21.Aug.2020
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Overview: List of CNet mailboxes
On amiga.org an user has published a list of C64 and Amiga mailboxes, which use the BBS software CNet. Most of the computers can only be accessed via Telnet but also three (US-American) boxes with a real telephone connection are listed.
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21.Aug.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Reworked version of Gnumeric 1.10.17
Edgar Schwan has updated the port of the spreadsheet Gnumeric (screenshot) for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. Changes:
- The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among other things. Content and other things can now be moved with the mouse and much more.
- New release 5 of the Python package v2.7.2 with GTK+ 2.24.32.
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[News message: 21. Aug. 2020, 17:32] [Comments: 0]
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21.Aug.2020
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #16 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to the retro gamers and mainly reports about Commodore's 8-Bit computers and Amigas. The current issue among others has articles about Inviyya, Tiny Galaga and Raid over Moscow as well as the fourth part of the WinUAE experience report.
As printed variant the magazine is available for 8 Euro (plus 15 Euro shipping), the coverdisk for 5 Euro. The digital version costs 1,50 Euro. Previous issues until issue 14 published in December can be downloaded for free.
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[News message: 21. Aug. 2020, 17:29] [Comments: 0]
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20.Aug.2020
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Raspberry Pi and Amiga: A314 Adapter for Amiga 2000
"A314" is an adapter board which connects a Raspberry Pi to a A500 or A600. In this way it is possible to exchange data with the Linux running on the Pi or to play audio or video files under Linux. You can also use the network connectivity of the Pi out of the AmigaOS.
Using the "Amiga 2000 A314 Adapter", its documents are available under a free licence, an Amiga 2000 or an A1000 with Rejuvenator extension can be upgraded providing an trapdoor expansion typical for an A500 which makes it possible to use the A314.
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[News message: 20. Aug. 2020, 19:16] [Comments: 0]
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19.Aug.2020
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.34
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey).
Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS.
After launching TAWS, the "History (english)" of version 0.34 can be found in the folder "System/TAWS" on the Workbench.
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[News message: 19. Aug. 2020, 15:46] [Comments: 0]
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19.Aug.2020
Twitter (ANF)
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AmigaWorld.de: RTC Module V2 for Amiga 1200
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has published a new hardware extension self-assembly on AmigaWorld.de. Compared with variant "V1" which is still availalbe, now the "V2" of the clock module for the Amiga 1200 is not placed rotated any longer on the clock port.
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[News message: 19. Aug. 2020, 07:08] [Comments: 0]
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18.Aug.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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Reworked version of AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has updated his port of the word processing software AbiWord for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. Changes:
- The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among other things. Content and other things can now be moved with the mouse and much more.
- The included Aspell catalogs in German and English for spell checking have been updated.
- Various libraries have been updated:
- libwpd-0.9.9: A library for reading and writing Corel WordPerfect(tm) documents.
- libwps-0.2.10: A library for reading Microsoft Works word processor documents.
- wv-1.2.9: Word Document Filter library and utilities.
- The localization code has been revised. With the new features of AmiCygnix 1.6, AbiWord can now use all available languages. Languages like "Canadian English" were not possible before.
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[News message: 18. Aug. 2020, 16:59] [Comments: 0]
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17.Aug.2020
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Full version for download: Super Ski 1+2
The full versions of the sports games SuperSki and Super Ski II can be downloaded from the website of the Amiga Future. ADF and IPF disk images as well as a WHDLoad version are available.
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[News message: 17. Aug. 2020, 19:19] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2020
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.3
A free update for the Workbench distribution AmiKit, meant for emulators or Vampire hardware, has been released for users of the Version XE (11.x). The changes include several Software updates as well as a reworked startup-sequence, which according to the developers "is much more robust now and takes better care of patches and ROM modules depending on your AmigaOS version."
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[News message: 16. Aug. 2020, 21:50] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Board for using a Meanwell RT50-B in power supply housing of the Amiga 600
Under the title link Dave Poo has published a board created with KiCAD, which makes it possible to put a power supply housing of the Meanwell-RT50-B into an Amiga 600. Using the board for the power supply housing of the Amiga 1200 is considered possible but has not been tested.
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[News message: 16. Aug. 2020, 19:19] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Self-made project: Memory expansion Minimal A501
The self-made project "Minimal A501" is another memory expansion. The gerber files can be found on GitHub. With Jonni Rainisto's memory expansion you can add 512 KB RAM to the Amiga 500(+) in a cost-effective way.
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[News message: 16. Aug. 2020, 19:13] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Claws-Mail 3.9.2 Release 2 for AmiCygnix
For his Unix environment AmiCygnix for AmigaOS 4, Edgar Schwan has released an update of the GTK+-based e-Mail program "Claws-Mail" (screenshot).
Changes:
- The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among other things. Mails can now be moved with the mouse and much more.
- The program was linked with GnuTLS 3.6.13. Problems with SSL/TLS connections should now be resolved.
- Mail addresses and personal data can now be determined using LDAP. For this Claws-Mail was linked with openldap 2.4.49 (screenshot).
- New release 5 of the Python package v2.7.2 with GTK+ 2.24.32.
- The included Aspell catalogs in German and English for spell checking have been updated.
- Successfully tested with gmail.
