31.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Video of Amiga and C64-Forever-Chat
The record of the video chat about C64 Forever and Amiga Forever 2009 is now online:
http://vimeo.com/retroplatform
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30.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: DigiRoller - Betatest for DigiBoosterPro
Press release The Open Beta Test of DigiBoosterPro has started today. For this purpose we have published the program DigiRoller at the title link. We wish to get as much users as possible for this Open Beta Test to avoid future problems.
DigiRoller is a standalone DBM module player and renderer. It is released for free as a preview of sound synthesis technology used in upcoming DigiBooster 3. With DigiRoller any DBM music module can be played or saved to an AIFF/WAVE file. There is also a benchmark mode which allows for estimating DigiBooster 3 player engine speed on different hardware. DigiRoller is being released for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS 1.4/2.x and runs on all hardware supported by these operating systems (with exception of 68020+ requirement for AmigaOS 3 version).
The key feature of the new DigiBooster 3 player engine is AHI independency. The new engine does not rely on AHI resampling and mixing. Using own algorithms allows for better quality, for example track mixing is done with 24-bit precision. Breaking AHI dependency also opens a way for making high quality DigiBooster 3 module replayers for non-Amiga operating systems like Windows, Linux or MacOS. DigiRoller uses AHI as a playback backend only, to stay compatible with as many sound hardware as possible. (snx)
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30.May.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AMIX: Back port project AmixBP
AMIX, Commodore's Amiga Unix, is a port of Unix System V Release 4 to the Amiga 2000 and 3000. Under the title link the Sourceforge.net-project AmixBP was established.
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[News message: 30. May. 2009, 09:41] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Metacompiler: PortablE r4
Christopher Handley's Metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E into different ones. Through this extensive E-programs are supposed to be changes in this way that they can be compiled to a wider range of platforms.
With version r4 additional to AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS now Windows is supported as well.
Changes:
- PortablE now has basic support for Windows, along with some standard
portable modules which allow the same program to run unchanged on
Windows & Amiga; documentation & several examples are provided
- PortablE now comes with an installer (for all supported platforms)
- The PEGCC program runs both PortablE and G++ (GCC) for you, thus
producing an executable directly from E code
- PortablE now runs up to twice as fast
- Added MUI support for AROS
- Fixed modules to work with AmigaOS 4's latest SDK
- FastNew() & NEW are now thread safe
- Fixed FastNew() & NEW, which were previously un-aligned & so could
cause crashes under certain circmstances
- OpenLibrary() could a crash on AmigaOS 4; really fixed this time
- Numerous other improvements, changes & bug fixes
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29.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AISS ToolBar Creator 0.2
The MUI-based AISSTBC ("AISS Toolbar Creator") is supposed to help developers creating button bars: With drag'n drop whole button bars can be configured and saved from AISS-pictures. In version 0.2 a bug was fixed which caused a crash if pictures were loaded.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. May. 2009, 13:57] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Reggae-Updates multimedia.class 52.13 and zxscreen.decoder 51.2
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published two updates for his multimedia library Reggae:
multimedia.class 52.13
- Added two helper methods for class implementors: MMM_PrePull() and MMM_PostPull(). Using them in a class saves about a kilobyte of code :-)
- Added a separete memory lict semaphore, so one can use Reggae memory allocation functions inside MMM_Setup(). One of new incoming classes needs it.
zxscreen.decoder 51.2
- The first class to use PrePull()/PostPull() helpers
- Because of this added multimedia.class 52.13+ check at initialization
- Binary is shorter. ;-)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.May.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Log-Analyzer logtool 2.6
Jacek Piszczek has published an update of his log-analyzer logtool (screenshot). Changes in version 2.6:
- Changes in log filtering. Please note that the filter prefs changed and you might need to recreate your filters.
- Support for firewire logs with OHCI1394Mon by Frank Mariak
logtool requires at least versions 50.70 of the MUI-class Powerterm.mcc which is part of the MUICON-package.
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[News message: 28. May. 2009, 16:42] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2009
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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What about ... Jim Collas?
