10.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Mailing list for AteoBus owners
For the owners of an AteoBus expansion there's now a mailing list at Yahoo been set up.
This piece of hardware offered ISA slots for the Amiga 1200 and had been developed in 1997 by the French company Ateo Concepts. As slot cards available for it were among others a graphics card (Pixel 64) and an Ethernet card (AteoNet).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jul.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: BlackIRC keyfiles online available
In the near past we have received several requests regarding the availability of keyfiles for the software title BlackIRC (development ceased in 2000). To help these interested users we offer an online version of BlackIRC 1.1 for sale. The online version contains a keyfile and the last released version of BlackIRC.
We want to point out that there is no support for BlackIRC available anymore and that development ceased in 2000. This offer is therefore meant only for users who do not need any support and only want to buy a keyfile.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jul.2004
PPA - Polish Amiga Portal (ANF)
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MorphOS board game: Kulce
Roman Grygier prepared a MorphOS game called Kulce. On the board there are some coloured balls which have to be put in horizontal, vertical or diagonal rows.
When there are five of the same colour in one row, the row disappears and the player gathers some points. Balls can be moved around the board - one per round. After making the move, additional three balls appear on the board. The game lasts until the whole board is covered with balls and the player has no field to move.
The game can be downloaded from PPA. The game is in Polish language but there is not many text to read. Review of the game (with screenshots) can be found here. Enjoy! (snx)
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10.Jul.2004
ANN (website)
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: datatypes akGIF and akTIFF for free
Because of the end of the LZW patent Andreas R. Kleinert now made also the datatypes akGIF and akTIFF available free of charge so that they should appear on Aminet soon. The akGIF datatype archive is available for download on the author's website, too, but not the akTIFF archive due to its size.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jul.2004
Mario Misic (ANF)
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BBoAH looking for musicians
The team of the BBoAH is still looking for people, especially songwriters and musicians/bands
or people who know to mix a song with the appropriate programs. It is planned to produce an AMIGA song that goes under the skin. For this they are looking for some helping hands to work on it within a non-profit-project. Idea and concept exist and are set.
People who want to spend some of their spare time for this project may write via e-mail to: Amigahardware@mariomisic.de.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Jul.2004
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Programming language: Mattathias BASIC (alpha) released
A new alpha version of "Mattathias BASIC" has been released yesterday. (cg)
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09.Jul.2004
Dude (ANF)
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Sun present three dimensional desktop
With Project Looking Glass Sun present a three dimensional desktop for their Unix operating system 'Solaris'. Detailed explanations and various screenshots can be found on the project's website.
A video showing the 3D desktop in action is available as well.
(cg)
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09.Jul.2004
PC-Welt
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US-government warns of Internet Explorer
Because of the several lacks of security in the WWW browser Internet Explorer the
"United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team" which is an organization where the US government
has also some members warns of using the browser, at least if you have not changed some
preferences. Meanwhile the free author Paul Boutin advises to use Firefox instead of
the Internet Explorer. That seems to be not very special but this advice has been posted
in Microsoft online magazine Slate....
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jul.2004
Golem IT News
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Golem: Mozilla-products avoid Windows lack of security
»Patch for Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird published
After on 7 July 2004 a dangerous lack of security has been found which only appears
on Windows systems at the three web applications Mozilla, Firefox and
Thunderbird now a patch is available for download. The lack of security allows an attacker
to execute program code on a different system.«
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Another video of AmigaOS4 with nativ Picasso96
Under the title link an
AmigaOS4 beta tester has published a video (20 MB)
which shows the speed of the new PPC-nativ version of Picasso96.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Video of OS4-Prerelease-Party in Landskrona
Under the title link you can
download a video of the OS4-Prerelease-Party which took place from June 18th to 20th in
Swedish Landskrona.
You can watch a little performance of AmigaOS4 with nativ Picasso96,
MUI, MooVid and Descent Freespace.
The video which has also some music is there in three different levels of quality.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jul.2004
ChaoZer (ANF)
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MorphOS: ColdRebootPatch
ColdRebootPatch patches the ColdReboot() function, allowing you to delay or even stall a reset (screenshot).
(cg)
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08.Jul.2004
From Sebastian Brylka found in "Die Zeit" (ANF)
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Die Zeit Web-Magazine: Cool Computer Art
Creative programmers demonstrate how they also use modest means towards a goal of great works. Amigas are mentioned relationally to the growing demo scene in this article by Aaron Koenig.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Mario Misic (ANF)
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BBoAH Chat-Radio Session
This coming Saturday, the 10th of July, 2004, BBoAH is organizing a chat radio session at 8 pm. On this web-radio that evening the topic of Amiga shall be particularly discussed.
[rest of article not translated, the web-radio was also to include music by request] (ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Test Reports, Articles and Kult Packages
Kultpower.de, the fan site for classic computer magazines, has again an update, after a long time:
New PowerPlay Test Reports from Powerplay 12/92: A.T.A.C. (MS-DOS), Burning Steel (MS-DOS), Hexuma (Amiga), LHX Attack Chopper (Mega Drive), NHLPA Hockey 93 (Mega Drive), Quest for Glory 3 (MS-DOS), Rex Nebular (MS-DOS), Silly Putty (Amiga), Spellcasting 301 (MS-DOS), Summer Challenge (MS-DOS), Super High Impact (Super NES).
In the Kult Games area there are a few new game gems to marvel at: Wing Commander 1 and 2, Eye of the Beholder 1, 2 and 3.
[rest of article not translated] (snx) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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Garry Hare (KMOS) to Speak at Summer Breakout 2004
At "Summer Breakout 2004", an annual convention on the topic of networks, which takes place on the 14th of July in Petaluma, California, Garry Hare of KMOS Inc. will give a speech on wireless networks. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Rene (ANF)
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New Law Forbids the Sending of Spam Mail
chip.de: From now on in Germany it's forbidden to spread unwanted advertisements by e-mail, SMS, and fax. This so-called spamming is forbidden in accordance with the Unlawful Competition statute that came into force today.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
ARD-Teletext Page 135
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Punishment for ex-Metabox CEO Domeyer
As may be read in ARD Teletext, former CEO Domeyer of Metabox AG has been sentenced to seven months and a penalty of 10,000 euros.
The judge found that Domeyer inflated the value of Metabox shares by filing false reports.
Follow-up: More articles about this
N-TV.de on 8th July, 2004: Metabox CEO Sentenced
Heise on 9th July, 2004: Punishment for the former Metabox CEO
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Dirk Martin (ANF)
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Convention: Fun Of Computing 2004
On the 2nd and 3rd of October the convention FUN OF COMPUTING is taking place in the main building of the Ilmenau (Germany) Technology and Founders Center. Since 1997 this gathering has been organized by Amiga-Center Thüringen, and is now offered for the 5th time. It offers interested visitor a look at news, developments and trends having to do with computers. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Emulator: MAME V0.84 for MorphOS
Fabien Coeurjoly has released version 0.84 (13.5 MB) of the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator for MorphOS.
Changes since version 0.72:
- Bumped to 0.84 common tree
- Optimized blit speeds, especially on Pegasos II
- Supports on-the-fly window/screen switch (alt-enter by default)
- Not compiled with GCC 3.x this time, as this led to some nasty bugs
- Improved GUI (history.dat and mameinfo.dat support, favorites list, ...)
- Command line interface mode changed:
- Now uses the official mame syntax (mame.elf -showusage) for help
- Also supports mamerc config files
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Golem IT News
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Golem: Googles Against Google
«Stelor wants to terminate the trademark "Google."
Stelor Productions, a maker of child's toys and operators of the kids website Googles.com, has filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office that the trademark "Google" used by the search website Google must be cancelled. »
Read the complete Golem article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets through 8th July, 2004
With WHDLoad it's possible to play games from your hard-drive that were previously thought of as floppy-only. The following packets have been added or updated since our last announcement:
- 06.07.04 new: Tint (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore
- 01.07.04 fixed: Toki (Ocean) fixed missing imager
- 01.07.04 fixed: Street Racer (Epic) fixed another access fault
- 27.06.04 new: The Cycles (Accolade) done by Psygore
- 27.06.04 new: Speedboat Assassin (Mastertronic) done by Psygore
- 20.06.04 new: Explora 3: Sous Le Signe Du Serpent (Infomedia) done by
Psygore
- 17.06.04 updated: Enemy - Tempest Of Violence (Anachronia) icon added
- 13.06.04 fixed: Silent Service 2 (Microprose) fixed bug in protection
patch fix
- 07.06.04 new: Postman Pat (Alternative) done by Codetapper
- 31.05.04 improved: Overdrive (Team 17) completely rewritten, fixed
load/save records
- 30.05.04 fixed: Les Portes Du Temps (Legend) restarting game after game
over fixed
- 30.05.04 fixed: Cluedo: Master Detective (Leisure Genius) doesn't quit
anymore when starting
- 26.05.04 improved: Toki (Ocean) supports another version, new icons
- 26.05.04 improved: Asterix - Operation Getafix (Coktel Vision) supports
another version
- 23.05.04 new: The Kristal (Addictive) done by Psygore
- 23.05.04 new: Fusion (Bullfrog) done by Psygore
- 23.05.04 new: Cluedo: Master Detective (Leisure Genius) done by Psygore
- 19.05.04 new: Populous World Editor (Bullfrog) done by Psygore
- 15.05.04 updated: Battle Squadron (Innerprise) reworked, many changes,
see readme
- 08.05.04 improved: Superfrog (Team 17) project f fixed, easy entry of
level codes, added level skip
- 08.05.04 new: Alien World (PAL Developments/Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
- 07.05.04 improved: Theme Park (Bullfrog) rewritten for kickemu/whdload
16, manual and hints added
- 06.05.04 new: Saint & Greavsie (Core Design/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
- 05.05.04 improved: Tornado (Digital Integration) supports ECS version,
display fixed on AGA version
- 05.05.04 improved: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) fixed load/save problems,
supports ECS version
- 03.05.04 new: Asterix - Operation Getafix (Coktel Vision) done by JOTD
- 03.05.04 improved: Beyond the Ice Palace (Elite) supports another 2
versions, major changes
- 01.05.04 new: Luxor (Software Horizons Ltd/Paradox) done by Codetapper
- 01.05.04 new: Corx (Starbyte) done by Codetapper
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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New APC&TCP Newsletter
As of today the new newsletter from APC&TCP is active. Updates to the pages of APC&TCP, DigiBoosterPro, and Amiga Future are posted in the newsletter. Beyond that there is information about software updates of the APC&TCP software house.
