25.Mar.2007
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS-Exec : Call for wall-papers
Due to a certain need for new Wanderer backgrounds, everyone is invited to the official "Call for wall-papers" at AROS-Exec.
The wallpapers should be placed in the AROS-Exec gallery and should have a minimal size of 800x600, images in multiple resolutions would be best.
Since there is no resizing of wallpapers supported in Wanderer, the image content might be aligned to the upper left corner, so using a 1024x786 background image in a 800x600 resolution would not cut any logos or sensitive parts.
All images must be released under APL and must not contain any foreign copyrighted materials!
The competition deadline is May 31st, after which a poll will be starting to nominate the winning image. This will be set as the default desktop background in the nightly builds. (snx)
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23.Mar.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: Game programming contest
Press release Chicago, Illinois – March 23rd, 2007 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., offers $1000 to the developer or team that can create a three level demo of a platform game starring Hottie, in the classic gaming style of Arabian Nights, Shadow of the Beast, Nicky Boom, Zool, etc.
"I have noticed game development for Amiga has seemed to stagnant and want to help change that, stated DiscreetFX's CEO. So begins a fun contest to sharpen your Amiga game creation coding skills. The three level demo you create will need to run on classic Amiga's and WinUAE/E-UAE/PSPUAE. We don't care so much if it is AGA or Amiga 500 specific. We care more of the quality and polish that will go into the demo. The game will need to star Hottie, DiscreetFX's leading virtual character.
Runner up prizes will also be offered and the winner will get a chance to complete the game and release it on AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, and other gaming systems.
More information will be available at the title link in the next week. For more information about this contest please contact DiscreetFX.
About DiscreetFX:
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing, computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing, computer graphics market when it went on sale in 1985.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Mar.2007
Amiga Resistance (ANF)
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Amiga-Resistance: New entries in FAQ collection (German)
The Amiga-Resistance-Team tries to collect several FAQs to bundle the knowledge about the Amiga. Each contribution is very welcome.
These FAQ and documentations have been added:
- MakeCD FAQ
- fxscan FAQ
- fxPaint FAQ
- VHI Studio FAQ
- VHI RS232 und Olympus.vhi FAQ
- IOUSB FAQ
- IBrowse FAQ
- IBrowse 2.4 Update FAQ
- AmigaOS FAQ
- Scandoubler/Flickerfixer FAQ
- Monitor/Television FAQ
- Workshop ArtEffect
- Jumper setting Blizzard 1230
- Guide Animate Turbo-Board I & II
- Guide M-Tec 68020
- Guide Blizzard 2040 ERC & 2060
- Guide Mach 2
- Guide Turbo Jet 1230
- Guide T1230 (Viper)
- Guide Blizzard 1230 IV / 1260 SCSI Kit
- Guide Blizzard 1240 ERC & 1260
- Guide Blizzard PPC / 603e & 603e Plus
- Guide Derringer030 & Derringer Platinum
- Guide Professional 020 / 030
- Guide AdSpeed
- Guide E-Matrix 530 (Viper 530)
- Guide Viper 520CD
- Guide Turbo CD
- Guide Hard-Disk Interface AlcompOMTI
- Guide AlfaPower BSC-HD
- Guide AmiQuest OverDrive (SmartStor)
- Guide AmiQuest OverDrive HD (SmartStor Plus)
- Guide AT-Bus 508
- Guide AT-Bus 2008
- Guide Tandem
- Guide Oktagon 500 & 508
- Guide Oktagon 2000 & 2008
- Guide COMBITEC AutoBoot-Karte
- Guide Commodore A570
- Guide Vector Falcon 570
Thus 160 entries are available. The permissions for publishing the guides were given by the authors via email. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Mar.2007
IOSPIRIT GmbH (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT GmbH quits the Amiga market
Press release IOSPIRIT GmbH ends its Amiga business on the 1st of April 2007.
In the future, IOSPIRIT GmbH will be focusing solely on its Mac®
products. In order to better serve the needs of that market and to be
able to process incoming orders faster and more efficiently, a
reimplementation of the shop system is currently being worked on.
