14.Jan.2006
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Cracktros - made with Hollywood
A user compiled the "cracktros" coming with Hollywood, i.e. intros of the demo scene, for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jan.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Warp3D plugin for Playstation emulator FPSE
As the next update of Mathias Roslund's FPSE port will take some more time the author released a Warp3D plugin for the existing version of the Playstation emulator.
The plugin works very well with some games (Colin McRae and Ridge Racer are mentioned as examples), other games are problematic or run even slower.
Download: gpuw3d.lha (111 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jan.2006
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Linux: ColdFire plans for Debian-m68k
As the computer news site Symlink reported exist plans to port the Debian Linux variant for processors of the 680x0 family to the related successor architecture ColdFire to revive this Linux project.
At the time it's not decided wether a common port for both architectures is indeed possible but for now the barriers seem not to be insuperable. In addition Freescale promised for this project five Coldfire boards for testing purposes.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Jan.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Linux: Updated AmigaOne-Kernel (2.4.26, 2.6.8-16)
On 8th January the PegXMac-developer
Entwickler David Bentham published the updated Linux-Kernel for the AmigaOne.
The adapted 2.4.26er Kernel
should now enable DMA for all AmigaOne-boards.
The eleventh version of the Kernel 2.6.8-16
works together with most of the drivers as moduls (z.B. printers, USB) and the
SILImage-nodul can be used again, too.
Besides this there is a new 3D-driver (agpgart) but which is only for tests.
The author asks for sending back the Log-files (dmesg and /var/log/messages) under
the title link.
Furthermore there are still problems to be solved so some Amigas may crash.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jan.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Self made: Amiga 1200 in DVD-Player-tower
Under the title link 'Fixi' describes how he put an Amiga 1200 with
CD-drive, turbo card, IDE-controller and harddrives into the tower of a
DVD-player.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jan.2006
Jens 'bruZard' Henschel (ANF)
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AmiBlitz2 added to Blitzbasic-Forum
After an opinion poll in the Blitzbasic forum of the Windows-, Linux- and Mac OS-users a new category for AmiBlitz2 was established today. With this action it is tried to build a bridge between the new Blitzbasic variants and the original.
It is the aim that the exchange between users of all four operating systems should create new impulses and the experience of the Amiga Blitzbasic community should be mixed with new ideas of the newer BlitzPlus-/Blitz3D- and BlitzMax-users. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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12.Jan.2006
Golem (ANF)
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Next Cell Generation under Work
The three in the development of the Cell cpu participating companies IBM, Sony and Toshiba are extending their cooperation. Together the three firms want to develop new techniques for the next chip generation with a size in structure of 32 nanometers and less. (ps) (Translation: ts)
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11.Jan.2006
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OpenPegasos: Pegasos 2 Design specification released (Update)
Members of power.org may download the design specifications of
the Pegasos 2 for free. The membership at
power.org is free for "developers".
As Genesi's management mentions in a blog
entry, the current Pegasos 2 design is not yet
fullfilling the EU directive RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous
Substances) which will is mandatory from July this year.
Update: (12.01.2006, 16:00, cg)
At power.org's forums, Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco ("BBRV") explain that the parts of the documentation that are still missing will be made available during the next two months. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jan.2006
MorphOS-News.de (Software-Liste)
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MorphOS: DigiFilter 2.0
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has released DigiFilter version
2.0 for MorphOS. It is a design tool for digital FIR filters
("finite impulse response".
Different to programs which are limited to typical low pass,
high pass, band pass and band stop frequency answers or are
encompassing a limited set of frequency points, DigiFilter
offers a graphic frequency response editor.
The program uses a window design technique with rectangle,
trirangle, "Blackman" and "Kaiser" windows. Thanks to high
otimization even very long filter (2048 sample points and
more) may be used real ime on G3 computers.
DigiFilter 2.0 requires the media stream library Reggae B by
the same author (amiga-news.de
reported).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jan.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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More graphic designers wanted for the Shoot'em Up "Megalospirit"
"Megalospirit", a Shoot'em Up for Windows, Mac OS,
Linux, MorphOS and maybe AmigaOS 4, is under development
since 2003 (screen shots: 1, 2, 3, 4). The
game requires OpenGL and SDL and uses a screen resolution of
800x600 pixels. The engine runs under Windows, Mac OS
and Linux yet.
