23.Jul.2005
Patric Klöter (ANF)
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Happy Birthday, Amiga!
20 years ago the Amiga was shown to the world public. As representative for all the "crazy ones" who still can't get away from the world's best computer system we let our reader Patric Klöter speak who indeed did write a n anniversary :
"Happy Birthday, dear Amiga! Today, 20 years ago, you were shown for the first time to the world public and it was in the New York Lincoln Center. Andy Warhol, Debby Harry and many other famous people were there to see your birth as first of all multimedia machines. In Deinen ersten Lebensabschnitten hast Du große Erfolge gefeiert, gefolgt vom Verlust Deiner Mutter, Commodore, und Deines Vaters, Jay Miner im Jahre 1994. Als Waise fandest Du Zuflucht bei Petro Tyschtschenko, der Dir im Sommer 1995 ein neues Zuhause bieten konnte.
Weltweit millionenfach verkauft, kannst Du zwar heute keine wirtschaftlichen Erfolge mehr feiern, aber die vielen Freunde, welche Dir beiseite standen, sind geblieben. Auch heute noch kümmern sich viele Amiganer rund um den Globus um Deine Gesundheit und haben es auch geschafft, Dir in fremden Welten ein Zuhause zu geben. Dir, lieber Amiga, wünsche ich noch ein schönes, erfülltes, langes, digitales Leben in der Welt der Bits und Bytes. Du hast es Dir verdient!
And don't forget: Good friends are the most important thing in the world!
Your friend Patric"
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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23.Jul.2005
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AmigaRemix: 12 new songs
Amigaremix.com offers remixes of Amiga games soundtracks as MP3 files for download. Since our last posting were twelve new songs added, a list of the new songs can be found under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 23. Jul. 2005, 00:07] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2005
(ANF)
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Elbox: status update of the "Dragon" turbo card
Elbox announce on their website the arrival of the first "ColdFire 5475" processors in their finalk version already some days ago (until now the "engineering version" PCF5475 was used).
The processor cards with the new processor versions arrived today at the developers. A picture of the new processor card can be found on the website of Elbox.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 23. Jul. 2005, 00:00] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jul.2005
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AmigaOS 4: Hyperion publishes Bonus-Pack "20 Years Amiga"
Leuven, Belgium - 22. July 2005
Hyperion presents you an improved intuition.library as well as several new
"Themes" as a little gift for registered users according to the forthcoming 20th anniversary of the Amiga.
Here are some screenshots which shows the new themes:
The Bonus-Pack can be downloaded here
(only for registered users).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jul. 2005, 15:25] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jul.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Candy Factory 2: Preview presentation on AmiGBG- and AmiWest-Show
After buying the rights of Candy Factory by ZeoNeo
in March 2003 tomorrow there will be a preview of the new version 2 for AmigaOS4 on the events of AmiGBG (Göteborg/Sweden) and AmiWest (Sacramento/USA).
Candy Factory is a programm with which you can easily create effects for graphics.
Version 2 is partly completely new written to use new features of AmigaOS4.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jul. 2005, 13:05] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jul.2005
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Version 1.5 of the Autodoc-Viewer "minad" Released
The program "minad," a minimalistic Autodoc-viewer by Rupert Hausberger, has reached version 1.5 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS. A new development is the switch for elimination of the filters, to this end the use of the filters is now implemented automatically with the command "OpenAll."
Download: minad-morphos.lha (54 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 21. Jul. 2005, 15:24] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jul.2005
Gunnar von Boehn (ANF)
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AWeb: MorphOS Version 3.5.06 RC
Gunnar von Boehn has compiled the current version (3.5.06) of the AWeb web-browser for MorphOS, wherewith this is now at the same position as the release candidates for AmigaOS/68k and AmigaOS4.
Please note that this is only about a release candidate, not a final version. Bug reports are solicited.
To install, unpack the archive and start the installer (for installation of the configuration), then AWeb itself.
The archive contains:
- The required Class Act classes
- AmiSSL for the SSL support
- A Flash-player (standalone, because the AWeb Flash-plugin is not ready yet)
- Icons and diverse settings
Download: AWEB3506rc-MOS.tgz (2,2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 21. Jul. 2005, 11:29] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jul.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Mediator: Update of the TV Tuner Controller TvR to Version 2.8
The program TvR by Robert Krajcarz (screenshot) has reached version 2.8. With this software a PCI TV tuner card may be controlled in conjunction with the use of a Mediator board.
To itemize, TvR makes possible the searching of Radio/TV signals, the creation of a TV program list, the configuring of the TV picture (brightness, contrast, color saturation), the changing of channels, the size-altering of the TV window (from 10% to full-screen), the selection of the video source (TV, Cinch, SVHS), the sound selection (mono, stereo) and the volume. In full-screen mode OSD (On Screen Display) is offered for the selected functions. The freezing and saving of the TV picture is also offered. The user may control these by GUI, keystrokes, or remote control.
As of version 2.8, video sequences may also now be saved, to this end tool-types of the program icons are supported. Beyond that, there's a change to the mute function in the main window.
Download:
tvr28.lha (68 KB)
tvr_skins.lha (1,5 MB)
tvr_skinkit.lha (29 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 21. Jul. 2005, 10:22] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jul.2005
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Scalos: Translation kit
Today a translation kit for the Workbench replacement scalos has been released.
