07.Jan.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS: AfA 3.91.1
AROS for AmigaOS (AfA), a project for enhancing the AmigaOS 3.x by porting back newer AROS- functions, was updated to version 3.91.1.
Changes:
- Bug fixes:
- exec.library: obtainsemaphorelist now works also when the same task already locked the semaphore (fixed in AROS, too)
- diskfont.library: crash because of buffer overflow with some colour fonts (fixed by Georg Steger; fixed in AROS, too)
- New:
- stack increased for every program to avoid a buffer overflow when using many additional patches; this feature is implemented in the file afa_system_lib.exe and works without the exec.library
- Stack size of 4500 bytes as standard (AmigaOS: 4000); when a program itself demkands additional stack does AfA increase it by 260 Byte
- AfA logo integrated into the AfA preferences; the logo was made by FishX and is available in to sizes in the directory "logo"
Here now some notes for developers:
When a program is developed on AfA it could crash running on AmigaOS because of the lower standard stack size. Therefore , this should be increased by default.
For developers being interested in a graphical skins system for AROS and therefore in AfA created Georg Steger a frameI class as an example that is available in the Intuition directory of AfA and that can be started via double clicking as often as it is wanted.
The intuition.library of AROS in AfA is now that far that all related elements are used by AROS. The source code is uptodate - but there's no binary file as it looks exactly as the one for AmigaOS.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jan.2006
Neo (ANF)
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amigaone.de: new portal for AmigaOS 4.0 interested
Since some weeks now, there's a new homepage online that is mainly offering news about AmigaOS 4 and its hardware. In addition there'S a forum for help, tips&tricks and much more as well as a links collection containing companies and projects that are actively developing in the Amiga area.
We don't want to be a competition with current news sites like AmigaFuture, AmigaWorld or AmigaNews, we just want to offer a second contact point for AmigaOS 4 users. We are are not interested in making money with the homepage, either.
We are conscoius that the homepage isn't looking quite well using current Amiga browsers but questioning the current acive users of our site showed that the majority doesn't see a rework as a necessity. Constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement are very welcome ;-)
Your AmigaOne.de team
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jan.2006
AROS-Exec (website)
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AROS: cross compiler for i686 Linux and i686 Cygwin updated
Jocke 'Zerohero' Birging released under the title link updates for the x86 GCC cross compilers for AROS. Next to the version 3.3.1 for i686 Linux and i686 Cygwin with C++ now working there's a cross compiler in version 4.0.0 for both systems available.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jan.2006
AROS-Exec (forum)
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Guide: How to compile AROS for AmigaOS (English)
Heinz-Raphael Reinke made a short PDF guide available explaining in English how to compile AROS for AmigaOS (AfA).
Download: HOWTO_Compile_AfA.pdf (49 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jan.2006
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: PCnet32 network card driver - also for VMWare and QEmu
Nick Andrews has converted the first version of a network card driver for the
PCnet32-family to the subversion management system of AROS.
This driver does not only work with the real AMD-chips but also
with AROS under VMWare or the latest CVS version of QEmu.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jan.2006
David Brunet (ANF)
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Database: Amiga Games List with 10893 Amiga games now
The newest release of David Brunet's "Amiga Games List" lists 10893 Amiga games and is the most extensive one of this kind. New in this update:
- Category "AROS" for AROS games introduced
- Category "POS" for "Portable OS" games
- New category "Div" for games running on modified Amiga hardware (Arcadia, CuboCD32, POD, und 1000CS)
- Option "Interp" for games running only with an interpreter. Furthermore this games now are significantly marked
- New category "Réalisé en" shows the language the game was realized on
- Mehr details to the license of a game
- History added
- Page of informations added
(cg) (Translation: ts)
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04.Jan.2006
amigafuture.de (Website)
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Operating System: NetBSD 3.0 for Classic Amiga
Shortly before christmas version 3.0 of the operating system NetBSC has
been released for the Classic Amiga. NetBSD is similar to Unix and is
distributed under the open source licence making it easy to port it.
53 platforms are currently supported along with the Amiga/68k including the DraCo.
NetBSD needs a MMU as well as an 68020 CPU or higher and 8 MB FastRAM. A list of changes in version 3.0 can be read in the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: nba)
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03.Jan.2006
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AmigaOS 4: grep 2.5.1a
Henning Nielsen Lund has ported the newest version of grep for AmigaOS.
(cg) (Translation: nba)
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03.Jan.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Update of Frozen Bubble
Frozen Bubble (Screenshot) is a clone of the classic arcade game Puzzle Bobble. The update eliminates a few minor bugs which were reported by the users:
- relink against older SDL, music and sound problems fixed
- increased sound buffer size to 4096 as recomended by toaks
- found a few more instances of $ENV{HOME} replaced them with /bubbles
- added a timidity config to stop SDL from looking for it in /usr/local/lib. I suspect though that it's not actually used.
