07.Aug.2008
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Reggae supports now AIFC/sowt
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewskis has published a new modul for his multimedia library Reggae: The "sowt"-pseudocodec for the AIFC-format (compressed audio IFF) is used to save sound data in Little-Endian-format and was introduced by Apple. Most of the current audio applications under Mac OS save in this format.
The new aiff.demuxer 51.7 for Reggae supports AIFC as well as the "sowt"-version.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Lawsuit: Case of Itec against Hyperion in New York dismissed
The case of Itec LLC in New York against Hyperion VOF was dismissed there because the contract between both parties from 24. April 2003 is applied to the contract between Amiga Inc., Hyperion and Eyetech from 3. November 2001 and for this one only two courts in Washington are responsible for.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1 gone gold
Press release:
Antwerp, Belgium - 6 August, 2008.
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone "gold" and should be available through dealers mid August. Building on the solid foundations of Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS 4.1 introduces a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on the Amiga platform.
Updated non-exhaustive feature-list of Amiga OS 4.1:
- Intelligent memory paging
- Hardware compositing engine (Radeon R1xx and R2xx family)
- Implementation of the "Cairo" device-independent 2D rendering library
- Reworked P96 with improved overlay support
- Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support for greater digital camera compatibility
- JXFS filesystem with the support for drives and partitions of multiple terabyte size
- Improved Workbench functionality
- New and improved DOS functionality (full 64 bit support, universal notification support, automatic expunge and reload of updated disk resources)
- Improved 3D hardware accelerated screen-dragging
- Reworked AmiDock with true transparency
- Choice between several GUI themes including Amiga OS 4.0 and Amiga OS 4.1 default themes
- Powerful and user-friendly installation utility
- Reworked Warp3D Radeon drivers with new functionality
- Improved OpenGL support through MiniGL 2.0
- And much, much more.
Required hardware: AmigaOne (for now)
Required graphics card for hardware compositing: Radeon 1xx or Radeon 2xx
Recommended graphics card: Radeon 9250
Amiga OS 4.1 will ship in a cardboard package with a printed Quick Start Guide.
Screenshots: 1, 2. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Integrated development environment "CodeBench" (preview)
Simon "Rigo" Archer develops an integrated development environment called CodeBench for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). There will be a limited version of the program with the next OS4-SDK. The full version of CodeBench will be distributed commercially.
The author describes CodeBench as "plugin-based management-system". The C/C++ and PHP/HTML-plugins already work. With the help of the corresponding plugin each programming language can be supported. CodeBench can compile itself as well as AmigaOS 4 source code.
Under the title link the author explained some features of CodeBench in a discussion.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: GUI-Designer MindGUI 0.1
MindGUI is supposed to become a GUI-designer for Reaction-based applications. MindGUI generates C-source code.
The project has still an very early status and the author particularly points out that MindGUI is still not very useful. According to the author additional to OS4 SDK, AISS, svgtools as well as svg.datatype) "humor" is required.
MindGUI01.lha (468 KB)
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05.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga-clone: First Natami-prototype is produced
The Amiga-clone NatAmi developed by Thomas Hirsch has a reimplementation of the Amiga-Custom Chips - in contrary to similar projects the AGA-compatibility is aspired.
Meanwhile the development of the NatAmi-motherboard was forwarded so far that the production of the first prototype called NatAmi60 could be started.
The specification of the NatAmi60 includes 16 Mb Chip-RAM, 256 Fast-RAM, a 68060-processor as well as several improvements of the chipset features. For further information have a look at section Questions and Answers.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
Bobic^BTTR (ANF)
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Amiga-Demos from the Assembly 2008
For the Oldskool Demo Competition on the demo party Assembly 2008 two new demos were published for the Amiga 500.
Hardknee Lotus shows effects in AGA-quality but requires 1 MB Chip- and 2 MB Fast-RAM. The second demo is a 32 KB intro by Limbo and was called Ex-Flies.
