09.Jan.2008
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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AROS: Cairo as 2D graphic system suggested
Robert Norris, who's currently working on a webKit port for AROS to bring an up-to date browser to this operating system
(amiga-news.de reported),
tells in his blog that he ported the graphic library Cairo to AROS.
Additionally he suggests to use Cairo as general 2D graphic system for AROS and to reimplemt the graphics.library new using Cairo. (snx)
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09.Jan.2008
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Rebuild of the Origyn Web Browser
Jörg Strohmayer provides a rebuild of the "Origyn Web Browser" (amiga-news.de reported)
alpha version at the title link.
This version uses a special memory allocation which results in a speed drawback but lower memeory requirement.
(snx) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Jan.2008
amiga.org (website)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, episode 18
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English podcast by Rich Lawrence and
Sean Fitzgerald, that gives voice to Amiga users and invited guests
.
The topics of the 18th issue, which again features Bill Panagouleas
by DiscreetFX:
- Moana files “released”
- OS5 annoucement at CES
- Bill’s announcements
- SAM440 AROS port assigned
- Uprough Group ports games for OS4
- MorphOS 2.0 - When it’s done maybe ‘09?
- Predictions for 2008
- OWB web browser
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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08.Jan.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-Updates: OpenURL 7.4, strangé 0.12 and MiniMailer.mcc 20.2 (Update)
Alfonso "alfie" Ranieri has published new versions of his AmigaGuide/HTML viewer strangé as well as of the MorphOS version of OpenURL.
Update: (22:23, 08.01.08, snx)
Furthermore, the MUI class MiniMailer.mcc has been released in version 20.2. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2008
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List
The "Amiga Games List" of the magazine Obligement has been completed with 1000 new entries and has now 12673 games, level editors, file disks, expensions and interpreters. According to Obligement this list is the most extensive one on Internet. Changes in issue 37:
- The list contains 12673 entries
- The list is now in english
- Addition of a help page (you can contribute at the list)
- Split of the "Developers / Editors" column into two new column: "Developers" (the one who create the game) and "Publishers" (the one who publish the game)
- In the "RTG" column, addition of the mention "(RTG)" to indicate partially RTG games or which could run on graphic board but which requires confirmation
- In the "License" column, addition of the GPL3 license
- Programs requiring a postcard or a specific object (chocolate, model railroad,...) are not included any more in the "freeware" license but in the "giftware" license
- In the "Language" column, addition of games created with LUA, GrimE, AmigaDOS, Parallaction and Scala
- In the "Language" column, engines/interpreters/constructors are between brackets to differentiate them from real programming languages
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (website)
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PDF magazine: Amigahellas 3 (greek)
The third issue of the greek Amigahellas magazine is now available at the title link. Topics include a report on Amigahellas' presence at Athens DTE 2007 exhibition, an Amigathering 8 report, an AmigaOS 4 Classic review and USB on the Amiga. (snx)
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07.Jan.2008
(ANF)
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Amiga Inc. announce AmigaAnywhere 2.0
Amiga, Inc. announces the availability of AmigaAnywhere(TM)
version 2, the first phase of the Amiga OS. The new platform offers
more features and flexibility to safely move content from a physical
to a digital environment and instantly run all types of content on a
variety of devices, including mobile phones, cameras, audio and video
players, STBs, laptops, PCs and servers. The latest version of
AmigaAnywhere facilitates rich-media content featuring extraordinary
audio-visual quality, high-speed interactive gaming, education and
entertainment anytime, anywhere.
"The Amiga world has waited long enough," said Bill McEwen,
President of Amiga Inc. "AmigaAnywhere is the step forward we've been
diligently pursuing, making it easy to instantly and safely run all
types of content on their favorite devices. And we're thrilled to be
able to unveil this during CES at Digital Experience and hope to
identify an additional, new set of strong hardware partners as well."
New features of AmigaAnywhere 2 include a device-independent,
single, ubiquitous Virtual Environment (VEN) that functions across
different operating system and the Internet. Under the new platform,
consumers are able to have the same user experience to engage in
activities such as listening to music, surfing the net, buying video,
editing photos, or working on work contracts. AmigaAnywhere
dynamically scales the applications/services to the accessory device. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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06.Jan.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Diavolo Backup 2007
Ilkka Lehtoranta has published an update of his MorphOS port of Diavolo Backup. This update fixes some bugs and contains some minor optimations.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jan.2008
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.9 beta 3
James "jahc" Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based IRC client WookieChat. Please have a look at the changelog for the changes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jan.2008
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Database: MUIbase 2.3
Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Version 2.3 now supports UTF-8. Additionally there are versions for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The changes:
- Fully open source (GPL) including Linux and Windows versions
- AmigaOS4 version by Alexandre Balaban
- MorphOS version by Ilkka Lehtoranta
- French translation of documentation by Alexandre Balaban
- UTF-8 support. MUIbase project files are stored using UTF-8 encoding.
