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29.Oct.2006
dietmar (ANF)


Cubic IDE: Service pack 4 / End of support for GoldED AIX

Cubic IDE:

There is a small service update for the Cubic IDE development environment and for microgolded, which merely contains corrections (changes).

End of support for GoldED AIX:

The support for GoldED AIX ends officially today (and with it, also the possibility of a cross-update to Cubic IDE). GoldED AIX was released four years ago and last updated two years ago.

Reachability via E-Mail:

The normal support address for Cubic IDE will be unreachable in the first week of November. You can find the alternative address on the contact page. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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29.Oct.2006
Amiga Future (Web page)


Jump'n'Run: Halloween demo version of Mr.Beanbag (AGA)
A new demo version of Mr.Beanbag, a classical Jump'n'Run game in the style of the Sonic series, was made available. Theme of this level: Halloween (screenshot). (snx) (Translation: cad)

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29.Oct.2006
Amiga Future (Web page)


Catalog Compiler: SimpleCat 3.00 Beta 6
Guido Mersmann has released a new version of his catalog compiler SimpleCat for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. With version 3, SimpleCat obtains a user interface, which should satisfy both developers and translators.

However, it must be pointed out that this is about a beta version, which is still partly incomplete. Since the manual is not updated yet, the online help does not work yet either. However, in the author's opinion, the MUI balloons should give sufficient support. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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29.Oct.2006
Amigaharry (ANF)


MorphOS: SearchStar 0.73j
In version 0.73j, the search program SearchStar for MorphOS by Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin is now able to delete files in addition.

SearchStar is written in PowerPC machine language and searches, for instance, inside of files as well as file comments as well, comparatively fast. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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27.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


MorphOS: Updates of three Reggae classes
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewski has published three updates of his MorphOS libraries for stream media:
  • Bugfix in audio.output and update to 51.5. Added missing stream seek to the start after playback is finished at stream end. Makes it consistent with MMM_Stop (which rewinds stream too).
  • netpbm.demuxer 51.2 now fully supports NetPBM "P1" subformat (monochrome plain text images). Internal buffering speeds up decoding of ASCII data.
  • bitplane decoder 51.2 has internal buffering added as well. These are two first Reggae classes written in C++.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Oct.2006
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


Custom chips: Clone-A news
Press release:  The prototype of our Clone-A project - a re-implementation of the Amiga-chipset with modern technology - has been demostrated at the AmiWest show last weekend in Sacramento, California. Many visitors followed our request to bring along disks and programs that put the compatibility of our chipset to the test. None of the programs were a problem for Clone-A. We're especially proud that a previously unpublished demo works fine with Clone-A. According to the author, it does not work properly on the emulator UAE. Special thanks for this go to Christian Herden who brought the demo to the Amiwest show.

Sound-magician Chris Hülsbeck approved of the exact audio playback of Clone-A. Even complicated music routines like the 7-voice title track of Turrican II and the unconventionally programmed ingame-sounds of Apidya were convincing to the ears of the master.

Oliver Achten, Jens Schönfeld, Chris Hülsbeck, Christian Herden
from left to right: Oliver Achten, Jens Schönfeld, Chris Hülsbeck, Christian Herden


Many users have requested Clone-A to be a PCI card for the current PPC boards on the market. As part of the Efika developer program, we offered to develop Clone-A into a PCI card that works with Efika and other PPC boards by BPlan. Today, our offer has been rejected.

Genesi's rejection will have no influence on further development of Clone-A. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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26.Oct.2006
Mirko Naumann (ANF)


Genesi: OpenFirmware is supporting Marvell's Discovery V now
Genesi is announcing in a press release, that the company owned OpenFirmware-implementation was licensed to Marvell and will be used at "development boards" with Marvell's northbridge Discovery V. (cg) (Translation: tz)

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26.Oct.2006



Veranstaltung: Report from the AmiWest
Steven Solie resumes his impressions from the AmiWest (October 22, California) under the title link. The main items in brief:

The announced special guest was Bill McEwen from Amiga Inc., who would bring a prototype of a ppc mainboard. But McEwen had to cancel his appearance in the last minute, as his son was injured during a hokey match.

The author himself had a sample of Troika's PPC-motherboard "Panda", which should have been functional in theory. But Solie didn't want to take a risk and he will try the hardware in a more relaxed environment, therefore functional tests were not carried out. According to Solie Hyperion has already received Panda motherboards, and an external company was charged with the redesign of the licensed hardware.

Richard Drummond represented Hyperion and showed the AmigaOS 4-port of the strategy game Gorky 17.

