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30.9.2002 AmiBlitz2 / Blitz2000 updates
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The latest beta version of AmiBlitz2 has been released on the
Blitz2000 homepage.
AmiBlitz2 is the name for the free version of Blitz Basic 2,
the basic programming language for the Amiga. The latest beta release (2.27b2)
fixes some bugs in the optimiser, and produces smaller and faster code.
Other files updated on the Blitz2000 site are the distributions of AmiBlitz
which now contain an updated "all.res" resident file (used for dealing with
OS structures) which allows you to use the OS structures with their correct
names, or their "broken" names with underscores from previous versions of
the OS resident file. The all.res file is also available for separate download.
David McMinn, Blitz2000 homepage
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30.9.2002 Amiga Update Newsletter
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30.9.2002 AmiBench moving hosts
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AmiBench has been moved to a new machine;
some users may be unable to reach it for the next couple of days.
The DNS records for AmiBench's domains all had a time to live (TTL) of a week,
and were only changed to an hour a few days before the move. If you see
random-works.co.uk instead of AmiBench, your DNS records are out of date.
This should resolve itself within the next couple of days. In the mean time,
you can try flushing your DNS caches (Miami users have a sysctl such as
net.dns.cache.flush they can tweak, Unix users can restart named, Windows users
can run ipconfig /flushdns) or you can try a different domain.
AmiBench is currently accessable from the following addresses:
amibench.org
amibench.net
amibench.com
If anyone has any questions relating to the move, or if you have any technical
problems such as mail bouncing or CGI's breaking, you can mail me at
freaky@aagh.net.
Thomas Hurst via ANN
AmiBench website
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30.9.2002 WinUAE 0.8.22R2 work in progress update
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Expected release date: end of October/beginning of November
Major new features:
- Kickstart 1.3 RDB and regular hardfile autoboot/automount support
- keyboard/mouse/joystick handling rewritten for DirectInput
Following features require Windows 2000 or Windows XP
- "unlimited" hardfile size (2G limit removed), uaehf.device now supports
TD64 and NSD -style 64-bit addressing NTFS filesystem required (FAT32 max
file size is 2G)
- ability to mount real harddisks with full RDB automount/autoboot support
- Amithlon partition support (not yet tested)
Screenshots: Harddrive configuration window,
HDToolbox
WinUAE Official Homepage
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30.9.2002 Ottawa Amiga Show 2002
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On Saturday November 9, 2002, the Amiga.info user group will be hosting
the second Ottawa Amiga Show. Once again, the show will be held at the
Routier Centre, 172 Guigues Street, in the market of downtown Ottawa, Ontario.
With all of the interest in alternative operating systems, this is an excellent
opportunity for the public to see the latest offerings from Amiga, Inc.
This includes the AmigaOne, the first new hardware for the platform since
1993, and the binary portable Amiga Digital Environment (DE), currently
available for Microsoft Windows, x86 Linux systems, ARM and MIPS processors.
Read more
Ottawa Amiga Show website
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30.9.2002 Software News
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Thylacine USB Software Update V1.1a
Thylacine Install Software V1.1 is now ready for download in
DMS
and LHA formats.
Porting of various software packages over to the Amiga
Released: Harvest (a distributed search system), eggdrop (IRC Bot),
flac (Audio codec), hotway (Hotmail POP3 Gateway).
Also I created a all-ports-in-one-page ...for the guys that dont
have time to see every page... :P
Visit Amiga.sf.
Thylacine homepage
dcr8520
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29.9.2002 Hyperion completes the AmigaOne firmware based on the GPL'ed PPCBoot project.
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Leuven, Belgium - September 27, 2002. Hyperion is pleased to report that it has
completed the AmigaOne firmware based on the GPL'ed PPCBoot project. Below you will
find a description of the implemented hardware support and functionality.
We want to thank everyone who has contributed to this project.
Hardware support for the following devices:
- serial port
- USB UHCI
- USB keyboard
- USB storage devices
- PS/2 compatible keyboard
- i8259 interrupt controller
- 3com 3c920 ethernet with full busmastering
- VIA IDE controller (A and B revision)
- Real time clock (RTC)
Read more
Amigart website
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29.9.2002 AIO 63 is out
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Issue 63 of AIO is ouw now and should appear on Aminet soon enough.
Highlights include another TestGear article, Web Wanderer, and more.
Mark Tierno, Amiga Information Online
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29.9.2002 Amiga Arena: Hilt2
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The Amiga Arena released one of the best RPG Strategy Games for the Amiga -
Hilt2 from Scorpius
Software. But thats not all! Exclusive you can download the Mission Editor
and the full Guide for the Game! Enjoy!
Olaf Koebnik, Amiga Arena
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28.9.2002 Why Queue Up?????
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The World of Amiga show is fast approaching, there is just over a month
to go to one of the most eagerly anticipated Amiga shows this year.
As always, doors will be open at 12 Noon, However, like last year we
anticipate a large queue at opening time.
So if you want to waltz past everyone, why not get your tickets before
the show? Buy five tickets or more and you pay only £3.00 each instead
of the usual £3.50 per ticket.
Tickets can be purchased in advance from the following Amiga dealers;
Forematt Home Computing (Visa, Mastercard and Cash)
Kicksoft (Visa, Mastercard, Delta, JCB, Solo, Switch and Cash)
Even more interesting news soon!
Michael Carrillo
World of Amiga South East 2002 website
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28.9.2002 News about Tales of Tamar
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The final Release version is completed now. Newest feature are moving
computer races on the map.
The number of inhabitants of a town is
now calculated by the buildings in thata that and not simply based on
the town level.
In he last months, we have fixed another 50 to 100
small bugs. You wouldn't believe how many bugs can hide in such a game.
Next planned feature is an extension of the map screen. On a second
menu, we will have a overview, a jump table for your units and the
option to freely scroll in every direction. It will be added with the
first downloadable update and show how ToT will continue to be upgraded
in the future.
If you are interested in this game, you will always
something new.
Alexander Johannes, Valley OF Tamar
Tales of tamar homepage
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28.9.2002 New MasonIcons
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18 new and reworked archives are available on MasonIcons.de
ADocArtMI - new toolbar images for AutoDocArt
AmfMI - new toolbar images and an icons for AMF
DBackupMI - new images for Daily Backup
FFNewsMI - new toolbar and status images for FFNews
mapMlugMI - new toolbar images for MapPlug
moreHTMLMI - new toolbar images for moreHTML
MReaderMI - new toolbar and status images for MagicReader
MUISearchMI - new images for MUISearch
pEditorMI - new toolbar images for pEditor
PintMI - new status images for Pint
PlotterMI - new buttons for Plotter3D
PoWinMI - new images and an icon for Power Windows
ProRenMI - new toolbar images for ProRen
ScalosMI - added the missing 'ShowAll' image
TransCatMI - new toolbar images for TransCat
VoimariiMI - new toolbar images for Voimariini
UpdaterMI - new toolbar images for WordPad
I would like to thank Klaus Bublitz who submitted the information that this
tools support changeable toolbar images.
Martin Merz, MasonIcons.de
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28.9.2002 PCI Modem Card next after PCI Serial/Parallel driver
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"Matthew Allatt gives a update status on PCI Serial+Parallel project and what
project is next. 'Parallel is being worked on by someone else. I've not heard
from him in a little while, but I've got an early demo which works with my
printer (using turboprint). Doesn't do reads yet, which is what you'd need for
a scanner. Once I've got the final version running, I think I'm going to move
on to doing a Modem card driver. Is anyone interested in one of those?'"
CyberGraphX homepage
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28.9.2002 Software News
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SuperTV v0.7B
A new version (0.7B) of SuperTV
has been released, which fixes some bugs and adds some features. SuperTV is a
replacement for Elbox's Mediator TV software.
