17.Feb.2009
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic server Odi
Odi is a vector graphic server for MorphOS 2.x which offers the following features:
- Creating complex documents with ARexx-command
- Import of PDF and ODG files (OpenOffice Draw)
- Export of PDF, EPS, PNG, PSD, BMP, TIF, PCL and JPG
- Seperate printing system which also controls recent laser printer
- Using Turboprint is also possible
- Using some PDF-features which are really unique
Download: odi.lha (483 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Feb.2009
Sacha Hertz (ANF)
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Speed comparision AmigaOS 4.1 vs. MorphOS 2.2
Because AmigaOS 4.1 is available for Pegasos II as well Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published a speed comparision test for different applications and games under the title link.
Of course it is also important how optimated each port was. However the current situation of the users is shown who want to use the application on a Pegasos II under the one or the other operating system.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: eXec-Party 2 (21. February, Warsaw)
On 21. February in Warsaw (Poland) the second "eXec Party" will take place. There presentations of AmigaOS 4 on SAM440ep and Pegasos II, a demonstration of AmiCygnix as well as comparision tests between SAM, Pegasos 2 and AmigaOne will be shown.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 77 (March/April 2009)
Press release: The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 77 (March/April 2009) are online now. You can find a first review of SAM440ep-flex in this issue already. In addition there are reviews of the recently released AmigaOS 4 SDK and MorphOS 2.2. Of course reviews like EvenMore, Robbo, Warpview and others are not missing either.
On the cover CD you can find the full version of SoundFX besides some other full versions. Furthermore there are about 90 MB of data and sources of the unreleased game Fortress of Fear. A more detailed description of content and some excerpts can be found at our website.
The Amiga Future is available as an English and German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future is obtainable as a single issue and subscription each with or without a cover CD. We ask all interested users to order it as soon as possible.
amigafuture.de
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16.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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PDF-/Postscript-viewer: EasyGS
EasyGS which was developed on behalf of the British trader AmigaKit is a little tool for viewing and printing PDF or Postscript documents with Ghostscript. The Amiga port of Ghostscript 8.60 is required.
EasyGS.lha (40 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 1.6.0
As usual the developers of the well-knwon Amiga emulator WinUAE give a short preview of the forthcoming version. WinUAE 1.6.0 will be published in spring 2009 and include the following news:
- Very popular request: automatic display scaling/window resizing!
(not compatible with all programs)
- PAL/NTSC vertical size change emulated if filter enabled
- Transparent clipboard sharing between Amiga clipboard.device and
Windows clipboard, both Amiga->Windows and Windows->Amiga supported. Text and images supported, HAM6/8 automatically converted to 24-bit
image, EHB converted to 64-color image. Images with less than 256
colors images converted to standard IFF, higher color images converted
to 24-bit IFF. Text converted to plain text, formatting possible in
future.
- "Interlace fixer", interlaced screens are now rock solid, all interlace
artifacts will be gone. (this feature isn't same as scandoubler or
flickerfixer and not compatible with most games)
- VirtualPC VHD dynamic harddisk image support (dynamic = empty hardfile
is very small, size grows automatically when more data gets written)
- Custom chipset emulation updates, horizontally mixed lores and hires
modes work and more (for example Disposable Hero titlescreen is
finally perfect, Oops Up ray color issue)
- Mouse emulation rewritten (Oil Imperium pipelining minigame)
- 10 sector and 81/82 track PC/Atari ST disk images supported
- OCS/ECS "7-planes" mode fully implemented (4 normal bitplanes + 2
static 16-bit patterns for planes 5 and 6) 1st Anniversary by Lazy
Bones has 100% correct display now.
- SuperHires supprted in lores and filtered lores modes
- 320x256, 640x512, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 always added to RTG
mode list (320x200 and 320x240 was already available previously)
- RTG mode vertical blanking interrupt implemented without busy
waiting, interrupt rate added configuration added to GUI
- Filter multiplier select boxes now support manually entered
multipliers, for example 2.5 = 2.5x
- Full drawing tablet support. (must be wintab compatible)
- "Magic mouse" mode improvements
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Feb.2009
IamSONIC (Alex R) (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Jump'n Run Giddy 3
Phil Ruston has already published two Shareware issues with the hero "Giddy" (Wibble World Giddy, Giddy 2). Now the third part of the saga is available for the Amiga (screenshots: 1, 2).
