20.Dec.2005
OS4Depot (website)
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IRC client: WookieChat 1.9.2
Since today, WookieChat 1.9.2 is available. This minor release fixes an important bug in the OS3 version that prevented multiple tabs from working correctly. It was locking up when switching between tabs, or when one closed a tab. The authors thanks 'foody' for reporting this bug. The biggest change in the new release is alias support.
Changes in version 1.9.2:
- Incoming file transfers with spaces in the filename is accepted now
- Pause while selecting text fixed
- Tab switching works properly under OS3 now
- Outgoing /notice and /msg appear in the currently viewed tab again
- Split up the Incoming and Outgoing DCC File Transfers Window into two separate windows, to take up less space when not needed.
- No longer creates empty logs (0 bytes) when logging is disabled
- If you start a line with "//" it sends that text normally. It wont try to use it as a command anymore.
- /join no longer requires a '#' preceeding the channel name
- Added basic command alias support. e.g. /j can replace /join
- Added a /say command to speak in the current tab. Could be useful in conjunction with an alias
- Tabs now have a black square in them to show theres been no activity, and have been made more compact
- Tabs sit in a virtual group now, so that the window isnt forced to be as large as the amount of tabs you have open
Download: wookiechat.lha (375 KB) (snx)
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20.Dec.2005
Thomas Knäbel (e-mail)
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Let it snow: Christmas greetings from bplan GmbH
"Let it snow" - at the title link, bplan GmbH are sending christmas greetings to all their current and future customers.
bplan executive Thomas Knäbel comments the photos as follows:
"The first photo was taken in February 2002 after a Pegasos production run in Oberhausen (days apart from the outside world), where we got 'a little bit surprised' by snow: Thomas Dellert, Gerald & I and the nice, broad summer tyres, of course. :)
The lower pictures are from the current year, November 2005, taken in front of our office in Oberursel: Nicolas Det, Gerald & I." (snx)
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20.Dec.2005
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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Pegasos: AROS, Freevo, Mac-on-Linux
Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun wishes all Pegasos users a very nice Christmas and a Happy New Year with three new creations. The files are provided as torrents by Pegasos.org, so you need a Torrent client for downloading.
(snx)
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19.Dec.2005
Neo (ANF)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky 1.6 released
Jabberwocky is a Instant-Messaging-Client for AmigaOS 3.x,
AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
After a lot of Betaversions is now the offical Version 1.6 available, which
includes a lot of fixed mistakes, so is for users of older versions a update
recommended.
A list of changes is included as readme-file inside of the packet. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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19.Dec.2005
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS: New Betaversion of AfA OS
Linked to the title is a new version of AFA OS ("AROS for AmigaOS)
available. Beside fixed errors are now 67 AROS equivalent comands of
the 119 EXEC-comands implemented.
List of fixed problems:
- The cycletmenu-problem is fixed with a new exec.library.
- The right default metric mode is now used by the fontmanager
- More fixed Errors, usable for to AROS ported software:
- The AROS-picture-datatype shows now pictures inside of MUI toolbar
buttons, if this is activated inside of MUI-prefs.
- The diskfont.library set the font-flag "FSF_ANTIALIASING 0x10"
by TrueType-Fonts - the MUI-textclass (used also by YAM) do not draw
thick, if the cursor moved righthand, a version >15.16 of texteditor.mcc is
recommended.
- AllocMem works now with the MEMF_LARGEST-Flag
- The AROS diskfont-library set the TF_XSize-Flag now for wide
characters; through this proportional fonts are working in graphical
user interfaces, which are calculating the this with this value.
(e.g. GoldED, some DirOpus-Magellan-wondows or DevsMan)
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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19.Dec.2005
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Genesi: Pegasos-Präsentation of the last Power.org-event online
Genesi has a
presentation
online released, which are presented on the first
Investores-event
von Power.org vorgestellt hat.
by the company on 14. december in Palo Alto, USA.