There is a report about the event at 4Sceners.de.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: Isue August online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Issue August includes the following topics:
- Amiga News Headlines
- Amiga at the movies
- Frame 18, Atmosphere Amiga Demo
- MorphOS 2 review
- Shuffle review
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Grub-2-support in Nightly Builds for x86
The automatically generated "Nightly Builds" of the x86-version of AROS now include the bootloader Grub 2. With its help the harddrive partition DH0 can use the file system SFS.
InstallAROSwas adapted to it. You can now choose the file system for DH0 and DH1.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Scene-party: Evoke 2008 (08.-10. August, Cologne)
For the 11. time the demo scene party Evoke will open its gates. It will take place in the "Vulkanhalle" in the city of Cologne.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Aug.2008
James Jacobs (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Console-emulator AmiArcadia 7.5a
AmiArcadia emulates different game consoles based on the Signetics 2650A like Arcadia 2001 or the only German console Interton VC4000. In version 7.5a, that now is also available for AmigaOS 4, some minor bugs were fixed.
Download: amiarcadia.lha (1,4 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Aug.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: SMTP-Server
Based on the Yet Another FTP Server a SMTP-server for AROS/x86 and Windows was developed which receives eMails and saves them in a directory.
If you want to test this first version you have to enter the IP-address in the file smtp.ini and to create a directory e.g. ram:mailbox/site-admin. If yoo then establish a connection to an email program just like Thunderbird and send an eMail to site-admin@[IP-address of the server] the email is saved in the created directory.
Download: SMTP.zip (64 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.10 beta 1
James 'jahc' Carroll has published an update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. The new version fixes a single bug of the previous version. The details are included in the changelog. WookieChat is available for all Amiga-systems.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Aug.2008
novamann von amiga-resistance.info (ANF)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: New mirror
Under bboah.com a new mirror of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware ("BBoAH") is available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2008
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Audio-Player: UADE 2.11 for Windows, Mac OS, Linux
The "Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator" uses the hardware emulation of UAE as well as a compatible interface to Delitracker and EaglePlayer for player plugins in order to play a wide range of Amig music formats.
The new version 2.11 is available for Windows (Cygwin is required), the source codes could be compiled under different Unix versions as well as under Mac OS X.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2008
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Audio-Player: Audio Overload for Windows, Mac OS, Linux
Richard Bannister's "Audio Overload" emulates the audio hardware of old consoles and computers and therefore makes it possible to play the "classics" on modern hardware.
Audio Overload also supports the Amiga formats AHX, MOD and HVL and is available for Windows (x86-32/x86-64), Linux (x86-32/x86-64) and Mac OS X.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Graphic program: PerfectPaint WIP 010808 beta (update)
Marco "Blackbird" Möring has published an update of the graphic program PerfectPaint. Changes in this version:
- a Hotfix for The Imagepanel
- a fix for the Loadbrush-command
- Fixes for the Rexx-Scripts for loading and saving AnimGIF, loading and saving GIF pictures
If you want to install the latest WIP-version ("Work in Progress") first the complete distribution PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha from December 2007 is required which then is updated with the current beta archive.
Download:
PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha (7,6 MB)
PfP-WIPupdate310708.lha (1,5 MB)
Update: (16:37, 03.08.08, snx)
Meanwhile there is another update PfP-WIPupdate010808.lha (642 KB) available which fixes a bug of the drag-and-drop-function.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2008
James Jacobs (E-Mail)
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AmiArcadia 7.5a
The emulator AmiArcadia is available in version 7.5a vor. The program emulates the console family Emerson Arcadia 2001 to which belong the models Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Hanimex, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Rowtron, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom and Tunix, the Interton-VC-4000 console family (e.g. Acetronic, Fountain, Interton,
Prinztronic, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddington), the Elektor TV Games Computer and PIPBUG-based devices (e.g. Electronics Australia 77up2 and Signetics Adaptable Board Computer).
AmiArcadia offers many features such as ReAction-GUI, loading and saving of snapshots, CPU-tracing, trainer, drag'n'drop-support and much more.
