| "CW 1 to 53" V1.1.3 released Changes in this version:
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| "CW 1 to 53" V1.1.2 released Changes in this version:
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| ExifRenamer V2.4.0 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| "CW 1 to 53" V1.1.1 released This version makes the app compatible with older devices running watchOS 6 and iOS 13. |
| "CW 1 to 53" V1.1.0 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| "CW 1 to 53" V1.0.2 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| "CW 1 to 53" V1.0.1 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| "CW 1 to 53" V1.0.0 released At least in Europe, planning on the basis of calendar weeks is an indispensable tool in professional life. As I am an avid user of Apple Watch and would like to have the current date together with the current calendar week always displayed on the watch face, I looked around for appropriate apps. Apps already exist, but none of them met my expectations in terms of configurability, functionality and ease of use with a visually appealing user interface. For this reason I developed my own app for the Apple Watch, which I publish hereby. |
| Oscilyzer V1.0.0 released Since I have been interested in digital measurement technology for a very long time, I developed an app many years ago, which is a combination of oscilloscope, spread spectrum analyzer and AM/FM synthesizer. This app has been continuously improved for a long time, adapted to new technologies (e.g. Apple's graphic accelerator Metal) and always used only for me personally. But since the state of the app can be described as mature and surely other people can use it for their own experiments and measurements, I decided to publish it now... :-) |
| Compatibility information about ExifRenamer and macOS "Catalina" Due to the fact that I get repeated requests about the compatibility of ExifRenamer to macOS "Catalina": Since version 2.2.0, ExifRenamer is a 64bit application. During 2018/2019, I've spent quite some time to clean up the source code of ExifRenamer to being able to provide a modern implementation of this application. As a result, I've successfully tested ExifRenamer with the beta and release versions of macOS Catalina! :-) |
| ExifRenamer V2.3.3 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| ExifRenamer V2.3.2 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| ExifRenamer V2.3.1 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| ExifRenamer V2.3.0 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| Added a new JavaScript section This new section currently contains ports of some of my old Java applets which makes it possible to run them in every web browser. |
| ExifRenamer V2.2.3 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| ExifRenamer V2.2.2 released Here are the changes of this version:
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| ExifRenamer V2.2.1 released This version fixes a lot of smaller issues which mostly were present due to the massive work required to make version 2.2.0 possible. Here are the changes of this version:
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| ExifRenamer V2.2.0 released Hey, I'm back with some news after so many years! Stay tuned! :-) After having started a complete rewrite of ExifRenamer using Swift, it became more and more clear that this project will cost more time as I can currently invest in my spare time. As an update of ExifRenamer became urgently required (due to the 64bit requirement of macOS High Sierra), I decided to go back to the old code basis and two perform the "Swiftyfication" on an incremental basis in the future. It was a huge task to make ExifRenamer's ancient code compilable with the latest Xcode. A lot of code cleanups and internal changes were required. But in the end, I succeeded in bringing ExifRenamer "back to life"... :-) ExifRenamer now is a 64bit and 32bit (x86) application with a deployment target of macOS 10.11 or later. |
| ExifRenamer V2.1.3 released This version provides compatibility to Snow Leopard's "Image Capture" and fixes several smaller issues. |
| ExifRenamer V2.1.1 released This version provides a "Check for updates..."-feature and fixes a language-problem of the PayPal system. |
| ExifRenamer V2.1.0 released The main feature of this version is that ExifRenamer now is a Universal Binary application which runs natively on Mac OS X machines equipped with an intel or PowerPC processor. This version also fixes some smaller bugs. I am currently working on a new major update of ExifRenamer which I could have ready within some weeks if I have enough spare time left. |
Classic-Computing 2007
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| Summary 2006 / Year 2007 greetings In spite of the enormous delay, I have decided to publish a summary of my personal year 2006: English version / German version |
