31.5.2002 The InstallerNG is about to become an integral part of the new AmigaOS 4
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The InstallerNG is freeware replacement for the official Installer tool, distributed with the AmigaOS system.
Negotiations are under way to integrate the InstallerNG into the new AmigaOS 4.
The Official InstallerNG Homepage
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31.5.2002 PRETORY Subsidiary Ships first Pegasos PPC Computer
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Thendic-France SARL, a subsidiary of Pretory USA Inc., an emerging technology-based
leader in security, detection equipment and medical devices, today announced that is
has shipped the first Pegasos PPC computer. The Pegasos was developed by bplan GmbH
of Frankfurt, Germany. Thendic-France SARL has acquired the rights to organize and
manage the worldwide distribution of the Pegasos.
PRETORY Subsidiary Ships first Pegasos PPC Computer
A somewhat terse announcement by Thendic via
PenguinPPC.org states that the Pegasos
will ship as promised from Saturday 1st June... but without MorphOS, only Yellow Dog Linux.
Thendic-France website
Amiga.org website
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31.5.2002 CAPS appearing at Extreme Computing 2002 !
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Not an Amiga-only event - but as the event you have is old - what about this one...
If you are in the UK and can get to London, why not check out the Extreme
Computing festival 2002 - http://www.xcom2002.com.
CAPS - The Classic Amiga Preservation Society
(http://www.caps-project.org)
- is going to be there showing a bit of the technology at our stall and
handing out a limited amount of free copies of Abandoned Places 2 + we will
have some Amiga games to play at the stall.
If you are in the UK and can get to London, why not check out the Extreme
Computing festival 2002
CAPS is going to be there showing a bit of the technology at our stall and
handing out a limited amount of free copies of Abandoned Places 2 + we will
have some Amiga games to play at the stall.
Any suggestions on good games to bring welcome (if we have them), please
visit the website!
There will be other great retro-gaming people going including developers
from the C64 and Speccy era. See the XCom site for more details.
Anyway, if you fancy coming along to challenge us at a few games or just
want to pop along for a chat then please do!
It is on Sunday 9th June and is only £3 entry - be there and be square.:)
Kieron WIlkinson
The Classic Amiga Preservation Society website
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31.5.2002 Second developer snapshot for Digital Almanac III
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30.5.2002 Eyetech release AmigaONE update
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Eyetech have released their AmigaONE update... those who read Total Amiga
would have known this information for the past week (The Alan Redhouse
exclusive!) but others can now learn about the progress of the system
and the G4/dual-G4/G5 update program/offer!
AmigaOne Update
Alan Buxey
AmigaONE ML
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30.5.2002 The USB card HIGHWAY is available now
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The USB card HIGHWAY is available now. KDH Datentechnik
has delivered the HIGHWAY board to customers and Amiga dealers who did pre-order
the HIGHWAY card. The scope of delivery includes the USB Stack Poseidon. The currently
supported USB devices are listed here.
KDH offers you at a special bundle price the Memorycard-writer/reader device
"HexaMedia Drive" from Lacie. This allows you to read in all pictures from your digital
cameras into your Amiga and to change or print them with your favorite graphic program.
Amiga.org website
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30.5.2002 Sufferers of the SB & 100BaseT lockup problem on Mediator!
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The worlds oldest Mediator support pages have been updated with PatchInt (and ResetInt)
information. Mr. Matthew Allatt has released his PatchInt (and ResetInt) to the public.
"Dear sufferers of the SoundBlaster and FastEthernet lockup problem. If you have
been using ResetInt for the last couple of days to clear these problems, then you may
be getting fed up of having to run that program every time that error happens. I have
now written a version, called PatchInt, which you can put in the user-startup. You need
to run it with the line: run nil: PatchInt" You can find information on PatchInt
and all other Mediator programs on the
3rd Party Mediator Software Page.
2nd release of PatchInt removes possible problem with distortion when playing MP3's
through SoundBlaster. This version should clear that up.
CyberGraphX homepage
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30.5.2002 Software News
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StrICQ v2.8.2 Beta - it just
has two bugfixes. Offline messages show up again. An incoming message won't steal
window input focus "most" of the time.
Douglas F. McLaughlin via StrICQ ML
StrICQ website
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29.5.2002 IOSPIRIT brings USB-scanners to the AMIGA!
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Finally its going to become a reality! Thanks to the continuous development
of fxSCAN 4.0 you will be able to use current USB scanners, interesting both
in price and technology, with the release of the latest version!
The required drivers will be made available seperatly in the "IOUSB Scanner
Package" (IOUSB SP) with the appearance of fxSCAN 4.0. By building upon the
IOUSB technology, it will be possible to use the drivers with both the
Poseidon stack (Highway®, Subway®, MorphOS) and the stack contained in AmigaOS® 4.0.
Read more
Felix Schwarz, IOSPIRIT
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28.5.2002 New Screenshots From AmigaOS 4.0: HDToolBox Replacement
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28.5.2002 Software News
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Amiga emulator for Windows WinUAE WinUAE 0.8.21 Release 4 is now available.
Download
/ changes
"Finally, passagen.se fixed their harddrive problems so now I can finally upload this
update. Anyway, A/NES CGFX v1.26 is finally released. One ugly CPU-emulation bug was
fixed. Check it out in the
download section.
WinUAE homepage
A/NES CGFX homepage
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27.5.2002 Scan like the pros! Calibration targets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS
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You can now order professional calibration targets at a very low and attractive
price that give you best scanning results when used together with ICS and fxSCAN 4.0.
Order it now together with fxSCAN 4.0 and save packaging costs! The delivery
starts with the availabilty of fxSCAN 4.0.
IOSPIRIT website
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27.5.2002 New Amiga version of Tales of Tamar
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Tales of Tamar V0.43 R3
- with new version, a lot of changes have come for the Amiga version. ToT has been
ported to gcc and we are now able to implement PPC code. Amongst other new
features, ships can now be used to transport infantry, cavalry, artillery,
settlers and scouts. This is changing the world of Tamar drastically.
For the first time, a realm can expand without any limits. There can be invasive
fleets and inter-island wars. Scouts can explore other islands.
Settler can be brought to foreign islands and build new towns. Players can flee
from an overwhelming enemy and start again somewhere else.
The last things on our list are battles between ships and some text for BardsTale.
Tales of Tamar is the internet based roundgame for Amiga, Atari, Mac, Java,
Linux/SDL and Windows.
Tales of Tamar website
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27.5.2002 Amiga Demoscene Archive News
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For all demo freaks, some pretty amazing productions have been added
to Amiga Demoscene Archive in the last weeks. Highlights include the
amazing slideshows Seven Seas/Andromeda, Artcore/Scoopex, Never liked
Uno/Lego and the amazing demos Relic/Nerve Axis and Killer/CNCD.
Currently 176 demos and 1472 quality screenshots. Discover the amazing
world of the best demo machine ever at A.D.A.