The reasons for the decision to no longer operate in the Amiga market
are as follows:
- We want to fully commit to developing Mac® products in the future
- The big additional overhead that would be necessary to integrate (permanent) support for download and package versions of Amiga software into the new concept and the drawbacks that would come with this for the majority of our customers - which today are Mac® users
- The decreasing demand for Amiga products and the the situation of the Amiga market in general
IOSPIRIT's own Amiga titles will no longer be available beyond April,
1st, 2007 - except of course for remaining stock at dealers. The
future distribution as well as development and support of IBrowse will
be handled directly by the IBrowse development team. You can find
their website at ibrowse-dev.net.
Many thanks go to
- All of our customers and users for being loyal for so many years, which has made the development of our Amiga titles possible in the first place;
- All developer and scene buddies for the many interesting, reflective, funny, educational, helpful and amicable moments, anecdotes and experiences;
- All those, who have always been there to help with mental and moral support and an independant, second opinion.
We wish all of you all the best for the future and would be happy to
see you again over in the Mac® market. If you are interested in what
we are currently working on, you can find our Mac® products at
iospirit.com.
Sincerly,
Felix Schwarz (snx)
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23.Mar.2007
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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Burning program: Frying Pan 1.2.3
Tomasz 'Error' Wiszkowski has published an update of his CD and DVD burning program Frying Pan. The following problems were fixed:
- 0000064: [Behaviour] Prepared ISO files can not be deleted (Error)
- 0000060: [GUI] Window does not snapshot (Error)
- 0000063: [Data Handling / Plugins] icon files missing/mangled (Error)
- 0000059: [Behaviour] WAV import module loads files forever (Error)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Mar.2007
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Updates for Hollywood 2.5 and Hollywood Designer 2.0
Two new updates for users of Hollywood 2.5 and Hollywood Designer 2.0 are now available in the restricted area for customers on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
With these two updates it is now possible to use different charsets than ISO 8859-1 with Hollywood as well. This allows you for example to use Eastern European charsets with Hollywood. Furthermore, some bugs have been fixed and it is now possible to quit Hollywood without problems from a CLI using CTRL-C.
These two updates are only for users of the download versions of Hollywood 2.5 and Hollywood Designer 2.0. The versions that come on CD already contain the latest versions of Hollywood 2.5 and Hollywood Designer 2.0. All registered customers can now log onto the Airsoft Softwair homepage with their username and password and download the new versions.
Thanks go to Paul Bloedel, Lazar Zoltan, Rafal Chyla, Marco Fogli and Martin Cornelius for the bug reports. (snx)
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22.Mar.2007
Amiga Future (website)
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Amiga Magazin: Reading Rehearsals of Issues 2/07 and 3/07
From today on reading rehearsals of the issues 2/07 and 3/07 from the "Amiga Magazin" are online.
The released articles are related to the web browser Sputnik, certain PowerPC cpu's, AmigaOS 4 final, Ambient as well as shell- and Unix-commands on the Amiga. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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22.Mar.2007
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4: CPUTemp.docky 52.11
The new version 52.11 of the AmigaOS 4 program CPUTemp.docky fixes a bug of its predecessor which caused a crash in the workbench mode. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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22.Mar.2007
Moo Bunny (forum)
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Team AROS: First Alpha-Version of an USB Stack
Within the scheme of the team AROS bounties Michal Schulz has uploaded the first alpha version of an usb stack into the SVN version management of AROS now. Currently only usb mice are supported. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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22.Mar.2007
Kilian Servais (ANF)
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Magazin: Retro #3 published
Since this week the third release of the Retro magazine is available in stores. An item overview is given under the title link. The official press release is listed below:
About Hackers and Heroes
The fascination of computers and the number of those who are using them full of enthusiasm was increasing within the seventies. Small groups came up which were even occupied with the world of computers aside the universities. Every new piece of software was examined, analysed and passed on.
Bill Gate's idea of a software market came to the idealistic hacker's world like a bombshell. It was the opinion that every programmer acquired his knowledge from others and only a free exchange could guarantee a further development.
Bill Gates neither wanted to share his knowledge with others nor he wasn't prepared to allow that his software should be freely copied and changed by others. Being upset, finally he wrote a so called "open letter" to the Homebrew computer club. In it he claimed the ones as thieves who were using and copying his software without any payment.
Retro #3 shows Bill Gate's original letter from the year 1976 and gives impressions from hackers' ethics and crackers' philosophy. Furthermore there are scenes of Wau Holland, being figured as a co founder of the Chaos computer club.
Additional highlights in Retro #3 are a special about soccer manager games and the history of the Amstrad/Schneider CPC.
