11.Feb.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Origyn Web Browser 1.9 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of the Origyn Web Browser. From this version on the OWB-window will be not created by the SDL but directly opnend as Intuition-window geöffnet (screenshot). OWB includes a simple toolbar. For these toolbar graphics wird AISS is supported. The changes in detail:
- Implemented the shared timer for AmigaOS4
- Added a workaround for libxml2 depending on the cygnix libiconv, it should no longer need a Cygnix: assign
- Implemented the graphics device for AmigaOS4, it's now using an intuition window instead of a SDL one
- Implemented intuition event handling
- Implemented the mouse pointers for AmigaOS4, added a help pointer
- Forms with target "_blank" are opened the same frame as well now
- Added a simple toolbar (back, forward, stop, url and google search)
Hint: If you want to use OWB on a seperate screen you must create a new screen called "OrigynWebBrowser" under Prefs/Screens.
Update: (22:03, 12.02.08, snx)
Meanwhile, version 1.9 is available already. Changes:
- To open OWB on an own screen you can define a screen in Prefs/Screens with the name "OrigynWebBrowser" (was supported in 1.8 already, I just forgot to mention it in the release notes)
- Fixed return/enter not working in text areas
- Cursor left/right for scrolling in too wide pages works now
- Added progress bar with status bar text
- The window title is changed to the page title now
- URL string gadget is updated when loading a new page
- Added tooltype support, you can configure the home page (HOME) and minimum font size (MINFONTSIZE) now
- Added home gadget
- Search engine is configurable now (SEARCH tooltype)
- With <ALT> pressed you can scroll horizontally with the vertical mouse wheel now
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2008
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Computer History Museum: Interview mit Jack Tramiel (englisch)
In occasion of the 25th anniversary event of the rollout of the C64 organized by the Computer History Museum was on December10/2007 among others Jack Tramiel interviewed, as founder and Executive Director of Commodore during the time before the Amiga-take over. Linked to the header is a video of this discussion.
A short but writen form of this interview is available by news.com . (snx) (Translation: aj)
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11.Feb.2008
Tomasz Wiszkowski (E-Mail)
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Burnprogram: Frying Pan 1.3
Tomasz Wiszkowski released today his version 1.3 of his CD- and DVD-burn program. Frying Pan is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS.
Changes:
- Disc image handling has been added - you can use cue or nrg images
(although certain track formats may still be unsupported due to
'closed format' of NRG structure)
- CD masterizing goes one step ahead with indices (available primarily
with cue only)
- Certain Toshiba, Panasonic and Plextor drives are now supported
- MP3 issue has been resolved on PPC platforms (original includes
still don't feature adequate __attribute__'s)
- Bug fixes
- UI improvements
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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11.Feb.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 6
In Part 6 of the Amiga Storie wrotes Jeremy Reimer under the title "Stopping the bleeding" among other about the Commodore-showdown 1985/86, Electronic Arts and the Magazin "Amiga World".
In this articles the author explaines, "what was Amiga, for the developers and users and why - in defiance to his early dead [from the vantage point of the present] - was the influence to the computer industry so big". (snx) (Translation: aj)
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10.Feb.2008
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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AmigaGuide/HTML viewer: strangé 0.18
strangé is a MUI-based AmigaGuide/HTML viewer based on HTMLView.mcc. Changes in version 0.18:
- Changes to options.c to load prefs faster
- Changes to prefs,c to handle prefs faster
- Added a "table detail pen", even if not used atm
- Rewrite the code to use SDI_#? for easy porting, but
rewrote some SDI_#? stuff, because they handle mos in
a very bad way
- With the help of Fulvio Peruggi, I finally found the bug
that made local html pages not be load for many: it was
some htmlview datatype fault. Now strangé should open any
local html file easly
- Again with the help of Fulvio, fixed a bug with some fancy
Amigaguide docs LINK parsing
- Fixed documents color handling
- Added BACKDROP option
- Added FANCY option for MorphOS version only, try it out :P
- MorphOS version iconify is now done in app subclass: the
main window is not closed, but hidden, so that loading
and pics rendering continues even when iconified
- Added AlwaysShowTabs prefs option: tab titles is present
even if just one tab is present
- Revisited local and online docs
- Many other minor bug fixes and changes
strangé is available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3, meanwhile, both versions offer the same range of functions again. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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10.Feb.2008
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ACube Systems: Minimig available
Press release:
Bassano del Grappa (Italy), February 10, 2008.
ACube Systems is happy to be able to announce the availability of the anxiously awaited Minimig systems.
The Minimig can be ordered directly from ACube Systems and before long, will be purchasable from other dealers as well. Two versions are available:
- Fully populated motherboard with 1 GB SD card for 138 euros
- Fully populated motherboard with 1 GB SD card and compatible power supply for 149 euros
Both versions include a short installation manual in four languages (English, German, Italian and French). The prices do not include shipping costs and taxes.
Please send your orders via E-Mail to info@acube-systems.com. Due to high demand, up to seven workdays may pass between the receipt of the order and the shipment. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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10.Feb.2008
Roland Heyder (ANF)
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MakeHTMLMap 5.100
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder's MakeHTMLMap supports web designers in creating online galleries and webshops.
In addition to essential changes concerning used or supported third party software - for example SView5, which made rapid development with almost weekly updates in the past weeks and months - (improvements) as well as some detailed enhancements were carried out in MakeHTMLMap in version 5.100: thus, for example, created layouts can now be saved and loaded separately, and also the Quick-Index function now works a little more sensibly and positions the sought picture at the beginning of the visible browser area.
Download: MakeHTMLMap.lha (1.7 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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09.Feb.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Tooltype 1.2
"Tooltype" written by Christian Rosentreter is a little program with you can edit the tooltypes which are included in the pictogram files (#?.info).
Download: tooltype-1.2-morphos.lha (3,8 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Feb.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Microsoft bought Caligari Corporation
Under the title link Caligari Corporation announced that Microsoft has bought it. The Virtual-Earth-Team is supposed to get support.