SuperTV changelog
Features:
· No more messy channel directory
· Channel select gadgets in the window border
· Easy channel tuning
· MUI preferences
· Fullscreen borderless mode
· Keyboard control
· ARexx controllable *NEW*
Porting of various software packages over to the Amiga
New updates, and design.. at my hp: http://amiga.sourceforge.net.
Peter Gordon via ANN
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27.9.2002 The Crypt 25 - The Druid Stones - is now out!
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Right what goodies do we have for you in this Issue? "The DRUID Stones"
Read our article describing the Original Druids, Were they a Mystical Cult offering
Human sacrifices, or simply a Religious order of bygone times ...You decide.
This issue we re-introduce a name that a lot of Amiga (or Ex Amiga) users will surely
be familiar with. Dr Martin Reddy ...Author of "EDWORD PRO" a powerful (even by Todays
standards) Text Editor for the AMIGA. Some good news for those who have not tried
Edword or those who may have tried the PD Version ...EDWORD PRO (Full Version) is
now available to download FREE from Martins Website.
Our own Mr Urie has excelled
himself in this Issue, Not only has he found a Rock Group that used the wonderful
Amiga Program "Lightwave" to Design their Album covers, He also succeeded in getting
us an Interview with Darrio Mollo :)
Continuing on the "Lightwave" theme, Check out
the Superb examples and Tutorials for this program on our featured website by
Jack Thewlis. Interested in Art work but can't afford (Or find) Lightwave, Then read
our Review of Drawstudio, Another excellent Package for the Amiga.
Of course we have not forgotten readers using the PC ...Check out our reviews on
GRANDPRIX 4, or C&C Renegade.
However if you are in a more lighthearted mood, We
have our normal selections of Jokes and cartoons, A full taste of the Orient, Or check
out our "Steam Corner" Page for a taste of nostalgic travelling.
Steve Evans, The Crypt magazine
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26.9.2002 Official AWeb Open Source project News
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26.9.2002 First pics from Pianeta Amiga 2002 show finally online
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26.9.2002 distributed.net completes rc5-64 project * RC5-64 HAS BEEN SOLVED!
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On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the
winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D03
produces the plaintext output:
The unknown message is: some things are better left unread
Unfortunately, due to breakage in scripts (dbaker's fault, naturally) on
the keymaster, this successful submission was not automatically detected.
It sat undiscovered until 12-Aug-2002. The key was immediately submitted
to RSA Labs and was verified as the winning key.
Read nore
distributed.net website
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26.9.2002 Software News
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Thylacine USB Software Update V1.1
Thylacine Install Software V1.1 is now ready for download in
DMS
and LHA formats.
UAE 0.8.14 with CD32 joypad support
SixK released modified UAE 0.8.14 (68k) to use lowlevel.library. You will now be able
to play UAE with a CD 32 pad and maybe in a near futur with a PC Joypad connected
to your sound blaster card.
Thylacine homepage
Amiga Community website
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26.9.2002 Pegasos Demonstration at Computer City
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On saturday october 5th, Computer City will host a demonstration of Pegasos
and MorphOS by Thendic-France. The demonstration starts at 13:00 and lasts to 17:00.
For those who want to combine the demonstration with a trip to Rotterdam;
there is an excellent Grand Café located direct next to Computer City, and the
centre of Rotterdam is very easy to reach from the shop, either by car or by
public transport.
For more information please email
info@compcity.nl or call +31-(0)10-4517722.
Computer City
Zebrastraat 7-9
3064 LR Rotterdam
For a route description see: http://www.compcity.nl/route.htm.
Computer City website
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25.9.2002 USB board SUBWAY will be produced
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The SUBWAY poll has been finished. Due to the relatively high number of users
who want to see the SUBWAY on the market E3B will (together with KDH Datentechnik)
produce a small series of SUBWAY modules. We will operate hardly on the economical
edge, but don't want to see the A1200 users to miss out. The scope of supply is
expected to stay the same. A delivery date is not fixed yet and will be announced
as soon as all material for production is available (which is not easy for small
series production). Distribution will - as before - be done over KDH Datentechnik
and its distributors. Due to the small number of modules produced pricing might
slightly vary; we will try anyhow to absorb fluctuations. E3B wants to say Thank
You to all of you who contributed in an objective way in the poll and who support
us in developping innovative Classic Amiga hardware!
kdh datentechnik via ANN
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25.9.2002 Elbox Spider sales began
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25.9.2002 Pictures from Pegasos Gothenburg Show!
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Pictures from the event taken by Johan 'Graak' Forsberg
BTW According to Johan 'Graak' Forsberg who attended both fairs (AONE Gothenburg 2002 Fall Event and
Pegasos Gothenburg Show), "there was a LOT more people at the AmigaOne fair than at the Pegasos fair."
ANN website
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25.9.2002 Haage&Partner: Amithlon Statement
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(19. September 2002) The current differences between every party involved
with the Amithlon project are by way not that easy as they are described
in the internet discussions - often from one perspective only. Our contract
regarding the distribution rights for Amithlon is still valid. We have been
reluctant with public statements, cause we try to resolve the differencs
between the parties privately. We want to resolve the problem and would
like to see the contract being fulfilled by all parties. The internet
audience can not help with these negotiations and will often be used, to
spread the own oppinions as the only ones that are true. Also the one, who
cries the loudest, just expresses the own perspective. To solve the conflict
round on Amithlon it is important to mediate between the different perspectives
in private negotiations.
amigaosxl.haage-partner.de
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25.9.2002 Software News
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Scalos beta version 40.22 had some missing theme files. The new archive has
just been uploaded to the usual place.
Sorry for the error.
Scalos website
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24.9.2002 Poseidon Update 1.30
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"I've finished a new update. Not everything I intended to do was completed
for this version, but as I'm off for doing university stuff this week, I
just thought I might release it anyway.
Download the archive from the
usual place.
Users, who registered Poseidon (this is mainly for Mediator/Spider users),
will need this update due to a stupid mistake inside the licence code in
V1.28, removing the keyfile from the configuration after pressing Online.
But now the more important stuff: This version includes lots of bugfixes.
Evil and minor ones. Overall, the system should get more stable.
Read more
Chris Hodges
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24.9.2002 New KDH website
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New KDH's homepage http://www.kdh-shop24.de/ online.
Most interetsing part:
AmigaOne G3-SE 14.10.2002
Dual G3/G4 microATX Mainboard 25.11.2002
Pegasos MoBo im Acryltower 25.11.2002
Amiga OS 4.0 für Cyberstorm PPC 07.12.2002
Amiga OS 4.0 für Blizzard PPC 07.12.2002
kdh datentechnik: "We have to rely on the information given by the respective
manufacturer. As these information are very vague or are not available at all,
we try to give our best assessment. As the availablity dates become more
reliable, we will update those dates accordingly. We thought this information
might be useful for our customers, especially if they dont follow all the news
threads here or on other news sites."
kdh datentechnik website
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24.9.2002 GFX-BASE Interview with Alexandre Balaban
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Mister Balaban not only helps out with translations and more here at GFX-BASE,
he also took over the source of Paul Hill's Shockwave-player, called 'swfplayer'.
In our interview we asked him lots of questions regarding his development-plans,
like AmigaOS.4.0, MorphOS and Amithlon support, planned features or supported
Shockwave-formats. Read about his very interesting ideas and concepts
here.
GFX-BASE website
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24.9.2002 ScummVM News
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New ScummVM (MorphOS)-CVS Snapshot updated with fixes for Radeon graphics cards.
ScummVM is an interpreter for the great old LucasArts SCUMM (Script Creation Utility
for Maniac Mansion) adventures and more.
