20.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Strategy game "LGeneral"
Pawel Stefanski ported the turn-based strategy game LGeneral to MorphOS. The required data files need to be downloaded from the LGeneral homepage, the sources of Pawel's port can be found on his homepage.
Direct download: lgeneral.lha (MorphOS binary)
(cg)
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20.May.2004
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Software News in Summary
PTplay for AmigaOS 4
The Protracker player "PTplay" by Timm Mueller, Ronald Hof and Per Johansson is now also available for AmigaOS 4 (versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS already existed). The complete package should be downloadable shortly from the program homepage.
Direct download:
ptplay.lha
ptplay_os4 (OS 4 Binary)
Software updates from Tom Duin
Tom "AmigaHarry" Duin has released new versions of some of his tools. Mostly little bugs have been taken care of.
- CLI2WB: Starts shell commands from Workbench
- Tasksettler: changes the priority of tasks, terminates tasks
- GoScreen: opens a new screen on which the program may open its window that would otherwise not use its own screen
- CDDA_SwapMostLeast: converts CD audio tracks from Intel to Motorola format and back.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.May.2004
Michael_Mann (ANF)
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PowerPC Emulator: PearPC Boots MacOS X
"PearPC" is another PowerPC emulator in development, one that emulates a complete PPC platform and, according to the website, "runs most PowerPC operating systems."
PearPC exists in an interpretative CPU emulation version that's about 500 times slower than the host computer, as well as in a JIT-Version that's 40 times slower.
As these screenshots on the emulator website show, Linux as well as MacOS X are running already on the emulator.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.May.2004
whoosh (ANF)
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Cross-Compiler: gcc 3.3.1 for AmigaOS 3 creates AROS-Binaries
"whoosh" combined the sources of gcc-3.3.1-aros and gcc-3.3.3-amigaos to create a gcc version that runs under AmigaOS 3 and compiles binaries for AROS-x86. He also ported binutils-2.14.
The compiler requires a working GeekGadgets environment and the linker libraries and includes from www.aros.org/download.php. It is used like this:
i686-pc-aros-gcc-3.3.1 -march=i486 -s -O2 hello.c -o hello.o
i686-pc-aros-gcc-3.3.1 -s -march=i486 -o hello hello.o
The default target is i686, but you can create binaries for i386, i486, i586, i686, pentium or pentiumpro AROS x86 machines.
The c compiler part of the port was tried out on various graphics demos from the AROS website, all of them ran successfully. The c++ part of the port is completely untested and the author would appreciate feedback regarding this issue.
(cg)
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20.May.2004
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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AmigaAMP 2.12 released
Thomas Wenzel released a new Version of his audio-player "AmigaAmp". Thomas writes:
"I'm almost certain that I've forgotten to fix some of the known bugs but I'm also certain that I've finally fixed some of them! :))
Some WSZ skin files have their images stored in a subdirectory rather than the top level. This is now supported. Newer versions of ID3v2 tags still can't be read but at least they don't prevent AmigaAMP from loading the classic ID3v1 tags any more.
If you've got questions please use the discussion board first. I will check it regularly." (cg)
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20.May.2004
Michael Rellstab (ANF)
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Hardware Project: Playstation Gamepads on Amiga
Michael Rellstab has invented an interface with which Playstation gamepads may be used on Amiga. Michael writes:
"The project consists of three variations, of which one (TwoPSXtoAmiga) is conceived for the direct use of an Amiga joystick port. The other variations are differentiated only by the functions of the buttons and are conceived for "other than Amiga" purposes.
The ZIP archive contains detailed documentation, as well as the assembler source for the PIC micro-controller that is required.
Also, many thanks to Carsten Siegner: he has offered to host the project. But whoever wants to ask questions about this interface should write me and not bother Carsten! :)"
Download the documentation and development data:
PSXtoTTL.zip (705 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.May.2004
Nicholas Blachford (E-Mail)
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"Walker" website updated
Nicholas Blachford managed to boot his Amiga prototype "Walker". He added a few screenshots from the machine to his website.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.May.2004
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Puzzle game: "Virtual Ball Fighters SE" announced
XTeam Software announce on their homepage that Virtual Ball Fighters SE will be ported to "AmigaOS 68k/PPC".
