28.May.2006
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AFA OS: Prerelease 1 of the MUI clone Zune
Bernd Roesch is now making a port of the MUI clone Zune available for AFA OS, his AmigaOS backport of diverse AROS libraries.
Zune can be run in parallel with MUI, no files of a MUI installation are deleted or overwritten whatsoever. With the "ZunePromoter", it is configured which MUI applications should use Zune instead of the original MUI libraries. This approach was necessary, since many MUI applications apparently use undocumented MUI functions and, at present, do not work under Zune yet. YAM and SimpleMail were already tested and accord with Zune.
Zune still has two restrictions at present: It can't open its own screens yet (only the Workbench screen is supported), and the window coordinates are not saved. For the implementation of functions that are still missing, the author would be thankful for the assistance of other developers.
External classes for Zune have the ending .zcc and .zcp and are located in MUI:libs/zune. Therefore, MUI classes can be converted to Zune classes simply with a file editor, even without access to the sources. The classes by Klaus Melchior(kmel) and Alfonso Ranieri were thus adapted to Zune with the authors' consent and accompany the archive. Other classes are copied and adapted during the installation of Zune.
Programmers who would like to use Zune directly, simply open the zune.library instead of the muimasterbase.library. Should this action fail, the muimasterbase.library should be opened instead. Thus, both MUI and Zune can be supported with just one binary.
Authors, who use undocumented MUI functions, or whose software does not work under Zune for other reasons, are asked to contact Roesch in order to allow for a suitable adaptation or extension of the libraries. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Motocross with Xmoto (beta)
Xmoto is an SDL/GL-based arcade game that is slightly evocative of the 8-bit classic Kikstart (Screenshot). The AmigaOS 4 version still has problems with graphics card initialization, that's why another Warp3D title should be started first (and closed again, of course), before launching Xmoto, additionally, minor errors in the display are yet to be eliminated.
xmoto_beta1.lha (6.7 MB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: TCP stack Mosnet 1.1
Pavel "Sonic" Fedin has released version 1.1 of his PPC-native TCP stack Mosnet. Reportedly, the stack should now be noticeably faster than the forerunner version, additionally, the archive now contains a documentation in Amigaguide format. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
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MorphOS: Update to the Commodore emulator VICE
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has released an update to the MorphOS version of VICE. Besides the elimination of numerous minor errors (in the file requester, among others), overlay is now supported as well. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
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MorphOS: Role-playing game ISO-Angband
Krzysztof 'Tarnak' Kretus has released a MorphOS port of ISO-Angband. ISO-Angband is a variant of the well-known "Hack'n Slash" role-playing game Angband, where events are presented from an isometric perspective. The powersdl.library is required. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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28.May.2006
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Lua 5.1-2
Steven Solie has released an update to his programming language Lua, which is ported by him to AmigaOS 4. Version 5.1 still forms the basis of this, but dynamic libraries are now supported as well.
So, the programming language can now be extended with, for example, a ReAction toolkit, without having to modify Lua itself. Also, a Lua interface to existing AmigaOS libraries can be added, as it had been realized in some cases with ARexx, too, at that time.
The latter is achieved through supplementing the respective library with an exec interface called "lua" as well as the associated program code, which deals with the conversion between the two environments. A corresponding skeletal structure for such a library is contained as an example.
Lua is about a lightweight language which is designed for extending applications. Here, it is a fundamental concept to provide, instead of a large number of functions, meta-mechanisms for their implementation.
Download: lua.lha (821 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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27.May.2006
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: TiMidity 0.5
TiMidity is a program to render and convert MIDI files. Because of the very positive feedback to the release of a first beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port released Alfred Faust a new version with more control elements added to the ReAction /Gadtools user interface.
With version 0.5 it is now possible to reach almost all options of TiMidity via the user interface. All messages are now shown in a special text area of the program window instead of being displayed in a separate window.
To be able to use TiMidity you need GUS patches and/or sound fonts that are available in the OS4 depot for download.
Download: timidity.lha (426 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.May.2006
Søren Ladegaard (ANF)
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Think Commodore: Forum added
Today "Think Commodore" launched a new Commodore forum just for Mac users. Think Commodore is a website for Apple users about the emulation of Commodore computers. (snx)
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27.May.2006
Codex Alpe Adria Team (e-mail)
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Event: Codex Alpe Adria 2006 (Italy)
Codex Alpe Adria 2006, the friendly alternative computing event,
will take place in five weeks - from June 30 until July 2 - in Udine, which is within a one-hour drive from three airports, as well as from the Alps, beaches, Venice, Trieste, Austria, Slovenia and other beautiful locations. Florence, Milan, Salzburg and other popular tourist destinations, as well as major shopping malls (open on Sunday), are within easy reach, also
for day trips from the event.
