28.Feb.2010
Doom (Kommentar)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.50 Alpha 1
Already on Tuesday Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez published a new alpha version of his MorphOS-port of Blender 2.50. This is just for testing purposes.
Under the title link those bugs are listed which have been fixed since alpha version 0. Please note that Blender has to be started from the harddrive.
Download: blender-2.5alpha1-test-mos.lha (18 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Feb. 2010, 18:33] [Comments: 0]
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28.Feb.2010
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MorphOS: XAD-Client for RAR-Archives
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published a RAR-plugin for the XAD-system which is used by MorphOS for extracting archives. Theoretically under Ambient it is now posible to handle RAR-archives like directories - but the author does not recommend it because of the big need for ressources of RAR.
Download: xad_rar.lha (118 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Feb. 2010, 16:29] [Comments: 0]
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28.Feb.2010
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PNG-Pictograms: Paticons 2.0
The "Paticons" is a collection of over 400 PNG-Pictograms with Amiga and MorphOS motives (screenshot) which were created by the MorphOS-applications Sketch and Pixel.
This second issue of Paticons includes several new drawer-icons, as well as new Deficons and pictograms for PolyNetNG.
Download: Pack_PatIcon_v2.lha (6 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Feb. 2010, 15:46] [Comments: 0]
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28.Feb.2010
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AmigaOS 4: E-UAE 0.8.29-20080820 without SDL
On OS4Depot a port of version 0.8.29-20080820 of the Amiga emulator E-UAE was published which was not compiled using the Simple DirectMedia Layer but is based on native sound and graphic output. Therefore it might be the fastest Amiga emulation under AmigaOS 4.
Download: e-uae-amigfx.lha (643 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Feb. 2010, 10:19] [Comments: 0]
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27.Feb.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 37
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine on Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and C64-Diskmag.
Topics of 37th issue:
- Editorial
- NEWS
- New retro trading website
- Games That Weren't updated
- VIC Multicart Development Cart
- Transactor archive online
- Jim Brain's online store
- Denial VIC-20 Games Collection
- Minimig port available for C=ONE
- CC65 updated
- Cottonwood BBS and Borderline BBS up and running again
- Jeff Minter talks about Llamasoft
- Commodore Basic for Linux
- Commodore 64 Best 80's Computer
- Tape Master Pro
- Commodore BASIC Programming Challenge
- Interview with "Mathfigure" - Creator of the Commodore 64 hacking tool ICU64
- My Commodore-Amiga Life
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Feb. 2010, 01:46] [Comments: 0]
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27.Feb.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Sam440: Backplates are delivered in addition to all customers
Press release:
Bassano del Grappa, 26 Februar 2010
The much awaited Sam and Sam-flex backplates are finally available.
Please contact your dealer in the next days for a free backplate (or contact us at info@acube-systems.com if you bought the board directly from us).
Please specify if you need the Sam or Sam-flex version, the board serial number and the shipping address.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Feb. 2010, 01:41] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2010
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: VNC-Client 0.4
Under the title link Yannick Erb has published a VNC-client for AROS/x86.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Feb. 2010, 19:49] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2010
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenOfficeDraw-plugin for OWB
Carsten Siegner's ODG-Plugin is a program written in C which can display OpenOfficeDraw-documents with the help of the Web-browser OWB. This plugin has still always alpha status, is rather slow and uses a lot of memory. About three quarter of the functions of an ODG-document are already realized.
Download: odg-plugin.lha (64 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Feb. 2010, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2010
IKE (ANF)
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AmiTwitter 0.27 Public Beta Release 2 (AmigaOS 3/MorphOS)
AmiTwitter (screenshot) is an open-source, MUI-based client for Twitter. The most important changes in version 0.27:
- full localization. Catalogs that have been completed thus far: Deutsch, Español, Français, Polski, Nederlands, Italiano, Greek. More are planned or in work. If you are interested in doing others please contact me
- number of characters typed countdown for Tweets and Direct Messages (thanks JahC!)
