28.Dec.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further songs added
AmigaRemix has published new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. These songs can be downloaded as MP3-files for free. The following mixes have been added:
- Body Blows Theme Remix
- Pinball Illusions Intro (Paokala remake)
- Turrican 3 intro remix
- Turrican 3 (reloaded)
- Lost Scrotum (Gameboy Remix)
- Teenagent (intro-b)
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[News message: 28. Dec. 2010, 17:40] [Comments: 0]
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28.Dec.2010
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Zaphod, PolyglotMan, Magnetic, Abcm2ps, Potrace
On the occasion of his five years lasting work on AROS, Matthias 'Mazze' Rustler has published new ports of the editor Zaphod, the text converter PolyglotMan and of Magnetic as well as of Abcm2ps (converts a ABC music file to sheet music) and of Potrace.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Dec. 2010, 12:16] [Comments: 0]
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27.Dec.2010
Vinnny (ANF)
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Amiga Information Center: Russian Amiga website celebrates 11th anniversary
Today the Russian Amiga website "Amiga Information Center" celebrates its 11th anniversary. During the past years over 9000 news have been published on Amiga and the website has about 1000 registered users. The team would like to thank all users for their loyalty.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Dec. 2010, 15:56] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2010
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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MorphOS: Lua beta version 0.3
Lua (Wikipedia) is a script language for adding new features to apllications. After the MorphOS-port was published by Fabrizio Bartoloni some years ago (Aminet), Grzegorz Kraszewski has started to integrate it to MorphOS.
Now the beta version 0.3 was published which still does not include all standard modules.
Download: luaformorphos-0.3.lha (261 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2010, 19:49] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2010
Elbox (ANF)
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Elbox: Xmas greetings
Under the title link Elbox has officually announced the new version of the pci.library for the Amiga1200.
Besides, Elbox has pointed out to the trend of prices at the supplier and has wished all Amiga users merry Christmas and a happy new year.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2010, 07:22] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2010
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Push4Dock 4.0 (beta version)
Push4Dock written by Martin 'Mason' Merz is a start menu for AmigaOS 4.1 (screenshot). With this new beta version 4.0 the author has wished merry Christmas and asked for your feedback.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2010, 07:14] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MiniGL 2.4
Hans de Ruiter has published an update of the OpenGL compatible 3D-API MiniGL for AmigaOS 4. According to a first feedback there are some problems with LodePaint.
Changes:
- Implemented a faster square-root function using the frsqrte (get faster performance in some cases)
- Implemented a reciprocal square-root using the frsqrte assembly code (another small performance boost)
- A few other optimizations
Download: minigl.lha (3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2010, 07:02] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2010
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Action-Adventure: Enemy 2 - Missing in Action (Demo)
"Enemy 2: Missing in Action" is the sequel of the action adventure Enemy - Tempest of Violence which was published in 1997 and is available on Aminet for free.
Enemy 2 uses the same engine anf should therefore run on all Amigas with at least 1 MB RAM and Kickstart 1.2. From Kickstart 2.04 on the game can be also installed on harddrive. Then you have to manually edit the script file "START".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2010, 18:02] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: AmigaHellas, Issue 16 (Greek)
The 16th issue of the Greek PDF-magazine AmigaHellas includes the following topics:
- Retro review: Nuclear War
- Interview: Craig Wuest
- Howto: Hard disks on Amiga (A1000)
- Howto: Music on Amiga (Octamed Soundstudio part 2)
- Howto: A600GRL project (keyboard and touchpad for the custom-built A600 laptop)
- The latest news especially prepared from the team of Amigahellas
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2010, 17:42] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2010
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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E-Mail: SimpleMail Version 0.36 (AmigaOS 3/4)
It is tradition: On Christmas an update of the eMail program SimpleMail is published. This year it celebrates its 10th anniversary and includes the following changes:
- Improved handling of CC-field when replying
- Faster list of mails
- Improved IMAP-support
- Possibility to display a graphical quotation bar for citations (see Configuration > Reading plain)
- Possibility to disable the automated "deleted" folder cleanup (see Configuration > General)
- The 68k version utilizes and requires AmiSSL 3 now for ssl connections (OS4 version already did since a while)
- Bug fixes as usual
The SimpleMail Team wishes you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2011! (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2010, 17:09] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2010
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Amiga-News wishes Merry Christmas!
