31.Dec.2004
David Brunet (ANF)
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Game database: Update of the "Amiga Games List"
The "Amiga Games List" (AGL) has been updated and reworked by David Brunet.
The AGL tries to list all Amiga games in a clear format. The list contains games, editors and
data disks. With 8645 listed games the AGL is the most extensive database for Amiga games.
If you have comments or completions then please contact obligement AT free DOT fr .
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Liquid Skies records #081
Today the scene group Liquid Skies publishes its 81st music pack. This time it contains
a song called "Before Tea Time" which was composed by Lcr reworked by Kuadziw.
The cover was created by Kuadziw.
Some further information to the track:
- Title: Before Tea Time
- Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
- Style: Drum'n'bass
- Play time: 5:08
- Format: mp3 @ 160 kbps
- Size: 6 MB (ZIP-packed)
You can download it under the title link.
The LQS-crew wish all people who are interested in music a Happy New Year!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: "Weather" shows information to the weather
"Weather" uses the database of weather.com to
show you current information about the weather on the Workbench (screenshot).
Weather requires the datatype-system MOSMedia which was published a few days ago (amiga-news.de reported).
Download: weather.lha (490 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2004
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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WinUAE: New Online Help
Under the title link you'll find the new online help for WinUAE. The data "winuae.chm" must be placed in the same directory as "WinUAE.exe." Then it can be called with the help button in the WinUAE GUI.
The new online help goes completely on the new WinUAE, including a few screenshots.
Whoever uses UAE for more than games can find some tips for the usage of the emulator under "Tips->Hints for Powerusers" and now the description of the referenced program is also complete.
Whoever wishes to participate in the further development of this documentation, please send a comment to the author to get hold of the corresponding archive. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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30.Dec.2004
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Software News Through 29th December, 2004
vbcc 0.8g patch 3
Another update for the C-compiler vbcc 0.8g has been released. The following problems have been solved:
- The minimal startup code from vbcc_target_m68k-amigaos, minstart.o, didn't work with latest vlink.
- New OS3.5 functions for workbench.library and icon.librarary were missing.
Link: homepage
vlink 0.9h
Vlink is a portable linker written in ANSI-C that controls a variety of object and executable data formats. Changes in the new version:
- Respect ALLOC and NOLOAD flags in binary file generation
- Linker scripts: NOLOAD was not reset for the following sections
Link: Homepage
HomeBank 3.1 (Beta)
In the newest version of the account manager "HomeBank" a few bugs have been removed.
Link: Homepage
Download: HomeBank31beta.lha (660 KB)
German language catalog data (v3.0): hb_deutsch.lha (6 KB)
Cocktail Shaker
Cocktail Shaker is a database of cocktail and mixed drinks, programmed in Hollywood (screenshots: 1, 2). English and Spanish language versions exist, of course users can assemble their own translations and are called upon to let the author know.
Link: Homepage
Download: cocktailshaker.lzx (1.4 MB)
Worm Wars 8.23
"Worm Wars" is a Tron clone von James "Amigan" Jacobs (screenshot). Version 8.23 contains many small optimizations and bugfixes.
