30.Sep.2005
(ANF)
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Commodore now a MusicStore
The label "Commodore" can be still well market. A reader
has found a MusicStore under the label Commodore. The site has been
created by the company Yeahronimo Media Ventures from the Netherlands.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.Sep.2005
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amiga-news.de in the book of the 6000 most important websites
In 2001 amiga-news.de was entered in the Internet-Guide
"The Web-Address book for Germany - The 6.000 most important German Internet-addresses".
The editors of the mw-publishing house have tested about 250.000 Web-offers and
recommended the best 6.000. In the 9th issue of this practical Web-guide amiga-news.de
is also introduced as one of the best Internet-addresses in the section Internet and
Computer.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Sep.2005
4Sceners.de (homepage)
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Interview with the Amiga demo group Abyss
4Sceners.de has published an interview with the even in the Amiga demo scene known group Abyss under the title link. Bartman and Pink report from the Amiga days as well as from their games for the gameboy advance and nintendo ds. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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29.Sep.2005
Jan Zahurancik (ANF)
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Emulation: New screenshots of AmiKit
AmiKit is a completely pre-configured Amiga environment for WinUAE - like "Amiga In A Box" or AmigaSYS.
While the release of AmiKit is getting closer, the following screenshots have been published meanwhile (each picture shows a different graphics style for windows):
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
Screenshot 3
To join the AmiKit Yahoo-Group, just send an e-mail or go directly to the corresponding website. (snx)
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29.Sep.2005
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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TroikaNG: Update of the homepage with frequent asked questions
At the homepage of TroikaNG the first questions and answers were entered. Therefore AGP is cancelled because except for the Articia northbridge only the IBM chip CPC 925 offers this function, but it doesn't work with the cpu chosen for the Amy'05 board.
Regarding to the final consumer price 400 British pounds would have been a very careful estimation, but in theory it could also come to 400 US dollarss (ca. 330 EUR at present). (snx) (Translation: ts)
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28.Sep.2005
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 28.09.2005
Since our last report the folowing files were added to the os4depot.net:
make-ppc.lha dev/uti 174kb GNU make PPC
entombed_os4.lha gam/act 1Mb Entombed - SDL action game
duke3d.lha gam/fps 519kb Duke Nukem 3D
uqm-src.lha gam/mis 1Mb Sources for Ur-Quan Masters
uqm.lha gam/mis 10Mb The Ur-Quan Masters port
blobtrix_os4.lha gam/puz 11Mb BlobTrix OS4
ttt_os4.lha gam/boa 593kb Tic Tac Toe OS4
rott.lha gam/fps 3Mb Rise of the Triad
fillets-ng.lha gam/puz 1Mb Fish Fillets NG port
gemdropx_os4.lha gam/puz 1Mb GemDropX_OS4
blackbox_os4.lha gam/boa 1Mb BlackBox OS4
savvyppc.lha net/sam 178kb Savvy (as in networker) smbfs GUI progra
vectoroids_os4.lha gam/act 1Mb Vectoroids - SDL action game
addtraction_os4.lha gam/boa 199kb AddTraction_OS4
bugsquish_os4.lha gam/act 1Mb Bug squish - SDL action game
circuslinux_os4.lha gam/act 1Mb Circus Linux! - SDL action game
penguincommand_os4.lha gam/act 2Mb Penguin Command OS4
sdlzombies_os4.lha gam/mis 3Mb SDLZombies_OS4
trailblazer_os4.lha gam/mis 170kb Traliblazer OS4
mindless_os4.lha gam/puz 2Mb Mindless_OS4
cpuwatcher.lha uti/wor 21kb Measures CPU, free memory and network tr
swfplayer.lha vid/pla 1Mb Standalone shockwave player for Amiga
raw_os4.lha gam/act 440kb RAW
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Sep.2005
MorphZone (Download-Bereich)
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MorphOS: SDL game KoboDeluxe ported / Alpha version 0.5 of ezTCP
KoboDeluxe 0.4pre10
Herbert Klackl has ported the SDL based Shoot'em up game KoboDeluxe to MorphOS
(screen shot). The game offers a fast 8 way scrolling, 17 different kinds of adversaries and 50 maps.
