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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15.Jun.2006
Markus Weiss (ANF)
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AROS: Snapshot of the PPC version ("Linux hosted")
The team AROS provides a precompiled snapshot of the PPC port. It is a "Linux hosted"-version, so Linux incl. X-Window-System and glibc-2.3.4. is required. Further requirements are available in the documentation.
The distribution must be extracted in any folder and can be started through the shell then. To do so you go to the subdirectory AROS and execute "./aros".
(cg) (Translation: tz)
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15.Jun.2006
os4depot.net (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Sound card driver Envy24HT 5.8
Davy Wentzler has released an update of his sound card driver for models like Terratec Aureon Sky and Space, Phase28, M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and ESI Juli. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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14.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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Online banking: Status update for proBanking
Sven Dröge gives a brief view of the current state of his online banking tool proBanking:
The modules for signation and encryption of messages is virtually finished. The next step - the integartion into proBanking -
will last probably two months. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jun.2006
Michael C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Cloanto: "Amiga Voices" project prolonged
Cloanto's project "Amiga Voices", which gives users the ability to tell their individual
Amiga story or anecdote regarding this maschine (amiga-news.de reported), has been
prolonged in time and lasts minimum until June the 30th now. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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12.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Python 2.4.2
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez released a update of his MorphOS-Port
of the programing language Python. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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12.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Raytracer Blender 2.37a-20060610
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez provide a new version of his Raytracing program
Blender,
Python will be required. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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12.Jun.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Text-Editor: Demoversion of CygnusEd 5
APC&TCP provide the demoversion of his legendary Amiga-Texteditor
CygnusEd 5 for the platforms AmigaOS4 and 68k/MorphOS online. (nba) (Translation: aj)
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12.Jun.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.06.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
MOSNet-Base.lha comm/tcp 753K MOS TCP/IP stack for MorphOS - core componen
MOSNet-SDK.lha comm/tcp 874K MOS TCP/IP stack for MorphOS - software dev
MOSNet-Server.lha comm/tcp 714K MOS TCP/IP stack for MorphOS - server compon
MOSNet-src.lha comm/tcp 2.3M GEN TCP/IP stack for MorphOS - sources
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 272K VAR POSIX compatibility library for vbcc
man2txt-1.00b-bin.lha dev/gg 63K MOS UNIX manual page to plain text converter
man2txt-1.00b-src.lha dev/gg 2K GEN UNIX man page to plain text converter, s
abc-shell.lha dev/misc 310K OS4 Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
spatch.lha dev/misc 9K VAR Clone of SAS Binary File Patcher w/src
Bomber.lha game/2play 79K MOS Don's Bomberman clone
Africa.lha game/board 195K OS3 Conversion of 3W boardgame
A2Zee.lha game/wb 33K OS3 Put the letters in the right order!
AlphaQuad.lha game/wb 34K OS3 Place the letters in the right order!
Bipaire.lha game/wb 42K OS3 Find all the pairs of tiles in this game
Building.lha game/wb 34K OS3 Turn off all the lights in the building!
Cellz.lha game/wb 35K OS3 Get more cells than your opponent!
ColorBarr.lha game/wb 37K OS3 Line-up coloured tiles!
PentA.lha game/wb 37K OS3 Place all the shapes in a rectangular ar
SkinsArtKanoid.lha game/wb 281K GEN Extra skins for ArTKanoid
EVVelazquez.lha gfx/show 292K OS3 Show,play,copy,move, etc. pics + sounds
mijfif.lha gfx/show 58K VAR JFIF,BMP,ILBM,ZX.SCR viewer
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 80K OS3 Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator
AGReader.tar.bz2 misc/unix 52K GEN AmigaGuide reader for 'UNIX' systems.
TDFSB.lha util/dir 224K MOS 3D file system browser w/o MPEG
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 318K OS3 Multipurpose utility
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 96K OS3 Italian version of StartBar
GetModeID.lha util/moni 10K OS3 Gets screen mode ID in hex and decimal.
idle2_0.lha util/moni 17K OS3 A (working) A68K cpu monitor
idlewos.lha util/moni 13K WUP A cpu monitor with WarpOS Support
cpuwatcher.lha util/wb 13K OS4 Measures CPU, free memory and network tr
QOpenWB.lha util/wb 6K VAR Open Ambient/WB window from the shell
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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12.Jun.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 11.06.2006
Uploads of os4depot.net since our last report:
scriptlauncher.lha uti/wor 36kb A very configurable button-based program
subspace.lzx aud/mis 169kb Geiss/G-Force like plugin for AmigaAMP
wookiechat.lha net/cha 592kb IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
memtester.lzx uti/har 54kb Utility to test for faulty memory subsys
misscmd.lzx gam/act 75kb Missile Command clone (WIP release)
abc-shell.lha dev/uti 309kb Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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11.Jun.2006
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Minimig: Screenshot of the PCB layout
Dennis van Weeren, developer of the FPGA-based Amiga 500 clone Minimig (reported by amiga-news.de), has released a screenshot of the final PCB layout (Rev. 1.0) under the title link.
