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21.Apr.2006
(ANF)


golem.de: Another World - Game classic with prettier graphics
The French developer Eric Chahis has updated his classic Another World. For seven Euro Windows-users can play an improved version. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2006
amiga.org (Webseite)


WinUAE: Amikit 1.1.2
For AmiKit which is a complete distribution for WinUAE-users there is an update to version 1.1.2. Changes since the last publishing:
  • ADDED: AKCC 6.3 by Andreas R. Kleinert (POSTCARDWARE)
  • UPDATED: AfA_OS 3.93.1
  • UPDATED: AWeb 3.5.08 beta
  • UPDATED: FileX 2.4
  • UPDATED: R (The GUI Generator) 2.18
  • UPDATED: Sudoku 1.4
  • UPDATED: Workbench.library 45.131 (run "Install Patches" to install it)
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Catalog-Compiler: SimpleCat 2.21 (Beta 22) (OS3/OS4/MOS)
Guido Mersmann has published a new beta version of his catalog-compiler SimpleCat. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Apr.2006
ANN (website)


Remote Desktop Client: Update for AmigaOS/68k and MorphOS
As mentioned after AmigaOS 4 versions of the remote desktop client for AmigaOS/68k and MorphOS, which are based on the latest code, are available now. Details can be found under the title link. (snx) (Translation: ts)

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20.Apr.2006
Heinz-Raphael Reinke (ANF)


Integrated Development Environment: AmiDevCpp 0.9.5
The integrated development environment AmiDevCpp from Heinz-Raphael Reinke is available now as version 0.9.5. With this IDE it is possible to create programs for MS Windows, AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86.

Highlight of this version is a revised SDK with many features at ZUNE (MUI) for the AROS/x86-compiler. Furthermore there is a functional support for C++ now. In general a few example projects for certain platforms were added to the index "Examples".

Besides the update there is a survey at the homepage. With this survey it should be investigated which cross compilers are really in use. Your participation is highly appreciated, because unused compilers could be cancelled or replaced with other target platforms in future. (snx) (Translation: ts)

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20.Apr.2006



WHDLoad: New packages until 20.04.2006
With WHDLoad the hard disk installation of games and scene demos is possible which were originally built for floppy disk operation. Furthermore numerous incompatibility issues with newer Amiga models are fixed.

Since our last report following installers were added, improved or revised:
(cg) (Translation: ts)

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20.Apr.2006
amigafuture.de (website)


OS3/OS4/MOS: BinToC 2.13 converts binaries to C sourcecode
Guido Mersmann's "BinToC" converts binary files to sourcecode in C. (cg) (Translation: ts)

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20.Apr.2006
morphzone.org (website)


MorphOS: Archiver frontend Kompaktor (Preview)
"Rusback" is currently working on an archiver frontend similar to WinZip. Some earlier published preview screenshots should demonstrate the tool's feature list and look&feel:

Create new archive
Add additional files to archive
Extract files
List archive's content
Add additional files to archive
Create archive (cg) (Translation: ts)

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20.Apr.2006



Amiga-Klon: Status update of Minimig
Dennis van Weeren, developer of the FPGA-based Amiga 500 clone Minimig (amiga-news.de reported), describes the current project status in a thread at amiga.org:

The board layout is finished now, meanwhile van Weeren is working at the routing. Later on a first small amount is produced for own demands.

It is not van Weeren's intention to use Minimig for commercial purposes, the whole documentation including the firmware is planned to be released under the GPL. (cg) (Translation: ts)

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20.Apr.2006
amigaworld.net (website)


AmigaOS 4: Video-/DVD-Player DvPlayer 0.54
Steohen Fellner provides a new version of a video- and DVD player "DvPlayer". Changes since the last release:
  • Added direct DVD support
  • Added automatic detection of CD/DVD drive (no need to specify device name/unit anymore)
  • Added support for the new 64bit DOS functions so that files >2GB are now handled correctly
  • Implemented the I/O plugin system and moved the DVD/VideoCD support to an external plugin
  • Screen Blanker is now not allowed to activate while playing
  • Implemented AppWindow support so files can be dragged onto DvPlayer's window
  • Now the previous filename is remembered in the file requester when opening files
  • Window is now opened on the frontmost screen (if it's public) instead of the Workbench screen so that if it's started from a different screen it will open there.
  • Improved 6-Channel to Stereo audio conversion routines to avoid distortions which appeared with a few DVDs
  • Fixed NOTRIPLEBUFFER option (was broken when subtitle support was added)
  • Fixed sound distortions with interleaved AVI files
  • Now ensures that only complete frames are sent to the video decoder for AVI files. This should fix the problems with partially downloaded AVI files.
  • Fixed a bug in the subtitle code which caused memguard hits
  • Fixed a serious bug in GUI loading (thanks to memguard)
  • Fixed a nasty bug in the exit code which could cause random crashes
(cg) (Translation: ts)

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20.Apr.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


APC&TCP: Support forum for CygnusEd 5 online
The official support forum for CygnusEd 5 is online from today on. (cg) (Translation: ts)

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20.Apr.2006
Michael Bauer (ANF)


4Sceners.de reports from the Breakpoint 2006
4Sceners.de introduces the most important demos and intros of the Breakpoint 2006 in a special. Even the Amiga-Demos were not ignored. From the 2nd placed Amiga-Demo Lux Aetherna Lucia Eis from Ephidrena a DivX video is already available for download. (cg) (Translation: ts)

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18.Apr.2006
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: muRebuild and rhLaunch published
Rupert Hausberger has published two new small programmes called muRebuild and rhLaunch. With the help of muRebuild you can update MorphUp indices from the shell without running muGen. rhLaunch is a graphical interface for the Amiga emulator E-UAE (screenshot).

Download:
morphup_tools.lha (99 KB)
rhlaunch.lha (59 KB) (snx) (Translation: iw)

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18.Apr.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


intuitionbase.com: English translation of the Polish OS4 review
At intuitionbase.com, which is celebrating its second anniversary today, you can find an English translation of the test report on the 4th Prerelease-Update for AmigaOS 4, which has been published recently by the Polish eXec magazine (cg) (Translation: iw)

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18.Apr.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Advanced Visual Developer 0.1.0.91
For registered members of the BitByBit subscription FDSP a new version of the "Advanced Visual Developer" package (AVD) is now available. AVD is an integrated development environment, which is to consist of a text editor, a GUI builder, a project manager, an SDK browser and a debugger.

With AVD 0.1.0.91 the so far existing components interact in the way they are supposed to in the final version for the first time. Several screenshots should demonstrate the progress since the last release. (cg) (Translation: iw)

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18.Apr.2006



Demoszene: Ergebnisse der Breakpoint 2006
Clicking on the link above you can find the competition results as well as downloadable productions of the demoscene party Breakpoint 2006.

In the Amiga section Planet Loonies (Loonies) won against Armpit (RNO) and Mikrobi (Moods_Plateau) in the 64k intro categorie albeit it was a 4k intro actually, but this categorie did not exist due to a lack of competitors. With regard to the Amiga demos Kilofix (Iris) won against Lux aetherna lucia eis (Ephidrena) und Reqiem (The Black Lotus). (snx) (Translation: iw)

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18.Apr.2006
Murakami (ANF)


Printmagazin: aMiGa=PoWeR, issue 34
aMiGa=PoWeR is a print magazine published by the association AFLE, which has been among the most important French Amiga publications since its foundation in 1998. In the latest issue there is an report on the INP party, an article on the AmigaOS 4 update 4, reviews on Pixel (MOS), Amikit, Broken Sword 1 & 2, RAW, REminiscene, tutorials for SQLite, MEncoder, MOL on the AmigaOne and a lot more. (cg) (Translation: iw)

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17.Apr.2006
amigafuture.de (Webside)


Amiforce to age five years, new Amiblitz-Distribution
The Amiga-Portal Amiforce celebrates his fifth birthday today. Due to the celebration a new distribution of the basic-compiler Amiblitz and "Temptonic - Ultraviolent trance mix" is available.

Amiblitz 2.44

A actual distribution of Amiblitz2 is available for downloading. This new version introduce several basically changes, this will be specified by the documentation. Amiforce wish to thanks by Bernd Rösch, he makes it possible to release this distribution desite the lack of time.

Temptronic - Ultraviolent trance mix

Temptronic is a Trancemix which is not finished yet. The actual Version has now a tracklength of 17:33 Minutes.

acknowledgment

The Amiforce-Team wish thanks to Marco 'Blackbird' Möring, Bernd Rösch and Thilo Köhler as well as all registered Members and visitors of Amiforce. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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17.Apr.2006
Raffaele (ANF)


Genesi: Efika in three different configurationen planed
In a Thread on PPCZone.org explain Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco about his plans with the Efika-Hardware:

Manifestly there are three different configuration planed. The first includes a FPGA from Altera and a Onboard-GFX, the second includes the FPGA also but instead a GFX-Chip a PCI-Slot. The third works without a FPGA, Onboard-GFX or PCI. The CPU for all three version is a 52000B from Freescale.

As GFX-solution will be a XGI V3XT tested, the required information are recieved by the manufactor now..

