10.Feb.2006
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: IDE Trade-Up Program
Elbox Computer are offering a "Trade-Up" program for IDE controllers to their EU customers. The program requires a credit card and provides a 30 Euro mail-in rebate for their FastATA controllers in case the customer trades-in his old 4-way IDE interface or Zorro II IDE adapter.
The offer is valid for the purchase of a FastATA 4000 MK-III, FastATA 1200 MK-III or FastATA ZIV. According to Elbox, their FastATA controllers - unlike the aforementioned solutions - do also support PIO-3, PIO-4 and PIO-5 modes. (snx)
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10.Feb.2006
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Voting for January/February 2006
At "Amiga Games Hit Parade" you can vote for the best Amiga games. The results will be published at the end of February.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2006
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AmigaOS 4: LibSDL-1.2.9
Richard Drummond has published an update of the AmigaOS 4-port of LibSDL.
SDL is a multimedia library which is to make easier programming of portable applications.
You can find the changes since the last version here.
The newest build requires the Prerelease-Update 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2006
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Adventure-Engine: ScummVM 0.8.2 (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS)
With ScummVM several classic "Point'n Click" adventures
can be played on modern systems, too. The AmigaOS 4-port
of the current version 0.8.2 you can find on os4depot.net,
the MorphOS version under fabportnawak.free.fr/scummvm/.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Screen saver modul RainbowBlanker
With RainbowBlanker Alex Carmona published a first blanker modul for the screen saver
which came with Update 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Video to Prerelease-Update 4
Julien 'Crisot' Cervellera has published another video to AmigaOS 4
which is to demonstrate some of the new features in Update 4.
rapide-test.avi (19 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2006
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Pictogram line: Iconlauncher beta version 0.1
With Iconlauncher there is a new pictogram line for AmigaOS and MorphOS (screenshot).
The program supports skins, catalog files, text under the pictograms and animated
pictograms as well as playing noise or music.
Download: Iconlauncher.lha (3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2006
PPCNUX (ANF)
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IBM introduces Dual-970MP Blades with 2,5GHz and 2,7GHz
No longer Apple but IBM is operating the fastest PPC: The completely renewed JS21 blades are using two 970MP at a time with a little extent- as dual cpu with 2,5 GHz or with a deactivated second core but 2,7 GHz then. Besides an updated I/O infrastructure IBM has also announced own Cell based Blades for the third quarter in 2006. (cg) (Translation: ts)
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09.Feb.2006
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AMIGA-Magazin: New Articles as Readers Samples Online
At the AMIGA magazine's homepage some newer articles were posted online as readers samples.
Issue 2/2006: Emulation: PegXMac
Issue 1/2006: Skript language: KarateFighter
Issue 12/2005: Programming: Libraries under AmigaOS 4
Issue 11/2005: Emulator package "AmigaForever 2005"
Issue 10/2005: Stock exchange software "pro Bonds"
You can find many more interesting articles under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ts)
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08.Feb.2006
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Emulation: AmigaSYS 3 R2 released
AmigaSYS is a complete preconfigured Amiga environment which requires AmigaOS 3.x and is inteded for usage with WinUAE. The update R2 introduces the following new features:
For AmigaOS 3.9 users:
- AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag 1 and 2 support , only original AmigaOS 3.9 and AmigaOS XL.
- New Amiga OS 4 Like theme.
- ATE Amiga OS 4 gadgets.
- 3 Windowstyle (Type command or shell "WM" for select other theme)
- New Startbar design.
- New AmigaSYS titlebar logo.
- New Theme engine (sorted , and modified themes) , some features not included.
- New Appmenu prefs.
- New Themes fixes. (LM , Virtual , Gnome , Classic , RetroSYS)
New programs:
- ADDED AKPNG 45.15+ Prefs.
- ADDED AKTIFF 45.30+ Prefs.
- ADDED BareEd 0.9949.
- ADDED LimpidClock 1.16.
- ADDED Picshow 31.301.
- ADDED Some Librarys.
- ADDED TTF Fonts support + 1 BitstreamVera font for OS4-Like.
- ADDED Wizard.library 42.100.
- ADDED WM (Window Manager).
