04.Jan.2008
Philipp Rößler (ANF)
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Game database: AmigaMemo lists 1000. game
Philipp Rößler wrote: AmigaMemo.com wishs a Happy New Year and celebrates the 1000. game in museum.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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OpenTyrian for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
OpenTyrian which is a SDL based port of the shoot'em-up classic Tyrian (screenshot) was compiled by 'Varthall' for AmigaOS 4 as well as by Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski for MorphOS.
Download:
pfp-tyrn.lha (6 MB)
opentyrian_mos.lha (5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2008
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AmigaGuide/HTML viewer: OS3 version of strangé 0.11
strangé which is a MUI based AmigaGuide/HTML viewer written by Alfonso Ranieri is now available for AmigaOS 3, too.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Event: CommVEx 4 on July 26/27 (USA)
The Commodore Vegas Expo 4 is set for Saturday and Sunday, July 26/27, at the third floor Jockey Room 1, Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. Official times are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Unofficial times are whenever the Jockey Room 1 door is open.
Admission is $10, whether you come for one day or for both days. Raffle prize tickets are one for $10, three for $20. Door prize tickets are given to each attendee. Eight to ten Commodore and Amiga systems are set up for attendees to use. Presentations and exhibits are still being lined up. (snx)
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02.Jan.2008
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at the Obligement website
The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of november/december 2007
- Old Amiga news of january/february 2000 and march/april 2000
- Report: Alchimie 7
- Report: Colmar Multimedia l'Expo
- Interview with Robert Norris (AROS developer)
- Interview with François Revol (Haiku and Texas Instruments calculator developer)
- Review of AFA 4.0
- Review of Shadow Fighter
- Review of Battle Isle
- Review of Kick Off 2
- Review of Racter
- Point of view: ACK Software Controls, king of the vaporware?
- Point de vue: 20e anniversary of the Amiga 500
- File: BBCode
- File: Scoopex - part 2: a growing legend
- File: History of the Amiga - year 1985 and 1986 (update)
- Quizz of november/december 2007
- Special quizz about Alchimie 7
(snx)
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01.Jan.2008
Bobic^BTTR (ANF)
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4Sceners.de rewards best Amiga demos 2007
The scene website 4Sceners.de has published the yearly review 2007. The editors has chosen the best PC demos and intros of the last year as well as the best Amiga demos 2007.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2008
Vinnny (ANF)
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MorphOS: Emulatoren Bochs 2.3.6 and FUSE 0.9.0
Under the title link 'Q-Master' has published updated versions of MorphOS ports of the emulators Bochs (x86-PC) and FUSE (Sinclair ZX Spectrum).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Fragment 1.5, CVS 1.12.11, makedepend 1.0.0
Christian "Tokai" Rosentreter has published new versions of the Unix ports CVS and makedepend. Additionally there is an update of Fragment (Screenshot) which is a tool that shows the fragmentation of the memory.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2008
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Further Masonicons
There are several new and reworked 32-bit icon archives available on the Masonicons website and the complete 2007 Masonicons Collection (19 MB) is available on OS4Depot.
- DISK & FILE
- Disks&FoldersMI
- a very small update of the disks and folders archive
- HARDWARE
- DelfinaMI
- an icons and drawer set of the Delfina tools
- IDEfixMI
- a complete icons and drawers set for IDEfix
- MFCMI
- a full set for the Multiface card tools
- PIVToolsMI
- an icons and drawer set for the Picassi IV tools
- VLabMI
- a complete set for VLab
These archives are aimed at the users of AmigaOS 4.0 Classic.
- MAIL & MESSAGING
- SimpleMailMI
- a complete icon set for SimpleMail
- YAMMI
- icons and a drawer for Yam with three image sets, incl. a set with small folder images and a 256 color set reworked by Ken Lester
- SYSTEM
- RangerMI
- a icon and drawer set for Ranger
- TtravelerMI
- a icon and drawer set for Timetraveler
All files are available on the archives section of the Masonicons website.
PUSH4DOCK
An archive with small startbar icons (24 x 24) is available. Add them to your Push4Dock startbar and edit your AmiDock Prefs.
For further information and themes please visit the Push4Dock section of the Masonicons website.