Rüdiger's MorphOS Program website
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23.9.2002 Amiga Mini Show 2002 in Slovenia
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Amiga computer club D.A.D. from Slovenia organizes AMS 2002 which will
be in Skofja Loka on 19th October from 10:00am to 06:00pm. Point design
from Graz will attend the show under O.A.S.E. on tour name and also we
got confirmation from Cloanto to be present. Stars of the show will be
AmigaOne, AmigaOS4.0(preview), Mediator boards, Highway (USB) and Norway
(Ethernet) and some other surprises. We are greatful to KDH Datentechnik
for lending us Highway and Norway cards. More infos will be available
at Amiga racunalniski klub D.A.D. site in a few days.
Damir Arh, D.A.D.
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23.9.2002 VHT-Denmark Homepage down
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Due to some personal reasons the Danish Virus Help Team's website is temporally down.
We can say for how long, but we will be back...
But you can always go to Virus Help Team Canada's website, for all the lastes news
about Amiga viruses, software and news. There is a free maillist you all can join,
just like this one...
The web-adress for VHT-Canada is:
http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/index.html
Also all Virus Help Team Denmarks email adresses will be down, but you can get
in contact with Charlene at VHT-Canada, I will still have some contact to her...
Sorry about all this, but it is out of my hands...
VHT-Denmark website
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22.9.2002 New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, AmigaOne & Pegasos
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DiscreetFX Announces Wild Flyer For The Amiga Video Toaster Flyer®
Our beta testers have reported no major problems with the latest build of Wild Flyer
so we will be shipping it shortly to our Video Toaster Flyer customers. What is Wild
Flyer you ask? It is a Front End application to the very powerful and often
misunderstood program WildFire. Wildfire 7 is a ADO animation sequencing, 3D effects,
transitions, and animation package by Andreas Maschke. It can be compared to $200,000
dollar SGI Flint or Flame systems and it is capable of creating amazing 3D effects by
mapping video sequences.
Read more
Bill Panagouleas, DiscreetFX
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22.9.2002 AONE Gothenburg 2002 Fall Event Reports
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22.9.2002 HUGE O.A.S.E. 2002 Reports
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"The GFX-BASE team at the O.A.S.E. 2002 in Graz/Austria. We created a
huge report
including 40 pictures and lots of informations on the highlights
(Pegasos, AmigaONE, USB-solutions, new ELBOX products and more) of the show.
We not only have some pics of the MorphOS desktop Ambient, we can also show
you some AmigaOS.4.0 preview screenshots, thanx to Jürgen Schober,
who sent them to us. Enjoy!"
GFX-BASE website
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22.9.2002 World of Amiga South East tickets at kicksoft
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Tickets for the forthcoming World of Amiga Show are now avaliable to order
from Kicksoft ltd. Tickets £3.50 each.
Ray Mccarthy, Kicksoft ltd
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22.9.2002 AmigaOS4.0 IDEA screenshots
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"Finally I`m home. But army is not over yet... It will be on december the 7th :)
Anyway, I was following AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0 progress via the net and, to be
honest, I espected a lot more. So I decided to create my vision of what OS4 should
LOOK like. AmigaINC really needs good artists and icon / background designers
because what they displayed as OS4.0 feels very, very cheap and unattractive :(
Today I played a little with Photoshop and created something what I would like to
see in AmigaOS4.0.
So please go to http://www.djnick.co.yu
and select one of two OS4.0 ideas in .jpg format. The first one consists comments
over the image [1024x768, 299kb] and the second one is without them [1024x768,
194kb]. I hope these images will help AmigaOS developers our dream finally come true!
djnick [d-tronic]
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22.9.2002 Winners of the GFX-BASE WB-screenshot-competition
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Yesterday, we have been discussing 35 WB-screenshots for hours.
Finally, here
are the two winners of the GFX-BASE WB-screenshot-competition.
Congratulations!
GFX-BASE website
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22.9.2002 Software News
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Frogger 2.03 released!
This release fixes lot of bugs, introduces new codecs (3ivx, indeo, mace, vorbis),
and new file format - Ogg. Last, but not least, lot of optimizations were applied
to video/audio decoders, they are much faster now. You can download it from
download section.
Please note that due to plugin api changes you have to download and install all
external codecs. Old video codecs may work, audio wont.
Frogger homepage
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21.9.2002 Kato Development Group News
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Katodev intends to do new hardware in 2003
Because of the new media ebay Katodev intends to re-invoke development
activity. Many things are easier and cheaper because of the online market.
Katodev offers prototyped hardware at ebay
Katodev offers two CDTV clockport Interfaces at E-Bay which never sold before.
2001-2002 Drivers for Amithlon and others
Thorsten Hansen of Katodev hardly works at high-quality drivers for Amiga-OS
on foreign Soundhardware (Mainboards using chipsets of SIS, VIA, INTEL and
Soundblaster PICs).
Kato Development Group
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21.9.2002 Amiga Future: User-Workbench-Gallery Update
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Today we update the User-Workbench-Gallery on the Amiga Future Homepage.
Youn found the new screenshots at the end of the
gallery.
Andreas Magerl, Amiga Future
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21.9.2002 ACG Gothenburg Logo contest
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21.9.2002 New MasonIcons
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There two new archives available: IBrowseMI and ScalOSMI
IBrowseMI - new default images and a new transfer animation
ScalOSMI - Images and Icons in the GlowIcons design
Please visit MasonIcons.de
for further informations.
Martin Merz, www.MasonIcons.de
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20.9.2002 Off Topic: 64 bit PowerPC
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A 64bit processor to continue the PowerPC line from IBM. Hopefully, despite
rumours of Motorola pulling out of the desktop market, PowerPC still has a future.
Read more
Amiga.org website
eWeek website
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20.9.2002 Elbox explains Poseidon issue
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This is an official statement on behalf of the Elbox Computer company aimed
at explanation of the recent misunderstanding concerning support for the Spider
USB cards in the Poseidon stack.
Chris Hodges, author of the Poseidon stack, approached our company several
weeks ago with the proposal of co-operation. He suggested that we prepared
hardware drivers for Mediator for the Poseidon to enable operation of USB
cards, the support to which under our own USB stack was to be released in a short time.
The proposal from Mr. Hodges was analysed in detail and accepted after many
additional mutual considerations.
Its basic principles were presented in the mutually accepted announcement:
http://www.elbox.com/news_02_09_11B.html.
To clarify the issues once and for good: Read more
Amiga Future website
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20.2.2002 Warp3D = NOVA; No Warp3D V5 in OS4.0
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Hans-Jörg Frieden, Hyperion: "Warp3D will be named 'NOVA' on OS 4 (Ami3D on AmigaDE).
The initial release will still be Warp3D V4.x. The original plan called for Warp3D V5
to be delivered with OS 4, but that was at a time where we where to do Warp3D and OS 4
would come from someone else :-) In the final NOVA release, we'll include developer
guides, tutorials and example source code, and hopefully one or two bigger show-off
demos with source code."
CyberGraphX homepage
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19.9.2002 PageStream Platform Survey Results
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Deron Kazmaier: "The results from our platform survey are in and counted!
The volume was higher than expected, and we thank those who took the time
to fill out the survey. The results of the survey distinguish three platform
choices above the rest. Amiga OS 4.0/AmigaOne PPC, Mac OSX, and Linux i86 being
the heads above the rest. Here is a loose review of these three platforms and
how development will be handled."
"Amiga OS 4.0/AmigaOne PPC - Development for this 'platform' has two interesting
twists to it. First, PageStream Amiga should run in emulation mode on this system,
so Amiga customers can leverage their existing version of PageStream. Second,
customers don't actually have this "platform" yet, so while there is probably
going to be a decent installed base, there is of course currently no existing
installed base of customers! All that being said, if Amiga OS 4.0 and AmigaOne PPC
is released in a form similar to what is being talked about, and a reasonable number
of our customers get the "platform", we will be developing a new version of
PageStream which is compiled natively on the PPC, and will use what OS 4.0
functionality is deemed appropriate for PageStream. We also expect to make an i86
version of PageStream for Amithlon as well. The costs to develop these versions
and the perceived demand will determine if they are bundled with the 'classic'
Amiga version of PageStream, or sold separately. Most likely this development
will be done by Deron Kazmaier, as he is the most involved these days with the
Amiga libraries. Luckily for him, this development can't begin until the new OS
is released, since he has enough to keep him busy right now."
