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There has been lots of talk about Centek the last time. That the Phenix computer has gone down, which apart from Milan 2 seemed like the last outpost if you wanted something new that ran Atari software.
The reason for Phenix to dissapear seems to have been the software side. One of the key developers of "Dolmen" had left the team. As everything in Phenix was concentrated around this, the project fell apart like a punktured balloon.
However after these news, lots of people started to suggest Centek that they should look at anohter operating system, which were already available and prooven to be stable and well developed, namely MiNT.
And for once in a lifetime, it looks like the company listened to it's customers. As you can now read about the "Phenix 260T" workstation as "the first MiNT computer". The Phenix 260T is a scaled down - but still hotted version of the "old" Phenix. The specs are:
CPU: 68060 / 83 MHz (one or two chips)
LOCAL BUS: 83 MHz/32 bit. 266 mbyte/sec
EXPANSIONS: One AGP slot, five PCI slots, two USB ports
MEMORY: 2 DIMM holders, up to 1 gigabyte
FLASH ROM: 512 kilobytes
IDE ATA-4: UDMA-33 with PCI-MASTER. 132 mbyte/sec
MISC: PS/2 ports for keyboard+mouse. Realtime clock with nvram. ATX 2.1 case.
And now for the fun part, buying the damn thing. :-) Anyone who read the original Phenix price surely had their pizza in the wrong throat. However, this new cut-down Phenix is in real lowprice-land.
Base system:
ZIP 100 drive
32 megabyte memory
AGP RAGE Pro graphics
6.4 gigabyte harddisk
CD-Rom drive
Keyboard/Mouse
Minitower
Price with one 060: 913 Euro ($900, SEK8000, DM1800)
Price with two 060: 1142 Euro ($1100, SEK10000, DM570)
Personally I think this is the best news from Centek in ages. Just hope the machine will be available in a short while.
All infos above were collected either on IRC or from Centeks homepage. I don't take resonsibility for the accuracy, you should take it mostly as rumours, except those parts snipped right from Centeks website.
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As a lot of people have been asking about Sid Sound Designer replay routines that actually work (what a revolutionary feature :)). I've decided to upload a version that is heavily bugfixed. It was planned to be included in the fortcoming "useful routines archive" that will be coming online in a while, but what the hell, if people needs it now let them have it. It plays SID-Wave on all three channels and works with ST/STe/MSTe/TT030/PAK030/Falcon/CenturboII with or without Fastram. I belive the basic of these routines are from Synergy, then changed alot by MC/AnimalMine (for the SSD editor). Defjam then ripped the replay from SSD 3.5-preview, and bugfixed it. However, FroST/Loud bugfixed it even more (Falcon IDE was resetted with Defjams version) so now it seems to be really safe to use. The package consist of a binary module, an example source how to call it and one example song.
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» Download the SSD replayer
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gwEm writes: writes:
At the Psycho Hack demoparty in Hull last weekend I was able to work on some bug fixes and feature requests for maxYMiser. The main changes surround features for game developers. Its now possible to trigger YM and/or DMA sound effects via the replayer. Also, the replayer now allows realtime pattern switching during playback.
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» Download maxYMiser FM v1.62
» Visit the maxYMiser webpage
» At Demozoo
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To finally clearify why some soundtracker replayers do not work on the CT2, not even in "Standard falcon mode". The situation is that Centek choosed not to include support for the "DSP-INT" line in the CT2. A few soundtracker replays/utils does use this feature (it is a feature after all). Centek however tells us "only bad coded software uses DSP-INT". Well they really shouldn't call the normal-mode "100% compatible" when it isn't. So, now we know the reason why "Dream Dimension" and our other demos using FatalDesign/AMIGADSP routines fail with most CT2's. It wasn't a software error, but an error on Centeks side, even if they don't see it that way themself. However, it should be safe to use the DSPMOD32, GRAOUMF and AMIGA030 players. Other news from Centek include the revision-b of the Centurbo II card, and progress of the Phenix. Mangue/Adrenaline tells us that the Dolmen OS will be something like Solaris, which I personally find hard to belive.
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