ANN website
Amiga Demoscene Archive website
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26.5.2002 The AmigaOne in Leeuwarden (photos)
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The AmigaOne WAS presented in Leeuwarden today. Unfortunately, only openfirmware bios
was shown. Photos of the presentation at
http://www.amigascene.nl/nieuws/nieuws.htm.
"At around 15.00 Computer City brought the AmigaOne motherboard.
It is the first sample of the 1.0a board. Because the motherboard
was different from the one that Eyetech had, it was not possible
to use the Linux from the old board. Because there was no more time
for a new installation, we had to do only with the openfirmware bios.
There are installed a IBM processor (without cooling!), 128MB,
Soundblaster soundcard and a ATi Radeon 7500 AGP. It now waits for OS4."
ANN website
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26.5.2002 USB-Poseidon: Compatibility list for Poseidon USB devices
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A list of working USB devices is available now.
We hope that many users will send us entries for this list so that this list will grow.
"The USB device market has grown considerable. There are literally ten thousands of devices out
there, many of them in different revisions regarding firmware and hardware. Many of them carry
different brand names but are internally the same devices. We can't get each USB device for
testing. That's impossible. So we need your help. It's easy: just send as a list of devices
you have connected to your HIGHWAY or SUBWAY board, with a small comment if it is working or not.
By this our list will grow and help other users deciding if a certain USB device is worth buying or not."
Highway/Subway USB homepage
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26.5.2002 AIO issue 59 is out
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Issue 59 of AIO is out and should be soon on Aminet and the
site.
Featured is an interview with the Bitmap Brothers and lots of
other good stuff so start downloading.
Mark Tierno, AIO
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26.5.2002 Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack review
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"There are tons of games available for today's Palm and Pocket PC based PDAs
but very few have provided any real competition to devices such as the Game
Boy and Game Boy Advance. But that might be changing as nicer displays and
faster processors such as Intel's XScale chip begin to capture the attention
of bigger software developers at this year's E3 in Los Angeles.
One company, Amiga, has just launched its new Anywhere Entertainment Pack,
which is specifically focused on the Microsoft-based PDA gaming crowd. The
pack offers four somewhat run-of-the-mill games that take advantage of the
speedier features of Pocket PC and Windows CE based PDAs."
Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack review on TechTV website
TechTV website
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25.5.2002 SimpleMail News
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Version 0.16 of SimpleMail released! The changes are:
requires version 18.12 of NListtree
speed up within the mail list
scrollbars in readwindow for datatypes
you can drag attachments from the readwindow and drop them on to the workbench now (requires OS3.9)
New Config option: Possibilty that SimpleMail only auto downloads if Miami is online
New Config option: Execute an ARexx script if new mails has been arrived
New Config option: Download at startup
New Filter actions: Play sound and execute an arexx script
No longer popups the error window if aborting
bug fixes
SimpleMail is a new mailer for the Amiga classic platform but it is intended to be as portable as possible...
SimpleMail website
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25.5.2002 Digital Almanac News
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Digital Almanac supports images of "Digitized Sky Survey" (DSS)!
From now on DA III supports implementation of DSS images. Because of technical
reasons, DSS images can only be used in planetarium mode (equatorial coordinates)
and with field angles smaller than 3 deg. Size and name of Deep-Sky objects and
stars can also be drawn into the map.
Click here for an
example picture showing you a DSS image of the Andromeda galaxy.
Developer status in English language
The page with
the recent developer status for the new beta versions of DA III are now
available in English.
Digital Almanac Homepage
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25.5.2002 DCE: new website
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24.5.2002 AmiMPC in-car MP3 player web site updated
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"I updated the AmiMPC web with details
of a new head unit I have been working on, which is greatly improved over the
old one. See the web site for more info.
My new head unit looks almost factory, and features a digital potentiometer
based volume control. I think I'm finally 100% happy with the system!See the
AmiMPC website for more details."
Paul Qureshi, AmiMPC
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25.5.2002 Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
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23.5.2002 AmigaOne Presentation in Leeuwarden doubtful
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"Originally Computer City (the 13-5 announcement) planned to show a working
AmigaONE in Leeuwarden on Saturday the 25th. We now can not gaurantee that
this will happen. According to the Eyetech the board will be send on friday
by UPS express and we hope it will arrive on Saturday. But we, AGGF and
Computer City, can't guarantee that we receive this board on Saturday.
For the people which are traveling from far, we let you now as soon as possible
if the AmigaONE is received by Computer City on saturday so that you won't
travel for nothing. Offcourse our market with new and secondhand Amiga stuff
will normally be hold in Leeuwarden."
Amiga-news.de website
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23.5.2002 AmigaRulez interview with Martin Blom
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Johan 'Graak' Forsberg: "I've done an interview with Martin Blom for
AmigaRulez.
Read it here."
Johan 'Graak' Forsberg via ANN
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23.5.2002 3sat TV show update
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"bplan regrets to inform you that the television report scheduled for May 27th at 9:30 pm
neues - das Computer- und Telekommunikationsmagazin auf 3sat
has been cancelled due to the interference of third parties. At this moment,
we are not able to supply further details about the circumstances surrounding
this matter. However, we do expect that the television report will be
rescheduled in the not too distant future when these matters have been
resolved. We are moving diligently to expedite the now required process.
Thank you for your interest and support!"
bplan GmbH website
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23.5.2002 NEW drivers for FastATA 4000 and FastATA ZIV controllers
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ELBOX COMPUTER has released today the NEW drivers for FastATA 4000
(Power Flyer 4000, Winner 1200 High-Speed) and FastATA ZIV
(Power Flyer ZIV, Winner 4000 High-Speed) controllers:
* FastATA.driver ver. 2.5
* FastATAPrefs ver. 2.5
* AllegroCDFS ver. 3.3
The compatibility with AmigaOS3.9 with BB2 has been added. From
FastATA.driver ver. 2.5 on, there is no need to add the
'SKIPROMUPDATES scsi.device' or 'NONSD' options in the Setpatch
command.
For more info about FastATA 4000 controller see:
http://www.elbox.com/products/fast_ata_4000.html
For more info about FastATA ZIV controller see:
http://www.elbox.com/products/fast_ata_z4.html
ELBOX COMPUTER website
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23.5.2002 NEW drivers for FastATA 1200 controller
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ELBOX COMPUTER has released today the NEW drivers for FastATA 1200
(Power Flyer 1200, Winner 1200 High-Speed) controller:
* ATA3.driver ver. 6.1
* ATA3Prefs ver. 6.1
ATA3.driver: * Corrected procedure of PIO mode changes on the fly
ATA3Prefs: * Error made good in displaying the MASTER/SLAVE description in ATA3prefs
For more info about FastATA 1200 controller see:
http://www.elbox.com/products/fast_ata_1200.html
ELBOX COMPUTER website
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22.5.2002 AIO Interviews The Bitmap Brothers
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Amiga Information Online interviews
The Bitmap Brothers. Creators of Speedball I & II, Choas Engine and many other classics.
