25.Aug.2008
Matthias Ziegs (ANF)
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Demo scene: Remake of the book FREAX Volume 1
"Freax Volume 1" is the history of the C64 and Amiga demo scene. Because the book published in 2005 has been sold out for two years now a remake was printed.
The remake will be available from 29. August on.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Aug.2008
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: BBC Micro emulator BeebEm 0.13
The BBC Micro was a microcomputer well known in the 1980s in the United Kingdom and associated with the British education. Designed with colorful graphics, great expandability and a quality OS, it still has a strong fanbase.
Thanks to BeebEm you can enjoy its enormous software base also on AmigaOS 4 (Screenshot).
BeebEm is a BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator. It enables you to run BBC Micro software on your Amiga. BeebEm will run most BBC Micro software including Elite, Exile and Revs. It will also run most BBC Micro ROM software (e.g. Wordwise).
The AmigaOS 4 update to version 0.13 features many bugfixes and enhancements. Hard drive images, example software and instructions are included in the package, and it is easy to set up. Just extract the lha archive anywhere and doubleclick its icon.
Download: BeebEm.lha (4,8 MB, Readme file) (snx)
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24.Aug.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: HD-racing track Montreal 1.1 for VGP 2
Jason Frabotta's project "VGP HD" tries to improve the engine "Formel-1-Simulation Virtual Grand Prix 2" developed by Paolo Cattani.
Now a update of the racing track in Montreal was added (screenshot). It fixes a bug of the back straight. Next weekend there probably will be upadtes of the tracks in Interlagos and Indianapolis.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 28
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is a English podcast made by Rich Lawrence and Mike Blackburn where Amiga users and invited guests discuss the latest events of the Amiga scene. The 28th episode is about MorphOS 2.0 and AmigaOS 4.1.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser Netsurf 2.0dev (beta)
NetSurf is a fast browser originally developed for RiscOS which can be used with a memory of 17 MB. It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1.
This version published by Chris Young is completely nativ, Reaction is used as GUI-toolkit.
The author points out that this version is an early beta version which is not stable and not complete - e.g. HTTPS-sites do still not work.
Netsurf does not support Javascript but an corresponding library is in work.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2008, 04:52] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MUI-developer back from bike tour
Stefan Stuntz who is the developer of the well-known GUI-toolkit MUI has come back from a bike tour which lasted five months (blog, photo album).
According to our information he still always accept registrations for MUI. So if you have tried it in vain during the last months you probably try it agin now.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.10 beta 2
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. For a list of detailed changes please have a look at the changelog. WookieChat is avilable for all Amiga systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.6 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot).
OWB 2.5 now opens a new window if you select a link. Additionally the AmigaOS 4-version is now based on the latest SVn-revision 449.
Meanwhile Björn "Orgin" Hagström has published a detailed English installation guide for OWB on amigans.net.
Update: (25.08.08, 17:00, cg)
By now version version 2.6 is available:
- Updated to SVN revision 454
- Disabled SVG support for now, I'll enable it again after switching from SDL to Cairo
- Added support for an unicode fallback font
- Added MINFONTSIZE, FONTXDPI, FONTYDPI and UNICODEFONT tooltypes
- Removed superfluous gadget updates which prevented icon dragging on the workbench from working even if nothing changed
- Fixed mouse movement events
- Implemented progress bar
- Implemented clipboard support
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Aug.2008
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.70 for all Amiga systems
NoWinED is a MUI-based text editor which was compiled to AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. The program has the follwing features:
- One window for all opened files, alternation between opened files via button, context menu or choice from the list
- Context sensitive popup menus
- Drag'n Drop for different files at once (no Drag'n Drop under AROS)
- All basic editor functions: Search and replace, cut'n paste, select all, undo redo... ("select all" does not work under AROS)
- UTF-support
- Supports CR, LF or CR+LF for EOL Encoding
Hint: The MUI-classes which are included in the archive are not up to date. They should only be copied to the harddrive if there are not newer versions.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2008
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French MorphOS-portal: meta-morphos.org
meta-morphos.org is a French MorphOS-portal which offers news, downloads, a forum and much more.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
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IBrowse: Status-Update
Oliver Roberts from the IBrowse developer team has given a survey of the current status of IBrowse on the official mailing list.
The owner of the copyrights Stefan Burström recently moved and therefore has still not an Internet access. Because the server which the team uses and which includes the source codes, changelogs and similar things is hosted by Burström the development currently stands still.
Roberts assures that the project was not canceled - but currently it is necessary to come to an arrangement with Burström which makes a further development possible. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OWB 2.4
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. Changes since the last release:
- Updated to SVN revision 446
- Fixed horizontal scroll bar
- Added support for multiple windows
- Added menus
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Aug. 2008, 21:14] [Comments: 0]
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21.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Infrared-receiver and Ethernet-Audio "ParIR"
ParIR written by Daniel Westerberg is a hardware/software combination which consists of two parts: On one hand it is a commodity which recognizes infrared siganls with the help of a hardware which is connected to the parallel port and then starts user-defined Cli or ARexx programs.
The second part sends analog audio signals over a an Ethernet cable to a analog multiplier.
Westerberg uses this combination to listen to the audio playback of his AmigaOne in the living room without laying additional cable.
The archive which the author has published includes the software as well as all necessary documentations for recreating the hardware components.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox published FastATA 4000 MK-V
ELBOX COMPUTER has published the FastATA-controller FastATA 4000 MK-V.
