22.Jun.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.4.3
For his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop, Paolo Besser has published a minor update which fixes problems with the developers programs and aditionally installs new system files.
The WildMidi.library, the MP3-player and LoView were updated as well. Please note that - if you use the light version of the distribution and have limited memory space - that with this update about 120 MB of developer software will be installed.
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21.Jun.2012
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate SDK server temporarily offline
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager which informs the user about updates of installed applications. The server hosting the central AmiUpdate database for SDK users is temporarily offline.
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21.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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Web-Browser NetSurf 2.9
After the release for AmigaOS 4 version 2.9 of the fast browser NetSurf now is also available for AmigaOS 3.x thanks to Artur Jarosik.
You can now save websites as PNG graphic files and new search engines were added.
Download: netsurf-m68k.lha (7 MB)
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21.Jun.2012
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: X11-environment AmiCygnix 1.1
With Edgar Schwan's X11-environment AmiCygnix (screenshots: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5)
it is possible to launch several Unix applications under AmigaOS. Most important changes in version 1.1:
- Support of programs compiled for GTK+ 2.24 and GTK+ 3.x.
- A new (experimental) display driver is included, which opens a X11 display in a workbench window.
- The X server and the display drivers were revised. The server can now be launched several times without problems.
- All new programs with an own directory in the AmiCygnix "Software" directory will have two start scripts: One for opening the application on the desktop (just like before) and a script, which opens the program in an own display. With a special version of the settings editor "myX11Setup" you can select the display driver and the window manager for every application, which is launched with the new start script.
- A new icon theme in AmgaOS 4.1 style is included.
- The workbench icons are now all in AmigaOS 4.1 style.
- Version 1.0 of AmiCygnix could not be installed on partitions formatted with the filesystem JXFS. This is now solved.
- Most of the programs and libraries used in this package were replaced by current versions.
AmiCygnix 1.1 can be copied over an existing installation of a previous version.
The distribution consists of two parts: The base archive AmiCygnix-Base and the tool collection AmiCygnix-Tools.
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21.Jun.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Preview of Amiga Future 97
A preview of issue 97 (July/August 2012) of the Amiga Future is available. Highlights of the issue are the report on MorphOS 3.0 as well as tests on diverse emulators.
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20.Jun.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2012 will last one day longer (18.-21. October, Sacramento)
This year the AmiWest will last four days: The first two days of the annual Amiga meeting in Sacramento will be about Amiga software. Further details are still not known - but it will be discussed that there are only few applications for AmigaOS 4.
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20.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0 (2012.04.18) updated
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has updated his version 1.0 (2012.04.18) of his MorphOS-port of MPlayer. He wrote:
"I just reuploaded it to fix a ffmpeg bug : it was inconditionally using altivec in sample format conversion routine. It prevented mplayer from working on non-altivec machines when the routine was used."
Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2012.04.18.lha (17 MB)
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19.Jun.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Broadway-X-Distribution for Raspberry Pi
Pascal Papara has published a SD-card-image of his AROS-distribution Broadway-X for the ARM-based Raspberry Pi (amiga-news.de reported on it).
Because he himself does not own such a computer and his distribution he can only adapt under the slow Qemu-emulation, the image boots instead of into an automatic login into the command line. In order to start AROS Broadway you have to enter "startx".
With the command "lx" Linux programms can be launched from the AROS. The next features will be automatic integration of devices, exchange of some installed applications and a upgrade to Debian Wheezy.
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19.Jun.2012
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: NTFS-3G-Dateisystem R3
Leif Salomonsson has updated the NTFS-3G-driver for the MorphOS-implementation of the FUSE-frameworks, Filesysbox. Version 3 now also supports partition sizes bigger than 1 TiB and more. Additionally a bug was fixed which caused a crash if a NTFS-disk was inserted before the OS was booted.
Download: ntfs3g-morphos-r3.lha (432 KB)
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19.Jun.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Computerworld Interview with Paolo Besser
Rohan Pearce who recently wrote about the AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported on it) has interviewed Paolo Besser and talked with him about AROS and his distribution Icaros Desktop.
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19.Jun.2012
ANF
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AROS: Video on Raspberry-Pi Website published
On the official website of the ARM single-board computer Raspberry Pi was published a video of Steve Jones which shows AROS on this computer.
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19.Jun.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision 1.3
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k-distribution. It is a mix of AROS and AmigaOS software (video, tutorial). In version 1.3 among others DOpus4 and Frying Pan were added.
The next steps will concern the sections Internet and emulators (version 1.4) as well as in the final version (1.5) Samba/network, demos, additional tools and improvements.
Changes in version 1.3:
- Many new CLI-commands (e.g. concerning Public Screens)
- DOpus4
- CreativE (Amiga-E)
- Dice
- PowerD (latest version of the author)
- MUIBase
- Midi.library
- Frying Pan (still not tested)
Download-Seite
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18.Jun.2012
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PPC-Hardware: Status update for UltimatePPC
Last Saturday in Maarssen the meeting of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep took place which also was visited by the two developers of the PPC-extension UltimatePPC which was announced some weeks ago. One of the members have uploaded some pictures to amiga.org and have given a short summary of the current status of the project:
- Hardwarewise the PPC side is working and booting. The 68040 side works, but does not yet talk to the classic hardware. The card does run, standalone. But the Amiga will not boot yet with the card inserted. [editor's note: This would mean that both processors obviously are more integrated than it seemed at the first announcement].