This shows the work to expatiate the Pegasos-Platform and shows also the
next steps - included the free of charge
release
of the Pegasos-Designs with all components on Power.org at
9. Januar 2006. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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19.Dec.2005
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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New ArakAttack-Version for Poseidon V3
Guido Mersmann has as small X-mas gift a new version of his USB-driver
ArakAttack for the USB-Stack Poseidon in conjunction with Amithlon,
Prometheus and OpenPCI released.
Please noted, this version needs the version 3 of the USB-Stack
Poseidon.
The Author changes his projects to a
donationsystem,
so this version is not restricted and didn't need a keyfile.
If you mean thsi project is usable please donate.
Download: ArakAttack.lha (172 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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19.Dec.2005
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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The Pegasos Book: English Version 1.2b released
The english version of the PDF-Book "Le livre du Pegasos" is now in
Version 1.2b released. This inclueds nearly the complete france
Version 1.2, only the UAE-Chapter is missing.
Also linked to the title are two sides, which are shows the usage of the
donations and the person how supports the project. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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19.Dec.2005
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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USB-Stack Poseidon V3.2 available
Two years have passed since the last Poseidon USB release. Now V3.2 is available for AmigaOS (MorphOS version is ready in a few days). The archive can be downloaded from the title link.
So, what's new? (The full, but probably still incomplete changelog is in the guide and over 200 lines long.)
- Support for Online Registration, Update and Bug reporting.
- Wacom Tablet HID Support.
- HID Output Control Window: Automatically generated GUI for HID devices.
- New Classes for MIDI, Touchscreen, Palm PDAs, IrDA (stack not included) and Bluetooth (stack not included).
- Mass storage class reworked and extended (e.g. better fall back modes, improved partition detecting for automounting, and unmounting of partitions, better boot time adapting removable task).
- HID class can now be made boot time resident, no more need for bootmouse or bootkeyboard class.
- HID lowlevel.library extension for analogue pad information.
- PoPo: Annoying Poseidon Popups for events, such as connection, removal, low power and death events. With sound support.
- Power Management added. Warns if power drain is higher than supply.
- Dead device detection.
- Severe internal changes to class scan and enumeration procedure: Less (no?) potential deadlocks.
- Automatic configuration change notification and updating.
- Support for PipeStreams.
- Full support for USB 2.0.
- Updated list of vendors.
- Devices can now be renamed by user.
- Added additional visual feedback in Trident (traffic signs).
- Configuration management added to Trident.
- Lots of fixes and optimizations.
The update is not free. See the full posting on the Highway-USB mailing list for details. (snx)
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19.Dec.2005
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Aminet-Uploads til 18.12.2005
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
TelExpress2xs.lha biz/dbase 509K OS3 Database for Amiga OS 3.x by Quedex.com
ircstats.lha comm/irc 101K OS4 Log analyzer similar to mIRCStats
irssi2mirc.lha comm/irc 33K OS4 Converts irssi logs to mIRC logs
amipodder.lha comm/misc 379K GEN Subscribe to, play back and manage podca
netclock.lha comm/misc 50K GEN Set Clock from daytime (atomic) servers
CTorrent.lha comm/tcp 60K OS3 BitTorrent Client for Real Amigas
processtorrent.lha comm/tcp 3K GEN Arexx-Script to handle .torrent files
qsilver-ws.lha comm/www 43K GEN HTTP/1.0 compliant webserver in ARexx
SymBase.lha dev/amos 197K OS3 Database extension for AmosPro V0.94
cal3d.lha dev/gcc 1.4M OS4 Cal3d - A 3D character animation librrar
awk.tar.bz2 dev/lang 222K OS4 awk - from OpenBSD 3.8
libflac.lha dev/misc 1.2M OS4 FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
libspeex.lha dev/misc 345K OS4 Speex a free codec for free speech
libtheora.lha dev/misc 651K OS4 libtheora 1.0 alpha 5 release
yacc.tar.bz2 dev/misc 153K OS4 yacc - from OpenBSD 3.8
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 49K OS3 A simple backup tool.. v1.44
mplayer091guide.lha docs/help 5K GEN Mplayer 0.91 Spanish Guide
DumbBell_OS4.lha game/actio 146K OS4 some type of a snake game
FurbyKill_OS4.lha game/actio 1.7M OS4 its time to kill the furbies!
