24.Apr.2007
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MorphOS: File-archiver 7zip 4.45
"Schlonz" has compiled the latest version of the Shell-based archiver 7-Zip for MorphOS. Since the latest publication the code was cleared and some bugs fixed. According to Schlonz this new version offers a remarkable improvement of speed and compression.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Apr.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Beta testers for MT-Rechnung wanted
APC&TCP is looking for beta testers for an AmigaOS 4-version of MT-Rechnung.
But APC&TCP points out that there will be not any support of the program. If you are interested in then please send a mail with the topic "MTR" to Andreas Magerl.
MT-Rechnung is a program for managing customers, articles and bills. It can print bills, reminders, labels, envelopes and much more. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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New Hardware Coming from ACK Software Controls and Amiga Inc.
Press release Issaquah, Wash and Fonthill, ON – April 22, – After months of designs and negotiations Amiga, Inc. and ACK Software Controls, Inc. are pleased to announce that new hardware is on its way for Amiga users.
"I have been working on these designs with Amiga for almost 12 months and have been able to create two new designs that will fully support the needs and desires of today’s Amiga user, while opening the doors for new users", said Adam Kowalczyk President of ACK Software Controls, Inc.
Initially, two systems will be produced that address two different market needs. The first is a consumer entry design that will offer a complete product with a target price point of $500.00, while the second will be of a power design that would have a target price point of $ 1,500.00. The PowerPC architecture will continue to be the architecture of choice for these new systems.
"ACK and Amiga have spent many months working on designs and working with various manufacturers to create great products with a competitive price point. We will be working with the Amiga retailers over the coming weeks to solidify launch and support plans", said Bill McEwen of Amiga, Inc.
Manufacturing and final price information along with product launch schedules will be following in the next week.
About Amiga
Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies. For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. Today Amiga builds on this legacy leading the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to new platforms and interactive devices. For more information visit www.amiga.com.
About ACK
ACK Software Controls, Inc. specializes in the area of embedded controls design for use in automation systems where low-power consumption and reliability is an absolute must. Concentrating on design for manufacturing with local manufacturing facilities has allowed ACK to quickly and cost-effectively develop solutions for customers with low-volume requirements. By integrating hardware, firmware, and device driver engineering capability in-house, ACK can provide complete turn-key solutions to customers. (snx)
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23.Apr.2007
Haakon's tangled web (blog)
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Fred Fish deceased
Last friday, April 20 2007, Fred Fish died at his home in Idaho. Besides his work on the GNU Debugger, he became especially well-known among Amiga users for the "Fish Disks" prepared by him.
By this collection of about 1000 disks with public domain software, officially called "AmigaLibDisks", Fred Fish contributed substantially to the distribution of free software. (snx)
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23.Apr.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 22.04.2007
Aminet-Uploads until our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 29K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
A71Mail.lha comm/www 62K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
gts-ftb.lha demo/aga 5K OS3 Fade To Black - 4K Intro by Giants 1996
pdy_ssd.exe demo/intro 19K OS3 Prodigy_SuperStardust ++ Cracktro
jwhois-3.2.3-bin-m68k.lha dev/gg 171K OS3 improved Whois client
IFF-RGFX.lha dev/misc 7K GEN New IFF graphics file format standard
SFS.lha disk/misc 446K VAR Smart Filesystem
SVG-Specs.lha docs/misc 3K GEN SVG File Format Specification
WoodenBars.lha game/demo 59K OS3 Simple bars game for all the PAL AMIGAs
wesnoth.lha game/strat 63M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth (stable version)
dopewars-1.5.12-m68k.lha game/text 687K OS3 become a drug dealer (single,tcp/ip)
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 269K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emula
BasiliskII-src-mos.lha misc/emu 1.0M GEN 68k Macintosh Emul. for MorphOS (source)
BasiliskII_mos.lha misc/emu 467K MOS 68k Macintosh Emulator for MorphOS
GaloisFieldArithmetic.lha misc/math 1.1M OS3 Galois Field Arithmetic Library
Agony.lha mods/cust 265K OS3 Custom modules from "Agony"
BattleStorm.lha mods/cust 37K OS3 Custom module from "Battle Storm"
OffShoreWar.lha mods/cust 313K OS3 Custom module from "Off Shore Warrior"
Titan.lha mods/cust 160K OS3 Custom module from "Titan"
Zoom.lha mods/cust 169K OS3 Custom module from "Zoom"
AMF-ModelPNGIcons.lha pix/picon 335K GEN PNG-Icons for PowerIcons patch
