23.Sep.2007
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AmigaOS 4: AmiFTP 1.900
The Swedish dealer Guru Meditation has succeeded to obtain the sources to the Reaction-based FTP client AmiFTP (screenshot) from the original author Magnus Lilja. The program will continue to be distributed as freeware, Joachim Birging has assumed further development. Changes in version 1.900:
- Ported AmiFTP to OS4 by Joachim Birging
- Added AmiDock support. Use the new tooltype DOCKY to enable it
- Also changed prefs to use application.library instead of the old IFF
format. The old format can still be imported from the settings menu
- Small changes to the GUI to reflect ReAction changes made in OS4. This
is an old ClassAct program, remember.
- Changed the old images in the SpeedBar to use Mason's AISS images instead.
- Removed all ReqTools.library references and changed them to either ASL
or ReActions Requester class.
- Added support for AmiUpdate.
- Fixed the fuelgauge in the transfer window.
- Added "Save last dir visited" checkbox to the site edit window. AmiFTP can now save the last dir you were in.
- Added Save prefs silently option to main prefs.
- Removed the buttons at the bottom of the window. Since SpeedBar can be
text-only now you can configure AmiFTP to use text-only buttons at the top
instead.
- Replace string + button with GetFile/GetFont where appropriate.
- Added mouse wheel support in main window and site list.
Direct download: AmiFTP-1.900-OS4.lha (172 KB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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23.Sep.2007
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Status information
In the meantime, since the most diverse speculations on the whereabouts of the back2roots.org main archive have spread in the Amiga and emulation community, which is well-versed in rumors, here is a brief status update:
The BTTR server was never disconnected, but ran technically unattended for the last two years (more precisely, since the summer of 2005). Since everything is automated except for updates, this was initially not a problem either.
Surely, everyone has noticed that we suffered under massive disk space bottlenecks and our update frequency became ever sparser. Then, through appeals for donations, we have tried to afford financing our further growth (and we still have a lot up our sleeves) with the help of the community.
A considerable amount of donations came together, too, so that for now, nothing stands in the way of the project's future. But now, a complete disruption of the hard disk storage unit came by, despite all the stability of the automation in the absence of the programmer Ralf Steines (hippie2000) from the Net. In the process, important parts of the BTTR engine were overwritten with empty files. Surely, everyone has seen the result...
Anyway, Ralf is back, the core of the team is reunited, and right now, we are working on the reconstruction of the server which is located at the University of Trondheim, to make possible the next growth of the project.
To all those who have donated until now: Count on it that everything arrived and will now be used (or was already used) for the specified purpose. All others are still welcome to participate. You can find details on back2roots.org.
In the next weeks, we are reconstructing everything, reinstalling the machines, configuring everything, in order to be available to you soon in old glory again. Afterwards, it goes on with new updates.
Till then, the page is available symbolically with limited functionality, so that everyone can see that we are back, so please, a little patience still.
Best regards,
Your back2roots.org team (snx) (Translation: cad)
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22.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky 1.8b6 (beta)
Jabberwocky is an MUI-based Instant-Messaging-Client for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS which is able to access different messaging-networks (e.g. AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) with the help of so called server modules. Changes since version 1.7:
- Fixed a crash that occurred when a "topic" was entered in the conference
window before joining a converence.
- Account window "connect" & "register" buttons are now disabled when
Jabberwocky is connected.
- Changed menus to disable Roster menu and roster contextmenu when
Jabberwocky is not connected. Some menuitems are disabled if there
is an empty roster when Jabberwocky connects.
- Fixed a crash in network discovery function that resulted from
attempting to visit a jabber server in the agents window with
Jabberwocky not yet connected to a Jabber server.
- Added loading and saving of codeset prefs and activated existing
"Charset" GUI elements in prefs.
- Merged in code diffs for charset conversion in chat windows.
Charset conversion is untested at this point.
- Fixed long standing bug in prefs loading of an event command with quotes
and the quotes appear as they should instead of escaped XML.
- Added some serial debugging that can be activated when a "Debug" version
of Jabberwocky is compiled.
- Added functions to obtain external IPA address from Jabberwocky homepage
for file transfers through a Router.
- Added prefs item to activate the external IP address retrieval.
- Updated Iksemel library to latest available version.
- Added "usedclasses" identifier and array so that only the external classes
actually used by Jabberwocky will be listed in the MUI preferences. This
only works for v20+ MUI and will be ignored by older MUI versions.
- Updated locale catalogs and added Swedish catalog.
- Localize main window status messages.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.4.4
The WinUAE-team has published a new version of the well-known Amiga emulator for Windows. Changes since the last release:
New features:
- major directory filesystem emulation update:
- removable drive automounting on the fly (USB memory, USB HD, memory
cards, any removable drive that mounts as a drive letter in Windows)
- drag'n'drop directory/archive automount
- more missing filesystem packets supported (including ACTION_EXAMINE_ALL)
- major "Add Harddrive" uaehf.device update:
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- removable drives (real harddrives, x-in-one memory card readers, zip drives, etc..) supported on the fly
- configured drive but no media or [USB] drive not connected when emulation was started: automounted when inserted (no RDB automount yet)
- empty drives listed in "Add Harddrive" dialog.
- X-Power Professional v1.3 and Nordic Power v1.5 support
- Pro-Wizard module ripper updated to v1.62
- hq2x filter added.
- Added two basic A4000 quickstart configurations.
- More accurate CD32/CDTV end of audio track detection.
- Current configuration name added to window title.
Bugs fixed:
- Windows 2000: "Add Harddrive" was always disabled.
- "Add Harddrive" HD controller selection was missing.
- Better compatibility with OS 3.1 and older HDToolbox versions.
- CD32 statefile support works again.
- Paths handling updates (yet again..)
- Disappearing mouse pointer in fullscreen modes when GUI was active.
- bsdsocket emulation crashing or freezing when emulation was reset.
- directory filesystem file/directory deletion failing and Windows
recycle bin support enabled returned wrong error codes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
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IRC-Klient: WookieChat 2.7 beta 13
James "jahc" Carroll has published another beta version of his MUI-based IRC-client Wookiechat. Have a look at the Changelog for the latest changes. Wookiechat is available for all Amiga systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
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MorphOS: Update of Filetype package for Ambient
Mario Kuban has published an update of his filetype collection for newer Ambient versions. The install-script was rewritten and additionally there is a new filetype for "FileTypesPath".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
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Photos and news from Pianeta Amiga
This weekend in Empoli (Italy) the "Pianeta Amiga" takes place. ACube (Sam440ep), Hyperion (OS4) and other companies take part. Meanwhile first photos and news from the event are available:
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmate is currently porting the P2P-client Bourriquet which is based on eMule to AmigaOS 4 (screenshots: 1, 2).
At lightelements.com the first photos can be looked at. Additional to the PPC-motherboard Sam440ep, which is sold to customers for the first time, empty packages of the soon coming up operating system "AmigaOS 4"-classic version were shown at the event for preadvertising reasons. In this way ACube probably tries to reveal that the distribution of the classic version certainly will come.
If there will be further messages they will be announced as soon as possible.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Lorraine Design: Game Icons Vol. 1
With Game Icons Vol. 1 Bojan Milovic has published fifty pictograms for diverse games in DualPNG-format (screenshot). Additionally there are also four background pictures.
AmigaOS 4 as well as AmigaOS with AfA-extension are required. Besides this at the Lorraine Design-homepage a wallpaper-section was created.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Sep.2007
AN-Team
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amiga-news is looking for support!
Especially for translations the team of amiga-news is looking for support.
- Translators for daily translation of news from German to English. Good English knowledges are required, especially native speakers are welcome, and you should be able to become acquainted with an intuitive online editorial system.
If you are interested please write an email to Nico Barbat.
