26.May.2005
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Breakout-Clone Barkanoid 2 Available
Epic Interactive and Current Ad Agent have made known that "Barkanoid 2" is ready:
"The casual game Barkanoid 2 is now also available for MorphOS users with Pegasos I or II.
A demo-version may be found - thanks to the friendly support of the Genesi firm - under the following link:
http://www.ppczone.org/downloads/Barkanoid2Demo.lha
The full version is available starting Monday at Current Ad Agent for 14.95 euros. Please contact Mr. M. Goldisch at
alternative-computer @ web.de.
More information on Barkanoid 2 may be found at the product description page at our website."
[rest of lengthy article not translated -dm] (cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
MorphZone (forum)
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Pegasos: CD32-Live-CD Released via BitTorrent
Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has released Pegasos software for making your own CD32-Live-CDs. This may be downloaded from pegasos.org via BitTorrent.
The archive only needs a CD32 ISO image of your choice named "cd32.iso" as well as a CD32 Kickstart ROM image named "cd32.rom" in the main directory and then burn it all to CD.
On top of that the CD contains the 3D-Ego-Shooter Aleph One and several emulators (inc. MAME, Sega, Nintendo, and C64). Aleph One requires some additional files that are available by clicking on the previous "Aleph One" link. The emulators require the desired games as well as the BIOS or Kickstart image corresponding to the system.
More information may be found in the instructions in the archive as well as the related MorphZone thread.
The CD32-Live-CD has only been tested on Pegasos II computers so far, the results on Pegasos I are not yet available.
Torrent-Datei: cd32-live.torrent (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
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Convention Update: AmiGBG (Sweden) and Boinged in Belgium (Belgium)
AmiGBG 2005
The official website of the 23rd July 2005 11 AM to 5 PM Amiga convention in the Swedish town of Göteborg is now online.
[rest of this section not translated, Mikael Haglund of IBM will be there to talk about POWER architecture and the new "Cell" processor -dm]
For the convention Boinged in Belgium, which takes place on 6th and 7th August in the vicinity of Antwerp, hosted by the Belgian Amiga Club, Michele C. Battilana of (Cloanto) has donated three complete Amiga Forever 6.0 emulator CDs. One will be awarded to the 100th visitor, another, it's planned, to the owner of the best "modded" Amiga. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
MorphOS-Team (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Update of ft2.library
The MorphOS Team has released an update of ft2.library for MorphOS 1.4.5. The new library cleans up a couple minor problems with the previous version and is linked against the current freetype2, yielding improved quality.
The new version of ft2.library may be downloaded by registered MorphOS users at download.morphos-team.net or at the support FTP server. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.May.2005
Thomas Würgler (ANF)
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Susumu Hirasawa composes boot jingle for AmigaOS 4.0
Leuven, Belgium, May 25, 2005 - Chaos Union and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that recording artist Susumu Hirasawa will deliver a boot jingle created specifically for AmigaOS 4.0. Two additional tracks will also be included on the AmigaOS 4.0 CD to showcase Hirasawa's music.
About Susumu Hirasawa
Susumu Hirasawa is a highly acclaimed recording artist. He has written soundtracks for commercial successes such as Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent, the Beserk TV-series and videogame, and he is currently working on his latest CD-release. Since 1979 he helped defined Japanese pop-techno in the group P-MODEL and launched his first solo album in 1989. Since the mid-90s Hirasawa has toured with his Interactive Live Show utilizing Amigas with the support of Amiga user group of Japan (FAMIGA) for a spectacular interactive multimedia performance.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).
Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs.
Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985. (snx)
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25.May.2005
dietmar (ANF)
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Formerly commercial editor microgolded updated and now a free download
microgolded is now available as free download. Instead of asking users to pay for it, it is released as sponsored software and contains offline advertising.
About microgolded: microgolded is a small editor. It provides basic editing features, such as undo-redo, folding, macro recording, formatting, auto-case, auto-completion and other basic editor stuff. It is very fast and very configurable. All in one file, no installation.
Screenshot
Download
Registered users can find a new, advertising-free version on the GoldED website. New features: black-on-white color scheme (optional) and navigation tabs.
Amiga users and dealers interested in advertising software, events, websites or services in microgolded please contact GoldED support. (snx)
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25.May.2005
Jürgen Lucas (comments)
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MUI: Update of texteditor.mcc to version 15.11
The open source texteditor.mcc is now available in version 15.11 and offers most functions of a normal
text editor, embedded to a MUI class. The archiv contains native version for MorphOs and AmigaOS4 also.
Download: MCC_TextEditor.lha (340 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 25. May. 2005, 09:13] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Adventure: "The Labyrinth of Time" Amiga version available for free download
The originally 1994 published game "The Labyrinth of Time" (screenshot) is
now freely downloadable.
The Amiga version requires AmigaDOS 1.3, 1 MB Chip RAM and 512 KB Fast RAM and runs under UAE also. An English manual is
online available. Please study the included readme file.
Ordering the game on CD is possible at the title link.
Download: LABAMIGA.lha (134 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.May.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 24-05-2005
Blob Wars
Blob Wars is an SDL based board game.
