02.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Event: CommVEx 4 on July 26/27 (USA)
The Commodore Vegas Expo 4 is set for Saturday and Sunday, July 26/27, at the third floor Jockey Room 1, Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. Official times are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Unofficial times are whenever the Jockey Room 1 door is open.
Admission is $10, whether you come for one day or for both days. Raffle prize tickets are one for $10, three for $20. Door prize tickets are given to each attendee. Eight to ten Commodore and Amiga systems are set up for attendees to use. Presentations and exhibits are still being lined up. (snx)
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02.Jan.2008
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at the Obligement website
The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of november/december 2007
- Old Amiga news of january/february 2000 and march/april 2000
- Report: Alchimie 7
- Report: Colmar Multimedia l'Expo
- Interview with Robert Norris (AROS developer)
- Interview with François Revol (Haiku and Texas Instruments calculator developer)
- Review of AFA 4.0
- Review of Shadow Fighter
- Review of Battle Isle
- Review of Kick Off 2
- Review of Racter
- Point of view: ACK Software Controls, king of the vaporware?
- Point de vue: 20e anniversary of the Amiga 500
- File: BBCode
- File: Scoopex - part 2: a growing legend
- File: History of the Amiga - year 1985 and 1986 (update)
- Quizz of november/december 2007
- Special quizz about Alchimie 7
(snx)
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01.Jan.2008
Bobic^BTTR (ANF)
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4Sceners.de rewards best Amiga demos 2007
The scene website 4Sceners.de has published the yearly review 2007. The editors has chosen the best PC demos and intros of the last year as well as the best Amiga demos 2007.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2008
Vinnny (ANF)
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MorphOS: Emulatoren Bochs 2.3.6 and FUSE 0.9.0
Under the title link 'Q-Master' has published updated versions of MorphOS ports of the emulators Bochs (x86-PC) and FUSE (Sinclair ZX Spectrum).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Fragment 1.5, CVS 1.12.11, makedepend 1.0.0
Christian "Tokai" Rosentreter has published new versions of the Unix ports CVS and makedepend. Additionally there is an update of Fragment (Screenshot) which is a tool that shows the fragmentation of the memory.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2008
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Further Masonicons
There are several new and reworked 32-bit icon archives available on the Masonicons website and the complete 2007 Masonicons Collection (19 MB) is available on OS4Depot.
- DISK & FILE
- Disks&FoldersMI
- a very small update of the disks and folders archive
- HARDWARE
- DelfinaMI
- an icons and drawer set of the Delfina tools
- IDEfixMI
- a complete icons and drawers set for IDEfix
- MFCMI
- a full set for the Multiface card tools
- PIVToolsMI
- an icons and drawer set for the Picassi IV tools
- VLabMI
- a complete set for VLab
These archives are aimed at the users of AmigaOS 4.0 Classic.
- MAIL & MESSAGING
- SimpleMailMI
- a complete icon set for SimpleMail
- YAMMI
- icons and a drawer for Yam with three image sets, incl. a set with small folder images and a 256 color set reworked by Ken Lester
- SYSTEM
- RangerMI
- a icon and drawer set for Ranger
- TtravelerMI
- a icon and drawer set for Timetraveler
All files are available on the archives section of the Masonicons website.
PUSH4DOCK
An archive with small startbar icons (24 x 24) is available. Add them to your Push4Dock startbar and edit your AmiDock Prefs.
For further information and themes please visit the Push4Dock section of the Masonicons website.
COLLECTIONS
The complete 2007 Masonicons Collection (19 MB) is available on OS4Depot now. It features all icon sets of 2007, Wallpapers, the latest releases of AISS and Push4Dock with all Masonicons themes. (snx)
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01.Jan.2008
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Project Moana: Statement of the developer
In December a CD image was available which was supposed to make it possible using AmigaOS 4 on certain PowerPC models of the Mac mini supplied by Apple. At amigaworld.net the author of this CD, the AmigaOS 4 developer Andrea Vallinotto has warned to use or copy this CD which is based on Moana .
"Regarding the thread about the project Moana files, I'd like to point out some facts that I would like to acknowledge as an AW.net moderator.
First of all, I'm the author of said port, done over an year ago on behalf of ACube, you can contact me directly at email removed .
In the thread I'm referring to, you (and others) are discussing the content of the CD, some even had it running on MacMinis. Such ISO image not only contains parts of OS4 (a commercial product) but also contain modules that are NOT part of either OS4 for A1 nor Classic, and are fully copyrighted by me. I never gave permission to anyone, least this AmigaMac guy, to distribute these files. So owning and using those modules is breaching my intellectual property (IP) and is a clear act of piracy.
