08.Feb.2005
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: FastATA/Winner High Speed EIDE controller Trade-Up Program
Elbox Computer is now offering European Union consumers the opportunity to trade-in an older FastATA 1200, A1200 Power Flyer or A1200 Winner Hi-Speed controller and get the newest FastATA 1200 MK-III.
FastATA 1200 MK-III provides up to 16.6 Mbytes/s for up to four ATA/IDE storage devices. This new controller offers enhanced performance with lower processor load when compared against the earlier FastATA 1200 controller. The 48-bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing) capability ensures support for EIDE drives beyond 137 GB (up to 2 TB).
For a limited one month period, the Trade-In, Trade-Up Program offers FastATA 1200 MK-III controller customers a 40 EUR mail-in rebate when their older FastATA controller is received by Elbox Computer. For details see Special Offer page. (snx)
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05.Feb.2005
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Wanted: AmigaOS 4 experienced users
For existing and future projects we are searching for users knowing AmigaOS 4 and using it actively and who think to be capable of working as free author for a limited period of time respectively to help an editor in an advisory position when it comes to special fields of AmigaOS 4. If interested, please send an e-mail to
Nico Barbat.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Feb.2005
Bjorn Lynne (e-mail)
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New audio CD by Gustaf "Lizardking" Grefberg
Those who were following the Amiga and PC demo scene in the last years
know the great musician Gustaf Grefberg who had worked in the scene as "Lizardking". Now Grefberg is back with a new audio CD and a new pseudonym: as artist "Xain"
does the Swedish present his album "Born in the Stars". The CD contains new remixes of his most famous demo scene tracks like Claustrophobia or Doskpop as well
as brand new material of the same style.
"Born in the Stars" offers 68 minutes of pure upbeat, melodic synthi pop and dance/trance music.
Track list:
- Quantum Leap
- Ghosthouse (Fright version)
- Claustrophobia (Open Fields version)
- The Hunter (Remix)
- Flight of Xain
- Born in the Stars
- Machineworld II
- Space Diablo (Space Angel version)
- The Resurrection (Remix)
- DOSK (Xain version)
- Xain and the Droid Invasion
- Space Diablo (Extended Diabolic version)
- Open Fields (Ambient version)
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Feb.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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Web browser: AWeb APL Lite 3.5 beta release 5
In the new beta version of "AWeb APL Lite" were numerous bugs removed, details can be taken from the changelogs of the OS3 respectively the OS4 version.
Download:
AmigaOS 3: aweb3.5.05b68k_20050125.lha (1.9 MB)
AmigaOS 4: aweb3.5.05bos4_20050125.lha (2.6 MB)
MorphOS: AWeb_3.5.05_MorphOS.tar.bz2.tar (1.5 MB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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05.Feb.2005
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MorphOS: PolyOrganiser 0.71 & amifish
PolyOrganiser 0.71
PolyOrganiser by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault is a so called "PIM tool" (personal information management) to handle dates, contacts and tasks (screenshot).
The changes compared with the previous version can be taken from the changelog.
Link: homepage
Download: PolyOrga_0.71.lha (579 KB)
amifish
"amifish" is a translator with support for several languages. For the translation is the Internet service babelfish.altavista.com used. A MorphOS version was added today to the archive.
Link: homepage
Download: amifish.lha (62 KB) (cg) (Translation: wk)
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05.Feb.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: "IR tool" for remote control
Carsten Siegner developed a small program to demonstrate the control of a Pegasos computer via a remote control. Required for this is an infrared receiver module, Siegner uses a module from blue-blacklight.de.
"IR server" moves the mouse arrow, emulates the right mouse key and some keyboard keys and controls ArtEffect, fxPAINT, AmigaAMP, FroggerNG and Mplayer.
All in all supports the IR server 34 remote control keys where some are used several times. For directly supported programs are the following actions possible:
- ArtEffect: can only be started
- fxPAINT: can be started and stopped. Images can be loaded
- AmigaAMP: is completely supported
- FroggerNG: is completely supported excluding the track control
- Mplayer: can be switched to normal mode or to DVD player.
All keys are supported
In addition you can open/close a CD/DVD drive via a remote control. Besides that supports the server an asycronous universal requester controled via the remote control to input files.
