26.May.2009
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Server-Crash
Ralf Steines wrote: Unfortunately here come bad news. Recently a Raid5-Array was damaged so two harddrives lost their data. Despite of rescue attempts almost all data were lost which were saved in ther main archive and on the FTP server.
The main archive has got a backup server which unfortunately cannot save the high amount of data on the FTP-server. We have a loss of nearly 2,6 millions (nearly all Amiga-) files.
Thank God, in winter the whole archive was checked for viruses. Additionally ca. 20.000 new disk archives and ca. 50.000 virus protocols were uploaded which were almost all (online) lost. Thanks to the virus tests ca. 95% of the lost data are morrored offline.
Therefore it will take a while until all data will be uploaded to the FTP. With a home-DSL connection it will take ca. half of a year. Until then the main archive is available on the replacement server (automatic redirect). The FTP-server will stay offline until the first upload will be done.
Of course the whole archive will be recovered but it will take a while. The affected harddrives were all completely financed with donations 4 years ago.
If anybody is interested in supporting the new acquisition: On each download site there is a donation link. We will try to expand the main site (3 TB) and to get a mirror with the whole archive.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2009, 09:48] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video magazine: Amitopia TV issue 5/09
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. The latest issue includes an introduction in the logo creator called "Titler" for MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. May. 2009, 23:24] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: #Amigaguide issues for free download
The published issues of the English magazine #Amigaguide are now available as free download. A registration is no longer required.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. May. 2009, 23:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Obligement: Interview with Fabien Coeurjoly (French)
Under the title link David Brunet has interviewed the developer Fabien Coeurjoly (e.g. Ambient, MPlayer, Origyn Web Browser). With the help of Babelfish there are links to automatic translations.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. May. 2009, 21:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
Troels Ersking (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: WxWidgets bounty opened
At the title link, amigabounty.net announces a bounty to get WxWidgets ported to AmigaOS 4.1.
Having WxWidgets available on AmigaOS 4.1 should enable the users to get easier access to a huge number of cross-platform applications and developers an option to reach a wider audience if they develop using WxWidgets. A few examples of applications using WxWidgets include KiCAD, Audacity, Code::Blocks IDE and (originally from the Amiga) Audio Evolution 5. (snx)
[News message: 25. May. 2009, 21:16] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Reggae-updates MediaLogger 1.12 and amossound.demuxer 51.1
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published two updates for his multimedia library Reggae. MediaLogger is a tool enabling developers to spot bugs in Reggae applications and amossound.demuxer is a class for AMOS sound banks.
MediaLogger 1.12:
- Fully localized (Polish catalog for now, German one is amlost ready, but needs some fixes)
- Improved keyboard handling (missing tab cycles, more hotkeys)
- Installer script
amossound.demuxer 51.1:
- A new class for sound AMOS banks
- Creates multiple outputs, one per every sound in a bank
(snx)
[News message: 25. May. 2009, 20:01] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiKit: Version 1.5.9 / Installation guide for real Amigas
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.5.9. If you have already installed a previous version you should update with the Live-Update. The changes are listed in the Changelog. Additionally the new WinUAE-version 1.6.0 can be installed with the Add-on.
The Amigahellas-editor Dimitris Panokostas has published an English guide about how you can install the AmiKit package on a real Amiga. You can find it in the AmiKit-Knowledge-Base.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2009, 19:31] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Wookiechat 2.12 Beta 3, SabreMSN 0.49
James "jahc" Carroll has published updates of his MUI-based messenger WookieChat (AmigaOS 3/4, AROS, MorphOS) and SabreMSN (AmigaOS 3/4, AROS).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2009, 14:57] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: NetSurf 2.1
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for RiscOS and which can be used from 17 MB memory on. It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. The changes of version 2.1 are listed in the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2009, 14:50] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: xMAME 1.06
Steffen Häuser has published an update of the AmigaOS-4-port of the arcade emulator xMAME.
Download: xmame.lha (20 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2009, 13:25] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
Amiga-Forever-Team (ANF)
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Amiga Forever and C64 Forever Live Video Meetup
The Amiga Forever Team will have a live video meetup today. The session is set to begin at 17:00 UTC (10 AM San Francisco, 1 PM New York, 6 PM London, 7 PM Berlin).
