08.Sep.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: File manager DrawerBall 0.3d
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published an update of Drawerball which is a very early version of a simple file manager.
You must set the source directory when starting the program - either with the Tooltypes (preconfigured "SYS:") or with the Shell as command ("Drawerball SYS:"). The destination directory can be set under the menu menu "Project/Set destination".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Sep.2008
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Instant Messenger: Interested in SabreMSN source codes?
James 'jahc' Carroll has told that his MSN-client SabreMSN has reached a level which supplies all his needs. Besides this during the last time features have been requested which he cannot implement.
If you are interested in developing further the program then please contact Carroll for the handover of the source codes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Sep.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.5.0 "Chat Noir"
AmiKit which is a complete distribution for UAE users was updated to the new version 1.5.0. The most important changes are a completely new look (screenshots) and the support of themes with 24 Bit colour depth. Additionally AmiKit 1.5.0 is now compatible with Amiga Forever 2008 and provides two installation routines for Linux users.
A detailed list of all changes you can find in the Changelog. AmiKit requires an AmigaOS 3.1 ROM-image as well as AmigaOS 3.x-distribution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Sep.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1: Demos for compositing engine
Hans-Jörg "Rogue" Frieden has published two small demo programs which demonstrate some of the possibilities of the compositing engine of AmigaOS 4.1.
"ScreenThumb" shows a thumbnail of the Workbench screens in a small window which is refreshed in real-time (YouTube-Video). "Lens" scales up the screen around the mouse pointer in real-time if you push the button (YouTube-Video).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Lucy 2.29
Since MorphOS 2.1 the transparency patch could not be used with MUI-windows. With version 2.29 which is available under the title link it now works again.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Minimig compatibility tests: Software, SD-cards, displays
Under the title link 'Darrin' collects test results concerning the compatibility of SD-cards, displays and software applications with Dennis van Weeren's Amiga-500-clone Minimig. Your support is very welcome.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2008
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Photo report from PowerDev Meeting #5 in Chelm
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski writes: The PowerDev Meeting #5 in Chełm has just finished and here, under the title link, is the photo gallery from the event. Movies of conducted presentations will be available soon.
Update: (08:01, 07.09.08, snx)
Further photos are provided by an attendee, Konrad Kostecki. (snx)
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07.Sep.2008
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a1k.org: Test of USB-hardware with the E3B-controller Deneb
The participants of the forum a1k.org have tested different devices on the USB-2.0-controller Deneb developed by E3B.
In the first thread you can find perfectly working USB-hardware as well as a 13-Euro soundcard, in the second one you can find hardware which does not work at all or at least causes some troubles.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.8
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. Changes since the last release:
- Fixed WINDOWWIDTH and WINDOWHEIGHT
- Implemented popup menus for <select> with up to 25 entries
- JavaScript can open windows now
- Implemented statusbar text
- Title and URL are updated now
- Built current version of libxml2. It seems most of the OWB crashes were caused by bugs in the old libxml2, for example with the new version OWB doesn't crash on the ACID3 test.
- Implemented JavasCript alert requester
- Added charset support to the clipboard functions. When using cut or copy it writes the UTF-8 CSET chunk now, for pasting it supports US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 and replaces unknown chars in all other charsets by '?', if there is no CSET chunk it's treated as ISO-8859-1.
- Added iconify support
- Updated to SVN revision 472
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2008
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MorphOS 2.1 - Public Release
Press release The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.1, a free update for users of MorphOS 2.0.
In addition to numerous bug fixes, MorphOS 2.1 includes several new features. Some of the most notable ones are the much anticipated sound driver for EFIKA mainboards, a 2D driver for XGI Volari V3XT graphics cards and a virtual CybergraphX monitor (for operating MorphOS without the use of a graphics card via VNCServer).
For an overview of the included changes and possible limitations of the forementioned features, please read our release notes.
A description of the hardware requirements and installation procedures can be found here. MorphOS 2.1 is available for download in our files section. (snx)
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05.Sep.2008
PPA (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.5.2
In this new version of the Amiga emulator WinUAE several bugs were fixed as well as two new functions implemented: On the one hand relative ROM-paths can be saved in the ini-file and on the other hand there is an experimental support of the OpenAL sound.
Fixed bugs:
- Random crashing if USB mouse or joystick inserted
- Only titlebar was visible if minimized window was restored
- Bottom part of display was not updated in bigger than display RTG modes
- uae-configuration/uaectrl didn't always work
- Bsdsocket emulation was not initialized in some configurations
- Catweasel MK4 joystick/mouse compatibility improved
- uaescsi.device media change didn't update all geometry parameters
- Sound mute on/off inputevent fixed
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4.1: First minor review
The latest update of the operating system AmigaOS 4.1 has got the first users. Under the title link 'Varthall' has published an English minor review. Additionally he has taken some pictures.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2008
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Amiga Image Storage System 4.3
Martin 'Mason' Merz has published version 4.3 of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS). AISS is a system for managing toolbar graphics under AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x, AROS and MorphOS.
Features of version 4.3:
- Over 2000 toolbar pictures and animations
- 24-Bit-PNG pictures with 8-Bit alpha channel
- Reworked documentation in PDF format (aiss43.pdf, 1 MB)
- AmiUpdate support
- Real transparency for "ghosted" images
The author points out that the process of installation may take a while and that there is not a window of progress meanwhile.
The AISS version for AmigaOS 4 is available under the title link and the ports of other systems will be available on Aminet soon.
If you want to support Mason's work you can order a present for his son from the Amazon-wish list.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 74 (September/October 2008) published
Press release Today issue 74 (September/October 2008) has been published. This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer supplies have been brought to the postal office.
In this issue you will find reviews of WinUAE, AmiBlitz, MorphOS 2.0, AMuse, Cave Story and lots of more. A more detailed description of content and excerpts can be found at the title link.
The Amiga Future is available as an English and German print magazine directly from its editorial office and some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future can be obtained as a single issue or subscription each with or without a cover CD.
As always you will find much PD software and some full versions like Photo Folio, Astral, Battle Space and others on the Amiga Future cover CD. There are only a few magazines left of issues 69 to 73. All previous issues are outsold. Of course the cover CDs are still available.
