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Archive 05/2005

`07.May.2005` Martin Wolf (ANF)	Tales of Tamar: 1st Quest - barbarians of the Southern lands! Rules: This quest is for new players beginning June, 1st 2005. Players who want to register for this quest have to enter 'Barbaren der Südlande' in the notes field of the registration form. The aim of the barbarians is to conquer at least 150 Morgen of the northern countries each month. It's not 150 acres per barbarian but all lords together have to reach this aim. To ensure a free development the area of the barbarians is kept encapsuled. Beginning with August, 1st 2005 the frontiers will be opened and from then on each month the conquered Morgen will be counted. If the number passes the 150 Morgen all barbarians can continue playing for free. Does the conquered area not pass 150 Morgen is the invasion not successful and the players' state will be set to the shareware mode. Registering will be possible from May, 15th to May, 30th 2005. This quest is cross platform, so it can be played an all systems (PC, Linux, Mac, Amiga (+ MOS,+ OS4)). Quest operator: Martin Wolf Price: continued playing for free as long as the quest's aim is reached. (cg) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. May. 2005, 21:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.May.2005` OS4Depot (website)	AmigaOS4: Apache 1.3.33 beta released Edgar Schwan uploaded Apache 1.3.33 in a beta version as AmigaOS4 port to the OS4Depot. Supported are PHP 4.3.0 and MySQL 3.23.49. Contained programs: httpd - Apache server for the hypertext transfer protocol htpasswd - creating and updating of users authentification files htdigest - creating and updating of text files for the digest authentification ab - benchmark tool for the Apache HTTP server logresolve - resolving of host names of the IP addresses in Apache log files rotatelogs - rotates Apache logs without the need to kill the server checkgid - checks whether a group ID exists php - standalone PHP interpreter compiled for this package Download: apache.lha (10 MB) (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. May. 2005, 20:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.May.2005` ANN (website)	Dave Haynie archives online again The Dave Haynie Archives - a collection of documents created by Dave Haynie for Commodore - are now online accessible again. Next to information about single computers and chips there can be found e.g. information about the never released AAA technology of the prototype Nyx. (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. May. 2005, 14:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.May.2005` ANN (website)	Final update for SystemPatch to version 2.94 SystemPatch by Sante Nocciolino changes various operating system routines to increase the performance of systems with newer 68k processors. The most can be got from 68060 systems but it can be used on all Amigas with at least a 68020. The author expects the version 2.94 to be the last update. A release of the source code at a later time - as it was with others of his programs - is possible. Download: SystemPatch2.lha (42 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. May. 2005, 14:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.May.2005` MorphOS-News.de (website)	MorphOS: OpenPictureSpace 2.5 released Marc le Douarain, meanwhile the maintainer of the program originally written for Linux by Thomas Hänselmann, released version 2.5 of OpenPictureSpace for MorphOS. OpenPictureSpace shows a directory containing images as thumbnails (screenshot). Supported are JPEG, GIF, PNG and IFF-ILBM including the Amiga specific HAM and EHB modes. In contrary to other programs of this kind OpenPictureSpace does not display the pictures in a grid with n x m thumbnails but scales them only vertically and tries to put as many as possible in each row to use the screen space as best as possible. Changes in version 2.5: Using powersdl.library and powersdl_image.library (makes more image formats in the future possible) Wheelmouse keys can be used for scrolling of the thumbs list Delay when displaying the whole image removed Picture rotation via the '<' key Displaying useful keys at the bottom Do not try to double the size of the current opened image despite the fact that it is possible! Error removed when entering a drive for the path Download: OpenPictureSpace_MOS.lha (242 KB) (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. May. 2005, 12:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.May.2005` banana development committee (ANF)	MorphOS: MisterBanana 1.3 published It follows the original press release concerning the publishing of the newest version for the known desktop mascot for MorphOS: "No may without Banana That's our motto. Sadly current MisterBanana 1.5 with all the cool extra features only works properly with still unreleased MorphOS 1.666. But thanks to the banana god, we could resurrect source code of MisterBanana 1.4 and bumped it down to 1.3 to make this update release happen just in time. It's hopefully the last before the 1.5 release, and solves no bugs or problems with the previous public release, but adds a few new sayings and options, including faked transparency, an updated hotlist, anonymizer support and a secret feature to destroy the world. We wish you fun! Oh.. and get the little fellow from here or become amazed 'bout this very cool screenshot." (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 06. May. 2005, 21:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.May.2005` ANN (website)	MorphOS: UADE 1.02 published Harry "Piru" Sintonen has published an update of UADE to version 1.02 for MorphOS. UADE can play Amiga music files with the help of UAE-emulation and of a cloned Eagleplayer-API. Download: uade-1.02-mos1-bin.lha (1.4 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 06. May. 2005, 08:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.May.2005` Carsten "flip" Wiebers (ANF)	A History of the GUI Under the title link you can find an English article written by Ars Technica about the history of the graphic user interfaces. It is described the evolution from the earliest beginning in the 60ies over Xerox and Apple as well as the systems of the 80ies (including the Workbench) to the present. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 06. May. 2005, 07:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.May.2005` Michal Schulz (AROS-ML)	File system: SFS source code put under LGPL The Smart File System (SFS) is a journalling file system for Amiga systems which was created to get most of performance, scalability and file integrity. At the title link John Hendrikx has set up an according sourceforge project to publish the original C version to LGPL. (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 04. May. 2005, 16:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.May.2005` ANN (website)	WLAN driver prism2.device for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS Neil Cafferkey has released the first complete version of his prism2.device for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. The kit contains a SANA II driver for 11 Mbps WLAN cards based on the Prism II chipset. There is support for PCMCIA cards for the A1200/A600 and PCI cards for Amigas equiped with the Prometheus boards, AmigaOne and Pegasos as well as for PCs running Amithlon. Download: prism2.lha (138 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 04. May. 2005, 12:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.May.2005` amigaworld.net (website)	AmigaOS 4: GUI toolkit FLTK FLTK is a C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, MacOS X and AmigaOS 4.0, that is licensed according to the LGPL. FLTK might be linked static or as shared library. The kit contains a GUI-Builder called FLUID also. The Amiga version (screenshots: 1, 2) is described by the author as "work in progress", but is almost complete. Nearly all functions of the official version 1.1.6 is implemented already, the following features are still missing and will be added in a following release: OpenGL support Drag and Drop Threads Custom pointers There are more than 60 demos available which show the potential of that tool kit. The whole package is put to several archives: Libs, includes and documentation: fltk.lha (1 MB) Demos: fltk_demos.lha (11 MB) FLUID: fltk_fluid.lha (622 KB) The source code will be made available within the next days, until then a "not yet cleaned up" version is obtainable from the author by e-mail request. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 04. May. 2005, 07:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.May.2005` Dietmar Knoll (ANF)	Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Database in Spanish The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a MySQL based database created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can be questioned by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function. Thanks to the kind support of Dámaso Domínguez, the GAUHPIL is now also translated to Spanish. Furthermore, Dámaso again found many users from the "Lost Links List" by hardworking research. Other defective links were moved there. So the database contents could be cleaned up significantly. Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 713 users from 38 countries. The number of users for each country can be found on the page "All Countries". (snx) [News message: 04. May. 2005, 00:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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