05.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Integrated development environment "CodeBench" (preview)
Simon "Rigo" Archer develops an integrated development environment called CodeBench for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). There will be a limited version of the program with the next OS4-SDK. The full version of CodeBench will be distributed commercially.
The author describes CodeBench as "plugin-based management-system". The C/C++ and PHP/HTML-plugins already work. With the help of the corresponding plugin each programming language can be supported. CodeBench can compile itself as well as AmigaOS 4 source code.
Under the title link the author explained some features of CodeBench in a discussion.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: GUI-Designer MindGUI 0.1
MindGUI is supposed to become a GUI-designer for Reaction-based applications. MindGUI generates C-source code.
The project has still an very early status and the author particularly points out that MindGUI is still not very useful. According to the author additional to OS4 SDK, AISS, svgtools as well as svg.datatype) "humor" is required.
MindGUI01.lha (468 KB)
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05.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga-clone: First Natami-prototype is produced
The Amiga-clone NatAmi developed by Thomas Hirsch has a reimplementation of the Amiga-Custom Chips - in contrary to similar projects the AGA-compatibility is aspired.
Meanwhile the development of the NatAmi-motherboard was forwarded so far that the production of the first prototype called NatAmi60 could be started.
The specification of the NatAmi60 includes 16 Mb Chip-RAM, 256 Fast-RAM, a 68060-processor as well as several improvements of the chipset features. For further information have a look at section Questions and Answers.
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05.Aug.2008
Bobic^BTTR (ANF)
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Amiga-Demos from the Assembly 2008
For the Oldskool Demo Competition on the demo party Assembly 2008 two new demos were published for the Amiga 500.
Hardknee Lotus shows effects in AGA-quality but requires 1 MB Chip- and 2 MB Fast-RAM. The second demo is a 32 KB intro by Limbo and was called Ex-Flies.
There is a report about the event at 4Sceners.de.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: Isue August online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Issue August includes the following topics:
- Amiga News Headlines
- Amiga at the movies
- Frame 18, Atmosphere Amiga Demo
- MorphOS 2 review
- Shuffle review
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Grub-2-support in Nightly Builds for x86
The automatically generated "Nightly Builds" of the x86-version of AROS now include the bootloader Grub 2. With its help the harddrive partition DH0 can use the file system SFS.
InstallAROSwas adapted to it. You can now choose the file system for DH0 and DH1.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Scene-party: Evoke 2008 (08.-10. August, Cologne)
For the 11. time the demo scene party Evoke will open its gates. It will take place in the "Vulkanhalle" in the city of Cologne.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Aug.2008
James Jacobs (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Console-emulator AmiArcadia 7.5a
AmiArcadia emulates different game consoles based on the Signetics 2650A like Arcadia 2001 or the only German console Interton VC4000. In version 7.5a, that now is also available for AmigaOS 4, some minor bugs were fixed.
Download: amiarcadia.lha (1,4 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Aug.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: SMTP-Server
Based on the Yet Another FTP Server a SMTP-server for AROS/x86 and Windows was developed which receives eMails and saves them in a directory.
If you want to test this first version you have to enter the IP-address in the file smtp.ini and to create a directory e.g. ram:mailbox/site-admin. If yoo then establish a connection to an email program just like Thunderbird and send an eMail to site-admin@[IP-address of the server] the email is saved in the created directory.
Download: SMTP.zip (64 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.10 beta 1
James 'jahc' Carroll has published an update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. The new version fixes a single bug of the previous version. The details are included in the changelog. WookieChat is available for all Amiga-systems.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Aug.2008
novamann von amiga-resistance.info (ANF)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: New mirror
Under bboah.com a new mirror of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware ("BBoAH") is available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2008
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Audio-Player: UADE 2.11 for Windows, Mac OS, Linux
The "Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator" uses the hardware emulation of UAE as well as a compatible interface to Delitracker and EaglePlayer for player plugins in order to play a wide range of Amig music formats.
The new version 2.11 is available for Windows (Cygwin is required), the source codes could be compiled under different Unix versions as well as under Mac OS X.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2008
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Audio-Player: Audio Overload for Windows, Mac OS, Linux
Richard Bannister's "Audio Overload" emulates the audio hardware of old consoles and computers and therefore makes it possible to play the "classics" on modern hardware.
Audio Overload also supports the Amiga formats AHX, MOD and HVL and is available for Windows (x86-32/x86-64), Linux (x86-32/x86-64) and Mac OS X.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Graphic program: PerfectPaint WIP 010808 beta (update)
Marco "Blackbird" Möring has published an update of the graphic program PerfectPaint. Changes in this version:
- a Hotfix for The Imagepanel
- a fix for the Loadbrush-command
- Fixes for the Rexx-Scripts for loading and saving AnimGIF, loading and saving GIF pictures
If you want to install the latest WIP-version ("Work in Progress") first the complete distribution PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha from December 2007 is required which then is updated with the current beta archive.
Download:
PfP-Usertestarchiv.lha (7,6 MB)
PfP-WIPupdate310708.lha (1,5 MB)
Update: (16:37, 03.08.08, snx)
Meanwhile there is another update PfP-WIPupdate010808.lha (642 KB) available which fixes a bug of the drag-and-drop-function.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2008
James Jacobs (E-Mail)
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AmiArcadia 7.5a
The emulator AmiArcadia is available in version 7.5a vor. The program emulates the console family Emerson Arcadia 2001 to which belong the models Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Hanimex, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Rowtron, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom and Tunix, the Interton-VC-4000 console family (e.g. Acetronic, Fountain, Interton,
Prinztronic, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddington), the Elektor TV Games Computer and PIPBUG-based devices (e.g. Electronics Australia 77up2 and Signetics Adaptable Board Computer).
AmiArcadia offers many features such as ReAction-GUI, loading and saving of snapshots, CPU-tracing, trainer, drag'n'drop-support and much more.
Download: AmiArcadia.lha (728 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jul.2008
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WHDLoad: New packages until 01.08.2008
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demo to your harddrive which originally was meant only for using with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models are fixed.
Since our last message the following installers have been added, improved or updated:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jul. 2008, 16:30] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jul.2008
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Diagnosis tool TaskTree 1.3
TaskTree written by Christian "Tokai" Rosentreter shows all current tasks by hierachy inclusive of possible parent/child-relations. In this way you can check which task has started other processes. TaskTree requires MorphOS 2.0. If there should be sufficient interest the author may adapt it to MorphOS 1.x.
Download: tasktree-1.3.lha (3,3 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jul.2008
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openSUSE: WinUAE-version for Linux
Via Winelib the openSUSE-build-service has published an under Linux/i586 usable version of the Amiga-emulator WinUAE for openSUSE 11. You can get further information about limitations as well as known problems under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jul. 2008, 14:19] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jul.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube: 105 Euro for AmigaOS 4.1
ACube which worldwide will distribute the AmigaOS 4.1 has published information about it on its website.
The price for the new version will be 105 Euro plus taxes and shipping. It seems that there is still not an excact date for the publication.
