01.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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DupFinder MUI 2.0
Ilkka Lehtoranta has published an optimized update of Kjell Irgens' DupFinder. It is a programm which can recognize double files that have different names.
Download: DupFinderMUI.lha (55 KB)
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01.Nov.2008
Amiga Impact (website)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Driver and MUI software for Sweex 100K USB webcams
Mathias 'Corto' Parnaudeau, also known for Pointrider and the latest Songplayer versions, has written a new USB webcam driver for AmigaOS 4 (Sirion) and MorphOS (Poseidon). It displays the images using SDL or MUI and has been tested on Linux too (SDL frontend only).
The driver has been developed and tested with the webcam Sweex 100K, which is based on the sn9c10x chipset [VendorID = 0x0c45, ProductID = 0x6005 (tas5110c1b) bzw. 0x6009 (pas106b)].
Limitations:
- Images are saved to ram:sonix_capture.jpg only
- Sources need to be cleaned up but will be provided in the next version
- Components (red, green, blue) cannot be changed (no effect)
Download: sonix.lha (151 KB) (snx)
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31.Oct.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 33
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). Changes in this version:
- I didnt align my file info block structure properly, and it was reporting an incorrect filesize value for file transfers under OS3
- "Error: Incorrect Login or Password" is reported now for incorrect login details
- Groupchats seemed broken. I attempted to fix it again
- I've tinkered with the code for adding contacts
- Every MSN account you use with Sabre will now store an individual "renamed contacts" file (locally).
- "user says:" and "user is typing.." messages now use the local "renamed
contacts" names, so they match the name in the contacts list.
- Tinkered with file sending code slightly. It uses 127 byte packets now
to avoid problems with Sabre to Sabre file transfers. But sometimes sending
to Windows clients fails, reporting: "The file transfer was unsuccessful
because your computer is out of disk space. Try deleting some files, and
then ask the sender to try the transfer again."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Oct.2008
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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E3B: Next edition of the USB2-controller Deneb
Press release: E3B is glad to announce another edition of the fastest USB2-controller for the Amiga Classic, called Deneb.
Because of the high demand of the first edition it was sold out very soon. The new edition is currently sent to all official traders.
The Deneb will be delivered with the new version 4.2 of the well-known USB-stack Poseidon written by Chris Hodges in FlashROM and is fully OEM-licenced. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2008
amiga.org (Website)
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Elbox: Driver update MM CD UP 1.31
Press release: The MM CD 1.31 update for users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 TX, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200LT4, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI 1200LT and Mediator PCI ZIV busboards, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has been released today.
The Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.31 includes gfx drivers for the Radeon 9200 series cards for all Mediator models:
To locate the Radeon card suitable for your Mediator model, contact the ELBOX Support Department.
The update includes new versions of:
- Voodoo.card ver.4.28
- fm801.audio ver.4.12
- sb128.audio ver.4.18
- FastEthernet.device ver.1.22
- tv.library ver.4.9
The developer documentations for tv.library and mixer.library are enclosed with the MM CD 1.31.
Info on the current versions is available in the Downloads | Mediator section. The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the Mediator Driver Guide. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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28.Oct.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 1.5.3
As usual the developers of the well-known emulator WinUAE has given a preview of the next version. WinUAE 1.5.3 will be published in two weeks and includes several bug fixes as well as minor improvements of the emulation of the Custom Chips.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.Oct.2008
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Report and pictures of the Colmar Multimedia-Expo
Last weekend the Colmar Multimedia-Expo took place and Philippe Bourdin reports for Amiga-News.de and a gallery of the event can be found on his private website.
As a special highlight the Relec-team comprised of Emmanuel Rey and Sébastien Jeudy presented a kiosk system from KiOSKLiNEA / PASCOAL design at their booth. The system consists of industrial components like a vandalism-proof keyboard internals based on a SAM440ep. Additionally an infra-red touch screen was used, which was able to read the position of the finger (converted to the screen size) with a resolution of 32000x32000 pixels. The touch screen is available as a standard component with USB-connector and Windows-driver and will be physically mounted on top of a normal LCD display panel as an overlay device. AmigaOS 4.1 was installed in order to demonstrate the kiosk system.
Simon "Rigo" Archer created an OS4-driver for this touch screen in three days, without having access to the Windows-sources or the hardware documentation. Nonetheless, the driver has a very high resolution and is able work even with very fast movements, which can be transposed relatively easy with the hardware-accelerated compositing in AmigaOS.
