08.Oct.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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EAGER on back2roots.org re-installed
The game database EAGER ("Every Amiga Game Ever Released") was completely update on the "Back to the Roots"-server re-installed. The in the meantime used side eager.orgfree.com is also available but not updated. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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07.Oct.2007
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Web Browser: IBrowse status update
Oliver "Futaura" Roberts of Ibrowse team gives a short overview of the current status of the web browser in a thread on amigaworld.net:
Reportedly, IBrowse is not currently purchasable, but several distributors have already shown interest. As soon as Stefan Burström, the holder of rights, has a little more time on his hands, he will attend to this problem.
After the quite stressful release of IBrowse 2.4, the team initially treated itself to a short time-out, but since that time, the next version is being worked on again. David Burström has already invested much work in an OS4 port - which requires considerably more effort than one would assume at the first moment, because of the SAS/C dependency of the sources and the partial use of 68K assembler - Roberts himself is working on the completion of this version now.
A CSS parser already exists, too, but the parser is the smaller problem - the still missing adaptation of the layout engine is associated with considerably more work.
IBrowse 3.0 should be released as soon as possible and primarily establish a stable, expandable basis for further updates. Though this means that CSS will not be completely supported yet in this first version - it allows the team to pass on further improvements to the user faster in the form of more regular updates. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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07.Oct.2007
Amiga Future (Web page)
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AROS: Lunapaint 0.3.3b (Update)
Hogne Titlestad has released an update to his graphics program Lunapaint for AROS. In addition to bugfixes, the toolbox, which is also togglable now, was designed to be more user-friendly, and full screen editing was enabled. Moreover, global keyboard shortcuts were implemented, but this is still being worked on.
Download: lunapaint_v033.tgz (329 KB)
Update: (16:20, 08.10.07, snx)
Meanwhile version 0.3.3b is available. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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07.Oct.2007
Team AROS-ML
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AROS64: Status update
In his blog, Michal Schulz delivers insight into the current development status of his AROS adaptation to the x86-64 architecture (Bounty 21). So reportedly, the operating system is already bootable from CD and offers partial MMU support. The kernel is partly protected.
Now it is necessary to eliminate all the errors which first become evident on a 64 bit system: first in Zune and Wanderer, afterwards in the remaining standard components of AROS. Furthermore, as many architecture dependencies as possible should be relocated to kernel.resource. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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06.Oct.2007
Martin Merz (Kommentar)
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AmigaOS 4: Another theme for Push4Dock
Push4Dock is a startmenu based on AmiDock for AmigaOS 4. Under the title link with "Phantom" created by Ken Lester another theme was published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2007
Power Developer (Forum)
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Linux: openSUSE 10.3
Already on Thursday version 10.3 of the Linux-distribution openSUSE was published. This version is the first one with full support of the Efika-board developed by bplan.
But there are still installation problems if you try to intall directly from DVD which is probably caused by the SmartFirmware. You can fix that by using inst32-start.
Further information concerning Efika you can get in the English im openSUSE-Wiki. Additionally Peter Czanik has compiled a selection of Packman-packages to his Pegasos.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Elbox: New driver for 4xEIDE'99-interface
Registered customers can get new drivers for the 4xEIDE'99-interface. According to the press release the there are also new verions of the preferences and of the AllegroCDFS. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2007
Pegasosforum.de (Forum)
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MorphOS: MUI4 beta version 20071006 (update)
Some Amiga users detected that Stefan Stuntz has compiled new MUI4 beta versions for MorphOS during the last days. But the author points out that these versions still contain many bugs. Therefore he does not publish those versions officially.
Download: muibeta_20071006.lha (2,9 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Video of Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0
Under the title link Dave Haynie has published a video of the Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0. A DVD is just being produced.
You can watch there Commodore developers Dave Haynie, Bil Herd and Bob Russell (VC-20, C64) as well as Chuck Peddle. The last one was interviewed which is also the main part of the film.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiWest 2007: Webcast of UGN
According to Bill 'tekmage' Borsari at Amiga.org the User Group Network (UGN) will offer a webcast of the event AmiWest again.
The broadcast will start on 20th Otober at 6:45 PM PST and will be continued at Sunday morning at 10:00 AM. The Amiga Round Table will take part this year for the first time. Additionally Amiga users from all over the world will be asked to send short audio messages on the ocassion of the tenth anniversary of the AmiWest. You can get detailed information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Oct.2007
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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Amigaweb.net: 40 answers of Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.)
Under the title link 40 answers of Bill McEwen were published which were asked by Amigaweb.net to Amiga Inc. Here is a short summary of the most important answers.
