05.Nov.2008
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AROS: GTK-Wrapper GTK-MUI 2.0
GTK-MUI is a Wrapper with which you can convert GTK-applications for AROS/MUI.
The author Oliver Brunner has published now version 2.0 which was mainly new written and is based on glib/gobjects. Most parts of the original GTK-sources are used. Additionally many new "Widgets" have been added.
Despite this there are some limitations: GDK/Pango are still not implemented. But according to the author this is not important for most of the user-interfaces because these functions are supplied by MUI/Zune. If you are going to port a GTK-application you have to add some code on GTK-MUI.
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05.Nov.2008
André "Ratte" Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Layout for A1000-CPU-ROM-adapter available
André Pfeiffer's "A1000 CPU-ROM Adapter" allows you to run an Amiga 1000 either with Kickstart-ROMs or with Kickstart-disks. Pfeiffer has also published a board layout.
The archive includes a free viewer for Windows computers.
The layout is available in the Sprint-format and can be handled by most of the board producers.
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05.Nov.2008
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-8-Bit-Emulator Atari++
The emulator Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-Bit home computer as well as the game console Atari 5200. The AmigaOS 4-port was written by Ventzislav "Dr. Hirudo" Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controled with joysticks or analog controllers.
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04.Nov.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 75 (November/December 2008)
Press release: The Amiga Future 75 (November/December 2008) has been released today. This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer supplies have been shipped.
In this issue you'll find reviews of recent versions of AmigaSYS, OWB, AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS 2.1, AmiSoundEd, Indivision and lots of 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 found at our website.
On the Amiga Future cover CD you always find lots of PD software and some full versions like Zombie Massacre, Gloom 3 and others.
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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03.Nov.2008
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AROS: GTK-MUI user-interface for E-UAE
Oliver Brunner who is the developer of a GTK-MUI-Wrapper has added a Zune user-interface to the Amiga emulator E-UAE for AROS/x86. It offers the same functions as the GTK-GUI for Unix.
Download: e-uae-gtk.i386-aros.tar.gz (3 MB)
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03.Nov.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 34
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:
- The "cancel" buttons for file transfers work now. Also, Sabre now gives
more detailed reasons when transfers fail
- Increased the packet size back up to 2045 bytes
- Tinkered with typecasts for the headers for file transfer packets and
it seems to give correct values now. Hopefully transfers wont abort
midway through now
The author points out that SabreMSN only supports the older version of the MSN-protocol for file transfers. If an incoming transfer should be announced ("Waiting for incoming file..") but it will not start then the other user has a program which supports the newer version of the protocol. This implementation in SabreMSN will follow.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Nov.2008
Sébastien Jeudy (ANF)
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Colmar Multimedia Expo: Reports, photos and videos
From 24. until 26. October in Colmar the Multimedia Expo 2008 took place. For Sébastien Jeudy from Relec the common booth with ACube and RMS Communications was a success:
Many users from France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgiun, Germany, Great Britain or Denmark visited the booth as well as some well-known faces from the whole Amiga-world - e.g. Hyperion Entertainment (Ben Hermans and the Frieden-brothers), Amiga-News.de, Voxel Amiga Shop, IMM Informatique, Amiga Repair Center.
You could see AmigaOS 4.1 on a SAM440ep, the SAM440ep-flex-motherboard, MorphOS 2.1 on an Efika and a Pegasos, the Minimig as well as AmigaOS 4.1 on a touchscreen for the first time.
The SAM440/AmigaOS 4.1-conference 50-60 persons attended it.
As a great ending RMS Communications with its KMU-software won the innovation price.
Further reports of the Colmar Multimedia Expo:
Philippe "Elwood" Ferucci (English)
Obligement.free.fr (French)
Amiga-NG.org (French)
AmigaImpact.org (French)
Photos:
Marlaine Savini & Sebastien Jeudy
Philippe Bourdin
Guibrush
Deelite
BigDan
Videos:
AmigaOS 4.1 driven by a touchscreen
Touchscreen support, part 2
Report from France3 TV (French)
Komplette SAM/OS4.1-Konferenz (French)
Komplette SAM/OS4.1-Konferenz (alternative link) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic programm MOS-Creator 0.5b (Beta)
MOS-Creator written by Carsten Siegner is a Vector graphic programm implemented with Hollywood (screenshot) with which you can mainly create and print fast and easy PDF-documents.
