09.Jan.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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G-Rex-PCI registrations: First estimate of produced pieces
Matthias Münch has updated the number of registered boards. So far only 21 G-Rex-boards were counted. For further registrations Münch would be very grateful.
By means of the available serial numbers Münch estimated the number of produced boards at 290 pieces.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Bug fixed GQView 2.1.5
Edgar Schwan has published an update of GQView 2.1.5 for AmiCygnix. GQView is a picture viewer with which you can easily list a lot of pictures.
Now SVG-graphics are supported. Additionally a bug was fixed which occured if RAW-graphics were loaded.
Download: gqview.lha (6 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2009
Vinnny (ANF)
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MUI: TextEditor.mcc 15.28
Under the title link the MUI-class TextEditor.mcc is available in version 15.28. This version fixes some minor bugs and includes new functions. For more details please have a look at the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2009
Vinnny (ANF)
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Codeset conversion: codesets.library 6.8
The codesets.library allows applications to access codeset-/charset tables or to convert different character sets.
Version 6.8 fixes some bugs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Gimp 2.2.13 alpha and Fontforge for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has published ports of the picture editing software Gimp and of the character set editor Fontforge.
Gimp is a free program for editing photos and
creating graphics. The current version for AmiCygnix is an alpha release. Just like in the last version the most important plugins are missing. Without them it is only possible to load and save XCF-graphics.
FontForge is an outline character set editor with which you can create or change own Postscript-, Truetype-, Opentype-, CID-keyed-, Multi-Master-, CFF-, SVG- and Bitmap- (bdf, FON, NFNT) character sets. Additionally Fontforge can convert character sets into different formats.
Downloads:
Gimp download site
Fontforge download site
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jan.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 76 (January/February 2009)
Press release: The Amiga Future 76 (Januar/Februar 2009) has been released today. This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer supplies have been shipped.
In this issue you'll find reviews of the recent versions of AmigaOS 4.1, Netpanzers, AmiCygnix, AISS and much more. Besides that we have an interview with Claus Desler and Gareth Murfin. A more detailed description of contents and some excerpts can be found at our website.
The Amiga Future is available as an English or German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future can be obtained as a single issue and subscription each with or without a cover CD.
We ask all users interested in this magazine to order it as soon as possible.
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04.Jan.2009
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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AROS: USB-Mass-Storage-Bounty project (almost) finished
According to Michal Schulz in his Blog under the title link he almost finished the bounty project "Creating a Mass-Storage-Class for the USB-stack of AROS" (screenshot).
During the next days the source code will be cleaned up and then published. Additionally the author will improve the USB-stack and AROS itself that booting from a USB-stick will become more practicable.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: EasyTAG 2.0 and GQView 2.1.5 for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix, Edgar Schwan has published ports of the Tag-editor EasyTAG 2.0 and of the picture viewer GQView 2.1.5.
EasyTAG is a tool for viewing and editing Tags in MP3-, MP2-, FLAC-, Ogg Vorbis-, MusePack- and Monkey's audio files. It has an easy to use GTK2-interface.
Features of EasyTAG:
- Viewing, editing and writing of Tags of MP3-, MP2- (ID3-Tag with pictures), FLAC- (FLAC Vorbis Tag), Ogg Vorbis-
(Ogg Vorbis Tag), MusePack- and Monkey's Audio- (APE tag) files
- Supporting of more Tag-fields: Title, artist, album, disc album,
year, track number, genre, comment, composer, original artist / interpreter, copyright, URL and encoder name.
- Automatical Tagging: Searching directories and automatically
setting of Tags
- Opening directories or files with the help of external programs.
e.g. AmigaAMP
- CDDB support (manual or automatical search). Hint: Currently the manual search does not work
because freedb.org/freedb_search.php was
not available. It is not a problem of EasyTag.
- Searching directories and subdirectories
- Recursive tagging, deleting, renaming, saving...
- Reading and viewing file header information (bitrate, time, ...)
- Undo and Redo of the last changes
- Automatically editing Tags and file names
- Creation of playlists
- Simple and clear interface
- Written in C using GTK+ 2.4
GQView is a picture viewer for a high number of pictures. You can watch the pictures in full screen mode or via slideshow. Pictures can be copied, moved, renamed and deleted.
Supported picture formats:
- IFF-ILBM (.ilbm)
- JPEG (.jpeg, .jpe, .jpg)
- PNG (.png)
- PCX (.pcx)
- BMP / WBMP (.bmp, .wbmp)
- GIF (.gif)
- TIFF (.tiff, .tif)
- PNM / PBM / PGM / PPM (.pnm, .pbm, .pgm, .ppm)
- Canon RAW-Format (.crw, .cr2)
- Fujifilm RAW-Format (.raf)
- Nikon RAW-Format (.nef)
- Olympus RAW-Format (.orf)
- Pentax RAW-Format (.pef)
- ANI (.ani)
- Windows icon (.ico, .cur)
- Sun Raster (.ras)
- Targa (.tga, .targa)
- X-Bitmap (.xbm)
- X-Pixmap (.xpm)
Downloads:
Download site for EayTAG
Download site for GQView
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.65-4.1.09
The text viewer Evenmore was published. Please note that the configuration files of previous versions are not compatible to this latest version. You have to delete these files before installing the update. Changes in this version:
- Added a sizing gadget to the window when in borderless mode. This is drawn according to the XEN SysIHack specifications. May design an image for the layering gadget, but this may be more complicated due to the design of the GUI
- Will also try to find a way of resizing the scrollers instead of removing them and adding them again on every refresh?
