02.Aug.2001
Alexander Lohrmann (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: AmiWest Show Report
Amiga hat nun die Ankündigungen der AmiWest Show in Form eines Reports online:
Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc., made a number of exciting announcements
at the AmiWest show in Sacramento, California.
The AmiWest show is organized by the Sacramento Amiga
Computer Club and is one of the largest Amiga shows on the West Coast.
The following products were announced for release by Q4, 2001.
- AmigaOne PPC Computer
- AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System
- Amiga x86 (x86 Amiga emulator)
- AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack
AmigaOne PPC Computer
The AmigaOne PPC computer, being built by Eyetech
in the UK, is based on Zico specs published by Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc.'s flagship
next generation desktop continues to advance towards the first real new hardware for the
Amiga community in over 6 years. Excitement is mounting at both the Amiga office and
around the world as Amigans realize that the long wait will soon be over. All partners in
the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0 project have been working hard to meet deadlines as the
project moves into its final stages.
Bill also announced that the two week slip in schedule for the Eyetech AmigaOne which
had appeared in June had now been pulled back to just one week. The new Rev B boards are
functioning well, with live PCI and AGP slots and work is now focused on bringing the
board and the CPU cards together. The first week of August will see full system boards
delivered to the AmigaOS4 team for preparations to move AmigaOS4.0 from the test bed
machines.
For more details regarding the AmigaOne, see http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/ or http://www.amiga.com/products/one/.
AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System
The AmigaOS 4.0 project is being managed by Amiga Inc. in partnership with both Haage-Partner (H&P) who are porting the main
portions of the new PPC OS and Hyperion
Software who are doing 3D and Mesa for the new PPC Operating System.
AmigaOS 4.0, which will only run on the Eyetech AmigaOne, is moving forward nicely.
With the help of Amiga partners such as Matay, much of the development work has used a
combination of A3/4000s, Matay Prometheus PCI bridge boards, Cyberstorm PPC Accelerators
and H&P's StormC v4.
This has allowed the project to move forwards without having to wait for an actual
AmigaOne board to become available. Consequently, the new file system and the core of the
TCP/IP stack were completed over two weeks ago. The PPC 68K emulator is being fine-tuned
and the new Amiga PCI library is being profiled against the Eyetech AmigaOne live PCI
slots. The RTG system is being enhanced, with a full PPC implementation of the extended
and most used functions, to allow for stunning 2D and 3D performance. In addition, the
Voodoo 3 drivers have been completed and the G450 drivers are under development, to be
followed by drivers for the new Matrox G550.
While the porting of the 68K elements of the AmigaOS will continue through AmigaOS4.2
and AmigaOS4.5, the first set of libraries ported to PPC will ensure that AmigaOS offers
impressive increases in stability, functionality and speed.
Once the test bed to AmigaOne migration has been completed, Amiga will provide
screenshots and benchmarks of the new system. These reports are aimed at demonstrating the
superiority of the AmigaOne and will give the community an early look at the features of
the product. In addition, Eyetech has commissioned some very impressive case designs that
will give the AmigaOne the looks to go along with its brains.
Amiga x86
Amiga was able to demonstrate a prototype of an x86 emulator for 68K for the
AmigaOS3.x series. This product, codenamed Amithlon, provides only RTG compatibility and
is being targeted at providing a first step from x86 towards the AmigaOne. Amithlon is
self-booting from CD on almost any x86 laptop or PC desktop. It is able to run most RTG
programs at speeds beyond that of a standard Amiga 060 chipset. Several developers at the
AmiWest show tried their applications on Amithlon and commented that they had never seen
such fast run times before on a 68060 Amiga computer. Amithlon is being written by Harald
Frank and Bernie Meyer.
Many Amigans who left when Commodore went bankrupt have been looking for a way to run
their favorite Amiga applications on newer hardware. The purpose of the emulator is to
allow x86 PC owners to experience the benefits of running the AmigaOS and applications
without having to make a potentially risky purchase of an entire machine.
Marketing and community will then slowly draw these people towards the superiority of an AmigaOne with a full native OS running on it,
along with the latest applications. Amithlon is not a port of the AmigaOS and there are
currently no plans to see the AmigaOS ported to x86.
More details of the Amithlon including feature lists and release dates will be
published shortly.
AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack
AmigaDE 1.0 (based on Elate/Intent by Tao Group)
is being programmed by more than 30 programmers worldwide under the management of Amiga
Inc. There are over 3000 developers currently signed up to produce content for various
digital devices from cell phones, PDA’s, handhelds, and even desktop computers
running AmigaDE 1.0. Amiga also announced the first set of games that is being released
under the moniker “Series Zero” to Sharp for use on the Zaurus handheld devices.
