04.Sep.2009
PPA (ANF)
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PPA: Interview with Fredrik Wikström
Fredrik Wikström, author of many tools and ports mostly designed for AmigaOS 4, agreed to have an interview with the polish Amiga news-site PPA in which he tells about his Amiga roots, programs he wrote and future plans. The interview is available in English under the title link and also in a polish version. (snx)
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04.Sep.2009
André Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Hobby-Project: Automatic monitor switch for Indivision AGA
André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer wrote: With the help of some users from the community there is now a working automatic monitor switch for the Indivision AGA in combination with any graphic board.
It is a pure hobby project which is supposed to be the base for the development of the control software.
In future I am going to build a reworked layout with different chips on a smaller baord.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Pianeta Amiga on 26. September in Empoli (Italy)
In Italian Empoli (close to Florence) for the 13th time the Pianeta Amiga will take place on 26. September. ACube Systems, AmigaKit and Bitplane will take part.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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Emulator: Hatari 1.3.0
The Atari-ST- and -STE emulator Hatari is now available in version 1.3.0. The changes are listed in the Readme-file under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Update 5 of arcade game BOH
Simone Bevilacqua has published an update for his commercial arcade game BOH.
- Replaces low obstacles with traps (f.ex. the pools of the theme "default" cause damage to the shield)
- Adds dynamic sound to traps animations
- Adds acoustic feedback to shield discharges
- Improves the sound engine policies
- Simplifies and improves the automapper colors (dangerous places are indicated more clearly)
- Increases the precision of and optimizes sprites rendering
- Removes pits borders along (transparent) barriers
- Refines video modes suggestions
- Removes the sort-by-name option
- Converts the characters set of themes to full ISO 8859-1
- Retouches the themes graphics slightly
- Improves the terminology
- Reworks some internal aspects of missions and themes for easier development of expansions
- Fixes the handling of alphachannel-less sprites (this bug had no practical consequences because no theme used such kind of graphics)
- Adds a new tutorial mission
- Updates and improves the user's manual
- Applies some other changes
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2009
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Software-News until 02.09.2009
Update for Amiga Forever 2009
For registered users of the commercial Amiga emulator Amiga Forever 2009 there is an update called 2009.0.5.0.
AmigaOS 4: ScummVM 1.0.0 rc1
The latest version of the adventure interpreter ScummVM is now also available for AmigaOS 4.
AmigaOS 4: EyeViewer SE 1.7
EyeViewer SE shows and plays pictures and sound files (screenshot). The 68k-program was rewritten for AmigaOS 4.1 so it will no longer work with AmigaOS 3. In version 1.7 some minor bugs were fixed and the install script was reworked. Additionally now the pictogram creatd by Martin "Mason" Merz is used.
AmigaOS 4: Voice database WordNet 3.0
WordNet is a lexical database of the English language, the port for AmigaOS 4 was written by Daniel Jedlicka.
The Amiga version has the following features:
- a comfortable ReAction-based browser
- ARexx interface
- application.library support
- speech output through the Flite synthesis engine
- tooltype-based configuration
- extensive help and documentation
For the voice output the flite.device is required.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Minimig: New Altera-Core released
Under the title link for the Altera-boards DE1 and DE2 an updated Minimig-Core was published for members of the YahooGroup.
Besides the FPGA-implemented 68k processor of the Minimig core at 7 MHz there is a second one, effectively being comparable to a 28 MHz 68k, which can replace the ARM controller in the future. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Online-Magazine: The Crypt - Issue 57
The 57th issue of the English online magazine The Crypt is among others about the hardware access under ARexx and AmigaBASIC.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2009
German Amiga Community (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 80
Press release: Today the Amiga Future issue 80 (September/October 2009) was published.
In issue 80 you can find test reports about Netsurf, BOH, Amiga Forver 2009 and much more. Additionally there is a special about data integrity and an interview with Cloanto. On the ReaderCD there are many full versions and PD-software as well as the full version of Hell Squad.
There is a detailed list of content on our website.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2009
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
A lot of new articles have been added during the last two months to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS-magazine Obligement.
