19.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga in use: Famous Amiga Uses 2.4
The list of the "Famous Amiga Uses" written by David Tiberio and Pär Boberg was updated. It is listed where the Amiga was used. From version 2.4 the new entries can be recognized.
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19.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Demo scene: Bitworld-Frontend Amiga Scene Demo Database
The website "Amiga Scene Demo Database" (still in beta status) offers a search function for the demo scene data base Bitworld.
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19.Dec.2009
Martin Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #110
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch wrote: This time the 110th "Musikpack" by LQS includes a MP3-Tune called "Your Own Oxygen" in Electro-style. It was written by our Polish musician Lcr and mixed by Kuadziw. The cover was created by DaFreak.
The "Musikpack" can be downloaded from the title link (7,2 MB).
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18.Dec.2009
a1k.org (forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Zelda - Mystery of Solarus (Demo)
"Zelda - Mystery of Solarus" is a role playing game (screenshots) similar to Nintendo's Legend of Zelda-serie. The game is still in development. The latest demo version is finished after the first dungeon. The AmigaOS 4-port was written by "HunoPPC".
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17.Dec.2009
HelmutH (ANF)
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Update of Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
The Amiga Virus Encyclopedia is an English reference work on virus on the Amiga. The database includes more than 400 different viruses. 63 entries have been added or updated during the last months.
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17.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: OWB 1.6.1, Gallerius 2.4
Web-Browser: OWB 1.6.1
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published a new version of the Origyn Web Browser for MorphOS.
- Enabled WebInspector (Firebug-like, Screenshot). WebInspector allows browsing resources/scripts, profiling, debugging... It can be enabled with: "setenv OWB_ENABLE_INSPECTOR 1". When enabled, a new "inspect element" entry is
added to webview contextmenus.
- Avoid conflicts between regular context menus and javascript contextmenus
- Updated russian, swedish and czech locales
- Added a lame workaround in javascript interpreter that caused regressions in google maps
- Fixed a possible crash with priority popups in MLdonkey HTML interface
As usual there are two different versions: OWB-nosvg without support of the SVG-format which requires less memory.
HTML-galleries: Gallerius 2.4
Gallerius written by Pawel 'Stefkos' Stefanski creates HTML-Thumbnail-Galleries. Changes in version 2.4:
- support for ShowGirls galleries
- new logo
- option to abort the html generation process
- 2 new modes added for aspect ratio picture scaling (by width and by height)
- fixed reported bugs
Direct download: gallerius.lha (135 KB)
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17.Dec.2009
Patrick Nevian (ANF)
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Music: X-mas special for Amiga-Users
The debut album from Blue Metal Rose, "Spreading the seed", as well as the next CD was made with the help of an Amiga 4000.
Until the end of December there is a special offer for Amiga users: Spreading the seed can be ordered for 5 Euro (delivery within Germany, else 6 Euro) inclusive shipping. For this you must enter the following code: BMRLOVESAMIGA.
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16.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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CGG: Winners of Innovation award 2009
On 19th of December the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep will award its Innovation Price 2009. Winners are Dennis van Weeren's FPGA-Amiga Minimig (category hardware) as well as the C64/SID-music program ACID 64 written by Wilfred Bos (software).
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16.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Ranger 1.41
Steven Solie's Ranger is a little diagnostic routines for AmigaOS 4 which shows processor trees and provides additional information. A part of the new functions of this version 1.41 already requires functions of the "Update 1" for AmigaOS 4.1 which has been still not published.
Changes include:
- Added home directory (aka PROGDIR:) field to DOS/Processes tab
- Added monitor DDC information to Hardware/Gfx Boards tab
- Added new effects fields to Screen and Window attributes in the GUI/Objects tab
- Added Exec/IntHandlers tab which displays information about the interrupt handlers
Download: ranger.lha (331 KB)
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15.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Interview: Bartek Kuchta (NatAmi-Team)
The Polish portal retroage.net has published an English interview with Bartek Kuchta. Kuchta is graphic designer and creates logos, 3D-models for demos and other graphics for the NatAmi-Team.