- ACK Software Controls: Amiga Inc. relies on the ablities of the developers and is content with the current progress. The reference products will be produced by a different company afterwards.
- ACube/Troika: There is no contact concerning new hardware.
- DiscreetFX: There is not any bid but only a question list was sent. But Amiga Inc. is not up for sale.
- Commodore: The question if there is any contact cannot be answered.
- Individual Computers: This company and the project Clone-A Bill McEwen does not know.
- OS1-3: There will be no release of any source code.
- OS4: After the legal dispute the operating system will be developed further.
- OS5:
- OS5 will be for handys and servers and will first support Windows-D, Windows Mobile, Linux-D, Linux-E sowie Symbian für x86 and ARM as software hosts. Possibly it will support each high-profile hardware-host.
- Details will be published in 4th quarter 2007.
- Amiga Anywhere: The new solution does not depend on Tao and will be part of the new OS and will be available during the next 30 days.
- Distribution: The products of Amiga Inc. will be part of solutions of different and bigger companies.
- Firm members: Fleecy Moss still is member of the team.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Oct.2007
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Acube Systems: Sam440ep available
Press release:
ACube Systems is glad to announce the availability of the Sam440ep-motherboards with the following configurations:
The motherboard:
- 533 Mhz cpu, 512 MB DDR Ram, ATI Radeon M9 64Mb and Audio 5.1 onboard: Euro 459,00
- 667 Mhz cpu, 512 MB DDR Ram, ATI Radeon M9 64Mb and Audio 5.1 onboard: Euro 489,00
Complete systems:
- 533 Mhz cpu, 512 MB DDR Ram, ATI Radeon M9 64Mb and Audio 5.1 onboard, Psile case (Black or White), SATA DVD-RW, SATA 80 Gb Hard Disk, Logitech Optical Mouse: Euro 765,00
- 667 Mhz cpu, 512 MB DDR Ram, ATI Radeon M9 64Mb and Audio 5.1 onboard, Psile case (Black or White), SATA DVD-RW, SATA 80 Gb Hard Disk, Logitech Optical Mouse: Euro 795,00
It is possible to change the configuration of the systems.
All prices excluding local taxes and shipping costs from Italy.
We deliver only with International Couriers that allow online tracking of the package.
For resellers and developers discounts please contact us.
Send your orders or questions to info@acube-systems.com
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Press release Due to the fact that some issues of the Amiga Future have been sold out in the meantime, we have put new full versions for free download on the Amiga Future homepage. You can download them at the title link.
We look for someone who wants to take care of the downloads section of the Amiga Future. In fact it is about writing system requirements and small descriptions for each software package in German and English.
The issue 68 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Right now we work hard on issue 69. No. 68 is the second Amiga Future issue being published in both German and English. You can order the second English Issue of Amiga Future from our online shop. (snx)
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03.Oct.2007
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: New version of Push4Dock
Push4Dock is a start menu environment based on AmiDock for AmigaOS 4.
Starting by this release, Push4Dock is themeable and there are many themes available already.
Push4Dock requires the PNG icon plugin and OS4Reboot to work. For further information please visit the new Push4Dock section of the masonicons website or read the documentation. (snx)
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03.Oct.2007
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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AROS: Installer test (English)
In his blog "The AROS Show" Paul J. Beel wrote at the title link a test about the new AROS installer by
Neil Cafferkey (amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Oct.2007
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Status Information
Press release During the last week the Back to the Roots main archive was completely enabled again, All files are online again. Nearly all funtions are active again.
The archive is still located on our completely filled up
160GB server, but we opened it for your convenience while
we duplicate it to our new terabyte server during the next
weeks. After this we will have space again to continue
with site updates, which we expect around the end of the
year.
Once the new server is installed we will exchange both
machines, which might yield in some temporary inconveniences
for you, surely no big issue after the long wait...
After this, we will rework our current machine as a backup
mirror and team project server, where independent, topic
related non profit projects could find an advertising free
home, preferable people who want to help us to extend the
main archive with legal content.
Until we finished reworking all, our mail server will be
offline, due to the lack of disk space. Mails sent to
@back2roots.org addresses will be forwarded to NIL:, so
don\'t be upset if you contacted us and got no reply.
All mails ever sent from our online email form is not
lost, and will be responded with time.
Our FTP-Server will be updated once it\'s on the new machine.
Dozends of CDs are waiting to be placed online.
Today I (Ralf) found out that Fred Fish died in April (didn\'t
know that yet). What a shame, he\'s the pioneer of PD and open
source for me. May he rest in peace!
