30.May.2006
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: preliminary version of Amaya 8.8.4 for X-Window
A preliminary version of the web editor Amaya by Edgar Schwan was published in the OS4 depot. The programme is able to show CSS based pages correctly. Frames and Javascript are however not supported.
Amaya needs the X11 Window package "Cygnix" (amiga-news.de reported) to run, which is to be foung in the OS4 depot as well. You will find help for concerning the installation as well as further information in the readmefile.
The programme is already running relatively stable, the connection to the internet is however not yet working. As Amaya is primarily an editor, the Amaya porting as an GUI based web editor should nevertheless be interesting.
Download: amaya.zip (9 MB)
(snx) (Translation: iw)
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30.May.2006
Thorsten Mampel, 1.Vorsitzender ACH (ANF)
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Mailing list for the participants of the LAN party of the ACH in Hamburg
The mailing list of the Amiga-Meeting Nord has been released for all participants of the LAN party of the ACH in Hamburg.
With the help of this mailing list it is possible to coordinate car pools or to maintain already made contacts. Everybody who has a vacant seat left in his car to fetch people from other towns in order to bring them to Hamburg will be a great help.
If you want to participate please send an email to TeilnehmerAMN-subscribe@yahoogroups.de. To send an email to the list afterwards just miss out the "subscribe". (snx) (Translation: iw)
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30.May.2006
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DVD: "Digital Memories" - remembering the C64 scene
Press release: What started with pirate copies during the home computer pioneer time became the first digital youth culture. To achieve the fame of the scene for the fastest "crack" of a computer game, freaks set home made intros in front of the games before they released them to the school yards and mailboxes of the 80s.
Those digital cards became an art form on their own; to be able to master it programming knowledge and audio-visual talent was required. The non-professional programmers and other crackers bettered each other in international competition with adventurous animations and unheard sounds.
Demos are music videos without dancers, without a backdrop and without a camera: the clips run in real-time, often they bring CPU and graphic chips to their technological limits. The most talented programmers and freaks made the impossible possible on the cult computer Commodore 64.
'Digital Memories' is a selection of the best demos for the C64, an exciting retro trip through the colourful, virtual world of FX, bleeps and pixel - multimedia of the first generation.
Content of the DVD:
- 16 C64 demos
- Slideshow with 140 scene graphics
- 15 original SID sounds
- Eastergeggs
- Bonus: 4 C64 games: Turrican 3, It's Magic, Metal Warrior 4, Crush
ISBN: 3-9810494-7-0
Price: 9,95 Euro (cg) (Translation: iw)
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30.May.2006
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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New C64 cartridge cases, special prices for clockport-hardware
Press release:
Our cartridge cases for Retro Replay, MMC64 and other standard C64 cartridges enjoy great popularity, therefore we have made a new production run with a few improvements.
The cases that we delivered previously were made out of the fairly soft plastic polystyrene. To further improve the quality and stability of dimensions under extreme climatic conditions, we decided to use the harder plastic polycarbonate. In addition to the known colours black, blue-transparent and clear-transparent, the new colours red-transparent and solid blue are now available. Even though polycarbonate is much more expensive than polystyrene, we did not raise the sales price. We even took away the price difference for the different colours, so each case is now 4,- EUR incl. 16% VAT (plus shipment cost, please inquire by eMail). There's only two quantity scales: The single price for purchases of up to 99 units, and 15% discount for orders of 100 units or more. Colours can be mixed in order to reach the quantity scale.
The cases are closed with only one opening for the cartridge connector. If a cartridge with buttons or a pass-through slot shall be used, the holes/openings must be cut into the case. This applies to both the Retro Replay and the MMC64.
Picture: various case variants
If you order the bundle with Retro Replay and RR-Net, you can now choose from these case colours. Wordwide shipment is already included in the bundle price of 100,- EUR for the three items!