A port of the astronomy software Digital Universe for AmigaOS 4 is in work, the latest beta version was presented at the exhibition.

The Amiga legend Carl Sassenrath was present and apparently very interested in the actual Amiga situation. Meanwhile Sassenrath is discussing his visions around the topic Amiga at the amigaworld.net in certain threads. (cg) (Translation: tz)

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25.Oct.2006
Pegasos.org (website)


Reminder: Efika developer program
Until and including October the 31st project proposals may be sumbitted at the title link to apply for a Freescale sponsored Efika board.

Accepted contenders will receive an Efika board with 128 MB RAM.

Already registered participants are urgetly requested to confirm their postal address. Without a valid address boards cannot be send. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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25.Oct.2006
Schlonz (ANF)


MorphOS: Demo version of Pixel 1.0 Beta 6 build 558
Already since October the 15 there is the demo version 1.0 Beta 6 build 558 of the graphic program Pixel (former Pixel 32) for MorphOS available at the title link. (snx) (Translation: un)

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25.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (website)


WinUAE: AmiKit 1.2.3
For AmiKit, a complete distribution for WinUAE users, there is an liegt update to version 1.2.3 available. The update must be fetched with the software's integrated Live Update function. New in this version:
  • ADDED: French catalogs for AmiStart and BoingBall by Eric Luczyszyn
  • UPDATED: AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.3
  • UPDATED: Meridian 2.22
  • UPDATED: MMKeyboard 3.23
  • UPDATED: MultiRen 1.63
  • UPDATED: PlayOGG 5.6a
  • UPDATED: SmartFileSystem 1.263
  • UPDATED: TheMPegEncGUI 2.63
  • UPDATED: VICE 1.20 (11-Oct-2006)
  • REVERTED: Jabberwocky 1.5.2 (the newer v1.6 and v1.7b1 crash on exit)
(cg) (Translation: ub)

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25.Oct.2006
(ANF)


Java becomes full open source in 2007
As heise.de reports Sun will provide all sources of the Java distributions Java SE and Java ME during the first quarter 2007 under some open source license. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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25.Oct.2006



MorphOS: Beta version of an EHCI driver (USB2)
Nicolas Det has released a first beta version of an EHCI driver, which enables teh usage of USB2 controllers with MorphOS. The ehciusb.device has to be copied to MOSSYS:Devs/USBHardware, then the driver is available at Poseidon's preferences at the "Hardware" menu.

The author gives no support, use is at own risk. First user reports are available at the (German) pegasosforum.de. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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24.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Software updates by OnyxSoft (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS)
OnyxSoft have released updates of some of their programs:

AmigaOS 4: Annotate 2.5

Annotate is a text editor, originally done by Doug Bakewell in 1993, which has been improved by OnyxSoft. The list of changes since the last version are to obtain from the readme.

AmigaOS 4, MorphOS: AllKeys 2.0

The Commodity Allkeys enables the use of all rawkeys (incl. wultimedia keys) and mouse buttons as Hotkeys. Version 2.0 comes with a graphical interface, also mouse wheel movements can be simulated now.

AmigaOS 3: MultiRen 1.63

MultiRen is a strongly improved rename command with GUI which is most useful for renaming huge file sets. Version 1.63 is further bug fixed.r

AmigaOS 3: Quicksketch 1.03

With Quicksketch short notes and sketches can be made and stored.

AmigaOS 3: TheMPegEncGUI 2.63

TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical user interface for several console based MP3 encoder. In Version 2.63 a small bug was removed. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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23.Oct.2006
Heinz-Raphael Reinke (ANF)


Developerenvironment: New AROS-DevPak for AmiDevCpp
AmiDevCpp is a on wx-Dev-C++ based C/C++ Developerenvironment for Windows, which can generate executables for MS Windows, AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS/x86.

Heinz Raphael Reinke provide a new "DevPak", which includes the actual AROS-SDK. The installation of the DevPak can be done with the internal Package-Manager of AmiDevCpp's.

Download: Aros_SDK.DevPak (4,4 MB) (cg) (Translation: aj)

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23.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Emulator: Status-Update of WinUAE 1.3.3
Linked to the header is a overview of the Version 1.3.3 of the Amiga-Emulator WinUAE, which will be released in November. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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23.Oct.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Event: Picture of the AmiWest
The AmiWest happend in Sacramento(USA) at 21. October, in the meantime are picture of the event are available.

severin.f2s.com/Photos/AmiWest-2006
shop.amigakit.com/catalog/amiwest.php
amigaweb.net (cg) (Translation: aj)

