18.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Sound Exchange ("SoX") 12.17 (noixemul)
SoX (also known as Sound eXchange) is a commandline tool which translates sound files between different file formats, and optionally applies various sound effects.
SoX is intended as the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools. It doesn't do anything very well, but sooner or later it comes in very handy.
The no-ixemul MorphOS version was build against libmad and libmp3lame and comes therefore with mp3 support. Following formats are supported:
aiff, auto, avr, cdr, cvs, dat, vms, gsm, hcom, maud, mp3, nul, prc, raw, sb, sf, sl, smp, sndt, sph, 8svx, sw, txw, voc, wav, wve and a few more.
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17.Apr.2004
amiga.org (website)
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Interview with the doers of amigashare.com
On amigacentre.co.uk you can find an interview with one of the founders of amigashare.com.
The aim of amigashare.com is to become a comprehensive download portal for Amiga software. Planned are also "sponsorship" programs where users give financial support for projects.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Obligement (ANF)
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Magazine: Obligement #44 out now
Issue 44 (1.3 MB) of the French AmigaOS/MorphOS magazine Obligement is now available.
You can read in this issue: latest Amiga news, interview with Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion project) and with David Boisset (from Triple A association), reviews of Invasion and PairsNG, articles about Ogg Vorbis, ICQ, domain names, TView, Song Player and lot of other things. (snx)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: board-game "Quadromania"
Ali Akcaagac has ported the board-game Quadromania to MorphOS.
Direct download: quadromania-0.2.lzx (426 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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TV: The Amiga on 3sat (German TV programme), today 18:30 h
The (German) TV show "neues" on 3sat will report about the Amiga today (18:30 h). Following the title link you can find the subjects that will be handled in the report:
- Die AmiGBG in Göteborg
- Presentation of AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4
- MacOS (via Mac on Linux) on the AmigaOne
- Amiga Forever 6.0
Further information about the programme can be found following the title link.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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DTP: PDF import for Pagestream
Grashopper LLC announce in the April issue of their newsletter as well as on their homepage the completion of a first version of a PDF import filter for Pagestream.
The filter allows to open and edit existing PDF documents.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: New version of "DOSBox"
The emulator DOSBox emulates a DOS environment to make old PC games running on newer computers. For MorphOS is now a new version of the emulator available.
The most important changes:
- CD-ROM support
- 25% faster than the previous version
- runs now more stable
Direct download: DOSBox.lha (565 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Ghostscript: Spooky V1.0 released
Spooky is a small collection of scripts that make the use of Ghostscript easier. The Postscript respectively PDF files can be chosen via ASL requester. An installer script makes the installation easier. Needs Ghostscript 8.0.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: ShapeShow 1.0 released (update)
The fun program ShapeShow (24 KB) creates moveable windows out of graphics that can be round, with a hole or of another shape. The current version 1.0 still runs not stable, though (memory fragmentation, etc.) and can therefore lead to a crash!
Update (17-Apr-04, cr):
The author points in the comments out that there are only problems if you're using hacks like SmartWin.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: VIM 6.2.479 released
Ali Akcaagac has released VIM 6.2.479 for MorphOS.
The update of the text editor known from the Unix world contains next to the improvements by Bram Moolenar, the author and administrator of VIM, some smaller changes for MorphOS - for example the file s:color-startup that gives the shell ANSI colours. Further information can be taken from the included manual.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5-18 released
MLdonkey for MorphOS is now available in version 2.5-18 (2.4 MB). The package has been assembled because of the continuity by Ali Akcaagac in the same way as it has been handled in the past by Sigbjųrn Skjęrets and Christian Rosentreters MLdonkey ports.
MLdonkey is a peer-to-peer client for many platforms and networks. Supported networks are for example eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap. It can be controlled locally as well as remote with interface for e.g. telnet and http.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: LTris ported
Ali Akcaagac has ported (684 KB) LTris 1.0.6-SDL for MorphOS. It is recommended to play LTris in the full screen mode.
