06.Jan.2013
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS 3.2 Software Development Kit (Beta)
The MorphOS-team has released version 3.2 of the Software Development Kit. The update includes an updated version of the compiler environment called "Geek Gadgets" (GCC, Bash and GNU-tools) and the latest MorphOS-includes with documentation. Additionally some minor bugs have been fixed.
This release is still a beta version. At least MorphOS 3.1 is required.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 06. Jan. 2013, 16:13] [Comments: 0]
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05.Jan.2013
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Curiosity: Rare A1000-keyboard developed by Cherry
At the British ebay an onknwon keyboard version for the Amiga 1000 has been turned up: A keyboard of the "G80"-production by Cherry which has a typical A1000 RJ-11-plug and which partly copies the special layout of the original keyboard.
Obvioulsy the offerer knows that he has curiosity: The bid starts with 200 US-Dollar. If you want to buy it now then 777 USD have to be paid.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2013, 19:32] [Comments: 1 - 07. Jan. 2013, 08:27]
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05.Jan.2013
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix
For the X11-environment AmiCygnix an update of the word processing software AbiWord has been released (Screenshot). Most important changes in this version:
- New version 2.8.6 with many new features compared to the last version 2.6.2.
- Gnumeric spreadsheets can now be embedded into an AbiWord document. You can
load and edit existing spreadsheets or create new ones. Gnumeric 1.10.17 is
integrated into AbiWord for this. You don't need to install the standalone
package of Gnumeric!
- With the new plugin "OpenXML" you can now load and save documents in .docx
format (MS Word 2007+)..
- Compiled with GTK+ 2.24.
- Several bugfixes.
The Amiga version also loads ILBM-pictures, German and English catalogs for spell checking are included in the archive. AbiWord requires AmiCygnix 1.2.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2013, 19:18] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jan.2013
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Retro-Gaming-Comics: Blow The Cartridge
On his website "Blow The Cartridge", Cameron Davis explores several game classics in little cartoons.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Bubbledoc 0.0.1 shows Microsoft Word-documents
Bubbledoc written by Carsten Siegner shows Microsoft Word-dokuments. The programm is based on antiword 0.37 and currently can only manage text. Pictures are not supported yet.
Download: Bubbledoc_0.0.1.lha (189 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jan. 2013, 16:13] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jan.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.5
In version 1.5 of Paolo Besser's AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop the files layout, the installation process as well as the the emulation environment have been completely overhauled. The emulation environment now starts ADF-images as well as harddrive-based applications without requiring the original Kickstart-files.
Icaros 1.5 now is based on the latest AROS-kernel ("ABI v1 Backport") which is supposed to provide improved speed, compatibility and stability. For users who have problems with this kernel a "Legacy Kernel Edition" of Icaros is avilable.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jan. 2013, 00:47] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP stack: full version of Roadshow on sale now
Press release: Starting today, the full version of the Roadshow TCP/IP stack is available to buy through the APC&TCP online store. Roadshow is an Amiga TCP/IP stack, that allows you to connect to the Internet, to access your e-mail, web pages, chat, etc. It can also be used to access and exchange files within your local home network.
Roadshow is one of the fastest, if not THE fastest Amiga TCP/IP stacks. Some features include:
- Amiga-ised configuration utilities rather than the terse and somewhat cryptic Unix legacy tools
- DHCP configuration for Ethernet devices
- "TCP:" device support, for use with, for example, ARexx scripts
- Enhanced & cleaned-up software development kit, that includes the complete source code to all the configuration tools and sample programs
- and much more ...
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 03. Jan. 2013, 15:13] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jan.2013
Jim Neray (ANF)
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Workbench-replacement: X-bEnCH 0.8 (alpha)
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours which replaces the Workbench for starting WHDLoad-games (.slave, .exe) and and uses low computer resources. According to the developer the programm works on all Amigas (OCS to AGA) with 68000 to 68060 processors and uses little virtual memory.
The current alpha version includes the following changes:
- Black lines closing effect added to the init logo
- No more credits scroll text; now have a rotating text on the menu
- New VBL sync more smoother
- Fixed the repeat delay
- 3d effect added to menu texts
- New loading screen with a cool parallax effect
- List name bug fixed
- Now the listings fatters than 1920 files are working fines
- Xsetup code heavily reworked
- Startup tab added to the setup
- Added the Del key switch option
- Added an option to choose from where start Xbench (menu, launcher, cli)
- Fixed the ugly 3d effect in the setup
- Many bugs fixs and various optimizations
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jan. 2013, 19:33] [Comments: 1 - 03. Jan. 2013, 19:49]
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02.Jan.2013
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New tracks: "Northern Germany Challenge" for Test Drive 2
"Mombasajoe" has released a so called "Scenery Disk" for the classic Test Drive 2 which provides six new tracks: "Ostsee", "Lüneburger Heide", "Wesertal", "Teutoburger Wald", "Harz" and "A7".
Download: Test_Drive_II_-_Scenery_Disk_-_Northern_Germany.zip (150 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jan. 2013, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jan.2013
Achim Kern - KeHo Software (ANF)
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MorphOS: Taran im Abenteuerland 3.0
Under the title link Achim Kern has released the remake of his adventure "Taran im Abenteuerland" for MorphOS which is written with Hollywood.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jan. 2013, 17:10] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jan.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: Minimig and ARM-controllers available again
The Minimig which is a FPGA-reimplementation of an Amiga 500 and originally developed by Dennis van Weeren is available again at ACube Systems.
