08.Dec.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Genesi now AMCC partner
Genesi extends their partnerships of IBM and Freescale with the third PowerPC manufacturer, AMCC. Genesi will contribute system design services for production of board solutions as well as embedded software support for PowerPC processors by AMCC.
The aim of Genesi's developments are so called "pervasive" computer solutions. The Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, a supplier of high performance storage solutions, has bought the rights for the PowerPC 400 from IBM in April 2004. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.Dec.2004
PPCZone (website)
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Linux: Montavista for Pegasos
As PPCZone reports, Genesi and Montavista are partnering now. The embedded systems targeting Montavista Linux will be offered for the Pegasos and the Open Desktop Workstation. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.Dec.2004
aPEX (Forum)
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Amiga 1000: Common order for newly produced Phoenix boards (Update)
By the title link aPEX reports at the amiga-news.de forum, there is a possibility to place a common order for newly produced Phoenix boards. Shipping may start end of January 2005, the price at a volume of five to ten boards would be 210 AUD without SCSI (about 124 Euro) or 260 AUD with SCSI (about 151 Euo) each.
The in the early 90s by the Australian company Phoenix Microtechnologies produced mainboard is an advanced replacement for the original A1000 board. Unlike the Amiga 1000 it features the ECS chipset, a Kickstart 1.3-ROM and 1 MB Chip-RAM and, optionally, SCSI. Also an A2000 videoslot and a battery buffered clock are onboard. There have been around 500 - 1000 boards produced.
The board will need for operation some (socket) chips which are to get from an Amiga mainboard.
Update: (09.12.2004, 23:30, cg)
The boards offered here are the last ones remaining from the final production run in 1991. All 25 boards are sold now. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Free Pascal 1.9.5 (20041207) released
The development snapshot of the Free Pascal compiler 1.9.5 for MorphOS clears several bugs and contains the latest compiler core. Additional some new units were added to support more system libraries.
Those new units support the graphics.library, intuition.library and layers.library. It is now possible to create applications which may use the graphical interface of MorphOS. Further information is to obtain from the readme file.
The compiler is downloadable at the MorphOS Developer Connection or directly: fpc_20041207.lha (2.4 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.Dec.2004
amigascne.org (ANF)
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Amiga Demo Scene collection updated
The largest Amiga demo scene collection has been updated and many corrupted files have been removed. The collection is to reach by the title link or directly at ftp://ftp.amigascne.org.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.Dec.2004
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Software news
Update for "Rita the Singer"
The software "Rita the Singer" developed using "Hollywood" creates backups of your HD partitions, formats partitions and converts complete CDs or single tracks to the formats AIFF, WAV, 8SVX, MAUD or MP3.
In the latest version have some bugs been removed. In addition, there are now three different skins available.
Link: homepage
Download: complete archive (2.3 MB)
Download: update (1.1 MB)
RSS client: amrss 0.2 (alpha)
"amrss" is an RSS client for AmigaOS 3. It is an alpha version, the author asks for bug reports.
Link: homepage
EvenMore: update of the "Generic Prefs Plugin"
A new version of the "Generic Prefs Plugin", one of the plugins for the text viewer "Evenmore", was released. All "EasyGUI" code was removed, the plugin is now smaller.
Link: homepage
Download: genericprefs.plugin (3 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Dec.2004
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Retro computing: LemonAmiga.com goes online
lemonamiga.com is the little sister of the retro portal lemon64.com which is very popular among C64 fans.
At lemonamiga.com you can find a comprehensive games data base with many screenshots and the possibility to compare the data and screenshots of C64 and Amiga versions of a game. Readers can comment on games or write their own reviews and they can rate every game.
The site is completed by a forum and some tutorials respectively articles about the Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Dec.2004
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Power.org: open standards based on the Power processors
Power.org counts 15 companies to work on chips and systems on the basis of the Power architectur. The processor architecture used e.g. by IBM can be found in Apple computers, the Nintendo GameCube and server systems by IBM.
Members of Power.org are among others Bull, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, IBM, Novell, Red Hat and Sony... (full German article under the title link).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Dec.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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Micro AmigaOne: information about jumper settings and connectors
amigaworld.net reader "NeRP" has collected under the title link complete information with pictures about jumper settings and the internal connectors of the MicroA1-C.
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03.Dec.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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PNG-Icons: "MasonIcon"-Set for AWeb
Martin "Mason" Merz has published his first PNG icon set called "AWebMIPNG".
You need either AmigaOS 3.9 and higher together with
Elena Novaretti's patch "PowerIcons" or MorphOS to display them.
