11.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Space Opera: StarFighter - D'Yammen's Reign released
Star Fighter: D'Yammen's Reign is a space opera like Wing Commander. The author Andrew Hawkins has uploaded this game on his website for free download which originally was published in 1999.
StarFighter requires 20 MB harddrive memory. Graphic or sound cards are not supported. A review of the game you can find at amigafuture.de. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workshops: Apache-installation, overview of Kickstart-revisions
Matthias "DJBase" Münch has published two new workshops on his website:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga demo scene archive: Further productions added
The Amiga demo scene archive was completed with further productions. In the last months the following demos have been added:
- Herb by Polka brothers (July 1995)
- Greenday by Artwork (April 1995)
- Nameless by Kiero & ubik (August 2007)
- Comadose by Passion (December 1995)
- Flop hidden part by Dcs (June 1997)
- Free your mind by Scoopex (December 1995)
- Dane by Kefrens (May 1993)
- Dolphins dream by Push entertainment (December 2001)
- Cream by Absolute! (April 1994)
- Clairvoyance by Absolute!
- Gathering 93 intro by Lemon (April 1993)
- Chaosland by Virtual dreams (December 1993)
- 18 years by Cream (October 2006)
- 4ko by Polka brothers (December 1994)
- Cool ska cool by Up rough (July 2007)
- Discotto by Nature (July 2007)
- Rapo diablo 5000 by Loonies & ephidrena (July 2007)
- Senzala by Madwizards (April 2007)
- Little dream by Drifters (April 2007)
- Mild fantasy violence by Haujobb (April 2007)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2007
Cloanto (E-Mail)
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Cloanto employed chief editor of Bitplane magazine
Cloanto (Amiga Forever, Personal Paint) has announced that Nicolas Morocutti has been welcome as new member at the Italian Software developers. Morocutti who also is chief editor of the Italian print magazine Bitplane will be responsible for "Amiga-projects and marketing".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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WinUAE: New version of the online help
The online help of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE was revised:
- Chipset: New screen shot
- Adv Chipset: New screen shot and new options
- Rom: New screen shot. HRTMon now integrated with Cartridge ROM
- Display: New screen shot. Vert sync removed
- Index entries for PCMCIA,IDE,SCSI,CD32,CDTV
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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09.Sep.2007
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AISS - Amiga Image Storage System 4.0 (Bugfix)
Martin Merz is making available an update for version 4.0 of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS). AISS is a system for managing toolbar graphics under AmigaOS and MorphOS. The update fixes an error that could occur during a new installation.
Direct download:
Complete package including bugfix: aiss4.lha (2.6 MB)
Update for old v4.0: aiss4fix.lha (21 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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09.Sep.2007
Amiga.org (Web page)
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Event: Update on Pianeta Amiga (Italy)
Since our last report on Pianeta Amiga in Empoli in Italy on September 22 and 23, the following participants and offerings have come along:
- Rebol Technologies, represented by Alessandro Manotti (Rebol Italy) will hold a conference and demonstrate the possibilities of this scripting language at their stand
- AROS will be presented by Paolo Besser in the context of a conference
- The OS4Games.it portal, in cooperation with Lorraine Design, will present the "Games Icon Vol1" package for AmigaOS 4, with 50 icons in Dual-PNG format, and furthermore, the Allegro library with some new games, a new modular emulator for Sega and Nintendo games, as well as a new diskmag called "The Vague"
- The Phoenix team, which unites dozens of AmigaOS 4 developers all around the globe, by its own account, will also attend
- There will be a direct connection via chat and streaming to the AmiCon event, which takes place in Hungary in parallel
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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09.Sep.2007
(ANF)
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MorphOS: Pachi el marciano 1.0a
Pachi el marciano is an SDL platform game, which was inspired by Mathew Smith's games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy (screenshot). The aim is to collect all objects in a level, upon which the door to the next stage opens.
In the meantime, an update to the MorphOS version was made available by Herbert A. Klackl. This solves the freeze problem when alternating to full screen mode on newer PowerSDL versions.
Download: pachi-1.0a-morphos.lha (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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08.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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amigaworld.de: small hardware projects in words and pictures
Matthias Münch introduces under the title link smaller hardware projects with which he enhanced is Amiga over the years:
- NoIDE module: termination of the internal IDE connector in the Amiga 600, Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000
- Lithium battery module: replacement for the internal akkumulator in the Amiga 500+, Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000, Amiga 3000T, Amiga 4000
- Fan power adaptor: adaptor board to connect several different fans
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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08.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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File system: SFS 1.276
Jörg Strohmayer makes a new version of his alternative file system SFS available. Changes since the last release:
- AmigaOS 3.x: fixed a bug formatting SFS\0 partitions
- AmigaOS 3.x: now pretents to be FFS in ACTION_DISK_INFO and ACTION_INFO for SFS\2 partitions as well
SFS 1.275 is available for AmigaOS 3/4. (cg) (Translation: wk)
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08.Sep.2007
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: high resolution raceway (Barcelona) for VGP2
within his updates for Paolo Cattani's Virtual Grand Prix 2 Jason Frabotta now made a high resolution version of the raceway in Barcelona available. Versions in mid and low resolution will follow soon.