LTris is a Tetris clone with several game modes - next to the classic version there's a multiplayer mode to play against human or computer competitors as well as a demo mode with the computer playing alone.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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Announcement: First Pegasos-Live CD boots Linux/Mac-on-Linux
The PegXLin developer David Bentham announces the first Linux-Live CD for the Pegasos I and II that is for the time being mainly meant to start the version 0.70 of the program Mac-on-Linux.
By this it is possible to start the Pegasos like a real Macintosh computer (the operating system is not included). The Live CD is in the beta testing phase and shall be made available for download soon.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Andreas Boehm (e-mail)
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Event: XzentriX meeting 2004
In Seeshaupt (appr. 40 km south from Munich) takes from September, 3rd to September 5th 2004 again a XzentriX meeting place - for all "computer friends who believe in a live beyond the standard software".
This is an event for Amiga, Archimedes, Apple I/Apple II, Atari, C64/C128/C16/VC20, CP/M, CPC, Joyce, MSX, NeXT, X68000, Acorn BBC, RiscPC, TI 99/4A and everything else that is 8bit or cult out of other reasons.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Database now complete
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and
moderated by Dietmar Knoll, containing websites of Amiga users,
ordered by continents and countries.
Meanwhile, the GAUHPIL has been converted into a MySQL
based database solution. The remaining static HTML pages have
been replaced, so that all pages form a closed union again.
On the Welcome page you can find notes about registration.
But this is only a preliminary version. Be prepared for things to
come! (snx)
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17.Apr.2004
Linspire
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Linspire (formerly Lindows) as free download
Because of the necessary name change for the operating system Lindows (that is meant to be some kind of symbiosis of Linux and Windows) due to the law suit with the competitor Microsoft into Linspire has the distributor decided to make the current version 4.5 of the product available for a free download for some days. According to the website is a PC with at least 800 MHz clock and 128 MByte RAM needed to use the software. Further information regarding the necessary conditions can be found under the title link.
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16.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Prerelease "goes Gold"
Hyperion announces that the Amiga 4-Prerelease has been finished and it will be
copied from next Monday on.
The prerelease contains a snapshot of AmigaOS 4, a polyglot installation guide
(English, German, France and Italian) as well as the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK.
The SDK contains the following components:
- Full installation routine for simple and uncomplicated installation
- GNU C Compiler 2.95.3
- GNU C Compiler 3.4.0 RC 1
- vbcc 0.8f
- GNU GDB Source-Level Debugger
- System Includes V 50
- System Autodocs V 50
- PDF-Documentation for the GNU C Compiler and the GNU Debugger
- PDF-Document "Project Migration to AmigaOS 4.0"
- Example programs with source codes (Reaction, expansion.library, Roadshow, FFS2)
- Newlib.library (experimental shared C library)
- CLIB2 Source-Code
Users can register their copy of the prerelease on the portal site which will go online
soon and which will offer things for download that refer to AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Videos and Audio records of AmiGBG 2004
Under the title link you can find several videos and audio records of the "AmiGBG" (Göteborg, April 3rd),
e.g. statements of Ben Hermans, Alan Redhouse or Jens Schönfeld.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Apr.2004
Heise (ANF)
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Foundation makes Microsoft FAT-Patent dubious
Since December 2003 Microsoft has demanded licence charges for "FAT" (a widely spread
file system which is used on flash-memory or on older Windows versions). It is possible
because the company has got a patent for this technology.
The Public Patent Foundation has requested at the US Patent Office to check this patent.
Obviously the Foundation thinks to prove that parts of the technology existed before
Microsoft implemented it.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Apr.2004
Ron van Herk (e-mail)
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Computer City: MediaPoint available for download
The Dutch Amiga dealer Computer City has opened a website for the presentation software MediaPoint at http://www.mediapoint.biz. Registered users of the site can freely download the full MediaPoint package (for "classic" Amigas) as well as the manuals and the full sources.
Furthermore, Computer City announces Amiga Party Promotions: During the Amiga-Party in Maarssen on April 17th, Computer City will offer special prices on some products. During this day, all these items will also be available for online ordering, for those who cannot attend the Amiga Party. For more information, please visit the "Amiga Party Promotions" section at the Computer City webshop.
