11.Aug.2005
Neo (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: DVPlayer-homepage goes online
The homepage of the video- and dvd-players "DvPlayer" is now online and
shows details about the program and its functions. The download link of the
DvPlayer will be available within a short time. (cg) (Translation: nba)
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11.Aug.2005
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-ListDatei V1.3 available and new survey launched
The new version 1.3 of SN-ListDatei is now available on the website of its programmer Steffen Nitz. This tool
lists all files including the subdirectories in a window in a list format
and displays the KB-sizes and date of all files and directories.
It is now possible to create a html-index-file including the titles and
comments of the html-files being part of the index.
Steffen Nitz asks to take part in the new survey regarding his programs.
The survey can be found under the titlelink. (ps)
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11.Aug.2005
ANN (Kommentare)
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Russian development of a ColdFire accelerator preliminary stopped
Another trial, the development of a ColdFire based accelerator card for the Amiga, was nearly unknown, apparently because of a language barrier. You can find the Turbo-CF project of Vladimir 'Vovanius' under the titlelink.
Because of the lack of money for the production start of the board the ColdFire-project is preliminary stopped sine last month. But they want to use the time to develop a PowerPC based accelerator board. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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10.Aug.2005
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GameIcons: More than 100 new game-icons
The archives of the "GameIcons"-series include complex icons in a
resolution of 120*96 pixels mostly created from screenshots. Yesterday
the archive "GameIcons7.lha" with more than 100 additional icons for
several games (list) was published by Chris Vella.
Download: GameIcons7.lha (1,1 MB) (snx) (Translation: nba)
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10.Aug.2005
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CUCUG: Status Register July 2005 (englisch)
The CUCUG status register of July 2005 was published. In the status register
the club reports regularly about their own meetings and about Amiga, Linux,
Macintosh and PC. This time Johhny C. Kitchens reports about the 20th
anniversary of the Amiga. (snx) (Translation: nba)
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08.Aug.2005
amiga.org (Website)
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Mediapoint sources no longer available
As of today, the sources to Mediapoint are no longer available to the
public. Projects involving the use of the sources that are announced
to Computer City (including detailed description) before the end of this
month, will be evaluated and may be approved for use. After september 1st
2005, all non-approved use of Mediapoint sources and executables will be
prohibited. (nba)
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08.Aug.2005
Pegasos.org (website)
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MorphOS: Pre-release of the screen grabber SnapIt
At PUSH event in Sweden, Stefan Blixth of OnyxSoft released version 0.1 of the screen grabber SnapIt for MorphOS (screenshot).
SnapIt is a screen grabber that works similar to Stephan Rupprecht's SGrab, but features a MUI-based user interface and is MorphOS-native.
Versions for AmigaOS/68k and AROS are planned for the future. A native version for AmigaOS4 has not been possible, though, since the author doesn't have the chance so far to compile one.
Download: snapit.lha (97 KB) (snx)
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08.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Price reduction of "The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore"
The price for the book "The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore"
(amiga-news reported) which
will be printed next week has been reduced by the publisher. Anyone who
has preordered will receive their refund by the end of August 6. (snx) (Translation: nba)
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08.Aug.2005
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WHDLoad: New archives until 08.08.2005
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were
originally meant only for use with disks. Besides this several
incompabilities with newer Amiga models were fixed. The following
installers have been added or updated:
(cg) (Translation: nba)
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08.Aug.2005
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Event: English Webseite of Pianeta Amiga 2005 is online
The english webside of the ninth Pianeta Amiga at 3. til 4.September in Empoli (near Florence) is now avalible under titlelink. The Pianeta Amiga is one of the biggest Amiga-events in italy.
