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30.6.2002 $50 Amiga voucher good for just mobo and OS4
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Gary Peake of Amiga Inc. just posted to the open@amiga mailing list that the much
debated $50 voucher, available at amiga-anywhere.com, will be "good for any of:
complete system, motherboards and OS4.0 or just OS4.0".
Exact reply: "The voucher is good for any of: complete system, motherboards and
OS4.0 or just OS4.0 Gary"
JohanR via ANN
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30.6.2002 AIO 60 is out
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Issue 60 of AIO is now out and (soon to be) on aminet and the site.
Included is an AIO exclusive article on Port Access by Barry Walker.
Mark Tierno, Amiga Information Online
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30.6.2002 Software News
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New Reaction GUI for StrICQ V2
"During the past week, I have done a complete rewrite of my reaction gui for StrICQ2.
The result is, hopefully, a much more stable program. My code is at least much cleaner
now :)
There are not any important new features in this version. That will have to
wait until the next release... The read/write message window has changed. I now use a
single send/read window with single-line input. Multiline input and separate send/read
windows will be added as an option later. (Not too far into the future ;) )"
Hope this version works better for those who had problems before.
download
/ readme
aiffdt41.lha
- datatype for AIFF sounds v41.5. Implemented MACE3,MACE6,ULAW,ALAW and IMA4 decoder.
Included WarpOS version.
readme
Sebastian Bauer released new versions of
NList (v0.91) and
NListree (v18.13)
MUI Custom Classes.
AC97Mixer v2.0
(giftware) for Amithlon SB128 soundcard, VIA onboard sound, SB Live.
Features: +20dB MI; dynamic 3D enhancement slider if supported; show&hide of every
mixer; ARexx; Surround support VIA onboard sound, SB Live (beta)
Glenn Hisdal via StrICQ ML
Stephan Rupprecht's Homepage
Sebastian Bauer's Homepage
Bright Light Software website
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29.6.2002 Amithlon 2.0 delayed?
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"It appears that the unfortunate past association of Amithlon with Haage & Partner
has created one more stumbling block on the way to the release of Amithlon 2.0.
Thus, it is extremely unlikely that I can make the planned release date; While the
delay should hopefully be very short, I can not currently make any definite promises.
Please bear with me for just a little while longer, thank you"
Bernd Meyer via Amithlon ML
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29.6.2002 Amithlon 2.0 pricing
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Pricing for the new version of Amithlon is beginning to come through from German
distributors Vesalia,
KDH - Datentechnik and Australian
Boing.net.
Existing users will get an upgrade path to the new version and the prices looks
much better than previously released AmigaOS XL.
Amiga.org website
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29.6.2002 Amiga Flame: Your Guide to AmigaOne
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"The final preparations are being worked out which will see the next generation
Amiga known as AmigaOne make its official debut. Bill McEwen outlined in his
latest Executive Update that there is a need to now properly plan, budget, and
order for the production of the AmigaOne. To determine how many Amiga users want
to get their hands on the new Amiga they want users to purchase a $50.00 coupon
from the Amiga Anywhere Shop. This coupon will entitle you to $50 off the price
of AmigaOne/ AmigaOS 4.0. However, before Amiga users bust open their piggy banks
I thought it would be appropriate to provide a guide to AmigaOne, so you'll better
understand the gains of becoming an AmigaOne user."
Read more
Amiga Flame website
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29.6.2002 akJFIF/PNG/TIFF 45.1 now freeware and amithlon-optimized
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Starting with V45.1 (29.6.02), the datatypes akJFIF/PNG/TIFF are Freeware.
The keyfile code and some other legacy stuff has been removed. This also may
speed things up, since there are less special cases to be covered.
Furthermore, a couple of different optimizations in the 68k code have been made, some
bugs were fixed and some amithlon/uae- specific optimizations have been made.
These datatypes now are specifically targeted to high-end 68k machines and their emulated
counterparts.
Download
akJFIF-dt.LHA, akPNG-dt.LHA, akTIFF-dt.LHA
Andreas Kleinert
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28.6.2002 FORE-MATT Supports AmigaOne Coupon Campaign
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28.6.2002 News about Tales of Tamar
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This is the second to last version of Tales of Tamar until the base set!
A lot of older bugs were fixed. Then the soundtrack was included, which
is a real highlight and needs not to fear comparision with top-selling
games on the market. A big thumbs-up to our musician Markus Holler!
Another large update were the research description texts and the Stringinput
routines for several screens. They allow a direct input of values instead
of in- and decrementing with arrow buttons. These changes refer to the
granary, the trade screen and the diplomacy screen.
If we say second-to-last, of course we mean second-to-last beta before
the release version.
Meanwhile, wars are still at large on Tamar. We also have a potential
fourth victim of a heart attack, Baron Faramir :-) (Sorry, dear Baron!)
In a few days, Eternity will start taking preorders for the Amiga base set.
Tales of Tamar will be sold in an elegant euro box, containing a 64 page
manual and 3 CD-ROM discs. We hope you will join us on Tamar. If you have
questions about the gameplay or online costs, please don't hesitate to
contact us. Just write to eternity@pride.de.
If you are a fan of role playing games and have a thing for strategy games,
you should not miss this game! Our testers are playing for two years now
and continue so with ever increasing enthusiam.
This game will set a new standard among PBEM (PlayByEMail) Games.
Tales of Tamar is the internet based roundgame for Amiga, Atari, Mac, Java,
Linux/SDL and Windows.
Tales of Tamar - Alpha Client V0.43 R13
Alexander Johannes, Valley OF Tamar
Tales of Tamar website
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28.6.2002 Commodore64 radio commercials
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The Commodore Billboard has been updated. This time with 4 English
and 4 French radio commercials. All in high quality 192 Kbps mp3.
