18.Nov.2007
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Point'n Click Adventure: La Storia Ancestrale
La Storia Ancestrale is a series of four Italian point'n click adventures, which is based on the comic series of the same name. The commercial release of the games, originally planned for the year 1994, was evidently neglected because of the collapsing market. The author is now making available the four titles for free download. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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18.Nov.2007
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS for AmigaOS: AfA 4.00 Final Beta1
Bernd Rösch is making available a final beta version of AROS for AmigaOS (AfA), a port of individual AROS components to AmigaOS 3.9. The author asks for feedback in case certain applications do not get along with the thicker window borders, then, in the final version, these programs will already be entered in a blacklist and will therefore continue to be provided with the old, thinner window borders.
Features of AfA 4.00 Final beta 1:
- Visualprefs and Birdie or AFA-skin can be selected via AFA_Prefs and adapted Startup-Sequence. For this, refer to the Readme at all costs for how you must change the startup-sequence (In Amikit 1.4, this is already done)
- OS4/PNG icons can be scaled in real time, thanks to high-grade scale code by Thilo Köhler. On a classic (060), OS4 Mason icons with a size of 30 pixels can be displayed faster than in original size.
- In getdiskobject and dupdiskopbject, added tags IA_Width, IA_Height for scaling
- Realtime skin system, which can switch skins without closing and opening screen, arbitrary border sizes also possible at the same time (screenshot)
- A blacklist in which you can enter names of programs which do not get along with larger window borders, then, the standard border size of AmigaOS is assigned to these
- Many configurable realtime parameters, like 3 different window border lines, window title size, size gadget size
- The user can change the settings preset by the skin designer via GUI
- Window title font selectable independent of the window font configured in AmigaOS
- Position of the text in the window title and shadows with configurable depth selectable
- The skins consist of multiple pictures for the screen title and all parts of the window title like top, left, bottom and right border and for the foreground and background for the vertical and horizontal scroll bar
- 7 skins by Ken Lester now usable (screenshot)
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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18.Nov.2007
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Online role-playing game The Mana World
The Mana World is an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online RPG) that is licensed under GPL and already available for various operating systems, which is currently in alpha state (screenshot). The AmigaOS 4 port comes from Andrea Palmate. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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18.Nov.2007
Team AROS-ML
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AROS: TeX port attempted
Alain Greppin is attempting a port of TeX to AROS, based on TeXlive.
The donation status of the bounty project rests at 65 US dollars, deadline for the completion is February 18, 2008. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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18.Nov.2007
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots V2.41 - Patch Level 2
Below, Ralf Steines summarizes the recent developments at Back to the Roots:
Fred Fish Memorial Archive:
Now two weeks have passed since we opened our tribute page
to Fred Fish, which went a successfull burn-in-test for our
new server: During the last 2 weeks our main server delivered
25.000 CD images, most of them Fred Fish CDs!
The memorial archive grew to 3 times its initial size, thanks
to the numerous people who contributed missing material!
There's still quite some stuff missing, so please check your
collections and consider contributing, especially the Frozen Fish
and the Geek Gadget Snapshot CDs. Thanks!
Geek Gadgets FTP Mirror:
Since we mirrored ftp.ninemoons.com daily, to 26.Aug.2004
when it went down we have the latest copy of it online, which we
consider the master site from now on.
We will exctend it with any snapshots and improved versions we
could get hold of to at least provide an up to date archive of
this (currently?) sleeping project. We will happily give anyone
interested to continue and maintain it full control over it.
Geek Gadgets Reloaded:
Since the FTP is only a part of the project we digged out a
copy of the Geek Gadgets master site, originally hosted at
www.geekgadgets.org.
We started reconstructing and updating the master site of it.
The site got a handy subdomain and all missing package documents
will be added with time. We call this preservation side project
Geek Gadgets Reloaded and will happily handle control over to a
new maintainer.
Amigascne.org full mirror:
We finally finished a years old plan to have a fullmirror of
the huge amigascne.org archive online on our FTP. Due to storage
space limits we only had a partial mirror, which we fixed now, so
we now have an official full mirror. Big thanks go to
Cygnus^Amigascne for being such an easy guy.
Enjoy the enormous collection of about 10GB of Amiga scene output.
Even if you're used to browse huge archives you will surely get
lost once you dive in there!
Faces of Mars Archive:
Another years old plan we already started long ago finally gets
realised: An online version of the Faces of Mars disk series and
FreeCDs offering all releases for download at no cost.