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14.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.21
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. Changes in version 3.21:
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #194, #263, #280, #287, #303, #317,
#319, #325, #326, #329, #330 and #332
- Updated to SVN revision 1176
- Added a workaround for a javascript interpreter bug, for example on
maps.google.com
- Added Firefox2Like theme
- Updated about : and error page
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14.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Lawsuit: settlement agreement between Amiga and Hyperion published
In October, Hyperion had announced that it had reached an agreement with Amiga Inc. regarding the rights to AmigaOS 4. A few days ago, the actual settlement agreement between both parties has been published in the court archives as part of the judge's recent order to accept the agreement and close the case.
The most important points of the agreement are:
- Hyperion is the sole owner of the operating system they are distributing, excluding the parts derived from AmigaOS 3.1 - for which Hyperion will get a new licence from Amiga Inc. (see below)
- While Amiga Inc. is described as the "sole owner of the software 'AmigaOS 3.1'", they exclusively license most rights associated with the product to Hyperion, including the right to sell AmigaOS licenses to other parties.
- Amiga Inc. may only distribute AmigaOS 3.1 bundled with "gaming content" - and only as long as it is not modified and the user interface of AmigaOS is never shown to the user. An example mentioned in the contract is a retro games console, but the games/WinUAE bundles distributed through Amiga's shop would also fit this description.
- Hyperion now has an exclusive license to the "Amiga OS" and "AmigaOne" trademarks. Both parties may use the "Boingball" on their products.
- Existing licensees (e.g. Cloanto) are not concerned with this agreement.
The agreement, which is signed by Bill McEwen for Amiga und Evert Carton for Hyperion, does not describe what kind of compensation - if any - Amiga Inc. recieves in return. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News until 13.12.2009
CAD-Programm: ATcad 11/2009
ATcad is a simple 2D vector graphic program (screenshot) which originally was written for developing simple conductor boards.
ATcad requires a 68030-Processor, 8 MB RAM as well as screen modus with at least 720x564 Pixels (users of graphic boards must use the Mode-Promotion-Utility).
MorphOS: Drawerball 0.8p
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published an update for his simple file manager Drawerball 0.8p. The archive includes a version with two directory windows ("DoubleDrawerBall").
AmigaOS 4: Database interface iODBC
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmatè has ported the ODBC-implementation iODBC to AmigaOS. If you want to help testing the latest and not public beta version then please contact the author.
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13.Dec.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.0.0
Version 2.0.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been published. A detailed list of changes is available on the website.
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13.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.61
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. File transfers should now work under AROS as well. Additionally there are some minor improvements like "Auto-Unaway". The detailed changes are listed in the Readme.
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13.Dec.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Picture viewer ShowGirls 1.1
ShowGirls is a picture viewer written by Michal 'kiero' Wozniak which provides some editing functions and some features of programs like "MiniShowPicture" or "ShowPPC".
With the latest version 1.1 you can now also catalogue your pictures.
Further changes:
- Noise filter (color/luminance, strength depending on source pixel luminance, perlin noise)
- Image searching functionality: searching by name, comment (file or album), date (file or exif), dimensions
- Sorting for thumbnail lists
- Display options for thumbnail lists (filename/date/dimmensions)
- Optimized glow effect
- Optimized resampling code, added altivec version
- Batch converter can apply filters during image processing (only a few selected for now)
- It can also process images from given album
- Grayscale filter with adjustable color component weights, don't discard alpha contents
- Changed RGB Balance filter to Color Balance filter which should work in similar way to its Photoshop equivalent
- Optimized noise reduction filter
- Optimized threshold filter
- Optimized overlay image generation
- Optimized rgb->hsv conversion (faster hsv balance filter)
- Fixed slideshow start/stop after fullscreen/window change
- Reimplemented full-dir thumbnail scanning mode, visible entries will be scanned first
- Improved sorting of files with numeric names
- Various speed/memory usage optimizations
- State of album manager, color picker and information overlay is saved on application exit (use NOALBUMS tooltype/param to disable opening of album manager)
- Reggae support
Download: ShowGirls-1.1.lha (484 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: Xmas lottery
DiscreetFX has started a Xmas lottery. If you want to take part then simply fill out the form wit the text "DiscreetFX 2009 Christmas Giveaway".
