21.Dec.2010
iConsole (ANF)
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Mac OS X: iConsole with PowerTerm.framework from MorphOS
Jacek Piszczek has converted the PowerTerm.mcc-class from MorphOS to a PowerTerm.framework for Mac OS X, called iConsole.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2010, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2010
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AROS: Hosted version for Mac OS X (PPC/x86) and Cross-Compiler
Under the title link Pavel Fedin's Darwin hosted version of the open source operating system AROS is available as Nightly Builds. Additional to Mac OS X this version is meant formobile devices like Apple's iPhone.
Besides, the developer has published the GCC cross-compiler in AROS-archives as well.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2010, 14:50] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2010
Floppy (ANF)
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AROS: Broadband support of handys
With the latest Nightly Builds AROS is now also available with mobile broadband-support. Additional to the ModemManager, a new entry was added to the preferences (screenshot).
New or updated features:
- C:ModemManager
- Prefs/Network
- DEVS:Networks/ppp.device
- Classes/USB/cdcacm.class
- System/Network/AROSTCP/S/Package-startup
In the preferences for Init4 you have to enter the Access Point Name (APN): AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","insert.your.apn.here". Then the ppp0-interface must be configured and the IP-mode set to.
The ModemManager automatically updates the nameserver (DNS) - but they cannot be used during the first connection because AROSTCP and thus AROS itself must be started again.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2010, 14:33] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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A-EON spilled the beans about X1000-processor - with a cake (Update)
A-EON announced the X1000 but without naming the used processor. Many users thought over which PowerPC-CPU A-EON will use. The PA6T produced by the company P.A.Semi - which now belongs to Apple - was one of the possibilities. But this processor is not available on the free market thus it was not very likely.
Thom Holwerda who is chief editor of the English-language news site osnews.com was one of those Sceptics. He was completely certain that he said he would eat his socks if A-EON will use PA6T.
Officially A-EON has not announced any news. But yesterday Holwerda got an interesting package: A cake with the socks of Thom Holwerda. Despatcher: "Trevor Dickinson, A-EON Technology"
Update: (12:00, 22.12.10, snx)
Meanwhile A-EON has also officially confirmed that the chosen processor is P.A. Semi's PA6T-1682M:
London 21st December 2010
A-EON Technology is pleased to finally reveal the identity of the mystery CPU powering the AmigaOne X1000. It's none other than the uber cool PWRficient PA6T processor developed by fabless chip designer PA Semi. The PA6T-1682M is a high performance, low power, cool running dual-core, 64-bit, 2GHZ Power CPU specifically designed for embedded industrial and military applications. PA Semi was acquired by Apple in 2008 and all the indications were that they purchased the company for the technology and planned to shut down the PA Semi product line. However, following demand from military and industrial users, Apple agreed to continue supplying chips to pre-existing PA Semi customers for a limited time period. Fortunately Varisys, our hardware partner, had a long-standing relationship with PA-Semi and we were able to secure a supply of PA6T CPUs for the AmigaOne X1000 project, making it the first and most probably the last desktop computer based on the unique PA-Semi CPU technology as Apple have now closed down the PA-Semi product line.
After reading a statement by Thom Holwerda, the Managing Editor of OSNews website announced in an AmigaWorld.net forum, "I can assure you all, with 110% certainty, that the X1000 will NOT carry a processor from PA Semi. If it turns out it does, I will eat my socks and post the video as proof", we decided to give him an exclusive on revealing the identity of the AmigaOne X1000 CPU. Rather than issuing the usual staid press release and forcing Thom to eat his own socks we decided to take pity on him and shipped him a special cake decorated with a pair of edible "Boing Ball" socks with a note saying the cake was a gift from A-EON Technology. Read Holwerda's exclusive report on OSnews.
Special thanks go to premier Amiga developer Davy Wentzler who helped to coordinate the production and delivery of the special "Boing Ball" sock cake.
