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Archive 09/2008

`23.Sep.2008`	a1k.org: Forum temporary offline The forum of a1k.org is temporarily offline. According to the administrator the forum had too much traffic. Therefore the provider DomainFactory has deactivated the datanbase. A move to a new server should solve this problem in future. But there is still not a final decision. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Sep. 2008, 17:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2008`	Database: MUIbase 2.6 Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Changes in version 2.6: User and admin mode with password option for entering admin mode New functions for the programming of user access control: GETADMINMODE, SETADMINMODE, ADMINPASSWORD and SHA1SUM New sample database "Users.mb" for demonstrating user access control Allow optional title headers and multi-column format for functions ASKCHOICE, ASKCHOICESTR and ASKOPTIONS Improved versions of LISTTOMEMO and MEMOTOLIST for supporting lists of lists (multi-column) New functions for programming: LISTTOSTR and STRTOLIST Option for ASKSTR and ASKMULTI to allow entering of passwords Reformatted German docs using new German spelling (Stefan Haubenthal) New file format for preferences. Settings are stored as readable text in UTF-8 Always store text in projects in UTF-8 format Several bug fixes Die MUIbase distribution includes ports for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, a version for AROS will follow soon. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Sep. 2008, 16:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2008` Rüdiger Engel (ANF)	"It's alive!" - Ars Technica reports about AmigaOS 4.1 Under the title link Jeremy Reimer reports about AmigaOS 4.1 for the English online magazine "Ars Technica". Additionally Thomas Frieden told about the future of the operating system. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Sep. 2008, 15:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Sep.2008` Sébastien Jeudy (ANF)	AmigaOS 4.1 / SAM440ep presentation at Colmar Multimedia Expo According to the Swiss trader RELEC the PPC computer SAM440ep together with AmigaOS 4.1 will be presented at the Colmar Multimedia Expo 2008. The common booth of RELEC and ACube is two times as big as planned. 10 staff members will present current Amiga solutions just like AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS as well as the Minimig. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Sep. 2008, 23:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Sep.2008` Power2PEOPLE (ANF)	AROS bounty: open source release and AROS port of Poseidon USB Press release: San Antonio, September 22, 2008 power2PEOPLE is pleased to announce its latest bounty initiative. Chris Hodges, the original author of the Poseidon USB system, has proposed to undertake the task of porting Poseidon USB to AROS and release his work under the APL (AROS Public License) transforming Poseidon USB into an open source project. For this to become a reality, it will require a total amount of donations of at least $4000. For a complete list of objectives, included files, and exclusions please visit the power2PEOPLE website. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 22. Sep. 2008, 23:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Sep.2008` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	MorphOS: Drawerball 0.3l, Gread 1.1c Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published updates of his simple file manager Drawerball as well as of his tect viewer Gread. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Sep. 2008, 16:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Sep.2008` amigaworld.net (Webseite)	AmigaSYS: Update of AGA distribution AmigaSYS is a preinstalled Workbench for the Amiga emulator WinUAE with many extensions. Additionally a file with the Kickstart-ROM as well as at least one Workbench disk of version 3.x are required. The new AGA version of AmigaSYS was completely reworked in many points. You can find a list of the features on the website of the distribution. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Sep. 2008, 16:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Sep.2008`	AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.10 Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Please note that currently AmigaOS 4.1 is required because Cairo is used. Changes since the last release: Updated to SVN revision 500 (image maps are working now). Window position and size are saved before and restored after (un)iconify. Added AmiUpdate support, starting with the next version AmiUpdate can be used to update OWB 2.x. Added an ARexx port. Portname OWB.1 (OWB.2, OWB.3, ... if you start OWB several times), commands OPENURL URL/A, STOP, GOBACK, GOFORWARD, RELOAD, GOHOME and SCREENTOFRONT. Implemented pointers for AmigaOS4, only truecolour ones are supported which requires a Radeon gfx card or using SOFTSPRITE=Yes in DEVS:Monitors/Picasso96. A pointer set from Mason is included. If you don't have a Radeon gfx and don't want to use software mouse pointers you have to delete all #?Cursor#? files in Resources. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Sep. 2008, 06:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Sep.2008`	AmigaOS 4: Emulator SimCoupe 1.2 SimCoupe is a SDL-based emulator for the SAM Coupe. The AmigaOS-port was written by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkovs. Changes in version 1.2: Resetting when paused now causes it to unpause, to avoid confusion Recompiled with SDL 1.2.11 and newlib Small speed improvements Added version TAG in the emulator executable file (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Sep. 2008, 16:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Sep.2008` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	Text viewer: EvenMore 0.65-20.9.08 The latest version of the text viewer EvenMore shows now the name of the directory in the info-window which was opened with Dir2Text. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Sep. 2008, 16:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Sep.2008` AROS-Exec (Forum)	AROS/x86: Client for the MMORPG Eternal Lands ported Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Smiechowicz has ported the client of the free MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) Eternal Lands for AROS/x86 (screenshot). AROS user mihcaels has created a project pictogram which sets the current directory path, the stack size to 200000 and starts the game. Download: el-1.7.0-v1-i386-aros.zip (48 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Sep. 2008, 10:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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