11.May.2007
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Pictograms: 298 Dual-PNG-Icons created by Kenneth Lester
Kenneth Lester has created 298 icons in dual-PNG-format of AmigaOS 4. With AROS for AmigaOS (AfA) they can be also used under AmigaOS/68k.
Download: k4.lha (2,4 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.May.2007
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Law Suit Amiga vs. Hyperion: First Claims from Hyperions lawyers
In the law suit Amiga Inc. vs. Hyperion Hyperion's lawyers have made their first declaration. The claims and declarations as well as the other court files are available on the net:
hyperionobjectshow_case_doc.pdf
amigakinselnotappshow_case_doc.pdf
hyperionaffservshow_case_doc.pdf
hyperioncertservshow_case_doc.pdf
kinselsupdecshow_case_doc.pdf
hyperiondeckinsellshow_case_doc.pdf
Hyperion's lawyers are mentioning only formal juristic problems without giving a statement to the descriptions and claims of Amiga Inc.'s complaint: During the commencement of proceedings Amiga has applied for an "expedited discovery" - this is an expedited procedure whereas the accused party is only given a period of ten days instead of 30 for answering the items of the charging party.
Hyperion argues that the requirements for this "expedited discovery" would not exist, as they are only allowed in rare exceptions. Obviously Amiga would try to capture Hyperion the possibility of an adequate defence. Further arguments are mentioned that Hyperion wasn't informed in time of the commencement of action - as required by law together with the opening of the proceeding - and the claim wasn't delivered in one of Belgium's national languages but English . Hyperion is complainig this as illegal with a referral of the "Hague Convention for service of process overseas".
Contentwise Hyperion denies Amiga's demands for the intellectual property of AmigaOS 4.0 and announces a vigorous resistance against the accuser's claims. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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09.May.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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IRC client: WookieChat 2.6b11 for all Amiga systems
James "jahc" Carroll provides a new beta version of his MUI based IRC clienten Wookiechat.. The latest changes are listed at the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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09.May.2007
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Thumbnail icons: Eastern 1.6
Stephan Rupprecht's Eastern is an Workbench plugin which displays thumbnail preview icons instead of the default icons for those picture files that do not have own icons.
With the latest version a bug has been removed, which lead to a creash when started from Workbench with undefined tooltypes. Also the design of the wildcard icon has been changed slightly.
Eastern is available for AmigaOS 3 and OS4 (cg) (Translation: ub)
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09.May.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: FontForge ported to AmigaOS4/X11
With FontForge Edgar Schwan has ported another program to his X11 environment Cygnix.
It is a vast outlinefont-editor for creating or modifying PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, CID, Multi-Master, CFF, SCG and Bitmap fonts (bdf, FON, NFNT). Furthermore it is also possible to convert a font from one supported format to another. Also many Mac formats as well as printing is supported.
Download: fontforge.lha (10 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.May.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2007 (Sacramento, USA)
On October 20th for the tenth time the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento, California. You can still reserve and further information about guests and exhibitors will be available soon.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.May.2007
carstensiegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.43-20070505
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has published an update of his MorphOS port of Blender. This new version can now use video-codecs of ffmpeg-packets as import and export filter. Pictures and sound are saved or loaded.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2007
[ujb] (ANF)
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ACK/Amiga Inc.: Details to planned Highend platform
Under the title link Amiga Inc. and ACK have announced details to the second planned hardware platform called "Power-Design".
This new system will be offered at a suggested retail price of $1498.00 and be a complete offering excluding monitor in a finished design that will provide customers with everything they need to get started.
Power Design Specifications PowerPC board:
- Based on the P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682M dual core 64 bit CPUs clocked at 2GHz
- RoHS compliant ATX form factor
- Four (4) DDR2 DIMM slots
- One (1) PCI Express x16 slot for high performance graphics cards
- One (1) PCI Express x2 slot for high performance I/O cards
- One (1) PCI Express x1 slot for standard I/O cards
- One (1) PCI 32 bit slot for legacy cards
- Six (6) USB 2.0 ports
- Two (2) Gb Ethernet ports
- Two (2) UART ports for serial connectivity and debug
- One 8Mb Flash EEPROM containing U-Boot firmware
- Four (4) SATA II ports based on the Silicon Image SiI3132 (x2)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP Celebrates 15th Birthday
Pressrelease APC&TCP Celebrates 15th Birthday
We have overlooked it nearly.
APC&TCP got 15 years old this year.
Being as active as in the beginning.
Currently we have a survey for a reprint of the AmigaOS 3.9 book and the English Amiga Guru Book.
