09.Sep.2006
RhoSigma, Roland Heyder (ANF)
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extra.library and MakeHTMLMap updates released
Roland Heyder's MakeHTMLMap was released in version 4.750. The shareware supports web designers in creating galleries and web shops (online documentation). The latest version offers now adjustable options for layout (colours/background) and fixes a bug in the image recognition. Direct download (1500 KB, lha)
Furtheron was the system enhancement extra.library updated to version 4.649. The changes contain mainly bugfixes and smaller optimizations. The extra.library offers a complex dynamic buffer system for an easy file handling in memory, assisting functions for checksum creation in standard Amiga file systems and some plastical surgery, e.g. a colourful "DisplayAlert()" routine. Direkt-Download (322 KB, lha)
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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08.Sep.2006
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Demo scene: Versus 4 published
Finally Issue 4 of Versus was published. The English chart magazine for the demo scene was created by Nukleus and Void. The music was made vby Esau/Traktor and Maze/Moods Plateau and the graphics by Raven/Nuance and Browallia/Nukleus. Versus 4 is available for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.0 and can be downloaded from the Void-Subwebsite for free.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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08.Sep.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: 20 new full versions online
20 new full versions have been added to the software section of the Amiga Future homepage. Amiga Future still keeps looking for further full versions for the website or the Amiga Future reader CD.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Sep.2006
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PPC-Hardware: "Samantha" with PPC440 and ATI-onboard graphic?
In a thread at amigaworld.net a photo was posted that shows a small part of the PPC motherboard nicknamed "Samantha" that will be introduced at the Italian show Pianeta Amiga (September 23 and 24, Empoli).
The picture shows a part of the PCB that seems to be prepared to host two somewhat bigger chips. The pinout of the right area indicates that a PPC440 CPU might be placed at this position. The PPC440 is a SoC (System on a Chip) CPU available with up to 667 Mhz.
As of yet, it's not known which chip will be put on the mounting area shown on the left part of the picture. Since the CPU used doesn't need a traditionell northbridge, an on-board graphics chip could be placed there. Interesting in this context: On an Italian forum, Massimiliano "m3X" Tretene of Soft3, one of the initiators of the project, identifies himself as an "ATI OEM partner". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Sep.2006
ANN
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Amigan Software with new URL
The website of Amigan Software which is the developer of games like Worm Wars and Saga and of the tools Report+ and AmiArcadia moved to members.optusnet.com.au/jrjacobs76/.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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08.Sep.2006
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Unprotected WLAN can become expensive
The regional court of Hamburg determined that operators of WLAN have to make safe their routers otherwise there is offence against their obligation to check. Have a closer look at the full article at Golem IT-News.
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08.Sep.2006
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Amiga-clone: Minimig will be presented at "Big Bash 4"
According to the organizers of "Big Bash 4" (16th September, Peterborough, England) Dennis van Weeren will demonstrate his Amiga 500-clone Minimig at this event.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Exhibitor|s list for Big Bash 4
To the web site of the British event "Big Bash 4" (Peterborough, September the 16th) a complete exhbitor's list as well as a schedule of planed lectures and attractions has been added.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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06.Sep.2006
amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: SearchStar_MOS 0.73h
SearchStar_MOS, a CLI program by Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin to search for and within files, has been updated to version 0.73h. Previously, a function was called twice in the routine for searching inside of files.
SearchStar_MOS is quite fast because it is written in PowerPC machine code. (snx)
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06.Sep.2006
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05-09-2006
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games and scene demos to harddisk which were originally intended for floppy disk usage. Furthermore some incompatibilities with more recent Amigas are removed.
The following installion packages were added or improved since our last report:
- 30.08.06 improved: Quik & Silva (New Bits on the Ram) supports another version, trainer added (Info)
- 26.08.06 improved: Shinobi (Sega) joystick handling changed, trainer added (Info)
- 26.08.06 new: Extrial (Computer Verlag) done by Bored Seal (Info)
- 23.08.06 improved: Apano Sin (Level One) faster loading, more compatible on faster machines, manual added (Info)
- 23.08.06 new: Dinosaur Detective Agency (Alternative Software) done by DJ Mike (Info)
- 22.08.06 updated: Deluxe Galaga (Edgar M. Vigdal) fixed for WHDLoad v16.6 (Info,Image)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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06.Sep.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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AMIGA-Magazin: Preview of issue 9/2006, reading rehearsal
The preview of issue 9/2006 of the print magazine "AMIGA-Magazin" was published. The articles Vorstellung: X11 für AmigaOS 4 and Versionskontrolle mit Subversion 1.1 are available as reading rehearsals. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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06.Sep.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.2.0
AmiKit, a complete distribution for WinUAE user, has been updated to version 1.1.2. Changes since the last release:
- AmiKit now supports Live Update feature that ensures your AmiKit is always up to date!
