16.Aug.2006
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IRC client: Wookiechat 2.3.1
The latest version of James Carrolls' MUI based IRC client Wookiechat has been bugfixed , also the archive includes several translations now.
- Now translated to Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, German and French!
- I've attempted to fix the instability when using DCC SEND under OS3/MOS.. please report back to me if anyones still having problems
- RESUME support added for outgoing DCC SEND (Incoming RESUME has worked for quite some time, but now it works both ways)
- There used to be startup text if wookie couldnt load a catalog for your default language. I've since changed this so you only see this text if you run wookie with the "debug" option from shell.
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16.Aug.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Instant messenger Epistula
The latest version of the instant messengers Epistulacomes with several minor extensions and improvements. There is a plugin for the messaging services AIM/ICQ by AOL available now.
The changes in detail:
- Documentation is provided in PDF form.
- All imagery within Epistula is now user configurable. I've used PNG images as IFF won't display correctly on my machine. Note a word of warning though; don't try and use a PNG image with more than 256 colours as it will crash. I need to adapt my code to work with high colour images first.
- You can now add and remove contacts to and from your contact list, although this will also depend on that functionality being implemented fully in the plugin.
- Contacts can be moved (dragged and dropped) to and from any groups you have with your contact list. Note that I've found a nasty bug in the add group functionality, so it's disabled for now. A fix will be released VERY soon.
- Full logging is provided should you need it. If I'm missing anything which you'd like implemented and added to the logs, drop me a line and I'll see it's added for the next update.
- Docky icon implemented, although it doesn't do anything yet and looks err, dark. Best leave it off until I'm finished with it.
- Updated catalogs and missing translations from last version fixed. If you spot anything which isn't translated let me know so I can fix it. Note that you should remove any old epistula.catalogs.
- Nicely re-written plugin removal code which uses new features of dos.library to stop those awful crashes and 'Cannot quit plugin' messages.
- Your installed MUI Classes are checked to make sure they're the correct version or above.
The ICQ-/AIM plugin is called "TOC" and has been tested with the official client of these services. The program has surpassed all tests already, but since this is the first release the author guesses there might be some glitches still.. File transmission as well as sorting the "Buddy list" is not yet implemented. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Aug.2006
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Hardware-Hack: Shutting down Pegasos with software
Carsten Siegner has developed a hardware-hack which makes it possible shutting down the Pegasos with
software. With the current version of MorphOS this is not possible because the Firmware is completely
hidden.
Siegners hack consists of a little wiring which will be connected to the floppy-port of the Pegasos and then can shut down the ATX-power pack of the Pegasos. It is released by little tool developed by Guido Meersmann which controls the connection with the help of the trackdisk.device.
Installation:
The tool "MotorTool_MOSPPC" must be renamed to "Shutdown" and then copied to MOSSYS:C. After building and connecting the hardware now you can shut down the computer with entering "Shutdown" in a Shell-window.
Some versions of Ambient contain the menu point "shut down" - because this also calls up MOSSYS:C/Shutdown the command should shut down the computer as well.
The author points out that he gives no liability if there should be any harm to the hardware which are caused by copying this wiring. You also should have a closer look at the Readme in the programm archive "Motortool.lha".
Construction guidance: Pegasos-Hardwarehack.pdf
Motor tool: MotorTool.lha
trackdisk.device: Downloadseite
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2006
(ANF)
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Status-Update of KHTML-port
Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski has completed the FAQ to his KHTML-port with further aspects: The publication
of a first beta version is planned for September or October.
A few source codes of some parts of the project will be not released.
But the complete souce code will be given to morphzone.org in order to have the guarantee that the project will be developed further if the author should lose the interest.
The MorphOS-version will be supplied for free. Currently versions for other operating systems (AmigaOS, AROS) are not developed.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2006
Moobunny (Webseite)
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PC World-Magazin voted the top 25 of greatest PCs of all time
With reason of the 25th jubilee of the IBM-PC the US-PC World Magazin
voted a list of the top 25 of the greatest pc all the time.
