02.Dec.2005
Ragonsoft.com (ANF)
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Ragonsoft published RagonSnake as Freeware
Ragonsoft published RagonSnake as Freeware and is now available under the title link.
It is a E-Snake-like game for a short break.
RagonSnake is started from the Workbench and is controlled with the joystick.
You have to control a snake which becomes longer and longer and to stay alive as
long as possible.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Dec.2005
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Genesi: MySQL report concerning the Pegasos as server
According to a press release from Genesi under the title link the database
MySQL AB
has published a report
which is about the Pegasos as server.
It is described the increase of performance of Greyhound-Data
with the Altivec optimation on a 1,4 GHz-Pegasos
under Debian. The database has a size of 4 GB.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Dec.2005
RhoSigma, Roland Heyder (ANF)
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Updates of MakeHTMLMap and further RhoSigma Programs
Roland Heyder has revised his programs. Besides MakeHTMLMap and the extra.library even the external preferences editor for MaxonBasic and the line command RandomWBPatt have received an update. Details of the certain innovations can be found under the title link. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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01.Dec.2005
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Genesi: Second ODW accessible at TechOnLine
As Genesi states in a press release under the title link, a second open desktop workstation (ODW) for trial purposes is accessible now via the internet at TechOnLine. The first odw, where Gentoo linux is installed, was the mainly used platform in the virtual lab within the previous half of the year. The new Pegasus runs SUSE-Linux. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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01.Dec.2005
AROS-Exec (homepage)
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AROS: File System SFS ported
Michal Schulz has adapted the file system SFS to AROS and fulfilled the bounty project #36 of the team AROS with it. Additionally the open source amiga clone provides the SFS tools, e. g. one for defragmenting (Screenshot).
You can find additional details in the Forum of AROS-Exec.org. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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30.Nov.2005
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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First demo version of the home banking software proBanking
Today a first demo version of the being under development home banking software "proBanking" has been released. This version 0.40 is a kind of "design study":
It should demonstrate the user how this software will behave in offline mode.
Currently the following actions may be done:
- Assistent aided setup of offline accounts
- Import from transaction data and/or category data from these file formats:
- QIF (Quicken Interchange Format)
- CSV (Exportformat of the German "Sparkasse")
- AmigaKonto (account format of the equally named software)
- Add transactions manually
- Category management
- Receiver list management
- Simple graphic monitor for the account history
- Simple analysis of the transaction data
There is neither a documentation of the avaialble functions available yet, nor are all windows and GUI elements are functionsal.
The software is developed using AmigaOS 3.9.. It should run with the more recent operating systems like MorphOS or AmigaOS 4, but especially with MorphOS there is no warranty of stability.
The author welcomes ideas, proposals, bug reports and feature requests especial since he cannot estimate the demand for a complete online enabled banking software would be.
The implementation of the HBCI interface will be done in a 2nd part of the development, as soon as the software foundation is stable and sufficient. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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30.Nov.2005
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Sub-laptop 4U2 announced
Genesi has announced a sub-laptop called 4U2. The device will be based on the EFIKA 5K2 reference design and the Freescale MPC5200B processor.
The 4U2 will be produced in Asia and is planned to be available in Q2/2006. The 4U2 board can be deployed in a variety of configurations and uses and includes both a mobile and WLAN capability.
The 4U2 is also mentioned in the current blog of Genesi's General Managers Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck. (snx)
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30.Nov.2005
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Cubic IDE: Service Pack 1 released
Dietmar Eilert has released a service pack for his integrated development environment Cubic IDE (formerly known as GoldED).
it fixes several minor bugs. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Nov.2005
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SDL-Shooter Bolcataxian / Ambient-Skin eZ
Bolcataxian 1.0
After the GP32-Version is
Bolcataxian
also available for MorphOS
(Screenshot).
The vertical scroll Shoot'em Up-game in a "Oldschool"-Style needs
PowerSDL.
Download: Bolcataxian10_MOS.lha (670 KB)
eZ
The Ambient-Skin eZ is dark and inculdes two
MUI-config-files - one with and one withoutGradienten.
Download (snx) (Translation: aj)
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28.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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CManager as LGPL released
Alfonso Ranieri released the sourcecode of his Contact Manager
Version 34.4 on Sourceforge.net as LGPL. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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28.Nov.2005
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-AnlagenArchiv 0.75 / SN-HTMLKompress 1.05
Steffen Nitz released the Version 1.05 of his SN-HTMLKompress already,
which comes with a increased packrate of HTML-files of 10%.
Today he released also the update to version 0.75 of his
SN-AnlagenArchive, which works with the actual quotation and a lot of new
additionals. SN-AnlagenArchiv is a managmentsoftware for Gold, Silver,
Platinum and Palladium, as mintage and bullions.
Changes for SN-AnlagenArchiv 0.75:
- Each of Mintages/bullions are recorded for every entry
- The windowtitle of the Stockwindow shows the exchange rate which is
needed for profit
- Choice-gadget for ordered or buyed mintages/bullions and a field for
the sellers name
- it is possible to show two pictures for every entry
- Two new graphical statisitics for metalvalue and the
Zwei neue grafische Statistiken für Metallwert und Auctionvalue-stock
- The mainstatistic shows collectingareas with numbers of mintakes, metalvalue,
auctionvalue, weight
- Now is a textfile for every record available
- globalnote for every record
- exchange quotation completed til 25.Nov.2005
- Demorecord a updated
- Manual updated
- Errors fixed
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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28.Nov.2005
rüpel (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Crossfire 2-Port is finished (Update)
Alinea Computer notify linked to the header that the
OS4-Port of his Shoot'em up "Crossfire 2" is finished and they send the
final version to his Publisher APC&TCP.
All owners of the three years old classic amiga version get as a priceless
update the PPC-Port.Andreas Magerl of APC&TCP notify, that the release
of the Update and the Demoversion for AmigaOS 4 are estimated til the
end of the week.
Update: (28.11.2005, 15:00, cg)
Patch and PPC-Native Demoversion are available at the support area of
APC&TCP. The Publisher thanks to
Alinea Computer and Steffen Häuser, they maked the OS4-Port possible. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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28.Nov.2005
ABS (ANF)
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Amiga-meeting in Wolfenbüttel are suspended
The organizer of the Amiga-meeting in Wolfenbüttel suspend the next
meeting and notify organizational items and the actual weather situation
as reason (amiga-news
report).The next Amiga-Meeting will be starts at the middle of march
The exact date will be notify at the begin of february 2006. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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28.Nov.2005
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Aminet-Uploads til 27.11.2005
Aminet-Uploads til 27.11.2005:
agenda.lha biz/dbase 801K VAR Nice and easy address & phone book (OS4,
agendafr.lha biz/dbase 0K GEN French Catalog file for AGENDA - (readme
wookiechat.lha comm/irc 369K VAR IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat) - (read
amidyndns.lha comm/tcp 58K OS3 GUI/CLI Client for DynDNS.org services -
libablit.lha dev/c 2.4M OS4 Alpha Channel Blit Library - (readme)
vmwcc-mos.lha dev/c 218K MOS c-subset compiler - (readme)
amilua_a68k-amigaos.lha dev/lang 213K OS3 Lua with Siamiga.lib - (readme)
amilua_src.lha dev/lang 233K GEN Lua with Siamiga.lib - (readme)
AutoDocReader.lha dev/misc 163K OS3 Viewer for autodocs, header C and other
id-utils-3.2.lha dev/misc 685K VAR Language-independent identifier database
sdl_perl.lha dev/misc 2.1M OS4 Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for
avd_template.lha dev/src 194K OS4 AVD Template Project - Skeleton OS4 appl
AMIthlon_net.lha docs/help 961K GEN How to setup AMIthlon on ADSL or cable.