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Downloadpage
Pachi el marciano
One more board game which is similar to "Manic Miner" or "Jet Set Willy"
(screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Downloadpage
Password manager: Ling 1.3
Ling is a data base for saving several passwords. All passwords are encoded with the BlowFish CBC algorithm before storing them to the data base.
(screenshot). The latest changes:
- Windows were left locked after an export operation
- Arggggggg found a very bad bad in passwords saving. All 1.1 archives are not compatible anymore
- Changed RNG function: now it is a KISS one with a sha1-ed randomly generated seed
- Some minor changes
Please note that old data files which were created with an ancient version of Ling are not compatible to Ling 1.3. Please export all your data prior to
updating to a CSV file and import these files then by hand to Ling 1.3.
Link: Homepage
Download: Ling.lha (635 KB)
TheBar.mcc 20.5
"TheBar" is a MUI class by Alfonso Ranieri to easily generate button banks.
Link: Homepage
Download: MCC_TheBarMOS.lha (425 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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24.May.2005
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Package management system: APMS
With "Amiga Package Management System" (APMS) David Pitcher releases a clone of the known from the Unix world package
manager like RPM or apt-get. APMS should assist users while installation or upgrade of software packages:
The program recognizes dependencies (application X requires library Y) and manages the download and installation
of all required archives.
In a later phase APMS will introduce an Amiga specific format,
also mechanisms to transmit bug reports to a central data base are planned. Additionally support of further platforms
(beside AmigaOS 4) and servers (beside os4depot.net) is thought of.
The first version of APMS still has several bugs and is partly incomplete:
- Install, uninstall and update do not work yet
- Loads of debug output
- The program does not show verbose status information
- Before download the (os4depot.net-) category must be selected by hand
For all interested ones there is a mailing list at yahoo groups available. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.May.2005
ANN (website)
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OpenPCI: updates for RTL8139 driver and OpenPCIInfo
Benjamin Vernoux released a new version of his OpenPCI driver for the RTL8139 ethernet chipset fixing several problems with connection abortions and with file transfers.
A new version of OpenPCIInfo is available, too. Here were internal configuration options added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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21.May.2005
jamiga.org/ (ANF)
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Amiga-Java: Jamiga 0.0.5
Jamiga, a Java implementation for AmigaOS and MorphOS, is available in version 0.0.5 (download page).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.May.2005
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Puzzle game: Update of AmiBrixx to version 1.2
Jörg Renkert has published an update of his puzzle game called AmiBrixx. The
version 1.2 is available from now on under the title link for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS, AmigaOS4 and
MorphOS.
News:
- OS4 version added
- Code optimation
- Skins can now contain graphics and sounds
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.May.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Live camera of Amiga-Osna user meeting is online
Today at 6 pm the live-camera of the LAN-party of the Amiga-Osna user group is
online. It will stay until Sunday at 5 pm.
An Active-X-Plugin for Windows or Mac OS X is required. Amiga users can watch a picture
which must be updated manually.
Besides this there will be a picture archive under the following address: ftp://ftpuser:05404957836@pegasos2.homelinux.net:21/IP-Cam/
The guest access is:
Name: guest
Password: 05404957836
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.May.2005
Eule (ANF)
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Demo-Crew "Abyss" Now Developing for Nintendo
The members of the earlier Amiga demo group Abyss are now developing for Nintendo under the name "Shin'en." You'll find an interview with Manfred "Pink" Lizner under the title-link. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.May.2005
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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Ten Thousandth Day of Amiga Timekeeping
After nearly 20 years of Amiga, Chris Hodges called our attention to another reason to celebrate this year: today is the 10,000th day since 01-Jan-1978, the beginning date of the Amiga's internal time calculator. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.May.2005
Michael Garlich (ANF)
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Papyrus Office: French dictionary available
For Papyrus Office customers a French dictionary is available now for download:
Dowload: pap_frenchdictionary.lha (189 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.May.2005
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MorphOS: Dodgin' Diamond & Ling
Shoot'em Up: Dodgin' Diamond 2
Dodgin' Diamond is an SDL based, vertical scrolling Shoot'em Up (screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Windows version
Download: dd2-0.2.1_mos.lha (326 KB)
Password manager: Ling
Ling is a data base for storing several passwords. All passwords are encoded with the BlowFish-CBC algorithm before saving them to the data base
(screenshot).
Link: Homepage
Download: Ling.lha (479 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.May.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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Hardware compendium: Updates of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
The "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" was expanded with a few more details and
photos. An overview with the latest changes is available
here.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.May.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Ian Chapman
Amiga Future today has published an interview with Ian Chapman (The Big Book of Amiga Hardware). (snx)
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18.May.2005
Rupert naTmeg Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: BullDog - an nzb-based Usenet ripper
BullDog is a MorphOS program by Rupert Hausberger to download from Usenet using the nzb-descriptor files. For full features see the enclosed readme file.
Main features:
- Can download from multiple servers at the same time
- Each server can download with multiple connections
- Connections can be paused or aborted
- Pause/Resume downloads, even after quit
- Abort/Restart downloads any time
- Easy to use, non-blocking and intelligent GUI
(snx)
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