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02.Sep.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future 56 published
Today Amiga Future 56 (September/October 2005) has been published. In this issue there are a lot of interesting reports. For further details please have a look at the preview.

The reader-CD contains interesting software from all sections. The CD contains the full versions Adorage, Clarissa, Konrad Monument Pro by ProDad as well as Blockhead, Cygnus 8, DNA.

You can order the Amiga Future directly at the AF-Online-Shop or at diverse Amiga dealers.

Issues 23 - 26 were published online. You can find these ones in the article database under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Sep.2005



Vesalia: Joysticks for Classic Amiga available again
For a long time it has been nearly impossible to get new joysticks for the Classic Amiga. Now at Vesalia there is equipment for Amiga player,too. The following models are deliverable:

Boeder Bitstar
Power Play Cruiser and Cruiser Colour
Tecno Plus Amiga Control Pad TP511

Besides this there are Pegasos II-systems with good prices as well. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Sep.2005
Mupper (ANF)


Linux: Pegasos rescue CD "Mupper" supports SFS now
Mikael 'Lisardman' Karlsson is working on a Rescue CD project for the Pegasos, version 0.4 has been released today. The Gentoo based Live-CD contains various tools for recovery and testing.

The new version supports USB keyboards and the Amiga file system SFS now. The Open-source virus scanner ClamAV was updated aswell.

Download: mupper-v0.4.iso (90 MB) (cg) (Translation: cg)

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02.Sep.2005
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: SVG-Tools ported
Sigbjørn 'CISC' Skjæret has ported programs for converting SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) for MorphOS.

The programs for converting SVG-files to PDF-, PS- or PNG-format also contain an installer as well as a help program for converting several files in one step.

You can find such vector graphics on Openclipart.org.

Download:
SVGTools-1.0.0-bin.lha (2,2 MB)
SVGTools-1.0.0-src.lha (815 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.Sep.2005
MorphZone (website)


Genesi: MorphOS Edition of Open Desktop Workstation available
As already in case of the Linux distribution Gentoo, Genesi now do also sell a MorphOS Edition of the Pegasos II-based Open Desktop Workstation (ODW) at the title link.

Price and configuration are the same as for the normal ODW version, but for every MorphOS Edition ODW sold, 50 US-Dollar will be donated to the General Fund of the MorphBounties at MorphZone.

The Open Desktop Workstation is configured as follows:
  • Pegasos II with G4 processor (1 GHz)
  • 512 MB DDR-RAM
  • 80 GB Harddisk
  • DVD±RW drive (Dual-Layer)
  • ATI Radeon 9250 graphics board
  • Low profile, small footprint case (useable in tower or desktop orientation)
Not included in the configuration are keyboard, mouse and screen. (snx)

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01.Sep.2005
Pegasos.org (Webseite)


ODW-Review of the British print magazine "Linux User & Developer"
The British print magazine Linux User & Developer has published a review of the Genesis Pegasos II based Open Desktop Workstation (ODW).

The ODW would be a powerful, but affordable PowerPC-workstation which is targeted straight on the linux market.

The unit recommends itself as an excellent and good equipped computer at a good price. The only weak, but not production specific point would be that the PowerPC-based linux version generally runs behind the x86 version regarding to popularity. The ODW got an appropriate score of 5 from 5 points.

Download: ODW-Review.pdf (3,7 MB) (snx)

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01.Sep.2005
Maverik, Admin www.amiga-resistance.de (ANF)


Amiga-Portal: amiga-resistance.de
The administrators of amiga-resistance are announcing the opening of their Amiga portal:

"Hello community,

Amiga Resistance has officially opened its gates now. But be aware that the amount of the pages is in a very early state. As a consequence the project pages are a little thin. But we hope to change this item as soon as possible with your help.

Our intention: We want to act as a central address which could be used from beginners and newbies as well as experienced amiga users.

What we offer:
  • A forum as a communication platform, where users can help each other.
  • A large download archive which offers much more besides drivers, user manuals and install disks.
  • The project pages, where users introduce their own projects. From conversions over upgrades of the Amiga to own software projects. The project pages are serving as a reference book or an incentive being active on his own to do something. From users, for users.
  • A chat where you can communicate to other users, or to get quick help

Of course Amiga Resistance exists from the participation of its users, too. If you have interesting material, workshops or similar items which could help other users, please send it to us. We will make it available that other users profit from it.

The Amiga Resistance team is eager for letters, suggestions, criticisms or material for our homepage." (cg)

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01.Sep.2005
PegXMac-ML


PegXMac: Version 1.4.3 for Pegasos II available / AmigaOne website update
David Bentham's Mac-on-Linux Live-CD PegXMac is now available in version 1.4.3 for Pegasos II. Among other features, support for the operating system version MacOS X 10.4 ("Tiger") has been added.

Furthermore, Jonathan Haddock has updated his PegXMac documentation website for AmigaOne computers.

Changes:
  • MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) support added
  • Pciproxy patch added (access PCI devices for MOL through Linux)
  • Web browser (mozilla 1.7.x) added for debugging/general use etc. (local install of PegXMac only)
  • Adjusted 'Report faults with PegXMac' - USB key, mount local FFS partitions to copy logfiles
  • Ipmasq removed and replaced with firehol - Most users have complained that they wish PegXMac to be seamless when booting, to have no NIC setup when booting
  • Test internet/network connection - Test your local connection/internet before running MOL
  • DSL and 56k owners will be pleased to know I have added support
  • Script fixes - Shutdown/Reboot now works correctly when installed to HD
  • Installer scripts (IDE, SCSI and USB) have been improved
(snx)

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01.Sep.2005
Dimitris Panokostas (ANF)


Amigathering 6: Trailer teaser of the upcoming video online
On July 23 and 24, the event Amigathering 6 was held in Thessaloniki, Greece. Now a teaser trailer (9,2 MB) of the upcoming video from the show is online. (snx)

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01.Sep.2005



Newsletter: Amiga Update #050831
Brad Webbs newsletter "Amiga Update" contains a summary of the more important Amiga related news of the last four weeks. The August issue has now been released:

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                B I G   B A S H   3   I N   U K

          P I A N E T A   A M I G A   I N   I T A L Y 

    " R 2   D 2 "   D I S P L A Y   I S   N O W   R E A L !

