11.Jun.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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GUI-Toolkit: RxMUI v42.2
"RxMUI" gives ARexx programmers the possibility to create complex graphical user interfaces.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jun.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Update for OS4Emu
Ilkka Lehtoranta released an update for his wrapper OS4Emu (compatibility list). A new version of the os4loader.library gives a slightly improved compatibility. The update contains just this library and needs OS4Emu 1.7.
Direct download: os4emu-update (6 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jun.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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Internet radio: AmiPodder 1.0 receives Podcast streams
Robert Williams released version 1.0 of his Amiga Podcast receiver program AmiPodder. Podcasting is a method for audio broadcasting (usually in MP3 format) with a minimum of infrastructur. With a receiver program like AmiPodder you can pull the Podcast feeds.
AmiPodder is an ARexx program that uses rxMUI and that needs a browser or a download manager for downloading the Podcasts. The playback is done with AmigaAMP or TuneNet. The Podcasts can also be sent to an external device like an MP3 player.
Download: AmiPodder.lha (47 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jun.2005
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MorphOS: Software-News until 10.06.05
Mac-Emulator: BasiliskII 0.9.2
Ilkka Lehtoranta has published a new version of the 68k-Macintosh-emulator Basilisk II.
New in version 0.9.2:
- Can create hardfiles in GUI
- Can quit emulator at anytime ("emergency quit")
- Optimized speed
- Added frameskip option
Link: Homepage
Download: BasiliskII.lha (460 KB)
My Traceroute
My Traceroute is a CLI-based network tool that unifies the features of
Traceroute and Ping.
Download: mtr-morphos.tar.gz (160 KB)
OpenSSH 3.9p1
OpenSSH which is a Telnet-/SSH-client is now available in version 3.9p1.
A hack which fixed a bug when changing the size of the window was now removed because
it is not needed any longer because of the new ixemul.library.
Link: Download site
Download: OpenSSH-3.9p1-ttyfix.lha (3.6 MB)
Blanky 1.5
Blanky is a screen saver with DMPS support.
Link: Homepage
Download: Only direct from the homepage (120 KB)
Password management: Ling 1.4
Ling is a database where you can save different passwords. All passwords are encoded with
a BlowFish-CBC-algorythm before they are saved in the database. (screenshot).
Link: Hompage
Download: Only direct from the homepage (530 KB)
CManager 34.2
CManager written by Alfonso Ranieri is a book mark and address managament.
Link: Homepage
Download: Only direct from the homepage (850 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jun.2005
heise.de (website)
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BeOS successor Zeta launched
Yellowtab which bought a licence from the current owner Palm for the BeOS sources as well as
the right of further development some time ago has announced the start of production
for the official BeOS successor called "Zeta".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jun.2005
[ujb] (ANF)
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Pegasos: ODW distributed by Directron, price drop
As Genesi announces in their latest press release (title link) the
Open Desktop Workstation (ODW) is now assembled and distributed by Directron.
The device revision is slightly changed and the price has been dropped. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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08.Jun.2005
Heise Newsticker (ANF)
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Heise: IBM shows Linux workstation with CELL CPU
IBM will show a Linux workstation powered by the CELL processor at this year's
Linux Tag (22nd/25th June 2005) in Karlsruhe.
It is yet not known if it will be a tower or a desktop, just recently IBM has shown a prototype of a CELL based
blade server. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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08.Jun.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL Database: Amiga-User-List now with Address Details
As announced one week ago, the Amiga-User-List has now been extended for address details.
For this purpose, the list of countries is additionally devided up into federal states for Austria,
Germany and the United States of America. For entries that have already been registered for these
countries until now, the country has to be selected again on the page "Update entry", to be listed
in the correct state in the Amiga-User-List. Details about the street, postal code and city can be
entered on a new page.
What is the GAUHPIL?
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a public MySQL based database
created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can
be questioned by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 686 users from 38 countries.
What is the Amiga-User-List?
Since May 2005, the GAUHPIL database shows all registered users, but only for other registered
users that have to be logged in. A personal homepage is no longer required for registration.
The new "Amiga-User-List" is not limited to users with homepage. After registering and filling
in name and country, one can immediately browse the new "Amiga-User-List". 99 users from 15
countries have already registered and are automatically shown in the "Amiga-User-List".