(cg) (Translation: nba)
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03.Jan.2006
o1i (ANF)
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AROS: GTK-MUI wrapper included in the Nightly Builds
After all functions required by the Team AROS bounty #30 being implemented by Oliver 'o1i' Brunner into a GTK-MUI wrapper and the current version being judged by the developers to be stable enough that all GTK examples in the CVS do work, Jack Patton has imported a snapshot of the source code into the contrib-sources of AROS. Thus the GTK-MUI wrapper is included in the Nightly Builds of AROS from now on.
The further plans for the (near) future are the integration of as many GLib functions as possible and, as far as this can be achieved, the usage of the original header files. For MorphOS, Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta is also turning the wrapper into a dynamic library (gtkmuippc.library). (snx)
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03.Jan.2006
Charlene McNulty / VHT Canada
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The end of VirusExecutor
Jan Erik Olausen has proclaimed the end of VirusExecutor, so there will be no more updates for the anti-virus-software released for Classic AmigaOS. This was announced by the Virus Help Team, which thanked the Dane for his commitment in the past years.
Olausen was among other things also jointly responsible for xvs.library. With the help of this library virus definitions can be edited in external software. This is why the VirusExecutor also will stay up to date and can be used in the future as well. Xvs.library will definitely not be affected by the stopping of VirusExecutor. (nba) (Translation: iw)
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03.Jan.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Drumcomputer Rockbeat 1.3.2
The software-based drum computer Rockbeat is now available in its version 1.3.2. Changes since the last version:
- AHI device is released on exit now, so apps such as Audio Evolution
and HD-REC can start after quitting RockBEAT.
- "Scroll while playing" is now optional. Sometimes its useful to turn
off scrolling, so you can edit a portion of a pattern while it loops
This setting is remembered on quitting.
Download: rockbeat.lha (1,6 MB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: nba)
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03.Jan.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell 0.0.37
abc-shell ("Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell") is a POSIX-/Bourne-compatible Shell which offers an environment similar to the one from Unix-/Linux-systems. abc-shell should ease the porting of Unix-software to
the Amiga platform.
The newest version has been bugfixed and is now compatible to
Configure-scripts which were created by newer versions of autoconf.
Download: abc-shell-0.0.37.lha (532 KB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: nba)
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03.Jan.2006
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AmigaOS 4: TuneNet 0.72a (Beta)
TuneNet is a MP3-, OGG-, AHX-, AIFF- and Protracker-player for AmigaOS 4 that even plays MP3-streams from the internet (Screenshot). Updates in version 0.72a:
- MP3 detection improved (for use with the OGG Vorbis plugin!!!).
- Double click on Plugin List added to get a description of the plugin.
- Docky D&D Send Message improved to fix problems with other dockies such as
YAM.
- Playlist detection from WB / CLI / D&D (.m3u extension recognised).
- m3u files with comments are now handled.
- m3u relative paths now supported (great for files produced by CD Rippers).
- Playlist loading now silently checks for the playlist files existence before
(checking &) adding them to the list.
- New OS4 style Requester boxes added.
- Help "bubbles" can be toggled on or off from the settings menu and at
startup from the preferences.
- Fixed a bug in the Find routine which could give some false positives.
- MP3 Icecast support added (wasn't too difficult)
- http streams within m3u files now allowed.
- Improvements to stream recovery and forced restarts on buffer empty.
- Single streams specified from the cli "-stream" option or from m3u files can
now be saved along with the playlist.
- DNS timeout added to finally halt any long term network related lockups
(6 second time out by default).
- Blank URLS in PLS files are now handled without crashing the task.
- Spaces in URL's are now converted to %20
Download: TuneNetV0.70a_CR.lha (680 KB)
Link: OGG Vorbis Plugin (cg) (Translation: nba)
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02.Jan.2006
Bradd Webb (E-Mail)
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Newsletter: Amiga Update #051231
Brad Webb's newsletter "Amiga Update" contains a summary of the more important Amiga related news of the last four weeks. The December issue has now been released:
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"SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW"
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AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc.
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E 3 B , I N D I V I D U A L C O M P U T E R S C A N S E L L
B E T A T E S T E R S W A N T E D !
M E D I A T O R P C I B U S B O A R D U P D A T E
T U N E N E T A U D I O P L A Y E R F O R O S 4
W H D L O A D H A S N E W V E R S I O N
D E S E R T R A C I N G G A M E A N N O U N C E D
A M I K I T 1 . 0 . 3 A V A I L A B L E
A M I P O D D E R N O W D O E S V I D E O
O N Y X S O F T R E L E A S E S F I V E U P D A T E S
A M I G A S Y S 3 F O R W I N U A E U S E R S
F R E E P O P S F O R M A I L E R S
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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Congratulations to the Amiga community - we have survived another
year! While it has been a busy and fulfilling year in many ways, we
still have no final release of Amiga OS 4.0 to celebrate. However,
there has been some interesting information regarding that topic which
came to light recently.
