19.Mar.2006
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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PowerPoint Viewer: Status update for PointRider
The author of the PowerPoint viewer PointRider reports back again after a work-related time-out. Reportedly, PointRider has reached alpha status in the meantime and has been tested with more than 100 PowerPoint files. In addition, a blog has been set up now, where the developer wants to give account of the progress of his project regularly. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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18.Mar.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller driver 0.3.3
Kjetil Hvalstrand released a kernel module for the support of the Catweasel hardware. The Catweasel is a universal floppydisk controller that works with standard PC floppy disk drives and supports many disk formats.
Hvalstrand's driver had been tested with the versions 3 and 4 of the Catweasel. Right now only the reading of disks and writing their contents into an ADF image is supported, to mount the drive under AmigaOS is not possible yet.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Mar.2006
Michael Lanser (ANF)
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Puzzle: Sudoku 1.3
Michael Lanser released version 1.3 of his Amiga version of the numbers riddle Sudoku. Required are AmigaOS 3.1 and a graphics card, the program is available in German and English.
New:
- higher difficulty level
- HTML guide with ten pages of tips to solve the riddles
- Background music a sound effects
- Problems removed when running on WinUAE
- Several smaller bug fixings
In the Japanese numbers puzzle Sudoku is a square divided into 3×3 subsquares with each of them being divided into 3×3 squares, too. Some of these 81 fields already contain a number from 1 to 9. To complete the puzzle the numbers from 1 to 9 may only appear once in each row, each column and each of the nine subsquares.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Mar.2006
Raffaele (ANF)
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Genesi: minimum order quantity for Efika boards reduced
Since recently Pegasos II boards can be ordered again in the Genesi web shop. In addition the minimum order quantity for the Efika board was lowered from 50 units to 10.
Please notice, though, that the Efika board is officiallynot supported by MorphOS. As delivery date for the new Pegasos II and Efika boards as well as for ODW complete systems April, 15th is mentioned.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Mar.2006
ANN (website)
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Nostalgia site: ExoticA with new address
ExoticA, a website with focus on the beginnings of the Amiga, moved and can now be reached under exotica.org.uk.
The nostalgia site offers among other things exotic Amiga music as well as scans of games packages and old floppy disc magazines. New server of the website is a PowerPC-Mac Mini running Debian (photo).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Mar.2006
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: Demo-party sponsoring and shipping of new products
individual Computers sponsors Breakpoint
For the tenth time in a row, a big Scene-event takes place in Germany at easter time. The well-established successor to the legendary "Mekka/Symposium" parties Breakpoint will make the small city Bingen, Germany, the destination for the whole European demoscene for the fourth time now.
Demos are non-interactive programs that show the capabilities of makers and machine with music, graphics and animation. The special thing about demos is their strict limitation for example in size, which is done in order to achieve comparability in competitions. Demo parties are non-commercial events where entrance fees and sponsor's donations are used mostly to cover prizes for these competitions.
Individual Computers is proud to support this form of art as "silver sponsor" again. An invitation to such a demoparty is of course done with a demo that's available on the party's FTP server as a free download (12MB). If the demo doesn't run on your type of computer, you can also watch the XVID AVI video. At 98MB, it's more than 8 times as big and cannot offer the same picture quality. Even if you can't come to the party, it's worth watching! For fans of the Commodore C64, there's an invitation demo that you can download here as a D64 archive.
New products shipping
The clockport-adapter for the Amiga 500 and the USB-converter for Commodore-keyboards Keyrah will start shipping to our retail partners on monday, march 20th. Please mention your type of keyboard when ordering, because Keyrah must be programmed with your keyboard layout at the factory.
The scope of delivery has also been decided now: Every Keyrah comes with a screwdriver and a 2-meter (6.5 ft) USB cable. Versions for Amiga keyboards come with an assembly kit that ensures contact even to partly damaged foil connectors of the A600/A1200 keyboards.
