31.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-FindColour V1.1 published
SN-FindColour is Freeware and meant to find certain colours. Red-, green- and blue-figures
can be set with the help of a scroller and thus the colour will be calculated.
Besides this it is also possible to enter and calculate HTML colour codes.
There is a standard and a MorphOS version (problems with entering fields).
You can find SN-FindColour under "Weitere SN-Archive" on my homepage (title link).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Announcement of updates of three SN-Archives
In a few days there will be updates of SN-EuroArchiv and 2in1-Project
SN-MünzenArchiv II and SN-MarkenArchiv II. For SN-Münz-/Marken-Archiv
the HTML-support has been added. Here is a possible
example.
Steffen Nitz: "I wish all Amiga users and the users of SN-Archives and the
game "Die Kleine Gilde II" a Happy New Year!"
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
David Brunet (ANF)
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Game database: Update of the "Amiga Games List"
The "Amiga Games List" (AGL) has been updated and reworked by David Brunet.
The AGL tries to list all Amiga games in a clear format. The list contains games, editors and
data disks. With 8645 listed games the AGL is the most extensive database for Amiga games.
If you have comments or completions then please contact obligement AT free DOT fr .
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Liquid Skies records #081
Today the scene group Liquid Skies publishes its 81st music pack. This time it contains
a song called "Before Tea Time" which was composed by Lcr reworked by Kuadziw.
The cover was created by Kuadziw.
Some further information to the track:
- Title: Before Tea Time
- Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
- Style: Drum'n'bass
- Play time: 5:08
- Format: mp3 @ 160 kbps
- Size: 6 MB (ZIP-packed)
You can download it under the title link.
The LQS-crew wish all people who are interested in music a Happy New Year!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: "Weather" shows information to the weather
"Weather" uses the database of weather.com to
show you current information about the weather on the Workbench (screenshot).
Weather requires the datatype-system MOSMedia which was published a few days ago (amiga-news.de reported).
Download: weather.lha (490 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2004
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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WinUAE: New Online Help
Under the title link you'll find the new online help for WinUAE. The data "winuae.chm" must be placed in the same directory as "WinUAE.exe." Then it can be called with the help button in the WinUAE GUI.
The new online help goes completely on the new WinUAE, including a few screenshots.
Whoever uses UAE for more than games can find some tips for the usage of the emulator under "Tips->Hints for Powerusers" and now the description of the referenced program is also complete.
Whoever wishes to participate in the further development of this documentation, please send a comment to the author to get hold of the corresponding archive. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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30.Dec.2004
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Software News Through 29th December, 2004
vbcc 0.8g patch 3
Another update for the C-compiler vbcc 0.8g has been released. The following problems have been solved:
- The minimal startup code from vbcc_target_m68k-amigaos, minstart.o, didn't work with latest vlink.
- New OS3.5 functions for workbench.library and icon.librarary were missing.
Link: homepage
vlink 0.9h
Vlink is a portable linker written in ANSI-C that controls a variety of object and executable data formats. Changes in the new version:
- Respect ALLOC and NOLOAD flags in binary file generation
- Linker scripts: NOLOAD was not reset for the following sections
Link: Homepage
HomeBank 3.1 (Beta)
In the newest version of the account manager "HomeBank" a few bugs have been removed.
Link: Homepage
Download: HomeBank31beta.lha (660 KB)
German language catalog data (v3.0): hb_deutsch.lha (6 KB)
Cocktail Shaker
Cocktail Shaker is a database of cocktail and mixed drinks, programmed in Hollywood (screenshots: 1, 2). English and Spanish language versions exist, of course users can assemble their own translations and are called upon to let the author know.
Link: Homepage
Download: cocktailshaker.lzx (1.4 MB)
Worm Wars 8.23
"Worm Wars" is a Tron clone von James "Amigan" Jacobs (screenshot). Version 8.23 contains many small optimizations and bugfixes.
Download: WormWars.lha (699 KB)
Report+ 6.16
Freeware Report+ version 6.16 has been released. The tool is based on ReAction/GadTools, requires AmigaOS 3.9 and offers a variety of functions. For example you can make Aminet "readmes" with Report+, the Commodore Bug Reporting Tool may be replaced, you may show the byte count for any directory. Changes to this newest version:
- Path size report: optional deletion of .fastdir files
- Linted source code
- Bug fixes
Download: ReportPlus.lha (306 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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30.Dec.2004
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Flood Catastrophe: Appeal for Donations
The tidal wave catastrophe in the Indian Ocean causes great shock here at home as well. Aid organizations are dealing with more than 100,000 dead, possibly more than 1,000 of them are from Germany. In this exceptional situation we'd like to call on our readers to help all those affected and to support locally the medical and humanitarian work of the relief organizations. Donate - even small amounts alleviate the emergency! If you would like to help those in the disaster areas, you may donate to the following account links:
[I'm going to put the translated name to the right of the actual organization name for English language readers. If you want to give you should probably use the German language name -DM]
Aktion Deutschland hilft [Germany Helps Campaign]
Alliance of these aid organizations: medeor,
Adra, ASB, AWO, Care, Help, Johanniter, Malteser,
Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband and World Vision
Bank name: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft
Bank code: 370 20 500
Account number: 10 20 30,
Keyword: "Seebeben Südasien" [means "South Asia ocean quake"]
Ärzte für die Dritte Welt [Doctors for the Third World]
Bank name: EKK Bank
Bank code: 500 605 00
Account number: 104 88888 0
Keyword: "Seebebenopfer" [means "ocean quake victims"]
Ärzte ohne Grenzen [Doctors without Borders]
Sparkasse Bonn [Savings Bank Bonn]
Bank code: 38 05 00 00
Account number: 97 0 97
Keyword: "Seebeben" [means "ocean quake"]
Caritas International
Postbank Karlsruhe [Postal Bank Karlsruhe]
Bank code: 660 100 75
Account number: 202 753
Keyword: "Erdbeben-Südasien" [means ocean quake South Asia]
Christoffel-Blindenmission [Christoffel Mission for the Blind]
Sparkasse Bensheim [Savings Bank Bensheim]
Bank code: 509 500 68
Account number: 505 05 05
Keyword: "Südasien"
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross]
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft [Bank for the Social Economy]
Bank code: 370 205 00
Account number: 41 41 41
Keyword: "Südasien" [means "South Asia"]
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe [German Hunger Relief]
Sparkasse Bonn [Savings Bank Bonn]
Bank Code: 380 500 00
Account number: 20 20
Keyword: "Erdbeben Asien" [means "earthquake Asia"]
Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe [Diakonie Disaster Relief]
Postbank Stuttgart [Postal Bank Stuttgart]
Bank code: 600 100 70
Account number: 502 707
Keyword "Erdbeben-Südasien" [means "earthquake South Asia"]
Kindernothilfe [Children Emergency Help]
KD-Bank
Bank code: 350 601 90
Account number: 45 45 40
Unicef
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft [Bank for the Social Economy]
Bankcode: 370 205 00
Account number: 300 000
Keyword: "Erdbeben Asien" [means "earthquake Asia"]
World Vision
Volksbank Frankfurt [People's Bank Frankfurt]
Bankcode: 501 900 00
Account number: 2020
Keyword: "Tsunami Südasien" [means "Tsunami South Asia"] (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Dec.2004
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amiga-news.de: Changes to Editorial Team
Two changes occurred this month in amiga-news.de's editorial team: Alfred Sturm left; he had tended the Amiga Link Directory from June 2000 until December 2004 by adding and deleting websites and putting up a screenshot of each. His responsibilities there have been taken over by Christoph Gutjahr. Don't forget to announce your new Amiga websites in the Amiga Link Directory. Gerhard "Gary7" Schmid ceased his activity as moderator of the "classified advertisements" forum. His successor is Martina Jacobs, who returns to amiga-news.de. She had managed the English language section for three years. We thank our two departing coworkers for their commitment in the last years and wish them for the future all prosperity! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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29.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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AROS: Latest state of the TCP/IP stack development
By the title link there is a forum thread at AROS-Exec, which contains
information about the current state of the TCP/IP stack
development for AROS and a screenshot. The latter shows the
browser Mosaic and a simple webserver, Cheetah. An e-mail
client is in development.
According to that thread there are two stacks
under development now. One developer goes for the TCP/IP bounty
and develops a SANA2 compatible driver. That stack might,
like Roadshow, become an AmiTCP heir and accordingly build on the
bsdsocket.library.
The second version is a port of LwIP by those both developers who
contributed the screenshot.
Currently only loopback is working, but a tap/tun driver for
the Linux hosted version of AROS is close.
Here, the bsdsocket.library is a regular, disk based library.
The first call of that library leads to the start of the stack task
and programs may access by the bsdsocket.library the network. But the
driver will be a different one. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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29.Dec.2004
S. & R. Raghoebardayal (ANF)
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Coyote Flux: PPC680x0 released as freeware
After lots of bugfixes and updates, PPC680x0 has become freeware and can be downloaded from this site. Both the docs and the program have been updated.
Since PPC680x0 V2.0 is in beta state, please let us know if the program contains any bugs. PPC680x0 has not been tested on machines without custom chips, so we cannot guarantee that it will work on such systems. It should work under UAE. Have fun!
Coyote Flux wishes everyone a happy and excellent 2005! (snx)
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29.Dec.2004
Robin (comments)
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MorphOS: PowerSDL 10.0 released
PowerSDL 10.0 is a MorphOS port of the SDL version 1.2.7 (screenshot of the
SDL preferences). It is based on the Amiga version by Gabriele
Greco, but was rewritten to a far extent to support the features
of MorphOS better.
Some features of
PowerSDL: - Integrated SDL settings with
localization
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Joystick support
- CDROM support
-
Overlay support
- MorphOS integration: SDL programs may be
controlled by Exchange or by an ARexx port, windows have an
iconify gadget, etc.
Download:
powersdl.lha (147 KB)
powersdl_sdk.lha (946 KB)
powersdl_src.lha (443 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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29.Dec.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.3.5 svn 1282 (inofficial bug fix release)
By the title link Christian Rosentreter has released the latest SVN
snapshot (revision 1282) of OpenTTD (Multiplayer screenshots: #1, #2).
It will be the last SVN version which is compatible with the official
release 0.3.5; it removed the scrolling issues with the
server list. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Dec.2004
Robin (comments)
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MorphOS: Datatypes replacement MOSMedia released
Grzegorz Kraszewski has created a Datatypes replacement for MorphOS
called MOSMedia, which also features streaming. Thus, it is
possible to view or listen to files while still downloading them.
Currently it is possible with audio files, an example
"Soundplay" is included within the drawer "Examples". To start it it
is required to copy the content of the drawer "Classes" to the
drawer "MOSSYS:Classes/Multimedia".
The implementation of the video codecs and display routines
is currently under work.
Download:
mosmediapack12.lha (235 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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29.Dec.2004
S. Eichholz (ANF)
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Website for the demo party "Breakpoint 2005" online
Since yesterday the website for the demo party "Breakpoint 2005" at
Bingen/Rhine is online. Like all the years the party will happen during
the Easter days (March 25th to 28th). The website provides all
required useful information and also introduces the futuristic looking
event location, the "Rundsporthalle". (snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.Dec.2004
Pegasos.org (ANF)
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Event: Registration for PUSH 2005 in Gothenborg has started
It is now possible to register for PUSH 2005. Like last year you will get a discount if you register. Registration does not imply that you have to come and if you fail to show up you will not be required to pay us anything. If you are planning to show up, please register so that we know how many tables to set up.
For the second year PUGS will arrange a computer party in Gothenburg, Sweden. We hope - with your help - that this year's PUSH can be as good as last year, or even better. Everybody is welcome, even without computer. But our focus this year will be on PowerPC computers.