The program is written completely in ARexx and needs the following libraries:
- tritonlibrary
- tritonrexx.library
- rexxtricks.library
- rexxserdev.library
- rexxsyslib.library
Download: ir-tool.lha (36 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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05.Feb.2005
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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E-mail: SimpleMail 0.25 released (update)
Version 0.25 of the e-mail client SimpleMail was released today. The changes are:
- RFC 3490 for domains of e-mail addresses now suppported
- Information about the news are now shown separately in the preview display. This can be switched to a compact way to save space
- Several IMAP accounts with different logins per IMAP server are now possible
- If available "TheBar.mcc" is used for the toolbar of the main window
- Errors removed and other smaller improvements
There are versions for AmigaOS 3 and 4 as well as for MorphOS available.
Link: download page
Update: (06.02.2005, 18:30, cg)
MorphOS version added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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05.Feb.2005
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AmigaOS4: strategy game OpenTTD ported
OpenTTD is a clone of the strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" by Microprose that comes with many improvements and new features. After MorphOS, 68k and WarpOS versions the game's now natively available for AmigaOS4.
Download: openttd_aos4.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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04.Feb.2005
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WHDLoad: New archives until 04.02.2005
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:
- 01.02.05 new: Renaissance/Classic 4 (Impressions) done by John Girvin
- 01.02.05 new: Alpha Waves (Infogrames) done by Psygore
- 31.01.05 new: Typhoon Thompson (Brøderbund) done by Psygore
- 31.01.05 new: Anstoss/Carton Rouge (Ascon) done by JOTD
- 29.01.05 improved: Superfrog Demo (Team 17) supports another 2 versions
- 29.01.05 improved: Super Tennis Champs (Audiogenic) supports another version
- 29.01.05 improved: Summer Olympiad/Summer Challenge (TyneSoft/Thunder Mountain) supports another version, manual added
- 27.01.05 new: Nova 9 (Dynamix) done by Psygore
- 27.01.05 new: Fast Food (Codemasters) done by John Girvin
- 26.01.05 new: Winter Olympiad/Winter Challenge (Tynesoft/Thunder Mountain) done by CFOU!
- 26.01.05 improved: Summer Olympiad/Summer Challenge (TyneSoft/Thunder Mountain) supports another version, manual added
- 26.01.05 new: B17 Flying Fortress (MicroProse) done by Psygore
- 23.01.05 new: Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy (Loriciel) done by CFOU!
- 23.01.05 new: Skidmarks (Acid) done by JOTD
- 23.01.05 fixed: Chuck Rock 2 (Core Design) reworked install script
- 23.01.05 new: Dragon Fighter (Idea) done by CFOU!
- 23.01.05 new: Deluxe Galaga (Edgar M. Vigdal) done by CFOU!
- 23.01.05 new: Rackney's Island (Megatronix) done by CFOU!
- 23.01.05 improved: Crystals of Arborea (Silmarils) supports another version
- 23.01.05 new: Crazy Shot (Hitech/Loriciel) done by CFOU!
- 21.01.05 new: Sophelie (New Deal) done by Psygore
- 19.01.05 new: Summer Olympiad/Summer Challenge (TyneSoft/Thunder Mountain) done by CFOU!
- 19.01.05 updated: Z-Out (Advantec/Rainbow Arts) graphics and highscores fixed, rewritten
- 19.01.05 new: Fantastic Voyage (Centaur Software) done by JOTD
- 19.01.05 fixed: Colonel's Bequest (Sierra) access fault removed
- 19.01.05 updated: Bill Tomato's Game (Psygnosis) complete rework, many changes
- 18.01.05 new: Superfrog Demo (Team 17) done by Codetapper
- 17.01.05 new: Circus Games (TyneSoft) done by CFOU!
- 17.01.05 updated: Builderland: The Story Of Melba (Loriciel) icons added
- 17.01.05 updated: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (Tynesoft) new script, icons and other improvements
- 16.01.05 new: Builderland: The Story Of Melba (Loriciel) done by CFOU!
- 16.01.05 new: Tennis Champs (Mental Software) done by Psygore
- 16.01.05 improved: Shufflepuck Cafe (Brøderbund) supports another version
- 16.01.05 new: Lords Of The Realm (Impressions) done by CFOU!
- 16.01.05 new: Gunship (Microprose) done by JOTD
- 16.01.05 new: Grand Prix 500 II/Hot Rubber (Microïds/Titus/Palace) done by CFOU!
- 16.01.05 improved: Colonel's Bequest (Sierra) uses files instead disk images
- 16.01.05 improved: Cedric (Neo/Alcatraz) misc changes
- 16.01.05 new: Breathtaker (Virtual Dreams) done by Psygore
- 13.01.05 improved: Hard Drivin' (Domark) supports another version
- 13.01.05 new: Circus Attractions (Golden Goblins) done by CFOU!
