19.Nov.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Status-Update November 2007
The AROS-Team shows on his Webpage a overview about the changes of the opensource AmigaOS-clon "AROS Research Operating System" (AROS):
AROS has gained lots of bugfixes and improvements in the lastest weeks. For istance, Neil Cafferkey has corrected some important bugs is his beloved AROS Installer; Nic Andrews has worked on his RTL8139 network driver; and Robert Norris has fixed file notifications, which previously broke preferences, just to name three.
Robert Norris has added a SDL driver for linux hosted AROS. This lets you build a hosted AROS that doesn't require X (you don't even need it installed to build anymore). In theory this could help with getting hosted running on other platforms (anywhere SDL exists), however it's a little slower than the X driver.
Matthias Rustler has ported ptplay.library to AROS. It renders Protracker modules into sound samples. Additionally he also ported ShellPlayer, a simple example player. They will be in nightly builds, in Extras/MultiMedia/Audio drawer.
Matthias Rustler also made an initial port of Alain Thellier's Wazp3D to AROS. Wazp3D is a library intended to be compatible with the famous Warp3D.library for AmigaOS 68040, and it makes easier to port some 3D Amiga games to AROS. Wazp3D can also work as a software renderer, fooling applications looking for a 3D hardware driver.
Michal Schulz has made some big steps further with his x86-64 port of AROS. The day of 64 bit AROS computing is getting near. In the meanwhile, Michal added also SSE instructions support to AROS. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Nov.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Lorraine Design: PNG-Iconset "Kuko Icons"
Lorraine Design provides a new PNG-Iconset named "Kuko Icons" (Screenshot), which was composed from Marcin Kornas. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Nov.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Magazin: Preview & reading rehearsal of Issue 8 and 9/2007
On the Webpage of the german print magazin AMIGA-Magazin are reading rehearsal of the Issues 8/2007 and 9/2007 available. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Nov.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: HTMLView.mcc now MUI 4-compatible (Update)
Alfonso Ranieri released a Update of HTMLView.mcc, a MUI-class to show HTML-Documentes. HTMLView.mcc 13.0 works now under MUI 4.
Update: (19.11.2007, 18:20, cg)
Jens "damato" Langner, Main developer of the under GPL licensed developed MUI-class, notify inside of the bulletinboard, that this is a inofficial release, which was incompatible with the next official release. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Nov.2007
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Realtime-Strategical Warzone 2100 v2.0.8 RC1
Fabien Coeurjoly released a new Version of his MorphOS-Port for the realtime Strategicals Warzone 2100. The game play of this formerly commercial Title, whose Sourcen was released, reminds on Earth 2150.
The Archiv includes the complet playlable Version, only the moves of the commercial Fullversion are not included.
Direct Download: warzone2100-2.0.8_rc1.lha (20 MB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Nov.2007
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.6.0 (Beta 1)
OpenTTD is a Open-Source-clon of the known PC-strategy-game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the ninties with several Add-ons - like a networkind mode, individuel Gfx-sets and translation into more then two dozen languages.
Version 0.6.0 implement several new features, like new buildings and Industries, the possibility to build briges also across diagonal tracks or a better User Interface. The complet list with all changes is available here as Changelog
Note:
Christian Rosentreter has done a small mistake during compiling the MorphOS-Archivs, it is a requirement to download the following OpenTTD-Binaries and to replace they agains the inside of the archive included binaries:
openttd.bz2 (1,3 MB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Nov.2007
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Webpage: Amiga-fleamarkte AmiBench closed
On AmiBench.org was it possible for the Amiga-users to advertises hard and software to sell it inside of the Amiga community. The owner of this page close his offer after 10 years, because he needs this free time to used it on other projects.
Wilson thanks to all AmiBench-users for the support of the last 10 years. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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18.Nov.2007
http://amition.de (ANF)
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amition.de: Three more CD³² ISO images
At amition.de, there are ISO images of three more games that are usable on a CD³²: The shooters "Argus" and "Witness" as well as the jump'n run "Charly the Merc". (cg) (Translation: cad)
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18.Nov.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: MUIbase 2.2.10
Ilkka Lehtoranta has compiled the relational database MUIbase in version 2.2.10 for MorphOS. Please note that this concerns a beta version here. The regular version 2.3 of the database should be released soon, according to the developer, Steffen Gutmann.
Download: muibase.lha (328 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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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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