02.Jun.2007
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Windows: PPViewer 1.0 to show files packed with PowerPacker
The Windows program PPViewer shows files that were packed on an Amiga using PowerPacker 2.0 (screenshot). The .NET framework is needed.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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02.Jun.2007
Murmel (forum)
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Domain amiga.de for sale
The domain amiga.de, for years the access point to the German Amiga Technologies GmbH website and at last just forwarding to the website amiga.com is offered for sale.
The current owner is the company Tapon del Darien LLC which registered office is in Panama City.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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02.Jun.2007
Ash Sert (ANF)
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Freescale's new System-on-Chip (SoC) CPU: MPC5121e
Press released (shortened): Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a new highly integrated System-on-Chip processor (SoC) that is optimized for applications with complex graphics, multimedia and realtime requirements regarding power and power consumption.
Technical data for the MPC5121e
- e300 core
- built on Power architecture technology
- 32 KB cache for instruction code and 32 KB for data
- double precision floating point unit and two integer units
- up to 400 MHz deliver 760 MIPS computing performance
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- user-programmable 32-bit RISC multimedia core at up to 200 MHz
- 2D/3D graphics core, based on a PowerVR MBX/VGP Lite
- integrated display controller for resolutions up to 1024 x 768 (XGA)
- 12 programmable controllers for serial interfaces UART, SPI, AC97, I2S
- SDRAM DDR-I/DDR-II/mobileDDR memory controller
- 10/100 Fast Ethernet MAC (media access controller)
- Three I2C interfaces
- PCI 2.3 interface
- Two hi-speed USB 2.0 On-the-Go (OTG) controllers, one integrated PHY
SATA controller (serial advanced technology attachment)
- PATA controller (parallel advanced technology attachment)
- Four CAN 2.0A/B modules
- intelligent DMA I/O controller with 64 channels
- serial S/PDIF audio interface (Sony/Philips digital interface format)
- SDHC (secure digital host controller) to support MMC/SD/SDIO protocols
- 27x27 mm – 516-pin PBGA package with 1 mm pitch
Availability
Samples of the MPC5121e processor are said to be available at the end of the 2nd quarter. Further information about the MPC5121e under freescale.com/files/pr/mpc51xx.html.
Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.
www.freescale.com
Das Freescale Technologieforum
The Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) has become the developer event of the year for the embedded semiconductor industry. The Forum, which debuted in 2005, has been enthusiastically received by the global developer community, drawing more than 12,000 attendees at FTF events worldwide since its inception. For more information about FTF events, please go to www.freescale.com/ftf (cg) (Translation: wk)
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02.Jun.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Amigaweb.net: IRC session with Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco
The executives from Genesi are participating in an IRC session organized by amigaweb.net. On June, 24th at 20:00 Uhr (GMT) will Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco answer users questions.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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02.Jun.2007
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: GQView 2.1.5 for Cygnix
Edgar Schwan makes a further application for his X11 environment Cygnix available: GQView 2.1.5 is an image viewer that makes it easy to navigate through a great number of images. Pictures can be shown fullscreen or as slideshow, they can be copied, moved, renamed and deleted. Context menus make it easy to use the program. A search function that can compare images content is available, too.
Supported image formats:
- IFF-ILBM (.ilbm)
- JPEG (.jpeg, .jpe, .jpg)
- PNG (.png)
- PCX (.pcx)
- BMP / WBMP (.bmp, .wbmp)
- GIF (.gif)
- TIFF (.tiff, .tif)
- PNM / PBM / PGM / PPM (.pnm, .pbm, .pgm, .ppm)
- Canon RAW format (.crw, .cr2)
- Fujifilm RAW format (.raf)
- Nikon RAW format (.nef)
- Olympus RAW format (.orf)
- Pentax RAW format (.pef)
- ANI (.ani)
- Windows icon (.ico, .cur)
- Sun Raster (.ras)
- Targa (.tga, .targa)
- X-Bitmap (.xbm)
- X-Pixmap (.xpm)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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02.Jun.2007
Andre Pfeiffer (ANF)
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How to: video slot expansion for the A1000
Andre "Ratte" Pfeiffer has enhanced his Amiga 1000 with an A2000 compatible video slot with a Multivision 2000 FlickerFixer inserted:
construction manual/pin configuration
images of the project
An A500 respectively a first generation A2000 (those without a complete video slot) are said to be expandable in accordance with these hints, too. The author wishes a lot of fun when soldering.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP is looking for Programmers
APC&TCP is looking for programmers with a (very) good knowledge in 68k assembler, but first of all C as well as C++ for speeding up some projects under development. Experience in the field of audio, video and graphics is explicitly required.
The gui design is created with ReAction and/or MUI, partially even with GadTools. Programmers for AmigaOS3 and AmigaOS4 are required, even MorphOS is appreciated. The payment refers to the agreement. Interested parties should contact
Andreas Magerl. (nba) (Translation: tz)
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31.May.2007
unknown (ANF)
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Jay Glenn Miner would have been 75 years old today
Jay Glenn Miner, the originator of the Amiga, would have been 75 years old today.
Miner was born in May 31, 1932 in Prescott, Arizona. He was the head of the original Amiga developer team and cofounder of Amiga Corp. in Los Gatos. Jay Glenn Miner passed away in June 20, 1994 in
Mountain View, California, because of kidney failure.
Biographies can be found at:
http://www.amition.de/geschichte8284.html
http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/D_Miner.HTML
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~mheine/Jay_Miner.html (nba) (Translation: tz)
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31.May.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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PDF-Magazin: #Amigaguide, First Issue
The first issue of the English print magazine #Amigaguide is available as a free pdf article and is meant as a reading rehearsal. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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29.May.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Status update for role-playing game Eve
Under the title link Kelly Samel gives a first impression of his latest project "Eve".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.May.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 28.05.2007
These are the latest uploads to os4depot.net which have been added since our last message:
libtommath.lha dev/lib 1Mb libtommath - Multiple precision arithmet
structlist.lha dev/uti 20kb Now where is that frippin' structure def
xzx2plus3.lha emu/mis 27kb Convert XZX-tape files and raw bins to +
gluae-doc.lha emu/uti 828kb Integrates UAE into AmigaOS 4 (documenta
gluae-main.lha emu/uti 12kb Integrates UAE into AmigaOS 4 (main)
runadf.lha emu/uti 201kb RunADF is tooltype program to start ECS/
whdload-to-uae.lha emu/uti 186kb WHDLoad to E-UAE
mpsdl.lha gam/puz 1Mb A columns clone
gimp_cygnix-src.lha gra/edi 1Mb Sources of Gimp 2.2.13 for Cygnix (alpha
gimp_cygnix.lha gra/edi 18Mb Gimp 2.2.13 alpha for Cygnix
imagin.lha gra/ray 646kb Imagin - a command line Raytracer
collageblanker.lha gra/scr 4Mb A Collage Picture Blanker
wookiechat.lha net/cha 1Mb IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
transmission.lha net/p2p 123kb Transmission - A BITTorrent command line
aspell-dict.cs.lha off/wor 2Mb Czech dictionary for AbiWord and other p
aspell-dict.da.lha off/wor 4Mb Danish dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.en.lha off/wor 1Mb English dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.es.lha off/wor 3Mb Spanish dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.fi.lha off/wor 799kb Finnish dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.fr.lha off/wor 6Mb French dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.hu.lha off/wor 2Mb Hungarian dictionary for AbiWord and oth
aspell-dict.it.lha off/wor 898kb Italian dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.no.lha off/wor 1Mb Norwegian dictionary for AbiWord and oth
aspell-dict.pl.lha off/wor 2Mb Polish dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.sv.lha off/wor 1Mb Swedish dictionary for AbiWord and other
clit.lha uti/tex 235kb ConvertLIT - decrypt/read ebooks in LIT
clockskinsboard.lha uti/wor 995kb Skinnable Clock for BenchBoards
maclikedock.lha uti/wor 6Mb A Visually Impressive Program Launcher
skinnableclock.lha uti/wor 941kb A Skinnable Clock for Your Workbench
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29.May.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 28.05.2007
These are the latest uploads to AROS-Archives which have been added since our last message:
os4.wdz gra/the 63kb OS4 Theme
roadto10_v2_autumn.rar gra/the 3Mb Updated road to 10 autumn wallpaper
roadto10_v2_glass.rar gra/the 554kb Road to 10 v2 glass wallpaper
roadto10_v2_lemon.rar gra/the 3Mb Road to 10 v2 lemon wallpaper
roadto10_v2_night.rar gra/the 865kb Road to 10 v2 night wallpaper
roadto10_v2_sea.rar gra/the 3Mb Road to 10 v2 sea wallpaper
roadto10_v2_spring.rar gra/the 3Mb Updated road to 10 spring wallpaper
roadto10_v2_summer.rar gra/the 1Mb Updated road to 10 summer wallpaper
roadto10_v2_winter.rar gra/the 3Mb Updated road to 10 winter wallpaper
untarka-0.34.tar.gz uti/arc 186kb Untarka - AROS Version
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.May.2007
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Survey: What do you think about the Amiga-Hyperion litigation?
