12.May.2005
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Retro-Computing: Amiga-Demos Reintroduced in DHTML
Under the title-link an Amiga fan has reintroduced old "scene" demos - in DHTML. Please note that in order to use the functions of the site correctly Internet Explorer is required. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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12.May.2005
AmigaFuture (ANF)
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DSL at 16 MBit/s by debitel and QSC
Debitel wants to offer DSL connections with up to 16 MBit/s in the future, and is cooperating with QSC to attain this goal. The offer primarily concerns private customers. It will be based on ADSL2+ and coupled with a VoIP offer (Voice over IP). (cg) (Translation: dm)
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12.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Magazine: Total Amiga 16 available in PDF Form (English-Language)
Issue #16 of the English-language print magazine Total Amiga (appeared in October 2003) is available as a PDF file, after having sold out in print.
In the issue are reviews of MorphOS 1.4, the USB card Algor, Hollywood 1.5, Perfect Paint and AmiAtlas 6. There are also the first parts of instructions for C programming and digital picture processing.
Download: totalamiga_16.pdf (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.May.2005
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Software news until 11.05.2005
Exotic Ripper 3.3
"Exotic Ripper" saves music tracks in MOD format extracted from demos or games. The program is freeware now, a keyfile is no longer required.
A list of changes is includes in the readme.
Download: exoticripper33.lha (231 KB) (Readme)
playOGG 2.4
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is an audio player for at least the following formats:
OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA and SID. It may be launched from the Workbench or the CLI.
Beside some bug removements the version 2.4 contains a new verbose mode and a new HTML program guide.
Link: Download page
Download: playOGG.lha (2 MB) (Readme)
VorbisTools 1.01 (68k/WOS)
The VorbisTools are programs to encode, decode or manipulate audio files in the Ogg Vorbis format.
Link: Download page 68k version
Link: Download page WOS version
FLAC 1.1.2
With the help of this CLI based tool music tracks can be encoded to the lossless FLAC format.
Link: Download page
GNU Make 3.81
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer has ported version 3.81 of this compile frontend to AmigaOS.
Link: Download page (cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.May.2005
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Amiga emulator: WinFellow 0.4.4 build 2 (Alpha)
A new version of the Windows based Amiga emulator "WinFellow" is available now. The option "Exact vertical pixel doubling" has been added.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.May.2005
morphzone.org
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MorphOS: Special ArakAttack beta version
Guido "geit" Mersmann provides beta version especially for Pegasos users of his OpenUSB.device from the ArakAttack package which allows
the use of PCI based USB 2.0 controllers under MorphOS.
Please note that this beta version of the OpenUSB.device was compiled for the 68k CPU and the author provides no support
for this beta version. Mersmann circumvents a malfunction in MorphOS: Support for the
UHCI protocol has been disabled to prevent conflicts with the Poseidon drivers.
Download: OpenUSB.lha (26 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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10.May.2005
ANN (website)
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File system handler: Updates of Ext2FS and SGIXFS
Marek Szyprowski has updated his file system handler for the Second Extended File System (ExtFS2)
as well as for the SGI X File System (XFS) for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS.
Beside a few bug removements there has been support for file names longer than 107 characters added.
Download:
ext2fs_0.5.lha (58 KB)
sgixfs_0.4.lha (58 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2005
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar: 1st Quest - barbarians of the Southern lands!
Rules:
This quest is for new players beginning June, 1st 2005. Players who want to register for this quest have to enter 'Barbaren der Südlande' in the notes field of the registration form.
The aim of the barbarians is to conquer at least 150 Morgen of the northern countries each month. It's not 150 acres per barbarian but all lords together have to reach this aim.
To ensure a free development the area of the barbarians is kept encapsuled. Beginning with August, 1st 2005 the frontiers will be opened and from then on each month the conquered Morgen will be counted. If the number passes the 150 Morgen all barbarians can continue playing for free. Does the conquered area not pass 150 Morgen is the invasion not successful and the players' state will be set to
the shareware mode.
Registering will be possible from May, 15th to May, 30th 2005.
This quest is cross platform, so it can be played an all systems (PC, Linux, Mac, Amiga (+ MOS,+ OS4)).
