====================================================================== ________ _________ ____ _|__ __ __|_______ _________ __\ _____ \\\\ \_ _/ //___// _____//______\ _____ \\ // \\\\ /. \\\\__ \/ __// \\ \\____. /// \\\\ /. \\ \\___\¯ /___///___\ /___\ \\_________//\\___\¯ /___// ¯ \/ ¯ ¯ \/. |¯ ¯|z!o ¯ ¯ \/ ¯ A M I G A |#010930 | U P D A T E |________| "SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A O N T H E I N S A N I T Y I N N E W Y O R K R E P O R T O N S A K U 2 0 0 1 S T . L O U I S U S A S H O W S E N D W O R L D O F A M I G A U P D A T E F L E A M A R K E T I N T E X A S A M I G A O S X L F O R X 8 6 ( E M U L A T O R ) D . O . O . N . I S C O M I N G E L B O X A P P R O V E S S O F T W A R E P R O S T A T I O N A U D I O N E W S L A T E S T O N D O C D A T A T Y P E S . . . . . . A N D U P D A T E O N W A R P D A T A T Y P E S Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: Another somewhat small issue I'm afraid. Even so, there are interesting and positive items to report and we hope you enjoy what we have for you. One of the problems AU has at the moment is that a lot of software development is being done by very small companies or single developers, and they just don't provide much information. A few words on a website about a new beta, and that is often all there is. First, we seldom report on non-released, non-finished software and second, there is often not enough information to carry a real story. It hasn't gotten to the point where the relevancy of this publication is in doubt, but that is a possiblity in the future. We'll keep you informed of our thoughts. Another problem is that the entire Amiga world seems to be holding its breath waiting for computers built to the new standards. They should have been here by now, and the longer it takes, the more damage is done due to the uncertainty. If it's going to happen at all, we need a push to get the Amiga One from dream to purchasable reality, and we need it very soon. The only alternative is an Amiga OS that runs natively on X86 chips and compatibles and we don't mean emulators. Amiga seems completely unwilling to consider this and that's not surprising. If they persue two strategies, obviously neither can get the benefit of all available resources. So they go with the strategy they've picked as the most favorable for the future. However, I can't help wondering if it isn't time to reconsider, given the delays. If the X86 is such a horrid idea for future Amiga operating systems to use, why do we have a story on Amiga OS XL below? Why are there a number of other emulators already in use, and more coming? Amiga, we think it's time for a hard look at your plans. Either pop an Amiga One on the marker right now or consider giving it up and writing software for the hardware that already exists. Remember, you've already decided you're a software company. In that case, selling to the hardware market that's available makes sense in spite of it's Wintel history. Heck, we can even save a few PCs from the curse of Windows that way. Brad Webb, Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A O N T H E I N S A N I T Y I N N E W Y O R K Sep. 11, 2001 {From the Amiga Inc. website.} Today is indeed a difficult day for America and for the world. We at Amiga lift up in prayer the families of those who were killed and injured in the attacks today. It is truly a sad day for all of us, and our thoughts and prayers go out to our nation's leaders, as they must now deal with this situation. God Bless us, and may we be ever mindful of our blessings. Bill McEwen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- R E P O R T O N S A K U 2 0 0 1 VANTAA, FINLAND - September 9th, 2001 - Saku 2001, the biggest Amiga event in Finland and organized by the Finnish Amiga Users Group, gathered about 300 visitors around Finland on September 1st. The venue was organized completely by volunteers and it proved that there is still a dedicated following of the Amiga in Finland. One of the highlights of Saku 2001 was the demonstration by Cloanto's Michael C. Battilana. He showed the latest JIT compiler version of Amiga Forever emulation software, which will be available as a free upgrade to all Amiga Forever users. Michael also hinted that Cloanto will soon release a completely new software to the Amiga emulation community. AmigaDE Party Pack was demonstrated with three computers, two of which also ran the AmigaDE Player demo version, which was supplied for Saku 2001 by Amiga Inc. Other programmes included an Amiga demo marathon in the auditorium, a Payback game competition, Mediator PCI demonstration and a popular Vaporware registration service. ImageFX, Aladdin 4D, Shogo and AmigaOS 3.9 were also available for testing. The event also generated interest among the media. Finnish Amiga Users Group wishes to thank all the event contributors and visitors for joining Saku 2001 and making it a memorable event. A photo report and an IRC log will be published later this week. A webcam