16.Oct.2005
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ars technica: The evolution of gaming
In his article, Jeremy Reimer tries to comprehend how individual game genres have advanced over the years. In reality, has only the quality of the graphics improved, or are there fundamental differences in playability?
To get to the bottom of this question, Reimer compares 66 games from diverse genres and decades. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
pegasosforum.de (Web page)
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MorphOS: Ambient 1.42CVS
The Ambient Team has released a new beta version of the Workbench clone. A detailed list of changes is part of the archive. (cg) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 16. Oct. 2005, 17:33] [Comments: 0]
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16.Oct.2005
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MorphOS: Alpha version 0.9 of ezTCP released
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin has released version 0.9 (alpha) of the PPC-native TCP/IP-Stack ezTCP. You can find the changes since the last release as well as a short installation manual under the title link.
In case of problems with your programs in combination with ezTCP, please inform the author or consult the appropriate thread on morphzone.org. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
Neo (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Status update for Instant Messenger Epistula
The developer of the modular Instant Messenger Epistula has released a small status update as well as some new screenshots on his web page. (cg) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 16. Oct. 2005, 15:52] [Comments: 0]
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16.Oct.2005
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: SetCache 1.3 (SFS) and PGP 2.6.3in
Jörg Strohmayer has released new versions of the encryption software PGP as well as the SFS tool Setcache. (cg) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 16. Oct. 2005, 15:44] [Comments: 0]
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16.Oct.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Photos from the "C= and Amiga Show"
Photos from the "C= and Amiga Show" that took place in Holland yesterday can be found under the title link. (cg) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 16. Oct. 2005, 15:38] [Comments: 0]
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16.Oct.2005
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Movie Player DVPlayer 0.48
A new version of the movie player DvPlayer was released. Changes in version 0.48:
- Implemented on-the-fly scaling of 2:1 aspect movies
- Added a workaround for the short buffer AHI problem
- Added support for non-interleaved AVI files
- Many fixes and improvements in the AVI code (prebuffering, etc.) to solve problems with most AVI files
- Added triplebuffer for fullscreen
- Added 32bit fullscreen support
- Added possibility to change the skin on-the-fly
- Added Audio Boost option
- Many more small improvements and bugfixes
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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16.Oct.2005
Antibike (ANF)
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ValiantVision: Support for the TV card chipset saa713x
Guido Mersman has been working on "ValiantVision," the successor to AmithlonTV, the TV card driver software, for some time. As he discloses in his developer journal, a driver for the Philips saa713x chipset has reached beta status in the meantime.
This very widespread chipset offers better picture quality than the bt8x8, supported by AmithlonTV/ValiantVision until now, and supports two picture channels. Thus, it will be possible to display a freely scalable (preview) picture, while in the background, the picture is displayed in full size through the second channel. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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15.Oct.2005
Thorsten Mampel, 1.Vorsitzender Amiga-Club Hamburg (ANF)
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Amiga meeting in Bad Bramstedt - webcam
The Amiga-Meeting is online. On our homepage there's a link to our webcam available.
Mister Goldisch, retailer for hardware and software, arrived meanwhile and offers a really big colection of addons:
- Merchandising articles all about the Amiga, Commodore and Pegasos
- Games for Amiga, CD32 and C64
- Slot cards and further hardware
Guido Mersmann and Henk-Metaview-Jonas will present their products via a beamer to the visitors this afternoon.
All visitors can participate in a draft. You have to guess the correct number of floppy discs put in a big glass. A picture of it is available on our homepage. Prices you can win are versions of the Amiga-Forever-2005 Premium Edition and a free six months subscription of the Amiga-Future. Many thanks go to the donators (Cloanto and Andreas Magerl). The draft will be held at 20.00h. The prices will be given only to attendees.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Oct.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Amiga meeting Bad Bramsted - movies
Some movies from the meeting in the MPEG format:
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Oct.2005
naTmeg (ANF)
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MorphOS: AmIRC.log viewer ALI
With ALI did Rupert Hausberger release a MUI based viewer for the log files of AmIRC (screenshot).