At the Amiga Party, Computer City will also demonstrate the final version 6.0.1.0 of Amiga Forever for the first time.
Update: (10:10, 16.04.04, snx)
Later today also the MorphOS version and the CGX support sources will be added. (snx)
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15.Apr.2004
AmigaForever.com (ANF)
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Cloanto released Amiga Forever 6.0
April 15, 2004 - Cloanto released today version 6.0 of
Amiga Forever, the
Classic Amiga emulation, OS, connectivity and support suite officially licensed
by the Amiga companies.
Amiga Forever is available in a downloadable
Online Edition and in a
CD
Edition which includes premium content of historical interest (all
Amiga OS
versions, gallery,
videos,
games) and
KX Light. All versions of Amiga Forever
include Amiga OS 1.3 and 3.X files and make it possible to run Classic Amiga
software (including hundreds of
legally downloadable games) on any PC, with
special support for the Windows platform, but also compatible with
Mac OS X and
GNU/Linux systems.
Amiga Forever 6.0 is a completely restructured package which took more than two years to complete. New features include:
- Preinstalled Amiga applications more than doubled (both in the 3.X and in
the 1.3 environments)
- Support for hard disks larger than 4 GB, mouse wheel, AHI, MUI, etc.
- Built-in web browser, great for both "safe surfing" and for cross-browser
web design testing (e.g. to see how your sites look without Java, Flash or
ActiveX)
- CDs are now automounted in real time (includes CacheCDFS file system)
- Built-in CD audio player and media player
- New Amiga ROM and OS files (as in Amiga OS "3.5" and "3.9", but also
historical items such as the Amiga 1000 boot ROM)
- New reference configurations (for A500, A1200, CDTV, CD32, etc.)
- More than 10 "First Demos" (Boing, Robo-City, Juggler, etc.) added to 1.3
environment
- More realistic emulation (e.g. floppy disk drive sound, which makes an
unexpected big difference in perception, but also required the addition of a
good old "noclick" utility ;-)
- New documentation (HTML shared by both Amiga and host OS)
- Amiga Explorer 6.0 software
- New launcher panel with one-click controls
- New Software Manager for easy emulation news and updates
The CD Edition of Amiga Forever additionally includes the following new
features:
- Boot from CD option (featuring the
KX Light GNU/Linux distribution)
- New Gallery section (includes 1985 Byte Magazine reprint)
- New high quality videos (includes Launch of Amiga New York event)
- New preinstalled games (Mindwalker, Ports of Call, Deluxe Galaga, etc.)
(Please refer to the Amiga Forever web site for important additional
information and screenshots.)
Classic Amiga software compatibility is achieved by means of an Amiga
hardware emulation layer (configurable to emulate different Amiga models and
custom chip sets) and different versions of the original Amiga OS (not an
emulation). The Amiga environment in turn relies on host operating system
functionality to transparently enable modern features such as up-to-date
hardware drivers, virtual memory, WiFi networking, DirectX technology, advanced
power management, Serial ATA storage, etc.
Amiga Forever 6.0 is scheduled to be featured on 3sat TV's "neues" show, on
April 17, at 18:30 (via Astra satellite), and at the Amiga Party in Maarssen,
the Netherlands, also on April 17.
As always, the Amiga Forever Team at Cloanto would like to thank the Amiga
Community for its support over these almost 20 years, which made this new version
possible. (cg)
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15.Apr.2004
MaxWorld (ANF)
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MUI: Preview of the Upcoming PNG Button Class
MaxWorld has prepared a preview (107 KB) of its PNG button class for MUI. The idea came from PNG icons. This class should make possible the use of 24 bit PNG pictures with Alpha transparencies under MUI.
