21.Dec.2008
Martin "DaFreak" Rebentisch (ANF)
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Musik: Liquid Skies records #106 (XMAS Special)
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 106th musicpack. This time it includes a music track in Jazz-style which Konrad Lukaszewicz played. The cover was created by DaFreak.
- Title: So Much Of U
- Musicans: Konrad
- Style: Jazz
- Play time: 2:17
- Format: MP3, 160kbps
- Size: 2.7 MB
With this release the group wants to say thank you and wishes all Merry Christmas.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Dec.2008
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: X11-environment AmiCygnix 1.0
AmiCygnix (the previous beta versions were called "Cygnix") is a X11-environment and makes it possible to launch Unix-applications under AmigaOS with only few changes at the source code (screenshot).
AmiCygnix is not compatible with the previous versions. All available applications must be adapted. The first updates will follow soon with AbiWord 2.6.2 and Gnumeric 1.6.3.
AmiCygnix will be delivered as two archives: The basis package includes the complete X11-environment and the additional Tools-archive includes some applications and preference programs.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2008, 10:13] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.20
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes in version 2.20:
- Some more small font tweaks, for example at 13px the bold Arial got a different size than the regular one
- Updated curl-ca-bundle.crt
- Reenabled drawing and scrolling optimisations while a page is still loading since it didn't fix the problems on AmigaOS 4.0
- Disabled progress bar when running on AmigaOS 4.0, it didn't test it but maybe that fixes the freezes
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS 2.2 published
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.2, a free update for users of MorphOS 2.1 and 2.0. In addition to numerous bug fixes, MorphOS 2.2 includes additional optimizations and new features such asKryptos, a "disk encryption suite". For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
A description of the hardware requirements and installation procedures can be found here. MorphOS 2.2 is available for download in our files section.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Dec.2008
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Amiga Forever 2008 Value Edition: New Version, Content and Price
Press release When Amiga Forever 2008 was released less than six months ago, it was accompanied by a name change in the entry level edition: the former Online Edition was renamed Value Edition. This was to signal another change further along the road, which was put into practice today.
Amiga Forever Value Edition has been repositioned to focus on content that can be played back in version 1.3 ROM and Workbench environments (whereas the Plus and Premium editions also include all other versions from 1.0 to 3.x). More than 70% of the thousands of games available for legal download from their original publishers and from Amiga preservation sites can be run with the new Value Edition.
The new Amiga Forever 2008 Value Edition includes 50 games, some of the best demoscene productions, and a selection of additional items at the low price of $9.95 (local taxes may apply, or 9.95 euros inclusive of VAT). The Value Edition comes in an 80 MB downloadable installer for Windows, and incorporates all the previous minor updates (build 2008.0.12.0), the latest WinUAE version, and the Software Director tool to manage future free updates.
The Value Edition is also available for free in partnership with TrialPay, if ordered together with a product or service from other affiliated sites.
Also in consideration of the twelve minor updates released so far, version 2008 remains the current version for all editions of Amiga Forever. The next release in the series will be C64 Forever, planned for the first quarter of 2009. (snx)
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20.Dec.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: MPlayer ported
Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Smiechowicz has adapted Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly's MorphOS-port of the video play program MPlayer to AROS/x86 (screenshot).
The AROS-version supports 3dnow and recognizes the used processor. SSE/SSE2 is being not supported. The sound output also is limited: The modi s16be and s17le work while others (24, 32, ac3) does not. If you have some "problem videos" then please send them to the author. Furthermore the WMV- and ASF-files can be played in the native AROS-version but cannot played on hosted versions.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Dec.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: Christmas special (week 51) online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. The topics of this issue include a MPlayer review, a report about the Amiga 1000 and a guide for TVPaint.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 11:04] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: hpdf.library 1.0 / mng.library 1.1
Ilkka Lehtoranta has ported the libHaru-library for creating PDF-files with MorphOS 2.x.
Additionally the mng.library is available in version 1.1. Multi-Image Network Graphics is a format which describes animated graphic files. The library requires MorphOS 2.x as well as thelittlecms.library.