akSVG-dt.lha util/dtype 72K VAR akSVG-dt (SVG [SView], 68000-060)
Koala_DataType_V39_3.lha util/dtype 243K OS3 C64 KoalaPainter DataType
sprite_dt.lha util/dtype 52K OS4 Datatype for RISC OS (Acorn) Sprites
MuMin.lha util/libs 61K OS3 Minimal MuLib archive for redistribution
eastern.lha util/wb 42K VAR creates thumbnail icons on the fly
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Apr.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 22.04.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
bmp2penmap.lha dev/uti 74kb BMP to penmap converter
png2c.lha dev/uti 60kb Convert PNG images into C source
sfontmkr.lha dev/uti 287kb make PNG fonts w/ alpha channel for use
cwfloppy.lha dri/sto 206kb Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller
wesnoth-exe.lha gam/str 7Mb Updated Wesnoth executables
wesnoth.lha gam/str 62Mb Battle for Wesnoth (stable version)
image2icon.lha gra/con 99kb Creates thumbnail icons from images
abiword-src.lha off/wor 3Mb Sources of AbiWord 2.5.1, osb-browser an
abiword.lha off/wor 41Mb AbiWord 2.5.1 + osb-browser for AmigaOS
uboot-mkimage.lha uti/arc 50kb mkimage for uboot
popurl.lha uti/she 7kb Small OS4 equivalent of OpenURL shell co
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Apr.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 22.04.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
picshow.lha gra/vie 459kb Datatype picture viewer for directory to
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Apr.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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New Patch for Desert Racing
Pressemitteilung: New Patch For Desert Racing Released
Recently a new patch for Desert Racing has been put online.
The game should run faster now and we hope that different problems could be eliminated.
The 3rd patch for the demo of Desert Racing can be downloaded directly from the support page.
The patch for the full version is only available directly via email (because of personalization) Andreas@apc-tcp.de. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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22.Apr.2007
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.63 (21.4.07)
The newest version of the text viewer EvenMore contains the following changes:
- Added Right to left text rendering capability. Modified prefs plugin with this option in the Text page
- I have updated the catalog templates for this. If anyone would like to update their language, please send me a copy so I can put it on the website. Thanks
- Fixed bug in Filetypes plugin. Some procedure code had not been updated for new plugin format
- Created basic directory browser plugin, dir2text. You need to download the new executable to use this. Drag a directory on to the window to open it
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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21.Apr.2007
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Insane-Software: Amijeweled 1.1 / Photos of CD-Box
For the puzzle game Amijeweled RTG (amiga-news.de reported) now the new demo version 1.1 is available. Additionally photos of CD-Box were published.
This update should fix all known problems under WinUAE and AmigaOS 4. Besides this the stack size has been reduced and should not be more than 8192 Bytes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Apr.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.1 published
The OpenTTD-team has published the final version OpenTTD 0.5.1.
OpenTTD is an Open-Source clone of the well-known PC-strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90ies with many extensions - so a network modus, individual graphic sets and adaptions to over 20 languages.
OpenTTD 0.5.1 is similar to version 0.5.0 but contains a long list of bug fixes. Please have a look at the TT-forum.
OpenTTD is available for all important operating systems inclusive MorphOS. A compiling for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 or AROS is still missing but according to the developer of MorphOS-port, Christian Rosentreter, this should be possible without major problems. The source code is "AmigaOS-ready" but he neither cannot create nor test it because of the missing hardware.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Apr.2007
PUGS (ANF)
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Event: PUSH 2007.1 (Gothenburg)
Press release The number one alternative computer event in west of Sweden, PUSH, will be held this year in June. The doors will open Friday 15th June at 20:00 and we go on until Sunday 17th at 15:00.
The party is open to everyone running alternative operating systems. The PUSH building is a Windows Free Zone.
The news for this year is that we lower the entrance fee, instead of going with the inflation. The new fee is 140 SEK for pre-registered attendees and 240 SEK if you show up unregistered.
We will be at the same place as previous years - at Wartagċrden in Gothenburg. More information and driving directions are available on the PUSH website.
If you are interested in visiting PUSH we would like you to pre-register at the PUSH website. The registration is not binding at all. If you don't come we won't charge you a single öre. It is just to make it a little easier for us to know how many visitors we must prepare for.