Download: AmiArcadia.lha (728 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jul.2008
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WHDLoad: New packages until 01.08.2008
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demo to your harddrive which originally was meant only for using with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models are fixed.
Since our last message the following installers have been added, improved or updated:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jul. 2008, 16:30] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jul.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Diagnosis tool TaskTree 1.3
TaskTree written by Christian "Tokai" Rosentreter shows all current tasks by hierachy inclusive of possible parent/child-relations. In this way you can check which task has started other processes. TaskTree requires MorphOS 2.0. If there should be sufficient interest the author may adapt it to MorphOS 1.x.
Download: tasktree-1.3.lha (3,3 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jul. 2008, 16:25] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jul.2008
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openSUSE: WinUAE-version for Linux
Via Winelib the openSUSE-build-service has published an under Linux/i586 usable version of the Amiga-emulator WinUAE for openSUSE 11. You can get further information about limitations as well as known problems under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jul. 2008, 14:19] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jul.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube: 105 Euro for AmigaOS 4.1
ACube which worldwide will distribute the AmigaOS 4.1 has published information about it on its website.
The price for the new version will be 105 Euro plus taxes and shipping. It seems that there is still not an excact date for the publication.
The AmigaOS 4.1-advertising is available as PDF-document (6,4 MB).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jul. 2008, 01:17] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: PFTP 0.3
Pete's FTP (creenshot) written by Peter Gordon offers unlimited windows, server-to-server-transfers and drag-and-drop-support.
Changes:
- The check to see if a date was in the future when we had to guess the year didn't take into account the fact that the server time might be ahead of ours; the check now makes sure that the date is not more than 24 hours ahead of the local system time
- Now built with GCC 4.2.4
- Swapped obsolete calls to the corresponding AllocSysObject ones
- There was one message port per subtask that wasn't being freed; they are now
- A couple of things that were MEMF_ANY are now MEMF_SHARED
- When I re-ordered the transfer queue columns in 0.2 I forgot to update the cancelled and finished transfer pages, which meant that the filename wasn't shown; this is now fixed
- Finished transfers now show their final CPS
- Re-added the stats page and now it actually has some stats in it!
Download: pftp.lha (234 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Jul. 2008, 18:38] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (website)
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Report+ 6.28 (Update)
Report+ creates bug reports, Aminet-readme-files, autodocs and similar texts. The program is based on ReAction, the source code is included.
Download: ReportPlus.lha (332 KB)
Update: (16:30, 30.07.08, snx)
Meanwhile, version 6.28 of the program is available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: MLDonkey 2.9.5 / OpenTTD 0.6.2-RC2
Christian Rosentreter has published updates of the filesharing program MLDonkey as well as of the business simulation OpenTTD for MorphOS.
Download:
mldonkey-2.9.5-morphos.lha (6 MB)
openttd-0.6.2-RC2-morphos.lha (3 MB)
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[News message: 28. Jul. 2008, 19:02] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2008
heise (Webseite)
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Windows: Caligari trueSpace for free
Few months after the taking over by Microsoft the formerly 600 Dollar 3D-modeling program Caligari trueSpace can be now downloaded for free.
The program was developed in the 80ies for the Amiga. It was one of the first modeling programs. Later the program was only developed further for Windows.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jul. 2008, 13:12] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Hollywood: GUI-library ScuiLib 0.5 (beta)
ScuiLib written by Fabio Falcucci is a GUI-library for Hollywood. The archive contains ten tutorials as well as a demo program which explains the handling of windows.