A-EON Technology CVBA (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2010, 02:03] [Comments: 1 - 22. Dec. 2010, 15:58]
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20.Dec.2010
RhoSigma (ANF)
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MemOptimizer 4.093 and MakeHTMLMap 5.500
With MemOptimizer 4.093 and MakeHTMLMap 5.500 two applications written by Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder have been updated. The new version of MemOptimizer includes some optimizations and MakeHTMLMap the following changes:
- No Shareware any longer, but Donationware
- New Link Route preferences
- New Tooltype DEFVIEWER for favoured picture viewer
- New Tooltype DEEPSCAN
- Improved handling of AutoSessions (ToolType)
- Implemented many shift-click-actions
- Catalog/Shop options can be set now for each shop separately
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2010, 11:59] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator package: Amiga Forever 2011
Cloanto's emulator package Amiga Forever is now avaialble in version 2011.0.1.0. Users of Amiga Forever 2010 will get this update for free.
The new features include multiple snapshots, faster loading and less use of memory.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2010, 11:55] [Comments: 0]
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19.Dec.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hyperion: Developer Blog, Screenshots of AmigaOS 4.1 Classic
From now on Hyperion offers a developer Blog where members will publish news and developments on AmigaOS 4.
Beta tester Darren Eveland has started with two screenshots of his beta version of AmigaOS 4.1 "Classic".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Dec. 2010, 23:56] [Comments: 0]
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19.Dec.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Pictures of prototypes: Clock port extensions and Gayle adapter
Under the title link Matthias Münch has introduced four prototypes of Amiga extensions. Three of them are used in the Clockport-Expander while the fourth one is an adapter for the Custom-Chip Gayle.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Dec. 2010, 19:45] [Comments: 0]
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19.Dec.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: English dictionary WordNet 3.2
WordNet is a database of the English language and was ported to AmigaOS 4 by Daniel Jedlicka (screenshot). For voice output the flite.device is required.
Changes in version 3.2:
- The toolbar has no bevel box drawn around it (looks better)
- New option in Settings: the program window can be made to always stay visible, on top of other windows
- New option in Settings: quitting the program on pressing the Escape key is now configurable (and off by default)
- New option in Settings: word frequency counts can be switched off (default), which results in slightly faster searches and a cleaner display of results
- Bugfix: if an APPLIBMT_ToFront command arrived from application.library and WordNet was iconified, the program would produce a DSI error
- Bugfix: when started from CLI and too deep in the directory structure, the program would fail to lock its icon
- An internal stack cookie of 80KB now ensures optimum program performance
- Compiled against the latest AmigaOS 4 SDK
- Compiled with GCC's "-Wall" switch and got rid of all compiler warnings
- Internal code cleanup
Download: wordnet.lha (11 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Dec. 2010, 10:17] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2010
Gero Birkenfeld (ANF)
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Picture editing: iBatch 1.1
iBatch written by Gero Birkenfeld maks it more easy to rename and convert pictures.
The new version 1.1 can be upgraded with plugins and offers among others an Addhtml-plugin (screenshot) with graphical user-interface.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Dec. 2010, 19:53] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2010
PPA (Webseite)
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Mediator: pci.library 9.6 (beta version)
Under the title link - chapter "Mediator Multimedia CD 2.1" - Elbox has published an update of his pci.library.
With this beta version of the pci.library 9.6 users of the Mediator PCI 1200TX can now access up to 250 MB memory of Radeon and Voodoo boards in MMU-mode. The required amount of the graphical me ory can be set with the application MedConfig (version 1.9).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Dec. 2010, 18:15] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.69 (17.12.10)
Chris Perver's EvenMore is a text viewer written in Amiga E. Version 0.69 (17.12.10) fixes some bugs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Dec. 2010, 18:02] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: ScummVM 1.2.1
ScummVM ported by Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly is available for MorphOS in version 1.2.1.
Download: scummvm-1.2.1.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Dec. 2010, 17:39] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2010
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Developer tool: MakeTools
MakeTools written by Marian 'MaaG^dA' Guc is a MUI-based software collection for developing software under MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x (screenshot).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Dec. 2010, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2010
PPA (ANF)
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Report of AmiParty 10 (13. November, Poland)
On 13th of November in Chełm (Poland) the tenth AmiParty took place. The original Polish report is now also available in English.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Dec. 2010, 13:40] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2010
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Virtual Mixer: ChipdiscoDJ (Java)
With Chipdisco DJ you can mix Amiga Module, XM and S3M files. You can adopt the speed of the tracks and fade them with a crossfader.
