25.Sep.2011
Achim Kern - KeHo Software (ANF)
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Puzzle game: "Symbol-Rechnen" for all Amiga systems
"Symbol-Rechnen" simulates the arithmetical problem where each figure is encrypted by a certain symbol. The computer generates new tasks every time - which have to be solved so all additions and subtractions or multiplications and divisions (Vers 2.1) fit in horizontal and perpendicular lines.
Achim Kern has ported an older puzzle game with Hollywood and offers versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, AROS and Windows. The next port will be the puzzle and action game CrossCrabTris.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2011, 19:59] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2011
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Amiga Inc. lost several US-trademarks
Recently Amiga Inc. had had six registered trademarks in the United States. For five of these trademarks the company would have proved a commercial use until August. This did not happen. Therefore the "US Patent and Trademark Office" deleted the following registration of the trademarks:
- AMIGA - Standard Character Mark
- AMIGA - Drawing/Design + Words
- AMIGA ANYWHERE - Standard Character Mark
- AMIGA ENABLED - Standard Character Mark
- BoingBall [image] - Drawing/Design (No Words)
The last registered trademark of Amiga Inc. is AMIGA.
Amiga owns several trademarks in the EU. A complete list can be found on Amiga-Trademarks.pdf.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2011, 18:43] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2011
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Programming language: Hollywood creates iPad-applications
Press release: Hollywood has recently been ported to the iPad (ARM architecture) by order of a commercial customer who needs to use it on tablet devices in clinics and hotels. A small demo video of Hollywood running on iPad has been uploaded to YouTube.
Unfortunately, it will most likely not be possible to integrate iPad support into Hollywood's cross-compiler because of several technical and legal restrictions that iPad apps are subject to. For commercial customers, however, we can now offer several solutions to get their Hollywood projects converted into iPad apps. Please contact us.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2011, 00:25] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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HSMathLibs 46.00 for MC68060, MC68040 and MC68881/82
Matthias Henze's HSMathLibs replace the libraries mathieeedoubbas.library, mathieeedoubtrans.library, mathieeesingtrans.libray and mathtrans.library and patch or replace the libraries mathffp.library and mathieeesingbas.libray by optimized versions.
Changes:
- The functions "IEEEDPFloor", "IEEEDPCeil" (mathieeedoubbas.library), "IEEESPFloor", "IEEESPCeil" (mathieeesingbas.library and mathieeesingbas-patch), "SPFloor" and "SPCeil" (mathffp.library and mathffp-Patch) were written again
- Bug fixes of the functions "IEEEDPPow" (mathieeedoubtrans.library), "IEEESPPow" (mathieeesingtrans.library), "SPCos", "SPSincos", "SPCosh", "SPExp" and "SPPow" (mathtrans.library)
- Reworked patch routines of mathffp-patch and mathieeesingbas-patch
- Reworked Initfunctions of all libraries
- Many minor optimization
- Reworked manuals; support of programms like Remus added
- Reworked installer script; support of programms like Remus added
- Reworked uninstall
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2011, 14:45] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: LLVM-Bounty (Phase 1) completed
After the release of the first release candidate of the cross-compiler LLVM, this bounty project was now successfully completed.
Pascal Papara who is initiator and main sponsor is looking for suggestions for the description of the second phase. The point of the bounty is to simplify the transition to 64 bit.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2011, 14:35] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Distribution AspireOS 1.2
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update of his AROS-distribution AspireOS (screenshot). This is customized to the Acer-netbook Aspire but should run on every other hardware.
The update requires an existing 1.x-installation. Amiga games now are started via AROS/68k instead of using AmigaOS Kickstart files. Additionally the music programm MilkyTracer, the BoingIconBar, Snapshoter, some games and many updated system files were added.
Users of Samsung or Dell netbooks have to replace the hdaudio.config and the HDAudio-driver by the ones with the ending "dell". Please do the same with the file Sys:system/network/AROSTCP/S/Package-Startup if you are using a USB network stick.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2011, 14:15] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Database: MUIbase 2.10
Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Changes in version 2.10:
- New function SETBGPEN for setting the background color of attributes
- Several new pre-defined constants PEN_* useful for SETBGPEN
- New function 'mainWindowTitle' for computing the title of the main window
- Drag and drop of a record from a virtual list onto a reference attribute for setting the reference to the dropped record
- Allow dropping of icons onto text fields that support filenames.
