29.Nov.2009
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64JPX: JoyPad eXpander for Commodore and Atari computers
With "JoyPad eXpander" the Australian Nicholas Coplin offers an interface with which you can connect Sega Genesis/MegaDrive-, Nintendo (S)NES- or analog PC-Joypads (with DB15-plug) to computers with an Atari or Commodore-compatible joystick port.
Additionally 64JPX offers also functions like simulated automatic fire or a "vibratory modus" for feared joystick killers like "Decathlon". Different configurations of the adapter are available which differ in type and figure of the supported joypad types. Currently it seems not be available an European distribution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2009
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New owner of amiga.org stays anonymously
Eight days ago Wayne Hunt sold his Amiga portal amiga.org to a successor which is still not known. The new owner promised the producers of the Amiga podcast Amiga Round Table to give an interview today at 05:00 p.m.
20 minutes before it should start this agreement was unsaid.
According to Wayne Hunt in a statement he must not announce the new owner. But he already has got the amount. New administrator (not owner) will be Bill Panagouleas.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 19:18] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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New Amiga dealer in Luxembourg
"New Gen Informatique S.à.R.L." is official ACube-dealer and sells SAM440 as well as Minimig motherboards, full systems and other equipment.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 17:02] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
André "Ratte" Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Lores-screens with Elbox' Radeon-drivers - Explanation and Settings-file
With a recently published update to version 2.2 for its Radeon graphic board drivers, Elbox has set the lower limit for the Pixelclock-preference for lower resolutions. With the new version now Lores (320x240) screens with 60 Hz can be displayed.
Under the title link André "Ratte" Pfeiffer explained that mainly this has big importance to users of TFT-screns and offers a Picass96Settings-file with different VESA-compatible screen resolutions.
Hint: After downloading the file you have to remove the ending ".pdf". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: AmiMSN 1.2
Michael Trebilcock's AmiMSN is an Instant-Messenger-Client for the MSN-Network written in ARexx. Changes in version 1.2:
- Minor memory leak fix
- Launch from PNG icons
- Removal of MD5SUM. Using function in rxlibnet
- Only says "is now known as" if they were already online
- Remembers your handle and personal message
- Caches avatar images
- Ability to abort sending a file mid-transfer
- Ctrl-C'ing a chat window closes switchboard session
- Chat sessions can now be logged
- "User is typing.." message sent to recipients
- Changed text font (that will be shown on recipients side)
from MS Sans Serif to Segoe UI
- Recognises when WLM aborts a file being sent to you
- Large preview data sent in file offer doesn't crash AmiMSN
Users of AmigaOS 4 should add the libraries rxsocket.library and rxlibnet.library to the blacklist of the JIT-emulator to avoid problems with AmiMSN.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2009
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MorphOS: Scanner application SCANdal 1.3
Michal "zukow" Zukowski has published an update of his scanner software SCANdal (video). Changes in version 1.3:
- Autocrop (works best with LineArt mode)
- Autoconnect tooltype, Connect button
- TIFF saver
- PDF saver
- Fixed Mode list (for gt68xx driver)
- Fixed DPI Radio (for gt68xx driver)
Direct download: scandal.lha (124 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 15:48] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
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AmigaOS 4: New beta version of Flash player Gnash
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmatè has published a new beta version of his Gnash-port. The author points out that it is a very early version. Therefore it can include several bugs. Besides the streaming of Youtubu-clips - which works with the help of a Python-script - is very slow.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 15:39] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Beta version of E-UAE-GUI
Under the title link there is a new beta version of a graphical user-interface for the Amiga emulator E-UAE (amiga-news.de reported).
Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea regrets that finishing the bounty will still take a while. Therefore he has published this beta version in order to demonstrate the progress of this project. The archive includes only the executable files uae as well as make_hdf and is based on the latest E-UAE-version.
Compiling this beta version was not done with the latest GCC/binutils-version. Therefore UAE may not work on Sam440ep-boards as fast as possible. Besides E-UAE itself includes a bug which caused a crash at the computer of the author after the second start of the program. But the AHI-bug was fixed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Nov. 2009, 08:38] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Sam440ep: Experimental Debian-Netinstall-Image with GART-support
ACube Systems has published a new ISO-file for the Internet installation of the Linux-distribution Debian for the PowerPC-boards Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex which is experimental.
You can now also use GART (Graphics Address Remapping Table). With its help graphic data can be loaded directly from the main memory. The included kernel of version 2.6.31.5 was compiled with the IBM performance libraries which recently was also published for AmigaOS 4.1.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Nov. 2009, 21:15] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2009
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Filer 53.27
The AmigaOS-4 program Filer is a ReAction based file manager (screenshot). The changes are listed in the Readme-file under the title link.
