====================================================================== ________ _________ ____ _|__ __ __|_______ _________ __\ _____ \\\\ \_ _/ //___// _____//______\ _____ \\ // \\\\ /. \\\\__ \/ __// \\ \\____. /// \\\\ /. \\ \\___\¯ /___///___\ /___\ \\_________//\\___\¯ /___// ¯ \/ ¯ ¯ \/. |¯ ¯|z!o ¯ ¯ \/ ¯ A M I G A | 040229 | 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 L O S E S C O U R T C A S E T O G E N E S I V I D E O T O A S T E R C O D E R E L E A S E B E G U N S C E N T - S A T I O N A L A D D I T I O N T O E - M A I L M I D L A N D S D E M O A N D P A R T Y P R I Z E ! G O L D E D S T U D I O A I X E D I T O R U P D A T E A L S O N E W F R O M F O L K S A T G O L D E D H O L L Y W O O D D E S I G N E R A N N O U N C E D A M I Z I L L A S H O P , D I S C R E E T F X G A M E S H O P T H E L A T E S T W I N U A E A V A I L A B L E V I R U S Z I I I ( 1 . 0 0 ) R E L E A S E D S I M P L E M A I L U P D A T E D T O V . 2 3 P I C S H O W V 1 . 3 O A V A I L A B L E F O R U S E L I N U X I M A G E I N S T A L L E R V 2 C D , D V D Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: Happy Leap-Day! We hope you got a chance to enjoy your extra day this year in a special way. Here in Southern Wisconsin, the day was warm, sunny and felt much like spring. Winter is waning. It was a good day to go birdwatching, and to finish work on this issue. Speaking of waning, our first story has to make Amigans wonder if Amiga Inc. isn't waning. The court battle with Genesi was no battle at all - Amiga didn't show up. No lawyer, no contest, no chance to win. Was this because they couldn't afford to fight? Or didn't they care about this case? After all, it's only a port of DE. If they didn't care, then why force it to trial at all? Maybe they thought Genesi was bluffing, or hoped to make them spend some money on legal fees. Many questions, and no answers at this point. If any answers do come our way, we'll pass them along. Meanwhile, there are a lot more cheeful stories in this issue. We hope you enjoy them. Brad Webb, Editor =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A M I G A L O S E S C O U R T C A S E T O G E N E S I 28 February, 2004 On the 20th of this month, Amiga Inc. lost a court case to plaintiff Thendic (Genesi). The civil case dealt with a contract which Genesi claimed required Amiga DE to be ported to the Pegasos. Amiga lost the case by not engaging legal counsel and was therefore unrepresented. This automatically gave the ruling in favor of Genesi. Amiga has 30 days to appeal. "Amiga Update" is not aware of any statement from Amiga Inc. regarding this case, nor of any plans to appeal (or not appeal). Shortly after the ruling was handed down, the following statement was issued by Hyperion: The Hyperion Entertainment management would like to point out that Hyperion Entertainment and Eyetech between them hold an exclusive license to the Amiga trademarks, the AmigaOS 3.1 source-code and associated intellectual property. The outcome of the litigation between Genesi and Amiga will not affect these rights in any way and Hyperion Entertainment will take whatever action it deems appropriate to enforce its rights and intellectual property. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- V I D E O T O A S T E R C O D E R E L E A S E B E G U N 5 February, 2004 Special thanks to Newtek Incorporated (including but not limited to Paul Lara & Tim Jenison), Bill Evans and Aaron "Aarexx" Ruscetta. Born from the mind of Tim Jenison and several other high tech brains at Newtek Incorporated in Topeka Kansas in 1991. The Amiga Video Toaster launched an entire industry with its power to the people price and feature set. Replacing $250,000 of broadcast quality television studio equipment the Amiga Video Toaster allowed anyone that could afford to buy a car get into video production. Newtek did it again when they added tapeless editing hardware to the Toaster in 1994, The Flyer. The Desktop Video industry started with the Amiga Video Toaster and now Newtek in a awesome gesture to Amiga enthusiasts is allowing the source code to this amazing product to be released so it can be tinkered with and upgraded by the community. The worlds first video production system in a box now becomes the worlds first open source real time video editing system for your Amiga computer workstation. Join the team and upgrade one of the ultimate Amiga/Video editing tools of all time! e-mail: ovt AT discreetfx DOT com Open Video Toaster.org is hosted by DiscreetFX and Bill Panagouleas, Video Toaster, Aura, Lightwave 3D is a registered trademark of Newtek www.newtek.com http://www.openvideotoaster.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S C E N T - S A T I O N A L A D D I T I O N T O E - M A I L 28 February,2004 {We have no idea if this product will be available for the Amiga or not, but thought you should be warned about - er, aware of - it anyway. Brad.