These are all "donut" versions meaning that the radio station would
get a soundtrack and then add speak themselves. Found on a tape at
a Canadian radio station in Vancouver. The update also includes
several C64, Vic20, PET, Amiga etc. adverts and brochures. Also tons
of stuff in the miscellaneous section...pins, posters, mousepads,
telephones and much more.
Soren Ladegaard, Commodore Billboard
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28.6.2002 Screenshots of Debian PPC Linux running on AmigaOne G3-SE
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Ole-Egil's has published some
screenshots of Debian PPC Linux running on his AmigaONE G3-SE. Screenshots include
Mozilla, OpenOffice, UAE.
Amigart website
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28.6.2002 akJFIF/Amithlon News
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"Out of curiosity, I've removed PPC support from akJFIF datatype and instead
did some uae/amithlon-specific optimizations (no native x86 code yet, though).
Download link for V44.140:
http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/akJFIF-dt.LHA
Other datatypes/programs may follow. PPC support is gone for now, since I don't
own any PPC card anymore and did not get any Pegasos developer board, either."
Andreas Kleinert
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27.6.2002 Alan Redhouse clarifies coupon promotion
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"No this is not our promotion - and Bill will post the clarification details
later. But we are shipping A1 boards + OS4-OEM to dealers (inc Amiga Inc)
and that plus complete systems ourselves.
It is likely that you will probably be able to cash your voucher direct with
dealers - but it is down to Amiga Inc to give out the details of how this
will work." Read more
Alan Redhouse via ANN
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27.6.2002 Software & Games News
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FTPMount News
Alessandro Marinuzzi had some interesting ideas and an Italian catalog -
so we updated FTPMount which can now be installed without permanent changes
to your system - if you want ;)
I must confess that the executable is
still the same, but I have just managed to compile it with StormC3 - it's
a bit bigger, but I can now make some changes, so if you have some
important ideas... Available on Aminet and on my
homepage.
Freecraft
SixK released Freecraft v1.17.1. It is a clone of the well known Warcraft
realtime strategy game.
Work fine on amithlon except color problems,
work a bit slow on my 040 at 33 and should work fine on a 060 + CGX
Official Freecraft site:
http://www.fourtytwo.de/freecraft/index.html
Martin R. Elsner
Amiga.maniasys.com
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27.6.2002 Squid's Amiga Page and Rumor Mill: 'Reset'
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John 'Squid' Shephard has posted another excellent observation on the Amiga-related
proceedings (and a bunch of other stuff).
Read it here
The second (bad) news follow: Moo Bunny will stop posting Amiga content and will
move to the Imac platform. Moobunny won't leave the Amiga completely.
"That said, I'm not just dumping the Amiga for all time. It's still a fun computer
to tinker with, still has work it can do, still has lessons to teach, and with the
right housecleaning in what now passes for its "community", can still have a
thriving (if retro) development scene."
Squid's Amiga Page and Rumor Mill website
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26.6.2002 Thylacine Zorro 2 Amiga USB Card
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The Thylacine Z2 USB is in production and will be available around 22 July.
Pre-orders will be taken starting 1 July. Watch this web page for details
http://thylacine.boing.net.
Robert Tsien
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26.7.2002 More info about AmigaOne/AmigaOS 4.0 "Free Stuff" Early Promotion
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Aracnet: "I asked Gary before that:
'Can you explain what does purchasing
an AmigaOne/AmigaOS 4.0 pre-loaded really mean? Is it mean A1 mainboard
with AOS 4.0 CD bundle? Or complete A1 sistem (with HD, cdrom, ram, ... etc)?
And also how we can use this $50.00 off coupon? Will we send it to Eyetech or you?'
and he answered that:
'This is for a pre-order of the AmigaOne "system" with OS4.0 already loaded
on the hard drive for you. This coupon will be taken by all online AmigaOne dealers.
Sincerely, Gary'"
Aracnet
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26.6.2002 IRC: IRC channel for the program WHDload set up
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WHDLoad enables you to install games, which were mostly meant for floppy disk use,
to your harddisk.
The program gains a ever growing popularity. For that reason
we set up an IRC channel, where you can share all the experiences with WHDload.
The channel is available at:
Port: 6667
Kanal: #whdload
Server: irc.phat-net.de
We would be pleased to welcome many users and see longer lasting visits.
Amiga-news.de website
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25.6.2002 AmigaOne/AmigaOS 4.0 "Free Stuff" Early Promotion Status
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There is now a status page
showing how many AmigaOne/AmigaOS4 $50 off coupons have been sold.
Right now nearly 200 people prepaid.
AmigaDE Shop website
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25.6.2002 New info on the $50 coupon deal
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Gary Peake has asked that this information be passed along.
"I have received a few hundred emails that there are concerns from our Euro
and Scandinavian Amigans about not having credit cards and thus not being
able to take advantage of the current coupon promotion. Bill has quickly
worked out the following for any who wish to do it another way.
Read more
Amiga.org website
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25.6.2002 PowerD v0.19 full release of powerful programming language
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PowerD is modern programming language, slightly compatible to AmigaE. Has many
features and is very easy to learn. Requires OS3.0, 020, fpu and some additional
memory. News from 0.18?
At last added a debugger!
Many things improved.
Can compile a library.
All files can be executed directly from WB.
Support of OOP4A project.
Several enforcer hits removed.
Several bugfixes.
And much much much more.
Developing such project is very difficult and I have only few betatesters. If You
want to help me with it, test it or write examples, modules etc. please email to
kuchinka@volny.cz.
If You want more information about PowerD, email me, or visit my
homepage.
Martin "MarK" Kuchinka, www.volny.cz/kuchinka
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25.6.2002 Symphony 2002 DEMOPARTY in Poland
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"Try to learn more about the SYMPHONY2002 demoscenefestival held in Poland. The date
of the ultimate scene extremists is set to 3-7. 7. 2002 witch means five days of
really HardCore partying, lot's of demos, hektolitres of beer and gigabytes of finest
stuff presented to the audience. Soo catch your next train to Poland and have fun with us!"