Amiga Future needs your support: We are looking for editors for the magazine. You should own a classic Amiga or Pegasos and know its workings. Furthermore you should have some experience in writing reviews. As well as that, your native language has to be either German or English which you should be fluent in. Please don't forget: The Amiga Future is a community project.
In addition we are still looking for translators for the magazine. Again your native language should be German or English and you should be fluent in reading/writing both of them. Interested? Please contact us via e-mail at Andreas@amigafuture.de. (snx)
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04.Sep.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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New Minimig cores available
Dennis van Weeren writes: Thanks to the hard work of Jakub Bednarski, updated cores are now available for download at my Minimig site. Jakub's version fixes many long-standing bugs and finally adds floppy write support.
Please note that Jakub's cores behave somewhat differently than the previous cores so please read the provided readme carefully. Again, many thanks to Jakub for this new update! (snx)
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03.Sep.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Music-disc: Planet Hively for AmigaOS 3
"Orta" has ported the music-"disk" Planet Hively to AmigaOS 3. The 68k-version is based on SDL. AHI, a graphic board and a JIT-emulator (a real 68060 is much too slow) are required.
An AGA-version is also planned but it needs some optimations.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2008
Michael C. Battilana (e-mail)
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Cloanto: Release of Amiga Forever 2008 "RP2" / Announcement of C64 Forever
For a few days already, a free update for Cloanto's emulation package Amiga Forever 2008 is available via the Software Director, including all previous updates and introducing support for the new RP2 file format (amiga-news.de reported). Below you can find the official press release that has been published today.
Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever 2008 "RP2", Announces C64 Forever
Cloanto released this week Amiga Forever 2008 "RP2", the latest version of the award-winning Amiga preservation, emulation and support suite for Windows and other platforms, and a first batch of 10 games in the new RP2 format. Both the RP2 update and the new games are a free download for current users.
Amiga Forever 2008, the most significant release in the Amiga Forever series, already set new references in usability while more than tripling the featured content and providing easy access to a universe of free downloads. The "RP2" update (from RetroPlatform Player, the technology used by Amiga Forever) adds support for the new RP2 file format and content delivery, recognition and configuration framework.
RP2 is a simple and standards-compliant wrapper format, essentially a ZIP archive containing one or more disk image files and an XML manifest. Full information is being shared with download sites and other partners.
Does the emulation world really need a new format? Well, RP2 does not aim to replace the existing disk image files: there will always be ADFs, etc. Cloanto's project involving automatic identification of disk images and automatic configuration of the emulation system also remains ongoing, and will soon flow into RP2.
The new format aims to solve another aspect, i.e. how to easily download, organize and play sets of multiple disks, and treat each game as a single file, just as users do with MP3s. Today, ZIP archives can be downloaded from games sites, but they still won't play automatically. ADFs might do that (with Amiga Forever they already do), but this wouldn't work with games that need more than one disk image.
That's where RP2 aims to deliver, making playback of an .rp2 Amiga game file as simple as playing an .mp3 music file: one file, one game, nothing else to remember or configure. And users will be free to rename or reorganize the files, while existing investment in Amiga disk images will be preserved by means of automated conversion options.
Amiga Forever is still far from perfect, and we know that. Thanks to the precious support of our customers, we keep working on other fronts, which include:
- Merge the current heuristic configuration logic with the autoconfiguration library
- Make it possible to create, edit and share configurations
- Make it easier to add or remove content from the player lists (Games, Demos, etc.)
- Improve online search
- New partnerships
The RetroPlatform player and content framework were designed from the beginning to be modular and platform-neutral. The Amiga alone, while full of memories and passion, remains a risky "niche" for a software house. In order to achieve better stability and growth potential for the project as a whole, we decided to support a second platform which we all love and know well from our past.
This means that Amiga Forever will soon get a little 8-bit brother (or sister), to be named C64 Forever. More information will be released soon at www.c64forever.com.
Your Amiga Forever Team (snx)
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02.Sep.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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UAE: Limited AmiKit-CD-Edition
AmiKit which is a complete distribution for UAE users will be available as limited CD-edition soon. It will include version 1.5.0 of AmiKit for Windows and Linux.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2008
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Linux-Handheld: Pandora available for order soon
Pandora is a handheld game console based on a 600-MHz-ARM-processor and the Linux distribution Ubuntu. Emulators are supposed to provide the base of games. From 30. September on you can order this handheld in advance. The first production will have 3000 units. The delivery may start on 13. November.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Adventure-Interpreter: ScummVM 0.12.0 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
ScummVM is an interpreter with which you can play a lot of older, commercial adventures on newer platforms.
There is a list of changes in version 0.12.0 in the Release Notes of the ScummVM project.
Direct download:
AmigaOS 4: scummvm-0.12.0-amigaos4.lha (6,7 MB)
MorphOS: scummvm-0.12.0.lha (5,2 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: HD-racing track Indianapolis 1.1 for VGP 2
Jason Frabotta's project "VGP HD" tries to improve the engine developed by Paolo Cattani of the Formel-1 simulation Virtual Grand Prix 2.
Recently the racing track of Indianapolis was added (screenshot).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2008
David brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
In the last two months severaö articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Additional to the texts mentioned down below on the website the issues 78-87 of the former French magazine "Amiga News" are available.
