30.Aug.2005
Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen
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MorphOS: Quake III released
Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen has ported Quake III: Arena to MorphOS.
Requirements:
- 256 MB RAM
- TinyGL version 50.9
- Supported 3D hardware
- 500 MB free harddisk space
- Internet connection to download the "Q3A 1.32" update
Archive and source code can be downloaded at the title link.
Quake III: Arena for MorphOS, already previously finished, has been released today due to the donation of a pizza by Sunbeam Business Solutions. The author, Mark Olsen, would be glad to receive further pizza donations.
So in case you like the port and want to donate a pizza, you can contact the author on the IRC channel #morphos at the Freenode network to get the details for the pizza delivery. (cr) (Translation: snx)
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30.Aug.2005
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Descent II and APool-GL ported
Ilkka Lehtoranta has ported the games Descent II (screenshot) and APool-GL (screenshot) to MorphOS.
Descent II defaults to 1024x768 fullscreen and it seems some systems may have problem with that. If you get black screen in the game press F2 and select smaller screen or remove -fullscreen option from the startup script.
According to the author, the Billiard game APool-GL is a bit slow but playable.
Download:
DescentII.lha (6,5 MB)
APool-GL.lha (2,2 MB) (snx)
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30.Aug.2005
MorphOS Development Team
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MorphOS: SDK for TinyGL released (Update)
Registered developers can download the Software Development Kit (SDK) for TinyGL at the title link. The archive contains the documents and all needed includes and linker libraries for creating MorphOS-native 3D software.
Update: (09:36, 31.08.05, snx)
Among other stuff, the following functions have been implemented:
- All basic stuff like blending, scissoring, alphatesting, culling, depthfunction, polygon offset, texture objects, texture env and param, etc.
- Color and depth masking
- Stencil (Radeons)
- Evaluators (glEvalXXX functions)
- Variable sized points/lines; smooth points
- Texture coords generation (also NV extension for cubemaps)
- Reading and writing (including setup via pixeltransfer) to/from framebuffer (also writing of bitmaps)
- User clipping planes
- Attribute stack (also for client attributes)
- Selection buffer
- Lighting
- Vertex arrays
- Multitexturing (with vertex arrays too)
- Model/projection/texture matrix handling
- Palette textures (also shared palette on hardware which has real palette textures)
- Mipmapped textures
- Cubemaps
- Display lists
- Some builtin GLU functions; rest in linker library
- Builtin simple GLUT implementation; additional functions in linker library
(cr) (Translation: snx)
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30.Aug.2005
Antibike (ANF)
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ValiantVision: New Yahoo-Group
Krzysztof Kurzawski has introduced an official Yahoo-Group for the
AmithlonTV-successor "ValiantVision" by
Guido Mersmann (amiga-news.de
reported). You can subscribe to this mailinglist by sending an empty
e-mail to valiantvision-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. As this is a moderated Yahoo-Group, the clearing can take a while. The old
AmithlonTV-mailinglist will soon be closed. (snx) (Translation: nba)
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30.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS4: Atari-Emulator Hatari ported
Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov has ported V0.7.1 of the SDL-based Atari ST-Emulator Hatari to AmigaOS 4 (Screenshot).
Download: hatari.lha (2 MB) (snx)
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30.Aug.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Demoversion of Jump'n'Run-Game "Mr. Beanbag"
Jigsaw Lounge has released a demo version of the processing Jump'n'Run "Mr. Beanbag", which is limited to one level (Screenshot). The game requires the AGA-chipset.
The demo is provided in two ways: a ZIPed ADF-File for emulators and a LHA-Archive for harddisk-installation.
Download:
beandemo.lha (159 KB)
beandemo.zip (170 KB) (snx) (Translation: is)
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30.Aug.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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Commodore Gebruikersgroep: Coverscans of various Commodore- und Amiga-Magazines
Under the titlelink the dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep (CGG) has provided hundreds of coverscans of 34 different Commodore- and Amiga-Magazines from the Netherlands, Germany, and England. (snx) (Translation: is)
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30.Aug.2005
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Software-updates at amiga.sourceforge.net: LAME, faac/faad, ffmpeg
LAME 3.96.1
Uwe Ryssel has recompiled version 3.96.1 of LAME for WarpOS with GCC instead of StormC, whichs leds into a 3 times faster program. LAME is for creating files in MP3 format.
