08.Feb.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, issues 36 & 37
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English Podcast in which Amiga users and invited guests discussed the latest events of the Amiga-scene.
Hosts of the issues 36 and 37 are Rich Lawrence, Mike Blackburn Mike Leach and Bill Panagouleas. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Feb.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Instant-Messenger PolyGlot 0.59
The Instant-Messenger PolyGlot written by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault supports the MSN-network. Beta version 0.59 of the MorphOS-program includes several bug fixes.
Download: PolyGlot_0.59.lha (3,3 MB)
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08.Feb.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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File system: NTFS-driver 0.9
Marek Szyprowski has published an update of his driver for the file system NTFS. Version 0.9 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS has added the so far missing ACTION_CHANGE_MODE-package-support and fixes two bugs.
Download: ntfs_0.9.lha (73 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Feb.2009
ANF
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Decision against von Gravenreuth legally valid
The decision against the lawyer Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth is legally valid.
The court has not given a suspended sentence. Thus the lawyer was sentenced to 14 month's hard time.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2009
Max Mustermann (ANF)
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Scandoubler: Pictures of prototype of Indivision AGA 4000D
Under the title link Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has published pictures of a prototype of the scandoubler Indivision AGA 4000D which also can be used in an Amiga CD³² and can be seen here.
Likely in March the scandoubler will be available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Installer 1.20
Installer wriiten by Guido "Geit" Mersmann is a replacement for the installation utility provided by Commodore (screenshot). In version 1.20 some minor bugs on non-MorphOS-systems have been fixed. Additionally a Polish translation was added.
Direct download: Installer.lha (519 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2009
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WHDLoad: New Packages until 07.02.2009
With WHDLoad you can install games and demos on your harddrive which originally were only delivered as disk versions. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, improved or updated:
- 19.01.2009 improved: Rally Championships (Flair) install script fixed, 68000 compatible (ecs slave), misc changes (Info)
- 11.01.2009 improved: Turbo Trax (Arcane) (Arcane) 68000 compatible, trainers added (Info)
- 08.01.2009 improved: Might and Magic II - Gates to Another World (New World Computing) made working on 040/060 with caches, fixed keyboard on main menu, manual and icon added (Info)
- 02.01.2009 new: Might and Magic II - Gates to Another World (New World Computing) done by Vairn (Info)
- 31.12.2008 new: Rally Championships (Flair) done by Psygore (Info)
- 31.12.2008 new: Omega (Origin) done by Psygore (Info)
- 22.12.2008 new: Dungeon Quest (Image Tech) done by Psygore (Info)
- 14.12.2008 improved: Arena (Psygnosis) whd10+ compatible, buttonwait improved (Info)
- 10.12.2008 improved: Conflict: Europe (PSS) blitwait routine fixed (Info)
- 05.12.2008 new: Return To Atlantis (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD (Info)
- 01.12.2008 new: Conflict: Europe (PSS) done by Psygore (Info)
- 24.11.2008 new: Fate: Gates Of Dawn (reLINE) done by Psygore (Info)
- 19.11.2008 new: Warlords (SSG) done by JOTD (Info)
- 17.11.2008 new: Multi Player Soccer Manager (D & H Games) done by Psygore (Info)
- 17.11.2008 improved: Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain (Lucasfilm) supports KIXX version, manual included (Info)
- 16.11.2008 new: War In The Gulf (Empire) done by JOTD (Info)
- 16.11.2008 improved: F-19 Stealth Fighter (Microprose) fixed for EZ-Mouse, works with caches (Info)
- 13.11.2008 new: World Tour Golf (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD (Info)
- 12.11.2008 new: Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain (Lucasfilm) done by Psygore (Info)
- 11.11.2008 new: TV Sports Basketball (Cinemaware) done by JOTD (Info,Image)
- 09.11.2008 improved: Castles (Interplay) misc fixes (Info)
