20.Dec.2007
bplan (e-mail)
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bplan GmbH: Christmas Greetings and World Vision EFIKA charity
Press release Steinbach, 20. Dezember 2007 - Different to last year, we would like to use our Christmas gift this year to help other people. Far away from all computer stuff and the industry where we are normally located. We like to use this opportunity together with you to support the work of World Vision and their efforts to help people.
Please take a look at the international auction house eBay®, user name bplangmbh. You will find over there five EFIKA auctions with an starting price of 50,- EUR. The amount of the EFIKA auctions will be paid as a one-time donation to World Vision Germany. We hope this contribution will help them to be able to go ahead with their work and help those people that need our financial support mostly.
If you are interested to be active yourself or like to know more about the work of World Vision, check out their website worldvision.org for more information.
We wish all our webvisitors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2008. (snx)
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19.Dec.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Video by Amigahellas from the DTE 2007
The biggest Greek user club Amigahellas participated at the biggest Greek technology fair "Digital Technology Expo" (amiga-news.de reported) and provides a video from that event at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Dec.2007
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS: Alternative skin for FCEU
Christophe 'Highlander' Delorme has created an alternative skin (screen shot) for the MorphOS port of the Nintendo emulator FCE Ultra that is availabla at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Dec.2007
os4welt.de (webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CD/DVD burning program AmiDVD 1.44
AmiDVD is a very basic CD/DVD burning program by Jörg Strohmayer. Changes in version 1.44:
- Accepts mode pages with block descriptor length != 0 now (seems to be
required for SCSI<>ATAPI adapters, for real SCSI drives it's required
as well)
Direkter Download: AmiDVD_1.44.lha (51 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.Dec.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga Forever: Free upgrade if buying current version
According to Cloanto all customers will get a free upgrade to version 2008 who have bought on or after 1st december 2007 the emulator package "Amiga Forever 2006".
All other customers will get a special price for the upgade, too. The forthcoming version will offer a completely new kind of emulating Amiga.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Dec.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 17
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English podcast created by Rich Lawrence and Sean Fitzgerald where Amiga users and invited guests discuss the events of the Amiga scene.
For the current episode Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald, Mike Blackburn and Bill Panagouleas have met. The topics:
- CNN talks about Commodore 64
- New scandoubler for under $100 coming
- Climm ICQ client for Amiga
- Amigans.net has a chance to win AmigaOS 4 Classic
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Dec.2007
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DiscreetFX bought rights of Aladdin 4D
According to DiscreetFX in a press release the company bought the rights of the raytracing and animation software Aladdin 4D from Nova Design. DiscreetFX is going to offer the program as cheap alternative for raytracing beginners. AmigaOS 4, AROS, possibly MorphOS 2.0, Mac OS X as well as Linux will be supposed to be supported. There will be a free version for Windows as bonus, too.
All those who have given money for the Open Aladdin campaign are to contact DiscreetFX to get back the money.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Dec.2007
os4depot.net (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Workbench clone Yet Another Desktop 0.2b
Yet Another Desktop (screenshot) written by Tuomas Hokka is a Workbench replacement which tries to emulate the priciples of "Virtual Desktops" and "Workspaces".
YAD is still in beta status. It is not possible to display pictograms in the directory listers and toolbars. YAD is one file and does not replace system files.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.4.2
For AmiKit, a complete-Distribution for WinUAE-user, is the Update to Version 1.4.2 available. This can be downloaded via the integrated live update-function or manuel. All changes are available at the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Dec.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Guru Meditation: New Atari 2600-Game for the Amiga-Joyboard
Linked to the header notify Ian Bogost a new game for the Atari 2600, which support the Amiga-Joyboard .
The player must be sit very still on the Joyboard for the meditation game "Guru Meditation" - like the originally Amiga-developers to keep down after a system crash.
After no movement the Yogi will increase (Screenshot), as movement he will sink to the ground. The target is to take him so long as possible in the air to relaxe. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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16.Dec.2007
Power Developer (Forum)
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PDF Book: Pegasos Book 2.3 (English)
Geoffrey Charra's PDF Book all about the Pegasos platform, the Pegasos Book, is now available in version 2.3 in English as well. The original French version had already appeared in May.
