20.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Unix compatibility: ixemul.library 50.0
The ixemul.library offers some of the Unix and BSD funktions under AmigaOS and makes it more easy to port corresponding software. Bernd Rösch has ported version 49.26 of the MorphOS-version of ixemul to AmigaOS 3.
The changes of this version are listed in the Changelog. The source code is available in the SVN-Repository of amiga.sourceforge.net.
Download: ixemul-50.0-060f.lha (2,1 MB)
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19.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News until 19.02.2009
Catalog compiler: SimpleCat 3.14
Guido Mersmann has published a new version of his catalog compiler SimpleCat for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS.
Installer 1.26
The installer written by Guido 'geit' Mersmann is replacement of the original installation program provided by Commodore. THere are versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS.
SabreMSN 0.42
James "jahc" Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
PanzerZ: Status-Update
On his website Jens "bruZard" Henschel has given a status update of the multiplayer shooter "PanzerZ" and has shown a preview of the new Panzer-graphics.
MorphOS: Diagnose-Tool TaskTree 1.5
TaskTree written by Christian "Tokai" Rosentreter shows all current tasks in a ranged way. Version 1.5 includes some optimations.
Download: tasktree-1.5.lha (3 KB)
Time 1.1
"Time" times the duration which a CLI-command needs for its execution. The Tool was also written by Christian Rosentreter.
Download: time-1.1.lha (2 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Amiga posters available again
Press release: The Amiga posters Keep the momentum going and Back for the future are available at the APC&TCP shop again.
The introductory price is 2,50 Euro plus shipping and handling. Starting from March the old price will be valid. There is only a limited stock of posters available. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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18.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Turn based strategy game M.A.X. Reloaded
Mechanized Assault & Exploration ("M.A.X.") is a turn based strategy game which was published for DOS-computers in 1996. The remake "M.A.X. Reloaded" (screenshots: 1, 2) offers now network support with TCP/IP. Additionally several bugs in the multiplayer modus of the commercial version were fixed.
M.A.X. Reloaded is not only an engine but includes all required data for the game. If you have got the commercial original you can use those graphics - if you want to use it under AmigaOS 4 have a look at the readme. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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7-Zip-updates for console and XAD-system (AmigaOS 3/4)
Diego "DCR8520" Casorran has published on amiga.sourceforge.net a new version of the console-based archiver 7za. With its help you can create and unextract archive in 7z-format. The XAD-plugin for 7z-archive written by Chris Young was updated some days ago as well.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS on USB-Stick: Portable AmigaSYS Live '09
The "Live"-version of the AmigaOS-distribution AmigaSYS installes a complete AmigaOS-based working environment on a USB-stick which can boot. The user gets an emulated Amiga which he can use with all of his personal applications, documents and configuration preferences on eevery modern PC which can boot from USB-media.
On the USB-stick the Linux-distribution Slax is used which then starts the AmigaOS with E-UAE. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Feb.2009
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic server Odi
Odi is a vector graphic server for MorphOS 2.x which offers the following features:
- Creating complex documents with ARexx-command
- Import of PDF and ODG files (OpenOffice Draw)
- Export of PDF, EPS, PNG, PSD, BMP, TIF, PCL and JPG
- Seperate printing system which also controls recent laser printer
- Using Turboprint is also possible
- Using some PDF-features which are really unique
Download: odi.lha (483 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Feb.2009
Sacha Hertz (ANF)
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Speed comparision AmigaOS 4.1 vs. MorphOS 2.2
Because AmigaOS 4.1 is available for Pegasos II as well Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published a speed comparision test for different applications and games under the title link.
Of course it is also important how optimated each port was. However the current situation of the users is shown who want to use the application on a Pegasos II under the one or the other operating system.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: eXec-Party 2 (21. February, Warsaw)
On 21. February in Warsaw (Poland) the second "eXec Party" will take place. There presentations of AmigaOS 4 on SAM440ep and Pegasos II, a demonstration of AmiCygnix as well as comparision tests between SAM, Pegasos 2 and AmigaOne will be shown.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 77 (March/April 2009)
Press release: The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 77 (March/April 2009) are online now. You can find a first review of SAM440ep-flex in this issue already. In addition there are reviews of the recently released AmigaOS 4 SDK and MorphOS 2.2. Of course reviews like EvenMore, Robbo, Warpview and others are not missing either.
On the cover CD you can find the full version of SoundFX besides some other full versions. Furthermore there are about 90 MB of data and sources of the unreleased game Fortress of Fear. A more detailed description of content and some excerpts can be found at our website.
The Amiga Future is available as an English and German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future is obtainable as a single issue and subscription each with or without a cover CD. We ask all interested users to order it as soon as possible.
amigafuture.de
apc-tcp.de (cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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PDF-/Postscript-viewer: EasyGS
EasyGS which was developed on behalf of the British trader AmigaKit is a little tool for viewing and printing PDF or Postscript documents with Ghostscript. The Amiga port of Ghostscript 8.60 is required.
EasyGS.lha (40 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 1.6.0
As usual the developers of the well-knwon Amiga emulator WinUAE give a short preview of the forthcoming version. WinUAE 1.6.0 will be published in spring 2009 and include the following news:
- Very popular request: automatic display scaling/window resizing!
(not compatible with all programs)
- PAL/NTSC vertical size change emulated if filter enabled
- Transparent clipboard sharing between Amiga clipboard.device and
Windows clipboard, both Amiga->Windows and Windows->Amiga supported. Text and images supported, HAM6/8 automatically converted to 24-bit
image, EHB converted to 64-color image. Images with less than 256
colors images converted to standard IFF, higher color images converted
to 24-bit IFF. Text converted to plain text, formatting possible in
future.
- "Interlace fixer", interlaced screens are now rock solid, all interlace
artifacts will be gone. (this feature isn't same as scandoubler or
flickerfixer and not compatible with most games)
- VirtualPC VHD dynamic harddisk image support (dynamic = empty hardfile
is very small, size grows automatically when more data gets written)
- Custom chipset emulation updates, horizontally mixed lores and hires
modes work and more (for example Disposable Hero titlescreen is
finally perfect, Oops Up ray color issue)
- Mouse emulation rewritten (Oil Imperium pipelining minigame)
- 10 sector and 81/82 track PC/Atari ST disk images supported
- OCS/ECS "7-planes" mode fully implemented (4 normal bitplanes + 2
static 16-bit patterns for planes 5 and 6) 1st Anniversary by Lazy
Bones has 100% correct display now.