Subscribers to the old APC&TCP newsletter and the Amiga Future
mailing list are being automatically subscribed to the new newsletter. If you would like to subscribe, send an e-mail to newsletter-subscribe@apc-tcp.de.
To unsubscribe send an e-mail to newsletter-unsubscribe@apc-tcp.de. Both of the old mailing lists will be eliminated in the next few days.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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07.Jul.2004
Lou Vidal (ANF)
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Queens Amiga User Group: Website updated, "CD32 Video Editing Station"
The Queens Amiga Users Group website has been updated. The expanded member project section now features pictures and a short description of a video editing station based on a CD32.
Along with the announcement of the resumed summer meetings the site
features the latest in the ongoing OS4 demos, visit QAUG for more info.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Jul.2004
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New Amiga dealer - handle with care
An amigaworld.net member pointed out that there's a new presumably British Amiga dealer called amigashop.co.uk. But just a few hours later, there are lots of indications suggesting that one should be very cautious when dealing with this entity:
The only means of contacting the dealer (apart from a HTML form) listed on the website is a mobile phone number, there's no postal address or proper imprint available.
There are AmigaOne motherboards available from the webshop, yet the manufacturer Eyetech states that they never heard about that particular vendor. The domain amigashop.co.uk is owned by pc-x-treme.net, a company that has allegedly cheated PC customers in the past and falsely claimed to be a subsidiary of a reputable hardware manufacturer.
More information and links to further evidence can be found at amigaworld.net.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Amiga.org Magazine: Spare issues of the pilot still available
There are still some spare issues of the pilot of the 'Amiga.org Magazine', a currently frozen
international print magazine in English language, available as Ron van Herk
('Palpatine') just reports at
Amiga.org.
The reasons for the frozen status of that magazine are said to
be not enough time by the editors and the overall situation
of the Amiga market which is not the best condition for a
needed and secured market demand.
Financing and material for articles as well as advertisers
were not the critical problem, thus giving hope the status
might change for future releases again when more Amigas,
independent which manufacturer or brand they will be, within
the market.
Further information and how to obtain one of the last issues
is to get at the title link.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Fileshare game: Secrecy
Secrecy (38 KB), is a strategy game for two to four players. It is a
so called file share game i.e. one does a turn, saves the
game and sends the file to the next player.
An editor for different arenas is included with the game.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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06.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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AROS: New ata.device finished
How AROS-Exec tells, the AROS-Exec
a new ata.device was finished by Michael S. The drive is completly new.
The new ata.device supports all PIO-Modes and allows a theoretical transmission of 14 MB/s
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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Event: NASS IV (France)
On July, 10th and 11th the event NASS IV in La Rochelle in France take place.
Showed are the AmigaOne XE/G4, AmigaOS4 and the game 'Shadow of the Beast' in a deluxe-version
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jul.2004
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WinUAE 0.9.90 announced
The WinUAE team announced the next version of the emulator yesterday: WinUAE 0.9.90 ("WinUAE 1.0 public beta"). Changes since the last version:
New features:
- New Quickstart-panel. Easy and fast way to run disk-based games or
demos. Simply select Amiga model, compatibility level, disk image
and click start!
- Hardware and host configuration separated. Create and use your own
custom host configurations instead of build-in host configuration
data from standard configuration files.
- Kickstart ROM scanner and autodetection (only official ROMs supported)
- User configurable graphics filter presets.
- Scaling support in all software filters.
- Paths-panel added. User configurable ROM, statefile, screenshot etc. paths.
- Automatically return back to GUI if Kickstart ROM fails to load
- Added help-tooltips here and there
- More compatible paraport direct parallel port support
- Mapped filesystem P-flag to Windows System-flag, H-flag to Hidden
and fixed inverted archive-flag
Bugs fixed:
- ECS Agnus was always reported as an OCS Agnus (0.8.26)
- 68000 cycle-exact mode compatibility (0.8.26)
- floppy emulation writing bug (0.8.26, fixes SWOS disk error when saving)
- dialogs in fullscreen mode
- on the fly switching between A1000/CDTV/CD32 modes
- swapping disk image sometimes changed another drive's disk image
- German keyboard #-key
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Jul.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: ClicketyFlip and CPUClock
The commodity 'ClicketyFlip' from Peter Gordon flips screens when the user double clicks with the middle mouse button. The same author is responsible for the AmiDock extension (i.e. a 'Docky') 'CPUClock' that contains a CPU time meter and a digital clock.
Direct download:
ClicketyFlip.lha (31 KB)
cclock_docky.lha (9 KB)
(cg)
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05.Jul.2004
amigafuture.de (Website)
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Script based demo creator: Karate-Fighter 1.0
Karate fighter is a script based demo creator used to create visual ('scene') demos. The program requires at least a 68020 CPU, supports AGA and RTG and has been successfully tested on various emulators.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Jul.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #074
The scene group "Liquid Skies" released their 74th music pack today containing the track "Fantazja" from the Polish musician Maxus. The cover has been designed by DaFreak.
- Title: Fantazja
- Artist: Maxus
- Style: Trance
- Length: 4:21
- Format: mp3
- Size: 4.0 MB
The zippped file is available for download here.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Jul.2004
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Electronic television magazine: TView 1.3.16
TView is a kind of a TV programmes magazine: it downloads the programme of an unlimited number of European TV channels on your computer and lists it sorted by time or TV channels. Furthermore does TView contain an alert function.
In version 1.3.16 were some smaller bugs removed.
Direct download: TView_1.3.16.lha (84 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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Pegasos: Boot Creator v0.6
Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek has released a new version of the Bootcreator. This program creates boot menus for the OpenFirmware of the Pegasos making the start of different operating systems easier.
New in version 0.6 is the [ABORT] command making it possible to exit the boot menu.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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News reader: Newscoaster hosted by Sourceforge.net
The website of the MUI based news reader "Newscoaster" has now moved to newscoaster.sourceforge.net.
Anyone who wants to work on Newscoaster is asked to contact the author Mark Harman to get access to the CVS archive.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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New screenshots of the Tales of Tamar 3D map
Tales of Tamar is a round based fantasy, strategy & and role playing game for Amiga, PC & Mac. Versions for Linux and Java are under development. Martin Wolf wrote:
"There are new snapshots of the 3D map available that is right now in development for Tales of Tamar. This 3D map will be implemented into the client by the end of the year and is meant to move the project together with higher resolution and higher number of colours to the first row of round based strategy games.
Now we ask for your opinion! Here are the snapshots:
Screenshots
Of course, units and the users interface are missing.
Your ToT team" (cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
amiga.org (website)
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Audio player: Streamer 2.09 (beta)
"Streamer" plays Shoutcast Internet radio, MP3 and RealAudio files that are received via a HTTP connection. Streamer supports MPEG decoder hardware (MAS and Delfina). Version 2.09 offers the following improvements:
- Better HTTP support
- Support of "URL encoding" (spaces or special characters in an URL)
- Simple HTTP authentication
- Now works with WinUAE, too
The author asks for feedback, especially from users with hardware MPEG decoders.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
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Amiga Alpe Adria: webcam and first photos
There are now first images available from the Amiga Alpe Adria event taking place today in the Italian Udine. Further ones will be added soon. A webcam has been installed, too.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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PPaint: Version 7.1c now with GIF support on Aminet
Since the GIF patent expired meanwhile, Cloanto has updated the Aminet archive of PPaint 7.1c (3 MB) to support this file format.
This version is limited to non-commercial usage and to exclusive distribution via Aminet. Compared to the commercial version included with the emulator package Amiga Forever, just some tutorial and artwork add-ons are missing. (snx)
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03.Jul.2004
amiga.org (website)
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Hardware "hack": Prometheus in desktop case
Jim "Redrumloa" Farley by Anachronism Industries has found a way to built a "Prometheus" PCI busboard into a (closed) A3000 or A4000 desktop case. To do this are no modifications necessary for the Prometheus or the A4000.
In his test computer has Farley next to the Prometheus built in a Voodoo3 graphics card and a PCI network card - still the video slot and two Zorro slots are accessible. A third Zorro slot is partly covered but should offer enough space for short slot cards.
Further details and some photos can be found at amiga.org. Obviously Farley is thinking about offering the needed parts for sale.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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02.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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UAE: "AmiRun" directly starts an application instead of Workbench
'AmiRun' is a patch for Richard Drummond's UAE which allows you to directly run an executable Amiga file instead of the Workbench. It is usefull if you want to run a hard disk game without dealing with the Amiga's Workbench.
To activate this function, you need to download the sources for UAE and AmiRun, patch the UAE sources and recompile the emulator afterwards. From now on, 'UAE -e filename' will start the emulator, boot the emulated Amiga and then run the program 'filename' instead of Workbench.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Jul.2004
Ingo Schmitz (E-Mail)
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Found: Chinese AOne-product
Ingo Schmitz sent us this
picture to the topic "AOne".
We wonder: Who is Ve Wong and is there a connection to KMOS?
In any case the newest product of Eyetech seems to be smaller than a MiniITX - at least
so long until you will not add water. The comment of an
AOne-beta tester: "Tastes like chicken somehow..." ;-)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jul.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Apple: New iMacs still not there - old ones not available any longer
Curiosity at Apple: The company seems not to be able to deliver iMacs during the next
months. While the new products of the known series will come not before September to the market
the producer does not accept orders for the current computers any longer. It seems not to be
clear if this situation will take influence on the profit of the company.
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jul.2004
golem.de
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Canon gives away digital photo-prints
Canon now offers the possibility of testing the products of its bubble jet printers
before you will buy it with your own pictures.