StarVoyager_OS4.lha game/actio 710K OS4 Startrek themed network game - (readme)
TargetAcquired_OS4.lha game/actio 271K OS4 Yet Another Vertical scrolling shootem u
WOK_OS4.lha game/actio 1.3M OS4 Oddly attractive ball tossing game - (re
ularn_fin.lha game/data 75K GEN Finnish catalog for ULarn - (readme)
linuxlunarlander_OS4.lha game/misc 773K OS4 Land Your Lunar - (readme)
linuxshuttlelander_OS4.lha game/misc 1.2M OS4 Land Your Space Shuttle! - (readme)
Spout_OS4.lha game/misc 189K OS4 An abstract caveflyer, obscure as it can
TowerToppler_OS4.lha game/misc 1.5M OS4 Remake of the old classic Nebulus (Hewso
TuxMath_OS4.lha game/misc 1.9M OS4 Math game, mixed with Missile command -
TuxType_OS4.lha game/misc 5.0M OS4 Learn how to spell / use the keyboard -
NameOfGame_PRV_OS4.lha game/role 4.3M OS4 Preview of a TopDown RPG game - (readme)
SDLroids_OS4.lha game/shoot 579K OS4 Yet Another Asteroids clone - (readme)
TankCommand_OS4.lha game/shoot 3.1M OS4 Fast paced 2D arcade tank game - (readme
Tunnel_OS4.lha game/shoot 1.0M OS4 Weird Tunnel Racer shooter - (readme)
level9_40_amiga.lha game/text 53K OS3 Level9 text adventures interpreter - (re
magnetic22amiga.lha game/text 101K OS3 Magnetic Scrolls text adventures utiliti
magx065amiga.lha game/text 173K OS3 text adventures compiler - (readme)
magx065amiga_ppc.lha game/text 176K WUP text adventures compiler - (readme)
BlockAttack_OS4.lha game/think 5.3M OS4 Tetris Attack Clone (SNES) - (readme)
sdl-toms-mos.lha game/think 162K MOS An SDL "Atoms" clone - (readme)
povraymos.lha gfx/3d 11M MOS Commandline based raytracer - (readme)
GS8gui.lha gfx/conv 42K GEN GUI for Ghostscript8 done with rxMUI - (
MPLEXex.lha gfx/conv 183K VAR Create MPEG system from MPEG video and M
scr2gif-mos.lha gfx/conv 24K MOS Spectrum Screen to GIF converter - (read
scr2gif.lha gfx/conv 12K OS3 Spectrum Screen to GIF converter - (read
zxscredit-mos.lha gfx/edit 105K MOS ZX-Spectrum SCREEN editor - (readme)
save_png.lha gfx/ifx 2K GEN Save files as pngs using AutoFX - (readm
viewilbm_1.11.lha gfx/show 377K OS4 Displays IFF-ILBM pictures, supports col
zxscrview-mos.lha gfx/show 23K MOS ZX-Spectrum SCREEN viewer - (readme)
PAR_READ.lha hard/hack 327K OS3 PAR: as a VOLUME in READ mode only. - (r
mecanos3.lha misc/edu 897K OS3 Demo of a new type writer teacher - (rea
xjdic.lha misc/edu 128K OS3 EDICT dictionary utils - (readme)
bas2tap-mos.lha misc/emu 62K MOS Spectrum Basic file to TAP tape image co
snapconv-mos.lha misc/emu 206K MOS Spectrum snapshot converter - (readme)
z802tzx-mos.lha misc/emu 63K MOS Z80 Snapshot to TZX Tape Converter - (re
z802tzx.lha misc/emu 37K OS3 Z80 Snapshot to TZX Tape Converter - (re
ASense.lha misc/sci 865K OS3 Professional astrology software - (readm
ASenseFPU.lha misc/sci 290K OS3 Professional astrology software - (readm
partyland_techno.mp3 mods/mpg 3.5M GEN Pinball Fantasies Partyland Remix - (rea
rockbeat.lha mus/edit 1.7M OS4 Create drumming tracks and export them a
ADPCM_dec.lha mus/misc 28K OS3 Decoder for Christian Buchner's ADPCM pa
SimpleSamples.lha mus/play 44K OS3 Little musical toy for PAL AMIGAs - (rea
ez.lha pix/theme 88K GEN eZ MorphOS skin - (readme)
morphqs+.lha pix/theme 161K GEN MorphQS+ MorpOS skin - (readme)
morphqs.lha pix/theme 87K GEN MorphQS MorpOS skin - (readme)
ibrowse.jpg pix/wb 187K GEN IBrowse 2.3 - (readme)
mui.jpg pix/wb 45K GEN Zami-based MUI? - (readme)
wb2.jpg pix/wb 179K GEN Helgis Zami MUI Network Shot! - (readme)
anotice_pl.lha text/edit 6K GEN ANotice 2 - polish locale - (readme)
cabextract_OS4.lha util/arc 37K OS4 Extraction tool for Windows CAB files -
Unshield_OS4.lha util/arc 42K OS4 Tool to extract Microsoft Cabinet Files
Tree178.lha util/cli 129K OS3 Lists Directory content tree-like - (rea
au_dt.lha util/dtype 38K OS4 OS4 native Sun/NeXT .au datatype, with s
wave_dt.lha util/dtype 113K OS4 An OS4 native RIFF-WAVE datatype, with s
sed-4.1.4-bin_os4.lha util/gnu 331K OS4 The GNU sed stream editor - (readme)
abc-shell_hnl.tar.bz2 util/misc 432K OS4 Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell - (readme)
headtail13.lha util/shell 45K OS4 Show first/last n lines/chars/blocks of
OrthodoxLent.lha util/time 11K VAR Calculate orthodox lent - (readme)
AmiSnap11.lha util/wb 31K OS4 Iconify any window on your wb with FX -
wbclose.lha util/wb 7K OS4 Close drawers from the shell and scripts
wbopen.lha util/wb 7K OS4 Open drawers and icons from the shell an
wet.lha util/wb 665K OS4 Weather conditions on Workbench 4, AppIc
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 27.11.2005
os4depot.net uploads til 27.11.2005:
wok.lha gam/act 1Mb Oddly attractive ball tossing game
viewilbm.lha gra/vie 376kb Displays IFF-ILBM pictures, supports col
wet.lha uti/wor 665kb Weather conditions on Workbench 4, AppIc
tunnel.lha gam/act 1Mb Weird Tunnel Racer shooter
tuxmath.lha gam/chi 1Mb Math game, mixed with Missile command
tuxtype.lha gam/chi 4Mb Learn how to spell / use the keyboard
towertoppler.lha gam/mis 1Mb Remake of the old classic Nebulous (Hews
blockattack.lha gam/puz 5Mb Tetris Attack Clone (SNES)
aweb_navbuttons.zip net/bro 29kb Aweb custom navigation buttons
amisnap_fx.lha uti/wor 30kb Iconify any window on your wb with FX
ahiusr.lha aud/mis 783kb Retargetable audio User's Archive
rockbeat.lha aud/tra 1Mb Create drumming tracks and export them a
ahidev.lha dev/lib 971kb Retargetable audio, Developer's Archive
linuxlunarlander.lha gam/mis 772kb Land Your Lunar
linuxshuttlelander.lha gam/mis 1Mb Land Your Space Shuttle!
cabextract.lha uti/fil 36kb Extraction tool for Windows CAB files
unshield.lha uti/fil 42kb Tool to extract Microsoft Cabinet Files
anotice_pl.lha uti/tex 5kb ANotice 2 - polish locale
avd_template.lha dev/exa 194kb AVD Template Project - Skeleton OS4 appl
sdl_perl.lha dev/lib 2Mb Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for
starvoyager.lha gam/act 710kb Startrek themed network game
tankcommand.lha gam/act 3Mb Fast paced 2D arcade tank game
targetacquired.lha gam/act 271kb Yet Another Vertical scrolling shootem u
headtail.lha uti/she 44kb Show first/last n lines/chars/blocks of
wbclose.lha uti/she 6kb Close drawers from the shell and scripts
wbopen.lha uti/she 6kb Open drawers and icons from the shell an
au_dt.lha dat/sou 37kb OS4 native Sun/NeXT .au datatype, with s
wave_dt.lha dat/sou 113kb An OS4 native RIFF-WAVE datatype, with s
sdlroids.lha gam/act 578kb Yet Another Asteroids clone
spout.lha gam/mis 189kb an abstract caveflier , obscure as it ca
libablit.lha dev/lib 2Mb Alpha Channel Blit Library
abc-shell.tar.bz2 dev/uti 431kb Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
wookiechat.lha net/cha 369kb IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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28.Nov.2005
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Aros-Archives: Uploads til 27.11.2005
aros-archives uploads til 27.11.2005:
i386-aros-gocr039.lha gra/con 1Mb i386-aros-gocr039
cartoonish.zip gra/ico 694kb 64x64 png icons
rubix.i386.lha gam/puz 112kb Port of rubix, a rubik's cube game (w/sr
(cg)
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27.Nov.2005
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AFA OS: New beta version for the final 3.91 release
AFA OS ("AROS for AmigaOS") extends AmigaOS 3.x with functions of the open source operating system AROS. With the current beta test, Version 3.91 should be finalized. On this, Bernd Roesch, the initiator of the project, writes:
"Since AFA OS was now tested by some, and all known bugs were fixed, it now comes to the final beta test. If there are no more problems, this will be the final version 3.91.
A problem was noted, where it would be the best solution that all Amiga systems can use TrueType fonts without .otag files. In Aminet, there are, for example, Vera-Fonts, which feature an incompatible .otag file. It would be best if the freetype2.library, which MorphOS and AROS as well as AFA use, goes without the .otag file. Then, you do not have to create it by Fontmanager. Also, under Windows, you can just copy the files to it and it runs. But I am not familiar with TrueType fonts. Fonts that work with AFA have an .otag file, in which "freetype2.library" appears. In the enclosed fonts, you can also check what this should look like. Also it seems as if you must copy the fonts into the SYS:Fonts directory.
Error corrections:
- With the new datatype, pictures with 256 colors were displayed wrongly on 32 bit screens
- Archive is now available in LhA format, since there were problems with the protection bits in the ZIP format
- My E-Mail address was stated wrongly in the Readme file (without <>) - now you can copy and paste it into the E-Mail program
Improvements:
- Installation script by David Eriksson (fx)
- Adjustable anti-alias intensity in 100 gradations, to specify an individual optimum between pixelation and blurring - at lower anti-alias value, the processor load turns out accordingly lower, too
- 39 of the most commonly used AmigaOS functions of the exec.library of AROS are now used by AFA. The AmigaOS exec possesses more than 119 functions. For the rest, it will be more difficult to find out whether they can be used, since I do not even know what they do, to some extent. Therefore, it would be nice if someone could help here, to test the remaining functions as well, or to write a test program.