In our latest survey, we'd like to know what our readers think about the litigation between Amiga, Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment. Do you welcome the chance to have (hopefully) all disputes finally settled, or do you expect the lawsuit to have mainly negative effects? (cg) (Translation: cg)
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28.May.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Issue 39 and 51 online
Pressrelease: The german issues 39 and 51 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that you can read the two magazines (amongst many other issues) online at http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/kb.php?mode=cat&cat=10 .
The issue 66 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Just now we work hard on issue 67.
No. 67 will be the first Amiga Future issue being published in German and English.
We ask all interested users to order issue 67 as soon as possible because we'll print only the preordered amount plus a small reserve. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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28.May.2007
Supermatse (ANF)
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Diskmag: Jurassic Pack #17 released
At the "Maximum Overdose", a Game- and Demo scene event for
8/16-bit-Computer in Luebeck, was the 17. issue of the Scenedisk magazin "Jurassic Pack" released.
The Highlights of this issue:
- Alfred Faust, continue Developer of Bars&Pipes
- Party-Reports: Breakpoint 07, 15 Years Oxyron and Evoke 06
- Andromeda, Amiga Demoscene-Legende
- and many stories, reports and comments from and
for Amiga-User.
A Forum for discussion about this issue is available here. And the download is linked to the header. (nba) (Translation: aj)
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27.May.2007
Björn (ANF)
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Netzwelt: Gezerre um den coolsten Code (Tugging at the coolest code)
In its Netzwelt (Networld) column today, the online branch of Spiegel reports on the Breakpoint demo party, which takes place on Easter every year in Bingen am Rhein, and on the allure of the demoscene. You can read the entire recount under the title link. (nba) (Translation: cad)
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27.May.2007
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Pictures from the ongoing hardware meeting at "Geit", MorphOS video
Under the title link, Guido Mersmann is making available pictures from the ongoing hardware meeting. In addition, a video that shows the new transparency features of MorphOS 2.0 is available for download.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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26.May.2007
diverse
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Briefly software updates
The following tools for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS were updated in the last days:
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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25.May.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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VNC-Client: TwinVNC 0.8beta
Already on 9th of April the beta version 0.8 of TwinVNC was completed. TwinVNC is a Giftware-client for the Virtual Network Computing-protocol.
There are versions for AmigaOS 3.1, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Under the title link you can find a list of changes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.May.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Stockholm: Medley of classical games music
On 2. June 2007 a Commodore Amiga-medley has its premiere in Stockholm. For this Jan Zottmann has arranged the music of some game classics for orchestra and choirs. There is a C64-medley during the "Play!"-concert, too.
The Commodore Amiga-medley contains compositions of Allister Brimble (Alienbreed), Richard Joseph (James Pond 2), Olof Gustafsson (Pinball Fantasies), Matthias Steinwachs (Lionheart), Brian Johnston and Tim Wright (Lemmings) as well as Chris Huelsbeck (Turrican 2).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2007
Amiga Inc. (email)
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Amiga Inc.: Classic Amiga games by Vulcan Software for Windows
At the title link, Amiga Inc. announce a not further defined "Classic Game Player", which they want to use to offer classic Amiga games for Windows and other devices, starting with software titles of the British company Vulcan Software.
The full press release:
Vulcan Software Limited and Amiga, Inc. announce new relationship bringing Classic Amiga games to PCs and other devices
Issaquah, Wash USA - Gloucestershire, UK - May 23, 2007 - Vulcan Software Limited and Amiga, Inc. are pleased to announce the launch and availability of Vulcan Software titles for Windows PCs via the new Amiga Classic Game Player.
"The new Amiga offering makes playing these very fun titles simple. Just click and you are playing. It is great to be working with Amiga again, and our relationship will be growing into other areas as well", said Paul Carrington President of Vulcan Software Limited.
With the new Amiga Classic Game Player customers need only to select the game they want to play, download it to their computer, install, click and play. It is seamless fun, and reminds everyone of why we started using computers for gaming to begin with.
Amiga will continue to offer new titles and other Amiga Classic offerings, from the 80s through the 90s, and will offer these great titles initially for the PC and then will begin to expand other devices.
"It has been great working with Paul at Vulcan and this is the first product that is available from our new relationship", said Bill McEwen, Amiga, Inc. "There are several other areas that Amiga and Vulcan are in discussions about, and we look forward on delivering new products and experiences for our customers very soon."
About Amiga
Amiga, Inc. is the world\s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies. For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. Today Amiga builds on this legacy leading the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to new platforms and interactive devices. For more information visit www.amiga.com.
About Vulcan Software Limited
Vulcan Software Limited founded in 1994 is an independent software development company, based in the United Kingdom. After creating 15 award winning games "over five years" for the Amiga computer, Vulcan has been busy creating advanced 3D game development tools "Mother3D" along with two flagship 3D titles "Hybrid" and "Valhalla & The Curse Of Infinity". For more information visit www.vulcan.co.uk. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.May.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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ACube Systems: CRUX PPC support
Wie ACube Systems announce at the title link to cooperate with the CRUX Linux PPC-Team to adjust their distribution to the Sam440ep board. A Sam440 board will be provided for the Crux team. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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22.May.2007
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Law case Amiga-Hyperion: Hyperion's response
Under the title link there is a first response to the accusation of Amiga Inc. from Hyperion.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.May.2007
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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KDH Datentechnik closed
The computer dealer KDH Datentechnik which could be accessed over www.kdh-shop24.de stopped selling Amiga products.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. May. 2007, 19:21] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2007
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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PullDog 2.0 rc2 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS
"PullDog" helps you downloading complete files from the Usenet using NZB-descriptors. Under the title link release-candidate-version 2.0 rc2 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS is available.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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22.May.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: Allkeys 2.1 and DRemind 1.70
OnyxSoft has published updates of the programs AllKeys (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS) and DRemind (AmigaOS 2.04).
With AllKeys you can use all rawkeys (incl. multimedia-keys) and mouse buttons as hotkeys. In this version some bugs have been fixed. DRemind is a program which reminds you with several features (e.g. "remind me in 10 minutes").
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.May.2007
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer with new products
Press release: On Alinea Computer Shop you can buy new products. So the well-known music CDs Merregnon 1 and Merregnon 2 as well as the new book "The Amiga. The history of a computer legend".
If you should miss any product on our shop then please contact us. We will get it for you.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.May.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 20.05.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
libtommath.lha dev/lib 1Mb libtommath - Multiple precision arithmet
structlist.lha dev/uti 20kb Now where is that frippin' structure def
xzx2plus3.lha emu/mis 27kb Convert XZX-tape files and raw bins to +
gluae-doc.lha emu/uti 828kb Integrates UAE into AmigaOS 4 (documenta
gluae-main.lha emu/uti 12kb Integrates UAE into AmigaOS 4 (main)
runadf.lha emu/uti 201kb RunADF is tooltype program to start ECS/
whdload-to-uae.lha emu/uti 186kb WHDLoad to E-UAE
mpsdl.lha gam/puz 1Mb A columns clone
gimp_cygnix-src.lha gra/edi 1Mb Sources of Gimp 2.2.13 for Cygnix (alpha
gimp_cygnix.lha gra/edi 18Mb Gimp 2.2.13 alpha for Cygnix
imagin.lha gra/ray 646kb Imagin - a command line Raytracer
collageblanker.lha gra/scr 4Mb A Collage Picture Blanker
wookiechat.lha net/cha 1Mb IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
transmission.lha net/p2p 123kb Transmission - A BITTorrent command line
aspell-dict.cs.lha off/wor 2Mb Czech dictionary for AbiWord and other p
aspell-dict.da.lha off/wor 4Mb Danish dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.en.lha off/wor 1Mb English dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.es.lha off/wor 3Mb Spanish dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.fi.lha off/wor 799kb Finnish dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.fr.lha off/wor 6Mb French dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.hu.lha off/wor 2Mb Hungarian dictionary for AbiWord and oth
aspell-dict.it.lha off/wor 898kb Italian dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.no.lha off/wor 1Mb Norwegian dictionary for AbiWord and oth
aspell-dict.pl.lha off/wor 2Mb Polish dictionary for AbiWord and other
aspell-dict.sv.lha off/wor 1Mb Swedish dictionary for AbiWord and other
clit.lha uti/tex 235kb ConvertLIT - decrypt/read ebooks in LIT
clockskinsboard.lha uti/wor 995kb Skinnable Clock for BenchBoards
maclikedock.lha uti/wor 6Mb A Visually Impressive Program Launcher
skinnableclock.lha uti/wor 941kb A Skinnable Clock for Your Workbench
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21.May.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.05.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 30K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
Wookie_AROS_2_6.lha comm/irc 964K ARO IRC client (Internet Relay Chat)
Wookie_MOS_2_6.lha comm/irc 1.3M MOS IRC client (Internet Relay Chat)
Wookie_OS3_2_6.lha comm/irc 801K OS3 IRC client (Internet Relay Chat)
Wookie_OS4_2_6.lha comm/irc 1.3M OS4 IRC client (Internet Relay Chat)
ttengine_dev_cpp.lha dev/c 9K GEN C++ includes for TTEngine
ecx.lha dev/e 509K VAR E Compiler ECX
MCC_BetterString-11.10.lha dev/mui 158K VAR BetterString custom class for MUI
Python_Enhancement.lha dev/src 328K OS3 Enhancing Python Code, Classic AMIGAs.
starvoyager-mos.lha game/actio 632K MOS SDL Frontier/Elite class game
mpsdl-mos.lha game/think 1.3M MOS Yet another SDL Columns clone
imagin-mos.lha gfx/3d 1.0M MOS Yet another command-line raytracer
AMIGA-Project1.lha hard/hack 350K VAR A simple AMIGA project for kids.