Quest operator: Martin Wolf
Price: continued playing for free as long as the quest's aim is reached.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
OS4Depot (website)
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AmigaOS4: Apache 1.3.33 beta released
Edgar Schwan uploaded Apache 1.3.33 in a beta version as AmigaOS4 port to the OS4Depot. Supported are PHP 4.3.0 and MySQL 3.23.49.
Contained programs:
- httpd - Apache server for the hypertext transfer protocol
- htpasswd - creating and updating of users authentification files
- htdigest - creating and updating of text files for the digest authentification
- ab - benchmark tool for the Apache HTTP server
- logresolve - resolving of host names of the IP addresses in Apache log files
- rotatelogs - rotates Apache logs without the need to kill the server
- checkgid - checks whether a group ID exists
- php - standalone PHP interpreter compiled for this package
Download: apache.lha (10 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Dave Haynie archives online again
The Dave Haynie Archives - a collection of documents created by Dave Haynie for Commodore - are now online accessible again. Next to information about single computers and chips there can be found e.g. information about the never released AAA technology of the prototype Nyx.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Final update for SystemPatch to version 2.94
SystemPatch by Sante Nocciolino changes various operating system routines to increase the performance of systems with newer 68k processors. The most can be got from 68060 systems but it can be used on all Amigas with at least a 68020.
The author expects the version 2.94 to be the last update. A release of the source code at a later time - as it was with others of his programs - is possible.
Download: SystemPatch2.lha (42 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS: OpenPictureSpace 2.5 released
Marc le Douarain, meanwhile the maintainer of the program originally written for Linux by Thomas Hänselmann, released version 2.5 of OpenPictureSpace for MorphOS.
OpenPictureSpace shows a directory containing images as thumbnails (screenshot). Supported are JPEG, GIF, PNG and IFF-ILBM including the Amiga specific HAM and EHB modes.
In contrary to other programs of this kind OpenPictureSpace does not display the pictures in a grid with n x m thumbnails but scales them only vertically and tries to put as many as possible in each row to use the screen space as best as possible.
Changes in version 2.5:
- Using powersdl.library and powersdl_image.library (makes more image formats in the future possible)
- Wheelmouse keys can be used for scrolling of the thumbs list
- Delay when displaying the whole image removed
- Picture rotation via the '<' key
- Displaying useful keys at the bottom
- Do not try to double the size of the current opened image despite the fact that it is possible!
- Error removed when entering a drive for the path
Download: OpenPictureSpace_MOS.lha (242 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.May.2005
banana development committee (ANF)
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MorphOS: MisterBanana 1.3 published
It follows the original press release concerning the publishing of the newest version
for the known desktop mascot for MorphOS:
"No may without Banana
That's our motto. Sadly current MisterBanana 1.5 with all the cool
extra features only works properly with still unreleased MorphOS 1.666.
But thanks to the banana god, we could resurrect source code of MisterBanana
1.4 and bumped it down to 1.3 to make this update release happen just in time.
It's hopefully the last before the 1.5 release, and solves no bugs or
problems with the previous public release, but adds a few new sayings and
options, including faked transparency, an updated hotlist, anonymizer support
and a secret feature to destroy the world.
We wish you fun!
Oh.. and get the little fellow from here
or become amazed 'bout this very cool screenshot." (cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2005
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: UADE 1.02 published
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has published an update of UADE to version 1.02 for MorphOS.
UADE can play Amiga music files with the help of UAE-emulation and of a cloned
Eagleplayer-API.
Download: uade-1.02-mos1-bin.lha (1.4 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2005
Carsten "flip" Wiebers (ANF)
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A History of the GUI
Under the title link you can find an English article written by Ars Technica
about the history of the graphic user interfaces. It is described the evolution
from the earliest beginning in the 60ies over Xerox and Apple as well as
the systems of the 80ies (including the Workbench) to the present.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2005
Michal Schulz (AROS-ML)
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File system: SFS source code put under LGPL
The Smart File System (SFS) is a journalling file system for Amiga systems which was created to get most of performance, scalability and file integrity. At the title link John Hendrikx has set up an according sourceforge project to publish the original C version to LGPL. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2005
ANN (website)
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WLAN driver prism2.device for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS
Neil Cafferkey has released the first complete version of his prism2.device for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. The kit contains a SANA II driver for 11 Mbps WLAN cards based on the Prism II chipset.
