13.Jan.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 2.7
Jack is a multi-functional application for AmigaOS 4.
Additional to simple file operations the program can edit pictures, save screenshots, play music and has a weather forecast, a diary with connection to the Google-calendar.
Version 2.7 does not introduce any new features, but some minor improvements and bug fixes. If your system information shown in the "about"-box should be differ from the proper figures (e.g. virtual memory) then please write a mail to the author with the correct figure.
Changes:
- New Application: Thanks must go to Frank Ruthe
- GUI: Numeric fields are no longer padded with leading zeroes when requested not to
- GUI: Buttons now have a gradient applied to them in the AmigaOS style
- GUI: Square brackets can no longer be entered into any text field gadgets
- About Box: Now shows System and Network information
- Image Editor: New Button - Open in LoView (if available) - only available when single image selected
- Codebase: Partially updated codebase functions to object functions
- Slideshow Mode: You can now use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out of an image
- Shell: New Argument -sysinfo. If you are experiencing problems please run Jack from the Shell with this argument and send the results to me at the e-mail address given
Download: jack.lha (8 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Jan. 2012, 21:35] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jan.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Public beta version 22 of DigiBooster 3
Press release: After almost a year since the previous public version, APC&TCP releases the next public beta of DigiBooster 3 music tracker. Beta version 22 is available as a demo version for immediate download for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS operating systems in the Download Zone at the title link. Its only limitation is disabled saving of modules.
Key features of this release are:
- Basic sample editor with format conversion (can load and save AIFF, WAVE, 8SVX and 16SV formats); cut, copy and paste including system clipboard; realtime loop editor
- ARexx port with 22 fully documented commands
- Improved player engine, better backward compatibility with DigiBooster Pro 2.x
- User configurable track scopes
- Unique feature of single step (and step back) playback with all effects and autosynchronization
- More documentation, extensive descriptions of DigiBooster effects
- Many small improvements listed in the changelog
(snx)
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12.Jan.2012
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of the Amiga games list
The Amiga Games List maintained by David 'Daff' Brunet since April 1991 was updated in early 2012 with its 41st edition. Now games that run on special Amiga hardware have been added: Indivision ("Ind"), American Laser Games ("ALG"), Sente ("Sente"), Nova ("Nova"), Grand Products ("GP") and Web Picmatic ("WP"). Thus the total reached 11,609 entries as follows:
- 10538 Games
- 900 Extensions or data discs
- 130 Game/level editors
- 41 Interpreters
(snx)
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11.Jan.2012
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MorphOS: SimpleMail 0.38
Additional to AmigaOS 3/4, version 0.38 of SimpleMail was published for MorphOS as well.
Changes:
- Workaround implemented for possible crashes in connection with SSL and IMAP
- Problems with IMAP-logins fixed which includes blanks
- New mode for IMAP-folders added which makes it possible to download complete messages in background. The new mode can be chosen in the menu folder/options
- Progress of tasks can be managed in the progress monitor system. The status line was completed with a progress bar.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jan.2012
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A-EON: Account of director hacked
The account of Trevor Dickinson who is director of A-EON was hacked as well as other accounts at amigaworld.net. If you are registered there and use this password for other websites as well then you should immediately change it.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 11. Jan. 2012, 00:35] [Comments: 0]
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10.Jan.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Issue 94 available
The English and German issue 94 (January/February 2012) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today and can also be ordered directly from its editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
From now on all the Amiga Future magazines will be printed in full colour. A detailed description of the contents and previews of this issue can be found at the title link.
Content:
- AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4
- AmigaOne 500
- Kryoflux
- C-Workshop Teil 11
- Classic Reflection 2
(snx)
[News message: 10. Jan. 2012, 15:21] [Comments: 0]
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10.Jan.2012
AmIRC Open Source Team (ANF)
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AmIRC: Source code released under GPL (3rd Update)
In 2009 the rights for putting it under an open source license have been transfered to Costel Mincea and subsequently the sources have been released in early 2012 under the GPL license to enable a larger open source team to continue the development of AmIRC for all available Amiga-based operating systems (AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS).
One of the projects main aim is to unify the previously scattered AmIRC development again which had been splitted into multiple hands over the past years. Therefore every talented Amiga developer regardless for which Amiga-based system he develops is gratefully invited to join the project
Update: (08:56, 11.01.12, snx)
Editor's note: The source code published is the one of the AmigaOS 4 fork by Costel Mincea, Jens Langner and Thore Böckelmann. The developers of the MorphOS & AmigaOS 3.x version, Nicolas Sallin, Harry Sintonen and Jacek Piszczek however consider release of the source code to be in violation of their copyright. On the other hand AmIRC Open Source Team affirms its legitimacy.
