23.Oct.2011
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Individual Computers bought source code licence for USB-stack Poseidon
Accoding to Jens Schönfeld, he has bought a source code licence for Chris Hodges' USB-stack Poseidon which allows to develop new drivers and distribute of commercial software.
An USB-card is planned which will be used in two products which are still not available: "ACA 520" is supposed to become a 68020-based accelerator board for the Amiga 500. Additionally a SATA-card could be developed for the Amiga 1200.
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23.Oct.2011
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AmiWest 2011: Netbook for AmigaOS 4 announced (update)
At the AmiWest, Steven Solie, who is Hyperion's project manager of the development of the operating system, has announced a PowerPC-netbook for AmigaOS 4.
This 12"-netbook will be based on the e300-architecture and will be available at the end of the second quarter year 2012 for about 300 to 400 US Dollar.
According to Steven Solie, AmigaOS 4 is already running on it but the drivers are still in development.
Update: (12:16, 23.10.11)
According to Ben Hermans there is already a hardware. The mentioned price includes the licence for AmigaOS 4.
Hans-Jörg Frieden described the prototype of the OS-developer, but points out that the final product might be completely different. The integrated graphic chip is not a Radeon HD, but according to Ben Hermans has a 3D chip onboard. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Oct.2011
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Event: Alchimie 111111 (France)
This year's Alchimie will take place from 11. until 13. November 2011 in Tain l'Hermitage.
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22.Oct.2011
PPA (Webseite)
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Quake 1: Qbreed 0.3
Andrew Loft transfers maps of the game "Alien Breed 3D" to Quake 1. With version 0.3 the levels a to p are available but only the first two are working properly.
Download: Qbreed.lha (6 MB)
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22.Oct.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Distribution AspireOS 1.3
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. This distribution is meant to be used with the Acer-netbook Aspire One but also should run on other hardware.
The update requires an exiting 1.x-installation. The update includes bug fixes as well as new versions of Snapshoter and Boing Icon Bar, updated drivers for W-LAN- and USB-network adapters and HD-audio.
Download: aspireos_update_1.3.zip (28 MB)
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22.Oct.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video and audio streams of AmiWest
In Sacramento currently the AmiWest is taking place. In cooperation with IntuitionBase and ZiaSpace, Bill "Tekmage" Bosari offers video and audio streams of the event. Additionally a webcam provides pictures.
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22.Oct.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hyperion: Relaunch of AmigaOS-4-website
Hyperion has relaunched the official AmigaOS-4-website, amigaos.net. Additional to information about the operating system, hardware, applications and screenshots you can find links to dealers, user groups and websites.
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21.Oct.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workbench enhancement: BetterWB 2.4
BetterWB is a new workbench pack, much like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB, etc. but applying a totally different aproach.
It aims to be much like an enhancement, an updated extension to AmigaOS 3.1, without all those hardware requirement penalties
typically associated with these kind of packs.
Changes in version 2.4:
- Some minor components got updated
- Compact disk player with lots of great features (ACDPlay)
- SetJoyPort is a program that improves the chances of using a CD32 style joypad with all games
- ClickNot commodity prevents floppy drives from issuing those excessive clicking sounds
- Break command can now accept multiple targets, find a program by CLI number, command or task name, etc
- Copy command has increased its functionality quite a lot
- Sort command uses standard I/O channels as a default, which makes Sort quite useful in I/O pipes. It will sort as much text as fits in your RAM
- Join command has been heavily enhanced and includes lots of new options
- Avail command now has a few more options
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21.Oct.2011
Detlef "Dandy" Zirpel (ANF)
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SnapShoter 1.8 for all Amiga systems
SnapShoter written by Xabier Payet is a clipboard manager and screenshot tool which saves any number of clipboards, is compatible to online storage systems like Dropbox and offers multi-user-support. SnapShoter can record screenshots , whole screens or videos. Additionally it features simple picture editing functions.
New in version 1.8:
- Added copy from clipboard to collage mode screen
- Added German language
- Fixed some bugs
- Improved CPU consumption
- Minimum memory consumption
- Alt + prtscr paste active window to snapshoter
- And a lot of improvements more
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21.Oct.2011
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOne x1000: AmigaKit takes pre-orders
Press release:
AmiWest 2011, Sacramento, 21st October 2011
"First Contact" : AmigaOne X1000 Limited Edition
AmigaKit and A-EON Technology are pleased to announce that AmigaKit is now taking pre-orders for a First Contact Limited Edition version of the AmigaOne X1000 System.
The First Contact system comprises a fully equipped AmigaOne X1000 complete with the official Boing Ball case and AmigaOS4.1 Update 5 pre-installed. It is also supplied with a license for AmigaOS4.2 which can be downloaded when it is released by Hyperion Entertainment. Matthew Leaman of AmigaKit said "As part of our ongoing commitment to the Amiga community we are delighted to be able to offer the AmigaOne X1000 to our customers. Based on current manufacturing schedules we hope to have the first systems ready for Christmas & New Year delivery." A-EON Technology director Trevor Dickinson added "Its been a long and, at times, difficult journey but we are pleased that the Amiga community will finally have access to this exciting new hardware for the AmigaOS4."