COLLECTIONS
The complete 2007 Masonicons Collection (19 MB) is available on OS4Depot now. It features all icon sets of 2007, Wallpapers, the latest releases of AISS and Push4Dock with all Masonicons themes. (snx)
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01.Jan.2008
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Project Moana: Statement of the developer
In December a CD image was available which was supposed to make it possible using AmigaOS 4 on certain PowerPC models of the Mac mini supplied by Apple. At amigaworld.net the author of this CD, the AmigaOS 4 developer Andrea Vallinotto has warned to use or copy this CD which is based on Moana .
"Regarding the thread about the project Moana files, I'd like to point out some facts that I would like to acknowledge as an AW.net moderator.
First of all, I'm the author of said port, done over an year ago on behalf of ACube, you can contact me directly at email removed .
In the thread I'm referring to, you (and others) are discussing the content of the CD, some even had it running on MacMinis. Such ISO image not only contains parts of OS4 (a commercial product) but also contain modules that are NOT part of either OS4 for A1 nor Classic, and are fully copyrighted by me. I never gave permission to anyone, least this AmigaMac guy, to distribute these files. So owning and using those modules is breaching my intellectual property (IP) and is a clear act of piracy.
So unless Aw.net is a forum which allows and is favorable to piracy, I suggest you post a notice on said thread and stop discussing about it. You can quote this message if you want.
As you probably have seen by the european lawsuit, between me, the two Friedens and against Hyperion and AInc, I'm more than willing to protect my IP from piracy or any other form of unauthorized use.
For the record, that ISO image was obtained from a stolen laptop and there is a police report about that (in the USA). That AmigaMac guy is not some benefactor, he's a criminal.
So far I hadn't written or posted anything because I didn't want to stir up more mess that it was already, and because the (micro) kernel on that ISO image will crash after few minutes of intensive use.
But seeing one of the moderators of Aw.net happily displaying a list of stolen files seems an endorsement of piracy from AW.net. I can't let it pass."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2007
Randy Vice (E-Mail)
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Team AROS: SATA driver bounties (update)
In the scope of the Team AROS bounties, you can donate to an AHCI as well as an nForce3/4 SATA driver since today.
Update: (13:27, 31.12.07, snx)
Another bounty project was initiated for the implementation of a Gallium3D-based subsystem. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Dec.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future 70 (January/February 2008): Previews online
Press release: The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 70 (January/February 2008) are online now. Of course you'll find a review of AmigaOS4 on ClassicPPC. Additionally, there is a related special showing the differences between AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4.0.
In this issue we have reviewed the new version of MindSpace and there is also a detailed review of the Amiga Forever 2008 in this edition as well.
You can find a detailed description of contents and excerpts at our website.
The Amiga Future is available as an English and German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future can be obtained as a single issue or subscription each with or without a cover CD.
As always you can find lot of PD software and some full versions on the cover CD. As this is the 10th anniversary edition and as a small extra we include as many full versions as the issue number itself. In short: This time you can find 70 full versions on the Amiga Future cover CD.
We ask all users having interest in the magazine to order as soon as possible. It would also be helpful if subscribers wanting to extend their subscription would do so as soon as possible.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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30.Dec.2007
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Software News: Ken's browser icons, dt2raw 1.2
Ken's browser icons
Ken Lester is making available revised versions of his toolbar icons and transfer animations for the AWeb web browser (screenshot) and IBrowse (screenshot), additionally, there is a set of icons for the alpha version of the OWB browser that was recently released.
Download (AWeb/IBrowse icons): kens_images.lha (372 KB)
Download (OWB icons): owb_icons.lha (27 KB)
Link: Homepage
MorphOS: dt2raw 1.2
dt2raw is a command line tool for converting high/true-color graphics files (with or without alpha channel) to RAW files (32-bit ARGB, 24-bit RGB, etc.). The output image is opened using datatypes.
Direct download: dt2raw-1.2-200712301438.lha (4 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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30.Dec.2007
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AmigaOS 4: Mac OS X dock clone
With the Mac.Docky (Readme), Vicente 'Ami603' Gimeno has created a dock for AmigaOS 4 which mimics its Mac OS X role model to some extent.