- 13.01.05 new: Boulder Dash - Construction Kit (First Star) done by CFOU!
- 09.01.05 improved: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Mirrorsoft/Probe) speed up, protection proper fixed
- 09.01.05 new: After Burner '88 (Argonaut Software) done by Dark Angel & Codetapper
- 07.01.05 new: Yo! Joe! (Scipio/Play Byte/Hudson Soft) done by Codetapper
- 07.01.05 new: Third Dimension (Cryptoburners) done by Codetapper
- 06.01.05 fixed: Great Courts/Pro Tennis Tour (UBI-Soft) keyboard fix fixed
- 06.01.05 new: Yo! Joe! Demo (Scipio/Play Byte/Hudson Soft) done by Codetapper
- 06.01.05 new: Super Tennis Champs (Audiogenic) done by Psygore
- 06.01.05 improved: Speedball (Bitmap Brothers) supports another version, slave rewritten
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Feb.2005
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amigaworld.net and os4depot.net currently offline
Because of a hacker attack the English Amiga site amigaworld.net can be currently
not accessed. The team now tries to close the lacks of security which were caused by
the hacker.
Because os4depot.net is also hosted at the same server the access to this OS4-archive is only
possible with mirror os4depot.happybiscuit.com or per
FTP (amiga-news.de reported).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Feb.2005
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C64 DTV: The Joystick-C64 comes to Europe
golem.de: The mini game console "Commodore 64 Direct to TV" (C64 DTV and C64 D2TV)
which is contained in Competition-Pro-5000-Joystick soon is available in a
PAL version for the European market. Dealers can order the retro console which contains
C64-games over the distributor Toy Lobster.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Feb.2005
Jan Klok (ANF)
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Photoalbum Creator II released
Photoalbum Creator II generates HTML pages and mainly intended for creating photo albums. The program is written and conceived by Jan Klok and is e-mailware. That means that the author would like you to send him an e-mail if you use his program.
You can use this program for generating your own photoalbums, website, HTML documentation, etc. If you do however, the author asks you to give credit where it is due by mentioning that your pages were generated with Photoalbum Creator II.
Some features:
- MUI interface with D&D capabilities
- AppWindow; just drop a file on it to open the file
- Nlisttree as core for website layout
- Generates HTML and some Javascript, you just need to supply your pictures
- Two layout schemes and three colorschemes to choose from
- Online help (Amigaguide and HTML) - actually the PAC2 homepage was created with PA2
- HTML preview window for quick impression of page layout
- Fast HTML generation
- Configurable default project file
- Configurable border size for images
- Fully configurable toolbar look
- Example projects included
- Tested with IBrowse 2.3, IE6 and Netscape 7
Direkter Download: PAC2v0.93.lha (498 KB) (snx)
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04.Feb.2005
Amiga Games Hit Parade (ANF)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: OpenTTD wins Amiga Games Award 2004
OpenTTD has won the Amiga Games Awards 2004. According to the votes of AmigaOS and MorphOS users, OpenTTD is the game of the year 2004, Descent 2 and Beats Of Rage are 2nd and 3rd. You can see the Amiga Games Awards Top 10 under the title link. (snx)
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03.Feb.2005
Lars Schimmer (ANF)
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IRC Channel #ac.de Meeting Being Planned
The IRC channel #ac.de plans to meet this spring for a weekend in Oberharz. Here are two of the dates (one in May, the other in June) for consideration. It mostly depends which date would get the greater attendance.
The plans include setting up a little LAN, a Beamer, a homestyle barbeque and possibly a trip out to the hills. The costs will be about 45 euros per person for all the trimmings. Those interested should send an e-mail to Lars Schimmer. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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03.Feb.2005
McFly (ANF)
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Amiga-PPS: 32 New PPT Conversions Only on CD
The PPT file conversions by McFly for the Amiga have been expanded to 32 according to his latest website update. Because of bandwidth issues these are available only on CD, not only the new ones, but additionally all of the previous ones. Offers of free webspace would be happily considered. You'll find more information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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03.Feb.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Instructions: Using DrawStudio on the Pegasos
Carsten Siegner describes as follows how one may get DrawStudio to run on the Pegasos. He writes:
"First you should get the archive from my webpage: Drawst.lha. It contains a monitor driver named "PAL." That's a PAL emulation for CyberGraphX. Further there's a prefs file for Drawstudio. Copy this to the DrawStudio directory.
