22.Jun.2006
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Prerelease 2 from Amaya 8.8.5 for X-Window
Edgar Schwan has released a second prerelease of his CSS-capable web-editor/-browser Amaya. New in this version:
- The internet connection is working now, surfing the internet is possible now!
- Update to the latest version 8.8.5 (for the changelog have a look at w3.org/Amaya )
- WebDAV-support implemented (not tested)
- Most of the debug outputs were removed. Amaya should run a little faster now
For running Amaya the X11-window-package Cygnix is required. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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22.Jun.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: ColecoVision-Emulator ColEm 1.0r4
Bob Wicksall has released a new version of his Amiga port ColEm. There is a new option to run the emulator in a new screen as well as a graphical user interface. It is recommended to use the full screen mode only, as the emulator still has problems in the windowed mode with the allocation of pens.
- Got the release numbers under control
- Full screen support (-fullscreen)
- CVLaunch: new GUI launcher. Just drop ROMS in roms folder and run
CVLaunch
- known bugs:
- Can have difficulty allocating pens in windowed mode
- Sound is still limited
- General compatability is good but not perfect
(cg) (Translation: tz)
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22.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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Jump'n Run: Status-update of Mr.Beanbag
Mr. Beanbag, a jump'n run for AGA-Amigas, is slowly but finally being completed. "Caves Zone" is the 2nd finished level of totally 4, actually level no. 3 ("Marble Mansion") is under work.
The whole game requires a disk space of 530 KB, therefore there is still a lot of space for bonus levels and final opponents. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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21.Jun.2006
pegasos.org (website)
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MorphOS: Raytracer Blender 2.37a-20060612
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez provides a new version of the raytracers Blender.
Python is required. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jun.2006
David Brunet (ANF)
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Game data base: 35th edition of the Amiga Games List
The 35th edition of the Amiga Games List is available now. The list is mainatined regularly since 1991 and is with
10976 entries the most extensive game list for the Amiga. New since the last update:
- Now 10976 games
- In the column "Div" a eventually given compatibily with the gfx expansions Graffiti or Opal Vision is listed
- The new column "Orig" list the date of the original release
- The data base contains the license types GPL, LGPL, Artistic Licence ("Artis") and Zlib now
- AmigaBasic games are marked accordingly
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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20.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Demo database: kestra.exotica.org.uk
Andreas Szabo has developed a web interface for Richard Wagenführer's Amiga demo scene database with more than 12000 entries. He paid a lot attention to the so-called "demo packdiscs": On each demo you can read on which packdisc it has been released, on the other side you can, of course, also browse the contents of the packdiscs. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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20.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: status update of 20 June 2006
The AROS team is providing a new snapshot of the PPC version (Release-Notes).
Thanks to Matthias Rustler aros.org is now also available in German (cg) (Translation: iw)
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19.Jun.2006
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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WB Super Games and Payback Fan CD available
Wehrheim, Germany, June 19th, 2006.
We are glad to inform you, that we are finished the WB Super Games and the Payback Fan CD. The two products are available in our OnlineShop.
WB Super Games - The Workbench games collection for your AmigaOS 4
WB Super Games is a Workbench game collection for AmigaOS 4 which includes 7 different games. LogiLog, Alinearis and Cerebrum guarantee fun for all fans of brain gym. But also action fans will find them enjoyable. They can train themselves with the network games AXO, Memoria, Serpentis and Stoertebeker for one or two players.
There is always the option to run other programs while playing, because WB Super Games are executed on the Workbench. So you can control a chat-program for example. Moreover, all games are developed to use minimal resources, so that there is still enough system performance for other applications running at the same time. The collection was developed especially for AmigaOS 4 PPC-native. It does not need any additional libraries or SDL.
Die WB Super Games is delivered on CD and costs just 9,95 Euro.
Payback Fan CD - The AddOn CD for Payback
Payback is one of the most popular amiga games of the last years and can still fascinate a loyal fan community. Because of that we have created a CD for Payback fans.