The 5 games that are being released as part of the Series Zero Game Pack are:
Batty by Titan Computers
Boxikon by e.p.i.c. interactive gmbh
Convex by Zeoneo
Linea by Titan Computers
Solitaire by John Harris
Nachtrag 03.08.2001:
Report in Deutsch
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02.Aug.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mailclient: SimpleMail 0.8 Alpha
Ich habe soeben die neue SimpleMail Alpha hochgeladen. Die neuen Features:
- SSL-Unterstützung für POP3-Server. AmiSSL wird dazu benötigt!
- POP3-Server können individuell deaktiviert werden.
- Menüleiste im Hauptfenster.
- Eine neue Lesefenstereinstellung, die es ermöglicht, Smilies durch
Bildchen ersetzen zu lassen (Bilder erstellt von Richard Kapp).
- Gruppen können nun ebenfalls gelöscht werden.
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01.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Datatype: akPNG V44.100 erschienen
Andreas R. Kleinert hat Version 44.100 seines akPNG Datatypes
veröffentlicht. Wie immer liegen verschiedene Prozessorversionen
zum Download bereit.
Mithilfe von sog. Datatypes lassen sich
verschiedenartigste Datentypen in unterschiedlichsten Programmen
anzeigen. (ps)
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01.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - neue Pakete
WHDLoad ermöglicht, Spiele, die nur für den Diskettenbetrieb gedacht sind,
auf der Festplatte zu installieren. Es sind folgende neue Pakete
hinzugekommen:
- 31.07.01 verbessert: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
- 30.07.01 neu: Alien Syndrome (SEGA)
- 29.07.01 neu: Crystal Hammer (Hannover)
- 29.07.01 neu: Pipe Mania (Empire/The Assembly Line)
- 29.07.01 neu: Jaws (Screen 7 Ltd/Intelligent Design)
- 29.07.01 neu: Huckleberry Hound (Alternative)
- 29.07.01 neu: The Halley Project (Mindscape)
- 29.07.01 aktualisiert: Pipe Dream (Lucasfilm)
- 29.07.01 verbessert: Operation Stealth (Delphine)
- 29.07.01 neu: Morph (Millennium/Flair)
- 27.07.01 neu: Cruise for a Corpse (Delphine Software)
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01.Aug.2001
http://www.amiga-news.net (ANF)
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Amiga-News.net wieder online
Amiga-News.net ist ab heute wieder online. Amiga-News.net ist keine
eigene News-Seite, sondern mehr eine Übersicht von verschiedenen
News-Seiten. Hier werden mehrmals täglich die Headlines von mehreren
News-Seiten aufgeführt, so hat man einen schnellen Überblick über
aktuelle News.
Anmerkung: Diese Seite stammt nicht von
amiga-news.de.
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01.Aug.2001
Oliver Roberts (ANF)
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WarpTIFF-Einführung - Neues TIFF-Bild Datatype
Oliver Roberts stellt mit der nachfolgenden Nachricht sein neues
WarpTIFF Freeware-Datatype vor. Dieses neue Datatype kann auch unter
TIFF Spezifikation 5.0 und 6.0 erstellte Bilder lesen. Das Datatype
ist optimiert auf 68k, WarpOS und natives MorphOS und natürlich sehr
schnell.
Hier die Original-Meldung:
The first release of WarpTIFF
is now available - a new freeware datatype capable of
reading 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec images, available in optimized 68k, WarpOS
and native MorphOS versions. Needless to say, WarpTIFF is fast - very fast
in fact :) Full feature list below.
WarpDTPrefs has
also been updated to support WarpTIFF.
- Supports 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec, including Packbits, Thunderscan,
CCITT (fax), Pixar, LogLuv (CIE and SGILog) and Deflate (zip)
encodings, and uncompressed files. LZW and JPEG encodings are
currently unsupported
- Image types supported include RGB (24-bit and 48-bit), palette based
and greyscale (1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit)
- Supports image data organized as strips, tiles or separate components
- Highly optimized datatype dispatch engine, and fast TIFF decoder,
resulting in a very efficient, compact and quick TIFF datatype
- Asynchronous file i/o and double buffering techniques (WarpOS only),
which speeds up image decoding
- Optimized versions for 68020, 030, 040 and 060
- PowerPC support with native WarpOS and native MorphOS versions
- Alter the pen allocation precision when images are remapped to an
8-bit display
- Specific support for the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype, when available
- The dithering feature of the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype can be
configured to your liking (e.g. disabled for 15/16-bit displays)
- Based on libtiff 3.5.6-beta and zlib 1.1.3
As some of you will know, WarpTIFF has been in development (on and off)
for some time, but it's ready at last :) It already handles a more
comprehensive coverage of various TIFF encodings than other TIFF
datatypes, but if you should find some TIFF images that don't work
properly with WarpTIFF, then please let me know and I'll try to add
support for them. Likewise, if you need support for JPEG encoded
TIFFs, let me know.
