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`09.Dec.2005` amigafuture (Webseite)	AmigaAMP: Beta version of 68k-based MPEG-decoder Thomas Wenzel has published a beta version of a external AmigaAmp-MPEG-decoder for 68k-based Amigas. The author calles emulator-users as destination group because a real Amiga is too slow. Download: AmigaAMP-External68k-116-BETA.lha (50 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Dec. 2005, 14:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Dec.2005` Anton Reinauer (e-mail)	Status update: AmiZilla / GTK-MUI-Wrapper Press release: Right, it' s been awhile since we had an update- as we didn't have much time free, things were quiet there for awhile. But recently it's been quite exciting! Firstly, oli has finished his GTK->MUI AROS Bounty- though not actually part of the AmiZilla project it will be of great help! To get the GUI working, there may be some extra GTK and GLib functions needed, and GDK will need porting. Some GDK Functions can be ported as is, but many will need porting to Cybergraphics/Picasso96 and possibly MUI. GDK accesses many X11 calls, so these will need to be converted or possibly the code copied from the X11 source. GTK->MUI Screenshots GTK->MUI Demo code and compiled exes (68k) Also, OS4 people have ported the the GTK->MUI emulation layer from AROS to AmigaOS4: GTK->MUI layer screenshots (OS4) Max has done some initial work in getting the NSPR (low-level OS abstraction layer) working under AmigaOS4, which looks promising. But the real exciting bit is Piyush Khengar (Captain Moo Moo on AW), who is a lecturer at King's College London, is getting five of his 3rd year Electronic Engineering students who have covered C/C++ in their 1st two years of study, to help on the AmiZilla project as the practical part of their coursework! Now, great as this is, just remember that these students aren't that experienced in programming, or familiar with the Amiga OS. They may take awhile to get to grips with such a big project like this, so don't expect too much from them for a few months- they're meant to be spending 5-10 hours a week for 6 months on their projects. AmiZilla has been split up into individual projects for them- as we have five students, we have added in creating a GTK->Reaction layer to AmigaOS4, and maybe porting AmiZilla to MorphOS and AROS, as well as the AmigaOS 3.1 target: Project Number: 1 Port the GDK library from Linux to AmigaOS3.1. The GDK library is a medium level video abstraction layer for the GTK Library on Linux. Project Number: 2 Help with the GTK->Reaction project (AmigaOS3.9 and AmigaOS4). Project Number: 3 Create a GTK emulation layer for the Reaction GUI on AmigaOS3.9 and AmigaOS4. Port the GDK emulation layer (Project #1) to Amiga OS3.9 and AmigaOS4. Project Number: 4 Create a GTK and GLib emulation layer for the Reaction GUI on AmigaOS3.9 and AmigaOS4. Project Number: 5 Finish off programming the XPCOM, and NSPR layer, and get it all working, and get AmiZilla compiling and running. Also put an Arexx port on AmiZilla. Project Number: 6 Finish off programming the NSPR, and get it all working, and get AmiZilla compiling and running. Get an X11 Server running on AmigaOS3.1, and compile the GTK, GLib and GDK sources (Linux ones) directly into libs, and get an AmiZilla Window up. Port AmiZilla to AROS and MorphOS (using the MUI GUI). For those interested, the full specs for these projects are here: Amizilla Project Specifications (LZX) Amizilla Project Specifications (Text) And a Resource List has been started here: Amizilla Resource List Note: some of these may yet be adjusted (especially as there are 6 projects and only 5 programmers- we had a couple of programmers drop out). And I realise that we can't use the C++ lib in Mozilla, and we won't use it in the GTK emulation layers either. As we have five students, we would appreciate it if some developers could come and help the students! We only have about 3 developers active in AmiZilla, and none of us have much free time, so we're concerned we may not be able to help them enough- especially in the early stages, until they get more experience and can work more on their own. Note: they would only have to provide advice, and help the students if they get stuck- they don't have to actually spend time doing any coding if they don't want to! Note: at the moment the students will only be researching over the holidays, they won't actually be coding until they come back next year. Also, as we're doing ports to AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS, it'd be good if devs from those platforms, could help the students with any OS specific problems they may face on those platforms. :) And again, remember, there is the