Workbench November 2002 Issue 186 Microsoft & Join Forces !!

Previously thought of as a match that would never happen, Microsoft and Amiga Inc. have become partners in distributing Amiga DE applications.

“Amiga has partnered with Microsoft to create the best experience for gamers and entertainment on Smartphone devices”, said Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga. “We have been an early adopter of Microsoft Windows for Smartphones because of our belief it can revolutionize the mobile experience. With our new App Pak technology, users can access applications on their PDA or Smartphone without having to install them from their personal computer.”

Microsoft will work to distribute Amiga Inc. DE applications through Microsoft’s sale channels, with all proceeds going to both Amiga Inc. and DE developers directly. The target market will be Windows enabled smartphones and PDA’s (personal digital assistants). At the moment PDA’s are priced more to the business user but new powerful models with 64 megabytes of memory are on the horizon. These new models will have a more “Gameboy Advance” type retail pricing and thus should be more readily taken up by consumers. Plus the power of the new models will enable more complex software ideally suited to the Amiga DE.

Microsoft execs were shocked and amazed at an Amiga DE demo performed by Amiga Inc. CEO Bill McEwen. Microsoft and their partners had never envisioned such a thing possible as a high quality “App Pak” that can simply be plugged into a PDA or Smartphone. All their previous efforts were centered around downloading software from a CD in a PC and that was the best they could achieve.

Does all this have any negative effect on Amiga OS 4? No according to Hyperion. Hyperion have written a watertight contract that will enable OS 4 development to go ahead. Even if Amiga Inc.were to go belly up or be bought out, OS 4 development would remain firmly in Hyperion’s hands.

November 2002 Workbench 1 Editorial G’day everyone,

With Bernie Meyer attending the last meeting we got to test new Amithlon Editor Tony Mulvihill software addition's and get an update with the latest news on Bernie's 0415 161 271 progress at getting a Picasso 96 license. Unfortunately I’d say there is almost [email protected] no hope of Bernie getting a license. But let’s hope I’m proven wrong !! It Contributions would be nice to have both OS 4 and Berniethlon out for Christmas. Contributions can be soft copy (on floppy½ disk) or hard copy. It will be Good news is you can actually order an AmigaOne board from your local returned if requested and accompanied with a self- Australian dealer AnythingAmiga. Now that MAI Logic (the builders of the addressed envelope. AmigaOne boards) have fixed their hardware problems, have been The editor of the Amiga Users Group Inc. newsletter able to place orders in bulk. Workbench retains the right Tony Mulvihill to edit contributions for clarity and length. More behind the scenes info? You’ll Send contributions to: Amiga Users Group have to be there to find out. P.O. Box 2389 Seaford Victoria 3198 [email protected] Next Months Meeting Advertising December 8th 2002 Advertising space is free Don’t forget it’s the second Sunday for members to sell private items or services. of the month and the last meeting For information on before Christmas. Maybe we’ll have commercial rates, contact: Tony Mulvihill OS 4 for demo? 0415 161 2721 Last Months Meeting [email protected] What is the future of Amiga? How October 20th 2002 Deadlines many people are considering an Latest news and info. Workbench is published AmigaOne? Will any Cyberstorm each month. The deadline Machine demonstrations. for each issue is the 1st owners be purchasing OS 4? How Info on the DFX floppy interface and Tuesday of the month of about PC’s or Macintoshes, how publication. Thylacine USB card. many members have PC’s? Latest Amithlon happenings from Reprints Look for a survey on the maillist. All articles in Workbench Bernie Meyer himself. are Copyright 2002 the Australian Designed Amiga Users Group Inc. If you missed the meeting you missed unless otherwise indicated. Articles may be reproduced a lot of great behind the scenes info. for noncommercial purposes if accompanied by a credit line including the This Months Meeting original authors name and the words. November 17th 2002 Reprinted from Workbench Latest news from the world of the newsletter of the Amiga Users Group. Amiga. http://www.aug.org.au A demonstration of remote Disclaimer controlling of Amiga’s and PC’s The views expressed in the using the free remote access software Amiga Users Group Inc. newsletter Workbench are VNC. Have you ever wanted to see those of the authors and do Netscape/Modzilla/Internet Explorer not necessarily represent the views of the editor or running on an Amiga screen? I’ll the AUG committee. show you how at November's $134.95 +GST + S&H meeting. http://thylacine.boing.net