(ps)
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01.Aug.2001
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Aminet-Uploads bis 01.08.2001
gkartei.lha biz/dbase 224K+Powerful and easy database.
Regist_II.lha biz/dbase 133K+V0.2A user-administration for programmer
DOpusSpawn.lha biz/dopus 13M+Opus Mangellan 2 - SPAWN - Themes
AmBoS-Demo.lha comm/ambos 1.6M+AmBoS 2.98 - Full/demo archive
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 44K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
YahooGpScan1_2.lha comm/mail 5K+Strips YahooGroup adverts. V1.2
cim_v3_update.lha comm/misc 214K+CIM - Caller Id Manager V3.702 r42 - ONL
facts.lha comm/tcp 94K+V4.6 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
netspeechd.lha comm/tcp 7K+Outputs incomming packets to speak:
DKG-Neo2.lha demo/aga 1.0M+Neo2 final version (30/07/01) by Darkage
Eurochart43b.lha demo/mag 804K+The Official Eurochart #43 by DEPTH & IR
Emperor_v4.1.lha dev/c 671K+Object-oriented programming language
fractal.lha dev/c 69K+OpenGL C Source: Mandelbrot and Julia fr
freetype_S4.lha dev/c 458K+Freetype link library for StormC 4
koch.lha dev/c 18K+OpenGL Source: Koch's Snowflake
fd2pragma.lha dev/misc 191K+V2.136 create pragma, inline, ... files
AmigaArena3.lha docs/misc 44K+Amiga Arena News German/English
BraSwos2001.lha game/data 6K+Brazilian league update for swos
ETWBrasil2001.lha game/data 7K+Brazilian league update for Eat The Whis
F1GP_2001.lha game/data 10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (29 July
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 91K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
LyraKeyMap_dk.lha hard/drivr 9K+Danish Lyra PC keyboard layout v1.01
WhirlDisc.lha misc/edu 77K+World Book encyclopaedia viewer. BETA
LC2.lha misc/misc 274K+Aussie Lotto checker/database.
Squid.lha misc/sci 95K+A squid's skin simulator
OldSchoolMania.lha mods/hardc 168K+Old School hardcore MOD by REVOLVER DOG
Budbrain1.lha mods/pro 645K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 1
Budbrain2.lha mods/pro 408K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 2
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 125K+A no fuss multiformat audio player.
EP_MMDC.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "MMDC" external replayer
EP_MWalker.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Martin Walker" external rep
EP_RobHubbard.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Rob Hubbard" external repla
EP_TFMX.lha mus/play 10K+EaglePlayer "TFMX" external replayer
QSID.lha mus/play 10K+Small & Simple SID player
raycat.lha pix/misc 186K+[ancor] a new picture
sg-strip_15.lha pix/misc 45K+[ancor] StarGround strip 15
sg-strip_16.lha pix/misc 46K+[ancor] StarGround strip 16
doomicon.lha pix/mwb 66K+Neat MWB icon for Doom (as)
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01.Aug.2001
Michael Stum (E-Mail)
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Spiel: Earth 2140 - Deutsche Lokalisierung
Da Earth 2140 auf dem Amiga leider nur in Englisch vefügbar ist,
hat Michael Stum bei Topware um eine Lizenz zur Veröffentlichung
der deutschen .WD Datenfiles gebeten.
Der jetzige Lizenzhalter "ZuxxeZ Entertainment AG" (namentlich Dirk P.
Hassinger) hat ihm diese Lizenz erteilt. Unter dem Titellink
finden Sie nun sämtliche erforderlichen .WD-Dateien der CD.
Diese müssen einfach nur in das Verzeichnis Earth 2140 auf dem
Amiga kopiert werden, um die deutsche Lokalisierung nutzen zu können.
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01.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9429
Richard H. Poser hat Betaversion 0.9429 des AIM-Messengers AmigAIM
veröffentlicht. AmigAIM ist ein Client zur Verbindung mit dem America
Online Instant-Messenger (AIM-Dienst). Hier ein Auszug aus der History,
aus welcher Sie die gemachten Änderungen entnehmen können:
- Custom interests can now be set and/or searched for by selecting <custom> and
inputting into the resulting input box. (BTW: Setting AmigAIM would allow anybody
using AmigAIM to search for others :-)
- I think I fixed a problem that could occur if program is told to shutdown via
the Close Gadget while a service/search is logging in.
