23.Jul.2006
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Happy Birthday: Amiga is of age!
21 years ago, the Amiga was born. On July 23, 1985, the multimedia star of the 80's celebrated its premiere in a large celebration in New York Lincoln Center under the presence of personages like Andy Warhol and Debby Harry. So, the Amiga is of full age in the law understanding of its US of American home as well and is allowed to treat itself to its first legal beer. Cheers! (nba) (Translation: cad)
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23.Jul.2006
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Website on the operation of E-UAE under Mac OS X
Under the title link, you can find a website that would like to assist in the operation of the Amiga emulator E-UAE under Mac OS X. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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23.Jul.2006
ANN (Web page)
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MorphOS: Calendar program April 1.3
With version 1.3, April, a calendar program for MorphOS (screenshots), now supports different languages as well.
Additionally, an error was corrected, which led to a crash when a color picker button was clicked twice in succession. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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23.Jul.2006
Martin Henke (ANF)
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Windows: Update to the starter software for the broadcast "Neues"
The starter software for the Real stream of the 3sat broadcast "Neues" has experienced the following improvements with the update to version 1.3:
- Changed INI format: Updates are now managed separately for broadcast files and program updates
- Settings menu for INI file
- Message window in updates
- Server.txt
Download: StartNeues.zip (2.3 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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22.Jul.2006
(ANF)
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DTP: Pagestream status update
In an email newsletter explains Dan Kilroy from Grasshopper LLC the current status of the DTP application Pagestream:
Haage&Partner are no longer the German distributor for Pagestream. As new partners are the Alinea Gmbh mentioned and another company that is still to be announced. Unfortunately they have no access to the data of users who are registrated at Haage&Partner, these users are called to contact one of the current Pagestream distributors for support and anew registration. They hope to get soon access to the domain pagestream.de registrated by H&P, too.
The online documentation is being reworked step by step, the latest changes can be accessed under Documentation->Recent. Until now the chapters "Getting started", "Lessons" and "Document chapters" are revised, the chapter "Text" is being worked on. The general overhaul of the documentation is about 40% completed.
The online documentation now shows screenshots of the user's preferred operating system. For this you have to set the OS under "My Profile". People who want to contribute screenshots can do so by clicking on any screenshot. On the following page there's the possibility for registered users to upload further versions of this screenshot.
The current beta version of Pagestream will be replaced next week by version 5.0.3.4. Users registered at pagestream.org will be notified automatically via email. New among other things are new keyboard shortcuts, numerous bugfixes, the possibility to edit the changelog of a Pagestream document, some new scripting instructions and some smaller changes within the GUI.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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22.Jul.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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Nintendo emulator: A/NES: 1.02beta2 (AGA)
There's another update fof the AGA version of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulators A/NES available. Some bugs and problems were removed in this version, so do games with CHR-RAM now work and the cpu timing was improved.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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22.Jul.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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AmigaOS 4: source code of the Mplayer port online
The source code of the AmigaOS 4 port of Mplayer is available under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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22.Jul.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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Vesalia: summer break
Press release
We are taking a break from July 24 to August 4. During this period of time, we won't be able to respond to enquiries. Orders will be processed, but it can take some time until you receive your order confirmation (we won't check daily). Thanks in advance for your patience.
(cg)
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21.Jul.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Lemon Amiga: Interview with Martyn Brown
Under the title link you can find an English interview with Martyn Brown carried on by Ali Pouladi from Lemon Amiga.
He is a one of the persons who established the software creators Team 17 ("Worms") and there is the Studio Director.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Jul.2006
(ANF)
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IBM supports software development for the Power-platform
IBM's PowerNet-initiative should support independent software companies with the development of applications for the ppc-based operating systems AIX and Linux. It is their aim to improve the software range for PowerPC-based computers.
(cg) (Translation: tz)
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20.Jul.2006
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Musik: Liquid Skies records #094
The scene group Liquid Skies has released its 94th music pack yesterday. It includes a track of the Russian musician Alex West, whose style is related to experimental Drum'n'Base. The appropriate cover was designed by DaFreak.
- Title: The Drum Noise
- Artist: Alex West
- Style: D'n'B
- Length: 6:13
- Format: MP3, 160 kbps
- Size: 7,2 MB
The zip file is available for downloaded under the title link. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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20.Jul.2006
pegasos.org (website)
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MorphOS: Raytracer Yafray
Guillaume Roguez has ported the raytracer Yafray to MorphOS. It is planned to integrate it into the 3D-package Blender (MorphOS-Port from the same author), but currently Yafray can only be run standalone. So far the raytracer is only available as a MorphUp-index (package management for MorphOS).