Note: Wolfgang Krause who has translated for several years has left the team of amiga-news.de because of temporal reasons. We would like to thank him wish him all the best for his future! (nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Sep.2007
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First report of experiences of new USB-card from E3B
Under the title link a user gives a first impression of a prototype of the new USB-controller from E3. The Zorro 3-card is supposed to replace the well-known Highway, can now handle DMA- and PIO-modi and is called "Deneb".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Sep.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2007 - Update
According to the organizers the AmiWest will take place a day later in Sacramento, California because of a misunderstanding of the Hotel. The AmiWest now will take place on Sunday 21. October.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Sep.2007
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Virtual Grand Prix 2 HD Barcelona track 1.0
With his ongoing series of updates for Paolo Cattani's Virtual Grand Prix 2 Jason Frabotta provides now the version 1.0 of the racing track "Barcelona" with support for high, standard- and low resolution. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Sep.2007
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File manager: Filemaster 3.1 Beta 7
Filemaster is a file manager with configureable BGUI based user interface and supports up to eight directory windows. A free keyfile is availabale at the Aminet. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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19.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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IRC client: WookieChat 2.7 Beta 12
James "jahc" Carroll providesa new beta version of his MUI basedIRC client Wookiechat. The last changes are listed at the changelog. Wookiechat is available for all Amiga systems. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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19.Sep.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Gallery Update
Press release The Amiga Future Gallery has been updated considerably the last days. There is a new wallpaper section where users can put their own wallpapers online and make them available to others.
The games screenshots section is new aswell. We will publish every screenshot we have in this gallery. The first 1000 are already online.
Furthermore there are the already known sections for the reader's workbenches and computers where the users can post screenshots and photos.
Moreover we are looking for other names for this two sections. The ones currently used don't really sound well.
Subscribers of the Amiga Future are able to download colour CD covers for printing.
The English edition of the Amiga Future 67 has been sold out. But there are enough copies of issue 68.
Also we ask all users especially the ones getting the English edition to extend their subscriptions as soon as possible or letting us know if they aren't interested anymore. This would ease the planning of the next issue of the Amiga Future heavily. (snx)
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18.Sep.2007
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Star Fighter - D'Yammen's Reign: Updates available
Andy "DrewFX" Hawkins who recently made available his formerly commercial space opera "Star Fighter: D'Yammen's Reign" has now published a lha-version of the CD.
Additionally there are two updates: The first one fixes bugs in the Starfighter missions, the second one contains several versions of the Starfighter launcher.
Star.lha
Documentation for both updates
Patch 1: Missions
Patch 2: Launcher
The author answers questions in a thread on amiga.org. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Sep.2007
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Commodore Show in Kerkrade (Netherlands)
Ron van Schaik writes: This time we organize a C= Show especially for the Amiga and Commodore fans and users in the very south part of Holland, Kerkrade. Also very easy to reach for Belgian and German fans from that region. This extra show will be on saturday september 22th from 10:00 till 16:00 at Gemeenschapshuis Heilust, Kerkrade, Limburg (Holland). Entrance is as usually for free! (snx)
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17.Sep.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.09.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 21K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
links-mos.lha comm/www 1.1M MOS Links text-only WWW browser
AMOSlist-1998-08.lha dev/amos 139K GEN AMOS-list archives for August 1998
SANE.lha dev/basic 42K OS3 80bit SANE & numeric functions for Blitz
wget-111-beta1-bin.lha dev/gg 665K OS3 Wget ixemul ixnet geekgadgets
pfssalv2.lha disk/salv 30K OS3 Save files from damaged PFS2/3 partition
GSGui.lha gfx/conv 99K GEN GUI for Ghostscript8 in MUI
st2iff-mos.lha gfx/conv 23K MOS Converts ST NEOchrome/DEGAS -> IFF ILBM
fxScanSP.lha gfx/edit 6K GEN fxSCAN spanish catalog v4.0
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 348K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 318K OS3 MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
ht14.lha mus/edit 926K OS4 Hively Tracker,AHX based chiptune tracke
ht14_m68k.lha mus/edit 1.1M OS3 Hively Tracker,AHX based chiptune tracke
IconBeFast.lha util/boot 164K OS3 patch for faster icons & color mapping
MemOptimizer.lha util/boot 138K OS3 Memory defrag + GUI & optional Patches
Assign-MorphOS.lha util/cli 20K MOS Unofficial assign command
akGIF-dt.lha util/dtype 87K VAR akGIF-dt (GIF, 68000-060/MOS)
EireMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Ireland country for MorphOS
IslandMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Iceland country for MorphOS
LetzebuergMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Luxembourg country for MorphOS
SanMarinoMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN San Marino country for MorphOS
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Sep.2007
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os4depot.net: Upload until 16.09.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
jukebox.lha aud/mis 114kb Old jukebox style GUI for external mus/v
dg_midi_player.lha aud/pla 54kb Simple MIDI player
tunehvl_plug.lha aud/pla 56kb HivelyTracker (HVL) / AHX plugin for Tun
tunetta_plug.lha aud/pla 47kb TTA Plugin for TuneNet
tunewma_plug.lha aud/pla 107kb WMA Plugin for TuneNet.
compilergui.lha dev/uti 109kb GUI for compilers
crapgamesvol4.lha gam/mis 2Mb Crap Games Vol.4 (Black Star, PentagoSDL
png_icon_editor.lha gra/edi 7Mb A Tool for Manipulating PNG Images and I
findmore.lha uti/fil 70kb File searching tool
virtualdrawer.lha uti/fil 81kb Create virtual drawers
lcdtest.lha uti/har 177kb LCD monitor test pattern generator
showmsg.lha uti/she 44kb A requester to show messages from script
fuelgauge.lha uti/wor 77kb Volume gauges underneath hard drive icon
screenmonitor.lha uti/wor 76kb Public screen monitoring utility
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Sep.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 16.09.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
validation_src.zip uti/mis 18kb afs_util - disk validator partial source
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Sep.2007
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IRC-Klient: WookieChat 2.7 Beta 11
James "jahc" Carroll provides a new beta-version of his MUI-based IRC-client Wookiechat. The last changes are here . Wookiechat is available for all Amiga-Systems. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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17.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hyperion are representive on the Pianeta Amiga
The organizer of the Pianeta Amiga (22. and 23. September, Italy) notify, that Evert Carton from Hyperion join the event. Carton will be there on the stand of ACube Systems from Saturday afternoon. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Sep.2007
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Podcast Receiver: AmiPodder 1.7
AmiPodder by Robert Williams is an ARexx program that makes possible receiving so-called podcasts. In addition to MUI, including the classes NList, NListTree and TheBar, RxMUI is required, too.
In version 1.7, podcasts that demand authentication can be played back as well. In addition, the Amplifier program is supported for playback. The remaining improvements concern better podcast feed compatibility as well as checking the required libraries and MUI classes, in addition to bugfixes. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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16.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 9
"Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English podcast prepared by Rich Lawrence and Sean Fitzgerald, where Amiga users and invited guests discuss current events in the Amiga scene.
Topics of the ninth issue, which will be broadcast from AmigaWorld Radio tomorrow afternoon at 17:00 (German time [CET], rerun at 19:00):
- Fran Dramis Joins Amiga Advisory Board
- Amiga Inc. Launches Amiga Classic PC Games
- X-Amiga: Linux based EUAE Kit
- MUIbase ported to AROS
- QNX Goes Open Source
- Pagestream back on track
- New version of SMart FileSyetem Released
- AISS V4 - Amiga Image Storage System
- Obligement: New Articles & Amiga Future 68
- New ffmpegGUI v1.0 Just released! Now includes VCD/DVD presets!
- MiniMig Pics at Amiga Forever
- Hombre v0.5
- Updates from Bill on his movie Oil Change
- Call for guests and challenges go out!
This time, Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX) will be present as guest.
Older episodes of ART can be found in Aminet. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: Neue Catweasel Treiber, Commodore Scene Award
Press release: The most important change of the recent release of the Win32 drivers for the Catweasel are visible in the imagetool, which now supports many new disk formats and has new graphical functions. After a long wait, the Apple floppy formats of older Macintosh computers (400KByte and 800KByte per disk) and the Apple IIe series are now supported.
Two more formats of Commodore classics can now be read, but this requires special disk drives with 100tpi. Regular floppy drives have a track spacing of 96tpi, so there will be read errors on most of the tracks of Commodore 8050 or SFD1001 disks.
