06.Nov.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 69
Press release: The Amiga Future 69 (November/December 2007) has been released today. This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer orders have been shipped. ou can find a more detailed description of contents and some excerpts at our web site.
Besides many articles covering the Amiga you can find reviews like Sputnik, AmiUpdate and lots of more in this issue. On the cover CD of the Amiga Future there is much PD software but again many full versions like EyeViewer, Newio, NoBuddiesLand, Reflections 4 CD-Edition (German), Spellbound and StarFighter aswell.
The Amiga Future is available as a German and English single issue or subscription. You can choose whether you want it with or without a cover CD.
The Amiga Future is available directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers like Alinea, Vesalia, AmigaKit, GGS Data, ASB, Samuli... Dealers interested in offering the Amiga Future to their customers should write us an email.
Only a few German and English copies of issue 68 are left. Issue 67 is sold out completely. Older German issues of the Amiga Future are available starting at just 1 Euro.
Furthermore we are looking for translators for the English print edition. In this case the native language has to be English.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Nov.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Magazin: The Crypt - Issue 51
The 51. Issue of the Magazins The Crypt includes beside several Articles a instruction to build a Analog-Digital-Converter and a short overview about the Amiga-Podcasts "Amiga Round Table". (cg) (Translation: aj)
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05.Nov.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 14
"Amiga Round Table" (ART) is a from Rich Lawrence and Sean Fitzgerald assorted, Podcast, whith a discussion between Amiga-User and Guests about actual happenings of the Amiga-Scene.
Themes of the 10. Issue, which is now available as download:
- Bye...
- OS 4 Classic - Is it worth it?
- Fred Fish Memorial.
- Minimig v1.1 PCBs New Gold finish - now shipping.
- Raid of OS4.
- Rich is getting a Video Toaster for his A4K.
- DiscreetFX's Video Toaster deal is still going.
- C=64 Orchestra CD coming out.
- Horny MIDI Sequencer (Gotta Love The Name!)
- NES/Famicom Emulator for MorphOS Relased.
- Hyperion v. Amino Lawsuit gives us a giggle.
- xMAME GUI now out in the wild.
- Cloanto dontes to AmigaWeb.
- We reminisce about Petro.
- Rich gives Amiga Inc some marketing advice.
- AmiKit 1.4 Update.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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05.Nov.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaSYS: PDA- and Amithlon-Versionen in progress
The pre-configurated System-Enviroment AmigaSYS - originally a AmigaOS-Distribution for WinUAE - will be now fitted for Pocket PC PDAs and Amithlon. Some Screenshots and Informationen about the actual Status are availble on the project webpage, which was updated. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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05.Nov.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Video-Player Mplayer 1.0rc2 "LeitMotiv version"
Andrea Palmate prerents a Update of his OS4-Port of the known Video-Players Mplayer. Changes are:
- New version that plays almost all video and audio file types
- Fixed a bug that disallowed ScreenBlanker after closing MPlayer
- Added AmiUpdate support
- Now YouTube files can be played correctly with IBrowse
- This version is dedicated to my cousin's band and contains its first
videoclip in flv format
- This version includes only a generic PPC version (no Altivec)
The Archiv is with nearly 16 MB a little bit big, because the author added a Video of his der Cousins Band. (cg)
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04.Nov.2007
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Fragment 1.4
Christian Rosentreter has released an update to "Fragment," his MorphOS program for graphically displaying memory fragmentation.
The version 1.4 includes a small bug fix and is also available in Polish, Russian and Turkish thanks to Kornl, Mobydick and Cego. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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04.Nov.2007
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AmigaOS 4: Warning against dubious eBay offers
Currently, a supposedly retail version of AmigaOS 4 for classic Amigas is being offered under the designation AMIGA OS4 for Amiga with Blizzard or Cyberstorm PPC on eBay. In the offer, provided with copious text and pictures, the remark that basically, the auction only constitutes a preorder, can be overlooked very easily.
Behind the supplier "ALIEN^TEK" stands a certain Robert O'Neil, who also appears under the aliases "Paradox" and "Amber, Inc," among others. In the past, O'Neil had already been repeatedly charged with fraud, for example, he had temporarily appeared as an AmigaOne dealer without possessing corresponding hardware.