All registrations must be done before 25th of December. The winners will be announced on New Year's Day. The following prizes will be raffled:
- Amiga Forever Value Edition (3x)
- Aladdin 4D Instant Download (10x)
- Competition-Pro-Joystick by Individual Computers and Speedlink (6x)
- Amiga-Round-Table-DVD, Episodes 1-3 with bonus material (6x)
- AmigaOS 4.1, optionally in Sam440-, Pegasos-II- or AmigaOne/MicroA1-version (1x)
- MorphOS 2.x (1x)
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12.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OWB 1.6 inclusive Flash-Plugin
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published a new version of the Origyn Web Browser for MorphOS. Besides other changes (siehe Readme) a graphical use-interface for blocking contents was added, the download manager was improved. As usual there are two different versions: OWB-nosvg without support of the SVG-format. This version requires a little bit less memory.
The Flash-Plugin which is based on swfdec and developed by Coeurjoly was now published. In the past the author always pointed out that it was a test version because the available open-source Flash-decoder are still not sufficient for day-to-day need.
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12.Dec.2009
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Software-News: Game Chips, Text editor Annotate 2.7, MPlayer-GUI 1.47
AmigaOS 4: Game Chips
Chips is logic game written by Ventzislav Tzvetkov where the player have to build a computer from the chips placed around the professor's laboratory. After for AmigaOS 3 there is now also a version for AmigaOS 4 with improved graphics and animationens. Additionally the game can be played in a window modus.
Text editor: Annotate 2.7
The open-source text editor Annotate is available for all Amiga systems. For the first time there is also a version for AROS. Further changes in version 2.7:
- Annotate can now be compiled for MUI instead of ReAction! The OS4 version uses ReAction since it looks better and has more features under OS4. All other targets are compiled for MUI but can be compiled for ReAction/ClassAct as well.
- AROS is now supported
- Added simple project support. This makes it possible to save and load a project file which will contain the current configuration of opened files and their editors/windows. Makes for a quick way of reopening all the files and windows you were working on yesterday, or before a crash
- Annotate's editors are now AppWindows which means that you can drop icons on them to open files
- Having a requester opening when Ann is started from Workbench is now optional
- Realtime update of colors in the editor when they are changed from the Config
- Added an expiration date to the "remembered lines"
- Fixed the auto-update function so that it will download the correct binary for your OS (Will of course only work the next time)
- Pasting an text that started with a linefeed at the end of a line didn't work correctly
- Possibly fixed some random garbage that could have been inserted when cut'n'pasting vertical blocks with empty lines in the middle
AmigaOS 4: MPlayer-GUI 1.47
MPlayer-GUI is a Reaction based graphical user-interface for the video player MPlayer. Changes in version 1.47:
- Made use of application.library which now also takes care of sending the filenames to an already opened MPlayer-GUI
- Found a cool feature in intuition. Have compositing enabled and you can't miss it ;-)
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11.Dec.2009
MorphZone (ANF)
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Test report on MorphOS 2 (Mac Mini) with videos
"jPV / RNO" has published a detailed test report on MorphOS 2. Five videos are also included which show the operating system on a Mac Mini G4.
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11.Dec.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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Status report: Apache, MySQL and PHP for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan is working on a port of the program collection called "AMP" (webserver Apache, database MySQL, script language PHP). The first published status report described the ports of Apache and MySQL as "nearly finished" (screenshots: 1, 2). The PHP-port has to be tested furthermore.
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11.Dec.2009
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Competition for game designer: Xmas game until 24. December
On amiga.org a competition was started. Developers must publish a Xmas game with Xmas graphics until 24th December. The detailed rules are listed under the title link.
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09.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: passwd 1.1
Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger's command line programm passwd requests a password when computer is booted.
Download: passwd.lha (10 KB)
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09.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Online Games: New Network games added
"Amiga Online Games" lists all Amiga games which offer a (null)modem, Parnet or network based multiplayer mode. Crimson Fields, The Battle for Wesnoth and NetPanzer were added to the database since our last news item.
