10.Jan.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: New issue online
Amitopia TV is an English video agazine about the Amiga. The topics of the latest issue include 3D-games on the Amiga, a review of the MorphOS-version of VLC and the second part of the TVPaint manual.
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09.Jan.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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G-Rex-PCI registrations: First estimate of produced pieces
Matthias Münch has updated the number of registered boards. So far only 21 G-Rex-boards were counted. For further registrations Münch would be very grateful.
By means of the available serial numbers Münch estimated the number of produced boards at 290 pieces.
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08.Jan.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Bug fixed GQView 2.1.5
Edgar Schwan has published an update of GQView 2.1.5 for AmiCygnix. GQView is a picture viewer with which you can easily list a lot of pictures.
Now SVG-graphics are supported. Additionally a bug was fixed which occured if RAW-graphics were loaded.
Download: gqview.lha (6 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2009
Vinnny (ANF)
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MUI: TextEditor.mcc 15.28
Under the title link the MUI-class TextEditor.mcc is available in version 15.28. This version fixes some minor bugs and includes new functions. For more details please have a look at the Changelog.
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08.Jan.2009
Vinnny (ANF)
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Codeset conversion: codesets.library 6.8
The codesets.library allows applications to access codeset-/charset tables or to convert different character sets.
Version 6.8 fixes some bugs.
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07.Jan.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Gimp 2.2.13 alpha and Fontforge for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has published ports of the picture editing software Gimp and of the character set editor Fontforge.
Gimp is a free program for editing photos and
creating graphics. The current version for AmiCygnix is an alpha release. Just like in the last version the most important plugins are missing. Without them it is only possible to load and save XCF-graphics.
FontForge is an outline character set editor with which you can create or change own Postscript-, Truetype-, Opentype-, CID-keyed-, Multi-Master-, CFF-, SVG- and Bitmap- (bdf, FON, NFNT) character sets. Additionally Fontforge can convert character sets into different formats.
Downloads:
Gimp download site
Fontforge download site
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05.Jan.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 76 (January/February 2009)
Press release: The Amiga Future 76 (Januar/Februar 2009) has been released today. This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer supplies have been shipped.
In this issue you'll find reviews of the recent versions of AmigaOS 4.1, Netpanzers, AmiCygnix, AISS and much more. Besides that we have an interview with Claus Desler and Gareth Murfin. A more detailed description of contents and some excerpts can be found at our website.
The Amiga Future is available as an English or German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future can be obtained as a single issue and subscription each with or without a cover CD.
We ask all users interested in this magazine to order it as soon as possible.
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04.Jan.2009
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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AROS: USB-Mass-Storage-Bounty project (almost) finished
According to Michal Schulz in his Blog under the title link he almost finished the bounty project "Creating a Mass-Storage-Class for the USB-stack of AROS" (screenshot).
During the next days the source code will be cleaned up and then published. Additionally the author will improve the USB-stack and AROS itself that booting from a USB-stick will become more practicable.
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04.Jan.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: EasyTAG 2.0 and GQView 2.1.5 for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix, Edgar Schwan has published ports of the Tag-editor EasyTAG 2.0 and of the picture viewer GQView 2.1.5.
EasyTAG is a tool for viewing and editing Tags in MP3-, MP2-, FLAC-, Ogg Vorbis-, MusePack- and Monkey's audio files. It has an easy to use GTK2-interface.
Features of EasyTAG:
- Viewing, editing and writing of Tags of MP3-, MP2- (ID3-Tag with pictures), FLAC- (FLAC Vorbis Tag), Ogg Vorbis-
(Ogg Vorbis Tag), MusePack- and Monkey's Audio- (APE tag) files
- Supporting of more Tag-fields: Title, artist, album, disc album,
year, track number, genre, comment, composer, original artist / interpreter, copyright, URL and encoder name.
- Automatical Tagging: Searching directories and automatically
setting of Tags
- Opening directories or files with the help of external programs.
e.g. AmigaAMP
- CDDB support (manual or automatical search). Hint: Currently the manual search does not work
because freedb.org/freedb_search.php was
not available. It is not a problem of EasyTag.
- Searching directories and subdirectories
- Recursive tagging, deleting, renaming, saving...
- Reading and viewing file header information (bitrate, time, ...)
- Undo and Redo of the last changes
- Automatically editing Tags and file names
- Creation of playlists
- Simple and clear interface
- Written in C using GTK+ 2.4
GQView is a picture viewer for a high number of pictures. You can watch the pictures in full screen mode or via slideshow. Pictures can be copied, moved, renamed and deleted.
Supported picture formats:
- IFF-ILBM (.ilbm)
- JPEG (.jpeg, .jpe, .jpg)
- PNG (.png)
- PCX (.pcx)
- BMP / WBMP (.bmp, .wbmp)
- GIF (.gif)
- TIFF (.tiff, .tif)
- PNM / PBM / PGM / PPM (.pnm, .pbm, .pgm, .ppm)
- Canon RAW-Format (.crw, .cr2)
- Fujifilm RAW-Format (.raf)
- Nikon RAW-Format (.nef)
- Olympus RAW-Format (.orf)
- Pentax RAW-Format (.pef)
- ANI (.ani)
- Windows icon (.ico, .cur)
- Sun Raster (.ras)
- Targa (.tga, .targa)
- X-Bitmap (.xbm)
- X-Pixmap (.xpm)
Downloads:
Download site for EayTAG
Download site for GQView
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04.Jan.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.65-4.1.09
The text viewer Evenmore was published. Please note that the configuration files of previous versions are not compatible to this latest version. You have to delete these files before installing the update. Changes in this version:
- Added a sizing gadget to the window when in borderless mode. This is drawn according to the XEN SysIHack specifications. May design an image for the layering gadget, but this may be more complicated due to the design of the GUI
- Will also try to find a way of resizing the scrollers instead of removing them and adding them again on every refresh?
