16.May.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.13
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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15.May.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.48
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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15.May.2009
ExoticA (ANF)
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ExoticA: Music tracks now available as Ogg Vorbis
The demo scene website ExoticA now offers most of the music tracks in Ogg-Vorbis-format. The .ogg-versions are created only "on-the-fly". The ExoticA website includes the Amiga-Mod-collection as well as large archives with music tracks from earlier Atari and C64-scene.
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15.May.2009
Colani1200 (ANF)
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Poseidon USB Bounty: Donation doubling action
Krzysztof "Deadwood" Smiechowicz requested in different English forums for donations for the Poseidon-Bounty. He offers to double all donations which will be paid during the next three weeks to gain the aim of 4000 USD.
Smiechowicz pointed out that the port of Poseidon will not only be useful for AROS but by releasing the sources for all Amiga systems. You can donate at power2people.org.
So far Smiechowicz was known as developer, e.g. he made the AROS-ports of MPlayer and Eternal Lands.
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14.May.2009
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WHDLoad: New packages until 14.05.2009
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were originally meant only for use with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, improved or updated since our last message:
- 11.05.2009 improved: X-It (Psygnosis) slave rewritten (sounds prob fixed), load/save hiscores (Info)
- 11.05.2009 improved: Legend Of Faerghail (reLINE) install script fixed, another version supported (Info)
- 09.05.2009 improved: Sabre Team (Krisalis) installs AGA version properly (Info)
- 07.05.2009 improved: Virocop (Graftgold) reassembled with latest kickemu, lowlevel library emulation used (Info,Image)
- 06.05.2009 improved: Fire & Ice (Graftgold) music fixed, caches re-enabled, source code cleanup & working with latest kickcd32 (Info,Image)
- 03.05.2009 new: MegaBlast (L.K. Avalon) done by Psygore (Info)
- 01.05.2009 improved: 7 Colors (Infogrames) no more problem with whdload16.9, some stuff patched correctly, new icon and install script (Info)
- 30.04.2009 improved: Shanghai (Activision) supports french version, manual and icon added, new install script (Info)
- 29.04.2009 improved: Future Wars / Les Voyageurs Du Temps (Delphine Software) finally adapted a protection which works everytime (Info)
- 29.04.2009 new: Super Skweek (Loriciel) done by Psygore (Info)
- 29.04.2009 improved: Monty Pythons Flying Circus (Core Design/Virgin) NTSC version support added (Info)
- 29.04.2009 updated: New Zealand Story (Taito/Ocean) rewritten, highscores as separate file, trainer improved, two button support, more ingame improvements, new icons (Info)
- 29.04.2009 improved: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) french version supported, less memory used, new install script (Info)
- 26.04.2009 improved: Sabre Team (Krisalis) supports also AGA version, savegame handling improved (Info)
- 23.04.2009 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) install script fixed (Info,Image)
- 23.04.2009 improved: Castles 2: Siege and Conquest (Interplay) load the design of the castles is possible (Info)
- 30.03.2009 new: Dragon Tiles (S.J.Smith) done by Psygore (Info)
- 29.03.2009 new: Star Command (SSI) done by Psygore (Info)
- 26.03.2009 new: Discovery: In the steps of Columbus (Impressions) done by Psygore (Info)
- 22.03.2009 improved: Dragon Wars (Interplay) english version supported, german version fixed, manuals included (Info)
- 19.03.2009 improved: Kick Off 2: The Final Whistle (Anco) support for tactics disks added, supports another version, fixed possible "game freezes upon quit" problem (Info)
- 18.03.2009 improved: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) supports separate tactics disks and WC'90 version, game freezes fixed (Info)
- 16.03.2009 new: Penthouse Hot Numbers Deluxe (Magic Bytes) done by Psygore (Info)
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13.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Issue 49 online
The articles of issue 49 of the print magazine Amiga Future are now online.
