30.Nov.2006
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IRC-Klient: Wookiechat 2.4
James Carroll provides a new version of his MUI-based IRC client WookieChat for AmigaOS 3/4. The changes since the last release are available under the title link, among other things new items are the automatic connection at the program start-up as well as an ignore feature.
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29.Nov.2006
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PPC hardware: Jens Schönfeld examines Sam440 (Update)
In his English report Jens Schönfeld by Individual Computers summarizes his impressions of the Sam440
motherboard which he was able to examine at Minich's "Electronica" fair.
Update: (30.11.2006, 00:30, cg)
At the website of the
manufacturer there is a gallery with photos from that event acailable now. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Nov.2006
Thomas Steiding (email)
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Rune Soft: Robin Hood delivered / Airline Tycoon ready for landing
Press release All reseller orders for the MorphOS version of "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" were dend out yesterday.
A demoversion of Robin Hood can be found on the Products Page of our website.
"Airline Tycoon Deluxe" is one of the most popular business simulations the last couple of years. And finally it is approaching on a
MorphOS airport near you soon. The game is in the final stages of betatesting for MorphOS and fingers crossed will start shipping shortly before Xmas.
Robin Hood shipping/Airline Tycoon is approaching MorphOS All dealer orders for the MorphOS version of Robin Hood: The Legend of
Sherwood have been shipped out. A demoversion of Robin Hood can be found on the Products Page of our website.
"Airline Tycoon Deluxe" is one of the most popular business simulations the last couple of years. And finally it is
approaching on a MorphOS airport near you soon. The game is in the final stages of betatesting for MorphOS and fingers
crossed will start shipping shortly before Xmas. Description: Airline Tycoon Deluxe is a funny economy simulation proceeding in
realtime and assigning you the complete responsibility for an airline. However, don?t be fooled by the funny comic style or the
included jokes: A variety of tasks are requested and your competitors never miss a chance to set a trap for you in order to put a
spoke in your wheel. Your abilities are put to the test continuously playing Airline Tycoon Deluxe: Will you be able to use your
aeroplanes to capacity and land some profitable charter flights? Can you establish routes for lucrative scheduled flights? Aeroplanes
cost millions; will you be capable of increasing the share price and obtaining enough funds by the issuing of securities? Can you stand up
for the construction of new aeroplanes in your role as an engineer? Are you able to avoid your competitors? deceitful attacks? Accept this
unusual challenge and win virtual laurels with Airline Tycoon. The deluxe version contains 20 new airports as well as new opportunities. It
is as interesting for professional tycoons as for beginners. Features: - Funny economy simulation in comic style - Complete freedom
of action and freedom to move within the airport facilities and more than 30 places to be visited - Control of all parts of management:
purchase of aeroplanes and their fittings, financing as well as stock market listing, planning of routes and filling order books,
personnel, marketing and maintenance as well as many other details - Easily operated construction of own aeroplanes and the
opportunity to exchange these on the Internet - Use additional security precautions against competitors? attacks or sabotage
competitors yourself Systemrequirements: MorphOS: MorphOS 1.4 or higher; G3/4 (Efika pending tests) , 128 MB RAM; 16 MB Graphics card
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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29.Nov.2006
dietmar (ANF)
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The C Book: Amended version now part of Cubic IDE
Press release An amended version of the freely available "The C Book" (amiga-news.de reported), originally published by Addison Wesley, is now available as e-book for Amiga developers. This revision is released as part of Cubic IDE and puts a rich source of information at programmers' fingertips. The book covers C90 and C99 on about 100 pages.
The book is integrated into Cubic, bookmarks below source codes provide direct access to chapters and topics: Screenshot.
This book and the Cubic IDE development environment are a great way for you to learn C: You can browse through chapters and try out contained example code directly in Cubic. The small examples in the book can be compiled with the free version of Cubic. The order of topics in this book is similar to the order that is taught in a typical C course.
"The C Book" is contained in the C/C++ package. You should have the latest free or commercial version of Cubic installed before you download this: Download.
The Learning Edition: To promote this release, the Learning Edition of Cubic (which is a package compiled specifically to learn C) is available at a reduced price of 35 EUR, instead of 50 EUR. It contains The C Book, too. This offer is open for two days only, while supply lasts: Special Promotion. (snx)
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29.Nov.2006
MaaG^dA (ANF)
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AutoDocReader 1.4 now also for AROS
Marian Guc has released AutoDocReader 1.4 for AmigaOS 3.x, MorphOS and now also AROS. Changes:
- New history navigation window
- New CLI option (now you can open request function in selected files)
- Simple scanner for AmigaGuide files
- New translation (Russian)
- Bugfixes
Big thanks go to the #aros people who helped the author to build the AROS version. (snx)
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26.Nov.2006
HelmutH (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: MP3 encoder LAME 3.97
The current version 3.97 of the MP3 encoder LAME was compiled for AmigaOS 4 by Stephan Rupprecht.
