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Archive 06/2004

`19.Jun.2004` amiga.org (Website)	File sharing: ctorrent for AmigaOS and MorphOS (Update) ctorrent is a console based client for the BitTorrent file sharing network. The Amiga version has been compiled on a 68040/40. On that system, file hash checking (neccessary when resuming a download) on a 44 MB file takes about 1.5 minutes. During normal operation the CPU usage is below 50 % though. ctorrent does not allow limiting the uploads. Direct download: ctorrent-1.3.2.lha (186 KB) Update: (12:29, 20.06.04, snx) Meanwhile, #amigazeux has also prepared a MorphOS version (71 KB). Like the AmigaOS version, this port just offers a common bandwith limitation for up- and downloads. (cg) [News message: 19. Jun. 2004, 17:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jun.2004`	amiga-news.de: forum structure improved The structure of the forum at amiga-news.de has been reworked regarding the single categories and their structure. (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 19. Jun. 2004, 11:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jun.2004` Amigaworld.net (website)	AmigaOS4: Native versions of SGrab and PNGTool Stephan Rupprecht has released OS4 versions of the programs SGrab (328 KB, creates screenshots) and PNGTool (198 KB, converts various graphics formats to PNG). (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 19. Jun. 2004, 10:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jun.2004` ANN (website)	PegXMac: Beta version for the Amiga One finished The Live CD PegXMac by David Bentham (amiga-news.de reported) is now available in an early beta version for the Amiga One, too. Before downloading you have to register at the author. PegXMac allows the start of MacOS via Mac-on-Linux on the Pegasos or Amiga One without having to install Linux before. (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 19. Jun. 2004, 09:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jun.2004` Michael Garlich (ANF)	Titan Computer: discussion and help forum set up (update) The software studio Titan Computer has set up a forum where questions around their Amiga and MorphOS products are answered and help is given. Update: (12:02, 19.06.04, snx) According to Michael Garlich in the Titan forum will Papyrus for MorphOS be released probably in six to eight weeks. (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 19. Jun. 2004, 06:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2004` Thomas Unger (ANF)	Kickstart archives: DVD-Release v3.2 "Kickstart archives" is a collection of documents in German and English language about the history of the Amiga and Commodore written by many different authors. Besides this there are many information about well-known people who have a connection to the Amiga, about the Amiga models and Amiga clones, the AmigaOS and alternative operating systems as well as about Amiga patents and additional materials. All these topics were connected with an HTML-based index. All documents have been published on DVD with permission of the authors or copyright owners. "Kickstart archives" runs on each platform and can be copied to the hard drive. An integrated search engine has been also added. The current issue contains some new entries and some topics have been extended or updated. For further information please have a look at the homepage. All problems with case-sensitive file systems should be fixed. Thanks a lot to all who have reported dead links. The online service has been also improved: Besides the bridgeboard-tutorial, the Amiga-troubleshooter and the MINIX-introduction there is now a topic which is dedicated to the determination of DRAM-chips and SIM-moduls. This might be interesting for those people who wants to upgrade their memory extensions and SCSI/IDE-adapter cards of acceleration with RAM-options. You can take contact or order on the homepage under "Notes/Contact" and "Notes/Order". Please use the subject "kickstart archives" if you will write e-mails to this topic. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jun. 2004, 20:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2004`	European GIF-patent ends After the US-version of the "GIF-Patent" ended half a year ago today the European patent ends, too. Japan will follow tomorrow and the coresponding Canadian patent will end on July 7th. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jun. 2004, 19:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2004` amigaworld.net (Website)	AmigaOS 4: Further reports of experience (Update) "Coder" has published a detailed report of his first impression with the prerelease of AmigaOS 4. Update: (18.06.2004, 20:00, cg) At PPA there is a Polish OS 4-report. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jun. 2004, 17:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2004` ANN (Website)	IRC-Client: Beta version of WookieChat published With WookieChat a beta version of a new IRC-client has been published (screenshot). The program (217 KB) has been not fully finished, has therefore still some bugs as well as some missing functions. In opposition to other IRC-clients it can make connections to several servers in the same window. WookieChat runs under AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.0 and MorphOS. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jun. 2004, 15:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2004` MorphZone (Forum)	MorphOS: CPU-monitor V1.4 published Christian Rosentreter has published an update of his CPU-monitors for MorphOS (screenshot). The tooltype DNETCFILTER is new which can filter the used performance of the processor with the help of the task "dnetc crunch #1" and therefore the users of the distributed.net-client will get a more useful value. Download (28 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jun. 2004, 07:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2004` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	New firmware for Kickflash OS4 available A new version of the firmware V1.52 for the Kickflash flashrom-card for Zorro-equipped Amigas is available. This update fixes a bug in the memory allocation that kept certain A3000 models from starting properly. The programmer-team Coyoteflux is now working to implement kickstart remapping for the next update. Download: CoyoteFlash.lha (29 KB) (snx) [News message: 18. Jun. 2004, 06:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jun.2004` ANF	distributed.net: Pegasos-Team founded In order to advertise for the Pegasos PowerPC system Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has founded a Pegasos-team. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Jun. 2004, 06:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2004` Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies Records #073 The scene group "Liquid Skies" released their 73rd music pack yesterday. This time the release contains "SpacePop" in the "demo scene" style by the Finnish composer Tripper. The cover was pixeled by Angeldust. More information about the track: Title: SpacePop Artist: Tripper Style: Spacepop Song Length: 4:08 Format: mp3 (160 kbps) The zipped data with a size of about 4.8 megs is a free download, under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Jun. 2004, 22:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2004` Rupert Hausberger (ANF)	MorphOS: Relax 2.0 released 'Relax' is a tool to control 8 bit relay cards. Changes for v2.0: Implemented ARexx Added some misc funcs Added own work-process Optimized some parts Fixed minor GUI bugs Drew a new logo Updated documention (cg) [News message: 17. Jun. 2004, 20:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2004` Eule (ANF)	Develop Your Own Game Console Gerd Kautzmann writes: [translated from German] "I found a page on the WWW that concerns itself with a software development project for all manner of game consoles. The prototypes are equipped with Z80, 6502, 68HC12 and ARM7 processors. In my opinion this is a very interesting page for all those interested in game console programming and build-it-yourself video computers. Unfortunately there is no 68k computer there, but in this vein you may be inspired by this." (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Jun. 2004, 19:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2004` Amigaworld.net (Website)	OS4 Depot with Cross-Upload to Aminet OS4 Depot now offers a cross-upload of data to Aminet. Your data will be put together with a generated READ ME file on us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/new, as soon as an administrator releases it. This function still is in the test phase. The users are responsible for correctly filling out the Aminet-relevant data themselves. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Jun. 2004, 15:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2004` ANN (Website)	AmigaOS 4 Exhibition in Stockholm this Coming Weekend This weekend from Friday afternoon until Sunday evening there's an exhibition of AmigaOS 4 by the Swedish Amiga user group in Stockholm. You'll find the details (in Swedish) under the title link. At the same time there's a similar exhibition by the Syntax Society and ACG GBG in Landskrona (amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Jun. 2004, 14:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2004`	Tulip: New Beginning for the Commodore Trademark (Update) Tulip Computers N.V. made know at a press conference today that a range of entertainment products under the trademark Commodore may be looked forward to. The prelude is the production of a mini-game-console by the name of C-64 Direct-to-TV that should appear on the market in the second half of the year for about 30 euros. It is projected to have 30 popular C64 games (for example Summer Games, Winter Games, California Games) (amiga-news.de reported). Additionally the earlier Commodore machines like VIC-20 and PET will be accomodated by USB memory sticks, and transportable music data reproduction equipment will be offered: FPet, Mpet und eVic. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Jun. 2004, 11:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2004` Amiga.org (Website)	New MiniGL Games: "I, meteor" and "d3GNOP+" Jukka Varsaluoma has released two little MiniGL/Warp3D games here: I, meteor, in which you as a meteor inflict the most damage possible, and d3GNOP+, an improved variant of the Pong clone d3GNOP. You may make a donation in the amount of your choosing for these new games, which come in 68k and WarpOS versions. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 17. Jun. 2004, 07:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2004` Elbox Computer (ANF)	Elbox: New driver software for FastATA 1200 controller Elbox has released new driver software for FastATA 1200 (Power Flyer 1200, Winner 1200 High-Speed) controllers. The update is available free of charge for all registered users of FastATA 1200 and includes new versions of ATA3.driver, ATA3Prefs and AllegroCDFS. Changes: ATA3.driver ver.7.0 compatiblity with the newest big hard drive geometries (support up to 2TB) write speed improvement ATA3Prefs ver.7.0 changes in the SPLIT/NOSPLIT detection algoritm AllegroCDFS ver.3.4 improvement in reading CDs with surface defects Speed tests of the EIDE hard drives connected to the FastATA 1200 MK-II controller have been published in the News \| Product Reviews section of the Elbox website. Tests were done with some of the most popular A1200 turbo cards: Apollo 1240, Blizzard 1230, Blizzard 1260 and BlizzardPPC. If you own an old version of the FastATA controller, you can upgrade it now with the newest FastATA 1200 MK-II firmware using a DIY Upgrade Pack. (snx) [News message: 17. Jun. 2004, 07:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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