Special prices for clockport-hardware
Many products for the Amiga are only made for the clockport of the A1200 for economy reasons. Individual Computers has been shipping Zorro cards with an additional expansion port for many years. This expansion port is compatible with the A1200 clockport, but at the same time has a much better performance. Especially for Zorro-systems (so-called "bigbox-Amigas"), we're now offering a bundle with our ISDN-card ISDN-Surfer, which also features a clockport. For the "smaller" Amigas A500 and A1000 we have the clockport adapter for the CPU-socket. Please bear in mind that both the Delfina and the Subway USB-card by E3B require a 68020 or higher processor. All bundles include 16% VAT and worldwide/international shipping!
ISDN Surfer with Subway USB card and Poseidon V3: 100,- EUR
ISDN Surfer with Delfina soundcard: 150,- EUR
A500 clockport adapter with Subway USB card and Poseidon V3: 100,- EUR
A500 clockport adapter with Delfina soundcard: 150,- EUR
Please use our contact form for ordering. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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29.May.2006
Tom Duin (ANF)
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MorphOS: SimpleView 1.6c
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin released his MorphOS image viewer SimpleView in version 1.6c under the title link. SimpleView is completely written in PowerPC assembler code.
Pictures with a depth of 8 Bit or less are converted and displayed faster. Instead of four, only three bytes per pixels are used now for converting and displaying. (snx)
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29.May.2006
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Prerelease of X-Window
Edgar Schwan released a prerelease of X-Window for AmigaOS 4.
This is a complete Unix-environment, which is the basement for ports from
the Linux-World.
Following Components are included:
- X-Server X11R6.3 (68k-Version from the GeekGadgets-Project)
- over 70 Standard-Clients like xclock, xcalc, xman, ...
- a Toolbar a simple launching of Programs
- Examples to demonstrat the several GUI-Toolkits:
- Xgalaga + Xmahjong (X11)
- The Cardgame "Forty Thieves" (wxWidgets)
- A Demo-Program from the GTK-Package (GTK+)
- A Program to konfigurate the screen backround
All Clients are nativ for AmigaOS 4. In case of the pre-status is it
possible that the contents of this package will be varying.
For further information read the Readme-File.
Download: x11.tgz (47 MB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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29.May.2006
Thorsten Mampel, 1.Vorsitzender ACH (ANF)
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Event: Seventh Amiga-Meeting Nord in Bad Bramstedt
The seventh Amiga Meeting North will be start in Bad Bramstedt
(northern of Hamburg/Germany) from Friday 13.October until Sunday
15.October. For 40 Computer is it possible to install network.
Planed are:
- a presentation of actuel Hard- and Software-developments around
the Amiga
- Exibithion of the Computer-Museums Kiel
- Demo- and Filmscreening with a beamer
- A secondhand Hard- and Software-market for free (Amigas and expansions)
- Producment of a Party-CD performed by participants
- Network with Internet via DSL
- Webcam
First the fun is importent. Also for the organizer it is importent to give
the last Hard and Software developers a public possibility to present the
products. So all developers must be pay only the half price for one
weekend (37,50 instead 75 Euro for the weekend).
For further information please ask Thorsten Mampel.
For all Amiga-user (AmigaOS 1-4, MorphOS, AROS and Emulator-user) is linked
to the header a registration form or call up the Hotel Tanneneck Norbert
Kapahnke direkly under 0049 4192 500071.
Pricing:
- Friday until Sunday including two overnight stays and two times lunch
and breakfast 75,- Euro
- Friday until Saturday or Saturday until Sunday one overnight stay and
one time lunch and breakfast 37,50 Euro
- for the dailyguest 5,- Euro (a registration is only required if a
place for the computer is needed!)
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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29.May.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Moorhuhn-Klon: Blackshoot 1.3
Blackshoot a Moorhen-clon writen in AmiBlitz with a GFX and Soundcard
support.
(Screenshot).