About Retro:
Exciting, funny and a special sense for retro trends - RETRO
offers everything from the cosmos of digital lifestyle. The magazine reports from video games, hard- and software for retro fans, but even introduces people and stories in the background. With a regular view of events all over the world RETRO informs you of all aspects from the digital retro culture. Even a cd-rom is attached to every issue - full of videos, sounds and games from the retro scene.
RETRO #3 consists of 96 pages and is in stores for 9,95 Euro since March 20, 2007. A cd-rom with 25 video games is part of this issue. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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21.Mar.2007
Amiga Future (website)
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WHDLoad: New pakages since Marc, the 3rd
With WHDLoad it becomes possible to install games and scene demos to harddisk which were originally intended for floppy disk use only. Also several incompatibilties with the younger Amiga models are removed.
The following installers were added, improved or updated since the last report:
- 21.03.07 updated: Real (Complex) rewritten, full caches, keyborad fixed, new installer (Info,Image)
- 20.03.07 improved: Holiday Maker (PM Entertainment/Software 2000) sound/gfx fixed, solution added, new install script (Info)
- 16.03.07 improved: Cybercon 3 (U.S.Gold) SMC fixed to work with caches, protection fixed, speedups, keyboard handling fixed (Info)
- 04.03.07 improved: Faktory (Virtual Dreams/Fairlight) uses less memory, full caches, new icons and install script (Info,Image)
- 04.03.07 improved: Elvira 2 - The Jaws of Cerberus (Horrorsoft/Accolade) supports another version, docs added (Info)
- 04.03.07 new: Pool Of Radiance (SSI) done by Psygore (Info)
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Mar.2007
Amiga Future (website)
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Development environment: Cubic IDE 1.9
The servicepack 9 of the development environment Cubic IDE comes with an internal PNG picture decoder, thus it isn't dependent on datatypes any longer and fixes the problem of possible crashes due to buffer overflow within teh rendering routine. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Mar.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.1-RC1
OpenTTD is an open source-clone of the Microprose classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe. The changes since the last version - mostly bugfixing - are listed at the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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20.Mar.2007
amigafuture (Webseite)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.3.2
AmiKit which is a complete distribution for WinUAE users is now available in version 1.3.2. The update can be installed with the integrated live update function or manually. Have a look at the changes here.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2007
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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Team AROS: Two bounty projects completed
At weekend two Team AROS bounties were completed: The DOS-paket-support as well as the VIA Rhine II-driver (inclusive arosTCP-update).
For the next weekend the first alpha version of an USB stack for AROS will be expected.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiBroker: Keyfile released
Tomasz Janeczko, the author of AmiBroker which is a stock exchange analyzing program has released a keyfile for his Amiga program. For several years only the Windows version of this program is developed further and sold.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2007
Darren Eveland (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Remote Desktop 2007-1
Darren Eveland writes: I am very happy to announce a new version of the Remote Desktop client for OS4! The new version includes support for connecting to Windows Vista machines, automatic stack checking and the latest GUI all in one package.
For MorphOS users, an updated version will follow shortly.
For users who have donated, please E-mail darrenhd@gmail.com and I will send you the latest version after verifying your prior (or new) donation.
For OS4 users who have not donated I have put together a special archive with the latest GUI included, but an older version of the client so you can try it out.
The features of the Remote Desktop client are:
- Connect to NT/2000 Server/2003 Server/XP Pro
- Window or Full Screen
- Audio re-direction
- Clipboard support
- Full Featured GUI
- Connect to Multiple remote machines
- 16-bit Colour Support
- Faster than VNC
The full featured version, available to users who have donated, include all of the above features plus:
- Windows Vista connectivity
- Automatic Stack checking
- Persistant Cache (upto 20 mb)
- Connection Bar
- Mouse Adjustments
- Performance Increases
- Many bug fixes
Please visit http://www.hd-zone.com to download.
There is a screenshot of the latest version running on OS4 final here.
Thank you for your continued support! The full-featured and modern client would not have been possible without your continued and generous donations.
New donations are accepted on http://www.hd-zone.com by using the PayPal button. If you do not have access to PayPal please send me an E-mail and we can make alternate arrangements.
Darren Eveland
http://www.hd-zone.com (snx)
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19.Mar.2007
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: Winner of the PageStream-lottery are notified
DiscreetFX has notified the winner of the PageStream-lottery today (amiga-news.de reports).