The current team, Jérôme "Polluxe" Davoine (code), Olivier
"Haploo" Gonneau (music) and Thierry "LorD" Philippe (gfx), is
looking for one or two more gfx dsigners who may design sprite
or (tile
based) landscapes. If you interested, you may contact the developers lord @ lordfpx . com. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.Jan.2006
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Heise: Microsoft verifies FAT patents
German it news service Heise report the U.S. patent and trade
department (USPTO) verified two debatably patent belonging to
the FAT file system ("Common name space for long and short
filenames", US patents 5,579,517 and 5,758,352).
The decision was based upon the assumption that these
techniques are not "prior art" but a new invention and is
final.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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10.Jan.2006
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Hardware meeting of the AmigaClub SH on 04.02.2006
The Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein is again hosting a hardware meeting in the FH Kiel. The meeting will take place on Saturday, 04.02.2006 starting at 1 pm. Whoever wants to participate with his own computer is asked to register briefly by email. Admission is free. Further information can be obtained under the link above clicking on "Termine/News" (cg) (Translation: iw)
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10.Jan.2006
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Amiga Forever 2005: test report in issue 2/2006 of c't
The computer magazine c't publishes a test report about the emulation complete package Amiga Forever 2005 in its latest issue 2/2006 on page 66.
In addition there is an article about the 22nd CCC conference in Berlin on page 18/19, showing a photo of the Amiga 4000 which had been used there. (amiga-news.de berichtete). (snx) (Translation: iw)
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10.Jan.2006
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FSF announces "GNU Gnash Flash movie player"
The Free Software Foundation, which is among the heavyweight of the
OpenSource scene and among other things responsible for the GNU General
Public License (GLP), announces the "GNU Gnash Flash movie player" as
well as the corresponding firefox plugin under the link above, both are supposed to be distributed under the GPL.
Gnash would be the first opensource player ever, which would be
compatible with the proprietary format SWF 7 of Macromedia. (cg)
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10.Jan.2006
Mario Misic (ANF)
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Encyclopaedia: Big Book of Amiga Hardware is online again
The Big Book of Amiga Hardware, which had to be taken offline
four weeks ago because of copyright problems is now online again.
The pages for driver- and manual downloads have been
removed.
The German Mirror of BBoAH will be available in a few days as well. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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10.Jan.2006
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golem.de: Pentium 4 computer in a case with integrated keyboard
golem.de presents a computer with integrated keyboard similar to the
classical Commodore models, which is equiped with a Pentium 4
processor up to 3,2 Ghz or a Celeron D. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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10.Jan.2006
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Amiga Inc. and ICTV are cooperating
In a joint press release Amiga Inc. and ICTV announce the future distribution of "Amiga Anywhere" applications over ICTV's "HeadendWare".
With the help of HeadendWare the owners of digital set-top-boxes have access to interactive contents. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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09.Jan.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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intuitionbase.com: Win a copy of AmiPhoto or ANotice 2
Write an article for IntuitionBase.com's articles section about
AmigaOS 4 or AmigaOne and be in with a chance to win a free copy of
AmiPhoto
or ANotice 2.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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09.Jan.2006
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AmigaOS 4: RSS-Reader XNet-RSS 51.7
XNet-RSS is a RSS-Reader and shows "RSS-Feeds", short messages in textform,
for example offered by amiga-news.de
Changes in Version 51.7:
- added favicon.ico support (8, 24, 32 bit with masking)
- added News Bar positioning prefs
- reworked iso-8859-2 encoding support
- improved html entities parsing and stripping
- bugs fixing
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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09.Jan.2006
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Aminet-Uploads til 08.01.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
A71Mail.lha comm/www 19K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
qsilver-ws.lha comm/www 47K GEN HTTP/1.0 compliant web server in ARexx
AntiMagiam.adz demo/disk 428K OS3 Crack And Roll Demodisk
PAR_bwBASIC.lha dev/basic 4K OS3 PAR: access using bwBASIC.