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13.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.79
NoWinED is a MUI-based text editor for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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11.May.2009
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Youtube-Downloader: getVideo 0.16
With Jürgen Lucas' ARexx-script getVideo you can save video clips of different sites - e.g. Youtube - on your harddrive or play them with a player. Changes in version 0.16:
- add 3GP filetype for youtube
- extended support for ardmediathek
- fixed support for the following sites
- cttv
- myvideo
- current.tv
- dailymotion
- fitforfun
- google
- metacafe
- youtube
- dailymotion filetype preselection in getvideo.cfg is no more
available
- google filetype "mp4" removed
- removed support for sevenload
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.May.2009
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 3.0.0
Christian Rosentreter has published an update of the filesharing program MLDonkey. Changes sine the last MorphOS-version:
- 6754: Fix local file access bug in internal http server
- this is an urgent security related bug-fix and effects
all MLDonkey versions >= 2.8.4
- 6752: Optimized implementation of the ip_set module (cbah)
- 6736: Add/fix some copyright texts
- 6727: Web_infos: Replace old GeoIP URL with new one
- old code added the new URL, even if GeoIP was not present in web_infos
- 6714: BT: Fix bug when computing limits for max_bt_uploaders
- 6713: GeoIP: New web_infos URL for country list (thx to Choby)
- old URLs are updated to:
http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
- 6689: Allow compilation with Ocaml 3.11.0
- 6629: Mail: Move hostname from subject to body (eydaimon)
- Updated Mozilla protocol handler to version 2.5
- original source from http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~dyna/mldonkey
- 6628: IP discover: Use http://whatismyip.org, old URL is not working anymore
- 6599: Allow values lower than max_upload_slots for BT-max_bt_uploaders
- 6593: CryptoPP performance fix for ARM (Marc Pignat)
- 6592: HTML: Fix invalid html respond when login is invalid
- 6571: Runinfo: Include DirectConnect in list of enabled nets
- 6558: Fix text relocation warnings on hardened distributions (Davide Pesavento)
- 6557: BT: Send correct downloaded value when download is stopped to tracker (Fox Mulder)
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10.May.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Jerome Senay (Boing Attitude)
In the third issue (PDF-file, 4 MB) of their magazine the BlitterWolf-team has interviewed Jérôme 'glames' Senay, who is the founder of the Boing Attitude.
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10.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Dutch computer magazine HCC reported about AmigaOS 4.1
HCC!nieuwsscan which is a Dutch computer magazine with 155.000 subscribers has written about AmigaOS 4.1 in an article (PDF-file, 683 KB) and its heading requests if it is an alternative to Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.
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10.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga events in France and Switzerland
Under the title link there are some detailes to forthcoming Amiga events in France and in Lausanne (Switzerland).
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[News message: 10. May. 2009, 18:41] [Comments: 0]
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09.May.2009
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Software collection "MorphOS-Upgrade" 1.3.4
The archive "MorphOS-Upgrade" includes a collection of preinstalled applications which are supposed to complete the basic installation of MorphOS 2.x.
Changes:
- Suppression of MUI4beta of the 17-04-09 (to avoid writing in the MorphOS repertory)
- Addition of the repertory local in the file
- Addition of 3 plugins for AmIRC (Charset, Tabs, and Typo)
- Addition of the MOS_LiveUpgrade software by Daniel Westerberg (OnyxSoft) in the Wbstartup repertory
- Addition of the repertory Wallpapers in the Prefs repertory, container of the funds of screens including 2 produced by Mr. Dehbi
- Addition of the skin ANRG3PP-rect for AminetRadio proposed by Mr. Dehbi
- Update of SabreMSN which becomes version 0.1 alpha 45 by Jahc
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08.May.2009
HelmutH (ANF)
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ACube Systems: Hollywood-Bundle for new and old Sam-customers
Press release:
Bassano del Grappa, 08. Mai 2009
ACube Systems is pleased to team up with Airsoft Softwair to create the exclusive "Sam goes to Hollywood" bundle for our customers.
The Sam range of motherboards and Hollywood put AmigaOS 4.1 back to the highest levels of multimedia experience.
