27.Apr.2006
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Data eraser rhErase
With rhErase Rupert Hausberger has written a MorphOS program for erasing important data published it under the GPL(Screenshot).
The easy to handle, asyncronous running program supports various erasing methods: the US standards DoD 5220.22-M (E) and DoD 5220.22-M (ECE) as well as the German standard VSITR and the Bruce- Schneier method.
Download: rherase.lha (109 KB) (snx) (Translation: ts)
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27.Apr.2006
MorphZone (Forum)
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Genesi: No MPC7448-cpu module for the Pegasos II
Apart from that what Genesi has announced, there will be no MPC7448 based cpu module released for the Pegasos II.
As a reason is mentioned that the shortly announced cpu specifications aren't met - as a consequence it would consume too much current and run too hot to guarantee a sufficient increase in performance in the Pegasos. Finally the MPC7448 consumes as twice as the current for a merely increased performance of 20 percent. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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26.Apr.2006
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Commodore Show in Groningen (Netherlands)
The dutch Commodore Gebruikers Groep organize on Saturday, May 21st, a Commodore and Amiga party at Stadsboerderij de Wiershoeck, Beijumerweg 20, Groningen, Holland from 10:00 till 17:00.
There will be presentations and demonstrations with a viewer on a wide screen. The demonstrations include, among other stuff, a µ-A1 with AmigaOS 4 and how to work with D64 files, Star Commander and Vice. Further information can be found at the title link. (snx)
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25.Apr.2006
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: CAS Tools 1.1
CAS Tools is a programme to read out and convert sampled MSX tapes. Thereby the data is being transformed from the WAV format into the CAS format or the other way round.
The involved programmes wav2cas, cas2wav and casdir have been written by Vincent van Dam and ported for MorphOS by Fabrizio Bartoloni.
Download: cas_tools-mos.lha (30 KB) (snx) (Translation: iw)
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25.Apr.2006
Michael Bauer (ANF)
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Videos of the Breakpoint demos by The Black Lotus and Iris
AVI videos of the two brilliant Amiga demos, which were shown at the Breakpoint demo party, are now available at 4Sceners.de as well. The first demo is Kilofix by Iris (winner) and the second one is Requiem by The Black Lotus (3rd best). (cg) (Translation: iw)
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25.Apr.2006
amigaworld.net (webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2006 announced
The US Amiga event AmiWest is taking place in Clarion Hotel Cal Expo (Sacramento) on 21 October 2006. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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25.Apr.2006
Hagbard (ANF)
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a1k.org: status update, Breakpoint gallery
"Hagbard" writes: "For quite a long time many parts of the forum have not been visible for guest users, as we have made bad experiences with unregistered users. Whoever wants to have complete access to the forum is asked to create an account, which is quite easy.
Further innovations:
- Our programmer Rene has made an effort to make almost the whole forum Amiga-Brower enabled. Of course also compatible to all other browsers.
- Our chat system has been updated as well, it has been enlarged and mistakes have been sorted out.
- A user map for members has been introduced, where members can sign on. The map is, however, still in the beta stage and currently only shows Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Furthermore we are happy to expand our forum with two new subsections. One for the Amiga-Demoscene and another for Amiga game collectors.
- And last but not least there is a gallery with 206 images (from an Amiga-user's view) of the Breakpoint 2006.
Greetings to all Amiga-users"
(cg) (Translation: iw)
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25.Apr.2006
Scout Open Source team, Thore Böckelmann (ANF)
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System monitor: Scout 3.6
The system monitor Scout is now available for AmigaOS/68k (from version 2.04), AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS in the version 3.6.
In the following you can find the most important innovations, a complete overview can be obtained from the ChangeLog file.
24-Apr-2006, Release 3.6, programme version 37.290:
- Scout_window_detail.c: now displays correctly number of colours for
32bit screens
- Scout_resethandlers.c: the OS4 specific list of reset callbacks is now
also scanned for entries, because the list of reset handlers is normally
not used anymore
- Scout_fonts.c, scout_fonts_details.c: added tf_Extension field, if a font
offers this
- Scout_arexx.c: added the missing remove function for reset handlers.