The company is known by its 3D-modelling program Caligari trueSpace with which you can create and animate three-dimensional photo realistic objects. First the program was developed for the in the middle of the 80ies. It was the first of this kind of program- Later Windows was supported and today is the only platform which is supported.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Feb.2008
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MorphOS: cftp 0.12 with SFTP support
cftp is an FTP client from the Unix world with a text based interface that supports the SFTPprotocol. The MorphOS port has been dony by Fabrizio Bartoloni, for SFTP connections OpenSSH is required. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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06.Feb.2008
Obligement (ANF)
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Amiga Games Award: Warzone 2100 elected best game of 2007
The real time strategy game Warzone 2100 has won the AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2007. It precedes Amijeweled and Airline Tycoon Deluxe. All results can be seen at the title link. (snx)
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06.Feb.2008
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MorphOS: NeoGeo Pocket emulator NeoPop-SDL
Fabrizio Bartoloni has ported the NeoGeo Pocket emulator NeoPop-SDL to MorphOS. The Author describes his version ass "old, yet unreleased project which is likely to be improved still", but nevertheless he decided to publish it now since the emulator works with the latest powersdl.library. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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05.Feb.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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Filesharing: enqueueTorrent 1.6
The CLI-based program enqueueTorrent written by Christian Rosentreter integrates the P2P-client MLdonkey to your browser. With it you can add torrents or edonkey links to the download-queue.
Version 1.6 fixes some bugs when using Linux-mlnets.
Download:
enqueuetorrent-1.6-amigaos.lha (73 KB)
enqueuetorrent-1.6-morphos.lha (92 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Feb.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaGuide-/HTML-viewer: strangé 0.17
strangé is a MUI-based AmigaGuide-/HTML-viewer which is based on HTMLView.mcc. Changes in version 0.17 ("First Final Release"):
- 0.17: Amigaguide paragraph Exact mode added: it shows Amigaguide at the best
- 0.17: Everything now work on MorphOS and MUI3.9
- 0.17: Dozens of minor changes and bug fixes
- 0.16: really, so many changes, I can't tell you. So many bugs removed from strangé itself and HTMLview, that you would think I was crazy in the previous versions :P
strangé is available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3. Both versions offer the same features.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Feb.2008
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.02.2008
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were originally meant for use with disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
Since our last message the following installers have been added, improved or updated:
- 05.02.08 improved: Oil Imperium (reLINE) supports english version, misc fixes (Info)
- 01.02.08 fixed: Crayon Shinchan (Melon Dezign) corrected to work with newer WHDLoad's (Info,Image)
- 01.02.08 new: Gateway To The Savage Frontier (SSI) done by Psygore (Info)
- 01.02.08 improved: Bez Kompromisu (Mark Soft) icons, manuals and solutions added (Info)
- 01.02.08 improved: Metal & Lace (Apocalypse Bay) fixed for whdload 16.6+ (Info,Image)
- 01.02.08 new: Curse Of The Azure Bonds (SSI) done by Psygore (Info)
- 27.01.08 new: The Dark Queen Of Krynn (SSI) done by Psygore (Info)
- 26.01.08 new: Cubulus (Software 2000) done by Psygore (Info)
- 26.01.08 improved: Clockwiser (Rasputin) interrupts disabled to avoid an access fault (Info)
- 25.01.08 new: Le Labyrinthe aux Mille Calculs (RETZ) done by Psygore (Info)
- 23.01.08 new: Oil Imperium (reLINE) done by Wepl (Info)
- 21.01.08 new: Le Labyrinthe de la Reine des Ombres (RETZ) done by Psygore (Info)
- 21.01.08 new: Le Labyrinthe d'Orthophus (RETZ) done by Psygore (Info)
- 18.01.08 fixed: Rampage (TEK) corrected to work with newer WHDLoads (Info,Image)
- 18.01.08 fixed: System Violation (Anarchy) corrected to work with newer WHDLoads (Info,Image)
- 14.01.08 improved: Pool Of Radiance (SSI) fixed save game location (Info)
- 14.01.08 improved: Zool (Gremlin) crash fixed in AGA version, reworked slaves (Info)
- 14.01.08 updated: SWIV (Sales Curve) supports another version, misc fixes, manual added (Info)
- 14.01.08 new: Pools Of Darkness (SSI) done by Psygore (Info)
- 14.01.08 new: Le Labyrinthe de Lexicos (RETZ) done by Psygore (Info)
- 14.01.08 new: Le Labyrinthe d'Errare (RETZ) done by Psygore (Info)
- 14.01.08 new: Le Labyrinthe d'Anglomania 2 (RETZ) done by Psygore (Info)
- 14.01.08 new: Le Labyrinthe d'Anglomania 1 (RETZ) done by Psygore (Info)
- 09.01.08 improved: Life & Death (Software Toolworks/Mindscape) keyboard handling improved, blitter waits added (Info)
- 09.01.08 improved: Encounter (Novagen) no longer needs NoVBRMove, supports ButtonWait (Info)
- 07.01.08 improved: The King Of Chicago (Cinemaware) supports another 2 versions, more memory to avoid crashes (Info)
- 07.01.08 new: Overdrive (Infacto) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 04.01.08 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) fixed fuel code display (Info)
- 04.01.08 improved: Data Storm (Visionary Design) completely reworked (Info,Image)
- 04.01.08 new: Winter Games (Epyx) done by Codetapper & Psygore (Info)
- 02.01.08 new: Stellar 7 (Dynamix) done by Psygore (Info)
- 02.01.08 updated: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) install script corrected, reassembled slave (Info,Image)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Feb.2008
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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MUI-Klon: AfA Zune 1.0, Beta 4
Bernd Roesch released a update of his AmigaOS 3-Port of the MUI-clon Zune. Changes are:
- Actual classes for YAM 2.5
- Round buttons in Boopsi are working, stormwizard.library works now stabil (Screenshot)
The author notify the Zune works stabil, but to operated it as MUI-replacement for existing MUI-executables the status is only beta. Zune was tested wit several programs like YAM 2.4, 2.5 und 2.6.
Scalos is also already adapted to use automaticaly Zune instead MUI if it is available. If you will change it remove the zune_lib.exe from the afa_os_libs/ folder.
This archiv includes inside of the folder lookingclass/18/buttons/ several example buttons, which are usable with the Zune-Skins. The at the Screenshot shown "Glas Button" are can be found as mag.button_.
Direkter Download: AfA_Binaries/afa_os_zune1.0beta4.lha (841 KB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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03.Feb.2008
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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Lorraine Design: Wallpaper set AmiWave
At Lorraine Design, there is a new wallpaper set named AmiWave, which includes seven different background pictures in a resolution of 1280x1024 points (Preview).
Direct download: AmiWave_wallpaper_set_by_cybo_amiga.zip (4.3 MB) (cg) (Translation: cad)
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03.Feb.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: FPSE 0.10.0
LDChen and AmiDog have published version 0.10.0 of the Playstation emulator FPSE for AmigaOS 4.
