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23.Sep.2008



a1k.org: Forum temporary offline
The forum of a1k.org is temporarily offline. According to the administrator the forum had too much traffic. Therefore the provider DomainFactory has deactivated the datanbase.

A move to a new server should solve this problem in future. But there is still not a final decision. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Sep.2008



Database: MUIbase 2.6
Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Changes in version 2.6: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Sep.2008
Rüdiger Engel (ANF)


"It's alive!" - Ars Technica reports about AmigaOS 4.1
Under the title link Jeremy Reimer reports about AmigaOS 4.1 for the English online magazine "Ars Technica". Additionally Thomas Frieden told about the future of the operating system. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Sep.2008
Sébastien Jeudy (ANF)


AmigaOS 4.1 / SAM440ep presentation at Colmar Multimedia Expo
According to the Swiss trader RELEC the PPC computer SAM440ep together with AmigaOS 4.1 will be presented at the Colmar Multimedia Expo 2008.

The common booth of RELEC and ACube is two times as big as planned. 10 staff members will present current Amiga solutions just like AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS as well as the Minimig. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Sep.2008
Power2PEOPLE (ANF)


AROS bounty: open source release and AROS port of Poseidon USB
Press release:
San Antonio, September 22, 2008

power2PEOPLE is pleased to announce its latest bounty initiative. Chris Hodges, the original author of the Poseidon USB system, has proposed to undertake the task of porting Poseidon USB to AROS and release his work under the APL (AROS Public License) transforming Poseidon USB into an open source project.

For this to become a reality, it will require a total amount of donations of at least $4000. For a complete list of objectives, included files, and exclusions please visit the power2PEOPLE website. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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22.Sep.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


MorphOS: Drawerball 0.3l, Gread 1.1c
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published updates of his simple file manager Drawerball as well as of his tect viewer Gread. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Sep.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaSYS: Update of AGA distribution
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench for the Amiga emulator WinUAE with many extensions. Additionally a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least one Workbench disk of version 3.x are required.

The new AGA version of AmigaSYS was completely reworked in many points. You can find a list of the features on the website of the distribution. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Sep.2008



AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.10
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Please note that currently AmigaOS 4.1 is required because Cairo is used. Changes since the last release: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Sep.2008



AmigaOS 4: Emulator SimCoupe 1.2
SimCoupe is a SDL-based emulator for the SAM Coupe. The AmigaOS-port was written by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkovs. Changes in version 1.2:
  • Resetting when paused now causes it to unpause, to avoid confusion
  • Recompiled with SDL 1.2.11 and newlib
  • Small speed improvements
  • Added version TAG in the emulator executable file
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Sep.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Text viewer: EvenMore 0.65-20.9.08
The latest version of the text viewer EvenMore shows now the name of the directory in the info-window which was opened with Dir2Text. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Sep.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS/x86: Client for the MMORPG Eternal Lands ported
Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Smiechowicz has ported the client of the free MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) Eternal Lands for AROS/x86 (screenshot).

AROS user mihcaels has created a project pictogram which sets the current directory path, the stack size to 200000 and starts the game.

Download: el-1.7.0-v1-i386-aros.zip (48 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2008
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Revision control system Git 1.6.0.2
Christian Rosentreter has published the revision control system Git in version 1.6.0.2 for MorphOS. He has still not tested it. So you use it at your own risk.

Download: git-1.6.0.2-morphos.tar.bz2 (6 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2008



MorphOS: Vector graphic program MOS-Creator 0.1d (alpha)
MOS-Creator is a vector graphic program implemented with Hollywood by Carsten Siegner (screenshot) with which you can fast and simply create and print PDF documents - similar to Grafikpublisher included in the TurboPrint package. more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2008
Murakami (ANF)


Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR, issue 42
The 41st issue of the French print magazine aMiGa=PoWeR offers the following topics:
  • News: MorphOS 2.0, NatAmi, AmigaOS 4.1, Sam440ep flex, Indivision AGA...
  • Reviews: AmigaOS 4 Classic, OWB (OS4), AmiDVD (OS4), Digital Universe (OS4), VirtualGP 2 HD (MorphOS), VLC (MorphOS), Descent 2 (OS4)...
  • Tutorials: Amiga Input, XDCC , HTML programming...

aMiGa=PoWeR has been published since 1998 by AFLE and distributed worldwide. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Sep.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4.1: Another progress report
Ventzislav "drHirudo" Tzvetkov describes his opinion about his first impressions of AmigaOS 4 in a progress report. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Sep.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


ACube: 533-Mhz version of SAM440 sold out
The Italian developer ACube offered the 533-Mhz version of the SAM440-motherboard for 299 Euro.