Peter "Xeron" Gordon has converted the Assembler source codes of the MS-DOS-version to C. Therefore Ruston can offer his game for AmigaOS 4 as well. Giddy 3 ist Freeware. But if you like the game you can pay a little bounty. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Feb.2009
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Software-News
Screen saver: Acuario 1.76
Acuario is a screen saver developed with Hollywood (screenshot) which is available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS. Changes in version 1.76:
- New mermaid animation corrected
- New voices for the mermaid
- New inhabitant in the aquarium: one crab
- New background of high resolution
- Bubbles animation with new effect for the new background
- New system of position for the plants, bubbles and crab for the different screen sizes
- New option for AcuarioPrefs, now again you can choose the default melody
Link: Download site
AmigaOS 4: OWB-Utility ClipDown 1.1
ClipDown is a provisional replacement for the download function which is still missing in newer OWB-versions: The download-URL is marked in the OWB-window and then copied to the Clipboard. With a click on the "Download Clip"-button in the ClipDown-window the file is downloaded with the help of wget.
Link: Download site
AmigaOS 4: ctorrent_gui 2.0
ctorrent_gui is a client for the filesharing network BitTorrent with a graphical user-interface.
- Reworked the layout, with tabs for main, prefs (not in use yet) and stats(download statistics)
- Finally fixed the DSI after selecting .torrent file(about time yes ;) )
- Have fixed the drag'n'drop issue
- Added total download and upload statistics(not part of the original ctorrent)
- I have added horizontal resize of window so you can see text outside of the window
Link: Download site
AmiKit CD available again
Few months ago the AmiKit-CD was published. Now a limited amount of CDs is available again. AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users. The CD includes versions for Windows and Linux.
Link Website
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Feb.2009
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Update of the Firewire-Stack Helios
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has published a new version of his Firewire-stack for MorphOS ("Helios").
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Several ports
Matthias Münch has compiled the following programs for AmigaOS 4 and published them under the title link:
- egg2mirc 0.06
- IRCStats 1.0
- irssi2mirc 1.0
- jpeg 6b
- log2mirc 0.01
- Normalize 0.7.7
- OpenJPEG 1.3
- shorten 3.6.1
- vobTools 1.5
- xchat2mirc 1.0
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: New ISO-file for the Efika-board
Michal Schulz has published a new ISO-file for the Efika-board. This update solves problems with the MMU-routines and it should be now possible to start AROS from an USB-stick.
Torrent: aros-efika-20090211.torrent
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Testers wanted for Digibooster Professional 3
Press release APC&TCP, responsible for the sales and the development of the music software DigiboosterPro, announce that from now on alpha testers are wanted to reaching as soon as possible beta status.
Appropriate users would:
- Send back mistakes, problems, bugs and other non-system conforming events - if possible just in time
- Speak English
- Have some basic knowledge about the usage of:
- Tracker programs (Digibooster 1.x, DBPro 2.x, Protracker, ...)
- Monitor programs (Scout, Sashimi, Snoopdos) (optional)
- Own one or several of the following Amiga systems:
- Amiga Classic 68k (AmigaOS 3.x)
- Amiga Classic PPC (AmigaOS 4.0)
- AmigaOne (AmigaOS 4.x)
- Sam440EP/Flex (AmigaOS 4.x)
- Pegasos 1/2 (MorphOS 1.x / 2.x / AmigaOS 4.1)
- Efika (MorphOS 2.x)
- AmigaOS Emulation (Amithlon / WinUAE)
If you are an interested user, please send an e-mail with the subject "DBPro3 beta", including your system configuration, to: psyria@digiboosterpro.de.
