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Archive 11/2008

`10.Nov.2008`	Aminet: Web-uploads possible again Press release: Uploads to the Aminet are now with the browser possible. We are sorry for the long period of breakdown. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Nov. 2008, 17:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Nov.2008` Rupert Hausberger (ANF)	MorphOS: Harddrive encryption with DIL 1.50 DIL ("Device Intervention Layer") written by Rupert Hausberger adds new virtual drives to the system which represent images of a real existing drives (or devices). If you access to such a virtual device the data stream will be changed, encrypted or controled in this way and only then the data stream will be delivered to the real drive. With AES.dilp there is a new plugin which makes the encryption of the harddrive at the lowlevel base with AES possible. The changes in version 1.50 im detail: dil.device (1.50) Added support for SHA256 so plugins can now request that seed-type. Added plugin-tags DILI_SeedDIL and DILI_SeedSHA to specify the seed-type used. Now to passphrase-request window does popup another time if the user did a wrong input. Fixed typo DILI_Licence to DILI_License. Changed the DIL_SANEID, all plugins need a rebuild. Bumped dilplugin.h to 1.2 dilPlugInfo (1.2) Added plugin status, whether working with the installed version of DIL. Added plugin tags DILI_SeedDIL and DILI_SeedSHA. Plugins: aes.dilp (1.00): Initial. blockmon.dilp (1.12) default.dilp (1.12) poly.dilp (1.12): Rebuild with new DIL_SANEID. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Nov. 2008, 17:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Nov.2008` Amiga.org (Forum)	Emulator: UAE for Nintendo Wii Based on UAE4ALL under the title link a first beta version of the Amiga emulator UAE for the game console Nintendo Wii was published. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Nov. 2008, 07:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Nov.2008` Andrea Maniero (#morphos)	Event: AIConf on 6. December in Papozze (Italy) On 6. December Radicadesign together with the local municipality will organize an event for alternative computer systems called AIConf (Alternative Italian Conference) in the sport arena of Papozze in Italy. There will be present AmigaOS 4.1 and the Sam440ep-flex-Board, MorphOS and the Efika-Board as well as Haiku and Ubuntu. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Nov. 2008, 07:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Nov.2008` Franz (ANF)	Emulator: WinUAE 1.5.3 The latest version of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE includes optimizations for RTG-applications, some minor improvements of the chipset emulation and offers you the possibility to link certain file types (.adf, .uae...) with the emulator. The changes in WinUAE 1.5.3 in detail: Fixed bugs: Huge memory leak when switching between RTG and native modes. Writing to disk images didn't work in some games. Configuration cache missing files in subdirectories. Random freeze when switching to fullscreen modes that are smaller than desktop resolution. Second and third mouse/firebutton handling fix (Aladdin, BC.Kid and more) "Always on top", "No taskbar button" and fullscreen color depth change works on the fly. OpenGL fullscreen fixed. Parallel/Serial/MIDI select menus and Input-panel bottom options didn't work correctly. System clock run slightly too fast or slow if chipset refresh rate was different than startup refresh rate (really old bug). OCS NTSC configuration defaulted to PAL refresh rate. Real PCMCIA SRAM card re-insert detection fixed. Fullscreen RTG 16-bit to 32-bit desktop windowed mode switch (CTRL+F12) color errors fixed. New features: Basic file association settings added to GUI (.uae, .adf etc..) RTG vertical blank wait uses interrupts, no more busy waiting. Should improve performance in many fullscreen RTG games. Added RTG virtual refresh rate configuration to GUI. Added RTG refresh rate next to chipset refresh rate FPS counter. Undocumented OCS "scanline" feature emulated (Ode to Ramon I and II) Midline resolution change improvements (still far from perfect, Disposable Hero, Innovation Part 2) Only accept current latest OpenAL32.dll or newer (old versions can cause crashes during device enumeration) Improved emulation of reads from write-only custom registers (S.E.X. / Fantasys) Syncronize Clock stability improved. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Nov. 2008, 17:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Nov.2008`	ACube will attend Electronica 2008 According to ACube the company will take part in the Electronica 2008 (11. to 14. November, Munich). The Sam440 and AmigaOS 4.1 will be presented live. All Amiga users are very welcome. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Nov. 2008, 15:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Nov.2008` Amigaworld.net (Webseite)	HivelyTracker 1.6 HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format. AHX was developed in the 90ies to write music tracks which are similar to the typical chip-sound of SID (sound-chip of C64). Changes: Right since 1.0, the EDx command was broken! Fixed The range check on Cxx commands was broken. Fixed Now strips the upper nibble of 4xx instrument commands when loading a THX\0 file. AHX always did this since the introduction of filters (THX\1), but AFAIK WinAHX and its derivatives never did (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Nov. 2008, 14:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Nov.2008`	Anubis OS: AROS-developers start new, Amiga-inspired operating system Some active as well as former AROS-developers want to write a new operating system. Anubis OS (still empty homepage) is not a Fork that means a branch of AROS because for lack of ressources no compatibility to AmigaOS 3.1 is aimed. Instead of it the Linux-based operating system is supposed to be inspired of AmigaOS. Because many of the developers will be no longer availble for AROS it might yet represent a disunion of the AROS-project. There will be a first ISO-file with the developing status of Anubis OS around New Year. Mainly Anubis OS will be supposed to represent like Apple's Fusion of Mac OS and BSD to Mac OS X but based on AmigaOS and Linux. A main focus will be an easy to use user-interface. So the Linux basis will provide the functionality (e.g. 2D and 3D graphic drivers) but the user-interface will be inspired by Amiga. The following AROS-developers are involved: Michal Schulz, Hogne Titlestad, Ola Jensen, Robert Norris, Michael Grunditz, Oliver Brunner, Olivier Tigreat, Pavel Fedin, Stanisław Szymczyk and Paul J. Beel. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Nov. 2008, 09:04] [Comments: 2 - 13. Nov. 2008, 05:41] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Nov.2008` amigaworld.net (Webseite)	PDF-magazine: APoV (Amiga Point of View) issue 3 APoV is an English game magazine which is about old Amiga games and which is published in PDF-format. The third issue includes the following topics: Reviews of... Disposable Hero, Navy Seals, The Lord of the Rings, War in Middle Earth, Tiny Troops, Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Palace's Barbarian, Paperboy, Onslaught, Total Carnage and P.D. games. Articles about... The history of Britain through Amiga games, the demo scene and football on the Amiga. Walkthroughs, Hints And Maps... Zak McKracken Part 3, Titanic Blinky, The Final Battle and Elvira: The Arcade Game Also... News, mini-articles, WHDLoad, letters, adverts, back page (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Nov. 2008, 02:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Nov.2008` Amigaworld.net (Webseite)	OnyxSoft: AllKeys 2.3 and MultiRen 1.66 The OnyxSoft team has published two updates, AllKeys 2.3 and MultiRen 1.66. The first one is based on requests and bug reports of users. If you have further requests or suggestions then please do not hesitate to contact the developers. AllKeys is a hotkey program for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which supports most of the multimedia and mouse keys. Additional to minor bug fixes version 2.3 supports different subclasses. Because of this some USB-keyboards should work much better. MultiRen is a MUI-based Amiga/68k-program with which you can rename many files at once. It also includes a special plugin for MP3-files. In version 1.66 a plugin for ID3v2-tags was added. Additionally the file requester follows the corresponding windows where MultiRen has been opened. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Nov. 2008, 20:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Nov.2008` Amigaworld.net (Webseite)	AROS: Standardization of compiler packages Based on the work of Markus Weiss and Nic Andrews, Stanislaw Szymczyk has unitized the AROS-compiler packages for all AROS-platforms (i386, ppc, x86_64) for gcc 4.2.2 and has integrated them to the AROS-Build-Systems. This new package is included in the i386-Nightly-Builds and in this way provides a ready-made C/C++-developing environment. Stanislaw Szymczyk currently is working on the self-compiling bounty project which has 415 US-Dollar. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Nov. 2008, 19:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Nov.2008` David Brunet (ANF)	Interview with Rabah Shihab (Babylonian Twins) The online-magazine Obligement has published an exclusive interview with Rabah Shihab today, the lead programmer of Babylonian Twins - an Amiga game which is supposed to have been the first commercial one developed in Iraq. The english version of the interview can be found at the title link, a french translation will be published later. (snx) [News message: 08. Nov. 2008, 19:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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