So unless Aw.net is a forum which allows and is favorable to piracy, I suggest you post a notice on said thread and stop discussing about it. You can quote this message if you want.
As you probably have seen by the european lawsuit, between me, the two Friedens and against Hyperion and AInc, I'm more than willing to protect my IP from piracy or any other form of unauthorized use.
For the record, that ISO image was obtained from a stolen laptop and there is a police report about that (in the USA). That AmigaMac guy is not some benefactor, he's a criminal.
So far I hadn't written or posted anything because I didn't want to stir up more mess that it was already, and because the (micro) kernel on that ISO image will crash after few minutes of intensive use.
But seeing one of the moderators of Aw.net happily displaying a list of stolen files seems an endorsement of piracy from AW.net. I can't let it pass."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2007
Randy Vice (E-Mail)
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Team AROS: SATA driver bounties (update)
In the scope of the Team AROS bounties, you can donate to an AHCI as well as an nForce3/4 SATA driver since today.
Update: (13:27, 31.12.07, snx)
Another bounty project was initiated for the implementation of a Gallium3D-based subsystem. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Dec.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future 70 (January/February 2008): Previews online
Press release: The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 70 (January/February 2008) are online now. Of course you'll find a review of AmigaOS4 on ClassicPPC. Additionally, there is a related special showing the differences between AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4.0.
In this issue we have reviewed the new version of MindSpace and there is also a detailed review of the Amiga Forever 2008 in this edition as well.
You can find a detailed description of contents and excerpts at our website.
The Amiga Future is available as an English and German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future can be obtained as a single issue or subscription each with or without a cover CD.
As always you can find lot of PD software and some full versions on the cover CD. As this is the 10th anniversary edition and as a small extra we include as many full versions as the issue number itself. In short: This time you can find 70 full versions on the Amiga Future cover CD.
We ask all users having interest in the magazine to order as soon as possible. It would also be helpful if subscribers wanting to extend their subscription would do so as soon as possible.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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30.Dec.2007
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Software News: Ken's browser icons, dt2raw 1.2
Ken's browser icons
Ken Lester is making available revised versions of his toolbar icons and transfer animations for the AWeb web browser (screenshot) and IBrowse (screenshot), additionally, there is a set of icons for the alpha version of the OWB browser that was recently released.
Download (AWeb/IBrowse icons): kens_images.lha (372 KB)
Download (OWB icons): owb_icons.lha (27 KB)
Link: Homepage
MorphOS: dt2raw 1.2
dt2raw is a command line tool for converting high/true-color graphics files (with or without alpha channel) to RAW files (32-bit ARGB, 24-bit RGB, etc.). The output image is opened using datatypes.
Direct download: dt2raw-1.2-200712301438.lha (4 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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30.Dec.2007
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AmigaOS 4: Mac OS X dock clone
With the Mac.Docky (Readme), Vicente 'Ami603' Gimeno has created a dock for AmigaOS 4 which mimics its Mac OS X role model to some extent.
Download: macdock.lha (505 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Dec.2007
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)
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Symphonic Shades - Hülsbeck in Concert on August 23, 2008
The date for the concert "Symphonic Shades - Hülsbeck in Concert" (reported by amiga-news) is now fixed: The concert will take place on August 23, 2008 at 20 o'clock in Funkhaus Wallrafplatz in Cologne, Germany.
Tickets cost between 8 euros and 13.80 euros and are available at ticketonline.com with immediate effect. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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30.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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ACube announces prices for MiniMig systems
As ACube Systems announces, the advertised MiniMig systems will be available starting from the middle of January for a price of 138 euros (plus taxes and shipping costs).
Since, originally, there was talk of "different configurations," the mentioned price should probably refer to the minimal configuration, but more precise information for this is still pending. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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29.Dec.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: RSS viewer amrss MUI4 5.53
Alfonso Raniere has published an update of his RSS viewer "amrss MUI4". Changes in version 5.53:
- Fixed a bug with feeds containing a "&"
- Fixed a bug with ADDFEED arexx command
- Changed Prefs window
- Now moving the buttons bar is forbidded in certain cases (to avoid freezes)
- Other minor changes
amrss MUI4 requires the current beta versions of the GUI system MUI 4. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.45 compiled again
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has compiled version 2.45 of Blender for MorphOS once again. Therefore FFMPEG and OpenEXR support is now available.