Changes:
- Based on the very latest 0.10 core
- Bugfixed and optimized recompiler (JIT)
- BIOS emulation, many games can be played without a BIOS dump
- SUBQ emulation makes copy protected games playable
- Altivec optimizations
- Link mode (link cable emulation)
- Game specific fixes and optimizations
- Bugfixed XA playback
- CDDA playback
- CDDA to SPU option allow reverb effects on CDDA
- Support for several common CD image formats
- Bugfixed and optimized Warp3D renderer
- AmigaInput support
- New plugins for multitap and gun emulation
- M680x0 AmigaOS3 version complete with recompiler
- Plus many more fixes and improvements all over the place
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Feb.2008
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS for AmigaOS: AfA 4.1
Version 4.1 of "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA) which is a port of single AROS components includes the following news:
- AFA documentation and FAQ in AmigaGuide format in English and German (thanks to Thomas and Alexander)
- Faster redraw for windows sizes < 150 pixel
- Picture.datatype more compatible (CyberShow, Photoalbum, YAM 2.6dev, Portrait view and dtalphatest work), RGBA-modus implemented
- Text in menu is centered correctly after a rebbot if the screen title was enlarged
- Intuition.library version set back to 40; thus YAM and IBrowse menus have the right positions
- Recognition of AfA-intutionlib with the help of the intuitionlib revision number which is at AfA >= 87
Download: AfA_OS_V4.1.lha (1,4 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Feb.2008
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: ACSH hardware meeting 1/08 in Kiel
Sven Scheele writes: The Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein is inviting to the first hardware meeting 2008 on Sunday, March 1, in Kiel. The meeting takes place on the premises of the technical college on Heikendorfer Weg 93a again (see "Ausstellung", Pos. 4 on the campus plan.).
Those who would like to bring along their computers should register via E-Mail at all costs, since space is limited. Start is officially at 13 o'clock, an earlier installation is possible after consultation. Power outlet strips, network cables, etc. must be brought by yourself, as always. Internet access via the technical college network is planned.
At this opportunity, another note that the location for the monthly regulars' table has changed. With immediate effect, this takes place in the restaurant "Colosseum." See the "Termine" (appointments) area on the homepage for this purpose. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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03.Feb.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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IRC-Klient: WookieChat 2.9 beta 8
James "jahc" Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based IRC client WookieChat. The changes you can read in the changelog.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Feb.2008
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MorphOS: PowerSDL 11.14
Ilkka Lehtoranta has published an update of his SDL-port for MorphOS. For the last changes have a look at the readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Feb.2008
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Network Printer: netprinter.device 1.11 (AmigaOS 3/MorphOS)
Guido Mersmann's netprinter.device supports the LPR protocol and thus allows printing over a network. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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03.Feb.2008
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.4.4 with WinUAE-Add-on (Update)
AmiKit which is a full distribution for WinUAE users is available in version 1.4.4. It can be installed over the integrated live-update-function or manually. Have a look at the changelog for the changes.
Update: (18:48, 03.02.08, snx)
Additionally there is an add-on with the current WinUAE version 1.4.6.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Feb.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: MLDonkey 2.9.3
Christian Rosentreter has published an update of the filesharing program MLDonkey. Users of the TCP/IP stack MOSNet are asked to post possible problems with MLDonkey 2.9.3 under the title link.
Network modules:
- eDonkey enabled (eMule SUI enabled)
- BitTorrent enabled
- FileTP (aka wget) enabled
- Fasttrack enabled
- Gnutella disabled - unmaintained
- Gnutella2 disabled - unmaintained
- Direct Connect enabled
- Open Napster disabled - currently not usable
- Soulseek disabled - currently not usable
- OpenFT disabled - currently not usable
Core features:
- zlib (required) enabled
- threads disabled
- bzip2 enabled
- iconv enabled
- libmagic disabled
- graphical stats disabled
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Feb.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.4.6
The well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE is now availble in version 1.4.6. This is the last version which works under Windows 98/ME.
Bug fixes:
- Mouse never capturing. (Windows 98/ME, rarely on W2K/XP)
- Some games crashing (temporary workaround: enable >2M Chip RAM)
- Broken sprite outside playfields-feature and SWIV score information
- Fullscreen mode with non-default refresh rate fallback problem
- A600/A1200/A4000 IDE emulation froze with >2G drives/HDFs
- CDTV E.S.S. Mega: "semi-hidden" track now loads properly on W2K/XP
- Crash when switching between <=2MB Chip + Fast and >2MB Chip setting
- Sound emulation tweak (Dungeon Master II)
- Unstable NMI option in cycle-exact and more-compatible modes
- "Full-window" mode didn't always allow Windows desktop RTG resolution
New features:
- Inverted mouse and analog joystick input sources
- Input device (USB joystick, mouse etc..) on the fly insertions and
removals supported. Device names saved to configuration file
- Automatic joystick switching, firebutton 'inserts' any non-selected
joystick to Amiga joystick port. Second button selects mouse port
- Dynamic JIT direct memory allocation. Increased Z3 and RTG maximum
sizes to 1G and 512M (At least 2G physical RAM required)
- A3000 confirmed 2.04 ROM added to ROM scanner
- Directory filesystem ACTION_EXAMINE_ALL implementation is more
compatible with buggy programs
- CIA/Gayle overlay emulation setting added to advanced chipset
- Original early A1000 non-EHB Denise added
- Original A1000 (and early A2000) Agnus blitter busy bug added
- Keyboard reset warning emulated and added to advanced chipset
- Debugger improvements, hex/dec/bin converter, all commands that accept
numeric parameters also accept register names (RAx,RDx,PC,USP,VBR,..),
number prefixes supported, hex = 0x or $, bin = %, dec = !
- 1M (both 0xe0/0xf8 and 0xf0/0xf8) and 2M (0xa8/0xb0/0xe0/0xf8) ROM
image support
- Implemented "Fullscreen" filtering option
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Feb.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Amiga Inc.: AmigaAnywhere 2 for registered developers
In a press release Amiga Inc. announced that version 2 of AmigaAnywhere™ (AA2) is available for registered Amiga-SDA-developers.
Additionally an AA2-FAQ-Site has been opened. Here you can read that AA2 and "OS5" is not identical: The first one is a middleware, the second one is decentralized, virtual operating system which will be not finished in the near future. But AA2 will be part of OS5.
Even though middleware is not a new idea because there are already similar products AA2 is different to them because of its simplicity and its features.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Feb.2008
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Update for Hollywood Designer 2.0
Press release: On the homepage of Airsoft Softwair there is a free update for all owners of Hollywood Designer 2.0. With this update you can use the new functions of Hollywood 3: Evolution while using Hollywood Designer. So with the Hollywood Designer you can create programs for Windows and Mac OS.
