06.Aug.2005
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AmigaOS 4: Audio Evolution 4.0.8
Davy Wentzler released an update for his harddisk recording and editing solution "Audio Evolution". The patch fixes some bugs, enables the use of CAMD for the controlling of MIDI devices and introduces support for Wentzler's multimedia synchronization library eXtream Sync.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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Retro gaming: updates at kultpower.de and kultboy.com
New at kultpower.de: a review of the comic collection "Starkiller - Geißel der Galaxis". In addition there are 23 new covers of the print magazine "Club Nintendo" and a scan of the first issue of the magazine "Joystick".
At kultboy.com were further eight scans of games reviews added: Bob's Bad Day (AJ), Earthsiege (PP), Globdule (AJ), Immortal, The (PP), Menzoberranzan (PP), Pacific Strike (PP), Times of Lore (ASM), Wiz'n'Liz (AJ).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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Retro computing: CAPS becomes SPS
The CAPS team ("Classic Amiga Preservation Society"), working on the archiving of old copy protected games including the copy protection, is renamed into "Software Preservation Society" (SPS). This name change is the result of an expanding of the activities which now include other computer platforms, too.
In the past months were technologies developed to be able to archive pratically every copy protected disk format. Because of the less flexible drive controlling on other systems in comparison to the Amiga they are now capable of to archive almost all known disk formats after reworking the internal analysis and conversion programs.
For now the^y will concentrate on the archiving of other 3,5 inch formats (MS-DOS, Atari ST) but 5,25 or even 3 inch systems will be supported soon. The main focus lies on the archiving but as for the Amiga there should be emulation libraries available soon to make the use of SPS disk images with known emulators possible.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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MIDI sequencer: Horny 1.1 (AmigaOS 3/4)
"Horny" is a Midi sequencer in the style of "Logic" or "Cubase" with an easy and fast UI. Version 1.1 supports now Davy Wentzler's multimedia synchronization library eXtream Sync and thus offers the possibility to synchronize with other multimedia applications like e.g. Audio Evolution or to control a program via network.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
Matthias Jaap
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Sensible-classics mini-console
Radica Games Limited
announced a worldwide licensing agreement with
Codemasters Software
Ltd. and Sega Toys
(a subsidiary of Sega corporation) to manufacture and distribute "Arcade
Legends Sega Mega Drive Sensible Soccer Plus". This multi-game unit plugs
directly into a TV set and allow players to play three classic games
developed by Sensible Software, including Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder
and Mega-Lo-Mania.
The product is available yet for a retail price of approximately £30
through British shops
("Where
to buy?). The game is designed to replicate the high quality of the
original Sega Mega Drive versions and will feature two controllers,
enabling one or two player gameplay.
Pat Feely, Radica’s President and CEO said, "Sensible Software was one
of the most important video game development houses of the nineties,
creating fun, highly playable games and building a huge following. By
re-launching their classic titles in an accessible plug and play format,
Radica will be appealing to those original fans and taking a fantastic
gaming experience to a whole new audience."
Matt Davies, Codemasters’ Business Development Manager, commented: "This
is a great package of classic titles from the Sensible Software catalogue,
which Codemasters acquired the rights to some years ago. Each game
featured represents some of the most playable, original games of the
1990s and we’re thrilled to see them brought back to life thanks to
Radica’s plug-and-play games system." (nba)
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06.Aug.2005
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Tomislav Novosel interviewed
Following the preview of the adventure "Just like a Dream" in issue #4 of the PDF magazine AmigaInsider there's now the interview with developer Tomislav Novosel online available that couldn't be released in AmigaInsider #4. Follow the title link to read the complete article.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
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amiga-news.de still looking for editors
To increase the amiga-news.de editorial staff we are still looking for help on a voluntary basis. If you'd like to join you'll need good English and German knowledge, the will to learn to use an online editorial system - and a little bit of time. Area of responsibility are the investigating and/or the writing of German news and/or the translation of these into English. If interested please contact Nico Barbat via email.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
Redhair (email)
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Sensible Days SWOS Championships 2005
On August, the 13th and 14th, the "Sensible Days SWOS
Championships" take place in Pirmasens (Germany), an event where it's all about the legendary soccer game "Sensible World of Soccer".
