16.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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CGG: Winners of Innovation award 2009
On 19th of December the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep will award its Innovation Price 2009. Winners are Dennis van Weeren's FPGA-Amiga Minimig (category hardware) as well as the C64/SID-music program ACID 64 written by Wilfred Bos (software).
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16.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Ranger 1.41
Steven Solie's Ranger is a little diagnostic routines for AmigaOS 4 which shows processor trees and provides additional information. A part of the new functions of this version 1.41 already requires functions of the "Update 1" for AmigaOS 4.1 which has been still not published.
Changes include:
- Added home directory (aka PROGDIR:) field to DOS/Processes tab
- Added monitor DDC information to Hardware/Gfx Boards tab
- Added new effects fields to Screen and Window attributes in the GUI/Objects tab
- Added Exec/IntHandlers tab which displays information about the interrupt handlers
Download: ranger.lha (331 KB)
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15.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Interview: Bartek Kuchta (NatAmi-Team)
The Polish portal retroage.net has published an English interview with Bartek Kuchta. Kuchta is graphic designer and creates logos, 3D-models for demos and other graphics for the NatAmi-Team.
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14.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.21
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. Changes in version 3.21:
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #194, #263, #280, #287, #303, #317,
#319, #325, #326, #329, #330 and #332
- Updated to SVN revision 1176
- Added a workaround for a javascript interpreter bug, for example on
maps.google.com
- Added Firefox2Like theme
- Updated about : and error page
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14.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Lawsuit: settlement agreement between Amiga and Hyperion published
In October, Hyperion had announced that it had reached an agreement with Amiga Inc. regarding the rights to AmigaOS 4. A few days ago, the actual settlement agreement between both parties has been published in the court archives as part of the judge's recent order to accept the agreement and close the case.
The most important points of the agreement are:
- Hyperion is the sole owner of the operating system they are distributing, excluding the parts derived from AmigaOS 3.1 - for which Hyperion will get a new licence from Amiga Inc. (see below)
- While Amiga Inc. is described as the "sole owner of the software 'AmigaOS 3.1'", they exclusively license most rights associated with the product to Hyperion, including the right to sell AmigaOS licenses to other parties.
- Amiga Inc. may only distribute AmigaOS 3.1 bundled with "gaming content" - and only as long as it is not modified and the user interface of AmigaOS is never shown to the user. An example mentioned in the contract is a retro games console, but the games/WinUAE bundles distributed through Amiga's shop would also fit this description.
- Hyperion now has an exclusive license to the "Amiga OS" and "AmigaOne" trademarks. Both parties may use the "Boingball" on their products.
- Existing licensees (e.g. Cloanto) are not concerned with this agreement.
The agreement, which is signed by Bill McEwen for Amiga und Evert Carton for Hyperion, does not describe what kind of compensation - if any - Amiga Inc. recieves in return. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News until 13.12.2009
CAD-Programm: ATcad 11/2009
ATcad is a simple 2D vector graphic program (screenshot) which originally was written for developing simple conductor boards.
ATcad requires a 68030-Processor, 8 MB RAM as well as screen modus with at least 720x564 Pixels (users of graphic boards must use the Mode-Promotion-Utility).
MorphOS: Drawerball 0.8p
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published an update for his simple file manager Drawerball 0.8p. The archive includes a version with two directory windows ("DoubleDrawerBall").
AmigaOS 4: Database interface iODBC
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmatè has ported the ODBC-implementation iODBC to AmigaOS. If you want to help testing the latest and not public beta version then please contact the author.
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13.Dec.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.0.0
Version 2.0.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been published. A detailed list of changes is available on the website.
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13.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.61
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. File transfers should now work under AROS as well. Additionally there are some minor improvements like "Auto-Unaway". The detailed changes are listed in the Readme.
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13.Dec.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Picture viewer ShowGirls 1.1
ShowGirls is a picture viewer written by Michal 'kiero' Wozniak which provides some editing functions and some features of programs like "MiniShowPicture" or "ShowPPC".