Doing hardware developments, again
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GB60Board schematics and layout released
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| Golden Image Mousepad If you own one of those old, but really excellent optical Amiga mices from Golden Image but seach for a new mouse pad, I can provide some help: Just print this picture with a high resolution printer... ;-) Works really very well! Unfortunately I have forgotten the correct scaling factor. However, it is quite easy to find out the right dot size - especially if you still own the old (damaged) mouse pad. |
| Summary 2005 / Year 2006 greetings English version / German version |
Laser photos
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Universal "GB60Board"
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Pictures of july/august 2005
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Experimental driving circuit for a synchronous harddrive motor
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| Summary 2004 / Year 2005 greetings English version / German version |
Semiconductor macro photos
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| Interview with me in AmigaInsider 3 (German Language) now available The interview was made several weeks ago and covers some details about my work on ArtEffect 5, AmiDock, the Docky system and the application.library for AmigaOS 4. If you are interested, you can find the interview in issue 3 of AmigaInsider starting on page 12 (free download using the title link). |
Nightshots 2004-11-07
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| Server misconfiguration! Due to a misconfiguration of my web hoster, the scripts of my homepage aren't working fully correct. I am in contact with my web hoster to fix the server installation and to bring this site soon completely online again. Sorry for the trouble! 2004-07-21, Update: The problems have been solved in the meanwhile - everything now works again as usual. |
Holiday 2004-06
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AmigaOS 4 event in Essen, Germany
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Experiments with the microwave oven
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| My first creation using GarageBand... Yesterday afternoon I bought Apple's great software package iLife 04 containing among some other cool stuff the new software GarageBand. I wondered about what a musically totally unskilled guy like me could do with it... I have to say, for my programmers hands :-) it doesn't sound that bad... if you want to judge yourself, download it here: SecondRhythms.mp3 (8.9MB) The name was chosen because it was my second project file... the first one noone really wants to listen to... ;-) I would highly appreciate becoming feedback! |
| A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2004! English version / German version |
A tubes amplifier for relaxation...
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| Change of my web hoster Within the next few days, this website will be transferred to a new web hoster. Of course, in theory, the transition should happen without much problems - but we all know Murphy's law... So if you encounter page downtimes or bounced mails, please try again later... Many thanks for you patience! Update: The transition was done without problem or any time offline! |
| Sitemap added For having a quick-access to all subpages of my homepage, there now is also a sitemap. |
Not recommended for reproduction... ;-)
Fascinating how robust the construction of those microwave oven doors are... ;-) This experiment is explicitely not recommended for reproduction!!! |
| Off Topic: Chris Kennedy's CD "Change Of Heart" now available! During my studies in Regensburg, I met a remarkable student from Great Britain who had astonishing capabilities in terms of music - Chris Kennedy. Together with my best friend Roland Menzel, they recorded and mastered a CD full of really cool music done at several locations. Note that it is not a usual thing that I post off-topic stuff here, but this music is really very professional and I hope that my friend Chris gets some more fans when publishing this news here... ;-) Just have a look at Chris' page and decide yourself! |
| Article about AmiDock and application.library publically available In february 2003 I wrote an article about the features of my projects AmiDock and application.library which will be included in AmigaOS4.0 for the "Club Amiga" magazine. Amiga Inc. decided to make this article now also publically accessible for other readers. You can access it over the title link; I hope you enjoy the reading... :-) |
... arrived in Gerlingen!
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Goodbye Regensburg...