The purpose of this preview of the work-in-progress MUI class is, firstly, to get feedback regarding results with various configuration of Amigas. Following that there should then be a free external MUI class. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Convention: Amiga Meeting and Pegasos Show in Lodz (Poland)
On the 15th of May in Lodz, Poland, Amiga-Meeting 2004 takes place. The computers Pegasos II and AmigaOne will be on hand, as well as the retailers eFUNZINe, Matay and X-Soft. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Apr.2004
Andreas Boehm (E-Mail)
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Convention: Vintage Computer Festival Europe
On 1st and 2nd May 2004 in Munich the Vintage Computer Festival is taking place for the fifth time. The aim of this convention is, according to the organizers, "to promote the preservation and care of 'historical' computers and other (E)DV equipment, to awaken interest in 'excess' hard and software, and above all to live this all up with some fun." The Amiga 1200 will be displayed. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Apr.2004
ANN (Webseite)
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AutoDocReader: Dutch Version Available (Update)
AutoDocReader has now also been translated into Dutch, thanks to Bas Overtoom.
Update: (11:35, 16.04.04, snx)
In the meantime Dank Valwit provided a German version. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Apr.2004
Golem (Website)
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Golem: Apple Makes EMacs Faster and Cheaper
Apple is going to fortify its position in the desktop market by making faster, cheaper eMac models. The entry-level machine comes at the price of 849 euros in the shops and makes use of a 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 256 megabytes of 333 MHz DDR SDRAM, a 32X combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW), as well as an ATI Radeon 9200 with 32 megabytes of video RAM. Read the complete story [in German -dm] at Golem IT News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Apr.2004
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)
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Hollywood Designer 1.0 released
After a long development time, Hollywood Designer 1.0 is now available and can be ordered on
the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Hollywood Designer is a high-end
presentation software that creates together with Hollywood 1.9 the ultimate Multimedia suite for
your Amiga or Pegasos.
About Hollywood Designer:
Hollywood Designer is a state-of-the-art WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
editor for presentations. You can create amazing presentations with just a few
clicks and they will be shown with Hollywood then. You can also save your
presentations as stand-alone executables for AmigaOS, WarpOS and MorphOS.
Additionally, your presentations can be saved as Hollywood scripts. Pages can
be exported as single pictures too so that you can e.g. embed them in a HTML page.
The program makes project management very easy by organizing all your project files
in one directory which you can administrate with the inbuilt data manager.
If you create a new project with Hollywood Designer, it will create a whole
environment for your work complete with icons, drawers and info files. It just
can't get any easier!
Hollywood Designer has everything you would expect from a modern multimedia
application: Many colorful icons, images and toolbars, extensive online help
system, undo/redo, context menus, recent menu, clipboard usage, keyboard control
and a completely localized interface. It uses a page-pased presentation concept,
which means that your project consists of as many pages as you want and each page
consists of as many objects as you want. Objects are for example texts, animations,
brushes and graphics forms. It has a powerful layout window where you can easily drag
all objects around with the mouse, change the look of your pages and modify the
objects attributes. Everything is implemented in a WYSIWYG way.
The program supports bitmap, color, intelli and truetype fonts for your
texts. You can edit your text objects by using the powerful integrated text
editor or you can import texts from external files into Hollywood Designer.
Clipboard text import and export is also supported of course. There are many
text formatting possibilities like bold, italic, underlined, shadow and outline
text which can be used. Of course the shadow and outline style can be configured
to fit your needs. You can also specify the text alignment (left, right or centered).
You can use brushes and animations to create absolutely unique presentations.
24-bit transparency is supported for both types. You can also scale brushes to
your desired size. Hollywood Designer can insert simple graphics forms into your
presentations like rectangles, ellipses and lines. You can configure the shadow
and border settings of these objects as well as some other attributes like round
edges for rectangles and line thickness. You can choose colors from a pre-defined
palette of popular colors or you can mix your own colors in the powerful color
manager. Hollywood Designer is a complete 24-bit application that can display
every single color of the 16.7 million possible colors.
Every object and every page can be displayed with a transition effect. You
can choose from a massive palette of over 150 different transition effects
which are partly very impressive. You can use cool fly-on effects for your
objects like sine wave fly-on, curved fly-on or bounce fly-on. You can also
remove your objects from the display with transition effects! Objects and pages
can be used to assure the correct timing of your presentation which is precise
in milliseconds.
