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`02.Feb.2022`	Text viewer: NEXT 4.1 In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide replacement, HTML offline browser, DataTypes viewer, uncruncher, unpacker of archives, file converter, print utility and some more. This versatility is also the reason why the program was installed from the beginning on my Amiga 1200, integrated via ToolsMenu. Next also has a very powerful search function, which marks all occurrences of a searched term at the same time and allows searching with wildcards and in binary files. As the author explains to us when asked, he has not been involved with programming and the Amiga since 2011 and has devoted himself to other hobbies. His Amiga hardware, an A3000 and a second floppy drive, were given away. Only a Zip drive, which was never used before, is in the depot. His turning away from the Amiga at that time had among other things to do with the fact that he couldn't read or use PDFs and other files that were common in the PC world. The return to programming, Jürgen Klawitter continues, came in this winter of 2021/22, which also limited him in his leisure activities and caused boredom. So he came up with the idea to install WinUAE on his laptop: "After this was successful, I tried out how much of my former programming knowledge was still left. Surprisingly much, actually everything was still there! Nevertheless, there were difficulties to understand the source code of the more extensive programs again. Next has about 20000 lines, Anno (calendar) and OMon (system monitor) about 6000 lines each. Parts of it are quite complicated. I then started to implement small improvements, first with Anno, later with Next. With Next, I was particularly annoyed by the fact that I had not managed to get the converted text from docx files into a reasonable form. I finally found details of the format on the internet and a tag () that was responsible for the outline in paragraphs. That was the breakthrough." NEXT formats loaded text before it is displayed. In the process, lines that are too long are wrapped at word boundaries and characters that cannot be displayed are replaced by spaces. Color, style, and print control sequences are preserved. Finally, a small test shall show how Word files are loaded, for which the following example poem - written and saved in Word 2010 - shall serve us: To load a Word document either UnZip is needed or the XAD system. For the use of the latter one goes either over the menu option "Use XAD" or creates itself a "next.prefs" text file under Prefs/Env-Archive with the contents "XAD". In this configuration file you can also define window dimensions, font and colors for the text display. As Jürgen Klawitter writes, from files of the Microsoft word processors Word and Write (extensions .doc or .docx and .wri) the plain text is extracted and formatted. For Word documents with the extension .doc, references to footnotes and the footnotes themselves are numbered ([1],[2]...). The same applies to annotations, recognizable by the preceding "A"([A1],[A2]...). Since a docx file is always a zip archive, it takes two steps to get to the text: Next, after selecting a docx file, presents the contents in a small window. Each archive contains 10 or more xml files, which contain stylesheets, images, comments and footnotes, but only one of them contains the text: By selecting "word/document.xml" you can now see the text: As you can see, the conversion of .docx files results in pure continuous text, without styles. The information about them is in stylesheets, which are hidden in the other files. As the author writes, "taking stylesheets into account would require a disproportionate amount of extra work, which I do not want to do – if at all possible." (dr) [News message: 02. Feb. 2022, 07:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2022`	AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3 AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides Windows 10, the Raspberry Pi also is fully supported. Changes of version 1.3 of the application, written by Vincent Perkins: Raspberry Version Completed (Amikit XE 11.7 or Amiberry 4.1.6 or Higher) LionGUI now working On RapaGUI 2.0 Three New Wallpapers Taskbar Start Icon Added Beta Version Removed Due to being part of the Main App now Updated Source codes and guides Free Open sourced version Wallpapers Removed (Many will be made freely available on AmigaNG Website) Updated Guide (dr) [News message: 02. Feb. 2022, 07:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2022`	Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 9 Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes version 1.1 beta version 9 are as follows: Enhancements: The hardware config panel has been split into a separate chipset panel and a memory panel. Compatibility: The DDF logic has been reworked from scratch based on the Agnus schematics. The HBLANK area has been shortened and moved (#637, #584, #575). Bug fixes: The Copper can’t trigger at cycle $E3 any more. Fixed a bug in the LINK command that had been introduced recently. Fixed some Sanitizer warnings. (dr) [News message: 01. Feb. 