picture collection will also be available soon. About Finnish Amiga Users Group Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku, after its e-zine, the group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and its predecessors have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held several public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S T . L O U I S U S A S H O W S E N D September 26, 2001 Fellow Amigans, Over the years, Amigan-St. Louis, (Bob & Diana Scharp), have brought you many years of Amiga fun and edification. Namely the Amiga shows we hosted in St. Louis, MO. U.S.A. Since early 1994, we have been involved with providing the Amiga community with some of the best Amiga shows ever put on. Eventually we formed our own company, Amigan-St. Louis, to run these shows as they got too big to handle with just volunteers. We have had many famous people and groups attend, exhibit, and showcase their products at our events. Some notable guests include a few Astronauts - Steve Nagel and Linda Godwin, a singing and dancing group - ANNEX, some celebrities - all of the various Amiga owners, presidents, staff. Notables such as Petro Tyschtschenko, Mitch Stone of Boycott Micro$oft, radio host Jim Singler, plus too many famous Amigans to mention. We have not only hosted shows, but held banquets that have become famous by themselves. Who would ever forget the reintroduction of Amiga with Gateway, or even better with Bill McEwen. Then there was the ROAST of Petro Tyschtschenko. We celebrated Petro's many years of service to the Amiga community and his retirement the day of the banquet at our show Amiga2001. That will live in our hearts for many years. Unfortunately, we cannot continue the shows for now. There will be no Amiga 2002© show, sponsored by us. The good news, is the reason why. Diana and I are adopting a child. Our lives will be even busier than usual this year and next, so we will have to pass the torch, at least for awhile, to others. Although we are not ruling out the possibility of a future show sponsored by us, we just can't possibly do any for now. We hope you will understand. We hope you will keep the Amiga in your hearts. Hey, we hope to see some of you at other shows and events. Maybe we will be able to bring our newest Amigan with us. So for now, we bid farewell to the show side of our business, but please consider purchasing some of our latest products from our company. "Petro ROAST tape"*.................... only $ 15 + $ 5 s&h "Amiga Antenna balls".................. only $ 3 + $ 1 s&h "Amiga Coffee Mug (no.2)............... only $ 12 + $ 5 s&h "Other Bounce-back video tapes......... see web site * Petro ROAST tape will be available in a few weeks. For other products, see our web page. Mail your orders to: Amigan-St. Louis PO Box 672 Bridgeton, MO 63044 Please make checks payable to Amigan-St. Louis, in U.S. funds. Postal Money orders are also accepted. No credit cards or pay pal. You can also visit our web site for details, at: http://www.amiga-stl.com/ As a final note on Amiga shows in the U.S., I understand that Kermit Woodall of Nova Design is putting one together for the east coast. It is supposed to be held the last weekend of March 2002. For information, keep an eye on Amiga.org and other news sites. It has been a great pleasure working with many of you, and showcasing the Amiga and it's capabilities. I wish all of you great success, and we hope to see you all again. Best Regards, Bob & Diana Scharp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- W O R L D O F A M I G A U P D A T E 3 September, 2001 As reported exclusively in Amiga Active Magazine #24, Elbox CE0 Mr. Maciek Binek will be attending the World of Amiga south east show at Brentwood, Essex, UK on 3rd November 2001. Elbox will be presenting their newest hardware solution: the Zico compliant, Mediator busboards line and SharkPPC cards. Elbox have confirmed they will also be exhibiting in the main exhibition hall. AmigaOne, Mediator/SharkPPC and Amiga OS4.0. This could be the best Amiga shows in a long time! Make sure you dont miss out! Visit www.worldofamiga.com where our online ticket purchasing service will be opening shortly. World of Amiga South East is brought to you by, ASA, ANT, Kickstart & SEAL usergroups and is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- F L E A M A R K E T I N T E X A S July 24, 2001 Fleamarket Extravaganza '01 by AmigaMCCC of Dallas/Fort Worth, USA Where: The Brookside Convention Center, Hurst, Texas When: Saturday, October 20, 2001 Time: 1:00 to 4:00pm Admission: Free Background This year we are putting on our fifteenth annual Amiga computer show. So come and join us and show your support for the Amiga. Amiga Computer Fleamarket Hardware and Software for Amiga computers, from members and non-members, will be for sale. The fleamarket will be open to members for a fee of 5% on items sold. A fee of 10% will be charged to non-members on items sold. This year tables will be available