27.Sep.2009
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Reports from Pianeta Amiga 2009
Cherchi 'Seiya' Cristiano has published some scenes of the Pianeta Amiga (part 1, part 2).
There is also a beta version of the Gnash-port for AmigaOS 4 which can play Flash-files:
Gnash.lha.lzh (8 MB)
Simone 'Tuxedo' Monsignori reported about a forthcoming update for AmigaOS 4.1. The update will provide window shades, a new message system, USB-2.0-drivers, updated versions of all system components as well as a new monitor driver system with DDC-support.
Furthermore a beta version of the AmigaOS-4-port of the 3D-graphic-software Blender was demonstrated which is almost completed as well as the latest version of DigiBooster Professional 3.
Andrea 'guruman' Maniero has also published a report as well as pictures.
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25.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Cloanto: Update for Amiga Forever 2009
Press release A free update to Amiga Forever 2009.0.7.0 was released today. This version is able to detect and correct a condition where insufficient access privileges are set for the directory containing the cache files.
This could have been caused by a bug in a previous Amiga Forever installer, resulting in the Games, Demoscene and Applications tabs not reflecting newly-added content on Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems. (snx)
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25.Sep.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: Announcement of new hardware
ACube Systems is developing two new hardware projects. Tomorrow on the Pianeta Amiga further information will be published.
The first one, called NetStore, is supposed to become a Linux-based file-server (Network-Attached Storage, NAS) based on a PowerPC-SoC and will has got 1x Gigabit-Ethernet, 1x eSATA2, 4x SATA and 4x USB2. The second one, called Eye Motion, is supposed to become a Mini-PCI-Graphic-and-Audio-Board which has got a Silicon-Motion-GPU.
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24.Sep.2009
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Amitheme OS4: New Skins for AmigaOS 4
On his website Tony Canazza offers 18 Skins for AmigaOS 4.
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23.Sep.2009
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Survey about a new PowerPC board
Konstantinos 'feanor' Margaritis (Codex) wants bplan to develop a new PowerPC board. In a survey at the title link he wants to know which CPU to use and how many people would actually be interested to buy such a board. (snx)
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21.Sep.2009
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USB: New Poseidon-driver for several Ethernet-Adapter
With the new Poseidon-class rtl8150eth.class, Chris Hodges has published a driver for the USB-Ethernet-Adapter with the following chipsets:
- RTL8150
- LUAKTX
- LCS8138TX
- SP128AR
- PRESTIGE
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21.Sep.2009
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS for AmigaOS: AfA 4.5
Bernd Rösch's "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA) is a port of single AROS-components to AmigaOS 3. With it new functions of AROS are supposed to be available under AmigaOS (screenshot, themes).
Direct download: AfA_OS_V4.5.lha (2 MB)
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21.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 42
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English Podcast in which Amiga users and invited guests discuss the current events in the Amiga scene.
Topics of this issue, from spring 2009, are among others Hyperion's cancellation to x86, ideas to Sam440-Flex, the Browser Merlin and the EVO Smart Console.
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21.Sep.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Update to Pianeta Amiga
On the next Saturday the Pianeta Amiga 2009 will take place in Italian Empoli. It follows a list of exhibitors and products.
Exhibitors:
- ACube Systems Srl.
- AmigaKit
- Virtual Works
- Soft3
- Bitplane Magazine
- Amiga Future
- Cluster UK Ltd.
- Paolo Besser
- OS4Games
Products:
- Minimig 4MB
- Latest AmigaOS 4.1 beta
- Icaros Desktop
- Digibooster 3 Pro for AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS
- Desert Racing of Bardos, a videogame for AmigaOS 4.1
- Latest MorphOS version
- Bitplane Magazine with its latest issue
- Amiga Future with its latest issue
- Working preview of Blender for AmigaOS 4.1
- Talk with some AmigaOS4.1 betatesters and developers
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20.Sep.2009
PPA (ANF)
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Interview: Stephen Fellner (DvPlayer, AmigaOS 4-Team)
The Polish Amiga-portal PPA has interviewed Stephen Fellner who is member of the AmigaOS 4-team and responsible for applications like DvPlayer, WarpView and RiVA.