Download:
hpdf.lha (1 MB)
mnglib.lha (347 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 10:22] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FLAC-Player for AmiNetRadio (Update)
Under the title link Jacek 'jacaDcaps' Piszczek has published a FLAC-player for AmiNetRadio. The Plug-in is available in two versions (with and without Altivec-support) and supports 16-Bit-Stereo files as well as meta data.
Because the FLAC-player uses the 64-Bit-DOS-API introduced with MorphOS 2.0 as well as the conversion from UCS4 to ANSI introduced with version 2.1 the latest version of MorphOS is required.
Update: (18:48, 20.12.08, snx)
Meanwhile version 4.1b2 has been released which contains some bugfixes and optimisations, especially for computers without Altivec support. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Dec.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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MorphOS: Current MemTest-speeds of Mac-Mini-version
Under the title link Jacek Piszczek has published the current speed figures for writing in the main and graphic board memory under the MorphOS-version for Apple's Mac Mini which is being developed.
Comparing models with 1,5-GHz-processor, 1,42 GHz (both equipped with Radeon 9200) and a Pegasos 2 wit 1 GHz which is equipped with the Pro version of the graphic board. The Mac Mini gained about 740 (main memory) and 175 MB/second (graphic board memory) while the Pegasos gained 440 and 210 MB.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Dec.2008
Mupfman (ANF)
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Symphonic Fantasies: Video games concert on 12. September 2009
The WDR-concert with compositions from computer and video games will be continued with "Symphonic Fantasies" on 12th September 2009.
On the same weekend the games convention GamesCon will take place in Cologne.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Dec.2008
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Commodore-Emulator: VICE 2.1 for all Amiga-Systems
VICE emulates almost all 8-Bit-systems by Commodore. Ports are available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, PPC, x86-64) and MorphOS. Version 2.1 includes now an emulation of the C64 DTV.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2008, 04:56] [Comments: 0]
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19.Dec.2008
TerAtoM (ANF)
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"Symphonic Shades"-CD delivered yesterday
The first customers have got the latest CD of Chris Hülsbeck's "Symphonic Shades". At 4Sceners.de there is a detailed report which explained the history of the development (in German).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Dec. 2008, 14:38] [Comments: 0]
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19.Dec.2008
Hollywood-ML
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HFinder 1.1 released
Fabio Falcucci writes: As a final test for the ScuiLib functionality, I have released the version 1.1 of HFinder, a tool you can use to search files. With the resulting files you can make basic operations like copy, move or erase.
This version has been compiled with the latest ScuiLib version, now
the application has a resizeable GUI, an optimized search routine and, thanks to Michael Jurisch, a German translation. (snx)
[News message: 19. Dec. 2008, 07:41] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2008
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser Netsurf 2.0dev (beta)
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for RiscOS. It works from 17 MB memory on and supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1 but it does not Javascript. The development of a library was recently started.
For some days there is a new beta version of the program. If you already have installed an older beta version of Netsurf you have to add the line "screen_depth:32" in the file resources/options.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Dec. 2008, 17:41] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.4.6
The AmigaOS 4 port of the turn-based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth is now available in the latest version 1.4.6.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Dec. 2008, 14:38] [Comments: 0]
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17.Dec.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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Greek Amiga-Portal: amigaplanet.gr
Amiga Planet is a Greek portal for Amiga and MorphOS users. The development of the page has not completely been finished.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Dec. 2008, 16:22] [Comments: 0]
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17.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaAnywhere: Amiga Cool Tools
Under the label "Amiga Cool Tools" Amiga Inc. offers some little tools for Windows Mobile which can be bought in the Amiga-Shop for 0,99 USD.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Dec. 2008, 15:40] [Comments: 0]
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17.Dec.2008
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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C= Show on 20th December, winner of innovation price voting
On Saturday the 20th December the Commodore Gebruikers Groep (CGG) will organize the annual "Christmas-C= Show" in Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen (Netherlands). There will be a Commodore flea market as well as a Commodore -lottery.