Download: filer.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Nov. 2009, 18:39] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ClipDown 2.5
ClipDown is a completion for newer OWB-versions which still have not a full download function: The URL in the OWB-window is marked and copied to the Clipboard to finally download the file with wget. The changes are listed in the Readme-file under the title link.
Download: clipdown.lha (61 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Nov.2009
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SAM440: Firmware-Update to U-Boot 1.3.1a
Press release:
Bassano del Grappa, 27. November 2009
ACube Systems is pleased to announce the release of a new version of U-Boot firmware for its line of motherboards Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex.
This version addresses a number of problems and add some features and optimizations making it possible to cut down boot time by 3-12 seconds depending on the configuration of the board.
What's new in this version (for both motherboard versions):
- faster graphic card initialization, now it takes half the time than previous U-Boot version
- unified the first two countdowns, for an even faster boot
- solved compatibility issues with some Radeon 9200 and 9250 gfx cards
- reworked preference menu
Sam440ep miniITX-Version:
- a Radeon HD 2400 graphic card could be now used as secondary gfx card
Sam440ep-flex-Version:
- added support for Silicon Motion 502 graphic card
- added experimental support for Catweasel MK4 controller
- a Radeon HD 2400 graphic card could be now used in both 33 and 66 Mhz PCI slots
Downloads:
Sam440ep: Sam440ep-mini_updater_20091127.zip (302 KB)
Sam440ep-flex: Sam440ep-flex_updater_20091127.zip (270 KB)
Please note: UBoot and UBoot updater make use of GPL code and thus are both published under GPL. The source codes are available under:
u-boot-1.3.1a_20091127_prod.tar.gz (5,6 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Nov. 2009, 23:30] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2009
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Software-News until 27.11.2009
Metacompiler: PortablE r5
Christopher Handley's metacompiler PortablE translates the Amiga specific programming language E into different languages. Windows, AmigaOS 3/4, AROS and MorphOS are supported.
Changes in version r5:
- Experimental MorphOS support (for C++), including MOS executables! MUI seems to work
- Modules provided by others for AHI, CD_Play, FreeDB, MPEGA & some MUI bits
- PortablE is up to 65% faster than before
- PortablE's memory usage has been halved! Now similar to GCC's
- MUI programs with custom classes can now be compiled by AmiDevCpp for OS3
- Added emulation of AmigaE's ! (floating-point) operator to the compatibility mode
- FastNew is implemented using an enhanced TLSF algorithm, greatly reducing memory usage
- Programs produced by PortablE run faster, and PEGCC produces smaller executables
- Lists are now truely stack-allocated, rather than being dynamically faked
- Implemented the missing string formatting codes (\l, \r, \z, [w] & (x,y)) for C++
- For speed, multi-threading support is now disabled unless you use OPT MULTITHREADED
- Directory scanning is now much more robust on Windows
- Improved documentation; clickable links, added bold/etc & special characters now visible
- More examples of portable code
- Various bug fixes
Download-Tool: wget 1.12 for AmigaOS 3/4
Diego Casorran has published new ports of the download tool wget:
- URLs in file's comments are now unescaped (eg: %7e -> ~)
- For the first time, added an AmigaOS4 build.
- Compiled using OpenSSL 1.0.0-beta4, download it from
amiga.sourceforge.net if you want SSL support
in Wget - OS4 users need to have AmiSSL installed
Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further software have been added to the download section of the Amiga Future website, among others Reflections 4 (CD-ISO), Football Glory, Andreas Stürmer MP3s and much more. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Nov.2009
whoosh (ANF)
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Postscript-Interpreter: GPL Ghostscript 8.70
"whoosh" has published a new version of his Amiga port of Ghostscript. Two different versions are available - one of them requires the ixemul.library and offers all functions. You can find the list of changes, installation hints as well as download links on the website of the author.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Nov.2009
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OpenPCI: PciTool 2.1.2
PciTool written by Marian 'MaaG^dA' Guc for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS provides information about used PCI-cards in a computer system with the openpci.library (from version 2.1).
Download: PciTool_2.1.2.lha (300 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Nov. 2009, 17:43] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: OpenBSD/x86 overtaken at OGR-27-competition
At the OGR-27-competition, MorphOS overtook OpenBSD/x86 and improved to 15th. For further information please have a look at distributed.net.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Nov. 2009, 10:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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OpenSSL 1.0-beta4
The OpenSSL-project is a toolkit-implementation of the protocols Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) based on open-source software.