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 278K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
gluae-doc.lha misc/emu 828K GEN Integrates UAE into AmigaOS (docs)
gluae-main.lha misc/emu 13K GEN Integrates UAE into AmigaOS (main)
NDSInfo.lha misc/emu 1K OS3 NDS Info v0.1b - View info about NDS ROM
playOGG.lha mus/play 1.3M OS3 multi format sound player.
rus_cp1251.zip text/misc 339K GEN russian fonts&keymaps for cp1251
ql_dt.lha util/dtype 17K OS3 Datatype for Sinclair QL pictures
KME-UPD.lha util/misc 25K OS3 Update for the KME Keymap-Editor
pspSaveGameMan_v2_0.lha util/misc 122K MOS A manager for PSP savegames with backup
AMD3800-64x2.dat.lha util/moni 1K GEN AMD 64 x 2 3800 sysspped module
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21.May.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 20.05.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
wookie_aros_2_6.lha gam/puz 412kb WookieChat an IRC client (Internet Relay
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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21.May.2007
McGuire (ANF)
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cracktros.org goes online
The team of a1k.org presents its latest project: cracktros.org. This site is dedicated to "the world's best and rarest amiga cracktros". For each cracktro, there are screenshots, credits and a download link available.
You are also welcome to vote for your favorite cracktro or drop a comment. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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21.May.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.3.4
For AmiKit, a complet-Distribution for WinUAE-User, is the update to Version 1.3.4 available. It can be installed manual or via the integrated Live Update-Function. All changed can be found in the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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21.May.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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PNG-Datatype: WarpPNG 45.9
Oliver Roberts provides a Update of his PNG-Datatypes WarpPNG for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and WarpOS. This new version based on libpng 1.2.18. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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21.May.2007
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Genesi: Price reduction for the Efika-Boards
Linked to the header Genesi notified that they halved the price for the Efika-Board. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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21.May.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Pressrelease: Due to the fact that some issues of the Amiga Future have been sold out in the meantime we have put new full versions for free download on the Amiga Future homepage.
You can download them at: http://download.amigafuture.de
We look for someone who wants to take care of the downloads section of the Amiga Future. In fact it is about writing system requirements and small descriptions for each software package in German and English.
The issue 66 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Just now we work hard on issue 67.
No. 67 will be the first Amiga Future issue being published in German and English.
We ask all interested users to order issue 67 as soon as possible because we'll print only the preordered amount plus a small reserve.
Die Ausgabe 66 der Amiga Future ist vor kurzem erschienen und ist in unserem Onlineshop erhältlich. Zur Zeit arbeiten wir mit Hochdruck an der Ausgabe 67.
Die Ausgabe 67 wird das erste Amiga Future-Heft sein, das auf deutsch und englisch veröffentlicht wird.
Wir bitten alle User, die Interesse an der Ausgabe 67 haben, diese so bald wie möglich zu bestellen, da wir nur die vorbestellte Menge zzgl. einer kleinen Reserve drucken werden. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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21.May.2007
Golem (Webseite)
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Golem: ARM-Risc OS under Shared-Source-Licence
First parts of the Risc OS 5, a commercial Operating System for the ARM-CPU Family, are published under Shared-Source-Licence from Castle Technology. Acc. to this Licence is it now allowed to do changes and to release his own version, if it is not for commercial reasons. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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21.May.2007
Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V. (ANF)
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Veranstaltung: Webseite zur Classic Computing 2007 online
The official Webside of the Classic Computing 2007, from 29.Sep until 30.Sep in Stuttgart-Vaihingen (Germany), is now online (amiga-news.de reported).
Your registration will be henceforth accepted by the Club-Leader. Traders, Clubs, Museums, but also privat collectors, the same as last year, are welcome. (snx)
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20.May.2007
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TV Tip: Topic "retro" on 3sat
The current edition of the 3sat magazine "neues" addresses the retro trend and, in this connection, goes into emulators as well: "Computer systems of today and their applications are highly complex. [...] What was nice there, when you only had to turn on the legendary Commodore 64 breadboxes, Atari and Amiga computers, and they worked reliably."
The program will be rerun on Monday on 3sat (7:00 and 9:45 o'clock) as well as on Tuesday on ZDF (1:50 o'clock). (snx) (Translation: cad)
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20.May.2007
pegasosforum.de (Web page)
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MorphOS: Real-time strategy Warzone 2100
Fabien Coeurjoly has ported the real-time strategy Warzone 2100 to MorphOS. The once commercial title, whose sources were released some time ago, reminds one heavily of Earth 2150, considering the game principle.
The archive contains a fully playable version, just the movie sequences from the commercial full version are not included.
Direct download: warzone2100-2.0.6.lha (21 MB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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20.May.2007
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AROS-Exec: Reminder for the wallpaper competition
On the AROS-Exec web page, the wallpaper competition for the AROS Workbench, Wanderer, is reminded, which ends on May 31 (reported by amiga-news.de).
31 entries were submitted until now. Where necessary, all participants are asked to take the project name change into account, which took place recently. Unfortunately, images, on which the name "Amiga Research Operating System" shows up, cannot be assessed. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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19.May.2007
Amigaweb.net (website)
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Cloanto: Amiga Explorer update
The shareware program Amiga Explorer simplifies the file transfer between the Amiga and a Windows PC. The transfer can be done via null modem cable or via a network. A description of the changes made in the today released version is not available.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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19.May.2007
Amigaweb.net (website)
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ACube Systems supports the Phoenix Project
Press release Bassano del Grappa - Italy - 18 may 2007: Phoenix project and Acube Systems Srl are happy to announce their cooperation.
Phoenix project is a non-profit team of Amiga developers aiming to port various free or dismissed applications or games to Amiga OS4. Current ongoing projects include Firefox, Emperor, VLC, Transmission and others.
ACube Systems, in its continuous effort to support Amiga community and developers, will provide the team svn repositories and development machines where needed.
The team is at work collecting sources of dismissed Amiga applications and free software to convert them to OS4. The resulting conversions will be released for free to the Amiga community.
If you are a developer and you would like to take part to the Phoenix Project please contact us at andrea@amigasoft.net and we will give you all the information to join the team. (snx)
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19.May.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: donations for Allegro port
As Troels Ersking announced are right now 250 Euro raised for an AmigaOS 4 port of Allegro. As currently two developers are working on the project the operator of amigabounty.net is hoping that the sum will continue to raise.
Allegro is a free to use library for the development of games in C/C++ and would make the adaption of more games to AmigaOS possible after the port will be done.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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19.May.2007
Moo Bunny (website)
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Team AROS: bounty for FUSE-API
Within the scope of the Team AROS bounties you can now donate for the implementation of the FUSE API. This shall make the portation of file system handler using this API possible. The NTFS 3G file system is already part of the project description.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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19.May.2007
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IRC client: Wookiechat 2.6 for all Amiga systems
James "jahc" Carroll makes version 2.6 of his MUI based IRC client Wookiechat available. The latest changes can be found in the changelog.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.May.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Seattle Times: "A history of troubles"
After Amiga Inc. announced to support the planned Kent Event Center the local press is interested in the history of Amiga.
The Seattle Times has published a summary of the several problems of Amiga having had during the last years.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.May.2007
AmigaSpeed (ANF)
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Benchmarks: AmigaSpeed with new MIPS-values
AmigaSpeed which is a website about speed test comparisons of different Amiga system configurations was updated after a longer break. Under PPC new MIPS-values was entered to current PowerPC-processors which could be used in future Amigas.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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18.May.2007
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Gimp 2.2.13 Alpha for Cygnix
Edgar Schwan has published another alpha version of the picture editing software Gimp for his X11-enviroment Cygnix.
A publication of another unfinished alpha version was not planned but Schwan decided to do it because there were several requests to a new Gimp port.
