16.Dec.2007
Power Developer (Forum)
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PDF Book: Pegasos Book 2.3 (English)
Geoffrey Charra's PDF Book all about the Pegasos platform, the Pegasos Book, is now available in version 2.3 in English as well. The original French version had already appeared in May.
Changes:
- Vol. 1 & Vol. 2: Minor changes
- Vol. 3: Updated MorphOS section
- Vol. 4:
- Added: Chapter "Tricks and hints under Linux on Pegasos"
- Added: Reorganisation of information
- Update: Installation of Linux Debian (V 4.0)
- Update: Installation of Linux Ubuntu (V 7.04 Feisty)
- Added: Usage of bootcreator
- Added: Usage of chroot command
- Added: Usage of NFS to fast up compilations
- Added: Usage of Nintendo Wiimote on a Pegasos
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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16.Dec.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS Team: Registration advice
In the MorphZone forum, on behalf of the MorphOS team, Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh asks all those Pegasos users, who have possibly tried in vain to register themselves under support.morphos-team.net, to try this again, in case they have not received an E-Mail.
However, your inputs must be correct and complete, since the registration request will be denied otherwise. Furthermore, please note that this announcement does not apply to PowerUp registrations - the latter were processed continuously. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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16.Dec.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: High resolution race course Melbourne for VGP2
In the context of his updates for Paolo Cattani's Virtual Grand Prix 2, Jason Frabotta has now made available a high resolution version of the race course in Melbourne. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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15.Dec.2007
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.7
After several beta versions James 'jahc' Carroll has published the final version 2.7 of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. WookieChat is available for all Amiga systems.
Update: (17.12.2007, 15:30, cg)
Now version 2.8 has been released, which fixes a bug that could cause crashes. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Dec.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: VmwAROS 0.5
VmwAROS is a preconfigured AROS-environment for VMware which is supposed to give an impression of the operating system to the user.
A list of all changes can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Dec.2007
Cloanto (e-mail)
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Cloanto: Cataloging Effort Reaches 10K Milestone
Press release Udine, Italy - December 14, 2007 - Cloanto Italia srl, Amiga software developers since 1986, announced today that their Amiga cataloging effort reached the milestone of ten thousand disk-based applications.
So far, Cloanto's effort focused on the cataloging of Amiga games and game-like educational titles. Reaching ten thousand titles (counting different major versions, but excluding minor variations) meant, among other things, processing several tens of thousands of floppy disk images, including format variations and non-exact duplicates, which have now been "handprinted". In practice, this data can be used to allow Amiga Forever users to search for games by title or keywords, to access multiple independent partner web sites with additional information and downloads, and to more easily play games without complex configuration work.
Many Amiga enthusiasts already have a multitude of game floppy disk images on their PCs. Having access to this cataloging data, a future version of Amiga Forever will be able to recognize a disk selected by the user, automatically finding the required companion disks and starting the game with the correct (emulated) hardware configuration. All of this, with a simple click on a downloaded disk image (e.g. an ADF file).
The handprinting technology used by Cloanto goes beyond traditional CRC32 file-level checksums which have commonly been used in the emulation community. Rather, Cloanto's software can analyze the images at the Amiga disk block and file system level, extracting precious information, ignoring simple modifications such as a saved game state or high score data, and applying other smart identification algorithms. In this way, more duplicates and disks that would otherwise go unrecognized are identified.
