07.May.2005
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar: 1st Quest - barbarians of the Southern lands!
Rules:
This quest is for new players beginning June, 1st 2005. Players who want to register for this quest have to enter 'Barbaren der Südlande' in the notes field of the registration form.
The aim of the barbarians is to conquer at least 150 Morgen of the northern countries each month. It's not 150 acres per barbarian but all lords together have to reach this aim.
To ensure a free development the area of the barbarians is kept encapsuled. Beginning with August, 1st 2005 the frontiers will be opened and from then on each month the conquered Morgen will be counted. If the number passes the 150 Morgen all barbarians can continue playing for free. Does the conquered area not pass 150 Morgen is the invasion not successful and the players' state will be set to
the shareware mode.
Registering will be possible from May, 15th to May, 30th 2005.
This quest is cross platform, so it can be played an all systems (PC, Linux, Mac, Amiga (+ MOS,+ OS4)).
Quest operator: Martin Wolf
Price: continued playing for free as long as the quest's aim is reached.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
OS4Depot (website)
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AmigaOS4: Apache 1.3.33 beta released
Edgar Schwan uploaded Apache 1.3.33 in a beta version as AmigaOS4 port to the OS4Depot. Supported are PHP 4.3.0 and MySQL 3.23.49.
Contained programs:
- httpd - Apache server for the hypertext transfer protocol
- htpasswd - creating and updating of users authentification files
- htdigest - creating and updating of text files for the digest authentification
- ab - benchmark tool for the Apache HTTP server
- logresolve - resolving of host names of the IP addresses in Apache log files
- rotatelogs - rotates Apache logs without the need to kill the server
- checkgid - checks whether a group ID exists
- php - standalone PHP interpreter compiled for this package
Download: apache.lha (10 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Dave Haynie archives online again
The Dave Haynie Archives - a collection of documents created by Dave Haynie for Commodore - are now online accessible again. Next to information about single computers and chips there can be found e.g. information about the never released AAA technology of the prototype Nyx.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Final update for SystemPatch to version 2.94
SystemPatch by Sante Nocciolino changes various operating system routines to increase the performance of systems with newer 68k processors. The most can be got from 68060 systems but it can be used on all Amigas with at least a 68020.
The author expects the version 2.94 to be the last update. A release of the source code at a later time - as it was with others of his programs - is possible.
Download: SystemPatch2.lha (42 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS: OpenPictureSpace 2.5 released
Marc le Douarain, meanwhile the maintainer of the program originally written for Linux by Thomas Hänselmann, released version 2.5 of OpenPictureSpace for MorphOS.
OpenPictureSpace shows a directory containing images as thumbnails (screenshot). Supported are JPEG, GIF, PNG and IFF-ILBM including the Amiga specific HAM and EHB modes.
In contrary to other programs of this kind OpenPictureSpace does not display the pictures in a grid with n x m thumbnails but scales them only vertically and tries to put as many as possible in each row to use the screen space as best as possible.
Changes in version 2.5:
- Using powersdl.library and powersdl_image.library (makes more image formats in the future possible)
- Wheelmouse keys can be used for scrolling of the thumbs list
- Delay when displaying the whole image removed
- Picture rotation via the '<' key
- Displaying useful keys at the bottom
- Do not try to double the size of the current opened image despite the fact that it is possible!
- Error removed when entering a drive for the path
Download: OpenPictureSpace_MOS.lha (242 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.May.2005
banana development committee (ANF)
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MorphOS: MisterBanana 1.3 published
It follows the original press release concerning the publishing of the newest version
for the known desktop mascot for MorphOS:
"No may without Banana
That's our motto. Sadly current MisterBanana 1.5 with all the cool
extra features only works properly with still unreleased MorphOS 1.666.
But thanks to the banana god, we could resurrect source code of MisterBanana
1.4 and bumped it down to 1.3 to make this update release happen just in time.
It's hopefully the last before the 1.5 release, and solves no bugs or
problems with the previous public release, but adds a few new sayings and
options, including faked transparency, an updated hotlist, anonymizer support
and a secret feature to destroy the world.