The AmigaOS 4.1-advertising is available as PDF-document (6,4 MB).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: PFTP 0.3
Pete's FTP (creenshot) written by Peter Gordon offers unlimited windows, server-to-server-transfers and drag-and-drop-support.
Changes:
- The check to see if a date was in the future when we had to guess the year didn't take into account the fact that the server time might be ahead of ours; the check now makes sure that the date is not more than 24 hours ahead of the local system time
- Now built with GCC 4.2.4
- Swapped obsolete calls to the corresponding AllocSysObject ones
- There was one message port per subtask that wasn't being freed; they are now
- A couple of things that were MEMF_ANY are now MEMF_SHARED
- When I re-ordered the transfer queue columns in 0.2 I forgot to update the cancelled and finished transfer pages, which meant that the filename wasn't shown; this is now fixed
- Finished transfers now show their final CPS
- Re-added the stats page and now it actually has some stats in it!
Download: pftp.lha (234 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Jul. 2008, 18:38] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (website)
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Report+ 6.28 (Update)
Report+ creates bug reports, Aminet-readme-files, autodocs and similar texts. The program is based on ReAction, the source code is included.
Download: ReportPlus.lha (332 KB)
Update: (16:30, 30.07.08, snx)
Meanwhile, version 6.28 of the program is available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: MLDonkey 2.9.5 / OpenTTD 0.6.2-RC2
Christian Rosentreter has published updates of the filesharing program MLDonkey as well as of the business simulation OpenTTD for MorphOS.
Download:
mldonkey-2.9.5-morphos.lha (6 MB)
openttd-0.6.2-RC2-morphos.lha (3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jul. 2008, 19:02] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2008
heise (Webseite)
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Windows: Caligari trueSpace for free
Few months after the taking over by Microsoft the formerly 600 Dollar 3D-modeling program Caligari trueSpace can be now downloaded for free.
The program was developed in the 80ies for the Amiga. It was one of the first modeling programs. Later the program was only developed further for Windows.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Hollywood: GUI-library ScuiLib 0.5 (beta)
ScuiLib written by Fabio Falcucci is a GUI-library for Hollywood. The archive contains ten tutorials as well as a demo program which explains the handling of windows.
Changes:
- Many bugs fixed
- Now you can navigate the GUIs with the keyboard
- Off-screen gadgets correctly handled now
- Code optimization
- A basic layout system has been provided
- 12 Tutorials
- 2 AmigaGuide documents (Guide + Reference)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jul. 2008, 06:57] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MakeCD: Move of homepage
MakeCD, one of the rare CD-burning programs for the Amiga is now accessable over the homepage of the co-author Patrick Ohly under estamos.de.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jul.2008
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Commodore-Emulator: VICE 2.0 for all Amiga-systems
VICE emulates almost all 8-Bit systems developed by Commodore. Ports of the published version 2.0 are available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, PPC, x86-64) and MorphOS. The most important changes since the previsous release are included in the changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jul. 2008, 03:01] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2008
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Individual Computers announces new scandoubler "Indivision AGA"
Press release: During the 80s, it was common use to build computers in a way that they can output their picture on a TV set. This was done in order to reduce the overall system cost for the user. TV sets work with lower frequencies compared to today's monitors, therefore the picture flickers. A flickerfixer converts the signal in a way that a modern VGA monitor or TFT-display can be used. The name flickerfixer was mainly created because the problem of a flickering picture is solved.
We've already had a very successful product called Indivision in 2002. It was connected to the monitor output of the computer, but it has been sold out in 2006. Flickerfixers are in high demand. One unit of our external flickerfixer Indivision has been sold on an internet auction platform for more than 900 US Dollars in march of this year. That's more than four times the last retail price! The popularity and stability of value of our products cannot be proved any better. We have already started development of a new flickerfixer in november 2007, which is finished now.
The first flickerfixers for the Amiga have already been available 17 years ago. Since that time, all flickerfixers - including ours - have been using the same principle: The picture frequency was doubled. This is not enough for most modern VGA monitors and TFT-displays, as the picture of a computer with PAL standard was only displayed at slightly less than 50Hz. Most monitors require 60Hz or more these days.
With Indivision AGA, we're striking a new path. As the name suggests, it's a flickerfixer that is very closely tied to the AGA chipset. This could only be realized by putting the flickerfixer inside of the computer. The product is mounted over the Video-Chip "Lisa". The VGA display is connected directly to the flickerfixer. Further connections are not necessary.
Listing all features of the flickerfixer would go beyond the scope of this news item. You can find the complete technical data in this PDF-overview. The outstanding features are:
- 24 Bit colour resolution in all screenmodes
- support for super hires modes
- Highgfx support up to 1024x768 pixels
- all screenmodes can be displayed at 60Hz or more
- no adjustments necessary
Two options have been added for retro-gaming enthousiasts that allow a step-by-step approximation to the display of an old TV set: Vertical syncrtonisation allows reducing the output frequency down to 49.9Hz, which will eliminate tearing-effects. In addition to that, a scanline-emulation can be switched on. This will emulate the dark lines between the scanlines of a TV screen.
Development and production of this extremely complex product is very expensive. Our trade partners, who have been serving the Amiga-market for many years, have made considerable financial contributions to the production. To account for that, Indivision AGA is exclusively available only from these resellers until january 1st, 2009: (alphabetical order)
Production has already started, the flickerfixer will presumably be shipped to our tradepartners during the first week of september. The suggested retail price is 129,- EUR including 19% VAT. Only a version for A1200 computers will be available at first. We're already working on a version for other Amigas with AGA chipset.
The following pictures show the prototype and screenshots where colours are not displayed correctly. The actual product may vary.
AGA_components.jpg
AGA_mounted.jpg
AGA_SHires_62Hz.jpg
Scanlines.jpg (cg)
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25.Jul.2008
deimos - mobile content culture (ANF)
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Handhelds: Amiga game Nicky Boom ported
The Amiga game "Nicky Boom" developed by Microids is now distributed for Windows Mobile and PalmOS as well. A Symbian version of the Jump'n'Run game was announced. Additionally under the title link there is a Flash demo version.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Jul. 2008, 21:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Interview with Andy Finkel at CommVEx 4
In the line with the fourth CommVEx there will be an interview with Andy Finkel. For this questions are still requested. You can send them to Amiga.org.
From 1981 to 1991 Andy Finkel developed different computers for Commodore (e.g. VIC-20, C64, C128, Commodore LCD and Amiga CDTV). After that he started his own company Flying Cat and advised companies like 3DO, Microprose and Lotus Pacific. In 1996 his was one of the persons who founded the PIOS Computer AG (later Met@box).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Jul. 2008, 21:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jul.2008
Acube Systems (ANF)
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Sam440 available for 299 Euro
Press release: Starting from today and until September 30, 2008 we offer a Sam440ep board at a special price: Euro 299.00 (+ taxes and shipping) instead of the regular end user price of Euro 459.00 with a discount of Euro 160.00! (*)
Take this opportunity to buy a Sam440ep board, that's a crazy discount!!!
What you will receive:
- Sam440ep board, 533 Mhz version, complete with metallic heatsinks on both cpu and gfx chip (no DDR ram included)
- one SATA data cable
- one DVI to VGA converter
- printed user manual (in english)
- Linux Debian netinstall CD
- AROS Live CD
What you need to have your Sam440ep up and running?