- new menu items include most recent Direct Message -> Sent and most recent Direct Message -> Received
- The logo size has been reduced and enhanced to better represent the Operating Systems it runs on
- modern looking .png button images courtesy of Martin "Mason" Merz
- International Character Support via codesets.library has been implemented! Allows for much better display particularly of international characters output
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2010, 18:25] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2010
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Amiga Games that weren't: Uncompleted Doom-Clones
The website "Amiga Games That Weren't" is dedicated to Amiga games which have never been officially released. The latest update includes two uncompleted Doom-/Wolfenstein-clones: AMRWolf and Dent A Wolf / DentECTS / Dentaku-26. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2010, 15:35] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2010
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Ambient-Menu-Editor CRABUM 0.1
With CRABUM written by Thomas Igracki you can add some new entries to the "tools"-Menu of Ambient.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2010, 15:25] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Obligement: AmigaOS-4.1.1-Review / Interview with Simon Archer
For the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement, David Brunet has written a review of the latest AmigaOS-4-update.
In addition he has interviewed the AmigaOS-4 developer Simon Archer (AmiUpdate, CodeBench): English and French version.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2010, 06:57] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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PDF-Mini-Magazine: Monthly Page 10
The Monthly Page is an English magazine published as PDF-file. Among others the latest issue includes an interview with the programmer and composer Damien 'Hypex' Stewart.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Feb. 2010, 21:47] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2010
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: AAMP 1.0 (Apache, MySQL and PHP) for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan is working on an application collection called "AMP" (webserver Apache, database MySQL, script language PHP). He has now published a first preversion which still includes some bugs - e.g. the Apache-CGI-Modul does not work yet.
Screenshots:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Feb. 2010, 21:40] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2010
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Prototype: FPGA as turbocard for m68000-based Amigas
"TobiFlex" has replaced the 68000-processor in his Amiga 500 by a FPGA-board which emulates a fast m68000-processor as well as some FastRAM.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Feb. 2010, 16:49] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2010
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Amiga-clone: Minimig becomes AGA-compatible
The Amiga-clone Minimig becomes AGA-compatible: According to a Youtube-video published on amiga.org, main parts of the AGA-functions are supported.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Feb. 2010, 16:40] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2010
YAM OpenSource Team, Jens Langner, Thore Böckelmann (ANF)
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E-Mail-Client: YAM 2.6
The YAM Open Source Team has published version 2.6 of the MUI-based eMail-program YAM. Under AmigaOS 4.1 now the new "Display Notifications" are used to inform on new mails. Additionally ports for different AROS-platforms (x86, PPC, x86_64) are available. The most important changes in YAM 2.6:
- updated translations for czech, french, german, greek, italian and swedish language
- updated default theme images by Martin 'Mason' Merz
- added import and export functions for alien address books (i.e. XML files as used by SimpleMail)
- AmigaOS4.1's new notification system will can used to inform the user about new received mails
- improved handling of header lines in general and especially malformed header lines by certain Microsoft software
- improved download and export speed of mails by optimizing the amount of data shown on the screen. Overall the speed increased about 200%
- improved the spam handling by treating the user's address book as a white list
- rewritten RFC2047 and RFC2822 routines to match the current RFC recommendations
- individual character sets can now be configured for reading and writing mails instead of having one character set for all actions
- improved ARexx command handling and extended command set
- all error messages which occured during a mail transfer now include the account name to make it easier to spot the faulty account in case a user has more than one account at the same provider
- mail attachments are displayed as a scrollable virtual group to be able to show an unlimited number of files
- all balance object use the new NBalance.mcc class which supports custom mouse pointers
- foreign characters with a mail may be converted to either "?" or similar look alike characters
- reduced overall stack usage by using dynamically allocated memory when needed
- the text font and style can be configured independently for reading and writing mails
- the spam training data can be optimized to keep the data base small by removing very rarely used word
- made the date scanning of birthdays locale aware
- added various AROS versions (i386, ppc, x86_64)
- added NOSPLASHWINDOW tooltype to start/quit YAM silently
- on AmigaOS4.1 the new URL: device will be preferred over openurl.library to invoke a browser
- lots of other improvement we don't remember right now (keep in mind: more than 2 years of development was put into YAM 2.6!) :)
Users of older versions as YAM 2.5 should note that the Assign "YAM:" is no longer required and can be removed from the User-Startup. Additionally configuration and mail files of these older versions are no longer compatible and will be converted to the new format during the first launch. The authors recommend a backup of all the old data as well as to immeditately save the YAM-configuration after the upgrade.
