02.Jun.2004
MorphZone (website)
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Demo scene: Several Mad Wizard demos adapted for MorphOS
Kiero made some changes to several of the Mad Wizards' releases, so now you can enjoy these demos under MorphOS. You can find them in the MorphZone. Required is a video card with 3D supported drivers. (snx)
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02.Jun.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: C64 emulator Frodo now with Catweasel SID support
The MorphOS version of the C64 emulator Frodo has been updated and does now support the original soundchip of the C64, known as SID (Sound Interface Device).
Added features of Frodo 4.1b R3 (645 KB):
- Supports Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper for SID
- Better sound quality in AHI modes
- Selectable 6581 and 8580 waveforms for AHI
- Better overlay and fullscreen support
(snx)
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01.Jun.2004
Dietmar Eilert (ANF)
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Updates for GoldED AIX and microgolded
A new version of GoldED AIX has just been released. Information about the new features and the latest files are available here.
GoldED Studio AIX is a text editor and integrated C/C++ development environment for AmigaOS and MorphOS. The latest upgrade implements many new interface customization options. GoldED includes a complete set of gcc-based development tools for AmigaOS and MorphOS in an easy-to-use package with mouseclick installation. Here's a sample screenshot (new-look example).
Microgolded is a simple, low-cost version of GoldED; this editor is designed for casual users, not for developers.
Trial versions (30-day trial version and demo) can be downloaded from the official support web site.
Direct download:
GoldED AIX with C/C++ IDE (77 MB)
GoldED AIX without C/C++ (6 MB)
microgolded (250 KB)
microgolded with CED keymap (250 KB)
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Online magazine: NoCover issue 123
On May, 1st issue #123 of the German online magazine NoCover has been released and it has already been sent to all subscribers via e-mail.
The magazine is also available from nc-mag.de as well as apc-tcp.de. It will be on Aminet soon and is distributed on Amiga Future CDROMs.
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: New skin "OneFive"
"OneFive" is another MorphOS skin from Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel (Screenshot).
The skin is designed for higher resolutions and large fonts and includes a skin installer.
Direct download: onefive.lha (440 KB)
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOne/AmigaOS4 tutorials updated (UBoot, OS installation)
At IntuitionBase.com the UBoot tutorial
has been updated and a pre-release installation FAQ
is available now.
The official OS4 installer guide has been updated aswell, please visit
www.os4.co.uk for more info.
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
whoosh (ANF)
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AFPL-Ghostscript 8.13 ported for i686-AROS
Ghostscript is for viewing + converting + printing PS & PDF files. This port is a recompile of my 68k port of AFPL Ghostscript 8.13 to a new host: i686-AROS.
Everything seems to function, except exactly 1 viewer functions which
is the truecolour WB PS + PDF viewer. The other 5 viewers don't function
currently, this could be an endianess problem: this being the first
port of my work to a little endian architecture. The non functioning
viewers just produce an empty window or the correct image but with
wrong colours.
Anyway you *can* view PS + PDF in truecolour on a WB window,
with correct image + correct colours, this is the most useful of the 6 possible viewers.
I will be attempting ports of the same program to other variants of
AmigaOS, I have already begun towards another well known variant of
AmigaOS.
If Turboprint gets ported to x86-AROS then the Turboprint devices of
this port may then become of use.
To get an idea of the speed, if I install this port entirely to RAM,
ie GS, GS813Data: GS813Fonts: GS813Resource: all in ram:, then
converting the standard example annots.pdf to jpeg takes 4 to 5 seconds,
i.e. "ram:gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=ram:annots%d.jpg ram:annots.pdf" (all on one line). RAM based is really unbelievably fast, faster than "dir ram:"!
However if installed on CD it takes much longer, not so impressive, modern PCs have so much memory that installing to RAM is quite a good idea.
I don't know if the port will run on i386, i486, i586 machines,
let me know either way and if necessary I will do other versions,
it should take 3.5 hours to build each of these on WinUAE.