Jens Schönfeld (developer of tools such as the C64 Ethernet interface)
and Bernd Schmidt (author of the UAE Amiga emulation software) already
confirmed their attendance, while other familiar retrocomputing and
demoscene personalities are finalizing their plans. It has become
known that several software and hardware developers plan to make
important product announcements during Codex Alpe Adria 2006. This
is your chance to meet these legends in person. Cloanto's Amiga staff
will also be there, as they are behind the event.
The new Codex Alpe Adria venue, conveniently located next to the
Udine north highway exit, has ample open air space, resident WiFi,
and supports sleepovers (rooms are also still available at the official
hotel, which is in the city center next to the train station, and
is connected by bus to the event). Prizes of the Codex Alpe Adria
demo competitions include a rare and very valuable C65 prototype
and a C-One development system. Other activities include pizza and
pasta at Ciccio's (followed by traditional Codex Alpe Adria absinthe)
on Friday, a Friulian banquet on Saturday, a hard disk throwing contest,
and numerous excursions.
Great flight connections are still available at bargain prices. For
example, GBP 1.79 (plus taxes) can buy you a ticket from London Stansted
(STN) or Frankfurt Hahn (HHN) directly to Udine/Trieste (TRS) airport.
Ryanair also flies to nearby Treviso (TSF) airport from Brussels
Charleroi (CRL), Dublin (DUB), Girona/Barcelona (GRO), Liverpool
(LPL), Paris Beauvais (BVA) and Shannon (SNN). Other airlines for
which it is still very convenient to purchase tickets are listed
at the Codex Alpe Adria site. (snx)
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27.May.2006
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Daytime server set up
Many users of classic Amigas still work with Genesis (the AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 TCP/IP stack) that offers a builtin function for time synchronization via daytime. To close this gap decided Philippe Bourdin to program a daytime server and to make it available to the public via time.PAB-Software.de (run by: PAB Software & Design).
Separate software for time synchronization is not needed anymore, then.
The daytime server runs always with the current MEZ/MESZ and can therefore be used in all Central European countries. Manual corrections for summer/winter time become redundant as Genesis synchronizes the time when going online.
Faultless functioning and permanent availability can't be guaranteed, though; but the source code is available so anybody may send corrections or run his own daytime server in the own time zone.
Download of the AmigaOS version:
daytime-amiga.pl
Download of the Linux version:
daytime.pl
daytime-init.sh (snx) (Translation: wk)
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26.May.2006
dietmar (ANF)
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Cubic IDE: Online-Shop opened
Dietmar Eilert wrote: Welcome to my new website for Amiga developers: I finally
made it to open an online-shop. The main offer is Cubic IDE which is an integrated developing system
for AmigaOS and MorphOS.
It is a temporary site which will get a seperate domain.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.May.2006
AmigaSpeed (ANF)
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Benchmarks: AmigaSpeed-Update
AmigaSpeed which is a website about speed tests of several Amiga system configurationen was updated
in the section PowerPC-processors with new
MIPS-figures to all G3- and G4-models.
Additionally the MPC7448 also was mentioned which is the upper end of the 1,7 GHz serie.
Additional to the speed tests a opinion poll was started concerning the future of the PowerPC.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.May.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Troika NG: Another mainboard announced
In a status report which is accessable under the title link Troika NG announced to buy a mainboard design.
This would be a more powerful system than the own development called Amy'05.
With the help of the planned cooperation Troika NG can offer such a system for
AmigaOS 4 faster and cheaper. Currently still it is not possible to show some pictures of the
whole mainboard but of some details. These show the PowerPC-processor (G4/7448) with
Tsi-109-Northbridge (preview 1) as well as
the audio-ports (preview 2).
Concerning the own development of a low-end-system version 1.4 almost was reached. Therefore
some more information will be announced for the next status report.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.May.2006
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS: Update of the Commodore emulator VICE
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has fixed some bugs in the shortly released MorphOS port of the Commodore emulator VICE and provides his own build now. (cg) (Translation: ts)
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25.May.2006
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IRC-Log: ACK answers further questions from users
Adam Kowalczyk of ACK Software Controls has commented further questions to his announced PPC products in an IRC discussion. The main items in short:
The planned high end motherboard is preliminary called "Powervixxen TL" ("Thunder and Lightning"). The current specifications don't consider any onboard hardware, but the board should contain a PCIe-slot (16x), a PCI-slot with 66 Mhz as well as 4 PCI-slots with 33/66 Mhz.