               E - U A E   I S   I M P R O V E D 

   A M I P O D D E R   U P D A T E   I S   A V A I L A B L E 

        R O C K B E A T   R O C K S   O N   T O   1 . 1

 V A G U E L Y   U S E F U L L   D R A W I N G   P R O G R A M 

  M U S I C   P R O G R A M S   I N   N E W   V E R S I O N S 

         M A T R I X   S C R E E N   S A V E R   1 . 3 

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 
 As summer comes to an end (sigh) we find we have a couple of
interesting shows to report on this time, and some interesting
software. My favorite this month has to be the Mindspace drawing
program, honestly released as "vaguely usefull". Now there's a
designation you aren't going to see from Micro$oft although it would
be appropriate in many cases.
 It's not an Amiga only item, but the mid-air display announced this
month by the folks at IO2technology has to be about the coolest
thing to come along in quite a while, and is probably the current
ultimate geek toy. For a number of days after the anouncement you
simply couldn't get into their website for the traffic. You can read
about it below, but be sure to check out the website for yourselves
and take a look at the videos. Reading between the lines, it seems
they may only have prototypes actually built so far, but the product
seems real enough. Wonder how well - or if - it will work with an
A1? As soon as someone knows, please tell us!
 We hope you enjoy this issue.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor

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                 B I G   B A S H   3   I N   U K

11 August, 2005

The biggest and best Amiga event in the UK - Coming soon

Saturday, 24th of September 2005, Peterborough, UK. Amiga Big Bash 3,
Bigger and Better than before. More to buy, more services, more to
see, more hours and more to come!

Here's what we have lined up so far......


Bring and Buy Sale. (Free Space)

Got some unwanted Amiga related items you wish to sell? Big Bash 3 is
YOUR opportunity to sell them to people who will appreciate it. A
fully refundable deposit of 10(ukp) is all that's needed to secure
your space. Admittance aside, there is no charge for table space and
we anticipate all available spaces to sell out quickly, do not
hesitate. book now.

A1 4 U - Build it Area. (Free Service)
Subject to AmigaOne Boards being available, we will have a team of
experienced Amiga volunteers at hand to help build your AmigaOne on
the day for you. Just bring/Purchase your AmigaOne board, case,
peripherals and OS4, and we will do the rest! Walk out with your
AmigaOne complete and ready to go!

Amiga Medic Area. (Free Service)
Got a hardware or software problem on your existing Amiga? Be it
Classic or AmigaOne, our Amiga medic area, manned by experienced
volunteers will do their best to fix that long standing issue you may
have. Just bring your Amiga, we will have the monitor, leads,
keyboards, mice etc ready and waiting.

AmigaOne Fix it (15 UKP to cover cost of parts and time required to
do the work)We are proud to announce that AmigaOne Productions will
be at hand on the day to repair existing problems on AmigaOne XE/SE
boards. Please note that the fix is done at your own risk and
prebooking in advance is required.

AmigaKit.

We are proud to Announce that AmigaKit will be attending the show
selling a range of Amiga wares, from games to applications, hardware
and consumables.

Stellar Dreams.

The Only UK AmigaOne Dealer will be in attendance selling a wide
range of Amiga Goodies.
Eyetech Permitting, AmigaOnes, may be available to purchase on the
day!

Total Amiga Magazine

The Worlds Biggest Selling, English Language Amiga Magazine will also
be in attendance on the day.

OS4

We are proud to announce that Amiga OS4 Betatester Ryu will be
attending the show with his PPC based Classic A1200T and A4000 both
of which will be running OS4!

Plus!

Lots more to see, from Classic Amigas to Morphos and AROS too!

After Show Banquet

Don't wonder out, stay in, pay an additional £10 on the admittance
charge and you can join, exhibitors, organisers and volunteers for a
meal in the main hall after 6:45 pm.

All this plus, live webcast/webcam from the event

Don't miss out on the greatest Amiga Show in the UK this year, Head
to Peterborough!

Admittance is 3.50 UKP. Doors Open at 1:00pm and Close at 6:00.
Venue: Stafford Hall, Hampton Court, Westwood, Peterborough, PE3 7LD

For more information, please check our website
 http://www.amigabigbash.net 
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           P I A N E T A   A M I G A   I N   I T A L Y 

31 September, 2005

The show will be held 3 and 4 september 2005 in Empoli's
Palaesposizioni. Here follows the official opening time of the show:

    
Saturday 3 September
    
sunday 4 september
Open    10:00    9:00
Close    18:00    12:00

ticket price: FREE!.

Appuntamenti - Appointments

This is a first list of the presentations and conferences that will
take place during Pianeta Amiga 2005:


- Amiga Platform Awards 2005 (to vote visit www.amigaplatform.com).

Highlights:

    Amiga Forever 2005
    Amiga OS 4.0 native PPC on Blizzard PPC and Cyberstorm PPC
    Audio Evolution OS 4.0
    Bitplane Amiga magazine issue 12
    MMC 64, mmc adapter for C=64
    Amiga Classix 4
    LocalizATOr web application for management and creation of
locale catalogue
    ...and dozen more products and exclusive news...

Latest update:

- a new batch of microA1-C boards just reached us from Eyetech, they
will be sold at the show (only a few boards are still available).

- Andrea Vallinotto, from the AOS4 team, will keep two speeches on
Saturday 3, one aimed to AOS4 users and the second one aimed to AOS4
developers.

- Soft3 will show at its stand Autovision 2005, a multimedia package
actually in use in Driving Schools in Italy. The package reached its
10 years of life, and the author, Marco Fogli will show a WIP of the
new AOS4 version.

- Virtual Works will show AOS4 running on A4000 and A1200 PPC equipped 
systems.

- Joachim Thomas will show LocalizATO, his new web-based project for
creating and managing local catalogs for Amiga.

- The price of the show ticket, thanks to the efforts of Jasa and all
the exhibitors is FREE!

http://www.pianetaamiga.it
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      " R 2   D 2 "   D I S P L A Y   I S   N O W   R E A L ! 

22 August, 2005

>From IO2 Technolgy:

Overview

The Heliodisplay includes patented and patent pending technology to
transform normalambient air and display video images into free-space.
Some Heliodisplay models are interactive allowing a finger or hand to
move images around in the air as if one were grabbing a tangible 
object.

The Heliodisplay requires a power outlet, and a computer, TV, DVD or
alternate video source. The current version of the Heliodisplay
projects a 22" to 42" (depending on model) diagonal image that floats
above the device. The Heliodisplay system is backward compatible and
accepts most 2D video sources (PC,TV, DVD, HDTV, Video game
consoles). For connection to a computer, the Heliodisplay uses a
standard monitor VGA connection; for TV or DVD viewing, it connects
using a standard RGB video cable.

