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Archive 08/2005

`25.Aug.2005` Guido Mersmann (Forum)	ValiantVision: AmithlonTV-Rework in progress Guido Mersmann is currently working on a translation and extension of the tv card driver software AmithlonTV - meanwhile the project has the new name ValiantVision. Among other things the support for dvb cards is planned. A detailed project description can be found under the titel link. (snx) (Translation: ts) [News message: 25. Aug. 2005, 16:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Aug.2005` MorphZone (forum)	MorphOS: New Skin "Cyberstorm" Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel has completed another skin for MorphOS and named it "Cyberstorm" as a tribute to the PowerUp release of MorphOS 1.4.5 (Screenshot). (snx) [News message: 25. Aug. 2005, 08:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2005` MorphZone (forum)	MorphOS: KHTML engine port in the works Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski is porting the KHTML engine library to MorphOS - GTK+ Webcore, to be more precisely. At the title link you can find several screenshots and a movie of the current state of development. (snx) [News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 23:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2005` Microsoft (E-mail)	10 years Windows 95 On August the 24th, 1995 Windows 95 replaced MS-DOS with a simple to use graphical user interface and a fast system kernel. Contemporaneous Office 95 had been released and the Microsoft Network service (MSN) has been lauched. Windows 95 was based on 32 bit technolgy and replaced the MS-DOS extension Windows 3.x. Thus, the PC evolved to an universal work tool and conquered the digital household. This version became the most successfull software of its time for business and private customers. The new features included the start button with its embedded menu, long file names and internet connectivity usind TCP/IP of the integrated MSN client. Thus, Windows 95 was anticipating many imortant developments. A similar big step for the IT will be the coming release of Windows Vista. Today Windows, as a former concurrent system to the Amiga, plays an important role for the Amiga scene providing a base for the Amiga emulator WinUAE. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 21:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2005` MorphOS Development Team	MorphOS 1.4.5 Free Edition for PowerUP Amigas Five Year Anniversary - MorphOS 1.4.5 Free Edition for PowerUP Available 24th August, 2005 - The MorphOS development team would like to celebrate the five year anniversary of the first ever publically available MorphOS release by announcing the immediate availability of MorphOS 1.4.5 Free Edition for PowerUP accelerators by phase5 & DCE. By releasing the latest end user version of MorphOS for PowerPC-equipped Commodore A1200, A3000 and A4000 computers, the OS is brought back to its origins. Prior to creating versions for the bPlan PEGASOS and various embedded hardware platforms, development started out on the forementioned computers by Commodore Business Machines and resulted in a first beta version to be released in August 2000. For information about supported hardware configurations, installation instructions and the actual download location, please visit http://powerup.morphos-team.net Please note that the MorphOS Development Team is unable to provide direct end user support for this specific version of MorphOS. If you encounter any problems, please use the PowerUP forum on MorphZone to ask for help and support. http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewforum.php?forum=42 We sincerely hope you enjoy the Free Edition of MorphOS 1.4.5 and would like to welcome you soon as regulars on a MorphOS community website. Thank you for your interest, The MorphOS Development Team (cr) [News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 21:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2005`	AmigaRemix: Four new songs added Amigaremix.com provides Amiga game soundtrack remix mp3 files for download. Four new tunes were added now, a summary of available titles is avaialble at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 21:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2005`	AmigaOS 4: Drum-Computer RockBEAT 1.1 RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine (Screenshot) for AmigaOS 4. It is a tool for musicians that allows you to create drumming tracks. It can create multiple tracks, each one being 4x 4/4 measures with 16th notes. You can save individual tracks as wav files, or the whole thing as one big song. You can drop in your own 16bit 44100Hz PCM WAV samples in the drumsamples/ folder if you like. The new version 1.1 is out now including several fixes. Changes in detail: No more grim reaper alerts when starting then stopping playback quickly I removed an AbortIO() call that wasnt really needed. Theres no more excess silence at the end of wav files for individually saved tracks. Button graphics are freed up when quitting now. All message ports are emptied and deleted when quitting. No more "unfreed signals" error messages now, and I think it has brought up stability a little. Drum samples limit changed to 20. It used to crash after more than 10 samples were loaded due to a silly programming error. i.e. looping up to 20 times when there were only 10 available spaces in the array. Adding new samples to the drumsamples/ folder will no longer make old projects invalid. Better compatibility with some WAVs. RockBEAT used to assume a certain WAV header value was a always certain size, but I've found out it can be different. I have included a cool cymbal sample to the default drumsamples/set. The demo is restricted to 10 minutes. If you like it, you can purchase a keyfile from the author for $15 USD. (nba) [News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 21:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2005` MorphZone (Webseite)	Feelin: MorphOS version available Olivier Laviales open source projekt Feelin, an object based system for AmigaOS, has been ported by Guillaume Roguez to MorphOS (screen shot). Download: Feelin050823_mos.