For the first time the innovation price of the CGG will be awarded. The winner with 21.7 percent of the given votes is the team of the C64-emulators Vice, the audio-player Acid64 (16.7%) ranked 2nd. With 11.7 percent the webbrowser OWB as well as the Amiga-emulator WinUAE both ranked 3rd.
The hardware innovation price has won the 1541-Ultimate (34.2%). The Minimig (32.5%) ranked 2nd and the HardSID4U (8.3%) ranked 3rd.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.3
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.5.3. It can be installed with the Live-Update if it has been already installed.
The changes are listed in the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Dec. 2008, 18:08] [Comments: 0]
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16.Dec.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2.13
For AmigaOS the port of the Simple DirectMedia Layer was published in version 1.2.13. SDL makes it more easy adapting applications and games to different platforms. Under the title link Bernd Roesch has summarized the changes of the update.
Download page (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Dec. 2008, 18:04] [Comments: 0]
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16.Dec.2008
Pegasosforum (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0-svn-r28114
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of MPlayer.It includes support of the versions 9 and 10 of the RealVideo-format and improvements of the graphical user-interface.
Because an exisiting Altivec-unit is recognized automatically there is a common directory for G3- and G4-processors.
Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.12.15.lha (9 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Dec. 2008, 17:42] [Comments: 0]
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16.Dec.2008
Vinnny (ANF)
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MorphOS: FUSE 0.10.0
FUSE is an emulator for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and is now also available for MorphOS in version 0.10.0. YHave a look at the official project site for the detailed changes.
Download: fuse_0.10.0_morphos.lha (4 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Dec. 2008, 17:31] [Comments: 0]
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16.Dec.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 76 online (January/February 2009)
Press release The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 76 (Januar/Februar 2009) are online now. In this issue you will find reviews of the recent version of AmigaOS 4.1, Netpanzers, Amy Cygnix, AISS and much more. A more detailed description of contents and some excerpts can be found at the title link.
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.
Amiga Future needs your support
We are looking for editors for the magazine. You should own a classic Amiga or Pegasos and know its workings. Furthermore you should have some experience in writing reviews. As well as that, your native language has to be either German or English which you should be fluent in. Please don't forget: The Amiga Future is a community project.
In addition we are still looking for translators for the magazine. Again your native language should be German or English and you should be fluent in reading/writing both of them.
Interested? Please contact us via e-mail at: Andreas@amigafuture.de (snx)
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15.Dec.2008
Christoph Hahn (ANF)
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AROS-Distribution VmwAROS 1.0
VmwAROS is an AROS-distribution (screenshot) which includes some preinstalled applications like FryingPan or SimpleMail. The distribution was completed by some batch scripts (PoorPDF, AmiBridge, PoorARC) which are supposed to balance out the lack of applications under AROS by a simple UAE-integration or on-the-fly format-conversions.
Changes in detail:
- New, customized system files
- Shutdown Wanderer funcion on supported hardware
- Widescreen graphic modes on selected cards
- Added Ken Lester's iconset
- Added sound in Quake
- Complete development chain with GCC 4.2.2, Python, ecc
- VmwAROS can now compile AROS
- Added new games
- Updated many programs
- Added 68K application support with AmiBridge
- Added automatic extractor for multiple archive files (PoorARC)
- Added PDF document support (PoorPDF)
- Added first-run configuration script
- Installing VmwAROS won't leave volumes without icons anymore
- Fixed typing issue with SimpleMail
- Added many desktop wallpapers from M. De Angelis (JohnSmith)
- Updated VmwUpdate and SwitchMuiMaster
- Added GhostScript
- Fixed many file associations
- Corrected paths and ASSIGNs
- Added VmwAROS services manager in Prefs
- Improved PDF user/reviewer guide
- ...and many, many more!
VmwAros is available as a version for virtual drives (VMWare, or after conversion QEmu) and as a so called live!-version for the native installation.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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