Download
ezTCP 0.5 alpha
The PPC native TCP/IP stack ezTCP by Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin is now available in the alpha version 0.5.
This is a morphzone.org bounty project, current contribution is 1095,73 US dollar.
Among the improvements in version 0.5 is the fix to set the socket owner correctly, required e.g. for Jabberwocky.
Also the program checks for an already present instance of the bsdsocket.library within the memory at launch.
Download (snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Sep.2005
MorphOS Development Team (ANF)
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MorphOS: New PowerUp Edition available
A new version of the PowerUp Edition of MorphOS has been released by the MorphOS Development Team. The PowerUp Edition enables Amiga Computers to run this operating system, provided that they have been expanded by a PowerPC processor board.
The most important changes in the new version:
- Missing TrueType font added which results in a major speedup of MUI and related applications
- Compatible 680x0 libraries added
- New 800x600@60Hz default boot screenmode
- 56kHz paula audio is enabled now
- Updated Voodoo 2D drivers
- Voodoo 3D driver added
- Updated documentation
(snx)
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28.Sep.2005
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphUp: Betatest of the packet manager will start soon
Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger will start a beta test for his packet manager MorphUp soon.
All who contributed to the morphzone.org bounty for this project are invited to the test (bounty name: ezPM; current contribution: 316,55 US-Dollar).
MorphUp is a packet management system like known from the Linux world consisting of a generator and a client.
The packet manager looks for updates and available programs and downloads the regarding files automatically, the user does not need to seek for the files manually,
by visiting lots of different sites.
The packet manager should be able to do the installation, updates and verification of MorphOS compounds and applications
(amiga-news.de reported).
Bounty contributers interested in beta testing may do the following during the next two weeks:
- Download the file hwid.lha and launch it by the shell
- Send an email with the subject "*** MorphUP beta ***" followed by the following information to Rupert Hausberger:
- The hwid output of the program at the shell
- Your corresponding name as listed at the donators directory.
- Optional yor real or user name
Email notification will be within two weeks. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Sep.2005
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: AIFF/AIFF-C, RIFF WAVE and Sun/NeXT audio player for AmiNetRadio
Three new player plugins for AmiNetRadio 3.x have been released by Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter.
wave.player 3.10
The player reads RIFF WAVE (Resource Interchange File Format Audio Waveform) files and supports mono and stereo samples which are stored in 8bit - 32bit linear PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) or with A-law, µ-law, Float 32bit or Float 64bit compression.
aiff.player 3.3
This player adds support for Apple's Audio Interchange File Format. It reads mono and stereo AIFF/AIFF-C files, and as wave.player it supports samples stored with 8bit - 32bit PCM or compressed samples with A-law, µ-law, Float 32bit or Float 64bit data.
au.player 3.2
The last one of the trio is for Sun/NeXT Audio files. It supports interleaved mono and stereo data which is stored in Big- or Little-Endian byte order. Like both other players it understands 8bit, 16bit, 24bit and 32bit linear PCM and A-law, µ-law, Float 32bit and Float 64bit compressed samples.
All three players come with documenation and are freeware. You can get them at the title link. (snx)
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26.Sep.2005
Pegasosforum (Websiite)
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Linux: Update of Fedora Core 4 for the Pegasos
An updated installation package of the Linux distribution Fedora
Core 4 including ISO-images has been published for the Pegasos. The
installation documentation can be found inside the Readme-file.
Additionally a FC4/PPC-version of the Livna-packages were published, which include Xine-, MPlayer- and MP3-plugins amongst others. To include it into the YUM-configuration, you must save the file
livna.repo inside the directory /etc/yum.repos.d. (snx)
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26.Sep.2005
Robert (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: The Ur-Quan Masters ported / update of Duke Nukem 3D
The space opera The Ur-Quan Masters, which is based on "Star Control 2", is now
available for AmigaOS 4.
In addition to this the port of Duke Nukem 3D has been recompiled with
the current SDK for AmigaOS 4 to solve some speed problems.