The Payback Fan CD is an AddOn CD for the Amiga game Payback. On the CD you can find 12 background pictures and 16 Patterns for the Workbench as well as skins for AmigaAmp. The highlight of the CD are the 22 still unpublished Maps, which guarantee you many hours of fun. If you like to create your own levels, you can find many textures of all types on the CD. Additionally you can find a exclusive interview of James Daniel, all "Amiga Speed" tests, the Amig@lien Payback Website and many reports about Payback. As a Payback Fan you absolutely need this CD.
The Payback Fan CD is delivered on CD and costs just 5,95 Euro.
A big thanks goes to the author of Payback James Daniels for his support.
For more information visit our website: Alinea Computer
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Commodore-Emulator: New Version off VICE
The newest version of the 8bit-Emulators for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and
AROS is localized. Also the AROS-Version works now in hosted and native
Mode.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Jun.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.06.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
wookiechat.lha comm/irc 593K VAR IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 1.3M OS3 The Gallery/Onlineshop Creator for Amiga
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 25K OS3 External Prefs Editor for MaxonBasic3
sdlBasic.lha dev/basic 397K MOS Simple sdlBasic interpreter for MorphOS
Annotate.lha dev/cross 50K OS3 Comments/reformats DASMX 2650 cross-dis
lc2-morphos.lha dev/misc 14K MOS C/C++ source line counter (ixemul)
libcddb.lha dev/misc 223K OS4 a C library to access data on CDDB
LHA_HD_Install.lha disk/misc 85K GEN HardDisk install system for 1.x 2.x 3.x+
GoK.lha game/2play 37K OS3 Move on more tiles than your opponent!
Aye_Q.lha game/wb 43K OS3 My version of a peg game...
Create_a_Q.lha game/wb 47K OS3 Create and play your own 'Q' games! (Upd
GoFigure.lha game/wb 40K OS3 Create some closed figures!
Hexa_Q.lha game/wb 43K OS3 Surprise!! A peg game... updated again!
Hexit.lha game/wb 43K OS3 Try to match an hexagonal shaped pattern
In_And_Out.lha game/wb 47K OS3 Try to find the exit!
Kaleido.lha game/wb 35K OS3 Try to match the kaleidoscopic patterns!
Knight.lha game/wb 33K OS3 Move a Knight on a chess board
mijfif.lha gfx/show 58K VAR JFIF,BMP,ILBM,ZX.SCR viewer
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 81K OS3 Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator
gluae-doc.lha misc/emu 593K GEN Integrates UAE with AmigaOS 4 (docs)
gluae-main.lha misc/emu 11K GEN Integrates UAE with AmigaOS 4 (main)
A1000stereo.lha mods/misc 6K OS3 KickTune played when A1000 is booted
man2txt-1_00b.lha text/misc 45K OS3 UNIX manual page to plain text converter
sdiREKOPrefs.lha util/dtype 15K GEN Preferences GUI for sdiREKO DataTypes
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 354K OS3 Dynamic buffer system + simple strings
envtime.lha util/misc 9K OS3 OS4: Set a time env var for use in WB ti
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 101K OS3 Italian version of StartBar
TopCPU.lha util/moni 38K MOS small CPU monitor (MUI) with freeze opti
scriptlauncher.lha util/wb 36K OS4 Configurable button-based program launch
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Jun.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 18.06.2006
Uploads of os4depot.net since our last report:
gluae-doc.lha emu/uti 593kb Integrates UAE with AmigaOS 4 (documenta
gluae-main.lha emu/uti 11kb Integrates UAE with AmigaOS 4 (main)
dosdev.lzx dev/exa 29kb DOS device driver example code (simple "
envtime.lha uti/mis 8kb Sets a time env variable for use in WB t
libcddb.lha dev/lib 222kb Libcddb is a C library to access data on
http-handler.lha net/mis 75kb Virtual HTTP device with WebDAV support
shellplayer.lzx aud/pla 6kb ptplay.library based commandline .mod-pl
envy24ht_ahi.lha dri/aud 19kb Envy24HT AHI driver
ptplaylib.lzx lib/mis 42kb Shared lib to play/decode protracker mod
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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18.Jun.2006
Mac Life (Heiko Bichel)
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Gates leaves Microsoft's day to day operations in 2008
Bill Gates and Microsoft have disclosed that Gates will continue his daily work at Microsoft only until 2008. Afterwards, the Microsoft chairman wants to spend more time on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates's functions should slowly be transferred to other leading people of the company in the course of time. After July 2008, the Microsoft legend will continue to serve the company as executive chairman and advisor in key projects, however. The detailed Microsoft notice can be referred to under the title link. (nba) (Translation: cad)
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18.Jun.2006
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Raytracer: Imagine 5.19
For ACUP subscribers, version 5.19 of Imagine was released. The update solves problems of the previous version, in particular under AmigaOS 4.