(ps)
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07.Jun.2005
(ANF)
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MorphOS: BitTorrent 4.1.1
A MorphOS port of the P2P client BitTorrent 4.1.1 by Sigbjørn 'CISC' Skjæret is now available. The client
is not available for download but spread by the BitTorrent network. To get the file an according P2P tool, like e. g.
MLdonkey, is required. (cg)
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07.Jun.2005
amigaworld.net (ANF)
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amigaworld.net collects questions for Hyperion
Hyperion Entertainment agreed to answer to 20 questions by amigaworld.net readers. You may add your question(s) until Sunday, June the 12th
by the title link, the amigaworld.net team will chose the best 20 and forward them to Hyperion. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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04.Jun.2005
MorphZone (website)
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Genesi: relaunch of upgrade program
Genesi prepares the relaunch of the promised upgrade program for Pegasos I boards. Buyers who are the first owners of such boards may exchange it when paying 200 Euro + p&p with an Pegasos II board including a G4 processor.
Requirements:
- You bought the board and you are the first owner of the board
- The Pegasos I and the 200 Euro have to be sent first before the new board will be delivered
- The costs for the delivery are paid by the customer
- This offer comes directly from Genesi and is not placed in association with retailers
- Should you want to make use of this upgrade offer please send an e-mail to sales@pegasosppc.com until June, 30th 2005
- Please mention in this e-mail the serial number of your board, too, please
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Jun.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga-User-List: GAUHPIL Database completely translated to Spanish
The Spanish translation by Dámaso Domínguez has been completed and both lists, the GAUHPIL and the "Amiga-User-List" are now available in English, German and Spanish.
Furthermore, the introduction of additional address information is prepared. This function
will be activated as soon as the selection of U.S. states has been implemented.
What is the GAUHPIL?
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a public MySQL based database
created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can
be questioned by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 690 users from 38 countries.
What is the Amiga-User-List?
Since May 2005, the GAUHPIL database shows all registered users, but only for other registered
users that have to be logged in. A personal homepage is no longer required for registration.
The new "Amiga-User-List" is not limited to users with homepage. After registering and filling
in name and country, one can immediately browse the new "Amiga-User-List".
92 users have already registered and are automatically shown in the "Amiga-User-List". (snx)
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01.Jun.2005
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Software news until 30-05-2005
Meridian 2.17
Meridian is a kind of virtual hotkey system using "mouse drawn symbols", to which specific actions can be associated.
Link: Homepage
Download: meridian.lha (352 KB) (Readme)
MMKeyboard 3.12
MMKeyboard allows to use Windows keyboards for Amiga compatible systems. Driver issues are not existing - a little commodity activates all "non standard"
keys at every keyboard.
Link: Homepage
Download: mmkeyboard.lha (550 KB) (Readme)
playOGG 2.6
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is for playing audio files in OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA, SID and more formats. The program may be launched either from the
Workbench or from the CLI.
Link: Homepage
Download: playOGG.lha (1 MB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Jun.2005
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MorphOS: Software-News until 30.05.2005
powersdl.library 11.1
The powersdl.library is the port of the SDL package, which is used by many game ports. Changes in version 11.1:
- Several fixes and optimizations to masking routines
- Support for analog joysticks
- Added mute option to window menu
- Fixed problem with little endian (byte swapped) high colour modes
- Fixed window resizing bug (Pixel32)
- Loads of small bug fixes to main library and sublibraries
- Added separate SDL Preferences program
- German catalog, French catalog updated
Link: Homepage
Download: powersdl.lha (774 KB)
logTool 1.4
logTool (formerly kown as "anaLOGuer") is a little program which filters useful information from the debug log of
MorphOS and shows the information as colour coded text (screenshot).
As source the ramdebug, serial output and log files are supported. The PowerTerm.mcc file from the
MUICON package is required.
Link: Homepage
Download: logtool.lha (36 KB)
Meridian 2.17
Meridian is a kind of virtual hotkey system using "mouse drawn symbols", to which specific actions can be associated.
Link: Homepage
Download: meridian.lha (352 KB) (Readme)
MMKeyboard 3.12
MMKeyboard allows to use Windows keyboards for Amiga compatible systems. Driver issues are not existing - a little commodity activates all "non standard"
keys at every keyboard.
