27.Nov.2008
Psyria (ANF)
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Music-CD: Symphonic Shades delivered on 11. December
On 23. August 2008 in Cologne the concert of the WDR-symphonic orchestra with music of Chris Hülsbeck took place. Arrangements of songs like Apidya, Giana Sisters, Turrican, Jim Power or R-Type were played.
From now on the CD of the Symphonic-Shades-conzert can be oredered in advance and it will be delivered from the 11. december on. At first there will be 1000 CDs of the album and will be only available in the online-shop.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Nov.2008
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS für AmigaOS: AfA 4.3
Bernd Rösch's "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA) is a port of single AROS-components to AmigaOS 3. Thus new functionality of AROS is supposed to make available under AmigaOS as well. Version 4.3 includes some bug fixes as well as a reworked documentation and new features.
Direct download:
Binaries: AfA_OS_V4.3.lha (1,6 MB)
Source code: afa4.3_src.zip (652 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2008
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Historical: The "rest" on a Kickstart 1.0-disk
For a longer time it is known that the Kickstart 1.0-disks, which were delivered with the Amiga 1000, contained data which had nothing to do with the Amiga: Probably the developers took an used disk for the master disk which was not completely deleted before.
A hacker now has tried to recover these data.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2008
Steve Ellesmore (E-Mail)
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Kick Off-Magazine: The Aftertouch, issue 6
"The Aftertouch" is an English PDF-magazine which is about the well-known game Kick Off 2 (KO2). The current issue includes an interview with the organizers of the Ko2 World Championship 2008 in Athen as well as talkings with the winners of the last championship. Additionally there are informationen about the "Competition Version" of KO2 as well as hints for organizing your own tournament.
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25.Nov.2008
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Sensible World of Soccer: Teams of season 08/09
For Sensible World of Soccer (SWoS) inofficial updates are still published which provide the new teams and statistics.
Under the title link an archive is available which should be at least compatible with SWoS 95/96 and SWoS 96/97.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Nov.2008
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Event: World of Commodore Canada (6. December)
For the sixth times the Toronto PET User's Group has organized the "World of Commodore" which will take place on 6th December this year.
In future the event will focus much more on the Amiga. Therefore Amiga users are very welcome. The World of Commodore 2008 attended about 100 visitors.
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24.Nov.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)
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LinuxToday: Linux Should Copy Amiga
On the Linux portal called LinuxToday Carla Schroder demanded that Linux should not try to outperform Mac OS X with elegance and functionality. One should go a step further trying to measure up to AmigaOS.
In her article Schroder introduced some features of AmigaOS which still are unique.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Nov.2008
HelmutH (ANF)
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Cubic IDE: Erweiterung für Hollywood-Programme
For the integrated development environment Cubic IDE, Michael 'Clyde Radcliffe' Jurisch has published an add-on for creating multimedia applications with Hollywood.
You can get further information under the title link. If you have any comments you can tell them to the author in the forum of Amiga Resistance.
Download site
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 34
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English Podcast produced by Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald and Bill Panagouleas where Amiga users and invited guests discussed current events in the Amiga scene. The topics of the 34th issue with 'Cecilia' as guest:
- AmiWest 2008 a success?
- Long Island Amiga Club
- EEO game console?
- Interview with Cecilia
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Nov.2008
PPA (website)
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PPA: Interview with Chris Young
Jacek Kapitkowski has interviewed Chris Young at the title link. Mainly his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser NetSurf is discussed. (snx)
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22.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Compiler: ECX 2.0.0
ECX is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. ECX requires an installed installation of the Amiga-E-package. The changes of the new version 2.0.0 are listed in the readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Nov.2008
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: Hardware and software upgrade for the C-One
Press release The C-One is unique with its architecture until today: The central components can re-configure each other while the machine is running. If you wanted to do this with a traditional computer, you would have to exchange PCI cards or even the processor while it is turned on. The process took a few seconds, reminding the user of the speed of computers of the 80's. Although the C-One always aimed at resembling computers of that decade, that kind of speed is not acceptable for a current machine. FPGA developer Tobias Gubener has re-written the startup-procedure of the C-One (comparable to the BIOS of a normal PC) from scratch to overcome this.
