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19.May.2007



IRC client: Wookiechat 2.6 for all Amiga systems
James "jahc" Carroll makes version 2.6 of his MUI based IRC client Wookiechat available. The latest changes can be found in the changelog. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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18.May.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Seattle Times: "A history of troubles"
After Amiga Inc. announced to support the planned Kent Event Center the local press is interested in the history of Amiga.

The Seattle Times has published a summary of the several problems of Amiga having had during the last years. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.May.2007
AmigaSpeed (ANF)


Benchmarks: AmigaSpeed with new MIPS-values
AmigaSpeed which is a website about speed test comparisons of different Amiga system configurations was updated after a longer break. Under PPC new MIPS-values was entered to current PowerPC-processors which could be used in future Amigas. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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18.May.2007
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Gimp 2.2.13 Alpha for Cygnix
Edgar Schwan has published another alpha version of the picture editing software Gimp for his X11-enviroment Cygnix.

A publication of another unfinished alpha version was not planned but Schwan decided to do it because there were several requests to a new Gimp port.

The Gimp-plugins still does not work in this version. Therefore Gimp can only load graphics in XCF format. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.May.2007
AROS-Exec (Webseite)


Team AROS: USB-Massstorage-Bounty
After the implementation of an USB support under AROS now there is a bounty for a DOS-device which can be mounted to use a filesystem on a USB stick. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.May.2007
Tommy Strand (ANF)


IRC session with Jan Zahurancik
On Sunday, 27th of May, CEST 20:00 the news site Amigaweb.net will organize an IRC session with the AmiKit developer Jan Zahurancik at #Amiga channel of the EFnet network. You can get further information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.May.2007
Murakami (ANF)


Print-Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR #38
Issue #38 of the French print-magazine aMiGa=PoWeR is available and contains the following topics among others:
  • AmigaOS 4 Final Update
  • AmiPhoto 1.5.1
  • IBrowse 2.4
  • DvPlayer 0.58
  • Robin Hood
  • HP Laserjet 1320
  • TuneNet v0.84.84...
  • Amikit-Optimisation
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French newspaper issued by AFLE that was created in 1998 and is entirely laser-printed. (snx)

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17.May.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.5.2 Release Candidate 1
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the famous pc strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" from the nineties, with a lot of extensions - e. g. a network mode, individual graphics sets and adaptiones for more than two dozens of languages.

The version 0.5.2-RC1 fixes several bugs of its previous version - especially the ones which caused a crash of the server and client, whenever you burned a bridge where a vehicle was present.

Fixed bugs:
  • Fix: Loading some TTDP savegames caused an instant assertion on loading (r9857)
  • Fix: [NewGRF] Catch occurance of division-by-zero in varaction handling (r9837)
  • Fix: Only non dedicated servers cannot have 0 players [FS#765] (r9785)
  • Fix: Remove arbitrary limit on length of NewGRF strings (r9775)
  • Fix: [NewGRF] Ignore axis-bit of station tile layouts [FS#756] (r9758)
  • Fix: [win32] Dead key and open/close console. (r9728)
  • Fix: When you have closed the \"Load game\"/\"New game\" windows which you started from the \"start server\" menu, you shouldn\'t start a server when starting a new game [SF#1244842] (r9757)
  • Fix: Trains were lost after autorenewal/autoreplace [FS#732] (r9753)
  • Fix: Stop flooded towns from building roads on water [FS#598] (r9743)
  • Fix: Station signs were not resized when the language changed [FS#672] (r9741)
  • Fix: In news history, newlines were not replaced with spaces [FS#677] (r9731)
  • Fix: Crash when destroying bridge with train partially on it [FS#738] (r9726)
  • Fix: Planes made a 270 degree turn instead of a 90 degree turn on the southern runway of the intercontinental airport [FS#743] (r9725)
  • Fix: In-game private messages did not work for clients with high ClientIDs (r9719)
  • Fix: Do not allow building of rail vehicles whose railtype is not available (r9718)
  • Fix: [YAPF] The guessed path was ignored for ships [FS#736] (r9694)
Additional changes in the MorphOS version which are officially included in version 0.5.2-rc2 and final:
  • Feature: Add threading support for MorphOS (r9759)
  • Fix: Null pointer dereference under MorphOS and AmigaOS (r9861)
(snx) (Translation: tz)

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17.May.2007
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


Documentation and Tutorial for Blenders Fluid-Engine (Update)
Since version 2.4.4 the so called "fluid engine" of the 3d package Blender is also working for the MorphOS port. If somebody wants to get familiar with it, for example simulating floating water or engine oil, should have a look into the Fluid tutorial at blender.org.

