01.Mar.2011
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Cloanto owns trade marks "Workbench" and "Amiga Forever"
In February 2006 Cloanto applied for the trade marks "Amiga Forever" and four months later for the "Workbench" as well.
In February 2007 and March 2008 Amiga Inc. entered a caveat against the registrations of the trade marks.
On 27th February both opponents applied for closing the proceedings: Amiga canceled its caveat against the two trade marks of Cloanto. And Cloanto will not contest Amiga's trade mark "Amiga". Thus Cloanto owns the two US trade marks "Amiga Forever" and "Workbench".
Commodore USA which had announced an Amiga computer with a operating systems called Workbench keeps acting cool: The "Chief Technology Officer" emphasized that Commodore USA is relieved because the name "Workbench" had raised too much expectations at Amiga users.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Mar. 2011, 17:47] [Comments: 0]
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28.Feb.2011
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Workbench extension: BetterWB 1.01
BetterWB is a collection of Workbench extensions for AmigaOS 3.1, e.g. AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Feb. 2011, 07:55] [Comments: 0]
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27.Feb.2011
Achim Kern - KeHo Software (ANF)
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MorphOS: Adventure Operation Sirius
Achim Kern's Operation Sirius is a simple point'n click adventure which was published as text adventure for Amiga and PC severals years ago and which now is supposed to be ported to several systems with the help of Hollywood. First of all a port for MorphOS is available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Feb. 2011, 23:56] [Comments: 0]
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27.Feb.2011
(ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.3.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available in version 2.3.1.
New features:
- Directory filesystem ACTION_LOCK_RECORD and ACTION_FREE_RECORD
- Gamepad joystick type for games that support 2nd fire button but
can't read it without pullup resistor. (for example Aladdin)
- Manual filter configuration fully implemented
- Autoresolution supported (automatically selects lowest used
resolution on the fly)
- MIDI device names are stored in configuration file
Updates:
- Custom chipset undocumented feature compatibility updates
(For example Magic Demo / Diabolics, MoreNewStuffy by PlasmaForce,
Kefrens Party Intro by Wiz)
- M68K AROS compatible IDE and RTG emulation
- Statefile compatiblity updates. (Initial audio glitches, mouse
counters updated correctly, CPU exact mid-instruction state saved,
active disk DMA state saved)
- New filter defaults, 1x (not FS) and always scale if selected
screen/window size is very small or large enough
- Auto resize and center filter modes 1x/2x.. modifiers now
adjust window size
- Attempt to load disk image and harddisk paths in state files from
current directory, current adf/hardfile path and finally state
file directory if original path or file is missing
- SCSI emulation physical drive tray load/eject passthrough
- SCSI emulation CD audio support improved.
(for example T-Zero and The Shadow of the Third Moon)
- Clipboard sharing disable option in GUI
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Feb. 2011, 23:48] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Datatype: WarpPCX 45.5
Under the title link Oliver Roberts has published an update of his WarpPCX datatypes for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpUp, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which are available as Shareware.
Changes:
- Ignore palette information for 1-bit images, since some applications put bogus values there (including Photoshop) and always render as black/white monochrome instead
- Updated with the latest WarpDT engine build
- Added workaround for a bug in OS4 which can cause a crash when a requester is opened (bug fixed in intuition.library 53.32)
- Fixed (VBCC fix) potential system lockup when calling the GM_RENDER method in the WarpOS version (e.g. when using Multiview with the AfA OS picture.datatype)
- Added workaround for a bug in OS4's datatypes.library DTST_MEMORY handling
- Enabled virtual memory usage in OS4 version
- Asynchronous i/o now uses dos/SendPkt instead of exec/PutMsg
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9a
- OS4 version recompiled with latest SDK
- Added AmiUpdate support
- Updated Spanish installer strings
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Feb. 2011, 18:29] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2011
Mazze (Kommentar)
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AROS: SimpleMail 0.37
After versions for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4 now a version for AROS of the MUI-based eMail program SimpleMail 0.37 was published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Feb. 2011, 16:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2011
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IContain announces Amiga branded TVs, cell phones and computers (Update)
When a certain Todd Kleperis contacted the Aminet team two days ago to "discuss your library of Amiga titles" and ask for "guidance as to how to work with the existing fan base", the initial reaction over at Aminet was confusion. According to Kleperis, his company IContain is operating from China and about to revive the Amiga line of electronics. Why he choose to use Aminet as his first contact with the actual Amiga scene was not explained though.
At icontainprotects.com, Kleperis' company is indeed advertising cell phones, tablet PCs, various types of TV screens aswell as all-in-one PCs with integrated monitors - all of them sporting prominent Amiga logos. Obviously these devices are third-party products which have been rebranded as Amiga products by IContain.
You can't actually buy these products from IContain though: The company is mainly operating in the socalled Rent-to-own business. Using devices developed by IContain, furniture or consumer electronics devices leased to end users by Rent-to-own providers can be tracked or even remotely disabled should the customer stop paying its fees in time.
Asked about the reason for introducing a line of Amiga products, Kleperis told us that he was approached by a Rent-to-own provider that intended to buy not only the tracking technology from his company but also the actual consumer electronics - provided IContain could offer a "branded solution". As Amiga "used to be all about innovation in the past" (Kleperis) and other businesses like Lenovo or Sony were not interested in cooperation, Kleperis decided to offer Amiga branded devices.
We were told that the licensing deal was "cut just recently by the executor of an estate", that product just started shipping and that we should expect "worldwide press" soon. The IContain president would neither give any further information nor comment our hints that another company has already announced various Amiga products.
Interestingly, while Leo Nigro, Chief Technology Officer of Commodore USA, states in public that his company obtained a license from Bill McEwen and is free "to do with [the Amiga brand] as we please" - Kleperis mentions the executor of an estate as his business partner. The estate in question would likely be that of former Amiga Inc. investor Pentti Kouri, who deceased in 2009.