This sets the contents to the pathname of the dropped icon (Amiga).
- Warn user when changing a read-only project
- Use native MorphOS-classes instead of NList and TextEditor.
MUIbase stills uses BetterString instead of Textinput.
- The Windows setup executable now containes all necessary GTK+ libraries
- Better support of copy & paste on Mac OS X
- Several bug fixes
Die MUIbase-distribution includes ports for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. An port for AROS will follow. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Sep. 2011, 23:34] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser NetSurf 2.8
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally written for RiscOS. It can be used with 17 MB memory and supports among others HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. The changes in version 2.8 are listed in the Changelog.
Release notes for this AmigaOS 4 build:
- DataTypes content handler now used for JPEG and PNG images on the 4.0 (static) build
- Low-memory version of parserutils.library included in the archive, for people wishing to reduce memory requirements
- MNG and WebP internal decoders no longer compiled in. Please install appropriate datatypes for WebP and (limited) MNG support
- The file Resource/mimetypes can be used to specify applications to run plug-in content (to use, right-click plug-in area and select "launch in external application"). It also links DataTypes, MIME types and DefIcons, so if something isn't working as expected it might be related to this file
- Please note the new DPI setting in prefs. Some people reported particulary small text on certain websites with the previous release. Setting DPI correctly fixes this. If you use a widescreen monitor you may need to set "option_widescreen:1" in Resources/Options
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Sep. 2011, 07:06] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2011
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Another video from Amiganoid 2011
Last saturday, the Amiganoid 2011 was held in Essen (Germany). AmigaGTI has released another Youtube vdeo from the meeting now. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2011, 15:26] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (website)
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Interview: Richard Hewison (Speedball 2, Stunt Car Racer)
Richard Hewison was involved with various classic Amiga games (Beneath a Steel Sky, Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Stunt Car Racer, Speedball II) as a playtester or project manager. In this interview he speaks about his memories of the former Amiga games market. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2011, 15:15] [Comments: 0]
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21.Sep.2011
Amigaworld.net (website)
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OnyxSoft: BackUp 1.71 and DECH 1.50
The developers group OnyxSoft has updated two of their programs: BackUp and DECH.
BackUp 1.71
An average copying speed in kB or MB/s has been added to Daniel 'Deniil' Westerberg's backup tool. It will show up after finishing. It's mostly interesting when you make the first complete backup, since all time is considered, not just during actual copying.
Please note that if you transfer more than 2.5 TB in one go, the speed calculator won't cope.
DECH 1.50
Deniil's E-Compiler Handler (which works for make, gcc or whatever too) is a graphical compiler aid. Changes:
- More descriptive gadget names
- Editable gadget names
- Ctrl-C in the console is sent to the executed program instead of eaten by DECH itself
- Added datetime and bold to compile and run output to clearly mark where it starts when scrolling
- Added a window sleepy pointer when compiling
- The compiler priority wasn't properly loaded from prefs
- Fixed some layout issues when using larger fonts
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21.Sep.2011
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MorphOS: Prospect of version 3.0
Nicolas 'Henes' Sallin has given an outlook on the next update of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS at MorphZone.
- The next public version of MorphOS will be version 3.0 and introduce support for PowerBook (only 15" and 17" PowerBooks of versions 5.6 till 5.9, which are the two latest revisions D and E)
- It will be a completely free upgrade for already registered users
- There will probably be some experimental wireless support for a few external cardbus cards featuring WPA/WPA2; that was demonstrated in Essen
- There will be enhanced 3D drivers for the R2xx range of Radeon cards
- Proper use of AGP bus has been added where reasonable and available, helping on some low vmem issues with Mac mini for example
- There will be a builtin CD/DVD recording tool named Jalapeno
- There will be various other enhancements which are not disclosed yet
- Release date can't be expected before December
Furthermore, G5 iMac/PowerMac support will not be released anytime soon. It was just some experiment and no development work is done on it, Henes continued. The focus would be on bug fixing and implementing remaining features for 3.0 now. Also the OS will not be released for another CPU architecture in the next 12 months. (snx)
[News message: 21. Sep. 2011, 17:03] [Comments: 0]
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21.Sep.2011
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MorphOS: SDK update 20110916
The MorphOS Software Development Kit has been updated. This update fixes minor issues related to Scribble MUI update as well as improves project indexing functionality. (snx)
[News message: 21. Sep. 2011, 15:01] [Comments: 0]
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20.Sep.2011
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Interview: Andreas Magerl (Amiga Future)
nemesiz.com has published an interview with Andreas Magerl, in which he talks about his magazine Amiga Future as well as upcoming software projects. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 20. Sep. 2011, 17:22] [Comments: 0]
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19.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (website)
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AmigaOS 4: integrated development environment CodeBench 0.23
Simon "Rigo" Archer has released a new beta version of his integrated development environment CodeBench (screenshot). Codebench 0.23 requires AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1, but Update 3 is highly recommended for use with Codebench.