You can download the update from the product site of Hollywood Designer on the homepage of Airsoft Softwair.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Feb.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Origyn Web Browser 1.7
Jörg Strohmayer has published a new version of the SDL-browser OWB (screenshot). Changes in version 1.7:
- Implemented the font system for AmigaOS4. Make sure outline fonts you installed yourself have the families set (in the Files tab in TypeManager)
- Reenabled GIF animations, with the much faster fonts they are no longer such a big problem, at least if there are only a few animations on a page
- Updated to SVN revision 236
- Added Andrea's ARexx port (hostname: OWB, commands: OPENURL "url", STOP, GOBACK, GOFORWARD)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 1.2.11 (bugfix)
Richard Drummond has published an update of the multimedia library SDL. SDL is supposed to make it programmers easy to develop portable applications and is used by several Open-Source games.
The latest update includes two minor bug fixes (changelog).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2008
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RSS-viewer: amrss 5.57
Alfonso Ranieri has published an update of his RSS-viewer amrss. For AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS amrss is offered as full as well as light version. The MorphOS versions require MUI 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Linux: Kernel 2.6.16.60 for AmigaOne computers
Under the title link the Linux-Kernel 2.6.16.60 for AmigaOne computers published. The support for the SmartFileSystem was compiled as modul as well.
According to Gerhard Pircher a Mac-on-Linux-Paket (0.9.72) is also available for this kernel. Users of kernel version 2.6.8 can find the same MoL version in the corresponding sub directory under the title link.
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31.Jan.2008
Jools "BuZz" Smyth (ANF)
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New, Wiki based version of ExoticA
ExoticA is about "retro": Scans of old games, Amiga and C64 soundtracks, pictograms for WHDLoad-Installs and much more. Exotica currently consists of 8000 sites.
After two years the transfer of the complete site to a so called Wiki has been finished. According to the authors some few sections have little problems but the users are already very welcome to complete the Wiki with further information or to fix bugs in existing entries.
Under old.exotica.org.uk you can still access the old version of the site but it is not supported any longer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2008
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AROS: New WinAROS version
With WinAros it is possible to test the operating system AROS under Windows and to check out programs which were developed with AmiDevCpp.
The virtual harddrive contains now two partitions: One 20 MB FFS-partition with the boot files and a second 480 MB SFS-partition with the AROS installation. WinAROS does not include additional applications but a simple AROS Installation - you can install further applications with WinArosStart.
WinAROS is set up with the help of a Windows like installation program. A deinstallation program is also part of the distribution.
Direct download: WinAros012008.exe (38,3 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: First beta version of PFTP 0.1
Peter Gordon's PFTP which is a FTP-client for AmigaOS 4 has changed its alpha status to beta.
Changes since the last alpha version:
- It's no longer alpha (dancing bananas...)
- Cool new about window
- PFTP is now completely localised (.cd file included)
- Added an Amiga version string
- New toolbars at the top of the directory windows
- Now properly searches the system search path for ssh when run from WB (thanks to Fredrik Wikström for the report)
- You can now retry or delete transfers from the
aborted transfer list
- Should now start up a bit faster when you start
it for the first time after a boot (its gone
from ~4 seconds to ~2 seconds here)
- PFTP now works a lot better in smaller modes like
640x480 and 800x600 provided you don't have huge
fonts I guess... (and i remember when 800x600
was huge)
- There is now proper documentation
Download: pftp.lha (699 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jan.2008
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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Team AROS: USB-Soundcard bounty
Another Team-AROS-Bounty has been started: You can now donate thus in furture an isochronous USB-transfer will be supported as well as for a driver for USB-soundcards.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jan.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: eVe, Preview 2
"eVe" is an action/roleplay game written by Kelly Samel (screenshots: 1, 2, 3).
The current update requires the first preview. Some bugs were fixed and besides this the player now starts with two additional "Def Points".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jan.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Current projects in 2008
Press release APC&TCP 2008: This year APC&TCP have plans for many Amiga projects. We would like to offer you a brief outline of our plans:
AmiATLAS
Many people doubted there would be any further development but we want you to know that it is still intended to be released, but in small updates. You should be aware that it is one of the most complex projects for the Amiga. Thousands of files have to be accounted for, updated and maintained. Future versions will require AmigaOS4 and will use a brand new ReAction GUI. Furthermore there will be support for many new file formats making the transfer between different platforms easier.
Amiga Guru Book
The German Amiga Guru Book has been available from us for some time.
That's why many users asked us if we could make the English one available as well.
The English version is going to be completed later in 2008, but due to lack of time, it will be around the middle of the year when it is ready, but it will eventually be finished.
CygnusED
Of course the development of CygnusED is also continuing. A new update is already in the pipeline but it will take some time to complete. We are also on the look-out for a competent developer for the MorphOS version.
DigiBoosterPro
An additional developer has been working on DigiBoosterPro for some time now. This has made development much quicker than was at first anticipated. Currently we think that we can give you a detailed status report in 2-3 months. Maybe even sooner... and if everything goes smoothly, there will be a version of DigiBoosterPro for 68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and even AROS.
Desert Racing
Actually a version of Desert Racing for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS has been planned for some time. Unfortunately the developer responsible for the game is very busy at the moment. That's why we are currently looking for a new programmer. Desert Racing has been written in BlitzBasic. Anyone interested in assisting with this development is invited to contact us.
Flyin' High
Currently we are working on an AmigaOS 4 version of Flyin' High. However it's not ceertain whether the port will ever be finished. We can only say that someone is working on it, but there is no promise that it will eventually be released. Many people have asked us if we were going to release a sequel to Flyin' High. The problem is we have no available developers to continue the work at a steady pace, and even less graphic artists. So sorry, at this point there is not likely to be a sequel to Flyin' High.
MED Soundstudio
Here the development has been long and drawn out, mainly due to the lack of time and technical problems, but this year it should finally be completed.
Amiga Future
With issue 70 the Amiga Future has reached 10 years old. That's a tremendous reason for us to celebrate. As well as the 6 issues of the print magazine intended for this year 2008, the Amiga Future homepage is going to be greatly enhanced and will contain lots of new features and content. In fact, we believe that the size of the Amiga Future homepage will double. We hope that the hits will rise like they have done over the past 12 months.
Is there any more news?
Currently we are in negotiations with people regarding various projects which we want to publish for the Amiga. New projects, mergers and aquisitions, ports and others, but nothing is set in stone at this point. However, you can be sure that there will be many new releases from APC&TCP in 2008. (snx)
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29.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Amiga Inc.: BitByBit Founder to Enhance Development Team
Press release Issaquah, Wash. - January 28, 2008 – Amiga, the pioneer in computer gaming, announced today that it has added Jamie Krueger to its development team. Krueger founded BITbyBIT Software Group LLC in 2004, and will bring his knowledge of the Amiga platform to bear on future product development.
