07.Nov.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Test: Use of Solid-State Disks in Pegasos?
Ironfist of pegasos.org tested whether solid-state disks (SSD) may be used as replacement hard-drives in a Pegasos without additional components, to do this he made use of an M-Systems 256 MB iDOC (Disk-on-Chip).
The short answer reads rather like a reply to a question to Radio Eriwan: in principal, yes. MorphOS supports the hard-drive device without limitations (screenshot), but the open firmware doesn't, so currently one can't boot from an SSD hard-drive. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Nov.2004
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Software news in short
ContactManager 30.6
ContactManager is a central book-mark management.
Link: Homepage
MCC_MiniMailer
A MUI class for sending e-mails.
Link: Homepage
RxMUI 41.0
"RxMUI" let create you complex graphical user interfaces with the help of ARexx.
Link: Homepage
Game: HangMan V0.99 (German)
Amiga Arena makes available a German version of "HangMan" made by Amipuzas.
Link: Amiga Arena
Datatype: IcoDT update
IcoDT is a datatype for *.ICO-files. Version 43.8 now also supports 32Bit-icons.
Direct download: IcoDT.lha (14 KB) (Readme)
SaveRamDisk
"SaveRamDisk" is a little tool made by Martin "Mason" Merz which saves the position of
your RamDisk-icon.
Link: Homepage
Scene-Demo: "IKAnim 4k" (Loonies) final version
The demo group "Loonies" published the final version of its 4k-Intro "IKAnim". The animation
of the characters was improved, there is a Hires version for very fast computers and
the timing and the compatibility were improved.
Link: Homepage
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Nov.2004
ANN (website), morphos-news.de (website)
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AWeb: New beta versions for OS4 and MorphOS (Update)
AWeb APL Lite is now available in a new beta version for AmigaOS4. Compared with the
previous version now the SSL support should work. Besides this the stack in the
AWeb-icon has been encreased to 200kb because of some reported problems.
In order to use AmiSSL V1 you need the 68k installation archive as well as PPC files (AmiSSLGlue).
Download:
aweb3.5.02bos4_20041031.lha (2.6 MB)
AmiSSLInstall.lha (597 KB)
AmiSSLGlue.lha (51 KB)
Update, 05.11.04 (cr)
Meanwhile Nicolas DET has published a current AWeb 3.5.02 beta version for MorphOS.
Download:
AWeb_MorphOS.lha (1.9 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Nov.2004
amiga.org (website)
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Aminet: US-Mirror soon online again
According to Mark Bober from Washington University staff, backups of the Aminet archive are currently being used to restore the main mirror at wustl.edu. The process should be finished in the next few days.
Due to the fall out of us.aminet.net, the Aminet network did not accept uploads since September. As soon as the archive on wuarchive.wustl.edu is completely restored, Aminet should be working properly again.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Nov.2004
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MorphOS: Beats of Rage
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has ported the Beat'em Up
Beats of Rage
to MorphOS. The port is incomplete (no sound support) and will be not developed further.
The MorphOS version requires the files of the PC-version.
Direct download: bor.lha (160 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Nov.2004
NEO (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Shoot-Em-Ups "Alienblaster" and "Formido"
Costel "Cyborg" Mincea has compiled the shoot-em-ups Alienblaster and Formido for AmigaOS 4.
Alienblaster: download
Formido: download (cg) (Translation: dm)
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04.Nov.2004
ANN (website)
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Historical: Attempt to Port the Mach Kernel to Amiga
In an interview the Portugese user-group NetBSD-PT did with the German NetBSD developer Hubert Feyrer it's shown thoroughly how he originated this operating system, namely on the Amiga. [rest of long article not translated -dm] (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Nov.2004
Thomas Tavoly (ANF)
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Distributed Amiga: OGR-24 Concludes, Amiga Team Takes 4th Place
The distributed.net-sponsored contest "OGR-24" ended today. The team "Distributed Amiga" stood with about 5000 other teams behind it, reaching fourth place.
