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The first version of the NetBSD porting tools has been uploaded
to ftp.ninemoons.com and is now available in pub/ade/alpha/bsd:

  -r--r--r--  166902 Mar 25 11:45 bsdutils-0.1-bin.tgz

It is also available from imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de:/pub/amiga.

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PRESS RELEASE - MARCH 26, 1997
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information contact

Fred Fish, [e-mail]
602-491-0442 (voice)
602-491-0048 (FAX)

Andreas Huber, [e-mail]
++49-7462/91134 (voice)
++49-7462/7435  (FAX)


CRONUS AND PRODAD ANNOUNCE SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
Cronus and proDAD Software provide complete p.OS development environment.

Tempe, Arizona (March 26, 1997) - Cronus, a software development and
distribution company, and proDAD Software, creator of the p.OS operating
system, announced today that they have reached an agreement to distribute a
complete set of software tools and a developer version of p.OS that will
allow developers to begin porting their software to the new p.OS operating
system.  The upcoming Geek Gadgets Version 2 CD-ROM (Amiga Developers
Environment) from Cronus, due for release in April 1997, will contain a
developers release of p.OS and all necessary tools for p.OS development.

Using these tools, it is possible to write programs that run on both p.OS
and AmigaOS using the same binary file.  A shared library that runs on both
operating systems provides applications with all necessary ANSI C and POSIX
support, while special startup code allows programs to determine at startup
whether they are running on p.OS or AmigaOS and make the appropriate system
calls.  Using this technique, the development tools themselves run on either
operating system with negligible overhead or increased binary size.

The p.OS developer release requires an m68020 (or higher) processor, a hard
drive, and a minimum of 2 MB of RAM.  Applications developed for this
portable operating system are source code compatible with p.OS ports to
other architectures such as the PowerPC.  With a simple recompile,
developers of p.OS applications can reach the entire installed base of p.OS
users, regardless of the underlying hardware.  By porting to p.OS now,
developers will be able to take advantage of easy migration to future p.OS
releases on other architectures and enjoy the benefits of hardware
independence (and a brighter market).

Geek Gadgets and the Geek Gadgets logo are trademarks of Cronus.
p.OS and the p.OS logo are trademarks of proDAD Software.


ABOUT CRONUS

Cronus
1840 East Warner Road
Suite 105-265
Tempe, AZ  85284
USA

Phone: [phone]
FAX:   [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
WWW:   http://www.ninemoons.com
ftp:   ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com

Cronus was founded by Fred Fish, author of the famous "Fish Disks" for
Amiga, the "Fish" series of CD-ROMs, the "Amiga Developers Environment", and
other Amiga software products.  Fred Fish has been involved in the
distribution of software for the Amiga since 1985.


ABOUT PRODAD

proDAD Software
Feldelestr. 24
D-78194 Immendingen
Germany

Phone:    ++49-7462/91134
FAX:    ++49-7462/7435
Email:    [e-mail]
WWW:    http://www.prodad.de

proDAD Software was founded 1990 and is the leading producer of video
software for the Amiga.  The p.OS project was started in 1995 to produce a
portable operating system for proDAD Software and other innovative Amiga
developers, while providing an easy migration path from AmigaOS and
retaining all the expected features and advantages such as full preemptive
multitasking and responsive user interfaces.
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The 970328 snapshot of the Amiga Developers Environment is now available for
ftp from ftp.ninemoons.com:pub/ade/current.  See the "README" file in the
pub/ade directory for more information about the ADE.  See the "Changes"
file for a quick list of some (but not all) of the changes since the last
snapshot.

The complete ftp distribution is approximately 432 Mb (compressed), which
includes original baseline sources (154 Mb), amiga sources (160 Mb), amiga
binaries (106 Mb), and diff files (12 Mb).  When unarchived, the binary tree
is approximately 270 Mb, if you install everything.  The source and baseline
trees are approximately 650 Mb each when unarchived.

For the convenience of those that are unable to acquire the full ADE via
ftp, because of limited internet access bandwidth or cost considerations, a
CD-R disk containing this material is available from Cronus.  See the Cronus
web site (http://www.ninemoons.com) for additional information or to place
an order via the web.  You can also send email to "[e-mail]" for
details.

Since there was room on the CD-R disk, we have also included the partial
port of Geek Gadgets for BeOS DR8.2.  These binaries will NOT run on the
upcoming DR9 release.  The CD-R disk also contains archives of the Commodore
include files integrated into the appropriate place in the binary tree.
These files are NOT available in the ftp version because our license to
distribute them applies only to CD-ROM distributions.

I would recommend that if you have the diskspace, that you create a new ADE
directory, say dh0:ade-new, assign ADE: to it, cd to ADE:, extract all of
the binary distribution lha and tgz files in that directory, and then put
back all of your local changes (if any).  That way you can be sure that you
are starting with a clean install.  Simply extracting the distribution lha
archives on top of an existing binary tree is NOT advised.

If you sent in patches that were not included in this snapshot, they are
probably still in my TODO patch directory.  Please feel free to inquire
about them to make sure they were not overlooked.  Over the next one or two
weeks I will be integrating some more patches and some new packages, and
then will do another snapshot just prior to cutting the master for the next
ADE CD release.

Have fun!

-Fred Fish
 28-Mar-97
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