18.Nov.2008
NovaBurst (ANF)
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Interview with AROS developer Stanislaw Szymczyk
For his blog "The AROS Show", Paul J. Beel did an interview with Stanisław Szymczyk. Among other topics, he discusses his work on the AROS Self-Compilation bounty, his fascination with computers and plans for the future. (snx)
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18.Nov.2008
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Booklet of CSG-auction 1994
CSG ("Commodore Semiconductor Group") were responsible for the design and the production of alsmost all chips which were used in Commodore computers.
In 1992 the company had to apply for creditor protection but was only bought after the decline of Commodore in 1994. You can find scans of a booklet of this CSG-auction under the title link.
You can get further (English) information about MOS Technology/CSG under commodore.ca.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2008
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MorphOS: Diagram creator Plot 1.7
Plot is a MUI-class with an example program written by Grzegorz "krashan" Kraszewski and Michal "rzookol" Zukowski with which you can create diagrams (screenshot).
The latest version can export data and diagrams in ODS-format of OpenOffice.org.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Arena: New "old" full versions of applications
The section "Tools" of the Amiga Arena was opened again and will be filled with full versions of applications which could be already downloaded in the past. The first applications are Alphabase, AmiFIG, ArtEffect 1.5, ArtPro, F-Base, FileX, FLM, HippoPlayer, Lotto and MuiVideo.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmiKit: WinUAE-Updater
For the emulator distribution AmiKit an Add-On is available which will automatically update WinUAE which is included in the archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2008
PPA (Webseite)
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File system: Ext2FS 0.36
With Marek Szyprowski's Ext2FS you can work with the Second Extended FileSystem (ext2) and ext3 under MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x.
Version 0.36 includes an experimental support of some extensions which are used by Ext3-media which were created with the Linux distribution Fedora Core. Additionally the DOS-notofication is now supported (ACTION_ADD_NOTIFY / ACTION_REMOVE_NOTIFY).
Download: ext2fs_0.36.lha (95 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.14 / OWB Address Book 2.2
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Please note that Cairo is required which currently is only available for AmigaOS 4.1.
The address book was also updated and is no longer part of the browser archive.
Changes in OWB 2.14:
- Removed the AddressBook from the OWB archive, it's available on os4depot.net now (network/browser/owbaddressbook.lha)
- Updated to SVN revision 641
- Added support for openamiga.org extended default mouse pointers http://openamiga.org/?function=viewproject&projectid=35 (bugs.os4depot.net issue #40) and moved the included pointers to Resources/Storage, except for contextMenuCursor which is missing in the openamiga.org project. If you want to use the included pointers instead of the openamiga.org ones, or own pointers, you have to put them into the Resources directory
- Fixed a bug in the AutoInstall script
- Built current versions of libxml2 and libxslt
- If the CONFIRMQUIT tooltype is enabled it displays a requester when using the quit menu as well now (bugs.os4depot.net issue #44)
- Added GETURL ARexx command
- If there is a 2nd %s in the BOOKMARKCOMMAND it's replaced by the pubscreen name of the screen on which the OWB window is now
Download:
owb.lha (6 MB)
owbaddressbook.lha (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2008
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Windows/Linux: AmigaDOS Amiga Disk File Checker
With ADFCHK ("AmigaDOS Amiga Disk File Checker") you can check if Amiga-Disk-Images have checksum errors or simple bootblock viruses ("LAMER" is already recognized, "boot-lamer" will follow).
The tool is mainly meant for using in batch files where you want to check many files. There are three corresponding .BAT-scripts for Windows users. The "menu-modus" is still in a very early developing status.
Linux users have to compile ADFCHK for yourself. All required parts are included in the source code archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2008
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Voting to "Innovation Price 2008" of CGG
The Dutch "Commodore Gebruikers Groep" (CGG) endows the Innovation Price 2008 for the best product or the best developer at its last meeting this year. The winner will be found by a voting on the website of CGG. The price will be given at the "C=Show" on 20. December.
You can access the voting by clicking on the photos of the trophy.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 35
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). The changes are listed in the changelog.
The author points out that SabreMSN currently only supports the older version of the MSN-protocol for the data exchange. If an incoming transfer is displayed ("Waiting for incoming file..") but it will not start then the sender used the new version of the protocol.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: November issue with report from Bad Bramstedt
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Issue November inludes a report about the Amiga meeting in Bad Bramstedt (Germany). Additionally there are Amiga news and information from the demo scene. The magazine is hosted as FLV movies at Google Video and Vimeo.
Because there is not a corresponding server, the "download"-version with 333 MB currently is only available as E-Mail. Interested users may contact amitopia@gmail.com. If you have possibilities to host Amitopia files with a size of 200-400 MB then please write to the same email address. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: PFTP 0.4
Pete's FTP (screenshot) written by Peter Gordon has been published in version 0.4. The changes in detail:
- When you couldn't connect to a server, PFTP would
hang. Fixed.