Read more
Grasshopper LLC Publishing website
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19.9.2002 AMIGAplus 09/2002 on its way
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The new issue 09/2002 (#128) of AMIGAplus will be sent to the subscribers
on Friday, September 20th, 2002. It is also available directly from the
publisher and an various Amiga shops. Watch a shot of the latest cover
(and more) at www.amigaplus.de.
Details about the content of this issue will be released on Monday. Expect
some major changes of the layout and content as well as further actions
to be made in the next weeks and months.
AMIGAplus - Anything for your girlfriend.
AMIGAplus website
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19.9.2002 Tales of Tamar: MorphOS Beta Testers wanted
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According to some Internet sites, there are already MorphOS systems out there.
Since we neither have received the motherboard we ordered from BPlan or Thendic
nor a current MorphOS release, we would like somebody with such a system to test
ToT on it for us. Please contact us at eternity@pride.de.
Tales of Tamar is completed. Boxes, manuals and CD-ROMs have been manufactured.
Unfortunately, the cardboard boxes are faulty. The print on them is 2.5mm off.
Since we had the boxes especially made to have a high quality product,
we negotiated with the manufacturer and they agreed to do a new, better production
run. But this also means that it will take another two weeks until the game is
ready to ship.
We hope that this was in your interest and hope to welcome you
on Tamar soon.
Tales of Tamar homepage
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19.9.2002 Thylacine USB-Ethernet devices
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Here is the current list
usb-ethernet adaptors for use with Thylacine. Thylacine is a USB 1.1 Card for
Amiga 2000, 3000 & 4000.
A.Scott Pringle via ANN
Thylacine homepage
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19.9.2002 Software News
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New version of AmiStart released and new website
Darius Brewka released v.063
of AmiStart. AmiStart is a Windows-like startmenu and quick-launch bar with drag&drop
support and a very customizable GUI which allows transparency, rounded edges,
background-patterns and much more. In this new version, AmiStart now also provides
so-called Shape-Layer, which are customizable and programmable Skins for controlling
external applications via Arexx. (For examples there's a cool looking skin for Songplayer
available already).
AmiStart website is now hosted
at GFX-BASE, where you now download exclusively the new versions of AmiStart and a new
Songplayer Skin.
Version 2.1 of Pixload
has been released. That tool allows, similiar like Amidock does, to launch programs
and scripts via an icon using MUI.
Changes:
- Drag and drop is now available on Pixload bar and also on each icon (three first icons from left, others detect file types)
- Icons are scalable
- All settings of each icon are saved and can be loaded again
GFX-BASE website
Pixel-Art Asc. website
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18.9.2002 Amiga Games Classifying - September/October 2002
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It's time to vote at the AMIGA GAMES CLASSIFYING September/October 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,...).
If your list don't have change since last time, simply reply this mail with
the subject "no change for me". Final classifying will be published in early-October.
David "Daff" Brunet, Amiga Games Classifying
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18.9.2002 DFx News
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The first picture of DFx is available here
dfx:Amiga - PC floppy interface is compatible with Amithlon, WinUAE, Classic Amigas and
hopefully AmigaOne. With DFx you can connect PC HD floppies to Classic Amigas as DF0:
(requires KS3.0 & 020) or read and write Amiga floppies on PC with Amithlon/WinUAE.
DFx homepage
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18.9.2002 More photos from O.A.S.E. 2002
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18.9.2002 Merlancia Situation Clarified
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Once again it seems we are left to clarify a normally easy to understand issue
that really is not important to those outside the company/corporate staff.
The short scoop: Merlancia is still alive and well, despite wishes of those who
would plot for our demise out of spite and malice...
Plesse read this Merlancia Press Release
on this matter for further details.
ANN website
Merlancia Industries website
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18.9.2002 Elbox End-runs Poseidons' Author So Not to Pay Licencing Fee for USB Stack
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18.9.2002 Mediator can not use normal PCI USB Card? Custom "adjustments"?
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It seems that the Mediators might not be able to use normal PCI USB cards.
Michael Böhmer posted "I had the opportunity to talk quite some time to
Mr. Binek on OASE show in Graz last week end. He seemed to be a nice guy,
and also explained me why Elbox has choosen the "Spider" USB card. According
to Mr. Binek, the Spider USB card needs some "special PCI interface adjustments"
to work in the Mediator board. He couldn't tell me, anyhow, which modifications
these were."
CyberGraphX homepage
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17.9.2002 Pictures from Amiga shows
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Over the last 4 years, I have visited a number of European Amiga shows.
The pictures that I've taken at those shows have until now been stowed
away in a dark and largely unknown corner of cyberspace, where only
relatively few people have actually seen them.
They are now accessible on my new site dedicated to the purpose:
http://nbache.frip.dk/
So far, pictures from the last four Cologne shows have been put online.
Given time and space, I plan to add some more in the future. Check out
the list on the front page.
Niels Bache
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17.9.2002 Buy the SharkPPC & SharkPPC+ Online at ELBOX
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17.9.2002 Commodore CDTV Information Center News
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"As you may have noticed there haven't been that many updates to this CDTV page,
I have just been very busy working on the
Coldfire project however this has
not stopped the CDTV world from moving, I have managed to buy the Expander
prototype, Phase5 TurboCD prototype, An A570 SCSI interface and finally a complete
set of Commodore`s CDTV Developers documents covering everything from code numbers
for the CDTV prototype ethernet card to a late edit saying the memory card slot
was upgraded to take 512Kb memory cards...
I hope to contact Amiga soon and see if I can get permission to upload the
developers documents.
I will be doing a redesign of the site soon, Not because it doesnt look fine but
because of the menu system, Anyway this will mean the web site will go off-line
for a couple of hours while I edit the web sites preferences, Hopefully you wont
notice it but just dont be shocked if you get an error...
As for the coldfire project, The design is moving along reasonably well and although
the prototype is designed for the A4000 a CDTV version will defintaly follow...
For more information visit www.cdtv.org.uk/coldfire/."
Commodore CDTV Information Center website
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16.9.2002 Nova Design, Inc. online Store Now Open
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16.9.2002 World of Amiga South East 2002 - Update
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We are happy to announce that our regular website
http://www.worldofamiga.com.
is back up and running!
New! to our Exhibitors List:
100% Amiga Magazine
Total Amiga Magazine
For those of you who have been away from Planet Earth this weekend, the World of
Amiga Southeast Show will be taking place on Saturday, 2nd of November 2002 in the UK.
Tickets are available in advance from
ForeMatt Home Computing.
Michael Carrillo
World of Amiga South East 2002 website
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16.9.2002 IOSPIRIT: Many small updates
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Under downloads you can now find three small updates:
fxSCAN Update 4.04
This update fixes small problems with Turboprint and leads to a drastic
improvement in the recognition rate of the 68K-versions of the OCR-engine.
IOUSB System Update to 2.1
This update fixes a "Portleak"-problem in the iousb.library that had led
to problems especially with Epson Perfection 1650 scanners.
VHI Studio 5.71
The integrated FTP-client is now more tolerant when used in conjunction with
FTP-servers that don´t conform to the FTP-standard.
IOSPIRIT website
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16.9.2002 Tim Wright on the Web (Psygnosis' domestic composer)
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Tim Wright, the famous domestic composer of Psygnosis, former Amiga games forge
with titles the likes of 'Shadow of the Beast', who are now an inhouse team at
Sony, has for some time now had his personal domicil under
www.coldstorage.org.uk.
