16.Jul.2008
hhjoker2 (ANF)
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Production of Minimig-box will start soon
Loriano Pagni has published a video of his Miming box.
You can book the white box under amigarulez@hotmail.com. But the price was still not determined.
If there will be 50 reservations a first limited production will be started.
The Minimig lettering is optional and costs 10 Euro. The lettering is available in the following colours: black, yellow, mauve, orange, silver, gold, red, maroon, blue, green, grey, pink, brown and burgandy. If you send your reservation then please do not forget to write your preferred colour.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Do it yourself: Efika-Laptop
On the homepage of the Amiga-Club Hamburg Thorsten Mampel has written the history of his self-made Efika-laptop.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
Gero Birkenfeld (ANF)
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Image Batcher: Collective editing of picture files
Gero Birkenfeld has published a beta version of Image Batcher, also called iBatch. It is a package which is to make the organization of digital photos more easy with the help of collective renaming and conversions.
The ARexx-script has a graphical user-interface. For conversions the CLI-command ImageConverter (73 KB) written by Thilo Köhler is used which is included in the package. Additionally the author recommends a miniature picture viewer e.g. Thumb written by Thomas Rapp. Furthermore AWNPipe is required for the graphical user-interface.
Download: ibatch.lha (175 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.0.1
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari ST-emulator (screenshot). The changes can be read in the readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Word Me Up XXL: AmigaOS 3 and AROS versions stopped
According to the developers of the arcade puzzle "Word Me Up XXL" on their website the formerly planned ports for AmigaOS 3 and AROS will be not developed further so long. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: NetSurf for Cygnix in progress
According to Edgar Schwan under the title link the browser NetSurf can be easily compiled to his AmigaOS-4-X11-environment Cygnix (screenshot). But currently there is not a date of publishing.
Currently NetSurf still misses Javascript but only requires 17 MB memory to start. The file has a size of 14 MB. Supported are:
- HTML 4.01
- XHTML 1.0
- CSS 2.1
- HTTP/1.1
- HTTP-authentication
- PNG and MNG
- Cookies
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Reminder: CommVEx 4 on 26. / 27. July (USA)
On 26. / 27. July the fourth Commodore Vegas Expo will take place in Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The following models will be presented: PET 4032, VIC-20, C64, Plus/4 and C128D, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 and AmigaOne. Additionally Michael Battilana (Amiga Forever) will take part. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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Open Video Toaster: Instant Bounties
Press release Chicago, Illinois – July 14th, 2008 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., in order to stimulate development for the Video Toaster Flyer source code DiscreetFX is launching an Instant Bounty contest. What is an Instant Bounty? This is a bounty that is paid once a programmer has requested and been assigned a programming task for Open Video Toaster.
This does take a little trust on our part since bounties are paid before coding even begins. Programmer past developments and applications will be taken into serious consideration and help gain them approval for OVT Instant Bounties. Programmers should review source code for the bounty in question before applying for consideration. Each development task for OVT will have set guidelines and coding time limits.
The larger goal of this contest is to stimulate development of video editing and video production software for MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.0 & AROS. This also allows us to see which 3rd party developer base is most passionate and serious about bringing their favorite operating system of choice back into the mainstream. Dedication and passion is what will bring Amiga successor operating systems back into relevance not mysterious companies who's true motives are unknown. Once upon a time with Video Toaster the Amiga was king of desktop video and computer assisted video editing. While in today's modern times it can no longer be king it could yet again be one of the many choices customers consider. That at least was the hope and dream we had when Open Video Toaster was launched. If your interested in video editing living again on Amiga OS type systems please donate to one of your favorite operating system bounties. DiscreetFX has already placed a starter donation in each of these bounties. Even if you can only donate a little it will help and you will be named and thanked on the Open Video Toaster website. Donations are paid instantly via Paypal to programmers that are assigned each bounty.
First three of many OVT Instant Bounties are for the Toaster Character Generator:
Port ToasterCG to AROS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. AROS CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
Port ToasterCG to Amiga OS 4.0 and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. OS 4.0 CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
Port ToasterCG to MorphOS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. Morph CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
ToasterCG source code is available from the title link. (snx)
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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga Forever: Updates and new online forms
According to the Amiga-Forever-Team that several updates were publisehd for the latest emulator package Amiga Forever 2008 which some of the mentioned bugs fixed. These updates can be downloaded in the Amiga-Forever-Player under "Tools/Check for Updates".
