09.Aug.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MorphOS: version 1.4 released
After finishing the internal beta test is MorphOS 1.4 in the version dated August, 9th from now on downloadable for all registered Pegasos owners in the usual way from the BT2 server. the new features contain among other things:
- optional automatic installation
- JIT compiler "Trance"
- Turboprint integrated
- USB integrated
- Radeon DVI & overlay (except Radeon 8500)
- 3D for Voodoo 3 and 4
- Warp3D emulation
- support for graphics tablet
- setting for icon scaling
- leave out of icons via drag&drop
- individual skins for each screen
- PNG buttons
- auto scroll
- blending
- sound datatypes
- Kaya (MP3/OGG player)
- calculator
- magnifying glass (zoom)
- task manager
- Ambient: panels, lasso function, shortcuts
- dock manager
- new skins and fonts
- skin exchange "on the fly"
- reboot via keyboard
- gradients
- more mprefs
- no connected PS/2 mouse needed on system boot
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09.Aug.2003
Jens Meier (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #048
the scene group Liquid Skies has released their 48th music pack with the title "Nuclear Cars". This time's composer of the 4.02 minutes trance track is Maxus.
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08.Aug.2003
AROS (website)
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AROS status report 08/2003
The developments on the operating system AROS go still as planned. In the last weeks had the following update been done:
- Hardware: Michal Schulz is still working on the PPC port, having
received the Pegasos board donated by Genesi, and more recently a Voodoo3
card donated by Randy Vice.
- Hardware: Johan Grip is implementing the OpenPCI specification, and
also reworking our buggy ide.device, which attempts to write too much
data at once instead of splitting the requests in smaller chunks. However
this is going to be more a rewrite than a bug fix. If someone just wants
to do the bug fix, there is an open bounty (currently 40 USD) for the
ide.device bug at TeamAROS.
- Build system: GCC 3.2 is now the minimum requirement to compile AROS,
which now compiles fine with GCC 3.3, thanks to Stefan Reinauer and
others who fixed the various deprecated bits in the tree.
- Build System: Staf Verhaegen continued to improve and simplify the
build system. Lately, he reorganized the kernel build to use only
objects, no more static or shared libraries.
- Build System: Iain Templeton, one of our South hemisphere developers,
did his fair share on the build system too, especially on the configure
scripts (which now require autoconf 2.53, hopefully a generated configure
is kept in CVS for those missing it) and to ensure that AROS compiles and
runs fine hosted on FreeBSD.
- Build System: Also mawk (which comes as default on Debian GNU/Linux)
will generate incorrect headers while building AROS, but GNU awk (gawk)
and FreeBSD awk work fine.
- i386-pc Installation: John Gustafsson and Adam Chodorowski earned the
first TeamAROS bounty for their "Automated Disk Prep and OS Installer".
It will install AROS on the first disk of the first IDE channel. Don't
try this on a disk with valuable data anywhere on it, you've been warned.
Unfortunately it isn't fully usable yet, due to the ide.device bug: some
files get corrupted during installation.
- i386-pc Installation: As part of this work, new Format and Partition
commands were implemented.
- User Interface: We now have a beautiful About dialog, thanks to Pixel
Art's logo and Adam for the code, as well as an in-progress Mesa port by
Nic Andrews. And before you ask, the beautiful Broken.miho wallpaper is
here.
- User Interface: Adam did major improvements to the workbench and icon
libraries (which handle much of the "under the hood" desktop work), and
also to Wanderer itself. The framework for Wanderer commands is in place,
and there is already the Delete tool implemented.
- User Interface: As a bonus, there is now an identification hook in
icon.library to display proper icons depending on the file type and take
appropriate action on double-click, for files without disk icons.
- User Interface: Sebastian Bauer added arbitrary angled gradients to
Zune images.
- User Interface: David Le Corfec, Adam and especially Fabio Alemagna,
who came up with a multitude of ideas and algorithms, brainstormed on
a "perfectly" MUI-compliant implementation of Zune layout algorithm.
Hopefully the new one seems to do the trick.
- User Interface: The Zune string gadget also got a rework and is now
slightly more usable, the prefs program got a few more pages, and many
Zune classes were put in their own loadable modules.
