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Archive 12/2005

`24.Dec.2005` Sebastian Bauer (ANF)	SimpleMail 0.28 The program SimpleMail is now available in version 0.28 for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. The update of the MorphOS version will follow soon. The changes: Problems with printing solved (bgol) The time remaining until the next (automatic) mails download is displayed in the window title (bgol) Some options for the behaviour of the read window added (bgol) Mails can be forwarded as attachments (optional) Externally saved mails can be displayed via the menu item "Project/open mail..."; the same function is available via the command line and the ARexx command "OPENMESSAGE" Bugs removed The SimpleMail team wishes all a merry christmas and a happy new year! (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 24. Dec. 2005, 17:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Dec.2005`	Games data base: 200 new games at Lemon Amiga In Lemon Amiga, a comprehensive games data base with numerous screenshots and information, were 200 titles added. (cg) (Translation: wk) [News message: 24. Dec. 2005, 16:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Dec.2005` amigaworld.net (website)	Demo scene: christmas intro "Dear Santa" by Up Rough With "Dear Santa releases the demo group Up Rough a small christmas intro for the Amiga 500. (cg) (Translation: wk) [News message: 24. Dec. 2005, 16:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Dec.2005` Dennis (ANF)	AmigaOS 4: Emperor - Object Oriented Programming Environment (beta) Emperor is an object orientated programming environment to make the development of PPC native applikations with only a little number of mouse clicks possible. The current version is mainly thought for developers who want to create Reaction based graphical user interfaces. Right now Emperor generates source code for screens, windows, Reaction layouts, ASL requesters, menus and installer scripts. (cg) (Translation: wk) [News message: 24. Dec. 2005, 15:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Dec.2005` Neo (ANF)	AmigaOS 4: TuneNet 0.70a (beta) TuneNet is a MP3, AHX, AIFF and Protracker player for AmigaOS 4 that can alos play MP3 streams from the Internet (screenshot). New in version 0.70a: optional skinable Docky interface playlist editing facilities sorting/find abilities volume and tune seeking controls and more... The archive contains new versions of all plugins as older plugins are not compatible with version 0.70a anymore. (cg) (Translation: wk) [News message: 24. Dec. 2005, 15:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Dec.2005` Bernd Roesch (ANF)	AmigaOS enhancement: AFA OS 3.91 (final) released AFA OS (AROS for AmigaOS) is a collection of AROS libraries that were ported back to AmigaOS 3 and because of this make new functions under this operating system available. Thanks to a fast official fix by Georg Steger does "assign add" now work. Next to this was an error removed that froze the system when the FONTS: assign contained a directory whith no fonts in it. Author Bernd Roesch wishes all readers a merry christmas. (cg) (Translation: wk) [News message: 24. Dec. 2005, 15:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Dec.2005` AN-Team	Amiga-News wishes a merry christmas! The whole team of Amiga-News wishes all readers, partners and Amiga fans a merry christmas and a happy new year! (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 24. Dec. 2005, 13:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Dec.2005` Jan Zahurancik (ANF)	WinUAE: Update package 1.03 for AmiKit A new update for AmiKit, an all in one OS distribution for WinUAE users, is available. It requires the previous update. New in this version: ADDED: AmiKit Polish documentation, translated by Tomek! ADDED: AmigaAMP-External68k engine, set as default engine now. UPDATED: AmigaAMP 2.16 UPDATED: IBrowse Preferences 23.3 UPDATED: Jabberwocky 1.6 UPDATED: MakeCD 3.2d beta 11 UPDATED: WHDLoad 16.5 build 4021 UPDATED: WookieChat 1.9.2 UPDATED: YAM 2.4p1 + locale files (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 24. Dec. 2005, 02:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Dec.2005` PPA (ANF)	Mediator: TV-Tuner controller TvR 2.9 The program TvR written by Robert Krajcarz (screenshot) is now available in version 2.9. With this software you can control TV-Tuner-PCI-cards which are used with a Mediator board. These are the most important changes: The major changes concern a new set of options activated with right mouse button. fixed bug in the procedure of hiding mouse pointer fixed bugs in ADD and DEL functions added PPM P6 and JPEG savers displayed TV images can be used as Workbench background selection of favourite channels minimizing the main window can be obtain from the GUI level minor change in the method of saving configuration files A complete list of all changes is available in the archive. Download: tvr29.lha (70 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Dec. 2005, 23:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Dec.2005` Amiforce (ANF)	Amiforce: New track as MP3 written by Cj-Stroker On Amiforce there is a preview of the music project: "Tempronic - Ultra violent trancemix" written by Cj-Stroker in the music section. Besides this all users and visitors of his website he wishes a Merry Christmas. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Dec. 2005, 20:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Dec.2005`	MorphOS: Software-News until 23.12.2005 MOSNet 0.15 (formerly ezTCP) The PPC-native TCP/IP-Stack written by Pavel Fedin is available as alpha version 0.15. Because of the existence of a product with the same name as well as some new functions have been added this piece of software is now called MOSNet. With version 0.15 the support of DHCP was finished. Nevertheless a part of this source code will be rewritten for a forthcoming version. Download site AHIRNG AHIRNG, the "AHI Random Number Generator", is used for creating random figures. Rupert Hausbergers MUI-program (screenshot) can do this with the help of the so called Rosa Rauschen which was recorded with a receiver without aerial. The results can be used for creating of One-Time-Pads. Download: ahirng-morphos.lha (57 KB) MrMazinga 0.8 The gag-program MrMazinga written by Alfonso Ranieri is available in version 0.8. From now on there is also a version for AmigaOS/68k. Download site (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Dec. 2005, 15:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Dec.2005` ANN (Webseite)	MorphOS: Picture viewer Showgirls 0.8 ShowGirls" is a picture viewer written by Michal 'kiero' Wozniak which has some editing functions and some features of the programs "MiniShowPicture" and "ShowPPC" (screenshots). Changes in the new version: FIXED: When changing to/from fullscreen with other windows opened they are moved to front. FIXED: Various small bugs and invalid memory acceses. FIXED: Crashes when switching images with asynchronous refresh enabled. FIXED: Sometimes rightmost column on thumbnail had wrong color. FIXED: Memory leak when checking saved JPEG quality. NEW: Loading of CMYK JPEGs. NEW: Possibility to disable color subsampling in JPEG saver. Results in better color quality (not 'washed out') in some cases. NEW: Selective gaussian filter. Usefull for noise removal. NEW: Glow filter. NEW: Straighten tool. Helps to correct rotated scans or pictures. NEW: Manual marking of cropped area. NEW: Thumbnails view uses directory icons if possible. NEW: File management functions can be executed on multiple files at once (multiselection). NEW: More keyboard shortcuts added to menu items. NEW: Image rotation also possible using numeric keyboard (keys 7 and 9). NEW: When changing browser mode currently selected file is remembered. NEW: In thumbnails view, selected thumbs are highlighted. NEW: 'Delayed scanning' option. Starts thumbnails generation only after browser is enabled. NEW: Display of EXIF tags from JPEG images. NEW: Automatic rotation of pictures with vertical orientation (if camera supports it and writes needed info). NEW: 3D View (3DVIEW tooltype or command param). Just useless eyecandy for now :) (Screenshot) NEW: Background/Shadow color adjustment for display area. NEW: Save function (in addition to Save As). NEW: In thumbnailer module size of resulting thumbnail can be specified. NEW: Undo. For now just simple one level one. Was that or no release for xmess. NEW: ARexx interface Updated libz and libpng to current versions. Faster text inserting routine. Rotation routines much faster (up to 300%) for bigger images. String gadget with numeric values can be controlled using mouse wheel (MUI4). Speedup to various parts of the code. Download: ShowGirls-0.8.lha (470 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Dec. 2005, 15:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Dec.2005` Slashdot (Webseite)	Fosfor Gadgets: The ten most crazy Case-Mods ever The website Fosfor Gadgets has chosen the ten most crazy Case-Mods ever. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Dec. 2005, 15:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Dec.2005` Ronny (ANF)	AmigaOS 4: DvPlayer 0.51 Version 0.51 of DvPlayer, a video and DVD player for AmigaOS 4, has been released at the title link. Changes since the previous release: Added subtitle support (.srt and .sub files) with automatic subtitle loading Added subtitle command line options and tooltypes (font name/size, position, colour) and a new subtitle menu to allow loading/closing of subtitles Added animated dithering algorithm to 16-bit modes to improve quality (apparent colour depth) and added NODITHER tooltype and command line option Volume slider could be updated by audioboost in fullscreen mode where it does not get put into the window leading to a crash Added possibility to use system fonts in DvPlayer Skins; updated the skin documentation to include information about this new