Features of Claws-Mail:
- Support of vCalendar messages
- Receiving RSS-Newsfeeds
- Saving messages/accounts in packed achives
- spam filter with learning abilities (bogofilter)
- Printing
- spell checking. Uses the Aspell dictionaries created for AbiWord.
- Many other plugins and functions
Supported protocols:
- POP3 / APOP
- SMTP / SMTP AUTH
- SSLv23 / SSLv3 / TLSv1.0 / TLSv1.1 / TLSv1.2 / TLSv1.3 (POP3, SMTP)
Download: claws-mail.lha (56 MB)
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[News message: 16. Aug. 2020, 18:55] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2020
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Aminet uploads until 15.08.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 15.08.2020:
NetFS-revised.lha comm/net 493K MOS Remote filesys and AREXX betw...
NoMoreDiv0_Debug.lha dev/debug 5K 68k Division by Zero Debugger
Python_One_Liner.zip dev/src 821K Python-1.4 One Liner Demo for...
filex-2.6-morphos.lha disk/moni 598K binary file editor (8 catalogs)
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 7K 2020 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 2.9M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.2M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.4M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
FenetreSurMaCour.lha game/text 512K 68k A tiny interactive fiction in...
wbpong.lha game/wb 7K 68k A simple pong game running in...
img2oric.lha gfx/conv 42K MOS Convert an image to Oric Atmo...
ivdemo.lha gfx/misc 749K 68k Demo of ImageVision multimedi...
emplant_guides.lha misc/emu 203K hardware and software docs fo...
emplant_machist.lha misc/emu 55K Version history of Emplant Ma...
emplant_macsw.lha misc/emu 666K 68k Macintosh emulator for Emplan...
emplant_prosw.lha misc/emu 645K 68k Advanced Macintosh emulator f...
emplant1200_updater.lha misc/emu 93K 68k Update for Emplant 1200 Mac e...
MultiMeedio.lha mus/play 32K Script to control many media ...
NoMoreDiv0.lha util/boot 2K 68k No more Division by Zero
UAETools.lha util/cli 2K 68k UAEVersion, UAEUptime, UAEWait
UAETools15.lha util/cli 3K 68k UAEVersion, UAEUptime (FIXED!...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 14K 68k Decompiles catalogs back into...
DOpus5Catalogs.lha util/dopus 170K Some catalogs for Directory O...
XADopus_src.lha util/dopus 179K browse XAD archives with DOpu...
ViNCEd_Boot_Shin.lha util/shell 10K 68k Use ViNCEd as boot console
newmeter.lha util/wb 16K 68k Shows free RAM and storage as...
OpenParent.lha util/wb 2K 68k Open Parent Drawer
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16.Aug.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.08.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 15.08.2020:
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
pidgin.lha net/cha 26Mb 4.1 A chat client for AmiCygnix
pidgin-src.lha net/cha 4Mb 4.1 Sources of Pidgin 2.13.0 for Ami...
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16.Aug.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.08.2020
The following packages have been added to AROS Archives until 15.08.2020:
wormwars-i386-aros.zip gam/act 686kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
icebreaker.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 430kb Similar to Jezzball and Qix.
sumeria.i386-aros.lha gam/mis 133kb Classic economic game about Hamm...
silkraw_aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb GUI for Dave Coffin's progr...
mcamiga.lha uti/fil 2Mb Directory Utility
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16.Aug.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.08.2020
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 15.08.2020:
Dopus_5.92.lha Legendary file manager Directory Opus 5
img2oric.lha Convert an image to Oric Atmos colours
InstallerLG_0.1.0a51.lha Commodore Installer replacement.
MCE_12.02.lha Multi-game Character Editor by James Jacobs.
NetFS-revised_3.0.lha Network File System for Amigas (revised version)...
SDL2_Libraries.lha All Libraries SDL2 with all SDK files for MorphOS.
StarFighter_2.3.1.lha Starfighter is a space shoot 'em up game origina...
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16.Aug.2020
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WHDLoad: New packages until 15.08.2020
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 15.08.2020:
- 2020-08-13 improved: James Pond 3 - Operation Starfish (Millennium/VectorDean) extended joypad support, trainer added, manual included, merged floppy and CD32 install (Info)
- 2020-08-13 improved: Frontier (GameTEK/Konami) changed default cache settings (Info)
- 2020-08-10 updated: Crazy Cars 3 (Titus) fixed broken map display, added joypad controls, uses kickemu, trainers added, package fully reworked (Info)
- 2020-08-10 improved: Indy Heat (Sales Curve) fixes address error (Info)
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15.Aug.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS4: Chat software Pidgin 2.13.0 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has updated the port of the universal chat software Pidgin to his X11 environment AmiCygnix. Version 2.13.0 (screenshot) provides the following changes:
- New protocols for Discord, Facebook, Skype and Twitter.
- The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among other things.
- The program was linked with GnuTLS 3.6.13. Problems with SSL/TLS connections should now be resolved.
- Updated Aspell catalogs in German and English for spell checking.
- Various bug fixes.
Supported protocols:
- Pidgin-Paket:
- AIM
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk
- GroupWise
- ICQ
- IRC
- SIMPLE
- Sametime
- XMPP / Jabber
- Zephyr
- Third party:
- Discord
- Facebook
- Skype (HTTP)
- Twitter
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[News message: 15. Aug. 2020, 18:14] [Comments: 0]
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