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09.Dec.2009
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WHDLoad: New packages until 09.12.2009
with WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were delivered on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, updated or improved since our last message:
- 08.12.2009 fixed: Hook (Ocean) expmem option corrected (Info)
- 05.12.2009 improved: Hook (Ocean) reduced chip memory requirements (Info)
- 02.12.2009 new: Fighter Bomber - Advanced Missions (Activision) done by Galahad (Info)
- 02.12.2009 improved: Fighter Bomber (Activision) requires only 512K chip memory now (Info)
- 22.11.2009 improved: Midnight Resistance (Ocean) load/save highscores, palette fixed, 2nd fire button actions added, lot of trainers added (Info)
- 15.11.2009 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) access fault fixed, direct load savegame added (Info)
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09.Dec.2009
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS-Wiki: Morphos Library on morphzone.org
"MorphOS Library" is called a MorphOS-Wiki on morphzone.org in which all information will be gathered about the operating system. If you want to help writing entries then please contact the developers via eMail.
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09.Dec.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Icaros Desktop 1.2
Paolo Besser has published an update for his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. A reworked GUI-design (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4) as well as the direct support of ADF-files were added (which can be opened with UAE).
All changes in version 1.2:
- new official Icaros Desktop themes and theme manager
- Updated SDL, MESA and many other libraries
- Grub2 hack to use netbook resolutions on Intel GMA900 GPUs
- Poseidon now available as kernel module
- Improved 68K apps integration in AmiBridge
- no double pointer anymore using workbench applications
- added more uaegfx resolutions in full integration mode
- Added Amiga games/demos ADF support with sound
- added ZuneARC to manage zip, lha, rar, tgz and other archives
- updated PortablE
- updated development chain with newer include files
- updated wookiechat to latest beta
- added support for audio CDs (PlayCDDA)
- added desktop wallpapers from artist Wilhelm Steiner
- added desktop wallpapers from abraXXious
- added many new games and emulators
- updated DosBox to latest revision
- added BOH demo from Simone Bevilacqua
- updated NoWinED to latest version
- added first Gallium3D demos for GeForce cards
- updated OWB to release 0.9.9
- added SDLBasic 1.0.2
- system files updated to December 2nd, 2009
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08.Dec.2009
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS Complete System: Ares One available
Some time ago Pascal Papara has established a webshop under the title link to sell his AROS-compatible PC "Ares One". According to him this system can be delivered from now on although there is a delivery time listed of one week.
The CD A-live is supposed to be finished this week as well but he is going to wait for a update of the AROS-distribution Icaros. Cinnamon Writer 0.72 is already finished.
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08.Dec.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: SDK for Unix-environment AmiCygnix available
Under the title link Edgar Schwan has published a developer-kit for developers for his Unix-environment AmiCygnix. This is a light-version with limited libraries and toolkits.
With SDK you can create programs for Toolkits which are listed below. Additionally several libraries, documentations and examples are included.
- GTK+ 1.2.10
- GTK+ 2.6.9
- Athena Widgets
Download: amicygnix-sdk-lite.lha (50 MB)
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07.Dec.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Eighth update for arcade game BOH
Simone Bevilacqua has published the eighth update for his commercial arcade game BOH which fixes some minor bugs:
- fixes the handling of sparks colors (did not take into account the platform pixel format, so on some machines colors could look wrong)
- fixes the disappearance of enemies when hit (happened only in the MacOS version, due to a missing assignment)
- fixes a few errors in the Spanish translation
- makes some minor changes to the user's manual
BOH is available for AmigaOS 4, AROS, Linux, MacOS X and Windows. Currently you can buy the game for a special price for 10 ("box"-version) or 7.50 Euro (download version).
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07.Dec.2009
AMIworx (ANF)
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Beat'em Up: Ambermoon Arcade published
Patrick Nevian's "Ambermoon Arcade" is a Rastan-clone which plays in the world of the RPG-classic Ambermoon and which was developed with the Game Construction Kit Backbone (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Yesterday the final version of the game was published. The archive also includes layouts for CD cover and label (photo). (cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Kickstart-Bounty open again
After the first programmer vanished now the the first phase of the bounty project for a Kickstart replacement is open again.