November 2002 Workbench 2 In This Issue Bytes & Pieces Amiga-Microsoft 1 Editorial 2 Hollywood now available planned. On the Hollywood Group News 2 product page you will find an Finally! After a long time of extensive overview including Bytes & Pieces 3 development, the Multimedia screenshots from the WOASE 4 authoring system Hollywood program. WOASE Pics 8 is available. In the next days some Cool Ami 10 applications done with Hollywood is a powerful and Amiga Features 13 extensive program which is Hollywood will be presented unique on the Amiga. here. Hollywood is delivered Boing.Net 14 You could compare on CD-ROM and can be Anything Amiga 14 Hollywood with a modern ordered now. Dealer Directory 15 version of Scala: But About The Group 16 Hollywood works fully in Andreas Falkenhahn, 24bit mode and uses only Airsoft Softwair Amiga Inc system functions to grant compatibility on every Amiga http://www.softwarefailure.de/ Offices system. en/prod_hollywood.html Closed !! Because of this extreme system friendly programming Amiga Inc. Hollywood does also run on have closed Amiga emulators with great their offices speed. Versions of Hollywood and cut their for MorphOS and AmigaOS4 and maybe also AROS are phones.

Sydney AmigaOne display If you believe the rumors, “The last meeting for SAUG took Amiga Inc are bankrupt and place on Sunday 20th October. finished.

A large amount of Amiga However, Amiga Inc. hardware was on display at the explained the closure as meeting, but as expected the star of the show was the AmigaOne. moving to a new location to better allow dealing with Ross Vumbaca of The Sydney Amiga Users Group has been their new Microsoft doing development on the AmigaOne and gave a very good customers. rundown on the board itself and explained all the ins and outs of the A1’s PPCBoot bios. All of this was being displayed on Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. Jeff Sereno’s 42” Plasma screen. said the phones were cut off At approx. 4.30 pm we went live with a question and answer as being the only way they session with Alan Redhouse.” -Doug Moir/AnythingAmiga could combat the constant SAUG - http://welcome.to/SAUG phone spam from Amiga Pictures - http://www.anythingamiga.com/saug/index1.html Fanatics.

November 2002 Workbench 3 World Of Amiga SE

On the weekend of Mediator Support Team Thendic France (With the November the bplan and MorphOS) second 2002 one of Total Amiga Magazine the biggest Amiga Weird Science Zeoneo only shows was held Eyetech gave a good talk on in England. Also the following User the Amiga ONE SE, Hans- Groups. Joerg Frieden talked about the The annual “World Of Amiga goals and achievements for South East” show this year Amiga North Thames OS 4 and Fleecy Moss gave boasted more companies Amiga Support Association Amiga Inc’s slant on all the displaying their wares and a Huddersfield Amiga User recent happenings. great line up of speaker Group including Alan Redhouse of South Essex Amiga Link Hans-Joerg Frieden of Eyetech, Hans-Joerg Frieden Blackpool Amiga Club Hyperion gave news of of Hyperion and Fleecy Moss Amiga OS 4.0 of Amiga Inc. Some of the features and The goals were to take the 68k A great line up of companies events held at the show based Amiga operating were also in attendance, were, system, move the code base to PPC, untie the operating Exhibitors at the show were AmigaOne and OS4 system from the Amiga as follows. PageStream and ImageFX chipset (the current Amiga OS Demonstration version is very heavily 100% Amiga Magazine USB on the Amiga dependent on the Amiga Amiga (Fleecy Moss) Games arena with custom chips), update the Cloanto competitions and prizes Amiga OS at it’s core level Eyetech (With the AmigaOne) and prepare the operating Forematt Home Computing Some good presentations were system as a host for Amiga Kicksoft held. Alan Redhouse of DE.

November 2002 Workbench 4 World Of Amiga SE

The preparation as an Amiga inclusion in later releases of DE host is important because OS4x it’s a bit silly to have a product known as “Amiga” Roadshow is the new TCP/IP DE and not have it able to run stack for networking and on Amiga OS. internet use and is the fastest stack on AmigaOS. Only the to provide much more Here are some of the features dialer and a few parts of the usability. of OS 4.0 GUI need to be finished. PPC datatypes. HAL or The Amiga Fast File System is USB stack. Hardware Abstraction reimplemented as PPC with True Type Font support. Layer. new tools for backup and New Harddrive Toolbox. recovery. PPC version of MUI This is to enable the relatively IBrowse 2.3 easy movement of the A PPC native CDROM AHI with Soundblaster Live operating system to different filesystem is implemented and support. PPC systems. will include packet writing PDF read support and printing and a limited version of the of PDF’s. Virtual Memory. Phillips mount rainier CD file MooVid with DIVX movie This will not be a hack but system. This allows you to use support. will fully system intergrated your CDRW as a big floppy at the core. There is also a drive without the hassle of CD A JIT (just in time or general rework of all memory writing software. dynamic) 68k translator that is handling, including stack achieving better than 50mhz enlargement on the fly (on the The Layers Library is 68060 speed on Cyberstorms. current Amiga OS running out rewritten in “C” and windows Expected performance will be of stack memory is can now be optionally moved 5 to 10 times 060 speed on the responsible for around off the screen as in Macintosh AmigaOne SE at 600mhz. 30~50% of system crashes) and Windows machines. and memory protection is Currently Amiga OS 4.0 is under development for AmiDock is totally rewritten 99% finished and the

