09.Oct.2006
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Team AROS: Bounty #46 for native Efika port / UAE bounty reworded
As Team AROS bounty project #46, money can be donated now for a native port of the Amiga Research Operating System (AROS) to bplan's Efika board.
Furthermore, the description of bounty #7 (UAE integration) has been reworded and is more detailed now. (snx)
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09.Oct.2006
Matthias Bock (ANF)
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Lazycow.de: ADF-Versionen of older Freeware-Games
Matthias Bock provide for a easier using with a emulator ADF-Version of
older Freeware Games Zerberk, Minerunner, Poweroids, Star Defender
and Monsters of Terror linked to the header. (snx) (Translation: aj)
[News message: 09. Oct. 2006, 13:27] [Comments: 0]
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09.Oct.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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More reoprots of the Pianeta Amiga 2006 (english/italian)
Linked to the header has Palombo Davide more reports about the Event
Pianeta Amiga 2006 published, Which was between the 23. and
24. September in Empoli. They are available in english and italian. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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09.Oct.2006
ANN (Webseite)
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AROS: Lunapaint 0.2.5
Hogne 'M0ns00n' Titlestads Gfxprogramm for AROS/x86, Lunapaint
(Screenshot),
offers Version 0.2.5 beside Bugfixes among others a tool to pickup for
colours
Changes:
- Fixed: optimized scrolling
- Fixed: Better centering on zoom in/out
- Fixed: optimized redraw (askminmax)
- Fixed: crash when closing a window
- Fixed: crash when closing the pubscreen
- NEW: Recessed buttons if active tool
- NEW: Dotted line around active color in palette
- NEW: Colorpicker tool (works in Snap to palette mode and 64-bit mode)
Bugreports and feedbacks are welcome by the author. More information are
linked to the header.
Download: lunapaint_v025.tar.gz (68 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
[News message: 09. Oct. 2006, 08:39] [Comments: 0]
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08.Oct.2006
ANN (Web page)
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Filesystem: Ext2FS 0.24 with write support without debug output
With version 0.24, Marek Szyprowski has now released the first public version of his driver Ext2FS, which includes write support without debug information. Ext2FS makes working with the Second Extended FileSystem possible under MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x.
The write support was tested for more than a year, in which hundreds of gigabytes of data was transferred. Here, the filesystem worked very stable and never led to serious damages to the drive structure. However, please read the disclaimer before you use Ext2FS.
Download: ext2fs_0.24.lha (112 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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08.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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MorphOS: German catalog file for MiniShowPicture
Hans-Jörg Ottinger is making available a German catalog file for the picture viewer MiniShowPicture. (cg) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 08. Oct. 2006, 16:02] [Comments: 0]
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08.Oct.2006
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga C Course For Beginners: New lesson on pointers as return values
Norman Walter has added a new lesson on the subject "Pointers as return values" to his Amiga C Course For Beginners in Chapter 4.
Therein, it is shown how one uses pointers as return values from functions. The topic is deepened in a program for vector calculation, among others. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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07.Oct.2006
PPCZone (forum)
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Pegasos Book 2.0.1: Media Center setup under Gentoo Linux (English/French)
Geoffrey Charra's PDF book about the Pegasos platform is now available in version 2.0.1. An article that deals with the setup of a Media Center under Gentoo Linux was added. The chapters concerning the Pegasos itself and MorphOS are unchanged.
Content of the article "Media Center with Linux Gentoo on Pegasos II":
- Objective
- Presentation of Genesi's HMCS
- Necessary hardware
- General information on Gentoo
- Easy install with the "EZPegTV" CD
- Alternative customized install, step by step
- Back-up of the system
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.Oct.2006
Jörg Karisch (ANF)
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Event: hardware meeting on November, 18th in Nuremberg (Germany)
The Amiga users group IMAGE from Central Franconia invites once again to the hardware meeting from 9.00h to 21.00h in Nuremberg on November, 18th.
The aim is to solve problems with brought hard- and software or to play a game or another via network
For the first time do the organizers plan to arrange a jumble sale respectively an exchange for Amiga relevant hard- and software.
Amiga interested visitors or even hard- and software producer are very welcome.
Detailed information - e.g. a list of the shown computers - are available under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.Oct.2006
ANN (website)
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Temple of Technology: interview with Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.)
Under the title link did Vidar Langberget interview Bill McEwen who's the manager of Amiga Incorporated (AI) for his website "Temple of Technology".
Hierin teilt dieser unter anderem mit, dass dem Team für das Betriebssystem "OS5" - dessen Name sich noch ändere - derzeit fünf Personen angehörten und diesen in den nächsten Wochen eine weitere Gruppe hinzugefügt würde. Verantwortlich für das AI-Entwicklerteam sei nach wie vor Fleecy Moss.
Regarding the AI affiliate Amiga Development India (ADI, amiga-news.de reported) he said that there would be 52 employees with 48 of them being software developers. In the next 12 months would 60 more developers be hired. In the development of kernel components AI would not be involved, though.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Oct.2006
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Alarm Clock 1.5
Alarm Clock is a full screen clock with several additional functions. The program is available for AmigaOS, WarpOS, AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.