Meinly the 68k-version is to be ported from AROS to the latest version of x86. Currently this task is donated with 1463 US-Dollar and 33. With Gary 'gaz' Pearman there is a new interested person who wants to start the project during the next weeks.
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06.Dec.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Datatypes: WarpJPEG 45.7, WarpPNG 45.11, WarpBMP 45.6
Under the title link Oliver Roberts has published minor updates of his Shareware Warp-datatypes for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpUp, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
These include a workaround concerning the datatype.library of AmigaOS 4. Additionally WarpPNG is now based on version 1.2.41 of libpng.
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06.Dec.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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WHDLoad-Wrapper: UAELoad 1.0
UAELoad is a wrapper for WHDLoad and E-UAE under MorphOS or AmigaOS 4. Using the graphical user-interface iGame you can start WHDLoad-games directly from the relevant PowerPC operating system.
Under E-UAE an AmigaOS-3.x-environment is required in which uae_rcli runs and WHDLoad as well as some WHDLoad-games are installed.
Download: UAELoad.lha (5 KB)
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05.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Disk magazine: The Vague #2
The Vague is a disk magazine about the demo scene as well as on programming on and for different Amiga systems. Just like its previous issue the second one is also Warp3D-based - an online version as well as AGA- and RTG-version will follow during the next weeks.
The Vague #2:
- Scene
- Perspective of AROS demomaking
- Diskmags on the stage
- Amiscene 2008. Bring out the Gimp!
- Amiscene 2009. Keeping it FRESH!
- Inside of the AOS4/MOS scene
- Demo or die!
- Scene story
- Amiscene on DVD
- A decade before
- The cube in the graphics
- Coding:
- Debugging on the Amiga
- One more time about dithering
- Coding with Warp3D. Part 2
- Mixing MiniGL and Warp3D
- Crunch Attack
- Amiga Demosystems
- 68k Linux Coding
- Is VBCC a solution?
- Mixing assembler and C. Part 2
- Perfect animation
- 10 modules from different authors done expecually for the Vague 2
- Tons of new graphics
- Polished engine with coloring, drag&scroll, pixel scrolling and alt
- Full-screen and window mode
- Ascii art done by aBHO
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05.Dec.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Text editor Vim 7.2
Vim is a text editor which is based on the Unix-editor "vi" and which was ported to many different systems. For AROS, version 7.2 is available now.
Download: vim.i386-aros.tar.bz2 (6 MB)
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05.Dec.2009
morphosteam (Twitter)
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MorphOS: Keyboard layout switcher Keymap.sbar 20.8
Keymap.sbar for MorphOS 2.x is an extension for the screen title list and enables a quick choice of keyboard layouts (screenshot). Keymap.sbar supports all MorphOS and AmigaOS-3.1 keyboard layouts. Version 20.8 fixes bugs with the Czech and Polish lokalization.
Download: sbar_keymap-20.8-morphos.lha (114 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Dec. 2009, 18:03] [Comments: 0]
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03.Dec.2009
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Software-News: EvenMore 0.67, WarpPNG 45.10, ADFCHK 0.2.2
Text viewer: EvenMore 0.67-20091201
EvenMore is a text viewer written in AmigaE and by Chris Perver. Changes since the last message:
- Fixed bug in which the search results list would not let you load a file if you were just searching by filename and not a search word
- Fixed bug where EvenMore would try to update the menus while they were in use, if you opened the search requester from the menu and tried to open a file from it
- Added locale support to the GenericPrefs and Dir2TextPrefs plugins
- Modified preference plugin to allow you to hide parts of the interface, namely the icon gadgets, information bar, progress bar or file string gadget
- FileTypes module will now support the PROGDIR: assign. This allows ARexx scripts to be run from the EvenMore directory wherever it happens to be located
- QuickLoad menu will now support the PROGDIR: assign. This will allow ARexx scripts to be run from the EvenMore directory regardless of where it is located
PNG-Datatype: WarpPNG 45.10
Oliver Roberts has published an update of his PNG-datatypes WarpPNG for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and WarpOS. Changes in version 45.10:
- Updated with libpng 1.2.40
- Cleaned up WarpDT engine build
- Enabled virtual memory usage in OS4 version
- Added workaround for a bug in OS4's datatypes.library DTST_MEMORY handling
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9a
- OS4 version recompiled with latest SDK
Windows/Linux: ADFCHK 0.2.2
With ADFCHK ("AmigaDOS Amiga Disk File Checker") you can check Amiga-Disk-Images for checksum errors and simple Bootblock virus. The tool is
mainly meant for using in batch files for checking bigger amounts of data.