Download: macdock.lha (505 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Dec.2007
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)
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Symphonic Shades - Hülsbeck in Concert on August 23, 2008
The date for the concert "Symphonic Shades - Hülsbeck in Concert" (reported by amiga-news) is now fixed: The concert will take place on August 23, 2008 at 20 o'clock in Funkhaus Wallrafplatz in Cologne, Germany.
Tickets cost between 8 euros and 13.80 euros and are available at ticketonline.com with immediate effect. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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30.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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ACube announces prices for MiniMig systems
As ACube Systems announces, the advertised MiniMig systems will be available starting from the middle of January for a price of 138 euros (plus taxes and shipping costs).
Since, originally, there was talk of "different configurations," the mentioned price should probably refer to the minimal configuration, but more precise information for this is still pending. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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29.Dec.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: RSS viewer amrss MUI4 5.53
Alfonso Raniere has published an update of his RSS viewer "amrss MUI4". Changes in version 5.53:
- Fixed a bug with feeds containing a "&"
- Fixed a bug with ADDFEED arexx command
- Changed Prefs window
- Now moving the buttons bar is forbidded in certain cases (to avoid freezes)
- Other minor changes
amrss MUI4 requires the current beta versions of the GUI system MUI 4. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.45 compiled again
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has compiled version 2.45 of Blender for MorphOS once again. Therefore FFMPEG and OpenEXR support is now available.
Download: blender_2.45-mos_bin-20071227.lha (8 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Picture shower: ShowCyber 0.9
The picture shower ShowCyber supports the formats BMP, IFF-ILBM and PPM. You can get further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2007
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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DiscreetFX: Blog and forum for Aladdin 4D
After having bought the raytracing and animation software Aladdin 4D DiscreetFX has now established a blog and a forum for this program.
Für letzteres werden noch ehrenamtliche Moderatoren und Grafiker gesucht.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2007
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Fallback Server
Ralf Steines writes: Our main server, which runs www.back2roots.org and ftp.back2roots.org and also acts as a proxy frontend server for all hosted projects including winuae.net and chiptune.de, is down for a while.
To not lock your download needs we have set up a temporary access
point where you can access most of our services and all hosted
projects from our secondary server at the title link.
Please note that we have no fallback solution for the FTP server
and the modradio server, these are plain too big for our secondary
server's disks. This will hopefully change in future.
We try to keep the downtime as short as possible. Sorry for the
inconvenience of temporarily having to deal with this slower server. (snx)
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28.Dec.2007
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FlashPlayer 1.4
Mike Steed's FlashPlayer which plays the animation format Flash developed by Adobe is now available in version 1.4.
The support of the formats Flash 1 to Flash 3 has nearly completed but from Flash 4 upwards the support is limited. Please have a look at the Readme file for the latest changes.
Download: FlashPlayer.lha (317 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Review of this year's progress
Paolo Besser compiled some examples of this year's progress in the development of the AROS Research Operating System.
- January: After years of struggling with shell commands and DOpus actions, copying files became easy with Wanderer drag'n'drop
- February: A tap interface has been added to AROS hosted, completing network support
- March: AROS got packet file-systems support, increasing compatibility and coherency with original AmigaOS, and allowing AROS to manage FAT partitions. AROS got also an improved TCP/IP stack, with a new version of AROSTCP, and USB support
- April: Wanderer got a new decoration system, allowing windows to be customized with themes. Support for LUA and ARexx scripts has been improved too
- May: AROS changed its name in 'AROS Research Operating System' and aros.org got an heavy face-lift. Wanderer started showing only icons or all files, and a new community-driven site has born, ArosWorld.org
- June: AROS users decided the official windows and desktop wallpapers in an amusing competition
- September: AROS has been presented to the Amiga community in a conference at Pianeta Amiga. MUIbase and HivelyTracker have been ported too
- October: AROS got a new installer that made installation on hard disk easier. Now AROS can safely live on a disk together with Microsoft Windows
- November: AROS made a huge step ahead with its new 64-bit flavour
- December: Two new AROS distributions have been announced, Velocity and VmwAROS
(snx)
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26.Dec.2007
Amiga.org (website)
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Demoscene: Musicdisk "Fusion"
The amiga demoscene group moodsplateau released a musicdisk called "Fusion" which is dedicated to the Amiga scene as a christmas present.