According to ACube all boards of this type were sold. Therefore the price of the 667-Mhz version was slightly lowed and is now 465 Euro (plus taxes and shipping). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Sep.2008
(ANF)


Advocate Gravenreuth in prison
The advocate Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth probably will be sent to jail. He lost a case against a well-known daily newspaper and was adjudged to 14 months prison without probation.

The judgement has still not become final. Gravenreuth obviously will appeal on points of law. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Sep.2008
(ANF)


Czech Pegasos User Group with new name and new website
The "Czech Pegasos User Group" is now called "Czech PowerPC User Group". On the occasion of this renaming the websites moved to a new server and were completely reworked.

The MorphOS Software Directory must be accessed under a new URL as well. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Sep.2008



Commodore Amiga Unix: Beta 3J "discovered"
Commodore Amiga Unix is a port of Unix System V Release 4 to the Amiga 2000 and 3000 published by Commodore.

16 years after the publishing of the last known version now magnetic tapes were found which are labeled "Beta 3J".

You can find further information about Amiga Unix under amigaunix.com. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Sep.2008



MorphOS: Homeworld port
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has ported the real time strategy game Homeworld to MorphOS 2.1. The original game is required which first must be installed and updated on a Windows-PC. Then you can copy the required files.

You can get further information about the limitations of this first beta version (e.g. no network support) in the Readme.

Download: Homeworld-rc1.lha (3,5 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Sep.2008



AROS-Bounties: Porting to Cygwin
Pavel Fedin has been assigned to port AROS onto Cygwin, a linux-like environment for Windows. If you would like to donate money to encourage Pavel's efforts, you can donate at the title link.

Basic emulation functionality shall consist of WinAPI graphics HIDD, native Windows keyboard and mouse HIDDs. These basic functionalities should be included by the tentative deadline of March 31, 2009. Further goals consisting of networking, sound support, and other functionality will not be required for the completion of this bounty. (snx)

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17.Sep.2008



OEM-Version of AmigaOS 4.1 for SAM440ep announced
Press release:
Antwerpen, Belgien - 17. September 2008.

Hyperion Entertainment VOF and ACube Systems SRL are pleased to announce that they have entered into an OEM license agreement which will allow ACube to offer its customers an OEM version of Hyperion's AmigaOS 4.1 operating system for their SAM440-motherboards. more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Sep.2008



MorphOS 2.0: Ambient-Gimmick/Transparency demo Elephant 1.4
Elephant written by Christian Rosentreter is an Ambient-Gimmick which demonstrates the transparency function of the user-interface under MorphOS 2.0 (screenshot). more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Sep.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 30
James "jahc" Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network. The changes are included in the Changelog. There are versions for AmigaOS 3 and 4.

According to the author in a discussion SabreMSN will be released under an OpenSource licence soon. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Sep.2008
Michael Lanser (ANF)


Synchronizing tool SW-SyncTool
With Michael Lanser's SW-SyncTool you can mirror directories. At each start up only those files are will be added or replaced which have changed in the source directory. On request files will be deleted which are in the destination but not in the source directory. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Sep.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: Subversion 1.5.2
Christian Rosentreter has publidhed an update of the MorphOS port of the version management program SVN. The changes are included in the Release Notes on the SVN-homepage.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Sep.2008
PPA (Webseite)


MorphOS: OpenRedAlert port
Fab1 and SixK have ported OpenRedAlert in version 407 for MorphOS. It is an engine for the strategy game serie Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Sep.2008



AmigaOS 4: Sample-Editor AmiSoundED 0.5
AmiSoundED written by Fredrik Wikstrom is a sample editor for mono and stereo samples up to 32 Bit (screenshot). The program loads and saves different formats, can record and can be extended via plugins. more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Sep.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS 2.0: Vector graphic program MOS-Creator 0.1alpha
MOS-Creator written by Carsten Siegner is a vector graphic program (screenshot) with which you can create and print PDF-documents - similar to TurboPrint. more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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