The support of DMS-files was added. A detailed list of changes is included in the Readme. Users of Linux have to compile the sources for themselves.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Dec.2009
André Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Hobby project: Automatic monitor switcher
André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer wrote: The announced version of the automatic monitor switcher was built and will be now tested. If there will be sufficient interest "this project might become a commercial one".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Dec. 2009, 20:05] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Desert Racing: Adapted version for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
From now on APC&TCP offers a version of Desert Racing which runs under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (but not on an Efika). There is an official demo version on the homepage.
According to APC&TCP this version was tested for half a year on different systems. But all users are very welcome to download the demo version to see what has developed.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Dec. 2009, 18:04] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2009
Heise Newsticker (ANF)
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MacroSystem insolvent, Takeover planned by Loewe
The TV-producer Loewe will buy the insolvent MacroSystem Digital Video AG. In the past MacroSystem developed many Amiga- and Amiga-based products just like the VLab-Digitizer-board, the Amiga-clone Draco or the cut system Casablanca.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Dec. 2009, 15:27] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.60
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new preversion of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. Thanks to the support of the AmiMSN-author the file transfers now work correctly. The changes are listed in the Readme file.
The AROS-version does not work correctly on Carolls system but nonetheless it is published giving the opportunity to make own tests. After fixing some internal bugs the transfer window will be reworked as well as the support of Avatars added.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Dec. 2009, 15:23] [Comments: 0]
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30.Nov.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Shoot'em Up 1941 Extreme Deluxe 0.99 beta
"1941 Extreme" is a Shoot'em Up just like the arcade classic 1941: Counter Attack. Hugues "Huno" Nouvel has ported the SDL-based KETM-Engine to AmigaOS 4 and added some improvements and new features. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Nov. 2009, 19:33] [Comments: 0]
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30.Nov.2009
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Voting to "Innovation Price 2009" by CGG
At its last meeting the Dutch "Commodore Gebruikers Groep" (CGG) will award the best product or the best developer of the last year with the Innovation price. The winner will be found out by a voting on the website of CGG and the trophy will be given on the "C=Show" on 19th December.
If you want to take part in the voting you must click on the photos of the trophy.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Nov. 2009, 14:55] [Comments: 0]
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30.Nov.2009
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MorphOS-Team announced MorphOS for PowerMac G4-Systems
According to the MorphOS-Team under the title link, the internal versions of MorphOS now also runs under PowerMac G4-systems. Support for further Macintosh computers will follow.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Nov. 2009, 14:40] [Comments: 0]
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30.Nov.2009
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Web-Browser: Netsurf 1.3
Artur Jarosik has published another update of the AmigaOS 3-port of NetSurf. Some bugs were fixed. Additionally this version includes the following changes:
- Added optimizations. NetSurf should work faster now
- New, real installer (Thanks to Alper Sönmez for making it!)
- Numpad keys handling
- Updated getvideo to ver. 0.23
Netsurf requires the DejaVu-Fonts which have to be copied to the Fonts-directory of the Netsurf-folder. Additionally a Truetype-handler must be installed. The author recommends AfA.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Nov. 2009, 14:24] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
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64JPX: JoyPad eXpander for Commodore and Atari computers
With "JoyPad eXpander" the Australian Nicholas Coplin offers an interface with which you can connect Sega Genesis/MegaDrive-, Nintendo (S)NES- or analog PC-Joypads (with DB15-plug) to computers with an Atari or Commodore-compatible joystick port.