All commands should be made safe, so that they do not produce memtrash with wrong parameters, or cause the system to crash. At present, the following commands are safe:
- GetMsg
- ReplyMsg
- SendIO
- CheckIO
- DoIO
- WaitIO
- RemHead
If these commands are called with nonsensical values, an Enforcer hit will be produced, if the Enforcer is running (tst.l $0) and the command does nothing. Only one Enforcer hit is known to me. The ReplyMsg command from Fontprefs 3.5 does this, because the message has already received an answer (you detect this in the node type). But it runs without problems anyhow.
If someone has problems with the software, whereat he suspects that it comes from the exec.library, then he may delete the library through a restart, try it once again, and please report which library causes the problem.
In this regard, the AROS source code has several compatibility problems/bugs that are already changed in AFA. Though I reported these, I do not know to what extent it is adopted. Also, it looks as if no interest exists on the part of the AROS developers to make the operating system more crash-safe through this.
Whoever wants to compile exec and meets with crashes, which do not exist with the binary file, may please send an E-Mail, I send the up-to-date files then." (snx) (Translation: cad)
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27.Nov.2005
Jan Zahurancik (ANF)
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WinUAE: OS-Distribution Amikit, including Opus Magellan 2
Amikit is another complete distribution for WinUAE users, similar to AIAB or AmigaSys. As a highlight, the package includes a completely functional trial version of the well-known file manager Directory Opus Magellan. Windows as well as WinUAE with an existing AmigaOS installation are required.
Note: The trial version of Opus Magellan 2 is not registered, i.e. there is an "annoying requester" to acknowledge when starting, moreover, the program start is delayed for 10 seconds.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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26.Nov.2005
PPCNUX (ANF)
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PPCNUX: better gaming under MorphOS - Radeon 9000 vs. 8500
PPCNUX made another test regarding graphics boards installed in the Pegasos II running under MorphOS. This time they compared last time's winner, the Radeon 9000 Pro AIW, with an 8500 LE graphics card. Next to the usual 3D games benchmarks there's an overview of the 2D power of the boards tested the last time.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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26.Nov.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: information/demo/update CD with all issues of the NoCover
The information/demo/update CD by APC&TCP, availble now, contains next to demo versions and patches all 125 issues of the no longer published online magazine NoCover. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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26.Nov.2005
MaaG^dA (ANF)
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AutoDocReader 1.1
Marian Guc has released version 1.1 of his AutoDocReader for AmigaOS and MorphOS. Changes since the previous release:
- ARexx support
- New icon (by Thore Sittly)
- Locale update
- Bugfixes
- Bugtracker added
(snx)
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25.Nov.2005
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: News from Alinea Computer
Wehrheim, Germany,
24. November 2005.
We want to announce the following news:
AmiWebView :
The Webcam-Viewer AmiWebView has no longer beta status and now supports the HTTP 1.1-protocol.
You can find the updated version in our download section.
ANotice 2:
Now for ANotice 2 a Polish catalog is available.
You can download it in our download section.
We want to thank the translators Szymon Tomzik and Sebastian Rosa.
New product in our shop:
From now on you can order the SDK Browser from BITbyBIT Software Group in our Onlineshop.
You can get it for 22,95 Euro and it will be delivered via email.
You can get more information to this product at
BitbyBitSoftware.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Nov.2005
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: KEGS emulates Apple II GS
KEGS emulates an Apple II GS (screenshot).
A ROM image in version ROM.01 or ROM.03 is required.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Nov.2005
Ragonsoft.com (ANF)
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Ragonsoft published Speedpaint as Freeware
As already announced Ragonsoft published the paint program Speedpaint
(screenshot)
as Freeware for Classic Amigas. Speedpaint is similar to Deluxe Paint and is meant for
pixel graphics but it offers not so many functions.
Like all other programs and games from Ragonsoft for Classic Amigas Speedpaint was
completely developed in AMOS Pro,too. You can get further information to SpeedPaint
under the title link in the section "Tools, Software, Downloads".
Download: SpeedPaint.zip (75 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Nov.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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No Risc No Fun will be closed
Fabio Trottas "No Risc No Fun" which is a review and article collection to the Amiga
will be closed. The contents were integrated to amigafuture.de.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Nov.2005
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Aminet: Status update November 2005
October and November have been two quite busy months for us. The following is a short summary of the most important changes - a detailed list can be found at our news section.
A lot of bug hunting and fixing has been going on behind the scenes. The internal scripts and the database got quite a lot of tweaking and finetuning.
The entire Aminet tree needed some cleaning up as well. All archives have a proper architecture field by now, lots of (very) old archives were missing their readmes or readme files were shared between archives (foo.lzh and foo.lha both had foo.readme). We could even resurrect some ancient archives that were accidentally deleted from the indices years ago.
The mailing lists are back - if you want to get daily or weekly e-mails listing the recent uploads, just send a mail to aminet-daily-subscribe@aminet.net or aminet-weekly-subscribe@aminet.net. They do not carry information about a package's architecture yet, but we're working on that.
Aminet mirrors are on the verge to be rolled out properly. A new German mirror hosted by Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea is already online and can be accessed at de4.aminet.net for now. We're still missing a mirror in eastern europe - if you think you can help out, please get in touch with us.
The uploader's e-mail address gets obfuscated now, both in the web interface and in the actual readme. Please note that this field is now strictly required - not specifying an e-mail address may result in your upload getting deleted.
The statistics have been expanded aswell - we have uploader stats now. This month's most active uploader is Tony "I was born for SDL" Aksnes. If you want to compete with him, make sure your uploader field is spelled exactly the same on all your uploads.
The search function now supports Amiga wildcards: You can search for foo?.lha, foo#?.lha or even foo*.lha. Searching readmes should be quite a lot faster now aswell, though the database is still busy indexing all the readme files.
Most of you will have recognised it already: You can now configure Aminet to your liking. Simply go to Setup and select which architectures you want to have displayed. This setting affects all aspects of the web interface (recent uploads, directory browsing, search function).
During the first six months of this year, we did have some problems: Packages didn't get moderated as regularly as we would have wished, we had database problems and the server went down several times. These issues should be solved by now - as far as we can tell everything is running smoothly. But please don't hesitate to drop us a note if you encounter any problems or just want to give some feedback. We're open to suggestions aswell: If you have an idea for improving Aminet, let us know.
Last but not least: October was a new record month for uploads and in November we surpassed the year 2003 in terms of uploads, making 2005 the first year Aminet's upload rate rises since 1997!
(cg)
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25.Nov.2005
antibike (ANF)
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MorphOS: First public beta of the "Packet Management" system MorphUp
Rupert "naTmeg" Hausberger has published the first beta version of his Paket-Manager
MorphUp. MorphUp is supposed to simplify the installation of software by installing
required libraries automatically.
According to the status update
the client is in early status but the "Generator" already works and so you
can get a first impression.
Download: morphup_beta.lha (163 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Nov.2005
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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E3B and individual Computers stop selling hardware
Jens Schönfeld from individual computers announces that both individual and E3B are going to stop selling hardware for now:
"Both companies, who became famous for innovative and powerful hardware expansions
for classic Amiga computers, are forced to stop selling hardware until further notice due to
changes in German law. No hardware is being shipped within the EU, neither to resellers,
nor to direct customers.
According to the national implementation of EU-directive 2002/96/EG into German law (Bundesgesetzblatt 2005 Teil I Nr. 17), every vendor in Germany must be registered
with the Stiftung EAR.
For vendors from outside Germany, the importer must be registered, in case the vendor himself is not
registered in Germany. This law applies to all electronic products that are mentioned in rule
EAR 03-011, no matter what country they come from - within or outside the European union.
The new law aims at vendors and importers, who need to take resposibility for the electronic devices
if they are discarded at the end of the product's life. Putting electronic devices into circulation
without being registered (indicated by a trashcan symbol) is against German law since today, and can
be penalized with a monetary fine of up to 50.000,- EUR.
Due to the complicated implementation by German authorities, it's not easy to estimate the consequences
and the new obligations created by this law. In addition to that, the extremely high administration effort
goes with high fees that must be paid to the Stiftung EAR - especially smaller companies' existance is
endangered by the fees that are more than one hundred times higher than the recycling cost itself.
individual computers and E3B, who have been developing
and producing in Germany for many years, are now evaluating possibilities to comply with the strict rules
in a close cooperation, so customers all over Europe can continue to buy top quality products from Germany.
Both companies want to act responsible and sustainable in this regard.
Many issues are not yet resolved, therefore both companies cannot continue to deliver hardware to customers
and resellers within the European union. Customers outside the EU are not affected by this decision.
We're hoping to proceed with the necessary steps in a timely manner. Unfortunately, the "Stiftung EAR"
cannot cope with the bureaucracy created by their own rules, so our registration number is not yet assigned. We are of course interested in continuing to offer innovative products, and will do everything to keep the shortage as short as possible. We're asking for your indulgence for any inconveniences." (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Nov.2005
Ragonsoft (ANF)
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"Der Händler" of Ragonsoft published as freeware
Ragonsoft has released the game "Der Händler" for free download. According to the producer the game is very old and was nearly finished even before "Another Commander".