In the future they're going to focus on OGR-25 (currently the team is in third place), RC5-72 and the Think-/Ligandfit-Krebsforschungs [untranslatable without research, something about cancer] project.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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03.Nov.2004
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MorphOS: Software news in brief
MAME 0.88:
Fabien Coeurjoly has released version 0.88 (15 MB) of the multi arcade machine emulator with AHI support for MorphOS.
VirusKiller 0.9:
A shoot'em up game. The directories and files to defend are based on your actual hard disk. VirusKiller (2.6 MB) confrontates you with three different virus types.
Syntax parser for GoldED:
Dietmar Eilert has done a PPC native syntax parser (17 KB) for GoldED Studio AIX (editor and C/C++ IDE). The parser comes with syntax highlighting for C/C++, installer scripts, Lisp, BASIC, ARexx, Autodocs and makefiles. Please use the GoldED forum for feedback.
E-UAE:
Marcin Kurek did a direct compile (1.2 MB) of the unchanged E-UAE 0.8.27-RC1 source code for MorphOS on request. The emulator hasn't been tested so far. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Nov.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD SVN-Snapshot v501
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the well known PC business simulation Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
Because the roadmap of OpenTTD schedules some major changes for the next version and the release may be delayed a while, Christian Rosentreter decided to relase a snapshot of the current version 0.3.4.
In comparision to the last official version there are improvements with the Network support (including some important "endian" bugfixes), the game console and with localization.
The snapshot is downloadable by the tiltle link. Additional the original data files of the Windows version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe and the powersdl.library (required: version 7+) are required. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Nov.2004
Vinnny (ANF)
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Emulators: ZX-Live version 0.25
The ZX-Spectrum emulator ZX-Live by Dmitriy Zhivilov is now available in version 0.25. Newly introduced is a partly TR-DOS emulation as well as support for image files in TRD format.
TRD image file support is still in an early stage and works currently only for drive (A:) in read only mode. Thus, the formats .SNA, .Z80, .TAP, .TRD, .SP und .ZX as well as SCR files are supported now.
Download: ZXLive025.lha (94 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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29.Oct.2004
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AmigaOS 4: Uploads at os4depot.net
The following uploads have been added since our last message at
os4depot.net:
timedserial.lha dev/mis 54kb Timed Serial I/O routines
agg2sdk.lha dev/lib 929kb Anti-Grain Geometry 2D Graphics C++ SDK
powermangaos4.lha gam/act 7Mb Free SDL based 2D-Shooter
blobwarsaos4.lha gam/pla 10Mb SDL plattformer (violent ;) )
smcloneaos4.lha gam/pla 3Mb Super Mario Clone FX (SDL)
universe-zero.lha dem/sce 5Mb Universe - Zero
autodocviewer.lha dev/uti 175kb Autodoc viewer for OS4
stonamiga.lha emu/com 2Mb Atari ST Emulator For Os4++
sge.lha emu/uti 88kb SGE: The Spectrum Graphics Editor/Ripper 68k/PPC
starfighteraos4.lha gam/act 6Mb Project: Starfighter (SDL Shoot 'Em Up) *BUGFIX*
savvy.lha net/sam 117kb smbfs Helper GUI
guidemlppc.lha uti/tex 101kb AmigaGuide -> HTML converter with GUI for OS4
barrageaos4.lha gam/act 904kb another free sdl based 2D-shooter
defendguin.lha gam/act 3Mb A bidirect. scrolling space game based on Defender
lbreakout2.lha gam/act 3Mb Free SDL-based Breakout clone
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2004
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AmigaOS 4: AWeb 3.5 APL Lite
A PPC native version of the open-source browser "AWeb 3.5 APL Lite" can be downloaded now.