Link: MorphUp-Index (cg) (Translation: tz)
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20.Jul.2006
pegasos.org (website)
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MorphOS: MPlayer and Mencoder 1.0 pre 8
Newer versions of the movie player MPlayer as well as the encoder Mencoder are available under the title link. For the first time Mplayer 1.0 Pre 8 supports movies in the WMV3-format.
Hint: The archive mplayer1.0pre8-test.lha includes Mplayer AND Mencoder. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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18.Jul.2006
Pegasosforum (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Natives trackdisk.device for the Pegasos
When clicking at the link above you will find the first version of a disc drive driver for the Pegasos under MorphOS, published by Pavel Fedin with the trackdisk.device 41.1. (snx) (Translation: iw)
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18.Jul.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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MUI clone: Zune for AFA OS 68k 0.97 beta 1
Bernd Roesch has released an update of his AmigaOS 3-port of the MUI clone Zune. Screenshots of YAM and Simple Mail running on Zune are available at the author's website. Zune requires AFA OS (AROS for Amiga OS), changes since the previous version:
- At the startup of a Zune programme it will check if the stack is large enough (min. 30000 bytes). This way, crashes due to insufficient stack size can be avoided.
- Every Zune programme may now access the prefs programme through the MUI menu, so locale preferences (screenmode, skin, etc.) are possible.
- Zune_prefs was renamed Zune, because it is called that in AROS, too.
- Lamp.mcc is now being modified by the Zune-Installer for Zune.
- newstring.mcc from Aminet is now part of the Zune archive.
- Bugfix: dtpic class (Homebank will start up now)
- In YAM/SimpleMail now active String Gadgets at "window open" will be shown active correctly
- Mui Keys (cursor keys etc.) work now
- Nlist class now supports popup menues
- NListviews work with > 2000 entries (AROS-Fix by Georg Steger)
- Text display on buttons is now correct in JAM1
- Borders of Nlist classes now will be drawn
For the final implementation of all MUI features only three more things are missing now:
- Menu entries will always be displayed as available
- The window coordinates will be remembered at the next opening of the window, but they will not be saved yet.
- Keynotify does not work yet. Programmes likeYAM or SimpleMail use to, for example,. delete an email with the delete key.
The latest sources of Roesch's port are part of the AFA OS archive. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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18.Jul.2006
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amiga-news.de: comment function switched off from 18 July 2006 to 20 August 2006
As the amiga-news hosts now take their well-deserved holiday, the comment function in the news area will be deactivated from 18 July 2006 to 20 August 2006, as it has been the case in the last few years.
The news will be kept up to date, the discussion forum will be operable as well. (nba) (Translation: iw)
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18.Jul.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOne again available in smaller quantities
The French salesman Amont Informatique announces that he had received a "smaller" delivery of AmigaOne motherboards which are to be distributed to salesmen all over the world within a short time.
The delivery obviously contains an unknown amount of AmigaOne-XE motherboards and MicroA1 motherboards which are described as "reconditioned" (remark of the editorial office: reconditioned could mean "as good as new, but used" but also "renewed"). The boards are being tested at the moment, in addition a new delivery of CPU modules is expected.
Apparently G4-CPUs with 1.1 Ghz are to be applied on the above mentioned CPU modules. The producer of the modules is not known, however they are to be distributed separately as well as upgrade option for AmigaOne owners wit G3-CPU.
(cg) (Translation: iw)
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17.Jul.2006
Oliver "Bladerunner" Hummel (ANF)
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MorphOS: the lightning OS
Linked to the header is a article about MorphOS, which is writen from
Fulvio "Doctor Morbius" Peruggi and was within the framework of OS-News
Operationsystem contest authored for people which are didn't know
something about MorphOS or AmigaOS. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Jul.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.07.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
adfbar.lha biz/dopus 27K OS3 Makes Compressed ADFs (G/PKZip) with Opu
PPC_samples.lha biz/patch 369K PUP PPC samples distributed with SCPPC patch
scppc_beta22.lha biz/patch 1.8M VAR Experimental SAS/C++ PPC
transmission.lha comm/misc 70K OS4 A BITTorrent command line clone
lpd-ppc.lha comm/tcp 26K OS4 Simple line printer daemon
PvD_IBrowse.lha comm/www 1.4M GEN HQ 24bit IBrowse navigation panel
SpamReport.lha comm/yam 5K GEN Prepare spam reports to SpamCop
old-autoconf.lha dev/gg 196K OS4 package to generate configure scripts
check4gb.lha disk/misc 21K OS3 Check if your HD setup is 4GB-ready
LHA_HD_Install.lha disk/misc 115K GEN HardDisk install system for 1.x 2.x 3.x+
AMP2-MOS.lha gfx/show 543K MOS AmiDog's Movie Player 2