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20.Sep.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Status update: DigiBooster Pro
Press release: DigiBooster 3 development has been resumed after holidays break. While it has been demonstrated that program skeleton is working on both MorphOS and AmigaOS 4, and player engine, the heart of any music tracker, was mature enough to release it inside DigiRoller, there are still substantial features missing.
The first one of them just implemented is instrument loading.
DigiBooster 3 supports common AIFF and WAVE PCM formats, as well as legacy 8SVX/16SV ones. What is important - no more sample size limit. Samples are only limited by memory available. Another important thing is reading sampling rate from the file. No more handtuning of samples taken at 44,1 kHz (or any other frequency, DigiBooster 3 supports audio up to 192 kHz). Just sample C-3 note from your instrument then play it as C-3 in DigiBooster. It is worth noting that sample loading window is not a plain filerequester.
It displays basic sample information on single click and features automatic playback, so browsing large samples collections becomes more comfortable. It also displays comments contained in audio files. Stereo files may be loaded as well (all supported formats), user's choices of stereo handling are loading single channel (left or right) or mix down both channels to mono.
More information about Digibooster Pro is also available as commented videos from the PowerDev 6 meeting where DBPro was demonstrated on AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
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20.Sep.2009
David Brunet (ANF)
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Update of Benchmark comparison between AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
Some time ago the French magazine Obligement published a benchmark comparison between AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS 2.3 on a Pegasos II.
Now this article was updated: Three new tests were added and two old ones reworked (MPlayer and LhA).
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20.Sep.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.59
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new version of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS. The changes in version 0.59 are listed in the release notes.
Download:
SabreOS3_20090919.lha (272 KB)
SabreOS4_20090919.lha (581 KB)
SabreAROS_20090919.lha (3 MB)
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20.Sep.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RockBEAT 3.1
James 'jahc' Carroll has published an update of his drum-machine RockBEAT. Version 3.1 fixes some bugs which caused crashes.
Download: RockBEAT3_1.lha (2 MB)
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20.Sep.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Mini-Magazine: Monthly Pages 7 / Interview with Thomas Claus
The Monthly Pages is an English mini magazine available as PDF-file. Topics of this issue are among others AmigaOS 4 and Linux on the Sam440ep as well as an interview with Thomas Claus (amiboing.de).
Download: Monthly7.pdf (12 KB)
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19.Sep.2009
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Natami-Project: Test-Mainboard NatAmi16 LX
Under the title link a picture was published of another test-mainboard for the Natami-development of NatAmi16 LX.
Thomas Hirsch's Natami-project tries to develop a compatible Amiga successor with more functions - e.g. a 24-Bit-AGA+-modus with 32-Bit-Blitter.
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18.Sep.2009
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MorphOS: Status report on GTK-MUI-Port
Stefan "Kronos" Kleinheinrich is developing a port of the GTK-MUI-Wrapper for AROS on MorphOS. He publishes status reports to inform the users.
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18.Sep.2009
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MorphOS: Optical character recognition "Tesseract"
Michal "zukow" Zukowski has ported the optical character recognition software Tesseract to MorphOS. The program requires additional language files which have to be downloaded from the website of the project and to be installed in the directory data/tessdata.
Direct download: tesseract_beta.lha (5 MB)
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18.Sep.2009
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Airsoft Softwair: Survey results published
Pres release: Today on the Airsoft Softwair homepage some survey results of the Amiga-survey were published.
We would like to thank all participants who helped us to better plan the future development of Hollywood & Hollywood Designer.
Finally we want to point out that the special offer Sam goes to Hollywood from Acube Systems can be ordered until 1. October. This offer is available for all Sam-owners - not only for new customers.
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17.Sep.2009
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Tetris clone "Game"
Herbert "HAK" Klackl has ported the SDL-based Tetris clone Game to MorphOS. The powersdl.library is required.
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17.Sep.2009
Michael C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Cloanto: Express Edition of C64 Forever
The emulator package C64 Forever which was published three months ago (amiga-news.de reported) is now also available as an Express Edition with reduced functions.
On tucows.com C64 Forever is already in the Top Ten and ranks eighth.