Changes:
- Vol. 1 & Vol. 2: Minor changes
- Vol. 3: Updated MorphOS section
- Vol. 4:
- Added: Chapter "Tricks and hints under Linux on Pegasos"
- Added: Reorganisation of information
- Update: Installation of Linux Debian (V 4.0)
- Update: Installation of Linux Ubuntu (V 7.04 Feisty)
- Added: Usage of bootcreator
- Added: Usage of chroot command
- Added: Usage of NFS to fast up compilations
- Added: Usage of Nintendo Wiimote on a Pegasos
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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16.Dec.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS Team: Registration advice
In the MorphZone forum, on behalf of the MorphOS team, Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh asks all those Pegasos users, who have possibly tried in vain to register themselves under support.morphos-team.net, to try this again, in case they have not received an E-Mail.
However, your inputs must be correct and complete, since the registration request will be denied otherwise. Furthermore, please note that this announcement does not apply to PowerUp registrations - the latter were processed continuously. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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16.Dec.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: High resolution race course Melbourne for VGP2
In the context of his updates for Paolo Cattani's Virtual Grand Prix 2, Jason Frabotta has now made available a high resolution version of the race course in Melbourne. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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15.Dec.2007
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.7
After several beta versions James 'jahc' Carroll has published the final version 2.7 of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. WookieChat is available for all Amiga systems.
Update: (17.12.2007, 15:30, cg)
Now version 2.8 has been released, which fixes a bug that could cause crashes. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Dec.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: VmwAROS 0.5
VmwAROS is a preconfigured AROS-environment for VMware which is supposed to give an impression of the operating system to the user.
A list of all changes can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Dec.2007
Cloanto (e-mail)
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Cloanto: Cataloging Effort Reaches 10K Milestone
Press release Udine, Italy - December 14, 2007 - Cloanto Italia srl, Amiga software developers since 1986, announced today that their Amiga cataloging effort reached the milestone of ten thousand disk-based applications.
So far, Cloanto's effort focused on the cataloging of Amiga games and game-like educational titles. Reaching ten thousand titles (counting different major versions, but excluding minor variations) meant, among other things, processing several tens of thousands of floppy disk images, including format variations and non-exact duplicates, which have now been "handprinted". In practice, this data can be used to allow Amiga Forever users to search for games by title or keywords, to access multiple independent partner web sites with additional information and downloads, and to more easily play games without complex configuration work.
Many Amiga enthusiasts already have a multitude of game floppy disk images on their PCs. Having access to this cataloging data, a future version of Amiga Forever will be able to recognize a disk selected by the user, automatically finding the required companion disks and starting the game with the correct (emulated) hardware configuration. All of this, with a simple click on a downloaded disk image (e.g. an ADF file).
The handprinting technology used by Cloanto goes beyond traditional CRC32 file-level checksums which have commonly been used in the emulation community. Rather, Cloanto's software can analyze the images at the Amiga disk block and file system level, extracting precious information, ignoring simple modifications such as a saved game state or high score data, and applying other smart identification algorithms. In this way, more duplicates and disks that would otherwise go unrecognized are identified.
Cloanto's cataloging project began in 2004. In 2005, a number of specification drafts (e.g. XADML, an XML-based application and configuration description format) were announced and published on the Amiga Forever site. At the same time, also with the help of numerous contributors, a database of applications was slowly being built, one title at a time. At Pianeta Amiga 2007, Cloanto announced that the "10K" milestone was near. The effort is now being expanded to content available in formats other than disk images, and to applications other than Amiga games and educational titles. First implementations embodying this new technology and data are planned for 2008. (snx)
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14.Dec.2007
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(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Digital Universe 1.5 available as download
The Astronomy program Digital Universe can now be bought as cheap download version. There is an ISO-Image of the Ditigal Universe-CD or a LhA archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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