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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...

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...

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...

Luciferin flashrom software update to version 1.7 (10. Oct. 2004)
Dear customers of the flashrom solutions of E3B, E3B and Chris Hodges are pleased to announce the availability of a new version of the Luciferin software for the Highway+Romulus, Algor and Algor Pro flashrom equipped hardware. This new release can ...

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: 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...

SN-EuroArchiv V1.7 published (08. Oct. 2004)
From today version 1.7 of the coin management for Euro coins called "SN-EuroArchiv" is available on the homepage of Steffen Nitz. The HTML support and an edition statistic for rate coin sets and special coins have been added. Picture of main window...

PPCNUX: Detailed report to Freescale SNDF Europe in Frankfurt (08. Oct. 2004)
Under the title link PPCNUX has published a very detailed and illustrated report of Freescale Semiconductors European Smart Networks Developer Forum which took place at the end of September in Frankfurt. Genesi as Gold Sponsor did also attend. ...

Amiga 1200 and CD32 Service Documents Urgently Required (07. Oct. 2004)
Harald Frank writes: "Calling out to all friends of the Amiga, For a little Amiga project, I urgently need the complete diagrams and service documents for the Amiga 1200 and CD32 models. These documents should be complete and in good condition. I'm...