- 09.11.2008 new: Hound Of Shadow (Electronic Arts) done by Psygore (Info)
- 09.11.2008 new: World Darts (Mastertronic/Arcadia) done by JOTD (Info)
- 07.11.2008 improved: 688 Attack Sub (Electronic Arts) rewritten for WHDLoad 16 (Info,Image)
- 06.11.2008 improved: Amiga Karate (Paradox/Eidersoft) rewritten for whdload v16, 68000 compatible (Info)
- 02.11.2008 new: Heart Of China (Dynamix) done by Psygore (Info)
- 02.11.2008 improved: The Immortal (Electronic Arts) slave update, music fixed, docs added (Info,Image)
- 02.11.2008 improved: Frontier (GameTEK/Konami) fully rewritten, supports more versions, docs added (Info)
- 28.10.2008 new: RoboSport (Ocean - Maxis) done by Psygore (Info)
- 28.10.2008 new: Ogre (Origin Systems) done by Psygore (Info)
- 15.10.2008 new: Nathan Never (Genias) done by Dr Cinicus (Info)
- 13.10.2008 new: Treasures Of The Savage Frontier (SSI) done by Psygore (Info)
- 08.10.2008 new: Jochen Hippel Sound Demo (Axis) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 07.10.2008 new: Babylonian Twins Demo (Mesopotamia) done by Codetapper (Info)
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07.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 16.9
With WHDLoad you can install games and demos on your harddrive which originally were only delivered as disk versions. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed. Changes since the last version:
- chg: BLITWAIT macro in whdmacros.i adapted for better speed, thanks
to John Girvin for research and testing
- fix: problems with writing to disks with around a multiple of 4 GB
free space fixed (Ingo Schmitz)
- fix: resload_Decrunch/LoadFileDecrunch could corrupt vital memory
which could lead to strange WHDLoad errors (e.g. "Function ...
requires slave version 1"), reported for game Universe, thanks
to KillerGorilla for report and Psygore for diagnostics;
the old RNC1 format is now properly supported for overlapping
source and destination
- new: on ChkBltSize/S some basic initialization in blitter line mode
are checked too (68060 only)
- new: option FullChip/S to save/restore the full chip memory instead
only the area specified in the Slave
- new: finnish translation of documentation, thanks to Mikko Heinonen
- chg: cpu detection routine reworked to correctly detect an 68020 on
boards with 'FPU logic error', 68851 and 68040/60 FPU detection
improved
- new: workaround added to make WHDLoad running on the CDTV, the
cdtv.device will be disabled to avoid problems with interrupts
generated by this, thanks to jtorrance and Toni Wilen
- new: commands BKPT and BELL added to resload_Patch/Seg to set a
breakpoint (enter freezer) and show a visual bell
- chg: handling of the internal directory cache for resload_Examine/
ExNext changed, so that new created files will not be the
the first entry in the directory
this fixes problems with programs which do not correctly
perform a Examine before each directory scan, e.g. Castles2
(JOTD)
- chg: some more info output and better lace support with SP (saving
picture)
- chg: check for free stack space on entering WHDLoad via resload/
interrupt/exception made more consistent
- chg: many changes on WHDLoadGCI, can export Slave/Memory now
- new: danish translation of documentation, thanks to Nicolai Mortensen
- new: macro PL_NOPS added to whdload.i (bippym)
- chg: improved error messages if loading kickstart fails
- chg: changed CPU detection to avoid problems with weired MMU
configuration, no longer uses transparent translation to avoid
Enforcer hits (Fabio Cinus)
- chg: its no longer possible to load files from outside the data
directory, that means that file specs containg a ':' or '//'
or starting/ending with a '/' are prohibited, these files were
anyway never PreLoad-able
- new: support for multiple data directories added
- new: options SavePath/K and SaveDir/K added to let WHDLoad redirect
all write operations to a different disk location
- new: WHDLoad now remembers if PreLoad has loaded all files and then
doesn't switch when a resload function tries to load a non
existing file (e.g. resload_GetFileSize)
- chg: resload_ListFiles now supports a buffer in ExpMem too (JOTD)
- chg: autodocs revised, html transformation added
Direkter Download: WHDLoad_16.9_usr.lzx (910 KB)
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07.Feb.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: distcc 3.1, Expat 5.1, ffmpegGUI 2.1, SDL_mixer 1.2.7-r3
distcc 3.1
With distcc developers can compile on several computers. Please note that this update requires AmigaOS 4.1.