The Gimp-plugins still does not work in this version. Therefore Gimp can only load graphics in XCF format.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.May.2007
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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Team AROS: USB-Massstorage-Bounty
After the implementation of an USB support under AROS now there is a bounty for a DOS-device which can be mounted to use a filesystem on a USB stick.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.May.2007
Tommy Strand (ANF)
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IRC session with Jan Zahurancik
On Sunday, 27th of May, CEST 20:00 the news site Amigaweb.net will organize an IRC session with the AmiKit developer Jan Zahurancik at #Amiga channel of the EFnet network. You can get further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2007
Murakami (ANF)
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Print-Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR #38
Issue #38 of the French print-magazine aMiGa=PoWeR is available and contains the following topics among others:
- AmigaOS 4 Final Update
- AmiPhoto 1.5.1
- IBrowse 2.4
- DvPlayer 0.58
- Robin Hood
- HP Laserjet 1320
- TuneNet v0.84.84...
- Amikit-Optimisation
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French newspaper issued by AFLE that was created in 1998 and is entirely laser-printed. (snx)
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17.May.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.2 Release Candidate 1
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the famous pc strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the nineties, with a lot of extensions - e. g. a network mode, individual graphics sets and adaptiones for more than two dozens of languages.
The version 0.5.2-RC1 fixes several bugs of its previous version - especially the ones which caused a crash of the server and client, whenever you burned a bridge where a vehicle was present.
Fixed bugs:
- Fix: Loading some TTDP savegames caused an instant assertion on loading (r9857)
- Fix: [NewGRF] Catch occurance of division-by-zero in varaction handling (r9837)
- Fix: Only non dedicated servers cannot have 0 players [FS#765] (r9785)
- Fix: Remove arbitrary limit on length of NewGRF strings (r9775)
- Fix: [NewGRF] Ignore axis-bit of station tile layouts [FS#756] (r9758)
- Fix: [win32] Dead key and open/close console. (r9728)
- Fix: When you have closed the \"Load game\"/\"New game\" windows which you started from the \"start server\" menu, you shouldn\'t start a server when starting a new game [SF#1244842] (r9757)
- Fix: Trains were lost after autorenewal/autoreplace [FS#732] (r9753)
- Fix: Stop flooded towns from building roads on water [FS#598] (r9743)
- Fix: Station signs were not resized when the language changed [FS#672] (r9741)
- Fix: In news history, newlines were not replaced with spaces [FS#677] (r9731)
- Fix: Crash when destroying bridge with train partially on it [FS#738] (r9726)
- Fix: Planes made a 270 degree turn instead of a 90 degree turn on the southern runway of the intercontinental airport [FS#743] (r9725)
- Fix: In-game private messages did not work for clients with high ClientIDs (r9719)
- Fix: Do not allow building of rail vehicles whose railtype is not available (r9718)
- Fix: [YAPF] The guessed path was ignored for ships [FS#736] (r9694)
Additional changes in the MorphOS version which are officially included in version 0.5.2-rc2 and final:
- Feature: Add threading support for MorphOS (r9759)
- Fix: Null pointer dereference under MorphOS and AmigaOS (r9861)
(snx) (Translation: tz)
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17.May.2007
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Documentation and Tutorial for Blenders Fluid-Engine (Update)
Since version 2.4.4 the so called "fluid engine" of the 3d package Blender is also working for the MorphOS port. If somebody wants to get familiar with it, for example simulating floating water or engine oil, should have a look into the Fluid tutorial at blender.org.
Update: (18:52, 17.05.07, snx)
Carsten Siegner has released an animation demo (DivX, 553 KB), which was composed with the MorphOS version of Blender. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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17.May.2007
Pegasosforum (forum)
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MorphOS: MUI4-Betaversion from April 25, 2007
Stefan Stuntz has released another beta version of MUI 4.0 for MorphOS.
Annotations and features since March 2007:
- MUI_RequestA() no longer calls EasyRequestArgs() but new app object is created if there is none (itix)
- When window ActiveObject is cleared, remember to clear ActiveObjectPostPoned, too (piru)
- Named (previously unnamed) MUIC_Process which handles ImageSpace flushing on Screen close to 'MUI Screen Patrol' (tokai)
- Don't add Zoom gadget to Window borders when it has no use - e.g. in fixed size requesters (tokai)
- Added support for scaled background images. Still sort of experimental
- Added auto-horizontalization for slider & prop knobs
Download: muibeta_20070425.lha (2,9 MB) (snx) (Translation: tz)
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17.May.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Compiler: ECX 1.6.0
ECX is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS and MorphOS. ECX requires a present installation of the Amiga-E package. The new features of version 1.6.0 can be read in the changelog. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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16.May.2007
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Navigation: ARexx skripts for Mapquest
Carsten Siegner has created three ARexx skripts for usage with the Mapquest roadmap service.
Amigaearth.rexx: Amigaearth.rexx is an Amiga client with GUI for the German Mapquest server. This server is a online database providing free
downloadable roadmaps. The server holds maps of the whole earth.
Mapquestclient.rexx: Mapquestclient.rexx is a shell based client for the German Mapquest server.
Amiganavi.rexx: Amiganavi.rexx is navigation program with GUI.
it supports GPS nouses, which support the NMEA-0183 protocol and have a serial RS232 connector. The script fetches position data from the GPS mouse
and gets the according maps from the Mapquest server.
Download: amiearth.lha (288 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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16.May.2007
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Dictionaries for AbiWord 2.5.1
For the word processor AbiWord, which is, thanks to Edgar Schwan's X11 environment Cygnix effort, available for AmigaOS 4,
there are dictionaries for spelling control available at the OS4Depot for the following languages.
- Danish
- English
- Finnish
- French
- Italian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Swedish
- Czech
- Hungarian
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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16.May.2007
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.44
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has released an update of his MorphOS port of
Blender.
The release log of version 2.43 of the 3D model software is available at the
Blender homepage. The new version supports, like the predecessor version,
ffmpeg support. Also the Fluite engine is available with this version again. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.May.2007
Amiga.org (webeite)
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AROS homepage in new clothes
The homepage of the open source operating system AROS got a new design which also accounts to the recent name change of the project
(amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.May.2007
amigann.net (Webseite)
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Schematics: Amiga 600/1200 documents in PDF format
At "Symbol Engine" there are schematics of the A600 and of the A1200 in PDF format.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.May.2007
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AROS: USB-stack has now beta status
The USB-stack implemented by Michael Schulz for AROS has got beta status and is now part of the "Nightly Builds" of the AROS-team.
Currently USB 1.1-controllers (UHCI, OHCI) work, USB 2.0-devices (EHCI) work in USB 1.1 compatibility modus. Drivers currently are only available for input devices like mouses and keyboards.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.May.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: The Crypt - Issue 49
The 49th issue of the English magazine called The Crypt contains two Amiga projects with the topics "Switching From PAL To NTSC And Back Again" and "A Simple 100 Hz To 10 KHz Square Wave Generator".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.May.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Issue 29 and 30 online available
Pressrelease: The issues 29 and 30 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that you can read the two magazines (amongst many other issues) online at the homepage .
The issue 66 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Just now we work hard on issue 67.
No. 67 will be the first Amiga Future issue being published in German and English.
We ask all interested users to order issue 67 as soon as possible because we'll print only the preordered amount plus a small reserve. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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14.May.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.05.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 29K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
A71Mail.lha comm/www 71K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
gensconv-mos.lha dev/cross 22K MOS Spectrum HiSoft Gens source converter
CDVDFS.lha disk/cdrom 241K MOS CD/DVD filesys. (ISO,RockRidge,Joliet,HF
Africa.lha game/board 206K OS3 Conversion of 3W boardgame
changeit02.lha game/board 413K VAR Logical game (Amiga Bejeveled clone)
Saga.lha game/board 352K OS3 Conversion of TSR boardgame
Xenostar.lha game/shoot 574K OS3 A 1994 tribute to Sinistar of 1982 fame
tdpowerswap.lha game/think 171K MOS simple logical game
SView5.lha gfx/misc 2.9M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
anaiis.lha hard/drivr 82K OS3 ANAIIS USB Stack Release 0.9
sna2tiff-mos.lha misc/emu 12K MOS ZX Snapshot to TIFF Converter
xzx2plus3-mos.lha misc/emu 9K MOS XZX Snapshot to +3DOS Converter
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 102K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon128 Emulator
Immortal.lha mods/cust 110K OS3 Custom modules from "The Immortal"
Vindicators.lha mods/cust 120K OS3 Custom module from "Vindicators"
ZanyGolf.lha mods/cust 53K OS3 Custom module from "Zany Golf"
Desalmados.mp3 mods/mpg 3.5M GEN Very Dark Song by Diezi7
Light-Travel.mp3 mods/mpg 2.8M GEN Song by Diezi7
Nosequeconnioodecir.mp3 mods/mpg 1.4M GEN Extravaganza audio by Diezi7
simpleplay.lha mus/play 604K OS4 Plays MP3 OGG WAV VOC MOD S3M IT XM MIDI
Nowy_Sacz-Rynek.jpg pix/views 164K GEN Next photo from Kamil Bankowski
ql_dt.lha util/dtype 17K OS3 Datatype for Sinclair QL pictures
eastern.lha util/wb 39K VAR creates thumbnail icons on the fly
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14.May.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 13.05.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
simpleplay.lha aud/pla 604kb Plays MP3 OGG WAV VOC MOD S3M IT XM MIDI
hatari.lha emu/com 1Mb Atari ST and STE emulator.
whdload-to-uae.lha emu/uti 145kb WHDLoad to E-UAE
ww2.lha gam/boa 3Mb World War II strategy war game
changeit.lha gam/puz 412kb Logical game (Amiga Bejeveled clone)
availmempatch.lha uti/mis 2kb Limits RAM available to 68k apps
fontforge.lha uti/tex 9Mb FontForge 20061220 for AmigaOS 4 (Cygnix
eastern.lha uti/wor 39kb Creates thumbnail icons from images on t
maclikedock.lha uti/wor 5Mb A Visually Impressive Program Launcher
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14.May.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 13.05.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
changeit02.lha gam/puz 412kb Logical game (Amiga Bejeveled clone)
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13.May.2007
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IRC Client: WookieChat 2.6b12 for all Amiga systems
James "jahc" Carroll is making available a new beta version of his MUI-based IRC client Wookiechat. The latest changes can be gathered from the changelog. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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13.May.2007
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: Software updates
Press release: We're providing a hotfix for the Catweasel drivers that corrects writing of Amiga-disks. The only updated file is the Imagetool, please only use it with the latest beta-drivers V2.3.0.0. Download: imagetool_hotfix.zip (77,6K). Caution: This hotfix has only been tested with Amiga-disks!
