04.Nov.2005
amiga.org (Webseite)
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CommodoreTalk.com: New forum for Commodore and Amiga fans
Under commodoretalk.com there is a new, English forum for
Commodore- and Amiga fans.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Nov.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Issue 57 (November/December 2005) published
Some topics of the current issue:
- Apache for Amiga
- MorphOS on PowerUP
- Amiga Forever 2005 Premium Edition
- Wild Flyin (with interview)
- Battle of Wesnot
- Turson
- TroikaNG
- Amiga 1200 on car
- Games Convention
- Programmer-Workshop
Full versions on the CD:
- MediaPoint
- XiPaint
- Med Soundstudio 1.03c
- Bandit Mania
- Boppin
- Tomcat
- Willy Castle Dreams
- Winning Post
- Technology 2
- Psycho Squares
- Desert Apache
You can get the Amiga Future directly under the title link as well as at
APC&TCP and diverse Amiga dealers. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Nov.2005
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Feelin: Demonstration videos to alphablending and XML support
Olivier Laviale has published two short movies about his Open-source project Feelin
which demonstrate the alphablending feature
and the XML supprt.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Nov.2005
Amiga Future (homepage)
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Event: Photos of Alchimie 5 (France)
Under the title link you will find photos of the Alchimie 5 which was held from 29th to 31th of Oktober in Tain l'Hermitage (France). At the event, spreaded over the system, among other things Mac OS and Linux were present next to AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (Foto) . (snx) (Translation: ts)
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03.Nov.2005
ANN (homepage)
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Amiga user's map of the world based on Frappr
Under the title link amiga users of all variants can register themselves on a map of the world based on Google Maps. The system, where Frappr is based on, does not work with amiga browsers. The registration of not present cities can be applied to Frappr with the information of the degree of longitude and latitude. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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02.Nov.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: TV report about the Belgian Commodore show online
The TV report about the Belgian Commodore show (amiga-news.de reported), that has been produced by the local TV station Ring-TV in Brussels, is now available online as well. Its length is 2:06 minutes.
Download: Default.wmv (16 MB) (snx)
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02.Nov.2005
OS-News (Webseite)
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Taking OS features for granted: A comparison between RISC OS and AmigaOS
At the title link, Chris Williams continues his comparison between RISC OS and AmigaOS. Following the 'political' view of the 1st part, the author is looking at the operating systems' features now. (snx)
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02.Nov.2005
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at the Obligement website (French)
The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the previous two monthes:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of september/october 2005
- Interview with Frédéric Imbert (retailler "Axe-Z")
- Interview with Nicolas Det (MorphOS developer)
- Review of Monkey Island 3
- Review of Foobillard
- Review of Hu-Go
- Tutorial: how to use XAD and Voodoo-X
- Tutorial: upload to Aminet (update)
- Tutorial: TVPaint - creation of an electric socket
- Article about the Sony AIBO ERS-7
- Article about HTTP codes
- The Amiga quizz
(snx)
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31.Oct.2005
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MorphOS: Virtual Grand Prix 2 (Update)
Paolo 'the Alien' Cattani and Alassoft ported Virtual Grand Prix 2 to MorphOS. The full MorphOS version is now available for download free of charge for personal use, as a thank you to the whole MorphOS community.
The MorphOS version has been made possible thanks to a free ODW development system from Genesi/Freescale. It requires MorphOS 1.4.5, the 3D Update and a supported gfx board.
Virtual Grand Prix 2 is a modern open-wheeled racecar simulator by Paolo Cattani and his staff at Alas Soft. It is the sequel of the original Virtual Grand Prix developed for the Amiga range of computers.
VGP2 uses industrial standards for the simulation of the mechanical components of the car, thus achieving a very high degree of realism in the handling of the virtual one-seater.
The MorphOS version of Virtual Grand Prix 2 is free for personal use and can be downloaded from the title link. However, if you think that the software deserves it, you can make a small donation for it. According to the authors, you can consider it as a kind of "sequel-ware" - i.e. if they collect some money, they might port any further development of the game or sequels to MorphOS as well.
Update: (19:00, 01.11.05, snx)
Andrea Maniero points out that the MorphOS version is compatible with additional tracks that have been created for the Mac and Win versions (you just need to edit the VGP2/config/circuiti.config file accordingly), and with the update pack that gives names, models and textures from the real 2004 F1 championship.
The additional packs can be found at the official VGP2 website. For further information, you can also check the old threads in the RaceSimCentral VGP2 forum. (snx)
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31.Oct.2005
Duke (ANF)
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Gamedatabase "Amiga Games That Weren't" launched
The Gamedatabase "Amiga Games That Weren't" is now avalaible.
Aim of this page is, similar the older page
Games That Weren't 64
carry informationen and if possible providing downloads of never released
Amiga-games.
The first entry is Son Shu Shi
, a Jump'n'Run like Super Wonderboy. Enabled was this by a friend of the
coder and Software Preservation Society
(Disk Mastering) and Codetapper (WHDLoad-Install). (snx) (Translation: aj)
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31.Oct.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Picture of the belgian Commodore-Show
Linked to this header are pictures of the belgian Commodore-Show, happened
on last sunday in Taverne Schettenberg in Affligem.
The local Brussels TV channel Ring TV
and the belgian newspaper "Het Nieuwsblad"
were on site. (snx)
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31.Oct.2005
Golem.de (Webseite)
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Golem.de: Report of ScummVM 0.8.0 mentioned AmigaOS 4
With the header "ScummVM 0.8.0 - Monkey Island for PSP, PS2 and
AmigaOS 4" reports Golem.de about the up to date version of the
Interpreter for LucasArts-Games, which includes a better game support and
a better gui.
