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Archive 10/2004

`07.Oct.2004` Harald Frank (ANF)	Amiga 1200 and CD32 Service Documents Urgently Required Harald Frank writes: "Calling out to all friends of the Amiga, For a little Amiga project, I urgently need the complete diagrams and service documents for the Amiga 1200 and CD32 models. These documents should be complete and in good condition. I'm also interested in A3000 and A4000 documents if they are originals. If you or someone you know has these, I'd be reall happy to get an offer at support@vmc.de. With friendly greetings, Harald Frank" (cg) (Translation: dm) [News message: 07. Oct. 2004, 22:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2004` amigaworld.net	Amigaworld.net: Offline for a Short Time for Maintenance Amigaworld.net is going to be offline for a short time after 11 PM in order to do maintenance. Similarly affected are the following hosted servers: MacOnAmiga, os4depot.net and Total Amiga Magazine. (cg) (Translation: dm) [News message: 07. Oct. 2004, 19:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2004` McFly (ANF)	Amiga-PPS: New Hollywood Presentations as Well as New URL McFly updated his website, and while doing so he updated and expanded his collection of Hollywood presentations that were converted from Powerpoint. Also, his homepage is now under a new URL: http://McFly.de.tf. The old address still works, however it opens an advertisement window. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 07. Oct. 2004, 18:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2004`	Titan Computer: Delivery of the MorphOS Version of Papyrus Office Has Begun Today Titan Computer advised their customers that the MorphOS version of Papyrus Office is ready for shipping. Papyrus Office is a word-processing program with integrated spreadsheet calculations and a relational database. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 07. Oct. 2004, 15:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2004` Pegasosforum (website)	MorphOS: Software News Summary The current versions of the following programs have been compiled for MorphOS by Matthias Münch: ncFTP 3.1.8 - collection of free programs to File Transfer Protocol xpdfTools 3.00 - tools for the processing of PDF data Webalizer 2.01-10 - statistics display for page access mpgtx 1.3 - CLI program for MPEG audio and video data autotrace 0.31.1 - Vector-graphical manipulation of bitmap data gruftistats 0.2.4 - HTML page manipulation with statistics from IRC logs Likewise, there's a new port of the current BitlBee version (0.91), also from Matthias Münch. BitlBee unites multiple instant messaging services as well as the IRC protocol, whereby ICQ, AIM, Jabber and Yahoo contacts may be called up from an IRC program. The MorphOS version is at a beta stage, so feedback and bugreports are wanted, especially from MSN and Yahoo users. Also an update of the Keymap Editor Keymorpher (71 KB) by Vladimir Javorski, has reached version 0.099. Besides bug fixing there's a new simple-dead-key conversion and a hotkey-edit mode as well as the use of NList classes for the keymap lists, which may now be used in hex mode. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 07. Oct. 2004, 15:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2004` Martin Wollert (ANF)	YAM: Toolbar NewYAM v.3 Released Lorraine Design has released NewYAM v.3, an alternative YAM toolbar that is based on the appearance of Thunderbird (screenshot). Download: NewYAM V3 (138 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 07. Oct. 2004, 12:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2004` Martin Wollert / Carsten Siegner(ANF)	MorphOS: New version of the movie player MPlayer There is a new version of the movie player "Mplayer" with an improved DVD playback available. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 06. Oct. 2004, 22:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2004` Michael Christoph (ANF)	Card-game: myKlondike 1.21 A new version of the Solitaire/Klondike clone "myKlondike" has been released. The update contains the following changes and improvements: Free moving of the cards by using the mouse. There is undo and redo now (maximum 400 actions). Up to eight freely choseable samples may be played by datatypes Fallback mode if a card set is not found. The best game result is shown at the information window. Fully localized to English (guide and program). The program archive may be ordered for free at the website (using a form at the bottom of the site). (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 06. Oct. 2004, 22:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2004` Genesi (E-Mail)	Genesi: Photos and a movie from the Freescale Embedded Connectivity Summit From the Freescale Embedded Connectivity Summit in Austin, USA, which Genesi joined as a "Gold Sponsor" (amiga-news.de reported), there are photos and a movie provided now. photo gallery movie ( high quality, 17 MB) Video (low quality, 4 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 06. Oct. 2004, 18:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2004` amigaworld.net	AmigaOS 4: CBM emulator "VICE" (Beta) Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund provides a first beta version of the CBM 8bit emulator "VICE" by the title link. VICE emulates several Commodore computers: C64 C128 C16/116/+4 PET/CBM x000 Roslund describes that version as "work in progress" which holds several limitations still - e.g. for many gui options there are no functions implemented yet. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 06. Oct. 2004, 18:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2004` Sylvio.k (ANF)	More pictures from the "Fun of Computing" By the title link the "Anime Development for Amiga Team" provides their photos from the "Fun of Computing" show. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 06. Oct. 2004, 15:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2004` Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)	New AmigaOne firmware available Leuven, Belgium - October 6th 2004. In preparation for the upcoming update of Amiga OS 4.0, Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the much improved U-Boot 1.1.1 for AmigaOne SE and XE motherboards. New features include: Support for multiple graphics cards. At this time the last graphics card (usually the AGP card) is used for primary display. Later versions will include an option to choose. Support for booting off a Silicon Image 0680 IDE controller. This feature has to be selected manually at the moment, by entering `setenv ide sii` from the U-Boot shell. New CPU support: IBM PowerPC 750GX is now fully supported. A problem has been fixed that made the U-Boot environment settings unavailable when rebooting from Linux. Support for LBA48 IDE drives, i.e. you can now boot off drives that are bigger than 160 GB. Support for the new Second-Level Bootloader (that can boot Linux besides AmigaOS), to be distributed with the upcoming AmigaOS 4 update. Numerous bug fixes and improvements. The new U-Boot will be required for the upcoming update of Amiga OS 4.0, to be released shortly to registered AmigaOS 4.0 pre-Release owners. The download is available in our Downloads section. (cg) [News message: 06. Oct. 2004, 15:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2004` MorphZone (website)	MorphOS: Port of the HuC C compiler for the PCEngine/Turbografx Kelly Samel has made a port to MorphOS of the HuC C compilers for the game console PCEngine/Turbografx. Together with TGEmu this provides an environment to develop freeware ROMs for that emulator. Download: huc_mos.lha (506 KB) tgemu.lha V1.4 (435 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 06. Oct. 2004, 11:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2004` ANN (website)	MorphOS: Update of the Arkanoid clone Bolcatoid to version 0.961 The Arkanoid clone Bolcatoid (screenshot) has been updated to version 0.961. The game is freeware and requires the PowerSDL.library. New with this release are, beside some bug fixes and optimizations, improved graphics, an options screen with multiple settings which are saved together with the high score list, a better window support and a proportional speed to frame rate. Download: Bolcatoid V0.961 (567 KB) PowerSDL.library V8.1 (120 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 06. Oct. 2004, 11:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2004` Christian Rosentreter (ANF)	MorphOS: OGG media stream tool collection ogmtools 1.4.1 released ogmtools allow information about, extraction from, creation or splitting of OGG media streams. OGM is used for "OGG media streams". The archive contains: ogmmerge This program takes the input from several media files and joins their streams (all of them or just a selection) into an OGM. ogminfo This program lists information about all streams contained in an OGM including information about the codecs used. ogmdemux This program extracts all or only some data streams from an OGM and writes them to separate files. ogmsplit This program can be used to easily split an OGM file after a given size. Several OGM files will be created that each start with a keyframe. ogmcat This program can be used to concatenate several OGG/OGM files into one big file if they are of the same type. Please note ogmcat is not fully working yet, since it's a work in progress version. For more information read the included documentation in AmigaGuide or man format. The MorphOS port can be downloaded from the title link. (snx) [News message: 06. Oct. 2004, 10:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2004` falkemedia	AMIGAplus 10/2004 (#151) - Amiga anywhere AMIGAplus 10/2004 (#151) has been published on October 1st, 2004, including the following articles: "Amiga anywhere" (emulation-special with WinUAE, MacUAE, PocketUAE) "Amiga games terminal" Micro-AmigaOne Report G3-CPUs in detail Retouching with PerfectPaint font effects with ArtEffect application.library in OS4 explained Games Convention 2004 report Vienna calling (AMIGAplus on tour) Amiga Status Report IDE-Reader reviewed Best of shareware in September 2004 Demoscene party on Douglas Adams' h2g2 Amiga-News and much more You may order this issue for 5 Euro directly from falkemedia (as of Oct. 8th) or subscribe to AMIGAplus. (nba) [News message: 05. Oct. 2004, 16:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2004` Genesi (e-mail)	Genesi: Pegasos II Systems enable Internet Cafe at Freescale ECS Press release Embedded Connectivity Summit, Austin, Texas - Genesi Open Desktop Workstations based on the Pegasos II are featured in the Internet Café (photo) of the Freescale Embedded Connectivity Summit (ECS). The PowerPC® architecture, with the AltiVec SIMD engine, is an excellent alternate architecture for Linux applications. The Genesi Pegasos II system comes equipped with the MPC7447 PowerPC processors from Freescale. "As a member of our Smart Networks Alliance Program, Genesi is a key enabler of Linux development on the PowerPC architecture. We want to encourage developers and designers to leverage the PowerPC architecture for their Linux and other PowerPC-based operating systems and applications, as this architecture can provide both performance and cost benefits for system designs and designers", said Paul Grimme, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Transportation & Standard Products Group at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. The machines were provided with a choice of operating systems including Gentoo, Crux, Yellow Dog and Debian GNU/Linux. Also included was MorphOS, a lightweight fully featured non-UNIX based Amiga-compatible operating system. The Embedded Connectivity Summit is being held at the Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas from 4-6 October. Genesi is a Gold Sponsor of ECS. (snx) [News message: 05. Oct. 2004, 14:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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