Chris Seward via ANN
AIO website
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22.5.2002 Amitopia is now on-line!
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"The Amitopia website is now up and running.
Amitopia is a Scandinavian Amiga magazine, and you can buy it from GGS-data in
Sweden, from monday on! And we do not boycot Amiga INC or MorphOS or anything
else. We just care and sent a letter to Amiga INC. about the near relationship
with M$. We feel that there is a need for competition!"
Amiga.org website
Amitopia website
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21.5.2002 AmigaOS 4 - Unofficial Developers FAQ
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21.5.2002 Amigart: A small interview with Ben Hermans about AmigaOS4.0
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A small interview
with Ben Hermans about AmigaOS4.0.
Ben Hermans: "OS 4 is almost ready, please be patient a while longer whilst
we complete our testing and integration. Hyperion doesn't release untested
software. I know there have been some delays but the end-result will be the
best AmigaOS ever."
Amigart website
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21.5.2002 Digibooster Professional stands before advancment, if...
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"It is unfortunately for a long time ago that there was a new
Digibooster Pro version.
Meanwhile the Community is located again in contact with the programmers.
In order to be able to give now the developers of DBPro an overview of the current
user number, we started an inquiry. This inquiry is really extremely important for
the future of Digibooster Professional! Please you participate, and contribute you
also to the fact that the development continues!"
PSYRIA
The Unofficial Homepage of DigiBoosterPro
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21.5.2002 ATI Radeon driver in AmigaOS4 to be developed by Forefront
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Forefront Technologies, Inc. (previously Progressive Data Systems), the guys that are
doing the OS4 ATI drivers have put their
updated webpage online with
offical OS4 overview and limited ATI driver info.
"Forefront Technologies, Inc. has agreed to develop the ATI Radeon 2D video card
drivers for the next Amiga operating system. AmigaOS 4.0 will arrive with Amiga's
first new system hardware in almost a decade, the AmigaOne*. The ATI Radeon will
provide the highest graphics performance available for the new AmigaOS
out-of-the-box."
CyberGraphX homepage
Forefront Technologies, Inc. website
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21.5.2002 Pegasos presentation in 'neues' cancelled!
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The Pegasos presentation in 'neues - das Computer- und Telekommunikationsmagazin on 3sat'
has been cancelled. An official statement will follow.
MorphOS-news.de website
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21.5.2002 Amiga Arena Interview with "jah" (AmiSAT)
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The Amiga Arena talked with "Jah" the developer from AmiSAT! AmiSAT is the Amiga port
of OpenAG which is an open source Audiogalaxy client.
Read all about the future,
new features and the OS that will be supportet!
Olaf Koebnik, Amiga Arena
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20.5.2002 Fleecy Moss clarifies on ANN
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"For those of you lacking the stamina to wade through the 300+ posts-thread
on ANN (named 'the next ppc amiga'), Fleecy Moss, CTO at Amiga Inc, made a short
surprise visit to dispell some rumours about the BPlan-AmigaInc situation
(apparently after getting the thumbs up from AmigaInc's legal advisors)."
Read more
ANN website
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20.5.2002 Amiga Future: Workbench Screenshots Update
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20.5.2002 Software News
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A new update of VirusZ III
has been released today. You can find the new
v0.9a update Here.
readme
BarsnPipes v1.13
- MIDI sequencer Bars&Pipes further developed by Alfred Faust (Freeware).
New in this version: Screenmoderequester, gadtools-GUI, most requesters may be used
by keyboard-shortcuts, CAMD-Library, new 32 colors design, Localisation - a german
catalog is included, and much more.
For further information read the included BnP_Addenum.guide.
Carl Svensson released gW3S beta3, small
freeware web server for AmigaOS, written in ARexx.
New features include stand-alone CGI arexx scripts and the possibility to use
a custom 404 'Page Not Found' document.
Read more
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA
Alfred Faust's homepage
gW3S homepage
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19.5.2002 CyberGraphX V4.3 RC5 released
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CyberGraphX V4.3 RC5 Update (V4.3beta Release Candidate 5 Update Archive) has been
released. This upgrade is for Amiga bus based cards that includes Zorro 2 bus,
Zorro 3 bus, CyberStormPPC/MKIII Bus, BlizzardPPC Bus, Atéo Bus, Wildfire Bus and
DraCo bus. This archive has support for Inferno, Picasso II, Picasso IV, Piccolo,
Piccolo SD64, Pixel64, Spectrum, Rainbow III, CyberVision64/3D, CyberVision64,
DraCo Altais, Retina Z3 BLT, A2410, BlizzardVisionPPC & CyberVisionPPC. As with
all CyberGraphX V4 updates you will need your orginal CGX CDROM for the update
as it is used as a base for the new files. You can find RC5 and more on the
CGX V4 Page.
CyberGraphX homepage
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19.5.2002 Pegasos video released
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Thendic France has released a Pegasos video. It shows the installation
of the hardware, booting of MorphOS and a small CandyFactory Pro test.
Download Pegasos.mpg (92MB),
readme
MorphOS-news.de website
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19.5.2002 Technomages Update Art Avenue Puzzle Games
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Technomages have announced that two brand new editions of Art Avenue Puzzles
(1 and 2) are now available. These new editions include larger images, a new
interface, an art slide show, harder difficulty modes, and more. Current
owners of Art Avenue Puzzles 1 and/or 2 can go to the
Amiga Anywhere web site
and download the new versions free of charge.
The new versions of Art Avenue Puzzles 1 and 2 have an "Easter Egg" (A message,
graphic, sound sample, or some unexpected event in response to undocumented
keystrokes, input or conditions) built into the game. The first person to
find one of the Easter Eggs and e-mails Technomages with a detailed
description of what happens will win a free Technomages game.
If you find the hidden easter egg, then e-mail Technomages at
support@technomages.net.
AmigaFlame website
Technomages website
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18.5.2002 A Fistfull of Dollars
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A few dollars is all you'll need. Be they Australian Dollars or US Dollars,
you can now use them to buy Total Amiga Magazine!
Total Amiga Magazine are pleased to announce that with immediate effect,
Anything Amiga, Australia and Compuquick, USA will be selling individual
issues of our magazine.
Get the latest issue with our AmigaOne Exclusive by Surfing over to:
Compuquick (USA)
Anything Amiga (Australia)
Eyetech(UK)
Computer City (Netherlands)
An overseas subscription costs as little as £17(ukp).
Full details can found on our website
http://www.totalamiga.org.
Michael Carrillo, Total Amiga Magazine
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18.5.2002 What GFX card for pegasos?
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Mr. Mariak and Robert Reiswig finished updating the
CGX board support page.
You can find a list of currently supported cards.. along with that currently
works directly with MorphOS.
