07.Sep.2013
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Amiga-News celebrates 15th anniversary
In late summer of 1998 Petra Struck began to publish news about the Amiga on here private website. The oldest news message is from August 13th - the regular news then started to be published in September.
Right from the beginning a whole team was involved in editing the news: From August 1998 Christoph Dietz has been responsible for the technical issues, the first translator joined the team in February 1999. The member who has been for the longest time part of the team and still active, is Sven Drieling, who in June 1999 started as an editor and for several years has developed the software of Amiga-News as programmer.
There was a time, the access figures of the website could compete with those of other platforms, a seperate server could be financed by the adverts of different Amiga traders placed on the start page. More than 20 persons joined the team - among others a cartoonist, a reader as well as a lot of translators: For a while Amiga-News was available not only in German and English, but also in French, Polish, Japanese or Turkish and Flemish.
10 years ago we all hoped that the Amiga market would recover but it has not - for fifteen years Amiga-News has documented the transformation of an actual market - with companies and its press releases, proper fairs, commercial product as well as differnt developers - to a hobby, which basically is kept alive by fans who support the platform in the spare time.
This transformation also affected Amiga-News: The team now consists of seven persons and for a very long time the maintenance of the website is underfunded. If you want to support us then you are very welcome to make a little donation which is linked on the start page of the website. At the best of times, more than 300 news have been reported per month. Today averagely 70 news per month are published.
But we all still enjoy the Amiga and we are a happy to continue to provide you with the latest news. Therefore we want to thank all our loyal readers so much and wish you a happy reading with Amiga-News during the next fifteen years. ;-)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2013
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Programming competition for best Qt-ports finished
At the beginning of July, Alfkil Wennermark called for a competition: The programmer who developed or ported the most Qt-applications until 30th August will get an award of him.
Today Wennermark has published the winners:
- zzd10h - Award: a completely equipped Minmig
- spotUP - Competition Pro USB and a "special award"
- Chris Young - Competition Pro USB
- cha05e90 - AmigaOne coffee mug
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2013
a1k.org (Forum)
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Elbox: Announcement of a PCI-board for the Amiga 3000D
According to a post at the a1k.org forum under the title, Elbox has started developing a desktop version of a PCI-extension for the Amiga 3000. Compared with the version for the Amiga 4000, the Mediator-A3000Di-busboard has three PCI-slots instead of four.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2013
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MorphOS-Team: 2000 Registrations, hardware statistics
Press release: In order to celebrate the 2000th MorphOS registration, we'd like to thank our users for their support since the introduction of the MorphOS 2.0 in 2008. Since MorphOS 2.4, we've been expanding our hardware base to a variety of Apple PowerPC computers, including their excellent portables. The adoption rate of the Mac mini quickly surpassed the bPlan machines, and the Mini still remains the most popular MorphOS platform.
- 37% - Mac Mini
- 25% - Pegasos 2
- 12% - Powerbooks
- 9% - PowerMac G4
- 8% - Efika
- 4% - Pegasos 1
- 3% - PowerMac G5
- 2% - Others
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2013
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Sales figures: Entwickler-X satisfied with M.A.C.E. sales
During a discussion on os4welt.de, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus of Entwickler-X has revealed some sales numbers for the recently released shooter M.A.C.E.: About 50 people purchased the download version which is available from the developers - this is about the same amount of sales they had with earlier projects.
Additionally M.A.C.E. was the first Entwickler-X release distributed on CD, about 130 copies at 10 Euros each were sold to various dealers. Claus can't say how many of these copies have already been sold on to end users, but he mentions "positive feedback from dealers". He describes the sales numbers as "pretty good, considering the size of the Amiga scene". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Initiative: Restart of OpenAmiga project
Under the title link the OpenAmiga initiative was relaunched. "The OpenAmiga standard is intended to minimize the programming effort needed to port between the four current Amiga platforms, Amiga OS 3.x, AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 104
Today the Enghlish and German issue 104 (September/October 2013) of the magazine Amiga Future has been released and can be ordered from the editorial staff or in Amiga shops. The topics of the this latest issue as well as reading extracts can be found at the website of the magazine.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2013
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Sega-Emulator GenesisPlus 1.5
GenesisPlus is an emulator of the Sega game console MegaDrive (Genesis). Version 1.5 provides a completely new emulation engine and now can also emulates SegaCD, MasterSystem and GameGear:
- Major update complete overhaul of emulation core to
new based on the latest GenesisPlus Wii version
- Sega CD, MasterSystem and GameGear emulation
- Better window size handling
- Seperate rom dirs for each supported console
- New input configuration panel
- XBox 360 gamepad support via sensors.library
- New save state manager panel
- Many other bug fixes and improvements
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2013
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100-Mbit network interface card: X-Surf 100 available
Three months ago, Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) announced a 100-Mbit network interface card which now is available.