- WinUAE emulation software updated to version 1.3.2
- ADDED: AmiKit - Live Update 1.0 by Daniel 'Deniil' Westerberg (right-mouse -> AmiKit -> Live Update)
- ADDED: AmiKit - Locale AmiKit 1.0 (AmiKit:Prefs/Locale AmiKit). Program helps you to set locale, input and font settings easily.
- ADDED: BlueMars boot picture (full AmiKit archive only)
- ADDED: Czech translation of AmiKit documentation by Prober
- ADDED: Czech and Slovak fonts and locale files (LocaleCS). Use "AmiKit:Prefs/Locale AmiKit" to enable it.
- ADDED: DOpus5 compare.module 1.2 by Leo 'Nudel' Davidson
- ADDED: DOpus5 Ogg Vorbis and FLAC support (doubleclick and right-mouse menu)
- ADDED: DOpus5 SlctComp by Brian Scott (right-mouse -> Buttons -> Load -> YourLanguage/Compare_ButtonBank)
- ADDED: French translation of AmiKit documentation by Eric Luczyszyn
- ADDED: FroGGui 0.3 by Breed (AmiKit:Utilities/FroggerNG/FroGGui/)
- ADDED: German, French, Spanish, Polish and Czech translation of DOpus User&Lister Menu. Use "AmiKit:Prefs/Locale AmiKit" to enable it.
- ADDED: GfxCon 1.8c by Dirk Farin (AmiKit:Tools/GfxCon)
- ADDED: New AmiKit screen bar by Ken Lester. Use MorpheuZ, select the theme and then the screen bar.
- ADDED: MemOptimizer 1.0 (AmiKit version) by RhoSigma, R.Heyder, DaNi. (AmiKit:C/)
- ADDED: PBM DataType 44.5 by Gunther Nikl (required by PerfectPaint to save transparent images)
- ADDED: playOGG 4.7 by Lorence Lombardo (AmiKit:Utilities/playOGG/)
- ADDED: Polish ISO-AmigaPL and TrueType fonts, keymap and catalogs. Use "AmiKit:Prefs/Locale AmiKit" to enable it.
- ADDED: Support for 1280x800 widescreen notebooks. Use "AmiKit:Prefs/ScreenMode AmiKit" to enable it.
- ADDED: VICE 1.20 - Amiga Work In Progress version by Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund and Marco van den Heuvel. (AmiKit:Utilities/VICE/)
- ADDED: VorbisTools 1.1.1 - 68k compilation by DMX (AmiKit:Utilities/playOGG/)
- UPDATED: AfA_OS 3.93.2
- UPDATED: akPNG.datatype 45.50
- UPDATED: Amiga Image Storage System 3 (AISS)
- UPDATED: AmiKit - Install Patches 1.5
- UPDATED: AmiKit - MorpheuZ 1.1
- UPDATED: AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.1
- UPDATED: AmiKit - AmiKit.exe 1.2
- UPDATED: AmiKit - RomFind.exe 1.1
- UPDATED: AmiStart 0.66c
- UPDATED: FryingPan 0.41 (plus new skin by Ken Lester)
- UPDATED: LimpidClock 1.17 beta
- UPDATED: MathLibsUAE 45.881 r10
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.8
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.18
- UPDATED: microgolded 8 SP 3
- UPDATED: MMKeyboard 3.22
- UPDATED: R 2.21
- UPDATED: tsgui 2.2
- UPDATED: UnRAR 3.60
- UPDATED: WHDLoad 16.6
- UPDATED: WinUAEHelp file 2.04
- UPDATED: WookieChat 2.3.1
- REVERTED: ixemul.library 48.2 (seems the newer v49.17 library is bugged)
- FIXED: ROM incompatibility with Amiga Forever 2006
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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06.Sep.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmiWest: Exhibitor's list published
The organizers of the "AmiWest" (Sacramento, USA, October the 21st) have published a first list of participating exhibitors. Along with one "surprise guest" there are the following participants announced:
- Pagestream
- Software Hut
- AMUC
- Troika
- Hyperion
- SACC
- Individual Computers
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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06.Sep.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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Emulator: PSPUAE 0.54
PSPUAE is a port of the well known Amiga emulator E-UAE for Sony's portable game console PSP. New in version 0.54:
- Based on e-uae 0.8.29 WIP3
- Ditched harddrive support to gain speed as I still can't get it to work with WIP3
- Removed support for serial ports to gain speed
- Several optimizations to the e-uae code primarily removing stuff that doesn't make a lot of sense on the PSP
- Added cpu speed option - thanks to FOL
- Added profiling support
- Fixed memory issues - now allows 6MB for PSP V1.50 and 5.5MB for PSP V2.00+
- Should run using kxploit and the eloader (So V1.50 release works with all)
- Switched middle and right mouse button
- Fixed screenshot
- only displays leds for 2 drives as only 2 are enabled (will not accept 4 drives as I have disabled the last 2 for performance reasons)
- disabled debugging support (can be enabled again it doesnt really make a performance hit)
- only possible to select valid memory configurations (up to 2 Mb chip, 1.5 Mb bogo and 2.5Mb fast)
- Fixed keyboard mappings
- when mapping keyboard keys to psp buttons the behaviour is to keep the key down until the psp button is released.