Download:
uqm.lha (10 MB)
duke3d.lha (520 KB) (snx)
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26.Sep.2005
MorphZone (Download-Bereich)
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MorphOS: Alphaversion 0.4 of ezTCP has been published
The PPC-native TCP/IP-Stack ezTCP by Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin is now
available in its alpha version 0.4. ezTCP is a
MorphZone-Bountyproject with a current donation status of 1095,73 US-$.
What's new in this version:
1. Memory trashing bug at last fixed. Try the DNS resolver, now it should work reliably with or without DOMAIN records in the resolv.conf.
2. Version of bsdsocket.library updated to 4. Now many applications will run.
3. CLI environment tools (Ping, ifconfig, route) now report if they can't open bsdsocket.library instead of quitting silently.
Remaining known problems:
1. usergroup.library is still not built, but it's on the way. So - no compatibility with ixemul.library yet. But you can try to override this by copying usergroup.library from AmiTCP (Genesis) distribution to LIBS:.
2. ezTCP kernel can't be used as a Genesis kernel replacement yet. There is some problem with the configuration, the kernel just hangs when loading configuration files (the same problem as Slawek Kaminski reported with previous versions). So I don't advice to change the location of configuration files for now. But you still play with this on your own, nice if you succeed. I just have no time to investigate this yet, I'm already a little not in my timeline and need to speed up.
3. ezTCP doesn't for check for presence of another bsdsocket.library in memory before startup. So be careful before starting it, ensure that no other stack is running.
(2) and (3) are being worked on in the background, (1) is currently a top priority (snx) (Translation: nba)
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26.Sep.2005
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Event: Report and photos from the Big Bash 3 (update)
Darren 'Ryu' Glenn published an English report about the
Big Bash 3, that was
held last weekend in Peterborough, UK.
According to the author the only news to be reported from the event
was the demonstratin of the Touchscreen-drivers for AmigaOS 4 by
Simon Archer. About 80 users visited the Big Bash 3.
Photos:
Intuitionbase
Amiga600.net
Pegasos.org
Update:
Two more reports including photos have been published by
Sam 'Bifford the
Youngest' Byford and SEAL. (snx) (Translation: nba)
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26.Sep.2005
Amiga.org (Website)
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Chess simulation: Update of HellChess to version 1.2
HellChess is now available in its version 1.2. Beyond the chess simulation
meanwhile it offers five more games: Checkers, Othello, Chinesische Chess
(Xiangqi), Japanese Chess (Shogi) and Connect4.
In opposite to the Windows-version the Amiga-version does not require
any registration before being able to use all gamemodes. (snx) (Translation: nba)
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26.Sep.2005
OS4Depot (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Various SDL-ports (update)
Various SDL-games were ported to AmigaOS 4: Tic Tac Toe (Screenshot), the mindgames Fish Fillet (Screenshot), BlackBox (Screenshot) and AddTraction, der MagicalDrop-Klon GemDropX (Screenshot) as well as the action-games Bug Squish (Screenshot), Circus Linux (Screenshot) and Vectoroids (Screenshot).
Download:
Tic Tac Toe
Fish Fillets NG
BlackBox
AddTraction
GemDropX
Bug Squish
Circus Linux
Vectoroids
Update: (11:55, 26.09.05, snx)
Meanwhile the shooter Rise of the Triad (Screenshot, Download) and the Tetris-clone BlobTrix (Download) were added as well. (snx) (Translation: nba)
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25.Sep.2005
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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Team AROS: Bounty #36 for SFS implementation promised
Within the context of the Team AROS bounty program, a prize for the implementation of the file system SFS under AROS was now promised. The donation status amounts to 59 US dollars at present. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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24.Sep.2005
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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BrowserWelten: Interview with Martin Wolf (Tales of Tamar)
Under the title link, you can find an interview mit Martin Wolf which was conducted by the games portal BrowserWelten. Therein, the project leader of Tales of Tamar speaks of the development and the future of his game, as well as his impressions from the Games Convention, among other things. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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24.Sep.2005
Team AROS (E-Mail)
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Team AROS: UAE bounty open again / FAT32 bounty cancelled
As Team AROS informs, Adam Chodorowski had to discontinue the work on two of the three bounty projects that were lastly tackled by him, because of personal reasons.
