22.Aug.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 3
Under the title link Jeremy Reimer has continued his survey about the Amiga history with the first prototypes and the development of the operating system. The third part ends with the purchase by Commodore.
In his article serie the author wants to explain "what the Amiga was, what it meant to his developers and users and why it - despite of the early decline and its [from the current point of view] rather slight brand awareness - had so much influence on the computer industry".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PPC-Hardware: SAM440 available from the end of September
In an advertisement the producer of the PPC440-based motherboard SAM440 has announced that visitors of the Pianeta Amiga (22. and 23. September, Italy) will may "touch, test and buy" the hardware.
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22.Aug.2007
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AmigaOS 4: Classic-version with native Mediator-support
According to Hans-Jörg "Rogue" Frieden in a thread at amigans.net currently the kernel is adapted to the known PCI-busboards of the Mediator-serie.
In the past it was known that the original pci.library of the producer of Elbox also works under AmigaOS 4 but has some incompatibilities to the existing PCI-driver system of the new operating system. That means users had to use the drivers provided by Elbox.
If and how the DMA problem of the Mediator boards will be solved - the hardware does not support real DMA - is still not clear. Certain PCI-cards (e.g. tv-cards) require DMA.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2007
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MorphOS: trackdisk.device 41.3 for Pegasos computers
Pavel Fedin has published an update of his floppy driver for Pegasos computers. Changes in this version:
- Formatting now works
- Implemented forgotten TD_SEEK and ETD_SEEK commands
- Preferences program is now more portable
- Preferences program now supports locale
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2007
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Event: AmiWest 2007
On Oktober 20th the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento, California. In a press release it is reminded that there is still the possibility to book a seat for the banquet.
The entrance itself is for free because it is paid by sponsors.
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21.Aug.2007
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Move of der Reggae website
The website of Reggae which is a multimedia library for MorphOS written by Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has moved to a new server and can be now accessed under http://krashan.ppa.pl/reggae.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2007
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: I Have No Tomatoes 1.55a / Amoebax 0.2.0
Herbert 'HAK' Klackl reoleased a small update of the SDL-game I Have No Tomatoes. The rules are to destroy with bombs in 10 minutes a maximum of the tomatos. The MorphOS-Port requires TinyGL.
He builed also a port ofAmoebax, a tetris SDL-Puzzle game, where 4 or more amoebas must be put in one row.
Download:
tomatoes-1.55a-morphos.lha (9 MB)
amoebax-0.2.0-morphos.lha (10 MB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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20.Aug.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 68 preview online
Press release: Previews and some excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 68 (September/October 2007) are available now. Starting with issue 67 the Amiga Future is available in German and English.
Besides many articles covering the Amiga there are reviews of AWeb, Shuffle and much more in this issue. A more detailed description of contents can be found at our web site. The cover CD of the Amiga Future features a bunch of full versions besides lots of PD software.
Because of the massive problems regarding shipping of the last issue to outside Germany the Amiga Future is going to be shipped via airmail only.
The Amiga Future is available as a single issue or subscription. You are free to choose whether you want it with or without a cover CD.
The Amiga Future is available directly from the editorial office at amigafuture.de and some Amiga dealers like Alinea, Vesalia, AmigaKit, GGS Data, Samuli...
If dealers are interested in offering the Amiga Future for their customers then simply write us an email.
amigafuture.de
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20.Aug.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.08.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
XBaze-fr.lha biz/dbase 18K GEN XBaze v7.3.1 french catalog
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 20K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
IRCServices.lha comm/irc 799K OS3 IRCServices 4.5.45
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 824K OS3 UnrealIRCd 3.1.6-Noon (Non-SSL & SSL)
getvideo.lha comm/www 6K GEN get FLV files from YouTube etc.
6502asm-mos.lha dev/cross 19K MOS 6502 2-pass cross assembler
exomizer.lha dev/cross 513K MOS A cruncher for 6502 executables
EC4OS3.lha dev/e 28K GEN Tutorial: system programming with Amiga-
openssl-bin.lha dev/gg 2.2M OS3 OpenSSL 0.9.7m ported to AmigaOS
dildev.lha dev/misc 62K MOS Device Intervention Layer, Dev. archive
spatch.lha dev/misc 11K VAR Clone of SAS Binary File Patcher w/ src
spatch_os4.lha dev/misc 79K OS4 Clone of SAS Binary File Patcher w/src
WHDLoad_dev.lha dev/misc 1.8M OS3 HD-Installer for OS-Killer
WHDLoad_usr.lha dev/misc 991K OS3 HD-Installer for OS-Killer
diskimage_device.lha disk/misc 127K OS4 Disk image device (adf,dms,ipf,iso,...)