Heliodisplay images are easily viewed in an office environment. Like
any computer monitor or TV, images appear brighter the lower the
ambient light. Also, just like viewing any computer monitor or TV,
viewing a Heliodisplay image in direct sunlight is almost impossible.

The Heliodisplay is interactive, like a virtual touchscreen. A hand
or finger can act as a mouse. No special glove or pointing device is
required. Just as you use a mouse to move the cursor on a traditional
computer monitor, you can use your finger to move the cursor around
the Heliodisplay image (see: Images & Videos).The Heliodisplay
connects to a computer (at least: Pentium III 400MHZ;25MB free disk
space;Win2000/XP) through a USB port.


Operating the device will not change a room's environment, air
quality or other conditions. Air comes into the device, is modified
then ejected and illuminated to produce the image. Nothing is added
to the air so there isn't any harmful gas or liquid emitted from the
device. If a Heliodisplay were left running for a week in a
hermetically sealed room, the only change to the room`s environment
would be from the electricity used to run the device. Although the
Heliodisplay uses lasers, the images are not holographic.

The image is display into two-dimensional space (i.e.planar).
Heliodisplay images appear 3D when viewed from more than a few feet
away because there is no physical depth reference. Images can be seen
up to 75?off aspect for a total viewing area of over 150?- similar to
an LCD screen. Viewing requires no special glasses or background
foreground screening.


The Heliodisplay is backward compatible and accepts most 2D video
sources (PC,TV, DVD, HDTV, Video game consoles). For connection to a
computer, the Heliodisplay uses a standard monitor VGA connection;
for TV or DVD viewing, it connects using a standard RGB video cable.

This version of the Heliodisplay is interactive, like a virtual
touchscreen. A hand or finger can act as a mouse for mouse/cursor
control. No special glove or pointing device is required. Just as you
use a mouse to move the cursor on a traditional computer monitor, you
can use your finger to move the cursor around the Heliodisplay image
(see: Images & Videos). The Heliodisplay connects to a computer (at
least: Pentium III 400MHZ;25MBfree disk space; Win2000/XP) through a
USB port

http://www.io2technology.com/technology/overview
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              E - U A E   I S   I M P R O V E D 

12 August, 2005

E-UAE 0.8.28
============

This is a fork of UAE, the Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator, with an
emulation corebased on WinUAE. It attempts to bring many of the great
features of WinUAEto non-Windows platforms. This version now finally
has a name, E-UAE, sincethat's what everybody was calling it anyway.
The 'E' can stand for anythingyou fancy. Experimental, extreme,
exciting, egalitarian, eggplant, . . .

Currently it will build and run (with a varying degree of supported
features) on Linux and other Unices, Mac OS X, BeOS, AmigaOS itself
(either for 68k machines or PPC machines with OS4.0) and the AmigaOS
clones AROS and MorphOS. OS X requires either LibSDL or an X server
for graphicsoutput, but native graphics are supported on AmigaOS and
BeOS, although, at the moment, SDL is also preferred on BeOS since
the native driver is incomplete.

E-UAE is open-source software and is made available under the terms
of the GPL. See the COPYING file included with the E-UAE archive for
details.

E-UAE is based on the work of dozens of contributors including Bernd
Schmidt (the original author and maintainer of UAE), Bernie Meyer
(the author of the x86 JIT compiler), Toni Wilen (the current
maintainer of WinUAE), and many more.

To make full use of E-UAE you will need access to an image of some
version of the Amiga Kickstart ROM (although UAE does include a ROM
emulation which may work with some old games). The Amiga Kickstart
ROMs are copyrighted material and may not be freely distributed (so
don't ask me for a copy). If you don't have an Amiga from which you
can legally make a ROM image, a selection of ROM images are available
for purchase online from Cloanto (publishers of the Amiga Forever
distribution). Seehttp://www.amigaforever.com/


What's new since 0.8.27
=======================

General
-------
* Many core emulation changes and fixes merged from WinUAE 1.0.
* Optimized interpretive 68k emulation with speed improvements of up
to 30%.
* Fixes for building with GCC 4.0.
* Fixes for building on 64-bit hosts such as the AMD64.
* Option not to use the CPU's time-stamp counter for synchronization
on x86,
  AMD64 and PPC machines (generally you will want to).
* Fixed virtual filesystem bug that was causing IBrowse to crash.
* Improved 'new' bsdsocket emulation (and it now works on OS X and on
  AMD64/Linux too). 
* Better screenmode support in SDL graphics driver.
* X11 driver supports raw key-mapping for xfree86 keycodes.
* Documentation updates (thanks to Henrik Farre for documenting the
  command-line options).

Linux
-----
* Faster start-up on x86 and AMD64 systems and PPC systems with Open
  Firmware (it's no longer necessary to perform TSC/TBC calibration at
  start-up). 
* CPU frequency scaling supported on x86/AMD64 systems.

OS X
----
* Faster start-up (it's no longer necessary to perform timing
calibration at  start-up). 
* Improved Cocoa dialogs (thanks to Steve Saunders).

AmigaOS (and clones)
--------------------
* Fixed virtual filesystem bug that broke mounting of a host path
ending in
  a ':' or a '/'.
* Faster start-up on OS4 on AmigaONE hardware (it's no longer
necessary to
  perform timing calibration at start-up).
* High/true-colour rendering supported on AROS.
* AmigaOS graphics driver now works on OS4 update 3.
* Emulated SCSI device and hence CD32 emulation now work on OS4.0
(support  other Amiga-like OSes will follow).

Win32
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* Rudimentary support added for compiling with MinGW32 against SDL
(and I've  also heard that it works with Cygwin). This is just for
fun right now, and  if you want UAE on Windows you're much better off
sticking to WinUAE.


Still to do
===========

The following features of WinUAE are not supported:

* Serial and parallel port emulation.
* AHI soundcard emulation.
* Catweasel support.
* OpenGL rendering and graphics filters.
* Snapshots
* Emulation of a CD32 controller.
* Floppy drive sounds.
* Everything else that I've forgotten about.


Known problems
==============

Some significant misfeatures that I know about and am working to fix:

* Only platforms supporting the GTK+ toolkit have a useable
configuration  GUI (and the GTK+ GUI is still incomplete).
* JIT direct memory access only works on Linux/x86 and, by default,
you may   only emulate up to 32MB of direct ZIII RAM; select more
than that and the  JIT will fall back on indirect memory access and
hence will be slower.
  This is due to a system limit on the size of a POSIX shared memory
  segment. You can overcome this limit my modifying the value of the
procfs  setting, /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax.
* Autoscroll screens are broken in Picasso96 emulation.
* Virtual filesystem doesn't support platforms which use UTF-8 for
filenames  (e.g., OS X, Linux with a UTF-8 locale, etc.). Filenames
with characters  outside of the core ASCII range will be mangled.
* Hard files are limited to 2GB in size.
* Full documentation is lacking.


