24.Sep.2005
Team AROS (E-Mail)
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Team AROS: UAE bounty open again / FAT32 bounty cancelled
As Team AROS informs, Adam Chodorowski had to discontinue the work on two of the three bounty projects that were lastly tackled by him, because of personal reasons.
While Bounty 7 (Donation status: 231 US dollars), the integration of the Amiga emulator UAE, is consequently free for other interested developers again now, Bounty 12, the implementation of the FAT32 file system, was completely discontinued. Then again, Adam Chodorowski wants to continue the work on Bounty 6, the AROS installer. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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24.Sep.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Troika and Guru Meditation disclose cooperation (Update)
On the occasion of the British event Big Bash 3, the Swedish dealer Guru Meditation and the young hardware smiths Troika disclosed their cooperation in the development of the mini-ITX PowerPC board "Amy'05". The aimed production costs per board lie under 400 British pounds (around 590 Euros).
Meanwhile, Troika presents itself on the web with a new homepage, which, apart from remarks about the previous history of the project "Prometheus," which is now designated as "Amy," also specifies more components of this board than those known so far. However, the prototype that was announced for the event in Peterborough is no longer completed on time.
The specifications of the planned PowerPC board:
- Processor: PPC 750Fx processor with Active (fan) cooling. Soldered directly to motherboard.
- Northbridge: Tundra Semiconductor TSI107 Northbridge device. This provides access to SDR RAM memory and the PCI bus amongst other things.
- Ethernet: RTL8110 Gb/100/10 Ethernet controller.
- USB 2.0: 5 x High Speed USB 2.0 ports: 3 rear connectors, 2 front connectors.
- ATA 100/133: Sil0680 ATA133 controller. Supports 2 channels (4 devices). Full ATA 100/133 transfer rates, DMA bus mastering and RAID (Raid is dependent on OS drivers).
- Audio: CMI8738 6-channel 5.1 surround sound with audio headers. Support for Line In, microphone (Analogue) and SPDIF (digital input).
- PCI slot: 2 x 33 Mhz, 32bit.
- SDRAM: 2 x DIMM memory slots (REG PC133 SDRAM. Max of 1GB)
Update: (08:05, 25.09.05, snx)
According to a message from the developer, differently from stated, the upper limit of 400 British pounds should not be about the production costs, but about the end user price. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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24.Sep.2005
Jörg Dittmar (ANF)
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Event: Computer- & Video-Börse on 1st + 2nd of October in Bremen
On the 1st and 2nd of October 2005, the Computer- & Video-Börse (Computer & Video Market) takes place in Bremen again, in which the computer club "User der Nordseeküste" (Users of the North Sea Coast) will also participate again. The club will be represented with an AmigaOne (Ralf Tönjes) and a Pegasos II (Jörg Dittmar) as well as Mac computers, PC and PDA.
Again this year, an emphasis of the User der Nordseeküste will be the video processing on PC and Mac. Linux and Mac OS are installed on the AmigaOne as well, in addition to AmigaOS 4.
Apart from the activities of the club, there is also the possibility to purchase new as well as used hardware and software on the spot. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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23.Sep.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Commodore-Show in Belgium, 30.10. 2005
All Commodore- and Amiga-fans are very welcome again to the "C= Show" which will take
place on 30th October in Belgian Affligem. The entrance is free. For further
information please have a look at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Sep.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Status-update of KHTML port
Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski works on a port of the KHTML-Engine for MorphOS, called
GTK+ WebCore. On the official homepage of the project further screenshots have been
published which are supposed to show the progress compared with the last message.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Sep.2005
AmiZilla-ML
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Status of GTK-MUI-Wrapper: 192 functions implemented - 28 still missing
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner has already implemented 192 functions to the GTK-MUI-Wrapper
which is a Bounty-project.
49 of them belong to the 77 functions which get a bounty. Currently the bounty is
240 US-Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Sep.2005
der_willy (ANF)
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MorphOS: Several SDL ports
Trailblazer is a remake of the known C64 classic (screenshot),
attd is a mindgame which is based on mathematics, Mindless is a Mastermind clone and
yeOldePong is a "Pong clone which is still worse than the original" (described in this way
by the programmer).
Trailblazer: Download site
attd: Download site
Mindless: Download site
yeOldePong: Download site
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2005
peter (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Various SDL ports
Trailblazer is a new edition of a well known classic game for C64(Screenshot), while Penguin Command represents the actual counterpart of Missile Command. The top-down view Shooter SDLZombies (Screenshot) seems to be inspired by various classics. Last but not least there is Mindless, a Mastermind clone.