- SuperHires supprted in lores and filtered lores modes
- 320x256, 640x512, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 always added to RTG
mode list (320x200 and 320x240 was already available previously)
- RTG mode vertical blanking interrupt implemented without busy
waiting, interrupt rate added configuration added to GUI
- Filter multiplier select boxes now support manually entered
multipliers, for example 2.5 = 2.5x
- Full drawing tablet support. (must be wintab compatible)
- "Magic mouse" mode improvements
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Feb.2009
IamSONIC (Alex R) (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Jump'n Run Giddy 3
Phil Ruston has already published two Shareware issues with the hero "Giddy" (Wibble World Giddy, Giddy 2). Now the third part of the saga is available for the Amiga (screenshots: 1, 2).
Peter "Xeron" Gordon has converted the Assembler source codes of the MS-DOS-version to C. Therefore Ruston can offer his game for AmigaOS 4 as well. Giddy 3 ist Freeware. But if you like the game you can pay a little bounty. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Feb.2009
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Software-News
Screen saver: Acuario 1.76
Acuario is a screen saver developed with Hollywood (screenshot) which is available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS. Changes in version 1.76:
- New mermaid animation corrected
- New voices for the mermaid
- New inhabitant in the aquarium: one crab
- New background of high resolution
- Bubbles animation with new effect for the new background
- New system of position for the plants, bubbles and crab for the different screen sizes
- New option for AcuarioPrefs, now again you can choose the default melody
Link: Download site
AmigaOS 4: OWB-Utility ClipDown 1.1
ClipDown is a provisional replacement for the download function which is still missing in newer OWB-versions: The download-URL is marked in the OWB-window and then copied to the Clipboard. With a click on the "Download Clip"-button in the ClipDown-window the file is downloaded with the help of wget.
Link: Download site
AmigaOS 4: ctorrent_gui 2.0
ctorrent_gui is a client for the filesharing network BitTorrent with a graphical user-interface.
- Reworked the layout, with tabs for main, prefs (not in use yet) and stats(download statistics)
- Finally fixed the DSI after selecting .torrent file(about time yes ;) )
- Have fixed the drag'n'drop issue
- Added total download and upload statistics(not part of the original ctorrent)
- I have added horizontal resize of window so you can see text outside of the window
Link: Download site
AmiKit CD available again
Few months ago the AmiKit-CD was published. Now a limited amount of CDs is available again. AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users. The CD includes versions for Windows and Linux.
Link Website
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13.Feb.2009
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Update of the Firewire-Stack Helios
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has published a new version of his Firewire-stack for MorphOS ("Helios").
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Several ports
Matthias Münch has compiled the following programs for AmigaOS 4 and published them under the title link:
- egg2mirc 0.06
- IRCStats 1.0
- irssi2mirc 1.0
- jpeg 6b
- log2mirc 0.01
- Normalize 0.7.7
- OpenJPEG 1.3
- shorten 3.6.1
- vobTools 1.5
- xchat2mirc 1.0
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: New ISO-file for the Efika-board
Michal Schulz has published a new ISO-file for the Efika-board. This update solves problems with the MMU-routines and it should be now possible to start AROS from an USB-stick.
Torrent: aros-efika-20090211.torrent
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Testers wanted for Digibooster Professional 3
Press release APC&TCP, responsible for the sales and the development of the music software DigiboosterPro, announce that from now on alpha testers are wanted to reaching as soon as possible beta status.
Appropriate users would:
- Send back mistakes, problems, bugs and other non-system conforming events - if possible just in time
- Speak English
- Have some basic knowledge about the usage of:
- Tracker programs (Digibooster 1.x, DBPro 2.x, Protracker, ...)
- Monitor programs (Scout, Sashimi, Snoopdos) (optional)
- Own one or several of the following Amiga systems:
- Amiga Classic 68k (AmigaOS 3.x)
- Amiga Classic PPC (AmigaOS 4.0)
- AmigaOne (AmigaOS 4.x)
- Sam440EP/Flex (AmigaOS 4.x)
- Pegasos 1/2 (MorphOS 1.x / 2.x / AmigaOS 4.1)
- Efika (MorphOS 2.x)
- AmigaOS Emulation (Amithlon / WinUAE)
If you are an interested user, please send an e-mail with the subject "DBPro3 beta", including your system configuration, to: psyria@digiboosterpro.de.
Please also have a look at the support forum of DigiBoosterPro. Here you can talk directly to the developer. (snx)
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11.Feb.2009
Mazze43 (ANF)
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Disc-Magazine: Toga
Mazze43 wrote: "Hello Amiga fellows! Recently I was looking for disc magazines to complete my collection. Under the title link I have found a site which publishes five discs each month. It is called Toga. Some of you should know this name.
Issues from before 2007 are available on the server of Back to the Roots. I do not have an idea if the magazine is well-known."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.4.7
The AmigaOS 4-port of the turn based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth is now available in the latest version 1.4.7.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.6
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes in version 3.6 are listed in the Changelog.
Direct download: OWB.lha (11,9 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Installer 1.25
The Installer written by Guido 'geit' Mersmann is a replacement for the installation program provided by Commodore. This update includes several bug fixes.
Download: Installer.lha (530 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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Information about new memory system in MorphOS 2.x
In an article on the website of the MorphOS-team, Harry "Piru" Sintonen who implemented the new system explained the differences between the old and the new memory system as well as the goals and functions of the new system.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution: AmigaSYS 4 Update R1
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench with many extensions which are mainly important for users of emulators. Additionally a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least one Workbench-disk of version 3.x are required.
The update R1 includes updated versions of several components as well as minor improvements and bug fixes. You can find a detailed list of changes on the website of the project.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RPG-Remake Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Rings ("LotR") is a roleplay developed by Interplay which was published in 1991 for Amiga and MS-DOS. Johan "Spot" Samuelsson now has ported the Open Source reimplementation of the LotR-Engine to AmigaOS 4 (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Additionally to the engine the data of the commercial original are required. The MIDI-soundtrack still does not work under AmigaOS 4 but beside LotR can be fully played.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky 1.8b7 (Beta)
Jabberwocky is a MUI-based Instant-Messaging-Client which can access different Messenging-Networks (e.g. AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) with so called server moduls. Jabberwocky is available for AmigaOS 3 and 4 and the MorphOS-version will follow soon.
Changes since the last beta version:
- Added NFloattext.mcc to the reuirements listed in the Jabberwocky guide.