PUSH 2005 will take place February 25-27, Friday from 12:00 to Sunday 12:00. (snx)
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27.Dec.2004
Vinnny (ANF)
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Russia: 'Amiga Information Center' celebrates its 5th anniversary
Today Amiga Information Center (AiC) is celebrating its 5th anniversary. For five years now AiC is supporting Russian Amiga users with fresh news and support. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Dec.2004
AROS-Exec (website)
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New Bounty-Project started for AROS: Kickstart replacement
TeamAROS-Bounty #23 is dedicated to the creation of a fully working Kickstart-ROM-replacement
for AROS under UAE. Currently the project is supported with 100 US-Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2004
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New track on Psyria-Homepage
Dennis Lohr wrote: "...and the fire still burns!
This year there is another track by Psyria. Because at the beginning of 2004 there was
only one download to Christmas there is an exclusive title for all fans. 'Electronic Knights'
can be downloaded in the FinalMaster-Studio version.
I wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Amiga Year."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2004
AmiATLAS Development Team (ANF)
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MERRY CHRISTMAS: Christmas greeting from the AmiATLAS - Team
The "AmiATLAS Development team" wishes contemplative and peaceful Christmas with many presents for all users.
On this way we also would like to thank those which have supported to us this year in varied manner. We hope that you are involved also next year again.
And if we had one more wish freely, we would wish for all that it goes next year with the Amiga, finally, again uphill going.
Happy Christmas!
Gerd Frank
Manfred Rohde
www.amiatlas.de
www.mrworld.de (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Dec.2004
RMS Communications - Christoph Pölzl (ANF)
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Image editor: Pixel32 for MorphOS announced
Pavel Kanzelsberger, author of Pixel32, announces under the title link a port for MorphOS, to be presented in a few weeks. Pixel32 is an image/photo/animation painting/editing and retouching application usable for all kind of graphicians, but best for web designers (screenshot).
Some of its features:
- multiplatform design with own skinnable GUI, which allows us running Pixel32 in Windows, BeOS and even in DOS
- most of routines written in highly optimized 32-bit assembler decreasing program's size and increasing its speed
- plugin architecture allows adding new effects, import/export plugins but also new dynamic brushes (called BrushFX), layer types etc.
- supporting all popular file formats
- support for layers, channels, masks, selections
- support for animations, image clickmaps, slices, web optimizations and other webtools simplyfing your work
- variety of brushes, including animated and full color brushes
- variety of patterns allowing pattern-painting, texturizing and more
- variety of color/alpha gradients with universal usage
- templates, styles, layouts...
- and much more...
Currently, as a Christmas present, Pixel32 can be purchased for USD 20 until end of the year. If one registers now, all updates until next major release (v2.0) will be free. Furthermore, the registration is platform independent, so that one can use his license also with upcoming ports to other operating systems.
There are demo versions of the current version 1.0 RC2 for Windows, Linux and BeOS/Zeta as well as of version 0.99.8 also for QNX, Solaris and MS-DOS. In these demo versions there are only two limitations: a visible watermark in the images and a small annoying dialog box informing about the usage of a demo version. (snx)
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24.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Instant Messenger: Update of AmiMSN to V1.0rc5
AmiMSN which is an in ARexx written, console based IM-client for the MSN-Network
is now available in version 1.0rc5.
Changes and improvements:
- Changed: Everything placed into one main executeable
- Fixed: You now can't initiate a conversation with someone offline
- Fixed: In some cases AmiMSN would try reading a message that wasn't there
- Added: P4-Context header is now parsed. Needed for BOT2K3
- Added: Notification server disconnection messages now parsed
- Added: AmiMSN.cfg now has a version number
Download: AmiMSN-1.0rc5.lha (38 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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E-mail Client: SimpleMail 0.24 (Update)
Today version 0.24 of the MUI based e-mail client called "SimpleMail" has been published.
Changes:
- Message preview in main window
- Import of Outlook Express message files (.dbx files)
- New address book with seperate group and contact management
- More possibilities of configuring the application icon
- ARexx port improvement: GETMAILSTAT, FOLDERINFO
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements
- First official OS4 version
Currently the OS3 and OS4 version are available. The MorphOS version will probably
follow this day. Please check if you have installed the newest versions of the NList-classes
which have been published few days ago.
The SimpleMail team wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Update: (17:25, 24.12.04, snx)
Now the MorphOS version is also available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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PegXMac V1.3 also finished for AmigaOne
David Bentham has a Christmas surprise for all AmigaOne users: His live-CD PegXMac
is now available in version 1.3 also for this platform. PegXMac allows starting Mac OS
with the help of Mac-on-Linux without installing Linux before.
The AmigaOne version was tested by Sinan Gürkan and Ross Vumbaca and is equivalent to
the Pegasos II version except the use of MOL 0.9.70+.
On the AmigaOne only MOL 0.9.68 runs because it is not an Open
Firmware platform and therefore newer MOL versions need specific adaptations.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.3.5
Christian Rosentreter announces that the new version of OpenTTD (which is an Open Source
clone of the well-known strategy game Transport Tycoon Deluxe) has been finished and
with it he wishes all MorphOS- and Amiga-users a Merry Christmas.
Important changes:
- [Network] New network, very stable, a lot of new features
- [Network] Ingame Serverlist (with online game-servers to join
- [Network] Webbased Serverlist: http://servers.openttd.org/
- [Network] Added dedicated server support
- [Network] Cheat protection in MultiPlayer
- [Network] Patch settings are also synced with the server
- [Network] Chat
- Custom currency settings
- Per-station vehicle lists
- More realistically sized catchment areas
- Sticky windows
- Even better support for new grf-files
- Implement improved vehicle loading algorithm
- Even more advanced in-game console (press ^ to open it)
- OpenTTD runs with the grf files of the DOS version
- [Big Endian Systems (MacOS, MorphOS, LinuxPPC)]: are able to load savegames by TTD(Patch)
- new languages: Spanish, Catalan and Icelandic
- And many, many more things....
If you want to know the complete list of changes then have a look at ChangeLog
which the archive contains.
The archive can be downloaded under the title link.
Comments:
- Currently the "Dedicated Server"-support (OpenTTD -D) does not work with Amiga TCP/IP-stacks.
But the game itself can create a normal server. Games between Windows, Linux, MacOS and
MorphOS are possible without any problems.
- The Amiga68k-support in the source code possibly is not working because of the
many changes. Christian Rosentreter (karibu@gmx.net) himself cannot test the new code
under 68k and therefore he asks for feedback and diff-files to be able to fix existing
problems in the new network code.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2004
Robin (ANF)
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Update of Hollywood Game TriMa'gic
The Hollywood game TriMa'gic has reached version 1.0 for 68k, WarpUp and MorphOS; the wishes of Tristan Mangold (TriMa) have been realized.
New developments are that sounds have been added, one can right-click to turn in the other direction as well, and because someone who preferred it asked for it, the game may be skinned to the darker original version. It comes with both skins. To do this some bugs with the ring-selection were overcome.
Along with the main page (under the title-link) there's a mirror.
The author thanks Tristan Mangold for his game skin, his idea and the suggestions for improvement and wishes everyone a happy celebration and a great New Year. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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23.Dec.2004
morphos-news.de (website)
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MorphOS: New Screenshots of "Rage Hard"
Under the title link you'll find some new screenshots of Titan's tactically-enduring multiplayer 3D-Shooter "Rage Hard."
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Dec.2004
Werner Lange (E-Mail)
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HCS Lange: Auction of Spare Parts after Closing of Workshop
Werner Lange, of the former Commodore and Amiga service HCS Lange (Detmold, Germany), announces that he's auctioning on EBay the remaining spare parts from his workshop as well as other Amiga accessories.
Among the things available are hundreds of ICs, and also computers, disks, a range of brackets, magazines, service manuals, folders and much more. Those interested may find these offers from Werner Lange under the e-mail seller ID "welandt." (snx) (Translation: dm)
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23.Dec.2004
amiga.org (website)
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New PowerPC Products for the Classic Amiga (update)
ACK Software Controls, Inc. is pleased to announce two new products for the Amiga 1200. The first product is a Freescale 8245 based CPU card clocked at 400 MHz.
The card will have a SODIMM slot for memory expansion and also includes a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller and a Radeon Mobility graphics chip. This CPU card will fit in standard A1200 cases, but a towered system is recommended.
The second product is a modular busboard and CPU combination for use with towered A1200 machines. The bus board features an AGP 1X slot and three PCI slots. Additional features of the busboard include two DDR DIMM slots for memory expansion, a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller, onboard USB and ethernet. The CPU card will initially be a 750CXe product, but other CPUs will be available.
Both products will ship with an OEM version of AmigaOS 4 and contain a version of U-Boot as the firmware. Products are presently in prototype form running Linux and will be available in Q1 2005. Additional information will follow in the new year.
Sincerely,
Adam Kowalczyk
ACK Software Controls, Inc.
Update: (24.12.04, 2:30, cg)
In a thread on amiga.org, Adam Kowalczyk states that similar expansions are in the works as well. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Dec.2004
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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WinUAE 1.0 public beta #3, Remarks on Postscript Printing
With version 0.9.92 the WinUAE Team is possibly releasing the last beta-version before the final release 1.0. Whoever is able to locate bugs is asked to advise the authors.
There is now better online help that explains about printing and the "autoflush" function more clearly.
Changes in WinUAE 0.9.92:
Bug fixes:
- Regular HDF TD_GEOMETRY returned incorrect data (caused some
larger HDF's fail to mount, 0.9.91 only)
- Filesystem bug fix (0.9.90-91), files with Windows
System or Hidden -flag set didn't open properly in all cases
- Stardust starwars-scroller in cycle-exact mode
- SuperStardust AGA tunnel-section and Superfrog intro bee flashing
plus other sprite emulation fixes
- Random disk formatting verify errors when using non-turbo mode
(was broken couple of releases ago)
- Display corruption/crashes if display width was larger than 1024
and display depth was 32bit (only native display mode, Picasso96
was unaffected)
- Windowed mode window close button didn't work if "Use CTRL+F11
to quit" was enabled
- Input-panel autofire yes/no-selection
- AVIOutput video recording bug in interlaced modes
New features:
- Filesystem emulation now uses NTFS named streams to store Amiga
FS protection flags and comment instead of __UAEFSDB.__-files
(non-NTFS drives still use old method)
- Postscript printer emulation using Ghostscript. All Windows
supported printers work now. Amiga-side only needs standard Amiga
Postscript printer driver
- Automatic print job flush after user configurable timeout
- Improved hardfile creation, filesystem selection (OFS/FFS/SFS) etc.
- Disk swapper key shortcuts:
- END+1-0 (not numeric keypad) = insert image from swapper slot 1-10
- END+SHIFT+1-0 = insert image from swapper slot 11-20
- END+CTRL+1-4 = select drive
- GUI drag'n'drop (no more ugly up/down arrows)
- Screenshots are now named _xxx.bmp
- User configurable emulation speed adjustment from 5 to 100 fps
- Rar and 7zip -archive support (using archiveaccess.dll)
- Some custom chipset emulation improvements here and there
- Improved drive click sound emulation
- X-Arcade build-in key mappings
- Onscreen disk and HD leds flash red while writing
- "Always on top"-windowed mode setting
[Rest of long article not translated. It was mostly about printing and Christmas greeting from Bernd Roesch. -DM] (cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Dec.2004
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distributed.net: PowerPC/AmigaOS Surpasses x86/DOS in the RC5-72 Competition
The PowerPC/AmigaOS platform zipped past x86/DOS sooner than expected, taking 14th place among platform rankings. PowerPC/AmigaOS now finds itself directly behind PowerPC/MorphOS, which is itself coming up quickly behind X86/NetBSD and is projected to catch it on 24th February, 2005. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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23.Dec.2004
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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New Debian Install ISO Image for the Amiga One
Under the title link there's a new Debian installation ISO image for AmigaOne computers ready for download. The only addition since the previous version is the standard use of kernel 2.4.26. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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22.Dec.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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MorphOS: System patch "Zapper"
"Zapper" modifies the ZipWindow() function of the intuition.library, i.e. the behaviour of the "Zoom" gadget at the top right border of a window. Instead of switching between two different window sizes, it resizes the window to full screen by click now. If the title bar is enabled that will be kept free.