Hollywood Designer can play sound samples and Protracker modules when a page
or an object is displayed. You can modify the pitch value, volume, panning and
loop settings of sound samples. Samples are loaded through datatypes so that
you can use almost every format you want, 8 or 16-bit, mono or stereo. Hollywood
Designer supports them all. Additionally full channel mixing is supported which
means that you can play as many sound samples as you want at the same time. And
also Protracker modules can be played at the same time as sound samples. Audio
support is implemented fully retargetable through AHI.
You can also use the program to create interactive presentations, e.g. you
can add menus to your presentation that query user input and react on it.
This allows you to create even complete multimedia applications like front-ends
or disk magazines. Every object can be used as a button that monitors several
events like mouse over, left mouse or right mouse click. If an event occurs,
you can define many actions to take, e.g. show/hide other objects, play sounds,
start programs, switch page, quit presentation and more.
Advanced users who are familiar with the Hollywood script language can also
embed their own Hollywood code in the presentation. Every object and every
page has the option to execute custom Hollywood code to make the presentation
even more unique. Hollywood code can be easily edited within Hollywood Designer
and there are such helpful tools like syntax checking, online reference and
import/export of code.
Your presentation can be displayed in a window on Workbench/Ambient or on a full
screen for a very noble look of your work! You can configure every detail of the
background frame of your presentation. You can use a background pattern, background
color, gradient, an image or even everything together! Presentations can be configured
to loop after they have reached the end and they can also be started in mute mode
without sound output. Hollywood Designer is just the ideal tool for all your
presentation needs on your Amiga or Pegasos.
Hollywood Designer is a modern application that requires a modern system to
work best. A graphics board is strongly recommended as well as much memory. You
should have at least 32 megabytes of free memory. For users with little memory, there
is a low-end setting which will use less resources than the normal version does.
Additionally you will require Hollywood 1.9. Hollywood Designer comes on a CD-ROM
together with example presentations and an extensive documentation which explains
every part of the program. The program is really easy to use. Most things are
self-explaining and for the rest you have the documentation. Everyone can create
stunning presentations now!
The program has direct support for CyberGraphX and Picasso96 as well as for
AHI. There are versions for AmigaOS Classic and for MorphOS (PPC native). The
program was successfully tested on AmigaOS Classic, MorphOS 1.4, WinUAE and
Amithlon. An OS4 version is planned to be available as soon as the operating
system is available. Hollywood Designer is written in a OS friendly way and
should run on every Amiga compatible system. Get creative now with Hollywood Designer!
Features:
General:
- State-of-the-art GUI allows you to design your presentations
- Uses the popular page-based presentation concept
- Create presentations with a few clicks
- Easy to use layout part which allows you to drag objects around
- Object, page and color manager are very useful tools to manage your project
- Modern interface design with many colorful icons, toolbars and big images
- Fully WYSIWYG compliant
- Support for undo/redo and clipboard usage
- Extensive online help interface for all dialogs
- Hollywood Designer is completely localized
- Many context menus for easy access to all popular functions
- Modern project management with a data manager to organize your project files
- Save your presentations as AmigaOS, WarpOS or MorphOS native executable!
- Every presentation can also be saved as a Hollywood script
- Fully keyboard controllable
- Presentations can be shown in window and full screen mode
Pages & Objects:
- Objects are brushes, animations, rectangles, ellipses, lines or texts
- Each object can have a configurable shadow and border
- Every object can play sounds and can execute timing options
- All objects can be used as buttons to catch events
- Objects can be displayed and removed with a transition effect
- Every object has its own layer and can appear behind other objects
- Objects can also execute your own custom Hollywood code (for advanced users)
- Objects can also be hidden and grouped with the page background
- Full 24-bit transparency support for brushes and animations
- You can use color, bitmap, intelli and truetype fonts
- Different styles are supported for every font type
- Over 150 transition effects can be used for all objects and pages
- Graphics can be scaled to any size
- Pages can have a gradient, image, color or texture background
- Pages can be exported as single pictures too
- All graphics are loaded through datatypes
- Page and object positions can easily be changed
- Rectangles with round edges and thick lines can be used
- Cool fly-on effects with sine wave, curves, bounces, etc.