ACube Systems was also present at the booth and showed the Minimig-board amongst others. For future developments, Philippe "Elwood" Ferrucci said in his presentation at the presentaion booth that ACube is happy about the public interest in SAM440ep and that the SAM440ep-flex (sometimes shortened as "SAM 1.5") will become available in the next few months. SAM440ep and the flex-variant (with 3 PCI slots but no onboard graphics) are the current product line-up and which will include the Flex available in the near future.
In principle, the target for current and future developments are the embedded market because of the advantages of the SAM support of light-weight operating system like AmigaOS and Linux. In particular the low power consumption of around 20 watts, the low operating temperature around 40 °C and the possibility for absolutely silent machine without any moving parts are best suited for special needs of certain applications in that area. Together with two Ethernet connectors even routing applications are possible. ZigBee and ccTalk are among the many variations that are perfect for industrial application customers.
The SAM440ep-flex will be bundled with AmigaOS 4.1 and Relec will offer it in the already known REL80 case (picture), because the TheRedOne case (picture) is only suited for the SAM440ep. There are negotiations going on for additional software bundles like the one with "Word Me Up XXL".
Whilst talking with Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden, the current priority in development of AmigaOS has clearly been formulated to finish the SAM-version of AmigaOS as soon as possible. This will then be delivered (including the SAM backplates) cost-free for previous customers. A new SDK for AmigaOS 4.1 is expected around December time that is going into beta testing very soon and will presumably include the gcc compiler 4.2.4 as well as Cairo header files. After these steps there is still work ongoing with Blender and some other project that is still not publicly announced on purpose.
Costel "Cyborg" Mincea is currently working on network drivers and would like to see new developers become involved on a Bluetooth project. Other important projects may include an AmigaOS version of wxWidgets that would ease a port of AudioEvolution. For applications like GIMP, a wrapper for GTK+ is helpful, since Cairo 2.8 is supported as a backend. Interested programmers are very welcome to apply to join.
Stéphane Guillard is currently working on a SATA 2 driver and "command queuing", which works quite similar to SCSI-reselect on the classic Amiga. One of his wishes would be a developer, who could work on a Firewire harddisk driver, which should not be a too challenging task, but first USB-2 on AmigaOS has the more priority.
Furthermore Jean-Francois "Voxel" Bachelet of the Voxel Amiga Shop and Jean-Jacques Boulet of the Amiga Reper Center have been there and were taking CyberstormPPC cards and AmigaOne boards for repair.
Unfortunately, the state of an OpenOffice-port is unchanged, basically whilst there was huge interest, no developer team for such a big project could yet been formed.
Additionally the Relec booth has had, beside the SAM systems, Pegasos and Efika systems running MorphOS 2 which could be tried out by the visitors.
Finally, a worthy mention of RMS Communications, who were surprised by the big public interest in their business software, for which they have been awarded the "Trophées de l'innovation" (innovation award) in the software category. The author Christoph Pölzl worked for around two and a half years on this hobby project, which can be seen as a competitor to SAPs SME-software (info) containing address database, project administration, purchasing, raw materials and finished product stockkeeping, accounting and in future even an internet shop as well as HTML and PDF export. The software is based on MUIbase, which is continually being improved by Steffen Gutmann.
The Colmar Multimedia-Expo has shown a lot of entertainment electronics, but Relec and ACube have built up some promising business contacts, and were very pleased with the outcome of the show.
The Amiga-News.de team wish the best of luck and much success to all participants! A special thank to Simon Archer for his help for the translation! (dr) (Translation: dr)
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26.Oct.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 2.13
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Please note that currently AmigaOS 4.1 is required. The changes since the last release:
- Disabled the normal and wait mouse pointers. They are still included as Resources/disabled-pointerCursor.info and disabled-waitCursor.info, if you want to use them in OWB instead of the system ones rename them to pointerCursor.info and waitCursor.info (bugs.os4depot.net issue #34)
- Added a frame around the status bar (bugs.os4depot.net issue #33)
- Updated to SVN revision 600
- Added PUBSCREEN tooltype for changing the name of the public screen
- For font families without bold/italic fonts OWB now constructs them from the regular font of the family instead of using fonts from the fallback font families
- Added displaying the source
- Added support for external bookmark tools, tooltype BOOKMARKCOMMAND, the first %s is replaced by OWB's ARexx port name (bugs.os4depot.net issue #13)
- Included Paul E. Bloedel's AddressBook
- Included Fredrik Wikstrom's OWBLauncher tool with the splash image from Martin 'Mason' Merz (bugs.os4depot.net issue #32)
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26.Oct.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Video of AmiWest 2008
Robert Bernardo memeber of the Fresno Commodore User Group recorded a video of the AmiWest 2008 which he published in two parts at blip.tv. You can see presentations by Jens Schönfeld (Indivdual Computers), Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit), Richard Drummond (Hyperion) and Steven Solie (Amiga Users of Calgary).