Tests could only be done under Mac OS and Windows; next to a capable graphics board it is recommended to possibly reduce the texture quality in the high res version.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Stock exchange program: proBonds 2.38
The stock exchange software proBonds (screenshot) written by Sven Dröge is available in version 2.38. Changes since the last publication:
- fixed several minor bugs
- adaption to changes of the data structure at Yahoo
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2007
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Mind game: ChangeIt 0.3 for all Amiga systems
ChangeIt is a mind game written by Robert 'Phibrizzo' Krajcarz (screenshots: 1, 2) which is available in versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS.
ChangeIt is a clone of the game Bejeweled. The only move you can do is to change two neighboured apples. With this move you must try to arrange three or four apples of the same colour in one line.
In version 0.3 some bugs were fixed. Besides this there are now additional skins.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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NNTP-NZB-client: PullDog 2.0 rc4 / nzbGet 1.0
With Rupert Hausberger's PullDog you can download files from the Usenet. The program is available for AmigaOS 3.x as well as MorphOS. In the latest version two bugs were fixed in XML-parser.
nzbGet is a Shell-program for the same use.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: CDVDFS 1.3
Pavel Fedin's CDVDFS is a file system for CD and DVD media. The formats ISO-9660, RockRidge Interchange Protocol, Macintosh HFS and Microsoft Joliet are supported. The use of special characters which differ from Latin-1 is possible, too.
Changes in version 1.3:
- Now reports correct DOS type for volumes
- Fixed losing a volume under MorphOS if a disk has been removed with some files or directories open
- Fixed some problems with RockRidge volumes on some machines
- Fixed disappearing volume upon disc read failure
- Fixed broken CDDA handling
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2007
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WHDLoad: New packages until 06.09.2007
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos to your harddrive which originally were only meant for use with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models are fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2007
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at Obligement website
During the last two months the following articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS- and MorphOS magazine Obligement (the interview with Kelly Samel is also available as English translation):
- Amiga and MorphOS news of july/august 2007
- Interview with Kelly Samel (games coder)
- Interview with Jean-Baptiste Garnier (webmaster of Amiga Music Preservation)
- Review of AmiPodder
- Review of rRootage
- More than 30 reviews of classic Amiga games (Alien Breed 2, Global Effect, Maupiti Island, Shadow Of The Beast,...)
- File : History of the Amiga - years 1999 and 2000
- File : the Scoopex group
- File : the protections on Amiga and Atari ST
- File : the Mega Drive emulation
- Hardware : Efika 5200B (update)
- Hardware : BVision
- Hardware : modification of the Escom A1200 floppy drive
- Hardware : stranges USB devices
- Point of view : the public domain
- Tutorial : grab an Amiga Kickstart with GrabKick
- Press revue
- Quizz of july/august 2007
- Special quizz about the Amiga magazines
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CD-/DVD-burning program AmiDVD 1.37
AmiDVD witten by Jörg Strohmayer is a very simple CD-/DVD-burning program which first creates an image-file in ISO9660-format and then will write this one on a CD or DVD. Changes since the last version:
- Selecting the write speed didn't work with a GSA-H54N and DVD+R,
changed the method to detect if setting the write speed is supported
again.
- Some gadgets in tab 2 were updated even if nothing changed, fixed
Direkter Download: AmiDVD_1.37.lha (43 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 68 published
Press release The German and English issue 68 (September/October 2007) of the Amiga Future has been released. This means that all subscriptions and preorders have been brought to the postal office. Subscriptions to outside Germany have been shipped via airmail.
Besides many articles covering the Amiga there are reviews of AWeb, Shuffle or an interview with the developer of Sputnik as well and much more in this issue. A more detailed description of contents and German and English excerpts can be found at the title link.
On the cover CD there are many full versions again besides lots of PD software: Starbirds, AGDB, Mikro Mortal Tennis, Excellent Card Games 1, Excellent Card Games 2, Excellent Card Games 3, Serious Backgammon, Doktor, Blast Squad (so far unreleased), Robossy, Puzzo Mania, Zerberk, Minerunner, Poweroids, Star Defender, Monster of Terror, Equality, Technoball OCS, Technoball AGA, Tronic.
The Amiga Future is available as a single issue or subscription. You can choose whether you want it with or without a cover CD. The Amiga Future is available directly at the editorial office at the title link or some Amiga dealers.
Dealers interested in offering the Amiga Future to their customers should drop us an e-mail.
We are looking urgently for help regarding the English edition of the Amiga Future. We look more translator having English as their native language with a very good knowledge of German. Furthermore we look for correctors for the English articles.
If you are able and willing to help us then please write an e-mail to andreas@amigafuture.de using the subject "Amiga Future". (snx)
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04.Sep.2007
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Cloanto: Minimig photos / Support announcement
Under the title link Cloanto's Amiga Forever team has published photos of the Minimig board taken by Dennis van Weeren.
They announce to support the Minimig with the products Amiga Forever and Amiga Explorer.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2007
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Jump'n Run: Under Cover
"Under Cover" is a from Flashback inspired Jump'n Run game for classic Amigas. Original based on a in PPaint developed animated film made from 800 single frames, is Under Cover now with help of the construction-kits "Backbone" a real Arcade-game including subsequences. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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03.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Several reworked german catalogfiles
Hans-Jörg Ottinger provides new or reworked german catalog files for following applications:
- Amigift
- AmiPodder
- AmRSS
- Kulce
- PolyOrganizer
- WookieChat
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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