They rated the nominated gadgets for innovation, impact, industrial design,
and intangibles ("Did it become part of the cultural zeitgeist?").
On the first place is the Apple II, followed by the Compaq
Deskpro 386 and the Xerox 8010 Information System, but on the
7th place is Commodore represented with the
Amiga 1000. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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14.Aug.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: PSP-UAE 0.53
PSP-UAE is a port of the known Amiga-Emulators UAE for Sonys
Handheld-game PSP. Changes since the last release:
- Drive Speed option added (This helps alot with long loading games, it
wont help with all)
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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14.Aug.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AMIGA-Magazin: Further articles available online (German only)
On the web site of the german print magazine AMIGA-Magazin are more article as reading rehearsals available (German only):
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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14.Aug.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.08.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 10K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
wookiechat.lha comm/irc 681K VAR IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
conv_ara_html-mos.lha comm/www 12K MOS HTML arabic character entities converter
firefox_searchplugin.zip comm/www 4K GEN Aminet search plugin for Mozilla Firefox
SpamReport.lha comm/yam 5K GEN Prepare spam reports to SpamCop
libao-morphos.lha dev/c 715K MOS Cross-platform audio library
make-bin.lha dev/c 355K OS4 GNU make including parallel compile
ccache-bin.lha dev/gcc 85K OS4 Advanced compiler cache
distcc-bin.lha dev/gcc 403K OS4 distcc distributed C/C++ compiler
dupfinder.lha disk/misc 10K OS4 Finds even more duplicate files on your
Africa.lha game/board 201K OS3 Conversion of 3W boardgame
atakks.lha game/board 856K OS4 Othello-like clone
Saga.lha game/board 350K OS3 Conversion of TSR boardgame
Q2CE.lha game/edit 76K OS3 Questron 2 Character Editor
bitefusion.lha game/misc 279K OS4 Bitefusion - Yet another snake clone
deadlycobra.lha game/misc 5.9M OS4 Snake with a twist.
fm.lha game/misc 866K OS4 Old Skool Football Manager
pacman.lha game/misc 98K OS3 Pacman version 0.9B
pengupop.lha game/misc 1.1M OS4 PenguPop - A puzzle bobble clone
amisudoku.lha game/think 211K OS4 Sodoku game and solver
eremit.lha game/think 1.2M OS4 Ball Puzzle
naster.lha game/think 999K OS4 Nats Mastermind clone
pipepanic.lha game/think 1.0M OS4 Pipe puzzle game.
sdlmemory.lha game/think 2.7M OS4 Pairs game
BMP2SPEC_AOS4.lha gfx/conv 43K OS4 Windows BMP -> Spectrum TAP/Screen$
ffmpeg_os4.lha gfx/conv 10M OS4 FFmpeg - Multimedia System
JP2A_AOS4.lha gfx/conv 582K OS4 Converts JPEG images to Ascii Art
ST2IFF_AOS4.lha gfx/conv 55K OS4 Atari ST NEOchrome/DEGAS -> IFF ILBM.
mencoder.lha gfx/edit 4.2M OS4 MEncoder for OS4
amp2-mos_src.lha gfx/show 530K GEN AmiDog's Movie Player 2 (MorphOS sources
WarpView.lha gfx/show 46K OS4 A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
afid_aos4.lha misc/emu 48K OS4 Apple ][ DOS 3.3 disk image utility
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 180K OS3 Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator
c64bin2p00_aos4.lha misc/emu 27K OS4 Convert C64 name to emulator's xxx.P00
DCMtoATR_AOS4.lha misc/emu 28K OS4 Atari: Conv DCM files to ATR files
kegs.lha misc/emu 700K OS4 Apple IIgs emulator.