Just like Amiga Forever, C64 Forever is a complete package consisting of the emulator, games, demo scene productions and files of historical interest. The Express Edition can be upgraded to the Plus Edition.
Exclusive Plus Edition features include Disk change commit/undo and saved states, RP9 Manager to import, export and rescan content, support for multiple simultaneous playback windows, full-screen mode and skins.
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16.Sep.2009
Martok (ANF) (ANF)
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Netsurf 3.0
Artur Jarosik has published a new update of the AmigaOS-3.x-port of NetSurf on Aminet. Due to the more current CSS-Engine more sites are displayed accurately. Additionally the update includes several bug fixes and extensions.
Hint: You will use the included installation script at your own risk because it will overwrite system files without being asked. It is better to install it manually with the help of the information of the script.
If you want to modify the configuration then edit "Resources/Options".
Download: Netsurf-m68k.lha (8 MB)
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16.Sep.2009
Pegasosforum (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Battle for Wesnoth 1.6.2
Fabien Coeurjoly has published version 1.6.2 of his MorphOS-port of the round based fantasy strategy game Battle for Wesnoth.
Download: wesnoth-1.6.2.lha (228 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Sep.2009
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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CCV: 3D-Models of Amiga 600 and 1200
Stefan Egger wrote: There are two other 3D-Models at Computer Collection Vienna. This time the Amiga models A1200 and A600 were created. But the models have not been completely finished.
On the Computer-Collection website the following Amiga models are available in a good quality: A500, A600, A1200, A1000, A3000, A4000, CDTV and CD³² as well as A1010 and A1011. The models of the A2000, A3000 and A4000 must be still improved.
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15.Sep.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Minimig: Memory upgrade to 4 Megabyte
The Swiss Amiga trader Relec and Amiga Center France offer a memory upgrade for the Amiga clone called Minimig which is sold by ACube. A Minimig board of Revision 1.1 will be upgraded to 4 Megabyte memory. If it is desired the latest Minimig-Firmware version YQ090421 can be installed as well.
If you are interested then please contact Relec which is responsible for the customers and Amiga Center France will do the upgrade.
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15.Sep.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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English translation of Storm C-documentation
Parts of the Storm C-documentation are only available in German. On his website Peter John Hutchison offers now an English translation.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Sep.2009
Heise.de (Webseite)
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BeOS: First alpha version of successor Haiku
After a developing time of eight years the open-source successor of BeOS called Haiku was published as a first alpha version. Among others the Firefox-2.0-Port BeZillaZu is included as application.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution: AmigaSYS 4 Update R1.3
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench with many extensions which above all is meant for users of emulators. Additionally only a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least a Workbench disk of version 3.x are required.
The update R1.3 includes updated versions of some packages.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Minimig: Firmware-Update YQ090911
Jakub 'Yaqube' Bednarski has published a new firmware for Dennis van Weeren's Amiga clone Minimig. With the update now MMC-/SD-/SDHC-cards, subdirectories, long file names and four virtual disk drives and two virtual harddrives are supported. There is a detailed list of changes under the title link.
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14.Sep.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: New theme for Arcade-game BOH
Simone Bevilacqua has published another theme for his commercial arcade game BOH called "Vector" (screenshot).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New screenshots
Some screenshots of almost all versions of AmigaOS have been added to the Amiga Future-Gallery.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2009
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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3D-Model of an Amiga CD 32
Stefan Egger has created some 3D-models of Amiga computers on his site "Computer Collection Vienna". The CD32 was added but there are also a lot of other Amiga models.
The models are implemented as PDF-documents. If you have installed the Acrobat Reader (version 8.0 or better) you can also change the perspective, zoom and change the illumination.
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13.Sep.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser Netsurf 3.0 (beta)
NetSurf is a browser which was originally developed for RiscOS and which can be used with a memory of 17 MB. It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1 but does not Javascript. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Sep.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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New AmiMSN beta version
Michael Trebilcock's AmiMSN is an Instant-Messenger-Client for the MSN-Network written in ARexx. The author asks all users of the latest beta version to test it, especially sending several files during a chat.