There is support for PCMCIA cards for the A1200/A600 and PCI cards for Amigas equiped with the Prometheus boards, AmigaOne and Pegasos as well as for PCs running Amithlon.
Download: prism2.lha (138 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: GUI toolkit FLTK
FLTK is a C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, MacOS X and AmigaOS 4.0, that is licensed according to the LGPL. FLTK might be linked static or as shared library. The kit contains a GUI-Builder called FLUID also.
The Amiga version (screenshots: 1, 2) is described by the author as "work in progress", but is almost complete. Nearly all functions of the official version 1.1.6 is implemented already, the following features are still missing and will be added in a following release:
- OpenGL support
- Drag and Drop
- Threads
- Custom pointers
There are more than 60 demos available which show the potential of that tool kit. The whole package is put to several archives:
Libs, includes and documentation: fltk.lha (1 MB)
Demos: fltk_demos.lha (11 MB)
FLUID: fltk_fluid.lha (622 KB)
The source code will be made available within the next days, until then a "not yet cleaned up" version is obtainable from the author by e-mail request.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Database in Spanish
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.
Thanks to the kind support of Dámaso Domínguez, the GAUHPIL is now also translated to Spanish. Furthermore, Dámaso again found many users from the "Lost Links List" by hardworking research. Other defective links were moved there. So the database contents could be cleaned up significantly.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 713 users from 38 countries. The number of users for each country can be found on the page "All Countries". (snx)
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30.Apr.2005
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Current state of DKG II and SN-Archiv homepage
The SN-Archiv homepage is now accessable via the short URL sn-archiv.de, too.
Of SN-EuroArchiv is version 1.95 under development. Image support for the HTML support for course coins sets was added that will be available in the future for special coins, too. Additionally, some bugs were removed that concerned the HTML support. An example for the new ccs generating can be found here (needs some loading time because of the images).
Steffen Nitz also decided to create an images gallery for SN-EuroArchiv. The page is still under construction and can be accessed via this URL.
There are thoughts to create a similar gallery for "Die Kleine Gilde II" to show the scope of the game. DKG II v0.70 is almost finished but the author has had not found the time to do the last adaptions to release this version. Things like town fires, burglary and sabotages like setting fires or placing bombs at competitiors buildings were added. You can now place things in buildings that are quite helpful, e.g. against fire and burglary.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Apr.2005
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MorphOS: ldview 0.8
ldview is a view program for files of Lego-models in
ldraw-format (screenshot).
New in version 0.8:
- Support for .mpd format
- Smooth shading
- Faster loading of models (also uses less memory)
- Possibility to display parts used in the model
- Different display modes (lines/solids)
- Automatic fixing of broken transformation matrices
- Automatic fixing of bowtie quads
- Camera movement
- Better transparency
- Possible to change background color
- Support for high detail primitives
Download: ldview0.8-mos.lha (30 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Neo (ANF)
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DTP: PageStream 5 Status-Update
According to Grasshopper LLC the final beta tests for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS versions of
PageStream 5 will start soon. The development of a AmigaOS 4 version was
continued because now an AmigaOne is available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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File system: Update of Smart Filesystem (SFS)
The Smart Filesystem (SFS) is now available in version 1.239. A bug in
AmigaOS 3.x was avoided and the function ACTION_FILESYSTEM_ATTR implemented.
Download: SFS_1.239.lha (44 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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Tales of Tamar: Update of Amiga-Version to V0.53R9
Tales of Tamar which is a round based Massive-Multiplayer-PBEM-Game is now available
in version 0.53R9.
Besides this an animation packet has been released which contains On-Screen-Animations
instead of pictures.
If you want to know what has changed in the new version please have a look at the homepage.