- Added alternative check for TextInput.mcc if vapor_toolkit.library is
missing. Textinput.mcc crashes if checked by MUI without the
vapor_toolkit.library installed and available.
- Added a check for the presence of NFloattext.mcc so Jabberwocky won't
crash if it's missing.
- Updated OS4 makefiles and Jabberwocky include files to compile with new OS4 SDK (Now defaults to linking with newlib.library instead of clib2).
- Corrected the asynchronous command execution for OS4 to prevent unwanted
closing of error output filehandle. (Doesn't apply to OS3 or MOS)
- Improved sourcecode by eliminating some unused variables, adding function prototypes, correcting some character declarations, making type casting corrections & added some missing default function return values.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Gallery update
Press release: The Amiga Future gallery has been expanded considerably during the past months. Especially the past few days we have added sub sections to "Amiga Messen / Shows" and filled them up with entries like Breakpoint and Evoke. By now, we have photos from more than 20 events online.
But we need more images to complete the gallery. Do you have taken any photos on an event? Then please mail us. We'll put them online for you. Do you have photos of the old big Amiga fairs? Then please email us.
In our screenshot area we have more than 3000 game screenshots online. Now we want to put as many screenshots of applications online. Who wants to help us?
By the way, subscribers of the Amiga Future are able to download covers in colour for the included CD in the magazine to print them out.
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09.Feb.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: XMLViewer 0.12
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski's XMLViewer is a little MUI-program based on the expat.library for viewing XML-files for MorphOS 2.x (screenshot). Perhaps the program also works under MorphOS 1.4 (an installed aboutbox.mcc is required) but it was not tested.
The last changes:
- v0.12: Cliboard support: Context menu with Cut Copy Paste was added.
Paste command is not implemented yet.
- v0.11: Searching
- v0.10: XML header support
- v0.10: Save support
Download: xmlviewer.lha (88 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Feb.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, issues 36 & 37
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English Podcast in which Amiga users and invited guests discussed the latest events of the Amiga-scene.
Hosts of the issues 36 and 37 are Rich Lawrence, Mike Blackburn Mike Leach and Bill Panagouleas. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Feb.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Instant-Messenger PolyGlot 0.59
The Instant-Messenger PolyGlot written by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault supports the MSN-network. Beta version 0.59 of the MorphOS-program includes several bug fixes.
Download: PolyGlot_0.59.lha (3,3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Feb.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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File system: NTFS-driver 0.9
Marek Szyprowski has published an update of his driver for the file system NTFS. Version 0.9 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS has added the so far missing ACTION_CHANGE_MODE-package-support and fixes two bugs.
Download: ntfs_0.9.lha (73 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Feb.2009
ANF
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Decision against von Gravenreuth legally valid
The decision against the lawyer Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth is legally valid.
The court has not given a suspended sentence. Thus the lawyer was sentenced to 14 month's hard time.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2009
Max Mustermann (ANF)
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Scandoubler: Pictures of prototype of Indivision AGA 4000D
Under the title link Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has published pictures of a prototype of the scandoubler Indivision AGA 4000D which also can be used in an Amiga CD³² and can be seen here.
Likely in March the scandoubler will be available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Installer 1.20
Installer wriiten by Guido "Geit" Mersmann is a replacement for the installation utility provided by Commodore (screenshot). In version 1.20 some minor bugs on non-MorphOS-systems have been fixed. Additionally a Polish translation was added.
Direct download: Installer.lha (519 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2009
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WHDLoad: New Packages until 07.02.2009
With WHDLoad you can install games and demos on your harddrive which originally were only delivered as disk versions. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, improved or updated:
- 19.01.2009 improved: Rally Championships (Flair) install script fixed, 68000 compatible (ecs slave), misc changes (Info)
- 11.01.2009 improved: Turbo Trax (Arcane) (Arcane) 68000 compatible, trainers added (Info)
- 08.01.2009 improved: Might and Magic II - Gates to Another World (New World Computing) made working on 040/060 with caches, fixed keyboard on main menu, manual and icon added (Info)
- 02.01.2009 new: Might and Magic II - Gates to Another World (New World Computing) done by Vairn (Info)
- 31.12.2008 new: Rally Championships (Flair) done by Psygore (Info)
- 31.12.2008 new: Omega (Origin) done by Psygore (Info)
- 22.12.2008 new: Dungeon Quest (Image Tech) done by Psygore (Info)
- 14.12.2008 improved: Arena (Psygnosis) whd10+ compatible, buttonwait improved (Info)
- 10.12.2008 improved: Conflict: Europe (PSS) blitwait routine fixed (Info)
- 05.12.2008 new: Return To Atlantis (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD (Info)
- 01.12.2008 new: Conflict: Europe (PSS) done by Psygore (Info)
- 24.11.2008 new: Fate: Gates Of Dawn (reLINE) done by Psygore (Info)
- 19.11.2008 new: Warlords (SSG) done by JOTD (Info)
- 17.11.2008 new: Multi Player Soccer Manager (D & H Games) done by Psygore (Info)
- 17.11.2008 improved: Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain (Lucasfilm) supports KIXX version, manual included (Info)
- 16.11.2008 new: War In The Gulf (Empire) done by JOTD (Info)
- 16.11.2008 improved: F-19 Stealth Fighter (Microprose) fixed for EZ-Mouse, works with caches (Info)
- 13.11.2008 new: World Tour Golf (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD (Info)
- 12.11.2008 new: Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain (Lucasfilm) done by Psygore (Info)
- 11.11.2008 new: TV Sports Basketball (Cinemaware) done by JOTD (Info,Image)
- 09.11.2008 improved: Castles (Interplay) misc fixes (Info)
- 09.11.2008 new: Hound Of Shadow (Electronic Arts) done by Psygore (Info)
- 09.11.2008 new: World Darts (Mastertronic/Arcadia) done by JOTD (Info)
- 07.11.2008 improved: 688 Attack Sub (Electronic Arts) rewritten for WHDLoad 16 (Info,Image)
- 06.11.2008 improved: Amiga Karate (Paradox/Eidersoft) rewritten for whdload v16, 68000 compatible (Info)
- 02.11.2008 new: Heart Of China (Dynamix) done by Psygore (Info)
- 02.11.2008 improved: The Immortal (Electronic Arts) slave update, music fixed, docs added (Info,Image)
- 02.11.2008 improved: Frontier (GameTEK/Konami) fully rewritten, supports more versions, docs added (Info)
- 28.10.2008 new: RoboSport (Ocean - Maxis) done by Psygore (Info)
- 28.10.2008 new: Ogre (Origin Systems) done by Psygore (Info)
- 15.10.2008 new: Nathan Never (Genias) done by Dr Cinicus (Info)
- 13.10.2008 new: Treasures Of The Savage Frontier (SSI) done by Psygore (Info)
- 08.10.2008 new: Jochen Hippel Sound Demo (Axis) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 07.10.2008 new: Babylonian Twins Demo (Mesopotamia) done by Codetapper (Info)
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07.Feb.2009
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 16.9
With WHDLoad you can install games and demos on your harddrive which originally were only delivered as disk versions. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed. Changes since the last version:
- chg: BLITWAIT macro in whdmacros.i adapted for better speed, thanks
to John Girvin for research and testing
- fix: problems with writing to disks with around a multiple of 4 GB
free space fixed (Ingo Schmitz)
- fix: resload_Decrunch/LoadFileDecrunch could corrupt vital memory
which could lead to strange WHDLoad errors (e.g. "Function ...
