08.Aug.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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HivelyTracker: Source Code released
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format. AHX was developed in the nineties to be able writing music tracks which sounds like the typical chip sound of the SID (sound chip of the C64).
The source code of version 1.6 was now released. Currently it was only compiled for AmigaOS 4.
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08.Aug.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Fortis 1.1
Fortis developed by Encore Games is a 2D-shooter with 3D-background which is similar to the Amiga classic Super Stardust. The MorphOS version can be downloaded as full version for free. If you are going to register you can either purchase the iPhone-/iPod-version or persuade an Apple-user to buy it.
All changes were summarized in the change list.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2010
Michael C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 2010.1.5.0 and C64 Forever 2010.1.5.0
Version 2010.1.5.0 of Cloanto's complete emulation package Amiga Forever fixes three crash conditions reported by users via WinQual submissions and one bug that could lead to duplicate entries in a content list. Furthermore the update improves handling of RP9 files generated by third-party tools such as Simon Mathiassen's RP9 Editor and uses new image resize algorithms for better quality preview thumbnails. This is the 2010.1 "gold" update that also went on the new CD masters.
In parallel also the emulation package C64 Forever has been updated. Below you will find the corresponding press release.
Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 2010.1 Released
Amiga Forever and C64 Forever are the easy to use emulation, preservation and support packages published by Cloanto, Commodore/Amiga developers since the 1980s. Beyond nostalgia, the packages make accessible to a wide audience a wealth of content and history that is engaging yet casual, and which can still teach a few lessons in gameplay.
Features of the new 2010 versions include:
- Support for new emulated systems (CDTV, CD32, Amiga 600)
- Extended RetroPlatform Library (more than 20,000 titles) and content recognition code
- Support for Open RP9 format (packs multiple disk images and configuration in one file)
- CDTV/CD32 games run directly from original CD media, or from RP9 or ISO images
- Integrated printing via original Amiga EpsonQ drivers (via emulated printer)
- Optimizations for "power users" (content cache, performance, etc.)
- Hundreds of improvements to make the software more powerful and easier to use
For the new CD and printing support we worked closely together with Toni Wilen, so a big thank you again goes to Toni for his help.
The latest versions of Amiga Forever and C64 Forever work side by side to play games directly from a variety of emulation sites, as well as from some types of original media. Content is recognized using the built-in RetroPlatform Library database, which helps identify and automatically start the correct hardware configuration (different PET/CBM models, VIC 20, C64, Amiga, etc.)
In addition to the hundreds of titles which come preinstalled with the software, tens of thousands of games and demoscene productions have been released by their authors for publication on preservation sites. And that's not just C64 or Amiga content, as you can try for yourself...
Some of our original favorites include a Space Invaders clone for the PET 3032 (only 7 KB, download or open to play directly with C64 Forever; scroll down to "space invaders.prg", right after the simpler PET 2001 version) and this Galaga clone (second from top - German page, but software is in English) written in 10 KB of pure machine language.
The above were written almost 30 years ago. With C64 Forever 2010 they can still be click-and-played today - no complex configuration or technical knowledge required. If a more modern system is preferred, Amiga Forever 2010 can recognize, autoconfigure and play most CDTV and CD32 titles (Commodore's Amiga-based game consoles). This includes both original media, and RP9, ISO and .bin/.cue CD image files.
The 2010 versions of Amiga Forever and C64 Forever had originally been released a few weeks ago, and were announced on private forums. Features like the new Open RP9 file format and CD support were so successful among emulation "power users" (who often have thousands of games and gigabytes of CD-based content), that we spent some more time to optimize the experience when the software is used under heavy load. The updated 2010.1 versions, released now and available as free updates to existing 2010 users, reflect this community feedback.
Amiga Forever and C64 Forever passed official Windows 7 logo tests on both x86 and x64 systems. For more information: RetroPlatform Project (snx)
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07.Aug.2010
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: UHexen II 1.4.4-pre9
The port of the latest beta version 1.4.4-pre9 of "UHexen II - Hammer of Thyrion" requires AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2 (as well as an OpenGL-compatible graphic board for the hardware rendering) and the original files of the game Hexen II.