The YAM-team is looking for helpers who want to support the team in reworking the documentation in different languages as well as in translating the program. If you want to thank the developers you can donate a little money here.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Feb. 2010, 16:19] [Comments: 0]
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21.Feb.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.1.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE have given a short preview to the next version. WinUAE 2.1.0 will include the following changes:
Bug fixes:
- Sprite bug fixed. (Super Stardust level selector)
- Directory filesystem mount errors if ISO-8859-15 character set was not installed in Windows
Other fixed bugs:
- Random Direct3D filter graphics crap fixed
- Direct3D fullscreen ALT-TAB fixes
- More than 8 virtual or real CD drives crash fix
- Rare dualplayfield buffer corruption. (Shadow Fighter AGA)
- CD32 pad emulation compatibility update. (Roadkill CD32)
- Some game controller device types were ignored
New features:
- CDTV/CD32 CD image support, including audio tracks, plain iso
- cue + bin, cue + bin + wav and cue + bin + mp3 supported
- Direct 3D rewrite, shader based, overlays and RTG supported
- DF3: on screen led shows internal (NV)RAM accesses (CDTV and CD32)
- Input panel Caps and Scroll Lock full remapping support
- A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated
- Fullscreen dialogs have separate size and position settings (Vista/7),
center dialogs in fullscreen (XP)
Updates:
- More compatible CDTV/CD32 CD audio support using direct digital audio
extraction. Sound panel volume adjusts also CD audio volume
- 68000 cycle-exact mode cycle counting updates
- OCS Denise "bug" emulation fully implemented
- Autoscale display size detection improvements
- Support DMS files that have fake complete track zero. (BBS ads)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Feb. 2010, 23:55] [Comments: 0]
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20.Feb.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2.14
For AmigaOS version 1.2.14 of the port of the Simple DirectMedia Layer is available. SDL makes it more easy to adapt applications and games to the different latforms. The changes of the update are listed in the Readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Feb. 2010, 20:25] [Comments: 0]
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20.Feb.2010
Amiga.org (website)
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Hyperion and A-EON announce strategic partnership
Press release Brussels, Belgium – February 20, 2010. Hyperion Entertainment CVBA and A-EON Technology CVBA announce strategic partnership.
Hyperion Entertainment and A-EON have entered into a strategic partnership to provide the Amiga community with a dedicated high-end PowerPC based platform for AmigaOS 4.x which aspires to be worthy of the Amiga hardware tradition going back to the original Amiga 1000 from Commodore.
The massively expandable AmigaOne X1000 (amiga-news.de reported) will inspire both current and former AmigaOS users and will also appeal to those looking to exploit the incredibly versatile onboard functionality offered by the unique "Software Defined Silicon" technology from XMOS which, in true Amiga tradition, provides the AmigaOne X1000 with a custom chipset of potentially unparalleled flexibility and scalability.
Software development by Hyperion to bring AmigaOS 4.1, the most advanced incarnation of AmigaOS ever, to the AmigaOne X1000 hardware has been ongoing for quite some time and is progressing very well.
More details about the AmigaOne X1000 hardware and housing will be forthcoming from A-EON Technology shortly. (snx)
[News message: 20. Feb. 2010, 19:00] [Comments: 0]
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