Oliver Achten has done a lot of work on the MMC64: Since MMC- and SD-cards with a capacity of more than 4G are already available, MMC64 now supports the FAT32 filesystem. This more modern filesystem also has advantages on smaller flashcards, because most C64-files are so small that FAT16 will only waste a lot of space. The new BIOS also made updates on the plugins necessary, most plugins experienced a complete re-write, the old plugins will be updated shortly and can currently only be used with FAT16. The MP3-plugin can now playback whole directories as playlists, the AVF-plugin plays an MMC64-proprietary video format that also utilizes the MP3@64 module. The Picture-plugins have also been updated and they are available in version 1.3 on our support page. An example video file in AVF-format is also located there, because we don't have a converter for your videos yet.
Peter Wendrich has made major updates to the C64-core for the C-One in the past few months. The interrupt behaviour of the CPU has been corrected, a bug in sprite display in the lower screen area has been removed, and the timing-behaviour of the CIA-chips has been implemented according to the results of Peter's detailed research. The new core is available in the download-area of the C-One Webseite. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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13.May.2007
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Event: Photos from Amiwest of last year
Robert Bernardo is making available some photos from AmiWest 2006. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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13.May.2007
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Photos from a Polish MorphOS 2.0 presentation
The clues are increasing that the next version of MorphOS should carry the version number 2.0 and the time to the release must no longer be counted in years, but in months: As yet unconfirmed rumors have it that Jacek "Jacadcaps" Piszczek has made a MorphOS 2.0 presentation at the Polish event Amimajówka 2007.
Those who inspect the photos from the event more closely, will actually discover some improvements: For example, semitransparent windows or screenshots from a TCP stack can be seen, among other things.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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12.May.2007
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Emulator: Winuae 1.42a (update)
Version 1.4.2a of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been published. Changes since the last version:
- "Windowed fullscreen" for users with multiple monitors, fullscreen
Amiga on secondary monitor, Windows on primary monitor, no more lost
fullscreen when focus changes to Windows program.
- A600/A1200 and A4000 IDE harddrive (HDF) hardware emulation, includes
also "4-Way IDE" / "IDE splitter" emulation.
- Directory, HDF, IDE and Picasso96 statefile support. WARNING: data loss
possible if data in HDF has changed between saving and restoring!
Picasso96 statefile support not 100% compatible yet.
- 68030 and 68060 (with FPU. 68060.library required) emulation. (no MMU)
- 68881/68882 FPU type selectable.
- Global brightness, contrast and gamma adjustment.
- "PAL" TV-like filter, with brightness, contrast, gamma, scanline level,
blur and noise adjustment.
- GUI debugger, debugger improvements. (xx switches debugger modes)
- New GUI font if running under Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
- Interpolation and filters supported in 4/6 channel sound modes.
- Log and debugger console position stored in registry.
The following bugs have been fixed:
- 1.42a: Path handling problems fixed. If you still have problems with paths,
select Paths-panel "WinUAE default (old)" and click "Reset to defaults"
and then manually adjust paths if needed.
- 1.42a: Windows 98SE (and ME?) incompatibility
- Improved CDTV emulation compatibility.
- 1.4.0 FPU clamping fix.
- Missing channels in 4 channel sound mode. (Emu10K based cards)
- 10x+ performance increase during "decrunching" color effects when
no filters enabled and only background color was visible.
- Crash when loading config and specific chipset extra model was selected.
- Direct HD support improved, SyQuest removable drives detected properly.
- Minor custom chipset emulation updates.
- Rare emulator crash when running Amiga program crashed badly.
- Filter centering improved.
Update: (13.05.2007, 24:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 1.4.2.a is available which fixes two more bugs.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.May.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Mind game TD Power Swap 1.0
Already on 8th of May the group TDolphin published the mind game TD Power Swap in version 1.0 for MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.May.2007
Insane-Software (ANF)
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Puzzle game: Amijeweled update to v1.2
Press release:
Hallo!
We are pleased that we can announce the publication of another (and hopefully last ;) ) update for Amijeweled!
It is version 1.2 which mainly fixes the problem under MorphOS which is freezed by Amijeweled on this systems.
Thanks a lot to Harry "piru" Sintonen for his help and his important information to the differences between AmigaOS and MorphOS.
As usual our customers already have got the update and the updated demo version is available on our server. Have fun with Amijeweled V1.2!
Yours sincerely
Niels Schapke & Wolfgang Hosemann
Insane-Software (cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.May.2007
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Pictograms: 298 Dual-PNG-Icons created by Kenneth Lester
Kenneth Lester has created 298 icons in dual-PNG-format of AmigaOS 4. With AROS for AmigaOS (AfA) they can be also used under AmigaOS/68k.
Download: k4.lha (2,4 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.May.2007
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Law Suit Amiga vs. Hyperion: First Claims from Hyperions lawyers
In the law suit Amiga Inc. vs. Hyperion Hyperion's lawyers have made their first declaration. The claims and declarations as well as the other court files are available on the net:
hyperionobjectshow_case_doc.pdf
amigakinselnotappshow_case_doc.pdf
hyperionaffservshow_case_doc.pdf
hyperioncertservshow_case_doc.pdf
kinselsupdecshow_case_doc.pdf
hyperiondeckinsellshow_case_doc.pdf
Hyperion's lawyers are mentioning only formal juristic problems without giving a statement to the descriptions and claims of Amiga Inc.'s complaint: During the commencement of proceedings Amiga has applied for an "expedited discovery" - this is an expedited procedure whereas the accused party is only given a period of ten days instead of 30 for answering the items of the charging party.
Hyperion argues that the requirements for this "expedited discovery" would not exist, as they are only allowed in rare exceptions. Obviously Amiga would try to capture Hyperion the possibility of an adequate defence. Further arguments are mentioned that Hyperion wasn't informed in time of the commencement of action - as required by law together with the opening of the proceeding - and the claim wasn't delivered in one of Belgium's national languages but English . Hyperion is complainig this as illegal with a referral of the "Hague Convention for service of process overseas".
Contentwise Hyperion denies Amiga's demands for the intellectual property of AmigaOS 4.0 and announces a vigorous resistance against the accuser's claims. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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09.May.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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IRC client: WookieChat 2.6b11 for all Amiga systems
James "jahc" Carroll provides a new beta version of his MUI based IRC clienten Wookiechat.. The latest changes are listed at the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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09.May.2007
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Thumbnail icons: Eastern 1.6
Stephan Rupprecht's Eastern is an Workbench plugin which displays thumbnail preview icons instead of the default icons for those picture files that do not have own icons.
With the latest version a bug has been removed, which lead to a creash when started from Workbench with undefined tooltypes. Also the design of the wildcard icon has been changed slightly.
Eastern is available for AmigaOS 3 and OS4 (cg) (Translation: ub)
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09.May.2007
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: FontForge ported to AmigaOS4/X11
With FontForge Edgar Schwan has ported another program to his X11 environment Cygnix.
It is a vast outlinefont-editor for creating or modifying PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, CID, Multi-Master, CFF, SCG and Bitmap fonts (bdf, FON, NFNT). Furthermore it is also possible to convert a font from one supported format to another. Also many Mac formats as well as printing is supported.
Download: fontforge.lha (10 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.May.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2007 (Sacramento, USA)
On October 20th for the tenth time the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento, California. You can still reserve and further information about guests and exhibitors will be available soon.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.May.2007
carstensiegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.43-20070505
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has published an update of his MorphOS port of Blender. This new version can now use video-codecs of ffmpeg-packets as import and export filter. Pictures and sound are saved or loaded.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2007
[ujb] (ANF)
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ACK/Amiga Inc.: Details to planned Highend platform
Under the title link Amiga Inc. and ACK have announced details to the second planned hardware platform called "Power-Design".
