02.May.2011
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: XSane 0.998 for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has published the scanner software XSane 0.998 (screenshot). The Sane-Backends of version 1.0.22 are included. Please note that the current version only supports USB-scanners and those with network interface.
Some features of XSane:
- Shows scanned graphics in a window
- Saves graphics in:
- May be used as Gimp-Plugin
Download: xsane.lha (20 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Dragging screens in VESA-mode
Being able to drag screens is a well-known feature of the Amiga abd is now also available for AROS im VESA-mode and thus on all PC graphic boards. Under the title link a video is available. With NVidia graphic boards this feature already has been available.
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02.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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USB-Controller: New Deneb-Firmware V11
An update for the firmware of the USB2-Controller Deneb by E3B was published. With this firmware for the first time a workaround is offered for a bug in buster 11.
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01.May.2011
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
During the last two months the listed aticles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations to other languages are very welcome.
- March/April 2011 news
- Articles from ANews n°2 (November 1999) and n°3 : Investigation on IWin, Resignations of Jim Collas and Bill McEwen, File: legality of emulation, Report: Home Electronic World (Cologne 1999), Interview with Daniel Ackerman (QNX France), Hardware: Prelude 1200 and Delfina Lite, etc.
- Old interviews with Francis Charig (Tao, January 2001), Francis Charig (Tao, October 2001), Allan Havemose (Amiga Inc., November 1998), Noël Baldacchino (publisher of the diskmag ROM, September 1996), Jean-Christophe Capdevila (organiser of the Sea Soft Sun demoparty, Octobre 1996) and Mattias Gruvman/Thies Edeling (The Black Lotus members, July 1996).
- Review of Looking For Xmas
- Review of CRABUM 1.4
- File: history and features of the PA6T-1682M
- File: the signatures on the Amiga 1000
- File: Carl Sassenrath
- Demoscene headings from January 1995 to December 1996
- Tutorial: use of Retr0Bright
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoBus and the Pixel64
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoPar
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoSer
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoSCSI
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoNet
- Tutorial: installation of ROM 3.1 on Amiga 1200
- Update of the glossary
- Special quizz about Amiga Power fanzine
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01.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceDoctor 0.9 beta 5
IceDoctor is a repair tool for IceFS-users. It repairs damaged filesystems or rescues files from damaged partitions.
Changes since our last message:
- Fixes/improvements to directory rebuilding
- Cosmetics/GUI improvements
- Orphan recovery failed for fienames longer than 36 chars, fixed
- File salvage would stop salvaging a directory when file comment was found, ouch! Fixed
- Program icon by Patbest
- Added "Recover lost extents" scanning option
- Modification date was not preserved when salvaging, fixed for real now
- More readme additions/improvements
- Hardlink improvements
- Added option to ignore or auto retry IO errors
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01.May.2011
Tim (E-Mail)
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Intros and Trainer: Cracktros.com
With cracktros.com another retro website was launched.
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01.May.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future looking for copyright holders
Press release As you all know, we release full versions of commercial and shareware titles on the Amiga Future homepage and the cover CD.
The type of software doesn't matter, i.e. games, applications, drivers or CDs. We want to preserve all commercial titles. To do this in a legal way, we need the permission of the individual copyright holders.
The biggest problem is to find the copyright holders. That's why we ask you for help. Are you in contact with copyright holders of shareware or commercial software? Do you know some in person or did you have contact with someone a short time ago? Then please drop us an email at redaktion@amigafuture.de.
Also we are looking for someone who can help us establishing contacts to some italian, french and american companies. This means ideally someone who has an origin there and could phone those companies. (snx)
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01.May.2011
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic editor MagicalInk 1.0 beta 2
MagicalInk written by Carsten Siegner was updated. With the program you can open and edit Word95, OpenOfficeDraw and SVG files (video). It has a graphical user-interface inclusive drag'n'drop support as well as a Shell-interface.