AmiZilla bounty, which goes to people who help in the project (when finished of course). To join the AmiZilla list, either send an email to amizilla-subscribe@yahoogroups.com , or go to the AmiZilla Yahoo Groups website (but you need to create a Yahoo account, to do it this way). Also, donations to help encourage more developers, are most welcome too! :) - AmiZilla- DiscreetFX - Ants AmiZilla Team (snx) [News message: 09. Dec. 2005, 10:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Dec.2005` Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh	MorphOS: Free Pascal 2.0.2 released Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.2 is now officially released. Supported platforms, as usual, include MorphOS/PowerPC. Version 2.0.2 is mainly a bugfix release for 2.0.0, which was released in May, this year. However, MorphOS version also includes a few new features. The following extras were added since 2.0.0: Added datatypes.library support Added OpenGL/TinyGL support. It's not finished yet, but already allows to do things like this, this or this Debug mode in the runtime libraries. It sends messages to MorphOS logserver about file and memory management when you want it to do so (release RTL is built w/o this, you need to rebuild RTL to use it) Added new eyecandy truecolor icons for directory and documentation. Thanks to Andre 'JoBBo' Siegel for the icons. You can happily browse FPC directory from Ambient now The release includes the following MorphOS-releated fixes: File handling code had some big overhaul, cleanups, and overall it's a lot more stable and robust now Hopefully fixed FPU initialization of RTL Unix & Amiga path conversion was broken is some cases for linker script generation; fixed Lots of other minor fixes For Free Pascal Compiler 2.0.4, MUI support will be added. First screenshots: The first PPC native MUI software in Pascal The first really working stuff The first simple MUI custom class written in FPC (snx) [News message: 09. Dec. 2005, 09:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Dec.2005` Bernd Roesch (ANF)	AROS: New Beta Version of AfA OS A new version of AfA OS ("AROS for AmigaOS") is available under the title link. Thanks to Georg Steger it contains a font manager for the generation of the .otag and .font files necessary for the use of truetype fonts. Furthermore there is a contrast setting for the antialiasing available now under the preferences. Furthermore 57 of the 119 exec function were replaced with their AROS equivalents. According to the bug fixes and further explanations please note the comments to this item. (snx) (Translation: ts) [News message: 08. Dec. 2005, 18:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Dec.2005` AROS-Exec (Website)	AROS: Alphaversion of an IRC Client Nic Andrews has published an early alpha release called AIRcos as a Zune based irc client for AROS. Download: aircos-0.0.1.zip (97 KB) (snx) (Translation: ts) [News message: 08. Dec. 2005, 13:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Dec.2005` MorphOS-News.de (Software List))	MUI: Texteditor.mcc 15.17 The mui class texteditor.mcc, published under LGPL, is meanwhile available as version 15.17 for AmigaOS/68k, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The update corrects an old bug, where parts of a text where erased or overwritten under certain circumstances. (snx) (Translation: ts) [News message: 08. Dec. 2005, 10:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Dec.2005` Heise (website)	Freescale: Closing Down of the Desktop Business/ Future in Embedded Area In an interview under the title link with Michel Mayer, CEO of Freescale Semiconductor, the former semiconductor sector of Motorola, he expresses himself of the future of the PowerPC. Despite the loss of the desktop business through Apple there should be a reason for optimism because of the growing opportunities in the embedded sector- automotive for example. There are already 52 chips of Freescale inside the 5er or 7er range of BMW. (snx) (Translation: ts) [News message: 08. Dec. 2005, 10:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2005`	WinUAE: Update package AmiKit 1.01 available For AmiKit, a complete distribution for WinUAE users, an update package to version 1.01 has been released. Changes: ADDED: new Magic bootpicture for 1024x768. Use AmiKit:Prefs/ShowAmiga96_Prefs to enable it UPDATED: asyncio.library 40.6 FIXED: bad replaying of sound modules due to incorrect frequency settings FIXED: ASp audio problems with AHI6 FIXED: AF2005 Online Edition not recognized if Win C: partition has no additional name (snx) [News message: 06. Dec. 2005, 15:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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