12.Oct.2009
Martin "DaFreak" Rebentisch (ANF)
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MorphOS 2.4 inclusive Mac mini-support published
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.4, the first ever public version to install on Mac mini G4 machines. In addition to the extended hardware support, existing users will benefit from various bug fixes and a few new features. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
We strongly urge owners of Mac mini G4 computers to carefully read our installation and troubleshoot guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 2.4 is available for download in our file section.
In related news, MorphOS 2.4 will be demonstrated at the upcoming Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt. Interested users will be able to pay and register MorphOS at the event. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Oct.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
The file section of the Amiga Future-Website was completed with some full versions.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Oct.2009
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Van Pong tot Playstation (17. October, Holland)
The Retro-meeting "Van Pong tot Playstation" organized by the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep will take place on 18. October. There will be several computers and consoles which can be used for playing - among others a Vectrex inclusive 3D-spectacles but computers and consoles made by Atari, Commodore, Sony (MSX) or Sega as well. Altogether there will be over 200 different game cnsoles and home computers.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Oct.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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ACube becomes distributor of arcade game BOH
ACube will distribute the arcade game BOH. The price will be 12,50 Euro (plus shipping and taxes). Current or future SAM440-owners will
get the game for 12 Euro.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Oct.2009
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: Keymap Switcher Keymap.sbar 20.5
Keymap.sbar is a plugin for the screen titlebar and allows comfortable switching between multiple keymaps without having to open MorphOS' System Preferences each time. It requires at least MorphOS 2.1 and 200 KB free hard disk space.
Features:
- Support for MorphOS and legacy (AmigaOS 3.1) keymaps
- A configurable keymap selection
- Beautiful hand-pixeled images in two sizes (automatically chosen depending on screen titlebar height) for each known MorphOS and legacy keymap
- Hotkeys for opening the quick selection menu and for cycling between activated keymaps
- Quick launching of Keystroke for character overview and selection
- Fully localized.
Changes:
Following a brief list of all changes since the first public beta release (version 20.3).
- Fixed two NULL reads which could occour if Keyboard.conf didn't existed (thanks to Nicolas Sallin for spotting)
- Defer keymap scanning; do it on demand rather than init (avoids
triggering a random bug/ race issue in certain versions of IPrefs
when Keymap.sbar is enabled at boot time already)
- Do not load config two times on init.
- Added a configurable hotkey to trigger opening of menu
- Added a configurable hotkey to cycle between active keymaps
- Localization
- Added help bubbles to preference page options
- German translation
- Installer now checks if Keymap.sbar is active already and verifies
version and revision of (a possible already installed) Keymap.sbar
- Updated documentation
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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11.Oct.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Another Skin-Website
Marcin "Korni" Kornaś now also offers an archive with MorphOS-skins which currently includes 16 skins with screenshots and download-links.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: Theme Manager 0.9
João Ralha has completed the Theme Manager for AROS written by Damir Sijakovic. Based on Matthias Rustler's programming language AmiLUA and the datatype.library, version 0.9 has now a preview function.
Download: theme.zip (30 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 10. Oct. 2009, 18:14] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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osnews.com: Test report about MorphOS 2.3 on Efika
On osnews.com Thom Holwerda has published a test report about MorphOS 2.3 on an Efika-computer.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2009
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AROS: DOSBox 0.73b
DOSBox is a SDL-based MS-DOS-Emulator which mainly is to be used for old games. Now partly a network support is emulated. Additionally now the JIT-emulation of the FPU works fine.
dosbox_0.73b-aros_x86.zip (5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2009
Stefan Haubenthal (ANF)
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MorphOS: Cross-Development Package cc65 2.13.0
The developing package cc65 which includes a Macro-Assembler as well as a C-Compiler for systems with 6502-processors is now available in the latest version for MorphOS on Aminet. The 6502 was used in many home computers such as Commodore C64, Atari 800 XL and Apple II.
Download: cc65-morphos.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Oct.2009
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MorphOS: Driver for UMAX-Scanner
After some beta versions Michal "zukow" Zukowski has now published a stable version of his MorphOS-port of the SANE-umax-driver. The Betascan-compatible driver supports several SCSI-scanners by UMAX.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Oct.2009
AROS-Exec (ANF)
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AROS: Port of 3D-driver system Gallium3D started
Gallium3D is a 3D-layer which includes drivers for 3D-graphic chips produced by Intel or Nvidia. Krzysztof "deadwood" Smiechowicz has now started the bounty for an AROS-port of Gallium3D.
The AROS-driver currently can initialize the graphic card and show a simple, colourful dice (demo video). Smiechowicz uses a GeForce 4200 Ti.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Oct.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Bounty for Apache, MySQL and PHP
Under the title link you can donate for the AmigaOS-4.1-port of the webserver Apache 2.2.x, for the database MySQL 5.1.x and for the script language PHP 5.2.x as well as for a graphical user-interface for switching on and off it.
Edgar Schwan would write the ports if the minimum charges (... Euro) will be achieved. Step one (500 Euro) is supposed to be realized based on the Unix-environment AmiCygnix. Step two (300 Euro) should realize a native port. For this a new bounty project will be started. Therefore all current donations are meant for the first step.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Oct. 2009, 06:51] [Comments: 0]
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06.Oct.2009
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Software-News until 06.10.2009
Sokoban-clone: MazezaM
MazezaM is a little puzzle similar to Sokoban. Today new versions were published for AmigaOS 3 and 4.
E-Compiler: ECX
ECX is a compiler for the Amiga-specific programming language E which requires a preinstalled Amiga-E-distribution. ECX is available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS.
