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[News] Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4ANN.lu
Posted on 29-May-2004 08:15 GMT by Raffaele13 comments
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Amiganews reported that Achim Stegemann, author of Digital Almanac III, realized a porting of his good program to the new OS4. You can find more infos on his german site:
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 1 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Kronos on 29-May-2004 07:30 GMT
Don't know wether you just lack the understanding, or if you added lots of wishfull thinking ....

Here is a short summary of the actual content:

Achim has given the sources to an external developer.
This unnamed guy (or maybe gal ;) ) will attempt an OS4-port of the current DA.
Achim doesn't know how long the port will take, and betatesting won't fall into his responsibilty.
There will definitly NO new version of DA.
If the OS4-port is successfull, it will be uploaded to Aminet as a drop-in replacement for registered DA-users.
He had sold (allmost ?) no copies of DA in the last months, but it will stay on sale since he sees the possibilty to sell a few copies onces OS4 is released.
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 2 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 29-May-2004 08:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Kronos):
I would expect the existing 68k version to work perfectly well on AOS4. It works on Amithlon.

The only advantage of a compile for PPC would be that the displays would come up a bit faster.

Digital Almanac is an excellent program and certainly worth buying as it is now.
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 3 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Kjetil on 29-May-2004 10:21 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Don Cox):
If you get slow down, disconnect reconnect and renew the IP address!!

Amithlon emulates custom chips don't it?

anyway I expect it to work sines it look like system friendly program! and is probely not dependent on the custom chips, if it uses the custom chips it will not work.
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 4 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Kjetil on 29-May-2004 10:21 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Kjetil):
If you get slow down, disconnect reconnect and renew the IP address!!

Amithlon emulates custom chips don't it?

anyway I expect it to work sines it look like system friendly program! and is probely not dependent on the custom chips, if it uses the custom chips it will not work.
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 5 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Kjetil on 29-May-2004 10:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Kjetil):
Obs Copy&past from the wrong text....
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 6 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Kronos on 29-May-2004 10:36 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Kjetil):
Whatever it is what you are taking, I want some too.
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 7 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Kjetil on 29-May-2004 10:44 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Kronos):
LOL !!!!! I'm rolling of my chair. :o)
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 8 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 29-May-2004 13:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Kjetil):
"Amithlon emulates custom chips don't it?"

No, it doesn't. Every program that runs on Amithlon should run on AOS4, if there are no bugs in the 68k emulator.
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 9 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 29-May-2004 13:35 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Kronos):
Yes you are right Kronos I apologize for the incorrect report.

Unfortunately I don't speak german, so when I read:

«Astronomie: Portierung von DA III für AmigaOS 4.0»

I didn't read the article and reported badly the news basing from the title and from the author whose name and site I know.

Sorry.

Next time I will translate it first with Google or some other translation services.
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 10 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Kjetil on 30-May-2004 10:14 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Raffaele):
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/

This is the tool you need.
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 11 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Kjetil on 30-May-2004 10:16 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Raffaele):
Any way nice to se there is some upcoming AmigaOS40 programs being put on the todo list
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 12 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Fabio Alemagna on 30-May-2004 16:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Don Cox):
> No, it doesn't.

It does emulate some chipsets features.
Digital Almanac III ported to Amiga OS4 : Comment 13 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 01-Jun-2004 07:49 GMT
Indeed you all must admit the title of the news was confusing...

Because if you wrote title in german saying:

«Astronomie: Portierung von DA III für AmigaOS 4.0»

Certainly now, with the wisdom coming from past experience made, it is clear that they are talking about the "work in progress"

"portierung"

While a job ALREADY done is indicated by

"portieret"

Or so it seems judging in my ignorance... ;-)

BUT

If they had wrote something indicating "negative" such as

"keine" which means not more (or something similar)

At least if they had writing something similar (or better a more explicative title) I could had a CLUE in the title, keeping me an alert to not posting wrong or erroneous news


Must study german also... eheheheheh
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