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23.Oct.2006



Event: Picture of the L'Alchimie 6
Of the "l'Alchimie 6", which happend last weekend in Tain l'hermitage (France), are now picture available:

gilles.mathevet.free.fr/alchimie6.html
afle.free.fr/Images/alchimie6/index.html (cg) (Translation: aj)

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23.Oct.2006



os4depot.net: Uploads until 22.10.2006
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
php-src.tgz               dev/lan    4Mb  PHP 4.3.0 rc2 (sources)
php5-src.tgz              dev/lan    8Mb  PHP 5.1.1 for apache 1.3.34 / OS4 (sourc
apache-src.tgz            net/ser   11Mb  Apache 1.3.34 PHP 5.1.1 (sources)
easytag-src.tgz           aud/edi    1Mb  EasyTag 1.1 for Cygnix (sources)
perl.tar.bz2              dev/lan   10Mb  Perl 5.8.5 AmigaOS4
cinepaint_cygnix-src.tgz  gra/edi   10Mb  Cinepaint 0.21.1 alpha for Cygnix (sourc
amaya-src.tgz             net/bro   12Mb  Amaya 8.8.5 for Cygnix (sources)
mysql-client-src.tgz      net/mis    5Mb  MySQL 3.23.58 (sources)
xfce_cygnix-src.tgz       uti/fil    4Mb  Xfce 3.8.16 alpha for Cygnix (sources)
vim_cygnix-src.tgz        uti/tex    7Mb  vim 7.0 alpha for Cygnix (sources)
bitmask.lha               dev/lib   29kb  Simple and efficient bitmask collision d
guilib.lha                dev/lib    1Mb  A very simple GUI framework for SDL
sdl_blitpool.lha          dev/lib  407kb  Blit/Fill operation pool with optimizer
gimp_cygnix-src.tgz       gra/edi   15Mb  Gimp 1.2.5 alpha for Cygnix (sources)
lightning.lha             dem/mis    7Mb  A lightning graphics demo with some soun
noddingchod.lha           dem/mis  158kb  A basic SDL demo
phire.lha                 dem/mis  210kb  An SDL particle-based flame effect
sdl_fire.lha              dem/mis  161kb  An SDL Fireworks demo
bouncing.lha              dev/exa  429kb  A SDL example with a bouncing penguin
colormouse.lha            dev/exa  235kb  One way to implement color mouse cursors
aedgui.lha                dev/lib    4Mb  A cross platform GUI C++ GUI library
newvox.lha                dem/mis  158kb  An SDL voxel landscape
sierp.lha                 dem/mis  154kb  A small SDL gfx demo
stars.lha                 dem/mis  158kb  A rotating starfield
warp.lha                  dem/mis  249kb  A realtime picture 'gooing' SDL demo.
water.lha                 dem/mis  195kb  A realtime SDL water effect.
xflame.lha                dem/mis  161kb  The classic fire effect, now through SDL
ballfield.lha             dem/sce  425kb  A goodlooking SDL Amiga demo style ballf
curvetest.lha             dev/exa  470kb  Spline, Bezier and Hemite SDL examples
vistk.lha                 dev/exa  335kb  VisTk - the Visualize ToolKit Example(!)
bindata.lha               dev/uti    5kb  Converts raw binary contents to into C s
smoothscroll.lha          dev/uti  266kb  A smooth subpixel SDL/GL(!!!) scroller/m
dumpmpeg.lha              gra/con  296kb  A simple program to dump the frames of M
xtopng.lha                gra/con  379kb  A general-purpose image converter based 
photocrop.lha             gra/edi  325kb  Crop and Resize images easilly.
sdlcalc.lha               uti/sci  461kb  An advanced calculator
(cg) (Translation: aj)

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23.Oct.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Emulator: PSP-UAE 0.60
PSP-UAE is a port of the known Amiga-Emulators E-UAE for Sonys portable PSP. Changes in Version 0.60:
  • new autoframeskip logic with fps limiting for both PAL and NTSC
  • real 4 channel stereo
  • Added new Menu User Interface (Menu Graphics by The Chaos Engine (from our forums))
  • Immediate Blits (Helps with compatability)
  • Blitter Cycle Exact (Helps with compatability)
  • High Density...
(cg) (Translation: aj)