If you want to suppport the magazine with translations of single articles then please contact David Brunet.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of july/august 2009
- News: update on AROS
- Interview with Hugues Nouvel (Amiga developer, organisator of Amiga parties)
- Interview with Wyane Hunt (from Amiga.org, english version available)
- Interview with Emanuele Cesaroni (2002)
- Interview with Alexandre Balaban (2002)
- Interview with Thomas Rapp (2002)
- Comparative: AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS 2.3 on Pegasos II
- Review of MorphOS 2.3
- Review of MorphOS 0.1
- Review of It Came From The Desert
- Review of DynAMIte Special Collector\'s Edition
- Review of Ilyad
- Review of Kickstart Archives
- Review of Art Effect Plugin CD
- Hardware: Indivision AGA 4000/CD32
- Hardware: Sam440ep-Flex (update)
- Tutorial: installation and utilisation of MLDonkey
- Tutorial: installation and configuration of PalmUAE
- Tutorial: copy, cut and paste on AmigaOS
- Tutorial: make Opus Magellan 2 and Workbench more powerful
- Tutorial: configuration of MUI 3.8
- Tutorial: getting things to run on your Amiga with graphic card
- Tutorial: fonts on AmigaOS AmigaOS 3.x
- Tutorial: play anims on AmigaOS 3.x with graphic card
- Special quizz about the years 1999 and 2000
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Update problems with Icaros 1.1.4, Icaros Live-DVD
According to the developers of the AROS-distribution Icaros there are some problems if you want to update to the previously published version 1.1.4 automatically.
The developers recommend to download the update and to unpack it under a different operating system. Then the ISO-file can be installed without any problems under AROS with the "from ISO"-option of the LiveUpdater.
There is also a bootable "Live"-DVD of the distribution which is called "Icaros Desktop LIVE!" and which does not require any installation on the harddrive but which can be installed additional to an existing Windows-installation on a different partition.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2009
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MorphOS: Software-News until 01.09.2009
Adventure-Interpreter: ScummVM 1.0.0 rc1
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the Adventure-Interpreter ScummVM.
New beta driver for Epson-USB-Scanner
Michal "zukow" Zukowski has published a new beta version of his scanner driver for Epson-devices on an USB-port and asks for your feedback on the thread on morphzone.org.
Direct download: EpsonUSB.device (91 KB)
MorphOS-Skin: Blue Marine
The Blue Marine Skin is a MorphOS-skin of Jambalah (screenshot).
Direct download: BlueMarineSkin.lha (1,2 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Aug.2009
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Videos: Historical at cchronicles.com, new issue of AmitopiaTV
At cchronicles.com old vidoes about computers are collected. About the Amiga there are some videos as well.
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. The topics of the latest issue:
- Amiga News
- Efika usage
- Gaming on A1200
- Walls of Doom
- Closed
Download: amitopiatv31stofaugust.mp4 (292 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Aug.2009
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AROS: WHD Menu 0.2
With Yannick Erb's "WHD Menu" you can start and manage WHDLoad-games under AROS (screenshot). New in version 0.2:
- Screenshots are now available using separate png files (see the screenshot pack)
- Games can be filtered by genre/favorite
- some code clean-up
- faster update of the interface
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Aug.2009
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0-svn-2009.08.30
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the video player MPlayer. Changes in this version:
- Updated to 21.08.2009 svn (r29543)
- Audio tracks pulldown menu is now built for any kind of streams (not only DVD anymore)
- Added "Exit at playlist end" option in repeat modes
- Added scale and crop to GUI video filters
- Added volume gain filter to GUI audio menu
- Display current/total time in GUI for (network) streams too. Some TS streams might show a bogus current time, though
- Fixed a layout issue in properties window if filename is too long
- Enabled XVID encoding support in mencoder (libxvidcore)
- Added -noaltivec option (can be useful for benchmarks or potentially broken altivec decoders)
- Fixed OggTheora demuxer, so that video stream is detected again
Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30.lha (10 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.80
NoWinED is a MUI-base text editor for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. The changes in version 0.80 are listed in the Changelog.