- First of all, you will need to delete your old config file before running the new version! Unfortunately this is due to a minor change in the borderless GUI, which happens to upset loading the old configuration. I don't feel it's worth the effort to make a work around. I have added a horizontal scroll bar to the borderless GUI setting. Once you delete your config file, you need to shift click a document as you open EvenMore, otherwise it just closes again. Or if you are opening from the shell, specify a file on the command line
- I have also removed several menu items which I felt weren't really needed
- And I have fixed several issues which prevented EvenMore from opening properly when no config file was available. Check the history page for details
- Removed text formatting code from AmigaWriter2Text plugin. Text formatting in this fileformat is too complicated to recreate
- Added fakestack hack code from Aminet so EvenMore will report stack
- Fixed bug in which switching between right and left reading text would not return the text box to the correct position
- Horizontal rule in HTML was not rendered properly when right to left text option was enabled
- Sped up file loading a little by modifying progress bar count code
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04.Jan.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.3 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of the port of the Origyn Web Browser. Changes in version 3.2:
- Updated to SVN revision 766
- Enabled experimental SVG parts
- Window title wasn't restored on uniconify, fixed
- Ported the bookmark from OWB Blastoise to Galekid and added support
for multiple windows to it
- When using the back and forward buttons the URL gadget wasn't always
updated, fixed
- Now uses the CookieManager instead of a simple HashMap cookie jar,
should fix most cookie related problems
Update: (05.0.2009, 1:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 3.3 was published:
- Reverted the 3.2 cookie changes as they caused more problems than they
fixed
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04.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Warp3D picture viewer WarpView 1.0
The Shareware picture viewer WarpView uses Warp3D which makes possible fast scaling. But the program requires more video-RAM as different picture viewer. Datatypes are used for loading pictures. You can find the changes in version 1.0 under the title link.
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04.Jan.2009
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Individual Computers: Indivision Flash 1.3 / Changes in EU power grid
Press release
Software update for Indivision AGA
The new version 1.3 of the Indivision AGA Flash core now allows separate settings of the sync-polarity for standard- and HighGFX modes. Since some monitors use the polarity to switch between resolutions, this improves user-friendliness a lot, because switching between games and workbanch-based applications does not require any adjustments any more. Games mostly use PAL or NTSC screenmodes, while it's desirable to have the flicker-free high resolutions of HighGFX on the workbench.
Direct download: Indivision_Config_V100.lha
Indivision AGA for the A1200 will be back in the shops shortly. The price remains at 129.- EUR (recommended retail price including German sales tax of 19%). A version for the A4000D computer is planned for march 2009, the price will be identical with the A1200 version.
Changes in EU power grid for 2009
A small detail has been changed for the EU power grid on january 1st, 2009: While the mains nominal voltage remains at 230V, the tolerance has been changed to +/- 10%.
In 1987, Germany has raised the nominal voltage from 220V to 230V. To protect existing devices, the tolerance was set to a lower boundary of -10% and an upper boundary of +6%, resulting in almost the same upper limit of 243V. This was done for a transition period that has ended on january 1st, 2009, so the new upper limit is now over 250V, which can cause more heat generation in older transformer-based power supplies. Modern switchmode-power supplies will presumably not have any problems with the changed tolerance. EU-Countries that have used 240V before (such as England) have lowered their nominal voltage.
Although Commodore was still in business in 1987, power supplies were specified for 220V. We recommend extremely good cooling for this generation of power supplies, and to remove the power plug when the devices are not in use. Protection against over-voltage can be provided by uninterruptable power sources that are independant of the input voltage (VI- and VFI-types). These types are also called "line-interactive" or "Online"-types. "Offline"-types do not offer over-voltage protection.
Increasing the mains voltage can reduce line losses. The relation between transferred energy and line losses gets better with higher voltages, so this can protect the enviroment by reducing CO2 emissions. However, the primary goal of these changes is the EU-wide harmonization of voltages, which has been completed with this final step. (snx)
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04.Jan.2009
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Application in dental practices
Possibly presentations which were created with Andreas Falkenhahn's Hollywood Designer under AmigaOS 4 will be used in dental practices.
The Norwegian company Ferrule Media has used Hollywood for his commercial product "Dental Kanal" which was introduced on a fair. You can now read a message which was published on the Hollywood-mailing list:
I would like to give you some information about our projects and hopefully inspire other hollywood users. I'm one of the founders of Ferrule Media, a new company that is developing software and information channels to be used in dentistry. We are now in the early process of releasing our software in Norway and Denmark.
I'm a dentist of profession and a former demoscene graphician. Nobody of the Ferrule team has any knowledge about coding. However, Hollywood Designer offered everything we needed in order to make (what we think is) quality software.
Ferrule Media has at the moment finished two projects:
Project 1: Dental Kanal - an information channel to be used in dentists waiting rooms. At the moment we cover 23 topics about dentistry. These topics are displayed to the patients while they wait for their treatment.
Project 2: Dental Info - a program that helps the dentist in the process of informing patients while they get their treatment in the dental-chair. This is done by offering a series of illustrations to cover problems and treatment of different kinds of dental treatment.
On our homepage you will be able to download demos of our programs for Windows and Mac OS. There are also lots of screenshots to show the graphical user-interface and design. Everything is made using AmigaOS 4.1 and Hollywood Designer. The homepage is written in Norwegian and Danish.
We showed Dental Kanal and Dental Info to the public in December 2008 with great success! We believe that 2009 will become an interesting year.
In the end I would like to send some special greetings to Andreas. I'm not sure if all of you are aware of it, but Andreas made some very important additions to Hollywood Designer when he released version 2.1. The ability to import scripts and merge two or more scripts are important if several people are working on the same project. Also, the ability to link all graphics and other files into the main executable is very important to secure the graphics released in our software.
Thanks alot for releasing version 2.1 for free! Also the ability to save executables for both Windows and Mac OS in addition to AmigaOS is amazing. Without these changes and your great support we would not have been able to finish our products. I do hope that more users will buy Hollywood Designer and see what it has to offer.