Sound:
- Objects and pages can play sound samples and Protracker modules
- You can adjust the pitch, volume, panning and looping of samples
- Audio playback fully retargetable through AHI
- Sound samples are loaded through datatypes
- Support for 8 and 16-bit samples
- You can play virtually any number of samples at the same time
- Sample size is not limited
Interactive presentations:
- Every object can act as a button so you can create interactive presentations
- Objects can catch mouse over, left mouse and right mouse click events
- Many reactions on events are possible (e.g. show or hide other objects, play sounds, start programs, quit presentation, skip page...)
- Custom reactions for events are also possible with Hollywood code (for advanced users)
- Use Hollywood Designer to create your diskmags, front-ends or games!
Requirements:
- Kickstart 3.0 or MorphOS 1.x
- 68020 CPU
- Hollywood 1.9
- Graphics board strongly recommended
- 32 megabyte memory recommended
- 800x600 resolution recommended
More information, screenshots and order possibility are available on the
Airsoft Softwair website. (snx)
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14.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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Boot pictures and screen backdrops for MorphOS
Cato Hagen provides several alternative boot pictures and screen backdrops at the Morphzone for Hdownload. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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14.Apr.2004
ANF
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Protest Against Software Patents in Brussels, Belgium
As Heise Online reports, there are various protests against software patents underway this week, such as a demonstration in Brussels with the motto No Software Patents - Power to the Parliament, a demonstration whose lead organizer is in favor of a cost-free information infrastructure (FFII). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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14.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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April 14th: Developer Feedback Day
The MorphZone declared today as the Developer Feedback Day.
Whoever uses a program today might take the time to write a small message to the according author and let him know that the product is used and maybe place some additional remarks. Most times the authors do not receive any feedback by the users - soemtimes not even when they update the program.
Please take the Developer Feedback Day as a raeson for a quick note to the developers, graphic artists or other activists whose work is used day by day - the authors have earned a honour and maybe also the users will benefit from such responses by generating a new motivation for the developers to care for their products.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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14.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MAME: Version 0.80 for MorphOS available
The "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" (MAME) for MorphOS is available in version 0.80 now.
The archive (12.05 MB) from the Morphzone (title link) consists of the executable only and requires the file structure of MAME 0.72 or 0.69.
Changes:
- Connection to version 0.80 of the common shared tree
- Triple buffer in full screen mode
- Reduced time delay while audio playback
- small bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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14.Apr.2004
David Scheibler (E-Mail)
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Sunbeam Business Solutions announces Pegasos prebuild systems
Neufahrn, April 13th, 2004 - Sunbeam Business Solutions, an IT consulting company for small and medium business are offering Pegasos prebuild systems since April the 8th.
The systems are available for 699 Euro (G3 system, incl. VAT) or 999 Euro (G4 system, incl VAT) and are orderable at the
XAPO-Shop - powered by Sunbeam. They include the according Pegasos-II mainboard with G3/600MHz or G4/1GHz processor card, 256MB DDR-RAM, a Radeon 9200SE 128MB gfx card, a 120GB hard disk, a CDRW/DVD (G3 system) or CDRW/DVD+RW combo drive (G4 system),a µATX case and Logitech's Premium Desktop Optical.
With their knowledge in assembling integrated systems for private and commercial use Sunbeam Businesss Solutions offers customers the chance to benefit from their experience and to give the customers the freedom to focus on important things and not to mess around with assembling a computer system.
For the future Sunbeam Business Solutions plans to offer more systems based on the Pegasos.
Contact:
Sunbeam Business Solutions GbR
Moosmühlenweg 5
85375 Neufahrn
info@sunbeam-
business.de
http://www.sunbeam-
business.de
http://www.xapo.de (snx) (Translation: ub)
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13.Apr.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #069
Liquid Skies has released the 69th music pack. This time it contains a track named
"Killing Obsession" from the Polish musician Lcr. The cover was created by Kuadziw.