Download: lamewos-3.96.1-ur.lha (235 KB)
faac 1.2.4 / faad 2.0
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer has created recompilations of faac 1.2.4 and faad, whichs don't depend on ixemul anymore. This programs are for decoding resp. encoding the Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG2-AAC, MPEG4-AAC).
Download:
faac1.2.4_68k.lha (366 KB)
faad2_68k.lha (155 KB)
ffmpeg / ffstuff
By Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer as well is a recompilation of ffmpeg 0.4.9 for WarpOS, which fixes memory-problems and includes some improvments. ffmpeg is a console-based video/audio-converter.
Additionally he has provided an archiv called ffstuff, which contains ffplay for AmigaOS and WarpOS, compiled with usage of SDL library.
Download:
ffmpeg_wos-0.4.9.lha (1,5 MB)
ffstuff.lzx (4 MB) (snx) (Translation: is)
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29.Aug.2005
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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The AROS Archives: File Area for AROS opened
"The AROS Archives" is up and ready to accept your files. This web site will be the main repository for all AROS software, but we need your help. Software needs to be uploaded to the site. Developers are definitely encouraged to upload their own software.
The site has went through some changes. We started out with a Microsoft ASP coded site, but with help from Björn Hagström, we were able to have the site coded in PHP, which makes it much easier to maintain.
Damir Sijakovic did a great job on the design for The AROS Archives.
This web site is supported by AROS-Exec.org and is located at archives.aros-exec.org.
I want to thank the following people for their help with the project:
Björn Hagström (OS4Depot.net)
Damir Sijakovic (d980)
Ola '4pLaY' Jensen (AROS-Exec.org)
Nicolas 'nicomen' Mendoza (AROS-Exec.org)
If you have any questions, please post in the forum of AROS-Exec.org, ask in the #aros IRC channel at the Freenode network or send an e-mail to archives@aros-exec.org.
Thanks and enjoy!
Paul J. Beel (snx)
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29.Aug.2005
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Aminet-Uploads til 29.08.2005
Aminet-uploads since our last message
DirectoryFiletype.lha biz/dopus 2K OS3 Magellan II's expanded directory filetyp
dopusrxtrash.lha biz/dopus 29K all Global trashcan for DOpus Magellan II
ExecuteInShell.lha biz/dopus 19K all ExecuteInShell script for Dopus Magellan
amisynergyc.lha comm/misc 103K OS4 An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
wave_traveler-mos.lha demo/intro 40K MOS "Wave traveler" 4kb intro (with sources)
up-lp001.lha demo/sound 742K OS3 UP ROUGH "HITS FOR KIDS LP" feat. GOTO80
up-lp002.lha demo/sound 581K OS3 UP ROUGH "More Hits for Kids LP" feat. S
up-lp03a.lha demo/sound 556K OS3 UP ROUGH "Oh No! More Hits For Kids LP -
up-lp03b.lha demo/sound 557K OS3 UP ROUGH "Oh No! More Hits For Kids LP -
ecx_upd.lha dev/e 120K VAR E Compiler ECX. Update to 1.4.5
alspro.lha dev/src 151K all ALS: Unprofessionally Unfinished [AMOS]
AmigaFuture56.lha docs/mags 865K all Great german paper mag preview
lupengo-mos.lha game/actio 318K MOS Pengo Clone with wolves (SDL Morphos ver
Saga.lha game/board 351K OS3 Saga 1.53: Conversion of TSR boardgame
3dto3d-os4.lha gfx/conv 285K OS4 Convert between different 3d formats
openpci.lha hard/drivr 6K OS4 OpenPCI compatibility layer for OS4
smartmontools.lha hard/misc 756K OS4 Harddisk health analysis tool : smartmon
ngdis-mos.lha misc/emu 47K MOS Disassembler for TLCS900H and NeoGeo Poc
UAE-828-AOS68k.lha misc/emu 824K OS3 E-UAE_0.8.28-RC2 for Amiga 68k OS
daz-chaz.lha misc/misc 46K OS3 The Daz Doorstep Challenge Trilogy, but
weird.lha misc/misc 444K OS3 Pointless yet weird old tat
playOGG.lha mus/play 983K OS3 Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
t1utils-mos.lha text/dtp 420K MOS Type-1 font manipulation utils
poolman.lha util/boot 43K OS3 Easy launcher application. V0.5
DM_con_LL.lha util/dir 8K all My DiskMaster2 configuration and associa
confgui_ra68k.lha util/misc 44K OS3 GUI builder for configuration files
confgui_src.lha util/misc 32K all GUI builder for configuration files
elmeter.lha util/misc 66K OS4 Electricity and water consumption monitor
devlist.lha util/shell 4K OS4 Device lister with opencnt and versions
liblist.lha util/shell 4K OS4 Library lister with opencnt and versions
reslist.lha util/shell 4K OS4 Lists all resources with address informa
tasklist.lha util/shell 5K OS4 Task lister with pri, stack and versions
os4reboot.lha util/wb 36K OS4 Reboot utility for OS4
wet.lha util/wb 651K OS4 Show weather conditions on Workbench (OS
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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29.Aug.2005
Robert (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: OpenPCI-Wrapper published
With Stéphane Guillards port of openpci.library for AmigaOS 4 are more drivers (like RTL8139 10/100) and programs (like AmithlonTV)) for the PPC-operatingsystem avalaible now.