Robert Reiswig via MorphOS ML
CyberGraphX homepage
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18.5.2002 Amiga Developer Site by LouiSe
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Amiga Developer support site by LouiSe feature:
- 10 function groups (AmiTCP, AmigaDOS, AmigaOS, BlitzBasic, C_Keywords, GeekGadgets (POSIX), MUI, Picasso96, PowerD, Warp3D) with over 5600 keywords and over 300 example programs
- full and partial keyword searching in function groups
- full keyword and example program listing for function groups
- on-the-fly crossref generation for every function definition
- forum for each functions
- upload/download/view (for example programs) for each functions
- no java, no sql, no javascript - works with ALL Amiga browsers too
- upload and forum post history (bottom right side of screen)
- very simple function group addon
- the site and the support is in active development satus!
- but i need your help with expanding the database with other languages, compilers like FreePascal, Rebol, AREXX, AHI, CyberGFX, SDL, AmigaE, Sonic, etc.
LouiSe, louise.amiga.hu
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18.5.2002 AROS site in maintenance (after 22.05.2002)
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"Our machine is going to be moved once more and that means it's going to be
unavailable for a few days (I guess you're already used to this; it happened
once or twice every year :-)
So don't worry when aros.org doesn't work after 22.05.2002.
It will be up again, soon."
AROS homepage
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17.5.2002 DiamondBOX News
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"Nikolaj Kiær Thygesen is the author of the paint-application 'DiamondBOX'.
This software is so good - it is hard to believe that you can download it
for free. DiamondBOX is a paint-program similiar to Photogenics providing
all the 'big features' of commercial paint-packages like layers, lots of
filters, drawing and text tools, splines, image-manipulation and much more.
It also gives you a intuitive and beautiful (glowicons by Martin Merz!)
interface!
Now, Nikolaj Kiær Thygesen just released a new version of DiamondBOX, version
1.50. You can download this version at the updated
DiamondDice website. Also, Nikolaj
created a short Q&A session exclusively for
GFX-BASE."
GFX-BASE website
DiamondDice website
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17.5.2002 ToT: Exchange of experiences with programmers and musicans wanted
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Martin Wolf: "Because of a exchange of experiences we are urgently looking
for an Amiga-programmer who is experienced in StormC gcc especially in the
optimising and who can help us a little bit.
Tales of Tamar has been ported to gcc. Unfortunately not everything works
fine as it should afterit has been started to optimate. Each help is welcome!
Besides this we are still always looking for somebody who wants to create
cool Amiga moduls for ToT (Digibooster or Soundtracker-format). These moduls
are not a must but they are a funny extra (besides the main soundtrack)."
Amiga-news.de website
Tales of Tamar homepage
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16.5.2002 Interview with Hans-Joerg Frieden
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Juha Niemimäki asked Hans-Joerg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment to do a tiny little
interview and was very delighted when getting a bunch of long and interesting answers
in return ...about AmigaOS4.0, new games, Quake 2 and more.
Read the interview here
ANN website
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16.5.2002 INET DIAL v3.851 provides dynamic link to your Home Server
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Registered users of Inet Dial v3.851 (ID) now have dynamic links to their
Home Server. Users with dynamic IP addresses can now access their Home
Server via dynamic link service on the MDR website. Users can now link
via the Internet to their Home Server LOGIN page or to their WEBCAM.
ID supports login from full size browser or PDA. ID provides internet
and remote computer connectivity for PCs, AMIGAs and PDAs on local area network.
MDR Interfaces Ltd website
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16.5.2002 Amitopia needs more staff writers!
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"Amitopia needs new staff writers. Both from Sweden and Denmark.
We also need people wich is interested in making a International
version of Amitopia. Please send a mail to:
amitopia@amiga.ca.
Next Amitopia Issue, will be out next week! With some exclusive
AmigaOS4 news and more!"
Amiga.org website
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16.5.2002 bplan on german television 3sat
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"The bplan GmbH would like to inform you about the Computer Magazine taking
place on the 27th of may at 9.30 pm.
neues - das Computer- und Telekommunikationsmagazin auf 3sat
One subject of the show will be the Pegasos Hardware Platform developed
by bplan GmbH in conjunction with MorphOS.
Our team is looking forward to the following live chat after the show,
in which we will be gladly respond to any of your questions."
bplan GmbH website
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16.5.2002 Software News
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Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund released new version of
FPSE (Free/Final PlayStation Emulator).
"A simple MUI GUI has been added, should make FPSE/Amiga easier to use.
A while back I started working on a Warp3D GPU renderer, but it's far
from finished. When run in fullscreen, it will run in a kind of debug
mode showing a lot of textures and such. IMPORTANT: If you run the
Warp3D version from CLI, you MUST direct all output to NIL:, if you
don't know how, use the GUI instead. Also, some more screenshots has
been added."
AmiDog's Emulation Corner
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16.5.2002 Full (?) WinUAE 0.8.21R4 feature list
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Estimated release date for WinUAE 0.8.21R4 is end of May.
Full (?) WinUAE 0.8.21R4 feature list:
- EXPERIMENTAL: added configurable input device (mouse, joystick, keyboard) support
- EXPERIMENTAL: added OpenGL mode (for best results set lores and disable line-doubling)
- printer support fixed (Bernd Roesch)
- midi updates (Bernd Roesch, Alfred J. Faust)
- custom chipset updates (Superfrog,Exile,Apocalypse,Rainbow Islands,Torvak the Warrior etc..)
- CPU idle patch (no more 100% CPU usage)
- HOME + F5 opens state restore dialog and SHIFT + HOME + F5 opens state save dialog
- vsync updates (50/60/100/120 frequencies are now always selectable. Useful for Powerstrip users)
- AVIoutput improvements (can be started later, stops when re-entering GUI)
- Picasso96 updates. Mouse trails are now 100% fixed (Bernd Roesch)
- refresh rate selection only affects Amiga display modes, Picasso96 always uses default refresh rate
- "16-bit mode detect" crash fixed
- removed useless 8/16-bit sound selection. Sound output is now always 16-bit
- sound adjust slider reimplemented. (if you have bad sound, move slider left until sound gets better)
- build-in gzip and zip support (autoselects first adf-image or Amiga executable if zip contains multiple files)
- executable to adf support, just "insert" Amiga executable in to floppy drive
- improved external decompression support (xdms.exe)
- configuration save option is now available even after emulation has been started
WinUAE official homesite
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15.5.2002 fxSCAN 4.0 with enhanced OCR-engine and PDF-Export
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"We´re pleased to announce to you version 4.0 of our powerful scannersuite fxSCAN.
Among others, new features are a strongly enhanced and accelerated OCR-engine
(based on gocr 0.3.5, now also PPC-native and with the ability to export embedded
pictures and HTML), the all-new PDF-export, an enhanced copying function with
preview and correction features, support for Turboprint® and an all-new documentation
(in German and English) with many illustrations in HTML- and PDF-versions.