You can select between two boards with 2 or 4 MB RAM which are available with PIC (Peripheral Interface Controller) or without it (and then can be used with a ARM-controller which makes it possible having a writing access to disk and harddrive images).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jan. 2013, 07:50] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jan.2013
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New demos
The demo-portal pouet.net has uploaded some new demos from the Amiga-scene:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jan. 2013, 04:49] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jan.2013
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
During the last two months the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has been completed with new articles. Translations into other languages are always welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- November/December 2012 news
- Old articles from A-News 17 to 20: Report: Amiga '89 Cologne, MIDI interfaces, Lamer Exterminator virus, Review of Musical Enlightment 1.4, Review of HiSoft Basic, Hardware: A-Max, Review of ARexx 1.10, Review of Digi-Paint 3.0 etc.
- Interview: Jonathan Potter (author of Directory Opus)
- Hardware: Turbo Chameleon 64
- Hardware: ACA 1231
- Hardware: ARM controller for Minimig
- Review: Dragon Ninja
- Review: Tower Of Babel
- Review: Savage
- Review: Yo! Joe!
- Review: Globdule
- Commodore monitors
- Amiga shoot'em ups (1993)
- Amiga shoot'em ups (1994)
- Tutorial: optimization of RunInUAE, ScummVM et DOSBox on AmigaOS 4
- Tutorial: Photogenics - draw streaks
- Tutorial: create a video game with Backbone
- Tutorial: switch from a CRT monitor to a LCD/TFT/LED monitor on AmigaOS 4
- Special quizz about the first name of Amiga software and hardware
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jan. 2013, 15:21] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jan.2013
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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GUI-development: MUI Royale 1.0 for Hollywood
Press release: This is it! Airsoft Softwair has saved their greatest firework for New Year's Day! MUI Royale is a plugin for Hollywood (screenshots: 1, 2, 3) that finally allows you to easily create MUI GUIs with Hollywood. MUI Royale supports over 40 MUI classes including popular third-party classes like TextEditor.mcc and TheBar.mcc. Creating and managing menustrips is also fully supported.
The plugin sets new standards concerning the ease of use because the GUI layout can be conveniently defined using an XML file that is converted into a MUI GUI by MUI Royale on the fly. GUI design has never been so easy! Of course, new features of MUI 3.9 (AmigaOS 4) and MUI 4.0 (MorphOS) are also supported.
The highlight of MUI Royale, however, is certainly its inbuilt Hollywood MUI class. This class allows dynamic embedding of complete Hollywood displays into MUI GUIs which can be used to combine the best of both worlds - MUI's proven GUI skills and Hollywood's unequalled multimedia capabilities - into one powerful application, limited by the scope of your creativity only.
MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (i386). The package comes with almost 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI. On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation as a 280 page PDF file which is also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.
All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jan. 2013, 15:16] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jan.2013
Pegasosforum (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic programm SteamDraw 2.2
SteamDraw written by Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich is an EPS-compatible 2D vector graphic programm. You can now define the size of the drawing with the "project"-entry in the object list.
Download: SteamDraw.lha (343 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jan. 2013, 13:11] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jan.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: Zod-Engine ported
Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has ported the game engine Zod to AROS/x86 which is a remake of the game Z developed by the Bitmap Brothers in 1996. It is a SDL-based realtime online strategy game for single or multi players.
Download: zod.7z (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jan. 2013, 12:05] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jan.2013
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: PowerSDL.library 15.9 (Update)
Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta has updated his SDL library for MorphOS. It is a bug fix release and now works also better with G5-computers.
Update: (07:56, 02.01.13, snx)
Meanwhile by version 15.9 another update is available which fixes a bug in fullscreen mode of the game 1941 DX Dual Players.
Download: powersdl_15.9.lha (164 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jan. 2013, 11:55] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2012
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AmigaOS 4: First adapted version of Directory Opus Magellan, mailing list
In a thread on amigans.net, Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has made available a first, to AmigaOS 4 adapted version of the file manager Directory Opus Magellan. It is still a 68k-build but which runs under PPC-operating systems.
Additionally at the Yahoogroups a mailing list for AmigaOS 4-users was established.
Direct download: dopus5_68k_os4mod.lha (10 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2012, 21:11] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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Polish magazine: Polskie Pismo Amigowe 9
The ninth issue of the Polish magazine PPA is available. The magazine has 28 completely coloured pages and is available for about 4,70 Euro (with inland shipping). Older issue are available as PDF-files for free download.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2012, 20:03] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2012
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Event: Alchimie X (9.-11. November)
The tenth French Alchimie wil take place from 9. until 11. November 2013 in Tain l''Hermitage. All friends of technology are welcome. There will be also a demo competition.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2012, 10:54] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vasm 1.6
Frank Wille has released an update of vasm which is a portable assembler supporting different CPU-families. A list of changes can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2012, 10:42] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.6.4
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.6.4. The update includes new versions of some installed MUI-classes and applications, among others SimpleMail and YAM.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2012, 09:22] [Comments: 0]
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