Musicdisk: "Fusion"
Coding: doc.K.
Music: Climber, Psycreator and d!RT!E
Panel-Gfx: d!RT!E
Gallery-Gfx: baerb/Kakiarts, dael, dafreak
Release date: 25.12.2007
Requirement: AMiGA (030+), HD+some Chip/FastMEM or WinUAE
Details: "A musicdisk and a slideshow in one piece. Merged together, we call it 'Fusion'. Our X-MAS present for the AMiGA-Scene supports gfx-cards, sound-cards and it runs nice on hires-interlaced screen-resolution with sound output via paula. Six multichannel tracks in slow funky tech, 2step and chillout style. Some nice photos and gfx were displayed while playing. Its recommended that you have a 68060 working in your machine but it also works on 68030/50MHZ with lower mixing samplerate!
WinUAE users can start the disk directly by adding the .lha-archive under 'Harddrives'. You just need to have a Kickrom3.0 or 3.1 and set under Quickstart the A1200 model." (snx)
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25.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.9 beta 2
James 'jahc' Carroll's MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat is availabe in a second beta version of the forthcoming version 2.9. The changes you can read in the changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2007
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (ANF)
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Musik: New MP3 file at the Psyria homepage
Dennis Lohr writes: Again this year, the traditonal free download has been released this christmas. In the download area you can find the new song, produced with an Amiga: "Dream Challenge".
I would like to say thank you to all my fans as well as the Amiga community and I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Also thanks to all who supported me again this year with my music. (snx)
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24.Dec.2007
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Season's greetings from individual Computers
Press release: 24.12.2007: Season's greetings from individual Computers
Team individual Computers is sending "merry Christmas" to all our customers and business partners! In the past year, we have been working hard on the giant project "Clone-A", we finished the hardwaredesign of the Viprinet multichannel VPN router and we continued the development of drivers for existing products. For 2008, there will be a number of improvements.
First of all, we're happy to announce that Helmut Schöttner will join our team in 2008. He will be in charge of Amiga driver maintenance and software programming of new microcontroller-based products. Welcome to our team!
We are already working on bringing sold-out products back into the shops: Catweasel MK4, Indivision and Kickflash OS4 will experience small changes for the next production runs.
A few months ago, we have bought the "Micromys" design from Marko Herold. We have continued development of the C64 mouse adapter, and we'll release it under the name "Micromys V3" during the first quarter of 2008. High compatibility with PS2 mice will remain, and USB-mice that support PS2 protocol are automatically switched to that mode. The new adapter can be configured for different target systems by DIP switches:
- C64: 1351 proportional mouse emulation with wheel-extension
- C64: Joystick emulation
- Amiga: 3-button mouse without drivers
- Amiga: 3-button wheelmouse with Freewheel-driver
- Atari ST: 2-button mouse
Micromys V3 can of course be used on other retro-systems that use a 9-pin Sub-D connector for game controllers, such as Atari 8-bit machines, Schneider, Amstrad and MSX.
Competition PRO Retro still available
Although the USB-version of this successful joystick is sold out at the moment, the retro-version that we produced together with Speedlink is still in stock. Starting january 1st, 2008, the price will be raised to 14,99 EUR. If you want to secure the old price for your order, please place your order before the end of the year!
New product: MMC Replay
The demand for MMC64 continues to be strong. With the Commodore Scene Award that we got for the Retro Replay, the demand for this product was also boosted. We have to say thank you for the trust in these products, which are completely sold out now. We took the chance to merge the two products into one new, powerful cartridge, the MMC Replay. Many requests for changes and improvements have been collected over the past six years, which have all been implemented in MMC Replay. A complete description of the features would go beyond the scope of this news item, so we're only listing the most important data here:
- 512KB Ram
- 512KB Flash Rom
- clockport for RR-Net
- SD/MMC card Interface (MMC64 compatible)
- Freezer (Retro Replay compatible)
- extended freezer-mode
- support for native C128 cartridge software
- freeze/activity LEDs
Existing software that was written for MMC64, Retro Replay or the combination of the two can be used without changes. The new hardware features are activated by the completely re-written file browser of MMC Replay. You can now create and mount *.d64 archives. Flashing of cartridge software (for example Action Replay, Retro Replay, Nordic Power or Final Replay) is made a lot easier with the built-in flash utility. The extended freezer mode allows memory configurations that make development of new software a lot easier, but also eases adapting existing software (for example FC3) to this hardware.