Download:
ToT_Amiga_V0.53_R9.lha (15 MB)
ToT_Anims.zip (41 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Olaf Barthel (ANF)
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Developing tool: Subversion 1.1.4 for Amiga ported
Subversion is a software packet for maintaining of source texts and
binary data just like the older RCS or CVS. Above all it is meant as a replacement
for CVS and has not its bugs e.g. insufficient maintenance of binary data.
In this port made by Olaf Barthel the functions for maintaining the Amiga
file attributes (hold, archive, script, pure, etc.) and file comments have been added.
The archive contains the documentation, the whole changes made on the source code
of the Amiga version and the programs (client/server) translated for
AmigaOS 2.x/3.x/4.x.
Download: subversion-1.1.4.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Calo Nord (ANF)
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Update of AmigaSYS 1.7.1 for E-UAE (beta version)
AmigaSYS is available in a new beta version for E-UAE. AmigaSYS is a
collection of a comfortable Workbench environment for use with the Amiga emulator UAE
in the way of AIAB ("Amiga in a box").
AmigaSYS contains no Kickstart-ROM because of legal reasons and you need
a Workbench 3.0/3.1-disk. The installation itself runs automatically.
To the current beta version for E-UAE Calo Nord wrote:
"Many users have already heard of AmigaSYS and some of you were missing the
E-UAE-Version for Linux, MorphOS and AmigaOS4. Now there is a first and also last
version for E-UAE. Because of the limited possibilities of E-UAE we will not work
with it in future.
We have released a beta version of AmigaSYS 1.7.1 with little modifications for E-UAE.
Under MorphOS the packet unfortunately does not work proper which is caused by
E-UAE.
Under AmigaOS4 there is a bug when unarchiving the Startup-Sequence.
After the installation this must be copied manually from the archive to the installed
AmigaSYS directory. A packet created under AmigaOS4 will follow soon.
Under Linux AmigaSYS should work so far with the known limitations.
If there are bugs after installing the archive the packet probably was extracted in a wrong way.
This is not caused by AmigaSYS but by the unarchiver program or the Linux file system.
The current version has been successfully tested under AmigaOS4, Debian Linux PPC, SuSE 9.2 x86, Mandrake Linux 10.1 x86 and Mandrake Linux LE 2005 x86.
Because we will not develop further for E-UAE there is no support. But bug reports
can be always sent to my e-mail address.
If E-UAE should get remarkable progress some times later I probably will continue
my work."
Download: AmigaSYS.tar.gz (35 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Strategy game engines FreeCNC and Stratagus ported
Juha Niemimaki has ported the realtime strategy games engines Stratagus 2.1 and FreeCNC 0.3
for AmigaOS4. The author asks you to note the instructions for starting a game.
Stratagus supports games like
Invasion - Battle of Survival (contained), Wargus (WarCraft 2, requires the original data files) and
Astroseries. There are some sound problems at the last mentioned one.
FreeCNC supports early Command & Conquer games.
The C&C1 demo version works but may crash when quitting it. Red Alert does not work.
Download:
freecnc.lha (1 MB)
stratagus.lha (22 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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MorphOS: E-mail Commodity Lola Released
Alfonso Ranieri wrote a little MorphOS commodity by the name of Lola, with which one can quickly send an e-mail (screenshot).
Download: lola.lha (248 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Pegasosforum (website)
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MorphOS: NcFTP 3.1.9 Appears
Matthias Münch has compiled NcFTP version 3.1.9 for MorphOS. NcFTP is a set of free programs having to do with File Transfer Protocol (FTP). It may be downloaded under the title-link. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Gathering: AmiGBG 2005 Takes Place on 23rd July (Sweden)
For the "stay-at-home" Europeans there's a parallel event to AmiWest. Simultaneously on the 23rd of July, AmiGBG occurs in the Swedish town of Göteborg, taking the theme of a 20th birthday world Amiga celebration. The event team has grown by a factor of three this year, more details will follow in the coming weeks. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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PegXMac: Spring Offer for Update Subscription
David Bentham's started a spring special on his Mac-on-Linux-Live-CD PegXMac: a single payment will be accepted for the price and the updates for the duration of this special.