"Sam goes to Hollywood" special bundle allows the customers of a Sam or Sam Flex board to have Hollywood 4 at the exceptional price of only 59,00 EUR (normal price 79 EUR) or Hollywood 4 + Designer 2.1 for 99,00 EUR (normal price 139 EUR).
The bundle will be available for current owners of a Sam board and with the purchase of a new Sam440ep or Sam440 Flex board, please note that only AmigaOS 4 binaries are on the Hollywood CD but it is possible to create projects for all supported platforms. This bundle will be available until 1st october 2009. Customers who already bought a Sam board should contact ACube Systems with their Sam serial number.
For more info about Hollywood 4 and other Airsoft Softwair products please visit: airsoftsoftwair.com.
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07.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: 19 further Full Versions online
The download area of the Amiga Future homepage has been updated again. There are 19 further full versions online. New downloads are highlighted in the download database. Additionally there is an overview of new downloads at the lower border of the download page.
Furthermore there have been updates to the descriptions and screenshots of some downloads. (snx)
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06.May.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Minimig: Firmware-Update YQ090421
Jakub 'Yaqube' Bednarski has published a Firmware update for Dennis van Weeren's Amiga clone Minimig.
The changes are listed under the title link.
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06.May.2009
Hacker News (ANF)
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History: 25 Microchips that shook the world
Under the titel link IEEE Spectrum looked back at 25 important Microchips, e.g. the 6502 (MOS Technology, 1975), Z80 (Zilog, 1976) and Crusoe (Transmeta, 2000) as well as Motorolas MC68000 produced in 1979.
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06.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Game: BOH-Update
The commercial game BOH (amiga-news.de reported) was updated and is now available for Mac OS X as well.
Changes:
- Makes the game run natively on MacOS X Tiger/Leopard machines
- Adds zooming to full screen modes
- Allows the choice of the screen mode among those notified by the system
- Replaces zooming routines with more optimized ones (especially 3x and 4x)
- Adds the possibility of disabling interpolation (for slow computers)
- Adds the possibility of disabling the rendering of barriers
- Improves a bit the original themes
- Enriches slightly the Evil Masters AI
- Adds timer ticking during time-limited missions
- Adds map zooming
- Adds the option of sorting missions by difficulty
- Allows the use of joypads/joysticks with just 1 button
- Fixes the following bugs:
- Bad joypad handling (detection was inhibited by a '2' in place of a '1'; sometimes up/down movement could stick)
- [PAGE UP/DOWN] handling (repeat delay handling was missing)
- A bad optimization of ray-tracing routine (which had no practical effects thanks to the way maps and themes were made)
- Improves and extends the user's manual
- Links the AmigaOS 4 version to libSDL 1.2.13
- Applies some other minor changes
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06.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Porting Guide for Dummies 2.4
Spot's Porting Guide for Dummies is an English porting guide of multiplatform programs for AmigaOS 4 and is now available in version 2.4. Under the title link the changes are listed.
Download: spots-pfd.lha (62 KB)
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04.May.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: Delivery of A603 started
Since last week Individual Computers has started delivering the A603 which is a memory extension for the Amiga 600 with one Megabyte of additional Chip-Ram, a realtime clock, a clock port for connecting A1200-extensions as well as a socket for the scandoubler Indivision ECS.
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04.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 78
Press release: The Amiga Future Issue 78 (May/June 2009) is out now.
This means that all orders, subscriptions and dealer supplies have been brought to the postal office today.
Again you'll find many reviews in this issue like AmigaOS 4 on SAMflex, Protext, OWB, Hollywood 4 and much more. But we have workshops like Ghostscript in this issue as well.
On the cover CD you will find lots of PD software and the full versions of Foundation, Protext, Prodata, Adventure System and more. A more detailed description of content and excerpts of the issue 78 can be found in the Amiga Future Article Database.
The Amiga Future is available as a single issue and subscription directly at the editorial office and some Amiga dealers like AmigaKit, Alinea, GGD-Data, Samuli, Vesalia and Voxel. If you are a dealer and interested in offering the Amiga Future to your customers then please drop us an email.
The english issue 77 sold off. Other old issues are available in our onlineshop.
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