Many customers reported difficulties with special models of the C64 or the C128. Up to this point, proper function on these special machines was either only possible after a long warmup-time, or it was not possible at all because the C128 is not 100% compatible to the C64. We have made the necessary changes and completed extensive tests with more than 40 variants of the C64 and C128 - even native C128 cartridge software is supported by MMC Replay!
We have already changed the design of RR-Net a few months ago. The new shape might have looked strange to some customers, but with the release of MMC Replay, our plan should become obvious now: You can now fit MMC64, Retro Replay and RR-Net into one standard cartridge case. Cartridge cases are available separately. Holes for buttons, LEDs, SD card and a networking cable must be made by the user.
MMC Replay will be available from our trade partners shortly.
A picture of the MMC Replay can be found here (similar picture; picture shows extra feature "RR-Net" available at additional charge), screenshots of the MMC Replay GUI: startup screen, MMC Replay flash utility, MMC Replay C64 file browser, MMC Replay C128 startup screen.
individual Computers sponsors tUM-Party
"The Ultimate Meeting" - the last scene party of the calendar year enjoys great popularity. The organizers are expecting more than 200 visitors. This year's party theme is derived from a popular western movie: "for a fistful of pixels". Learn more about this digital form of art on the pages of digitale Kultur e.V. (Digital Culture). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Dec.2007
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: SearchStar 0.93 and PowerPC Assembly Guide
Besides his search tool SearchStar 0.93, which is four times faster now when searching within files, Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has also released an HTML guide called "Welcome to PowerPC assembly".
The author points out that increased internet traffic at his provider may lead to incomplete file downloads. In this case he requests to try again later. (snx)
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23.Dec.2007
The AROS Show (Blog)
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Commodore emulator VICEplus for AROS64
Past Tuesday, Marco van den Heuvel has also made available a VICEplus version for the 64 bit version of the open-source operating system AROS.
VICEplus is a derivative of the well-known Commodore emulator VICE. In contrast to the original project, VICEplus not only emulates all 8 bit computers released by Commodore, but also the C64 clone C64DTV, released a few years ago, which brings along some improvements compared to its role model, like 256 colors and a blitter, for instance. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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23.Dec.2007
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: Atari ST versus Commodore Amiga in pictures
Under the title link, a video was made available by the YouTube user 'Ahle2', which contrasts pictures of the same games in the Atari ST and the Amiga versions, respectively.
Despite the restrictions due to the low quality of YouTube videos, on the one hand, the graphical superiority of the Amiga back then becomes obvious, but also, on the other hand, how much the Atari graphic artists were able to squeeze out of their computer, despite the limitation to 16 colors.
Titles of the compared games:
1. Rainbow Island
2. SWIV
3. Defender of the Crown
4. Speedball 2
5. Batman
6. Shadow of the beast (Psygnosis opening credits)
7. Shadow of the beast
8. R-Type II
9. Mega lo Mania
10. Dogs of War
11. Turrican
12. Risky Woods
13. Robocop 2
14. The Great Giana Sisters
15. Ghost 'n Goblins
16. Wings of Death (snx) (Translation: cad)
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23.Dec.2007
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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HSMathLibs 46.00 beta 1 for the 68060 processor
The 46.00 beta 1 version of the High-Speed-MathLibs is now available for the MC68060 as well. Demo versions of HSMathLibs can be found under the title link.
HSMathLibs replace the libraries mathieeedoubbas.library, mathieeedoubtrans.library, mathieeesingtrans.libray and mathtrans.library, and patch or replace the libraries mathffp.library and mathieeesingbas.libray with versions specifically optimized for MC68881/82, MC68040, MC68060 or WinUAE.