Download: uhexen2.lha (6 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: First place for Amiga-Demo at Solskogen 2010
The Amiga demo "Chips Don't Lie" written by Ephidrena & Darklite won the "Oldskool Democompo" at the Norwegian demo party Solskogen 2010. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaKit: Boing-Ball-Mouse (USB)
The British trader AmigaKit offers a black USB-mouse with Boing-Ball-motive.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2010
Amiga.org (website)
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AROS: Interview with Paolo Besser (italian)
The italian retrogaming blog WoprBox has interviewed Paolo Besser, author of the Icaros Desktop distribution (Google translation into english language). Paolo talks about his past as a magazine editor, about the rise and fall of Amiga as well as, obviously, about AROS in general and Icaros Desktop. (snx)
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04.Aug.2010
Amigans.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Sirena Player 1.04
Sirena Player is an audio player written with Hollywood which can play MP3-, WAV- and MOD-files. Version 1.04 includes some bug fixes as well as an Italian and Hispanic translations.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Aug.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Hyperion: Videos "25 years of Development" and "AmigaOS running on the eLAP"
As a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Amiga computer, Hyperion Entertainment has made a video using the Gource CVS visualization software showing a time-compressed version of 25 years of Amiga development.
At the same time,here is another video showing AmigaOS running on the eLAP ("Embedded Linux Application Platform"). The eLAP was a PDA manufactured by IBM using a PowerPC 405EP. Sadly, the device was never sold and this version of AmigaOS never released.
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04.Aug.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.69 (2.8.10)
EvenMore is a test viewer written in AmigaE and by Chris Perver. The following features have been added since our last message:
- Fixed bug which stopped hyperlinks to files outside the EvenMore path from working
- Amended EvenMore data objects to allow it to handle exec lists as file buffers instead of a standard memory block. This will enable files to be loaded much quicker through plugins, etc. without having to worry about allocating enough memory beforehand
- Enabled parsebuffer() and getlines() functions to scan through execlists. Optimised code for these routines so hopefully they should be faster too
- Amended clipboard, printing and file saving routines so they will work with exec lists
- Modified file search function to send results to the main window, using an exec list as a file buffer
- Modified Dir2Text plugin to use an exec list as buffer, instead of a standard memory block
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04.Aug.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ClipDown 3.0
ClipDown is an addition to the AmigaOS-4-version of the browser OWB. It is a small utility which uses 'wget' to download webpages and files. You can find a detailed list of changes as well as a video under the title link.
Download: clipdown.lha (67 KB)
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03.Aug.2010
Obligement (ANF)
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AROS: Interview with Pascal Papara
French magazine Obligement has published today an interview with Pascal Papara, maker of the AROS computer AresOne. Besides that PC that is configured to be supported by AROS, Pascal Papara does also offer the software distribution Broadway and supports development of Amiga Media Center. Besides the english version at the title link, also a french translation is available. (snx)
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02.Aug.2010
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AROS: Ego-Shooter Quake III Arena
Thanks to Krzysztof Smiechowicz the Ego-Shooter Quake III Arena is now also available for AROS. The files of the commercial
version as well as the free updates to version 1.32 are required. The computer should have more than 256 MB RAM as well as a 3d graphic board which is supported by AROS.
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02.Aug.2010
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Software collection Ultimate Pack 1.6.0 (Beta 2)
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's software collection Ultimate Pack adds many applications to MorphOS 2.5. Version 1.6.0 now includes pictograms, background pictures and MIME-types provided by Patrick "Patbest" Jung. Changes in beta 2:
- removed VLC and SimpleFind3
- add news versions of Tubexx and MPlayer
- add news icons of Patbest (IceFolders)
- change PolyNet bar prefs
- add AutoDocReader in Development directory
- add many ScreenBar modules by default
- add ModernArt blanker by AmigaZeux
- add ZIP 68k in c directory
- add ShowGirls in French
- change of many mimetypes
- add new youtube.js script for OWB
Download: packultimate_160beta (175 MB)
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02.Aug.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vasm 1.4f
Frank Wille has published an update of vasm for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS. This a portable assembler which supports different CPU-families. You can find a list of the new features under the title link. The tool is also part of the vbcc-distribution.
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02.Aug.2010
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Preview-Video: Shoot'em Up "Amega-One"
For about ten months Thilo "Der Wanderer" Köhler and some other members are developing a classic Shoot'em Up similar to Hybris. The game is developed with AmiBlitz and requires a graphic board as well as powerful processor. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Aug.2010
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Audio Evolution 4 for AROS
Davy Wentzler's harddisk recording and editing software Audio Evolution was ported to AROS (Youtube video). From now on you can order the AROS-version on the website of the author. Customers who ordered it in advance must pay 49 Euro, all other 59 Euro.