The boards will be not delivered before the 15. May, more information will be notify soon. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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17.Apr.2006
ANN.lu (Webseite)


MorphOS: C64-Emulator Frodo 4.2
Ilkka "itix" Lehtoranta has a Update for his MorphOS-Port of the C64-Emulators Frodo released. The MorphOS-Version offers several new and MorpOS specific changes:
  • Catweasel support: use original SID chip for genuine C64 sound
  • Alternatively you can use AHI to emulate 6581 or 8580
  • Multithreaded MUI GUI, Arexx port, Commodity support
  • Joystick support
  • Display scaling (hardware accelerated)
  • Colour preferences
  • F12 toggles between full screen and window mode
  • F11 hides status bar in full screen mode
  • Alternative OpenGL scaling (if you dont like overlay)
  • AHI output can't block sound from other music programs

Beside the traditional Aminet LHA-Archive is Frodo also as MorphUp-Pakage available. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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17.Apr.2006
Hendrik Hoener (E-Mail)


Report of Hardware-meeting in Hörstel
Hendrik Hoener reports with photos from the Hardware-meeting of the Computer-Club Osnabrück and the AmCluSt by Guido Mersmann. Several computer like a Amithlon-, AmigaOne- and Pegasos are represented, but no Commodore Amiga Computer. Only as E-UAE emulation. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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17.Apr.2006
Henrik Mikael Kristensen (E-Mail)


Browser: AWeb APL Lite 3.5.08 beta
The Update of the Webbrowser AWeb APL Lite as Betaversion 3.5.08 for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS is linked to the header available.

The changes are the only support of the new AmiSSL-Version 3, Alphablending for the browser-PNG-Plugin, support of the ETag-Technic to validate the Cache and minor fixed errors and a partly adaptation to the memory system of AmigaOS 4 (the mainfile is fixed but the awebplugins and the aweblibs are problematic). (snx) (Translation: aj)

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17.Apr.2006
OSNews.com (Webseite)


Programmierung: A Quick Rexx Tutorial
Linked to the header Howard Fosdick explain a small introduction into the scriptlanguage Rexx..

A report with the title "Preferences of Rexx explained on the basic of some examples" of this author was already released last year. (amiga-news.de reports). (snx) (Translation: aj)

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17.Apr.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: TuneNet 0.78a
TuneNet, a Music- and Internetradio-player for AmigaOS 4, is now in V0.78a as new Alphaversion available. Note older plugins did not work with this version and must be updated too TuneNet is Freeware.

Changes:
  • Better play-Optionen: Simple, X-Fade or Gapless
  • Encoder-Plugin-support for recording of Streams in several Formats
  • Shoutcast Broadcasting - relativ simple now, but it works; requires a Encoder
  • Support of Plugins from Developers for several soundformates like XM, S3M, IT, FC, AHX, TFMX - thanks to Per Johansson now are 25 different are available
  • Betterments of the Reaction-GUI
  • Better playing without stops - Tip: changes the player-Priorität
  • Repeat of playlists
  • Subsong-support
  • Auto/Manuel-Mixmodus for a better palying of older 4-channel-Module on headphones
  • OpenURL-Requester
Download:
tunenet.lha (502 KB)
tuneogg-plug.lha (190 KB)
tunemod-plug.lha (355 KB)
tunemp3_encode.lha (278 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)

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17.Apr.2006
Amigaworld.net / Henning Schlautmann


Breakpoint 2006: intros from Up Rough & RNO / 4k Intro competition cancelled
Linked to the header are two new Amiga 500-64k-Intros (and Screenshots), from Up Rough and RNO released on the Demoszene-Party Breakpoint 2006 last weekend.

The contest of the Amiga-4k-Intro on the Breakpoint 2006 was skipped in the absence of interest. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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17.Apr.2006



Aminet-Uploads til 16.04.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
PtpDigCam-V2.0a-AOS.lha  comm/misc   311K  OS3  Connect a PTP digital camera
PtpDigCam-V2.0a-MOS.lha  comm/misc   506K  MOS  Connect a PTP digital camera
rdesktopgui.lha          comm/net     43K  OS4  Remote Desktop client GUI
TheBullShit.zip          demo/ecs    565K  OS3  Oldschool Amiga Demo
TheBullShit_Source.zip   demo/ecs    622K  OS3  Oldschool Amiga Demo Source Codes
ira_mos.lha              dev/asm     157K  MOS  MC680x0 reassembler
sdlbasic_os4.lha         dev/basic   2.4M  OS4  SDL Basic
debug-handler.lha        dev/debug     4K  OS3  Use file I/O to produce debug output via
distcc-bin.lha           dev/gcc     402K  OS4  distcc distributed C/C++ compiler
MCC_BetterStringSP.lha   dev/mui       5K  GEN  MCC BetterString 11.7 spanish catalog v1
MCC_MiniMailerSP.lha     dev/mui       5K  GEN  MCC MiniMailer 20.1 spanish catalog v20.
MCC_SpeedBarSP.lha       dev/mui       7K  GEN  MCC SpeedBar 19.4 spanish catalog v19.4.
MCC_TheBarSP.lha         dev/mui       7K  GEN  MCC TheBar 20.5 spanish catalog v20.5.0
ipoddisk.lha             disk/misc    72K  OS4  Filesystem for accesing mp3 on your iPod
filex-2.4-amigaos.lha    disk/moni   328K  OS3  binary file editor
filex-2.4-morphos.lha    disk/moni   250K  MOS  binary file editor (PowerPC/ MorphOS ver
ejourney.zip             game/data     9K  OS4  Einstein's Journey - Freespace I Mission
Liga05-06.lha            game/data    40K  GEN  Update of the Spanish season 2005-06 for
SWOSPL20.lha             game/data    47K  GEN  Polish teams for swos 2005-2006
smw.lha                  game/jump   5.7M  OS4  Super Mario War
SView5.lha               gfx/misc    2.4M  VAR  SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
AMI_ATX.lha              hard/hack    94K  OS3  AMI ATX OFF - Turn off an ATX PSU from t
BasiliskII-src-mos.lha   misc/emu    1.0M  GEN  Source code to 68k Macintosh Emulator fo
BasiliskII_mos.lha       misc/emu    461K  MOS  68k Macintosh Emulator for MorphOS
AsianCult.lha            mods/pop     13K  GEN  Helgis' Asian Cult Music!!!
BrokenSoul.lha           mods/pop     37K  GEN  Helgis' 7-Channel Pop-Ballad!!!
EVSkullflags.lha         pix/icon    120K  GEN  Skullflags for Eye Viewer 2.1-2.2 and Ve
Candy_modded_Amiga.jpg   pix/misc     76K  GEN  Candy modded A1200
MemOptimizer.lha         util/boot    54K  OS3  Memory defrag + GUI (former MemFucker)
SmartCaps.lha            util/cdity   46K  VAR  Smarter German caps lock
AKCC.lha                 util/cli    153K  VAR  Advanced CLI-Commands for OS V33-50 (13.
SnoopDos_MOS.lha         util/moni   448K  MOS  SnoopDos 3.8 PPC for MorphOS
wet.lha                  util/wb     675K  OS4  Weather conditions on Workbench 4, AppIc
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17.Apr.2006



os4depot.net: Uploads til 16.04.2006
os4depot.net since our last report:
ahxplay.lha      aud/pla   73kb  Ahxplay.library + command line player
distcc-bin.lha   dev/lan  402kb  distcc distributed C/C++ compiler
rdesktopgui.lha  net/mis   42kb  Remote Desktop client GUI
pciview.lha      uti/har  186kb  PCI-View
ipoddisk.lha     dri/fil   71kb  Filesystem for accesing mp3 on your iPod
ejourney.zip     gam/mis    8kb  Einstein's Journey - Freespace I Mission
wet.lha          uti/wor  675kb  Weather conditions on Workbench 4, AppIc
sdlbasic.lha     dev/lan    2Mb  SDL Basic
smw.lha          gam/pla    5Mb  Super Mario War
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17.Apr.2006



AROS-Archives: Uploads til 16.04.2006
aros-archives uploads since our last report:
wd_png.zip            gra/ico   74kb  Desktop icons in glow style
denise4_2aros.tar.gz  uti/sci  305kb  port Denise, PL:binaria EN:binaries
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16.Apr.2006
amigafuture.de (Web page)


DTP: PageStream 5.0.2.12 (Beta)
For registered users of the DTP program Pagestream, a beta version of the AmigaOS 3 port of Pagestream 5 is now available for the first time. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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16.Apr.2006
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


Updates to SimpleCat and EjectTool
Guido Mersmann has released version 2.21 (beta 14) of his catalog compiler SimpleCat as well as version 2.18 of his EjectTool. As an improvement, both programs are now additionally available in a native version for AmigaOS 4 as well. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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16.Apr.2006
amigaworld.net (Web page)


Event: AmiRevival in Scunthorpe (England), July 29, 2006
On July 29, the Amiga show "AmiRevival" takes place in Scunthorpe (England). The organizers hope to be able to allure some attractive exhibitors and developers, but details are not certain yet. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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16.Apr.2006
Ron van Schaik (ANF)


Pictures from the C= Show (Maarssen, Holland)
The people in charge of the Dutch "C= Show", which took place in Maarssen (Holland) yesterday, have published a whole series of pictures from the event. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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15.Apr.2006
Amiforce (ANF)


PerfectPaint: new pre 68k fix version for OS4/MOS
Marco "Blackbird" Möring released a new "pre 68k fix version" of the graphics program PerfectPaint to further improve the compatibilitiy with AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. PerfectPaint was originally written by Georges Halvadjian in AmiBlitz2.

In the current version were all memory leaks fixed, the drawing with the smallest brush now works under OS4, too. Further information regarding the current state can be found in the readme.

Please post bug reports and suggestions in the support forum. The PerfectPaint team, namely Blackbird and Cj-Stroker, wish all Amigans a happy Easter. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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15.Apr.2006
Amigaworld.net (website)


AmigaOS 4: Freespace I-mission "Einstein's Journey"
Einstein's Journey is a single player add on mission for the game "Descent: Freespace - The Great War". Originally created by Robert Carroll did Jerry Goulet adapt it for the use under AmigaOS 4.

To install it unpack the archive and copy the fsm file to the folder data/missions. If there's enough interest a modified version with a new "Einstein" ship of the USTAC Millenium class and new sounds will be made available.

