• MS Windows (x86)
• AmigaOS (68k)
• AmigaOS 4 (PPC)
• MorphOS (PPC)
• AROS (x86)

• Programming language: Hollywood has a completely new, state-of-the-art 64-bit script language which is dynamically typed and thus, extremely flexible
• Sprites: Hollywood now offers a fully featured sprite library that is implemented completely in software. Hence, there are no limitations in sprite size, frames, colors and so on. With sprites, a lot of cool things are possible
• Music library: The new music library allows playback of MP3 files and Protracker modules. Ptahiplay.library is no longer required!
• AROS support: Hollywood is now available for the i386 version of the Amiga Research Operating System AROS. On AROS native, Hollywood 2.0 gives a stunning performance on modern PCs. Additionally, AROS support means that you can compile x86 native AROS executables also from MorphOS, AmigaOS 3.x or AmigaOS 4 now
• Antialias: Antialiasing is now fully implemented for TrueType fonts on all systems. Drawing routines are very fast even on 68k because of highly-optimized code
• Powerful scheduler: Hollywood's new, powerful scheduler allows you to create exactly timed scripts which run at the same speed on every system
• Alpha channel support: Hollywood supports graphics with an alpha channel now. Thus, it supports graphics with up to 32-bits per pixel now. Highly optimized drawing routines give excellent results even on 68k systems
• Clip regions: Hollywood provides powerful clipping functions now that allow you to clip your graphics even to custom shaped regions (like circles, rectangles with round edges and so on)
• Collision detection: Fast pixel-exact collision detection is now offered. Even alpha channel information is taken into account by the collision detection!
• New off-screen rendering functions: All graphics calls can be used now to render to brush masks and alpha channels, too. Paves the way for unique special effects!
• New GUI: The GUI has been completely rewritten and is much more functional now. It has a showcase that lists all the examples that come with Hollywood and also has screenshots and information about them
• New examples: Hollywood 2.0 comes with over 15 cool new examples that demonstrate the new features. Hollywood has now over 45 examples in total
• Dramatic speed improvements: The image processing functions are up to 10 times faster now on WarpOS because the PPC is used now for everything! The drawing library is also much faster now
• Layer improvements: When removing layers, Hollywood will now use special undo effects which work just the other way round. Furthermore, layers can be given names now. This makes it much easier to work with them because the names do not change like the ids! Finally, anim layers are possible now
• DOS functions: Hollywood 2.0 brings many new DOS functions including a powerful CopyFile() function which can copy whole directories and is customizable through a callback function
• New button library: A much more flexible button library has superseded the old one. The new button library calls functions instead of labels and has more features!
• Sample library: The PlaySample() command offers many more options now and can trigger OnSampleEnd and OnSampleLoop events for perfect script timing!
• Doublebuffer: Hollywood 2.0 has functions for setting up a double buffered display. Double buffer scaling is fully implemented
• Drawing library: All commands of the draw library can draw alpha-blended graphics now, too. Additionally, there are some new functions like Arc() which draws a partial ellipse, and FloodFill() which fills a bordered region with a color
• Compiler: The Hollywood compiler has been completely rewritten and is more configurable now. You can embed version strings and more information in your executables. It is also possible to fix the settings of your compiled scripts; for instance, you can create an executable that will only run in full screen mode
• New fillstyles: All drawing functions can use additional fill styles. Hollywood supports the fill styles 'gradient' and 'texture' now
• Image export: You can now save your brushes to files and also save snapshots of your script from within Hollywood!
• Independence: Hollywood does no longer require the guigfx.library, render.library, and ptahiplay.library
• Full 1.x compatibility: Although the kernel has been completely exchanged, Hollywood 2.0 is fully compatible with the previous versions. All your scripts should run fine with Hollywood 2.0, and Hollywood Designer and Malibu do not need any updates, either

• Bug fixes:
  • exec.library: obtainsemaphorelist now works also when the same task already locked the semaphore (fixed in AROS, too)
  • diskfont.library: crash because of buffer overflow with some colour fonts (fixed by Georg Steger; fixed in AROS, too)
• New:
  • stack increased for every program to avoid a buffer overflow when using many additional patches; this feature is implemented in the file afa_system_lib.exe and works without the exec.library
  • Stack size of 4500 bytes as standard (AmigaOS: 4000); when a program itself demkands additional stack does AfA increase it by 260 Byte
  • AfA logo integrated into the AfA preferences; the logo was made by FishX and is available in to sizes in the directory "logo"

• Category "AROS" for AROS games introduced
• Category "POS" for "Portable OS" games
• New category "Div" for games running on modified Amiga hardware (Arcadia, CuboCD32, POD, und 1000CS)
• Option "Interp" for games running only with an interpreter. Furthermore this games now are significantly marked
• New category "Réalisé en" shows the language the game was realized on
• Mehr details to the license of a game
• History added
• Page of informations added

• relink against older SDL, music and sound problems fixed
• increased sound buffer size to 4096 as recomended by toaks
• found a few more instances of $ENV{HOME} replaced them with /bubbles
• added a timidity config to stop SDL from looking for it in /usr/local/lib. I suspect though that it's not actually used.