2022, 16:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2022` Alexandre Balaban (Mail)	AmigaOS 4.1: CompareDirs compares directories Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI. Changes since previous version: Fixed incorrect file size displayed in GUI during file copy Added German guide translation and catalog by Helmut Haake Added entry update after context menu operation (Elwood) Fixed bad copyright year in about dialog (Corto) Fixed French translation typo in about dialog (Corto) Added ability to show file in WB (Origin, Issue#50) Added support for icon drop on new comparison window Fixed possible crash in new comparison code due to random memory access (dr) [News message: 01. Feb. 2022, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	Developer blog: Status update on RGBtoHDMI board Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about the latest progress and developments of projects he is involved in. In his latest entry Amiga RGBtoHDMI Boards Update – January 2022 he summarizes the state of development regarding his version of the RGBtoHDMI adapter, which is based on the RGBtoHDMI project and is a further development of the Amiga VideoSlot RGBtoHDMI adapter for the Amiga2000 by 'Bloodmosher': The goal of the RGBtoHDMI project is to feed raw digital RGB data into a Raspberry Pi Zero, which then outputs it via HDMI to produce a pixel-perfect display of the image with low latency. Among other things, he reports that he has developed an RGBtoHDMI tester so that homemade RGBtoHDMI adapters do not have to be tried out on a real Amiga and possibly damage it (can also be purchased). Furthermore he describes the changes he has made in the meantime to the respective versions for Amiga 500, Amiga 1000 and Amiga 2000. Also here he shows possibilities where these can be purchased. The possession of a Raspberry Pi Zero is assumed in each case. (dr) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 08:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	Aminet uploads until 29.01.2022 The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to Aminet: facts.lha comm/tcp 249K 68k NTP clock time synchroniser A... FactsItaCat.lha comm/tcp 16K Italian catalog for Facts v5.10 asm3210.lha dev/asm 156K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c... aqb-0.8.2.lha dev/basic 435K 68k A BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amig... progress.lha dev/c 27K 68k Simple progress bar display f... dis8080.i386-aros.lha dev/cross 68K x86 Disassembler for Intel 8080 p... dis8080_OS4.lha dev/cross 67K OS4 Disassembler for Intel 8080 p... HWP_Iconic.lha dev/hwood 109K Load and save various icon fo... AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... Compute.lha misc/math 11K 68k Command line calculator SpeedPDF_1.0.lha text/dtp 5.3M MOS Fast PDF viewer P96ScreenCx.lha util/cdity 8K 68k P96 Multi-Monitor Mouse Movement ReportPlus.lha util/misc 627K 68k Multipurpose utility ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 718K MOS Multipurpose utility ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 795K OS4 Multipurpose utility ScriptSpeed.lha util/misc 11K 68k Test script execution speed TestProgram.zip util/misc 450K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program AIBB_Emu68.lha util/moni 2K 68k AIBB 6.5 module f. A500 w/ Em... PM.lha util/moni 20K 68k Lightweight+accurate CPU usag... TaiwanMOS.lha util/sys 1K Taiwan country for MorphOS an... dintwm.lha util/wb 27K 68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager StartWin.lha util/wb 108K 68k A bugged workbench launch bar (snx) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	OS4Depot uploads until 29.01.2022 The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to OS4Depot: dis8080.lha dev/cro 67kb 4.0 Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc... reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reaction C Library amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator freegemas.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.1 Tile-matching puzzle video game flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 22Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ... hwp_iconic.lha lib/hol 109kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for icon loader gfxbench2d.lha uti/ben 2Mb 4.0 A 2D graphics benchmark tool amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr... reportplus.lha uti/mis 795kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility (snx) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	AROS Archives uploads until 29.01.2022 The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to AROS Archives: dis8080.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 68kb Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc... regina-doc.pdf doc/dev 1Mb The Regina Rexx Interpreter doc (snx) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.01.2022 The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: Blues_R2.lha Games/Platform Blues Brothers,Jukebox ... SpeedPDF_1.0.lha Office/Show A fast PDF viewer (snx) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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