As always, the new drivers are free, and they still contain the routines required for operation with the oldest Catweasel models. We're asking our customers who are still using these controllers to carefully test these drivers with the old hardware, as we are only testing with the latest PCI models of the controller. Download: CWMK42400.zip (432 KByte).
Commodore Scene Lifetime Achievement Award goes to individual Computers
Earlier this week, we learned from the newsletter of the Digitale Kultur e.V. that our product Retro Replay has been voted to be the "best 3rd party hardware" by the members of the Commodore scene. Our sincere thanks are given to all Commodore Sceners. Special thanks goes to the scene group Cyberpunx, whose software surely made a large part of the wide acceptance of our product. The Catweasel was nominated as "Best Current SID Usage", but it had to stand back behind the synthesizer SidStation. You can find more results of the awards on the pages of Digitale Kultur.
individual Computers
Roermonder Str 228
52072 Aachen (cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Sep.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.3 (update)
OpenTTD is an open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90's with many enhancements - a network mode, individual graphic sets and adaptations to over two dozen languages, among other things.
Compared with the "release candidates" released so far, numerous minor bugs were fixed in the newest version. OpenTTD requires files of the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe game.
Update: (16:51, 16.09.07, snx)
Under torrent.openttd.org, the archive is now available via BitTorrent as well. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Sep.2007
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MorphOS: New Ambient nightly build
For the first time since April 1, a nightly build of the MorphOS desktop Ambient was made available again, under the title link. You can gather the changes that have been carried out since that time from the changelog.
The nightly builds are about compilations of the current development status without documentation and support. By nature, it is not guaranteed that all implemented functions work error-free. Accordingly, use the nightly builds at your own risk, a backup of your present Ambient installation is strongly recommended. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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15.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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CubicIDE/microgolded service pack 10
Dietmar Eilert makes another update for his developer environment CubicIDE and the text editor microgolded available.
- support for AISS4 (AISS ©2006-2007 Martin "Mason" Merz)
- bugfix: error output of ccselect and sdk.plugin broken; fixed
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Sep.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Resistance: Overtake of Hollywood-User-Homepage
From now on the official homepage for users of the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood will be maintained by the Amiga-Resistance-Team.
Additional to workshops, program examples and source codes around Andreas Falkenhahn's multimedia program the site offers a forum, too.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview for WinUAE 1.4.4
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga-emulator WinUAE give a preview for the forthcoming version
and its improvements. WinUAE 1.4.4 will be published in one or two weeks and will mainly contain improvements regarding the drive support.
Additionally the authors look for not yet by WinUAE emulated "Freezer Cartridges" or ROM-images of these modules just like the following (in brackets you find already emulated versions):
- X-Power Professional 500 (v1.2/X-Copy v3.2, v1.3/X-Copy v3.4)
- Nordic Power (v1.5, v2.0)
- Bus Stop
- Pro Access
- Action Cartridge Super IV Pro loader disks/disk images. (v1.3 german)
- Action Replay (v1.00, v1.50, v2.05, v2.12, v2.14, v3.09, v3.17)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2007
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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Team AROS: Graphic artist for website wanted
For the Team AROS-website a graphic artist is wanted who will recreate this site. Persons who are interested in this task please write an eMail to Randy Vice under damocles at thenostromo dot com.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Sep.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmiKit: Results of the wallpaper competition
Under the title link the winners of the wallpaper vote for AmiKit were announced. The three best voted Workbench background pictures will be included as official wallpapers from the next version onwards of this AmigaOS-distribution for WinUAE-users. The artists will be rewarded with prizes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Sep.2007
(ANF)
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Games Design: Ernest W. Adams - "The No Twinkie Database!"
In his series of articles "Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!" Ernest W. Adams shows common design errors of present games and gives better alternatives. These useful tips are neatly arranged in the "The No Twinkie Database!" for someone's own games design. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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13.Sep.2007
Melax (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar - Bokks of Legends
Pressemitteilung: Dear friens of the intensive and crazy role playing game, dear players and promotersof Tales of Tamar.
Since several centuries the big library of Arbanor was told to be forgotten in the vastness of Tamar. Diligent monks now began to create a new library in a painful detail work.
We are a little proud to announce that our ToT-Wiki is online. We at Tales of Tamar are writing a story covering 600 years so far. As the players are becoming a part of Tamar's history, our ToT-Wiki helps to keep tales of old empires, former emperors, unforgotten battles, myths and sagas from all over the world.
Discover the unbelievable richness der of the world of Tamar and become your own legend in den annals...
Access to the new library: tamar.net/wiki
Regards
Your ToT team (cg) (Translation: tz)
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12.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Game hints and cheats: major update at ollivision.de
At ollivision.de there is a vast collection of cheats, hints and full solutions for many Amiga games.
The big update contains solutions for teh following games:
- Adventure 550
- Adventureland
- Bard's Tale II
- Brimstone
- Buck Rogers - Countdown To Doomsday
- Cutthroats
- Damocles
- Dark Queen Of Krynn
- Freddy Pharkas - Frontier Pharmacist
- Ghostbusters II
- Grail
- Hare Raising Havoc
- Hollywood Hi-Jinx
- Hugo's House Of Horrros
- Hugo II- Whodunit?
- Keef The Thief
- King Of Chicago
- Licence To Kill
- Life & Death
- Mask Of The Sun
- Mission Impossible
- New Adventure
- OO-Topos
- Pyramid Of Doom
- Questron
- Rise Of The The Dragon
- Secret Of The Silver Blades
- Shadow Of The Beast III
- Sorcerer Of Claymorgue Castle
- Strange Odyssey
- Sundog
- Sword Of Sodan
- Targhan
- The Quest For The Time-Bird
- The Search From The King
- Themepark Mystery
- Treasures Of The Savage Frontier
- Twilight Zone
- Veil Of Darkness
- Vendetta
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: New and improved plugins for TuneNet
Curtis Holborn provides two new plugins for the audio player TuneNet, which
allow replaying WMA and TTAfiles, also
the HivelyTracker (HVL) plugin has been improved.
WMA plugin
TTA plugin
HVL plugin (cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Sep.2007
amiga.org (website)
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The AROS Show: AROS status update
In his blog "The AROS Show" Paul J. Beel summrizes the latest news regarding the open sourde AmigaOS clone AROS. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Sep.2007
(ANF)
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QNX opens source code of its realtime operatin system
The canadian operating system developer QNX is preparing to release the
source code for its realtime operating system. When used commercially the system will not be available for free, but license fees
have to be paid, QNX is caling this approach "Hybrid Software Model".
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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12.Sep.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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New Amiga Future Page online
Press release: The last weeks we have put much time and money into the Amiga Future homepage. The time has come. Yesterday evening the new page went online.
The new homepage automatically detects the language setting on the user's computer. If set to German it will load the German page and if set to English it will load the English one respectively. Of course registered users have the choice to set the language differently in the page settings.
By the way all registered users should check their settings. Lots of stuff has been added.
The search engines of the whole homepage have been improved. Now it is possible to search every database on every page.
A new gallery has been installed which allows subsections. This makes the gallery containing over 1000 pictures clearly arranged. The new gallery allows to display pictures directly within the forum and the articles.
A new article database has been installed aswell. It is a lot faster than before and displays the articles better.
And finally a new download database has been installed. It is now possible to describe the downloads. We only need someone to help us out with that. :) Now you can add comments to the downloads and report mistakes.
We installed a new lexicon for the news section and forum posts. Nearly everything in the article database can be viewed as a PDF document.
There are lots of more features. You can choose whether you want to see German oder English news. This setting includes the search engines. There will be some more improvements in the next few weeks. We would like to know from you what to change. Because of that we started a poll on the Amiga Future homepage.
Amiga Future looks for help for the editorial office.
We look for (German or English) users having a good knowledge of the Amiga and some free time. If you are interested the please write an email to Andreas@amigafuture.de using the subject "Amiga Future".
We need people for the homepage aswell. We already have a huge download section with full versions on the Amiga Future homepage. Now we look for someone to help us out regularly or once. It is all about the check of some downloads and writing a small description of the program including the requirements.
