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Workbench-Distribution: AmigaSYS 4 Update R1.2 (04. Mar. 2009)
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench with many extensions which are mainly useful for users of emulators. Additionally a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least one Workbench-disk of version 3.x are required. The update to R1.2 includes updat...

AmigaOS 4: Demo version of Digital Universe 1.6 (04. Mar. 2009)
Bill Eaves has published a demo version of his astronomy program Digital Universe 1.6. The update to version 1.6 is free for registered customers and there will be a full version for new customers as well. The demo version of DU 1.6 can be installed be...

AROS: First beta versions of the Windows-port (04. Mar. 2009)
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin has published a first beta versions of the AROS port under Windows. Currently the bounty project is donated 105 US-Dollar and 23 Euro and with it under Windows a virtual maschine is no longer necessary. Link: Download s...

Emulation: Bugfix for Portable AmigaSYS Live '09 (02. Mar. 2009)
The "Live"-version of the AmigaOS-distribution AmigaSYS installs a complete AmigaOS-based working environment on a bootable USB-stick. The operating system Slax which is a Linux-distribution boots the system and then with E-UAE the AmigaOS is started. ...

Hollywood: GUI-library ScuiLib 0.6 (02. Mar. 2009)
ScuiLib written by Fabio Falcucci is a GUI-library for Hollywood. Version 0.6 includes adaptions to the recently published Hollywood 4. ...

New article on Obligement website (01. Mar. 2009)
The editorial stuff of the French magazine Obligement has published some articles from older issues: Amiga/MorphOS news of january/february 2009 Old news of january/february 1997 Interview with Mathias Parnaudeau (AmigaOS/MorphOS developer) Interv...

Catalog compiler: SimpleCat 3.16 (27. Feb. 2009)
Guido Mersmann wrote: SimpleCat is a program for creating and managing localization files (screenshot). It is not a new program but it exists since the publishing of AmigaOS 2.1 and the Locale-System - though for 16 years. Version 1 was still co...

Demo-Party: Breakpoint will take place (26. Feb. 2009)
In January the organizers of the "Breakpoint"  - according to them the biggest only demo scene event of the world Welt - have asked for financial support: Several main sponsors had canceled its support for the party. Already a few weeks lat...

AmigaOS 4: Official updates (25. Feb. 2009)
Press release: For registered customers of AmigaOS 4.1 (for AmigaOne, SAM440ep and Pegasos 2) there are two minor updates in the download section of the new Hyperion Entertainment website. The fix for the elf.library includes a reworked elf...

Hyperion celebrates its 10th birthday, website reworked (25. Feb. 2009)
After a longer break the website of Hyperion can be accessed again: Celebrating its 10th birthday the website of the company was completely redesigned. Customer accounts and product registrations were not saved from the old website so there is a brief ins...

Software-News until 23.02.2009 (23. Feb. 2009)
Matthias Münch has ported several console based tools from the Unix world: AmigaOS 3 Apache 1.3.41 (Websever) bzip2 1.0.5 (Archiver) NcFTP 3.2.2 (FTP-CLient) OpenJPEG 1.3 (JPEG2000-Codec) PHP 4.4.9 (Skriptsprache) thttpd 2.21b incl. PHP 4.4.9 (...

MorphOS: Origyn Web Browser 1.1 (23. Feb. 2009)
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published a new version of the Origyn Web Browser. Coeurjoly offers three different versions of the program: Additional to the standard version with all functions there is an OWB-nosvg (no support for the SVG-format) and OWB-lit...

MorphOS: PowerSDL 13.0 (21. Feb. 2009)
Ilkka Lehtoranta has published an update of his SDL-port for MorphOS. Users of version 1.x of the operating system require the update package with MorphOS-2.x-functions which was published in January. Main changes: MorphOS 2 or MorphOS 1 with...

Unix compatibility: ixemul.library 50.0 (20. Feb. 2009)
The ixemul.library offers some of the Unix and BSD funktions under AmigaOS and makes it more easy to port corresponding software. Bernd Rösch has ported version 49.26 of the MorphOS-version of ixemul to AmigaOS 3. The changes of this version are l...

Software-News until 19.02.2009 (19. Feb. 2009)
Catalog compiler: SimpleCat 3.14 Guido Mersmann has published a new version of his catalog compiler SimpleCat for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS. Installer 1.26 The installer written by Guido 'geit' Mersmann is replacement of the original installation...

7-Zip-updates for console and XAD-system (AmigaOS 3/4) (18. Feb. 2009)
Diego "DCR8520" Casorran has published on amiga.sourceforge.net a new version of the console-based archiver 7za. With its help you can create and unextract archive in 7z-format. The XAD-plugin for 7z-archive written by Chris Young was updated some days a...

AmigaOS on USB-Stick: Portable AmigaSYS Live '09 (18. Feb. 2009)
The "Live"-version of the AmigaOS-distribution AmigaSYS installes a complete AmigaOS-based working environment on a USB-stick which can boot. The user gets an emulated Amiga which he can use with all of his personal applications, documents and configurati...

Speed comparision AmigaOS 4.1 vs. MorphOS 2.2 (17. Feb. 2009)
Because AmigaOS 4.1 is available for Pegasos II as well Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published a speed comparision test for different applications and games under the title link. Of course it is also important how optimated each port was. Howev...

Event: eXec-Party 2 (21. February, Warsaw) (17. Feb. 2009)
On 21. February in Warsaw (Poland) the second "eXec Party" will take place. There presentations of AmigaOS 4 on SAM440ep and Pegasos II, a demonstration of AmiCygnix as well as comparision tests between SAM, Pegasos 2 and AmigaOne will be s...

Amiga Future: Preview of issue 77 (March/April 2009) (17. Feb. 2009)
Press release: The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 77 (March/April 2009) are online now. You can find a first review of SAM440ep-flex in this issue already. In addition there are reviews of the recently released AmigaOS 4 SDK and MorphOS 2.2. Of ...