Under the title link version 1.0-beta4 for AmigaOS/68k was published which supports the following codes: mdc2, md4, md5, hmac(md5), sha1, rmd160, rc4, des cbc, des ede3, idea cbc, seed cbc, rc2 cbc, blowfish cbc, cast cbc, aes-128 cbc, aes-192 cbc, aes-256 cbc, camellia-128 cbc, camellia-192 cbc, camellia-256 cbc, sha256, sha512, whirlpool, aes-128 ige, aes-192 ige and aes-256 ige.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Nov. 2009, 08:57] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2009
Thomas "Tom01" Bodlien (ANF)
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MorphOS: UTF-8 support for AmIRC
Charset-AmIPlug is an AmIRC-Plugin which enables you to convert different character set codes. Mainly this tool is supposed to support UTF-8 (Unicode). In UTF-8-modus ISO-character set codes are automatically recognized and correctly shown.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2009, 20:25] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: CDXLPlay-SDL 1.1 (x86)
Fredrik Wikström has written a command line based SDL program for AROS/x86 with which on an Amiga CDXL-files can be played. CDXL is a file format developed for the Amiga CDTV which is based on the HAM-modus and a direct streaming access of the CD-drive.
Download: cdxlplay-sdl.zip (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2009, 20:01] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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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 is called Timberwolf. Today some new screenshots have been published: Four screenshots show the CSS Zen Garden (1, 2, 3, 4), the fifth one shows the Mozilla website.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2009, 18:05] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2009
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amiga.org has new owner
The well-known Amiga portal amiga.org has got a new owner: According to the former webmaster Wayne Hunt he has sold amiga.org last Saturday. The name of the new owner still is not known.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2009, 16:01] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Seventh update for arcade game BOH
Simone Bevilacqua has published the seventh update for his commercial arcade game BOH which includes the following changes and improvements:
- adds one-way passages
- adds flying enemies
- changes the functioning of teleports: weapons are not inhibited anymore; enemies are not scared away anymore; the activation wait is shorter; enemies are destroyed if they touch the character during teleporting
- improves the visual feedback of hits in theme "vectors"
- increases the intensity of shot lights
- fixes some minor glitches in the themes "C64", "default" and "vectors"
- adds the mission "skill challenge"
- retouches several missions (also making use of one-way passages)
- adds the Norwegian translation
- re-assigns some map characters for an even more logical arrangement and, therefore, an easier development of missions
- adds graying-out of the menu interface when another application gets the focus
- extends/improves the manuals
- applies some other changes/optimizations
BOH is available for AmigaOS 4, AROS, Linux, MacOS X and Windows.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2009, 15:39] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2009
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AROS: ZuneARC 1.0 (x86)
ZuneARC is a graphical user-interface for command line based archiver tools under AROS/x86. Supported are LHA, LZX, ZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ and TAR.BZ2. Further ones can be added by editing the configuration file.
Download: zunearc.i386-aros.tar.bz2 (88 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Nov. 2009, 08:59] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Patch for DrawStudio
Harry 'Piru' Sintonen has published a patch with which you can use the paint programm DrawStudio under MorphOS 2.x. In version 2.5 of the operating system the reason was found by Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek and should be clearly fixed. Users of SmartWin should deactivate it before.
Download: drawstudiopatch.lha (19 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2009, 19:31] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News: WookieChat 2.12b11, ECX 2.2.1, SearchStar 0.95d
IRC-Client: WookieChat 2.12 Beta 11
James 'jahc' Carroll has published an update of his MUI-based IRC-client WookieChat for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
Compiler: ECX 2.2.1
ECX is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. ECX requires a preinstalled installation of the Amiga-E-package. The changes in this version are listed in the Readme-file.
MorphOS: SearchStar 0.95d
Tom "Amigaharry" Duin has published an update of his search programm SearchStar.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2009, 15:29] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2009
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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New Realtek-Network driver for AROS, new Bounty for Realtek ALC888
Franck Charlet has published a new Network driver which supports different Network-controller made by Realtek:
- RTL8168b / RTL8168c / RTL8168cp
- RTL8169 / RTL8169s / RTL8169sb / RTL8169sc
- RTL8110 / RTL8110s / RTL8110sb / RTL8110sc
- RTL8111b / RTL8111c / RTL8111cp
- RTL8100e
- RTL8101e
The driver also complies with conditions of the Realtek RTL8111b bounty which was started by Pascal Papara to get drivers for the Network-controller of the planned AROS complete system AresOne.
Bevause Frank Charlet does not want to make a draft on the donations, the money will be used for a new bounty: A driver for the Soundchip Realtek ALC888 - which is the last component that still is not supported by AROS for the AresOne.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2009, 15:01] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Epson-USB-driver 2.36.1 for SCANdal
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski who is the author of the scanner software SCANdal, has published an updated driver for the Epson-USB-scaner on Aminet.
A new USB-API is used and the usbraw.device will be no longer required. Because of that the rawwrap.class has to be disconnected from the scanner in the Poseidon-preferences.
Download: epsonusb_morphos.lha (50 KB)
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2009, 13:22] [Comments: 0]
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