} Internet users in Britain may soon be able to spice up their emails with a whiff of a well-chosen scent. A British internet service provider plans to market a "scent dome", which would plug into computers much like a printer. Inside the device would be 20 disposable pockets of different scents, which could be combined to make up to 60 different smells. These would be released by electronic signals sent along a broadband internet line. As well as garnishing emails to loved ones with a burst of a favourite perfume, users could also be alerted to incoming mail by the waft of baking bread or coffee. Telewest Broadband, the company involved, is testing the scent pods and hopes to make them available for around £200. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- M I D L A N D S D E M O A N D P A R T Y P R I Z E ! 28 February, 2004 {We noticed this story mentiond what, where and why but cleverly not when. We suggest you check www.amigaworld.net from time to time to see if that information appears there. Brad} We are very pleased to announce that Alan Redhouse has given our event a *free AmigaOne Mini ITX Developer Board which we will raffle at our event! Not wanting to be left out Ben Hermans of Hyperion-Entertainment will donate a free copy of AOS4 to the lucky winner when it is available for this particular model Admittance is a mere £2.50 per person, whilst Raffle tickets are £3 each. What else? * free buffet * Drinks at low prices! * AmigaOnes with OS4 for you to see and try. * Starts 17:00 ends 23:00 * Music * DJ * Ample Parking * Plenty of nearby Guest houses at cheap prices. Bring your partners and friends and party till late. The Midlands AOS4 and Pre-Release party is taking place at, Stafford Hall, Hampton Court, Westwood, Peterborough. *(Disclaimer) Please note Eyetech wish to point out that this board is meant for users that are technically capable. Support for this developer board will be limited to the AmigaOne one purchaser mailing list only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- G O L D E D S T U D I O A I X E D I T O R U P D A T E 22 February, 2004 Trial versions of the new SP15 release can be downloaded on the GoldED web site (servicepacks for registered users will appear over the weekend, including updates for microgolded). The complete trial includes a preconfigured C/C++ development environment with popular free Amiga compilers: gcc for AmigaOS, gcc for MorphOS and vbcc. The small trial is optimized for downloading. More news and download link: http://golded.dietmar-eilert.de/news.htm http://home.arcor.de/dtmrelrt/projects/news.htm Changes: + gcc installations now have a "shared" gg tree for user-installed files which will not be affected by compiler upgrades + updated/more gcc packages (less, perl, ...) + option to disable internal font dialog to enforce use of system fonts + option to set user interface metrics automatically + microgolded integrated (single-file emergency editor) + configurable list of most recently used files in menu + all standard requesters can be switched from reqtools to asl: font, screenmode, files, string requester + improved XPK handling (now a per-file setting in the property dialog of a document; saving a file preserves encryption, password and compression) + improved font handling + installation optimized for downloading + first-steps button after installation to get people started with gcc + bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A L S O N E W F R O M F O L K S A T G O L D E D 18 February, 2004 MakeCD. The Latest version of makecdromds.module also fixes Various problems over previous version v45.11 You may download the latest version by clicking Here microgolded It is a low cost variant of GoldED AIX, designed for basic editing tasks. The editor is released in form of a single executable, for placement in the system's c folder. microgolded is the ideal editor for the boot CD of your OS because it does not need to be installed: it does not need an assign, catalogs, custom libraries etc. It will run even if the AmigaOS startup-sequence is not functional. microgolded is only available online for instant download (pay securely via paypal). http://home.arcor.de/dtmrelrt/projects/news.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- H O L L Y W O O D D E S I G N E R A N N O U N C E D 16 February, 2004 I'm proud to announce the newest Amiga software product from Airsoft Softwair today: Hollywood Designer. The program is a state of the art "what you see is what you get" editor to create presentations, games and applications for the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood and will be released soon. Hollywood Designer offers a powerful GUI that has all functions you need to unleash your creativity. With the Hollywood Designer now everyone can create funky Hollywood presentations with just a few clicks and save them for all Amiga platforms, e.g. you can create presentations for MorphOS on AmigaOS or presentations for