Changes:
- Many bugs fixed
- Now you can navigate the GUIs with the keyboard
- Off-screen gadgets correctly handled now
- Code optimization
- A basic layout system has been provided
- 12 Tutorials
- 2 AmigaGuide documents (Guide + Reference)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jul. 2008, 06:57] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MakeCD: Move of homepage
MakeCD, one of the rare CD-burning programs for the Amiga is now accessable over the homepage of the co-author Patrick Ohly under estamos.de.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jul. 2008, 06:46] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2008
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Commodore-Emulator: VICE 2.0 for all Amiga-systems
VICE emulates almost all 8-Bit systems developed by Commodore. Ports of the published version 2.0 are available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, PPC, x86-64) and MorphOS. The most important changes since the previsous release are included in the changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jul. 2008, 03:01] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2008
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Individual Computers announces new scandoubler "Indivision AGA"
Press release: During the 80s, it was common use to build computers in a way that they can output their picture on a TV set. This was done in order to reduce the overall system cost for the user. TV sets work with lower frequencies compared to today's monitors, therefore the picture flickers. A flickerfixer converts the signal in a way that a modern VGA monitor or TFT-display can be used. The name flickerfixer was mainly created because the problem of a flickering picture is solved.
We've already had a very successful product called Indivision in 2002. It was connected to the monitor output of the computer, but it has been sold out in 2006. Flickerfixers are in high demand. One unit of our external flickerfixer Indivision has been sold on an internet auction platform for more than 900 US Dollars in march of this year. That's more than four times the last retail price! The popularity and stability of value of our products cannot be proved any better. We have already started development of a new flickerfixer in november 2007, which is finished now.
The first flickerfixers for the Amiga have already been available 17 years ago. Since that time, all flickerfixers - including ours - have been using the same principle: The picture frequency was doubled. This is not enough for most modern VGA monitors and TFT-displays, as the picture of a computer with PAL standard was only displayed at slightly less than 50Hz. Most monitors require 60Hz or more these days.
With Indivision AGA, we're striking a new path. As the name suggests, it's a flickerfixer that is very closely tied to the AGA chipset. This could only be realized by putting the flickerfixer inside of the computer. The product is mounted over the Video-Chip "Lisa". The VGA display is connected directly to the flickerfixer. Further connections are not necessary.
Listing all features of the flickerfixer would go beyond the scope of this news item. You can find the complete technical data in this PDF-overview. The outstanding features are:
- 24 Bit colour resolution in all screenmodes
- support for super hires modes
- Highgfx support up to 1024x768 pixels
- all screenmodes can be displayed at 60Hz or more
- no adjustments necessary
Two options have been added for retro-gaming enthousiasts that allow a step-by-step approximation to the display of an old TV set: Vertical syncrtonisation allows reducing the output frequency down to 49.9Hz, which will eliminate tearing-effects. In addition to that, a scanline-emulation can be switched on. This will emulate the dark lines between the scanlines of a TV screen.
Development and production of this extremely complex product is very expensive. Our trade partners, who have been serving the Amiga-market for many years, have made considerable financial contributions to the production. To account for that, Indivision AGA is exclusively available only from these resellers until january 1st, 2009: (alphabetical order)
Production has already started, the flickerfixer will presumably be shipped to our tradepartners during the first week of september. The suggested retail price is 129,- EUR including 19% VAT. Only a version for A1200 computers will be available at first. We're already working on a version for other Amigas with AGA chipset.
The following pictures show the prototype and screenshots where colours are not displayed correctly. The actual product may vary.
AGA_components.jpg
AGA_mounted.jpg
AGA_SHires_62Hz.jpg
Scanlines.jpg (cg)
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25.Jul.2008
deimos - mobile content culture (ANF)
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Handhelds: Amiga game Nicky Boom ported
The Amiga game "Nicky Boom" developed by Microids is now distributed for Windows Mobile and PalmOS as well. A Symbian version of the Jump'n'Run game was announced. Additionally under the title link there is a Flash demo version.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Jul. 2008, 21:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Interview with Andy Finkel at CommVEx 4
In the line with the fourth CommVEx there will be an interview with Andy Finkel. For this questions are still requested. You can send them to Amiga.org.