bintoc.lha dev/c 14K VAR Binary to C source converter
perl-src.tar.bz2 dev/lang 15M GEN Perl 5.8.5 AmigaOS4 src
perl.tar.bz2 dev/lang 12M OS4 Perl 5.8.5 AmigaOS4
sdl_perl.tar.bz2 dev/lang 2.3M OS4 SDL_perl extention for amigaos4, (dynami
abc-shell-0.0.37.lha dev/misc 532K OS4 Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
grep-2.5.1a.lha dev/misc 1.8M OS4 GNU grep 2.5.1a
libfreetype2.lha dev/misc 810K OS4 Freetype2
Wuzzi.zip game/board 585K OS3 Wuzzi
DC2Lvl-EMine11.lha game/data 365K GEN 81 levels for Diamond Caves II
bouldercaves.lha game/jump 472K GEN BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 926K OS3 BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M OS3 BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M GEN BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
bouldergraph.lha game/jump 196K GEN BoulderDaesh RTX Graphics Archive
bouldersound.lha game/jump 184K GEN BoulderDaesh RTX Sound Archive
frozen.lha game/misc 9.0M OS4 Frozen Bubble, a popular game written in
jpegxinfo.lha gfx/misc 11K OS4 Drag'n'drop JPEG Exif viewer (jhead GUI)
mijfif.lha gfx/show 23K MOS JFIF&BMP24 viewer for CGX MorphOS
warpview.lha gfx/show 36K OS4 A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 207K OS3 latest Mustek Betascan SANE driver
BetaScanUMax.lha hard/drivr 333K OS3 Umax Betascan driver
yaps.lha hard/drivr 173K OS4 YAPS - Yet Another PCI Scan program
diezi7-ModMix.mp3 mods/mpg 1.2M GEN Remix of a nice and short mod
rockbeat.lha mus/edit 1.6M OS4 Create drumming tracks and export them a
organ_09a_68k.lha mus/midi 91K OS3 Organ plugin for HD-Rec
organ_09a_mos.lha mus/midi 105K MOS Organ plugin for HD-Rec
organ_09a_wos.lha mus/midi 93K WUP Organ plugin for HD-Rec
iLander.lha mus/play 29K GEN iLander White skin for AmiNetRadio
iLander_Black.lha mus/play 27K GEN iLander Black skin for AmiNetRadio
oggvorbis_tn.lha mus/play 189K OS4 Ogg Vorbis Plugin for TuneNet
tunenet.lha mus/play 448K OS4 Music Player (Shoutcast, MP3, PT, AIFF,
SKETHYSC.jpg pix/misc 89K GEN Sketchy Scan
SWIMGIRL.jpg pix/misc 42K GEN Swim Girl
UNREALCO.jpg pix/misc 100K GEN Unreal Colour
amipal-mi.lha pix/nicon 1.3M GEN amipals music icons
OneLine_MUI.lha text/misc 201K OS3 Text parser, CR-LF-TAB + GhostScript850
sdiREKOPrefs.lha util/dtype 15K GEN Preferences GUI for sdiREKO DataTypes
libpcre.lha util/libs 1.6M OS4 Perl-compatible regular expression libra
TTManagerSP.lha util/libs 5K GEN TTManager 1.0 spanish catalog v1.0.0
zlibrary.lha util/libs 40K OS4 zlib core as a shared library for AmigaO
AslToRT.lha util/misc 30K OS3 Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
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09.Jan.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 08.01.2006
os4depot.net uploads since our last report:
mixer.lha aud/mis 91kb Mixer
libpcre.lha dev/lib 1Mb Perl-compatible regular expression libra
sdl_perl.tar.bz2 dev/lib 2Mb SDL_perl extention for amigaos4, (dynami
zlibrary.lha dev/lib 39kb zlib core as a shared library for AmigaO
envy24ht_ahi.lha dri/aud 19kb Envy24HT AHI driver
lost.lha gra/ico 150kb Ken's Lost Icons
xnet-rss.lha net/new 1Mb Native AOS4.0 RSS News Reader
yaps.lha uti/har 173kb YAPS - Yet Another PCI Scan program
abc-shell.lha dev/uti 531kb Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
frozen.lha gam/puz 8Mb Frozen Bubble and popular game written i
grep.lha uti/fil 1Mb GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
oggvorbis_tn.lha aud/pla 189kb Ogg Vorbis Plugin for TuneNet
tunenet.lha aud/pla 448kb Music Player (Shoutcast, MP3, PT, AIFF,
rockbeat.lha aud/tra 1Mb Create drumming tracks and export them a
perl.tar.bz2 dev/lan 11Mb Perl 5.8.5 AmigaOS4
jpegxinfo.lha gra/mis 11kb Drag'n'drop JPEG Exif viewer (jhead GUI)
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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09.Jan.2006
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AROS-Archives: Uploads til 08.01.2006
aros-archives uploads since our last report:
bzip2-1.0.3.tar.gz dev/lib 985kb bzip2 archiver + linklib
