16.May.2005
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FreePascal 2.0
The FreePascal team publishes version 2.0 of their Pascal compiler FreePascal. Thanks to Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh
the current version is also available for MorphOS at the official website.
(cg)
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16.May.2005
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS/AmigaOS4: OpenTTD 0.4.0
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", which is available for a wide range of operating systems incl. MorphOS.
The brand new version 0.4.0 was just released a few minutes ago. It will probably need a few minutes until all sourceforge mirrors have the file, so be patient. :-)
What is new in this release?
- Bigger maps
- New realistic acceleration; should be much better
- Multiple road stations (up to 8) on a single station (multibus)
- New PathFinder (NPF)
- Dynamic towns/ industries/ stations/ vehicles/ signs/ orders/ everything, up to 64K
- Brand new OldLoader so OpenTTD is TTD(Patch) compatible again. Also endian safe
- Even better newgrf support, except for callbacks, everything works (ok, almost)
- Improved multiplayer. More console options, less desyncs and more fun
- Protected OpenTTD from interference of hacked clients, so it should be safe to play again
- Saving vehicle sorting criteria for each vehicle type
- Resizable orders GUI
- Focus keyboard on input-box in Multiplayer Menu
- terrain hotkeys nonfunctional in scenario editor (D,Q,W,E,R,T,Y,U fltr)
- Complete rework of console and new commands like ls, save, load, help, etc.
- Signs are shown in the colour of the player who created them
- Added cheat option to set production of raw-material industries in game
- Replaced train GUI remembers railtype selected from the dropdown menu
- Improved Autoreplace
- many more smaller features :D
- many bugfixes
For a full list of all new features and bugfixes, known bugs and additional information please check out the documentation which is included in the release archive, which you can get from the title link.
NOTE from the author of the MorphOS port: "OpenTTD source should compile w/o a single change for AmigaOS and OS4 too. Just grab and compile. As my A4K is not up and running anymore and I do not own an A1 I can't provide ready made binaries for OS4 and AmigaOS 68k. But the source was prepared since ages with all AmigaOS 68k compatible systems in mind. As past has shown: ready made binaries for these both systems will soon appear from 3rd parties. So stay tuned if you can't use the MorphOS build and you're too lazy to start gcc. :-)"
Update: (16:10, 16.05.05, snx):
AmigaOS4-Download: openttd_aos4.lha (2 MB) (snx)
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15.May.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL database software update
From now on, the GAUHPIL software uses no cookies anymore. Registration is done by sending a password by electronic mail. After logging in, the user can edit his entry as before. Furthermore, every registered user can now finally alter the e-mail address and password. If wanted, the user can also remove the whole entry from the database.
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a MySQL based database created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can be displayed by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function. Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 707 users from 38 countries. The number of users for each country can be found on the page "All Countries". (snx)
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14.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Amiga-Anywhere: arcade puzzler "Word Me Up"
The developers team Boing Attitude announce the immediate availability of "Word Me Up" for PocketPC and Smartphones. As distributor is Amiga Inc. mentioned, Word Me Up is available in the company's web shop.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.May.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Ports of several Quake 2-mods
Steffen Häuser has ported some of the Quake 2-mods which are offered on the
"Amiga Quake 2 Page" to AmigaOS 4:
- Bots (Battle of the Sexes)
- CTF
- Annihilation
- HolyWars
- StarTrek
- Headhunters
- Headhunters CTF
- WarMod
Besides this there is a new archive called "os4_quake2_tools.lha" which is required for
the installation of the mods under AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2005
RainMan (ANF)
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Website amiga-arena.de online again
The website of the Amiga-Arena is online again and is now called "AmigaInsider-Intern" homepage.
The full versions which existed on the Amiga-Arena should be available again little by little.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2005
Pegasosforum (website)
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Linux: Another two Gentoo-Game-CDs for Pegasos available
Pieter van den Abeele has made available another two Live-CD-games based on Gentoo-Linux for
the Pegasos. TORCS is a
3D-racing game (screenshot)
and Trigger is a rally game (screenshot).
