29.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Weather software Wet 4.0 released
Chris Young has released an update of his weather software Wet to version 4.0. The weather is displayed in the Workbench titlebar, as an icon or using a Reaction-based GUI.
New in version 4.0 is especially the support for displaying forecasted weather up to 24 hours in advance (where available). Further changes can be found in the corresponding readme file.
Download: wet.lha (651 KB) (snx)
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29.Aug.2005
Moo Bunny (website)
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Guide: How to connect an Amiga to an arcade cabinet
At the title link you can find a guide how to connect an Amiga to an arcade cabinet conforming to the JAMMA standard (Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers' Association). Furthermore an Amiga menu called ArcadeGameSelector is provided, which allows the selection of games by using the joystick. (snx)
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28.Aug.2005
PPC-Zone (forum)
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Linux: OpenSuSE 10.0 for PowerPC / Short guide for installation on Pegasos
Due to the large number of requests, again a PowerPC version of the Linux distribution OpenSuSE has been released in version 10.0 beta 3 ("Bangalore") at the title link.
At PPCZone Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has published a short guide for installing OpenSuSE on the Pegasos. All you need is a Pegasos-compatible kernel, no further modifications are required.
How to install OpenSuSE on Pegasos computers:
- Boot the first SuSE-CD with the following parameters: boot cd suseboot/inst32 minmemory=0 MemYastText=0 sysrq=1
- You will be guided through the installation process
- When installation of the first CD is finished, the computer will reboot
- Now copy the kernel-modules of a Pegasos-compatible kernel to /lib/modules/"kernelversion" of your new system
- Copy a Pegasos-compatible kernel to your boot-hd (if it isn't already there; if you choose a special filesystem like reiserfs, make sure it is compiled into your kernel)
- In the Open Firmware, a usual linux-boot parameter-path is everything you will need: boot "SuseKernel" root=/dev/your-chosen-hd (plus additional parameters you want to use, like video=xxx)
- SuSE should boot now with your kernel and finish installation
(snx)
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27.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: AmiPodder updated to version 1.2
Robert Williams's freeware program AmiPodder, for now the only Amiga receiver for so called podcasts, was updated to version 1.2. The ARexx program needs further software listed on the installation site.
The update contains an improved feedcheck for new podcasts making this routine more efficient and therefore faster.
Besides does the author introduce some podcasts in the links area of his website.
Download: AmiPodder.lha (344 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Colecovision emulator Colem 1.0
Based on the Amiga port done by Paul Hill Bob Wicksall ported the Colecovision emulator Colem by Marat Fayzullin to AmigaOS4 (screenshot).
The Colecovision is a video games console that appeared in 1982. There's no sound support yet.
Download: colem_os4.lha (131 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Aug.2005
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MorphOS: libnix updated
There's a new libnix available for MorphOS in the download area of the MorphOS Developer Connection. It is recommended that all registered developers updated an installed MorphOS SDK with this new version.
Among other things were the following changed or are new:
- added lfind/lsearch.
- fixed access(), which didn't work properly at all.
- optimized fseek(), should be much faster with in-buffer seeks now.
- fixed scanf() (and all related functions (including strtod)) parsing of sequence of floats.
- qsort() no longer compares the same elements against eachother (pointless, and broke some compare routines).
- support printf/scanf (and related functions) %hh formatting.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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27.Aug.2005
Oliver Hummel (forum)
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MorphOS: ressources-friendly MUI settings (2nd Update)
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel made ressources friendly MUI settings available for users of the PowerUp version of MorphOS. In addition, he recommends the use of the skin "Rainy Blue" that is available on the CD. The effect is clearly visible. Further help can be found in our forum.
Download: Muilight.prefs (15 KB)
Update: (22:15, 28.08.05, snx)
Since the main reason for the performance gain seems to be to avoid the use of gradients, Oliver Hummel has released new MUI settings at MorphZone. Because of a minor mistake in the original settings for Oliver's Cyberstorm skin it is recommended for its users to download these new settings, too.
Alternatively, our reader Jean Holzammer suggests to avoid using skins at all and force the original look of Intuition instead. To do so, you have to rename (or delete) the skins directory in both SYS:Prefs and MOSSYS:Prefs.
Update 2: (22:38, 28.08.05, snx)
Another hint has been posted by 'rzookol' - according to him, the missing font vera.ttf in the mossys:fonts/_ttf directory is also a reason for a lower performance of the PowerUp version. As a solution, you can rename a copy of the font verase.ttf: "copy sys:morphos/fonts/_ttf/verase.ttf sys:morphos/fonts/_ttf/vera.ttf". Pegasos owners can copy the missing font from their corresponding MorphOS installation. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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27.Aug.2005
MorphOS-Team (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Enter the Third Dimension!