- removed 2 drives from the disk menu
- added msg box for when no kickstart rom is present and also for when changing kickstart roms while using PSPUAE
- added msg box for when PSPUAE runs out of memory instead of crashing (makes it very hard to crash PSPUAE now)
- added KickStart 2.04 & 2.05 to the Rom selection menu
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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06.Sep.2006
Gunnar Bernhardt aka. gunaTM (ANF)
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GAC at rank 51 of German's most powerful SETI teams
Gunnar Bernhardt writes: "Whoever might be motivated to power on his spare computer to peacefully seek for extraterrestrians is invited to join our group. Currently we are on rank #51 of the most powerful German teams due to massive hardware power. Further information is to get from this thread of the "German Amiga Community" forum. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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06.Sep.2006
ANN (Website)
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Print magazine: Total Amiga Archive CD
The "Total Amiga Archive CD" contains the first 20 issues of the British print magazine in two different versions: One pdf optimizes for on screen reading and a second high quality version for print out.
Additionally the CD contains index files for fast access of single articles.
The "Total Amiga Archive CD" will be for sale at the "Big Bash 4". Preorders by email are accepted now, oversea orders start from GBP 5,50. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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06.Sep.2006
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (ANF)
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Musik: Psyria HP update, new music track, Psyria said "yes"
Dennis "Psyria" Lohr writes: "And tehn it is nearly over again, teh long awaited summer 2006. But still enough time to celebrate a good summer farewell. The time since the last update on the homepage was used intensively to work on the new the CD. More information about that soon :-)
And because the summer break is over for Psyria, too, there is another free track available at the download area: It is titled "Extreme" (again an excusive studio version) and is a little teaser for teh new long player. Have fun.
Dear Amiga-News readers, even this is not belonging to the regular news, I'd like to give a brief view to teh most beautiful day of my life - Psyria has married and said "yes" :)" (cg) (Translation: ub)
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05.Sep.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amithlon: Kernel 3.10, new Linux drivers
Gary 'DrBombcrater' Colville provides a new Linux kernel for the Amiga emulator Amithlon. Changes in version 3.10:
- Support for more GeForce FX models (ie, 5700, 5100, etc)
- Support for GeForce PCX PCI-Express cards
- General bugfixes to the GeForce and Radeon drivers
- SATA support (yay!) for VIA 8237 and NVidia NForce 3/4 chipsets
- Gigabit ethernet via the VIA 6120 & 6122 Velocity chips
- Ethernet driver for NForce 3/4 chipsets
- Support for more AC97 audio codecs
In addition there is an archive with additional Linux drivers which includes support for further network interface cards and sound cards. The driver packet requires the Contrib3b update by Bernd Meyer or the Amithlon-Update by Guido Mersmann. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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05.Sep.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 62 (September/October 2006)
press release: Today the 62nd issue (September/October 2006) of Amiga Future was released. That means that all subscriptions have been taken to the post today.
The Amiga Future can be bought in the online shop of APC&TCP directly at the editorial office and at various specialised dealers (for example Alinea, GGS-Data, Vesalia etc.) It is possible to take out a subscription or to buy the issue separately, either with a readers CD or without.
Again there are plenty of test reports in this issue for example MMKeyboard, Rockbeat, X11, Ajax, Amaja and many more. But there is also a report of the Evoke, an interview with The Wyrmkeep Entertainment and Olaf Barthel.
A complete index as well as extracts can be obtained in the articles section of the Amiga Future Homepage.
On the readers CD are once again 10 full versions, for instance Uropa 2 or Labyrinth of Time. Among MP3 compositions by Andreas Stürmer there this time exclusively also the not yet published Amiga game Light Racer on the CD.
Issue 59 has been sold out in the meantime. Few magazines of issue 60 and 61 are still available. Various older issues of Amiga Future are available at the APC&TCP online shop; price starting at 1 euro.
The software area of the Amiga Future homepage, where you can download various full versions is available at software.amigafuture.de. The domain amigasoftware.de will be deactivated in the near future.
Amiga Future is still looking for print editors and online editors. Detailed information can be obtained at amigafuture.de/jobs.php. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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05.Sep.2006
Andreas Rösner (rbn) (ANF)
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Pegasosforum.de is celebrating its 3rd birthday
Today the German Pegasosforum is celebrating its 3rd birthday. Webmaster Matthias "DJBase" Münch says thanks to all active members of the forum and wishes good luck to all persons involved for the coming three years.
Andreas Rösner congratulates on the behalf of the Pegasos User Group Germany and says thanks to the webmaster and all persons involved. Users without a Pegasos were also welcome to visit the forum and to add their articles, he added. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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05.Sep.2006
(ANF)
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AROS: Bounty 42 - porting of the MorphOS-KHTML-Engine
The 42nd "Bounty" project of team AROS aims at porting the version of the KHTML Engine, which is currently being developed for MorphOS, including the corresponding browser. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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