The author thinks that NoWinED 0.80 should work with AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.5 as well.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Aug. 2009, 22:41] [Comments: 0]
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30.Aug.2009
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MUI-classes: Texteditor.mcc 15.30, TheBar.mcc 26.4
There are new versions of the MUI-classes Texteditor.mcc and TheBar.mcc.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.0.0
As usual the develpers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE give a little preview to the next version. WinUAE 2.0.0 is supposed to be published in autumn/winter 2009 and and will have the following changes:
- Huge A500 cycle-exact emulation compatibility improvement. Previous
"approximate cycle-exact" is gone. It is time for REAL cycle-exact emulation!
- Greatly improved unexpanded A1200/CD32 emulation compatibility. Approximate cycle-exact 68EC020/68020 emulation implemented, includes emulated instruction cache, approximate prefetch emulation.
- 68040 MMU emulation (from Aranym) finally merged. For example Enforcer and M68K Linux compatibility. (NOTE: not compatible with JIT)
- CD32 drive emulation compatibility improved.
- Built-in WASAPI sound API support.
- Less annoying real harddrive safetycheck.
- Full NTSC timing implemented (long/short line toggle etc..)
- "AutoVSync" mode that change native refresh rates automatically (50Hz/60Hz)
- Basic CPU frequency/bus multiplier configuration option added.
- Bugfix:Programmed refresh rate modes had bad sound. (1.6.1)
- Bugfix:Command line parsing special cases fixed. (1.6.0)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: CPUGauge 1.3
CPUGauge is a screenbar plugin which shows the current usage of processor. CPUGauge requires at least MorphOS 2.0. The changes in version 1.3:
- Now uses SA_ScreenbarSignal for its timer in order to prevent the Public Screen Manager task running out of signals due to CPUGauge running on too many screens
- Fixed a bug that made CPUGauge crash when the timer was not created (Fabien Coeurjoly)
- Small adjustment to localisation: Changed "Opacity" to "Visibility" and "Undurchsichtigkeit" to "Sichtbarkeit" in the german catalog
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2009
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: First screenshots of vector graphic program MOS-Office
Carsten Siegner wrote: With this I would like to announce my personal "little Office-package" (first only available for MorphOS, later for AmigaOS 4 and other as well). This is called "MOS-Office".
The user-interface was completely written as MUI-GUI and works with the "Multi-Windows-Method". All windows are asynchronous, that means that all windows can be open to each time and can receive input. MOS-Office is a pure vector graphic program which can handle any number of sites.
In later versions MOS-Office can export to the SVG-format and to the OpenOfficeDraw-format (.odg). For the ODG-import my opendokument.library will be required. Furthermore there is already a pagestream.library for the export to PageStream >= 4.1. Postscript and PDF I will have to put in a library but should not be a bugger problem. Thus MorphOS finally will get a connection to modern formats just like OpenOffice.
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2 (snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: SCANdal beta version for Epson-Scanner-Test
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski has published a beta version (the latest stable version can be found on Aminet) of his Scanner-Software SCANdal to test the added support of Epson scanners because he has not got such a device. So please give him feedback and reports.
Download: scandal.lha (75 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2009
Oliver Tacke (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Online role-playing game The Mana World 0.0.29.1
The Mana World is a MMORPG which is currently an alpha version (screenshot), which is available for several operating system and was published under the licence of GPL.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Aug. 2009, 23:33] [Comments: 0]
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29.Aug.2009
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Demo-Scene: Mixed 4k-Intro music
The Amiga based Netlabel moodsplateau.net has published a 30 minutes lasting mix from soundtracks of Ephidrena-Intros and music with 8bit influences. Loaderror and his friend Tags have played this mix in a club in Trondheim (Norway). The soundtrack of "Finmark" was completed with an additional bass.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Aug. 2009, 15:25] [Comments: 0]
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29.Aug.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Icaros Desktop 1.1.4, Icaros Desktop Light
For the AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop there is an update which includes improved versions of SDL and Mesa and whose components were reworked.
For older computers without a DVD-drive a "light"-version of the distribution is offered which can be burned on a 700 MB CD-R.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Aug. 2009, 15:23] [Comments: 0]
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