The focus lies on championship and/or KO tournaments on Amiga, PC and MegaDrive as gaming platforms with Europe's best Sensible Soccer players taking part in the competitions. The costs for the participation are 15 Euros including overnight stay. Visitors who just want to watch but not to play, pay 5 Euros for the overnight stay.
For further information please visit the website under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Demo scene: Liquid Skies records #087
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 87th music pack yesterday. This time it contains the long-winded Trance music piece "Secrets Of The Ocean" composed by the Polish musician Maxus. The cover was created by DaFreak.
Some more information about the track:
- Title: Secrets Of The Ocean
- Artist: Maxus
- Style: Trance
- Playing time: 7:03
- Format: mp3 (128kbps)
- Archive size: 6.5mb (zip format)
The packed file is available for download under the title link.
New to the group is the Russian musician Alex West who joint the group just recently. A first release will be out soon.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2005
(ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: PocketPC as remote control for the Amiga
At the "Boinged in Belgium", taking place tomorrow in Bruxelles, will Davy Wentzler (Audio Evolution) show another use of his multimedia synchronization interface "extream Sync": via an application running on a PocketPC he will remote control an AmigaOne.
To do so the network interface of extream Sync comes in use: via wireless LAN you can control all Amiga applications with support for Wentzler's synchronization library. The starting of programs or ARexx scripts is possible, too.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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05.Aug.2005
Thomas Frieden (ANF)
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New Software Development Kit for AmigaOS 4 available
Leuven, Belgium - 5. August 2005 Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to
announce the availability of the Software Development Kit 51.15 for the developer-prerelease
of AmigaOS 4. The new SDK has a size of about 100 MB - 5 MB for each year of Amiga-history.
The SDK contains the following components:
- The GNU-C/C++-Compiler and Sourcelevel-Debugger GDB
- Includes & Autodocs for update 3
- The newest version of the C-Compilers vbcc
- Developer documentation and examples of source codes
- An extensive choice of third party tools (libraries, tools)
The SDK is available for registered AmigaOS 4 customers in the download section
of hyperion-entertainment.biz.
Additional to the complete 100 MB-SDK there is a "Nocontrib"-version
which only contains the necessary parts (no additional stuff) as well as
a version which is devided in 10 MB parts for modem users. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2005
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Software-News at amiga.sourceforge.net: faac 1.2.4, faad 2.0 and FLAC 1.1.2
Additional to a update of FLAC 1.1.2 which is a CLI-tool for changing music tracks without
loss of quality with the audio-codec there are also Amiga versions of FAAC 1.2.4 and FAAD 2.0 which can be
downloaded under the title link. These can be used for coding and decoding of the
Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG2-AAC, MPEG4-AAC).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS4: IRC-Client WookieChat 1.7
James Carrol has published a new version of his MUI-based IRC-Clients WookieChat.
Since version 1.6 this program is only available for AmigaOS4. Additionally the
MUI-classes NList.mcc, NListtree.mcc and BetterString.mcc are required.
Changes to the previous version:
- Automatic log reloading bug fixed; wasn't displaying the last line if the log had less lines than the "amount of lines to reload" setting
- New "global query tab" to display all private messages in that don't already have their own tab
- In the server selection window, clicking on a server group and trying to connect to it will no longer give an error, it will now expand the server group tree showing a list of actual servers in that group
- Changed internal limit of 400 nicks per channel to 2500, so joining a channel with more than 400 users wont crash anymore
- Moved the "Perform on Connect" button to the Server window and made it work better; you can choose any server entry: click "Perform on Connect" and it will edit the script for that group
- File Transfers that have been aborted by the other person/not by you will show up as "Incomplete" now
- Channel keyword text field now displays dots instead of text for better security
- Your own "chat history" in the string gadget (that is accessed with cursor up/down) works properly now
- Support for CTCP TIME requests, so other users can find out your local date and time
- The time the channel topic was last changed is now displayed in the "topic set by/last changed" line
- Added "Quit Program? Yes/No" Requester to avoid accidental exiting
- "/names" command fixed to be able to get lists of users in channels you're not currently in
Download: wookiechat.lha (399 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2005
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MUI: Texteditor.mcc 15.16 and NList-classes 0.97
Texteditor.mcc 15.16
The MUI-class
Texteditor.mcc which is
published under LGPL is now available in version 15.16. The update only fixes
a bug in the SetCursor-function. The archiv also contains native versions for
AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
NList-classes 0.97
The
NList-MUI-classes which are
also published under LGPL were updated to version 0.97. The archiv also contains
native versions for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
Above all the update fixes some bugs of the previous version. Additionally the
AmigaOS4-specific IDCMP_EXTENDEDMOUSE-events of a scroll mouse are integrated which
are supported since version 51.28 of the intuition.library.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2005
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: Simple image viewer SimpleView written in PowerPC machine code
SimpleView is a small MorphOS shell utility by Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin to show pictures in a window at the default public screen (so usually on Ambient). The program is fast, because it is written in PowerPC machine code.