- Amiga and MorphOS news of July/August 2008
- Interview with Grzegorz Kraszewski (MorphOS developer)
- Interview with Hans-Joerg Frieden (AmigaOS 4 developer)
- Review of MorphOS 2.0
- Review of Amikit on Linux
- Review of Epistula
- Review of Fightin' Spirit
- Review of Fire And Ice
- Review of Gemini Wing
- Review of Gods
- Review of Golden Axe
- Review of Hybris
- Review of Lethal Xcess
- Review of Lionheart
- Review of Mega Typhoon
- Review of Mercs
- Review of Midnight Resistance
- Review of Nicky Boum
- Review of The Oath
- Review of Ork
- Review of Pang
- Review of P-47 : The Freedom Fighter
- Review of Qwak
- Review of Risky Woods
- Review of Rod Land
- Review of Ruff N Tumble
- Review of Saint Dragon
- Review of Viper
- Hardware: CPTVUSB20-5 USB card
- Tutorial: installation of MorphOS 2.0 on Pegasos I/II and Efika 5200B
- Quizz about Amiga News
- New heading: tips and tricks
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2008
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WHDLoad: New packages until 01.09.2008
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, updated or improved since our last message:
- 31.08.2008 new: The Moochies (Breadline) done by Bored Seal (Info)
- 31.08.2008 new: Bruno's MusicBox 2 (Gate) done by StingRay (Info,Image)
- 31.08.2008 new: Bruno's MusicBox 3 (Anarchy) done by StingRay (Info,Image)
- 31.08.2008 new: 20000 Leagues under the Sea (Infogrames/Coktel Vision) done by Puppe (Info)
- 31.08.2008 improved: Damage (Suomi-Peli) trainer added, CD³² joypad support added (Info)
- 29.08.2008 new: Sonical Fantasia (Equinox) done by StingRay (Info,Image)
- 28.08.2008 new: Book of Songs (Complex) done by StingRay (Info)
- 28.08.2008 new: Metal Melissa the Pisser (Animators) done by StingRay (Info)
- 25.08.2008 new: Alien Drug Lords: The Chyropian Connection (Panther Games) done by Psygore (Info)
- 25.08.2008 improved: Melodies (Scoopex) taglist fixed for whd16+, added 68000 quitkey (Info,Image)
- 24.08.2008 improved: The Kristal / Kristal, The (Addictive) access fault fixed, blitwaits inserted, new install script (Info)
- 24.08.2008 new: Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (Imageworks) done by Galahad (Info)
- 24.08.2008 updated: Software (W.F.M.H.) taglist fixed, reduced chipram requirement, 68000 quitkey added (Info,Image)
- 23.08.2008 new: Dawn Patrol (Rowan Software Ltd.) done by Psygore (Info)
- 18.08.2008 improved: Colossus Chess X (CDS) dbf loops fixed, no more errors with working.book file (Info)
- 18.08.2008 new: Super-Twintris (Big Brother Copy) done by Musashi5150 (Info)
- 18.08.2008 updated: Academy: Tau Ceti II (CRL Group/ComTek) mouse cursor enabled, savegame is saved properly now with separated shipdata, new keyboard handler, less memory requirements (Info)
- 13.08.2008 new: Hunt for Red October (Oxford Digital Enterprises) done by Psygore (Info)
- 13.08.2008 improved: Ghost Battle (Thalion) debugged in snoop mode, decruncher moved into FastRAM, added blitter waits and button wait, highscore is saved (Info)
- 13.08.2008 improved: Fire Force (ICE) more trainer options, another delay added, saved rooster loads at startup (Info)
- 11.08.2008 improved: Miami Chase (Code Masters/Team 17) highscores are saved, trainer added, keyboard fixed, button wait added (Info)
- 11.08.2008 fixed: Deep Space (Psygnosis) buttonwait routine corrected (Info)
- 07.08.2008 new: Warlock's Quest (ERE/Infogrames) done by John Girvin (Info)
- 06.08.2008 new: Miracle Sounds 1 (Miracle) done by Dr Cinicus (Info,Image)
- 04.08.2008 improved: Sharkeys Moll (Zeppelin Games) copylock fix improved, keyboard routine fixed (Info,Image)
- 04.08.2008 improved: Hunt for Red October (Grandslam) slave works with any version now (Info)
- 04.08.2008 improved: Campaign 2 (Empire) recompiled with latest KickEmu, version detection improved (Info)
- 04.08.2008 improved: Campaign (Empire) no more load/save limits (Info)
- 04.08.2008 updated: Blob (Core Design) copylock fix improved (Info)
- 03.08.2008 new: Mad Show (Silmarils) done by Psygore (Info)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2008
amiga.org
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Flash-ROM-Software: Luciferin 4.1
Chris Hodges has published an update of his Flash-ROM software Luciferin for E3B-products Romulus, Algor (Pro) and Deneb. In version 4.1 there is a new option for switching off ("RMBONLY").
The archive now also includes a SDK with which external developers may use the flashrom.resource in their own applications.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)
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USB-Stack: Poseidon 4.2 for E3B-products and MorphOS PowerUp
For owners of the E3B-products Subway, Highway, Algor and Deneb as well as for MorphOS PowerUp users there is an update of the USB-stack Poseidon written by Chris Hodges. You can download it via Trident-Online-Update or on the website of the author.
This upgrade to the latest version 4.2 is for free. For users of older versions (3.x, 2.x) as well. But if you want to support the author you can send him a present by ordering a product of his Amazon wish list.
Changes in version 4.2:
- Support for suspend/resume of USB devices for power saving
- Improvements of usbaudio.class, hub.class
- More massstorage.class workarounds for buggy devices
- Major bugfixing for PTP class
- New Ethernet class driver for Davicom DM9601 chipsets
The MorphOS version should be only used for MorphOS installations on a Classic Amiga. You should not use it on a Pegasos or an Efika.
Starting with version 4.0 the USB-stack has not a keyfile but is only licenced for E3B-hardware. There is not an opgrade option for further products (Spider, Thylacine, Amithlon). So please do not inquire for it.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Aug.2008
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Amiga Forever: Update RP2
There is an update of the emulator package Amiga Forever 2008 published by Cloanto which includes all previous updates and which introduces the RP2-file format.
This acronym stands for RetroPlatform Player which is a compression format which can be a renamed Zip-archive, which includes one or several disk images as well as a XML-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OWB 2.7
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. Changes since the latest release:
- Fixed copying text
- Optimized scrolling
- Added text zoom and and redraw to the menu
- Added reload gadget
- Fixed wrong underlining offsets
- Implemented PlatformScreen for AmigaOS 4
- Fixed wrong window height
- Added WINDOWLEFT, WINDOWTOP, WINDOWWIDTH and WINDOWHEIGHT tooltypes for configuring the position and size of the window.