Update: (24.02.2011, 22:30, cg)
In contrast to our initial assumption, Bill McEwen is apparently involved with this licensing deal. IContain's official press release has been posted by now, which quotes McEwen: "Amiga has continued to work on bringing new products with new partners, and we are pleased to be working with IContain providing new hardware and software solutions that will benefit everyone." (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Feb.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Datatype: WarpJPEG 45.8
Under the title link Oliver Roberts has published an update of his WarpJPEG datatypes for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpUp, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which are available as Shareware.
Changes:
- Updated with IJG jpeglib v8c, which features a SmartScale capable
decoder which can read images encoded using non-baseline DCT block
sizes
- Added workaround for a bug in OS4 which can cause a crash when a
requester is opened (bug fixed in intuition.library 53.32)
- Fixed (VBCC fix) potential system lockup when calling the GM_RENDER
method in the WarpOS version (e.g. when using Multiview with the
AfA OS picture.datatype)
- Added AmiUpdate support
- Updated Spanish installer strings
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2011, 17:42] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Pack Ultimate 1.6.4
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's application collection Pack Ultimate adds some application to MorphOS.
Changes in version 1.6.4:
- Added Transfert (v1.0)
- Added Audio Evolution 4 demo
- Added Ultimate update software (old MOS Live upgrade) for updates
- Added TSteel skin
- Added SCANdal 1.5 DE
- Added SimpleCat 3.22 FR
- Added Merdian 3.11 FR
- Added Transfer FR
- Added Giana's Return v1.1
- Added Gribouillis 2.6 r324 (archive standalone)
- Added Last.fm plugin v0.5 for AminetRadio
- Added ColEm v1.0r6
- Added GoogleTool v1.10
- Added possibility to install 'Applications' on an other partition (different than SYS)
- Updated LHA (v2.7.10)
- Updated http.stream Reggae class (v51.13)
- Updated BoingPairs (v1.1)
- Updated SCANdal (v1.5b2)
- Updated LoView (v2.05)
- Updated MPlayer (r32620)
- Updated ScummVM (v1.2.1)
- Updated GetVideo (v0.28)
- Updated IceFileSystem (v2.2) unregistred
- Updated youtube.js script for OWB
- Updated CRABUM (v1.4)
- Updated SimpleCat (v3.22)
- Updated Keymap sbar module (v20.14)
- Updated DriveLamps sbar module (v52.8)
- Updated Wetter (v2.2)
- Modification of sbar module prefs
- Modification of Polynet prefs
- Modification of url shoutcast in ANR
- Modification of Ambient prefs
- Removed AmiTradeCenter
- Correction of mimetypes 'x-adf' et 'x-dms'
- And more...
Download: installpack.lha (236 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Feb.2011
aresone.de (ANF)
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AROS: Beta testers for Broadway 0.0.3 required
For the next version of the AROS-distribution Broadway - which includes a login manager - beta testers are
very welcome.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Feb. 2011, 17:46] [Comments: 0]
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23.Feb.2011
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Graphic program Gribouillis 2.7-r233 (beta)
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez' graphic program Gribouillis2 (screenshots: 1, 2) supports layers, has an unlimited
undo/redo and some simple picture editing functions.
Changes in this latest beta version:
- New features and major improvements:
- Brush: Split radius/opacity parameters to have range of value depending on pressure: min for low pressure, max for high pressure.
This permit to obtain a better 'real' rendering
- Layer compositor: Added possibility to move layers independently from each other. => activate the drawing surface, press any SHIFT keys and drag using the middle button.
- Layers position saved by the OpenRaster format (.ora).
- Palette: More and smaller palette buttons (256)
- Palette: Load&save buttons (using a very simple textual file format ;-))
- Optimierungen und beseitigte Fehler:
- Brush: Optimized the dab drawing loops, plus fixed the dab center on the pixel center (was on it's edge before). That fix also the rendering at low radius (internally limited to .5)
- Brush: Fixed bounding box computation with a low limit to 3x3 pixels
- Brush: Fixed some memory eats
- Brush: Many other minors fixes
- Layer compositor: Twice speed to render the model than before using better cairo compositing
- Layer compositor: FAST and BILINEAR filter used to render tiles depending on the zoom level used
- Layer compositor: Fixed blit memory trash under some conditions
- View: Bigger draw area at startup, relative to the screen size
- Fixed default file pattern for load/save image requesters
- Fixed PNG saving, plus added support of per layer position
Gribouillis2 is available as "standalone" version (13MB) or as "simple" version which is much smaller. But this simple version requires some
additional libraries and interpreters (Python, PyMUI, PyCairo etc.). Both versions the program has to be installed to harddrive.
The author does not recommend starting the program from the RAM-Disk. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Feb.2011
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Weather program Wetter 2.2
On the desktop "Wetter" shows all current weather data which are offered by Wunderground. Version 2.2 was adapted to the
changes at wunderground.com.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Feb. 2011, 17:21] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Sam440ep: Firmware Update U-Boot 1.3.1d
ACube Systems has published a new version of the firmware which is used in the PPC-motherboard Sam440ep. Changes in U-Boot 1.3.1d:
- improved DDR setup:
Sam440ep-flex: 25% faster write speed, 10% faster read speed
Sam440ep-mini: 25% faster write speed
- doesn't scroll anymore the text from the SLB output, this allows a slight faster boot
- minor fixes when enabling video output on several gfx cards
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Feb. 2011, 16:54] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2011
novamann (ANF)
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Amiga Resistance online again
After the crash the website amiga-resistance.info is online again.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Feb. 2011, 15:14] [Comments: 0]
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