Additionally, we search for someone to support us in getting new full verions. Especially we need someone to look for the current copyright owners (i.e. Psygnosis) and to ask them for a license for the Amiga Future.
Other sections of the homepage need help aswell. For example we need a user who takes care of the link database. It is about extending the content. Besidess of that we are looking for a PHP programmer to write us some small scripts to ease the work with the homepage.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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11.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Space Opera: StarFighter - D'Yammen's Reign released
Star Fighter: D'Yammen's Reign is a space opera like Wing Commander. The author Andrew Hawkins has uploaded this game on his website for free download which originally was published in 1999.
StarFighter requires 20 MB harddrive memory. Graphic or sound cards are not supported. A review of the game you can find at amigafuture.de. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workshops: Apache-installation, overview of Kickstart-revisions
Matthias "DJBase" Münch has published two new workshops on his website:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga demo scene archive: Further productions added
The Amiga demo scene archive was completed with further productions. In the last months the following demos have been added:
- Herb by Polka brothers (July 1995)
- Greenday by Artwork (April 1995)
- Nameless by Kiero & ubik (August 2007)
- Comadose by Passion (December 1995)
- Flop hidden part by Dcs (June 1997)
- Free your mind by Scoopex (December 1995)
- Dane by Kefrens (May 1993)
- Dolphins dream by Push entertainment (December 2001)
- Cream by Absolute! (April 1994)
- Clairvoyance by Absolute!
- Gathering 93 intro by Lemon (April 1993)
- Chaosland by Virtual dreams (December 1993)
- 18 years by Cream (October 2006)
- 4ko by Polka brothers (December 1994)
- Cool ska cool by Up rough (July 2007)
- Discotto by Nature (July 2007)
- Rapo diablo 5000 by Loonies & ephidrena (July 2007)
- Senzala by Madwizards (April 2007)
- Little dream by Drifters (April 2007)
- Mild fantasy violence by Haujobb (April 2007)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2007
Cloanto (E-Mail)
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Cloanto employed chief editor of Bitplane magazine
Cloanto (Amiga Forever, Personal Paint) has announced that Nicolas Morocutti has been welcome as new member at the Italian Software developers. Morocutti who also is chief editor of the Italian print magazine Bitplane will be responsible for "Amiga-projects and marketing".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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WinUAE: New version of the online help
The online help of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE was revised:
- Chipset: New screen shot
- Adv Chipset: New screen shot and new options
- Rom: New screen shot. HRTMon now integrated with Cartridge ROM
- Display: New screen shot. Vert sync removed
- Index entries for PCMCIA,IDE,SCSI,CD32,CDTV
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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09.Sep.2007
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AISS - Amiga Image Storage System 4.0 (Bugfix)
Martin Merz is making available an update for version 4.0 of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS). AISS is a system for managing toolbar graphics under AmigaOS and MorphOS. The update fixes an error that could occur during a new installation.
Direct download:
Complete package including bugfix: aiss4.lha (2.6 MB)
Update for old v4.0: aiss4fix.lha (21 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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09.Sep.2007
Amiga.org (Web page)
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Event: Update on Pianeta Amiga (Italy)
Since our last report on Pianeta Amiga in Empoli in Italy on September 22 and 23, the following participants and offerings have come along:
- Rebol Technologies, represented by Alessandro Manotti (Rebol Italy) will hold a conference and demonstrate the possibilities of this scripting language at their stand
- AROS will be presented by Paolo Besser in the context of a conference
- The OS4Games.it portal, in cooperation with Lorraine Design, will present the "Games Icon Vol1" package for AmigaOS 4, with 50 icons in Dual-PNG format, and furthermore, the Allegro library with some new games, a new modular emulator for Sega and Nintendo games, as well as a new diskmag called "The Vague"
- The Phoenix team, which unites dozens of AmigaOS 4 developers all around the globe, by its own account, will also attend
- There will be a direct connection via chat and streaming to the AmiCon event, which takes place in Hungary in parallel
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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09.Sep.2007
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MorphOS: Pachi el marciano 1.0a
Pachi el marciano is an SDL platform game, which was inspired by Mathew Smith's games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy (screenshot). The aim is to collect all objects in a level, upon which the door to the next stage opens.
In the meantime, an update to the MorphOS version was made available by Herbert A. Klackl. This solves the freeze problem when alternating to full screen mode on newer PowerSDL versions.
Download: pachi-1.0a-morphos.lha (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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08.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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amigaworld.de: small hardware projects in words and pictures
Matthias Münch introduces under the title link smaller hardware projects with which he enhanced is Amiga over the years:
- NoIDE module: termination of the internal IDE connector in the Amiga 600, Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000
- Lithium battery module: replacement for the internal akkumulator in the Amiga 500+, Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000, Amiga 3000T, Amiga 4000
- Fan power adaptor: adaptor board to connect several different fans
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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08.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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File system: SFS 1.276
Jörg Strohmayer makes a new version of his alternative file system SFS available. Changes since the last release:
- AmigaOS 3.x: fixed a bug formatting SFS\0 partitions
- AmigaOS 3.x: now pretents to be FFS in ACTION_DISK_INFO and ACTION_INFO for SFS\2 partitions as well
SFS 1.275 is available for AmigaOS 3/4. (cg) (Translation: wk)
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08.Sep.2007
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: high resolution raceway (Barcelona) for VGP2
within his updates for Paolo Cattani's Virtual Grand Prix 2 Jason Frabotta now made a high resolution version of the raceway in Barcelona available. Versions in mid and low resolution will follow soon.
Tests could only be done under Mac OS and Windows; next to a capable graphics board it is recommended to possibly reduce the texture quality in the high res version.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Stock exchange program: proBonds 2.38
The stock exchange software proBonds (screenshot) written by Sven Dröge is available in version 2.38. Changes since the last publication:
- fixed several minor bugs
- adaption to changes of the data structure at Yahoo
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2007
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Mind game: ChangeIt 0.3 for all Amiga systems
ChangeIt is a mind game written by Robert 'Phibrizzo' Krajcarz (screenshots: 1, 2) which is available in versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS.
ChangeIt is a clone of the game Bejeweled. The only move you can do is to change two neighboured apples. With this move you must try to arrange three or four apples of the same colour in one line.
In version 0.3 some bugs were fixed. Besides this there are now additional skins.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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NNTP-NZB-client: PullDog 2.0 rc4 / nzbGet 1.0
With Rupert Hausberger's PullDog you can download files from the Usenet. The program is available for AmigaOS 3.x as well as MorphOS. In the latest version two bugs were fixed in XML-parser.
nzbGet is a Shell-program for the same use.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: CDVDFS 1.3
Pavel Fedin's CDVDFS is a file system for CD and DVD media. The formats ISO-9660, RockRidge Interchange Protocol, Macintosh HFS and Microsoft Joliet are supported. The use of special characters which differ from Latin-1 is possible, too.
Changes in version 1.3:
- Now reports correct DOS type for volumes
- Fixed losing a volume under MorphOS if a disk has been removed with some files or directories open
- Fixed some problems with RockRidge volumes on some machines
- Fixed disappearing volume upon disc read failure
- Fixed broken CDDA handling
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2007
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WHDLoad: New packages until 06.09.2007
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos to your harddrive which originally were only meant for use with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models are fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2007
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles at Obligement website
During the last two months the following articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS- and MorphOS magazine Obligement (the interview with Kelly Samel is also available as English translation):
- Amiga and MorphOS news of july/august 2007
- Interview with Kelly Samel (games coder)
- Interview with Jean-Baptiste Garnier (webmaster of Amiga Music Preservation)
- Review of AmiPodder
- Review of rRootage
- More than 30 reviews of classic Amiga games (Alien Breed 2, Global Effect, Maupiti Island, Shadow Of The Beast,...)