CD "The Global Amiga Experience" for 1 Cent
In cooperation with Andreas Schneider the Amiga Future offers the CD The Global Experience for one Cent an (plus shipping). The Cd includes 8 full versions of commercial applications as well as about 200 demo versions.
The CD which is available in the Amiga Future-Shop an original CD. Each customer can order one of the "The Global Amiga Experience".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2009
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.10.2009
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were originally written for disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga-models are fixed.
The following installers have been added, improved or updated:
- 05.10.2009 improved: Pang (Ocean) access fault removed (Info)
- 01.10.2009 improved: Perihelion (Psygnosis) access fault fixed (Info)
- 16.09.2009 new: Gnome Ranger (Level 9) done by Psygore (Info)
- 12.09.2009 improved: No Buddies Land (Expose Software/Eternal Productions) fixed access faults in music replay code, updated installer script (Info,Image)
- 09.09.2009 improved: Zeewolf (Binary Asylum) updated installer script (Info)
- 02.09.2009 improved: Castles (Interplay) access fault fix enhanced (Info)
- 02.09.2009 improved: Apidya (Kaiko) removed smc in tfmx7v replay, updated installer script (Info)
- 25.08.2009 new: Atom Smasher (David Papworth) done by Psygore (Info)
- 25.08.2009 fixed: Might & Magic III - Isles of Terra (New World Computing) savegames hopefully finally fixed (Info)
- 13.08.2009 new: Premier Manager 3 (Gremlin) done by Psygore (Info)
- 13.08.2009 improved: Might & Magic III - Isles of Terra (New World Computing) problems with map in dungeon of fauntain head (and maybe others) fixed (Info)
- 13.08.2009 improved: 1869 (Max Design) supports another german version (Info)
- 04.08.2009 improved: Dalek Attack (Alternative) gfx sprite bugs fixed, access fault fixed, "division by zero" errors removed (Info)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Oct.2009
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Instant Messenger: AmiMSN 1.1
Michael Trebilcock's AmiMSN is an Instant-Messenger-Client for the MSN-Network written in ARexx. Version 1.1 provides some improvements as well as bug fixes.
Users of AmigaOS 4 should add the libraries rxsocket.library and rxlibnet.library to the blacklist of the JIT-emulator.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Oct. 2009, 19:52] [Comments: 0]
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04.Oct.2009
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.10
TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation is a JavaScript simulation of Amiga Workbench 3.x for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Changes in the new version 0.10:
- copying icons when dragging across drives (completely recursive and with checking for existing files, please note the different behaviour in 3.1 and 3.5)
- when moving a disk into a drawer, it's converted to a drawer
- Amiga-like message-requesters (for simple messages like «About...» or to enter the name of a new drawer, etc.
- most menu commands are now supported and these are new:
- Workbench / Redraw all (animated)
- Workbench / Update all (animated)
- Workbench / About...
- Window / New drawer (now properly with requester and all. Please note the different behaviour in 3.1 and 3.5)
- Window / Update (animated)
- Window / Clear selection (3.5 only)
- Window / Clean up (3.1., try this out in the «Test Suite»)
- Window / Clean up by / Column (3.5, try this out in the «Test Suite»)
- Window / Clean up by / Name (3.5 only, try this out in the «Test Suite»)
- Window / Clean up by / Type (3.5 only, try this out in the «Test Suite»)
- Window / Resize to fit (3.5 only)
- Window / Snapshot / Window (although not saved in the cookie yet)
- Window / Snapshot / All (although not saved in the cookie yet)
- Icons / Copy (completely recursive)
- Icons / Rename
- Icons / Snapshot (although not saved in the cookie yet)
- Icons / UnSnapshot
- Icons / Put away
- Icons / Delete
- Tools / ResetWB (it's just an animation actually, but I really like how it turned out)
- Tools / Reset TAWS prefs (to delete the cookie and reset all to my default values)
- new settings in the prefs program:
- CycleToMenu-patch
- choice of icon border: none, small, mid, large
- choice of AmigaOS 3.1 or 3.5: this has influence on the menu and the general workbench behaviour. And it also replaces the OS3.5 icon-dragging patch.
- true amiga-like animated lasso
- truer animation when opening a drawer an listing its contents
- support for the Ctrl- and Alt-Keys in OS 3.5 for selecting or deselecting icons
- no more 'drop-not-allow' mouse pointer in Internet Explorer
- I changed some default values, so TAWS now looks much nicer when visiting for the first time
- «Test Suite» to try out things like sorting, moving or copying
- some bugfixes and minor code improvements
Feedback of any kind is always welcome. (snx)
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04.Oct.2009
(ANF)
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MorphOS: The Legend of Edgar 0.32
The Legend of Edgar is a SDL-based Jump'n Run (screenshot), the MorphOS-port was written by Herbert "HAK" Klackl. In version 0.32 several minor bugs were fixed.
Direct download: edgar-0.32-morphos.lha (13 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Oct. 2009, 17:20] [Comments: 0]
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04.Oct.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Commodore-Show in Maarssen (Netherlands)
The next event of the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep will take place on 17. October in Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen. Classic computer games will be the main focus.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS-Team: PowerUp-Registrations canceled
According to Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter the support of the PowerUp-version of the operating system was canceled a longer time ago.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2009
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OpenPCI: Help for Update wanted
André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer is looking for some help from Mediator-owners in order to be able to support the PCI-busboards with updates of the openpci.library. You can get further information under the title link.
The openpci.library written by Benjamin Vernoux is a library which provides a global application programming interface for different PCI-solutions (Amithlon, G-Rex, Pegasos, Prometheus, Mediator).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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