ChipdiscoDJ was written in Java and can be used directly on the website of the programer. Download archives for Windows, Mac and Linux are also available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Dec. 2010, 00:11] [Comments: 0]
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16.Dec.2010
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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Payment for HSMathLibs via PayPal
The HSMathLibs written by Matthias Henze replace the libraries mathieeedoubbas.library, mathieeedoubtrans.library, mathieeesingtrans.libray and mathtrans.library and patch or replace the libraries mathffp.library and mathieeesingbas.libray by optmized versions.
The libraries are sold as Shareware and can be now also paid via Paypal.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Dec. 2010, 22:09] [Comments: 0]
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15.Dec.2010
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Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 2.24
Thomas Wenzel has published an update of his audio player AmigaAMP. In version 2.24 several minor bugs were fixed and the AREXX-port upgraded.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Dec. 2010, 15:37] [Comments: 0]
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15.Dec.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Chiptune-Tracker Klystrack
Klystrack is a Chiptune-Tracker (screenshot) which synthesizes sounds "on-the-fly". The AmigaOS 4-port was written by "Spot/Up Rough".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Dec. 2010, 15:32] [Comments: 0]
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15.Dec.2010
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MorphOS: 1941 Deluxe Extreme, Pack Ultimate 1.6.3
1941 Deluxe Extreme
1941 Deluxe Extreme is a shooter which is based on the KETM ("Kill Everything That Moves"). The MorphOS-port was written by Hugues "HunoPPC" Nouvel.
Pack Ultimate 1.6.3
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's application collection Ultimate Pack adds some main application to MorphOS. Most important changes in version 1.6.3:
- update ScanDAL to v1.4
- update IceFilesystem to v2.1
- update Shanghai.amiplug to v1.3 for AmIRC
- update SimpleCat to v3.21
- update PciTool to v2.3
- update Elephant to 1.7
- add screenbar module DriveLamps v52.7
- add more defaults modules in screenbar
- modifications in installer script (remove Work: default path)
- remove ShowGirls v1.2 (because newest version is available in MorphOS 2.7)
Direct download: installpack.lha (514 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Dec. 2010, 15:24] [Comments: 0]
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15.Dec.2010
Andreas Volkmann (ANF)
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Website: Amigaresistance offline
According to Andreas "Maverik" Volkmann, amiga-resistance.info is currently offline because of hardware and software problems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Dec. 2010, 15:17] [Comments: 0]
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14.Dec.2010
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Preview of Amiga Future 88
Press release: Today some previews of issue 88 (January/February 2011) of the Amiga Future were published. This issue is focused on the AmiWest 2010, includes an interview with Carl Sassenrath and much more.
The CD includes PD-software as well as full version like Fantastic Dreams.
The Amiga Future is available in German and English.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Dec. 2010, 15:49] [Comments: 0]
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14.Dec.2010
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Commodore USA: New web site, Amiga 1000/2000/3000 models, Amiga Workbench 5.0
The relaunch of Commodore USA's web site doesn't seem to be finished yet, but one can already locate first hints of the previously announced line of "Amiga" branded devices: Apparently, Commodore plans to offer computers labeled "Amiga 1000", "Amiga 2000" and "Amiga 3000" that will come with an operating system called "Workbench 5.0" preinstalled.
According to the description ("latest and greatest software the open source world has to offer", "Word compatible Office Suite"), the latter seems to be a relabeled Linux distribution, Apparently, emulators will be included aswell, according to Commodore USA Workbench 5.0 will be "100% Commodore compatible" and contain emulators for the original Amiga aswell as older Commodore computers.
But the rights to the Workbench trademark are not Commodore's yet: Cloanto (PersonalPaint, Amiga Forever) is trying for several years to register this mark in the United States - the relevant litigation is still ongoing. Barry 'digitex' Altman states on amigaworld.net that this dispute will be handled by the attorneys.
There's not much information about the hardware that is going to be used for these new "Amiga" computers, we only know that they will be based on standard x86 motherboards. The pictured black desktop cases are made by Aumro. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Dec. 2010, 15:31] [Comments: 0]
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