Up to now there is only the openpci.library as native binary available. But the porting of the other parts of OpenPCI is pending by the actual author of the part. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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29.Aug.2005
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 29.08.2005
os4depot.net uploads since our last messages:
openpci.zip dri/mis 6kb OpenPCI compatibility layer for OS4
amisynergyc.lha net/mis 103kb An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
smartmontools.lha uti/har 756kb Harddisk health analysis tool : smartmontools
wookiechat.lha net/cha 398kb IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
devlist.lha uti/she 4kb Device lister with opencnt and versions
liblist.lha uti/she 4kb Library lister with opencnt and versions
reslist.lha uti/she 4kb Lists all resources with address information
tasklist.lha uti/she 5kb Task lister with pri, stack and versions
wet.lha uti/wor 651kb Show weather conditions on Workbench (OS4)
colem_os4.lha emu/gam 131kb Colem ColecoVision Emulator
fdtrans-idltool-68k.lha dev/cro 428kb fdtrans, idltool devtools for 68k based systems
blacktan.lha gra/the 464kb Black&Tan Themes
os4reboot.lha uti/wor 36kb Reboot utility for OS4
rockbeat.lha aud/tra 2Mb Simple software drum machine
elmeter.lha uti/mis 66kb Electricity and water consumption monitor
cmi8738.lha dri/aud 10kb CMI8738 AHI driver
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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29.Aug.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Version 1.2 of PC Engine-Emulators Hu-Go! published
"Hu-Go!" emulateds the videogame TurboGrafX-16, also now as PC Engine (Screenshot).
Modification included in Version 1.2:
- Added video overlay support and window play support
- Fixed pce resolution changes and screen offsets
- Added PSG and MP3 volume settings
- Added Savestate function
- Added quick rom selection lister
- Added a few more premade HCD files (thanks to Oliver Hummel)
Download: hugo.lha (456 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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29.Aug.2005
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amiga-news: newsreport again available as october
The weekly newsreport, every monday, published by amiga-news about all themes
around the computermarket breaks because holidays and will be restarted at october.
The next weekly newsreport will be published at 3.October 2005. (nba) (Translation: aj)
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29.Aug.2005
Martin Henke (ANF)
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Windows: "Neues"-Starter Version 1.2
Für Fans der Fernseh-Computer-Sendung "Neues" hat Martin Henke ein komfortables Tool zum Starten der Realplayer-Streams der verschiedenen Sendungen erstellt. Beim "Neues"-Starter gibt es mit der Version 1.2 folgende Neuerungen:
- Bei Updates wird jetzt ein separates Fenster geöffnet, dass die Versionsübersicht (History) anzeigt. So kann der Benutzer entscheiden, ob er das Update herunterladen will oder nicht.
- Im Hauptfenster gibt es jetzt den Unterpunkt "Versionsübersicht" im "Hilfe"-Menü, über den Informationen über die aktuell installierte und die vorherigen Version (History) angezeigt wird.
- Bugfix: Bei Benutzeraccounts ohne Admininistratorrechte (Windows 2000/XP) stürzt das Programm jetzt nicht mehr beim Programmstart aufgrund fehlenden Schreibzugriffs ab.