Link: Homepage
Download: mmkeyboard.lha (550 KB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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31.May.2005
(ANF)
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The "father" of the Amiga Jay Glenn Miner became 73 years today
Jay Glenn Miner was born on May the 31st 1932 in Prescott, Arizona. He is said to be the father of the Amiga, because he was the original Amiga development team leader and cofounder of Amiga Corp. in Los Gatos.
Jay Glenn Miner passed away on June the 20th 1994 in Mountain View, California due to renal failure.
There are some biographies at:
http://www.amition.de/geschichte8284.html
http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/D_Miner.HTML
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~mheine/Jay_Miner.html (ps) (Translation: ub)
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31.May.2005
TGD (ANF)
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Stock market software: Prerelease of Brokerage-It!
The prerelease of Brokerage-It!, a universal and compact stock market and asset management software based on Rebol/View, is now available for download following the title link.
Brokerage-It! has an intuitive and userfriendly interface and allows an easy and efficient management of your assets.
Minimum requirements for using Brokerage-It! are an Amiga with 68060/50-MHz processor, 32 MB RAM as well as an according REBOL/View suite from REBOL Technologies.
The application is also usable on every other platform running REBOL/Vies (AmigaOS4 / MorphOS / Amithlon / Windows / Linux). It has been developed and testet with REBOL/View 1.2.1.1.1 running on AmigaOS/68k.
Beside Brokerage-It! there are some more REBOL based applications and small games available at the website. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.May.2005
Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger (e-mail)
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SimpleCam, CanonToolBox, minad und nzbDirect ported to AmigaOS
Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger has ported his MorphOS programs SimpleCam, CanonToolBox, minad and nzbDirect to AmigaOS 3.x. Also for BullDog there is
a port under way but it still runs not stable yet and thus, is not released yet. Therefore nzbDirect is currently only of poor benefit.
SimpleCam
SimpleCam is a tool to quickly get stuff from your digicam. It can preview the objects either as thumbnails or as a listtree.
Features:
- Support many cameras (Please refer to the orginal libptp2-documentation)
- Thumbnail preview/select
- Multiselected download
Download: simplecam-amigaos3.lha (43 KB)
CanonToolBox
CanonToolBox is a programm to remotely control your Canon digicam.
Features:
- Full control over the remote functionality
- Taking pictures as .jpg
- Taking videos of unlimited length as .yuv
- Setting of all known device properties
- Multithreaded design
- Log-system
Download: canontoolbox-amigaos3.lha (95 KB)
minad
minad is a simple autodoc-reader.
Features:
- Auto-grouping of most common AutoDocs
- Search function
- Filter function
- Directory ride
- Fast
Download: minad-amigaos3.lha (19 KB)
nzbDirect
nzbDirect is a programm to search and downlaod nzb-files using WWW-search engines.
Supported engines:
- alt.binaries.nl (free)
- nzb.eweka.nl (free)
Features:
- Most functions from the Web-interface
- Browsing
- Can directly import to BullDog
Download: nzbdirect-amigaos3.lha (107 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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30.May.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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MorphOS: SDLBasic ported
Ilkka Lehtoranta has ported SDLBasic (screenshot) to MorphOS.
SDLbasic is a BASIC interpreter which has been created with "the minds eye to the old and glory AMOS" for developing games. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.May.2005
Darren Eveland (ANF)
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RemoteDesktop client: New website
The website of the RemoteDesktop client for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS has moved
to http://www.hd-zone.com.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 27.05.2005
OpenTTD 0.4.0.1
OpenTTD is an Open-Source clone of the Microprose game called "Transport Tycoon Deluxe".
Christian Rosentreter has published an update to the newest version which fixes
some bugs concerning the network.
Link: Download site
nzbDirect 1.0
nzbDirect written by Rupert Hausberger uses diverse Web based search engines to find
and download nzb files (binaries delivered over the Usenet).
Link: Download site
Download: nzbDirect.lha (129 KB) (Readme)
BullDog 1.2
Rupert Hausberger has written BullDog which is a MorphOS program for downloading
files from the Usenet. BullDog uses the descriptions of the nzb files and can be
downloaded under the title link. You can get detailed information
from the Readme file.