With this one-time payment, one gets updates for four months, not just one, so the cost is a lot lower. This offer covers all variants: Pegasos II, Pegasos I and AmigaOne. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Darren Eveland (ANF)
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Reminder: AmigaOne-Survey for all Amiga users closes in four days
Darren Eveland reminds his survey whether you are owning an AmigaOne or planning to buy one. It will close in four days (amiga-news.de reported).
Over 1550 people have filled out this survey so far. Encouraged to participate are all Amiga users, no matter if you use AmigaOS4, AmigaOS, MorphOS or AROS and no matter if you use it on original hardware or via Amithlon or UAE. (snx)
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27.Apr.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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MorphOS: mfkey 1.8
With "mfkey" Alfonso Ranieri provides a clone of the AmigaOS commodity Fkey. Yet mfkey supports "CLI" and "ARexx" events only. Changes with version 1.8:
- Added keyboard.device supported MMkeys (PLAY, STOP, PREV, NEXT)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2005
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Software news: playOGG 2.1 & Clarissa RSS module
playOGG 2.1
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is an audio player for OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA and SID. It may be launched from Workbench or the CLI.
Link: Homepage
Download: playOGG.lha (796 KB) (Readme)
RSS module for the webserver Clarissa
Clarissa is a webserver written in ARexx by Martin Kayser. A plugin by Oliver "Bladerunner" Hummel enables it to provide RSS feeds now.
Link: Homepage
Download: newsreader.rexx (4 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2005
PPC-Zone (website)
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Pegasos: New Linux "LiveCD" Niktarix
Nick Niktaris has created another Linux "LiveCD" called nektarix for the Pegasos (ODW) (screenshots).
Compounds of Knoppix, Kanotix and Debian Sarge were used; beside the kernel 2.6.11 there is also KDE 3.3.2, UnionFS, Mozilla/Firefox, Open Office and GIMP.
UnionFS, which takes some time during the boot up process, offers a workflow as if the machine was booted from a hard disk - one may install or remove .deb files.
The V0.03 is the first public version, which may contain some serious bugs and not all planned features are integrated yet.
Open Firmware call:
boot cd niktarix root=/dev/ram rw init=linuxrc
MD5 checksum:
834340ff550101757cb56e38cfe08a09
Download:
NIKTARIX_0_03.ISO (550 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2005
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Amiga Inc. becomes member of the iPAQ developer program
Amiga Inc. announce at the title link their participation of Hewlett-Packard's iPAQ Developer Program. Amiga are set to the "Premier Member" status which gives them access to developer tools, source codes, prerelease tools as well as information and offerings for a common marketing and fair participation.
Greg Sigel, Amigas vice president for sales and marketing, is amazed by the plenty available iPAQ expansions and emphasizes the benefits of HP's developer program for Amiga Inc. and their developer community.
They are planning an "aggressive marketing" and is heading for the release of about a dozen titels per quarter year.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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26.Apr.2005
shim (ANF)
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MorphOS: Image viewer shim updated to v1.0 and released under GPL
shim is a simple commandline image viewer. The updated source has been released under GPL, along with binaries for MorphOS and Linux (PPC/x86). The version has been bumped to 1.0. The program needs (Power-) SDL and (Power-) SDL_image.
Download:
shim-1.0_morphos.lha (23 KB) (snx)
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25.Apr.2005
Maxime Doyen (ANF)
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HomeBank V3.1 released
After several beta versions, Maxime Doyen now released the final version 3.1 of his program HomeBank under the title link. This version fixes a major bug in the Define Payee & Define Category section, which was leading to instability of the system and sometimes crashes (especially on MorphOS and AmigaOS4).
It also fixes any reported/found other minor bugs and suggestions of changes. No new functionality has been added, though. Furthermore, the author would like every user of HomeBank to subscribe to the corresponding mailing list. (snx)
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23.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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New US magazine: NewsTek
With NewsTek is in the USA a new commercial magazine brought to life that follows the tradition of Video Toaster User, Newtekniques and NewtekPro. The Digital Lifestyle Magazine with focus on the NewTek products takes AmigaOS and MorphOS into account, too.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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22.Apr.2005
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS: sc68mui plays Amiga-/Atari-Chiptunes
sc68mui is a MorphOS-port of sc68 which is a player of the so called "Chiptunes". The
music tracks must be available in a special format. You can find a big collection
of titles on the official homepage.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2005
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Software-News: playOGG 2.0 & VorbisTools
playOGG 2.0
The program playOGG written by Lorence Lombardo can play audio files of the formats
OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA and SID. It can be started from the Workbench or from CLI.