Both games can be downloaded with the help of BitTorrent-filesharing. They can be started
from the Open Firmware with the command "boot cd torcs" and "boot cd trigger".
Torrent-files:
torcs.torrent
trigger.torrent
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2005
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Amiga events in Belgium and Finland
From May 20th to 22nd Motorola Inside 2005 will take place
in Turku in Finland. This is a pure Amiga demoparty which will take place since
1997 for the forth time. The entrance fee is ten or fifteen Euro; in order to participate
book for it via e-mail.
On 6th and 7th August the Belgian Amiga-Club will organize the Boinged in Belgium 2005
in the near of Antwerpen.
There should be an exhibition "20 years Amiga", a party around the
clock as well as games and demos. Exhibitors and visitors who are interested in participating
please give a feedback.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.May.2005
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Retro-Computing: Amiga-Demos Reintroduced in DHTML
Under the title-link an Amiga fan has reintroduced old "scene" demos - in DHTML. Please note that in order to use the functions of the site correctly Internet Explorer is required. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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12.May.2005
AmigaFuture (ANF)
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DSL at 16 MBit/s by debitel and QSC
Debitel wants to offer DSL connections with up to 16 MBit/s in the future, and is cooperating with QSC to attain this goal. The offer primarily concerns private customers. It will be based on ADSL2+ and coupled with a VoIP offer (Voice over IP). (cg) (Translation: dm)
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12.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Magazine: Total Amiga 16 available in PDF Form (English-Language)
Issue #16 of the English-language print magazine Total Amiga (appeared in October 2003) is available as a PDF file, after having sold out in print.
In the issue are reviews of MorphOS 1.4, the USB card Algor, Hollywood 1.5, Perfect Paint and AmiAtlas 6. There are also the first parts of instructions for C programming and digital picture processing.
Download: totalamiga_16.pdf (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.May.2005
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Software news until 11.05.2005
Exotic Ripper 3.3
"Exotic Ripper" saves music tracks in MOD format extracted from demos or games. The program is freeware now, a keyfile is no longer required.
A list of changes is includes in the readme.
Download: exoticripper33.lha (231 KB) (Readme)
playOGG 2.4
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is an audio player for at least the following formats:
OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA and SID. It may be launched from the Workbench or the CLI.
Beside some bug removements the version 2.4 contains a new verbose mode and a new HTML program guide.
Link: Download page
Download: playOGG.lha (2 MB) (Readme)
VorbisTools 1.01 (68k/WOS)
The VorbisTools are programs to encode, decode or manipulate audio files in the Ogg Vorbis format.
Link: Download page 68k version
Link: Download page WOS version
FLAC 1.1.2
With the help of this CLI based tool music tracks can be encoded to the lossless FLAC format.
Link: Download page
GNU Make 3.81
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer has ported version 3.81 of this compile frontend to AmigaOS.
Link: Download page (cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.May.2005
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Amiga emulator: WinFellow 0.4.4 build 2 (Alpha)
A new version of the Windows based Amiga emulator "WinFellow" is available now. The option "Exact vertical pixel doubling" has been added.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.May.2005
morphzone.org
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MorphOS: Special ArakAttack beta version
Guido "geit" Mersmann provides beta version especially for Pegasos users of his OpenUSB.device from the ArakAttack package which allows
the use of PCI based USB 2.0 controllers under MorphOS.
Please note that this beta version of the OpenUSB.device was compiled for the 68k CPU and the author provides no support
for this beta version. Mersmann circumvents a malfunction in MorphOS: Support for the
UHCI protocol has been disabled to prevent conflicts with the Poseidon drivers.
Download: OpenUSB.lha (26 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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10.May.2005
ANN (website)
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File system handler: Updates of Ext2FS and SGIXFS
Marek Szyprowski has updated his file system handler for the Second Extended File System (ExtFS2)
as well as for the SGI X File System (XFS) for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS.
Beside a few bug removements there has been support for file names longer than 107 characters added.
Download:
ext2fs_0.5.lha (58 KB)
sgixfs_0.4.lha (58 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2005
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar: 1st Quest - barbarians of the Southern lands!