We wish you fun!
Oh.. and get the little fellow from here
or become amazed 'bout this very cool screenshot." (cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2005
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: UADE 1.02 published
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has published an update of UADE to version 1.02 for MorphOS.
UADE can play Amiga music files with the help of UAE-emulation and of a cloned
Eagleplayer-API.
Download: uade-1.02-mos1-bin.lha (1.4 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2005
Carsten "flip" Wiebers (ANF)
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A History of the GUI
Under the title link you can find an English article written by Ars Technica
about the history of the graphic user interfaces. It is described the evolution
from the earliest beginning in the 60ies over Xerox and Apple as well as
the systems of the 80ies (including the Workbench) to the present.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2005
Michal Schulz (AROS-ML)
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File system: SFS source code put under LGPL
The Smart File System (SFS) is a journalling file system for Amiga systems which was created to get most of performance, scalability and file integrity. At the title link John Hendrikx has set up an according sourceforge project to publish the original C version to LGPL. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2005
ANN (website)
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WLAN driver prism2.device for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS
Neil Cafferkey has released the first complete version of his prism2.device for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. The kit contains a SANA II driver for 11 Mbps WLAN cards based on the Prism II chipset.
There is support for PCMCIA cards for the A1200/A600 and PCI cards for Amigas equiped with the Prometheus boards, AmigaOne and Pegasos as well as for PCs running Amithlon.
Download: prism2.lha (138 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: GUI toolkit FLTK
FLTK is a C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, MacOS X and AmigaOS 4.0, that is licensed according to the LGPL. FLTK might be linked static or as shared library. The kit contains a GUI-Builder called FLUID also.
The Amiga version (screenshots: 1, 2) is described by the author as "work in progress", but is almost complete. Nearly all functions of the official version 1.1.6 is implemented already, the following features are still missing and will be added in a following release:
- OpenGL support
- Drag and Drop
- Threads
- Custom pointers
There are more than 60 demos available which show the potential of that tool kit. The whole package is put to several archives:
Libs, includes and documentation: fltk.lha (1 MB)
Demos: fltk_demos.lha (11 MB)
FLUID: fltk_fluid.lha (622 KB)
The source code will be made available within the next days, until then a "not yet cleaned up" version is obtainable from the author by e-mail request.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Database in Spanish
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a MySQL based database created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can be questioned by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function.
Thanks to the kind support of Dámaso Domínguez, the GAUHPIL is now also translated to Spanish. Furthermore, Dámaso again found many users from the "Lost Links List" by hardworking research. Other defective links were moved there. So the database contents could be cleaned up significantly.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 713 users from 38 countries. The number of users for each country can be found on the page "All Countries". (snx)
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30.Apr.2005
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Current state of DKG II and SN-Archiv homepage
The SN-Archiv homepage is now accessable via the short URL sn-archiv.de, too.
Of SN-EuroArchiv is version 1.95 under development. Image support for the HTML support for course coins sets was added that will be available in the future for special coins, too. Additionally, some bugs were removed that concerned the HTML support. An example for the new ccs generating can be found here (needs some loading time because of the images).
Steffen Nitz also decided to create an images gallery for SN-EuroArchiv. The page is still under construction and can be accessed via this URL.
There are thoughts to create a similar gallery for "Die Kleine Gilde II" to show the scope of the game. DKG II v0.70 is almost finished but the author has had not found the time to do the last adaptions to release this version. Things like town fires, burglary and sabotages like setting fires or placing bombs at competitiors buildings were added. You can now place things in buildings that are quite helpful, e.g. against fire and burglary.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Apr.2005
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MorphOS: ldview 0.8
ldview is a view program for files of Lego-models in
ldraw-format (screenshot).
