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08.Mar.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: MovieViewer 1.0
MovieViewer is a simple, Shell-based viewer for single frames of a film. The programm uses ffmpeg a therefore supports a lot of video formats.

Download: MovieViewer_1.0.lha ( KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Mar.2012
Amiga PD (ANF)


Interviews: Graham Humphrey (Tank Wars), Aaron and Adam Fothergill (Base Jumpers
In its interview serie on amigapd.com, interviews with Adam und Aaron Fothergill (Base Jumpers, Jet Strike, AMOS Tome) and Graham Humphrey (Tank Wars) have been published. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Mar.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora Plugins for Hollywood
Press release: Two new plugins now are available for Hollywood 5.0: By adding the OggVorbis and the OggTheora plugin, Hollywood now can play the corresponding music and video files. The Vorbis and Theora technologies are useful because most likely they are not are subject to software patent protection and therefore most likely may be used without licence fees in commercial software.

Thanks to the cross-platform plugin-system of Hollywood 5.0, the plugins are available for AmigaOS 3 (Classic), AmigaOS 3 (FPU), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel) and Windows. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Mar.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Video-Broadcast: Amitopia TV broadcasts around the clock
Amitopia TV is an English-language video magazine about the Amiga. The videostream can be accessed under http://77.88.121.243:30000 and since yesterday it is broadcasted around the clock.

At least a PowerPC-processor with 400MHz is required for playing the steam on an Amiga system with e.g. MPlayer. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Mar.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Text viewer: EvenMore 0.76
Chris Perver's EvenMore is a text viewer written with ECX in Amiga E. The changes in version 0.76 are listed in the Readme file.

Download: EvenMore.lha (500 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Mar.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Metacompiler: PortablE r6-05-03-2012 (Beta)
The programming language Amiga E is extended by Christopher Handley's metacompiler PortablE. It translates it into other languages.

Prepared modules for graphic, sound output and music as well as user-interface are included. Additionally there is a PortablE-forum. Mainly PortablE supports AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS and, with some limitations, AmigaOS 3.x and Windows. The changes of the latest version are listed in the history. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Mar.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: New full versions (SamplitudeOpus, Sixth Sense...) for download
Some full versions were added to the download section of the Amiga Future, e.g. SamplitudeOpus, Sixth Sense Investigations and Quasar Wars. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Sirena AHIW 1.00
Sirena AHIW published by Morgue Soft is another programm for simple picture editing. It was written in Hollywood and is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows XP.

The pictures can be saved as BMP, JPG, LBM and PNG files. The languages Spanish, German, English, French and Italian are supported. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AmigaOS 4: glUAE 20120304
glUAE written by Simone Bevilacqua is a collection of scripts which is supposed to make it easier to use 68k applications which are not compatible to AmigaOS4 under the PPC operating system.

With glUAE executable files, disk-images or ZIP-archives can be started with a double-click in the Amiga emulator UAE.

Download: gluae.lha (20 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Mar.2012
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)


Software-News: 20 Updates of Rupert Hausberger (AmigaOS 3/MorphOS)
Rupert "natmeg" Hausberger has published updates for 20 different tools. The following programms all are under GNU GPL now. The changes are included in each archive:
  • AHIRNG: Random Number Generator via AHI
  • ALI: AmIRC Log Inspector
  • AmigaMark: Benchmark Suite
  • asciitable: Print out the ascii-table in diffent modes
  • CanonToolBox
  • CloneCollect: Collect files with same conditions
  • crc128: calculates 128bit crc-checksums
  • dicpng: compress data into png-images
  • fixdate: fix files that have a date in future
  • MinAD: Minimalistic Autodoc Viewer
  • passwd: Simple password protection on boot
  • Relax: Control program for 8-bit realy-cards
  • rhc: A polymorphic cipher
  • rhErase: Secure file eraser
  • rhLaunch: GUI for E-UAE
  • SAB: Secure Address Book with AES encryption
  • sha256ht: Hash a directory with sha256
  • shapng: sha256 of file to png-image
  • SimpleCam: Digital Camera Software
  • sysflush: Flushes unused libs, devs and fonts

All listed programms are available for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS. For AmigaOS3 for the first time versions of AHIRNG, ALI, asciitable, CloneCollect, crc128, dicpng, fixdate, MinAD, passwd, rhc, rhErase, rhLaunch, SAB, sha256ht, shapng and sysflush are available and for MorphOS versions of crc128 and rhc. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Mar.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Word Me Up XXL 1.53
The commercial game "Word Me Up XXL" published by Boing Attitude is an arcade and puzzle game. Version 1.53 is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The demo version was updated as well.