WINDOWWIDTH and WINDOWHEIGHT are only used if WIDTH/HEIGHT aren't used
- Fixed checkbox markers
- Updated to SVN revision 460
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 29
Der "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is a podcast produced by Rich Lawrence and Mike Blackburn where Amiga users and invited guests discuss the latest events around the Amiga scene. 29th issue has as guest the Natami-team.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: HD-racing track Interlagos 1.0 for VGP 2
Jason Frabotta's project "VGP HD" tries to improve the engine of Paolo Cattani's Formel-1 simulation Virtual Grand Prix 2.
In the latest release the racing track of Interlagos has been added (screenshot). According to the author there are still some minor bugs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmiBlitz: Voxel Engine
Under the title link Thilo "Der Wanderer" Köhler has published Voxel engine implemented with AmiBlitz. Köhler has developed the engine for his own project but would also provide it to other interested users - e.g. for users who wants to develop an Ego-shooter or a racing game.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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ACube on the Colmar Multimedia Expo 2008
Additional to the Swiss trader RELEC ACube will take part in the Colmar Multimedia Expo 2008 (24. - 26. October) as well.
ACube and Relec will share a stand.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2008
AN Redaktion
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amiga-news celebrates tenth anniversary!
Ten years is a long time for the Internet:
Ten years ago amiga-news.de was officially started. A lot of things
have happened since then.
At that time and just today amiga-news is one of the biggest Amiga websites at all and
is available in four languages (German, English, French and
Polish).
We want to celebrate this anniversary with you.
During the next weeks and months you can find reports about the history of the website and of the Amiga, tombola, campaigns, new website sections and much more.
We want to thank all readers, sponsors, Amiga fans, producers,
developers, dealers and users for your loyalitiy during the last ten years!
Und wir versprechen: Es geht weiter!
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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28.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Turrican clone: Shurrican (preview)
"Shurrican" is supposed to become a clone of the action classic Turrican which requires UAE or an Amiga with graphic board and some FastRAM. You can find detailed information as well as screenshots under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Aug.2008
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Podcast: pofacs.de is looking for interlocutor
Mario Heide from pofacs.de which is a podcast for alternative computer systems is looking for a interlocutor for a second report about MorphOS.
If you can introduce the latest version of MorphOS in a half-hour interview then please contact Heide.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Aug. 2008, 16:10] [Comments: 0]
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28.Aug.2008
Sébastien Jeudy (ANF)
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RELEC: Sam440 box "The Red One"
On his website the Swiss dealer RELEC offers a bespoke box for ACube's PPC-motherboard Sam440.
The product is called "The Red One" and apparently is only available together with a Sam440-platine.
The Red One is delivered in a Aluminium case so the owner can carry it safely and has a price of 260 Euro.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Relec on the Colmar Multimedia Expo 2008
The Swiss dealer Relec will participate in the Colmar Multimedia Expo 2008 (24. - 26. October). The dealer will introduce the AmigaOS 4.1, the PowerPC-mainboards Sam440ep and Sam440ep-Flex, the Minimig, AmigaOS/68k as well as MorphOS 2.0 on the Pegasos and Efika. Additionally RMS Communications will present the ERP application based on MUIBase.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: Airsoft Softwair August winner of the Seeding the Success Campaign
The winner in August of the "Seeding the Success Campaign" presented by DiscreetFX is Andreas Falkenhahn for his cross-platform multimedia application layer Hollywood.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Aug.2008
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Event: Pianeta Amiga on 27./28. September in Empoli (Italy)
The next Pianeta Amiga will take place in Italian Empoli on 27. and 28. September 2008 in Palaesposizioni. The admission fee is 5 Euro.
ACube Systems which has announced new products, the Amiga Future, AmigaKit, Bitplane and Virtual Works will take part. AmigaOS 4.1, the PowerPC-board SAM440ep in the new version 1.5 as well as many further products will be presented.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Aug.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: UpdatAROS 1.1
UpdatAROS is a shell script that allows easy updating of AROS system files, copying the ones of a newer nightly build over a pre-existing system.
The new version 1.1 supports Grub 2 enabled AROS systems. Please don't use it on a Grub 1 system, or it will likely destroy your current installation.
Download: updataros11.lha (9 KB) (snx)
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26.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hans-Jörg Frieden explains Porter/Duff-picture composition
In a serie of articles Hans-Jörg Frieden will explain the Porter/Duff picture composition which was introduced with AmigaOS 4.1. Perhaps the 2d library Cairo will be also explained.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Aug. 2008, 15:10] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
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72 new levels for "Cannon Fodder"
"Cannon Fodder New Campaign" (CFNC) includes 72 new levels split in 24 missions for the legendary shooter Cannon Fodder. The design of the levels as well as some sprite graphics were changed (screenshots).
CFNC requires a version of Cannon Fodder which was installed on harddrive with WHDLoad as well as XFDMaster, gpatch and the Commodore-Installer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2008, 17:30] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Graphic program: PerfectPaint WIPupdate230808 (beta)
Marco "Blackbird" Möring has published another update of the graphic program PerfectPaint.
Download:
PfP-WIPupdate230808.lha (647 KB)
PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha (7,6 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Aug.2008
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MorphOS: Vector graphic program MOS-Creator (preview)
MOS-Creator written by Carsten "pegasossigi2" Siegner is supposed to become a vector graphic program which is to create PDF documents fast and simple (screenshot).
Under the title link Siegner has given a survey about the current status of the project.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Aug.2008
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MorphOS-Portal: morphos-user.com inclusive eMail-account
morphos-user.com is a portal for MorphOS users which is supposed to give a fast survey about the latest news and discussions on morphzone.org and which offers a little collection of important MorphOS related links.
Additionally users of the portal will get an eMail-account in the manner of <username>@morphos-user.com which can be accessed via POP3, IMAP or a Web-interface. You can get further information at the online help.
morphos-user.com is CSS-based. That means you will need a CSS compatible browser such as Sputnik. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: #Amigaguide, fourth issue
The printed version of the English magazine called #Amigaguide was sent to the subscribers. Simultaneously the free PDF version is available on the Web (you have to register at amigaweb.net for it) im Web zur Verfügung. Topics of this issue:
- Editors ReadMeFirst: "Dark Times"
- Article: Installing a computer in a car
- Article: Amiga at NASA
- Interview: Edivision
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2008, 15:43] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2008
Matthias Ziegs (ANF)
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Demo scene: Remake of the book FREAX Volume 1
"Freax Volume 1" is the history of the C64 and Amiga demo scene. Because the book published in 2005 has been sold out for two years now a remake was printed.