This vision includes several minor bugfixes. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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29.May.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.05.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
dopus4-morphos.lha biz/dopus 1.3M MOS Directory Opus 4
Arbeitszeugnis.lha biz/misc 31K OS3 Generates job references (German only)
AnimsAWeb.lha comm/www 18K GEN Transfer anims for A-Web browser
apache_1.3.36.lha comm/www 240K OS3 Apache 1.3.36
PAR_bwBASIC.lha dev/basic 4K OS3 PAR: access using bwBASIC.
bintoc.lha dev/c 21K VAR Binary to C source converter
z88dk.lha dev/cross 3.4M OS4 z80 C cross compiler
bogo.lha dev/gg 31K VAR BogoMIPS - the UNIX CPU speed tester
detok.lha dev/lang 34K MOS OpenBIOS detokenizer
lua.lha dev/lang 821K OS4 powerful embeddable programming language
Python_14.lha dev/lang 750K OS3 Python V1.4 for a STANDARD A1200.
agg2sdk.lha dev/misc 1.1M OS4 Anti-Grain Geometry 2D Graphics C++ SDK
MCC_MonthNaviSP.lha dev/mui 6K GEN MCC MonthNavigator 16.8 spanish catalog
tsgui.lha disk/misc 80K OS3 Create or write back image files (ADF/HD
HDandCD-Guide.lha docs/help 13K GEN Simple guide for connecting HD and CD to
installation.lha docs/help 211K GEN Install WW, TurboCalc + Pagestream on OS
SkinsArTKanoid.lha game/wb 223K GEN Extra skins for ArTKanoid
agg2demos.lha gfx/misc 8.2M OS4 Anti-Grain Geometry Demos with SVG viewe
fakepad.lha hard/drivr 35K OS3 Emulate CD32 joypad using joystick & kb
mmkeyboard.lha hard/drivr 564K VAR Use entire Multimedia Keyb. on Amiga/Ami
ASense.lha misc/sci 910K OS3 Professional astrology software
ASenseFPU.lha misc/sci 295K OS3 Professional astrology software
Pholy.lha mods/misc 43K GEN Helgis' PholyEcho Song!!!
Reach.lha mods/misc 44K GEN Helgis' Out Of Reach Song!!!
rockbeat.lha mus/edit 1.7M OS4 Create drumming tracks and export them a
HornyLite.lha mus/midi 1K GEN German HornyLite catalog, unofficial
tunenet-calculator.lha mus/play 3K GEN tiny (but comprehensive) skin for TuneNe
tunenet.lha mus/play 465K OS4 Music Player (Shout/Icecast, MP3, PT, AI
PrintMagic.lha text/print 7K OS3 PrintMagic
DepthMenu.lha util/cdity 53K OS3 Popup menu for depth gadgets. V2.43.
meridian.lha util/cdity 310K VAR PDA like input system
ejecttool.lha util/cli 17K VAR Load/Eject/Toggle drive tray command
r.lha util/cli 162K VAR Just in time GUIs for nearly any DOS com
TDFSB.lha util/dir 223K MOS 3D file system browser w/o MPEG
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 103K OS3 Italian version of StartBar
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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29.May.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 28.05.2006
os4depot.net uploads since our last report:
anotherxg_sf.lha aud/pla 28Mb AnotherXG - soundfont
timidity.lha aud/pla 425kb TiMidity - MIDI-files player/converter
lua.lha dev/lan 820kb Lua powerful embeddable programming lang
bogo.lzx uti/she 28kb BogoMIPS - the UNIX CPU speed tester
tunenet-calculator.lha aud/pla 2kb tiny (but comprehensive) skin for TuneNe
tunenet.lha aud/pla 464kb Music Player (Shout/Icecast, MP3, PT, AI
rockbeat.lha aud/tra 1Mb Create drumming tracks and export them a
cvs_amiga_bin.lha dev/uti 1Mb CVS version control system
cvs_amiga_src.lha dev/uti 1Mb CVS version control system
aggdemoicons.lha gra/ico 225kb Anti-Grain Geometry Demo Icons
z88dk.lha dev/cro 3Mb z80 C cross compiler
agg2sdk.lha dev/lib 1Mb Anti-Grain Geometry 2D Graphics C++ SDK
agg2demos.lha gra/mis 8Mb Anti-Grain Geometry Demos with SVG viewe
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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28.May.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AFA OS: Prerelease 1 of the MUI clone Zune
Bernd Roesch is now making a port of the MUI clone Zune available for AFA OS, his AmigaOS backport of diverse AROS libraries.