Zapper also may be used in "Smart Resizing" mode which resizes windows only on the not already used screen area and does not hide other windows.
Direct download: zapper_0.9.lha (20 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2004
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce/Abakus-Design: Seasonig greetings and Snowman (Classic)
With Snowman (Classic) a tiny Christmas game is available at Abakus-Design. Unfortunately an entire new game was due lack of time not possible and the same reason lead to only minor changes to the game:
The game is running in 800x600 with any colour depth. Also on classic Amigas it should run without problems. Some new figures were pixeled which are now on wood plates. Thus, the game comes closer to the C64 original version. The archive is about 10 MB in size.
Last but not least Telemar Rosenberger and Franz Schlick wish a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2005.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2004
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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MP3 player: AmigaAMP 2.13
Thomas Wenzel writes:
"Just on time for Christmas there is an update for AmigaAMP. It is nothing world moving; I just fixed some bugs. New features aren't there, but code maintaining is better than nothing, I guess.
For example the old version 2.12 messed badly around with several state messages of the mpega.library which are not used by the original, but are by the libmad version. Directories containing brackets in their name could not be added to the playlist, etc.
All that and some other smaller bugs are now fixed and the program gained further stability.
Enjoy it"
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2004
Sylvio.k (ANF)
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Soms3d: Xmas edition
The Soms3d team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Hapy New Year to all Amiga users! As a little present there is a special edition of the Soms3d-Engine available (5 MB, requires PPC/Warp3d).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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22.Dec.2004
Thomas Steiding (ANF)
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Robin Hood coming for MorphOS
"Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood", originally developed by Spellbound Entertainment for the PC, will soon continue his adventures on the Pegasos. The MorphOS version of Robin Hood has just reached "first playable" on the Pegasos. A demo version will be released soon and the game is expected to start shipping in QI/2005 for MorphOS.
About "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood":
Do not only take on the role of the hero Robin Hood, but also the roles of his faithful vassals and take them to the battle field against the nasty Prince John Lackland. In doing so you are able to enjoy the fabulous English landscape of 1190 as well as the giant castles and funny characters. The thrilling story is introduced by an award-winning introduction and transfers you directly into the hero\s body with the first mission, in which you have to set the captive comrades free. Take up the battle against the oppressors and free the farmers from the Prince\s reign! Be smart, be fast! Be Robin Hood!
Features:
- More than 30 non-linear missions in which, for instance, you have to save Little John and Brother Tuck and prevent a wedding between Marianne and the revolting Guy of Gisbourne or attack the taxation collectors of the Sheriff of Nottingham
- Visit five giant castles on different ways, at day and night times, and at different weather conditions
- Play with up to nine integrated characters being outstanding due to their specific abilities and qualities
- Due to an innovative fighting system you are able to control the hero\s sword in battles by mouse
- Decide yourself which tactic appears to be the right one for you: reach the goal by creeping around the guards or fight bravely using sword and bow
System requirements:
- Pegasos I/II at 600 MHz or better
- 128 MB RAM
- Radeon 7000 or better
- MorphOS 1.4.x
More information on "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" can be found at:
www.epic-interactive.com
www.spellbound.de
www.robinhood-game.com (snx)
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22.Dec.2004
ANF
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Community site for the ColdFire board Dragon opened
At http://dragon.amigaworld.de/ DJBase opened the first community website for Elbox announced ColdFire board Dragon for the Amiga 1200.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Dec.2004
Amiga Information Center (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: MOSEmu runs MorphOS software under OS4
Some people are working on an emulation that runs MorphOS software under AmigaOS 4 (screenshot).
If and when this emulation will be made available to the public is not known yet.
(cg)
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20.Dec.2004
bplan (E-Mail)
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Merry Christmas from bplan: How to build the machine
We like to thank you for the confidence you set in us and our products in the past year. After over 1,000,000 components used in the Pegasos II production we would like to take the opportunity to thank our customers. The video How to build the machine (19 MB) is our Christmas gift to you.
"How to build the machine" is made by the following persons (on the photo in the sequence from right to the left):
- GC Master of PowerPC®
- TD Master of the machines
- TK Mister Component
We wish all our webvisitors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2005.
These images and movies are under property by bplan GmbH and are allowed only to be published with our agreement. (snx)
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19.Dec.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Non-Linear Video Editing System for MorphOS
The archive "MSchnitt-Mos.lha" contains four programs that together comprise a non-linear video editing system. It's written fully in ARexx and requires the following programs be installed:
- ARexx
- MPlayer (>1.0)
- Mencoder
- ogmtools-1.4.1-morphos (ogmmerge)
- mkvtoolnix-0.9.1-morphos (mkvmerge)
- fxPAINT (2.0+)
Features:
- Video edit
- Add new sound
- Convert video formats
- Sound processing
- Sound edit
- Merging of video clips to create a larger
- Video titling
- FX-effects
- Merging of sound clips to create a larger
- Encoding of single frames
- Decoding of single frames
- Support of multitrack videos in Ogg Mediastream or Matroska Media-Vision
The following link points to a demo video illustrating features of the MSchnitt package: http://pegasossoft.de/Movie.avi (3 MB)
A side effect of MSchnitt is the manipulation of multitrack videos. These are videos with more than one video or audio track. Here's a demo clip: http://pegasossoft.de/Movie_kopergeschuetzt.mkv (3 MB).
These clips can only be played with the newest MPlayer version, because they make use of the Matroska format. Whoever has no knowledge of MPlayer will only see the copy-protected video, and not the other stuff.
Unfortunately I haven't written any instructions, because that too would be a bit much for me. But whoever seriously wants to use the package can send me an e-mail and I'll write back right away.
Download: http://pegasossoft.de/MSchnitt-Mos.lha (357 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Event: videos from the Pianeta Amiga
Davide 'Turrican' Michelini released a series of short videos on amigapage.it from the "Pianeta Amiga" that took place on December, 12th in Rome:
Another short video by Andrea Maniero shows among other things the Formula 1 simulation "Virtual Grand Prix" running under MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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News regarding DKG II and the SN archives
Today a new version of the coins data base SN-EuroArchiv was released. New in v1.8 are among other things an improved image support, slide and thumbnail show, the possibility to enter special coins and medals,
that are part of currency coins sets,
the support for the 2 Euro commemorative coin was improved, etc. All changes can be found in the history.
As a special offer for Christmas are "Die kleine Gilde II" and all SN archives (SN-EuroArchiv, SN-BilderArchiv, SN-MarkenArchiv etc.) available for special prices at eBay.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
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os4depot.net: uploads until December, 18th 2004
Since our last posting new added uploads at os4depot.net:
amishots.lha gra/mis 91kb AMIShots for Amiga. An Amiga clone of Webshots
nslookup.lha net/mis 22kb NSLookup converts domain names into IP addresses
duke3d.lha gam/fps 526kb Duke Nukem 3D
limpidclock.lha uti/wor 63kb transparent clock / calendar
angband-bin.lha gam/rol 1Mb Angband - a modern rogue-like RPG game
zangband-bin.lha gam/rol 2Mb ZAngband - a popular Angband variant
cathangband.lha gam/rol 991kb CatH-Angband - Another Angband variant.
kangband.lha gam/rol 991kb KAngband - Another Angband variant.
rearg.lha uti/she 4kb Adds flexibility to Alias command
titleclock.lha uti/wor 7kb Display the date and time in the WB title
snoopdos.lha uti/mis 243kb SnoopDos compiled for AmigaOS 4
killwingui.lha uti/mis 59kb Kills the windows of crashed apps
tunenet.lha aud/pla 101kb Basic Shoutcast and MP3 Player
sb128ahi.lha dri/aud 17kb OS4 SB128 AHI driver
angbandborg.lha gam/rol 1Mb Angband recompiled with 'borg' support.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Feelin: version 08.00 released
Feelin, an object orientated system for AmigaOS (screenshot), is now available as version 08.00. The system comes in towo parts: the feelin.library written completely in assembler as core and an expandable system to create graphical user interfaces.
Though several classes developed to create graphical user interfaces come with Feelin, it is not restricted to this.
The latest enhancements are among other things:
- XML file support to develop applications. These so called XMLapplications can be created "on the fly" including support for notify, object export, data import, etc
- The preferences and particularly the update mechanism were written completely new and many pop classes were added (especially the awaited FC_PopFont class) as well as several preference groups were improved
- Servers aren't supported anymore but replaced by shared objects (FC_AppServer is now a shared object)
- The dynamic layout adaption has been further improved and updates are now cleaner (only changed objects are new drawn)
- The "Locked" state is now fully supported including adjustable colour scheme
Download: feelin041218.lha (598 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
Robin (ANF)
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Hollywood game: TriMa'gic
Under the title link you can find a small Workbench game written with Hollywood by Robin Hueskes "similar to Logical but completely different". The principle of TriMa'gic is to remove all pieces of the same colour from the board. The game is available for AmigaOS 3.x, MorphOS and WarpOS. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Dec.2004
Murakami (ANF)
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Print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR issue 29
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French print magazine which is published by the association AFLE and is one
of the most important French Amiga magazines since it was founded in 1998.
In the current issue 29 you can read about the following topics:
- AmigaOS4 Update
- MorphOS 1.5
- Event: Alchimie 4
- LCD-Screen on Amiga
- Review: AsteroidsTR 1.2
- Review: Samsung LW17E24CD
- Tutorials: Roadshow, Tango, MakeCD, AmigaOS4 bootfiles
- Bjorn Lynne, demo-scene, hardware-tips...
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Dec.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Participation in OpenSolaris pilot program
Press release Santa Clara, California - Genesi has been invited to participate
in OpenSolaris pilot program from Sun.
Those developers can take part in it which know the products from Sun and which
already have an Open Desktop Workstation. All those who are interested in participating in
please contact Raquel Velasco or Bill Buck via e-mail.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Dec.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox announces ColdFire-based accelerator board for the Amiga 1200
ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to announce its breath-taking
new product for Amiga 1200 computers - DRAGON ColdFire.
DRAGON is a ColdFire-based accelerator card combined with
the PCI/AGP Expansion busboard.
With its DRAGON ColdFire development, Elbox brings to
Amiga computers top performance of the latest Freescale's
ColdFire V4e core based-processor, the successor of the
68k dynasty. DRAGON-equipped Amiga computers are ready
to run most of the 68k Amiga programs/applications several
times faster when compared against Amiga 1200 with the
fastest 68060 accelerators.
'By combining many attractive features like the high-performance
ColdFire processor, fast DDR memory, AGP graphics, powerful
PCI 66MHz technology and comprehensive software support,
DRAGON-equipped Amiga computers turn into modern, fast
and extremely functional power machines,' said Maciek
Binek, president and CEO of Elbox.
The DRAGON's mainboard and the DRAGON's ColdFire CPU card
are designed on two separate circuit boards. With modular
design, the DRAGON can be easily upgraded and configured
to meet the needs of the most demanding Amiga users.