The remake will be available from 29. August on.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Aug.2008
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: BBC Micro emulator BeebEm 0.13
The BBC Micro was a microcomputer well known in the 1980s in the United Kingdom and associated with the British education. Designed with colorful graphics, great expandability and a quality OS, it still has a strong fanbase.
Thanks to BeebEm you can enjoy its enormous software base also on AmigaOS 4 (Screenshot).
BeebEm is a BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator. It enables you to run BBC Micro software on your Amiga. BeebEm will run most BBC Micro software including Elite, Exile and Revs. It will also run most BBC Micro ROM software (e.g. Wordwise).
The AmigaOS 4 update to version 0.13 features many bugfixes and enhancements. Hard drive images, example software and instructions are included in the package, and it is easy to set up. Just extract the lha archive anywhere and doubleclick its icon.
Download: BeebEm.lha (4,8 MB, Readme file) (snx)
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24.Aug.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: HD-racing track Montreal 1.1 for VGP 2
Jason Frabotta's project "VGP HD" tries to improve the engine "Formel-1-Simulation Virtual Grand Prix 2" developed by Paolo Cattani.
Now a update of the racing track in Montreal was added (screenshot). It fixes a bug of the back straight. Next weekend there probably will be upadtes of the tracks in Interlagos and Indianapolis.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2008, 16:49] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 28
The "Amiga Round Table" (ART) is a English podcast made by Rich Lawrence and Mike Blackburn where Amiga users and invited guests discuss the latest events of the Amiga scene. The 28th episode is about MorphOS 2.0 and AmigaOS 4.1.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2008, 04:55] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser Netsurf 2.0dev (beta)
NetSurf is a fast browser originally developed for RiscOS which can be used with a memory of 17 MB. It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1.
This version published by Chris Young is completely nativ, Reaction is used as GUI-toolkit.
The author points out that this version is an early beta version which is not stable and not complete - e.g. HTTPS-sites do still not work.
Netsurf does not support Javascript but an corresponding library is in work.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Aug.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MUI-developer back from bike tour
Stefan Stuntz who is the developer of the well-known GUI-toolkit MUI has come back from a bike tour which lasted five months (blog, photo album).
According to our information he still always accept registrations for MUI. So if you have tried it in vain during the last months you probably try it agin now.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.10 beta 2
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. For a list of detailed changes please have a look at the changelog. WookieChat is avilable for all Amiga systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.6 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot).
OWB 2.5 now opens a new window if you select a link. Additionally the AmigaOS 4-version is now based on the latest SVn-revision 449.
Meanwhile Björn "Orgin" Hagström has published a detailed English installation guide for OWB on amigans.net.
Update: (25.08.08, 17:00, cg)
By now version version 2.6 is available:
- Updated to SVN revision 454
- Disabled SVG support for now, I'll enable it again after switching from SDL to Cairo
- Added support for an unicode fallback font
- Added MINFONTSIZE, FONTXDPI, FONTYDPI and UNICODEFONT tooltypes
- Removed superfluous gadget updates which prevented icon dragging on the workbench from working even if nothing changed
- Fixed mouse movement events
- Implemented progress bar
- Implemented clipboard support
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Aug.2008
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.70 for all Amiga systems
NoWinED is a MUI-based text editor which was compiled to AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. The program has the follwing features:
- One window for all opened files, alternation between opened files via button, context menu or choice from the list
- Context sensitive popup menus
- Drag'n Drop for different files at once (no Drag'n Drop under AROS)
- All basic editor functions: Search and replace, cut'n paste, select all, undo redo... ("select all" does not work under AROS)
- UTF-support
- Supports CR, LF or CR+LF for EOL Encoding
Hint: The MUI-classes which are included in the archive are not up to date. They should only be copied to the harddrive if there are not newer versions.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2008
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French MorphOS-portal: meta-morphos.org
meta-morphos.org is a French MorphOS-portal which offers news, downloads, a forum and much more.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
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IBrowse: Status-Update
Oliver Roberts from the IBrowse developer team has given a survey of the current status of IBrowse on the official mailing list.
The owner of the copyrights Stefan Burström recently moved and therefore has still not an Internet access. Because the server which the team uses and which includes the source codes, changelogs and similar things is hosted by Burström the development currently stands still.
Roberts assures that the project was not canceled - but currently it is necessary to come to an arrangement with Burström which makes a further development possible. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OWB 2.4
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. Changes since the last release:
- Updated to SVN revision 446
- Fixed horizontal scroll bar
- Added support for multiple windows
- Added menus
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Aug. 2008, 21:14] [Comments: 0]
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21.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Infrared-receiver and Ethernet-Audio "ParIR"
ParIR written by Daniel Westerberg is a hardware/software combination which consists of two parts: On one hand it is a commodity which recognizes infrared siganls with the help of a hardware which is connected to the parallel port and then starts user-defined Cli or ARexx programs.
The second part sends analog audio signals over a an Ethernet cable to a analog multiplier.
Westerberg uses this combination to listen to the audio playback of his AmigaOne in the living room without laying additional cable.
The archive which the author has published includes the software as well as all necessary documentations for recreating the hardware components.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2008
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox published FastATA 4000 MK-V
ELBOX COMPUTER has published the FastATA-controller FastATA 4000 MK-V.
Please read the official press release under the title link for further details.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Interview wit Hans-Jörg Frieden
On the occasion of the forthcoming release of AmigaOS 4.1 Amiga Arena has intervied the developer and project manager Hans-Jörg Frieden (in German).
In this interview he told that that currently ports to additional PowerPC platforms are in progress and therefore further announcements for the operating system will follow soon.
According to Hans-Jörg Frieden the goal for AmigaOS 4 is still always the embedded section. There are interested firms which want to use the operating system as "Multimedia-Content-Platform".