"Amiga has gathered a team of highly skilled and motivated developers, with a focus on writing innovative software, and I am very pleased to be joining their ranks as a full time member", said Mr. Krueger. "I first started my software company three years ago with the goal of getting more developers to write software using Amiga technologies. Now, working for Amiga directly, I am looking forward to helping do just that from the inside."
Amiga has been a recognized player in the computer gaming industry since the 1980s and has recently re-introduced their Classic Games for use with Windows PC hardware., Amiga plans to expand their Classic offerings to include several hundred titles available by the end of this year, and will soon announce new advances with the release of AmigaAnywhere version 2.
"We’re excited to have Jamie join our team", said Bill McEwen, president of Amiga. "We have a lot of great things happening and a lot of new software to ship. Jamie will help us expand product development immensely."
About Amiga
Amiga, Inc., initially founded in 1983 and re-established in 2000, is a computer software company with a rich heritage in game development and a focus on forging a path for multimedia platform development and hardware-independent technologies. For almost two decades Amiga’s software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. For more information, visit www.amiga.com.
Press Contact
Ann Revell-Pechar
Revell-Pechar, Inc.
C: +1-404-550-0802
O: +1-678-691-0533
ann@revellpechar.com (snx)
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29.Jan.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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7-Zip-XAD-Client 1.4
Chris Young has published an update of his XAD-plugin for extracting most of the 7-Zip-archives which does not only work faster but is now available for AmigaOS 4 as well as for AmigaOS/68k.
Download: xad_7z.lha (75 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jan.2008
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Youtube: Updates of Tubexx (OS4) and getVideo (update)
After publishing the MorphOS-version of the Youtube tool Tubexx now the OS4-port was updated, too.
The ARexx script getVideo written by Jürgen Lucas was also updated. With getVideo you can save video clips provided by diverse portals - e.g. Youtube - to your harddrive or play them with MPlayer.
Update (30.01.2008, 3 a.m.)
Obviously there are changes at Youtube again. Tubexx was adapted and and the update is available on Aminet.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jan.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Vector drawing program MindSpace 1.1 (beta)
MindSpace is a drawing program with which you can create spider diagrams, UML-diagrams, Mindmaps or vector picture (screenshot).
For registered users there is a first beta version of Mindspace 1.1 which supports text boxes with several lines (screenshot). Additionally some bugs were fixed concerning the memory.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Jan.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ffmpegGUI 1.1
ffmpegGUI is a grafical user interface for the Video-Converter ffmpeg (Screenshot). New in Version 1.1:
- Added tab for support of video cropping, padding and pad color commands
- Fixed start offset (-ss) command so it is correctly issued before the input file (-i) option
- Added checkbox to turn on and off gadget help. Off by default
- Adjusted "Output Format:" label spacing
- Modified VCD, SVCD, DVD, predefined setups to use 2 channel (stereo) audio by default
- Modified save and load settings to support the new commands
- Modified load settings to support proper loading of old settings files
- Moved predefined saved setups into a new directory under settings directory
- Added routine to capture ffmpeg output. Thanks to "Ami603" for generic function
- Added code to display formatted ffmpeg output in a list gadget displayed in a new tab (Not activiated yet due to issues with ffmpeg's output)
- Added ability to identify if input file video is mpeg1 (mpeg1video)
- Modified PAD gadgets to disallow setting which will cause ffmpeg to crash when video is mpeg1
- Added 'k' to video and audio bitrate values to make compatable with new and old versions of ffmpeg
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27.Jan.2008
amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AROS: E-Mailer SimpleMail Light 0.32 (Beta)
Michael Grundits is releasing a first beta version of the mail client SimpleMail for AROS (screenshot). The archive only contains the main program, so a complete distribution of SimpleMail is additionally required. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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27.Jan.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Subversion 1.4.2 / 1.4.6
In his "Release Thread" under the title link, Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter discloses the availability of two MorphOS compilations of the version control program SVN.
The problems in the MorphOS edition of version 1.4.2 are ironed out, whereas the port of the current version 1.4.6 is still untested. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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27.Jan.2008
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: Gread 1.0i
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin's textviewer Gread has been bugfixed, since the screen has not been unlocked before. Also an overwrite requester has been added. (snx)
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27.Jan.2008
amigafuture.de (Web page)
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IRC Client: WookieChat 2.9 beta 6
James "jahc" Carroll is making available a new beta version of his MUI-based IRC client WookieChat. Changes can be inferred from the changelog. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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27.Jan.2008
Airsoft Softwair, Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 3: Evolution released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair are proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 3: Evolution. This is a major update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 2.5. The most important new feature is that Hollywood can now compile native executables for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS. Yes, that's right. You can now save your Hollywood projects as fully stand-alone programs for Windows and Mac OS!
This is made possible by the new HAL (Hollywood Abstraction Layer) introduced in Hollywood 3. And thanks to Hollywood's cross-compiler, you do not even need to have these operating systems running. You can cross-compile Mac OS and Windows binaries from every system that Hollywood runs on. This makes it possible to create full-blown Mac OS or Windows applications from your AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, or WarpOS installation of Hollywood. The Mac OS and Windows applications created by Hollywood are completely stand-alone and do not need any additional libraries. They use the OS API directly, thus giving you the best speed possible without any overhead. They will work on any system that runs at least Windows 2000 or Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger).
Furthermore, the Mac OS and Windows versions use Hollywood's new ACL (Amiga Compatibility Layer). This means that they can handle many Amiga file formats like IFF ILBM, IFF ANIM, IFF 8SVX, IFF 16SV, Protracker modules and Amiga bitmap fonts. Thus, your scripts will run straight out of the box on Windows and Mac OS because Hollywood can open all these Amiga specific formats.
Besides these huge two new features Hollywood 3 has several other cool new features. Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 3:
- Hollywood can compile Mac OS X programs now!
- Hollywood can compile Windows programs now!
- Switch between fullscreen and window via hotkey
- Iconify Hollywood scripts to the Workbench
- All Hollywood scripts are commodities now (controllable via Exchange)
- Improved sound library
- Cool new features in the DOS library
- New animation library: animation.datatype no longer necessary
- Direct access to the command line arguments
- More flexible control over Hollywood's appearance
- General code optimization and clean-up
- Support for new sound streaming formats
- Support for HAM6 and HAM8 animations
- Eight new example scripts (over 50 in total)
- Standard library set encompasses over 400 functions now!
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood 3: Evolution is Airsoft Softwair's ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for every Amiga user who wants to use the full power that is in his machine. Hollywood is available on a CD-ROM and as a download version. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version.