A detailed list of all new features, first screenshots, a list of supported scanners
and much more can be found on the
fxSCAN 4.0 site.
fxSCAN 4.0 is available starting from end of June on CD-ROM and as Downloadversion
and can now be preordered from our website! Be one of the first to hold this
exciting product in your hands! Orders via creditcards are charged only a few days
before delivery."
Felix Schwarz, IOSPIRIT
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15.5.2002 Amiga Games Classifying - May/June 2002
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"It's time to vote at the AMIGA GAMES CLASSIFYING May/June 2002.
We need the classifying of your prefered games actually.
Send us your classifying (20 games max) at our adress :
daff1@club-internet.fr.
You can also vote at: http://agcweb.online.fr.
Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, freeware, old, new,...).
Final classifying will be published in early-June.
Amiga Games Classifying
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15.5.2002 Amiga Arena Interview with Mark Reynolds
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After a long time on of the best 'Grafity Force' Clones for the Amiga is Freeware
and will be developed in the future again! The Amiga Arena talked with Mark Reynolds
about the past and future of 'Roketz'.
Olaf Koebnik, Amiga Arena
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15.5.2002 New Up Rough Soundsystem release
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"Up Rough Soundsystem has released a new musicdisk.
'Hits for kids LP' a cute 10-track chip experience.
Music by Goto80, famous for his many C64 SID's.
Get it here."
spot, Up Rough Soundsystem
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15.5.2002New website with AmigaOS ports
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Diego CR: "http://Amiga.sf.net -
there you can find my AmigaOS SF Ports (most important are: cURL, HyperMail,
SoX, Swish-E, etc) and others programs like Dicci or Mail.comForward made with RxMUI..."
Diego CR, http://Amiga.sf.net
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14.5.2002 dynAMIte - Special Collector's Edition CD-ROM released!
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AmigaZeux is proud to present the long awaited "dynAMIte - Special Collector's Edition"
- CD-ROM. Features:
- new dynAMIte Version
- all maps, all styles + exclusive new styles for the CD-release!
- new "dynAMIteAI.library" for 68k and PPC (MorphOS)
- 3D-Intro-FMV-Sequence
- Audio-Tracks
- detailed HTML-documentation
- many Extras, Backdrops, early-Intro-tests, first test-versions of dynAMIte, and many more!
- in contrast to the nomal version, you require about 93 MB of free harddisk space this time!
- The f"irst 50 discs are limited, an "extra"-feature is included
The pre-ordered discs will be mailed today!
If you now think "dynAMIte is becoming commercial!" you aren't right since
the game itself will stay freeware. We just want to give the fans of that
nifty little game we all love the chance to purchase a "bigger, better,
faster, more" edition which is even a way to say "thank you" to the programmer.
The price is as low as possible, we think every Amiga user nowadays can
afford 15 Euro for a good game and its extras. It's available for:
Germany: EUR 15,-, Great Britain: GBP 11,-, Europe: EUR 18,-, USA: USD 15,-
All prices including shipping-costs.
For more information visit the official dynAMIte Homepage.
#AmigaZeux
official dynAMIte Homepage
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14.3.2002 Software News
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ScummVM 0.2.0 was released today
New features (since the last CVS snap, not 0.1.0!) include:
- first non-Scumm games supported: Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
- in addition to the games that could be completed before, Loom CD-ROM version, Zak McKracken 256 color and Simon 1 are fully playable now
- 32 color Amiga versions are supported
- choosable sound driver (Adlib, Midi, Midiemu)
- updated PDF manual (please read, because some command line options had to change!) including compatibility chart
You can get the MorphOS distribution from
here or later tonight from the sourceforge project page.
CD audio library
This is a high-level cd audio playing library designed to make your life easier
if you want to write games with CD audio, but it's equally suited for writing
a CD player with it. Features include automatic drive recognition and search
features, (kind of a) resource manager, direct CDID support, callback event hook
for time updates, track crossings, etc.
The archive can be found on
ScummVM page.
Ruediger Hanke via MorphOS ML
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13.5.2002 First user group to offer membership on-line: MAUG!
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"In what we think is a first for Amiga User groups MAUG (Melbourne Amiga
User Group) www.maug.org.au now
has on-line sign ups.
We recommend Scott of www.boing.net (a MAUG member) as someone who can
make small volume transactions viable for many Amiga businesses. Normally
small businesses cannot afford the astronomical fees of a secure web site.
At Boing our only fee is a percentage of each transaction which goes to Boing.
Boing is an Amiga friendly business. Boing hosts a number of Amiga
businesses (MAUG too) and is a pleasure to do business with.
NB. On-line sign ups are eligible for a special discount from
http://connect.to/amiga (also hosted
at Boing)
Michael Czajka, MAUG
Scott Pringle
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12.5.2002 Hyperion is looking for outside help with writing manuals
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Ben Hermans, Hyperion Entertainment: "We're looking for a native English speaker
who can assist us with writing the manual for our powerful HDToolbox replacement
for OS 4. Any candidates must know what a partition is, what an Rigid Disk Block
is and some details about mounting an FS under Amiga. Additional assests would
be knowledge about the most important fields of the partition and filesystem
structures. If you are interested in giving us a hand, please contact me."
"We're still evaluating options with respect to printed or electronic manuals.
If you ask me, I'd go for printed in a second but it's all a question of cost.
If OS 4 sells well, then I'm sure we can come up with that for 4.1.
One thing that's for sure is that OS 4 will come with a PDF reader (xPDF) annex
PS printer (Ghostscript) so you can read PDF's comfortably and print them out.
The plan is that this solution will also serve as a plug-in for Ibrowse."
Ben Hermans via ANN
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12.5.2002 Coder needed for a payed job
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"You code in C, you know Reaction, you're fed up to work for nothing, this one
is for you: I was planning this post for a long time. Maybe it's time now. I'm
looking for a coder to enhance an already existing WB tool. You must know how
to code Reaction. You must have enough time NOW.
Basically what is needed is:
- change the main program (no GUI), knowing how to identify if the user clicked
a leftout icon, identify the original file from the leftout icon, identify an appicon
- change the prefs program (Reaction GUI) to add a new feature.
Why you should do it ? This is your contribution to "your" OS adding a feature
no other OS can do. (no other, really!) And I consider all job should be
rewarded, so you'll be paid for this. If you're interested,
write to me ASAP!"
Philippe 'Elwood' FERRUCCI via ANN
http://elwoodb.free.fr
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12.5.2002 New Web sever for AmigaOS written in ARexx
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Carl Svensson, the author of mp3Play, has released gW3S 1.0 Beta,
small web server for AmigaOS, written in ARexx. It is FreeWare.
Please note that gW3S is in the early beta stage and he'd be
more than happy to recieve bug reports, suggestions and other
feedback.