Virtual Ball Fighters SE is the successor of Virtual Ball Fighters, a Tetris clone which is already available for AGA and RTG Amigas.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.May.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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PUSH 2004 starting tomorrow - MorphOS 1.5 to be shown
Tomorrow PUSH 2004 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Everyone will have the chance to win a Pegasos 1 with 128MB RAM (+MorphOS, Linux Installer) as first price.
Of course also the latest version of MorphOS 1.5 will be shown, including a TCP/IP stack, Radeon 3D drivers and Altivec support. According to recent rumours a PPC implementation of ARexx will be demonstrated as well.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.May.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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Strategy game: Transport Tycoon Deluxe (Update)
Open Transport Tycoon is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", that "enhances the game experience dramatically".
Christian Rosentreter and "Goos" compiled the game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (68k and WarpOS) (MorphOS screenshot). Open Transport Tycoon requires the data files from the original Windows version of "Transport Tycoon Deluxe".
Direct download:
MorphOS (1 MB)
WarpOS
(418 KB)
68k
(374 KB)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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18.May.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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Sunny prices at IOSPIRIT
Felix Schwarz writes: It's sunny and warm - it is the time where people are refuelling their energy... And it's the time where IOSPIRIT is again lowering the prices.
Available at heavily reduced prices are fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio
and the IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle (contains the latest full
versions of fxPAINT, fxSCAN and VHI Studio).
Opportunity is good... (snx)
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15.May.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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First reports and photos from the OS4 event in Essen/Germany (update 2)
In the forum of Amigaworld.net gives Amon_Re a first overview about the OS4 event that took place today in Essen.
According to his words were almost a dozen of AmigaOne computers shown with AmigaOS 4.0 coming in the ATX as well as in the mini ITX form.
Participants had been among others:
- Petro Tyschtschenko (said to be consultant for Gericom)
- Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden, Timothy De Groote, Steffen Häuser (Hyperion)
- Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers)
- Rakesh and Sharwin Raghoebardayal (Coyote Flux)
- Alan Redhouse (Eyetech)
- Guido Does (Vesalia)
- Ron van Herk (Computer City)
- Sebastian Brylka (Amiga Insider)
- Alexander Lohrmann (68k emulation)
- "Chip" (Moovid)
- Volker Mohr
Alan Redhouse held a speech about his aims with the MicroA1 and why China were interested in devices with little power consumption. In addition there would be a Remote Windows Client for AmigaOS 4.0. After the speech questions could be asked but nothing of interest had been said.
Regarding the MicroA1 Alan Redhouse had said that its later sales version wouldn't be finished yet. In principal, it is planned as a shrinked form with expansion slot similar the one for the main processor to have a basis to build on depending on the specific needs.
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden held no speech but answered questions regarding the availability of AmigaOS 4.0 with "when it's ready".
Software shown were ArtEffect 4, FreeSpace and AudioEvolution as well as some ports, especially emulators.
Update: (15.05.04, 21:10, cg)
At Amiga Insider, there's also a short report as well as photos from the event.
Update: (16.05.04, 08:38, snx)
Photos taken by "Chip" can be found under http://amigos.amiga.hu/chip/Essen/thumbs_d/thumbs_p.html.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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15.May.2004
Elbox (ANF)
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Elbox: Cocolino Mouse Interface available
Elbox Computer is pleased to announce release of the Cocolino Mouse Interface. Cocolino is a PS/2 mouse interface, with the
unique capability of supporting two scroll wheels and 3rd, 4th
and 5th buttons available in many PS/2 mice nowadays.
The Cocolino interface simply plugs into the Amiga's mouse port.
