05.Jan.2010
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Hardware: A-EON announced AmigaOne X1000
Finally after a one-week marketing-campaign today the Belgian-British company A-EON has published detailed information on his AmigaOS 4-hardware which will be called "AmigaOne X1000". According to the website the X1000 is supposed to be availble "still before summer" and will help to establish the Amiga again as combination of "great hardware as well as great Operating System".
They are not still allowed to call the name of the used CPU. Currently it is available only very limited. Most of the readers probably had never seen "one in the wild". "It's a dual-core Power Architecture CPU, with a very low Thermal Design Point".
The specifications of the X1000-motherboard, called "Nemo":
- ATX Formfactor
- Dual-core PowerISAâ„¢ v2.04+ CPU
- "Xena" XMOS XS1-L1 128 SDS
- 7.1 channel HD audio
- 4x DDR2 RAM slots
- 10x USB 2.0
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet
- 2x PCIe x16 slots (1x16 or 2x8)
- 2x PCIe x1 slots
- 1x Xorro slot
- 2x PCI legacy slots
- 2x RS232
- 4x SATA 2 connectors
- 1x IDE connector
- JTAG connector
- 1x Compact Flash
"Xena" is the configurable microcontroller called XCore produced by XMOS
On a discussion on amigaworld.net Robert Trevor Dickinson ("TrevorDick") from A-EON said that the CPU of the X1000 has definitely more than 1,2 Ghz.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2010
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AROS: Kickstart-Bounty started again
After the first phase of the Kickstart-replacement-bounty program was stopped without any results now Gary 'gaz' Pearman hast started this project again. He will have to be finished until 1st March.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jan. 2010, 21:41] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jan.2010
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AmigaOS 4: Sprite-Creator for Hollywood
Alfkil Thorbjørn Wennermark's Sprite Creator for Hollywood is similar to Bob-editor from AMOS.
Download: spritecreator.lha (853 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Crosscompiler-Toolchain for Linux and AmigaOS 4.1
The script crossscript.sh included in the archive creates under Linux a Crosscompiler-Toolchain for developing software for AmigaOS 4.1. Then the file distcode transfers it to the Ram-disk of the AmigaOS.
Download: distcode.lha (97 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jan. 2010, 21:26] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RunInUAE r2
Christopher Handley's RunInUAE enables to use the Amiga emulator E-UAE under AmigaOS 4. E-UAE has to be installed before. With the release 2 loading of games on several disks should now work.
Changes in release 2 of RunInUAE:
- Hopefully fixed HD installed games not starting for some people (please reinstall Workbench 3.1)
- Added automatic loading of multi-disk games
- Per-drawer & per-game config files now work with ADFs (bug fix)
- Now opens an App Window for you to drop games on; easier than dropping them on its AmiDock icon
- A new icon, thanks to David Braconnier
- Improved installer & manual, thanks to user feedback
Download: RunInUAE_r2.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2010
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 4.5 available
Today Hollywood 4.5 was published. Please read the official press release.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Jan. 2010, 18:18] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-magazine: Monthly Page 9 / Interview with Davy Wentzler
The Monthly Page is an English magazine published as PDF-file. The latest issue consists of three pages and offers among others an interview with Davy Wetzler (Audio Evolution).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.62
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another beta version of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4 as well as AROS.
With version 0.62 it is possible to transmit several files at once (under AROS causing crashes). There is a detailed list of changes in the Readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: iffilbm.demuxer 51.3
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski has updated his Reggae-class iffilbm.demuxer. Version 51.3 fixes some bugs.
Download: iffilbm.demuxer-51.3.lha (16 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jan. 2010, 21:19] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jan.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News: tinyulMUI 1.1, IRA 2.04
Frank Wille has published a new version of IRA which is a portable disassembler for AmigaOS 3-binaries. Additionally with the MUI-based tinyulMUI an upload-tool is available with which programs can be transmitted to tinybld-based Programmable Interface Chips like e.g. Minimig is using it.
Both programs are available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jan. 2010, 18:55] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jan.2010
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PR-campaign: Is Hyperion announcing new hardware? (2nd Update)
At the screenshots of the Firefox-port Timberwolf published two dys ago the website a-eon.com could be seen. Smart users figured out that this website belongs to Ben Hermans (Hyperion Entertainment) and obviously has hidden some hints to Hyperion's next project.
By clicking the graphics on each site you can release another text or get the next hint (1.html, 2.html, 3.html, 4.html). Each day a-eon.com will be completed with another hint. Again and again you can read the terms "OMEN" or ("OM"), "ENIGMA" and "AEON" with which users tried to make anagrams.