For about 130 Euro it provides the following features:
- 100 Mbit physical connection
- 32-bit Zorro-III-interface for maximum performance
- Sana-II-Device for Amiga OS 2.0 up to Amiga OS 3.9
- Linux-driver in progress
- power-saving 3,3V-technology with 1,8V core voltage
- space-saving design
- gold-plated Zorro contact strip and stainless stell faceplate
- Extension interface for (still not available) USB-modul
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: Star Trek Voyager - Elite Force
After the version for MorphOS, Szilárd 'Bszili' Biró has ported Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force which is based on the Quake-3-engine to AROS/x86. So far the so called efport project only supports the "Holomatch" multiplayer mode. The original files of the game are required.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Distribution AROS Vision 2.0
Olaf Schönweiß has released version 2.0 of his AROS/68k-distribution AROS Vision which now is based on Directory Opus Magellan II (screenshot). The following features are included:
- Directory Opus Magellan II (SAS-Version)
- ARexx (Regina)
- Snapshoter
- OWB (AROS-Version), Netsurf and AWeb
- Updated system files
- Hotkeys (description on the download site)
- Filetypes for the most important picture and sound formats incl. AVI
- Packer-support
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: AEROS-Betaversion 4 for Raspberry Pi
For registered users and purchasers via eBay the fourth beta version on Pascal Papara's Debian-Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS for the Raspberry Pi is available. "The difference to the "supporter" version is that you can't launch Linux apps from inside AROS." But beta version 3 inclusive lx now is avaialble for all.
Beta version 4 now is based on the stable ARMhf-ABI written by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz. It is now possible to compile programs which should also work with future versions. A cross-compiler for the i586-architecture is included as well as other software, demos, games, screenrecorder and Wazp3D.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2013
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TCP-Stack: AmigaKit sells AmiTCP 4
Accordung to a press release, the British trader Amigakit will sell the full version of the TCP-stack AmiTCP 4. AmiTCP was the first common TCP-stack under AmigaOS. Later version 4.0 was part of the "Netconnect"-bundle and together with the graphical user-interface "Genesis" is under AmigaOS 3.9 handles the network connection.
AmigaKit will sell AmiTCP 4 together with its graphical user-interface EasyNet as "EasyNet Professional Edition".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2013
Jens 'bruzard' Henschel (ANF)
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AmiBlitz³: New website and forum
Jens Henschel wrote: "Because amiforce.de cannot be accessed for several months and the maintainer does not response, some weeks ago I have reserved the domain amiblitz.de and now have copied the official site.
Still a forum is missing, therefore I have established a Bulletin Board and linked it on the official site. The temporary forum can be accessed under www.amiblitz.de/community. I hope to be aböe to transfer new entries to the original forum as soon as it is online again.
Unfortunately the forum cannot be accessed with classic Amiga browsers. But if there will be sufficient interest I will provide such a theme.