The program was ported on WinUAE using my recent port to 68k host of
gcc-3.3.1 for x86-AROS. (snx)
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01.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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MPEG player: RiVA V0.50 released
Stephen Fellner released v0.50 of "RIVA", a shareware mpeg player for 68k based Amiga systems. New in this version:
- Added Window display mode to allow playback in a window on systems with no PIP/VLayer. Enter can be used to toggle between window and fullscreen during playback
- Added support for the BGRA32 colour format. PC graphics cards (like GeForce) use this mode, so UAE users can play videos on a truecolor screen (or in a window on a TrueColor Workbench) on those cards
(snx) (Translation: cg)
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01.Jun.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter von Brad Webb #040531
The May 2004 issue of Brad Webb's "Amiga Update" is available now. In his monthly newsletter Brad covers all important Amiga news.
Topics of this edition:
- The Latest News about AmiWest
- AmigaWorld.net launched
- AmigaAMP 2.12 released
- Persuasive Softworx at end
- Cocolino Mouse Interface - Elbox
- Homebank goes freeware
- 2 Riva MPEG Player versions in May
- WinUAE New version out, announced
- The Ultimate Pong Clone !?!?
(nba) (Translation: cg)
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31.May.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: Cross upgrade offer for PCI busboards
Until June 14th, Elbox do offer a cross upgrade for owners of PCI busboards by other manufacturers: in return for their current PCI busboard they can get the Mediator PCI at a special upgrade price.
The offer covers an upgrade to the following models of Mediator PCI: 4000D, 4000Di, 3/4000T, 3000D, 1200SX, 1200LT4 and 1200ZIV. If you are interested in offer details, contact the technical advisor of Elbox at upgradePCI@elbox.com. Details of the Mediator PCI busboards you can find under the title link. (snx)
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29.May.2004
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Strategy game: "Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe" updated
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe is an
open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", that
"enhances the game experience dramatically".
Frank W. has now updated his Amiga port of OpenTTD. Amongst other things,
the "FastRAM problem" of the 68k version has been fixed, the keyboard is
supported now and the language files have been updated.
To play OpenTTD in fullscreen mode, either press <Alt>-<Return>
while the game is running or change the "fullscreen" value in the file
"openttd.cfg" to "true".
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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29.May.2004
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Strategy game: LGeneral for AmigaOS
Frank W. has compiled the "Panzer General" clone LGeneral for AmigaOS (68k and WarpOS).
The Amiga version is available from the author's homepage, the required data files can be obtained from the official LGeneral homepage.
If you want to play LGeneral in fullscreen mode, change the "fullscreen" value in the file "lgeneral.conf" to 1.
(cg)
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29.May.2004
ANN (website)
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SystemPatch: version 2.3 released
Sante Nocciolino's SystemPatch that patches several system routines to gain some system performance on Amiga computers (68020+) is now available in version 2.3.
Improvements in version 2.3 (30 KB):
- Fixed bugs in AllocRaster(); some WB games like VChess, MineRunner, ... were saying there was not enough memory (reported by Luca "Hexaae" Longone)
- A lot of small enhancements, minor speedups to some gfx functions and bugfixes
- AllocRaster() patch causes probelms with games like Quake68k and BloodNet AGA, now fixed (reported by Luca "Hexaae" Longone)
- WritePixel() bug that causes system freezing with Octamed SoundStudio when using its Synthetic Sound Editor (reported by Luca "Hexaae" Longone)
- ENV:FAllocRasterExcludeList can contain a list of tasks to be excluded from AllocRaster() chip to fast memory promotion. I've to do a better implementation for the task exclusion of AllocRaster() patch
- Added patches for non FBlit systems: BltBitMap(), Draw(), BltClear(). Previous BltClear() required FBlit but was installed too when FBlit was not running
- Added: ClearScreen(), ClearEOL(), InitRastPort(), TextLength(), SetFont()
- Other improvements I don't remember
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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28.May.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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New versions of "Anti-Virus Boot Disks"
The Virus Help Team has published new versions of its "Anti-Virus Boot Disks".
These are bootable disks that can be used to search for virus on a PC.
The disks use the xadmaster- and xfdmaster-libraries written by Dirk Stöckers.