After that DrawStudio starts fine with a normal screen-mode picture. The only thing still missing is SmartWin from Aminet. This gets past a small bug in DrawStudio. SmartWin must be copied to the startup directory. After a reboot, the Pegasos user may use DrawStudio totally normally." (snx) (Translation: dm)
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02.Feb.2005
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Software news until 02.02.2005
RDesktop MUI 1.1
RDesktop MUI is a MUI based graphic user interface for the "Remote Desktop"-Client (screenshot).
New in version 1.1:
- Added MorphOS native binary thanks to ECX by Leif Salmonsson
- Added a new tooltype: AUTOCLOSE. Set this tooltype if RDMUI should quit after "Connect" was pressed
Link: Homepage
Download: RDesktopMUI.lha (112 KB)
GNU File Utils and fd2pragma 2.183
For GeekGadgets installations there are new distributions for the GNU File Utils and fd2pragma 2.183 available:
GNU File Utils: fileutils_installer.lha (1 MB)
FD2Pragma: fd2pragma-2.183.lha (146 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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02.Feb.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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os4depot.net: FTP mirror set up
The Swedish dealer Guru Meditation has set up an FTP mirror for os4depot.net now.
It is reachable at os4depot.gurumeditation.se. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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02.Feb.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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Reference resource: "Amiga Developer Site" online again
The formerly at dev.amiga.hu reachable "Amiga Developer Site" will be hosted at the title link now. The site offers online information
about APIs, DOS commands and similar. Additionally there are more than 300 short example programs available. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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02.Feb.2005
Axel Knabe (phone)
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MorphOS 1.4: Official printer patch released
Under the title link you can find the MorphOS team's official printer patch for MorphOS 1.4, hosted by the German dealer Axel Knabe Büro- & Informationsservice.
The patch comes with an installer and fixes the printing problems under MorphOS 1.4 on Pegasos I + II computers. After the installation you have to delete your old printer config files and create & save completely new ones.
Axel Knabe thanks Frank Mariak, Ralph Schmidt and the remaining MorphOS team for the enabling of this release. (snx)
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02.Feb.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Quake 2 native beta version
Registered users both, of AmigaOS 4.0 as well as of Quake 2, may download a first
OS4 native beta version of Quake 2 from Hyperion Developmemt's download area. This beta version is restricted to software rendering only
but be fully functional.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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02.Feb.2005
AROS-Exec (website)
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AROS: 3Com network card driver and CLI FTP client
Neil Cafferkey has finished the 3Com network adapter driver for AROS and put to the CVS. 3C59x-, 3C90xB- and 3C90xC cards are supported, the original 3C90x cards are not supported yet.
Neil Cafferkey provides also a port of an old, command line based BSD FTP client for download.
Due to problems while compiling within the CVS tree it is not put back to the latter, but available seperately.
The author likes to point out that he does not rate this port as absolutely stable and guesses a new port for the better solution.
Download: aros_ftp.zip (32 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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02.Feb.2005
Brad Webb (e-mail)
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Newsletter: Amiga Update #050131
Brad Webbs newsletter "Amiga Update" contains a summary of the more important Amiga related news of the last four weeks. The January issue has now been released:
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A M I G A | 050131 | U P D A T E
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"SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW"
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AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc.
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C L U B A M I G A S H I R T S H A V E S H I P P E D
P R O F E S S I O N A L Y D U P L I C A T E D O S 4 D I S K S
A H I V 5 . 1 5 R E L E A S E D
A M I M S N , M S N C L I E N T , A V A I L A B L E
E P I S T U L A - " G A I M F O R A M I G A "
A F P L G H O S T S C R I P T 8 . 5 . 0 R E L E A S E D
G O L D E D S T U D I O D E V E L O P E R E D .
N E S E M U L A T O R A T O S 4 D E P O T
O R B I T A L S N I P E R A T O S 4 D E P O T
R E M O T E D E S K T O P G U I - O S 4
S D K B R O W S E R 0 . 9 5 I S O U T
W I R E L E S S C A R D S F O R A M I G A O N E
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
We've completed the first month of a new Amiga year. Overall, it was
a pretty quiet month, with no great earth-shaking news stories.
However, there were some subtle events that are worth noting. First,
for the first time in ages, the Amiga.com website has had an update.