Download: WormWars.lha (699 KB)
Report+ 6.16
Freeware Report+ version 6.16 has been released. The tool is based on ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 and offers a variety of functions. For example you can make Aminet "readmes" with Report+, the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool may be replaced, you may show the byte count for any directory. Changes to this newest version:
- Path size report: optional deletion of .fastdir files
- Linted source code
- Bug fixes
Download: ReportPlus.lha (306 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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30.Dec.2004
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Flood Catastrophe: Appeal for Donations
The tidal wave catastrophe in the Indian Ocean causes great shock here at home as well. Aid organizations are dealing with more than 100,000 dead, possibly more than 1,000 of them are from Germany. In this exceptional situation we'd like to call on our readers to help all those affected and to support locally the medical and humanitarian work of the relief organizations. Donate - even small amounts alleviate the emergency! If you would like to help those in the disaster areas, you may donate to the following account links:
[I'm going to put the translated name to the right of the actual organization name for English language readers. If you want to give you should probably use the German language name -DM]
Aktion Deutschland hilft [Germany Helps Campaign]
Alliance of these aid organizations: medeor,
Adra, ASB, AWO, Care, Help, Johanniter, Malteser,
Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband and World Vision
Bank name: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft
Bank code: 370 20 500
Account number: 10 20 30,
Keyword: "Seebeben Südasien" [means "South Asia ocean quake"]
Ärzte für die Dritte Welt [Doctors for the Third World]
Bank name: EKK Bank
Bank code: 500 605 00
Account number: 104 88888 0
Keyword: "Seebebenopfer" [means "ocean quake victims"]
Ärzte ohne Grenzen [Doctors without Borders]
Sparkasse Bonn [Savings Bank Bonn]
Bank code: 38 05 00 00
Account number: 97 0 97
Keyword: "Seebeben" [means "ocean quake"]
Caritas International
Postbank Karlsruhe [Postal Bank Karlsruhe]
Bank code: 660 100 75
Account number: 202 753
Keyword: "Erdbeben-Südasien" [means ocean quake South Asia]
Christoffel-Blindenmission [Christoffel Mission for the Blind]
Sparkasse Bensheim [Savings Bank Bensheim]
Bank code: 509 500 68
Account number: 505 05 05
Keyword: "Südasien"
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross]
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft [Bank for the Social Economy]
Bank code: 370 205 00
Account number: 41 41 41
Keyword: "Südasien" [means "South Asia"]
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe [German Hunger Relief]
Sparkasse Bonn [Savings Bank Bonn]
Bank Code: 380 500 00
Account number: 20 20
Keyword: "Erdbeben Asien" [means "earthquake Asia"]
Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe [Diakonie Disaster Relief]
Postbank Stuttgart [Postal Bank Stuttgart]
Bank code: 600 100 70
Account number: 502 707
Keyword "Erdbeben-Südasien" [means "earthquake South Asia"]
Kindernothilfe [Children Emergency Help]
KD-Bank
Bank code: 350 601 90
Account number: 45 45 40
Unicef
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft [Bank for the Social Economy]
Bankcode: 370 205 00
Account number: 300 000
Keyword: "Erdbeben Asien" [means "earthquake Asia"]
World Vision
Volksbank Frankfurt [People's Bank Frankfurt]
Bankcode: 501 900 00
Account number: 2020
Keyword: "Tsunami Südasien" [means "Tsunami South Asia"] (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Dec.2004
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amiga-news.de: Changes to Editorial Team
Two changes occurred this month in amiga-news.de's editorial team: Alfred Sturm left; he had tended the Amiga Link Directory from June 2000 until December 2004 by adding and deleting websites and putting up a screenshot of each. His responsibilities there have been taken over by Christoph Gutjahr. Don't forget to announce your new Amiga websites in the Amiga Link Directory. Gerhard "Gary7" Schmid ceased his activity as moderator of the "classified advertisements" forum. His successor is Martina Jacobs, who returns to amiga-news.de. She had managed the English language section for three years. We thank our two departing coworkers for their commitment in the last years and wish them for the future all prosperity! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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29.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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AROS: Latest state of the TCP/IP stack development
By the title link there is a forum thread at AROS-Exec, which contains
information about the current state of the TCP/IP stack
development for AROS and a screenshot. The latter shows the
browser Mosaic and a simple webserver, Cheetah. An e-mail
client is in development.
According to that thread there are two stacks
under development now. One developer goes for the TCP/IP bounty
and develops a SANA2 compatible driver. That stack might,
like Roadshow, become an AmiTCP heir and accordingly build on the
bsdsocket.library.
The second version is a port of LwIP by those both developers who
contributed the screenshot.
