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Archive 08/2005


28.Aug.2005
PPC-Zone (forum)


Linux: OpenSuSE 10.0 for PowerPC / Short guide for installation on Pegasos
Due to the large number of requests, again a PowerPC version of the Linux distribution OpenSuSE has been released in version 10.0 beta 3 ("Bangalore") at the title link.

At PPCZone Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has published a short guide for installing OpenSuSE on the Pegasos. All you need is a Pegasos-compatible kernel, no further modifications are required.

How to install OpenSuSE on Pegasos computers:
  • Boot the first SuSE-CD with the following parameters: boot cd suseboot/inst32 minmemory=0 MemYastText=0 sysrq=1
  • You will be guided through the installation process
  • When installation of the first CD is finished, the computer will reboot
  • Now copy the kernel-modules of a Pegasos-compatible kernel to /lib/modules/"kernelversion" of your new system
  • Copy a Pegasos-compatible kernel to your boot-hd (if it isn't already there; if you choose a special filesystem like reiserfs, make sure it is compiled into your kernel)
  • In the Open Firmware, a usual linux-boot parameter-path is everything you will need: boot "SuseKernel" root=/dev/your-chosen-hd (plus additional parameters you want to use, like video=xxx)
  • SuSE should boot now with your kernel and finish installation
(snx)

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27.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


AmigaOS4: AmiPodder updated to version 1.2
Robert Williams's freeware program AmiPodder, for now the only Amiga receiver for so called podcasts, was updated to version 1.2. The ARexx program needs further software listed on the installation site.

The update contains an improved feedcheck for new podcasts making this routine more efficient and therefore faster.

Besides does the author introduce some podcasts in the links area of his website.

Download: AmiPodder.lha (344 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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27.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


AmigaOS4: Colecovision emulator Colem 1.0
Based on the Amiga port done by Paul Hill Bob Wicksall ported the Colecovision emulator Colem by Marat Fayzullin to AmigaOS4 (screenshot).

The Colecovision is a video games console that appeared in 1982. There's no sound support yet.

Download: colem_os4.lha (131 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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27.Aug.2005



MorphOS: libnix updated
There's a new libnix available for MorphOS in the download area of the MorphOS Developer Connection. It is recommended that all registered developers updated an installed MorphOS SDK with this new version.

Among other things were the following changed or are new:
  • added lfind/lsearch.
  • fixed access(), which didn't work properly at all.
  • optimized fseek(), should be much faster with in-buffer seeks now.
  • fixed scanf() (and all related functions (including strtod)) parsing of sequence of floats.
  • qsort() no longer compares the same elements against eachother (pointless, and broke some compare routines).
  • support printf/scanf (and related functions) %hh formatting.
(cr) (Translation: wk)

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27.Aug.2005
Oliver Hummel (forum)


MorphOS: ressources-friendly MUI settings (2nd Update)
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel made ressources friendly MUI settings available for users of the PowerUp version of MorphOS. In addition, he recommends the use of the skin "Rainy Blue" that is available on the CD. The effect is clearly visible. Further help can be found in our forum.

Download: Muilight.prefs (15 KB)

Update: (22:15, 28.08.05, snx)
Since the main reason for the performance gain seems to be to avoid the use of gradients, Oliver Hummel has released new MUI settings at MorphZone. Because of a minor mistake in the original settings for Oliver's Cyberstorm skin it is recommended for its users to download these new settings, too.

Alternatively, our reader Jean Holzammer suggests to avoid using skins at all and force the original look of Intuition instead. To do so, you have to rename (or delete) the skins directory in both SYS:Prefs and MOSSYS:Prefs.

Update 2: (22:38, 28.08.05, snx)
Another hint has been posted by 'rzookol' - according to him, the missing font vera.ttf in the mossys:fonts/_ttf directory is also a reason for a lower performance of the PowerUp version. As a solution, you can rename a copy of the font verase.ttf: "copy sys:morphos/fonts/_ttf/verase.ttf sys:morphos/fonts/_ttf/vera.ttf". Pegasos owners can copy the missing font from their corresponding MorphOS installation. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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27.Aug.2005
MorphOS-Team (e-mail)


MorphOS: Enter the Third Dimension!
After two years of active development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the free MorphOS 3D Update pack. This pack brings Warp3D and OpenGLŪ API compatibility to a whole new range of hardware including 3dfx Voodoo and ATI Radeon.