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02.Aug.2010
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MorphOS celebrates 10th anniversary
Press release: Today marks the ten year anniversary of the very first public release of MorphOS, which ran exclusively on Commodore Amiga computers equipped with phase5 PowerPC accelerator cards.
The MorphOS development team would like to thank all MorphOS users for their on-going support and interest.
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01.Aug.2010
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Amigaworld.net: Winner of 25th Anniversary Amiga Puzzle
Under the title link you can find the winners of 25th Anniversary Amiga Puzzle presented by Amigaworld.net.
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01.Aug.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ffmpegGUI 2.3
ffmpegGUI is a graphical user-interface for the program ffmpeg. This versions of ffmpegGUI now also supports version 0.6 of ffmpeg which was ported at the beginning of July for AmigaOS 4. You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link.
Download: ffmpeggui.lha (186 KB)
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01.Aug.2010
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS-Skin Vetro
Paolo "Jambalah" Russo has published a skin called Vetro for MorphOS (screenshot) which is available as "enhanced"- and "non enhanced"-version.
Download:
Vetro.lha (1 MB)
VetroNE.lha (45 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 2010.1.3.0
The latest update of the emulator package Amiga Forever 2010 provided by Cloanto includes improvements of efficiency and usage for the work with several thousand files.
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[News message: 01. Aug. 2010, 07:54] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jul.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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amigabounty.net loans AmigaOS 4-computers to developer
Amigabounty offers all interested developers who do not own an AmigaOS 4-computer the possibility to lend one of two PPC-computers. If you are interested in this offer then please contact amigabounty.net and introduce your project.
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29.Jul.2010
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Documentation: The making of Another World
In a documentation at Youtube (part 1, part 2) Eric Chahi explained the making of his game classic Another World.
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[News message: 29. Jul. 2010, 15:35] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jul.2010
eXec (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Qt experimental version for AmiCygnix
Alfkil Wennermark has ported the C++ class library Qt for Edgar Schwan's Unix-environment AmiCygnix. With it you can program cross-platform graphical user-interfaces. Currently the AmigaOS-4-version is still in an experimental status. You will use it at your own risk. Additional to the archive for users there is an SDK for developers as well.
Download:
qt-amicygnix-user.tar.gz (49 MB)
qt-amicygnix-sdk.tar.gz (119 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Jul. 2010, 09:10] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jul.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0 (2010.07.20)
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of MPlayer. Changes in this version:
- Updated to 20.07.2010 svn (r31757): many generic fixes and optimisations, VP8 codec, ...
- GUI module:
- If the GUI elements are hidden, show them again at the end of the playlist, to avoid a scary black screen
- Added a message window that displays the errors/warnings/information printed in console (menu->project->messages)
- Force MPlayer to notify the GUI module about current DVD subtitles/audiotracks at startup, to avoid selecting wrong items in audio tracks/subtitles lists
- Added an option to choose if last visited path should be remembered and restored when choosing a file
- Added an option to choose if last playlist should be remembered and restored at startup
- After interrupting a network stream, the next title in playlist would sometimes fail to play
Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2010.07.20.lha (14 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jul.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Pictogram package IceFolders
With the IceFolders-package (screenshot) Patrick 'patbest' Jung has published different pictograms for MorphOS under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Jul. 2010, 08:50] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jul.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Blu Manager 0.5
Blu Manager is a database application for AmigaOS 4 written by Pål Ringkilen for managing Blu-Ray-films. For the online function wget is required in the directory C.
Changes in version 0.5:
- The delete button could be activated if one just opened the about window and closed again. Has been removed for now
- Added print button. Let's you print the list on paper
- Downloads the database.txt on startup. Before it was never updated
- Fixed some typos in the database
- Changed to listbrowser in about window
- Added more space to the first column (number)
Download: blu_manager.lha (39 KB)
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28.Jul.2010
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: AmiFIG-Suite 0.1
In May Yannick Erb published a first alpha of his AROS-port of AmiFIG 3.1. Now he has added some more functions to this vector graphic paint program which is based on XFig.