Zune can be run in parallel with MUI, no files of a MUI installation are deleted or overwritten whatsoever. With the "ZunePromoter", it is configured which MUI applications should use Zune instead of the original MUI libraries. This approach was necessary, since many MUI applications apparently use undocumented MUI functions and, at present, do not work under Zune yet. YAM and SimpleMail were already tested and accord with Zune.
Zune still has two restrictions at present: It can't open its own screens yet (only the Workbench screen is supported), and the window coordinates are not saved. For the implementation of functions that are still missing, the author would be thankful for the assistance of other developers.
External classes for Zune have the ending .zcc and .zcp and are located in MUI:libs/zune. Therefore, MUI classes can be converted to Zune classes simply with a file editor, even without access to the sources. The classes by Klaus Melchior(kmel) and Alfonso Ranieri were thus adapted to Zune with the authors' consent and accompany the archive. Other classes are copied and adapted during the installation of Zune.
Programmers who would like to use Zune directly, simply open the zune.library instead of the muimasterbase.library. Should this action fail, the muimasterbase.library should be opened instead. Thus, both MUI and Zune can be supported with just one binary.
Authors, who use undocumented MUI functions, or whose software does not work under Zune for other reasons, are asked to contact Roesch in order to allow for a suitable adaptation or extension of the libraries. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Motocross with Xmoto (beta)
Xmoto is an SDL/GL-based arcade game that is slightly evocative of the 8-bit classic Kikstart (Screenshot). The AmigaOS 4 version still has problems with graphics card initialization, that's why another Warp3D title should be started first (and closed again, of course), before launching Xmoto, additionally, minor errors in the display are yet to be eliminated.
xmoto_beta1.lha (6.7 MB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: TCP stack Mosnet 1.1
Pavel "Sonic" Fedin has released version 1.1 of his PPC-native TCP stack Mosnet. Reportedly, the stack should now be noticeably faster than the forerunner version, additionally, the archive now contains a documentation in Amigaguide format. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
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MorphOS: Update to the Commodore emulator VICE
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has released an update to the MorphOS version of VICE. Besides the elimination of numerous minor errors (in the file requester, among others), overlay is now supported as well. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
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MorphOS: Role-playing game ISO-Angband
Krzysztof 'Tarnak' Kretus has released a MorphOS port of ISO-Angband. ISO-Angband is a variant of the well-known "Hack'n Slash" role-playing game Angband, where events are presented from an isometric perspective. The powersdl.library is required. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Lua 5.1-2
Steven Solie has released an update to his programming language Lua, which is ported by him to AmigaOS 4. Version 5.1 still forms the basis of this, but dynamic libraries are now supported as well.
So, the programming language can now be extended with, for example, a ReAction toolkit, without having to modify Lua itself. Also, a Lua interface to existing AmigaOS libraries can be added, as it had been realized in some cases with ARexx, too, at that time.
The latter is achieved through supplementing the respective library with an exec interface called "lua" as well as the associated program code, which deals with the conversion between the two environments. A corresponding skeletal structure for such a library is contained as an example.
Lua is about a lightweight language which is designed for extending applications. Here, it is a fundamental concept to provide, instead of a large number of functions, meta-mechanisms for their implementation.