From 1981 to 1991 Andy Finkel developed different computers for Commodore (e.g. VIC-20, C64, C128, Commodore LCD and Amiga CDTV). After that he started his own company Flying Cat and advised companies like 3DO, Microprose and Lotus Pacific. In 1996 his was one of the persons who founded the PIOS Computer AG (later Met@box).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2008
Acube Systems (ANF)
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Sam440 available for 299 Euro
Press release: Starting from today and until September 30, 2008 we offer a Sam440ep board at a special price: Euro 299.00 (+ taxes and shipping) instead of the regular end user price of Euro 459.00 with a discount of Euro 160.00! (*)
Take this opportunity to buy a Sam440ep board, that's a crazy discount!!!
What you will receive:
- Sam440ep board, 533 Mhz version, complete with metallic heatsinks on both cpu and gfx chip (no DDR ram included)
- one SATA data cable
- one DVI to VGA converter
- printed user manual (in english)
- Linux Debian netinstall CD
- AROS Live CD
What you need to have your Sam440ep up and running?
- a computer case, from full ATX size down to mini-itx size, with a suitable PSU (minimum 60 W)
- one Serial ATA HD
- one Serial ATA CDRom/DVD reader/burner (optional)
- USB mouse and keyboard
- a suitable DDR DIMM 100 32 bits ram bank (**)
To help you to find a suitable ram bank, we offer approved DIMM 100, DDR400, 512 Mb 32 bits modules at Euro 33.00 (+ taxes)
(*) offer limited to one board for customer
(**) we strongly suggest to use only DIMM 100, DDR400, 512 Mb 32 bits modules with Nanya chips. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Jul.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: SAM440-port finished
In his blog Michal Schulz has announced that he fulfilled the requirements of the bounty project: The complete AROS-port is avaiable as an ISO-image.
Schulz is going to support the SAM440-version in future because according to him there is much to do.
Direct download: aros-sam440-ppc.iso.7z (8,8 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Jul. 2008, 04:52] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: Updates of AmigaAMP-Prefs, BackUp, MPlayer-GUI, MultiRen, ZoomIT
OnyxSoft has upadted five programs: The MUI-based renaming tool MultiRen, the graphical user-interface MPlayer-GUI, the file backup program BackUp, the preferences editor AmigaAMP-Prefs and the magnifying glass ZoomIT.
AmigaAMP-Prefs 1.25 - (68k)
- Updated Italian and French catalog courtecy of S. Hawamdeh and Philippe
Ferrucci respectively
- Added some stack for OS4
- Some minor fixes
BackUp 1.60 - (68k)
- BackUp finally handles links correctly in all possible ways I could think of
- Reimplemented the option to create emtpy skip directories
- More thorough cleaning
- And there is more
MPlayer-GUI 1.43 - (OS4)
- Named the MPlayer process "MPlayer main process" instead of "[New Process]"
- Added a few new video modes and removed some old
- Also updated audio modes
- Fixed the scroller in the Control Panel somewhat
MultiRen 1.65 - (68k)
- Has plugin-support for MP3- and picture-renaming and more
- Added the ability to see the total file size of all files; very useful when collecting many files from different directories to transfer to a limited storage such as a CD-R or MP3/USB stick to see that they fit
- Fixed the custom textfile export a bit
- Corrected and rewrote a couple of help bubbles, etc.
ZoomIT 0.3 (68k, x86-AROS, PPC-MorphOS, PPC-AmigaOS)
- AmigaOS4 native version (Thanks to Daniel Westerberg)
- Wheel mouse support when window is active (on AmigaOS, MorphOS-version allready had this option)
- ARexx-support
- New settings options like start the program iconified and quit-button = iconify
- Option to select which color components to be included in the resulting output
- Option for grey scale output
- Option for inverted graphics
- Smaller optimizations
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jul.2008
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IRC-client: WookieChat 2.9
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new version of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
The changes are included in the Changelog. WookieChat is available for all Amiga systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jul. 2008, 14:34] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2008
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AROS: New bounty site at Power2People online / Efika-bounty opened again
After delegating the bounty programs of Team AROS to Power2People the single bounty projects will be carried on under the title link.
Power2People is a non-profit organization led by Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (Genesi) situated in Texas, USA. Through this the AROS-bounty-program is tax-free.