Update: (18:52, 17.05.07, snx)
Carsten Siegner has released an animation demo (DivX, 553 KB), which was composed with the MorphOS version of Blender. (cg) (Translation: tz)

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17.May.2007
Pegasosforum (forum)


MorphOS: MUI4-Betaversion from April 25, 2007
Stefan Stuntz has released another beta version of MUI 4.0 for MorphOS.

Annotations and features since March 2007:
  • MUI_RequestA() no longer calls EasyRequestArgs() but new app object is created if there is none (itix)
  • When window ActiveObject is cleared, remember to clear ActiveObjectPostPoned, too (piru)
  • Named (previously unnamed) MUIC_Process which handles ImageSpace flushing on Screen close to 'MUI Screen Patrol' (tokai)
  • Don't add Zoom gadget to Window borders when it has no use - e.g. in fixed size requesters (tokai)
  • Added support for scaled background images. Still sort of experimental
  • Added auto-horizontalization for slider & prop knobs
Download: muibeta_20070425.lha (2,9 MB) (snx) (Translation: tz)

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17.May.2007
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


Compiler: ECX 1.6.0
ECX is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS and MorphOS. ECX requires a present installation of the Amiga-E package. The new features of version 1.6.0 can be read in the changelog. (snx) (Translation: tz)

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16.May.2007
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


Navigation: ARexx skripts for Mapquest
Carsten Siegner has created three ARexx skripts for usage with the Mapquest roadmap service.

Amigaearth.rexx: Amigaearth.rexx is an Amiga client with GUI for the German Mapquest server. This server is a online database providing free downloadable roadmaps. The server holds maps of the whole earth.

Mapquestclient.rexx: Mapquestclient.rexx is a shell based client for the German Mapquest server.

Amiganavi.rexx: Amiganavi.rexx is navigation program with GUI. it supports GPS nouses, which support the NMEA-0183 protocol and have a serial RS232 connector. The script fetches position data from the GPS mouse and gets the according maps from the Mapquest server.

Download: amiearth.lha (288 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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16.May.2007
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Dictionaries for AbiWord 2.5.1
For the word processor AbiWord, which is, thanks to Edgar Schwan's X11 environment Cygnix effort, available for AmigaOS 4, there are dictionaries for spelling control available at the OS4Depot for the following languages.
  • Danish
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Italian
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Swedish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
(snx) (Translation: ub)

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16.May.2007
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Blender 2.44
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has released an update of his MorphOS port of Blender. The release log of version 2.43 of the 3D model software is available at the Blender homepage. The new version supports, like the predecessor version, ffmpeg support. Also the Fluite engine is available with this version again. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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16.May.2007
Amiga.org (webeite)


AROS homepage in new clothes
The homepage of the open source operating system AROS got a new design which also accounts to the recent name change of the project (amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: ub)

[News message: 16. May. 2007, 07:27] [Comments: 0]
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15.May.2007
amigann.net (Webseite)


Schematics: Amiga 600/1200 documents in PDF format
At "Symbol Engine" there are schematics of the A600 and of the A1200 in PDF format. (cg) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 15. May. 2007, 15:36] [Comments: 0]
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15.May.2007



AROS: USB-stack has now beta status
The USB-stack implemented by Michael Schulz for AROS has got beta status and is now part of the "Nightly Builds" of the AROS-team.