noiz2sa.lha game/actio 9.3M OS4 An abstract shoot'em up game by Kenta Ch
SOTB_OS4.lha game/actio 162K OS4 Remake attempt of Shadow Of The Beast (t
5inarow.lha game/board 273K OS4 5 in a row tic tac toe
Drac_OS4.lha game/board 274K OS4 Klondike card game
EggChess_OS4.lha game/board 873K OS4 Strange multiplayer game
Eremit_OS4.lha game/board 586K OS4 Board game where u play with marbles
freeprince.lha game/jump 610K OS4 Prince of Persia Engine
mishigame.lha game/misc 350K OS4 Tetris game with some twists.
daimonin_client.lha game/role 17M OS4 OS4 port for the MMORPG daimonin client
scrambly_dv.lha game/think 210K OS4 puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
dvplayer-amixp.zip gfx/show 41K GEN skins for DvPlayer
dvplayer-amixp_2.zip gfx/show 24K GEN skins for DvPlayer
8SVXtoXXX.lha mus/misc 26K OS3 IFF-8SVX to 8SVX, RAW, AIFF, WAV, VOC co
ahirecord.lha mus/play 27K OS3 Advanced AHI HD-Recorder V1.13
AmigaAMP-External68k.lha mus/play 51K OS3 Enhanced 68k decoding engine for AmigaAM
AmigaAMP.lha mus/play 542K VAR MPEG audio player with GUI (68k/PPC)
RemoteRecord.lha mus/play 5K GEN Arexx script for AHIRecord
chrome_themes.lha pix/theme 1.5M GEN A Couple More GUI Themes for OS4
mixer_blue_skin.lha pix/theme 12K GEN Skin Blue for OS4 Audio mixer
Brasil_Trip01.jpg pix/views 70K GEN Picture from Rio de Janeiro
Brasil_Trip02.jpg pix/views 151K GEN Picture from Rio de Janeiro
Brasil_Trip03.jpg pix/views 57K GEN Picture from Rio de Janeiro
Brasil_Trip04.jpg pix/views 40K GEN Picture from Rio de Janeiro
Brasil_Trip05.jpg pix/views 105K GEN Picture showing Iguacu waterfalls
Brasil_Trip06.jpg pix/views 110K GEN Picture showing Iguacu waterfalls
Brasil_Trip07.jpg pix/views 228K GEN Picture showing Iguacu waterfalls
Brasil_Trip08.jpg pix/views 295K GEN Picture showing Iguacu waterfalls
Brasil_Trip09.jpg pix/views 191K GEN Picture beach of Costa do Sauipe
Brasil_Trip10.jpg pix/views 187K GEN Picture beach of Costa do Sauipe
Brasil_Trip11.jpg pix/views 169K GEN Picture showing Salvador habour
Brasil_Trip12.jpg pix/views 140K GEN Picture showing parrot in Brasil
Brasil_Trip13.jpg pix/views 180K GEN Picture showing monkey in Brasil
Brasil_Trip14.jpg pix/views 248K GEN Picture beach of Costa do Sauipe
Annotate_src.lha text/edit 169K GEN Text Editor with advanced features (sour
Annotate_usr.lha text/edit 230K OS4 Text Editor with advanced features
xmlguide.lha text/hyper 21K GEN DTD/XSL to convert files in XML format t
lha.run util/arc 140K OS3 Amiga LhA (self extracting archive)
lha_68k.lha util/arc 134K OS3 Latest version of Amiga LhA
lha_os4.lha util/arc 133K OS4 Latest version of Amiga LhA
lha_wos.lha util/arc 102K WUP Latest version of Amiga LhA
Bekuna.lha util/boot 670K GEN Welcome user program (International)
DiskMaster.lha util/dir 394K VAR DiskMaster2 - 68K & OS4
asyncio_os4.lha util/libs 37K OS4 asyncio.library compiled for OS4 PPC Nat
PdaLinkPoseidon.lha util/libs 137K OS3 Connect Amiga with Palm PDA, mod. for Po
DigiConverter.lha util/misc 15K OS3 Handy dec/hex/bin/float/ASCII-converter
MPlayer-GUI.lha util/misc 203K OS4 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 94K OS3 Italian version of StartBar
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Dec.2005
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 18.12.2005
os4depot.net uploads since out last report:
freeprince.lha gam/pla 609kb Prince of Persia Engine
awk.tar.bz2 dev/lan 222kb awk - from OpenBSD 3.8
libflac.lha dev/lib 1Mb FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
libspeex.lha dev/lib 345kb Speex a free codec for free speech
yacc.tar.bz2 dev/uti 153kb yacc - from OpenBSD 3.8
daimonin_client.lha gam/rol 16Mb OS4 port for the MMORPG daimonin client
chrome_themes.lha gra/the 1Mb A Couple More GUI Themes