Using E-UAE
===========

Documentation is a work-in-progress. See the docs directory.


Compiling E-UAE yourself
========================

See the docs/compiling.txt file for more information about building 
E-UAE.


CVS
===

Details about how to access the CVS repository containing the current
development version of E-UAE can be found at:

http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=109723


Contact
=======

See http://www.freelists.org/list/uae for details of a mailing list
discussing problems with and development of E-UAE.

Send bug reports, comments, patches, etc. to the above list or to:
Richard Drummond <uae@rcdrummond.net>

http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/e-uae-0.8.28-RC2/
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     A M I P O D D E R   U P D A T E   I S   A V A I L A B L E 

27 August, 2005

AmiPodder version 1.2 is now available for download. This release
speeds up the "Update all Channels" operation by checking to see if
the channel has been updated before downloading and processing the
feed. It's a small change but makes the "Upate all" feature much more
usable.

Podcasting is a new way for anyone (from large companies to
individuals) to distribute radio programs they have made themselves.
Podcasting has rapidly gained popularity, particularly with the
recent addition of podcasting support to Apple's iTunes music
software. AmiPodder enables you to subscribe (for free) to podcast
fees on your Amiga!

Once you have subscribed to a feed within AmiPodder, you can browse
the available podcasts and download the ones that interest you.
AmiPodder can be configured to download new podcasts automatically so
there is always something fresh and interesting to listen to. Once a
podcast has been downloaded AmiPodder can play it using MP3 player
utility on your Amiga and, optionally, copy it onto a portable MP3
player for listening anywhere. 

http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/robert/amipodder/
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           R O C K B E A T   R O C K S   O N   T O   1 . 1

24 August, 2005

What is it? - RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine for
AmigaOS4.It is a tool for musicians that allows you to create
drumming tracks. It can create multiple tracks, each one being 4x 4/4
measures with 16th notes. You can save individual tracks as wav
files, or the whole thing as one big song. You can drop in your own
16bit 44100Hz PCM WAV samples in the drumsamples/ folder if you like.
Great for the bedroom guitarist!

- RockBEAT 1.1 now available. It
fixes a few teething problems

- No more grim reaper alerts when starting then stopping playback
quickly I removed an AbortIO() call that wasnt really needed.

- Theres no more excess silence at the end of wav files for
individually saved tracks

- Button graphics are freed up when quitting now

- All message ports are emptied and deleted when quitting. No more
"unfreed signals" error messages now, and I think it has brought up
stability a little.

- Drum samples limit changed to 20. It used to crash after more than
10 samples were loaded due to a silly programming error. i.e. looping
up to 20 times when there were only 10 available spaces in the array.

- Adding new samples to the drumsamples/ folder will no longer make
old projects invalid

- Better compatibility with some WAVs. RockBEAT used to assume a
certain WAV header value was a always certain size, but I've found
out it can bedifferent.

- I have included a cool cymbal sample to the default drumsamples/ set

The demo is restricted to 10 minutes. If you like it, you can
purchase a keyfile from me for $15 USD.
This is not an automated process. Once I recieve notice of your
payment, I will email you a keyfile as soon as possible. This
shouldnt be longerthan 48 hours.

http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/rockbeat/index.html
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    V A G U E L Y   U S E F U L L   D R A W I N G   P R O G R A M 

30 August, 2005

MindSpace Version 0.2
The "Vaguely Usefull" release

MindSpace and all its associated IP, files, icons, documentation and
everything are copyright Yoodoo2/Riba/AST 2005.

MindSpace enables the user to produce:

    * flowcharts
    * a range of UML diagrams
    * MindMaps and Brainstorms
    * Silly little pictures

In the future, MindSpace will output template code for C/C++ 
structures, functions and classes.

You can contact the author at : yoodoo2@ast-workshops.co.uk or via pm
at Amigaworld.net

Bug reports and feature suggestions are always welcomed at the above
addresses.

PLEASE don't suggest a feature already planned. Read the "Future
Developments" bit before suggesting a feature.

If you have any enquiries about MindSpace, mail mindspace@ast-
workshops.co.uk 

MindSpace Requirements

Amiga running OS4 (PPC)

Not much Hard Drive space

Not much Ram

Minimum Workbench resolution 800x600 (for the moment)
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    M U S I C   P R O G R A M S   I N   N E W   V E R S I O N S 

5 August, 2005

New versions of Horny (OS 4 native MIDI-sequencer) by Inutilis
Software and Audio Evolution 4 (OS 4 native audio-sequencer) by Davy
Wentzler have been released. Both are supporting the eXtream Sync
library for synchronizing now, so MIDI and audio can be used for the
same project. Pressing "play" in one application will start both at
the identical position (same for all other transport functions, of
course).

Inutilis Horny 1.1:

Screenshots and more information at http://www.inutilis.de/horny/
index.html

- added eXtreamSync support for synchronizing with AudioEvolution 4
and other software

- muting individual sequences is possible now

- "Running Status" compression for SMF export implemented

- SysEx import/export with SMF

- SysEx loading/saving from SysEx Manager

- SysEx Manager: Number of Messages are shown in the group list

- "Set Loop around Sequence(s)" function added to "Sequence(s)" menu

- some chapters of manual translated to English (incomplete and old, 
sorry, but better than nothing??)

- added some instrument files (thanks to Daniel Jedlicka)

...more small changes and several bugfixes


Audio Evolution 4.0.8:

More information and downloads at http://www.audio-evolution.com

- supports eXtream Sync

- Many bug fixes including aux and mastering bugs

- Sample rates above 64 KHz are now possible

- Fixed licensing issues with OS4 update 3

- Added CAMD in/out selection requester
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           M A T R I X   S C R E E N   S A V E R   1 . 3 

1 August, 2005

Description:     Matrix screen saver
Download:     glmatrix.tgz   
Version:     1.3
Date:     01 Aug 05
Author:     Steen Lund Nielsen
Submitter:     Steen Lund Nielsen
Email:     steen@flux-studios.com
Requirements:     Warp3D
Category:     graphics/screenblanker
Replaces:     graphics/screenblanker/glmatrixos4.lha
License:     Other
Distribute:     yes
FileID:     930


This is a port of the screen saver glmatrix from the xscreensaver
package by Jamie Zawinski.