GNUboy-src.lha misc/emu 224K GEN Source code for GNUboy 1.03
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 100K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon Emulator
digifilter.lha misc/sci 85K MOS Digital FIR filter design software
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 264K OS3 MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
rockbeat.lha mus/edit 1.7M OS4 Create drumming tracks and export them a
ADPCM_dec.lha mus/misc 17K OS3 Decoder for Christian Buchner's ADPCM pa
playOGG.lha mus/play 1.0M OS3 Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
RemoteRecord.lha mus/play 10K GEN Arexx script remote controller for AHIRe
f-req.lha util/batch 9K OS3 A "RequestFile" like program for 1.x 2.x
GetModeID.lha util/moni 11K OS3 Gets screen mode ID in hex and decimal
UnCPS-AGA.lha util/pack 7K OS3 Tools to UNPACK/PACK/VIEW CPS/CMP files
stms.lha util/rexx 504K GEN *(.dclst).xml, manipulation scripts
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Jul.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 16.07.2006
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
old-autoconf.lha dev/mis 195kb Autoconf - package to generate configure
fp_skin.lha gra/mis 296kb Frying Pan Skin
lpd.lha net/ser 26kb Simple line printer daemon
rockbeat.lha aud/tra 1Mb Create drumming tracks and export them a
transmission.lha net/p2p 70kb Transmission - A BITTorrent command line
amigascrapbook.lha gra/vie 3Mb A virtual scrapbook with samples (Full A
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Jul.2006
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MorphOS: New Arcade- and logical games
"HAK" ported several new game for MorphOS: The aim of
Pipe Panic
is to install so fast as possible the tubes, in
Scalar
the player must complet the inital picture only by moving the picture
parts,
Bitefusion
is a Snake-game with 8 Levels and
Righteous!
is a Tetris-clon.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Jul.2006
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: SearchStar 0.71g
SearchStar 0.71g by Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin is now also able to search inside files. The CLI program is quite fast due to being written in PowerPC
machine code. In addition, there is an option for listing or copying of files by a given directory or device. Last but not least, some smaller bugs were removed and the program optimized further. (snx)
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16.Jul.2006
Gunnar Bernhardt aka. gunatm (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.3
The WinUAE team is making available version 1.3 of the well-known Amiga emulator. New or improved features:
- Input event recording and playback (WIP)
- PC floppy drive drive sound emulation :)
- Mousehack-"driver" build-in.
- PC DD and HD floppy image support.
- Added improved audio filter and interpolation code from uade
and other sound setting updates.
- Added build-in HRTMon debugger/monitor. (WIP)
- Action Replay for Amiga 1200 ROM image support.
- Arcadia emulation updates.
- Directory filesystem compatibility updates. (illegal characters in
directory names work better now, some protection flag tweaks,
more compatible disk capacity check if disk is very big,
compatibility issues with \\server\share-directories fixed)
- Debugger updates. (improved trainer search command, fa-command,
like in Action Replay, AGA color register dump etc..)
Errors that were corrected in version 1.3:
- Fix for random state restore freeze.
- AVIOutput crash, incorrect window size.
- Random Picasso96 screen mode switch crash.
- "Create hard disk imagefile"-option in harddisk settings fixed,
previously it usually created corrupt hardfiles..
- Fixed garbage lines when program mixed interlace and
non-interlace modes.
- D3D filter fullscreen freeze fixed.
- Priority-panel "pause emulation/disable sound output"-checkboxes
were not initialized correctly.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Jul.2006
morphzone.org (Web page)
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MorphOS: Amiga emulator E-UAE 0.8.29-WIP2
Marcin "Morgoth" Kurek has ported the SDL-based Amiga emulator E-UAE 0.8.29-WIP2 to MorphOS.
Download: E-UAE_0.8.29-WIP2_SDL.lha (1 MB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Jul.2006
morphzone.org (Web page)
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MorphOS: Profiler PrfLib 0.11, ResLib 0.3
Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek has released updates to two of his libraries:
PrfLib 0.11
PrfLib is a library that provides statistical details of a running program, to determine which part takes up how much processor time.
But since a GCC "trick" is being exploited for this purpose, the profiler library only works with programs that were compiled with it (tested with version 2.95.3 and 2.95.4).
Besides the elimination of some errors, new in version 0.11 are:
- Correct function names demangling for C++ programs (for both gcc 2.9x and 3.x/4.x)
- Support for function names longer than 32 characters
- Call graph support. Now libprofile can produce a nice call graph for each function call in program.
ResLib 0.3
ResLib is a library which allows the programmer to detect memory leaks, mismatched free operations (wrong size or type) and memory trashing (underflows or overflows). In version 0.3, "non empty pools" are only reported when RESF_WARNDIRTYPOOL is set. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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