22.May.2004
Marcin Kurek
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BootCreator now with Pegasos1 support
Marcin 'morgoth' Kurek has released a new version of the BootCreator.
BootCreator creates boot menus for the Pegasos Openfirmware to simplify the starting of several operating systems similar to GRUP or Lilo. In the latest version has a simple support for the Pegasos1 systems been added.
The archive can be downloaded under the title link.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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22.May.2004
Michal Wozniak
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MorphOS: ShowGirls 0.5 released (update)
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has released a new version of his picture viewer that has been renamed to "ShowGirls". ShowGirls uses MUI and offers many image editing functions (scale, crop, rotate, flip) and a PNG icon thumbnail generator.
New in this release:
- Zoom reset with '0' key
- Thumbnail generator (Tools/Thumbnailer)
- Cropping/Autocropping (with preview enabled/disabled)
- Possibility to scroll, zoom, change display properties of the image when the processing tool is opened.
- Notification on currently displayed directory (list is refreshed when new files are moved in, deleted, renamed or updated)
- Reworked Minimum/maximum window (now called Median) and
implemented 3 modes: Minimum/ Maximum/ Median.
- JPEG Saver: Optimize switch - produces a bit smaller
images.
- Devices list reworked. It's easier to use now (less
entries).
- Possibility to turn off immediate processing on slider
movement (usefull for big images).
- Contrast and Gamma adjustment.
- Sharpening filter.
- Flip Horizontal/Vertical
- Color to gray conversion
- Negative
- Copy/Paste functionality. Unfortunately IFF/ILBM can't
store alpha channel, so it's not copied
- Possibility to start in fullscreen mode (FS or FULLSCREEN param)
- Many small fixes and improvements. Key shortcuts, tab
cycling, menu layout (thx tokai for pointing these).
Bug fixes:
- Black image bug.
- Save file requester remembers its last path.
- Some typos.
- libjpeg was hitting on corrupted files.
- Slider position in some filters is reset after
window is reopened
- Smoothing can now be turned off for one direction (set
to 0 pixels)
- Usage from Ambient (couldn't be used as Default Tool).
The author wrote: "Hope You will like it. This tool is constantly developed so expect some supercool features in the future."
Download (328KB):
http://wozniak-m.w.interia.pl/ShowGirls-0.5.lha
http://www.binaryriot.com/kiero/ShowGirls-0.5.lha (mirror)
Update: (22.05.2004, 16:10, cg)
In the first released version was an error (the first image was invisible). Please download the archive once again. (cr) (Translation: wk)
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22.May.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Mai Logic: New Articia-P specifications / mini-ITX Teron available
The Mini-ITX version "Teron mini" of the PowerPC board family by Mai Logic is in the meanwhile listed as available on their website.
In addition, the specifications of the planned Northbridge Articia P were updated (PDF file) that now supports next to the increased to 200 MHz DDR RAM speed (amiga-news.de reported) a CPU bus speed of 200 MHz. The production process was refined from 0,25 to 0,18 µm.
According to Amigaworld.net is a usage of the Articia P for a future micro-ATX version of the AmigaOne possible.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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22.May.2004
ANN (website)
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Text viewer: EvenMore v0.62
The text viewer EvenMore by Chris Perver is now available in version 0.62. Mainly the plugins for RTF, HTML and AmigaGuide have been updated.
For the RTF plugin have compatibility issues been fixed, for AmigaGuide the bug with the word wrap and the plugins for HTML and Eml now understand the ANSI command *CBAR.
In the main program the quickload.txt menu list has been extended with the key words SUB and ITEM. By more intense use of the screen font and the possibility to run the program without the need of the iconify gadget should the window now look better when using special GUIs (e.g. MorphOS).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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22.May.2004
Wolfman (ANF)
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PC Praxis special edition with Amiga Forever special edition
Wolfman wrote: The new special edition Windows Intern of the German print magazine PC Praxis, mainly covering the tuning of WinXP and similar things, contains an additional part about emulators where Amiga Forever is mentioned, too. In addition to this, there's a special edition of Amiga Forever together with Kickstart 1.3 and Workbench on the magazine CD.
The issue is priced 7.80 Euro and offers newcomers to Amiga emulators under Windows a quite cheap possibility to get a legal copy of the Kickstart ROM and a Workbench.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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21.May.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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PNG-Icon-Set: ScummVM-Bubbles
With ScummVM-Bubbles
Oliver Hummel has created an Icon-set for diverse ScummVM-games (screenshot).