Matthias Henze wishes everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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23.Dec.2007
Jens Langner (ANF)
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E-Mail Client: YAM 2.5
Press release: The YAM (Yet Another Mailer) open source development team is pleased to announce the immediate release of its stable 2.5 version. After nearly 5 years of constant, restless development, the 2.5 version is the currently most stable and most advanced version of the famous Amiga e-mail suite.
The 2.5 version, apart from very important bug fixes, comes with a largely enhanced user interface with new capabilities like, e.g. an embedded read pane functionality to directly read e-mails without having to open separate read windows. Or even a new search bar allows to quickly search for e-mails or sort them according to predefined categories. Furthermore, YAM was largely reworked internally to perform not only more securely and less cumbersomely. It also comes with important technical enhancements like non-blocking I/O based socket connections allowing the GUI to become more responsive or improved compatibility to common internet standards (RFC). In addition, large internal reworks were performed to be able to implement features like IMAP support or native HTML mail display in one of the next versions.
Therefore, we are indeed very happy to supply you this stable 2.5 release not only right before Christmas, but also right before we are going to start on working on some more interesting things in the upcoming year.
Enjoy the 2.5 version and happy yamming...
With immediate effect, YAM 2.5 is available for download in Aminet and at
sourceforge.net.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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22.Dec.2007
MorphOS-News.de (SW-Liste)
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File system: Ext2FS 0.30 and E2fsck 1.39
Marek Szyprowski`s Ext2FS allows you to work under MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x with the Second Extended FileSystem (ext2). Version 0.30 offers some small bug fixes and the support of the function EXAMINE_ALL as well.
For MorphOS there is also a port of e2fsck in version 1.39.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Dec.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Magazine: The Crypt - issue 52
The 52nd issue of the English magazine called The Crypt contains also two articles about morsing with the Amiga. Additionally you can win an AmigaOS 4 "Classic".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Dec.2007
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: DRI-project for Blender
Carsten Siegner has made available a Blender-project with which you can create a picture with high contrast from three single pictures with the help of Dynamic Range Increase (DRI).
At least Blender 2.4.4 and Python 2.4.2 are required. Additionally you can save the picture in HDR-format.
Download: dri.lha (686 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Dec.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amigarulez: Interview with Bill Panagouleas (English)
Under the title link for Amigarulez.com Tommi 'tomazkid' Toivanen has published an interview with Bill Panagouleas who is the founder and managing director of the special effects firma DiscreetFX.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Dec.2007
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #101
The scene group Liquid Skies has published its 101st musikpack. This time it contains a music track called "Clunk" which was composed by Lcr and edited by Kuadziw. The cover was created by Angeldust.
Some further information:
- Title: Clunk
- Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
- Style: Ambient
- Play time: 4:44
- Format: mp3 @ 160 kbps
- Size: 5.4 MB (ZIP archive)
The file can be downloaded under the title link.
The LQS crew wish all a Merry Christmas!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Dec.2007
CD³²-Allianz (ANF)
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CD³²-Allianz: Status of registrations 2007
Press release This year we again want to inform you about the status of registrations of CD³² consoles, CDTV devices and FMV modules.
The are the figures:
- CD³²: 911 (2005: 337 / difference: +574)
- CDTV: 87 (2005: 27 / difference: +60)
- FMV-modul: 22 (2005: 17 / difference: +5)
We want to thank all who did participate in registration!
Because of figures of the CD³² registrations we could determine that obviously a larger number of CD³² were produced than expected (100.000). In our opinion at least 127.772 CD³² consoles were produced. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Dec.2007
bplan (e-mail)
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bplan GmbH: Christmas Greetings and World Vision EFIKA charity
Press release Steinbach, 20. Dezember 2007 - Different to last year, we would like to use our Christmas gift this year to help other people. Far away from all computer stuff and the industry where we are normally located. We like to use this opportunity together with you to support the work of World Vision and their efforts to help people.
Please take a look at the international auction house eBay®, user name bplangmbh. You will find over there five EFIKA auctions with an starting price of 50,- EUR. The amount of the EFIKA auctions will be paid as a one-time donation to World Vision Germany. We hope this contribution will help them to be able to go ahead with their work and help those people that need our financial support mostly.
If you are interested to be active yourself or like to know more about the work of World Vision, check out their website worldvision.org for more information.