Trailblazer: Download page
Penguin Command: Download page
SDLZombies: Download page
Mindless: Download page
(cg) (Translation: ts)
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22.Sep.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Geronto.library 1.0 including AmiNetRadio-plugin published
GerontoPlayer.library is a wrapper which allows the use of certain open source libraries due to a harmonized API. These libraries are used for the playback of music files mainly from old game systems. A plugin for AmiNetRadio is supplied with the library.
Download: GerontoLibrary.lha (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: ts)
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22.Sep.2005
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MorphOS: Mind game BlockRage ported/ Update of REminiscence
BlockRage 0.2.1
Herbert Klackl has ported the SDL mind game BlockRage for MorphOS. It is your job there to arrange dropping boulders in a way, that at least three of the same type touch themselves and therefore disappear.
Download
REminiscence 0.1.8 R2
The REminiscence -port of MorphOS from Nicolas Ramz in the version 0.1.8 R2 is available now and corrects bugs of the previous version. REminescence is a newly written engine for the game Flashback of Delphine Software.
MorphOS 1.4, PowerSDL 10.5 and the files of the original of MS-DOS are required, or as an option the modules of the Amiga version.
Download: REminiscence.lha (171 KB) (snx) (Translation: ts)
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21.Sep.2005
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.09.2005
Aminet uploads since our last news item:
amisynergyc.lha comm/net 108K OS4 An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
curl.lha comm/net 308K OS4 Curl
ctorrent.lha comm/tcp 59K OS3 BitTorrent Client
libwww.lha dev/c 28M OS4 LibWWW - The W3C Protocol Library
cairo.lha dev/misc 2.0M OS4 Cairo - 2D graphics library
cppboost.lha dev/misc 5.8M OS4 Boost C++ libraries
libcurl.lha dev/misc 704K OS4 Libcurl - the multiprotocol file transfe
libfreetype2.lha dev/misc 556K OS4 Freetype2
libxml2.lha dev/misc 10M OS4 LibXML2 - The XML C parser and toolkit o
mycalcppc.lha dev/src 159K OS4 MyCalcPPC Commodity Calc w/Source Code
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 46K OS3 A simple backup tool.. v1.42
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 90K VAR Better read, quiet working v1.2 Src,68k,
lyrics.lha docs/misc 48K all Trance/Techno song texts (lyrics).
penguin-command_mos.lha game/actio 1.2M MOS Missile command with nice gfx and sound
reminiscene_os4.lha game/actio 592K OS4 REminiscene
sdlzombies-mos.lha game/actio 2.6M MOS SDL Remake of ZX81 game with zombies
UChessMOS.lha game/board 535K MOS GNU Chess
diamondkingdomsdemo.lha game/demo 105K OS3 Demo of new platfrom game
VideoPokeriMOS.lha game/misc 276K MOS Nice multitasking video poker game
DescentII-src.lha game/shoot 2.6M MOS Source code to MorphOS port of Descent I
DescentII.lha game/shoot 6.6M MOS MorphOS port of Descent II V1.2, from D2
ConquestMOS.lha game/think 143K MOS ASCII space empire game
MadMatrixMOS.lha game/think 26K MOS Hard MUI game with very simple rules.
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 52K all Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
NewLowLevel.lha hard/drivr 33K OS3 V41.28, LowLevel.library replacement for
hatari.lha misc/emu 1.7M OS4 Atari ST and STE emulator.
OS-NINE.lha misc/emu 270K MOS OS-Nine Is Not an Emulator
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 444K OS3 GUI 4 Lame,Ogg,BladeEnc,Pegase,Ncode,Mus
playOGG.lha mus/play 983K OS3 Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
morphos.png pix/wb 622K all MorphOS 1.4.5 for PowerUP
Next.lha text/show 143K OS3 Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes
TagLiFE.lha util/boot 7K OS3 TagList-FastExecutable patch with source
amigakeyremapper.lha util/misc 8K VAR Simple program that swaps left/right ami
mkisofs.lha util/misc 432K OS4 Mkisofs
snapit.lha util/misc 108K MOS A screen grabber with MUI-Interface.
stream_mos.lha util/shell 25K MOS Stream
stream_os4.lha util/shell 14K OS4 STREAM is a Memory Bandwith Tester
cpuwatcher.lha util/wb 13K OS4 Measures CPU & memory usage, shows a sim
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21.Sep.2005
Darius Brewka (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Beta testers for the start menu "AmiStart" wanted
Darius Brewka has compiled an AmigaOS4 version of his start menu AmiStart (screen shot) using a cross compiler for AmigaOS 4. Since the program has been tested by only one user yet, the author invites other people to do some beta testing of this application.