The porting was done by Shadow of IRIS, aka. Steen Lund Nielsen. 
Contact me at: steen@flux-studios.com

Requirements:

A 3D graphics card
Warp3D
AOS4

Installation:

Copy GLMatrix aswell as Matrix3_half2.png to the same directory.
For example 'WBStartup'.

Usage:

The screen saver runs as a commodity. The preference gui can be
accessed through commodity exchange or by running the program
twice.

The GUI is rather simple:

Timeout: The period in seconds it waits before blanking the
screen.

Density: Adjusts how many columns of symbols are dropped from
the top down.

Speed: Adjusts the animation speed.

Encoding: Selects different symbols.

Screen Mode: Select your prefered screen mode.

Fog: Enable/Disable distance cueing.

Wave: Enable/Disable waving of symbols.

Rotate: Enable/Disable camera rotation.

Invert alpha: Inverts the alpha channel of the texture. Enable
this if you are using a B/CVisionPPC or CV3D. I do not know if
this is still true for the OS4 version.

http://www.os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=graphics/
screenblanker/glmatrix.tgz
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Magazine: New articles added to Obligement website
The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months :
  • Amiga and MorphOS news of july/august 2005.
  • Review of Barkanoid 2.
  • Review of Diavolo Backup 2000.
  • Review of ScanQuix 5.
  • Review of FxScan 1.0.
  • Hardware : D-Box 1200.
  • Hardware : Epson GT-7000.
  • Programming : introduction to FreePascal.
  • Programming : cross-compilation x86/PowerPC on GNU/Linux.
  • Tutorial : installation and setup WinUAE and AIAB.
  • Tutorial : installation of PegXMac on Pegasos 2.
  • Tutorial : installation of MacOnLinux on Pegasos 2 (update).
  • Tutorial : create a multiboot onr Pegasos (update).
  • Tutorial : TVPaint - creation of a flammed text.
  • Article : RAM and ROM.
  • Article : localisation and traduction on Amiga.
  • Article : "Des souris et des hommes", some anecdote on the computer science.
  • The Amiga quizz.
(cg) (Translation: cg)

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[ujb] (ANF)


MorphOS: First beta version of the 3D editor Blender / Python update
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has released Blender 2.37a (screen shot) today. Blender is a 3D modelling software which is available for most operating systems and licensed under the GPL.

Apart from MorphOS 1.4 a Phython installation is required also. The MorphOS version of Python by the same author has been updated yesterday with soem improvements and the zlib.library is linked now statical.

Download:
blender_2.37a-mos_bin-20050831.lha (3,2 MB)
test237a.zip (Demo files, 4,2 MB)
python-2.4-mos_5d-20050830.lha (4,5 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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Amiga Future (Webseite)


MorphOS: Update of PowerSDL to Version 11.4
Ilkka Lehtorantas PowerSDL, a Simple Directmedia Layer for MorphOS, is available in Version 11.4 now. The following libraries are included: SDL, SDL_gfx, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_net and SDL_ttf. A development kit is available for download as well as the source code.

Changes in version 11.4:
  • Merged with SDL 1.2.9
  • Working GL support
  • Problem with Unicode support solved
  • Timer and audio threads ae scheduled with priority +1 (smooth replay)
  • Improvements with the SDL_mixer
Download:
powersdl.lha (770 KB)
powersdl_sdk.lha (2,3 MB)
powersdl_src.lha (1,5 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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Pegasos.org (website)


Pegasos: Much improved version of the CD32 Live-CD
Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun, supported by Sigbjørn 'CISC' Skjæret, has released a much improved version of his AmigaCD³² Live-CD for the Pegasos. The CD image is available by Torrent file sharing.

Features:
  • Live booting of a CD³² CD from the 2nd cd drive (or, the Live-CD is installedto the hd, from the 1st drive)
  • Launch of CD³² ISO files (more than 100 games preconfigured)
  • Launches a menu to chose from the following emulators:
    • E-UAE 0.8.28RC2
    • xmame 0.99
    • xmess 0.97
    • generator 0.35-cbiere
    • snes9x 1.43
    • VisualBoyAdvance
    • AlephOne 1-3
    • Doomsday 1.9.0-beta2
  • Direct support for the CD AmigaClassiX4 (Menu with available games is shown directly, present ROM files and configurations are used)
  • Hard discs (also via USB) may be used for read/write access for games, configurations, etc.
  • completely installable to hard disk
  • Xorg for Radeon and Voodoo
  • TV out (Radeon only)
  • Bin2ISO versions for Linux and MorphOS to create ISO files
  • Controlpad support
Torrent file: CD32-Live. torrent (snx) (Translation: ub)

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31.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS4: Diagramme and plot program MindSpace V0.2 released
MindSpace is a drawing programme to create UML diagrams (Unified Modeling Language), like e. g. flow charts (screen shot). For future releases a draft C/C++ source code generation is planed, too.

Download: MindSpaceV02.lha (344 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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30.Aug.2005
Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen


MorphOS: Quake III released
Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen has ported Quake III: Arena to MorphOS.

Requirements:
  • 256 MB RAM
  • TinyGL version 50.9
  • Supported 3D hardware
  • 500 MB free harddisk space
  • Internet connection to download the "Q3A 1.32" update
Archive and source code can be downloaded at the title link.

Quake III: Arena for MorphOS, already previously finished, has been released today due to the donation of a pizza by Sunbeam Business Solutions. The author, Mark Olsen, would be glad to receive further pizza donations.

So in case you like the port and want to donate a pizza, you can contact the author on the IRC channel #morphos at the Freenode network to get the details for the pizza delivery. (cr) (Translation: snx)

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30.Aug.2005
MorphZone (forum)


MorphOS: Descent II and APool-GL ported
Ilkka Lehtoranta has ported the games Descent II (screenshot) and APool-GL (screenshot) to MorphOS.

Descent II defaults to 1024x768 fullscreen and it seems some systems may have problem with that. If you get black screen in the game press F2 and select smaller screen or remove -fullscreen option from the startup script.

According to the author, the Billiard game APool-GL is a bit slow but playable.

Download:
DescentII.lha (6,5 MB)
APool-GL.lha (2,2 MB) (snx)

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30.Aug.2005
MorphOS Development Team


MorphOS: SDK for TinyGL released (Update)
Registered developers can download the Software Development Kit (SDK) for TinyGL at the title link. The archive contains the documents and all needed includes and linker libraries for creating MorphOS-native 3D software.

