01.Dec.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)
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"Xmas"-Theme for AmigaSYS-users
The author of the AmigaOS-distribution AmigaSYS has published a Xmas-theme which includes pictograms and background pictures with Christmas contents.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Dec.2008
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Web-Browser: OWB 1.4 for AmigaOS 3
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Web-browser OWB. Please note that this port includes the older "Blastoise"-version of OWB. Additionally the OS3-version requires at least an (emulated) 68k-CPU with 500 Mhz. There are several limitations and the version requires several external components (GeekGadgets, ixemul.library etc.). You can get further information in the readme.
Changes in version 1.4:
- Didn't exit after printing the error message if Picasso96API.library
is missing, fixed
- Fixed wrong CPU and FPU checks
- Speed up text rendering
- Added support for an unicode fallback font since even for exapmple for
greek the AmigaOS 3.x compugraphic fonts aren't enough. It's not
configurable yet, the name has to be "Bitstream Cyberbit". If you use
ttf.library make sure you do NOT use ttfcodepage nor a font specific
codepage (other than ISO-8859-1)
- Ported Andrea's ARexx port to AmigaOS 3.9 (hostname: OWB, commands:
OPENURL "url", STOP, GOBACK, GOFORWARD)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Dec.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Minimig-box: Second, improved version
For some months Loriano 'TheDaddy' Pagni sells a box for the Amiga-clone Minimig. There is now a second, improved version of the box with some changes. For detailed information please have a look under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2008
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Project: Miggy - an Amiga-Emulator in Java
"Miggy" is supposed to become a Java-based Amiga-emulator. The first aim is to emulate an Amiga 500. Currently there is only a still not optimized CPU-emulation which according to the author reaches on a 2,4 Ghz-CPU the speed of a 68000-processor with 64 MHz.
Der Autor führt in seinem Blog ein Tagebuch über die Arbeiten an Miggy.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Nov. 2008, 18:20] [Comments: 0]
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30.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: Annotate 2.6.2 and BackUp 1.61
The OnyxSoft team has published updates for two of their programs called Annotate 2.6.2 and BackUp 1.61. The update of BackUp is based on requests and bug reports of users. So please do not hesitate to contact the developers if you find bugs or have suggestions.
Annotate is a text editor for AmigaOS 4 which originally was developed by Doug Bakewell in 1993 and which was now improved by OnyxSoft. The changes are listed in the readme.
BackUp is a program for AmigaOS/68k which requires AmigaOS 2.04. With it you can make backups which includes the directory tree. The changes are listed in the readme file as well.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Video Poker Solitarus and Marble Solitarus ported
Two games published by DanLabGames were ported for MorphOS: The mind game Marble Solitarus as well as the card game Video Poker Solitarus. MorphOS 1.x as well as the 3D- and SDL-libraries are required.
Dowmload:
marblesolitarus.lha (806 KB)
videopokersolitarus.lha (1,3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2008, 19:34] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Beta testers for Samba 3.2.0 wanted
Michael 'micken' Grunditz is working on a port of Samba 3.2.0 for MorphOS and is looking for Pegasos owners making beta tests.
With Samba the data exchange and printing over the network is possible. Currently you can search directories from Mac OS X or Linux but you cannot from Windows. If you are interested then please contact the author over MorphZone.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2008, 11:57] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2008
HelmutH (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.17 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes in detail:
- Updated to SVN revision 659
- Changed default fonts to the DejaVu fonts included in AmigaOS 4.x and removed using computed bold/italic fonts for incomplete font families again
- Changed the static libcurl to use Resources/curl-ca-bundle.crt in the OWB directory instead of DEVS:curl-ca-bundle.crt
- Added support for extended default mouse pointers version 1.1 and moved contextMenuCursor to Resources/Storage
- Disabled drawing and scrolling optimisations while a page is still loading
- Added AmigaOS 4.x version number to the screen title, additionally it's displayed in new windows
- Added COOKIE tooltype to change the path of the cookie file (bugs.os4depot.net issue #56)
Update: (30.11.08, 02:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 2.17 is available which fixes some bugs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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The Crypt: HTML-conversion of the first issues
With the return of Ray Hawkins (Dungeon Master) who was the first editor of the Crypt Amiga Disk Magazine now the conversion of the first 15 issues of the disk magazine to the HTML-format was started.
Issue 1 of the Crypt Diskmag
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Nov.2008
Psyria (ANF)
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Music-CD: Symphonic Shades delivered on 11. December
On 23. August 2008 in Cologne the concert of the WDR-symphonic orchestra with music of Chris Hülsbeck took place. Arrangements of songs like Apidya, Giana Sisters, Turrican, Jim Power or R-Type were played.
From now on the CD of the Symphonic-Shades-conzert can be oredered in advance and it will be delivered from the 11. december on. At first there will be 1000 CDs of the album and will be only available in the online-shop.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Nov. 2008, 21:26] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2008
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS für AmigaOS: AfA 4.3
Bernd Rösch's "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA) is a port of single AROS-components to AmigaOS 3. Thus new functionality of AROS is supposed to make available under AmigaOS as well. Version 4.3 includes some bug fixes as well as a reworked documentation and new features.
