01.Jan.2009
MorphOS Team (ANF)
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Official update for MorphOS 1.4.x
Press release: As the first release of 2009, we have prepared an update pack for the now out-of-date MorphOS 1.4.x which includes various minor improvements. Most notably, the archive includes several libraries that are required to stay compatible with new software releases, such as future Ambient versions and applications relying on PowerSDL, as many developers continue to migrate to MorphOS 2.x.
The Update Pack for MorphOS 1.4.x is available for download in our files section. To install the update, unpack the archive and copy all files to your system partition. Please take special note that this update is not intented to be installed on MorphOS 2.x and higher.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2009
(ANF)
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MorphOS 2: Ambient-Gimmick/Transparency-Demo Elephant 1.5
Elephant written by Christian Rosentreter is an Ambient-Gimmick which demonstrates the transparency function of the user-interface of MorphOS 2.0 (screenshot).
In version 1.5 some minor bugs have been fixed and a Spanish catalog has been added.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2009
Bobic (ANF)
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4Sceners.de chose best demos 2008
The editorial staff of 4Sceners.de has chosen the best demos and intros of the last year. In the position table of the best "Oldskool Demo" three Amiga demos can be found.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2009
David Brunet (ANF)
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New article on Obligement website
During the last two months some articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine called Obligement. Additional to the text mentioned below on the website the issues 92-96 of the former French magazine "Amiga News" are available.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of november/december 2008
- Old news from november 1994 to décember 1996
- Interview with Rabah Shihab (Amiga developer from Iraq)
- Interview with Jay Miner (an engineer with a dog)
- Review of Homeworld
- Review of Blobz
- Review of Video Poker Solitarus
- Review of X-Out
- Review of Xenon 2
- Review of Z-Out
- Review of Zarathrusta
- Review of Ziriax
- Hardware: µA1-C
- Hardware: Golden Gate
- Point of view: Commodore and the Amiga 4000
- Point of view: a comparison between MorphOS 2.1 and AmigaOS 4.1
- File: History of the Amiga - year 1996 (update)
- File: World Wide Web
- File: the kickstart routine of the Amiga
- Tutorial: the AmigaOS 3.x Shell
- Tutorial: installation of the Golden Gate card
- Tutorial: transfert an ADF/DMS between a PC and an Amiga via floppy disk
- Tutorial: HTML - definitions
- Tutorial: HTML - first hypertexte document
- Programmation : C/Assembler - creation of a library module
- Special quizz about Sam440ep
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Instant-Messenger PolyGlot 0.54
Already four days ago the beta version 0.54 of the Instant-Messenger PolyGlot was published. The MorphOS program written by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault supports the MSN-Network.
In the latest version you can now add graphical Smilies as well as additional information in the chat window.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2008
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Amiga Image Storage System: AISS 4.6 (Update)
Martin Merz has published an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) with which you can manage Toolbar graphics under AmigaOS and alternative systems.
Update: (08:57, 01.01.09, snx)
Besides AISS 4.6, which includes a new installation script by Thomas Klein (french translation by Philippe Bovier), Martin 'Mason' Merz did also combine all of his icon sets of the previous year into one single archive. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.40
James "jahc" Carroll has published a new update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-Network for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). The changes of this version are listed in the changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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C-Compiler: vbcc 0.9
vbcc is a C-compiler developed by Volker Barthelmann (compiler-core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptations). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, PowerUp and WarpOS and corresponds to ISO-C in accordance with ISO/IEC 9899:1989 as well as a subset of the newer standards ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99). Changes in version 0.9:
- Using vasm 1.3c and vlink 0.12 with many improvements.
- New: vlink 0.12 has experimental support for dynamic linking. The frontend supports a -static option to force static linking.
- New: -unsigned-char allows a char without qualifier to be treated as unsigned char instead of signed char.
- New: Target "MiNT" (m68k-atarimint), which is a multitasking operating system for Atari computers. The linker was extended to support the MiNT-specific embedded a.out-format in a TOS exexutables, called aoutmint.
- Fixed a bug with using bitfields in operations, which occured with -O2 optimization on big-endian hosts.
- A combination of 64-bit shift and arithmetic-and operations generated illegal code on all targets.
- Fixed bug with expressions of the form (pointer_type) (non_ptr +/- non_ptr) on machines that allow shortcutting conversion from int to pointer types.
- Fixed bug with VLA (variable length array, C99) length 0.
- Fixed illegal optimization of constant indexes in VLAs.