Features:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
Rudimentary request logging
Built-in directory listing (for dirs without an index document)
Embedded ARexx command execution
Execution of external ARexx scripts (with QueryString as argument)
Read more
gW3S homepage
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11.5.2002 Total Amiga Magazine World Exclusive!
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"Humph! humph! Humphhhh! hurrghhh! Humph! hurgh!!!!"
That's Alan Redhouse of Eyetech, the man behind the AmigaOne.
Alan writes for Total Amiga Magazine and in the May issue he reveals
exclusive new information on the AmigaOne not seen anywhere else before!
Sadly for Alan, he will have to stay gagged until every copy of
Total Amiga Magazine is sold before we let him go.
"humph, hurrgh!"
Stop the cruelty, Free Alan Redhouse, buy a copy of Total Amiga Magazine
now!
Total Amiga Magazine is out May 17th and can be purchased from Eyetech and
Computer City. Alternatively you can subscribe via Fore-matt home computing
and Kicksoft, or from our website
http://www.totalamiga.org.
Total Amiga Magazine, it is, are you?
Michael Carrillo
Total Amiga Mag website
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11.5.2002 GFX-BASE interview with Lorence Lombardo
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"Lorence Lombardo is the author of the recently released mpeg-player 'PegaThlon'
and other great tools like HTMLStrip and AmiDiction. He also made lots of anim
tools like Anim2gif, Anim2mpeg or Anim2qt.
We were especially interested in his latest release called PegaThlon, a small
and free mpeg-player. Of course, we also asked our usual questions -
Read more here.
GFX-BASE website
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11.5.2002 Amiga Arena - Interview with Mauro Fontana
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'Back from dead' - Mauro Fontana brings on of the best Editors back to
Life! Since the 'BlacksEditor Upgrade pack 1' Mauro Fontana released
BlacksEditor now as Cardware! The Amiga Arena talked to Mauro
Fontana about the Future and past of BlacksEditor!
It is up to you if we see in the future another piece of Software for
the Amiga, so please mail to Mauro Fontana for ideas, bugs or wishes...
Olaf Koebnik, Amiga Arena
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10.5.2002 AmigaInc updates website
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10.5.2002 Computer City to Port Inga to Amiga
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10.5.2002 Amiga One on Tour
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Computer City will be displaying the AmigaOne on the AGGF meeting in Leeuwaarden
(The Netherlands) on the 25th of May.
Amiga.org website
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10.5.2002 AmigAIM's LiveJournal
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Richard H. Poser II: "I've got a paid account now, so I made an
AmigAIM
community in which I may actually make a note about my internal
version from time to time, and perhaps take suggestions..."
Official AmigAIM Website
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9.5.2002 REBOL nominated for Webby in technical achievement
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The Webby Awards, the leading international honors for Web sites, today
nominated REBOL for a Webby Award in the category of Technical
Achievement of 2002. (Google and Sony also nominated.)
As a nominee for a Webby Award, REBOL is also eligible to win a
People's Voice Award. Voting is open to the public from April 29 to June
7th at
http://www.webbywards.com/peoplesvoice/.
You can read more about it here.
REBOL homepage
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9.5.2002 Hyperion spills beans over Matrox G1000 in OS4, No Warp3D V4 driver
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Hyperion Entertainment's Managing partner Mr. Ben Hermans posted to
ANN.lu about "spill the beans" over
Matrox G1000 for OS4. "It destroys the Geforce 4 completely. We've seen
it in action already." Later he posts "They have much more than samples.
Yes, it will be supported by OS 4. But not right away, this type of
advanced architecture requires Warp 3D V5 ("Nova"). It's simply miles
ahead of anything out there on the market now. The only that comes close
is the P10 from 3DLabs. I'm glad I can finally spill the beans about this.
Remember all the nay-sayers whining about Matrox and saying the AmigaOne
would be a pile of crap because we didn't have nVidia drivers? This goes
to show that just because you are the fastest at one point in time, this
doesn't ncessarily mean you will remain the fastest for ever. Think about
that when you start another "x86 is so much faster than PPC" thread. PPC
used to be faster than x86, then Motorola hit their infamous 500 Mhz G4
ceiling overtaken. But I can assure you that just as Matrox is reclaiming
the crown now, the G5 will do the same."
Amiga Future News page
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9.5.2002 VGR.COM: USB Poseidon + Trident GUI pictures
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"I asked Poseidons author (Chris Hodges) for a few snapshots of Trident
(GUI for Poseidon) and he sent over a few images of the GUI. Very nice
looking! Vgr now has a USB page setup with some basic information and
pictures for the 1st USB stack for the Amiga:
vgr.com/usb.
CyberGraphX homepage
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9.5.2002 ARM issue 2 will be out in a few days
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9.5.2002 First developer snapshot for Digital Almanac III
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For the very curious amon you, here is the first developer snapshot for DA III.
You will find the update on the
download page.
On this page
you can take a look about the latest development status. Additionally you can
read informations and view some screenshots of the recent developer version of
Digital Almanac.
Digital Almanac Homepage
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8.5.2002 Payback News
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New Payback Intent Status Report
James Daniels: "I've posted the second status report
(including screenshots) on the progress of the Intent conversion of Payback.
New Maps
Also, three maps (one new, two updated) have been added to the
Extra Maps Page.
Apex Designs website
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8.5.2002 AmigaOS 3.9 and boot partitions beyond 4GB barrier
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Martin Steigerwald, Haage & Partner: "Use a boot partition within the
first 4GB of the hard drive as long as you are not absolutely sure that
you really understand in which circumstances you can use a partition not
within the first 4GB and are in absolute agreement to take the full
responsibility on what you are doing and promise faithfully that you will
not contact AmigaOS 3.9 support when something goes wrong."
"Simply put, boot partitions beyond the first 4GB partitions are NOT
officially supported; but can work under special circumstances at your
own risk."
Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ page
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8.5.2002 WinUAE: New features coming soon...
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- OpenGL output mode with configurable scaling/smoothing and scanlines
- full joystick/mouse configuration (full keyboard configuration will be implemented later)
- fixed border bug (Superfrog, Exile etc..)
- internal zip and gzip support
- much better xdms.exe support
WinUAE homepage
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7.5.2002 clickBOOM: 666 (FILE 19: THE BEAST)
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"OK, OK, I have 5 games to announce! But, not all of them at once. :-)
And before I do, I would like to remind any interested programmers,
that it is because of these five games that we are looking for another
Amiga/PC programmer who would be able to help with development of our
other Amiga titles (N2,Z).
666 - Last month I told you about our new "unnamed" game. Now I can finally
announce the name to you. It's the ever-frightening, ever-demonic, the one
and only sign of the Beast. It's 666. This is our new original game. We've
been working on it for quite some time, and it's shaping up quite
terrifically, thank you. However, it is very far from being finished,
and there are no screenshots yet. It's probably better not grouping it
in any particular genre, as you'll see for yourself once it's ready.