Until now this has never been implemented. Also the last direct poking in
the base structure of input.device to obtain the list of input handlers
has been replaced by a proper function which acts the same way as does
the scanning function in scout_inputhandlers.c
- Scout_tasks.c: added now function which returns the usual name of all
known signal bits
- Scout_tasks_details.c: the old Task field tc_TrapAlloc and tc_TrapAble
don't exist anymore for OS4. Instead they always represent a pointer
called tc_ETask. Hence this one is shown now. Furthermore Scout can now
recognize a process' code type by using the new V51 DOS function
GetSegListInfo(). Additionally for OS4 the SegList pointers are now
obtained via GetProcSegList() instead of hacking through pr_SegList and
pr_CLI->cli_Module. If there is a clean way, then USE IT!
- Scout_tasks_details.c: added the extended V50/V51 process fields. These
will only appear in the OS4 build
- Scout_window_details.c added the embedded fields ViewPort, RastPort,
Bitmap (and all attributes) and LayerInfo of "struct Screen". Therefore
the entries "UserPort->SigTask" and "WindowPort->SigTask" of "struct
Window" have been dropped since these can be inspected by clicking on
the port button
- Scout_mount_details.c: the capacity calculation is now done with native
64bit math for the OS4 and MorphOS builds. Hence i64.c is no longer
needed for these, but only for the OS3 build, because SAS/C cannot do
64bit math itself
- Scout_extras.c, tblib/errormsg_ErrorMsg.c: somehow I never realized that
exec/RawDoFmt() cannot do parameter sorting by using something like
"Hello %2$s %1$s", "second", "first". Hence the function ErrorMsg() got
always passed one parameter too less and that completely crashed on OS4.
The catalog description has been modified accordingly. The prototype for
ErrorMsg() was missing the usual "VARARGS68K" definition anyway.
All in all this made Scout crash when it tried to complain about outdated
or missing external MUI classes
- Scout_print.c: somehow I deleted a NULL-check before copying one string
to another, which caused crashes when trying to print information of a
window to a file
- Lots of minor changes
Download:
Scout_os3.lha (944 KB)
Scout_os4.lha (1,2 MB)
Scout_mos.lha (1,1 MB) (snx) (Translation: iw)
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24.Apr.2006
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: SimpleView 1.4
Linked to the header has Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin his MorphOS-Pictureviewer
SimpleView as Version 1.4 released. SimpleView marks as complete writen
in PowerPC-Assembler.
The changes are a alternate presentation on the Workbench (SimpleView_WB)
or on a 24 Bit-screen and the usage of a own BestModeID.
This will cut a shown picture only if it did not fit on the biggest
available screen. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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24.Apr.2006
ppcnux (ANF)
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PowerPC: Tsi109 Northbridge mass-production starts
The modernest G4 Northbridge is now one month later avalaible.
Tundras Tsi109
supports max two MPC7448, 200 MHZ FSB, DDR2 RAM, PCI-X (133 Mhz)
and Dual Gigabit Interfaces.
The prices for a TSI109 will be lower then 75 USD. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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24.Apr.2006
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Aminet-Uploads til 23.04.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
pointriderui.lha biz/misc 33K OS4 GUI for PointRider OS4 version.
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 39K OS3 Online Dictionary
MCC_NewstringSP.lha dev/mui 5K GEN MCC Newstring 1.0 spanish catalog v1.0.0
filex-2.4-os4.lha disk/moni 303K OS4 FileX - the HEX-Editor
TwinVNC0.7beta.txt docs/anno 0K GEN VNC Client for 68k, OS4 and MorphOS (RTG
AMIthlon_setup2.lha docs/help 4.6M GEN How to setup AMIthlon with Windows XP.
bugsquish.i386-aros.zip game/actio 936K ARO Bugsquish (binary + source)
circuslinux.i386-aros.zip game/actio 1.5M ARO Circuslinux (binary + source)
madbomber.i386-aros.zip game/actio 2.7M ARO Madbomber
sdlscav.i386-aros.zip game/jump 329K ARO SDL Scavenger A Lode Runner like game
sdlscav.src.zip game/jump 295K GEN SDL Scavenger A Lode Runner like game
gemdropx.i386-aros.zip game/misc 1.0M ARO GemDropX (binary + source)
scummvm-frak.lha game/misc 2.7M OS4 Point-and-Click adventure interpreter
wormux.lha game/misc 20M OS4 Wormux - A Worms Clone
gse.lha game/patch 17K OS3 Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
defendguin.i386-aros.zip game/shoot 2.4M ARO Defendguin (binary + source)
vectoroids.i386-aros.zip game/shoot 590K ARO Vectoroids (binary + source)
interlogic.i386-aros.zip game/think 1.6M ARO SDL game InterLOGIC
interlogic.src.zip game/think 1.4M GEN SDL game InterLOGIC (Source)
dvplayer-demo.lha gfx/show 575K OS4 Video Player with skinnable GUI
TestGear7.lha hard/hack 146K OS3 Data-Logger and Transient-Recorder.