The new software is called "Newboot" and it is free to every C-One owner. It is not necessary to work on the C-One's hardware, as it is just a flash upgrade. Still, the performance of the new startup is stunning. Instead of the elderly 80's design, the C-One now welcomes you with a graphical menu and almost triple speed. While browsing through the menus, the FPGAs on the board are re-configured a number of times without the user even noticing. With Newboot, the C-One has made the final step to everyday-usability after a development time of five years.
With the FPGA Extender card that is available since yesterday, the C-One even overcomes the limitation of emulating only 8-bit systems. Tobias Gubener has ported Dennis van Weeren's Minimig as a first demonstration of the new capabilities: In addition to VIC-20, C64 and Amstrad CPC, the C-One can now run 32-bit systems like the Amiga. The FPGA capacity of the C-One is increased almost by a factor of five with the extender board! The technical data in short:
- Cyclone 3 FPGA in 65 nanometer technology
- 16 MByte RAM with up to 333 MByte per second data rate
- Stereo delta-sigma audio converter
- Two crystals for exact PAL and NTSC clocks
- High-bandwidth interface to the C-One
- Simple installation without soldering
- Price: 99 EUR (*)
New C-One boards are sold with the extender-card pre-installed for 333 EUR (*). You can find more pictures and information on the website of the C-One.
(*) Recommended retail price including German sales tax of 19%. Prices at our retail partners may vary. For mail ordering, shipping may be added. (snx)
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21.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.2
AmiKit which is a complete distribution for UAE-users is now available in version 1.5.2 and should be installed with the live-update function. Furthermore there is a download mirror.
The changes are listed in the changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0-svn-2008.11.09
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the media player MPlayer (screenshot). Changes in this version:
- Updated to 09.11.2008 svn (r27902). To be noted it at least fixes some recently introduced issue with some mpeg4 files (googlevideo for instance).
- More work on GUI module:
- Option to resize window to original movie dimensions (or 50%/200%).
- Record option to dump a netstream (only works for cached streams for now).
- Directories can now be dropped to main window/playlists, or opened from menu.
- Shuffle option in playlist.
- Metadata title field is displayed in status string, if available
- ICY information (shoutcast) displayed in status string, if available.
- Some files would sometimes be skipped in playlist. Fixed.
- Reworked a bit GUI show/hide behaviour.
- GUI can now be started in fullscreen (-fs/fs=1)
- Status string was refreshed more than necessary.
- General fixes:
- Increased a bit audio buffer length with ao_ahi driver.
- There could be some "hickup at start" effect when playing a new file in playlist. Fixed.
- Snapshot filenames are truncated (if necessary) to preserve indexes.
Download:
Standard-Version: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.09.lha (9,1 MB)
Altivec-Version: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.09.altivec.lha (9,2 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.15
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser (screenshot). The Cairo-library has been linked with the program. That means OWB 2.15 can be also used under AmigaOS 4.0 again. The changes in detail:
- The CONFIRMQUIT tooltype was only checked for the quit menu but not
for the close menu when the last window is closed, fixed (bugs.os4depot.net issue #44)
- Using version 2.7.1 of libxml2 instead of 2.7.2 again, should fix some
crashes
- Built the current versions of libcairo and libpixman-1 as static link
libraries, with the static libraries OWB works on AmigaOS 4.0 again.
- OWB 2.15 is linked with static libraries. Might fix the startup
crashes I never get on my systems, but could cause even more crashes
since most of the static versions of the libraries I have are older
than the shared versions and very likely have more bugs.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Nov.2008
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Amiga/Hyperion: Conciliation conference
Today representatives of Amiga Inc., Hyperion and Eyetech have met for a conciliation conference in Seattle. The aim of the conference is a settlement out-of-court but that does not have to mean the end of the legal dispute. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Quake 3-clone OpenArena 0.8.1
OpenArena is an open source clone of the well-known 3D-shooter Quake 3 which uses the free Quake 3-sources and adds own levels, figures and sound effects. The AmigaOS-version was ported by Juha "Capehill" Niemimäki.
