23.Dec.2004
Werner Lange (E-Mail)
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HCS Lange: Auction of Spare Parts after Closing of Workshop
Werner Lange, of the former Commodore and Amiga service HCS Lange (Detmold, Germany), announces that he's auctioning on EBay the remaining spare parts from his workshop as well as other Amiga accessories.
Among the things available are hundreds of ICs, and also computers, disks, a range of brackets, magazines, service manuals, folders and much more. Those interested may find these offers from Werner Lange under the e-mail seller ID "welandt." (snx) (Translation: dm)
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23.Dec.2004
amiga.org (website)
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New PowerPC Products for the Classic Amiga (update)
ACK Software Controls, Inc. is pleased to announce two new products for the Amiga 1200. The first product is a Freescale 8245 based CPU card clocked at 400 MHz.
The card will have a SODIMM slot for memory expansion and also includes a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller and a Radeon Mobility graphics chip. This CPU card will fit in standard A1200 cases, but a towered system is recommended.
The second product is a modular busboard and CPU combination for use with towered A1200 machines. The bus board features an AGP 1X slot and three PCI slots. Additional features of the busboard include two DDR DIMM slots for memory expansion, a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller, onboard USB and ethernet. The CPU card will initially be a 750CXe product, but other CPUs will be available.
Both products will ship with an OEM version of AmigaOS 4 and contain a version of U-Boot as the firmware. Products are presently in prototype form running Linux and will be available in Q1 2005. Additional information will follow in the new year.
Sincerely,
Adam Kowalczyk
ACK Software Controls, Inc.
Update: (24.12.04, 2:30, cg)
In a thread on amiga.org, Adam Kowalczyk states that similar expansions are in the works as well. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Dec.2004
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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WinUAE 1.0 public beta #3, Remarks on Postscript Printing
With version 0.9.92 the WinUAE Team is possibly releasing the last beta-version before the final release 1.0. Whoever is able to locate bugs is asked to advise the authors.
There is now better online help that explains about printing and the "autoflush" function more clearly.
Changes in WinUAE 0.9.92:
Bug fixes:
- Regular HDF TD_GEOMETRY returned incorrect data (caused some
larger HDF's fail to mount, 0.9.91 only)
- Filesystem bug fix (0.9.90-91), files with Windows
System or Hidden -flag set didn't open properly in all cases
- Stardust starwars-scroller in cycle-exact mode
- SuperStardust AGA tunnel-section and Superfrog intro bee flashing
plus other sprite emulation fixes
- Random disk formatting verify errors when using non-turbo mode
(was broken couple of releases ago)
- Display corruption/crashes if display width was larger than 1024
and display depth was 32bit (only native display mode, Picasso96
was unaffected)
- Windowed mode window close button didn't work if "Use CTRL+F11
to quit" was enabled
- Input-panel autofire yes/no-selection
- AVIOutput video recording bug in interlaced modes
New features:
- Filesystem emulation now uses NTFS named streams to store Amiga
FS protection flags and comment instead of __UAEFSDB.__-files
(non-NTFS drives still use old method)
- Postscript printer emulation using Ghostscript. All Windows
supported printers work now. Amiga-side only needs standard Amiga
Postscript printer driver
- Automatic print job flush after user configurable timeout
- Improved hardfile creation, filesystem selection (OFS/FFS/SFS) etc.
- Disk swapper key shortcuts:
- END+1-0 (not numeric keypad) = insert image from swapper slot 1-10
- END+SHIFT+1-0 = insert image from swapper slot 11-20
- END+CTRL+1-4 = select drive
- GUI drag'n'drop (no more ugly up/down arrows)
- Screenshots are now named _xxx.bmp
- User configurable emulation speed adjustment from 5 to 100 fps
- Rar and 7zip -archive support (using archiveaccess.dll)
- Some custom chipset emulation improvements here and there
- Improved drive click sound emulation
- X-Arcade build-in key mappings
- Onscreen disk and HD leds flash red while writing
- "Always on top"-windowed mode setting
[Rest of long article not translated. It was mostly about printing and Christmas greeting from Bernd Roesch. -DM] (cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Dec.2004
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distributed.net: PowerPC/AmigaOS Surpasses x86/DOS in the RC5-72 Competition
The PowerPC/AmigaOS platform zipped past x86/DOS sooner than expected, taking 14th place among platform rankings. PowerPC/AmigaOS now finds itself directly behind PowerPC/MorphOS, which is itself coming up quickly behind X86/NetBSD and is projected to catch it on 24th February, 2005. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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23.Dec.2004
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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New Debian Install ISO Image for the Amiga One
Under the title link there's a new Debian installation ISO image for AmigaOne computers ready for download. The only addition since the previous version is the standard use of kernel 2.4.26. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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22.Dec.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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MorphOS: System patch "Zapper"
"Zapper" modifies the ZipWindow() function of the intuition.library, i.e. the behaviour of the "Zoom" gadget at the top right border of a window. Instead of switching between two different window sizes, it resizes the window to full screen by click now. If the title bar is enabled that will be kept free.
