15.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (website)
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Graphic program: PerfectPaint WIPupdate140808 (Beta)
Marco "Blackbird" Möring has published another update of the graphic program PerfectPaint. For the installation of the latest WIP-version ("Work in Progress") the full archive PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha from December 2007 is required.
Download:
PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha (7,6 MB)
PfP-WIPupdate140808.lha (652 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2008
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ACube Systems: Summer holidays until August 24
ACube Systems which is responsible for the distribution of AmigaOS 4.1 has taken summer holidays until 24. August. The delivery of the update of the operating system will start subsequent to the holidays. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ctorrent_gui 1.2
Version 1.2 of the graphical user-interface ctorrent_gui includes bug fixes and is based on the filesharing client Enhanced ctorrent dnh 3.3.2 (screenshot).
AmigaOS 4-specific changes:
- Rewritten the handling of the text output,hopefully gives no more DSI
- Fixed a bug so the same text won't appear in the listbrowser several times
- Fixed so you can press the mouse button in the listbrowser. This led to system lockup
- Ctorrent will hopefully not crash if the .torrent file is damaged or an empty one
- Cancelling asl requester would crash ctorrent; has been fixed
- Listbrowser will scroll down when new text is added to show the latest action
Download: ctorrent_gui.lha (285 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: 68k-Mac-Emulator Basilisk II 0.9.3 (version from 11.08.08)
Basilisk II is an open-source emulator of different 68k-Macintosh computer (Mac Classic, Mac-II-serie).
Basilisk II uses the processor emulation of UAE. Users of the "Classic"-version of AmigaOS 4 are supposed to use Shapeshifter or Fusion.
Features:
- RDB support
- Harddisk support with 64bit addressing
- Displays diskimage and partition size (when found!)
- Mouse wheel support (NEW)
- Ethernet support (not tested)
- Supports LUT and ARGB display modes on all screens including Workbench
- Supports CD-ROM
- All PC keyboard keys are supported in emulation
Changes in Basilisk II 0.9.3 (11.08.08):
- Mouse wheel support
- Ethernet fixes, (don't know if they work)
- ASL fileselector for ethernet device
- New "Add bootdisk" button
- Shows partition and diskimage size in GUI
- Added ASL fileselector for ROM and diskimages
Download: basiliskii.lha (5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Further PNG-Icons by Amiga's Magic Factory
Under the title link you can find packages called Mix, Models and Prohibited for new PNG-icons created by Amiga's Magic Factory. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2008
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Interview: Andy Finkel and Bil Herd
On the occasion of the Commodore Vegas Expo the former Commodore engineers Bil Herd (e.g. C128) and Andy Finkel (Amiga software) were interviewed.
You can download the 90 minutes lasting telephon interview. It is split up into four MP3-files with about 30 minutes per file.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Aug.2008
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.5.1
The latest version of the well-known Amiga-emulator WinUAE includes several bug fixes. Additionally there are some improvements at the screen modes:
New features in version 1.5.1:
- Added support for Direct3D pixel shader filters (very fast compared
to software filters, pixel shader 2.0+ compatible display card
required), plain Direct3D filter performance improved.
Latest (August 2008 or later) DirectX required
- In windowed mode all resolution or chipset/RTG mode switches
resize the window instead of window closing and opening
- Aspect ratio setting added to RTG and filter panels
- Window resize enabled in windowed mode (chipset mode)
- Added Picasso96 option "Always scale in windowed mode" which enables
window resizing and disables automatic resize. Keeps aspect ratio
automatically
- Only reset fullscreen mode when resolution or depth changes
- On the fly USB mouse/joystick insert/removal does not modify
currently selected input device(s) in Ports-panel
- Enable ini-mode (registry replacement) if .ini
(without .exe) is found. Previously always used winuae.ini
With version 1.5.0 introduced bugs were fixed:
- Failed to start with some display card/driver combinations
- Regular (non-RDB) OFS formatted hardfiles didn't mount under KS 1.3
- Memory corruption in configuration file handling causing random
crashes when loading or saving configuration files
- Configuration files in subdirectories didn't load if configuration
cache was enabled
- RTG hardware mouse cursor may have been invisible (or had
wrong graphics) in some cases after resolution change
- Switching between non-interlaced and interlaced modes caused random
"scanline" graphics corruption
Further bug fixes:
- Built-in HRTMon crashed in JIT modes
- Interlace modes fixed in "normal" (non-doubled/scanline) modes
- Fixed borderblank graphics corruption in interlaced modes
- Fixed possible crashes when switching Windows desktop resolution or
when using quick user switching
- "Kickstart Replacement" fixed
- PCMCIA SRAM emulation didn't work in memory expansion mode
- Emulation paused if "stop sound while inactive/minimzed" was enabled
- Improved directory filesystem statefile support
- AVI recording crash if only audio recording was enabled
- Native DLL support fixed
- Forced fullscreen refresh rates didn't work in some cases
- Multiple identical (same serial number) USB game controllers do not
confuse input system anymore
- Major blitter slowdown in some AGA modes
- ADF was not updated if disk write was aborted (Cadaver save disk)
- Crash when USB mouse/joystick was removed or inserted before
emulation was started
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Aug.2008
www.scacom.de.vu (ANF)
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PDF-magazine: SCACOM Aktuell issue 7 (jubilee edition)
SCACOM.aktuell is a free PDF-magazine which is about the computers by Commodore. With issue 7 the magazine celebrates its first anniversary. Therefore additional to the normal magazine with 48 pages a jubilee edition with 22 pages were published. Besides this at SCACOM the C64-game "Gold Quest 4" as well as the corresponding disk-cover are available and at the website of SCACOM two new background pictures were published.
