22.Aug.2008
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French MorphOS-portal: meta-morphos.org
meta-morphos.org is a French MorphOS-portal which offers news, downloads, a forum and much more.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
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IBrowse: Status-Update
Oliver Roberts from the IBrowse developer team has given a survey of the current status of IBrowse on the official mailing list.
The owner of the copyrights Stefan Burström recently moved and therefore has still not an Internet access. Because the server which the team uses and which includes the source codes, changelogs and similar things is hosted by Burström the development currently stands still.
Roberts assures that the project was not canceled - but currently it is necessary to come to an arrangement with Burström which makes a further development possible. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OWB 2.4
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. Changes since the last release:
- Updated to SVN revision 446
- Fixed horizontal scroll bar
- Added support for multiple windows
- Added menus
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Infrared-receiver and Ethernet-Audio "ParIR"
ParIR written by Daniel Westerberg is a hardware/software combination which consists of two parts: On one hand it is a commodity which recognizes infrared siganls with the help of a hardware which is connected to the parallel port and then starts user-defined Cli or ARexx programs.
The second part sends analog audio signals over a an Ethernet cable to a analog multiplier.
Westerberg uses this combination to listen to the audio playback of his AmigaOne in the living room without laying additional cable.
The archive which the author has published includes the software as well as all necessary documentations for recreating the hardware components.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox published FastATA 4000 MK-V
ELBOX COMPUTER has published the FastATA-controller FastATA 4000 MK-V.
Please read the official press release under the title link for further details.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Interview wit Hans-Jörg Frieden
On the occasion of the forthcoming release of AmigaOS 4.1 Amiga Arena has intervied the developer and project manager Hans-Jörg Frieden (in German).
In this interview he told that that currently ports to additional PowerPC platforms are in progress and therefore further announcements for the operating system will follow soon.
According to Hans-Jörg Frieden the goal for AmigaOS 4 is still always the embedded section. There are interested firms which want to use the operating system as "Multimedia-Content-Platform".
He himself is specially intersted in systems based on CELL-processors, the PPC 970 by IBM or Freescales 8641(D). And he does not object if there would be a x86-version but he thinks that currenty it is not realizable.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2008
Klaus Schwägerl (ANF)
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Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Klaus Schwägerl, meanwhile CEO of Die Projektfabrik GmbH, has sent a letter to us at amiga-news.de about the Amiga model Walker, which was shown as a prototype in 1996 by Amiga Technologies at the CeBIT fair in Hannover, Germany. Below you can find a translation of what he wrote:
I'm just moving with my company and that's why I stumbled across the master design model of the Amiga Walker once again. This made me surf the web for a while to look for articles about the Walker. What I read there astonished me and prompted me to clarify some things:
1. The Amiga Walker has not been designed by Frog Design, but by the greatly talented designer Daniel Gilgen on behalf of Stefan Domeyer for my former company KS Design in Frankfurt, Germany. The idea to expand the Walker step by step until it becomes a tower finally originates from Daniel Gilgen. He was the one who built the prototypes for CeBIT from the master design model which I do still own.
2. The transfer of the rights to the product was dependent on the payment of our royalty. As this money was not paid, the rights to the product stayed with KS Design. After closing down KS Design, the rights were transferred to me as a private individual.
3. Merlancia Industries never had any rights to the product. We also communicated that to Merlancia Industries in this way as that company did ask us for a license. At some point the contact to Merlancia has been lost; we don't know whether this enterprise is still active or not.
I hope this can improve the understanding of the case considerably.
With kind regards and a sad feeling
about this project never entering production,
Klaus Schwägerl (snx)
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20.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Lucy 2.24
Lucy didn't care for hidden windows and thus Unmask and IControl's Hide-Window feature didn't work anymore when being used together with Lucy. This has been fixed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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Script: AmiKit-Linux-Installer 0.03
AmiKit-1.4.x-nix-Installer is a script which makes the installation of the Amiga-distribution AmiKit under Linux as easy as under Windows.
The installer downloads AmiKit 1.4.0 as well as E-UAE and configurates it. This version fixes some minor bugs and includes some improvements.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: ARexx-scripts for Shuffle
There are now ARexx-scripts for unregistered users of the puzzle game Shuffle as well. They are missing on the MorphOS-2.0-CD.
Download:
shuffle_info.amirx (2,6 KB)
shuffle_statistic.rexx (1,1 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
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Efika: Lego-tower "EFIKube"
Efika user "motorollin" is building a box for his PPC-motherboard from unusual materials: His "EFIKube" contains of Lego-stones. On morphzone.org he gives a survey about the project and has uploaded several photos.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Aug. 2008, 16:09] [Comments: 0]
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19.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Chiptune-Tracker: Hively-Tracker 1.5 for AmigaOS 3/4
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format (screenshot). AHX was developed in the 90ies to write music tracks which are similar to the typical Chip-Sound of SID (sound chip of the C64). Changes sine version 1.4:
- A parameter in the undo system was declared as a signed byte instead
of a signed word, which meant that some song parameters got corrupted
when they went over 127. Editing songs over 127 positions long was
buggered, for example. Can't believe i didn't spot this until now :(
- Added Protracker mod import. Just like the one in AHX, it simply strips
out all PT commands that are not equivalent to AHX ones, and all
instruments are set to a simple tone, so you'll still have a lot of
work to do to make it sound nice.
