15.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Interview: Mike Oldfield used an Amiga
Under the title link the singer Mike Oldfield ("Moonlight Shadow") told in an interview that at the end of the 80ies he used an Amiga to compose his album "Amarok":
Interviewer: "Musician friends of mine continue to marvel at Amarok. They can't understand how you made something that complex prior to Pro Tools or Logic."
Mike Oldfield: "And it was all hand-played as well. I used a very primitive sequencer and sampler that was a precursor to Notator, which became Logic. It was on a primitive computer called an Amiga. I would arrive every morning and plot something out in skeleton form, put it on the multitrack and say to Tom "Okay, we're going to work on that. That's the little sketch." Everything on top of that sketch was hand-played. There were no synthesizers. Eventually, we threw away the sketch. That was the technique of working on it."
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[News message: 15. Aug. 2013, 21:05] [Comments: 0]
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15.Aug.2013
Andre "Ratte" Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Monitor switcher: SwitchControl with experimental DPMS-support
SwitchControl is used to control different self-made monitor-switcher. In this way graphic boards without a monitor-switcher (BVision, PCI-graphic boards) can be used together with an Amiga monitor.
In the experimental version 1.1d of SwitchControl the DPMS-support was added: SwitchControl set the AGA-output to "suspend" and waits a few seconds before it switches to the graphic board. In this way perhaps some sync-problems can be fixed which may occur in the combination of Micovitec M1764, 15khz and graphic board.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Aug. 2013, 15:41] [Comments: 0]
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13.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Vector drawing program MindSpace 1.2c
MindSpace is a program which can create spider diagrams and mind maps, UML, ER and use case diagrams. In version 1.2c the user-interface has been "cleaned up".
The author now explained that he is not going to develop version 2 because Sodipodi (under AmiCygnix) and AmiFig are already available as similar software.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Aug. 2013, 18:30] [Comments: 0]
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13.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hometown of DMA Design put up Lemming-statues
The headquarter of the software developer of DMA Design formerly was situated in Scottish Dundee. Among others it released the famous Amiga classic Lemmings. Near the former DMA-headquarter the city administration now has put up some Lemming-statues which are trying to climb a stone column.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Aug. 2013, 18:25] [Comments: 0]
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11.Aug.2013
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up 1.3.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a "video game about general knowledge" for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. You get one question and four possible answers and you have to chosse the right one. The L- and XL-edition additionally have a two player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 1.3.0 translations for Portuguese and Polish have been completed as well as translations for other languages : Italian (95%), Greek (51%), Spanish (36%), German (17%) and Swedish (9%). All other questions are in English.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 11. Aug. 2013, 07:57] [Comments: 0]
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10.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Bounty for Directory-Opus-Magellan-II-port
Szilárd 'Bszili' Biró has accepted the bounty of porting the file manager Directory Opus Magellan II to AROS.
Under the title link you can now donate to support him.
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[News message: 10. Aug. 2013, 07:10] [Comments: 0]
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08.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Frogatto 1.2.1 and HexGem 1.0.0
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel has updated his AmigaOS-4-port of the Jump'n'Run-game Frogatto. Additionally HexGem was released which is a puzzlegame using hexagonal gems.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Aug. 2013, 20:22] [Comments: 0]
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07.Aug.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 72
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
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[News message: 07. Aug. 2013, 20:20] [Comments: 0]
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07.Aug.2013
Floppy (E-Mail)
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FPGA accelerator board: Vampire 600 can be preordered
The Vampire 600 (amiga-news.de reported) now can be preordered for 90 Euro plus delivery costs. It is a FPGA-based accelerator board with 64 MB RAM which can emulate a MC68000, MC68010 or (partly) a MC68020.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Aug. 2013, 11:58] [Comments: 0]
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06.Aug.2013
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Game launcher: X-bEnCH 0.90 beta
X-bEnCH (Youtube-video of version 0.8) is a game launcher with a graphical user-interface which can start WHDLoad-games (.slave, .exe) and requires very few resources.
Two months ago version 0.90 alpha was released. Now several minor bugs have been fixed and a first beta version released.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 06. Aug. 2013, 16:11] [Comments: 0]
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