23.Sep.2007
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AmigaOS 4: AmiFTP 1.900
The Swedish dealer Guru Meditation has succeeded to obtain the sources to the Reaction-based FTP client AmiFTP (screenshot) from the original author Magnus Lilja. The program will continue to be distributed as freeware, Joachim Birging has assumed further development. Changes in version 1.900:
- Ported AmiFTP to OS4 by Joachim Birging
- Added AmiDock support. Use the new tooltype DOCKY to enable it
- Also changed prefs to use application.library instead of the old IFF
format. The old format can still be imported from the settings menu
- Small changes to the GUI to reflect ReAction changes made in OS4. This
is an old ClassAct program, remember.
- Changed the old images in the SpeedBar to use Mason's AISS images instead.
- Removed all ReqTools.library references and changed them to either ASL
or ReActions Requester class.
- Added support for AmiUpdate.
- Fixed the fuelgauge in the transfer window.
- Added "Save last dir visited" checkbox to the site edit window. AmiFTP can now save the last dir you were in.
- Added Save prefs silently option to main prefs.
- Removed the buttons at the bottom of the window. Since SpeedBar can be
text-only now you can configure AmiFTP to use text-only buttons at the top
instead.
- Replace string + button with GetFile/GetFont where appropriate.
- Added mouse wheel support in main window and site list.
Direct download: AmiFTP-1.900-OS4.lha (172 KB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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23.Sep.2007
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Status information
In the meantime, since the most diverse speculations on the whereabouts of the back2roots.org main archive have spread in the Amiga and emulation community, which is well-versed in rumors, here is a brief status update:
The BTTR server was never disconnected, but ran technically unattended for the last two years (more precisely, since the summer of 2005). Since everything is automated except for updates, this was initially not a problem either.
Surely, everyone has noticed that we suffered under massive disk space bottlenecks and our update frequency became ever sparser. Then, through appeals for donations, we have tried to afford financing our further growth (and we still have a lot up our sleeves) with the help of the community.
A considerable amount of donations came together, too, so that for now, nothing stands in the way of the project's future. But now, a complete disruption of the hard disk storage unit came by, despite all the stability of the automation in the absence of the programmer Ralf Steines (hippie2000) from the Net. In the process, important parts of the BTTR engine were overwritten with empty files. Surely, everyone has seen the result...
Anyway, Ralf is back, the core of the team is reunited, and right now, we are working on the reconstruction of the server which is located at the University of Trondheim, to make possible the next growth of the project.
To all those who have donated until now: Count on it that everything arrived and will now be used (or was already used) for the specified purpose. All others are still welcome to participate. You can find details on back2roots.org.
In the next weeks, we are reconstructing everything, reinstalling the machines, configuring everything, in order to be available to you soon in old glory again. Afterwards, it goes on with new updates.
Till then, the page is available symbolically with limited functionality, so that everyone can see that we are back, so please, a little patience still.
Best regards,
Your back2roots.org team (snx) (Translation: cad)
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22.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky 1.8b6 (beta)
Jabberwocky is an MUI-based Instant-Messaging-Client for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS which is able to access different messaging-networks (e.g. AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) with the help of so called server modules. Changes since version 1.7:
- Fixed a crash that occurred when a "topic" was entered in the conference
window before joining a converence.
- Account window "connect" & "register" buttons are now disabled when
Jabberwocky is connected.
- Changed menus to disable Roster menu and roster contextmenu when
Jabberwocky is not connected. Some menuitems are disabled if there
is an empty roster when Jabberwocky connects.
- Fixed a crash in network discovery function that resulted from
attempting to visit a jabber server in the agents window with
Jabberwocky not yet connected to a Jabber server.
- Added loading and saving of codeset prefs and activated existing
"Charset" GUI elements in prefs.
- Merged in code diffs for charset conversion in chat windows.
Charset conversion is untested at this point.
- Fixed long standing bug in prefs loading of an event command with quotes
and the quotes appear as they should instead of escaped XML.
- Added some serial debugging that can be activated when a "Debug" version
of Jabberwocky is compiled.
- Added functions to obtain external IPA address from Jabberwocky homepage
for file transfers through a Router.
- Added prefs item to activate the external IP address retrieval.
- Updated Iksemel library to latest available version.
- Added "usedclasses" identifier and array so that only the external classes
actually used by Jabberwocky will be listed in the MUI preferences. This
only works for v20+ MUI and will be ignored by older MUI versions.
- Updated locale catalogs and added Swedish catalog.