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23.Oct.2006



Aminet-Uploads until 22.10.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
MarranoFTP.lha          comm/net     30K    ARO   A Very marrano FTP Client
A71Mail.lha             comm/www     19K    GEN   Email Form multilanguage written in php
bouncing.lha            demo/misc   429K    OS4   A SDL example with a bouncing penguin
colormouse.lha          demo/misc   236K    OS4   How to to use color mouse cursors with S
lightning.lha           demo/misc   7.4M    OS4   A graphics demo with some sound effects
noddingchod.lha         demo/misc   159K    OS4   A basic SDL demo
phire.lha               demo/misc   211K    OS4   An SDL particle-based flame effect
sdl_fire.lha            demo/misc   161K    OS4   An SDL Fireworks demo
DevKitARM_mos.tgz       dev/cross    26M    MOS   Nintendo DS development kit
ext2fs_0.25.lha         disk/misc    76K    VAR   Second Extended FileSystem (EXT2) driver
minerunner18.lha        game/jump   366K    OS3   Arcade like Loderunner, 1-4 Players
monsters10aga.lha       game/shoot  758K    OS3   Multitasking WizardOfWor, 1-4 Players
poweroids13.lha         game/shoot  333K    OS3   Arcade game like Asteroids, 1-4 Players
stardefender11.lha      game/shoot  286K    OS3   Arcade classic, runs in multitasking
zerberk14.lha           game/shoot  110K    OS3   Arcade game like Berzerk, 1-4 Players
swapper_newlevels2.lha  game/think    2K    GEN   Swapper New Levels 2
SafeKraker.lha          game/wb      37K    OS3   Try to find the secret code!
Simonize.lha            game/wb      36K    OS3   Recreate the pattern created by computer
S_Tiles.lha             game/wb      37K    OS3   Try to solve this sliding-tile puzzle!
mijfif.lha              gfx/show     66K    VAR   JFIF,BMP,ILBM,ZX.SCR viewer
Prism2SP.lha            hard/drivr   14K    GEN   Prism2.device spanish documentation
AmiArcadia.lha          misc/emu    202K    OS3   Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator
playOGG.lha             mus/play    1.2M    OS3   multi format sound player.
IconBeFast.lha          util/boot   159K    OS3   patch for faster icons & color mapping,
isomount124.lha         util/rexx     6K    GEN   mount disk images (amiga,atari,mac,pc,is
(cg) (Translation: aj)

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22.Oct.2006
Amiga.org (Web page)


DiscreetFX would like to buy Amiga Inc.
DiscreetFX, a USA company for visual special effects, discloses, under the title link on its web page, that reportedly, it has sent a formal proposal to Amiga Inc. to determine the value of the company, since it wants to take over the company next year - provided that they let themselves be bought. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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22.Oct.2006



AmiWest: Recordings of banquet speeches
Nicolas Mendoza is making available recordings of banquet speeches from yesterday's "AmiWest" (Sacramento, California) under the title link. The speakers are Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers as well as Carl Sassenrath, Amiga legend and Rebol-founder. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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22.Oct.2006
Jürgen Weiß alias Evillord68 (ANF)


Graphics card: New Cybervision 3D's available with warranty
The USA dealer Software Hut has taken over the whole stock of Zorro-based graphics cards of the type "Cybervision 3D" from Eyetech. The cards are in original packaging and tested and are sold with warranty. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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22.Oct.2006
Joerg van de Loo (ANF)


Text editor: BareED supports Thai language
By the close collaboration with Dr. Lyndon Hill, author of the Linux and Windows text editor Sontana, BareED now also supports Thai text files.

In addition, by implementing the relevant parts of the WTT standard, which is endorsed by the Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), BareED will detect invalid character sequences upon loading TIS-620 encoded text files and while entering characters. The input check can be adjusted by the user to his own taste in three levels, from "Pass Through" over "Basic Check" to "Strict".

Before one can start using BareED as a TIS-620 supporting text editor, the corresponding fonts and keymap are required from Lyndon Hill's website.

Please note, though, that BareED's author, Joerg van de Loo, doesn't speak Thai himself. Therefore he suggests to refer to Lyndon Hill's website or contact him directly in case of questions about using a TIS-620 compatible Amiga environment, including using e-mail. (snx)

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22.Oct.2006
Ron van Schaik (ANF)


Event: Photos from the Dutch Retro Game and Computer Show
Under the title link, the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep has published photos of their Retro Game and Computer Show of yesterday. According to the organizers' statements, in addition to a video game web page, various newspapers as well as a local TV and radio station reported, too. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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22.Oct.2006



morphzone.org temporarily unreachable becaues of domain relocation
The MorphOS portal morphzone.org is temporarily unreachable due to a domain relocation. (cg) (Translation: cad)

[News message: 22. Oct. 2006, 15:15] [Comments: 0]
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22.Oct.2006
PPCZone (Forum)


Linux: Use cell as modem
In the forum of PPCZone, English instructions were published under the title link on how one can dial in to the Internet with his/her computer under Linux with a GPRS/UMTS-capable cellular phone. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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