Link: Homepage
Download: playOGG.lha (489 KB) (Readme)
VorbisTools WOS
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer has compiled the VorbisTools for WarpOS. The VorbisTools are
a collection of tools for en-/decoding and changing of audio files in Ogg Vorbis-format.
Link: download site (cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2005
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Desktop-calendar April
#AmigaZeux has published a desktop calendar for MorphOS called April
(screenshots). You can configure
fonts, colours, background graphics, transparency and the size of the window.
Download: April.lha (149 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2005
Jens Langner (ANF)
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MUI: BetterString.mcc / HotkeyString.mcc under LGPL published
After having saved the source codes of the known MUI-Custom class BetterString.mcc and HotkeyString.mcc
from the hard drive of the former author Allan Odgaard the complete source code has been
published under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) as Open Source and has been put together
in a seperate project on Sourceforge.net.
Interested developers are encouraged to take contact to the
current main authors (Jens Langner and Ilkka Lehtoranta) if you want to develop further
BetterString.mcc and HotkeyString.mcc.
Probably there will be a new version of BetterString.mcc/HotkeyString.mcc which will
also include native PPC versions for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2005
David Brunet (ANF)
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Magazine: Obligement #50 available
Issue 50 of the French magazine Obligement is now available. You can read in this issue: latest Amiga news, interview with David Gerber (ex-MorphOS developer), interview with Stéphane Guillard (OS4 French developer), Test: Audio Evolution 4, Test: Amibrixx, Test: Don Ceferino Hazana, Test: Weather, Test: la France par Monts et par Vaux, Test: SNES9x, article about CRT and LCD screens, how to build a demo, installation of a AmigaOne XE motherboard, tutorial about TVPaint and lot more. The magazine (zip archive, 1.4 MB) is freely downloadable at http://obligement.free.fr (title link). (nba)
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21.Apr.2005
m.w. verlag GmbH
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Search for the Best Websites of Germany
Everyone certainly knows about the problems with search engines. When you type in your search words you get a long list of hits, but most of them don't have a thing to do with what you're looking for. However there's an unusual searcher that's been established, one that targets the websites that you're really after. "Turn the page, don't Google it" is the new trick to find your way in the Internet maze. The "Web Address Book" is a reference work in book form.
[this part of long article not translated -DM]
More information may be found on the
www.web-adressbuch.de homepage. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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21.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Native Versions of AHI 6.0rc3 and the Emu10kx Drivers
At OS4 Depot, Davy Wentzler released AmigaOS4-native versions of AHI 6.0rc3 and the emu10kx drivers 6.1 for SB Live, Audigy and Audigy2 sound cards. Please note the accompanying "readme" texts.
CAMD testers are asked to provide detailed debug information once they install this version.
Download:
ahidevice.lha (79 KB)
emu10kx.lha (22 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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20.Apr.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 20-04-2005
Torrent 0.8.2
Torrent is a small SDL based game where one has to collect as many same coloured tiles as fast as possible (screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Download
Scramble 0.9.5
With Scramble one has to build as many English words from 6 given letters in a given time (screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Download
Add ons to some MorphOS skins
Tristan "TriMa" Mangold has released some Songplayer button graphics for his MorphOS skins "Blue Space Ninja II" and "trima".
Link: Homepage
Trima buttons: trima-songplayer.lha ( KB)
BSN2 buttons: bsnii-songplayer.lha ( KB)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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20.Apr.2005
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CAD: Full version of "Cycas" released to Aminet
Cycas is a program for architectural drawing in two and three dimensions. Additional to the normal CAD function Cycas offers some special elements and techniques for architecture and construction drawing.
Perspectives, isometries and planar views of a building can be rendered as line graphics and can also be reworked.