New in version 0.8:
- Support for .mpd format
- Smooth shading
- Faster loading of models (also uses less memory)
- Possibility to display parts used in the model
- Different display modes (lines/solids)
- Automatic fixing of broken transformation matrices
- Automatic fixing of bowtie quads
- Camera movement
- Better transparency
- Possible to change background color
- Support for high detail primitives
Download: ldview0.8-mos.lha (30 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Neo (ANF)
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DTP: PageStream 5 Status-Update
According to Grasshopper LLC the final beta tests for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS versions of
PageStream 5 will start soon. The development of a AmigaOS 4 version was
continued because now an AmigaOne is available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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File system: Update of Smart Filesystem (SFS)
The Smart Filesystem (SFS) is now available in version 1.239. A bug in
AmigaOS 3.x was avoided and the function ACTION_FILESYSTEM_ATTR implemented.
Download: SFS_1.239.lha (44 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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Tales of Tamar: Update of Amiga-Version to V0.53R9
Tales of Tamar which is a round based Massive-Multiplayer-PBEM-Game is now available
in version 0.53R9.
Besides this an animation packet has been released which contains On-Screen-Animations
instead of pictures.
If you want to know what has changed in the new version please have a look at the homepage.
Download:
ToT_Amiga_V0.53_R9.lha (15 MB)
ToT_Anims.zip (41 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Olaf Barthel (ANF)
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Developing tool: Subversion 1.1.4 for Amiga ported
Subversion is a software packet for maintaining of source texts and
binary data just like the older RCS or CVS. Above all it is meant as a replacement
for CVS and has not its bugs e.g. insufficient maintenance of binary data.
In this port made by Olaf Barthel the functions for maintaining the Amiga
file attributes (hold, archive, script, pure, etc.) and file comments have been added.
The archive contains the documentation, the whole changes made on the source code
of the Amiga version and the programs (client/server) translated for
AmigaOS 2.x/3.x/4.x.
Download: subversion-1.1.4.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Calo Nord (ANF)
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Update of AmigaSYS 1.7.1 for E-UAE (beta version)
AmigaSYS is available in a new beta version for E-UAE. AmigaSYS is a
collection of a comfortable Workbench environment for use with the Amiga emulator UAE
in the way of AIAB ("Amiga in a box").
AmigaSYS contains no Kickstart-ROM because of legal reasons and you need
a Workbench 3.0/3.1-disk. The installation itself runs automatically.
To the current beta version for E-UAE Calo Nord wrote:
"Many users have already heard of AmigaSYS and some of you were missing the
E-UAE-Version for Linux, MorphOS and AmigaOS4. Now there is a first and also last
version for E-UAE. Because of the limited possibilities of E-UAE we will not work
with it in future.
We have released a beta version of AmigaSYS 1.7.1 with little modifications for E-UAE.
Under MorphOS the packet unfortunately does not work proper which is caused by
E-UAE.
Under AmigaOS4 there is a bug when unarchiving the Startup-Sequence.
After the installation this must be copied manually from the archive to the installed
AmigaSYS directory. A packet created under AmigaOS4 will follow soon.
Under Linux AmigaSYS should work so far with the known limitations.
If there are bugs after installing the archive the packet probably was extracted in a wrong way.
This is not caused by AmigaSYS but by the unarchiver program or the Linux file system.
The current version has been successfully tested under AmigaOS4, Debian Linux PPC, SuSE 9.2 x86, Mandrake Linux 10.1 x86 and Mandrake Linux LE 2005 x86.
Because we will not develop further for E-UAE there is no support. But bug reports
can be always sent to my e-mail address.
If E-UAE should get remarkable progress some times later I probably will continue
my work."
Download: AmigaSYS.tar.gz (35 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Strategy game engines FreeCNC and Stratagus ported
Juha Niemimaki has ported the realtime strategy games engines Stratagus 2.1 and FreeCNC 0.3
for AmigaOS4. The author asks you to note the instructions for starting a game.
Stratagus supports games like
Invasion - Battle of Survival (contained), Wargus (WarCraft 2, requires the original data files) and
Astroseries. There are some sound problems at the last mentioned one.
FreeCNC supports early Command & Conquer games.
The C&C1 demo version works but may crash when quitting it. Red Alert does not work.
Download:
freecnc.lha (1 MB)
stratagus.lha (22 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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MorphOS: E-mail Commodity Lola Released
Alfonso Ranieri wrote a little MorphOS commodity by the name of Lola, with which one can quickly send an e-mail (screenshot).