Silentriot / Symphony.Organizaterus
Symphony homepage
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25.6.2002 Software News
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SixK released Reaction Mysql Client 0.2
"This MySql client is actually the same as the MUI Mysql Client I have put
on my old site: sixk.maniasys.com
except it has been written with reaction and is far more stable.
Current limitations are only select work, (insert and update untested, but
may crash) and only 10000 cells are permitted and only 10 columns.
I hope to progress a bit more faster than with MUI since I didn't have to
care with hooks anymore ;)"
Prayer2 goes OpenSource
Prayer2 is fast and skinnable MPEG audio player for Amiga using mpega.library.
Sound is played back using native 14bit Amiga audio driver.
Download source from here
Missing source for robe compiler rc.c.gz
Amiga.maniasys.com
Pawel Chwalowski
Prayer2.org
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24.6.2002 New Executive Update from Bill McEwen
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Notes from Bill on a plethora of topics including Gary Peake's recent hospitalization,
redeeming Party Pack discounts, AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4, clarification of Amiga-Anywhere
and AmigaDE products, Amithlon and a new Amiga Promotion.
Read the full Executive Update here.
"How many AmigaOne's do we build and order?
We need to properly plan, budget, and order for the production of the AmigaOne.
To do that, we need to get a good idea of how many units we need to order, build
and prepare to support etc. You get the idea.
The AmigaOne/AmigaOS 4.0 "Free Stuff" Early Promotion
Customers who are interested in purchasing an AmigaOne/AmigaOS 4.0 pre-loaded will be able
to purchase a $50.00 off coupon for $50.00! This way we have a very strong idea regarding
how many boards we need to produce.
Not enough you say! Okay, how about this: For every $50.00 discount coupon you will receive
a free shirt announcing to everyone that you are part of the future. So for $50.00 you get
a $50.00 off coupon and a free shirt.
Still not enough? Okay how about this: When we reach 2,500 orders we will have a random
drawing for 4 free AmigaOne/AmigaOS 4.0 systems." ... 5,000 - 10,000 - 25,000 - 50,000 uaaaa
Official AmigaOS Portal
AmigaInc. website
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24.6.2002 Amithlon 2.0 and Amiga Cross Licensing
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Jun 23, 2002 - Amiga, Inc. today announced the cross licensing of Amithlon 2.0.
The agreement was made with the author and the inspiration behind Amithlon, Bernd
'Bernie' Meyer. Read the Amithlon Press Release here
"A demo version of Amithlon 2.0 will be available shortly which can be downloaded
free of charge from the distribution site here.
The demo version may be upgraded to a fully functional version with a simple keyfile,
which can be purchased online."
Official AmigaOS Portal
AmigaInc. website
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24.6.2002 Pictures of AmigaOne XE and more
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New AmigaOne XE pictures and picture of the CPU card that will carry the G3, G4, or dual G4
can be found here.
Pictures by AFLE.
Alex Dillenseger via ANN
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24.6.2002 AWeb Open Source News
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We now have a public IRC channel #aweb on IRCnet. To find a local server, click
here for a server listing.
Come chat with other AWeb users! ;-)
http://aweb.sunsite.dk/
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24.6.2002 Sponsor AROS or AWeb development
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Adam Chodorowski: "I have two months of free time this summer, which I would love
to spend on coding for AROS or AWeb Open Source. The problem is that I have to pay
my bills, and therefore I would need to get some temporary job. This ofcourse means
there would be very little time to code on those projects... :-/
The solution to this would be if someone (or some group of people) were willing to
sponsor me for coding on AROS or AWeb one month or two. I don't ask for much money,
just enough to pay my bills and to buy food. For that I would code 60 hours / week,
that is more than fulltime. In total, this would mean around 240 hours of work going
into AROS or AWeb in a month, to improve any part you (the sponsor) wants me to.
Read more
'Sponsor AROS or AWeb development' page
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23.6.2002 AWeb Open Source News
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Yvon Rozijn (The original author of AWeb) has appointed us the official AWeb Open Source
Development Team. Yvon states: "Developers: you are strongly suggested to join this
project if you want to help further development of AWeb, instead of starting something
on your own." Click here
for more information.
http://aweb.sunsite.dk/
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23.6.2002 Amiga Arena News
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The Prophet Update!
"In 2001 the Amiga Arena released exclusiv with the permission from the
developer Mark Ford the fullversion from the 3D RPG Game The Prophet.
After a long time we found the Update to play the game till the end
because the final sales version was incorrect! Now it is online!"
New Fullversions!
"For all German speaking users you can download with the permission from
Sayonara Software the football manager "Samba Partie ECS/AGA" and the
travel manager Flamingo Tours."
Olaf Köbnik, Amiga Arena
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23.6.2002 AMIGA developer site News
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The Amiga Developer Site is update with FreePascal function group.
This is developer site for Amiga developers, with C language reference,
AmiTCP, AmigaDOS, AmigaOS, BlitzBasic, FreePascal, GeekGadgets, MUI, Picasso96,
PowerD, and Warp3D support. Over 6000 searchable functions, crosslinked
references, forums for every functions, example programs, and more!
If you want to support Amiga platform development, please support this site
with your comments, and example programs!
The MorphOS support coming soon!
LouiSe, AMIGA developer site bye LouiSe
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22.6.2002 fxSCAN 4.0 feature update and in production
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"We´re proud to announce that fxSCAN 4.0 has been finished and the master was sent
out to the CD-ROM production site last Tuesday.
Though we have a very tight
timetable for fxSCAN, we managed to finish a MorphOS-native version of the fxSCAN
PPC-servertask and the OCR-engine which will ship with fxSCAN 4.0. A native version
for AmigaOS® 4.0 is planned, too, and will be available as patch from our homepage
at the time of completion.
