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Glowicon collection: Workbench drawers with 256 colors (15. Oct. 2004)
Ken Lester has released a complete set of Workbench drawer icons with 256 colors (screenshots: 1, 2). They require AmigaOS 4 or the "Powericons" patch from Elena Novaretti. Direct Download: Ken's_Icons.lha (346 KB)...

AmigaOS 4: New uploads at os4depot.net (15. Oct. 2004)
New uploads which have been added to os4depot.net recently: faad_library.lha aud/mis 2Mb OS4 port of libfaad. (AAC Decoder) tunenet.lha aud/pla 86kb Basic Shoutcast and MP3 Player powericonsos4.lha uti/mis 713kb 32-bit PNG icons on you...

IBM publishes Object Rexx under Open Source licence (15. Oct. 2004)
Today the sources of "Object Rexx" which is the successor of the script language "Rexx" (on Amiga known as "ARexx") have been released under the Open Source licence CPL (Common Public License). The further development of Object Rexx is organized by...

AmigaOS4: LMarbles and Abe's Amazing Adventure ported/Shell command Eject (15. Oct. 2004)
With LMarbles and Abe's Amazing Adventure Richard Drummond has ported another two games for AmigaOS4. Additionally he offers a native Eject command for opening CD drives. LMarbles is a SDL based mental game which was inspired by the Amiga classic ...

Software News Summary (14. Oct. 2004)
Online CD Databank: FreeDB (Beta) "FreeDB" is a graphic overlay for the Internet-based CD databank freedb.org. Link: FreeDB Homepage Direct download: freedb.lha (551 KB) Report+ 6.12b Die Freeware Report+ version 6.12b has been released. Th...

Guide: Installation of Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 on the Pegasos I (14. Oct. 2004)
The Image_Installer team has published on their website under the title link a detailed guide on how to install the current version 4.0 of Yellow Dog Linux from the official Board Support Package for the Pegasos II (amiga-news.de reported) also onto the P...

Kultpower.de: New Game Review Scans from the Year 1990 (14. Oct. 2004)
21 new game reviews from the June 1990 Powerplay have been released, at Kultpower.de: Afterburner (Mega Drive) Antheads (Amiga) Assault City (Master System) Castle Master (Amiga) City Hunter (PC-Engine) Code-Name: Iceman (MS-DOS) Conquests...

Convention: Amiga East Show in May 2004 in New York (14. Oct. 2004)
Celebrating 20 years supporting Amiga, Mr. Hardware Computers in New York, USA, is going to host the "Amiga East" show on 28 and 29 May, 2005. The newest hardware and software will be shown, with a heavy emphasis on AmigaOS4. Guest speakers and Amiga vete...

WookieChat 1.3 Beta Released (14. Oct. 2004)
The IRC program WookieChat has now reached version 1.3, this one is also functional under the OS4 update. WookieChat is a 68k program that also runs under AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. The new version is not as stable as its predecessor, but since the author i...

SF-Radio: Report about Amiga and C64 (14. Oct. 2004)
In the 23rd offering of the program "Gameboys" on the On-Demand-Internet-Radio station SF-Radio.net, there's a short report on the current developments of Amiga and C64. Among other things you'll hear about AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS....

G5 Amiga: Project 'Amiga5' website online (13. Oct. 2004)
'Amiga5' is a project which intends to bring a G5 Amiga motherboard to the Amiga community. Apparantly, they are planning to modify the design of the G5 Evaluation Platform from Momentum Computers....

Yellow Dog Linux: Official Board Support Package for Pegasos II (12. Oct. 2004)
Launched by Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor has embraced the ATX PowerPC Genesi Pegasos II motherboard as an OEM CPU evaluation board. At Freescale's request, Terra Soft completed in October of 2004 the official Board Support Package, offering a simple ...

Hardware hack: CD-ROM, HD and disk drive in an A1200 case (11. Oct. 2004)
Update (26.10.2012, cg): Integrated article into the news item during database migration) After seeing what Egon Kohlschütter had done to his Amiga 1200, Bob Wicksall decided that there was a way to make an internal CD-ROM blend better with the o...

AmigaOS 4: New uploads at os4depot.net (11. Oct. 2004)
New uploads which have been added to os4depot.net recently: expat-ppc.lha dev/lib 380kb Expat C library for parsing XML stlport.lha dev/lib 737kb STLport C++ standard library scummvmos4.lha gam/adv 2Mb Point-and-Click adventure inter...

Michael Böhmer and Chris Hodges attend the Amiga meeting in Bad Bramstedt (10. Oct. 2004)
The developer team of E3B and PCP will attend the Amiga meeting in Bad Bramstedt. Chris Hodges will present a first version of the upcoming USB stack Poseidon V3, both on an Amiga Classic and a Pegasos II. With some luck, E3B will be able to offer...

Elbox: New software for PS/2 mouse interface/promotional bundle (Update) (09. Oct. 2004)
Elbox Computer is pleased to announce availability of the new software support for the COCOLINO PS/2 mouse interface. The package includes a new version of the FreeWheel software by Alastair M. Robinson and a new version of cocolino.driver. The new s...

OS4Depot: New functions/SourceDepot introduced (09. Oct. 2004)
With the SourceDepot offers the OS4Depot now a central place for source codes that have already been ported to AmigaOS4 or that can be ported to OS4 in the future. Further enhancements at the OS4Depot: Statistic pages added, showing the monthly d...

AmigaOS 4: Atari emulator "Atari800", v2.2 (08. Oct. 2004)
Sebastian Bauer has published version 2.2 of his Atari emulator Atari 800. ...

AmigaOS 4: Programmer for porting Protracker 5 wanted (08. Oct. 2004)
The author of Protracker 5 is looking for a programmer who wants to perform porting it to AmigaOS 4. The project is described as "very well portable". It is a C++ application which is based on SDL. The only part which is specific to the platf...

ScummVM: Version 0.6.1b2 available (08. Oct. 2004)
Uwe Ryssel has published an update of the Amiga port of ScummVM. There are versions for 68k and WarpOS. Some bugs have been fixed and the support for MPEG2, MP3 and Ogg-Vorbis has been added to the WOS version. You can get information to ScummVM o...