Download: blender_2.45-mos_bin-20071227.lha (8 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Picture shower: ShowCyber 0.9
The picture shower ShowCyber supports the formats BMP, IFF-ILBM and PPM. You can get further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2007
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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DiscreetFX: Blog and forum for Aladdin 4D
After having bought the raytracing and animation software Aladdin 4D DiscreetFX has now established a blog and a forum for this program.
Für letzteres werden noch ehrenamtliche Moderatoren und Grafiker gesucht.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2007
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Fallback Server
Ralf Steines writes: Our main server, which runs www.back2roots.org and ftp.back2roots.org and also acts as a proxy frontend server for all hosted projects including winuae.net and chiptune.de, is down for a while.
To not lock your download needs we have set up a temporary access
point where you can access most of our services and all hosted
projects from our secondary server at the title link.
Please note that we have no fallback solution for the FTP server
and the modradio server, these are plain too big for our secondary
server's disks. This will hopefully change in future.
We try to keep the downtime as short as possible. Sorry for the
inconvenience of temporarily having to deal with this slower server. (snx)
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28.Dec.2007
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FlashPlayer 1.4
Mike Steed's FlashPlayer which plays the animation format Flash developed by Adobe is now available in version 1.4.
The support of the formats Flash 1 to Flash 3 has nearly completed but from Flash 4 upwards the support is limited. Please have a look at the Readme file for the latest changes.
Download: FlashPlayer.lha (317 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Review of this year's progress
Paolo Besser compiled some examples of this year's progress in the development of the AROS Research Operating System.
- January: After years of struggling with shell commands and DOpus actions, copying files became easy with Wanderer drag'n'drop
- February: A tap interface has been added to AROS hosted, completing network support
- March: AROS got packet file-systems support, increasing compatibility and coherency with original AmigaOS, and allowing AROS to manage FAT partitions. AROS got also an improved TCP/IP stack, with a new version of AROSTCP, and USB support
- April: Wanderer got a new decoration system, allowing windows to be customized with themes. Support for LUA and ARexx scripts has been improved too
- May: AROS changed its name in 'AROS Research Operating System' and aros.org got an heavy face-lift. Wanderer started showing only icons or all files, and a new community-driven site has born, ArosWorld.org
- June: AROS users decided the official windows and desktop wallpapers in an amusing competition
- September: AROS has been presented to the Amiga community in a conference at Pianeta Amiga. MUIbase and HivelyTracker have been ported too
- October: AROS got a new installer that made installation on hard disk easier. Now AROS can safely live on a disk together with Microsoft Windows
- November: AROS made a huge step ahead with its new 64-bit flavour
- December: Two new AROS distributions have been announced, Velocity and VmwAROS
(snx)
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26.Dec.2007
Amiga.org (website)
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Demoscene: Musicdisk "Fusion"
The amiga demoscene group moodsplateau released a musicdisk called "Fusion" which is dedicated to the Amiga scene as a christmas present.
Musicdisk: "Fusion"
Coding: doc.K.
Music: Climber, Psycreator and d!RT!E
Panel-Gfx: d!RT!E
Gallery-Gfx: baerb/Kakiarts, dael, dafreak
Release date: 25.12.2007
Requirement: AMiGA (030+), HD+some Chip/FastMEM or WinUAE
Details: "A musicdisk and a slideshow in one piece. Merged together, we call it 'Fusion'. Our X-MAS present for the AMiGA-Scene supports gfx-cards, sound-cards and it runs nice on hires-interlaced screen-resolution with sound output via paula. Six multichannel tracks in slow funky tech, 2step and chillout style. Some nice photos and gfx were displayed while playing. Its recommended that you have a 68060 working in your machine but it also works on 68030/50MHZ with lower mixing samplerate!
WinUAE users can start the disk directly by adding the .lha-archive under 'Harddrives'. You just need to have a Kickrom3.0 or 3.1 and set under Quickstart the A1200 model." (snx)
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25.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.9 beta 2
James 'jahc' Carroll's MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat is availabe in a second beta version of the forthcoming version 2.9. The changes you can read in the changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2007
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (ANF)
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Musik: New MP3 file at the Psyria homepage
Dennis Lohr writes: Again this year, the traditonal free download has been released this christmas. In the download area you can find the new song, produced with an Amiga: "Dream Challenge".
I would like to say thank you to all my fans as well as the Amiga community and I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Also thanks to all who supported me again this year with my music. (snx)
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