MakeLNX_AOS4.lha misc/emu 28K OS4 .LYX to Atari Lynx .LNX file conversion
ShowLNX_AOS4.lha misc/emu 60K OS4 Show info about Atari Lynx cart images
sna2tiff_aos4.lha misc/emu 75K OS4 Dumps ZX Spectrum Snapshots to TIFF Pic
vice-1.19-20060616.tgz misc/emu 4.8M GEN Vice 1.19 sources (20060616)
VICE-AmigaOS3-1.19.tgz misc/emu 3.3M OS3 Vice 1.19 (2006-06-16) - AmigaOS3
VICE-AmigaOS4-1.19.tgz misc/emu 5.8M OS4 Vice 1.19 (2006-06-16) - AmigaOS4
VICE-AROS-1.19.tgz misc/emu 4.2M ARO Vice 1.19 (2006-06-16) - AROS x86
VICE-MorphOS-1.19.tgz misc/emu 4.5M MOS Vice 1.19 (2006-06-16) - MorphOS
VICE-powerpc-AROS-1.19.tgz misc/emu 5.2M Vice 1.19 (2006-06-16) - AROS ppc
zip2d64_aos4.lha misc/emu 24K OS4 Extract C64 Zipcode disks to .D64 image
poet_aos4.lha misc/misc 40K OS4 Generates random poetry
pwcrack_aos4.lha misc/misc 25K OS4 decrypts PassWorm-encrypted passwords.
UP-BEATS.lha mods/techn 215K GEN UP ROUGH "Beats in Springtime" by Qwan.
UP-CYDIK.lha mods/techn 695K GEN UP ROUGH "Check Your Dick" by Spot
UP-VAFLS.lha mods/techn 18K GEN UP ROUGH "Vaffals!" by Goto80
rockbeat.lha mus/edit 1.7M OS4 Create drumming tracks, export them as W
playOGG.lha mus/play 1.0M OS3 multi format sound player.
amipal-music-icons.lha pix/gicon 2.8M GEN amipals music icons
Aminet-Readme-Creator.lha text/misc 38K OS3 Generates Aminet upload .readme file
MultiCV_AOS4.lha text/misc 50K OS4 Convert ASCII from/to Amiga, DOS & MAC
timer.lha util/cli 26K OS4 Time how long it takes to execute a comm
DM_con_LL.lha util/dir 9K GEN DiskMaster config and associated scripts
sdiREKOPrefs.lha util/dtype 15K GEN Preferences GUI for sdiREKO DataTypes
aiss.lha util/misc 2.2M GEN AISS - Amiga Image Storage System
lcdtest.lha util/misc 809K OS4 LCD monitor test pattern generator
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 318K OS3 Multipurpose utility
adepack.lha util/pack 213K OS4 Depacks packed Amiga files.
deemon.lha util/rexx 12K GEN deemon -daemonizing Scout
themesaver.lha util/wb 891K OS4 Save and recall your Workbench themes
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14.Aug.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 13.08.2006
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
rockbeat.lha aud/tra 1Mb Create drumming tracks and export them a
wolfenstein.lha gam/fps 3Mb Wolfenstein 3D & Spear of Destiny
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 10Mb FFmpeg - Multimedia System
mencoder.lha vid/edi 4Mb MEncoder for OS4
eremit.lha gam/puz 1Mb Ball Puzzle
naster.lha gam/puz 1Mb Nats Mastermind clone
fm.lha gam/spo 866kb Old Skool Football Manager
bmp2spec.lha gra/con 43kb Windows BMP -> Spectrum TAP/Screen$
st2iff.lha gra/con 55kb Converts Atari ST NEOchrome/DEGAS -> IFF
pengupopicon.lha gra/ico 2kb Icon for PenguPop
aiss.lha uti/mis 2Mb AISS - Amiga Image Storage System
poet.lha uti/mis 39kb Generates random poetry
pwcrack.lha uti/mis 25kb Pwcrack; decrypts PassWorm-encrypted pas
wookiechat.lha net/cha 681kb IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
x11-sdk.tgz dev/mis 21Mb X11-R6.3 prerelease 2 SDK for AmigaOS 4
make-bin.lha dev/uti 355kb GNU make including parallel compile
sdlmemory.lha gam/car 2Mb Pairs game
deadlycobra.lha gam/mis 5Mb Snake with a twist.