Download: openarena.lha (794 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Nov.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphZone: MorphBounties active again
David 'Targhan' Crawford, who is the Webmaster of the MorphOS portal MorphZone, has announced that the bounty-program for MorphOS is active again.
Meanwhile another bounty-program of the Pegasosforum was established. It might happen that both projects will be united in future. Up to this moment please donate for either the first or the second project. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Cinnamon Writer 0.60
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a SDL-based word processor for AmigaOS 4. The programmer wants to write a compact, effective word processor with most of the usual functions.
Changes:
- Unlimited undo/redo history
- Introduction of the plug-in system
- Changeable page size and format
- Resizeable window
- Big fat donate button
- Online-check if user has the newest version
- Bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Nov.2008
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: Photos of AmiWest 2008
Robert Bernardo from the Fresno Commodore User Group has taken some pictures during the Californian Amiga event AmiWest 2008 and have published them under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Nov.2008
NovaBurst (ANF)
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Interview with AROS developer Stanislaw Szymczyk
For his blog "The AROS Show", Paul J. Beel did an interview with Stanisław Szymczyk. Among other topics, he discusses his work on the AROS Self-Compilation bounty, his fascination with computers and plans for the future. (snx)
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18.Nov.2008
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Booklet of CSG-auction 1994
CSG ("Commodore Semiconductor Group") were responsible for the design and the production of alsmost all chips which were used in Commodore computers.
In 1992 the company had to apply for creditor protection but was only bought after the decline of Commodore in 1994. You can find scans of a booklet of this CSG-auction under the title link.
You can get further (English) information about MOS Technology/CSG under commodore.ca.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2008
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MorphOS: Diagram creator Plot 1.7
Plot is a MUI-class with an example program written by Grzegorz "krashan" Kraszewski and Michal "rzookol" Zukowski with which you can create diagrams (screenshot).
The latest version can export data and diagrams in ODS-format of OpenOffice.org.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Arena: New "old" full versions of applications
The section "Tools" of the Amiga Arena was opened again and will be filled with full versions of applications which could be already downloaded in the past. The first applications are Alphabase, AmiFIG, ArtEffect 1.5, ArtPro, F-Base, FileX, FLM, HippoPlayer, Lotto and MuiVideo.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmiKit: WinUAE-Updater
For the emulator distribution AmiKit an Add-On is available which will automatically update WinUAE which is included in the archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2008
PPA (Webseite)
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File system: Ext2FS 0.36
With Marek Szyprowski's Ext2FS you can work with the Second Extended FileSystem (ext2) and ext3 under MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x.
Version 0.36 includes an experimental support of some extensions which are used by Ext3-media which were created with the Linux distribution Fedora Core. Additionally the DOS-notofication is now supported (ACTION_ADD_NOTIFY / ACTION_REMOVE_NOTIFY).
Download: ext2fs_0.36.lha (95 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.14 / OWB Address Book 2.2
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Please note that Cairo is required which currently is only available for AmigaOS 4.1.
The address book was also updated and is no longer part of the browser archive.
Changes in OWB 2.14:
- Removed the AddressBook from the OWB archive, it's available on os4depot.net now (network/browser/owbaddressbook.lha)
- Updated to SVN revision 641
- Added support for openamiga.org extended default mouse pointers http://openamiga.org/?function=viewproject&projectid=35 (bugs.os4depot.net issue #40) and moved the included pointers to Resources/Storage, except for contextMenuCursor which is missing in the openamiga.org project. If you want to use the included pointers instead of the openamiga.org ones, or own pointers, you have to put them into the Resources directory
- Fixed a bug in the AutoInstall script
- Built current versions of libxml2 and libxslt
- If the CONFIRMQUIT tooltype is enabled it displays a requester when using the quit menu as well now (bugs.os4depot.net issue #44)
- Added GETURL ARexx command
- If there is a 2nd %s in the BOOKMARKCOMMAND it's replaced by the pubscreen name of the screen on which the OWB window is now
Download:
owb.lha (6 MB)
owbaddressbook.lha (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2008
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Windows/Linux: AmigaDOS Amiga Disk File Checker
With ADFCHK ("AmigaDOS Amiga Disk File Checker") you can check if Amiga-Disk-Images have checksum errors or simple bootblock viruses ("LAMER" is already recognized, "boot-lamer" will follow).