Antigravity.lha docs/hyper 26K GEN AntiGravity.guide
Spots-PFD.txt docs/misc 52K GEN AmigaOS 4: Spot's Porting for Dummies
cnetdevice.lha driver/net 181K OS3 PCMCIA Network Card driver
MegaBoulderDash-TG_ADF.lha game/actio 267K OS3 Mega Boulderdash - The Garden
SnakeMe.lha game/actio 1.9M OS4 Snake game: many players, lots of option
AmiOmega161.lha game/misc 444K OS3 Amiga port of the Omega game. V1.61
amtris.lha game/wb 17K OS3 Simple WB Tetris clone
TilesSlide.lha game/wb 45K OS3 Align three tiles of the same colour
dcraw.i386-aros.zip gfx/conv 365K ARO CLI converter for camera raw files
SView5.lha gfx/misc 2.9M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 343K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
VICE-AmigaOS3-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 4.5M OS3 Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-AmigaOS4-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 7.5M OS4 Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-i686-AROS-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 5.4M ARO Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-MorphOS-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 5.9M MOS Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-powerpc-AROS-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 6.8M Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
WarpNeoPocott_v038.lha misc/emu 171K WUP NeoGeo Pocket emulator
WES_v10.lha misc/emu 14K WUP WarpNeoPocott/Mame/NeoMame/Mess launcher
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 102K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon128 Emulator
celfare.lha misc/sci 23K OS3 converts several temperature scales
bc-impossible.mp3 mods/mpg 4.5M GEN "Impossible" by Bobby Clark/Synthetik FM
bc-technology.mp3 mods/mpg 4.8M GEN "Technology" Bobby Clark/Synthetik FM
CheesyBeat.lha mods/techn 17K GEN Cheesy Beat
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 319K OS3 MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
NRConvert.lha mus/misc 27K OS3 Conv. tracker mods to Noise Runner forma
wet_stardock.lha pix/picon 221K GEN Stardock PNG weather icons for Wet 5
xp-dream.zip pix/theme 90K GEN AROS: XP Dream Theme
xp.zip pix/theme 94K GEN AROS: XP Default Theme
wolfhtml.lha util/cli 719K OS3 Generate HTML 3D step maze from Ascii ma
MidiDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 12K GEN MIDI DataType Preferences Editor
UniLibDev.lha util/libs 225K VAR Unicode code point/UTF-8 support lib
AmigaListLoader.lha util/misc 52K OS3 List Loader for Digital Satellite Receiv
dilusr.lha util/misc 140K MOS Device Intervention Layer, User archive
SayToy.lha util/misc 29K GEN Speech Text Translator and Narrator
MeMonitor.lha util/moni 48K OS3 A memory (Chip/Fast) monitor.
SetPatch50.lha util/sys 5K MOS SetPatch 50.1 fake entry for MorphOS
wet.lha util/wb 1.0M VAR Weather conditions on WB, AppIcon, Docky
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20.Aug.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 19.08.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
ttaenc.lha aud/con 44kb TTAEnc - encode your own lossless TTA au
phatbeat.lha aud/mis 866kb A BPM Counter
dg_midi_player.lha aud/pla 42kb Simple MIDI player
sdl_image.lha dev/lib 69kb SDL image file loading library
sdl_ttf.lha dev/lib 30kb SDL_TTF a Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL.
spatch.lha dev/uti 79kb Clone of SAS Binary File Patcher w/src
spots-pfd.txt doc/man 52kb Spot's Porting for Dummies
diskimage_device.lha dri/sto 144kb Disk image device (adf,dms,ipf,iso,...)