On December 28, an IRC session was conducted with representatives of
Hyperion by the good folks at AmigaWorld.net. This information
provided by Hyperion and taken from one of the session transcripts
should be of interest to all Amigans eager for a full release version
of OS4:
"Rogue: As you have probably already guessed, there will be no OS 4
release this year. There are reasons for that which I would like to
explain. The main reason is the unavailability of hardware. As you all
know, AmigaOne's [sic] are not available right now, so we are not in a
position to offer an OS 4 with a matching hardware. We DO think that
once we release AmigaOS4.0, there will be a general interest in the
news, in media, etc. We will get a lot of interest from people outside
the amiga market, and they will ask where they can buy it. If we tell
them they cannot buy it right now and need to wait until the hardware
is available, then this will take away a lot of momentum that the
release will generate. Hence we decided to postpone the release until
such time as a hardware platform IS available."
You can read the entire set of transcripts at www.amigaworld.net.
Let's hope the situation with hardware availability can be set right
soon. What a great event for the new year it would be if we could see
the release, finally, of OS4!
Happy New Year to all our readers where ever you are, and good Amiga
computing to you as well!
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E 3 B , I N D I V I D U A L C O M P U T E R S C A N S E L L
20 December, 2005
The best news at the beginning: E3B and individual Computers continue
selling hardware in the EU. We want to thank everyone who sent us
eMails with suggestions, mostly trying to circumvent the new law, but
also with information on how to start a company in another country.
Unfortunately, all this doesn't help, because the law also applies to
companies outside Germany who want to sell their products in Germany.
To fully comply with the law, E3B and individual Computers founded the
label "ConBridge" which is now registered with the Stiftung EAR,
despite legal problems that are not fully resolved. Read more on the
common webseite www.conbridge.de (German language only).
New advertising partner
We have supported the "Amiga plus" magazine for a long time with our
adverts. Since the Amiga plus is not available any more, we have been
looking for a new magazine with the same high quality of articles.
What we found is the Austrian magazine Lotek 64: It's made by
enthusiastic hobbyists, and stands any comparison with high-standard
professional journals. You can either read the magazine online for
free, or you can make a donation and have the mag sent to you in
printed form. The magazine is in German language only.
For the current december-issue we want to point out an article by
Dr. Rainer Buchty, which deals with the technology of the C64-DTV2.
The Commodore 64 in a joystick is also known as "PAL-DTV", and is
derived from the C-One. However, individual Computers was not involved
in the DTV project, so our high production standards were not applied.
The article describes how you can correct the low (nearly unreadable)
colour contrast with a little skill and a soldering iron.
http://ami.ga/indexe.htm
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B E T A T E S T E R S W A N T E D !
31 December, 2005
Screenshots of the current version:
http://tamar.4players.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6717
The first step towards the new 3D map has been made! Tales of Tamar
can now run at a higher resolution and give the project a whole new
look, thanks to a new GUI and handling.
Instead of the old 640x480, the program can now run in 1024x768 in 16,
24 or 32 bit.
Rewriting took over three months and we hit the boundaries of the
different Amiga models several times. Bugs in the graphics drivers,
lacking performance and missing features like actual double-buffering,
just to mention a few.
But now it is done, and we are proud to present this pearl to a wider
audience. As always, we release these new features on the Amiga first.
The whole ToT team wishes you a Happy New Year. May the Amiga stay
with us for years to come, in one form or another.
About the project:
We are looking for 30 active beta testers to test the new features on
different Amiga systems. Testers play for free and only need to bring
enough time and motivation to find and report bugs.
In order to continue to the next step, the actual 3D map, the new and
updated client needs to be thoroughly tested to find and fix as many
bugs as possible. We depend on the help of the community for this.
Let's build a solid foundation for the ongoing development of the
client for the Amiga!
The features:
- 640*480/8bit and 1024*768/16/24/32 bit support
- OS4 support
- MOS support
- Amithlon support
- UAE support
- PPC support
- CD, Paula & AHI support
- animated weapons, armor, goods and buildings in 8/16/24/32 bit
- figure animation in 8/16/24/32 bit
- more than 30 screens
- massively multiplayer strategy via email or TCP/IP
- multiple language support
- multi platform (Amiga, PC, Mac, Linux, Browser, Java)
- online chat
- 8 minute animated intro
Here are the new screenshots:
http://tamar.4players.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6717
Greetings,
Your ToT team
Tales of Tamar is a turn based, massively multiplayer strategy game
similar to Kaiser or Civilization and is being developed by Eternity.