Please also have a look at the support forum of DigiBoosterPro. Here you can talk directly to the developer. (snx)
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11.Feb.2009
Mazze43 (ANF)
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Disc-Magazine: Toga
Mazze43 wrote: "Hello Amiga fellows! Recently I was looking for disc magazines to complete my collection. Under the title link I have found a site which publishes five discs each month. It is called Toga. Some of you should know this name.
Issues from before 2007 are available on the server of Back to the Roots. I do not have an idea if the magazine is well-known."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.4.7
The AmigaOS 4-port of the turn based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth is now available in the latest version 1.4.7.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.6
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes in version 3.6 are listed in the Changelog.
Direct download: OWB.lha (11,9 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Installer 1.25
The Installer written by Guido 'geit' Mersmann is a replacement for the installation program provided by Commodore. This update includes several bug fixes.
Download: Installer.lha (530 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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Information about new memory system in MorphOS 2.x
In an article on the website of the MorphOS-team, Harry "Piru" Sintonen who implemented the new system explained the differences between the old and the new memory system as well as the goals and functions of the new system.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution: AmigaSYS 4 Update R1
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench with many extensions which are mainly important for users of emulators. Additionally a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least one Workbench-disk of version 3.x are required.
The update R1 includes updated versions of several components as well as minor improvements and bug fixes. You can find a detailed list of changes on the website of the project.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RPG-Remake Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Rings ("LotR") is a roleplay developed by Interplay which was published in 1991 for Amiga and MS-DOS. Johan "Spot" Samuelsson now has ported the Open Source reimplementation of the LotR-Engine to AmigaOS 4 (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Additionally to the engine the data of the commercial original are required. The MIDI-soundtrack still does not work under AmigaOS 4 but beside LotR can be fully played.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky 1.8b7 (Beta)
Jabberwocky is a MUI-based Instant-Messaging-Client which can access different Messenging-Networks (e.g. AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) with so called server moduls. Jabberwocky is available for AmigaOS 3 and 4 and the MorphOS-version will follow soon.
Changes since the last beta version:
- Added NFloattext.mcc to the reuirements listed in the Jabberwocky guide.
- Added alternative check for TextInput.mcc if vapor_toolkit.library is
missing. Textinput.mcc crashes if checked by MUI without the
vapor_toolkit.library installed and available.
- Added a check for the presence of NFloattext.mcc so Jabberwocky won't
crash if it's missing.
- Updated OS4 makefiles and Jabberwocky include files to compile with new OS4 SDK (Now defaults to linking with newlib.library instead of clib2).
- Corrected the asynchronous command execution for OS4 to prevent unwanted
closing of error output filehandle. (Doesn't apply to OS3 or MOS)
- Improved sourcecode by eliminating some unused variables, adding function prototypes, correcting some character declarations, making type casting corrections & added some missing default function return values.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Gallery update
Press release: The Amiga Future gallery has been expanded considerably during the past months. Especially the past few days we have added sub sections to "Amiga Messen / Shows" and filled them up with entries like Breakpoint and Evoke. By now, we have photos from more than 20 events online.
But we need more images to complete the gallery. Do you have taken any photos on an event? Then please mail us. We'll put them online for you. Do you have photos of the old big Amiga fairs? Then please email us.
In our screenshot area we have more than 3000 game screenshots online. Now we want to put as many screenshots of applications online. Who wants to help us?
By the way, subscribers of the Amiga Future are able to download covers in colour for the included CD in the magazine to print them out.
(cg)
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09.Feb.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: XMLViewer 0.12
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski's XMLViewer is a little MUI-program based on the expat.library for viewing XML-files for MorphOS 2.x (screenshot). Perhaps the program also works under MorphOS 1.4 (an installed aboutbox.mcc is required) but it was not tested.
The last changes:
- v0.12: Cliboard support: Context menu with Cut Copy Paste was added.
Paste command is not implemented yet.
- v0.11: Searching
- v0.10: XML header support
- v0.10: Save support
Download: xmlviewer.lha (88 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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