Direct download: AWebMIPNG.lha (20 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Dec.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Collective order of a Pegasos mousepad
Today in the OnlineShop of APC&TCP the advance orders of a Pegasos mousepad has started (preview).
The mousepad costs 7.20 Euro for advance orderers (later around 8 Euro) plus
transport costs. The advance order will last until December 10th, 2004. After that the
mousepad will be started to produce.
Certainly we can deliver it in the second January week. But we guess that we can
deliver it much ealierer. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Dec.2004
Sebastian Brylka (ANF)
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Print magazine: Total Amiga, issue 19 - Advance order
Issue 19 of the English print magazine "Total Amiga" has been completed and can be ordered
over Fun Time World/SEMI-Werbung in Germany. Everyone who is interested in this
issue please may contact Fun Time World until tomorrow.
The current issue will probably cost 7 or 8 Euro depending on the amount of orders.
You can find the content of the current issue on the homepage of the magazine.
You can order it via e-mail to funtime@t-online.de.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Dec.2004
Matthias Jaap/Mac Life
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IBM announces details to Cell-Chip
The new consoles from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft will be introduced on the E3 in May next
year for the first time. But the winner is already clear: IBM. All consoles will have
a CPU from IBM which is unique until now.
Such a news is also the Cell-Chip which IBM together with Sony and Toshiba developed.
As a first product a workstation will be developed which contains the Cell-Chip
and which will become the developing environment for the PlayStation 3.
Cell is related with IBMs POWER-Chips and is a Multi-Core-System with 64-Bit.
Each of this Cores could have an operating system independent of the others. Unlike the
processor of the PlayStation 2 which is the Emotion Engine, Cell is not mainly optimated
for consoles but useful for different purposes.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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03.Dec.2004
AMIGAplus editorial staff
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AMIGAplus 12/2004 (#153) - AMIGA OFFICE
Issue 12/2004 (#153) of AMIGAplus will be released next week including a special about office software for the Amiga. Content: papyrus Office (review), ignition (preview), Xbaze (review), Amiga as a photo modell (workshop), Olof Gustaffson (interview), Christmas guide (special), OS4 compatibility check (service), Articia P in detail (report), Oskar Fischinger (retrospective), The MorphOS Revolt (status report), demoscene 2004 (status report), shareware of the month, news from emu-land, UAE configuration file part 2 (workshop), news from the Amiga market (news), OS4 network developing (workshop) and much more.
Order your copy for 5 Euro at falkemedia. (nba)
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02.Dec.2004
PPA (ANF)
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Update of the Game Exodus: The Last War
Slandmedia has put together an update for "Exodus: The Last War." This version is similar to the previous version (1.2) but runs better on graphic cards.
This was already possible in principle, but only in the clearly slower emulation mode. Along with these improvements the game is also able to run on MorphOS now, and presumably (but not tested) on AmigaOS 4.
Download: ExodusPackV20.lha (190 KB) (snx)
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02.Dec.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP and AmiATLAS Development Team: Cooperation Broadened
Because of their very good cooperation up until now between AmiATLAS
Development Team and APC&TCP they're going to build on it even more for the future.
Previously the webhosting was taken over, and before approximately a year a forum was founded for all interested and registered users of AmiATLAS.
In the future APC&TCP will undertake more missions, basically serving as the official distributor of AmiATLAS and other new products that are planned for release in the beginning of the coming year.
For a limited time therefore, AmiATLAS is available for an economical price at the new online shop of APC&TCP. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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02.Dec.2004
ANN (comments)
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MorphZone and PPCZone Temporarily Unavailable Owing to Attack
MorphZone as well as PPCZone are temporarily not reachable, after an illicit attempt was made to use the server to send spam.
"MorphZone and PPCZone are both down temporarily while repairing a security breach on the server. This breach was part of a spammers attack in an attempt to proliferate SPAM specifically targeted to Internet users in Brazil. While we proceed to work on the cause of the problem, MorphZone and PPCZone will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and the administration of MorphZone hopes to have this cleared up soon.
At this time, we do not believe this attack was by or directed towards any Amiga, MorphOS, or other specific community. Due to the nature of the attack, which we have evidence to believe went to other unrelated servers, this seems to simply be a case of spammers trying to hijack our bandwidth to supply their endless need to send useless e-mail that no one ever reads anyway!" (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Dec.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Puzzle game: AmiBrixx
AmiBrixx is a puzzle game for AmigaOS. The player has to remove groups of same coloured gaming pieces from the playing field by clicking them. By removing gaming pieces upper gaming pieces fall down and constitute new groups. The game is over when no groups can be removed.
AmiBrixx is a port of the Windows game Joemino.
It supports all skins of that PC game.