Features of Alarm Clock 1.5:
- Up to 6 alarms
- Configure custom MP3 file, for each alarm
- Possibility of random MP3 play from a selected directory
- Nuclear Powerplant alarm MP3 file included
- Blanker activation possibility
- Auto-scale blanker pictures
- Use antialiased TTF fonts
- Save or load different alarm configurations
- Set the time between images in slideshow (Blanker)
- Set transparency level between images and alarm clock, to have
a nicer effect
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2006
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder (ANF)
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MakeHTMLMap 4.820
Roland Heyder's MakeHTMLMap supports webdesigner creating galleries and webshops (online documentation). You can read the changes of version 4.820 under the title link.
Download: MakeHTMLMap.lha (1,5 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Oct.2006
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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MorphOS: German and russian catalogue for Rival (update)
With a catalogue file for Rival Hans-Joerg Ottinger has carried out another German adaption. Rival is a MUI-based MorphOS program for the indexed comparison of two directories.
Download: Rival.lha (catalogue file, 3 KB)
Update: (09:55, 06.10.06, snx)
Also a russian catalog file for Rival has been released: rival_russian.lha (4 KB) (snx) (Translation: tz)
[News message: 05. Oct. 2006, 19:53] [Comments: 0]
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05.Oct.2006
amigworld.net (Website)
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Flayer makes Flash-Videos usable for Amiga Users
Robert William's ARexx-Skript Flayer makes flash videos, which are offered for example from the popular video hoster youtube.com, usable for users of AmigaOS. The script searches within the indicated website for the url of the video and saves it at the local hard disk, wherefrom it can be watched with MPlayer.
The offered first beta release needs AWeb and MPlayer (experimental preview 3 or newer) and doesn't support streaming yet. Because it is a pure ARexx-script, theoretically Flayer should work under Morphos as well. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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05.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Website)
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golem.de: IBM introduces new Versions of its PPC Processors
The latest announcements from IBM about their PPC portfolio are summarized at golem.de. (cg) (Translation: tz)
[News message: 05. Oct. 2006, 15:44] [Comments: 0]
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05.Oct.2006
Mirko Naumann (ANF)
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More Photos of the Classic Computing 2006
Under the two following links Mirko Naumann has uploaded all images which he has taken at the Classic Computing 2006 in Nordhorn on Saturday.
These are 132 jpeg files with a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels (. 136 MB in total) for free use: Part 1, part 2. (snx) (Translation: tz)
[News message: 05. Oct. 2006, 11:28] [Comments: 0]
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04.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File system SFS 1.263
Jörg Strohmayer has updated the file system SFS:
- Removable media support was broken in 1.262, fixed
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 04. Oct. 2006, 14:42] [Comments: 0]
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04.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (website)
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Input driver: MMKeyboard 3.23 and Meridian 2.22
Guido Mersmann reeased update of MMKeyboard and Meridian.
MMKeyboard is a keyboard driver which supports all multimedia keys of modern keyboards, while Meridian
provides virtual hotkeys usig so called mouse gestures: Dedicated mouse movements are assigned to user defined actions. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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04.Oct.2006
PPCNUX (website)
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PPCNUX: Detailed Efika report
The online magazine PPCNUX has visited bplan at the special fair 'EBV TechTrends 2006' and presents
a detailed and pictured English report..
The report showsboth sides of the Efika board and mentions a maximim power consumtion of 1,08 watt for the MPC5200B-SoC, a theoretical maximum
1,5 watts for each memory chip ans peak values of below 5 watts for the hard disk. The
IDE traffic speed is rated at 8 MB/s (stable) and the OpenFirmware is iproved with programable power on times and usb media boot boot support.
Further it is said that DVD replay in full resolution is possible at 92% processor load.
Until a mass production starts, which will lead to price as low as 99 US $, the Efika is estimated to be sold at
249 Euro. Orders in the 4 digits magnitude range are confirmed already. 400 pcs are ordered by Freescale alone, the half of those will
go to developers for free.
MorphOS is said to be able to run on any 32 Bit PowerPC system - and since the main developer of MorphOS, Ralph Schmidt, belongs to bplan
the availability of MorphOS for the Efika rather a political decision.
regarding the Pegasos boards further production runs are no problem, all components are available as RoHS compliant parts. Other cpu combinations are possible,
but due to economic reasons not followed yet.
Asked regarding the release of a new SmartFirmware version bplan minded the big number of required tests and the risk that users may risk to render their boards unusable.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.Oct.2006
Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V. (ANF)
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more pictures from the Classic Computing 2006
Th eorganizers of the Classic Computing 2006 provide another galley with photos from that meeting.
Additionally there are links to all known photo collections from that event listed at the title link. Those who provide additional pictures and/or movies but are not listed yet,
may please contact the webmaster of Classic-Computing.de. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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03.Oct.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Routeplanner: AmiATLAS status report
Press release: At the moment a complete rework/update of the different travel guides is in progress. Further there is an extension of the information about parks with better maps for a more precise route calculation. Of course the emphasis lies on the German map because of the much higher demand. The network of streets is uptodate including recently opened highway sections.
If someone wishes his residence to be included (even the smallest places!) in the map just write a mail with the name of the location, Geo-coordinates and information on the street connections (description and the exact distance to other locations).
As always we are searching for helpers for data entering! Lists of coordinates are always welcome... Alternatively also helpers for the entering of the data into the maps themself.
There are also possibilities for the view and print of data in various formats like HTML or PDF instead of AmigaGuide.
http://www.amiatlas.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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