New features:
- Import/Export with the help of datatype system
- Export as PNG-file with the help of datatype system
- Conversion of Bitmap files to vector format
Download page
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[News message: 28. Jul. 2010, 07:11] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jul.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Programming language: Preversion of AmiBlitz 3.5
The Amiblitz developer team has published a preversion of the BlitzBasic-based development environment AmiBlitz.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Jul. 2010, 15:41] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jul.2010
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Youtube: Updates of getVideo and Tubexx
With getvideo and Tubexx you can download Youtube videos to your computer and watch it. Minor updates of both of the programs were published.
They are ARexx-scripts and Tubexx uses some MorphOS-specific MUI-functions. There is also a version for AmigaOS but it has been still not updated.
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[News message: 27. Jul. 2010, 15:30] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: Monthly Page 13 (Interview with Vesalia)
Monthly Page is an English-language little magazine provided as PDF-file. The latest issue includes an interview with Guido Does from Vesalia and a short report on the x1000-demonstration at the Vintage Computer Festival. Additionally "UnoKrappe" is introduced which is Shoot'em Up game currently developed for the Amiga.
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[News message: 26. Jul. 2010, 17:53] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jul.2010
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MorphOS: Port to Powermac G5-computer planned
According to visitors of the "Amiga Event 2010", MorphOS developer Jacek "jacadcaps" Piszczek has tried to present the operating system MorphOS to a PowerMac G5. Meanwhile a screenshot of showconfig provided by Mark "Bigfoot" Olsen is available which probably was taken of such a computer.
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25.Jul.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Disk magazine HUGI, issue 36
36th issue of the disk magazine HUGI was published at the Breakpoint 2010 and now ported to AmigaOS 4. The magazine includes at least half of the articles abot the Amiga.
Some topics which are interested for Amiga users:
- Amiga Scene: Jump into the hole (article about the current situation with AOS4/MOS/AROS)
- BreakPoint 2009 - from a Breakpoint TV point of view (about amiga releases mostly)
- The Vague - Amiga Diskmag on stage - Part 3 (article about the Warp3D diskmag)
- Mad Wizards - looking back with Azzaro (about Elude as well)
- Muffler: from amiga musian to top DJ Producer
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25.Jul.2010
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MorphOS: Program collection Ultimate Pack 1.6.0 (Beta)
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's program collection Ultimate Pack adds some applications to MorphOS 2.5. Version 1.6.0 includes now pictograms, background pictures and MIME-types by Patrick "Patbest" Jung.
Download: packultimate_160beta (191 MB)
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[News message: 25. Jul. 2010, 15:56] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.68 (20.7.10)
Chris Perver's EvenMore is a text viewer written in AmigaE. Changes since the last release:
- Sped up various parts of the code by moving ListItem() functions out of loops and replacing them with static lists
- FileTypes.plugin now uses less memory, and doesn't have to scan all of filetypes.txt if a match is found
- Fixed memory allocation problems in Arc2Text which would cause it to lose file information if you browsed more than one LHA archive
- Fixed bug in EvenMore which sometimes prevented more than one plugin processing a file
- Updated HTML2Text plugin to open files viewed through the LHA plugin
- Arc2Text plugin will now store LHA output in a unique filename in RAM: using the timestamp of the file in question. This will enable the plugin to skip the LHA extraction if the file has been viewed recently.
- Directories will now be displayed first in the Arc2Text viewer
- Arc2Text can now extract files and view them by clicking on a file name
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23.Jul.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 42
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - e.g. as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
Topics of this issue:
- Editorial
- News:
- Public Release of MorphOS 2.5 & Introduction of eMac Support
- Spectacular Copy - Turbo To Disk
- Mass Storage Device C64SD
- The Third Club Info Issue of 2010
- Aladdin 4D Forums Have A New Home On Amiga.org
- DIY Action Replay Card
- Genealogy Newsletter and C64
- BasEdit - Edit Basic Programs in Windows
- Alpha Release of Timberwolf
- New Commodore Club
- Chicago Creative Extreme Expo
- Descent Freespace 2 for AmigaOS4.1
- X-Moto 0.5.3 Now Available for OS4
- Arcade Retro Gaming Update
- Loadstar Unofficial Issue 250 Released and Loadstar Closed
- Fortis Game for MorphOS Released
- Updated MorphOS Software Development Kit 2
- SD2IEC FIRMWARE - GEOS, JIFFYDOS for the VIC
- A-EON Technology CVBA and Varisys Ltd Announce Partnership
- Micromart U.K. Retro Section
- Norton Commander File Manager Clone NTP Commander Now Open Source
- The New Adventures of Alfredo
- The Early Days of Online Genealogy
- Interview With Björg Stojalowski - Creator of BasEdit
- Interview With Ross Myers - Creator of Cassadapt
- A Quick Look At BasicEdit - A Windows tool to edit Basic files in windows (and more)
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23.Jul.2010
Markus Bonet u.A. (ANF)
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Amiga celebrates its 25th anniversary
Exactly 25 years ago the Amiga was introduced in the Lincoln Center in New York. Above all the great sound and multimedia features of the new Commodore computer were presented and explained.