Furthermore another two new GUI skins ("Burning Red"
and "Laced Gray", see fxSCAN-screenshots) and a time-unlimited version of the color
calibration software ICS (with printable manuals!) are coming with fxSCAN now, too.
If everything goes fine in production, fxSCAN 4.0 ships on the 15th of July 2002.
The special preorder offer with a saving of 10 EUR ends on the 7th of July.
So don´t wait any longer: Preorder now and save 10 EUR!"
Felix Schwarz, IOSPIRIT
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22.6.2002 AF: New Workbench-Screenshots
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Andreas Magerl: "Today we update the Workbench-Screenshot-Gallery from the
Amiga Future Homepage. When you like, you can send us your Screenshots."
Andreas Magerl, Amiga-Future
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22.6.2002 Software News
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New versions (V.44.50 beta 2 for MC68881/82 and V.44.50 beta 8 for MC68040 and MC68060) of HSMathLibs relesed.
This versions are for betatester only.
ASp v0.82b (exe only) -
Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator for the Amiga. It is coded in fast 680x0 Asm and is
designed to be authentic and easy to use.
This release fixes a problem with port addresses that caused some 128K games to fail
(Fairlight, etc.). Also, 68030 users may notice up to a 10% speed improvement.
No extra docs or anything this time, just the exe.
The PPC ELF module for CGXMode
has been released. You can find more informaiton about the MorphOS module
here.
HighSpeed MathLibs homepage
ASp homepage
MorphOS homepage
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21.6.2002 World of Amiga Southeast - Official News
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The 2002 WOA SE show will be held on Saturday 2nd November in the same venue
as last year, the excellent, Poplars Hall, in Shenfield, Essex. UK.
The last show was a huge success and WOA SE 2002 will be no exception, with
the imminent release of the AmigaOne G3-SE, Pegasos, Shark and OS4, this is
one Amiga show you won`t want to miss! For more news, subscribe to our
announce only mailing list via:
WOASE-Announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Exhibitors, please contact exhibitors@worldofamiga.com
for further information and prices.
More information will available soon via our website
http://www.worldofamiga.com.
Mikey C, World of Amiga southeast Exhibitors and Media Liaison
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21.6.2002 Test Ram disk for the image installer for use with Mandrake Linux PPC
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Michael Heider: "On my homepage is now
a Ram disk for testing purposes for the image installer available for download.
With the image installer it is possible to install Linux PPC of different distributions
on Amigas with PowerPC CPU by installing an image of a preinstalled Linux PPC
distribution on an Amiga. This way is the image also already preconfigured in
important areas for the Amiga.
Soon there will a CD containing the image installer and an image of Mandrake 8.2 PPC
be released.
Amiga-news.de website
Micha's homepage
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20.6.2002 Anniversary of Jay Miner's Death
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20.6.2002 Virus Help Denmark Amiga News
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A new update of Safe
v18.0 has been released today. Safe is small CLI command to detect linkviruses in Your
system. download /
readme
"We are looking for Amigas users that could help us with beta-testing of VirusExecutor,
and helping us getting some problems fixed. There is only one demand, you must have
installed OS 3.9 and BoingBag 2 on your Amiga. We need more that one beta-tester, so
please help us. If you would like to help us, please contact
Jan Erik Olausen or
Jan Andersen."
Virus Help Denmark Amiga website
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20.6.2002 Software News
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Jabberwocky v1.1
- jabber client software for Amiga. Second Release with some bugfixes.
It is open source and released under the GNU GPL License.
If you want a MorphOS Version than you can compile it yourself by getting the source code.
Carl Svensson released 4th beta of gW3S, small
freeware web server for AmigaOS, written in ARexx.
gW3S now support unsafe characters in file names.
Read more
Jabberwocky Amiga client homepage
gW3S homepage
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19.6.2002 Gary Peak back to work
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AmigaPlus reports from the AmiOpen-mailinglist: AmigaInc. employee Gary Peake reports
back after a heart attack. His check-up has been successful and he is back to work
(currently at home). He wants to thank everyone for their nice whishes regarding his
convalescence.
GFX-BASE website
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19.6.2002 Partnership RELEC / IOSPIRIT
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RELEC becomes partner for the distribution
of all products IOSPIRIT, already
including/understanding fxPaint, fxScan, VHI-Studio and Ultraconv. This partnership
follows upon that which existed already with the old Innovative company.
On this occasion, and to mark the nearest release of version 4.0 of fxScan, the
Swiss retailer proposes a promotion of more than 30% of reduction on fxPaint v1.5.
Amiga.org website
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19.6.2002 AmiStart new version released and available at GFX-BASE
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"Darius Brewka recently completed the new version of his brilliant StartMenu
& Quicklaunch Taskbar 'AmiStart'. If you haven't heard about AmiStart
you can read our latest
Question & Answer session
with Darius, in which he explains the new features.
AmiStart will be on Aminet soon, but you can already
download the full archive
of the new AmiStart version here at GFX-BASE."
GFX-BASE website
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19.6.2002 Games & Software News
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SixK released a SDLInvaders v0.6.0 - an Invaders clone using SDL lib.
According to author the game work fine on Amithlon, damn slow on a 040 at 33MHz
Official SDLInvaders site
68k hosted PPC targetted MorphOS GCC compiler
Jens Langner updated the 68k hosted PPC compiler so that it's now in pair with
the PPC hosted one. You can find the
binary here
and the readme here.
Amiga.maniasys.com
MorphOS homepage
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18.6.2002 Eyetech comments on Amiga1G3SE developer boards shipping
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Anyone who ordered a developer board - dealer or end user - was subscribed
to a closed list under NDA. Several people on this list are on the closed
a1g3dev list have boards and some - but not all - of them have boards. [..]