to rent for the show to individuals. The cost for one table will be $15.00 for members and $20.00 for non-members. Please make arrangements in advance, space is limited. Sellers: Items for sale must be turned into a club representative. Prices are set ahead of time and sales are handled by club representatives. Arrangements MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE. Items will NOT be accepted on the day of the show. There will be no exceptions. For further details please contact the club or one of the club's representatives. Items to be sold at the fleamarket may be turned in at one of the chapter meetings or you may make arrangements with one of these club representatives: Mark Stodola Cedar Hill (972) 299-6824 Ned Kelly Arlington (817) 277-5825 David Owens Fort Worth (817) 847-5486 Dan Stockelman Dallas (972) 985-8522 Buyers: Cash and checks accepted from members. Cash only accepted from non-members. Prices will be reduced at 3:00 pm. Door Prizes A drawing will be held at the end of the day. You must be present to win. Classes/Demos We are getting classes and demos together. Amiga Computer Dealers Space is available to rent for dealers, companies or user groups. Please inquire on rates. MCCC Amiga Library The entire MCCC library of Amiga computer disks, over 2,000 disks, will be available. Special Membership Offer 13 months for the price of 12. This offer is good for new or renewed memberships. Jay Miner Memorial Tape The MCCC will be offering a two hour VHS tape of highlights of past METCOMs and a short club history. The centerpiece of the tape is Jay Miner's speech and question and answer session at METCOM '89. The cost will be $9.00 for members and $15.00 for non-members. A PAL version is also available at a slightly higher price. A limited number will be available at the show, but if the response is good orders will be taken. Directions and Parking The Brookside Convention Center is located at 1244 Brookside Drive in Hurst, TX. To get to the Convention Center, get to Highway 183/121, take the Precinct Line Road exit and drive south on Precinct Line Road. After approximately 0.3 miles turn left (east), on Bedford Euless Road. Drive 0.4 miles to Brookside Drive. The Convention Center is on the southeast corner. There is plenty of parking space, and parking is free. MCCC is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the support of Amiga computers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. For more information, check the club web site at: http://www.amigamccc.org/ Or send email to: marks@amigamccc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A O S X L F O R X 8 6 ( E M U L A T O R ) Glashuetten, 10th September 2001: HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH and Amiga Inc. are proud to present AmigaOS XL for x86. On the demonstration computer system most popular Amiga-68k applications perform 10-20 times as fast as on a traditional 68060 system. This enormous speed increase is achieved by using a modified and highly accelerated 68k emulator. The presentation machine is a standard PC with 1.2 GHz Athlon CPU and components that are typically fitted to a mid-range specification PC. At last you can have super fast versions of PageStream, ImageFX, ArtEffect, Cinema 4D, Real3D and other Amiga applications. Even 68k games benefit from the unbelievable performance of the emulator. For the first time it is now possible to install the AmigaOS XL for x86 onto a laptop. This provides the first Amiga laptop that many users have been waiting for 16 years to see. There is no limit to the possibility of further acceleration of the Amiga. Nearly every month the manufacturers of CPUs and main boards release new gigahertz creations. Now the Amiga can benefit from this race too! AmigaOS XL for x86 includes two emulator systems: Amithlon and AmigaXL for QNX.. AMIthlon - The fastest Amiga ever Insert the CD-ROM, switch on your PC and boot into the fastest Amiga ever. There is no complicated and boring installation. The development team of Harald Frank (VMC) and Bernd Meyer even implemented native support for nVidia and Matrox graphics cards providing maximum graphics performance. Opening windows on the Workbench is so fast that you can barely watch it anymore. With AMIthlon you can even use your old Amiga hard-disk in your PC. Simply connect it to your PC, start AMIthlon and that's it. AmigaXL for QNX - The most functional Amiga ever The host operating system for AmigaXL is QNX 6.1. It is included in the package. QNX has many similarities with the AmigaOS. It has a micro kernel and the drivers are separate processes. Like devices and handlers in AmigaOS these can be dynamically started and stopped. This makes the system extremely light weight and resource efficient. Features that QNX provides can directly be used within the emulated Amiga. This includes network functionality and multimedia features. QNX applications like the web browser Opera® can be started directly from the AmigaOS