14.Feb.2005
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Aminet back online, volunteers needed
To compensate the breakdown of us.aminet.net, a new Aminet main server has been established which can be reached at
www.aminet.net or main.aminet.net. Aminet now uses a completely
new web interface written by Nicolas Mendoza, originally implemented for amirepo.net. As most of the internal
scripts as well as the new web interface had to be adapted or have been rewritten from scratch, there still might be some rough edges, smaller
bugs or dead links left - but Aminet is working again and uploads are getting processed.
Please note that currently only the main server is working properly, mirrors are not being updated yet and uploads at mirror sites are
ignored. This will be addressed later on - for now please stick to the URLs given above to access Aminet. If you want to upload to Aminet,
use your favourite FTP client to connect to main.aminet.net and upload to the "new" directory as outlined in Aminet's help files.
Urban Mueller, founder and main administrator of Aminet, is going to retire as soon as the new infrastructure is in place. He will be hosting
the main server but will no longer be part of the administration team. The exact details of Aminet's future administration structure are not
decided yet, but amiga-news.de is currently assembling a new team that will be responsible for Aminet in the future.
Volunteers wanted
We are searching for one or two volunteers that could assist us in moderating uploads. An upload moderator should meet the following
requirements:
- Basic knowledge about Unix shells (moving, deleting, renaming files)
- Broadband Internet access
- English speaker
If you fullfill these requirements and would like to become a part of the new Aminet team, please contact us at
team@amiga-news.de.
(cg)
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12.Feb.2005
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Software news: SystemPatch & playOGG
SystemPatch 2.92
SystemPatch changes several routines of the operating system to increase on systems with later 68k processors the performance. The most is achieved on 060 systems but it can be used on all Amigas with a 68020+.
Link: homepage
Download: SystemPatch2.lha (33 KB)
playOGG 1.0
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is for playback of audio files in the OGG Vorbis format and can be launched from the Workbench or via CLI.
Link: homepage
Download: playOGG.lha (530 KB) (cg) (Translation: wk)
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12.Feb.2005
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os4depot.net: uploads bis 12.02.2005
New uploads at os4depot.net since our last posting:
rmouse.lzx dri/inp 11kb Bootmouse driver for OS4's USB stack with source
warpsnes.lha emu/gam 1Mb Nintendo SNES Emulator (WarpSNES)
qlview.lha gra/vie 239kb Sinclair QL Screen viewer and iff saver.
amiga_a2ps.lha uti/tex 997kb Amiga A2PS
fetchrefs.lha dev/uti 579kb Include & Autodocs utility
bubbleicons.lha gra/ico 2Mb Bubble icons for Amidock
amivnc4.zip net/mis 82kb VNC server for AmigaOS4
byaccppc.lha dev/uti 172kb BYacc PPC Berkeley YACC program source
includedmake-ppc.lha dev/uti 160kb GNU make PPC
pgmasstppc.lha dev/uti 286kb ProgrammersAssist Update to V2.0
openttd_aos4.lha gam/str 2Mb OpenTTD for AmigaOS4
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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12.Feb.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Guide: overclocking a Pegasos up to 1264 MHz
Matthias Münch created an article with the help of Thomas Lohmann under the title link in which he describes how to overclock the processor of a Pegasos board. According to Lohmann is the G4 card running without any problem at 1264 MHz.
Attention: If you should do such an overclocking you risk to damage your processor card or the mainboard. And you will lose warranty.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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12.Feb.2005
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Internet appearance to be reworked
As Amiga Inc. announces under the title link, the company's website will get reworked soon.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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12.Feb.2005
D-Online (ANF)
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Amiga-Magazin: articles of the issues 1 and 2/2005 online
Four articles of the issues #1 and #2/05 of the (German) "Amiga-Magazin" were made available online.
The "Amiga-Magazin" exists since 1987 and is released for subscribers as part of the print magazine "PC Go" since the late nineties. The issue #2/2005 contains eight pages.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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12.Feb.2005
Max (ANF)
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Postscript: AmigaOS4 port of A2PS
Erik Kristiansson ported A2PS ("Any to Postscript") to AmigaOS4. With the needed tools you can convert "everything" into the Postscript format. In addition there's a ReAction based graphical user interface, the A2PSGUI (screenshot).