- a computer case, from full ATX size down to mini-itx size, with a suitable PSU (minimum 60 W)
- one Serial ATA HD
- one Serial ATA CDRom/DVD reader/burner (optional)
- USB mouse and keyboard
- a suitable DDR DIMM 100 32 bits ram bank (**)
To help you to find a suitable ram bank, we offer approved DIMM 100, DDR400, 512 Mb 32 bits modules at Euro 33.00 (+ taxes)
(*) offer limited to one board for customer
(**) we strongly suggest to use only DIMM 100, DDR400, 512 Mb 32 bits modules with Nanya chips. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Jul.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: SAM440-port finished
In his blog Michal Schulz has announced that he fulfilled the requirements of the bounty project: The complete AROS-port is avaiable as an ISO-image.
Schulz is going to support the SAM440-version in future because according to him there is much to do.
Direct download: aros-sam440-ppc.iso.7z (8,8 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Jul. 2008, 04:52] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: Updates of AmigaAMP-Prefs, BackUp, MPlayer-GUI, MultiRen, ZoomIT
OnyxSoft has upadted five programs: The MUI-based renaming tool MultiRen, the graphical user-interface MPlayer-GUI, the file backup program BackUp, the preferences editor AmigaAMP-Prefs and the magnifying glass ZoomIT.
AmigaAMP-Prefs 1.25 - (68k)
- Updated Italian and French catalog courtecy of S. Hawamdeh and Philippe
Ferrucci respectively
- Added some stack for OS4
- Some minor fixes
BackUp 1.60 - (68k)
- BackUp finally handles links correctly in all possible ways I could think of
- Reimplemented the option to create emtpy skip directories
- More thorough cleaning
- And there is more
MPlayer-GUI 1.43 - (OS4)
- Named the MPlayer process "MPlayer main process" instead of "[New Process]"
- Added a few new video modes and removed some old
- Also updated audio modes
- Fixed the scroller in the Control Panel somewhat
MultiRen 1.65 - (68k)
- Has plugin-support for MP3- and picture-renaming and more
- Added the ability to see the total file size of all files; very useful when collecting many files from different directories to transfer to a limited storage such as a CD-R or MP3/USB stick to see that they fit
- Fixed the custom textfile export a bit
- Corrected and rewrote a couple of help bubbles, etc.
ZoomIT 0.3 (68k, x86-AROS, PPC-MorphOS, PPC-AmigaOS)
- AmigaOS4 native version (Thanks to Daniel Westerberg)
- Wheel mouse support when window is active (on AmigaOS, MorphOS-version allready had this option)
- ARexx-support
- New settings options like start the program iconified and quit-button = iconify
- Option to select which color components to be included in the resulting output
- Option for grey scale output
- Option for inverted graphics
- Smaller optimizations
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jul.2008
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IRC-client: WookieChat 2.9
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new version of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
The changes are included in the Changelog. WookieChat is available for all Amiga systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jul. 2008, 14:34] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2008
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AROS: New bounty site at Power2People online / Efika-bounty opened again
After delegating the bounty programs of Team AROS to Power2People the single bounty projects will be carried on under the title link.
Power2People is a non-profit organization led by Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (Genesi) situated in Texas, USA. Through this the AROS-bounty-program is tax-free.
The bounty-project #18 which is an AROS-port to the Efika-board was opned again after the previous developer has vanished. The current staus of the bounty is 3151 US-Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: 2007 Complete Car and Driver Set 1.5 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.
The 2007 Complete Car and Driver Set 1.5 makes available a new driver configuration file, a new cockpit, three new steering wheel skins, updated crash helmet and new team wheel rims (screenshot).
Currently Jason Frabotta has not a MorphOS system therefore he asks for your feedback if the set is usable.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmiWest 2008: Blog established
In order to give a platform for news around the AmiWest 2008 the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club has established a blog under the title link. This year the event will take place on 17./18. October. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: Effects package SportsFX for Video Toaster announced
Under the title link DiscreetFX has announced the availablilty of the digital video effect package SportsFX for VT[5], SpeedEDIT and TriCaster bekannt. A version for the Amiga Video Toaster 4000 with bonus effects will follow soon.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jul. 2008, 15:36] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jul.2008
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Debug 1.1
Debug 1.1 for MorphOS 2.0 is a small commandline tool to enable/disable Exec debug flags from the commandline, saving the occasional user to go through the system settings menu.
Download: debug-1.1.lha (3 KB) (snx)
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21.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Obligement: MorphOS-2.0-Review (French)
On the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement David Brunet has published a review of version 2 of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Minimig box: Price anounced
Loriano Pagni has announced the price for his Minimig box. It is 67,45 Pound (about 85 Euro) plus shipping.
Because of the low efforts for the Miming lettering it is included in the price.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jul.2008
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Event: PowerDev-Meeting in Prague
On the 23./24. August the Czech Pegasos user group (Czech PUG) will organize a PowerDev-Meeting in Prague. Additional to version 2.0 of MorphOS the developer boards with the processors MPC5121E (planned for the "Efika 2") and MPC8610 will be introduced. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Jul.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future Issue 44 (German) online
Press release: The German issue 44 of the Amiga Future is out of stock. Because of that the content of this issue is now available at our website.
Issue 73 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Currently we're working hard on issue 74. You can order the German and English versions of Issue 73 of Amiga Future in our online shop.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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21.Jul.2008
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MorphOS-website under morphos.net accessable
The official MorphOS-website now is accessable under morphos.net again. The domain which originally was David Gerbers is now Mark "Bigfoot" Olsens who is active MorphOS developer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Jul.2008
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amiga-news: Poll on advantage newsletters
We have put up a new poll: Would you wish amiga-news.de to submit exclusive advantage offers from companies in the Amiga market to forum members and newsletter recipients, for instance, special offers or special prices on Amiga products? (The data will not be handed over to third parties!)
You can vote here and you can find the results here. Possible answers are "ja" (yes), "nein" (no) and "egal" (no difference).
We look forward to an active participation! (nba) (Translation: cad)
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20.Jul.2008
Bounty-Team (ANF)
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Bounty System opening on pegasosforum.de
After it was decided to launch a bounty system three months ago on pegasosforum.de, first of all, project suggestions were gathered, and then the five most popular bounties were determined by means of a poll. The evaluation of the received votes is now complete and the following bounty projects have been opened up:
- [Bounty #0007]Printing system
- [Bounty #0018]GTK-MUI wrapper
- [Bounty #0006]Spreadsheet
- [Bounty #0014]FTP client with SSL/SFTP/SCP
- [Bounty #0001]Instant Messenger
For every project, there is a support thread in the Bounty-Bay of the Pegasos forum with up-to-date status information like, for example, the state of donations, progress information, milestones reached so far, screenshots as previews of the functions implemented so far, etc.
In addition, with immediate effect, the respective bounty can be donated to via PayPal there. The donated money will be received by the AmigaClub Hamburg registered association and will be kept on the PayPal account until the payment date.
