03.Oct.2007
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: New version of Push4Dock
Push4Dock is a start menu environment based on AmiDock for AmigaOS 4.
Starting by this release, Push4Dock is themeable and there are many themes available already.
Push4Dock requires the PNG icon plugin and OS4Reboot to work. For further information please visit the new Push4Dock section of the masonicons website or read the documentation. (snx)
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03.Oct.2007
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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AROS: Installer test (English)
In his blog "The AROS Show" Paul J. Beel wrote at the title link a test about the new AROS installer by
Neil Cafferkey (amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Oct.2007
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Status Information
Press release During the last week the Back to the Roots main archive was completely enabled again, All files are online again. Nearly all funtions are active again.
The archive is still located on our completely filled up
160GB server, but we opened it for your convenience while
we duplicate it to our new terabyte server during the next
weeks. After this we will have space again to continue
with site updates, which we expect around the end of the
year.
Once the new server is installed we will exchange both
machines, which might yield in some temporary inconveniences
for you, surely no big issue after the long wait...
After this, we will rework our current machine as a backup
mirror and team project server, where independent, topic
related non profit projects could find an advertising free
home, preferable people who want to help us to extend the
main archive with legal content.
Until we finished reworking all, our mail server will be
offline, due to the lack of disk space. Mails sent to
@back2roots.org addresses will be forwarded to NIL:, so
don\'t be upset if you contacted us and got no reply.
All mails ever sent from our online email form is not
lost, and will be responded with time.
Our FTP-Server will be updated once it\'s on the new machine.
Dozends of CDs are waiting to be placed online.
Today I (Ralf) found out that Fred Fish died in April (didn\'t
know that yet). What a shame, he\'s the pioneer of PD and open
source for me. May he rest in peace!
Before his death, Fred gave us the license to put all his
productions online at our site, as long as we request third
party rights separately. This makes it possible (and is a
historical duty too) to preserve Fred\'s complete binary
life work legally for everybody.
That\'s why we are searching for everything which carries
his name. Please have a look at your collections (originals)
and send us lists together with the respective copyright notes
(in case of third party involved) to me, if you want to help.
If you are one of these 3rd party copyright holders, please
consider helping us with a license for your part.
We also search original disk images (ADF, DMS, etc, not lha)
of his FF/AmigaLib series for preservating them in their
original form.
Thanks, Fred. We will never forget you! (snx)
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03.Oct.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga Inc: An open letter to the Amiga users
At the title link Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.) appeals to the Amiga users with an open letter in which he envinces to have never given up neither
the development goals nor the user community.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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02.Oct.2007
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WHDLoad: New packages until 02.10.2007
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene-demos to your harddrive which were formerly meant only for use
with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
Since our last message the following installers have been added, updated or improved:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Oct.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.10.2007
These are the latest Aminet uploads which have been added since our last message:
Audithec.lha biz/dbase 227K OS3 MUI AudioCD Database 1.1ß + v1.0.2
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 21K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
amilicious.lha comm/misc 18K GEN Import AWeb hotlist to del.icio.us
pftp.lha comm/tcp 311K OS4 Advanced FTP client (alpha preview)
A71BackUp.zip comm/www 10K GEN PHP Script: perform a full web backup
getvideo.lha comm/www 8K GEN get FLV files from YouTube etc.
httphandler.lha comm/www 86K OS4 HTTP: device for accessing web-hosted fi
MCC_BetterString-11.13.lha dev/mui 148K VAR BetterString custom class for MUI
MCC_BetterStringSP.lha dev/mui 5K GEN MCC BetterString 11.13 spanish catalog
Wazp3D.lha driver/video 231K OS3 CPU only Warp3D v4.2 implementation
Frontiera.lha game/strat 136K OS3 Italian FRONTIER ELITE remake
BlackJack3.lha game/wb 208K OS3 Game of Blackjack
cpc2ilbm_1_0.lha gfx/conv 64K OS3 CLI converter for Amstrad CPC images
Graphviz.lha gfx/edit 2.8M MOS Graph Drawing Programs from AT&T/Lucent
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 349K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
EP_MaxTrax.lha mus/play 24K OS3 EaglePlayer "MaxTrax" external replayer
EP_MMSound.lha mus/play 14K OS3 EaglePlayer "MultiMedia Sound" ext. repl
xmp_68k.lha mus/play 181K OS3 Play & convert various mod formats.
Commander.lha util/blank 73K OS4 A multi-purpose blanker modul
FixMixer.lha util/cdity 0K GEN Fix saving of PegasosMixer.prefs
Assign-MorphOS.lha util/cli 20K MOS Unofficial assign command
T1ManagerM.lha util/libs 18K GEN T1Manager New Design Mock-Up
AndorraMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Andorra country for MorphOS
RomaniaMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Romania country for MorphOS
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Oct.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 01.10.2007
These are the latest uploads at os4depot.net which have been added since our last message:
dg_midi_player.lha aud/pla 54kb Simple MIDI player
cpc2ilbm.lha gra/con 60kb CLI converter for Amstrad CPC images
png_icon_editor.lha gra/edi 7Mb A Tool for Manipulating PNG Images and I
commander.lha gra/scr 73kb Commander - A multi-purpose blanker modu
pftp.lha net/ftp 311kb Advanced FTP client (alpha preview versi
openssh-bin.lha net/mis 1Mb OpenSSH secure connectivity tools
ranger.lha uti/mis 29kb Process diagnostic tool
r200_ink_level.lha uti/pri 29kb Epson R200 Ink Level Monitor
switcher3d.lha uti/wor 89kb Window and screen switcher
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Oct.2007
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CD32: Arcade-game Frog Feast
Frog Feast is a little arcade-game which were published as commercial game two years ago and
since then was ported to nearly each 16 or 32Bit-console
(screenshot (Neo Geo CD),
advertising (CD32)).
