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30.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Firefox-Port: Requirements for "Timberwolf"-bounty slightly changed
Because the Mozilla Foundation decided to publish updates every two months, amigabounty.net decided to change the requirements for a successful Firefox-port. It only has to be published a port of the currently latest version 4.0.1 inclusive "stability fixes". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Apr.2011
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Sam460ex: Linux-Kernel 2.6.38.2 and Bootloader Parthenope 0.93
For its PPC-motherboard Sam460ex ACube has published new versions of the Linux-kernel as well as of the bootloader Parthenope. An English-language installation guide is included. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Apr.2011



Interview: Adrian Cummings (Mutation Software) released games as Freeware
In a interview with amigapd.com, Adrian Cummings by Mutation Software has confirmed that his formerly commercial Amiga games (Bug Bash, Castle Kingdoms, Cyberpunks, Doodlebug, Nucleus, Our-Type, Tin Toy Adventure, Tommy Gun, Vac-Suit Jack) have been released as Freeware. You can download the games from amigapd.com. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Apr.2011
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PDF-magazine: Monthly Page 18
Monthly Page is a little English-language magazine which is available as PDF-file. The latest issue includes an interview with NovaCoda (ScummVM AGA), informationen to the Shell-command "which" and the download top-ten of the OS4Depot. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2011
amiga.org (Webseite)


Natami: Pictures of first start of boards
On the website of the Natami-team pictures (part 1, part 2) were published which show the first start of the first boards of the Amiga clone. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2011
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Interview: Shareware-Programmer Paul Huckstepp
amigapd.com has published an interview with Paul Huckstepp who wrote several Freeware and Shareware games for the Amiga. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2011
a1k.org (Webseite)


Action-Adventure: "EasyPlay"-Version of Enemy - Tempest of Violence
For Enemy: Tempest of Violence a so called "EasyPlay"-version was published which is supposed to announce the second part. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2011



Software-News: avi2aud 1.0, PortablE r6-28-04-2011 (Beta)

Audio-Tool: avi2aud 1.0

avi2aud written by Lorence Lombardo extracts audio traces from AVI-files and saves them in MP3 or WAV-format.

Download: avi2aud.lha (Readme)

Metacompiler: PortablE r6-28-04-2011 (Beta)

Christopher Handley's Metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E into other ones. Changes in this version:
  • BUG: In 'std/cGui', for a Group as the first item of another Group, all of it's own items would not respond to user interaction (nor be part of a MUI cycle chain).
  • BUG: In 'std/cGui', for a Group as the last item of another Group, followed by another item, all of it's own items would not respond to user interaction (nor be part of a MUI cycle chain).
  • BUG: In 'std/cGui', for a Page Group as the first (outer) Group of a window, it would not respond to setState(), and setStateItem() would crash.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2011
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AROS-Distribution: Broadway 0.0.4
Pascal Papara has published an update for his AROS-distribution Broadway. Performance and stability were improved. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2011
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Event: AmiWest 2011 (21.-23. October, California)
The meeting will take place from 21. until 23. October in Sacramento (California). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2011
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Demo scene: 3 Music-Disks by "Up Rough" (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
The Demo group Up Rough has published three new Music-Disks which are available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS:

Uh Oh, Even More Hits For Kids LP (Screenshot)
Oh No! More Hits for Kids LP - Side A (Screenshot)
Oh No! More Hits for Kids LP - Side B (Screenshot) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Apr.2011



Overview: Registered Amiga trade marks
On Aminet a PDF-document was published which shows an overview of all Amiga trade marks registered in USA and Europe. The author points out that this list ought to be complete but was not checked a second time. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Apr.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Magazine: Amiga Future as PDF-Download
From today the webshop can be accessed under amigashop.org and offers PDF versions of the magazine Amiga Future which have to be paid. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Pictures of Commodore-Show in Maarssen, 16. April
On 16th April a meeting of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep took place in Maarssen (Netherlands). You can find pictures of the meeting on the webseite of the club. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Apr.2011



