17.Jul.2008
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Print-magazine: Introduction of Amiga 1200 in Games TM
In issue of July the game magazine Games TM reports about "life and the death of the Amiga 1200" omn four pages. In the next issue of the magazine the Amiga 500 will be introduced.
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17.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.6.2 Release Candidate #1
OpenTTD is an open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90ies with many extensions - among others a network modus, individual graphic sets and over 24 languages. The complete list of changes in version 0.6.2 you can read in the changelog.
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16.Jul.2008
hhjoker2 (ANF)
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Production of Minimig-box will start soon
Loriano Pagni has published a video of his Miming box.
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16.Jul.2008
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Do it yourself: Efika-Laptop
On the homepage of the Amiga-Club Hamburg Thorsten Mampel has written the history of his self-made Efika-laptop.
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16.Jul.2008
Gero Birkenfeld (ANF)
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Image Batcher: Collective editing of picture files
Gero Birkenfeld has published a beta version of Image Batcher, also called iBatch. It is a package which is to make the organization of digital photos more easy with the help of collective renaming and conversions.
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.0.1
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari ST-emulator (screenshot). The changes can be read in the readme.
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Word Me Up XXL: AmigaOS 3 and AROS versions stopped
According to the developers of the arcade puzzle "Word Me Up XXL" on their website the formerly planned ports for AmigaOS 3 and AROS will be not developed further so long.
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15.Jul.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: NetSurf for Cygnix in progress
According to Edgar Schwan under the title link the browser NetSurf can be easily compiled to his AmigaOS-4-X11-environment Cygnix (screenshot). But currently there is not a date of publishing.
Currently NetSurf still misses Javascript but only requires 17 MB memory to start. The file has a size of 14 MB. Supported are:
- HTML 4.01
- XHTML 1.0
- CSS 2.1
- HTTP/1.1
- HTTP-authentication
- PNG and MNG
- Cookies
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15.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Reminder: CommVEx 4 on 26. / 27. July (USA)
On 26. / 27. July the fourth Commodore Vegas Expo will take place in Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The following models will be presented: PET 4032, VIC-20, C64, Plus/4 and C128D, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 and AmigaOne. Additionally Michael Battilana (Amiga Forever) will take part.
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15.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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Open Video Toaster: Instant Bounties
Press release Chicago, Illinois – July 14th, 2008 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., in order to stimulate development for the Video Toaster Flyer source code DiscreetFX is launching an Instant Bounty contest. What is an Instant Bounty? This is a bounty that is paid once a programmer has requested and been assigned a programming task for Open Video Toaster.
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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga Forever: Updates and new online forms
According to the Amiga-Forever-Team that several updates were publisehd for the latest emulator package Amiga Forever 2008 which some of the mentioned bugs fixed. These updates can be downloaded in the Amiga-Forever-Player under "Tools/Check for Updates".
Furthermore because of the increased spam-bot-activities the online forms for contacts, support and registrations were changed. These new forms replace the filter which were installed on 18. June and which causede some problems. All those customers who tried to contact us without replay please now try it again.
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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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individual Computers: New address, Catweasel-Software-Update
Press releaseIn may of this year, we have moved to new premises with more than three times the space that our office in Aachen had to offer. Since we still don't run a retail shop, we have moved to the pictureque area of Simmerath, located in the natural park of the northern Eifel region. With this new location, there's also a change in our shipping partner: Parcels within Germany and the EU are now shipped with DPD.
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14.Jul.2008
PPA (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the British AmigaOS-4.1-demonstration
Chris Young as well as PPA have published photos from the second public demonstration of AmigaOS 4.1 which took place in British Enfield yesterday.
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13.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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MorphOS: OS4Emu 2.0
Ilkka Lehtoranta's wrapper OS4Emu allows running some AmigaOS 4 programs under MorphOS. In version 2.0, the following changes have come about:
- Whereas 64-bit DOS calls are supported under MorphOS 1.x in principle, but the file size is limited to 2 GB, native 64-bit DOS calls are used now under MorphOS 2.x
- AltiVec support under MorphOS 2.x
- Bug fixes in the ELF loader
- Completion of the Picasso96 emulation by means of the function p96WritePixelArray()
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13.Jul.2008
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: GammaMeter 1.2
Grzegorz Kraszewski's GammaMeter is a simple tool for measuring the gamma coefficient of display devices. It uses the luminance comparision method and thus does not need any external hardware. GammaMeter uses MUI, is localized and is distributed with source code under BSD license (Screenshot).
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13.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Event: Report and photos from the AIConf
Under the title link, a first report in English from the AIConf was published, which took place yesterday in Italy and where AmigaOS 4.1 was demonstrated for the first time. In addition, the author, Andrea Maniero, has shot some photos.
News compared to the announcement of the operating system update which took place the day before yesterday (reported by amiga-news.de) concern the price as well as the question of a version for PowerUp Amigas.
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12.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Hu-Go! 1.3
Hu-Go! emulates the game console TurboGrafX-16 which is also known as PC Engine (screenshot). The MorphOS port by Kelly Samel is now available in version 1.3.
Changes:
- Clones Ambient resolution in full screen + Overlay
- Audio channels only allocated while emulation is running
- Added compact mode
- Added BG pattern toggle
- Added video sync option
- Cleaner sound channel termination
- Shortened the commodity description line
- Fixed MUI colors to work with most configs
- Added rompath selector
- Made gui resizable and fixed spacing
- Added 1 and 2 player joypad configs
- Added Scanline mode
- Several bugs fixed that were causing lock ups
- A few more premade HCD files added to archive
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12.Jul.2008
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AmigaOS 4.1: First public demonstrations (Update)
According to Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene by ACube Systems today the announced Amiga OS 4.1 is supposed to be shown at the AIConf taking place in Papozze (Italy).
The first demonstration in UK will be tomorrow on 13. July presented by the user group Amiga North Thames.
Update: (16:28, 13.07.08, snx)
As Massimiliano Tretene (Soft3, Participator of ACube Systems) confirms, at the show ACube Systems communicated the price for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.1. The suggested retail price is Euro 105 + local VAT or further taxes. The package is similar to the OS4 Classic one and will include a cardboard box, a CD with a serial number and a printed install instruction manual.
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12.Jul.2008
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Hyperion announces AmigaOS 4.1
Press release: Antwerp, Belgium - 11 July, 2008. Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release mid-Q3/2008. Building on the solid foundations of Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS 4.1 introduces a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on the Amiga platform.
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11.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Freeze 1.1
Christian Rosentreter's Freeze is a small commandline command to freeze (suspend) tasks or processes. A frozen task is still available in the system, but doesn't consume CPU time anymore.
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11.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS-Team: Homepage reworked
The operating system MorphOS version 2.0 was published a week ago and now the homepage was redesigned as well.
Now you can find there an introduction of some components and functions, the Help Desk, the Download section and a list of all current and former members of the team.
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