- Active talks with Hyperion for supporting AmigaOS4.x.
- Driver support: lots of help pledged for building drivers for all the hardware goodies (more help is always welcome!).
- Support for WarpUp/WarpOS through support pledged by the original author.
- The MicroSD card on the UltimatePPC holds the firmware/bootcode. This is indended to stay. That means upgrading/flashing the card can be done with a normal PC and a card reader... !!
Editor's note: The QorIQ P1013 Power-Processor which is used on the UltimatePPC contains a FPU which is not compatible with processors used in other Amiga-PPC-projects. According to our information this would mean that - supposed WarpOS or AmigaOS 4 would be adapted to UltimatePPC - no other existing PPC-software would run on this hardware and the PPC-programms have to be adapted to the UltimatePPC by the developers.
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17.Jun.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood Designer 4.0 available
Press release: After 18 months of intense development Airsoft Softwair is very proud to announce the immediate
availability of the long awaited fourth incarnation of our famous Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer 4.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and
can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications; for example presentations,
slide shows, simple games, and programs.
Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications
created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following
systems: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86), Mac OS X (PPC & x86),
and Linux (PPC & x86). This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world.
Hollywood Designer 4.0 is a huge update and has many new features and improvements over the previous version. We do not want to bore you, so here are just some of them:
- Ready for Hollywood 5.0: Infinity!
- Video clips can now be embedded in your projects
- Support for vector formats like SVG
- Over 25 filter effects for layers like blur, emboss, sharpen, gamma correction...
- Support for real, curve-based vector graphics
- Powerful improvements in the action events system: loops and conditions now possible!
- Multiple languages can be embedded in a single project
- Support for the Hollywood 5.0 plugin system: you can use all file formats that your Hollywood plugins support
- Support for password protected presentations
- Projects can use screen blanker pages
- Projects can now listen to keyboard events
- Cool new gradient types like conical, radial and multi-linear gradients
- Shadow and border now supported for every object type
- Much better looking drop shadows using alpha channel transparency
- Custom user color palette can now be defined
- Over 10 new action events (over 50 altogether!)
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood Designer is no longer limited to "just" being an authoring software, it can now also be used as a flexible graphics editor because it supports many features of modern graphics editors like multiple
layers with filter effects, vector graphics, image import, and text.
Without a doubt, Hollywood Designer 4.0 is the definitive multimedia solution for all Amiga compatible platforms, but as a picture is worth a thousand words, here are some screenshots of Hollywood Designer 4.0 running on MorphOS and AmigaOS 4:
Hollywood Designer 4.0 is a very stable and mature multimedia authoring system. We would
like to emphasize that it is not only suited for personal use, but also for professional commercial
customers. Ferrule Media, for instance, have
created an info channel containing over 700 unique slides in a single project with Hollywood
Designer. Hollywood Designer was designed to handle these huge projects efficiently so that they
can run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without any visible memory fragmentation!
Hollywood Designer 4.0 comes on a CD-ROM that contains versions for all supported platforms: There are
native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3.x (m68k), WarpOS (ppc), MorphOS (ppc) and AmigaOS 4 (ppc). The CD-ROM version is delivered as a nice Digipak.
A download version is also offered. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image
which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own a previous version of Hollywood Designer, you can buy a discounted
upgrade version. Have a look at the order page for special offers.
Please note that Hollywood Designer 4.0 runs on top of the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood 5.0.
Thus, Hollywood 5.0 is strictly required for Hollywood Designer 4.0. Both programs are available in a
special bundle which is the ultimate package for every power Amiga user who wants to see what his system
can do with Hollywood 5.0 & Hollywood Designer 4.0.
Power up your Amiga system with Hollywood 5.0 & Hollywood Designer 4.0 and order now! (snx)
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17.Jun.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 16.06.2012 to the Aminet:
DOpus4SP.lha biz/dopus 17K Directory Opus 4 spanish cata...
HollywoodSP.lha biz/misc 143K Hollywood 5.0 spanish catalogs
xamos-mos.lha dev/amos 2.5M MOS Reimplementation of AMOS BASIC
libpdcurses_ns.lha dev/lib 669K 68k SDL/pdcurses with no size gadget
Fussball-EM-2012.lha docs/misc 14K TurboCalc Spreadsheet EM-2012...
scsidev4347.lha driver/med 43K 68k scsi v43.47 (A600 & A1200)
AmitenSoftwareFish.lha game/actio 552K 68k A simple fish Game Freeware (...
thew_68k.lha game/actio 240K 68k another ncurses based snake game
TurboKaca_68k.lha game/actio 183K 68k fast ncurses based snake game
WormWarsSP.lha game/actio 5K Worm Wars 8.78 spanish catalog
avp.i386-aros.lha game/shoot 11M x86 Aliens vs Predator
avp.src-aros.lha game/shoot 4.4M Aliens vs Predator source
tric-tac-toe_68k.lha game/think 671K 68k Rubik inspired puzzle game
Oslide.lha game/wb 32K 68k Clear all the tiles from the ...