DRAGON Technical Specification:
- ColdFire MCF5475 processor (410MIPS) running at
266MHz
- Two sockets for DDR-266 SDRAM modules, support up
to 1GByte of memory (1GB/s peak)
- One AGP slot (264MB/s peak access from the main
processor)
- Five 66/33MHz, 32-bit PCI slots, PCI 2.2 compliant
(264MB/s peak)
- 2MBytes of 32-bit Flash memory (containing upgradeable
DRAGON firmware)
- Asynchronous design with fast access to Amiga 1200
motherboard hardware
- Multi-channels DMA support (PCI <-> PCI,
PCI <-> DDR, PCI <-> AGP,
PCI <-> A1200)
- Auto-Recharge battery-backed Real Time Clock
- Four high-speed programmable serial (UART/USART/IRDA/modem)
controllers (optional)
- One Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and two FastEthernet 100Mbps
controllers (optional)
ColdFire processor:
The DRAGON ColdFire will initially be available with the
fastest ColdFire MCF5475 processor in clock speed of 266MHz.
MCF5475 features the V4e ColdFire core with MMU, dual
precision FPU and EMAC. The 266MHz version of the ColdFire
MCF5475 processor provides raw performance of 410MIPS.
Up to 1GB of DDR SDRAM:
The DRAGON comes with two DIMM slots for ultrafast DDR-266
SDRAM memory. This high-speed memory rushes data at up
to 1GB/s throughput. It is over 25 times faster compared
against the fastest A1200 accelerators available so far.
As memory is scalable up to 1GB, you can add RAM to meet
increasing demands of your applications and workflow.
AGP Graphic Slot:
The DRAGON comes with the 3.3V 66MHz AGP slot which supports
up to 264MB/s data throughput. The following AGP graphics
cards will be supported: Radeon 9700, Radeon 9500, Radeon
9200, Radeon 9000, Radeon 7500, Radeon 7000, Voodoo 5,
Voodoo 4, Voodoo 3.
PCI Expansion Slots:
The DRAGON comes with five 66/33MHz, 32-bit PCI slots
compliant with the PCI 2.2 specification. The DRAGON system
can be configured with PCI 66MHz or PCI 33MHz expansion
technology. All PCI slots provide DMA capability. The
DRAGON's ColdFire processor has linear access to the 4GB
PCI space.
Multi-channel DMA support:
DRAGON hardware provides Multi-channel DMA support. PCI
bus master cards can provide DMA accesses to all DRAGON
resources: the AGP card, DDR memory, other PCI cards and
the Amiga 1200 motherboard space. DRAGON' PCI-to-DDR Direct
Memory Access can reach up to 264MB/s throughput. This
feature allows even the fastest mass storage PCI controllers
to run at their top performance.
2MB of 32-bit Flash memory:
DRAGON includes 2 MBytes of the 32-bit extremely fast
Flash memory. It includes factory-programmed DRAGON's
boot firmware and diagnostic software. Flash ROM allows
remapping of the Amiga Kickstart, as well.
FastEthernet 100Mbps and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 (optional):
The DRAGON's MCF5475 processor has one built-in Hi-Speed
USB 2.0 controller and two FastEthernet 100Mbps controllers.
External ports for these controllers will be available
on an optional module. Hardware-acceleration encryption
(DES, 3DES, RC4, AES, MD5, SHA-1, RNG) is built into the
processor. Dual-channel architecture permits single pass
encryption and authentication.
High-Speed serial controllers (optional):
Up to four programmable serial controllers (PSCs), each
with separate 512-byte receive and transmit FIFOs for
UART, USART, modem, codec, and IrDA 1.1 interface, are
built in the DRAGON's MCF5475 processor. External ports
for these controllers will be available on an optional
module.
Compatible Tower systems:
The DRAGON ColdFire busboard is designed to be used in
the following tower systems: Mirage 1200, E/BOX 1200,
Power Tower, Winner Tower and Infinitiv Tower. Besides,
an Elbox custom-designed case for the DRAGON ColdFire
system will be announced soon.
Supported AGP and PCI cards:
- Graphic cards (Radeon 9700, Radeon 9500, Radeon
9200, Radeon 9000, Radeon 7500, Radeon 7000, Voodoo 5,
Voodoo 4, Voodoo 3)
- Sound cards (Sound Blaster 4.1 Digital, Sound Blaster
128 and cards based on the ForteMedia FM801 chipset--e.g.
Terratec 512i Digital)
- Serial ATA controllers (SiI 3114 support in development)
- Spider Hi-Speed USB 2.0 controllers
- TV tuner cards (based on Bt848/849/878 and FUSION
878/879)
- Fast Ethernet 100Mbps cards (based on RTL8139 chipset)
- Ethernet 10Mbps cards (based on RTL8029 chipset)
Pricing and availability:
The DRAGON ColdFire is planned to be available by the
end of January 2005 for a very attractive price, offering
superior price/performance ratio. The suggested retail
price is 349 EUR. (VAT excl.)
Registered owners of Elbox Mediator 1200 PCI busboards
will receive a special incentive upgrade offer in January
2005. (snx)
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16.Dec.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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Web browser: AWeb APL Lite 3.5 beta release 4
The new beta release of 'AWeb APL Lite' with many bugfixes is available now. Detailed descriptions of the changes and fixes can be found in the changelogs of the OS3 and OS4 version.
Download:
AmigaOS 3: aweb3.5.04b68k_20041216.lha (1.6 MB)
AmigaOS 4: aweb3.5.04bos4_20041216.lha (2.6 MB)
MorphOS: AWeb_3.5.04_MorphOS_bins.tar.bz2 (1.57 MB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Dec.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel MK4 delayed, C64 products on time
Bad news first: Unfortunately, one of our suppliers did not ship in time, so the production of the Catweasel MK4
could not start at the planned time. Due to this delay, we can't ensure that all our customers will have the controller under their Christmas tree. The soonest day of shipment is December 23rd, but it's more probable that shipping starts between Christmas and the new year.
The time that we already rented on the assembly machines is put to good use: In the past days, the last networking
card for the C64 "RR-Net" has been sold, so there would have been a delivery bottleneck if the new production run would have been started as planned early 2005. The second production run of RR-Net networking cards can now be brought forward, so the network-bundle for the C64 that we're offering since September 2003 is kept available without any interruption.
Developer Oliver Achten has finished his first product that will be produced by individual Computers: MMC64 is an MMC- and SD-card interface for the C64 computer. It uses the multimedia and Secure Digital flash cards that are known from the PDA world. That means that after you power up the computer, you can access any MMC or SD card that's FAT16-formatted - up to the size of 4GB! The built-in flashable BIOS with integrated file browser allows the user to load games and other programs, play SID-files with the built-in player, or write D64 images to a floppy drive.
MMC64 has a clockport for expansions like RR-Net, and a pass-through for other expansion cards. This pass-through is 100 % compatible with the Retro Replay - both expansions can be used in their full functionality at the same time. MMC64 will be available for 49,- EUR starting February 2005, and will be demonstrated for the first time at the TUM party in Hemsbach, Germany (December 27th to 29th, 2004). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Dec.2004
IOSPIRIT GmbH (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Christmas promotion with up to 87 % sales discount
The IOSPIRIT-onlineshop celebrates its reopening with massive price
reductions of up to 87 % compared to full standard pricing.
Available at heavily reduced prices are fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio
and the IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle (contains the latest full
versions of fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio).
To allow you to directly start using fxSCAN and VHI Studio, as an
extra every IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle in 2004 will ship with the
driver packages IOUSB Scanner Package, IOUSB DigiCam Package and VHI
RS232 Camera Drivers at no extra cost. The first customers placing an
order will (as long as our supply lasts) additionally receive the VHI
Driver Olympus.vhi. The drivers all come without support and
functional guarantee - therefore they come at no extra cost with the
package. (snx)
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16.Dec.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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NList Classes 0.96
The NList Open-Source Team today released version 0.96 of NList classes for MUI. Since the last release there's been mainly bugfixes undertaken besides the OS4 porting. Beyond that NListtree classes have been added to the packet.
Under the title link are versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS, each available in individual archives. The developer information is also available there. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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16.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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File-System Handler: Bugfix Releases Ext2FS V0.4 and SGIXFS V0.3
The file-system handlers Ext2FS and SGIXFS by Marek Szyprowski have now reached version 0.4 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS. Bugs have been cleaned up, for the most part.
Changes of Ext2FS V0.4:
- fixed some problems with large (larger than 1 block) directories
- fixed problems with 'info' command from AmigaOS3.x
- changed DosType to 0x45585432 ("EXT2")
- number of cache buffers is now read from mountlist ('Buffers' field), not hard-coded in handler (please read more about buffers in documentation!)
Changes of SGIXFS V0.3:
- fixed some problems with extent-list-based directories
- added M68k version
Download:
ext2fs_0.4_68k.lha (38 KB)
ext2fs_0.4_mos.lha (32 KB)
sgixfs_0.3_68k.lha (37 KB)
sgixfs_0.3_mos.lha (29 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Dec.2004
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Software news in brief
AirHockey 2004 Beta 1
AirHockey 2004 is an arcade game of classical "Pong" style (Screenshots: 1, 2). The latest version comes with different difficulty grades and extras like the "Invert mode" or the "Wall locker", the calculation of the fight trajectories has also been improved.
Link: Homepage
Download: airhockey.lha (941 KB)
AmiDiction v2.9a
AmiDiction is a frontend for the English online dictionary by dictionary.com.
Link: Homepage
Download: AmiDiction.lha (33 KB)
WeatherCheck
WeatherCheck obtaines the weather forecast from the "Bureau of Meteorology", Australia for different regiones of the fifth continent.
Link: Homepage
Download: WeatherCheck.lha (31 KB)
Update of the codesets.library
The codesets.library supports programmers handling different codepages and converting text files.
Link: Homepage (cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Dec.2004
Turrican SETA (website)
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USB joystick: New production of the "Competition Pro"
The "Competition Pro" may be well known by many Amiga users - now this veteran is available for the universal serial bus (USB).
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Dec.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Pianeta Amiga 2004: Some photos and a video (update)
Cloanto have posted some photos and a video from the "Pianeta Amiga 2004" at the title link.
Update: (15.12.2004, 21:00, cg)
More pictures by Andrea Maniero and "Seiya" are available at amigapage.it. (cg)
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15.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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PegXMac: Update to version 1.3.2
The live CD PegXMac by David Bentham is available in version 1.3.2 now. PegXMac allows to launch Mac OS using Mac on Linux (MOL) on the Pegasos II without the need of a prior Linux installation.
Changes:
- G3/G4 optimization, resulting in a 15 % speed increase
- Kernel 2.4.25 no more included
- amiga-fdisk updated for proper hard disk recognition (thanks to Sven Luther)
- Mac-on-Linux updated to MOL-0.9.70-14
- Booting from SCSI drives with initrd (type "bootscsi" there)
Further the author announces that with PegXMacSP an update for Pegasos I users to version 1.3 will come. The AmigaOne support will be halted due to user's lack of interest. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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14.Dec.2004
Obligement (ANF)
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Magazine: Obligement Issue #48
The 48th issue of the French magazine "Obligement" was released today. Topics of this issue:
- News about AmigaOS 4.0 and the AmigaOne
- Interviews with Axel Buendia (the developer of the AI engine of Quake 3) and Franck Dutouron (a new AmigaOne merchant)
- Reviews of UAE for MorphOS, Gallerius, Alien Blaster, LMarbles, Snoopium, Hanged Man 2004
- Hardware: Trust Wireless Tablet 200, Norwat Ethernet module, IOmega Zip drive
- Tutorials: Make PNGIcons with TVPaint/PerfectPaint, Install MacOnLinux on Pegasos, MUI configuration
- Programming: Blitz Basic (making crypt/decrypt tools), Amiga-E (Interfaces)
- Book: Digital Retro
- A long article about Björn Lynne and his productions
- and more...