Jim Collas which was managing director at Amiga Inc. at the end of the last centenary seems to has found a new job: As managing director of SocialWise he tries to establish the pay service "BillMyParents".
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[News message: 28. May. 2009, 16:35] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MUI-class: TheBar.mcc 26.3
The MUI-class TheBar.mcc is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and now for AROS in version 26.3 as well. With it you can create switch panels. You can make suggestions how this class should be developed further.
Download: MCC_TheBar-26.3.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. May. 2009, 12:04] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: 15 new full versions online / Support wanted
Press release The download area of the Amiga Future homepage has been updated again. There are new full versions online. New downloads are highlighted in the download database. Additionally there is an overview of new downloads at the lower border of the download page. Furthermore there have been updates to the descriptions and screenshots of some downloads.
The Amiga Future is a non-profit project. That's why the Amiga Future homepage has to completely manage itself in terms of financing. The about 8 GB containing homepage is entirely paid by advertising, donations and our own private money. Especially the development of new expansions, databases and features is really expensive. That's why we ask you to support us by donating money. It allows us to make the homepage more user friendly and comprehensive. (snx)
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26.May.2009
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Server-Crash
Ralf Steines wrote: Unfortunately here come bad news. Recently a Raid5-Array was damaged so two harddrives lost their data. Despite of rescue attempts almost all data were lost which were saved in ther main archive and on the FTP server.
The main archive has got a backup server which unfortunately cannot save the high amount of data on the FTP-server. We have a loss of nearly 2,6 millions (nearly all Amiga-) files.
Thank God, in winter the whole archive was checked for viruses. Additionally ca. 20.000 new disk archives and ca. 50.000 virus protocols were uploaded which were almost all (online) lost. Thanks to the virus tests ca. 95% of the lost data are morrored offline.
Therefore it will take a while until all data will be uploaded to the FTP. With a home-DSL connection it will take ca. half of a year. Until then the main archive is available on the replacement server (automatic redirect). The FTP-server will stay offline until the first upload will be done.
Of course the whole archive will be recovered but it will take a while. The affected harddrives were all completely financed with donations 4 years ago.
If anybody is interested in supporting the new acquisition: On each download site there is a donation link. We will try to expand the main site (3 TB) and to get a mirror with the whole archive.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2009, 09:48] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video magazine: Amitopia TV issue 5/09
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. The latest issue includes an introduction in the logo creator called "Titler" for MorphOS.
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[News message: 25. May. 2009, 23:24] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: #Amigaguide issues for free download
The published issues of the English magazine #Amigaguide are now available as free download. A registration is no longer required.
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[News message: 25. May. 2009, 23:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Obligement: Interview with Fabien Coeurjoly (French)
Under the title link David Brunet has interviewed the developer Fabien Coeurjoly (e.g. Ambient, MPlayer, Origyn Web Browser). With the help of Babelfish there are links to automatic translations.
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[News message: 25. May. 2009, 21:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
Troels Ersking (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: WxWidgets bounty opened
At the title link, amigabounty.net announces a bounty to get WxWidgets ported to AmigaOS 4.1.
Having WxWidgets available on AmigaOS 4.1 should enable the users to get easier access to a huge number of cross-platform applications and developers an option to reach a wider audience if they develop using WxWidgets. A few examples of applications using WxWidgets include KiCAD, Audacity, Code::Blocks IDE and (originally from the Amiga) Audio Evolution 5. (snx)
[News message: 25. May. 2009, 21:16] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Reggae-updates MediaLogger 1.12 and amossound.demuxer 51.1
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published two updates for his multimedia library Reggae. MediaLogger is a tool enabling developers to spot bugs in Reggae applications and amossound.demuxer is a class for AMOS sound banks.
MediaLogger 1.12:
- Fully localized (Polish catalog for now, German one is amlost ready, but needs some fixes)
- Improved keyboard handling (missing tab cycles, more hotkeys)
- Installer script
amossound.demuxer 51.1:
- A new class for sound AMOS banks
- Creates multiple outputs, one per every sound in a bank
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