22.Jan.2006
Pegasos.org (Web page)
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PDF Book "Le livre du Pegasos": V1.3 R2 of the English version
The English translation of the PDF book "Le livre du Pegasos" is available in version 1.3 R2 since today. The document comprises 152 pages now, and lacks only the UAE chapter, compared to the French original.
Improvements:
- MorphOS:
- Instructions for compiling Ambient from the CVS
- Deleting an MBR with the PC
- Update of the memory chapter
- Update of the chapter on harddisk installation
- Update of the software overview
- Linux:
- Update of the Ubuntu chapter
- Installation of KDE and Enlightenment e17 under Ubuntu
- Update of the Yellow Dog chapter
- Installation of SUSE on the Pegasos II
- Installation of Gentoo on the Pegasos II
- Chapter "Other Systems" added (AROS Live-CD et al.)
Please consider, in case you find the book useful, that though it is for free, donations are downright welcome, in order to sustain the motivation in the authors and translators.
Feedback to possible errors in the contents or the translations are asked for. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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21.Jan.2006
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: USB-CAMD-Treiber 50.1
Lyle Hazelwood has completed a USB CAMD MIDI driver for AmigaOS 4. There is a list of tested devices in the documents as well as at the support website at the title link.
All users of previous beta versions, including the USB driver that was distributed with BarsnPipes for AmigaOS 4, should update to this version.
If you test other equipment that's not listed on the website, please reply to the author so the compatibility list can be kept current.
Download: usbmidi.lha (15 KB) (snx)
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21.Jan.2006
David Brunet (ANF)
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Amiga Games Award 2005
Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve monthes. Thus now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2005.
To vote for the best AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS or AROS games, you can rate them at the title link. The final results will be published within the next few days. (snx)
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21.Jan.2006
Heise (website)
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Linux: first beta version of OpenSUSE 10.1
The OpenSUSE project that is also supporting the Pegasos made the beta version 1 of the forthcoming version 10.1 of its operating system available under the title link.
New among other things is a network manager as well as the security extension AppArmor recently released by Novell as open source. Most of the other software is similar to the current version 10.0.
Version numbers of the main components:
- Linux 2.6.15
- X11-Server 6.9
- glibc 2.4
- GCC 4.1
- Xen 3
- KDE 3.5
- Gnome 2.12
- Firefox 1.5
- Thunderbird 1.5
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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20.Jan.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Inofficial mailinglist for Hollywood
At Yahoogroups an inofficial mailinglist was established for owners of the multimedia paket called
Hollywood.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Jan.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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WarpJPEG-Datatype 45.5
The WarpJPEG-datatype is now available in version 45.5. Besides some bug
fixes and optimizings the most current WarpDT-Engine is now used. Additionally
the MorphOS- and WarpOS-version was new compiled with version 0.8i of VBCC.
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (147 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Jan.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Bitplane #13
Issue 13 of the Italian print magazine called Bitplane is now available. The
magazine has 64 sides and contains a cover-CD. Topics of this issue:
- Exclusive interview with Dave Haynie
- Special to 20th anniversary of the Amiga
- Review of Quake 3 (MorphOS)
On the cover-CD you can find a film of the event "Pianeta Amiga 2005".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jan.2006
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Ars Technica: Matrox DualHead2GoTest on (among other things) a µ-A1
In an English test report of Jeremy Reimer about DualHead2Go from Matrox - a small external box which distributes the video signal from a graphics card to two monitors - a µ-A1 with AmigaOS 4 is used as one system beside others.
Coming to the point: the necessary EDID-standard ("Extended Display Identification Data") isn't supported by AmigaOS 4 yet, even with the upcoming update, but according to a comment from Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion) it is already under work. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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19.Jan.2006
Markus Watterott (Sedor/ToT-Team) (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar: Voting for the Browser Game of the Year 2005
The Massive-Multiplayer-PBEM-game Tales of Tamar for various platforms was invited from Galaxy-News to participate in the voting for the browser game of the year 2005.
To place your vote you simply choose the the desired game under the title link as well as the two features which distinguish it in your opinion.
The ToT team writes to this:
As an award in the pc business it would be very important for us, we would be very glad if Tales of Tamar would jump into the first 10 games. It will not become easy as the browser games have much more players.
The whole
ToT-Team thanks you for your support (snx) (Translation: ts)
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19.Jan.2006
Amigaworld.net (homepage)
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AmigaOS 4: Perl_Reaction 0.01 / ID3Editor 1.0
Andy Broad has written a Perl extension which makes ReAction-GUIs possible for Perl scripts. Out of the Perl scripts the included modules allow access to BOOPSI objects.
An mp3 tag editor written with this extension as a commented example script is available for download.
Download:
perl_reaction.tar.bz2 (799 KB)
id3editor.tar.bz2 (98 KB) (snx) (Translation: ts)
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18.Jan.2006
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Web server Apache 1.3.34 with PHP 5.1.1 and MySQL 3.23.58
Edgar Schwan released a new version of his Apache port for AmigaOS 4. Changes since the last release:
- Contains the latest version of PHP 5. The following features are new in PHP 5.1.1:
- PDO extension: Access to data bases by a standardized interface.
- includes the folowing drivers:
- sqlite2 (V 2.8.16)
- sqlite (V 3.2.7)
- mysql (V 3.23.58)
- New date extension with better time zone support.