On this Internet site
you can choose one or more Canon printers and then you can upload one of your digital
photos. During the next days this picture will be sent to you for free...
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jul.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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Pegasos Presentation to be held on Spanish technology fair
Partyzip@, a technology fair to be held in Monzón (Huesca, Spain) on July, 9-11, will feature an 'operating systems exhibition' (including a BeBox, an Amiga1200 and two Pegasos computers) as well as a Spanish Pegasos/MorphOS presentation.
There will be a workshop called "Programming on BeOS" as well as a presentation of Zeta Operating System, carried by Mr. Bernd Korz, CVO of yellowTAB.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Jul.2004
OS4Depot (Website)
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OS4Depot: Last week's uploads
OS4Depot-Uploads from June, 24th to July, 2nd 2004:
netmon02.lha (67 KB) Network Monitor for Roadshow
xmamegui.lha (65 KB) GUI for the OS4 xMAME port v0.5
quake.lha (355 KB) Quake for AmigaOS4
kmailaddresstoyam (3 KB) Kmail to Yam Address Book (ARexx)
xmess_0.82.1.lha (4 MB) xMess for AmigaOS4
xcpmame_0.82.1.lha (1 MB) xCpMame for AmigaOS4
xmame_0.82.1.lha (11 MB) xMame for AmigaOS4
xneomame_0.82.1.lha (1 MB) xNeoMame for AmigaOS4
cclock_docky.lha (4 KB) CPU meter and digital clock docky for OS4 AmiDock (snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: More free keyfiles
Andreas R. Kleinert has made some more keyfiles publicly available at his homepage.
The keyfiles belong to his programs 'SViewII/NG', the 'akNAIL' datatype and 'TWinIFF'.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jul.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: Summer promotion with temperature-dependent discounts
The sweltering summer has just begun in Krakow. On this occasion you are welcome to take advantage of our Summer Promotion.
From 1st to 15th July 2004 every customer purchasing in the Elbox On-line Store can enjoy our summer discount on all items. The discount is calculated automatically and deducted from the value of goods purchased.
The discount corresponds with the current temperature in Krakow:
- The hotter, the higher discount!
- For every centigrade degree you get 1% discount!
It means 20% of discount when temperature in Krakow reaches 20°C!
For details, see the Special Offer page. (cg)
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01.Jul.2004
Pegasosforum (Website)
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Pegasos: Linux Distribution MontaVista 3.0 Professional Adapted (Update)
According to a Pegasos Forum report another Linux distro, MontaVista Linux 3.0 Professional, has been adapted for Pegasos, but currently of all things only available for Pegasos I.
A release date is not known. The Pegasos is presently not shown among the boards officially supported by MontaVista.
Update: (7:19 pm, 1st July, 2004, snx)
In the meantime it's been explained to us that what's reported here is not an official adaptation by the company MontaVista, but a private initiative. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Emulators: Beta Testers Sought for WinFellow
Before the new version of the Amiga emulator WinFellow is released, beta testers are being sought.
Those interested should send a description of the system configurations of their Windows PCs to this address. At this time there are two CVS branches: one for the clean assembler version as well as one for the part of the source code that's been ported to C. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jul.2004
Solskogen 2004 (ANF)
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Demo Scene: Results and Demos from Solskogen 2004
You'll find the scores and some of the demos from this year's Solskogen Party at scene.org.
Works by Nature, Ephidrena und Spaceballs are available. In the Amiga demo section Ephidrena won with "any one of these suckers" (70 points), ahead of Boozoholics ("dance extravaganza", 68 points) and Nature ("democratic", 64 points). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jul.2004
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: Commodore VC-20 Celebrates Resurrection - as MP3 Player
Golem IT News also noticed the announcement from Commodore during a press conference in the middle of June (amiga-news.de
reported):
"After the Dutch concern Tulip (which a short while ago took posession of the market rights for the name Commodore) just released a joystick-included TV games device, comes the next product: the eVic-20 GB - a portable MP3 player with hard-drive." Read the complete article at Golem IT News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jul.2004
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WarpDT-Series for AmigaOS 4.0, WarpPCX v45.2 and More
PCX datatype "WarpPCX" v. 45.2 was released yesterday. In the coming weeks new versions of all Warp datatypes will follow, among them Amiga OS4-native versions.
Changes in version 45.2 of WarpPCX:
- Native AmigaOS 4 version added
- Mistakes in memory area overcome, this applied to all versions
- Mistakes in the WarpOS version overcome, these could lead to a crash of the datatype when displaying small pictures
- Polish-language installer translation added
- Small changes and improvements built in
New registration system
From here on the registration system's been updated so that now, in addition to the previously available PayPal pay possibility, there's also a half-automated acceptance of payments via direct bank transfer or the postal method is allowed. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jul.2004
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Backup Software: Back-It-All-Up v9.7
With Back-It-All-Up back-up copies of a hard-drive may be made on another hard-drive. The software supports up to eight partitions, hard-drives beyond the 4 GB limit, offers plentiful features and may be used on its own screen or directly on the Workbench screen.
Direct download, Website (nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jul.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter #040630 from Brad Webb
Under the title link you'll find the complete Amiga Update newsletter for June, 2004. In his English-language newsletter Brad Webb collates monthly all of the important Amiga developments.
Topics of this issue:
- OS 4.0 Pre-release to Developers
- OS 4.0 Update from Hyperion
- New Hyperion Website
- Amiga Alpe Adria almost here!
- AmiWest Ticket Form
- Two new versions of PageStream
- More SView IV freeware
- VirusZ III updated
- Latest from WinUAE
- Malibu 1.1 plugin is out
- PicShow for OS4, others
- The latest from ... Commodore?
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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01.Jul.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS-Skin: Sky
You'll find a new skin for MorphOS at MorphZone: Sky (154 KB) by Aaron Diezman (screenshot). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net
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AmigaDE: "Space Invaders" clone "Invasion"
Zeoneo announces the immediate availability of their AmigaDE/AmigaAnywhere based "Space Invaders" clone Invasion .
The game is available for PocketPC and Windows. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jun.2004
amiga-news.de editorial staff
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amiga-news.de: Comment script improved once more
The latest comment script from June the 26th has been
improved again due to several reader's hints and advices.
Update
Bug fixes:
- A session already runnig had been started again sometimes
which led to an error message.
- URLs within the comments with upper cases other than 'A'
got no working link for clicking (Petra Struck).
- At URLs within the comments which include a '=' the
generated link was incomplete and not working (Martin Heine, Christoph Gutjahr).
- When clicking on "Notify staff about this message" button
the session ID was not passed through, thus leading in a
loss of the login status.
Changes:
- The [Permalink] and "Notify staff about this message" button
reside now in the brackets in the upper line together
with (News message, ...) (oGALAXYo, _PAB_,
Christoph Gutjahr).
- "Notify staff about this message" button as graphic
(oGALAXYo, cbs). Suggestions for a clear icon are
welcome.
- Colour for the admin comments is now '#009999' (Petra Struck).
- New: alt-Text 'Notify staff about this message' is
repeated as title attribute of the button (DaFreak, Christoph Dietz).
If you encounter problems with the new script or discover bugs
we kindly ask you to report this in detail (including
information about the used OS and browser) to our staff.
It might be helpful to delete all old cookies of
amiga-news.de. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS4: Poll about the drawer standard design
At Amigaworld.net Martin 'Mason' Merz has started a poll regarding the future standard design of Workbench drawers. Four designs as well as the option for something completely different are selectable. (snx)
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30.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Article: Recompiling old C programs for AmigaOS4
Peter Hutchison has created an article
for IntuitionBase which covers the issues for recompiling old programs written in C for the AmigaOne with AmigaOS4. His experience is most with SAS 6.5x and Storm C. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jun.2004
Todd Oberly (E-Mail)
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Beta version of the MUI class "newstring.mcc" (IBrowse)
Mikolaj Calusinski has provided a new version of the MUI class "newstring.mcc" with the following bug removements:
- Sometimes "RAmiga events" were absorbed by the class, even if the regarding window was not active
- Marking and/or replacing of text did not work at all or not as thought
- Potential crashes with too long strings
- Some other smaller bugs
Newstring.mcc is used with IBrowse and some other applications. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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IRC client: Version 1.1b of WookieChat released
Today version 1.1b (225 KB) of the new
IRC client Wookiechat
has been released.
New is a basic preferences and server selection window which
allows to add, delete or change server entries as well as the
option to modify the user name.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jun.2004
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Emulator: Amiga Forever 6.0.2.0
The update to version 6.0.2.0 brings a more recent version of WinUAE (0.8.27.0) and some other little improvements to "Amiga Forever" users.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jun.2004
Oliver Roberts (E-Mail)
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IBrowse: New IBPreferences custom class available
Testing under OS4 revealed a long standing bug in the IBrowse 2.3 preferences custom class, which manifested itself as a crash as soon as the preferences were launched. After a short testing period, the IBrowse development team is pleased to announce the availability of the new bugfixed custom class.
The developers recommend that all users of IBrowse 2.3 install the new custom class, even if they do not have the crash under OS4-Pre, or even use OS4, as the bug is still present and a potential problem.
Note: Those selected users that also tested the fix prior to release should also install this final release in place of the test version they were sent.
(cg)
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30.Jun.2004
Pegasos-forum (Website)
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MorphOS: Tiny GUI "Devedie" for DVD playback with the MPlayer
At the Pegasosforum there is a tiny graphic user interface (Screenshot) for DVD playback with the MPlayer available, it is called Devedie and current version is 0.3. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jun.2004
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Software: SweetKiss 1.2
"SweetKiSS" is a viewer for the Kisekae Set SystemSet
("KISS"), some kind of paper dolls for computers.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jun.2004
Murakami (ANF)
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Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR, issue 27
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French newspaper published by the French association AFLE. Entirely laser printed, A=P is distributed in the whole world. This issue contains the following topics:
- News: AmigaOS4 prerelease, more about MorphOS 1.5, IBrowse 2.4...