Download: AmiMSN.lha (217 KB)
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13.Sep.2009
Michal Zukowski (ANF)
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MorphOS: SCANdal 1.2
Version 1.2 of the scanner software SCANdal has been published for MorphOS by Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski (video). Versions for other systems will be released in a few days.
If you would like to support the development of scanner drivers by helping financing new scanners, feel free to send small donation to the author's PayPal account, which is included in the readme file. Please note that only scanners supported by SANE can be ported.
Changes:
- Contrast slider (if scanner supports it)
- Scanning speed is changeable (if scanner supports it)
- Polish and English docs
- Writing DPI info - PNG saver
- Flip horizontal and Flip vertical buttons added
- Context-dependent mouse pointers
- Scanning in preview mode added
- Printing with Turboprint drivers added
- Added scanner information tab
- "Scan and save" button has been activated
- Minor fixes for MorphOS 1.4.5, still needs Update and MUI4 Beta
- Added possibility to resize existing scan area frame
- In case of lack of memory proper error window is displayed
- Epson USB and Mustek scanners communication has been improved
Download: scandal.lha (113 KB) (snx)
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12.Sep.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Update of YouTube-script Tubexx
Tubexx is a little tool for YouTube written in ARexx with which you can search for certain videos. The results are listed in a thumbnail-browser. Videos can be streamed or downloaded.
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12.Sep.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: New and updated AmigaZeux-screenbars, ModernArt Blanker 2.0
Unser the title link a new screenbar for MorphOS was published called Uptime 1.0. It shows how long the system has already worked.
Additionally there are updates for screenbars CPUGauge (1.4) and MemoryGauge (1.3) which show the usage of the processor and of the memory. Last but not least the screen saver ModernArt Blanker was updated.
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11.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.1.5
Paolo Besser has published an update for his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. With version 1.1.5 some problems with newer SDL-/MESA-libraries are fixed, the stability was increased and the AROS-files were updated (9th September).
Additional to the Update-CD under the title link the distribution is also available as complete archive in the Live!- (DVD) and Light-version (CD) as download. Users of version 1.1.4 can also use the Live-Updater.
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10.Sep.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further songs added
AmigaRemix has published new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files for download. With the latest update two new mixes have been added:
- Turrican II (Concerto For Laser And Enemies Enhanced Mix)
- Killing Game Show - The End
- Wings Of Death - Jungle Of Mutants Remix (FX Version)
- Sly Spy: Secret Agent (Sly 77 Remix)
- Eye of the Beholder Wrath of Xanathar Remix
- Amberstar Title Theme
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10.Sep.2009
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Amiga Future: Further full versions
In the download section of the Amiga Future some commercial games were uploaded, among others Aqua, Newio, Reflections, Spellbound! and StarFighter.
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09.Sep.2009
Philippe Bourdin & RELEC (eMail) (ANF)
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Event: Alchimie 2009 in Tain l'hermitage (France)
From 6. to 8. November the ninth Alchimie will take place in Tain-l'hermitage in in France. For further information please have a look under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: DATASTORM 2010 (February 2010, Göteborg)
From 05. to 07. February 2010 the DATASTORM 2010 will take place in Göteborg (Sweden). This event is supposed to be a scene party for "Oldskool"- and retro systems just like C64 or Amiga.
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07.Sep.2009
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Software-News: AmiMSN with file transfers, Drawerball 0.8k
AmiMSN 1.0-WIP
Michael Trebilcock's AmiMSN is an Instant Messenger client for the MSN-Network written in ARexx. In the latest beta version it is now possible to send and receive files.
MorphOS: File manager DrawerBall 0.8k
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published version Drawerball 0.8k of his early version of a simple file manager.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Anubis OS: Change in project management
Because of other tasks Alex Perez took the project management for Anubis OS from Hogne 'm0ns00n' Titlestad.
It is planned to develop a fast, amiga-inspired operating system based on the Linux-Kernels (amiga-news.de reported).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AROS: Hint for Netbook-owners
Under the title link Paolo Besser described how you can start AROS on Netbooks - at least on an Acer Aspire One - because of the Poseidon port. In any case an USB-DVD-drive is required. Please note that there is not any sound output and network support because of the missing drivers.