Please read the official press release under the title link for further details.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Aug. 2008, 15:59] [Comments: 0]
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20.Aug.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Interview wit Hans-Jörg Frieden
On the occasion of the forthcoming release of AmigaOS 4.1 Amiga Arena has intervied the developer and project manager Hans-Jörg Frieden (in German).
In this interview he told that that currently ports to additional PowerPC platforms are in progress and therefore further announcements for the operating system will follow soon.
According to Hans-Jörg Frieden the goal for AmigaOS 4 is still always the embedded section. There are interested firms which want to use the operating system as "Multimedia-Content-Platform".
He himself is specially intersted in systems based on CELL-processors, the PPC 970 by IBM or Freescales 8641(D). And he does not object if there would be a x86-version but he thinks that currenty it is not realizable.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2008
Klaus Schwägerl (ANF)
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Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Klaus Schwägerl, meanwhile CEO of Die Projektfabrik GmbH, has sent a letter to us at amiga-news.de about the Amiga model Walker, which was shown as a prototype in 1996 by Amiga Technologies at the CeBIT fair in Hannover, Germany. Below you can find a translation of what he wrote:
I'm just moving with my company and that's why I stumbled across the master design model of the Amiga Walker once again. This made me surf the web for a while to look for articles about the Walker. What I read there astonished me and prompted me to clarify some things:
1. The Amiga Walker has not been designed by Frog Design, but by the greatly talented designer Daniel Gilgen on behalf of Stefan Domeyer for my former company KS Design in Frankfurt, Germany. The idea to expand the Walker step by step until it becomes a tower finally originates from Daniel Gilgen. He was the one who built the prototypes for CeBIT from the master design model which I do still own.
2. The transfer of the rights to the product was dependent on the payment of our royalty. As this money was not paid, the rights to the product stayed with KS Design. After closing down KS Design, the rights were transferred to me as a private individual.
3. Merlancia Industries never had any rights to the product. We also communicated that to Merlancia Industries in this way as that company did ask us for a license. At some point the contact to Merlancia has been lost; we don't know whether this enterprise is still active or not.
I hope this can improve the understanding of the case considerably.
With kind regards and a sad feeling
about this project never entering production,
Klaus Schwägerl (snx)
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20.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Lucy 2.24
Lucy didn't care for hidden windows and thus Unmask and IControl's Hide-Window feature didn't work anymore when being used together with Lucy. This has been fixed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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Script: AmiKit-Linux-Installer 0.03
AmiKit-1.4.x-nix-Installer is a script which makes the installation of the Amiga-distribution AmiKit under Linux as easy as under Windows.
The installer downloads AmiKit 1.4.0 as well as E-UAE and configurates it. This version fixes some minor bugs and includes some improvements.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Aug. 2008, 21:00] [Comments: 0]
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19.Aug.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: ARexx-scripts for Shuffle
There are now ARexx-scripts for unregistered users of the puzzle game Shuffle as well. They are missing on the MorphOS-2.0-CD.
Download:
shuffle_info.amirx (2,6 KB)
shuffle_statistic.rexx (1,1 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
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Efika: Lego-tower "EFIKube"
Efika user "motorollin" is building a box for his PPC-motherboard from unusual materials: His "EFIKube" contains of Lego-stones. On morphzone.org he gives a survey about the project and has uploaded several photos.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Aug. 2008, 16:09] [Comments: 0]
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19.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Chiptune-Tracker: Hively-Tracker 1.5 for AmigaOS 3/4
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format (screenshot). AHX was developed in the 90ies to write music tracks which are similar to the typical Chip-Sound of SID (sound chip of the C64). Changes sine version 1.4:
- A parameter in the undo system was declared as a signed byte instead
of a signed word, which meant that some song parameters got corrupted
when they went over 127. Editing songs over 127 positions long was
buggered, for example. Can't believe i didn't spot this until now :(
- Added Protracker mod import. Just like the one in AHX, it simply strips
out all PT commands that are not equivalent to AHX ones, and all
instruments are set to a simple tone, so you'll still have a lot of
work to do to make it sound nice.
- Added a size optimisation feature. It removes all unused instruments,
and duplicate tracks. If you click with the right mousebutton, it'll
additionally try and use the transpose column to remove tracks which
are the same but transposed. However it doesn't know if sounds
continue after the newly transposed track so you may have to manually
fix any problems with that afterwards. Both modes keep the original
version and open a new tab with the optimise version so you won't
lose your work if it messes up. Both modes also use track 0 as the
empty track as AHX and HVL both make smaller files if that is the
case, however, if there are no empty tracks in the module, it won't
keep track 0 blank unnecessarily.
- Added a new command! When "EF1" is placed on or after the last note
in a track, the "transpose" value for that channel will be preserved
until another note is played in the channel. This overrides the
default AHX/HVL behaviour, which is to switch to the next transpose
value as soon as the next position is reached.
- '=' now does row preview, like enter does in protracker
- '-' now toggles horizontal advance in the position editor
- Added "posedadvance", "notejump" and "inotejump" fields to the
ht.prefs file. They don't show up in the prefs window, though, so
you have to edit them manually (run hively 1.5 and quit it to make
them show up in the file). "posedadvance" is either 0 or 1. When set
to 0, horizontal advance is disabled by default.
"defnotejump" is 0 to 9, and sets the default notejump in the pattern
editor. "definotejump" is the same for the instrument editor.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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