26.Nov.2008
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Historical: The "rest" on a Kickstart 1.0-disk
For a longer time it is known that the Kickstart 1.0-disks, which were delivered with the Amiga 1000, contained data which had nothing to do with the Amiga: Probably the developers took an used disk for the master disk which was not completely deleted before.
A hacker now has tried to recover these data.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Nov. 2008, 15:06] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2008
Steve Ellesmore (E-Mail)
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Kick Off-Magazine: The Aftertouch, issue 6
"The Aftertouch" is an English PDF-magazine which is about the well-known game Kick Off 2 (KO2). The current issue includes an interview with the organizers of the Ko2 World Championship 2008 in Athen as well as talkings with the winners of the last championship. Additionally there are informationen about the "Competition Version" of KO2 as well as hints for organizing your own tournament.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Nov. 2008, 14:23] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2008
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Sensible World of Soccer: Teams of season 08/09
For Sensible World of Soccer (SWoS) inofficial updates are still published which provide the new teams and statistics.
Under the title link an archive is available which should be at least compatible with SWoS 95/96 and SWoS 96/97.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Nov. 2008, 15:55] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2008
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Event: World of Commodore Canada (6. December)
For the sixth times the Toronto PET User's Group has organized the "World of Commodore" which will take place on 6th December this year.
In future the event will focus much more on the Amiga. Therefore Amiga users are very welcome. The World of Commodore 2008 attended about 100 visitors.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Nov. 2008, 17:21] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)
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LinuxToday: Linux Should Copy Amiga
On the Linux portal called LinuxToday Carla Schroder demanded that Linux should not try to outperform Mac OS X with elegance and functionality. One should go a step further trying to measure up to AmigaOS.
In her article Schroder introduced some features of AmigaOS which still are unique.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Nov. 2008, 17:14] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2008
HelmutH (ANF)
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Cubic IDE: Erweiterung für Hollywood-Programme
For the integrated development environment Cubic IDE, Michael 'Clyde Radcliffe' Jurisch has published an add-on for creating multimedia applications with Hollywood.
You can get further information under the title link. If you have any comments you can tell them to the author in the forum of Amiga Resistance.
Download site
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2008, 18:26] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 34
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English Podcast produced by Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald and Bill Panagouleas where Amiga users and invited guests discussed current events in the Amiga scene. The topics of the 34th issue with 'Cecilia' as guest:
- AmiWest 2008 a success?
- Long Island Amiga Club
- EEO game console?
- Interview with Cecilia
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2008, 12:15] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2008
PPA (website)
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PPA: Interview with Chris Young
Jacek Kapitkowski has interviewed Chris Young at the title link. Mainly his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser NetSurf is discussed. (snx)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2008, 08:51] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Compiler: ECX 2.0.0
ECX is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. ECX requires an installed installation of the Amiga-E-package. The changes of the new version 2.0.0 are listed in the readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2008, 14:17] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2008
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: Hardware and software upgrade for the C-One
Press release The C-One is unique with its architecture until today: The central components can re-configure each other while the machine is running. If you wanted to do this with a traditional computer, you would have to exchange PCI cards or even the processor while it is turned on. The process took a few seconds, reminding the user of the speed of computers of the 80's. Although the C-One always aimed at resembling computers of that decade, that kind of speed is not acceptable for a current machine. FPGA developer Tobias Gubener has re-written the startup-procedure of the C-One (comparable to the BIOS of a normal PC) from scratch to overcome this.
The new software is called "Newboot" and it is free to every C-One owner. It is not necessary to work on the C-One's hardware, as it is just a flash upgrade. Still, the performance of the new startup is stunning. Instead of the elderly 80's design, the C-One now welcomes you with a graphical menu and almost triple speed. While browsing through the menus, the FPGAs on the board are re-configured a number of times without the user even noticing. With Newboot, the C-One has made the final step to everyday-usability after a development time of five years.
With the FPGA Extender card that is available since yesterday, the C-One even overcomes the limitation of emulating only 8-bit systems. Tobias Gubener has ported Dennis van Weeren's Minimig as a first demonstration of the new capabilities: In addition to VIC-20, C64 and Amstrad CPC, the C-One can now run 32-bit systems like the Amiga. The FPGA capacity of the C-One is increased almost by a factor of five with the extender board! The technical data in short:
- Cyclone 3 FPGA in 65 nanometer technology
- 16 MByte RAM with up to 333 MByte per second data rate
- Stereo delta-sigma audio converter
- Two crystals for exact PAL and NTSC clocks
- High-bandwidth interface to the C-One
- Simple installation without soldering
- Price: 99 EUR (*)
New C-One boards are sold with the extender-card pre-installed for 333 EUR (*). You can find more pictures and information on the website of the C-One.
(*) Recommended retail price including German sales tax of 19%. Prices at our retail partners may vary. For mail ordering, shipping may be added. (snx)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2008, 07:36] [Comments: 0]
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21.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.2
AmiKit which is a complete distribution for UAE-users is now available in version 1.5.2 and should be installed with the live-update function. Furthermore there is a download mirror.
The changes are listed in the changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Nov. 2008, 15:13] [Comments: 0]
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21.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0-svn-2008.11.09
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the media player MPlayer (screenshot). Changes in this version:
- Updated to 09.11.2008 svn (r27902). To be noted it at least fixes some recently introduced issue with some mpeg4 files (googlevideo for instance).
- More work on GUI module:
- Option to resize window to original movie dimensions (or 50%/200%).
- Record option to dump a netstream (only works for cached streams for now).
- Directories can now be dropped to main window/playlists, or opened from menu.
- Shuffle option in playlist.
- Metadata title field is displayed in status string, if available
- ICY information (shoutcast) displayed in status string, if available.
- Some files would sometimes be skipped in playlist. Fixed.
- Reworked a bit GUI show/hide behaviour.
- GUI can now be started in fullscreen (-fs/fs=1)
- Status string was refreshed more than necessary.
- General fixes:
- Increased a bit audio buffer length with ao_ahi driver.
- There could be some "hickup at start" effect when playing a new file in playlist. Fixed.
- Snapshot filenames are truncated (if necessary) to preserve indexes.
Download:
Standard-Version: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.09.lha (9,1 MB)
Altivec-Version: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.11.09.altivec.lha (9,2 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.15
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser (screenshot). The Cairo-library has been linked with the program. That means OWB 2.15 can be also used under AmigaOS 4.0 again. The changes in detail:
- The CONFIRMQUIT tooltype was only checked for the quit menu but not
for the close menu when the last window is closed, fixed (bugs.os4depot.net issue #44)
- Using version 2.7.1 of libxml2 instead of 2.7.2 again, should fix some
crashes
- Built the current versions of libcairo and libpixman-1 as static link
libraries, with the static libraries OWB works on AmigaOS 4.0 again.
- OWB 2.15 is linked with static libraries. Might fix the startup
crashes I never get on my systems, but could cause even more crashes
since most of the static versions of the libraries I have are older
than the shared versions and very likely have more bugs.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Nov.2008
(ANF)
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Amiga/Hyperion: Conciliation conference
Today representatives of Amiga Inc., Hyperion and Eyetech have met for a conciliation conference in Seattle. The aim of the conference is a settlement out-of-court but that does not have to mean the end of the legal dispute. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2008, 15:38] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Quake 3-clone OpenArena 0.8.1
OpenArena is an open source clone of the well-known 3D-shooter Quake 3 which uses the free Quake 3-sources and adds own levels, figures and sound effects. The AmigaOS-version was ported by Juha "Capehill" Niemimäki.
Download: openarena.lha (794 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2008, 15:14] [Comments: 0]
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