Features:
- The Cocolino PS/2 Mouse Interface is a microprocessor-based
adapter for attaching PS/2 mice, trackballs, glidepoints and
radio-controlled mice from the world of PC computers.
- Cocolino works with all models of Amiga computers. It simply
plugs into the Amiga's mouse port.
- The Cocolino PS/2 Mouse Interface is a full 'plug and play'
device. No software is required for standard use. The enclosed
software (cocolino.driver) allows using two wheels and 3rd,
4th and 5th buttons available in many PS/2 mice and trackballs.
- The Cocolino interface starts working simultaneous with the
computer's start so mice can be used in the early-startup-menu
(unlike the mice connected through the serial port).
- Cocolino uses linear movement interpolation, which makes mouse
movements perfectly smooth with any screen frame rates.
The complete press release by Elbox can be found under the title link. (snx)
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15.May.2004
Amiga.org (website)
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Icon-Set: GlowRevolution v2 released
As announced has Lorraine Design released the icon set GlowRevolution v2.
New in the latest version (screenshot 1, 2) of the PowerIcon package:
- Three colours for Workbench drawers
- The classic GlowIcon drawers now in the PowerIcons format
- New applications icons
- New disc icons
- Various new icons
- Some Mac & Windows icons
- Some games icons
- Small collection of really small icons
- New Jabber skin and a small correction of the old Jabber skin
- New Workbench backgrounds
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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15.May.2004
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: AmiAtlas 5 SE part of superbundle
Gerd Frank has made version 5 SE of the route organizer AmiAtlas available for the MorphOS superbundle.
In this context calls the superbundle administrator Dave 'Targhan' Crawford the users to support their developers and - as with other titles of this bundle - to consider the buy of the current version 6 of Amiatlas if the program pleases.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.May.2004
http://www.amigaplus.de/
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AMIGAplus 05/2004 - Amiga Forever 6.0
AMIGAplus 05/2004 (#147) has been published including the following reports:
Review of Amiga Forever, Hollywood 1.9, Malibu, Hollywood Designer, SoundFX 4.3, Amiga Status Report, Top Shareware, spreadsheet workshop (part 2), demoscene-report (Breakpoint-Party) and much more.
AMIGAplus may be subscribed or ordered directly from falkemedia for 5 Euro including shipping.
(sn)
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13.May.2004
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AmigaOS 4.0: Developer Pre-Release will reach the dealers on May 21st
Leuwen, Belgium - May 13 2004.
After consultation with our German CD production partner, House of Audio, Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that the Developer Pre-Release of AmigaOS 4.0 is now tentatively scheduled for May 21th, 2004.
The AmigaOS 4.0 CD will be distributed through your AmigaOne dealer.
Amiga OS 4.0 © 2004 Hyperion Entertainment, developed under license from KMOS, Inc. All rights reserved. “Amiga” and associated trademarks are registered trademarks of Amiga, Inc. (cg)
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13.May.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Andreas Weyrauch
The "AmigaOS 4-Event" in Essen is the first time AmigaOS 4 has been demonstrated in the Ruhrgebiet region [of Germany -dm]. Beyond that, the organizers have succeeded in getting a few well-known Amiga figures to attend.
Amiga Arena has conducted a wideranging interview with Andreas Weyrauch, the organizer of the event. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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13.May.2004
Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Davy Wentzler to attend AmigaOS4 Event on May 15th in Essen
Right on time David Wentzler, programmer of "Audio Evolution", confirmed his appearance at the AmigaOS 4-Event in Essen (Germany) on May 15th. He will be demonstrating Audio Evolution under AmigaOS 4. For further information please refer to the official AmigaOS 4-Event website.
(cg)
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13.May.2004
Marcus Neervoort (ANF)
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Car-Pool Market for Amiga OS 4 Event in Essen
Marcus Neervoort writes:
"I wanted to remind everyone one last time about the car-pool market to the AmigaOS 4 Event in Essen on th 15th of May, 2004...