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| A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2003! English version / German version |
| ExifRenamer V2.0.1 released This version is fixes some smaller bugs of version 2.0 and doesn't introduce new features - but it is worth to update it! |
| How to repair keyboards... If you have a broken keyboard where one ore more keys don't respond properly, anymore, then you should read my description how to repair it in a clean way. Read more under the title link. |
| Java Applets-pages updated Being also a Mac OS X user since the first day, I didn't like the fact that the applets on my homepage only worked with very few OS X browsers. I have checked several times and read a lot of documentation and I'm sure that there is a bug in OS X's appletviewer which has to do with parsing URLs. My used URL-scheme (for example ?location=applets/vlife/index) seems to confuse the URL parser. Today I discovered a way to get all applets in spite of this problem to work by using absolute applet paths. I have checked with every Java-enabled browser on my systems and now it works everywhere! All pages in the Java Applets section have been changed - some were even relayouted for better "user experience". |
| Unveiling OS3.9's AmiDock Easteregg... :-) Yes - you perhaps never did expect that but AmiDock has an Easteregg, too... :) As I do not know a not trustful person which could be used to spread around how this Easteregg is accessible by rumors, I had to describe it myself on my homepage... ;-) If you're interested, please read on... |
| ExifRenamer V2.0 released This version is completely rewritten from scratch and contains a lot of new features. The most important of all is, that it's now possible to fully customize the naming styles. Now there also is a better interactive mode with file preview. More then ten new features have been added and a lot of problems of the old version were solved. ExifRenamer now should be perfectly suited for normal and professional photographers. |
| AmiDock OS4 screenshots available I'm proud to present you the first in-detail screenshots of the new AmiDock I developed for AmigaOS 4. The title link will bring you to the official AmigaOS 4 website of Amiga Inc. |
Completely rewritten homepage is now online
These and other problems now belong to history! All pages are now hostet on a big bundle of puretec, which does provide beside a lot of storage space nice features like custom scripts/CGIs and also database-access. On this platform it was possible to establish the new design. I was asked again and again to also provide a German version of my hompage. Now I have decided to provide the whole content in two languages (Germand and English). The needed effort for translation was tremendous. The new homepage identifies your preferred language on your browser's language setting and displays all pages accordingly. Should you want to change the language, then just klick on corresponding flag on the top right. With the new design all problems with external links are finally solved. In the past, external links propably pointed to sub-pages; because of this, the navigation-bars were suppressed - the main pages were not reachable easily. Because I wanted to avoid JavaScript for compability, there was no suitable solution for the old homepage. The new design - made completely without frames - allows a correct display. Speaking of compability: The new homepage was tested on all reachable browsers (running on AmigaOS, MacOS, Windows, Linux, QNX, WindowsCE) and displayed correctly. This is possible, because I consequently avoided to use CSS, JavaScript, Java-Navigation-Applets or Browser-proprietary features. All former external tools like the guestbook and counters are now running directly on qdev.de - the response time improved and I could eliminate all ads of external companies by doing so. The page content has been extended drastically; a lot of sub-pages were added to the categories Amiga and Electronics. The different sub-pages were also re-layouted. A summary of all changes would be too long. Searching about these new pages is surely not wrong... But now have a lot of fun with the new qdev.de! PS: If someone finds typos or errors in the content, then I would be happy to get a short notification! |
| Studies finished (the first one)! Today I got my diploma - I now have successfully finished my studies of Computer Science at the Fachhochschule Regensburg! But as you may know, I'm some sort of crazy: my next goal is to study Physics at the University of Regensburg. Physics was and is very interesting to me and as this is propably the last chance in my life to study physics, I decided to do it... :) |
| ExifRenamer V1.3 released Version 1.3 of ExifRenamer contains a cuple of smaller bug fixes. It now has Dutch localization added and supports TIFF files. Furtheron, ExifRenamer is now capable to rename raw (.crw) pictures when there exists a .thm file (for example Canon D30). It now also supports high-speed cameras which are capable of taking several photos within one second. |
| Current status At the moment, I'm finishing my studies and besides that, I do a lot of stuff. The most important thing is my work in the AmigaOS4 development team. Then, I do again some ColdFire related stuff and improve also some other software available from me. Prepare yourself on updates of BDMDebug, DPMSManager and ExifRenamer (perhaps other stuff will come along, too.). I'm also working on some nice Mac OS X related things. It is to early to tell you any detaily on this, though. More to come withing the next weeks. |
| A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2002! English version / German version |
| ExifRenamer V1.2 released ExifRenamer replaces my former program CasioRenamer. This version fixes some problems of the previous version and introduces some helpful new features. |
The first Euro money in my hands!
