09.Apr.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Lawsuit: Court order denying motion to enjoin C-A Acquisition Corporation
After the failed registration of the trademark "Workbench" in the EU and the denied motion for preliminary injunction against the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4, Cloanto has to deal with the third setback in a row: the court has denied enjoining C-A Acquisition Corporation as plaintiffs (PDF file).
C-A Acquisition Corp., founded last year and being owned like Cloanto by Mike Battilana, "acquired all remaining intellectual property assets of Plaintiff Amiga, Inc. (amiga-news.de reported) and then turned around and granted Cloanto the right to register and monetize the trademark AMIGA."
The court agrees with Hyperion that "plaintiffs have not acted diligently to meet the deadlines for adding a party or amending their claims."
And it is explained: "Turning to the question of adding a new party, the Court is struck by how Plaintiffs' actions appear reactive to Hyperion's pending Motion to Dismiss. Hyperion's ability to defend these claims is prejudiced by Plaintiffs' attempts to shuffle the parties and the rights of those parties mid-case. Although Plaintiffs discuss their efforts to move quickly in February and March of this year, Plaintiffs do not adequately explain why C-A Acquisition was created after this case was filed, and after the deadline for joining new parties. Plaintiffs do not adequately explain the delay between creating C-A Acquisition and the February 1 transfer. If the Court considers Mike Battilana's assertions that he was trying to acquire Amiga's rights well before Hyperion's pending Motion to Dismiss was filed, this does not explain why Plaintiffs could not have moved the Court for an extension of these deadlines at an earlier point. Plaintiffs' actions do not strike the Court as demonstrating diligence and granting this Motion would prejudice Defendant Hyperion. Accordingly, the Court will deny this Motion in its entirety."
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[News message: 09. Apr. 2019, 22:03] [Comments: 0]
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08.Apr.2019
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast #63: Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott ("Retro Hour")
In the latest issue of the "Scene World" podcast, Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott have been interviewed who themselves host a popular podcast ("Retro Hour") and have several Youtube channels.
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[News message: 08. Apr. 2019, 23:44] [Comments: 0]
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07.Apr.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.04.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 6th, 2019:
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 11K 68k 12 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
HWP_hURL.lha dev/hwood 3.2M MOS The multi-protocol data trans...
SDL_AGA.zip dev/lib 428K 68k AGA port of the SDL audio/vid...
MCC_TextEditor-15.52.lha dev/mui 868K MOS TextEditor custom class for MUI
DiskImageGui.lha disk/misc 46K 68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
ImageMount.lha disk/misc 36K 68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
F1GP2019Carset.lha game/data 21K 2019 Carset for F1GP
Pinacoteca.lha gfx/show 1.9M OS4 browse/view images w/ thumbna...
ViewLHA.lha gfx/show 10K 68k View graphics files compresse...
Golddigger.lha mods/8voic 111K Golddigger LSL Bozza Nova 5ch...
RNORadio.lha mus/play 3.2M MOS Internet radio player
Vim_8.1-i386-aros.lha text/edit 10M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 9.7M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-src.lha text/edit 15M The ubiquitous text editor (s...
mARK.lha util/arc 47K 68k Simple Gui for LhA, LZX, UnZi...
RandomBackdrop.lha util/wb 7.9M 68k Up to 127 random backdrops wi...
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07.Apr.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.04.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 6th, 2019:
pinacoteca.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Image browser and viewer with th...
hwp_hurl.lha lib/hol 3Mb 4.0 The multi-protocol data transfer...
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 172kb 4.1 A Custom BOOPSI System
mcc_texteditor.lha lib/mui 868kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
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[News message: 07. Apr. 2019, 08:12] [Comments: 0]
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07.Apr.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 06.04.2019
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until April 6th, 2019:
milkytracker.i386-abiv1.lha aud/tra 4Mb A Fasttracker 2 Clone Porting by...
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07.Apr.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 06.04.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until April 6th, 2019:
HWP_hURL_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... A plugin for Hollywood ...
Vim_8.1.1099.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
Vim_8.1.1099-src.lha Development/Sources A highly configurable t...
RNORadio_1.0.lha Audio/Players RNORadio is a GUI based...
MCC_TextEditor_15.52.lha System/MUI Classes TextEditor custom class...
Iris_beta54.lha Email New email client suppor...
AnimWebConverter_2.90.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
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[News message: 07. Apr. 2019, 08:12] [Comments: 0]
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06.Apr.2019
Nico Barbat (ANF)
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Point'n click adventure: CPC port "Athanor 2" in progress
"Athanor 2 - The Legend Of The Birdmen" is a point'n click adventure which originally was developed for the Amstrad CPC. Currently ports for Atari-ST and Amiga are in progress (video of ST port).
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[News message: 06. Apr. 2019, 01:28] [Comments: 0]
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05.Apr.2019
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris, beta version 54
"Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. The program requires MorphOS 3.10. You can give feedback to the author using the corresponding discussion on MorphZone.