I would also like to thank PEB for his help and support. He has helped me solving some coding-questions and also made the great tool called text2png (released on OS4Depot). Text2png is a program that allows you to save text into PNG files with alpha-channel. By doing this it is possible to have text displayed on Hollywood PC/Mac executables even if TrueType font support is missing at the moment.
Best regards,
Torgeir Vee
Ferrule Media
Norway
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04.Jan.2009
Christoph Hahn (ANF)
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AROS: VmwAROS 1.0.1
Paolo Besser who is the maintainer of the AROS-distribution VmwAROS has published an update to version 1.0.1. This update requires an installed version.
Furthermore he published a video which shows the VmwAROS.
Changes:
- New AROS-kernel and current system files
- Current SDK
- Correted sdl-config-script
- Update of ATI-Radeon-drivers
- MPlayer with three different start scripts
- Double-clicking a MP3-file opens the MPlayer in GUI-modus
- ArosAmp 0.21, MilkyTracker, VICE, HFinder and SDLcalc added
- Current versions of MuiBase, PortablE and ConfigIP-Prefs
- Some more games and applications
The update is available as 7Zip compressed ISO-file. After having unpacked and burned on a CD or integrated the ISO-images in a Virtual Machine (using the VE-version of VmwAROS) you can start the update by starting the program VmwUpdate in the directory AROS:Tools.
The update can be downloaded either under Filefront or
AmiKit.
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03.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Manual: Debian Installation on the Sam440ep
Under the title link Philippe Ferrucci described how you can install the Linux distribution Debian on a Sam440ep-System using the Bootloaders Parthenope on the same harddrive on which AmigaOS 4 was installed.
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03.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PowerUp registrations: Over 650 boards registered
Matthias Münch who is owner of PowerUp hardware (PowerPC boards as well as graphic boards) has asked other users to register their boards. Until today he registered over 650 boards.
He tries to find out how many boards were produced and how many are still in use.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.4
AmiKit which is a full distribution for UAE-users is now available in version 1.5.4 and should be updated with the help of the Live-Update if you already have an installed version.
The changes in the new version are listed in the Changelog.
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03.Jan.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Forum)
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MorphOS: Workaround for USB-devices under 2.x that didn't work
Under the title link Mario Kuban, based on hints from Fabien Coeurjoly, described (in German) how you can use some USB-devices which still did work under MorphOS 1.x but under version 2.0 did not any longer.
When starting you have to deactivate the pciusb.device of the USB-stack called Poseidon from the Open Firmware (boot boot.img mf=pciusb.device) and instead to use Nicolas Det's ehciusb.device 50.9 as well as Frank Mariak's uhciusb.device 51.4 in the preferences of MorphOS. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2009
ACube Systems (ANF)
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ACube: Specifications, price and picture of SAM440ep-flex
On sam440.com the specifications and the price (375 Euro plus taxes and shipping) of the successor of the Sam440ep called Sam440ep-flex were listed. Additionally there is a picture of the motherboard.
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02.Jan.2009
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Full version PairsNG
Press release The Fire still burns - The motto of the Amiga Arena applies to the year 2009 as well. We are pleased, in cooperation with the developer Christoph Kimna, to make available one of the last Shareware games of the good old times in section "Mix".
PairsNG is a puzzle game similar to "Shanghai". You can get detailed information in the preview to PairsNG in second issue of the PDF-magazine AmigaInsider.
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02.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PageStream: New manual video
In Spring of the last year Tim Doty published first manual videos for the DTP-program PageStream. Three days ago another manual was added.
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01.Jan.2009
MorphOS Team (ANF)
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Official update for MorphOS 1.4.x
Press release: As the first release of 2009, we have prepared an update pack for the now out-of-date MorphOS 1.4.x which includes various minor improvements. Most notably, the archive includes several libraries that are required to stay compatible with new software releases, such as future Ambient versions and applications relying on PowerSDL, as many developers continue to migrate to MorphOS 2.x.
The Update Pack for MorphOS 1.4.x is available for download in our files section. To install the update, unpack the archive and copy all files to your system partition. Please take special note that this update is not intented to be installed on MorphOS 2.x and higher.
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01.Jan.2009
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MorphOS 2: Ambient-Gimmick/Transparency-Demo Elephant 1.5
Elephant written by Christian Rosentreter is an Ambient-Gimmick which demonstrates the transparency function of the user-interface of MorphOS 2.0 (screenshot).
In version 1.5 some minor bugs have been fixed and a Spanish catalog has been added.
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01.Jan.2009
Bobic (ANF)
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4Sceners.de chose best demos 2008
The editorial staff of 4Sceners.de has chosen the best demos and intros of the last year. In the position table of the best "Oldskool Demo" three Amiga demos can be found.
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01.Jan.2009
David Brunet (ANF)
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New article on Obligement website
During the last two months some articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine called Obligement. Additional to the text mentioned below on the website the issues 92-96 of the former French magazine "Amiga News" are available.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of november/december 2008
- Old news from november 1994 to décember 1996
- Interview with Rabah Shihab (Amiga developer from Iraq)
- Interview with Jay Miner (an engineer with a dog)
- Review of Homeworld
- Review of Blobz
- Review of Video Poker Solitarus
- Review of X-Out
- Review of Xenon 2
- Review of Z-Out
- Review of Zarathrusta
- Review of Ziriax
- Hardware: µA1-C
- Hardware: Golden Gate
- Point of view: Commodore and the Amiga 4000
- Point of view: a comparison between MorphOS 2.1 and AmigaOS 4.1
- File: History of the Amiga - year 1996 (update)
- File: World Wide Web
- File: the kickstart routine of the Amiga
- Tutorial: the AmigaOS 3.x Shell
- Tutorial: installation of the Golden Gate card
- Tutorial: transfert an ADF/DMS between a PC and an Amiga via floppy disk
- Tutorial: HTML - definitions
- Tutorial: HTML - first hypertexte document
- Programmation : C/Assembler - creation of a library module
- Special quizz about Sam440ep
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01.Jan.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Instant-Messenger PolyGlot 0.54
Already four days ago the beta version 0.54 of the Instant-Messenger PolyGlot was published. The MorphOS program written by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault supports the MSN-Network.