He himself is specially intersted in systems based on CELL-processors, the PPC 970 by IBM or Freescales 8641(D). And he does not object if there would be a x86-version but he thinks that currenty it is not realizable.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2008
Klaus Schwägerl (ANF)
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Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Klaus Schwägerl, meanwhile CEO of Die Projektfabrik GmbH, has sent a letter to us at amiga-news.de about the Amiga model Walker, which was shown as a prototype in 1996 by Amiga Technologies at the CeBIT fair in Hannover, Germany. Below you can find a translation of what he wrote:
I'm just moving with my company and that's why I stumbled across the master design model of the Amiga Walker once again. This made me surf the web for a while to look for articles about the Walker. What I read there astonished me and prompted me to clarify some things:
1. The Amiga Walker has not been designed by Frog Design, but by the greatly talented designer Daniel Gilgen on behalf of Stefan Domeyer for my former company KS Design in Frankfurt, Germany. The idea to expand the Walker step by step until it becomes a tower finally originates from Daniel Gilgen. He was the one who built the prototypes for CeBIT from the master design model which I do still own.
2. The transfer of the rights to the product was dependent on the payment of our royalty. As this money was not paid, the rights to the product stayed with KS Design. After closing down KS Design, the rights were transferred to me as a private individual.
3. Merlancia Industries never had any rights to the product. We also communicated that to Merlancia Industries in this way as that company did ask us for a license. At some point the contact to Merlancia has been lost; we don't know whether this enterprise is still active or not.
I hope this can improve the understanding of the case considerably.
With kind regards and a sad feeling
about this project never entering production,
Klaus Schwägerl (snx)
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20.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Lucy 2.24
Lucy didn't care for hidden windows and thus Unmask and IControl's Hide-Window feature didn't work anymore when being used together with Lucy. This has been fixed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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Script: AmiKit-Linux-Installer 0.03
AmiKit-1.4.x-nix-Installer is a script which makes the installation of the Amiga-distribution AmiKit under Linux as easy as under Windows.
The installer downloads AmiKit 1.4.0 as well as E-UAE and configurates it. This version fixes some minor bugs and includes some improvements.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: ARexx-scripts for Shuffle
There are now ARexx-scripts for unregistered users of the puzzle game Shuffle as well. They are missing on the MorphOS-2.0-CD.
Download:
shuffle_info.amirx (2,6 KB)
shuffle_statistic.rexx (1,1 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
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Efika: Lego-tower "EFIKube"
Efika user "motorollin" is building a box for his PPC-motherboard from unusual materials: His "EFIKube" contains of Lego-stones. On morphzone.org he gives a survey about the project and has uploaded several photos.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Aug. 2008, 16:09] [Comments: 0]
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19.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Chiptune-Tracker: Hively-Tracker 1.5 for AmigaOS 3/4
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format (screenshot). AHX was developed in the 90ies to write music tracks which are similar to the typical Chip-Sound of SID (sound chip of the C64). Changes sine version 1.4:
- A parameter in the undo system was declared as a signed byte instead
of a signed word, which meant that some song parameters got corrupted
when they went over 127. Editing songs over 127 positions long was
buggered, for example. Can't believe i didn't spot this until now :(
- Added Protracker mod import. Just like the one in AHX, it simply strips
out all PT commands that are not equivalent to AHX ones, and all
instruments are set to a simple tone, so you'll still have a lot of
work to do to make it sound nice.
- Added a size optimisation feature. It removes all unused instruments,
and duplicate tracks. If you click with the right mousebutton, it'll
additionally try and use the transpose column to remove tracks which
are the same but transposed. However it doesn't know if sounds
continue after the newly transposed track so you may have to manually
fix any problems with that afterwards. Both modes keep the original
version and open a new tab with the optimise version so you won't
lose your work if it messes up. Both modes also use track 0 as the
empty track as AHX and HVL both make smaller files if that is the
case, however, if there are no empty tracks in the module, it won't
keep track 0 blank unnecessarily.
- Added a new command! When "EF1" is placed on or after the last note
in a track, the "transpose" value for that channel will be preserved
until another note is played in the channel. This overrides the
default AHX/HVL behaviour, which is to switch to the next transpose
value as soon as the next position is reached.
- '=' now does row preview, like enter does in protracker
- '-' now toggles horizontal advance in the position editor
- Added "posedadvance", "notejump" and "inotejump" fields to the
ht.prefs file. They don't show up in the prefs window, though, so
you have to edit them manually (run hively 1.5 and quit it to make
them show up in the file). "posedadvance" is either 0 or 1. When set
to 0, horizontal advance is disabled by default.
"defnotejump" is 0 to 9, and sets the default notejump in the pattern
editor. "definotejump" is the same for the instrument editor.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2008
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)
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Are you interested in an Ambermoon Soundtrack CD?
Matthias Steinwachs who is the composer of the soundtrack of the RPG-classic Ambermoon is going to publish the soundtrack again. The tracks will sound like the already published song "Ambermoon" on Amiga Immortal 3.
The project will be started if there there are at least 1000 registered persons on a certain website.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Aug. 2008, 15:41] [Comments: 0]
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19.Aug.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Full version "Sixth Sense Investigations" (Update)
Press release: "Sixth Sense Investigations" was started in 1995 but was first published in 1998.
Colourful comic graphics, funny dialogs and a crazy story,
can there be more for a adventure fan?
With permission of the developers Amiga Arena makes this legal download of the disk version of "Sixth Sense Investigations" possible. Currently we only can offer the English version as HDF-file for WinUAE.
Therefore we are looking for further disk versions of Sixth Sense Ivestigations.
Additionally the following games were added in the section "Adventure":
- OnEscapee - Original CD Version
- Beneath A Steel Sky - CD Version with voice output
- Fatal Heritage - WHDLoad Version
Update: (20:41, 20.08.08, snx)
Meanwhile also the german version is available as an HDF file. Still wanted is the floppy disk version. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 1.5.2
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE give a preview to the forthcoming version which is supposed to be published in two weeks. WinUAE 1.5.2 includes two major bug fixes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Aug. 2008, 16:16] [Comments: 0]
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18.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OWB 2.3
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Changes since the last version:
- Updated to SVN revision 430
- Added support for HOME, SEARCH, WIDTH and HEIGHT tooltypes
- Uses default AmigaOS 4.x colours for the theme now
- Implemented AmigaOS scroll bars for the main frame
OWB_Doduo.lha (4,5 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Aug. 2008, 16:06] [Comments: 0]
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18.Aug.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic program SteamDraw 1.0
SteamDraw written by Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich is an EPS-compatible 2d vector graphic program. In version 1.0 the graphical user-interface was reworked and the program now contains a simple text editing tool. Additionally some bugs were fixed.