The tool is mainly meant for using in batch files where you want to check many files. There are three corresponding .BAT-scripts for Windows users. The "menu-modus" is still in a very early developing status.
Linux users have to compile ADFCHK for yourself. All required parts are included in the source code archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2008
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Voting to "Innovation Price 2008" of CGG
The Dutch "Commodore Gebruikers Groep" (CGG) endows the Innovation Price 2008 for the best product or the best developer at its last meeting this year. The winner will be found by a voting on the website of CGG. The price will be given at the "C=Show" on 20. December.
You can access the voting by clicking on the photos of the trophy.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 35
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). The changes are listed in the changelog.
The author points out that SabreMSN currently only supports the older version of the MSN-protocol for the data exchange. If an incoming transfer is displayed ("Waiting for incoming file..") but it will not start then the sender used the new version of the protocol.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: November issue with report from Bad Bramstedt
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Issue November inludes a report about the Amiga meeting in Bad Bramstedt (Germany). Additionally there are Amiga news and information from the demo scene. The magazine is hosted as FLV movies at Google Video and Vimeo.
Because there is not a corresponding server, the "download"-version with 333 MB currently is only available as E-Mail. Interested users may contact amitopia@gmail.com. If you have possibilities to host Amitopia files with a size of 200-400 MB then please write to the same email address. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: PFTP 0.4
Pete's FTP (screenshot) written by Peter Gordon has been published in version 0.4. The changes in detail:
- When you couldn't connect to a server, PFTP would
hang. Fixed.
- Icon is now a proper Amiga icon. Didn't realise it
was png because i have the png iconmodule installed
and i just copied over the file i got from Mason
and forgot about it.
- Now copes with servers that include a total number
of files with the file listing at the top. Thanks
to Magnus Andersson for his help with this one.
- Now doesn't crash if you click a link in the about
window without OpenURL installed.
- The local browser thread didn't properly keep track
of how many messages it was expecting a reply for,
and could sometimes hang around waiting for
responses it had already received. Fixed.
- If you started some local-to-local transfers, and
one of them failed for any reason, the ones after
it wouldn't start. Fixed.
- Local-to-local transfers that had a read or write
error during transfer were treated as if they
succeeded. Fixed.
- If a transfer failed, it would be silently added to
the failed transfer list, and an error message
printed in the log. This is easily missed during
bulk transfers. Now there is an error log for errors
that occur during transfers, which pops up to let you
know something went wrong. Items in bold are new
ones since the last time the error log window was
closed. Thanks to Mario Cattaneo for making me get
around to this finally :)
- Improved the error handling and detection for SFTP.
- If you selected more than one directory, but no files,
and deleted them, only the first one would be deleted.
Fixed. (Thanks to Janne Peräaho for the report).
- If you deleted a directory, but no files, the browser
wouldn't be refreshed aftwards. Fixed. (Thanks to Janne
Peräaho for the report).
- Added a debug menu to make it easier to find and
fix faults that i can't reproduce
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2008
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MorphOS: HivelyTracker 1.6
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format. AHX was developed in the 90ies being able to write music tracks which are similar to the typical chip sound of the SID (sound chip of the C64).
"BuZz" which already ported the OS4-version to AROS and AmigaOS 3 has now published a port for MorphOS as well.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.0.31
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari-ST emulator. The changes in version 1.0.31 are included in the readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Nov.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Word Me Up XXL 1.1
The game "Word Me Up XXL" developed by Boing Attitude combines arcade and puzzle elements and is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS now in version 1.1 . The update is free for registered users. Additionally there is a demo version with foru of the 60 levels.
Changes:
- Design and graphical arts enhancements (5 themes were fully reworked, 4 others were improved)
- Faster loading and effects on subsidiary screens: "dark" effect, "Shop" and "Digicode" screens
- Automatic handling of next level (if you didn't collect enough money or keys, previous level is displayed again)
- An improved setup tool: joystick port setting (already included in previous MorphOS release), musics pre-loading, online help
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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AC3-Encoder (MUI-GUI for aften)
AC3-Encoder is a simple, MUI-based graphical user-interface for the command line program aften.