Customers who have pre-ordered the special edition of the Buddha controller for Phoenix-Amigas will recieve an eMail from us in the next few days. (snx)
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17.Mar.2006
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: Total Amiga, issue 23
Today issue 23 of the English print magazine "Total Amiga" was delivered. Highlights
of this issue are a detailed interview with Dave Haynie who tells his opinion to
the past, present time and future of the Amiga as well as a further interview with
Stephen Fellner who is the author of the Movie-Player DvPlayer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Mar.2006
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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Linux: DTP-program PageStream available as PowerPC-version
According to DesktopLinux.com
the Desktop-Publishing-Program PageStream is available for AmigaOS,
AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux/x86 and now as well as
Linux/PPC.
The PowerPC version was developed within few months while the
Linux/GTK version exists for almost three years.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Mar.2006
Grzegorz Kraszewski (E-Mail)
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MorphOS: DigiFilter 2.1 (Update)
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published version 2.1 of DigiFilter which is
a tool for digital
FIR-filter.
DigiFilter is only available over the packet manager MorphUp (amiga-news.de reported)
and requires the Stream-Media-Library Regga which is available over the same
MorphUp-Index.
MorphUp-Index: teleinfo.pmi (20 KB)
Update: (18.03.2006, 17:00, cg)
Meanwhile DigiFilter is also available as common lhA-archive on Aminet.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Mar.2006
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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Demo-Party: Breakpoint 2006 in Bingen
The Demo-Party "Breakpoint" will take place from 14th to 17th April in Bingen/Rhein
in the "Rundsporthalle".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Mar.2006
morphos-news.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SVGTools 1.0.4
Sigbjørn "CISC" Skjæret has ported a newer version of the SVG-tools to MorphOS.
The SVG-tools convert Scalable Vector Graphics to PDF- Postscript- or PNG-format.
Correspondin vector graphics are available at openclipart.org.
Download: SVGTools-1.0.4-bin.lha (2,2 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Mar.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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AmiZilla: Call for bounty and lottery
AmiZilla calls for further bounties. Currently the person who will port Mozilla will
get almost 10.000 USD - all those who make now a bounty and help to reach
the 10.000 USD mark will win a product of his choice from the offer
of DiscreetFX.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Mar.2006
Brork (E-Mail)
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AmigaJoker.de celebrates third anniversary
AmigaJoker.de, the self declared "computer forum of the cool generation", is celebrating its third anniversary today. Meanwhile there are more than 350 registered members.
Please read the following official statement of Amiga-Joker.de:
Three good Years?
Since exactly three years now we make you happy, us and the rest of the amiganized world with the "computer forum of the cool generation".
And they were three really exciting years: It is up to the German ministery of statistics to recalculate all the events and stories. ;)
Finally we have enjoyed so many highlights and sometimes we were angry with several discussions. We could experience various trends and the birth of new hard- and software jewels - in the Amiga as well as the pc- and console area. Above all we have seen how a small fan bulletin from the user "grand_diablo" with his "PC Joker Forum" and a few users have changed to a bigger and pleasant community of Amiga-, pc- and console users, 350 members so far, after their move to AmigaJoker.de.
I want to thank you in the name of my moderators and I hope this community will be still alive for a long time! Of course wishes and suggestions are always welcome - as well as helping hands for their realization!
How could it be different as there is a lottery in the tradition of the joker called "the millions' joker lottery"! You will find it at: AmigaJoker.de -> Sonstiges -> JokerGames -> Joker-Millionspiel. Please read the text very CAREFUL! ;)
I wish you a lot of fun with AmigaJoker.de so far and hope you will still heavily join the community. Should you face problems with your account, please send an e-mail.
Regards
Brork (snx) (Translation: ts)
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16.Mar.2006
TerAtoM (ANF)
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golem.de reports of MorphOS package management
The package management MorphUp, which was released yesterday, is introduced at golem.de.
(cg) (Translation: ts)
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14.Mar.2006
4players.de (ANF)
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DVD: Digital Memories - Memories of the C64-scene
With Digital Memories Vol. 1 now a DVD is available, which strolls along on the tracks of succesfull scene-DVDs like Mindcandy. 15 of the best Demos from the C64-era are included in the first issue. Included are for example Fairlights Boogie Factor or the legendary Deus Ex Machina by Crest, Dutch Breeze by Blackmail and the old classic Electric Cafe by Ash & Dave.