Currently USB 1.1-controllers (UHCI, OHCI) work, USB 2.0-devices (EHCI) work in USB 1.1 compatibility modus. Drivers currently are only available for input devices like mouses and keyboards. (cg) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 15. May. 2007, 15:15] [Comments: 0]
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15.May.2007
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Magazine: The Crypt - Issue 49
The 49th issue of the English magazine called The Crypt contains two Amiga projects with the topics "Switching From PAL To NTSC And Back Again" and "A Simple 100 Hz To 10 KHz Square Wave Generator". (snx) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 15. May. 2007, 07:21] [Comments: 0]
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14.May.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: Issue 29 and 30 online available
Pressrelease: The issues 29 and 30 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that you can read the two magazines (amongst many other issues) online at the homepage . The issue 66 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Just now we work hard on issue 67. No. 67 will be the first Amiga Future issue being published in German and English. We ask all interested users to order issue 67 as soon as possible because we'll print only the preordered amount plus a small reserve. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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14.May.2007



Aminet-Uploads until 13.05.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
FussballBundesliga.lha   biz/misc     29K    GEN   TurboCalc Spreadsheet Football (german)
A71Mail.lha              comm/www     71K    GEN   Email Form multilanguage written in php
gensconv-mos.lha         dev/cross    22K    MOS   Spectrum HiSoft Gens source converter
CDVDFS.lha               disk/cdrom  241K    MOS   CD/DVD filesys. (ISO,RockRidge,Joliet,HF
Africa.lha               game/board  206K    OS3   Conversion of 3W boardgame
changeit02.lha           game/board  413K    VAR   Logical game (Amiga Bejeveled clone)
Saga.lha                 game/board  352K    OS3   Conversion of TSR boardgame
Xenostar.lha             game/shoot  574K    OS3   A 1994 tribute to Sinistar of 1982 fame
tdpowerswap.lha          game/think  171K    MOS   simple logical game
SView5.lha               gfx/misc    2.9M    VAR   SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
anaiis.lha               hard/drivr   82K    OS3   ANAIIS USB Stack Release 0.9
sna2tiff-mos.lha         misc/emu     12K    MOS   ZX Snapshot to TIFF Converter
xzx2plus3-mos.lha        misc/emu      9K    MOS   XZX Snapshot to +3DOS Converter
ZXLive.lha               misc/emu    102K    OS3   ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon128 Emulator
Immortal.lha             mods/cust   110K    OS3   Custom modules from "The Immortal"
Vindicators.lha          mods/cust   120K    OS3   Custom module from "Vindicators"
ZanyGolf.lha             mods/cust    53K    OS3   Custom module from "Zany Golf"
Desalmados.mp3           mods/mpg    3.5M    GEN   Very Dark Song by Diezi7
Light-Travel.mp3         mods/mpg    2.8M    GEN   Song by Diezi7
Nosequeconnioodecir.mp3  mods/mpg    1.4M    GEN   Extravaganza audio by Diezi7
simpleplay.lha           mus/play    604K    OS4   Plays MP3 OGG WAV VOC MOD S3M IT XM MIDI
Nowy_Sacz-Rynek.jpg      pix/views   164K    GEN   Next photo from Kamil Bankowski
ql_dt.lha                util/dtype   17K    OS3   Datatype for Sinclair QL pictures
eastern.lha              util/wb      39K    VAR   creates thumbnail icons on the fly
(cg) (Translation: aj)

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14.May.2007



os4depot.net: Uploads until 13.05.2007
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
simpleplay.lha      aud/pla  604kb  Plays MP3 OGG WAV VOC MOD S3M IT XM MIDI
hatari.lha          emu/com    1Mb  Atari ST and STE emulator.
whdload-to-uae.lha  emu/uti  145kb  WHDLoad to E-UAE
ww2.lha             gam/boa    3Mb  World War II strategy war game
changeit.lha        gam/puz  412kb  Logical game (Amiga Bejeveled clone)
availmempatch.lha   uti/mis    2kb  Limits RAM available to 68k apps
fontforge.lha       uti/tex    9Mb  FontForge 20061220 for AmigaOS 4 (Cygnix
eastern.lha         uti/wor   39kb  Creates thumbnail icons from images on t
maclikedock.lha     uti/wor    5Mb  A Visually Impressive Program Launcher
(cg) (Translation: aj)

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