November 2002 Workbench 5 World Of Amiga SE performance is extraordinarily By around the middle of 2001 fast. For example Amiga OS 4 Amiga Inc runs out of money has a message signaling time and can not pay for of 4 microseconds on an development costs. It’s then AmigaOne SE at 600mhz. that discussions are initiated Compare this to Mac OSX between Eyetech and data is shifted across the PCI which has a message signaling Hyperion on a way to develop bus. time of 400 microseconds. both the AmigaOne and OS 4. MAI have had their Amiga OS is even faster than Haage & Partner refuse to play northbridge chip in QNX and QNX purports to be ball in helping with OS 4 and development for around 8 a realtime operating system. Escena admit defeat with their years, however it was never northbridge chip design. really in mass production Alan Redhouse gave a very apart from it’s use in settop meaningful talk on the Eyetech start discussions with boxes and a few hundred AmigaOne development and MAI Logic for use of their Teron CX developer boards. some of the problems that PPC northbridge chip as it’s MAI’s biggest customers for had to be overcome. the only PPC northbridge chip their chip are infact Eyetech of (besides Apple’s) that can England and Bplan of September 2000, handle AGP slots. Germany Alan Redhouse of Eyetech and Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. Hyperion bypass Haage & Also the BIOS firmware have their first discussions Partner and make new produced by the American about developing a new contracts with developers for company Softex, refused to Amiga. OS 4.0. allow the computer to boot and precious time had to be December 2000, Delays in shipping the allocated by Hyperion to contracts are worked out with AmigaOne developer boards develop a new BIOS based on Escena to design the have occured partly because a the open source PPCBoot AmigaOne and Haage & bug was found in the code. Partner to produce Amiga OS northbridge chip that causes it 4.0. to hang when large amounts of

November 2002 Workbench 6 World Of Amiga SE

The good thing is Hyperion low price for a low volume managed to achieve this in board. As an example MAI only one month! Something Logic sells it’s Teron CX Softex, with all it’s engineers PPC board to developers at couldn't do in six months of the real cost of the board, work. Hyperion also grafted a which is several thousand a PCI bus and has special mini x86 emulator into the dollars. The AmigaOne is a timing to allow x2, x4 speeds. BIOS, so any initialization of very good deal, especially if PCI/AGP cards at startup can you compare it to the current PCI be performed. This means DCE PPC accelerators. Peripheral Component standard x86 graphics cards Interconnect. and the like will work straight So now the AmigaOne is This is a fast modern way to away before the OS even almost ready to roll. The plug in expansion cards in loads. northbridge chip problems have been rectified, a supply computers. You can plug in There been a lot of talk in the of G3 & 4 PPC chips has been PCI cards to with a Amiga forums about the secured and OS 4 is 99% special PCI expansion board. dongle code being applied to done. the AmigaOne boards. NORTHBRIDGE The go ahead has been given, The northbridge chip is a Eyetech and Hyperion have AmigaOne production boards controller chip that directs agreed on the dongle code to have been ordered from MAI internal data between memory, protect Hyperion’s investment logic and will be delivered in cache, PCI/AGP systems and in OS 4 and allow them to the coming weeks. The future processor. You might think of make a return on that of Amiga is looking good. it as the traffic cop of a investment so they have the computer. funds to further develop. Glossary CACHE For those who buy a non- A special piece of very fast dongled board to run BIOS computer memory used to Linux...well, that’s all you’ll Basic Input Output System temporarily store data and be able to run. Amiga OS 4 The boot and initialization instructions. The use of cache will not be sold separately for code of a PC. Usually stored memory greatly speeds up the AmigaOne boards. However in a flash rom on late model operation of a computer. those who buy an authentic computers and is upgradable AmigaOne board will receive by electronically “flashing” ROM OS 4 as part of the package the rom. Read Only Memory. and will also be able to run A type of memory that can be Linux should they so desire. AGP Accelerated Graphics Port programmed once and read Eyetech have very carefully This is a faster dedicated port many times. This type of budgeted the production of the between the graphics chipset memory holds it’s AmigaOne and it’s only this and the main processor. It’s programming even with the careful budgeting that’s speed is usually double that of power off. brought the boards in at such a

November 2002 Workbench 7 World Of Amiga SE

Top Left. Latest revision AmigaOne SE board. Top Right. Amiga OS 4 booting to a mini test shell on an AmigaOne. Middle Left. A very custom Amiga. Pictures from World of Left. Tales Of Tamar on a Mediator Amiga. Amiga South East Above. Items for sale.