In the latest version you can now add graphical Smilies as well as additional information in the chat window.
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31.Dec.2008
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Amiga Image Storage System: AISS 4.6 (Update)
Martin Merz has published an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) with which you can manage Toolbar graphics under AmigaOS and alternative systems.
Update: (08:57, 01.01.09, snx)
Besides AISS 4.6, which includes a new installation script by Thomas Klein (french translation by Philippe Bovier), Martin 'Mason' Merz did also combine all of his icon sets of the previous year into one single archive. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.40
James "jahc" Carroll has published a new update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-Network for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). The changes of this version are listed in the changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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C-Compiler: vbcc 0.9
vbcc is a C-compiler developed by Volker Barthelmann (compiler-core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptations). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, PowerUp and WarpOS and corresponds to ISO-C in accordance with ISO/IEC 9899:1989 as well as a subset of the newer standards ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99). Changes in version 0.9:
- Using vasm 1.3c and vlink 0.12 with many improvements.
- New: vlink 0.12 has experimental support for dynamic linking. The frontend supports a -static option to force static linking.
- New: -unsigned-char allows a char without qualifier to be treated as unsigned char instead of signed char.
- New: Target "MiNT" (m68k-atarimint), which is a multitasking operating system for Atari computers. The linker was extended to support the MiNT-specific embedded a.out-format in a TOS exexutables, called aoutmint.
- Fixed a bug with using bitfields in operations, which occured with -O2 optimization on big-endian hosts.
- A combination of 64-bit shift and arithmetic-and operations generated illegal code on all targets.
- Fixed bug with expressions of the form (pointer_type) (non_ptr +/- non_ptr) on machines that allow shortcutting conversion from int to pointer types.
- Fixed bug with VLA (variable length array, C99) length 0.
- Fixed illegal optimization of constant indexes in VLAs.
- The volatile keyword was ignored in some situations when using -O2 optimization or higher.
- Fixed some problems with incorrect struct-definitions after parse errors.
- Error and warning messages are redirected to stderr.
- Warning 224 must not appear, when a function returns the difference between two auto-variables.
- Exit with a fatal error when an #include-recursion is detected, which means in this case that the nesting-level is > 1023.
- Fixed __AMIGADATE__, which should add parentheses around the date.
- Fixed wrong line number after an #include directive, when the line ends with CR/LF.
- M68k code generator: Shortcut was erroneously used for (int)=(floatvar)/(floatconst)-(floatconst) converting the last floatconst into integer.
- M68k code generator: __interrupt had a discrepancy between the number of saved and restored registers.
- M68k code generator: Link register A5 got overwritten by local variables when used for a VLA.
- M68k code generator: Used an address register as DBRA counter for a struct-push operation at -O1.
- M68k code generator: For compatibility the __stdargs modifier is supported now, but ignored.
- M68k code generator: Wrong adressing Mode An,<ea> for ADD occured sometimes with -O3 optimization.
- PPC code generator: variables with a natural size of 8 (double precision float) have to be aligned to a 64-bit boundary, as not all PPC CPUs support 32-bit alignment.
- PPC code generator: VLAs didn't work inside of a structure.
- PPC code generator: 64-bit arguments were sometimes unnecessarily "extended" from 32 to 64 bits under PowerOpen-ABI (WarpOS).
- i386 code generator: Fixed some 64-bit integer bugs.
- C16x code generator: Better shift code generation.
- C16x code generator: Fixed bug with save_result and r==tp.
- vclib: Made freopen() depend on fopen() to make sure that the destructor which closes all open files is called.
- vclib m68k: Returned sign of modulo operation was wrong in the cases (+)%(-) and (-)%(-).
- vclib PowerUp: Fixed libpowerup.so, which can be generated by vlink now.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2008
Amiga-Forever-Team (ANF)
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Amiga (Forever) Meetup in Lisbon on Sunday
Press release We are organizing a meetup in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sunday, January 4th, 2009, to meet with Amiga friends in person. If you are interested in joining, or have suggestions, please follow the event link on Facebook, and kindly confirm there, if attending.
A wonderful 2009 to all!
Michael C. Battilana (snx)
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30.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: Sales partner wanted
According to the AmigaOS-4 distributor ACube Systems Srl. under the title link the Italian company is looking for sales partner for his products (e.g. the PowerPC-board SAM440ep) for the following areas: Africa, Asia, India, Oceania, Russia and South America.
Additionally the Amiga users in these countries and continents are asked for help. They are supposed to point out these companies to ACube Systems. There is a list of the existing sales partner on the homepage.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga.SF: LAME 3.98.2 and UnRAR 3.80
The MP3-Encoder LAME and the unpacker UnRAR have been updated. LAME is available for 68020- and 68060-processors and UnRAR for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (already included into its version 2.2).
Download links:
Lame 3.98.2.lha
UnRAR 3.80.lha
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2008
Amigans.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Allegro ported / First games available
Colin 'Hitman' Ward has ported Allegro, which is an open-source library for the programming of computer games, for AmigaOS 4 and compiled the first games. In version 1.0 the support of MIDI as well as some rarely used functions are still missing.
With the port of Allegro the corresponding Bounty-project was fulfilled which had about 500 Euro.
As the first games the adventure Sword of Fargoal, the Jump 'n' Run Ghouls 'n' Ghosts Remix, the platform game Alex the Allegator 4 and
Zombiepox were compiled for AmigaOS 4.
Download:
allegro_1.0.lha (2 MB)
allegrosdk_1.0.lha (2 MB)
alex4.lha (805 KB)
ggr.lha (5 MB)
swordoffargoal.lha (424 KB)
zombiepox.lha (368 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Games That Weren't: 4 new entries
Amiga Games That Weren't is a website about Amiga games which have been never published. After a break of two years today four new entries have been added.
