18.Jul.2007
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AmigaOS 4.0 July 2007 Update Available
Press release:
Leuven, Belgium - 18. July, 2007
Hyperion Entertainment VOF is pleased to announce the immediate availability for download for registered customers of another service update of Amiga OS 4.0 which addresses some outstanding issues and introduces substantial new functionality.
The new functionality includes:
- A new ExecSG kernel. The new kernel includes, among other things:
- Support for guard-page protected stacks. Stacks will have guard pages at their bottom to prevent programs to write over innocent memory
- A new semaphore-type called Mutex that is Forbid-Free.
- Support for the new pthreads-module
- A new library that supports most of the POSIX thread (pthreads) API
A new ELF library that implements UN*X-type shared objects and dynamic linking. Shared objects are files that are loaded during runtime of a program and become part of the program's memory image. They have access to symbols and procedures of the main program as well as any other shared object loaded.
- Amiga Python 2.5.1 is a brand-new port of the Python language interpreter. This port is implemented as a shared object, so other programs can easily interface with it. See the Python Homepage.
- The latest version of the Sirion USB stack
- Numerous bug fixes. Please consult the included documentation for more details.
We once again wish to take this opportunity to reassure our customers that development of Amiga OS 4.x continues apace on a number of platforms.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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18.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: bzip2 1.0.4 and GoatNinja 1.1
Matthias "DJBase" Münch has published ports of the file-compressor bzip2 1.0.4 as well as of the music module convertes GoatNinja 1.1.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2007
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HSMathLibs 46.00 beta 1 for MC68881/82
For registered users of the mathematics library HSMathLibs written by Matthias Henze there is a new beta version for Amigas with FPU (MC68881/82).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: web site updated, new sections added
Press release: The Amiga Future homepage has got a comprehensive update the last few days:
The article database has been technically updated. The number of pages will not be displayed one below the other but next to the other. So there's no need for scrolling.
The font size has been fixed aswell. Furthermore the search engine works properly in the article database again.
Using the article database you can read about roughly 1500 articles on the Amiga Future homepage.
A new links database has been installed. All links from the old database have been transferred to the new one. Many thanks at this point to Robin who has realized the old database.
Now we want to expand the new database further. Have we chosen suitable section names? Are there any missing sections? Missing links? Then please write us.
Also newly installed is the calendar on the Amiga Future homepage.
Here you can find all important appointments of the Amiga scene worldwide.
Registered users are able to add their own dates and appointments to the calendar database just like adding articles to the article database.
We hope that you like the new expansions of the Amiga Future page and that you'll contribute to them. Besides that we will have a new FAQ and lexicon the next days.
At this point many thanks go to Trima and Marco for their support.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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17.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CPUTemp.docky 52.13
CPUTemp.docky written by Jörg Strohmayer shows the current CPU-temperature and capacity in the AmigaOS 4-dock. The pictogram tooltype "SHOWDATE" is new in version 52.13.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Filesharing: Update of AmiGift 2.0-prerelease-version
Amigift is a P2P-filesharing system which is based on giFT (Gnutella, FastTrack, OpenFT) and which have a MUI-based graphical user-interface called "GiftMUI".
Under the title link an update for the prerelease-version of AmiGift 2.0 was published. The changes are listed in the changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: TD MPlayer GUI 0.9
TD MPlayer GUI is a graphical user-interface for the video player MPlayer.
Changes in version 0.9:
- Added localization support and locales for Polish and Deutsch
- Added deinterlace combo
- Added DVD chapter support
- Changed tooltype VCD_DEVICE into CD_DEVICE
- New tooltype MAXCHAPTER
- Some other improvements and changes
- Bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2007
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: GIF87a support for Reggae
Reggae which is a multimedia library for MorphOS written by Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski now supports all features of the GIF87a standard, inclusive so called "Truecolor GIFs", tiled pictures, multiple colours and progressive decoding. GIF89a pictures are also supported but some features of this standard like transparency or animation are still not implemented.
