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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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06.Jan.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: First round of PaperCuts finished
The first round of the AROS-PaperCuts was finished. During the last 3 months a total of 75 bugs have been fixed.
A video shows all the bugs that were repaired.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 06. Jan. 2012, 11:35] [Comments: 0]
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05.Jan.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Java: Grotag 0.2.0
Thomas Aglassinger's Java program Grotag can view AmigaGuide files as well as convert the formats HTML, XHTML and DocBook.
Version 0.2.0 also works under Mac OS X Lion on an Apple computer again. Only exporting to the HTML-format does still not work.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2012, 20:12] [Comments: 0]
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05.Jan.2012
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.61.169
Under the title link as well as via Grunch Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has published a minor update of his MorphOS-port of the 3D graphic program Blender.
This update only includes bug fixes which mainly is related to the FFmpeg-library used for reading and writing videos.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2012, 19:52] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jan.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MP3-Download: A Tribute to Jochen Hippel
Jochen Hippel composed the music of several commercial Amiga games. With his permission some music artists have created remixes of some of his best known songs. The album "A Tribute to Jochen Hippel" is available as free MP3-download.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jan. 2012, 21:26] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jan.2012
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New demos
The scene portal pouet.net have uploaded some new demos of the Amiga scene:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has published new remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as free MP3-files. Since our last news message the following songs were added:
- Superfrog's Ancient Level (Wobble Dat Giant Pyramid Remix)
- Monkey Island
- Battle Squadron Anastasios RmX
- Stardust Memories RMX'11
- Enigma
- Enigma Gun (Extended Mix)
- The Chaos Engine - The Forest (World 1) Space Infaders Remix
- Paradroid'2010
- BA1 - Beautiful Fireworks
- Another World (End Theme Remix)
- the ultimate challenge (lotus III remix medley)
- Elvira Loader
- Vroom Crack Intro (Monday Remix 2011)
- Turrican 2 - Level 2
- Beams of Light
- Interference [Szudi^Implexy RMx]
- Turrican II - The Great Bath [Extended Piano Mix]
- Atomix - Title Song - Element Thalion Industrial Mix
- Agony
- A Shuffled Hyperbase [Enigma - Hyperbased]
- Guitar Slinger remake 2011
- Stardust Song 3 [Wandering Robots]
- GODS-Planet Beats and Bass - PowerTrace Version - SYcroz Revision
- The Settlers - Main Theme
- First Samurai (Extended Edit)
- Space Traveling (Revisited)
- X-Out Highscore
- Space Debris
- Utopia
- Lost Patrol - Last Smile
- Dancing Man (SAW #4)
- Turrican 2 - Traps (metal version)
- Turrican 2 - Final Challenge Remix
- Lotus 3 (daXX feat gibs Remix)
- Anarchy Menu 1
- Hymn to Aurora 2011 Remix
- Turrican II Amiga Remake
- Pinball illusions (Intro Remix)
- Flashback - Holocube
- Super Hang-On - The Winning Run
- Turrican 2 Secret Dungeons metal version
- Lotus Turbo Challenge II - daXX 2011 Break the Highscore ReMix
- Maniax (Enter The Dragon)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2012
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Package manager: Tester for m68k-database for Grunch wanted
The package manager Grunch manages available applications in a database which also can be maintained by the user. Olaf Schoenweiss asks for your support being able to create such a database for m68k-users: His database currently has 240 entries and should be completed to 500 entries.
Soon testers are required who check the entries. Interested users can contact Olaf Schoenweiss via the mailer of amiga-news.de or amigaworld.net (registration required) or via eMail under "olaf.schoenweiss at innovatronic dot de".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jan. 2012, 19:53] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jan.2012
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AROS-Distribution: The future of "Broadway"
Pascal Papara informed that in future he will focus on developing his Linux/AROS-distribution AEROS and will not develop further his AROS-distribution Broadway.
Updates for the system and included applications will be available via the integrated update manager "up2date".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jan. 2012, 19:33] [Comments: 0]
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