Download: ejourney.zip (9 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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15.Apr.2006
KDH-News (ANF)


Happy Easter wishes KDH-Shop24
We wish all our customers a happy Easter. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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15.Apr.2006
vesalia (ANF)


Vesalia wish happy Easter
Press release 
Happy Easter!

We are on Easter holiday until April, 24th, we regret that during this time we cannot offer any support neither on telephone nor via email. Internet orders will be handled furtheron but there may be some delay.

We wish you a happy Easter! (cg) (Translation: wk)

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14.Apr.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Updates of SimpleCat and R
Guido Mersmann has published version 2.21 (beta 13) of his catalog compiler SimpleCat as well as version 2.18 of the program "R" which creates graphical user interfaces for almost each Shell command in real time. Both programs are available for AmigaOS 3.x as well as for MorphOS. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Apr.2006
Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter (ANF)


Hex-Editor: FileX 2.4 (OS 3/MorphOS)
The Hex-Editor FileX written by Klaas Hermans has got a CVS-Repository at sourceforge.net. FileX is not supposed to get new features but to make it compatible with AmigaOS and its younger relatives.  

New in FileX 2.4:
  • MorphOS version
  • Cosmetic changes for the 68040 version
  • Clearing the source code and adaption to GCC (there is still a lot to do)
  • rx_rx(): free() gives free the correct ressources
  • Update of the Locale-Strings
  • Many further minor changes

Versions for AmigaOS 3 (68020/68040) and MorphOS available at sourceforge.net. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Apr.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)


AfA: AROS for AmigaOS 3.93.1
"AROS für AmigaOS" extends AmigaOS with functions of AROS. Under the title link you can find a minor update.

AfA 3.93.1 does not create the cybergraphics.library because the version delivered by CyberGraphX and Picasso 96 supports the new functions. So some memory is saved and under AfA you can use the program SaferPatches as well as maybe further patches of this kind. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2006
ANN (Webseite)


Event: Pianeta Amiga 2006 announced
One of the biggest Amiga events in Italy is the Pianeta Amiga, taking place in Empoli near Florence every year. According to the organisers -Jasa Communications, Virtual Works and the Bitplane magazine- the 10th version of this computer show will take place on 23 and 24 September, the venue will be the Palaesposizioni.

According to the announcement all of the important Italian and European Amiga traders and Amiga user groups will be present and maybe there will also be a mystery to be disclosed. Clicking on the link above, you'll soon find the new web page dealing with the Pianeta Amiga. (snx) (Translation: iw)

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11.Apr.2006
Steffen Nitz (ANF)


SN-AnlagenArchiv 0.803 released, SN-EuroArchiv ceased
SN-AnlagenArchiv is an assets management for gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Steffen Nitz has now published version 0.803, which contains besides a small bugfix in the graphic user interface the up-to-date stock exchange prices of the four noble metals up to 7 April 2006.

A further development of SN-EuroArchiv is for the time being to be ceased completely, as the author Steffen Nitz has lost interest in euro coins.

Now he only collects gold coins and silver bullions, so the further development of SN-AnlagenArchiv is guaranteed. Mediaeval coins of the town of Stralsund are still being collected, for what a further development of SN-MünzArchiv II is being considered. (cg) (Translation: iw)

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10.Apr.2006
amigworld.net (Webseite)


New (public) version of AmigaOS 4 SDK released (Update)
Pressrelease 
Leuven, Belgium - 10. April, 2006

Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce the availability of the Software Development Kit Version 51.22 for the AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-Release.

The new SDK featuresthe new gcc 4.0.2 compiler toolchaing as well as updated header files for AmigaOS 4.0 Pre-Release update 4.

The SDK download is available for all interested parties. The SDK is available in two versions: A 160 MB download that contains everything to get you started, including compiler and contributed libraries, and a cut-down version that contains the compiler and documentation only.

Note from amiga-news.de: This SDK release is freely downloadable by everyone, you don't need to be registered. There are no cross compilers included though, you'd have to get them from another source. The source code for the AmigaOS 4 gcc is available from the adtools project at sourceforge.net.

Update: (11.04.2006, 14:30, cg)

The SDK is now available at ftp://ftp.hyperion-entertainment.biz/AmigaOS4_SDK, to avoid problems with heavy server load. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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10.Apr.2006
Moobunny (Webseite)


Record of a IRC-Meeting with Dave Haynie at 1. Mai 1994
Linked to the header is for nostalgic people a modified record of a IRC-meeting with Dave 'hazy' Haynie from the 1. May 1994 - therefore two days after the official insolvency of Commodore.

As one of the last 22 employers of Commodore in West Chester, he reported at that time about the actual situation and the undesirable development which was responsible for the decline of the computer-manufactor and beside about the "Deathbed Vigil"-Video which was filmed several days before by him. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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10.Apr.2006
Costel "Cyborg" Mincea (E-Mail)


AmigaOne: Centralized order for onboard soundchips
The AC97 soundchip (Sigmatel STAC9752T) installed on the first few batches of AmigaOne motherboards has been removed in later production runs as it seemed that it wouldn't work anyway due to a hardware bug.

But Davy Wentzler and Stephen Brookes proved later on that the problem could be solved in software and released a working audio driver.

Until now, people that wanted to fit the missing chip onto their AmigaOne motherboard were facing the problem that said chip didn't seem to be available anymore. Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea now found a dealer that still has the Sigmatel STAC9752T in stock.

The final price for one single Sigmatel STAC9752T chip depends on the volume of the order, this is why Mincea now asks all interested users to contact him until 17.April via e-mail and tell him the quantity they would be interested in. Mincea stresses the fact that this email is not a real order, he only needs to gauge the actual demand to to get a quotation from the dealer.

On April 18th, Mincea will ask the dealer for the price of an order with the ascertained quantities, end users will then be able to order chips from him.

Warning: The AC97 soundchip is not socketed, it needs to be soldered to the AmigaOne motherboard by the end user. You should be very familiar with that kind of soldering jobs, otherwise you should better ask somebody who is. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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10.Apr.2006
Darren Eveland (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Update of the Remote Desktop Clients
For AmigaOS 4 is a new update of the Remote Desktop Client available and for a small donation is it possible to download the archive.

Some of the new features are:
  • All fixable bugs have been fixed in the client and GUI
  • Move of code base from 1.3.1 to 1.4.1 which has many improvments (see changelog)
  • Added "Connection Bar" for full screen mode for easy iconify / disconnect / screen flip (hint: press CTRL L-Amiga and move the mouse - it will move the bar)
  • Added "Public Screen" option in GUI
  • Various speed optimizations
In addition, the GUI is now available as a separate archive and can be downloaded by anyone at the title link.

Versions for 68k Amigas and MorphOS based on the new 1.4.1 source code are currently in beta and are available immediately to users who have donated.

Thank you to everyone who donates!
The Remote Desktop Team (snx) (Translation: aj)

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10.Apr.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


APC&TCP takes distribution of CygnusEd
APC&TCP is proud to announce that it has taken the distribution of the well known text editor CygnusEd. CygnusEd will be able to run on the classic Amiga and AmigaOS 4. A version supporting MorphOS is planned. In only a few weeks the program will be available. The support homepage for CygnusED will be online in a few days aswell. About CygnusEd Professional Release 5 The maybe most famous text editor for developers was developed by Bruce Dawson, Colin Fox & Steve LaRocque (CygnusSoft Software) 20 years ago and was originally published by themselves. Already at that time CygnusEd has been known for its speed and solidness. CygnusEd has been developed even further in the following years and was one of the first programs with an ARexx interface and the first Amiga text editor with Undo/Redo functions. Many Amiga developers grew up with CygnusEd and a lot of software for the Amiga was developed using CygnusEd. The last version 4 of CygnusEd was published in 1997 and was a fully reworked version adapted to AmigaOS 3.1. The new version 5 of CygnusEd has been enriched with new functions and it is even faster and more solid. The helping tool "Ed" has been rewritten completely from scratch and is supplied with CygnusEd including the complete sources. Many old restrictions and flaws of CygnusEd have been eliminated. Version 5 is also the first version ported completely with all helping tools to the PowerPC processors and one of the first completely adapted commercial products for AmigaOS 4. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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10.Apr.2006



Aminet-Uploads until 09.04.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
pointriderui.lha        biz/misc     33K  OS4  User Interface for PointRider PowerPoint
xnet-rss.lha            comm/news   1.3M  OS4  Native AOS4.0 RSS News Reader
seventhsense.lha        comm/www     89K  MOS  Automated website monitor
JP13.lha                demo/mag    3.8M  OS3  Jurassic Pack #13
JP14.lha                demo/mag    4.6M  OS3  Jurassic Pack #14
JP15.lha                demo/mag    3.4M  OS3  Jurassic Pack #15
reaction_dn.lha         dev/c       528K  VAR  Reaction examples
AmigaPower.lha          docs/hyper   71K  GEN  French Amiga Magazine (8 April update)
AmiArcadia.lha          misc/emu     70K  OS3  Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator
arcem_os4.lha           misc/emu    788K  OS4  Acorn Archimedes A400 emulator
PeriodicTable.lha       misc/sci    784K  GEN  Periodic table of the elements (PageStre
playOGG.lha             mus/play    1.0M  OS3  Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
ShellPlayer.lha         mus/play      9K  MOS  Simple CLI based module player
AP34Covers.lha          pix/misc    283K  GEN  aMiGa=PoWeR n°34 Cover Recto
AmigaAdAward.lha        pix/mpg     2.8M  GEN  Amiga tv advert
AmigaAdCeleb.lha        pix/mpg     2.8M  GEN  Amiga ad with celebrities
AmigaMtv.lha            pix/mpg     155K  GEN  Amiga ad on MTV
Conspiracy-Deutsch.lha  text/misc    72K  OS3  Generates conspiracy theories - German!
MemFucker.lha           util/boot     9K  OS3  version 2 fucks your memory much harder
envtime.lha             util/misc     8K  OS3  OS4: Set a env variable for use in WB ti
ReportPlus.lha          util/misc   318K  OS3  Report+ 6.19: Multipurpose utility
rac_aminet.lha          util/rexx     6K  GEN  search(download) aminet within the CONSO
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 09.04.2006
os4depot.net uploads since our last report:
envtime.lha     uti/mis    8kb  Sets a time env variable for use in WB t
cmi8738.lha     dri/aud   35kb  CMI8738 AHI driver
nickyboum.lha   gam/pla  271kb  a cross-platform engine for the game Nic
ikir_theme.lha  gra/the    1Mb  ikir's AmigaOS Theme
arcem.lha       emu/com  788kb  Acorn Archimedes A400 emulator
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10.Apr.2006



AROS-Archives: Uploads until 09.04.2006
aros-archives uploads since our last report:
eliza.i386-aros.zip  uti/sci   29kb  A classic AI therapist
(cg) (Translation: aj)

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09.Apr.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)


AfA: AROS for AmigaOS 3.93
After the beta version 1 (reported by amiga-news.de), Bernd Roesch has now released the final version 3.93 of AfA under the title link. "AROS for AmigaOS" extends the latter with functions of the aforementioned operating system.