screen. One can say both operating systems work together seamlessly. System requirements: Athlon-, Duron, Pentium-, Celeron-CPU with 500 MHz or more. AmigaOS XL supports usual graphic, sound and network cards. A complete list is available on our homepage amigaxl.haage-partner.de or www.amithlon.com. Contents and Pricing: AmigaOS XL is delivered complete with Kickstart 3.1 license, AmigaOS 3.9 license, QNX 6.1 and the emulator packages on three CD-ROMs. Recommended retail price is 299,- DM. Availability: The delivery will start about 41st week. Pre-orders are already taken. Distribution: Amiga dealers. You can also order from our online shop www.amiga-shop.de USA: Amiga Inc., Software Hut UK: Virtual Programming, Eyetech, Blittersoft, Analogic, Power Computing Italy: Virtual Works Germany: Vesalia, KDH-Datentechnik, Coolbits, Eternity, Cash Multimedia, Schatztruhe Opinions The first version already was attributed only the best quality and highest performance by the users. "We installed ImageFX on AmigaXL during a private meeting in St.Louis and the speed was amazing. It was like having ImageFX completely native on a fast PowerPC machine!!" Kermit Woodall, Nova Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D . O . O . N . I S C O M I N G Directory Opus and New Icons Add-On CD D.O.O.N is essentially the very best collection of Workbench and DOpus add-on's - The CD contains without a doubt the best sellection of "ready to use" Thems for Magellan II, aswell as the best WB Backdrops and Glow Icons/New Icons. o Icon Draw........................125.4 MB o Pix ...................................119.8 MB o Themes For Dopus.............93.5 MB o Back Drops.......................51.6 MB o Tools Draw........................32.9 MB o Tutorials..............................10+MB o Other Add Ons...................153.5 MB Released on 20th October 2001 This CD is aimed at those A1200 users who use any or a combination of 4 popular programs that are around nowadays, Including NewIcons, Dopus Magellan II, OS 3.5 or OS 3.9. The Aim of the CD is to house as much info about these great programs on one CD and provide the Amiga community with more in depth tutorials on the workings of the various parts of these titles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E L B O X A P P R O V E S S O F T W A R E Sep 27, 2001 Elbox Computer is pleased to announce formulation of its new policy aimed at ensuring total compatibility of software written for Mediator PCI busboards by external developers with hardware and software designed and produced by Elbox. Medication by Richard Brooklyn is the first program for Mediator to obtain the status of "Approved by ELBOX." The "Approved by ELBOX" seal means that ELBOX guarantees this program to be fully compatible with Elbox hardware and software. Medication is a tool for every Mediator user. It allows configuring all the PCI cards installed in the Mediator busboard in one easy-to-use MUI based GUI. Medication allows configuring all of the supported PCI boards installed in Mediator. It enables setting of: tooltypes in the Picasso96 graphic system, graphic card parameters, AHI preferences and sound card settings, TV card settings and control over parameters of the screen displayed by the TV card. See the screenshots of the Medication program: http://www.geocities.com/richardbrooklyn/ More info about the Medication program: http://www.amiga-mediator.co.uk/medication/medication.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P R O S T A T I O N A U D I O N E W S September 2001: PCI invasion: ProStationAudio on G-Rex 4000 with Terratec audio hardware. ProStationAudio compatible with G-Rex PCI busboards by DCE and Terratec PCI audio boards . Frank Mariak, DCE's software designer of drivers for the G-Rex, confirms that drivers they just made for the 128i and 512i Terratec models have passed preliminary tests for analog I/O with ProStationAudio. Drivers for the 512i are being extended with S/P-DIF support. G-Rex makers and AudioLabs are actively cooperating to provide the best compatibility between this new PCI busboard and ProStationAudio (a big thank you to Frank for his continued and accurate work). The G-Rex PCI busboard, available in two models for the A4000 and A1200 is a solution developed specifically for owners of P5/DCE CyberStorm and Blizzard PPC and/or 68K CPU cards. The G-Rex 4000D replaces the stock A4000 backplane, offering slots for PCI and Zorro cards. ProStationAudio takes advantage as well of PCI graphic cards installed on the G-Rex G-Rex 4000D PCI busboard --- New ProStationAudio 4.20: enhanced plugins support. ProStationAudio 4.20 is ready, with enhanced support for ALPS plugins. Starting with 4.20 it's now possible to operate on plugin panels even when the timeline is stopped. This is possible as plugins are now fed by a new auxiliary timebase generator when the timeline is not running (main timebase generator in stand-by). This enhancement is completely transparent to existing ALPS