2nd Update: (16:44, 11.01.12, snx)
Editor's note: As we have been told by the authors of the MorphOS version, the source code published does also contain parts programmed by them. Since no licence would exist for those, basic copyright would apply. Thus, without all authors' consent, publishing of the source code under GPL would not be possible. Therefore, the link to source code has been removed from the news-item.
3rd Update: (18:19, 12.01.12, snx)
Editor's note: amiga-news.de meanwhile got hold of the IRC log in which the original author of AmIRC, Oliver Wagner, announces to hand-over the source code and tells Costel Mincea, that he may do with it whatever he wants. Explicitely requesting if this does also include publishing under GPL, this is confirmed again. Thus obviously there is a communication problem between the original author and the developers of the MorphOS version about the legal state of their contributions. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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News website: AmigaWeb.net is back on track
After about one year without being updated, AmigaWeb.net is now back on track on new server.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Jan. 2012, 19:12] [Comments: 0]
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09.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Patch 02 for Icaros Desktop 1.3.3
For version 1.3.3 of his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop, Paolo Besser has published after Patch 01 another update.
Changes:
- All Paper-Cuts initiative bug fixes now included
- Added transparency to icons while dragging them
- Added support for AmigaOS 4 format icons
- Added the iconify function
- Comments now work as expected
- View mode for drawers can now be snapshotted
- Fixed dragging of icons in detail view mode
- Icons don't overlap anymore in plain mode
- Icons don't "jump on the left" anymore when dragged
- Dragging icons on left-out icons don't crash the system anymore
- Fixed background of icons moved elsewhere on the desktop
- Some little fixes for LiveUpdater
- Added AROS M68K Kickstart replacement to AmiBridge
- AmiBridge has been modified to support AROS Kickstart
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Jan. 2012, 19:03] [Comments: 0]
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09.Jan.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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WHDLoad 17.1 (beta)
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your hraddrive which originally were delivered on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with some Amiga-models were fixed. Version 17.1 includes some minor bug fixes.
WHDLoad 17.1 is an early beta version which has to be copied over the existing installation of version 17.0.
Download:
WHDLoad-Usr: whd171.lha (170 KB)
WHDLoad-Dev: whd171dev.lha (195 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Jan. 2012, 19:02] [Comments: 0]
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08.Jan.2012
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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MorphOS: Butterfly labels for Mac mini
To cover the Apple logo on Mac mini computers used for MorphOS, Thomas 'Tommes' Koch is offering butterfly stickers at the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Jan. 2012, 18:35] [Comments: 0]
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08.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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WLAN-driver: prism2.device for free again
The previously commercial WLAN-driver prism2.device is now available for free with version 2.4. It can be usesd for PCMCIA-boards in Amiga 600/1200 or PCI-boards in Amithlon and AmigaOS-4 computers which are based on the Prism-II-chipset.
WPA as well as WPA2 encryption with TKIP and CCMP (AES) are supported. But not each hardware does support all modes. Boards with Intersil-chipset can access to WEP, TKIP and CCMP but Lucent/Agere-firmware only to WEP and TKIP.
The last mentioned boards have a hardware based TKIP-encryption. Please note that Intersil-boards for the WPA-encrayption require a new firmware. You can get further information as well as a list of supported WLAN-boards from the manual included in the archive.
Download: prism2v2.lha (308 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Bounty for updated avcodec.library
The avcodec.library is a AmigaOS-4-port of the ffmpeg-library libavcodec.
Because version 51.52 was written in February 2008, under the title link a bounty project was started. Diego Cassoran has accepted it. Currently 244 Euro were donated.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Jan. 2012, 17:57] [Comments: 0]
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07.Jan.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Beta testers for OpenOfficeViewer required
Carsten Siegner wrote: I am looking for beta testers for my current project "OpenOfficeViewer". This project is about viewing four kinds of documents of the OpenDocument-standards: Office-Drawing, Office-Presentation, Office-Text and Office-Spreadsheet.
OpenOfficeViewer at least requires MorphOS 2.7.
What has been done?
- Ich have written three programming help tools which are to list the documents
- For the program "OpenOfficeViewer" the following tools were done:
- Which windows I could fill with data?
- The window with the metadata of the document
- The window with the statistics of the document
- The window with the render preview
What is still missing? I have to write the renderer. And the whole MUI-interface is missing. But compared with the renderer this is simple.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2012
Achim Kern - KeHo Software (ANF)
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CrossCrabTris 1.1
In Achim Kern's puzzle and action game CrossCrabTris you have to put falling letters on the right place and in this way to solve crossword puzzles.
The latest version 1.1 of the Hollywood-game is available for AmigaOS 3.x, MorphOS and Windows. Under AmigaOS 4 the music output does not work properly.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Jan. 2012, 17:28] [Comments: 0]
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