- File : History of the Amiga - years 1999 and 2000
- File : the Scoopex group
- File : the protections on Amiga and Atari ST
- File : the Mega Drive emulation
- Hardware : Efika 5200B (update)
- Hardware : BVision
- Hardware : modification of the Escom A1200 floppy drive
- Hardware : stranges USB devices
- Point of view : the public domain
- Tutorial : grab an Amiga Kickstart with GrabKick
- Press revue
- Quizz of july/august 2007
- Special quizz about the Amiga magazines
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: CD-/DVD-burning program AmiDVD 1.37
AmiDVD witten by Jörg Strohmayer is a very simple CD-/DVD-burning program which first creates an image-file in ISO9660-format and then will write this one on a CD or DVD. Changes since the last version:
- Selecting the write speed didn't work with a GSA-H54N and DVD+R,
changed the method to detect if setting the write speed is supported
again.
- Some gadgets in tab 2 were updated even if nothing changed, fixed
Direkter Download: AmiDVD_1.37.lha (43 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 68 published
Press release The German and English issue 68 (September/October 2007) of the Amiga Future has been released. This means that all subscriptions and preorders have been brought to the postal office. Subscriptions to outside Germany have been shipped via airmail.
Besides many articles covering the Amiga there are reviews of AWeb, Shuffle or an interview with the developer of Sputnik as well and much more in this issue. A more detailed description of contents and German and English excerpts can be found at the title link.
On the cover CD there are many full versions again besides lots of PD software: Starbirds, AGDB, Mikro Mortal Tennis, Excellent Card Games 1, Excellent Card Games 2, Excellent Card Games 3, Serious Backgammon, Doktor, Blast Squad (so far unreleased), Robossy, Puzzo Mania, Zerberk, Minerunner, Poweroids, Star Defender, Monster of Terror, Equality, Technoball OCS, Technoball AGA, Tronic.
The Amiga Future is available as a single issue or subscription. You can choose whether you want it with or without a cover CD. The Amiga Future is available directly at the editorial office at the title link or some Amiga dealers.
Dealers interested in offering the Amiga Future to their customers should drop us an e-mail.
We are looking urgently for help regarding the English edition of the Amiga Future. We look more translator having English as their native language with a very good knowledge of German. Furthermore we look for correctors for the English articles.
If you are able and willing to help us then please write an e-mail to andreas@amigafuture.de using the subject "Amiga Future". (snx)
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04.Sep.2007
Amiga Forever Team (ANF)
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Cloanto: Minimig photos / Support announcement
Under the title link Cloanto's Amiga Forever team has published photos of the Minimig board taken by Dennis van Weeren.
They announce to support the Minimig with the products Amiga Forever and Amiga Explorer.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2007
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Jump'n Run: Under Cover
"Under Cover" is a from Flashback inspired Jump'n Run game for classic Amigas. Original based on a in PPaint developed animated film made from 800 single frames, is Under Cover now with help of the construction-kits "Backbone" a real Arcade-game including subsequences. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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03.Sep.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Several reworked german catalogfiles
Hans-Jörg Ottinger provides new or reworked german catalog files for following applications:
- Amigift
- AmiPodder
- AmRSS
- Kulce
- PolyOrganizer
- WookieChat
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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02.Sep.2007
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AmigaOS 4: GuruMeditation looking for beta testers
The Swedish dealer and publisher GuruMeditation is looking for beta testers for an unspecified project. Users who have beta testing experience and have access to at least two hard drives with more than 10 GB of free disk space are wanted. People who have experience with the creation of manuals are also needed.
Interested parties are called upon to get in touch with GuruMeditation via E-Mail. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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02.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Magazine: The Crypt - Issue 50
The 50th issue of the English magazine The Crypt, besides numerous articles on the most diverse subjects, also includes a construction manual for a game port adapter for the Amiga 600, a proposal for an A600-based "DJ Companion Project," as well as B.Walker's blog, in which he explains why he still uses an Amiga. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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02.Sep.2007
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MorphOS: otrMUI 0.13, SimpleView 2.0b
otrMUI 0.13
Thomas Igracki is making available a new version of otrMUI (reported by amiga-news), in which the decoded file can be directly transferred to a movie player.
Link: Homepage
Direct download: otrMUI.lha (44 KB) (Readme)
SimpleView 2.0b
SimpleView by Tom "AmigaHarry" Duin is a minimalist picture viewer, which can now be launched from Ambient as well. The program then opens a requester in which multiple pictures can be selected at the same time.
Link: Homepage
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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02.Sep.2007
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Pianeta Amiga: English web page online
Under the title link, an English page for the upcoming "Pianeta Amiga 2007" is also online since today, besides the Italian one. The event is organized in Empoli in Italy like in previous years on September 22 and 23.
Among the exhibitors are, among others, ACube Systems, who, as a company, not only want to demonstrate the PowerPC motherboard SAM440ep, but also sell it in the course of Pianeta Amiga (reported by amiga-news.de). (snx) (Translation: cad)
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01.Sep.2007
4sceners.de (website)
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CD review: Number Nine by Chris Hülsbeck
On 4Sceners.de was a review of the latest album "Number Nine" by Chris Hülsbeck released under the title link. The report was written by Jürgen 'Bobic' Beck who's known from his participation in back2roots.org and from several articles for the Amiga Plus.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmiKit wallpaper contest: vote
The next version of AmiKit (an AmigaOS distribution for WinUAE users) will offer something for the eyes: Until yesterday had pixel artists time to send exclusive Workbench background images.
The best posts are now available under the title link and the users may now vote or their favorites until September, 10th. The three most voted backgroung images will be delivered as official wallpapers from the next version of AmiKit on, the artists will be awarded with prices.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
RhoSigma, Roland Heyder (ANF)
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MemOptimizer 3.056
MemOptimizer by Roland Heyder defragments the system memory. Changes since the last version:
- smaller optimisations in the AvailMem() patch that now also correctly supports MEMF_LARGEST for the FreeStack though this has to be seen more theoretically as the biggest block already has to be smaller than 4096 bytes to even have a chance to find a bigger block on the stack. In most cases won't the system run with such a lack of memory :-)
- arithmetic overflow removed in StackUsage()
- MEMF_REVERSE usage adjusted, could be refused even if the calling task was allowed when the memory was taken from the FreeStack (makes no sense here as the blocks on the stack aren't in order). From now on will all allowed REVERSE demands directly forwarded the the system's FreeList to secure that these will really come from the high end of the memory list.
- critical situation in ClearStack() corrected, a pointer was still used after the memory it pointed to was already deallocated
- As several people told me does MemOptimizer run without problems under MorphOS, of course only in the UNPATCHed mode as it wouldn't be a good idea to replace the native PPC code of MorphOS by 68k functions.
Direct download: MemOptimizer.lha (138 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
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Repair shop: Amiga Center moved (France)
Jean-Jacques Boulet, French retailer of Amiga spare parts and repairs, moved again. The current address and telefone number can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
Matthias Rustler (ANF)
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AROS: MUIbase ported
MUIbase is a relational, programmable data base for AmigaOS ported by Steffen Gutmann for AROS/i386. The necessary changes were entered into the SVN archive of the MUIbase project on Sourceforge so that an adaption for AROS/PPC can be done as well.
Please have in mind that an up-to-date version of AROS is needed as in the course of the porting several bugs in AROS had to be fixed. Besides that you have to create an assign muibase: otherwise it could lead to crashes of some demo sata bases. Should it happen that the focus gets lost and no new data records can be entered you have to press the Tab key.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
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10 years Distributed Amiga
Last month it was the 10th anniversary of the Distributed.net team "Distributed Amiga". Since their founding by some regular IRC users the project counted several thousands of participants. Current statistics can be found on the team homepage under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.Sep.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: vector paint program MindSpace 0.99a
MindSpace is a paint program to create among other things flowcharts, UML diagrams, mind maps or vector images (screenshot).
For the coming version 1.0 they are still looking for MindSpace diagrams as addendum, the two best ones will be awarded with 25 pounds Sterling each.