requires slave version 1"), reported for game Universe, thanks
to KillerGorilla for report and Psygore for diagnostics;
the old RNC1 format is now properly supported for overlapping
source and destination
- new: on ChkBltSize/S some basic initialization in blitter line mode
are checked too (68060 only)
- new: option FullChip/S to save/restore the full chip memory instead
only the area specified in the Slave
- new: finnish translation of documentation, thanks to Mikko Heinonen
- chg: cpu detection routine reworked to correctly detect an 68020 on
boards with 'FPU logic error', 68851 and 68040/60 FPU detection
improved
- new: workaround added to make WHDLoad running on the CDTV, the
cdtv.device will be disabled to avoid problems with interrupts
generated by this, thanks to jtorrance and Toni Wilen
- new: commands BKPT and BELL added to resload_Patch/Seg to set a
breakpoint (enter freezer) and show a visual bell
- chg: handling of the internal directory cache for resload_Examine/
ExNext changed, so that new created files will not be the
the first entry in the directory
this fixes problems with programs which do not correctly
perform a Examine before each directory scan, e.g. Castles2
(JOTD)
- chg: some more info output and better lace support with SP (saving
picture)
- chg: check for free stack space on entering WHDLoad via resload/
interrupt/exception made more consistent
- chg: many changes on WHDLoadGCI, can export Slave/Memory now
- new: danish translation of documentation, thanks to Nicolai Mortensen
- new: macro PL_NOPS added to whdload.i (bippym)
- chg: improved error messages if loading kickstart fails
- chg: changed CPU detection to avoid problems with weired MMU
configuration, no longer uses transparent translation to avoid
Enforcer hits (Fabio Cinus)
- chg: its no longer possible to load files from outside the data
directory, that means that file specs containg a ':' or '//'
or starting/ending with a '/' are prohibited, these files were
anyway never PreLoad-able
- new: support for multiple data directories added
- new: options SavePath/K and SaveDir/K added to let WHDLoad redirect
all write operations to a different disk location
- new: WHDLoad now remembers if PreLoad has loaded all files and then
doesn't switch when a resload function tries to load a non
existing file (e.g. resload_GetFileSize)
- chg: resload_ListFiles now supports a buffer in ExpMem too (JOTD)
- chg: autodocs revised, html transformation added
Direkter Download: WHDLoad_16.9_usr.lzx (910 KB)
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07.Feb.2009
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AmigaOS 4: distcc 3.1, Expat 5.1, ffmpegGUI 2.1, SDL_mixer 1.2.7-r3
distcc 3.1
With distcc developers can compile on several computers. Please note that this update requires AmigaOS 4.1.
Download: distcc-bin.lha (431 KB)
Expat 5.1
Expat is a XML-Parser-library. A 68k-interface is now included, a static Newlib-version and a Shared-objects-version.
Download: expat.lha (492 KB)
ffmpegGUI 2.1
ffmpegGUI is a graphical user-interface for the video conversion program ffmpeg which was also updated for AmigaOS 4. Several new formats and codecs are supported.
Download:
ffmpeg.lha (7 MB)
ffmpeggui.lha (176 KB)
SDL_Mixer 1.2.7-r3
SDL_mixer is an audio mixer for several channels. The update solves the problems with the mp3- and OGG-support.
Download: sdl_mixer.lha (413 KB)
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06.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: "Heroes of Might and Magic 2"-Remake Free Heroes 2
Free Heroes is an open-source remake of the strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic (screenshots: 1, 2). The game files of the commercial original are required. If you want to have background music you should install the GravisUltraSound Soundfont.
Free Heroes 2 is still in early alpha status but is steadily developed further.
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06.Feb.2009
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PDF-Magazine: Retroaction, Issue 1
The "Retroaction" is a free magazine for retro gamers. Topics of this issue are Speedball 2, the "Sex sells"-sales policy of the developers of Barbarian called Palace, the recently published commercial C64-game Sub Hunter as well as a detailed introduction of the MS-DOS-Emulators DosBox.
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04.Feb.2009
Evolution of the Species (Blog)
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AROS: i.MX515-port intended
In future Genesi is going to use Freescale's ARM-compatible i.MX51-processor instead of the PowerPC. Therefore a corresponding developer program was started.
Under the title link Michal Schulz has suggested an AROS-port. Therfore now projects can also be sent which requires AROS.
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04.Feb.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Developer tools: vasm 1.3d, vlink 0.12a
Frank Wille has published updates of vlink as well as of vasm. vlink is portable linker which gets along with a wide range of binary formats. vasm is a portable assembler which supports different CPU-families (m68k, PPC, i386, 6502...). Both programs are part of the vbcc-distribution as well.
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04.Feb.2009
Obligement (ANF)
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AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award: Homeworld is game of the year 2008
Since 26th January users could vote which game was the best of the year 2008. The realtime strategical Homeworld is the winner. Jagged Alliance 2 and Command And Conquer: Red Alert were second and third. You can find the complete results under the title link.
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04.Feb.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Pidgin 2.5.2 for AmiCygnix
For his AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has published an update of the chat software Pidgin. The program supports different protocols which can be used simultaneously:
- AIM
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk
- GroupWise
- ICQ
- IRC
- MSN
- MySpaceIM
- QQ
- SIMPLE
- Sametime
- XMPP
- Yahoo
- Zephyr
Download: pidgin.lha (14 MB)
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03.Feb.2009
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Programming language: News about AmiBlitz
In two threads (1, 2) on amiforce.de several developers discussed the future of the programming language. Clearing the AmiBlitz-syntax, linking to GCC and renaming the project were some of the topics.