Zapper also may be used in "Smart Resizing" mode which resizes windows only on the not already used screen area and does not hide other windows.
Direct download: zapper_0.9.lha (20 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2004
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce/Abakus-Design: Seasonig greetings and Snowman (Classic)
With Snowman (Classic) a tiny Christmas game is available at Abakus-Design. Unfortunately an entire new game was due lack of time not possible and the same reason lead to only minor changes to the game:
The game is running in 800x600 with any colour depth. Also on classic Amigas it should run without problems. Some new figures were pixeled which are now on wood plates. Thus, the game comes closer to the C64 original version. The archive is about 10 MB in size.
Last but not least Telemar Rosenberger and Franz Schlick wish a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2005.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2004
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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MP3 player: AmigaAMP 2.13
Thomas Wenzel writes:
"Just on time for Christmas there is an update for AmigaAMP. It is nothing world moving; I just fixed some bugs. New features aren't there, but code maintaining is better than nothing, I guess.
For example the old version 2.12 messed badly around with several state messages of the mpega.library which are not used by the original, but are by the libmad version. Directories containing brackets in their name could not be added to the playlist, etc.
All that and some other smaller bugs are now fixed and the program gained further stability.
Enjoy it"
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2004
Sylvio.k (ANF)
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Soms3d: Xmas edition
The Soms3d team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Hapy New Year to all Amiga users! As a little present there is a special edition of the Soms3d-Engine available (5 MB, requires PPC/Warp3d).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2004
Thomas Steiding (ANF)
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Robin Hood coming for MorphOS
"Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood", originally developed by Spellbound Entertainment for the PC, will soon continue his adventures on the Pegasos. The MorphOS version of Robin Hood has just reached "first playable" on the Pegasos. A demo version will be released soon and the game is expected to start shipping in QI/2005 for MorphOS.
About "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood":
Do not only take on the role of the hero Robin Hood, but also the roles of his faithful vassals and take them to the battle field against the nasty Prince John Lackland. In doing so you are able to enjoy the fabulous English landscape of 1190 as well as the giant castles and funny characters. The thrilling story is introduced by an award-winning introduction and transfers you directly into the hero\s body with the first mission, in which you have to set the captive comrades free. Take up the battle against the oppressors and free the farmers from the Prince\s reign! Be smart, be fast! Be Robin Hood!
Features:
- More than 30 non-linear missions in which, for instance, you have to save Little John and Brother Tuck and prevent a wedding between Marianne and the revolting Guy of Gisbourne or attack the taxation collectors of the Sheriff of Nottingham
- Visit five giant castles on different ways, at day and night times, and at different weather conditions
- Play with up to nine integrated characters being outstanding due to their specific abilities and qualities
- Due to an innovative fighting system you are able to control the hero\s sword in battles by mouse
- Decide yourself which tactic appears to be the right one for you: reach the goal by creeping around the guards or fight bravely using sword and bow
System requirements:
- Pegasos I/II at 600 MHz or better
- 128 MB RAM
- Radeon 7000 or better
- MorphOS 1.4.x
More information on "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" can be found at:
www.epic-interactive.com
www.spellbound.de
www.robinhood-game.com (snx)
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22.Dec.2004
ANF
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Community site for the ColdFire board Dragon opened
At http://dragon.amigaworld.de/ DJBase opened the first community website for Elbox announced ColdFire board Dragon for the Amiga 1200.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Dec.2004
Amiga Information Center (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: MOSEmu runs MorphOS software under OS4
Some people are working on an emulation that runs MorphOS software under AmigaOS 4 (screenshot).
If and when this emulation will be made available to the public is not known yet.
(cg)
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20.Dec.2004
bplan (E-Mail)
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Merry Christmas from bplan: How to build the machine
We like to thank you for the confidence you set in us and our products in the past year. After over 1,000,000 components used in the Pegasos II production we would like to take the opportunity to thank our customers. The video How to build the machine (19 MB) is our Christmas gift to you.
"How to build the machine" is made by the following persons (on the photo in the sequence from right to the left):
- GC Master of PowerPC®
- TD Master of the machines
- TK Mister Component
We wish all our webvisitors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2005.
These images and movies are under property by bplan GmbH and are allowed only to be published with our agreement. (snx)
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19.Dec.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Non-Linear Video Editing System for MorphOS
The archive "MSchnitt-Mos.lha" contains four programs that together comprise a non-linear video editing system. It's written fully in ARexx and requires the following programs be installed:
- ARexx
- MPlayer (>1.0)
- Mencoder
- ogmtools-1.4.1-morphos (ogmmerge)
- mkvtoolnix-0.9.1-morphos (mkvmerge)
- fxPAINT (2.0+)
Features:
- Video edit
- Add new sound
- Convert video formats
- Sound processing
- Sound edit
- Merging of video clips to create a larger
- Video titling
- FX-effects
- Merging of sound clips to create a larger
- Encoding of single frames
- Decoding of single frames
- Support of multitrack videos in Ogg Mediastream or Matroska Media-Vision
The following link points to a demo video illustrating features of the MSchnitt package: http://pegasossoft.de/Movie.avi (3 MB)
A side effect of MSchnitt is the manipulation of multitrack videos. These are videos with more than one video or audio track. Here's a demo clip: http://pegasossoft.de/Movie_kopergeschuetzt.mkv (3 MB).