PyramiSol.lha game/wb 34K 68k Play this pyramidal shaped ca...
S_Tiles.lha game/wb 35K 68k Solve thiS Sliding-tile puzzle!
Totematik.lha game/wb 36K 68k Recreate all 10 totems!
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 2.9M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha misc/emu 14K AmiArcadia 18.2 spanish catalog
glUAE.lha misc/emu 14K Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
shed_68k.lha text/edit 289K 68k ncurses based hex editor
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 152K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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17.Jun.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 16.06.2012 to the OS4Depot:
itunestom3u.zip aud/mis 1Mb 4.0 Turn iTunes Music Library into M...
mixer.lha aud/mis 208kb 4.1 Audio mixer
camdplay.lha aud/pla 72kb 4.0 A MIDI file player
softsyn.lha aud/pla 40kb 4.0 A Software Synthesizer for OS4
xamos-bin.lha dev/lan 3Mb 4.1 Cross-platform AMOS BASIC reimpl...
camd.lha dri/mis 95kb 4.0 Camd library for OS4
camdtools.lha dri/mis 451kb 4.0 Assorted Tools for CAMD Midi
usbmidi.lha dri/mis 26kb 4.0 CAMD Driver for class compatible...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 3Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gluae.lha emu/uti 14kb 4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
iconsreworked_2012.lha gra/ico 130Mb 4.1 Icons for 3th party software
videothumbnailer.lha gra/ico 2Mb 4.1 An Prog. to create thumbnail ico...
codesets.lha lib/mis 624kb 4.0 Library for handling codesets an...
openurl.lha net/mis 495kb 4.0 OpenURL - Get that URL!
assist.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 An assistant for AmigaOS users
wordnet.lha uti/sci 11Mb 4.1 Electronic database of the Engli...
openguide.lha uti/she 4kb 4.0 Command to open an Amigaguide at...
sam460ex_setup.lha uti/she 59kb 4.1 A utility to optimize your Sam46...
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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17.Jun.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 16.06.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
aceyducey.i386-aros.zip gam/car 1Mb Acey Ducey - a simple card game
avp.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 11Mb Aliens vs Predator
avp.src-aros.lha gam/fps 4Mb Aliens vs Predator source
crosscrabtris.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 7Mb CrossCrabTris - a mix of crosswo...
doors.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 2Mb Doors - a small thinking game
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17.Jun.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 16.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 16.06.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
XAMOS 0.242 dev/too 2529 Reimplementation of AMOS pr...
Hurrican 1.0.0.4 gam/pla 44050 2D platform shooter, remake...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.17 net/WWW 25556 A modern, full featured web...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.17 net/WWW 23130 A modern, full featured web...
Swfdec Plugin 1.3 net/WWW 2940 Flash animation player plug...
NTFS-3G r2 sys/lib 431 NTFS filesystem handler wit...
AmiArcadia 18.2 uti/emu 3137 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
MirrorCopy 2.2 uti/she 12 Advanced Copy command usefu...
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17.Jun.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: glUAE 20120616
glUAE is a collection of scripts which "makes the emulation experience perfectly natural by transparently integrating the emulator into the system, thanks to the AmigaOS flexibility and the UAE configurability."
Changes:
- Added direct WHDLoad support
- Allowed to indicate an alternative UAE executable on a per-application basis
- Allowed to choose at startup:
- The boot file, if no startup-sequence is found
- A hardfile, if more than 1 is found
- A UAE configuration, if none is found
- The UAE executable, if the default/application-specific one is not found
- Reworked the images mounting: when a specific image is specified for DF0:, the next 1, 2 or 3 images in the same directory are mounted to DF1:-DF3: in alphabetical order. (before DF1:-DF3: would get the first other 3 images in absolute)
- Made the determination of the application form depend first of all on the input file type
- Given the user more feedback in case of errors
- Renamed the "first-run" splash screen as "first-launch"
- Replaced the installer with a brand-new, AmigaOS-standard
installer/reinstaller/uninstaller
- Made several internal improvements
- Extended/reworked the documentation
Download: glUAE.lha (14 KB)
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16.Jun.2012
Meta-MorphOS (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Overview of changes in version 3.0
Under the title link you can find a short overview of the most important changes in MorphOS version 3.0.
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16.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS / AmigaOS 4: Hurrican 1.0.0.4 (Update)
After the AROS-port, now the SDL version of the game Hurrican is available for MorphOS.
Download: Hurrican_1.0.0.4.tar.gz (42 MB)
Update: (13:38, 17.06.2012, snx)
Meanwhile, it has also been compiled for AmigaOS 4. For now it's still in the upload queue at OS4Depot. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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Event: Computer game competetion in Koszalin (Poland)
In connection with the Japanese culture festival in Koszalin an exhibition of classic computer and consoles as well as game competition will take place on 28./29. July. Among others the Amiga 1200 as well as the Amiga CD³² will be presented.
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