The free edition available right now comes in two flavours: One for use with the AmigaOS 4 SDK, one for users of the commercial programming language Hollywood.
Changes in version 0.23:
- When loading a project by double-clicking the project icon, the loaded project was not internally assigned properly. This led to DSI errors when trying to use the menus. Thanks to Paul E. Blodel for the report.
- When selecting a directory of files to be added to the project, the files were added with a root path, rather than in a sub-directory. This would lead to the files being saved into the wrong place, and could potentially over-write an existing file with the wrong contents.
- When switching files, if a file that was not part of the project was made current, the project list still showed the previous file as selected. Fixed
- The enabling/disabling of the "Compiler" buttons has now been moved into each plugin. This should allow a much greater degree of acuracy in determining just what options should be available.
- Now only shows the public screen name in the titlebar when on a custom screen.
- Added a couple more keyboard descriptions in the "Key Bindings" editor for keys that do not print a glyph.
Changes in AmigaOS4SDK.ccplugin 5.1:
- API changes so bumped to V5
Changes in Hollywood.ccplugin 5.1:
- Fixed a problem with loading the dictionary and the description was actually the prototype. Reported by Paul E. Bloedel.
- Added functionality to set the "compiler" buttons as required.
- Any errors or warnings are cleared now when running the script just like when building the script.
- Fixed a few more subtle operational issues.
- API changes so bumped to V5.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 19. Sep. 2011, 23:50] [Comments: 0]
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19.Sep.2011
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Zune bounty divided into separate projects
The original bounty project for enhancement of the MUI clone for AROS, Zune, is now being split into smaller steps. Current donors are advised to request by e-mail that their contributions are moved to the new "Phase 1" bounty detailed at the title link.
This first step's focus will be to reach complete compatibility with MUI version 3.8. So far, 265 US-Dollars have been donated to it, while 545 Dollars are still with the original bounty. (snx)
[News message: 19. Sep. 2011, 18:04] [Comments: 0]
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19.Sep.2011
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Amiga-Meeting 2011: Further exhibitors, dealers and developers wanted
The organisers of this year's Amiga-Meeting in Bad Bramstedt (near Hamburg), Germany, are still looking for further exhibitors, dealers and developers to take part. So far almost 40 participants have been registered. Among them are for example Alinea Computer, Geit, Entwickler-X and the creators of Boingsworld and AmitopiaTV.
Especially AROS has been widely missing in the previous years, thus especially developers of this operating system are very welcome. In this context Sven Scheele of Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein would like to remind everyone that developers get a discount on their registrations. (snx)
[News message: 19. Sep. 2011, 14:20] [Comments: 0]
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19.Sep.2011
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ACube announces complete systems labeled "AmigaOne 500"
ACube announces the "AmigaOne 500", a complete system based on their well-known PPC motherboard Sam460ex. It comes in a case with "AmigaOne 500" and Boingball stickers and includes the following components:
- Sam460ex 1.15 GHz
- 2 GB DDR2 RAM
- 500 GB HD
- DVD RW
- PCI SATA 3512 controller
- AmigaOne mouse
- Stickers for keyboard customization
- Optional: PCIe Radeon 4650 1 GB VIDEO RAM
- Optional: SATA2 SSD (Solid State Disk) 64 GB or 128 GB (replacing the internal 500 GB hard disk)
The systems are said to be available from September 26 onwards, they will ship for 878 Euro (excluding taxes and shipping costs). (cg)
[News message: 19. Sep. 2011, 01:03] [Comments: 0]
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