November 2002 Workbench 8 World Of Amiga SE

Top Pictures. Crowds Below Left. A Pegasos computer running MorphOS Below Right. The great line of Pegasos machines on display.

November 2002 Workbench 9 Cool Ami

power cord before How to keep your attempting any of this work. Do not attempt Amiga cool. modifying the power supply unless you By David Myers really know what you are doing. You may With summer approaching, damage the power now is the time to think about supply, causing keeping your Amiga from electrocution or a fire overheating. In this article, I’ll next time it is powered outline some of the issues up. If in doubt get a involved generally and give a qualified electronics practical example in the case technician to do the of the A4000 desktop model, work. I will not accept radiate away inside the perhaps one of the more responsibility for any damage computer’s case. Adding a fan notorious Amiga models for or injury caused by these greatly increases the efficiency overheating. Before we start, modifications. Perform them of the heatsink, and is the however, the usual, and most at your own risk. perfect way to help combat an important disclaimer: overheating CPU. With that out of the way, we CAUTION! can first look at the mechanics Some CPUs don’t have a of heat generation within a heatsink to start with and a Some of these modifications computer. Heat is generated by Pentium heatsink/fan combo is involve modifying the power the CPU, with the 68040 being ideal here. Unfortunately the supply which contains the worst offender in this various Motorola CPUs are LETHAL voltages. Make regard. Other heat sources are smaller than the various sure you remove the mains the power supply and also Pentiums, so the clips supplied certain types of hard with the heatsinks are not drive, particularly suitable. Instead, glue the those that are either heatsink on with special heat of old design or are of conductive heatsink glue. particularly high Failing that, superglue will speed. In some cases work, but make sure the layer graphics chips on of superglue is thin and that graphics cards can there are no air gaps. also generate large amounts of heat. Another alternative is to use one of the many “chipset The CPU is usually coolers” which are available kept cool by means of for PCs. These are smaller a heatsink, which than traditional CPU coolers, allows the heat to but still perform well enough

November 2002 Workbench 10 Cool Ami for just about everything improve it’s efficency, which removing the tinplate shield except overclocked 68040s. will be explained below in the inside the Amiga (at the cost A4000 case, though it’s pretty of potentially greater radio/TV These coolers may be used on much applicable to other interference). A1200 owners graphics chips as well, desktop Amigas. can remove the trapdoor cover particularly the Permedia 2 as and add extra “feet” to raise used on the Cybervision and One really important thing in the A1200 an Blizzardvision cards. For cooling a case, which is extra centimetre or two, some strange reason Phase almost never mentioned, is allowing a little more air to 5/DCE did not fit a heatsink airflow. The fan might be get to their accelerator card. here. Given that at an ambient blowing the hot air out, but it Of course, the ultimate answer temperature of 20 deg C, I has to be replaced by cool air is to towerise your Amiga. measured 69 deg C on a from somewhere else. In other Owners of the A4000 desktop Permedia, and that the words, the computer’s case model can try the following maximum rated temperature must have an air inlet of some ideas, some of which may be of the Permedia chip is 70 deg type. Cutting or drilling holes applicable to the A3000 and C, I strongly advise adding a in the appropriate place may A2000. heatsink. help, but make a point of ensuring the air flows past all The diagram shows the main If your hard drive is one of the the hot internal components on airflow path through the few that generate a lot of heat, it’s way to the fan. A4000. It enters through the various hard drive coolers can perforated frame around the be found at PC shops or swap Owners of desktop A1200s Zorro backplane, passes over meets. They usually fit over or and A500s have fewer options. the Zorro expansion cards, under the hard drive and blow There are no fans within the then through the gap between air from outside the computer case to expel hot air. It is the Zorro daughterboard and over the hard drive. possible to improve matters by the front panel. The airflow

While a heatsink/fan on your CPU or chipset may help in cooling those chips, they have a problem. They simply move the heat off the chip and dump it inside the computer’s case. This heats everything inside the case and also reduces the efficiency of the heatsinks. The answer there is to use a fan to blow the hot air outside the case. This fan is built into the power supply in the A2000, A3000 and A4000. There are a number of ways to