Update: (09:36, 31.08.05, snx)
Among other stuff, the following functions have been implemented:
  • All basic stuff like blending, scissoring, alphatesting, culling, depthfunction, polygon offset, texture objects, texture env and param, etc.
  • Color and depth masking
  • Stencil (Radeons)
  • Evaluators (glEvalXXX functions)
  • Variable sized points/lines; smooth points
  • Texture coords generation (also NV extension for cubemaps)
  • Reading and writing (including setup via pixeltransfer) to/from framebuffer (also writing of bitmaps)
  • User clipping planes
  • Attribute stack (also for client attributes)
  • Selection buffer
  • Lighting
  • Vertex arrays
  • Multitexturing (with vertex arrays too)
  • Model/projection/texture matrix handling
  • Palette textures (also shared palette on hardware which has real palette textures)
  • Mipmapped textures
  • Cubemaps
  • Display lists
  • Some builtin GLU functions; rest in linker library
  • Builtin simple GLUT implementation; additional functions in linker library
(cr) (Translation: snx)

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30.Aug.2005
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ValiantVision: New Yahoo-Group
Krzysztof Kurzawski has introduced an official Yahoo-Group for the AmithlonTV-successor "ValiantVision" by Guido Mersmann (amiga-news.de reported). You can subscribe to this mailinglist by sending an empty e-mail to valiantvision-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. As this is a moderated Yahoo-Group, the clearing can take a while. The old AmithlonTV-mailinglist will soon be closed. (snx) (Translation: nba)

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30.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AmigaOS4: Atari-Emulator Hatari ported
Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov has ported V0.7.1 of the SDL-based Atari ST-Emulator Hatari to AmigaOS 4 (Screenshot).

Download: hatari.lha (2 MB) (snx)

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30.Aug.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Demoversion of Jump'n'Run-Game "Mr. Beanbag"
Jigsaw Lounge has released a demo version of the processing Jump'n'Run "Mr. Beanbag", which is limited to one level (Screenshot). The game requires the AGA-chipset.

The demo is provided in two ways: a ZIPed ADF-File for emulators and a LHA-Archive for harddisk-installation.

Download:
beandemo.lha (159 KB)
beandemo.zip (170 KB) (snx) (Translation: is)

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30.Aug.2005
ANN (Webseite)


Commodore Gebruikersgroep: Coverscans of various Commodore- und Amiga-Magazines
Under the titlelink the dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep (CGG) has provided hundreds of coverscans of 34 different Commodore- and Amiga-Magazines from the Netherlands, Germany, and England. (snx) (Translation: is)

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30.Aug.2005



Software-updates at amiga.sourceforge.net: LAME, faac/faad, ffmpeg

LAME 3.96.1

Uwe Ryssel has recompiled version 3.96.1 of LAME for WarpOS with GCC instead of StormC, whichs leds into a 3 times faster program. LAME is for creating files in MP3 format.
Download: lamewos-3.96.1-ur.lha (235 KB)

faac 1.2.4 / faad 2.0

Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer has created recompilations of faac 1.2.4 and faad, whichs don't depend on ixemul anymore. This programs are for decoding resp. encoding the Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG2-AAC, MPEG4-AAC).

Download:
faac1.2.4_68k.lha (366 KB)
faad2_68k.lha (155 KB)

ffmpeg / ffstuff

By Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer as well is a recompilation of ffmpeg 0.4.9 for WarpOS, which fixes memory-problems and includes some improvments. ffmpeg is a console-based video/audio-converter.

Additionally he has provided an archiv called ffstuff, which contains ffplay for AmigaOS and WarpOS, compiled with usage of SDL library.

Download:
ffmpeg_wos-0.4.9.lha (1,5 MB)
ffstuff.lzx (4 MB) (snx) (Translation: is)

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29.Aug.2005
Paul J. Beel (ANF)


The AROS Archives: File Area for AROS opened
"The AROS Archives" is up and ready to accept your files. This web site will be the main repository for all AROS software, but we need your help. Software needs to be uploaded to the site. Developers are definitely encouraged to upload their own software.

The site has went through some changes. We started out with a Microsoft ASP coded site, but with help from Björn Hagström, we were able to have the site coded in PHP, which makes it much easier to maintain. Damir Sijakovic did a great job on the design for The AROS Archives.

This web site is supported by AROS-Exec.org and is located at archives.aros-exec.org.

I want to thank the following people for their help with the project:
Björn Hagström (OS4Depot.net)
Damir Sijakovic (d980)
Ola '4pLaY' Jensen (AROS-Exec.org)
Nicolas 'nicomen' Mendoza (AROS-Exec.org)

If you have any questions, please post in the forum of AROS-Exec.org, ask in the #aros IRC channel at the Freenode network or send an e-mail to archives@aros-exec.org.

Thanks and enjoy!
Paul J. Beel (snx)

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Aminet-Uploads til 29.08.2005
Aminet-uploads since our last message
DirectoryFiletype.lha  biz/dopus     2K  OS3  Magellan II's expanded directory filetyp
dopusrxtrash.lha       biz/dopus    29K  all  Global trashcan for DOpus Magellan II
ExecuteInShell.lha     biz/dopus    19K  all  ExecuteInShell script for Dopus Magellan
amisynergyc.lha        comm/misc   103K  OS4  An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
wave_traveler-mos.lha  demo/intro   40K  MOS  "Wave traveler" 4kb intro (with sources)
up-lp001.lha           demo/sound  742K  OS3  UP ROUGH "HITS FOR KIDS LP" feat. GOTO80
up-lp002.lha           demo/sound  581K  OS3  UP ROUGH "More Hits for Kids LP" feat. S
up-lp03a.lha           demo/sound  556K  OS3  UP ROUGH "Oh No! More Hits For Kids LP -
up-lp03b.lha           demo/sound  557K  OS3  UP ROUGH "Oh No! More Hits For Kids LP -
ecx_upd.lha            dev/e       120K  VAR  E Compiler ECX. Update to 1.4.5
alspro.lha             dev/src     151K  all  ALS: Unprofessionally Unfinished [AMOS]
AmigaFuture56.lha      docs/mags   865K  all  Great german paper mag preview
lupengo-mos.lha        game/actio  318K  MOS  Pengo Clone with wolves (SDL Morphos ver
Saga.lha               game/board  351K  OS3  Saga 1.53: Conversion of TSR boardgame
3dto3d-os4.lha         gfx/conv    285K  OS4  Convert between different 3d formats
openpci.lha            hard/drivr    6K  OS4  OpenPCI compatibility layer for OS4
smartmontools.lha      hard/misc   756K  OS4  Harddisk health analysis tool : smartmon
ngdis-mos.lha          misc/emu     47K  MOS  Disassembler for TLCS900H and NeoGeo Poc
UAE-828-AOS68k.lha     misc/emu    824K  OS3  E-UAE_0.8.28-RC2 for Amiga 68k OS
daz-chaz.lha           misc/misc    46K  OS3  The Daz Doorstep Challenge Trilogy, but 
weird.lha              misc/misc   444K  OS3  Pointless yet weird old tat
playOGG.lha            mus/play    983K  OS3  Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
t1utils-mos.lha        text/dtp    420K  MOS  Type-1 font manipulation utils
poolman.lha            util/boot    43K  OS3  Easy launcher application. V0.5
DM_con_LL.lha          util/dir      8K  all  My DiskMaster2 configuration and associa
confgui_ra68k.lha      util/misc    44K  OS3  GUI builder for configuration files
confgui_src.lha        util/misc    32K  all  GUI builder for configuration files
elmeter.lha            util/misc    66K  OS4  Electricity and water consumption monitor
devlist.lha            util/shell    4K  OS4  Device lister with opencnt and versions
liblist.lha            util/shell    4K  OS4  Library lister with opencnt and versions
reslist.lha            util/shell    4K  OS4  Lists all resources with address informa
tasklist.lha           util/shell    5K  OS4  Task lister with pri, stack and versions
os4reboot.lha          util/wb      36K  OS4  Reboot utility for OS4
wet.lha                util/wb     651K  OS4  Show weather conditions on Workbench (OS
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Robert (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: OpenPCI-Wrapper published
With Stéphane Guillards port of openpci.library for AmigaOS 4 are more drivers (like RTL8139 10/100) and programs (like AmithlonTV)) for the PPC-operatingsystem avalaible now.

