31.May.2005
(ANF)
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The "father" of the Amiga Jay Glenn Miner became 73 years today
Jay Glenn Miner was born on May the 31st 1932 in Prescott, Arizona. He is said to be the father of the Amiga, because he was the original Amiga development team leader and cofounder of Amiga Corp. in Los Gatos.
Jay Glenn Miner passed away on June the 20th 1994 in Mountain View, California due to renal failure.
There are some biographies at:
http://www.amition.de/geschichte8284.html
http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/D_Miner.HTML
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~mheine/Jay_Miner.html (ps) (Translation: ub)
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31.May.2005
TGD (ANF)
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Stock market software: Prerelease of Brokerage-It!
The prerelease of Brokerage-It!, a universal and compact stock market and asset management software based on Rebol/View, is now available for download following the title link.
Brokerage-It! has an intuitive and userfriendly interface and allows an easy and efficient management of your assets.
Minimum requirements for using Brokerage-It! are an Amiga with 68060/50-MHz processor, 32 MB RAM as well as an according REBOL/View suite from REBOL Technologies.
The application is also usable on every other platform running REBOL/Vies (AmigaOS4 / MorphOS / Amithlon / Windows / Linux). It has been developed and testet with REBOL/View 1.2.1.1.1 running on AmigaOS/68k.
Beside Brokerage-It! there are some more REBOL based applications and small games available at the website. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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31.May.2005
Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger (e-mail)
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SimpleCam, CanonToolBox, minad und nzbDirect ported to AmigaOS
Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger has ported his MorphOS programs SimpleCam, CanonToolBox, minad and nzbDirect to AmigaOS 3.x. Also for BullDog there is
a port under way but it still runs not stable yet and thus, is not released yet. Therefore nzbDirect is currently only of poor benefit.
SimpleCam
SimpleCam is a tool to quickly get stuff from your digicam. It can preview the objects either as thumbnails or as a listtree.
Features:
- Support many cameras (Please refer to the orginal libptp2-documentation)
- Thumbnail preview/select
- Multiselected download
Download: simplecam-amigaos3.lha (43 KB)
CanonToolBox
CanonToolBox is a programm to remotely control your Canon digicam.
Features:
- Full control over the remote functionality
- Taking pictures as .jpg
- Taking videos of unlimited length as .yuv
- Setting of all known device properties
- Multithreaded design
- Log-system
Download: canontoolbox-amigaos3.lha (95 KB)
minad
minad is a simple autodoc-reader.
Features:
- Auto-grouping of most common AutoDocs
- Search function
- Filter function
- Directory ride
- Fast
Download: minad-amigaos3.lha (19 KB)
nzbDirect
nzbDirect is a programm to search and downlaod nzb-files using WWW-search engines.
Supported engines:
- alt.binaries.nl (free)
- nzb.eweka.nl (free)
Features:
- Most functions from the Web-interface
- Browsing
- Can directly import to BullDog
Download: nzbdirect-amigaos3.lha (107 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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30.May.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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MorphOS: SDLBasic ported
Ilkka Lehtoranta has ported SDLBasic (screenshot) to MorphOS.
SDLbasic is a BASIC interpreter which has been created with "the minds eye to the old and glory AMOS" for developing games. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.May.2005
Darren Eveland (ANF)
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RemoteDesktop client: New website
The website of the RemoteDesktop client for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS has moved
to http://www.hd-zone.com.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 27.05.2005
OpenTTD 0.4.0.1
OpenTTD is an Open-Source clone of the Microprose game called "Transport Tycoon Deluxe".
Christian Rosentreter has published an update to the newest version which fixes
some bugs concerning the network.
Link: Download site
nzbDirect 1.0
nzbDirect written by Rupert Hausberger uses diverse Web based search engines to find
and download nzb files (binaries delivered over the Usenet).
Link: Download site
Download: nzbDirect.lha (129 KB) (Readme)
BullDog 1.2
Rupert Hausberger has written BullDog which is a MorphOS program for downloading
files from the Usenet. BullDog uses the descriptions of the nzb files and can be
downloaded under the title link. You can get detailed information
from the Readme file.