It includes the catalogue data of all scalos compounds and thus, facilitates the adaptation to further languages.
Please send back all done catalogue files for additional languages.
Download: ScalosTranslation.lha (242 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 20. Jul. 2005, 22:45] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jul.2005
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MUI: MiniMailer.mcc V20.0 released
Alfonso Ranieri released with MiniMailer.mcc V 20.0 an update of his MUI class to send emails. It to obtain from the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 20. Jul. 2005, 21:50] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jul.2005
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MorphOS: Software updates by Alfonso Ranieri
blanky 1.9
Blanky is a DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling) screen saver.
lola 1.2
A tiny commodity to send emails instantly.
mfkey 1.9
The commodity mfkey assigns defined functions to keys.
MiniMailer.mcc 20.0
MiniMailer is a MUI class to send emails. (snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 20. Jul. 2005, 21:47] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jul.2005
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amiga-news.de: summer break until 21.08.2005, some services unavailable
Like every year, the amiga-news.de team takes a break. This time, the comments section will be unavailable until 21st of August. Other services will not be affected, news will be published as usual.
(nba) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 20. Jul. 2005, 14:22] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jul.2005
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amiga-news.de is looking for freelancers for the English section
The amiga-news.de staff is looking for editorial freelancers to increase the English section of the site.
The requirements for this non-profit work are a fluent English and German as well as the readiness to induct into our online editorial system.
If we gained your interest, don't hesitate to contact Nico Barbat by
email. (nba) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 20. Jul. 2005, 14:22] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jul.2005
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AROS: Status update July 19, 2005
AmiStart
Darius Brewka is currently porting the start menu AmiStart to AROS (screenshot 1, 2).
Blogs
Paul J. Beel and 'Kalamatee' have started AROS-related weblogs: The AROS Show, Kals Blog.
Applications list
Also by Paul J. Beel is The Definitive AROS Application List, a table trying to list all AROS applications already existing.
AROS-Exec
The AROS portal AROS-Exec does list 400+ members meanwhile and has got a modernized look recently. (snx)
[News message: 19. Jul. 2005, 21:22] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jul.2005
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Event: Commodore Vegas Expo
The "Commodore Vegas Expo" will take place from July 30th to 31st, 2005,
in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA). Among the presentation of various Commodore and Amiga computers several speeches and a tombola will be arranged. The entry is free, dealers won't pay fees for their booths. (cg) (Translation: nba)
[News message: 19. Jul. 2005, 19:36] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2005
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Ghostscript update: novels and pamphlets print
A further update for AFPL Ghostscript gives the possibility for novels and pamphlets print: four document pages are printed on one sheet (two on the frontside, two on the backside).
In addition to a full installation of AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 (title link) you need a new version of the binary and the script pdf2ps.amiga:
gs850release020nofpu.tar.bz2 (1,1 MB)
pdf2ps.amiga (0,2 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2005, 19:12] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2005
Neo (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: beat'em up "Beats of Rage"
Juha Niemimaki ported the beat'em up Beats of Rage to AmigaOS 4. In addition to the Amiga archive (title link) you need the games data archive:
Beats_of_Rage_1.0029.zip (60 MB) (cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2005, 18:43] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2005
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AmigaRemix: 12 new songs added
Amigaremix.com is a website where remixes of Amiga games soundtracks are made available for download as MP3 files. Since our last report were twelve new songs added and became part of the data base.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2005, 11:08] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2005
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Worm Wars version 8.3b for Amiga and Windows released
Amigan Software released version 8.3b of the Snake clone Worm Wars. The source codes for SAS/C and StormC are part of the archive.
Download:
Amiga-Version WormWars.lha - 686 KB
Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003: wormwars.zip - 653 KB
(ps) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2005, 11:02] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2005
(ANF)
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NewGUI: a look at enhanced functions
Among other links on the NewGUI homepage gives this link a first glance at the enhanced functions of the NewGui themes.
Programs can let the graphics needed for their gadgets being calculated. The linked image e.g. shows a button gadget that can be extended to almost every width with three graphical elements. Graphics for string, cycle and check boxes will follow. Basically, transparency effects can be used on the graphics.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2005, 10:54] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2005
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-ListDatei v1.2 - webmaster update
There's a new version of SN-ListDatei available on the sn-archiv.de homepage. SN-ListDatei lists all files of a directory including all sub-directories with date and file size.
New in version 1.2 is the support for webmasters who want their files being handled in specific ways by search engines, e.g. Google. For locking files the file "robots.txt" and for the direct indexing the file "sitemap.txt" can be generated, both accepted for example by Google. The archive contains an image showing Google having accepted the "sitemap.txt". Furthermore, there are three new functions to remove files from the list:
- Removing HTML files (e. g. for robots.txt)
- Only HTML and text files remain (e.g. for sitemap.txt)
- Removing files by using pattern
In the future there'll probably be the possibility to generate a XML file for sitemaps, the standard format for such uses. Right now, only a simpe Text file is created that is accepted at least by Google.
There are two new subdomains for the pages of www.sn-archiv.de:
There were some additons to the Euro collectors site, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2005, 10:50] [Comments: 0]
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