{No URL was provided with this information other than the ones shown
in the story. You can perhaps contact the company at www.tamar.net.
Brad}
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M E D I A T O R P C I B U S B O A R D U P D A T E
28 December, 2005
*The Mediator UP 3.10 update for Mediator PCI busboards
<http://eu-shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?show=2BB> has been released. The
update is free of charge for all registered Mediator users.*
The update includes new versions of:
* pci.library
* Voodoo.card
* Virge.card
* MedConfig
Changes:
pci.library ver. 6.5
- many internal changes
Voodoo.card ver. 4.26
- the first common Voodoo.card version for MM CD and no-MM CD users
- support for hardware de-interlacing in overlay added
- VodooGuide Italian translation by Arturo Franzin
Virge.card ver. 1.8
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
MedConfig ver. 1.4
- bug fixes
- French localisation by Philippe Bovier
Info on current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS Mediator
<http://elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html> section.
The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the *Mediator
Driver Guide* <http://elbox.com/mdg.html>.
The info about Mediator-related sources you will find in the
COMMUNITY
<http://elbox.com/community.html> section.
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T U N E N E T A U D I O P L A Y E R F O R O S 4
24 December, 2005
*TuneNet V0.70a (Audio Player) has been released for OS4, highlights
include:
* Playlist editing / sorting and searching.
* Seekable Song Position.
* Full Skinable Docky Interface.*
Special thanks goes to Russell Glover for the docky graphics, fonts,
animations, testing and feedback!
Enjoy this release -
Available at http://os4depot.net/
or the TuneNet site
http://www.tunenet.co.uk
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W H D L O A D H A S N E W V E R S I O N
20 December, 2005
WHDLoad is the AmigaOS Harddisk-Install package. WHDLoad makes it
possible to install many demos and games, which were originally
designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.
*The new version is available at this URL:
<http://www.whdload.de/>
Registered users should have no problems with the new updates.
The release notes are as follows....
*** 16.5 (15.12.2005)
- new: check for CyberGraphX/56KHZAUDIO added (David Roeskamm)
- new: commands PL_ORB/W/L added for patch lists (Psygore)
- chg: if XPK decompression fails during preload WHDLoad shows the
missing sublib name too
- fix: kickemu correctly updates IO_ACTUAL on trackdisk accesses
(JOTD)
- chg: russian translation reworked (Manbiker)
- new: display promotion added to kick31emu, with that WHDLoad options
DblPAL and DblNTSC become working in conjunction with installed
games using kick31 emulation and supporting it
- fix: stackcheck modified to avoid complaining if first long word of
stack is trashed (e.g. when using WarpOS-XPK-Sublib and running
from Workbench)
- chg: bubble help for bplcon* registers added to WHDLoadGCI
- fix: improved startup code for kickemu and _bootdos in kick13.asm
- fix: disassembler for negative absolut word addressing fixed
(Psygore)
- chg: improved error messages on resload_Patch(Seg)
- new: slovak translation added, thanks to Jan Zahurancik and Martin
Durik
- new: ukrain translation added, thanks to Andrey Molchanov
- chg: improvement on resload_ProtectSMC, instructions modifying the
sr no longer break the SMC check, autodocs fixed, disabling trace is
no longer required with SMC check (JOTD)
- chg: text explanation added to register dump for attnflags and
setcpu
- chg: Snoop on 68060 now allows change of bit #6/7 of ciaa.ddra which
is used on accessing/detecting joypad
- new: if WHDLoad is started without an slave argument from the CLI it
shows a short help for all options and some raw key codes
- chg: improved speed on preload for resload_Examine, now uses
dos.ExAll and memory pools (when running on v39+)
- chg: kick31emu got a new option called JOYPADEMU, formerly included
in INIT_LOWLEVEL now separated to support GetLanguage without joypad
emulation, also the joypademu has been improved, now the keys
used are user configurable using the Custom option
- chg: options ExecuteStartup and ExecuteCleanup are now local and
- chg: file PreLoad improved, uses now dos.ExAll, memory pools (if
running under v39+ and more than 4MB free fast available),
asynchronous decrunching of XPK files
- new: supports also the kickstart images supplied with Cloantos Amiga
Forever CDs, kick130.rom or amiga-os-130.rom must be renamed to
kick34005.A500, kick310.rom or amiga-os-310.rom renamed to
kick40068.A4000, images together with the rom.key must be
installed under DEVS:Kickstarts, some older installs require a
kick40068.A1200 image these installs wont run with Cloantos roms
- new: norwegian translation added which is not complete but better
than none, thanks to Herman Andresen
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D E S E R T R A C I N G G A M E A N N O U N C E D
20 December, 2005
*Today we release the new APC&TCP-Game Desert Racing.