Download: lua.lha (821 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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27.May.2006
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: TiMidity 0.5
TiMidity is a program to render and convert MIDI files. Because of the very positive feedback to the release of a first beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port released Alfred Faust a new version with more control elements added to the ReAction /Gadtools user interface.
With version 0.5 it is now possible to reach almost all options of TiMidity via the user interface. All messages are now shown in a special text area of the program window instead of being displayed in a separate window.
To be able to use TiMidity you need GUS patches and/or sound fonts that are available in the OS4 depot for download.
Download: timidity.lha (426 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.May.2006
Søren Ladegaard (ANF)
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Think Commodore: Forum added
Today "Think Commodore" launched a new Commodore forum just for Mac users. Think Commodore is a website for Apple users about the emulation of Commodore computers. (snx)
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27.May.2006
Codex Alpe Adria Team (e-mail)
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Event: Codex Alpe Adria 2006 (Italy)
Codex Alpe Adria 2006, the friendly alternative computing event,
will take place in five weeks - from June 30 until July 2 - in Udine, which is within a one-hour drive from three airports, as well as from the Alps, beaches, Venice, Trieste, Austria, Slovenia and other beautiful locations. Florence, Milan, Salzburg and other popular tourist destinations, as well as major shopping malls (open on Sunday), are within easy reach, also
for day trips from the event.
Jens Schönfeld (developer of tools such as the C64 Ethernet interface)
and Bernd Schmidt (author of the UAE Amiga emulation software) already
confirmed their attendance, while other familiar retrocomputing and
demoscene personalities are finalizing their plans. It has become
known that several software and hardware developers plan to make
important product announcements during Codex Alpe Adria 2006. This
is your chance to meet these legends in person. Cloanto's Amiga staff
will also be there, as they are behind the event.
The new Codex Alpe Adria venue, conveniently located next to the
Udine north highway exit, has ample open air space, resident WiFi,
and supports sleepovers (rooms are also still available at the official
hotel, which is in the city center next to the train station, and
is connected by bus to the event). Prizes of the Codex Alpe Adria
demo competitions include a rare and very valuable C65 prototype
and a C-One development system. Other activities include pizza and
pasta at Ciccio's (followed by traditional Codex Alpe Adria absinthe)
on Friday, a Friulian banquet on Saturday, a hard disk throwing contest,
and numerous excursions.
Great flight connections are still available at bargain prices. For
example, GBP 1.79 (plus taxes) can buy you a ticket from London Stansted
(STN) or Frankfurt Hahn (HHN) directly to Udine/Trieste (TRS) airport.
Ryanair also flies to nearby Treviso (TSF) airport from Brussels
Charleroi (CRL), Dublin (DUB), Girona/Barcelona (GRO), Liverpool
(LPL), Paris Beauvais (BVA) and Shannon (SNN). Other airlines for
which it is still very convenient to purchase tickets are listed
at the Codex Alpe Adria site. (snx)
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27.May.2006
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Daytime server set up
Many users of classic Amigas still work with Genesis (the AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 TCP/IP stack) that offers a builtin function for time synchronization via daytime. To close this gap decided Philippe Bourdin to program a daytime server and to make it available to the public via time.PAB-Software.de (run by: PAB Software & Design).
Separate software for time synchronization is not needed anymore, then.
The daytime server runs always with the current MEZ/MESZ and can therefore be used in all Central European countries. Manual corrections for summer/winter time become redundant as Genesis synchronizes the time when going online.
Faultless functioning and permanent availability can't be guaranteed, though; but the source code is available so anybody may send corrections or run his own daytime server in the own time zone.
Download of the AmigaOS version:
daytime-amiga.pl
Download of the Linux version:
daytime.pl
daytime-init.sh (snx) (Translation: wk)
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26.May.2006
dietmar (ANF)
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Cubic IDE: Online-Shop opened
Dietmar Eilert wrote: Welcome to my new website for Amiga developers: I finally
made it to open an online-shop. The main offer is Cubic IDE which is an integrated developing system
for AmigaOS and MorphOS.