It's not a major change, but it shows attention throughout the site.
That's something I wasn't sure was ever going to happen, and it's a
very welcome positive step. It shows someone is paying attention to
the business again.
Second (and the subject of our lead-off story) the much delayed Club
Amiga T shirts have actually shipped! How many of us had given up hope
that this would ever happen? I'm betting I'll never see mine, as I
never got a comfortable feeling my Club Amiga membership had been
registered at Amiga, but some folks at least should be seeing theirs.
This is another good sign for the future. Old committments are being
kept as well as possible.
Of course, nothing is ever all positive. We have also discovered that
Achim Stegemann, author of such notable Amiga software as "Digital
Almanac" has left the Amiga developer community. He will be missed.
Let's hope we'll continue to see more of the positive changes so
we'll have fewer of these negative ones.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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C L U B A M I G A S H I R T S H A V E S H I P P E D
22 January, 2005
From Amiga.com: We have heard from several people, primarily in the
US, that they have yet to receive their t-shirts.
The shirts dropped shipped on the same day and date worldwide.
Without commenting on the merits of various postal systems, hang in
there, they should be on the way.
Amiga has checked with USPS today and were told arrival could take
from 1 to 2 weeks.
Club Amiga T-shirts Shipped
(17-Jan-2005) Amiga is happy to announce that the long awaited Club
Amiga t-shirts have shipped and should be arriving as you read this
message. Garry Hare, CEO of KMOS and Amiga, said, "It's about time,
isn't it?"
Prior to shipping, Amiga Inc. constructed as accurate a mailing list
as possible.
Happy New Year - The Amiga Team
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P R O F E S S I O N A L Y D U P L I C A T E D O S 4 D I S K S
10 January, 2005
As a service to their loyal customers without broadband internet,
Hyperion Entertainment in collaboration with Soft3 is now offering all
registered Amiga OS 4.0 users the possibility to order a
professionally duplicated replacement CD to replace the original Amiga
OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release CD which came with your AmigaOne SE or
XE. Price is 15 Euro.
This new CD not only contains the first Amiga OS 4.0 update and
updated SDK which are available for download from our site but also a
substantially reworked and updated contribution section.
The offer is available only to XE and SE Earlybird owners.
Just complete the order form at the website below, and, after
confirmation, send your original AmigaOS4.0 to:
Soft3 di Massimiliano Tretene
Piazza di Porta San Mamolo 3c
40136 Bologna, Italy
http://www.soft3.net/pages/software_aos4_e.php
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A H I V 5 . 1 5 R E L E A S E D
10 January, 2005
Martin Blom made available the latest beta of his AHI audio system
(v5.15 also known as v6.0rc2).
The changelist includes:
2005-01-09: Update: AHI v5.15b for native Amithlon (big endian and
still beta) is available as well.
2005-01-09: AHI v5.15, also known as AHI v6.0rc2, is now available.
Lots of bug fixes and the volume handling is now global for all units
and defaults to full volume.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~lcs/files/ahi/beta/
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A M I M S N , M S N C L I E N T , A V A I L A B L E
11 January, 2005
AmiMSN is an MSN messenger client for the Amiga, written in AREXX and
useing rexxreqtools.library, rxsocket.library, rexxdossupport.library
and rexxsupport.library.
It has been compressed into an executable for easy use.
AmiMSN is the only MSN messenger client for the Amiga that supports
the ability to send and receive files. It uses the MSNFTP protocol to
accomplish this. Sender must not be behind a firewall.
It spoofs as MSN Messenger 6.2 for maximum compatibility.
It is primarily a console client, but has been coded to allow any IRC
client to act as it's GUI. It is similar to BitlBee but adheres a lot
more closely to RFC 1459 for compatiblity with most IRC clients.
Some recent changes include since (1.0rc5):
* Fixed: Now works with all .NET passports. (Previously only worked
with hotmail.com accounts)
* File transfer via MSNFTP support added. Sender must accept inbound
connections. If you are using this through WinUAE and have Norton
Antivirus 2005, you NEED to completely disable Norton Internet Worm
Protection before you can send files.
* Changed: AmiMSN.cfg now requires you set a default initial status,
or you may start AmiMSN with an argument.
* Fixed: ReadCList() function couldn't parse a contact that was
pending authorization and not in your forward list. This also cause
the DETAILS command to crash AmiMSN when it encountered this.
* Fixed: ADDUSER would crash AmiMSN if you tried adding someone who
was in your database but not on your forward list.
