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Archive 01/2014

`09.Jan.2014` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	MorphOS: APng-Player 1.0 plays PNG-animations Carsten SIegner's APng-Player plays animated PNG-files which have to be available in APNG-format. APng_1.0.lha ( KB) (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Jan. 2014, 22:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jan.2014`	Preview-Video: Multiplayer Coop-Shooter "Chaos Guns" The name "Chaos Guns" is a mixture of the both examples "Chaos Engine" and "Hired Guns" but was also inspired by Alien Breed. In "Chaos Guns" you can control your character with single button joystick. On the website of the game you can find background information as well as character introductions. There are also a preview video (Youtube, two months old) as well as a detailed explanation of controlling Chaos Guns. A first demo version of Chaos Guns will be released soon. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Jan. 2014, 15:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jan.2014` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 106 The German and English issue 106 (January/February 2014) of the magazine Amiga Future is available. Among others, this issue is about WordMeUp, AmigaOS 4.1 SDK as well as the "Amiga Meeting". (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Jan. 2014, 13:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jan.2014`	A-EON Technology: Pictures and further information on Amiga soundcard On its Facebook site, A-EON Technology has published a picture under the title link which shows the prototype (revision 2.0) of the soundcard Prisma which was announced on the AmiWest. Furthermore the company informs that the digital sound output via S/PDIF was successfully tested and beta version 2.0 of the driver is MHI-compatible. Thus the soundcard can play AmigaAMP MP3-files with rewinding and fast-forwarding. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Jan. 2014, 09:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jan.2014` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	MorphOS: wifi.sbar 1.0 Carsten Siegner's wifi.sbar is a screenbar extension for Ambient which shows the power of a W-LAN-signal. According to the author it is an experimental version. He also points out that the Internet connection may be slowed down by checking the signal power. Download: wifi_sbar_1.0.lha (18 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Jan. 2014, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jan.2014` Amigaworld.net (Webseite)	Event: AmiGBG 2014 in Gothenburg After almost ten years - the last AmiGBG took place in 2005 - this Swedish Amiga event will be organized again in association with team of Retrospelsmässan on May 3rd, in Gothenburg, Sweden. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Jan. 2014, 19:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jan.2014` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player 1.07 Now version 1.07 of the Hollywood-based multimdeia player V.A.M.P. (Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player) is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and WarpOS as well as for Windows: With the help of the cursor-keys the frames per seconds of a video can be changed. Additionally, a bug was fixed which happened when the elapsed time was calculated. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Jan. 2014, 19:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jan.2014` a1k.org (Webseite)	Text editor with Kickstart 1.2-compatibility: Redit 1.6 (update) Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2 and also is compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also used from an ermergency disk or without a startup-sequence after rebooting. Changes since version 1.2: bugfix: 1.4 broke project close. fixed added: documents with unsaved work are now marked with an asterisk in front of their names changed: increased size of line/column field in status bar bugfix: sometimes console.device was closed while main window was still active. fixed bugfix: sometimes nonstatic menu items' names pointed to volatile strings. fixed changed: new documents can now be created by CLI interface added: tabsize now configurable by tooltype added: colors now configurable by tooltype added: status bar to display cursor line and column added: switching between documents by hotkey Update: Meanwhile version 1.6 was released fixing a bug which could happen if the process "save as" was canceled. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Jan. 2014, 19:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jan.2014`	Action-/Strategy Game: The Ancient Art Of War In The Skies for download In 1993, Microprose released The Ancient Art of War in the Skies as a mix of action and strategy elements. Now the game can be downloaded for free from amigafuture.de. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Jan. 2014, 19:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jan.2014` Amiga.org (Webseite)	RayStorm now open source André Siegel writes: The MUI-based 3D rendering package RayStorm has been made open source by its original authors. You can download the source code at the title link. For information about the software (including screenshots), please visit its cached homepage. You can find the 680x0 and PowerPC versions of the application on Aminet. RayStorm consists of a scene modelling tool and the actual rendering engine. Scenario Modeller: Lets you visually create scenes in Top/Front/Right/Perspective and splitted view Create spheres, planes, boxes, lightsources and cameras Mesh objects: plane, sphere, box, torus, cone, tube Unlimited number of cameras to view scene from different directions Define surfaces for all objects, including brushes and textures Load external objects (Imagine TDDD files, AutoDesk 3DS files and RAW files) Save and load scenes (RayStorm Object file RSOB) Render scenes with RayStorm Preview of renderd scenes Preview in material requester Create visible lights and lens flares Undo/Redo RayStorm Renderer: Octree algorithm used for rendering Color, reflectivity, filter, altitude and specular mapping Flat, cylinder and sphere mapping Soft brush mapping Mathematical textures: wood, marble, radial, bumps, checker, linear, stars Tranparency and physically correct refractions 8 levels of antialiasing (adaptive supersampling) Rendering box Three builtin object types: sphere, plane and triangle Three light types: ambient, point and spot Depth of field with adjustable focal distance and aperture Depth of field Soft shadows Backdrop picture Global fog and foggy objects Material attributes for realictic objects: ambient color, diffuse color, specular color, pecular reflection exponent, diffuse transmission color, specular transmission color, specular transmission exponent, specular transmittance, transparent color, reflective color, index of refraction, foglength Bright objects Motion blur for realistic animations Motion blur Quick rendering Global reflection map Supported image formats: TGA, IFF-ILBM, PNG, (JPEG since v2.0) Visible lights and lens flares (snx) [News message: 07. Jan. 2014, 01:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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