pipepanic.lha gam/puz 1Mb Pipe puzzle game.
jp2a.lha gra/con 582kb Converts JPEG images to Ascii Art
vice-src.tgz emu/com 4Mb VICE - Versatile Commodore Emulator sour
vice.tgz emu/com 5Mb VICE - Versatile Commodore Emulator
afid.lha emu/uti 48kb Apple ][ DOS 3.3 disk image utility V1.1
c64bin2p00.lha emu/uti 26kb Convert C64 name to popular emulators xx
dcmtoatr.lha emu/uti 28kb Conv DCM files to ATR files to use with
makelnx.lha emu/uti 27kb .LYX to Atari Lynx .LNX file conversion
showlnx.lha emu/uti 60kb Displays info about the Atari Lynx cart
sna2tiff.lha emu/uti 74kb Sna2Tiff - Dumps ZX Spectrum Snapshots t
zip2d64.lha emu/uti 23kb ZipCode 2 D64 - Extract Zipcode disks to
amipal-music-icons.lha gra/ico 2Mb amipals music icons
warpview.lha gra/vie 46kb A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
x11-addon.tgz net/mis 23Mb X11-R6.3 prerelease 2 AddOn for AmigaOS
x11.tgz net/mis 47Mb X11-R6.3 prerelease 2 for AmigaOS 4 (Cyg
adepack.lha uti/fil 212kb Depacks packed Amiga files.
multicv.lha uti/tex 50kb Convert ASCII from/to Amiga, DOS & MAC
themesaver.lha uti/wor 891kb Save and recall your Workbench themes ea
distcc-bin.lha dev/lan 403kb distcc distributed C/C++ compiler
ccache-bin.lha dev/uti 84kb Advanced compiler cache
kegs.lha emu/com 699kb Apple IIgs emulator.
atakks.lha gam/boa 855kb Othello-like clone
dupfinder.lha uti/fil 9kb Finds even more duplicate files on your
lcdtest.lha uti/har 809kb LCD monitor test pattern generator
fsl.lha uti/she 1kb Lists files with sizes in a easily reada
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14.Aug.2006
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 13.08.2006
Uploads on aros-archives since our last report:
screentest.i386.zip dem/mis 4kb Tests the stability of your screen
flexcat_win32.zip dev/uti 66kb Flexcat - utility to create catalog file
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13.Aug.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Drum computer Rockbeat 2.0.1, video converter FFmpeg
Rockbeat 2.0.1
In the newest version of James Carroll's software drum computer Rockbeat, two minor errors were corrected.
Link: Download page
FFmpeg
Andrea Palmatè has ported the console-based video/audio converter FFmpeg to AmigaOS 4. For owners of a G4 CPU, an Altivec-optimized version is available.
Link: Download page (cg) (Translation: cad)
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12.Aug.2006
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.4.8
OpenTTD is an Open Source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe". Version 0.4.8 is the last in the 0.4.* series and fixes several bugs of the previous releases.
The archives for several platforms are available via BitTorrent, too, the download via this P2P net work is normally faster than downloading from the download sites at sourceforge.net.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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12.Aug.2006
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: updated information about the Amiga-Meeting Nord
From October, 13. to October, 15. does in Bad Bramstedt the Amiga-Meeting Nord take place again. As Sven Scheele announced, already 28 participiants have registered which is a new register record for this point in time. The number of participiants is limited to 40 computers places.
Among the participiants are two developers right now. So will Guido Mersmann show the current development state of his TV cards software Valiant Vision.
The AmithlonTV successor will for example receive support for DVB-T/S/C cards.