The exhibitors, developers, traders and users are shown not only the different Amiga Operatingsystems, also they are issue alternate systems like Linux, Mac OS and BeOS. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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08.Aug.2005
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Aminet: Uploads until 07.08.2005
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last posting:
DBPro221.lha biz/demo 519K OS3 DigiBoosterPro Demo
micq_0.5.0.4_mos.lha comm/net 1.0M MOS MICQ 0.5.0.4
mpgtx_1.3.1_mos.lha comm/net 113K MOS Mpgtx 1.3.1
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 40K OS3 Translate docs or strings from one langu
tidy_mos.lha comm/www 413K MOS HTML tidy (22.07.2005)
Versionize.lha dev/c 36K OS3 Tool to update build number and time
dasm.lha dev/cross 518K VAR Multi-CPU cross assembler
lc2.lha dev/misc 40K OS4 Port of lc2 C/C++ source line counter
liblcms.lha dev/misc 182K OS4 A port of LCMS - A free color management
libmng.lha dev/misc 427K OS4 Multiple-image Network Graphics Library
temgen.lha dev/misc 269K OS3 Template generator & Amigamain template
mcc_nlist-0.97.lha dev/mui 612K VAR NList custom classes for MUI (v0.97)
mcc_texteditor-15.16.lha dev/mui 335K VAR Texteditor custom class for MUI (v15.16)
mcc_toolbar-15.12.lha dev/mui 106K VAR Toolbar custom class for MUI (v15.12) [O
M2Master.lha game/data 105K OS3 New Levels and Editor for Marblelous 2
JaktarDemo2.lha game/demo 259K OS3 Playable Demo from JAKTAR
SeaSideDemoD.lha game/demo 8.0M OS3 German Demo from the game SeaSide
SeaSideDemoE.lha game/demo 8.1M OS3 English Demo from the game SeaSide
adv770.lha game/text 860K OS3 Text adventure Adv770
prism2.lha hard/drivr 138K VAR Driver for 11Mbps wireless network cards
aifc2wav_4.lha mus/edit 20K MOS Aifc2wav
playOGG.lha mus/play 983K OS3 Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
PygmIconsGL_D3.lha pix/gicon 854K all PygmiconsGL_D2 - GlowIcons Demo pack vol
PygmIconsNX_D3.lha pix/nicon 599K all PygmiconsNX_D2 - NewIcons xtd (eXTenD) D
PygmIconsNX_G3.lha pix/nicon 2.0M all PygmiconsNX_G2 - NewIcons xtd (eXTenD) G
HTMLstrip.lha text/hyper 28K OS3 HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
Next.lha text/show 153K OS3 Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes
DM_con_LL.lha util/dir 8K all My DiskMaster2 configuration and associa
AutoUpdateWB.lha util/wb 20K VAR Automatic updating of WB drawer windows
(cg) (Translation: nba)
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08.Aug.2005
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 07.08.2005
These are the latest uploads to the os4depot.net added since our last
update:
simoami.zip gra/the 2Mb OS4 theme
mpegadt.lha dat/sou 19kb play mpeg audio files (mp3)
wookiechat.lha net/cha 399kb IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
dasm.lha dev/cro 518kb Multi-CPU cross assembler
lc2.lha dev/mis 40kb Port of lc2 C/C++ source line counter
amixp.lha gra/the 530kb Gui theme for Amiga OS 4
bup_apache.lha net/ser 14kb Backup your Apache most importen files
liblcms.lha dev/lib 182kb A port of LCMS - A free color management engine
libmng.lha dev/lib 427kb Multiple-image Network Graphics Library
themes.lha gra/the 1Mb New Themes for the New Intuition
mcc_texteditor.lha lib/mui 335kb Texteditor custom class for MUI (v15.16)
(cg) (Translation: nba)
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07.Aug.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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Event: Photos from PUSH 2005.2
Photos from the "PowerPC User Sweden Hack" (PUSH) event can be found at the URLs below. The show took place in Gothenburg (Sweden) from August 5-7.
Photos by Develin
Photos by kozz
Photos by Trizt (cg) (Translation: snx)
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06.Aug.2005
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MorphOS: Telnet/SSH client OpenSSH 4.1p1
Version 4.1p1 of the Telnet/SSH client OpenSSH is now available. A hack for the TTY display was removed as it isn't needed anymore with the newest ixemul.library. Version 4.1p1 bases on the latest OpenSSH and OpenSSL source codes.
Download: OpenSSH-4.1p1.lha (4,4 MB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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AmigaOS 4: Audio Evolution 4.0.8
Davy Wentzler released an update for his harddisk recording and editing solution "Audio Evolution". The patch fixes some bugs, enables the use of CAMD for the controlling of MIDI devices and introduces support for Wentzler's multimedia synchronization library eXtream Sync.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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Retro gaming: updates at kultpower.de and kultboy.com
New at kultpower.de: a review of the comic collection "Starkiller - Geißel der Galaxis". In addition there are 23 new covers of the print magazine "Club Nintendo" and a scan of the first issue of the magazine "Joystick".
At kultboy.com were further eight scans of games reviews added: Bob's Bad Day (AJ), Earthsiege (PP), Globdule (AJ), Immortal, The (PP), Menzoberranzan (PP), Pacific Strike (PP), Times of Lore (ASM), Wiz'n'Liz (AJ).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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Retro computing: CAPS becomes SPS
The CAPS team ("Classic Amiga Preservation Society"), working on the archiving of old copy protected games including the copy protection, is renamed into "Software Preservation Society" (SPS). This name change is the result of an expanding of the activities which now include other computer platforms, too.
In the past months were technologies developed to be able to archive pratically every copy protected disk format. Because of the less flexible drive controlling on other systems in comparison to the Amiga they are now capable of to archive almost all known disk formats after reworking the internal analysis and conversion programs.