Following Ragonsoft projects of the same time period (1996/97) will be shortly released as freeware:
- Speedpaint (graphics programm similar to DPaint, but less comfortable)
- RagonSnake (variant of E-Snake)
All this products were finally developed and compiled within this quarter. (nba) (Translation: ts)
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22.Nov.2005
antibike (ANF)
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driver system: AHI 6.0
Martin Blom has published version 6.0 (Final) of his soundcard driver system AHI. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, Amithlon an AROS are available under the link above. (cg)
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22.Nov.2005
Aaron Leitch (ANF)
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USB: improved digitiser tablet support in Poseidon
Due to various enquiries from users Chris Hodges decided to improve the support for Wacom digitiser tablets in his USB stack Poseidon.
The following tablets can in the future not only be used in the "relative coordinates mode", but also in the "absolute coordinates mode" - the corresponding beta tests will start shortly:
- Cintiq 21 UX
- Cintiq Partner
- DTF-720
- Graphire
- Graphire 2 4x5
- Graphire 2 5x7
- Graphire 3
- Graphire 3 6x8
- Graphire 4 4x5
- Graphire 4 6x8
- Intuos 4x5
- Intuos 6x8
- Intuos 9x12
- Intuos 12x12
- Intuos 12x18
- Intuos 2 12x12
- Intuos 2 12x18
- Intuos 2 4x5
- Intuos 2 6x8
- Intuos 2 6x8
- Intuos 2 9x12
- Intuos 3 4x5
- Intuos 3 6x11
- Intuos 3 6x8
- Intuos 3 9x12
- PenPartner
- PenPartner 2
- PenStation 2
- PL-400
- PL-500
- PL-510
- PL-550
- PL-600
- PL-600 SX
- PL-700
- PL-710
- PL-800
- Volito
- Volito 2 2x3
- Volito 2 4x5
(cg)
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22.Nov.2005
PPCZone (Webseite)
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Linux: Hardened Gentoo on the Pegasos (englisch)
Chris White started under the link above to give instructions for the installation of Hardened Gentoo on the Pegasos. This project aims at using the Linux distribution Gentoo in surroundings which require especially high safety and stability.
The first part of the intructions deals with the kernel compilation. (snx) (Translation: iw)
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22.Nov.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Issues 20-22 of Amiga Future can be read online
In the article database (link above) of Amiga Future the articles from the issues 20, 21 and 22 are now available and can be read online, among others there are articles about TFX, Wasted Dreams, Nightlong, Heretic 2, WipEout 2097 and AmigaOS 3.5. (nba) (Translation: iw)
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22.Nov.2005
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: new Ambient-Skin MorphQS
The new Ambient-Skin MorphQS from 'Toto' is loosely based on the Mercury-Skin for gnomes (Screenshot). (snx) (Translation: iw)
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22.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell 0.0.34
Henning Nielsen Lund provided the Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell for AmigaOS 4 in the version 0.0.34. The update comprises the latest settlement of errors of pdksh from Debian and OpenBSD. In addition SDK:Local/C was added to the standard path. The ABC-Shell is able to ease portings from POSIX systems due to its Bourne/POSIX compatibility.
Download: abc-shell.tar.bz2 (432 KB) (snx) (Translation: iw)
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21.Nov.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Commodore Gebruikers Groep on the HCC Expo
The "Commodore Gebruikers Groep" (CGG) are also this year on the
netherlands HCC Expo.
This is a Game and Computerfair, with more than 105.000 Visitors last year.
The CGG is located in Hall 10, stand Number 10F018. The club presents the
possiblility to play old Games on the original hardware and a lot of
presentations e.g. a introduction how to code a scene-demo on a C64 or
Amiga.
The HCC Expo is from 25. til 27. November in Utrecht (Dutch). (cg) (Translation: aj)
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21.Nov.2005
(ANF)
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IRC-Klient: Wookiechat 1.9.1 for AmigaOS 3/4
The newest Version 1.9.1 of the MUI-based IRC-Klients Wookiechat (Screenshot) is available in Versionen for AmigaOS 3 and 4 with following changes:
- When you're holding down the left mouse button highlighting text, channel messages etc are paused until you let go.
- "Unknown nick" and "Cannot send to channel" messages are displayed in their proper tabs again
- Channel lists are no longer sorted alphabetically. It was causing a huge drain on the CPU when thousands of channels were present. It sometimes led to a crash.
- No more garbled channel part messages
- "Clear all" button added to the URL Grabber window
- Added code to prevent DCC Transfers window from popping to the front when you get an incoming file if its already open in the background somewhere
- 68k WookieChat development has resumed, and it longer hangs when recieving incoming DCC sends. A divide by zero bug in the file transfer stats function has been removed! (thank you wegster for telling me what was wrong)
- Now works with WebChat and DarkMyst networks (homes of #amiga.org and #amigazeux). Wookie was doing its connection detection in a slightly bad way previously.
- Clicking in the main chat display now activates the chat string gadget
- Outgoing swear word filter. use /filter to toggle on and off
Download: WookieChat1_9_1.lha (370 KB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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21.Nov.2005
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Drumcomputer Rockbeat 1.3
The Software-Drumcomputer Rockbeat is now in Version 1.3 available.
Changes since last version:
- Position LED's light up while playing, and scrolls automatically
- You can now switch between drumkits, and it will remember the last
drumkit you used.
Download: RockBEAT1_3.lha (1,6 MB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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21.Nov.2005
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Aminet-Uploads since 20.11.2005
Aminet-Uploads since our last news report:
qsilver-ws.lha comm/www 22K GEN HTTP/1.0 compliant webserver in ARexx
Explosions_y2k1y2k5_OS4.lha demo/file 666K OS4 Example Code , 2 Sets from 2001 and 2005
lamintvro.lha demo/mag 258K OS3 lame warp3d intvro
bintoc.lha dev/c 14K VAR Binary to C source converter
simplecat.lha dev/misc 103K VAR Powerful CatComp replacement
lyrics.lha docs/misc 57K GEN Trance/Techno song texts (lyrics)
AirSeaBattle_OS4.lha game/2play 1.4M OS4 Shoot down the airplanes with your brand
Apricots_OS4.lha game/2play 2.1M OS4 Small mulitplayer Shooter , nice and fas
Foosball_OS4.lha game/2play 329K OS4 Board football, The oldschool type!
DeathChase3D_OS4.lha game/actio 181K OS4 Fast 3d Starwars game based on Starwars
Connect4_OS4.lha game/board 875K OS4 4 in a row puzzler
dossizola_mos.lha game/board 932K MOS Simple SDL game: block your opponent
Dossizola_OS4.lha game/board 1.2M OS4 Block Your opponent!
WoodenBars.lha game/demo 43K OS3 Simple bars game for all the PAL AMIGAs
Netrok_OS4.lha game/jump 825K OS4 Mario Bros type of game but with new ide
FreeFallinFred_OS4.lha game/misc 917K OS4 Remake of the old game Parachute.
Late_OS4.lha game/misc 2.0M OS4 An Qix/Styx/Barrack clone
LinuxLunarLander_OS4.lha game/misc 801K OS4 Land Your Lunar
LinuxShuttleLander_OS4.lha game/misc 1.2M OS4 Land Your Space Shuttle!
Fanwor_os4.lha game/role 822K OS4 Zelda clone , with oldschool gfx and mus
NameOfGame_PRV_OS4.lha game/role 4.3M OS4 Preview of a TopDown RPG game
CertainDeathViaSpaceThi.lha game/shoot 739K OS4 Fast Vertical Shoot em up with a very st
HeroesOfRoswell_OS4.lha game/shoot 3.0M OS4 Vertical ShootEmup with good theme and g
HighMoon_OS4.lha game/shoot 2.6M OS4 The First Worms Clone on OS4 , and it's
KETM_os4.lha game/shoot 2.4M OS4 A Very stylish Shoot Em up
Anagramarama_OS4.lha game/think 1.3M OS4 Word puzzler , with nice gfx and blips a
FloboPuyo_OS4.lha game/think 3.4M OS4 The best PuyoPuyo clone ever made!