Information and download links of the games Harold (The Hairy Hermit), One Step Beyond, Flower and Dragon have been added. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2008
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: File manager DrawerBall 0.6c
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin's DrawerBall 0.6c, a directory tool, supports now user menus. You can define by yourself user menus to execute programs.
Preconfigured are three user menus that make use of standard commands of the MorphOS installation: pack lha archive, extract lha archive and show version of binaries. Many bugfixes have been done compared with the previous release from October 2008. (snx)
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29.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet Gnumeric 1.6.3 for AmiCygnix 1.0
Because the X11-environment for AmigaOS 4, AmiCygnix, was updated the same author Edgar Schwan has published an adapted port of the spreadsheet Gnumeric 1.6.3.
Download: gnumeric.lha (19 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2008
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Graphic program: SView5 2.61
Andreas Kleinert's picture editing software SView5 is specially meant for automated editing and converting of big amounts of pictures.
The current update includes minor adaptations and bugfixes. Additionally it is now offcially confirmed that it works under AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2008
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Database: MUIbase 2.7
Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Changes in version 2.7:
- Implemented quick search for user functions popups
- Merged settings for updating virtual attributes ('On different record'
and 'On dependent change') into one setting 'Auto update'
- New 'Enabled' setting for attributes and window buttons:
'Always enabled' 'Disabled in initial', and 'Compute enabled'
with optional compute function
- Changing the active line in a list of a virtual attribute causes
the update of objects depending on the attribute. This allows e.g.
to enable or disable buttons depending on the active list entry
- GETDISABLED, SETDISABLED, GETWINDOWDISABLED and SETWINDOWDISABLED
are now obsolete. When an obsolete functions is called, it can be
ignored silently, a warning can be generated, or an error be reported
- Command strings for external editor and view can contain '%p' which
is replaced by the name of the public screen MUIbase has been opened
(Amiga only)
- New function for programming: PUBSCREEN which returns the name of the
public screen MUIbase is running on or NIL if the screen is not public.
On Linux and Windows, PUBSCREEN always returns NIL.
- The window dimensions of structure editor, query editor and program
editor are now also remembered on Windows and Linux
- Improved handling of illegal UTF-8 sequences and codeset conversion errors
- Several bug fixes
The MUIbase distribution contains ports for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Forum)
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MorphOS: Bounty-project of an Instant Messenger started
A Bounty-program of the Pegasosforum for an Instant Messenger was started. Under the title link the project was described in detail and started by Marcin Kielesinski. The author is developing an messenger called BrainWasher. The current bounty balance is 42 Euro.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Sputnik-bounties will be payed back
According to Troels Ersking who is the initiator of a bounty program which should adapt the Sputnik to AmigaOS 4, he canceled this program and hopes to pay back the bounties until the end of the year.
The author of Sputnik, Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski, had recently announced that he only had to change the MUI 4 component to MUI 3.x which will require about two more months of development but because of "missing communication, slow development and not-met deadlines" the bounty-program was now canceled.
Update: (12:48, 27.12.08, snx)
Menawhile Troels Ersking has given detailed information about the restitution of the bounties. He asks all donators to contact him with their names and their PayPal-E-Mail-addresses as well as the request how the money should be used.
The money can be payed back as well as it can be donated for different bounty programs. If you will not contact him until 31st January 2009 the money will be given to projects of other ports of web browsers (NetSurf or OWB).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: MilkyTracker 0.90.80
Milkytracker is a fully compatible clone of ProTracker and FastTracker II but has a highly improved editor. Paolo Besser has now compiled the program for AROS/x86 (screenshot).
Download:
milkytracker-0.90.80-aros-i386.tgz (5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2008
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: XMLViewer 0.9
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski's XMLViewer is a little MUI-program based on the expat.library which can view XML-files under MorphOS 2.x (screenshot). Under MorphOS 1.4.x it may work as well if you use the MUI-class aboutbox.mcc but it has been not tested.
Download: xmlviewer.lha (159 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2008
Ivan Teskera, VooDoo (ANF)
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Amiga-portal VooDoo accessible under old address again
The probably only Amiga news portal of the Balkans, called VooDoo, can be now accessed again under its original address voodoo-amiga.com.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: DVD-Engine 0.2
Carsten Siegner's DVD-Engine is an user-interface for a lot of existing command line programs which is supposed to make it more easy to create video or picture-DVDs. Now alpha version 0.2 is available which the author decribed in this way:
"I uploaded an update of my program DVD-Engine to my server. This update includes a new main feature which makes it possible to create subtitles. Per chapter you can create one subtitle. Variable times of fading out and in as well as subtitles consisting of several lines are possible. If you want to create a video-DVD it is now also possible to set the picture aspect. Additionally some bugs have been fixed.
By the way, there are some native MorphOS versions of a lot of required Shell tools. For example the MorphOS version of the tool dvdauthor is twice as fast as 68k-version."
Download: dvd-engine-0.2.lha (514 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Metacompiler: PortablE r3
Christopher Handley's Metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E to other ones. Through this big E-programs are supposed to be converted in such a format that they can be compiled on more platforms.
The program is now available in version r3 and was written in E, compiles itself and works under AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS.
Main changes:
- Increased funkyness by 301%... Happy Christmas!
- PortablE is now up to 7 times faster (greatest for big programs), due to a bug fix
- Added support for MUI, ReqTools & some other 3rd-party libraries (now covers most of the requested ones)
- Added support for more AmigaOS modules (now covers all the requested ones)
- Comes with 247 modules for AmigaOS & 3rd-party libraries
- Added FUNCtion pointers, PROTOTYPEs, return-type declarations, and new operators (XOR, SHL, SHR)
- Added scripts to call GCC or EC after PortablE
- Error highlighting now works on AROS
- Many bug fixes (big & small), plus some other improvements
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2008
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Amiga-News wishes Merry Christmas!