For now the^y will concentrate on the archiving of other 3,5 inch formats (MS-DOS, Atari ST) but 5,25 or even 3 inch systems will be supported soon. The main focus lies on the archiving but as for the Amiga there should be emulation libraries available soon to make the use of SPS disk images with known emulators possible.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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MIDI sequencer: Horny 1.1 (AmigaOS 3/4)
"Horny" is a Midi sequencer in the style of "Logic" or "Cubase" with an easy and fast UI. Version 1.1 supports now Davy Wentzler's multimedia synchronization library eXtream Sync and thus offers the possibility to synchronize with other multimedia applications like e.g. Audio Evolution or to control a program via network.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
Matthias Jaap
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Sensible-classics mini-console
Radica Games Limited
announced a worldwide licensing agreement with
Codemasters Software
Ltd. and Sega Toys
(a subsidiary of Sega corporation) to manufacture and distribute "Arcade
Legends Sega Mega Drive Sensible Soccer Plus". This multi-game unit plugs
directly into a TV set and allow players to play three classic games
developed by Sensible Software, including Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder
and Mega-Lo-Mania.
The product is available yet for a retail price of approximately £30
through British shops
("Where
to buy?). The game is designed to replicate the high quality of the
original Sega Mega Drive versions and will feature two controllers,
enabling one or two player gameplay.
Pat Feely, Radica’s President and CEO said, "Sensible Software was one
of the most important video game development houses of the nineties,
creating fun, highly playable games and building a huge following. By
re-launching their classic titles in an accessible plug and play format,
Radica will be appealing to those original fans and taking a fantastic
gaming experience to a whole new audience."
Matt Davies, Codemasters’ Business Development Manager, commented: "This
is a great package of classic titles from the Sensible Software catalogue,
which Codemasters acquired the rights to some years ago. Each game
featured represents some of the most playable, original games of the
1990s and we’re thrilled to see them brought back to life thanks to
Radica’s plug-and-play games system." (nba)
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06.Aug.2005
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Tomislav Novosel interviewed
Following the preview of the adventure "Just like a Dream" in issue #4 of the PDF magazine AmigaInsider there's now the interview with developer Tomislav Novosel online available that couldn't be released in AmigaInsider #4. Follow the title link to read the complete article.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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amiga-news.de still looking for editors
To increase the amiga-news.de editorial staff we are still looking for help on a voluntary basis. If you'd like to join you'll need good English and German knowledge, the will to learn to use an online editorial system - and a little bit of time. Area of responsibility are the investigating and/or the writing of German news and/or the translation of these into English. If interested please contact Nico Barbat via email.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
Redhair (email)
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Sensible Days SWOS Championships 2005
On August, the 13th and 14th, the "Sensible Days SWOS
Championships" take place in Pirmasens (Germany), an event where it's all about the legendary soccer game "Sensible World of Soccer".
The focus lies on championship and/or KO tournaments on Amiga, PC and MegaDrive as gaming platforms with Europe's best Sensible Soccer players taking part in the competitions. The costs for the participation are 15 Euros including overnight stay. Visitors who just want to watch but not to play, pay 5 Euros for the overnight stay.
For further information please visit the website under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Demo scene: Liquid Skies records #087
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 87th music pack yesterday. This time it contains the long-winded Trance music piece "Secrets Of The Ocean" composed by the Polish musician Maxus. The cover was created by DaFreak.
Some more information about the track:
- Title: Secrets Of The Ocean
- Artist: Maxus
- Style: Trance
- Playing time: 7:03
- Format: mp3 (128kbps)
- Archive size: 6.5mb (zip format)
The packed file is available for download under the title link.
New to the group is the Russian musician Alex West who joint the group just recently. A first release will be out soon.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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AmigaOS 4: PocketPC as remote control for the Amiga
At the "Boinged in Belgium", taking place tomorrow in Bruxelles, will Davy Wentzler (Audio Evolution) show another use of his multimedia synchronization interface "extream Sync": via an application running on a PocketPC he will remote control an AmigaOne.
To do so the network interface of extream Sync comes in use: via wireless LAN you can control all Amiga applications with support for Wentzler's synchronization library. The starting of programs or ARexx scripts is possible, too.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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05.Aug.2005
Thomas Frieden (ANF)
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New Software Development Kit for AmigaOS 4 available
Leuven, Belgium - 5. August 2005 Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to
announce the availability of the Software Development Kit 51.15 for the developer-prerelease
of AmigaOS 4. The new SDK has a size of about 100 MB - 5 MB for each year of Amiga-history.
The SDK contains the following components:
- The GNU-C/C++-Compiler and Sourcelevel-Debugger GDB
- Includes & Autodocs for update 3
- The newest version of the C-Compilers vbcc
- Developer documentation and examples of source codes
- An extensive choice of third party tools (libraries, tools)
The SDK is available for registered AmigaOS 4 customers in the download section
of hyperion-entertainment.biz.