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 18:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2005` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	AmigaOS4: Betaversion of a Synergy client Douglas McLaughlin has released an early beta version of his Synergy clients for AmigaOS4. With Synergy one keyboard and mouse may be used for several computers within one network. Please note the readme file regarding the current limitations. Download: AmiSynergyc.lha (97 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 17:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2005`	Retro gaming: Test reports from older Amiga magazines at "Amiga Reviews" "Amiga Reviews" provides hundereds of test reports from German (AmigaJoker) and British (CU Amiga, Amiga Power, Zzap) Amiga magazines. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 16:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2005` Holger Krefting (ANF)	PBEM game: Tamar needs new land! (VI) The Massive Multiplayer PBEM game 'Tales of Tamar' will be extended by another area of land. The following announcement is taken from the game's forum: For the sixth time, we start our event 'Tamar needs new land!'. - Once again, all of Tamar has been settled, and new land has to be found for new realms. Don't miss that opportunity! It will take place on September 1st, only 10 days from now. Start with other players under equal conditions, and show that your a contender for the rank of emperor! Explore regions of Tamar that no man has set foot on before. Meet unique challanges like dragons, undead and other creatures, and prove yourself in the contest with other human players. Hint 1: Our price of 500 Euro for the first emperor among the realms created after January 1st 2005 has still not been claimed. (You'll find the detailed rules in the ToT forum). Hint 2: If you enter the keyword "Shareware" in the field for the serial number while registering, you can start playing for free. A turn fee will only apply once you got deeper into the game. Also please add the remark that you want to start on September 1st. Hint 3: Since the clients for Mac OS and Linux are also playable on the same world, we need some beta testers for these systems. Wishing you a lot of fun, with best regards, Your ToT-Team & Wolfen (snx) [News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 09:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005`	AmigaOS 4: New Alpha-Version of AVD GUI Builder Another Alpha-Version of "AVD GUI Builder" is available for registered members of BITbyBITs subscription program.. GUI Builder is for creating and maintaining ReAction-based graphical user-interfaces (cg) (Translation: is) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 23:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005` MorphZone (forum)	MorphZone bounties: TCP/IP stack project not assigned anymore Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski, who started to develop a TCP/IP stack for MorphOS as part of the MorphZone bounty program, has announced at the title link to drop all his projects due to personal reasons. His source code for the ezTCP stack has been committed to MorphZone in case another developer would like to continue. The current state of donations for this bounty are 754.16 USD. (snx) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 22:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005` Amiga Future (website)	Genesi: Support for the AMCC 440EP Yosemite board (Update) Press release Genesi is pleased to announce that it will provide under license the Pegasos hardware abstraction layer and IEEE 1275 compliant Open Firmware (HAL/OF) for the recently released AMCC 440EP Yosemite Board. The Pegasos HAL/OF approach brings with it immediate GNU/Linux kernel support as well as support from a growing number Linux distributions, including Debian, Gentoo, YDL, Ubuntu, CruxPPC, Montavista and Fedora. An OpenSolaris PowerPC port is also underway. The Pegasos HAL/OF has been used and is being used to support PowerPC-based platforms from Freescale, IBM and now AMCC. Genesi recently participated in the first European meeting of Power.org held at the Barcelona Super Computer Center. At the Event the Pegasos HAL/OF approach was discussed as a potential standard for PowerPC based boards to speed system enablement. "Already, companies like Genesi USA Inc. are building PowerPC processor-based systems using the IEEE 1275 Open Firmware model to bring PowerPC technology, flexibility, and efficiency to the desktop, low-end server, home entertainment, and pervasive computing markets at an affordable price. The hardware abstraction layer of the PegasosPPC has been integrated into the mainline GNU/Linux kernel and includes an x86 emulation extension which allows generic PC-based components to be used." The Pegasos HAL/OF approach enables the vast software resources currently available on the Open Desktop Workstation to be shared with other PowerPC-based platforms. The Open Desktop Workstation