Download: SimpleView.lha (19 KB) (snx)
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04.Aug.2005
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ProBonds v2.1 for OS3.x, OS4 and MorphOS Released
ProBonds is finance software for the valuation of financial securities of all kinds. The main focus is, however, on stock shares. The software is specially arranged for the financial characteristics of Germany and tends to work best with German financial instruments, because it uses the numerical identification system of the German stockmarket. The latest version of proBonds is 2.1, which runs under AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.0
and MorphOS. The most important new things are the support for proxy servers, the reworked interface overlay, and the upadting of the financial security data bank. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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04.Aug.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga Forever: Instructions on Using Amiga Partitions (in English)
Under the title link you'll find instructions from Cloanto of how to use Amiga partitions including SCSI devices with Amiga Forever 2005 (WinUAE 1.0) under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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04.Aug.2005
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Total Amiga #21: Collective Ordering for German Readers
There's the opportunity to purchase a collective order of issue #21 of the english-language magazine Total Amiga as long as there are at least ten people interested.
The cost per issue is 7.50 euros, including shipping and handling. Older issues may also be ordered.
If you are interested, please send an email to kontakt(@)semi-werbung.de with the subject "Total Amiga 21".
Contents of Issue #21:
- AmigaOS4 Update
- MorphOS and Ambient Update
- Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn (Hollywood)
- Interview with Sebastian Bauer (SimpleMail)
- Review of Hollywood and Designer for OS4
- Review of Audio Evolution 4
- Review of WIFI-PCI-Karte by AmigaKit.com
- Review of WinUAE 1.0
- Reviews of Amiga in a Box 10.5 and AmigaSYS 2
- Creation of your own "Ken's Icons"
- Hollywood Designer Tutorial
- Digital Expertise, Part 2
- C Programming Tutorial, Part 5
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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02.Aug.2005
AROS-Exec (forum)
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GTK-MUI wrapper: AROS port and first AROS GTK program
The bounty project of a GTK-MUI wrapper has been ported to AROS now. As stated by the author, Oliver 'o1i' Brunner, its development will continue from now on under AROS, the compatibility with AmigaOS 3.1 will be checked from time to time.
The latest step taken in the wrapper's development is the AROS port of a small GTK program (EuroCalc), which can be downloaded at the title link.
Of the 77 GTK functions defined by the bounty, 38 have already been completed. Additionally, another 120 functions have been implemented as well. (snx)
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02.Aug.2005
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COMPETITION PRO USB - blue version
Jöllenbeck/SPEEDLINK has published a blue/silver edition of the successful digital joystick "Competition Pro USB" (amiga-news.de
reported).
The new version complies with the original design as to the processing,
optical aspects and feeling. Just like the original from the 80ies it offers
microswitches and a metal stick for long life. It approaches all
retro-freaks who want to emulate their Classic Amiga on Windows- or
Mac-based computer systems. (nba)
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02.Aug.2005
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AmigaRemix: New remixes of classical game soundtracks
Amigaremix.com offers remixes of Amiga games soundtracks as MP3 files for
download. Since our last posting nine new songs were added; a list of the
new tracks can be found under the title link. (cg)
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