For AmigaOS 3.0/3.1 users:
New Programs :
- ADDED AKPNG 45.15+ Prefs.
- ADDED AKTIFF 45.30+ Prefs.
- ADDED Bareed 0.9949.
- ADDED Picshow 31.301.
- ADDED Some new Librarys.
- ADDED Wizard.library 42.100.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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08.Feb.2006
Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF)
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AmigaOS4.0 Developer Prerelease Update #4 released
Press release
Leuven, Belgium - 8th February, 2006
Hyperion Entertainment announces the immediate availability of the fourth update of the AmigaOS4.0 Developer Prerelease.
The new features in this pre-release include:
- All-new Warp3D with support for Voodoo 3/4/5 and ATI Radeon models 7000, 7200, 7500, 9000, 9200 and 9250.
- Petunia Just-In-Time 68k emulator.
- All-new Intuition with advanced features like flicker-free window redraw and new screen dragging features (among other things, screens can be dragged freely in any direction and will reveal other screens beneath even if dragged sideways)
- Updated ExecSG kernel
- New Extended Input System allows the use of mouse wheels on both PS/2 and USB mice, and the use of Multimedia keyboards (with keys like volume control, play/pause etc)
- And much much more. Practically ALL components of the system have been updated.
Registered AmigaOS4.0-Owners can download the update in our Download area immediately.
Again, we would like to thank all of our customers for their continued support. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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08.Feb.2006
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AmigaOS 4: Two new articles at intuitionbase.com
At intuitionbase.com two new articles about AmigaOS 4 have been published which were submitted for the article contest. The both winners get a full version of ANotice, granted by Alinea as award.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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08.Feb.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Cranu 0.1 beta, graphic frontend for LhA et al.
Cranu is virtually the counterpart to Unarc: A graphic user interface to create LhA-, LZX-, Zip-, tgz- or tar.bz2-archives. With its "Profiles" Cranu is expandable to further archive formats by the user.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Feb.2006
Chaos Computer Club
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CCC: collective statement "data storage in unacceptable"
CCC: »In a collective statement advocats of data protection and consumer protection as well as journalists speak out against the "precautionary telecommunication data storage".
The systematic record and storage of information about the communication, movements and media use of the entire population ("precautionary data storage") without the approval of the people in question is unacceptable. This doesn't bring about a better protection from crime, costs millions of euros, endagers the privacy and security of innocent people, affects confidential communication and levels the way into a mass surveillance of the population, which is further extending.«
Read the complete statement under the link above.
(ps) (Translation: iw)
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07.Feb.2006
Pegasosforum (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Bochs 2.2.5
Version 2.2.5 of the pc emulator Bochs is now also available for MorphOS. The update primarily sorts out some mistakes, but also involves a couple of innovations.
The most important changes:
- added virtual 8086 mode extensions (VME) implementation
- several fixes/improvements in x86-64 emulation, debugger and disassembler
- new serial mode 'socket' connects a network socket
- IDE busmaster DMA feature for harddisks and cdroms completed and enabled
- many improvements in Bochs emulated I/O devices (e.g. floppy, cdrom)
- Updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.5d
(snx) (Translation: iw)
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07.Feb.2006
Goleml (ANF)
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IBM is planning POWER 6 CPUs with more than 5 GHz / Freescale joins Power.org
Concerning the clock speed IBM power processors had to stand back behind the competition so far. At the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in 2006 IBM now showed that the POWER 6 processors, which are still under way, can absolutely manage more than 5 GHz and a higher clock speed.
Update: (18:10, 07.02.06, snx)
Furthermore, Motorola spin-off Freescale Semiconductor has joined Power.org, an organisation focused on development around IBM’s POWER architecture.
Freescale and IBM plan several key collaborative efforts, including creating a common instruction set architecture, developing innovations to extend the POWER processors to a broader set of customer applications, enabling Linux on the architecture, and expanding the ecosystem through marketing programs.