Link: Download site
Download: BullDog.lha (196 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Netherlands: Computer City only available as mail-order firm
According to the last Dutch Amiga dealer with a seperate shop called Computer City
from the 1st June it will only be accessable as pure mail-order firm.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
Norman Walter (ANF)
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New lection of Amiga-C-course for beginners
There is a new lection for the Amiga-C-course for beginners.
This time "Images" is the topic. A (still uncomplete) literature list
has been added.
This course can be downloaded and therefore read offline.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HP printer configuration: Setup LaserJet
"Setup LaserJet" is an installer script for changing the configuration of a
HP LaserJet printer. Now you can configure things like EconoMode, RET,
Duplex and Powersave with your Amiga.
The script was only tested with a HP LaserJet 1320 but should also work fine
with other printers of the LaserJet serie.
Download: SetupLJ.lha (36 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.May.2005
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS: Paradroid Clone "Freedroid"
Freedroid is a clone of the 8-Bit classic Paradroid.
Direct download: freedroid-1.0.2_mos.lha (4.5 MB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Breakout-Clone Barkanoid 2 Available
Epic Interactive and Current Ad Agent have made known that "Barkanoid 2" is ready:
"The casual game Barkanoid 2 is now also available for MorphOS users with Pegasos I or II.
A demo-version may be found - thanks to the friendly support of the Genesi firm - under the following link:
http://www.ppczone.org/downloads/Barkanoid2Demo.lha
The full version is available starting Monday at Current Ad Agent for 14.95 euros. Please contact Mr. M. Goldisch at
alternative-computer @ web.de.
More information on Barkanoid 2 may be found at the product description page at our website."
[rest of lengthy article not translated -dm] (cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
MorphZone (forum)
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Pegasos: CD32-Live-CD Released via BitTorrent
Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has released Pegasos software for making your own CD32-Live-CDs. This may be downloaded from pegasos.org via BitTorrent.
The archive only needs a CD32 ISO image of your choice named "cd32.iso" as well as a CD32 Kickstart ROM image named "cd32.rom" in the main directory and then burn it all to CD.
On top of that the CD contains the 3D-Ego-Shooter Aleph One and several emulators (inc. MAME, Sega, Nintendo, and C64). Aleph One requires some additional files that are available by clicking on the previous "Aleph One" link. The emulators require the desired games as well as the BIOS or Kickstart image corresponding to the system.
More information may be found in the instructions in the archive as well as the related MorphZone thread.
The CD32-Live-CD has only been tested on Pegasos II computers so far, the results on Pegasos I are not yet available.
Torrent-Datei: cd32-live.torrent (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
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Convention Update: AmiGBG (Sweden) and Boinged in Belgium (Belgium)
AmiGBG 2005
The official website of the 23rd July 2005 11 AM to 5 PM Amiga convention in the Swedish town of Göteborg is now online.
[rest of this section not translated, Mikael Haglund of IBM will be there to talk about POWER architecture and the new "Cell" processor -dm]
For the convention Boinged in Belgium, which takes place on 6th and 7th August in the vicinity of Antwerp, hosted by the Belgian Amiga Club, Michele C. Battilana of (Cloanto) has donated three complete Amiga Forever 6.0 emulator CDs. One will be awarded to the 100th visitor, another, it's planned, to the owner of the best "modded" Amiga. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
MorphOS-Team (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Update of ft2.library
The MorphOS Team has released an update of ft2.library for MorphOS 1.4.5. The new library cleans up a couple minor problems with the previous version and is linked against the current freetype2, yielding improved quality.
The new version of ft2.library may be downloaded by registered MorphOS users at download.morphos-team.net or at the support FTP server. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.May.2005
Thomas Würgler (ANF)
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Susumu Hirasawa composes boot jingle for AmigaOS 4.0
Leuven, Belgium, May 25, 2005 - Chaos Union and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that recording artist Susumu Hirasawa will deliver a boot jingle created specifically for AmigaOS 4.0. Two additional tracks will also be included on the AmigaOS 4.0 CD to showcase Hirasawa's music.