The team of Amiga-News wishes all Amiga-Fans a Merry Christmas as well as a Hyppy New Year 2009! We would like to thank all readers for the loyalty and all advertisers and donators for the financial support during the last twelve months!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2008
a1k.org (Webseite)
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X-Copy X-Mas Edition 93 (jubilee edition 2008)
The software developers Cachet (X-Copy, Cyclone..) had provided a special service for all customers who bought the "service-package": These customers got a special Christmas version of X-Copy. The last known version of "X-Copy X-Mas Edition" was developed in 1993.
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of this X-Mas edition it was released as a jubilee edition for free download. The disk contains X-Copy as well as Cyclone, CCIS and a little demo.
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24.Dec.2008
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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E-Mail-Client: SimpleMail 0.33
It has always been a tradition: At Christmas a new update of the eMail program SimpleMail is published. The changes of version 0.33 are listed under the title link.
Versions for AmigaOS 3/4 are already available and the MorphOS-port will follow. The SimpleMail team wishes all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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24.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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UAE: Theme Switcher 2 for AmiKit
Theme Switcher for the UAE-distribution AmiKit includes five themes which includes start pictures, screen background pictures, window frames and pictures for the start button.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2008
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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E3B wishes Merry Christmas!
Press release E3B wishes all Amiga users a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Much has happende during the last time and unfortunately the last months was filled with administrative problems. Nevertheless we tried to give the usual support but we did not succeed at all times.
We would like to apologize for this - in the next year you should get the support as known.
For the next year we hope to get the support from our customers and Amiga friends (cross-platform AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS; never mind if Classic or newer hardware) because without your support nothing can work!
Merry Christmas,
Michael
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24.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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WBSudoku 1.5.1
WBSudoku is a computer version of the well-known logic puzzle Sudoku. In version 1.5.1 highscores and a statistic were added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.38
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. Tabs for chats were implemented (screenshot). Further changes are listed in the changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2008
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Game developer Factor 5 went bankrupt
Factor 5 is known as famous games developer for the Amiga - for example the Turrican-serie, Katakis/Denaris or the Amiga-version of R-Type.
For a few weeks there are rumors about financial embarrassments. There is not any official confirmation but several news agencies announced that last Friday Factor 5 was closed relating on insider information.
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23.Dec.2008
Niels Schapke (ANF)
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Insane-Software: New Support-Forum online
Press release: Insane-Software offers a new support forum. Because we installed an improved forum software we could not use the old databases (articles and users).
In this forum you can find support to existing and forthcoming games and programs developed by Insane-Software. Additionally you are very welcome to upload your highscore lists.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2008
OS4Depot.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.1
Jörg Strohmayer has started adapting the latest version of Origyn Web Browser, called Galekid, to AmigaOS 4. It is a combination of WebKit and the Sand-Labs-variation.
Download: owb.lha (11 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Dec.2008
HelmutH (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: Software-Updates, Christmas Holidays
Press release: We want to thank all our customers and partners and all the other people who have supported us over the last year. Because of this we want to release some updates with customer requested features for our products.
At our Alinea Computer Support Center you will find the following updates:
- News at Alinearis 2:
- Nee game mode
- Some improvements and bugfixes
- News at AmiWebView 2:
- News at the WB Super Games:
- Some improvements and bugfixes
Please note that we will take a short break from the 22nd of December to the 1st of January. During this period you won't be able to contact us via telephone or email. Additionally, we will not be processing any orders.
We are happy to welcome you into the year 2009 and hope you continue being a customer.
We wish all Amiga users a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Dec.2008
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Amiga Forever: Facebook Page and Videos
Press release Just in time for the holidays, we set up a Facebook page dedicated to Amiga Forever, and uploaded a first set of two videos: Lemmings at Denver DevCon and The Secret in Hangar AE. Please refer to the videos for full credits.
We plan to upload more footage and photographs soon. To join the Amiga Forever page just follow the title link and select "Become a Fan" to receive automatic updates when new items are posted. You can also use the group to post questions. As the Amiga Forever site lacks a forum, we will use the Facebook page for public discussions.
Thank you for your support, and happy holidays from the Amiga Forever Team! (snx)
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22.Dec.2008
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.12.2008
These are the latest Aminet-uploads which have been added since our last message:
A71Mail-CSS.lha comm/www 67K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
netsurf.lha comm/www 3.7M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
OWB.lha comm/www 11M OS4 Origyn Web Browser
the_vague_1_aga_rtg.lha demo/mag 4.3M OS3 1st Warp3D Based Amiga Diskmag (AGA/RTG)
gperf.lha dev/c 422K OS4 Generates perfect hash functions
lemon-morphos.lha dev/gg 105K MOS LALR(1) parser generator
libharu.lha dev/lib 2.2M OS4 Library for generating PDF files
librosprite.lha dev/lib 59K MOS Loads RISC OS sprite files
OpenJazz-Os3.lha game/jump 204K OS3 Jazz Jackrabbit games interpreter.
pig-m68k-amigaos.lha game/jump 1.2M OS3 Retro style platform game.