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04.Sep.2009
PPA (ANF)
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PPA: Interview with Fredrik Wikström
Fredrik Wikström, author of many tools and ports mostly designed for AmigaOS 4, agreed to have an interview with the polish Amiga news-site PPA in which he tells about his Amiga roots, programs he wrote and future plans. The interview is available in English under the title link and also in a polish version. (snx)
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04.Sep.2009
André Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Hobby-Project: Automatic monitor switch for Indivision AGA
André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer wrote: With the help of some users from the community there is now a working automatic monitor switch for the Indivision AGA in combination with any graphic board.
It is a pure hobby project which is supposed to be the base for the development of the control software.
In future I am going to build a reworked layout with different chips on a smaller baord.
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03.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Pianeta Amiga on 26. September in Empoli (Italy)
In Italian Empoli (close to Florence) for the 13th time the Pianeta Amiga will take place on 26. September. ACube Systems, AmigaKit and Bitplane will take part.
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02.Sep.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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Emulator: Hatari 1.3.0
The Atari-ST- and -STE emulator Hatari is now available in version 1.3.0. The changes are listed in the Readme-file under the title link.
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02.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Update 5 of arcade game BOH
Simone Bevilacqua has published an update for his commercial arcade game BOH.
- Replaces low obstacles with traps (f.ex. the pools of the theme "default" cause damage to the shield)
- Adds dynamic sound to traps animations
- Adds acoustic feedback to shield discharges
- Improves the sound engine policies
- Simplifies and improves the automapper colors (dangerous places are indicated more clearly)
- Increases the precision of and optimizes sprites rendering
- Removes pits borders along (transparent) barriers
- Refines video modes suggestions
- Removes the sort-by-name option
- Converts the characters set of themes to full ISO 8859-1
- Retouches the themes graphics slightly
- Improves the terminology
- Reworks some internal aspects of missions and themes for easier development of expansions
- Fixes the handling of alphachannel-less sprites (this bug had no practical consequences because no theme used such kind of graphics)
- Adds a new tutorial mission
- Updates and improves the user's manual
- Applies some other changes
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02.Sep.2009
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Software-News until 02.09.2009
Update for Amiga Forever 2009
For registered users of the commercial Amiga emulator Amiga Forever 2009 there is an update called 2009.0.5.0.
AmigaOS 4: ScummVM 1.0.0 rc1
The latest version of the adventure interpreter ScummVM is now also available for AmigaOS 4.
AmigaOS 4: EyeViewer SE 1.7
EyeViewer SE shows and plays pictures and sound files (screenshot). The 68k-program was rewritten for AmigaOS 4.1 so it will no longer work with AmigaOS 3. In version 1.7 some minor bugs were fixed and the install script was reworked. Additionally now the pictogram creatd by Martin "Mason" Merz is used.
AmigaOS 4: Voice database WordNet 3.0
WordNet is a lexical database of the English language, the port for AmigaOS 4 was written by Daniel Jedlicka.
The Amiga version has the following features:
- a comfortable ReAction-based browser
- ARexx interface
- application.library support
- speech output through the Flite synthesis engine
- tooltype-based configuration
- extensive help and documentation
For the voice output the flite.device is required.
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01.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Minimig: New Altera-Core released
Under the title link for the Altera-boards DE1 and DE2 an updated Minimig-Core was published for members of the YahooGroup.
Besides the FPGA-implemented 68k processor of the Minimig core at 7 MHz there is a second one, effectively being comparable to a 28 MHz 68k, which can replace the ARM controller in the future. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Online-Magazine: The Crypt - Issue 57
The 57th issue of the English online magazine The Crypt is among others about the hardware access under ARexx and AmigaBASIC.
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01.Sep.2009
German Amiga Community (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 80
Press release: Today the Amiga Future issue 80 (September/October 2009) was published.
In issue 80 you can find test reports about Netsurf, BOH, Amiga Forver 2009 and much more. Additionally there is a special about data integrity and an interview with Cloanto. On the ReaderCD there are many full versions and PD-software as well as the full version of Hell Squad.
There is a detailed list of content on our website.
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01.Sep.2009
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
A lot of new articles have been added during the last two months to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS-magazine Obligement.