A Demo version (over 200 MB) from the game found you on the next
CoverCD (58) from the Amiga Future and on the Info/Update/Demo CD from
APC&TCP.
With Desert Racing of Bardos we'll show you a racing game that you
have never seen on the Amiga before. Use different components for your
car depending on your money, drive through amazing animated landscapes
and bring your AGA Amiga to boil. In the single or multiplayer modes
you'll not only have the possibilty of tuning the performance but also
other things...
We take the meaning of tuning very strict because the you will need
the different weapon systems to succeed in the dirty desert races.
To get into the pleasure of Desert Racing of Bardos your Amiga has to
be equipped with an AGA chipset or a graphicsboard. A 68030/25 is
minimum. 1,5MB ChipRAM and 28MB FastRAM are the requirements but more
is always better.
Get Desert Racing of Bardos and experience an exiting arcade racing
game without getting envious of the PC world....
System requirements:
Minimum: Amiga with AGA or graphicsboard, 68030 CPU, 2MB of ChipRAM
and 32MB of FastRAM, harddrive, CD-ROM drive A better CPU is
recommended.
http://www.apc-tcp.de/support/0020e.html
http://www.apc-tcp.de
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A M I K I T 1 . 0 . 3 A V A I L A B L E
24 December, 2005
AmiKit is the compilation of the best Amiga (free/shareware) programs
around. To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you want to experience
a high-end Classic Amiga system. It contains many expansions and
add-ons (more than 20.000 files are included in AmiKit!) that turn the
default AmigaOS installation into a completely renewed and fresh
environment. This pre-configured package is designed for immediate
use. Moreover, it contains an exciting surprise for the whole Amiga
community, see the features!
Features
The most exciting feature of AmiKit is:
* Directory Opus Magellan II v5.82*
used as a Workbench replacement!!! This commercial software has never
been freely released to the public before. If you do not know anything
about this excellent piece of software, you should check it out NOW!
You're going to love it. Here are few words from Andreas Loong
(GuruMeditation <http://www.gurumeditation.se>), who has kindly given
permission to use DOpus Magellan II in the AmiKit project: "We
acquired the full rights to Dopus Magellan late 2004. We've agreed to
include the trial version on this distribution to let people have a go
and tinker with it as much as they like. We're closing in on a new
release, updated with various features that will come towards the end
of 2005. If you find the version here worth your time, I hope you will
check out the version we're making for AmigaOS 4!"
Next exclusive features of AmiKit:
* AmiStart* (v0.66) Darius Brewka has created a special version for
AmiKit
* GlobalTrash* (v1.5a1) Oliver Blumert has created an exclusive
AmiKit preview version
* ReqChange* (v3.15) Magnus Holmgren has created a free keyfile for
AmiKit
* ShowAmiga96* (v2.3d) Heiko Mueller has created a special version
for AmiKit
* FullPalette* (v40.23) Massimo Tantignone has sent me his updated
version
Even more features:
* KensIcons* complete set of icons, some painted exclusively for
AmiKit by Ken Lester!
* KensOS4* two visual themes exclusively created for AmiKit by Ken
Lester!
* microgolded* the best text Amiga editor around has been licensed
<microgolded.htm> for AmiKit!
* MorpheuZ* tool that allows you to easily change the design of
system windows in AmiKit!
AmiKit Launcher - easy to use graphical user interface created by
Rex Schilasky
Other major features:
*
*User-friendly interface* that helps you to manage all your
files in an easy way!
*
*Internet browsing, mailing, chatting and downloading* using
various programs like AWeb, IBrowse, YAM, SimpleMail, AmIRC,
AmiTradeCenter, AmiGift
*
*Reading PDF, M$, RTF* and other document formats with the help
of APDF, EvenMore, Antiword
*
*Manage your time and account* with the help of Daywatch and
HomeBank.
*
*Music software, net streaming, MP3 creating and sample editing
software* like AmigaAMP, AmiNetRadio, EaglePlayer,
SymphoniePlayer, LAME, TheMPegEncGUI, SampleEditor
*
*Displaying (even in thumbnails) and editing pictures* with the
help of PicShow, Thumb, MysticView, FroggerNG, PerfectPaint Or
enjoy the fractal world through ZoneXplorer!
*
*Easy handling of archives.* They are opened like every other
drawer. Or some external programs could be used instead
(VooDoo-X, MUIUnArc, XPKatana)
*
*Massive FTP support* through OpusFTP module. It has a full GUI
for the Address Book and operational parameters.
*
*Software for burning and copying the CDs* (MakeCD), for
mounting virtual CDs (VirtualCD).
*
You can make your AmiKit password protected. Just don't forget
your password ;-)
*
*Pre-configured recognition and processing of many file formats*
(through the DOpus filetypes)
*
*Various system tools* like SysInspector, SnoopDos, Q-Device,
ShowPatches
*
*Antivirus software* effectively checks the system files, memory
and archives for viruses.