We wish all our webvisitors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2008. (snx)
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19.Dec.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Video by Amigahellas from the DTE 2007
The biggest Greek user club Amigahellas participated at the biggest Greek technology fair "Digital Technology Expo" (amiga-news.de reported) and provides a video from that event at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Dec.2007
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS: Alternative skin for FCEU
Christophe 'Highlander' Delorme has created an alternative skin (screen shot) for the MorphOS port of the Nintendo emulator FCE Ultra that is availabla at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Dec.2007
os4welt.de (webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CD/DVD burning program AmiDVD 1.44
AmiDVD is a very basic CD/DVD burning program by Jörg Strohmayer. Changes in version 1.44:
- Accepts mode pages with block descriptor length != 0 now (seems to be
required for SCSI<>ATAPI adapters, for real SCSI drives it's required
as well)
Direkter Download: AmiDVD_1.44.lha (51 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.Dec.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga Forever: Free upgrade if buying current version
According to Cloanto all customers will get a free upgrade to version 2008 who have bought on or after 1st december 2007 the emulator package "Amiga Forever 2006".
All other customers will get a special price for the upgade, too. The forthcoming version will offer a completely new kind of emulating Amiga.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Dec.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 17
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English podcast created by Rich Lawrence and Sean Fitzgerald where Amiga users and invited guests discuss the events of the Amiga scene.
For the current episode Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald, Mike Blackburn and Bill Panagouleas have met. The topics:
- CNN talks about Commodore 64
- New scandoubler for under $100 coming
- Climm ICQ client for Amiga
- Amigans.net has a chance to win AmigaOS 4 Classic
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Dec.2007
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DiscreetFX bought rights of Aladdin 4D
According to DiscreetFX in a press release the company bought the rights of the raytracing and animation software Aladdin 4D from Nova Design. DiscreetFX is going to offer the program as cheap alternative for raytracing beginners. AmigaOS 4, AROS, possibly MorphOS 2.0, Mac OS X as well as Linux will be supposed to be supported. There will be a free version for Windows as bonus, too.
All those who have given money for the Open Aladdin campaign are to contact DiscreetFX to get back the money.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Dec.2007
os4depot.net (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Workbench clone Yet Another Desktop 0.2b
Yet Another Desktop (screenshot) written by Tuomas Hokka is a Workbench replacement which tries to emulate the priciples of "Virtual Desktops" and "Workspaces".
YAD is still in beta status. It is not possible to display pictograms in the directory listers and toolbars. YAD is one file and does not replace system files.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.4.2
For AmiKit, a complete-Distribution for WinUAE-user, is the Update to Version 1.4.2 available. This can be downloaded via the integrated live update-function or manuel. All changes are available at the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Dec.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Guru Meditation: New Atari 2600-Game for the Amiga-Joyboard
Linked to the header notify Ian Bogost a new game for the Atari 2600, which support the Amiga-Joyboard .
The player must be sit very still on the Joyboard for the meditation game "Guru Meditation" - like the originally Amiga-developers to keep down after a system crash.
After no movement the Yogi will increase (Screenshot), as movement he will sink to the ground. The target is to take him so long as possible in the air to relaxe. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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16.Dec.2007
Power Developer (Forum)
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PDF Book: Pegasos Book 2.3 (English)
Geoffrey Charra's PDF Book all about the Pegasos platform, the Pegasos Book, is now available in version 2.3 in English as well. The original French version had already appeared in May.
Changes:
- Vol. 1 & Vol. 2: Minor changes
- Vol. 3: Updated MorphOS section
- Vol. 4:
- Added: Chapter "Tricks and hints under Linux on Pegasos"
- Added: Reorganisation of information
- Update: Installation of Linux Debian (V 4.0)
- Update: Installation of Linux Ubuntu (V 7.04 Feisty)
- Added: Usage of bootcreator
- Added: Usage of chroot command
- Added: Usage of NFS to fast up compilations
- Added: Usage of Nintendo Wiimote on a Pegasos
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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16.Dec.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS Team: Registration advice
In the MorphZone forum, on behalf of the MorphOS team, Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh asks all those Pegasos users, who have possibly tried in vain to register themselves under support.morphos-team.net, to try this again, in case they have not received an E-Mail.