Direct download: obligement48.zip (1.7 MB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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11.Dec.2004
GMKai (ANF)
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MorphOS Value Package V1.2
The MorphOS Value Package, a collection of useful software, got an update. New in the package are the following programs: Frogger, Bolcatoid, Atari800 emulator and DOSBox. Updates of "Die kleine Gilde II" and Jabberwocky replace older versions.
New is also that the archives of the contained programs are available as updated full package and as incremental update to MVP V1.2.
Next to this everybody who's interested should download MVP with the wanted language support. Supported are by now the languages German, English and Dutch. A French version is still being worked on.
As it was already the case with the previous releases is the setup of mirrors wanted. Questions, comments and suggestions for improvements are always welcomed by the author.
Mirror: http://amigazeux.org/mvp/
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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11.Dec.2004
Moobunny (website)
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AROS: Bounty #18 (IPC bridge) finished
Team AROS-Bounty #18, an IPC bridge, was finished by Martin Blom and honored with a reward of 200 US dollars.
The task was as follows:
- Creation of a dbus.library for AROS, that makes an exchange via dbus between the IPC systems of AROS and Linux/BSD possible
- Layout of the dbus.library for AROS versions hosted on Linux/BSD systems with the possibility of a further development for a clean AROS system in mind
- Test via the use of KDE DCOP IPC for the communication with and the control of some KDE programs from AROS using the dbus.library and Linux-dbus
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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11.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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SystemPatch: version 2.6 released
SystemPatch changes several operating system routines to increase the performance on systems with newer 68k processors. The most can be reached on 060 systems but it can be used on Amigas with 68020+.
New compared to the previous version:
- fixed a bug in the AllocRaster() that caused anonymous tasks to be un-promotable
- added: RawDoFmt(), AllocRemember(), FreeRemember()
Download: SystemPatch2.lha (33 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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11.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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DKG II: author asks for speed tests
Within the game "Die kleine Gilde II" it's in the meantime possible to play MP3 files in the background. But the problem arises that this is apparently reserved to UAE, Amithlon and probably to AmigaOne and Pegasos systems (the latter ones haven't been tested yet). A real Amiga with 060 processor already seems to be to slow for this, there are lags and distortion while playing the MP3 files, the opening of windows may be slowed down.
To get an overview over as many different systems as possible a system analysis including a speed test was included in the DKG II preferences. The author asks therefore as many users as possible to run this test and inform him about the result together with the system configuration. You can contact Steffen Nitz via e-mail under Habgier@gmx.de.
The test results of the author's system under Amithlon and WinUAE can be found in the December diary under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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11.Dec.2004
Tristar (ANF)
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Demo scene: update of Tristar website
Tristar updated his homepage after a longer break. Among other things you can now find there new logos and wallpapers, the "C-64 Demo Section" was opened, too. On the website there are the first demos created during 1987-1989. Further information you can find following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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11.Dec.2004
Martin Heine (ANF)
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AHT Europe: MIDI interfaces for Amiga, Pegasos and PCs
Birmingham, Dec. 11 2004 - AHT Europe Ltd. are pleased to announce the immediate availability of their first Amiga products: MIDI interfaces for the Commodore Amiga as well as the Pegasos and standard PCs. (PDF version)
The MIDI interface Vivaldi (photo) supports standard MIDI transfer through the game port (MPU401), either on-board or on a PCI card. It is suitable for all operating systems that support standard MIDI transfer over the game port and has been successfully tested with standard MIDI software under MorphOS/Pegasos, Linux and Windows (including Bars'n'Pipes under WinUAE). The Vivaldi MIDI interface provides the following connectors: 1 x MIDI IN, 1 x MIDI THRU, 3 x MIDI OUT (synchronised).
The MIDI interface Trivaldi (photo) is a tripleplay MIDI interface for Commodore Amiga computers. It has three asynchronous MIDI OUT ports, which means that each port can have its own MIDI range of 16 channels. With Bars'n'Pipes you can therefore address 48 MIDI channels. The Trivaldi connects to the Amiga serial port.
Each MIDI interface comes with a manual, a CD-ROM and a 2 year warranty period. The CD-ROM contains drivers as well as the free sequencer software Bars'n'Pipes with all add-ons, the utility Directory Opus 4 and more.
The advisory retail pricing incl. VAT is 39.95 Euro (Vivaldi) and 49.95 Euro (Trivaldi), respectively. Both interfaces are available now. Dealer inquiries are welcome.
About AHT Europe:
AHT Europe Ltd. is a British company formed in 2004 and based in Birmingham, with offices in Germany and the Netherlands. Current products include a PowerPC set-top box for digital video broadcasting, personal video-recording and video-on-demand.
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11.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Air Hockey 2004: first beta version released
The game Air Hockey 2004 (screenshot) is available for testing in a first beta version. Further backgrounds as well as enemies, weapons, rewards and sounds will be added.
Download: airhockey.lha (827 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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11.Dec.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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GCC-Makro: API_MUI 1.4 released
API_MUI is a macro for the compiler GCC to make the developing of MUI programs easier. The macro works with AmigaOS 3.x as well as with MorphOS.
Download: API_MUI_1.4.lha (5 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Dec.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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Games database: Update at amiga-online-games.de
At amiga-online-games.de you can find information about Amiga games which can be played
on two or more connected Amigas (TCP/IP, modem, Modem, Parnet).
The follwing games have been just added to the database: Armour Geddon, Demon Wars,
F-16 Combat Pilot, Medieval Warriors, TeleWar and White Death.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Dec.2004
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NetBSD 2.0 published with NetBSD/amiga
NetBSD is an Unix-like operating system which is being distributed under an Open-Source-licence.
NetBSD is to be the most "portable" operating system and currently supports 54
different platforms.
NetBSD/amiga requires at least a 68020 CPU, an MMU and 8 MB FastRAM. An FPU is recommended
(at 68020/030 CPUs) but is not neccessary.
You can get further information about hardware extensions and download links under the
title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Event: First details to PUSH 2005
The "PUSH" is an event for Pegasos-/MorphOS-users which is organized by the
Pegasos User Group Sweden ("PUGS"). But other users (AmigaOne, Apple Mac) are also
very welcome.
Just like last year the event will take place in Wartagården
in Göteborg (Sweden) on the last weekend of February of 2005.
The entrance-fee will probably be 300 SEK (ca. 34 EUR).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Dec.2004
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS-portal: morphzone.org online again
The MorphOS-portal morphzone.org is online again but with restricted functions.
The spammer attacks
(we reported: 1,
2)
have localized a security lack in the operating system,
therefore the website has moved to another server where only a minimal installation
of the software is used.
As soon as the installation of the operating system on the original server is being updated
morphzone.org will move to it back.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Dec.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Pianeta Amiga: Perfomance of some components of MorphOS 1.5 and new software
The Italian dealer Pegasos Italia will present some of the components of MorphOS 1.5 as well as
new MorphOS software on the Pianeta Amiga
which will take place on 12th December.
The MorphOS 1.5 components contain:
- new 2D/3D-drivers for Voodoo 3/4/5
- new TinyGL.library
- new PowerSDL.library and sub-libraries
- new MorphOS 1.5-libraries e.g. z.library, png.library, freetype.library, jfif.library, tiff.library and vorbisfile.library
- new audio.device (Paula --> AHI)
- MUICON
The new software which will be performed:
- Quake II for MorphOS
- Virtual Grand Prix 2 for MorphOS (World premiere)
- Freespace 2 for MorphOS
- Hexen 2 for MorphOS
- Foobillard, Neverball, TuxRacer, Cube, GLglobe, the Battle for Wesnoth and a lot of further software for TinyGL/SDL
- Papyrus Office
- BurnIt Evolution (still not certain)
- MOSTitler
Possible guests might be Prof. Fulvio Peruggi (Dr. Morbius), Elena Novaretti,
Paolo Cattani and the CruxPPC-Linux-Team.
Michele Magliocca from Pegasos Italia thanks all following persons and firms for the
cooperation and the material which is made available: Mark Olsen (bigfoot),
Michal Wozniak (kiero), Ilkka Lehtoranta (itix), SixK, Sigbjørn Skjæret (CISC),
Pawel Stefanski (Stefkos), Nicolas Sallin (henes), Jacek Piszczek (jacaDcaps),
Sven Luther, Titan Computer, Paolo Cattani as well as Emanuele Cesaroni and all
other persons which he possibly forgot. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Update of Calcheduler (formerly Calendari)
The scheduling software Calendari has got an update as well as it was renamed. It is
now called Calcheduler. Some new other options of the program have been added which can be now
tested.
Calcheduler can be completely equipped with skins.
Calcheduler can remind you on tasks and dates. If a date gets current Calcheduler
can start an external program. Besides this the graphical user interface
can be designed with own background pictures
(screenshots: 1,
2).
Calcheduler is Shareware. The full version costs 10 EUR and can be ordered
at the author via e-mail.
Download: calcheduler.lha (600 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Dec.2004
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Max 0.2.0 now available as Windows-hosted version
The AROS distribution AROS-Max is now available in Stable-Version 0.2.0 for
hosted use under Windows. AROS is put on the QDOS emulator.
You only have to start the self extracting archive and then start the file
winaros.bat.
AROS-Max is a preconfigured and with developer tools, games, demos and other software
equipped AROS distribution.
Download: WinAROS-Max020.exe (75 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Dec.2004
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Amiga Magazine: December 2004 Issue
As the usual sample for prospective readers, two articles from the current issue of AMIGA Magazine have been placed online:
Online as well are the editorial and the preview of the January 2005 issue.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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09.Dec.2004
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WHDLoad: New Version, New Packets through 9th December, 2004 (Update)
With WHDLoad, it's possible to intall and play off your hard-drive games that were previously considered floppy-only. A new version of the packet bundle has been released today and is available under the title link, beyond that the following titles have been added, improved, or updated since our last press release:
- 09.12.04 improved: Power Drift (Activision) several improvements
- 09.12.04 improved: Hard Drivin' (Domark) complete rework
- 09.12.04 improved: Great Courts/Pro Tennis Tour (UBI-Soft) supports another version, docs added
- 08.12.04 improved: Waterloo (PSS/MirrorSoft) supports another version
- 08.12.04 improved: Manhattan Dealers/Operation Cleanstreets (Silmarils) slave optimized
- 08.12.04 new: Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold (Disney Software) done by Psygore
- 08.12.04 improved: Captain Blood (Ere Informatique) supports another version
- 06.12.04 fixed: Fears (Bomb Software) imager for disk version corrected
- 05.12.04 improved: Blastar (Core Design) fully rewritten, various improvements (Info, Image, Image)
- 05.12.04 improved: Manhattan Dealers/Operation Cleanstreets (Silmarils) supports French and US versions
- 05.12.04 improved: Kick Off (ANCO) supports extra time and data disk
- 04.12.04 new: Contravention (Reality) done by Codetapper (Info, Image)
- 04.12.04 new: Eskimo Games (Maitai/Magic Bytes) done by Codetapper
- 01.12.04 improved: Super Ski/Eddie Edwards Super Ski/Downhill Challenge (Loriciels/Microids) supports the US version
- 01.12.04 new: Thunder Burner (Loriciel) done by CFOU!
- 01.12.04 new: Pro Soccer 2190 (Vulture) done by CFOU!
- 30.11.04 new: Super Ski/Eddie Edwards Super Ski/Downhill Challenge (Loriciels/Microids) done by CFOU!
- 29.11.04 improved: Kwasimodo (Courbois Software) rewritten, highscores fixed
- 29.11.04 new: West Phaser (Loriciel) done by CFOU!