Screenshots of Hollywood 3 in action (on Mac OS X and WinXP, among others) can be found on the Airsoft Softwair Homepage.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms and the other two modern desktop systems, Windows and Mac OS! With Hollywood, you can save programs for all those platforms. You do not have to have AmigaOS4 or AROS, you can save programs for these platforms also from your AmigaOS3 installation! You do not need to have Mac OS X, you can still compile your programs for it using your AmigaOS or MorphOS installation. Only Hollywood makes it possible. If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the Hollywood product information which also contains a full feature list of Hollywood.
All this makes Hollywood The Cross-Platform Multimedia Application Layer. Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 3: Evolution now! (cg) (Translation: cad)
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MorphOS: Youtube tool Tubexx 26-01-2008
Tubexx is a tool written in ARexx for youtube.com, with whose help the video portal can be searched for specific videos. The results are displayed in a thumbnail browser, videos can be streamed or downloaded.
In the latest version, Tubexx was adapted to changes on the Youtube server, which inhibited the use of the tool in the last few days. In addition, Unicode is now supported, for which the rmh.library and the codesets.library are additionally required. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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26.Jan.2008
David Brunet (ANF)
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Voting: AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2007
David Brunet writes: Each year you can vote for the best AmigaOS/MorphOS game of the previous twelve monthes. Now it's time for the AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2007!
To vote for the best AmigaOS/68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS or AROS games, you can rate them at the title link. The results will be published in ten days. (snx)
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26.Jan.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: MarranoFTP 0.65
Stefano Crosara has published an update of the FTP-client MarranoFTP for AROS/x86. Among other things the support of passive transfers was added.
Download: marranoftp.zip (38 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jan.2008
Elbox (ANF)
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Elbox: Cocolino driver update for AmigaOS 4 users
Press release: ELBOX Computer has released today the new driver for the Cocolino PS/2 mouse interface. The new software is available free of charge for all registered users of the Cocolino interfaces.
The Cocolino archive includes:
- Cocolino.driver ver. 1.2
- CocolinoTest
- FreeWheel ver. 2.2.1
Changes in Cocolino.driver ver. 1.2:
- generating IDCMP messages for OS4 added
- OS4 parameter added for switching from NewMouse to IDCMP format
About Cocolino:
The Cocolino PS/2 Mouse Interface is a microprocessor-based adapter for attaching PS/2 mice, trackballs, glidepoints and radio-controlled mice from the world of PC computers. Cocolino can work with all models of Amiga computers. It simply plugs into the Amiga's mouse port. The Cocolino PS/2 Mouse Interface is a full 'plug and play' device.
No software is required for standard use (mouse movements + two buttons support). The enclosed software allows using two wheels and 3rd, 4th and 5th buttons available in many PS/2 mice and trackballs.
The Cocolino interface starts working simultaneous with the computer's start so mice can be used in the early-startup-menu (unlike the mice connected through the serial port). Cocolino uses linear movement interpolation, which makes mouse movements perfectly smooth with any screen frame rates. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Jan.2008
Heinz-Raphael Reinke (ANF)
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New AROS SDK for AmiDevCpp
For AmiDevCpp which is an integrated developing environment with which you can compile Windows-, AROS, AmigaOS 3/4-, MorphOS- and AROS-software there is the newest version of the AROS SDK. You can install it with the help of in package manager which is integrated in the AmiDevCpp.
Direct download: Aros_SDK24012008.DevPak (3,4 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jan.2008
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Amiga-Emulator: PSP UAE4ALL r1
PSP UAE4ALL is an Amiga emulator for Sony's handheld console based on the UAE4ALL-project. In contrary to the project PSPUAE which is based on E-UAE PSP UAE4ALL does not offer so many functions but is supposed to be something faster.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jan.2008
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Emerald Web: The Emerald Mine collection
The aim of the "Emerald Web" is to offer all possible versions or level sets of the arcade puzzle games Emerald Mine and Boulder Dash/Rockford for download.
For a while Emerald Web was part of Ami Sector One and has now a seperate domain with new design.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jan.2008
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Videos of old AmigaDE-/AmigaOS 3.9-presentations
At video.google.com two old versions were published which were recorded at the "Alternative Computing Expo" in Melbourne (Australia) in 2000 and which shows presentations and discussions concerning AmigaDE and AmigaOS 3.9:
Video 1: Presentations, dinner, quiz night
Video 2: Official OS 3.9-presentation, AmigaDE-discussion
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jan.2008
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rxMUI 42.7, strangé 0.15 PF, Scene-Demo "Concept A"
GUI-Toolkit: rxMUI 42.7
RxMUI allows ARexx programmers creating complexe graphical user-interfaces.
Link: Website
AmigaGuide-/HTML-viewer: strangé 0.15 Pre Final
strangé is a MUI-based AmigaGuide-/HTML-viewer which is based on HTMLView.mcc. Changes in version 0.15 Pre Final (for 68k-users there is a slightly limited version 0.14):
- added search bar
- CM is now hideable
- reworked prefs
- strange can now open any number of tabs (depending on HTMLview version)
- clever buttons functionality
- reload menu item now gets dis/enabled when needed
- stop buttons stops only the active tab connections, while menu stop item stops all
- menu open item worked in a differ way then the popup popasl button: fixed
- background and text colors are now user adjustable for text and image files
- Gunther Nikl provided fixed mos native png decoder, so now png pics are rendered in a fine way in strangé \o/
- added a couple of arguments: INACTIVE (the window is opened not active) and COMPACT (visionary compact mode; it justs stretches the main group atm)
- strangé is now distributed with a beta HTMLview which can open any numnber of tabs, doesn't destroy pics if a tab is hidden and other various hacks
- new default buttons pics bar; it is now even internal, so that if you like it, you don't need to install an "img" drawer at all
- reworked installer script; it evens shows pics lol
- many other bugs fixes
Link: Website
Scene-Demo: Concept A
Already in November the demo "Concept A" (screenshot) has been published which was created with the multimedia script language Karate Fighter and released at "Alchimie 2007".
Link: Download page
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jan.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 1.4.6
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE have given a short preview to the forthcoming version. WinUAE 1.4.6 will be published in one or two weeks and will be the last revision of the emulator which will run on Windows 98/ME.