After two years of active development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the free MorphOS 3D Update pack. This pack brings Warp3D and OpenGL® API compatibility to a whole new range of hardware including 3dfx Voodoo and ATI Radeon.
TinyGL library is heavily optimized and special care has been taken to
improve the OpenGL® compliance. It now offers an extended set of advanced
features including cubic mapping, display lists, stencil buffering,
multitexturing, mipmapping, palette texture handling, non-blocking rendering (no context locking is required), compiled vertex arrays, user clipping planes, selection buffer, evaluators, a GLUT implementation and much more.
Warp3D libraries have been improved and offer more compatibility than any
known implementation on the market.
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II, Pegasos I and PowerUp machines:
- 3Dfx Avenger (Voodoo 3)
- 3Dfx Napalm (Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5)
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II and Pegasos I machines:
- ATI rv100 (Radeon 7000 and Radeon VE)
- ATI r100 (Radeon 7200)
- ATI rv200 (Radeon 7500)
3D hardware supported on Pegasos II machines:
- ATI r200 (Radeon 8500 and Radeon 9100)
- ATI rv250 (Radeon 9000)
- ATI rv280 (Radeon 9200 and Radeon 9250)
The MorphOS 3D Update pack requires MorphOS 1.4.5 and is freely available on our FTP site and download portal. Please visit 3d.morphos-team.net (title link) for additional information.
We hope you will enjoy using this pack as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Keep your graphics processor busy!
Best regards,
Frank, Mark, Michal and Nicolas (snx)
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26.Aug.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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PSP-UAE: Update to version 0.31-kbd0.1
Christophe Thibaults port of the Amiga emulator UAE to the handheld game console
PSP ("PlayStation Portable") from Sony has been updated to version 0.31-kbd0.1. The
keyboard support has been added but which is still in the beginning phase. Pushing more than
one key at the same time is still not possible.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Aug.2005
Ironfist (ANF)
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Linux: Update of the Pegasos Rescue CD Mupper to version 0.3
Mikael 'Lisardman' Karlsson is working on a Rescue CD project for the Pegasos. Today he released version 0.3 at the title link. The Gentoo-based Live-CD contains various tools for recovery and testing.
The update provides more docs, support for Voodoo 3/4/5 and loadable modules (e.g. for filesystems). The features of Mupper:
Communication
lftp: FTP client
minicom: serial console (TTY) client
irssi: IRC client - if you need support
Hardware Diagnostics
fsck: Scan for corrupted blocks and files
memtester: A tool to test if your memory sticks are faulty
Partitioning
Parted: Partition editor
RAID-Tools: Create RAID arrays before OS install
Security
chkrootkit: Root exploit scanner
clamav: Open Source Anti virus for Linux and Windows viruses
nmap: Check for open server ports - test your firewall
rkhunter: Root exploit scanner
Supported Filesystems
AFFS
DOS
Ext2
Ext3
ISO9660 incl. Joilet
JFS
MSDOS FAT
NTFS
ReiserFS
SquashFS
UFS
VFAT
XFS (snx)
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26.Aug.2005
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AROS: Status update / Interview with Adam Chodorowski
Paul J. Beel interviewed AROS developer Adam Chodorowski. Thanks to him AROS has been made bootable from CDROM and got Intuition backported from MorphOS, for example. He also ported Python, Lua, VIM and some GNU tools.
Furthermore, Paolo Besser has posted another status update at the title link. Among other stuff, AROS has got a new timer.device offering the UNIT_MICROHZ feature and the linux hosted version of AROS can run in fullscreen mode now. (snx)
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26.Aug.2005
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin (ANF)
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MorphOS: Update of the picture viewer SimpleView to version 1.1b
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has released version 1.1b of his MorphOS picture viewer SimpleView at the title link. The update does now also fit some little pictures exactly into the window. SimpleView is completely written in PowerPC machine code. (snx)
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25.Aug.2005
Guido Mersmann (Forum)
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ValiantVision: AmithlonTV-Rework in progress
Guido Mersmann is currently working on a translation and extension of the tv card driver software AmithlonTV - meanwhile the project has the new name ValiantVision.
Among other things the support for dvb cards is planned. A detailed project description can be found under the titel link.