A video of the complete presentation is available on Internet: amiga_premiere_newyork.mp4 (50 MB)
The amiga-news.de team congratulates the Amiga and all his fans.
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23.Jul.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaBasic-Crosscompiler: ACE for Linux
Vidar Hokstad has ported David Benn's AmigaBasic-compiler ACE to Linux and has published the sources on github.com. ACE creates still always only binaries for m68k-AmigaOS. But Hokstad is going to create a more portable version which then could create binaries for Linux or AROS on x86-processors.
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22.Jul.2010
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A-EON: Revision 2 of X1000-Motherboard configured
According to A-EON on its website the second revision of the "Nemo"-motherboard which will be used in the X1000 has configured. Among others the XMOS-chip called "Xena" was upgraded.
Soon Hyperion Entertainment will provide information to all applicant of the AmigaOne X1000 beta test program.
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[News message: 22. Jul. 2010, 15:26] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jul.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate 2.1
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager similar to programs RPM and dpkg. With version 2 an user-friendly editor for the program preferences was introduced. Additionally the update includes several minor changes and improvements (Changelog).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jul. 2010, 15:18] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jul.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Flickerfixer: Update for Indivision ECS
Press release: In the support section you can find now an update archive for our OCS/ECS Flickerfixer Indivision ECS. With the new core some compatibility problems with some Amiga models are fixed.
For this update the Flickerfixer does not have to be removed. Hardware updates will be installed with the help of Flash-Upload. You do not have to open the computer.
Indivision ECS is available at our trade partners. The sales price is 99,- EUR inclusive 19% MWST plus shipping.
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21.Jul.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: IRC-Client WookieChat 2.12 Beta 14
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat for AmigaOS 4. The changes in this version are listed in the Changelog.
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20.Jul.2010
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Event: Amiwest 2010 (22.-24. October, California)
This year the "Amiwest" will take place from 22th to 24th of October in Sacramento (California, USA). The location will be the Holiday Inn Express, 2224 Auburn Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95821.
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19.Jul.2010
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"Guitar Hero" clone: Tracker Hero 0.91 AGA (Beta), Song Pack 1
Tracker Hero is a music game similar to Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution.
The author has published a minor update but keeps warning of existing bugs in this beta version. Additionally a first "Song Pack" was published which adds further songs to the game.
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18.Jul.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.8.3 / Holotz Castle 1.3.14
Battle for Wesnoth 1.8.3
The AmigaOS 4-port of the turn-based tactical strategy game Battle for Wesnoth was updated to version 1.8.3.
Holotz Castle 1.3.14
Holotz Castle (screenshot) is a platform game where you have to collect keys and to get to the level exit. The game requires the latest SDL-port as well as SDL_Mixer.
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17.Jul.2010
Amiga.org (website)
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AROS: Gallium3D bounty completed
The Gallium3D bounty project by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz has been completed and can be found in the Nightly Builds. The author would like to thank everyone who donated to this bounty as well as members of AROS community who helped him with testing the drivers on their systems.
The project which was started almost one year ago provided the following components:
- Mesa.library - the latest version of Mesa3D library which implements OpenGL API
- Gallium.library - a client library allowing other modules to access 3D rendering capabilities. This can be used by clients like OpenGL, OpenVG or OpenCL (in future)
- Software 3D driver - rendering emulation using CPU. Works on any system where hardware 3D is not available
- Hardware 3D rendering for nvidia cards - supporting GeForce 5XXX cards and newer provides hardware rendering capabilities
- As as additional bonus, the bounty brough a new 2D accelerated driver for the complete GeForce family as well as AGP support for some mother board chipsets
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16.Jul.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2.13
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmatè has published an update of the multimedia library SDL which makes it more easy to adapt applications and games to different platforms. Mainly the update includes bug fixes (changelog).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Jul.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Instant Messenger SabreMSN 0.73
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new update of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 4. The changes in this version are listed in the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Jul.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Wget 1.12 Rev. 2
Wget is a free command line program of the GNU-projects for downloading files from the Internet. Diego Casorran has ported updated versions for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4.