If you want to suppport the magazine with translations of single articles then please contact David Brunet.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of july/august 2009
- News: update on AROS
- Interview with Hugues Nouvel (Amiga developer, organisator of Amiga parties)
- Interview with Wyane Hunt (from Amiga.org, english version available)
- Interview with Emanuele Cesaroni (2002)
- Interview with Alexandre Balaban (2002)
- Interview with Thomas Rapp (2002)
- Comparative: AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS 2.3 on Pegasos II
- Review of MorphOS 2.3
- Review of MorphOS 0.1
- Review of It Came From The Desert
- Review of DynAMIte Special Collector\'s Edition
- Review of Ilyad
- Review of Kickstart Archives
- Review of Art Effect Plugin CD
- Hardware: Indivision AGA 4000/CD32
- Hardware: Sam440ep-Flex (update)
- Tutorial: installation and utilisation of MLDonkey
- Tutorial: installation and configuration of PalmUAE
- Tutorial: copy, cut and paste on AmigaOS
- Tutorial: make Opus Magellan 2 and Workbench more powerful
- Tutorial: configuration of MUI 3.8
- Tutorial: getting things to run on your Amiga with graphic card
- Tutorial: fonts on AmigaOS AmigaOS 3.x
- Tutorial: play anims on AmigaOS 3.x with graphic card
- Special quizz about the years 1999 and 2000
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01.Sep.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Update problems with Icaros 1.1.4, Icaros Live-DVD
According to the developers of the AROS-distribution Icaros there are some problems if you want to update to the previously published version 1.1.4 automatically.
The developers recommend to download the update and to unpack it under a different operating system. Then the ISO-file can be installed without any problems under AROS with the "from ISO"-option of the LiveUpdater.
There is also a bootable "Live"-DVD of the distribution which is called "Icaros Desktop LIVE!" and which does not require any installation on the harddrive but which can be installed additional to an existing Windows-installation on a different partition.
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01.Sep.2009
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MorphOS: Software-News until 01.09.2009
Adventure-Interpreter: ScummVM 1.0.0 rc1
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the Adventure-Interpreter ScummVM.
New beta driver for Epson-USB-Scanner
Michal "zukow" Zukowski has published a new beta version of his scanner driver for Epson-devices on an USB-port and asks for your feedback on the thread on morphzone.org.
Direct download: EpsonUSB.device (91 KB)
MorphOS-Skin: Blue Marine
The Blue Marine Skin is a MorphOS-skin of Jambalah (screenshot).
Direct download: BlueMarineSkin.lha (1,2 MB)
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31.Aug.2009
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Videos: Historical at cchronicles.com, new issue of AmitopiaTV
At cchronicles.com old vidoes about computers are collected. About the Amiga there are some videos as well.
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. The topics of the latest issue:
- Amiga News
- Efika usage
- Gaming on A1200
- Walls of Doom
- Closed
Download: amitopiatv31stofaugust.mp4 (292 MB)
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31.Aug.2009
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AROS: WHD Menu 0.2
With Yannick Erb's "WHD Menu" you can start and manage WHDLoad-games under AROS (screenshot). New in version 0.2:
- Screenshots are now available using separate png files (see the screenshot pack)
- Games can be filtered by genre/favorite
- some code clean-up
- faster update of the interface
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31.Aug.2009
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0-svn-2009.08.30
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the video player MPlayer. Changes in this version:
- Updated to 21.08.2009 svn (r29543)
- Audio tracks pulldown menu is now built for any kind of streams (not only DVD anymore)
- Added "Exit at playlist end" option in repeat modes
- Added scale and crop to GUI video filters
- Added volume gain filter to GUI audio menu
- Display current/total time in GUI for (network) streams too. Some TS streams might show a bogus current time, though
- Fixed a layout issue in properties window if filename is too long
- Enabled XVID encoding support in mencoder (libxvidcore)
- Added -noaltivec option (can be useful for benchmarks or potentially broken altivec decoders)
- Fixed OggTheora demuxer, so that video stream is detected again
Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30.lha (10 MB)
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30.Aug.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.80
NoWinED is a MUI-base text editor for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. The changes in version 0.80 are listed in the Changelog.