In addition to the bounties already opened, there is the possibility for everyone to suggest so-called "self-bounties." However, for these, some requirements are to be fulfilled, like the payment of a "starting donation" of at least 25 euros, for example. Further details can be gathered from the bounty rules.
Programmers that are interested in the implementation of a bounty are asked to contact the bounty team. This can be carried out via the corresponding support thread in the Bounty-Bay or via E-Mail to bounty-team@amigaclubhamburg.de. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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20.Jul.2008
Jens Bagh (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the LAN party of ACH
On the web page of Amiga Club Hamburg, a short picture report of the club's LAN party from yesterday has been published.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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19.Jul.2008
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New MorphOS 2.0 screenshot galleries
"jPV" has published some MorphOS 2.0-screenshots which document the installation and his personal setup. You can find further sreenshots in a thread on Morphzone.org.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Status-Update July 2008
On the AROS-website Paolo Besser sum up as usual the latest developments around the open-source operating system AROS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Cinnamon Writer 0.58
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is an SDL-based word processor for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot), aiming to be compact, efficient and to provide the mostly used functions.
New version includes:
- Experimental Printer support
- Experimental Export PDF support
- Improved font handling - support for unlimited fonts
- Increased stability
- Optimized code - CW should now be usable on Amigas with a slow CPU
- Minor GUI changes
Please note that with this version, no fonts are provided. CW uses (all) the fonts in Fonts:_Truetype directory. CW uses Bitstream Vera Sans as default font. If you don’t have this font installed, you can download it from the fonts download area of desler.be.
CW uses truetype fonts, which can be downloaded from the internet (or taken from an old version of CW). If you have installed OWB and the fonts used by OWB, CW should be able to use these fonts.
Printer and PDF export is experimental. You will probably experience artefacts in your PDF documents. Furthermore, the author cannot guarantee that Printer support works since he doesn’t have a printer himself. Printer and PDF support is based on Ghostscript. If you have used command line Ghostscript to print a file, please mail the author the command and a description on the printer used. He will recompile a CW version that is optimized for your printer and return the new version to you.
When visiting desler.be for Cinnamon Writer, please note the possibility of joining the newsletter, to participate in Cinnamon Projects or join to get access to forums. If you like Cinnamon Writer and would you would like to support further development, please consider making a donation. (snx)
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19.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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Event: Vintage Computer Festival East 5.0 (USA)
The 5th annual Vintage Computer Festival East is being held on Saturday and Sunday, September 13-14, 2008, at the InfoAge Learning Center in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. Further information is available at the title link. (snx)
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19.Jul.2008
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SDL Game Engine
SDL Game Engine sge2d is a cross-platform 2D-framework for C-programmer under the MIT-licence. Since the snapshot of July 12 also MorphOS is officially listed as a supported build system.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2008
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Print-magazine: Introduction of Amiga 1200 in Games TM
In issue of July the game magazine Games TM reports about "life and the death of the Amiga 1200" omn four pages. In the next issue of the magazine the Amiga 500 will be introduced.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.6.2 Release Candidate #1
OpenTTD is an open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90ies with many extensions - among others a network modus, individual graphic sets and over 24 languages. The complete list of changes in version 0.6.2 you can read in the changelog.
The current version should still run under MorphOS 1.4.x (not tested). But according to Christian Rosentreter who compiles the MorphOS version the next versions will require MorphOS 2.0. If anybody wants to use OpenTTD under an earlier MorphOS version will have to compile game for himself. If there really should be a high demand Christian Rosentreter would do it as before. Please give him a feedback.
Furthermore on the website of Christian Rosentreter there is a PayPal button where you can show your appreciation and interest for OpenTTD - because Christian Rosentreter himself have not played this game for years anymore.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
hhjoker2 (ANF)
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Production of Minimig-box will start soon
Loriano Pagni has published a video of his Miming box.
You can book the white box under amigarulez@hotmail.com. But the price was still not determined.
If there will be 50 reservations a first limited production will be started.
The Minimig lettering is optional and costs 10 Euro. The lettering is available in the following colours: black, yellow, mauve, orange, silver, gold, red, maroon, blue, green, grey, pink, brown and burgandy. If you send your reservation then please do not forget to write your preferred colour.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Do it yourself: Efika-Laptop
On the homepage of the Amiga-Club Hamburg Thorsten Mampel has written the history of his self-made Efika-laptop.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2008
Gero Birkenfeld (ANF)
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Image Batcher: Collective editing of picture files
Gero Birkenfeld has published a beta version of Image Batcher, also called iBatch. It is a package which is to make the organization of digital photos more easy with the help of collective renaming and conversions.
The ARexx-script has a graphical user-interface. For conversions the CLI-command ImageConverter (73 KB) written by Thilo Köhler is used which is included in the package. Additionally the author recommends a miniature picture viewer e.g. Thumb written by Thomas Rapp. Furthermore AWNPipe is required for the graphical user-interface.
Download: ibatch.lha (175 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.0.1
Hatari is a SDL-based Atari ST-emulator (screenshot). The changes can be read in the readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Word Me Up XXL: AmigaOS 3 and AROS versions stopped
According to the developers of the arcade puzzle "Word Me Up XXL" on their website the formerly planned ports for AmigaOS 3 and AROS will be not developed further so long. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: NetSurf for Cygnix in progress
According to Edgar Schwan under the title link the browser NetSurf can be easily compiled to his AmigaOS-4-X11-environment Cygnix (screenshot). But currently there is not a date of publishing.
Currently NetSurf still misses Javascript but only requires 17 MB memory to start. The file has a size of 14 MB. Supported are:
- HTML 4.01
- XHTML 1.0
- CSS 2.1
- HTTP/1.1
- HTTP-authentication
- PNG and MNG
- Cookies
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Reminder: CommVEx 4 on 26. / 27. July (USA)
On 26. / 27. July the fourth Commodore Vegas Expo will take place in Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The following models will be presented: PET 4032, VIC-20, C64, Plus/4 and C128D, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 and AmigaOne. Additionally Michael Battilana (Amiga Forever) will take part. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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Open Video Toaster: Instant Bounties
Press release Chicago, Illinois – July 14th, 2008 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., in order to stimulate development for the Video Toaster Flyer source code DiscreetFX is launching an Instant Bounty contest. What is an Instant Bounty? This is a bounty that is paid once a programmer has requested and been assigned a programming task for Open Video Toaster.
This does take a little trust on our part since bounties are paid before coding even begins. Programmer past developments and applications will be taken into serious consideration and help gain them approval for OVT Instant Bounties. Programmers should review source code for the bounty in question before applying for consideration. Each development task for OVT will have set guidelines and coding time limits.
The larger goal of this contest is to stimulate development of video editing and video production software for MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.0 & AROS. This also allows us to see which 3rd party developer base is most passionate and serious about bringing their favorite operating system of choice back into the mainstream. Dedication and passion is what will bring Amiga successor operating systems back into relevance not mysterious companies who's true motives are unknown. Once upon a time with Video Toaster the Amiga was king of desktop video and computer assisted video editing. While in today's modern times it can no longer be king it could yet again be one of the many choices customers consider. That at least was the hope and dream we had when Open Video Toaster was launched. If your interested in video editing living again on Amiga OS type systems please donate to one of your favorite operating system bounties. DiscreetFX has already placed a starter donation in each of these bounties. Even if you can only donate a little it will help and you will be named and thanked on the Open Video Toaster website. Donations are paid instantly via Paypal to programmers that are assigned each bounty.