The bounty-project #18 which is an AROS-port to the Efika-board was opned again after the previous developer has vanished. The current staus of the bounty is 3151 US-Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: 2007 Complete Car and Driver Set 1.5 for VGP 2
Jason Frabotta's project "VGP HD" tries to improve the engine of Paolo Cattani's Formel-1 simulation Virtual Grand Prix 2.
The 2007 Complete Car and Driver Set 1.5 makes available a new driver configuration file, a new cockpit, three new steering wheel skins, updated crash helmet and new team wheel rims (screenshot).
Currently Jason Frabotta has not a MorphOS system therefore he asks for your feedback if the set is usable.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmiWest 2008: Blog established
In order to give a platform for news around the AmiWest 2008 the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club has established a blog under the title link. This year the event will take place on 17./18. October. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: Effects package SportsFX for Video Toaster announced
Under the title link DiscreetFX has announced the availablilty of the digital video effect package SportsFX for VT[5], SpeedEDIT and TriCaster bekannt. A version for the Amiga Video Toaster 4000 with bonus effects will follow soon.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jul.2008
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Debug 1.1
Debug 1.1 for MorphOS 2.0 is a small commandline tool to enable/disable Exec debug flags from the commandline, saving the occasional user to go through the system settings menu.
Download: debug-1.1.lha (3 KB) (snx)
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21.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Obligement: MorphOS-2.0-Review (French)
On the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement David Brunet has published a review of version 2 of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Minimig box: Price anounced
Loriano Pagni has announced the price for his Minimig box. It is 67,45 Pound (about 85 Euro) plus shipping.
Because of the low efforts for the Miming lettering it is included in the price.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jul.2008
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Event: PowerDev-Meeting in Prague
On the 23./24. August the Czech Pegasos user group (Czech PUG) will organize a PowerDev-Meeting in Prague. Additional to version 2.0 of MorphOS the developer boards with the processors MPC5121E (planned for the "Efika 2") and MPC8610 will be introduced. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jul.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future Issue 44 (German) online
Press release: The German issue 44 of the Amiga Future is out of stock. Because of that the content of this issue is now available at our website.
Issue 73 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Currently we're working hard on issue 74. You can order the German and English versions of Issue 73 of Amiga Future in our online shop.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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21.Jul.2008
(ANF)
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MorphOS-website under morphos.net accessable
The official MorphOS-website now is accessable under morphos.net again. The domain which originally was David Gerbers is now Mark "Bigfoot" Olsens who is active MorphOS developer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Jul.2008
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amiga-news: Poll on advantage newsletters
We have put up a new poll: Would you wish amiga-news.de to submit exclusive advantage offers from companies in the Amiga market to forum members and newsletter recipients, for instance, special offers or special prices on Amiga products? (The data will not be handed over to third parties!)
You can vote here and you can find the results here. Possible answers are "ja" (yes), "nein" (no) and "egal" (no difference).
We look forward to an active participation! (nba) (Translation: cad)
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20.Jul.2008
Bounty-Team (ANF)
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Bounty System opening on pegasosforum.de
After it was decided to launch a bounty system three months ago on pegasosforum.de, first of all, project suggestions were gathered, and then the five most popular bounties were determined by means of a poll. The evaluation of the received votes is now complete and the following bounty projects have been opened up:
- [Bounty #0007]Printing system
- [Bounty #0018]GTK-MUI wrapper
- [Bounty #0006]Spreadsheet
- [Bounty #0014]FTP client with SSL/SFTP/SCP
- [Bounty #0001]Instant Messenger
For every project, there is a support thread in the Bounty-Bay of the Pegasos forum with up-to-date status information like, for example, the state of donations, progress information, milestones reached so far, screenshots as previews of the functions implemented so far, etc.
In addition, with immediate effect, the respective bounty can be donated to via PayPal there. The donated money will be received by the AmigaClub Hamburg registered association and will be kept on the PayPal account until the payment date.