feature Fixed a memory leak bug in the avi code AudioBoost now doubles the volume too, instead of just extending the volume range Fixed a bug causing wrong window size when skin was changed while a movie was stopped (snx) [News message: 23. Dec. 2005, 14:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Dec.2005` Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #090 The scene groupe Liquid Skies has published its 90th music pack. This time it contains a music track in Tribal style composed of the Polish duo Lcr feat. Kuadziw. The cover was made by Kuadziw. Some further information: Title: Fkrent Story Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw Style: Tribal Play time: 7:50 Format: mp3 (160 kbps) The zip file has a size of 9 MB and can be downloaded under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Dec. 2005, 14:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Dec.2005` MorphOS-News.de (website)	MorphOS: AC3 S/PDIF playback on Pegasos AC3Play is a small tool to test S/PDIF out with multichannel audio on Pegasos running MorphOS. It requires a digital amplifier which is capable of decoding AC3. Analog out is muted while playing non-PCM data, only optical out is used. Do not use it while playing back audio with AHI, it does not use AHI but accesses the audio hardware directly. Download: playac3.lha (1,4 MB) (snx) [News message: 23. Dec. 2005, 07:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Dec.2005` morphos-news.de (website)	MorphOS: Shoot'em Up Lightning Spirit Lightning Spirit is a vertical scrolling shootem'up game(Screenshot) orientated on "Ikaruga". MorphOS-Port from Nicolas Sallin. The morphos archiv contains the main executable only, but all necessary files are being downloaded during the installation procedure. Download: lightningspirit.lha (290 KB) (cg) (Translation: ts) [News message: 22. Dec. 2005, 19:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Dec.2005` Alinea Computer (ANF)	Alinea Computer: Short break, webcam packet and new WBSuperGames screenshots Press release: Wehrheim, Germany, the 22th of December 2005 - We want to let you know that we will take a short break from the 22th to 29th of December. At this time you cannot contact us via email or telephone. Additionally, we will not be working on orders. AmiWebView: Webcam package for Germany As a little christmas present, we have created a webcam package for germany. All webcams are sorted by the german provinces. You can find the package at our download section. WBSuperGames: New screenshots At our WBSuperGames site you can find new screenshots. WBSuperGames is a Workbench-game-collection for AmigaOS 4. The WBSuperGames will be released in the beginning 2006. A big thanks go to you, our customers for your support over the last year and we will be happy to welcome you into the year 2006 and hope you continue being a customer. We wish all amiga users a merry chrismas and a happy new year. Regards Your Alinea Computer team (cg) (Translation: snx) [News message: 22. Dec. 2005, 16:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Dec.2005` (ANF)	PowerPC-Emulator: PearPC with Support for G4 CPU The emulator PearPC emulates the PowerPC cpu architecture on Intel cpu's. The new version 0.4.0 also emulates the Altivec command sentences of a G4 cpu now. Furthermore cd drives now are supported directly, a dvd drive can be emulated with an image and the emulator is starting immediately in fullscreen mode. (cg) (Translation: ts) [News message: 22. Dec. 2005, 16:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Dec.2005`	Updates of ascan and hserv Alfonso Ranieri has relesad new versions of ascan and hserv. The former one is a multi-process-TCP-port-scanner for AmigaOS/68k and MorphOS. The ARexx program hserv is a http/1.1 server which is able to act standalone or as an inetd service and handles GET, HEAD as well as POST. (snx) (Translation: ts) [News message: 22. Dec. 2005, 12:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Dec.2005` Amigaworld.net (website)	AmigaOS 4: GNU m4-1.4.4 GNU m4, an implementation of the traditional UNIX macroprocessor, is also available for AmigaOS 4 now. It is extensively compatible to SVR4 but contains some extensions. (snx) (Translation: ts) [News message: 22. Dec. 2005, 12:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Dec.2005`	MorphOS: OpenSSH 4.1p1 Marek Szyprowski's morphos port of OpenSSH was updated to version 4.1p1. In the new version the ssh-rand-helper was replaced with Christian Rosentreter's yarandom-handler. OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH protocol suite and should offer the users of telnet, rlogin, ftp and similar clients more security on the internet by effectively coding all sent data including the password. The morphos version is mainly intended for the use with Jacek Piszczek's SSHCON. (snx) (Translation: ts) [News message: 22. Dec. 2005, 12:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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