One thing has been already changed: Users of AmiBlitz can now save their source files as ASCII-files. Therefore the complete AmiBlitz source code is available as SVN-Repository.
Furthermore soon the official website of the AmiBlitz project will use the open source solution Joomla which would make it more easy to integrate it with the SVN-Repository but which also would make it not compatible with browsers available for AmigaOS 3. THerefore the webmaster Jens "bruZard" Henschel asked in a poll for feedback of the users.
In his basic.blog Henschel told about developments from the world of the Blitz-Derivate: Additionally to AmiBlitz he gave detailed information about BlitzMax with which applications and games for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X can be developed.
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03.Feb.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Integrated development environment CodeBench 0.8 (beta)
A first beta version of the announced integrated development environment CodeBench is now available.
This package which is called "Development Project Management System" by the author is a supplementation to the recently published SDK and requires AmigaOS 4.1.
Codebench is tu support developers creating and managing projects. A detailed documentation is included in the distribution.
The author points out that this version is still beta. On amigans.net a support forum was openend for qustions or reports.
Download: CodeBench0.8_Beta.lha (2,5 MB)
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02.Feb.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: update of the article database
Press release: We have worked on the extension of the Amiga Future database for the past months. By now it contains about 3000 articles for online reading. This week we added some workshops and an up-to-date article about astronomy photography by Mirko Strauß.
To extend the database even further we are looking for English and German articles. There were lots of websites offering reviews and workshops - unfortunately, many of them diappeared together with their valuable content. We would like to offer this kind of information online again.
Have you made a website with such articles which isn't online anymore? Or did you write something yourself? Then please contact us at the editorial office. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Feb.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmiBlitz³: New complete archive 3.1.1
For the Basic development environment AmiBlitz³ a complete archive was published which can be downloaded under the title link. You can get further information in the support forum.
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02.Feb.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: WiiLoader v1.0 / Several updates
The OnyxSoft-Team has published a program called WiiLoader with which you can load DOL- and ELF-files over the network to the Homebrew Channel. Additionally six programs were updated:
BackUp 1.62, DRemind 1.72, GummiSurf 1.3, MPlayer-GUI 1.44, MultiRen 1.67 and Snakee 0.2.
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02.Feb.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaSYS 4 for the Xbox
AmigaSYS is s preinstalled Workbench with many extensions. You only require a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least one Workbench disk of version 3.x.
This updated version of AmigaSYS 4 for Microsoft's game console Xbox is based on the AGA-version. Some updates and Xbox-extras were added. You can get further information under the title link on the AmigaSYS homepage.
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02.Feb.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.5
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.5.5. It should be installed with the live-update if you have already a previous version.
The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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01.Feb.2009
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MorphOS: Port of Origyn Web Browser
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has ported the Origyn Web Browser to MorphOS (screenshot). The most important features of the MorphOS-version:
- Based on GaleKid 1.0 OWB Branch (December 2008)
- Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL, ...
- Antialiased fonts and kerning, font families and support for international charsets
- MUI Interface
- Cairo technology !!1
- Multiple tabs and windows
- Download manager
- Bookmarks (including import for IBrowse bookmarks)
- Fastlinks
- Context menus
- Copy/Cut/Paste
- Rexx port (openurl support)
Coeurjoly recommends MorphOS 2 but the browser works under MorphOS 1.4.x as well - this requires a new (2007) MUI-version. OWB requires at least 35 MB RAM. Efika-owners who would like to have version without SVG-support (which saves much memory) please contact the author.
Starting OWB for the first time it tries to set the index which can take some minutes.
You can get further information about the MorphOS-version of the Origyn Web Browser in the News on morphzone.org.
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01.Feb.2009
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Installer 1.19, Meridian 3.10, MMKeyboard 4.10, IRComRemote 3.10
Guido "Geit" Mersmann has published updates of several tools:
MMKeyboard 4.10, Meridian 3.10, IRComRemote 3.10
The multimedia-keyboard-driver MMKeyboard (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, UAE, Amithlon), the mouse-gestures-commodity Meridian (AmigaOS 3/4 und MorphOS) as well as the infrared driver package IRCom/IRComRemote (AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS) are now optimized and improved and support now the title line plugins of MorphOS 2.x (screenshot). So an optional popup is available on each screen. MorphOS 1.4.x is supported.
Installer 1.19
Installer is a replacement for the original installation utility provided by AmigaOS (screenshot). Please note that this is the first official release of the new installer. It was tested with hundreds of scripts under MorphOS but should work under AmigaOS 3 as well.
The author has supposed that the AmigaOS 4-version does not work correctly because of a MUI-problem. He cannot find the problem and because he has not got OS4-hardware he will stop searching it. Under AmigaOS 4 the AmigaOS 3-version can be installed - if should work this you can try the PPC-version.
If there should be any problems with the installer scripts then please contact Mersmann with a Mail with screenshot.
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31.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OWB Address Book 3.7
The address book for the AmigaOS-4-port of the Origyn Web Browser is now available in version 3.7. The changes are listed under the title link.
Download: owbaddressbook.lha (1 MB)
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31.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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ACube Systems: Expansion card for Sam440ep-boards announced
On the website ACube Systems has anounced an expansion card for the Sam440ep-board as well as for its Flex-version. The following ports ware added:
- 1x VGA (HD15)
- 2x S/P-DIF digital (TOSLINK, fiber optic)
- 1x USB 1.1
- 2x USB 2.0
- 5x audio jack 3.5
- 2x S/P-DIF analogic (RCA, coaxial)
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31.Jan.2009
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SDL-GUI-Toolkit agar-1.3.3
agar-1.3.3 is a cross-platform toolkit for graphical user-interfaces which are implemented in C, C++ or Ada (screenshot).
Download: agar-1.3.3-68k.lha (38 MB)
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31.Jan.2009
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AmigaOS 4.1 for Pegasos II
Press release Antwerp, Belgium, January 31 2009 - Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of AmigaOS 4.1 for the Pegasos II PowerPC platform. AmigaOS 4.1 for the Pegasos II is functionally identical to the AmigaOne version.
Worldwide distribution to dealers and production are handled by ACube Systems S.r.l.. Interested customers are invited to contact their local Amiga dealer to place their order. (snx)
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31.Jan.2009
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.11
James 'jahc' Carroll has published an update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. This version includes some bug fixes, a Norwegian catalog as well as automations after absence or boot from a channel with password protection.