Compared to the beta version, the following additional improvements exist:
  • Ken Lester has created a Prefs icon for AfA
  • The penfree textmode now works correctly with rastports without layers - otherwise, no further problems have occurred with the integration of the penfree mode
  • A deadlock was corrected, which occurred in the Listview gadget of the Stormwizard user interface as well as on slow systems with Truetype fonts and anti-aliasing, after the slider was moved very fast continuously for about eight seconds
  • The oop.library of AROS, which offers object-oriented functions, has been compiled for Amiga/68k by Michal Schulz and is enclosed
  • Errors in the picture_datatype.exe file have been corrected, the version number has been increased to 46 as well, as a V45 had already existed
  • When using MagicMenu, the background image will now be shown as well
  • By means of an error correction in AROS by Georg Steger, IFF-ILBM pictures with 256 colors or less can now be supported and thus used, for instance, as a background by AmiStart as well, with the dtm_readpixelarray
  • The ILBM datatype of AROS has been enclosed, after several users had reported problems and slowdowns when using IFF pictures, particularly under CyberGraphX
Should you have any problems with the AROS-ILBM datatype, please report these to the author and delete the ilbm_datatype.exe file from the SYS:afa_os_libs directory.

Likewise, you are asked to give feedback on possible problems that still exist with the picture datatype. Should you delete the picture_datatype.exe file, you should proceed in the same way with the ilbm_datatype.exe file, as this one does not work without the picture datatype. Otherwise, though it does not crash, corresponding Openlibrary calls to the version 46 of the picture datatype take place. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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08.Apr.2006
ANN (website)


AmigaOS/MorphOS: update for RDesktop client with costs
The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) enables access to applications being executed on a Windows terminal server via the network. For AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS there are now updates available.

The updates come with costs, people donating via PayPal under the title link a sum of his/her choice (or has already done so) will receive the latest version of RDesktop via email. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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08.Apr.2006
Andreas Kähler (ANF)


BigRAM 600 new edition finished
The first exemplars tof the new edition of the A600 ChipRAM expansion BigRAM 600 are finished and will be delivered.

Optionally they can be sent as kits but without any warranty (otherwise 6 months). (cg) (Translation: wk)

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07.Apr.2006
ANN (Webseite)


WinUAE: Amikit 1.1.1 (Bugfix)
For AmiKit which is a full distribution for WinUAE users there is version 1.1.1 as update or as complete archive. The update fixes two minor bugs. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Apr.2006



Amiga Inc.: Cooperation with Giesecke & Devrient
Under the title link Amiga Inc. announces a cooperation with the Smart-Card producer Giesecke & Devrient (G&D). There was an agreement that the technologies from Amiga should be demonstrated on the GalaxSIM® hHgh Memory SIM Cards from G&D.

Amiga Inc. obviously is a minor exhibitor at the stand of G&D on the CTIA Wireless 2006 which ends today. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Apr.2006
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)


Musik: Liquid Skies records #092
The scene group Liquid Skies has published its music pack no. 92 today. At this time it includes the music title "Generosity" of the latest member Bit-X, who has also created the suitable cover for it.

Further informations to this track:
Title: Generosity
Artist: Bit-X
Style: Schranz
Length: 4:10
Format: mp3 (160 kbps)

The zip file with an estimated size of 5 MB is available for free download from the homepage under the title link. (snx) (Translation: ts)

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06.Apr.2006



New member of the PPC-family: Kilocore 1025
The manufacturer Rapport is showing a cpu at the Embeddded-Systems-meeting in San Jose. Besides a PowerPC core 1024 it includes so called "8-Bit-Processing-Elements", which are meant for parallel operation of e. g. live video streams. (cg) (Translation: ts)

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06.Apr.2006
amigafuture.de (homepage)


Event: Amiga hardware meeting in Kiel II / 2006
The Amiga club Schleswig-Holstein will hold a hardware meeting for all interested users in the Fachhochschule Kiel at the 22nd of April. It is possible to bring the own computers and to connect them into a network, internet access is also possible. (cg) (Translation: ts)

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06.Apr.2006
amigafuture.de (homepage)


AmigaOS 4: Payable update for the RDesktop client
The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) allows access via network to applications, which are executed on a windows terminal server. An update with various bugfixes and optimizations is available now for OS4.

The update isn't free of charge. Everybody who is donating a sum of his choice via PayPal under the title link, will get the latest version of RDesktop via e-mail. (cg) (Translation: ts)

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06.Apr.2006



Apple: Boot Camp makes Windows XP running on Intel-Macs possible
In the near future Apple allows its customers to run Microsoft's operating system "Windows XP" on new Intel-Macs with the use of the software "Boot Camp". (snx) (Translation: ts)

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05.Apr.2006
quadpol (Forum)


Elbox: Status update of the Coldfire turboboard Dragon 1200
In a post at the Mediator mailing list Darek Smietana by Elbox gives a brief status update of the Coldfire turboboard Dragon 1200: The boards are not produced yet, they hope to start production by next month (May). A public presentaion of the Dragon is also planned for that month. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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05.Apr.2006
Darius Brewka (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Scalos 41.3 (Alpha)
The Workbench replacement Scalos is now available (alpha version) for AmigaOS 4. The authors remind urgently to mind the notes of the included readme. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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05.Apr.2006
Lemmink (Forum)


PPC hardware: Status update for PowerVixxen, gnuesstimate of demand
In a posting at amiga.org Adam Kowalczyk by ACK explains the production delay of the Powervixxen: The required ammount of A1200 expansion slot connectors is not available. Whoever might know how to obtain such connectors please contact ACK by mailing to a.kowalczyk@sympatico.ca.

All prospective customers might also contact Kowalczyk by mail to get a coarse guess of the demand for teh fisrt production run. The estimated retail price wil be USD 299 USD (including AmigaOS 4, w/o taxes and p&p). (cg) (Translation: ub)

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04.Apr.2006
VHT-Yahoogroup


Virus Help Team: AmigaOS 4 users wanted
The Virus Help Team have written the following request on their Yahoo Group: There has been a problem running antivirus programs with the AmigaOS 4. Jan Andersen has been in contact with Georg Horemann (VirusZ and XVS.library programmer), and the problems may be due to XVS. When a fix comes in, it would need to run properly on an OS4 system.

Request: If there are any Amiga OS4 users that are willing to use the new xvs.library (when available), could you:
  • go over to the VHT Forum and sign-up for a member name,
  • kindly do a post (i.e. saying you use AmigaOS 4) in the corresponding thread and
  • do your settings on the VHT Forum to keep track of that topic, then you will get an automatic e-mail when there is a new posting to the topic.
You could also sign-in and post any problems you already have or maybe a solution you have already found. (snx)

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04.Apr.2006
PPCZone (Forum)


Genesi: REBOL developers wanted
According to infomation of the managment of Genesi, which can be obtained when clicking at the link above, five part-time REBOL developers are looked for. The first phase of the project is to start in May and to take three months. Developers with a Pegasos are preferred.

REBOL (Relative Expression-Based Object Language) is a cross platform script language, which has been developed by Carl Sassenrath. (snx) (Translation: iw)

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04.Apr.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Amiga Games Hit Parade: poll for March/April 2006
Once again you can vote for the best Amiga games at the "Amiga Games Hit Parade". The result will be announced at the end of April. (cg) (Translation: iw)

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04.Apr.2006
amigaworld.net (webseite)


AmigaOS 4: ArcEm emulates Acorn Archimedes
Chris Young has ported the emulator ArcEm to AmigaOS , which emluates the Archimedes computers of the British producer Acorn. For using the emulator a ROM image is necessary.

The operating system disc of version 3.10 (not the ROM image) is available for legal download at acorn.riscos.com. (cg) (Translation: iw)

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04.Apr.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Movie-Player Mplayer, "Experimental Version 2"
When clicking on the link above you will find a new beta version of the OS 4 porting of Mplayer. Changes since the last release:
  • An AREXX port that is useful with new Daniel's Gui
  • Support for WMV (don't need to be repetitive. ok?)
  • Many endianess bug fixed on many formats (like MOV and NSV)
  • Full internet streaming
  • A menu on video screen (only when is in window mode)
  • The video driver now scale movies correctly (except for 16:9 one when in fullscreen..)
  • Last CSV changes
  • Compiled with newlib 4.0.2
  • surely other things i forgot now..