- Reviews: Hollywood Designer 1.0, Open Transport Tycoon De Luxe, DOSBox...
and many other articles about Breakpoint 2004, UBoot tutorial...
(cg)
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29.Jun.2004
Christoph Dietz
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amiga-news.de: LAMP completely updated
After the update to the 2.6-kernerl the server of amiga-news.de didn't run good. Because of this now the rest of the "LAMP" (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
are updated. No the server presents the sites faster.
(cd) (Translation: gf)
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29.Jun.2004
Mario Misic (ANF)
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BBoAH: Representing problem of IBrowse repaired
The representing problem of the German mirror of BBoAH with IBrowse has been repaired today.
There are still a few bugs, but the category-buttons don't show a black screen anymore. Now you have got full access with IBrowse.
Thanks to all, who supported us by bug-surching.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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29.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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Poseidon: New drivers for the Thylacine USB-card
Under the title link you can find a new version of the driver (7 KB)
for the USB-card Thylacine, which can be used with the USB-Stack Poseidon.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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29.Jun.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Kickflash OS4 firmware updated
Version 1.6 of Kickflash OS4 is now available on the website of Coyote Flux and our support page. This is a major update with many improvements over the last version.
The firmware now supports multiple Kickstart remapping. The
remapping of 512KB Kickstarts works with the MapROM feature of the
Cyberstorm MK1/MK2/MK3/PPC, A3640 and the BlizzardPPC boards. Additionally
it supports Retro Remapping to make any Amiga start in Kickstart 1.3 mode
when the joystick button is held during reset. This requires a 34.005
Kickstart ROM and uses Relokick's internal relocation table to rekick the
system. This lets you disable the caches by pressing the left
mousebutton during the Kickstart 1.3 floppy boot screen, which makes a lot of older programs compatible with faster systems.
Many more resident modules can now be installed at the same time, and many more filetypes are supported, such as the latest (non-public) ram-handler version 51.6.
Other changes have been made to the hunk handling, AmigaOS 3.9 reset handler code, memory handling and the OpenOXYPPort support code.
Special thanks fly out to Peter Riede, who has helped a lot during the
development and testing of this product.
Download:
CoyoteFlash.lha (37 KB) (snx)
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28.Jun.2004
Diverse
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Software News in Summary
Update of various Asoft tools
Alfonso "alfie" Ranieri released updates of RxMUI (40.8), RexxMustHave (22.5), RxToolkit (2.6) and FreeDB (10.1).
Worm Wars 7.81
"Worm Wars" is a Tron clone by James "Amigan" Jacobs. Version 7.81 introduces a new object ("Autojump"), beyond that there are various optimizations and several mistakes have been resolved.
Direct download: WormWars.lha (541 KB)
Saga 1.4b
Also from James Jacobs comes "Saga", a computer version of the board-game "Saga: Age of Heroes". The update takes care of a couple known errors.
Direct download: Saga.lha (332 KB)
68060 version of "libmad mpega.library"
A special 68060 version of "libmad mpega.library" that offers speed advantages due to the avoidance of a few opcodes unknown to the 68060.
Direct download: mpega_libmad_060.lha (59 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.Jun.2004
amiga-news.de editorial staff
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amiga-news.de: comments script enhanced
After enhancing the comments function in March 2004
with the possibility of an optional registration Sven Drieling has now further improved the script.
Update
Changes:
- Login now via HTML form including logged in-stay option instead of the login via HTTP authentification.
- After login/logout as well as after sending a comment you stay on the original page.
New features:
- Preview - Before sending a comment you get a preview so you are able to do corrections.
- Direct link - Within the comments there's now a direct link (without sessionID) so the coments can now easily be bookmarked and the link to a coment can easily be forwarded to others.
- Admin comments - Three following stars '***' can now be entered only by admins. They are used for highlighting (green text, BLOCKQUOTE) of hints to the comments' presentation.
- Admin - Various enhancements for an easier administration of the comments.
Bugfixes:
- The '&'-separator in the URLs appears in the HTML source code now as '&'.
- If the text of the comment now passes the allowed 10.000 characters the text won't be deleted anymore.
During the script change have some comment s gone into the Nirvana.
We ask for your understanding.
Update 27-Jun-2004:
If problems or errors happen because of the new script we ask for a most detailed and comprehensive description of these in the comments. Please name also the used browser. We will fix appearing bugs one by one as soon as possible.
It has shown to be helpful to delete all previous cookies from amiga-news.de. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jun.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Designers and musicians for new AmigaOS
For the games project "TripleA" (working title) designers and musicians are looked for. To say it straight away there will be no pay for it.
The official designer(s) and musician(s) will get free access to all games versions. Of course, they'll be mentioned in the game credits. In return the graphic and music files will be part of the official release.
Graphics:
- The games graphics are fully 32bit, so everything from render graphics to cartoon graphics can be used.
- The single games objects aren't restricted by the resolution.
- The minimum number of needed objects can be enhanced by the designer (!) and will be automatically integrated into the levels by the games engine.
- The number of animations is also not limited.
Music:
- It is thought of a music player similar to the one already existing in BoulderDäsh. Various tests with Protracker AHI players are still running.
- The musician should therefore have knowledge in composing with Protracker and should be capable to create subdued (lift/golf-course) music, too.
- The possibility of creating sound effects is advantageous.
Interested people can mail directly. Please use "Grafiker" or "Musiker" as subject so the mails don't end in the SPAM filter.
For easy selection, designers can attach a picture showing at least three animation phases of a walking person e.g. a cartoon person. Musicians can attach a small piece of music.
Questions about the kind of game or similar won't be answered.
Guido Mersmann
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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25.Jun.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Microsoft warns of specially critical lack of security
Today Microsoft which is the worldwide biggest producer of software has pointed out to
a critical lack of security in its WWW-browser Internet Explorer which has been known
for some weeks. According to the statement users can be infected by Trojans on pages
which seems to be reliable. This applies to servers which use the Microsofts Internet Information Services (IIS)
and which have been manipulated by another lack of certainty. This can be fixed by
a patch. The lack in the Internet Explorer can be only fixed by installing of a preversion
of the Service Pack 2 for Windows XP but which should not be used on computers which are
used in the production. You also can set the preferences of security of the Internet Explorer
to "high" but thus you cannot use JavaScript any longer. Those ones who do not want to
risk something should not use the Internet Explorer as long as it is not fixed.
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jun.2004
Michael C. Battilana (e-mail)
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Events: Amiga Alpe Adria 2004 Update
Amiga Alpe Adria, the annual alternative and classic computing get-together organized by our Italian Amiga Forever team, will take place in little more than a week in Udine, a beautiful town
located between Venice and the Alps.
The event home page is at http://0xAA.org. The web site has just been updated with the latest flight and travel resources, links to cultural events, and exhibits information. It is now a very good time to take advantage of last-minute airline offers.
Additionally, tickets are still available for concerts and
performances which range from hip-hop superstars Cypress Hill (at
the nearby Rototom Sunsplash festival), to Michael Flatley's Lord
of the Dance, to Italian singer and songwriter Nek.
This week's confirmed Amiga Alpe Adria guests include Ben Hermans
of Hyperion (developers of Amiga OS 4.0), Christian Kemp (founder
and maintainer of Amiga news site ANN.lu) and other Amiga
personalities.
Amiga Alpe Adria is free to all attendees, including exhibitors.
Pre-registration is appreciated. The Amiga Alpe Adria web site
includes additional details and contact information to assist
visitors in their preparations and journeys.
We hope to see you on July 3rd!
Regards,
Michael C. Battilana
President, Cloanto (snx)
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25.Jun.2004
S. Eichholz (ANF)
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Demo-Scene: Results of opinion poll to Breakpoint-Party
The results of the
poll (amiga-news.de reported)
of the this year Demo-Party "Breakpoint" in Bingen are available online.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jun.2004
Tristan 'TriMa' Mangold (ANF)
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MorphOS: "Blue Space Ninja"-Skin published
I have finished my second
MorphOS-Intuition-Skin.
This has been made in Amiga style and additionally contains MUI images and a MUI configuration.
(screenshot). (snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jun.2004
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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Dealer: point.design closed
Not long ago we could proudly deliver the first AmigaOS 4.0 version to our AmigaOne customers.
We are very delighted about this.
Nevertheless point.design in Austria has been
closed because of personal reasons. I will move to Phoenix, AZ, in the USA because of a job offer.
The desicion has been not easy for me but I had to use this chance. This unfortunately
means the end for point.design and for OASE, too.
It has been a very exciting time. We succeeded in building up something in a market which
to many users was alreday dead. We helped to organize the "AmigaOS 4 on Tour", have organized
a show event in Austria called OASE and have tried to offer products and support for
Amiga users.
So I am really delighted that we finally succeeded in publishing the AmigaOS-pre-CD.
I am still looking forward to new Amiga products.
I want to thank you all customers and all who helped us. It made lot of fun to work with you.
YOUR
Jürgen & Silke Schober
PS: Maybe I will make it to see Sacramento in July. ;) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jun.2004
www.xbaze.tk (ANF)
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Data base: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 18 available
The data base programm XBaze is available
in version 7.3 Beta 18 (619 KB).
You need at least AmigaOS 3.0 but the programm also works under MorphOS.
XBaze is Cardware and uses a dynamic memory management so the size of the data base is
only limited by the available memory.
Some features of XBaze:
- Easy to use GUI
- Six freely configurable kinds of fields
- URL-use via openurl.library
- Use of the system-Clipboards
- Layout-Editor with Drag&Drop
- Flexible sort- and search-options
- Configurable print-option
- Saving and loading in ASCII-format (CSV and TSV)
- ARexx-Port (over 80 commands)
- Statistic-option
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jun.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Golem: Why Don't We Rebel Against Copyright Law - Interview with L. Lessig
"Why don't we rebel against copyright?" is the question, in relation to which Golem.de has conducted an interview with professor of jurisprudence Lawrence Lessig, who's a decisive critic of the present
copyright regulations and a member of the board of the Free Software Foundation.