This requires the "codesets.library" to be installed on the system
- Mason icon set
- Option to include/exclude GUI elements from focus cycle chain
- New constant for programming: OSTYPE which is either "Unix", "Windows"
or "Amiga"
- New option for FORMATMEMO allowing to define sections as single lines
- Automatic update of virtual attributes when a dependent attribute
is changed or a record in a dependent table is added or deleted
- Added option for keeping aspect ratio when scaling images
- Improved handling for fixed and scrollable images
- Support read-only boolean attributes correctly
- Removed custom MUI classes from installer archive
- Several bug fixes and little improvements
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jan.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Update of Quickguide
Marcin Kornas has published an update of his Quickguide for MorphOS. Mainly the PDF file is meant for new users.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jan.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: amrss 5.55
Alfonso Ranieri has published an update of his RSS viewer amrss for MorphOS.
Version 5.55 contains some bug fixes. Additionally the navigation menu was integrated to the main menu and the BWin support was deleted. The program requires the current beta version of MUI4.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jan.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Cloanto: OLPC support for Amiga Forever 2008
According to Cloanto the next version of the emulator package Amiga Forever can be used on a "100 Dollar-Laptop" XO of the non-profit community "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jan.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Forum)
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MorphOS: Instant-Messenger PolyGlot 0.36
Already in November the beta version 0.36 of the Instant-Messenger PolyGlot was published. The MorphOS program written by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault supports the MSN netzwork.
For the changes please have a look at the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jan.2008
Mario Mueller (ANF)
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Amiga Virus Encyclopedia opened
Press release The Amiga Virus Encyclopedia is dedicated to analysis and descriptions of viruses for the Commodore Amiga computer. The is for anyone who is interested in Amiga computer viruses or once was afflicted by one of these nasty little programs and finally want to know detailed information about them. So on the one hand you can call the A.V.E. project a site about nostalgic amiga viruses on the other hand it is a very comprehensive guide to Amiga viruses. (snx)
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04.Jan.2008
Philipp Rößler (ANF)
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Game database: AmigaMemo lists 1000. game
Philipp Rößler wrote: AmigaMemo.com wishs a Happy New Year and celebrates the 1000. game in museum.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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OpenTyrian for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
OpenTyrian which is a SDL based port of the shoot'em-up classic Tyrian (screenshot) was compiled by 'Varthall' for AmigaOS 4 as well as by Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski for MorphOS.
Download:
pfp-tyrn.lha (6 MB)
opentyrian_mos.lha (5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2008
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AmigaGuide/HTML viewer: OS3 version of strangé 0.11
strangé which is a MUI based AmigaGuide/HTML viewer written by Alfonso Ranieri is now available for AmigaOS 3, too.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Event: CommVEx 4 on July 26/27 (USA)
The Commodore Vegas Expo 4 is set for Saturday and Sunday, July 26/27, at the third floor Jockey Room 1, Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. Official times are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Unofficial times are whenever the Jockey Room 1 door is open.
Admission is $10, whether you come for one day or for both days. Raffle prize tickets are one for $10, three for $20. Door prize tickets are given to each attendee. Eight to ten Commodore and Amiga systems are set up for attendees to use. Presentations and exhibits are still being lined up. (snx)
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02.Jan.2008
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at the Obligement website
The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of november/december 2007
- Old Amiga news of january/february 2000 and march/april 2000
- Report: Alchimie 7
- Report: Colmar Multimedia l'Expo
- Interview with Robert Norris (AROS developer)
- Interview with François Revol (Haiku and Texas Instruments calculator developer)
- Review of AFA 4.0
- Review of Shadow Fighter
- Review of Battle Isle
- Review of Kick Off 2
- Review of Racter
- Point of view: ACK Software Controls, king of the vaporware?
- Point de vue: 20e anniversary of the Amiga 500
- File: BBCode
- File: Scoopex - part 2: a growing legend
- File: History of the Amiga - year 1985 and 1986 (update)
- Quizz of november/december 2007
- Special quizz about Alchimie 7
(snx)
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01.Jan.2008
Bobic^BTTR (ANF)
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4Sceners.de rewards best Amiga demos 2007
The scene website 4Sceners.de has published the yearly review 2007. The editors has chosen the best PC demos and intros of the last year as well as the best Amiga demos 2007.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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