28.Oct.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 1.5.3
As usual the developers of the well-known emulator WinUAE has given a preview of the next version. WinUAE 1.5.3 will be published in two weeks and includes several bug fixes as well as minor improvements of the emulation of the Custom Chips.
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27.Oct.2008
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Report and pictures of the Colmar Multimedia-Expo
Last weekend the Colmar Multimedia-Expo took place and Philippe Bourdin reports for Amiga-News.de and a gallery of the event can be found on his private website.
As a special highlight the Relec-team comprised of Emmanuel Rey and Sébastien Jeudy presented a kiosk system from KiOSKLiNEA / PASCOAL design at their booth. The system consists of industrial components like a vandalism-proof keyboard internals based on a SAM440ep. Additionally an infra-red touch screen was used, which was able to read the position of the finger (converted to the screen size) with a resolution of 32000x32000 pixels. The touch screen is available as a standard component with USB-connector and Windows-driver and will be physically mounted on top of a normal LCD display panel as an overlay device. AmigaOS 4.1 was installed in order to demonstrate the kiosk system.
Simon "Rigo" Archer created an OS4-driver for this touch screen in three days, without having access to the Windows-sources or the hardware documentation. Nonetheless, the driver has a very high resolution and is able work even with very fast movements, which can be transposed relatively easy with the hardware-accelerated compositing in AmigaOS.
ACube Systems was also present at the booth and showed the Minimig-board amongst others. For future developments, Philippe "Elwood" Ferrucci said in his presentation at the presentaion booth that ACube is happy about the public interest in SAM440ep and that the SAM440ep-flex (sometimes shortened as "SAM 1.5") will become available in the next few months. SAM440ep and the flex-variant (with 3 PCI slots but no onboard graphics) are the current product line-up and which will include the Flex available in the near future.
In principle, the target for current and future developments are the embedded market because of the advantages of the SAM support of light-weight operating system like AmigaOS and Linux. In particular the low power consumption of around 20 watts, the low operating temperature around 40 °C and the possibility for absolutely silent machine without any moving parts are best suited for special needs of certain applications in that area. Together with two Ethernet connectors even routing applications are possible. ZigBee and ccTalk are among the many variations that are perfect for industrial application customers.
The SAM440ep-flex will be bundled with AmigaOS 4.1 and Relec will offer it in the already known REL80 case (picture), because the TheRedOne case (picture) is only suited for the SAM440ep. There are negotiations going on for additional software bundles like the one with "Word Me Up XXL".
Whilst talking with Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden, the current priority in development of AmigaOS has clearly been formulated to finish the SAM-version of AmigaOS as soon as possible. This will then be delivered (including the SAM backplates) cost-free for previous customers. A new SDK for AmigaOS 4.1 is expected around December time that is going into beta testing very soon and will presumably include the gcc compiler 4.2.4 as well as Cairo header files. After these steps there is still work ongoing with Blender and some other project that is still not publicly announced on purpose.
Costel "Cyborg" Mincea is currently working on network drivers and would like to see new developers become involved on a Bluetooth project. Other important projects may include an AmigaOS version of wxWidgets that would ease a port of AudioEvolution. For applications like GIMP, a wrapper for GTK+ is helpful, since Cairo 2.8 is supported as a backend. Interested programmers are very welcome to apply to join.
Stéphane Guillard is currently working on a SATA 2 driver and "command queuing", which works quite similar to SCSI-reselect on the classic Amiga. One of his wishes would be a developer, who could work on a Firewire harddisk driver, which should not be a too challenging task, but first USB-2 on AmigaOS has the more priority.
Furthermore Jean-Francois "Voxel" Bachelet of the Voxel Amiga Shop and Jean-Jacques Boulet of the Amiga Reper Center have been there and were taking CyberstormPPC cards and AmigaOne boards for repair.
Unfortunately, the state of an OpenOffice-port is unchanged, basically whilst there was huge interest, no developer team for such a big project could yet been formed.
Additionally the Relec booth has had, beside the SAM systems, Pegasos and Efika systems running MorphOS 2 which could be tried out by the visitors.
Finally, a worthy mention of RMS Communications, who were surprised by the big public interest in their business software, for which they have been awarded the "Trophées de l'innovation" (innovation award) in the software category. The author Christoph Pölzl worked for around two and a half years on this hobby project, which can be seen as a competitor to SAPs SME-software (info) containing address database, project administration, purchasing, raw materials and finished product stockkeeping, accounting and in future even an internet shop as well as HTML and PDF export. The software is based on MUIbase, which is continually being improved by Steffen Gutmann.
The Colmar Multimedia-Expo has shown a lot of entertainment electronics, but Relec and ACube have built up some promising business contacts, and were very pleased with the outcome of the show.