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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30.Oct.2005
Pegasos.org (Web page)
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Pegasos: Rescue CD Mupper 1.0 Xtreme Makeover Edition
The rescue CD Mupper for the Pegasos is now available in Version 1.0 as "Xtreme Makeover Edition".
In addition to the supported filesystems FAT, VFAT, ReiserFS, XFS, EXT3 and SFS, the contained programs meanwhile comprise, apart from Parted and Midnight Commander, X.org, Mozilla Firefox, QTParted, GTK2+ toolkits, QT and the complete GCC, too, for instance.
Moreover, the Kudzu Hardware Detection and WiFi support for suitable PCI cards based on Atmel, MadWifi and Prism chips are found on the CD. Mupper is based on the Gentoo-Linux 2.6.13 kernel.
Should you like Mupper, you can grant the author, Mikael Karlsson, a small donation via PayPal.
Download: mupper-v1.0.iso (331 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Oct.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Cheats Database revised extensively
The German Amiga Cheats Database was completely revised in structure and visuals, whereby a simpler usability was achieved. Currently, cheats for over 2500 games are found here. (snx) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 30. Oct. 2005, 16:09] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2005
Holger Kremss (ANF)
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Emulator : German language DLL for WinUAE 1.1.1
Dr. Creep from the "German Amiga Community" Forum has created a German language DLL for WinUAE 1.1.1.
Direct download: WinUAE_German(1.1.1.0).rar (20 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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30.Oct.2005
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Work on BarsnPipes port started
Alfred Faust, responsible for further development of the well-known MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes, has been provided a free µA1 motherboard by Hyperion in the meantime.
Meanwhile, work was started on a port of the program, whose progress will be reported at this place. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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30.Oct.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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3D Demo Object for Blender: Gingerbread man with bones (update)
Carsten Siegner has created a demo object for the 3D renderer Blender, which illustrates how bones (so-called fittings) are built into the gingerbread man from the Blender tutorial.
In addition to other diverse platforms, Blender is also available as a port for MorphOS.
Using the bones, you can animate the gingerbread man arbitrarily freely. In the existing demo object, only bones for arms and legs are available, however more - for the movement of the head, for instance - can be added.
The object does not possess textures yet, since it should primarily illustrate the integration of the bones.
Download: Blender-3D-demo.lha (28 KB)
Update: (10:22, 30.10.05, snx)
The related instructions in the original tutorial also exist in German. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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29.Oct.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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File systems: updates of NTFS and Ext2 drivers
Marek Szyprowski released updates to his file system handlers for the New Technology Filesystem (NTFS) and the Second Extended Filesystem (Ext2) for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS.
Please read the disclaimers in the readme files - you use these beta versions on your own risk.
New in NTFS driver v0.4:
- updated to latest Ext2FS filesystem skeleton - this adds support for removable
media, handler inhibit and shutdown
- added unicode to local charset translation (read more below)
- minor bug fixes
New in Ext2 driver v0.20:
- added support for software write-protection (ACTION_WRITE_PROTECT packet)
- made cache buffers flush asynchronous - this makes all write operations a
lot faster
- fixed problem with incompatible volume names (like these containing characters
'/' and ':')
- the driver now is able to format disk and create all EXT2 filesystem structures
(ACTION_FORMAT packet)
- by default the filesystem is case insensitive, but you can change this by setting
the control field in the mountlist to "CASESENSITIVE"
Download:
ext2fs_0.20.lha (92 KB)
ntfs_0.5.lha (66 KB)
Update: (08:30, 31.10.05, snx)
Meanwhile the NTFS driver has been updated to version 0.5. The updates fixes a bug which caused crashes during startup on some systems. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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28.Oct.2005
Reth (ANF)
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Hyperion: Official website to AmigaOS 4 online
Under the topic "Remember when computing was fun?" Hyperion has created an
official website to AmigaOS 4 under the title link. With several articles the
operating system is introduced and a short history of the Amiga is given.
Additionally the "Feature Spotlight" appreciate the RAM-Disk as one of the unique
feature of the AmigaOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Oct.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Local TV will cover Belgian C= and Amiga show
The local TV station Ring TV will make a report of the Belgian Commodore show. The show will be next sunday from 10:00 till 17:00 at the Taverne Schettenberg in Affligem, Belgium (near Brussels). Every Commodore fan is welcome and entrance is for free. (snx)
[News message: 28. Oct. 2005, 22:03] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2005
Sigbjørn Skjæret (MorphOS-ML)
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MorphOS-SDK: libnix-Update
Under the title link there is an libnix-update for developers for the MorphOS-SDK.
Additional to new functions a major bug was fixed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Oct.2005
amigamicro (Forum)
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Game database: AmigaMemo celebrates first anniversary
AmigaMemo celebrates first anniversary. Meanwhile the database contains more than
500 games, more than 400 photos, several screenshots and many background
information. Because of the cooperation with "Hall Of Light" in future each
title will be linked to both sites.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Oct.2005
morphos-news.de (Webseite)
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Updates for SimpleCat and R
Guido Mersmann has published version 2.17 of his Catalog-Compiler SimpleCat.
Besides this there is an update of the tool "R" which creates pgraphical
user-interfaces for almost each Shell-command in real-time. Both programs are
available for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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