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Archive 05/2005

`26.May.2005` morphzone.org (website)	MorphOS: Paradroid Clone "Freedroid" Freedroid is a clone of the 8-Bit classic Paradroid. Direct download: freedroid-1.0.2_mos.lha (4.5 MB) (cg) (Translation: dm) [News message: 26. May. 2005, 20:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2005` Thomas Steiding (e-mail)	MorphOS: Breakout-Clone Barkanoid 2 Available Epic Interactive and Current Ad Agent have made known that "Barkanoid 2" is ready: "The casual game Barkanoid 2 is now also available for MorphOS users with Pegasos I or II. A demo-version may be found - thanks to the friendly support of the Genesi firm - under the following link: http://www.ppczone.org/downloads/Barkanoid2Demo.lha The full version is available starting Monday at Current Ad Agent for 14.95 euros. Please contact Mr. M. Goldisch at alternative-computer @ web.de. More information on Barkanoid 2 may be found at the product description page at our website." [rest of lengthy article not translated -dm] (cg) (Translation: dm) [News message: 26. May. 2005, 20:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2005` MorphZone (forum)	Pegasos: CD32-Live-CD Released via BitTorrent Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has released Pegasos software for making your own CD32-Live-CDs. This may be downloaded from pegasos.org via BitTorrent. The archive only needs a CD32 ISO image of your choice named "cd32.iso" as well as a CD32 Kickstart ROM image named "cd32.rom" in the main directory and then burn it all to CD. On top of that the CD contains the 3D-Ego-Shooter Aleph One and several emulators (inc. MAME, Sega, Nintendo, and C64). Aleph One requires some additional files that are available by clicking on the previous "Aleph One" link. The emulators require the desired games as well as the BIOS or Kickstart image corresponding to the system. More information may be found in the instructions in the archive as well as the related MorphZone thread. The CD32-Live-CD has only been tested on Pegasos II computers so far, the results on Pegasos I are not yet available. Torrent-Datei: cd32-live.torrent (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 26. May. 2005, 08:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2005`	Convention Update: AmiGBG (Sweden) and Boinged in Belgium (Belgium) AmiGBG 2005 The official website of the 23rd July 2005 11 AM to 5 PM Amiga convention in the Swedish town of Göteborg is now online. [rest of this section not translated, Mikael Haglund of IBM will be there to talk about POWER architecture and the new "Cell" processor -dm] For the convention Boinged in Belgium, which takes place on 6th and 7th August in the vicinity of Antwerp, hosted by the Belgian Amiga Club, Michele C. Battilana of (Cloanto) has donated three complete Amiga Forever 6.0 emulator CDs. One will be awarded to the 100th visitor, another, it's planned, to the owner of the best "modded" Amiga. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 26. May. 2005, 07:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2005` MorphOS-Team (e-mail)	MorphOS: Update of ft2.library The MorphOS Team has released an update of ft2.library for MorphOS 1.4.5. The new library cleans up a couple minor problems with the previous version and is linked against the current freetype2, yielding improved quality. The new version of ft2.library may be downloaded by registered MorphOS users at download.morphos-team.net or at the support FTP server. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 26. May. 2005, 07:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.May.2005` Thomas Würgler (ANF)	Susumu Hirasawa composes boot jingle for AmigaOS 4.0 Leuven, Belgium, May 25, 2005 - Chaos Union and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that recording artist Susumu Hirasawa will deliver a boot jingle created specifically for AmigaOS 4.0. Two additional tracks will also be included on the AmigaOS 4.0 CD to showcase Hirasawa's music. About Susumu Hirasawa Susumu Hirasawa is a highly acclaimed recording artist. He has written soundtracks for commercial successes such as Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent, the Beserk TV-series and videogame, and he is currently working on his latest CD-release. Since 1979 he helped defined Japanese pop-techno in the group P-MODEL and launched his first solo album in 1989. Since the mid-90s Hirasawa has toured with his Interactive Live Show utilizing Amigas with the support of Amiga user group of Japan (FAMIGA) for a spectacular interactive multimedia performance. About Hyperion Entertainment VOF Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs. Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985. (snx) [News message: 25. May. 2005, 12:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.May.2005` dietmar (ANF)	Formerly commercial editor microgolded updated and now a free download microgolded is now available as free download. Instead of asking users to pay for it, it is released as sponsored software and contains offline advertising. About microgolded: microgolded is a small editor. It provides basic editing features, such as undo-redo, folding, macro recording, formatting, auto-case, auto-completion and other basic editor stuff. It is very fast and very configurable. All in one file, no installation. Screenshot Download Registered users can find a new, advertising-free version on the GoldED website. New features: black-on-white color scheme (optional) and navigation tabs. Amiga users and dealers interested in advertising software, events, websites or services in microgolded please contact GoldED support. (snx) [News message: 25. May. 2005, 11:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.May.2005` Jürgen Lucas (comments)	MUI: Update of texteditor.mcc to version 15.11 The open source texteditor.mcc is now available in version 15.11 and offers most functions of a normal text editor, embedded to a MUI class. The archiv contains native version for MorphOs and AmigaOS4 also. Download: MCC_TextEditor.lha (340 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. May. 2005, 09:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.May.2005` Amiga.org (website)	Adventure: "The Labyrinth of Time" Amiga version available for free download The originally 1994 published game "The Labyrinth of Time" (screenshot) is now freely downloadable. The Amiga version requires AmigaDOS 1.3, 1 MB Chip RAM and 512 KB Fast RAM and runs under UAE also. An English manual is online available. Please study the included readme file. Ordering the game on CD is possible at the title link. Download: LABAMIGA.lha (134 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. May. 2005, 07:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.May.2005`	MorphOS: Software news until 24-05-2005 Blob Wars Blob Wars is an SDL based board game. Link: Homepage of the Linux version Link: Downloadpage Pachi el marciano One more board game which is similar to "Manic Miner" or "Jet Set Willy" (screenshot). Link: Homepage of the Linux version Link: Downloadpage Password manager: Ling 1.3 Ling is a data base for saving several passwords. All passwords are encoded with the BlowFish CBC algorithm before storing them to the data base. (screenshot). The latest changes: Windows were left locked after an export operation Arggggggg found a very bad bad in passwords saving. All 1.1 archives are not compatible anymore Changed RNG function: now it is a KISS one with a sha1-ed randomly generated seed Some minor changes Please note that old data files which were created with an ancient version of Ling are not compatible to Ling 1.3. Please export all your data prior to updating to a CSV file and import these files then by hand to Ling 1.3. Link: Homepage Download: Ling.lha (635 KB) TheBar.mcc 20.5 "TheBar" is a MUI class by Alfonso Ranieri to easily generate button banks. Link: Homepage Download: MCC_TheBarMOS.lha (425 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 24. May. 2005, 22:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.May.2005`	Package management system: APMS With "Amiga Package Management System" (APMS) David Pitcher releases a clone of the known from the Unix world package manager like RPM or apt-get. APMS should assist users while installation or upgrade of software packages: The program recognizes dependencies (application X requires library Y) and manages the download and installation of all required archives. In a later phase APMS will introduce an Amiga specific format, also mechanisms to transmit bug reports to a central data base are planned. Additionally support of further platforms (beside AmigaOS 4) and servers (beside os4depot.net) is thought of. The first version of APMS still has several bugs and is partly incomplete: Install, uninstall and update do not work yet Loads of debug output The program does not show verbose status information Before download the (os4depot.net-) category must be selected by hand For all interested ones there is a mailing list at yahoo groups available. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 24. May. 2005, 22:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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