Software-News until 27.04.2011

Batch-Renaming: MultiRen 1.70

With MultiRen written by Daniel Westerberg you can rename many files in one go. Changes in version 1.71:
  • Made the File Cleaner "Initial letter upper" restart after a period "." or opening paratheses
  • Added some more extensions to the extension editor
  • Fixed a crash when adding an extension in the extension editor

CodeAudio 3.04

CodeAudio is a graphical user-interface for MP3 and other encoders (flac, faad, ogg). With it you can convert CDs into MP3-files. Changes in version 3.04:
  • Dieter B. has been very kind and pulled the HTML docs up to date again! I will try to keep it in sync from now on
  • The default AHI mode ID for Mpega became "$DEFA" instead of "Default"

AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL Demo 1.2

"Word Me Up XXL" published by Boing Attitude is a game with arcade and puzzle elements. The new demo version of the commercial game includes improved ingame and menu graphics as well as two new levels.

AmigaOS 4: CopyStore 2.6 for AmiUpdate

AmiUpdate is a simple package manager which informs users about updates of installed applications. A new version of the modul CopyStore is available which no longer delivers the message "Object in Use". CopyStore 2.6 has to be installed manually.

AmigaOS 4: Bed Games 1 - Carola

Bed Games 1 is similar to the child's play rock-paper-scissors written with Hollywood where you play against lightly clad women. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Apr.2011
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AmigaOS 4: Origyn Web Browser 3.32
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. You can find a detailed list of changes in the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 27. Apr. 2011, 16:07] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Looking for developers and other supporters
Over two entries in the Hyperion-blog, Steven Solie has offered the opportunity to support developing AmigaOS 4. (snx) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 27. Apr. 2011, 10:27] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2011
KeHo Software (ANF)


Puzzle game: Doors 1.0
Achim Kern's Hollywood port of the puzzle game Doors by Bill Ingram is available for all Amiga systems. In this game you have to try to open four doors with ten keys. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Apr.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Hyperion: Evert Carton will back out
According to amigaworld.net under the title link, Evert Carton will back out from the Amiga scene. He will cancel his work for Hyperion Entertainment.

Evert Carton himself explained that for several years he has not been working on Amiga products. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Apr.2011
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood 4.8 now with Linux support
Press release Airsoft Softwair is happy to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 4.8. This update contains mostly bug fixes and one great new feature requested by many people: Hollywood is now able to compile executables for Linux systems! With the ability of compiling for Linux systems Hollywood finally comes full circle because it now supports all major desktop operating systems. All in all, Hollywood can create programs for nine different platforms now: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS X (Intel), Mac OS X (PowerPC) und Linux (Intel). A totally unique feature in the Amiga world!
more ... (snx)

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23.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Adventure-Interpreter: ScummVM ECS
With the release of version 1.2.x of the adventure interpreter ScummVM for ECS-Amigas (after versions for AGA and RTG) the project of the 68k-port was finished.

Download: ScummVM_ECS_030.lha (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Apr.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)


WinUAE Help File 2.2.1 (English)
Under the title link version 2.2.1 of the WinUAE help file was published. Changes:
  • Corrected lots of internal and external links
  • Fixed HTML validity problems
  • Various content and layout updates, error corrections
  • Converted changelog into HTML, included in the help itself
  • Added new About screen
  • Floppy: Bootblock, FFS
  • Input: Test and remap
  • Output: Recording section
  • Misc: More new options
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Apr.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)


Programming contest
The Swiss Amiga trader Relec and Yannick Buchy (meta-morphos.org) have started a programming contest where a Efika-5200B with MorphOS licence computer can be won (picture).

Interested developers can send their projects which after their releases at least have to run under MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 until 31. May. Afterwards for one month you can vote for a project which will be ported. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Apr.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: SabreMSN 0.76
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 4. Version 0.76 fixes a crash problem.

Download: sabreos4_20110422.lha (808 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Apr.2011
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Filesystem: PFS3 5.3
After the release of version 5.1 of the Professional File System 3 under BSD-licence, Michiel Pelt has published version 5.3 from 1999 under the title link on Aminet.

Meanwhile Harry 'Piru' Sintonen is working on a new version of this filesystem. According to his latest status update he has already replaced all assembler parts by C-source code und has ported it to MorphOS.

Download: PFS3_53.lha (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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