There is bonus material like hundreds of scene grafics, 14 music tracks by legends like Chris Hülsbeck, Rob Hubbard or Fred Gray, as well as games like turrican 3, Crus, Metal Warrior 4 and It's Magic on the disc. The DVD will be tested thoroughly on 4players.de shortly. (cg)
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14.Mar.2006
Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V. (ANF)
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Event: Classic-Computing 2006
On September 30th and October 01st 2006 the Classic-Cpmputing 2006 takes place, this time in Nordhorn, Lower Saxony.
On about 1.100 square meters users, clubs, vendors and collectors of history computers from all over Germany, Benelux and many other Countries will meet. Beside the possibility to play with one of the many arranged computers and consoles, you may inform yourself about repair and maintenance of your "oldtimer" through members of the "Verein zur Enthaltung klassischer Computer" an other Collectors and trader. You may also trade or buy whole computers, games or accessories from traders or private sellers. A large number of collectors, vendors, and the "retro-press" have already announced theirs participation. Of course, not only members but also all friends of classic computers are invited.
A special emphasis is put on the still very actibe Amiga sceme this year, so many vendors and users may be expected. But also friends of other computers will sure not be dissapointed. Traditionally, like every year many MSX-computers, Commodore 8 bit computers, Ataris, old Apple-computers and historic professional computers from the time before windows will be there to be seen and experienced.
Admission for visitors is 2 EUR. But there are also very attractive fees for traders, collectors and second-hand dealers, to make this a real mega-event-
Further information can be found at the page of the association for conversation of classic computers e.V., www.classic-computing.de, or directly on www.amiga-event.de, or via mail from the head of the association: Rüdiger Schuldes, Kappelbergstraße 14, 71332 Waiblingen. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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14.Mar.2006
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: Package Manager MorphUp 1.0 (Bounty Release)
After six months of development Rupert Hausberger today released version 1.0 of his package manager MorphUp. This Version meets the terms of the "Bounty" posted on morphzone.org. The author thanks all donators and those who support the project in other ways.
Introduction
MorphUp is the result of the ezPM bounty, released on morphzone.org. So far, when installing a new application, AmigaOS/MorphOS users often had to visit various internet pages and download, unpack and install several archives manually. The packet manager MorphUp is to take over this time consuming and error-prone process from the user.
MorphUP consists of two parts: the "Generator" used by developers to create so-called "packages", archives which contain the actual software. Those packages can be hosted on any HTTP server. The MorphUp client then assumes the download and installation of those packages on the computer of the user.
Features of MorphUp
Package system:
- Packages can be grouped by type.
- Theoreticaly unlimited packages per group and unlimited dirs/files per package.
- Can handle file size up to (the DOS limitation of) 2 GB.
- Extraction of files without the need of unpacking the whole package.
- Real directory structures in packages.
- 3 different package types:
- Full packages, to transfer a huge amount of files at once.
- Single packages, to safe bandwitch if only a few files need to transfered.
- Link packages, to refer to other archives.
- Full packages automaticly split into parts if they grow too larger while generation.
- Dynamic block compression based on zlib.
- Fully asyncron, any function can be aborted at any time. The task-priority can be set for each asyncron function.
- Differentiation between system and application files.
- Fast installation, uninstallation, extraction and convertion routines.
- Tag-based saving to easy add things later.
Graphic User Interface:
- Multithreaded MUI applications, can handle multiple indexes at same time.
- Many editing functions like: add, remove, makedir, add recursive...
- Cut&Paste edit mode, even over different packages.
- Dynamic context menus everywhere, even in list-titels.
- Full locale support.
- Disabling of unwanted indexes, package classes and packages.
- Setable colors, styles and dateformat in all listtrees and lists.
- Controlable through application menus, contextmenus, keyboard.
- Detailed information groups for packages and files.
- Toolbar with replaceable icons.
Other:
- Configurable datatype system with MIME-support.
- Configurable data classes system, to avoid hardcoded paths.
- Configurable package classes system, to avoid hardcoded paths.
- Uses XAD system to support many types of archives in link packages.
- Packages can have a picture, any size and type is supported.
- Multilevel log system with possibility to log to disk.
- Small memory usage.
(cg) (Translation: iw)
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14.Mar.2006
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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New Edition of the SUBWAY USB-Controllers
Due to the high demand E3B is happy to anounce a new editon of the reknown and popular USB controller SUBWAY for the Amiga Clockport. Production could commence before the research period of Michael Böhmer and is already revved.