- Bugfix: Kompatibilitätsproblem mit Windowx XP behoben (Start des Setup-Programms beim Aktualisieren)
- Über die INI-Datei "StartNeues.ini" (wird beim 1. Programmstart mit Schreibrechten erstellt) im Programmverzeichnis können das automatische Überprüfen auf Aktualisierungen und das Laden der Versionsübersicht (verwendet InternetExplorer-Control) ausgeschaltet werden. Manuelle Aktualisierungen über das Menü "Datei" sind dabei nach wie vor möglich.
Download: StartNeues.zip (ps)
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29.Aug.2005
Amiga Future (Webside)
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AmigaOS4: IRC-Client WookieChat 1.8 published
James Carrol published a new verion of his MUI-based IRC-Clients WookieChat. Since version 1.6 the program is only available for AmigaOS4. This update is only a minorupdate.
Download: WookieChat1_8.lha (397 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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29.Aug.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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Database: Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia updated
The Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia by Volker 'Dr. Zarkov' Mohr has been updated to version 14.0. 100 games have been added, the information of 31 further ones updated.
The online-database started as an AmigaGuide document with the goal to list all Amiga Games that were compatible with AGA and 68020+ Amigas.
Because many games didn't work on upgraded machines, Volker Mohr started testing them with all kind of degrading tools and added this information to the database. Today, besides the compatibility, you can also find information about the publishers, cheats, docs, walkthroughs and screenshots. (snx)
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29.Aug.2005
AROS-Exec (forum)
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Feelin: AROS port of the object-oriented system
Georg Steger has ported Feelin, Olivier Laviale's object-oriented system for AmigaOS, to AROS/x86 (screenshot).
Download: Feelin050822AROS_050828.tar.bz2 (1,6 MB) (snx)
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29.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Weather software Wet 4.0 released
Chris Young has released an update of his weather software Wet to version 4.0. The weather is displayed in the Workbench titlebar, as an icon or using a Reaction-based GUI.
New in version 4.0 is especially the support for displaying forecasted weather up to 24 hours in advance (where available). Further changes can be found in the corresponding readme file.
Download: wet.lha (651 KB) (snx)
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29.Aug.2005
Moo Bunny (website)
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Guide: How to connect an Amiga to an arcade cabinet
At the title link you can find a guide how to connect an Amiga to an arcade cabinet conforming to the JAMMA standard (Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers' Association). Furthermore an Amiga menu called ArcadeGameSelector is provided, which allows the selection of games by using the joystick. (snx)
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28.Aug.2005
PPC-Zone (forum)
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Linux: OpenSuSE 10.0 for PowerPC / Short guide for installation on Pegasos
Due to the large number of requests, again a PowerPC version of the Linux distribution OpenSuSE has been released in version 10.0 beta 3 ("Bangalore") at the title link.
At PPCZone Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has published a short guide for installing OpenSuSE on the Pegasos. All you need is a Pegasos-compatible kernel, no further modifications are required.
How to install OpenSuSE on Pegasos computers:
- Boot the first SuSE-CD with the following parameters: boot cd suseboot/inst32 minmemory=0 MemYastText=0 sysrq=1
- You will be guided through the installation process
- When installation of the first CD is finished, the computer will reboot
- Now copy the kernel-modules of a Pegasos-compatible kernel to /lib/modules/"kernelversion" of your new system
- Copy a Pegasos-compatible kernel to your boot-hd (if it isn't already there; if you choose a special filesystem like reiserfs, make sure it is compiled into your kernel)
- In the Open Firmware, a usual linux-boot parameter-path is everything you will need: boot "SuseKernel" root=/dev/your-chosen-hd (plus additional parameters you want to use, like video=xxx)
- SuSE should boot now with your kernel and finish installation
(snx)
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27.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: AmiPodder updated to version 1.2
Robert Williams's freeware program AmiPodder, for now the only Amiga receiver for so called podcasts, was updated to version 1.2. The ARexx program needs further software listed on the installation site.
The update contains an improved feedcheck for new podcasts making this routine more efficient and therefore faster.
Besides does the author introduce some podcasts in the links area of his website.
