26.Aug.2008
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Event: Pianeta Amiga on 27./28. September in Empoli (Italy)
The next Pianeta Amiga will take place in Italian Empoli on 27. and 28. September 2008 in Palaesposizioni. The admission fee is 5 Euro.
ACube Systems which has announced new products, the Amiga Future, AmigaKit, Bitplane and Virtual Works will take part. AmigaOS 4.1, the PowerPC-board SAM440ep in the new version 1.5 as well as many further products will be presented.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Aug. 2008, 21:16] [Comments: 0]
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26.Aug.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: UpdatAROS 1.1
UpdatAROS is a shell script that allows easy updating of AROS system files, copying the ones of a newer nightly build over a pre-existing system.
The new version 1.1 supports Grub 2 enabled AROS systems. Please don't use it on a Grub 1 system, or it will likely destroy your current installation.
Download: updataros11.lha (9 KB) (snx)
[News message: 26. Aug. 2008, 20:59] [Comments: 0]
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26.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hans-Jörg Frieden explains Porter/Duff-picture composition
In a serie of articles Hans-Jörg Frieden will explain the Porter/Duff picture composition which was introduced with AmigaOS 4.1. Perhaps the 2d library Cairo will be also explained.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Aug. 2008, 15:10] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
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72 new levels for "Cannon Fodder"
"Cannon Fodder New Campaign" (CFNC) includes 72 new levels split in 24 missions for the legendary shooter Cannon Fodder. The design of the levels as well as some sprite graphics were changed (screenshots).
CFNC requires a version of Cannon Fodder which was installed on harddrive with WHDLoad as well as XFDMaster, gpatch and the Commodore-Installer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2008, 17:30] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Graphic program: PerfectPaint WIPupdate230808 (beta)
Marco "Blackbird" Möring has published another update of the graphic program PerfectPaint.
Download:
PfP-WIPupdate230808.lha (647 KB)
PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha (7,6 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2008, 17:07] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
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MorphOS: Vector graphic program MOS-Creator (preview)
MOS-Creator written by Carsten "pegasossigi2" Siegner is supposed to become a vector graphic program which is to create PDF documents fast and simple (screenshot).
Under the title link Siegner has given a survey about the current status of the project.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2008, 16:52] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
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MorphOS-Portal: morphos-user.com inclusive eMail-account
morphos-user.com is a portal for MorphOS users which is supposed to give a fast survey about the latest news and discussions on morphzone.org and which offers a little collection of important MorphOS related links.
Additionally users of the portal will get an eMail-account in the manner of <username>@morphos-user.com which can be accessed via POP3, IMAP or a Web-interface. You can get further information at the online help.
morphos-user.com is CSS-based. That means you will need a CSS compatible browser such as Sputnik. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2008, 16:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: #Amigaguide, fourth issue
The printed version of the English magazine called #Amigaguide was sent to the subscribers. Simultaneously the free PDF version is available on the Web (you have to register at amigaweb.net for it) im Web zur Verfügung. Topics of this issue:
- Editors ReadMeFirst: "Dark Times"
- Article: Installing a computer in a car
- Article: Amiga at NASA
- Interview: Edivision
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2008, 15:43] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
Matthias Ziegs (ANF)
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Demo scene: Remake of the book FREAX Volume 1
"Freax Volume 1" is the history of the C64 and Amiga demo scene. Because the book published in 2005 has been sold out for two years now a remake was printed.
The remake will be available from 29. August on.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2008, 15:35] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: BBC Micro emulator BeebEm 0.13
The BBC Micro was a microcomputer well known in the 1980s in the United Kingdom and associated with the British education. Designed with colorful graphics, great expandability and a quality OS, it still has a strong fanbase.
Thanks to BeebEm you can enjoy its enormous software base also on AmigaOS 4 (Screenshot).
BeebEm is a BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator. It enables you to run BBC Micro software on your Amiga. BeebEm will run most BBC Micro software including Elite, Exile and Revs. It will also run most BBC Micro ROM software (e.g. Wordwise).
The AmigaOS 4 update to version 0.13 features many bugfixes and enhancements. Hard drive images, example software and instructions are included in the package, and it is easy to set up. Just extract the lha archive anywhere and doubleclick its icon.
Download: BeebEm.lha (4,8 MB, Readme file) (snx)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2008, 07:06] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: HD-racing track Montreal 1.1 for VGP 2
Jason Frabotta's project "VGP HD" tries to improve the engine "Formel-1-Simulation Virtual Grand Prix 2" developed by Paolo Cattani.
Now a update of the racing track in Montreal was added (screenshot). It fixes a bug of the back straight. Next weekend there probably will be upadtes of the tracks in Interlagos and Indianapolis.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2008, 16:49] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 28
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is a English podcast made by Rich Lawrence and Mike Blackburn where Amiga users and invited guests discuss the latest events of the Amiga scene. The 28th episode is about MorphOS 2.0 and AmigaOS 4.1.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2008, 04:55] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser Netsurf 2.0dev (beta)
NetSurf is a fast browser originally developed for RiscOS which can be used with a memory of 17 MB. It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1.
This version published by Chris Young is completely nativ, Reaction is used as GUI-toolkit.
The author points out that this version is an early beta version which is not stable and not complete - e.g. HTTPS-sites do still not work.
Netsurf does not support Javascript but an corresponding library is in work.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2008, 04:52] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MUI-developer back from bike tour
Stefan Stuntz who is the developer of the well-known GUI-toolkit MUI has come back from a bike tour which lasted five months (blog, photo album).
According to our information he still always accept registrations for MUI. So if you have tried it in vain during the last months you probably try it agin now.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Aug. 2008, 17:06] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.10 beta 2
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. For a list of detailed changes please have a look at the changelog. WookieChat is avilable for all Amiga systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Aug. 2008, 16:46] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.6 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot).
OWB 2.5 now opens a new window if you select a link. Additionally the AmigaOS 4-version is now based on the latest SVn-revision 449.
Meanwhile Björn "Orgin" Hagström has published a detailed English installation guide for OWB on amigans.net.
Update: (25.08.08, 17:00, cg)
By now version version 2.6 is available:
- Updated to SVN revision 454
- Disabled SVG support for now, I'll enable it again after switching from SDL to Cairo
- Added support for an unicode fallback font
- Added MINFONTSIZE, FONTXDPI, FONTYDPI and UNICODEFONT tooltypes
- Removed superfluous gadget updates which prevented icon dragging on the workbench from working even if nothing changed
- Fixed mouse movement events
- Implemented progress bar
- Implemented clipboard support
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Aug. 2008, 16:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2008
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.70 for all Amiga systems
NoWinED is a MUI-based text editor which was compiled to AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. The program has the follwing features:
- One window for all opened files, alternation between opened files via button, context menu or choice from the list
- Context sensitive popup menus
- Drag'n Drop for different files at once (no Drag'n Drop under AROS)
- All basic editor functions: Search and replace, cut'n paste, select all, undo redo... ("select all" does not work under AROS)
- UTF-support
- Supports CR, LF or CR+LF for EOL Encoding
Hint: The MUI-classes which are included in the archive are not up to date. They should only be copied to the harddrive if there are not newer versions.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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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)
[News message: 22. Aug. 2008, 17:23] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 21. Aug. 2008, 21:21] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 21. Aug. 2008, 21:14] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 21. Aug. 2008, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 21. Aug. 2008, 15:59] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 20. Aug. 2008, 16:54] [Comments: 0]
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