07.Sep.2004
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E3B: USB controller 'Subway' - another production run? (Update)
E3B are currently gauging the demand for their clockport USB controller Subway. Using this
expansion, even Classic Amigas lacking Zorro- or PCI-slots have access to
USB peripherals. The remaining stock of Subway cards has been sold quite
some time ago - but given sufficient demand, E3B would be willing
to produce another batch.
If you're seriously interested in purchasing a Subway USB controller,
please contact Michael Boehmer. At least 30 orders are required to justify the production costs. The anticipated price for a single unit would be about 89 EUR (incl. VAT).
Update: (07.09.2004, 13:45, cg)
To use the Subway with an Amiga 600, a socalled 'A600 clockport adapter' is required. Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers tells us that these adapters are in stock right now and ship for 9.90 EUR. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Sep.2004
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak (ANF)
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MorphOS: New version of 'ShowGirls'
'ShowGirls' is a picture viewer from Michal 'kiero' Wozniak that includes image processing functions and
combines features known from MiniShowPicture, ShowPPC and other similiar products
(Screenshot 1,
Screenshot 2).
Some of the features:
- Easy browsing of directories (with mouse and keyboard)
- Lots of supported file formats thanks to Datatypes system.
- Nice MUI GUI
- Image processing options like resizing, balance, smoothing, cropping and a lot more
- Saving of images in JPEG or PNG
- Loading/displaying images with alpha channel
- Scaling image display to fit in the window (separate control over enlarging and reducing)
- Scrolling/zooming of big images
- Drag&drop of files/directories to be displayed
- Optional bilinear filtering of the displayed image
- Notification (refreshing of list of files when new files are copied in/removed)
- Thumbnailes generator (with templates) (Example)
- 2 browser modes (names list or thumbnails)
- Thumbnails browser optimized for viewing pictures taken with digicam (very fast thumbnail creation).
Changes in this version:
Fixed:
- ShowGirls icon is used as appicon when application is iconified.
- When starting without param sometimes there were trash in string gadget.
- Region marking was inaccurate.
- Problem when viewing small images, like icons, etc.
- Levels operator. Formula was slightly broken. If somebody misses old mode then I can re-add it.
- Other smaller or bigger bugs.
New:
- Bugs (probably).
- Using NList class for list of files. Added date and filetype displaying. Sorting works on any of them, including secondary sorting criteria (press SHIFT and select second column to sort by).
- Thumbnails in directory browser. Adjustable thumb size and border. Thumbnails cache (with several compression methods and other options). "Reduced memory usage" mode. Utilizing special properties in JPEG's created with digital cameras (results in more than 10 times faster thumbnails creation!!)
- Much faster finding of next/previous picture.
- Lossless JPEG transformations (Tools/JPEG Transform). Makes it possible to rotate and flip JPEG images without decompression/compression, so without loosing quality.
- Much faster image scrolling. Scrolling is now also more precise (subpixel accuracy).
- Improved zooming control (separate control over zooming and shrinking).
- Possibility do filter out .info file and non-image files.
- Added tooltypes support (FULLSCREEN and BROWSER).
- Added BROWSER CLI param. The default window now doesn't have it enabled.
- Improved Thumbnailer module:
- Suffix different than .info can be specified.
- Suffix can now also be replaced instead of only added.
- When scaling image aspect doesn't have to be preserved.
- Zooming image in/out with mouse wheel.
- Added default values to some sliders. Try to doubleclick on knob to set to default position (in balance, levels and probably some others too).
- Added mask shape selection to median filter.
- Added "border mode" to resize operator. Works the same way as in ImageFX.
- Now it's also possible to delete directories (a bit limited though. You can't unprotect files for example).
- Improved filerequester when saving. Uses path and filename of currently loaded image, and automaticaly replaces extension to match selected save format.
Direct download: ShowGirls-0.6.lha (376 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Sep.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies release CD compilation
Liquid Skies who have their roots in the Amiga music scene released at the Evoke 2004 their 2nd double CD compilation "Phase Two". This one contains all music files of the releases Release #022 to #052 as audio tracks and the original packed files as data track. This means a total playtime of almost 2.5 hours.
The compilation can be ordered on their homepage for a small fee (2.50 EUR plus porto).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
Christian Rosentreter (e-mail)
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DiscreetFX buy the rights for "Millenium"
DiscreetFX ("Spontaneous Combustion", "OpenVideoToaster", "AmiZilla") have bought from Nova Design the rights for the Toaster-/Flyer expansion Millenium as well as all remaining stocks.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce Redesign
CJ-Stroker has reworked amiforce.de from ground up. The frames are now past, the usage of the new site should now be very user friendly because of a "navigation history". Some spots need some finetuning according to the author but it is being worked on.