Changes:
- src/connect.c: Fixed connect_to_ip() function to
report correct message on failed connections.
- src/utils.c: Changed the following functions to do things
on an amiga-only way using dos.library equivalents: suffix(),
determine_screen_width(), xsleep(), make_directory(),
file_exists_p()
- src/host.c: Reworked gethostbyname_with_timeout() to directly
handle our TCP/IP Stack's gethostbyname() disabling C linklib
SIGINT signal in the meanwhile and using Exec's way
- src/openssl.c: Changed close() by CloseSocket()
- src/log.c: avoid fclose() over stderr
- OS3 Build Compiled using OpenSSL 1.0.0a (Rev#2)
- Fixed CTRL+C handling under OS4 - Thanks to Corto for the fix!
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14.Jul.2010
Amiga.org (website)
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 2010.1
Amiga Forever 2010.1.0.0 has been released by Cloanto. It includes e.g. improved support for CDTV and CD32 disc images and physical CDs, improved caching (when working with large or numerous files), improved screen capture (saves as PNG instead of BMP) and autoresize on thumbnail drag-and-drop. (snx)
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13.Jul.2010
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Some new full versions were added to the download section of the Amiga Future website, e.g. Nemac IV, Clockwiser, Hoi, Hard n Heavy, Real 3D.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Jul. 2010, 14:34] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jul.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: Keyboard label
From now on ACube Systems offers a keyboard label with which you can hide the Windows-keys with the left and right Amiga-"A".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2010
hirudov.com (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.4.0
Atari ST/STE/Falcon-emulator Hatari was updated. Version 1.4.0 provides several changes and bug fixes. The complete list of changes is included in the Readme.
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11.Jul.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video magazine: July issue of Amitopia TV
Amitopia TV is an English-language video magazine about the Amiga. The latest issue is about the games Giana Sisters and Giana's Return.
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11.Jul.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Floppy-Emulator: UFE
Just like the previsous versions TFE enables you to use UFE, SD- and MMC-cards instead of disks at older computers. By using the original connection you can use the storage media just like a real drive.
Features:
- Read/Write access for Commodore AMIGA, Atari ST and Amstrad CPC computers
- On-board support for ADF, DSK, ST and MSA images: no conversion on PC necessary
- Standard IDC 34-pin floppy connector
- Can emulate two floppy drives
- Video overlay user interface: 72 columns by 30 lines text mode
- Allows use of host system keyboard to control user interface
- Buzzer for emulating head stepping ticks
- Can co-exist with other floppy drives on the same bus (not tested)
- Full FAT32 support (incl. long file names and directories) for the SD Card
- SDHC support
- Firmware updates can be made through SD Card
- PIC32 MCU @80Mhz, 16Mb SDRAM. Double-sided PCB
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2010
amiga.org (Webseite)
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OpenSSL 1.0.0a Rev#2
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.
The AmigaOS-port is completely native, the ixemul.library is not required. Developer documenations are part of the distribution. The latest version "Rev#2" includes some minor improvements:
- Compiled using GCC 3.4.0 for better speed (please report any issue, i didn't trust so much this compiler)
- Optimized bzero/bcopy/memmove/memcpy functions to achieve a somewhat faster speed. (libnix)
- Implemented alarm() to perform the tests, we'll no longer have to wait those long times
- Time spent on speed tests are now calculated using ReadEClock()
- OPENSSL_assert() will now open a ReAction/Intuition requester (usefull for WB-only progs)
- Enabled MD2 and RC5 which was disabled by default..
- Added 68040 build (user and dev)
- Added new set of root certificates
- Included Installation script
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2010
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Web-Browser: Netsurf 2.0
Artur Jarosik has published a new update of the AmigaOS-port of NetSurf. Changes in version 2.0:
- Updated to latest SVN r10592
- Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.0a and fixed cURL to 7.21.0 which makes https:// secure sites work. Install of OpenSSL 1.0.0a needed.