In addition to the bounties already opened, there is the possibility for everyone to suggest so-called "self-bounties." However, for these, some requirements are to be fulfilled, like the payment of a "starting donation" of at least 25 euros, for example. Further details can be gathered from the bounty rules.
Programmers that are interested in the implementation of a bounty are asked to contact the bounty team. This can be carried out via the corresponding support thread in the Bounty-Bay or via E-Mail to bounty-team@amigaclubhamburg.de. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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20.Jul.2008
Jens Bagh (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the LAN party of ACH
On the web page of Amiga Club Hamburg, a short picture report of the club's LAN party from yesterday has been published.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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19.Jul.2008
(ANF)
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New MorphOS 2.0 screenshot galleries
"jPV" has published some MorphOS 2.0-screenshots which document the installation and his personal setup. You can find further sreenshots in a thread on Morphzone.org.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Status-Update July 2008
On the AROS-website Paolo Besser sum up as usual the latest developments around the open-source operating system AROS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Cinnamon Writer 0.58
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is an SDL-based word processor for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot), aiming to be compact, efficient and to provide the mostly used functions.
New version includes:
- Experimental Printer support
- Experimental Export PDF support
- Improved font handling - support for unlimited fonts
- Increased stability
- Optimized code - CW should now be usable on Amigas with a slow CPU
- Minor GUI changes
Please note that with this version, no fonts are provided. CW uses (all) the fonts in Fonts:_Truetype directory. CW uses Bitstream Vera Sans as default font. If you don’t have this font installed, you can download it from the fonts download area of desler.be.
CW uses truetype fonts, which can be downloaded from the internet (or taken from an old version of CW). If you have installed OWB and the fonts used by OWB, CW should be able to use these fonts.
Printer and PDF export is experimental. You will probably experience artefacts in your PDF documents. Furthermore, the author cannot guarantee that Printer support works since he doesn’t have a printer himself. Printer and PDF support is based on Ghostscript. If you have used command line Ghostscript to print a file, please mail the author the command and a description on the printer used. He will recompile a CW version that is optimized for your printer and return the new version to you.
When visiting desler.be for Cinnamon Writer, please note the possibility of joining the newsletter, to participate in Cinnamon Projects or join to get access to forums. If you like Cinnamon Writer and would you would like to support further development, please consider making a donation. (snx)
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19.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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Event: Vintage Computer Festival East 5.0 (USA)
The 5th annual Vintage Computer Festival East is being held on Saturday and Sunday, September 13-14, 2008, at the InfoAge Learning Center in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. Further information is available at the title link. (snx)
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19.Jul.2008
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SDL Game Engine
SDL Game Engine sge2d is a cross-platform 2D-framework for C-programmer under the MIT-licence. Since the snapshot of July 12 also MorphOS is officially listed as a supported build system.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2008
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Print-magazine: Introduction of Amiga 1200 in Games TM
In issue of July the game magazine Games TM reports about "life and the death of the Amiga 1200" omn four pages. In the next issue of the magazine the Amiga 500 will be introduced.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.6.2 Release Candidate #1
OpenTTD is an open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90ies with many extensions - among others a network modus, individual graphic sets and over 24 languages. The complete list of changes in version 0.6.2 you can read in the changelog.
The current version should still run under MorphOS 1.4.x (not tested). But according to Christian Rosentreter who compiles the MorphOS version the next versions will require MorphOS 2.0. If anybody wants to use OpenTTD under an earlier MorphOS version will have to compile game for himself. If there really should be a high demand Christian Rosentreter would do it as before. Please give him a feedback.
Furthermore on the website of Christian Rosentreter there is a PayPal button where you can show your appreciation and interest for OpenTTD - because Christian Rosentreter himself have not played this game for years anymore.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
hhjoker2 (ANF)
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Production of Minimig-box will start soon
Loriano Pagni has published a video of his Miming box.
You can book the white box under amigarulez@hotmail.com. But the price was still not determined.
If there will be 50 reservations a first limited production will be started.
