18.Nov.2006
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PlayStation 3 - Sony allows second operating system
According to Golem Sony Computer Entertainment allows its customers to install a second operating system on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) with the help of Boot-Loader.
The guest operating system can be set as default operating system and can be loaded instead of the PS3 system software whenever you boot it.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Nov.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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eMail: Current YAM developer versionen now with SPAM-filter
The current "Nightly Builds" of the well-known eMail program YAM now have an integrated SPAM-filter. You can find a short description of the current status in the Changelog. The filter is based on the filter of Thunderbird and was adapted to YAM by Thore Böckelmann.
The so called "Nightly Builds" of YAM are developer versions which might contain bugs and therefore only should be used by experienced users. There are versions for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Nov.2006
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AROS: New version of WinAros with AROS-native gcc
With WinAros it is possible to test the operating system AROS under Windows and to work with programs which were developed with e.g. AmiDevCpp. Under the title link there is a new version which is based on the last "Nigthly Build" of the AROS-team and contains an AROS-native version of the C-Compiler gcc.
Direct Download: WinArosDeveloper_QEMU.rar (42 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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EasyADF Transfer Kit 1.5
The software EasyADF Transfer Kits was updated to version 1.5. It makes possible the use of Compact Flash cards over the PCMCIA-port of an Amiga 1200 and 600.
Changes:
- Floppy disk Format/Verify options
- Floppy track options
- Create floppy disks from ADFs in batches
- File Management functions with keyboard shortcuts
- Context sensitive pop-up help/mouse pointers
- Support for the forthcoming EasyNet update
For existing customers the update is for free.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Subfont 1.0
Maxim Ilyins Subfont for MorphOS helps edge smoothing for fonts which are used by the video player MPlayer.
The font.desc-file can be created for each code. According to the author Subfont should work with TrueTyp and Type1 as well as each other font types which are supported by libfreetype.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: German catalog file for Gallerius
Under the title link Hans-Jörg Ottinger has published a German catalog file for the MorphOS programm Gallerius. With Gallerius you can create HTML galleries.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Sound Blaster 128-AHI-driver 5.23
Ross Vumbaca has published version 5.23 of his Sound Blaster 128-AHI-driver.
The driver supports the Ensoniq ES1370 as well as all Creative Labs-PCI-soundcards which are not based on the emu10k1-Chip or a version of it (z.B. "SB Live").
The update now works with the new memory system of AmigaOS 4. The author points out that the driver is and will be for free but every donation is very welcome.
Download: sb128ahi.lha (16 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2006
Heise Online (Webseite)
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Heise: SciTechs SNAP-graphic driver canceled
According to Heise Online SciTech will stop the development of its SNAP-graphic driver. It is also known in the Amiga world because of a licence agreement for integrating it to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Nov.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future celebrates 8th anniversary
Press release: This month Amiga Future celebrates its 8th anniversary. Thats a good reason for use to celebrate. Eight years ago most of the users thought we would hold on only for few months.
In November/December 1998 the first issue of the Amiga Future was printed.
Because of delivery reasons Amiga Future first was published as special issue so the first issue was not named 1 but 11.
From the beginning the Amiga Future was published each second month with Cover-CD.
With issue 27 the editorial stuff became self-employed. All articles were written by themselves. Besides this the delivery of the magazine was made by them, too.
Meanwhile issue 63 was published and we are already working on the next issue of the Amiga Future.
During the next weeks we will start some little but nice actions on the Amiga Future homepage and there will be some bigger updates, too.
We start with a special offer for all fans of the Amiga Future-reader-CD. Directly on the start page of our shop you can find this limited offer.
Several older single issues you can order in our onlineshop.
We would like to thank all editors, firms and users who helped us creating the Amiga Future and of course to thank all readers of the Amiga Future.