unlzx.tar.bz2 uti/arc 17kb .lzx unarchiver
amilua.i386-aros.zip dev/lan 233kb Amilua AROS binary
amilua_src.zip dev/lan 247kb Amilua source
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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09.Jan.2006
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golem.de: It seems cheap - Media Markt and Saturn often more expensive
A investigation of the german newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung"
shows that the 50% to 70% of the offered articles of the German Electronic
Discounters "Media Markt" and "Saturn" are more expensive then the same
articles offered by "Kaufhof", "Karstadt" or "Schaulandt" (cg) (Translation: aj)
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09.Jan.2006
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PowerPC-Linux: Yellow Dog Linux 4.1
Terrasoft released a new Version of his LinuxPPC-Distribution Yellow Dog,
which supports beside PowerMacs also the Pegasos.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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09.Jan.2006
Raffaele (ANF)
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Polaris: Open Solaris Kernel for PowerPC (Pegasos ODW) compiled
The "PPC OpenSolaris Projekt" notify, that the compiled yesterday the first
time a working kernal version of the open-source operationsystem for
PowerPC CPUs.
The first platform for the "Polaris" named project is the Pegasos ODW.
Genesi donated this project with some Pegasos Computers.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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09.Jan.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future release 58 (Januar/Februar 2006) was published
The following German text reports about the release 58 of the German
Amiga-Magazin "Amiga Future". The Amiga Furure are only published in
german language.
Pressemitteilung : Etwas früher als geplant ist heute die Amiga Future Ausgabe 58 (Januar/Februar 2006) erschienen.
In dieser Ausgabe sind wieder Artikel für alle Bereiche dabei. So haben wir Desert Racing für den Classic Amiga, BlobWars für AmigaOS 4 und Virtual GP für MorphOS getestet.
Aber natürlich gibt es nicht nur Berichte über Spiele. Ein MyApacheStarter Test fehlt genauso wenig im Heft wie ein Special über die AmigaOS 4 Prefs oder RAM und ein Review von AmiKit.
Natürlich ist das nicht der gesamte Inhalt der Amiga Future. Auf unerer Homepage findet ihr eine Inhaltsangabe sowie Leseproben.
Als besonderes Highlight haben wir, neben vielen weiteren Vollversionen, auf unserer LeserCD Main Actor sowie Ports of Call. (Ein passendes Interview zu POC fehlt natürlich auch nicht.)
Die Auflage der Amiga Future steigt stetig. Das hatte in der Vergangenheit zur Folge das einige Einzelheft-Besteller leider leer ausgegangen sind. Um das zu vermeiden haben wir natürlich die Druckauflage erhöht. Trotzdem haben wir auch dieses mal die Befürchtung das die Ausgabe wesentlich früher ausverkauft ist als geplant. Wir empfehlen deswegen allen Usern die an dieser Ausgabe der Amiga Future Interesse haben, so bald wie möglich zu bestellen.
Die Amiga Future ist im Amiga Fachhandel (Zum Beispiel Vesalia, GGS-Data, ...) sowie auf den Amiga Future und APC&TCP Homepages erhältlich. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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09.Jan.2006
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MorphOS: Reggae B veröffentlicht (Update)
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski notify a new class is now added to Reggae -
it is fir.filter used for audio signal filtering. The code is highly
optimized, so even very long filters (2048 taps and more) can be performed
in realtime even on G3 processor. Some routines are written for AltiVec,
but MorphOS 1.4.5 kernel doesn't have AltiVec turned on, so routines can't
be used yet (but they are there, tested and waiting for a new kernel).
Update: (18:18, 09.01.06, snx)
The complete packet is now released, Reggae B.