• AHI device is released on exit now, so apps such as Audio Evolution and HD-REC can start after quitting RockBEAT.
• "Scroll while playing" is now optional. Sometimes its useful to turn off scrolling, so you can edit a portion of a pattern while it loops This setting is remembered on quitting.

• MP3 detection improved (for use with the OGG Vorbis plugin!!!).
• Double click on Plugin List added to get a description of the plugin.
• Docky D&D Send Message improved to fix problems with other dockies such as YAM.
• Playlist detection from WB / CLI / D&D (.m3u extension recognised).
• m3u files with comments are now handled.
• m3u relative paths now supported (great for files produced by CD Rippers).
• Playlist loading now silently checks for the playlist files existence before (checking &) adding them to the list.
• New OS4 style Requester boxes added.
• Help "bubbles" can be toggled on or off from the settings menu and at startup from the preferences.
• Fixed a bug in the Find routine which could give some false positives.
• MP3 Icecast support added (wasn't too difficult)
• http streams within m3u files now allowed.
• Improvements to stream recovery and forced restarts on buffer empty.
• Single streams specified from the cli "-stream" option or from m3u files can now be saved along with the playlist.
• DNS timeout added to finally halt any long term network related lockups (6 second time out by default).
• Blank URLS in PLS files are now handled without crashing the task.
• Spaces in URL's are now converted to %20

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 E 3 B ,   I N D I V I D U A L   C O M P U T E R S   C A N   S E L L

               B E T A   T E S T E R S   W A N T E D ! 

       M E D I A T O R   P C I   B U S B O A R D   U P D A T E

       T U N E N E T   A U D I O   P L A Y E R   F O R   O S 4

            W H D L O A D   H A S   N E W   V E R S I O N

       D E S E R T   R A C I N G   G A M E   A N N O U N C E D

             A M I K I T   1 . 0 . 3   A V A I L A B L E

           A M I P O D D E R   N O W   D O E S   V I D E O

     O N Y X S O F T   R E L E A S E S   F I V E   U P D A T E S

         A M I G A S Y S 3   F O R   W I N U A E   U S E R S

               F R E E P O P S   F O R   M A I L E R S

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 Congratulations to the Amiga community - we have survived another 
year! While it has been a busy and fulfilling year in many ways, we 
still have no final release of Amiga OS 4.0 to celebrate. However, 
there has been some interesting information regarding that topic which 
came to light recently. 
 On December 28, an IRC session was conducted with representatives of 
Hyperion by the good folks at AmigaWorld.net. This information 
provided by Hyperion and taken from one of the session transcripts 
should be of interest to all Amigans eager for a full release version 
of OS4:

"Rogue: As you have probably already guessed, there will be no OS 4 
release this year. There are reasons for that which I would like to 
explain. The main reason is the unavailability of hardware. As you all 
know, AmigaOne's [sic] are not available right now, so we are not in a 
position to offer an OS 4 with a matching hardware. We DO think that 
once we release AmigaOS4.0, there will be a general interest in the 
news, in media, etc. We will get a lot of interest from people outside 
the amiga market, and they will ask where they can buy it. If we tell 
them they cannot buy it right now and need to wait until the hardware 
is available, then this will take away a lot of momentum that the 
release will generate. Hence we decided to postpone the release until 
such time as a hardware platform IS available."

 You can read the entire set of transcripts at www.amigaworld.net.
 Let's hope the situation with hardware availability can be set right 
soon. What a great event for the new year it would be if we could see 
the release, finally, of OS4!
 Happy New Year to all our readers where ever you are, and good Amiga 
computing to you as well!
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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 20 December, 2005

The best news at the beginning: E3B and individual Computers continue 
selling hardware in the EU. We want to thank everyone who sent us 
eMails with suggestions, mostly trying to circumvent the new law, but 
also with information on how to start a company in another country. 
Unfortunately, all this doesn't help, because the law also applies to 
companies outside Germany who want to sell their products in Germany.

To fully comply with the law, E3B and individual Computers founded the 
label "ConBridge" which is now registered with the Stiftung EAR, 
despite legal problems that are not fully resolved. Read more on the 
common webseite www.conbridge.de (German language only).

New advertising partner

We have supported the "Amiga plus" magazine for a long time with our 
adverts. Since the Amiga plus is not available any more, we have been 
looking for a new magazine with the same high quality of articles. 
What we found is the Austrian magazine Lotek 64: It's made by 
enthusiastic hobbyists, and stands any comparison with high-standard 
professional journals. You can either read the magazine online for 
free, or you can make a donation and have the mag sent to you in 
printed form. The magazine is in German language only.

For the current december-issue we want to point out an article by 
Dr. Rainer Buchty, which deals with the technology of the C64-DTV2. 
The Commodore 64 in a joystick is also known as "PAL-DTV", and is 
derived from the C-One. However, individual Computers was not involved 
in the DTV project, so our high production standards were not applied. 
The article describes how you can correct the low (nearly unreadable) 
colour contrast with a little skill and a soldering iron.

http://ami.ga/indexe.htm
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              B E T A   T E S T E R S   W A N T E D ! 

31 December, 2005 

Screenshots of the current version:
http://tamar.4players.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6717

The first step towards the new 3D map has been made! Tales of Tamar
can now run at a higher resolution and give the project a whole new
look, thanks to a new GUI and handling.
Instead of the old 640x480, the program can now run in 1024x768 in 16,
24 or 32 bit.