Currently only loopback is working, but a tap/tun driver for
the Linux hosted version of AROS is close.
Here, the bsdsocket.library is a regular, disk based library.
The first call of that library leads to the start of the stack task
and programs may access by the bsdsocket.library the network. But the
driver will be a different one. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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29.Dec.2004
S. & R. Raghoebardayal (ANF)
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Coyote Flux: PPC680x0 released as freeware
After lots of bugfixes and updates, PPC680x0 has become freeware and can be downloaded from this site. Both the docs and the program have been updated.
Since PPC680x0 V2.0 is in beta state, please let us know if the program contains any bugs. PPC680x0 has not been tested on machines without custom chips, so we cannot guarantee that it will work on such systems. It should work under UAE. Have fun!
Coyote Flux wishes everyone a happy and excellent 2005! (snx)
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29.Dec.2004
Robin (comments)
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MorphOS: PowerSDL 10.0 released
PowerSDL 10.0 is a MorphOS port of the SDL version 1.2.7 (screenshot of the
SDL preferences). It is based on the Amiga version by Gabriele
Greco, but was rewritten to a far extent to support the features
of MorphOS better.
Some features of
PowerSDL: - Integrated SDL settings with
localization
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Joystick support
- CDROM support
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Overlay support
- MorphOS integration: SDL programs may be
controlled by Exchange or by an ARexx port, windows have an
iconify gadget, etc.
Download:
powersdl.lha (147 KB)
powersdl_sdk.lha (946 KB)
powersdl_src.lha (443 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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29.Dec.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.3.5 svn 1282 (inofficial bug fix release)
By the title link Christian Rosentreter has released the latest SVN
snapshot (revision 1282) of OpenTTD (Multiplayer screenshots: #1, #2).
It will be the last SVN version which is compatible with the official
release 0.3.5; it removed the scrolling issues with the
server list. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Dec.2004
Robin (comments)
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MorphOS: Datatypes replacement MOSMedia released
Grzegorz Kraszewski has created a Datatypes replacement for MorphOS
called MOSMedia, which also features streaming. Thus, it is
possible to view or listen to files while still downloading them.
Currently it is possible with audio files, an example
"Soundplay" is included within the drawer "Examples". To start it it
is required to copy the content of the drawer "Classes" to the
drawer "MOSSYS:Classes/Multimedia".
The implementation of the video codecs and display routines
is currently under work.
Download:
mosmediapack12.lha (235 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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29.Dec.2004
S. Eichholz (ANF)
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Website for the demo party "Breakpoint 2005" online
Since yesterday the website for the demo party "Breakpoint 2005" at
Bingen/Rhine is online. Like all the years the party will happen during
the Easter days (March 25th to 28th). The website provides all
required useful information and also introduces the futuristic looking
event location, the "Rundsporthalle". (snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.Dec.2004
Pegasos.org (ANF)
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Event: Registration for PUSH 2005 in Gothenborg has started
It is now possible to register for PUSH 2005. Like last year you will get a discount if you register. Registration does not imply that you have to come and if you fail to show up you will not be required to pay us anything. If you are planning to show up, please register so that we know how many tables to set up.
For the second year PUGS will arrange a computer party in Gothenburg, Sweden. We hope - with your help - that this year's PUSH can be as good as last year, or even better. Everybody is welcome, even without computer. But our focus this year will be on PowerPC computers.
PUSH 2005 will take place February 25-27, Friday from 12:00 to Sunday 12:00. (snx)
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27.Dec.2004
Vinnny (ANF)
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Russia: 'Amiga Information Center' celebrates its 5th anniversary
Today Amiga Information Center (AiC) is celebrating its 5th anniversary. For five years now AiC is supporting Russian Amiga users with fresh news and support. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Dec.2004
AROS-Exec (website)
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New Bounty-Project started for AROS: Kickstart replacement
TeamAROS-Bounty #23 is dedicated to the creation of a fully working Kickstart-ROM-replacement
for AROS under UAE. Currently the project is supported with 100 US-Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2004
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New track on Psyria-Homepage
Dennis Lohr wrote: "...and the fire still burns!