Download: MagicalInk.lha (3 MB)
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30.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Firefox-Port: Requirements for "Timberwolf"-bounty slightly changed
Because the Mozilla Foundation decided to publish updates every two months, amigabounty.net decided to change the requirements for a successful Firefox-port. It only has to be published a port of the currently latest version 4.0.1 inclusive "stability fixes".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Apr. 2011, 16:47] [Comments: 0]
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30.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Sam460ex: Linux-Kernel 2.6.38.2 and Bootloader Parthenope 0.93
For its PPC-motherboard Sam460ex ACube has published new versions of the Linux-kernel as well as of the bootloader Parthenope. An English-language installation guide is included.
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[News message: 30. Apr. 2011, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
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30.Apr.2011
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Interview: Adrian Cummings (Mutation Software) released games as Freeware
In a interview with amigapd.com, Adrian Cummings by Mutation Software has confirmed that his formerly commercial Amiga games (Bug Bash, Castle Kingdoms, Cyberpunks, Doodlebug, Nucleus, Our-Type, Tin Toy Adventure, Tommy Gun, Vac-Suit Jack) have been released as Freeware. You can download the games from amigapd.com.
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[News message: 30. Apr. 2011, 16:29] [Comments: 0]
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30.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-magazine: Monthly Page 18
Monthly Page is a little English-language magazine which is available as PDF-file. The latest issue includes an interview with NovaCoda (ScummVM AGA), informationen to the Shell-command "which" and the download top-ten of the OS4Depot.
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[News message: 30. Apr. 2011, 01:23] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2011
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Natami: Pictures of first start of boards
On the website of the Natami-team pictures (part 1, part 2) were published which show the first start of the first boards of the Amiga clone.
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2011, 16:48] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview: Shareware-Programmer Paul Huckstepp
amigapd.com has published an interview with Paul Huckstepp who wrote several Freeware and Shareware games for the Amiga.
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2011, 16:43] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2011
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Action-Adventure: "EasyPlay"-Version of Enemy - Tempest of Violence
For Enemy: Tempest of Violence a so called "EasyPlay"-version was published which is supposed to announce the second part.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2011, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2011
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Software-News: avi2aud 1.0, PortablE r6-28-04-2011 (Beta)
Audio-Tool: avi2aud 1.0
avi2aud written by Lorence Lombardo extracts audio traces from AVI-files and saves them in MP3 or WAV-format.
Download: avi2aud.lha (Readme)
Metacompiler: PortablE r6-28-04-2011 (Beta)
Christopher Handley's Metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E into other ones. Changes in this version:
- BUG: In 'std/cGui', for a Group as the first item of another Group, all of it's own items would not respond to user interaction (nor be part of a MUI cycle chain).
- BUG: In 'std/cGui', for a Group as the last item of another Group, followed by another item, all of it's own items would not respond to user interaction (nor be part of a MUI cycle chain).
- BUG: In 'std/cGui', for a Page Group as the first (outer) Group of a window, it would not respond to setState(), and setStateItem() would crash.
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29.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Broadway 0.0.4
Pascal Papara has published an update for his AROS-distribution Broadway. Performance and stability were improved.
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2011, 16:16] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2011 (21.-23. October, California)
The meeting will take place from 21. until 23. October in Sacramento (California).
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2011, 16:05] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Demo scene: 3 Music-Disks by "Up Rough" (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
The Demo group Up Rough has published three new Music-Disks which are available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS:
Uh Oh, Even More Hits For Kids LP (Screenshot)
Oh No! More Hits for Kids LP - Side A (Screenshot)
Oh No! More Hits for Kids LP - Side B (Screenshot)
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28.Apr.2011
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Overview: Registered Amiga trade marks
On Aminet a PDF-document was published which shows an overview of all Amiga trade marks registered in USA and Europe. The author points out that this list ought to be complete but was not checked a second time.