While Bounty 7 (Donation status: 231 US dollars), the integration of the Amiga emulator UAE, is consequently free for other interested developers again now, Bounty 12, the implementation of the FAT32 file system, was completely discontinued. Then again, Adam Chodorowski wants to continue the work on Bounty 6, the AROS installer. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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24.Sep.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Troika and Guru Meditation disclose cooperation (Update)
On the occasion of the British event Big Bash 3, the Swedish dealer Guru Meditation and the young hardware smiths Troika disclosed their cooperation in the development of the mini-ITX PowerPC board "Amy'05". The aimed production costs per board lie under 400 British pounds (around 590 Euros).
Meanwhile, Troika presents itself on the web with a new homepage, which, apart from remarks about the previous history of the project "Prometheus," which is now designated as "Amy," also specifies more components of this board than those known so far. However, the prototype that was announced for the event in Peterborough is no longer completed on time.
The specifications of the planned PowerPC board:
- Processor: PPC 750Fx processor with Active (fan) cooling. Soldered directly to motherboard.
- Northbridge: Tundra Semiconductor TSI107 Northbridge device. This provides access to SDR RAM memory and the PCI bus amongst other things.
- Ethernet: RTL8110 Gb/100/10 Ethernet controller.
- USB 2.0: 5 x High Speed USB 2.0 ports: 3 rear connectors, 2 front connectors.
- ATA 100/133: Sil0680 ATA133 controller. Supports 2 channels (4 devices). Full ATA 100/133 transfer rates, DMA bus mastering and RAID (Raid is dependent on OS drivers).
- Audio: CMI8738 6-channel 5.1 surround sound with audio headers. Support for Line In, microphone (Analogue) and SPDIF (digital input).
- PCI slot: 2 x 33 Mhz, 32bit.
- SDRAM: 2 x DIMM memory slots (REG PC133 SDRAM. Max of 1GB)
Update: (08:05, 25.09.05, snx)
According to a message from the developer, differently from stated, the upper limit of 400 British pounds should not be about the production costs, but about the end user price. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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24.Sep.2005
Jörg Dittmar (ANF)
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Event: Computer- & Video-Börse on 1st + 2nd of October in Bremen
On the 1st and 2nd of October 2005, the Computer- & Video-Börse (Computer & Video Market) takes place in Bremen again, in which the computer club "User der Nordseeküste" (Users of the North Sea Coast) will also participate again. The club will be represented with an AmigaOne (Ralf Tönjes) and a Pegasos II (Jörg Dittmar) as well as Mac computers, PC and PDA.
Again this year, an emphasis of the User der Nordseeküste will be the video processing on PC and Mac. Linux and Mac OS are installed on the AmigaOne as well, in addition to AmigaOS 4.
Apart from the activities of the club, there is also the possibility to purchase new as well as used hardware and software on the spot. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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23.Sep.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Commodore-Show in Belgium, 30.10. 2005
All Commodore- and Amiga-fans are very welcome again to the "C= Show" which will take
place on 30th October in Belgian Affligem. The entrance is free. For further
information please have a look at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Sep.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Status-update of KHTML port
Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski works on a port of the KHTML-Engine for MorphOS, called
GTK+ WebCore. On the official homepage of the project further screenshots have been
published which are supposed to show the progress compared with the last message.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Sep.2005
AmiZilla-ML
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Status of GTK-MUI-Wrapper: 192 functions implemented - 28 still missing
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner has already implemented 192 functions to the GTK-MUI-Wrapper
which is a Bounty-project.
49 of them belong to the 77 functions which get a bounty. Currently the bounty is
240 US-Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Sep.2005
der_willy (ANF)
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MorphOS: Several SDL ports
Trailblazer is a remake of the known C64 classic (screenshot),
attd is a mindgame which is based on mathematics, Mindless is a Mastermind clone and
yeOldePong is a "Pong clone which is still worse than the original" (described in this way
by the programmer).
Trailblazer: Download site
attd: Download site
Mindless: Download site
yeOldePong: Download site
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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