´s Russian distributor visited us at the fair. Currently the Russian localization of
MorphOS is under development.
_Merchandise_
Genesi thinks about the production of several MorphOS mechandise goodies and to offer it via local dealers.
We have some ideas for that ourself by now but welcome every suggestion for that as well.
_3sat_
As most will have heard and some have seen already there has been a short report about the Pegasos/MorphOS within the TV show "neues" of 3sat. Even it has not been to extensive it has been quite nice and we got some several positive feedback about it.
Okay, that´s all for the moment - more news will follow when we can put them to public. Our best greetings and regards from the CeBIT we are leaving from here now!
Ron, Martin, André und Ulrich
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Fax and mobile phone disabled
The Amiga Future disables from April the 1st 2003 their current mobile phone and fax account. New numbers will not be published. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
YAM (Website)
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Mailer: New YAM Developer version from 03-19-2003
Since today there is a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA available
from the mailer YAM which became open source recently.
This version is a pure developer version which might still include some bugs and for which the developer team gives no warranty and support of any kind. Requests via e-mail about developer versions will not be answered.
Usage on your own risk!
The recent changes can be obtained from this list.
Further information is to get from the
Yamos SourceForge page.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Article: The new generation of CDR/CDRW writers
With the start of the CeBIT the new generation of the 5x-times IDE
CDR/CDRW writer has been introduced to the market. Along with the higher writing speeds for CDRs and CDRWs all writers include technologies to avoid buffer underruns by standard now and are capable of the mount rainier standard, which should replace floppy disks as data carrier medium.
_Mitsumi_
The current top edge is the Mitsumi CR 485F TE (54x 32x 54x speed) drive. The best features of this ultraspeed rewriter include the integrated MITSUMI Aegis write
technology for best writing results. Aegis write controls and optimizes the laser strength, checks the writing speed and performs during the writing process a quality check for a safe burn. Availability: from April. Price: about 99 Euro.
_Plextor_
The new Plexwriter Premium (52x 32x 52x speed) works with an improved optical unit which offers a better signal sharpness between the pits and lands, so capacity of mediums can be increased up to 40%. So a 700 MB disk is capable of up to 1 GB. For a better compatibility Plextor says to extend the disk capacity only about 20%. To reduce the drive sounds the speed of the drive can be downgraded by the user individually.
Availability: from April. Price: about 199 Euro.
_LG Electronics_
For all who think about to get a new CDRW as well as a DVD-ROM LG presents the new combo drive GCC-4520B
(16x + 52x 24x 52x). Beside all common CD/CDRW formats the drive can read DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW media. The maximum read speed for these media is 16x which is about 21 MB/s. Availability: from April. Price: not published yet.
_Cyberdrive_
With the CW099D (52x 24x 52x) Cyberdrive offers a high sped writer now. The device works in the CAV mode and thus needs
less than 2.5 minutes for a complete CD-R and
for a CD-RW only about 3.5 minutes. The device can handle the raw DAO mode with 96 subchannel bytes and thus offers backup copies of protected CDs. Extra long CDRs with 90 or 99 minutes are supported also. Availability: from now on. Price: about
99 Euros.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Divine Divinity coming to the Mac and MorphOS
Larian Studios and e.p.i.c. interactive announced today that they have
signed a contract to bring Larian Studios' highly awarded role playing
sensation Divine Divinity to the Apple Macintosh and MorphOS.
Warrior, Wizard or Survivor? Which fate is yours?
It's your decision, one that will influence the gameplay of Divine Divinity
- playable as an action based RPG or a classical RPG!
According to prophecy, you are the chosen one. Only you have the strength,
the courage and the magic to save the legendary lands of Rivellon from
submission under the Lord of Chaos. Before you can take on the fight against
Evil, you must journey far through a fantastic world torn apart by
corruption, sinister plots and dark magic.
Caution is vital! Whatever happens, the evil magicians of the black ring
must not get hold of you!
With an involving storyline and plenty of sub quests for maximum
replayability, Divine Divinity is role-playing gaming at its best! As a
warrior, wizard or survivor, you will create your own destiny!
More information on Divine Divinity and all the accolades it has achieved,
can be found on e.p.i.c's or
Larian Studios website.
The Apple release will lead the way in QIII/03 followed shortly thereafter
by the MorphOS release.
The Mac version will be OSX only and will require a G3-333, 128 MByte RAM and
a 8 MByte 3D Gfxcard. The MorphOS version will need a Pegasos I or II.
(ps)
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19.Mar.2003
filosof (ANF)
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Event: Commodore Retro Party - Mail Madness Party #5
This year there will be a a computer party for retro freaks again in Saxonia/Germany. From April the 30th until May the 4th 2003 there will be a Mail
Madness! party in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, where from the C64 or Plus 4 to the ZX-Spectrum everything will be there. Several new and well known DiskMags will be shown to be up to date again. A possibility for sleeping and eating (breakfast, hamburger for in between or pizza (starting from 2 Euros) at night ...etc.) as well as beverages are available. A supermarket for the buying individual stuff is just near by.
For details just ring the +49 177 3376544 or of later than 6pm call the +49 3723 48729 ......come on !! don't hesitate !!!
See ya...!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Finnish Amiga User Group interviews Bill Buck & Raquel Velasco by Genesi
MorphOS-News.de reports about an
interview,
which was done by the Finnish Amiga User Group with Genesi. Within this interview Bill Buck and his wife Raquel Velasco do not only talk about the
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Crossbee team hired by Genesi not only introduces their
experience of the management organisation but also their software to MorphOS.
