16.Dec.2006
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4: patch for using TD64 file systems
Fredrik Wikstrom's td64 patch enables the use of TD64 file systems under AmigaOS 4 - e.g. the 68k versions of the NTFileSystem or the
FATFileSystem.
The NSD device drivers of AmigaOS 4 (e.g. the a1ide.device) are modified in a way that they also support the TrackDisk64 standard
(TD64). The latter was suggested in 1996 by Ralph Babel and supported by a group
of developers; later on did Ralph Schmidt distribute such a patch for the FastFileSystem.
Both implementations, TD64 and NSD, are a 64 bit enhancement to read and write from/to harddisks bigger than 4 GB in size.
While TD64 had been used among others by phase 5 controllers became the New Style Device standard (NSD) by Heinz Wrobel under
AmigaOS 3.5 official part of the operating system.
With AmigaOS 4 the usage of NSD is kept upright and in MorphOS TD64 is continued.
With this background TD64 file systems - like the support of NTFS, EXT2, XFS and FAT created by Marek Szyprowski originally for MorphOS and
also for AmigaOS/68k released - couldn't be used
until now under AmigaOS 4.
Please note, though, that this is the first version of the td64patch and that the author hasn't made ample tests. The use is therefore at
one's own risk.
Download: td64patch.lha (4 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)
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16.Dec.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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Programming language: PureBasic becomes freeware, sources partly released
The Amiga version of the BASIC dialect PureBasic isn't continued anymore so that the developer has decided to release the whole package as freeware and to make parts of the source code publicly available.
Released were the source code of the complete command set, the IDE (Integrated Develepment Environment) as well as the source codes for some tools.
The compiler is for all versions of PureBasic identical - as the Windows, Mac OS X and Linux versions are still distributed commercially theses source codes aren't available.
People who make improvements in the code of PureBasic are invited to make these available to the original developer so that they can be implemented in future Amiga versions. The PureBasic developer agrees to port the newest built of the compiler for such versions to the Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2006
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Alpha version of a MP3-Player
An alpha version 0.11 of AROSAmp which is a MP3-player has been published for the Amiga Research Operating System (AROS). AHI and the mpega.library are required.
Download: arosamp_alpha_0.11b.tar.gz (140 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Dec.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Game announcement: Business simulation "Dream Deal" for AmigaOS 4
The business simulation called "Dream Deal" is being developed for AmigaOS 4 and Windows XP. There you have to build a town and must compete with three computer players (screenshot).
The developers will specially concentrate on the different personalities living in the town and its interaction.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Dec.2006
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Dream 17: Request for support
Dream 17 is a tribute to the game developers of Team 17 which are responsible for such titles like Worms or the Alien Breed serie. Additional to detailed information, screenshots and other specials at Dream 17 you can find all Amiga titles of the game developers for legal download.
Under the title link Dream 17 asks for support because in the next year the current server which was for free cannot be used any longer and a commercial one must be used.
The maintainers of the site ask for donations via PayPal to keep this offer alive.
Above all support is required for selling fan articles. Therefore somebody is needed who at least can create a vector graphic of the Dream 17 logo.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Dec.2006
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bplan: How to build the machine - Reloaded
Press release We would like use the upcoming holidays as an opportunity to thank you for your confidence in us and our products during the past year. This year's gift from bplan to you is our video titled "How to build the machine - Reloaded". (snx)
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15.Dec.2006
Franz (ANF)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.2.6
For AmiKit which is a complete distribution for WinUAE users an update to version 1.2.6 has been published. You can get it with the integrated update function or can install it manually.
The news in this version are updated programs and the integration of Andreas Kleinert`s akLJPG DataType to the archive.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.2006
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Audio-Player TuneNet 0.84, additional Plugins
Paul Heams has released a new version of his music- and internet radio player TuneNet:
- Improved CLI commands to be able to control TuneNet from 3rd party apps.
(allowing you to make full use of Multimedia keyboards etc..)
- MP3 file streaming straight from the web.
(play instantly without downloading the file first)
- Improved plugin API and new AIFF encoder.
- Instant search as you type, arrow key and mouse wheel support.
- Bug fixes to viusals in Dock only or CLI mode.
- Additional titles within listviews.
- Shuffle play, volume boost, more stations, better quality recording...
and more!...
Updates of the Ogg Vorbis- and LAME-plugins are also vailable. Additionally Curtis Holborn offers two reworked as well as five new plugins for TuneNet:
(cg) (Translation: tz)
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14.Dec.2006
Thorsten Passow (ANF)
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Spreadsheet Software: StarAm Plan 2.31
Thorsten Passow provides a new version of his spreadsheet software StarAm . Changelog to previous version:
- Preview for the print of the spreadsheet
- Print can be limited to selected pages
- a few minor improvements
- a few bugfixes
- German catalogue for AmigaOS 4
(cg) (Translation: tz)
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10.Dec.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Picture galleries from various Amiga shows (1993-2002)
Andreas Magerl writes: When I recently tidied up my hard disk a little, I found some pictures from the Amiga shows 1993, 1994, 2000, 2001 and 2002. The pictures are online in the Amiga Future Gallery immediately.