Changes for version 0.99a include:
- Import external images (resize and crop)
- Rotate and flip objects
- Choose dimensions of image when exporting .png
- Revamped menus
- Bugfixes
- An attempt at Anti-Aliased Display for registered users
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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31.Aug.2007
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AISS - Amiga Image Storage System 4.0
Martin Merz released version 4.0 of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS). AISS is a system to store, access and maintain toolbar images under AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Features of AISS 4.0:
- 1788 toolbar images and animations
- 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit alpha channel
- printable PDF documentation
Further information about AISS is available on AISS' homepage aswell as the AISS newsletter.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Aug.2007
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.3 Release Candidate 3
OpenTTD is an open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the 90ies which
has many extensions: A network modus, individual graphic sets and translations to many languages. But files of the
original version are required. You can read the last changes in the
changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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File System: SFS 1.275
The latest version of the alternative file system SFS now supports files larger than four GB under AmigaOS 3 as well. The changes in detail:
- Replaced mutexes by semaphores again
- Built for AmigaOS 3.x/m68k incl. 'SFS/2' support.
To use 'SFS/2' partitions on AmigaOS 3.x you have to install SmartFileSystem into the RDB with DOSType 'SFS/2' (0x53465302), i.e. to use both 'SFS\0' and 'SFS\2' partitions you have to install the same SmartFileSystem binary 2 times into the RDB.
If booting from 'SFS\2' partitions isn't required you can load SmartFileSystem as kickstart module using tools like LoadResident, LoadModule, etc. instead of storing it twice in the RDB.
SFS 1.275 is available for AmigaOS 3/4. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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30.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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Instant-Messenging: AIM-/ICQ-Plugin for Epistula
For registered users of the instant messenger Epistula an AIM-/ICQ plugin is again available. Actually a file transfer function is being implemented. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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29.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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ImageFX Tutorial: The Amazing Cecilia CD, zweite Auflage
For US$ 25 (incl. shipping to Europe) "The Amazing Cecilia CD" offers many tutorials and example projects for the image processor ImageFX. A table of content of the CD as welle as a list of changes regarding the first issue is available at the title link. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Point'n Click Adventures: ScummVM 0.10.0r2
Uwe Ryssel provides a new AmigaOS 3 version of ScummVM. ScummVM is an interpreter for several graphic adventures. The most prominent games for this engine are Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 & 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gobliiins, Erben der Erde, The Feeble Files and The Legend of Kyrandia. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
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File transfer: Hombre 0.5
Hombre is a collection of PD tools which aims at file tranfer especially between lower spec Amigas - for example a vanilla A500 - a Windows PC. The programs support different transfer methods (Floppydisk, RS232 or parallel cable connections).
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
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Amiga Inc.: Fran Dramis joins the advisory board
Amiga Inc. announces the obligation of the former BellSouth manager Fran Dramis to Amiga Inc.'s Advisory Board. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Article database update
Press release The article database of the Amiga Future homepage has seen a comprehensive update. By now you can read over 2000 articles online in the article database. Roughly 150 of these are in English language.
The German FAQ has been included in the article database as well. The FAQ contains more than 200 submissions.
We are looking for German and English articles to extend the article database even more. There were so many websites offering reviews and workshops. Lots of them have disappeared. We would like to republish them.
Have you made a page which isn't online anymore or have you written articles yourself? Then please contact the editorial office of the Amiga Future.
In the meanwhile the preview of the Amiga Future issue 68 went online. This issue is going to be released on 5th September as a German and English edition. We ask all users interested to order as soon as possible.
Dealers wanting to offer this mag to their customers should contact the editorial office of the Amiga Future as soon as possible. (snx)
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28.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 8
"Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English Podcast created by Rich Lawrence and Sean Fitzgerald where Amiga users and guests discuss the current events of the Amiga scene.
These are the topics of the eighth issue which will be broadcasted at 8:00 pm (replay at 10:00 pm) over AmigaWorld Radio:
- OS4 Classic?
- AmiWest Update
- Agnus Brew rears it's head again
- Hivelytracker - OS3.x, OS4 & AROS
- Airwaves - Online Radio Show dedicated to MOD music
- Amiga Future Preview #68 Online
- Sam440 for sle at Planetia Amiga in Italy
- Commodore Music Show
- Gateway Bought by Acer
- Mini-Mig kits - We Voluntold Mike to keep us updated on building his Mini-Mig
- C64 Tape Converter - Mike and Rich talk about emulators and programs
- Rich has a D&D Moment
- JMEC64 - Mobile C64 EMulator
- AMIGA Sighting - Syllable OS Newsletter
- We gang up on Jeremey and ask questions about his Ars Technica
articles. - BWA-HAHAHAHA!!
Guest is the English reporter Jeremy Reiner (arstechnica.com, Micro Mart).
Older issues of ART can be found on Aminet. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Aug.2007
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AmigaOS 4: Package management system AmiUpdate 1.75
AmiUpdate is a simple package management system similar to RPM or dpkg which are known from the Linux world. In contrast to its prototypes AmiUpdate can not handle references. Required components are not automatically installed for a certain package.
On behalf of the users AmiUpdate searches for newer versions of the installed applications (list of supported packages), downloads and automatically installs them (if this option is supported by the package).
AmiUpdate has been available for years but so far was only used by AmigaOS beta testers to keep their beta systems up to date. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Retro-Gaming: The Lemmings Story
In "The complete History of Lemmings" told the Ex-"DMA Designs"-developer Mike Dailly the way of the classical game - from the first only for fun created animation of a 8x8 Pixel big Figure within to the finished game. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
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Datei-Manager: NewFilemaster 3.1 Beta 5
Filemaster is a file-manager with a configurable on BGUI based GUI. The program supports until 8 directory windows and use rigorous the multitasking of the amiga system.
The support of this program was stopped by the original author and will be now processed as "NewFilemaster" from Christian Kummerow. A Keyfile for free will be found on the Aminet. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SimpleView 1.9e, SearchStar 0.91
Tom "AmigaHarry" Duin new version of his minimalistic picture viewer SimpleView and his search programs SearchStar is now available. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Picture of the last C= Show, more dates
The"Commodore Gebruikers Groep" provides pictures of his last Commodore Event, which was joined by many people in defiance to the good summer wether.
The next "C= Show" starts on the 22. September in Kerkrade (Netherlands). A larger event is in Maarssen planed for the 30. Oktober, where several Retro-Computer-Clubs and -Museums are exhibit hardware.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
Gary7 (ANF)
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Acer buys US-Computermanufactor Gateway
The taiwan computer company Acer buys the US PC-manufactor Gateway, which is known for Amiga-user with his small entrance as owner of the Amiga-rights.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 26.08.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
getvideo.lha comm/www 7K GEN get FLV files from YouTube etc.
seventhsense.lha comm/www 95K MOS Automated website monitor
AMOSlist-1998-06.lha dev/amos 58K GEN AMOS-list archives for June 1998
PureBasic.lha dev/basic 1.2M OS3 Advanced BASIC derivative
exomizer.lha dev/cross 527K MOS A cruncher for 6502 executables
MCC_BetterString-11.12.lha dev/mui 143K VAR BetterString custom class for MUI
trackdisk-src.lha driver/media 51K GEN Pegasos floppy driver for MorphOS (src)
trackdisk.lha driver/media 31K MOS Pegasos floppy driver for MorphOS
TV.lha driver/video 3K MOS Free dummy of Elb*x tv.library
amoebax-0.2.0-morphos.lha game/actio 9.6M MOS One or two player Tetris clone
tomatoes-1.55a-morphos.lha game/actio 9.1M MOS Destroy as much tomatoes as possible
BuildEMC.lha game/patch 2K OS3 Fancier gameplay for classic Dune 2
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 345K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
Flamingo68k_SRC.lha misc/emu 94K GEN Source code for Flamingo 1.54
ht14_aros1.lha mus/edit 898K ARO Hively Tracker
Fairies.lha util/blank 2.0M VAR Fairies Screen Saver
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 26.08.2007
HUploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
ht14.lha aud/edi 926kb Multichannel chiptune tracker, based on
amoebax.lha gam/puz 10Mb A great Puyo Puyo clone
png_icon_editor.lha gra/edi 7Mb A Tool for Manipulating PNG Images and I
wookieclassy.lha gra/the 0kb A classy colour theme for WookieChat
wookiecrystal.lha gra/the 152kb Wookiechat Smileys: 'Crystal'
wookieicq5.lha gra/the 30kb Wookiechat 'ICQ5' Smileys
wookiewetw.lha gra/the 170kb Wookiechat Smileys: 'White emoticons tha
mcc_betterstring.lha lib/mui 143kb BetterString custom class for MUI
ib_transanims3.lha net/bro 2Mb IBrowse transfer animation
openssh-bin.lha net/mis 997kb OpenSSH secure connectivity tools
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 26.08.2007
HUploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
ht14-i386-aros.lha aud/tra 897kb Hively Tracker
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26.Aug.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MUI-class: MCC_BetterString 11.12
Jens Langner has published new versions of the following MUI-classes for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS: BetterString.mcc and BetterString.mcp in version 11.12 as well as HotKeyString.mcc in version 12.8.