- Added an Online check capability, it can now check if a named interface is online
and give an error if an attempt to go online is done and the interface is offline.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
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01.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Installer des SMEG 2 Virus gefunden
Der Installer des neuen 'SMEG 2' Linkvirus wurde gefunden. Er wurde
in gefakten Keyfiles von MiamiDLX gefunden, ist möglicherweise aber
auch noch in anderen Dateien enthalten. Lesen Sie im Anschluss die
Details:
»We have now found the installer of the new 'SMEG 2' linkvirus. If the
info text from the archive is correct, the 'SMEG 2' virus has been
around since February 2001.
The archive has only been on Elite BBS'es or Elite websites.
Jan Erik Olausen the programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library, has
made a recog for the virus, but is having problems with removing the
virus from memory. As soon as Jan has solved this virus, a new update
of xvs.library will be released.
There is "NO" cure for this virus right now. But with the help of the
program 'Safe v16.2', you can find infected files, but not remove the
virus, you will have to replace the infected files with new clean
files. This virus will infect everything that is executed. And on my
test A1200 over 200 files, was infected in under 5 minutes.
The programmer of 'Safe' (Zbigniew Trzcionkowski) has written this
about the new 'SMEG 2' virus:
Released probably by mistake. Non crypted version of the next one.
Code is almost equal to old SMEG, but this time author invented NEW
WAY of patching PRIVATE routine of device task. This routine handles
receiving of dos packets.
Virus patch is stealing packets and sending them to the supervisor
task called 'SMG'. I have never seen such advanced digging code that
works properly. This means also that no visible changes are seen in
the system beside one new task.
I have noticed that freezing of SMG task stops spreading of the
virus, so at the moment Safe does only that. I will add removal of
the 'magic' patches if I found it necessary.
File repair was as easy as Penetrator files - one move.l 4.w,a6 was
replaced with jump to virus.
Hidden text (decoder was included, but not used by virus code):
Smeg! it's a Hostile TakeOver! (Again!)
And just when you thought it was safe..
Flake and Georg have left the building!
-= On Tour 1995-2001 =-
This is what we know of the virus:
Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus name.... : SMEG 2a & SMEG 2b
Virus size.... : SMEG 2a: 1556 bytes & SMEG 2b: 1604 bytes
Archive name.. : MIAMIDLX.LZX
Archive size.. : 3.427 bytes (lzx packed)
There might just be more installers of the 'SMEG 2' virus out
there, so do not install these fake-keys.
Thank to the person that send the archive to Jan Erik Olausen,
and to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for the first test of this virus.« (ps)
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01.Aug.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)
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nrnf: AMIGA Classix Review und Gewinnchance
Bei 'no risc no fun' finden Sie einen Bericht zu der AMIGA Classix Reihe
von Darkage/Epic. In diesem Bericht wird auf den ersten und zweiten
Teil eingegangen und erklärt, was man in etwa erwarten kann.
Die Umfragen vom 16.07.01 wurden gestern Nacht aufgelöst und die
Ergebnisse veröffentlicht. Die neuen Umfragen haben die Themen AmigaOS auf
x86 und PowerMac auf AMIGA (iFusion).
Unser Besucherzähler hat die 90.000 passiert und wir hoffen, bald die
100.000 zu erreichen. Dem 100.000sten Besucher winkt eine nagelneue
Version von dem 3D Action Spektakel -Shogo MAD-. Viel Glück.
Auch unsere Portliste weiß wieder viele neue Spiele zu verzeichen. Vor
allem BeatEmUps sind eine Menge dazu gekommen. Stimmen Sie ab, welche
Spiele Sie am AMIGA sehen wollen. (ps)
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31.Jul.2001
Bebits (Seite über BeOS) (ANF)
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Neue Hardwareplattform für AmigaOS & AmigaDE
Marcel Maurmann schreibt:
Ich habe hier einen Link mit interessanten Meldungen von Merlancia
über eine Hardwareplattform mit 1 oder 2 G4 PowerPC-Prozessoren
gefunden. Darauf sollen laufen: MorphOS, QNX, BeOS und -AmigaOS- bzw.
AmigaDE. Die Serie nennt sich Merlancia Multimedia Computer -
Torro Series (Systemname: Apocolyps (Desktop/ASTB)).
Weiterer Link zum Thema: BeGroovy: BeOS on a G4?
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31.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview mit Rüdiger Hanke
Ein sehr ausführliches und interessantes Interview mit Rüdiger Hanke, dem
Entwickler von 'Excult' und verschiedenen Filtern z.B. für PageStream etc.,
ist in deutsch und englisch online. (ps)
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31.Jul.2001
Carsten Scholling (ANF)
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Amithlon und die Mächte der Finsternis
Unter dem Titellink gibt es eine nicht ganz ernst zu nehmende Geschichte
über die derzeitigen Entwicklungen im Amiga Markt. Mir war einfach danach
mal sowas zu schreiben. Vielleicht gefällt sie ja dem einen oder anderen...
Ciao Carsten
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