Download: lame.lha (302 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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25.Nov.2006
Amiga.org (website)
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Games: Astral and Skaut Kwatermaster free download
With permission of the authors and the distributor were the Amiga games Astral and Skaut Kwatermaster released for free download under the title link on PPA.
It is asked to keep the conditions for downloading and spreading of Astral. Polish reviews with screenshots: Astral, Skaut Kwatermaster
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Nov.2006
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Self-made project: Photos of an A500 extended to an A2000
Already two years ago Daniele Gratteri extended his Amiga 500 with a 68040 turbo card which was originally meant for an Amiga 2000 as well as with Zorro II-slots.
According to him this project was successful. You can find photos as well as English explanations on the homepage of Daniele Gratteri. As soon as he has more time he wants to use a video-slot, too.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Nov.2006
dietmar (ANF)
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Development environment: SimpleCat plugin for Cubic IDE
SimpleCat is a program for maintaining catalogs (tanslations). It offers more features than the cat program of the AmigaOS and MorphOS SDK: Powerful import and export functions, validity checks and a graphical user interface make the life of developers easier and the program first choice for translators.
The add-on for Cubic (Screenshot) integrates SimpleCat into the interface of the development environment, with syntax highlighting for translations and clickable log files. SimpleCat was developed by Guido Mersman and the latest version is included with kind permission of the author.
Direct Download: envLOC10.lha (360 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Nov.2006
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Event: Finnish Amiga Users Group's Christmas Meeting
Finnish Amiga Users Group hold their Christmas meeting in Oulu, Finland on Saturday, November 25th. Admittance is free of charge and refreshments will be available.
Besides game competititions, demos as well as AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS will be shown. Computers on display include several Amigas, AmigaOne, Pegasos I and Pegasos II. (snx)
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24.Nov.2006
AmiZilla-ML
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JavaScript-Interpreter: SpiderMonkey ported
Tim Johnson has published a still limited port of SpiderMonkey which is the JavaScript-interpreter of Mozilla. The program is started from the command line and requires an AmigaOS 2.04 as well as a 68020-processor with FPU.
Download: SpiderMonkey-js-bin.lha (220 KB, Readme-file).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Nov.2006
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osnews.com: "A very critical view on operating system clones"
In an article at osnews.com Michael Reed takes a look at problems related to projects, which he calls "OS re-creation projects" ("operating system clones") and keeps a close eye on e. g. AROS, MorphOS as well as two OS/2-clones. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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23.Nov.2006
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS-Team: Next Version will support Efika
As the MorphOS team has announced under the title link at the MorphZone as well as Genesi in a press release, the next to be released version of MorphOS will support the Efika board of bplan.
Moreover an extended version of the MorphOS report overview ("MorphOS: The Lightning OS") from Fulvio Peruggi et al. was published. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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23.Nov.2006
ace77 (ANF)
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Programming: "The C Book" as free Online Version
A free online version of the "The C Book", originally published from Addison-Wesley in 1991, from Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran is available under the title link. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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23.Nov.2006
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Programmieren: German Translation of the "Porting Guides for Newbies"
Michael Asse has translated the "Porting-Guide für Dummies 1.1" (Porting Guide for Newbies) (amiga-news.de reported) into German, that persons without skills in the German language would be able to make ports for small tools.
The author appreciates the indication of small bugs in the translation or a similar feedback. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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22.Nov.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: More full versions online
Press release: A good dozen of software full versions have been added to the software area of the Amiga Future homepage.
At the internal member area additinally the CD32 full version of Beneath a Steel Sky is provided. The internal member area is restricted to Amiga Future subscribers only. If you are a subscriber but have no access yet, please conatct the editors by email with your full real name and a user name to get access.
Enjoy the software.
We are seeking users who like to do a bit of administration of our download area . We are heading for a a full description in German and English for all provided files.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.Nov.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workbench-Tool: WEBGround 1.1
WEBGround automatically updates the background picture of the Workbench, e.g. by downloading pictures of a webcam over the Internet. Version 1.1 now contains a graphical user-interface for changing the preferences.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PPC-Hardware: Interviews with the developers of Sam440 and Panda
The author of the UAE-distribution AmiKit has published two interviews on his website. The Italian Amiga-distributor Massimiliano Tretene answered questions to Sam440, while Andreas Loong from gurumeditation.se told about his Panda-project.
Both interviews happened at the Italian "Pianeta Amiga" at the end of September.
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21.Nov.2006
Franz (ANF)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.2.4
AmiKit which a complete distribution for WinUAE-users has been updated to version 1.2.4. The update must be installed with the integrated Live Update-function of the software. Changes in this version:
- ADDED: QuickSketch 1.03 by Daniel Westerberg (AmiKit:Utilities/QuickSketch/)
- ADDED: IsoMount 1.24 by megacz2k6 (AmiKit:C/)
- ADDED: DOpus5 FileTypes for mounting ADF, CD ISO, Atari and MS-DOS floppy images. Use right-mouse to mount the images.