Download: ali.lha (74 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 15. Oct. 2005, 10:06] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2005
UtilityBase (website)
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New clib2 version 1.196
Olaf Barthel released a new version of the clib2 for AmigaOS/68k and AmigaOS 4. This is an ANSI C library for the Amiga. The changes in version 1.196 can be found on sourceforge.net.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 15. Oct. 2005, 10:03] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2005
UtilityBase (website)
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Balance of Power: Introducing PowerPC Assembly Language
In his article "Balance of Power: Introducing PowerPC Assembly Language" does Dave Evans give a short introduction into the usage of assembler on PowerPC comuters. The article is meant to give developers some help when debugging.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 15. Oct. 2005, 09:56] [Comments: 0]
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14.Oct.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Alchimie 5 from 29. - 31. October in France
On 29. - 31. of October the Alchimie 5 will take place in Tain l'Hermitage, France.
The event is system-independent and is meant for users of AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
as well as of Linux- and Mac-fans. Creating ASM-demos on TI-Taschenrechnern is
also planned.
The competitions will be rewarded with e.g. hardware but also bottles of wine
and surprise awards. The location is situated near the railway station and
hotels.
Reservations
are possible. The participation fee is 16 Euro for one day, 30 for two days and
31 for all three days. Women will pay 16 Euro, no matter how many days.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Oct.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Port of the game "UHexen2 - Hammer of Thyrion"
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has adapted the game "UHexen2 - Hammer of Thyrion" by Ozkan Sezer
and Steve Atkinson in a extended way for MorphOS
(screenshot 1, 2).
A graphic card with 3D-drivers as well as the tinygl.library and the
powersdl.library are required.
For the installation you need two files of the original game: pak0.pak and pak1.pak;
you have to copy those ones to the directory data1. Then you can start the
update-script.
If you also want to enjoy the colored lighting you need the Colored Lighting-files.
The .lit-files which the archive contains belong to the directory data1/maps.
Download: GLHexen2.lha (4,9 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Oct.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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TroikaNG: Design competition for front side of the Amy'05-computers
Under the title link TroikaNG calls upon a design competition for the front side
of their planned Amy'05-computers. The project is supposed to fit the formats
mini-ITX and micro-ATX as well as one version for for desktop- and tower-boxes.
A JPEG-file is desired.
The winner can get an Amy'05-board (optional beta or final version). You can send your
projects until 12. November 2005. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Oct.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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AmiPodder: Update of the Podcast-receiver to version 1.3
Robert Williams' Freeware-program AmiPodder which so far is the only
Amiga-receiver for the so called Podcasts
has been updated to version 1.3. The ARexx-program requires further software
which is described on the installation site.
The update also improves the user interfaces. Now you can do a multiple choice of
Podcasts for downloading or synchronizing. Additionally it is displayed
if the memory of your MP3 player is sufficient for the desired choice.
Download: AmiPodder.lha (438 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2005
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: BitTorrent 4.1.6
An update for Sigbjørn 'CISC' Skjæret's MorphOS version of the filesharing program BitTorrent is available at the title link.
The list of all changes and bugfixes in version 4.1.6 can be found in the change log. (snx)
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12.Oct.2005
slashdot.org (ANF)
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Graphic software Xara Xtreme open source
The graphic program Xara X becomes open source. Regarding to the publisher Xara X is one of the most efficient program fr illustrations
and web graphics.
Currently Xara is distributed for example by Haage & Partner. The disclosure of thesource holds the eventuality of
an Amiga and/or MorphOS version. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.Oct.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 12th Octber 2005
IsoTools
'Toto' has ported the tools b5i2iso, bin2iso, ccd2iso, cdi2iso, mdf2iso and pdi2iso to MorphOS.
These are good for converting several CD image formats (among them CDRWin, Alcohol 120%, CloneCD, BlindWrite,
DiscJuggler and Instant Copy) to the ISO format which for example is used by MakeCD.
Download page
PolyOrganiser 0.84
PolyOrganiser by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault is a so called "PIM tool" (Personal Information Management), to manage
appointments, contacts and other tasks. A list of all recent changes is listed in the changelog.
Download: PolyOrga_0.84.lha (449 KB)
SDDapple 0.14
SDDapple is an emulator for the Apple ][+ as well as the Apple //e, ported by Ilkka Lehtoranta to MorphOS.
Download: SDDapple MorphOS.lha (99 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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12.Oct.2005
RetroMan (ANF)
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Emulator: German DLL file for WinUAE 1.1
For the Amiga emulator WinUAE 1.1 a German dll file has been created by 'Dr.Creep'. The archive is abailable at the title link for download.. (snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 12. Oct. 2005, 09:25] [Comments: 0]
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