18.Jun.2006
Mac Life (Heiko Bichel)
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Gates leaves Microsoft's day to day operations in 2008
Bill Gates and Microsoft have disclosed that Gates will continue his daily work at Microsoft only until 2008. Afterwards, the Microsoft chairman wants to spend more time on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates's functions should slowly be transferred to other leading people of the company in the course of time. After July 2008, the Microsoft legend will continue to serve the company as executive chairman and advisor in key projects, however. The detailed Microsoft notice can be referred to under the title link.
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18.Jun.2006
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Raytracer: Imagine 5.19
For ACUP subscribers, version 5.19 of Imagine was released. The update solves problems of the previous version, in particular under AmigaOS 4.
(snx) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 18. Jun. 2006, 13:33] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jun.2006
Pegasos.org (Web page)
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MorphOS: Do command for Ambient / JasPer ported
JasPer 1.500.4
Maxim Ilyin has ported JasPer to MorphOS. The program by Michael David Adams allows encoding and decoding JPEG-2000 files.
more ...
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18.Jun.2006
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Standards and specs: The Interchange File Format (IFF)
On the developerWorks pages of IBM, in the "Standards and specs" line-up, the Interchange File Format (IFF) from Electronic Arts, which is used on the Amiga in particular, was now recognized as well.
In his article, Peter Seebach says that this format, introduced in 1985, already had many of the features still sought today in modern file formats, as well as what can be learned from it with regard to the latter, such as XML.
(snx) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 18. Jun. 2006, 07:45] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jun.2006
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AmigaOS 4: glUAE to integrate UAE into OS environment
glUAE is a collection of scripts to make the usage of Chipset dependant or not AmigaOS 4 compatible applications under the PPC oerating system easier. With glUAE executable files, disk images or ZIP archives can be started via a double click within the Amiga emulator UAE.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 17. Jun. 2006, 17:15] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jun.2006
binaryriot (ANF)
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MorphOS: MUICON-/ PowerTerm update
A new version of MUICON, a MUI based shell for MorphOS, is available under the title link. The update fixes a bug of the last version ("fixed dead key support (PowerTerm.mcc)").
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 17. Jun. 2006, 16:45] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jun.2006
morphzone.org (website)
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osnews.com: Introduce "Your" operating system (competition)
Contributions have to be written in English, may not be released elswhere before and they should not deal with Windows, MacOS or a Unix clone.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 17. Jun. 2006, 16:43] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jun.2006
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IRC client: Wookiechat 2.3 beta 1
The MUI based IRC client WookieChat (screenshot) is available in version 2.3 beta1 for AmigaOS 3/4. The latest beta is now localized, the author is looking for people who'd like to translate the program texts into various languages.
Download: wookiechat2_3_beta1_17Jun2006.lha (520 KB)
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[News message: 17. Jun. 2006, 15:38] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jun.2006
Thorsten Mampel, 1. chairman ACH eV (ANF)
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Event: LAN party Hamburg started
Thorsten Mampel wrote: "The Hamburg LAN party is underway. There are still enough places but a fast arriving assures the best places.
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(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 17. Jun. 2006, 15:26] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jun.2006
Takeo Sato (Cloanto)
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 2006 Released and Shipping
Cloanto released Amiga Forever 2006, the latest version of the award-winning Amiga preservation, emulation and support suite for Windows and other platforms. The product is in stock at all reseller partners.
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16.Jun.2006
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #093
Yesterday the scene groupe Liquid Skies published its 93th musicpack. It contains a track
of the Russian musician Alex East who composes in the kind of instrumental/chillout. DaFreak created
the corresponding cover.
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(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jun. 2006, 19:55] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Burning software: Bugtracker for Frying Pan
The author of the CD-/DVD-burning software Frying Pan has stablished a
bugtracker. If you want to report a bug with the
help of this system please register before to make the developer possible to ask back.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jun. 2006, 15:06] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jun.2006
Dietmar Eilert (ANF)
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C/C++ Update for Cubic IDE
An update of the C/C++-paket has been published for Cubic-users. The current version of vbcc was integrated as well as all MorphOS SDK updates (gcc, binutils, libnix, libgcc). Furthermore the update of the syntax-highlightings and the update of the OS4-SDKs with the latest lua, abc-shell and make.