Topics will include C64 Forever and Amiga Forever 2009 and how they fit into the RetroPlatform context, and questions from the public. The live show, which includes a chat window for questions and comments, is hosted on ustream.tv. (snx)
[News message: 24. May. 2009, 13:02] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.6.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available as new version 1.6.0. Now you can convert between Amiga and Windows-Clipboard (HAM6/8 to 24 Bit, EHB to 64-colour-picture; pictures with more than 256 colours to 24-Bit-IFF), have growing harddrive-images and an improved mouse emulation with regard to the Pipelining minigame at "Oil Imperium".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. May. 2009, 06:10] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FFmpeg: SVN-Version 18880 with FFplay
Piotr Bandurski has compiled the latest version of the video converter FFmpeg for AmigaOS. Now an Amiga version of the play program FFplay is included.
Please note that FFplay requires version "61" of the ixemul.libary which is not compatible any longer to the original version.
Download: ffmpeg-svnr18880-m68k.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. May. 2009, 15:23] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Software-News until 21.05.2009
ixemul.library 61.1
The ixemul.library provides some Unix and BSD specific functions under AmigaOS and though makes it more easy porting applications. Bernd Rösch has ported back the MorphOS version of ixemul to AmigaOS 3. The changes of version 61.1 are listed in the Changelog.
SDL 1.2.13 Rev. 2
For AmigaOS there is a port of the Simple DirectMedia Layer in version 1.2.13 Rev.2 vor. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
Lame 3.98.2
Michel "DMX" Bagmeijer has compiled the MP3-encoders LAME 3.98.2 which fixes some problems of the binary offered at amiga.sf.net.
Shorten 3.6.1
Shorten is an audio compressor which both lossless and lossy audio compression supports. The AmigaOS-port was made by Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. May. 2009, 23:17] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2009
german Amiga Community
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Tripos-manuals as download, comparison with AmigaDOS
In his English blog Michael Steil has provided the manuals of the AmigaDOS first version called Tripos and compared it with the first "AmigaDOS Manuals" published by Commodore.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. May. 2009, 15:21] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2009
Matthias 'maz' Ziegs (ANF)
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Music CD: Second edition of Symphonic Shades
Press release Sold out way too quick in December last year, now it is back! With its transparent standard-tray the new edition is lower priced than the first edition. All other details incl. CD content and the extensive booklet with interview, photos and artwork are identical.
The CD presents all songs of the concert performed in August 2008 in Cologne, which was a world-premiere: Minimalist homecomputer sounds turned into arrangements for 120 musicians of orchestra and choir - a complete symphonic concert dedicated to the works of one video game musician exclusively.
The name of this person is Chris Huelsbeck, who is regarded as legend among enthusiasts for his music in game classics of the C64- and Amiga-homecomputer era such as "Giana Sisters" or "Turrican". The songs were rearranged by demoscene legend Jonne Valtonen (aka Purple Motion / Future Crew), director was Grammy-winning artist Arnold Roth. (snx)
[News message: 21. May. 2009, 09:48] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Protrekkr 1.98k
Fernando Mastandrea has ported the SDL-based music program Protrekkr (formerly NoiseTrekker) to AROS/x86 (screenshot).
Download: protrekkr.lha (4 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. May. 2009, 18:36] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Guru Meditation: The Amiga Joyboard
According to the legend the name "Guru Meditation" is derived from a game which the original Amiga developers played with a self-made joystick replacement called Joyboard as soon as the Amiga prototypes did not work any longer.
Exactly this game Ian Bogost has implemented now - for the Atari VCS. 25 years ago such a Joyboard was offered for it as well. This limited edition which has only 10 pieces consisting of game modul, Atari VCS-console and an original Amiga Joyboard (!). If you are interested in you should contact Bogost per eMail.
If you miss this offer you can buy an iPhone version in Apple's AppStore - but without Joyboard.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. May. 2009, 03:53] [Comments: 0]
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