06.Jul.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Sam440ep: New drivers for Onboard-Sound
By order of Acube, Davy Wentzler develops the drivers for the onboard-sound of the Sam440ep (Flex or standard version). The first update fixes some problems:
- The noise when starting to playback a sound
- General noise issues resulting from the Aux/Video monitoring being turned on by default. You now don't need to run Mixer anymore to prevent these problems.
Additionally there is a new version of Mixer which now supports ARexx on the Sam440ep.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jul.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Vector paint program MindSpace 1.2
MindSpace is a paint program with which you can create diagrams, vector pictures and much more (screenshot). Version 1.2 includes several optimizations and fixes bugs.
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06.Jul.2009
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MorphOS: Scan program MuiScan (Beta)
MuiScan written by Michal "zukow" Zukowski is a scanner application which supports drivers in the Betascan-format (screenshot).
Direct download: muiscan.lha (33 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jul.2009
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Lawsuit: Inception Group Real Estate sues Amiga Inc. (Update)
Apparently Inception Group, the former landlord of Amiga Washington (which renamed itself to Amino a while ago) has sued Amiga Inc (Delaware, formerly known as KMOS) four weeks ago. Amiga/Amino was sued by the Inception Group back in 2001 already (1, 2), two years later a second lawsuit was started (default judgement) and the inventory of the company's former offices was auctioned off.
Update: (06.07.2009, 15:30, cg)
The bill of indictment (PDF) is available now. Inception Group claims it has won a lawsuit against Amiga/Amino in November 2003, which resulted in Amiga/Amino owing Inception about 150,000 USD. Five years later, in November 2008, Amino, Amiga Delaware (fka KMOS) and Inception came to an agreement in which Amiga Delaware guaranteed to pay Amino's debts, which had grown to 235,000 USD by that time, until February 17th, 2009.
Inception states that it has not revieved any money to this day, which is why the company is now suing Amiga Delaware for breach of contract. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jul.2009
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AmigaOS 4.1: Screenshots of the current beta version
Simon "Rigo" Archer who is the coordinator of the AmigaOS 4 beta testing program has published three screenshots which show the current beta version of AmigaOS 4.1.
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05.Jul.2009
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Music made by Amiga: "Back from hell to heaven" as free download
"Blue Metal Rose" which previously published its Debut album uses an Amiga 4000 with Octamed Soundstudio for the drums and bass sequenzes. The title "Back from hell to heaven" is available as free download for a limited period.
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05.Jul.2009
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Pictures of Commodore-Show in Maarssen, 20th June
On 20. June in Maarssen (Netherlands) a meeting of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep took place. Pictures of the event are available on the website of the club.
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04.Jul.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SDL-Port with seperate project site
The AmigaOS-4-port of the multimedia library SDL developed by Peter 'Xeron' Gordon has now a seperate project site at Google Code (see the title link). Thus a bug-tracker is available and everybody can get involved developing the port.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jul.2009
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Cloanto: Emulator package Amiga Forever 2009
Press release July 2, 2009 - Cloanto released today Amiga Forever 2009, the latest version of the award-winning Amiga preservation, emulation and support suite for Windows and other platforms (Screenshot).
Amiga Forever 2009 is the most refined update ever released in the Amiga Forever series. It again sets new references in usability while more than doubling the featured content and providing easier access to a universe of free downloads.
Like its sister product C64 Forever, Amiga Forever 2009 introduces a synergistic combination of the RP2 retrogaming file format (Screenshot, amiga-news.de reported), RetroPlatform Library to recognize content, and RP2 Manager (Screenshot) to export and import to and from other file formats.
The 2009 version includes hundreds of enhancements and was tested to comply with "Compatible with Windows 7" requirements. New features include seamless, one-click integration of the AmiKit and AmigaSYS add-ons and new system ROMs (e.g. the 0.7 Kickstart required to run the software used by Andy Warhol's famous 1985 Launch of Amiga demo). The Plus Edition includes more than 100 games and a selection from the most beautiful demoscene productions ever created. Tens of thousands of games, as well as other software ranging from the oldest to the latest Amiga releases are only a mouse click apart, and can run on powerful PCs and inexpensive netbooks alike.
When both Amiga Forever and C64 Forever are installed, the players share data and software modules with each other, uniformly playing back RP2 games of both 8-bit and 32-bit platforms. The same familiar user interface and settings are also applied to saved states, disk write undo, dual-monitor setups and other advanced functionality. "The way it brings back memories is amazing, and it feels as if Commodore and Amiga were united again," said Michael C. Battilana of Cloanto.
Dave Haynie, a long-time user of Amiga Forever and former Commodore International chief engineer on high end and advanced projects, added: "The past IS the future... Amiga Forever is the single best way to run AmigaOS today. Your PC is the fastest Amiga that will ever exist, and Cloanto does a wonderful job of packing the emulation technology, every AmigaOS ROM and Workbench version (most of which I've long since lost to data rot on my floppy collection), games, utilities, Web tools, graphics programs, most anything you would need, all in one place."
Amiga Forever 2009 is available now in three editions:
- Value Edition (downloadable installer for Windows systems)
- Plus Edition (downloadable CD ISO image with additional Windows and platform-neutral content)
- Premium Edition (physical Plus Edition CD and two DVDs (Photo), plus instant download of the installer for Windows)
The Plus Edition includes the KX Light boot environment with hard disk installation and online updates. The Premium Edition additionally contains more than five hours of videos. (snx)
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02.Jul.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vlink 0.12e
vlink is a portable linker which can manage a lot of binary formats. The program is also part of the vbcc-distribution.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jul.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 79 published
Press release: The Amiga Future 79 (July/August 2009) has been publised today.