This new system will be offered at a suggested retail price of $1498.00 and be a complete offering excluding monitor in a finished design that will provide customers with everything they need to get started.
Power Design Specifications PowerPC board:
- Based on the P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682M dual core 64 bit CPUs clocked at 2GHz
- RoHS compliant ATX form factor
- Four (4) DDR2 DIMM slots
- One (1) PCI Express x16 slot for high performance graphics cards
- One (1) PCI Express x2 slot for high performance I/O cards
- One (1) PCI Express x1 slot for standard I/O cards
- One (1) PCI 32 bit slot for legacy cards
- Six (6) USB 2.0 ports
- Two (2) Gb Ethernet ports
- Two (2) UART ports for serial connectivity and debug
- One 8Mb Flash EEPROM containing U-Boot firmware
- Four (4) SATA II ports based on the Silicon Image SiI3132 (x2)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP Celebrates 15th Birthday
Pressrelease APC&TCP Celebrates 15th Birthday
We have overlooked it nearly.
APC&TCP got 15 years old this year.
Being as active as in the beginning.
Currently we have a survey for a reprint of the AmigaOS 3.9 book and the English Amiga Guru Book.
New versions of Desert Racing and AmiATLAS are in the works, MTRechnung for OS4 will be released soon and some other projects are close to their release.
Meanwhile we have adopted the English print magazine Total Amiga and on 5th July the first English version of the Amiga Future is going to be released.
By the way the Amiga Future will get 10 years old this year.
To celebrate a little we have reduced many prices in our online shop permanently.
Quite recently we have dropped the price for an subscription of the Amiga Future to foreign countries. The price for shipping and handling to foreign countries has been reduced aswell. Even though the postal office raised prices for it by 50 percent starting from 1st January.
This way we hope to get some more subscribers for the Amiga Future to secure the future of the magazine in a long term. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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07.May.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.05.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 29K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
2b_krucha_nntp.lha comm/news 352K MOS Library for nntp connection with src
A71Mail.lha comm/www 72K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
bintap.lha dev/cross 28K VAR Converts binary data to Spectrum .TAP
mc-4.1.40-pre8-bin-m68k.lha dev/gg 854K OS3 advanced midnight commander
mc-4.1.40-pre8-s1-bin.lha dev/gg 519K OS3 advanced midnight commander (slang ver.)
ncurses-5.5-1-bin-m68k.lha dev/gg 3.9M OS3 gnu ncurses-5.5 sdk
ncurses-5.5-1-usr-m68k.lha dev/gg 155K OS3 gnu ncurses-5.5 user runtime
Python_Enhancement.lha dev/src 305K OS3 Enhancing Python Code, Classic AMIGAs.
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 64K GEN aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
ResourcePatch2.lha docs/misc 14K GEN Patch ReSource v6.06 to use one bitplane
Africa.lha game/board 205K OS3 Conversion of 3W boardgame
BME.lha game/edit 265K OS3 Map Editor for Benefactor
cmatrix-1.2a-1.lha game/gag 134K OS3 matrix in the shell (with source)
qclock-1.1.lha game/gag 17K OS3 ask your miggy about the time
WormWars.lha game/misc 673K OS3 Advanced snake game
wesnoth-devel.lha game/strat 66M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth (development version)
dopewars-1.5.12-m68k.lha game/text 609K OS3 become a drug dealer (one player/tcpip)
bastet-0.41-m68k.lha game/think 50K OS3 BAStard TETris (libncurses.ixlibrary)
SView5.lha gfx/misc 2.9M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
EVBerruguete.lha gfx/show 455K OS3 Shows/play, copy, move etc. pictures
PointRiderUIfr.lha gfx/show 2K GEN PointRiderUI french catalog
WarpViewGUI-fr.lha gfx/show 1K GEN WarpViewGUI french catalog
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 276K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emula
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 175K OS3 48K/128K/+2 Sinclair Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 113K OS3 48K/128K/+2 Sinclair Spectrum emulator.
HandyPlusPlus.lha misc/emu 591K MOS Atari Lynx emulator
albert.lha misc/math 374K OS3 assistant: study non associative algebra
CALCArbitray.lha misc/math 522K OS3 arbitrary precision integer arithmetic
CMAT.lha misc/math 1.2M OS3 An exact arithmetic calculator program
GaloisFieldArithmetic.lha misc/math 1.1M OS3 Galois Field Arithmetic Library
Game.mp3 mods/mpg 5.6M GEN mp3
EP_SpecialFX.lha mus/play 13K OS3 EaglePlayer "Special FX" ext. replayer
EP_SpecialFXST.lha mus/play 11K OS3 EaglePlayer "Special FX ST" ext. replaye
EP_SynthDream.lha mus/play 17K OS3 EaglePlayer "Synth Dream" ext. replayer
F1GP-Ed_Icons.lha pix/gicon 31K GEN F1GP-Ed replacement icons
MuLibGlow.lha pix/gicon 443K GEN MuLib replacement icons
Sinclair_Icons.lha pix/gicon 241K GEN Sinclair Spectrum Icons
AP38Covers.lha pix/misc 215K GEN aMiGa=PoWeR n°38 Cover Recto
800img3114ff3.jpg pix/views 110K GEN Best photo on the world!!
BareED.lha text/edit 385K OS3 ASCII/TIS-620 editor/text highlighting
msdos-amiga.lha text/misc 33K GEN Convert MSDOS texts to AMIGA text format
usbboot.lha util/boot 3K MOS Boot pegasos from usb device or drawer
stringins.lha util/cli 6K OS4 Insert keypresses into the input stream
akJFIF-dt.lha util/dtype 208K VAR akJFIF-dt (JPEG, 68000-060/MOS)
akLJPG-dt.lha util/dtype 70K VAR akLJPG-dt (LJPG, 68000-060)
akNAIL-dt.lha util/dtype 63K VAR akNAIL-dt (IFF-NAIL, 68000-060)
akPNG-dt.lha util/dtype 207K VAR akPNG-dt (PNG, 68000-060/MOS)
akSVG-dt.lha util/dtype 72K VAR akSVG-dt (SVG [SView], 68000-060)
akTIFF-dt.lha util/dtype 524K VAR akTIFF-dt (TIFF, 68000-060/MOS)
Aminet-Readme-Creator.lha util/misc 43K OS3 Generates Aminet upload .readme file
AminetReadme-fr.lha util/misc 2K GEN AminetReadme french catalog
iGame.lha util/misc 67K OS3 WHDLoad frontend
eastern.lha util/wb 45K VAR creates thumbnail icons on the fly
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 06.05.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
asap2wav.lha aud/con 76kb Converts Atari 8-bit SAP music to WAV
ptmid.lha aud/con 121kb Converts midi music files to mod music f
easytag.lha aud/edi 7Mb EasyTag 2.0 for AmigaOS 4 (Cygnix) - wit
samplayer.lha aud/mis 159kb SAM Speech Synthesizer program now with
zvocoder.lha aud/mis 614kb Zirius Vocoder - Creates trendy robot vo
drac.lha dev/lib 287kb A card game engine, includes Klondike as
bchunk.lha dri/mis 36kb CD image format conversion from bin/cue
removeffs.lha emu/uti 20kb Strips dummy data off GBA roms
runadf.lha emu/uti 94kb RunADF is tooltype program to start ECS/
btripper.lha gam/act 190kb Baloon Tripper - A Baloon Fight Clone
msweeper.lha gam/boa 169kb A Japanese Mine Sweeper game. No music s
wesnoth-devel.lha gam/str 66Mb Battle for Wesnoth (development version)
image2icon.lha gra/con 99kb Creates thumbnail icons from images
photocrop.lha gra/edi 224kb Crop and Resize images easilly.
fractal.lha gra/mis 234kb A fractal explorer.
aosx11-theme.lha gra/the 498kb AmigaOS 4 default theme for X11
pointrideruifr.lha gra/vie 1kb PointRiderUI french catalog
warpviewgui-fr.lha gra/vie 1kb WarpViewGUI french catalog
pidgin-src.lha net/cha 880kb Sources of Pidgin 1.5.0 and related libs
pidgin.lha net/cha 10Mb Pidgin 1.5.0 (Gaim) for AmigaOS 4 (Cygni
circle.lha net/mis 7Mb CircleMUD V3.5 Port To Os 4
abiword-update.lha off/wor 11Mb AbiWord 2.5.1 update
aminetreadme-fr.lha uti/mis 1kb AminetReadme french catalog
psptools.lha uti/mis 210kb Makes your PSX games playable on your PS
qclock.lha uti/mis 22kb Ask your miggy about the time
timerhack.lha uti/mis 3kb makes timer.device to tick at PAL clock
stringins.lha uti/scr 6kb Insert keypresses into the input stream
backdropicons.lha uti/wor 56kb Script to make icons for wb-backdrop ima
benchboards.lha uti/wor 7Mb Similar to Dashboard Widgets on OSX
copyicon.lha uti/wor 13kb Copy icon images from one icon to anothe
eastern.lha uti/wor 45kb Creates thumbnail icons from images on t
screenselect.lha uti/wor 748kb A Screen Switcher Based on Mason's Mock
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 06.05.2007
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
dummylibraryexample.i386.src.tar.gz dev/exa 219kb Simple library example - still much to d
potrace.i386-aros.zip gra/con 194kb Transforming bitmaps into vector graphic
potrace.src-aros.zip gra/con 400kb Potrace source code with metamake file
glass.wdz gra/the 29kb Glassy theme
glass_hack.wdz gra/the 30kb Glassy theme (Screenbar hack)
ice_fix.wdz gra/the 33kb ice theme (fix)
mos-like.wdz gra/the 24kb MorphOS-like theme
panther.wdz gra/the 32kb Panther skin
pattern-aroslogo.zip gra/the 473kb Basic AROS logo patterns
thememanager.zip gra/the 42kb Theme manager for AROS
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07.May.2007
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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MIDI-Sequencer: BarsnPipes New 1.26
Alfred Faust has a new version of the Multimedia-MIDI-Sequencers BarsnPipes published. This update fixes all Problems which are reported to the author, among others:
- If the synchronisiation is not selected it is now really deactivated.