Should someone still have pictures from Amiga shows and would like to make these available to us, then please write us a short E-Mail. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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10.Dec.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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MUI Clone: AFA OS Zune 1.0 (final beta-test version)
Bernd Roesch has released an update to his AmigaOS 3 port of the MUI clone Zune (screenshot). Since Microsoft also offers a product called Zune now, the author has decided to distribute his project as "AFA OS Zune" (AOZ) from now on. AOZ can be used at the same time as MUI, no modifications are made to the MUI files.
In case no more errors emerge, the current version will be released as 1.0 (final). New in 1.0 (final beta-test version):
- Support for skins. The skin settings are included in the archive and can be loaded with the AOZ Prefs program. No bitmaps are used, so that the archive remains as small as possible.
- In order to use a program with AOZ instead of with MUI, you launch it as before and then launch the AOZ Promoter with CTRL+Shift+Z. With "Add Task," the task name of the MUI program is added to the Promoter database, whereby the corresponding application uses the AOZ libraries instead of MUI in the next launch.
Programmers who want to support AOZ should first try to open the zune.library. Should this fail, since, for instance, AOZ is not installed, then the muimaster.library should be used.
All sources and project files of AOZ are part of the archive, further information can be gathered from the accompanying Readme file.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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10.Dec.2006
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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AMIGA-Magazin: Preview of Issue 12/2006, extracts
For Issue 12/2006 of the print magazine AMIGA-Magazin, an abstract as well as two extracts (HTTP-Handler in practice and Driver system Synergy) are now available on the editorial web page.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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10.Dec.2006
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS Article: Version 2 in German, Italian and Russian
The extended version 2 of the review article "MorphOS: The Lightning OS" by Fulvio Peruggi et al. is now available in German, Italian and Russian as well, besides the English original.
French and Spanish versions should follow before long. Furthermore, with version 2.01, a section overview was inserted in order to ease navigation. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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10.Dec.2006
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AmigaOS 3: VisualPrefs themes in OS4 design
On the web page of the UAE distribution AmiKit, some GUI themes by Ken Lester, inspired by AmigaOS 4, can be found. For using the themes, VisualPrefs is required. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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10.Dec.2006
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MorphOS: Astronomy software Digital Almanac 5.8
Ilkka "itix" Lehtoranta has released an update to his MorphOS port of the astronomy program Digital Almanac 3. The MorphOS version requires the full version of DA3, available on Aminet.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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10.Dec.2006
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Vector-drawing program MindSpace 0.94
MindSpace is a drawing program with which flowcharts, UML diagrams (Unified Modeling Language), mindmaps or vector images can be created, among other things. Improvements in version 0.94:
- Loads more shapes useful for UML and ER diagrams
- User MSOs: just in case the shape you need isn't there - you can very easily create it yourself and add it to the interface. MindSpace even knocks up a quick icon for you.
- Improved svg, png and pdf output (registered users only)
- Improved text and html output (registered users only)
- More keyboard shortcuts
- Usual plethora of tidying up, bugfixes etc
The AmigaOS 3 version, announced some time ago, is not currently being worked on, because of lack of time. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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09.Dec.2006
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Emulator: PSPUAE 0.62
PSPUAE is a port of the known Amiga emulator E-UAE for Sony's portable games console PSP. Changes in version 0.62:
- you can now save the amiga mouse pointer position and restore it with a key-combo
- 24 mousestates slots, can be renamed with the amiga keyboard for better assignment
- new option 'Auto Mouse Speed' for setting the speed of the mouse while restoring. Must be set faster for screens with higher resolution
- you can toggle the mousespeed with a key-combo
- cd32 buttons can now assigned to key-combos
- joy1 up/down/left/right can now assigned to key-combos
- new option 'CPU to Chipset Ratio"
- new option 'Disable Key Combos"
- new option 'Toggle X & O" (You can now swap X and O for the menu)
- Preset Amiga Configurations added
- quick config combos (See ReadMe)
- Splash Screen added
- dual mouse support
- Auto Zoom Feature added
- fixed combos for L+Cross, R+Cross, etc etc
- SaveStates save a config file in the Config folder
- Savestates are now much smaller, due to memory compression being added
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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09.Dec.2006
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4: AutoTrace 0.31.1
AutoTrace 0.31.1 (68k version) is now available natively for AmigaOS 4. The program converts bitmap graphics in vector graphics.