Download: amibrixx.lha (473 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Dec.2004
Brad Webb (e-mail)
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Newsletter: Amiga Update #041130
By the title link there is the newsletter "Amiga Update" for November 2004 available. In his English newsletter Brad Webb summarizes monthly all important news regarding. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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HD backup/audio converter: Update for "Rita the Singer"
The multi talent "Rita the Singer" does backups of HD partitions, formats partitions and converts entire audio CDs or single tracks to the formats AIFF, WAV, 8SVX, MAUD or MP3.
With the new version some bugs were removed. It is possible to create cutom skins now and Rita "sings" at least (after finishing a backup conversion process a sample will be played).
Download: ritathesinger.lha (2.3 MB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Dec.2004
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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minad: Minimalistic AutoDoc viewer for MorphOS
With minad Rupert Hausberger has written a minimalistic AutoDoc viewer for MorphOS, because existing such programs did not met his stability and usability criteria.
Features:
- Auto-grouping of most common AutoDocs
- Search function
- Filter function
- Directory ride
- Fast
Download: minad.lha (46 KB) (snx)
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30.Nov.2004
morphzone.org (website)
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MySQL Development Team supports Pegasos Server
30th November 2004
Uppsala, Sweden
Contact: bbrv@genesi.lu
With the support of the Genesi/Freescale PegasosPPC Pilot Project,
the MySQL core development team has received a full complement of PowerPC-enabled Open Desktop
Workstations. "We are excited about this new alternative platform. Sony Europe's
success with MySQL on Pegasos has opened our eyes to its potential. We are pleased to be able to offer our
internal resources support for this platform," said Mika Asikainen, MySQL's Partner Manager.
When it delivered the machines, Genesi provided an orientation seminar - including a focus on
the use of AltiVec. MySQL AB intends to provide benchmark results that will help demonstrate
Pegasos' superior watt/cycle efficiency and how MySQL database deployments on the platform can
reduce organizations' total cost of ownership.
Genesi is a Certified MySQL Partner
and a Platinum Sponsor of the MySQL Users Conference 2005.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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30.Nov.2004
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 30.11.2004
New uploads at os4depot.net:
xpkgzip_os4.lha uti/arc 56kb OS4 PPC xpkGZIP - Sublibrary for the XPK package
blobwars.lha gam/pla 8Mb SDL platform shoot'em up
blobwars_upd.lha gam/pla 981kb SDL platform shoot'em up (Update 0.96.2 -> 0.98.1)
visio.zip gra/vie 297kb A simple image viewer
angband-bin.lha gam/rol 1Mb Angband - a modern rogue-like RPG game
angband-src.lha gam/rol 115kb Angband variant makefiles plus Amiga code
tome-bin.lha gam/rol 2Mb T.o.M.E. - a popular Angband variant
zangband-bin.lha gam/rol 2Mb ZAngband - a popular Angband variant
os4_aquax_theme.lha gra/the 7Mb Gui theme For Amiga OS4.
id3edit-os4.lha uti/fil 52kb port of simple shell based ID3 tag editor
omegappc.lha gam/rol 798kb Omega 0.80.4 - another rogue-like RPG :)
autodocviewer.lha dev/uti 183kb Autodoc viewer for OS4
xmamegui.lha emu/gam 104kb GUI for the OS4 xMAME port v0.10
wet.lha uti/wor 208kb Show weather conditions in WB titlebar(OS4)
uhexen.lha gam/fps 835kb Straight port of UHexen for OS 4
identify_lib_os4.lha uti/mis 16kb identify.library replacement for OS4
killwingui.lha uti/mis 53kb Kills windows of crashed apps
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30.Nov.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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New products from individual Computers
The first Sunday in advent is already over, the downtown areas have been equipped with Christmas decoration, and the production for this year's Christmas business is running at full speed at individual Computers:
We're especially happy to announce that despite the two competing products in the market, the flash-card "Kickflash OS4" has been selling to well, that a second production run was necessary. The new cards have already been shipped to our retail partners last week, so there should not be any delays by now. Kickflash OS4 is shipped with 1MB flashrom space.
The betatest-phase of the C-One also made a successful start. Since the beginning of this month, everyone can buy the world's first computer that is purely based on programmable logic. This means that the computer can even start without a processor chip! The board itself will not experience changes any more - the hardware is final. During the beta-phase, there will be core-updates that can be downloaded from the C-One website, and transferred to the C-One using off-the-shelve mass storage media like CF cards or CDs. The board is shipped with a CPU/RAM card with a 65816 processor and 128K superfast S-RAM. For a limited period of time, the board price includes a PS2 memory module.