- 29.11.04 improved: Dragon Strike (Westwood/S.S.I) access fault fixed, reworked for WHDLoad v16
- 25.11.04 fixed: Fears (Bomb Software) correct slave for floppy version added
- 24.11.04 new: Waterloo (PSS/MirrorSoft) done by CFOU!
- 24.11.04 improved: Lombard RAC Rally (Red Rat/Mandarin Software) slave optimized, manual added
- 24.11.04 improved: Crazy Cars (Titus) slave optimized
- 22.11.04 improved: Thunder Cats (Elite) supports another version, now uses kickstart 1.3
- 22.11.04 improved: World Class Leaderboard Golf (Access) supports the kixx version, rewritten for whdload 16
- 22.11.04 new: Vader (Softgang) done by CFOU!
- 22.11.04 new: Faery Tale Adventure (Microillusions) done by JOTD
Update: (09.12.2004, 23:30, cg)
Pointer to the new WHDLoad archive added (see above). (cg) (Translation: dm)
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09.Dec.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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Hardware Hacking: Tricked-Out Amiga 600
Under the title-link "Mike" introduces his tricked-out Amiga 600 and gives persons who might choose to follow in his footsteps some tips. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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09.Dec.2004
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os4depot.net: Uploads Through 9th December, 2004
Here are the uploads at os4depot.net since our last
notification:
amitorrent.lha net/p2p 476kb AMITorrent - An Amiga BitTorrent clone
supermanppc.lha uti/fil 157kb Show the user a directory of documents
statemachineppc.lha dev/mis 408kb Generates Finite State Machine source code
ripmime.lha net/ema 120kb ripMIME tool to decode MIME formatted messages
sambaprefs.lha net/sam 167kb SambaPrefs
tooltypeseditorppc.lha uti/wor 72kb ToolTypes Editor program
limpidclock.lha uti/wor 58kb transparent clock / calendar
xmame_old.lha emu/gam 10Mb xMAME Port - old version,works with prerel. update
wet.lha uti/wor 222kb Show weather conditions in WB titlebar (OS4)
tunenet.lha aud/pla 92kb Basic Shoutcast and MP3 Player
blobwars.lha gam/pla 8Mb SDL platform shoot'em up
blobwars_upd.lha gam/pla 981kb SDL platform shoot'em up (Update 0.96.2 -> 0.98.1)
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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09.Dec.2004
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Software News: amrss 1.4, BACK-IT-ALL-UP 9.9
amrss 1.4 (Beta)
amrss is an RSS-Reader that displays so-called "RSS-Feeds" (news snippets in text format) as are offered for example from amiga-news.de and amiga.org. In the new version several bugs have been eliminated, beyond that an HTML displayer has been integrated.
Link: homepage
BACK-IT-ALL-UP 9.9
With Back-It-All-Up backup copies of a hard-drive may be be made to another hard-drive. The software supports up to eight partitions, as well as hard-drives beyond the four gigabyte limit. It offers a range of features, and may be opened on its own screen or directly on the Workbench screen.
Link: homepage
Download: backitallup99.lha (16 KB)
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08.Dec.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Genesi now AMCC partner
Genesi extends their partnerships of IBM and Freescale with the third PowerPC manufacturer, AMCC. Genesi will contribute system design services for production of board solutions as well as embedded software support for PowerPC processors by AMCC.
The aim of Genesi's developments are so called "pervasive" computer solutions. The Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, a supplier of high performance storage solutions, has bought the rights for the PowerPC 400 from IBM in April 2004. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.Dec.2004
PPCZone (website)
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Linux: Montavista for Pegasos
As PPCZone reports, Genesi and Montavista are partnering now. The embedded systems targeting Montavista Linux will be offered for the Pegasos and the Open Desktop Workstation. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.Dec.2004
aPEX (Forum)
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Amiga 1000: Common order for newly produced Phoenix boards (Update)
By the title link aPEX reports at the amiga-news.de forum, there is a possibility to place a common order for newly produced Phoenix boards. Shipping may start end of January 2005, the price at a volume of five to ten boards would be 210 AUD without SCSI (about 124 Euro) or 260 AUD with SCSI (about 151 Euo) each.
The in the early 90s by the Australian company Phoenix Microtechnologies produced mainboard is an advanced replacement for the original A1000 board. Unlike the Amiga 1000 it features the ECS chipset, a Kickstart 1.3-ROM and 1 MB Chip-RAM and, optionally, SCSI. Also an A2000 videoslot and a battery buffered clock are onboard. There have been around 500 - 1000 boards produced.
The board will need for operation some (socket) chips which are to get from an Amiga mainboard.
Update: (09.12.2004, 23:30, cg)
The boards offered here are the last ones remaining from the final production run in 1991. All 25 boards are sold now. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Free Pascal 1.9.5 (20041207) released
The development snapshot of the Free Pascal compiler 1.9.5 for MorphOS clears several bugs and contains the latest compiler core. Additional some new units were added to support more system libraries.
Those new units support the graphics.library, intuition.library and layers.library. It is now possible to create applications which may use the graphical interface of MorphOS. Further information is to obtain from the readme file.
The compiler is downloadable at the MorphOS Developer Connection or directly: fpc_20041207.lha (2.4 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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08.Dec.2004
amigascne.org (ANF)
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Amiga Demo Scene collection updated
The largest Amiga demo scene collection has been updated and many corrupted files have been removed. The collection is to reach by the title link or directly at ftp://ftp.amigascne.org.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.Dec.2004
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Software news
Update for "Rita the Singer"
The software "Rita the Singer" developed using "Hollywood" creates backups of your HD partitions, formats partitions and converts complete CDs or single tracks to the formats AIFF, WAV, 8SVX, MAUD or MP3.
In the latest version have some bugs been removed. In addition, there are now three different skins available.
Link: homepage
Download: complete archive (2.3 MB)
Download: update (1.1 MB)
RSS client: amrss 0.2 (alpha)
"amrss" is an RSS client for AmigaOS 3. It is an alpha version, the author asks for bug reports.
Link: homepage
EvenMore: update of the "Generic Prefs Plugin"
A new version of the "Generic Prefs Plugin", one of the plugins for the text viewer "Evenmore", was released. All "EasyGUI" code was removed, the plugin is now smaller.
Link: homepage
Download: genericprefs.plugin (3 KB)
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04.Dec.2004
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Retro computing: LemonAmiga.com goes online
lemonamiga.com is the little sister of the retro portal lemon64.com which is very popular among C64 fans.
At lemonamiga.com you can find a comprehensive games data base with many screenshots and the possibility to compare the data and screenshots of C64 and Amiga versions of a game. Readers can comment on games or write their own reviews and they can rate every game.
The site is completed by a forum and some tutorials respectively articles about the Amiga.
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04.Dec.2004
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Power.org: open standards based on the Power processors
Power.org counts 15 companies to work on chips and systems on the basis of the Power architectur. The processor architecture used e.g. by IBM can be found in Apple computers, the Nintendo GameCube and server systems by IBM.
Members of Power.org are among others Bull, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, IBM, Novell, Red Hat and Sony... (full German article under the title link).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Dec.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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Micro AmigaOne: information about jumper settings and connectors
amigaworld.net reader "NeRP" has collected under the title link complete information with pictures about jumper settings and the internal connectors of the MicroA1-C.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Dec.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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PNG-Icons: "MasonIcon"-Set for AWeb
Martin "Mason" Merz has published his first PNG icon set called "AWebMIPNG".
You need either AmigaOS 3.9 and higher together with
Elena Novaretti's patch "PowerIcons" or MorphOS to display them.
Direct download: AWebMIPNG.lha (20 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Dec.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Collective order of a Pegasos mousepad
Today in the OnlineShop of APC&TCP the advance orders of a Pegasos mousepad has started (preview).
The mousepad costs 7.20 Euro for advance orderers (later around 8 Euro) plus
transport costs. The advance order will last until December 10th, 2004. After that the
mousepad will be started to produce.
Certainly we can deliver it in the second January week. But we guess that we can
deliver it much ealierer. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Dec.2004
Sebastian Brylka (ANF)
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Print magazine: Total Amiga, issue 19 - Advance order
Issue 19 of the English print magazine "Total Amiga" has been completed and can be ordered
over Fun Time World/SEMI-Werbung in Germany. Everyone who is interested in this
issue please may contact Fun Time World until tomorrow.
The current issue will probably cost 7 or 8 Euro depending on the amount of orders.
You can find the content of the current issue on the homepage of the magazine.
You can order it via e-mail to funtime@t-online.de.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Dec.2004
Matthias Jaap/Mac Life
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IBM announces details to Cell-Chip
The new consoles from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft will be introduced on the E3 in May next
year for the first time. But the winner is already clear: IBM. All consoles will have
a CPU from IBM which is unique until now.
Such a news is also the Cell-Chip which IBM together with Sony and Toshiba developed.
As a first product a workstation will be developed which contains the Cell-Chip
and which will become the developing environment for the PlayStation 3.
Cell is related with IBMs POWER-Chips and is a Multi-Core-System with 64-Bit.
Each of this Cores could have an operating system independent of the others. Unlike the
processor of the PlayStation 2 which is the Emotion Engine, Cell is not mainly optimated
for consoles but useful for different purposes.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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03.Dec.2004
AMIGAplus editorial staff
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AMIGAplus 12/2004 (#153) - AMIGA OFFICE
Issue 12/2004 (#153) of AMIGAplus will be released next week including a special about office software for the Amiga. Content: papyrus Office (review), ignition (preview), Xbaze (review), Amiga as a photo modell (workshop), Olof Gustaffson (interview), Christmas guide (special), OS4 compatibility check (service), Articia P in detail (report), Oskar Fischinger (retrospective), The MorphOS Revolt (status report), demoscene 2004 (status report), shareware of the month, news from emu-land, UAE configuration file part 2 (workshop), news from the Amiga market (news), OS4 network developing (workshop) and much more.
Order your copy for 5 Euro at falkemedia. (nba)
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02.Dec.2004
PPA (ANF)
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Update of the Game Exodus: The Last War
Slandmedia has put together an update for "Exodus: The Last War." This version is similar to the previous version (1.2) but runs better on graphic cards.
This was already possible in principle, but only in the clearly slower emulation mode. Along with these improvements the game is also able to run on MorphOS now, and presumably (but not tested) on AmigaOS 4.
Download: ExodusPackV20.lha (190 KB) (snx)
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02.Dec.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP and AmiATLAS Development Team: Cooperation Broadened
Because of their very good cooperation up until now between AmiATLAS
Development Team and APC&TCP they're going to build on it even more for the future.
Previously the webhosting was taken over, and before approximately a year a forum was founded for all interested and registered users of AmiATLAS.
In the future APC&TCP will undertake more missions, basically serving as the official distributor of AmiATLAS and other new products that are planned for release in the beginning of the coming year.
For a limited time therefore, AmiATLAS is available for an economical price at the new online shop of APC&TCP. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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02.Dec.2004
ANN (comments)
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MorphZone and PPCZone Temporarily Unavailable Owing to Attack
MorphZone as well as PPCZone are temporarily not reachable, after an illicit attempt was made to use the server to send spam.
"MorphZone and PPCZone are both down temporarily while repairing a security breach on the server. This breach was part of a spammers attack in an attempt to proliferate SPAM specifically targeted to Internet users in Brazil. While we proceed to work on the cause of the problem, MorphZone and PPCZone will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and the administration of MorphZone hopes to have this cleared up soon.