There you can find, besides 9 MP3s (a.o.t. two revamped songs from Wipeout, which
btw were created using Bars&Pipes on an Amiga), also the two original tunes
from the graphics classic 'AGONY', which in this form never managed it into the
game, incl. interesting background stories. Additionally there are also the
original modules from 'Shadow of the Beast II' and 'SotB III' (the music from
'Shadow of the Beast I' was done by Richard Joseph).
And finally you may contact Tim Wright directly, via eMail and forum, and maybe
motivate him to produce further mixes of his old Amiga songs.
Amiga-News.de website
CoLD SToRAGE website
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16.9.2002 Thendic France sponsors German soccer team
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15.9.2002 Amiga Inc. Attending Micromart Show
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Amiga Inc will be demonstrating products from across its wide range
of hardware and software solutions at the upcoming
MicroMart show,
to be held at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre on the 21st
and 22nd of September.
The Blackpool Amiga Club, along with Sven Harvey of AmigaMart will be
demonstrating 68k and x86 Amiga products, Fleecy Moss, the CTO of Amiga
will be demonstrating the AmigaDE on desktop and PDA form factors,
and the brand new PowerPC based AmigaOne, courtesy of our partners,
Eyetech will also be in attendence.
"The Birmingham NEC is one of the premier exhibition venues in the UK,
and the MicroMart will bring in thousands of computing enthusiasts from
many platforms to see the latest and greatest," said Bill McEwen, CEO
of Amiga Inc. "We are delighted to be able to demonstrate both the
strength of the existing Amiga line and the promise of our future products."
Amiga Inc. website
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15.9.2002 Immortal 2 CD out now
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Finally, the sequel to Immortal - the definitive Amiga game music
album - has been released. Immortal 2 includes music by such legends
as Chris Huelbeck, Jochen Hippel, Allister Brimble, Richard Joseph
and others, with each track rearranged with studio equipment by
the original artists themselves. The CD is now available from
synSONIQ Records.
ANN website
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15.9.2002 Epic Interactive ships Software Tycoon
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15.9.2002 AWeb Open Source project News
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14.9.2002 Ask Petro
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Petro Tyschtschenko, who worked at Commodore Büromaschinen GmbH since
October 1982 continues to work on his long-awaited memoirs. One of the
chapters planned allows Amiga fans to ask Petro questions, which he will answer.
Petro Tyschtschenko, a well-respected figure in the Amiga community was chief
of Amiga Technologies, a branch of ESCOM, which bought all rights of Commodore
and the Amiga in April 1995. As Escom also got into bankruptcy 1996 Petro tried
everything to ensure the survival of the Amiga and became chief of Amiga
International, Inc. after Gateway 2000 bought the rights in 1997. He encouraged
the further development of the AmigaOS, then released in version 3.5. In April
2001 he retired officially from AMIGA Inc.. He has not left altogether as he
still goes to Amiga events to talk with Amiga fans who were customers and are
now friends.
The Amiga Community now has the opportunity to put forward some interesting
questions about his life and the Amiga.
You can e-mail your questions to:
mail@commodore-amiga.de.
Amiga Flame website
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14.9.2002 Screenshots of Morphos/Ambient
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Gunne Steen from GGS-Data (Sweden), has taken some
screenshots of Ambient
(MorphOS Workbench clone) /Morphos running on Pegasos.
16.9.2002 screenshots were REMOVED upon request
GGS-Data website
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14.9.2002 AmithlonXL world premiere at O.A.S.E.2 event in Graz
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The O.A.S.E.2 event, which will
be held this weekend in Graz, will see the first public demonstration of AmithlonXL
components. Some of the parts shown would regularly be first available only with
the release of the announced OS4 operating system.
Read more
Harald Frank
www.amithlon.de
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14.9.2002 AmithlonXL Statement from Bernd Meyer
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13.9.2002 10O%AMIGA now RTG/Amithlon/OS4 Compatible
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Issue 28, September 2002, is now available and has been completely re-written
from scratch. Many of you with graphics cards and non-AGA machines had
difficulty running the old Scala interface. This has now been replaced and
you can now run 100%AMIGA
on ANY computer with a graphics card or AGA and 4Mb ram. 100%AMIGA is now
AmigaOne/OS4 ready... or for that matter, can run on Amithlon, MorphOS, Windows,
MacOS etc.
So what is on it?
This month we have features on OS4, FXSCAN4, and an exciting new monthly
publication. We review Drawstudio 2 CD edition as well as our usual news
roundup read to you by our newsreader. Come here, there's more - also on the CD
we have a collection of free games and utilities for your Amiga.
Still here? OK,
Subscribe direct
to us now and we will also include the full speech CD version of Sixth Sense
Investigations FREE! Not still here? You drive a hard bargain! Last offer -
Subscribe direct
to us NOW for 6 months or more and you will get 3CD's - 100%AMIGA 28, 6th
Sense and Best of Gremlin CD compilation! See it, Hear it, Experience it!
FORE-MATT Home Computing
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13.9.2002 Spider USB 2.0 presentation at O.A.S.E. in Graz
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The first public demonstration of the Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI card working
in the Mediator system will have place in the
Open Amiga Southeast Europe show
in Graz (Austria) on 14-15 September 2002.
The fastest Amiga USB solution will be presented with various USB devices like
USB ZIP, USB HDD, USB CD and USB mouse units. Spider USB 2.0 will be presented
working in the PCI slot of the newest Mediator model: the Mediator PCI 1200 SX.
The Mirage 3000 system will also be presented.
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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13.9.2002 Finnish Amiga Users Group's Meeting Will Showcase Amiga Community Progress
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Finnish Amiga Users Group will host its annual meeting on Saturday September
28th 2002 in Oulu, Finland. In addition to an official general meeting agenda,
the users group has used this opportunity to invite prominent parties from
the extended Amiga community to showcase their progress.
Anu Seilonen, Finnish Amiga Users Group
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13.9.2002 Pianeta Amiga 2002 update
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The countdown is quite over. 21 and 22 September will be the days of the biggest
Amiga event in Italy for ages. The unofficial support site has been unpdated
with a lot of new exhibitors and news announced.
Amiga OS 4.0 componets demoed (on a standard Amiga), AmigaOne, Pegasos, MorphOS,
Supreme, FXScan, Highway, Mediator A1200 SX, Bitplane issue 5 and a lot more new
products... There will also be many conferences and presentations.
Since 10/09/2002 the following
have announced their partecipation. (there will also be a lot of non commercial
exhibitors and user groups)
Nicola Morocutti via ANN
Pianeta Amiga 2002 website
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13.9.2002 Repulse sold out
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"The repulse soundcard is sold out. This product has been an inspiring and outstanding success."
"The Aliendesign website is online again. Blame our provider for the inconviences. We are sorry.
The good news is that the website was updated while it has been restored."
Aliendesign website
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13.9.2002 Rumble in the Jungle 2002
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Ladies and Gentlemen: Welcome to the clash of the year, presenting,
In the Red Corner, all the way from Germany and the UK, with years
of experience, a true survivor - Amiga OS4 supported by AmigaOne!
Presenting in the Blue Corner, from Germany and France, the new young
pretender to the crown, MorphOS supported by Pegasos!
The main event will be held at the World of Amiga Southeast Show in
Poplars Hall, Brentwood, Essex, England, (UK) on Saturday November
2nd 2002.Read more
Michael Carrillo
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13.9.2002 Software News
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IBrowse FAQ page now online
"A list of frequently asked questions
has been compiled, based on messages sent to the mailing list (mostly regarding
IBrowse 2.3). Be sure to read the FAQs before repeating a question on the mailing list :-)"
New Scalos 1.3 Beta
Scalos beta version 40.22 has just been uploaded. Visit the
Downloads page as usual...