Meanwhile the CD32-port is in progress which probably will be distributed by
oldergames.com.
A first demo-version is available at megaupload.com - but
its main goals are compatibility tests: An important element of the game is still missing in this version - the fly
which is to be caught.
The CD-image which is available at megaupload has to be burned with low burning speed. The demo version was
only tested with NTSC-devices.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Oct.2007
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 11
"Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English Podcast created by Rich Lawrence and Sean Fitzgerald where
Amiga users and guests discuss the latest events of the Amiga-scene.
Topics of the eleventh issue which are available under the title link:
- AmiZilla Booty Splits Four Ways
- Amiwest07 update#4
- The First Warp3D Based Amiga diskmag is born!
- aMiGa=PoWeR #39 is available
- Amiga Future Issues 50 and 59 Online
- AmiKit 1.4.0 Released
- Pete’s FTP Alpha Preview out
- WinUAE (1.4.4) released
- AmiFTP 1.900 OS4 Released!
- Alinea Computer: New products for Classic Computing 2007
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Oct.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SearchStar 0.91b, SimpleView 2.0d
Tom "AmigaHarry" Duin released a new versionen of his minimal pictureviewer SimpleView and his search program SearchStar. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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01.Oct.2007
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Preview: AmigaSYS 3 Plus for AGA-Amigas and XBox
AmigaSYS is a preinstall Workbench for the Amiga-Emulator UAE with many additions. At the moment they work on the UAE port for classic Amigas and the XBox.
In both cases are several changes of the AmigaSYS enviroment are requiered, e.g. WinUAEX supports only 8 MB RAM and GFX-cards are not emulated. Several screenshots of both versions are available on the official webside. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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01.Oct.2007
moobunny.org (Webseite)
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AROS: new HD-Installer
The new HD installer is now included on the nightly ISO and is ready for testing. However, there's currently a bug in either Wanderer or FFS that needs to be worked around. After startng the installer, you need to quit Wanderer before continuing (unless you're not going to format any partitions).
Be even more careful than usual with this version of the installer, ie. don't expose a machine with unbacked-up valuable data to it. It should preserve all existing partitions if requested, but no one has tested this so far besides me. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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30.Sep.2007
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Photos from Classic Computing 2007 (Update 3)
At this weekend, "Classic Computing 2007" took place in Stuttgart-Degerloch (reported by amiga-news.de). Subsequently, you can find links to photos that were made available by visitors to the event:
Pictures by Stefan Robl
Photo archive by Mirko Naumann (89 MB)
Photos by Volker Mohr
Photos by Robert Wahnsiedler (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Sep.2007
PPA (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Switcher3D 2.9 beta
The AmigaOS 4 program Switcher3D by Tuomas Hokka displays all open windows scaled down in a 3D view at the click of a button, and switches between individual screens in animated form (screenshots).
The current version 2.9 was rewritten from the ground up, furthermore, a tooltype is added as an improvement, which facilitates creating screenshots during the screen switch animation.
Please bear in mind not to use the ScreenRotate commmodity together with this program, when the menu key is activated.
Download: switcher3d.lha (90 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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30.Sep.2007
PPA (Web page)
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Flayer 1.0 Beta 2
On September 18 already, Robert Williams has made available a second beta version of his ARexx script Flayer, in which YouTube support was restored and support for Google Video, which had also become useless, was removed. In addition, a warning is now displayed when no supported FLV player is found.
Flayer makes Flash videos usable for AmigaOS users, too. For this purpose, the script scans the displayed web page for the URL of the video and saves this to the hard disk, from which it can then be displayed using MPlayer. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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29.Sep.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.7 beta 15
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. Have a look at the latest changes here. WookieChat is available for all Amiga systems.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Sep.2007
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Amizilla: Booty for Mozilla-port split
According to an announcement at amiga.org the booty for the Amizilla-project was split.
Now it is not necessary any longer to publish the port for all four systems AmigaOS 3 and 4, MorphOS and AROS. Please read the complete announcement under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Sep.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Issue 50 and 59 online
Press release: The german issues 50 and 59 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that you can read the two magazines (amongst many other issues) online at the title link.
The issue 68 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Just now we work hard on issue 69. You can order the second english issue of Amiga Future in our online shop. (snx)
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26.Sep.2007
Mirko Naumann (ANF)
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MorphOS: Assign 50.8
With his "Unofficial MorphOS Updates" Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin provides a new version of the assign command. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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26.Sep.2007
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Wazp 3d: Reimplementation of Warp 3D
Wazp 3D is a reimplementation of the 3D driver system Warp 3D. Opposite to the original Wazp 3D does not need real 3D hardware to work but uses
the CPU only.
The product has initially been developed to test the 3D map of Tales of Tamar using WinUAE. Because the autor cannot proceed to develop the sytem due to lack of time
he released it now under the GPL. The current version implementents all funktions of Warp 3D version 4.2. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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26.Sep.2007
Murakami (ANF)
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Printmagazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 39
Issue #39 of the French printmagazine aMiGa=PoWeR covers the following topics:
- Preview: MorphOS v2.0
- Review: Amijeweled
- Review: Sputnik beta 3
- Review: ANotice v2.1
- Review: Another World 15th Anniversary
- Review: Blazing Wings
- Tutorial: OS4 screen management
- Tutorial: CD32 emulation under WinUAE
aMiGa=PoWeR is published by AFLE since 1998 and is distributed worldwide. (snx)
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