According to the author this version is a bit slower than the one before. If the WMV3 videos don't run, it should help to clear the codecs.conf file. (cg) (Translation: iw)

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03.Apr.2006
Grzegorz Kraszewski (E-Mail)


MorphOS: SeventhSense 0.14b
Grzegorz Kraszewski has released the Version 0.14b of SeventhSense. This update of the detector to show changes of websides and RSS-feeds includes no new function compared with the version 0.14b - only the API was adapted to the new Reggae-class http.stream (amiga-news.de reported).

Download:
MorphUp-Index: teleinfo.pmi (snx) (Translation: aj)

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03.Apr.2006



AROS-Archives: Uploads til 02.04.2006
aros-archives uploads since our last report:
sms_sdl-0.9.4a-r7.1-aro.lha  emu/gam  197kb  SMS Plus (SDL) for AROS
iconlauncheraros.lha         uti/wor    1Mb  Program launcher, screenblanker and more
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03.Apr.2006



Aminet-Uploads til 02.04.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
aircos-0.0.1.zip             comm/irc     97K  ARO  AiRcOS - AROS IRC Client
bourriquet_ita.lha           comm/net      8K  GEN  Catalog for Bourriquet (a P2P client for
AmiDiction.lha               comm/tcp     39K  OS3  Online Dictionary
AmiFTP.lha                   comm/tcp    175K  OS3  Easy to use GUI FTP client for OS 2.0+
processtorrent.lha           comm/tcp      4K  GEN  Arexx-Script to handle .torrent files
EuroChart48.lha              demo/mag    3.5M  OS3  Eurochart #48 (68k version)
eurochart48_ppc.zip          demo/mag     23M  VAR  EuroChart issue 48
SFinfo.lha                   dev/basic    23K  OS3  "sndfile.library" dev kit for Blitz
exec.lha                     dev/c        90K  ARO  A OOP tutorial to programming exec in fr
i386-aros-cross-gcc.zip.zip  dev/cross    39M  ARO  i386 AROS Cross GCC For Cygwin
sashimi_mos.lha              dev/debug    35K  MOS  Drop-in replacement for Sushi with Morph
coreutils-bin.lha            dev/gg      4.2M  OS4  GNU core utilities
coreutils-src.lha            dev/gg      7.6M  GEN  GNU core utilities (source)
luautilities.i3861.lha       dev/lang      3K  ARO  Lua Utilities Library
MCC_BWinSP.lha               dev/mui       5K  GEN  MCC BWin 22.0 spanish catalog v22.0.0
MCC_CalendarSP.lha           dev/mui       5K  GEN  MCC Calendar 18.3 spanish catalogs v18.3
MCC_SpeedBarSP.lha           dev/mui       7K  GEN  MCC SpeedBar 19.4 spanish catalog v19.4.
MCC_UrlTextSP.lha            dev/mui       5K  GEN  MCC UrlText 19.7 spanish catalog v19.7.0
saku45.lha                   docs/mags   5.7M  GEN  Saku #45 (1/2004). Finnish e-zine.
saku46.lha                   docs/mags   3.2M  GEN  Saku #46 (2/2004). Finnish e-zine.
saku47.lha                   docs/mags   4.5M  GEN  Saku #47 (1/2005). Finnish e-zine.
saku48.lha                   docs/mags   4.2M  GEN  Saku #48 (2/2005). Finnish e-zine.
Saga.lha                     game/board  351K  OS3  Saga 1.53a: Conversion of TSR boardgame
adv770.i386-aros.lha         game/text   627K  ARO  Text adventure Adv770
scrambly_dv.lha              game/think  213K  OS4  puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
dttoppm.lha                  gfx/pbm      30K  VAR  Datatype to PPM converter
ide_driverpack.zip           hard/drivr  215K  OS4  OS4 IDE driver package
AmiArcadia.lha               misc/emu     74K  OS3  Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator
sms_sdl-0.9.4a-r7.1-ARO.lha  misc/emu    198K  ARO  SMS Plus (SDL) for AROS
complete_index.lha           misc/fish   586K  GEN  Index for Fish Disks 1-1000
fish-1000.lha                misc/fish   317K  OS3  Fish disk 1000
PeriodicTable.lha            misc/sci     34K  GEN  Periodic table of the elements (PageStre
FunkyLA.lha                  mods/funk    30K  GEN  Helgis' Funky Song!!!
Desert.lha                   mods/misc    25K  GEN  Helgis' Road Country HIT!!! (uncompresse
mosaic_as_ff-aros.zip        pix/theme    15K  GEN  Firefox buttons for AROS Mosaic (26x26)
MemFucker.lha                util/boot     7K  OS3  fucks your memory (really, no kidding)
SafeReset.lha                util/boot    15K  OS3  System Reboot Utility.
codesets.lha                 util/libs   352K  VAR  Library for handling codesets and charac
exorcist.lha                 util/misc    60K  OS4  Kill windows and screens of crashed apps
ReportPlus.lha               util/misc   318K  OS3  Report+ 6.18: Multipurpose utility
SetSysTime.lha               util/time    20K  OS3  Tool to set the system time via a GUI
iconlauncher68k.lha          util/wb     1.1M  OS3  Program launcher, screenblanker and more
iconlauncheraros.lha         util/wb     1.6M  ARO  Program launcher, screenblanker and more
iconlaunchermain.lha         util/wb     1.7M  GEN  Icon launcher common archive
iconlaunchermos.lha          util/wb     1.6M  MOS  Program launcher, screenblanker and more
iconlauncheros4.lha          util/wb     2.0M  OS4  Program launcher, screenblanker and more
iconlauncherwos.lha          util/wb     1.1M  WUP  Program launcher, screenblanker and more
(cg) (Translation: aj)

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os4depot.net: Uploads til 02.04.2006
os4depot.net uploads since our last report:
xnet-rss.lha        net/new    1Mb  Native AOS4.0 RSS News Reader
dttoppm.lha         dat/uti   30kb  Datatype to PPM converter
ide_driverpack.zip  dri/sto  215kb  OS4 IDE driver package
scrambly_dv.lha     gam/puz  213kb  puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
bourriquet_ita.lha  net/p2p    8kb  Catalog for Bourriquet (a P2P client for
eurochart48.zip     dem/mag   22Mb  EuroChart issue 48
exorcist.lha        uti/mis   60kb  Kill windows and screens of crashed apps
miniampdeluxe.lha   aud/mis  543kb  Deluxe Version of MiniAmp for AMPlifier
processtorrent.lha  uti/scr    3kb  Arexx-Script to handle .torrent files
apod.tar.bz2        uti/har  784kb  apod - perl based ipod application for O
codesets.lha        lib/mis  351kb  Library for handling codesets and charac
(cg) (Translation: aj)

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MorphOS: Pcal 4.9.1 generates Postscript/HTML calendars
Pcal generates calenders in Postscript or HTML format (Examples: 1, 2). (cg) (Translation: cad)

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morphzone.org (Web page)


MorphOS: Console-Handler MUICON 50.36
MUICON is a MUI-based Console-Handler by Jacek Piszczek, which brings along its own terminal display class (PowerTerm.mcc). The newest version contains numerous minor improvements and bugfixes.

The author is now working on an OS X port. Should significant improvements to the terminal emulation result from doing so, these will possibly be ported back to MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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photokina videofun 2006: Entry deadline prolonged
Watch out, Amiga creatives: After many requests, the organizers of the Europe-wide video competition "photokina videofun 2006" for hobby filmmakers have prolonged the deadline, once, to April 20, 2006 - Amiga video freaks still have three weeks of time to implement their own video projects, in order to show what is still possible with the Amiga and DraCo even today!

Every hobby filmmaker from Europe, who sends exhibition-ready film contributions with a maximum running length of three minutes on CD in uncompressed .avi format or on DVD about the given subject "Moments in Paradise" to Prophoto GmbH, Karlstraße 19-21, D-60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, can take part in the video competition "photokina videofun 2006." Participation in Europe's video competition is worthwhile for every participant. Besides the contest with other hobby filmmakers from entire Europe, a prize money amounting to 2500 euros, in addition to a certificate, beckons for the winner. Altogether, prizes amounting to more than 10,000 euros and certificate will be awarded to the first ten film contributions.

You can find further information about the competition as well as participation terms on the website of Prophoto GmbH under the title link. (nba) (Translation: cad)

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Newsletter: Amiga Update #060331
Brad Webbs newsletter Amiga Update contains a summary of the more important Amiga related news of the last four weeks. The March issue has now been released:

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              H Y P E R I O N   M A K E S   3 D   D E A L 

         S C U N T H O R P E   S H O W   E A R L Y   I N F O

         T H I N K   C O M M O D O R E   -   O N   A   M A C 

    M U I B A S E   G O E S   G N U   P U B L I C   L I C E N S E 

     A M I Z I L L A   C O N T R I B U T I O N   B Y   C L I C K 

      A M I K I T   U P D A T E   1 . 1 . 0   A V A I L A B L E 

    N E W   E P I S T U L A   F O R   Y O U R   M E S S A G I N G 

           U P D A T E   F O R   A P O D   F O R   I P O D 

  D I S T R I B U T O R   F O R   _ A M I G A   G U R U _   B O O K 

               A M I G A S Y S   N E W   V E R S I O N 

         V 0 5   O F   M I N D S P A C E   A V A I L A B L E 

   S C O U T   S Y S T E M   M O N I T O R   -   O S 4   D E P O T

               A M I D I S K   O N   O S 4   D E P O T 

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 Welcome to spring! Well, it's spring here in the northern half of the 
world anyway once March comes. And appropriately enough, there are 
lots of interesting Amiga things popping up and growing. OK, that's 
probably a stretch as analogies go but it is true we have many things 
of interest for you in this issue.
 You also might want to check out this site:
http://www.dietmar-eilert.net/golded/files.htm
 The 2002 version of the great GoldED Studio AIX (SP2) is now 
available free at the author's site. Note that this is not freely 
distributable software but you may download and use it for no fee. 
There's no story below as there was no annoucement of this to the 
press, but you should find all the information you need at the site or 
in the archive.
 So please enjoy the newsletter, enjoy the new and updated software 
that's come along but, if you live in our half of the world, make sure 
you take some time to enjoy the spring as well. Hmmmm. Now's when an 
Amiga laptop would come in really handy.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