With the redesign new rubrics find their way onto the page, planned is among other things an OS4 project section. At latest with the existing of according hardware will a special aspect lie on the new AmigaOS.
The site is optimized for a resolution of 1024x768 and should work with every browser except Opera that causes some problems. The compatibility with Amiga browsers was important here.
For constructive critics and suggestions to improve the site is the author always eager to listen to.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
Amiforce (ANF)
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New AmiBlitz distribution with numerous improvements
From now on there's a much improved AmiBlitz2 distribution available for download. Because of the many changes and their size an update archive for an earlier distribution doesn't make sense anymore. Update archives will be available with the next version.
Unfortunately, many things were missing in the last distribution so that a seamless working wasn't possible. Thanks to Marco Möring aka Blackbird without whom the bugs and incompleteness of that distribution would probably never have been noticed.
Next to Marco my thanks go to his wife Margit Möring. Together we three could translate further guides into German.
Thanks go of course to Bernd Rösch and Thilo Köhler who work without a break on the future of AmiBlitz2.
Changes:
- Much improved install/deinstall scripts.
- After the installation are all settings immediately available.
- After the deinstallation is the archive in its original condition and can be installed again in the particular version.
- New Ped.prefs for the NEWCOLORMODE. Important: works only in screenmodes with 8/16 colours.
- More German translation of AcidGuides.
- Two versions of all (English/German).
- Further includes by Thilo Köhler.
- New Usermacro.guide.
- Many errors removed.
- Contains now many missing components, e.g. MUI2.res.
AmiBlitz2 reference manual in HTML:
Thanks to Markus Rütter is the reference manual for Blitz2 now available in an HTML version.
Next to the online version on Amiforce the manual is available for download, too.
Thanks to Markus Rütter who kindly gave the permission to do so.
News about the German manual:
At the moment is a PDF version of this manual being worked on. The available Postscript version can only be opened and printed with Pagestream. The PDF version will follow soon. So everybody can now print his/her manual. Planned is for now a version for the print of pages in A4 size. These can perfectly be put into a file. Thanks go to Andreas Röhr aka trion who really helped me very much. Thanks go also to Silvio Kurze aka MangaClub who made a first conversion.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
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Virtual Grand Prix 2: AmigaOS/MorphOS port possible
Paolo Cattani, who released in 1999 Virtual Grand Prix for the Amiga, seems to think about a port of the successor to "Virtual Grand Prix 2" to AmigaOS and/or MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
(ANF)
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AmigaWorld.net online again
After 34 hours "downtime" is amigaworld.net available again, some subdomains and additional services are only restricted usable right now.
Because of a hard disk failure (we reported) were some "Avatare" destroyed, the rest of the database isn't affected.
At os4depot.net, hosted on the same server, are some uploads of the recent days lost.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Audio mixer for SBlive! sound cards (update)
Vladimir Javorski has developed an audio mixer for SBlive! sound cards. The mixer uses the AC97 interface of the AHI driver "EMU10k".
Update: (04.09.2004, 15:00, cg)
In the meantime there's a new archive available for download (version 1.1).
Direct download: livemixer-1.1.lha (78 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Sep.2004
Pegasosforum (website)
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MorphOS: Devedie update to version 0.5.3 published
The graphical user interface Devedie for playing DVDs with the
MorphOS-version of MPlayer can be now downloaded in version 0.5.3 under the title link.
The support of the parameter -ss and -endpos has been added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Eclipse-Plugin for Amiga-Cross-development
An Eclipse-Plugin which supports the Amiga-Cross-development on Windows/Linux
can be downloaded under the title link. Presently it only connects the AutoDocs with
the Eclipse-Help system and contains a minor tutorial. Soon the source code will be
published on SourceForge.
Before it has to be installed a GCC-Cross-compiler, the AmigaOS-SDK,
Eclipse in version 3.0 as well as the
C-Plugin for Eclipse.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2004
OnyxSoft mailing list
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OnyxSoft: Updates for JoinSplitter and TheMPegEncGUI
The Swedish developer group OnyxSoft introduces Adam 'ChaOzer' Waldenberg who is
an Amiga and now also MorphOS developer for many years as a new member.
Additionally there are updates of the programs
JoinSplitter and
TheMPegEncGUI. Others are
supposed to follow.
TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical user interface for the following MPEG-Audio-Encoders:
- MusicIn (68k or PowerUP)
- Pegase (68k or WarpOS)
- Ncode (68k, PowerUP or WarpOS)
- Lame (PowerUP or WarpOS)
- BladeEnc - (68k or PowerUP)
- MP3Enc (68k)
- Ogg Vorbis
- MPEGA (68k, PowerUP or WarpOS)
In version 2.41 now the rawbyteorder-function works. Besides this a bug has been cleared
when putting back the estimated time of completion.
