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Archive 10/2006

`26.Oct.2006` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	Custom chips: Clone-A news Press release: The prototype of our Clone-A project - a re-implementation of the Amiga-chipset with modern technology - has been demostrated at the AmiWest show last weekend in Sacramento, California. Many visitors followed our request to bring along disks and programs that put the compatibility of our chipset to the test. None of the programs were a problem for Clone-A. We're especially proud that a previously unpublished demo works fine with Clone-A. According to the author, it does not work properly on the emulator UAE. Special thanks for this go to Christian Herden who brought the demo to the Amiwest show. Sound-magician Chris Hülsbeck approved of the exact audio playback of Clone-A. Even complicated music routines like the 7-voice title track of Turrican II and the unconventionally programmed ingame-sounds of Apidya were convincing to the ears of the master. from left to right: Oliver Achten, Jens Schönfeld, Chris Hülsbeck, Christian Herden Many users have requested Clone-A to be a PCI card for the current PPC boards on the market. As part of the Efika developer program, we offered to develop Clone-A into a PCI card that works with Efika and other PPC boards by BPlan. Today, our offer has been rejected. Genesi's rejection will have no influence on further development of Clone-A. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 26. Oct. 2006, 16:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Oct.2006` Mirko Naumann (ANF)	Genesi: OpenFirmware is supporting Marvell's Discovery V now Genesi is announcing in a press release, that the company owned OpenFirmware-implementation was licensed to Marvell and will be used at "development boards" with Marvell's northbridge Discovery V. (cg) (Translation: tz) [News message: 26. Oct. 2006, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Oct.2006`	Veranstaltung: Report from the AmiWest Steven Solie resumes his impressions from the AmiWest (October 22, California) under the title link. The main items in brief: The announced special guest was Bill McEwen from Amiga Inc., who would bring a prototype of a ppc mainboard. But McEwen had to cancel his appearance in the last minute, as his son was injured during a hokey match. The author himself had a sample of Troika's PPC-motherboard "Panda", which should have been functional in theory. But Solie didn't want to take a risk and he will try the hardware in a more relaxed environment, therefore functional tests were not carried out. According to Solie Hyperion has already received Panda motherboards, and an external company was charged with the redesign of the licensed hardware. Richard Drummond represented Hyperion and showed the AmigaOS 4-port of the strategy game Gorky 17. A port of the astronomy software Digital Universe for AmigaOS 4 is in work, the latest beta version was presented at the exhibition. The Amiga legend Carl Sassenrath was present and apparently very interested in the actual Amiga situation. Meanwhile Sassenrath is discussing his visions around the topic Amiga at the amigaworld.net in certain threads. (cg) (Translation: tz) [News message: 26. Oct. 2006, 15:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Oct.2006` Pegasos.org (website)	Reminder: Efika developer program Until and including October the 31st project proposals may be sumbitted at the title link to apply for a Freescale sponsored Efika board. Accepted contenders will receive an Efika board with 128 MB RAM. Already registered participants are urgetly requested to confirm their postal address. Without a valid address boards cannot be send. (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Oct. 2006, 19:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Oct.2006` Schlonz (ANF)	MorphOS: Demo version of Pixel 1.0 Beta 6 build 558 Already since October the 15 there is the demo version 1.0 Beta 6 build 558 of the graphic program Pixel (former Pixel 32) for MorphOS available at the title link. (snx) (Translation: un) [News message: 25. Oct. 2006, 19:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Oct.2006` amigafuture.de (website)	WinUAE: AmiKit 1.2.3 For AmiKit, a complete distribution for WinUAE users, there is an liegt update to version 1.2.3 available. The update must be fetched with the software's integrated Live Update function. New in this version: ADDED: French catalogs for AmiStart and BoingBall by Eric Luczyszyn UPDATED: AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.3 UPDATED: Meridian 2.22 UPDATED: MMKeyboard 3.23 UPDATED: MultiRen 1.63 UPDATED: PlayOGG 5.6a UPDATED: SmartFileSystem 1.263 UPDATED: TheMPegEncGUI 2.63 UPDATED: VICE 1.20 (11-Oct-2006) REVERTED: Jabberwocky 1.5.2 (the newer v1.6 and v1.7b1 crash on exit) (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Oct. 2006, 15:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Oct.2006` (ANF)	Java becomes full open source in 2007 As heise.de reports Sun will provide all sources of the Java distributions Java SE and Java ME during the first quarter 2007 under some open source license. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Oct. 2006, 15:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Oct.2006`	MorphOS: Beta version of an EHCI driver (USB2) Nicolas Det has released a first beta version of an EHCI driver, which enables teh usage of USB2 controllers with MorphOS. The ehciusb.device has to be copied to MOSSYS:Devs/USBHardware, then the driver is available at Poseidon's preferences at the "Hardware" menu. The author gives no support, use is at own risk. First user reports are available at the (German) pegasosforum.de. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Oct. 2006, 15:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Oct.2006` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	Software updates by OnyxSoft (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS) OnyxSoft have released updates of some of their programs: AmigaOS 4: Annotate 2.5 Annotate is a text editor, originally done by Doug Bakewell in 1993, which has been improved by OnyxSoft. The list of changes since the last version are to obtain from the readme. AmigaOS 4, MorphOS: AllKeys 2.0 The Commodity Allkeys enables the use of all rawkeys (incl. wultimedia keys) and mouse buttons as Hotkeys. Version 2.0 comes with a graphical interface, also mouse wheel movements can be simulated now. AmigaOS 3: MultiRen 1.63 MultiRen is a strongly improved rename command with GUI which is most useful for renaming huge file sets. Version 1.63 is further bug fixed.r AmigaOS 3: Quicksketch 1.03 With Quicksketch short notes and sketches can be made and stored. AmigaOS 3: TheMPegEncGUI 2.63 TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical user interface for several console based MP3 encoder. In Version 2.63 a small bug was removed. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 24. Oct. 2006, 15:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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