Users should ideally be familiar with teh OS3 version may contact Darius Brewka to get the PPC native version.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.Sep.2005
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 21.09.2005
Uploads at os4depot.net since our last news item:
circuslinux_os4.lha gam/act 2Mb Circus Linux! - SDL action game
wet_de_cat.lha uti/wor 2kb Updated German catalog for Wet 4.0
mixer.lha aud/mis 90kb Mixer
memguard.lha dev/deb 22kb Mungwall-like tool for OS4
emu10kx.lha dri/aud 22kb emu10kx AHI driver
reminiscene_os4.lha gam/adv 592kb REminiscene
heretic.lha gam/fps 400kb AmigaOS 4 port of Heretic for OS 4.0
uhexen.lha gam/fps 793kb AmigaOS 4 port of Hexen for OS 4.0
mycalcppc.lha uti/sci 158kb MyCalcPPC Commodity Calc w/Source Code
boost.lha dev/lib 5Mb Boost C++ libraries
cmi8738.lha dri/aud 35kb CMI8738 AHI driver
hatari.lha emu/com 1Mb Atari ST and STE emulator.
amisynergyc.lha net/mis 108kb An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
cairo.lha dev/lib 1Mb Cairo - 2D graphics library
libxml2.lha dev/lib 9Mb libXML2 - The XML C parser and toolkit o
libfreetype2.lha lib/mis 555kb Freetype2
mkisofs.lha uti/mis 432kb mkisofs
avcodec_lib.lha vid/mis 664kb Audio and Video codec library for OS4
libcurl.lha dev/lib 704kb libcurl - the multiprotocol file transfe
curl.lha net/mis 307kb Curl
stream_os4.lha uti/ben 13kb STREAM is a Memory Bandwith Tester
libwww.lha dev/lib 27Mb LibWWW - The W3C Protocol Library
cpuwatcher.lha uti/wor 13kb Measures CPU & memory usage, shows a sim
swfplayer.lha vid/pla 1Mb Standalone shockwave player for Amiga
avd_template.lha dev/exa 136kb Template Project - Skeleton OS4 applicat
bugsquish.lha gam/act 1Mb Bug squish - SDL action game
amisynergyc.lha net/mis 103kb Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
wb96_2005_edition.lha uti/wor 104kb WB 2005 edtion
a52_lib.lha aud/mis 92kb shared liba52 for AmigaOS4
mixer.lha aud/mis 79kb Mixer
rlphtheme.lha gra/the 1Mb Theme Inspired by the Artwork of Rolpho
tunenet.lha aud/pla 293kb Music Player (Shoutcast and MP3 Player)
parallax4.lha dem/mis 258kb Multilayer parallax SDL demo
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21.Sep.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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E-UAE: Version 0.8.28 of the Amiga emulator released
After two release candidates now the final version 0.8.28 of E-UAE is available. This sibling of the Amiga emulator UAE is done by Richard Drummond for the Amiga itself as well as for it's successors and for Linux (PPC, AMD64, x86), MacOS and BeOS.
The changelog as well as the binaries for the supported platforms are obtainable at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Sep.2005
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WHDLoad: New packets until 20-09-2005
With WHDLoad games a nd demos intended for floppy usage are installable to the harddisk.
Additionally some compatibility issues with newer Amiga models are removed.