28 March, 2006

Dear Sir / Madam,

 I am a Professor in Engineering College in Pune.
 I have purchase AMIGA 2000 MODEL IN 1990 which were having some* 
software related to REAL-TIME VIDEO EFFECTS TOOL*, as per as my 
knowledge it is known as MANDALA.
 Please inform me if it is available as i require for PROJECT WORK, i  
am ready to buy it.
 So, Please inform as soon as possible.
 Can you tell me when Amiga sold a  *first AMIGA computer with Mandala
Software.*
Waiting for your reply it's urgent.
**
Thanks & Regards
Bhushan Joshi
~~~~~~
 You are asking for what is among the most rare of Amiga software
unfortunately. I performed a quick search and was unable to find 
anyone with Mandala software, or a Live! board, for sale (I don't know 
if you need the Live! board but they are used together).
 If any of our readers has information about a copy of Mandala which 
Professor Joshi could purchase, please send it to us in reply to this 
mailing and we will pass the information along quickly. Information 
about a Live! board might be appreciated as well.
 Thanks!
 Brad
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             H Y P E R I O N   M A K E S   3 D   D E A L 

Leuven, Belgium - 21 March 2006

Hyperion Entertainment VOF announces that it has licensed its 3D 
driver technology for ATI Radeontm 9000 chipsets to Smiths Aerospace 
LLC (UK) . Hyperion's 3D driver technology is OpenGLtm ES compatible 
and was originally developed for Amigatm OS 4, Hyperion's multi-media 
centric, small foot-print embedded OS. Smiths Aerospace has adapted 
Hyperion's 3D drivers to comply with DO-178B standards and has i
ncorporated a 2D version into its current display technology. Smiths 
Aerospace has the future capability to incorporate Hyperion's 3D 
driver technology for use in wide area displays intended for use in 
civil and military aircraft.

About Smiths: Smiths Aerospace, a part of Smiths Group, is a leading
transatlantic aerospace systems and equipment company, with more than 
0,000 employees and $2 billion revenues worldwide. The company holds 
key positions in the supply chains of all major military and civil 
aircraft and engine manufacturers and is a world-leader in digital, 
electrical power, mechanical systems, engine components and customer 
services.

About Hyperion VOF: Hyperion Entertainment VOF is a privately held 
elgian-German company founded in February of 1999. The company s
pecialises in 3D graphics and 3D driver development, firmware 
development for embedded systems, IT consulting and the conversion of
high quality entertainment software from Windows to niche platforms 
including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS. Since November of 2001 
Hyperion Entertainment has been working on AmigaOS 4.0 for PowerPC 
powered devices, the latest incarnation of the multi-media centric, 
small-footprint operating system originally launched by Commodore 
Business Machines (CBM) in 1985.

http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz:8080/amiga
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       S C U N T H O R P E   S H O W   E A R L Y   I N F O 

29 March, 2006

Finally, we are happy to announce the Scunthorpe Amiga Group show of 
2006, named AmiRevival. The show will take place on Saturday the 29th 
of July 2006 at the Kingsway Centre in Scunthorpe, UK.



A complete website will be going online soon, but rest assured we plan 
to vastly improve upon last year's show. It's time to crank it into 
turbo!

Watch out for updates on our website: www.AmiRevival.com

Anyone who can't wait for the full website to go live but would like 
to help out in any way whatsoever please contact us: 
contact@amirevival.com
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        T H I N K   C O M M O D O R E   -   O N   A   M A C 

27 March, 2006

After one month of development Think Commodore is finally online.

 What is "Think Commodore"?

Think Commodore is a website about emulating old Commodore computers 
such as the C64 and the Amiga on your Macintosh. The website also 
covers subjects such as C64 or Amiga games, demos, music, how to copy 
iles from your Mac back to your trusty old Commodore etc.

I switched from the WinTel world to the Macintosh approx. one and a 
half years ago. I soon came to realize that while there are tons of 
websites covering Commodore emulation, SID music, Protracker modules, 
games, demos etc., information about Commodore emulation on the Mac is 
very scarce. Many websites about Commodore emulation on the Mac are 
old and obsolete, they aren't updated regularly and some websites/
teams completely ignore the Mac even though some nifty programmer has 
done a Mac port of that particular software or project.

That's the reason why I started "Think Commodore".

Hopefully you'll find this site useful and check back here regularly.
Feel free to drop me an email if you have suggestions on how to i
mprove the site.


Cheers,

Søren Ladegaard - Denmark

...oh, in case you were wondering "Think Commodore" is a homage to the 
classic Apple slogan "Think different". But you already knew that, 
didn't you? ;-)


http://www.thinkcommodore.com/
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   M U I B A S E   G O E S   G N U   P U B L I C   L I C E N S E 

4 March, 2006

 MUIbase (Magic data BASE with User Interface) is a relational 
programmable database with user interface.

Begining in March, 2006, MUIbase for Amiga and Amiga-related operating 
systems is now distributed under the Gnu General Public License. The 
source code and binaries for m68kAmigaOS are made available as part of 
a sourceforge project. We hope that developers for the new AmigaOS 4, 
the MorphOS and AROS will also compile versions for these operating 
systems. 
 
At this point, we would like to thank all who supported us in the past 
and all who registered MUIbase. From the new version 2.0 on, no 
keyfile for running all features of MUIbase on Amiga is necessary any 
more. 
 
We still hope for support from the Amiga community. Please write us 
your comment. It will also be possible to make us a donation if you 
feel you want to financially support us. 
 
Happy MUIbase'ing, 
 
Steffen Gutmann 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/muibase
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    A M I Z I L L A   C O N T R I B U T I O N   B Y   C L I C K 

19 March 2006

In an effort to raise even more money for AmiZilla to motivate 
programmers trying to win the contest AmiZilla now supports AdSense 
and adds those dollars to the booty. If you have a few minutes please 
go to http://www.amizilla.net and click on some of our sponsers and 
look at what they are offering. Your pay for click dollars will be 
added to the contest. Donations to AmiZilla now stand @ $10,204.27. 
Bill (tekmage) Borsari got the booty just over $10,000 with his large 
donation so will be able to get any software product from DiscreetFX 
for free. Thanks everyone for your efforts to get FireFox/Mozilla 
running on Amiga OS.

Best regards

DiscreetFX Team
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      A M I K I T   U P D A T E   1 . 1 . 0   A V A I L A B L E 

28 March, 2006 

 "AmiKit is the compilation of the best Amiga (free/shareware) 
programs around. To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you want to 
experience a high-end Classic Amiga system. It contains many 
expansions and add-ons (more than 20.000 files are included in 
AmiKit!) that turn the default AmigaOS installation into a completely 
renewed and fresh environment. This pre-configured package is designed 
for immediate use. Moreover, it contains an exciting surprise for the 
whole Amiga community, see the features or screenshots!"

 AmiKit now supports antialiased TrueType fonts! 
 Loading speed of icons has been increased!
 Quality of icon rendering has been increased!
 WinUAE emulation software updated to version 1.2.0
 AmiKit now contains the largest collection of AmigaOS3.9 patches.

DESCRIPTION OF NEW SOFTWARE IN THIS UPDATE:

AfA_OS 3.93 by Bernd Roesch
"AROS For Amiga" project ports the AROS sources and make them 
available for classic AmigaOS. Since AROS is more up-to-date, it 
provides a lot of new features and system bugfixes for AmiKit! For 
example, AfA_OS is responsible for icon loading speedup, enchanced 
icon rendering, TrueType font support etc.

AmiStart 0.66b (exclusive AmiKit version) by Darius Brewka
This great taskbar software has been updated for AmiKit. It works in 
detached mode now so it does not steal the active state from other 
tasks and windows anymore!

AISS 2.2 by Martin 'Mason' Merz
"Amiga Image Storage System" is a system to store, access and maintain 
toolbar images under AmigaOS.

AmiSSL 3.6 by Andrija Antonijevic and Stefan Burstroem
AmiSSL is a shared library package, port of OpenSSL which is "a 
collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-
featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets 
Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as 
well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library".

Ken Lester has painted fresh new toolbar images for DOpus5! These 
images are used as default now. Your old toolbar is stored as 
"DOpus5:Buttons/toolbar_104bak". Rename it to "DOpus5:Buttons/toolbar" 
to have it back.

Meridian 2.20 by Guido Mersmann
You all know PDAs where you can draw lines with a pen on the display 
and the PDA converts these combinations into characters or functions. 
Meridian does exactly this! Meridian is a small commodity to create 
virtual hotkeys by using the mouse. You paint a square and Meridian 
starts the requested action. Since the starting point and the 
direction is also important, there are countless combinations you can 
use. Eg. hold down the middle mouse button and move your mouse to 
upper-right direction and watch the result!

MUIbase 2.0 by Steffen Gutmann
MUIbase is a fast and very flexible database for the Amiga. It is for 
users who want to manage data in a comfortable and easy way. MUIbase 
is able to manage any kind of data, e.g. addresses, CD series, movies, 
or your income and expense. The power of MUIbase lies in its clear and 
powerful graphical user interface and its programming capabilities. 
The latter makes it possible to automatically calculate and maintain 
nearly everything, starting from automatically summing up values, e.g. 
for calculating the total amount of income or the total amount of 
recorded time of a CD, up to automatically creating and printing 
letters for any purpose.

StormMesa libraries 3.1 by Haage&Partner Computer GmbH
These 3D libraries are almost completely OpenGL compatible and 
provides 3D features to Amiga. Try a demo in AmiKit:Utilities/
