20.Oct.2005
Carsten Siegner (forum)
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MorphOS: ezTCP 0.11 (Alpha)
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin has released version 0.11 (alpha) of the PPC-native TCP/IP-Stack ezTCP which among other things should resolve problems with wget and ssl, in addition the tool "resolve" works in a correct way now.
In case of problems with your programs in combination with ezTCP, please inform the author or consult the appropriate thread on morphzone.org. (cg) (Translation: ts)
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20.Oct.2005
Ronny (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: DTS codec for avcodec.library
Csaba "Chip" Simon has published a new codec for his avcodec.library, an audio/ video decoding system which is used from e. g. the movie player DVPlayer: The audio codec dca.codec decodes the "dts sounds" contained in mpeg2 streams, as they are e. g. used on many dvds.
(cg) (Translation: ts)
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20.Oct.2005
naTmeg (ANF)
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MorphOS: Status update for packet manager MorphUp
MorphUp is a generator and client based packet management system as it is existing in the linux world. Thereby it should spare the users visiting various webpages for the installation and update of software - e. g. for missing libraries or MUI classes.
Rupert Hausberger has published a new status report (title link).
(cg) (Translation: ts)
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20.Oct.2005
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Garry Hare no longer connected to Amiga Inc.
In an e-mail to the webmaster of amigaworld.net Garry Hare , former managing director of Amiga Inc., declares he isn't involved with the company for months:
"Hi David -
I don't know that there is any interest in the following. If you'd like (after removing my e-mail address) please feel free to post the following:
Several months ago I terminated my association with Amiga, Inc. I am no longer affiliated with Amiga in any capacity.
Best Regards, Garry Hare"
(cg) (Translation: ts)
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19.Oct.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: ChocolateCastle 0.3
ChocolateCastle of Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski is a source code creator for own MUI classes. The update to version 0.3 makes loading and saving of class projects possible.
Download: chocolatecastle-0.3.lha (63 KB) (snx) (Translation: ts)
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19.Oct.2005
Alex ZOP (Alexander Langer) (ANF)
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Miray to show their RTOS µnOS running on Genesi's ODW at the Systems 2005
The Munich Miray Software GbR annonces at the title link the presentation of their operating system µnOS (screen shot)
on the G4 PowerPC based Open Desktop Workstation (ODW) by Genesi at the Systems 2005.
The fair will be held in Munich from October the 24th till the 28th. The company Miray will present themselves at the common booth of
"Bayern Innovativ" (Bavaria innovative) in hall A2, booth 312 (A2.312)and offers free day tickets for the Systems 2005 (regular fee 35 Euro).
Genesi concerning events by Miray at the Systems 2005:
- µnOS - The mobile embedded RTOS with multiplatform support: x86, XScale and new: PowerPC
- Live demo: µnOS at the Open Desktop Workstation (ODW) by Genesi equipped with G4 PowerPC processor
Schedule:
Monday, 24-10-2005, 9:00:
Booth opening with Michael Haunreiter (Miray Software) and Prof. Dr. Uwe Baumgarten (TU München)
Monday, 24-10-2005, 13:00:
First official presentation of µnOS for PowerPC with live demo
Tuesday, 25-10-2005, 13:00:
Second official presentation of µnOS for PowerPC with live demo
Wednesday, 26-10-2005, 10:30:
Press brakfast and product presentation with Michael Haunreiter (Miray Software) and Prof. Dr. Uwe Baumgarten (TU München)
Thursday, 27-10-2005, 11:00:
Third official presentation of µnOS for PowerPC with live demo (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Oct.2005
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Website: PowerUP - Amiga goes PowerPC
Regarding PowerUP, the PowerPC expansion by Phase 5 for Amiga computers, a new website with information, downloads and tutorial has been opened at
the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Oct.2005
aPEX (E-Mail)
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Inoffizial download page for Phase 5/DCE drivers
At the title link the maintainers of a1k.org offer customers of used Phase%nbsp;5/DCE hardware a central repository for
latest Phase 5/DCE drivers.
Whoever might contribute newer vesions of the offered software or is in possession of not yet listed archives
is kindly requested to contact the a1k.org crew. As little incentive there are pop3 mailboxes and email addresses of the kind
<your name>@a1k.org available to all contributers.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.Oct.2005
Eule (ANF)
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PPC chipset: Discovery V announced for early 2006
Marvell announces the Discovery V, a system controller ("Northbridge") for the G3/G4 cpu's of IBM and Freescale, for early 2006. The latest child of the Discovery family supports DDR2-RAM, PCI-Express, USB 2.0 and several gigabit ethernet ports.