Andreas Magerl,
Amiga Future / APC&TCP (snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Nov.2006
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Java is Open Source
Last Monday Sun has announced the release of all source codes of their java technology under the General Public License (GPL). (cg) (Translation: tz)
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16.Nov.2006
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Dragon 1200: Further Informations published
The organizers of the exhibition AmiZaduszki 2006 (amiga-news.de reported) have prepared informations, confirmed by Elbox, about the Coldfire board Dragon 1200 at the pages of the Polish Amiga-portal PPA. An English translation of the Polish announcement was provided by'yak'.
The first shipment of the Dragon 1200 is planned for the end of December this year. The speed of 68k software running at the Coldfire-Board could be compared with the speed of a 68040 to 68060 cpu.
Further details:
- AmigaOS 3.9 would run at the Dragon 1200
- The Dragon board could run as a stand alone unit, but not under AmigaOS 3.9, as this takes access to the Amiga hardware
- An AROS port is under work
- Software to convert 68k-assembler-source code for the Coldfire cpu should exist as well as a GCC-compiler for the Coldfire
- The price without vat is calculated with 349 Euro, a discount for the return of a Mediator-busboard is planned
- The former delays were caused by problems with the cpu's provided by Freescale, furthermore 68k emulation libraries provided by Freescale didn't work
- Besides the Amiga market the Dragon-board (in a stand alone mode) addresses under Linux the industry; even Freescale is interested in this
- A PowerPC option realized as a pci card for den Dragon could be possible
- The Dragon's cpu module doesn't strictly depend on a Coldfire cpu, but a different cpu could be used in future
(snx) (Translation: tz)
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16.Nov.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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File System: SFS 1.264 / 1.265 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has released version 1.264 of the alternative file system SFS for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4 under the title link. The update fixes a bug during the build of softlinks.
Update: (08:36, 17.11.06, snx)
Meanwhile version 1.265 has been released for AmigaOS 3.x. The update fixes a bug in the 68k version. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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16.Nov.2006
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Minimig: Photo of the finished Rev. 1.0 Board
Dennis van Weeren, developer of the fpga-based Amiga 500 clone Minimig, has released a photo of the final mounted and running board rev 1.0 under the title link.
The two layer pcb with the very small dimensions of 120 x 120 mm includes the components which were separated from the prototype (photo) yet. (snx) (Translation: tz)
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15.Nov.2006
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IRC client: WookieChat 2.4 beta 15
James Carroll provides a new beta version of his MUI based IRC client Wookiechat
(Changelog)
Direct download: wookiechat2_4_beta15_11thNov2006.lha (682 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Nov.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Strategy games Globulations 2 and Battle for Wesnoth 1.11.12
Globulations 2
Globulations 2 is a real time strategy game (screen shot),
in which the player is supported by autonomously acting units.
Link: download page
Battle for Wesnoth 1.11.12
Battle for Wesnoth is a round based fantasy strategical, the AmigaOS port stems from Fredrik Wikstrom. Version 1.11.12 includes many small changes
which are listed at the read me.
Link: download page (cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Nov.2006
AROS-Exec
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Feelin 11.0
Olivier Laviales' open source project Feelin, an object oriented system for AmigaOS, is now available in version 11.0
(screen shots).
Changes:
"Although this new release is a major update, it's still very far from my goals. A huge set of features was added, mainly related to styles, but unfortunately I had to disable the preference system and some classes in order to push a release (9 monthes since last release).
Please note that the website address is no longer http://www.gofromiel.com/feelin but http://feelin.gofromiel.com. Please update your bookmark.
SYSTEM
This version introduce Atoms, which associate a unique numeric representation to a string, making string comparison child play. I was previously using a Hash tables for this purpose, this method is far more better.
CSS
The preferences were already stored in CSS files since last release, but it was a "stupid" implementation. This updated one is still very limited, since it doesn't support selectors, but it finaly introduces pseudo classes and *real* inheritence.
