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Open Aladdin 4D: Status Update (30. Nov. 2006)
As Nova Design has offered to provide the source code as well as the full documentation and trademarks of the 3D bundle Aladdin 4D to the public (amiga-news.de reported), Nate Downes from the Open Aladdin 4D-Initiative has announced under the ...

The C Book: Amended version now part of Cubic IDE (29. Nov. 2006)
Press release An amended version of the freely available "The C Book" (amiga-news.de reported), originally published by Addison Wesley, is now available as e-book for Amiga developers. This revision is released as part of Cubic IDE and puts a rich so...

JavaScript-Interpreter: SpiderMonkey ported (24. Nov. 2006)
Tim Johnson has published a still limited port of SpiderMonkey which is the JavaScript-interpreter of Mozilla. The program is started from the command line and requires an AmigaOS 2.04 as well as a 68020-processor with FPU. Download: SpiderMonkey-...

Programmieren: German Translation of the "Porting Guides for Newbies" (23. Nov. 2006)
Michael Asse has translated the "Porting-Guide für Dummies 1.1" (Porting Guide for Newbies) (amiga-news.de reported) into German, that persons without skills in the German language would be able to make ports for small tools. The author appreciates the...

MorphOS: Subfont 1.0 (17. Nov. 2006)
Maxim Ilyins Subfont for MorphOS helps edge smoothing for fonts which are used by the video player MPlayer. The font.desc-file can be created for each code. According to the author Subfont should work with TrueTyp and Type1 as well as each other font t...

Heise: SciTechs SNAP-graphic driver canceled (17. Nov. 2006)
According to Heise Online SciTech will stop the development of its SNAP-graphic driver. It is also known in the Amiga world because of a licence agreement for integrating it to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). ...

Dragon 1200: Further Informations published (16. Nov. 2006)
The organizers of the exhibition AmiZaduszki 2006 (amiga-news.de reported) have prepared informations, confirmed by Elbox, about the Coldfire board Dragon 1200 at the pages of the Polish Amiga-portal PPA. An English translation of the Polish an...

AmigaOS 4: Strategy games Globulations 2 and Battle for Wesnoth 1.11.12 (15. Nov. 2006)
Globulations 2 Globulations 2 is a real time strategy game (screen shot), in which the player is supported by autonomously acting units. Link: download page Battle for Wesnoth 1.11.12 Battle for Wesnoth is a round based fantasy strategical...

MorphOS: Make Human ported (08. Nov. 2006)
Guillaume Roguez has ported Make Human for MorphOS. Mit Make Human is a modeller for human body models with export to raytracers like e.g. Blender. Please note however, that after the main window initialization two or three minutes may pass by until...

PPC hardware: English website for SAM440, project history (08. Nov. 2006)
The website of the announced PPC motherboards SAM440 (amiga-news.de reported) is available in English now. Also the Polish Amiga portal exec.pl provides an English translation of an Italian text which had been released at the Pianate Amiga and briefly...

Newsletter: Amiga Update #061031 (01. Nov. 2006)
In the very last edition of his e-mail newsletter, editor Brad Webb summarizes the most important news of the recent 4 weeks one more time: ====================================================================== _______...

Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 0.9.1 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS) (30. Oct. 2006)
scummvm is a so called "Virtual Machine". With its help it is possible to play several classic Point'n-Click-Adventures on modern hardware. These are the most important changes in the newest version: Many fixes for Humongous Entertainment games and bet...

DiscreetFX would like to buy Amiga Inc. (22. Oct. 2006)
DiscreetFX, a USA company for visual special effects, discloses, under the title link on its web page, that reportedly, it has sent a formal proposal to Amiga Inc. to determine the value of the company, since it wants to take over the company next year - ...

Event: Photos from the Dutch Retro Game and Computer Show (22. Oct. 2006)
Under the title link, the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep has published photos of their Retro Game and Computer Show of yesterday. According to the organizers' statements, in addition to a video game web page, various newspapers as well as a local TV and ...

Remote Desktop Client: Status update (13. Oct. 2006)
Darren Eveland tells us that authors of the Amiga port of Remote Desktop Client will soon start working on Windows Vista compatability. The current version of the program will be demonstrated at AmiWest (October 21, USA). Update (15.10.06, 2:30, cg) ...

WHDLoad: New packages until 10-10-2006 (11. Oct. 2006)
With WHDLoad game and scene demos, which were designed for floppy use, are installable to the hard disk. Additionally many incompatibilities with the newer Amiga models are fixed. The following installers were added or updated since our last report: ...

MorphOS: Platform game SDLjump 1.0 (10. Oct. 2006)
Herbert "HAK" Klackl has ported the platform game SDLjump (screenshot) to MorphOS. ...

Temple of Technology: interview with Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.) (07. Oct. 2006)
Under the title link did Vidar Langberget interview Bill McEwen who's the manager of Amiga Incorporated (AI) for his website "Temple of Technology". Hierin teilt dieser unter anderem mit, dass dem Team für das Betriebssystem "OS5" - dessen Name sich noc...

Newsletter: Amiga Update #060930 (01. Oct. 2006)
Brad Webb's newsletter "Amiga Update" contains a summary of the more important Amiga related news of the last four weeks. The December issue has now been released: ====================================================================== ...

MorphOS: Jump'n Run MoleInvasion 0.3 (27. Sep. 2006)
Herbert "HAK" Klackl has ported the SDL based Jump'nRun MoleInvasion to MorphOS (screen shot)....