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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15.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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CubicIDE/microgolded service pack 10
Dietmar Eilert makes another update for his developer environment CubicIDE and the text editor microgolded available.
- support for AISS4 (AISS ©2006-2007 Martin "Mason" Merz)
- bugfix: error output of ccselect and sdk.plugin broken; fixed
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Sep.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Resistance: Overtake of Hollywood-User-Homepage
From now on the official homepage for users of the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood will be maintained by the Amiga-Resistance-Team.
Additional to workshops, program examples and source codes around Andreas Falkenhahn's multimedia program the site offers a forum, too.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview for WinUAE 1.4.4
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga-emulator WinUAE give a preview for the forthcoming version
and its improvements. WinUAE 1.4.4 will be published in one or two weeks and will mainly contain improvements regarding the drive support.
Additionally the authors look for not yet by WinUAE emulated "Freezer Cartridges" or ROM-images of these modules just like the following (in brackets you find already emulated versions):
- X-Power Professional 500 (v1.2/X-Copy v3.2, v1.3/X-Copy v3.4)
- Nordic Power (v1.5, v2.0)
- Bus Stop
- Pro Access
- Action Cartridge Super IV Pro loader disks/disk images. (v1.3 german)
- Action Replay (v1.00, v1.50, v2.05, v2.12, v2.14, v3.09, v3.17)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2007
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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Team AROS: Graphic artist for website wanted
For the Team AROS-website a graphic artist is wanted who will recreate this site. Persons who are interested in this task please write an eMail to Randy Vice under damocles at thenostromo dot com.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmiKit: Results of the wallpaper competition
Under the title link the winners of the wallpaper vote for AmiKit were announced. The three best voted Workbench background pictures will be included as official wallpapers from the next version onwards of this AmigaOS-distribution for WinUAE-users. The artists will be rewarded with prizes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Sep.2007
(ANF)
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Games Design: Ernest W. Adams - "The No Twinkie Database!"
In his series of articles "Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!" Ernest W. Adams shows common design errors of present games and gives better alternatives. These useful tips are neatly arranged in the "The No Twinkie Database!" for someone's own games design. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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13.Sep.2007
Melax (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar - Bokks of Legends
Pressemitteilung: Dear friens of the intensive and crazy role playing game, dear players and promotersof Tales of Tamar.
Since several centuries the big library of Arbanor was told to be forgotten in the vastness of Tamar. Diligent monks now began to create a new library in a painful detail work.
We are a little proud to announce that our ToT-Wiki is online. We at Tales of Tamar are writing a story covering 600 years so far. As the players are becoming a part of Tamar's history, our ToT-Wiki helps to keep tales of old empires, former emperors, unforgotten battles, myths and sagas from all over the world.
Discover the unbelievable richness der of the world of Tamar and become your own legend in den annals...
Access to the new library: tamar.net/wiki
Regards
Your ToT team (cg) (Translation: tz)
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12.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Game hints and cheats: major update at ollivision.de
At ollivision.de there is a vast collection of cheats, hints and full solutions for many Amiga games.
The big update contains solutions for teh following games:
- Adventure 550
- Adventureland
- Bard's Tale II
- Brimstone
- Buck Rogers - Countdown To Doomsday
- Cutthroats
- Damocles
- Dark Queen Of Krynn
- Freddy Pharkas - Frontier Pharmacist
- Ghostbusters II
- Grail
- Hare Raising Havoc
- Hollywood Hi-Jinx
- Hugo's House Of Horrros
- Hugo II- Whodunit?
- Keef The Thief
- King Of Chicago
- Licence To Kill
- Life & Death
- Mask Of The Sun
- Mission Impossible
- New Adventure
- OO-Topos
- Pyramid Of Doom
- Questron
- Rise Of The The Dragon
- Secret Of The Silver Blades
- Shadow Of The Beast III
- Sorcerer Of Claymorgue Castle
- Strange Odyssey
- Sundog
- Sword Of Sodan
- Targhan
- The Quest For The Time-Bird
- The Search From The King
- Themepark Mystery
- Treasures Of The Savage Frontier
- Twilight Zone
- Veil Of Darkness
- Vendetta
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: New and improved plugins for TuneNet
Curtis Holborn provides two new plugins for the audio player TuneNet, which
allow replaying WMA and TTAfiles, also
the HivelyTracker (HVL) plugin has been improved.
WMA plugin
TTA plugin
HVL plugin (cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Sep.2007
amiga.org (website)
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The AROS Show: AROS status update
In his blog "The AROS Show" Paul J. Beel summrizes the latest news regarding the open sourde AmigaOS clone AROS. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Sep.2007
(ANF)
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QNX opens source code of its realtime operatin system
The canadian operating system developer QNX is preparing to release the
source code for its realtime operating system. When used commercially the system will not be available for free, but license fees
have to be paid, QNX is caling this approach "Hybrid Software Model".
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Sep.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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New Amiga Future Page online
Press release: The last weeks we have put much time and money into the Amiga Future homepage. The time has come. Yesterday evening the new page went online.
The new homepage automatically detects the language setting on the user's computer. If set to German it will load the German page and if set to English it will load the English one respectively. Of course registered users have the choice to set the language differently in the page settings.
By the way all registered users should check their settings. Lots of stuff has been added.
The search engines of the whole homepage have been improved. Now it is possible to search every database on every page.
A new gallery has been installed which allows subsections. This makes the gallery containing over 1000 pictures clearly arranged. The new gallery allows to display pictures directly within the forum and the articles.
A new article database has been installed aswell. It is a lot faster than before and displays the articles better.
And finally a new download database has been installed. It is now possible to describe the downloads. We only need someone to help us out with that. :) Now you can add comments to the downloads and report mistakes.
We installed a new lexicon for the news section and forum posts. Nearly everything in the article database can be viewed as a PDF document.
There are lots of more features. You can choose whether you want to see German oder English news. This setting includes the search engines. There will be some more improvements in the next few weeks. We would like to know from you what to change. Because of that we started a poll on the Amiga Future homepage.
Amiga Future looks for help for the editorial office.
We look for (German or English) users having a good knowledge of the Amiga and some free time. If you are interested the please write an email to Andreas@amigafuture.de using the subject "Amiga Future".
We need people for the homepage aswell. We already have a huge download section with full versions on the Amiga Future homepage. Now we look for someone to help us out regularly or once. It is all about the check of some downloads and writing a small description of the program including the requirements.
Additionally, we search for someone to support us in getting new full verions. Especially we need someone to look for the current copyright owners (i.e. Psygnosis) and to ask them for a license for the Amiga Future.
Other sections of the homepage need help aswell. For example we need a user who takes care of the link database. It is about extending the content. Besidess of that we are looking for a PHP programmer to write us some small scripts to ease the work with the homepage.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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