Rewriting took over three months and we hit the boundaries of the
different Amiga models several times. Bugs in the graphics drivers,
lacking performance and missing features like actual double-buffering,
just to mention a few.

But now it is done, and we are proud to present this pearl to a wider
audience. As always, we release these new features on the Amiga first.

The whole ToT team wishes you a Happy New Year. May the Amiga stay
with us for years to come, in one form or another.

About the project:

We are looking for 30 active beta testers to test the new features on
different Amiga systems. Testers play for free and only need to bring
enough time and motivation to find and report bugs.

In order to continue to the next step, the actual 3D map, the new and
updated client needs to be thoroughly tested to find and fix as many 
bugs as possible. We depend on the help of the community for this. 
Let's build a solid foundation for the ongoing development of the 
client for the Amiga!

The features:

- 640*480/8bit and 1024*768/16/24/32 bit support
- OS4 support
- MOS support
- Amithlon support
- UAE support
- PPC support
- CD, Paula & AHI support
- animated weapons, armor, goods and buildings in 8/16/24/32 bit
- figure animation in 8/16/24/32 bit
- more than 30 screens
- massively multiplayer strategy via email or TCP/IP
- multiple language support
- multi platform (Amiga, PC, Mac, Linux, Browser, Java)
- online chat
- 8 minute animated intro

Here are the new screenshots:
http://tamar.4players.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6717

Greetings,
Your ToT team

Tales of Tamar is a turn based, massively multiplayer strategy game
similar to Kaiser or Civilization and is being developed by Eternity.

{No URL was provided with this information other than the ones shown 
in the story. You can perhaps contact the company at www.tamar.net. 
Brad}
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     M E D I A T O R   P C I   B U S B O A R D   U P D A T E 

28 December, 2005 

*The Mediator UP 3.10 update for Mediator PCI busboards
<http://eu-shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?show=2BB> has been released. The
update is free of charge for all registered Mediator users.*

The update includes new versions of:
* pci.library
* Voodoo.card
* Virge.card
* MedConfig

Changes:

pci.library ver. 6.5
- many internal changes

Voodoo.card ver. 4.26
- the first common Voodoo.card version for MM CD and no-MM CD users
- support for hardware de-interlacing in overlay added
- VodooGuide Italian translation by Arturo Franzin

Virge.card ver. 1.8
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added

MedConfig ver. 1.4
- bug fixes
- French localisation by Philippe Bovier

Info on current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS Mediator
<http://elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html> section.
The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the *Mediator
Driver Guide* <http://elbox.com/mdg.html>.
The info about Mediator-related sources you will find in the 
COMMUNITY
<http://elbox.com/community.html> section.
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      T U N E N E T   A U D I O   P L A Y E R   F O R   O S 4 

24 December, 2005 

*TuneNet V0.70a (Audio Player) has been released for OS4, highlights
include:

* Playlist editing / sorting and searching.
* Seekable Song Position.
* Full Skinable Docky Interface.*

Special thanks goes to Russell Glover for the docky graphics, fonts,
animations, testing and feedback!

Enjoy this release - 
Available at http://os4depot.net/
or the TuneNet site
http://www.tunenet.co.uk 
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           W H D L O A D   H A S   N E W   V E R S I O N  

20 December, 2005 

 WHDLoad is the AmigaOS Harddisk-Install package. WHDLoad makes it 
possible to install many demos and games, which were originally 
designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.

*The new version is available at this URL:
<http://www.whdload.de/>

Registered users should have no problems with the new updates.


The release notes are as follows....

*** 16.5 (15.12.2005)

- new: check for CyberGraphX/56KHZAUDIO added (David Roeskamm)

- new: commands PL_ORB/W/L added for patch lists (Psygore)

- chg: if XPK decompression fails during preload WHDLoad shows the
missing sublib name too

- fix: kickemu correctly updates IO_ACTUAL on trackdisk accesses 
  (JOTD)

- chg: russian translation reworked (Manbiker)

- new: display promotion added to kick31emu, with that WHDLoad options
DblPAL and DblNTSC become working in conjunction with installed
games using kick31 emulation and supporting it

- fix: stackcheck modified to avoid complaining if first long word of
stack is trashed (e.g. when using WarpOS-XPK-Sublib and running
from Workbench)

- chg: bubble help for bplcon* registers added to WHDLoadGCI

- fix: improved startup code for kickemu and _bootdos in kick13.asm

- fix: disassembler for negative absolut word addressing fixed 
(Psygore)

- chg: improved error messages on resload_Patch(Seg)

- new: slovak translation added, thanks to Jan Zahurancik and Martin 
Durik

- new: ukrain translation added, thanks to Andrey Molchanov

- chg: improvement on resload_ProtectSMC, instructions modifying the 
sr no longer break the SMC check, autodocs fixed, disabling trace is
no longer required with SMC check (JOTD)

- chg: text explanation added to register dump for attnflags and 
setcpu

- chg: Snoop on 68060 now allows change of bit #6/7 of ciaa.ddra which
is used on accessing/detecting joypad

- new: if WHDLoad is started without an slave argument from the CLI it
shows a short help for all options and some raw key codes