Additionally to RxMUI and ARexx, version 13.0.0 or higher of sox (sox-13.0.0.lha, 1 MB; MorphOS version) must be installed to create 5-channel-wave-files which aften requires.
All wave-files must be available in the format mono / 16 Bit / 48000 Hz and must not be compressed. The AC3-file is created with 448 Kbit and therefore corresponds the standard-AC3-streams of DVDs.
ac3encoder.lha (12 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Amiga Image Storage System: Service-Release AISS 4.5
Version 4.5 of the Amiga Image Storage System (AISS), a system to store, access and maintain toolbar images under AmigaOS and alternative systems, is available now at Masonicons.de.
Highlights:
- 353 new and 169 reworked images
- Optimized installation script by Thore Boeckelmann
Please note that the installation process may take some time and no progress requester will be displayed. (snx)
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11.Nov.2008
amigans.net (Webseite)
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dnetc-client with OGR-26-support
Oliver Roberts has published the latest version of the dnetc-client provided by distributed.net for different AmigaOS-versions which supports the OGR-26 as well. There is also a MorphOS-port which was written by Harry "Piru" Sintonen.
Direct download:
AmigaOS 3: dnetc507-amigaos-68k.lha (658 KB)
AmigaOS 4: dnetc507b-amigaos-ppc.lha (780 KB)
WarpOS: dnetc507-amigaos-ppc-wos.lha (666 KB)
PowerUp: dnetc507-amigaos-ppc-pup.lha (674 KB)
dnetc507b-morphos-ppc.lha (715 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
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AmigaOS 4: WarpOS-emulation 16.40 with Sam440-support
Jörg Strohmayer's WarpOSEmu is a reimplementation of the powerpc.library. With it you can start WarpOS-applications under AmigaOS 4. The former versions of the wrapper do not work with the Sam440. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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OctaMED SoundStudio V2: Programmer wanted
For OctaMED SoundStudio which is the first 8-channel-tracker a programmer is wanted who develops the old Amiga version 1.03c further. Version 2.0 muste be finished during the next year.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Nov.2008
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Aminet: Web-uploads possible again
Press release: Uploads to the Aminet are now with the browser possible. We are sorry for the long period of breakdown.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Nov.2008
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: Harddrive encryption with DIL 1.50
DIL ("Device Intervention Layer") written by Rupert Hausberger adds new virtual drives to the system which represent images of a real existing drives (or devices). If you access to such a virtual device the data stream will be changed, encrypted or controled in this way and only then the data stream will be delivered to the real drive.
With AES.dilp there is a new plugin which makes the encryption of the harddrive at the lowlevel base with AES possible. The
changes in version 1.50 im detail:
dil.device (1.50)
- Added support for SHA256 so plugins can now request that seed-type.
- Added plugin-tags DILI_SeedDIL and DILI_SeedSHA to specify the
seed-type used.
- Now to passphrase-request window does popup another time if the user
did a wrong input.
- Fixed typo DILI_Licence to DILI_License.
- Changed the DIL_SANEID, all plugins need a rebuild.
- Bumped dilplugin.h to 1.2
dilPlugInfo (1.2)
- Added plugin status, whether working with the installed version of DIL.
- Added plugin tags DILI_SeedDIL and DILI_SeedSHA.
Plugins:
- aes.dilp (1.00): Initial.
- blockmon.dilp (1.12)
- default.dilp (1.12)
- poly.dilp (1.12): Rebuild with new DIL_SANEID.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Nov.2008
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Emulator: UAE for Nintendo Wii
Based on UAE4ALL under the title link a first beta version of the Amiga emulator UAE for the game console Nintendo Wii was published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 10. Nov. 2008, 07:36] [Comments: 0]
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10.Nov.2008
Andrea Maniero (#morphos)
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Event: AIConf on 6. December in Papozze (Italy)
On 6. December Radicadesign together with the local municipality will organize an event for alternative computer systems called AIConf (Alternative Italian Conference) in the sport arena of Papozze in Italy.