First three of many OVT Instant Bounties are for the Toaster Character Generator:
Port ToasterCG to AROS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. AROS CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
Port ToasterCG to Amiga OS 4.0 and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. OS 4.0 CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
Port ToasterCG to MorphOS and remove hardware dependencies. Making CG take advantage of NVIDIA or ATI framebuffer cards is a bonus for the bounty but not required. Morph CG, $100 is already donated by DiscreetFX.
ToasterCG source code is available from the title link. (snx)
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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga Forever: Updates and new online forms
According to the Amiga-Forever-Team that several updates were publisehd for the latest emulator package Amiga Forever 2008 which some of the mentioned bugs fixed. These updates can be downloaded in the Amiga-Forever-Player under "Tools/Check for Updates".
Furthermore because of the increased spam-bot-activities the online forms for contacts, support and registrations were changed. These new forms replace the filter which were installed on 18. June and which causede some problems. All those customers who tried to contact us without replay please now try it again.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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individual Computers: New address, Catweasel-Software-Update
Press releaseIn may of this year, we have moved to new premises with more than three times the space that our office in Aachen had to offer. Since we still don't run a retail shop, we have moved to the pictureque area of Simmerath, located in the natural park of the northern Eifel region. With this new location, there's also a change in our shipping partner: Parcels within Germany and the EU are now shipped with DPD.
New drivers for Catweasel MK4: The new drivers V 2.5.0.0 for Windows 2000 and Windows XP (32-bit versions) are fixing a few bugs in handling 5,25 inch drives. The new imagetool V3.1 can now read and write three new formats:
- VersaDOS HD: These disks have been provided by Perfint tech from India. They are used to store medical imaging data. With new, faster computers now being able to retrieve data from older medical equipment, lots of money can be saved, and up-to-date medical service with modern image processing algorithms can be provided at lower cost. We're especially happy about this use case, as it has extremely high value to threshold countries.
- VersaDOS 3HDDI: These disks have been provided to us by Matisa from Switzerland, a company that makes machines for railroad track construction and maintenance. The disk was mangled and obviously written on a very bad drive, but we managed to retrieve enough data for implementing this new format.
- HP4145: This disk was provided to us by Bosch (Hildesheim, Germany), where it is used in semiconductor test-equipment.
Another new feature of the imagetool is the possibility to save d64/d71/d81 images of Commodore disks with additional error information. The automatic recognition of disk formats now gives a list of possible formats instead of stopping at the first positive try, which makes the function a lot more useful. You can find more details in the readme-files of the archive.
New Catweasel MK4 controllers will be back in stock in august of this year. To bridge this bottleneck in supply, we have cleared our safety-stock of Catweasel MK4 controllers. To our knowledge, all pre-orders are served now. Our retail partners are taking orders that will be shipped as soon as the new production run is available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Jul.2008
PPA (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the British AmigaOS-4.1-demonstration
Chris Young as well as PPA have published photos from the second public demonstration of AmigaOS 4.1 which took place in British Enfield yesterday.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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MorphOS: OS4Emu 2.0
Ilkka Lehtoranta's wrapper OS4Emu allows running some AmigaOS 4 programs under MorphOS. In version 2.0, the following changes have come about:
- Whereas 64-bit DOS calls are supported under MorphOS 1.x in principle, but the file size is limited to 2 GB, native 64-bit DOS calls are used now under MorphOS 2.x
- AltiVec support under MorphOS 2.x
- Bug fixes in the ELF loader
- Completion of the Picasso96 emulation by means of the function p96WritePixelArray()
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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13.Jul.2008
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: GammaMeter 1.2
Grzegorz Kraszewski's GammaMeter is a simple tool for measuring the gamma coefficient of display devices. It uses the luminance comparision method and thus does not need any external hardware. GammaMeter uses MUI, is localized and is distributed with source code under BSD license (Screenshot). (snx)
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13.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Event: Report and photos from the AIConf
Under the title link, a first report in English from the AIConf was published, which took place yesterday in Italy and where AmigaOS 4.1 was demonstrated for the first time. In addition, the author, Andrea Maniero, has shot some photos.
News compared to the announcement of the operating system update which took place the day before yesterday (reported by amiga-news.de) concern the price as well as the question of a version for PowerUp Amigas.
According to the report, which was confirmed by Massimiliano Tretene (Soft3, ACube Systems) to that effect as well, the recommended retail price for AmigaOS 4.1 will amount to 105 euros plus taxes, so in Germany, to around 125 euros. For it, you acquire a physical product in the form of a cardboard box, a CD with serial number as well as a printed installation manual, as with the previous version.
A version of AmigaOS 4.1 for PowerUp Amigas is not planned, according to the report. According to ACube Systems, it concerns a final cut; reportedly, only supporting newer computers allows concentrating on new functions. However, in all probability, the owners of AmigaOS 4.0 "Classic" would receive some updates, mainly bug fixes.
Regarding ACube Systems' new Flex-ATX board Sam440 Flex, which no longer has a Radeon M9 chip on-board, but three PCI slots instead, it was disclosed that the price is not conclusively fixed yet, but will probably lie between 300 and 350 euros plus VAT. No statements were made on the ability to run AmigaOS 4 on the Sam440 in view of the ongoing lawsuit by Amiga Inc. against Hyperion (reported by amiga-news.de). (snx) (Translation: cad)
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12.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Hu-Go! 1.3
Hu-Go! emulates the game console TurboGrafX-16 which is also known as PC Engine (screenshot). The MorphOS port by Kelly Samel is now available in version 1.3.
Changes:
- Clones Ambient resolution in full screen + Overlay
- Audio channels only allocated while emulation is running
- Added compact mode
- Added BG pattern toggle
- Added video sync option
- Cleaner sound channel termination
- Shortened the commodity description line
- Fixed MUI colors to work with most configs
- Added rompath selector
- Made gui resizable and fixed spacing
- Added 1 and 2 player joypad configs
- Added Scanline mode
- Several bugs fixed that were causing lock ups
- A few more premade HCD files added to archive
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2008
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AmigaOS 4.1: First public demonstrations (Update)
According to Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene by ACube Systems today the announced Amiga OS 4.1 is supposed to be shown at the AIConf taking place in Papozze (Italy).
The first demonstration in UK will be tomorrow on 13. July presented by the user group Amiga North Thames.
Update: (16:28, 13.07.08, snx)
As Massimiliano Tretene (Soft3, Participator of ACube Systems) confirms, at the show ACube Systems communicated the price for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.1. The suggested retail price is Euro 105 + local VAT or further taxes. The package is similar to the OS4 Classic one and will include a cardboard box, a CD with a serial number and a printed install instruction manual. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jul.2008
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Hyperion announces AmigaOS 4.1
Press release: Antwerp, Belgium - 11 July, 2008. Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release mid-Q3/2008. 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.
