24.Jan.2009
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Poll: How much 68k-compatibility do you expect of a x86-AmigaOS?
Under the title link amiga-news.de hast started a poll which is written in German. Giving you the possibility to take part as well here is the English translation of the poll:
Question: How much 68k-compatibility a Amiga-like operating system at least should have got so you would buy it for 120 to 150 Euro for your x86-computer?
Answers:
- No compatibility at all. The current developments for the Amiga and some ports would be sufficient.
- A simple possibility to start 68k-applications with an emulator (UAE-integration) would be sufficient.
- I need the same 68k-compatibility as it is integrated in AmigaOS4 or MorphOS.
- I would only buy it if it works under WinUAE.
- I would never buy an operating system for x86 which is compatible to Amiga.
Thanks for your participation!
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Instant Messenger SabreMSN 0.41
James "jahc" Carroll has ported his MSN-client SabreMSN to AROS. UTF8-support is still not implemented under AROS but will be added with the next update. Further limitations are the same as in the original AmigaOS-version:
- Sometimes the SSL stuff fails when trying to connect, so the only thing you can do is keep clicking connect after it fails each time
- The list of Online contacts isnt always sent in full when I first connect. I havent found an answer to that problem yet. So it appears like everyones offline, or most of your online contacts are offline. Reconnecting to the server once or twice in a row seems to restore the list properly sometimes.
- Sometimes Sabre reapers. I've only had this happen twice in the last few weeks though. It seems to be dying on the MUI input loop, but maybe I've done something illegal before that call..
- Newly added contacts arent added to the list, you need to reconnect to see them
- Sometimes outgoing file transfers report during mid-transfer: "The file transfer was unsuccessful because your computer is out of disk space. Try deleting some files, and then ask the sender to try the transfer again."
- Sabre uses the older MSN file transfer protocol, so many recent MSN clients fail when trying to send a file to Sabre.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jan. 2009, 01:55] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Remix albums: Instant Remedy / Immortal 4
Two Remix-CDs with Amiga-soundtracks were announced for this year: The second album published by Instant Remedy as well as the fourth (and probably the last) part of the Immortal serie.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Jan. 2009, 12:52] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: Issue 2/09 online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Under the title link the topics of this issue are listed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Jan. 2009, 12:20] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2009
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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OctaMED SoundStudio: Further development started
Last year a developer was searched who could develop further OctaMED SoundStudio. Alfred Faust will do that. OMSS is one of the first 8-channel-tracker. It is available for free.
In a mailinglist the developer who is well-known as programmer of Bars'n'Pipes Seine gave his first impressions of the status of the source code of version 1.03c. If you want to support the project you can give donations and thus can take part in the beta test. Alfred Faust asks to give him a little time because he has to take a closer look at the assembler.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2009, 18:47] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Virtual Works: New Webshop online
Press release Virtual Works, one of the biggest and longest running Amiga dealer and distributors in Italy and one of the fouding members of ACube Systems, announces the opening of a new web shop with some really hard to find products in limited quantities. Blizzard PPC boards, BVision PPC boards, Prometheus boards, Mediator boards and many more. Check www.vwshop.it for an initial list of the products available and to place orders. (snx)
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22.Jan.2009
Detlef Zirpel (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Pentti Kouri died
According to Finnish newspapers today Pentti Kouri died after a long illnesst at the age of 59 years.
In the Amiga sector Kouri was known as investor and as chairman of the board of Amiga Incorporated. First founded as KMOS and in 2005 renamed the company is the current holder of the law relating to the use of name.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2009, 12:58] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiLoudspeaker 1.2
AmiLoudspeaker helps you constructing a loud speaker. Additionally the author recommends the book Loudspeaker_Design_Cookbook or similar books.
Changes:
- Changed printing routine to only print debug on failure
- Removed 10% overvolume from vented box dimensions
- Increased accuracy of driver parameters
- Added Qms and Qes driver parameters
- Added Closed Tuning and Vented Tuning tabs for testing and fine tuning your loudspeakers
- Compiled with GCC 4.2.4
Download: amiloudspeaker.lha (47 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2009, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OpenSSH 5.1p1
OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH-protocol-suite which is to give users more security who work with programs like Telnet, rlogin, FTP and similar clients. This is done by encoding all sent data.