We also had to make a new production run for our most successful product for the C64 so far: During this summer, the last unit of the Retro Replay was sold. As a distinctive mark for the third production run, we have changed the colour again: The Retro Replays from 2001 have been shipped in black. The second production run from the year 2003 was built on blue circuit boards. Starting now, the Retro Replay is available in shiny red!
The complete sellout of the second production run also means that there will be another party sponsored by individual Computers, organized together with the scene-group CyberpunX. Just like during the Pentecost weekend of this year, the party will take place in an old air-raid bunker from worldwar II in Bochum, Germany. The date has already been set to June 10th to June 12th, 2005, and not only Retro Replay owners are invited! More information can be found on the party website.
Last but not least we want to inform you that the release of the Catweasel MK4 is delayed a bit. Parts of the production had to be moved to the Far East in order to keep the announced price. For the first time, we will only use lead-free materials with the exception of only two components. With this new approach, we are preparing for the new laws that will become effective in 2006. The new release date of the Catweasel MK4 has been set to the third week of December, so it should arrive at our retail partners just in time for Christmas. A pre-production run of Catweasel MK4 controllers has already been finished late October of this year, and many of those controllers have been shipped to developers for free.
Three pictures belong to this news item, you can view them by clicking on the title link.
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27.Nov.2004
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Compiler: vbcc 0.8g patch 2 released
There's a new patch available for the version 0.8g of the C compiler vbcc by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptions). Details can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
ANN (website)
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EXT2 file system handler: bugfix release 0.3 available
The EXT2 file system handler by Marek Szyprowski is now available as version 0.3 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS. This is mainly a bugfix release.
News:
- Directory listing problems solved (thanks to Leo/WARP design)
- Some problems regarding the reading of directories with Symlinks solved (thanks to Guido Mersmann)
- Clear volume names for unknown file systems added
- Documentation updated
Download:
ext2fs_0.3_68k.lha (37 KB)
ext2fs_0.3_mos.lha (31 KB)
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27.Nov.2004
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Software news
Eagleplayer under der GPL released
The authors of the known mod player "Eagleplayer" have decided to release the source codes of the program under the GPL as they have a lack of time to develop the software further.
Link: Eagleplayer at Sourceforge.net
WeatherCheck v1.0
WeatherCheck gets from the "Bureau of Meteorology" in Australia the weather forecasts for several regions of the fifth continent.
Link: homepage
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27.Nov.2004
pegasosforumde (website)
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MorphOS: mICQ v0.4.12
Matthias Münch has ported the latest version of the Instant-Messaging client mICQ to MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
Davy Wentzler (e-mail)
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HD recording: mailing list for Audio Evolution
There's now a mailing list at yahoogroups.com for users of the hard disk recording and editing solution "Audio Evolution". You have to register at Yahoo if you want to read the mails.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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TvR: v2.6 of the TV tuner software for Mediator boards released
The program TvR by Robert Krajcarz (screenshot) is now available as version 2.6. With this software you can control TV tuner PCI cards that are used with a Mediator board.
TvR allows searching for radio/TV stations, the creation of a TV program list, setting up the TV picture (brightness, contrast, colour), channel switching, resizing of the TV window (from 10 % to full screen), choice of video source (TV, cinch, SVHS), sound (mono, stereo) and speaker volume. In the full screen mode it offers OSD (on screen display) for the chosen functions. Stopping and saving of the TV picture is also supported. The control is done via GUI, keyboard or remote control.
New in 2.6 V2.5:
- Minimized clicking when doing channel switching
- Closing the TV window automatically switches to the radio mode
- Mouse pointer hidden in the full screen mode
- Saving of the position of the TV window
- Saving of single pictures
- Correction of the SVHS input
- F4 key for changing the colour decoding system
- Enhanced skin control
- Stopping of the video via keyboard
Download:
tvr_26.lha (60 KB)
tvr_skins.lha (1,5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: RPG ports (Angband, TOME, ZAngband, Omega)
Juha Niemimäki has ported the freeware RPGs (role playing games) Angband, Troubles of Middle-Earth, ZAngband and Omega to AmigaOS4.
Should the games crash on your system the author recommends to do the following settings in the file user/settings.pref to open each game on its own screen. An errors correcting update isn't expected before next week.
; Screen options
SCREEN.name Workbench
SCREEN.mode -1
SCREEN.width 1024
SCREEN.height 800
SCREEN.depth 8
SCREEN.overscan 0
SCREEN.use custom
SCREEN.menus Y
SCREEN.blankmouse N
SCREEN.aga N
Download:
Angband 3.0.5 (1 MB)
Troubles of Middle-Earth 2.2.7 (2 MB)
ZAngband 2.7.4c (2 MB)
Omega 0.80.4 (798 KB)
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