Changes:
- mcc/hotkeystring: adapted documentation and minor tweaks to the sources of HotkeyString.mcc
- mcc/BetterString_mcc.h: converted all MUIV_BetterString_DoAction_#? values to a named enum rather than simple defines
- mcc: added new MUIM_BetterString_DoAction method which allows to manually perform certain actions like Copy/Cut/Paste,... which are normally just executed with the default shortcuts. This way the gadget can completly controlled remotely
- mcc: added new MUIA_BetterString_NoShortcuts attribute that allows to disable the default shortcuts like Amiga+C, Amiga+V, etc. for applications interested in performing those operations manually
- include/mccinit.c: updated to latest 1.10 version
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Chiptune-Tracker: Hively-Tracker 1.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format (screenshot). AHX was developed in the nineties to write songs which have the typical chip-sound of the SID (sound-chip of C64). Changes since version 1.3:
- Playback no longer stops when the "Load Mod" filerequester is open
- Undo & Redo for almost all edit operations
- Cutting an area in the position editor cleared both columns of
the left & right edges even if they weren't selected. Fixed.
- Cutting or pasting in the position editor didn't update the
track editor even if the current tracks were changed by the
operation. Fixed.
- If you change preference options that require the GUI to be closed
and re-opened, it now does that instead of requiring you to quit
and restart.
- Skin directory, initial song directory and initial instrument
directory options all now can be selected via ASL directory requester.
- Right-clicking on a channel mute button now mutes all other channels
except that channel. If it is already the only un-muted channel,
all channels will be unmuted instead (suggested by Syphus).
- Added "9xx" panning command to the instrument performancelist. It
only changes the panning position for that specific instrument. The
next time an instrument is played in that channel, it returns to
the last panning position set with the traditional "7xx" track
command.
- Pasting or marking blocks in the position editor didn't work
correctly if channel 1 wasn't the leftmost channel. Fixed.
- Pressing Ctrl+B while marking a block now cancels block marking
instead of resetting the mark position.
- Added a drumpad mode, selectable either by the funky new on/off
gadget or via the backslash key. When enabled, selecting instruments
via numeric keyboard causes them to be played, and if edit mode is
set, the instrument is inserted into the song. Suggested by Syphus.
- Changed the release cut gadget from a 0/1 number gadget to the funk-
tastic new on/off gadget (W00T!!111)
- Fixed a bug in the command line replayer that was really dumb and
should have been spotted ages ago! Oops.
- Before, if a skin directory existed, and the logo bitmap existed
in that directory, but there was any other file missing, hively would
bomb out instead of reverting to the default skin and retrying. Now
if a skin fails to load for any reason, hively retries with the
default skin (SIDMonster-Light). This allows hively to load even
if ht.prefs contains an invalid skin (such as SIDMonster-Heavy,
which has been discontinued from 1.4 onwards).
- Fixed an incorrect pointer in the autogain routine
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Aug.2007
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiTV test version 0.5 (Update)
Ian Gledhill has published another test version of AmiTV which is a softare which makes it possible to use TV-cards under AmigaOS 4. He asks for your feedback.
A Radeon-graphic card with Overlay support as well as a TV-card with Conexant CX2388x-Chipsatz (e.g. Hauppauge WinTV HVR1600) or Bt8x8 are required.
Download: AmiTV_0.5.lha (420 KB)
Update: (09:18, 25.08.07, snx)
Meanwhile version 0.5 is available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 3
Under the title link Jeremy Reimer has continued his survey about the Amiga history with the first prototypes and the development of the operating system. The third part ends with the purchase by Commodore.
In his article serie the author wants to explain "what the Amiga was, what it meant to his developers and users and why it - despite of the early decline and its [from the current point of view] rather slight brand awareness - had so much influence on the computer industry".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PPC-Hardware: SAM440 available from the end of September
In an advertisement the producer of the PPC440-based motherboard SAM440 has announced that visitors of the Pianeta Amiga (22. and 23. September, Italy) will may "touch, test and buy" the hardware.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2007
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AmigaOS 4: Classic-version with native Mediator-support
According to Hans-Jörg "Rogue" Frieden in a thread at amigans.net currently the kernel is adapted to the known PCI-busboards of the Mediator-serie.
In the past it was known that the original pci.library of the producer of Elbox also works under AmigaOS 4 but has some incompatibilities to the existing PCI-driver system of the new operating system. That means users had to use the drivers provided by Elbox.
If and how the DMA problem of the Mediator boards will be solved - the hardware does not support real DMA - is still not clear. Certain PCI-cards (e.g. tv-cards) require DMA.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2007
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MorphOS: trackdisk.device 41.3 for Pegasos computers
Pavel Fedin has published an update of his floppy driver for Pegasos computers. Changes in this version:
- Formatting now works
- Implemented forgotten TD_SEEK and ETD_SEEK commands
- Preferences program is now more portable
- Preferences program now supports locale
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2007
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Event: AmiWest 2007
On Oktober 20th the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento, California. In a press release it is reminded that there is still the possibility to book a seat for the banquet.
The entrance itself is for free because it is paid by sponsors.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2007
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Move of der Reggae website
The website of Reggae which is a multimedia library for MorphOS written by Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has moved to a new server and can be now accessed under http://krashan.ppa.pl/reggae.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2007
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: I Have No Tomatoes 1.55a / Amoebax 0.2.0
Herbert 'HAK' Klackl reoleased a small update of the SDL-game I Have No Tomatoes. The rules are to destroy with bombs in 10 minutes a maximum of the tomatos. The MorphOS-Port requires TinyGL.
He builed also a port ofAmoebax, a tetris SDL-Puzzle game, where 4 or more amoebas must be put in one row.
Download:
tomatoes-1.55a-morphos.lha (9 MB)
amoebax-0.2.0-morphos.lha (10 MB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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20.Aug.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 68 preview online
Press release: Previews and some excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 68 (September/October 2007) are available now. Starting with issue 67 the Amiga Future is available in German and English.
Besides many articles covering the Amiga there are reviews of AWeb, Shuffle and much more in this issue. A more detailed description of contents can be found at our web site. The cover CD of the Amiga Future features a bunch of full versions besides lots of PD software.
Because of the massive problems regarding shipping of the last issue to outside Germany the Amiga Future is going to be shipped via airmail only.
The Amiga Future is available as a single issue or subscription. You are free to choose whether you want it with or without a cover CD.
The Amiga Future is available directly from the editorial office at amigafuture.de and some Amiga dealers like Alinea, Vesalia, AmigaKit, GGS Data, Samuli...
If dealers are interested in offering the Amiga Future for their customers then simply write us an email.
amigafuture.de
apc-tcp.de (cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Aug.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.08.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
XBaze-fr.lha biz/dbase 18K GEN XBaze v7.3.1 french catalog
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 20K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
IRCServices.lha comm/irc 799K OS3 IRCServices 4.5.45
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 824K OS3 UnrealIRCd 3.1.6-Noon (Non-SSL & SSL)
getvideo.lha comm/www 6K GEN get FLV files from YouTube etc.
6502asm-mos.lha dev/cross 19K MOS 6502 2-pass cross assembler
exomizer.lha dev/cross 513K MOS A cruncher for 6502 executables
EC4OS3.lha dev/e 28K GEN Tutorial: system programming with Amiga-
openssl-bin.lha dev/gg 2.2M OS3 OpenSSL 0.9.7m ported to AmigaOS
dildev.lha dev/misc 62K MOS Device Intervention Layer, Dev. archive
spatch.lha dev/misc 11K VAR Clone of SAS Binary File Patcher w/ src
spatch_os4.lha dev/misc 79K OS4 Clone of SAS Binary File Patcher w/src
WHDLoad_dev.lha dev/misc 1.8M OS3 HD-Installer for OS-Killer
WHDLoad_usr.lha dev/misc 991K OS3 HD-Installer for OS-Killer
diskimage_device.lha disk/misc 127K OS4 Disk image device (adf,dms,ipf,iso,...)