New versions of Desert Racing and AmiATLAS are in the works, MTRechnung for OS4 will be released soon and some other projects are close to their release.
Meanwhile we have adopted the English print magazine Total Amiga and on 5th July the first English version of the Amiga Future is going to be released.
By the way the Amiga Future will get 10 years old this year.
To celebrate a little we have reduced many prices in our online shop permanently.
Quite recently we have dropped the price for an subscription of the Amiga Future to foreign countries. The price for shipping and handling to foreign countries has been reduced aswell. Even though the postal office raised prices for it by 50 percent starting from 1st January.
This way we hope to get some more subscribers for the Amiga Future to secure the future of the magazine in a long term. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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07.May.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.05.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 29K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
2b_krucha_nntp.lha comm/news 352K MOS Library for nntp connection with src
A71Mail.lha comm/www 72K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
bintap.lha dev/cross 28K VAR Converts binary data to Spectrum .TAP
mc-4.1.40-pre8-bin-m68k.lha dev/gg 854K OS3 advanced midnight commander
mc-4.1.40-pre8-s1-bin.lha dev/gg 519K OS3 advanced midnight commander (slang ver.)
ncurses-5.5-1-bin-m68k.lha dev/gg 3.9M OS3 gnu ncurses-5.5 sdk
ncurses-5.5-1-usr-m68k.lha dev/gg 155K OS3 gnu ncurses-5.5 user runtime
Python_Enhancement.lha dev/src 305K OS3 Enhancing Python Code, Classic AMIGAs.
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 64K GEN aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
ResourcePatch2.lha docs/misc 14K GEN Patch ReSource v6.06 to use one bitplane
Africa.lha game/board 205K OS3 Conversion of 3W boardgame
BME.lha game/edit 265K OS3 Map Editor for Benefactor
cmatrix-1.2a-1.lha game/gag 134K OS3 matrix in the shell (with source)
qclock-1.1.lha game/gag 17K OS3 ask your miggy about the time
WormWars.lha game/misc 673K OS3 Advanced snake game
wesnoth-devel.lha game/strat 66M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth (development version)
dopewars-1.5.12-m68k.lha game/text 609K OS3 become a drug dealer (one player/tcpip)
bastet-0.41-m68k.lha game/think 50K OS3 BAStard TETris (libncurses.ixlibrary)
SView5.lha gfx/misc 2.9M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
EVBerruguete.lha gfx/show 455K OS3 Shows/play, copy, move etc. pictures
PointRiderUIfr.lha gfx/show 2K GEN PointRiderUI french catalog
WarpViewGUI-fr.lha gfx/show 1K GEN WarpViewGUI french catalog
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 276K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emula
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 175K OS3 48K/128K/+2 Sinclair Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 113K OS3 48K/128K/+2 Sinclair Spectrum emulator.
HandyPlusPlus.lha misc/emu 591K MOS Atari Lynx emulator
albert.lha misc/math 374K OS3 assistant: study non associative algebra
CALCArbitray.lha misc/math 522K OS3 arbitrary precision integer arithmetic
CMAT.lha misc/math 1.2M OS3 An exact arithmetic calculator program
GaloisFieldArithmetic.lha misc/math 1.1M OS3 Galois Field Arithmetic Library
Game.mp3 mods/mpg 5.6M GEN mp3
EP_SpecialFX.lha mus/play 13K OS3 EaglePlayer "Special FX" ext. replayer
EP_SpecialFXST.lha mus/play 11K OS3 EaglePlayer "Special FX ST" ext. replaye
EP_SynthDream.lha mus/play 17K OS3 EaglePlayer "Synth Dream" ext. replayer
F1GP-Ed_Icons.lha pix/gicon 31K GEN F1GP-Ed replacement icons
MuLibGlow.lha pix/gicon 443K GEN MuLib replacement icons
Sinclair_Icons.lha pix/gicon 241K GEN Sinclair Spectrum Icons
AP38Covers.lha pix/misc 215K GEN aMiGa=PoWeR n°38 Cover Recto
800img3114ff3.jpg pix/views 110K GEN Best photo on the world!!