In the discussion with Golem.de he talks about his vision of the culture of the 21st century, criticizes copyrights - which belong to companies, who hold onto them while the actual author dies sooner or later, and speaks in favor of necessity to have P2P exchange methods. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Presentation: "Pegasos - The Open Platform"
Under the title Pegasos - The Open Platform you'll find a presentation in which Genesi attempts to lay out advantages of the Pegasos and their strategy as an open PPC platform for business customers. Along with this Genesi's leadership makes clear on MorphZone that no-one has to worry about MorphOS because now as before it's a part of the whole picture. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
Jacek Piszczek
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MorphOS: TranspoClock 1.04
Jacek Piszczek has released a new version of his transparent desktop clock for MorphOS.
Changes since the last version:
- Memory amount display with configurable colors
- Window positions in the selections are updated automatically
- Small bug fixes
(cr) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
Amigaplus
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AMIGAplus 06/2004 - Everything for the Amiga One
In the new AMIGAplus 06/2004 (#148) you can read about the following reports among others:
[report summaries not translated -DM]
Amiga One: Compatible Hardware
Big Special: the 50 best Tools for the Classic Amiga
Review: Open Transport Tycoon
And more:
- Test: Turboboard Viper 1230/40
- Review: Cocolino mouse adapter
- Amiga Status Report: Before the Pre-Release...
- Shareware: New from the 'Net
- Emu-Corner: New Version of WinUAE
- Table Calculations Workshop (Part 3)
- The latest from the Amiga Market
- Report: Demoscene, What Now?
- and much more
AMIGAplus is available by subscription, single issue order and in Amiga speciality shops at the price of five euros. (sn) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
Matthias Bertram (ANF)
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Update of the New Edition of the Turbo-Card Apollo 630
Matthias Bertram wrote to provide an update of the new edition of the Amiga 600 turbo-card Apollo 630 (68030@40 MHz, SIMM socket for up to 32 MB RAM, connection for 68882 FPU) through Individual Computers (amiga-news.de reported):
"There's news again on the Apollo front: I've already found 70 purchasers for the new Apollo!
About 25 other interested people have not yet decided. Should 100 units be ordered, the price will be 100 euros instead of the 130 euro price listed until now.
Jens Schönfeld has a couple ideas concerning the CPU and the attachment of the turbo-card. But he says he doesn't want to reveal more right now." (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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Chess Game: HellChess Released (Update)
HellChess marks the appearance of a new chess game that is free in the Amiga version, and also of all things payment-required for the Linux, Windows, GameBoy Advanced, Palm and PocketPC versions in development (screenshots).
An excerpt of the features of the program (9 MB):
- Capable AI for the single player mode
- many exercise instructions
- many configuration options
- online play possibility through Direct Connect or the HellHound master server
A PPC/RTG Amiga version is still in development.
Update: (26th June 2004, 17:52, snx)
As the author commented, the next-released version of the game has problems with AGA/ECS, therefore the archive from yesterday has been replaced with an update. To that end there's an 8-bit version of the contained animations being worked on for systems without graphics cards. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
pegasosforum.de
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Pegasos 2: Debian Linux 2.6.7 Kernel with GigaBit-LAN
Sven Luther (Genesi) released a Debian Linux kernel for the Pegasos 2, that supports the gigabit ethernet port of the motherboard.
The use of the gigabit ethernet is possible after the execution of a firmware update that should appear in the next few days.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
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AmigaOS 4: Current Ports
SMBFS
Mark Bond compiled Olaf Barthel's SMBFS (SMB Filesystem) for AmigaOS 4.
xMameGui
xMameGUI is a graphic user interface for the AmigaOS port of xMame.
KmailtoMbox
"KmailtoMbox" is an ARexx Script that can convert "KMail" (Linux) e-mail-archives to the "MBox" format that YAM requires. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Jun.2004
Andreas R. Kleinert
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: More keyfiles
Andreas R. Kleinert has made some more keyfiles publicly
available at his homepage.
Those are intended for some of his programs which will appear
at the Aminet soon.
The keyfiles are for the following products, the first four of
them support the PPC (PowerUp):
- PNG-Box
- JPEG-Box
- akMPEG
- akMPEG4
- DRAFU
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jun.2004
ANN (website)
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Version 1.5 of the FlashROM software Luciferin for Algor / ROMulus
Dear E3B customers, E3B and Chris Hodges are proud to announce the availability of a new version of the Luciferin FlashROM software for the Algor and Highway/ROMulus expansion cards. It is a free update provided as service to all registered Algor/ROMulus users.
Although the last update is nearly a one year old, nearly all of the reports were positive and only a few requests have been made. The software was indeed ahead of its time. However, developers of other FlashROM solutions have planned some new features, which were missing in the old version of Luciferin. As usually, Algor and ROMulus users are the first to get these features working in their machines, preserving that the Algor/ROMulus continues to be to the best FlashROM solution on the market.
An absolutely new feature is the ability to now install a (possibly custom) Kickstart ROM image inside the FlashROM. It then can be enabled instantly at the first boot with the newly included AlgorKick module. AlgorKick uses the MapROM option of the various phase5 CPU cards, most of the users have in their machines. The 512KB Kickstart image easily fits into the FlashROM using compression, taking less than 300KB inside the FlashROM. There is still plenty room for lots of other modules! No need for BlizKick anymore!
The following boards are supported by AlgorKick:
- Blizzard 1230-I/II/III/IV, 1230-T/ERC, 1260, 2040-ERC, 2060, and PPC
- Cyberstorm MKI/MKII/MKIII and PPC
- (Commodore A3640 / Blizzard A4030 -- please ask)
Also, a new tool "HatchSentinel" has been included to generate a password protection to the machine. Once installed in the FlashROM, it will present a password screen instantly after turning the machine on. The Sentinel module comes with various options, such as starting itself in the background, so that the booting process is not delayed.
The Bootloader has been improved to correctly determine the Kickstart version number with the BoingBag2 exec.library update. This was only cosmetic, but was added on user demand. The loader now also comes in a new "permanent" version, that will add ROMTags only once, making it even faster than before.
Several other new ROMTags have been added to the archive, such as modules to disabled the IDE controller to avoid unnecessary waiting (if you don't have any IDE devices connected). Or removing the bootmenu for secure and even faster booting. Or SpeedRamsey, a contribution by Christian Sauer.
Luciferin, the user friendly graphical tool for handling the FlashROM contents has become even better and will now warn you, if you try to include a program that shouldn't be installed into the FlashROM.
This is the list of most improvements. The update will be emailed free of charge to registered users the next days. Users of the Highway should be reminded that they still have the offer to update their card with a ROMulus module, check out the IOSpirit website for details.
E3B and Chris Hodges hope that you will enjoy this update. (snx)
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23.Jun.2004
Amiga.org (Forum)
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RISC OS: "Are we so dissimilar?" - a comparison with AmigaOS
Whoever guesses the Amiga market situation - the split of
development, different visions - would be some kind of unique
might change his mind after reading the following English
article RISC OS vs.
AmigaOS by Chris Williams.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jun.2004
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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AmigaOS4: New article about the boot configuration
Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci has released an
article at the help section for AmigaOS4 of
IntuitionBase.com explaining the boot configuration of
AmigaOS4.
The article explains the differences between Classic Amigas
and UBoot as well as the SLB (Second Level Bootloader)
of AmigaOS4. There is also information how the Kickstart
images work and how to build a backup configuration which will
boot even the system was some kind of misconfigured.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jun.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Samba 3.0.4 ported (alpha version)
Michael Grunditz has ported Samba 3.0.4 to MorphOS. The
alpha version
(30 MB) is available from the MorphZone. Samba is used for
file access and printing within heterogeneous networks.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jun.2004
Heise (Newsticker)
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Motorola officially announces stock market flotation of Freescale
As reported by Heise,
Motorola announced official the planned stock market flotation of
Freescale semiconductor to the US stock exchange
authorities. An actual date for that has not been announced
yet.
Motorola will keep 92% of the votes at Freescale first and
hopes to raise up to 2.5 billion US Dollar by selling the
stocks. Further details are to obtain from Heise
(German).
PowerPC processors by Motorola/Freescale are used with the
AmigaOne by Eyetech as well as with the
Pegasos by Genesi. The latter company just
announced to have held a
Pegasos trainig seminar for Freescale employees.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jun.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Events: New website for Amiga Alpe Adria
A new web site for the Amiga Alpe Adria, which takes place July 3rd in Udine, Italy, was placed online at 0xAA.org over the week-end, and is now fully functional.
The site includes updated information about airlines, official hotel, time and place (availability of a new, larger facility has been confirmed), maps and other events in the region (e.g. concerts, museum exhibits, et cetera).
Please use the registration and contact forms at 0xAA.org if you are planning to attend Amiga Alpe Adria, or if you require additional information. (snx)
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21.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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Web browser: AWeb 3.5 APL Lite Beta released
The AWeb open Source Project released a first beta version of 'AWeb 3.5 APL Lite' today.
An overview of the most important changes since AWeb 3.5 (complete ChangeLog):
- HTML: Support for <INS> and <DEL> tags
- Rendering: Double Buffered Rendering - Optional double buffering dramatically reduces the flickering during rendering of long table based pages.
- Background Images no longer force a complete redraw off the
document, resulting in a dramatic speed up of some pages.
- Layout: Fixes and standardisation to the way tables are laid out, and to the way background images in tables are align mean that many more pages
render "correctly".
- Internal image decoder: Fix to the transparency bug in the internal gif decoder.
- Gopher Support: Improved gopher support.
- Character sets: Support for translating character sets enables pages using a different character set to be displayed.
- Splash screen: New more attractive startup screen and about requester.
- AWebplugins: Fixes to a major bug in the image decoder plugins where AWeb would crash with bad memory trashing on repeated iconificataion.
- AWeblibs: The aweblib version numbering has been changed, all version start from 35 as of this release. This avoids some clashes that would other
wise occur with previous version of AWeb. 'awebjs.aweblib' has been renamed 'javascript.aweblib' for the same
reason.