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| CasioRenamer V1.1 released This small update fixes some minor problems. |
| CasioRenamer V1.0 released Some weeks ago, I wrote a little tool which is able to rename digital photos by its embedded date informations to avoid naming styles like "pic0001.jpg". This program names the pictures after their time information in the style "YYYY-MM-DD_hh-mm-ss.jpg". I decided that this program could be useful for some other users, too. Amiga-Users can use for this purpose my AmiCamedia program, available at Haage&Partner. CasioRenamer was written for Mac OS X 10.1 Amiga-Users: Please don't think that I will stop development for AmigaOS! I'm just rather busy at the moment (diploma thesis!) and have no time for larger projects. My current plans are also targetted at the next-generation Amigas (AmigaOne/Pegasos) using high-speed G3/G4 CPUs. More to come. :-) |
| Some words about the 11th september attacks in the USA... I hardly can find words about what happened yesterday. It is really a shame that there are such criminal elements on earth who are willing to direct such a massaker to people. My deep sympathy with all Americans. Let's hope the best! |
| DPMSManager V1.23 released Sorry. The last release didn't solve the problem completely. Also forgot to remove a 10 seconds delay used for debugging. |
| DPMSManager V1.22 released This update fixes a small problem with VisualPrefs. |
| Added a new applet to the Java Applets page First of all, sorry for the silence. Can't help. I really have enough to do at the moment. Anyway, if you're interested, have a look at the Java Applets-page to see the FuzzyLogic-based WaterMixApplet. |
| FMdriver 1.25 released I'm glad to announce the availability of FMdriver V1.25 which contains some very useful enhancements. Now you can save and load several different video configurations (for example for 4:3 and 16:9), make time-lapse animations with FMRecorder. There were also a lot of minor fixes, FMdriver should be now really almost be perfect... ;-) |
| FMdriverVHI V1.25 released This is a completely reworked version of my first FrameMachine VHI driver. This one should now really remove any problems caused in conjunction with VHI. You now also can use your several different configurations of the FMdriver system in your favourite VHI application. This VHI driver bases to 100% on my newframemachine.libary which is included on the FMdriver package (you need to download this for using this driver, too!). |
| A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2001! English version / German version |
| FMdriver V1.14 beta released This is the beta version of my FrameMachine video driver, it should be again a little bit faster and has a lot of more features than the last public release. Until february 2001, I cannot provide very good support for this as I now want to freeze all my projects to go on with my study. Thanks for your patience! |
| vlife applet released Now the Java version of AVL is finally finished and available on my Java Applets page. |
| Lost all eMails of 2000-12-14/15 !!! If you have sent me an eMail, please resend it so I can answer it! Sorry!! |
| Opened up a Java Applets page This new site contains some small funny and/or useful Java Applets which I mainly wrote to satisfy my interests in java coding... :) |
| AmigaMPEGPlayer V1.02 for the AmigaSDK released AmigaMPEGPlayer now is up to 25% faster and has a file requester. |
| writepixel V1.05 for the AmigaSDK released It now has a sizeable window and a much cooler color gradient which changes with mouse position and time. |
AmigaMPEGPlayer for the AmigaSDK released
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writepixel for the AmigaSDK released
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AmigaSDK in Action!
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| Software updates will follow soon! Users of my PPCjpeg- and FMdriver-Software will soon be able to download much improved versions of the two titles. More news about this in several days! |
| How to flash a PC FlashBIOS... :) Flashing a PC BIOS is simple? Not always... Not in my case... Read this short story about a really unconventional way to solve this normally quite simple task... ;) |
| ColdFire 5206e PCB Layout released On public request, you now can download the PCB Layout I used for the ppQBox ColdFire CPU-board. For more information, follow the title link. |
| OpusSMBHandler 1.0 released This ARexx script lets you browse through a Windows network environment with OpusMagellan. It provides the basic operations like copy, delete, rename and browse. |
| Amiga Autoconfig Boards Incredible: by cleaning up my "hardware-development-table", I found a very old hardware-design of a A500 ZorroII-Board I made for testing the Amiga Autoconfig. There is also a newer version for the A2000-A4000. |
| BDMDebug V1.02 released Some problems have been fixed. It should now work on WinNT, too. |
| DCTV infos... Several users contacted me about my search for infos about DCTV. Now I know, that the people from Digital Creations formed together with people from NewTek a new company, called "Play Inc.". I have contacted Play Inc., let's hope that I get more information. Many thanks for your help!! Anyway, if someone knows more about the programmer or about the way DCTV works, I would be glad to get an eMail from you! |
Infos about the DCTV wanted!