Here is where all desiring to catch a ride may enter themselves, as may those who still have a seat free in their cars. You'll find the car-pool market under "Messe-Special" [Covention Special -dm] at amition.de". (cg) (Translation: dm)
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13.May.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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First Pictures of Pegasos at Networld + Interop 2004 in Las Vegas
The first pictures of Pegasos at the Marvell stand at the convention "Networld + Interop 2004" in Las Vegas may be viewed under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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13.May.2004
Merregnon Team
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Merregnon 2 - project finished!
After more than three years of development, the Merregnon 2 project is finished! The album is due to be released on 2004/05/24 in Germany.
You can pre-order your CD at shops like Amazon.de, Buch.de or Rollenspiele-shop right away, or purchase your CD at your local shop. If you live outside of Germany please refer to Music by Design Ltd. and synSoniq Records. It has been quite a journey for us, and I want to thank all of the people who are interested in our CD and have supported us with kind and helpful
feedback throughout its development. We are very proud of what we have achieved, combining live orchestra music, performed by members of the Prague Symphony and the New York Philharmonic; Nine composers from all over the world who provided us with their own fantastic music, 80 minutes of the finest pieces; and six artists who painted a beautiful 28 pages booklet, telling the story of Merregnon. The work has been intense for everybody. The production required a lot of skill and ambition. (sn)
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13.May.2004
Computer City (E-Mail)
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Computer City Becomes the European Distributor for Nova Design
We moved our webshop to a faster server on account of a few days of poor reachability. It's all running again now and we apologize for the previous problems.
Secondly we wish to make known the information that Computer City has become the exclusive European distributor for Nova Design. Computer City is going to offer all Nova Design products: the Amiga/MorphOS titles as well as those for Mac and Windows.
[Rest of article not translated, they are testing different languages on their website and plan to be at the Essen OS4 event. -dm]
With pleasant greetings,
Computer City. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.May.2004
Hyperion (ANF)
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PowerIcons ported to AmigaOS 4.0
Thanks to the efforts of Massimo Tantignone and Elena Novaretti, PowerIcons has been ported to AmigaOS 4.0.
Two screenshots can be seen here and here.
PowerIcons for AmigaOS 4.0 supports all the features of the original version, including Alpha blending for Icons. (cg)
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12.May.2004
Thomas Tavoly (ANF)
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Distributed Amiga starts OGR phase 2, new clients out
As of today the distributed computing project OGR (Optimal Golomb Rulers) has gone into phase 2, which is concerned with the remaining 'micro' stubs for OGR-24 and OGR-25. This means new client builds for AmigaOS (including native OS4 PPC, WarpOS and PowerUp PPC) and native MorphOS PPC, make sure you upgrade now if you haven't already.
(cg)
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12.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: SDL developer website
LouiSe and EmericSH have set up a website covering issues
about SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) development for MorphOS.
Source codes and compiled ports are to get there also, some of
them require MorphOS version 1.5.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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12.May.2004
Andreas Wolf (comment)
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Raw: "Another World" replacement engine as 68k version
Along with the MorphOS version (amiga-news.de reported)
Raw, a rewrite of the engine required for the game "Another
World / Out of this World", is now available as a
68k
version (207 KB) also.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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12.May.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Trailermaker - selfmade movie trailers
With Trailermaker
(277 KB) it becomes possible to cut movie scenes out of a DVD.
Due to copyright obligations those are not allowed to be
longer than one movie chapter (an average DVD contains
about 20 - 30 chapters). Thus, it is not possibe to
rip of an entire DVD!
The trailers will be saved in DIVX-5 format to any
storage media. The program offers preferences for the trailer
quality, duration, language, camera perspective and frame
size.
Required is:
- mencoder in MOSSYS:C
- tritonrexx
- rexxtricks
- triton.library
- ARexx
- Pegasos II G4/1000 (50% speed of a real time encoder at
quality level 8)
ENV variables at the ENVARC directory:
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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