Because these libraries have been updated during the last time the Virus Help Team
has updated its boot disks, too. There are different versions of the disks with
different Anti-Virus-Programs.
The disks can be downloaded from the Canadian mirror of Virus Help Team:
http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/downloads.html#-amiga-boot-disks
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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28.May.2004
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Instant Messaging: AmigAIM Beta 0.9448 published
The new beta version 0.9448 of AmigaAIM which is an AOL Instant Messenger chat tool for
the Amiga has been published on May 27th, 2004.
A bug has been fixed and a new feature added where the chat partner sees that the other one
just writes a message.
Direct download (235 KB)
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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28.May.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: Version control system Subversion 1.0.4 (Clients) ported
Subversion is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files and directories (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like CVS, RCS or SCCS.
Actually Subversion is meant to be a better CVS, so it has most of CVS's features. Generally, Subversion's interface to a particular feature is similar to CVS's, except where there's a compelling reason to do otherwise.
Subversion keeps a single copy of the master sources. This copy is called the source "repository"; it contains all the information to permit extracting previous versions of those files at any time.
The current MorphOS release comes for now only with native ports of the Subversion clients: svn and svnversion. The archive also contains various documentation about Subversion in different formats including the Subversion-book (html, pdf, xml). Please note that only the documentation about the clients is relevant for now. For a next release it is planned to include the demon, apache modules and server administration tools too.
The current MorphOS release is only interesting for you if you have to deal with SVN repositories for your projects, else it might be actually quite useless - so better don't download the archive.
Note: the clients were ported by me, because I needed them for one of my projects. I use them daily for this project and they run very stable and they do the job very well (which I didn't expected after I got the 26 MB sources finally to compile). That means they are in parts untested and still could contain serious bugs or other (minor) problems could show up.
Download the archive under the title link.
(snx)
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27.May.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Status Report for the Browser "Atlantis"
At MorphZone there's a status report on the progress of the MorphOS version of Atlantis, which is the Gnome Linux web-browser by Ali 'Galaxy' Akcaagac.
The author stresses that he is unwilling and unable to predict a completion date. He shows two screenshots (1, 2) and an accompanying status report to show that he is keeping his word and the promised port is proceeding slowly but steadily.
Currently the GUI is beginning to take rough shape and the character system is almost complete. The URL string particularly is missing, as is the expected HTML class. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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27.May.2004
Matthias Bertram
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A600 accellerator: Current number of preorders for the "Apollo 630"
Matthias Bertram informs us that he received 48 pre-orders for a potential new production run of the "Apollo 630" until now (we reported). 18 people contacted him but did not place a final order yet.
If Matthias is able to collect 100 or more pre-orders, the price might get reduced slightly (ca. 100 EUR instead of 120 EUR).
Matthias is on vacation from May 29 until June 12. He will not be able to answer incoming mail or give further updates regarding the number of pre-orders during this time.
(cg)
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26.May.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Report and Photos from the "Webbit 2004"
At Ikir
Sector there is an Italian report including some photos from the
"Webbit 2004", which happend from May the 6th to May the 8th in
Padova (Italy), available.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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26.May.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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"Pong" in 3D: d3GNOP
"d3GNOP" is a 3D "Pong" clone by Jukka Varsaluoma. The game requires Warp3D and AHI, some screenshots are available on the author's homepage
- Stunning 3D gfx (Warp3D/MiniGL)
- 16bit stereo sound with speech (AHI)
- Versions for 68k and WarpOS
- 1 or 2 player game
- 10 different bonuses (multiple balls, obstacles etc.)
- 100 levels
- 10 different 3D backgrounds
- Automatic savegame
- Selectable detail of gfx
- Joystick support
- Freeware
(cg)
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26.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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Game: Update of Horror House - Timing problems with MorphOS solved
Horror
House (2.9 MB) - a little Hollywood game where monsters
appearing at different windows have to shot with the mouse is
available in it's fourth release.
This archive contains versions for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS.
According to the author, the timing problems under MorphOS are solved now.
Additionally the game play has been improved and
some other bugs were removed also. Feedback may be send to the
author by email.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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