- Localize main window status messages.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.4.4
The WinUAE-team has published a new version of the well-known Amiga emulator for Windows. Changes since the last release:
New features:
- major directory filesystem emulation update:
- removable drive automounting on the fly (USB memory, USB HD, memory
cards, any removable drive that mounts as a drive letter in Windows)
- drag'n'drop directory/archive automount
- more missing filesystem packets supported (including ACTION_EXAMINE_ALL)
- major "Add Harddrive" uaehf.device update:
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- removable drives (real harddrives, x-in-one memory card readers, zip drives, etc..) supported on the fly
- configured drive but no media or [USB] drive not connected when emulation was started: automounted when inserted (no RDB automount yet)
- empty drives listed in "Add Harddrive" dialog.
- X-Power Professional v1.3 and Nordic Power v1.5 support
- Pro-Wizard module ripper updated to v1.62
- hq2x filter added.
- Added two basic A4000 quickstart configurations.
- More accurate CD32/CDTV end of audio track detection.
- Current configuration name added to window title.
Bugs fixed:
- Windows 2000: "Add Harddrive" was always disabled.
- "Add Harddrive" HD controller selection was missing.
- Better compatibility with OS 3.1 and older HDToolbox versions.
- CD32 statefile support works again.
- Paths handling updates (yet again..)
- Disappearing mouse pointer in fullscreen modes when GUI was active.
- bsdsocket emulation crashing or freezing when emulation was reset.
- directory filesystem file/directory deletion failing and Windows
recycle bin support enabled returned wrong error codes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
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IRC-Klient: WookieChat 2.7 beta 13
James "jahc" Carroll has published another beta version of his MUI-based IRC-client Wookiechat. Have a look at the Changelog for the latest changes. Wookiechat is available for all Amiga systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
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MorphOS: Update of Filetype package for Ambient
Mario Kuban has published an update of his filetype collection for newer Ambient versions. The install-script was rewritten and additionally there is a new filetype for "FileTypesPath".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
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Photos and news from Pianeta Amiga
This weekend in Empoli (Italy) the "Pianeta Amiga" takes place. ACube (Sam440ep), Hyperion (OS4) and other companies take part. Meanwhile first photos and news from the event are available:
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmate is currently porting the P2P-client Bourriquet which is based on eMule to AmigaOS 4 (screenshots: 1, 2).
At lightelements.com the first photos can be looked at. Additional to the PPC-motherboard Sam440ep, which is sold to customers for the first time, empty packages of the soon coming up operating system "AmigaOS 4"-classic version were shown at the event for preadvertising reasons. In this way ACube probably tries to reveal that the distribution of the classic version certainly will come.
If there will be further messages they will be announced as soon as possible.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Lorraine Design: Game Icons Vol. 1
With Game Icons Vol. 1 Bojan Milovic has published fifty pictograms for diverse games in DualPNG-format (screenshot). Additionally there are also four background pictures.
AmigaOS 4 as well as AmigaOS with AfA-extension are required. Besides this at the Lorraine Design-homepage a wallpaper-section was created.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
AN-Team
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amiga-news is looking for support!
Especially for translations the team of amiga-news is looking for support.
- Translators for daily translation of news from German to English. Good English knowledges are required, especially native speakers are welcome, and you should be able to become acquainted with an intuitive online editorial system.
If you are interested please write an email to Nico Barbat.
Note: Wolfgang Krause who has translated for several years has left the team of amiga-news.de because of temporal reasons. We would like to thank him wish him all the best for his future! (nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Sep.2007
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First report of experiences of new USB-card from E3B
Under the title link a user gives a first impression of a prototype of the new USB-controller from E3. The Zorro 3-card is supposed to replace the well-known Highway, can now handle DMA- and PIO-modi and is called "Deneb".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Sep.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2007 - Update
According to the organizers the AmiWest will take place a day later in Sacramento, California because of a misunderstanding of the Hotel. The AmiWest now will take place on Sunday 21. October.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Sep.2007
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Virtual Grand Prix 2 HD Barcelona track 1.0
With his ongoing series of updates for Paolo Cattani's Virtual Grand Prix 2 Jason Frabotta provides now the version 1.0 of the racing track "Barcelona" with support for high, standard- and low resolution. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Sep.2007
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File manager: Filemaster 3.1 Beta 7
Filemaster is a file manager with configureable BGUI based user interface and supports up to eight directory windows. A free keyfile is availabale at the Aminet. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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19.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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IRC client: WookieChat 2.7 Beta 12
James "jahc" Carroll providesa new beta version of his MUI basedIRC client Wookiechat. The last changes are listed at the changelog. Wookiechat is available for all Amiga systems. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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19.Sep.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Gallery Update
Press release The Amiga Future Gallery has been updated considerably the last days. There is a new wallpaper section where users can put their own wallpapers online and make them available to others.