The circuit board has two layers and measures merely 120 x 120 mm. After a check of the PS/2 connections, which is still outstanding, a prototype of the board should be produced and tested for its functional capability. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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11.Jun.2006
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: TCP stack Mosnet 1.2
Pavel "Sonic" Fedin has released a new version of his PPC-native TCP stack Mosnet. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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11.Jun.2006
Amiga Future (Web page)
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Report+ 6.2
Version 6.2 of Report+ is released. With Report+ from Amigan Software, bug reports, Aminet readme files, autodocs and similar reports can easily be generated.
Compared to version 6.19, "EOL" can optionally be automatically inserted between individual paragraphs from the ASCII converter. In addition, error corrections were undertaken.
Download: ReportPlus.lha (318 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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11.Jun.2006
ANN (Web page)
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MorphOS: 3D Update Release 2
The MorphOS Team is making available an update to the official 3D driver package. Changes since the last version:
- r200, rv250 and rv280 cards (8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9250) now work on Pegasos 1
- Fixed a rare lockup condition on r200 (8500, 9100)
- Fixed a random crash on starting the first 3D application on Pegasos 1
- Fixed a scissoring problem on r200, rv250 and rv280 (8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9250)
- Minor speedups and improvements
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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11.Jun.2006
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ACK: Status update for various PPC products
In an IRC chat, Adam Kowalczyk from ACK has commented once more on various announced hardware projects. He regrets the delays, but estimates the harm done thereby as apparently not particularly tragic. At the urging of the users, one has now decided, at least, to release some pictures, these should be visible on Tuesday on amigaworld.net.
CPU Modules
The CPU modules work, but in the AmigaOne, they do not achieve the expected performance increase.
Unlike the Powervixxen TL (see below), the 60x protocol is being used in the Eyetech computers for the communication between motherboard and CPU module, apparently, there are still problems here.
Powervixxen LT
Prototypes of this A1200 expansion already exist. Rather accidentally, in the process, it has crystallized that the PV LT can be operated with just a Mediator PCI busboard (so without A1200) as well. The adaptation of AmigaOS 4 to the hardware was already started in "a simulated environment," "a good deal of work" has already been invested in the adaptation, reportedly.
- MPC 5200 @ 400-466MHz
- 512 MB Ram on-board
- On-board graphics: Radeon Mobility
- ATA/IDE interface
- 100 Mbit ethernet
- USB 1.1
- AC97 audio codec (with automatic integration of the Amiga sound chip's sound output)
- Works in original A1200 desktop case
As price for a Powervixxen LT including AmigaOS 4, 375 USD (without taxes) is being targeted. A "pre-production" model should be introduced in the British event AmiRevival (July 29). Unlike the well-known Phase5 accelerator cards, the Powervixxen LT cannot be deactivated.
Powervixxen TL
"Mostly working" prototypes of this stand-alone motherboard exist. The final specifications look like the following:
- ATX form factor
- Northbridge: Tundra TSI109
- CPU slot compatible to AmigaOne/MicroA1 (supports 133/167/200 Mhz FSB)
- 2 DDR2 DIMM slots, up to 2 GB RAM
- 2 x Gigabit-Ethernet on-board
- 1 x PCIe Graphics (1x)
- 1 x PCI 66 Mhz
- 4 x PCI 33/66 Mhz
- BIOS: UBoot
The board should be available without CPU as well (as upgrade option for AmigaOne owners), for an estimated price of 550-600 USD. The price including CPU will rest with $1000-1200, depending on desired processor.
Carrier Board for Powervixxen LT
This carrier board should allow for a stand-alone operation of the Powervixxen LT, which is normally powered by the A1200 motherboard. The licensing negotiations with Amiga Inc. are not concluded here yet, which is why the other projects are being worked on for the time being. In the hitherto negotiations, Amiga Inc. has reportedly proven to be "very responsive" and has not "presented any stumbling blocks" to Kowalczyk so far. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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