The publisher asks for your feedback or guest book entries on the website and hopes that there will be some further interested people who want to cooporate.
The next eighth issue will include a survey about the patents from Commodore/Amiga and some facts to the topic "Why did home computers vanish?". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 29
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network. Several bugs were fixed in alphaersion 29. The program is available for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Morgue Soft: Screensavers Flowers 1.0 and Acuario 1.75
Under the title link with Flowers 1.0 a new screensaver by Morgue Soft was published which shows flowers and has a relaxing sound. Additionally Acuario was updated. Both screensavers are available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Music module: Modland-webinterface
Modland is a archive managed by Daniel 'Coma' Johansson with over 360.000 music modules in 290 different formats. You can access them via a FTP-server (mirror).
To make the access more easy ExoticA in cooperation with Modland has created a webinterface with which you can search for names, authors or formats.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Fotodraw 0.1 (Update)
Carsten Siegner has published a first alpha version of his command line "Fotodraw". With Fotodraw you can create EPS-files or PDF-documents. It supports raster images and texts.
MorphOS 2.0 and Ghostscript 8.54 are required. There is not still a detailed documentation but you can activate a help text with "Fotodraw -h".
Download: Fotodraw-0.1.lha (403 KB)
Update: (21:21, 10.08.08, snx)
Meanwhile Fotodraw 0.1 was published. In this version a document system was added. With it you can create complicated documents as PDF-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: New "old" interviews and game downloads
The Amiga Arena was completed with contents from previous years such as over 50 interviews from 2002. There is a new section in the download for sport games starting with the games "Fußball Total" (AGA), "Burnout" (AGA) and "Xtreme Racing" (AGA).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2008
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Reggae supports now AIFC/sowt
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewskis has published a new modul for his multimedia library Reggae: The "sowt"-pseudocodec for the AIFC-format (compressed audio IFF) is used to save sound data in Little-Endian-format and was introduced by Apple. Most of the current audio applications under Mac OS save in this format.
The new aiff.demuxer 51.7 for Reggae supports AIFC as well as the "sowt"-version.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Lawsuit: Case of Itec against Hyperion in New York dismissed
The case of Itec LLC in New York against Hyperion VOF was dismissed there because the contract between both parties from 24. April 2003 is applied to the contract between Amiga Inc., Hyperion and Eyetech from 3. November 2001 and for this one only two courts in Washington are responsible for.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1 gone gold
Press release:
Antwerp, Belgium - 6 August, 2008.
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone "gold" and should be available through dealers mid August. Building on the solid foundations of Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS 4.1 introduces a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on the Amiga platform.
Updated non-exhaustive feature-list of Amiga OS 4.1:
- Intelligent memory paging
- Hardware compositing engine (Radeon R1xx and R2xx family)
- Implementation of the "Cairo" device-independent 2D rendering library
- Reworked P96 with improved overlay support
- Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support for greater digital camera compatibility
- JXFS filesystem with the support for drives and partitions of multiple terabyte size
- Improved Workbench functionality
- New and improved DOS functionality (full 64 bit support, universal notification support, automatic expunge and reload of updated disk resources)
- Improved 3D hardware accelerated screen-dragging
- Reworked AmiDock with true transparency
- Choice between several GUI themes including Amiga OS 4.0 and Amiga OS 4.1 default themes
- Powerful and user-friendly installation utility
- Reworked Warp3D Radeon drivers with new functionality
- Improved OpenGL support through MiniGL 2.0
- And much, much more.
Required hardware: AmigaOne (for now)
Required graphics card for hardware compositing: Radeon 1xx or Radeon 2xx
Recommended graphics card: Radeon 9250
Amiga OS 4.1 will ship in a cardboard package with a printed Quick Start Guide.
Screenshots: 1, 2. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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