FrodoMOS.lha misc/emu 544K MOS C64 emulator for MorphOS
FrodoSrc.lha misc/emu 1.0M GEN C64 emulator for MorphOS - sources
gbe-mos.lha misc/emu 132K MOS Gameboy and Gameboy Color emulator
mathomatic.i386-aros.zip misc/math 155K ARO Computer Algebra System Mathomatic
mathomatic.src.zip misc/math 419K GEN Computer Algebra System Mathomatic
eliza.i386-aros.zip misc/sci 30K ARO A classic AI therapist
SimpleSamples.lha mus/play 43K OS3 Little musical toy for all the AMIGAs
tunenet.lha mus/play 514K OS4 Music Player (Shoutcast, MP3, PT, AIFF,
BigHouseOfFloppyDisks.jpg pix/misc 60K GEN Big house of floppy discs
InfoWin.lha util/cli 36K VAR Small borderless message window for batc
SteBaseConv.lha util/conv 46K OS3 Numeric base converter for any language
OS39_update_patches2.lha util/sys 34K OS3 Fix/update for workbench.libary 45.130
mediarequestor.lha util/wb 15K GEN MediaRequestor
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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24.Apr.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 23.04.2006
os4depot.net uploads since our last report:
wormux.lha gam/mis 20Mb Wormux - A Worms Clone
amicad.lha off/cad 1Mb AmiCAD (Schematics vectorial electronics
tunenet.lha aud/pla 514kb Music Player (Shoutcast, MP3, PT, AIFF,
opengl-glu.lha dev/lib 311kb OpenGL GLU library
dvplayer-demo.lha vid/pla 574kb Video Player with skinnable GUI
filex.lha dev/edi 303kb FileX - the HEX-Editor
scummvm-frak.lha gam/adv 2Mb Point-and-Click adventure interpreter
mediarequestor.lha uti/wor 15kb MediaRequestor
tunemod-plug.lha aud/pla 354kb ~25 Mod style Plugins for TuneNet (S3M,
tuneogg-plug.lha aud/pla 190kb Ogg Vorbis Plugin for TuneNet
tunemp3_encode.lha aud/rec 278kb Lame (MP3 like) Encoder for TuneNet
dosbox.lha emu/com 1Mb MS DOS emulator
pointriderui.lha off/pre 32kb GUI for PointRider OS4 version.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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24.Apr.2006
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AROS-Archives: Uploads til 23.04.2006
aros-archives uploads since our last report:
bugsquish.i386-aros.zip gam/act 936kb Bugsquish (binary + source)
circuslinux.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb Circuslinux (binary + source)
defendguin.i386-aros.zip gam/act 2Mb Defendguin (binary + source)
madbomber.i386-aros.zip gam/act 2Mb Madbomber
vectoroids.i386-aros.zip gam/act 590kb Vectoroids (binary + source)
gemdropx.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 1Mb GemDropX (binary + source)
interlogic.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb SDL game InterLOGIC
interlogic.src.zip gam/puz 1Mb SDL game InterLOGIC (Source)
denise4_2aros.org.lha uti/sci 410kb port Denise, PL:binaria EN:binaries
sdlscav.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 328kb SDL Scavenger A Lode Runner like game
sdlscav.src.zip gam/pla 295kb SDL Scavenger A Lode Runner like game
mathomatic.i386-aros.zip uti/sci 155kb Computer Algebra System Mathomatic
mathomatic.src.zip uti/sci 418kb Computer Algebra System Mathomatic
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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23.Apr.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACK Software Controls: Notify two A1-CPU-Modules (Update)
Linked to the header Adam Kowalczyk from ACK Software Controls Inc. notify
the expected availablility of two new CPU-moduls for the AmigaOne XE
til June 2006.