The games screenshots section is new aswell. We will publish every screenshot we have in this gallery. The first 1000 are already online.
Furthermore there are the already known sections for the reader's workbenches and computers where the users can post screenshots and photos.
Moreover we are looking for other names for this two sections. The ones currently used don't really sound well.
Subscribers of the Amiga Future are able to download colour CD covers for printing.
The English edition of the Amiga Future 67 has been sold out. But there are enough copies of issue 68.
Also we ask all users especially the ones getting the English edition to extend their subscriptions as soon as possible or letting us know if they aren't interested anymore. This would ease the planning of the next issue of the Amiga Future heavily. (snx)
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18.Sep.2007
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Star Fighter - D'Yammen's Reign: Updates available
Andy "DrewFX" Hawkins who recently made available his formerly commercial space opera "Star Fighter: D'Yammen's Reign" has now published a lha-version of the CD.
Additionally there are two updates: The first one fixes bugs in the Starfighter missions, the second one contains several versions of the Starfighter launcher.
Star.lha
Documentation for both updates
Patch 1: Missions
Patch 2: Launcher
The author answers questions in a thread on amiga.org. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Sep.2007
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Commodore Show in Kerkrade (Netherlands)
Ron van Schaik writes: This time we organize a C= Show especially for the Amiga and Commodore fans and users in the very south part of Holland, Kerkrade. Also very easy to reach for Belgian and German fans from that region. This extra show will be on saturday september 22th from 10:00 till 16:00 at Gemeenschapshuis Heilust, Kerkrade, Limburg (Holland). Entrance is as usually for free! (snx)
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17.Sep.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.09.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 21K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
links-mos.lha comm/www 1.1M MOS Links text-only WWW browser
AMOSlist-1998-08.lha dev/amos 139K GEN AMOS-list archives for August 1998
SANE.lha dev/basic 42K OS3 80bit SANE & numeric functions for Blitz
wget-111-beta1-bin.lha dev/gg 665K OS3 Wget ixemul ixnet geekgadgets
pfssalv2.lha disk/salv 30K OS3 Save files from damaged PFS2/3 partition
GSGui.lha gfx/conv 99K GEN GUI for Ghostscript8 in MUI
st2iff-mos.lha gfx/conv 23K MOS Converts ST NEOchrome/DEGAS -> IFF ILBM
fxScanSP.lha gfx/edit 6K GEN fxSCAN spanish catalog v4.0
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 348K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 318K OS3 MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
ht14.lha mus/edit 926K OS4 Hively Tracker,AHX based chiptune tracke
ht14_m68k.lha mus/edit 1.1M OS3 Hively Tracker,AHX based chiptune tracke
IconBeFast.lha util/boot 164K OS3 patch for faster icons & color mapping
MemOptimizer.lha util/boot 138K OS3 Memory defrag + GUI & optional Patches
Assign-MorphOS.lha util/cli 20K MOS Unofficial assign command
akGIF-dt.lha util/dtype 87K VAR akGIF-dt (GIF, 68000-060/MOS)
EireMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Ireland country for MorphOS
IslandMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Iceland country for MorphOS
LetzebuergMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Luxembourg country for MorphOS
SanMarinoMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN San Marino country for MorphOS
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Sep.2007
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os4depot.net: Upload until 16.09.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
jukebox.lha aud/mis 114kb Old jukebox style GUI for external mus/v
dg_midi_player.lha aud/pla 54kb Simple MIDI player
tunehvl_plug.lha aud/pla 56kb HivelyTracker (HVL) / AHX plugin for Tun
tunetta_plug.lha aud/pla 47kb TTA Plugin for TuneNet
tunewma_plug.lha aud/pla 107kb WMA Plugin for TuneNet.