WarpOS/AmigaOS on MorphOS. Hollywood Designer blasts the borders of the different Amiga platforms! And now here are some screenshots of Hollywood Designer in action: http://www.softwarefailure.de/images/products/designer/shot1.jpg http://www.softwarefailure.de/images/products/designer/shot2.jpg http://www.softwarefailure.de/images/products/designer/shot3.jpg http://www.softwarefailure.de/images/products/designer/shot4.jpg http://www.softwarefailure.de/images/products/designer/shot5.jpg http://www.softwarefailure.de/images/products/designer/shot6.jpg Hollywood Designer will be released in versions for AmigaOS3, WarpOS, MorphOS and - as soon as it's ready - AmigaOS4. Check back on this website soon as we reveal new details about this new impressive Amiga software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I Z I L L A S H O P , D I S C R E E T F X G A M E S H O P 23 February, 2004 DiscreetFX GameShop DiscreetFX GameShop allows Amiga/Amiga OS 4.0/MorphOS & AROS game developers to focus on what they're good at, developing a great game. Game Shop takes care of everything else, free web hosting, marketing, promotion, packaging and shipping. Free toll free number for sales and support, free downloads of demo versions of the game and works in progress from the GameShop web site. In these sometimes troubled economic times GameShop fulfills a much needed requirement in this small but regrowing community. It gives new, small, resource hungry game developers a place to publish and host their games. Not all games that are submitted will make the cut but the ones that make it will have a lot less to worry about and can focus on making the best game possible. In the past the Amiga launched the careers of many great game developers. Bullfrog, Core Design & EA just to name a few. With GameShop we hope to spark some new careers for new game developers. Today's game industry is rift with old worn out ideas that have be rehashed time and time again, have you played too many FPS or RTS games? With GameShop we are hoping to nurture new game developers with fresh ideas for the gaming industry. Now being broke does not mean your great game idea will not be published. 2004 should be a banner year for Amiga & Amiga compatible systems. All those new customers will need relaxing and entertaining games on their systems. And new game authors need free web hosting and low cost no nonsense publishing terms to get their titles available to that user base. Would you like your game published through the Game Shop? Here are the steps you need to take. 1. Contact us at gameshop AT discreetfx DOT com. 2. Be ready to provided details about your game including screen shots, demo versions, development track record and or story boards. 3. Sign the easy to read, legalize free DiscreetFX contract. 4. Submit all graphics, HTML, demos Etc. that you want published on GameShop to DiscreetFX. 5. Get back to what counts the most, finishing the development of your new game. Please contact me if you need further information or have questions. http://discreetfx.com/DiscreetFXGameShop.htm AmiZilla Shop now open DiscreetFX is always striving to find more ways to raise funds for the AmiZilla Project. We wish to motivate programmers to spend more time working on this contest so that Amiga/MorphOS/AROS users can also enjoy the rich browsing experience of the Mozilla/FireFox platform as soon as possible. Other Operating systems have enjoyed Netscape/Mozilla for years, even the ill fated BeOS. Amiga API based systems should no longer be missing out on this great application. Programming of course takes time, effort and hard work. Porting Mozilla/FireFox is of course a difficult but reachable goal. Some members of the community have been hoping for rapid progress for AmiZilla. But for a team of programmers to be interested in spending more time on the project the incentive must be higher. So today we are opening the AmiZilla Shop, here your able to buy in stock AmiZilla merchandise and have it shipped within 1-3 days. All proceeds minus manufacturing go to the AmiZilla Booty which has almost 100 members including a former Netscape Executive. Enjoy your AmiZilla products now and help build an even higher contest winning for the AmiZilla programmers. Use your AmiZilla products proudly and have yourself added to a growing list of AmiZilla supports. AmiZilla, with your efforts will succeed and help grow the respect for Amiga/MorphOS/AROS and increase the user base beyond its current levels. There may be no future for Amiga type systems without a standard web browser platform like Mozilla/FireFox. We have built a online store for your shopping pleasure with a wide variety of products. Even if you can only afford to buy a $5 sticker every little bit helps AmiZilla. Or if you're more adventurous maybe a AmiZilla thong for your girlfriend or a nice sweater will be more to your liking. http://www.amizilla.org Best regards Bill Panagouleas DiscreetFX Founder/CEO bill AT discreetfx DOT com www.discreetfx.