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(nba) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jun. 2006, 11:53] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jun.2006
Markus Weiss (ANF)
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AROS: Snapshot of the PPC version ("Linux hosted")
The team AROS provides a precompiled snapshot of the PPC port. It is a "Linux hosted"-version, so Linux incl. X-Window-System and glibc-2.3.4. is required. Further requirements are available in the documentation.
The distribution must be extracted in any folder and can be started through the shell then. To do so you go to the subdirectory AROS and execute "./aros".
(cg) (Translation: tz)
[News message: 15. Jun. 2006, 15:08] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jun.2006
os4depot.net (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Sound card driver Envy24HT 5.8
Davy Wentzler has released an update of his sound card driver for models like Terratec Aureon Sky and Space, Phase28, M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and ESI Juli.
(cg) (Translation: tz)
[News message: 15. Jun. 2006, 14:50] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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Online banking: Status update for proBanking
Sven Dröge gives a brief view of the current state of his online banking tool proBanking:
The modules for signation and encryption of messages is virtually finished. The next step - the integartion into proBanking -
will last probably two months.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 14. Jun. 2006, 15:26] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jun.2006
Michael C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Cloanto: "Amiga Voices" project prolonged
Cloanto's project "Amiga Voices", which gives users the ability to tell their individual
Amiga story or anecdote regarding this maschine (amiga-news.de reported), has been
prolonged in time and lasts minimum until June the 30th now.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 14. Jun. 2006, 09:10] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Python 2.4.2
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez released a update of his MorphOS-Port
of the programing language Python.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
[News message: 12. Jun. 2006, 15:56] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jun.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Raytracer Blender 2.37a-20060610
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez provide a new version of his Raytracing program
Blender,
Python will be required.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
[News message: 12. Jun. 2006, 15:46] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jun.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Text-Editor: Demoversion of CygnusEd 5
APC&TCP provide the demoversion of his legendary Amiga-Texteditor
CygnusEd 5 for the platforms AmigaOS4 and 68k/MorphOS online.
(nba) (Translation: aj)
[News message: 12. Jun. 2006, 13:11] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jun.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.06.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
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(cg) (Translation: aj)
[News message: 12. Jun. 2006, 00:37] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jun.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 11.06.2006
Uploads of os4depot.net since our last report:
more ...
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11.Jun.2006
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Minimig: Screenshot of the PCB layout
Dennis van Weeren, developer of the FPGA-based Amiga 500 clone Minimig (reported by amiga-news.de), has released a screenshot of the final PCB layout (Rev. 1.0) under the title link.
The circuit board has two layers and measures merely 120 x 120 mm. After a check of the PS/2 connections, which is still outstanding, a prototype of the board should be produced and tested for its functional capability.
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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11.Jun.2006
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: TCP stack Mosnet 1.2
Pavel "Sonic" Fedin has released a new version of his PPC-native TCP stack Mosnet.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 11. Jun. 2006, 14:56] [Comments: 0]
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11.Jun.2006
Amiga Future (Web page)
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Report+ 6.2
Version 6.2 of Report+ is released. With Report+ from Amigan Software, bug reports, Aminet readme files, autodocs and similar reports can easily be generated.
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[News message: 11. Jun. 2006, 10:59] [Comments: 0]
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11.Jun.2006
ANN (Web page)
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MorphOS: 3D Update Release 2
The MorphOS Team is making available an update to the official 3D driver package. Changes since the last version:
- r200, rv250 and rv280 cards (8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9250) now work on Pegasos 1
- Fixed a rare lockup condition on r200 (8500, 9100)
- Fixed a random crash on starting the first 3D application on Pegasos 1
- Fixed a scissoring problem on r200, rv250 and rv280 (8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9250)
- Minor speedups and improvements
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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11.Jun.2006
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ACK: Status update for various PPC products
In an IRC chat, Adam Kowalczyk from ACK has commented once more on various announced hardware projects. He regrets the delays, but estimates the harm done thereby as apparently not particularly tragic. At the urging of the users, one has now decided, at least, to release some pictures, these should be visible on Tuesday on amigaworld.net.
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