- chg: improved speed on preload for resload_Examine, now uses 
dos.ExAll and memory pools (when running on v39+)

- chg: kick31emu got a new option called JOYPADEMU, formerly included 
in INIT_LOWLEVEL now separated to support GetLanguage without joypad
emulation, also the joypademu has been improved, now the keys
used are user configurable using the Custom option

- chg: options ExecuteStartup and ExecuteCleanup are now local and
- chg: file PreLoad improved, uses now dos.ExAll, memory pools (if
running under v39+ and more than 4MB free fast available),
asynchronous decrunching of XPK files

- new: supports also the kickstart images supplied with Cloantos Amiga
Forever CDs, kick130.rom or amiga-os-130.rom must be renamed to
kick34005.A500, kick310.rom or amiga-os-310.rom renamed to
kick40068.A4000, images together with the rom.key must be
installed under DEVS:Kickstarts, some older installs require a
kick40068.A1200 image these installs wont run with Cloantos roms

- new: norwegian translation added which is not complete but better 
than none, thanks to Herman Andresen
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      D E S E R T   R A C I N G   G A M E   A N N O U N C E D 

20 December, 2005 

*Today we release the new APC&TCP-Game Desert Racing.

A Demo version (over 200 MB) from the game found you on the next 
CoverCD (58) from the Amiga Future and on the Info/Update/Demo CD from 
APC&TCP.

With Desert Racing of Bardos we'll show you a racing game that you 
have never seen on the Amiga before. Use different components for your 
car depending on your money, drive through amazing animated landscapes 
and bring your AGA Amiga to boil. In the single or multiplayer modes 
you'll not only have the possibilty of tuning the performance but also 
other things...

We take the meaning of tuning very strict because the you will need 
the different weapon systems to succeed in the dirty desert races.

To get into the pleasure of Desert Racing of Bardos your Amiga has to 
be equipped with an AGA chipset or a graphicsboard. A 68030/25 is 
minimum. 1,5MB ChipRAM and 28MB FastRAM are the requirements but more 
is always better.

Get Desert Racing of Bardos and experience an exiting arcade racing 
game without getting envious of the PC world....

System requirements:

Minimum: Amiga with AGA or graphicsboard, 68030 CPU, 2MB of ChipRAM 
and 32MB of FastRAM, harddrive, CD-ROM drive A better CPU is 
recommended.

http://www.apc-tcp.de/support/0020e.html

http://www.apc-tcp.de
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            A M I K I T   1 . 0 . 3   A V A I L A B L E 

24 December, 2005 

AmiKit is the compilation of the best Amiga (free/shareware) programs 
around. To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you want to experience 
a high-end Classic Amiga system. It contains many expansions and 
add-ons (more than 20.000 files are included in AmiKit!) that turn the 
default AmigaOS installation into a completely renewed and fresh 
environment. This pre-configured package is designed for immediate 
use. Moreover, it contains an exciting surprise for the whole Amiga 
community, see the features!        


  Features

The most exciting feature of AmiKit is:

* Directory Opus Magellan II v5.82*

used as a Workbench replacement!!! This commercial software has never
been freely released to the public before. If you do not know anything
about this excellent piece of software, you should check it out NOW!
You're going to love it. Here are few words from Andreas Loong
(GuruMeditation <http://www.gurumeditation.se>), who has kindly given
permission to use DOpus Magellan II in the AmiKit project: "We 
acquired the full rights to Dopus Magellan late 2004. We've agreed to 
include the trial version on this distribution to let people have a go 
and tinker with it as much as they like. We're closing in on a new 
release, updated with various features that will come towards the end 
of 2005. If you find the version here worth your time, I hope you will 
check out the version we're making for AmigaOS 4!"

Next exclusive features of AmiKit:

* AmiStart* (v0.66)  Darius Brewka has created a special version for 
AmiKit

* GlobalTrash* (v1.5a1)  Oliver Blumert has created an exclusive 
AmiKit preview version

* ReqChange* (v3.15)  Magnus Holmgren has created a free keyfile for 
AmiKit

* ShowAmiga96* (v2.3d)  Heiko Mueller has created a special version 
for AmiKit

* FullPalette* (v40.23)  Massimo Tantignone has sent me his updated 
version

Even more features:

* KensIcons*  complete set of icons, some painted exclusively for
AmiKit by Ken Lester!

* KensOS4*  two visual themes exclusively created for AmiKit by Ken 
Lester!

* microgolded*  the best text Amiga editor around has been licensed
<microgolded.htm> for AmiKit!

* MorpheuZ*  tool that allows you to easily change the design of 
system windows in AmiKit!