As far as we know, Hyperion is informed of the situation. As a precaution, prospective buyers should refrain from a purchase at this supplier until a clarification of the issue. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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04.Nov.2007
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: xMAME-GUI 0.14
Alexander Weber has released an update to his graphical user interface for the AmigaOS 4 port of the emulator xMAME (screenshot). xNeoMAME und xCpMAME are also supported.
A screenshot shown when quitting and a status display when launching xMAME-GUI are counted among the improvements in version 0.14, in addition to an internal redesign and bug fixes. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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04.Nov.2007
ich (ANF)
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Amition.de: Eleven videos added
In addition to extensions to some subpages, eleven more videos were added to the Download and Amiga History areas on Amition.de.
In this connection, the operator would like to ask all Amiga fans to be allowed to make available video, commercials, show videos or TV recordings that may exist, for all other users on his web page. The format is irrelevant for this purpose.
Furthermore, since the day before yesterday, a faster server with more memory is at the disposal of Amition.de. Amition.info and Amition.mobi were added as further domains. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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03.Nov.2007
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Music and media festival: pong de
From 3rd until 24th November 2007 the project "pong de." presents in an interactive
exhibition program in "Kunstforum Köln" performances, experimental music and
multimedia art. Eighteen international active artists show their newest works.
For further information please have a look under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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03.Nov.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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GUI-Toolkit RxMUI 42.4, RSS-Client amrss MUI4 Light 5.50
Alfonso Ranieri has updated his programs RxMUI and amrss. With the first mentioned one you can program complex graphical user-interfaces. New in version 42.4 is the ButtonControlChar attribute for the classes Popstring and Popobject as well as PPMode for PopPen and PAMode for PenAdjust.
In the MorphOS-version MUI4 Light 5.50 of the RSS-client amrss the HTMLview support was deleted because currently it does not work under MUI4.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Nov.2007
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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MIDI-Sequencer: Horny 1.3
Press release: Horny is a midi sequencer in the style of e.g. "Logic®" or "Cubase®". Its focus is on easy and uncomplicated usage. Up to now Horny is a pure midi program and does not support audio.
From now on the program does only cost 29 Euro. A keyfile for the software sampler Phonolith (OS4) is still always inclusive!
New in version 1.3:
- optionally starts Phonolith and opens there the corresponding project (only OS4)
- AmiUpdate support (only OS4)
- application.library support (only OS4)
- with ALT mouse wheel axis can be changed (only OS4)
- Maus wheel now works in editor window (OS3/newmouse)
- Latency compensation for each MIDI-port
Comment to the future of Horny:
The begin of the development of Horny was started to a time when I had not the knowledge of good programming. Therefore it is not possible to implement new features and even to fix bugs it is rather complicated.
This update 1.3 probably will be the last one with new features. At most you can expect minor bug fixes. Before I started programming Phonolith I started writing a new implementation of Horny for OS4. Probably I will continue developing it after Phonolith 1.0. But this will take a while.
Features in version 1.3:
Midi:
- Up to 16 midi ports usable with CAMD (Lite: 1 port)
- Up to 128 tracks (Lite: 16 tracks)
- Signature and tempo changes inside songs possible
- Midi mixer: VU meter, volume, pan, 6 more (Lite: 3) chooseable controller
- Automation of all mixer parameters direct in tracks
- SysEx manager with as many sort groups as you like
- Controller transformer e.g. for controlling volume with modulation wheel
- eXtream Sync support for synchronizing with AudioEvolution 4 and other software
- Latency compensation for every midi port
Editors:
- Piano Editor: Quantizing (with triplet support), velocity compessor,...
- Controller Editor: Compressor, reducing, smoothing,...