Previsouly inheritence was granted because classes attributes where overriting one another, which is stupid and *very* limited. Now a 'style-cache' is created based on an object's true class and its inheritence. The 'style-cache' has the same properties as the previous 'associated data' technique: the style of an object 'type' if decoded only once and shared *a lot*. For example, if you have 1000 buttons in a window, their style is decoded once then cached and shared with the 999 others.
More over, there is now a *clear* distinction between attributes and style properties. For example, there is no longer any FA_Area_Background" attribute, but a "background" property.
Most attributes have been replaced with their CSS conterparts: "background", "border", "padding", "min-width", "max-height"... This version also introduce the "margin" property, which can now be used to add invisible space around objects.
Obviously as in HTML you can use multiple classes as style class: "button confirm warn".
ELEMENT / AREA / WIDGET
Because of the new 'styles' support, the Area class has to be rewritten. It is now a subclass of the Element class. Its sole purpose is to handle low level graphics such as backgrounds, palettes, fonds... All 'event' implementation has been moved into the new Widget class.
COLORS
CSS definitions where already used to define colors, but it was limited to hex values (#FF00FF), HTML keywords (aqua, black...) and Feelin keywords (shine, fill). With this update colors definitions are complete since the functionnal rgb() is now available!
IMAGES
Image specifications where defined using XML format, which was nice at the time, but I realize it was stupid and to much of a job ! Now images are simply defined as CSS does, with some extentions.
Obviously you can create solid background using the "red" keyword, but you can create a two color gradient using "red blue", a three color gradient using "red green blue", and an 'aqua style' gradient using four colors. Additionally you can define the angle of the gradient: "red blue 45°".
Brushes are currently disabled, but you can use pictures instead, and it's as simple as this: "url(logo.png") ! CSS 'positionning' is completely handled as well as 'repeat'. I've exented specification which the 'multiple' keyword, which can be used to split an image in four states: normal, touch, focus and ghost. Finaly, you can also 'tint' a transparent image by simple adding a color specification if the declaration: "url(logo.png) red"." (snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.Nov.2006
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: ablit.library 0.4b with full OpenGL 1.3 implementation
The version 0.4b of the ablit.library is a full working, but restricted to the software renderer prerelease, contains a full
OpenGL 1.3 implementation now.
The Alpha Channel Blit Library by Jürgen Schober adds AmigaOS 4 the missing alpha channel and merge support.
Also the C++ multithreading library by the same author, libSPS, has been updated to support the ablit.library now.
Download:
ablit.lha (3 MB)
libsps.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.Nov.2006
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: texinfo 4.8-1 supports AmigaGuide format
The to the GNU documentation system texinfo 4.8-1 for AmigaOS 4 belonging version of makeinfo supports the creation of AmigaGuide documents now.
Download: texinfo-bin.lha (507 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.Nov.2006
ANN (website)
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Czechia: Amiga Klub Forever welcomes the 200th member
The Czechian Amiga Klub Forever,
the successor of the Amiga Klub Frýdlant (Friedland in Bohemia), welcomed the 200th
member these days.
The Czechian and Slovakin Members run a Forum including advertising area and provide reports about Amiga hard and software. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.Nov.2006
Duke (ANF)
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Amiga Games That Weren't: 16 new entries
Amiga Games That Weren't, a websete which is dedicated to lost Amiga games has been updated yesterday. Newly added was the information
and download options for the following 16 games:
- Arcadia demo / Our-Type
- Beach-Head
- Beach-Head II
- Blast Squad
- City Limits
- Deep Silence: The Secret Of My Soul
- Egg
- Fantastic Island
- Flipover
- Man Machine
- Orb-It
- Outlander
- Outlander II
- Raid Over Moscow
- Vac-Suit Jack
- Vaporizer
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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15.Nov.2006
ANN (website)
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Team AROS: Efika bounty increased to 1010 USD / developer program reopened
The bounty for an AROS port to bplan's Efika board
surpassed the 1000 US$ barrier.
Because Genesis Efika developer program has been
reopened for application until November the 19th, there is still the chance to obtain a
free board for this project. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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