*
*Emulation software* like ASp for retro ZX gaming
*
*Great taskbar software:* AmiStart (for those who do not like
the taskbars on Amiga, simply remove AmiStart from WBStartup.
Easy!)
*
Most advanced Amiga recycle bin software: GlobalTrash
*
*Visual enchancers and system enchancers* like VisualPrefs,
Birdie, TitleShadow, BoingBall, MagicMenu, MCP
*
*Warp3D compatibility* thanks to QuarkTex software
*
Adjust PC keyboard to your Amiga needs with the help of
MMKeyboard software solution!
*
Yes, some games are included as well ;-)
Hardware:
*
A PC computer, a rather fast one. At least 256MB of RAM is
recommended (otherwise decrease the RAM size in WinUAE config). AmiKit
was created on AthlonXP 2500+ where the boot process of AmiKit takes
about 12 seconds (or 10 seconds more with unregistered Directory Opus
Magellan II, see limitations). I've also tried an AthlonXP 1800 and
the speed of AmiKit was still acceptable.
*
Gfx card capable of displaying 32bit screenmodes.
PC software:
*
WinUAE, the Windows port of the UAE Amiga Emulator. Version
1.1.1 is already included in AmiKit package, however if a newer
version is found in your system, AmiKit will automatically use it.
Amiga software:
*
The source of AmigaOS3.x system files. AmiKit installation
archive DOES NOT contain any copyrighted Amiga system files because
AmigaOS3.x is still available (fortunately!). These system files will
be copied from the original CD to AmiKit during the installation
procedure. Come on, support the Amiga and buy the CD, if you haven't
done so yet!
*
AmigaOS ROM file (v3.1). You can obtain this from your real
Amiga with the help of ROM ripper/grabber software (see Aminet).
Another possibility is to buy the Amiga Forever package which includes
the ROM file.
http://www.amikit.amiga.sk/
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A M I P O D D E R N O W D O E S V I D E O
10-Dec-2005 15:31:43
Video podcasts come to the Amiga with AmiPodder 1.4! With the release
of iTunes 6 and the new iPod video many podcasters are including video
clips in their podcast feeds. AmiPodder now recognises video episodes
and can play them back in the video player of your choice (MPlayer and
Frogger have been tested, not all video podcasts will play on Amiga
players due to the codecs used). If you have a portable device capable
of playing video, AmiPodder can sync the movies to it too.
Also in version 1.4 are a number of improvements and bug fixes
including:
* Option to prompt for the sync directory making it easier to use
AmiPodder with multiple portable players or players using removeable
media cards.
* New status of "Played", so if you use AmiPodder as a "jukebox" you
can see what podcasts you've already listened to.
* File name length limitation, handy if your Amiga filesystem or music
player only accepts short filenames.
* Many more changes.
AmiPodder 1.4 is freeware and runs on OS 3.x, OS 4 and MorphOS.
Download the new version from:
http://www.amipodder.com
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O N Y X S O F T R E L E A S E S F I V E U P D A T E S
17 December, 2005
OnyxSoft is releasing five software updates so you have something to
play with over Christmas! {Or thereafter. Brad}
(Our homepage will be updated in a few days. All files are current
though even if the download page says otherwise.)
Updated programs
Annotate v2.3 - (OS4) A very comprehensive text editor with a lot of
functions. These are the major updates: ReAction, UTF-8, Tab chars, a
lot of new config options, new and fixed hotkeys.
8SVXtoXXX v1.4 - (68k) Converter for IFF-8SVX samples to various audio
formats. Fixed reading of some files which could have crashes
8SVXtoXXX. Added CLI support.
BackUp v1.44 - (68k) Backup program that mirrors a directory
structure. BackUp no longer creates empty directories for dirs in the
skiplist. Better CLI support. Fixed a possible crash when pausing a
backup process.
MPlayer-GUI v1.32 - (OS4) GUI for MPlayer. Added p96_vmem and
cgx_vmem_scale video modes and the new SIL devices to VCD/DVD
choosers.
DigiConverter v1.2 - (68k) Developer tool to convert between decimal,
bex, binary, float and ASCII. Added buttons for copy and paste and
made a few fixes.
http://www.onyxsoft.se/
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A M I G A S Y S 3 F O R W I N U A E U S E R S
28-Dec-2005 22:04:22 (360 reads)
*Few days late, but AmigaSYS3 has been released on 28th December,
aftersome hard months of work!*
- Amiga OS 3.0/3.1 support.
- Amiga OS 3.9 ( Amiga Forever 5/6/2005/OE , AmigaOs 3.9 , Amiga OSXL)
support.