- All GUI pics are reintegrated into the main program. The possibility, to create own GUIs was used only very rare. The loading procedure takes a big amount of time. Because of the rare used nice "Skinability"-feature I've decided, to remove it again. This reduces the start-time of the program very much.
- Now 3 different Versions are available for OS3.0 or higher a 32-color-GUI (for AMIGAs with graphics-card), for OS3.0 or higher a 8-color-GUI (for AMIGAs without graphics-card) and for OS2.1 8-color-GUI (ONLY for OS2.1)
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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05.May.2007
Amiga Future (website)
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Spectrum emulator ASp 0.89
ASp emulates the home computer Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Amiga and programmed in 68k assembler.
Changes in version 0.89:
- Kempston Mouse support
- 48K key-overlay help image
- Loading of .ZLS images from the ZX-Live emulator
- Fix for a side-effect of the lowlevel.library OS4 workaround from V0.88
Thanks go to Chris Young and Dmitriy Zhivilov for their cooperation on this update.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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05.May.2007
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Carl Sassenrath
To celebrate the 1000th article of the french magazine Obligement, an interview has been done with Carl Sassenrath.
There he is talking about his time at Amiga and Commodore (AmigaOS, CDTV) as well as his work for Apple and Viscorp. Furthermore he describes the concept and aims of REBOL, his programming language for network communications and distributed computing. (snx)
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05.May.2007
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Amiga Inc. announces paying of the 50$ coupons
As Amiga Inc. announces in a message to all Club Amiga members that now with new hardware being available in summer they want to let their customers know that they could convert their coupons soon:
Here's the original mail from Amiga Inc.:
"Greetings from Amiga;
This message has been a long time coming, but with the recent announcements of new hardware and the manufacturing to begin shortly we wanted to let all of you know that you will still be able to receive your Club Amiga discount.
The new hardware is expected to be available this summer, and we will be sending out further instructions shortly on how to redeem your discount and use it for the purchase of your new system.
For those of you who have already purchased an AmigaOne system from Eyetech, please locate any receipt that you may have for the machine. If that is not possible then we will work with each of you so that you can also receive what is due you for your purchase and faith in Amiga."
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05.May.2007
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Event: Classic-Computing 2007
In a press release it is announced that this year's "Classic-Computing" takes place on September, 29th and 30th in the Österfeldhalle in Stuttgart-Vaihingen.
On an exhibition space of more than 700 m² hundreds of exhibits out of the world of classic computers await you. Exhibitors from all over Germany and bordering foreign countries show the best of their collections. You'll see home computers as well as office computers, even never sold prototypes and unique conversions/ new developments are part of the repertoire.
With almost all of the systems being functional feel and try them is the main aspect of the fair!
More information is available from Rüdiger Schuldes, schuldes@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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05.May.2007
The AROS Show (ANF)
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Interview with Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX)
For his English blog Paul J. Beel made an interview with Bill Panagouleas. for his English blog "The AROS Show". The manager of DiscreetFX talks about his career and the background of his special effects company.
News about his still existing idea of buying Amiga Inc., if possible, (amiga-news.de reported), aren't given, though.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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04.May.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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WHDLoad: New archives until 04.05.2007
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on 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 added, improved or updated:
- 03.05.07 new: Chessmaster 2100 (The Software Toolworks) done by Psygore (Info)
- 03.05.07 new: Chess Simulator (Infogrames) done by Psygore (Info)
- 21.04.07 new: Dragon Wars (Interplay) done by Psygore (Info)
- 05.04.07 updated: Dragonflight (Thalion) supports french version too, keyboard handling fixed, icons and manual added (Info)
- 05.04.07 improved: Cybercon 3 (U.S.Gold) savegames fixed, supports another version (Info)
- 04.04.07 updated: Thunderhawk (Core Design) complete rework, various fixes and changes, supports french version too, docs and icons added (Info)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2007
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: SimpleCam 2.2
The program SimpleCam written by Rupert Hausberger makes it possible to access digital cameras. Now version 2.2 is available for MorphOS.
The tooltypes NAKTIMEOUT, MAKEFOLDERS and FOLDERFMT as well as a new progress bar have been added. Additionally some typo errors were fixed.
Download: simplecam-morphos.lha (115 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.3.2 (developer version)
The turn based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth has been published in the developer version 1.3.2 for AmigaOS 4 (changelog).
Please note that the last stable version is 1.2.4.
Download: wesnoth-devel.lha (66 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.May.2007
a1k.org/forum/ (website)
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Buch: Der Amiga - die Geschichte einer Computerlegende
In "Der Amiga - die Geschichte einer Computerlegende" ("The Amiga - the Story of a Computer Legend") Volker "Dr. Zarkov" Mohr is telling the exciting history of the Amiga on 140 pages. The directory and some reading rehearsals are available under the title link. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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03.May.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Games Database: 111 new Titles at lemonamiga.com
The games database lemonamiga.com was extended about 111 further titles, including many less known Polish games. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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03.May.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.3.3
For AmiKit, an all-in-one distribution for WinUAE users, an update to version 1.3.3 is available. This can be obtained via the integrated live update feature or it can be manually installed. The changes can be found in the changelog. (snx)
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02.May.2007
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Pidgin 1.5.0 (Gaim) for Cygnix
Edgar Schwan has released a first version of Pidgin 1.5.0 for his X11 environment Cygnix. Pidgin is
a chat software that supports several different protocols.
Originally te program was called "Gaim" but had to change the name due to legal issues.
The available implementaton supports the following protokols:
- AIM / ICQ
- Gadu Gadu
- Groupwise
- IRC
- Jabber
- MSN
- Napster
- Rendezvous
- Trepia
- Yahoo
- Zephyr
Download: pidgin.lha (11 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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02.May.2007
[ujb] (ANF)
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Hyperion comment on their dispute with Amiga Inc
Press release:
Leuven, Belgium - May 1, 2007.
Whilst it is not Hyperion Entertainment's policy to comment on ongoing litigation, we would like to reassure our customers (whom we wish to thank for their very numerous notes of support following the news) that development of AmigaOS 4.0 related components is still ongoing and will continue apace during the duration of the litigation with Amiga Inc.
Following over 18 months of unproductive negotiations with Amiga Inc. through our management and attorneys, we welcome the opportunity to finally present our case in a court of law which was regrettably the only remaining avenue after Amiga Inc. repeatedly and consistently stonewalled any attempt to resolve the outstanding issues (including the "Party Pack" and "I am Amiga Club" voucher schemes and the failure to acknowledge the intellectual property rights of third party developers) through mediation and binding arbitration.
Despite the failure of Amiga Inc. to secure access to the Amiga OS 3.5 and 3.9 source-code and indeed the reworked Amiga 3.1 source-code, Hyperion Entertainment has, in the form of Amiga OS 4.0, delivered a product which meets and surpasses all contractual design and development goals (e.g. full Amiga chipset independence), a fact which was previously acknowledged contractually and publicly by Amiga Inc. Under the 2001 agreement with Amiga Inc. Hyperion is entitled to all revenues stemming from distribution of Amiga OS 4.0 irrespective of the execution of the "buy in" clause which relates solely to subsequent versions (Amiga OS 4.1 and beyond).
We will therefore vigorously defend the claim which we consider entirely devoid of substance and we are extremely confident of a favorable outcome.
In closing, we would like to remind dealers and other third parties that distribution of Amiga OS 4.0 without the prior permission of Hyperion VOF and certain third party developers is illegal under EU, US and international copyright legislation and therefore entirely at their own risk.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2007
David Brunet (ANF)
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25 new articles at Obligement website (french)
The following articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of march/april 2007
- News: the RoSH directive
- Report: Lam3rs Bouffe
- Interview with Gunnar von Boehn
- Review of MorphOS 1.4.5
- Review of Ri-Li
- Review of Neverball
- Review of Neerputt
- Review of Immortal 3
- Review of Timidity 0.6
- Review of AmiPhoto 1.21
- Comparative: DvPlayer vs. MPlayer on AmigaOS 4
- Hardware: The Lorraine
- Hardware: The Walker (update)
- Point of view: and now, which future for the Amiga?