AmiKit Launcher - easy to use graphical user interface created by 
Rex Schilasky

Other major features:

    *
      *User-friendly interface* that helps you to manage all your 
      files in an easy way!
    *
      *Internet browsing, mailing, chatting and downloading* using
      various programs like AWeb, IBrowse, YAM, SimpleMail, AmIRC,
      AmiTradeCenter, AmiGift
    *
      *Reading PDF, M$, RTF* and other document formats with the help 
      of APDF, EvenMore, Antiword
    *
      *Manage your time and account* with the help of Daywatch and
      HomeBank.
    *
      *Music software, net streaming, MP3 creating and sample editing
      software* like AmigaAMP, AmiNetRadio, EaglePlayer,
      SymphoniePlayer, LAME, TheMPegEncGUI, SampleEditor
    *
      *Displaying (even in thumbnails) and editing pictures* with the
      help of PicShow, Thumb, MysticView, FroggerNG, PerfectPaint Or
      enjoy the fractal world through ZoneXplorer!
    *
      *Easy handling of archives.* They are opened like every other
      drawer. Or some external programs could be used instead 
      (VooDoo-X, MUIUnArc, XPKatana)
    *
      *Massive FTP support* through OpusFTP module. It has a full GUI
      for the Address Book and operational parameters.
    *
      *Software for burning and copying the CDs* (MakeCD), for 
      mounting       virtual CDs (VirtualCD).
    *
      You can make your AmiKit password protected. Just don't forget
      your password ;-)
    *
      *Pre-configured recognition and processing of many file formats*
      (through the DOpus filetypes)
    *
      *Various system tools* like SysInspector, SnoopDos, Q-Device,
      ShowPatches
    *
      *Antivirus software* effectively checks the system files, memory
      and archives for viruses.
    *
      *Emulation software* like ASp for retro ZX gaming
    *
      *Great taskbar software:* AmiStart (for those who do not like 
      the taskbars on Amiga, simply remove AmiStart from WBStartup. 
      Easy!)
    *
      Most advanced Amiga recycle bin software: GlobalTrash
    *
      *Visual enchancers and system enchancers* like VisualPrefs,
      Birdie, TitleShadow, BoingBall, MagicMenu, MCP
    *
      *Warp3D compatibility* thanks to QuarkTex software
    *
      Adjust PC keyboard to your Amiga needs with the help of 
      MMKeyboard software solution!
    *
      Yes, some games are included as well ;-)

Hardware:

    *
      A PC computer, a rather fast one. At least 256MB of RAM is 
recommended (otherwise decrease the RAM size in WinUAE config). AmiKit 
was created on AthlonXP 2500+ where the boot process of AmiKit takes 
about 12 seconds (or 10 seconds more with unregistered Directory Opus 
Magellan II, see limitations). I've also tried an AthlonXP 1800 and 
the speed of AmiKit was still acceptable.
    *
      Gfx card capable of displaying 32bit screenmodes.

PC software:

    *
      WinUAE, the Windows port of the UAE Amiga Emulator. Version 
1.1.1 is already included in AmiKit package, however if a newer 
version is found in your system, AmiKit will automatically use it.

Amiga software:

    *
      The source of AmigaOS3.x system files. AmiKit installation 
archive DOES NOT contain any copyrighted Amiga system files because 
AmigaOS3.x is still available (fortunately!). These system files will 
be copied from the original CD to AmiKit during the installation 
procedure. Come on, support the Amiga and buy the CD, if you haven't 
done so yet!
    *
      AmigaOS ROM file (v3.1). You can obtain this from your real 
Amiga with the help of ROM ripper/grabber software (see Aminet). 
Another possibility is to buy the Amiga Forever package which includes 
the ROM file.

http://www.amikit.amiga.sk/
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          A M I P O D D E R   N O W   D O E S   V I D E O 

10-Dec-2005 15:31:43

Video podcasts come to the Amiga with AmiPodder 1.4! With the release 
of iTunes 6 and the new iPod video many podcasters are including video 
clips in their podcast feeds. AmiPodder now recognises video episodes 
and can play them back in the video player of your choice (MPlayer and 
Frogger have been tested, not all video podcasts will play on Amiga 
players due to the codecs used). If you have a portable device capable 
of playing video, AmiPodder can sync the movies to it too.



Also in version 1.4 are a number of improvements and bug fixes 
including:

* Option to prompt for the sync directory making it easier to use 
AmiPodder with multiple portable players or players using removeable 
media cards.

* New status of "Played", so if you use AmiPodder as a "jukebox" you 
can see what podcasts you've already listened to.

* File name length limitation, handy if your Amiga filesystem or music 
player only accepts short filenames.

* Many more changes.

AmiPodder 1.4 is freeware and runs on OS 3.x, OS 4 and MorphOS.

Download the new version from:
http://www.amipodder.com
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     O N Y X S O F T   R E L E A S E S   F I V E   U P D A T E S

17 December, 2005 

OnyxSoft is releasing five software updates so you have something to 
play with over Christmas! {Or thereafter. Brad}

(Our homepage will be updated in a few days. All files are current 
though even if the download page says otherwise.)

Updated programs
Annotate v2.3 - (OS4) A very comprehensive text editor with a lot of 
functions. These are the major updates: ReAction, UTF-8, Tab chars, a 
lot of new config options, new and fixed hotkeys.

8SVXtoXXX v1.4 - (68k) Converter for IFF-8SVX samples to various audio 
formats. Fixed reading of some files which could have crashes 
8SVXtoXXX. Added CLI support.

BackUp v1.44 - (68k) Backup program that mirrors a directory 
structure. BackUp no longer creates empty directories for dirs in the 
skiplist. Better CLI support. Fixed a possible crash when pausing a 
backup process.