Download: autotrace.lha (988 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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09.Dec.2006
Pegasosforum (forum)
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MorphOS: Puzzle 0.1
Puzzle, a small game created with AmiBlitz (Aminet) got a MorphOS adaption made by Marco Möring and 'Murmel' ("puzzle301mos.exe") that can be downloaded via the title link. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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09.Dec.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS for AmigaOS: AFA OS 3.94.1
Bernd Roesch's project "AROS for AmigaOS" is an extension of AmigaOS 3.9 that uses libraries that were ported back from AROS. New in version 3.94.1:
- In AFA prefs ENVARC: gets an entry in the directory field of the file requester when doing "Save Prefs". This should solve the problem that the correct directory is shown but the file is saved in the current directory.
- The text function uses now an own stack and not the task stack. As Truetype fonts with antialiasing need a bigger stack and the input.device stack is used for the drawing of BOOPSI classes (or by patches such as Birdie or VisualPrefs) there's no risk anymore that the input.device stack can overflow.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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09.Dec.2006
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MorphOS: Stellarium 0.8.2
Fabien Coeurjoly ported the current version 0.8.2 of the planetarium program Stellarium to MorphOS (screenshot).
Download: stellarium-0.8.2.lha (16 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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08.Dec.2006
(ANF)
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Web-Browser: IBrowse 2.4 will be published soon
According to the developers of the MUI-based Web-Browser IBrowse the next update will be published soon. Version 2.4 will be finished "during the next weeks".
IBrowse 2.4 will be provided as free update for registered users. Several bugs have been fixed and the next version has some news, too. For instance a plugin-interface and context-sensitive mouse pointer.
Version 2.4 will be offered only for AmigaOS 3 but the Javascript engine is also available in a version compiled for AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Dec.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: HivelyTracker
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format (screenshot). AHX was developed in the 90es to write music tracks similar to the typical chip-sound of the SID (sound-Chip of the C64).
HivelyTracker can import and export modules and instruments in AHX-format but will save them in a seperate format which offers additional possibilities. Compared to AHX HivelyTracker offers the following advantages:
- Multichannel (4 to 16 channels)
- Per-channel stereo panning
- Two commands per note instead of one
- Ring modulation
- A more feature rich editor
Direct download: HT10.LHA (1,5 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Dec.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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Event: AmigaOS 4-party in Maarssen (Holland), 16th december
On 16th December the Dutch Commodore Gebruikers Groep will organize a "Commodore Show" in Maarssen (Holland). AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4 are the main aspects of this event.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Dec. 2006, 16:11] [Comments: 0]
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08.Dec.2006
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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AROS: Interview with Aaron Digulla (English)
In his blog "The AROS Show" Paul J. Beel has published an English interview with the initiator of AROS Aaron Digulla. Additional to personal facts first of all the interview contains a review to the last eleven years.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Dec.2006
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Print Magazine: Total Amiga 25
The latest release of the English print magazine "Total Amiga" is in print and should be published on December 18. You can find an item overview under the title link. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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07.Dec.2006
Heise (Website)
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Linux: OpenSuse 10.2
The OpenSuse-project has released version 10.2 of its linux distribution. Compared to the previous release the look was renewed and bugs were fixed.
Besides the x86 and x86-64 platforms even the PowerPC including the Pegasus is still supported. You can find a first review of OpenSuse 10.2 at heise open. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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07.Dec.2006
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOne: Revised Linux 2.6.8-Kernel
Under the title link Gerhard Pircher has released a reworked linux kernel of version 2.6.8 for the AmigaOne. A patch for the source code package of this kernel version from the distribution Debian Sarge is available as well.
A revised kernel of version 2.6.16.x should be completed within the next two weeks and contain drivers for EHCI and the pc speaker.
Changes:
- Highmem support is working: You can remove the memory limit in U-boot now
- EHCI support removed: The EHCI driver doesn't work on the AmigaOne due to the non coherent cache DMA workaround and I was to lazy to backport a workaround which was contributed by Marcus Comstedt. Many thanks to him for this patch
- DRI graphics drivers removed: These drivers were removed, thus you can enable the glx extension of the X server again
- ISA bridge tweaks: Recently I experienced problems with USB on my A1, too. Therefore I tried to weak the settings of the VIA southbridge (to match the settings done by OS4). This seems to help a little bit, but after some time the system locks up again. I'm still not sure what the real problem is, but I guess it's either the unfixed CPU bug or an interrupt problem.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a response from the (responsible) OS4 developer(s), so I can't really do anything about this. (I remember sg2 writing about a software problem with the i8259 PIC. I would be grateful, if he could enlighten me)
(snx) (Translation: tz)
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