Link: Download site
Download: BullDog.lha (196 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Netherlands: Computer City only available as mail-order firm
According to the last Dutch Amiga dealer with a seperate shop called Computer City
from the 1st June it will only be accessable as pure mail-order firm.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
Norman Walter (ANF)
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New lection of Amiga-C-course for beginners
There is a new lection for the Amiga-C-course for beginners.
This time "Images" is the topic. A (still uncomplete) literature list
has been added.
This course can be downloaded and therefore read offline.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HP printer configuration: Setup LaserJet
"Setup LaserJet" is an installer script for changing the configuration of a
HP LaserJet printer. Now you can configure things like EconoMode, RET,
Duplex and Powersave with your Amiga.
The script was only tested with a HP LaserJet 1320 but should also work fine
with other printers of the LaserJet serie.
Download: SetupLJ.lha (36 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.May.2005
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS: Paradroid Clone "Freedroid"
Freedroid is a clone of the 8-Bit classic Paradroid.
Direct download: freedroid-1.0.2_mos.lha (4.5 MB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Breakout-Clone Barkanoid 2 Available
Epic Interactive and Current Ad Agent have made known that "Barkanoid 2" is ready:
"The casual game Barkanoid 2 is now also available for MorphOS users with Pegasos I or II.
A demo-version may be found - thanks to the friendly support of the Genesi firm - under the following link:
http://www.ppczone.org/downloads/Barkanoid2Demo.lha
The full version is available starting Monday at Current Ad Agent for 14.95 euros. Please contact Mr. M. Goldisch at
alternative-computer @ web.de.
More information on Barkanoid 2 may be found at the product description page at our website."
[rest of lengthy article not translated -dm] (cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
MorphZone (forum)
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Pegasos: CD32-Live-CD Released via BitTorrent
Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has released Pegasos software for making your own CD32-Live-CDs. This may be downloaded from pegasos.org via BitTorrent.
The archive only needs a CD32 ISO image of your choice named "cd32.iso" as well as a CD32 Kickstart ROM image named "cd32.rom" in the main directory and then burn it all to CD.
On top of that the CD contains the 3D-Ego-Shooter Aleph One and several emulators (inc. MAME, Sega, Nintendo, and C64). Aleph One requires some additional files that are available by clicking on the previous "Aleph One" link. The emulators require the desired games as well as the BIOS or Kickstart image corresponding to the system.
More information may be found in the instructions in the archive as well as the related MorphZone thread.
The CD32-Live-CD has only been tested on Pegasos II computers so far, the results on Pegasos I are not yet available.
Torrent-Datei: cd32-live.torrent (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
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Convention Update: AmiGBG (Sweden) and Boinged in Belgium (Belgium)
AmiGBG 2005
The official website of the 23rd July 2005 11 AM to 5 PM Amiga convention in the Swedish town of Göteborg is now online.
[rest of this section not translated, Mikael Haglund of IBM will be there to talk about POWER architecture and the new "Cell" processor -dm]
For the convention Boinged in Belgium, which takes place on 6th and 7th August in the vicinity of Antwerp, hosted by the Belgian Amiga Club, Michele C. Battilana of (Cloanto) has donated three complete Amiga Forever 6.0 emulator CDs. One will be awarded to the 100th visitor, another, it's planned, to the owner of the best "modded" Amiga. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
MorphOS-Team (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Update of ft2.library
The MorphOS Team has released an update of ft2.library for MorphOS 1.4.5. The new library cleans up a couple minor problems with the previous version and is linked against the current freetype2, yielding improved quality.
The new version of ft2.library may be downloaded by registered MorphOS users at download.morphos-team.net or at the support FTP server. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.May.2005
Thomas Würgler (ANF)
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Susumu Hirasawa composes boot jingle for AmigaOS 4.0
Leuven, Belgium, May 25, 2005 - Chaos Union and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that recording artist Susumu Hirasawa will deliver a boot jingle created specifically for AmigaOS 4.0. Two additional tracks will also be included on the AmigaOS 4.0 CD to showcase Hirasawa's music.
About Susumu Hirasawa
Susumu Hirasawa is a highly acclaimed recording artist. He has written soundtracks for commercial successes such as Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent, the Beserk TV-series and videogame, and he is currently working on his latest CD-release. Since 1979 he helped defined Japanese pop-techno in the group P-MODEL and launched his first solo album in 1989. Since the mid-90s Hirasawa has toured with his Interactive Live Show utilizing Amigas with the support of Amiga user group of Japan (FAMIGA) for a spectacular interactive multimedia performance.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).
Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs.
Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985. (snx)
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25.May.2005
dietmar (ANF)
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Formerly commercial editor microgolded updated and now a free download
microgolded is now available as free download. Instead of asking users to pay for it, it is released as sponsored software and contains offline advertising.
About microgolded: microgolded is a small editor. It provides basic editing features, such as undo-redo, folding, macro recording, formatting, auto-case, auto-completion and other basic editor stuff. It is very fast and very configurable. All in one file, no installation.
Screenshot
Download
Registered users can find a new, advertising-free version on the GoldED website. New features: black-on-white color scheme (optional) and navigation tabs.
Amiga users and dealers interested in advertising software, events, websites or services in microgolded please contact GoldED support. (snx)
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25.May.2005
Jürgen Lucas (comments)
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MUI: Update of texteditor.mcc to version 15.11
The open source texteditor.mcc is now available in version 15.11 and offers most functions of a normal
text editor, embedded to a MUI class. The archiv contains native version for MorphOs and AmigaOS4 also.
Download: MCC_TextEditor.lha (340 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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25.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Adventure: "The Labyrinth of Time" Amiga version available for free download
The originally 1994 published game "The Labyrinth of Time" (screenshot) is
now freely downloadable.
The Amiga version requires AmigaDOS 1.3, 1 MB Chip RAM and 512 KB Fast RAM and runs under UAE also. An English manual is
online available. Please study the included readme file.
Ordering the game on CD is possible at the title link.
Download: LABAMIGA.lha (134 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.May.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 24-05-2005
Blob Wars
Blob Wars is an SDL based board game.
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Downloadpage
Pachi el marciano
One more board game which is similar to "Manic Miner" or "Jet Set Willy"
(screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Downloadpage
Password manager: Ling 1.3
Ling is a data base for saving several passwords. All passwords are encoded with the BlowFish CBC algorithm before storing them to the data base.
(screenshot). The latest changes:
- Windows were left locked after an export operation
- Arggggggg found a very bad bad in passwords saving. All 1.1 archives are not compatible anymore
- Changed RNG function: now it is a KISS one with a sha1-ed randomly generated seed
- Some minor changes
Please note that old data files which were created with an ancient version of Ling are not compatible to Ling 1.3. Please export all your data prior to
updating to a CSV file and import these files then by hand to Ling 1.3.
Link: Homepage
Download: Ling.lha (635 KB)
TheBar.mcc 20.5
"TheBar" is a MUI class by Alfonso Ranieri to easily generate button banks.
Link: Homepage
Download: MCC_TheBarMOS.lha (425 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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24.May.2005
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Package management system: APMS
With "Amiga Package Management System" (APMS) David Pitcher releases a clone of the known from the Unix world package
manager like RPM or apt-get. APMS should assist users while installation or upgrade of software packages:
The program recognizes dependencies (application X requires library Y) and manages the download and installation
of all required archives.
In a later phase APMS will introduce an Amiga specific format,
also mechanisms to transmit bug reports to a central data base are planned. Additionally support of further platforms
(beside AmigaOS 4) and servers (beside os4depot.net) is thought of.
The first version of APMS still has several bugs and is partly incomplete:
- Install, uninstall and update do not work yet
- Loads of debug output
- The program does not show verbose status information
- Before download the (os4depot.net-) category must be selected by hand
For all interested ones there is a mailing list at yahoo groups available. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.May.2005
ANN (website)
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OpenPCI: updates for RTL8139 driver and OpenPCIInfo
Benjamin Vernoux released a new version of his OpenPCI driver for the RTL8139 ethernet chipset fixing several problems with connection abortions and with file transfers.
A new version of OpenPCIInfo is available, too. Here were internal configuration options added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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21.May.2005
jamiga.org/ (ANF)
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Amiga-Java: Jamiga 0.0.5
Jamiga, a Java implementation for AmigaOS and MorphOS, is available in version 0.0.5 (download page).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.May.2005
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Puzzle game: Update of AmiBrixx to version 1.2
Jörg Renkert has published an update of his puzzle game called AmiBrixx. The
version 1.2 is available from now on under the title link for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS, AmigaOS4 and
MorphOS.