Additional to a high increase of the performance speed, now touchscreens are supported and new levels and figures were added:
  • The game (itself) is 30% faster.
  • The game is playable with fingers if you have a touch screen.
  • New launch menu that makes it easy to reach different parts of Word Me Up XXL (readme, game, website, ...). All of these parts are translated in the 11 languages of the game.
  • Game is more friendly: help on each screen, for every level, tutorial...
  • New transition effects between screens.
  • New users management: more intuitive, allows to 12 users to play and save their games (instead of 6 previously).
  • Two new characters available: Lisa and Miss Shen.
  • Four new levels (training), so 64 levels available in full version.
  • Graphical art enhancements.
  • Vsync.
  • In-game animations (when you loose a life, money, ...).
  • You can choose sound effects without music.
  • Fading when music changes.
  • 27 avatars included.
  • And much more...
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Mar.2012
Floppy (ANF)


AROS: Zune Enhancement Bounty started
Krzysztof "Deadwood" Śmiechowicz has accepted a bounty which is supposed to improve the open source MUI-clone Zune. Among others the aim is to implement in Zune those MUI 4 functions and features that are needed to compile Fab1's Odyssey Web Browser, which currently only runs on MorphOS.

If he will succeed he will currently get 296 USD. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Mar.2012
Michael Rupp (ANF)


Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.19
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a pure JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser. Any feedback is very welcome. The changes of version 0.19 are listed within TAWS in the folder System/TAWS. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Mar.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 03.03.2012
The following archives have been uploaded to the Aminet until 03.03.2012:
twittAmiga.lha           comm/misc  1.3M  68k Twitter client
A71Mail.lha              comm/www   250K      Email Form multilanguage writ...
MSV_HaleBopp.lha         demo/aga   163M  68k HaleBopp By Massive
libocpuis_68k.lha        dev/lib    2.1M  68k 68k CPU emulator library
scsidebug.tar.bz2        dev/moni   10K   OS4 Intercept SCSI commands to de...
diskimage_deviceSP.lha   disk/misc  32K       diskimage.device 52.77 spanis...
anaiis.lha               driver/oth 195K  68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.04
WormWars.lha             game/actio 763K  68k Advanced snake game
WormWarsMOS.lha          game/actio 806K  MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 966K  OS4 Advanced snake game
Saga.lha                 game/board 380K  68k Conversion of TSR boardgame
SagaMOS.lha              game/board 426K  MOS Conversion of TSR boardgame
Saga-OS4.lha             game/board 447K  OS4 Conversion of TSR boardgame
MCE.lha                  game/edit  822K  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  975K  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  967K  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Abbo.lha                 game/misc  446K  68k Fixed Boulderdash Clone (+ Am...
CodeWar-MOS.lha          game/misc  240K  MOS CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS3.lha          game/misc  220K  68k CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS4.lha          game/misc  198K  OS4 CRobots-style programming game
dunelegacy.lha           game/strat 2.7M  MOS Modernized clone of the game ...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   2.8M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.0M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.0M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 17.44 spanish catalog
oricutron.lha            misc/emu   994K  MOS Oric-1 / Atmos emulator
alaska_os4.lha           misc/misc  123M  OS4 Alaska-Kanada West Multimedia...
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.0M  68k multi format sound player.
WarpJPEGdt.lha           util/dtype 209K  WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.9
WarpPNGdt.lha            util/dtype 207K  WOS PNG image datatype V45.16
libffi-morphos.lha       util/libs  57K   MOS MorphOS port of libffi
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  393K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  464K  MOS Multipurpose utility
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Mar.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 03.03.2012
The following archives have been uploaded to the OS4Depot until 03.03.2012:
starfield.lha            dem/mis 2Mb   4.0 3D starfield 'thing' made with H...
oricutron.lha            emu/com 1Mb   4.1 Oric-1 / Atmos emulator
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha             gam/act 981kb 4.0 Advanced snake game
saga.lha                 gam/boa 506kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR boardgame
codewar.lha              gam/mis 203kb 4.0 CodeWar simulation engine
mce.lha                  gam/uti 2Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
iconsreworked.lha        gra/ico 37Mb  4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
alaska.lha               off/pre 123Mb 4.1 Alaska Kanada West Multimedia Tr...
fontpreviewer.lha        uti/mis 2Mb   4.0 A Simple Font Preview Program
rebulator.tar            uti/sci 360kb 4.0 A non oop Mui Calculator
jack.zip                 uti/wor 14Mb  4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Mar.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 03.03.2012
The following archives have been uploaded to the AROS-Archives until 03.03.2012:
ppc-aros-binutils-2.20.1-... dev/cro 20Mb  ppc AROS binutils for Linux/ppc
ppc-aros-gcc-4.2.4-linux-... dev/cro 38Mb  ppc AROS gcc for Linux/ppc
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Mar.2012



