05.May.2007
Amiga Future (website)
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Spectrum emulator ASp 0.89
ASp emulates the home computer Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Amiga and programmed in 68k assembler.
Changes in version 0.89:
- Kempston Mouse support
- 48K key-overlay help image
- Loading of .ZLS images from the ZX-Live emulator
- Fix for a side-effect of the lowlevel.library OS4 workaround from V0.88
Thanks go to Chris Young and Dmitriy Zhivilov for their cooperation on this update.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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05.May.2007
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Carl Sassenrath
To celebrate the 1000th article of the french magazine Obligement, an interview has been done with Carl Sassenrath.
There he is talking about his time at Amiga and Commodore (AmigaOS, CDTV) as well as his work for Apple and Viscorp. Furthermore he describes the concept and aims of REBOL, his programming language for network communications and distributed computing. (snx)
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05.May.2007
(ANF)
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Amiga Inc. announces paying of the 50$ coupons
As Amiga Inc. announces in a message to all Club Amiga members that now with new hardware being available in summer they want to let their customers know that they could convert their coupons soon:
Here's the original mail from Amiga Inc.:
"Greetings from Amiga;
This message has been a long time coming, but with the recent announcements of new hardware and the manufacturing to begin shortly we wanted to let all of you know that you will still be able to receive your Club Amiga discount.
The new hardware is expected to be available this summer, and we will be sending out further instructions shortly on how to redeem your discount and use it for the purchase of your new system.
For those of you who have already purchased an AmigaOne system from Eyetech, please locate any receipt that you may have for the machine. If that is not possible then we will work with each of you so that you can also receive what is due you for your purchase and faith in Amiga."
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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05.May.2007
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Event: Classic-Computing 2007
In a press release it is announced that this year's "Classic-Computing" takes place on September, 29th and 30th in the Österfeldhalle in Stuttgart-Vaihingen.
On an exhibition space of more than 700 m² hundreds of exhibits out of the world of classic computers await you. Exhibitors from all over Germany and bordering foreign countries show the best of their collections. You'll see home computers as well as office computers, even never sold prototypes and unique conversions/ new developments are part of the repertoire.
With almost all of the systems being functional feel and try them is the main aspect of the fair!
More information is available from Rüdiger Schuldes, schuldes@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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05.May.2007
The AROS Show (ANF)
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Interview with Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX)
For his English blog Paul J. Beel made an interview with Bill Panagouleas. for his English blog "The AROS Show". The manager of DiscreetFX talks about his career and the background of his special effects company.
News about his still existing idea of buying Amiga Inc., if possible, (amiga-news.de reported), aren't given, though.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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04.May.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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WHDLoad: New archives until 04.05.2007
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were originally meant only for use with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, improved or updated:
- 03.05.07 new: Chessmaster 2100 (The Software Toolworks) done by Psygore (Info)
- 03.05.07 new: Chess Simulator (Infogrames) done by Psygore (Info)
- 21.04.07 new: Dragon Wars (Interplay) done by Psygore (Info)
- 05.04.07 updated: Dragonflight (Thalion) supports french version too, keyboard handling fixed, icons and manual added (Info)
- 05.04.07 improved: Cybercon 3 (U.S.Gold) savegames fixed, supports another version (Info)
- 04.04.07 updated: Thunderhawk (Core Design) complete rework, various fixes and changes, supports french version too, docs and icons added (Info)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2007
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: SimpleCam 2.2
The program SimpleCam written by Rupert Hausberger makes it possible to access digital cameras. Now version 2.2 is available for MorphOS.
The tooltypes NAKTIMEOUT, MAKEFOLDERS and FOLDERFMT as well as a new progress bar have been added. Additionally some typo errors were fixed.
Download: simplecam-morphos.lha (115 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.3.2 (developer version)
The turn based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth has been published in the developer version 1.3.2 for AmigaOS 4 (changelog).
Please note that the last stable version is 1.2.4.