- Updated getvideo to 0.26 (by Juergen Lucas)
- Added option gv_action to simplify use of getvideo plugin, optons are: 0=ask, 1=play, 2=saveplay, 3=save. Default is 0
- Created Bug Tracker
- Added version information
Direct download: NetSurf-m68k.lha (8,3 MB)
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09.Jul.2010
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Lodepaint Rev. 92
Lodepaint is a 32-bit paint program which works over OpenGL (screenshot). Originally the program was meant for the development of textures and "sprites". Therefore this program is pixel based.
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09.Jul.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ffmpeg 0.6
The latest version 0.6 of the program ffmpeg is now available as common and Altivec-optimized version (as gpatch-file) for AmigaOS 4.
Sine the last version for AmigaOS 4 the following formats were added: Deluxe-Paint-animationa, CD-graphics, Apple Core Audio, Chinese AVS-video, Adobe film strip, Dolby TrueHD, Sony Wave64, Psygnosis YOP, VP8-Video, WMA 9 Professional, Blu-Ray-Audio, DivX-subtitle, the WebM file format, RTMP-stream support and many more.
According to the author Michael Trebilcock ffmpeg could run under AmigaOS 4.0. But ffplay requires a fast processor as well as probably AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1.
x264 encoding is broken and has bad quality, but has been included anyway. It may work properly on machines with Altivec support. This is yet to be tested..
ffmpeg 0.6 and libx264 revision 100 have incompatible default settings. Due to this, .ffpreset files can be used and are included. libx264 encoding was not available in the previous OS4 port. No functionality has been lost.
Download: ffmpeg.lha (13 MB)
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07.Jul.2010
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Software-News: EvenMore 0.68, Amiga Media Center Preview-Video
Text viewer: EvenMore 0.68 (5.7.10)
Chris Perver's EvenMore is a text viewer written in AmigaE. Changes since our last message:
- Amended EvenMore executable to allow you to pass an extra filename on to the plugins. If you click on a link beginning with a #, EvenMore will pass this link on to the plugins along with the path to the currently opened file. This will allow EvenMore plugins to browse inside archives while still keeping a note of the actual file being accessed.
- Amended Arc2Text.plugin to browse LHA files, although there are still some bugs, the code needs to be optomised and files cannot yet be extracted.
- Fixed bug in filetypes plugin. Was incorrectly using pattern string as the buffer as well for the pattern parsing function.
- Created a basic LHA viewing plugin and preferences. You will need to delete the #?.lha filetype from the filtypes.txt file in order for this plugin to work.
- Hyperlinks to files no longer needs full path to be specified.
EvenMore will append the path of the currently viewed file to any linked files. Also amended Dir2Text plugin so that it does not use full paths any more. This should speed things up.
- Mariusz Danilewicz of the ATO team has kindly updated the Polish catalog.
- Removed patternStringF module and replaced with my own RawDoFmt() code.
Status update for Amiga Media Center
Pascal Papara has published a video at YouTube which demonstrates the latest status of the AMC ("Amiga Media Center").
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07.Jul.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.2.3
Paolo Besser has published an update of his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. The update includes updated versions of different system files as well as of applications and introduces some improved and new features.
Now YouTube-videos can be played and the support of 3D/2D-graphic of most of the Nvidia-boards was improved. The music editor BigBand or the Vector graphic program AmiFig were added as well as the desktop-grabber Screenrecorder.
Icaros Desktop 1.2.3 is available in two versions: As complete Live!-edition and as update-CD for existing installations of version 1.2.2.
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07.Jul.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: lzmaLoader 1.2
Harry 'Piru' Sintonen's packer for executable files called lzmaLoader is now available in version 1.2. This is mainly meant for intros of demos.
This latest version includes an improved shared loader of 390 byte which can be used if MorphOS 2.5 (or newer) will be the destination system.
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04.Jul.2010
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Game ports Aquaria and Lugaru HD
Additional to the AmigaOS-4-version the commercial game Lugaru HD is now also available for AROS/x86 thanks to Yannick Erb. Lugaru HD is an action adventure.
Yannick Erb also ported the AROS-version of the game Aquaria (amiga-news.de reported).