There are some instructions in the readme file in the archive so you should read this
before installing.
IBrowse homepage
Scalos homepage
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12.9.2002 Elbox ships Spider USB 2.0 PCI card for Mediator
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Elbox Computer is proud to introduce the first USB 2.0 host controller
for the Amiga computers. The Spider USB 2.0 PCI card provides a simple
and affordable way to add five Hi-Speed USB ports to Mediator-equipped
Amigas.
The Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI controller is backward-compatible,
which means it works also with older USB 1.1 peripherals.
Read more
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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12.9.2002 Something for Everyone
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AmigaAnywhere equipped mobile phones and PDAs, AmigaOS 4.0, the AmigaOne
and a chance of laptops running the product-formerly-known-as-Amithlon...
Something for Everyone,
new article by John Chandler on suite101.com.
suite101.com website
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12.9.2002 Are you an Amiga (68k) ASM programmer ?
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ClickBOOM are currently looking for an experienced Amiga ASM programmer
to help with porting of realtime strategy game 'Z'.
Email them at info@clickboom.com.
clickBOOM website
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12.9.2002 Screen Dragging in OS4? No!
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Olaf Barthel posted on the topic of 'draggable screens': "I believe that
screen dragging is useful and has its place in the Amiga user interface and
application software design. [..] I'm still rooting for getting the
draggable screens back into the operating system."
Ben Hermans, Hyperion Entertainment's Managing partner and manager of the
AmigaOS4 project followed up in the same thread to Olaf's post with
"You and me both. They'll be back, just not for OS 4.0 due to a lack of time."
CyberGraphX homepage
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12.9.2002 ExoticA News
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Updated the Demo Scene Reference Manual to version 4.33.
Also updated the Compilation Disk Reference Manual to version 1.23 which is found on the same page.
Updated Scenery 64 to version V1.40 (September 2002
release). Scenery is a guide to groups, parties and releases on the c64/Amiga demoscene (pc is in development),
and features what is likely the biggest, best and most comprehensive scene party index ever made public. It's an
attempt to cover an important part of digital history, to accurately document things and events that otherwise
might be forgotten.
There is a new gallery area up - Amiga City II.
It's another section with some lovely photos of a contributor's Amiga game collection. Take a look!
Since the update on the 27th July, the UnExoticA
game music section has had 3 updates, bringing the archive to 5985 files packed into 1162 archives.
Thats over 330 megabytes of awesome tunes!
and more...
ExoticA website
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12.9.2002 'DCE article' written by Michal Bergseth REMOVED
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"Due to DCE's wish. Amitopia must take the DCE article down due to a e-mail
witch Amitopia got from DCE. Were sorry for what we have done. We wanted the
article to be as a warning against bad Amiga supportive companies. -editor
So from today on, the original article is gone, until we've rewritten it,
so its much more understandable."
Amitopia website
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12.9.2002 Interview with MacroSystems
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"Here is our interview with MacroSystems. One of the best video-editing
companies in the world. We asked them about what they do, AmigaOS4 and more.
Click here
to read our interview."
Amitopia website
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11.9.2002 Mediator PCI USB drivers for Poseidon stack
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Elbox Computer is pleased to announce that its drivers to PCI USB
cards in the Mediator busboard operate under the Poseidon USB stack.
These drivers have been prepared by Elbox programmers as a result of
co-operation started a few weeks ago by Chris Hodges, author of the
Poseidon stack.
As the Poseidon stack is already supported by
authors of third-party commercial software, we have decided that
releasing another, our own, USB stack for Amiga under such circumstances
would mean doubling effort of Amiga programmers.
Read more
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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11.9.2002 Mediator UP 3.2 & Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.16
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The MediatorUP 3.2 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV
and for the newest Mediator model--Mediator PCI 1200 SX has been
made available today.
The MM CD 1.16 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200
and Mediator PCI ZIV busbords, who are registered owners of the Mediator
Multimedia CD has been released today.
Read more
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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11.9.2002 Workbench clone for AROS
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11.9.2002 Another Pictures from the Alchimie 2 Show
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Some other photos
of Alchime2 / AExpo 2002 by AFLE.
Other photos
of Alchimie2/A-Expo taken by Polymere.
ANN website
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10.9.2002 Interview with Thomas Frieden: OS4 questions and answers
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A few weeks ago, the amiga-news.de community collected a bunch of questions
related to OS4 and forwarded them to Thomas Frieden, in the hope that he may
answer some of them.
Guess what? Not only did he answer all of them, he
even answered them in English, for you poor souls outside of Germany ;-)
Interview with Thomas Frieden
BTW Ben Hermans/Hyperion wrote: "In actual fact Jörg (who currently
maintains SFS) is an OS 4 developer and he has already agreed to port SFS to OS 4."
Amiga-News.de website
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10.9.2002 VHI Studio 5.7 and IOUSB DigiCam Package available
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We´re proud to announce you the availability of a new and expanded version
of VHI Studio today.
New features/improvements in VHI Studio 5.7:
* USB-support (Digitalkameras, Webcams)
* new, integrated FTP-client for the webcam-functionality
* completly newly written .mov-animationexport
* automatic framerate-recognition
* an ARexx-port has been added
* heavily advanced webcam- and timelapse-functionality
* example-webcamfiles with elegant design in the archive
* extended PPC-support (e.g. JPEG-decoding)
* now uses fxWARP 9 technology
* native CPU-modules for PPC (PowerUP, WarpUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon)
Along with the availability of the new version we also have relaunched
our VHI Studio-pages.
VHI Studio is the award-winning software for videoboards, digicams, webcams
and other video sources on the AMIGA with the broadest hardware-support.
Functionality includes recording and cutting of videoclips, download of images
from digital cameras, still-picture-grabbing and their optimization, watching
TV on the Workbench, a full-blown webcam-software (besides, this feature
also works with videoboards, digicams, etc!) and the easy creation of
timelapse-animations.
Felix Schwarz, IOSPIRIT
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9.9.2002 AmigaOS4.0 Status Update
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9.9.2002 Elbox releases MediatorUP 3.1
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The MediatorUP 3.1
update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000,
Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV and for the newest
Mediator model--Mediator PCI 1200 SX has been made available today.
The update includes new versions of the following drivers:
* pci.library
* MediatorNET.device
* Voodoo.card
Read more
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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9.9.2002 Elbox releases MM CD UP 1.15
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The MM CD 1.15 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200
and Mediator PCI ZIV busbords, who are registered owners of the Mediator
Multimedia CD has been released today.
The update includes new versions of the following drivers:
* FastEthernet.device
* sb128.audio
* tv.library
* Voodoo.card
Read more
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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9.9.2002 Pegasos und Amiga One @ O.A.S.E. show
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Pegasos and Amiga One will be shown at the O.A.S.E. - Open Amiga Southeast Europe
show in Graz, Austria this weekend.
On the comming weekend we are proud to
present you the Pegasos and the Amiga One to the public. The Pegasos computer will
be demoed by the german Thendic France partner DYXS GmbH. We already recieved the
new Rev. "B" Amiga One G3SE mainboard and will present the board running the new
updated BIOS. We hope Linux will make it until the weekend. Beside MorphOS we will
demo current pieces of the AmigaOS4 and the Thylacine and Highway USB solutions
incl. peripherals. Also, the first time in Austria: Linux on the Playstation 2.
Join the O.A.S.E. - Open Amiga Southeast Europe show 14. and 15. September, Hotel
Europa, Graz, Austria.
Jürgen Schober via ANN
O.A.S.E. website
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9.9.2002 Pictures from the Alchimie 2 Show
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9.9.2002 New Up Rough Release!
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Super Sharp Shuriken EP feat. Samuel aka Substance & Nasley is out!
Four jazzy d'n'b tracks. This one also includes a brand new and
STUNNING paperdoll by Royal.