The First Contact system includes the official AmigaOne X1000 Boing Ball case in either black or white and includes the Nemo rev 2.1 motherboard complete with 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a Radeon HD4650 graphics card, 500GB HDD,
DVR R/W optical drive, Audio & Ethernet cards.
Prices start from: £1699, USD $2682.56 (excluding AmigaOS4 license, shipping, handling and sales tax).
Optional extras include the Boing Ball keyboard & mouse, Ram, HDD & Optical drive upgrade options plus Debian Squeeze pre-installed in a dual booting configuration with AmigaOS4. Please refer to the special A1-X1000 system configurator on the AmigaKit website for pricing and upgrade options.
All orders will be processed on a first come first served basis.
Varisys commits to AmigaOne platform
A-EON Technology is pleased to announce Varisys, the official developer and manufacturer of the Nemo motherboard for AmigaOne X1000, has strengthened its commitment to the AmigaOne platform.
Throughout the Nemo development phase Varisys has proved an extremely knowledgeable and highly responsive partner. A-EON Technology director Trevor Dickinson said, "We have been very satisfied with Varisys commitment, dedication and quality. When it comes to leading edge PowerPC hardware their level of technical expertise is possibly unrivalled. As a result Varisys has contracted to work on several new development projects to improve and extend the AmigaOne product line."
Adam Barnes, Varisys Technical Director said: "There is some exciting cutting edge PowerPC technology on the horizon and we are delighted to have the opportunity of
bringing this to the AmigaOne platform."
Varisys Managing Director Paul Gentle added, "We enjoyed working on the Nemo development which provided our first experience of the global Amiga community. We look forward to extending our relationship with the new projects and will do our best to."
Please refer to the Varisys and A-EON Technology website for future updates.
A-EON & AmigaKit form strategic alliance
A-EON Technology is pleased to announce it has formed a new strategic alliance with AmigaKit, the official distributor of the AmigaOne X1000.
As part of this alliance, AmigaKit will jointly fund new AmigaOne hardware developments and will market all future products. Matthew Leaman of AmigaKit said, "This move is in line with our desire to bring exciting new products to the Amiga market, such as our ZorRAM memory card and funding the AmigaOS4.1 Classic update. We welcome this new opportunity to support our Amiga customers."
Trevor Dickinson added, "A-EON Technology has a very close working relationship with AmigaKit. We appointed them as our lead distributor and they have played a crucial role in helping to deliver the AmigaOne X1000 to market." He also added, "I am also delighted that what originally began as my support for AmigaOS software developers in 2005, through my Hardware Donation programme, has resulted in the release of the AmigaOne X1000 in 2011. With AmigaKit taking care of customer contact and support I can now refocus my efforts on funding new hardware and software initiatives for the benefit of the whole Amiga community." Please refer to the AmigaKit and A-EON Technology website for future updates. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Oct.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Preview to Amiga Future 93
Press release: Today the preview of issue 93 (November/December 2011) of the Amiga Future is online. Highlights of this issue:
- Amiga Forever 2012
- AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3
And much, much more. The CoverCD contains PD-software as well as some full versions. You can find a detailed list on our website.
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19.Oct.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmigaAMP 3.4 Beta 116
The first beta version of AmigaAMP 3.4 written by Thomas Wenzel includes localization and uses Reaction instead Gadtools. Changes:
- Added localization
- Switched about window and tag editor to ReAction
- Changed pitch step setting to 1/4 semitone (w/o SHIFT) or 1/16 semitone (w/ SHIFT).
- Fixed HTTP redirection when requested file is a playlist
- Prevent playlists from being scanned for tags
Download: AmigaAMP34-Beta116.lha (810 KB)
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18.Oct.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Fourth update for AmigaOS 4.1 in progress
According to Steven Solie who is the chief of the OS4-team there will be a fourth update for AmigaOS 4.1 which will fix some bugs of update 3.
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18.Oct.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Timberwolf: Status update of Firefox port
Thomas Frieden has given an overview about the latest status of the Firefox 4-port for AmigaOS 4: A screenshot of Youtube in HTML5-mode demonstrates that Timberwolf 4 is getting applicably.
Even though it currently is only using pure software rendering (for drawing and composition), it's become usable, and already better than the original alpha version of 3.5 which was released previously.
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18.Oct.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: 1941 DX Dual Player 2.0.2
1941 DX Dual Player 2.0 is an emulation of the arcade classic 1941: Counter Attack. The SDL-based game is distributed commercially for 1,70 Euro.
Currently ports for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Windows and Linux/64 Bit are available and for AROS and Mac OS X planned. A detailed list of changes can be find under the title link.
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17.Oct.2011
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MorphOS: WirelessDesktop 1.0
With WirelessDesktop written by Guide "Geit" Mersmann you can use handheld devices with touchscreen (iPad, iPhone and Android handhelds) as keyboard and mouse replacement under MorphOS. Under iOS or Android you have to install the free app "RemoteMouse" which is available in the app-store.
Download: WirelessDesktop.lha (50 KB)
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17.Oct.2011
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Notification system MagicBeacon 1.0
MagicBeacon written by Guido "Geit" Mersmann can notify the user about certain events of the system (inserting a DVD, connecting a digital camera) and start user defined actions.
Download: MagicBeacon.lha (650 KB)
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