The following installers were contributed lately:
- 19.09.05 new: Dragon's Lair: Escape From Singe's Castle (Visionary Design) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 19.09.05 fixed: Questron 2 (SSI) fixed bug in manual protection (Info)
- 17.09.05 new: Super C (Konami/USI Unlimited Software Inc) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 17.09.05 new: Questron 2 (SSI) done by John Girvin (Info)
- 15.09.05 improved: Ween: The Prophecy (Coktel Vision) fastmem support, new install script (Info)
- 15.09.05 improved: Geisha (Cocktel Vision) gfx fixed, new install script (Info)
- 15.09.05 improved: Fascination (Coktel Vision) 2 more versions supported, fastmem support, new install script (Info)
- 15.09.05 improved: AGE (Coktel Vision/Empire) fastmem support, new install script (Info)
- 13.09.05 new: Elite Advanced (Firebird/Rainbird/CARE) done by AmiGer (Info,Image)
- 13.09.05 new: Wayne Gretzky Hockey 2 (Bechesda SoftWorks) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 13.09.05 improved: Wayne Gretzky Hockey (Betchesda SoftWorks) supports another version, some other changes (Info)
- 13.09.05 new: Junior Typist (School Software) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 13.09.05 new: Better Maths (School Software) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 13.09.05 fixed: Apano Sin (Level One) german versions work again (Info)
- 11.09.05 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog) supports another version, minor other changes (Info)
- 11.09.05 improved: Gunship (Microprose) supports another version (Info)
- 11.09.05 improved: Apano Sin (Level One) supports another version (Info)
- 11.09.05 new: Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Gremlin) done by Wepl & Harry & CFOU! (Info)
- 11.09.05 fixed: Anstoss / Carton Rouge (Ascon) increased memory to avoid crash (Info)
- 09.09.05 improved: Marvins Marvellous Adventure (21st Century Entertainment) fixed cd³² support, language can be specified (Info)
- 09.09.05 new: Colonization (Microprose) done by JOTD (Info)
- 08.09.05 improved: Dragon's Breath (Palace Software) supports another version (Info)
- 08.09.05 improved: Cannon Fodder 2 (Sensible Software) load/save fixed for french version (Info)
- 06.09.05 improved: Marvins Marvellous Adventure (21st Century Entertainment) supports disk version too, trainer added (Info)
- 06.09.05 improved: It Came From The Desert (Cinemaware) works with corrupted images from Cinemaware (Info,Image)
- 04.09.05 improved: Body Blows (Team 17) supports AGA version, new imager docs and icons (Info)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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21.Sep.2005
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Event: Retrot game fair in Bochum
From September the 30th until October the 2nd there will be the EuroCon 2005 in Bochum. Along with this event there will be also the first
Bochum retro fair for classic video games at the hotel Kolpinghaus. For this fair about 20 vendors have registered already, the entrance fee is 3 Euro.
Further information is available at the both said internet addresses.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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21.Sep.2005
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Sensible Soccer: Remake for the Playstation 2 in 2006
Sensible Soccer is alive: After the disappointing sequel for the
Playstation 1 anno 1998/1999 the developers at Codemasters seemed to have rediscovered the roots of that soccer classic and are aiming at the vitues of the classic like good game play in bird's view but current gfx and sound effects. The new version is said to be released early 2006 for the Playstation 2, further Details or screen shots are not available yet.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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21.Sep.2005
Brian Bagnall
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Book release: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
The some weeks ago announced book "On the Edge - The Spectacular
Rise and Fall of Commodore" is available now. On 548 pages in a hard cover the author Briab Bagnell tells the story about the rise and fall of the former computer giant Commodore. The English book can be ordered using the
ISBN 0-9738649-0-7 for $29.95 at every book store.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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20.Sep.2005
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GoldED Studio blow-out sale
In about two weeks, the next version of GoldED will be released (Screenshot).
Due to the fact that the name of the software has changed from GoldED Studio to Cubic IDE ("An integrated development environment that includes GoldED8") - some packaging material is now obsolete. If anybody is interested: the remaining GoldED Studio AIX items can be purchased at a steep discount, 25 EUR rather than 69,90 EUR. The catch is that, at this price, items are not upgradeable.
If interested, use the author's contact form to reserve an item. Numbers are limited. (snx)
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20.Sep.2005
vesalia.de (ANF)
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Vesalia: µA1-C-preorder-promotion until September 30th, 2005
Vesalia currently takes preorders for the MicroA1. Several MicroA1 and
AmigaOne bundles are listed on the dealer's website under the titlelink. (cg)
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19.Sep.2005
Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V.
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Event: Classic Computing 2005
The "Classic Computing 2005" opens at 24. and 25. September in Neubulach
near Stuttgart. The organizer would be demonstrating classical computers
within a due framework, following topics will be shown on Classic
Computing:
- Networkgames with CBM-machines
- Gamecorner for Commodore 64, Ataris and Amigas
- Computer like Pocket, Office, Casemachines,
Homecomputer, Music computer....
- One Model of the first PC Generation
- Handys from the beginning of the carphones
- Contests
Rainer Benda and Dr. Peter Kittel notify his visit,
and also a TV-Team from the SWR will be expected.
If you are interessted to show your classical computer on the Classic
Computing send your participation here
. The participation is for free - The Tax of stand and the
entrance are for free.
But for the participation we need a registration, that will be ensure that
we have a freee stand for you.
Please fill and print out this datasheet
datasheet in DIN A4 for every showed computer.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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