- The volatile keyword was ignored in some situations when using -O2 optimization or higher.
- Fixed some problems with incorrect struct-definitions after parse errors.
- Error and warning messages are redirected to stderr.
- Warning 224 must not appear, when a function returns the difference between two auto-variables.
- Exit with a fatal error when an #include-recursion is detected, which means in this case that the nesting-level is > 1023.
- Fixed __AMIGADATE__, which should add parentheses around the date.
- Fixed wrong line number after an #include directive, when the line ends with CR/LF.
- M68k code generator: Shortcut was erroneously used for (int)=(floatvar)/(floatconst)-(floatconst) converting the last floatconst into integer.
- M68k code generator: __interrupt had a discrepancy between the number of saved and restored registers.
- M68k code generator: Link register A5 got overwritten by local variables when used for a VLA.
- M68k code generator: Used an address register as DBRA counter for a struct-push operation at -O1.
- M68k code generator: For compatibility the __stdargs modifier is supported now, but ignored.
- M68k code generator: Wrong adressing Mode An,<ea> for ADD occured sometimes with -O3 optimization.
- PPC code generator: variables with a natural size of 8 (double precision float) have to be aligned to a 64-bit boundary, as not all PPC CPUs support 32-bit alignment.
- PPC code generator: VLAs didn't work inside of a structure.
- PPC code generator: 64-bit arguments were sometimes unnecessarily "extended" from 32 to 64 bits under PowerOpen-ABI (WarpOS).
- i386 code generator: Fixed some 64-bit integer bugs.
- C16x code generator: Better shift code generation.
- C16x code generator: Fixed bug with save_result and r==tp.
- vclib: Made freopen() depend on fopen() to make sure that the destructor which closes all open files is called.
- vclib m68k: Returned sign of modulo operation was wrong in the cases (+)%(-) and (-)%(-).
- vclib PowerUp: Fixed libpowerup.so, which can be generated by vlink now.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2008
Amiga-Forever-Team (ANF)
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Amiga (Forever) Meetup in Lisbon on Sunday
Press release We are organizing a meetup in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sunday, January 4th, 2009, to meet with Amiga friends in person. If you are interested in joining, or have suggestions, please follow the event link on Facebook, and kindly confirm there, if attending.
A wonderful 2009 to all!
Michael C. Battilana (snx)
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30.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: Sales partner wanted
According to the AmigaOS-4 distributor ACube Systems Srl. under the title link the Italian company is looking for sales partner for his products (e.g. the PowerPC-board SAM440ep) for the following areas: Africa, Asia, India, Oceania, Russia and South America.
Additionally the Amiga users in these countries and continents are asked for help. They are supposed to point out these companies to ACube Systems. There is a list of the existing sales partner on the homepage.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga.SF: LAME 3.98.2 and UnRAR 3.80
The MP3-Encoder LAME and the unpacker UnRAR have been updated. LAME is available for 68020- and 68060-processors and UnRAR for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (already included into its version 2.2).
Download links:
Lame 3.98.2.lha
UnRAR 3.80.lha
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2008
Amigans.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Allegro ported / First games available
Colin 'Hitman' Ward has ported Allegro, which is an open-source library for the programming of computer games, for AmigaOS 4 and compiled the first games. In version 1.0 the support of MIDI as well as some rarely used functions are still missing.
With the port of Allegro the corresponding Bounty-project was fulfilled which had about 500 Euro.
As the first games the adventure Sword of Fargoal, the Jump 'n' Run Ghouls 'n' Ghosts Remix, the platform game Alex the Allegator 4 and
Zombiepox were compiled for AmigaOS 4.
Download:
allegro_1.0.lha (2 MB)
allegrosdk_1.0.lha (2 MB)
alex4.lha (805 KB)
ggr.lha (5 MB)
swordoffargoal.lha (424 KB)
zombiepox.lha (368 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Games That Weren't: 4 new entries
Amiga Games That Weren't is a website about Amiga games which have been never published. After a break of two years today four new entries have been added.
Information and download links of the games Harold (The Hairy Hermit), One Step Beyond, Flower and Dragon have been added. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2008
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: File manager DrawerBall 0.6c
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin's DrawerBall 0.6c, a directory tool, supports now user menus. You can define by yourself user menus to execute programs.