Download: SteamDraw.lha (897 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Aug. 2008, 15:59] [Comments: 0]
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17.Aug.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 74 (September/October 2008)
Press release: The preview of Amiga Future 74 (September/October 2008) is now online. In this issue there are test reports about the latest versions of WinUAE, AmiBlitz, MorphOS 2.0, AMuse, Cave Story and much more. There is a detailed table of contents on our website.
On the Amiga Future LeserCD there are several PD-programs as well as some full versions such as Photo Folio, Astral, Battle Space.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Aug. 2008, 15:55] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 1.5
iGame is a MUI-based user-interface for managing and starting WHDLoad games.
Changes in version 1.5:
- Genres are now in an external file
- Added "--Never Played--"
- Reworked "Show/Hide hidden slaves"
- Filter will now work together with genres
- Added FILTERUSEENTER
- Added indication when writing to disk
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Aug. 2008, 18:28] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Event: PowerDev-Meeting in Chelm (Poland)
On 6./7. September 2008 a PowerDev-Meeting will take place in Chelm, Poland. MorphOS on Efika will be the main topic of the meeting. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2008
AROS-Exec (website)
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AROS: Wanderer now saves Window positions
Nick 'Kalamatee' Andrews has successfully added window snapshot option to Wanderer, slightly increasing AROS interface realiability. Now it is possible to save position, size and icon/all files view for any window on writable medias. For read-only ones, like CD and DVD ROMs, default size, position and view will be used. Kalamatee is now working on fixing icons snapshot too. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (forum)
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Event: Photos of CommVEx V4 / V5 to be held on July 25 + 26, 2009
Under the title link you can find pictures taken from the fourth Commodore Vegas Expo which took place on 26/27 of July in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Next year the CommVEx will take place on July 25/26 at the Plaza Hotel & Casino again. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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DiscreetFX: Grasshopper LLC July winner of Seeding the Success Campaign
The winner of the July of the "Seeding the Success Campaign" of DiscreetFX is the company Grasshopper LLC. They got it for their desktop publishing program PageStream. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2008
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Portrait: Chris Hülsbeck at neues on 3sat TV
The television program 3sat will report in its computer magazine "neues" about the composer Chris Hülsbeck on 17. August 2008 (direct link).
He has written music for a lot of Amiga and C64 games such as Battle Isle, Giana Sisters, R-Type and Turrican I-III. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (website)
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Graphic program: PerfectPaint WIPupdate140808 (Beta)
Marco "Blackbird" Möring has published another update of the graphic program PerfectPaint. For the installation of the latest WIP-version ("Work in Progress") the full archive PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha from December 2007 is required.
Download:
PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha (7,6 MB)
PfP-WIPupdate140808.lha (652 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2008
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ACube Systems: Summer holidays until August 24
ACube Systems which is responsible for the distribution of AmigaOS 4.1 has taken summer holidays until 24. August. The delivery of the update of the operating system will start subsequent to the holidays. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ctorrent_gui 1.2
Version 1.2 of the graphical user-interface ctorrent_gui includes bug fixes and is based on the filesharing client Enhanced ctorrent dnh 3.3.2 (screenshot).
AmigaOS 4-specific changes:
- Rewritten the handling of the text output,hopefully gives no more DSI
- Fixed a bug so the same text won't appear in the listbrowser several times
- Fixed so you can press the mouse button in the listbrowser. This led to system lockup
- Ctorrent will hopefully not crash if the .torrent file is damaged or an empty one
- Cancelling asl requester would crash ctorrent; has been fixed
- Listbrowser will scroll down when new text is added to show the latest action
Download: ctorrent_gui.lha (285 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: 68k-Mac-Emulator Basilisk II 0.9.3 (version from 11.08.08)
Basilisk II is an open-source emulator of different 68k-Macintosh computer (Mac Classic, Mac-II-serie).
Basilisk II uses the processor emulation of UAE. Users of the "Classic"-version of AmigaOS 4 are supposed to use Shapeshifter or Fusion.
Features:
- RDB support
- Harddisk support with 64bit addressing
- Displays diskimage and partition size (when found!)
- Mouse wheel support (NEW)
- Ethernet support (not tested)
- Supports LUT and ARGB display modes on all screens including Workbench
- Supports CD-ROM
- All PC keyboard keys are supported in emulation
Changes in Basilisk II 0.9.3 (11.08.08):
- Mouse wheel support
- Ethernet fixes, (don't know if they work)
- ASL fileselector for ethernet device
- New "Add bootdisk" button
- Shows partition and diskimage size in GUI
- Added ASL fileselector for ROM and diskimages
Download: basiliskii.lha (5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Further PNG-Icons by Amiga's Magic Factory
Under the title link you can find packages called Mix, Models and Prohibited for new PNG-icons created by Amiga's Magic Factory. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2008
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Interview: Andy Finkel and Bil Herd
On the occasion of the Commodore Vegas Expo the former Commodore engineers Bil Herd (e.g. C128) and Andy Finkel (Amiga software) were interviewed.
You can download the 90 minutes lasting telephon interview. It is split up into four MP3-files with about 30 minutes per file.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Aug.2008
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.5.1
The latest version of the well-known Amiga-emulator WinUAE includes several bug fixes. Additionally there are some improvements at the screen modes:
New features in version 1.5.1:
- Added support for Direct3D pixel shader filters (very fast compared
to software filters, pixel shader 2.0+ compatible display card
required), plain Direct3D filter performance improved.