Download: AmiPodder.lha (344 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Colecovision emulator Colem 1.0
Based on the Amiga port done by Paul Hill Bob Wicksall ported the Colecovision emulator Colem by Marat Fayzullin to AmigaOS4 (screenshot).
The Colecovision is a video games console that appeared in 1982. There's no sound support yet.
Download: colem_os4.lha (131 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Aug.2005
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MorphOS: libnix updated
There's a new libnix available for MorphOS in the download area of the MorphOS Developer Connection. It is recommended that all registered developers updated an installed MorphOS SDK with this new version.
Among other things were the following changed or are new:
- added lfind/lsearch.
- fixed access(), which didn't work properly at all.
- optimized fseek(), should be much faster with in-buffer seeks now.
- fixed scanf() (and all related functions (including strtod)) parsing of sequence of floats.
- qsort() no longer compares the same elements against eachother (pointless, and broke some compare routines).
- support printf/scanf (and related functions) %hh formatting.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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27.Aug.2005
Oliver Hummel (forum)
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MorphOS: ressources-friendly MUI settings (2nd Update)
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel made ressources friendly MUI settings available for users of the PowerUp version of MorphOS. In addition, he recommends the use of the skin "Rainy Blue" that is available on the CD. The effect is clearly visible. Further help can be found in our forum.
Download: Muilight.prefs (15 KB)
Update: (22:15, 28.08.05, snx)
Since the main reason for the performance gain seems to be to avoid the use of gradients, Oliver Hummel has released new MUI settings at MorphZone. Because of a minor mistake in the original settings for Oliver's Cyberstorm skin it is recommended for its users to download these new settings, too.
Alternatively, our reader Jean Holzammer suggests to avoid using skins at all and force the original look of Intuition instead. To do so, you have to rename (or delete) the skins directory in both SYS:Prefs and MOSSYS:Prefs.
Update 2: (22:38, 28.08.05, snx)
Another hint has been posted by 'rzookol' - according to him, the missing font vera.ttf in the mossys:fonts/_ttf directory is also a reason for a lower performance of the PowerUp version. As a solution, you can rename a copy of the font verase.ttf: "copy sys:morphos/fonts/_ttf/verase.ttf sys:morphos/fonts/_ttf/vera.ttf". Pegasos owners can copy the missing font from their corresponding MorphOS installation. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Aug.2005
MorphOS-Team (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Enter the Third Dimension!
After two years of active development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the free MorphOS 3D Update pack. This pack brings Warp3D and OpenGL® API compatibility to a whole new range of hardware including 3dfx Voodoo and ATI Radeon.
TinyGL library is heavily optimized and special care has been taken to
improve the OpenGL® compliance. It now offers an extended set of advanced
features including cubic mapping, display lists, stencil buffering,
multitexturing, mipmapping, palette texture handling, non-blocking rendering (no context locking is required), compiled vertex arrays, user clipping planes, selection buffer, evaluators, a GLUT implementation and much more.
Warp3D libraries have been improved and offer more compatibility than any
known implementation on the market.
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II, Pegasos I and PowerUp machines:
- 3Dfx Avenger (Voodoo 3)
- 3Dfx Napalm (Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5)
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II and Pegasos I machines:
- ATI rv100 (Radeon 7000 and Radeon VE)
- ATI r100 (Radeon 7200)
- ATI rv200 (Radeon 7500)
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II machines:
- ATI r200 (Radeon 8500 and Radeon 9100)
- ATI rv250 (Radeon 9000)
- ATI rv280 (Radeon 9200 and Radeon 9250)
The MorphOS 3D Update pack requires MorphOS 1.4.5 and is freely available on our FTP site and download portal. Please visit 3d.morphos-team.net (title link) for additional information.
We hope you will enjoy using this pack as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Keep your graphics processor busy!
Best regards,
Frank, Mark, Michal and Nicolas (snx)
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26.Aug.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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PSP-UAE: Update to version 0.31-kbd0.1
Christophe Thibaults port of the Amiga emulator UAE to the handheld game console
PSP ("PlayStation Portable") from Sony has been updated to version 0.31-kbd0.1. The
keyboard support has been added but which is still in the beginning phase. Pushing more than
one key at the same time is still not possible.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Aug.2005
Ironfist (ANF)
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Linux: Update of the Pegasos Rescue CD Mupper to version 0.3
Mikael 'Lisardman' Karlsson is working on a Rescue CD project for the Pegasos. Today he released version 0.3 at the title link. The Gentoo-based Live-CD contains various tools for recovery and testing.