Some people on the list have far more experience than others when it comes
to installing linux. Since the dev group voted to initially standardise on
SuSE PPC Linux - and the A1 boards are NOT the same as the Teron CX boards
(which run Turbo Linux) - the group decided to let a select few of the real
experts to make an easily installable distribution of SuSE Linux PPC and
UAE-PPC first. The remaining dev boards have already been manufactured but
will not be available until this SuSE/UAE release is finalised.
Hyperion are making good progress with sorting out the OS4 boot process...
Read more
AmigaOne ML
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18.6.2002 The Amiga clock (only 55 worldwide) 4 sale
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"One of the Amiga-Clocks (pure silver, signed by Petro) is for
sale at EBay, seems a real bargain if you
take a look at the price!"
Holger Hippenstiel
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18.6.2002 Software News
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New AmigaAMP Discussion board
There is a new AmigaAMP discussion board.
It makes heavy use of cascading style sheets, so most Amiga browsers will display
the simple version instead of the fancy one.
If you've got problems regarding AmigaAMP please try to discuss it there instead
of sending an email to the AmigaAMP author.
SixK released MySql daemon 3.23.51 for 68040.
Require a full Amiga MySql archive to work. Official MySql site:
http://www.mysql.com/
The official AmigaAMP Homepage
Amiga.maniasys.com
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17.6.2002 Community Section new in the Elbox website
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You are welcome to visit the updated Elbox website.
A new section has been added: COMMUNITY. SUPPORT and DOWNLOADS sections
are updated.
The new COMMUNITY section offers
information on discussion groups related to Elbox products, links to websites
dedicated to our designs and the section on feedback from users.
In SUPPORT the Resources section
is added for our partners and developers.
In DOWNLOADS you can find
information about the latest driver versions for Mediator busboards, FastATA
controllers and 4xEIDE and Mroocheck interfaces.
Wojtek Kozlowski, ELBOX COMPUTER
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17.6.2002 PowerD v0.19alpha, new alpha7 release of powerful programming language
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PowerD is modern programming language, slightly compatible to AmigaE. Has many
features and is very easy to learn. Requires OS3.0, 020, fpu and some additional
memory.
News in alpha7 update:
At last added a debugger!
Many things improved.
Several enhorcer hits removed.
Several bugfixes.
And more.
Developing such project is very difficult and I have only few betatesters. If
You want to help me with it, test it or write examples, modules etc. please
email to kuchinka@volny.cz.
If You want more information about it, email me, or
visit my homepage.
Martin "MarK" Kuchinka, www.volny.cz/kuchinka
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17.6.2002 AmiWest 2002 is rolling!
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AmiWest 2002 is rolling! The venue is the now-familiar Holiday Inn Northeast
in Sacramento, California, this year under new ownership and management. As
announced last year at the close of AmiWest 2001, the dates for the show are
July 27 & 28, the last weekend of July. This year, we also have a co-sponsor,
Extreme Computing, who have been hard at work to enhance our show through
their many Amiga community contacts.. See below for their complete contact
information.
Right up front, let's get some IMPORTANT DATES in front of you.
This coming Saturday, June 15, is the LAST DAY that vendors can get their
deposits in at the discount prices listed on our web site. Just in case you
didn't know, we are offering a 17% discount off the already low,
same-as-last-year prices for AmiWest exhibit space. It's the same discount
we offered last year. So we need your deposit checks NOW. SEND THEM IN TODAY!!
We will honor postmarks up to June 15th for the discounted rates.
AmiWest 2002 information release #3
AmiWest homepage
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17.6.2002 Software News
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Free keyfile for Digital Almanac II
A free keyfile for old Digital Almanac II has been released on the Aminet!
Enjoy the program. Please note: No support will be given to DA II.
68060 version of AWeb 3.4 APL for AmigaOS 3.x is now ready for
download.
Mailing List
You can join public mailing list: aweb@sunsite.dk
for general information, news and release information.
To subscribe, send an empty E-mail to
aweb-subscribe@sunsite.dk.
Digital Almanac Homepage
AWeb Open Source website
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16.6.2002 AROS News
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Matt Parsons: "I have updated the CD-ROM ISO, sorry about the delay but my exams
got in the way. I'm moving house, so it is likely that I may not be able update
this site for about two weeks. Adam is curently woking on a Workbench... I will
bring you an updated AROS disk as soon as there is something to show.
I have a new vote on my Feature request page, we need to decide the new name of
our MUI clone (Zune), now that it has been chosen as the standard GUI Manager for AROS."
Matt Parsons's AROS distribution website
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15.6.2002 AmigaOne in Toulouse
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There will be a demonstration by Eyetech's Alan Redhouse of the AmigaOne G3-SE
on Sunday 23rd June at the great summer Amigafest Amigabastringue.
This is a developer board, exactly the same as the boards that will be sold
with AOS4.0
Alan also has a surprise in store. You'll have to come to the
meet for details, but this is definitely a 'be there or be square' occasion.
See this site
(in French) for further details and instructions on how to get to the party.
Amiga.org website
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15.6.2002 AF Special Report: Amiga's Potential for Success in the PDA Market
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Philip Cosby: "Over the course of the last six months I examined the Personal
Digital Assistant market in an effort to better understand whether Amiga Inc
and Amiga developers can play an exciting role in this growing market. In this
article I will share what I have learned providing my own assessment as to the
potential for Amiga developers to be successful in this market."
Read more
Amiga Flame website
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15.6.2002 RC5-64 has passed 80% completion...
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"RC5-64 has passed 80% completion a couple of days ago, at current rate in the
unlikely/unlucky event that the whole keyspace has to be searched we are looking
at another 188 days of searching only. This weekend I'll start a month
(or thereabouts) long vacation so member updates and mailing list will be down for
the duration."
The Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
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15.6.2002 Pegasos/MorphOS News
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14.6.2002 Pianeta Amiga 2002 (Amiga Planet 2002)
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On Saturday 21st and Sunday 22th of September will be held, at "Palazzo
delle Esposizioni" in Empoli (Florence) , the sixth italian fair commited
to the Amiga Platform and, for the first time, open to alternative
platforms: PIANETA AMIGA 2002 (Amiga Planet 2002)
Among the exibitors will be present, as usual, hardware and software dealers
from Italy and other nations. Read more
Claudio Marro Filosa, Pianeta Amiga 2002
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14.6.2002 Obligement 33 is now out
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Issue 33 of the famous french e-zine is now available. You can read in
this issue : latests Amiga news, interviews of Paul 'ExiE' Strejcek,
Fleecy Moss and Stéphane Georget, a report of AmigaFun 2002, reviews
of AMP 2.04 and Glow Icon Collection 2, articles about Emulation and
AmigaDE, and lor more !
Download it from the website: obligement.free.fr.
David "Daff" Brunet, Obligement
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14.6.2002 Amiga Demoscene Archive News
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The amiga demoscene archive was updated with 6 new productions,
including 5 party winners.
It's now possible to sort the complete demo list by year. And we are
working on a comment/vote system. It's not finished yet but it is
already possible to register, vote and comment. So now it's in your
hands to make this site much more interesting!!! More additions to t
he voting/comment will be added (like top demo charts,...).
Amiga Demoscene Archive website
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14.6.2002 Software News
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Digital Almanac III V4.9Beta3 - astronomy program developed for the Amiga.
There are new features in the Beta3 version. Take a look at the
developer page!
AmigaAMP v2.9 - powerful
freeware realtime MPEG audio player for Amiga computers released.
"Finally after being able to get my PPC Amiga up and running again I managed to
compile this final release of AmigaAMP 2.9. I have very little time for future
development and almost no time for support. You still may send me e-mails with
bugreports and ideas but they will probably remain unanswered."
Mailing list discontinued
"The old version of MajorDomo that this list was running on couldn't be made
spam-proof, so Marc and I decided to shut it down. It will be re-opend as
a webinterface based discussion board soon."
Digital Almanac Homepage
The official AmigaAMP Homepage
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13.6.2002 Elbox MIRAGE for A3000D
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If your current Amiga 3000D is left in the desktop case, Mirage 3000 is the must-have
solution #for you. Mirage 3000 is a modern, functional and spacious tower case. It is
designed for those Amiga 3000D users who have upgraded or want to upgrade their
computers with the Mediator PCI 3000D busboard.
Mirage 3000 equipped with a powerful 300W PSU is prepared for massive expandability
of the A3000 hardware.
Be ready for the future! Along with the new operational system, AmigaOS4, and
SharkPPC G3/G4-series cards for the Mediator PCI 3000D busboard, your Amiga 3000D
Mirage will be one of the most efficient Amiga computers of the new generation.
Mirage 3000 Tower SRP (VAT and local taxes excluded): EUR 179.95
Availability: from 21 June 2002
For more information see: Mirage 3000 webpage
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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13.6.2002 HIGHWAY & SUBWAY USB News
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13.6.2002 Summary of Bill Buck's comments
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For those who don't want to read the whole thread of 274 comments to search for what
Bill Buck said, I quoted his main words and added a short german summary.
The summary
can be found at morphos-news.de, in the english part of it.
Martin Heine via ANN
Morphos-news.de website
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12.6.2002 H&P: Nice Price Bestsellers
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"For a limited time you can buy some of our products
(PageStream 4.1, ImageFX 4.5, ArtEffect + Collection) at a special price.
All offers and some more sale can be found in our online shop.
Click the link "Show Amiga SALE only" to get them all. This is
a limited time offer and only available as long as our stock lasts.
Haage&Partner website
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12.6.2002 AmiBlitz2 / Blitz 2000 news
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The latest distributions of AmiBlitz2 (v2.26) can now be found at the
Blitz 2000 site.
AmiBlitz2 is the current name for the programming language previously
known as Blitz Basic 2. It has since been released under the GPL.
As well as the latest distributions, the Blitz2000 site has been updated
with all the recent months mailing list archives, the contents of the
Blitz User International magazine (issues 4 to 8) and lots of other small
fixes to the pages.
David McMinn, Blitz 2000
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12.6.2002 AmigaOS 3.9 Update
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12.6.2002 Gary Peake after heart attack on the way of recovery
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Sanjay Menon: "Gary suffered a heart attack over the weekend but is now back
at home and on the way to a full recovery. He is following doctors orders to
get plenty of rest and stay away from email.
He has asked me to thank you for keeping him in your thoughts and for
your best wishes. He hopes to be back on email towards the end of the week."
Amiga-news.de website
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11.6.2002 'Amiga, Inc: Close That Open Hardware!'
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"Hey! They promised us AmigaOS! Our "platform" is none of their business.
I have to ask, why are they talking about a POP-based motherboard?"
Artice by
Emanuel Mair, osOpinion
Mathias
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11.6.2002 Virus Help Denmark AMIGA News
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10.6.2002 CDTV.org.uk redesign & interview with Guy Wright
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10.6.2002 Interview with Olaf Barthel
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Rodney McDonell aka POds: "Finaly i have finished my
interview with Olaf Barthel.
At near 6000 words, its* not a bad read, and probably one of my best
interviews yet. Get to know a great man, read it now!"
Amiga.org website
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10.6.2002 Moovid with DivX (v1.6 Beta)
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Moovid Beta V1.6 Beta with DivX support rocks. We got a steady 26 FPS out of
Duron 999Mhz Amithlon reading off a CD and running onboard graphics from
shared memory (4x AGP). Picture was perfect although 32bit mode is not yet
supported (comes out black & white). Sound works with Puh der Baer the
utility to remap calls from Paula to AHI. Picture is not yet scaleable to
match the screen size although as Bernie Meyer was at www.maug.org.au for
the demo (and graphics is Bernies specialty) then anything is possible.
Michael Czajka, MAUG Treasurer
MooVid homepage
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9.6.2002 Free AWeb development hosting Offer
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Sunsite.dk (a non-profit open source hosting site) are willing to host
the development site of AWeb for free as long as it's kept open source.