- User Interface: Georg Steger implemented the Cybergraphics'
WritePixelArrayAlpha() and BltTemplateAlpha(), so we can show even more
eye-candy, with alpha blending this time :) Adam used this to implement a
nice grayed-out disabled effect for Zune gadgets, instead of the usual
grid pattern.
- User Interface: Georg is also porting back the intuition.library from
MorphOS, and still does a lot of impressive bug finding and fixing
elsewhere, which for example led to find and report a longstanding bug
in stipple drawing to the XFree86 project. And when you're faced with a
strange memory corruption, try his invaluable trick : call a check
routine in the scheduler ! This allowed to fix bugs in several Prefs
programs.
- User Interface: But maybe the best for the end ... With
BltTemplateAlpha() to blend the anti-aliased glyphs, and the work from
Staf on freetype2, diskfont and bullet libraries, TrueType fonts now
work - and look - great! It also draws upon the work of many others,
including the MorphOS team (and especially Emmanuel Lesueur) and the
FreeType project. The Bitstream Vera font family is now included in AROS.
- User Interface: Use FTManager to install TrueType fonts in a few
mouse clicks, and enjoy the new Font Prefs program.
- Localizations: We got a Spanish keymap contributed by Albert Astals
Cid, several French catalogs by Olivier Adam and Hungarian catalogs,
language and country files by Mark "Bôregér" Balogh.
- Localizations: The applications localization system has been cleaned
up a bit, and as a side effect, much more applications are now localized.
So if your favorite application has been localized but misses a catalog
for your language, don't hesitate to send it to us!
- TCP/IP: Will be available next week. Nah, just kidding ;-) One of the
most requested features. A couple of people are working part-time on
this, so don't hold your breath. This is a huge task, spanning from
low-level drivers to interface libraries and support applications. It's
currently not the priority for most of the developers. Use another
network appliance in the meantime, or come join us :)
- Softwares in contribution: As usual, some new software or updated
versions were imported in contrib: UAE 0.8.22 (a Zune GUI is planned),
the free DeluxePaint clone 4P 0.09, TCC 0.9.19 (you can now directly
create AROS executables!), GNU tools (make 3.80, diffutils 2.8.1, patch
2.5.4, grep 2.5.1, m4 1.4), abcm2ps 3.7.1, sploiner 1.0
- Miscellaneous: After some benchmarking, BOOPSI method calls were
optimized using macros, and are now about 20% faster.
- Miscellaneous: Roughly 2000 CVS commits since the last status update,
with a record of 1063 in July. Check it there. So obviously this status
update is not exhaustive.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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08.Aug.2003
GIGA (ANF)
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Video of bplan appearance at NBC GIGA
On the PegasosPPC website of Genesi S.à.r.l. you can find a video recording of the appearance of bplan in the TV computer show NBC GIGA on August, 7th 2003. bplan introduced there the possibilities of their PowerPC hardware Pegasos. The 47 MB AVI video is available for download.
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08.Aug.2003
Jörg Lennhof - RetroGames e.V. (ANF)
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Event: 4. Retro stock exchange on 27.9.2003 in the GoTec - Karlsruhe
The first registered association for the preservation of classic video and computer games, RetroGames e.V., and 8bit-Games organize the 4th 8-Bit retro stock exchange this time in Karlsruhe (Germany).
On Saturday in September, 27th 2003 can collectors and interested people from 10 to 16 o'clock in the rooms of the GoTec Kulturhaus buy and sell classisc video games, home computers and collectors pieces.
Additionally, all guests and visitors can visit the arcade and video games exhibition of the RetroGames e.V. association which contains rare collectors pieces out of more than 30 years of video gaming history. The exhibition is unique in Germany. The admission charge is valid for the Retro stock exchange as well as for the exhibition of RetroGames e.V.
More information about the association and about the Retro stock exchange can be found at
http://retrogames.info. Emails can be sent to info@retrogames.info.
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07.Aug.2003
Chris Perver (ANF)
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Textviewer: Update for EvenMore (exe and AG-Plug-in)
The EvenMore exe has been updated to allow you to follow links in a file
you are viewing, simply by clicking on them. To do this, EvenMore now
has new escape codes for the plugins, ESC*NODE, ESC*LINK, ESC*CEND.