- A lot of new fix, programs , features , scripts, ideas.
- 5 fantastic Themes.
- New AmigaSYS Additional pack!
- Beneath A Steel Sky AmigaSYS pack!
- And more... and more...and more info , see AmigaSYS page!
http://amigasys.fw.hu
AmigaSYS is a pre-installed full Amiga OS for WinUAE, like AIAB.
For install, you need a valid KickstartROM 3.0/3.1, and the image file
of Workbench and Extras Disk 3.0/3.1.
The new AmigaSYS 2.0 needs KickROM 3.1 and optional a valid OS 3.9 CD
for full features.
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F R E E P O P S F O R M A I L E R S
{From the excellent site www.amigaworld.net. Brad}
*Description: * FreePOPs
<http://os4depot.net/share/network/email/freepops_lha.readme>
*Download: * freepops.lha
<http://os4depot.net/share/network/email/freepops.lha>
*Version: * 0.0.96
*Date: * 28 Dec 05
*Author: * Various - AmigaOS4 port by Andrea Palmatè
*Submitter: * Andrea Palmatè
*Email: * andrea/amigasoft net
*Homepage: * http://www.freepops.org/en/
*Category: * network/email
<http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=browse&cat=network/email>
*License: * GPL
*Distribute: * yes
*FileID: * 1469
FreePOPs is an easily extensible program, which allows access to the
most varied resources through the POP3 protocol.
Mainly, it can be used to download mail from the most famous webmails,
but it could also be used as an aggregator for RSS feeds and much
more. This way it is possible to get all your messages in your
favorite email client.
----
Look at site's manual. The program is simple to configure.
just run it (or add it to user-startup). It will bind on port 2000.
On the email client configure your account to use port 2000 and as
server localhost (or 127.0.0.1).
PLEASE READ MANUAL TO CONFIGURE YOUR MAIL ACCOUNT (and if it is
available)
Look at this page: http://www.freepops.org/it/viewplugins.php to see
if your domain is supported.
http://www.amigasoft.net
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Stop by and check out our archive! Now in our 12th publication year.
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GFX drivers: CyberGraphX 4.3 RC 6
An update for the graphics card driver system CyberGraphX has been released. Version 4.3 RC 6 allows CyberGraphX 4 owners to use the graphics cards CyberVision 3D, CyberVision 64 and Picasso IV with MorphOS on dual boot setups.
Above cards have been successfully tested under PowerUp MorphOS 1.4.5 on an Amiga 4000T with a CyberstormPPC processor board, other drivers might work as well.
Please note that MorphOS 1.4.5 contains a faulty hal.com1 file which does not map CyberVision 3D cards properly in ZorroIII mode. People who like to use this card with MorphOS should replace this file in the "roms" directory by its newer version. This file only needs to be replaced if you own a CyberVision 3D and use PowerUp MorphOS 1.4.5.
Download:
cgxv42_rc6.lha (506 KB)
mos_hal_cv3dfix.lha (34 KB) (snx)
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Aminet-Uploads til 01.01.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
freepops.lha comm/mail 1.3M OS4 FreePOPs
A71Mail.lha comm/www 19K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
A71Mail_example.jpg comm/www 32K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
My_Age.lha comm/www 3K GEN Update magically your age on your web pa
YAT.lha comm/yam 542K GEN Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
Antimagi.adz demo/disk 428K OS3 Crack And Roll Demodisk
Atomic_Team_Collection.zip demo/file 794K OS3 Atomic Team - Demo And Intro Collection
Blitz2_Guide.lha dev/basic 645K GEN Blitz Basic 2.1 manual in guide format+s
Annotate.lha dev/cross 49K OS3 Comments/reformats DASMX 2650 cross-dis
nano.lha dev/lang 234K OS3 New virtual machine, assembler like lang
libSGE_mos.lha dev/misc 346K MOS SDL Graphics Extension (binary only dist
ode_mos.lha dev/misc 340K MOS Open Dynamics Engine for MorphOS
eggchess_mos.lha game/think 362K MOS Play chess with eggs
Marryampic2.lha game/think 299K MOS CardSet game with sound-pairs (MorphOS)
Amilineate_V1.2.lha gfx/conv 888K OS3 easy GUI for autotrace
drawstudio_fr.lha gfx/edit 10K GEN french translation for drawstudio
jhead_os4.lha gfx/misc 146K OS4 View, modify and delete Exif data from J
dvplayer-amixp.zip gfx/show 84K GEN skins for DvPlayer
dvplayer-nucleo.zip gfx/show 27K GEN skins for DvPlayer
