07.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1 for PowerUp-Amigas soon available (Update)
According to Hyperion Entertainment under the title link, all components for the version of AmigaOS-4.1 for Amigas with BlizzardPPC or CyberstormPPC accelerator boards have been finished and will be available soon.
Features which are not included in AmigaOS 4.0:
- Intelligent Installer for PCI / Zorro with automatic AGA-Fallback support
- New classic styled Bootlogo and Backdrops
- Improved bootloader with large table MMU support
- Updated kernel offering increased stability in low memory conditions
- Support for virtual memory via harddisk paging
- ZororRAM and DKB 3128 support as memory pagers
- Improved (future proof) Mediator support with Radeon 9200 and 9250 using up to 256MB of video memory (correct voltage graphics card required)
- Support for PCI sound card (ESS SOLO-1 based cards)
- Warp3D hardware acceleration support for Radeon, Voodoo 3/4/5 and Cybervision / Blizzardvision PPC (stable beta version for Permedia2-based cards)
- DDC automatic monitor detection for Radeon and Voodoo 3
- Hardware compositing engine (Radeon only) with software fall-back
- Native FastATA driver support
Update: (17:20, 08.05.11, snx)
According to a message from british dealer AmigaKit, who has been instrumental in funding the PowerUp version of the operating system, they will start advertising the update in their webstore in about nine days. Meanwhile they are inviting further Amiga dealers to order AmigaOS 4.1 for Commodore Amiga computers from AmigaKit. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Snapshoter 1.4.9b
Snapshoter - a Hollywood based programm for all Amiga systems and Windows for recording screen pictures - is available in version 1.4.
Changes:
- Fixed bug in copyclipboard routine
- Added Cecilia FX icons
- Added new powerful image composer
- Gradients, solids, outlines, primitives, text or arrows, easy intuitive and fast environment
- Swap layers up and down, keep ratios, browse layers, auto import to collage mode directly clicking over the snapshoter bar, crop and cut images over the compositions and paste again, gradient paint effect
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video: Minimig on a Turbo Chameleon 64
Under the title link a video was published which shows the FPGA-Amiga-core of the Minimig on the C64-extension called Chameleon produced by Individual Computers.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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Updated overview: Registered Amiga trade marks
On Aminet Christoph Gutjahr has published version 1.1 of a list of all Amiga related trade marks sold in USA and Europe.
Additional to fixes of typing errors, Cloanto which is official owner of the US-trade mark "Amiga Forever" and "Workbench" was added to the list.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.May.2011
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 90
The German and English issue 90 (May/June 2011) of the magazine Amiga Future has been published today. This issue offers among others a interview with Cloanto, tests on iBatch, BetterWB and AmigaAMP as well as an iBatch-workshop.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.May.2011
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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Audio-Player: playOGG 110502
playOGG plays audio files which are available as Ogg Vorbis.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: Further demos added
During the last month the following demos have been added to the Amiga Demoscene Archive:
- Spitz by Focus Design
- Fourskin by RNO
- Human Traffic by Ghostown & Loonies
- Shake Off The Dust by Elude
- Swansong by Dekadence
- Software Make The Dance Foam Oil by Ephidrena & RNO
- Norwegian Kindness by Spaceballs
- MegaMusicDisk by Zymosis
- In Monaco by Desire
- Blumen Kraft by Bluebox Cinematique GmbH
- Updater 2010 by Moods Plateau
- Rotek by Focus Design & Depth
- Grind by Dekadence & Accession
- Dust by Elude
- Chips don't lie by Ephidrena & Darklite
- Megane Rellu by Da Jormas
- Superoriginal by Supergroup
- Elude step by step by Elude
- Roboty by Tulou
- Prototype 1 by Haujobb
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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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)
[News message: 02. May. 2011, 20:21] [Comments: 0]
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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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. May. 2011, 10:06] [Comments: 0]
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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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. May. 2011, 09:58] [Comments: 0]
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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
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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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
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. May. 2011, 12:43] [Comments: 0]
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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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. May. 2011, 12:32] [Comments: 0]
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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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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