Video links:
Part 1
Part 2
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26.Oct.2008
Andre 'Ratte' Pfeiffer (ANF)
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KICKTOS: Kickstart disk for the Amiga 1000 with Atari TOS
Andre Pfeiffer wrote: In contrast to all other available Atari-ST-emulators KICKTOS boots a TOS (V1.02) to the original memory address where.
Because it hast only a size of 192 KB it was possible to set all Amiga specific special routines in the memory behind the TOS. The Amiga-1000-WOM has 256 KB;. Therefore for the Amiga specific routines 64 KB remains.
With the Amiga hardware the TOS is safe from destroying by overwriting and the whole normal memory remains for the applications.
The current version is only a technology demo because some adaptions of the memory management and keyboard requests must be improved.
A special thank to Toni Wilen who helped me with the peculiarities of the 68000. I only had to write KICKTOS 20 years ago... (snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2008
Stanislaw Szymczyk (AROS-ML)
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AROS: Demo-CD for compiling the operating system under AROS
Stanislaw Szymczyk tries to achieve that the operating system AROS can be compiled under itself. The corresponding bounty project muste be finished until 1. December and currently 410 US-Dollar were donated.
For the first time the current update of his demo CD allows you to compile AROS. The compilation currently is limited to within the RAM Disk. For this about 512 MB of memory are required. The compalition lasts about six hours with a 2-GHz-processor.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: ACube Systems at Brusaporto Retrocomputing (Italy)
On 26. October close to Bergamo, Italy, the Brusaporto Retrocomputing 2008 will take place. With Libero Moschella a member of ACube Systems will take part and will tell about AmigaOS 4.1, the Sam440ep-Board and the Minimig.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2008
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Amiga Anywhere: Games for the Evo Smart Console
Under the title link Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation has announced for November the Evo Smart Console based on auf Linux/x86 with games for Amiga Anywhere which you can buy in the webshop of Amiga Inc.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Status-Update October 2008
Under the title link Paolo Besser has described the latest developments of the open source operating system AROS.
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23.Oct.2008
Michal Schulz (E-Mail)
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AROS: USB-Mass-Storage-Bounty started
Michal Schulz has started the bounty project which in the end should deliver a DOS device driver for AROS with which you can connect file systems of USB devices.
In his Blog the developer explained that this feature is required for his Efika port project (Bounty #18) and that he cannot longer wait for the required amount of money for the Poseidon port. Currently 1465 of the required 4000 US-Dollar were donated. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Oct.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.77
NoWinED is a MUI-based text editor for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS. The changes you can read in the changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Oct.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RSS-Reader XNet-RSS 53.1
XNet-RSS shows RSS-feeds which are short messages.
Changes in version 53.1:
- Prefs: support for new transparency features in main window and news bar window (require AOS4.1)
- Prefs: could be started in iconified mode
- Prefs: max size of the displayed news channel icons could be set via env var (default to 16)
- GUI: added a vertical bar to resize the two main listbrowsers
- GUI: now uses requester.class instead of the ugly easyrequester
- Localization: added french and spanish catalogs (thanks to Alexandre and Emilio)
- Localization: reworked news translation via Babelfish
- RSS: improved RSS feeds compatibility
- RSS: improved error handling
- Bugs: removed a couple of nasty bugs in audio and bitmap handling (thanks to Stefano Guidetti and Martin Mckenzy)
Download: xnet_rss.lha (1 MB)
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20.Oct.2008
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Pictures from Van Pong tot Playstation
On 18. October the retro game and computer show "Van Pong tot Playstation" of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep (CGG) took place. On the homepage of the user group you can find several photos from the event which was according to the CGG one of the most visited ones of all times.
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20.Oct.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.11 Beta 1
James 'jahc' Carroll has published an update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. Changes in this version:
- Part messages werent working on Undernet at times because the channel
had an extra character at the start.. i.e. instead of #newzealanders it
was :#newzealanders. therefore Wookie couldnt find the right tab to put
the part message in
- DCC has had a few bugfixes. There was a problem with not "long word
aligning" files when working with DCC. The problem only existed under
OS3 though, PPC was unaffected
- Norwegian language catalog updated
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Oct.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview of issue 75 (November/December 2008)
Press release: The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 75 (November/December) are online now. In this issue you'll find reviews of recent versions of AmigaSYS, OWB, AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS 2.1 and much more.