- Javascript: Fundamental support for Regular Expression objects has been
introduced in this version. However, the string methods using regular
expressions have not yet been implemented and as most real world
sites uses these methods few new sites will work, rather this is the
first step on the journey.
- Developer compile: A compile of the developer version of AWeb (AWeb.developer) is included in
the archive. It is not installed by the Install script. It allows developers
and beta testers to generate extended debug info and should only be used for
this purpose. It contains no extra browsing functionality.
(cg)
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21.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Tutorial: Samba on AmigaOS 4.0
Alan Buxey and Olaf Barthel compiled a short Tutorial explaining how to install and configure Samba on AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Jun.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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File sharing: ctorrent for AmigaOS and MorphOS (Update)
ctorrent is a console based client for the BitTorrent file sharing network.
The Amiga version has been compiled on a 68040/40. On that system, file hash checking (neccessary when resuming a download) on a 44 MB file takes about 1.5 minutes. During normal operation the CPU usage is below 50 % though.
ctorrent does not allow limiting the uploads.
Direct download: ctorrent-1.3.2.lha (186 KB)
Update: (12:29, 20.06.04, snx)
Meanwhile, #amigazeux has also prepared a MorphOS version (71 KB). Like the AmigaOS version, this port just offers a common bandwith limitation for up- and downloads. (cg)
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19.Jun.2004
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amiga-news.de: forum structure improved
The structure of the forum at amiga-news.de has been reworked regarding the single categories and their structure.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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19.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Native versions of SGrab and PNGTool
Stephan Rupprecht has released OS4 versions of the programs SGrab (328 KB, creates screenshots) and PNGTool (198 KB, converts various graphics formats to PNG).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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19.Jun.2004
ANN (website)
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PegXMac: Beta version for the Amiga One finished
The Live CD PegXMac by David Bentham (amiga-news.de reported) is now available in an early beta version for the Amiga One, too. Before downloading you have to register at the author. PegXMac allows the start of MacOS via Mac-on-Linux on the Pegasos or Amiga One without having to install Linux before.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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19.Jun.2004
Michael Garlich (ANF)
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Titan Computer: discussion and help forum set up (update)
The software studio Titan Computer has set up a forum where questions around their Amiga and MorphOS products are answered and help is given.
Update: (12:02, 19.06.04, snx)
According to Michael Garlich in the Titan forum will Papyrus for MorphOS be released probably in six to eight weeks.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Jun.2004
Thomas Unger (ANF)
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Kickstart archives: DVD-Release v3.2
"Kickstart archives" is a collection of documents in German and English language about the
history of the Amiga and Commodore written by many different authors.
Besides this there are many information about well-known people who have a connection
to the Amiga, about the Amiga models and Amiga clones, the AmigaOS and alternative operating
systems as well as about Amiga patents and additional materials.
All these topics were connected with an HTML-based index. All documents have been published on DVD
with permission of the authors or copyright owners. "Kickstart archives" runs on each
platform and can be copied to the hard drive. An integrated search engine has been also
added.
The current issue contains some new entries and some topics have been extended or updated.
For further information please have a look at the homepage.
All problems with case-sensitive file systems should be fixed. Thanks a lot to all who
have reported dead links.
The online service has been also improved: Besides the bridgeboard-tutorial, the
Amiga-troubleshooter and the MINIX-introduction there is now a topic which is dedicated
to the determination of DRAM-chips and SIM-moduls. This might be interesting for those
people who wants to upgrade their memory extensions and SCSI/IDE-adapter cards of acceleration
with RAM-options.
You can take contact or order on the homepage under "Notes/Contact" and "Notes/Order".
Please use the subject "kickstart archives" if you will write e-mails to this topic.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jun.2004
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European GIF-patent ends
After the US-version of the "GIF-Patent" ended half a year ago today the European patent
ends, too. Japan will follow tomorrow and the coresponding Canadian patent will end
on July 7th.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Further reports of experience (Update)
"Coder" has published a detailed report
of his first impression with the prerelease of AmigaOS 4.
Update: (18.06.2004, 20:00, cg)
At PPA there is a Polish OS 4-report.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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IRC-Client: Beta version of WookieChat published
With WookieChat a beta version
of a new IRC-client has been published (screenshot).
The program (217 KB)
has been not fully finished, has therefore still some bugs as well as some missing
functions.
In opposition to other IRC-clients it can make connections to several servers in the same
window. WookieChat runs under AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.0 and MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jun.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: CPU-monitor V1.4 published
Christian Rosentreter has published an update of his CPU-monitors for MorphOS (screenshot).
The tooltype DNETCFILTER is new which can filter the used performance of the processor
with the help of the task "dnetc crunch #1" and therefore the users of the distributed.net-client
will get a more useful value.
Download (28 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jun.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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New firmware for Kickflash OS4 available
A new version of the firmware V1.52 for the Kickflash flashrom-card for Zorro-equipped Amigas is available. This update fixes a bug in the memory allocation that kept certain A3000 models from starting properly. The programmer-team Coyoteflux is now working to implement kickstart remapping for the next update.
Download:
CoyoteFlash.lha (29 KB) (snx)
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18.Jun.2004
ANF
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distributed.net: Pegasos-Team founded
In order to advertise for the Pegasos PowerPC system Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has founded
a Pegasos-team.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jun.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #073
The scene group "Liquid Skies" released their 73rd music pack yesterday. This time the release contains "SpacePop" in the "demo scene" style by the Finnish composer Tripper. The cover was pixeled by Angeldust.
More information about the track:
- Title: SpacePop
- Artist: Tripper
- Style: Spacepop
- Song Length: 4:08
- Format: mp3 (160 kbps)
The zipped data with a size of about 4.8 megs is a free download, under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jun.2004
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: Relax 2.0 released
'Relax' is a tool to control 8 bit relay cards. Changes for v2.0:
- Implemented ARexx
- Added some misc funcs
- Added own work-process
- Optimized some parts
- Fixed minor GUI bugs
- Drew a new logo
- Updated documention
(cg)
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17.Jun.2004
Eule (ANF)
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Develop Your Own Game Console
Gerd Kautzmann writes: [translated from German] "I found a page on the WWW that concerns itself with a software development project for all manner of game consoles.
The prototypes are equipped with Z80, 6502, 68HC12 and ARM7 processors. In my opinion this is a very interesting page for all those interested in game console programming and build-it-yourself video computers.
Unfortunately there is no 68k computer there, but in this vein you may be inspired by this."
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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OS4 Depot with Cross-Upload to Aminet
OS4 Depot now offers a cross-upload of data to Aminet. Your data will be put together with a generated READ ME file on us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/new, as soon as an administrator releases it. This function still is in the test phase. The users are responsible for correctly filling out the Aminet-relevant data themselves. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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AmigaOS 4 Exhibition in Stockholm this Coming Weekend
This weekend from Friday afternoon until Sunday evening there's an exhibition of AmigaOS 4 by the Swedish Amiga user group in Stockholm. You'll find the details (in Swedish) under the title link. At the same time there's a similar exhibition by the Syntax Society and ACG GBG in Landskrona (amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jun.2004
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Tulip: New Beginning for the Commodore Trademark (Update)
Tulip Computers N.V. made know at a press conference today that a range of entertainment products under the trademark Commodore may be looked forward to.
The prelude is the production of a mini-game-console by the name of C-64 Direct-to-TV that should appear on the market in the second half of the year for about 30 euros. It is projected to have 30 popular C64 games (for example Summer Games, Winter Games, California Games) (amiga-news.de reported).
Additionally the earlier Commodore machines like VIC-20 and PET will be accomodated by USB memory sticks, and transportable music data reproduction equipment will be offered: FPet, Mpet und eVic. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jun.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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New MiniGL Games: "I, meteor" and "d3GNOP+"
Jukka Varsaluoma has released two little MiniGL/Warp3D games here: I, meteor, in which you as a meteor inflict the most damage possible, and d3GNOP+, an improved variant of the Pong clone d3GNOP. You may make a donation in the amount of your choosing for these new games, which come in 68k and WarpOS versions. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jun.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: New driver software for FastATA 1200 controller
Elbox has released new driver software for FastATA 1200 (Power Flyer 1200, Winner 1200 High-Speed) controllers. The update is available free of charge for all registered users of FastATA 1200 and includes new versions of ATA3.driver, ATA3Prefs and AllegroCDFS.
Changes:
- ATA3.driver ver.7.0
- compatiblity with the newest big hard drive geometries (support up to 2TB)
- write speed improvement
- ATA3Prefs ver.7.0
- changes in the SPLIT/NOSPLIT detection algoritm
- AllegroCDFS ver.3.4
- improvement in reading CDs with surface defects
Speed tests of the EIDE hard drives connected to the FastATA 1200 MK-II controller have been published in the News | Product Reviews section of the Elbox website.
Tests were done with some of the most popular A1200 turbo cards: Apollo 1240, Blizzard 1230, Blizzard 1260 and BlizzardPPC.
If you own an old version of the FastATA controller, you can upgrade it now with the newest FastATA 1200 MK-II firmware using a DIY Upgrade Pack. (snx)
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16.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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intuitionbase.com opens online shop
The AmigaOS 4 information site intuitionbase.com has
opened an online shop. The first available items are
"AmigaOne" stickers for computer cases.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jun.2004
Andreas R. Kleinert
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SViewIV: PPC modules released
In addition to the key file, Andreas R. Kleinert has also released the PPC modules for SViewIV today by uploading them to Aminet. Previously, these modules were only available for registered PPC users. (snx)
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12.Jun.2004
#amigazeux
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AmiNetRadio: New skins
Following the title link you can find new skins available for NG-Gui of AmiNetRadio, among others "CogWheel" by EmericSH or "Earlgrey" by Cato Hagen.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
jami (ANF)
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Publication: IBM PowerPC newsletter #17 released
The latest issue #17 of the English PowerPC Processor
News by IBM covers the following topics:
- 64-bit PowerPC technology for high-volume server applications
- Power management techniques in IBM PowerPC microprocessors
- PowerPC 970FX processors in Spain supercluster
- PowerPC 750GX in Momentum's single-board computers
- IBM PowerPC microprocessors in Artesyn's telecom blades
- Optimizing device software development with IBM PowerPC
The reading of the newsletters is possible for free following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
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DTP: Grashopper LLC announce Pagestream 5.0
Grashopper LLC announce on their website the immediate availability of "Pagestream 5.0" for Windows and Linux. Versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS are said to follow later this month. The schedule for the AmigaOS 4 version is said to depend on the further development of things due to the OS rights transfer to KMOS.