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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18.Jun.2006
Pegasos.org (Web page)
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MorphOS: Do command for Ambient / JasPer ported
JasPer 1.500.4
Maxim Ilyin has ported JasPer to MorphOS. The program by Michael David Adams allows encoding and decoding JPEG-2000 files.
Download:
jaspermos.lha (176 KB)
jasperpdf.lha (Manual; 122 KB)
Do Command
With the current daily builds of the MorphOS desktop Ambient, the command "do" was introduced (Usage: "do [File]").
This allows executing standard operations of Ambient filetypes from the shell as well. You can gather more information on the most recent improvements from ambient.notes. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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18.Jun.2006
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Standards and specs: The Interchange File Format (IFF)
On the developerWorks pages of IBM, in the "Standards and specs" line-up, the Interchange File Format (IFF) from Electronic Arts, which is used on the Amiga in particular, was now recognized as well.
In his article, Peter Seebach says that this format, introduced in 1985, already had many of the features still sought today in modern file formats, as well as what can be learned from it with regard to the latter, such as XML. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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17.Jun.2006
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AmigaOS 4: glUAE to integrate UAE into OS environment
glUAE is a collection of scripts to make the usage of Chipset dependant or not AmigaOS 4 compatible applications under the PPC oerating system easier. With glUAE executable files, disk images or ZIP archives can be started via a double click within the Amiga emulator UAE.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jun.2006
binaryriot (ANF)
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MorphOS: MUICON-/ PowerTerm update
A new version of MUICON, a MUI based shell for MorphOS, is available under the title link. The update fixes a bug of the last version ("fixed dead key support (PowerTerm.mcc)").
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jun.2006
morphzone.org (website)
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osnews.com: Introduce "Your" operating system (competition)
Contributions have to be written in English, may not be released elswhere before and they should not deal with Windows, MacOS or a Unix clone.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jun.2006
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IRC client: Wookiechat 2.3 beta 1
The MUI based IRC client WookieChat (screenshot) is available in version 2.3 beta1 for AmigaOS 3/4. The latest beta is now localized, the author is looking for people who'd like to translate the program texts into various languages.
Download: wookiechat2_3_beta1_17Jun2006.lha (520 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jun.2006
Thorsten Mampel, 1. chairman ACH eV (ANF)
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Event: LAN party Hamburg started
Thorsten Mampel wrote: "The Hamburg LAN party is underway. There are still enough places but a fast arriving assures the best places.
For Pegasos users we offer some help with a Suse Linux installation. And we help updating Ambient and MUI. An A600 with many retro games is available, too.
People who might want to come with their computers shouldn't forget a network cable and multiple outlets. Coffe's for free, snacks are low priced."
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jun.2006
Takeo Sato (Cloanto)
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 2006 Released and Shipping
Cloanto released Amiga Forever 2006, the latest version of the award-winning Amiga preservation, emulation and support suite for Windows and other platforms. The product is in stock at all reseller partners.