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 03.03.2012
The following archives have been uploaded to the MorphOS-Files until 03.03.2012:
WormWars                 8.73    gam/act    806 Single and multiplayer arca...
Saga                     1.81    gam/str    426 A computer conversion of bo...
CodeWar                  1.24    gam/thi    240 A simulator environment for...
SVG Viewer               1.0     gra/vie   1992 A Hollywood 5 script for vi...
Open Office Viewer       0.0.8   off/tex  17582 Application for viewing Ope...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Mar.2012
PPA (Webseite)


AROS: Fodquake 0.3
After the test version, Fodquake 0.3 is now available for AROS/x86. Fodquake was developed further from the Quakeworld-client Fuhquake.

Download: fodquake-0.3-i386-aros.tar.gz (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Mar.2012
Amiga Impact (Webseite)


Pack Ultimate 68k 1.3
Similar to his collection for MorphOS, Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy now offers a software bundle for AmigaOS 3.1. The pre-configured Workbench environment is meant for 68020/030-based Amigas without graphic boards.

Just copy the self-extracting archive to the main partition of a new installed 3.1-installation. At least 50 MB of free memory are required.

Download: pack68k.run (21 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Datatypes: WarpPNG 45.16, WarpJPEG V45.9
Oliver Roberts has updated his Warp-datatypes for PNG and JPEG graphics. They have been compiled with new libraries (libpng 1.5.9 and zlib 1.2.6 and IJG jpeglib v8d) as well as for the MorphOS and WarpOS-versions with VBCC 0.9b. The AmigaOS-4-version uses the new Exec and DOS functions of this operating system. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Mar.2012
Amigan Software (ANF)


Programming game: CodeWar 1.24
CodeWar is a programming game. Here you have not a direct access to the course of the game but you have to create a computer programm which fights against other figures.

Download:
CodeWar-OS3.lha (220 KB)
CodeWar-OS4.lha (198 KB)
CodeWar-MOS.lha (240 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Mar.2012
Obligement (ANF)


New articles on Obligement website
During the last two month several articles have been published on the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement:
  • January/February 2012 news.
  • Articles from Amiga News 113 and 114 : how to buy an Amiga, Review of Tornado 3D 1.75, Review of Technodatabase, Review of Miami 3.0, Report: Amiga in Motus TV Show, File: Amstrad CPC emulation, Hardware: Pixel64, etc.
  • Interview with Paul Gentle (Varisys).
  • Interview with Grzegorz Kraszewski (DigiBooster 3).
  • Review: AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4.
  • Review: 1941 Extreme Deluxe Dual Players.
  • Review: de DroidPUAE.
  • Hardware: build a fourjoysticks adapter.
  • Report: Pianeta Amiga 2006.
  • Tutorial: recover files from a damaged SFS partition (update).
  • Tutorial: double boot with AmigaOS 4.x/3.x on Amiga Classic.
  • File: mailing lists.
  • File: energy consumption.
  • File: Amiga games list (udpate).
  • Special quizz about the year 2011 on Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Mar.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Magazine: Amiga Future issue 95
From today on the German and English issue 95 (March/April 2012) of the magazine Amiga Future is available.

Topics of this issue:
  • AmigaOne X1000 "First Contact"
  • AmiKit
  • SimpleMail
  • YAM
  • Interview Stephen Fellner
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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