With the latest version 1.1 you can now also catalogue your pictures.
Further changes:
- Noise filter (color/luminance, strength depending on source pixel luminance, perlin noise)
- Image searching functionality: searching by name, comment (file or album), date (file or exif), dimensions
- Sorting for thumbnail lists
- Display options for thumbnail lists (filename/date/dimmensions)
- Optimized glow effect
- Optimized resampling code, added altivec version
- Batch converter can apply filters during image processing (only a few selected for now)
- It can also process images from given album
- Grayscale filter with adjustable color component weights, don't discard alpha contents
- Changed RGB Balance filter to Color Balance filter which should work in similar way to its Photoshop equivalent
- Optimized noise reduction filter
- Optimized threshold filter
- Optimized overlay image generation
- Optimized rgb->hsv conversion (faster hsv balance filter)
- Fixed slideshow start/stop after fullscreen/window change
- Reimplemented full-dir thumbnail scanning mode, visible entries will be scanned first
- Improved sorting of files with numeric names
- Various speed/memory usage optimizations
- State of album manager, color picker and information overlay is saved on application exit (use NOALBUMS tooltype/param to disable opening of album manager)
- Reggae support
Download: ShowGirls-1.1.lha (484 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: Xmas lottery
DiscreetFX has started a Xmas lottery. If you want to take part then simply fill out the form wit the text "DiscreetFX 2009 Christmas Giveaway".
All registrations must be done before 25th of December. The winners will be announced on New Year's Day. The following prizes will be raffled:
- Amiga Forever Value Edition (3x)
- Aladdin 4D Instant Download (10x)
- Competition-Pro-Joystick by Individual Computers and Speedlink (6x)
- Amiga-Round-Table-DVD, Episodes 1-3 with bonus material (6x)
- AmigaOS 4.1, optionally in Sam440-, Pegasos-II- or AmigaOne/MicroA1-version (1x)
- MorphOS 2.x (1x)
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12.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OWB 1.6 inclusive Flash-Plugin
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published a new version of the Origyn Web Browser for MorphOS. Besides other changes (siehe Readme) a graphical use-interface for blocking contents was added, the download manager was improved. As usual there are two different versions: OWB-nosvg without support of the SVG-format. This version requires a little bit less memory.
The Flash-Plugin which is based on swfdec and developed by Coeurjoly was now published. In the past the author always pointed out that it was a test version because the available open-source Flash-decoder are still not sufficient for day-to-day need.
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12.Dec.2009
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Software-News: Game Chips, Text editor Annotate 2.7, MPlayer-GUI 1.47
AmigaOS 4: Game Chips
Chips is logic game written by Ventzislav Tzvetkov where the player have to build a computer from the chips placed around the professor's laboratory. After for AmigaOS 3 there is now also a version for AmigaOS 4 with improved graphics and animationens. Additionally the game can be played in a window modus.
Text editor: Annotate 2.7
The open-source text editor Annotate is available for all Amiga systems. For the first time there is also a version for AROS. Further changes in version 2.7:
- Annotate can now be compiled for MUI instead of ReAction! The OS4 version uses ReAction since it looks better and has more features under OS4. All other targets are compiled for MUI but can be compiled for ReAction/ClassAct as well.