Bug fixes in WinUAE 1.4.6:
- Mouse never capturing. (Windows 98/ME, rarely on W2K/XP)
- Some games crashing (temporary workaround: enable >2M Chip RAM)
- Broken sprite outside playfields-feature and SWIV score information
- Fullscreen mode with non-default refresh rate fallback problem
- A600/A1200/A4000 IDE emulation froze with >2G drives/HDFs
- CDTV E.S.S. Mega: "semi-hidden" track now loads properly on W2K/XP
- Crash when switching between <=2MB Chip + Fast and >2MB Chip setting
- Sound emulation tweak (Dungeon Master II)
- Unstable NMI option in cycle-exact and more-compatible modes
- "Full-window" mode didn't always allow Windows desktop RTG resolution
New features of WinUAE 1.4.6:
- Inverted mouse and analog joystick input sources
- Input device (USB joystick, mouse etc..) on the fly insertions and
removals supported. Device names saved to configuration file
- Automatic joystick switching, firebutton 'inserts' any non-selected
joystick to Amiga joystick port. Second button selects mouse port
- Dynamic JIT direct memory allocation. Increased Z3 and RTG maximum
sizes to 1G and 512M (At least 2G physical RAM required)
- A3000 confirmed 2.04 ROM added to ROM scanner
- Directory filesystem ACTION_EXAMINE_ALL implementation is more
compatible with buggy programs
- CIA/Gayle overlay emulation setting added to advanced chipset
- Original early A1000 non-EHB Denise added
- Original A1000 (and early A2000) Agnus blitter busy bug added
- Keyboard reset warning emulated and added to advanced chipset
- Debugger improvements, hex/dec/bin converter, all commands that accept
numeric parameters also accept register names (RAx,RDx,PC,USP,VBR,..),
number prefixes supported, hex = 0x or $, bin = %, dec = !
- 1M (both 0xe0/0xf8 and 0xf0/0xf8) and 2M (0xa8/0xb0/0xe0/0xf8) ROM
image support
- Implemented "Fullscreen" filtering option
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jan.2008
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Alpha version of PyMUI / Python 2.4.4
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez provides a first alpha version of PyMUI, a Python module to use MUI, at the title link.
The module works with MUI 3 as well as with MUI 4,but supports the MUI 3.8.API
Furthermore the author released a new version of his MorphOS port of the programming language Python. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: CD-Image-Patcher PPF-o-Matic 1.1
The ApplyPPF 3.0 based PPF-o-Matic 1.1 for AmigaOS 4 patches CD image files
(screen shot).The formats
PPF1, PPF2 and PPF3 are supported. The files can be moved to the program window by drag & drop.
Download: ppf-o-matic.lha (24 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jan.2008
Vinnny (ANF)
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Linux: CruxPPC 2.4 pre 10 for Efika and Pegasos2
At the title link an ISO image of the Linux distribution CruxPPC version 2.4 pre 10 is available for the Efika, the
Pegasos 2 and PowerPC-Macs. (snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 23. Jan. 2008, 13:30] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2008
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Origyn web browser 1.6 (update)
Jörg Strohmayer has released a new version of the SDL based browser OWB.
The update uses shared objects and requires libSDL-1.2.so (amiga-news.de reported)
in directory SOBJS:.
Update: (25.01.2008, 15:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 1.6 is available which uses further shared objects instead of staticly linked objects. (snx) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 23. Jan. 2008, 13:25] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2008
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.01.2008
These ate the latest Aminet uploads which have been added since our last message:
Tubexx-de.lha comm/misc 27K GEN German Locale for Tubexx
AmiFTP-1.935-OS4.lha comm/tcp 307K OS4 Easy to use GUI FTP client for Amiga OS4
pftp.lha comm/tcp 135K OS4 Advanced FTP/SFTP client
tmsnc-0.3.2-amigaos.lha comm/tcp 710K OS3 MSN Instant Messenger client
A71BackUp.lha comm/www 10K GEN php script to perform a full web backup
A71Mail.lha comm/www 69K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
OWB.lha comm/www 9.1M OS4 Origyn Web Browser
Music-Invasion_Disk1.zip demo/disk 531K OS3 Synthmusic demo by Dissident, Disk1
Music-Invasion_Disk2.zip demo/disk 579K OS3 Synthmusic demo by Dissident, Disk2
iconv-morphos-dev.lha dev/c 5.9M MOS Character set conversion library
libintl-morphos.lha dev/c 254K MOS intl.library for MorphOS
cso2iso.lha disk/misc 52K OS4 Convert CSO images to ISO
dax2iso.lha disk/misc 54K OS4 Convert DAX images to ISO
dmg2iso.lha disk/misc 134K OS4 Convert DMG images to ISO
raw2iso.lha disk/misc 3K OS4 Convert RAW images to ISO
uif2iso.lha disk/misc 36K OS4 Convert UIF images to ISO
Ww2008CalendarITA.lha docs/misc 4K GEN 2008 italian calendar made with Wordwort
ASB.lha game/2play 584K MOS Arcade game inspired by Air Sea Battle
eve_mos.lha game/role 16M MOS Preview version of action RPG game
2H4U-MorphOS.lha game/think 2.7M MOS 2H4U - Too Hard For You
AbandondedBricks.lha game/think 2.0M MOS Another Tetris clone (SDL)
ltris_mos.lha game/think 539K MOS LTris is a free Tetris clone
SView5.lha gfx/misc 3.1M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
TestDTAlpha.lha gfx/misc 12K VAR Env-test if pic-dt supports alpha channe
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 422K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
FS1541-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 92K MOS Filesystem for CBM 1541 disks
Handy095.lha misc/emu 265K OS3 Atari Lynx emulator
amrenc-mos.lha mus/edit 235K MOS 3GPP AMR encoder for Nokia phones
nokiatagger-mos.lha mus/edit 15K MOS Tags mp4 files for Nokia phones
xad_7z.lha util/arc 43K OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-zip archives
iso-o-matic.lha util/conv 43K OS4 All to ISO disk image converter
akGIF-dt.lha util/dtype 93K VAR akGIF-dt (GIF, 68000-060/MOS)
akJFIF-dt.lha util/dtype 175K VAR akJFIF-dt (JPEG, 68000-060/MOS)
akPNG-dt.lha util/dtype 203K VAR akPNG-dt (PNG, 68000-060/MOS)
akSVG-dt.lha util/dtype 205K VAR akSVG-dt (SVG [SView], 68000-060)
akTIFF-dt.lha util/dtype 555K VAR akTIFF-dt (TIFF, 68000-060/MOS)
iconv-morphos.lha util/libs 738K MOS Character set conversion library
aminetreadme.lha util/misc 64K OS4 Aminet .readme creator
IFF-Arranger.lha util/misc 28K OS3 Modify, remove, add, create IFF chunks
modifile.lha util/misc 74K OS3 File viewer & modifier (+ AMOS source)
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 312K OS3 Multipurpose utility
CestinoGlobale.lha util/wb 54K OS3 Global trashcan under Blitz development
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2008, 17:19] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2008
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 21.01.2008
These are the latest uploads to os4depot.net which have been added since our last message:
guidemaker.lha dev/uti 577kb An AmigaGuide file creation utility.