Expansion/StormMesa/GLProgs drawer or find more on Aminet.

Sudoku 1.3 by Silicon Wizards
A popular game in a computer form. Special thanks to Michael Lanser!

AmiKit now contains the largest collection of unofficial patches for 
AmigaOS3.9:
- Amigaguide.datatype 45.6
- Console.device 44.10
- FastFileSystem 45.14
- Icon.library 45.4
- MultiView 45.10
- RAM-Handler 44.23
- Rexxsyslib.library 44.2
- Shell 45.12
- Workbench.library 45.130
The installation of these patches is optional. Run "Install Patches" 
to install them.

http://amikit.amiga.sk/
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    N E W   E P I S T U L A   F O R   Y O U R   M E S S A G I N G 

10 March, 2006

Epistula is to AmigaOS what GAIM is to Linux and Windows. For people 
not in the know, GAIM is an instant messenger application which can 
handle a variety of IM protocols, for example Microsoft MSN, AOL AIM 
and Yahoo Messenger.

I know JabberWocky can provide a similar service, but that requires 
extra setting up with Jabber ID's etc. This way, you can log straight 
onto your favourite protocol, by-passing any need for yet another IM 
account. One of the main reasons I started to write this client was 
because I couldn't be bothered with Jabber... I can't be the only 
one... can I?

Unlike GAIM, Epistula is written in a modular fashion in that each 
'protocol' is a plugin which can be installed, and updated, seperately 
from the main application and other plugins.

Epistula is initially only in development for AmigaOS 4, but hopefully 
in not-to-distant future, will also be made available for MorphOS, 
AmigaOS 3.1 and AROS.

People looking for individual 68k instant messengers available now 
wouldn't be going far wrong looking at JabberWocky, AmiMSN and 
AmigAIM.
    
Friday, 10th March 2006

I've spent quite a bit of time developing this last week, both 
changing the website and updating the client and MSN plugin. Thanks to 
everyone who sent in numerous crash logs and serial output, they've be 
invaluable in tracking down various bugs.

I'd also like to point out that since Epistula is getting more and 
more stable, that this will be the last update to the demo version. 
All future features will only be available to registered users, 
although plugin updates should also work with the demo.

The following changes have been made to Epistula and the MSN plugin:

    * MSN plugin has now been updated to MSN Protocol 11
    * Group names are now UTF-Decoded/Encoded in the MSN plugin before 
being sent to Epistula
    * Fixed the secure authentication which stopped quite a few people 
logging into MSN. Those unable to login before, but could with GAIM or 
the official client should find this allows them to login with 
Epistula now
    * MSN plugin now respects your initial presence as specified in 
the plugin settings
    * Plugin integration with Epistula has had a massive re-write
    * Epistula will now check for the minimum required MUI custom 
classes before launching
    * General messages window fixed to display the correct message 
when selected from the list
    * Slight cosmetic changes
    * Various memory leaks/bugs fixed

http://www.the-snakepit.co.uk/epistula/
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          U P D A T E   F O R   A P O D   F O R   I P O D 

29 March, 2006

I have just uploaded an update to aPod, my iPod management program.

The new version allows to copy multiple songs across at once and to 
sort the song listview by clicking on the various columns.

apod is an application to mantain and synchronise your mp3 collection 
on your iPod using from a Amiga OS4 computer with usb.

apod is written in perl and utilises the perl_Reaction interface to 
the OS4 reaction gui. The interface with the ipod is maintained using 
the Mac::iPod::GNUpod module.

INSTALLATION:

NOTE: If installing for the first time, apod requires the following 
perl modules to be installed, if updating you only need to copy the 
apod and .apodrc files.


perl_Reaction version .02 available from (os4depot.net)
Mac::iPod::GNUpod (included)
Audio::Wav (included)
MP3::Info (included)
Unicode::String (incuded)
XML::Parser (included)

install any of these you don't yet have by CD ing into their 
directory, starting abc-shell and typing

perl Makefile.PL LINKTYPE=DYNAMIC
make
make install

copy apod and .apodrc to the location of your choice say work:apod/
assign apod: to this directory.

edit the paths in .apodrc to reflect the name of your ipod etc.


PREPARING TOUR IPOD:

You may need to create the directory
<ipodname>:iPod_Control/.gnupod/
otherwise your ipod requires no special initialisation.

Your ipod still requires the apple firmware etc this pogram only 
handles copying of music file to and from the ipod.

USAGE:

perl apod --help

to get usage

or

perldoc apod to get full pod documentation.

HISTORY:

1.1

Added Multiselect to Addsongs.
Song List can now be sorted by Columns

1.0

Initial Public Release



KNOWN BUGS:

The underlying mac::ipod::gnupod module appears to have some problems 
with smartplaylists. If you get a problem with this email me, for a 
workarround.


TODO:

Mac::iPod::GNUpod ofers some sophisticated search options and a 
variation on smartplaylists based on these. adding support for these 
will be done in the not too far distant future.

Send an Feature requests to me by email and I'll see what I can do...


DONATIONS:

This work has been largely been to done to fulfil my own needs and to 
support the amigaos 4 community in general, but it does take a lot of 
time so if you would like to make a donation there is a paypal button 
at http://www.broad.ology.org.uk
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  D I S T R I B U T O R   F O R   _ A M I G A   G U R U _   B O O K 

17 March, 2006 

APC&TCP is proud to announce that it has taken the distribution of the 
"Amiga-Guru-Book".

The over 500 pages thick book in German edition is available now in 
the APC&TCP online shop due to the cooperation with Ralph Babel.

http://www.apc-tcp.de
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              A M I G A S Y S   N E W   V E R S I O N 

21 March, 2006

AmigaSYS 3 R3 for AmigaOS 3.9 users

What is AmigaSYS ?

AmigaSYS is a pre-installed full Amiga OS for WinUAE, like AIAB.
For install, you need a valid KickstartROM 3.0/3.1, and the image file 
of Workbench and Extras Disk 3.0/3.1.

AmigaSYS 2- support Amiga OS 3.9  , needs KickROM 3.1 and optional a 
valid OS 3.9 CD for full features.

AmigaSYS 3 support : H&P AmigaOS 3.9 , Amiga Forever 2005 , and 
AmigaOS XL.
  

New Features :

- New Theme Engine BETA (modified files , extras , new scripts , 
pictures , display mode selecter, faster!).
- New Theme Engine feature, Theme SAVER BETA, SAVE your current theme 
and LOAD anytime!.
- New Theme Engine modified Littlemonster theme.
- New Theme Engine modified Themes ( Picture , display mode etc).

New Programs :

- ADDED AmigaAMP Prefs 1.24.
- ADDED AMISSL v3 for IBROWSE.
- ADDED AKPNG 45.49+ Prefs.
- ADDED AKTIFF 45.49+ Prefs.
- ADDED BareEd 0.9953.
- ADDED JoinSpliter 1.3.
- ADDED LHA 2.12.
- ADDED MMKeyboard 3.16 (WinUAE version , configure your multimedia 
keyboard!).
- ADDED PlayOGG 3.7.
- ADDED Scout 37.285.
- ADDED Some Librarys.
- ADDED TTF Fonts support + 1 BitstreamVera and BitstreamVeraBlondL 
font.


AmigaSYS 3 R3 for AmigaOS 3.0 or 3.1 users

New Features :

- New Modifies FileMaster prefs.
- New Birdie and Wb pattern.
- New Font Prefs.
- New feature BETA , AmigaSYS S, U startup script.
- New Theme Engine BETA (modified files , extras , new scripts , 
pictures , display mode selecter, faster!). 3.9
- New Theme Engine feature, Theme SAVER BETA, SAVE your current theme 
and LOAD anytime!. 3.9
- New Theme Engine modified Littlemonster theme. 3.9
- New Theme Engine modified Themes ( Picture , display mode etc). 3.9

New Programs :

- ADDED AmigaAMP Prefs 1.24.
- ADDED AMISSL v3 for IBROWSE.
- ADDED AKPNG 45.49+ Prefs.
- ADDED AKTIFF 45.49+ Prefs.
- ADDED BareEd 0.9953.
- ADDED JoinSpliter 1.3.
- ADDED LHA 2.12.
- ADDED MMKeyboard 3.16 (WinUAE version , configure your multimedia 
keyboard!).
- ADDED PlayOGG 3.7.
- ADDED Scout 37.285.
- ADDED Some Librarys.
- ADDED TTF Fonts support + 1 BitstreamVera and BitstreamVeraBlondL 
font.


More info and download :

http://amigasys.fw.hu
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        V 0 5   O F   M I N D S P A C E   A V A I L A B L E 

7 March, 2006

MindSpace V05 is now available for download from the MindSpace 
Website.

MindSpace enables the user to produce:
*MindMaps
*Flowcharts
*A range of UML diagrams

In the future, MindSpace will output template code for C/C++ 
structures, functions and classes.


Changes in V05:

*Shadowing - so you can actually see what you are doing!
*Multiple Undo - retrace up to 50 steps
*Menus and keyboard shortcuts

Thanks to all those who voted in the recent poll and for our 
betatesters!

http://www.ast-workshops.co.uk/MindSpace/
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   S C O U T   S Y S T E M   M O N I T O R   -   O S 4   D E P O T

Description:    System monitor (MUI & TCP/IP stack optional)
Download:   scout.lha 
Version:    3.5
Date:   13 Mar 06
Author:     Scout Open Source team
Submitter:  Thore Böckelmann
Email:  tboeckel/gmx de
Homepage:   http://sourceforge.net/projects/scoutos/
Requirements:   AmigaOS 4.0, MUI 3.8
Category:   utility/misc
Replaces:   utility/misc/scout.lha
License:    Other
Distribute:     yes
FileID:     1713

This is the official continuation of the famous (and fabulous :-)
system monitor from Andreas Gelhausen.


What is Scout?
==============

Scout is a tool that allows you to monitor your computer system. It 
displays many different things -- like tasks, ports, assigns, 
expansion boards, resident commands, interrupts, etc. -- and you can 
perform some certain actions on them.

For example you can freeze tasks, close windows and screens, release 
semaphores or remove locks, ports and interrupts.

Through AmiTCP it's also possible to use Scout as a TCP/IP service.

Since version 2.0 of Scout you can use nearly all implemented 
functions through shell parameters. Therefore it's not necessary to 
install MUI for using Scout, but you will need MUI if you want to use 
Scout with its graphical user interface.

BTW: Scout can open 49 different windows! :-)

PS: Along with V3.3 this number is even higher than 49, but I am too 
lazy to count all the different windows :)


Changes from release 3.4 to release 3.5:
========================================

  o This newly created archive also contains the latest NList classes, 
which are also available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nlist-
classes/.