Download: wesnoth-devel.lha (66 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.May.2007
a1k.org/forum/ (website)
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Buch: Der Amiga - die Geschichte einer Computerlegende
In "Der Amiga - die Geschichte einer Computerlegende" ("The Amiga - the Story of a Computer Legend") Volker "Dr. Zarkov" Mohr is telling the exciting history of the Amiga on 140 pages. The directory and some reading rehearsals are available under the title link. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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03.May.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Games Database: 111 new Titles at lemonamiga.com
The games database lemonamiga.com was extended about 111 further titles, including many less known Polish games. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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03.May.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.3.3
For AmiKit, an all-in-one distribution for WinUAE users, an update to version 1.3.3 is available. This can be obtained via the integrated live update feature or it can be manually installed. The changes can be found in the changelog. (snx)
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02.May.2007
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Pidgin 1.5.0 (Gaim) for Cygnix
Edgar Schwan has released a first version of Pidgin 1.5.0 for his X11 environment Cygnix. Pidgin is
a chat software that supports several different protocols.
Originally te program was called "Gaim" but had to change the name due to legal issues.
The available implementaton supports the following protokols:
- AIM / ICQ
- Gadu Gadu
- Groupwise
- IRC
- Jabber
- MSN
- Napster
- Rendezvous
- Trepia
- Yahoo
- Zephyr
Download: pidgin.lha (11 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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02.May.2007
[ujb] (ANF)
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Hyperion comment on their dispute with Amiga Inc
Press release:
Leuven, Belgium - May 1, 2007.
Whilst it is not Hyperion Entertainment's policy to comment on ongoing litigation, we would like to reassure our customers (whom we wish to thank for their very numerous notes of support following the news) that development of AmigaOS 4.0 related components is still ongoing and will continue apace during the duration of the litigation with Amiga Inc.
Following over 18 months of unproductive negotiations with Amiga Inc. through our management and attorneys, we welcome the opportunity to finally present our case in a court of law which was regrettably the only remaining avenue after Amiga Inc. repeatedly and consistently stonewalled any attempt to resolve the outstanding issues (including the "Party Pack" and "I am Amiga Club" voucher schemes and the failure to acknowledge the intellectual property rights of third party developers) through mediation and binding arbitration.
Despite the failure of Amiga Inc. to secure access to the Amiga OS 3.5 and 3.9 source-code and indeed the reworked Amiga 3.1 source-code, Hyperion Entertainment has, in the form of Amiga OS 4.0, delivered a product which meets and surpasses all contractual design and development goals (e.g. full Amiga chipset independence), a fact which was previously acknowledged contractually and publicly by Amiga Inc. Under the 2001 agreement with Amiga Inc. Hyperion is entitled to all revenues stemming from distribution of Amiga OS 4.0 irrespective of the execution of the "buy in" clause which relates solely to subsequent versions (Amiga OS 4.1 and beyond).
We will therefore vigorously defend the claim which we consider entirely devoid of substance and we are extremely confident of a favorable outcome.
In closing, we would like to remind dealers and other third parties that distribution of Amiga OS 4.0 without the prior permission of Hyperion VOF and certain third party developers is illegal under EU, US and international copyright legislation and therefore entirely at their own risk.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2007
David Brunet (ANF)
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25 new articles at Obligement website (french)
The following articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of march/april 2007
- News: the RoSH directive
- Report: Lam3rs Bouffe
- Interview with Gunnar von Boehn
- Review of MorphOS 1.4.5
- Review of Ri-Li
- Review of Neverball
- Review of Neerputt
- Review of Immortal 3
- Review of Timidity 0.6
- Review of AmiPhoto 1.21
- Comparative: DvPlayer vs. MPlayer on AmigaOS 4
- Hardware: The Lorraine
- Hardware: The Walker (update)
- Point of view: and now, which future for the Amiga?
- Point of view: the Amiga spirit
- Point of view: a Pegasos otherwise nothing
- Point of view: once upon a time the revolution
- Tutorial: installation of Ubuntu 7 (Feisty) on Pegasos II
- Tutorial: installation of Linux Debian Woody on AmigaOne
- Tutorial: use MSN Messenger with IRC
- Tutorial: use of GMail with SimpleMail
- Tutorial: installation and use of TurboPrint 7.60 on MorphOS
- The Quizz of march/april 2007
- Special Quizz about the shoot'em up
Furthermore there are translations available for the following articles:
- Interview with Gunnar von Boehn (English)
- Hardware: The Walker (Italian)
(snx)
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01.May.2007
AROS-ML
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AROS: Renaming project
According to Aaron Digulla, initiator of the open source code operating system AROS, the name "Amiga" will be deleted from the project name because of the legal steps of Amiga Inc. against Hyperion.