InterLogic_OS4.lha game/think 3.4M OS4 Remake of an old Amiga Classic , great g
MatchBall_OS4.lha game/think 2.0M OS4 Connect'a puzzler , with gfx themes etc
amiphoto_guis.lha gfx/misc 572K GEN GUIs for AmiPhoto v1
anotice_textures.lha gfx/misc 1.3M GEN Textures for ANotice v2
WarpView.lha gfx/show 33K OS4 A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
datutil.lha misc/emu 118K OS3 Data file creation/conversion tool
generator_mos.lha misc/emu 320K MOS Sega Genesis/Megadrive Emulator
mamediff.lha misc/emu 125K OS3 Data file comparison tool
ADPCM_dec.lha mus/misc 26K OS3 Decoder for Christian Buchner's ADPCM pa
playOGG.lha mus/play 1.0M OS3 Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
katydid.jpg pix/fauna 120K GEN Green grasshopper (katydid)
scummbubbles2.lha pix/icon 348K GEN Scumm VM Bubbles in png format
systempatch2.lha util/boot 46K OS3 Speedup patch for 68020+
r.lha util/cli 242K VAR Just in time GUIs for nearly any DOS com
sed-4.1.4-bin_os4.lha util/gnu 325K OS4 The GNU sed stream editor
sed-4.1.4-diff_os4.lha util/gnu 1K GEN The GNU sed stream editor
sed-4.1.4-src_os4.lha util/gnu 1.0M GEN The GNU sed stream editor
pngalpha_lib.lha util/libs 61K OS3 Load alpha channel data from PNG picture
cliexchange15.lha util/shell 19K OS4 Shell equivalent to Exchange
echo2debug.lha util/shell 13K OS4 Echo a string to the debug output
MultiView.lha util/sys 55K OS3 The datatype frontend (AROS backport)
wet.lha util/wb 664K OS4 Weather conditions on Workbench 4, AppIc
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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21.Nov.2005
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 20.11.2005
os4depot.net uploads since our last news report:
highmoon.lha gam/act 2Mb The First Worms Clone on OS4 , and it's
late.lha gam/mis 1Mb An Qix/Styx/Barrack clone
linuxlunarlander.lha gam/mis 801kb Land Your Lunar
linuxshuttlelander.lha gam/mis 1Mb Land Your Space Shuttle!
nameofgame.lha gam/rol 4Mb Preview of an TopDown RPG game
matchball.lha gam/str 2Mb Connect'a puzzler , with gfx themes etc
wet.lha uti/wor 663kb Weather conditions on Workbench 4, AppIc
heroesofroswell.lha gam/act 3Mb Vertical ShootEmup with good theme and g
ketm.lha gam/act 2Mb A Very stylish Shoot Em up
interlogic.lha gam/puz 3Mb Remake of an old Amiga Classic , great g
connect4.lha gam/str 874kb 4 in a row puzzler
dvplayer-amixp.zip vid/pla 40kb Skin dvplayer Os4
mixer_blue_skin.lha aud/mis 12kb Skin Blue for OS4 Audio mixer
explosions.lha dem/mis 665kb Example Code , 2 Sets from 2001 and 2005
noiz2sa.lha gam/act 9Mb An abstract shoot'em up game by Kenta Ch
fanwor.lha gam/adv 822kb Zelda clone , with oldschool gfx and mus
fred.lha gam/mis 916kb Remake of the old game Parachute.
flobopuyo.lha gam/puz 3Mb The best PuyoPuyo clone ever made!
foosball.lha gam/spo 328kb Board football, The oldschool type!
echo2debug.lha uti/she 13kb Echo a string to the debug output
airseabattle.lha gam/act 1Mb Shoot down the airplanes with your brand
apricots.lha gam/act 2Mb Small mulitplayer Shooter , nice and fas
cdvst.lha gam/act 739kb Fast Vertical Shoot em up with a very st
deathchase3d.lha gam/dri 180kb Very fast 3d Starwars game based on Star
anagramarama.lha gam/puz 1Mb Word puzzler , with nice gfx and blips a
netrok.lha gam/pla 824kb Mario Bros type of game but with new ide
processtorrent.lha uti/scr 3kb Arexx-Script to handle .torrent files
cliexchange.lha uti/she 18kb Shell equivalent to Exchange
dossizola.lha gam/boa 1Mb Block Your opponent!.
amiphoto_guis.lha gra/the 571kb GUIs for AmiPhoto v1
anotice_textures.lha gra/the 1Mb Textures for ANotice v2
warpview.lha gra/vie 33kb A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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21.Nov.2005
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Aros Archives: Uploads til 20.11.2005
Uploads of aros-archives since our last news report:
i386-aros-cross-gcc-3.3.1-cygwin.zip dev/cro 38Mb i386 AROS Cross GCC For Cygwin
soliton.rar gam/ 114kb Port of Solitaire-like Amiga Game
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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20.Nov.2005
Amiga Future (Web page)
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MorphOS: TD-MPlayer-GUI 0.5
The multi-platform developer group TDolphin has released the MorphOS version 0.5 of its graphical user interface for the video player MPlayer. The update contains, among others, a button for minimizing as well as additional bubble help texts.
Download: tdmplayergui.lha (50 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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20.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Weather program Wet 4.1 with AmiDock support
In addition to the weather display in the title bar or as an icon on the Workbench, Version 4.1 of the AmigaOS 4 program Wet now offers this functionality for the AmiDock as well. Moreover, the program can now be run behind a proxy server also.
Download: wet.lha (664 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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20.Nov.2005
MorphOS-News.de (Web page)
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PDF-Book "Le livre du Pegasos" now in English translation as well
The 148-page book "Le livre du Pegasos," available as a PDF file, for which translators had been sought (reported by amiga-news.de), is now available in a first, though still incomplete, English version as well. At present, Mac OS X as well as half of the Linux section are still missing.
Aim of the book is to bring information and articles on every aspect of the Pegasos and its operating systems (MorphOS, Linux, Mac OS X via Mac-on-Linux) together in a single document, so that these can be consulted offline as well, and printed without problems.
Translations to more languages (German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Swedish and Polish) are already in the works. In the meantime, donations can be made to the authors and translators, too. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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20.Nov.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Example-Project: Skeletal animation with Blender
Carsten Siegner has created a small animation for the raytracer Blender, which demonstrates the insertion of skeletal animations in a real scene. In doing so, the so-called shadow objects are used as well, meaning objects that are not depicted themselves, but rather, only cast a shadow. With shadow objects, you can furnish every 3D object in a real scene with shadows.
Download: Skelett.lha (440 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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20.Nov.2005
ANN (Web page)
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Audio-Decoder: ADPCM_dec 1.2
Lorence Lombardo has released an update of ADPCM_dec to version 1.2. The audio decoder is intended for the ADPCM Package by Christian Buchner.
Thereby, the ADPCM file is either converted to RAW format or transferred directly to AHI. Details on the changes in the new version are not available.
Download: ADPCM_dec.lha (28 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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20.Nov.2005
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AROS: Status-Update November 2005
At the title link, Paolo Besser has published another status update of the latest AROS developments. Besides Bernd Roesch's AfA OS for 68k processors (amiga-news.de reported), there is also a hosted version for FreeBSD/x86 meanwhile on the FTP server of BTTR, and Joe Fenton got AROS running hosted on Fedora Core 4/PPC on his iMac.
Furthermore, Michal Schulz has re-vitalized the VMware graphic HIDD and Pavel Fedin did back-port many commands from MorphOS, e.g. "mount" (amiga-news.de reported). (snx)
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19.Nov.2005
Heinz-Raphael Reinke (ANF)
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AmiDevCpp: Version 0.5 released / AROS now target platform as well
AmiDevCpp, the integrated Amiga development environment for Windows, is available in version 0.5, and now includes, in addition to the m68k-amigaOS cross-compiler, an i686-aros cross-compiler as well.
With this, it is (at least theoretically) possible to compile a project created with AmiDevCpp for AmigaOS (m68k) as well as for AROS (x86) with few mouse clicks.
For downloading and installing, an Internet installer created specially for this is recommended.
Download: InetInstallerAmiDevCpp.exe (61 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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18.Nov.2005
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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Arcade game: BatDefense 0.4.3
There is a new version of the arcade game BatDefense
(screenshot).
Changes to the previous versions:
- One of the sound routines was deactivated
- Bugfix for CGFX systems: BatDefense runs now on CGFX- just like on Picasso96 systems
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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SystemPatch 2.95 (Update)
SystemPatch written by Sante Nocciolino changes diverse operating system routins to
increase the performance of systems with newer 68k processors. The highest increase
of peformance is gained at 68060 systems but you can use it for all Amigas with at least
a 68020. Changes in version 2.94:
- SystemPatch now detects rtg systems and doesn't install layers and graphics patches
- added patches to utility.library
- added dos.library patches: Read(), Write(), DoPkt()
- added QUICKWAITBLIT option: Waitblit() returns immediately
- added DynamicDMA in auto interrupt vector 3
- added gfx patches: InitGels(), ClearRectRegion(), AreaDraw(), InitBitMap(), InitView(), InitVPort()
- added exec patches: CopyMem(), CopyMemQuick(), FindName(), FindPort(), FindTask(), FindResident(), FindSemaphore(), AllocSignal(), FreeSignal()
- CopyMem() and CopyMemQuick() patch code depends on your CPU
- added interrupts patches: IVPORTS, IVSOFTINT
- bug fix for ClearRegion(), DisposeRegion()
- little speedup to auto interrupt routines
- Extent patches are not installed by default because buggy: you can use +Extent to override
- MMU option not supported in this version
- other things I forgot
Download: SystemPatch2.lha (47 KB)
Update: (13:00, 20.11.05, snx)
Yestserday version 2.95a was published.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Nov.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Cross-Compiler for AROS as destination platform
Jocke 'Zerohero' Birging has added a short documentation to his Cross-Compiler site
as well as the i686-Linux binaries for AROS as destination platform.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Nov.2005
Bernd Roesch (Kommentare)
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AROS: AfA OS (AROS für AmigaOS) initiated (Update)
AfA OS (AROS for AmigaOS) from Bernd Roesch enables AmigaOS users to use the extended functions of the operating system AROS (Amiga Research OS), as well as the compilation of the AROS source code without further adaptations.