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E L A T E S T W I N U A E A V A I L A B L E 21 February, 2004 The latest release of the PC Amiga Emulator, WinUAE has been made available today, taking it to version 0.8.25. Bugs fixed since 0.8.24: DirectDraw error when starting WinUAE 0.8.24 if display card supports multiple heads and one or more head is disabled (also depends on display driver) crash when starting emulation if more than 2 mouse-like devices are detected floppy drive sound emulation volume level was not saved to config file floppy drive sample rate conversion was broken, sound quality was very bad if selected sample rate was not 44100Hz. multimouse support under Windows XP bsdsocket emulation update, fixes CNet's SMTPd uaescsi.device IDE ATAPI CDROM translation support, fixes PlayCD New features: right border is not clipped anymore if program uses overscan (Settlers, Pinball Illusions etc..) fixed display corruption in some older programs (Mystic Tunes by Vertical, Bierkrug-tro by TEK, Forgotten Realms Slideshow '90 by Fraxion etc..) AVIOutput improved, much faster recording if any software filter (null filter recommended) is enabled readme.txt updated. (custom drive sounds, how to use multimouse etc..) http://www.winuae.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- V I R U S Z I I I ( 1 . 0 0 ) R E L E A S E D 21 February,2004 Georg Hoermann has made the final release of his Virus Checker, VirusZ III available. For the first time in six years of development, his program has shed it's beta tag. New in VirusZ III v1.00: Improved 'Snapshot' function of the vectorcheck, it now saves the information supplied by SegTracker. So please install SegTracker before doing snapshots, it helps me a lot! Finally fixed VirusZ 100% for MorphOS/Pegasos systems: a) The vector check now handles function calls using EmulLibEntry correctly and calculates "ROM" locations and sizes in the most compatible way by scanning system romtags and afterwards calling NewGetSystemAttrsA(). The memory monitor has been fixed for fake chipmem on Pegasos and supports MorphOS "ROM" areas too. There's just one problem left with pre-50.58 exec.library: size of A-Box modules cannot be calculated perfectly here and will simply be set to 0x700000. This means that you might be able to access non-existing memory areas at addresses near 0x10800000! This is on your own risk... The internal doslist scanner (for sector check/bootblock lab) works without MEMF_24BITDMA memory now which was never available on MorphOS systems. The code for 64-bit access (>4GB) has been bug fixed and enhanced to support TD_READ64/TD_WRITE64 too. Rewritten startup code to use EasyRequestArgs() in case of an error instead of DisplayAlert() which is not available in current MorphOS versions. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for all his help with MorphOS topics and for beta-testing! And thanks to Alexey Ivanov, Ilkka Lehtoranta and 'Vinny' for beta-testing too. Fixed problems in sector check concerning 4GB-border. Added some recalculation routines for strange values in de_BlocksPerTrack. Additionally de_MaxTransfer is supported now for older HDs. Removed the 'Use/Ignore External Xad-Slaves' selection from the file check prefs. This was obsolete as xadmaster.library always requires external clients to do a good job. Finally added support for disk archives and disk images to the file check. Please note that xadmaster.library v8+ is required! Now you can extract all types of archives that XAD supports, and if they contain disk images with valid files inside, these files will be checked too. Two new options therefore have been added to the file check prefs: "Extract Disk Archives" and "Check Files Inside Disk Images". Please read the docs for more information! Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for beta-testing and his helping hand concerning tricky XAD stuff. Added extra check for bootblock viruses to sector and file check (for files larger than 2048 bytes, usually diskimages). Added sector checking for files! You can select 3 different modes in the filecheck prefs, please read the docs carefully for further information... Added 'Scan Files For Bootblocks' to the file check prefs. With this option enabled, VirusZ scans for bootblock viruses inside files. Useful to detect unknown bb-virus installers. Changed/enhanced functionality of the 'Job Monitor': 'Pause'/'Continue' gadgets have been replaced by a single cycle gadget to stop/run the current job. b) 'Quit' gadget is always active now (requested by many users). All running/waiting jobs will be displayed in the report list now so you get a better overview. You can select any of them and kill them with the 'Kill Job' gadget. Useful if you accidentally have selected some wrong files/disks. Added 'Check Files...' gadget. It obviously does the same as the equally named menu item of VirusZ's main window, but you won't have to switch windows any more. Added 'One/All' cycle gadget between 'Disinfect' and 'Delete' as it determines the behaviour of both functions. If 'One' is selected, everything works like in previous versions. By selecting 'All', the delete function will delete all malicious files that have been found so far. 