Issue 79 includes test reports of AmigaOS 4 on SAMflex and Pegasos, Ignition, iMica, Digital Universe, Powermanga and much more. The readers-CD contains among others the full version of Wasted Dreams. On our website there is a detailed list.
The Amiga Future is available in German and English.
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01.Jul.2009
Martok (ANF)
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Netsurf 2.1: 68k-Update
Artur Jarosik has published a new update of the AmigaOS-3.x-port of NetSurf.
Download: netsurf-m68k.lha (7 MB)
Changes:
- Added Window title caption
- Added better pointer support
- Added nicer toolbar icons
- Added home page button
- Added favourite sites panel
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jul.2009
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at the Obligement website
The following articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months.
All translations are welcome. Please contact David Brunet for more information.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of may/june 2009
- Interview with Fabien Coeurjoly (MorphOS developer)
- Interview with Toni Wilen (WinUAE developer)
- Hardware: Sam440ep-Flex
- Hardware: Access
- Hardware: Atari 1850XLD
- File: List of Amiga models and clones
- File: List of Amiga prototypes and projects
- Article about the reactions to the liquidation of Commodore (1994)
- Article about the chinses Amiga (october 1997)
- Article about the chinese Amiga, one year later (june 1998)
- Tutorial: Configure GetVideo in Origyn Web Browser (MorphOS)
- Tutorial: Installation and configuration of Apache 1.3.37
- Tutorial: Presentation and utilisation of MUIbase
- Special quiz about the year 2001 et 2002
- Old news from may 1997 to august 1997, from the magazine Amiga News, with relatives articles:
- Report: World Of Amiga 1997
- News: Conferences with Jim Taylor and Petro Tyschtschenko at World Of Amiga 1997
- News: The projects of Phase 5 for 1997
- Interview with Gerald Carda and Wolf Dietrich
- News: Inside Out - Joke or the future of the Amiga?
- News: Merapi - Haage And Partner is preparing his Java
- News: The life with DraCo - part 7 (june 1997)
- News: The life with DraCo - part 8 (july 1997)
- Report: Magic Days in Trier 97
- The pewters of Ramses - july 1997
- NiouzNet, info in the newsgroups - july 1997
- Review of Directory Opus 5.6 (Magellan), Review of pOS pre-release)
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01.Jul.2009
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AROS: Bounty project for RetroPlatform-extensions
The new bounty project "RetroPlatform Extensions for AROS on Windows" started by Cloanto is based on the Windows adaption which is already in progress.
With this bounty the Windows port of AROS is supposed to be started from Cloanto's RetroPlayer and thus can be used in Amiga Forever.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jun.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Online-Magazine: The Crypt - Issue 56
The 56th issue of the English online magazine called The Crypt includes among others an article about reading and writing in the memory using the programming language ARexx.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jun.2009
Hollywood-Mailingliste
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Game announcement: The Secret of Middle City
The Italian software developers Imagimotion which have already written games for mobile devices and for Nintendo Wii currently are developing a new graphic adventure called "The Secret of Middle City". The game is completely written on Amigas with Hollywood.
Thanks to Hollywood it is planned to publish version for Windows and Mac OS X simultaneously to the Amiga version. Screenshots and further informationen (in Italian) can be found on the Imagimotion website. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jun.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Another 20 full versions online
In the download section of the Amiga Future another 20 full versions have been published, e.g. A320 Airbus, Antares, Cytadela and JU-52 Flight simulator.
The new downloads are marked in the database. Additionally there is a list of the new files at the lower side of the download main site.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jun.2009
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Amiga magazine: Issue 7/09 published
Issue 7/09 of the german print-magazine Amiga-Magazin has been published. Topics of the current issue are, among others, the Hollywood extension for Cubic IDE, the X11 environment AmiCygnix and the AROS distribution Icaros. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jun.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Update 3 for the game BOH
Simone Bevilacqua has published another update for his commercial arcade game BOH which includes the following changes:
- adds a direction indicator to the map
- allows to create chains of teleports of any length
- allows to specify the ambient illumination on a per-floor basis (several missions have been modified to take advantage of this)
- allows to add (optionally localized) synopses to missions
- takes note of the total playing time of each mission and of the whole game
- allows to restart the last failed mission without returning to the menu
- adds support of joypad axes
- allows to confirm/reject the name entered by means of joypad buttons;
- adds [ALT]+[F4] support (Windows only)
- fixes the countdown ticking (the sample was not played when the time limit was less than 1 minute)
- improves/updates the user's manual
- applies some other changes
The demo version of the game was updated as well.
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29.Jun.2009
Martin Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #109
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch wrote: Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 109th musicpack. This time it oncludes a track called "The Sun Light" which was composed by the Russian musician Alex West. The cover was designed by DaFreak.
Some further information to the track:
- Title: The Sun Light
- Artist: Alex West
- Style: Trance
- Play time: 4:36
- Format: MP3 @ 160 kbps
- Size: 5,3 MB (ZIP)
The file can be downloaded under the title link for free.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jun.2009
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Software-News until 29.06.2009
AmiMSN 1.0-WIP
AmiMSN is an Instant Messenger client for the MSN-network wriiten in ARexx. The author Michael Trebilcock has published a new beta version but points out that it might got some bugs.
MorphOS: DrawerBall 0.8e
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published Drawerball 0.8e which is a very early version of a file manager.
Status-Update: PowerPoint viewer Pointrider
PointRider is a SDL-based PowerPoint viewer for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. On his website the author gives an overview about the last developments.
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