- Improved SimpleXML extension V 1.151.2.7
- Improved SQLite extension V 2.8.16
- Improved PCRE extension V 6.2
- Contains the myApache Starter package version 1.0 by Michael Christoph.
Thanks to Michael for his permission to include it
- Support of the BCMath extension added for high precise calculations
- Support of the Iconv extension to convert character sets.
- Apache info module (mod_info) added. Allows to pol informationen about the webserver.
- Latest version of the MySQL client library build in (3.23.58, PHP 5 only).
- Bugs within strtol() and strtod() removed. These lead to errors while comparing strings. Thanks to Michael Christoph!
- New compilation with the latest SDK.
Apache 1.3.34 is available at the os4depot.net and the Aminet. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.Jan.2006
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Twiglets creates big ASCII tags
Twiglets creates from Amiga fonts big ASCII tags.
Download: twiglets.lha (6 KB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.Jan.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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CD Player 2.1 for AmigaOS/AfA and MorphOS
#AmigaZeux released version 2.1 of Ilkka Lehtoranta's CD Player. The update includes a bug-fixed MorphOS version and does now also support AmigaOS/AfA (AROS for AmigaOS).
Requirements for MorphOS version are:
Requirements for AmigaOS/AfA version are:
- AmigaOS 3.0
- "AROS for AmigaOS" extension
- 68020 + FPU
- MUI 3.8
- CGX 3
- AHI 4
- WBStart for AmigaAMP plugins
- FreeDB 13.0
Due to a bug in AfA (or in AROS), initially one didn't get the button graphics correctly on AmigaOS. This bug is fixed meanwhile by a new graphics_lib.exe for AfA (Download, 83 KB).
Please note that the common name with the old program by Stian Olsen for the Amiga Overdrive CDROM has been by accident; there is no connection between them. (snx)
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17.Jan.2006
PPCNUX (Webseite)
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Tundra announces new Tsi110-system controller for G3- and G4-processors
Three months after the announcement of the market leader Marvell (amiga-news.de reported)
also Tundra as a second provider of G3/G4 system controllers enters the
PCI express era. Among two PCI-x4-adapters the chip from now on also
offers four gigabit interfaces.
Samples of the new system controllers however are said to be not be
available until the end of 2006. Further information can be obtained
under the link above at PPCNUX. (snx) (Translation: iw)
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17.Jan.2006
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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The oldest official Amiga User Group is breaking up
After more than 20 years the Northwest Amiga Group is breaking up.
Founded by Bill Seymour in June 1985 this user group was registered by
Commodore as the "Commodore User Group #00001" in 1986.
The last volumes of the club magazine Northwest Amiga Journal has been
digitised and are available for download. Some issues date back
to 1988. (snx) (Translation: iw)
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17.Jan.2006
Mac Life
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Apple is doing the Intel-Switch
Now it is done, the Intel-Switch, which Steve Jobs announced in June last year for 2006. It was supposed to become one of the most exciting Keynotes of the past years at the MacWorld in San Francisco this year. Anyhow, the Keynote took nearly two hours, made do completely without popstars this time and nevertheless gave the frontman an applause of one. Read the complete article under the link above. (nba) (Translation: iw)
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17.Jan.2006
Mac Life
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Intel parts with the name "Pentium"
According to TG Daily Intel is slowly going to part completely with the
brand "Pentium" as a name for processors without official statement.
Present Pentium processors will for example be called "Intel D 920" or
"Intel 672" in the future. The complete conversion of the names is
supposed to be done in the near future. Intel was not willing to speak
out on this.
Indeed the separation from an established brand name is chancy, says
analyst Kevin Krewell , but the name Pentium has become obsolete and
partly leads to confusion. Furthermore the single processor is becoming
less and less important in Intel's product range, as the attention will
be increasingly directed on platforms like Centrino. (nba) (Translation: iw)
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16.Jan.2006
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Draft of the third version of GNU General Public License published
Linked to the header the Free Software Foundation published the third
Version of the Open-Source-Licence "GNU General Public License" (GPL). (cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Jan.2006
morphos-news.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Fireflies and APooler 1.0
Fireflies
Fireflies is a small Demo, which demonstrates the possibilities of TinyGL.
(Screenshot).
Link: Homepage of Linux-Version
Link: Downloadseite
Download: Fireflies.lha (120 KB)
APooler
The point of APooler is to decrease the memory-fragmentation on MorpOS,
which can slow down the system after a longer working time.
Apooler is at this moment not tested, this is the reason why the author
has no information about the efficiency at this moment.
Link: Homepage
Download: apooler-1.0.lha (9 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Jan.2006
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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Event: PUSH 2006.1 (Sweden)
The Pegasos User Group Sweden (PUGS) will arrange another PUSH event at the same place as before - Wartagården in Gothenburg, Sweden. The event will take place at the weekend from April 28th to May 1st (Friday evening, 20:00 CET, to Monday).
PUSH has been mostly a PowerPC event previously but this time the focus is on all alternative platforms and operating systems. More information will follow. (snx)
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16.Jan.2006
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: PowerTerm-Update
Linked to the header is a recommended update of PowerTerm.mcc 50.60
which fix a potentially critical 'memtrash'-error.
Please note that the version and date not updated, because
Jacek 'jacaDcaps' Piszczek provide only a small patch to save
bandwidth. But the MUI-Custom-class is include, so nobody must patch the
archive oneself.
The Author, how is at the South Pole at this moment, added his
Blog Jaca at
the South Pole with new entries and new pictures. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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