Additional to the website and the forum I have linked the Blitzbasic2 tutorial in the new formats PDF and HTML." (snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2013
David Brunet (ANF)
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100th issue of Obligement magazine
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- July/August 2013 news
- Old articles from Amiga News 23 to 36
- Report: AmiExpo 1991 Berlin
- Review of Excellence! 2.0
- Review of Scala
- File: Amiga mouses
- Review: Bars & Pipes Professional
- Report: CeBIT 1991
- Hardware: A2088XT
- Interview with Trevor Dickinson (manager of A-Eon Technology)
- Interview with David Taddei
- Hardware: Mediator PCI 1200 TX
- Review of NetSpeedometer et NetDock
- Review of Silly Putty
- Review of Amiga Revisited 2011
- Review of Tracker Hero
- Review of Lure Of The Temptress
- File: Roger Dean and his Psygnosis productions
- Tutorial: How to draw watermarks with Art Effect 4
- Tutorial: Network share with SMBFS under MorphOS
- Misc: Book "101 Jeux Amiga"
- Special quiz about The Settlers
Articles in english:
- Interview with Trevor Dickinson (manager of A-Eon Technology)
By this, David Brunet has issued the 50th online issue and the 100th in total of Obligement, which has been available in different forms since its
birth:
- 6 issues in paper (1997)
- 7 issues in Scala (1998-1999)
- 7 issues in Blitz Basic AGA (1999-2000)
- 2 issues in AmigaGuide (2000)
- 14 issues in Blitz Basic RTG (2000-2002)
- 14 issues in HTML (2003-2005)
- 50 issues online (2005-2013)
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01.Sep.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vlink 0.14b
Yesterday Frank Wille has released version 0.14b of vlink. A list of changes you can find under the title link. vlink is a portable linker which can handle many binary formats and which is part of the compiler package vbcc.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until August 31st, 2013:
atheros5000.lha driver/net 265K OS4 Driver for 54Mbps wireless ne...
prism2v2.lha driver/net 308K OS4 Driver for 11Mbps wireless ne...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 6.0M 68k Tunnels & Trolls implemen...
AmiQuake2.lha game/shoot 2.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
AssaultCubeReloaded25... game/shoot 59M x86 First-person shooter
Aye_Q.lha game/wb 34K 68k My version of a peg game...
Blokop.lha game/wb 33K 68k Move a coloured box to the exit!
Eclairium.lha game/wb 35K 68k Play with lightning!
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.6M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
stellarium.lha misc/sci 45M OS4 Planetarium
qpdfview.lha text/show 11M OS4 Tabbed PDF/DjVu document viewer
romboot44_3.lha util/boot 18K 68k romboot replacement for 68k h...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 17K OS4 Decompiles catalogs back into...
zoomit.lha util/misc 152K MOS A MUI-based magnify/zoom appl...
zoomit.pobj.lha util/misc 33K MOS A magnify/zoom panel object f...
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01.Sep.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until August 31st, 2013:
atheros5000.lha dri/net 265kb 4.0 Driver for 54Mbps wireless netwo...
prism2.lha dri/net 308kb 4.0 Driver for 11Mbps wireless netwo...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
whdload-to-uae.lha emu/uti 212kb 4.0 WHDLoad to E-UAE
melite.lha gam/mis 543kb 4.1 A remake of the classic Amiga ga...
sketchblock.lha gra/edi 9Mb 4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
ab_power10.lha gra/ico 3Mb 4.0 Icons in png format
qt-drawer.lha gra/ico 5Mb 4.0 Icons for Qt4.7
blender.lha gra/ray 46Mb 4.1 The free open source 3D content ...
mihphoto.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.1 Touch-friendly image viewer.
qpdfview.lha gra/vie 11Mb 4.1 Tabbed PDF/DjVu document viewer
netup.lha net/mis 1Mb 4.1 App for testing roadshows connec...
cutereport.lha off/dat 11Mb 4.1 Report designer and solutiontabl...
stellarium.lha uti/sci 45Mb 4.1 An open source planetarium (Qt)
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 36kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
ascii_design.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.0 Qt : ascii-art program based on ...
jack.lha uti/wor 14Mb 4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
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01.Sep.2013
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until August 31st, 2013:
wakkabox.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 252kb Difficult Klotski sliding block ...
metadiary.i386-aros.zip off/mis 206kb Color-coded activity log.
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01.Sep.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until August 31st, 2013:
ZoomIt 1.3 uti/des 83 A screen magnifying glass t...
ZoomIt.pobj 1.0 uti/des 33 Screen zoom as an Ambient p...
distributed.net client 2.9111. uti/sci 715 An official client for dist...
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01.Sep.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 31.08.2013
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until August 31th, 2013:
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