About Susumu Hirasawa
Susumu Hirasawa is a highly acclaimed recording artist. He has written soundtracks for commercial successes such as Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent, the Beserk TV-series and videogame, and he is currently working on his latest CD-release. Since 1979 he helped defined Japanese pop-techno in the group P-MODEL and launched his first solo album in 1989. Since the mid-90s Hirasawa has toured with his Interactive Live Show utilizing Amigas with the support of Amiga user group of Japan (FAMIGA) for a spectacular interactive multimedia performance.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).
Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs.
Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985. (snx)
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25.May.2005
dietmar (ANF)
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Formerly commercial editor microgolded updated and now a free download
microgolded is now available as free download. Instead of asking users to pay for it, it is released as sponsored software and contains offline advertising.
About microgolded: microgolded is a small editor. It provides basic editing features, such as undo-redo, folding, macro recording, formatting, auto-case, auto-completion and other basic editor stuff. It is very fast and very configurable. All in one file, no installation.
Screenshot
Download
Registered users can find a new, advertising-free version on the GoldED website. New features: black-on-white color scheme (optional) and navigation tabs.
Amiga users and dealers interested in advertising software, events, websites or services in microgolded please contact GoldED support. (snx)
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25.May.2005
Jürgen Lucas (comments)
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MUI: Update of texteditor.mcc to version 15.11
The open source texteditor.mcc is now available in version 15.11 and offers most functions of a normal
text editor, embedded to a MUI class. The archiv contains native version for MorphOs and AmigaOS4 also.
Download: MCC_TextEditor.lha (340 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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25.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Adventure: "The Labyrinth of Time" Amiga version available for free download
The originally 1994 published game "The Labyrinth of Time" (screenshot) is
now freely downloadable.
The Amiga version requires AmigaDOS 1.3, 1 MB Chip RAM and 512 KB Fast RAM and runs under UAE also. An English manual is
online available. Please study the included readme file.
Ordering the game on CD is possible at the title link.
Download: LABAMIGA.lha (134 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.May.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 24-05-2005
Blob Wars
Blob Wars is an SDL based board game.
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Downloadpage
Pachi el marciano
One more board game which is similar to "Manic Miner" or "Jet Set Willy"
(screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Downloadpage
Password manager: Ling 1.3
Ling is a data base for saving several passwords. All passwords are encoded with the BlowFish CBC algorithm before storing them to the data base.
(screenshot). The latest changes:
- Windows were left locked after an export operation
- Arggggggg found a very bad bad in passwords saving. All 1.1 archives are not compatible anymore
- Changed RNG function: now it is a KISS one with a sha1-ed randomly generated seed
- Some minor changes
Please note that old data files which were created with an ancient version of Ling are not compatible to Ling 1.3. Please export all your data prior to
updating to a CSV file and import these files then by hand to Ling 1.3.
Link: Homepage
Download: Ling.lha (635 KB)
TheBar.mcc 20.5
"TheBar" is a MUI class by Alfonso Ranieri to easily generate button banks.
Link: Homepage
Download: MCC_TheBarMOS.lha (425 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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24.May.2005
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Package management system: APMS
With "Amiga Package Management System" (APMS) David Pitcher releases a clone of the known from the Unix world package
manager like RPM or apt-get. APMS should assist users while installation or upgrade of software packages:
The program recognizes dependencies (application X requires library Y) and manages the download and installation
of all required archives.
In a later phase APMS will introduce an Amiga specific format,
also mechanisms to transmit bug reports to a central data base are planned. Additionally support of further platforms
(beside AmigaOS 4) and servers (beside os4depot.net) is thought of.
The first version of APMS still has several bugs and is partly incomplete:
- Install, uninstall and update do not work yet
- Loads of debug output
- The program does not show verbose status information
- Before download the (os4depot.net-) category must be selected by hand
For all interested ones there is a mailing list at yahoo groups available. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.May.2005
ANN (website)
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OpenPCI: updates for RTL8139 driver and OpenPCIInfo
Benjamin Vernoux released a new version of his OpenPCI driver for the RTL8139 ethernet chipset fixing several problems with connection abortions and with file transfers.
A new version of OpenPCIInfo is available, too. Here were internal configuration options added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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