There will be present AmigaOS 4.1 and the Sam440ep-flex-Board, MorphOS and the Efika-Board as well as Haiku and Ubuntu.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2008
Franz (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.5.3
The latest version of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE includes optimizations for RTG-applications, some minor improvements of the chipset emulation and offers you the possibility to link certain file types (*.adf, *.uae...) with the emulator. The changes in WinUAE 1.5.3 in detail:
Fixed bugs:
- Huge memory leak when switching between RTG and native modes.
- Writing to disk images didn't work in some games.
- Configuration cache missing files in subdirectories.
- Random freeze when switching to fullscreen modes that are smaller
than desktop resolution.
- Second and third mouse/firebutton handling fix (Aladdin, BC.Kid
and more)
- "Always on top", "No taskbar button" and fullscreen color depth
change works on the fly.
- OpenGL fullscreen fixed.
- Parallel/Serial/MIDI select menus and Input-panel bottom options
didn't work correctly.
- System clock run slightly too fast or slow if chipset refresh rate
was different than startup refresh rate (really old bug).
- OCS NTSC configuration defaulted to PAL refresh rate.
- Real PCMCIA SRAM card re-insert detection fixed.
- Fullscreen RTG 16-bit to 32-bit desktop windowed mode switch
(CTRL+F12) color errors fixed.
New features:
- Basic file association settings added to GUI (.uae, .adf etc..)
- RTG vertical blank wait uses interrupts, no more busy waiting. Should
improve performance in many fullscreen RTG games.
- Added RTG virtual refresh rate configuration to GUI.
- Added RTG refresh rate next to chipset refresh rate FPS counter.
- Undocumented OCS "scanline" feature emulated (Ode to Ramon I and II)
- Midline resolution change improvements (still far from perfect,
Disposable Hero, Innovation Part 2)
- Only accept current latest OpenAL32.dll or newer (old versions can
cause crashes during device enumeration)
- Improved emulation of reads from write-only custom registers
(S.E.X. / Fantasys)
- Syncronize Clock stability improved.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2008
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ACube will attend Electronica 2008
According to ACube the company will take part in the Electronica 2008 (11. to 14. November, Munich).
The Sam440 and AmigaOS 4.1 will be presented live. All Amiga users are very welcome.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Nov. 2008, 15:11] [Comments: 0]
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09.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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HivelyTracker 1.6
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format. AHX was developed in the 90ies to write music tracks which are similar to the typical chip-sound of SID (sound-chip of C64).
Changes:
- Right since 1.0, the EDx command was broken! Fixed
- The range check on Cxx commands was broken. Fixed
- Now strips the upper nibble of 4xx instrument commands when loading a THX\0 file. AHX always did this since the introduction of filters (THX\1), but AFAIK WinAHX and its derivatives never did
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2008
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Anubis OS: AROS-developers start new, Amiga-inspired operating system
Some active as well as former AROS-developers want to write a new operating system.
Anubis OS (still empty homepage) is not a Fork that means a branch of AROS because for lack of ressources no compatibility to AmigaOS 3.1 is aimed. Instead of it the Linux-based operating system is supposed to be inspired of AmigaOS. Because many of the developers will be no longer availble for AROS it might yet represent a disunion of the AROS-project.
There will be a first ISO-file with the developing status of Anubis OS around New Year. Mainly Anubis OS will be supposed to represent like Apple's Fusion of Mac OS and BSD to Mac OS X but based on AmigaOS and Linux. A main focus will be an easy to use user-interface. So the Linux basis will provide the functionality (e.g. 2D and 3D graphic drivers) but the user-interface will be inspired by Amiga.
The following AROS-developers are involved: Michal Schulz, Hogne Titlestad, Ola Jensen, Robert Norris, Michael Grunditz, Oliver Brunner, Olivier Tigreat, Pavel Fedin, Stanisław Szymczyk and Paul J. Beel. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-magazine: APoV (Amiga Point of View) issue 3
APoV is an English game magazine which is about old Amiga games and which is published in PDF-format. The third issue includes the following topics:
- Reviews of... Disposable Hero, Navy Seals, The Lord of the Rings, War in Middle Earth, Tiny Troops, Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Palace's Barbarian, Paperboy, Onslaught, Total Carnage and P.D. games.