Get your copy today!
spot, up rough
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9.9.2002 Supreme 1.0 will be presented at Pianeta Amiga 2002!
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Darkage Software is proud to announce the release of Supreme, their
latest software for stunning video effects. The program will be
officially presented at the next Pianeta Amiga expo in Empoli (Fi),
12-22 September 2002. Fore more info please visit
www.darkage.it.
Paolo D'Urso, Darkage
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8.9.2002 Amiga RC5 Team Effort News
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Updated the THINK Cancer research client's description which is now called
LigandFit, see the misc section.
We have someone working on an Amiga client for a silly project that counts
keystrokes called Dolphin too, more on
that later :) If you have a Windows system you could already join the existing
Amiga team, it doesn't take exactly a lot of CPU time so can be run together
with other clients.
Completely forgot to mention that the Amiga RC5 Team Effort is now 5 years old!
(as of 20-Aug-2002) Time flies when you are having fun (and discover just how
long "Two More Weeks" is :)
Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
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8.9.2002 Games News: Another port of Quake 2
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AmigaPlus announced that Frank Menzel
has released the first port of Quake2
for Amiga. Requirements are a PPC processor, a graphics card, 128MB of memory and WarpOS.
ANN website
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8.9.2002 WinUAE News
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Amiga emulator for Windows WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 1 is available for download
New features
- full harddisk image support (hdtoolbox, RDB, custom filesystems, SFS and PFS3 confirmed working)
- uaescsi.device improvements, confirmed compatible with CacheCDFS, AmiCDFS and AsimCDFS
- Action Replay 1 support
- CPU idle
- floppy speed slider is back
- new AHI code and driver
- Amiga Windows clipboard support
- on the fly switching between OpenGL and DirectDraw mode
- on the fly switching between vsync and non-vsync mode
- compressed Kickstart ROM image support
- build-in screenshot function, shortcut key: F11
- experimental (and much slower) cycle-exact cpu and blitter emulation mode
- wkeykill.dll support (disables Windows-keys)
- OpenGL scanline brightness slider added
WinUAE Official homesite
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8.9.2002 Software News
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Version 0.17 of SimpleMail released!
The changes are:
shows user@popserver in the check single account sub menu
added possibility to add the recpient of an e-mail later
closing the compose window will not discard the current edited mail
search function added
SimpleMail is a mailer for the Amiga classic platform but it is intended to be
as portable as possible...
SimpleMail website
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8.9.2002 Boot MacOS X in MOL 0.9.65!
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According to MacOnlinux website,
it is now possible to run MacOS X within MOL. Both MacOS 10.1 and 10.2 are
supported. The new MOL version also contains support for little endian
(remote) X displays. A couple of performance improvements have also gone
into this release.
Amigart website
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7.9.2002 Amiga Flame: Time To Get Serious
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In the heyday years, the Amiga was felt to be an incredible machine due to its
creative and talented users who produced all kinds of software for the art,
music, and business world. In addition Amiga users strode to encourage others
to create software for themselves by providing all the developer tools they
would need. At this time magazines such as Amiga Shopper and Amiga User
International were felt to be essential monthly buys if you wanted the
low-down on the serious side of the market. They played an important role
for they not only reported on the serious side of the market, they gave
confidence to serious software developers and thus encouraged development.
Many years have gone by since the demise of Amiga Shopper but it is my belief
that the time has come for the void to be filled.
Read more
Amiga Flame website
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6.9.2002 Bill McEwen's September 2002 Executive Update
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6.9.2002 Preview of AmigaOS 4 AmiDock
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You can see the new AmiDock screenshots here.
AmiDock is a completely redesigned version of OS3.9's AmiDock. There are a lot
of improvements in terms of usability, loading-speed and optical feedback.
Included here are a few screenshots to give you a general idea of what you can
expect of AmiDock...
AmigaInc. website
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6.9.2002 Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
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Issue 12 of Total Amiga Magazine is almost
sold out, if you are wondering what all the fuss is about, here is what some Amiga
notables are saying about us...
Urgent! We are looking for additional writers/contributors, if you have software
or hardware that you wish to review, top tips, tutorials or even a rant or rave
that you want to share, send it in to us and we will consider it for publication
in the next issue.
Visit http://www.totalamiga.org for more
information and while you at it why not join our discussion forum,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/totalamiga/messages.
Total Amiga Magazine; we are, are you?
Michael Carrillo, Total Amiga Magazine
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6.9.2002 Amiga Arena Fullversion
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With the permission from Klass Hermanns,the Amiga Arena released the fullversion
from the FileX. FileX is a binary file editor which offers the following features:
- Several files can be modified in several windows and/or views at the same time.
- The edit windows can be opened on any public screen
- Clipboard converter
- Fontsensitivity
- Locale support
- Undo and Redo (only limited to your free memory)
- Search and replace with history
- Extensive blockfunctions
- ARexxport with 77 commands and asynchronical command shell
- Printing as hexdump
- `Grab memory' to show and modify memory
- AppWindow
Olaf Koebnik, Amiga Arena
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5.9.2002 Some components of AmigaOS4 will be demonstrated at A-Expo.
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Next Saturday afternoon, at the French event "A-Expo/Alchemie 2",
some components of the AmigaOS 4 will be demonstrated on Amiga 4000
with CyberstormPPC.
These components are:
The new Intution
Roadshow (the TCP/IP stack)
MediaToolBox (the new HDToolBox)
Amiga-News.de website
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5.9.2002 Poseidon & Norway Updates available
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There is a new version V1.28 of the Poseidon USB Stack available from my
website (http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html),
aswell as an updated driver for the Norway Ethernet Addon which sits ontop
of the Highway.
There's now a VHI driver for the Pencam and compatible
webcams. However, to work 100% correctly, you probably need version
VHI Studio 5.7 which is scheduled for release next Monday.
Read more
Notice: "Don't be worried about the registration form included starting
with this release and the 'demo version' restrictions: The Highway and
Subway boards come with an OEM licence and you do NOT have to register Poseidon.
This is only for third party hardware drivers which do not have a licence.
In this case, the user has to buy a keyfile, if he wants to make use of Poseidon."
Chris Hodges
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5.9.2002 An Octet of Operating Systems
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"With all the publicity that Windows and Linux get, you may be forgiven for not
being aware of a number of other operating systems. Yet there are many other
choices that I find interesting and as useful alternatives."
The Byte Magazine article discuss 'other' operating systems like AmigaOS...
Read more
Five Desktop Alternatives:
OS/2 Convenience Pack from IBM
eCS, OS/2 plus enhancements from Serenity Systems
OpenBeOS, an open source version of the OS developed by Be
BeOS 5 personal
Amiga, the phoenix of operating systems
BYTE Magazine website
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5.9.2002 GFX-BASE WB-Screenshot competition: 1 Week left!
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The competition will end in ONE WEEK! So submit your unique, beautiful
and creative screenshot of your WB before it's to late.
The first price is Earth2140 or WipeOut, the second winner will receive
a copy of PuzzleBOBs. All games support gfx-cards of course. For more
information and the rules
click here.
GFX-BASE website
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5.9.2002 Betatester II scheduled for 12 October, Hilton Hotel Frankfurt
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Thendic-France and bplan will host Betatester II at the Hilton Hotel, Hochstrasse 4,
Frankfurt from 9:00 to 18:00, a buffet lunch will be served.
Highlights of the conference will be:
Presentation of the commercial release of MorphOS
Demonstration of new and old applications
Release for testing of three new peripheral devices: the smart card and reader
for security and loyalty/payment systems (the 'Trusted Community'), the DataPlay
disc drive, and a wireless mobile camera. Ten Developers will be selected
for testing with the DataPlay and the camera based on performance as a Betetester
and relevant development experience. All Betatesters will receive a personalized
smart card and smart card reader.
All key individuals from the Thendic/bplan will be present.