[..] This is a good opportunity to get an Amiga browser up to speed
with todays internet standards (CSS, XML, etc.) as well as native versions
of this browser on OS4, AROS and MorphOS if you want. It's also a good
thing to have an open Amiga browser to which YOU can contribute, if
there's something you don't like or want to change.
Read more
We just need to hear from those of you who want to continue the
development of AWeb... If anyone wishes to participate, they are welcome
Henrik Mikael Kristensen via ANN
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9.6.2002 Digital Almanac III and Amithlon
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It was possible to test DA III Beta2 on the AFP Amiga party with Amithlon
on a Pentium 4 at 1.6 GHz with a GeForce 3. The test showed incredible 10
fps at a resolution of 1024x768 16bit. This is about ten times faster than
running on the developer machine (PPC604e/200 - 68060/50 with CVPPC) with
the same resolution!
Digital Almanac Homepage
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9.6.2002 Software News
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BarsnPipes v1.14
- 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.
New version (v1.39) of MCP (Master Control Program) is ready for
download
Changes since last version:
- update catalogs: english (built-in), german, spain, russian
- update Guides: english, german
- new Version of MCPPrefs
- new Version of MCP
- update Installerscript ( add Appicon )
- added Defaul-Appicon (MCPApp.info)
- update MCP.gurudat for all new Gurus from OS 3.1and extend existing descriptions
Alfred Faust's homepage
Dieters Amigaseite
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8.6.2002 AWeb Source Code Released
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Yvon Rozjin: "I regret that I haven't got the time to continue development of the AWeb
browser. Bringing the browser up to date to today's standards (like support for CSS)
would take more time than can be justified by the remaining Amiga market.
I like to express my thanks to the Amiga community for using my browser. In return
I will release the source code of AWeb, so others in the Amiga community have a chance
to continue development.
All source code is released under the
AWeb Public License. In short,
the APL means that you are allowed to modify these sources and/or use them in your own
products, provided that these products will also be distributed subject to the APL.
It also means that you must make the sources of your product available to the public."
Read more
http://www.xs4all.nl/~yrozijn/aweb/
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8.6.2002 100%AMIGA IN THE USA
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7.6.2002 New Amiga Keyboards
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"We would like to announce that Computer City will be producing keycaps
with Amiga logo, for use with Cherry Cybo@rd series keyboards. For more
information, please visit
http://www.compcity.nl/amigakeyboard
(page is in German, English and Dutch)."
Ron van Herk, Computer City
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7.6.2002 Collecting data for the FastFileSystem V46
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Mario Cattaneo: "Olaf Barthel developes the new FFS (FastFileSystem) of AmigaOS 4. Doing
that in a as optimal as possible way he needs data. Data about the conditions of as many
as poosible Amiga partitions. Thus he is able to collect them he has wrote a little
program which determines the file sizes.
So these data may become representative if
the program will be distributed as much as possible. Because of that I decided to put
this program on my homepage for download. Please directly send the data to Olaf (please
read the documentation before!).
The last possible data for sending in it is the
16.06.2002. Please do not send any reports after this day. This day is the deadline and
then all reports which I has got up to this date will be analysed. Please join
numerously..." download
Amiga-News.de website
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7.6.2002 Elbox to sue OpenPCI author? No OpenPCI Mediator OCHI USB drivers now?
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Alkis Tsapanidis wrote on G-Rex ML about why there is no archive released currently:
"OpenPCI currently supports the Mediator. Elbox wants this support out and threteaned
to SUE him. That's why he doesn't spread it..."
Nicolas Sallin also writes on the subject (on G-Rex ML): "Elbox was very clear when
they did their menaces. They allow him to write drivers for mediator, but not to
write something like openpci. Even if this can give them more drivers later. It's
nice to see the same driver running on all the differents bus. Titan's rtl8139 driver
is even currently developped on a mediator1200. But openpci will not be released for
Mediator, so no rtl8139 driver for Mediator in the final release. Same thing for the
OCHI USB drivers, nothing for Mediator. Elbox doesn't allow it."
CyberGraphX homepage
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7.6.2002 V3Portal: David Gerber takes over managemant of the Vapor products.
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Oliver Wagner: "Due to time constraints on my part, David 'Zapek' Gerber
will now take over project and release management of the vapor products.
This doesn't mean that I'll stop working on them or so, but managing
a project is more than just that."
"I'll be away for a 1 week holiday and will close my email account temporarily
for that time (lest it be flooded by 5000 spam mails when I come back...)"
V3Portal website
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7.6.2002 Next Pegasos production sold out
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Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck: "We would like to announce that the next
scheduled production of the Pegasos has been sold out. Boards have been
set aside for friendly developers, but all others have been sold.
Another production of the Pegasos will follow in July."
ANN website
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7.6.2002 Software News
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wbmpdt.lha - datatype for WAP bitmap images (v1.0)
readme
SunAUdt.lha - datatype for Sun Audio sounds (v41.1)
readme
A.S. Munde has released an update of DocDatatypes
(v40.40). DocDatatypes are a set of datatype classes for documents. The list of supported
formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro,
WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd,
Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), TEAL docs, RichReader, First Word Plus, Mac Write,
Mac TeachText and Mac Text.
Stephan Rupprecht's Homepage
Docdatatypes homepage
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6.6.2002 AmigaOS + POP/PPC petition official web site
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AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk is finally online!
Here you'll hopefully find all information you could possibly want about the
"AmigaOS distribution policies and POP/PPC hardware petition".
I hope the background information and FAQ will be especially helpful to clear up any confusion surrounding these issues.
If you have not yet signed the petition, then please do so now! Please help
spreading the word by linking to AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk. It's not too late to save our
favourite OS and a unified POP-based hardware market!