plugins, just upgrade to 4.20 and all your currently installed ALPS plugins will now be active continuously. A side effect of the new scheme is that now you can also interact with plugins whose insert slots are in "by-pass" mode (not possible previously). ProStationAudio 4.20 for AmigaOS is on sale since today, customers are receiving their free update. --- ProStationAudio Millenium, T8 and Remix compatible with SoundBlaster PCI boards. ProStationAudio is successfully working with Creative's SoundBlaster PCI boards installed on Mediator busboards, under AmigaOS. The software has just passed tests at an audio production facility, under daily working conditions. The test setup includes a Mediator PCI busboard, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, and VooDoo graphic card for displaying the ultra-hi-res PSA GUI. Mediator 1200 PCI busboard Audio hardware is accessed via AHI, drivers for additional Creative's models are due soon (SoundBlaster Live! to start with) by the busboard makers. Elbox, makers of Mediator, confirm also that the PCI busboard supports installing two PCI graphic cards. ProStationAudio can take advantage of two display cards (and two monitors) for increased productivity. This feature, already supported for Zorro graphic cards, is now available also for PCI boards. ProStationAudio is the reference audio editing/mastering software for AmigaOS. With this new developemnt on PCI hardware the range of supported hardware now includes: o Draco o Amiga with one or two CPU, up to two graphic cards, two monitors and any AHI-compatible audio card or stock audio chip. Graphic and audio cards can be on Zorro or PCI busses. ProStationAudio supports also non-AHI pro cards such as the SoundStagePro DSP and provides direct access to NewTek Flyer, Sunrize Studio16 and Digidesign SD audio files, beside standard Amiga, Apple, Windows and Unix audio files includig MP3. Informations on other PCI busboard options, such as the G-Rex specific for PPC accelerators owners, will be published as soon as audio drivers will be relesed by hardware makers. ProStationAudio is fully hardware independent and will work with any audio board, PCI or Zorro, provided AHI drivers are available from hardware vendors. --- The G-Rex PCI busboard, available in two models for the A4000 and A1200 is a solution developed specifically for owners of P5/DCE CyberStorm and Blizzard PPC and/or 68K CPU cards. The G-Rex 4000D replaces the stock A4000 backplane, offering slots for PCI and Zorro cards. ProStationAudio takes advantage as well of PCI graphic cards installed on the G-Rex. http://www.audiolabs.it/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L A T E S T O N D O C D A T A T Y P E S . . . 28 Sept 2001 The latest version of DocDatatypes is v40.22. The major changes from version 40.10 is the support of writing Compressed Palm Docs and the fixing of the Mac Write, Mac Text, Mac TeachText and WordPerfect 4 descriptors. Also all datatypes have had some speed improvements and memory optimisations. Also added to the archive is the new version of FindFile, a new fast, easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date, and even file type. Feedback is needed on FindFile. In association with Amiga Arena a special version of DocDatatypes is available, called DocDatatypes Lite. It is for those that do not need support of all the exotic file formats that are currently supported. For more information on DocDatatypes Lite click here. SpitFire the Palm Desktop by Ralph Torchia becomes the first application to support native file format loading and saving via DocDatatypes. Information Amiga OS Release 3 the Amiga has the concept of datatypes classes, which allow specific file types to be categorized and groups of operations can be done on them via a uniform API(such as viewing, converting and printing). MultiView is an application that utilizes these datatypes and handles any file for which you have a datatypes class installed. DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. It is a subclass of the text.datatype. DocDatatypes Lite only contains the msdoc.datatype, rtfdoc.datatype and the wpdoc.datatype. The msdoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o DosWord 4, 5 and 5.5 o WinWord 1, 2, 6, 95, 97, 2000 o Windows Write 3 o MacWord 4, 5, 98 o MS Works 3, 4 o OS 2 Word The lotusdoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o AmiPro 1, 2, 3 The wordstardoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o WordStar 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 o WordStar 2000 1, 2, 3 The wpdoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o WordPerfect 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 2000 ... o WordPerfect Notebook o WordPerfect Program Editor/Ed Editor o WordPerfect Macro Editor o Letter Perfect The rtfdoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o Rich Text File o Pocket Word 1, 2 The xywritedoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o XyWrite III The quilldoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o Psion Quill Doc o QL Quill Doc The psiondoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o Psion Word o Psion TextEd The pdbtextdoc.datatype currently supports the following data formats: o Palm DB TEXt Doc (compressed and uncompressed) The firstworddoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o Atari First Word(plus) The macdoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats: o Mac Write 4.5 o Mac Text o Mac TeachText Tables in the documents are converted to comma seperated value(csv) tables which can easily be converted back to tables by most word processors. The DocDatatypes package is Copyright (©)2000-2001 by Amarpreet Singh Munde. http://go.to/docdatatypes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- . . . A N D U P D A T E O N W A R P D A T A T Y P E S 24 September, 2001 (From Czech Amiga News, http://amiga.realdreams.cz/index.html} WarpJPEG.datatype v44.24 - freeware JFIF/JPEG datatype (68K,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS). NEW:Added support for files containing non-standard data, preceding the JFIF header. WarpOS version reworked, now working in a fundamentally different way, to completely banish any possibility of cache conflicts - it also brings a speed increase of 2%. Minor speedups for the 68k and MorphOS versions. Fixed a bug which could cause a system deadlock if the dither control or pen precision options were enabled when using picture.datatype V44 or higher. Optimizations made to the dispatch engine. WarpPNG.datatype v44.20 - freeware PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS). NEW: 68k and WarpOS versions now 4-8% faster than before, depending on image size/type. 4% speedup for larger images in the MorphOS version. WarpOS version reworked, now working in a fundamentally different way, to completely banish any possibility of cache conflicts. Fixed a bug which could cause a system deadlock if the dither control or pen precision options were enabled when using picture.datatype V44 or higher. Optimizations made to the dispatch engine. Updated with libpng 1.2.0. WarpTIFF.datatype v44.4 - freeware TIFF picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS). NEW:WarpOS version reworked, now working in a fundamentally different way, to completely banish any possibility of cache conflicts - it also brings a speed increase for compressed images of around 2%. Fixed a bug which could cause a system deadlock if the dither control or pen precision options were enabled when using picture.datatype V44 or higher. Optimizations made to the dispatch engine. WarpBMP.datatype v44.5 - freeware BMP picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS). NEW: Added options to control the precision/quality of pen allocations for when an image is displayed on a palette-based display (8-bit). WarpOS version reworked, now working in a fundamentally different way, to completely banish any possibility of cache conflicts. Fixed a bug which could cause a system deadlock if the dither control or pen precision options were enabled when using picture.datatype V44 or higher. Discovered a bug in the CyberGraphX picture.datatype, concerning error numbers which would have resulted in an unknown error being reported by application software if bitmap allocation failed - added workaround. Optimizations made to the dispatch engine. PowerPC versions recompiled with VBCC 0.8. Added French and Spanish strings to the installer. WarpPSD.datatype v44.2 - freeware Adobe Photoshop® picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS). NEW:Added options to control the precision/quality of pen allocations for when an image is displayed on a palette-based display (8-bit). WarpOS version reworked, now working in a fundamentally different way, to completely banish any possibility of cache conflicts. Fixed a bug which could cause a system deadlock if the dither control or pen precision options were enabled when using picture.datatype V44 or higher. Discovered a bug in the CyberGraphX picture.datatype, concerning error numbers which would have resulted in an unknown error being reported by application software if bitmap allocation failed - added workaround. Optimizations made to the dispatch engine. PowerPC versions recompiled with VBCC 0.8. Added French and Spanish strings to the installer. http://www.nanunanu.org/~oliver/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga Update on the net: All back issues available at: http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html Stop by and check out our archive! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2001 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified. ====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ A M I G A /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ U P D A T E / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ amigaupdate@globaldialog.com ======================================================================