* Fixed: ADDUSER would crash AmiMSN if you tried to add someone who
was already in your contact list.
Download AmiMSN 1.0WIP (22KB LHA)
http://members.iinet.net.au/~trebs/AmiMSN/
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E P I S T U L A - " G A I M F O R A M I G A "
11 January, 2005
Epistula is to AmigaOS what GAIM is to Linux and Windows. For people
not in the know, GAIM is an instant messenger application which can
handle a variety of IM protocols, for example Microsoft MSN, AOL AIM
and Yahoo Messenger.
I know JabberWocky can provide a similar service, but that requires
extra setting up with Jabber ID's etc. This way, you can log straight
onto your favourite protocol, by-passing any need for yet another IM
account. One of the main reasons I started to write this client was
because I couldn't be bothered with Jabber... I can't be the only
one... can I?
Unlike GAIM, Epistula is written in a modular fashion in that each
'protocol' is a plugin which can be installed, and updated, seperately
from the main application and other plugins.
Beta Testing
Updated Tuesday, 11th January, 2005
Testing for the current 68k OS3.x version of Epistula is now going
public. You are welcome to try this pre-release version, and any of
the available plugins, on AmigaOS 3.x, MorphOS and/or AmigaOS 4.
I have decided to release the beta testing of the 68k version as it
will mostly likely be put on hold until I have a native AmigaOS 4
version compiled. I will be ordering my Amiga One within the next two
weeks, and hopefully have the development environment up and running
and compiling Epistula within a month. Until then, try this version
and if it works, cool! If not, I'm afraid you're just going to have to
wait a little longer.
Please note that from various testing environments, the current
version hasn't much success. It does work for me with my OS 3.1 Opus
Megallen system on my A4000, as does it work on my WinUAE
configuration at work. However, download this at your own risk, I
cannot be held responsible for any bugs, crashes and/or loss of data
and do not provide support for this pre-release version.
Please read the ReadMe file carefully before installing and running
the software.
Note: If you're having problems with the βeta, a few things to look
out for:
* Please make sure you have all the required MUI MCC modules
installed. If you're running the software on AmigaOS 4 then missing
MCC files have been known to crash the application before it even
starts up.
* You must have an MSN account already set up and working with your
contacts already added. You cannot do this with Epistula, use the
official client, AmiMSN or any other client which is able to do it.
* Remember, Epistula is not a finished application. Some things are
missing, or don't work at all, e.g. the 'Add Contact' menu item.
* AmiSSL version 1.1 is required and can be found here. Law
permitting in your country, I would advise you to download all of the
ciphers.
* A possible problem with Roadshow and/or my socket coding could
prevent chat sessions from initialising. Miami Deluxe and WinUAE
bsdsocket.library seem to work just fine.
* Trouble authenticating usually points to AmiSSL configuration
problems if you're sure you are supplying the correct credentials.
Thanks to Tomppeli on AW.net for a possible solution which should be
typed into the CLI:
setenv SAVE amissl/SSL_VERSION ssl3
setenv SAVE amissl/SSL_CLIENT_VERSION ssl3
http://www.the-snakepit.co.uk/epistula//
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A F P L G H O S T S C R I P T 8 . 5 . 0 R E L E A S E D
27 January, 2004
This is a major release of AFPL Ghostscript, and for maximum
compatibility the binary is a 68020 no-fpu build as FPU builds can
cause problems on emulators. This should run on all systems that are
68k AmigaOS compatible. This version of Ghostscript contains a lot of
new rendering code not present in any earlier versions of Ghostscript.
The rendering is also very fast, and includes new optimisations for
rendering fonts at very low resolutions. So the rendering is better
and faster than in any earlier Ghostscripts.
The 68k build contains the Turboprint driver which I debugged for
AFPL Ghostscript 8.00. The x86-AROS port is for i386 upwards. For
people who dont know what Ghostscript is: Ghostscript (both AFPL and
GNU) is a cross platform program for viewing + printing + converting
Postscript and PDF files. And it achieves a high amount of
compatibility with current PS + PDF documents on the internet. This
port contains my own truecolour and HAM8 viewers. It also contains the
viewers I wrote for grayscale, black and white as well as 8-bit colour
and will run on both AGA and graphics card systems. You can use it
also to convert PS to PDF as well as PS and PDF to jpeg, png, and
various other formats. >Michael Merkel has verified that the program
runs completely correctly on the AmigaOne and has printed via
Turboprint on the A1.