MPlayer-GUI v1.32 - (OS4) GUI for MPlayer. Added p96_vmem and 
cgx_vmem_scale video modes and the new SIL devices to VCD/DVD 
choosers.

DigiConverter v1.2 - (68k) Developer tool to convert between decimal, 
bex, binary, float and ASCII. Added buttons for copy and paste and 
made a few fixes.

http://www.onyxsoft.se/
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        A M I G A S Y S 3   F O R   W I N U A E   U S E R S 

28-Dec-2005 22:04:22 (360 reads)

*Few days late, but AmigaSYS3 has been released on 28th December, 
aftersome hard months of work!*

- Amiga OS 3.0/3.1 support.
- Amiga OS 3.9 ( Amiga Forever 5/6/2005/OE , AmigaOs 3.9 , Amiga OSXL)
support.
- A lot of new fix, programs , features , scripts, ideas.
- 5 fantastic Themes.
- New AmigaSYS Additional pack!
- Beneath A Steel Sky AmigaSYS pack!
- And more... and more...and more info , see AmigaSYS page!

http://amigasys.fw.hu
AmigaSYS is a pre-installed full Amiga OS for WinUAE, like AIAB.
For install, you need a valid KickstartROM 3.0/3.1, and the image file 
of Workbench and Extras Disk 3.0/3.1.

The new AmigaSYS 2.0 needs KickROM 3.1 and optional a valid OS 3.9 CD 
for full features. 
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             F R E E P O P S   F O R   M A I L E R S    

{From the excellent site www.amigaworld.net. Brad}

*Description: * FreePOPs
<http://os4depot.net/share/network/email/freepops_lha.readme>
*Download: *    freepops.lha
<http://os4depot.net/share/network/email/freepops.lha>    
*Version: * 0.0.96
*Date: *    28 Dec 05
*Author: *  Various - AmigaOS4 port by Andrea Palmatè
*Submitter: *   Andrea Palmatè
*Email: *   andrea/amigasoft net
*Homepage: *    http://www.freepops.org/en/
*Category: *    network/email
<http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=browse&cat=network/email>
*License: * GPL
*Distribute: *  yes
*FileID: *  1469


FreePOPs is an easily extensible program, which allows access to the 
most varied resources through the POP3 protocol.
Mainly, it can be used to download mail from the most famous webmails, 
but it could also be used as an aggregator for RSS feeds and much 
more. This way it is possible to get all your messages in your 
favorite email client.

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Look at site's manual. The program is simple to configure.

just run it (or add it to user-startup). It will bind on port 2000.
On the email client configure your account to use port 2000 and as 
server localhost (or 127.0.0.1).

PLEASE READ MANUAL TO CONFIGURE YOUR MAIL ACCOUNT (and if it is 
available)

Look at this page: http://www.freepops.org/it/viewplugins.php to see 
if your domain is supported.

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• Amiga and MorphOS news of november/december 2005
• Interview with Andrea Palmaté (AmigaOS 4 developer)
• Review of AmiKit
• Tutorial: installation of Linux/Debian on Pegasos 1 and 2
• Tutorial: installation of Linux/Yellow Dog on Pegasos 2
• Tutorial: installation of Linux/Crux on Pegasos 2
• Tutorial: installation of Linux/Suse on Pegasos 2
• Tutorial: installation of PegXMac on Pegasos 2 (update)
• Tutorial: installation of MorphOS on Classic Amiga
• Tutorial: TVPaint - creation of gems
• Article about spams (update)
• The Amiga quizz

• 50.56: Huge changes in the class' structure. Adapted large parts of the terminal emulation to work on Mac OS X. Tweaked to use libmosutil (os-independant tags/pools support lib)
• 50.57: Added ESC[Z, ESC[I, fixed the table stops generator, reworked vt_nexttabstop to move the cursor and handle forward wrap, implemented vt_prevtabstop. More work on the ATSUI rendering engine for OSX. Implemented vta_renderline, vta_renderlinepart, vta_refresh, vta_render
• 50.58: Fixed tabs (tab forward should not wrap!), impelemented scroll left/right escape sequences (ESC[ P, ESC[ @), fixed vt_getesccode not to get confused by the @ code
• 50.59: Added an OSX PowerTermScroll class, the OSX port can handle a NSScroller object now. A lot of work in the ATSUI renderer, enabled font matching to allow all possible unicode characters, write method, some work on delayed refreshing. More rendering code - added marking display, finished most of the render sections
• 50.60: OSX vt_scrollto, vt_postwrite and companions, Cocoa PTerm begins to get functional

• 640*480/8 Bit and 1024*768/16/24/32 bit support
• AmigaOS 4 support
• MorphOS support
• Amithlon support
• UAE support
• PowerPC support
• CD, Paula & AHI support
• Animated weapons, armours, goods a buildings in 8/16/24/32 bit
• Figure animationen in 8/16/24/32 bit
• More than 30 different screens
• Massively multiplayer strategy game via email or TCP/IP
• Support for different languages
• Cross platform gaming possible (Amiga, PC, Mac, Linux, Browser, Java)
• Online chat
• 8 minutes intro

• Can read track names from the CD (CDText) or FreeDB (CDDB)
• Random play
• Play via AHI
• ARexx-Port
• Waveform analyser (when playing via AHI)
• Visual plugins of AmigaAMP are supported (only for AHI)
• DSP-plugins of AmiNetRadio are supported (only for AHI)
• Simple, clear User-Interface
• Different GUI-elements can be chosen