TinyGL library is heavily optimized and special care has been taken to improve the OpenGLŪ compliance. It now offers an extended set of advanced features including cubic mapping, display lists, stencil buffering, multitexturing, mipmapping, palette texture handling, non-blocking rendering (no context locking is required), compiled vertex arrays, user clipping planes, selection buffer, evaluators, a GLUT implementation and much more.

Warp3D libraries have been improved and offer more compatibility than any known implementation on the market.

3D hardware supported on Pegasos II, Pegasos I and PowerUp machines:
  • 3Dfx Avenger (Voodoo 3)
  • 3Dfx Napalm (Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5)
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II and Pegasos I machines:
  • ATI rv100 (Radeon 7000 and Radeon VE)
  • ATI r100 (Radeon 7200)
  • ATI rv200 (Radeon 7500)
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II machines:
  • ATI r200 (Radeon 8500 and Radeon 9100)
  • ATI rv250 (Radeon 9000)
  • ATI rv280 (Radeon 9200 and Radeon 9250)
The MorphOS 3D Update pack requires MorphOS 1.4.5 and is freely available on our FTP site and download portal. Please visit 3d.morphos-team.net (title link) for additional information.

We hope you will enjoy using this pack as much as we enjoyed creating it. Keep your graphics processor busy!

Best regards,
Frank, Mark, Michal and Nicolas (snx)

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26.Aug.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)


PSP-UAE: Update to version 0.31-kbd0.1
Christophe Thibaults port of the Amiga emulator UAE to the handheld game console PSP ("PlayStation Portable") from Sony has been updated to version 0.31-kbd0.1. The keyboard support has been added but which is still in the beginning phase. Pushing more than one key at the same time is still not possible. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Aug.2005
Ironfist (ANF)


Linux: Update of the Pegasos Rescue CD Mupper to version 0.3
Mikael 'Lisardman' Karlsson is working on a Rescue CD project for the Pegasos. Today he released version 0.3 at the title link. The Gentoo-based Live-CD contains various tools for recovery and testing.

The update provides more docs, support for Voodoo 3/4/5 and loadable modules (e.g. for filesystems). The features of Mupper:

Communication
lftp: FTP client
minicom: serial console (TTY) client
irssi: IRC client - if you need support

Hardware Diagnostics
fsck: Scan for corrupted blocks and files
memtester: A tool to test if your memory sticks are faulty

Partitioning
Parted: Partition editor
RAID-Tools: Create RAID arrays before OS install

Security
chkrootkit: Root exploit scanner
clamav: Open Source Anti virus for Linux and Windows viruses
nmap: Check for open server ports - test your firewall
rkhunter: Root exploit scanner

Supported Filesystems
AFFS
DOS
Ext2
Ext3
ISO9660 incl. Joilet
JFS
MSDOS FAT
NTFS
ReiserFS
SquashFS
UFS
VFAT
XFS (snx)

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26.Aug.2005



AROS: Status update / Interview with Adam Chodorowski
Paul J. Beel interviewed AROS developer Adam Chodorowski. Thanks to him AROS has been made bootable from CDROM and got Intuition backported from MorphOS, for example. He also ported Python, Lua, VIM and some GNU tools.

Furthermore, Paolo Besser has posted another status update at the title link. Among other stuff, AROS has got a new timer.device offering the UNIT_MICROHZ feature and the linux hosted version of AROS can run in fullscreen mode now. (snx)

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26.Aug.2005
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin (ANF)


MorphOS: Update of the picture viewer SimpleView to version 1.1b
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has released version 1.1b of his MorphOS picture viewer SimpleView at the title link. The update does now also fit some little pictures exactly into the window. SimpleView is completely written in PowerPC machine code. (snx)

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