15.Jan.2009
Andreas Hänsch (ANF)
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AROS: Further status update to OWB-port
Stanislaw Szymczyk has completed his report about OWB-port for AROS with another chapter. There he explained that he could compile the latest version of OpenSSL 0.9.8j for AROS. After having made some changes in "libcurl" it is now possible to start URLs with "HTTPS".
Furthermore the author wrote that OWB could login in his Google-account and he added three screenshots taken of Google Maps, Google Mail and Google Docs.
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15.Jan.2009
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Apple II GS-Emulator KEGS 0.65
KEGS emulates an Apple II GS. A ROM-image in version ROM.01 or ROM.03 is required. In version 0.65 a faster user-interface, improved sound emulation as well as Joystick support were added.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jan.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MUI-class: MCC_BetterString 11.16
The MUI-class MCC_BetterString is available in version 11.16. The detailed changes are listed in the Changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jan.2009
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Arcade game: PanzerZ (Preview)
PanzerZ written by Jens Henschel is an arcade game for up to four players. In this game you must shoot the panzers of your oppononents (screenshots: 1, 2). PanzerZ is developed with AmiBlitz and mainly is meant for Amigas with graphic boards - the game uses 32-Bit-graphics which can be scaled from 320x256 to 1280x1024 pixels.
Now a early alpha version of the game is available. This one should work under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS as well. A version for Amigas without graphic boards is planned but will not be started until the RTG-version will be finished. You can get further information about the game in the forum of a1k.org.
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12.Jan.2009
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MorphOS: Web-Browser Netsurf 2.0dev (beta) (Update)
NetSurf is a browser, originally developed for RiscOS, which can be used with 17 MB memory and e.g. supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. Netsurf still has not any Javascript support.
The version for MorphOS was done by Ilkka "itix" Lehtoranta and includes a MUI user-interfacee and an IBrowse compatible hotlist.
Netsurf at least requires MorphOS 2.2. The current beta version includes several minor limitations (you cannot change the hotlist, you cannot abort downloads...) which will be fixed during the next two weeks.
Update:
If Netsurf does not view any text you have to download the file ttengine.database from the website of the author. Then copy it to the directory ENVARC: After rebooting the system all should work fine.
Download: ttengine.database
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12.Jan.2009
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: File manager DrawerBall 0.6j
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published Drawerball 0.6j which is a very early version of a file manager. Changes in this version:
- Preconfigured the first "Volume" usermenu, you can load "Ram Disk" and "Boot disk" into the DrawerBall lister
- The 2nd "Utilities" usermenu holds 3 menuitems using standard MorphOS commands
- Bugfixes.
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12.Jan.2009
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: DVD-Engine 0.3
Carsten Siegner's DVD-Engine is an user-interface for 10 already existing programs which is supposed to make it easier creating video or picture DVDs. News in version 0.3:
- Sound of the GUI finished
- DolbyDigital 5.1 Standard is now supported as well as "extended Stereo".
- GUI can now test the data consistence of the VideoDVD-directory
- DolbyDigital-sound can be calculated as preview
- All sound channles can be played seperately to test them
- The maximum capacity of a self-made VideoDVD is now 3.95 GByte
- Tghe menu and intros of a VideoDVD are kept in stereo modus while all tracks and chapters can be calculated with 6-channel sound
DVD-Engine 0.3 requires further Shell tools such as Playac3, Multiview and mplex.
Download: dvd-engine-0.3.lha (518 KB)
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12.Jan.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Amiga Software Database (ASD) beta 2
Few days ago beta version 2 of the Amiga Software Database (ASD) was released. Please have a lokk under the title link for the official press release.
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11.Jan.2009
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Ghostscript-Installer 1.11
Guido 'Geit' Mersmann has written an installation program for Ghostscript 8.60. An Internet connection is required for downloading the necassary files.
With Ghostscript you can show, print and convert Postscript and PDF files. If you find any bugs the programmer would be grateful for feedback.
Download: contrib_ghostscript.tar
(550 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jan.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.66
The latest version of the text viewer EvenMore includes the following changes:
- Pressing the tab key will activate the file string gadget at the bottom of the window
- Viewer will centre on text horizontally when searching if text not displayed in the window
- Searching with right to left text enabled caused horizontal scroller to be set wrong
- Normal text search will no longer match against escape code sequences which are not displayed, such as hyperlinks
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11.Jan.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Cloanto: First video of a C64-Forever beta version
Under the title link a first video of the emulator package C64 Forever. It shows new functions like the RP2-manager which is to search media for games which will be published for Amiga Forever as well.
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11.Jan.2009
Andreas Hänsch (ANF)
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AROS: Interim report about browser port
Andreas Hänsch wrote: "In December Stanislaw Szymczyk officially started the AROS-Bounty 'Port an Open Source Browser to AROS' and now there are already some first results (screenshot).
Based on some parts of the development of Robert Norris the unstable port of the Origyn Web Browser can already view simple websites like Google, aros.org and aros-exec.org without any problems. Originally SDL was used but will be replaced little by little by Intuition.
For further details please have a look under the title link.
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10.Jan.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: New issue online
Amitopia TV is an English video agazine about the Amiga. The topics of the latest issue include 3D-games on the Amiga, a review of the MorphOS-version of VLC and the second part of the TVPaint manual.