State-of-the-art applications such as modern web-browsers, productivity software or digital imaging software typically operate on large datasets with a corresponding memory footprint which rapidly outstrips the physical memory of any computer system. Amiga OS 4.1 offers intelligent memory paging and uses transparent disk based memory - but only when you need it.
Sophisticated media content creation packages, multi media applications such as video players and 3D games have sparked a revolution in storage technology with hard-drive capacities now reaching the terabyte range. Amiga OS 4.1 introduces an all new filesystem, JXFS, the fastest and most robust filesystem available for the Amiga platform, with support for drives and partitions of multiple terabytes.
Graphics cards too have become increasingly powerful and versatile. Amiga OS 4.1 implements 3D hardware accelerated Porter/Duff image composition which is deeply integrated into the system. The upside is not only that the Amiga OS 4.1 user-interface offers unprecedented functionality and customization options such as transparent windows with arbitrary shapes. The use of a compositing engine also results in totally flicker-free screen-updates.
Building on this compositing engine is Amiga OS 4.1's implementation of the "Cairo" device-independent 2D rendering library which has become a de facto industry standard and is used in applications as diverse as Firefox 3, Java/ClassPath's SWING and even Open Office.
With these new features, Amiga OS 4.1 paves the way for countless exciting possibilities for the Amiga platform. Indeed, Amiga OS 4.1 is not only the most advanced AmigaOS incarnation to date, it is also the best way to reacquaint yourself with times when computing was fun!
A non-exhaustive list of key new functionality 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
- Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support for greater digital camera compatibility
- JXFS filesystem with the support for drivers 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
- Reworked Warp3D Radeon drivers with new functionality
- And much, much more.
Required hardware: AmigaOne
Required graphics card for hardware compositing: Radeon 1xx or Radeon 2xx
Recommend graphics card: Radeon 9250
Amiga OS 4.1 will ship in a cardboard package (box preview) and will be distributed world-wide by Acube Systems Srl. Details on pricing and availability will be forthcoming.
Screenshots:
Beneath a Steel Sky
Transparent windows
New Workbench features
DvPlayer (cg) (Translation: snx)
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11.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Freeze 1.1
Christian Rosentreter's Freeze is a small commandline command to freeze (suspend) tasks or processes. A frozen task is still available in the system, but doesn't consume CPU time anymore.
Freezing a task can be useful if the task misbehaves (e.g. if the task starts to busyloop and does not let have other tasks a turn frequently enough and hence renders the system unusable).
There are similiar tools available already. F.ex. iKill (comes with MorphOS 2.0) can be used for the same purpose. But iKill needs an intution window to find the task, so does not work at all for window-less tasks. Further the well-known system monitor Scout offers in its tasklist window the possibility to freeze and activate tasks, but in case of a busyloop situation Scout can takes ages to load and initialize before it's possible to freeze a misbehaving task.
Freeze can be used from commandline and without any mouse interaction. It's very small and does not require any extra dependecies. It should load even in a worst case situation relatively fast.
To find a PID of a task or process the tasklist command (also provided by MorphOS 2.0) can be utilized from the commandline easily.
Download: freeze-1.1.lha (3 KB) (snx)
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11.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS-Team: Homepage reworked
The operating system MorphOS version 2.0 was published a week ago and now the homepage was redesigned as well.
Now you can find there an introduction of some components and functions, the Help Desk, the Download section and a list of all current and former members of the team.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Website of ports "Will This Survive" moved
The website "Will This Survive" has moved to back2roots.org. You can there download the ports for free that means you do not have to write poems for it any longer.
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08.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Lucy 2.22
With version 2.22 of the transparency patch Lucy for MorphOS 2.0 you can now leave out single windows by theit taks titles. You can also leave out windows without names like AmiNetRadio.
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08.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Cave Story ported
Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari, Wikipedia, trailer, Fan site) is a ein Japanese action adventure by Daisuke 'Pixel' Amaya (Interview) which fans translated into English.
THe SDL-/Linux-port by Peter Mackay and Simon Parzer was now compiled by Peter 'Xeron' Gordon and Johan 'Spot' Samuelsson to AmigaOS 4. Similar to the Linux version the preference program is missing here as well. If you want to run the game in a window then simply rename the file config.dat.
Download: cavestory.lha (916 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jul.2008
Symphonic Shades-Webseite (ANF)
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Chris Hülsbeck: Symphonic Shades album announced
Press release: It is clear: An Album will be produced with all the tracks of the "Symphonic Shades - Hülsbeck in Concert" event. The concert at WDR on 23. August 2008 will be dedicated to one of the most famous composers of computer and video game music: Chris Hülsbeck.
The album has a play time of 70 minutes and will be published few months after the concerts. The price is 22,00 EUR (RRP). You can order in advance from now on by MAZ Sound Tools GmbH.
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07.Jul.2008
scacom.de.vu (ANF)
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Fanzine: English.SCACOM, issue 3
English.SCACOM is an English PDF magazine about computers developed by Commodore. The third issue has 34 pages and offers the following articles:
- Picture of the month
- News
- Gold Quest 4
- Interview with Thorsten Schreck
- SCACOM Disk
- Making of Nyaaaah! 11
- Giana Worlds
- Aztec Challenge
- 1541 Ultimate
- Best C64 Games List
- Baracudas story
- Bill Gates and Commodore
- Interesting things
- Background picture
- Poll / Computerstory / Feedback
- Word search
- Game Show / SCACOM
- Disk-cover for „Nyaaaah! 11"
- 10 reasons / Some final pictures
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07.Jul.2008
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MorphOS: Multimedia keys requests with deluxe 0.9
Deluxe written by Christian Rosentreter is a commodity with which you can test multimedia keys of keyboards. The author said that he could add some additional features if requested.
deluxe-0.9.lha (26 KB)
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07.Jul.2008
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #104
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 104th musicpack. This time it includes a music track called "Sky Angel" composed by Maxus. The cover was created by Angeldust.
Here some further information:
- Title: Sky Angel
- Artist: Maxus
- Stily: Trance
- Play time: 5:57
- Format: mp3 @ 128 kbps
- Size: 5.5 MB (ZIP-packed)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jul.2008
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MorphOS: SMS-/GameGear-Emulator SMSPlus 1.4
SMSPlus emulates Sega's Master System as well as the GameGear-console. Changes in version 1.4:
- Shortened the commodity description line
- Clones Ambient resolution in full screen + Overlay
- Audio channels only allocated while emulation is running
- Added compact mode
- Added BG pattern toggle
- Added video sync option
- Cleaner sound channel termination
- Fixed MUI colors to work with most configs
- Added rompath selector
- Made gui resizable and fixed spacing
- Added 1 and 2 player joypad configs
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 28
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another alpha version of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4). The changes in alpha 28 are included in the readme. SabreMSN is available for Amiga 3/4 and MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jul.2008
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0 (SVN) with Altivec support
Fabien Coeurjoly has published a new version of his MorphOS port of the media player MPlayer. The port is based on the sources of the current beta version from 30th June. For the first time there is an Altivec support which requires MorphOS 2.0 and which supports the Altivec-units of a G4-processor.