And here are the changes in version 1.16 of JoinSplitter which is a program that can
split or join bigger files:
- Worked around a bug in the GUI-engine which made the Splitter part crash under OS4
- Reworked the gauges a little to be more sensitive to different window border sizes
- Fixed a bug in one of the split modes if memory was running low. It would generate the wrong size for the splitted files
- Fine-tuned the conversion between kilos (1024<->1000)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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Pegasos: Freescale delivers 175 Open Desktop Workstations to developers
According to Genesi Freescale Semiconductor Inc. makes available 175 Open Desktop Workstations
based on Pegasos II to several developers and pilot projects for free.
According to Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck a list with the names of the
first 40 developers has been sent to Freescale yesterday who will get an ODW
will take part on the Smart Networks Developers Forum in Frankfurt on 30th of September.
Next week a list with the other 60 developers will follow who will also get an
ODW-system. Members of AmigaZeux as well as of some Demo scene-members belong to them, too.
Another 75 Open Desktop Workstations Freescale makes available for the support of PegasosPPC-pilot projects.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2004
Mr.X of Barracuda Team (ANF)
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Global Gladiators Bonusgame v1.1
With Hollywood "Mr.X" has developed a clone of the bonus game of "Global Gladiators" (screenshots under the title link).
The new version 1.1 cleares the "Bluebox"-bug and can be cancelled with ESC.
Besides this the archive now contains a configuration programm.
For playing this game you need a fast Amiga, e.g. WinUAE or one of the PPC-operating systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2004
ANN (Website)
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Amigaworld.net Temporarily Offline
On account of hard-drive damage the community portal amigaworld.net is temporarily unavailable.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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02.Sep.2004
Kai Mache (E-Mail)
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Fun of Computing: Exhibitor List Online
As of today the exhibitor list for Fun of Computing 2004 is finally, officially online. At the middle point of this convention you'll find Pegasos/MorphOS, Pegasos/Linux, and AmigaOne/OS4 Pre-Release naturally. But also there'll be new stuff to see on the matters of RiscOS (Acorn) and C64.
On the software side, Titan Computer is going to present "BurnIt 3" and "Papyrus," and they'll be available for purchase. Further there'll be known freeware and shareware programmers demonstrating the current versions of their software, taking questions.
Whoever wants to know what more there'll be to see at the exhibition hall should just take a look at the homepage of the convention, on which even more exhibitors shall be announced in the coming weeks. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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02.Sep.2004
Golem (Website)
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Scitech: SNAP Graphic Drivers now also for Embedded PowerPC-Systems
As reported by Golem under the title link, Scitech Software Inc. is now offering their SNAP graphic drivers for PowerPC-based system in the embedded area too.
[rest of article not translated. Among other details, it restated Hyperion's announcement that SNAP drivers will be used in OS4 -dm] (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Sep.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Playstation emulation: FPSE database lists more than 200 compatible games now
The "FPSE database" which lists games which were tested successfully with the Playstation emulator "FPSE" has been updated again to more than 200 entries now. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Sep.2004
Jörg Dittmar (ANF)
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"Computer- und Videobörse" October the 2nd and 3rd in Bremen
On October 2nd and 3rd it is time again for the "Computer- und Videobörse" in Bremen, held at the "Bürgerzentrum Neue Vahr". A detailed map and advice how to get there is to obtain from the homepage of the "User der Nordseeküste" (title link).
The Amiga will be presented with the AmigaOne and Pegasos but there will be Apple Macintosh and PC as well. Additionally several old computer systems will be shown. New and used hardware, from cables to complete PC mainbords, will be purchasable.
Jörg Dittmar is going to present the new Papyrus Office for MorphOS and - if ready - the CD/DVD burning software BurnIt 3 on his Pegasos II. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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01.Sep.2004
TerAtoM (ANF)
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Golem article regarding the new µA1 boards
By the title link Golem.de published yesterday Eyetechs's announcement of the miniITX AmigaOne models µ-A1-C and µ-A1-I (amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: ub)
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01.Sep.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #040831
By the title link you will find the whole newsletter of Amiga Update
for September 2004. In his English newsletter Brad
Webb summarizes monthly all important news regarding the Amiga.
- 2 MicroA1s for October Release
- Aladdin 4D on ebay
- Alchimie 4 Show in France
- Hollywood Update 1.9.2
- AWeb - A beta of interest
- DiskMaster2 has new versions
- GoldED Update is available
- SpamFryer update has been released
- WinUAE Bugfix version
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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