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09.Jan.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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G-Rex-PCI registrations: First estimate of produced pieces
Matthias Münch has updated the number of registered boards. So far only 21 G-Rex-boards were counted. For further registrations Münch would be very grateful.
By means of the available serial numbers Münch estimated the number of produced boards at 290 pieces.
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08.Jan.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Bug fixed GQView 2.1.5
Edgar Schwan has published an update of GQView 2.1.5 for AmiCygnix. GQView is a picture viewer with which you can easily list a lot of pictures.
Now SVG-graphics are supported. Additionally a bug was fixed which occured if RAW-graphics were loaded.
Download: gqview.lha (6 MB)
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08.Jan.2009
Vinnny (ANF)
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MUI: TextEditor.mcc 15.28
Under the title link the MUI-class TextEditor.mcc is available in version 15.28. This version fixes some minor bugs and includes new functions. For more details please have a look at the Changelog.
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08.Jan.2009
Vinnny (ANF)
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Codeset conversion: codesets.library 6.8
The codesets.library allows applications to access codeset-/charset tables or to convert different character sets.
Version 6.8 fixes some bugs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Gimp 2.2.13 alpha and Fontforge for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has published ports of the picture editing software Gimp and of the character set editor Fontforge.
Gimp is a free program for editing photos and
creating graphics. The current version for AmiCygnix is an alpha release. Just like in the last version the most important plugins are missing. Without them it is only possible to load and save XCF-graphics.
FontForge is an outline character set editor with which you can create or change own Postscript-, Truetype-, Opentype-, CID-keyed-, Multi-Master-, CFF-, SVG- and Bitmap- (bdf, FON, NFNT) character sets. Additionally Fontforge can convert character sets into different formats.
Downloads:
Gimp download site
Fontforge download site
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05.Jan.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 76 (January/February 2009)
Press release: The Amiga Future 76 (Januar/Februar 2009) has been released today. This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer supplies have been shipped.
In this issue you'll find reviews of the recent versions of AmigaOS 4.1, Netpanzers, AmiCygnix, AISS and much more. Besides that we have an interview with Claus Desler and Gareth Murfin. A more detailed description of contents and some excerpts can be found at 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.
We ask all users interested in this magazine to order it as soon as possible.
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04.Jan.2009
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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AROS: USB-Mass-Storage-Bounty project (almost) finished
According to Michal Schulz in his Blog under the title link he almost finished the bounty project "Creating a Mass-Storage-Class for the USB-stack of AROS" (screenshot).
During the next days the source code will be cleaned up and then published. Additionally the author will improve the USB-stack and AROS itself that booting from a USB-stick will become more practicable.
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04.Jan.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: EasyTAG 2.0 and GQView 2.1.5 for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix, Edgar Schwan has published ports of the Tag-editor EasyTAG 2.0 and of the picture viewer GQView 2.1.5.
EasyTAG is a tool for viewing and editing Tags in MP3-, MP2-, FLAC-, Ogg Vorbis-, MusePack- and Monkey's audio files. It has an easy to use GTK2-interface.
Features of EasyTAG:
- Viewing, editing and writing of Tags of MP3-, MP2- (ID3-Tag with pictures), FLAC- (FLAC Vorbis Tag), Ogg Vorbis-
(Ogg Vorbis Tag), MusePack- and Monkey's Audio- (APE tag) files
- Supporting of more Tag-fields: Title, artist, album, disc album,
year, track number, genre, comment, composer, original artist / interpreter, copyright, URL and encoder name.
- Automatical Tagging: Searching directories and automatically
setting of Tags
- Opening directories or files with the help of external programs.
e.g. AmigaAMP
- CDDB support (manual or automatical search). Hint: Currently the manual search does not work
because freedb.org/freedb_search.php was
not available. It is not a problem of EasyTag.
- Searching directories and subdirectories
- Recursive tagging, deleting, renaming, saving...
- Reading and viewing file header information (bitrate, time, ...)
- Undo and Redo of the last changes
- Automatically editing Tags and file names
- Creation of playlists
- Simple and clear interface
- Written in C using GTK+ 2.4
GQView is a picture viewer for a high number of pictures. You can watch the pictures in full screen mode or via slideshow. Pictures can be copied, moved, renamed and deleted.
Supported picture formats:
- IFF-ILBM (.ilbm)
- JPEG (.jpeg, .jpe, .jpg)
- PNG (.png)
- PCX (.pcx)
- BMP / WBMP (.bmp, .wbmp)
- GIF (.gif)
- TIFF (.tiff, .tif)
- PNM / PBM / PGM / PPM (.pnm, .pbm, .pgm, .ppm)
- Canon RAW-Format (.crw, .cr2)
- Fujifilm RAW-Format (.raf)
- Nikon RAW-Format (.nef)
- Olympus RAW-Format (.orf)
- Pentax RAW-Format (.pef)
- ANI (.ani)
- Windows icon (.ico, .cur)
- Sun Raster (.ras)
- Targa (.tga, .targa)
- X-Bitmap (.xbm)
- X-Pixmap (.xpm)
Downloads:
Download site for EayTAG
Download site for GQView
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