(cg) (Translation: ts)
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16.Oct.2005
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os4depot.net: Uploads up to 16.10.2005
Here are the newly added uploads at os4depot.net since our last news item:
hatari.lha emu/com 1Mb Atari ST and STE emulator
scummvm-juha.lha gam/adv 9Mb Adventure game engine (BETA version)
petcat_aos41.lha uti/tex 62kb PetCat - conv and disp C64 PETSCII or BA
freedb_copytracks.lha aud/mis 10kb ARexx script for FreeDB to create MP3 tr
openmortal.lha gam/act 21Mb Mortál Szombat - Mortal Kombat parody
libusb.lzx lib/mis 71kb libusb port for OS4
nomarch_aos4 uti/arc 80kb Nomarch, extract arc files
n2w_spot.lha uti/tex 99kb Convert numbers to words
falsoyd_os4.lha gam/act 1Mb Falsoyd_OS4
xpired_os4.lha gam/act 1Mb X-pired + leveld editor OS4
netbubbleos4_beta.lha gam/puz 2Mb Net-Bubble OS4 - An Puzzle bubble clone
gav.lha gam/spo 1Mb GAV - GPL Arcade Volleyball
popurl.lha uti/she 8kb OS4 replacement for OpenURL shell comman
memguard.lha dev/deb 23kb Mungwall-like tool for OS4
tsohg.lha gra/the 687kb Gui theme for Amiga OS 4
applyppf_aos4.lha uti/fil 37kb ApplyPPF 3.0 by Paradox
cbmconvert_aos4.lha uti/fil 277kb CBMConvert - A C64 archive converter
makeppf_aos4.lha uti/fil 41kb MakePPF 3.0 by Paradox
uips_aos4.lha uti/fil 35kb Universal IPS patcher - patches ROM file
rockbeat.lha aud/tra 1Mb Simple software drum machine
aggdemo_icons.lha gra/ico 187kb Anti-Grain Geometry Demo Icons
povray.lha gra/ray 8Mb Persistence of Vision Raytracer
tftpserver.lha net/ser 52kb AmigaOS 4.x TFTP server
b5i2iso.lha uti/fil 37kb BlindWrite - CD image converter
bin2iso.lha uti/fil 30kb Bin - CD image converter
ccd2iso.lha uti/fil 229kb CloneCD - CD image converter
cdi2iso.lha uti/fil 37kb DiscJuggler - CD image converter
mdf2iso.lha uti/fil 240kb Alcohol 120% - CD image converter
pdi2iso.lha uti/fil 40kb Instant copy bin - CD image converter
posterazor.lha uti/pri 1Mb A tool for printing big posters on small
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
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Aros Archives: Uploads up to 16.10.2005
Here are the newly added uploads at aros-archives since our last news item:
examples.lha doc/tut 42kb Main program to OO(P) exec programming
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
Patric Klöter (ANF)
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Website: Commodore Amiga Information Source closes
Patrick Klöter writes:
"Dear Amiga Friends,
In the last weeks and months, I have been getting around to updating my Amiga web page less and less. Therefore, I have the following announcement to make: The articles from Commodore Amiga Information Source will migrate to the Amiga Future web page in the following weeks.
Whether into the article database or somewhere else, remains to be seen. Andreas and I will try to haul as many articles as possible from my website.
In return, my page will go offline soon. The guestbook, my forum and the ML will also be affected by this. Therefore, I am already referring to the forum of AMIGA Future or the forum of Amiga-News.
This move does not come easy to me, but I am pleased that the content is preserved through Amiga Future.
On this path, I'd like to thank all Commodore and Amiga friends, who have visited this website regularly and provided me with praise and criticism in the 4 1/2 years.
Sincerely yours,
Patric Klöter" (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
(ANF)
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ars technica: The evolution of gaming
In his article, Jeremy Reimer tries to comprehend how individual game genres have advanced over the years. In reality, has only the quality of the graphics improved, or are there fundamental differences in playability?
To get to the bottom of this question, Reimer compares 66 games from diverse genres and decades. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
pegasosforum.de (Web page)
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MorphOS: Ambient 1.42CVS
The Ambient Team has released a new beta version of the Workbench clone. A detailed list of changes is part of the archive. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
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MorphOS: Alpha version 0.9 of ezTCP released
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin has released version 0.9 (alpha) of the PPC-native TCP/IP-Stack ezTCP. You can find the changes since the last release as well as a short installation manual under the title link.
In case of problems with your programs in combination with ezTCP, please inform the author or consult the appropriate thread on morphzone.org. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
Neo (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Status update for Instant Messenger Epistula
The developer of the modular Instant Messenger Epistula has released a small status update as well as some new screenshots on his web page. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: SetCache 1.3 (SFS) and PGP 2.6.3in
Jörg Strohmayer has released new versions of the encryption software PGP as well as the SFS tool Setcache. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the "C= and Amiga Show"
Photos from the "C= and Amiga Show" that took place in Holland yesterday can be found under the title link. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Movie Player DVPlayer 0.48
A new version of the movie player DvPlayer was released. Changes in version 0.48:
- Implemented on-the-fly scaling of 2:1 aspect movies
- Added a workaround for the short buffer AHI problem
- Added support for non-interleaved AVI files
- Many fixes and improvements in the AVI code (prebuffering, etc.) to solve problems with most AVI files
- Added triplebuffer for fullscreen
- Added 32bit fullscreen support
- Added possibility to change the skin on-the-fly
- Added Audio Boost option
- Many more small improvements and bugfixes
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
Antibike (ANF)
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ValiantVision: Support for the TV card chipset saa713x
Guido Mersman has been working on "ValiantVision," the successor to AmithlonTV, the TV card driver software, for some time. As he discloses in his developer journal, a driver for the Philips saa713x chipset has reached beta status in the meantime.