rti84.lha dri/mis 4kb TI-84 Plus Silver driver
colem.lha emu/gam 614kb Colem ColecoVision Emulator
universus-demo.lha gam/act 3Mb demo of a WIP shoot'em up
scrambly_dv.lha gam/puz 715kb 15 slide puzzle with twists
png_icon_editor.lha gra/edi 8Mb A Tool for Manipulating PNG Images and I
picturewidget.lha gra/mis 1Mb A "Widget" for Displaying Pictures
strange.lha net/ 1Mb strange' is strange
owb.lha net/bro 10Mb OWB - The first (in)complete modern Web
amiftp.lha net/ftp 306kb Easy to use GUI FTP client for Amiga OS4
pftp.lha net/ftp 134kb Advanced FTP/SFTP client (alpha preview
transmission.lha net/p2p 918kb Torrent client with GUI
datadisplay.lha off/dat 9Mb A Database Program with Samples
cso2iso.lha uti/fil 52kb Convert CSO images to ISO
daa2iso.lha uti/fil 27kb Convert DAA images to ISO
dax2iso.lha uti/fil 53kb Convert DAX images to ISO
dmg2iso.lha uti/fil 134kb Convert DMG images to ISO
iso-o-matic.lha uti/fil 43kb All to ISO disk image converter
raw2iso.lha uti/fil 3kb Convert RAW images to ISO
uif2iso.lha uti/fil 35kb Convert UIF images to ISO
fontpreviewer.lha uti/mis 516kb A Simple Font Preview Program
ranger.lha uti/mis 253kb System diagnostic tool
aminetreadme.lha uti/tex 64kb Aminet .readme creator
switcher3d.lha uti/wor 190kb Window and screen switcher
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2008, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2008
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 21.01.2008
These are the latest uploads to AROS-archives which have been added since our last message:
simplemail_beta_aros-i386.tgz net/ema 349kb SimpleMail for AROS-i386
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2008, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2008
amigafuture.de (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 1.2.11 as a "Shared Object"
Richard Drummond has published an update of the multimedia library SDL which is supposed to make it more easy for programmers to develop portable applications and which is used by many Open-Source games.
The current version of SDL (changelog) is now implemented as a "Shared Object". This means it will be linked by SDL applications only at the start of the program - similar to the library principle of AmigaOS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jan.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News until 22.01.2008
A/NES 1.16b2 (AGA)
The updated version of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES includes some bug fixes. Additionally the program now emulates the noise of the optional NES-disk drives with the help of the Amiga drive.
With this update the author probably will finish the development of A/NES because of a lack of time. Additionally the interest of the users has reduced.
Link: Website
MiniMailer.mcc 22.0
MiniMailer.mcc is a MUI-class with which you can easily send eMails.
Link: Website
MorphOS: Gread 1.0g
In the current version of the text viewer a bug has been fixed: The function LockPubScreen() now works correctly.
Link: Website
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2008, 16:19] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2008
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Amiga 1000: Exchange Motherboard self produced
Inspired by the Phoenix Georg "gb97816" Braun has produced his own Amiga motherboard which is in the tower of a Amiga 1000 and has the following features:
- 030'er & FPU
- 8MB 32Bit-Fastram without Waitstates
- FlickerFixer
- HD-Controller
- 2MB Chip
- Zorro-Slot
- Frontslot with full allocation
The first prototype works fine. Connection diagram and layout of the project are available on the website of the developers. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2008, 15:26] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Adventure-Interpreter ScummVM 0.11.0
Fabien Coeurjoly provides a new Version of his Adventure-Interpreters ScummVM for MorphOS. A overview about all supported Games and all changes you will find here .
Download: scummvm-0.11.lha (4 MB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
[News message: 21. Jan. 2008, 14:02] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Video: AROS alive
Roman Eberle released on YouTube his Video "AROS alive", which shows a small overview about the development status from november of the AROS Research Operating System. (snx) (Translation: aj)
[News message: 21. Jan. 2008, 07:47] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaSYS: Xtreme Racing as add on announced
With the permission of Tuna Technologies (formerly Silltunna Software) will be the car race Xtreme Racing from 1995 a part of AmigaSYS-package, a pre-configurated AmigaOS environment for WinUAE-, E-UAE-, Amiga 1200/4000- and the X-Box.
Screenshots and more information of the game and AmigaSYS are linked to the header. It is not planed to sale Xtreme Racing seperately. (snx) (Translation: aj)
[News message: 21. Jan. 2008, 07:13] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: YouTube-Tool Tubexx
Paolo Germanos Tubexx is a in ARexx writen Tool for YouTube, which can search on the Video-Portal videos - and the result will be shown inside of a Thumbnail-Browser.
Also can Tubexx extract from a YouTube-URL the direct link to the video. The Video will be shown as a stream or can be downloaded on the own computer or it is possible to convert the video directly into a nother format.
Paolo Vanni fixed the for MorphOS/MUI4 writen ARexx-Skript now also for AmigaOS 4/MUI3. The download is available on the Tubexx-Homepage inside the Download-area. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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20.Jan.2008
Amiga Future (Web page)
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MorphOS: Software news in brief
Under the title link, Ilkka Lehtoranta has made available the following software in the last two days:
- ASB 0.4 - An SDL game inspired by "Air Sea Battle" (Atari 2600)
- Abandonded Bricks 1.12 - An SDL-based Tetris clone
- FS1541 1.3 - A filesystem for CBM-1541 disks
- iconv 3.0 - A conversion library for character encodings
- libintl 1.1 - An internationalization library
- LTris 1.0.11 - Another SDL-based Tetris clone
(snx) (Translation: cad)
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20.Jan.2008
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: SearchStar 0.93b, Gread 1.0f
Version 0.93b of the search program SearchStar fixes a bug by checking for the error "disk is full" now when saving.
Among other improvements, the text reader Gread 1.0f offers faster scrolling than its previous versions. (snx)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2008, 16:18] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2008
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: ColEm 1.0r5
Bob Wicksall has released a new version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the ColecoVision emulator ColEm by Marat Fayzullin. The update allows doubling the size of the screen display, and offers an improved AHI-based sound output, P96-based graphics output, as well as increased game compatibility.
Download: colem.lha (595 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2008, 10:03] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2008
Amiga.org (Web page)
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WinUAE: AmiKit 1.4.3
An update to version 1.4.3 is available for AmiKit, a complete distribution for WinUAE users. This can be obtained via the integrated live update function or installed manually. The changes can be inferred from the changelog. (snx) (Translation: cad)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2008, 09:39] [Comments: 0]
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