Direct Download: aweb3.5.02bos4_20041028.lha (2 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2004
amiga.org (website)
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Interactive reference-book: AmigaWiki online again
AmigaWiki which is the interactive reference-book for the Amiga
(l. Wiki at Wikipedia) is now online
again. From this moment on the single sites can be also commented. Besides this
AmigaWiki can search through other Amiga websites to find items to the current topic.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #077
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 77th music pack. It contains
the track "Smooth Rider" which was originally composed by Lcr and improved by Kuadziw.
The track is based on the melodic trance style and the cover was created by Kuadziw.
- Title: Smooth Rider
- Musicians: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
- Style: melodic trance
- Play time: 6:54
- Format: mp3
- Size: 8.1 MB
The ziped file can be downloaded under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2004
pegasosforum.de (ANF)
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MorphOS: Apache 1.3.33
Matthias Münch has ported the webserver Apache 1.3.33 for MorphOS.
In this version some bugs have been fixed e.g. a lack of security in mod_include.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2004
falkemedia
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AMIGAplus 11/2004 (#152) - Turrican forever
AMIGAplus 11/2004 (#152) has been published on October 29th, 2004,
including the following articles:
- Turrican forever incl. interviews with Frank Matzke and Chris Hülsbeck
- 25 software reviews for OS4
- review of OS4 update
- AHTE announces AmiVD and STB
- AMIGAplus CD 30 (incl. Enemy, Barmixer and more)
- report from photokina 2004
- Docky-developing
- Kindergarden Report
- UAE-Configuration in detail
- and much more
You may order this issue for 5 Euro directly from
falkemedia (as of Nov. 3rd)
or subscribe
to AMIGAplus. (nba)
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29.Oct.2004
TeAtoM (ANF)
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Harman buys QNX
The Hifi specialist Harman has bought the software developer QNX which is specialised
in creating realtime operating systems. Some time ago QNX was taken into consideration
of being the successor of AmigaOS and was also distributed with the
AmigaOSXL packet from
Haage&Partner.
Harman espeacially is interested in the realtime operating system QNX Neutrino. This should
become the de-facto-standard in the car industry.
The price for it is to be 138 million US-Dollar. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2004
Bjoern (ANF)
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Filesharing: Update v1.1.2 for Amigift
Yesterday Diego Casorran published an update for Amigift V1.1.1. This fixes especially
two bugs of version 1.1.1.
The first one touches the bug when downloading from the OpenFT network and secondly
Amigift will not freeze any longer if the source list of the downloads is too big.
Additionally the NList parser was optmized and runs now something faster.
Download: amigift_v1.1.2_upd_28102004.lha (265 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Driver for Silicon Image SiI3112A finished (Serial ATA)
According to Amigaworld.net Max Tretene (Soft3) and Libero Moschella (AT) have created
an OS4 hard drive driver for PCI cards which are based on a Silicon Image SiI3112A-Chip.
By this the use of Serial-ATA hard drives is possible.
Some features of SATA:
- 150 MByte/s maximum transfer rate
- Connection online possible
- Partly and full power save modus
- Seven line cable, plug only 8 mm wide (picture)
- Tagged command queuing (like at SCSI)
- Overlapping commands (drive can respond more than one command)
(Source: Toms Hardware)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Oct.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: New Homepage and New Shop Online
As of a few minutes ago, the new APC&TCP homepage is online. It's been completely updated and several new sections have been added. Beyond that, as of today there's an easily navigable online shop, in which all APC&TCP products as well as some others (for example Exodus) are available. For all foreign customers, we put up a PayPal online shop. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Oct.2004
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt: ROMulus Upgrade Contest
At the Amiga meeting in Bad Bramstedt, E3B is offering the equipping of a HIGHWAY USB controllers on FlashROM. With this upgrade HIGHWAY has the same comfortable FlashROM functionality as ALGOR, not unjustly was no winner declared in a big comparison test by AMIGAplus magazine.
The upgrade at a price of 29 Euro contains the FlashROM module ROMulus as well as the necessary upgrade of the bus logic in the HIGHWAY.