Up to now there is only the openpci.library as native binary available. But the porting of the other parts of OpenPCI is pending by the actual author of the part. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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os4depot.net: Uploads til 29.08.2005
os4depot.net uploads since our last messages:
openpci.zip              dri/mis    6kb  OpenPCI compatibility layer for OS4 
amisynergyc.lha          net/mis  103kb  An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client 
smartmontools.lha        uti/har  756kb  Harddisk health analysis tool : smartmontools 
wookiechat.lha           net/cha  398kb  IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat) 
devlist.lha              uti/she    4kb  Device lister with opencnt and versions 
liblist.lha              uti/she    4kb  Library lister with opencnt and versions 
reslist.lha              uti/she    4kb  Lists all resources with address information 
tasklist.lha             uti/she    5kb  Task lister with pri, stack and versions 
wet.lha                  uti/wor  651kb  Show weather conditions on Workbench (OS4) 
colem_os4.lha            emu/gam  131kb  Colem ColecoVision Emulator 
fdtrans-idltool-68k.lha  dev/cro  428kb  fdtrans, idltool devtools for 68k based systems 
blacktan.lha             gra/the  464kb  Black&Tan Themes 
os4reboot.lha            uti/wor   36kb  Reboot utility for OS4 
rockbeat.lha             aud/tra    2Mb  Simple software drum machine 
elmeter.lha              uti/mis   66kb  Electricity and water consumption monitor 
cmi8738.lha              dri/aud   10kb  CMI8738 AHI driver
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29.Aug.2005
ANN (Webseite)


MorphOS: Version 1.2 of PC Engine-Emulators Hu-Go! published
"Hu-Go!" emulateds the videogame TurboGrafX-16, also now as PC Engine (Screenshot).

Modification included in Version 1.2:
  • Added video overlay support and window play support
  • Fixed pce resolution changes and screen offsets
  • Added PSG and MP3 volume settings
  • Added Savestate function
  • Added quick rom selection lister
  • Added a few more premade HCD files (thanks to Oliver Hummel)
Download: hugo.lha (456 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)

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29.Aug.2005



amiga-news: newsreport again available as october
The weekly newsreport, every monday, published by amiga-news about all themes around the computermarket breaks because holidays and will be restarted at october. The next weekly newsreport will be published at 3.October 2005. (nba) (Translation: aj)

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29.Aug.2005
Martin Henke (ANF)


Windows: "Neues"-Starter Version 1.2
Für Fans der Fernseh-Computer-Sendung "Neues" hat Martin Henke ein komfortables Tool zum Starten der Realplayer-Streams der verschiedenen Sendungen erstellt. Beim "Neues"-Starter gibt es mit der Version 1.2 folgende Neuerungen:

  • Bei Updates wird jetzt ein separates Fenster geöffnet, dass die Versionsübersicht (History) anzeigt. So kann der Benutzer entscheiden, ob er das Update herunterladen will oder nicht.
  • Im Hauptfenster gibt es jetzt den Unterpunkt "Versionsübersicht" im "Hilfe"-Menü, über den Informationen über die aktuell installierte und die vorherigen Version (History) angezeigt wird.
  • Bugfix: Bei Benutzeraccounts ohne Admininistratorrechte (Windows 2000/XP) stürzt das Programm jetzt nicht mehr beim Programmstart aufgrund fehlenden Schreibzugriffs ab.
  • Bugfix: Kompatibilitätsproblem mit Windowx XP behoben (Start des Setup-Programms beim Aktualisieren)
  • Über die INI-Datei "StartNeues.ini" (wird beim 1. Programmstart mit Schreibrechten erstellt) im Programmverzeichnis können das automatische Überprüfen auf Aktualisierungen und das Laden der Versionsübersicht (verwendet InternetExplorer-Control) ausgeschaltet werden. Manuelle Aktualisierungen über das Menü "Datei" sind dabei nach wie vor möglich.
Download: StartNeues.zip (ps)

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29.Aug.2005
Amiga Future (Webside)


AmigaOS4: IRC-Client WookieChat 1.8 published
James Carrol published a new verion of his MUI-based IRC-Clients WookieChat. Since version 1.6 the program is only available for AmigaOS4. This update is only a minorupdate.

Download: WookieChat1_8.lha (397 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)

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29.Aug.2005
Amiga Future (website)


Database: Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia updated
The Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia by Volker 'Dr. Zarkov' Mohr has been updated to version 14.0. 100 games have been added, the information of 31 further ones updated.

The online-database started as an AmigaGuide document with the goal to list all Amiga Games that were compatible with AGA and 68020+ Amigas.

Because many games didn't work on upgraded machines, Volker Mohr started testing them with all kind of degrading tools and added this information to the database. Today, besides the compatibility, you can also find information about the publishers, cheats, docs, walkthroughs and screenshots. (snx)

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29.Aug.2005
AROS-Exec (forum)


Feelin: AROS port of the object-oriented system
Georg Steger has ported Feelin, Olivier Laviale's object-oriented system for AmigaOS, to AROS/x86 (screenshot).