Because of these reasons the project simply is called "AROS", "AROS Research Operating System" or "AROS Research OS". Of course you can call the project just like you want but in eMails, articles and on websites it should be called "AROS - The AROS Research Operating System".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.May.2007
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Graphic program SView5 2.25 / Version 45.60 of diverse ak-datatypes
Andreas Kleinert has published version 2.25 of his graphic program SView5. Additionally six of his datatypes were updated.
Download:
SView5.lha (2,9 MB)
akJFIF-dt.lha (208 KB)
akLJPG-dt.lha (70 KB)
akNAIL-dt.lha (63 KB)
akPNG-dt.lha (207 KB)
akSVG-dt.lha (72 KB)
akTIFF-dt.lha (524 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Apr.2007
Mikey C (ANF)
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Petition: Appeal to Amiga Inc. and Hyperion
Linked to the header Mikey "Mikey C" Carillo established a petition to call Amiga Inc. and Hyperion to a cooperativness.
The correct wording is:
"We, the undersigned ask that Amiga inc and Hyperion Entertainment to put aside their differences and work together to ensure the success of the Amiga platform for the benefit of all fans of the Amiga operating system."
The author hopes that many signatures changes the political way of both companies. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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30.Apr.2007
Amiga, Inc.
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Amiga Inc./ACK: Details of "Entry Level"-Hardware
Press release:
Issaquah, Wash and Fonthill, ON Canada – April 29, 2007 – ACK Controls and Amiga, Inc. are pleased to announce the base hardware design that will address the needs of the Amiga market as well offering expansion into other markets.
“The first product release is designed for flexibility and meeting the needs of the Amiga user, as well as offer a design that takes advantage of available hardware”, said Adam Kowalczyk President of ACK Systems
This new system will be offered at a suggested retail price of $ 489.00 and be a complete offering excluding monitor in a finished design that will provide customers with everything they need to get started.
* Flex-ATX form factor motherboard based on the Freescale MPC8349E SoC. (400MHz to 667MHz depending on requirements and price target)
* 1 (one) DDR2 DIMM slot expandable to 1GB using unregistered DIMMs.
* 1 (one) 66MHz PCI slot for use with readily available graphics cards.
* 2 (two) 33MHz PCI slots for additional expansion.
* 2 (two) 10/100/1Gb Ethernet Ports.
* 4 (four) Hi Speed USB ports.
* 2 (two) serial ports.
* 4 (four) SATA ports provided by a Silicon Image Sil3114 controller.
* Onboard sound provided by a C-Media CMI8738.
* Socketed EEPROM for U-Boot firmware.
* Atmel ATC2408A serial EEPROM (1 kb of non-volatile storage)
* Dallas DS1339 RTC with battery holder.
* Standard ATX power supply connector.
“Amiga is please to be working with ACK Controls and believe that by using flexible designs and aggressive manufacturing practices we will be able to deliver to our customers a great product at a great price”, said Bill McEwen of Amiga, Inc.
Manufacturing partner and final ship schedule will be following soon.
About Amiga
Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies. For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. Today Amiga builds on this legacy leading the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to new platforms and interactive devices. For more information visit www.amiga.com.
About ACK
ACK Software Controls, Inc. specializes in the area of embedded controls design for use in automation systems where low-power consumption and reliability is an absolute must. Concentrating on design for manufacturing with local manufacturing facilities has allowed ACK to quickly and cost-effectively develop solutions for customers with low-volume requirements. By integrating hardware, firmware, and device driver engineering capability in-house, ACK can provide complete turn-key solutions to customers. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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30.Apr.2007
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Amiga Inc.: "Lizenz agreement closed" / Lawsuit against Hyperion (Update 3)
"In 2001, Amiga, Inc. entered into a license for the development of AmigaOS 4.0 with AmigaOne(TM) Partners, collectively Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd. The license agreement was terminated on December 20, 2006."