Furthermore because of the increased spam-bot-activities the online forms for contacts, support and registrations were changed. These new forms replace the filter which were installed on 18. June and which causede some problems. All those customers who tried to contact us without replay please now try it again.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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individual Computers: New address, Catweasel-Software-Update
Press releaseIn may of this year, we have moved to new premises with more than three times the space that our office in Aachen had to offer. Since we still don't run a retail shop, we have moved to the pictureque area of Simmerath, located in the natural park of the northern Eifel region. With this new location, there's also a change in our shipping partner: Parcels within Germany and the EU are now shipped with DPD.
New drivers for Catweasel MK4: The new drivers V 2.5.0.0 for Windows 2000 and Windows XP (32-bit versions) are fixing a few bugs in handling 5,25 inch drives. The new imagetool V3.1 can now read and write three new formats:
- VersaDOS HD: These disks have been provided by Perfint tech from India. They are used to store medical imaging data. With new, faster computers now being able to retrieve data from older medical equipment, lots of money can be saved, and up-to-date medical service with modern image processing algorithms can be provided at lower cost. We're especially happy about this use case, as it has extremely high value to threshold countries.
- VersaDOS 3HDDI: These disks have been provided to us by Matisa from Switzerland, a company that makes machines for railroad track construction and maintenance. The disk was mangled and obviously written on a very bad drive, but we managed to retrieve enough data for implementing this new format.
- HP4145: This disk was provided to us by Bosch (Hildesheim, Germany), where it is used in semiconductor test-equipment.
Another new feature of the imagetool is the possibility to save d64/d71/d81 images of Commodore disks with additional error information. The automatic recognition of disk formats now gives a list of possible formats instead of stopping at the first positive try, which makes the function a lot more useful. You can find more details in the readme-files of the archive.
New Catweasel MK4 controllers will be back in stock in august of this year. To bridge this bottleneck in supply, we have cleared our safety-stock of Catweasel MK4 controllers. To our knowledge, all pre-orders are served now. Our retail partners are taking orders that will be shipped as soon as the new production run is available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Jul.2008
PPA (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the British AmigaOS-4.1-demonstration
Chris Young as well as PPA have published photos from the second public demonstration of AmigaOS 4.1 which took place in British Enfield yesterday.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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MorphOS: OS4Emu 2.0
Ilkka Lehtoranta's wrapper OS4Emu allows running some AmigaOS 4 programs under MorphOS. In version 2.0, the following changes have come about:
- Whereas 64-bit DOS calls are supported under MorphOS 1.x in principle, but the file size is limited to 2 GB, native 64-bit DOS calls are used now under MorphOS 2.x
- AltiVec support under MorphOS 2.x
- Bug fixes in the ELF loader
- Completion of the Picasso96 emulation by means of the function p96WritePixelArray()
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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13.Jul.2008
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: GammaMeter 1.2
Grzegorz Kraszewski's GammaMeter is a simple tool for measuring the gamma coefficient of display devices. It uses the luminance comparision method and thus does not need any external hardware. GammaMeter uses MUI, is localized and is distributed with source code under BSD license (Screenshot). (snx)
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13.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Event: Report and photos from the AIConf
Under the title link, a first report in English from the AIConf was published, which took place yesterday in Italy and where AmigaOS 4.1 was demonstrated for the first time. In addition, the author, Andrea Maniero, has shot some photos.
News compared to the announcement of the operating system update which took place the day before yesterday (reported by amiga-news.de) concern the price as well as the question of a version for PowerUp Amigas.
According to the report, which was confirmed by Massimiliano Tretene (Soft3, ACube Systems) to that effect as well, the recommended retail price for AmigaOS 4.1 will amount to 105 euros plus taxes, so in Germany, to around 125 euros. For it, you acquire a physical product in the form of a cardboard box, a CD with serial number as well as a printed installation manual, as with the previous version.
A version of AmigaOS 4.1 for PowerUp Amigas is not planned, according to the report. According to ACube Systems, it concerns a final cut; reportedly, only supporting newer computers allows concentrating on new functions. However, in all probability, the owners of AmigaOS 4.0 "Classic" would receive some updates, mainly bug fixes.
Regarding ACube Systems' new Flex-ATX board Sam440 Flex, which no longer has a Radeon M9 chip on-board, but three PCI slots instead, it was disclosed that the price is not conclusively fixed yet, but will probably lie between 300 and 350 euros plus VAT. No statements were made on the ability to run AmigaOS 4 on the Sam440 in view of the ongoing lawsuit by Amiga Inc. against Hyperion (reported by amiga-news.de). (snx) (Translation: cad)
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12.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Hu-Go! 1.3
Hu-Go! emulates the game console TurboGrafX-16 which is also known as PC Engine (screenshot). The MorphOS port by Kelly Samel is now available in version 1.3.