The AmigaGuide plugin has been updated, and I will be working on the
HTML plugin in the next week or too to update it. Currently this
will only allow you to follow internal links, but external links
shouldn't be too difficult to program. Download now from
www.evenmore.co.uk (nba)
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07.Aug.2003
Thomas Raukamp (ICQ)
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heise: Submarines of the US Navy with Apple Xserve under Linux
The renowned print magazine "heise" has reported in their online edition about a new outfitting of the US Navy. Heise states that the Navy will put into their submarines 260 server systems prepared by defense contractor Lockheed Martin for realtime picture processing. These systems are based on a combination of Apple's XServe, and the Linux operating system Yellow Dog Linux whose producers are known in Amiga circles as Terra Soft. Read the comlete report (German language) at Heise Online under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Interview with Carl Sassenrath
A while back Carl Sassenrath agreed to answer some questions from the
Amiga.org community about his current project, REBOL and the current
Amiga situation. Your patience has been rewarded, because you can
finally read the interview under the titlelink. (nba)
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07.Aug.2003
ScummVM Amiga Webseite (ANF)
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ScummVM 0.5.0 R2 (68k and WarpOS) Appears
The second release of ScummVM 0.5.0 appeared today. In this version a few bugs with the game selector have been eliminated and a few corrections with the path entries within the program have been improved. With ScummVM 0.5.0 the following games may finally be played for the first time on the Amiga: "The Curse of Monkey Island", "The Dig", "Full Throttle", "Beneath a Steelsky" und "Simon The Sorcerer 1 + 2 (PC-Versionen)." (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Round About New Things at morphos.net
The comprehensive and optically reworked web presence for the PowerPC operating system MorphOS is reachable as of today. Next to details about the features of MorphOS you'll find there further information and screenshots of MOS-compatible software, the Super Bundle, the MOS community, future and past meetings and conventions, dealers, and a lot more. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
OSnews (Website)
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Interview with Two AROS Developers on OSnews
The online magazine OSNews has conducted an interview with Ola Jensen and Adam Chodorowski of the AROS development team. You may read the interview under the title link. According to them AROS is approaching the development condition of AmigaOS 3.1, of course collaborators are still needed to push forward development. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results from July/August 2003 (Update)
The results of the Amiga Games Hit Parade vote for the months of July and August 2003 have been released today:
- (12) Tales Of Tamar 116 pts
- (6) Knights And Merchants 93 pts
- (9) Earth 2140 86 pts
- (1) Napalm 85 pts
- (13) Quake 2 81 pts
- (2) Slam Tilt 78 pts
- (4) Quake 68 pts
- (3) Payback 65 pts
- (7) The Settlers 57 pts
- (5) Sensible World Of Soccer 57 pts
- (8) Crossfire 2 53 pts
- (11) Freespace 49 pts
- (14) Heretic 2 48 pts
- (10) Foundation 40 pts
- (19) WipEout 2097 37 pts
- (17) Fields Of Battle 32 pts
- (16) Moonstone 30 pts
- (15) Cannon Fodder 30 pts
- (29) Frontier Elite 2 28 pts
- (55) Speedball 2 26 pts
The next vote (Amiga Games Hit Parade in September/October 2003) begins in the middle of September. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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06.Aug.2003
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan at NBC Giga
The bplan GmbH, developer of the PowerPC-mainboard Pegasos, will attend
the TV-show NBC GIGA on August 7th,
2003, at 21:00 (CET). They will present their products Pegasos and
MorphOS and take part at a live-chat at 21:45 answering your questions.
NBC Europe can be received over cabel in Germany and is digitally
transmitted through the Eutelsat Hotbird 5 to be additionally received
by the Digitalreceiver (DVB-S):
Orbitposition: 13° East (Eutelsat)
Frequency: 11,054 GHz
Polarisation: horizontal
Norm: MPEG-2/DVB
Symbolrate: 27500
Coderate: 5/6
bplan would like to thank Andreas Streu, who made this attendance
possible. (nba)
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06.Aug.2003
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal (ANF)
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News from Coyote Flux
It has been a long while since the last update, but finally a list of
new screenshots and programs have been added to the website:
- Two more screenshots of J Miner, displaying the new render algorithms
- Eight screenshots of Manic Miner, a PPC plugin for AmigaAMP and PlaySID
- New PlaySID.library for CatWeasel Flipper cards, supporting channel enabling/disabling on both the hard- and software side
- Preview of PPC680x0 v2.0, displaying automatic file conversion
(nba)
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06.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 06.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
TView.lha comm/tcp 78K+List TV-programs in Europe.