The PCIe-slot is connected to a common PCI-Bus (66 Mhz) by means doesn't offer any speed advantage over PCI oder AGP, but it makes the use of actual graphics adapters possible. The integration of such a PCIe-slots requires graphics drivers available for AmigaOS 4.
The PCI-SLot with 66 Mhz is meant for a combined card (USB/SATA oder USB/PATA).
ACK Software Controls is privatly owned and occupies for employees. The current Amiga projects are additionally financed with the support of external investors. (cg) (Translation: ts)
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25.May.2006
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland.de: Relaunch with revised layout
With his project Amigaland.de Mirko Engelhardt has asked over the years for permission of several producers to offer certain Amiga games for free download. The website is completed with historical informations around the amiga.
After a two years' break Amigaland.de is representing itself with a revised layout. 140 Amiga games are available again, two programs and several emulators with their relevant tools. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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25.May.2006
Armin Burkert (E-mail)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.1.4
For AmiKit, a complete distribution for users of WinUAE
(Screenshot),
an update to version 1.1.4 is released. This package provides complete support for creating and extracting ADF-, ADZ-
and DMS-files with the TSGUI (Track Saver) program from Thomas Rapp.
Additionally the programm was integrated into Directory Opus Magellan II, for creating images with a right mouse click or extracting an image with a double click onto the file.
Changes compared to version 1.1.3:
- ADDED: tsgui - Track Saver 2.1 by Thomas Rapp (AmiKit:Tools/)
- ADDED: Complete DOpus5 support for creating/extracting ADF, ADZ and
DMS images!
- UPDATED: akJFIF.datatype 45.50
- UPDATED: ASp 0.87b
- UPDATED: Meridian 2.21
- UPDATED: MMKeyboard 3.20
- UPDATED: R 2.19
(nba) (Translation: ts)
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25.May.2006
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amiga-news: New advertising partners
We would like to take the opportunity to thank our advertising partners
for their support of amiga-news. Without your financial exposure
the operation of this website would not be possible.
In particular we welcome our new partners
APC&TCP, a
German software-developer and publisher of the magazine Amiga Future,
and AmigaKit.com,
a British Amiga-dealer offering a big range of Amiga hardware, software,
components and other accessories.
Of course we would also like to thank individual Computers (hardware-developer), Alinea Computer
(software-developer) and Cloanto (Amiga-Forever-developer) for their continued
passion for amiga-news.
Along this we point to the GoogleAds in the right area and the Google search field in the upper right area of our homepage.
Finally big thanks fly out to the loyal readers and visitors of amiga-news.
To support amiga-news please support our advertising partners! Thank
you! (nba)
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24.May.2006
geit (Comments)
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Keyboard Driver: MMKeyboard 3.21
Guido Mersmann has released a bugfix update of his keyboard driver
MMKeyboard for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Amithlon. The new version
fixes the bug that the MMKeyboard-hardware was not correctly supported
lately.
MMKeyboard allows the use of all multimedia buttons of the system. For
this purpose, it offers, besides the conventional execution types, macros
as well, which allow, for example, scrolling of windows, browsing through
screens and windows, or ejection of media, too. Of course, in addition to
the multimedia buttons, the normal keys of the system can be assigned to
functions as well, similar to FKey.
Should you enjoy the program, the author asks to consider a small donation. (snx)
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24.May.2006
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Updated FAQ for KHTML.library
Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski has updated the questions and answers to
his work-in-progress porting of the KHTML-engine to MorphOS.
The underlying sourcecode has been switched to Nokia's S60-webbrowser-project
(amiga-news reported).
By switching to S60 the KHTML.library should be faster, easier to update
and more stable. If nothing unexpected happens then first public version
should appear by the end of summer. Currently the souce code yet compiles
without any problems, and the engine is initialized and working.
The KHTML-porting project is a Bounty-project with
a current amount of over 2000 US$. (snx) (Translation: nba)
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24.May.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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Magazine: Issue 18 of Total Amiga as PDF for downloading
The 18th issue of the English (printed) magazine Total Amiga is sold-out
and can now be downloaded as a PDF-document for free. All details can be
gathered from the Amiga Total website linked to the title. (cg)
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