All Betatesters and the MorphOS Development Team will be admitted free of charge.
All others will be admitted for an afternoon demonstration from 15:00-18:00
for 10 Euros. All participants will receive a Thendic/bplan T-Shirt and
non-alcoholic drinks will be available.
MorphOS-News.de website
Thendic-France website
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5.9.2002 Pegasos: Vesalia named 'Master Distributor' for Germany
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Vesalia has been named the Master Distributor and Customer Service Manager
for Germany. Pegasos systems will be on sale in October.
Betatester systems will continue to be sold directly from Thendic-France.
Betatester systems and the Betatester program will continue to evolve to
include peripheral devices. The Betatester will become the development
platform for the eclipsis (see products at
www.thendic-france.com).
MorphOS-News.de website
Vesalia website
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4.9.2002 Morphos runs on AmigaOne too
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Bill Buck posted a comment on ANN that says: "Also, we might as well let the
thread know that MorphOS runs on the A1 too. We have one of 'their' boards and
it works! That should settle the issue of 'write once, publish anywhere'...
Plus, we are happy to sell a Pegasos to Mr. Hermans and his team or anyone else.
Ben, you can have one from the next production and you do not even have
to be a Betatester...;)"
ANN website
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4.9.2002 Teron CX "consumer version" soon for sale
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Mai will be selling their Teron CX boards in a "consumer version" (as opposed
to the "evaluation version" sold until now, distributed as "developer boards"
by Eyetech). The initial target price will be about USD 500.
Mai Logic press release
"Since the public press release is out by now I guess I'm free to say
that Bill Mueller, the Mai engineer who designed the Teron CX / 'AmigaOne',
has told me that this 'consumer board' will be equipped with the newer
VIA 686B southbridge (ATA100 interface etc.) and that the shared AGP/PCI
slots on PCI bus 1 will be simultaneously usable. This is the same board
Eyetech will be redistributing under the 'AmigaOne' trademark, apart from
that Eyetech's boards will ship with a modified firmware. The Teron CX will
be on sale in 'a couple of months', and Mueller did not yet know what
firmware their boards will be shipped with."
Amiga.org website
Mai Logic website
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4.9.2002 Jim Sachs Interviewed by GetBoinged!
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"He is an amazing artist! Remember Defender of the Crown? The now famous
AmigaWorld cover? Take a trip back in time and find out what Mr. Sachs
is doing now! Read it here
Paul J. Beel, GetBoinged.Org website
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4.9.2002 Amitopia: DCE article
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Michal Bergseth, editor of norwegian magazine Amitopia visited DCE (Oberhausen, Germany)
some days ago.
"My DCE article
is now modifyed and rewritten a bit because of mails from the
company. The article is ment as a "be better DCE" article. I've got mails from
people wich says that they've waited over 2 years for their PPC board, and due to
this they dont want to support DCE anymore."
Amitopia website
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4.9.2002 Software News
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Version 2.0 of Pixload has been released. That tool allows, similiar
like Amidock does, to launch programs and scripts via an icon using MUI.
With this version "drag and drop" is implented.
Amiga-news.de website
Pixel-Art Asc. website
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3.9.2002 Attractive fxSCAN-sidegrade-offers
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In a time-limited offer until the 1st of October 2002, we are giving
you the possibility to sidegrade fom your current scanner software
(ScanQuix, ScanTek, ArtecScan, other software on request) to fxSCAN 4.0.
Therefore please send in your old software (original disk/cd-rom with
serial number/key in resellable constitution) and a filled-out
sidegradeform (see downloads).
fxSCAN 4.0 offers, as the only scannersoftware on the AMIGA, OCR- and
PDF-export-capabilities. Besides this, you can also make copies (incl.
unique finetuning!), optimize your scanning results, print, convert or
send images to fxPAINT for further processing.
More information regarding fxSCAN and the sidegrade offer can be found
on the pages about fxSCAN 4.0.
Felix Schwarz, IOSPIRIT
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3.9.2002 Visit of Thendic-France in photos
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3.9.2002 AmIDE goes open source
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Today AmIDE was announced as GPL and is available for all interested Amiga
developers to join the team and make AmIDE a powerful integrated development
environment for Amiga computers.
"AmIDE - Amiga Integrated Development Environment is a modern MUI based IDE
system that should make the Amiga developer able to use his favourite Compiler
system with a modern looking GUI System with features like filetype handling,
Build/Make, TextEditor"
AmIDE SF website
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2.9.2002 www.ibrowse-dev.net - the new home of IBrowse
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IBrowse Development Team: "As many of you will know, IBrowse has been
without a proper home on the web for a while, until now. Obviously, this
website is a bit minimal at the moment, but we are planning to address
this situation soon. We are currently busy preparing IBrowse 2.3 (68K)
for release - as yet we have no indication of a firm release date,
but good progress is being made and we are doing our best to get
IBrowse 2.3 ready for release a.s.a.p. In the meantime, for those of you
who are not already aware of it, you are invited to join the mailing list."
IBrowse homepage
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2.9.2002 Software News
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New YAM2.4 Dev version
Click here to download the
latest YAM v2.4 development version, compiled 3.8.2002. Fully optimized 68020
version only. ChangeLog
This version is currently in development, and may not work perfectly!
PLEASE do not complain about these development versions! If you want to continue
getting developer versions, please read the ChangeLog file before reporting bugs.
GPatch Version 3 completed
The 68k version 3 of the patch system GPatch
has finally been completed and put on Aminet.
There have been many improvements over the previous version: New seach algorithms,
new coding methods and easier execution of the patch. For those who don't know it
yet: GPatch is the only program of its kind with the ability to combine any number
of different data in one patch file in order to automatically update different
older versions of a program to the newest one.
GPatch.readme
YAM2.4 Dev page
Amiga.org website
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2.9.2002 MorphOS statement about its legal status
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"There have been many rumours regarding MorphOS and its legal standing.
After careful consideration, we have concluded that those allegations
are unfounded, those most frequently raised being the following two."
Read more
MorphOS-Mews.de website
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1.9.2002 GoldED Studio AIX: Piggy Bank Week
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For one week, starting today,
GoldED Studio AIX
is available at a reduced price: Until 8/Sep/02, no costs for p&p
are added to orders - shipping is completely free ! Terms and conditions:
the Piggy Bank offer can not be combined with other discounts.
GoldED Studio homepage
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1.9.2002 Team dynAMIte Arena 2.1 - Ultimate T-Shirt Edition
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This is an amazing time for #amigazeux, and The Players. You have all been
impatient and bored, and have dealt with more craptalk and disinformation
by all kinds of Ben's and Bill's than any one group of people should ever.
Yet, and happily, we are moving forward and are about to release dynAMIte
2.1. As you know dynAMIte is our extremely exciting awardwinning
multiplayer game and offers true rich multimedia content. Admittedly, we
have not been very public about anything to date, but you are many and we
are pleased to be bringing this fatal piece of software to you, The
Players, as well.
We are also excited to announce the dawn of the
"I Am Explosive" club. You can gain membership in several ways; drinking
gasoline, is one of them. Read more
dynAMIte homepage
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1.9.2002 Virus Help Denmark AMIGA News
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A new update of Mill
has been released today. You can find the
new v0.7 update Here.
MILL is the base program of the MILL antivirus project. It's major task is file scanning
using the powers of XVS, XFD and XADMASTER as well as built-in routines. The GUI of MILL
allows to run or call other components of the package.
MILL.readme
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
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1.9.2002 Software News
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A/NES CGFX v1.27
A/NES CGFX v1.27 is out. Some spritefixes has been done and the optimization
below is also implemented for example. Get it in the
download section.
I've also added some screenshots, check out the
about section.
AC97Mixer
AC97Mixer v2.1
(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.
A/NES CGFX homepage
Bright Light Software website
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