- Icon is now a proper Amiga icon. Didn't realise it
was png because i have the png iconmodule installed
and i just copied over the file i got from Mason
and forgot about it.
- Now copes with servers that include a total number
of files with the file listing at the top. Thanks
to Magnus Andersson for his help with this one.
- Now doesn't crash if you click a link in the about
window without OpenURL installed.
- The local browser thread didn't properly keep track
of how many messages it was expecting a reply for,
and could sometimes hang around waiting for
responses it had already received. Fixed.
- If you started some local-to-local transfers, and
one of them failed for any reason, the ones after
it wouldn't start. Fixed.
- Local-to-local transfers that had a read or write
error during transfer were treated as if they
succeeded. Fixed.
- If a transfer failed, it would be silently added to
the failed transfer list, and an error message
printed in the log. This is easily missed during
bulk transfers. Now there is an error log for errors
that occur during transfers, which pops up to let you
know something went wrong. Items in bold are new
ones since the last time the error log window was
closed. Thanks to Mario Cattaneo for making me get
around to this finally :)
- Improved the error handling and detection for SFTP.
- If you selected more than one directory, but no files,
and deleted them, only the first one would be deleted.
Fixed. (Thanks to Janne Peräaho for the report).
- If you deleted a directory, but no files, the browser
wouldn't be refreshed aftwards. Fixed. (Thanks to Janne
Peräaho for the report).
- Added a debug menu to make it easier to find and
fix faults that i can't reproduce
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2008
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MorphOS: HivelyTracker 1.6
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format. AHX was developed in the 90ies being able to write music tracks which are similar to the typical chip sound of the SID (sound chip of the C64).
"BuZz" which already ported the OS4-version to AROS and AmigaOS 3 has now published a port for MorphOS as well.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.0.31
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari-ST emulator. The changes in version 1.0.31 are included in the readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Nov. 2008, 07:46] [Comments: 0]
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12.Nov.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Word Me Up XXL 1.1
The game "Word Me Up XXL" developed by Boing Attitude combines arcade and puzzle elements and is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS now in version 1.1 . The update is free for registered users. Additionally there is a demo version with foru of the 60 levels.
Changes:
- Design and graphical arts enhancements (5 themes were fully reworked, 4 others were improved)
- Faster loading and effects on subsidiary screens: "dark" effect, "Shop" and "Digicode" screens
- Automatic handling of next level (if you didn't collect enough money or keys, previous level is displayed again)
- An improved setup tool: joystick port setting (already included in previous MorphOS release), musics pre-loading, online help
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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AC3-Encoder (MUI-GUI for aften)
AC3-Encoder is a simple, MUI-based graphical user-interface for the command line program aften.
Additionally to RxMUI and ARexx, version 13.0.0 or higher of sox (sox-13.0.0.lha, 1 MB; MorphOS version) must be installed to create 5-channel-wave-files which aften requires.
All wave-files must be available in the format mono / 16 Bit / 48000 Hz and must not be compressed. The AC3-file is created with 448 Kbit and therefore corresponds the standard-AC3-streams of DVDs.
ac3encoder.lha (12 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Amiga Image Storage System: Service-Release AISS 4.5
Version 4.5 of the Amiga Image Storage System (AISS), a system to store, access and maintain toolbar images under AmigaOS and alternative systems, is available now at Masonicons.de.
Highlights:
- 353 new and 169 reworked images
- Optimized installation script by Thore Boeckelmann
Please note that the installation process may take some time and no progress requester will be displayed. (snx)
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11.Nov.2008
amigans.net (Webseite)
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dnetc-client with OGR-26-support
Oliver Roberts has published the latest version of the dnetc-client provided by distributed.net for different AmigaOS-versions which supports the OGR-26 as well. There is also a MorphOS-port which was written by Harry "Piru" Sintonen.
Direct download:
AmigaOS 3: dnetc507-amigaos-68k.lha (658 KB)
AmigaOS 4: dnetc507b-amigaos-ppc.lha (780 KB)
WarpOS: dnetc507-amigaos-ppc-wos.lha (666 KB)
PowerUp: dnetc507-amigaos-ppc-pup.lha (674 KB)
dnetc507b-morphos-ppc.lha (715 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
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AmigaOS 4: WarpOS-emulation 16.40 with Sam440-support
Jörg Strohmayer's WarpOSEmu is a reimplementation of the powerpc.library. With it you can start WarpOS-applications under AmigaOS 4. The former versions of the wrapper do not work with the Sam440. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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OctaMED SoundStudio V2: Programmer wanted
For OctaMED SoundStudio which is the first 8-channel-tracker a programmer is wanted who develops the old Amiga version 1.03c further. Version 2.0 muste be finished during the next year.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 11. Nov. 2008, 07:41] [Comments: 0]
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