AfA runs hosted under AmigaOS and is extending it currently with antialiasing for true type fonts, alpha channel support for datatypes as well as further AROS functions for developers.
Download: AFA_OS.zip (524 KB)
Update: (18:55, 17.11.2005, snx)
In the meantime an own Forum for AfA OS has been set up, too. (snx) (Translation: iw)
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16.Nov.2005
Amiga Future / MorphZone
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MorphOS: Software-News until 16.11.2005
E-UAE 0.8.28-2
Yesterday Fabien Coeurjoly provided the latest version 0.8.28 of the Amiga emulator E-UAE. However there is no information concerning the changes in the archives.
Download: e-uae-0.8.28-2.lha (2,3 MB)
Tuxracer 0.61
The French developer 'SixK' yesterday once again compiled his porting of the game Tuxracer, where you have to steer the Linux penguin down a snow covered hill (Screenshot),in the latest version 0.61 for MorphOS. We have no information concerning the changes.
Download: tuxracer-0.61-mos.lha (8,3 MB)
Scumm VM Bubbles V2
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel has extended his pictographs for the game engine ScummVM among other things with icons for Heirs of the Earth and Gobliiins.
Download-Seite (snx) (Translation: iw)
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16.Nov.2005
amidevcpp (ANF)
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AmiDevCpp: Ability to upload own DevPaks and example projects
AmiDevCpp is a free development environment Dev-C++,
which has the original compiler replaced with an AmigaOS cross compiler.
Thus, it is possible to develop and compile programs for Amiga (m68k) while using Windows.
At the title link the ability to upload your own DevPaks is now available. With DevPaks new includes, linkerlibs and
source code examples may be installed or deinstalled comfortably. A detailed manual how to create
own DevPaks is avaialble here.
There is also the option to upload small example projects (max 1000kB)
which may help beginners to a better start into programming.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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14.Nov.2005
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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Manual: Installation of a USB2-Card into a Pegasos with MorphOS
Linked to the header had Gunne Steen a short collection of all steps
which are required to install a USB2-Card into a Pegasos with MorphOS.
The essential under MorphOS 1.4.5 is to copy the OpenUSB.device into
the Drawer MOSSYS:Devs/USBHardware and added to Prefs.
This Device is a part of Guido Mersmanns
Arakattack. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
Neo (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Status-Update for AVD GUI Builder
The commercial AVD GUI Builder is for building and maintenance
of Reaktion-based graphical user identerfaces. The author linked to the
header screenshoots to demonstrated how to use this tool with the most
available reaction-objecs.
The newest version, which are available for registered user soon,
supports now 25 Reaction and BOOPSI-Classes, to able
build and manipulate in realtime. A interactive clipboard-system is
available and also a definition of a user interfaces which is builed from
more then one window is now possible.
Loading of existing projects is now per Drag'n Drop on the AppIcon or
into the AppWindow possible.
AVD Template Project v1.2.0.0
The Freeware "AVD Template" is a template of a frame for a
AmigaOS 4-application, writen in C.
The newest version is added with programcode for handling more then one
window and it's now possible to combinated it with the C-output from
the newest GUI Builder-Version. The newest version will be released
at Aminet in next time.
guiX
This new freeware-project generates from XML-projectdata, e.g. builded
by GUI Builder, "on-the-fly" a graphical userinterface.
E.g. guiX is usefull to generate graphical userinterfaces for Shell- or
ARexx-Scripts. A first version will be released with a final version
of GUI Builder.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
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Printmagazin: Total Amiga, issue 22
Issue 22 of the english printmagazin "Total Amiga" ist available now.
A overview of all themes of this issue is linked to the news header. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Warp3D-Pictureviewer WarpView 0.6
The pictureviewer WarpView use Warp3D for rendering, which makes a fast
skaling possible. But the program needs more video-RAM as a regular
pictureviewer. Datatypes are required for decoding..
In version 0.6 a lot of minor errors are fixed, among others is a
Drag'n Drop support, mouse-blanking and a alphanumerical sort added.
Also the 90°-turn will be rejected by a change between files.
Download: warpview.lha (33 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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Soundplayer: PlayOGG 3.4 released
PlayOGG is a soundplayer for following formates e.g. OGG Vorbis, MP3, MPEG,
FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA and SID
Version 3.4 includes a lot of fixed errors, a actual documentation and
the support of more ADPCM-variants and for this a special progress
indication. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
Richard H. Poser II. (E-Mail)
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Instant Messenger: AmigAIM-Betaversion 0.9454 released
Linked to the header is the betaversion 0.0454 of the Instand Messenger
AmigAIM. Now it's possible to deactivated the Program-end-Requester. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Workbench-Clon: Scalos 41.2
A new beta.version of the Workbench replacment Scalos for AmigaOS 3
and MorphOS is now released. All changes are listed in the
History.
AmigaOS 3: ScalosBeta_41.2_68K.lha (1,8 MB)
MorphOS: ScalosBeta_41.2_MOS.lha (2,2 MB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
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Aminet-Uploads til 13.11.2005
Aminet-Uploads since our last news report:
StarAm_Plan.lha biz/misc 848K OS3 Spreadsheet, V2.3,OS 3.0+, 68000 CPU
StarAm_Plan881.lha biz/misc 842K OS3 Spreadsheet, V2.3,OS 3.0+, needs FPU
ctorrent.lha comm/tcp 60K OS3 BitTorrent Client For Amiga
grp_0divide.lha demo/aga 130K OS3 ZeroDivide - 64Kb AGA Intro by gRp
grp_0dividermx.lha demo/aga 55K OS3 ZeroDivideRmx - 52Kb AGA Intro by gRp
beegeez.lha dev/basic 6K GEN Short examples of using some devices and
clipit.lha dev/c 264K VAR ClipIt V2 GUI for clipboard.device src i
expat-ppc.lha dev/c 1.2M OS4 Expat C library for parsing XML
cppboost.lha dev/misc 5.8M OS4 Boost C++ libraries
subversion-1.1.4.lha dev/misc 6.6M VAR Revision control system, successor to RC
amon.lha dev/moni 23K GEN AMON hex monitor (Pascal source)
sysspeeda3000.zip dev/moni 1K OS3 SysSpeed Module: A3000/CyberstormMKII/Cy
alcatraz_iq.lha game/demo 391K OS3 Alcatraz' IQ Engine (3D Engine)
landofgenesis_demo.zip game/demo 2.8M OS3 Land of Genesis (Demo)
njam_mos.lha game/jump 1.4M MOS Full featured cross-platform pacman-like
PacMan05.lha game/jump 1.2M OS4 PacMan 05
scummvm_tools-aos4.lha game/misc 822K OS4 SCUMMVM Tools for use with SCUMM games.
magx-mos.lha game/text 377K MOS text adventures compiler
scrambly.lha game/think 208K OS4 puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
mencoder.lha gfx/edit 3.1M OS4 MEncoder for OS4
shim-src.lha gfx/show 13K GEN C Source of shim, a CLI image viewer
d_WinUAE.lha hard/drivr 5K OS3 German keymap for WinUAE
vbamuigui.lha misc/emu 14K OS4 VisualBoy Advance MUI GUI
BA_Tracks.lha mods/blkha 194K GEN 4 PT (2 channel) mods by blakkhar
Beat_for_my_sweet_remix.lha mods/blkha 2.0M GEN DBM remix by blakkhar
CantUCremix.lha mods/blkha 131K GEN DBM remix by blakkhar
KDA.lha mods/blkha 860K GEN DBM by blakkhar
MimiInHouse_Mix.lha mods/blkha 46K GEN PT mod by blakkhar
OK.lha mods/blkha 570K GEN DBM by blakkhar
Spectrum-One.lha mods/blkha 5K GEN PT mod by blakkhar
ruidos nuevos 4.mp3 mods/mpg 3.6M GEN Song by Diezi7
atmosfear_stuermera.zip mods/xm 450K GEN Realms of Atmosfear (XM Module)
breakthesilen_stuermera.zip mods/xm 185K GEN Break the Silence (XM Module)
cybericalwar_stuermera.zip mods/xm 460K GEN Cyberical Wargames (XM Module)
redalert_stuermera.zip mods/xm 477K GEN Red Alert (XM Module)
ADPCM_dec.lha mus/misc 25K OS3 Decoder for Christian Buchner's ADPCM pa
freedb_copytracks.lha mus/misc 11K GEN ARexx script for FreeDB to copy CD track
playOGG.lha mus/play 986K OS3 Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
snowyhills-panorama.jpg pix/3dani 268K GEN Snowy Hills (Computergenerated Panorama)
EVIcons.lha pix/icon 197K GEN NewIcons for Eye Viewer v1.x-2.1
EVSkullflags.lha pix/icon 34K GEN Patch with Skullflags for Eye Viewer 2.1
WWorth_fincats.lha text/edit 27K OS3 Wordworth 3SE,4SE & 7 Finnish catalogs
mkpasswd.lha util/cli 8K OS4 Small program for generating 'random' pa
wave_dt.lha util/dtype 113K OS4 An OS4 native RIFF-WAVE datatype, with s
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 96K OS3 Italian version of StartBar
wbmakelink_os4.lha util/wb 49K OS4 A tool to make links all over your volum
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 13.11.2005
os4depot.net uploads since our last news report:
wave_dt.lha dat/sou 112kb An OS4 native RIFF-WAVE datatype, with s
pacman05.lha gam/mis 1Mb PacMan 05
njam.lha gam/act 2Mb Njam - SDL action game
mkpasswd.lha uti/she 7kb Small program for generating 'random' pa
wbmakelink.lha uti/wor 48kb A tool to make links all over your volum
freedb_copytracks.lha aud/mis 10kb ARexx script for FreeDB to create MP3 tr
vbamuigui.lha emu/uti 14kb VisualBoy Advance MUI GUI
scrambly.lha gam/puz 208kb puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
clipit.lha uti/wor 264kb ClipIt V2 GUI for clipboard.device src i
mencoder.lha vid/edi 3Mb MEncoder for OS4
boost.lha dev/lib 5Mb Boost C++ libraries
expat-ppc.lha dev/lib 1Mb Expat C library for parsing XML
scummvm_tools.lha gam/adv 821kb SCUMMVM Tools for use with SCUMM games.