The author thinks that NoWinED 0.80 should work with AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.5 as well.
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30.Aug.2009
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MUI-classes: Texteditor.mcc 15.30, TheBar.mcc 26.4
There are new versions of the MUI-classes Texteditor.mcc and TheBar.mcc.
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30.Aug.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.0.0
As usual the develpers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE give a little preview to the next version. WinUAE 2.0.0 is supposed to be published in autumn/winter 2009 and and will have the following changes:
- Huge A500 cycle-exact emulation compatibility improvement. Previous
"approximate cycle-exact" is gone. It is time for REAL cycle-exact emulation!
- Greatly improved unexpanded A1200/CD32 emulation compatibility. Approximate cycle-exact 68EC020/68020 emulation implemented, includes emulated instruction cache, approximate prefetch emulation.
- 68040 MMU emulation (from Aranym) finally merged. For example Enforcer and M68K Linux compatibility. (NOTE: not compatible with JIT)
- CD32 drive emulation compatibility improved.
- Built-in WASAPI sound API support.
- Less annoying real harddrive safetycheck.
- Full NTSC timing implemented (long/short line toggle etc..)
- "AutoVSync" mode that change native refresh rates automatically (50Hz/60Hz)
- Basic CPU frequency/bus multiplier configuration option added.
- Bugfix:Programmed refresh rate modes had bad sound. (1.6.1)
- Bugfix:Command line parsing special cases fixed. (1.6.0)
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30.Aug.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: CPUGauge 1.3
CPUGauge is a screenbar plugin which shows the current usage of processor. CPUGauge requires at least MorphOS 2.0. The changes in version 1.3:
- Now uses SA_ScreenbarSignal for its timer in order to prevent the Public Screen Manager task running out of signals due to CPUGauge running on too many screens
- Fixed a bug that made CPUGauge crash when the timer was not created (Fabien Coeurjoly)
- Small adjustment to localisation: Changed "Opacity" to "Visibility" and "Undurchsichtigkeit" to "Sichtbarkeit" in the german catalog
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30.Aug.2009
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: First screenshots of vector graphic program MOS-Office
Carsten Siegner wrote: With this I would like to announce my personal "little Office-package" (first only available for MorphOS, later for AmigaOS 4 and other as well). This is called "MOS-Office".
The user-interface was completely written as MUI-GUI and works with the "Multi-Windows-Method". All windows are asynchronous, that means that all windows can be open to each time and can receive input. MOS-Office is a pure vector graphic program which can handle any number of sites.
In later versions MOS-Office can export to the SVG-format and to the OpenOfficeDraw-format (.odg). For the ODG-import my opendokument.library will be required. Furthermore there is already a pagestream.library for the export to PageStream >= 4.1. Postscript and PDF I will have to put in a library but should not be a bugger problem. Thus MorphOS finally will get a connection to modern formats just like OpenOffice.
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30.Aug.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: SCANdal beta version for Epson-Scanner-Test
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski has published a beta version (the latest stable version can be found on Aminet) of his Scanner-Software SCANdal to test the added support of Epson scanners because he has not got such a device. So please give him feedback and reports.
Download: scandal.lha (75 KB)
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29.Aug.2009
Oliver Tacke (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Online role-playing game The Mana World 0.0.29.1
The Mana World is a MMORPG which is currently an alpha version (screenshot), which is available for several operating system and was published under the licence of GPL.
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29.Aug.2009
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Demo-Scene: Mixed 4k-Intro music
The Amiga based Netlabel moodsplateau.net has published a 30 minutes lasting mix from soundtracks of Ephidrena-Intros and music with 8bit influences. Loaderror and his friend Tags have played this mix in a club in Trondheim (Norway). The soundtrack of "Finmark" was completed with an additional bass.
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29.Aug.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Icaros Desktop 1.1.4, Icaros Desktop Light
For the AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop there is an update which includes improved versions of SDL and Mesa and whose components were reworked.
For older computers without a DVD-drive a "light"-version of the distribution is offered which can be burned on a 700 MB CD-R.