At this time, we do not believe this attack was by or directed towards any Amiga, MorphOS, or other specific community. Due to the nature of the attack, which we have evidence to believe went to other unrelated servers, this seems to simply be a case of spammers trying to hijack our bandwidth to supply their endless need to send useless e-mail that no one ever reads anyway!" (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Dec.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Puzzle game: AmiBrixx
AmiBrixx is a puzzle game for AmigaOS. The player has to remove groups of same coloured gaming pieces from the playing field by clicking them. By removing gaming pieces upper gaming pieces fall down and constitute new groups. The game is over when no groups can be removed.
AmiBrixx is a port of the Windows game Joemino.
It supports all skins of that PC game.
Download: amibrixx.lha (473 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Dec.2004
Brad Webb (e-mail)
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Newsletter: Amiga Update #041130
By the title link there is the newsletter "Amiga Update" for November 2004 available. In his English newsletter Brad Webb summarizes monthly all important news regarding. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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HD backup/audio converter: Update for "Rita the Singer"
The multi talent "Rita the Singer" does backups of HD partitions, formats partitions and converts entire audio CDs or single tracks to the formats AIFF, WAV, 8SVX, MAUD or MP3.
With the new version some bugs were removed. It is possible to create cutom skins now and Rita "sings" at least (after finishing a backup conversion process a sample will be played).
Download: ritathesinger.lha (2.3 MB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Dec.2004
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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minad: Minimalistic AutoDoc viewer for MorphOS
With minad Rupert Hausberger has written a minimalistic AutoDoc viewer for MorphOS, because existing such programs did not met his stability and usability criteria.
Features:
- Auto-grouping of most common AutoDocs
- Search function
- Filter function
- Directory ride
- Fast
Download: minad.lha (46 KB) (snx)
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30.Nov.2004
morphzone.org (website)
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MySQL Development Team supports Pegasos Server
30th November 2004
Uppsala, Sweden
Contact: bbrv@genesi.lu
With the support of the Genesi/Freescale PegasosPPC Pilot Project,
the MySQL core development team has received a full complement of PowerPC-enabled Open Desktop
Workstations. "We are excited about this new alternative platform. Sony Europe's
success with MySQL on Pegasos has opened our eyes to its potential. We are pleased to be able to offer our
internal resources support for this platform," said Mika Asikainen, MySQL's Partner Manager.
When it delivered the machines, Genesi provided an orientation seminar - including a focus on
the use of AltiVec. MySQL AB intends to provide benchmark results that will help demonstrate
Pegasos' superior watt/cycle efficiency and how MySQL database deployments on the platform can
reduce organizations' total cost of ownership.
Genesi is a Certified MySQL Partner
and a Platinum Sponsor of the MySQL Users Conference 2005.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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30.Nov.2004
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 30.11.2004
New uploads at os4depot.net:
xpkgzip_os4.lha uti/arc 56kb OS4 PPC xpkGZIP - Sublibrary for the XPK package
blobwars.lha gam/pla 8Mb SDL platform shoot'em up
blobwars_upd.lha gam/pla 981kb SDL platform shoot'em up (Update 0.96.2 -> 0.98.1)
visio.zip gra/vie 297kb A simple image viewer
angband-bin.lha gam/rol 1Mb Angband - a modern rogue-like RPG game
angband-src.lha gam/rol 115kb Angband variant makefiles plus Amiga code
tome-bin.lha gam/rol 2Mb T.o.M.E. - a popular Angband variant
zangband-bin.lha gam/rol 2Mb ZAngband - a popular Angband variant
os4_aquax_theme.lha gra/the 7Mb Gui theme For Amiga OS4.
id3edit-os4.lha uti/fil 52kb port of simple shell based ID3 tag editor
omegappc.lha gam/rol 798kb Omega 0.80.4 - another rogue-like RPG :)
autodocviewer.lha dev/uti 183kb Autodoc viewer for OS4
xmamegui.lha emu/gam 104kb GUI for the OS4 xMAME port v0.10
wet.lha uti/wor 208kb Show weather conditions in WB titlebar(OS4)
uhexen.lha gam/fps 835kb Straight port of UHexen for OS 4
identify_lib_os4.lha uti/mis 16kb identify.library replacement for OS4
killwingui.lha uti/mis 53kb Kills windows of crashed apps
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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30.Nov.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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New products from individual Computers
The first Sunday in advent is already over, the downtown areas have been equipped with Christmas decoration, and the production for this year's Christmas business is running at full speed at individual Computers:
We're especially happy to announce that despite the two competing products in the market, the flash-card "Kickflash OS4" has been selling to well, that a second production run was necessary. The new cards have already been shipped to our retail partners last week, so there should not be any delays by now. Kickflash OS4 is shipped with 1MB flashrom space.
The betatest-phase of the C-One also made a successful start. Since the beginning of this month, everyone can buy the world's first computer that is purely based on programmable logic. This means that the computer can even start without a processor chip! The board itself will not experience changes any more - the hardware is final. During the beta-phase, there will be core-updates that can be downloaded from the C-One website, and transferred to the C-One using off-the-shelve mass storage media like CF cards or CDs. The board is shipped with a CPU/RAM card with a 65816 processor and 128K superfast S-RAM. For a limited period of time, the board price includes a PS2 memory module.
We also had to make a new production run for our most successful product for the C64 so far: During this summer, the last unit of the Retro Replay was sold. As a distinctive mark for the third production run, we have changed the colour again: The Retro Replays from 2001 have been shipped in black. The second production run from the year 2003 was built on blue circuit boards. Starting now, the Retro Replay is available in shiny red!
The complete sellout of the second production run also means that there will be another party sponsored by individual Computers, organized together with the scene-group CyberpunX. Just like during the Pentecost weekend of this year, the party will take place in an old air-raid bunker from worldwar II in Bochum, Germany. The date has already been set to June 10th to June 12th, 2005, and not only Retro Replay owners are invited! More information can be found on the party website.
Last but not least we want to inform you that the release of the Catweasel MK4 is delayed a bit. Parts of the production had to be moved to the Far East in order to keep the announced price. For the first time, we will only use lead-free materials with the exception of only two components. With this new approach, we are preparing for the new laws that will become effective in 2006. The new release date of the Catweasel MK4 has been set to the third week of December, so it should arrive at our retail partners just in time for Christmas. A pre-production run of Catweasel MK4 controllers has already been finished late October of this year, and many of those controllers have been shipped to developers for free.
Three pictures belong to this news item, you can view them by clicking on the title link.
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27.Nov.2004
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Compiler: vbcc 0.8g patch 2 released
There's a new patch available for the version 0.8g of the C compiler vbcc by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptions). Details can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
ANN (website)
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EXT2 file system handler: bugfix release 0.3 available
The EXT2 file system handler by Marek Szyprowski is now available as version 0.3 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS. This is mainly a bugfix release.
News:
- Directory listing problems solved (thanks to Leo/WARP design)
- Some problems regarding the reading of directories with Symlinks solved (thanks to Guido Mersmann)
- Clear volume names for unknown file systems added
- Documentation updated
Download:
ext2fs_0.3_68k.lha (37 KB)
ext2fs_0.3_mos.lha (31 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
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Software news
Eagleplayer under der GPL released
The authors of the known mod player "Eagleplayer" have decided to release the source codes of the program under the GPL as they have a lack of time to develop the software further.
Link: Eagleplayer at Sourceforge.net
WeatherCheck v1.0
WeatherCheck gets from the "Bureau of Meteorology" in Australia the weather forecasts for several regions of the fifth continent.
Link: homepage
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
pegasosforumde (website)
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MorphOS: mICQ v0.4.12
Matthias Münch has ported the latest version of the Instant-Messaging client mICQ to MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
Davy Wentzler (e-mail)
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HD recording: mailing list for Audio Evolution
There's now a mailing list at yahoogroups.com for users of the hard disk recording and editing solution "Audio Evolution". You have to register at Yahoo if you want to read the mails.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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TvR: v2.6 of the TV tuner software for Mediator boards released
The program TvR by Robert Krajcarz (screenshot) is now available as version 2.6. With this software you can control TV tuner PCI cards that are used with a Mediator board.
TvR allows searching for radio/TV stations, the creation of a TV program list, setting up the TV picture (brightness, contrast, colour), channel switching, resizing of the TV window (from 10 % to full screen), choice of video source (TV, cinch, SVHS), sound (mono, stereo) and speaker volume. In the full screen mode it offers OSD (on screen display) for the chosen functions. Stopping and saving of the TV picture is also supported. The control is done via GUI, keyboard or remote control.
New in 2.6 V2.5:
- Minimized clicking when doing channel switching
- Closing the TV window automatically switches to the radio mode
- Mouse pointer hidden in the full screen mode
- Saving of the position of the TV window
- Saving of single pictures
- Correction of the SVHS input
- F4 key for changing the colour decoding system
- Enhanced skin control
- Stopping of the video via keyboard
Download:
tvr_26.lha (60 KB)
tvr_skins.lha (1,5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Nov.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: RPG ports (Angband, TOME, ZAngband, Omega)
Juha Niemimäki has ported the freeware RPGs (role playing games) Angband, Troubles of Middle-Earth, ZAngband and Omega to AmigaOS4.
Should the games crash on your system the author recommends to do the following settings in the file user/settings.pref to open each game on its own screen. An errors correcting update isn't expected before next week.
; Screen options
SCREEN.name Workbench
SCREEN.mode -1
SCREEN.width 1024
SCREEN.height 800
SCREEN.depth 8
SCREEN.overscan 0
SCREEN.use custom
SCREEN.menus Y
SCREEN.blankmouse N
SCREEN.aga N
Download:
Angband 3.0.5 (1 MB)
Troubles of Middle-Earth 2.2.7 (2 MB)
ZAngband 2.7.4c (2 MB)
Omega 0.80.4 (798 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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26.Nov.2004
morphzone.org (ANF)
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MorphOS: Skin "SnowSkin"
"SnowSkin" is a MorphOS skin which is inspired by MacOS 9 and made by "liquidbit".
Download: snowskin1.0.lha (251 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2004
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Collected Software News
Patch for vbcc 0.8g
Version 0.8g of the ISO-C-compiler "vbcc" which was published a little while ago contained
a faulty configuration file which did not activate the Amigahunk format for vlink. This caused
problems when using vbcc_targets_m68k-amigaos under a different host than AmigaOS/68k.
Link: Homepage
Download (Patch): aos68k (copy to vbcc:config/)
Download (new full archive): vbcc_target_m68k-amigaos.lha (367 KB)
CDDA_SwapMostLeast 2.2
CDDA_SwapMostLeast converts CDDA-files from CDDA_MostSignificant- (MOTOROLA) to CDDA_LeastSignificant- (INTEL) format
and reverse.
In the new version the 68k-version was optimated, in the WarpOS-version some bugs
have been fixed.
Link: Homepage
RxSocket 33.8
RxSocket makes the functionality of bsdsocket.library available to ARexx-scripts.
Link: Homepage
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Skin "Aqua X" published
Tony Aksnes has published a theme for AmigaOS 4 which is inspired by MacOS X
(screenshot).
The big archive contains button graphics as well as several background pictures.
MUI is not supported but Aksnes would create a corresponding skin if there is sufficient
interest.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Strategy game: New information to "Die Kleine Gilde II"
According to the
developer diary
of the author for some days the strategy game "Die kleine Gilde" has been developing further.
There are some new screenshots and additionally there is a new manual.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Nov.2004
ANN (website)
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NewGUI: Test Version 1.4.1 with Transparent Windows
A test version of NewGUI 1.4.1 for AmigaOS 3.x and CyberGraphX 3+ with a few bugfixes and new functions like transparent windows is available for download under the title link. Here are screenshots. NewGUI also runs under the 68k emulation of MorphOS.