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[News message: 28. Apr. 2011, 04:45] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future as PDF-Download
From today the webshop can be accessed under amigashop.org and offers PDF versions of the magazine Amiga Future which have to be paid.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2011, 18:41] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Pictures of Commodore-Show in Maarssen, 16. April
On 16th April a meeting of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep took place in Maarssen (Netherlands). You can find pictures of the meeting on the webseite of the club.
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27.Apr.2011
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Software-News until 27.04.2011
Batch-Renaming: MultiRen 1.70
With MultiRen written by Daniel Westerberg you can rename many files in one go. Changes in version 1.71:
- Made the File Cleaner "Initial letter upper" restart after a period "." or opening paratheses
- Added some more extensions to the extension editor
- Fixed a crash when adding an extension in the extension editor
CodeAudio 3.04
CodeAudio is a graphical user-interface for MP3 and other encoders (flac, faad, ogg). With it you can convert CDs into MP3-files. Changes in version 3.04:
- Dieter B. has been very kind and pulled the HTML docs up to date again!
I will try to keep it in sync from now on
- The default AHI mode ID for Mpega became "$DEFA" instead of "Default"
AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL Demo 1.2
"Word Me Up XXL" published by Boing Attitude is a game with arcade and puzzle elements. The new demo version of the commercial game includes improved ingame and menu graphics as well as two new levels.
AmigaOS 4: CopyStore 2.6 for AmiUpdate
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager which informs users about updates of installed applications. A new version of the modul CopyStore is available which no longer delivers the message "Object in Use". CopyStore 2.6 has to be installed manually.
AmigaOS 4: Bed Games 1 - Carola
Bed Games 1 is similar to the child's play rock-paper-scissors written with Hollywood where you play against lightly clad women.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2011, 16:08] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Origyn Web Browser 3.32
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. You can find a detailed list of changes in the Changelog.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2011, 16:07] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Looking for developers and other supporters
Over two entries in the Hyperion-blog, Steven Solie has offered the opportunity to support developing AmigaOS 4.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2011, 10:27] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2011
KeHo Software (ANF)
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Puzzle game: Doors 1.0
Achim Kern's Hollywood port of the puzzle game Doors by Bill Ingram is available for all Amiga systems. In this game you have to try to open four doors with ten keys.
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2011, 19:15] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hyperion: Evert Carton will back out
According to amigaworld.net under the title link, Evert Carton will back out from the Amiga scene. He will cancel his work for Hyperion Entertainment.
Evert Carton himself explained that for several years he has not been working on Amiga products.
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2011, 12:47] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2011
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 4.8 now with Linux support
Press release Airsoft Softwair is happy to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 4.8. This update contains mostly bug fixes and one great new feature requested by many people: Hollywood is now able to compile executables for Linux systems! With the ability of compiling for Linux systems Hollywood finally comes full circle because it now supports all major desktop operating systems. All in all, Hollywood can create programs for nine different platforms now: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS X (Intel), Mac OS X (PowerPC) und Linux (Intel). A totally unique feature in the Amiga world!
Great care was taken to make Hollywood compiled executables as portable as possible across the many different Linux distros. Package dependencies were kept down to an absolute minimum: Only plain X11 - which should be present on any Linux system - is required by Hollywood executables! All other dependencies like gtk and ALSA for sound output are entirely optional: If they are installed, Hollywood will use them, if not, Hollywood will just run without them. Thus, Hollywood compiled executables will usually run straight out of the box on most common Linux distros. You definitely won't have to install dozens of packages before being able to run Hollywood executables!
Please visit the Airsoft Softwair webpage for screenshots of Hollywood 4.8 running on Gentoo (KDE), Ubuntu (Gnome), Fedora (Gnome), openSUSE (KDE) and the brand-new GNOME 3.
Hollywood 4.8 is Airsoft Softwair's ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for every Amiga user who wants to use the full power that is in his machine. Hollywood is available on a CD-ROM and as a download version. 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 Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. (snx)
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