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28.Aug.2009
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USB-Stack: Source codes of Poseidon published
After finishing the the AROS-port the author Chris Hodges was paid and the source codes of USB-stack are now available on AROS Sourcecode Repository.
The persons in charge want to thank all donators who made this port possible.
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28.Aug.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Log-Analyzer logtool 2.7
Jacek Piszczek has published an update of his Log-Analyzer logtool. In version 2.7 the support of the Firewire-Logs (Frank Mariak's OHCI1394Mon) was improved.
Logtool requires at least version 50.70 of the MUI-class Powerterm.mcc. Recent versions are part of MorphOS 2.3 as well as the MUICON-package. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Aug.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MouseEyes 1.0
MouseEyes published by AmigaZeux is a screenbar for MorphOS 2.x. Its eyes follow the mouse movements. Version 1.0 can be downloaded under the title link.
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27.Aug.2009
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Interview: Wayne Hunt (amiga.org)
The editorial staff of the Obligement magazine has published an interview with Wayne Hunt who is the webmaster of amiga.org.
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25.Aug.2009
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Software-News until 25.08.2009
SabreMSN 0.58
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another beta version of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. The changes in SabreMSN 0.58 are listed in the Changelog.
CPUGauge 1.2
CPUGauge is a "Screenbar-Plugin" which is integrated in the title line of the Ambient screen and which shows the current usage of memory. CPUGauge requires at least MorphOS 2.0. Changes in version 1.2:
- Left and right spacing can be changed now (Daff)
- Background wasn't properly refreshed with extreme spacing dimensions. Fixed
- The label is now always horizontally centered to the screen title and will ignore top and bottom spacing entirely
- Byte separator can be selected from a list of alternatives now including none at all (Daff)
- It's possible now to use the screenbar default font colour
AmigaOS 4: BoxWorld 1.12
Ventzislav Tzvetkov has finished version 1.12 of BoxWorld which is Sokoban clone.
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25.Aug.2009
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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AROS: Interview with Krzysztof Smiechowicz
The AROS Show interviews Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Smiechowicz. He discusses many projects that he has been involved in for AROS. Also there is some information on the status of AROS included by Krzysztof. (snx)
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24.Aug.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video-Magazine: New issue of Amitopia-TV
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. The latest issue includes Amiga-news as well as many animations which were created by fans.
Additional to the download version there is a Flash-video.
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24.Aug.2009
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Software-News until 24.08.2009
MUI-Klasse: MCC_TextEditor 15.29 - now for AROS as well
The MUI-class MCC_TextEditor is now available in version 15.29. There is also an AROS-port. The changes:
- Text can be colored (limited syntax highlighting)
- WYSIWYG for bold, italic and underline soft styles
- Multi-level undo & redo
- Lines with different alignments (left, right, centered)
- Ability to insert thick or thin separators with an optional title
- Easy marking either using the mouse or keyboard
- Full clipboard support, offering very fast cut & paste routines
- Light text highlighting for e-mail based on an opening ">" character
- Support for external spellcheckers, including type'n'spell and word
guessing
- Configurable keys, colors, cursor types, blink speed, and much more
- Ability to have a bitmap as a background
- Support for proportional fonts with floating word wrap, as well as
antialiased fonts
- Pixel smooth scrolling
- AREXX interface for scripted programming
MorphOS: MemoryGauge 1.2
MemoryGauge is a "Screenbar-Plugin" which is integrated in the title line of the Ambient screen and which shows the current usage of memory. MemoryGauge requires at least MorphOS 2.0. Changes in version 1.2:
- Left and right spacing can be changed now (Daff)
- Background wasn't properly refreshed with extreme spacing dimensions - Fixed
- The label is now always horizontally centered to the screen title and will ignore top and bottom spacing entirely
- Byte separator can be selected from a list of alternatives now including none at all (Daff)
- It's possible now to use the screenbar default font colour
MorphOS: Drawerball 0.8j
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published Drawerball 0.8j which is an early version of a simple file manager.
PNG-Icons: Amiga's Magic Factory - PinUp Icons
Amiga's Magic Factory is called a package including different PNG-iconsets and screensavers created with Hollywood which was published by members of Morguesoft. Now a pictogram set called "Pinup Icons" was added. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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