BareED.lha text/edit 385K OS3 ASCII/TIS-620 editor/text highlighting
msdos-amiga.lha text/misc 33K GEN Convert MSDOS texts to AMIGA text format
usbboot.lha util/boot 3K MOS Boot pegasos from usb device or drawer
stringins.lha util/cli 6K OS4 Insert keypresses into the input stream
akJFIF-dt.lha util/dtype 208K VAR akJFIF-dt (JPEG, 68000-060/MOS)
akLJPG-dt.lha util/dtype 70K VAR akLJPG-dt (LJPG, 68000-060)
akNAIL-dt.lha util/dtype 63K VAR akNAIL-dt (IFF-NAIL, 68000-060)
akPNG-dt.lha util/dtype 207K VAR akPNG-dt (PNG, 68000-060/MOS)
akSVG-dt.lha util/dtype 72K VAR akSVG-dt (SVG [SView], 68000-060)
akTIFF-dt.lha util/dtype 524K VAR akTIFF-dt (TIFF, 68000-060/MOS)
Aminet-Readme-Creator.lha util/misc 43K OS3 Generates Aminet upload .readme file
AminetReadme-fr.lha util/misc 2K GEN AminetReadme french catalog
iGame.lha util/misc 67K OS3 WHDLoad frontend
eastern.lha util/wb 45K VAR creates thumbnail icons on the fly
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07.May.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 06.05.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
asap2wav.lha aud/con 76kb Converts Atari 8-bit SAP music to WAV
ptmid.lha aud/con 121kb Converts midi music files to mod music f
easytag.lha aud/edi 7Mb EasyTag 2.0 for AmigaOS 4 (Cygnix) - wit
samplayer.lha aud/mis 159kb SAM Speech Synthesizer program now with
zvocoder.lha aud/mis 614kb Zirius Vocoder - Creates trendy robot vo
drac.lha dev/lib 287kb A card game engine, includes Klondike as
bchunk.lha dri/mis 36kb CD image format conversion from bin/cue
removeffs.lha emu/uti 20kb Strips dummy data off GBA roms
runadf.lha emu/uti 94kb RunADF is tooltype program to start ECS/
btripper.lha gam/act 190kb Baloon Tripper - A Baloon Fight Clone
msweeper.lha gam/boa 169kb A Japanese Mine Sweeper game. No music s
wesnoth-devel.lha gam/str 66Mb Battle for Wesnoth (development version)
image2icon.lha gra/con 99kb Creates thumbnail icons from images
photocrop.lha gra/edi 224kb Crop and Resize images easilly.
fractal.lha gra/mis 234kb A fractal explorer.
aosx11-theme.lha gra/the 498kb AmigaOS 4 default theme for X11
pointrideruifr.lha gra/vie 1kb PointRiderUI french catalog
warpviewgui-fr.lha gra/vie 1kb WarpViewGUI french catalog
pidgin-src.lha net/cha 880kb Sources of Pidgin 1.5.0 and related libs
pidgin.lha net/cha 10Mb Pidgin 1.5.0 (Gaim) for AmigaOS 4 (Cygni
circle.lha net/mis 7Mb CircleMUD V3.5 Port To Os 4
abiword-update.lha off/wor 11Mb AbiWord 2.5.1 update
aminetreadme-fr.lha uti/mis 1kb AminetReadme french catalog
psptools.lha uti/mis 210kb Makes your PSX games playable on your PS
qclock.lha uti/mis 22kb Ask your miggy about the time
timerhack.lha uti/mis 3kb makes timer.device to tick at PAL clock
stringins.lha uti/scr 6kb Insert keypresses into the input stream
backdropicons.lha uti/wor 56kb Script to make icons for wb-backdrop ima
benchboards.lha uti/wor 7Mb Similar to Dashboard Widgets on OSX
copyicon.lha uti/wor 13kb Copy icon images from one icon to anothe
eastern.lha uti/wor 45kb Creates thumbnail icons from images on t
screenselect.lha uti/wor 748kb A Screen Switcher Based on Mason's Mock
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07.May.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 06.05.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
dummylibraryexample.i386.src.tar.gz dev/exa 219kb Simple library example - still much to d
potrace.i386-aros.zip gra/con 194kb Transforming bitmaps into vector graphic
potrace.src-aros.zip gra/con 400kb Potrace source code with metamake file
glass.wdz gra/the 29kb Glassy theme
glass_hack.wdz gra/the 30kb Glassy theme (Screenbar hack)
ice_fix.wdz gra/the 33kb ice theme (fix)
mos-like.wdz gra/the 24kb MorphOS-like theme
panther.wdz gra/the 32kb Panther skin
pattern-aroslogo.zip gra/the 473kb Basic AROS logo patterns
thememanager.zip gra/the 42kb Theme manager for AROS
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07.May.2007
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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MIDI-Sequencer: BarsnPipes New 1.26
Alfred Faust has a new version of the Multimedia-MIDI-Sequencers BarsnPipes published. This update fixes all Problems which are reported to the author, among others:
- If the synchronisiation is not selected it is now really deactivated.