More information will follow closer to the event, but if you have any questions, don't hesitate to drop us an e-mail. (snx)
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20.Apr.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.1-RC3
OpenTTD is an Open Source clone of the Microprose classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Above all in this new version bugs were fixed. Please have a look at the changelog for further details.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Apr.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Guru Book: Interested in Reprint of the English version?
Press release: Some time ago we rereleased the German Amiga Guru Book. We have promised to care for a reprint of the English Amiga Guru Book as well.
Recently we've been fully occupied with various other projects (amongst others the English version of the Amiga Future) and couldn't take care of the Guru Book. Now we have more time and want to work more intensely on this project.
Because of that we ask all users who are interested in a reprint of the Amiga Guru Book to drop an email to Andreas@apc-tcp.de using the subject "Guru Book".
This is not a preorder! We only want to check if there are enough interested people for a reprint!
We are not able to tell a price nor release date!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Apr.2007
(ANF)
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AROS: IRC-client WookiChat 2.6b8 (beta)
James "jahc" Carroll has published an AROS-version of his MUI-based IRC-client Wookiechat. The archive only contains the program. Additionally you need the complete distribution of Wookiechat 2.5.
This first beta version still contains some minor problems:
- The window size changes if a "Tab" is closed
- Some windows have a transparent background. This bug should be fixed soon. Meanwhile the author recommends to set a background picture in the MUI preference for WookieChat for the seperate windows
- The lower edge of the main window partly cannot be seen
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Apr.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Nintendo-Emulator: A/NES 1.16b1 (AGA)
In the latest version of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES "Savestates" are supported now, which can be loaded and saved at any time by pressing button F5 resp. F6. The author is indicating this new feature as experimental and it could therefore not work with all games yet.. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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19.Apr.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Interview: Andreas Axelsson (Digital Illusions)
The games portal lemonamiga.com has published an interview with Andreas Axelsson. Axelsson is one of the founders from Digital Illusions who where very famous in the beginning of the nineties for their flipper simulations Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions . (cg) (Translation: tz)
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19.Apr.2007
(ANF)
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AROS: Image Viewer PicShow 31.406
Thomas Rapp has ported his image viewer "PicShow" to AROS. According to the author minor problems with this first version within AROS could occur, for example the scaling of pictures does only work if "interpolation" is enabled. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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18.Apr.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Thumbnail pictograms: Image2Icon 1.23
Image2Icon by Stephan Rupprecht creates thumbnail pictograms, the archive contains versionen for AmigaOS 3 and 4.
- 1.23: grrr, jpeg saver was still broken...
- 1.22: another AmigaOS4 release: broke jpg and ilbm output the last time
because I changed the internal image format from RGB to ARGB without
adapting the savers to it.
- 1.22: implemented IF=ICONFORMAT/K option. Now
it's possible to create NewIcons with the OS4 version (requires
newicon.library).
Download: Image2Icon.lha (101 KB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.Apr.2007
Matthias \"Selectanovel\" Kretzler (ANF)
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Oldschool Demoscene and game party in Lübeck (25th-28th May)
Press release: This year the successful demo scene and gaming event "Maximum Overdose" goes into its eigth round
in Lübeck during the Whitsun holidays(25th-28th May). Whoever missed the Breakpoint because living too far away shouldn't miss the MO8, since
the Amiga and C64 competition will be shown again there.
The entrance fee is EUR 15 for Friday evening until Monday noon. A dormitory will be available (bring airbeds and earplugs against snorers).
Recent rumours claimed toe MO would be a pure C64 party. That is just wrong! The party is open to all alternative systems and Amigas
are likely to be the second most popular system there. To even improve the Amiga share, you need to go there.
Do what you like your Amiga for: Be creative and bring your productions (and your Amiga) to the party.
Competitions will be held in the following categories:
- Demo
- Graphics
- Music (MP3 remix, tracked)
Furthermore there will be the opportunity to play your favorite Amiga or C64 game on the big screen against other attendees at the gaming
competition. Not enough there will be the "Datadisco" withthe best oldschool tunes and a live act.
For the small appetite there will be a catering with free coffee and a big barbecue outside. 'Cause you know: The real party is outside!
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.Apr.2007
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Amiga Inc.: Website changed, sponsoring of the Kent Events Center
WieAmiga Inc.announced on their strongly changed website - whose design seems to be copied rom the
recently bought "Ruksun Software Technologies"
wurde - they signed a multi million dollar sponsoring contract to secure them the name rights on the (still to build) Kent Events Center,
which is now called "Amiga Center in Kent". (cg) (Translation: ub)
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