- Point of view: the Amiga spirit
- Point of view: a Pegasos otherwise nothing
- Point of view: once upon a time the revolution
- Tutorial: installation of Ubuntu 7 (Feisty) on Pegasos II
- Tutorial: installation of Linux Debian Woody on AmigaOne
- Tutorial: use MSN Messenger with IRC
- Tutorial: use of GMail with SimpleMail
- Tutorial: installation and use of TurboPrint 7.60 on MorphOS
- The Quizz of march/april 2007
- Special Quizz about the shoot'em up
Furthermore there are translations available for the following articles:
- Interview with Gunnar von Boehn (English)
- Hardware: The Walker (Italian)
(snx)
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01.May.2007
AROS-ML
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AROS: Renaming project
According to Aaron Digulla, initiator of the open source code operating system AROS, the name "Amiga" will be deleted from the project name because of the legal steps of Amiga Inc. against Hyperion.
Because of these reasons the project simply is called "AROS", "AROS Research Operating System" or "AROS Research OS". Of course you can call the project just like you want but in eMails, articles and on websites it should be called "AROS - The AROS Research Operating System".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.May.2007
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Graphic program SView5 2.25 / Version 45.60 of diverse ak-datatypes
Andreas Kleinert has published version 2.25 of his graphic program SView5. Additionally six of his datatypes were updated.
Download:
SView5.lha (2,9 MB)
akJFIF-dt.lha (208 KB)
akLJPG-dt.lha (70 KB)
akNAIL-dt.lha (63 KB)
akPNG-dt.lha (207 KB)
akSVG-dt.lha (72 KB)
akTIFF-dt.lha (524 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Apr.2007
Mikey C (ANF)
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Petition: Appeal to Amiga Inc. and Hyperion
Linked to the header Mikey "Mikey C" Carillo established a petition to call Amiga Inc. and Hyperion to a cooperativness.
The correct wording is:
"We, the undersigned ask that Amiga inc and Hyperion Entertainment to put aside their differences and work together to ensure the success of the Amiga platform for the benefit of all fans of the Amiga operating system."
The author hopes that many signatures changes the political way of both companies. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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30.Apr.2007
Amiga, Inc.
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Amiga Inc./ACK: Details of "Entry Level"-Hardware
Press release:
Issaquah, Wash and Fonthill, ON Canada – April 29, 2007 – ACK Controls and Amiga, Inc. are pleased to announce the base hardware design that will address the needs of the Amiga market as well offering expansion into other markets.
“The first product release is designed for flexibility and meeting the needs of the Amiga user, as well as offer a design that takes advantage of available hardware”, said Adam Kowalczyk President of ACK Systems
This new system will be offered at a suggested retail price of $ 489.00 and be a complete offering excluding monitor in a finished design that will provide customers with everything they need to get started.
* Flex-ATX form factor motherboard based on the Freescale MPC8349E SoC. (400MHz to 667MHz depending on requirements and price target)
* 1 (one) DDR2 DIMM slot expandable to 1GB using unregistered DIMMs.
* 1 (one) 66MHz PCI slot for use with readily available graphics cards.
* 2 (two) 33MHz PCI slots for additional expansion.
* 2 (two) 10/100/1Gb Ethernet Ports.
* 4 (four) Hi Speed USB ports.
* 2 (two) serial ports.
* 4 (four) SATA ports provided by a Silicon Image Sil3114 controller.
* Onboard sound provided by a C-Media CMI8738.
* Socketed EEPROM for U-Boot firmware.
* Atmel ATC2408A serial EEPROM (1 kb of non-volatile storage)
* Dallas DS1339 RTC with battery holder.
* Standard ATX power supply connector.
“Amiga is please to be working with ACK Controls and believe that by using flexible designs and aggressive manufacturing practices we will be able to deliver to our customers a great product at a great price”, said Bill McEwen of Amiga, Inc.
Manufacturing partner and final ship schedule will be following soon.
About Amiga
Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies. For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. Today Amiga builds on this legacy leading the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to new platforms and interactive devices. For more information visit www.amiga.com.
About ACK
ACK Software Controls, Inc. specializes in the area of embedded controls design for use in automation systems where low-power consumption and reliability is an absolute must. Concentrating on design for manufacturing with local manufacturing facilities has allowed ACK to quickly and cost-effectively develop solutions for customers with low-volume requirements. By integrating hardware, firmware, and device driver engineering capability in-house, ACK can provide complete turn-key solutions to customers. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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30.Apr.2007
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Amiga Inc.: "Lizenz agreement closed" / Lawsuit against Hyperion (Update 3)
"In 2001, Amiga, Inc. entered into a license for the development of AmigaOS 4.0 with AmigaOne(TM) Partners, collectively Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd. The license agreement was terminated on December 20, 2006."
This was the same time as the "Final Update" of AmigaOS 4.0 was released on Christmas (amiga-news.de reports).
More information about the closed lizence and the matter about the development and the relation to the buyback of the Operatingsystem by Amiga Inc 2003 are still open at the moment.
Update: (14:40, 30.04.07, snx)
Acc. Justitia.com has Amiga Inc. on 26. April at Washington Western Federal District Court open a Lawsuit due to a breach against the brand against Hyperion.
Update 2: (19:15, 30.04.07, snx)
Rich Woods provides a link for the complete case: Case.PDF
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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30.Apr.2007
4Players.de (Webseite)
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Turrican: 3D-Version for the PlayStation 3?
Linked to the header is a interview with Julian Eggebrecht Presidenten from Factor 5.
On Page 4 will be talk about the possibility of a 3D-Version of the Classic-Game Turrican for the PlayStation 3, which was developed for the C64 and Amiga. But the work was started only with the internal concept at the moment. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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29.Apr.2007
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS for AmigaOS: Updates to icon.library and picture.datatype for AfA
Bernd Roesch has released updates to icon.library as well as to picture.datatype for his AmigaOS port of AROS components, "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA).
With these, it is now possible to employ the Workbench plugin Eastern for generating thumbnail icons under AfA as well (reported by amiga-news.de).
To this end, the icon.library now supports "globalidentify hook," which is required by Eastern as well as by DefIcons. Additionally, the version was changed to V51 and AmigaOS 4 compatibility for reading and writing 24 bit icon data was added.
Version 1.5 of Eastern is required, in addition, when using cache, the Raw option must be set.
The new picture.datatype now supports scaling in the function DT_Readpixelarray, which is also required by Eastern. Also, more 8 bit ILBM images are displayed correctly on a "classic" Amiga with Picasso 96 or CyberGraphX.
Moreover, in 32 and 24 bit images on 16 bit screens, a dithering takes place, so that color gradients as in the original picture.datatype are not visible. In this regard, the author Thilo Köhler thanks for the source code.
The update is rounded off with an extension to the FAQ collection for Eastern and the picture.datatype under CyberGraphX on Amiga computers.
Download: iconlibForEastern_finalbeta.lha (131 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
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Thumbnail Icons: Eastern 1.5
Stephan Rupprecht's Eastern is a Workbench plugin that automatically displays a thumbnail preview instead of the default icon for images that do not have their own icon. The latest changes:
- v1.5: added RAW/S option to speed up loading of cached icons
- v1.4: no longer needs progressive mode for the cache, added WAITUPDATE option
- v1.3: in 1.2 the cache was limited to Workbench, now all apps are cached. The 68k build of Eastern assumes an OS4 compatible icon.library when the version number of the library is v51 or higher. In this case truecolor icons will be created. internal release
Eastern is available for AmigaOS 3 and 4. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
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MorphOS: Grex driver for Terratec 512i and Realtek 8029
Under the title link, Frank Mariak is making available PPC-native versions of two GRex drivers. Newly added is the driver for Terratec 512i/Fortemedia 801 sound cards, whereas a new version of the network card driver for the Realtek 8029 chipset was released some time ago, which corrects some minor problems. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
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Do It Yourself: Right angled adapter of make DIY
After the right angled adapters for the PCMCIA port of the Amiga 600 and 1200 had no longer been produced for some time, Jörg Thomas has also given thought to a solution to this problem, besides amigakit.com (reported by amiga-news.de).
Under the title link, he describes how he crafted such an adapter by himself, with many photos. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
MorphOS-News.de (SW-Liste)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.43
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has released an update to his MorphOS port of Blender. You can find the release log for version 2.43 of the 3D modeling program on the Blender homepage.
Download: blender_2.43-mos_bin-20070428.lha (5.5 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
amiga.org (Web page)
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Reissue: PCMCIA right angled adapter for A600/A1200
Those who want to transplant an Amiga 600/1200 in another (tower) case, are often confronted with the problem that the PCMCIA slot lies directly to the case wall and is no longer accessible.
Since the PCMCIA right angled adapters, which were developed for such problem cases, are no longer being produced for years, the British dealer amigakit.com has decided to reissue the product. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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