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(the DCTV logo)
| BDMDebug V1.00 released This is a powerful Windows based (sorry for this!!!) BDM Debug Tool for Motorola ColdFire CPUs. If you're a developer of hardware designs using this type of CPU, this tool is a "must-have"... :) |
| CGXBlanker V1.25 released A lot of good new features (ARexx interface, "Don't blank if mouse is over titlebar" option, ...) and a new blanker module "Pipe" were added! |
| DPMSManager V1.20 released A lot of good new features (shell support, NOMOUSE, deactivateable DPMS-stages, ...) were added! |
| Now I can program my ppQBox in C!! My brother Christian succeeded in making a GNU C ColdFire cross compiler for my SUN. But this is only the halve thing. The output' ELF-file is not a directly runnable executable file. The platform using it needs a loader for it. After about 2 days of searching for ELF-manuals, analyzing the output and programming the loader I'm now happy to tell you, that I now have no problems to run C-programs on my ppQBox. Now it should be much more easy to go on with developing the QOS... my own Operating System for the (pp)Qbox... :) After finishing the network-hardware and adding a small speaker to the board (for some noisy output... :) ), I'm now working on the network software between my Amiga and the ppQBox. It's development state is about 75%, I think. I already have packet transmission between both computers and looking forward to finish the whole thing in some days. |
BDMDebug finished
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| Homepage updated Because I now have some free time (semester holidays), I now have more time to work on my projects. |
| GuestBook added Now I have installed a GuestBook on my page. Feel free to add comments about this page and my projects! |
| FMdriverVHI 1.1 released This VHI driver fixes some problems and runs well with the V4 of VLRecNG. |
| ArtecScan2.00alpha2 released For registered users of ArtecScan: Here is now the release of the alpha2 version of the new ArtecScan2.0. It should solve several problems. Please contact me how this version works on your machine! |
| A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2000! English version / German version |
| ArtecScan2.00alpha1 released For registered users of ArtecScan: Here is the release of the alpha1 version of the new ArtecScan2.0. It should solve some problems with AT3 and AT6 scanners. Please contact me how this version works on your machine! |
| Amiga AutoConfig(TM) Card On request, I have added an image with infos about my autoconfig card prototype. |
| CGXBlanker V1.21 released There is now a prefs program with GUI and also a very nice new blanker (Flower)... Now, there are also 020+ and 040+ optimized versions included and a installer script provides easy installation. |
| FMdriverVHI released Here we have a newcomer: FMdriverVHI. It is a FrameMachine driver vor the new VHI system. |
| Big homepage update I have updated almost all areas of my homepage. I also made infos available about PPCjpeg, CGXBlanker and DPMSManager. |
| ArtecScan2.00alpha released For registered users of ArtecScan: Today I have released an alpha version of the new ArtecScan2.0! If you want to test it, you can get it on the Download Page. Please contact me how this version works on your machine! |
| General Information My plan with the release dates of my projects was faulty. I didn't expect to have so much work to do in the 5th semester. Also, I was (and I still am a bit) ill. I have to excuse me some more time to all of you - the users of my programs. But I can't go on with the same speed like in the semester holidays... None of the projects is cancelled, but the global speed will be slowed down. My current plan of development looks like the following: 1. ArtecScan 2. FMdriver 3. PPCjpeg 4. CGXBlanker, ... The development of the WizardClasses run more or less in parallel - all my programs need them. The development of ArtecScan goes well (as far as I have the time...), now the V2.00alpha already makes a previewscan. But there is still much work to do until I can release a beta-version for all my registered users - but I'm on the right way! Here is a screengrab of my current development environment... |
| ArtecScan News All users of ArtecScan: the waiting should soon be over - I'm now working with power on the new version 2.0 of ArtecScan. I think in two or three week should be the first beta available! |
| I got all my data back!!! By replacing the defective controller-board of my harddrive, I was able to restore all the lost data! Hendrik Hanke was so kind to borrow me his harddrive for doing this transaction!! Thanks Hendrik! Special thanks to Petra Struck for the posting in the German "Amiga News", also thanks to all other users providing me tips and help!! - This is the well-known Amiga Community! :) |
| The worst case happened: My system harddrive got defective and I lost all my data. Unfortunately, my Streamer-Backup is defective, too - thats the real worst-case which can happen!!! |
| FMdriver V1.12 released IFF support was added and many small bugfixes / improvements were made. |
| FMdriver V1.10 released There are many improvements and new features like movie recording, grabbing-program, init-tool, non-gfx-board support, etc. |
| FMdriver V1.00 released A powerful new driver for the FrameMachine with PPC-support. It allows to watch TV on the Workbench! |
| AVL V1.00 released A amazing simulation of virtual life. |