Download: lola.lha (248 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 28. Apr. 2005, 19:00] [Comments: 0]
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28.Apr.2005
Pegasosforum (website)
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MorphOS: NcFTP 3.1.9 Appears
Matthias Münch has compiled NcFTP version 3.1.9 for MorphOS. NcFTP is a set of free programs having to do with File Transfer Protocol (FTP). It may be downloaded under the title-link. (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 28. Apr. 2005, 09:44] [Comments: 0]
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28.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Gathering: AmiGBG 2005 Takes Place on 23rd July (Sweden)
For the "stay-at-home" Europeans there's a parallel event to AmiWest. Simultaneously on the 23rd of July, AmiGBG occurs in the Swedish town of Göteborg, taking the theme of a 20th birthday world Amiga celebration. The event team has grown by a factor of three this year, more details will follow in the coming weeks. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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PegXMac: Spring Offer for Update Subscription
David Bentham's started a spring special on his Mac-on-Linux-Live-CD PegXMac: a single payment will be accepted for the price and the updates for the duration of this special.
With this one-time payment, one gets updates for four months, not just one, so the cost is a lot lower. This offer covers all variants: Pegasos II, Pegasos I and AmigaOne. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Darren Eveland (ANF)
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Reminder: AmigaOne-Survey for all Amiga users closes in four days
Darren Eveland reminds his survey whether you are owning an AmigaOne or planning to buy one. It will close in four days (amiga-news.de reported).
Over 1550 people have filled out this survey so far. Encouraged to participate are all Amiga users, no matter if you use AmigaOS4, AmigaOS, MorphOS or AROS and no matter if you use it on original hardware or via Amithlon or UAE. (snx)
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27.Apr.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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MorphOS: mfkey 1.8
With "mfkey" Alfonso Ranieri provides a clone of the AmigaOS commodity Fkey. Yet mfkey supports "CLI" and "ARexx" events only. Changes with version 1.8:
- Added keyboard.device supported MMkeys (PLAY, STOP, PREV, NEXT)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 27. Apr. 2005, 23:28] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2005
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Software news: playOGG 2.1 & Clarissa RSS module
playOGG 2.1
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is an audio player for OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA and SID. It may be launched from Workbench or the CLI.
Link: Homepage
Download: playOGG.lha (796 KB) (Readme)
RSS module for the webserver Clarissa
Clarissa is a webserver written in ARexx by Martin Kayser. A plugin by Oliver "Bladerunner" Hummel enables it to provide RSS feeds now.
Link: Homepage
Download: newsreader.rexx (4 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2005
PPC-Zone (website)
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Pegasos: New Linux "LiveCD" Niktarix
Nick Niktaris has created another Linux "LiveCD" called nektarix for the Pegasos (ODW) (screenshots).
Compounds of Knoppix, Kanotix and Debian Sarge were used; beside the kernel 2.6.11 there is also KDE 3.3.2, UnionFS, Mozilla/Firefox, Open Office and GIMP.
UnionFS, which takes some time during the boot up process, offers a workflow as if the machine was booted from a hard disk - one may install or remove .deb files.
The V0.03 is the first public version, which may contain some serious bugs and not all planned features are integrated yet.
Open Firmware call:
boot cd niktarix root=/dev/ram rw init=linuxrc
MD5 checksum:
834340ff550101757cb56e38cfe08a09
Download:
NIKTARIX_0_03.ISO (550 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2005
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Amiga Inc. becomes member of the iPAQ developer program
Amiga Inc. announce at the title link their participation of Hewlett-Packard's iPAQ Developer Program. Amiga are set to the "Premier Member" status which gives them access to developer tools, source codes, prerelease tools as well as information and offerings for a common marketing and fair participation.
Greg Sigel, Amigas vice president for sales and marketing, is amazed by the plenty available iPAQ expansions and emphasizes the benefits of HP's developer program for Amiga Inc. and their developer community.
They are planning an "aggressive marketing" and is heading for the release of about a dozen titels per quarter year.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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