ACK Software Controls, Inc. is pleased to announce the upcoming
availability of two new AmigaOne XE CPU modules. The first CPU module
will be equipped with a Freescale MC7448 CPU clocked at 1GHz. The 1GHz
module will retail for $500.00 US Dollars. The second CPU module will be
equipped with a Freescale MC7448 clocked at 1.7GHz will retail for $850.00
US Dollars. Both CPU modules will be eqipped with a high quality heatsink
and fan to ensure quiet, reliable operation.
Prototype modules will be demonstrated May 22/2006. The location for this
demonstration has yet to be determined. Due to the low volume nature of
these products, emails indicating demand for either of the two units is
greatly appreciated. Stay tuned for updates.
Update: (19:49, 23.04.06, snx)
According a
comment
of Adam Kowalczyk both CPU-moduls fits also into the µA1-mainboard
if the case is big enough. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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22.Apr.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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VNC client: TwinVNC 0.7 beta
TwinVNC is a client for the Virtual Networking Computing protocol. There are versions for AmigaOS 3 and 4 and for MorphOS available. Changes since the last version:
- Graphical user interface for VNC connection as well as for updating VNC options during remote control.
- Handles server pixels format. This functionality allows using directly the server's native display format. This functionality is also very useful for AmiVNC users.
- Scale mode (software or overlay) supported in both window and fullscreen modes and during window resizing.
- Please read TwinVNC history page for the complete list of improvements and new features.
From now on TwinVNC is distributed as giftware, regular users are called to give a donation to the author. A new video presentation shall clarify the functionality of TwinVNC.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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22.Apr.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Directory Opus 4.17 pre 19 (alpha)
Jocke 'Zerohero' Birging makes a PPC native alpha version of the known file manager Directory Opus 4 available. The main program is characterised as very stable, within ConfigOpus there may still appear crashes (especially calling the screenmode requester is disadvised).
You need the asyncio.library, xfdmaster and xfdmaster.l.main. The author wants to find out the real need of a DOpus 4 port and therefore asks for Paypal donations.
Installing hints:
Before running the PPC version for the first time you should do a restart. Make sure that there are no parts of the 68k version installed in the system directories (e.g. LIBS:).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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22.Apr.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Commodore emulator VICE updated
Mathias "Amidog" Roslund makes a new version of the universal Commodore 8bit emulators VICE available. This version fixes some smaller problems with the fullscreen mode and the joystick support.
There still seem to be problems when two joypads shall be used at once but these are not Amiga specific and have to be fixed by the VICE team themselves.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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22.Apr.2006
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MorphOS: preview of a new graphics program
Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski announced in a thread on morphzone.org that he is working on a new graphics program for MorphOS (screenshot).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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22.Apr.2006
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Amiga Image Storage System 3 (preview)
A preview of AISS 3 is available on the AISS section of Masonicons.de. AISS is a system to store, access and maintain toolbar images under AmigaOS.
The next version of AISS will feature more than 400 image sets (over 1200 single pictures) and a great programming example with source code by Dave Norris. The release of AISS 3 is scheduled for Mai/June 2006.
For further informations about AISS visit the masonicons homepage or join the masonicons newsletter. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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21.Apr.2006
(ANF)
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golem.de: Another World - Game classic with prettier graphics
The French developer Eric Chahis has updated his classic
Another World. For seven Euro
Windows-users can play an improved version.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Apr.2006
amiga.org (Webseite)
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WinUAE: Amikit 1.1.2
For AmiKit which is a complete distribution for WinUAE-users there is
an update to version 1.1.2. Changes since the last publishing:
- ADDED: AKCC 6.3 by Andreas R. Kleinert (POSTCARDWARE)
- UPDATED: AfA_OS 3.93.1
- UPDATED: AWeb 3.5.08 beta
- UPDATED: FileX 2.4
- UPDATED: R (The GUI Generator) 2.18
- UPDATED: Sudoku 1.4
- UPDATED: Workbench.library 45.131 (run "Install Patches" to install it)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Apr.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Catalog-Compiler: SimpleCat 2.21 (Beta 22) (OS3/OS4/MOS)
Guido Mersmann has published a new beta version of his catalog-compiler SimpleCat.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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