Direkter Download:
MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.06.30.lha (8,1 MB)
MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.06.30.altivec.lha (8,4 MB)
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07.Jul.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaSYS: New distribution for E-UAE
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench for different Amiga emulators. Additionally only a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least a Workbench-disk of version 3.x are required.
Now there is a new version of the emulator (Mac OS X, Linux, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS). Additionally the website of the AmigaSYS-project was reworked.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jul.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with "pornophonique"
"pornophonique" have nothing to do with the Amiga but in 2007 they published their album "8-bit lagerfeuer" which used sounds from GameBoy and C64 and combined them with guitar and singing.
Titles like "SpaceInvaders", "Lemminge in love" or "Sad Robot" speake for itself.
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06.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Origyn Web Browser 2.1
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser which is now based on the latest version of OWB called "DoDuo".
DoDuo uses the latest version of the rendering-engine Webkit which has a highly improved XHTML-compatibility. Additionally several bugs were fixed.
The AmigaOS-4-port of DoDuo has been not still adapted to AmigaOS in this way like OWB 1.24 because all Amiga specific changes muste be still implemented.
Changes in OWB 2.1:
- AmigaOS4 SharedTimer implementation
- AmigaOS4 intuition Events implementation
- AmigaOS4 WebViewPrivate implementation
- AmigaOS4 OWBLauncher with ReAction tool bar
- Small changes for AmigaOS4 in various parts
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Nintendo emulator FCEU 1.3
Kelly Samel has published a new version of his MorphOS-port of FCE Ultra which is an emulator of the Nintendo Entertainment Systems (NES) (screenshot).
New in version 1.3:
- Fixed MUI colors to work with most configs
- Shortened the commodity description line
- Clones Ambient resolution in full screen + Overlay mode
- Audio channels allocated only while emulation is running
- Added compact gui mode
- Added BG pattern toggle
- Added video sync option
- Borders filled black in fullscreen mode
- Cleaner sound channel termination
- Alternate gfx set by Christophe Delorme added in archive
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: GenesisPlus 1.4
GenesisPlus is an emulator of the Sega game console MegaDrive (Genesis) and in version 1.4 it now also runs under MorphOS 2.0.
Changes:
- FullScreen + Overlay mode clones the Ambient resolution
- Fixed MUI colors to work with most configs
- Added video sync option (fix screen tear on some systems)
- Added compact gui mode
- Option to remove background patterns
- Improvements to the spacing and resizing of gui elements
- Audio channels are allocated only while emulation is running
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Lucy 2.0
In version 2.0 the transparency patch Lucy can now ignore front and toolbar windows and windows just by their window title.
Additionally the documentation has been reworked and explains now which possibilities Lucy offers under MorphOS 2.0.
Download: Lucy.lha (25 KB)
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06.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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PCMCIA drivers: prism2.device and etherlink3.device
Beta versions of prism2.device and etherlink3.device (a replacement for 3c589.device) that support PCMCIA cards under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS have been released by Neil Cafferkey. The author thanks Chris McGonagle for testing several versions of the AmigaOS 4 drivers on a PPC-equipped A1200 as he does not own such hardware himself.
Be sure to install the provided 68k pccard.library in LIBS:. Further information about installation, compatible cards and contact details can be found in the older prism2 and 3c589 archives on Aminet.
Download:
pcmcia_drivers.lha (86 KB) (snx)
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06.Jul.2008
Martin Merz (ANF)
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New Masonicons
Martin "Mason" Merz has published new and reworked icons in AmigaOS 4-format. If you want to support Merz you can send his son Max something from his Amazon wish list.
The new pictograms:
- AmiTransformatorMI - an icon and drawer set for Amitransformator
- CubicIDEMI - an icon and drawer set for CubicIDE
- DevMI (UPDATE) - an update of the basic default icons set for Developers
- SashimiMI - an icon set (on/off) for Sashimi
- DefIconsMI (UPDATE) - a collection of new default icons
- DiavoloMI - an icon and drawer set for Diavolo Backup
- Disks&FoldersMI (UPDATE) - a update of the disks and folders archive
- DrawersMI - a collection of drawer icons
- MegaDMI - an icon and drawer set for MegaD
- MySpellcheckerMI - an icon for MySpellchecker
- ImageFXMI - a full icon and drawer set for ImageFX
- PhotogenicsMI - an icon and drawer set for Photogenics
- ProperCropperMI - a icon and drawer set for ProperCropper
- TVPaintMI - a full icon and drawer set for TVPaint
- EOMI - an icon and drawer set for Everyday Organiser
- MGEdMI - an icon and drawer set for MicroGoldEd
- XBaseMI - an icon and drawer set for XBase
- TubexxMI - a full icon set with images for Tubexx
- MuchMoreMI - an icon and drawer set for MuchMore
- AmiDynDNSMI - an icon and drawer set for AmiDynDNS
- AmRSSMI - a full icon set with images for AmRSS
- WetMI - an icon and drawer set for Wet
Hint: Usually the pictograms partly are not in AmigaOS - but in PNG-format. Therefore it is recommended to install the PNG-plugins. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jul.2008
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Programming: AmiBlitz³ 3.1
After a long time of development and tests today the final release of version 3.1 of the Basic developing environment AmiBlitz³ was published. The archive runs out-of-the-box and can be downloaded uner the title link.
Additional to the documentation several source code examples are included. If you have questions or or suggestions you can use the forum under amiforce.de.
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05.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Metacompiler: PortablE r2
Christopher Handley's metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E to other ones. Through this long E-programs are supposed to be converted into forms which can be used by more platforms than before.
Version r2 of the program has been written in E and compiles itself. It works under AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS.
Changes:
- Programs can now be compiled on an OS4 machine, thanks to support for GCC v4 & NewLib
- Programs can now be run from Workbench, and "wbmessage" is supported
- Shell return codes are now support, by returning a value from main()
- Added a Run Time Type Information (RTTI) system for classes
- Fixed several bugs, including an OS4-specific one
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05.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS 2.0: Help Desk, compatibility list, screenshots
Under the title link the MorphOS developing team has established a Help Desk which replies frequently asked questions.
In the forum of MorphZone users started threads to software-compatibilities and further screenshots. The last mentioned one includes also a detailed pictorial documentation published by the MorphOS-team-member Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter.
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03.Jul.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 73 (July/August 2008)
Press release: The Amiga Future 73 (July/August 2008) has been released. This means that all subscriptions, pre-orders and dealer supplies have been shipped. Now it's out of our hands and up to the postal service when the magazine actually gets to you.
In this issue you'll find recent reviews of OWB, MySpellChecker, Sputnik, Deneb and lots more. Needless to say the specials like Game Endings or a report about Jagged Alliance are also in this issue. Also in the magazine, we have interviews with the makers of NatAmi and Thilo Köhler.
You can find a more detailed description of the full content on our website.
As always on the Amiga Future cover CD you can find lots of PD software and some full versions like Hoi, Clockwiser and Real3D.