Dangen-Os3.lha game/shoot 933K OS3 Abstract shooter, sucessor of Tanamdo
wesnoth.lha game/strat 140M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth (stable version)
ATcad_Update.lha gfx/misc 96K OS3 Update 4 ATcad (German)
ppsei-0.2a-m68k.lha gfx/misc 33K OS3 Get pics from PowerPoint docs (PPS/PPT)
SView5.lha gfx/misc 3.3M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
MPlayer-1.0-20081215.lha gfx/show 9.2M MOS MPlayer 1.0-svn-15.12.2008
vlc-0.8.6f-mos-b6-src.lha gfx/show 23M GEN VLC for Morphos
vlc-0.8.6f-mos-beta6.lha gfx/show 6.5M MOS VLC for Morphos
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 873K OS3 Signetics-based machines emulator
VICE-AmigaOS3-2.1.tar.gz misc/emu 5.6M OS3 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,plus4,vic20
VICE-AmigaOS4-2.1.tar.gz misc/emu 9.4M OS4 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,plus4,vic20
VICE-AROS64-2.1.tar.gz misc/emu 7.6M Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,plus4,vic20
VICE-i686-AROS-2.1.tar.gz misc/emu 6.6M ARO Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,plus4,vic20
VICE-MorphOS-2.1.tar.gz misc/emu 7.3M MOS Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,plus4,vic20
VICE-powerpc-AROS-2.1.tar.gz misc/emu 8.5M Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,plus4,vic20
amisounded.lha mus/edit 115K OS4 32-bit mono/stereo sound editor
ANR_flacplayer.lha mus/play 121K MOS FLAC player for AmiNetRadio
mpc123-0.2.4-m68k.lha mus/play 163K OS3 Musepack (*.mpc) player
msxplug_68k.lha mus/play 457K OS3 MSX Player
playOGG.lha mus/play 4.0M OS3 multi format sound player.
sox-14.2.0a-m68k.lha mus/play 5.2M OS3 OGG/MP3/FLAC/WV player/converter
AquariusFont.lha text/bfont 9K GEN The Mattel Aquarius 8x8 bitmap font
htmlcr-0.8.1-m68k.lha text/hyper 14K OS3 HTML optimizer
ccrypt-1.7-m68k.lha util/crypt 179K OS3 A cross platform file encryption utility
pdfcrack-0.11-m68k.lha util/crypt 118K OS3 Cracks password protected PDF files
AmiDisk_2.02.lha util/dir 3.2M OS3 File manager, port from AmigaOS 4
amr_dt-os3.lha util/dtype 152K OS3 3GPP AMR datatype
bonk_dt.lha util/dtype 173K OS4 Bonk sound datatype
wavpack_dt.lha util/dtype 433K OS4 WavPack (.wv) datatype
hpdf.lha util/libs 1.1M MOS Library for generating PDF files (fixed)
mnglib.lha util/libs 347K MOS Multiple-image Network Graphics library
aminetreadme-os3.lha util/misc 42K OS3 Aminet .readme creator
aminetreadme.lha util/misc 50K OS4 Aminet .readme creator
hfinder1.1_arosi386.lha util/wb 542K ARO Tool to search files in your hard disks
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 21.12.2008
These are the latest uploads to os4depot.net which have been added since our last message:
amisounded.lha aud/edi 114kb 32-bit mono/stereo sound editor
amisounded_german.lha aud/edi 1kb German catalog file for AmiSoundEd v0.11
amuse.lha aud/pla 526kb Last.FM client and collection browser fo
bonk_dt.lha dat/sou 172kb Bonk sound datatype
wavpack_dt.lha dat/sou 432kb WavPack (.wv) datatype
libharu.lha dev/lib 2Mb Free PDF Library
gperf.lha dev/uti 422kb Generates perfect hash functions
vice.tgz emu/com 9Mb VICE - Versatile Commodore Emulator
fuse-utils.lha emu/uti 1Mb Spectrum emulator utilities
wesnoth.lha gam/str 140Mb Battle for Wesnoth (stable version)
netsurf.lha net/bro 3Mb Fast CSS capable web browser
nsaddressbook.lha net/bro 1Mb An Address Book and Quick Links Panel fo
owb.lha net/bro 11Mb Origyn Web Browser (Doduo)
amicygnix-base-src.lha net/mis 12Mb Sources of the AmiCygnix base package
amicygnix-base.lha net/mis 77Mb AmiCygnix, an Unix environment for Amiga
amicygnix-tools-src.lha net/mis 3Mb Sources of the AmiCygnix tools package
amicygnix-tools.lha net/mis 48Mb Extension package for AmiCygnix, an Unix
amicygnix-x11-src.lha net/mis 63Mb Sources of the basic X11 system of AmiCy
abiword-src.lha off/wor 6Mb Sources of AbiWord 2.6.2 and related lib
abiword.lha off/wor 39Mb AbiWord 2.6.2 for AmiCygnix
unrar-bin.lha uti/arc 177kb Unpacks RAR files
unrar-src.lha uti/arc 164kb Unpacks RAR files, source archive
amidisk.lha uti/fil 3Mb File manager
hfinder.lha uti/fil 585kb Tool to search files in your hard disks
aminetreadme.lha uti/tex 50kb Aminet .readme creator
users_and_groups.lha uti/wor 54kb users and groups config tool
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22.Dec.2008
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 21.12.2008
These are the latest uploads to AROS-Archives which have been added since our last message:
hfinder1.1_arosi386.lha uti/fil 542kb Tool to search files in your hard disks
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22.Dec.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Minimig: Hardfile-Emulation in progress
The Minimig developer "yaqube" is working on an emulation of so called hardfiles for the Minimig. Hardfiles are images of Amiga-harddrives which uses the emulator UAE. At Youtube a video was published which shows the developer loading the Workbench on his Minimig from harddrive and then starting some installed games.
For further information please have a look at these threads at minimig.net and amiga.org.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 15:19] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Pictures from C= Show
On 20th December in Maarssen (Holland) the "C= Show" of the Commodore Gebruikers Groep (CGG) took place. On the website of this group some pictures were published.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 14:51] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: AbiWord 2.6.2 for AmiCygnix
For the X11-environment AmiCygnix a compatible port of the word processing software AbiWord 2.6.2 was published. The main changes:
- Proper working languages
- Supporting Gnome-Office-diagrams
- Loading Multipart HTML-files (.mht)
- Loading IFF-ILBM-graphics
- Bugfixes
A German catalog is included, further ones will follow soon.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 14:48] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Graphic-Adventure: German CD-version of Aqua online
At the beginning of 2007 the graphic adventure Aqua was released. Now for the first time there is a German CD-version of the game which has been published in cooperation with Fun Time World and which can be now downloaded at Amiga Arena. Fun Time World and the Amiga Arena wish much fun and a Merry Christmas.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Dec. 2008, 13:09] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2008
Martin "DaFreak" Rebentisch (ANF)
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Musik: Liquid Skies records #106 (XMAS Special)
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 106th musicpack. This time it includes a music track in Jazz-style which Konrad Lukaszewicz played. The cover was created by DaFreak.