Changes include:
- Ported changes from official 5.1p1 baseline
- Changed pipe buffer limits
- Added break signal check before waitselect() call
- Fixed bug in console window size reading
- Compiled with GCC 4.2.4 and clib2 compiled with GCC 4.2.4
- Now requires AmigaOS 4.1 or higher
Download: openssh-bin.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2009, 08:58] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: REminiscence 0.1.9
REminescence is a rewritten engine for the game Flashback developed by Delphine Software. After versions for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, now a port for AROS/x86 is available.
Download: reminiscence-i386-aros.zip (537 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jan. 2009, 19:50] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2009
S. Eichholz (ANF)
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Concert: Further details to Symphonic Fantasies
S. Eichholz wrote: Under the title link some further information was published about the concert which will take place on 12th September 2009 and is called "Symphonic Fantasies".
The Finn Jonne Valtonen will rearrange the classics like "Final Fantasy", "Chrono Trigger", "Chrono Cross", "Kingdom Hearts" and "Secret of Mana" and the American Grammy award winner Arnold Roth will take the musical guidance.From now on you can buy tickets for the concert in Cologne.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jan. 2009, 08:11] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 35
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English podcast created by Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald and Bill Panagouleas in which Amiga-users and invited guests discussed the latest events of the Amiga scene. Topics of the 35th issue:
- The Evo(l) Console
- PSPUAE
- Firewire stack for MorphOS
- Sam440flex
- Amiga vs. Hyperion court case
- DNSChanger Exploit
- AltME - Rebol
- OWB - Aros
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:58] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
PowerPC Linux Mag (ANF)
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Genesi: Efika 2 without PowerPC-processor
In the forum of powerdeveloper.org Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco ("BBRV") from Genesi mentioned briefly that the next generation of Genesi's Efika motherboards will be not based on PPC-CPU. Currently there are no more detailed information.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:47] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga.SF: Highlight 2.7 and OptiPNG 0.6.2
On amiga.sourceforge.net OptiPNG was published which is a program that can compress different picture formats (PNG, BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to lossless optimated PNG-files.
Highlight was updated as well. With this program you can view source codes as formatted text with syntax highlighting. The changes in version 2.7 are listed in the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:46] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future Issue 46 (German) online
Press release: The german issue 46 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that you can read the magazines (amongst many other issues) online at our website. For all our readers having a slow internet connection the Amiga Fever issues will be included on the Amiga Future cover CD 77 aswell.
Early January the Amiga Future issue 76 has been published. The German and English print magazine is available directly at the editorial office and some dealers (like AmigaKit, ASB, GGS, Samuli, Vesalia, Voxel...).
(cg)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:24] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
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First prices for SAM440ep-flex quoted
The first dealers have quoted prices for the next generation of ACube's PPC-computer SAM440: IMM Informatique will offer a SAM440ep-flex for 489 Euro here, Vesalia will offer it for 449 Euro.
In a thread on amigaworld.net Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene from Acube explained when SAM440ep- and SAM440ep-flex-motherboards will be available. Since 5th January SAM440ep has been delivered to the dealers and during the next 7-10 days some further boards will follow. In 3-4 weeks a fourth charge will be expected at ACube and afterwards it will follow the first SAM440ep-flex motherboards.
According to Tretene the current delay was caused by the CPU-deliveries which require to be happened 16 weeks before. Additionally there has been some communication problems between ACube and some dealers. Because of that the exact number of required boards was not clear.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:23] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga Amateur Radio Users Group: CD now online available
The Amateur Radio Users Group called AARUG does not exist any longer but you can download its former CD-ROM as ISO-file.
Under the title link you can find a list of included programs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 08:20] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ffmpegGUI 1.2
ffmpegGUI is a graphical user-interface for the video conversion program ffmpeg (screenshot). Under the title list you can find a list of changes.
Download: ffmpeggui.lha (156 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2009, 19:32] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: DigiboosterPro Status-Report
APC&TCP informs us about the progress of development of Digibooster Pro.