Beside the actual classes is the fir.filter included and also a second new
class named winicon.demuxer to load Windows Icons. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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08.Jan.2006
Heinz-Raphael Reinke (ANF)
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Development Environment: AmiDevCpp 0.9 "Monster Pack"
The development environment AmiDevCpp is now available in version 0.9. With the IDE, programs can now be produced for following systems:
- MS Windows (x86)
- AmigaOS (68k)
- AmigaOS 4 (PPC)
- MorphOS (PPC)
- AROS (x86)
However, AmigaOS 4 developers must additionally obtain an up-to-date SDK, since that is not freely available yet.
For downloading over 100 files, or rather, 90 MB, DSL users should download the Internet setup program (67 KB). Users of a slower Internet connection still have the possibility to download the files individually.
Since the new server does not seem to work correctly yet, it can happen that individual files are not completely downloaded. These files can be found very easily, in that you view the downloaded files sorted by size, and then manually download those that are too small.
On usage: In the Help menu, a "First Steps" tutorial can be found now. The various compilers can be selected in the "Project->Project options->Compiler" menu. The standard compiler is for MS Windows. Keep in mind to change this to "m68k-AmigaOS", particularly in Amiga projects that are already created. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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08.Jan.2006
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Multimedia Application Layer: Hollywood 2.0 available
Press release:Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce that the biggest update in Hollywood history is now available. Hollywood 2.0 is a massive update with endless new features. The program and its documentation have almost doubled in size. Here is a brief overview of the major new features of Hollywood 2.0 but there are tons more:
- Programming language: Hollywood has a completely new, state-of-the-art 64-bit script language which is dynamically typed and thus, extremely flexible
- Sprites: Hollywood now offers a fully featured sprite library that is implemented completely in software. Hence, there are no limitations in sprite size, frames, colors and so on. With sprites, a lot of cool things are possible
- Music library: The new music library allows playback of MP3 files and Protracker modules. Ptahiplay.library is no longer required!
- AROS support: Hollywood is now available for the i386 version of the Amiga Research Operating System AROS. On AROS native, Hollywood 2.0 gives a stunning performance on modern PCs. Additionally, AROS support means that you can compile x86 native AROS executables also from MorphOS, AmigaOS 3.x or AmigaOS 4 now
- Antialias: Antialiasing is now fully implemented for TrueType fonts on all systems. Drawing routines are very fast even on 68k because of highly-optimized code
- Powerful scheduler: Hollywood's new, powerful scheduler allows you to create exactly timed scripts which run at the same speed on every system
- Alpha channel support: Hollywood supports graphics with an alpha channel now. Thus, it supports graphics with up to 32-bits per pixel now. Highly optimized drawing routines give excellent results even on 68k systems
- Clip regions: Hollywood provides powerful clipping functions now that allow you to clip your graphics even to custom shaped regions (like circles, rectangles with round edges and so on)
- Collision detection: Fast pixel-exact collision detection is now offered. Even alpha channel information is taken into account by the collision detection!
- New off-screen rendering functions: All graphics calls can be used now to render to brush masks and alpha channels, too. Paves the way for unique special effects!
- New GUI: The GUI has been completely rewritten and is much more functional now. It has a showcase that lists all the examples that come with Hollywood and also has screenshots and information about them
- New examples: Hollywood 2.0 comes with over 15 cool new examples that demonstrate the new features. Hollywood has now over 45 examples in total
- Dramatic speed improvements: The image processing functions are up to 10 times faster now on WarpOS because the PPC is used now for everything! The drawing library is also much faster now
- Layer improvements: When removing layers, Hollywood will now use special undo effects which work just the other way round. Furthermore, layers can be given names now. This makes it much easier to work with them because the names do not change like the ids! Finally, anim layers are possible now
- DOS functions: Hollywood 2.0 brings many new DOS functions including a powerful CopyFile() function which can copy whole directories and is customizable through a callback function
- New button library: A much more flexible button library has superseded the old one. The new button library calls functions instead of labels and has more features!
- Sample library: The PlaySample() command offers many more options now and can trigger OnSampleEnd and OnSampleLoop events for perfect script timing!
- Doublebuffer: Hollywood 2.0 has functions for setting up a double buffered display. Double buffer scaling is fully implemented
- Drawing library: All commands of the draw library can draw alpha-blended graphics now, too. Additionally, there are some new functions like Arc() which draws a partial ellipse, and FloodFill() which fills a bordered region with a color
- Compiler: The Hollywood compiler has been completely rewritten and is more configurable now. You can embed version strings and more information in your executables. It is also possible to fix the settings of your compiled scripts; for instance, you can create an executable that will only run in full screen mode
- New fillstyles: All drawing functions can use additional fill styles. Hollywood supports the fill styles 'gradient' and 'texture' now
- Image export: You can now save your brushes to files and also save snapshots of your script from within Hollywood!