- AROS is now supported
- Added simple project support. This makes it possible to save and load a project file which will contain the current configuration of opened files and their editors/windows. Makes for a quick way of reopening all the files and windows you were working on yesterday, or before a crash
- Annotate's editors are now AppWindows which means that you can drop icons on them to open files
- Having a requester opening when Ann is started from Workbench is now optional
- Realtime update of colors in the editor when they are changed from the Config
- Added an expiration date to the "remembered lines"
- Fixed the auto-update function so that it will download the correct binary for your OS (Will of course only work the next time)
- Pasting an text that started with a linefeed at the end of a line didn't work correctly
- Possibly fixed some random garbage that could have been inserted when cut'n'pasting vertical blocks with empty lines in the middle
AmigaOS 4: MPlayer-GUI 1.47
MPlayer-GUI is a Reaction based graphical user-interface for the video player MPlayer. Changes in version 1.47:
- Made use of application.library which now also takes care of sending the filenames to an already opened MPlayer-GUI
- Found a cool feature in intuition. Have compositing enabled and you can't miss it ;-)
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11.Dec.2009
MorphZone (ANF)
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Test report on MorphOS 2 (Mac Mini) with videos
"jPV / RNO" has published a detailed test report on MorphOS 2. Five videos are also included which show the operating system on a Mac Mini G4.
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11.Dec.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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Status report: Apache, MySQL and PHP for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan is working on a port of the program collection called "AMP" (webserver Apache, database MySQL, script language PHP). The first published status report described the ports of Apache and MySQL as "nearly finished" (screenshots: 1, 2). The PHP-port has to be tested furthermore.
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11.Dec.2009
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Competition for game designer: Xmas game until 24. December
On amiga.org a competition was started. Developers must publish a Xmas game with Xmas graphics until 24th December. The detailed rules are listed under the title link.
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09.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: passwd 1.1
Rupert 'naTmeg' Hausberger's command line programm passwd requests a password when computer is booted.
Download: passwd.lha (10 KB)
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09.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Online Games: New Network games added
"Amiga Online Games" lists all Amiga games which offer a (null)modem, Parnet or network based multiplayer mode. Crimson Fields, The Battle for Wesnoth and NetPanzer were added to the database since our last news item.
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09.Dec.2009
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WHDLoad: New packages until 09.12.2009
with WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were delivered on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, updated or improved since our last message:
- 08.12.2009 fixed: Hook (Ocean) expmem option corrected (Info)
- 05.12.2009 improved: Hook (Ocean) reduced chip memory requirements (Info)
- 02.12.2009 new: Fighter Bomber - Advanced Missions (Activision) done by Galahad (Info)
- 02.12.2009 improved: Fighter Bomber (Activision) requires only 512K chip memory now (Info)
- 22.11.2009 improved: Midnight Resistance (Ocean) load/save highscores, palette fixed, 2nd fire button actions added, lot of trainers added (Info)
- 15.11.2009 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) access fault fixed, direct load savegame added (Info)
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09.Dec.2009
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS-Wiki: Morphos Library on morphzone.org
"MorphOS Library" is called a MorphOS-Wiki on morphzone.org in which all information will be gathered about the operating system. If you want to help writing entries then please contact the developers via eMail.
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[News message: 09. Dec. 2009, 15:36] [Comments: 0]
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09.Dec.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Icaros Desktop 1.2
Paolo Besser has published an update for his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. A reworked GUI-design (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4) as well as the direct support of ADF-files were added (which can be opened with UAE).
All changes in version 1.2:
- new official Icaros Desktop themes and theme manager
- Updated SDL, MESA and many other libraries
- Grub2 hack to use netbook resolutions on Intel GMA900 GPUs
- Poseidon now available as kernel module
- Improved 68K apps integration in AmiBridge
- no double pointer anymore using workbench applications
- added more uaegfx resolutions in full integration mode
- Added Amiga games/demos ADF support with sound
- added ZuneARC to manage zip, lha, rar, tgz and other archives
- updated PortablE
- updated development chain with newer include files
- updated wookiechat to latest beta
- added support for audio CDs (PlayCDDA)
- added desktop wallpapers from artist Wilhelm Steiner
- added desktop wallpapers from abraXXious
- added many new games and emulators
- updated DosBox to latest revision
- added BOH demo from Simone Bevilacqua
- updated NoWinED to latest version
- added first Gallium3D demos for GeForce cards
- updated OWB to release 0.9.9
- added SDLBasic 1.0.2
- system files updated to December 2nd, 2009
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