is a CHRP compliant platform based on the Pegasos and composed of standard PC components. The Pegasos HAL/OF provides a logical successor to the CHRP standard replacing hardware dependent code with API callbacks to an abstraction layer that provides a common interface to operating systems and/or applications as required. Update: (18:51, 23.08.05, snx) At linuxdevices.com you can find a photo and an article about the Yosemite board. (snx) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 16:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005` MorphZone (Forum)	MorphUp: development status of paket manager Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger took over the ezPM-Project (currently given bounties: 192,83 USD) from the MorphZone-Bounty-rogram and called his Software "MorphUp". Meanwhile he has published a development status report, reachable via title-link. (snx) (Translation: is) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 09:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005`	Amiga-Musicdatabase AMP: New Ultimod-List / 131 further interviews the music-databse has provided a new version of the Ultimod-list in their download-section. In this case it's a listing of meanwhile 84895 Ultimod music-modules. Since our last information the number of accesses on the AMP-Website exceeds the number of 100000. In addition 131 further interviews were added, which results in a total number of 730. Aforesaid interviews were held with: 911, Absys, Adonis, Agemixer, Alpha.de, Ambien, Angeldust, Anthony Milas, Arrakis, Arrogance, Axel.fr, Axl.tk, Babydee, Baby Kool, Bird.fr, Bkh, Blo, Boone, Boray, Braintumour, Cenobit, Cerror, Chorus, Chris Korte, Colorboy, Corny, Cosmiq, Counterpoint, Crazy Man, Cybarite, Dance, Darryl Sloan, Dbug, Deejay Jones, Deetroy, Distance, Dj.nl, Djamm, Djkor, Droid.dk, Dr Vector, Dsn, Duz, Echo.no, Elijah, Energizer, Equalizer, Erk, Evil.fr, Falcon.fr, Fby, Firefox.se, Flame, Floopy, Florist, Floss, Fxl, Goto80, Gundam.gb, Hattrick, Hellrazor.dk, Hot shot, Howard.no, Hyperunknown, Jaz, Jean-Marc Grignon, Jorgen, Jozef, Kaneel, Keith303, Landslide Purist, Lars Hamre, Latyl, Leach, Lord.se, Lord Performer, Lot, Lurios, Maf, Manwe, Mc Mp, Mdb, Meta, Mikromission, Mindplay, Mr Fancy, Mr Future, Mr Man.gb, Mytholog, Nhp, Noor, Omega.se, Oriens, Patrick Groove, Phlexor, Powl, Radich, Rainbow.se, Rambones, Rawer, Reptile.hu, Rioter, Satyricon.fr, Scene Seven, Schmoovy Schmoov, Serval, Slaze, Souleye, Steelhertz, Stein Vidar Olsen, Strike, Suny, Tex.fr, The Cyborg, The Inspector, Tip.se, Turtle.fi, Typhoon, Ulrick, Unison.fr, Unknown, Useless, Vegard!, Vibe, Warlock.fi, Xenon.fr, Yoghurt, Zero Dezign, Zoltar.sw, Zoon und Zzzax. (snx) (Translation: is) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 08:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005`	Amiga-Games-database: Further updates of the Hall Of Light The Hall of Light is an extensive Amiga-Games database, which is constantly updated by an international team . New games, screenshots and scans are added nearly everyday. Since the 14th August, there have been 200 updates. (snx) (Translation: is) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 07:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005` Total Amiga (Webseite)	Event: changed opening times of the Big Bash (GB) The Big Bash 3, by their own account the biggest british Amiga-event this year, takes place on 24th September in Peterborough. The opening hours are from 13 - 18, which differs from the original statement. AmigaOS/68k, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS will be shown. (snx) (Translation: is) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005` Grasshopper LLC (ML)	PageStream: IRC session / Updates for AmigaOS/68k and MorphOS imminent As Grasshopper LLC inform on their mailing list, updates for PageStream 5.0 are imminent. Besides a much improved MorphOS version, there will also be an Amiga/68k release for the first time. Furthermore there will be an IRC session with Deron Kazmeier (IRC nick: "PageStreamSupport") to celebrate the 20th anniversary of PageStream. The conference will start on August 27 at 22:00 CEST (3 PM Central Standard Time) on irc.dal.net at channel #PageStream. Some systems will require a specific server (a few users have used mesra.kl.my.dal.net if all else fails). To celebrate this anniversary, users who purchase (or have already purchased) PageStream 5.0 or PageStream 5.0 Pro will find a grab bag of goodies in the download section including some commercial clip art and the Amiga's much beloved TypeSmith font editor. These goodies will be available until the end of this month only. (snx) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 07:18] [Comments: 2 - 24. Aug. 2005, 08:32] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005` DENIC	DENIC registers 9 million .de-domains On August 20th, 2005, for the first time DENIC registered a total numer of 9 million .de-domains. Each year more than one million new .de-domains are added right now. (nba) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 01:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2005` Lemon Amiga	Games database: 65 new cheats on lemonamiga.com Lemon Amiga, a big games database with many screenshots and detailled information, now offers 65 new cheats mainly for the CD32, with a permission by Ray Earle's Game Help. The total number of cheats in this database is currently 764 pieces. (nba) [News message: 23. Aug. 2005, 01:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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