Download: amiga_a2ps.lha (997 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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12.Feb.2005
David Brunet (ANF)
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Amiga Games hit parade: results January/February 2005
The results of the Amiga Games hit parade of January/February 2005:
- 01. (2) Payback - 105 pts
- 02. (3) Slam Tilt - 104 pts
- 03. (8) Earth 2140 - 94 pts
- 04. (1) Quake 2 - 93 pts
- 05. (9) Napalm - 90 pts
- 06. (4) Heretic 2 - 79 pts
- 07. (11) Knights And Merchants - 77 pts
- 08. (23) Freespace - 69 pts
- 09. (14) Crossfire 2 - 65 pts
- 10. (7) Sensible World Of Soccer - 60 pts
- 11. (18) Dune 2 - 55 pts
- 12. (5) The Settlers - 53 pts
- 13. (22) Moonstone - 52 pts
- 14. (10) Worms/Worms DC - 48 pts
- 15. (12) Quake - 45 pts
- 16. (17) Stardust/Super Stardust - 45 pts
- 17. (15) Xtreme Racing - 43 pts
- 18. (24) Speedball 2 - 42 pts
- 19. (6) Tales Of Tamar - 41 pts
- 20. (19) Another World - 40 pts
The votes for March/April begin in mid March.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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11.Feb.2005
Vinnny (ANF)
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MorphOS: Updates of Devedie, MPlayer, MEncoder, Bochs, Help and MOS-Tools
Devedie 1.1.0
Team AmiRUS has published a new version of Devedie for MorphOS.
This is now a nearly complete graphical user-interface for MPlayer.
The program requires the following special versions of MPlayer and (optional) MEncoder.
Download: devedie_1.1.0.lha (236 KB)
MPlayer & MEncoder 0.91
Fabien Coeurjoly added an ARexx support to the version 0.91 of the video play program
MPlayer and to the video editing programm MEncoder.
Download:
mplayer_0.91.lha (1.5 MB)
mencoder_0.91.lha (1.5 MB)
Bochs 2.1.1
The x86-PC-Emulator Bochs is now available
in the current version 2.1.1 for MorphOS.
Download: bochs_2.1.1_mos.lzx (629 KB)
Help 0.92
The help progrmm for the MorphOS-Shell written by Nicolas Ramz which delivers information
to over 100 commands as well as arguments and examples is now available in version 0.92.
The Memtest- and missing ARexx-commands have been added. Additionally the description
of the Alias-commands has been completed and some orthography errors fixed.
Download: Help_v09.lha (119 KB)
MOS-Tools
In the MOS-tools for the Shell are collected the is_shift & is_alt as well as
randbootpic. The first ones wait for the String- or Alt-key and give back WARN (otherwise 0).
The command randbootpic copies a random file from a chosen directory as cgxbootpic.library to the directory MOSSYS:libs/cgxbootpic.library
to change the bootpic.
Download: MOS_Tools.lha (93 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2005
ANN (website)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 1.4 (Beta)
WookieChat is a MUI-based IRC-client for AmigaOS 3/4
(screenshot).
In version 1.4 "DCC GET" as well as the support for colourful texts have been added.
According to the author the colour support does not still work perfectly: Iconifying
or starting the MUI-Prefs may cause colour bugs if the program uses a seperate screen.
This can be undone by entering "/a".
The 68k-version becomes instable after some server connections because the
string which contains the nickname is overwritten in the memory. The author is grateful
for some feedback.
Download: WookieChat1.4beta.lha (1.3MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2005
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-EuroArchiv V1.85 published
Steffen Nitz has published version 1.85 of his coin management "SN-EuroArchiv".
You can get the complete list of all changes from the history.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2005
AMIGAplus editorial staff
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AMIGAplus 02/2005 (#155) - Team17-Revue
AMIGAplus 02/2005 (#155) is out now including the following reports:
- Team17 game-revue
- interview with Alister Brimble
- Dünn 2 video report
- XML-software for Amiga (#2)
- interview with Manfred Trenz
- ReAction-coding on OS4 (#2)
- SDL-games for AmigaOS 4
- scamp/vacuum about Breakpoint 2005
- Elbox Dragon ColdFire and ACK news
- UAE config-file explained (#3)
- shareware reviewed
- and many more articles
AMIGAplus can be ordered at
www.amigaplus.de. (nba)
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10.Feb.2005
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Airsoft Softwair: Malibu Video Released
For everybody who doesn't have Malibu yet, but is interested in how it looks when a Scala presentation is loaded from the Workbench, there's now a presentation video on Airsoft Softwair's homepage (title link) in which diverse presentations are run with Hollywood 1.9 and Malibu 1.1.