This project is still work in process, but since most FreeCDs are
already online, we decided to release it, so you may all help
filling the gaps. We still have no FOM disk above #336, so please
check your PD CDs for FOM disks 337-500+ to finish the collection.
Thanks.
Amidemos Master Site:
While we were updating our FTP we stumbled across the FTP mirror of
robotriot's amidemos.org project, a collection of Amiga demos
transcoded to DIVX / AVI video format.
We updated our mirror from the scene.org archive but noticed that
quite some videos were missing. So we digged in backup copies until
we recreated most of the collection, only Kah835gb by Madwizards
and Raybong by Loveboat are missing. If you have any of these
videos from amidemos collection then please upload it to our anon
upload ftp so we can finish the new Amidemos Master Site.
Thanks!
FlatDisk Modules FTP:
The Flatdisk Modules Archive (FDMA) by FlatRich of FlatDisk Softworks
is a collection of over 5600 mods, collected in the years 1992-1999.
We host this archive since a while, including per collection year
ModRadio channels. We added it now to our FTP server too, offering
you a convenient way for mass downloading it.
Please enjoy, yours BTTR team!
http://www.back2roots.org (snx)
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18.Nov.2007
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AmigaOS 4: FTP client PFTP 0.0 alpha 9
PFTP by Peter Gordon offers any number of windows, server-to-server transfers and drag'n drop support, among other things. In version 0.0 alpha 9, an error was corrected, which possibly prevented an update of the destination window after uploading a file. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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18.Nov.2007
René (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Hardware compatibility list for classic version
ACube Systems, distributor of the AmigaOS 4 version for classic Amigas with PPC accelerator card, is making available a first version of a hardware compatibility list under the title link. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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17.Nov.2007
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Windows: Genealogy software ScionPC
Robbie J. Akins has published a completely new version of his genealogy software Scion for Windows. It is available under the title link for free. It is possible to import the database created with the Amiga version.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Nov.2007
os4depot (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Collection of 3D-screensavers published
On os4depot the collection of 3D-screensavers called GLblankers is available.
The package (direct download) contains four different screensavers which work together with the new blanker system of AmigaOS 4: GLCubenetic, GLFlurry,
GLHyperTorus and GLMatrix.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2007
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Amiga-emulator: UAE 0.8.27 for Unix-systems
Bernd Schmidt has published a new version of the Amiga-emulator UAE. UAE is the origin of all UAE-projects including WinUAE and E-UAE. UAE 0.8.27 has been published as a source-code archive to be compiled under UNIX-systems including BeOS and NextStep. The changes since the last version are registered inside the changelog. (cg) (Translation: nba)
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15.Nov.2007
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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AROS: Interview with Robert Norris
For his blog "The AROS Show", Paul J. Beel interviews AROS developer Robert Norris about the development of the new web browser for AROS (amiga-news.de reported). The name of the web browser is also revealed for the first time. (snx)
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14.Nov.2007
Amiga.org (forum)
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Amiga 1200 spotted at TV-series "Bones"
In season 3, episode 7, of the TV-series "Bones" which is shown in the USA these days an Amiga 1200 has been spotted. The Amiga is as well named in the episode, screenshots can be found at sopdu.net (1, 2). (snx)
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14.Nov.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: MiniGL 1.5.1 (update)
Hans de Ruiter has published an update of the OpenGL-compatible 3D-API MiniGL for AmigaOS 4. Amongst others version 1.5.1 now also supports display lists.
Please notice that software-rendering is not supported. Bounties for the author are welcome.
Download: minigl.lha (2 MB)
Update: (15.11.2007, 18:15, cg)
Meanwhile version 1.5.1 has been published including several bugfixes and leaving out of the debug-report resulting in faster speed. (snx) (Translation: nba)
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14.Nov.2007
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: Update of AmiWebView 2
Alinea Computer has published version 2.1 of AmiWebView for registered
customers. The update includes several changes as well as Spanish and
French localizations. More information about AmiWebView 2 can be
found on the website of Alinea Computer. (snx) (Translation: nba)
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14.Nov.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: LinCity-NG has been ported
Andrea Palmatè has ported the game LinCity-NG for AmigaOS 4. LinCity-NG is a refurbished version of the city simulation LinCity.
Download: lincity.lha (32 MB) (snx) (Translation: nba)
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13.Nov.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CD-/DVD burning program AmiDVD 1.42
AmiDVD is a very simple CD-/DVD burning program written by Jörg Strohmayer.