More information about the track:
- Title: Killing Obsession
- Artist: Lcr
- Style: Drum'n'Base
- Length: 3:27
- Format: mp3
The zipped file (about 2.5 MB) is available for free download at the homepage.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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13.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Update of commodity.library and parallel.device
Last week new versions of the commodity.library and parallel.device for MorphOS
are uploaded to the FTP server for Pegasos customers for download.
Update (13-Apr-04, cr)
The new parallel.device is only for PegasosII systems.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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13.Apr.2004
Darius Brewka (E-Mail)
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AmiStart: Further development of the start menu
Darius Brewka, author of the Windows like Startmenu
AmiStart, points to the further development of this program.
He asks AmiStart users with gfx boards to contact
him via e-mail. AGA and screens under 15 bit are not longer supported by AmiStart.
AmiStart contains a QuickLaunch bar, Drag&Drop-Support and a adaptable graphical surface
allowing transparency, rounded edges, background textures, shape-Layer and many more. (snx) (Translation: gf)
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13.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: LAME 3.96 (non-ixemul)
Christian Rosentreter has compiled the latest version 3.96 of the LGPL MP3 encoder
LAME for MorphOS and provides it for download under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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12.Apr.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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AmiChameleon: Update
After beeing off-line for two weeks the AmiChameleon-Homepage is back! There are some major changes and additions.
Changes:
- Support for Pixload, ReBooter and ArTKanoid
- Documentation update (now available as HTML)
- Online-Help added
- Cache-Structure reworked
- Online-Support for theme creation
- Update of the Installation program
AmiChameleon V1.2 is now available here.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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12.Apr.2004
Jacek Piszczek/ #morphos
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MorphOS: TranspoClock 1.02
Jacek Piszczek released a new bugfixed version of TranspoClock for MorphOS. The archive is available at the title link.
(cr) (Translation: sk)
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12.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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BabelDoc V2.8 (Update)
Lorence Lombardo released version 2.8 of BabelDoc. BabelDoc uses the Altavista translation service to translate texts. The program requires the reqtools.library, a TCP/IP-stack and the KingCon handler.
Update: (13.04.04, 21:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 2.8 is available.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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12.Apr.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: HollyRecord recompilation
Amiga Arena presents in co-operation with Telemar Rosenberger "HollyRecord".
"HollyRecord" lets you easily record animations or presentations made with Hollywood.
HollyRecord has been recompiled with the new version 1.9 of Hollywood. Furthermore a WarpOS-version is now available.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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12.Apr.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Happy Easter from Cloanto / Amiga Forever 6.0
Cloanto wish a peaceful and happy Easter holiday and present the updated Amiga Forever website, which includes the new features of version 6.0 compared to its predecessor. Some work would still be needed on the website, though, and comments are always very welcome.
The new features of Amiga Forever 6.0 compared to version 5.3:
- Preinstalled Amiga applications more than doubled (both in the 3.x and in the 1.3 environments)
- Support for hard disks larger than 4 GB, mouse wheel, AHI, MUI, etc.
- Built-in web browser (great for cross-browser web design testing)
- CDs are now automounted in real time (includes CacheCDFS file system)
- Built-in CD audio player and media player
- New Amiga ROM and OS files (as in Amiga OS "3.5" and "3.9", but also historical items such as the Amiga 1000 boot ROM)
- New reference configurations (for A500, A1200, CDTV, CD³², etc.)
- More than 10 "First Demos" (Boing, Robo-City, Juggler, etc.) added to 1.3 environment
- More realistic emulation (e.g. floppy disk drive sound, which makes an unexpected big difference in perception, but also required the addition of a good old "noclick" utility ;-)
- New documentation (HTML shared by both Amiga and host OS)
- Amiga Explorer 6.0 software
- New launcher panel with one-click controls
- New Software Manager for easy emulation news and updates
The CD Edition of Amiga Forever additionally includes the following new features:
- Boot from CD option (featuring the KX Light GNU/Linux distribution)
- New Gallery section (includes 1985 Byte Magazine reprint)
- New high quality videos (includes Launch of Amiga New York event)
- New preinstalled games (Mindwalker, Ports of Call, Deluxe Galaga, etc.)
(snx)
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