One Lizenz for PageStream 5.0 are won by: Vicente Gimeno
Varthall, Steffan Hallin, John Ryan, Steve Etherington and Korey Miller. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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19.Mar.2007
Moo Bunny (Webseite)
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Veranstaltung: Videos from the Gateway Amiga-Show 2001
On YouTube this month several Videos from the Gateway Amiga-Show 2001 released. A Report of this event was writen at that time by Markus Nerding for amiga-news.de.
There Has Never Been a Better Time for Amiga
AmigaOne Computer Presented at Gateway Amiga 2001 Show
AmigaOS 4.0 Presented at Gateway Amiga 2001 Show
Amiga 2001: Incredible Opportunities and Nice Money (snx) (Translation: aj)
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19.Mar.2007
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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Interview: VICE-Entwickler Marco van den Heuvel
Paul Beel from "The AROS Show" has interviewed Marco "Blacky Stardust" van den Heuvel, he is involved in the development of the Commodore-Emulators VICE and is also responsible for the several Amiga Operating System Ports of this Project.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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19.Mar.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.03.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha biz/misc 28K GEN TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
LCR-I.lha comm/misc 82K OS3 LeastCostRouter German Internet Provider
LCR-P.lha comm/misc 44K OS3 LeastCostRouter Print-Tool
LCR-T.lha comm/misc 78K OS3 LeastCostRouter German Telefon Provider
LCR.lha comm/misc 204K OS3 LeastCostRouter Suite
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 1.7M OS3 The Gallery/Onlineshop Creator for Amiga
clockita.lha dev/basic 74K OS3 Italian clock with invisibility option
cc65-morphos.lha dev/cross 4.2M MOS 65(C)02 cross development package.
objectbrowser.lha dev/e 34K OS3 Object Browser / System Explorer
libfreetype2-morphos.lha dev/gg 1.5M MOS Freetype2 for MorphOS
MCC_TheBarSP.lha dev/mui 9K GEN MCC TheBar 21.x spanish catalog v21.3.0
Python_Enhancement.lha dev/src 271K OS3 Enhancing Python Code, Classic AMIGAs.
BlizkickA4000CPPC.lha docs/help 2K GEN How to get Blizkick work with A4000+CPPC
wesnoth.lha game/strat 63M OS4 Battle for Wesnoth (stable version)
jhead-mos.lha gfx/conv 106K MOS manipulate non-image parts of Exif JPEGs
lunapaint-morphos.lha gfx/edit 893K MOS Open source paint and animation program
optipng-bin-m68k.lha gfx/misc 115K OS3 Advanced PNG optimizer(m68k)
optipng-mos.lha gfx/misc 1.5M MOS PNG lossless optimizer (reduces filesize
optipng.lha gfx/misc 162K OS4 Advanced PNG optimizer
SView5.lha gfx/misc 2.9M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
EVSkullflags.lha gfx/show 148K GEN Skullflags for Eye Viewer Velázquez/Goya
tdmplayergui0.8.lha gfx/show 57K MOS GUI interface for MorphOS port of mplaye
ircom.lha hard/drivr 320K VAR V2.11 Infra red driver system
ircomremote.lha hard/drivr 210K VAR Control your computer by using a remote
mmkeyboard.lha hard/drivr 615K VAR V3.24 Multmedia keyboard driver
buildcpr-mos.lha misc/emu 15K MOS Amstrad Binary to CPR converter tool
Handy095.lha misc/emu 308K OS3 Lynx emulator 0.95 for Amiga 68K
SMSplusWOS.lha misc/emu 173K VAR Sega Mastersystem/Game Gear emulator
warpsnes-wos.lha misc/emu 587K WUP SNES Emulator for WarpOS
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 102K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon128 Emulator
playOGG.lha mus/play 1.3M OS3 multi format sound player.
CygnusEd_5_FR.lha text/edit 16K GEN French catalogs for CygnusEd Pro 5.x.
meridian.lha util/cdity 333K VAR V2.23 PDA like input system
AmigaRFIDControl.lha util/misc 36K OS3 RFID Control PRG for codatex Reader
Aminet-Readme-Creator.lha util/misc 43K OS3 Generates Aminet upload .readme file
aminetreadme.lha util/misc 43K OS4 Aminet .readme creator
datetime_docky.lha util/time 23K OS4 Docky that displays the current time and
Palette.lha util/wb 34K OS3 Change WB-Color(s) in realtime
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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