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 176K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas
pngcheck.lha gfx/misc 75K+Checks and reports contents of PNG files
FroggerSP.lha gfx/show 18K+Frogger spanish documentation v2.07.0
aprg.lha hard/hack 35K+Programming ATMEL at89 series chips
MrCarlitoWb-00.jpg pix/wb 579K+Screenshot of my Workbench 3.9
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 245K+Complex dynamic buffer system, and other
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 30K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB
(ps)
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05.Aug.2003
CAM (Website)
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Club Amiga Magazine #7 to be released on August 8th, 2003
Issue 7 of Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been delayed by the editorial
team for one week. The new issue will be released on August 8th, 2003. (nba)
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05.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 4th August 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk
that had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have
been added or updated since our last announcment:
- 04.08.03 improved: Subwar 2050 (Microprose) supports CD³² version too
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 5 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 improved: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) supports another version
- 04.08.03 new: Fightin' Spirit (Neo) done by Psygore
- 04.08.03 new: Conquests of Camelot (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 03.08.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix (Martech) supports another version
- 02.08.03 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils) another version supported, slave optimised
- 01.08.03 new: Pyramax (Arc) done by Psygore
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05.Aug.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Event: "The Assembly 2003" - August 7th-10th, 2003
On the forthcoming long weekend of August 7th (Thursday) to August 10th
(Sunday) the big demoscene event "The Assembly" will be held in the
well known ice stadium "Hartwall Arena" in Helsinki, the capital of
Finland.
This event will take place for the twelvth time in a row and be the
meeting point of personalities from the demo and game scene. About
4500 visitors from all over Europe are expected. During the days several
competitions will be held, including demo competitions for the Amiga,
as well as many seminars and speeches will be made. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Primal" by Andrew Barnabas and Paul Arnold
Some of you may remember Nightshade/Crusaders from various Crusaders
Amiga demos in the past. He also wrote the music for a few Amiga games,
the best known amongst them being "SWIV". He has now started a
composing/production company together with his friend Paul Arnold. Their
first real release is the soundtrack to the game "PRIMAL". This is a
fully orchestral soundtrack recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic
orchestra and choir. It sounds great!
Track-Liste:
- Opening credits
- The Timekeeper
- Arella's Theme
- A Love Lost
- Jen Meets Arella
- Raum & Empusa
- The Demon Awakes
- Coliseum
- A Prince in Chains
- World of Water
- The Turbulent Depths
- A Kingdom Restored
- The Mad King
- Mountain of Suffering
- Devil's Waltz
- Dark Science
- The Helot
- Temple of Flame
- Hall of Gods
- Journey's End
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Sidologie" by Marcel Donne
Sidologie is an album of Commodore-64 remixes Marcel Donne, all done in
the style/sound of classic Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis albums. To put
it simple, Marcel Donne has taken the *melodies* from famous C64 music,
and mixed it with the *sound* of old-school Jean-Michel Jarre and
Vangelis.
It is a great album for nostalgics of all ages, and especially those who
enjoyed Jarre's and Vangelis' classic early albums, or those classic C64
melodies. The song name in [brackets] indicates which Jarre or Vangelis
album that production was particularly influenced by.
Track-Listing:
- Sidologie Intro - Marcel Donne [Revolutions]
- Rambo Loading Theme - Martin Galway [Equinoxe]
- Lightforce - Rob Hubbard [Revolutions]
- Bombo - Ben Daglish [Oxygene]
- Cobra - Sylvester Levay/Ben Daglish [Bladerunner]
- Yie-Ar Kung Fu II - Martin Galway [Chariots of Fire]
- Knucklebusters - Rob Hubbard [Zoolook]
- Wizball High Score - Martin Galway [Band in the Rain]
- Miami Vice - Martin Galway [Equinoxe/Oxygene]
- Nemesis the Warlock - Rob Hubbard
- Rambo High Score - Martin Galway [Oxygene]
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04.Aug.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistent: DD2html Version 0.2 released
In line with the project 'Hardware Assistent' version 0.2 of the tool DD2html has been released.
DD2html creates a html file containing all driver discriptors in a directory. If the attribute 'DRIVERURL' is set a hyperlink will be added.
Further details are available at the titlelink.
Download: DD2html
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