- All GUI pics are reintegrated into the main program. The possibility, to create own GUIs was used only very rare. The loading procedure takes a big amount of time. Because of the rare used nice "Skinability"-feature I've decided, to remove it again. This reduces the start-time of the program very much.
- Now 3 different Versions are available for OS3.0 or higher a 32-color-GUI (for AMIGAs with graphics-card), for OS3.0 or higher a 8-color-GUI (for AMIGAs without graphics-card) and for OS2.1 8-color-GUI (ONLY for OS2.1)
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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05.May.2007
Amiga Future (website)
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Spectrum emulator ASp 0.89
ASp emulates the home computer Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Amiga and programmed in 68k assembler.
Changes in version 0.89:
- Kempston Mouse support
- 48K key-overlay help image
- Loading of .ZLS images from the ZX-Live emulator
- Fix for a side-effect of the lowlevel.library OS4 workaround from V0.88
Thanks go to Chris Young and Dmitriy Zhivilov for their cooperation on this update.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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05.May.2007
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Carl Sassenrath
To celebrate the 1000th article of the french magazine Obligement, an interview has been done with Carl Sassenrath.
There he is talking about his time at Amiga and Commodore (AmigaOS, CDTV) as well as his work for Apple and Viscorp. Furthermore he describes the concept and aims of REBOL, his programming language for network communications and distributed computing. (snx)
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05.May.2007
(ANF)
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Amiga Inc. announces paying of the 50$ coupons
As Amiga Inc. announces in a message to all Club Amiga members that now with new hardware being available in summer they want to let their customers know that they could convert their coupons soon:
Here's the original mail from Amiga Inc.:
"Greetings from Amiga;
This message has been a long time coming, but with the recent announcements of new hardware and the manufacturing to begin shortly we wanted to let all of you know that you will still be able to receive your Club Amiga discount.
The new hardware is expected to be available this summer, and we will be sending out further instructions shortly on how to redeem your discount and use it for the purchase of your new system.
For those of you who have already purchased an AmigaOne system from Eyetech, please locate any receipt that you may have for the machine. If that is not possible then we will work with each of you so that you can also receive what is due you for your purchase and faith in Amiga."
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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05.May.2007
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Event: Classic-Computing 2007
In a press release it is announced that this year's "Classic-Computing" takes place on September, 29th and 30th in the Österfeldhalle in Stuttgart-Vaihingen.
On an exhibition space of more than 700 m² hundreds of exhibits out of the world of classic computers await you. Exhibitors from all over Germany and bordering foreign countries show the best of their collections. You'll see home computers as well as office computers, even never sold prototypes and unique conversions/ new developments are part of the repertoire.
With almost all of the systems being functional feel and try them is the main aspect of the fair!
More information is available from Rüdiger Schuldes, schuldes@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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05.May.2007
The AROS Show (ANF)
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Interview with Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX)
For his English blog Paul J. Beel made an interview with Bill Panagouleas. for his English blog "The AROS Show". The manager of DiscreetFX talks about his career and the background of his special effects company.
News about his still existing idea of buying Amiga Inc., if possible, (amiga-news.de reported), aren't given, though.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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04.May.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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WHDLoad: New archives until 04.05.2007
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were originally meant only for use with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, improved or updated:
- 03.05.07 new: Chessmaster 2100 (The Software Toolworks) done by Psygore (Info)
- 03.05.07 new: Chess Simulator (Infogrames) done by Psygore (Info)
- 21.04.07 new: Dragon Wars (Interplay) done by Psygore (Info)
- 05.04.07 updated: Dragonflight (Thalion) supports french version too, keyboard handling fixed, icons and manual added (Info)
- 05.04.07 improved: Cybercon 3 (U.S.Gold) savegames fixed, supports another version (Info)
- 04.04.07 updated: Thunderhawk (Core Design) complete rework, various fixes and changes, supports french version too, docs and icons added (Info)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2007
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: SimpleCam 2.2
The program SimpleCam written by Rupert Hausberger makes it possible to access digital cameras. Now version 2.2 is available for MorphOS.
The tooltypes NAKTIMEOUT, MAKEFOLDERS and FOLDERFMT as well as a new progress bar have been added. Additionally some typo errors were fixed.
Download: simplecam-morphos.lha (115 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.3.2 (developer version)
The turn based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth has been published in the developer version 1.3.2 for AmigaOS 4 (changelog).
Please note that the last stable version is 1.2.4.
Download: wesnoth-devel.lha (66 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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