New in Pagestream 5.0:
- Alpha blending for text and objects
- Picture Transparency
- Text Widow and Orphan Control
- Definable Printer Marks
- More shortcuts
- Path Flatten and Smooth
- Hanging Bullets, DropCaps and Number
- New Duplicate Objects Method
- etc.
New in Pagestream 5.0 Pro:
- Place PDF Objects
- Objects can be exported as bitmap
- Automatically Adjust Text Width Justify
- Gradient/Radial Blend Masks for Pictures/EPS/PDF/Drawings
- Path Math: Union/Add/Unique/Subtract
- etc.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
www.masonicons.de (ANF)
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AISS (Amiga Image Storage System) released
AISS (Amiga Image Storage System) is a system to manage toolbar images under AmigaOS. Some default images are already implemented. Further information and a link for downloading AISS can be found on the MasonIcons website following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
Sabrina Online editorial office (e-mail)
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Comic: Sabrina Online.de with strips #221-#225
After a longer break new Sabrina comics were released on the website "Sabrina Online" under the title link:
- 221 Frauengespräche
- 222 Kein Kommentar
- 223 Wiedersehen zum Wiedersehen
- 224 Auf in den Alltag
- 225 TIMMIEH!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
ANN (website)
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distributed.net: "Amiga RC5 effort" team third
Within distributed.net's OGR-25 competition computers that are organized in teams calculate so called "optimal Golomb scales".
The "Amiga RC5 Team Effort", founded years ago to participate in the decryption of RC5 "keys", is on the third place in the OGR competition.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jun.2004
amigafuture.de
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Backup software: Back-it-all-up version 9.6
Colin Wenzel has released version 7.3 of his backup tool 'BACK-IT-ALL-UP'. The program is able to backup complete hard drives, supports up to eight partitions and requires AmigaOS 3.x.
Direct download: backitallup96.lha (17 KB)
(cg)
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11.Jun.2004
Raziel (ANF)
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Adventure-Engine: ScummVM 0.6.0
Uwe Ryssel has compiled version 0.6.0 of the adventure engine ScummVM for AmigaOS. As usual, there are versions for 68k and WarpOS.
Using ScummVM, classic adventures from LucasArts - like for example Monkey Island 1-3, Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max, The Dig or Full Throttle - can be played on modern Amiga systems. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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11.Jun.2004
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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amiga-news.com online again
Simon Neumann wrote:
"Amiga-news.com which formerly was Amigaliennews is now online again and will be still
more up-to-date because of additional editors and improved web technology.
Because of many mails and some reflections we have made up our minds to call us "amiga-news.com".
We do not want to be a competitor to existing Amiga news sites but more a completion.
We also want to point out that we have underestimated the possibility of confusion
with amiga-news.de to the time of registration of our domain.
We did not have this intention. From our point of view amiga-news.de is one of the best
Amiga news sites which we all owe a lot.
Because of the positive messages of the last days about the development of the new
Amiga system we have decided to publish an AmigaOS 4-software list. It is meant to
give you a syrvey about current AmigaOS 4-software.
We all wish you a lot of fun with our new sites."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jun.2004
Amiga Games Hit Parade (ANF)
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Amiga games hit parade: Results May/June 2004
Under the title link
you can find the results of the Amiga games hit parade for May/June of this year.
The first place has not changed with Quake 2 followed by Earth 2140 and Payback.
The vote for July/August will be started in July.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Swedish OS4-Prerelease-Parties
Because of the delivery of the AmigaOS4-Prerelease ACG Göteborg which is the Swedish
Amiga user group and Syntax-Society have announced the OS4-Prerelease-Parties.
One will be take place from June 18th to 20th in Landskrona the other in Stockholm to another date.
The organizers want you to take your Classic-Amiga or AmigaOne to the party.
Visitors with a computer have to pay 50 kronor.
For further information please have a look at ACG Göteborg
but which is only in Swedish.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jun.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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Linux: PPCZone opens
On June 10th PPCZone which is the PPC
Linux-counter-part to MorphZone has opened.
Webmaster is Dave 'Targhan' Crawford, too.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jun.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Genesi: Photos from the Freescale International FAE Conference Tech Fair
Under the title link you'll find photos from the Freescale International FAE Conference Tech Fair in Austin, Texas (USA), in which Genesi currently is presenting the Pegasos and associated products such as Open Desktop Workstation. Also Pegasos training of the Freescale colleagues (photo) has occurred here (as amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga C Course for Beginners Newly Expanded
The Amiga C course for beginners has been expanded with a few exercises that are (hopefully) appropriate for beginners. These exercises are found in the current archive of the course. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: CPU Monitor V1.3 Released
Christian Rosentreter has released an update to his CPU Monitor for MorphOS (screenshot).
Changes since version 1.0:
- fixed refresh bug (thx. to itix for solution)
- added vertical grid
- removed a small memory leak
- added DONOTACTIVATE tooltype
- added NOSIZEGADGET tooltype
- added BORDERLESS tooltype + additional required functionality
- internal cleanups and improvements
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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English Pegasos Review by Prof. Peruggi Expanded / Italian Translation
The very comprehensive English language review of Pegasos and the MorphOS operating system by Prof. Fulvio Peruggi, From Genesi(s) to Revelation, (amiga-news.de reported has been reworked and expanded. The text is now also in Italian. Inquiries about translations into other languages are welcome, if anyone with the "soul of a martyr" feels up to it. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
Maxime Doyen (ANF)
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HomeBank: German Language Catalog Data Available
For the a-while-ago-released-as-freeware program HomeBank from Maxime Doyen there is now also german language catalog data (6 KB) available. The author is thankful to Andreas Mayer-Gürr for this translation. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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DvPlayer: Screenshot of an Upcoming Movie-Player for OS4 (Update)
RiVA author Stephen Fellner is now working on a movie output program for OS4 by the name of DvPlayer (screenshot). More information should follow shortly.
Update: (16:08, 10.06.04, snx)
As the author stated in a comment on Amigaworld.net, DvPlayer is not based on RiVA but is, on the other hand, a completely new project. MPEG1/2, Video-CD, SVCD and DVD are envisioned as output formats, but other formats will possibly be supported. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jun.2004
Amiforce (ANF)
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Abakus-Design: New screenshots of Port Royal
There are new screenshots from the the currently being developed adventure game Port
Royal available at
Abakus-Design's
website.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Jun.2004
Giancarlo Piscitello (ANF)
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PNG icons: AmiCrystal v1.1
Giancarlo Piscitello released a new version of his icon pack 'AmiCrystal' (Screenshot, low resolution / Screenshot, high resolution).
Direct download: Ami-Crystal.lha (1.7 MB) (cg)
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09.Jun.2004
Thomas Steiding (ANF)
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Barkanoid 2 for MorphOS/AmigaOS?
In a joint press release, Magnussoft and e.p.i.c. interactive announce the availability of Barkanoid 2 for Linux and MacOS. Thomas Steiding (e.p.i.c.) asks for feedback regarding a potential MorphOS or AmigaOS version:
"e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh could port Barkanoid 2 to MorphOS and/or AmigaOS as well. As we are unable to estimate the size of the current market and the resulting demand, we would appreciate feedback regarding ports to the operating systems mentioned above."
(cg)
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09.Jun.2004
ANN (website)
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SWAUG: Mounting an Amiga 1200 into a standard tower case
Under the title link
the South Wales Amiga User Group describes the mounting of an Amiga 1200 into a normal PC tower case. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Jun.2004
Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: official status update
AmigaOS 4.0 status update
by Hans-Jörg Frieden, Hyperion Entertainment
With the Developer Pre-release finally out, the time is right for a status report on the current state of AmigaOS 4.0. The huge amount of work invested into the project by a lot of dedicated developers means that there has already been substantial progress since the pre-release.
Some of the 68k components of the pre-release have in the meantime been ported to PowerPC code. The most prominent of these are Picasso96 and MUI. While Picasso96 is still in alpha test among the developers, the PPC version of MUI is being beta-tested right now, and is expected to be stabilized soon.
The kernel has also seen some updates. Among other things, it now supports a special resource called the performance monitor. The performance monitor is a hardware profiler within the CPU that allows the programmer extremely fine-tuned profiling of code, even including counting cache hits and misses, instruction timing, pipeline stalls, number of instructions patched, instruction throughput, and a lot of other factors. The performance monitor is controlled via performancemonitor.resource, which offers an easy-to-use API that wraps all this functionality into a few functions.
Further improvements of the kernel include support for the Altivec unit. The Altivec unit is a SIMD vector processing unit. SIMD stands for "single instruction multiple data", meaning that a series of instructions is executed in parallel on multiple streams of data items. Altivec has a lot of uses, most prominently in 3D graphics, but also in image processing, signal processing, compression/decompression, and all general computing applications that inherently work by executing the same instructions on large datasets. Altivec support in the kernel isn't 100% stable yet, but is expected to be fully functional very soon.
Moovid, the well-known media player, has now also been ported to PowerPC, and the results are quite spectacular. An Altivec-enabled version is also in the works. Moovid plays a wide range of movie codecs, including DivX.
A lot of progress has also been made on the shared C library, newlib, and the static C library, clib2.
Subsequently, there is now a new gcc compiler suite that runs up to six times faster than the compiler included in the SDK. Furthermore, since the final release of GNU C 3.4.0 has emerged, it has also been successfully ported to AmigaOS 4.0, and is now used for most components and programs. GCC 3.4.0 features a much better code generator than previous versions, much better support for ANSI C++, and implements the Motorola 'vector' extension for Altivec (meaning you can use types like 'vector unsigned char x' in your program to signify a vector for Altivec).