Rules:
This quest is for new players beginning June, 1st 2005. Players who want to register for this quest have to enter 'Barbaren der Südlande' in the notes field of the registration form.
The aim of the barbarians is to conquer at least 150 Morgen of the northern countries each month. It's not 150 acres per barbarian but all lords together have to reach this aim.
To ensure a free development the area of the barbarians is kept encapsuled. Beginning with August, 1st 2005 the frontiers will be opened and from then on each month the conquered Morgen will be counted. If the number passes the 150 Morgen all barbarians can continue playing for free. Does the conquered area not pass 150 Morgen is the invasion not successful and the players' state will be set to
the shareware mode.
Registering will be possible from May, 15th to May, 30th 2005.
This quest is cross platform, so it can be played an all systems (PC, Linux, Mac, Amiga (+ MOS,+ OS4)).
Quest operator: Martin Wolf
Price: continued playing for free as long as the quest's aim is reached.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
OS4Depot (website)
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AmigaOS4: Apache 1.3.33 beta released
Edgar Schwan uploaded Apache 1.3.33 in a beta version as AmigaOS4 port to the OS4Depot. Supported are PHP 4.3.0 and MySQL 3.23.49.
Contained programs:
- httpd - Apache server for the hypertext transfer protocol
- htpasswd - creating and updating of users authentification files
- htdigest - creating and updating of text files for the digest authentification
- ab - benchmark tool for the Apache HTTP server
- logresolve - resolving of host names of the IP addresses in Apache log files
- rotatelogs - rotates Apache logs without the need to kill the server
- checkgid - checks whether a group ID exists
- php - standalone PHP interpreter compiled for this package
Download: apache.lha (10 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Dave Haynie archives online again
The Dave Haynie Archives - a collection of documents created by Dave Haynie for Commodore - are now online accessible again. Next to information about single computers and chips there can be found e.g. information about the never released AAA technology of the prototype Nyx.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Final update for SystemPatch to version 2.94
SystemPatch by Sante Nocciolino changes various operating system routines to increase the performance of systems with newer 68k processors. The most can be got from 68060 systems but it can be used on all Amigas with at least a 68020.
The author expects the version 2.94 to be the last update. A release of the source code at a later time - as it was with others of his programs - is possible.
Download: SystemPatch2.lha (42 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS: OpenPictureSpace 2.5 released
Marc le Douarain, meanwhile the maintainer of the program originally written for Linux by Thomas Hänselmann, released version 2.5 of OpenPictureSpace for MorphOS.
OpenPictureSpace shows a directory containing images as thumbnails (screenshot). Supported are JPEG, GIF, PNG and IFF-ILBM including the Amiga specific HAM and EHB modes.
In contrary to other programs of this kind OpenPictureSpace does not display the pictures in a grid with n x m thumbnails but scales them only vertically and tries to put as many as possible in each row to use the screen space as best as possible.
Changes in version 2.5:
- Using powersdl.library and powersdl_image.library (makes more image formats in the future possible)
- Wheelmouse keys can be used for scrolling of the thumbs list
- Delay when displaying the whole image removed
- Picture rotation via the '<' key
- Displaying useful keys at the bottom
- Do not try to double the size of the current opened image despite the fact that it is possible!
- Error removed when entering a drive for the path
Download: OpenPictureSpace_MOS.lha (242 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.May.2005
banana development committee (ANF)
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MorphOS: MisterBanana 1.3 published
It follows the original press release concerning the publishing of the newest version
for the known desktop mascot for MorphOS:
"No may without Banana
That's our motto. Sadly current MisterBanana 1.5 with all the cool
extra features only works properly with still unreleased MorphOS 1.666.
But thanks to the banana god, we could resurrect source code of MisterBanana
1.4 and bumped it down to 1.3 to make this update release happen just in time.
It's hopefully the last before the 1.5 release, and solves no bugs or
problems with the previous public release, but adds a few new sayings and
options, including faked transparency, an updated hotlist, anonymizer support
and a secret feature to destroy the world.
We wish you fun!
Oh.. and get the little fellow from here
or become amazed 'bout this very cool screenshot." (cg) (Translation: dr)
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