Download:
lugaru.lha (1 MB)
aquaria_aros.lha (2 MB)
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03.Jul.2010
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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XPro Software: Interested in Amiga-version of texture collections? (Update)
The Italian developer XPro Software is thinking about an Amiga version of his texture libraries about materials, sky, trees and trees from the bird's-eye view if there is sufficient interest.
By request of amiga-news.de, XPro Software told that such a Amiga version would not only include IFF-conversions and a "cover in Amiga style" but would also do not cost so much money in order to promote applications on Amiga systems.
The company tries to find out if there is a demand of professional applications in the sections graphics, construction, architecture and 3D.
If you are interested in such an Amiga version of the texture collection of XPro Software then please use the following contact form.
Update: (19:14, 04.07.10, snx)
As XPro Software told us, in case of sufficient interest in the Amiga market for their products also porting of their applications GeniuX Photo EFX and GeniuX Arch EFX (without DWG support) as well as two further programs currently in development might be possible. 3D GeniuX, however, would be too big to be ported to AmigaOS, MorphOS or AROS currently.
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03.Jul.2010
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Aquaria ported
Additional to the version for AmigaOS 4 the commercial 2d action adventure Aquaria published by Bit Blot is now also available for MorphOS thanks to Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly.
Download: aquaria-morphos.lha (3 MB)
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03.Jul.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Vintage Computer Festival: BBC-report mentioned Amiga
The BBC-magazine Click reported on the Vintage Computer Festival under the title link.
In this report you can see Stunt Car Racer on an Amiga 1200 as well as the Workbench of an Amiga 1000 and the board of the AmigaOne X1000 developed by A-EON Technology. Stephen Jones who sells the Imica-complete systems was interviewed. He mentioned AmigaOS and MorphOS while his explanations on AROS were cut out.
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03.Jul.2010
Andreas Wolf (Kommentar)
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Asiarim owns Commodore trade marks since February
Since February the Hong Kong company Asiarim Corporation has bought the last parts of the Commodore trade marks . Thus Asiarim is the only owner of the trade mark "Commodore".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jul.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Demo scene party Assembly 2010
Since 1992 in Helsinki the demo scene event has been taking place. This year from 5th to 8th of August. You can find further information under the title link.
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02.Jul.2010
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Workbench background picture: 25 years Amiga
The user Alex has created a background picture in different solutions which celebrates the 25th anniversary of our Amiga.
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02.Jul.2010
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
In the last two months some articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement:
- Amiga/MorphOS news of may/june 2010
- Old news from may/june 1998 and its relatives articles: Details of the future Amiga system by Allan Havemose, Amiga Inc. announce the Amiga of the Y2K, Presentation of the new Amiga generation by Jeff Schindler, Interview with Allan Havemose, etc
- Interview with Trevor Dickinson (director of A-EON Technology)
- Interview with Frédéric Boisdron (director of Robootic)
- Interview with Mariusz Wloczysiak (Elbox, November 2000)
- Review of MorphOS 2.5
- Review of Timberwolf 0.1
- Review of Icaros 1.2.2
- Hardware: Zorro II adapter for A500
- Hardware: GVP 4060DT
- File: MorphOS beginner\'s guide (update)
- File: Amiga models (update)
- File: Amiga prototyps (update)
- Tutorial: installation of MorphOS 2.5
- Tutorial: HTML, logical style elements
- Tutorial: HTML, text forms
- Tutorial: Rival
- Tutorial: MorphVectrex
- Special "early years of the Amiga": The Atari 2600 products of Amiga Inc., Report: Summer CES 1984, Amiga's hitech gamble, Report: Winter CES 1985, How Commodore can survive
- Special quizz about Jay Miner, and the year 1988 and 1989
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01.Jul.2010
TextEditor.mcc OpenSource Team, Jens Langner, Thore Böckelmann (ANF)
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MUI-class: TextEditor.mcc 15.34
An update of the MUI-class TextEditor.mcc was published for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. In version 15.34 several bugs were fixed. Crashes and some problems of the memory managment should be fixed. Besides, an installation script was added.
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01.Jul.2010
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 85
Press release: Issue 85 (July/August 2010) of Amiga Future magazine, printed either in English or German, has now been released and can be ordered directly from the editorial office or selected Amiga dealers.
In this issue you'll find a mega interview with Dave Haynie, reviews of iMica, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2, Hollywood 4.7, LinCity and lots more really good stuff. (cg)
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