EpsonColor_v40.lha hard/drivr 46K OS3 Epson Stylus Color Driver for WB V40.28
Epson_400.lha hard/drivr 26K OS3 Epson Stylus 400/440/460/480 Driver for
Epson_Color.lha hard/drivr 37K OS3 24 bit Epson Stylus Driver for WB V44.02
HP_Deskjet400C.lha hard/drivr 49K OS3 Deskjet 400C/L Driver for WB 40.17
HP_Deskjet600C.lha hard/drivr 51K OS3 Deskjet 600C Driver for WB V40.17
HP_Deskjet670C.lha hard/drivr 28K OS3 Deskjet 670C/680C/690C Driver V40.32
HP_Deskjet870C.lha hard/drivr 27K OS3 Deskjet 8x0C Driver for WB V40.23
HP_Deskjet900C.lha hard/drivr 25K OS3 Deskjet 9x0C Driver for WB V40.14
ATA_harddrive_light.lha hard/hack 48K GEN A very simple Harddrive-light for ATA-dr
dosbox.lha misc/emu 1.3M OS4 MS DOS emulator
organ_01d_wos.lha mus/midi 90K WUP Organ plugin for HD-Rec
ahxplay.lha mus/play 92K MOS AHX player library for MorphOS with SDK
SimpleSamples.lha mus/play 45K OS3 Little musical toy for all the AMIGAs
tunenet-expensive.lha mus/play 149K GEN Another Skin for TuneNet v0.7+
fond1_os4.jpg pix/back 494K GEN backdrop pic
Fond2_os4.0.jpg pix/back 530K GEN pic background
Fond3_os4.0.jpg pix/back 514K GEN pic background
mixer-blueskin2.zip pix/theme 24K GEN Skin Blue2 for OS4 Audio mixer
sloth.lha pix/theme 27K GEN Sloth theme for VisualPrefs
Iceland10.jpg pix/views 137K GEN Waterfall in Iceland
Iceland11.jpg pix/views 114K GEN Waterfall in Iceland
Iceland9.jpg pix/views 107K GEN Waterfall in Iceland
OneLine_MUI.lha text/misc 201K OS3 Text parser, CR-LF-TAB + GhostScript850
cdid2cdlist.lha util/conv 5K OS3 Creates a cdlist from cdid files
BlowfishV0.1.lha util/crypt 61K MOS Encrypt / decrypt your data
DiskMaster_locale.lha util/dir 46K GEN Translation package for DiskMaster2
TheMaestrix.lha util/libs 16K OS3 The Maestix: Reloaded! Using AHI.
ttengine-68k.lha util/libs 420K OS3 TrueType text rendering engine (v 7.2)
eflashutil.lha util/misc 29K OS3 GUI for eFlasher (utility for eFlash 400
tunenet-docky.lha util/wb 8K OS4 amipal's TuneNet Docky
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David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at the Obligement website (french)
The Obligement team wish all the best to everybody for the year 2006! During the previous two monthes, the following articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of november/december 2005
- Interview with Andrea Palmaté (AmigaOS 4 developer)
- Review of AmiKit
- Tutorial: installation of Linux/Debian on Pegasos 1 and 2
- Tutorial: installation of Linux/Yellow Dog on Pegasos 2
- Tutorial: installation of Linux/Crux on Pegasos 2
- Tutorial: installation of Linux/Suse on Pegasos 2
- Tutorial: installation of PegXMac on Pegasos 2 (update)
- Tutorial: installation of MorphOS on Classic Amiga
- Tutorial: TVPaint - creation of gems
- Article about spams (update)
- The Amiga quizz
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MorphOS: PowerTerm.mcc 50.60
Straight from the South Pole, Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek sends an update for the MUI class PowerTerm.mcc for MUICON/SSHCON.
The archive is available under the title link. Moreover, the author announces versions of PowerTerm as well as, subsequently, of MUICON, for Mac OS X also.
Changes since the previous release (50.55):
- 50.56: Huge changes in the class' structure. Adapted large parts of the terminal emulation to work on Mac OS X. Tweaked to use libmosutil (os-independant tags/pools support lib)
- 50.57: Added ESC[Z, ESC[I, fixed the table stops generator, reworked vt_nexttabstop to move the cursor and handle forward wrap, implemented vt_prevtabstop. More work on the ATSUI rendering engine for OSX. Implemented vta_renderline, vta_renderlinepart, vta_refresh, vta_render
- 50.58: Fixed tabs (tab forward should not wrap!), impelemented scroll left/right escape sequences (ESC[ P, ESC[ @), fixed vt_getesccode not to get confused by the @ code
- 50.59: Added an OSX PowerTermScroll class, the OSX port can handle a NSScroller object now. A lot of work in the ATSUI renderer, enabled font matching to allow all possible unicode characters, write method, some work on delayed refreshing. More rendering code - added marking display, finished most of the render sections
- 50.60: OSX vt_scrollto, vt_postwrite and companions, Cocoa PTerm begins to get functional
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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