The Minimig lettering is optional and costs 10 Euro. The lettering is available in the following colours: black, yellow, mauve, orange, silver, gold, red, maroon, blue, green, grey, pink, brown and burgandy. If you send your reservation then please do not forget to write your preferred colour.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Do it yourself: Efika-Laptop
On the homepage of the Amiga-Club Hamburg Thorsten Mampel has written the history of his self-made Efika-laptop.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2008, 07:38] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2008
Gero Birkenfeld (ANF)
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Image Batcher: Collective editing of picture files
Gero Birkenfeld has published a beta version of Image Batcher, also called iBatch. It is a package which is to make the organization of digital photos more easy with the help of collective renaming and conversions.
The ARexx-script has a graphical user-interface. For conversions the CLI-command ImageConverter (73 KB) written by Thilo Köhler is used which is included in the package. Additionally the author recommends a miniature picture viewer e.g. Thumb written by Thomas Rapp. Furthermore AWNPipe is required for the graphical user-interface.
Download: ibatch.lha (175 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.0.1
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari ST-emulator (screenshot). The changes can be read in the readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Jul. 2008, 16:42] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Word Me Up XXL: AmigaOS 3 and AROS versions stopped
According to the developers of the arcade puzzle "Word Me Up XXL" on their website the formerly planned ports for AmigaOS 3 and AROS will be not developed further so long. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: NetSurf for Cygnix in progress
According to Edgar Schwan under the title link the browser NetSurf can be easily compiled to his AmigaOS-4-X11-environment Cygnix (screenshot). But currently there is not a date of publishing.
Currently NetSurf still misses Javascript but only requires 17 MB memory to start. The file has a size of 14 MB. Supported are:
- HTML 4.01
- XHTML 1.0
- CSS 2.1
- HTTP/1.1
- HTTP-authentication
- PNG and MNG
- Cookies
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Reminder: CommVEx 4 on 26. / 27. July (USA)
On 26. / 27. July the fourth Commodore Vegas Expo will take place in Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The following models will be presented: PET 4032, VIC-20, C64, Plus/4 and C128D, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 and AmigaOne. Additionally Michael Battilana (Amiga Forever) will take part. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Jul. 2008, 11:06] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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Open Video Toaster: Instant Bounties
Press release Chicago, Illinois – July 14th, 2008 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., in order to stimulate development for the Video Toaster Flyer source code DiscreetFX is launching an Instant Bounty contest. What is an Instant Bounty? This is a bounty that is paid once a programmer has requested and been assigned a programming task for Open Video Toaster.
This does take a little trust on our part since bounties are paid before coding even begins. Programmer past developments and applications will be taken into serious consideration and help gain them approval for OVT Instant Bounties. Programmers should review source code for the bounty in question before applying for consideration. Each development task for OVT will have set guidelines and coding time limits.
The larger goal of this contest is to stimulate development of video editing and video production software for MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.0 & AROS. This also allows us to see which 3rd party developer base is most passionate and serious about bringing their favorite operating system of choice back into the mainstream. Dedication and passion is what will bring Amiga successor operating systems back into relevance not mysterious companies who's true motives are unknown. Once upon a time with Video Toaster the Amiga was king of desktop video and computer assisted video editing. While in today's modern times it can no longer be king it could yet again be one of the many choices customers consider. That at least was the hope and dream we had when Open Video Toaster was launched. If your interested in video editing living again on Amiga OS type systems please donate to one of your favorite operating system bounties. DiscreetFX has already placed a starter donation in each of these bounties. Even if you can only donate a little it will help and you will be named and thanked on the Open Video Toaster website. Donations are paid instantly via Paypal to programmers that are assigned each bounty.
First three of many OVT Instant Bounties are for the Toaster Character Generator:
Port ToasterCG to AROS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. AROS CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
Port ToasterCG to Amiga OS 4.0 and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. OS 4.0 CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
Port ToasterCG to MorphOS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. Morph CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
ToasterCG source code is available from the title link. (snx)
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