One program that has seen a tremendous speed boost is AmiPDF. The new PowerPC version of AmiPDF is, depending on input, up to 60 times faster than the original version on the prerelease.
Furthermore we expect a working serial device and floppy support soon.
The USB stack is shaping up as well. It now supports HID devices like keyboards and mice as well as HID joysticks and steering wheels, and USB mass storage devices like USB sticks, flash card readers, 7-in-1 card readers and cameras.
The A1 IDE device now has working UDMA support. Also, interrupts are no longer polled but delivered properly. This means that the device does not require any CPU time for transfers.
Currently, work concentrates on performance optimization. Results look quite good already, and stress tests have shown the device to be 100% reliable - no data corruption occurs.
This material will in due course be released for download to registered users of the Developer Pre-release on our web site at:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz (cg) (Translation: ub)
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08.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Download archive: os4depot.net
Björn Hagström & Amigaworld.net present OS4Depot.net. This is a File Depot portal dedicated to providing and hosting AmigaOS 4 files and related resources. (cg)
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08.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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AmigaOne: Beta tester for "PegXMac" port wanted
The author of PegXMac is searching for beta testers willing to test the AmigaOne version of his distribution.
PegXMac is a 'LiveCD' that uses 'MacOnLinux' to enable booting MacOS X from CD - without the need to install Linux first.
If you want to test the beta image of PegXMac, use the following boot args:
root=/dev/ram rw init=linuxrc video=tdfx:1024x768-8@60 lang=uk
(adjust the parameters "lang=" and "video=" to your personal configuration).
Direct download: boot (5.2 MB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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08.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: IRC bouncer "Miau"
"Miau" is a small but powerful IRC bouncer for MorphOS.
A bouncer can be used to keep the connection to the IRC server after exiting your IRC client. This way your nickname will be protected against abuse from other users.
IRC bouncers can also hide your real IP address - though this requires running the bouncer on a remote computer. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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08.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Status of missing bits
H.-J. Frieden is giving on amigaworld.net
a short overview of the missing bits of the prerelease.
Altivec, IDE DMA: Yes.
USB: Supports mice, keyboards, mass storage (USB sticks, flash card readers, most modern cameras), HID devices (joysticks, pads, steering wheels, AmigaInput driver in the works).
SNAP: The system already runs on LinuxPPC and the AmigaOS 4.0 port has already begun.
Floppy: Almost finished.
Warp3D: Ported and functional. The reason it isn't released yet is mostly a crash when flushing the library, and the fact that old 68k programs cannot use it yet due to the lack of a 68k jump table.
Native graphics system: In alpha testing for the developers. Mostly done, but needs a bit of polish to go off into beta test.
JIT: Mostly functional using the apprunner. What doesn't work is automatic starting of applications. Going to be tackled soonish.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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MiniShowPicture: NewIcons and Italian local file
For the picture viewer MiniShowPicture now NewIcons
and an Italian local
file are available.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jun.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Status report / First Open Desktop Workstations assembled in Las Vegas
Today, Genesi published a press release and a status report (Watts Happening!) which we are quoting below:
Press release: Genesi completes first production in Las Vegas
7-June-2004 Genesi completed its first major US production of Open Desktop Workstations during the first week of June. The systems were built at the Easter Seals facility in North Las Vegas. This assembly operation involved training developmentally disabled adults in computer assembly procedures under the guidance of an Easter Seals supervisor and Genesi-USA General Manager Paul Adams (photo 1, photo 2).
An important part of this process was the Genesi Operational Method Sheet (PDF file, 1.8 MB), which is a Pegasos assembly procedure picture book. During the production, Easter Seals supervisors conducted an assembly time study to determine the terms of the contract to be completed for future assembly operations. Genesi will continue to build systems at the Easter Seals facility until the assembly crew is fully trained and comfortable with the process.
Watts Happening!
We figured it was time for an update as a long time Genesi/bplan supporter responded to an email we sent out this morning to the Image Installer Team and suggested we make some of the information public. The email was primarily sent to thank Michael Heider, Christian Geier and Erhard Bruse for their continued support. Here are some details included in the email:
We wanted to let you know that Sven [Luther, Genesi's Linux coordinator]will be arriving here in Austin, Texas with us tonight. Sven will be here this week to teach the Freescale/Motorola Applications Engineering Team everything they need to know and generally assist them so that they can conduct a four hour class on the Pegasos for the 200+ Freescale Global Field Application Engineers that gather here this week for the Global FAE Conference. Sven will train the trainers. At the end of the week, every Freescale office in the world will have at least one person who knows how to do all the basic things on the Pegasos that they need to do to be able to use and prepare the machine as a solution to customers.
We also wanted you to know that every Pegasos that we produced two weeks ago for commercial release has been shipped to the USA and assembled here into Open Desktop Workstations. [...] They will begin to arrive at their intended destinations starting tomorrow.
We explain all this to you because we want you to understand (as mentioned in the post yesterday) that we have been delivering units to a large customer since March. As you you will understand, these invoices requires us to layout 13-16 weeks in ADVANCE of production the funds for many components required to produce ALL the boards to be delivered before the FIRST boards are made. We cannot order components for just what we need when we need it. These boards are then built into cases with memory, hard drives, power supplies and graphics cards at a further expense to satisfy the ultimate purchase order. Once they are delivered to this customer, the customer pays at a minimum of 60 days later AS THEY ARE DELIVERED. Our first delivery in March will not be settled by them until early JULY as we had to get into their financial management and accounting system. This is the reason there are no boards available for any one else at the moment. We can only make so many and they all go to the same customer, who already wants more than we can provide.
When we have enough boards to spare the Image Installer Team is HIGH on the list to get them. We appreciate your work.
We have to leave out some secret sauce stuff...
We went on to explain in some things that will be happening at Smart Networks Developer Forum, Europe. The details will be found here when they are announced HERE. Friday, 1 October after SNDF, Genesi will host a special day of Pegasos Developer workshops that will filled with a full spectrum of Pegasos related programming and development issues. Matt Sealey will be coordinating developer participation for Genesi.
Finally, we also sent this email out yesterday to Resellers that defines a Pilot Program in which Genesi and its strategic partners will provide machines for various organizations and groups. You can read an edited version of the presentation Genesi Pilot Programs online. (If someone would like to clean that up for us just let Matt know...) We will be announcing a number of Pilot Programs with Avalanche in the weeks ahead and these other pilot programs as well.
Genesi continues to march ahead. Things are coming back together.
R&B
P.S.: Bounties.MorphZone.org is coming soon. (snx)
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06.Jun.2004
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AmigaOS 4: First impressions
In the 'AmigaOne' section of his homepage, Sascha 'SieGeL' Pfalz describes his first impressions of the AmigaOS 4 pre-release.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Jun.2004
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Short article about the ACSH users meeting in Kiel (Germany)
Sven Scheele wrote:
"To deliver some impressions from the ACSH users meeting in Kiel we have released some pictures.
8 computers are installed, among those probably the only AmigaOne with water cooling, and a Pegasos II, too. Right now appr. 20 visitors were counted..."
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jun.2004
Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF)
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Hyperion Entertainment opens new web presence
Leuven, Belgium - June 5th, 2004
Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce that our new web site is now online. The new site can be reached at www.hyperion-entertainment.biz.
The new site features an all-new dynamic content system that allows registered users to login on the front page. Logging in will give users access to otherwise restricted areas of the web site, including more download options.
New features will be added to the web site in the future.
(cg)
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05.Jun.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga-C course for beginners with new lesson
The Amiga-C course for beginners has been enhanced with a lession about graphics primitives.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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04.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Diverse Emulators
Steffen Häuser ported several emulators to AmigaOS 4. You can download
"Stella", "xMame", "xMess", "xCPMame" and "xNEOMame" from amigashare.com.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2004
Computer City (e-mail)
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Computer City: Nova Design products available / Retro show / CD³² with SX-32
Computer City would like to announce that all Nova Design products are now in
stock and available for immediate delivery to both end-users and
resellers (amiga-news.de reported). An overview of the products can be found here.
Furthermore, Computer City will be present at the Retro Computing Show
in Maarssen on June 19th. More information on the show can be found on
the official
website.
And last but not least, we have a number of special promotions and
items that are available again after a long period of time.
Some of the items can be found in the special offers category on our new webshop server, www.computercity.biz.
Enjoy the summer!
Computer City (snx)
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04.Jun.2004
Martin Merz (ANF)
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MasonIcons: OS4 Classic Toolbar Images available
The default OS4 Classic Toolbar Images (for developers) are available (76 KB) at MasonIcons.de.
- classic Glowicons design
- 64 colours
- 32 x 32 pixels
- normal, selected (with glow) and ghosted images
- 102 images in total
Developers: please never change the names of the images. (snx)
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04.Jun.2004
JAmiga (Website)
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Amiga-Java: Jamiga alpha 0.0.3
Alpha-Version 0.0.3 has been published of the Java implemention "JAmiga" for the
68k-AmigaOS. JAmiga can be now compiled with GCC which increases the chances for a
further support of other (Amiga compatible) platforms. Besides this the new version
contains the button as first GUI element and a test class for buttons, too. The developer
ask you for your feedback via e-mail or via the web formular.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2004
Peer Richter (ANF)
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New possibility of downloading Ghostscript v8.13 (Update)
Peer Richter has adapted the installation script for Ghostscript 8.13 and has uploaded
the new archive. Richter asks for e-mail if you find bugs.
Update: (03.06.2004, 22:50, cg)
Unfortunately there has been a little bug when putting together the archive. From now on
there is a bug fixed version available.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2004
PPCNUX (ANF)
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PPCNUX: Report about OS4-Event in Essen
The Online-Linux-Magazin PPCNUX has published an English report about the OS4 event in
Essen (Germany).
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Editorship of NoCover temporary not available
Wolf Zimmer who is the editor of the online magazine NoCover
is not available because of a damage of his computer.
E-mails to his address will be saved but the response may come with a little delay.
If you have an urgent problem then you may also contact Cord Hagen.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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