Recently, also the Pegasos II design has been published at Power.org (amiga-news.de reported). (ps) (Translation: iw)
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07.Feb.2006
amiga.org (Webseite)
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GUI system: Feelin version 060207
Olivier Laviale has published a new version of his GUI system Feelin (Screenshots: 1, 2). Versions for AmigaOS 3 and 4 are available, a MorphOS version will follow in the near future. The most important changes:
- SYSTEM: It's now possible to create meta-classes. This feature was already possible since classes are also objects but now it's really working The EXIT end INIT optionnal code is now deprecated, you must create a meta-class to create/delete private data.
- SYSTEM: The memory system has been improved further more and is now even faster. The F_DisposeP() function is now deprecated since, with the new techniques, F_Dispose() finds the right memory chunk to dispose on the first try (less than 1% of missing). The developer can also tweak the memory system to enable memory walls, memory marking, custom patterns to fill new/allocated/disposed memory...
- XML: Entities support has been added and is widely used. The attributes used to generate objects are now typed. XML parsing has been improved furthermore and FC_Document provides nicer methods.
- EVENTS: Windows are no longer handled by the application they belong to, but a new shared object named "WinServer". This server is also an anchor for various inputs such as window events, mouse buttons and movements, key stroke... but also pophelp, timer, wbdrop... it also add special features which are not available with Intuition such as unactivable windows (usefull with menus and popups).
- DAMAGED RENDERING: A new technique called "damaged rendering" is now used to redraw objects. Only objects which aspect as been modified (state, size, position) are now updated saving a lot of unnecessary renderings. I was already using a similar technique but it was costing a lot and was not as effective.
- PREFERENCES, EDITOR: Preferences are now stored in CSS files instead of an IFF ones. FC_Preference is now a subclass of FC_CSSDocument. The whole preference system has been updated and is more compact and nice.
- ASSOCIATED DATA: A new technique called "associated data" is now used to skip decoding over and over the same preference items. To put this short, a window with 1000 buttons was resolving and decoding 1000 times the "$button-frame" item to setup the frame of the SimpleButton objects. Now a "complex data", which is the decoded stuff of the "$button-frame" contents, is associated with the "$button-frame" item. Thus, the preference item is now resolved and decoded once, saving 999 resolving/decoding. This technique is currently used for frames and backgrounds but will soon be extended to fonts, color schemes... The preference system as been widely rewritten for this purpose.
- The "ModulesList" shared object is now used to keep an eye on classes. It handles various lists and is now used to load classes embending a preference group. The launching of the preference editor is now very fast. This shared objects also maintain a list of the decorators available, which is used to create dynamicaly the "Decorators" preference group.
- ALPHA BLENDING: FC_CorePNG has been created to decode PNG files without using datatypes, saving time and embended alpha information, which is fully supported by FC_BitMap. FC_Render also support alpha-blending but is currently limited to rectangles. Thanks to alpha-blending, you can create even nicer applications.
- COLORS AND IMAGES: Colors are now defined as in CSS e.g. "#FF0000" for full red or "shine" for the FV_Pen_Shine entry of a color scheme. All image specifications are now in XML format, many of them have been extended e.g. gradients can be defined using 2, 3 and even 4 colors (aqua style).
(cg) (Translation: iw)
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06.Feb.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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IOSPIRIT: originality check of second hand IOSPIRIT products
To stop the sale of illegal copies of his own products, IOSPIRIT offers
linked to the header a originality check for this second hand software
offers.
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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06.Feb.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Dateisystem: Smart File System 1.252
The alternate filesystem Smart File System version 1.252 is for
AmigaOS/68k since january available. Beside several fixed errors are also
additional controls included, that stop the creating and working with
files with a size larger then 4GB minus 2 Bytes.
This archive includes only the mainfile, the last complete release is
version 1.236.
Download:
SFS_1.252.lha (44 KB)
SFS.lha (V1.236, 276 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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06.Feb.2006
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Help 0.94
The CLI-Command Help from Nicolas Ramz for the MorphOS-Shell is describing
more then 100 commands including all Arguments and examples.
Additionaly is a brief instruction of the MorphOS-Shell included.
Since our last report are more commands added and the instruction was
revised..
Download: Help_v09.lha (125 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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06.Feb.2006
OS4Depot (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Python 2.4.1
The object-oriented programming language
Python is now as a pre version with
having errors in version 2.4.1 for AmigaOS 4 released.
Download: python.lha (4 MB) (snx)
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