The update provides more docs, support for Voodoo 3/4/5 and loadable modules (e.g. for filesystems). The features of Mupper:
Communication
lftp: FTP client
minicom: serial console (TTY) client
irssi: IRC client - if you need support
Hardware Diagnostics
fsck: Scan for corrupted blocks and files
memtester: A tool to test if your memory sticks are faulty
Partitioning
Parted: Partition editor
RAID-Tools: Create RAID arrays before OS install
Security
chkrootkit: Root exploit scanner
clamav: Open Source Anti virus for Linux and Windows viruses
nmap: Check for open server ports - test your firewall
rkhunter: Root exploit scanner
Supported Filesystems
AFFS
DOS
Ext2
Ext3
ISO9660 incl. Joilet
JFS
MSDOS FAT
NTFS
ReiserFS
SquashFS
UFS
VFAT
XFS (snx)
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26.Aug.2005
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AROS: Status update / Interview with Adam Chodorowski
Paul J. Beel interviewed AROS developer Adam Chodorowski. Thanks to him AROS has been made bootable from CDROM and got Intuition backported from MorphOS, for example. He also ported Python, Lua, VIM and some GNU tools.
Furthermore, Paolo Besser has posted another status update at the title link. Among other stuff, AROS has got a new timer.device offering the UNIT_MICROHZ feature and the linux hosted version of AROS can run in fullscreen mode now. (snx)
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26.Aug.2005
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin (ANF)
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MorphOS: Update of the picture viewer SimpleView to version 1.1b
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has released version 1.1b of his MorphOS picture viewer SimpleView at the title link. The update does now also fit some little pictures exactly into the window. SimpleView is completely written in PowerPC machine code. (snx)
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25.Aug.2005
Guido Mersmann (Forum)
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ValiantVision: AmithlonTV-Rework in progress
Guido Mersmann is currently working on a translation and extension of the tv card driver software AmithlonTV - meanwhile the project has the new name ValiantVision.
Among other things the support for dvb cards is planned. A detailed project description can be found under the titel link.
(snx) (Translation: ts)
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25.Aug.2005
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: New Skin "Cyberstorm"
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel has completed another skin for MorphOS and named it "Cyberstorm" as a tribute to the PowerUp release of MorphOS 1.4.5 (Screenshot). (snx)
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24.Aug.2005
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: KHTML engine port in the works
Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski is porting the KHTML engine library to MorphOS - GTK+ Webcore, to be more precisely. At the title link you can find several screenshots and a movie of the current state of development. (snx)
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24.Aug.2005
Microsoft (E-mail)
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10 years Windows 95
On August the 24th, 1995 Windows 95 replaced MS-DOS with a simple to use graphical user interface and a fast system kernel. Contemporaneous Office 95 had been released and the Microsoft Network service (MSN) has been lauched.
Windows 95 was based on 32 bit technolgy and replaced the
MS-DOS extension Windows 3.x. Thus, the PC evolved to an universal work tool and conquered the digital household. This version became the most successfull software of its time for business and private customers. The new features included the start button with its embedded menu, long file names and
internet connectivity usind TCP/IP of the integrated MSN client. Thus, Windows 95 was anticipating many imortant developments. A similar big step for the IT will be the coming release of Windows Vista.
Today Windows, as a former concurrent system to the Amiga, plays an important role for the Amiga scene providing a base for the Amiga emulator WinUAE. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Aug.2005
MorphOS Development Team
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MorphOS 1.4.5 Free Edition for PowerUP Amigas
Five Year Anniversary - MorphOS 1.4.5 Free Edition for PowerUP Available
24th August, 2005 - The MorphOS development team would like to celebrate
the five year anniversary of the first ever publically available MorphOS
release by announcing the immediate availability of MorphOS 1.4.5 Free Edition for PowerUP accelerators by phase5 & DCE.
By releasing the latest end user version of MorphOS for PowerPC-equipped
Commodore A1200, A3000 and A4000 computers, the OS is brought back to
its origins. Prior to creating versions for the bPlan PEGASOS and
various embedded hardware platforms, development started out on the
forementioned computers by Commodore Business Machines and resulted in
a first beta version to be released in August 2000.