Direct download:
gif.decoder-51.4.lha (12 KB)
gif.demuxer-51.3.lha (10 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Jul. 2007, 16:41] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2007
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Commdore-Emulator: VICE 1.21 for WarpOS/PowerUp
Linked to the title is the actual version 1.21 of the Commodore-Emulators VICE for WarpOS and PowerUp available. This port for both AmigaOS 3-extensions is only in a "experimental" status. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CD-/DVD-burnprogram AmiDVD 1.28
AmiDVD from Jörg Strohmayer is a very simplfied CD-/DVD-Burnprogram, which create first a ISO9660 image-file and write this later on a CD etc. DVD. AmiDVD supports the AmigaOS-typical protection bits and filecomments and can create also bootlable disks. "Multi-Session" or Images bigger then 4 GB are not possible. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Jul.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Re-release of Ultra Violent Worlds
Press releaseAfter a long time we have finally made it. Ultra Violent Worlds is available at the online shop of APC&TCP now.
We work directly with the programmer and receive the original Vorlon CDs directly from Australia. For more information about the game and some screenshots visit the title link. Other similar projects are already in the works.
If a programmer wants to re-release a program or has written a new one and reads this, please drop an e-mail at Andreas@apc-tcp.de. (snx)
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15.Jul.2007
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Emulator: PSPUAE 0.63 BE
PSPUAE is a conversion of the well-known Amiga emulator E-UAE for Sony's portable game console, PSP. Changes in version 0.63 BE:
- Removed alot of un-needed code, to gain usable memory (GnoStiC and cmf)
- Optimized code to gain speed (GnoStiC)
- Added alot of defines to gain speed (FOL and GnoStiC)
- Added define to allow 10.5MB of memory, not limited to 6MB anymore (FOL and cmf)
- Changed the delay and latency on sound to gain speed (FOL)
- Changed PSPUAE cpu cycle unit to 1, gave stable speed increase (FOL)
- Removed 0 from Auto Frame Skip, pointless as it slows emu down when hitting 0 (FOL)
- Removed Interpol code as it was broken since 0.60, removing this gave speed increase (GnoStiC)
- Fixed memory selection, now only valid amiga memory configs are selectable (cmf)
- Fixed Crash, where if no Backdrop was present PSPUAE would crash PSP (FOL and cmf)
- Fixed Interrupts setting in sound, as it was still produing sound (FOL and GnoStiC)
- Added AutoZoom check to PSPUAE reset command, so each reset will turn off AutoZoom. This stops the crash with certain configs, when AutoZoom was on. Simply Press and hold L & R Trigger and SELECT after reset to turn it back on (FOL)
- Removed support for E / X-Loader and Tiff exploits as it was causing crash in Custom Firmware's. A seperate E / X-loader tiff version is released seperately (FOL)
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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15.Jul.2007
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AmigaOS 4: peeVoBill 1.0
With peeVoBill, files of a video DVD can be accessed, to copy these to other data media.
Download: peevobill.lha (115 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 15. Jul. 2007, 08:26] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2007
Roland Heyder (ANF)
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RandomWBPatt: Error correction
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder points out that in the current version 5.410 of his program RandomWBPatt, a runtime error ("Unexpected Runtime Error") can come by.
This error can be corrected by deleting the #?.done file(s) in the SYS:Prefs/Presets directory.
The background is a format change of these files compared with the previous version. The author apologizes for having neglected to point this out in the documentation.
RandomWBPatt is a CLI program that changes the file entries in WBPattern.prefs in the ENV:sys directory at certain time intervals and thus prompts IPrefs to update the Workbench with the new pictures. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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14.Jul.2007
Andre O. / Tristar (ANF)
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Demo scene: Tristar to celebrate 20th anniversary
Tristar exists for 20 years now and will celebrate this on September 8th, 2007 in Wuppertal (Germany) with a party held in a nice brewery (to be exactly, in its festival room). Founders, admins and artists from the past 20 years will appear there. You may participate, too, if you want to.
Following the titlte link you can get further information and, if you want to participate (please only then), register. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Jul.2007
Mac Life
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Movie Tron celebrates 25th anniversary
In 1982 Disney`s Tron started in the cinemas. The movie is about a programmer (played by Jeff Bridges) who gets "digitized" and finds himself inside a computer where he is forced to play the gladiatorial games he wrote.