With regard to the transparency, it's not a true transparency - a new layers.library would be necessary for that. The background is not updated. Nevertheless the transparency effect requires a lot of processor performance, but according to the author's message the time for the calculation of the background has been reduced to acceptable levels on a 68040.
The Pyramids demo requires at least a 16 bit display. The author welcomes comments and suggestions for improvement. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Nov.2004
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Genesi: A statement concerning MorphOS
The current MorphOS release is owned by the shareholders of Genesi and is
being distributed today in a form fully licensed and paid for. Genesi
will resume support of external MorphOS 1.5 development when there is
a clear plan and a date set for the release.
The posts against Genesi made on MorphOS.net are unfortunate. These
actions of a single person have damaged our discussions with major
strategic partners and have cast doubt on Genesi and MorphOS.
There has never been any disagreement about paying for development, in
fact more than $500,000 have been paid to MorphOS developers and for
MorphOS licenses. There has been disagreement however, how much and for what to pay for.
MorphOS does not currently drive significant sales of the platform. It
is our hope that one day it will, but this will not be achieved
without the majority of the Company's resources being focused on
activities that generate revenue and profit.
Genesi has become a partner/sponsor of the Debian, Gentoo and Crux Linux developer
communities. Genesi is also enrolled in the official board
support/partner programs of Yellow Dog Linux, Montavista and QNX Software Systems. It is in these areas that Genesi is now focused.
24th November 2004
bbrv@genesi.lu (snx)
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24.Nov.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOne-XE: Hardware fix for the DMA/Ethernet problem?
AmigaOS4 beta tester Steven Solie explains in his report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' that directly after the show, his AmigaOne dealer (LiveWire Systems) applied a hardware fix to his AmigaOne that fixes the lock ups that appear when using onboard IDE DMA at the same time as an Ethernet controller (we reported).
According to Solie, complete information on the procedure will be available to all AmigaOne dealers soon. Eyetech did not confirm any of the above statements yet.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Nov.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Compiler: Version 0.8g of vbcc finished
The C compiler vbcc by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (amiga specific adjustments) is now available in version 0.8g for AmigaOS, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. The compiler supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the younger standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99). A list of many new features is to get at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Nov.2004
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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New alpha version of the midi sequencer Horny
Horny is a midi sequencer in the style of "Logic" or "Cubase" which focuses most on simple and intuitive usability. Other than its paragons it will stay currently a pure midi program and will not support audio.
New with version 0.6:
- automation for all mixer unit parameters
- project overview at the arrange window
- multiple Undo/Redo within the piano/controller editor
Screenshots, further information and a download option for the lite version is to get at the title link. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.Nov.2004
David Brunet (ANF)
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Vote for the Amiga Games Hit Parade November/December 2004
It's time to vote for the Amiga Games Hit Parade of November/December 2004. You can vote online at the title link. Remember all kind of AmigaOS/MorphOS games are allowed (commercial, PD, old, new,...). Results will be published in early December. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Nov.2004
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WHDLoad: new packages released till 20.11.2004
With WHDLoad you can install games that were originally only playable from floppy discs on your hard drive. The following packages have been new added in recent time, got improved respectively updated:
- 20.11.04 improved: Rick Dangerous (Core Design) supports another version
- 20.11.04 improved: Tiny Troops (Vulcan) supports another version
- 20.11.04 improved: Obitus (Psygnosis) new install script, manual and icons added
- 18.11.04 new: CaveMania (Atlantis) done by Galahad
- 18.11.04 new: Kiwi Crap (Reality) done by Codetapper (Info, Image)
- 17.11.04 new: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Buena Vista Software) done by JOTD
- 16.11.04 new: Hired Guns (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
- 16.11.04 improved: Crazy Cars (Titus) supports another version, manual added, new install script
- 14.11.04 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils) supports another German version
- 14.11.04 improved: Highway Patrol 2 (Titus/Microids) supports another version
- 14.11.04 new: Heavy Metal Heroes (Players) done by CFOU!
- 14.11.04 new: Sim Life (Maxis) done by Psygore
- 14.11.04 improved: Laser Squad (Teque) supports another version
- 14.11.04 new: Intact (Sphinx Software/Grandslam) done by CFOU!
- 04.11.04 new: Garrison 2 (Rainbow Arts/Digital Dreams) done by CFOU!
- 04.11.04 new: Garrison (Rainbow Arts/Digital Dreams) done by CFOU!
- 02.11.04 fixed: The Short Grey (Accrosoft) uses only chip memory
- 02.11.04 new: Swap (Microïds/Palace) done by CFOU!
- 02.11.04 improved: Skweek (Loriciel) supports another version and other changes
- 02.11.04 new: Breathless (Fields of Vision) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 02.11.04 new: Bomber Bob (Idea) done by CFOU!
- 02.11.04 new: Alianator (P.S.) done by CFOU!
- 02.11.04 improved: Tiny Troops (Vulcan) supports another version
- 31.10.04 new: Tom and the Ghost (Blue Byte/Ubi Soft) done by CFOU!
- 31.10.04 new: Highway Patrol 2 (Titus/Microids) done by CFOU!
- 29.10.04 improved: Rick Dangerous (Core Design) supports another version
- 28.10.04 improved: Peter Beardsley's International Football (Teque/Grandslam) supports the grandslam collection version
- 27.10.04 improved: England Championship Special (Grandslam) supports the grandslam collection version
- 27.10.04 fixed: The Short Grey (Accrosoft) crack fixed
- 25.10.04 new: England Championship Special (Grandslam) done by Codetapper
- 25.10.04 new: My Room (Celebrandil/Fairlight) done by Codetapper (Info, Image)
- 24.10.04 new: Guardian Angel (Iron Byte/Codemasters) done by Codetapper
- 24.10.04 improved: Fears (Bomb Software) various changes
- 24.10.04 new: The Short Grey (Accrosoft) done by CFOU!
- 24.10.04 new: Jimmy Willburne (Chicken-Pox) done by CFOU!
- 24.10.04 new: Carlos (Microids) done by CFOU!
- 24.10.04 new: Superhero Demo (Psygnosis/Kage) done by CFOU!
- 24.10.04 updated: Eye of the Beholder (Westwood/SSI) slave rewritten for whdload 16, no need for xpkmaster.library
- 24.10.04 improved: Targhan (Silmarils) supports another version, new install script
- 20.10.04 improved: Rick Dangerous (Core Design) supports another version
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.Nov.2004
Neo (ANF)
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"AmigaDevBox" to support developers with OS4 porting
The aim of the project "AmigaDevBox" is to support developers without PPC hardware to port their projects to AmigaOS 4.
To make this possible AmigaOne owners are asked to help those developers by giving them access to their AmigaOnes in one or another way (e.g. via the Internet) or to compile/test projects for the developer.
Interested users as well as developers looking for help may register themselves under the title link on a world map or get an overview over the already registered persons.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.Nov.2004
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AmigaOS 4: uploads at os4depot.net
The new uploads since our last posting at os4depot.net:
cwmmoria.lha gam/rol 728kb CWMMoria 1.1.0 - a rogue-like RPG game
os4reboot.lha uti/wor 34kb Reboot utility for OS4
imagemagick-bin.lha gra/edi 14Mb Image manipulation programs
imagemagick-src.lha gra/edi 7Mb Image manipulation programs - source
php-os4-bin.lha dev/lan 3Mb PHP 4.3.0 - AmigaOS4 binaries
diskhelpers.lha dev/uti 276kb DiskHelpers - A collection of Hard Disk exam tools
amishots.lha gra/mis 89kb AMIShots for Amiga. An Amiga clone of Webshots
unrar-bin.lha uti/arc 180kb Unpacks RAR files
id3edit-os4.lha uti/fil 41kb port of simple ID3 tag shell editor
mpgtxos4.lha vid/edi 275kb manipulate mpeg audio and video files
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.Nov.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: version 6.0 of ahxplay.library released
Ilkka Lehtoranta has released version 6.0 of the ahxplay.library for MorphOS. The library gives the ability to play AHX songs without the need of the Amiga's custom chips.
Functions:
- SysV-ABI library
- Suppports search function, decoding can begin anywhere in the song
- Very fast AHX decoder
- Sound quality is comparable to UADE or with a real Amiga
- Real playtime can be calculated
Download:
ahxplay.lha (27K) - library and updated AmiNetRadio player
ahxplaysdk.lha (87K) - developers material and source code
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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20.Nov.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Linux: Genesi part of the Debian partner list
Debians partners program that covers companies and organizations Debian supports lists under the title link now also Genesi as the company would have made available Pegasos computers for the Debian development and employ programmers that work on the PowerPC version of Debian.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2004, 12:25] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2004
Darius Brewka (ANF)
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AmiStart: module update
Because of a startup problem in the library installation crashed AmiStart under AmigaOS4. With the new modules should this be solved. It is recommended to use these modules on other systems, too.
Many thanks to Stephan Rupprecht as with his help the bug could be found. As the modules were realized through libraries it is important to restart the computer after copying the updated files or to do an 'avail flush'.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2004, 12:20] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: compatibily data base for Playstation emulator
The FPSE data base that contains the information for the compatibility of numerous Playstation games with the Amiga version of FPSE ("Free Playstation Emulator") moved to a new server and has been heavily improved. Next to a completely new design and many new entries (now 355 games) you can now list the content in alphabetical order or sorted by date.
FPSE users are called to create an own account and to expand the data base with new entries.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.Nov.2004
Davy Wentzler (E-Mail)
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Audio Evolution 4 released
We are proud to announce that today, our audio harddisk recording and editing software Audio Evolution 4.0 has been released. Since the last update about 3 years ago, Audio Evolution has undergone a significant amount of enhancements, besides the port to AmigaOS4 native.
The most prominent improvements are non-linear non-destructive editing,
effect automation, automation recording, unlimited undo, MIDI remote control and updates to the GUI. Also smaller enhancements like a metronome, many grid options, track height adjustment, improved automation editing on the timeline and new effect plug-ins etc. are included.
Audio Evolution 4.0 now also comes with a brand new manual in PDF format which is also used as online help.
For people who haven't seen Audio Evolution 4 yet, there is a demo on the OS4 pre-CD, an updated demo (with bugfixes) and screenshots are available on our website.
You can order directly from the distributor Computer City or ask your local dealer. Registered users of Audio Evolution 3 will get a discount.
Prices are 149 euro for new users and 70 euro for upgrades. A printed
manual can be purchased separately for a small additional cost. Please ask your dealer for more information.
For more information please visit http://www.audio-evolution.com or contact us at
info@audio-evolution.com.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2004, 02:18] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Onlineshop only available until 24th November 2004
Major internal reorganization efforts will make it necessary to
deactivate the order function of the online shop on the 24th of
November 2004. The time needed for these efforts is estimated with two
weeks, but can be longer due to dependencies on external factors. The
deactivation of the onlineshop thus happens for indefinite time.
Customers who want to order software still this year thus should make
their orders until the 24th of November 2004. In this context we also
want to remind our customers of the still running fall promotion with
price reductions of up to 75 %.
Apart from the ability to place new orders, all functions of the
website will stay available as usual.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Nov.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmithlonUpdate project cancelled
Guido Mersmann told us that AmithlonUpdate which is available in Aminet will be not further
developed but deleted from it.
He further wrote:
"Because Bernd Meyer just has told me in the public Yahoo mailing list
AmithlonOpen that I am not
allowed to use the archives which he made available I cannot continue developing it.
Unfortunately the users will lose a project because of a personal conflict of two people.
The still existing archives will be deleted from Aminet as soon as possible.
Because as I know the Aminet is still offline the AmithlonUpdate V1.30 and the corresponding
source code archive which were going to be uploaded will be deleted, too." (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Nov. 2004, 11:36] [Comments: 0]
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