'Disinfect' first determines the type of the selected item (infected file or sector?) and will then start disinfecting either all files or all sectors of the selected disk. Requested by 'Underground God', hope you are happy now :) Bumped version of VirusZ III to 1.00 !!! After 6(!) years of often little development and much more lack of time VirusZ III finally has reached full functionality... You can find this release on the Virus Help Denmark or mirror sites. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S I M P L E M A I L U P D A T E D T O V . 2 3 5 February, 2004 SimpleMail is a new mailer for the Amiga classic platform but it is intended to be as portable as possible so there speaks nothing against a MorphOS or even Windows version. In the current state, SimpleMail is an alpha version but it is very stable however as we try to implement every feature so that it works and go then on to the next one. However, SimpleMail grows very fast and with your help it can overgrow YAM soon. You will always find the latest versions (which are not necessarily placed in the AMINET) here. Here is also a FAQ, please read it carefuly! If you have any questions or bugs then send them to the user-mailinglist please, whose URL you'll find in the links. Bug reports should submitted to the Bug Tracking system. But if you have encouragements so send them to one of the main developers. You can find our e-mail addresses in contact. Date News 2004/02/05 Version 0.23 of SimpleMail released! The changes are: AppIcon support (bgol) mbox files can be imported to selected folders directly (bgol) APOP support Ported to MorphOS (henes) Bug fixes http://simplemail.sourceforge.net/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P I C S H O W V 1 . 3 O A V A I L A B L E F O R U S E This page offers beta versions of some of my programs. Beta versions have new functions but may also contain unknown bugs. Documentation has not been updated since the last full version. The latest stable version with full documentation can be downloaded from Aminet. 8 February, 2004 02-Feb-2004 added multiselect support in file requesters added option to hide icons in file requesters 08-Feb-2004 added beta count to version number menu bugs fixed bug fixed: clipboard could be used only once bug fixed: non-proportional scaling with interpolation was broken Short: Datatype picture viewer for directory tools Uploader: thomas-rapp@web.de (Thomas Rapp) Author: thomas-rapp@web.de (Thomas Rapp) Type: gfx/show Version: 1.29 Kurz: Datatype Bildanzeiger für Verzeichnis-Tools Requires: util/libs/jpeglibrary.lha Introduction ============ This program is meant to be configured as picture viewer in directory tools like DirOpus or DosControl. It shows the doubleclicked picture in a borderless window on the specified custom screen. The remarkable about this program is that it reads the whole directory the picture is in and you can then choose other pictures out of this directory from a menu or by pressing the cursor keys. PicShow can also be used as a simple slide show program. It can display pictures either in sort order or randomly. When run on its own screen there are also some nice blend effects. Get the latest beta version from http://picshow.ch.to New since Version 1.21: - choose whether the zoom factor should be kept for the next picture or not - option to let the ppc do the scaling, even with interpolation disabled - key definitions allow parameters - record and save key definitions - save pictures as jpeg (needs jpeg.library) - new option: if directory contains no pictures the file requester can be shown - cut & paste support - print support - pictures are preloaded. - picture can be saved as Workbench wallpaper. - directories can be read recursively. - lots of improvements I don't remember. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L I N U X I M A G E I N S T A L L E R V 2 C D , D V D 27 February, 2004 On march 1st, the distribution of the Image Installer V2 will start. Initially, there will be versions for Pegasos 1+2, and classic Amiga computers with PPC card. In April an AmigaOne version of the Image Installer V2 CD and DVD will follow. The DVD version contains the Gentoo, Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo, Yellow Dog and PegXLin distributions ( for Pegasos 1 and 2 ). For the CD version, the wanted distribution(s) can be chosen. For more information: http://www.amipeglin.de.vu/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 2003 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 ======================================================================