Sven Dröge will for the first time introduce his new HBCI capable banking software proBanking to the public. The software is still in development. Sven Dröge is the author of the stock exchange software proBonds.
If there's enough interest there will be a small workshop to demonstrate the possibilities of the programming language AmiBlitz2.
With Axel Knabe there'll be a reseller at the meeting, too. There you can among other things have a look at see the current development state of the CD/DVD burner software BurnIt. The release of the program is further delayed but in the meantime it passes through a special beta test.
The organizers want to call once again all developers to use the meeting to show their projects respectively their products to the potential users. For this there's still the offer of a participation at half the normal price.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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12.Aug.2006
Cloanto (ANF)
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Events: Podcast of the Codex Alpe Adria 2006 online
The seminars by Dennis van Weeren (Minimig), Bernd Schmidt (UAE) and Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) are now online on the Amiga Forever website.
All speeches include MP3 audio files and an RSS podcast file. Dennis van Weeren's presentation is also available in a video version (WM9 and iPod-compatible MPEG-4) which includes his slides and additional photographs. (snx)
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11.Aug.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Update to the Amiga Summer Party 2006 (Sweden)
The AmiGBG-Team announces two new highlights: The scene oldies Compusphere presents Goto80 and professor Göran Wendin will speak about Quanten computer.
The scene party will take place from 25th to 27th August in Jörlandagården in Göteborg.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Aug.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOne: Linux-Kernel 2.6.16.27
Under the title link there is a new Linux-Kernel for AmigaOne-boards. But version 2.6.16.27 does not
offer floppy drive support and could be the last 2.6.x-Kernel which supports the AmigaOne until
the platform specifc source code of the ppc-architecture will be ported to the new powerpc-architecture.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Aug.2006
Martin 'Mason' Merz (ANF)
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AISS - Amiga Image Storage System Version 3
Martin "Mason" Merz has published the third version of "Amiga Image Storing System" (AISS) which is a management
system for toolbar pictures under AmigaOS.
Features of AISS 3:
- more than 400 image sets (over 1200 images).
- 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit Alpha Channel
- Extended documentation in HTML-Format
- Printable preview of the images in PDF-format
For using AISS 3 the installation of PowerIcons is recommended. If you do not want to have the PNG-icons you can find an
(untested) installation script in the "Glowicons"-directory.
For future versions is planned:
- Developer documentation
- Backup/Restore system
- Version String
You can get further information about AISS on the Masonicons-homepage or via the Masonicons-newsletter. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Aug.2006
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Website: amigaone.de moved
Because of the insolvency of an used webspace-provider currently the AmigaOS 4-portal amigaone.de cannot be accessed under the original address.
From now on the site can be found under os4welt.de. Unfortunately all entries since february were lost.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Aug.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Status-update of the FreePascal-port
Karoly "Chain-Q" Balogh wrote under the title link that he finished the port of the Pascal compiler FreePascal and Pascal programsnac now be easily compiled
under AmigaOS (screenshot). The source codes are available on freepascal.org and the final archive will be published on weekend.
Up to now there is only the compiler. The adaption of the Amiga-Library-Header (*.h) to FreePascal is still
missing. For this process the author is looking for support.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Aug.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: IRC-client Wookiechat 2.3
James Caroll published a new version of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. The update fixes some
bugs. Besides this WookieChat is now localized - Polish and Norwegian catalogs are available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2006
Cloanto (ANF)
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Informal gathering: Amiga meeting in London
Michael (from Amiga Forever/Codex Alpe Adria) and his London friends are organizing an informal get-together on Friday, August 18.
Where: Cheers bar at 72 Regent Street (Piccadilly Circus).
When: Friday, August 18, at 19:00.
The plan is to meet at Cheers and then go and eat something together at around 20:00.
If you plan to attend please reply to this post at 0xAA.org, or let your event contact know, to make sure that we can make at least some rough plans. The organisers can also give you their phone numbers via private mail.
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