According to the latest information the development of the new DBPro3 is
slowly, but steadily taking shape.
The first goal of the developers is and was to completely recode the whole
program for a better structure in order to improve and be more efficient.
Furthermore, the handling is the same as in DBPro2.x. The current
development status is the internal version Alpha 17th.
In the next 3 to 4 months, a very detailed status update will be published
as well as a beta-demoversion. No further details will be announced
earlier. (nba)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2009, 14:55] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Startup Prefs
The MUI-program Startup Prefs written by Kaya 'Shawnbaxe' Dogan lets you easily manage the startup functions of MorphOS. For the installation the installer by Guido Mersmann is required. If you have any suggestions then please contact the author.
Download site with screenshot
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2009, 09:12] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2009
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MorphOS: Update of Web-Browser NetSurf / Source code published
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for entwickelter Browser and which can be used with already 17 MB. NetSurf supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1 but it does not Javascript.
The version for MorphOS 2.2 was made by Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta and has a MUI user-interface as well as a hotlist compatible with IBrowse. With this new version it is now possible to print and to set DPI for usinf the proper size of the fontsets.
For adapting NetSurf to AmigaOS 3.x by other developers the source code of the MorphOS version is available on Aminet. According to the author the MUI user-interface should be easily adjusted.
Download:
netsurf-morphos.lha (2 MB)
netsurf-morphos-src.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2009, 21:13] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2009
Orgin (ANF)
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OpenAmiga.org: Status report
Press release There are now 11 projects open for grabs and 15 assigned projects on OpenAmiga.org. 2008 provided a slow start for OpenAmiga, as expected with the number of available developers for our platform. Hopefully 2009 will speed things up a bit with the SAM adding more and more os4 users to the fold. Still we managed to submit the extended mouse pointer types project to Hyperion and quite a bit of source code was submitted to the svn.
Current status:
Fredrik Wikstrom (salass00) has submitted a range of his datatypes to the svn:
- sun .au datatype
- Targa .tga datatype
- PC Paintbrush Exchange .pcx datatype
- Direct Draw Surface .dds datatype
- RIFF-WAVE .wav datatype
- Mac OS icon .icns datatype
- Windows icon .ico datatype
- JPEG 2000 datatype
He also has submitted the code for his amazing Disk image device that lets you mount a large range of different device images. Such as iso, nrg, adf, hdf, bin and many many more.
Fredrik is also assigned to a project for creating an icon plug-in that uses vector based graphics.
Tuomas Hokka (TSK) has created a project for his amidock like utility called Benchbar.
Simon Archer (Rigo) is assigned to two projects, one to create a new clicktab.gadget class and the other to create a proposal for a new complementary version string to amiga binaries.
Centaurz has volunteered for writing a tutorial/guideline for using prefsobjects to store application specific data.
Vicente Gimeno (ami603) submitted his preliminary work on a workbench file lister.
A list of the assigned projects can be found here.
A lot of help is needed, both on the assigned projects as well as those not yet assigned. If you feel that you are able to contribute then please don't hesitate to join in.
Of the assigned projects, the Workbench file lister project is the one that needs the most help. But any of projects can use your help, just contact any moderator/webmaster or the person assigned to a project using the OpenAmiga message system.
About OpenAmiga.org
OpenAmiga.org is an organization in the making that aims at enhancing the AmigaOS4 experience, acting as an Amiga community based research and development department. OpenAmiga.org aims at providing finished enhancements for AmigaOS4 that Hyperion can include in their AmigaOS4 distribution, research advanced topics and act as a developer resource for AmigaOS4 developers. (snx)
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18.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further songs added
AmigaRemix makes available remixes of soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Meanwhile the archive has 583 songs. Under the title link you can find a list of the latest titles.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2009, 09:33] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Warp3D picture viewer WarpView 1.02
The Shareware picture viewer WarpView uses Warp3D which makes possible fast scaling. On the other hand the application requires more video-RAM than other picture viewer. Datatypes are used for loading pictures. The changes of version 1.02 you can find under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2009, 09:28] [Comments: 0]
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