Cloanto's cataloging project began in 2004. In 2005, a number of specification drafts (e.g. XADML, an XML-based application and configuration description format) were announced and published on the Amiga Forever site. At the same time, also with the help of numerous contributors, a database of applications was slowly being built, one title at a time. At Pianeta Amiga 2007, Cloanto announced that the "10K" milestone was near. The effort is now being expanded to content available in formats other than disk images, and to applications other than Amiga games and educational titles. First implementations embodying this new technology and data are planned for 2008. (snx)
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14.Dec.2007
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(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.2007
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MorphOS: Update of filetype package for Ambient
Mario Kuban has published an update of his filetype collection for newer Ambient versions.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Digital Universe 1.5 available as download
The Astronomy program Digital Universe can now be bought as cheap download version. There is an ISO-Image of the Ditigal Universe-CD or a LhA archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Actual catalog files for strangé and AmRSS
Hans-Jörg Ottinger has his german catalog files for the AmigaGuide- and HTML-viewer strangé and beside the RSS-viewer AmRSS updated.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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12.Dec.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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HSMathLibs V.46.00 beta 1 for the 68040
For registered users of the mathematics libraries HSMathLibs my Matthias Henze
there is a new beta version for Amigas with 68040 processor available. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Dec.2007
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IRC client: WookieChat 2.7 Beta 27
James 'jahc' Carroll has released a new beta version of his MUI based IR client WookieChat,
the latest changes are listed at the
changelog.
WookieChat is available for all Amiga systems. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 5
The fifth part of his English history of Amiga Jeremy Reimer has dedicated to the problems which the Amiga had faced to during his introduction.
In his serie the author wants to explain what the Amiga was, what it meant to his developers and users a why it had so much influence to the computer industry although it was not very well-known.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Dec.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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PowerPoint-viewer: PointRider Status-Update
The PointRider-Autor notifies, that the release which was planed for the autum, is now planed for the beginning of 2008, but therefore with serveral new changes.
The Author revised the PointRider-Roadmap and the Blog to provide a preview about the status. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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10.Dec.2007
Michal "rzookol" Zukowski (ANF)
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MorphOS: New JPEG-Reggae-Classes
Michal "rzookol" Zukowski provides two new classes for the Multimedia-library Reggae: jpeg.decoder and jpeg.demuxer are to work with JPEG-Pictures (24 Bit, 8 Bit grey, CMYK).
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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09.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Web page)
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German catalog files for strangé and VisualGuide
Hans-Jörg Ottinger has created German catalog files for the AmigaGuide and HTML viewer strangé and VisualGuide, a program that converts directory listings to HTML or AmigaGuide format.
Furthermore, already at the beginning of the month, the German catalogs were updated for the messenger program AmiGG, the RSS display program AmiRSS, the Shell replacement MUICon, the personal organizer PolyOrganizer, the graphical user interface TDmplayerGUI and the IRC program WookieChat. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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09.Dec.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: MUI class Lamp.mcc 20.6
Christian Rosentreter has released an update to the MUI class Lamp.mcc (screenshot 1, 2), which primarily solves rare problems that appeared when a LampObject was used as List image object under MUI4, in addition to cosmetic and optimizing changes.
Download: mcc_lamp-20.6-morphos.lha (93 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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09.Dec.2007
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #100
The scene group Liquid Skies is releasing its 100th music pack today. This time, it includes a musical piece called "Black Hole In The Sun", which was composed by Lcr and post-processed by Kuadziw. It has a rather experimental dark musical style. The Polish graphic artist Kuadziw created the cover for this.
Some more information on the track:
- Title: Black Hole In The Sun
- Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
- Style: Trance
- Play length: 5:39
- Format: mp3, 160 kbps
- Size: 6.5 MB (zipped)
The file is available for free download under the title link, as always. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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09.Dec.2007
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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CubicIDE: Christmas special offer
Dietmar Eilert is offering his IDE/text editor package in a Christmas special offer for a price that is reduced more than half. Only a limited number of packages are available, the offer is only valid while supplies last. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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09.Dec.2007
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Interest in a small batch of cheap scan doublers?
amiga.org reader Joe "IOWASURFER" Leto is getting a scan doubler developed for Amiga computers that should cost considerably less than 100 USD. The external adapter (photo of the prototype on an A1000) will support a color depth of 16 bits and should be compatible with all Amiga models.
At present, it is still unclear whether the device will go under (low volume) production, Leto asks for feedback to obtain an impression of the actual demand. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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09.Dec.2007
Amiga Future (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Illustrated installation guide for PowerUp installation
Under the title link, on amiga-resistance.info, a richly illustrated guide was published which sees through the installation of AmigaOS 4.0 classic step by step. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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