November 2002 Workbench 11 Cool Ami continues over the CPU board, the power supply in front of then enters the power supply the fan. It can be left open, through the fan and is finally though make sure cables don’t expelled through the louvres get lodged in it, or you can fit at the back of the power a wire fan guard to cover the supply. In order to improve opening. These guards can be airflow, the work has been found at electronics stores, or broken up into sections. Each out of the power supply from section is numbered in a an old PC. As a bonus, the square box in the drawing reduction in air resistance will louvres bent to widen the above. Doing the work on also make the fan quieter. gaps. A better way is to each section will provide an Incidentally, try to route the actually cut away the louvres, incremental improvement. ribbon cables for the drives in and fit a metal fan guard over a way that allows free airflow the hole. Do not leave the hole Section 1: in the area in front of the exposed as there will be high This is where the air enters power supply. voltage components exposed. Don’t forget to remove any the A4000. It is a perforated The fan itself can be sped up metal filings left over before frame around the Zorro to provide more airflow. To do powering up! backplane. First, make sure it this, the PCB needs to be is not clogged with dust. removed from the power Section 4: Clean it with a soft brush. supply case, and a 47 ohm Airflow here can be improved resistor in series with the red This section is optional, and by cutting away the section fan lead shorted out. This will is intended mainly for those above the top Zorro slot. This then mean that the fan will be with CPU boards that generate will be hidden when the running on it’s full rated 12 V a lot of heat. Cut a hole in the A4000 cover is fitted. If you DC, and will be faster (and metal panel and fit a small have a Zorro card that needs noiser - though this is more CPU fan over the hole, with extra cooling, you can then than offset by cutting away the the airflow blowing across the place it in the top slot, as there perforations). The resistor is CPU board. Since the air now will be more airflow located on the PCB itself, next comes from the gap between along the top board. Another to the fan lead. the plastic front panel and the way to improve airflow is to metal case, you may need to remove some of the blanking Section 3: drill a couple of holes in an plates in unused slots. unobtrusive spot in the plastic This is where the warmed air panel to allow airflow. Section 2: is expelled out the back, through a set of louvres As always, I am happy to Firstly, read and understand stamped in the case of the answer any hardware related the caution above. This power supply. Again, read the questions at AUG meetings. If section deals with the fan, warning above. These louvres you have any ideas for future which is located inside the restrict the airflow. There are hardware articles, please ask, I power supply. Airflow can be two ways to improve it - a am happy to oblige. improved by cutting away the screwdriver can be inserted perforated area in the case of (with the power off!) and the

November 2002 Workbench 12 AmigaOS Features

show them on screen. The os A powerful shell, as well as a Features from could handle that. nice intuitive (but not overly, like the Mac) graphic AmigaOS that Long filenames from the start. environment. Linux got this. A jpeg picture was always Windows still doesn’t. I miss picture.jpeg. These were just some of the By Hasse Fully user patchable. Any os features that made AmigaOS a function could be patched with tinkerers dream. Sheer Here are some of the features SetPatch. The only reason elegance all the way. It from the original AmigaOS people have been able to use it saddens me that Linux, with (now nearly 20 years old) that up until now (and also a virus it’s monolithic and archaic I still miss in operating writers dream in the old days). approach, is the best viable os systems today: alternative at the moment. System wide scripting/IPC People growing up with The device system. Need to with Rexx (ARexx really). All computers nowadays have pipe something over TCP/IP? serious programs were fully really missed out on Just use TCP:. Need to open a scriptable with ARexx. something special. console for whatever reason. Extremely powerful concept. Just use CON:. Etc. etc. Screens. Think of them like Full localization of all virtual programs through a library (it desktops. But still amazes me that programs every for Windows are released in program different language versions). could have one if you Dynamic size RAM disk, wanted. always present. Just copy Flipping something to RAM:, and there screens was it is. No more temp files all instantaneous over the place. and if you dragged Recoverable ram disk them, you (RAD). A ram disk that could even survives booting, and can even have split- be booted from. screen resolutions Datatypes. A kind of codec (although this architecture for every kind of was more file. Programs didn’t need to thanks to the know what a gif file, a jpeg hardware). file or a text file was or how to

November 2002 Workbench 13 Eyetech Z4 Tower Case AU$420.00 on your A1200. A necessary item for tower Eyetech’s famous A1200 tower conversion. conversions.

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November 2002 Workbench 15 AUG Contact Information Coordinator Tony Mulvihill 0415 161 271 [email protected] Assistant Coord Jim Lewis 0412 392 099 [email protected] Treasurer Michael Mavracic 9783 8503 [email protected]

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