News:
- OS4 version added
- Code optimation
- Skins can now contain graphics and sounds
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.May.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Live camera of Amiga-Osna user meeting is online
Today at 6 pm the live-camera of the LAN-party of the Amiga-Osna user group is
online. It will stay until Sunday at 5 pm.
An Active-X-Plugin for Windows or Mac OS X is required. Amiga users can watch a picture
which must be updated manually.
Besides this there will be a picture archive under the following address: ftp://ftpuser:05404957836@pegasos2.homelinux.net:21/IP-Cam/
The guest access is:
Name: guest
Password: 05404957836
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.May.2005
Eule (ANF)
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Demo-Crew "Abyss" Now Developing for Nintendo
The members of the earlier Amiga demo group Abyss are now developing for Nintendo under the name "Shin'en." You'll find an interview with Manfred "Pink" Lizner under the title-link. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.May.2005
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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Ten Thousandth Day of Amiga Timekeeping
After nearly 20 years of Amiga, Chris Hodges called our attention to another reason to celebrate this year: today is the 10,000th day since 01-Jan-1978, the beginning date of the Amiga's internal time calculator. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.May.2005
Michael Garlich (ANF)
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Papyrus Office: French dictionary available
For Papyrus Office customers a French dictionary is available now for download:
Dowload: pap_frenchdictionary.lha (189 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.May.2005
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MorphOS: Dodgin' Diamond & Ling
Shoot'em Up: Dodgin' Diamond 2
Dodgin' Diamond is an SDL based, vertical scrolling Shoot'em Up (screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Windows version
Download: dd2-0.2.1_mos.lha (326 KB)
Password manager: Ling
Ling is a data base for storing several passwords. All passwords are encoded with the BlowFish-CBC algorithm before saving them to the data base
(screenshot).
Link: Homepage
Download: Ling.lha (479 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.May.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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Hardware compendium: Updates of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
The "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" was expanded with a few more details and
photos. An overview with the latest changes is available
here.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.May.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Ian Chapman
Amiga Future today has published an interview with Ian Chapman (The Big Book of Amiga Hardware). (snx)
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18.May.2005
Rupert naTmeg Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: BullDog - an nzb-based Usenet ripper
BullDog is a MorphOS program by Rupert Hausberger to download from Usenet using the nzb-descriptor files. For full features see the enclosed readme file.
Main features:
- Can download from multiple servers at the same time
- Each server can download with multiple connections
- Connections can be paused or aborted
- Pause/Resume downloads, even after quit
- Abort/Restart downloads any time
- Easy to use, non-blocking and intelligent GUI
(snx)
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18.May.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga-User-List: GAUHPIL Database shows all registered users
From now on, the GAUHPIL database shows all registered users, but only for other registered users that have to be logged in.
A personal homepage is no longer required for registration.
The new "Amiga-User-List" is not limited to users with homepage. After registering and filling in name and country, one can already browse the new "Amiga-User-List". Furthermore, the introduction of additional address information is prepared.
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a MySQL based database created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can be questioned by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 702 users from 38 countries. Again, lots of broken links have been removed. (snx)
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17.May.2005
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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D-Box 1200: New tower case announced by Elbox
Elbox today announced the D-Box 1200 for early June, a new tower case for Amiga 1200 computers which has been designed for the Dragon 1200, a ColdFire turbo board with included PCI/AGP expansion board announced in December. The new tower is said to be useable for other bus boards like Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 LT4, Mediator PCI 1200 or Mediator PCI ZIV, too, though.
The case offers four 5.25" and five 3.5" bays, two USB front connectors and one CD drive cover. Also included is a 350 W ATX power supply unit.
The D-Box 1200 replaces the discontinued Mirage 1200 and E/Box 1200 (also known as A1200 Power Tower and A1200 Winner Tower) Amiga tower systems. The suggested retail price will be EUR 149.95 or US$ 194.95 (VAT and local taxes excluded). (snx)
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17.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Feelin: Update of the object oriented system to version 9.0
Olivier Laviale's open source project 'Feelin', an object orientated system for AmigaOS, is now available in version 9.0
(screenshot).
The system consists of two compounds: the completely assembler written feelin.library as core as well as an expandable system to
create graphical user interfaces. Even there is a set of classes aiming at the latter purpose delivered with Feelin it is not
limited to such use.