The Amiga-News.de team wish the best of luck and much success to all participants! A special thank to Simon Archer for his help for the translation! (dr) (Translation: dr)
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26.Oct.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.13
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Please note that currently AmigaOS 4.1 is required. The changes since the last release:
- Disabled the normal and wait mouse pointers. They are still included as Resources/disabled-pointerCursor.info and disabled-waitCursor.info, if you want to use them in OWB instead of the system ones rename them to pointerCursor.info and waitCursor.info (bugs.os4depot.net issue #34)
- Added a frame around the status bar (bugs.os4depot.net issue #33)
- Updated to SVN revision 600
- Added PUBSCREEN tooltype for changing the name of the public screen
- For font families without bold/italic fonts OWB now constructs them from the regular font of the family instead of using fonts from the fallback font families
- Added displaying the source
- Added support for external bookmark tools, tooltype BOOKMARKCOMMAND, the first %s is replaced by OWB's ARexx port name (bugs.os4depot.net issue #13)
- Included Paul E. Bloedel's AddressBook
- Included Fredrik Wikstrom's OWBLauncher tool with the splash image from Martin 'Mason' Merz (bugs.os4depot.net issue #32)
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26.Oct.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Video of AmiWest 2008
Robert Bernardo memeber of the Fresno Commodore User Group recorded a video of the AmiWest 2008 which he published in two parts at blip.tv. You can see presentations by Jens Schönfeld (Indivdual Computers), Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit), Richard Drummond (Hyperion) and Steven Solie (Amiga Users of Calgary).
Video links:
Part 1
Part 2
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26.Oct.2008
Andre 'Ratte' Pfeiffer (ANF)
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KICKTOS: Kickstart disk for the Amiga 1000 with Atari TOS
Andre Pfeiffer wrote: In contrast to all other available Atari-ST-emulators KICKTOS boots a TOS (V1.02) to the original memory address where.
Because it hast only a size of 192 KB it was possible to set all Amiga specific special routines in the memory behind the TOS. The Amiga-1000-WOM has 256 KB;. Therefore for the Amiga specific routines 64 KB remains.
With the Amiga hardware the TOS is safe from destroying by overwriting and the whole normal memory remains for the applications.
The current version is only a technology demo because some adaptions of the memory management and keyboard requests must be improved.
A special thank to Toni Wilen who helped me with the peculiarities of the 68000. I only had to write KICKTOS 20 years ago... (snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2008
Stanislaw Szymczyk (AROS-ML)
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AROS: Demo-CD for compiling the operating system under AROS
Stanislaw Szymczyk tries to achieve that the operating system AROS can be compiled under itself. The corresponding bounty project muste be finished until 1. December and currently 410 US-Dollar were donated.
For the first time the current update of his demo CD allows you to compile AROS. The compilation currently is limited to within the RAM Disk. For this about 512 MB of memory are required. The compalition lasts about six hours with a 2-GHz-processor.
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[News message: 25. Oct. 2008, 09:45] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: ACube Systems at Brusaporto Retrocomputing (Italy)
On 26. October close to Bergamo, Italy, the Brusaporto Retrocomputing 2008 will take place. With Libero Moschella a member of ACube Systems will take part and will tell about AmigaOS 4.1, the Sam440ep-Board and the Minimig.
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23.Oct.2008
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Amiga Anywhere: Games for the Evo Smart Console
Under the title link Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation has announced for November the Evo Smart Console based on auf Linux/x86 with games for Amiga Anywhere which you can buy in the webshop of Amiga Inc.
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23.Oct.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Status-Update October 2008
Under the title link Paolo Besser has described the latest developments of the open source operating system AROS.
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[News message: 23. Oct. 2008, 13:32] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2008
Michal Schulz (E-Mail)
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AROS: USB-Mass-Storage-Bounty started
Michal Schulz has started the bounty project which in the end should deliver a DOS device driver for AROS with which you can connect file systems of USB devices.
In his Blog the developer explained that this feature is required for his Efika port project (Bounty #18) and that he cannot longer wait for the required amount of money for the Poseidon port. Currently 1465 of the required 4000 US-Dollar were donated. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Oct.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.77
NoWinED is a MUI-based text editor for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS. The changes you can read in the changelog.
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21.Oct.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RSS-Reader XNet-RSS 53.1
XNet-RSS shows RSS-feeds which are short messages.
Changes in version 53.1:
- Prefs: support for new transparency features in main window and news bar window (require AOS4.1)
- Prefs: could be started in iconified mode
- Prefs: max size of the displayed news channel icons could be set via env var (default to 16)
- GUI: added a vertical bar to resize the two main listbrowsers
- GUI: now uses requester.class instead of the ugly easyrequester
- Localization: added french and spanish catalogs (thanks to Alexandre and Emilio)
- Localization: reworked news translation via Babelfish
- RSS: improved RSS feeds compatibility
- RSS: improved error handling
- Bugs: removed a couple of nasty bugs in audio and bitmap handling (thanks to Stefano Guidetti and Martin Mckenzy)
Download: xnet_rss.lha (1 MB)
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