The hint added today plays with these terms and then shows the text "Have you figured it out yet?". The I-dot at "it" is something more dark - if you move the mouse cursor above it you get the reaction: "(Oh no! Don't look at that!".
If you ignore this warning and have a look at the I-dot you will see that it is a highly scaled down photo. A photo which apparently shows a part of a motherboard.
In a thread at amigaworld.net Hans-Jörg "Rogue" Frieden explained that it is more than "just" new hardware. Further information will be available tomorrow.
According to the Belgian Staatsblad (PDF-document) the company A-EON was founded in April 2009 by Ben Hermans and the both British men Robert Trevor Dickinson and Anthony Moorley.
Update: (03.01.10, 12:14, snx)
Meanwhile almost the complete mainboard is visible, also one further picture was found on the server which seems to show part of a case.
2nd Update: (03.01.10, 13:52, snx)
Hans-Jörg Frieden adds that the slots on the mainboard are two PCIe x16, three PCIe x1, two PCI 33 MHz and finally one "Xorro" slot, with the latter being in line with the third PCIe 1x slot. All 16 lanes of the PCIe x16 slot can be used only if just one slot is occupied, though, otherwise two times eight lanes are used.
The javascript file (4.js) used for today's page confirms that the CPU is a PowerPC - and according to another picture already found on the server it seems to provide more than one core. At the second still covered position on the mainboard, there seems to be a chip called "Xena" which might serve as a custom chip. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: EasyUAE 1.2
After the beta version Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea has now published a first release candidate of his user-interface for the Amiga-emulator E-UAE. For the bounty-project so far 316,34 Euro were donated.
Download: easyuae-1.2.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jan. 2010, 11:47] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jan.2010
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
The following articles have been added during the last two months to the website of the french AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. If you want to support the magazine with translations of single articles then please contact David Brunet.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of November/December 2009
- Old news from September/October 1997 and November/December 1997 and their relatives articles
- Review of Open Tyrian
- Review of Quake
- Review of Amiga Forever 2008
- Hardware: Indivision ECS
- File: The year 2000 problem and the Amiga
- File: History of the Amigan year 1997 (update)
- Tutorial: Enhance a Mac mini G4
- Tutorial: Create themes for AmigaOS 4.1
- Tutorial: Utilisation of RDBrecov
- Tutorial: Boot up MorphOS 2.4 from an USB key on Mac mini G4
- Special quiz about the year 1994, 1995 and 1996
Articles in english :
- File: The year 2000 problem and the Amiga
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01.Jan.2010
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AmigaOS 4: New screenshots of Firefox-port Timberwolf
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden are working on a Firefox-port for AmigaOS 4.1 which will be called Timberwolf. Meanwhile the bookmarks-system is working as well as the "Popup-Windows" which are used for displaying the menus (screenshot) and Help-Bubbles (screenshot).
Hans-Jörg Frieden explained that they have been involved in different projects during the last time. But it is planned to release an alpha-version soon ("soonish").
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jan. 2010, 15:17] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2009
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Text adventure: An Amiga Christmas Story
"An Amiga Christmas Story" is a text adeventure writtten in AMOS which was originally meant for the Xmas-competition but was finished too late. The author described the the game as the "first chapter of a longer story which will be published anytime".
The game should run on Amigas with at least 512 KB RAM. The ZIP-archive includes an ADF-file as well as a LhA-archive for the installation on the harddrive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2009, 15:44] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: Scanner-application SCANdal 1.3-stable
Michal Zukowski has published an update sof his Scanner-application SCANdal. Changes in version 1.3-stable:
- Autocrop (works best with LineArt mode)
- Autoconnect tooltype, Connect button
- TIFF and PDF saver
- Fixed JPEG saver
- Sketch plugins support (NOTE: do not use plugins from MorphOS 2.4, latest plugins are included in SCANdal archive, plugins don't work with 1.4.5)
- Fixed Mode list (for gt68xx driver)
- Fixed DPI Radio (for gt68xx driver)
- Settings window
- Autoincrement filenames
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2009, 15:34] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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BOH: Underground-Theme
For his commercial arcade game BOH, Simone Bevilacqua has published another theme called "Underground". Additionally graphic artists can get the game for free if they create themes for the game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2009, 09:31] [Comments: 0]
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30.Dec.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Further downloads online
Further files have been added to the following categories of the Amiga Future download area: C64 Digital Talk, WinUAE, videos, game and application demoversions, respectively, Spielekiste Extra and APC&TCP FD. New files are marked by a sun. (snx)
[News message: 30. Dec. 2009, 14:27] [Comments: 0]
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