With the update there are now 20 new classes (76 all together), additionally the website is extended with many
autodocs, three more screenshots
and forum.
Download: feelin050517.lha (814 KB)
Complete list of changes:
Feelin is an object-oriented system (OOS) for the AmigaOS. It provides two things: A small shared library, fast and powerful (the object-system's core), offering everything needed to create a complete object-oriented environement. And an extensible system to create and maintain GUIs. Although Feelin comes with a lot of GUI oriented classes, Feelin is not limited to that, and can be used for a variety of projects.
New preference item standard
Preference items are now defined in a CSS style format e.g. $button-frame (note well the dollar sign). The preference system has been partially rewritten and is now even more efficient.
Preview / Pop / Adjust
Created an adjust system with two new base classes FC_Adjust and FC_Preview. All previous adjust and pop classes are now subclasses of those two. FC_Adjust and FC_Preview subclasses are very modular, it's so simple now to create preview, popup and adjust classes.
Documents: XML / HTML
FC_XMLApplication has been split to create FC_XMLObject. FC_XMLDocument has been split to create FC_Document, which is now the base class for documents interpreting. FC_HTMLDocument is one of its new subclass. As FC_XMLDocument is used to parse XML code, FC_HTMLDocument can be used to parse HTML code (which is less formal).
XMLObjects
Feelin is not only able to create whole applications from XML files, but is now also able to create XML objects anywhere in your applications (and classes) very easily! For example, all groups used by the preference editor are generated from XML files.
XMLApplications was a first step in the separation between code and GUI, now the user can do WHAT HE WANTS with its GUI.
FC_PreferenceGroup totally rewritten
ALL preference groups (group objects used by the preference editor to adjust preferences) are now using XMLObjects! XML files are available in the "Feelin:XMLSources/Feelin/Preferences" directory.
Only ONE tiny little line of code is needed to create a preference group! It was already very easy to create preference groups, now everything is AUTOMATIC! Thanks to the new preference items standard (e.g. $button-frame), the XML support and the FPreferenceScript type the whole preference process (object generation, loadin, saving and object disposal) is TOTALY AUTOMATIC!
A LOT of preference items have been added to a LOT of classes, making the GUI EXTREMELY configurable.
Layout & Rendering
At last, FC_ImageDisplay is
capable of drawing GRADIENTS. This awaited improvement make the GUI really nice and soft.
Feelin GUI is now powered by a new layout rethinking system, the fourth and the last (I hope), it's just fabulous! Rethink requests are now buffered, even if 20 rethinks are requested, only 1 redraw is performed! And as usual only modified objects are updated.
Window expansion is nicer now. The window is expanded from all sides, thus a centered window expanding remains centered, instead of expanding only to the left and the bottom.
FC_Area and FC_Window are now subclasses of FC_Frame, which now handles the FA_Back on its own making refreshing just perfect. The complex refresh mode has been improved and is now fabulous!
Events
The new event code FV_EVENT_BUTTON_WHEEL of class FF_EVENT_BUTTON has been added and can be used to react on mouse wheel. Most classes are now using this nice feature. In fact, eveything that can be adjusted with the mouse can also be adjusted with mouse wheel e.g. lists, sliders, proportionals, cycles, event group pages!
Dialogs
Subclass of FC_Window, the new FC_Dialog class can be used to create a lot of commom requesters e.g. "Ok", "Yes | No", "Save | Use | Cancel"... Custom objects can be added very easily making dialog window fully customizable e.g. FC_PreferenceEditor is now a subclass of FC_Dialog.
FC_List
FC_List has been particuliarly updated and is now become as powerful as configurable. Column format is now defined in XML and a lot of features are available.
With, 20 new classes (76 classes available), I've done my best to offer a more complete, powerful and pleasant framework for Amiga developers; and an attractive GUI for users that like customizing A LOT. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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16.May.2005
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FreePascal 2.0
The FreePascal team publishes version 2.0 of their Pascal compiler FreePascal. Thanks to Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh
the current version is also available for MorphOS at the official website.
(cg)
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16.May.2005
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS/AmigaOS4: OpenTTD 0.4.0
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", which is available for a wide range of operating systems incl. MorphOS.
The brand new version 0.4.0 was just released a few minutes ago. It will probably need a few minutes until all sourceforge mirrors have the file, so be patient. :-)
What is new in this release?