Besides that we have an interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden and ACube as well as reports of the Classic Computing, Pianeta and Evoke. A more detailed description of contents and some excerpts can be on our website
The Amiga Future is available as an English or German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers. The Amiga Future can be obtained as a single issue and subscription each with or without a cover CD.
On the Amiga Future cover CD you always find lots of PD software and some full versions like Zombie Massacre, Gloom 3 and others.
We ask all users interested in this magazine to order it as soon as possible.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Oct.2008
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.10.2008
These are the latest uploads to the Aminet which have been added since our last message:
muibase.i386-aros.zip biz/dbase 3.4M ARO Programmable relational database w/GUI
DirectoryOpus-4.18.12.lha biz/dopus 852K OS4 The legendary filemanager
WookieChat2.10_OS3.lha comm/irc 1.1M OS3 IRC client (Internet Relay Chat)
SpamFryer.lha comm/mail 370K GEN Deletes unwanted mail from server unread
Tubexx.lha comm/misc 540K GEN multifunction YouTube client
getvideo.lha comm/www 15K GEN get FLV files from YouTube etc.
netsurf.lha comm/www 3.4M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
OWB.lha comm/www 6.1M OS4 Origyn Web Browser
bin2dat.lha dev/basic 94K OS3 Converts bin files into Blitz data
mp3_dec.lha dev/basic 13K OS3 mpega.lib dev kit for Blitz+mp3 decoder
Annotate.lha dev/cross 118K OS3 Comment/reformat DASMX 2650 cross-disasm
AutoDocReader_1v5.lha dev/misc 332K VAR View autodocs, C headers and text files
Arduino_Python.lha dev/src 6K OS3 Arduino access using Python 1.4 to 2.6.
ADC-WinUAE.lha docs/hard 18K GEN ADC Ideas For WinUAE, GPL.
WinUAE_Arduino.lha docs/hard 23K VAR WinUAE_Arduino Diecimila DEMO ADC.
kuklomenos.i386-aros.zip game/actio 958K ARO An abstract vector shoot em up
Africa.lha game/board 213K OS3 Conversion of 3W boardgame
Saga.lha game/board 372K OS3 Conversion of TSR boardgame
BTCE.lha game/edit 100K OS3 Bard's Tale 1-3 & BTCS Character Editor
rrootage-os4.lha game/shoot 4.3M OS4 A great Japanese abstract shoot 'em up
rrootage.lha game/shoot 3.8M MOS rRootage is a manic shoot them up
openredalert-r460-68k.lha game/strat 765K OS3 OpenRedAlert for 68k Amigaos
wesnoth.lha game/strat 140M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth
Flog.lha game/wb 33K OS3 Have fun with this card game!
SoliTri.lha game/wb 33K OS3 Have fun with this card game!
exiftool.lha gfx/conv 2.1M GEN ExifTool
ibatch4b_eng.lha gfx/conv 122K VAR Sync picture dirs, batch rename/convert
ibatch4b_ger.lha gfx/conv 123K VAR Sync picture dirs, batch rename/convert
AmiCAD_2.26.lha gfx/edit 919K OS3 Schematics vectorial electronics program
SView5.lha gfx/misc 3.3M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
radioscript.lha gfx/show 24K GEN Arexx script for MPlayer
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 823K OS3 Signetics-based machines emulator
bin2tap-mos.lha misc/emu 26K MOS ZX Spectrum BIN to TAP utilities
dream102.lha misc/emu 170K OS3 Dragon, Tandy CoCo emulator
realspectools-mos.lha misc/emu 34K MOS ZX Spectrum TAP utilities
backincontrol.mp3 mods/kicko 11M GEN Psy Trance tune from Transplant
aw2sv.lha mus/edit 14K OS3 Converts AIF/WAV Audio to IFF-SV/FL
mp3toSV.lha mus/edit 12K OS3 Converts MPEG Audio to IFF-SV
bonk.lha mus/misc 100K OS4 Encode, decode and play .bonk files
mpeginfo.i386-aros.zip mus/misc 14K ARO Extracts info from MPEG files
playOGG.lha mus/play 3.7M OS3 multi format sound player.
tunebonk_plug.lha mus/play 73K OS4 Bonk plugin for TuneNet
ATcad_Profi.png pix/misc 10K GEN Screenshot of current ATcad (German)
THE.lha text/edit 1.5M MOS The Hessling Editor, a free XEDIT clone
E-UAELoad_v1.31.lha util/batch 116K VAR Auto configure WHDLoad games for E-UAE
gr_boot.lha util/boot 36K Amithlon/AROS GRUB boot setup
MakeList.lha util/cli 32K VAR Create file listing from directories
rxlistview.lha util/rexx 11K GEN Listview requester for Arexx scripts
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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