vice.tgz emu/com 7Mb VICE - Versatile Commodore Emulator
viceplus.lha emu/gam 2Mb VICEplus a C64DTV emulator based on VICE
snakeme.lha gam/act 1Mb A Snake game for many players with lots
kolorowe_jajca.lha gam/puz 2Mb Kolorowe_Jajca short Hollywood game
wbsg-fr.lha gam/puz 5kb WB Super Games french catalog
png_icon_editor.lha gra/edi 7Mb A Tool for Manipulating PNG Images and I
skinhunomacosx.lha gra/the 1Mb Theme HunoMacOSX
showimage.lha gra/vie 282kb ShowImage - Displays images
warpviewgui_ita.rar gra/vie 1kb Italian catalog for WarpView GUI
ib_transanims2.lha net/bro 4Mb Yet another IB transferanimations for ve
openssh-bin.lha net/mis 997kb OpenSSH secure connectivity tools
findmore.lha uti/fil 62kb File search tool
showfont.lha uti/tex 252kb Showfont - Displays TTF fonts
screenmonitor.lha uti/wor 75kb Public screen monitoring utility
wet.lha uti/wor 1Mb Weather conditions on WB, AppIcon, Docky
ffmpeggui.lha vid/con 82kb A GUI for the ffmpeg video converter pro
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20.Aug.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 19.08.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
dcraw.i386-aros.zip gra/con 364kb CLI converter for camera raw files
xp-dream.zip gra/the 89kb XP Dream Theme
xp.zip gra/the 94kb XP Default Theme
read_afs_0.1.zip uti/fil 139kb Read+Validate AROS OFS/FFS disks from Wi
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20.Aug.2007
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Shuffle 1.10
An update for Shuffle is available to all customers. Shuffle is a MorphOS implementation of the famous Sliding Block Puzzle, often also known as 15 Puzzle and is making use of MorphOS core components like MUI or Reggae.
Besides some smaller cosmetical fixes the update offers localization for three new languages. Thanks to Krashan, Vinnny and Stevo you can play Shuffle now in Polish, Russian or Dutch. Translations for Italian and Hungarian are in work.
Shuffle will be available as part of MorphOS 2.0, but if you want to play it now already you can buy it for just 3 Euro. Please note that this early offer will end on 31th August 2007. After that date no more copies of Shuffle will be sold anymore and if you still want to play Shuffle then you must wait for the MorphOS 2.0 release (no matter how long this will take). (snx)
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20.Aug.2007
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 16.8
With WHDLoad is it possible to install games and scene demo's, which are only created to work on floppydisc systems, on a harddisc. Beside are several incompatibility problems with new Amiga systems will be fixed.
Changes of the lates version:
- fix: the requester displayed when audio.device is already used
defaults to 'ignore' now, so it works in combination with option NoReq/S
(Horace)
- fix: the online help displayed when WHDLoad is called from the CLI
without arguments has been fixed for the options Cache/S and DCache/S
(Hexaae)
- fix: CLI args fixed to fault on too many arguments (Psygore)
- chg: the install template supports installing from disk images via
diskimage.device, trackwarp.library and capsimage.device
- chg: kick31.s supports also the kickstart image from the A500/A600/A2000, with that it is possible to make Slaves using kick31
which are compatible to a 68000 CPU (Don Adan)
- new: WHDLoad itself disables the interrupts of Mediator boards now
while running the installed program, this should solve problems
like freezing and gfx/sound distortion on these boards, thanks
to John Girvin and Elbox for providing the solution
- chg: WHDLoad now avoids opening the WorkBench screen after exiting,
older versions have always opened the WB if no other screen was left open,
requires at least v39
- new: WHDLoad now shows the task name on exceptions if there was a
working amigaos running, it also shows segment name and offset if
SegTracker was running (inside emulation of course)
- new: option NoMemReverse/S added to the global configuration (Ralf
Stützer)
- new: catalan translation of documentation, thanks to Manel Beltran
- new: its now possible to use special rawkeys for the QuitKey/N option
to let WHDLoad quit from a button press on the mouse/joystick/joypad
- chg: some changes to the kickemu, check history therein
Direct download link: WHDLoad_usr.lha (992 KB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Aug.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Update to MomosIRC
Marian 'MaaG^dA' Guc has released a new version of his IRC client MomosIRC for MorphOS (screenshot). The update fixes come connection errors, in addition, the tab key can be used now.