Latest (August 2008 or later) DirectX required
- In windowed mode all resolution or chipset/RTG mode switches
resize the window instead of window closing and opening
- Aspect ratio setting added to RTG and filter panels
- Window resize enabled in windowed mode (chipset mode)
- Added Picasso96 option "Always scale in windowed mode" which enables
window resizing and disables automatic resize. Keeps aspect ratio
automatically
- Only reset fullscreen mode when resolution or depth changes
- On the fly USB mouse/joystick insert/removal does not modify
currently selected input device(s) in Ports-panel
- Enable ini-mode (registry replacement) if .ini
(without .exe) is found. Previously always used winuae.ini
With version 1.5.0 introduced bugs were fixed:
- Failed to start with some display card/driver combinations
- Regular (non-RDB) OFS formatted hardfiles didn't mount under KS 1.3
- Memory corruption in configuration file handling causing random
crashes when loading or saving configuration files
- Configuration files in subdirectories didn't load if configuration
cache was enabled
- RTG hardware mouse cursor may have been invisible (or had
wrong graphics) in some cases after resolution change
- Switching between non-interlaced and interlaced modes caused random
"scanline" graphics corruption
Further bug fixes:
- Built-in HRTMon crashed in JIT modes
- Interlace modes fixed in "normal" (non-doubled/scanline) modes
- Fixed borderblank graphics corruption in interlaced modes
- Fixed possible crashes when switching Windows desktop resolution or
when using quick user switching
- "Kickstart Replacement" fixed
- PCMCIA SRAM emulation didn't work in memory expansion mode
- Emulation paused if "stop sound while inactive/minimzed" was enabled
- Improved directory filesystem statefile support
- AVI recording crash if only audio recording was enabled
- Native DLL support fixed
- Forced fullscreen refresh rates didn't work in some cases
- Multiple identical (same serial number) USB game controllers do not
confuse input system anymore
- Major blitter slowdown in some AGA modes
- ADF was not updated if disk write was aborted (Cadaver save disk)
- Crash when USB mouse/joystick was removed or inserted before
emulation was started
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Aug.2008
www.scacom.de.vu (ANF)
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PDF-magazine: SCACOM Aktuell issue 7 (jubilee edition)
SCACOM.aktuell is a free PDF-magazine which is about the computers by Commodore. With issue 7 the magazine celebrates its first anniversary. Therefore additional to the normal magazine with 48 pages a jubilee edition with 22 pages were published. Besides this at SCACOM the C64-game "Gold Quest 4" as well as the corresponding disk-cover are available and at the website of SCACOM two new background pictures were published.
The publisher asks for your feedback or guest book entries on the website and hopes that there will be some further interested people who want to cooporate.
The next eighth issue will include a survey about the patents from Commodore/Amiga and some facts to the topic "Why did home computers vanish?". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 29
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network. Several bugs were fixed in alphaersion 29. The program is available for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Morgue Soft: Screensavers Flowers 1.0 and Acuario 1.75
Under the title link with Flowers 1.0 a new screensaver by Morgue Soft was published which shows flowers and has a relaxing sound. Additionally Acuario was updated. Both screensavers are available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Music module: Modland-webinterface
Modland is a archive managed by Daniel 'Coma' Johansson with over 360.000 music modules in 290 different formats. You can access them via a FTP-server (mirror).
To make the access more easy ExoticA in cooperation with Modland has created a webinterface with which you can search for names, authors or formats.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Fotodraw 0.1 (Update)
Carsten Siegner has published a first alpha version of his command line "Fotodraw". With Fotodraw you can create EPS-files or PDF-documents. It supports raster images and texts.
MorphOS 2.0 and Ghostscript 8.54 are required. There is not still a detailed documentation but you can activate a help text with "Fotodraw -h".
Download: Fotodraw-0.1.lha (403 KB)
Update: (21:21, 10.08.08, snx)
Meanwhile Fotodraw 0.1 was published. In this version a document system was added. With it you can create complicated documents as PDF-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: New "old" interviews and game downloads
The Amiga Arena was completed with contents from previous years such as over 50 interviews from 2002. There is a new section in the download for sport games starting with the games "Fußball Total" (AGA), "Burnout" (AGA) and "Xtreme Racing" (AGA).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2008
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Reggae supports now AIFC/sowt
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewskis has published a new modul for his multimedia library Reggae: The "sowt"-pseudocodec for the AIFC-format (compressed audio IFF) is used to save sound data in Little-Endian-format and was introduced by Apple. Most of the current audio applications under Mac OS save in this format.
The new aiff.demuxer 51.7 for Reggae supports AIFC as well as the "sowt"-version.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Lawsuit: Case of Itec against Hyperion in New York dismissed
The case of Itec LLC in New York against Hyperion VOF was dismissed there because the contract between both parties from 24. April 2003 is applied to the contract between Amiga Inc., Hyperion and Eyetech from 3. November 2001 and for this one only two courts in Washington are responsible for.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1 gone gold
Press release:
Antwerp, Belgium - 6 August, 2008.
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone "gold" and should be available through dealers mid August. Building on the solid foundations of Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS 4.1 introduces a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on the Amiga platform.
Updated non-exhaustive feature-list of Amiga OS 4.1:
- Intelligent memory paging
- Hardware compositing engine (Radeon R1xx and R2xx family)
- Implementation of the "Cairo" device-independent 2D rendering library
- Reworked P96 with improved overlay support
- Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support for greater digital camera compatibility
- JXFS filesystem with the support for drives and partitions of multiple terabyte size
- Improved Workbench functionality
- New and improved DOS functionality (full 64 bit support, universal notification support, automatic expunge and reload of updated disk resources)
- Improved 3D hardware accelerated screen-dragging
- Reworked AmiDock with true transparency
- Choice between several GUI themes including Amiga OS 4.0 and Amiga OS 4.1 default themes
- Powerful and user-friendly installation utility
- Reworked Warp3D Radeon drivers with new functionality
- Improved OpenGL support through MiniGL 2.0
- And much, much more.
Required hardware: AmigaOne (for now)
Required graphics card for hardware compositing: Radeon 1xx or Radeon 2xx
Recommended graphics card: Radeon 9250
Amiga OS 4.1 will ship in a cardboard package with a printed Quick Start Guide.
Screenshots: 1, 2. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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