For these 22 PNG-Icons you must have either MorphOS or AmigaOS with PowerIcons-patch.
The Icons were created by inspiration of Christian Rosentreters MAME-Bubbles
and are Mailware.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.May.2004
MorphOS-BT2-ML
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PUSH 2004: First pictures of event in Göteborg
You can look at some first pictures of the PUSH 2004,
which will take place until tomorrow in Swedish Göteborg.
You can find them here.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.May.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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Secret Decoder Ring: Mass-Decoder for Binary-Newsgroups
With Secret Decoder Ring
you can convert UU-coded files from Binary-Newsgroups.
Required are UUDecode, yDecode, Newscoaster and ARexx.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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Report of Amiga-Meeting 2004 in Polish Lodz
Under the title link
you can find an English translation of the richly pictured report of the Amiga-Meeting 2004
in Lodz (Poland).
The report also mentions some details of the forthcoming MorphOS-version 1.5
which was presented there as a beta version. The user-interface called Ambient has an
improved way of sorting icons, listings in text form and a DefIcons-like system based
on MIME-Type.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Strategy game "LGeneral"
Pawel Stefanski ported the turn-based strategy game LGeneral to MorphOS. The required data files need to be downloaded from the LGeneral homepage, the sources of Pawel's port can be found on his homepage.
Direct download: lgeneral.lha (MorphOS binary)
(cg)
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20.May.2004
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Software News in Summary
PTplay for AmigaOS 4
The Protracker player "PTplay" by Timm Mueller, Ronald Hof and Per Johansson is now also available for AmigaOS 4 (versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS already existed). The complete package should be downloadable shortly from the program homepage.
Direct download:
ptplay.lha
ptplay_os4 (OS 4 Binary)
Software updates from Tom Duin
Tom "AmigaHarry" Duin has released new versions of some of his tools. Mostly little bugs have been taken care of.
- CLI2WB: Starts shell commands from Workbench
- Tasksettler: changes the priority of tasks, terminates tasks
- GoScreen: opens a new screen on which the program may open its window that would otherwise not use its own screen
- CDDA_SwapMostLeast: converts CD audio tracks from Intel to Motorola format and back.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.May.2004
Michael_Mann (ANF)
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PowerPC Emulator: PearPC Boots MacOS X
"PearPC" is another PowerPC emulator in development, one that emulates a complete PPC platform and, according to the website, "runs most PowerPC operating systems."
PearPC exists in an interpretative CPU emulation version that's about 500 times slower than the host computer, as well as in a JIT-Version that's 40 times slower.
As these screenshots on the emulator website show, Linux as well as MacOS X are running already on the emulator.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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20.May.2004
whoosh (ANF)
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Cross-Compiler: gcc 3.3.1 for AmigaOS 3 creates AROS-Binaries
"whoosh" combined the sources of gcc-3.3.1-aros and gcc-3.3.3-amigaos to create a gcc version that runs under AmigaOS 3 and compiles binaries for AROS-x86. He also ported binutils-2.14.
The compiler requires a working GeekGadgets environment and the linker libraries and includes from www.aros.org/download.php. It is used like this:
i686-pc-aros-gcc-3.3.1 -march=i486 -s -O2 hello.c -o hello.o
i686-pc-aros-gcc-3.3.1 -s -march=i486 -o hello hello.o
The default target is i686, but you can create binaries for i386, i486, i586, i686, pentium or pentiumpro AROS x86 machines.
The c compiler part of the port was tried out on various graphics demos from the AROS website, all of them ran successfully. The c++ part of the port is completely untested and the author would appreciate feedback regarding this issue.
(cg)
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20.May.2004
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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AmigaAMP 2.12 released
Thomas Wenzel released a new Version of his audio-player "AmigaAmp". Thomas writes:
"I'm almost certain that I've forgotten to fix some of the known bugs but I'm also certain that I've finally fixed some of them! :))
Some WSZ skin files have their images stored in a subdirectory rather than the top level. This is now supported. Newer versions of ID3v2 tags still can't be read but at least they don't prevent AmigaAMP from loading the classic ID3v1 tags any more.