- Multiple undo/redo in piano/controller editor
- Position marker in arranger window
- Complete overview of projects in arranger window
- Sound selection with names (not only GeneralMidi, but able to extend for any synthesizers)
- Midi controllers are named for any supported synthesizers as well
File:
- SMF import and export
- Horny file format is up- and downwards compatible
- Autoload project for your own templates
- SysEx files import and export in SysEx Manager
User Interface:
- ReAction GUI at setting windows
- On Workbench or own screen
- Arranger window can be used as background (backdrop)
- locale.library support: Up to now german and english
- Some GUI elements are 24 bit graphics (PNG files)
- Mouse wheel support for scrolling in editors (OS4 and NewMouse)
- application.library support with docky icon (OS4)
- AmiUpdate support (OS4)
- Starts Phonolith and opens project for song automaticly (OS4)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Nov.2007
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IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.7 beta 20
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat. Have a look at the last changes in the Changelog. WookieChat is available for all Amiga systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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WinUAE: Specially optimized versions of HSMathLibs
The HSMathLibs replace or patch several mathematical libraries of the operating system with specially optimized versions for certain processors. For the first time there is a version for WinUAE. The HSMathLibs-archive is shareware.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2007
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
In the last two months the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement the following articles were added:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of september/october 2007
- Interview with Wolfgang Hosemann et Niels Schapke (Insane Software)
- Review of IBrowse 2.4
- Review of Lords Of The Realm
- Review of Turbo Jam
- Review of Arkanoid
- Review of Battle Chess
- Review of Obliterator
- Review of Marble Madness
- Review of Mouse Trap
- Hardware : d'Amiga Developer Workstation
- File : History Of The Amiga - year 2001
- File : the emoticons (update)
- File : Anti Gravity's try to buy the Amiga in 1999/2000
- Tutorial : retrieve a not available web page
- Tutorial : speed up a hard drive
- Tutorial : code a Lego Game in E language
- Tutorial : installation and utilisation of SFS on AmigaOS 4
- Tutorial : FxPaint - draw a starry sky
- Quizz of september/october 2007
- Special quizz about adventure games
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2007
Mario Heide (ANF)
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Podcast: Interview with Aaron Digulla (AROS)
After the first issue in June 2007 the podcast for alternative computer systems (pofacs) comes back with the 12th issue.
In the current issue Aaron Digulla who is the initiator of the free source-code operating system AROS talks about its development and future.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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WinUAE: Updates for AmiKit 1.3.x installations
Older installations of AmiKit which is a full distribution for WinUAE users can be updated to version 1.4.0 with two update packages.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2007
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Fred Fish memorial archive
Press release: Hello and welcome to the first small update of the Back to the Roots archive since our main archive down time. Now after
successfully moving the project to a new server we have enough
resources again to continue growing our service.
To increase our update frequency (in preference to the rare monster updates
we did before) we decided to offer smaller topic wise updates from now on, and group them to the huge updates you are used to from the past.
We want to send a big thank you to more than 200 people who
donated to our server hardware money collection. We will in
turn try to give each free byte some honourful content.
Big thanks also goes to the patience of all contributors,
not to pull their money back during our rest!
First of all we started a new subproject, dedicated to one
of the most famous Amiga activists ever:
The Fred Fish memorial archive is our tribute to Fred where
we try to document his entire life work project wise, offering
his work (licensed by himself) and his cooperative projects
(so far co-licensed by Danny Amor, Leslie Dietz, Eric Schwartz,
Mark Stanley) for free download. The first 8 CDs are already
online since a while, many further ones will follow.
As a second part of our tribute we host the homepage of Fred
and his wife Michelle (and their dogs), documenting the last
adventureful years of Fred's life cruising the ocean in a boat
called "DiveAdx", going swimming, diving and deep sea fishing.
Just pure Fish.
More to come soon.... (cg)
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31.Oct.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Amiga Times online
Press release All Issues of the german online-magazine "Amiga Times" are now on the Amiga Future website online for free download.
The Amiga Times CD-ROM can be ordered at our online-shop. (snx)
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30.Oct.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News: WBSudoku 1.5.0, expat.library 2.0.1
WBSudoku 1.5.0
Ralf Berg has published an update of his implementation of the figure puzzle Sudoku. Changes in version 1.5.0:
- seperate name for the program: WBSudoku
- automatic generation of masks for external graphics
- Option on window movement correction added
- commodities.lib and locale.lib are not required any longer
- Action "delete" with sound and anim added
- Command "FigureSkin" deleted and replaced by "Figures"; therefore no 5th column required.
Link: Homepage
expat.library 2.0.1
The aexpat.library ported by Alfonso Ranieri to AmigaOS and MorphOS is a XML-parser-library which was written in C.
Link: Download page
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Oct.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 29.10.2007
These are the latest uploads to Aminet which have been added since our last message:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 22K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
Term.lha comm/term 3.7M OS3 *The* terminal program for the Amiga
getvideo.lha comm/www 10K GEN get FLV files from YouTube etc.