Direct download:
Binaries: AfA_OS_V4.3.lha (1,6 MB)
Source code: afa4.3_src.zip (652 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Nov. 2008, 15:56] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2008
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Historical: The "rest" on a Kickstart 1.0-disk
For a longer time it is known that the Kickstart 1.0-disks, which were delivered with the Amiga 1000, contained data which had nothing to do with the Amiga: Probably the developers took an used disk for the master disk which was not completely deleted before.
A hacker now has tried to recover these data.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Nov. 2008, 15:06] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2008
Steve Ellesmore (E-Mail)
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Kick Off-Magazine: The Aftertouch, issue 6
"The Aftertouch" is an English PDF-magazine which is about the well-known game Kick Off 2 (KO2). The current issue includes an interview with the organizers of the Ko2 World Championship 2008 in Athen as well as talkings with the winners of the last championship. Additionally there are informationen about the "Competition Version" of KO2 as well as hints for organizing your own tournament.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Nov. 2008, 14:23] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2008
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Sensible World of Soccer: Teams of season 08/09
For Sensible World of Soccer (SWoS) inofficial updates are still published which provide the new teams and statistics.
Under the title link an archive is available which should be at least compatible with SWoS 95/96 and SWoS 96/97.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Nov. 2008, 15:55] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2008
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Event: World of Commodore Canada (6. December)
For the sixth times the Toronto PET User's Group has organized the "World of Commodore" which will take place on 6th December this year.
In future the event will focus much more on the Amiga. Therefore Amiga users are very welcome. The World of Commodore 2008 attended about 100 visitors.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Nov. 2008, 17:21] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)
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LinuxToday: Linux Should Copy Amiga
On the Linux portal called LinuxToday Carla Schroder demanded that Linux should not try to outperform Mac OS X with elegance and functionality. One should go a step further trying to measure up to AmigaOS.
In her article Schroder introduced some features of AmigaOS which still are unique.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Nov.2008
HelmutH (ANF)
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Cubic IDE: Erweiterung für Hollywood-Programme
For the integrated development environment Cubic IDE, Michael 'Clyde Radcliffe' Jurisch has published an add-on for creating multimedia applications with Hollywood.
You can get further information under the title link. If you have any comments you can tell them to the author in the forum of Amiga Resistance.
Download site
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2008, 18:26] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 34
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English Podcast produced by Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald and Bill Panagouleas where Amiga users and invited guests discussed current events in the Amiga scene. The topics of the 34th issue with 'Cecilia' as guest:
- AmiWest 2008 a success?
- Long Island Amiga Club
- EEO game console?
- Interview with Cecilia
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23.Nov.2008
PPA (website)
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PPA: Interview with Chris Young
Jacek Kapitkowski has interviewed Chris Young at the title link. Mainly his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser NetSurf is discussed. (snx)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2008, 08:51] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Compiler: ECX 2.0.0
ECX is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. ECX requires an installed installation of the Amiga-E-package. The changes of the new version 2.0.0 are listed in the readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2008, 14:17] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2008
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: Hardware and software upgrade for the C-One
Press release The C-One is unique with its architecture until today: The central components can re-configure each other while the machine is running. If you wanted to do this with a traditional computer, you would have to exchange PCI cards or even the processor while it is turned on. The process took a few seconds, reminding the user of the speed of computers of the 80's. Although the C-One always aimed at resembling computers of that decade, that kind of speed is not acceptable for a current machine. FPGA developer Tobias Gubener has re-written the startup-procedure of the C-One (comparable to the BIOS of a normal PC) from scratch to overcome this.
The new software is called "Newboot" and it is free to every C-One owner. It is not necessary to work on the C-One's hardware, as it is just a flash upgrade. Still, the performance of the new startup is stunning. Instead of the elderly 80's design, the C-One now welcomes you with a graphical menu and almost triple speed. While browsing through the menus, the FPGAs on the board are re-configured a number of times without the user even noticing. With Newboot, the C-One has made the final step to everyday-usability after a development time of five years.
With the FPGA Extender card that is available since yesterday, the C-One even overcomes the limitation of emulating only 8-bit systems. Tobias Gubener has ported Dennis van Weeren's Minimig as a first demonstration of the new capabilities: In addition to VIC-20, C64 and Amstrad CPC, the C-One can now run 32-bit systems like the Amiga. The FPGA capacity of the C-One is increased almost by a factor of five with the extender board! The technical data in short:
- Cyclone 3 FPGA in 65 nanometer technology
- 16 MByte RAM with up to 333 MByte per second data rate
- Stereo delta-sigma audio converter
- Two crystals for exact PAL and NTSC clocks
- High-bandwidth interface to the C-One
- Simple installation without soldering
- Price: 99 EUR (*)
New C-One boards are sold with the extender-card pre-installed for 333 EUR (*). You can find more pictures and information on the website of the C-One.
(*) Recommended retail price including German sales tax of 19%. Prices at our retail partners may vary. For mail ordering, shipping may be added. (snx)
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