Since our last message a solution for problems with Pioneer-drives was added (nevertheless DVD-R-discs are recommended) as well as burning "on the fly" was improved. Meanwhile AmiUpdate is supported.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2007
Amiga.org (Forum)
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TCP/IP-Stack uIP 0.1.0
Trevor Scroggins has ported uIP for AmigaOS. It is a simple TCP/IP-stack for embedded applications. You can get further information under the title link.
Download: uip.lha (21 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2007
Dimitris Panokostas (ANF)
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Event: Amigahellas at DTE 2007
Dimitris Panokostas writes: Amigahellas, the Greek Amiga community, was present at the greatest Greek technological exhibition D.T.E. 2007 (Digital Technology Expo), in charge of the "computer history" stand.
With the valuable help from the organizing company, we managed to give the opportunity to both young and older visitors to meet and use computers from the past. Visitors had the chance to (re)live the experience of using computers like the Philips Videopac, Commodore PET 8032SK, Commodore Plus-4, C64-C, C128-D, Amstrad CPC 464, Amiga 500, 600 and 1200, Jupiter Ace, Acorn Electron, Timex Sinclair, Philips MSX among others.
It wasn't only about the past though: there also was an µA1 running the latest version of AmigaOS 4, as well as the latest version of AROS Live-CD and AmiKit 1.4 running on PC laptops.
The website dte.amigahellas.gr was set-up to host the photos and video from the event, so that those who couldn't make it there can have a glimpse of what happened. And if you feel like it, we'd be happy to receive any comments, which you can send using the Contact form.
We would like to thank the organizing company again, who helped into making this possible, all the visitors who had fun with us and all the people who gave their best to make this event an unforgettable experience indeed.
Finally, we'd like to wish... many happy returns! (snx)
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12.Nov.2007
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Further development of TLSFMem as memtlsf
The further development of TLSFMem will by done by Bernd Roesch. He get the permission from Chris Hodges to reassemble the executable. If Chris don't changes his opinion, Bernd will start with the workaround of TLSFMem at December. A Download link will by added until it is available.
German writen statment from Bernd Roesch.
Bernd Roesch schreibt: Ich habe von Chris Hodges die Erlaubnis bekommen, TLSFMem (amiga-news.de berichtete) zu reassemblieren und zu releasen, mit der Bedingung, einen anderen Namen zu wählen und in der Readme-Datei darauf zu verweisen, dass der Kode von Chris Hodges ist. Daher nenne ich es memtlsf.
Den Quellkode möchte er nicht hergeben, aber reassemblieren ist auch kein Problem, AmiBlitz war ja auch ASM-Source, der zudem ca. einhundertmal größer ist, und wurde reassembliert, da die Sourcen unvollständig waren.
Da TLSFMem Probleme macht und Chris mir mitgeteilt hat, dass er keine Bugfixes mehr vornimmt, werde ich noch bis Dezember warten und dann versuchen, sofern sich an seiner diesbezüglichen Haltung nichts ändert, die Fehler zu beheben oder Workarounds dazu zu finden.
Derzeit erzeugt das Beenden von AmigaAmp Enforcer-Hits und Abstürze, wenn WipeOut (68k-Memtracker) mitläuft. Auch das Starten von YAM 2.4 erzeugt endlos Enforcer-Hits. Dies passiert auch ohne AfA-Nutzung.
Wer weitere Probleme mit tlsfmem bemerkt, möchte dies bitte mitteilen.
Anmerkung der Redaktion: Download-Link wird ergänzt, sobald vom Autor mitgeteilt. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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11.Nov.2007
Amition.de (ANF)
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Amition.de: CD³² ISO image of the game "FaYoh 2"
On Amition.de, an ISO image of "FaYoh 2" for the Amiga CD³² was made available today. Here, it concerns a jump'n'run game in "Super Mario World" style (Aminet). (snx) (Translation: cad)
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11.Nov.2007
amigaemuboard.net (ANF)
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amigaemuboard.net: New website online
Press release Since today, the new amigaemuboard.net website is online. In Downloads, you can find lots of Amiga emulators for the most diverse platforms. In Tutorials, you can find useful instructions & guides. Until now, a large E-UAE tutorial and a guide for optimizing SCSI drives are online. But this offer will be continuously expanded.
In addition, you can find lots of useful links and technical information on Amiga models. Under Emulators, you can find a brief description of the emulators that you can download from us.
Of course, the forum is preserved in tried-and-tested shape and we support you in word and deed there anytime :-)
Have fun when browsing...
The amigaemuboard.net Team (snx) (Translation: cad)
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