The new edition is supported actively by the former competitor on the USB market. Massimo Mancini - designer of the UltraBUS, unfortunately produced only as a prototype - has ceded its store to E3B and therefore enables a smooth reissue of the SUBWAY, which otherwise almost had failed due to the sales policy of the semiconductor industry and their germand distributors respectively.
As before, Chris Hodges popular USB-Stack Poseidon will be included in the 2.x version. The convenient upgrade-offer, E3B will take over part of the liscencing costs, also applies to the reisued SUBWAY modules and so far is available only for E3B products in the section of USB controllers for the Amiga.
E3B will announce the beginning of shipment for the SUBWAY as usual on the popular news pages. It is already a fact, tha SUBWAY will be available at al major Amiga vendors worldwide. As a novelty, this time distribution for chosen countries will be handled through individual computers to enable al vendors to purchase at low cost (thus enabling low consumer prices). (nba) (Translation: iw)
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14.Mar.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Gallerius 2.0
Pawel 'Stekos' Stefanski's Gallerius helps you to create HTML thumbnail galleries.
Changes in version 2.0:
- antialiasing scaling modes
- file selector
- creating additional subpages or files
- color selector changes
- bugs removed
Download: gallerius.lha (125 KB) (snx) (Translation: iw)
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14.Mar.2006
Sven Ottemann (ANF)
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filing programme: Lha 2.12 for AmigaOS 2/3/4 and WarpOS
Sven Ottemann has published a new version of Amiga-Lha. Two faults have been cleared in Lha 2.12, among other things softlinks can no longer be mitstaken for directories. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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12.Mar.2006
Thore Böckelmann (ANF)
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System Monitor: Scout 3.5 published, including OS4 version (update)
The new version of the system monitor Scout was released today. Besides versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS, a port for AmigaOS 4 is also available now, in addition, some errors were corrected.
Update: (13.03.2006, 16:40, cg)
Since an error had creeped in when compiling the MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 archives, revised versions have been released in the meantime. The new archives now contain system-specific versions of the accompanying libraries and MUI classes. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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12.Mar.2006
ANN (Web page)
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SystemPatch 2.96
SystemPatch by Sante Nocciolino modifies diverse operating system routines, in order to increase performance on computers with newer 68K processors. The most is brought out in 68060 systems, but it is applicable on all Amigas from a 68020 upwards.
Improvements in version 2.96:
- Added LoadSeg() and NewLoadSeg() patches
- Updated quicklayers.library with three new patches: BeginUpdate(), EndUpdate(), InstallClipRegion()
- C-code now compiled with vbcc V0.8i by Volker Barthelmann
- Now it reports correct loading of FAllocRasterExcludeList
Download: SystemPatch296.lha (82 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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10.Mar.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Update of Instant Messenger Epistula
There is a new version of the Instant Messenger Epistula under the title link.
Because Epistula runs fine now this is the last update for the demo version.
All further improvements of the main program (except the plugins) will be available
only for registered users.
Changes since the last version:
- MSN plugin has now been updated to MSN Protocol 11
- Group names are now UTF-Decoded/Encoded in the MSN plugin before being sent to Epistula
- Fixed the secure authentication which stopped quite a few people logging into MSN. Those unable to login before, but could with GAIM or the official client should find this allows them to login with Epistula now
- MSN plugin now respects your initial presence as specified in the plugin settings
- Plugin integration with Epistula has had a massive re-write
- Epistula will now check for the minimum required MUI custom classes before launching
- General messages window fixed to display the correct message when selected from the list
- Slight cosmetic changes
- Various memory leaks/bugs fixed
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Mar.2006
Norman Walter (ANF)
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New lesson of the Amiga C-course for beginners
The Amiga C-course for beginners has got a new lesson.
This is about fractals.
Besides this to the lesson "rekursive Funktionen" further examples have been added with
the topic "Lotto" and "Fibonacci-Zahlen".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Mar.2006
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Arcade Game Construction Kit (Preview)
The SDL-based "Arcade Game Construction Kit" (AGCK) is supposed to make the users possible
to create own shoot games similar to the good old "Shoot'em Up Construction Kit".
There is a first, with AGCK created game: A new version of "1944".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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