  o Too many changes to list them all. All in all there were almost 
next to no functional changes, but lots of system specific additions. 
The biggest change however is that Scout now comes in a native OS4 
flavour :) That means we now have three different builds: OS2/3, OS4 
and MorphOS. The OS3 build should run under both, OS4 and MorphOS, but 
cannot really make any real advantage of the new system enhancements. 
The OS4 and the MorphOS builds however will make use of system 
specific enhancements as far as this is possible and gives any 
advantage.

  o all builds may list PCI boards in the expansion window. The OS4 
build uses the PCI interface of expansion.library, while the MOS build 
will use openpci.library to query all the details. OS3 support for 
openpci.library will hopefully come in the next release, together with 
a detail window for PCI boards.


http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=utility/misc/
scout.lha
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             A M I D I S K   O N   O S 4   D E P O T 

Description:    File manager for OS4
Download:   amidisk.lha     
Version:    1.04
Date:   14 Mar 06
Author:     FLORAC Roland
Submitter:  FLORAC Roland
Email:  rflorac/free fr
Requirements:   OS4, PowerPC
Category:   utility/filetool
Replaces:   utility/filetool/amidisk.lha
License:    Freeware
Distribute:     yes
FileID:     1718
    
Handles mouse wheel.
Better vertical proportionnal gadgets handler.
Bug on the Comments handler corrected (didn't work for ALL files)
New prefs button to desactivate bubble help.
String gadget path bug corrected (didn't work when the tab wasn't 
active).


Installation :
    If you are updating from a previous version, just copy the AmiDisk
    executable in place of the old one.
    I suggest you don't copy the prefs file if you want to keep your 
    old preferences. Use the import button to try the new classes.

New installation :
    Just copy the AmiDisk drawer in the SYS:utilities drawer. Then 
    delete the files you don't need (catalogs, icons, guide, logo...)
    You can keep only AmiDisk, AmiDisk.info and AmiDisk.prefs if you
    want.

Perhaps, your old configuration will not be totaly readen, launching 
AmiDisk version 1.04. The state of the double clic button is slowly 
modified in the prefs file, so check it in the prefs menu, and save 
the configuration. Il will work on next run.

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=utility/
filetool/amidisk.lha
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01.Apr.2006
Trifolium Website (ANF)


Project Trifolium - Motorola Dual 680x0 processor emulation
Project Trifolium is a dual Motorola 680x0 processor emulation with dynamic recompilation for PowerPC based Amigas.

Dynamic recompilation (or also called just-in-time compilation or simply JIT compilation) is a technique of translation of the emulated processor machine code to an executer processor machine code on-the-fly. This technique is a common method nowadays, usually used in JAVA applications, and it is also applied in several emulators with success.

The target of the emulation is high compatibility with a dual Motorola 68040, without MMU support. The actual version is already running in close cooperation with the interpretive emulation in AmigaOS 4.0.

Trifolium is not officially part of AmigaOS4.

For more information and download links visit the Trivolium Website. (nba)

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31.Mar.2006



amiga-news: Commentary-links on start site for registered visitors
On demand of the many readers the team of amiga-news has changed the the commentary system: The commentaries to the news can be accessed from the start page if the visitor is correctly logged in via cookie.

Visitors who are not registered first must click the news message itself to get to the corresponding commentary.

Hint for registered visitors: If the links are not shown on the start site please log out and then log in again.

Further changes to the commentary system are not planned. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2006
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS-Team: Server maintenance
According to the MorphOS team during the next days some services may fail because the server is maintained. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2006
morphzone.org (Webseite)


MorphOS: HTTP streaming class for Reggae
With "http.stream" Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published another class for his MorphOS library for Stream medias. With http.stream you can get ressources (that means files) with theHTTP protocol in order to decode with Reggae or an external application.

http.stream supports HTTP 1.1, HTTP-Proxies and "chunked transfers" and with the API you can access the HTTP response header. According to the author http.stream is also interesting for programmers (because of the simple connection to own applications) who must access files with their applications via HTTP protocol.

http.stream is available as LhA archive as well as MorphUp-Index. Programmers should use the last one because only this contains the latest version of the Header files.

Download: http.stream-51.2.lha (23 KB) (Autodocs)
MorphUp-Index: teleinfo.pmi (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2006



Amiga-History: Premiere record and TV-Spots
The creators of the website "Industrial Technology and Witchcraft" together with Rüdiger "Granada" Engel and Jim Patterson have found further videos from the glorious time of the Amiga: Additional to the record with Frank Elstner of the Amiga premiere in Frankfurt there are also three TV-spots from Commodore with famous persons.

Download: (nba) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2006
Andreas (ANF)


Print medias: Interview magazine Galore talked to Dave Haynie
The current issue of the interview magazine "Galore" contains an interview with the Amiga legend Dave Haynie. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Mar.2006
MorphOS-ML


MorphOS: Sound Datatypes Pack 3
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has released updated sound-datatypes for MorphOS, as a bug in the mp3.datatype was found: The frame counter was expecting 1152 instead of 576 samples per frame for MPEG-2 Layer III-files. Besides the bugfix the debug output of the sound.datatype was removed.

Download:
sounddatatypespack3.lha (70 KB)
MorphUp-Index (snx) (Translation: ts)

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30.Mar.2006
Pegasos.org (homepage)


Iconbar: Iconlauncher 0.3
The iconbar Iconlauncher is meanwhile available in the Aminet as version 0.3 for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS under the title link(Screenshot). Two files are required: The common archive iconlaunchermain.lha as well as the specific program for your operating system.

Among other things Iconlauncher supports skins, catalogue files, text below the icons and animated icons when you move the mouse over, as well as the playback of sounds oder music when clicking them. Last of all a screen blanker and playback of an audiofile during the bootup of the computer was added.

Features:
  • Icon launch bar
  • Customizable
  • Skinable (6 skins included)
  • 3 included catalog files (catalan, spanish, english)
  • Text under icons
  • Selectable color text
  • Work with Dockies (around 300 images included)
  • Sound support on mouse click over icon
  • Animated icon on mouse over
  • Added one screen blanker - more blankers to follow
  • Added jukebox - automatic playback of random mp3-file at start
  • Information screen for mp3 files - no id3-read yet, though
  • A lot more of new dockies - now in lila style XD
  • AROS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS and AmigaOS/68k executables
(snx) (Translation: ts)

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30.Mar.2006



Diskmag: Jurassic Pack #15 released
Who claims the Diskmag-scene for dead, will be confronted with new facts: Besides EuroChart #48 two days ago the 15th issue of Jurassic Pack was published with the following and other topics: Tagwall Epidemic, 4k - a new playground?, BP05 Stories, The Making Of Ocean Machine, Trip To Breakpoint - the game, The Madness Of Collecting and The Book of Contacts. The Diskmag in English language, which is arranged from Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj, is available in a version for the 68k-Amiga and can be freely downloaded from the official Jurassic Pack website under the title link. (nba) (Translation: ts)

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30.Mar.2006
amigaworld.net/


Demo-Scene: Eurochart 48
The demo group IRIS has published the 48th issue of their chartmag Eurochart. Versions are available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, Linux and Windows.

The magazine's engine is now available for all people interested in own productions: Anybody who wants to create a magazine like Eurochart for AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS, should feel free to get in touch with Chris Dragan. (cg) (Translation: ts)

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29.Mar.2006



AmigaOS 4: aPod 1.1 manges iPod library
aPod manages and synchronizes the MP3 files on Apple's MP3 player iPod (screen shot). aPod is written in Perl and requires Perl 5.8.5 as well as perl_reaction. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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29.Mar.2006
amigaworld.net (website)


WinUAE: Update package 1.1.0 for AmiKit
For AmiKit, a full distribution for WinUAE users, ther is an update package to version 1.1.0 available. The update requires version 1.04 to be installed already. New in AmiKit 1.1.0:
  • AmiKit now supports antialiased TrueType fonts
  • Loading speed of icons has been increased
  • Quality of icon rendering has been improved
  • WinUAE emulation software updated to version 1.2.0
  • AmiKit now contains the largest collection of AmigaOS3.9 patches

Important note: This update includes AfA_OS (AROS for AmigaOS). In case AfA_OS is installed already, it must be removed before updating AmiKit. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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29.Mar.2006
amigaworld.net (website)


AmigaOS 4: Update of the instant messenger epistula
A new version of the modular instant messenger epistula is available fo both, registered and unregisteres users. Also there is an update of the MSN plugin. Many bugs have been removed, which caused a slight change of the plugin interface  - latest plugins won't work with recent versions of Epistula. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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