Additionally 64JPX offers also functions like simulated automatic fire or a "vibratory modus" for feared joystick killers like "Decathlon". Different configurations of the adapter are available which differ in type and figure of the supported joypad types. Currently it seems not be available an European distribution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 19:38] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
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New owner of amiga.org stays anonymously
Eight days ago Wayne Hunt sold his Amiga portal amiga.org to a successor which is still not known. The new owner promised the producers of the Amiga podcast Amiga Round Table to give an interview today at 05:00 p.m.
20 minutes before it should start this agreement was unsaid.
According to Wayne Hunt in a statement he must not announce the new owner. But he already has got the amount. New administrator (not owner) will be Bill Panagouleas.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 19:18] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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New Amiga dealer in Luxembourg
"New Gen Informatique S.à.R.L." is official ACube-dealer and sells SAM440 as well as Minimig motherboards, full systems and other equipment.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 17:02] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
André "Ratte" Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Lores-screens with Elbox' Radeon-drivers - Explanation and Settings-file
With a recently published update to version 2.2 for its Radeon graphic board drivers, Elbox has set the lower limit for the Pixelclock-preference for lower resolutions. With the new version now Lores (320x240) screens with 60 Hz can be displayed.
Under the title link André "Ratte" Pfeiffer explained that mainly this has big importance to users of TFT-screns and offers a Picass96Settings-file with different VESA-compatible screen resolutions.
Hint: After downloading the file you have to remove the ending ".pdf". (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 16:09] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: AmiMSN 1.2
Michael Trebilcock's AmiMSN is an Instant-Messenger-Client for the MSN-Network written in ARexx. Changes in version 1.2:
- Minor memory leak fix
- Launch from PNG icons
- Removal of MD5SUM. Using function in rxlibnet
- Only says "is now known as" if they were already online
- Remembers your handle and personal message
- Caches avatar images
- Ability to abort sending a file mid-transfer
- Ctrl-C'ing a chat window closes switchboard session
- Chat sessions can now be logged
- "User is typing.." message sent to recipients
- Changed text font (that will be shown on recipients side)
from MS Sans Serif to Segoe UI
- Recognises when WLM aborts a file being sent to you
- Large preview data sent in file offer doesn't crash AmiMSN
Users of AmigaOS 4 should add the libraries rxsocket.library and rxlibnet.library to the blacklist of the JIT-emulator to avoid problems with AmiMSN.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 15:54] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
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MorphOS: Scanner application SCANdal 1.3
Michal "zukow" Zukowski has published an update of his scanner software SCANdal (video). Changes in version 1.3:
- Autocrop (works best with LineArt mode)
- Autoconnect tooltype, Connect button
- TIFF saver
- PDF saver
- Fixed Mode list (for gt68xx driver)
- Fixed DPI Radio (for gt68xx driver)
Direct download: scandal.lha (124 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 15:48] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
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AmigaOS 4: New beta version of Flash player Gnash
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmatè has published a new beta version of his Gnash-port. The author points out that it is a very early version. Therefore it can include several bugs. Besides the streaming of Youtubu-clips - which works with the help of a Python-script - is very slow.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 15:39] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Beta version of E-UAE-GUI
Under the title link there is a new beta version of a graphical user-interface for the Amiga emulator E-UAE (amiga-news.de reported).
Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea regrets that finishing the bounty will still take a while. Therefore he has published this beta version in order to demonstrate the progress of this project. The archive includes only the executable files uae as well as make_hdf and is based on the latest E-UAE-version.
Compiling this beta version was not done with the latest GCC/binutils-version. Therefore UAE may not work on Sam440ep-boards as fast as possible. Besides E-UAE itself includes a bug which caused a crash at the computer of the author after the second start of the program. But the AHI-bug was fixed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 08:38] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Sam440ep: Experimental Debian-Netinstall-Image with GART-support
ACube Systems has published a new ISO-file for the Internet installation of the Linux-distribution Debian for the PowerPC-boards Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex which is experimental.