Important: Those interested in upgrades must bring their HIGHWAY cards (not the accessories) with them! (cg) (Translation: dm)
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28.Oct.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Image Installer Team and Sunbeam Business Solutions Merchant at LinuxInfo Day
The Image Installer Team
and Sunbeam Business Solutions
are going to be at LinuxInfo Day in Dresden this weekend.
The Image Installer Team is going to demonstrate the current version of Image Installer, which is a program that allows the easy installation of Linux on a Pegasos.
Sunbeam will show Pegasos-oriented products, among others a prototype of a processor card holder that allows Pegasos systems with inserted cards to be shipped without risk. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Oct.2004
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Spreadsheet: ignition
'ignition' is a spreadsheet featuring an integrated relational database. It is currently developed under AmigaOS 3 and will be distributed by IOSPIRIT. Ports for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS are planned as well.
Approached by amiga-news.de, author Axel Dörfler explains that the program has reached a pretty advanced state - though import and export functions for Excel and Turbocalc spreadsheets are not implemented yet and the documentation still needs a lot of work. Dörfler is unable to announce a release date as he has a lot of job-related projects going on right now.
The current version of ignition will be demonstrated at the Amiga meeting in Bad Bramstedt (Germany) this weekend. Screenshots and further information are available under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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28.Oct.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Update of the ANR-/AmigaAMP-Plugin 3dEner
Pawel 'Stefkos' Stefanski has released an update of his "3dEner" plugin for AmiNetRadio and AmigaAMP. The plugin makes use of hardware 3D acceleration (screenshot).
New:
- Ability to change window and screen resolution "on the fly"
- Preferences may be set through tooltypes
- Configurable window sizes
- Configurable background color and other parameters
Download: 3dEner.lha (276 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Oct.2004
Amiga.org (website)
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AROS Max Now Has Its Own Website
The bootable AROS CD "AROS Max" presents itself under the title link with its own website. AROS Max is a preconfigured AROS distribution outfitted with developer tools, games, demos, and other software. It's oriented towards beginners and those who would just like to take a peek at the "Amiga Research Operating System". (snx) (Translation: dm)
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27.Oct.2004
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MorphOS: Software news summary
Tcl:
Tcl, the Tool Command Language, V8.4.7 is now available as a MorphOS version. This simple interpreter script language contains all the main compounds of a programming language. Further information about Tcl is avaialble at its Wikipedia entry.
XLogical:
With the MorphOS version of the Log!cal clone XLogical Herbert Klackl has ported another SDL game again. The original Log!cal had been developed by Rainbow Arts for the Amiga. The game's aim is to move colored balls by turning of slingshot wheels as fast as possible to a given target (screen shot).
MEncoder:
MEncoder, a conversion tool for media formats, is now available in V1.0pre3 for MorphOS.
PIP:
PIP (Picture in picture, 647 KB), a tool by Attention Software to monitor other screens as thumbnail on the current screen, is now available as a 2nd beta version for MorphOS. Additional to the main function it`s possible to record a screen and, by using FFMPEG, create an MPEG movie from the recording.
Northland:
As stated on Epic Interactive`s website for a while development on the MorphOS version of the game "Northland" is hold currently due to compiler problems. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.Oct.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Support for Anti Grain Geometry
As it is to read at the AGG website the Anti Grain Geometry may, thanks to Steven Solie, be used with AmigaOS4 now. The demos are expanded with OS4 versions.
Anti Grain Geometry (AGG) is a C++ based open source graphic libraray. AGG is not depending on a special graphic API nor on other technologies. Principally it is a kind of rendering engine which generates pixel data based on vectors. A detailed description is available at the project site.
Handling with AmigaOS4: For information about available targets type make -f Makefile.AmigaOS. To install AGG to the AmigaOS4-SDK call the following: make -f Makefile.AmigaOS install. To just make one of the demos (e.g. 'lion') type: make -f Makefile.AmigaOS bin/lion.
Download: agg2sdk.lha (929 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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