For information about supported hardware configurations, installation
instructions and the actual download location, please visit
http://powerup.morphos-team.net
Please note that the MorphOS Development Team is unable to provide
direct end user support for this specific version of MorphOS. If you
encounter any problems, please use the PowerUP forum on MorphZone to
ask for help and support.
http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewforum.php?forum=42
We sincerely hope you enjoy the Free Edition of MorphOS 1.4.5 and
would like to welcome you soon as regulars on a MorphOS community website.
Thank you for your interest,
The MorphOS Development Team (cr)
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24.Aug.2005
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AmigaRemix: Four new songs added
Amigaremix.com provides Amiga game soundtrack remix mp3 files for download. Four new tunes were added now, a summary of available titles is avaialble at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2005, 21:38] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2005
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AmigaOS 4: Drum-Computer RockBEAT 1.1
RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine (Screenshot) for AmigaOS 4. It
is a tool for musicians that allows you to create drumming tracks. It can
create multiple tracks, each one being 4x 4/4 measures with 16th notes.
You can save individual tracks as wav files, or the whole thing as one big
song. You can drop in your own 16bit 44100Hz PCM WAV samples in the
drumsamples/ folder if you like. The new version 1.1 is out now
including several fixes.
Changes in detail:
- No more grim reaper alerts when starting then stopping playback
quickly I removed an AbortIO() call that wasnt really needed.
- Theres no more excess silence at the end of wav files for individually
saved tracks.
- Button graphics are freed up when quitting now.
- All message ports are emptied and deleted when quitting. No more
"unfreed signals" error messages now, and I think it has brought up
stability a little.
- Drum samples limit changed to 20. It used to crash after more than 10
samples were loaded due to a silly programming error. i.e. looping up to
20 times when there were only 10 available spaces in the array.
- Adding new samples to the drumsamples/ folder will no longer make old
projects invalid.
- Better compatibility with some WAVs. RockBEAT used to assume a certain
WAV header value was a always certain size, but I've found out it can be
different.
- I have included a cool cymbal sample to the default drumsamples/set.
The demo is restricted to 10 minutes. If you like it, you can purchase
a keyfile from the author for $15 USD. (nba)
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24.Aug.2005
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Feelin: MorphOS version available
Olivier Laviales open source projekt Feelin, an object based system for AmigaOS, has been ported by Guillaume Roguez to MorphOS (screen shot).
Download: Feelin050823_mos.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS4: Betaversion of a Synergy client
Douglas McLaughlin has released an early beta version of his Synergy clients for AmigaOS4. With Synergy one keyboard and mouse may be used for several computers within one network. Please note the readme file regarding the current limitations.
Download: AmiSynergyc.lha (97 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Aug.2005
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Retro gaming: Test reports from older Amiga magazines at "Amiga Reviews"
"Amiga Reviews" provides hundereds of test reports from German (AmigaJoker) and British (CU Amiga, Amiga Power, Zzap) Amiga magazines. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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24.Aug.2005
Holger Krefting (ANF)
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PBEM game: Tamar needs new land! (VI)
The Massive Multiplayer PBEM game 'Tales of Tamar' will be extended by another area of land. The following announcement is taken from the game's forum:
For the sixth time, we start our event 'Tamar needs new land!'. - Once again, all of Tamar has been settled, and new land has to be found for new realms.
Don't miss that opportunity! It will take place on September 1st, only 10 days from now. Start with other players under equal conditions, and show that your a contender for the rank of emperor!
Explore regions of Tamar that no man has set foot on before. Meet unique challanges like dragons, undead and other creatures, and prove yourself in the contest with other human players.
Hint 1:
Our price of 500 Euro for the first emperor among the realms created after January 1st 2005 has still not been claimed. (You'll find the detailed rules in the ToT forum).
Hint 2:
If you enter the keyword "Shareware" in the field for the serial number while registering, you can start playing for free. A turn fee will only apply once you got deeper into the game. Also please add the remark that you want to start on September 1st.
Hint 3:
Since the clients for Mac OS and Linux are also playable on the same world, we need some beta testers for these systems.
Wishing you a lot of fun,
with best regards,
Your ToT-Team & Wolfen (snx)
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