- Independence: Hollywood does no longer require the guigfx.library, render.library, and ptahiplay.library
- Full 1.x compatibility: Although the kernel has been completely exchanged, Hollywood 2.0 is fully compatible with the previous versions. All your scripts should run fine with Hollywood 2.0, and Hollywood Designer and Malibu do not need any updates, either
Starting with Hollywood 2.0, the program does no longer work on systems without a graphics board. A hi/true color screenmode is now required.
Hollywood comes on a CD-ROM that contains versions for all supported platforms: There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpOS, MorphOS, AmigaOS 4 and for the first time AROS (i386). A download version is also offered. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own Hollywood 1.x, you can buy a discounted upgrade version.
Hollywood 2.0 is Airsoft Softwair's definite Multimedia experience (Code name: Vision.1) and was given 10 of 10 points throughout by all of its beta testers. On top of all those features, Hollywood also has a cross-compiler which allows you to save executables for any platform that Hollywood supports.
For example, AROS users can save AmigaOS 4 executables with Hollywood. Or MorphOS users can save WarpOS executables and so on. Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all those different AmigaOS compatible platforms! With Hollywood, you can support them all. If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the Hollywood product information which also contains a full feature list of Hollywood. (snx)
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08.Jan.2006
Murakami (ANF)
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aMiGa=PoWeR: Issue 33 of the french magazine available
Issue 33 of the french print-magazine aMiGa=PoWeR is available. Among other stuff it contains articles about Alchimie 5, Amiga's 20th anniversary and AROS, reviews of AmigaOS 4 Update #3 (8 pages), TuneNet, Wet and Beats Of Rage, tutorials for SQLite and BitTorrent as well as many other articles about Desert Racing Of Bardos, Crossfire II for AmigaOS 4 and the annopunced Power Vixxen LT board.
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French newspaper issued by AFLE (French association). Created in 1998, A=P became thanks to the experience of AFLE (created in 1994) the 1st French-speaking Amiga newspaper. Entirely laser printed, aMiGa=PoWeR is distributed in the whole world. (snx)
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08.Jan.2006
Pegasos.org (Web page)
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Pegasos: AmigaOS and CD32 loader
Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has compiled an AmigaOS and CD32 loader, by means of which the Pegasos II can boot into the respective Amiga environment. By default, an inserted CD32 CD is booted directly.
The Amiga emulation is based on E-UAE and requires appropriate Kickstart files (from the CD32 by default). In addition, you need a Torrent client in order to download. You can obtain details on the range of functions and the installation under the title link. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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08.Jan.2006
Jochen Terstiege (ANF)
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Java version of BattleDuel completed / Update to the Amiga version
The freeware artillery game BattleDuel (screenshot) now exists as a Java version as well. This port conforms to a one-to-one conversion of the Amiga original, so that network games are possible between both systems.
At the same time, an update for the Amiga version was developed, which ensures compatibility to the Java version and corrects small errors. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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08.Jan.2006
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Mixer 1.17 and Envy24HT 5.6
Before long, updates to the mixer as well as to the Envy24HT sound card driver by Davy Wentzler will be available in OS4Depot. The latter, in version 5.6, now supports the Terratec card Aureon 7.1 Space as well.
In addition, the Mixer 1.17 can now operate the AC97 codec on this sound card as well as on the Aureon Sky, so that CD, Aux, Mic and Line-In can be mixed. Moreover, support for several sound cards was improved. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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08.Jan.2006
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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MorphOS: UnRAR 3.5.4
The MorphOS port of UnRAR is now available in version 3.5.4.
Download: unrar.lha (275 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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08.Jan.2006
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amiga-news.de: Preview function in the Forums
Thanks to Philippe "PAB" Bourdin, the Forums have a preview function in the meantime: Whoever prepares a new contribution, can first display a preview, before the comment is actually posted.
Whoever has change requests or suggestions for improvement for the Forums, is sincerely invited to communicate these to us in the corresponding thread. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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