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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Amiga Forever: Updates and new online forms
According to the Amiga-Forever-Team that several updates were publisehd for the latest emulator package Amiga Forever 2008 which some of the mentioned bugs fixed. These updates can be downloaded in the Amiga-Forever-Player under "Tools/Check for Updates".

Furthermore because of the increased spam-bot-activities the online forms for contacts, support and registrations were changed. These new forms replace the filter which were installed on 18. June and which causede some problems. All those customers who tried to contact us without replay please now try it again. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


individual Computers: New address, Catweasel-Software-Update
Press releaseIn may of this year, we have moved to new premises with more than three times the space that our office in Aachen had to offer. Since we still don't run a retail shop, we have moved to the pictureque area of Simmerath, located in the natural park of the northern Eifel region. With this new location, there's also a change in our shipping partner: Parcels within Germany and the EU are now shipped with DPD.
more ... (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jul.2008
PPA (ANF)


Event: Photos from the British AmigaOS-4.1-demonstration
Chris Young as well as PPA have published photos from the second public demonstration of AmigaOS 4.1 which took place in British Enfield yesterday. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


MorphOS: OS4Emu 2.0
Ilkka Lehtoranta's wrapper OS4Emu allows running some AmigaOS 4 programs under MorphOS. In version 2.0, the following changes have come about:
  • Whereas 64-bit DOS calls are supported under MorphOS 1.x in principle, but the file size is limited to 2 GB, native 64-bit DOS calls are used now under MorphOS 2.x
  • AltiVec support under MorphOS 2.x
  • Bug fixes in the ELF loader
  • Completion of the Picasso96 emulation by means of the function p96WritePixelArray()
(snx) (Translation: cad)

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13.Jul.2008
MorphZone (website)


MorphOS: GammaMeter 1.2
Grzegorz Kraszewski's GammaMeter is a simple tool for measuring the gamma coefficient of display devices. It uses the luminance comparision method and thus does not need any external hardware. GammaMeter uses MUI, is localized and is distributed with source code under BSD license (Screenshot). (snx)

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13.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (forum)


Event: Report and photos from the AIConf
Under the title link, a first report in English from the AIConf was published, which took place yesterday in Italy and where AmigaOS 4.1 was demonstrated for the first time. In addition, the author, Andrea Maniero, has shot some photos.

News compared to the announcement of the operating system update which took place the day before yesterday (reported by amiga-news.de) concern the price as well as the question of a version for PowerUp Amigas.
more ... (snx) (Translation: cad)

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12.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)


MorphOS: Hu-Go! 1.3
Hu-Go! emulates the game console TurboGrafX-16 which is also known as PC Engine (screenshot). The MorphOS port by Kelly Samel is now available in version 1.3.

Changes:
  • Clones Ambient resolution in full screen + Overlay
  • Audio channels only allocated while emulation is running
  • Added compact mode
  • Added BG pattern toggle
  • Added video sync option
  • Cleaner sound channel termination
  • Shortened the commodity description line
  • Fixed MUI colors to work with most configs
  • Added rompath selector
  • Made gui resizable and fixed spacing
  • Added 1 and 2 player joypad configs
  • Added Scanline mode
  • Several bugs fixed that were causing lock ups
  • A few more premade HCD files added to archive
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jul.2008



AmigaOS 4.1: First public demonstrations (Update)
According to Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene by ACube Systems today the announced Amiga OS 4.1 is supposed to be shown at the AIConf taking place in Papozze (Italy).


The first demonstration in UK will be tomorrow on 13. July presented by the user group Amiga North Thames.

Update: (16:28, 13.07.08, snx)
As Massimiliano Tretene (Soft3, Participator of ACube Systems) confirms, at the show ACube Systems communicated the price for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.1. The suggested retail price is Euro 105 + local VAT or further taxes. The package is similar to the OS4 Classic one and will include a cardboard box, a CD with a serial number and a printed install instruction manual. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jul.2008



Hyperion announces AmigaOS 4.1
Press release: Antwerp, Belgium - 11 July, 2008. Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release mid-Q3/2008. Building on the solid foundations of Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS 4.1 introduces a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on the Amiga platform.
more ... (cg) (Translation: snx)

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11.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Freeze 1.1
Christian Rosentreter's Freeze is a small commandline command to freeze (suspend) tasks or processes. A frozen task is still available in the system, but doesn't consume CPU time anymore.
more ... (snx)

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11.Jul.2008
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS-Team: Homepage reworked
The operating system MorphOS version 2.0 was published a week ago and now the homepage was redesigned as well.