Please pay attention to the fact that Malibu requires at least version 1.9 of Hollywood. It can't run without Hollywood because it's just a plugin that relies on Hollywood's Multimedia Application Layer. Malibu, Hollywood, and Hollywood Designer are available in native versions for 68k, MorphOS and WarpUP. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Feb.2005
ANN (website)
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Nexus Development: Alternative audio.device for MorphOS
Emanuele Cesaroni of Nexus Development has released an alternative audio.device for MorphOS that channels calls to the original Amiga audio.device aimed at the custom chip Paula to the RTA layer of AHI. However software that directly targets the Amiga hardware instead of making use of the OS also doesn't run with eaudio.device.
The device was put together through reverse-engineering. The author asks that you carefully read the explanation text for eaudio.device. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Feb.2005
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Meridian 2.12 Released for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS
Guido Mersmann released version 2.12 of Meridian, a commodity that allows programs to be called in the manner of a PDA using handwriting recognition as virtual hotkeys. The startpoint and direction of mouse movement play a role and allow the use of countless combinations that may be freely used.
With Meridian you can leaf through screens and windows, close windows, close requesters, and start programs and actions with just a movement of the mouse. This all occurs without a visible interface, pop-up menu, or dock. Only the pointer appears on the screen.
This version contains some new features and minor improvements, among them a workaround for the "drifting directory" problem that was solved by fixing a bug in the input.device for MorphOS.
Features:
- Commodity
- Online help
- Locale Support
Download: Meridian_1_2.lha (347 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Feb.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Official Release Version of WarpSNES 1.42
The official release version of the Nintendo emulator WarpSNES 1.42 for AmigaOS4 exhibits the most important change of saving the battery-backup correctly. Support for control pads has been announced for the next version.
Download: warpsnes.lha (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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09.Feb.2005
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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MAS-Player Pro deliverable again
VMC is pleased to announce the MAS-Player Pro is deliverable again in low quantities. All of the 50 boards were equipped with parts by
VMC and the first 15 MAS-Player Pro are tested now and wait for new owners.
At the MAS-Player home page there is more information regarding that device available. Orders are taken at the VMC shop site at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Feb.2005
ANN (website)
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ASoft: New versions of CManager (MorphOS) and amrss (68k/MorphOS)
Alfonso Ranieri has released updates of the shareware program CManager for MorphOS and of the Freeware amrss for AmigaOS-68k and MorphOS.
Regarding the changes for CManager 32.3 and amrss 3.64 the author did not gave further information. The amrss-68k archive containes the main binary only.
Download:
amrss.lha (32 KB)
amrssMOS.lha (745 KB)
CManagerMOS.lha (705 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Feb.2005
Ambient-Homepage
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MorphOS: Ambient update to version 1.41 (Update)
David Gerber provides an update of his meanwhile put under GPL desktop Ambient as source code archive.
The version 1.41 can be compiled and run with a MorphOS 1.4 system and its according SDK, it does not require MorphOS 1.5. The author thanks all those who contributed via Paypal to support the development.
Update: (10:41, 09.02.05, snx)
Lukas Stehlik did a first screenshot of the running system at a user's machine.
Update 2: (13:34, 09.02.05, snx)
Ingo Schmitz was that kind to provide the compiled binary for download: Ambient1.41.lha. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Feb.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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OnyxSoft: Updates of DECH, EasyHex and MPlayer-GUI
DECH V1.45
The E compiler handler by Daniel Westerberg requires Kickstart 2.04 or higher (screenshot). The latest version includes some bug fixes and improvements to better the cooperation with C compilers, make and their output.
EasyHex V1.1
EasyHex by Daniel Westerberg runs from Kickstart 1.x and returns the first 256 bytes even of huge files in hexadecimal format. The current version adds several buttons for configuration.
MPlayer-GUI V1.2
MPlayer-GUI by Daniel Westerberg is a graphic user interface for the video player MPlayer for AmigaOS4 (ReAction) or MorphOS (68k/MUI). The 68k version got only minor changes, while there is now a ReAction based OS4 native version (screenshot). (snx) (Translation: ub)
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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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