Download: Feelin050822AROS_050828.tar.bz2 (1,6 MB) (snx)

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29.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


AmigaOS4: Weather software Wet 4.0 released
Chris Young has released an update of his weather software Wet to version 4.0. The weather is displayed in the Workbench titlebar, as an icon or using a Reaction-based GUI.

New in version 4.0 is especially the support for displaying forecasted weather up to 24 hours in advance (where available). Further changes can be found in the corresponding readme file.

Download: wet.lha (651 KB) (snx)

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29.Aug.2005
Moo Bunny (website)


Guide: How to connect an Amiga to an arcade cabinet
At the title link you can find a guide how to connect an Amiga to an arcade cabinet conforming to the JAMMA standard (Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers' Association). Furthermore an Amiga menu called ArcadeGameSelector is provided, which allows the selection of games by using the joystick. (snx)

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28.Aug.2005
PPC-Zone (forum)


Linux: OpenSuSE 10.0 for PowerPC / Short guide for installation on Pegasos
Due to the large number of requests, again a PowerPC version of the Linux distribution OpenSuSE has been released in version 10.0 beta 3 ("Bangalore") at the title link.

At PPCZone Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has published a short guide for installing OpenSuSE on the Pegasos. All you need is a Pegasos-compatible kernel, no further modifications are required.

How to install OpenSuSE on Pegasos computers:
  • Boot the first SuSE-CD with the following parameters: boot cd suseboot/inst32 minmemory=0 MemYastText=0 sysrq=1
  • You will be guided through the installation process
  • When installation of the first CD is finished, the computer will reboot
  • Now copy the kernel-modules of a Pegasos-compatible kernel to /lib/modules/"kernelversion" of your new system
  • Copy a Pegasos-compatible kernel to your boot-hd (if it isn't already there; if you choose a special filesystem like reiserfs, make sure it is compiled into your kernel)
  • In the Open Firmware, a usual linux-boot parameter-path is everything you will need: boot "SuseKernel" root=/dev/your-chosen-hd (plus additional parameters you want to use, like video=xxx)
  • SuSE should boot now with your kernel and finish installation
(snx)

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27.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


AmigaOS4: AmiPodder updated to version 1.2
Robert Williams's freeware program AmiPodder, for now the only Amiga receiver for so called podcasts, was updated to version 1.2. The ARexx program needs further software listed on the installation site.

The update contains an improved feedcheck for new podcasts making this routine more efficient and therefore faster.

Besides does the author introduce some podcasts in the links area of his website.

Download: AmiPodder.lha (344 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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27.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


AmigaOS4: Colecovision emulator Colem 1.0
Based on the Amiga port done by Paul Hill Bob Wicksall ported the Colecovision emulator Colem by Marat Fayzullin to AmigaOS4 (screenshot).

The Colecovision is a video games console that appeared in 1982. There's no sound support yet.

Download: colem_os4.lha (131 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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27.Aug.2005



MorphOS: libnix updated
There's a new libnix available for MorphOS in the download area of the MorphOS Developer Connection. It is recommended that all registered developers updated an installed MorphOS SDK with this new version.

Among other things were the following changed or are new:
  • added lfind/lsearch.
  • fixed access(), which didn't work properly at all.
  • optimized fseek(), should be much faster with in-buffer seeks now.
  • fixed scanf() (and all related functions (including strtod)) parsing of sequence of floats.
  • qsort() no longer compares the same elements against eachother (pointless, and broke some compare routines).
  • support printf/scanf (and related functions) %hh formatting.
(cr) (Translation: wk)

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27.Aug.2005
Oliver Hummel (forum)


MorphOS: ressources-friendly MUI settings (2nd Update)
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel made ressources friendly MUI settings available for users of the PowerUp version of MorphOS. In addition, he recommends the use of the skin "Rainy Blue" that is available on the CD. The effect is clearly visible. Further help can be found in our forum.

Download: Muilight.prefs (15 KB)

Update: (22:15, 28.08.05, snx)
Since the main reason for the performance gain seems to be to avoid the use of gradients, Oliver Hummel has released new MUI settings at MorphZone. Because of a minor mistake in the original settings for Oliver's Cyberstorm skin it is recommended for its users to download these new settings, too.

Alternatively, our reader Jean Holzammer suggests to avoid using skins at all and force the original look of Intuition instead. To do so, you have to rename (or delete) the skins directory in both SYS:Prefs and MOSSYS:Prefs.

Update 2: (22:38, 28.08.05, snx)
Another hint has been posted by 'rzookol' - according to him, the missing font vera.ttf in the mossys:fonts/_ttf directory is also a reason for a lower performance of the PowerUp version. As a solution, you can rename a copy of the font verase.ttf: "copy sys:morphos/fonts/_ttf/verase.ttf sys:morphos/fonts/_ttf/vera.ttf". Pegasos owners can copy the missing font from their corresponding MorphOS installation. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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27.Aug.2005
MorphOS-Team (e-mail)


MorphOS: Enter the Third Dimension!
After two years of active development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the free MorphOS 3D Update pack. This pack brings Warp3D and OpenGL® API compatibility to a whole new range of hardware including 3dfx Voodoo and ATI Radeon.

TinyGL library is heavily optimized and special care has been taken to improve the OpenGL® compliance. It now offers an extended set of advanced features including cubic mapping, display lists, stencil buffering, multitexturing, mipmapping, palette texture handling, non-blocking rendering (no context locking is required), compiled vertex arrays, user clipping planes, selection buffer, evaluators, a GLUT implementation and much more.

Warp3D libraries have been improved and offer more compatibility than any known implementation on the market.

3D hardware supported on Pegasos II, Pegasos I and PowerUp machines:
  • 3Dfx Avenger (Voodoo 3)
  • 3Dfx Napalm (Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5)
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II and Pegasos I machines:
  • ATI rv100 (Radeon 7000 and Radeon VE)
  • ATI r100 (Radeon 7200)
  • ATI rv200 (Radeon 7500)
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II machines:
  • ATI r200 (Radeon 8500 and Radeon 9100)
  • ATI rv250 (Radeon 9000)
  • ATI rv280 (Radeon 9200 and Radeon 9250)
The MorphOS 3D Update pack requires MorphOS 1.4.5 and is freely available on our FTP site and download portal. Please visit 3d.morphos-team.net (title link) for additional information.

We hope you will enjoy using this pack as much as we enjoyed creating it. Keep your graphics processor busy!

Best regards,
Frank, Mark, Michal and Nicolas (snx)

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