Compared to the previous release, Amiga Forever 2006 includes 200 MB of new Amiga games and demoscene productions (CD version) and hundreds of enhancements. Some titles, such as Eric Chahi's Another World, have been re-released as a special build for this version. Amiga Forever 2006 features enhanced compatibility with popular Amiga add-ons such as AmiKit, AmigaSYS and AROS for Amiga (AFA), while introducing third-party ROMs, such as Logica's Dialoga diagnostic system.
"These recent developments are only a small sign of the work we are doing to make Amiga Forever more open and appealing to a diverse audience", said Cloanto's Michael C. Battilana, who was recently uncovered as "The man with green hair" next to Jay Miner on the Amiga Forever back cover.
Like the previous version, Amiga Forever 2006 is available in an Online Edition (compact download for Windows), a Plus Edition (downloadable cross-platform CD ISO image) and a Premium Edition (CD plus two video DVDs - photo). All versions of Amiga Forever make it possible to run Amiga software on non-Amiga computers, giving access to thousands of Amiga games and demoscene productions which are available for free download from software publishers and Amiga history sites alike. The Plus Edition and Premium Edition include more preinstalled games and demos, additional items of historical interest and several hours of videos.
Presented by the people who made it all possible, the videos on the two Premium Edition DVDs provides a unique insight into the history of computers and multimedia, exposing the relationship between Commodore, the Amiga, an increasingly mature PC market, and the ups and downs of the video games industry.
"This DVD set has some incredible footage from the early Amiga days. I really enjoyed watching the launch of the Amiga and interviews with the creator of the Amiga, Jay Miner," said Brian Bagnall, author of On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore. "If you want to know more about what was going on behind the scenes, this is for you."
The Amiga Forever team will meet to present Amiga Forever 2006 in person at
Codex Alpe Adria, the yearly event organized by Cloanto the first week-end of July. Bernd Schmidt, the original author of the UAE Amiga emulation software that made the first version of Amiga Forever possible in 1997, will join the small crowd of Amiga and alternative computing developers, sceners and enthusiasts in two weeks.
The Amiga Forever team would again like to thank the Amiga Community for its support during these 20 years of Amiga and almost 10 years of Amiga Forever. (snx)
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16.Jun.2006
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #093
Yesterday the scene groupe Liquid Skies published its 93th musicpack. It contains a track
of the Russian musician Alex East who composes in the kind of instrumental/chillout. DaFreak created
the corresponding cover.
Title: Spring Time
Musician: Alex East
Style: Instrumental
Play time: 4:26
Format: MP3, 128 kbps
Size: 4,2 MB
The file is zipped and can be downloaded under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Burning software: Bugtracker for Frying Pan
The author of the CD-/DVD-burning software Frying Pan has stablished a
bugtracker. If you want to report a bug with the
help of this system please register before to make the developer possible to ask back.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jun.2006
Dietmar Eilert (ANF)
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C/C++ Update for Cubic IDE
An update of the C/C++-paket has been published for Cubic-users. The current version of vbcc was integrated as well as all MorphOS SDK updates (gcc, binutils, libnix, libgcc). Furthermore the update of the syntax-highlightings and the update of the OS4-SDKs with the latest lua, abc-shell and make.
Installation hint for MorphOS-users:
- gcc 2.95.4 has been deleted from the paket because version 2.95.3 is more up-to-date (sic)
Installation hint for OS4 developer:
- You have to put the complete OS4 51.22 SDK [153 MB] to the contribution directory before starting installing. Otherwise the paket will be not installed (OS4) or without Cross-Compilation-possibility (other platforms).
- This version of the C/C++-paket can not use an installed SDK: It has to be installed by Cubic. Thus you get a better and cleaner installation as before.
Attention: This is a beta version. The AmigaOS-3- and MorphOS-site were tested but the AmigaOS-4-site not.
Link to the C/C++-paket: Download (nba) (Translation: dr)
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