Antigravity.lha docs/hyper 26K GEN AntiGravity.guide
Spots-PFD.txt docs/misc 52K GEN AmigaOS 4: Spot's Porting for Dummies
cnetdevice.lha driver/net 181K OS3 PCMCIA Network Card driver
MegaBoulderDash-TG_ADF.lha game/actio 267K OS3 Mega Boulderdash - The Garden
SnakeMe.lha game/actio 1.9M OS4 Snake game: many players, lots of option
AmiOmega161.lha game/misc 444K OS3 Amiga port of the Omega game. V1.61
amtris.lha game/wb 17K OS3 Simple WB Tetris clone
TilesSlide.lha game/wb 45K OS3 Align three tiles of the same colour
dcraw.i386-aros.zip gfx/conv 365K ARO CLI converter for camera raw files
SView5.lha gfx/misc 2.9M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 343K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
VICE-AmigaOS3-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 4.5M OS3 Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-AmigaOS4-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 7.5M OS4 Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-i686-AROS-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 5.4M ARO Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-MorphOS-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 5.9M MOS Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
VICE-powerpc-AROS-1.22.tar.gz misc/emu 6.8M Emulates c64,c128,pet,cbm2,plus4 + vic20
WarpNeoPocott_v038.lha misc/emu 171K WUP NeoGeo Pocket emulator
WES_v10.lha misc/emu 14K WUP WarpNeoPocott/Mame/NeoMame/Mess launcher
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 102K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon128 Emulator
celfare.lha misc/sci 23K OS3 converts several temperature scales
bc-impossible.mp3 mods/mpg 4.5M GEN "Impossible" by Bobby Clark/Synthetik FM
bc-technology.mp3 mods/mpg 4.8M GEN "Technology" Bobby Clark/Synthetik FM
CheesyBeat.lha mods/techn 17K GEN Cheesy Beat
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 319K OS3 MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
NRConvert.lha mus/misc 27K OS3 Conv. tracker mods to Noise Runner forma
wet_stardock.lha pix/picon 221K GEN Stardock PNG weather icons for Wet 5
xp-dream.zip pix/theme 90K GEN AROS: XP Dream Theme
xp.zip pix/theme 94K GEN AROS: XP Default Theme
wolfhtml.lha util/cli 719K OS3 Generate HTML 3D step maze from Ascii ma
MidiDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 12K GEN MIDI DataType Preferences Editor
UniLibDev.lha util/libs 225K VAR Unicode code point/UTF-8 support lib
AmigaListLoader.lha util/misc 52K OS3 List Loader for Digital Satellite Receiv
dilusr.lha util/misc 140K MOS Device Intervention Layer, User archive
SayToy.lha util/misc 29K GEN Speech Text Translator and Narrator
MeMonitor.lha util/moni 48K OS3 A memory (Chip/Fast) monitor.
SetPatch50.lha util/sys 5K MOS SetPatch 50.1 fake entry for MorphOS
wet.lha util/wb 1.0M VAR Weather conditions on WB, AppIcon, Docky
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 19.08.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
ttaenc.lha aud/con 44kb TTAEnc - encode your own lossless TTA au
phatbeat.lha aud/mis 866kb A BPM Counter
dg_midi_player.lha aud/pla 42kb Simple MIDI player
sdl_image.lha dev/lib 69kb SDL image file loading library
sdl_ttf.lha dev/lib 30kb SDL_TTF a Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL.
spatch.lha dev/uti 79kb Clone of SAS Binary File Patcher w/src
spots-pfd.txt doc/man 52kb Spot's Porting for Dummies
diskimage_device.lha dri/sto 144kb Disk image device (adf,dms,ipf,iso,...)
vice.tgz emu/com 7Mb VICE - Versatile Commodore Emulator
viceplus.lha emu/gam 2Mb VICEplus a C64DTV emulator based on VICE
snakeme.lha gam/act 1Mb A Snake game for many players with lots
kolorowe_jajca.lha gam/puz 2Mb Kolorowe_Jajca short Hollywood game
wbsg-fr.lha gam/puz 5kb WB Super Games french catalog
png_icon_editor.lha gra/edi 7Mb A Tool for Manipulating PNG Images and I
skinhunomacosx.lha gra/the 1Mb Theme HunoMacOSX
showimage.lha gra/vie 282kb ShowImage - Displays images
warpviewgui_ita.rar gra/vie 1kb Italian catalog for WarpView GUI
ib_transanims2.lha net/bro 4Mb Yet another IB transferanimations for ve
openssh-bin.lha net/mis 997kb OpenSSH secure connectivity tools
findmore.lha uti/fil 62kb File search tool
showfont.lha uti/tex 252kb Showfont - Displays TTF fonts
screenmonitor.lha uti/wor 75kb Public screen monitoring utility
wet.lha uti/wor 1Mb Weather conditions on WB, AppIcon, Docky
ffmpeggui.lha vid/con 82kb A GUI for the ffmpeg video converter pro
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 19.08.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
dcraw.i386-aros.zip gra/con 364kb CLI converter for camera raw files
xp-dream.zip gra/the 89kb XP Dream Theme
xp.zip gra/the 94kb XP Default Theme
read_afs_0.1.zip uti/fil 139kb Read+Validate AROS OFS/FFS disks from Wi
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MorphOS: Shuffle 1.10
An update for Shuffle is available to all customers. Shuffle is a MorphOS implementation of the famous Sliding Block Puzzle, often also known as 15 Puzzle and is making use of MorphOS core components like MUI or Reggae.
Besides some smaller cosmetical fixes the update offers localization for three new languages. Thanks to Krashan, Vinnny and Stevo you can play Shuffle now in Polish, Russian or Dutch. Translations for Italian and Hungarian are in work.
Shuffle will be available as part of MorphOS 2.0, but if you want to play it now already you can buy it for just 3 Euro. Please note that this early offer will end on 31th August 2007. After that date no more copies of Shuffle will be sold anymore and if you still want to play Shuffle then you must wait for the MorphOS 2.0 release (no matter how long this will take). (snx)
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 16.8
With WHDLoad is it possible to install games and scene demo's, which are only created to work on floppydisc systems, on a harddisc. Beside are several incompatibility problems with new Amiga systems will be fixed.
Changes of the lates version:
- fix: the requester displayed when audio.device is already used
defaults to 'ignore' now, so it works in combination with option NoReq/S
(Horace)
- fix: the online help displayed when WHDLoad is called from the CLI
without arguments has been fixed for the options Cache/S and DCache/S
(Hexaae)
- fix: CLI args fixed to fault on too many arguments (Psygore)
- chg: the install template supports installing from disk images via
diskimage.device, trackwarp.library and capsimage.device
- chg: kick31.s supports also the kickstart image from the A500/A600/A2000, with that it is possible to make Slaves using kick31
which are compatible to a 68000 CPU (Don Adan)
- new: WHDLoad itself disables the interrupts of Mediator boards now
while running the installed program, this should solve problems
like freezing and gfx/sound distortion on these boards, thanks
to John Girvin and Elbox for providing the solution
- chg: WHDLoad now avoids opening the WorkBench screen after exiting,
older versions have always opened the WB if no other screen was left open,
requires at least v39
- new: WHDLoad now shows the task name on exceptions if there was a
working amigaos running, it also shows segment name and offset if
SegTracker was running (inside emulation of course)
- new: option NoMemReverse/S added to the global configuration (Ralf
Stützer)
- new: catalan translation of documentation, thanks to Manel Beltran
- new: its now possible to use special rawkeys for the QuitKey/N option
to let WHDLoad quit from a button press on the mouse/joystick/joypad
- chg: some changes to the kickemu, check history therein
Direct download link: WHDLoad_usr.lha (992 KB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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