• Extracts audio-data from a CD
• Can read track names from the CD (CDText)

• Deletes CDRWs, just like the "Blank CD" function of MakeCD

• Opens and closes the CD-/DVD-drive

• Sets the speed of the CD-/DVD-drive

• Amiga OS 3.0/3.1 support.
• Amiga OS 3.9 ( Amiga Forever 5/6/2005/OE , AmigaOs 3.9 , Amiga OSXL) support
• A lot of new fix, programs , features , scripts, ideas
• 5 fantastic Themes
• New AmigaSYS Additional pack
• Beneath A Steel Sky AmigaSYS pack
• And more... and more...and more info , see AmigaSYS page

• 29.12.05 improved: The Enforcer (Trojan) support for light guns added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Space Gun (Ocean) support for light guns added, calibration rewritten, access faults fixed, manual and icons added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Skeet Shoot (Trojan) support for light guns added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Side Show (Actionware) support for light guns added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: P.O.W. (Actionware) support for light guns added, manual added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Orbital Destroyer (Trojan) support for light guns added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Fire Star (Trojan) support for light guns added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Die Hard 2 (Grandslam) support for light guns added, manual and icons added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Cyber Assault (Trojan) support for light guns added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Creature (Actionware) support for light guns added, manual added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Capone (Actionware) support for light guns added, highscore saving added (Info)
• 29.12.05 improved: Aliex (Trojan) support for light guns added (Info)
• 25.12.05 improved: West Phaser (Loriciel) support for light guns added (Info)
• 25.12.05 improved: Crazy Shot (Hitech/Loriciel) support for light guns added (Info)
• 23.12.05 new: P47 Thunderbolt (Firebird) done by DJ Mike (Info)
• 21.12.05 improved: Burntime (Max Design) supports another version (Info)
• 19.12.05 improved: Quest For Glory / Hero's Quest (Sierra) supports another version (Info)

• The production of the PowerVixxen-cards has already started, the owners manuals are currently being finished.
• The shipment is planned for the end of January.
• The price per card is 299 USD (wo. vat).
• The cards are shipped in a bundle with AmigaOS 4.

• pci.library
• Voodoo.card
• Virge.card
• MedConfig

• pci.library ver. 6.5
  
  • many internal changes
• Voodoo.card ver. 4.26
  
  • the first common Voodoo.card version for MM CD and no-MM CD users
  • support for hardware de-interlacing in overlay added
  • VodooGuide Italian translation by Arturo Franzin
• Virge.card ver. 1.8
  
  • support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
• MedConfig ver. 1.4
  
  • bug fixes
  • French localisation by Philippe Bovier

• Final version of direct rendering callback for BGRA32 screenmode
• Added handling of fonts with MS Symbol names encoding (Marlett)
• Fixed possible hits in the database parser

• Problems with printing solved (bgol)
• The time remaining until the next (automatic) mails download is displayed in the window title (bgol)
• Some options for the behaviour of the read window added (bgol)
• Mails can be forwarded as attachments (optional)
• Externally saved mails can be displayed via the menu item "Project/open mail..."; the same function is available via the command line and the ARexx command "OPENMESSAGE"
• Bugs removed

• optional skinable Docky interface
• playlist editing facilities
• sorting/find abilities
• volume and tune seeking controls
• and more...

• ADDED: AmiKit Polish documentation, translated by Tomek!
• ADDED: AmigaAMP-External68k engine, set as default engine now.
• UPDATED: AmigaAMP 2.16
• UPDATED: IBrowse Preferences 23.3
• UPDATED: Jabberwocky 1.6
• UPDATED: MakeCD 3.2d beta 11
• UPDATED: WHDLoad 16.5 build 4021
• UPDATED: WookieChat 1.9.2
• UPDATED: YAM 2.4p1 + locale files

• The major changes concern a new set of options activated with right mouse button.
• fixed bug in the procedure of hiding mouse pointer
• fixed bugs in ADD and DEL functions
• added PPM P6 and JPEG savers
• displayed TV images can be used as Workbench background
• selection of favourite channels
• minimizing the main window can be obtain from the GUI level
• minor change in the method of saving configuration files