This very widespread chipset offers better picture quality than the bt8x8, supported by AmithlonTV/ValiantVision until now, and supports two picture channels. Thus, it will be possible to display a freely scalable (preview) picture, while in the background, the picture is displayed in full size through the second channel. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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15.Oct.2005
Thorsten Mampel, 1.Vorsitzender Amiga-Club Hamburg (ANF)
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Amiga meeting in Bad Bramstedt - webcam
The Amiga-Meeting is online. On our homepage there's a link to our webcam available.
Mister Goldisch, retailer for hardware and software, arrived meanwhile and offers a really big colection of addons:
- Merchandising articles all about the Amiga, Commodore and Pegasos
- Games for Amiga, CD32 and C64
- Slot cards and further hardware
Guido Mersmann and Henk-Metaview-Jonas will present their products via a beamer to the visitors this afternoon.
All visitors can participate in a draft. You have to guess the correct number of floppy discs put in a big glass. A picture of it is available on our homepage. Prices you can win are versions of the Amiga-Forever-2005 Premium Edition and a free six months subscription of the Amiga-Future. Many thanks go to the donators (Cloanto and Andreas Magerl). The draft will be held at 20.00h. The prices will be given only to attendees.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Oct.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Amiga meeting Bad Bramsted - movies
Some movies from the meeting in the MPEG format:
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Oct.2005
naTmeg (ANF)
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MorphOS: AmIRC.log viewer ALI
With ALI did Rupert Hausberger release a MUI based viewer for the log files of AmIRC (screenshot).
Download: ali.lha (74 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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15.Oct.2005
UtilityBase (website)
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New clib2 version 1.196
Olaf Barthel released a new version of the clib2 for AmigaOS/68k and AmigaOS 4. This is an ANSI C library for the Amiga. The changes in version 1.196 can be found on sourceforge.net.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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15.Oct.2005
UtilityBase (website)
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Balance of Power: Introducing PowerPC Assembly Language
In his article "Balance of Power: Introducing PowerPC Assembly Language" does Dave Evans give a short introduction into the usage of assembler on PowerPC comuters. The article is meant to give developers some help when debugging.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Oct.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Alchimie 5 from 29. - 31. October in France
On 29. - 31. of October the Alchimie 5 will take place in Tain l'Hermitage, France.
The event is system-independent and is meant for users of AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
as well as of Linux- and Mac-fans. Creating ASM-demos on TI-Taschenrechnern is
also planned.
The competitions will be rewarded with e.g. hardware but also bottles of wine
and surprise awards. The location is situated near the railway station and
hotels.
Reservations
are possible. The participation fee is 16 Euro for one day, 30 for two days and
31 for all three days. Women will pay 16 Euro, no matter how many days.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Oct.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Port of the game "UHexen2 - Hammer of Thyrion"
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has adapted the game "UHexen2 - Hammer of Thyrion" by Ozkan Sezer
and Steve Atkinson in a extended way for MorphOS
(screenshot 1, 2).
A graphic card with 3D-drivers as well as the tinygl.library and the
powersdl.library are required.
For the installation you need two files of the original game: pak0.pak and pak1.pak;
you have to copy those ones to the directory data1. Then you can start the
update-script.
If you also want to enjoy the colored lighting you need the Colored Lighting-files.
The .lit-files which the archive contains belong to the directory data1/maps.
Download: GLHexen2.lha (4,9 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Oct.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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TroikaNG: Design competition for front side of the Amy'05-computers
Under the title link TroikaNG calls upon a design competition for the front side
of their planned Amy'05-computers. The project is supposed to fit the formats
mini-ITX and micro-ATX as well as one version for for desktop- and tower-boxes.
A JPEG-file is desired.
The winner can get an Amy'05-board (optional beta or final version). You can send your
projects until 12. November 2005. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Oct.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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AmiPodder: Update of the Podcast-receiver to version 1.3
Robert Williams' Freeware-program AmiPodder which so far is the only
Amiga-receiver for the so called Podcasts
has been updated to version 1.3. The ARexx-program requires further software
which is described on the installation site.
The update also improves the user interfaces. Now you can do a multiple choice of
Podcasts for downloading or synchronizing. Additionally it is displayed
if the memory of your MP3 player is sufficient for the desired choice.
Download: AmiPodder.lha (438 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2005
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: BitTorrent 4.1.6
An update for Sigbjřrn 'CISC' Skjćret's MorphOS version of the filesharing program BitTorrent is available at the title link.
The list of all changes and bugfixes in version 4.1.6 can be found in the change log. (snx)
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