But, if I had to find a category for it, it would probably be a 3D
action-adventure, but with many, many new twists. 666 is a very ambitious
project, certainly our biggest. [..] 666 is currently planned for PPC
Amiga / PC / Mac. ETA Q3/03.
Read more
clickBOOM website
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7.5.2002 Amiga Arena Fullversion - "LOG!C"
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With the permission from "Jochen Heizmann" (Sounder of Games like
Flyin High,T-Zero,Samba Partie,Space Station 3000) the Amiga Arena
brings you the Mind/Puzzel Game "LOG!C".
LOG!C has a playfield width and height of 14 units. At the right stones
in a 3*3 field appeared. The player must try to copy this formation of
stones to the 14*14 playfield, by setting the stones with the mouse.
And trym that you`re enemy can`t set his formation!!!
The game stops, if the time is over, if one player doesn`t have a
stone at all or if it`s not possible to copy anything.
LOG!C was published by APC/TCP and thanks to Andreas Magerl for the
permission too!
Olaf Koebnik, Amiga Arena
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7.5.2002 Amitopia issue nr.3/2002 comming soon
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Michal Bergseth: "Amitopia Issue nr.2/2002 came out about 3 weeks ago and now Issue
nr.3 will be out sometime next week. Amitopia is made on Amiga with Pagestream v4.1,
TvPaint and PerfectPaint. We want to show the world that an 060 Amiga today, is a brilliant
system. In the next few days, Amitopia will get its own homepage. More info will come!"
Amiga.org website
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6.9.2002 USB Poseidon author on Highway Z2, USB on Amiga
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The USB card HIGHWAY will be general available by May, 31st 2002 and will be
distributed by KDH Datentechnik.
This is the first time that Amiga users can connect and use modern USB
devices in connection with their classic Amigas.
Read more
Chris Hodges, author of Poseidon USB stack for the Amiga:
"USB is not the holy grail and a solution for everything or everybody. Too bad it has
become some kind of standard on the PC. Too bad Zorro2/3 is not capable of the
bandwidth required for USB2.0. Too bad that 99% of the USB devices available are
still USB1.0/1.1 devices. I even bought a 10/100MBit USB 1.1 ethernet card on ebay
for EUR 10,- -- and I know this is not sensible at all. But hey, the transfer speed
sure is enough for connecting to the DSL modem, eh? Some of you people will never
be satisfied with what they get. But I don't really care. I've spend a lot of time
on Poseidon (and still do), Michael did the same with his Highway / Subway boards.
We did this for the users that want to benefit from USB. Not to make a killing."
ANN.lu website
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6.5.2002 Elbox: No SharkPPC, SharkPPC+ & SharkPPCPro until OS4 is released!
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Darek Dulian, Elbox Computer: "Hello, As we spoke about this issue many times:
production of ShakPPC cards will start as soon as the AmigaOS4 is released."
- Status of Shark FAQ: "The website update is under construction." - With OS4:
"You will find answers to your doubts in the FAQ to be published in our website."
CyberGraphX homepage
ELBOX COMPUTER website
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5.5.2002 TLAS had Closed Shop - Farewell To All - God Bless
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"The time has come to say Goodbye! We have now closed the deal with Scott
of Centsible Software. Scott has purchased all remaining Inventory. PLEASE
check out his website and let him know that TLAS sent you there.
He may be able to give you a good deal on software.It will no doubt take
Scott two or three weeks to sort out his new batch of Software and get
them listed on the website for you but email him anyway and tell him to
get on the ball. Ha.... :>)
Centisble Software should have the largest selection of Amiga Software
that you are going to find. Thank you one and all for the many GREAT Years
that we at TLAS have had! This is the last mailing you will receive from
me but I will always be thankful that so many of you were customers for
a very long period of time. (some as long as ten years)"
Amiga.org website
Terry L. Fike, former Turtle Lighting Amiga Software
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5.5.2002 Maim & Mangle News
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"A new website to provide information
on the development of the game Maim & Mangle has been opened. Development
of the game was put on hold for a time rather than cancelled and now has been
restarted with most of the original development team.
Check the page for more info and
original screenshots.
Maim & Mangle homepage
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5.5.2002 Software News
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Glenn Hisdal: "I have uploaded a new version of the
ReAction GUI.
readme
If it crashes on your Amiga, please send me enforcer/cyberguard output (or
output from similar tools). You can use my private email."
Glenn Hisdal via StrICQ ML
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4.5.2002 Delfina Flipper: Technical changes
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The preparations for the soundcard "Delfina Flipper Edition" have reached the last
phase before production. Some technical details had to be changed in order to keep
the announced price. Here are the most important changes:
A cable for connection to the A1200 clockport will not be included. A connection
kit will be available separately for 10,- EUR. To use the Midi-ports, a separate
cable is necessary. It's a standard Midi cable that is also used by PC soundcards,
and it will not be included with the Delfina Flipper. It can be ordered separately
for 9,- EUR. Pre-orders for the Delfina are taken by your reseller.
individual Computers website
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4.5.2002 First impressions of the "new" Digital Almanac
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.As announced in the last time, things will change in future versions of Digital Almanac.
I have already done some changes in the program. Recent changes mainly refer to:
system requirements, functionality and GUI layout.
On this page you can
take a look about the latest development status. Additionally you can read informations
and view some screenshots of the recent developer version of Digital Almanac.
Digital Almanac Homepage
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4.5.2002 Temple of Technology Interviews Fleecy Moss
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Vidar Langberget published an interview with Fleecy Moss, Amiga Inc.
You can find the normal version here
and for those using Amiga browsers, use this link.
Vidar Langberget via ANN
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4.5.2002 MorphOS Software News
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Titan Computer: Motionstudio screenshots
You can find new screenshots of Motionstudio on Titan Computer´s
Motionstudio website.
Motionstudio is a new videoediting software exclusively for MorphOS. Some of the
outstanding features are free definable particle effects which can be used on any
b-w mask, 40 video effects, very intuitive GUI and much more.
MorphVNC News
Version 1.1 of MorphVNC has just been
released. Changes include: Support for zlib encoding, 10-20 times better
bandwidth-utilization over raw encoding. Overall speedups. Lots of fixes :)
MorphOS-News.de website
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3.5.2002 Jarno van der Linden from Amiga Inc., Interviewed!
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3.5.2002 100%AMIGA CD Magazine Issue 24
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The May issue of 100%AMIGA
is now complete. This month we have the first UK magazine review of
THE FEEBLE FILES
plus a feature on the progress of OS4 containing screenshots and a final
word from Ben Hermans of Hyperion. In the news we have an exclusive
report on a revolutionary new floppy CD, Broadband from BTOpenworld and
the usual Amiga specific news. We also take a look at a new demo
collection CD as well as our usual mix of reviews, free games and useful
utilities, patches and upgrades. More details available from
Amiga Online Superstore or
100%AMIGA website.