Version 0.5b now can load unilateral as well as multilateral PDF-documents. Furthermore MOS-Creator can import files of the "Draw"-components of OpenOffice.org. The modul for .odg-files (Open-Office-Draw) supports the following vector objects:
- Pixel graphics
- circle
- Line
- Ellipse
- Text boxes
- Rectangle
- Square
Following shapes are supported:
- Rectangle
- Gluepoints
- Up-Arrow
- Down-Arrow
- Round-Rectangle
- Non-primitiv
- Star24
- Left-right-arrow
Download: mos-creator_0.5b.lha ( KB)
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01.Nov.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Boing Attitude finished partnership with Amiga Inc.
According to Boing Attitude on its website the partnership with Amiga Inc. was finished. THerefore the game Word Me Up is no longer available in the Amiga-Anywhere version.
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01.Nov.2008
Obligement (ANF)
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Obligement: Reviews of Sam440ep, MorphOS 2.1, Jagged Alliance and more
The following articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. Furthermore, issues 88 - 91 (March - June 1996) of the former french magazine "Amiga News" are available.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of september/october 2008
- Old news of july/august 1999
- Report: Colmar Multimédia l'Expo 2008
- Review of MorphOS 2.1
- Review of Jagged Alliance 2
- Review of X-Moto
- Review of classic Amiga games: Fire And Brimstone, Héros, Alien Fish Finger, Cybernetix, Lost In Mine, Marvin\'s Marvellous Adventure, Nitro, Og The Caveman, Pierre Le Chef Is... Out To Lunch, Rick Dangerous, Simon The Sorcerer, Teenage Queen, Speris Legacy, The Sword And The Rose, Total Carnage, Traps N Treasures et, Ugh !, Second Samurai, Shadow Dancer, Shadow Of The Beast 2, Shadow Of The Beast 3, Silkworm, Starbirds, Superfrog, SWIV, Toki, Tubular Worlds, Unreal, UN Squadron, Wings Of Death, Wrath Of The Demon
- Hardware: Sam440ep
- File: History of the Amiga - year 1995 (update)
- File: Scoopex - part 4, Élévation! (1995-1996)
- File: Scoopex - part 5, The strategy to become the number 1 (1997-1998)
- File: The electronic mail
- Tutorial: Transfer ADF in a virtual drive
- Tutorial: Installation of MorphOS 2.x (update)
- Special quizz about Kick Off 2
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01.Nov.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Software-News in brief
FloboPuyo 0.20
Flobopuyo is a Tetris version for one or two players where you have to arrange four coloured balls in a row to vanish them (screenshot). The current version is now available for MorphOS.
Download: flobopuyo-0.20_mos.tar.gz (2,9 MB)
Plot 1.5
Plot is a MUI-class written by Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski and Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski with which you can create diagrams.
Download: plot.lha (125 KB)
SAB 1.0
The safe address book written by Rupert Hausberger is based on MUI, has a password protection (AES256-encryption) and compresses the entries with LZMA.
Download: SAB-morphos.lha (57 KB)
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01.Nov.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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File system: Ext2FS 0.33
Marek Szyprowski's Ext2FS makes it possible to work with Second Extended FileSystem (ext2) under MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x.
Version 0.33 includes several bug fixes as well as the support of two further functions (action_fh_from_lock, action_mode_change).
Download: ext2fs_0.33.lha (91 KB)
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01.Nov.2008
Pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Alternative to the Commodore-Installer
Guido 'geit' Mersmann has published an installer for MorphOS which is an alternative to the installation programm developed by Commodore (screenshot).
The software is based on MUI. Therefore you can change the size of the windows. Additionally there is not any limitation concerning the text. Finally different preferences can be set as well as banners of the applications can be added.
Download: contrib_installer.tar (780 KB)
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01.Nov.2008
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: OCR-application GOCR 0.46
Steven Solie has compiled the OCR-programm GOCR for AmigaOS 4. The picture files pnm, pbm, pgm and ppm as well as partly pcx and tga can be read. Barcode-graphics are recognized as well.
Download: gocr.lha (314 KB)
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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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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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."
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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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