(snx) (Translation: ts)
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25.Aug.2005
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: New Skin "Cyberstorm"
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel has completed another skin for MorphOS and named it "Cyberstorm" as a tribute to the PowerUp release of MorphOS 1.4.5 (Screenshot). (snx)
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24.Aug.2005
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: KHTML engine port in the works
Marcin 'Marcik' Kwiatkowski is porting the KHTML engine library to MorphOS - GTK+ Webcore, to be more precisely. At the title link you can find several screenshots and a movie of the current state of development. (snx)
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24.Aug.2005
Microsoft (E-mail)
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10 years Windows 95
On August the 24th, 1995 Windows 95 replaced MS-DOS with a simple to use graphical user interface and a fast system kernel. Contemporaneous Office 95 had been released and the Microsoft Network service (MSN) has been lauched.
Windows 95 was based on 32 bit technolgy and replaced the
MS-DOS extension Windows 3.x. Thus, the PC evolved to an universal work tool and conquered the digital household. This version became the most successfull software of its time for business and private customers. The new features included the start button with its embedded menu, long file names and
internet connectivity usind TCP/IP of the integrated MSN client. Thus, Windows 95 was anticipating many imortant developments. A similar big step for the IT will be the coming release of Windows Vista.
Today Windows, as a former concurrent system to the Amiga, plays an important role for the Amiga scene providing a base for the Amiga emulator WinUAE. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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24.Aug.2005
MorphOS Development Team
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MorphOS 1.4.5 Free Edition for PowerUP Amigas
Five Year Anniversary - MorphOS 1.4.5 Free Edition for PowerUP Available
24th August, 2005 - The MorphOS development team would like to celebrate
the five year anniversary of the first ever publically available MorphOS
release by announcing the immediate availability of MorphOS 1.4.5 Free Edition for PowerUP accelerators by phase5 & DCE.
By releasing the latest end user version of MorphOS for PowerPC-equipped
Commodore A1200, A3000 and A4000 computers, the OS is brought back to
its origins. Prior to creating versions for the bPlan PEGASOS and
various embedded hardware platforms, development started out on the
forementioned computers by Commodore Business Machines and resulted in
a first beta version to be released in August 2000.
For information about supported hardware configurations, installation
instructions and the actual download location, please visit
http://powerup.morphos-team.net
Please note that the MorphOS Development Team is unable to provide
direct end user support for this specific version of MorphOS. If you
encounter any problems, please use the PowerUP forum on MorphZone to
ask for help and support.
http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewforum.php?forum=42
We sincerely hope you enjoy the Free Edition of MorphOS 1.4.5 and
would like to welcome you soon as regulars on a MorphOS community website.
Thank you for your interest,
The MorphOS Development Team (cr)
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24.Aug.2005
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AmigaRemix: Four new songs added
Amigaremix.com provides Amiga game soundtrack remix mp3 files for download. Four new tunes were added now, a summary of available titles is avaialble at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Aug.2005
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AmigaOS 4: Drum-Computer RockBEAT 1.1
RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine (Screenshot) for AmigaOS 4. It
is a tool for musicians that allows you to create drumming tracks. It can
create multiple tracks, each one being 4x 4/4 measures with 16th notes.
You can save individual tracks as wav files, or the whole thing as one big
song. You can drop in your own 16bit 44100Hz PCM WAV samples in the
drumsamples/ folder if you like. The new version 1.1 is out now
including several fixes.
Changes in detail:
- No more grim reaper alerts when starting then stopping playback
quickly I removed an AbortIO() call that wasnt really needed.
- Theres no more excess silence at the end of wav files for individually
saved tracks.
- Button graphics are freed up when quitting now.
- All message ports are emptied and deleted when quitting. No more
"unfreed signals" error messages now, and I think it has brought up
stability a little.
- Drum samples limit changed to 20. It used to crash after more than 10
samples were loaded due to a silly programming error. i.e. looping up to
20 times when there were only 10 available spaces in the array.
- Adding new samples to the drumsamples/ folder will no longer make old
projects invalid.
- Better compatibility with some WAVs. RockBEAT used to assume a certain
WAV header value was a always certain size, but I've found out it can be
different.
- I have included a cool cymbal sample to the default drumsamples/set.
The demo is restricted to 10 minutes. If you like it, you can purchase
a keyfile from the author for $15 USD. (nba)
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24.Aug.2005
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Feelin: MorphOS version available
Olivier Laviales open source projekt Feelin, an object based system for AmigaOS, has been ported by Guillaume Roguez to MorphOS (screen shot).
Download: Feelin050823_mos.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS4: Betaversion of a Synergy client
Douglas McLaughlin has released an early beta version of his Synergy clients for AmigaOS4. With Synergy one keyboard and mouse may be used for several computers within one network. Please note the readme file regarding the current limitations.
Download: AmiSynergyc.lha (97 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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