Download: distcc-bin.lha (431 KB)
Expat 5.1
Expat is a XML-Parser-library. A 68k-interface is now included, a static Newlib-version and a Shared-objects-version.
Download: expat.lha (492 KB)
ffmpegGUI 2.1
ffmpegGUI is a graphical user-interface for the video conversion program ffmpeg which was also updated for AmigaOS 4. Several new formats and codecs are supported.
Download:
ffmpeg.lha (7 MB)
ffmpeggui.lha (176 KB)
SDL_Mixer 1.2.7-r3
SDL_mixer is an audio mixer for several channels. The update solves the problems with the mp3- and OGG-support.
Download: sdl_mixer.lha (413 KB)
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06.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: "Heroes of Might and Magic 2"-Remake Free Heroes 2
Free Heroes is an open-source remake of the strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic (screenshots: 1, 2). The game files of the commercial original are required. If you want to have background music you should install the GravisUltraSound Soundfont.
Free Heroes 2 is still in early alpha status but is steadily developed further.
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06.Feb.2009
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PDF-Magazine: Retroaction, Issue 1
The "Retroaction" is a free magazine for retro gamers. Topics of this issue are Speedball 2, the "Sex sells"-sales policy of the developers of Barbarian called Palace, the recently published commercial C64-game Sub Hunter as well as a detailed introduction of the MS-DOS-Emulators DosBox.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Feb.2009
Evolution of the Species (Blog)
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AROS: i.MX515-port intended
In future Genesi is going to use Freescale's ARM-compatible i.MX51-processor instead of the PowerPC. Therefore a corresponding developer program was started.
Under the title link Michal Schulz has suggested an AROS-port. Therfore now projects can also be sent which requires AROS.
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04.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Developer tools: vasm 1.3d, vlink 0.12a
Frank Wille has published updates of vlink as well as of vasm. vlink is portable linker which gets along with a wide range of binary formats. vasm is a portable assembler which supports different CPU-families (m68k, PPC, i386, 6502...). Both programs are part of the vbcc-distribution as well.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Feb.2009
Obligement (ANF)
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AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award: Homeworld is game of the year 2008
Since 26th January users could vote which game was the best of the year 2008. The realtime strategical Homeworld is the winner. Jagged Alliance 2 and Command And Conquer: Red Alert were second and third. You can find the complete results under the title link.
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04.Feb.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Pidgin 2.5.2 for AmiCygnix
For his AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has published an update of the chat software Pidgin. The program supports different protocols which can be used simultaneously:
- AIM
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk
- GroupWise
- ICQ
- IRC
- MSN
- MySpaceIM
- QQ
- SIMPLE
- Sametime
- XMPP
- Yahoo
- Zephyr
Download: pidgin.lha (14 MB)
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03.Feb.2009
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Programming language: News about AmiBlitz
In two threads (1, 2) on amiforce.de several developers discussed the future of the programming language. Clearing the AmiBlitz-syntax, linking to GCC and renaming the project were some of the topics.
One thing has been already changed: Users of AmiBlitz can now save their source files as ASCII-files. Therefore the complete AmiBlitz source code is available as SVN-Repository.
Furthermore soon the official website of the AmiBlitz project will use the open source solution Joomla which would make it more easy to integrate it with the SVN-Repository but which also would make it not compatible with browsers available for AmigaOS 3. THerefore the webmaster Jens "bruZard" Henschel asked in a poll for feedback of the users.
In his basic.blog Henschel told about developments from the world of the Blitz-Derivate: Additionally to AmiBlitz he gave detailed information about BlitzMax with which applications and games for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X can be developed.
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03.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Integrated development environment CodeBench 0.8 (beta)
A first beta version of the announced integrated development environment CodeBench is now available.
This package which is called "Development Project Management System" by the author is a supplementation to the recently published SDK and requires AmigaOS 4.1.