- First of all, you will need to delete your old config file before running the new version! Unfortunately this is due to a minor change in the borderless GUI, which happens to upset loading the old configuration. I don't feel it's worth the effort to make a work around. I have added a horizontal scroll bar to the borderless GUI setting. Once you delete your config file, you need to shift click a document as you open EvenMore, otherwise it just closes again. Or if you are opening from the shell, specify a file on the command line
- I have also removed several menu items which I felt weren't really needed
- And I have fixed several issues which prevented EvenMore from opening properly when no config file was available. Check the history page for details
- Removed text formatting code from AmigaWriter2Text plugin. Text formatting in this fileformat is too complicated to recreate
- Added fakestack hack code from Aminet so EvenMore will report stack
- Fixed bug in which switching between right and left reading text would not return the text box to the correct position
- Horizontal rule in HTML was not rendered properly when right to left text option was enabled
- Sped up file loading a little by modifying progress bar count code
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.3 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of the port of the Origyn Web Browser. Changes in version 3.2:
- Updated to SVN revision 766
- Enabled experimental SVG parts
- Window title wasn't restored on uniconify, fixed
- Ported the bookmark from OWB Blastoise to Galekid and added support
for multiple windows to it
- When using the back and forward buttons the URL gadget wasn't always
updated, fixed
- Now uses the CookieManager instead of a simple HashMap cookie jar,
should fix most cookie related problems
Update: (05.0.2009, 1:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 3.3 was published:
- Reverted the 3.2 cookie changes as they caused more problems than they
fixed
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Warp3D picture viewer WarpView 1.0
The Shareware picture viewer WarpView uses Warp3D which makes possible fast scaling. But the program requires more video-RAM as different picture viewer. Datatypes are used for loading pictures. You can find the changes in version 1.0 under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2009
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Individual Computers: Indivision Flash 1.3 / Changes in EU power grid
Press release
Software update for Indivision AGA
The new version 1.3 of the Indivision AGA Flash core now allows separate settings of the sync-polarity for standard- and HighGFX modes. Since some monitors use the polarity to switch between resolutions, this improves user-friendliness a lot, because switching between games and workbanch-based applications does not require any adjustments any more. Games mostly use PAL or NTSC screenmodes, while it's desirable to have the flicker-free high resolutions of HighGFX on the workbench.
Direct download: Indivision_Config_V100.lha
Indivision AGA for the A1200 will be back in the shops shortly. The price remains at 129.- EUR (recommended retail price including German sales tax of 19%). A version for the A4000D computer is planned for march 2009, the price will be identical with the A1200 version.
Changes in EU power grid for 2009
A small detail has been changed for the EU power grid on january 1st, 2009: While the mains nominal voltage remains at 230V, the tolerance has been changed to +/- 10%.
In 1987, Germany has raised the nominal voltage from 220V to 230V. To protect existing devices, the tolerance was set to a lower boundary of -10% and an upper boundary of +6%, resulting in almost the same upper limit of 243V. This was done for a transition period that has ended on january 1st, 2009, so the new upper limit is now over 250V, which can cause more heat generation in older transformer-based power supplies. Modern switchmode-power supplies will presumably not have any problems with the changed tolerance. EU-Countries that have used 240V before (such as England) have lowered their nominal voltage.
Although Commodore was still in business in 1987, power supplies were specified for 220V. We recommend extremely good cooling for this generation of power supplies, and to remove the power plug when the devices are not in use. Protection against over-voltage can be provided by uninterruptable power sources that are independant of the input voltage (VI- and VFI-types). These types are also called "line-interactive" or "Online"-types. "Offline"-types do not offer over-voltage protection.
Increasing the mains voltage can reduce line losses. The relation between transferred energy and line losses gets better with higher voltages, so this can protect the enviroment by reducing CO2 emissions. However, the primary goal of these changes is the EU-wide harmonization of voltages, which has been completed with this final step. (snx)
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04.Jan.2009
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Application in dental practices
Possibly presentations which were created with Andreas Falkenhahn's Hollywood Designer under AmigaOS 4 will be used in dental practices.
The Norwegian company Ferrule Media has used Hollywood for his commercial product "Dental Kanal" which was introduced on a fair. You can now read a message which was published on the Hollywood-mailing list:
I would like to give you some information about our projects and hopefully inspire other hollywood users. I'm one of the founders of Ferrule Media, a new company that is developing software and information channels to be used in dentistry. We are now in the early process of releasing our software in Norway and Denmark.