Direct download:
WookieChat2.11_OS3.lha (1,1 MB)
WookieChat2.11_OS4.lha (1,7 MB)
WookieChat2.11_MOS.lha (1,4 MB)
WookieChat2.11_AROS.lha (1,0 MB)
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30.Jan.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.5
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes in version 3.5 are listed in the Changelog.
Download: owb.lha (12 MB)
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30.Jan.2009
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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BarsnPipes New 1.28
Alfred Faust wrote: With one year of delay I finally published a new version of BarsnPipes New which can be downloaded under the title link. The new version includes some bug fixes as well as some improvements which I wrote in the History in detail.
Please note: Because of insuperable problems with the camd.library in the Classic version for AmigaOS 2.x I had to cease the development of this version. Therefore there will be only the 8 and 32-colour versions of BarsnPipes New for AmigaOS 3.x.
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30.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Interview with Don Daglow (Electronic Arts)
In an English interview with Gamasutra, Don Daglow (Mattel, Electronic Arts, Broderbund) spoke about the development of the never published game console Intellivision IV.
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30.Jan.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AROS: New Efika-CD solves boot problems
Michal Schulz has published an update of his alpha version of AROS for the Efika board. With it booting the computer is simplified - you can find detailed information under the title link.
Torrent: aros-efika-20090130.iso.bz2.torrent
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29.Jan.2009
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Clipo 0.1 beta: Clipboard exchange over TCP/IP
Clipo is a program which makes it possible to exchange the content of the Clipboard over a TCP/IP-connection with the hot key (Alt+s) between the following systems:
- AmigaOS 3.x
- AmigaOS 4.x (still not perfect)
- MorphOS
- AROS/i386
- Windows (tested under XP)
- WinUAE, Amithlon, UAE, etc. with the AmigaOS-3.x-file
Download: clipo_v0.1beta.zip (355 KB)
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28.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.2.0
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari-ST-emulator. The changes are listed in the Readme.
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27.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Weather program Wet 5.4
Version 5.4 of the weather program Wet was published for AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOS 3.9 with BoingBag 2. With this update the weather report works again. Additionally setting the summertime will be done under AmigaOS 4 with the timezone.library.
Download: wet.lha (1 MB)
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27.Jan.2009
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: VmwAROS 1.0.2
Paolo Besser who is maintainer of the AROS-distribution VmwAROS has published version 1.0.2. There are two versions: complete or as update for existing installation.
Changes:
- Added SabreMSN
- Faster Amiga emulation with AmiBridge
- Updated development chain
- Updated ATI™ and Nvidia™ native drivers
- Updated MPlayer
- Updated Eternal Lands MMORPG client
- Updated FTP and HTTP server: they now work with DHCP
- Added USB mass storage support
- Updated VmwAROS preference script
- Updated ConfigIP (won't ask for Yafs anymore)
- Updated VmwUpdate
- AmiStart now shows 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 programs
- Opaque can be disabled in Preferences
- Updated and more compatible ata.device
- Added antialiasing to PoorPDF
- Reintroduced SFSdefrag
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27.Jan.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AROS for Efika: First alpha version available
Under the bounty project Michal Schulz has published a first alpha version of his port of the open source operating system AROS to the PowerPC-board Efika.
The ISO-image can be burned on a disc and then be started with a CD or DVD-USB drive connected to the Efika board. For that please enter the commands "setenv boot-device cd" and "boot cd os_image" in the Open Firmware. If the question "Boot? >" appears then enter a "1".
Please note that this early version has several bugs which might cause crashes. Driver for IDE and network still are not available. Furthermore missing files as well as much debug information are reported.
Torrent: AROS-20090126-efika-chrp-ppc.torrent (snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Jan.2009
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MorphOS: Firewire-Stack Helios 0.1.162
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has published a first version of his recently announced Firewire-Stack for MorphOS. Currently "Helios" has the following limitations:
- Isochrone mode not supported
- Asynchrone mode limitations: Ping request not supported, Lock request/response not supported
- No bus management yet (to support the isochrone mode)
- FWInspect shows only the first PCI OHCI1394 bridge found on the host
- Functions Helios_EnableBus() / Helios_DisableBus() work
but cause system crashes when helios.library is flushed, then reloaded
The archive also includes a SDK for developers. Roguez points out that the API of the helios.library will be changed in this early status.
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26.Jan.2009
amigaworld.net (web site)
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AmigaOS 4: Hyperion releases new SDK
press release:
Leuven, Belgium - 26. January, 2009
Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce the availability of the Software Development Kit Version 53.13 for AmigaOS 4.1.
The new SDK features the gcc 4.2.4 compiler, binutils 2.18 (with support for the PowerPC 440ep), as well as updated header files and autodocs for AmigaOS 4.1.
The SDK download is available for all interested parties via anon access at Hyperions FTP Server:
ftp://hyperion-entertainment.biz/SDK
The SDK is available in two versions: A "nocontrib" version that only contains the compiler and tools plus the documentation and header files for AmigaOS 4.1, and a "Lite" version that contains additional contributions.
[Note from the editor: The new SDK can of course be used on AmigaOS 4.0 aswell] (cg) (Translation: cg)
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26.Jan.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: File manager DrawerBall 0.6m
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published an update of his file manager Drawerball.
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26.Jan.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions for download
Press release:The download area of the Amiga Future website has been updated again. Amongst other stuff, there are new full versions and keyfiles available for download. Additionally, there have been updates to the descriptions and screenshots of some downloads.
We're always looking for contact addresses of programmers and copyright holders to publish more full versions online. If you know someone who knows someone please drop us an email. :)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 26. Jan. 2009, 16:31] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Several SDL-ports for AmigaOS 3, inclusive AmiKit-installer
Artur Jarosik has ported several SDL-based games to AmigaOS 3 which he has introduced in his Blog with screenshot. For AmiKit-users there is an Add-On which installs all 34 games at one push.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jan. 2009, 16:25] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2009
David Brunet (ANF)
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Voting: AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2008
On the website of Obligement you can vote the best Amiga game of the last twelve months. The results will be published on 4th February.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jan. 2009, 15:37] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jan.2009
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Development: Splint 3.1.2
Splint checks C-programs for errors and security breaches. The previous version has been already available for MorphOS and version 3.1.2 additionally is now available for AmigaOS 4 as well.
Download:
splint_3.1.2_mos.lha (1,4 MB)
splint_3.1.2_os4.lha (1,8 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Jan. 2009, 08:49] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmiBlitz³: Includes 3.2
For the Basic development environment AmiBlitz³ updated Includes are available. These are extensions of the function libraries written in AmiBlitz.