If you've got questions please use the discussion board first. I will check it regularly." (cg)
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20.May.2004
Michael Rellstab (ANF)
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Hardware Project: Playstation Gamepads on Amiga
Michael Rellstab has invented an interface with which Playstation gamepads may be used on Amiga. Michael writes:
"The project consists of three variations, of which one (TwoPSXtoAmiga) is conceived for the direct use of an Amiga joystick port. The other variations are differentiated only by the functions of the buttons and are conceived for "other than Amiga" purposes.
The ZIP archive contains detailed documentation, as well as the assembler source for the PIC micro-controller that is required.
Also, many thanks to Carsten Siegner: he has offered to host the project. But whoever wants to ask questions about this interface should write me and not bother Carsten! :)"
Download the documentation and development data:
PSXtoTTL.zip (705 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.May.2004
Nicholas Blachford (E-Mail)
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"Walker" website updated
Nicholas Blachford managed to boot his Amiga prototype "Walker". He added a few screenshots from the machine to his website.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.May.2004
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Puzzle game: "Virtual Ball Fighters SE" announced
XTeam Software announce on their homepage that Virtual Ball Fighters SE will be ported to "AmigaOS 68k/PPC".
Virtual Ball Fighters SE is the successor of Virtual Ball Fighters, a Tetris clone which is already available for AGA and RTG Amigas.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.May.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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PUSH 2004 starting tomorrow - MorphOS 1.5 to be shown
Tomorrow PUSH 2004 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Everyone will have the chance to win a Pegasos 1 with 128MB RAM (+MorphOS, Linux Installer) as first price.
Of course also the latest version of MorphOS 1.5 will be shown, including a TCP/IP stack, Radeon 3D drivers and Altivec support. According to recent rumours a PPC implementation of ARexx will be demonstrated as well.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.May.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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Strategy game: Transport Tycoon Deluxe (Update)
Open Transport Tycoon is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", that "enhances the game experience dramatically".
Christian Rosentreter and "Goos" compiled the game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (68k and WarpOS) (MorphOS screenshot). Open Transport Tycoon requires the data files from the original Windows version of "Transport Tycoon Deluxe".
Direct download:
MorphOS (1 MB)
WarpOS
(418 KB)
68k
(374 KB)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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18.May.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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Sunny prices at IOSPIRIT
Felix Schwarz writes: It's sunny and warm - it is the time where people are refuelling their energy... And it's the time where IOSPIRIT is again lowering the prices.
Available at heavily reduced prices are fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio
and the IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle (contains the latest full
versions of fxPAINT, fxSCAN and VHI Studio).
Opportunity is good... (snx)
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15.May.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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First reports and photos from the OS4 event in Essen/Germany (update 2)
In the forum of Amigaworld.net gives Amon_Re a first overview about the OS4 event that took place today in Essen.
According to his words were almost a dozen of AmigaOne computers shown with AmigaOS 4.0 coming in the ATX as well as in the mini ITX form.
Participants had been among others:
- Petro Tyschtschenko (said to be consultant for Gericom)
- Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden, Timothy De Groote, Steffen Häuser (Hyperion)
- Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers)
- Rakesh and Sharwin Raghoebardayal (Coyote Flux)
- Alan Redhouse (Eyetech)
- Guido Does (Vesalia)
- Ron van Herk (Computer City)
- Sebastian Brylka (Amiga Insider)
- Alexander Lohrmann (68k emulation)
- "Chip" (Moovid)
- Volker Mohr
Alan Redhouse held a speech about his aims with the MicroA1 and why China were interested in devices with little power consumption. In addition there would be a Remote Windows Client for AmigaOS 4.0. After the speech questions could be asked but nothing of interest had been said.
Regarding the MicroA1 Alan Redhouse had said that its later sales version wouldn't be finished yet. In principal, it is planned as a shrinked form with expansion slot similar the one for the main processor to have a basis to build on depending on the specific needs.
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden held no speech but answered questions regarding the availability of AmigaOS 4.0 with "when it's ready".
Software shown were ArtEffect 4, FreeSpace and AudioEvolution as well as some ports, especially emulators.
Update: (15.05.04, 21:10, cg)
At Amiga Insider, there's also a short report as well as photos from the event.
Update: (16.05.04, 08:38, snx)
Photos taken by "Chip" can be found under http://amigos.amiga.hu/chip/Essen/thumbs_d/thumbs_p.html.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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