Download the program from: http://www.whoosh777.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Contact: whoosh777@blueyonder.co.uk
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G O L D E D S T U D I O D E V E L O P E R E D .
11 January, 2005
GoldED Studio "Developer Edition" is a specially priced edition of
GoldED for software developers and C/C++ beginners: It includes the
latest GoldED editor and all C/C++ development-related components.
This is the ideal package if you need a powerful + affordable solution
for software development.
Features:
O integrates with gcc, vbcc, StormC and SAS/C compilers
O installs several popular free compilers for you (variants of gcc
and vbcc)
O supports development for AmigaOS, PowerUP, WarpOS and MorphOS
platforms
O many unique features for developers:
- look-up OS symbols and autodocs quickly
- GoldED can show a list of all functions in your source code
- syntax highlighting for all OS symbols
- syntax highlighting for parenthesis
- shows prototypes for functions under cursor while you are typing
- make console: navigate to compile errors with a mouse click
- set options for vbcc and gcc comfortably in dialogs, with online
help
- automatically generates projects and makefiles
- switch between compiler variants easily
- cross-compile software for MorphOS on your classic Amiga or PC
- highly configurable (add quick links to OS documentation etc.)
With GoldED "Developer Edition", you can have your first C project
created and compiled in ten minutes. Even if you have never used a C
compiler before.
The regular retail price of this package is 39.90 EUR + p&p. During
the introductory period, the price is only 29.90 EUR (only via the
promotional link listed below, offer ends 14/Jan/05, while supply
lasts).
http://projects.dietmar-eilert.net/news.htm
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N E S E M U L A T O R A T O S 4 D E P O T
OS4 Depot
Description: NES Emulator
Download: amines.lha
Version: 0.64
Author: Per Johansson
Submitter: Per Johansson
Email: omen@telia.com
Category: emulation/gamesystem
License: Freeware
FileID: 440
Short: Nintendo 8-bit emulator (SDL-based)
Uploader: Per Johansson
Author: Per Johansson, Matthew Conte, Neil Bradley
Type: Emulation/Gamesystem
Requires: OS4
Recommended: ROM's
Version: 0.64þ
Credits:
- Main system, GUI, optimizations and bugfixes by Per Johansson
- Based on Nofrendo (c) Matthew Conte
- 6502 CPU emulator by Neil Bradley
- Extended audio system by Takeda Toshiya (implemented from Nester)
- Icon by Lorraine Design (www.lorraine-design.8m.net)
Keys:
c,Tab - Joypad 1 Select
v,Enter - Joypad 1 Start
z, LCtrl - Joypad 1 B-button
x, LAlt - Joypad 1 A-button
Arrow Left - Joypad 1 Left
Arrow Right - Joypad 1 Right
Arrow Up - Joypad 1 Up
Arrow Down - Joypad 1 Down
Esc - Quit
F1 - Soft reset
F2 - Hard reset
F4 - Snapshot (saves picture as PCX)
F6 - Toggle sprites
q - Toggle channel 0 on/off
w - Toggle channel 1 on/off
e - Toggle channel 2 on/off
r - Toggle channel 3 on/off
t - Toggle channel 4 on/off
y - Toggle channel 5 on/off
a - Toggle audio wave (off/normal/filled)
Settings are preset to be as good as possible, but please try to
change the Video settings to Window 2x size
Supported mappers:
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,15,16,18,19,24,32,33,34,40,41,42,46,50
64,65,66,70,73,75,78,79,85,87,93,94,99,160,229,231
http://www.os4depot.net/showfile/?file=emulation/gamesystem/amines.lha
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O R B I T A L S N I P E R A T O S 4 D E P O T
Description: Port of Orbital Eunuchs Sniper 1.29 for AmigaOS4.0
Download: oes.lha
Version: 1.0
Author: Max Tretene
Submitter: m3x
Email: glquake@libero.it
Homepage: http://www.soft3dev.net/amigaos.php
Category: game/action
License: Other
FileID: 428
Orbital Eunuchs Sniper
This is an AmigaOS4.0 port from a Linux/OS X port of the game
'Orbital Sniper',
please read the readme.txt for information on that.
Orbital Eunuchs Sniper is an overhead shooting game. You (the Eunuch
on the orbital laser platform) are tasked with protecting the VIPs
(blue) from the terrorists (red)!
You view a city from overhead, from the point of a view of an
orbiting satellite.
Your laser takes some time to recharge.