Changes:
- Added initial alpha version of NTUI
- Added image_Filter to the image_ext.include
- Renamed image_GetTransparancy to image_GetOpacity
- Bugfixes here and there
- Converted arexx.inlcude to use AmigaOS commands only, API has changed a little
- For compatibility, there is still an arexx_blitz.include, that is the old arexx.include
- Added alpha verison of midimod.include
- Improved and bugfixed strptr.include
- Added useful.include (contains useful macros, like !_NULL)
- Added v43+.definitions.bb2 (contains OS3.5+ stuff)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Jan. 2009, 08:34] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jan.2009
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Poll: How much 68k-compatibility do you expect of a x86-AmigaOS?
Under the title link amiga-news.de hast started a poll which is written in German. Giving you the possibility to take part as well here is the English translation of the poll:
Question: How much 68k-compatibility a Amiga-like operating system at least should have got so you would buy it for 120 to 150 Euro for your x86-computer?
Answers:
- No compatibility at all. The current developments for the Amiga and some ports would be sufficient.
- A simple possibility to start 68k-applications with an emulator (UAE-integration) would be sufficient.
- I need the same 68k-compatibility as it is integrated in AmigaOS4 or MorphOS.
- I would only buy it if it works under WinUAE.
- I would never buy an operating system for x86 which is compatible to Amiga.
Thanks for your participation!
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jan. 2009, 15:24] [Comments: 2 - 09. Sep. 2009, 08:15]
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24.Jan.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Instant Messenger SabreMSN 0.41
James "jahc" Carroll has ported his MSN-client SabreMSN to AROS. UTF8-support is still not implemented under AROS but will be added with the next update. Further limitations are the same as in the original AmigaOS-version:
- Sometimes the SSL stuff fails when trying to connect, so the only thing you can do is keep clicking connect after it fails each time
- The list of Online contacts isnt always sent in full when I first connect. I havent found an answer to that problem yet. So it appears like everyones offline, or most of your online contacts are offline. Reconnecting to the server once or twice in a row seems to restore the list properly sometimes.
- Sometimes Sabre reapers. I've only had this happen twice in the last few weeks though. It seems to be dying on the MUI input loop, but maybe I've done something illegal before that call..
- Newly added contacts arent added to the list, you need to reconnect to see them
- Sometimes outgoing file transfers report during mid-transfer: "The file transfer was unsuccessful because your computer is out of disk space. Try deleting some files, and then ask the sender to try the transfer again."
- Sabre uses the older MSN file transfer protocol, so many recent MSN clients fail when trying to send a file to Sabre.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jan. 2009, 01:55] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Remix albums: Instant Remedy / Immortal 4
Two Remix-CDs with Amiga-soundtracks were announced for this year: The second album published by Instant Remedy as well as the fourth (and probably the last) part of the Immortal serie.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Jan. 2009, 12:52] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: Issue 2/09 online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Under the title link the topics of this issue are listed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Jan. 2009, 12:20] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2009
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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OctaMED SoundStudio: Further development started
Last year a developer was searched who could develop further OctaMED SoundStudio. Alfred Faust will do that. OMSS is one of the first 8-channel-tracker. It is available for free.
In a mailinglist the developer who is well-known as programmer of Bars'n'Pipes Seine gave his first impressions of the status of the source code of version 1.03c. If you want to support the project you can give donations and thus can take part in the beta test. Alfred Faust asks to give him a little time because he has to take a closer look at the assembler.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2009, 18:47] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Virtual Works: New Webshop online
Press release Virtual Works, one of the biggest and longest running Amiga dealer and distributors in Italy and one of the fouding members of ACube Systems, announces the opening of a new web shop with some really hard to find products in limited quantities. Blizzard PPC boards, BVision PPC boards, Prometheus boards, Mediator boards and many more. Check www.vwshop.it for an initial list of the products available and to place orders. (snx)
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22.Jan.2009
Detlef Zirpel (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Pentti Kouri died
According to Finnish newspapers today Pentti Kouri died after a long illnesst at the age of 59 years.
In the Amiga sector Kouri was known as investor and as chairman of the board of Amiga Incorporated. First founded as KMOS and in 2005 renamed the company is the current holder of the law relating to the use of name.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2009, 12:58] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiLoudspeaker 1.2
AmiLoudspeaker helps you constructing a loud speaker. Additionally the author recommends the book Loudspeaker_Design_Cookbook or similar books.
Changes:
- Changed printing routine to only print debug on failure
- Removed 10% overvolume from vented box dimensions
- Increased accuracy of driver parameters
- Added Qms and Qes driver parameters
- Added Closed Tuning and Vented Tuning tabs for testing and fine tuning your loudspeakers
- Compiled with GCC 4.2.4
Download: amiloudspeaker.lha (47 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2009, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OpenSSH 5.1p1
OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH-protocol-suite which is to give users more security who work with programs like Telnet, rlogin, FTP and similar clients. This is done by encoding all sent data.
Changes include:
- Ported changes from official 5.1p1 baseline
- Changed pipe buffer limits
- Added break signal check before waitselect() call
- Fixed bug in console window size reading
- Compiled with GCC 4.2.4 and clib2 compiled with GCC 4.2.4
- Now requires AmigaOS 4.1 or higher
Download: openssh-bin.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2009, 08:58] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: REminiscence 0.1.9
REminescence is a rewritten engine for the game Flashback developed by Delphine Software. After versions for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, now a port for AROS/x86 is available.
Download: reminiscence-i386-aros.zip (537 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jan. 2009, 19:50] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2009
S. Eichholz (ANF)
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Concert: Further details to Symphonic Fantasies
S. Eichholz wrote: Under the title link some further information was published about the concert which will take place on 12th September 2009 and is called "Symphonic Fantasies".
The Finn Jonne Valtonen will rearrange the classics like "Final Fantasy", "Chrono Trigger", "Chrono Cross", "Kingdom Hearts" and "Secret of Mana" and the American Grammy award winner Arnold Roth will take the musical guidance.From now on you can buy tickets for the concert in Cologne.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jan. 2009, 08:11] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 35
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English podcast created by Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald and Bill Panagouleas in which Amiga-users and invited guests discussed the latest events of the Amiga scene. Topics of the 35th issue:
- The Evo(l) Console
- PSPUAE
- Firewire stack for MorphOS
- Sam440flex
- Amiga vs. Hyperion court case
- DNSChanger Exploit
- AltME - Rebol
- OWB - Aros
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:58] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
PowerPC Linux Mag (ANF)
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Genesi: Efika 2 without PowerPC-processor
In the forum of powerdeveloper.org Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco ("BBRV") from Genesi mentioned briefly that the next generation of Genesi's Efika motherboards will be not based on PPC-CPU. Currently there are no more detailed information.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:47] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga.SF: Highlight 2.7 and OptiPNG 0.6.2
On amiga.sourceforge.net OptiPNG was published which is a program that can compress different picture formats (PNG, BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to lossless optimated PNG-files.