3D data can be exported in different exchange formats to programs which can render graphics from the data. That allows a rapid and high quality simulation of buildings.
Further development of the Amiga version is put to halt currently, for that reason the latest full version is now available for free.
For further information about the Windows and Linux versions of Cycas
please visit the official website.
Download:
German version: Cycas178_DE.lha (1.2 MB) (Readme)
English version: Cycas178_EN.lha (1.2 MB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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20.Apr.2005
ANN (website)
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GoldED: envGDE 1.9 available
The AmigaGuide development mode of Dietmar Eilert's editor and C/C++-IDE GoldED has been updated and supports now syntax validation by using Guido Mersmann's GuideCheck.
Check errors are shown within the editor window in an adjustable area below the text (screenshot). By clicking a shown warning the editor jumps to the regading line automatically.
The update to envGDE 1.9 is available at the title link (after validation of the serial). (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Apr.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Commodore Gebruikersgroep: Photos of the Amiga party in Maarssen
The Commodore Gebruikersgroep have published four pages with photos of their Amiga party which took place on Saturday in Maarssen, the Netherlands, to celebrate 20 years of Amiga.
At the party, besides several Amiga models, among other stuff the latest products by Individual Computers were shown - Catweasel, Retro-Replay, MMC64 card and the C-One - as well as the AmigaOne, an Amiga Porsche and the set-top box Ariana. (snx)
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18.Apr.2005
IOSPIRIT GmbH (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT GmbH: IBrowse and IBrowse update available again
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of IBrowse in our
online shop. The internal restructurizations that have previously
prevented the availability of IBrowse have now been completed.
Our new express shop now accepts and processes orders within minutes.
Furthermore, we now accept American Express in addition to Visa and
Mastercard credit cards for payment. Customers that had trouble
accessing our shop through the firewall of their company before will
be happy to hear, that the secured SSL connection now runs on the
respective standard port. (snx)
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18.Apr.2005
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: First photos of the ColdFire-board Dragon 1200
Elbox have published first photos of the Dragon 1200 announced in December (amiga-news.de reported). The product is a ColdFire-based accelerator card combined with a PCI/AGP expansion busboard.
Furthermore, Elbox have announced a special offer for all Mediator PCI busboards for Zorro III-equipped Amigas purchased between 15 April and 14 May 2005 in the Elbox Online Store: In this period, with every Mediator purchase, the end-user can receive an eFlash 4000/2MB Zorro III card for half price. (snx)
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16.Apr.2005
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #085
The scene group Liquid Skies releases today their 85th music pack. This time it's a calmer piece of music called "Underwater Sky" composed by Lcr feat. Kuadziw. The cover was created by Kuadziw.
Some more inromation about the track:
- Title: Underwater Sky
- Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
- Style: Ambient
- Running time: 4:00
- Format: mp3 (160kbps)
The zipped file with a size of appr. 4.7 MB is available for download under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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16.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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Kultpower.de: covers of "PlayTime" added
Sebastian Eichholz added 17 covers of the print magazine "Playtime" to his website of scanned computer and video games magazines front pages. They are taken from the issues #1-12/93 and #1-5/95.
Additionally, he points out that on this Saturday he's taking part in the Retrogamers 2005 in Ludwigshafen/Germany at booth 21 where old video games magazines from the 1980s and 1990s (among others Powerplay, ASM, Videogames, Amiga Joker) will be for sale.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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16.Apr.2005
BP organization team (e-mail)
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Breakpoint 2005: opinion poll
The organizators of the Breakpoint 2005, a demo party that took place from March, 25th to 28th in Bingen (Germany) asks all visitors to take part in a survey regarding this year's event to give the organizing team some feedback for possible improvements for the Breakpoint 2006.
Furtheron the organization team announces that the video recordings of the seminars are now available on the FTP server (ftp.untergrund.net, directory "after_the_party/seminars").
There are now bug fixed final versions of the following demos respectively intros on the Breakpoint FTP server available:
- Fairlight's PC 64k intro "Death and taxes"
- TBL's Amiga demo "Ocean machine"
- Madwizard's Amiga demo "Glare"
In addition are all video recordings of all Amiga demos on the Breakpoint FTP server available in the directory "amiga/demo/videos".