- Added a size optimisation feature. It removes all unused instruments,
and duplicate tracks. If you click with the right mousebutton, it'll
additionally try and use the transpose column to remove tracks which
are the same but transposed. However it doesn't know if sounds
continue after the newly transposed track so you may have to manually
fix any problems with that afterwards. Both modes keep the original
version and open a new tab with the optimise version so you won't
lose your work if it messes up. Both modes also use track 0 as the
empty track as AHX and HVL both make smaller files if that is the
case, however, if there are no empty tracks in the module, it won't
keep track 0 blank unnecessarily.
- Added a new command! When "EF1" is placed on or after the last note
in a track, the "transpose" value for that channel will be preserved
until another note is played in the channel. This overrides the
default AHX/HVL behaviour, which is to switch to the next transpose
value as soon as the next position is reached.
- '=' now does row preview, like enter does in protracker
- '-' now toggles horizontal advance in the position editor
- Added "posedadvance", "notejump" and "inotejump" fields to the
ht.prefs file. They don't show up in the prefs window, though, so
you have to edit them manually (run hively 1.5 and quit it to make
them show up in the file). "posedadvance" is either 0 or 1. When set
to 0, horizontal advance is disabled by default.
"defnotejump" is 0 to 9, and sets the default notejump in the pattern
editor. "definotejump" is the same for the instrument editor.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)
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Are you interested in an Ambermoon Soundtrack CD?
Matthias Steinwachs who is the composer of the soundtrack of the RPG-classic Ambermoon is going to publish the soundtrack again. The tracks will sound like the already published song "Ambermoon" on Amiga Immortal 3.
The project will be started if there there are at least 1000 registered persons on a certain website.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Aug. 2008, 15:41] [Comments: 0]
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19.Aug.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Full version "Sixth Sense Investigations" (Update)
Press release: "Sixth Sense Investigations" was started in 1995 but was first published in 1998.
Colourful comic graphics, funny dialogs and a crazy story,
can there be more for a adventure fan?
With permission of the developers Amiga Arena makes this legal download of the disk version of "Sixth Sense Investigations" possible. Currently we only can offer the English version as HDF-file for WinUAE.
Therefore we are looking for further disk versions of Sixth Sense Ivestigations.
Additionally the following games were added in the section "Adventure":
- OnEscapee - Original CD Version
- Beneath A Steel Sky - CD Version with voice output
- Fatal Heritage - WHDLoad Version
Update: (20:41, 20.08.08, snx)
Meanwhile also the german version is available as an HDF file. Still wanted is the floppy disk version. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 1.5.2
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE give a preview to the forthcoming version which is supposed to be published in two weeks. WinUAE 1.5.2 includes two major bug fixes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Aug. 2008, 16:16] [Comments: 0]
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18.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OWB 2.3
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Changes since the last version:
- Updated to SVN revision 430
- Added support for HOME, SEARCH, WIDTH and HEIGHT tooltypes
- Uses default AmigaOS 4.x colours for the theme now
- Implemented AmigaOS scroll bars for the main frame
OWB_Doduo.lha (4,5 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Aug. 2008, 16:06] [Comments: 0]
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18.Aug.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic program SteamDraw 1.0
SteamDraw written by Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich is an EPS-compatible 2d vector graphic program. In version 1.0 the graphical user-interface was reworked and the program now contains a simple text editing tool. Additionally some bugs were fixed.
Download: SteamDraw.lha (897 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Aug.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 74 (September/October 2008)
Press release: The preview of Amiga Future 74 (September/October 2008) is now online. In this issue there are test reports about the latest versions of WinUAE, AmiBlitz, MorphOS 2.0, AMuse, Cave Story and much more. There is a detailed table of contents on our website.
On the Amiga Future LeserCD there are several PD-programs as well as some full versions such as Photo Folio, Astral, Battle Space.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 1.5
iGame is a MUI-based user-interface for managing and starting WHDLoad games.
Changes in version 1.5:
- Genres are now in an external file
- Added "--Never Played--"
- Reworked "Show/Hide hidden slaves"
- Filter will now work together with genres
- Added FILTERUSEENTER
- Added indication when writing to disk
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Aug. 2008, 18:28] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Event: PowerDev-Meeting in Chelm (Poland)
On 6./7. September 2008 a PowerDev-Meeting will take place in Chelm, Poland. MorphOS on Efika will be the main topic of the meeting. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2008
AROS-Exec (website)
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AROS: Wanderer now saves Window positions
Nick 'Kalamatee' Andrews has successfully added window snapshot option to Wanderer, slightly increasing AROS interface realiability. Now it is possible to save position, size and icon/all files view for any window on writable medias. For read-only ones, like CD and DVD ROMs, default size, position and view will be used. Kalamatee is now working on fixing icons snapshot too. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (forum)
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Event: Photos of CommVEx V4 / V5 to be held on July 25 + 26, 2009
Under the title link you can find pictures taken from the fourth Commodore Vegas Expo which took place on 26/27 of July in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Next year the CommVEx will take place on July 25/26 at the Plaza Hotel & Casino again. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Aug. 2008, 11:26] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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DiscreetFX: Grasshopper LLC July winner of Seeding the Success Campaign
The winner of the July of the "Seeding the Success Campaign" of DiscreetFX is the company Grasshopper LLC. They got it for their desktop publishing program PageStream. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2008
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Portrait: Chris Hülsbeck at neues on 3sat TV
The television program 3sat will report in its computer magazine "neues" about the composer Chris Hülsbeck on 17. August 2008 (direct link).
He has written music for a lot of Amiga and C64 games such as Battle Isle, Giana Sisters, R-Type and Turrican I-III. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Aug. 2008, 07:23] [Comments: 0]
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