Highlight was updated as well. With this program you can view source codes as formatted text with syntax highlighting. The changes in version 2.7 are listed in the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:46] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future Issue 46 (German) online
Press release: The german issue 46 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that you can read the magazines (amongst many other issues) online at our website. For all our readers having a slow internet connection the Amiga Fever issues will be included on the Amiga Future cover CD 77 aswell.
Early January the Amiga Future issue 76 has been published. The German and English print magazine is available directly at the editorial office and some dealers (like AmigaKit, ASB, GGS, Samuli, Vesalia, Voxel...).
(cg)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:24] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
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First prices for SAM440ep-flex quoted
The first dealers have quoted prices for the next generation of ACube's PPC-computer SAM440: IMM Informatique will offer a SAM440ep-flex for 489 Euro here, Vesalia will offer it for 449 Euro.
In a thread on amigaworld.net Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene from Acube explained when SAM440ep- and SAM440ep-flex-motherboards will be available. Since 5th January SAM440ep has been delivered to the dealers and during the next 7-10 days some further boards will follow. In 3-4 weeks a fourth charge will be expected at ACube and afterwards it will follow the first SAM440ep-flex motherboards.
According to Tretene the current delay was caused by the CPU-deliveries which require to be happened 16 weeks before. Additionally there has been some communication problems between ACube and some dealers. Because of that the exact number of required boards was not clear.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 16:23] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga Amateur Radio Users Group: CD now online available
The Amateur Radio Users Group called AARUG does not exist any longer but you can download its former CD-ROM as ISO-file.
Under the title link you can find a list of included programs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2009, 08:20] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ffmpegGUI 1.2
ffmpegGUI is a graphical user-interface for the video conversion program ffmpeg (screenshot). Under the title list you can find a list of changes.
Download: ffmpeggui.lha (156 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2009, 19:32] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: DigiboosterPro Status-Report
APC&TCP informs us about the progress of development of Digibooster Pro.
According to the latest information the development of the new DBPro3 is
slowly, but steadily taking shape.
The first goal of the developers is and was to completely recode the whole
program for a better structure in order to improve and be more efficient.
Furthermore, the handling is the same as in DBPro2.x. The current
development status is the internal version Alpha 17th.
In the next 3 to 4 months, a very detailed status update will be published
as well as a beta-demoversion. No further details will be announced
earlier. (nba)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2009, 14:55] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Startup Prefs
The MUI-program Startup Prefs written by Kaya 'Shawnbaxe' Dogan lets you easily manage the startup functions of MorphOS. For the installation the installer by Guido Mersmann is required. If you have any suggestions then please contact the author.
Download site with screenshot
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2009, 09:12] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2009
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MorphOS: Update of Web-Browser NetSurf / Source code published
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for entwickelter Browser and which can be used with already 17 MB. NetSurf supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1 but it does not Javascript.
The version for MorphOS 2.2 was made by Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta and has a MUI user-interface as well as a hotlist compatible with IBrowse. With this new version it is now possible to print and to set DPI for usinf the proper size of the fontsets.
For adapting NetSurf to AmigaOS 3.x by other developers the source code of the MorphOS version is available on Aminet. According to the author the MUI user-interface should be easily adjusted.
Download:
netsurf-morphos.lha (2 MB)
netsurf-morphos-src.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2009, 21:13] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2009
Orgin (ANF)
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OpenAmiga.org: Status report
Press release There are now 11 projects open for grabs and 15 assigned projects on OpenAmiga.org. 2008 provided a slow start for OpenAmiga, as expected with the number of available developers for our platform. Hopefully 2009 will speed things up a bit with the SAM adding more and more os4 users to the fold. Still we managed to submit the extended mouse pointer types project to Hyperion and quite a bit of source code was submitted to the svn.
Current status:
Fredrik Wikstrom (salass00) has submitted a range of his datatypes to the svn:
- sun .au datatype
- Targa .tga datatype
- PC Paintbrush Exchange .pcx datatype
- Direct Draw Surface .dds datatype
- RIFF-WAVE .wav datatype
- Mac OS icon .icns datatype
- Windows icon .ico datatype
- JPEG 2000 datatype
He also has submitted the code for his amazing Disk image device that lets you mount a large range of different device images. Such as iso, nrg, adf, hdf, bin and many many more.
Fredrik is also assigned to a project for creating an icon plug-in that uses vector based graphics.
Tuomas Hokka (TSK) has created a project for his amidock like utility called Benchbar.
Simon Archer (Rigo) is assigned to two projects, one to create a new clicktab.gadget class and the other to create a proposal for a new complementary version string to amiga binaries.
Centaurz has volunteered for writing a tutorial/guideline for using prefsobjects to store application specific data.
Vicente Gimeno (ami603) submitted his preliminary work on a workbench file lister.
A list of the assigned projects can be found here.
A lot of help is needed, both on the assigned projects as well as those not yet assigned. If you feel that you are able to contribute then please don't hesitate to join in.
Of the assigned projects, the Workbench file lister project is the one that needs the most help. But any of projects can use your help, just contact any moderator/webmaster or the person assigned to a project using the OpenAmiga message system.
About OpenAmiga.org
OpenAmiga.org is an organization in the making that aims at enhancing the AmigaOS4 experience, acting as an Amiga community based research and development department. OpenAmiga.org aims at providing finished enhancements for AmigaOS4 that Hyperion can include in their AmigaOS4 distribution, research advanced topics and act as a developer resource for AmigaOS4 developers. (snx)
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18.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further songs added
AmigaRemix makes available remixes of soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Meanwhile the archive has 583 songs. Under the title link you can find a list of the latest titles.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2009, 09:33] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Warp3D picture viewer WarpView 1.02
The Shareware picture viewer WarpView uses Warp3D which makes possible fast scaling. On the other hand the application requires more video-RAM than other picture viewer. Datatypes are used for loading pictures. The changes of version 1.02 you can find under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2009, 09:28] [Comments: 0]
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