Preconfigured are three user menus that make use of standard commands of the MorphOS installation: pack lha archive, extract lha archive and show version of binaries. Many bugfixes have been done compared with the previous release from October 2008. (snx)
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29.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet Gnumeric 1.6.3 for AmiCygnix 1.0
Because the X11-environment for AmigaOS 4, AmiCygnix, was updated the same author Edgar Schwan has published an adapted port of the spreadsheet Gnumeric 1.6.3.
Download: gnumeric.lha (19 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2008
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Graphic program: SView5 2.61
Andreas Kleinert's picture editing software SView5 is specially meant for automated editing and converting of big amounts of pictures.
The current update includes minor adaptations and bugfixes. Additionally it is now offcially confirmed that it works under AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2008
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Database: MUIbase 2.7
Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Changes in version 2.7:
- Implemented quick search for user functions popups
- Merged settings for updating virtual attributes ('On different record'
and 'On dependent change') into one setting 'Auto update'
- New 'Enabled' setting for attributes and window buttons:
'Always enabled' 'Disabled in initial', and 'Compute enabled'
with optional compute function
- Changing the active line in a list of a virtual attribute causes
the update of objects depending on the attribute. This allows e.g.
to enable or disable buttons depending on the active list entry
- GETDISABLED, SETDISABLED, GETWINDOWDISABLED and SETWINDOWDISABLED
are now obsolete. When an obsolete functions is called, it can be
ignored silently, a warning can be generated, or an error be reported
- Command strings for external editor and view can contain '%p' which
is replaced by the name of the public screen MUIbase has been opened
(Amiga only)
- New function for programming: PUBSCREEN which returns the name of the
public screen MUIbase is running on or NIL if the screen is not public.
On Linux and Windows, PUBSCREEN always returns NIL.
- The window dimensions of structure editor, query editor and program
editor are now also remembered on Windows and Linux
- Improved handling of illegal UTF-8 sequences and codeset conversion errors
- Several bug fixes
The MUIbase distribution contains ports for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Forum)
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MorphOS: Bounty-project of an Instant Messenger started
A Bounty-program of the Pegasosforum for an Instant Messenger was started. Under the title link the project was described in detail and started by Marcin Kielesinski. The author is developing an messenger called BrainWasher. The current bounty balance is 42 Euro.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Sputnik-bounties will be payed back
According to Troels Ersking who is the initiator of a bounty program which should adapt the Sputnik to AmigaOS 4, he canceled this program and hopes to pay back the bounties until the end of the year.
The author of Sputnik, Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski, had recently announced that he only had to change the MUI 4 component to MUI 3.x which will require about two more months of development but because of "missing communication, slow development and not-met deadlines" the bounty-program was now canceled.
Update: (12:48, 27.12.08, snx)
Menawhile Troels Ersking has given detailed information about the restitution of the bounties. He asks all donators to contact him with their names and their PayPal-E-Mail-addresses as well as the request how the money should be used.
The money can be payed back as well as it can be donated for different bounty programs. If you will not contact him until 31st January 2009 the money will be given to projects of other ports of web browsers (NetSurf or OWB).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: MilkyTracker 0.90.80
Milkytracker is a fully compatible clone of ProTracker and FastTracker II but has a highly improved editor. Paolo Besser has now compiled the program for AROS/x86 (screenshot).
Download:
milkytracker-0.90.80-aros-i386.tgz (5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2008
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: XMLViewer 0.9
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski's XMLViewer is a little MUI-program based on the expat.library which can view XML-files under MorphOS 2.x (screenshot). Under MorphOS 1.4.x it may work as well if you use the MUI-class aboutbox.mcc but it has been not tested.
Download: xmlviewer.lha (159 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2008
Ivan Teskera, VooDoo (ANF)
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Amiga-portal VooDoo accessible under old address again
The probably only Amiga news portal of the Balkans, called VooDoo, can be now accessed again under its original address voodoo-amiga.com.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: DVD-Engine 0.2
Carsten Siegner's DVD-Engine is an user-interface for a lot of existing command line programs which is supposed to make it more easy to create video or picture-DVDs. Now alpha version 0.2 is available which the author decribed in this way:
"I uploaded an update of my program DVD-Engine to my server. This update includes a new main feature which makes it possible to create subtitles. Per chapter you can create one subtitle. Variable times of fading out and in as well as subtitles consisting of several lines are possible. If you want to create a video-DVD it is now also possible to set the picture aspect. Additionally some bugs have been fixed.
By the way, there are some native MorphOS versions of a lot of required Shell tools. For example the MorphOS version of the tool dvdauthor is twice as fast as 68k-version."
Download: dvd-engine-0.2.lha (514 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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