(cg)
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14.Nov.2005
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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ALINEA Computer introduces itself to the public
Wehrheim, Germany, the 14th of november 2005.
Alinea Computer is proud of presenting itself as a new company for Amiga-Software. We are an enterprise which concentrates it's work mainly on the development and the distribution of AmigaOS 4 applications and games. Besides, we offer support services like CD production, webdesign and dataprint. The following Amiga-Software is now available:
ANotice 2 - a memo programme
ANotice 2 is a memo programme for your workbench. It will help you to manage your notes, dates, to-do-lists or other important information. You can easily and fast change the notice and export it into different text-formats. ANotice 2 can manage up to 13 notes and each note can be designed individually with 13 different background and text- colors, 7 textures, different fonts and 4 text attributes.
Besides the large reaction-prefs which can controll all functions, ANotice 2 includes a network-function with client-server-programme, so that distributing a to-do-list in an enterprise can easily be done.
ANotice 2 was programmed as a commodity and runs totaly system friendly.
It operates on each Amiga with at least AmigaOS 4.0. You do not need any other libraries or additional programmes.
ANotice 2 is delivered by E-Mail and costs 5,95 Euro only.
AmiPhoto - a quick and comfortable photo-manager
AmiPhoto is a photo album for your digital photos and pictures. It's easy handling and attractive GUI will convince you. You can manage up to half a million pictures in 500 albums at the most. You can show the photos on the surface or by multiview. Because of a direct support of the Amiga OS4.0 datatype-system, it is possible to use all picture-formats which exist as datatype. AmiPhoto can further select and show the EXIF-dates of your digital photos.
For adapting perfectly on your workbench-skin, AmiPhotos uses it's own Bitmap-skin-system. The 17 skins you find on your CD will help you to style your AmiPhoto surface. You can certainly create your own skins. We would be proud to present your skin on our website.
AmiPhoto is programmed totaly system friendly. It supports the application library and does not need any additional libraries.
AmiPhoto is delivered an CD and costs just 19,95 Euro.
Freeware
The main ambition of Alinea Computer is to support the Amiga market. That's the reason why we will continue releasing programmes free of charge, so that the existing lack of Amiga-Software can be repaired. We hope you can use our software and we would be happy to hear some feedback concerning our products.
You'll find more information on our website. You can buy all our products in our Alinea-Shop. As a dealer, please contact us via this e-mail.
We would be glad to welcome you as a new customer!
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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13.Nov.2005
ANN (Web page)
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OpenPCI: PciTool provides information on installed PCI cards
PciTool by Marian Guc is available in versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS, and provides information on installed PCI cards on a system equipped with the openpci.library.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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13.Nov.2005
Thorsten Passow (ANF)
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Spreadsheet: StarAm Plan 2.3
Thorsten Passow discloses the completion of version 2.3 of his spreadsheet StarAm Plan. Changes compared to version 2.24:
- almost all chart types can be created using the graphics menu now. This includes the superpostion auf different charts. A requester pops up first, now, to request the most important settings.
- the error messages of the commands in the menus edit and format contain more information and give you different choices in some cases now. The commands will be executed incompletely if this makes sense now.
- the data in the clipboard can be inserted as complete row or column if desired
- it is possible to insert references to other worksheets or layers in a formular by mouse now
- the options empty and zeros are supported by all chart types but the 2d area chart now
- the feature provided by XPK to save worksheets encrypted is better supported now
- the autosave function has been improved
- a lot of further improvements
- many bugs fixed
- registered users can get the german manual as PDF file if desired now
[sic]
A complete list of changes is part of the archive, which is available for download under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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13.Nov.2005
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Status Report: Schlachtfeld Phase II - Unit development
The makers of the strategy game "Schlachtfeld Phase II" deliver a further short insight into the current state of developments:
Stefan Jurisch has taken over the new development of the units für Schlachtfeld Phase II, based on the designs by Edgar Leidig.
The destroyer, as the first unit, has received its last grinding for the time being, and can be surveyed on the page of Stefan Jurisch (title link).
Under the Destroyer Gallery item, the development of the unit is illustrated with 19 pictures in total.
But the final version of the unit will only be released in the course of the first half of the coming year. For a start, the development of the next unit (out of 42 in total) is moved on to.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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12.Nov.2005
Bill Buck & Raquel Velasco (Blog)
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Japanese Pegasos web page established for developers and users
Under the address pegasosppc.jp, registered by Genesi, a Pegasos web page is now also available in the native language for Japanese developers and users. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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12.Nov.2005
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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AROS: Interview with Michal Schulz (English)
Paul J. Beel has carried out an interview with AROS developer Michal Schulz within the scope of his blog "The AROS Show." Herein, among other things, in addition to his personal career as programmer, he also describes what AROS lacks most desperately at present, in his opinion: that is particularly a better documentation for developers, reportedly, in addition to more drivers as well as a complete compiler toolchain.
Michael Schulz has contributed, among other things, the native bootability on x86 systems, the first versions of the trackdisk.device and the ide.device, a new ata.device, as well as a range of drivers, to AROS. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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11.Nov.2005
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Patch for reactivating the network chips after using Linux
There is a patch called Via-Wakeup for all Pegasos users who use MorphOS as well as Linux 2.6.9 or
higher which reactivates the Via Rhine-network chip under MorphOS after usinf Linux.
Copy the patch to the MorphOS directory SYS:C and start it before you
use a network progrmm. It is recommended to start Via-Wakeup with the help of
the user-startup.
Download: via-wakeup.lha (13 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2005
Grasshopper LLC (E-Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: New beta versions of PageStream 4.1 and 5.0
According to Deron Kazmaier from Grasshopper there are new beta versions
of the DTP program PageStream for AmigaOS 4.
Loading, Saving, editing and printing documents is already possible and all other
remaining PageStream bugs concerns Interface/MUI. Please have a look at the Readme file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Nov.2005
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Beta testers for Prometheus PCI-Board wanted
For the new firmware of the Prometheus pci board (which allows full pci dma at all four pci slots of the Prometheus and 100MBit / for the first time with it) E3B is urgently looking for beta testers.
Interested people should possibly live in Germany (headword: postage costs), own a functional amiga system and a Prometheus (firmware revision doesn't matter), run dma cards (like 100MBit RTL8139, usb NEC) in their system and should have a tolerable knowledge of it.
Anybody who wants to assist bringing the Prometheus board one important step further, can contact Michael Böhmer atE-Mail. (ps) (Translation: ts)
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10.Nov.2005
PPCNUX (homepage)
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Test report: 3D shooter under MorphOS with different graphics cards (Update)
Under the title link PPCNUX performs a detailed test of Morphos' suitability for 3D shooters with the use of different graphics cards.
Ports of Quake I-III were tested on a Pegasos II/G4 with the graphics cards Radeon 9200SE, Voodoo 3 3500TV and Radeon 9000 Pro All in Wonder.
Conclusion: "All games ran smoothly and without trouble - except the fatal try to set a 1600x1200 gaming resolution with the Voodoo 3."
Update: (08:33, 11.11.05, snx)
The test report has been translated into the English language meanwhile, thus the title link has been changed accordingly. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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09.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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Soundplayer: PlayOGG 3.3 released
PlayOGG is a sound player for OGG Vorbis, MP3, MPEG, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, SID and some more module and sound format files.
Version 3.3 circumpasses a problem of different sensitivity for wrong positive identifications if the alternative mpega.library clone is used. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Nov.2005
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MorphOS: ezTCP 0.13, 7zip 4.29, Antiword 0.36.1
ezTCP 0.13
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin has released alpha version 0.13 of the PPC native TCP/IP stack ezTCP. It fixes kown bugs of the predecent version.
Thanks to a hint by Frank Mariak AmiSSL should work now, too. Also the functions MiamiIsOnline() and MiamiOnOffline() have been implemented now which should are needed by YAM to work properly.