Download: MomosIRC_MOS.lha (114 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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19.Aug.2007
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Filesystem SFS 1.274
The newest version of the alternative filesystem, SFS, now supports files larger than 4 GB as well. The changes in detail:
- Replaced semaphores by mutexes if running on the July 2007 update of AmigaOS4 or newer
- Removed support for AmigaOS4 versions older than OS4 final
- Added a new format with large file support, to use it select DOSType 'SFS\2' (0x53465302) for the partitions. WARNING: It's not compatible to the older SFS2 versions, nor to standard SFS partitions (DOSType 'SFS\0', 0x53465300) and therefore tools like SFSCheck, PartitionWizard, etc. don't work on such partitions and you can't use such a partition for booting from U-Boot/SLB!
Direct download: SFS_1.274.lha (72 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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18.Aug.2007
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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AmigaOS 4: test version of AmiTV
Ian Gledhill released a first test version AmiTV 0.03 for AmigaOS 4 just to find out whether his TV card support will work on other computers except his own at all.
Required is a Radeon graphics board with overlay support and a TV card with Conexant CX2388x chipset (e.g. Hauppauge WinTV HVR1600). Usable input format is just Composite Video right now.
Download: AmiTV_0.03.lha (404 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Aug.2007
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IRC-client: WookieChat 2.7 beta 7
James "jahc" Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based IRC-client Wookiechat. Have a look at the last changes here. Wookiechat is available for all Amiga-systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Aug.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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WinUAE: Revolution Pack for AmigaSYS 3 Plus
With the permission of Revolution Software for AmigaSYS 3 Plus there is a archive with games "Beneath a steel sky" (CD32-version with support of several languages) and "Lure of the Temptress" (ECS-version, German and English).
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench for the Amiga-emulator WinUAE with many extensions.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Aug.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Graphical user-interface for ffmpeg
ffmpeg is a CLI-programm for decoding and encoding of several kinds of video, audio and graphic formats where you can change diverse parameter. With ffmpegGUI 0.6 there is now a graphical user-interface for AmigaOS 4.
The user-interface supports some basic optionens of ffmpeg. All further ones can be accessed by a command line field. In order to develop further the software the author asks for suggestions.
Download: ffmpeggui.lha (79 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Aug.2007
Schlonz (ANF)
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MorphOS: Decoder for OnlineTVRecorder
Schlonz wrote: For OnlineTVRecorder which is a legal, free and mainly German Internet video recorder there is now an official decoder for MorphOS.
With OnlineTVRecorder you can record almost all German television programs. Up to 30 television broadcasts you can record simultaneously. You can record in the formats DivX, h.264-HQ-videos and iPod-video (and much more).
The service is used jut like a video recorder: Choose your broadcast, program, record and then download it. The file has the ending .otrkey. It can be not used until it is decoced.
This decoder now also exists for MorphOS as Shell-command which requires an installed ixemul-packet.
Thanks to Cyberwolf from OnlineTVRecorder for the port!
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Commodore emulator: VICE 1.22
At the title link the version 1.22 of the "Versatile Commodore Emulator" (VICE) is available for all
AmigaOS based operating systems, includig PowerUp aund WarpOS support.
Changes:
- C128
- Added 2 MHz mode support (experimental)
- The cursor keys are mapped differently in C64-mode now
- Fixed C64-mode autostart support
- VIC20
- Improved the sound emulation where the 'volume change click' is
concerned, and normalized the audio output level
- VIC-II
- The VIC-II border mode can be selected now (normal, full, debug)
- Some sprite fixes needed for Krestage 3 demo
- Drive emulation
- Improved drive LED emulation
- AmigaOS port
- Added netplay support for AmigaOS3 port
- Added netplay support for AROS port
- New VICE Volume control for all ports
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.Aug.2007
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: SearchStar 0.90i
With version 0.90i of the search program SearchStar it is now possible to
pass through the execution of a CLI program to the found files when launched by the Shell with the option "execute"
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.Aug.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Further full versions online
Press release: Due to the fact that some issues of the Amiga Future have been sold out in the meantime, we have put new full versions for free download on the Amiga Future homepage: The Big Red Adventure, Wendetta and some others.
We look for someone who wants to take care of the downloads section of the Amiga Future. This is about writing system requirements and small descriptions for each software package in German and English.
The issue 67 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Right now we work hard on issue 68. No. 67 is the first Amiga Future issue being published in both German and English. You can order the first English issue of Amiga Future from our online shop. (snx)
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