Control the targeting crosshairs with the mouse.
Fire the weapon with Left Mouse Button.
Zoom with the mousewheel, or hold down Right Mouse Button while
moving the mouse up/down.
http://os4depot.net/showfile/?file=game/action/oes.lha
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R E M O T E D E S K T O P G U I - O S 4
15 January, 2005
HammerD reports: I am happy to (again) announce an update to the
Remote Desktop client for OS4! As a bonus for OS4 users, we are proud
to offer a full GUI for the client! Thanks to Simon Archer, Toaks, and
restore2003 for all of their hard work and dedication to make this
happen!
68K users: There is no need for you to download any update - the
update is for OS4 users only! Time for you to upgrade ! :) You may
download the the full archive for OS4 including the Remote Desktop
binary (OS4 native), GUI, and documentation from the Remote Desktop
Support Site for AmigaOS
http://www.ody.ca/~develand/rdesktop/rdesktop.htm
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S D K B R O W S E R 0 . 9 5 I S O U T
11 January, 2005
The second PREVIEW release of The SDK Browser for AmigaOS4 has been
released to the public. Version 0.95 PREVIEW sports several new
features and improvements over the previous version.
o Programmable "HIDEKEY"
o Status bar
o Menus
o Improved auto-command searching, for those pesky naming exceptions.
o Fixed layout problem in the GUI
o Improved The SDK Browser's ability to remember and reopen its
window in the same position and size as when it was hidden or
iconified.
o Added a new "View File" feature, which allows you to quickly open
any text file into The SDK Browser's Text Viewer.
o Optimized build. This version is less than HALF the size of the
previous release. At about 95KB instead of nearly 210 KB!
o Much more.
Register your copy today and get a FULL version of The SDK Browser
v2.0 (US $24.95) for FREE!
BITbyBIT Software Group LLC
http://www.bitbybitsoftwaregroup.com/
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W I R E L E S S C A R D S F O R A M I G A O N E
17 January, 2005
AmigaKit.com is happy to announce availabilty of Wireless Networking
cards for the AmigaOne. These PCI cards are 802.11b compatible and
come with a driver CD ready-to-go. They come with detachable antenna
fitted with mini-BNC connector.
In stock now and ready to ship, please visit the online stores at:
UK: uk.amigakit.com
Europe: europe.amigakit.com
US: us.amigakit.com
Canada: canada.amigakit.com
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/contact_us.php
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31.Jan.2005
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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SimpleCat V2.10 released
If you know the original CatComp, you know that inserting and especially
removing of single texts is a real pain, because you need to edit any language file and the descriptor. Just four languages and you need to edit 5 files and run CatComp 5 times to get updated catalogs and source files.
SimpleCat supports much more flexibility and more features. The main argument is that SimpleCat just needs one file to create an unlimited amount of different catalogs and source files. In addition to that the usage is much easier compared to CatComp.
Thanks to the massive import and export features it's worth a look anyway.
SimpleCat is able to import and export catalogs, #?.cd and #?.ct files in any combination. This for example allows to create source files by importing normal catalogs.
Features:
- Just one file needed to create all locale related files
- Catalogs and source-files will be created in one pass. This saves time in parsing the same data over and over
- It's possible to import and export any number of different source files at once
- Optional auto numbering for all IDs
- Highly specified storage system provides maximum processing speed
- Possible import formats: #?.cs, #?.catalog, #?.cd, #?.ct files
- Possible export formats: #?.cs, #?.catalog, #?.cd, #?.ct, #?.c and #?.asm files
- Automatically creates full featured #?.cs files from catalogs, #?.cd or #?.ct files
- Fully localized
- 68000 and MorphOS PPC version
(snx)
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30.Jan.2005
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Aminet: Status Update
September last year wuarchive.wustl.edu, the server hosting the main Aminet archive us.aminet.net, went down due to a broken RAID controller. Since then, Aminet doesn't accept uploads.
Despite the original announcement that wuarchive.wustl.edu would only host "sponsered" archives once the server would be up and running again, us.aminet.net went back online November last year. Uploads are still not being processed though.
Approached by amiga-news.de, Mark Bober from Washington University (wuarchive.wustl.edu) explained that the backup that was used to re-establish us.aminet.net is incomplete - several scripts are broken or missing. This information has been forwarded to Aminet admin Urban Mueller, who will be cooperating with Mark Bober to repair the damage on Aminet's main server or help to establish a new main server.
Further news will be announced soon. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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