• FIXED: When changing to/from fullscreen with other windows opened they are moved to front.
• FIXED: Various small bugs and invalid memory acceses.
• FIXED: Crashes when switching images with asynchronous refresh enabled.
• FIXED: Sometimes rightmost column on thumbnail had wrong color.
• FIXED: Memory leak when checking saved JPEG quality.
• NEW: Loading of CMYK JPEGs.
• NEW: Possibility to disable color subsampling in JPEG saver. Results in better color quality (not 'washed out') in some cases.
• NEW: Selective gaussian filter. Usefull for noise removal.
• NEW: Glow filter.
• NEW: Straighten tool. Helps to correct rotated scans or pictures.
• NEW: Manual marking of cropped area.
• NEW: Thumbnails view uses directory icons if possible.
• NEW: File management functions can be executed on multiple files at once (multiselection).
• NEW: More keyboard shortcuts added to menu items.
• NEW: Image rotation also possible using numeric keyboard (keys 7 and 9).
• NEW: When changing browser mode currently selected file is remembered.
• NEW: In thumbnails view, selected thumbs are highlighted.
• NEW: 'Delayed scanning' option. Starts thumbnails generation only after browser is enabled.
• NEW: Display of EXIF tags from JPEG images.
• NEW: Automatic rotation of pictures with vertical orientation (if camera supports it and writes needed info).
• NEW: 3D View (3DVIEW tooltype or command param). Just useless eyecandy for now :) (Screenshot)
• NEW: Background/Shadow color adjustment for display area.
• NEW: Save function (in addition to Save As).
• NEW: In thumbnailer module size of resulting thumbnail can be specified.
• NEW: Undo. For now just simple one level one. Was that or no release for xmess.
• NEW: ARexx interface
• Updated libz and libpng to current versions.
• Faster text inserting routine.
• Rotation routines much faster (up to 300%) for bigger images.
• String gadget with numeric values can be controlled using mouse wheel (MUI4).
• Speedup to various parts of the code.

• Added subtitle support (.srt and .sub files) with automatic subtitle loading
• Added subtitle command line options and tooltypes (font name/size, position, colour) and a new subtitle menu to allow loading/closing of subtitles
• Added animated dithering algorithm to 16-bit modes to improve quality (apparent colour depth) and added NODITHER tooltype and command line option
• Volume slider could be updated by audioboost in fullscreen mode where it does not get put into the window leading to a crash
• Added possibility to use system fonts in DvPlayer Skins; updated the skin documentation to include information about this new feature
• Fixed a memory leak bug in the avi code
• AudioBoost now doubles the volume too, instead of just extending the volume range
• Fixed a bug causing wrong window size when skin was changed while a movie was stopped

• Title: Fkrent Story
• Artist: Lcr feat. Kuadziw
• Style: Tribal
• Play time: 7:50
• Format: mp3 (160 kbps)

• Fixed a bug which caused crashes when trying to step between images at the same time as when the info line or mouse was blanked
• Selecting only a directory in the file requester didn't work
• Fixed problem with buffered events, which made the image zoom/rotation slower and less responsive

• Incoming file transfers with spaces in the filename is accepted now
• Pause while selecting text fixed
• Tab switching works properly under OS3 now
• Outgoing /notice and /msg appear in the currently viewed tab again
• Split up the Incoming and Outgoing DCC File Transfers Window into two separate windows, to take up less space when not needed.
• No longer creates empty logs (0 bytes) when logging is disabled
• If you start a line with "//" it sends that text normally. It wont try to use it as a command anymore.
• /join no longer requires a '#' preceeding the channel name
• Added basic command alias support. e.g. /j can replace /join
• Added a /say command to speak in the current tab. Could be useful in conjunction with an alias
• Tabs now have a black square in them to show theres been no activity, and have been made more compact
• Tabs sit in a virtual group now, so that the window isnt forced to be as large as the amount of tabs you have open

• The AROS Live-CD loads the PowerPC version of the homonymous operating system, an open-source reimplementation of AmigaOS 3.1
• The Freevo Live-CD loads a Home Theatre system on your Pegasos
• The Mac-On-Linux archive provides a bootable Mac-On-Linux system with support for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), CD/DVD-RW-RO, USB and AC97

• The cycletmenu-problem is fixed with a new exec.library.
• The right default metric mode is now used by the fontmanager
• More fixed Errors, usable for to AROS ported software:
  • The AROS-picture-datatype shows now pictures inside of MUI toolbar buttons, if this is activated inside of MUI-prefs.
  • The diskfont.library set the font-flag "FSF_ANTIALIASING 0x10" by TrueType-Fonts - the MUI-textclass (used also by YAM) do not draw thick, if the cursor moved righthand, a version >15.16 of texteditor.mcc is recommended.
  • AllocMem works now with the MEMF_LARGEST-Flag
  • The AROS diskfont-library set the TF_XSize-Flag now for wide characters; through this proportional fonts are working in graphical user interfaces, which are calculating the this with this value. (e.g. GoldED, some DirOpus-Magellan-wondows or DevsMan)

• Support for Online Registration, Update and Bug reporting.
• Wacom Tablet HID Support.
• HID Output Control Window: Automatically generated GUI for HID devices.
• New Classes for MIDI, Touchscreen, Palm PDAs, IrDA (stack not included) and Bluetooth (stack not included).
• Mass storage class reworked and extended (e.g. better fall back modes, improved partition detecting for automounting, and unmounting of partitions, better boot time adapting removable task).
• HID class can now be made boot time resident, no more need for bootmouse or bootkeyboard class.
• HID lowlevel.library extension for analogue pad information.
• PoPo: Annoying Poseidon Popups for events, such as connection, removal, low power and death events. With sound support.
• Power Management added. Warns if power drain is higher than supply.
• Dead device detection.
• Severe internal changes to class scan and enumeration procedure: Less (no?) potential deadlocks.
• Automatic configuration change notification and updating.
• Support for PipeStreams.
• Full support for USB 2.0.
• Updated list of vendors.
• Devices can now be renamed by user.
• Added additional visual feedback in Trident (traffic signs).
• Configuration management added to Trident.
• Lots of fixes and optimizations.