- Bigger maps
- New realistic acceleration; should be much better
- Multiple road stations (up to 8) on a single station (multibus)
- New PathFinder (NPF)
- Dynamic towns/ industries/ stations/ vehicles/ signs/ orders/ everything, up to 64K
- Brand new OldLoader so OpenTTD is TTD(Patch) compatible again. Also endian safe
- Even better newgrf support, except for callbacks, everything works (ok, almost)
- Improved multiplayer. More console options, less desyncs and more fun
- Protected OpenTTD from interference of hacked clients, so it should be safe to play again
- Saving vehicle sorting criteria for each vehicle type
- Resizable orders GUI
- Focus keyboard on input-box in Multiplayer Menu
- terrain hotkeys nonfunctional in scenario editor (D,Q,W,E,R,T,Y,U fltr)
- Complete rework of console and new commands like ls, save, load, help, etc.
- Signs are shown in the colour of the player who created them
- Added cheat option to set production of raw-material industries in game
- Replaced train GUI remembers railtype selected from the dropdown menu
- Improved Autoreplace
- many more smaller features :D
- many bugfixes
For a full list of all new features and bugfixes, known bugs and additional information please check out the documentation which is included in the release archive, which you can get from the title link.
NOTE from the author of the MorphOS port: "OpenTTD source should compile w/o a single change for AmigaOS and OS4 too. Just grab and compile. As my A4K is not up and running anymore and I do not own an A1 I can't provide ready made binaries for OS4 and AmigaOS 68k. But the source was prepared since ages with all AmigaOS 68k compatible systems in mind. As past has shown: ready made binaries for these both systems will soon appear from 3rd parties. So stay tuned if you can't use the MorphOS build and you're too lazy to start gcc. :-)"
Update: (16:10, 16.05.05, snx):
AmigaOS4-Download: openttd_aos4.lha (2 MB) (snx)
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15.May.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL database software update
From now on, the GAUHPIL software uses no cookies anymore. Registration is done by sending a password by electronic mail. After logging in, the user can edit his entry as before. Furthermore, every registered user can now finally alter the e-mail address and password. If wanted, the user can also remove the whole entry from the database.
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a MySQL based database created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can be displayed by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function. Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 707 users from 38 countries. The number of users for each country can be found on the page "All Countries". (snx)
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14.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Amiga-Anywhere: arcade puzzler "Word Me Up"
The developers team Boing Attitude announce the immediate availability of "Word Me Up" for PocketPC and Smartphones. As distributor is Amiga Inc. mentioned, Word Me Up is available in the company's web shop.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.May.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Ports of several Quake 2-mods
Steffen Häuser has ported some of the Quake 2-mods which are offered on the
"Amiga Quake 2 Page" to AmigaOS 4:
- Bots (Battle of the Sexes)
- CTF
- Annihilation
- HolyWars
- StarTrek
- Headhunters
- Headhunters CTF
- WarMod
Besides this there is a new archive called "os4_quake2_tools.lha" which is required for
the installation of the mods under AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2005
RainMan (ANF)
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Website amiga-arena.de online again
The website of the Amiga-Arena is online again and is now called "AmigaInsider-Intern" homepage.
The full versions which existed on the Amiga-Arena should be available again little by little.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2005
Pegasosforum (website)
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Linux: Another two Gentoo-Game-CDs for Pegasos available
Pieter van den Abeele has made available another two Live-CD-games based on Gentoo-Linux for
the Pegasos. TORCS is a
3D-racing game (screenshot)
and Trigger is a rally game (screenshot).
Both games can be downloaded with the help of BitTorrent-filesharing. They can be started
from the Open Firmware with the command "boot cd torcs" and "boot cd trigger".
Torrent-files:
torcs.torrent
trigger.torrent
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2005
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Amiga events in Belgium and Finland
From May 20th to 22nd Motorola Inside 2005 will take place
in Turku in Finland. This is a pure Amiga demoparty which will take place since
1997 for the forth time. The entrance fee is ten or fifteen Euro; in order to participate
book for it via e-mail.
On 6th and 7th August the Belgian Amiga-Club will organize the Boinged in Belgium 2005
in the near of Antwerpen.
There should be an exhibition "20 years Amiga", a party around the
clock as well as games and demos. Exhibitors and visitors who are interested in participating
please give a feedback.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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