Now you can find there an introduction of some components and functions, the Help Desk, the Download section and a list of all current and former members of the team. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Website of ports "Will This Survive" moved
The website "Will This Survive" has moved to back2roots.org. You can there download the ports for free that means you do not have to write poems for it any longer. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jul.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)


MorphOS: Lucy 2.22
With version 2.22 of the transparency patch Lucy for MorphOS 2.0 you can now leave out single windows by theit taks titles. You can also leave out windows without names like AmiNetRadio. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jul.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Cave Story ported
Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari, Wikipedia, trailer, Fan site) is a ein Japanese action adventure by Daisuke 'Pixel' Amaya (Interview) which fans translated into English.

THe SDL-/Linux-port by Peter Mackay and Simon Parzer was now compiled by Peter 'Xeron' Gordon and Johan 'Spot' Samuelsson to AmigaOS 4. Similar to the Linux version the preference program is missing here as well. If you want to run the game in a window then simply rename the file config.dat.

Download: cavestory.lha (916 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jul.2008
Symphonic Shades-Webseite (ANF)


Chris Hülsbeck: Symphonic Shades album announced
Press release: It is clear: An Album will be produced with all the tracks of the "Symphonic Shades - Hülsbeck in Concert" event. The concert at WDR on 23. August 2008 will be dedicated to one of the most famous composers of computer and video game music: Chris Hülsbeck.

The album has a play time of 70 minutes and will be published few months after the concerts. The price is 22,00 EUR (RRP). You can order in advance from now on by MAZ Sound Tools GmbH. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jul.2008
scacom.de.vu (ANF)


Fanzine: English.SCACOM, issue 3
English.SCACOM is an English PDF magazine about computers developed by Commodore. The third issue has 34 pages and offers the following articles: more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jul.2008
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MorphOS: Multimedia keys requests with deluxe 0.9
Deluxe written by Christian Rosentreter is a commodity with which you can test multimedia keys of keyboards. The author said that he could add some additional features if requested.

deluxe-0.9.lha (26 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jul.2008
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)


Music: Liquid Skies records #104
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 104th musicpack. This time it includes a music track called "Sky Angel" composed by Maxus. The cover was created by Angeldust. more ... (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jul.2008



MorphOS: SMS-/GameGear-Emulator SMSPlus 1.4
SMSPlus emulates Sega's Master System as well as the GameGear-console. Changes in version 1.4:
  • Shortened the commodity description line
  • Clones Ambient resolution in full screen + Overlay
  • Audio channels only allocated while emulation is running
  • Added compact mode
  • Added BG pattern toggle
  • Added video sync option
  • Cleaner sound channel termination
  • Fixed MUI colors to work with most configs
  • Added rompath selector
  • Made gui resizable and fixed spacing
  • Added 1 and 2 player joypad configs
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jul.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 28
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another alpha version of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4). The changes in alpha 28 are included in the readme. SabreMSN is available for Amiga 3/4 and MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jul.2008



MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0 (SVN) with Altivec support
Fabien Coeurjoly has published a new version of his MorphOS port of the media player MPlayer. The port is based on the sources of the current beta version from 30th June. For the first time there is an Altivec support which requires MorphOS 2.0 and which supports the Altivec-units of a G4-processor.

Direkter Download:

MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.06.30.lha (8,1 MB)
MPlayer-1.0-svn-2008.06.30.altivec.lha (8,4 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jul.2008
amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaSYS: New distribution for E-UAE
AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench for different Amiga emulators. Additionally only a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least a Workbench-disk of version 3.x are required.

Now there is a new version of the emulator (Mac OS X, Linux, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS). Additionally the website of the AmigaSYS-project was reworked. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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