AMOSlist-1998-09.lha dev/amos 165K GEN AMOSlist archives for September 1998
libtiff.lha dev/lib 1.0M OS4 libtiff - tiff image library
diskimage_src.lha dev/src 17K GEN Ex. device (stripped down diskimage.dev)
diskimage_device.lha disk/misc 143K OS4 Disk image device (adf,dms,ipf,iso,...)
swraid_device.lha disk/misc 8K OS4 Software RAID (ALPHA release)
td64patch.lha disk/misc 6K OS4 Patch NSD64 (OS4) devices to support TD6
AMI_ATX.lha docs/hard 115K OS3 Turn off an ATX PSU from the shell + mor
AntiGrav.lha docs/misc 28K GEN Anti_Gravity_Guide
3DSndPrefs.lha driver/audio 21K MOS 3DSndPrefs, GUI for setup3dsnd
Wazp3D.lha driver/video 760K OS3 CPU only Warp3D v4.2 implementation
wesnoth-devel.lha game/strat 89M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth (development version)
beastieworker-0.4-mos.lha game/think 2.4M MOS 3D Sokoban
tail-tale-06.01.13-mos.lha game/think 2.7M MOS Arcade puzzler with Manga theme
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 367K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 579K MOS Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator
trdetz-mos.lha misc/emu 22K MOS TRD Spectrum utilities
Calculator.lha misc/math 26K VAR AROS backport, gadtools based
W4R_MORN.lha mods/anakir 425K GEN the morning after - heavy, quirky
W4R_UNFI.lha mods/anakir 157K GEN unfinish - guitars and synths
cutmp3-bin-m68k.lha mus/misc 406K VAR simple, powerful mpeg audio editor (+src
flite_device.lha mus/misc 3.8M OS4 Device API based on Flite Speech Engine
FSay.lha mus/misc 11K OS4 A say command for Flite
shellplayer_os4.lha mus/play 6K OS4 ptplay.lib based commandline .mod-player
xmp_68k.lha mus/play 199K OS3 Play & convert various mod formats.
BeBlue.lha pix/back 3.0M GEN BeBlue wallpaper
MorphOS_gray.lha pix/back 954K GEN MorphOS_gray wallpaper
StateOfTheArt.lha pix/back 870K GEN StateOfTheArt wallpaper
AB-GlowIcons_Suite.lha pix/gicon 1.9M GEN AB-GlowIcons_Suite
AmiGG-Drawer.lha pix/icon 117K GEN AmiGG-Drawer-Icons
Lifter.mpg pix/mpg 545K GEN Lifter.mpeg
Drawer-Icons.lha pix/picon 827K MOS Drawer Icons in PNG MOS Format
thaicheck.lha text/misc 26K VAR Tool to check Thai text for validity
thaiconv.lha text/misc 49K VAR Convert text between diff. Thai encoding
IconBeFast.lha util/boot 122K OS3 patch for faster icons & color mapping
ShellUpdate.lha util/boot 109K OS3 Update Os 3.9 BB2 Shell to 45.27
Assign-MorphOS.lha util/cli 20K MOS Unofficial assign command
IFF2rexx.lha util/conv 1K GEN Convert IFF data to rexx source
akTIFF-dt.lha util/dtype 497K VAR akTIFF-dt (TIFF, 68000-060/MOS)
MidiDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 12K GEN MIDI DataType Preferences Editor
ptplaylib_os4.lha util/libs 51K OS4 play/decode protracker modules
T1ManagerM.lha util/libs 18K GEN T1Manager New Design Mock-Up
AminetReadme-fr.lha util/misc 4K GEN AminetReadme french catalog
aminetreadme.lha util/misc 61K OS4 Aminet .readme creator
ElMeter.lha util/misc 69K OS4 Electricity+water consumption monitor
ElladaMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Greece country for MorphOS and AmigaOS
KiwiMOS.lha util/sys 2K GEN New Zealand country for MorphOS/AmigaOS
LietuvaMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Lithuania country for MorphOS
MexicoMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Mexico country for MorphOS and AmigaOS
clockita.lha util/time 76K OS3 Italian clock with INVISIBILITY OPTION
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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