Please use for the downloads of the offered material the mirrors, too.
In the next time, recordings of the C64 demo compo, videos of the BASS and Ultrasound live performances and press articles will be added.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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16.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: 15 more demos
The following 15 demos were added to the Amiga Demoscene Archive since March, 30th:
- Alien/Scoopex
Released at Abduction 1995 in the demo competition
- Elements/Puzzle
Released at The Party 1996
- Energy/Gods
Released at The Gathering 1997 demo competition
- November Light/Sunshine Productions
Released at Halloween 1996 in the demo competition
- Paleo/Floppy
Released at Intel Outside 4 in the intro competition
- Sci-fi/Spaceballs
Released at Deja Vu II
- Syndrome/Balance
Released at The Party 1994 demo competition
- Worlds/Gods
Released at Saturne 3 1996 in the demo competition
- Hetero Sapiens/Traktor
Released at Mekka Symposium 2001 in the demo competition
- Fruit Kitchen/The Silents
Released at Assembly 1995 in the demo competition
- Cyberia/Scoopex and Bomb
Released at Assembly 1996 in the demo competition
- Glare/Madwizards
Released at Breakpoint 2005 in the demo competition
- Evil/IRIS
Released at Breakpoint 2005 in the intro 4k competition
- The human body is a curious contraption/Dr.Doom and Xeron
Released at Breakpoint 2005 in the demo competition
- Totenkreuz/Tulou
Released at Breakpoint 2005 in the intro 4k competition
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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15.Apr.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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System monitor: Update of MorphOS version 3.4 of Scout published
There is an update of the MorphOS version of the system monitor called Scout (amiga-news.de reported).
This is still always version 3.4 because only some bugs have been fixed.
Download: Scout34_mos.lha (899 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Apr.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Pegasos mousepads available
From today on the new Pegasos mousepads from APC&TCP can be delivered and can be
ordered in the online shop or via e-mail. Today all preorders have been sent. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Apr.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL database reworked
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.
In the past few weeks, the PHP scripts have been completely reworked and new functions have been added. The former country search links have been replaced by "real" country lists and a few more flags and internal links have been added.
The moderation script now finally allows to add new links, that have been mailed to the moderator. Nevertheless, the preferred way should be that interested users type in their data themselves.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 730 users from 39 countries.
The number of users for each country can be found on the page "All Countries". (snx)
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15.Apr.2005
Genesi (e-mail)
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Linux: Gentoo-Live-DVD for the Pegasos
A Live-DVD about the BitTorrent-Network based on the Gentoo-Linux has been published for the Pegasos.
The "Luminocity X-LiveDVD" contains 1.8 GB
and is altivec optimated. It features Luminocity
which is an OpenGL based window manager technology.
Torrent file: ppc-livedvd.torrent (33 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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SoundFX: Update to Version 4.3
SoundFX, a modular shareware editor for digitized audio data, has reached version 4.3 and may be downloaded for variuos 68k processors from the corresponding download page.
Stefan Kost writes on his website: [translated quote]"There are a few bugs that I took care of a while ago. One is the crashing that occurred when using drop-down menus under OS4. Beyond that there is a new Show-Tip program in this update."
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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14.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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GoldED: Service Pack 24 Released
Since the 11th of April, Service Pack 24 has been available for owners of the GoldED editor and the C/C++-IDE GoldED Studio as well as for microgolded. This is only a little incremental update. For feedback and questions please use the GoldED Forum. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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14.Apr.2005
Jörg Karisch (ANF)
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Hardware Gathering in Nürnberg on 30th April 2005
The Amiga user group IMAGE invites all active users of the Amiga, its successors, and UAE systems, as well as one else interested to a hardware gathering on 30th April, 2005.
The point of our meeting is to solve hardware and software problems right there, and to discuss the latest (or older) happenings with the Amiga technology.
As a special theme, we plan to inform all about the Pegasos, the installation of WinUAE, and the use of USB devices on Amiga systems. You'll find more information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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