However, your inputs must be correct and complete, since the registration request will be denied otherwise. Furthermore, please note that this announcement does not apply to PowerUp registrations - the latter were processed continuously. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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16.Dec.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: High resolution race course Melbourne for VGP2
In the context of his updates for Paolo Cattani's Virtual Grand Prix 2, Jason Frabotta has now made available a high resolution version of the race course in Melbourne. (snx) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 16. Dec. 2007, 10:45] [Comments: 0]
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15.Dec.2007
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.7
After several beta versions James 'jahc' Carroll has published the final version 2.7 of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. WookieChat is available for all Amiga systems.
Update: (17.12.2007, 15:30, cg)
Now version 2.8 has been released, which fixes a bug that could cause crashes. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Dec.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: VmwAROS 0.5
VmwAROS is a preconfigured AROS-environment for VMware which is supposed to give an impression of the operating system to the user.
A list of all changes can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Dec.2007
Cloanto (e-mail)
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Cloanto: Cataloging Effort Reaches 10K Milestone
Press release Udine, Italy - December 14, 2007 - Cloanto Italia srl, Amiga software developers since 1986, announced today that their Amiga cataloging effort reached the milestone of ten thousand disk-based applications.
So far, Cloanto's effort focused on the cataloging of Amiga games and game-like educational titles. Reaching ten thousand titles (counting different major versions, but excluding minor variations) meant, among other things, processing several tens of thousands of floppy disk images, including format variations and non-exact duplicates, which have now been "handprinted". In practice, this data can be used to allow Amiga Forever users to search for games by title or keywords, to access multiple independent partner web sites with additional information and downloads, and to more easily play games without complex configuration work.
Many Amiga enthusiasts already have a multitude of game floppy disk images on their PCs. Having access to this cataloging data, a future version of Amiga Forever will be able to recognize a disk selected by the user, automatically finding the required companion disks and starting the game with the correct (emulated) hardware configuration. All of this, with a simple click on a downloaded disk image (e.g. an ADF file).
The handprinting technology used by Cloanto goes beyond traditional CRC32 file-level checksums which have commonly been used in the emulation community. Rather, Cloanto's software can analyze the images at the Amiga disk block and file system level, extracting precious information, ignoring simple modifications such as a saved game state or high score data, and applying other smart identification algorithms. In this way, more duplicates and disks that would otherwise go unrecognized are identified.
Cloanto's cataloging project began in 2004. In 2005, a number of specification drafts (e.g. XADML, an XML-based application and configuration description format) were announced and published on the Amiga Forever site. At the same time, also with the help of numerous contributors, a database of applications was slowly being built, one title at a time. At Pianeta Amiga 2007, Cloanto announced that the "10K" milestone was near. The effort is now being expanded to content available in formats other than disk images, and to applications other than Amiga games and educational titles. First implementations embodying this new technology and data are planned for 2008. (snx)
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14.Dec.2007
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14.Dec.2007
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MorphOS: Update of filetype package for Ambient
Mario Kuban has published an update of his filetype collection for newer Ambient versions.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Digital Universe 1.5 available as download
The Astronomy program Digital Universe can now be bought as cheap download version. There is an ISO-Image of the Ditigal Universe-CD or a LhA archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Actual catalog files for strangé and AmRSS
Hans-Jörg Ottinger has his german catalog files for the AmigaGuide- and HTML-viewer strangé and beside the RSS-viewer AmRSS updated.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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12.Dec.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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HSMathLibs V.46.00 beta 1 for the 68040
For registered users of the mathematics libraries HSMathLibs my Matthias Henze
there is a new beta version for Amigas with 68040 processor available. (cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 12. Dec. 2007, 17:22] [Comments: 0]
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12.Dec.2007
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IRC client: WookieChat 2.7 Beta 27
James 'jahc' Carroll has released a new beta version of his MUI based IR client WookieChat,
the latest changes are listed at the
changelog.
WookieChat is available for all Amiga systems. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 5
The fifth part of his English history of Amiga Jeremy Reimer has dedicated to the problems which the Amiga had faced to during his introduction.
In his serie the author wants to explain what the Amiga was, what it meant to his developers and users a why it had so much influence to the computer industry although it was not very well-known.
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