ANN website
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5.6.2002 Amiga Games Classifying: May/June 2002
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Here the ranking of May/June 2002:
1. (3) Payback - 164 pts
2. (2) Napalm - 135 pts
3. (1) Quake - 130 pts
4. (9) The Settlers - 100 pts
5. (4) Earth 2140 - 100 pts
6. (10) Heretic 2 - 97 pts
7. (5) WipEout 2097 - 84 pts
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8. (19) Freespace - 74 pts
9. (17) Worms / Worms DC - 73 pts
10. (7) Sensible World Of Soccer - 66 pts
11. (12) Shogo - 64 pts
12. (8) Foundation - 61 pts
13. (6) Slam Tilt - 55 pts
14. (45) Beneath A Steel Sky - 48 pts
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15. (27) Cannon Fodder - 47 pts
16. (11) Civilization - 45 pts
17. (31) Dune 2 - 44 pts
18. (24) Wasted Dreams - 40 pts
19. (96) Another World - 39 pts
20. (38) Flashback - 39 pts
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Next votes (AMIGA GAMES ranking of July/August 2002) will begin in mid-July.
David "Daff" Brunet, Amiga Games Classifying
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5.6.2002 AIO CD canceled - issue 58 available
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The AIO CD, AIO The Survivor Years, has hearby been canceled due to insufficient
orders. The issue 58 that was made for that CD, however, is now being made
opening available, though the News and Letters sections may now be a bit dated.
Issue 58 will soon be found on Aminet and the
AIO site.
Mark Tierno, AIO
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5.6.2002 New Amiga version of Tales of Tamar
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Tales of Tamar V0.43 R6
- the current version implements sea battles. War ships can now attack enemy
trade and battle ships. screenshot
Tales of Tamar is the internet based roundgame for Amiga, Atari, Mac, Java,
Linux/SDL and Windows.
Ulrich Panzer, Tales of Tamar
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4.6.2002 Q&A session with Darius Brewka regarding new AmiStart version
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Darius Brewka is the author of AmiStart, a startmenu-launchbar bursting
with features. The new version, which he is developing at the moment
really kicks ass - and you get this great software for free!
We thought you should know what you can expect to download on Aminet soon.
Here's our Q&A session with Darius including lots of infos and details
aswell as exclusive screenshots!
Read the Q&A session here.
GFX-BASE website
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4.6.2002 New Z2 USB card
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A New Z2 USB card will be available very soon (we are aiming at the end of June)
from boing.net. More Information to follow.
Robert Tsien
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4.6.2002 More Payback Maps
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3.6.2002 AudioLabs: yearly special sale
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It's time for yearly summer sale on AmigaOS software. Offers expire at end of June.
Titanium at 295 Euro (is 360 Euro)
includes ProStationAudio Titanium, 30 ALPS plugins, full tech support and a free copy of AudioLab16 R3.
Titanium, basic service, at 235 Euro
includes ProStationAudio Titanium, 30 ALPS plugins, basic tech support (for installing), no free updates.
older ProStationAudio Millennium at 175 Euro
includes ProStationAudio Millennium, 30 ALPS plugins, basic tech support (for installing), no free updates.
For customers interested in PC software, the new audio assets manager/ finalizer for windows will
enter the beta testing stage in next few weeks. Release date set to 3Q 2002.
AudioLabs website
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3.6.2002 Information on AmiDock for OS 4
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2.6.2002 Total Amiga Magazine Issue 11 scores a Hat trick!
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It's World Cup time and to celebrate we too have a hat trick of good news to tell you about.
Goal! Issue 11 of Total Amiga Magazine has sold out at our HQ. There are no
copies left! So we are sending on the substitute and going for a second print run of this
month's 48 page packed issue.
Goal! We are estatic Brian! Mr Hardware Computers, USA, is the latest Amiga vendor
to stock individual issues of Total Amiga Magazine. Our last batch of Issue 11 should be
with them very shortly! visit
www.mrhardwarecomputers.com for more details.
Goal! We are over the moon to announce that like other previous Amiga Magazines
in the past, Total Amiga Magazine has now got it's own open mailing list on yahoo groups.
To subscribe send an email to
totalamiga-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Full details and more on our website: www.totalamiga.org
Mikey C, Total Amiga Magazine
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2.6.2002 AmigaOne booting Linux Video
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Elwood "I uploaded on Aminet a video
in Mpeg showing the AmigaOne booting TurboLinux (80 MB). This video is old (March 2002) and not
professional in any way (in fact, it never meant to be). I originally wanted to upload it on my
website instead of putting this huge file on Aminet but my ISP didn't allow me this. So here it is,
to make Aminet even bigger !. Remember this AmigaOne is the prototype (G3/600Mhz) and it runs TurboLinux."
Amigart website
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2.6.2002 Linux/APUS (Linux/M68k) working with Voodoo3 on Prometheus
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Adam Kowalczyk: "I have to apologize that getting the driver compiled
for the Voodoo 3 took longer as I needed to acquire another Voodoo 3
card to replace one that went flakey. Anyway, I got the card today
and was able to get Linux/M68k to work with a Voodoo 3 card."
CyberGraphX homepage
Amiga Linux/APUS project pages
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1.6.2002 Highway USB now available to order from the UK
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Up until now there has been no UK dealer selling the
Highway USB.
Due to requests we have been in discussions with KDH and have obtained permission
to be a UK reseller for the Amiga USB boards. We will be ordering the boards after
the Queen's Jubilee holiday.
FORE-MATT Home Computing
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1.6.2002 100%AMIGA CD MAGAZINE JUBILEE EDITION
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1.6.2001 Amiga Update Newsletter
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1.6.2002 kicksoft news
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"We have limited stocks of boxed Pagestream version 4.0 avaliable at a special price,
these all come with a manual.
We can now supply Storm c, Amigawriter, ArtEffect
4 & Addon effects for ArtEffect 4. Details on
our site."
ray mccarthykicksoft
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