The team of Amiga-News wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011! We are glad that there are so many news about the Amiga to be reported on. We hope and are convinced that it will continue in 2011.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2010, 17:05] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: RadeonHD-driver for Sam460ex
Press release Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 23 December, 2010. ACube Systems is very pleased to announce to have reached an agreement with Hans De Ruiter for including a special version of his RadeonHD driver together with the upcoming AmigaOS 4.1 for Sam460ex.
For the first time in Amiga history this driver will allow the use of modern PCI-express graphic cards together with AmigaOS 4.1. The Sam460ex will be the first hardware capable of running AmigaOS to include this feature.
Currently RadeonHD driver supports the following chipsets with full 2D hardware acceleration and DDC:
- R500 (with compositing support) - Radeon X1550, X1650, X1950 and others
- R600 - Radeon HD 2400, HD 3450, HD 3650 and others
- R700 - Radeon HD 4350, HD 4650
Many thanks to Hans for his wonderful job. We would also like to take the opportunity to extend our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our customers.
For more info on RadeonHD drivers please visit Hans de Ruiters home page.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Dec. 2010, 08:35] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Weather program Wet 6.1
The weather program Wet is now available in version 6.1 for AmigaOS 3.9.2 as well as for AmigaOS 4. The plug-in-support as well as new themes were added created by Frank Ruthe. The detailed changes are listed in the Readme-file.
Download: wet.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Dec. 2010, 07:46] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Pictures of C= Show (18. December, Holland)
On 18th December in Maarssen (Holland) the monthly "C= Show" of the Commodore Gebruikers Groep (CGG) took place. Now some pictures were published.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Dec. 2010, 16:33] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2010
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FTP-Program Transfer 1.0, Realtime strategy game Legion, SMS-Emulator
Pawel "stefkos" Stefanski has published some new projects for MorphOS:
Transfer 1.0
Transfer is a simple FTP-program which supports bigger files (64 Bit), can import AmiTradeCenter configuration files and has the following features:
- Resume, overwrite or skip files
- Drag and drop between Ambient and ftp (for upload)
- MUI GUI
- Support for passive and active transfers
- Localised
- Opening local files and directories
- ATC settings import option (.profiles)
- Host paths history
Download: Transfer.lha (169 KB)
Realtime strategy game Legion
Legion is a realtime strategy game which was published in 1996 for the Amiga and was now ported by Stefanski to MorphOS.
Download: Legion.lha (2,7 MB)
Sega Master System-Emulator SMS
According to the author a "fast and ugly" port of the des Sega Master System emulator SMS.
Download: sms.lha (144 MB)
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2010, 15:54] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video: AmigaOS 4.1 for Classic
Beta tester Darren "HammerD" Eveland has published a video of AmigaOS 4.1 "Classic" on his Amiga 4000 on the official AmigaOS 4-Blog (Youtube-Link). His Amiga contains a CyberstormPPC and a Radeon 9250 graphic board.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Dec. 2010, 22:45] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2010
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Graphic program Gribouillis2 (beta)
Gribouillis2 (screenshots: 1, 2) written by Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez is a graphic application which supports layers, has an unlimited (and only limited by the available memory) Undo/Redo and simple picture editing functions.
Gribouillis2 is available as "standalone" version which 13 MB or as "simple" version. The last one requires some additional libraries and interpreters(Python, PyMUI, PyCairo etc.). Both version should be installed on harddrive and not be started from the RAM-Disk.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Dec. 2010, 18:23] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Pictures of World of Commodore (Toronto, Canada)
On 4th of December in Toronto the "World of Commodore Expo" took place. Meanwhile Fuzz and Dan Kovacs have published some pictures.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Dec. 2010, 18:12] [Comments: 0]
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