- Articles about... The history of Britain through Amiga games, the demo scene and football on the Amiga.
- Walkthroughs, Hints And Maps... Zak McKracken Part 3, Titanic Blinky, The Final Battle and Elvira: The Arcade Game
- Also... News, mini-articles, WHDLoad, letters, adverts, back page
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: AllKeys 2.3 and MultiRen 1.66
The OnyxSoft team has published two updates, AllKeys 2.3 and MultiRen 1.66. The first one is based on requests and bug reports of users. If you have further requests or suggestions then please do not hesitate to contact the developers.
AllKeys is a hotkey program for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which supports most of the multimedia and mouse keys. Additional to minor bug fixes version 2.3 supports different subclasses. Because of this some USB-keyboards should work much better.
MultiRen is a MUI-based Amiga/68k-program with which you can rename many files at once. It also includes a special plugin for MP3-files. In version 1.66 a plugin for ID3v2-tags was added. Additionally the file requester follows the corresponding windows where MultiRen has been opened. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Standardization of compiler packages
Based on the work of Markus Weiss and Nic Andrews, Stanislaw Szymczyk has unitized the AROS-compiler packages for all AROS-platforms (i386, ppc, x86_64) for gcc 4.2.2 and has integrated them to the AROS-Build-Systems.
This new package is included in the i386-Nightly-Builds and in this way provides a ready-made C/C++-developing environment. Stanislaw Szymczyk currently is working on the self-compiling bounty project which has 415 US-Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2008
David Brunet (ANF)
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Interview with Rabah Shihab (Babylonian Twins)
The online-magazine Obligement has published an exclusive interview with Rabah Shihab today, the lead programmer of Babylonian Twins - an Amiga game which is supposed to have been the first commercial one developed in Iraq.
The english version of the interview can be found at the title link, a french translation will be published later. (snx)
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07.Nov.2008
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Papyrus Office: Timeout-Requester forces new update
From the beginning of the month owners of the office package Papyrus have been welcomed with a message window that says that this beta version will expire.
According to Michael Garlich from Titan on pegasosforum.de there will be an additional update which will not include this timeout requester. But there will not be a MorphOS-native version of this update because the computer of the external developer as well as the Pegasos of the company do not work.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2008
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ACube: Scope of delivery of AmigaOS 4.1
Some purchasers of AmigaOS 4.1 reported of copied manuals and burned CDs while others got a complete set with box, printed manual and proper CD (photo). Now Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene from ACube Systems explained in a discussion on amigaworld.net:
"We never sent photocopied manuals nor copied CDs to resellers or end users.
It was just a measure a few resellers took to minimize delivery time to customers (there was a delay printing the CDs)". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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SAM440-presentation at the Electronica 2008 (Munich)
Press release: Thanks to our partner DENX Computer Systems GmbH the Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex-motherboards will be presented at the trade fair Electronica 2008 which will take place from 11. to 14. November in Munich.
The Sam440ep was added to the online catalog of Denx.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Nov.2008
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer with graphical user-interface
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published a new version of his MorphOS-port of the media player MPlayer which for the first time has now a MUI-based, graphical user-interface (screenshot).
Download:
Standard-Version: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.05-gui.lha (4,4 MB)
Altivec-optimized: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.05-gui.altivec.lha (4,5 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Nov.2008
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Keyboard adapter: Lyra2 with support for MMKeyboard-Stealth protocol
Press release: The company Individual Computers produces a new keyboard adapter called Lyra2 which supports the MMKeyboard Stealth protocol and thus is compatible to the former reference, the MMKeyboard hardware.
With this new adapter you can use standard PS/2-keyboards with classic Amiga computers. Lyra2 is the only hardware which officially supports the MMKeyboard Stealth protocol and thus supports all available multimedia keys with the MMKeyboard software.
The adapter is very compact and stout. With its long wire it is als an extension and prevents the port from damaging by components.
Guido Mersmann, MMKeyboard-Author
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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