It is a temporary site which will get a seperate domain.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.May.2006
AmigaSpeed (ANF)
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Benchmarks: AmigaSpeed-Update
AmigaSpeed which is a website about speed tests of several Amiga system configurationen was updated
in the section PowerPC-processors with new
MIPS-figures to all G3- and G4-models.
Additionally the MPC7448 also was mentioned which is the upper end of the 1,7 GHz serie.
Additional to the speed tests a opinion poll was started concerning the future of the PowerPC.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.May.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Troika NG: Another mainboard announced
In a status report which is accessable under the title link Troika NG announced to buy a mainboard design.
This would be a more powerful system than the own development called Amy'05.
With the help of the planned cooperation Troika NG can offer such a system for
AmigaOS 4 faster and cheaper. Currently still it is not possible to show some pictures of the
whole mainboard but of some details. These show the PowerPC-processor (G4/7448) with
Tsi-109-Northbridge (preview 1) as well as
the audio-ports (preview 2).
Concerning the own development of a low-end-system version 1.4 almost was reached. Therefore
some more information will be announced for the next status report.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.May.2006
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS: Update of the Commodore emulator VICE
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has fixed some bugs in the shortly released MorphOS port of the Commodore emulator VICE and provides his own build now. (cg) (Translation: ts)
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25.May.2006
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IRC-Log: ACK answers further questions from users
Adam Kowalczyk of ACK Software Controls has commented further questions to his announced PPC products in an IRC discussion. The main items in short:
The planned high end motherboard is preliminary called "Powervixxen TL" ("Thunder and Lightning"). The current specifications don't consider any onboard hardware, but the board should contain a PCIe-slot (16x), a PCI-slot with 66 Mhz as well as 4 PCI-slots with 33/66 Mhz.
The PCIe-slot is connected to a common PCI-Bus (66 Mhz) by means doesn't offer any speed advantage over PCI oder AGP, but it makes the use of actual graphics adapters possible. The integration of such a PCIe-slots requires graphics drivers available for AmigaOS 4.
The PCI-SLot with 66 Mhz is meant for a combined card (USB/SATA oder USB/PATA).
ACK Software Controls is privatly owned and occupies for employees. The current Amiga projects are additionally financed with the support of external investors. (cg) (Translation: ts)
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25.May.2006
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland.de: Relaunch with revised layout
With his project Amigaland.de Mirko Engelhardt has asked over the years for permission of several producers to offer certain Amiga games for free download. The website is completed with historical informations around the amiga.
After a two years' break Amigaland.de is representing itself with a revised layout. 140 Amiga games are available again, two programs and several emulators with their relevant tools. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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25.May.2006
Armin Burkert (E-mail)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.1.4
For AmiKit, a complete distribution for users of WinUAE
(Screenshot),
an update to version 1.1.4 is released. This package provides complete support for creating and extracting ADF-, ADZ-
and DMS-files with the TSGUI (Track Saver) program from Thomas Rapp.
Additionally the programm was integrated into Directory Opus Magellan II, for creating images with a right mouse click or extracting an image with a double click onto the file.
Changes compared to version 1.1.3:
- ADDED: tsgui - Track Saver 2.1 by Thomas Rapp (AmiKit:Tools/)
- ADDED: Complete DOpus5 support for creating/extracting ADF, ADZ and
DMS images!
- UPDATED: akJFIF.datatype 45.50
- UPDATED: ASp 0.87b
- UPDATED: Meridian 2.21
- UPDATED: MMKeyboard 3.20
- UPDATED: R 2.19
(nba) (Translation: ts)
[News message: 25. May. 2006, 14:01] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2006
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amiga-news: New advertising partners
We would like to take the opportunity to thank our advertising partners
for their support of amiga-news. Without your financial exposure
the operation of this website would not be possible.