- Title: So Much Of U
- Musicans: Konrad
- Style: Jazz
- Play time: 2:17
- Format: MP3, 160kbps
- Size: 2.7 MB
With this release the group wants to say thank you and wishes all Merry Christmas.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2008, 15:20] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2008
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: X11-environment AmiCygnix 1.0
AmiCygnix (the previous beta versions were called "Cygnix") is a X11-environment and makes it possible to launch Unix-applications under AmigaOS with only few changes at the source code (screenshot).
AmiCygnix is not compatible with the previous versions. All available applications must be adapted. The first updates will follow soon with AbiWord 2.6.2 and Gnumeric 1.6.3.
AmiCygnix will be delivered as two archives: The basis package includes the complete X11-environment and the additional Tools-archive includes some applications and preference programs.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2008, 10:13] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.20
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes in version 2.20:
- Some more small font tweaks, for example at 13px the bold Arial got a different size than the regular one
- Updated curl-ca-bundle.crt
- Reenabled drawing and scrolling optimisations while a page is still loading since it didn't fix the problems on AmigaOS 4.0
- Disabled progress bar when running on AmigaOS 4.0, it didn't test it but maybe that fixes the freezes
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2008, 02:25] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS 2.2 published
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.2, a free update for users of MorphOS 2.1 and 2.0. In addition to numerous bug fixes, MorphOS 2.2 includes additional optimizations and new features such asKryptos, a "disk encryption suite". For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
A description of the hardware requirements and installation procedures can be found here. MorphOS 2.2 is available for download in our files section.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2008, 02:22] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Amiga Forever 2008 Value Edition: New Version, Content and Price
Press release When Amiga Forever 2008 was released less than six months ago, it was accompanied by a name change in the entry level edition: the former Online Edition was renamed Value Edition. This was to signal another change further along the road, which was put into practice today.
Amiga Forever Value Edition has been repositioned to focus on content that can be played back in version 1.3 ROM and Workbench environments (whereas the Plus and Premium editions also include all other versions from 1.0 to 3.x). More than 70% of the thousands of games available for legal download from their original publishers and from Amiga preservation sites can be run with the new Value Edition.
The new Amiga Forever 2008 Value Edition includes 50 games, some of the best demoscene productions, and a selection of additional items at the low price of $9.95 (local taxes may apply, or 9.95 euros inclusive of VAT). The Value Edition comes in an 80 MB downloadable installer for Windows, and incorporates all the previous minor updates (build 2008.0.12.0), the latest WinUAE version, and the Software Director tool to manage future free updates.
The Value Edition is also available for free in partnership with TrialPay, if ordered together with a product or service from other affiliated sites.
Also in consideration of the twelve minor updates released so far, version 2008 remains the current version for all editions of Amiga Forever. The next release in the series will be C64 Forever, planned for the first quarter of 2009. (snx)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 18:33] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: MPlayer ported
Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Smiechowicz has adapted Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly's MorphOS-port of the video play program MPlayer to AROS/x86 (screenshot).
The AROS-version supports 3dnow and recognizes the used processor. SSE/SSE2 is being not supported. The sound output also is limited: The modi s16be and s17le work while others (24, 32, ac3) does not. If you have some "problem videos" then please send them to the author. Furthermore the WMV- and ASF-files can be played in the native AROS-version but cannot played on hosted versions.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 11:25] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: Christmas special (week 51) online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. The topics of this issue include a MPlayer review, a report about the Amiga 1000 and a guide for TVPaint.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 11:04] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: hpdf.library 1.0 / mng.library 1.1
Ilkka Lehtoranta has ported the libHaru-library for creating PDF-files with MorphOS 2.x.
Additionally the mng.library is available in version 1.1. Multi-Image Network Graphics is a format which describes animated graphic files. The library requires MorphOS 2.x as well as thelittlecms.library.
Download:
hpdf.lha (1 MB)
mnglib.lha (347 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 10:22] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FLAC-Player for AmiNetRadio (Update)
Under the title link Jacek 'jacaDcaps' Piszczek has published a FLAC-player for AmiNetRadio. The Plug-in is available in two versions (with and without Altivec-support) and supports 16-Bit-Stereo files as well as meta data.
Because the FLAC-player uses the 64-Bit-DOS-API introduced with MorphOS 2.0 as well as the conversion from UCS4 to ANSI introduced with version 2.1 the latest version of MorphOS is required.
Update: (18:48, 20.12.08, snx)
Meanwhile version 4.1b2 has been released which contains some bugfixes and optimisations, especially for computers without Altivec support. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 10:06] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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MorphOS: Current MemTest-speeds of Mac-Mini-version
Under the title link Jacek Piszczek has published the current speed figures for writing in the main and graphic board memory under the MorphOS-version for Apple's Mac Mini which is being developed.
Comparing models with 1,5-GHz-processor, 1,42 GHz (both equipped with Radeon 9200) and a Pegasos 2 wit 1 GHz which is equipped with the Pro version of the graphic board. The Mac Mini gained about 740 (main memory) and 175 MB/second (graphic board memory) while the Pegasos gained 440 and 210 MB.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 09:50] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
Mupfman (ANF)
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Symphonic Fantasies: Video games concert on 12. September 2009
The WDR-concert with compositions from computer and video games will be continued with "Symphonic Fantasies" on 12th September 2009.
On the same weekend the games convention GamesCon will take place in Cologne.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 09:09] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
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Commodore-Emulator: VICE 2.1 for all Amiga-Systems
VICE emulates almost all 8-Bit-systems by Commodore. Ports are available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, PPC, x86-64) and MorphOS. Version 2.1 includes now an emulation of the C64 DTV.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 04:56] [Comments: 0]
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