- UPDATED: CDDA-FileSystem 1.1
- UPDATED: DataTypes and Libraries from Scalos 41.4 distribution
- UPDATED: FlashPlayer 1.3
- UPDATED: LimpidClock 1.17
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.19
- UPDATED: MUIbase 2.1
- UPDATED: PlayOGG 5.9b
- UPDATED: SmartFileSystem 1.265
- UPDATED: WHDLoad 16.7
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Nov.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.11.2006
These are the newest Aminet uploads which have benn added since our last message:
CTorrent-mos.lha comm/tcp 139K MOS Small, Effiecient BitTorrent Client
A71Mail.lha comm/www 20K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
pucrunch.lha dev/cross 119K OS4 A cruncher for C64 executeables
libogg.lha dev/lib 115K OS4 libogg
libsap.lha dev/lib 161K OS4 use this to play Atari SAP music
SFSdefrag_1.3.lha disk/misc 17K VAR SFSDefragment cli tool
ri-li-2.0.0-morphos.lha game/actio 20M MOS A snake game
SPRINT-DOCS-DISKS.lha game/hint 62K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks - Index guides
SPRINT01.lha game/hint 471K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT02.lha game/hint 478K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT03.lha game/hint 501K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT04.lha game/hint 402K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT05.lha game/hint 416K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT06.lha game/hint 543K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT07.lha game/hint 479K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT08.lha game/hint 279K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT09.lha game/hint 422K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT10.lha game/hint 449K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT11.lha game/hint 461K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT12.lha game/hint 251K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT13.lha game/hint 459K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT14.lha game/hint 321K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT15.lha game/hint 401K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT16.lha game/hint 180K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT17.lha game/hint 293K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
SPRINT18.lha game/hint 212K GEN SPRINT Docs Disks in amigaguide format
CrapGamesVol1.lha game/misc 4.7M OS4 Crap Games (UFO, Paratim, Tux Learn note
CrapGamesVol2.lha game/misc 2.0M OS4 Crap Games (Minas, Space Rider, 2 Minute
quake-aros-i386.zip game/shoot 8.4M ARO first person shooter
wesnoth.lha game/strat 77M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth OS4 port
FlagSim1.lha gfx/3d 226K MOS Texture Mapping and Backface Culling
jhead-mos.lha gfx/conv 102K MOS Manipulate non-image parts of Exif JPEGs
dosbox_aros-i386.lha misc/emu 576K ARO DOS emulator
e-uae_0.8.28_aros-i386.lha misc/emu 1.9M ARO x86 AROS e-uae
PSID64.lha misc/emu 689K OS4 Make a C64 exe from a PSID file
vice-i686-aros-1.20.lha misc/emu 4.4M ARO Emulator of c64,c128,PET, plus4 and Vic2
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 515K OS3 GUI for various MP3 encoders
playOGG.lha mus/play 1.2M OS3 multi format sound player.
VorbisPlayer.lha mus/play 259K OS3 commandline ogg vorbis player (68060,+sr
CygnusEd_5_SP.lha text/edit 20K GEN Spanish catalogs for CygnusEd Pro 5.3
AssignPrefs_OS4.lha util/boot 57K OS4 AssignPrefs - Simplifies assigning.
AssignToy.lha util/misc 17K GEN Logical Device Manager
MyGenesisReport.lha util/misc 32K OS3 Genesis Report Replacement
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20.Nov.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 19.11.2006
These are the uploads at os4depot.net which have benn added since our last message:
pcx_dt.lha dat/ima 19kb PCX picture datatype
targa_dt.lha dat/ima 18kb Targa (.tga) picture datatype
atw_mdiv2-os4.lha dem/sce 2Mb MegademoIV 2 by Artwork
pucrunch.lha dev/cro 119kb A cruncher for C64 executeables
sdlpngsavesurf.lha dev/exa 343kb An example on how to save a SDL surface
ablit.lha dev/lib 2Mb Alpha Channel Blit Library
libogg.lha dev/lib 114kb libOGG
libpng.lha dev/lib 621kb libPNG
libsap.lha dev/lib 160kb libSAP 1.51 use this to play Atari SAP m
libsps.lha dev/lib 1Mb C++ Multithreading Library
libvorbis.lha dev/lib 775kb libVORBIS
texinfo-bin.lha dev/mis 506kb GNU documentation system
texinfo-src.lha dev/mis 2Mb GNU documentation system (sources)
make-bin.lha dev/uti 356kb GNU make including parallel compile
sb128ahi.lha dri/aud 15kb OS4 SB128 AHI Driver
winterjumper.lha gam/pla 194kb A Giana Sisters remake
atris.lha gam/puz 1Mb Tetris clone
sdlame.lha gam/puz 5Mb SDLame a small puzzle game
globulation2.lha gam/str 10Mb Globulation 2 - Free software RTS game w
wesnoth.lha gam/str 77Mb Battle for Wesnoth
codesets.lha lib/mis 413kb Library for handling codesets and charac
docket.lha uti/mis 53kb Powerful cron-like scheduling commodity
psid64.lha uti/mis 688kb Make a C64 exe from a PSID file
smv.zip uti/mis 57kb A new multiview program
vim-bin.lha uti/tex 6Mb Vim, the editor
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