In particular we welcome our new partners
APC&TCP, a
German software-developer and publisher of the magazine Amiga Future,
and AmigaKit.com,
a British Amiga-dealer offering a big range of Amiga hardware, software,
components and other accessories.
Of course we would also like to thank individual Computers (hardware-developer), Alinea Computer
(software-developer) and Cloanto (Amiga-Forever-developer) for their continued
passion for amiga-news.
Along this we point to the GoogleAds in the right area and the Google search field in the upper right area of our homepage.
Finally big thanks fly out to the loyal readers and visitors of amiga-news.
To support amiga-news please support our advertising partners! Thank
you! (nba)
[News message: 25. May. 2006, 01:22] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2006
geit (Comments)
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Keyboard Driver: MMKeyboard 3.21
Guido Mersmann has released a bugfix update of his keyboard driver
MMKeyboard for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Amithlon. The new version
fixes the bug that the MMKeyboard-hardware was not correctly supported
lately.
MMKeyboard allows the use of all multimedia buttons of the system. For
this purpose, it offers, besides the conventional execution types, macros
as well, which allow, for example, scrolling of windows, browsing through
screens and windows, or ejection of media, too. Of course, in addition to
the multimedia buttons, the normal keys of the system can be assigned to
functions as well, similar to FKey.
Should you enjoy the program, the author asks to consider a small donation. (snx)
[News message: 24. May. 2006, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2006
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Updated FAQ for KHTML.library
Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski has updated the questions and answers to
his work-in-progress porting of the KHTML-engine to MorphOS.
The underlying sourcecode has been switched to Nokia's S60-webbrowser-project
(amiga-news reported).
By switching to S60 the KHTML.library should be faster, easier to update
and more stable. If nothing unexpected happens then first public version
should appear by the end of summer. Currently the souce code yet compiles
without any problems, and the engine is initialized and working.
The KHTML-porting project is a Bounty-project with
a current amount of over 2000 US$. (snx) (Translation: nba)
[News message: 24. May. 2006, 16:57] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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Magazine: Issue 18 of Total Amiga as PDF for downloading
The 18th issue of the English (printed) magazine Total Amiga is sold-out
and can now be downloaded as a PDF-document for free. All details can be
gathered from the Amiga Total website linked to the title. (cg)
[News message: 24. May. 2006, 15:42] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions for download
15 new full versions have been collected and put online for free
downloading from the download area on the website of Amiga Future. (cg)
[News message: 24. May. 2006, 15:31] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2006
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Zetas wild ride - Yellowtab on the ropes, Magnussoft new publisher?
As online-magazine Golem reports, the developer of the BeOS-successor
Zeta is on the ropes: the offices have closed, the business operations are
resting. It is understood that Magnussoft in cooperation with Bernd
Korz, the executive at Yellowtab, will take over the further development
of Zeta. The company yet announced the update to version 1.3. (cg) (Translation: nba)
[News message: 24. May. 2006, 15:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2006
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Nokia releases Symbian-browser-engine as open source
Nokia has now released the souce code of the rendering-engine Web Kit for
the Symbian-smartphones with Series 60 as open source. Last November Nokia
had published the according browser which is based on Apple's Safari Web
Kit and thus on the rendering-engine KHTML by the KDE-project. Read the
complete report on the linked website of Golem IT-News. (nba) (Translation: nba)
[News message: 24. May. 2006, 11:41] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2006
Detlef Zirpel (ANF)
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distributed.net: PowerPC/AmigaOS now 12th at OGR-25
In the OGR-25 competition PowerPC/AmigaOS today moved up to the 12th place
and left PA-Risc/HP-UX behind.
The next to be overtaken are MIPS/IRIX. With constant gains this is
likely to happen until the end of the year.
Amiga 68k currently is ranked 28th. (nba)
[News message: 24. May. 2006, 11:40] [Comments: 0]
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