Tron was something of a milestone for computer-generated imagery.
After 25 years Computerworld spoke with John Knoll, a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light &
Magic. Knoll served as visual effects supervisor for such films as Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek: First Contact and Mission: Impossible.
The racing game which got famous from the film is available as Open-Source for
several platforms as GLtron. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jul.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: MapMasterDX 0.9
With Kelly Samel`s MapMasterDX for MorphOS you can create big landscapes consisting of single tile for 2D-games (screenshot).
Changes in version 0.9:
- Pasting of x and/or y flipped blocks added
- Now goes directly to edit mode after loading blocks
- Larger possible map sizes (1024 x 1024)
- Setting added to keep block window open while editing
- Possible to save as raw 32 bit data or C source code
- Doesn't add ".lx" extension to filename if present
- Fixed crash when blank filename was selected
- Updated documentation
Download: mapmasterdx09.lha (388 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jul.2007
#amiganews.de IRC-Kanal
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MorphOS: PrimatePlunge 1.1a
Herbert 'HAK' Klackl has published a new version of Primate Plunge (screenshot). Primate Plunge is a game similar to Tetris.
Changes since the last version for MorphOS:
- Title music converted to OGG-format
- improved pictogram
- compiled for the latest PowerSDL
The archive can be downloaded under the title link.
(cr) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jul.2007
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Blaster Bastards 0.85
After the MorphOS-version Stian Strøm has published a first beta version of the game "Blaster Bastards" with the help of 'SpotUp' for AmigaOS 4. The multi players game in Boulderdash style is available in version 0.85.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Jul. 2007, 17:03] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jul.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: DiskLED.docky 52.3
DiskLED.docky written by Jörg Strohmayer displays the activity of up to 12 drives and is supposed to be a replacement for the real HD-led (e.g. if there are more controlers than LEDs or if the LEDs are hidden).
Changes since version 52.1:
- 52.3: Added support for SERIAL and PARALLEL devices, the colours are now:
- trackdisk: green = read, red = write
- sana2: yellow
- serial: blue
- parallel: white
- 52.3: If less than 9 devices are monitored the displayed LEDs are centered.
- 52.2: No longer allows adding it twice to AmiDock which crashed.
- 52.2: Should now work with all PPC native TRACKDISK devices.
- 52.2: Added support for SANA2 devices, using a smaller delay for disabling
the LED and different colours (blue = read, yellow = write).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jul.2007
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MorphOS: Adventure-Interpreter ScummVM 0.10.0
Fabien Coeurjoly has published the latest version of the Adventure Interpreter ScummVM for MorphOS. With the update several additional games are supported (Gobliins 2 and 3, Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack, Ween: The Prophecy, Bargon Attack, Nippon Safes Inc. etc.). A detailed list of all changes you can get here.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jul.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: New cars for Virtual Grand Prix 2
Under the title link version 1.0 of VGPHD 2007 F1 Carset has been published which provides further cars with lower, middle or higher resolutution for the racing simulation Virtual Grandprix 2.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Jul. 2007, 10:26] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jul.2007
MorphZone (Webseite)
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SceneCON: Video of Efika and MorphOS presentation (update)
During the demo scene meeting SceneCON 2007 the Efika-board under Linux and MorphOS 2.0 was presented.
The MorphOS presentation was recorded as video (from minute 43:50) but only the real-time tranparency supported by graphic boards is shown.
Online video stream: SceneCON 2007 (Flash)
Download: SceneCON 2007-Video (XVID, 296 MB), English subtitles (SRT)
Update: (16:36, 13.07.07, snx)
Meanwhile there are also screenshots.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2007
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Amiga 1200: New Edition of IDEFix-Express
Individual Computers has reissued the famous ide adapter IDE-Fix Express. The adapter is a buffered ide interface for connecting up to four ide devices to the Amiga 1200 and provides a data transfer speed up to five times faster than the original. Furthermore it offers the possibility for upgrading an optional, clock port compatible expansion slot. IDEFix-Express is shipped with a registered full version of the ide driver IDEFix.
Vesalia has the adapter already in stock, but will be available as of next Monday because of the company holidays. amigakit.com can already offer the IDEFix-Express. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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