You can now also use GART (Graphics Address Remapping Table). With its help graphic data can be loaded directly from the main memory. The included kernel of version 2.6.31.5 was compiled with the IBM performance libraries which recently was also published for AmigaOS 4.1.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Nov. 2009, 21:15] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2009
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Filer 53.27
The AmigaOS-4 program Filer is a ReAction based file manager (screenshot). The changes are listed in the Readme-file under the title link.
Download: filer.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Nov. 2009, 18:39] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ClipDown 2.5
ClipDown is a completion for newer OWB-versions which still have not a full download function: The URL in the OWB-window is marked and copied to the Clipboard to finally download the file with wget. The changes are listed in the Readme-file under the title link.
Download: clipdown.lha (61 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Nov. 2009, 18:16] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2009
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SAM440: Firmware-Update to U-Boot 1.3.1a
Press release:
Bassano del Grappa, 27. November 2009
ACube Systems is pleased to announce the release of a new version of U-Boot firmware for its line of motherboards Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex.
This version addresses a number of problems and add some features and optimizations making it possible to cut down boot time by 3-12 seconds depending on the configuration of the board.
What's new in this version (for both motherboard versions):
- faster graphic card initialization, now it takes half the time than previous U-Boot version
- unified the first two countdowns, for an even faster boot
- solved compatibility issues with some Radeon 9200 and 9250 gfx cards
- reworked preference menu
Sam440ep miniITX-Version:
- a Radeon HD 2400 graphic card could be now used as secondary gfx card
Sam440ep-flex-Version:
- added support for Silicon Motion 502 graphic card
- added experimental support for Catweasel MK4 controller
- a Radeon HD 2400 graphic card could be now used in both 33 and 66 Mhz PCI slots
Downloads:
Sam440ep: Sam440ep-mini_updater_20091127.zip (302 KB)
Sam440ep-flex: Sam440ep-flex_updater_20091127.zip (270 KB)
Please note: UBoot and UBoot updater make use of GPL code and thus are both published under GPL. The source codes are available under:
u-boot-1.3.1a_20091127_prod.tar.gz (5,6 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Nov. 2009, 23:30] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2009
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Software-News until 27.11.2009
Metacompiler: PortablE r5
Christopher Handley's metacompiler PortablE translates the Amiga specific programming language E into different languages. Windows, AmigaOS 3/4, AROS and MorphOS are supported.
Changes in version r5:
- Experimental MorphOS support (for C++), including MOS executables! MUI seems to work
- Modules provided by others for AHI, CD_Play, FreeDB, MPEGA & some MUI bits
- PortablE is up to 65% faster than before
- PortablE's memory usage has been halved! Now similar to GCC's
- MUI programs with custom classes can now be compiled by AmiDevCpp for OS3
- Added emulation of AmigaE's ! (floating-point) operator to the compatibility mode
- FastNew is implemented using an enhanced TLSF algorithm, greatly reducing memory usage
- Programs produced by PortablE run faster, and PEGCC produces smaller executables
- Lists are now truely stack-allocated, rather than being dynamically faked
- Implemented the missing string formatting codes (\l, \r, \z, [w] & (x,y)) for C++
- For speed, multi-threading support is now disabled unless you use OPT MULTITHREADED
- Directory scanning is now much more robust on Windows
- Improved documentation; clickable links, added bold/etc & special characters now visible
- More examples of portable code
- Various bug fixes
Download-Tool: wget 1.12 for AmigaOS 3/4
Diego Casorran has published new ports of the download tool wget:
- URLs in file's comments are now unescaped (eg: %7e -> ~)
- For the first time, added an AmigaOS4 build.
- Compiled using OpenSSL 1.0.0-beta4, download it from
amiga.sourceforge.net if you want SSL support
in Wget - OS4 users need to have AmiSSL installed
Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further software have been added to the download section of the Amiga Future website, among others Reflections 4 (CD-ISO), Football Glory, Andreas Stürmer MP3s and much more. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Nov.2009
whoosh (ANF)
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Postscript-Interpreter: GPL Ghostscript 8.70
"whoosh" has published a new version of his Amiga port of Ghostscript. Two different versions are available - one of them requires the ixemul.library and offers all functions. You can find the list of changes, installation hints as well as download links on the website of the author.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Nov. 2009, 20:09] [Comments: 0]
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