The DHCP implementation has been started from scratch again, since the formerly planed solution was tied to too many Unix dependencies.
If you encounter problems with applications while using ezTCP please inform the author or have a look to the regarding thread at the MorphZone.
Download page
7zip 4.29
7zip is a file compressor with a high compression ratio. Four bugs from the recent version 4.27 have been removed.
Download: 7zip_4.29_mos.lha (1,1 MB)
Antiword 0.36.1
Antiword is a tool to convert Word documents to either plain Text, AdobePDF, PostScript or XML/DocBook.
With version 0.35 Word documents may be converted to "formated" texts with a marked *bold*, /italic/ and _underlined_ words. Additionally the analysis of tables and support for the cyrillic alphabet has been improved.
Download: antiword_0.36.1.lha (258 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Nov.2005
Pegasos.org (Website)
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Linux: "Introduction to Smart Cards" - The ODW run by Gentoo
Pieter van den Abeele has written an English article which gives an introdruction to the use of Smart Cards with Gentoo Linux on the Open Desktop Workstation (ODW).
For the report an Athena SCS ASEDrive IIIe Smart Card reader was used, it is teh same model which is shipped by Genesi together with ODW. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: New Screenshots from KHTML-porting progress
Linked to the header are four actual screenshots from development progress
of the KHTML-Port for MorphOS. Among other thinks now are several
Codepages supported, e.g. Unicode.
Also on the AmiZaduszki Event in Krakow the KHTML.library was presented.
(Pictures). (snx) (Translation: aj)
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07.Nov.2005
AROS-Exec (website)
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Team AROS: Bounty #33 completed (Backporting of MorphOS CLI commands)
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin has completed Team AROS Bounty #33. It's aim has been the backporting of the improved CLI commands from MorphOS. The amount of the bounty, donated by Neil Cafferkey, has been 100 US-Dollar. (snx)
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07.Nov.2005
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Stock excange software proBonds V2.20
Today the Version 2.2 of the Stock excange software proBonds was released.
The author did't have a MorphOS or AmigaOS 4 System, so he ask special
for Errormessages on this systems.
Major changes:
- Windows by adding of information are reduced.
- ISIN as Identificationsfeature for Objectes added
- Several gui corrections added
- Objecteditor & Exchangeindexeditor are not longer modally
- Several items are corrected on the graphical user interface
- Statistics are now shown graphical
- Reimplementation of a simple printfunction
- A lot of minor details are improved by the constructive help of the
betatester. Many thanks of the author at this point.
For the next vision a improved depotmanager with better handling and more
functions, e.g. funds,is planed.
Also the implemtation of a graphical display for depots is a target. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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07.Nov.2005
Golem.de (Webseite)
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Zeta: yellowTab conside a PowerPC-support
Linked to the header yellowTab, developer of BeOS-follower Zeta,
shows his plans for the future.
So makes the change of the compiler to GCC&nbsü:4 for the next release of
the Operationsystem a PowerPC-Version possible - which is interessting for
yellowTab and the Open source-port
Haiku too. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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07.Nov.2005
MorphZone (Download-area)
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MorphOS: ezTCP 0.12 released
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin released the Alphaversion 0.12 of the PPC-nativen
TCP/IP-Stacks ezTCP. For compatible reasons is a excange of the
miami.library included - further is for the next versions a
implementation of the Miami-Panel-API intended.
Changes:
- IP-Fragmentationssourcecodes replaced with a new sourcecode of
BSD-Version 4.4
- Replacement of miami.library added - now is the compatibility to
TCP/IP-Stack Miami official given, but not all functions are supported;
please inform the author if programs are not working and the
message "Function not implemented" is shown at Syslog
- Graphical Syslog-viewer ezSysLog as replacement for the
Syslog-CLI-window
- Improved Startnet-Skript
Known Problems:
- Crash from ezTCP, if it will be stop with running Syslog-viewer.
- The Button "Log level" from Syslog-viewer is without no effected
The Alphaversion 0.12 needs incase of the major changes more tests.
The implemention of DHCP is in according to a estimation of the author to
70% finished. The workprogress at the configurationeditor is started now.
In case of problems with ezTCP and third party programs inform the author
or ask at the MorphZone Forum
Thread. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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07.Nov.2005
IOSPIRIT GmbH (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT GmbH: PayPal now supported
Felix Schwarz writes:
"Our express shop does now also accept payments via PayPal.
With the addition of PayPal to the repertoire of possible methods of payment, we are realising a frequently expressed wish of our customers. Already previously our customers could choose between pre-payment via bank transfer and cash as well as a range of creditcards, namely Visa, Mastercard/Eurocard and American Express.
By supporting PayPal, new and interesting possibilities are created, especially for our international customers. Through PayPal, bank transfers and direct debits without high fees (or any at all) are now available in many countries.
You can learn more about PayPal at http://www.paypal.com/".
(cg)
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07.Nov.2005
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 06.11.2005
os4depot.net uploads since our last report:
libablit.lha dev/lib 2Mb Alpha Channel Blit Library
nesdevtools.lha emu/uti 74kb NES Development Graphics Tools
romsearcher.lha emu/uti 227kb RomSearcher
warpview.lha gra/vie 31kb A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
amipcb.lha off/cad 572kb PCB vectorial electronics program
rockbeat.lha aud/tra 1Mb Create drumming tracks and export them a
asp2php.lha dev/web 264kb asp to php converter
bmp2ico.lha gra/con 5kb bmp 2 ico converter
ringtonetools.lha uti/mis 164kb Helps in the creation of ringtones
miniamp.lha aud/mis 855kb A Small Graphical Interface for AmigaAmp
abc-shell.lha dev/uti 530kb Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
xnet-rss.lha net/new 1Mb Native AOS4.0 RSS News Reader
coreutils-bin.lha dev/uti 4Mb GNU core utilities
coreutils-src.lha dev/uti 8Mb GNU core utilities (source)
ularn.lha gam/adv 501kb Ularn
universe-one.lha dem/sce 5Mb Universe, #One: Geometry (W3D demo).
scummvm.lha gam/adv 3Mb Point-and-Click adventure interpreter
libusb.lzx lib/mis 72kb libusb port for OS4
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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07.Nov.2005
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Aminet-Uploads til 06.11.2005
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
xnet-rss.lha comm/news 1.3M OS4 Native AOS4.0 RSS News Reader
facts.lha comm/tcp 199K OS3 NTP clock time synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
asp2php-mos.lha comm/www 125K MOS ASP to PHP converter.
asp2php.lha comm/www 265K OS4 asp to php converter
bmp2ico.lha comm/www 6K OS4 bmp 2 ico converter
beegeez.lha dev/basic 5K GEN Short examples of using some devices and
SFinfo.lha dev/basic 11K OS3 sndfile.library dev kit for Blitz
libablit.lha dev/c 2.4M OS4 Alpha Channel Blit Library
coreutils-bin.lha dev/gg 4.6M OS4 GNU core utilities
coreutils-src.lha dev/gg 8.2M OS4 GNU core utilities
France.lha docs/hyper 55M GEN La France par monts et par vaux : An "en
fourmaze_demo.lha game/actio 301K OS3 Pacman Clone
ularn.lha game/actio 501K OS4 Ultra Larn, dungeon game in Hack or Mori
WoodenBars.lha game/demo 52K OS3 Simple bars game for all the PAL AMIGAs
scummvm-0.8.0.lha game/misc 2.4M MOS Adventure game engine
scummvm.lha game/misc 3.3M OS4 Point-and-Click adventure interpreter
scummvm_tools-mos.lha game/misc 616K MOS SCUMMVM tools for use with SCUMMVM games
WarpView.lha gfx/show 31K OS4 A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
551conv_asm.lha misc/emu 10K GEN Source code for 551conv
NESDevTools_AOS4.lha misc/emu 74K OS4 NES Development Graphics Tools
palmuae0.9.zip misc/emu 506K PalmUAE
RomSearcher_AOS4.lha misc/emu 227K OS4 RomSearcher
amipcb_1.11.lha misc/sci 573K OS4 PCB vectorial electronics program
digifilter-1.0.lha misc/sci 53K MOS Digital FIR filter design software
rockbeat.lha mus/edit 1.6M OS4 Create drumming tracks and export them a
ringtonetools.lha mus/misc 135K OS3 Convert and create ringtones/logos for m
Eagleplayer2.04-Sources.zip mus/play 2.0M GEN Source code for Eagleplayer 2.04 as foun
Eagleplayer_2.03.lha mus/play 2.1M OS3 Eagleplayer V2.03ß1
Eagleplayer_key.lha mus/play 0K GEN Eagleplayer-keyfile for non-commercial u
wb.jpg pix/wb 5K GEN Helgis' WB!
wb2.jpg pix/wb 181K GEN Modified Helgis' Zami Theme BeOS Style!
MemTrailer.lha util/boot 16K OS3 allocates 16-96 bytes for mem-protection
abc-shell.lha util/misc 531K OS4 Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
ringtonetools.lha util/misc 165K OS4 Helps in the creation of ringtones
NewWait4Port.lha util/rexx 12K VAR Replacement for WaitForPort command
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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