I'm a dentist of profession and a former demoscene graphician. Nobody of the Ferrule team has any knowledge about coding. However, Hollywood Designer offered everything we needed in order to make (what we think is) quality software.
Ferrule Media has at the moment finished two projects:
Project 1: Dental Kanal - an information channel to be used in dentists waiting rooms. At the moment we cover 23 topics about dentistry. These topics are displayed to the patients while they wait for their treatment.
Project 2: Dental Info - a program that helps the dentist in the process of informing patients while they get their treatment in the dental-chair. This is done by offering a series of illustrations to cover problems and treatment of different kinds of dental treatment.
On our homepage you will be able to download demos of our programs for Windows and Mac OS. There are also lots of screenshots to show the graphical user-interface and design. Everything is made using AmigaOS 4.1 and Hollywood Designer. The homepage is written in Norwegian and Danish.
We showed Dental Kanal and Dental Info to the public in December 2008 with great success! We believe that 2009 will become an interesting year.
In the end I would like to send some special greetings to Andreas. I'm not sure if all of you are aware of it, but Andreas made some very important additions to Hollywood Designer when he released version 2.1. The ability to import scripts and merge two or more scripts are important if several people are working on the same project. Also, the ability to link all graphics and other files into the main executable is very important to secure the graphics released in our software.
Thanks alot for releasing version 2.1 for free! Also the ability to save executables for both Windows and Mac OS in addition to AmigaOS is amazing. Without these changes and your great support we would not have been able to finish our products. I do hope that more users will buy Hollywood Designer and see what it has to offer.
I would also like to thank PEB for his help and support. He has helped me solving some coding-questions and also made the great tool called text2png (released on OS4Depot). Text2png is a program that allows you to save text into PNG files with alpha-channel. By doing this it is possible to have text displayed on Hollywood PC/Mac executables even if TrueType font support is missing at the moment.
Best regards,
Torgeir Vee
Ferrule Media
Norway
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04.Jan.2009
Christoph Hahn (ANF)
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AROS: VmwAROS 1.0.1
Paolo Besser who is the maintainer of the AROS-distribution VmwAROS has published an update to version 1.0.1. This update requires an installed version.
Furthermore he published a video which shows the VmwAROS.
Changes:
- New AROS-kernel and current system files
- Current SDK
- Correted sdl-config-script
- Update of ATI-Radeon-drivers
- MPlayer with three different start scripts
- Double-clicking a MP3-file opens the MPlayer in GUI-modus
- ArosAmp 0.21, MilkyTracker, VICE, HFinder and SDLcalc added
- Current versions of MuiBase, PortablE and ConfigIP-Prefs
- Some more games and applications
The update is available as 7Zip compressed ISO-file. After having unpacked and burned on a CD or integrated the ISO-images in a Virtual Machine (using the VE-version of VmwAROS) you can start the update by starting the program VmwUpdate in the directory AROS:Tools.
The update can be downloaded either under Filefront or
AmiKit.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Manual: Debian Installation on the Sam440ep
Under the title link Philippe Ferrucci described how you can install the Linux distribution Debian on a Sam440ep-System using the Bootloaders Parthenope on the same harddrive on which AmigaOS 4 was installed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PowerUp registrations: Over 650 boards registered
Matthias Münch who is owner of PowerUp hardware (PowerPC boards as well as graphic boards) has asked other users to register their boards. Until today he registered over 650 boards.
He tries to find out how many boards were produced and how many are still in use.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.4
AmiKit which is a full distribution for UAE-users is now available in version 1.5.4 and should be updated with the help of the Live-Update if you already have an installed version.
The changes in the new version are listed in the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Forum)
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MorphOS: Workaround for USB-devices under 2.x that didn't work
Under the title link Mario Kuban, based on hints from Fabien Coeurjoly, described (in German) how you can use some USB-devices which still did work under MorphOS 1.x but under version 2.0 did not any longer.
When starting you have to deactivate the pciusb.device of the USB-stack called Poseidon from the Open Firmware (boot boot.img mf=pciusb.device) and instead to use Nicolas Det's ehciusb.device 50.9 as well as Frank Mariak's uhciusb.device 51.4 in the preferences of MorphOS. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2009
ACube Systems (ANF)
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ACube: Specifications, price and picture of SAM440ep-flex
On sam440.com the specifications and the price (375 Euro plus taxes and shipping) of the successor of the Sam440ep called Sam440ep-flex were listed. Additionally there is a picture of the motherboard.
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02.Jan.2009
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Full version PairsNG
Press release The Fire still burns - The motto of the Amiga Arena applies to the year 2009 as well. We are pleased, in cooperation with the developer Christoph Kimna, to make available one of the last Shareware games of the good old times in section "Mix".
PairsNG is a puzzle game similar to "Shanghai". You can get detailed information in the preview to PairsNG in second issue of the PDF-magazine AmigaInsider.
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02.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PageStream: New manual video
In Spring of the last year Tim Doty published first manual videos for the DTP-program PageStream. Three days ago another manual was added.
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