Additional to the complete 100 MB-SDK there is a "Nocontrib"-version
which only contains the necessary parts (no additional stuff) as well as
a version which is devided in 10 MB parts for modem users. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2005
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Software-News at amiga.sourceforge.net: faac 1.2.4, faad 2.0 and FLAC 1.1.2
Additional to a update of FLAC 1.1.2 which is a CLI-tool for changing music tracks without
loss of quality with the audio-codec there are also Amiga versions of FAAC 1.2.4 and FAAD 2.0 which can be
downloaded under the title link. These can be used for coding and decoding of the
Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG2-AAC, MPEG4-AAC).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS4: IRC-Client WookieChat 1.7
James Carrol has published a new version of his MUI-based IRC-Clients WookieChat.
Since version 1.6 this program is only available for AmigaOS4. Additionally the
MUI-classes NList.mcc, NListtree.mcc and BetterString.mcc are required.
Changes to the previous version:
- Automatic log reloading bug fixed; wasn't displaying the last line if the log had less lines than the "amount of lines to reload" setting
- New "global query tab" to display all private messages in that don't already have their own tab
- In the server selection window, clicking on a server group and trying to connect to it will no longer give an error, it will now expand the server group tree showing a list of actual servers in that group
- Changed internal limit of 400 nicks per channel to 2500, so joining a channel with more than 400 users wont crash anymore
- Moved the "Perform on Connect" button to the Server window and made it work better; you can choose any server entry: click "Perform on Connect" and it will edit the script for that group
- File Transfers that have been aborted by the other person/not by you will show up as "Incomplete" now
- Channel keyword text field now displays dots instead of text for better security
- Your own "chat history" in the string gadget (that is accessed with cursor up/down) works properly now
- Support for CTCP TIME requests, so other users can find out your local date and time
- The time the channel topic was last changed is now displayed in the "topic set by/last changed" line
- Added "Quit Program? Yes/No" Requester to avoid accidental exiting
- "/names" command fixed to be able to get lists of users in channels you're not currently in
Download: wookiechat.lha (399 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2005
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MUI: Texteditor.mcc 15.16 and NList-classes 0.97
Texteditor.mcc 15.16
The MUI-class
Texteditor.mcc which is
published under LGPL is now available in version 15.16. The update only fixes
a bug in the SetCursor-function. The archiv also contains native versions for
AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
NList-classes 0.97
The
NList-MUI-classes which are
also published under LGPL were updated to version 0.97. The archiv also contains
native versions for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
Above all the update fixes some bugs of the previous version. Additionally the
AmigaOS4-specific IDCMP_EXTENDEDMOUSE-events of a scroll mouse are integrated which
are supported since version 51.28 of the intuition.library.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2005
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: Simple image viewer SimpleView written in PowerPC machine code
SimpleView is a small MorphOS shell utility by Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin to show pictures in a window at the default public screen (so usually on Ambient). The program is fast, because it is written in PowerPC machine code.
Download: SimpleView.lha (19 KB) (snx)
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04.Aug.2005
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ProBonds v2.1 for OS3.x, OS4 and MorphOS Released
ProBonds is finance software for the valuation of financial securities of all kinds. The main focus is, however, on stock shares. The software is specially arranged for the financial characteristics of Germany and tends to work best with German financial instruments, because it uses the numerical identification system of the German stockmarket. The latest version of proBonds is 2.1, which runs under AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.0
and MorphOS. The most important new things are the support for proxy servers, the reworked interface overlay, and the upadting of the financial security data bank. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Aug.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga Forever: Instructions on Using Amiga Partitions (in English)
Under the title link you'll find instructions from Cloanto of how to use Amiga partitions including SCSI devices with Amiga Forever 2005 (WinUAE 1.0) under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Aug.2005
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Total Amiga #21: Collective Ordering for German Readers
There's the opportunity to purchase a collective order of issue #21 of the english-language magazine Total Amiga as long as there are at least ten people interested.
The cost per issue is 7.50 euros, including shipping and handling. Older issues may also be ordered.
If you are interested, please send an email to kontakt(@)semi-werbung.de with the subject "Total Amiga 21".
Contents of Issue #21:
- AmigaOS4 Update
- MorphOS and Ambient Update
- Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn (Hollywood)
- Interview with Sebastian Bauer (SimpleMail)
- Review of Hollywood and Designer for OS4
- Review of Audio Evolution 4
- Review of WIFI-PCI-Karte by AmigaKit.com
- Review of WinUAE 1.0
- Reviews of Amiga in a Box 10.5 and AmigaSYS 2
- Creation of your own "Ken's Icons"
- Hollywood Designer Tutorial
- Digital Expertise, Part 2
- C Programming Tutorial, Part 5
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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