ircstats.lha uti/tex 101kb Log analyzer similar to mIRCStats
irssi2mirc.lha uti/tex 33kb Converts irssi logs to mIRC logs
annotate.lha uti/tex 230kb Text Editor with advanced features
annotate_src.lha uti/tex 169kb Text Editor with advanced features (sour
mplayer-gui.lha vid/mis 203kb GUI for MPlayer for OS4
shadowoftheblitz.lha dem/mis 162kb Remake attempt of Shadow Of The Beast (t
libtheora.lha dev/lib 651kb libtheora 1.0 alpha 5 release
furbykill.lha gam/act 1Mb its time to kill the furbies!
mishigame.lha gam/puz 349kb Tetris game with some twists.
cal3d.lha dev/lib 1Mb Cal3d - A 3D character animation librrar
eggchess.lha gam/boa 872kb Strange multiplayer game
eremit.lha gam/boa 585kb Board game where u play with marbles
drac.lha gam/car 273kb Klondike card game
dumbbell.lha gam/mis 146kb some type of a snake game
scrambly_dv.lha gam/puz 210kb puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
amipodder.lha net/mis 379kb Subscribe to, play back and manage podca
camd_envy24ht_tk.lha dri/mis 14kb CAMD Envy24HT driver
asyncio.lha uti/mis 37kb asyncio.library Compiled for OS4 PPC Nat
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19.Dec.2005
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AROS-Archives: Uploads til 18.12.2005
aros-archives uploads since our last report:
adv770.zip gam/adv 873kb Text adventure Adv770
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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18.Dec.2005
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Magazine: The Crypt, Issue 42
The newest issue of "The Crypt" deals with steam engines, the newest incarnation of King Kong or the joys and woes of assembling a PC as well, besides Amiga topics. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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18.Dec.2005
morphzone.org (Web page)
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MorphOS: Status update on KHTML port
Once again, three new screenshots from the KHTML port were published. Moreover, the FAQ was amended with an entry which points out that the first public beta version is delayed until January or February 2006. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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17.Dec.2005
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi grants licenses to ODM Technologies
San Antonio, Texas - 16 December 2005 - Genesi has licensed ODM Technologies Inc. to
produce the EFIKA design with the Pegasos HAL/OF. The license agreement includes a
provision for a minimum production quantity of 50,000 units. The EFIKA board is to be the foundation
for number of ODM products. The centerpiece to the EFIKA is the Freescale MPC5200
SoC (system on a chip).
ODM Technologies' CTO Cliff Blodget stated: "We are pleased to have concluded this Agreement with Genesi.
Our objective is to leverage the extensive library of software supported by the Pegasos HAL/OF.
We will develop to the Pegasos HAL/OF and not the hardware directly. The EFIKA is a starting
point for us and we can push ahead immediately with application development using Genesi's
Open Desktop Workstation as we prepare to ramp up for production."
The Pegasos HAL/OF is a flexible and scalable hardware abstraction layer for PowerPC
driven devices and IEEE 1275 compliant Open Firmware implementation. The Pegasos HAL/OF
can support a wide range of devices, ranging from Smart Phones to SMP server blades.
Pegasos HAL/OF-supported base hardware will run all Pegasos HAL/OF-supported
software and activate all Pegasos HAL/OF-supported peripherals.
The Pegasos HAL/OF increases speed to market and provides extensive operating system
and application support based on free open and closed source software.