FORE-MATT Home Computing website
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3.5.2002 The Crypt 23 - The Dragons Lair - is now out
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So what do we have for you in Issue 23?
The Dragons Lair looks into the myths and legends of the dragon from around
the world. And as usual we bring you the latest news and reviews from the
computer world. This time we focus on the new and soon to be released Amiga
OS4, with the latest press releases and actual screenshots of the OS4 in action. (Drewl!)
Eyetech announce who will be selling the AmigaOne motherboard, and Melina
Softworks bring you the latest news on the Spiders Web and Nostalgia, what
are they? read their article to find out. On the PC side of the market we
find out about Opus 6 and news of the latest release (This is one piece of
software I couldn`t be without). Then our very own Ian Urie looks at
Irfanview a free graphics viewer that works very well with Opus 6, and he
also shows us how to install several piece's of PC hardware, including a
TV card, Digital camera, DVD drive and USB hub. Last issue Birdy showed us
how to set up and use AmIRC on the Amiga, well for this issue Bruce Steers
shows us how to setup and use mIRC for the PC.
Then we have a multitude of articles from our readers and Staff members covering
such wide topics as - The Orkney Islands during the World war, Caravanning
equipment, Dr Suess on why computers sometimes crash, and a nostalgic look back
at the Amiga computer in it`s early years. Of course there is a lot more to read
than just those, but I`ll leave you to read these for yourselves.
Our beloved Ferret has delved into the past of his home country of Scotland and
looks at the people and customs of "North of the Border". we have our usual pages
of jokes/cartoons for you to laugh yourself stupid with, and a page of recipe's
to tempt you into the kitchen.
Vulcan software announces that another Amiga classic game is to be ported over
to the PC, what is it? The Games page will tell you all you need to know. Along
with a new Amiga game, The Feeble Files. There are another collection of brain
teasers for you to figure out, and for lovers of the Steam locomotive we have
features on the Strathrail network and the North Norfolk railway.
So with 8mb of articles and pictures for you to enjoy, we hope this new HTML
version of The Crypt will keep you busy till our next issue comes out in the summer.
Steve Evans, The Crypt
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2.5.2002 GREX and Warp3D performance problems
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"It has come to our attention that the GREX consumer-version suffers from
serious performance problems when used in conjunction with Warp3D and a Voodoo 3.
The same Voodoo 3 Warp3D driver-code runs substantially faster on the Prometheus
and the Mediator which is clearly a sub-optimal situation considering the much
higher bandwidth available on the Cyberstorm PPC/GREX 4000 combo.
We can only conclude that something in the consumer-version of the GREX is
interfering with the normal operation of the driver, be it the software, be it
the hardware itself or a combination of both.
It's equally unclear if the same problem arises also on the GREX-1200.
We want to take the opportunity to strenuously deny the rumour spread by certain
dealers that we are trying to extract an additional license-fee from DCE to
correct this problem.
Time permitting, we would be most happy to correct this problem although we fear
this may well prove impossible without the cooperation of DCE."
Timothy De Groote & Ben Hermans, Hyperion Entertainment
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2.5.2002 Software News
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Glenn Hisdal: "I have put up a new version of the
ReAction GUI.
readme file
I have only made some minor changes:
- The contactlist is correctly updated when you go offline.
- The read message window now displays the UIN of the sender and the message date.
Glenn Hisdal via StrICQ ML
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1.5.2002 New Project Petunia benchmarks (part of AmigaOS 4.0)
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"I placed new benchmarks to my web pages
from the recent vesion of the dynamic recompiling based M68k emulator for AmigaOS4."
Dynamic recompilation (or also called just-in-time compilation or simply JIT compilation)
is a technique of translation of the emulated processor machine code to an executer processor
machine code on-the-fly.
Ben Hermans, Hyperion: "On a 600 Mhz G3 with on-die L2 cache and a 133 FSB, you can expect
much more than a 150-200 Mhz 060. I would consider a 300 Mhz 060 to be the absolute minimum.
The current benchmarks of Petunia are being held back by several factors even on the
current PPC cards:
1. The 68K is still stealing cycles from the PPC just by being "awake". If you put it to sleep
completely, this results in substantial performance gains.
2. Dual CPU architecture with context-switches and cache-flushes.
3. WarpOS not Exec SG is used.
All in all I expect the emulator to reach at least 060/50 performance even on the lowest
(160 MHz) BlizzardPPC."
Álmos Rajnai via ANN
Project Petunia homepage
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1.5.2002 clickBOOM S-FILE 18 & New Website
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"Believe it or not, we have 5 games to announce! But, instead of giving
you an information overload, we will be announcing them every few days.
Aren't we sneaky? :-) And, lastly, I would like to remind any
interested programmers, that it is because of these five games that we
are looking for another Amiga/PC programmer who would be able to help
with development of our current Amiga titles.
I hope you like the new look of the site!"
Read more
clickBOOM website
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1.5.2002 dynAMIte V2.0 available - You are a player, right?
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"Back from a fantastic trip to Hamburg, where we demoed our latest
#amigazeuxAnywear collection, we wanted to take the time to get the Amiga
community caught up on our flagship project, dynAMIte.
Contrary to the nonsense that is being spread about legality of other
products, dynAMIte is more than alive and well and we have very exciting
plans for the future with amazing new products introducing several other
exciting and amazing Amiga-like, mind-blowing features."
Read more
download /
history
Matthias Böcker, dynAMIte
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1.5.2002 New DSL-drivers for X-Surf
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The xsurfadsl.device for our networking card X-Surf has been updated. More than
one DSL-modem is supported now, a bug that led to a crash when hanging up has
been removed, and the debug-output of the appp.device for Genesis users has been
removed, so the full performance is also reached on systems without
a graphics board. Download
individual Computers website
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1.5.2002 ClassAction and StartMenu News
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Martin R. Elsner: "ClassAction 4.40 and StartMenu 1.20 are ready, with many of your
proposals implemented. Some changes: ClassAction has an improved way of copying,
classes for volumes and assigns, "Open with" and "Copy to" submenus, an own
file attribute window, and many little improvements like file comment
display and vertical arranged listers.
StartMenu has now lost the nerving bugs; it can control commodities,
opens on other screens and has an improved window button display.
All MRE modules only contain the English language. I will prepare the
translations, they will follow in the next weeks."
Martin R. Elsner's homepage
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1.5.2002 Looking for SoundBlaster & SoundBlaster Live! Dev Docs
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"Stefan Wøntermiyer emailed to VGR.com last week and was interested in doing
SoundBlaster & Sound Blaster Live! drivers for the G-Rex. They were looking
for any developer docs or example code on how to program the Soundblaster or
Sound Blaster Live! cards. They placed a few files they found online
here. If you know of anything
better please email sb@vgr.com. Thanks!"
CyberGraphX homepage
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