This year there is another track by Psyria. Because at the beginning of 2004 there was
only one download to Christmas there is an exclusive title for all fans. 'Electronic Knights'
can be downloaded in the FinalMaster-Studio version.
I wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Amiga Year."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2004
AmiATLAS Development Team (ANF)
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MERRY CHRISTMAS: Christmas greeting from the AmiATLAS - Team
The "AmiATLAS Development team" wishes contemplative and peaceful Christmas with many presents for all users.
On this way we also would like to thank those which have supported to us this year in varied manner. We hope that you are involved also next year again.
And if we had one more wish freely, we would wish for all that it goes next year with the Amiga, finally, again uphill going.
Happy Christmas!
Gerd Frank
Manfred Rohde
www.amiatlas.de
www.mrworld.de (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Dec.2004
RMS Communications - Christoph Pölzl (ANF)
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Image editor: Pixel32 for MorphOS announced
Pavel Kanzelsberger, author of Pixel32, announces under the title link a port for MorphOS, to be presented in a few weeks. Pixel32 is an image/photo/animation painting/editing and retouching application usable for all kind of graphicians, but best for web designers (screenshot).
Some of its features:
- multiplatform design with own skinnable GUI, which allows us running Pixel32 in Windows, BeOS and even in DOS
- most of routines written in highly optimized 32-bit assembler decreasing program's size and increasing its speed
- plugin architecture allows adding new effects, import/export plugins but also new dynamic brushes (called BrushFX), layer types etc.
- supporting all popular file formats
- support for layers, channels, masks, selections
- support for animations, image clickmaps, slices, web optimizations and other webtools simplyfing your work
- variety of brushes, including animated and full color brushes
- variety of patterns allowing pattern-painting, texturizing and more
- variety of color/alpha gradients with universal usage
- templates, styles, layouts...
- and much more...
Currently, as a Christmas present, Pixel32 can be purchased for USD 20 until end of the year. If one registers now, all updates until next major release (v2.0) will be free. Furthermore, the registration is platform independent, so that one can use his license also with upcoming ports to other operating systems.
There are demo versions of the current version 1.0 RC2 for Windows, Linux and BeOS/Zeta as well as of version 0.99.8 also for QNX, Solaris and MS-DOS. In these demo versions there are only two limitations: a visible watermark in the images and a small annoying dialog box informing about the usage of a demo version. (snx)
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24.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Instant Messenger: Update of AmiMSN to V1.0rc5
AmiMSN which is an in ARexx written, console based IM-client for the MSN-Network
is now available in version 1.0rc5.
Changes and improvements:
- Changed: Everything placed into one main executeable
- Fixed: You now can't initiate a conversation with someone offline
- Fixed: In some cases AmiMSN would try reading a message that wasn't there
- Added: P4-Context header is now parsed. Needed for BOT2K3
- Added: Notification server disconnection messages now parsed
- Added: AmiMSN.cfg now has a version number
Download: AmiMSN-1.0rc5.lha (38 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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E-mail Client: SimpleMail 0.24 (Update)
Today version 0.24 of the MUI based e-mail client called "SimpleMail" has been published.
Changes:
- Message preview in main window
- Import of Outlook Express message files (.dbx files)
- New address book with seperate group and contact management
- More possibilities of configuring the application icon
- ARexx port improvement: GETMAILSTAT, FOLDERINFO
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements
- First official OS4 version
Currently the OS3 and OS4 version are available. The MorphOS version will probably
follow this day. Please check if you have installed the newest versions of the NList-classes
which have been published few days ago.
The SimpleMail team wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Update: (17:25, 24.12.04, snx)
Now the MorphOS version is also available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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