About ODM Technologies, Inc.
ODM Technologies, Inc. is a California corporation established in 2001 with offices in
Miramar California, Houston Texas, Grand Rapids Michigan and China. ODM's core
business is product development, management of contract manufacturing and R&D of new
technologies. ODM Customers include many top American and Canadian brand names. ODM products
include
a variety of audio, video and multimedia devices for the home and mobile user.
About Genesi:
Genesi is a leading provider of PowerPC based computing products. Genesi's OpenFirmware (IEEE1275) compliant PegasosPPC family is designed to bring PowerPC technology,
flexibility, and efficiency to the desktop, home entertainment, netcom, low-end server and pervasive market segments at an affordable price. (snx)
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17.Dec.2005
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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new product by individual Computers: Keyrah
Keyrah makes keyboards of classic computers available to new computers. The board fits the case of a C64, VIC-20, C128, C-16 or Amiga 1200, and turns the computer into a USB keyboard. Keyrah gives new life to defective computers, or computers that have been moved to a different case, because the mainboard is no longer needed. In addition to that, two digital joysticks can be connected that will act as additional keys (for example cursor keys). The joystick ports show a special strength of Keyrah: The high data transfer speed.
We followed the discussion about a newly produced USB-version of a classic joystick with great interest. Many customers have judged this joystick as unusable, because the reaction to any movement is too inert, thus making games unplayable. For the full gaming fun, Keyrah transfers it's data ten times faster than the USB version of that joystick!
As a special titbit for fans of the C64, we're using a switch that's almost identical to the one of the original computer. The only difference (not noticable to the user) is that it's lead-free, and therefore RoHS-conform. It switches between two keymaps that are either adjusted to the daily use under Windows, or especially for emulators like Vice and Amiga Forever.
Keyrah has been successfully tested with all common operating systems like Linux, Amiga OS, Mac OS and Windows. It works on desktop and laptop computers, but also on the X-Box. Keyrah is a standard USB human interface device, so proper function is also ensured with systems that are not mentioned here.
Keyrah will be available in february 2006, the price will be about 30,- EUR. The exact scope of delivery is not yet decided, we're investigating the possibilty to include a USB cable and tools for this price, so we can deliver a package that our customers are used to: Ready to go without additional equuipment.
Pictures:
Keyrah in a C64-II case
Interior view of C64 case
(cg)
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16.Dec.2005
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WHDLoad: New version 16.5 / Packets until 15.12.2005
With WHDLoad you can install games which were originally meant only for use with disks
on your harddrive. You can find the changes in the History.
Besides this the following installers for games were added or improved:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Dec.2005
AmigaOs4.0-Fanboy (ANF)
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Amigaworld.net: IRC-chat with Hyperion on 28. December
On Wednesday 28th of December Amigaworld.net organizes an IRC-chat with Hyperion Entertainment on
08:30 p.m. You can get technical help for the participation on a corresponding
sub page of Amigaworld.net.
Server: irc.amigaworld.net
channel: #amigaworld
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Dec.2005
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Poll: Interest in a Music module competition?
After hearing from some people in the Digibooster Pro community that they are interested in a new music module competition, Michael Asse started a poll to find out if there is enough interest in participating in such a contest. You can reach the poll at the title link.
The competition would be about music for the civilization clone Realms of Power. That game is currently in development. (snx)
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15.Dec.2005
David Bentham (E-Mail)
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PegXMac: Version 1.4.4 for Pegasos II available
David Bentham's live cd PegXMac for Mac-on-Linux for the Pegasos II as version 1.4.4 is available now.
It is based on MOL version 0.9.70r6 and should additionally fix the 8 GB partition problem with the installation of Mac OS X 10.4 ("Tiger"). Furthermore the kernel messages to the console were prevented. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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15.Dec.2005
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Max: Version 0.4.8 released (beta testing)
'Cool Cat' has released version 0.4.8 of the AROS distribution AROS-Max. It is mainly meant for the discovery of still existing bugs and doesn't contain SFS as a standard file system so far. The end of the year is targeted for the next update.
Download: arosmax048.rar (214 MB) (snx) (Translation: ts)
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