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
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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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.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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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)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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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
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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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)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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26.Nov.2004
morphzone.org (ANF)
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MorphOS: Skin "SnowSkin"
"SnowSkin" is a MorphOS skin which is inspired by MacOS 9 and made by "liquidbit".
Download: snowskin1.0.lha (251 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2004
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Collected Software News
Patch for vbcc 0.8g
Version 0.8g of the ISO-C-compiler "vbcc" which was published a little while ago contained
a faulty configuration file which did not activate the Amigahunk format for vlink. This caused
problems when using vbcc_targets_m68k-amigaos under a different host than AmigaOS/68k.
Link: Homepage
Download (Patch): aos68k (copy to vbcc:config/)
Download (new full archive): vbcc_target_m68k-amigaos.lha (367 KB)
CDDA_SwapMostLeast 2.2
CDDA_SwapMostLeast converts CDDA-files from CDDA_MostSignificant- (MOTOROLA) to CDDA_LeastSignificant- (INTEL) format
and reverse.
In the new version the 68k-version was optimated, in the WarpOS-version some bugs
have been fixed.
Link: Homepage
RxSocket 33.8
RxSocket makes the functionality of bsdsocket.library available to ARexx-scripts.
Link: Homepage
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Skin "Aqua X" published
Tony Aksnes has published a theme for AmigaOS 4 which is inspired by MacOS X
(screenshot).
The big archive contains button graphics as well as several background pictures.
MUI is not supported but Aksnes would create a corresponding skin if there is sufficient
interest.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Strategy game: New information to "Die Kleine Gilde II"
According to the
developer diary
of the author for some days the strategy game "Die kleine Gilde" has been developing further.
There are some new screenshots and additionally there is a new manual.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Nov.2004
ANN (website)
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NewGUI: Test Version 1.4.1 with Transparent Windows
A test version of NewGUI 1.4.1 for AmigaOS 3.x and CyberGraphX 3+ with a few bugfixes and new functions like transparent windows is available for download under the title link. Here are screenshots. NewGUI also runs under the 68k emulation of MorphOS.
With regard to the transparency, it's not a true transparency - a new layers.library would be necessary for that. The background is not updated. Nevertheless the transparency effect requires a lot of processor performance, but according to the author's message the time for the calculation of the background has been reduced to acceptable levels on a 68040.
The Pyramids demo requires at least a 16 bit display. The author welcomes comments and suggestions for improvement. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Nov.2004
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Genesi: A statement concerning MorphOS
The current MorphOS release is owned by the shareholders of Genesi and is
being distributed today in a form fully licensed and paid for. Genesi
will resume support of external MorphOS 1.5 development when there is
a clear plan and a date set for the release.
The posts against Genesi made on MorphOS.net are unfortunate. These
actions of a single person have damaged our discussions with major
strategic partners and have cast doubt on Genesi and MorphOS.
There has never been any disagreement about paying for development, in
fact more than $500,000 have been paid to MorphOS developers and for
MorphOS licenses. There has been disagreement however, how much and for what to pay for.
MorphOS does not currently drive significant sales of the platform. It
is our hope that one day it will, but this will not be achieved
without the majority of the Company's resources being focused on
activities that generate revenue and profit.
Genesi has become a partner/sponsor of the Debian, Gentoo and Crux Linux developer
communities. Genesi is also enrolled in the official board
support/partner programs of Yellow Dog Linux, Montavista and QNX Software Systems. It is in these areas that Genesi is now focused.
24th November 2004
bbrv@genesi.lu (snx)
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24.Nov.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOne-XE: Hardware fix for the DMA/Ethernet problem?
AmigaOS4 beta tester Steven Solie explains in his report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' that directly after the show, his AmigaOne dealer (LiveWire Systems) applied a hardware fix to his AmigaOne that fixes the lock ups that appear when using onboard IDE DMA at the same time as an Ethernet controller (we reported).
According to Solie, complete information on the procedure will be available to all AmigaOne dealers soon. Eyetech did not confirm any of the above statements yet.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Nov.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Compiler: Version 0.8g of vbcc finished
The C compiler vbcc by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (amiga specific adjustments) is now available in version 0.8g for AmigaOS, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. The compiler supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the younger standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99). A list of many new features is to get at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Nov.2004
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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New alpha version of the midi sequencer Horny
Horny is a midi sequencer in the style of "Logic" or "Cubase" which focuses most on simple and intuitive usability. Other than its paragons it will stay currently a pure midi program and will not support audio.
New with version 0.6:
- automation for all mixer unit parameters
- project overview at the arrange window
- multiple Undo/Redo within the piano/controller editor
Screenshots, further information and a download option for the lite version is to get at the title link. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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