- Additionalyt hey told that Ceolia now works for Genesi also,
- that prototypes of the PegasosII boards (6 Layers) are expected within the next three months.
- Representives of Plexuscom will come to Paris after the CeBIT to outline the further team work;
- that Genesi will sponsor the demo scene event "Assembly 2003"
- and that there will be a new MorphOS version for the existing PowerUp cards during the next month available free of charge for the Amiga community.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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18.Mar.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Font: TTEngine 6.4
TTEngine 6.4 is a bugfix release for three bugs unfortunately introduced in the previous one. The main bug was requesting mathieeesingtrans.library V38 while Workbench 3.0 and 3.1 has V37 of this library. This caused library initialization failure and revealed two bugs related to cleanup routine. Cleanup generated several Enforcer hits if called after failed initialization. All three bugs are fixed in TTEngine 6.4 release. Thanks to Halvadjian Georges, who reported the bug and hepled with debugging.
Download: ttengine-6.4.lha (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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CeBIT 2003: More pictures
MorphOS-News.de has posted some more CeBIT pictures (provided by Ron van Herk). (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Markus Holler (Website)
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Music: Markus Holler - Dance Mix aus Cold Zero
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga-Users for his music for the games Tales of
Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity, works on the music
Actiongame Cold Zero. For the soon vailable game you can find a dance mix of
the main themes on the download page.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
EvenMore
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Text viewer: Latest MSWord-Plugin for EvenMore
Chris Perver has released the MSWord-Plugin Version 1.38 for his text viewer
'EvenMore'. With this plugin you can convert in 'EvenMore' MSWord files into text.
Download: msword2text.plugin
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-Card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 321
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 321 of AmithlonTV with some updates and
enhancements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh
a
New in this version:
- CHANGED: Recompiled with the latest resource tracking and management code.
- BUGFIX: Thanks to the new resource management I found a very (very very) worst
memory boundary leak (4000 bytes!!!) in the main library core! If you had a few
crashes in the past, then there is a very (very very) good chance that they are gone!
- BUGFIX: Another 2 byte boundary leak within the virtual card driver fixed.
- CHANGED: Installer-Script now requests an actual installer version to ensure
proper operation.
- FEATURE: Added PowerPCI NG support.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
www.scene.org/news.php (ANF)
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OS Poll at scene.org
There is an OS poll running at scene.org right now. Lets help our favorite OS a little hand ;-) (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus Midicommands for tracks&fields
More then 250 commands to remote access virus synthesizers from
tracks & fields. There will be updates when Access makes new
OSupdates with new sysex midi commands.
Further updates will be made when for HDRec when there comes new
versions of it. As i dont find anyone that have time to continue
on tracks&field i will later use HDRec instead as its more pro.
Directpage (ps)
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17.Mar.2003
Amiga.SF (Website)
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Diego Casorran Ports: HyperMail V2.1.7 and Flac V1.1.0
- HyperMail to version 2.1.7, it is a program that takes a file of
mail messages in UNIX mailbox format and generates a set of
cross-referenced HTML documents. Each file that is created represents
a separate message in the mail archive and contains links to other
articles, so that the entire archive can be browsed in a number of
ways by following links. (I remember you that YAM export his emails
in UNIX format ;)
- Flac to version 1.1.0, it stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec.
Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The
FLAC project consists of: the stream format, reference encoders and
decoders in library form, flac: a command-line program to encode and
decode FLAC files, metaflac: a command-line metadata editor for FLAC
files. "Free" means that the specification of the stream format is
fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project
reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify
compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the
implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent.
It also means that all the source code is available under open-source
licenses.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Faces of Mars (ANF)
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Two new digital album: Galicia and Lisbon
After technical problems over the weekend the Faces OF Mars Website is
again fully functional. Immediately there are two new products: Photo
CDs about Lisbon and Galicia.
Beside many photos the CDs contains also a digital postcard
system, with which one can send motives simply over the Internet.
Price: 4 Euro per CD.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records with new module
Martin ' DaFreak ' Rebentisch writes:
Our musician Angeldust composed, influenced by the political
argument USA/Iraq, a MP3-Tune in the Schranz style
named "God Bless You". Sounds very interesting, just listen to it.
[LQS Homepage]!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Jabberwocky (Website)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 2. Preview
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch published Preview 2 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.4 for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.
Connections with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ,
MSN and Yahoo is possible via gateways.
Beta-version-vownload: Jabberwocky030316.lha
Changes:
- Fixed transperancy of icons in roster window (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
- Fixed long standing enforcer hit when removing contacts (also thanks to Jeff
Gilpin as a side effect of the transperancy fix)
- Fixed reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Fixed unicode conversion of reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Some support for displaying errors in the roster (but I haven't actually had
any errors that trigger it, so it either doesn't work, or I haven't
had any errors.
- Fixed enforcer hit on startup when autoconnect is on and there is no account
information (introduced in 1.3)
- Roster icon remains on the event icon until all unread messages have been read
- Fixed handling of messages from contacts that are not in the roster
(introduced in 1.4pre1)
As you can see 1.4pre1 had quite a lot of problems, remember you shouldn't be
using any prerelease unless you want problems.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 16.03.2003
With WHDLoad you install games, which were meant for the floppy discs usage
only, on your hard disk. The following packages were added and/or updated since our last message:
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 3 - The Curse of Mordread (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 2 - Time Warp (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 15.03.03 new: Dragon Lord (Alfaforce) done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 new: 3001 O'Conners Fight 2 () done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 improved: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) supports another version
- 15.03.03 improved: Drivin' Force (Digital Magic Software) supports another version
- 13.03.03 new: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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