Changes:
- Clones Ambient resolution in full screen + Overlay
- Audio channels only allocated while emulation is running
- Added compact mode
- Added BG pattern toggle
- Added video sync option
- Cleaner sound channel termination
- Shortened the commodity description line
- Fixed MUI colors to work with most configs
- Added rompath selector
- Made gui resizable and fixed spacing
- Added 1 and 2 player joypad configs
- Added Scanline mode
- Several bugs fixed that were causing lock ups
- A few more premade HCD files added to archive
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2008
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AmigaOS 4.1: First public demonstrations (Update)
According to Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene by ACube Systems today the announced Amiga OS 4.1 is supposed to be shown at the AIConf taking place in Papozze (Italy).
The first demonstration in UK will be tomorrow on 13. July presented by the user group Amiga North Thames.
Update: (16:28, 13.07.08, snx)
As Massimiliano Tretene (Soft3, Participator of ACube Systems) confirms, at the show ACube Systems communicated the price for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.1. The suggested retail price is Euro 105 + local VAT or further taxes. The package is similar to the OS4 Classic one and will include a cardboard box, a CD with a serial number and a printed install instruction manual. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2008
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Hyperion announces AmigaOS 4.1
Press release: Antwerp, Belgium - 11 July, 2008. Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release mid-Q3/2008. 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.
State-of-the-art applications such as modern web-browsers, productivity software or digital imaging software typically operate on large datasets with a corresponding memory footprint which rapidly outstrips the physical memory of any computer system. Amiga OS 4.1 offers intelligent memory paging and uses transparent disk based memory - but only when you need it.
Sophisticated media content creation packages, multi media applications such as video players and 3D games have sparked a revolution in storage technology with hard-drive capacities now reaching the terabyte range. Amiga OS 4.1 introduces an all new filesystem, JXFS, the fastest and most robust filesystem available for the Amiga platform, with support for drives and partitions of multiple terabytes.
Graphics cards too have become increasingly powerful and versatile. Amiga OS 4.1 implements 3D hardware accelerated Porter/Duff image composition which is deeply integrated into the system. The upside is not only that the Amiga OS 4.1 user-interface offers unprecedented functionality and customization options such as transparent windows with arbitrary shapes. The use of a compositing engine also results in totally flicker-free screen-updates.
Building on this compositing engine is Amiga OS 4.1's implementation of the "Cairo" device-independent 2D rendering library which has become a de facto industry standard and is used in applications as diverse as Firefox 3, Java/ClassPath's SWING and even Open Office.
With these new features, Amiga OS 4.1 paves the way for countless exciting possibilities for the Amiga platform. Indeed, Amiga OS 4.1 is not only the most advanced AmigaOS incarnation to date, it is also the best way to reacquaint yourself with times when computing was fun!
A non-exhaustive list of key new functionality 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
- Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support for greater digital camera compatibility
- JXFS filesystem with the support for drivers 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
- Reworked Warp3D Radeon drivers with new functionality
- And much, much more.
Required hardware: AmigaOne
Required graphics card for hardware compositing: Radeon 1xx or Radeon 2xx
Recommend graphics card: Radeon 9250
Amiga OS 4.1 will ship in a cardboard package (box preview) and will be distributed world-wide by Acube Systems Srl. Details on pricing and availability will be forthcoming.
Screenshots:
Beneath a Steel Sky
Transparent windows
New Workbench features
DvPlayer (cg) (Translation: snx)
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11.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Freeze 1.1
Christian Rosentreter's Freeze is a small commandline command to freeze (suspend) tasks or processes. A frozen task is still available in the system, but doesn't consume CPU time anymore.
Freezing a task can be useful if the task misbehaves (e.g. if the task starts to busyloop and does not let have other tasks a turn frequently enough and hence renders the system unusable).
There are similiar tools available already. F.ex. iKill (comes with MorphOS 2.0) can be used for the same purpose. But iKill needs an intution window to find the task, so does not work at all for window-less tasks. Further the well-known system monitor Scout offers in its tasklist window the possibility to freeze and activate tasks, but in case of a busyloop situation Scout can takes ages to load and initialize before it's possible to freeze a misbehaving task.
Freeze can be used from commandline and without any mouse interaction. It's very small and does not require any extra dependecies. It should load even in a worst case situation relatively fast.
To find a PID of a task or process the tasklist command (also provided by MorphOS 2.0) can be utilized from the commandline easily.
Download: freeze-1.1.lha (3 KB) (snx)
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11.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS-Team: Homepage reworked
The operating system MorphOS version 2.0 was published a week ago and now the homepage was redesigned as well.
Now you can find there an introduction of some components and functions, the Help Desk, the Download section and a list of all current and former members of the team.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Website of ports "Will This Survive" moved
The website "Will This Survive" has moved to back2roots.org. You can there download the ports for free that means you do not have to write poems for it any longer.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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