compilergui.lha dev/uti 109kb GUI for compilers
crapgamesvol4.lha gam/mis 2Mb Crap Games Vol.4 (Black Star, PentagoSDL
png_icon_editor.lha gra/edi 7Mb A Tool for Manipulating PNG Images and I
findmore.lha uti/fil 70kb File searching tool
virtualdrawer.lha uti/fil 81kb Create virtual drawers
lcdtest.lha uti/har 177kb LCD monitor test pattern generator
showmsg.lha uti/she 44kb A requester to show messages from script
fuelgauge.lha uti/wor 77kb Volume gauges underneath hard drive icon
screenmonitor.lha uti/wor 76kb Public screen monitoring utility
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Sep.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 16.09.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
validation_src.zip uti/mis 18kb afs_util - disk validator partial source
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Sep.2007
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IRC-Klient: WookieChat 2.7 Beta 11
James "jahc" Carroll provides a new beta-version of his MUI-based IRC-client Wookiechat. The last changes are here . Wookiechat is available for all Amiga-Systems. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hyperion are representive on the Pianeta Amiga
The organizer of the Pianeta Amiga (22. and 23. September, Italy) notify, that Evert Carton from Hyperion join the event. Carton will be there on the stand of ACube Systems from Saturday afternoon. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Sep.2007
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Podcast Receiver: AmiPodder 1.7
AmiPodder by Robert Williams is an ARexx program that makes possible receiving so-called podcasts. In addition to MUI, including the classes NList, NListTree and TheBar, RxMUI is required, too.
In version 1.7, podcasts that demand authentication can be played back as well. In addition, the Amplifier program is supported for playback. The remaining improvements concern better podcast feed compatibility as well as checking the required libraries and MUI classes, in addition to bugfixes. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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16.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 9
"Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English podcast prepared by Rich Lawrence and Sean Fitzgerald, where Amiga users and invited guests discuss current events in the Amiga scene.
Topics of the ninth issue, which will be broadcast from AmigaWorld Radio tomorrow afternoon at 17:00 (German time [CET], rerun at 19:00):
- Fran Dramis Joins Amiga Advisory Board
- Amiga Inc. Launches Amiga Classic PC Games
- X-Amiga: Linux based EUAE Kit
- MUIbase ported to AROS
- QNX Goes Open Source
- Pagestream back on track
- New version of SMart FileSyetem Released
- AISS V4 - Amiga Image Storage System
- Obligement: New Articles & Amiga Future 68
- New ffmpegGUI v1.0 Just released! Now includes VCD/DVD presets!
- MiniMig Pics at Amiga Forever
- Hombre v0.5
- Updates from Bill on his movie Oil Change
- Call for guests and challenges go out!
This time, Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX) will be present as guest.
Older episodes of ART can be found in Aminet. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: Neue Catweasel Treiber, Commodore Scene Award
Press release: The most important change of the recent release of the Win32 drivers for the Catweasel are visible in the imagetool, which now supports many new disk formats and has new graphical functions. After a long wait, the Apple floppy formats of older Macintosh computers (400KByte and 800KByte per disk) and the Apple IIe series are now supported.
Two more formats of Commodore classics can now be read, but this requires special disk drives with 100tpi. Regular floppy drives have a track spacing of 96tpi, so there will be read errors on most of the tracks of Commodore 8050 or SFD1001 disks.
As always, the new drivers are free, and they still contain the routines required for operation with the oldest Catweasel models. We're asking our customers who are still using these controllers to carefully test these drivers with the old hardware, as we are only testing with the latest PCI models of the controller. Download: CWMK42400.zip (432 KByte).
Commodore Scene Lifetime Achievement Award goes to individual Computers
Earlier this week, we learned from the newsletter of the Digitale Kultur e.V. that our product Retro Replay has been voted to be the "best 3rd party hardware" by the members of the Commodore scene. Our sincere thanks are given to all Commodore Sceners. Special thanks goes to the scene group Cyberpunx, whose software surely made a large part of the wide acceptance of our product. The Catweasel was nominated as "Best Current SID Usage", but it had to stand back behind the synthesizer SidStation. You can find more results of the awards on the pages of Digitale Kultur.
individual Computers
Roermonder Str 228
52072 Aachen (cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Sep.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.3 (update)
OpenTTD is an open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90's with many enhancements - a network mode, individual graphic sets and adaptations to over two dozen languages, among other things.
Compared with the "release candidates" released so far, numerous minor bugs were fixed in the newest version. OpenTTD requires files of the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe game.
Update: (16:51, 16.09.07, snx)
Under torrent.openttd.org, the archive is now available via BitTorrent as well. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Sep.2007
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MorphOS: New Ambient nightly build
For the first time since April 1, a nightly build of the MorphOS desktop Ambient was made available again, under the title link. You can gather the changes that have been carried out since that time from the changelog.
The nightly builds are about compilations of the current development status without documentation and support. By nature, it is not guaranteed that all implemented functions work error-free. Accordingly, use the nightly builds at your own risk, a backup of your present Ambient installation is strongly recommended. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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