Before his death, Fred gave us the license to put all his
productions online at our site, as long as we request third
party rights separately. This makes it possible (and is a
historical duty too) to preserve Fred\'s complete binary
life work legally for everybody.
That\'s why we are searching for everything which carries
his name. Please have a look at your collections (originals)
and send us lists together with the respective copyright notes
(in case of third party involved) to me, if you want to help.
If you are one of these 3rd party copyright holders, please
consider helping us with a license for your part.
We also search original disk images (ADF, DMS, etc, not lha)
of his FF/AmigaLib series for preservating them in their
original form.
Thanks, Fred. We will never forget you! (snx)
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03.Oct.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga Inc: An open letter to the Amiga users
At the title link Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.) appeals to the Amiga users with an open letter in which he envinces to have never given up neither
the development goals nor the user community.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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02.Oct.2007
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WHDLoad: New packages until 02.10.2007
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene-demos to your harddrive which were formerly meant only for use
with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
Since our last message the following installers have been added, updated or improved:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Oct.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.10.2007
These are the latest Aminet uploads which have been added since our last message:
Audithec.lha biz/dbase 227K OS3 MUI AudioCD Database 1.1ß + v1.0.2
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 21K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
amilicious.lha comm/misc 18K GEN Import AWeb hotlist to del.icio.us
pftp.lha comm/tcp 311K OS4 Advanced FTP client (alpha preview)
A71BackUp.zip comm/www 10K GEN PHP Script: perform a full web backup
getvideo.lha comm/www 8K GEN get FLV files from YouTube etc.
httphandler.lha comm/www 86K OS4 HTTP: device for accessing web-hosted fi
MCC_BetterString-11.13.lha dev/mui 148K VAR BetterString custom class for MUI
MCC_BetterStringSP.lha dev/mui 5K GEN MCC BetterString 11.13 spanish catalog
Wazp3D.lha driver/video 231K OS3 CPU only Warp3D v4.2 implementation
Frontiera.lha game/strat 136K OS3 Italian FRONTIER ELITE remake
BlackJack3.lha game/wb 208K OS3 Game of Blackjack
cpc2ilbm_1_0.lha gfx/conv 64K OS3 CLI converter for Amstrad CPC images
Graphviz.lha gfx/edit 2.8M MOS Graph Drawing Programs from AT&T/Lucent
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 349K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
EP_MaxTrax.lha mus/play 24K OS3 EaglePlayer "MaxTrax" external replayer
EP_MMSound.lha mus/play 14K OS3 EaglePlayer "MultiMedia Sound" ext. repl
xmp_68k.lha mus/play 181K OS3 Play & convert various mod formats.
Commander.lha util/blank 73K OS4 A multi-purpose blanker modul
FixMixer.lha util/cdity 0K GEN Fix saving of PegasosMixer.prefs
Assign-MorphOS.lha util/cli 20K MOS Unofficial assign command
T1ManagerM.lha util/libs 18K GEN T1Manager New Design Mock-Up
AndorraMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Andorra country for MorphOS
RomaniaMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Romania country for MorphOS
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Oct.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 01.10.2007
These are the latest uploads at os4depot.net which have been added since our last message:
dg_midi_player.lha aud/pla 54kb Simple MIDI player
cpc2ilbm.lha gra/con 60kb CLI converter for Amstrad CPC images
png_icon_editor.lha gra/edi 7Mb A Tool for Manipulating PNG Images and I
commander.lha gra/scr 73kb Commander - A multi-purpose blanker modu
pftp.lha net/ftp 311kb Advanced FTP client (alpha preview versi
openssh-bin.lha net/mis 1Mb OpenSSH secure connectivity tools
ranger.lha uti/mis 29kb Process diagnostic tool
r200_ink_level.lha uti/pri 29kb Epson R200 Ink Level Monitor
switcher3d.lha uti/wor 89kb Window and screen switcher
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Oct.2007
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CD32: Arcade-game Frog Feast
Frog Feast is a little arcade-game which were published as commercial game two years ago and
since then was ported to nearly each 16 or 32Bit-console
(screenshot (Neo Geo CD),
advertising (CD32)).
Meanwhile the CD32-port is in progress which probably will be distributed by
oldergames.com.
A first demo-version is available at megaupload.com - but
its main goals are compatibility tests: An important element of the game is still missing in this version - the fly
which is to be caught.
The CD-image which is available at megaupload has to be burned with low burning speed. The demo version was
only tested with NTSC-devices.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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