Codebench is tu support developers creating and managing projects. A detailed documentation is included in the distribution.
The author points out that this version is still beta. On amigans.net a support forum was openend for qustions or reports.
Download: CodeBench0.8_Beta.lha (2,5 MB)
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02.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: update of the article database
Press release: We have worked on the extension of the Amiga Future database for the past months. By now it contains about 3000 articles for online reading. This week we added some workshops and an up-to-date article about astronomy photography by Mirko Strauß.
To extend the database even further we are looking for English and German articles. There were lots of websites offering reviews and workshops - unfortunately, many of them diappeared together with their valuable content. We would like to offer this kind of information online again.
Have you made a website with such articles which isn't online anymore? Or did you write something yourself? Then please contact us at the editorial office. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Feb.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmiBlitz³: New complete archive 3.1.1
For the Basic development environment AmiBlitz³ a complete archive was published which can be downloaded under the title link. You can get further information in the support forum.
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02.Feb.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: WiiLoader v1.0 / Several updates
The OnyxSoft-Team has published a program called WiiLoader with which you can load DOL- and ELF-files over the network to the Homebrew Channel. Additionally six programs were updated:
BackUp 1.62, DRemind 1.72, GummiSurf 1.3, MPlayer-GUI 1.44, MultiRen 1.67 and Snakee 0.2.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Feb.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaSYS 4 for the Xbox
AmigaSYS is s preinstalled Workbench with many extensions. You only require a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least one Workbench disk of version 3.x.
This updated version of AmigaSYS 4 for Microsoft's game console Xbox is based on the AGA-version. Some updates and Xbox-extras were added. You can get further information under the title link on the AmigaSYS homepage.
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02.Feb.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.5
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.5.5. It should be installed with the live-update if you have already a previous version.
The changes are listed in the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Feb.2009
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MorphOS: Port of Origyn Web Browser
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has ported the Origyn Web Browser to MorphOS (screenshot). The most important features of the MorphOS-version:
- Based on GaleKid 1.0 OWB Branch (December 2008)
- Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL, ...
- Antialiased fonts and kerning, font families and support for international charsets
- MUI Interface
- Cairo technology !!1
- Multiple tabs and windows
- Download manager
- Bookmarks (including import for IBrowse bookmarks)
- Fastlinks
- Context menus
- Copy/Cut/Paste
- Rexx port (openurl support)
Coeurjoly recommends MorphOS 2 but the browser works under MorphOS 1.4.x as well - this requires a new (2007) MUI-version. OWB requires at least 35 MB RAM. Efika-owners who would like to have version without SVG-support (which saves much memory) please contact the author.
Starting OWB for the first time it tries to set the index which can take some minutes.
You can get further information about the MorphOS-version of the Origyn Web Browser in the News on morphzone.org.
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01.Feb.2009
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Installer 1.19, Meridian 3.10, MMKeyboard 4.10, IRComRemote 3.10
Guido "Geit" Mersmann has published updates of several tools:
MMKeyboard 4.10, Meridian 3.10, IRComRemote 3.10
The multimedia-keyboard-driver MMKeyboard (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, UAE, Amithlon), the mouse-gestures-commodity Meridian (AmigaOS 3/4 und MorphOS) as well as the infrared driver package IRCom/IRComRemote (AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS) are now optimized and improved and support now the title line plugins of MorphOS 2.x (screenshot). So an optional popup is available on each screen. MorphOS 1.4.x is supported.
Installer 1.19
Installer is a replacement for the original installation utility provided by AmigaOS (screenshot). Please note that this is the first official release of the new installer. It was tested with hundreds of scripts under MorphOS but should work under AmigaOS 3 as well.
The author has supposed that the AmigaOS 4-version does not work correctly because of a MUI-problem. He cannot find the problem and because he has not got OS4-hardware he will stop searching it. Under AmigaOS 4 the AmigaOS 3-version can be installed - if should work this you can try the PPC-version.
If there should be any problems with the installer scripts then please contact Mersmann with a Mail with screenshot.
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