Amiga Future is available as a German and English print magazine directly from the editorial office and also through some Amiga dealers. Amiga Future is also available as a single issue or by subscription, each with or without a cover CD.
We ask all interested users to order this issue as soon as possible because we print only a few magazines additional to the subscriptions and pre-orders.
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03.Jul.2008
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WHDLoad: New packages until 03.07.2008
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos to your harddrive which were originally meant only for use with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been updated, improved or added since our last message:
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03.Jul.2008
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: AppendDate 1.3
AppendDate by Grzegorz Kraszewski is a CLI tool for inserting a date into file and directory names. Version 1.3 can insert the date not only at the end of file, but before the original name as well.
It has also smart name extension detection mode, where the date is inserted right before the extension. A serious bug has been also fixed, causing program crash when month or weekday names were used in the date template (snx)
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02.Jul.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS 2.0: Transparency-patch Lucy
The new transparency functions in MorphOS 2.0 cannot be set for all windows but must be started by the applications. The patch "Lucy" written by Matthias "UltraGelb" Böcker uses this function to make currently inactive and/or unfocussed windows translucent. Lucy requires MorphOS 2.0 and enabled 3D Layers.
Lucy.lha (22 KB)
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02.Jul.2008
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Information, tools and screenshots about MorphOS 2.0
If you cannot test MorphOS 2.0 at Youtube you can find a Video which demonstrates the operating system. Martin "Senex" Heine has published some screenshots at Photobucket.
Michal "Kiero" Wozniak has published a tool called Scube (159 KB) which demonstrates the new 3D-functions of MorphOS.
MorphOS 2.0 has still some bugs:
- There are not any working audio driver for Efika motherboards
- SCSI-devices are not always recognized correctly
- There are some problems with certain Pegasos-/Radeon-combinations (e.g. a Pegasos 2/G3 with Radeon 9000 Pro)
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01.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Arena: AmigaInsider #4 / Enemy - Tempest of Violence
At Amiga Arena additional to the action-adventure "Enemy - Tempest of Violence" you can also download the fourth and last issue of the PDF-magazine AmigaInsider.
If should anyone have high-resolution versions of AmigaInsider #3 and #4 then please contact Amiga Arena.
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01.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Tales of Tamar: Homepage nominated for German "Phantastik"-award
The website of the massive-multiplayer-PBEM-game Tales of Tamar was nominated for the German "Phantastik"-award 2008. The prize-giving will take place on 18th October.
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01.Jul.2008
David Brunet (ANF)
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New article on Obligement-website
In the last two months several articles were added to the website of the French AmigaOS- and MorphOS-magazine called Obligement. Additional to the the texts listed down below on Obligement there are the issues 75-77 of the former French magazine "Amiga News".
- Amiga and MorphOS news of may/june 2008.
- Interview with RJ Mical (september 1994).
- Self-interview of Georges Fornay.
- Review of Visual Boy Advance.
- Review of Wazp3D.
- Review of Word Me Up XXL.
- Review of Agony.
- Review of Aladdin.
- Review of Alien Breed Tower Assault.
- Review of Apidya.
- Review of Atomic Robo-Kid.
- Review of Battle Squadron.
- Review of BC Kid.
- Review of Blood Money.
- Review of Brian The Lion.
- Review of Carcharodon.
- Review of Chaos Engine.
- Review of Deliverance.
- Review of Denaris.
- Review of Disposable Hero.
- Review of Dominator.
- Review of Dragon Breed.
- Hardware : AAA.
- Hardware : Hombre.
- Tutorial : how to listen webradios on Amiga.
- File : history of WarpOS.
- File : history of the Amiga - year 1994 (update).
- File : memories (update).
- Point of view : for or against an Open Source AmigaOS ?
- Quizz about Dune 2.
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01.Jul.2008
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File-Manager: Filemaster 3.1 beta 10
Filemaster is a file-manager which is configurable and based on BGUI. There is a free keyfile on Aminet.
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01.Jul.2008
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Book: Reworked issue of "On the Edge" in progress
Currently Brian Bagnall reworks his Commodore biographie On the Edge. The successor will be called "The Commodore Story: A Company on the Edge" and probably will be available from October on.
The second issue includes some additional interviews with Commodore founder Jack Tramiel as well as with former Commodore marketing manager Kit Spencer, Chip-Designer Bill Mensch and Commodore co-founder Manfred Knapp.
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01.Jul.2008
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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Amiga Inc. vs. Hyperion: Conference date
The court hast set the date for the conference date of the so called "Joint Status Report & Discovery Plan" for the 30th of July.
There will be a direct talk between the disputing parties.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Demo scene: 2 Intros and 6 music tracks by Up Rough Soundsystem
Up Rough Soundsystem has published with Anniversary and Less is Less - Up Rough is More two new intros as well as the following music tracks:
Metaformer a Chip-MOD by Qwan
Urban Shuffle Remix a MOD by Qwan
Waste-Land a MOD by Goto80
Up Garage Treat Mix a MOD by Mortimer Twang
Steal da Wheelz Riddim an XM by Spot
Get the L out of Brooklyn a MOD by Syphus
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01.Jul.2008
Amiga.org (website)
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USB stack: Poseidon 4.1 for Subway, Highway, Algor and Deneb
A new update of Chris Hodges' USB stack Poseidon is available; it can be downloaded using Trident online update or from the title link.
Starting from version 4.0, Poseidon is no longer keyfile bound - it is only
licenced to E3B hardware (and MorphOS). You cannot upgrade Poseidon to version 4.x for using it with the Spider, Amithlon or Thylacine, so please don't attempt to do so, the author will not provide the legacy archives for downgrading.
Users of E3B hardware can upgrade for free to this latest version. This includes Subway, Highway, Algor and Deneb users, no matter if they are using an old Poseidon 2.x or 3.x release. No keyfile is required.
If you want to support the author, please consider donating an item from his Amazon wishlist.
Changes:
Version 4.1:
- Maintenance release
- Fixes in config handling and change detection
- Fixes in PTP class, USB Audio and Mass Storage
- Ethernet drivers now are ready for transmission before S2_ONLINE
- HID class now supports AmigaOS 4 input events for better compatibility
Version 4.0:
- Support for Realtime ISO transfers
- Support for USB Audio (Streaming / Soundcards)
- Better semaphore handling
- Support for 3D Space Navigator in HID Class
- USB Power Sockets supported by shell tool
- Sonix Webcam shell tool and VHI driver with RT ISO support
- Support for the Deneb USB 2.0 board
- Several bugfixes and enhancements
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01.Jul.2008
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MorphOS 2.0 for Pegasos and Efika published
Press release: The MorphOS development is proud to announce the public release of the much anticipated version 2.0 of MorphOS. For an overview of the included new features and updates, please read our release notes. A description of the hardware requirements and installation procedures can be found here. Please check the web page for further updates.
By clicking on any of the links above, you can download a time-limited, yet full-featured version of MorphOS 2.0. In order to bypass the time limit and order a keyfile, please use the included registration software which is to be found in the Tools drawer.
Please note that a personal MorphOS 2.0 key is available at 111,11 EUR as an introductory offer. On Tuesday, the 15th of July, the price will go up to 150 EUR.
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