These clips can only be played with the newest MPlayer version, because they make use of the Matroska format. Whoever has no knowledge of MPlayer will only see the copy-protected video, and not the other stuff.
Unfortunately I haven't written any instructions, because that too would be a bit much for me. But whoever seriously wants to use the package can send me an e-mail and I'll write back right away.
Download: http://pegasossoft.de/MSchnitt-Mos.lha (357 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Event: videos from the Pianeta Amiga
Davide 'Turrican' Michelini released a series of short videos on amigapage.it from the "Pianeta Amiga" that took place on December, 12th in Rome:
Another short video by Andrea Maniero shows among other things the Formula 1 simulation "Virtual Grand Prix" running under MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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News regarding DKG II and the SN archives
Today a new version of the coins data base SN-EuroArchiv was released. New in v1.8 are among other things an improved image support, slide and thumbnail show, the possibility to enter special coins and medals,
that are part of currency coins sets,
the support for the 2 Euro commemorative coin was improved, etc. All changes can be found in the history.
As a special offer for Christmas are "Die kleine Gilde II" and all SN archives (SN-EuroArchiv, SN-BilderArchiv, SN-MarkenArchiv etc.) available for special prices at eBay.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
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os4depot.net: uploads until December, 18th 2004
Since our last posting new added uploads at os4depot.net:
amishots.lha gra/mis 91kb AMIShots for Amiga. An Amiga clone of Webshots
nslookup.lha net/mis 22kb NSLookup converts domain names into IP addresses
duke3d.lha gam/fps 526kb Duke Nukem 3D
limpidclock.lha uti/wor 63kb transparent clock / calendar
angband-bin.lha gam/rol 1Mb Angband - a modern rogue-like RPG game
zangband-bin.lha gam/rol 2Mb ZAngband - a popular Angband variant
cathangband.lha gam/rol 991kb CatH-Angband - Another Angband variant.
kangband.lha gam/rol 991kb KAngband - Another Angband variant.
rearg.lha uti/she 4kb Adds flexibility to Alias command
titleclock.lha uti/wor 7kb Display the date and time in the WB title
snoopdos.lha uti/mis 243kb SnoopDos compiled for AmigaOS 4
killwingui.lha uti/mis 59kb Kills the windows of crashed apps
tunenet.lha aud/pla 101kb Basic Shoutcast and MP3 Player
sb128ahi.lha dri/aud 17kb OS4 SB128 AHI driver
angbandborg.lha gam/rol 1Mb Angband recompiled with 'borg' support.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Feelin: version 08.00 released
Feelin, an object orientated system for AmigaOS (screenshot), is now available as version 08.00. The system comes in towo parts: the feelin.library written completely in assembler as core and an expandable system to create graphical user interfaces.
Though several classes developed to create graphical user interfaces come with Feelin, it is not restricted to this.
The latest enhancements are among other things:
- XML file support to develop applications. These so called XMLapplications can be created "on the fly" including support for notify, object export, data import, etc
- The preferences and particularly the update mechanism were written completely new and many pop classes were added (especially the awaited FC_PopFont class) as well as several preference groups were improved
- Servers aren't supported anymore but replaced by shared objects (FC_AppServer is now a shared object)
- The dynamic layout adaption has been further improved and updates are now cleaner (only changed objects are new drawn)
- The "Locked" state is now fully supported including adjustable colour scheme
Download: feelin041218.lha (598 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
Robin (ANF)
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Hollywood game: TriMa'gic
Under the title link you can find a small Workbench game written with Hollywood by Robin Hueskes "similar to Logical but completely different". The principle of TriMa'gic is to remove all pieces of the same colour from the board. The game is available for AmigaOS 3.x, MorphOS and WarpOS. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Dec.2004
Murakami (ANF)
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Print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR issue 29
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French print magazine which is published by the association AFLE and is one
of the most important French Amiga magazines since it was founded in 1998.
In the current issue 29 you can read about the following topics:
- AmigaOS4 Update
- MorphOS 1.5
- Event: Alchimie 4
- LCD-Screen on Amiga
- Review: AsteroidsTR 1.2
- Review: Samsung LW17E24CD
- Tutorials: Roadshow, Tango, MakeCD, AmigaOS4 bootfiles
- Bjorn Lynne, demo-scene, hardware-tips...
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Dec.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Participation in OpenSolaris pilot program
Press release Santa Clara, California - Genesi has been invited to participate
in OpenSolaris pilot program from Sun.
Those developers can take part in it which know the products from Sun and which
already have an Open Desktop Workstation. All those who are interested in participating in
please contact Raquel Velasco or Bill Buck via e-mail.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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