Changes of beta version 54:
Features:
- Improvements in the email editor; added default font (can be changed in settings)
- Connected servers will periodically poll for new messages
- Rewritten connection handling to improve performance and fix connection issues over time
Bugfixes:
- Switching between several displayable email compontents only worked once per component due to a bug in tmp file lookup
- Fixed an issue related to saving attachments from an email open in a separate window after the active folder has changed in the main window
- Improved server disconnection handling
- Fixed a crash in vmime related to IMAP folder access
- Unread messages count could sometimes be negative due to an overflow
- Fixed a long-standing reconnection problem where internal exception routing would skip over the actual reconnection routine
- Fixed an OAuth2 issue which caused servers to reject authentication if they weren't used for a long time (days) so that the refresh token expired - this delegates login back to the web browser as required by OAuth2
- Worked around an imap.wp.pl issue where the server returns messages in a random order instead of sorting them by uid
- Fixed a Sent folder refresh issue after sending an email
- Fixed a wrong UID count in folder issue causing server commands to fail after emptying a folder
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[News message: 05. Apr. 2019, 09:51] [Comments: 0]
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05.Apr.2019
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ASCII art: Interview with sk!n/DeZign
On his website Lars 'Ghandi' Sobiraj has published an interview with Michael Hischer formerly known as sk!n/DeZign involved in the illegal Amiga mailbox scene. He also has created several ASCII artworks.
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[News message: 05. Apr. 2019, 03:52] [Comments: 0]
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04.Apr.2019
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Shoot'em Up: Port of "Kobo Deluxe"
Artur Jarosik has ported the shooter Kobo Deluxe (screenshot) to AmigaOS 3. At least an Amiga with 68060 processor and graphic board are required, a Vampire is recommended.
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[News message: 04. Apr. 2019, 22:13] [Comments: 0]
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04.Apr.2019
Olaf Schönweiß (E-Mail)
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Lawsuit: Court denies Cloanto's motion for preliminary injunction
In the lawsuit between Cloanto and Hyperion yesterday the court has denied the motion for preliminary injunction against the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4 (PDF file). After the futile attempt of registering the trademark "Workbench" also in the EU, this is the second setback for Cloanto in a row.
The court found that Cloanto could not provide sufficient evidence for the claimed irreparable harm. This decision does not affect the judgment of the principal proceedings: Was the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4 lawful?
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[News message: 04. Apr. 2019, 16:09] [Comments: 0]
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03.Apr.2019
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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MorphOS: Internet radio player RNORadio
RNORadio (screenshot) "is a GUI based internet radio player program for MP3 streams" which provides the following features:
- Two GUI options: MUI or custom skin(s)
- Displays stream titles in real-time from the MP3 metadata
- Comprehensive station editor with an option to download station logos from a local drive or Internet
- Supports multiple streams per station
- Can import streams from PLS, M3U, Extended M3U, and XSPF playlist files
- Has a Shoutcast search window
- Animation support for custom skin elements, including a station's logo
- Alpha transparency support in custom skins with images and animations
- Can display extra information from stations, but currently it only shows the "OneLiner" chat from Nectarine in the MUI GUI
- ARexx, command line, and tooltypes support
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[News message: 03. Apr. 2019, 22:58] [Comments: 2 - 17. Apr. 2019, 02:17]
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03.Apr.2019
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Tutorial: Using a Linux box as a Proxy for SSL connections
While AmiSSL 4 makes a modern version of SSL available for AmigaOS 3, software that supports it is still hard to find. And given its slow CPU, an Amiga is barely able to decode modern SSL cyphers anyway. amiga-news.de reader 'Cego' solved this problem by using a PC running Linux - you could also use a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian - as a proxy:
In this scenario the Amiga is sending all of its HTTP request to the Linux box, which handles all communication with the Internet. Since the connection between the Amiga and the Linux box is never encrypted, the ancient Commodore computer is no longer burdened with encrypting and decrypting packages and its user doesn't have to worry about protocol compatability or certificates.
Requirements
To get started, we need to have the following things available:
- a computer running Linux (e.g. Debian, Raspbian) and an account with Root privileges
- sslstrip for Linux
- the IP address of the Linux box. This can be determined by entering hostname -I in a terminal
- IBrowse
1. activate IP forwarding
First we have to activate IP forwarding on the Linux box, by entering the following in a terminal:
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
2. install and activate SSLStrip
Now we have to install sslstrip by invoking the following command with Root privileges:
apt-get install sslstrip
Then we start the program from the terminal:
sslstrip
3. configure IBrowse's proxy settings
Now we run IBrowse on the Amiga and tell it to use a proxy by enabling it in Preferences -> Network -> Proxy. Make sure you configure a proxy for "HTTP" (not "HTTPS") and enter the IP address of the Linux box here. sslstrip is using port 10000 by default, so that's what we need to enter here.
How it works
As far as IBrowse is concerned, the entire Internet is now available without encryption. Should a website enforce an SSL connection, the Linux proxy will take care of that and remove any encryption before forwarding the content to the Amiga - which frees the latter from the ressource-heavy process of decryption.
Thanks to IBrowse's "URL Prefs" functionality, you could selectively enable or disable the use of the proxy for certain sites, but it's just as convenient to simply enable/disable the proxy using the Preferences -> Proxy menu or via the global configuration. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 03. Apr. 2019, 21:48] [Comments: 0]
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