This was the same time as the "Final Update" of AmigaOS 4.0 was released on Christmas (amiga-news.de reports).
More information about the closed lizence and the matter about the development and the relation to the buyback of the Operatingsystem by Amiga Inc 2003 are still open at the moment.
Update: (14:40, 30.04.07, snx)
Acc. Justitia.com has Amiga Inc. on 26. April at Washington Western Federal District Court open a Lawsuit due to a breach against the brand against Hyperion.
Update 2: (19:15, 30.04.07, snx)
Rich Woods provides a link for the complete case: Case.PDF
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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30.Apr.2007
4Players.de (Webseite)
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Turrican: 3D-Version for the PlayStation 3?
Linked to the header is a interview with Julian Eggebrecht Presidenten from Factor 5.
On Page 4 will be talk about the possibility of a 3D-Version of the Classic-Game Turrican for the PlayStation 3, which was developed for the C64 and Amiga. But the work was started only with the internal concept at the moment. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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29.Apr.2007
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS for AmigaOS: Updates to icon.library and picture.datatype for AfA
Bernd Roesch has released updates to icon.library as well as to picture.datatype for his AmigaOS port of AROS components, "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA).
With these, it is now possible to employ the Workbench plugin Eastern for generating thumbnail icons under AfA as well (reported by amiga-news.de).
To this end, the icon.library now supports "globalidentify hook," which is required by Eastern as well as by DefIcons. Additionally, the version was changed to V51 and AmigaOS 4 compatibility for reading and writing 24 bit icon data was added.
Version 1.5 of Eastern is required, in addition, when using cache, the Raw option must be set.
The new picture.datatype now supports scaling in the function DT_Readpixelarray, which is also required by Eastern. Also, more 8 bit ILBM images are displayed correctly on a "classic" Amiga with Picasso 96 or CyberGraphX.
Moreover, in 32 and 24 bit images on 16 bit screens, a dithering takes place, so that color gradients as in the original picture.datatype are not visible. In this regard, the author Thilo Köhler thanks for the source code.
The update is rounded off with an extension to the FAQ collection for Eastern and the picture.datatype under CyberGraphX on Amiga computers.
Download: iconlibForEastern_finalbeta.lha (131 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
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Thumbnail Icons: Eastern 1.5
Stephan Rupprecht's Eastern is a Workbench plugin that automatically displays a thumbnail preview instead of the default icon for images that do not have their own icon. The latest changes:
- v1.5: added RAW/S option to speed up loading of cached icons
- v1.4: no longer needs progressive mode for the cache, added WAITUPDATE option
- v1.3: in 1.2 the cache was limited to Workbench, now all apps are cached. The 68k build of Eastern assumes an OS4 compatible icon.library when the version number of the library is v51 or higher. In this case truecolor icons will be created. internal release
Eastern is available for AmigaOS 3 and 4. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
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MorphOS: Grex driver for Terratec 512i and Realtek 8029
Under the title link, Frank Mariak is making available PPC-native versions of two GRex drivers. Newly added is the driver for Terratec 512i/Fortemedia 801 sound cards, whereas a new version of the network card driver for the Realtek 8029 chipset was released some time ago, which corrects some minor problems. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
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Do It Yourself: Right angled adapter of make DIY
After the right angled adapters for the PCMCIA port of the Amiga 600 and 1200 had no longer been produced for some time, Jörg Thomas has also given thought to a solution to this problem, besides amigakit.com (reported by amiga-news.de).
Under the title link, he describes how he crafted such an adapter by himself, with many photos. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
MorphOS-News.de (SW-Liste)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.43
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has released an update to his MorphOS port of Blender. You can find the release log for version 2.43 of the 3D modeling program on the Blender homepage.
Download: blender_2.43-mos_bin-20070428.lha (5.5 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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29.Apr.2007
amiga.org (Web page)
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Reissue: PCMCIA right angled adapter for A600/A1200
Those who want to transplant an Amiga 600/1200 in another (tower) case, are often confronted with the problem that the PCMCIA slot lies directly to the case wall and is no longer accessible.
Since the PCMCIA right angled adapters, which were developed for such problem cases, are no longer being produced for years, the British dealer amigakit.com has decided to reissue the product. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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